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The Cordova daily times., 1923-03-17
ENOUGH BIBLES PRINTED TO PROVIDE ALL FAMILIES
 WITH TWO COPIES EAcF

CHICAGO, March 17. - Enough Bibles have been printed in all Ian guages in the world since printing was invented, to provide each of the earth's 30O,OOO,OOO families with two copies, according to an estimate made by George c. Buxton, Chicago pub lished, made before meeting of the Subscription Book Publishers Association.
 Since the middle of the fifteenth century, when printing was invented, Buxton said, 66O,OOO,OOO Bibles have been printed. Approximately S,0Oo,- 900 copies of the Bible are printed in this country and Canada annually, he said.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-03-17

LEWISTOWN, Mont, March IT, Singing in Italy, the home of grand opera, under the professional name of Marie Montana, Miss Ruth Kel- logg Waite, of this city, has been scoring success after success at Milan.
 Miss Waite's real name seemed difficult of pronunciation in Italian, so she adopted the more euphonius Maria Montana" in honor of her native state, which I love so well, '" she said.
 Miss Waite, after her triumph in Milan, where she had been singing for several months, made short tour of the Rivera, opening in La Boheme," in which she sang the principal role, Chivari, in Italian. Notwithstanding her associates in the opera company were all Italians and favorites with the music-loving public of that country, Miss Waite was credited with receiving a tre- mendous ovation
 A letter from Miss Waite says she is soon to appear again in Milan to sing Gilda, in "Rigoletto,' which is Galli-Curcis most famous role and an extremely difficult one to sing.
 Miss Waites success and rise to fame is an outstanding example of persistence and hard work in pro- curing an education. She was the daughter of Jack Waite, of Butte
The Cordova daily times., 1923-03-17
ENGLAND RULES WOMEN NOW ELIGIBLE TO "GO DOWN TO THE SEA IN SH1PS''

LONDON, March 17.-"Yo Ho, and Powder Puff"
 Ship Ahoy, is our hat on straight?'
 Such marine expressions as these may soon be heard on the rolling ocean waves, replacing the strong salty language that the sea has known since time immorial-and all because of a ruling of the British Board of Trade that sex is no bar to the granting of certificates as masters, mates or engineers in the
The Cordova daily times., 1923-03-17

mercantile marine. There will be no royal road" for women sailors, however. They must sail before the mast and serve an apprenticeship.
 One old salt at the Thames pool heard the news of the Board of
 Trade decision, puffed his pipe and
 muttered Aye, and it'll be lace trimmings on me dugarees next"
 Will Davy Jones' locker become a hope chest or wardrobe trunk a
 hundred years hence?
The Cordova daily times., 1923-03-17
MONTANA GIRL, FORMER PHONE OPERATOR, IS NOW
 SUCCESS IN GRAND OPERA

Montana, who was killed in Helena while doing duty as United States marshal February IS, 1903. She moved with her family to LewistoWn, then only "cow camp" on the plains shortly after the death of her father, at which time she was only little girl She worked later as a telephone operator and had hard struggle to get musical education.
 Miss Waite's father was widely known in Butte and the Northwest in the old days as an athlete and once came near defeating John L. Sullivan in a ring encounter in the Butte min ing camp.
 His official duties took him to a dingy back room in a saloon in the were heard, and the first person to reach the scene was young reporter. There on a card table lay the limp body of Waite. In his hand was a smoking Colt revolver. The reporter imeediately drove to the outskirts of the city to notify the widow of the dead man. He was confronted by a pretty woman with babe in her arms and three little tots holding to her skirts. One of these orphaned chil- dren was Miss Waite.
 The theory was advanced that some one whose enmity Jack Waite had in cured through performance of his duty as a United States marshal had drawn faster" than he.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-03-17

It has been estimated that 15,S00,- 900 families out of the 23,OOO,O0O in the United States do not have Bibles.
 "These figures do not reflect with exactness the religious situation," Buxton said. "The American people are inherently religious"
The Cordova daily times., 1923-03-17
CENTENARIAN LIVED IN
 ONE COUNTY 30 YEARS

