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vr ligible as possible. . smash, 4 ~ 1 was, at the most, eight feet from the . By bumps and bruises, we learn to take more bumps, bruises and often broken bones in later years, so that 'we may avoid death or permanent in- jury. 'Those eventualities are the only two major accidents of the per- former's life. They stop the act. Any-| thing else, even months in the hos- plal, is unfortunate, but not disas- trous. i : Made in Canada by the Makers of Velveeta and Kraft Salad Dressing The somersault forms the bulwark of protective falling--that plus the giving of ground for an instant to break the speed of impact. Every muscle of a performer, in falling, be- comes an instinctive spring, necessary to the throwing of the body into a somersault, a flip-flop, a slide, or any- thing else which can be used to make it a grazing fall instead of straight There is nother tremendous factor --that of the circus person's. lifelong knowledge of timing. During various falls 1 have been able to survey an entire region beneath: me, decide which way, I wanted to roll, noticed objects to avoid, And even turned in the air to gain the proper position by which to go in an opposite direction from that which might mean my death, Several years ago at the Cellseum in Chicago, my father and the French boxer, Georges. Carpentier, were in the audience and I wanted to do a particu: Jarly good act, 'with a hair-raising swan dive for the finish. In this ¥ plunge straight down from my trapeze and continue thus until within about two feet of the net. Then, with a quick twist, I jerk my head under me, land on my shoulders and bounce up- ward in a forward somersault. Se, with my urge for a good act, T drove my trapeze steadily higher, until the absolute limit was reached. Then I shot over the bar, curved in the air and straightened into the bullet-like descent to the net. Two feet above it Fixing thel depth of the Greenland ice cap at 8,850 feet, as the German scientific group recently did by sonic depth soundings, has solved a puzzle which has perplexed investigators since the earliest days of Arctic ex- ploration, writes Russell Owen, in the N.Y. Times. Greenland has turned out to be a rim of mountains. encircling a bowl of ice. 'It is an anachronism, a survival of the Ice Age relatively close to civilization. The known geology of Greenland has always been meager, as is natural in a country of which only one-sixth is not covered by ice. It is a much larger land than is usually realized, for it covers an area: of 827,000 square miles, as big ag France, Germany, Spain, Poland, England and Hungary put together. In its southern part the mountains rise from the sea and fold after fold of them extends back many miles un- til they are overwhelmed far inland by the ice cap. But further north the struck the net--and It had rotted. sault position, went straight through! ground, and in a position which meant my death. In that eight feet I jerked out of the forward somersault into a backward one, lit on my feet, instant. ly turning another and a third and a fourth, swung into a succession of roll- overs and came to my feet for my bow, absolutely .uninjured! It was a long ~ maoment before the audience could ap- _Plaud. Taking for granted the possibility that the slight resistance of the net broke my fall to a speed of only 82 %set a second, 1 bad been fortunate ugh to pull myself out of a fatal tion in a quarter of the time neces- sary to the tick of a watch. - VeJ ------ Education and Business London Times Supplement (Ind.): The contrast between the attitude of American and British men of affairs towards education for a business car- eer ig startling. Here a very large proportion of the employers think that when a boy has a good sound ducation he should enter a cial house and work his way up; fur- ther education at a university thoy regard as a handicap and speak of the years so occupied as wasted time. In America, on the other hand, firms are accustomed to select graduates from the business colleges to recruit their administrative staffs, believing that there are many subjects that a pros- pective business man should stndy be- fore entering upon "his career, and that a trained man is better than an untrained. 'The consequence is that it is much easier for a young man of promise who has no influence to make his way ia the United States at an early age than it is for a young man . similariy ;la:ed in Great Britain, FRASSES I "Chlorine Gas Escapes im tory when the pipe broke As the deadly Vienna.--A three-hour panic was caused in Leoben, Styria, by the escape of 15,000 kilograms of chlorine, The chemical was oeing transferred liquid form from & tank car to a|neath . 