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Concerning Diatons.

EQUALLY beautiful in form as the
- snowflake, when seen under the
microscope, are the individual plants,
known as diatoms. These unusual
plants belong to the bitterworts, a
family of fiowerless plants, and there
is no body of water that does not
contain them
On larger bodies Of water diatoms
form the chief part of planlSton, or
the floating organisms on both salt
and fresh water, while in the spring
they form a bright green scum over
standing bodies of water.
Now each individual plant is micro
scopic in size, solitary and free swim
ming, a fact that has caused many
students to believe that they were
animal and not vegetable in nature.
The cell wall Of these minute plants
is made up of two valves, which fit
into each other like a box and its
cover and is composed Of pure silicic
acid a natural glass, but Of organic
origin. On account OF the delicate
markings OF these valves they are
used to test the fineness of lenses.
Thus, while diatom is often spoken
Of as earth" it Is not composed OF
infusoria--that is, microscopic living
forms-but is merely light and faky
vegetable fossil deposits.
Among the poorer classes OF the
peasantry in Europe it has also been
used as food for hundreds of years
There it is known as mountain
NEAL and considerable portions OF
it arc frequently added to bread
dough. 80 .,,s =, 49,.
Diatom is not a. food, however, ano
there Is no economy in its use Ir
fact, its use eneFvates the human
body and produces about the same
effect as the eating Of clay on thu
American Indians, - .s.,...
This so-called jnfusorial earth, like
nearly everything else, has it's ,ex'
cellent uses, however. It is used 4ir
large quantities in making dynamite
as a polishing powder; for covering
steam pipes and as a filling agent fol
paint and rubber.
The extreme. lightness of this earth
and it's great absorbing capacit,
makes it very valuable and it is. curet
and prepared on "a large scale. There
arc many great deposits in nearly
III parto of the world, among thu
lzrgest being that beneath the cit,
OF R1ehmond, lin Virginia: one neal
Monters.. Calf, and another In
Czechoslovakia-.. Lately in drfllins
axtesan wells at Atlantic. City. N j.
deposits were discovered a thousant
or more feet under the surface OF
the earth asss,,.s' - ..
Many volumes have been writer
by the scientists Of this country and
Europe on the subject of fossil
diatoms and the highest art has been
employed to illustrate them, but no
picture can compare with the re-
ma<kabfe beauty revealed by . pesg
through the microscope
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hung down limp from the upper
branch andt was distended. Obvi
ously an animal was in it.
Then something happened that wa.
stranger than anything 1 had evel
seen in my life. The bag swung slow
ly to the right, then to the left an6
lifted itself straight into the air
When it had stopped there for a mo.
ment. needing no support from abov,
or below. it waved about with a sick.
ening motion. then slowly lowered it.
self and hung limp again.
The men crowded up to see. ! could
hear their heavy breathing. Ghost
Yes, ghostr' I heard them say. The
air was thick with superstitious awe
There is a contagion about that sort
of thing. I was by no means ready
to take an oath that 1 had not caught
the devil. I had never seen gravity
defied before.
1t was Abdul Rahman's Let us 81
back, tuan," that sent me running for
ward. The spotted sunlight confused
me, and It was not until WAC almost
actually happened. There my relief
broke from me in English, which
had hardly spoken for months.
heard myself shout, That's no sigh
for a drinking man"
An enormous python was half il
the bag, half out He had shot into Ii
/ for the chickens, had swallowed one
in fact The branch had broken witt
him; the draw-rope at the mouth Of
the bag had frightened about his mid.
die, and it was further frightened By
his weight.
The end of his tail was wrapped
about the branch. He proceeded Il
give me another demonstration OF
how he could haul himself up with it
1 began to laugh. ! roared There
is nothing so reassuring as laughter
The natives ran up to me- When the,
saw what it was their half-naket
bodies swayed and doubled will
mirth-
My own laughter stopped suddenly
The thought had come to me that
though we had a fine prize, more thar
three yards of snake were still free
This was SOLDERING. The managing Of
a python's tail is matter of life ane
death.
