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first thing / do every morning is to
jump into a tub of cold water"
1t comes dear in Paris.
But he's got to have it!
'It is perfectly wonderful how good
1t makes you feel, and how you enjoy
1t. But, gee, see the waste of time
and money! 1t always takes fifteen
or twenty minutes, and you've got to
live in a high-class hotel or pay rent
in a fat that's got a bath, I'm not
proud of this wastefuI extravagance,-
he says, but simply cannot break
myself of the habit.
When it gets to this point" he
adds, 'it is not a luxury even, much
less hygiene. It-is hooch!' :.
x x X 4
THERE may be Frenchmen who
= have the cold-bath habit The
Olympic athlete warns them against it.
other Frenchmen, almost certainly,
take hot baths, not only at great
moments like birth, death and mar
riage, but, you might say Che says),
periodically, or from time to time,
whether they need it or not, by
worldly vainglory. These, too, he
warns. Beware of habit forming.
Keep baths" he says, where the
clear French logic of the mass of
Frenchmen put them in the Gallo
Roman days, when growing Chris
tianity condemned them where they
were and ever have benin the
luxury class. But do not be an ad-
dict! So you will continue to be ban
ner bearers of clear thought and
conduct free, alike, from error and
hypocrisy"
1t was all right to tell Americans
what he, American, had learned in
France concerning bathing. But do
you know what he did? This Olympic
innocent started in to compliment the
French, by word of mouth, on lines
which have been indicated. The re-
suits were terrific. At the Dome they
almost stopped traffic.
The least name the French called
him was "pretentious upstart"; and
the collective claim is that they take
more baths than he, by his own show
ing-for what are baths without soap
and hot waterT'
Also, "those who're always in the
bathroom must be very dirty" VOLTA!
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of the captive. one on each side,
holding him while a rope was at
tached to the second hind leg. Then
the animal was loosened from the
trees; ten or twelve men held the
hind-leg rope, to act as an anchor in
case of trouble; one tame elephant
walked in front of the prisoner to
keep him from boiling, and one on
each side and one back of him.
When everything was ready he was
prodded and pushed. If he refused
10 move, the elephant at the back
gave him a violent butt with his
head. and he went forward with
lunge.
When all the other animals were in
the stocks we decided to take the old
bull in hand. 1t was now the fourth
day since he had been caught. He
was not only hungry but tormented
with thirst. He had been given no
water. He was lunging and striking
at everything in sight. He would alter
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Bathtub Problem Will Puzzle
Americas Olympic Spectators
French Customs Studied During Period Of Thirty Years

deepest, Is the one Anglo-Saxon land
where public scratching posts are
maintained. Yet the Scotch are su-
perbly healthy.
During the world war" the OIym-
pic athlete says, "I was first sent to
camp in Charlotte, N. c., and during
the winter of 1917-1S the water was
frozen up every morning, so that 1
could not take a cold bath"
Now he comes to the point
After l arrived in France" he
says, Il do not remember to have had
chance to take either a hot or a
cold bath until just before Christmas,
1918, when l was in Nancy. 1 went to
the great bathhouse there and got a
change of underclothing, got rid of
of mud, and all this for the first time
in six months or more.
well, I got to thinking. Good
heavens! Here I had gone months
and months without any kind of a
bath. 1 had been wet and dirty and
lousy most of the time. Yet, except
for touch of poison gas which
knocked me off my pins for a few
days in October, had never been in
better health.
said I, What's the use of all these
sanitary regulations, baths, and so
on, If they do not make you healthier?
So we were in Kaisersesch-dirty,
dark German village, forty kilome-
| tiers west of .Coblentz-until the fol-
lowing April, and 1 did not have an
other bath until we got to Nouenahr.
That was a wonderful bathing place,
and T went and INDUCED myself sew
eraI times a week-a1ways warm
baths. too! There had never been an
opportunity since 1917 to have a cold
bath, and I figured that would never
| take one again.
What was the use?" argued the
Olympic lad. Had / ever been in
better health? Why fool with what
was already good enoughT'
The French were right.
+ X y
NOV this chap is back again in
France, to win one world event
| in the Olympic games next summer,
as he hopes, for the United States.
