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Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-08-03
YOUR WORDS

How many words do you know the meaning offs The
average person can read and understand from 5000 to 10000
different words. DR.. Frank H. Vizetely makes this estimate.
He's managing editor of the New Standard Dictionary
Quite a different matter is the number of words we have
at the tip of our tongues and use in talking, compared with
words we grasp when we read them.
Very few of us use more than 700 words in talking, ac-
cording to some authorities who have checked up.
Shakespeare's vocabulary included about $4,000 words.
Woodrow Wilson, in rs speeches, used 6,221 words, and
DIR. Vizetelly estimates that Wilson in his writings used a
vocabulary Of at least $4,000 words.
Words change style the same as clothes, DIR. Vlzetely
comments. He illustrates by pointing out that the sport who
wore a silk shirt was formerly called a dude, but the word
"dude'' has gone out of style, now that the rank and file OF
the people can afford silk shirts.
Changing word styles are more evident in slang. Put on
a little speed, changed to "Make it snappy,'' then to Jazz
it up Once she was a 'flirt," now a "vamp." The cop
of a former generation now is called a "buI."
In another century no one will be able to read one Of
George AIDES enables In Slang and understand it without
using a slang dictionary, for slang rapidly becomes obsolete
and forgotten.
Most of the short stores by o. Henry are similarly handi-
capped. ..u
1852. The supply of words has grown enormously since then.
Contemplate a modern dictionary, growing rapidly to SUIT
case size though printed in small type on thin paper, and 1t Is
hard to believe that such a maze Of words are made up OF vary
ing combinations of only 26 letters of the alphabet.
The finest shades Of emotion, the infinite ramlhcatlons OF
human thought, as well as everything in our three dimenslonal
material world-all these can be expressed accurately and
graphically by changes in the mathematical arrangement OF
&c alphabetical letters
The simple little alphabet is right up near the head OF
the list of greatest inventions.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-08-03

A country without an army "a navy, a national debt or an in
come tax-such is Tonga, last remaining native kingdom of the
South Seas.
X Every male in Tonga is presented with eight and a quarter
acres of land when he reaches the age of 16, The treasury has
100000 surplus, all public improvements have been paid for, and
a complete educational system has been set up.
Tonga presents the nearest approach to Utopia on this planet.
Although it is a tiny island, greater nations like our own might
get some good lessons there.
Switzerland, another little country, is run on a different plan.
The Swiss have the best drilled army in the world, they have no
need for a navy, as the country in the center of troubled Europe.
The national sport is shooting and military practice.
If all the nations of the world would spend the brains and
money on education that now go for war plots and rotten diplo,
macy, the Swiss could throw their guns away, and 81. this world
vauld b IKE Tonga
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-08-03

Government bureaus in Washing
ton Keep track of news reports con-
corning their work and their en-
ployes and officials.
A clipping bureau client does not
always ask for articles about HIM
SELF or his own organization. A
photographer orders clippings of
advance notices and write-ups of a
certain Kind of social function. The
notices enable him to know about
opportunities for taking pictures, and
II descriptions of the affairs give
MIN names of persons who would be
interested in buying photographs.
A fireworks manufacturer comes
to the bureau for another sort of
advance information. He wants to
know about outdoor celebrations
where fireworks might possibly be
used. An electrotyping company
files an order for pictures in news
papers which are not clear repro
auctions. The company turns this
material to account by showing the
persons interested in the defective
pictures that it can do work that will
reproduce clearly.
Follow Presidents Tour
There Is nc end to these unusual
requests and clients. For instance.
a. society interested in prisons has
been getting clippings on Sing Sing,
while another wants all items re-
ferring to accidents, and a writer
collects the innumerable articles
which follow the death of a great
man, and uses them in writing 4
biographical study.
At present, Mr.. Harding's tour Is
being followed by several persons
who are interested in the Presidents
visit to the Yellowstone Park and his
speeches IN waterpower.
The demand for political subjects
varies. 1t reaches a peak near cleo
ton time when busy politicians and
committees want to feel the pulse of
the country from day to day. At a
time like this when the country re-
fuses to become excited over politics
comparatively little is being written
on that topic and there are few
calls for clippings. Demand is apt
to follow supply closely In the clip
ping business.
Nothing is clipped, Mr.. Upton
says, except what is ordered. Two
thousand copies of papers and mag
| 0EAAAD6 q AGaR w. 1NS 80 Nf~
Bureau. Each reader refers to the
bureaus list of clients and marks
the items to be cut out of the paper
she is scanning. As some customers
order only articles appearing in cer-
tain publications or in a limited sec
ton of the country, this does not
mean that the entire list of orders
must be kept in mind by the reader
but she does have enough to think
about.
The readers specialize in territory
rather than subjects to be looked
for. One reads New York papers
another Pennsylvania, another west
ern. They become accustomed Il
the makeup of the papers and know
where to look for certain classes o.
matter and what pages can be skim
med over. In the course of a day.
work astonishing numbers of itemi
ARE sifted out on some subjects. A
many as 1000 articles may go to on
Of the Government bureaus or t.
a film actress who succeeds In focus
ing attention on her latest exploit
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-08-03

