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, 1923-07-22

He is n OF the pioneers with the
Yellow Cab idea.
Colonel Yagle who. while serving
with American troops brigaded with
the Australians at the battle Of
Hamel. cleaned out two German ma
chine gun nests under circumstances
that gained for him the British mill
tary cross. at the hands of King
George@the first American to be so
honored.-goes to renew acquaint-
ance with his Australian brothers-in-
arms. He will visit also China, India,
Hawaii. New Zealand. Philippines.
South Africa, the Malay settlements,
Egypt Inc other far places He will
be gone a year.
Into South America, where he Is no
stranger, James Warner, Jr., went
from the conference to assist in the
organization of cab companies there
on the Yellow Cab system of operat-
ing. accounting and dispatching.
This system. supporting the low
costs per mile of operation of the cab
itself. makes possible profits at low
rates of fare with consequent volume
business far in excess of those to be
gained through the operation Of any
other a The situation in South
America today is much the same as
1t was in the United States some
years ago. large fleets, but without
system and Capitalization of control.
and the operators there have been
quick to get the word and to seek
the success of the American plan.
The broad ~boulevards OF South
America. cities like Buenos Aires,
Rio Janeiro. Bahia and San Pablo.
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TN addition to these there are the
guarantees made for second hand or
so called rebuilt or reconstructed
batteries, which are being offered and
sold to motorists with he gut rantee
of the r%ebullder. When trouble comes
the user often learns to his sorrow
that he has simply purchased n
guarantee and o a battery.
The National Vigilance Committee
further states that the motoring pub.
lie is being imposed upon from time
to time by interruptions concerns
who offer a remedy for all battery
troubles through the medium of
pastes. filters, solutions and other
compounds to take the place of reg
ular electrolytes. Tests of several
of these dope solutions. Indicate that
while apparently they give n battery
greater momentary kick. they often
contain ingredients which are abso.
lutely ruinous to the plates and sep
asators. thereby shortening the life
of the battery from fifty to seventy.
five p%ercsnt." says the committee's
report
The committee also cautions the
motoring public against those few
service stations. known and advertised
as the authorized agent for a named
manufacturer by carrying on a ques.
tionable business in the substitution
of foreign and oftlmes inferior part
In the reconstruction of batteries.
Tho automobile owner Is at the
mercy of a battery service station in
the matter OF having his battery
charged. changed. rebuilt. or repaired.
for 1t is impractical to dis assemble a
battery and identify the parts the
report states. "If he wants the re.
pair parts put out by tho maker of
his battery. he Is entitled to receive
them, even though there may be re-
pair parts made by others. which
could be used just as efficiently.
Substitution under such circumstan.
ces constitutes a fraud upon the pub
lie and jeopardlzes the good will and
reputation OF the battery manufac-
turer which the station purports TO
represent"
"These extracts from the survey
and report OF the COMMITTEES Indicate
in part what the average service sta.
ton dealer is up against who sincerely
gives fair and square value In ser,
vice and product" says Mr., Crawford,
Absolute remedy and prevention
these abuses really lies only in the
motoring public which is losing mil,
lions OF dollars every year because OF
such practice"
, 1923-07-22

sales, a few days ago, developed
many details of the expansion of this
American taxicab idea The frst Of
a feet of $50 Yellow Cabs arc now
in service on the streets of Paris
forerunners of fleets that will serve
most of the capitals OF Europe within
a year or two. The frst shipments
of a feet for Buenos Aires are now
enroute to the Argentine for metered
travel on the b~oulevards there. Mel
bourne and Sydney. in Australia.
Mexico City and Montreal, Valparaiso
and Madrid. are among other places
under foreign flags where the Amer
lean on a trip round the world
nowadays may Call a Yellow.
The conference which lasted sew
eral days developed also an ambitious
program of further expansion to
meet the inquiries from abroad for
Yellow Cab. Marcel de Jarney. Euro
pean representative of the company,
with headquarters at Paris, said n
cab feet is now in the process OF
organization at London. where a
branch office has been established.
He brought word of prospects that
led to strengthening other facilities
for service in Europe.
10 Australia and to Asia, imme.
diately after the conference. the com
pany despatched the manager of IFS
Far Eastern department. Lieut.
Colonel Harry A Yagle, who WI
swing around the world before hs
returns, visiting countries from
which INQUIRIES have come or which
offer a field for the American cab
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TIRES WITH 900 NAIL
HOLES LEAK No AIR