ROCK ISLAND, H., March 16-This county's only centenarian, Mrs Eliza beth Rosenberg, is dead, at the home of a son at Colona, near here.
 She had been resident of Rock Island County for the last 80 years and is survived by five sons, fifteen grand children and nine great-grand- children.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-20
THREE MINUTE JOURNEYS
The ForlOrn City of Nitrate Fields.
Rv TEMPLE MANNING

cent nitrate Of soda and from 60
to Is per cent common salt.
The caliche is worked up on the
spot for crude nitrate of soda bv
extracting the salt with hot wafer.
allowing the suspended earth to
settle, and then transferring the
clarified liquid first to a cestern.
where 1t deposits part of its chlor.
ide OF sodium at a high tempera..
ture and then to another. where
on cooling it yields a crop of crys.
tails of purse nitrate.
By-products of the nitrate field
are iodine, common salt and ofhes.
minerals. Other processes produce
ammonia.
The value Of nitrates to the
world in renewing and enrichlnz
the soil Is enormous. Germany had
always used a vast quantity Of
Chilean nitrates and her cron auf-
fercd frightfully during the first
years of the war when 1t waa cut
off. A German chemist then found
a method of exacting nitratee from
the air. which was Of much ns.
sistance to the German farmers
until the end Of the war.
Copyright. 1923, by Newspan.r
Feature Services, Ino.)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-20
Yes. We Inherit knowledge
Explain the Mud-Wasp.

Dr. Paul Kammerer Austrian scientist here assuring
Darwin right in his belief that the characteristics
acquired by the parents be inherited by the children
ANY man that truth for himself. mud
wasp Matched from the egg the spring finds itself lying
the body of gigantic caterpillar parayzed by sting
of head, but still alive. The caterpillar lain
there all winter alive and fit for food waiting for the
wasp to hatch out and eat it.
The baby wasp eats the caterpillar gets bigger stronger
wanders off having her mother having
ceived any instructions. When the time lay eggs
she finds another caterpillar and sngs that caterpillar
exactly the right place. rendering incapable
without killing it. And that wasp buries the living parayzed
caterpillar with her that her young in may
something to eat And she goes off and dies.
And has gone for centuries operation of singing
caerplars most delicate sfu surgical operation is per
formed by creatures taught
How do they do it if acquired knowledge character
istcs not inherited? Instinct you say7 That's con
venient word to hide ignorance
Acquired characteristics inherited changed us from
barbarians to what now-semi- civilized beings
struggling through generations toward light of nowledSe
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-20

r 8 your child a city child?
II so, did you ever stop to
Il think where he Is being edu-
Gated?
You probably send him off to
school every day and heave a
sigh of relief as you think to
yourself, well, the school Is
taking care of him for the day"
Is II? How much time Is your
child spending in school. and how
much outside of school? And
where Is he spending his time
outside Of school?
Let US do some mental arith-
metic.
You will probably admit that
when a child has spent at home
10 hours In sleep. 3 hours for
meals. and hours for general
activities, the city child has pref
ty we'll exhausted the possibilities
for being kept wholeSomely oc-
cupied by the ordinary city home.
And he has pretty well exhausted
all the adults in the home.
Now for the school. We are ac-
customed to think Of the school
as taking care Of children for s
hours a day. But when you count
up the small part Of the whole
year that the school Is in session
you will find that, counting the
365 days in the year, the school
takes care Of your child only 2h
hours a day. And 1t is the 365
days that you are interested in,
for you have your child to pro-
vide for, not for the school year.
but for all the days in the year.
But. you will say, there are the
Libraries. supervised play. churches,
recreation parks, Boy Scouts, etc.
Yes; but investigation has proved
that all these activities do not
provide on the average for all the
children of the cities for more
than 10 minutes a day. for the
365 days in the year. Not more
than one-fourth OF the city chill
dren attend Sunday schools regu-
larly. The Sunday school period
Is one hour. This averages only
Is minutes per week and 2 min
uteS per day for each child.
Now. to add up-16 hours in
the home plus 2M in school plus
IL minutes in outside activities
make Is hours and AZ minutes a
day. That leaves hours and
Is minutes OF your child'S time to
account for in a 24-hOur day.
Where are city children spend
ing these remaining hours?
We all know the answer. The
average city child is spending
them on the city streets. 1t is
the city street and alley which
are educating city children for
over S hours a day. In other
words. the city has your child
for twice as many hours a day
to educate him in the wrong d.
rection as the school has to edu-
cate him in the right direction.
1t IL this street education which
Is really moldinE the lives and
characters of cur city children,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-20
SOMETHING FOR PARENTS TO
THINK ABOUT