He is about the most outstanding,
graceful, graceless, husky fellow that
| one could look to see in any game,
| despite his twenty-eight years. He
| admits that he fell from grace, but
| now his mind is quite clear on the
subject. The French are right. Baths
are a luxury! They have no good
effect on health. Their effect on health
\ is pof poad Rut fhey are tr111y a
luxury, and, in analogy with other
luxuries-like Newburg lobster and
rouge OF the lips-should be INDUCED
| in reasonably.
I'VE had not been back in u. S. A.
| more than twenty-four hours" he
says, "and in camp at Merritt, before
found myself gravitating toward
the bath shack. The weather was hot
and thought nice cold bath would
fix me up. 1t did. Since that time
have been again unable to break
myself OF the habit, and now the
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BULL FOUND HIMSELF WALKING AGAINST HIS WILL

and went down on his knees, below
ing with rage and terror and strain
ing at the ropes that held him. But
there was no swapping or breaking
of that raw rattan.
I could give a thought then to the
rest of the herd. The bull was the
only one that had shown fight The
others had huddled together in complete
bewilderment. This had made their
capture easy. The drivers and tie-up
men had done their work well and
quickly. Our capture consisted of
three males and nine females, fully
grown, one baby, one five years old
and two somewhat younger. The fe-
males averaged seven and a half feet
in height. The big bull was the
prize. His tusks were about four
feet long.
There never was a circus parade
that equaled our triumphant return
to the kampong. The tame elephants
went in single file. With the excep-
ton of the one 1 rode they all carried
as many men on their backs as could
possibly stick on their loose hides.
My animal walked ahead, but before
him went the men on foot, laughing,
singing, shouting and beating tom
toms. We were met by the entire
village.
There was no sleep for any one
that night. A celebration was on.
1t opened with a grand feast.
X X X
THE thirty men I sent out next
i morning under the headman to
finish the clearing begun the day be-
fore were soon hard at work. Some
of them cut the felled trees into logs
to build stocks, others gathered palm
leaves to make the roof and a dozen
or more gathered cocoanut branches,
soft bark and banana plants on which
to feed the elephants.
On the day following, the sheds
were ready, and 1 decided to begin
with the old bull and put him first
into the stocks / found him light
ing mad" His eyes were bloodshot
and he rumbled rage with every
breath. He was too dangerous to
tackle, dangerous for the men and
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nately stand and drop on his knees. He
dug his tusks into the ground and
strained at the ropes which held his
self out and, cruel as the process was.
it was what 1 wanted. 1 could not
risk the lives of my men.
I gave orders that one of the tame
elephants was to stand in front of
him and engage his attention, while
two other elephants were to rush him
on the side and throw him over.
This was done. He struck the ground
heavily with great gasp.
The elephants drew away and four
men beat him with thick rattan for
about three minutes. / then allowed
him to get up. He staggered to his
feet and stood with his head swaying
from side to side. 1 gave the signal,
and again he was knocked down and
again the beating went on.
When this had been repeated three
times, in the midst of his whipping he
let out roar--a great bellow-and
gave in. He had had enough punish
ment. His resistance was broken.
/ gave the order that he was to be
allowed to stand. His body was shak-
ing, but there was a look in his eye
which made me feel that it would
hardly be safe to take him to the
stocks by the method we had used
with the others. 1 decided to employ
a slower, safer way. 1 had a double
row OF stakes driven into the ground,
beginning on the spot where he stood.
They were the length of an elephants
natural step apart-that is, six feet.
They were alternating. His feet were
tied to these. A tame elephant stood
in front of him and one at the back.
At a signal, the men quickly united
his left front foot and his right hind
foot, pulled them forward and at
tached them to the stakes six feet in
advance. When this was done, the
right front foot and the left hind
foot were moved step. The old bull
found himself walking against his
will. His trunk swung back and
forth, but he was too exhausted to
put any force in its swing. He kept up
his perpetual growL
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but quick as a fash he was met by
smashing blow from the trunk of
the tame elephant, which stopped
him. Instantly the elephant 1 was
riding jabbed him in the fore quar-
ter I called to the other driver 10
bring his elephants head round and
TO have him butt and prod.
The old bull was now venting his
hoarse growl and shrill trumpet at the
same time-rage and Sfear together.
while the two tame beasts butted and
jabbed without stopping. Realizing
that he had got past noticing what
took place on the ground, l said to
the men back of me: quick, get
down; tie his two feet; tie tight TO
the trees"
The two tame elephants, their
heads pressed against his neck, held
him, one on each side, while the men
got down and slipped the moose on
each hind leg and fastened each rope
to separate tree. Dangerous work,
but a matter of a few minutes only.