'in the Hinterbeg paper fac-|land, by the mountain rim. It was not in fact, it was probably semi-tropica which supply the local inhabitants were much higher than they are now A Chain of Islands run as a submarine ridge geologically to Europe. ice is left before the traveler. od to year:by year until the valley filled lower peaks. land. "Only the man who has trave 80 large from the sea, Greenland Guards Geology Secrets Though Depths of the Ice Cap Have Been Sounded, a Vast Land Area is Unknown . inland ice pushes out more and more until it becomes difficult to tell where glacier ice ends and sea ice begins, and where for many miles the entire coast line is ice, the mountains are completely hidden beneath the white I jerked inward for the d crust. During the great Ice Age all of . ard oo ete Bars mong or| Ut, but aif because of Js climate ered with a vast shield of ice, which has left its traces all over the land, In Greenland this shield remains, held in Iways a cold country; 1 at one time, for fossils indicating that have been found, and it has coal beds The mountains, at least in the north, the gervice Colonel Cortlandt Starnes These mountains extend westward to Grinmell Land, and eastward they across to Spitsbergen and then down through Bear Island to the north of Norway and form the Scandinavian chain which continues through Scotland. So tho'upper Dart of Giceland io linkeg H. MacBrien, a veteran of the South around the edge of the island the mountains rise majestically trom the sea, not always of great height, but coming as they do directly from sea level they are most beautiful and im- posing. Fold after fold they pass back into the interior until the ice swallows them, and tiny peaks, the tops of large mountains, peep through the crust as small snow hills or nunataks. Finally they also disappear and only the level When the Ice Age came on the land a little snow collected in these inland valleys and did not melt. It was add- and the snow overflowed the Under' pressure it be- came ice and then flowed outward through the fjords, making the gla- clers, of which there are 200 in Green- would be a hard crust, more soft snow and then again a crust, and then two or three feet down. snow so hard that the sticks would not penetrate it. And at times, near rocky peaks close to the rim of the inland ice, small lakes form on top of the icy cap, and streams run fro mthem down crevices or Into ice wells, deep cavities into which the water falls hundreds of feet with a thunderous echoing roar, But although the interior of Green- land is merely a huge ice cap, a pre- historic remnant preserved by fortun- ate ¢hance, there are some things in the bare and scoriated mountains of the coast which are of value. The most simportant mineral in Greenland, however, is cryolite; the mine at Ivigtut is not only one of the ost northerly mines in the world byt also the only place at which cryolite occurs in commercial quantity. The royalties on it go far tn pay the ex- penses of government, The Eskimos called it "ice which would not melt in Summer." It is minced ju an open pit right on the edge of : fjord, and ap- parently the supply is sufficient to last indefinitely. It is used largely in the metallurgy of aluminum. . Greenland will probably never be exploited commercially, not only be- cause of the meagerness of its ore de- and the desire of the Danish Govern- + ment to keep out all influences which will harm the aatives. It will remain, however, one of the gfeatest scenic spots in the world, and of continual interests to sclentists, Ba a New Head For "Mounties" | Ottawa, --After forty-five years in +i hag retired from the command of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, form- erly known as the Royal Northwest Mounted. He 1s granted a pension with the rank of 'Major General, and goes into private life with a distin- which has a unique tradition. Colonel Starnes is succeeded as Chief Commissioner by Major Gen. J. African war and the World War, former chief of the General Staff, Canadian Department of National De- fense, and still later president of the Aviation League of Canada. The retired Commissioner , joined the force in 1886 as an inspector, and advanced on merit through all the ed police. in the vast sub-Arctic region, lands, PARRY BERN The Two Roads full and bright, ' He came through every kind of you ful fight . - By winning well. 'would speak, was weak, And so he fell. Lg OY guished record of service in a unit ranks to the chief command. He had personal acquaintance with all phases of the multiplex duties of the mount- They patrol the interna- tional frontier, keep peace and order and maintain posts on the shores of Hud- son Bay, in the Yukon, on Herschell Island off the mouth of the Mackenzie River, and on some of the Arctic is- They represent Canadian authority among the native Eskimos land their record in the prevention and | the detection of criminals. bas made lod for them famous throughout the world, weeks day after day along the inland ~ jce without seeing land can rightly | appreciate the nature of the Icé when he was Joung and days were Period," says Koch. "The first thing which impresses one is the enormous dimensions with which one must reck- on. The landscapes, which with thelr big fjords and huge mountains seem w lie far be- the spectator as narrow rims of quickly disappearing, to give room for a perfectly even snow plain. north to No praising word his many friends But someone came and whispered he 'When he 'was frail and bled by sor- And: $ fight andswould not ry . the .