for the city street is a most eff.
ficient teacher. It Is teaching
children to loaf, not play; to de-
stroy, not construct. 1t creates
love of quick. cheap, passing ex-
element, not habits Of sustained
wholesome enthusiasm and in.
terest. It develops an attitude Of
Whats the use?" instead of
nourtshing and developing the
most precious thing In children
an eager intellectual curiosity.
The city street distorts and de-
forms children. It destroys their
powers OF healthy, wholesome
growth.
Are you willing to leave your
child to the mercy of the city
street?
Or will you help to make the
school a successful competitor
with the street?
Win you help the school au-
thorities provide within the
school the activities that all chill.
dren love Fairgrounds, shops,
gymnasiums, science laboratories
places where children may be
kept wholesomely occupied all
day long, and where adults may
come In the evening for recrea.
ton and pleasure?
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-20
LOT OF STEAMSHIP CHEF IS A
STRENUOUS ONE

; In the survey made Of the
stewards departments Of the
various vessels of the United
States Lines fleet the fact was
developed that Americans as a
race are heavy eaters. Further
more they eat much more rapidly
than the Europeans. Your Euro
pean makes almost a rite Of his
meals. The American regards 1t
as q task to be performed as
rapidly as possible.
The chef on the liner must not
only oversee the preparations Of
all the regular meals and lun-
cheons, but must prepare special
services. Invalids. for instance,
must have specially prepared
dishes and no matter what their
desires may be they are supplied
from the ample larders aboard
the ships. Birthdays and other
anniversaries call for service on
the part of the ships chef. Fur.
thermore, the chef must consider
the tastes OF many nationalitieS.
He must study the passenger list
and when he finds that there are
large number Of English, Ameri.
can. French, German, or other
nationals on board, he must create
dishes with which they are IA
miliar. The chef Is ever on the
job. and during the trip hardly
gets time to sleep.
There Is keen competition
among the chief stewards and
chefs on the vessels of the United
States Lines, and whenever one
creates a new dish that makes
an appeal to the travelling public,
the news spreads and new dishes
begin to make their appearance
on other ships. The chefs are all
men who have had long training
in big hotels ashore and on ships
at sea.
In advance OF a trip the chief
steward and the chef must care
fully calculate the amount of pro-
visions necessary for the voyage.
Aboard the vessels of the United
States Lines 1t Is estimated that
each passenger consumes from one
pound to one pound and one-half
Of potatoes a day. Americans. It
might be stated. are great pota-
to eaters. In the matter OF roasts,
six ounces per person per day
are allowed. Steaks and chops
are estimated at one-half pound
per person on individual orders.
Game and poultry amounts to
one pound per person. AS an idea
Of the amount Of food carried
aboard ship It might he stated
that in provisioning the steamship
George Washington recently, $500
pounds Of poultry and game were
placed on hoard. In the matter
Of potatoes. there wore 80. 900
pounds, and other vegetables
amounting to 10000 pounds. OF
milk. there were $4,000 quarts.
Rurplemented ny 500 quarts Of
cream. There were fourteen kinds
Of cheese with total weight OF
goo mounds. ard Of tea ana COT
fee, 5000 pounds!
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-20