Mr.. K. K. Milburn of Chicago has
invented a new puncture proof inner
tube which. in actual test was pune
tured 500 times without the NJ of
and the beauty Of It all is that this
10. 900 to 10000 without removing
thia wonderful tube from the wheel
an dthe beauty of 1t all is that this
new puncture-proof tube costs no
more than the ordinary tube. and
makes riding a real pleasure You
can write XXX. Milburn at $50 West
47th St.. Chicago as he wants them
introduced everywhere Wonderful
opportunity for agents. II interested
write him Observation-Disclosures.
, 1923-07-22
AMERICAN YELLOW TAX|CABS To
invaded VERYB BIG WQRLDG|TY
Fleet Of $50 on Streets Of Paris Only Forernner Of
Many Other Fleets in Europe, Asia, Australia
And Elsewhere, Is Claim

CHICAGO, July 21.-Yelow cabs, distinctively Ameri-
can institutions that they are-now seen on streets and boule-
Yards in many parts of the world, will soon virtually girdle
the glove. p
A conference of the export staff of the Yellow Cab Manu-
featuring company. called by Gordon Lee. director of export
, 1923-07-22
Classified Ads

all year round utility-and hat 10
why the automobile selling season
now is IL months in each year"
, 1923-07-22

succeeded open street cars. so closed
motor cars are being purchased to a
greater and greater extent because of
, 1923-07-22

The Pixies Peak motor in the new
is the master Of every hill.
Evening star., 1923-09-09
You Can Play Clock Golf by the Hour Says the Fnaker

WHEN Mr.. Jones heard his chill
w dren were playing "clock golf'
in the back yard, he became alarmed.
When a small back yard becomes a
twelve hole golf course, it's time to
find out how the impossible can be.
This is what Mr.. Jones' children
did. They made circle outline ten
feet In diameter. Then they marked
II off in twelve numbers like a clock.
In the exact center of the circle, they
dug a hole in Mr.. Jones precious
blue grass and sunk small condensed
milk can. Then they began to play
as you see them in the picture.
Each boy takes a turn with the
putter and a golf ball. The fine part
Is that the whole bunch can use the
same putter-an old one from fathers
bag. or perhaps golfng friends.
The player starts at figure / and
puts to the center hole, keeping score
of how many strokes it took to do IL.
Then he carries his ball to figure 2
and repeats.
From each figure the boy aims for
the same hole in the center. When he
has been all around, the next player
tries it. OF course. a person can play
alone, as in regular golf. and that
might be a good idea. The practice
Evening star., 1923-09-09
Hundred BOYS at Play.

In a room of Chinese art relics in
the Field Museum Of Natural History
at Chicago hangs a curious, beautiful
painting on silk, called "A Hundred
Boys at Play" It is q panel, many
yards long, which was made during
the Sung period Of Chinese history.
about 1.4o0 years ago. by an artist
named Su Hanchen.
There you may see a hundred
Chinese boys busily occupied with in
door and outdoor pastimes. And
from the expressions on their little
painted faces It seems that they are
about as boisterously happy at their
play as boys Of the present day. The
interesting part Is to see that the
games they played in China SO long
ago were the same sort that boys
play now.
Those boys even seemed to know
q form OF foot ball. for you see boys
scrambling for a kicked ball. Others
are wrestling. shooting at targets,
playing war and amusing themselves
with fighting crickets. Still others
are engaged in less active sports.
such as playing chess, riding hobby
horses, flying kites. dancing and
playing the organ and lutte.
On one bank sits q boy with a
fishing pole. Across from him a
Chinese friend has set up a store and
is a merchant.
Evening star., 1923-09-09
The Water Legend of Music

DID you ever hear whistling
II buoy? 1t makes woeful oo-oo
sound, which is done by the rushing
Of the water through a followed and
specially shaped buoy floating at an
chor. 1t is musical sound, although
a very mournful one.
Water makes good many musical
sounds, such as whistle, with water
in 1t, that gives bird notes; tumblers
with different amounts of water in
them. which, when tapped, gives out
beautiful musical tones; the sound of
water in a rocky cave, and other
usical sounds that will come to your
minds. So, you see. it is not at all
strange that ancient peoples made up
stories about musical gods and fairies
that lived in pools. waterfalls, cas-
cades and even in seas.
1t is not known whether the an
cient Greeks, Hindus, Egyptians and
Norsemen really believed a god made
the music or whether that was just
their way of building story around
1t. But it is interesting that. with
nearly all peoples, the origin, or start
Of their music was in some way con-
nected with water.
The ancient musical legend of
Egypt tells about the god the Greeks
called Hermes, although most of you
probably know him under the name
of Mercury. The story goes that
Hermes was wandering along the
dation-which Is a rising of the
water and flooding of the banks for
a. time-and that he found tortoise
which had been thrown up and left by
the water and then dried out by the
sun. Only the shell and tendons
(stringy muscles or sinews) were left.
and as they were fastened to the
shell and across the horns, the ex-
panding of the shell in the heat OF
the sun had drawn them so tight that
they vibrated musically.
Hermes, as he walked, had stumbled
over the tortoise she'll, when 1t gave
out a musical tone. or course, ne
examined it and probably kept 1T, and
from it he got the idea of making
something himself that would give
music, and so he invented the Tyre,
which, though 1t had only three
strings at first, is really the ancestor
of the harp and the violin. Any boy
or girl can make a Tyre with cigar
box, some strips of wood and three
wire strings using the strips of wood
To make the horns Of the tortoise and
q crosspiece between them to hold the
strings.
In ancient Greece, the story of their
messenger-god. Hermes. and his tor
toise- shell Tyre started the making of
stringed musical instruments. And
even in India and Assyria there was
the legend that their stringed instru-
ments came from god, and these
Evening star., 1923-09-09
Make a Magic Pencil.

The magic pencil draws anything
you want 1t to. no matter how hard,
for 1t really Is only a sort Of tracing
machine that any boy or girl can
make with some strips of light wood.
some screws and a tack.
Take two strips of wood. sixteen
inches long. Overlap and fasten
them loosely at the end with a round
screw which allows the pieces of
wood to slip in any direction. Eight
inches from the point of joining on
the left-hand strip fasten your short
cross-piece with a loose screw. On
the right-hand strip. the smaller
piece should be Joined seven inches
from the top screw. Then the two
cross-pieces should be Joined. also
with loose screw.
Fasten the long arm on the left
to the paper with a thumb tack
through a round hole in the end. A
tack In the end of one short piece
will trace the picture you wish to
copy. AS the tack moves, a pencil
stub which you have fastened in the
end of the right arm through a hole
moves around and draws the picture.
Evening star., 1923-09-09

@NE bright, sunshiny morning Tom
~ my Turtle and Hoppy the Frog
were amusing themselves by diving
for pebbles in the Big Pond. Hoppy
would take a big pebble in both
hands. run little way and flop 1t
into the shallow water, and then in
would go Tommy Turtle after 1t, ker-
plunk! Then Tommy would throw a
pebble and Hoppy would live for 1t.
This was lots of fun for little frogs
and turtles, but by and by they grew
tired of this, and then Tommy said:
Lets go away over to that point
of land and see what is there"
Tommy pointed away off to a strip
of beach covered with cobblestones
and sand and coarse swamp grass,
"All right" said Hoppy, who was
always ready for anything, and so
away they went, swimming and wad-
ing, wading and swimming, until
finally they came to the point of land.
Just around the point they saw lit
tie weency-teency island covered with
big bushes and some trees.
Lets go and see what is on the
little island" said Tommy. and away
,, they went again, swimming where
the water was deep and wading where
1T was shallow, until pretty soon they
came to the little weency-teency is
land, and they climbed up the banks
all out Of breath.
Tommy and Hoppy had never seen
this little island before, so presently
they began exploring along the shore.
They found piles of long seaweed
bleached white like paper, and clam
shells, and oysters. and tiny starfish
shaped just like star. Part of the
shore was sandy and part was rocky
and so steep that they had to take to
the warm water again and swim past.
After while they reached a little
sandy cove. and, looking through the
bushes, they saw the cunningest little
house almost hidden by the low trees
and bushes around it 4 tiny steep
path led from the water up to the
front door, and Hoppy and Tommy
Evening star., 1923-09-09
SHORT STORIES
.A & fK-AsA&
"All Work and No PLAY"

laughed. He went inside and asked
| for the job. They gave 1t to him.
All during the week of his vaca-
| tion Jack worked at his new Job and
| every night he wrote down on a
piece of paper how much money he
had earned that day by adding the
amount the grocer was paying him
| for taking vacation and the
amount he had earned at his new
job. Sometimes when he was tired
he wished he had gone to the coun-
try for the week, but he soon forgot
1t when he remembered how his bank
account was swelling.
The next week Jack returned to
the grocer's to work as usual. After
a few weeks he began not to feel
we'll Finally he got SO sick that
he went to the old man and said:
I'm 80 tired I think I'll have to
take a vacation"
why. you just had one" was the
| old mans reply.
But l am sick" said Jack. II
guess I'll have to stay at home a
week and not earn my money"
"All work and no play makes Jack
| dull boy" the grocer reminded
| him. Next time 1 send you on a
vacation you'll take it. won't you?"
Evening star., 1923-09-09
How to Make a Jack-Be-N -Nmble Table and Chair.

