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SAILORS FIND French Girls Des'Moines Guests at a Tea Given in Their Honor Des Moines Men Made One of First Automobiles; Horseless Carriage Created I3i Sensation Here to their own Franco, it will 'Latin and not French they will teach. MINY KEWSTAMPS IN 1913 'Will Be Long Before Collectors 4,000 Community Institutions May Be Established Soon. Gl'IL- ND0 MLLE. GABRIE luame of Nj'o GABRIEI.DE ns and Made i. Dr.

Lew Arntz and William Morrison Take Triumphal Ride Down Walnut Street. Can Get All Issues. nother vear came to a close with far more than five hundred ct.imns having been Manchester Guardian Reporter Learns How to Tell Chicagoan From New Yorker. I miles In his issued. wnirM department, Life.

The chronicle at this writing shows a total i it will ne several muuui. j-American collectors can gain inror tusiiftH re Davis, did overseas Y. M. C. A.

canteen work, will share honors. Both girls are the daughters of directors ofeducatlon in the town In which they live. Both received final honors In the examination which they took before coming to America and both nf them ane majoring in a common language, Latin. France, thev say, has seen a revival of Interest In the classics. Even the directors of great manufacturing plants ask the engineers whom they employ, whe'her they have a of Latin.

Latin promotes exactness in the use of their own language. The American class in French is a mvstery to the girls. "You study It so seriously," they have said to ihelr French professor, "far more seriously than any Frenrhman studies, American, or rather, English." Miles. Guillaumo and Noble are enrolled as Juniors at Grinnell. Should they decide to stay In America to finish their college work they plan to teach French in summer schools In tho states.

At any rate they are going to he teacherB. But when they get back- mat ion regaium ported abroad, so that the recor. for mis may 1. 11 of as many n. bOO.

in 1 it 1 there were va moiselle Nelly Noble of Digue are to be Des Moines' guests of honor Saturday. It Is a long way from the Lycee des Juenes filles at Grenoble, France to Grinnell college, Grln-riell, but the two girls arrived at the opening of tho school year last fall to take real American college work. Tho French government paid the traveling and Incidental ex-penso of some hundred odd girls who entered American colleges and uaiverslt'es this year. The American colleges paid the tuition, college fees, room and board of the Frenrli girls. The exchange was one of those li'tle acts of finesse which only the French can think of.

The loenl chapter of the association of collegiate alumnae will be Invited to a tea to be given In their honor at the home of Mrs. Charles A. Rawson, 734 Fourth street, from 2 to 5 o'clock. The Grinnell alumnae are to be the hostesses. Miss Clara Mlllord pf the Grinnell faculty who with Miss Elizabeth Drott.

now Mrs. Irving ThMP nil varieties wero forth bv nations and their posses sions-iuch as islands, protector ate colonies, dependencies, occu pied territories, etc. to the nun. her of eight v-plght governments -JVC Hill or tne an 1,. the war alone.

The United States has Issued more than Iirtv varieties incuiuuix varieties clue io nur.ioi VI and to worn plates, but the Brltlslt lint with tiearh! empire leaua 1 on. vniiitteit Project Has Three Cardinal Advantages, Backers Say. 3. -Communal feeding on a -huge scalo through the establishment of 4,000 national restaurants is planned for London. The project is to bo carried out jointly by the national kitchen division and the ministry of food and thu National Caterers' Protection society.

Tho three main points of tin1 scheme are: Establishing buying organizations for the collective purchase of foodstuffs. Providing efficient equipment on a co-operative basis. An agreed system of inspection of catering establishments to secure reasonable prjee and good conditions of management. The caterers expected to take part In the enterprise are all members of the protection society and they will be permitted to use for their establishments the title of 'national restaurant." There will be uniform menus and prices will be fixed at ft figure to Insure reasonable profit to the caterer and yet be easily within the limits of the average purse. A 'high standard of efficiency and cleanliness will be exacted.

A national restaurant recently established in Ixndon has proved a marked success. It Is making a net weekly profit of $500, and this Is pointed out as proof that the provision of cheap, well cooked food to London's millions, served under bright, cleanly conditions ran be made financially profitable. Clotlies and the Man. Ask any man, "Who In your family spends the most money on clothes?" and the answer will come, "My wife." 'If you should undertake to prove to him that he is the guilty one, he would be highly Indignant. But the bureau of statistics has published figures that irrefutably defend the "frivolous sex." According to these, which are derived from a study of 100 New York families with an average income of $1,300, father is the most expensive member of the familv to clothe, requiring $73.17.