= 4
FORTUNATELY we had plenty Of
good rope with US. l sent fine, &C
tive fellow up the tree with explicit di
rections. He was to tie a rope in Z
slip-knot on the snakes tail and
very near the end of the tail-to give
the rope what is called a half
hitch" He carried out the directions
and then, passing the long rope under
the branch, he threw the free end te
the men below. They gave ii a strong
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through Mrs. Beilamy Storer, wife
of our minister to Vienna We all
lived. then, at the Plaza Hotel, In
Paris. and met in the bombproof cell
lars during raids. There, in the caves,
II told King Albert's sister that old
linen made the best canvas for color
symphony-and she procured me this
one from the royal linen closet of
old France"
She finished "Eclats' one night at
. am, in the property room of the
London Theater, when every one was
gone. Getting out of the taxi at her
hotel in Russell Square, she found
herself standing under, Zeppelin.
1t dropped a torpedo on the British
Museum, but the missile. happily, ex-
, ploded on the ground. Then, as the
aircraft turned away, it was attacked
by a little airplane and fell, flaming
mass.
81 was alone outside the locked and
dark hotel" she said. my chauffeur
had dashed off without his pay.
| MY Gawd, it is a Yep! he cried.
One killed my brother" A few weeks
later, when we spread the sheet out
to examine the picture, we found
that it represented an explosion OF
bombs. Yet nothing of the kind had
been in my intention"
Her subconscious mind, she is con-
WINGED, had done it, a few hours even
before the great explosions i'm
preston of them all! And, thus, for
lall-in the subconscious world-time
is not irreversible.
Also, she often knows what she
! has painted only when the picture is
: finished. There is nothing "spooky
to it, only wonderful suggestions OF
the power of mind untrammeled.
THE Queen of Serbia gave Louie Q
! sheet from the royal palace al
| Belgrade. What came, when it was
| painted, was 1.-The Map of a World
mot of this world. but only parts
of it which Loie knew personally
and the rest is fanciful." But there
are quantities of psychis persons who
do not tire TO gaze on it, convinced
that they already recognize it, from
1
some past or future"'
Now, a great man of the decorative
arts has told me this:
| five ask why these things (Which
described or even photographed
seem mixed up" without form OIL
subjecD have such hold on people
and such influence on art, it is be-
cause they open up new realms OF
color and. light and appeal power
fully to the imagination, conscious
and subconscious.
] Every one sees something differ
ent in them" he says, "or, rather
nobody sees the subject in the same
way"
IF you reduce any one of these
big pieces to the small slide of a
protector" says the decorative arts
man, .sthrown upon the screen. you
; see it luminous-in light. instead OF
as a painting. Or, you can throw II
| upon a. theater, stage, or upon 9
dancer. Such, in fact, are the Loie
Fuller effects produced at the opera
! last winter. On the painted sheets
it is as IL she caught the colored
lights OF Chimere' and fixed themr
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BY STERLING HEILIG.

TN the west end of the Palace OF
the Louvre there hangs great
sized and mysterious color sym
phony" belonging to the Duchess
de Vendome 1t is called "Eclats
foutbursts explosions), whereby Gas
Will be told presently hangs a tale
Of London under the zeppelins.
1t is painted on an old. rich linen
bed sheet by Loie Fuller. and is in
the nature of hand-colored tissues
which she prepares for boudoir dra-
peries and negliges of fashionable
women. But certain great particular
compositions, bearing poetic titles,
are PRICED as a new kind of subcon-
scious pictures, capable of evoking in
those who are psychic varied, re-
sponses, different with each specta-
tor, yet all bearing on the mystic
subject.
This distinction must be kept in
mind. now that the French govern
ment is actually holding loan exhi-
bition of the color symphonies in the
decorative section of the Louvre Gal
lery-at the same time when women
of society are wearing boudoir gowns
which bear certain OF their titles.
In the grand old mansion of the
Rue Des Saints-Peres, where Loie
Fuller lives, l met the Baronne de
Rothschild ordering silk material for
a robe de chambre from Loie's crea-
! ton of THE Early Morning SUM-" be-
longing to Elizabeth. the young
Queen of Greece.
The robe de chambre will carry
evocation from it: but The Early
Morning Sun" Is in the Palace of the
Louvre. loaned by the queen, just as
the Duchess de vendome has loaned
"Eclats."
The Queen OF Rumania has loaned
1.-THE Garden of Dreams" painted on
a great white satin cloth without a
seam, and inspired by the queens
own fairy tales-"but inspired un-
consciously" says Loie. After 1t was
was done. / saw that all the fairy
stories of hers which 1 had read had
got into it."
The Grand Duchess Cyril (whose
husband is pretender to the throne of
Russia)- has loaned one called Gre
puscule" c'Twilight"). 1t is done on
great white satin panels, but Loie
Fuller prefers old linen, which has
become suave and human" as she
calls it, by long human use.