O. What are the anthracite miners
asking the operators for IN the pre-
sent negotiations Pix. +. z
A. The principal demands of the
anthracite miners are for a ~ per
cent increase in the contract wage
scale; an increase of 50 per day for
all men paid by the day, with time
and a half for overtime and double
time for Sunday work; ana a two-
wear contract on this basis,
O. What country now has the
greatest aviation forcs?-H. @. B.
A. France, with 1862 first line
airplanes, TIA airplane squadrons
and a personnel of 97,7S0. OF squad
rons. 131 are at home, SO are over
seas and 4 are with fleets.
@, Why is lobster meat SO high
in price ?--J. ID. ID.
A. The rise, in the price of lobster
Is due to the increasing scarcity OF
this shell fish and the difficulty with
which it is propagated. An expert at
the lobster hatchery of Woods Hole
stated that If only two out of 10000
eggs Matched survived the fourth
year, the present condition might be
maintained, but that undoubtedly a
greater percentage than this
perishes.
@. How many miles of railway
had the United States one hundred
years ago?-T. u. r.
A. There were no railroads with
steam locomotives until 1919, but
by 1892 the United States had 500
miles of railway, distributed as fol-
lows: Baltimore and Ohio, 200
miles; Albany and Schenectady, 1O
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-08-03

into a New York police station in
his bedroom slipper and sh~irtsleeves
He gives his name as John Hurk
and says he got lost while running
after a fire engine.
On the average, most or us are
interested all through life In the
things that strike our fancy n youth.
The older we get, the more we real
ize how few really interesting Things
there are in life, which at its best
is dull without the coloring of mag
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Bugs
With a cargo of 100000 lady-bugs'
County Agent c. G. Gate arrives In
Medford, Ore. The bugs. 1t is SAID
will eventually eliminate various IN
sects that destroy orchards.
Insect life, phenomenally proiinc,
some day will be one of mans best
slaves. Mosquitoes and other pests
will be fought by insect or germ de-
royer bred by scientists. For IN
stance, the "darning needle is the
MOSQUITOES natural enemy. Why mol
breed them by the millions?
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-08-03
THE REFEREE
(By Albert Applet

Joke
Little Girl: please, will you let
mother ave a love story book? 2"
Librarian: why doesn't she come
herself"
Little Girl: "She can't. Father an
'er's lighting an she's got two black
eyes,
The above joke, from the London
Mail, comes very close to summing
up the European situation.
Wales
The Prince of Wales plans to visit
America again next autumn. He
wants to travel incog, as a private
individual, to get a line on us such
as he was unable to get when he
was here officially and was shown
only what others wanted him to see.
Wise prince. Prominent Euro
peans visit us, are handled by the
hokum dispensers, and depart with
impressions of the hokum which
they mistake for impressions of the
real America. Delegations of Eng
lishmen have been inspecting our
prohibition. They go home and re-
port what they were told by off,
Gals, what they observed at func-
tions, when they'd have to go up an
| alley and give three knocks and the
high-sign to learn the truth.
Costly
What's become of the fuss about
the foreign steamship companies
bringing liquor into our ports for
the return voyage back across the
Atlantic, Uncle George?
Well, Rollo, Uncle Sam coniscated
over 100000 of the test liquor
and the ship owners decided that thil
particular form of experim entatior
was too costly. After all, it's just 9
proposition Of dollars and cents.
Financial loss is the champion ST.
lenee producer-after the first yelpi
of protest.
Do you recall the talk about
grave foreign complications?
Fast
He tasted 10 days-Jonas Forse
"a, farmer near Rush Lake, MINI
His purpose? A last-resort attempt
to regain his health. It was a losins
fight. He died. But he kept on his
feet up to the last week. That's
what will-pewer did for a man with
one foot in the grave. 1t suggests
the possibilities of what will-powel
can do for people blessed with good
health.
Will-power IL to human careers
what the "B Battery" is to radio.
"a
a little mRa - wears old wapasEI
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-08-03