First one and then the other called,
"Finished, master"
The tame elephants gave the bull
a last squeeze and then drew away.
AS they did SO he lunged forswa rd
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rained Elephants Employed as Shock Troops Against w

= In the present article Mr.. Mayer,
one of the best known animal
trappers and trainers of America
or the orient, continues the new
series begun last week dealing
with his eighteen years of pursuit
OF wild beasts in the jungles of
the Malay peninsula, Sumatra and
Borneo.
So popular indeed was previ-
Gus series OF articles written by
Mr. Mayer that it was in response
10 demands from readers that he
is now presenting more of his
adventures.
Last week he described a tiger
hunt in a haunted" wood. near
Ghost mountain, on the peninsula,
in which a prize tiger had been
caught and was being transported
in the trap by his native carriers,
when a huge rhinocerous, natural
enemy of the tiger, dashed out of
the wilderness, smashed the trap,
slew the tiger through the bars
and then disappeared into the jun
gle, leaving the expedition
wreck.
Following this Inflated venture,
Mr.. Mayer returned Trengganu,
where we now find him.
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Weighing Coins

one Of the most interesting con-.
trivances that the United States
mint uses is the machine that weighs
coins of all denominations. Formerly
each of these pieces had to be weighed
by hand. Seated at long tables, each
with a balance in front of her, were
forty or fifty woman "adjusters." 1t
was their duty to weigh each coin.
Pieces that were too heavy they re-
duced with a file; those that were too
light they put aside to be sent again
to the melting pot Gold pieces they
weighed twice, once in a blank and
once after coinage.
The weighing machines now in use
each have ten balances, which are set
at the required weight of the coins
that are to be tested. Each machine
weighs ten coins at time If a coin
be too light, the scale beam moves up
and the coin is dropped into a chute
that carries it to the lights" II it
be too heavy. the coin falls into an
other chute that leads to the ''heVies."
If it just balances. the coin drops
among the coins that are of the prop
very rapidly and very accurately.
There is some slight tolerance" in
the matter of weight. For example,
the gold double eagle should weigh
just sic grains, but a coin of this de-
NOMINATION may wegh as little as 5I5A
grains, or as much as 516h grains and
still be passed as good" The stand
ard weight of the silver half-dollar is
1929 grams, and the margn of toler-
ance is is grains. The coin may
weigh as little as 1914 grains, and as
! much as 1914 grains; but never less
than the first figure nor more than
the second.
The standard fineness of all goldi
and silver coins is 800. In the golGs
coins a deviation of only l-IO0oth ol a
grain from this is permitted, and in
the silver coins of only 3-10O0ths.
The so-called 5-cent nickel piece is
really only 25 per cent nickel, the
rest copper. One-cent pieces are 90
per cent copper and per cent tin and
zinc.
Evening star., 1924-03-30
BY CHARLES MAYER.

n Y HOUSE in Trengganu, on
NH the Malay peninsula, was on
a spit of sand between the
Il Trengganu river and the
China sea. l was resting there after
my unlucky attempt 10 reach the
Ghost mountain, determined that in
the future my plans should be made
more carefully. Sitting on my We
randa, 1 looked out idly over the
river. In the distance l saw what
limited that perhaps plans had been
made for me.
Eight brown bodies, naked to the
waist, were rowing a white boat
straight for my house. The boat car
ried one passenger and a white flag
with no decoration or design. 1t
looked for all the world like q flag
of truce. 1t was not; il was the flag
of the Sultan of Trengganu-not his
family flag, but his own personal
emblem. The single passenger proved
TO be Abdul, the sultan's confidential
servant
When the boat had made a land
ing, Abdul came to the edge of the
veranda. Not presuming to step upon
it, he put his hand to his brow in
salute and said in his native tongue,
Greetings, sir"
what news?" L asked.
"The sultan wishes to see you, sir"
Good" 1 answered, Il shall come
at once"
The oarsmen, or, more properly
speaking, the paddlers, for they used
not oars but single paddles, took us
TO the landing nearest the palace"
This was a very simple brick house,
a short walk from the river. About
1t was a brick wall broken by a
wooden gate, where a gate-keeper
stood on guard. He knew me. so
when L presented myself, he merely
salaamed in silent greeting. ! walked
past the reception pavilion, straight
TO the sultans audience chamber
and entered unannounced. There l
found the sultan waiting for me.