4 X
THE Duchess de vendome gave a
great-sixed old linen bedsheet
which bears In red embroideries on
/ one corner the mo. 26" of the old
royal linen closet of the household OF
Louis Philippe, King of the French.
mo canvas or other tissue in the
world" says Loie, "absorbs colors sc
! well as such an old and long-used
linen bedsheet of high quality. When
artists learn this fact they will all
try to obtain and use them. Another
of their beauties is that they are sc
wide and seamless"
I, She worked on "Eclats" during the
war at different times. particularly
when her dancing company was APP
DoAring at the Colosseum. in London
- had met the duchesse." she says
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caught sight of it in the distance,
stopped dead and threw out his hands,
palms back, as if to warn US. He
continued to stand there without a
word, without moving. l ran to him.
He turned and stared at me with a
queer, dazed look.
This man, bred on the edge of the
Jungle, had seen a strange sight. For
a moment l did not understand l
could make out the bag clearly. 1t
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who bestowed money freely. The ex-
petition promised plenty of food and
plenty OF sport. The hadji took over
the delicate matter OF selection. He
picked out ten men for me, fine speci-
mems, five for each boat The men
travelled light. They carried merely
an extra sarong, twisted round their
| heads as a turban. They all wore
| at their sides their parangs, heavy.
eighteen-inch knives. A Malay with
out knife is no Malay at all.
We got of at shutdown. Abdul
Rahman's boat led the way.
! 1t was in the afternoon of the sixth
day that we neared his kampong. A
crowd had collected on the river
bank. The kzmpong was naturally
expecting the return of its headman,
but, instead Of one boat, here were
three! The kajang-roof on my boat
meant to them a European, because
| the natives never used this protection
from the sun.
Abdul Rahman waited until we had
wide-eyed circle. Then he an
nounced: THE tuan is a pawang
witch doctor). No beast can take
his life. He has come to kill all the
animals in the jungle. He is a work
err Of magic. have SEEN"
The crowd parted silently to let
me and my men pass. They were
deeply awed.
Abdul put me up at his own house.
While / waited on his veranda his
women gave it a furious houseclean-
ing. The supplies were brought up
by many hands. "Chu 1" allowed
| them to carry everything but the
sacred guns; these he looked after
himself. Every man and boy wanted
! the honor of carrying one of the
tuan's possessions. He is not a
Dutchman," overheard them saying.
And: He can work wonders. The
peng-hulu has seen and heard"
1 told Abdul that 1 must have
quantities OF rattan in lengths of at
least thirty feet and that his men
must cut for me straight young trees
two inches thick and at least twelve
feet high.
| WHILE this was being done, / de-
w cided to make an excursion into
the wflds to look the ground over
took with me my ten men and
Abdul Rahman with three of his men
i We had gone a very short distance
when the men in front stopped dead
| There is tiger" they cried.
The tiger came unawares and was
probably as surprised as we were, for
rarely is this beast encountered in
1.-THE daytime. The men jumped back
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Loie tells it this way: II can put
them on the slide first, for the stage
or dancer: then transfer them to the
big picture from the small slide; or
work backward
So. they say that she has caught
lights" as painters had never been
able to do.
Two English printed papers of
Paris, dealing with the exhibition,
put the columns under the two diff
ferent headlines-"Riot of Colors!"
and "Orchestration of Colors!" So,
the public is divided between two
revelation.
WHAT triumph for the American
girl who came to Paris, thirty
years ago, with her serpentine dance!
She had her mother and brother with
her. Frank Fuller invented certain
of the lighting devices, but the NOV
ing luminous colors were all Loie's
creation. And Paris recognized 1t.
At the Follies Bergere, music
hall, it was not so much Loie Fuller
that danced as Loie Fullers lights.
She moved in the lights. The lights
danced with her. In a word, her per-
son showed the lights off.
This lights complex has always
| been her moving force-she never
| ceased to work in it This. Paris
| recognizes. also.