Next comes big brother, with $70.41. Big sister costs $62.13 and mother The schoolboys average from TORK, Jan. 4. At the bc-Fhining of the prosent month there wtre 15.000 American pallors In Jjondon, and the Iondon torra-fpondent of the Manchester Guar-ttian, in a printed tn that kewspapcr on Dec. 7, without telling exactly what London thought of our boys In blue, gave an Impressionistic glimpse tho American eallor's view of Tho dispatch raid: "London seems to be thinking a Rood deal about tho 15,000 Amerl-ran Bailors who are in town.

Wljat era they thinking about Iondon? '1 like your town all one of them said to me today, "but you haven't enough restaurants. Even ia a email American town every t-treet has got them in bunches of fives. Your transport is not up to standard, but 1 suppose that's the war. London's more like an American city than Edinburgh, and the J'eople are all right. You are not so modern as we are.

I see your Kirls have got. their hair bobbed why, our girls had that ten years go! The people are real friendly. We like your burg, but your climate is a mutt. The big difference is your ladies. You can speak to a Jady here, high or low, without get-ling into trouble.

If you spoke to a lady In America you'd be arrested. 1 don't say that there's not something where you're more democratic than we "I referred to the condition of the Strand, and said I hoped that they would not take home wrong Ideas about English girls. He said: 'Make no mistake about that. We know all about it. When a man just came, back to his ship from leave in London the fellows asked him what the girls were like.

He said: 'Depends on what sort you're out for. You can get both sorts if you want Vv'e's got our bad 'olnts at home, like you have; but lots of us have got to know fine Iritis, and high toned, too, and we tiop't want, the other sort. 'They got on very well with the Kuglish sailors on the Forth. 'Wo gave them a vaudeville, and they Rave us what they called a He would like to live in Eng land when we changed our weather. "This sailor gave me some sound information on a point about which had always been curious.

I asked him if one American could tell at once what part of America another one came from. He said, 'Sure. Take a man from the south. He speaks slow with a drawl "Air-you-goin'-diTwntown-toe-nlght" see? like that, like a bunch of farmers Talking. A man from Chicago, talks like a man from New York, quick Dr.

Arntu and Mr. Morrison Sailing Down Walnut Street. HY MiADYS M.XNY SHI LIZ. ONE day twenty-nine years ago traffic on the streets of pes Moines suffered compete Small bojs rushed into the street und horse crowded np on the sidewalk while an unheard of and phenomenal vehicle held a majestic course down Walnut street. It was a horseless carriage, bearing every outward resemblance to an ordinary, familiar surrey, but propelled by its own power.

Des Moines was hardly a big enough town In those days to engender a full shed riot, but the inhabitants staged a very fair Imitation of one. The street cars clanged In vain at the mob that followed in the wake of the curiosity. For the first time their sovereignty over traffic was disputed, and the makers of the new conveyance rode In triumph down the middle of the tracks. Motor experts have not yet been able to determine Just who first completed a "horseless carriage" that would go, but a comparison of dates gives William Morrison and Dr. Arntz, who were the storm centers of that day's sensation, a rood claim to the title, and Des Moines the right to say at least that one of the first car made lti Initial appearance on her street.

Dr. Arntz, now an oculist in the city, was In those days a watch repairer and an expert mechanic. He became unsocial ed with William Morrison, a man from Coventry, England, who wae friendless and penniless, although he was a chemist and gold plater of great ability. Xemled Many Wheel. The two worked together for some time and then Morrison conceived the idea of a carriage that would run ltelf.

He outlined his scheme to Arntz and the latter was convinced that. It might be accomplished. Accordingly he advanced the money for the expensive materials that had to bo bought and the two put in all the time they could snatch from their business in working on the Invention. We had our shop across from the police station," says Dr. Arntz, "and we kept the supplies for our automobile in a storeroom on the socond floor.

One time we loaded so many things into it that the floor began to give way, and we had to prop it up before we could go on with our work. "You can Imagine that It was an expensive diversion. We had to do much experimenting, and we bought dollars and dollars' worth of chemicals which we afterwards found were useless for our purposes, "It was Morrison who did the planning. I executed the things he outlined. Ho would say, 'I need a little and I'd make It for hlin.