Coffee and cakes were brought In
the coffee there was quite as much
sugar as coffee, and what coffee
there was consisted largely Of
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grounds. The sultan slipped it with
evident enjoyment.
"Tuan," he said, there are ele-
plants Then he smiled. His smile
was a tribute to the reputation / had
made for myself by my capture of
sixty elephants in my first great
made me renowned over night, but
of "Sir Elephant"
'Where?" L asked.
I'm the Tar-poo river district.
There are ten-fifteen perhaps. You
who chase wild creatures and are as
hard to catch as the creatures you
chase, you are here. 1t is a moment
sent by Allah for me to acquire
these beasts. Elephants, 1 perceive,
are like ringgit (dollars). He who
has many, desires more"
81 will go and get them." I an
swered
He slowly nodded in approval.
81 shall take" 1 said, your four
big elephants and the four belong
ing to the Tunku Besar."
Again he nodded gravely.
L
was to furnish the men needed I
would undertake the capture of the
entire herd. 1 would give him all the
large elephants, but was to be allowed
to keep the small ones. He accepted
these conditions.
y X X
A T sundown on the following eve
ming we started on our journey
up the river, against the swift current
Besides my six oarsmen, who would
row my round -bottomed boat, and the
steersman, there was only my Chi
nese boy" Hsi Chu I. He acted as
steward, valet and cook.
Our journey against the current
took us three nights.
When we arrived at the kampong
in the Sungai Tar-poo district there
were women and children on the
bank, calling out a greeting. They
all knew me.
The headman came to meet US. He
salaamed, grinning widely.
l carried no credentials. 1t was a
recognized thing that 1 came from
the Sultan and that my commands
"SIC Id". Wy hISl OlllCldl OTQeT
was that four men be sent out to
collect rattan for making hobbies
and ropes.
The men came back with their
arms full OF thorn spiked vines, some
of them two hundred feet in length.
These were taken to the river and
cleaned; that is, the outer, thorny
covering was removed.
Then the making OF the hobbies
and ropes began. The hobbies were
braided rings large enough to slip
over an elephants foot and held to-
gether like handouts. Another type,
and L had both made, was a single
ring large enough to slip over both
feet of the elephant. The ropes
were made of braided raw rattan.
By the time the tame elephants
arrived they had broken jungle
along the river bank to get there
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HEN first came to Paris,
ANI thirty years ago, I had
" " the excellent luck to OBJ
tain furnished rooms, SER
vice, certain scrumptious cookery and
The futtering devotion of two French
old maids, sisters, whose memory 1
Cherish reverently.
But there was no bathroom.
SO, after certain time (when they
already knew and liked mel. said
one day, Marguerite, what shall 7
do? L want to take a nice hot bath. ."
She beamed. eve had become old
1riends.) She looked on me with love.
And, all lit up with the fine thing, she
called impulsively to her sister in
the hallway:
'Marths! Come! Comet There's
news! Monsieur is going to be mar
riedr'
/ got the bath, in a fine big tub.
right there in the beautiful old fiat
which had no bathroom.
Visitors to the Olympic games. in
the rush next summer, who may not
find accommodations, all of them, in
palace hotels, will consider them
selves lucky to repeat my old adven-
ture-or else patronize a public bath
house!
1t was early morning, but I was
awake and waiting. Marguerite and
Marther agog, were back and forth,
continually peeping down the stair
way. Neighbors, at their windows,
sympatheticallyN rubbered Down
Et "a hn ian hoI
afternoon side combs. Everybody
knew that the bath was coming.
Rumor in the street below At our
house stopped an old-style hand
pump fire engine, run by three men.
They took 1t apart-it was my tub
on wheels!
Beneath, from a boiler, one man
drew hot water into buckets. One
carried the tub on his head, steered
by another, bearing a basket. The
third transported buckets. Up four
flights of stairs they bumped and
rumbled.
Marguerite had the double doors
open. Into my bedroom came the
fine tub-bright zinc. One poured in
the boiling water from his buckets
and descended for more buckets.
From the basket one laid out an i'm
1naculate hot bathrobe, four towels,
scented soap, bath salts and baby
powder
1t was the best bath I ever had
between the red rug and the blazing
crate fire. The three wise men stood
around to valet me Qike the cares
that infest the day., and only after
they had dumped the refuse bath
water into the kitchen sink did they
fold their tents like the Arabs and as
silently steal away.