! From the Folies Bergere to the
Grand Opera of Paris is five minutes
\ trip in a tax-automobile, but it took
Twenty-Five years to make it. True
she made the next jump, to the Gal
lery of the Louvre, in one year after
| When, last winter, she was ac.
tually called upon to produce a bal
| let of lights at the opera Can art in
stitution of the governmentD it was
| said that the career of Loie Fuller
had reached its elimination in a
blaze of glory. Yet she risked de-
| feat. right there, from the beautiful
young dancing girls of the opera!
| The dancing girls pretty well run
the Paris Opera Through the inf1u-
\
| porting 1.-THE subscribers-no for
eign dancer has a chance there- So,
| instead of putting on a single dancer
of her own to produce the spectacle
Loie Fuller amiably employed "the
beautiful girls who own the shop
and so transformed herself from hos
| tile outsider to welcome guest!
But with a big 'B'') she xzs back
| at them,
| The ballet was called "Chimere'
| (Chimera), with the music by the
| Princess de Polignac, who under
stands I-oie's ideas perfectly. So did
| the electric light men and machinists
| "Chimera," as q, title, suggesting
| everything that is fanciful, Loie
| created for it dancers like trees, a
| chorus of eyes, the frightened flowers
| and quantities of similar bizarre
| characters, which required lots OF
/ activity from the beautiful dancing
| girls of the opera, but resembled in
no way the cast of a ballet as they
knew it, and certainly did not per-
init them to be recognized by their
friends!
Once more Loie Fuller made her
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ito which we came was empty, but
there was a stupid monkey chatter
ing above il. He had his paw stuck
up with bird lime, and had also man
aged TO damage some of the pieces
of rattan which held the net open.
We repaired the mouth, which was
sagging, and then went on to the
next net-empty, too.
AS we neared the third one Abdul
Rahnlan was we'll in the lead He
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meant. A tiger always witches up
his tail before he springs.
In a moment he would let out his
coughing roar and leave the ground
in a spring. 1 have heard that roar
dozens of times. 1t is. paralyzing.
No man or beast can hear it calmly.
But the roar never came. On the
striped creatures breast was the
snowy white spot tiger wears, as
II for the benefit of the marksman
1 took quick but careful aim and
sent 50-110 explosive bullet
straight through it, The tiger roll
ed over in the grass. 1 ran forward
and the natives followed me. The
bullet had made a killing wound.
The men began to heap insults on
the dead creature. They spat on him
and called him Names, why didn't
you stay at homer" they cried. You
wanted to see who was coming, didn't
you? Well, you saw! You wanted
chicken, didn't you? You got some
leadt'
They hung the body up SO that it
would not be eaten by animals while
we finished our accommodating When
we came back in an hour or two all
hands helped in skinning it. Our
little party went back to the KAN
pong in state of jubilation--not so
much because a tiger had been killed
as because / had stood the test.
When a number of the swinging
bags had been made under my direc-
ton I called together the men of
the kampong to explain how these
nets were expected to work.
When I went to look for trees in
which to place them / found a dozen
or more with fresh marks of 1eopard's
claws on the bark. The leopard,
after all, has much of the domestic
cat in him, and where he goes once
he goes again. Fortunately, before
set out the possibility of having
trouble with monkeys had occurred
to me. The place was full of them.
A monkey has no legitimate inter
est in live, fiuttering chickens. but
his curiosity is enormous. II he dis
covered one of my ropes tied to the
upper branch of tree ne was ca
pable of worrying the knot or even
sliding down the rope itself to inves-
tigate. In order to guard against
this, our final operation, after the net
| was placed, was to smear the upper
, branch and the net itself with bird
lime I took the greatest care in
arranging the nets.
\ X
A BOUT 8 o'clock the following
morning we started out to see
! what luck we had. There were
] twenty men with me. The first net
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Loie Fuller's Color Symphonies
! ~~ Owned by Queens and Processes
Exhibition in Government Gallery Seen Triumph

colored lights or luminous colors DO
their stuff. And Paris recognized
this also.
Paris having recognized it nj the
opera Loie now takes her opera eff
fects and transfers them to the bed
sheets of queens, her friends, as color
symphonies.
Yet, again, Paris recognizes it.
AT the Loie Fuller exhibition in
the Louvre" says the art critic of
the Debats, you see The Burning
Sun (Which belongs to Mrs. Frank
Pixley, whose husband wrote The
Prince of Pilsen,D just as if you saw
it in 'Chimera' at the opera"
AT this exhibition in the Louvre
"A there is great sheet, larger
than them all, and called "A Garden
in a Jungle"
It belongs to Mrs. Rodolph Valen-'
tino and is fixed" for all time from
the opera ballet episode of the same
title MIS-. Valentino is so enthusi-
astic about it that she is going to
build and entire room around it, in
spired by it, and to create an atmos-
phere for it, She is the daughter
of an American chemist, or, rather.
physicist, who presented French per
fumes to America
The Penal in Red belongs to Mrs
A B. Spreckels of San Francisco.
founder and doner, with her husband,
of the California palace of the legion
of honor, erected in Lincoln Park
overlooking the Pacific, in honor OF
CALIFORNIA; dead of the great war. ;
The Queen of the Belgians has
given a sheet now being decorated
as Harmonious Spots for the Mary
hill Museum. founded in the state
of Washington. near Portland, by
Samuel Hill, who accompanied Cen
Joffre in America The builder of
the Northern Pacific j. J. Hill. was
his wifes father-the Mary Hill for
! whom the museum was named.
This sheet, given by the queen, was
the Identical one used to cover her
when they made the cast of her
royal hand for the collection of
Maryhill
A hundred hands of personages OF
the world war have been cast from
nature for Mr.. Hill-Gens. Joffre, Per
shing and F'och, with King Albert and
his queen, at first consenting-and
such plaster casts are now. being
transferred to marble.
"The Orgie Of Colorsr belongs to the
Earonne de Rothschfld. Chaos" be-
longs to, Jean Guiffrey, director OF
paintings of the Louvre Museum. The
Peacock Blue PANEL is owned BY
Nine. Louise Metman, wife of the d.
rector of the decorative arts section of
the Louvre. Kate Fuller of Paris owns
the Study in Green"--the only one
in green of the collection now shown
at the Louvre.
* x X
|uOw did Loie Fuller. get there ?
Frequently. in years past" SAYS
Loie, people have remarked my color
work, until. one day NJ. Arsene Alex
! andre, inspector general of Beaux-
Arts and the great art critic of the
Figaro. called at moment when /
Continued on Third Pase)
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carrying a ton and a half. They had
been made by the following out of
huge logs and they had been very
carefully thinned down and were
shaped not unlike great canoes.
When the time came for the selec-
tion OF tho men an embarrassing sit
uation arose. Almost the entire male
population OF the kampong offered
itself had not only a reputation
as worker Of magic, but as q man
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BY CHARLES MAYER.

T was when I was idling at the
kuala in Trengganu, making
daily visits to the sultan-jus,
for the pleasure 1t gave me to bt
with him-that an idea struck me. II
struck me so hard that it knocked mt
out of the mood for soft cushions, to-
bacco and slow talk. decided to gr
at once to Palembang, in Sumatra
and get into action.
Pack up" 1 said to Hsi Gnu l. my
Chinese boy" and to the sultan
Now 1 must so away"
You are like 4 man. he said, etc
whom some hand is reckoning. What
is this sign you see? Is it a good
sign
IT cannot tell you in words an
severed, because it came to me IN q
picture will make a picture Of il
for you"
With a pencil and paper 1 drew a
diagram. It was my new idea set
down in black and white-an idea for
catching the wild beasts that climb
in trees. 1t was very simple
The sultan looked me full IN the
eyes. "You are very clever" he said
At the moment I was 50 pleased with
my invention that I was almost in
clined to agree with him.
From Trengganu to Palembang is
a long journey. But / knew Suma-
tra-knew that it was a trappers
paradiSe-and I was eager to try out
my new scheme I went first to Sing
apore, where l took a small steamer
that deposited me in Palembang in
two days. ! realized then that it was
not only the business Of animal trap
ping that had brought me, but a
longing to be again with an old hadji,
my first real friend in the Malay
states / had not seen him since my
visit to him after the tragic death of
Ali, his nephew. and my faithful serv-
ant, gored to death before my eyes by
al tapir.
Impatient as / was to be OF to the
Malay quarter, / must first present my
self at the government house. i there
received a sort of verbal freedom of
the settlement.
A walked toward the house OF
the hadji he came to meet me. He
touched his brow and his breast and
his deeply lined and kindly face shone
with pleasure. You have come here
to see me-to honor an old man with
your visit-but there is some other
thing that has really brought you.
What is it,
"A picture came into my mind" l
told him, "as if it had walked on legs
and L saw myself capturing wild
beasts in trees in a new and strange
way"
you were ever worker of magic,
tuan.7 he answered.
/ said: when i wish TO trap a
rhinoceros, 1 get him to step on a
spot that he thinks is good, solid
earth, and it gives way under him"
"Betul" (True).
ut will be the same with leopard
He will trust his weight to the branch