taking the fall j in the circus ring hjch in body building yitamim arent ycu afiaid el falling is the inevitable question asked of a circus performer alfredo ccdono rjerform- nr who dees a triple somersault daily in the ringling brothers and barnum barley circus tells how it is done in an article in the saturday evening iost by ryley cooper we read the question necessitates a qualified answer we fear falling hut we are not afiatd we are- going to fall we know were goidg to fall and all ve tan do about it is so to prepare our- 1 selves that the results will be as neg- r ligiblo as possible j by bumps ami bruises we learn to take more bumps bruises and often broken bones in later yeais so that- we may avoid death or permanent in- jury those eventualities are the only two major accidents of the perj formers life they stop the act auy- th ntr the even months in the hosj pltal is unfortunate but not dlsasj troiis the somersault forms the bulwark of protective falling that plus the giving of ground for an instant to break the speed of impact every rirrlj d c jj hidge because after all education i muscle of a performer in failing be- 1 hough bepths of the ice cap have been sounded a vast m j10t tak6 the placc o a i comes an instinctive spring necessary i land area is unknown i made in canada by the makers of vclvccta and kraft salad dressing greenland guards geology secrets win honors at fair percheron liily bred by cunndia tillcy alta which was reserve gcraud tion at regina a pacific ry experimental farm at champion at recent oranicr sxhiei- 3 v- wv w iobsa ca3sb jksajy jtvova jowl oxsl k good ta owl laff s i refuse to lege boasted send my girls to col- windy wolf of pea fixing the depth of the greenland to the throwing of the body into a i somersault a fliphop a slide or anyj thidg else which can be used to make ice cad at 8 fect aa the german it a grazing fall instead of straight i scientific group recently did by sonic smash theie is nollier that of the circus persons lifelong knowledge of timing during various falls 1 have been able to survey an entire region beneath me decide which way i wauted 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 coliseum in chicago my father and the french boxer georges carpentier were in the audience and i wanted to do a particu larly good act with a hairraising bwan dive for the finish in this i 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 so with my urge for a good act i 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 bulletlike descent to the net two feet above it i jerked inward for the forward somer sault position struck the net and went straight through it had rotted i was at tho most eight feet from the ground and in a position which meant my death in that eight feet i jerked out of the forward somersault into a backward ono lit on my feet instant ly turning another and n 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 moment 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 32 feet a second i had been fortunate enough to pull myself out of a fatal position in a quarter of the time neces sary to the tick of a watch i depth soundings has solved a puzzle tremendous factor i wllicu nas perplexed investigators since the earliest days of arctic ex ploration writes russell owen in the ny 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 onesixth is not covered by ice it is a much larger land than is usually realized for it covers an area of s27000 square softly the leaves on the tiees talked together early fall fashions and colors their theme the sticks would not penetrate it and j us jack flost and would be a hard ci list more soft snow and then again a crust and then two or three feet down snow so hard that 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 jy fortunj ate chance there are some things in j jjound the bare and scoriated mountains of the coast which are of value the most important mineral in gayest the tints of tho sunset red gleam each goldenrod yellow her color will bring matchless brown and orange take from the butterflys wing but we need not all be aliko they agree so j each chooses a color some two or three and round the orchard they danced when jack frost tho beauty of each d enhanced miles as big as france germany j greenland however is cryolite the mine at ivigtut is not only one of the i most northerly mines in the world but spain poland england and hungary put together also the only place at which cryolite in its southern part the mountains f occurs in commercial quantity the rise from the sea and fold after fold i j royalties on it go far to pay the ex- of them extends back many miles un- til they are overwhelmed far inland by the ice cap but further north the 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 crust during the great ice age all of northern europe and also canada and penses of government the eskimos called it ice which would not melt in slimmer it is mines in 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- they call a sailing vessel 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 its fortunate for tho average irn that he doesnt know half the things he would like to know jnavoidablc poetry is tho kind folks pay have printed we cant recall ever having heard a soprano singing in such a way that her words could be understood but then we never remember feeling that it made much difference even if you cant tell a mother and her daughter tt j i i posits but also because of its climate n tiir i iuti ihit vnn the northern united states were cov1 nf j apart nowadays there is little that you education and business london times supplement ind the contrast between the attitude of american and british men of affairs towards education for a businsos car eer is startling here a very large proportion of the employers think that when a boy has a good sound education he should enter a commer cial housj and work his way up fur ther education at a university they regard as a handicap and speak of he years so occupied as wasted time in america on the other hand firms arc accustomed to select graduates from tho business colleges to recruit their administrative staffs believing that there are many subjects that a pros pective busitss man should study be fore entciing upon his career and that a trained man is better than on untrained the consequence is that it is much easier for a young roar of promise who nas no influence to make his way in the united states at an early ago than it is for a young man similany kcd in great britain ered with a vast shield of ice which has left its traces all over the land in greenland this shield remains held