Not a drop of water was spilled on
tho waxed floor!
X X X
n SAW one of those fire engines In
~ the east side of Paris last week
but the system Is declining, with the
shrinking of old fortunes ana me
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Patent Anticipations.

THE patent ONCE experts give in
stances wherein very curious an
ticipations have been brought up
against the granting of applications
for certain patents. On one occasion
there appeared at the patent office a
representative in Congress, bearing a
model of a. lock invented, in all sin
cerity, by one of his constituents. 1t
soon appeared that this lock was an
exact copy of one used on a gate of
ancient Thebes.
There was also filed with the patent
office an application for a patent on
a flower basket the construction of
which corresponded in detail with
the Scriptual description of the ark
in which Moses was deposited in the
hnlrushes.
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them, and those who escaped would
be punished by the Sultan for the
loss of the herd
Word came to me then that boat
was coming up the river. l ran to
the bank. Fourteen strong river
men were padding in unison, mark
ing the time with a singsong tune.
They were driving a boat rapidly
against the current. 1t carried a
yellow flag. 1t was the craft of the
Tunku Besar, or, translated, the Big
Prince" He was not only brother
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hobbies and ropes were finished and
had sent out twenty men to head
off the wild herd and to keep it NOV
ing in a circle. This they were to
do with the noise of tom-toms.
warned them for their lives not to
be seen by the animals. 1 hammered
in the idea that, if they were seen,
If they talked or stepped on a single
dead branch, the elephants would
stampede and would kill some of
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scarcity of hand labor. I estimate
that there are scarcely 800 persons
a day in Paris having baths brought
to their houses.
New-rich ways predominant. The
luxury hotels and new apartment
houses revel in their type of porce-
lain sarcophagus. Armenian society
men, they say, en- route for the gay
capital, telegraph ahead for "a room
with two baths" worthy of their
vogue and fashion.
Bourgeois families have put in
system branched on gas and water
mains, by which hot water is avail
able in twenty-five minutes-when
the samovar against the bathroom
wall does not explode. You light it
with taper three feet long, not to
risk being blinded by a back-fire.
Such is the system the American
Olympic rush will find, say, in 10000 Of
the $4,000 furnished rooms which hotels,
agencies and their own landlords or
lease tenants are preparing for the
luxurious overflow.
Because, as everybody knows in
Paris, baths mean luxury.
An Olympic games athlete, who was
in the world war and who halls from
Philadelphia, says the French are
right-that baths are luxury, no use
to health and that cold baths are
hooch
Cold baths are a bad habit" he
says, worse than booze in their hold
on a fellow, and can't see that they
arp tho xrolrIa b,va
been taking cold baths every morn
ing, off and on, for years. At first I
did not like them, but the habit grew
on me until I found that I could not
break it. After a few years of cold
baths / got so that did not like hot
baths at all, and. as a fact, stopped
taking hot or warm baths alto
gether."
X x X
II Sterling Heilig, am acquainted
= with the Dewey family, in Amer
lea and Paris, and was familiar with
the views on baths of that illustrious
scion Of the house, Starvation" DR..
Dewey of Meadville, Pa, whose for
eign fame was largely in Scotland,
where many of his views prevailed in
sanatoriums. But did not expect
the Olympic athlete to write to Paris
papers about 1t.
DR.. Dewey, truly. considered all
bathing harmful. Especially he was
against hot or warm baths, because
they take all the oil out OF; the skin
and leave it hard, dry and subject to
severe Irritation under quick changes
of temperature.
Some years ago DR.. Dewey stated
that he had not taken bath since the
civil war, but that, for cleanliness,
he made frequent changes of under
| clothing, in the fashion of Cubans
and South Americans.
DIR. Dewey was criticized for these
admissions-not that they lacked rich
| hygienic value, but in one so promi-
nent attacked American worldly pres
| tige in way that might do US harm
should these ideas become a fad. In
i,effect Scotland, where they sunk
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the tame elephants as well. Istha6ght
it best to let him stay tJedFto the
tree for day-or twpstonger, to@try
the. effect, on lIin OF solitude and
hunger. .e.ee.fsst'7 -
In the meantime we. got the more
traetabie animals into the sheds. The
method by which we did it was this:
Two trained elephants were driven
UP to. the wild one which was to be
dealt with. They pressed on the neck