miles; Charleston and Hamburg, 1876
miles; Mauch Chunk, 8 miles; Ithaca
and Oswego, 20 miles; Richmond
and Chesterfield, IL miles; Camden
and Amboy so miles; Lackawaxen,
16 miles. These figures are taken
from a file of the Railroad Advocate
at Atlanta, Ga. which includes also
a list Of about twenty other railroads
that had been started or were about
to be commenced.
@. Is 1t correct to say imam and
wife" when husband and wife" is
meant?-R. A. M.
A. The use of man in the sense
of husband" has the sanction of
time, dating back to about 1900.
Q. Is the man who succeeds Vol
stead in Congress a wet?-F. H.
A. The Rev. o. ]. Kvale. of Ben
son, Mimi, who defeated Andrew
]. Volstead has described himself as
being dryer" than Volstead."
@. Who said Don't cut off our
nose to spite your face"?-L. o. M.
A. The origin of the proverb, do
not cut off your nose to spite your
face, is unknown. It's earliest re-
corded use was by the French writer,
Tallemant des Reaux, c1657-1652.
@. How many Cabinet Members
We're affected by the order of Presi-
dent Adams to move Government
headquarters from Philadelphia to
Washington ?-J. NJ, T.
A. Six. There were 1872 subord-
mates who moved with the Cabinet
@. Who painted the familiar
picture which shows a doctor sit
+, ting at a child's beside with the
grief stricken parents in the back
ground Pc. G. J..
A. This picture is called "The
Doctor and is the work of Sir Luke
Fildes. The original canvas hangs
In the Tate Gallery in London.
@. How was the body of John
Paul Jones identified when removed
from Paris to the Naval Academy?
p. T.
A. An autopsy was held in order
to be positive that the body design
ated was really that of John Paul
Jones. This was probably the first
time that such an examination had
been made so long after death-113
years. 1t was a triumph In anth-
r~opoiogy and is of deep interest to
the medical profession. The excel
lent state of preservation of the
body due to alcohol, enabled scien-
lists to verify the diseases of the
heart and lungs of which the man
was known to have died.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-08-03

A liar is a man who says he likes
to work in August.
A pessimist is a man who has to
work in August
An optimist is a man who doesn't
have TO work in August.
il cynic is a man who thinks he
will have to work every August
"A crouch is a man who has had
to work every August
Good luck consists of having a job
in an ice house during August.
A dude is a man who wears a stiff
collar in August
The height of ignorance is keep
ing your coat on during August.
A success is a man who can take
a vacation during August.
Getting away from the boss cures
insomnia in August.
What could be worse than being
anywhere about noon in August?
A glutton for punishment is man
who works overtime in August
A cheerful idiot is a man who
works unnecessarily in August.
The wild waves are wild because
they are crazy with the heat.
-
DnAAsk3kfA- " TTn l. 49,
marking time while in America it is
just treading water.
Never marry an ex-kaiser His
wife rides a bicycle.
There are books on how to play
golf. The golf widows need one or
how to stop playing it.
Los Angeles Bathing girls are get
ting tanned this year where they
were tanned before.
The mad college graduate in,
forms us Dempsey is offered $780,,
900 just to fght a little while.
A Columbus. Miss, man who wen
swimming before cooling off got res
cued all right.
Small picnic parties are beins
called Gypsy teas, which doesn'
keep the ants away at all .
Many beer smugglers are beinl
seized in Detroit and here's Angus
and September yet.
Liberty where are your Soutl
Dakota man got shot just for wiring
ing q Growing ROSTERS neck.
French and Moors are having
war. Only a smah n SO we ar
not invited yet.
A spendthrift is a man who keep
a hashlight on without worrying.
Now is about time to begin ba
habits tt swear off New Years.
Fish never realize what a tim
you had getting bait.
Our timber is being destroyed b
men with wooden heads
If at first you don't succeed. fan
tan again
A horist tells US the outlook
rosy,
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-08-03
The Old Town
Street by street-Know Your City
MARKET SQUARE,