-andswould no Tilley. Alta., which was reserve graad tion at Regina. Percheron filly bred by Canadian Pacific Ry. experimental farm at champion at recent summer oxhibi- Owl Laffs "I refuse to send my girls to col lege," boasted Windy Wolf of Pea Ridge, "because after all, education will not take the place of a husband." Softly the leaves on the trees talked together, Barly fall fashions and colors their theme; "Paint us, Jack Frost, in the latest and gayest, The tints of the sunset's red gleam. Hach goldenrod yellow, her color will * bring, ve Matchless brown and orange 'take from the butterfly's wing." But we need not all be alike, they agree, 80 Each chooses a color, some two or three. Round and round the orchard they danced, when Jack Frost the beauty of each "d enhanced. They call a sailing vissel "she," not because her rigging is so expensive, but because she makes her best show- ing in the wind. There may not be much in a name, but some names have an awful lot of names in them. It's ortunate for the average man that he oesn't know half the things he would like to know. Jnavoidable poetry is the kind folks pay " have printed. We can't recall ever having heard a soprano singing in such a way that her words could be understood; but then, we never rememuer feeling that it made much difference. Even if you can't tell a mother and her daughter apart nowadays there is little that you can't tell them together. The more better posted a gossip is on domestic hood. Reynolds--"Worry keeps me thin." you got to worry about? stout." harsh, sir." terday." Fankboner--"Any good?" Hood--"Oh, just medium." your new little sister?" Joe--"Oh, she's all right, I guess; worse." mint. Texas, Coller-Times: uary 13th." Christi for this pert item. ignorant she is of everything else, the affairs of everybody in the neighbor- Jenking--"Joke, what"on earth have Reynolds--"1 worry about getting Barber--"Your hair is very dry and Voice--Culture Expert--"8o is your voice, but 1 didn't like to mention it." Hood--"1 went to a spiritualist yes- Visitor--"Well, Joe, how do you like but thete are lots of things we needed To coin a phrase: Richard Rich pald the bill so often the young folks all began to take him as an after-dinner The following item is taken from a recent issue of The Corpus Christi, "Harrell's Business School, in the Furman Building, announce the birth of & daughter, Carolyn, Friday, Febr- This column thanks H. 8. of Corpus A young girl from Brushville says she hates to move away from her home town and lose the reward of all her hard work she has done on her boy friends. "They're not hard to get, but they're awfully flighty and hard to keep," she confided. MEOW! "What are you writing?" "A joke," raid Miss Dove, "Oh," sald Lizzie, "Give him my love." Glenna--"Mama was right when she cautioned me about marrying you!" Freddy--"Im sorry--and here I've been thinking she never considered my happiness." Night Club Sport (staggering out at 3 am.) --"Holy smoke, what is that strange smell around here?" Doorman (courteously)--"That, sir, is fresh air." el eee Daybreak in a Garden 1 heard the farm cocks crowing, loud, and faint, and thin, When hooded night was going and one clear planet winked: I heard shrill notes begin down the spired wood distinct, When ¢loudy shoals were chinked and gilt with fires of day, White-misted was the weald; lawns were silver-grey; The lark his lonely field for heaven had forsaken; And the wind upon its way whispered the boughs of May, And touched the nodding peony-flow- ers to bid them waken. --8legfried Sassoon, in "Selected Poems." the ya TO SUIT YOUR TASTE Special chair covers, tablecloths, and other draperies have been de vised by French manufacturers so 2.CH0KCE Noh wo OrangeVekoo _-- ra s Counsel to a Young Sister Carry your head up, proud and high, Thinking no goal unworthy of a try. Patter. your life more from. the a.gs I preach Than trom the nol my poor ex- amples teach, Decide which path your toes should rightly take, And though it seems your tender heurt must break-- Falter not once, but keep eyes straight ahead-- A woman is hurt if rose-thorns make her bed. - Should moments Sole with powerless ness rife, 5 Think: "These are but the lesser .oves in life"; And if thy vestal reason chance to Awoon, Remember! There's a man up in the moon! Surrender not on earth, but know full well-- He is the only man who will not tell. --Eleanore Austin, in the New York Sun. -- 4 The worms inside chestnuts are hatched in the nuts from eggs laid in the blossom by beetles. £3 Soap dual | ons 10 cents ne that travellers may alter their train or streamer accommodation to thelr own taste. BASINS EE Horsgeless vehicles should be run with horse sense. At Firet Signs of Pimples Use CUTICURA Anoiat with the Ointment. After {ive minutes bathe with the Soap. Soap 25¢. 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