0F all the forlorn and unpleas-
ant cities, Antofagasta, Chile,
is probably the most forlorn
and unpleasant to a casual visitor.
Nevertheless. it Is one OF the ricn-
est and most prosperous spots on
the globe, for it is the center or
the nitrate industry.
To go ashore from passenger
ship at Antofagasta you must
utilize a rowboat. And the row.
boat must push it's way through
the biggest schools of seals to be
discovered in any civilized harbor
on earth. The boatmen literally
have to feel for a vacant spot IN
the water. OF course, these are
not fur seals, bus the variety found
in San Francisco's harbor.
Antofagasta is a city built on Il
desert-and a salt desert at that.
Nothing can grow there, no trees
or glowers. There Is a fine, pene'
trating salt dust in the air. You
kick UP clouds Of 1t when you walk.
Your clothes soon get ruined. It's
a place to sec quickly and escape.
Yet many thousands call 1t their
home.
Nitrates are found over a terri
tory of several hundred miles OF
salt desert running north to the
Peruvian border. This territory
was once included in the country
of Peru, but Chile went to war with
Peru some forty years ago, con-
ouered her and annexed the nitrate
fields. They we're a government
monopoly, AMI for many years,
until the outbreak of the great
war, the revenue was so great that
It paid almost all the expense OF
Chile. Therefore, the people OF
Chile paid practically no taxes.
The desolation of the nitrate
fields is beyond description. Tho
nitrate, or nitrate of soda, to name
It properly. lies beneath a layer Of
soil about six Seet thick, composed
of sand felspar. phosphates and
other mineral matters. The caliche
or material which contains the nj
tratoS cOnSiSts OF from 20 to Is per
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-20
Once Overs
Copyright by International Feature Service
BE JUST WHAT YOU SEEM-AVO1D PRETENSl

gives you much satisfaction to be told by friends
and acquaintance that they envy you your cheerful,
happy dispositions the energy, and hlgh-sprted interest
you display with others.
1t gratfes you to think how we'll you deceive those
whom only occasionally-those who only
when you acting a part.
You know that when you with your family you
not the character you assume when you with
others whom you wish please and favorably impress
Would it be matter of much satisfaction and
oyment to you if you could be just what you and
pretend to be when you mott
If the assumed wholesomeness amiabity, high spirits
and liberaly which you display before others
timely part of your home life WELL how much more
you would get out of life.
You ought to get very tired of posing and begin to be
real person.
The daily struggle to impress your personality
thing when you quite another is harder job than it
would be to rghaboutface and be truly the thing you
want others to think you are.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-20

TT OUSEWIvES who arc at
their Wits end to plan a
variety Of meals for a week
for the averaged sized family will
be interested in a recent survey
made of the cuisine service Of the
United States Lines. It developed
that $1,000 meals are served on q
voyage by each Of the bigger liners
of the fleet, the voyage being the
time consumed by the vessel from
the time Of It's departure from
New York for Europe, and return
to the home port.
Mistress Housewife who Is Wor.
ried by the planning OF meals for
the little family would do we'll to
think Of the problems that confront
the chief steward and the chef of
an ocean liner. Tho survey Of the
cuisine situation developed the fact
that some ALTO meals a day are
served aboard ship. There are six
services In the course Of the day
as follows: Coffee, $50 a. M;
breakfast, 500 to 1000 a. m:
bouillon and sandwiches, IL to IL:
luncheon, 100 to 200, p. M: tea,
500 to 500 p. M; dinner. 500 to
500 p. M, and buffet service, $3.50
to 1890 D. m.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-20
Haven From Jazz

ONDON-T There Is probably
IL only one place In the world
where tired ears can rest assured
they won't hear the strains of
Yes, We Have No Bananas" or
Barney Google" and that is in
an English jail
The Commissioners Of Prisons
for England have banned all jazz
music.
Mere comic programs are
barred" says a statement from
the commission, because prisons
are not places of entertainment.
Education is the object"
A weekend in Jail isn't 20 bad
In England. perhaps.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-01

flares. Where the two overlap
however, the white foundation
skirt is revealed. The dress, while
very simple, is somewhat cornpii-
Gated in detail.
The barrel shape, or blouse-top
wrap, launched so successfully last
summer by Chanel, is appearing in
new form among the models of va
rious prominent dressma.iers. One
maker has just brought ont tat
feta cap of this order. The TOP.
which is very full and puffy. is
slashed to show a lining OF vivid
orange. All the edges of the
slashes together with those of the
sleeve openings and the big collar
are trimmed with a narrow. plait-
ing of black taffeta ribbon. The
skirt of the wrap is plain and
straight and overlaps widely at the
front.
RebouX's new picture hats sound
two distinct notes. One is that of
color, the other is the cache
peigne, or bandeau. which goes
across the back OF the hat to sup
port the under brim ard to give il
just the tilt over the face that is
needed for this new form.
After many seasons of hats
without bandeauX one wonders if
RebouX's essay will be immediate
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-01