One of the city's most picturesque
parks is City Hall Park, which is
listed in the city directory as Market
Square. Situated In an ideal spot
and with many trees to magnify its
beauty, it is a good location for band
concerts or rallies, There is an old
tradition that the park was formerly
a slave market. However, it was
originally a market place, from
which 1t probably received it's name,
and a center where farmers could
bring their produce. Facing the mo-
terist as he comes from the ferry on
the way to the shore is the statute
of George Washington which was
presented to the city in 1894 by the
Seandinavians of the city. 1t was
designed by N. N. Alling of this
city and made of clay mined in this
county. The civil war capnon which
dominates the southern part was
brought TO this city through the
efforts OF Rev. II. G. Mendenhall, a
former pastor Of the Presbyterian
church here shortly after the close
az the spanish AmsEissa MaF.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-08-03
Questions Answers

Any reader can set the answer 70
any question by writing The Perth
Amboy Evening News Information
Bureau. Frederick J.: HSskin. Direc-
niles strictly to Information: The
medicinal and financial troubles.
does not attempt to settle aomestic
troubles, nor to undertake. exhsus-
tive research on ans subject. write
your question plainly eno pl,ea,y.
close two cents In stamps for return
postage. All epllbs &c seat direcs
to the inoutfer.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-08-03

Insurance policies that pay $1,000
in case of death in a train wreck
within "a hours, are now sold for
Ave cents by slot machines.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-08-03
Bible Thought For Today

- H LORD SHALL Preserve thy going out and thy com
ing in from this time forth and even for evermore--Psalms Rl;8.
president Harding's favorite Bible Passage)
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-08-03

Il cynic is a man who thinks he
will have to work every August
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-08-03

An optimist is a man who doesn't
have to work in August.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-08-03

A liar is a man who says he likes
to work in August.
A pessimist is a man who has to
work in August
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-08-03

A crouch is a man who has haI
to work every August
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-05-15
DIVORCE RECORD

Suits for divorce In King county,
filed Monday, were as follows:
Bessie Fortune against Leonard For
tune. desertion: Vivian Bart against
r. II. Bart, desertion: Phyllis Riley
against Bernard Riley. cruelty;
Mary Elsie May against Jesse J.
May, cruelty. Nellie Winberg against
9. II. Winberg, cruelty: Mary T.. Bou-
tin against Albert c. Boutin. nom
support. Della Mahin against George
l.. Mahin, cruelty; Mabel Limits
against Otis o. Limits, on-support;
Nellie CARRIER against Hugh CARRIER.
n-support: George a. Adams
against Mae d. Adams. cruelty: Rob-
ert Churchill against Madeleine L.
Churchill. desertion; Satah Heding-
ton against Rufus HedinEton. cruel
ty; Thecla A. Nafie against eugene
NJ Nafie. cruelty.
Divorces were granted 20 Ciarico
Fraser from Burie A. Fraser Gloria
Plumb from Byron Plumb Estelle
Dodge from clyde c. Dodge. Flor
ence Packard from Harold Nj. Pack
ard. T NJ Urban from Della v. Ur-
ban. Agnes Therriault from Paul
Therriault Dessa Williport FROM
Charles r. willipcrt Minnie Il.
Schmer from Henry q, Schmer, and
Harry O'Bricn from Helen o'Brien.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-05-15
PERSONAL

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u. N you wish. II you have no
faith. don't order. You will get
nowhere ~. II. Winans, t0t Amer
lean Bank BldF,. seattle. Wash.
Mr. RfGiARD cOPPiNGER WAN
.dered away from the kenney
home. Friday evening, about
o'clock. He said he was going 10
take n street car ride, We have
been ahls 70 hear nothing OF him
sinee' Ne IL u years o. aga. ABOUT
very stoop ahouidcred. His hair
Il thin and gray. gray mustaehe.
Had on good dark suit ol clothes
and good heavy oyercoat. and new
gray hat The trustees OF the
Home offer 500 reward for in
formation locating him. Phone
West 500s or Main 215s
WANTED TO ApoPT-A WHITE
baby girl. not over months. PISS.
2fnF
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-05-15
Prehistoric Race
Remains Are Found