in by the mountain rim it was not always a cold country in fact it was probably semitropical at one time for fossils indicating that have been found and it has coal beds which supply the local inhabitants the mountains at least in the north and the desiro of the danish govern ment to keep out all influences which will harm the mtlves it will remain however ono of the greatest scenic spots in the world and of continual interests to scientists cant tell them together the more ignorant she is of everything else the better posted a gossip is on domestic affairs of everybody in the neighbor hood new head for mounties ottawa after fortyfive years in the service colotiel cortlandt starnes were much higher than they are now has ret f the command of the royal canadian mounted police form erly known as the royal northwest reynolds worry keeps me thin jenkins joke what on earth have you got to worry about reynolds i worry about getting stout a chain of islands thcso mountains extend westward to grinnell land and eastward they run as a submarino ridge 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 part of greenland is linked geologically to europe but all around the edge of the island the mountains rise majestically from the sea not always of great height but coming as they do directly from sea level they are most beautiful mounted ho is granted a pension with the rank of major general and goes into private life with a distin guished record of service in a unit which has a unique tradition colonel starnes is succeeded as chief commissioner by major gen j h macbrien a veteran of the south african war and the world war former chief of the general staff canadian department of national de fense and still later president of the nd im- aviation league of canada barber your hair is very dry and harsh sir voice culture expert so is your voice but i didnt like to mention it hood i went to a spiritualist yes terday fankboner any good hood oh just medium chlorine gas escapes vienna a threehour panic was caused in lcoben styria by the escape of 15000 kilograms of chlorine tho chemical was oeing transferred in liquid form from a tank car to a reservoir in the hinterbcg paper fac tory when the pipe broke as the deadly yellow clouds poured out workmen donned gas masks and endeavored to close the valve but they were overpowered eight collapsing in tho attempt three men in the factory fell un conscious beforo the alarm could bo 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 tho crust as small snow hills or nunataks finally they also disappear and only the level ice is left before the traveler the retired commissioner joined the force in 1ssg as an inspector and i advanced on merit through all the ranks to the chief command he had personal acquaintance with all phases of the multiplex duties of tho mount ed police they patrol the interna- when tho ice ago came on the land lio frontier keep peace and order in tho vast subarctic region and maintain posts on the shores of hud son bay in tho yukon on herschell island off tho mouth of the mackenzie river and on some of the arctic is lands they represent canadian authority among the native eskimos and their record in the prevention and j the detection of criminals has made only the man who has traveled for he famo throughout th world weeks day after day along tho inland ico without seeing land can rightly the two roads appreciate the naturo of the ice when he was young and days were d0 friends theyre not hard to get a little snow collected in these inland valleys and did not melt it was add ed to year by year until tho valleys filled and the snow overflowed the lower peaks under pressure it be came ice and then flowed outward through tho fjords making tho gla ciers of which there are 200 in green land visitor well joe how do you like your new little sister joe oh shes all right i guess but thelo are lots of things we needed worse to coin a phrase richard rich paid the bill so often the young folks all began to take him as an afterdinner mint the following item is taken from a recent issue of the corpus christ texas collertimes harrells business school in tho furman building announce the birth of a daughter carolyn friday febr uary 13th this column thanks h s of corpus chrlsti for this port item a young girl from brushville says she hates to move away from her homo town and loso the reward of all her hard work she has done on her period says koch the first thing which impresses ono is the enormous dimensions with which one must reck on the landscapes which with their big fjords and huge mountains seem so large from tho sen now lie far be neath tho spectator as narrow rims of land quickly disappearing to give room for a perfectly even snow plain a journey acrosa this from north to south would be as long as from cop enhagen to tho sahara and during ibis full and bright he came through every kind of youth ful fight by winning well no praising word his many friends would speak but someone came and whispered he was weak and so he fell when he was frail and rows pain bled by sor- journey the landscape would not alter and sllllnnc i fight and would not for a slnglo instant nowhere would ono see land infinite as the sea lies tho snow field and llfo li represented luhstluus uv1vv fcv vu i sounded ambulance men in gas neither by animal nor plant even tljo sahara h 9ses between which men and animals mov about j but hero is nothing but snow this js the region on earth most inimical to life j what the snow shield show masks carried the victims jo tgspi tal but one f their own number col lapsed despite his mask tvo hundred women and children fled in panic from the factory dwell ing homes into the ficlcjs all dogs and cat fn ihj 7icighb6rnooi dropped n examination of this snow stiield cftaa ard every particle of food wksj shows curious stratification for even immediately poisoned railway ami such an otcvatlou and road traffic had to be stopped for tun j no enougl in tho middle of tho three hours until the gas dissipated summer to melt partially tho surface which immediately freezes again a false rumour gains currency f a crust nansen found that quijte than the average man i under soft nowly ftfilen snow there face again i a hill so long there came n volco as if from hope less gravo i that called him strong and said that be wag brave amf cahal bradley in songs of a com mercial traveller l ndbd was strong happinesj i we may safely cjitl that man happy latitude hio ss however lowly his position and limited bis possessions can always- hop for moro than be has and feel that overy 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