Ily followed by other important
makers. One can easily VIC; en-
thusiastic about this new t. of
hat. It is exquisite in all its line
and the shape, which one might
easily guess, would be becoming to
90 out of 100 women.
a New Type of Trimming.
Another di-tinct idea in Paris
millinery is the use of heavy MORE
and grosgrain ribbons put on in
very flat loop bows, the end of
which are often pasted together to
give rightly. Maria Guy is max
ing. a great feature of hats trim
med in this way, and also is Loui-
son.
Many of the Maria Guy hats are
very short of brim. These stiff
looking bows come down over the
brim and toward one side, reach
ing almost to the shoulder. This
type of hat obviates thehigh collar,
so if millinery fashions have any
thing to do with dress fashions we
will still expect to have the throat
degage.
One sees a note of the Empire
in the numerous helmet shaped
crowns and the brim movement
riding slightly upward at the back.
IN drossv hats one. sees beautiful
~ shaded pastel tones in half-long
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-01

ostrich plumes, grouped three to a
color. These are charming on pic
ture shapes of horsehair in one Of
the tones seen in the feathers.
The black hat for the moment
appears to be superseded by the
colored hat. Many students OF
fashion declare that the black h@t
is doomed, but this can never ce
as long as there are practical wom-
en- of limited incomes.
The use Of the veil as trim
ming is "a development of stvle
that has been blowing about in the
the wind of fashions for some
time. Rose Descat uses the panel
veil in high colors on small cfc-
shapes. Her favorite colors are
almond green and violine. These
high-colored wells are posed on
hats of matching tone.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-01

unexpected places, such as on the
front of the skirt only, directly
over the hips at eithe- side. S!-ir5;
may be flounced all around in
straight lines, or wide frills may
slant low on one hip and high on
the other.
Every dressmaker now has his
or her own version of the ruffle.
A white crepe de chine froca
made in Cheruit style has flounces
in front (which begin midway be-
tween the hips and the knees. N ar
row lace and tucks trim the pock-
cts, the collar and the cuffs of this
frock which is cketchcd at the low
er left Of the page.
At the right Of it is a model
showing an advanced stage of de-
velopment in fabric ideas intro
duced some time ago. 1t is of Ro-
dier's serge Hindu in red and
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-01

white. The coat worn with it is
of red serge banded with white
gallon.
Black Serge With Printed Silks.
The combination Of printed and
plain fabrics continues to be a fea-
ture. One prominent dressmaker
uses this in most interesting way,
combining black serge with print
ed crepe Marocain. She makes Il
plated skirt of black serge, trims
it with black soutache ornaments
and then adds a full blouse with
girdle and yoke collar of brilliant
ly printed crepe Marocain. She
adds flaring gauntlet cuffs. The
result is excellent.
Reps was used for many of the
more exclusive models last fall,
but not exploited to any great eX-
tent. Now several dressmakers
show interesting collections of
practical dresses developed in this
fabric. A typical model is of
black reps over white reps, the lat
ter being barely discernable. The
white note is again repeated in the
garniture Of the bodice, which con-
sists of O long necklace-like band
of silver ribbon on which is EN-
broidered q series of white mar
guerites with cold canters.
This ribbon band ends in heavy
silver tassels which fall to about
one-third the skirt length. There is
nothing remarkable about the cut
of the bodice which shows low
waistline end tight fitting sleeves.
The skirt, however, has decided
godet flare. but is drawn in by
means of fen plaits which are in
vc-tcd. The bnck of the skirt.
which Is perfc rtlv STRAIGHT, is Of
most enveloped by the godet sido
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-01

Ter designers advanced many new
ideas which We're to bring about
striking changes in women's dress.
The ideas at that time were kept
exclusive but as time went on they
took root and their fruits are now
seen everywhere.
Distinct and definite fashion
notes are apparent in fabrics, in
designs for dresses. suits and ill
millinery. The 1880 silhouette
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-01

Last autumn the assertion was
heard on all sides: there is moth
ing new in the styles of women's
clothes. This statement was an
unfair criticism of the work of
artists who are constantly labor
ing not only for the betterment Of
women's dress, but to give fresh
impetus to all the trades and in
dustries pertaining thereto.
As far back as last summer clcv-