OAKLAND, May i6.-Rcmains OF
a giant prehistoric race whose
PREVIOUS existence heretofore had
been unsupported have been found In
the Grand Canyon OF the Colorado by
Samuel Hubbard. Oakland scientist.
according TO statements BY Hubbard
and members OF an exploring party
recently returned from Colorado,
Among other startling discoveries.
members OF the Hubbard party sa.d
they found two petrined bodies OF
giants, more than II feet tall. re.
semblng stone statues. Hubbard
claims them to be fossils % the Meso.
zoic age. and that the stone figures
once lived a very human life in the
purple shadows OF the GrandsCan.
yon.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-05-15
Five Tramps Are
Killed in Wreck

INDEPENDENCE. Kan, May rs.
Five tramps. riding on freight
train near here, were killed today
when 1G cars went INTO n ditch.
Two other men stealing rides on
the train were injured, one serl.
ously.
The dead and injured were taken
TO Mound Valley.
The names OF the victims have
not been sscertalned.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-05-15
Charge Man Hanged
His Wife Over Cliff

KNOXVILLE May l5.-Charged
with hanging his wife over a cliff al
Maynardsviile. Tenn. 30 miles
northwest OF here. Isaac Irwin. so.
was lodged In the county Jail here
today for safe keeping.
The woman's body was found
dangling By rope around her
neck. which had been made fast to
= bush at the edge OF the elf. nc.
cording to officers who brought r..
win to Knoxville.
Irwin denied the charge today,
saying his wife had hanged herself.
after several previous futile al.
tempts.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-05-15
MORE FALSE
ORDERS GIVEN

NEW YORK. May IA new
drive was opened today BY conspira.
tors seeking 20 defraud Wall Street
thru spurious buying orders. M.
nerous false orders 20 buy stocks
on the exchange were received over
the telephone nom persons who at
tempted 10 impcrsonato regular Gus.
toners or the brokers.
The eonspirators hoped 20 throw
this buying power into the exchange
to force the market up,
This followed recent delusc 81
orders, accompanied by spurious
certified checks. received by mail by
many Eastern brokers about two
weeks ago.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-05-15
Says Lives Might
Have Been Saved

PARIS, May 15.-LIves OF sig vic.
Tins, two Of them Americans, who
were burned to death when a Lon.
don.Paris airplane fell in flames
near Amiens yesterday. might have
been saved. II recent recommends.
lions regarding parachutes for
planes could be adopted, reports OF
eyewitnesses Of the disaster showed
today.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-05-15
CLOTHED FOR AN OHIO
SPRING,

The 5.year-old son az MIR. and
Mrs. Ray Bryson was seriously in.
jured last Sunday mornirs when be.
Ing kicked by a mule. The print Of
the foot Was seen ON his body thru
four thickness OF clothes. He was
kicked just below the rib. He viii
probably recover II nothing else sets
in. which we all hope it win not
Ansonio toJ Herald.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-05-15

Al cars arc IN GOOD condition. te-
auctions are exactly as represent
cd. n PURCHASE AT THIS
SALE MEANS A GREAT SAVING
TO You.
LAsfPfNG MCDONALD MOTOR CO.
Ford and Lincoln Dealers
Open EVENINGS
iaT.J q T. PIKE. EAST 577s
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-05-15
Conservatives Seek
Break With Russia

IONDoN. May 10. British con
>~eryatiyes today sought break
with Russia on the strength Of tho
latier's unsatisfactory reply 10
Great Britain's Today ultimatum.
Liberals and laboritcs oppose any
suggestion OF rupture OF relations
with Russia.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-05-15
Wabash Valley Is
Swept by Floods

IERRE HAUTE. Ind. May ls.--
Floods swept the Wabash valley
Monday night and early today, leav.
Ing heavy crop damage. DR.. Thomas
A. Drake. a physician. was drowned
when a bridge collapsed under his
Sntorobile. near Hutton.
Tho body was recovered today.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-05-15
First Car Crosses
Sierras This Year

CARSON, CITY. New. May i5.-
The first auto to cross the summit OF
the Sierras this year was reported
to have made the climb today and
was expected in Carson City tonight.
Via Lake Tahoe.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-05-15

Buyers were surprised AZ tho won
dcrful VRlueA Our Eaiesroom was
swarmcd with people all day.
II you are going 10 BUY q car this
year. attend this sale NOW.
Here are cars s,ili ursoid a, a. m.
Tuesday: