Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1925-09-12
BY Arthur Brisbane
WHEN is MAN OLD?
WASHING MACHINE PROGRESS.
$1,000 FOR EACH OF US.
ROLLING THEM DOWN.
WHEN is q man old?

ROLLING THEM DOWN.
WHEN is a man old?
A Civil War veteran of Illinois,
aged SO, is told by the Judge that
a man SO "has no business to get
married" 4
A Pennsylvania man of ninety
one settles property on his chill
dren, then marries woman OF 40,
who says her new husband is "old
in years only"
Jacob Wettler, Swiss embroider-
ef, only seventy-four years old,
shot himself, saying life wasn't
worth while at that age.
when he is forsaken, withered
and shaken, what can an old man
do but die?"
Some men are as old at fifty as
anybody can be. Moltke at ninety
was younger than many of the
Junior officers that stood in stiff
respect about him. A man Is old
when his mind stops working
along new lines.
The people of America have
about doubled their incomes in
few years. The cash that Ameri-
cans earn, or receive from invest
ments, rents, from inherited prop
erty, etc., Is not far from ONE
HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS
A YEAR, almost a thousand dol
lars for every man, woman, and
child.
For every 100 homes In the
United States there are 90 wash
ing machines. That shows prog
ress, and room for more progress.
The family without a washing
machine, unless the washing be
"sent out" proves that some won,-
an is condemned to needless CLAW
cry.
An electric washing machine
and wringer, costing few cents
a day for current, makes of wash
ing an amusement instead CT hard
work.
II makes It possible n large
family, with busy mother, TOR
the growing boys and girls to 90
the greater part Of the weeks
washing and relieve the mother.
American ladies, it appears, e@-
terrain Parisians by wearing theaE
stockings rolled down, showing al
of the knee and part Of the Leg
bare, below a short skirt.
Such women would represent
the United States more usefully at
home in front of American wash
tubs with their sleeves rolled up
instead of having their stockings
rolled down in Paris.
But there is a hygienic lie in
bare knees. All Esquimau
women, even in coolest Arctic
weather, arrange for an opening
at about the knee to let the air IN.
If they didn't do that, they would
die for lack of oxygen.
Weak fish viii find It hard 10
survive in the automobile ehdur-
ance contest. One big company
announced another cut IN prices
yesterday, making the fourth cut
In q year.
The highest engineering skn
and business ability are devoted %
giving the public high grade anto-
mobiles at the lowest prices. Ths+s
valuable work.
When will commercial genius
show the same energy in cutting
the price of food "deltveredf"
A scientist ssys thst tie youag
people q today hsye pstRn
kmotor car via" By INSTINCT
they avoid automobiles snd adapt
themselves to trafSc. Older peo-
pie seem unable to learn.
Even chickens and dogs haye
learned something. They stay opt
Of the road and are killed lsSa
frequently than they once were.
It would be good news if the
young people Of the generation
would be "whiskey wise" in add
ton to being motor car wise.
During the next few years there
will be more young people killed
by whiskey than old people killed
by automobiles.
A plague Of butterflies, causing
motor engines to become over.
heated, by clogging the radiators
suggests gruesome possibility.
# the insect tribes with Their
horrible fertility, should get out
of control they could All the dr
destroy all vegetation, starve, SUIT
fccate and devour the human race
and all other animals.
Nature fortunately attends to
these things. Even the insect
plaques Of Egypt sent to punish
ssn did not kill all Egyptians.
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