It was his brains and my ingenuity that made the car possible. "The automobile we finally completed had three seats, with room for nine persons and was an electric. The hardest struggle was to perfect storage! batteries, hut at last we did, and we had twenty-four of them twelve on each aide under the seats." A copy of The Register in 1900 hus a story about the "horseless carriage" and contains a naive account of Its race with street car. "l'eople of Des Moines who lived here fifteen years ago will remember well the Morrison Automobile. I all wore their native costumes and smoked long pipes.

They had a lot to say about the car and the ride, but we didn't get the benefit of It because it was all In Chinese. "There was a little French runabout at the exposition when we arrived, a tiny electrical conveyance with three wheels, a sort of toy affair, but after they saw our car. they withdrew theirs, and we had the field all to ourselves. Just before tho end of the fair the French sent over another machine, made a great doal like ours, but I think we had reaped all tho glory we needed by that time. Wo won the gold medal which was good enough lor us.

"After the exposition was over, we sold the car and later it wai bought by Sturgis of Chicago, bank exuminer, and they tell-me that It can still be seen $37.81 to while their sis ters of the same age cost only $33.07 to $38.86. Boys under 6 cost little girls $29.60. It Vs only as an infant that the female costs more to ures than the male $22.30 agalnft $19.10. As a certain cartoonist would sav, "Oh, man!" Wall Street Journal. A three seated affair, it had the appearance of a light and neat spring wagon or drag, and everywhere It went It attracted attention.

"At one time In 1892. the. Inventors. called at The Register office and took out a party of four newspaper men, to mske a twenty mile run through the for the purpose of demonstrating its thorough practicability. Leaving The Register offlco the auto followed the Walnut street car line to what was then the terminus at.

Twenty-ninth and Cottage Grove and in racing the street car for the round trip bea- the car back to the waiting room some six minutes. "The ride was continued and at the end nf tho twenty-mile trip the machinery was not the least heated and the batteries wero still supplying a strong current." These were minor triumphs, however. Their great glory came when the two men took their Invention to tho world's fair at Chicago. Sensation nt Fair. "It was an Immense sensation there," says Dr.

Arntz. "Every afternoon at 2 o'clock we made an exhibition run around the electrical building. We curried passengers free, which was a mistake, I suppose, for the people were crazy to ride. We had to rule that the first arrivals should make the trip, and often every seat was taken at 8 or 9 In the morning, the occupants waiting patiently until afternoon for the shurt excursion. "We took President Cleveland once and all the foreign ambassadors were our guests.

I don't remember much about any of them but the Chinese ministers. They SHOES (GENUINE Kangaroo leather vamps, dull calfskin tops. Oak tanned leather soles. One inch heel. An ideal shoe for office or shop wear.

This shoe, because it is made on a combination last gives the utmost in comfort, through the snug-fitting qualities in heel and arch. It has an easy, form-fitting, custom toe that appeals to men of all ages for all occasions. DIC Photographs moat accurate of story tellers will preserve for future years these neyer-to-be-t'orgotten days. You and your family will treasure your portrait in uniform. A OKTHOI'l HHOE and cutting like, with a lot of pro-inn 'But could you tell the difference between a Chicago man and a js'ew York 'Sure; a Chicago man uses more profanity, and he (iioves his hand like this see? as Jf he was- dealing a card 'What about tho middle west? Oh, a Kansas man doesn't speak slow like a southerner, or too quick like a Chicago man, but Just plain and distinct, so anyone can understand him.

Just like I ppeak. 1 come from So there you have it all." WA 1st ROOT SHOP "THE SHOP AHEAD 5 IB Walnut St. Geo. F. llreck, Prop.

THE ERMINE'S PROTECTION The Hostetler Studio .100 K. T. Block, fltli Avenue, Near locnst Olsen's Corner reality It has Just the opposite effect. I'lace an ermine on new fallen snow in such a way that It casts no shadow and you will find that the black point holds your eye In spite of yourself, and that at a little distance it Is quite Impossible to follow the outline of the weasel itself. Cover the tall with snow and you can begin to make out the position of the rest of the animal, but as long as the tip of tho tail Is in sight you see that and thnt.

onlv." William K. Cram tells why the tip of the tail Is black. "Late In the autumn or early in the winter, tho erniino changes from reddish brown to white, some times slightly washed with greenish yellow or cream color, and again as brilliantly white as anything In nature or art; the end of tall, however, remuins Intensely at first, thought it might bo supposed that this would make the animals conspicuous on tho white background of snow, but In II 11 1 IT A I I Black Tip of Tail Holds Observer's Eye. Most scouts know that the ermine weasel changes to white on the roming of cold weather, says Dr. B.

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