r TITLE folks like to have things
- like big folks-that is why little
brother will be so tickled to have a
Jack Be -Nimble table and chair, real
pieces of furniture of his very own.
Little sister will think them just the
thing for her tea parties. too.
Buy enough material for the set 30
that the parts can be cut out in one
piece. Before doing any cutting. how
ever, work out on cardboard the cut
out design to be used on the ends Of
the table and the front and back
pieces of the chair. With this pattern
lay out the design on the stock itself
and cut out with a coping saw. In
the same way work out the design for
the ends of the side rails on the table.
fIhe method of securing the right
Evening star., 1923-09-09

houses rose in terraces. one above
another. The higher floors were
reached by ladders
In the picture you see a Hopi
family at their days tasks. They
are in their living room, or second
floor room. Below is a storage room
and on the floor above are sleeping
quarters. The girl at the back we
know is not married. because she
wears her hair in whorls. or fantas-
/ tic rolls at the sides of her head.
The wife of the family, who wears
her hair in braids as a sign of her
marriage. is coiling ropes of knead-
ed clay into a pottery bowl which
she will bake and decorate. The
man at the side is weaving cloth
which will be made into rude. loose
garments for the women or trousers
for himself.
Evening star., 1923-09-09

answered the four others. Well"
said Hoppy, II guess they must be
baby screech owls"
Where is your daddy? And where
Is your mammal" Tommy asked po-
litely. but the owlets just went on
staring at Tommy and Hoppy without
saying a word. Never mind" said
Tommy. "owIs are blind in the day
time. Let's see what's in the house"
He turned the doorknob and walked
in. Inside they found a very cosy lit
Evening star., 1923-09-09

a FISS CHINA DOLL, who has been
|Nl having many callers lately, has
had her living room completely done
over in the latest tapestry furniture.
Now you will find her almost any time
of day entertaining her guests on the
old fashioned settle you see here,
+oasting her feet before a cheerful
fireplace.
To make the sofa is easy as can
|b.. Take some stiff cardboard from
a shoe or laundry box, and with your
pencil and ruler draw 1s the parts Of
that are indicated beside the dia-
Evening star., 1923-09-09

knocker.
Nobody answered from within. but
just then they heard a faint noise di-
rectly over their heads. and, looking
up. they saw five of the cutest, fiufies,
little baby owiets that you can i'm
agine. sitting huddled close together
on one branch and looking as solemn
as could be.
"Screech" said one of the owlets.
"Screech. Screech. Screech, Screech.'
Evening star., 1923-09-09
T0eae9% TesRTLe faNps
a lgTTLe fsooSe <"<3~3

| tie room with nagstones on the floor.
a tiny stone fireplace, dishes and
crockery ranged on wall racks. and
on a table in the center a jar Of wa
ter with a single flower in 1t shaped
like a ball.
What Is that?" asked Tommy.
That is a clock" said Hoppy. ITO
tell the time. blow on 1t and see how
many petals remain on the stem.
Blow hard"
Tommy blew hard. and all the tiny
petals few off except three. THAT Is
the time." said Hoppy, "3 o'clock.
In a corner of the room were five
little snow-white four-poster beds.
wheel. Under one Of the beds was an
opened letter addressed to MOLLY
Hag. the Screech Owl" Tommy
opened the letter and read:
Cross Patch, draw the LATCH
Sit by the fire and spin.
Take a cup, and drink it up,
And call the neighbors In.
Molly Hag is cross-patch," said
Hoppy. But where have / read that
letter before?"
"At any rate" replied Tommy, wed
better get out Of here before Molly
Hag comes and finds U.s."
AS Tommy and Hoppy went out the
door they found the little owlets still
nestled on the thorn branch as quiet
as could be. WELL" said Tommy.
anyhow the 'Cross-Patch' has nice
children"
Just as Tommy and Hoppy reached
the water again they heard a great
futter of wings. a terrible screech,
and big gray owl swooped down and
almost caught Hoppy and Tommy by
the seats of their breeches. Down they
went into the water. and the big
Mother Owl few away to her house.
Tommy Turtle came up for air and
looked around him.
Well" he said. as he drew a big
breath. that was another narrow
squeak for Tommy Turtle"
Evening star., 1923-09-09

instruments were much like the
Egyptian ones, so you see now many
musical instruments came from the
river Nile. In fact. in almost every
country in the world there is a legend
that the harp came out of the sea.
In many ways, music was mys-
teriously connected with gods and
water in ancient days. The Greeks
had their sirens, who sang sailors to
their deaths on the rocks, and Ger
many had the Lorelei. In the north.
Norway and Sweden and other Morse
countries, there are musical nymphs
called "Necks" or Mixes" mermaids
and gods for every bit of water. Go
and listen to cascades and other
sounding waters, yourselves. and see
if you do not think it natural that
musical stories grew up about them.
MARY y. S. WHITLEY.
Evening star., 1923-09-09

, the pieces should be fitted together
carefully and fastened with round
head screws. The top of the table is
held in place by counterboring to a
depth depending upon the length of
the screws used.
The pieces from which the drawing
was made were given two body coats
OF straw-colored enamel. then trim
med in q light blue. OF course, you
can use any shades you wish, provid-
ed they blend well.
Copyright, 1921
Evening star., 1923-09-09
Jack Himself.

This little set of furniture will
not be complete unless Jack
Be-Nimble is stenciled on the
back of the chair and on the
top of the table. Paint Jack
white, his face pink and his
cuffs, collar and cap blue. Make
the candle-holder brown and
the flame red. What a spry
young fellow he is when he's
finished!
Evening star., 1923-09-09
Courtesy of Field Museum, Chicago.

Courtesy of Field Museum, Chicago.
A BONNET of bright feathers, paint
"A on his cheek bones. d sturdy
bow and a swift arrow, a couple
Of war whoops, and there you have
an Indian. That's what most boys
and girls think. In this series of
articles we will show you that many
of the Indian tribes of the different
parts of North America were not like
that at all.
Cliff dwellers. or builders of pueb-
los. were the Hopi Indians of New
Mexico and Arizona The Hopis
were very industrious, ard their
houses. which were made entirely by
the women, were usually three stories
high, well-constructed and comfort
able. The Hopis never thought of
living in wigwams. but chose rock
cliffs for their homes, where their
Evening star., 1923-09-09

grams. The edges with dotted lines
lap over and paste down to hold the
sofa together.
When your frame is firmly and
neatly made. you may cover it with
soft-colored gray or brown ma
terial or gay-colored cretonne. 1t
might be well to cut your material
into the proper shapes before you
paste the parts together, then you can
use the cardboard parts for patterns
to trace around. Be sure you allow
one-fourth inch on every edge of the
material to turn in when you sew
the cloth together.
Evening star., 1923-09-09
Jack worked so hard every day,
He wanted to earn extra pay;
They paid him to quit,
But he tried to omit
Even week of good play.

But he tried to omit
Even a week of good play.
THERE was once boy named
i Jack who worked in a grocery
store. He didn't care so much how
good his work was. but it was his
ambition to become very wealthy.
For almost a year he worked as
hard as he could and every Saturday
night he drew his weeks wages.
One day his employer called him
and asked him if he wouldn't like a
vacation. "If / take vacation"
Jack said. Il will lose my wages and
don't want to lose my money"
The old grocer smiled sadly. "All
you think about is making money,
my boy. But you have worked hard.
III you want to go away a week I
Will nay you the same as If you
were here"
Jack left the store cheerfully, Won
aering how he would spend his week
AS he passed building he saw a
sign: Boy Wanted for one Week"
Jack stopped short. Then he threw
pack his head and laughed and
Evening star., 1923-09-09
Puzzlemakers.
Have you ever wondered how puz

|ules are invented?
It is believed that many of the
most intricate puzzles were originally
made to pass away the tedious hours
[,f Imprisonment. Napoleon in mel
choly exile in St. Helena devised
hsany puzzles, especially of geo.
metric nature. When BENJAMIN
FRANKLIN was a clerk of the Pennsyl-
|vania assembly he whiled away the
tedium of the meetings by devising
magical squares. Some Of these fig
Evening star., 1923-09-09
To the Minute.

Hey" yelled the carpenter to his
new assistant, didn't I tell you to
notice when the glue boiled over?"
Yes, sir, and I did," replied the
youth. ut was exactly a quarter
past TO-"
Evening star., 1923-09-09

slant Of the end pieces Is shown on
the drawing and should be done be-
fore the design is cut out.
In assembling the table and chair
Evening star., 1923-09-09
Unavoidable Accident.

Teacher-Who was that laughing
out loud?
Joseph was, ma am. l was laugh
| ing up my sleeve and didn't know
there was hole in it,
Evening star., 1923-09-09
A Combination.

Jelly Bean--Every morning at IL
o'clock I eat my blunch-by that I
mean I eat meal which Is my
breakfast and my lunch in one.