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YOUTH Page 5 oration 7" Aviation and iice, Expl Diuky Invaders. Pioneer Miles. fmm Tn prairie schooner which lumbered across the Great Plains in pio 12 With the use of Moorish troops from northwest Africa by Spanish rebels. history repeats itself. For the Moors have marched in Spain Their first invasion neer days were equipped, like modern automobiles.

with "speedometer." tains force them upward and the moisture is condensed into rain. From April to October the monsoon blows steadily, giving India the greatest rainfall of any country in the world. During the rest of the year, the wind blows from exactly the opposite direction. But as it comes from the high, dry steppes of Central Asia, it carries no moisture. India lies baking in the sun.

When the monsoon comes late, or if it stops early, famine reaps thousands of lives. Like Egypt, "gift of the Nile," India is the "gift of the monsoon." If it did not come each year life could not exist. GREENLAND S. A' i '7 -HAc N- I a i 7 4 k- i Blended Sounds. 15 Japan, which is going in for Western music in a biz way.

has already de veloped a symphony orchestra at Tokyo which is recognized as one of the world's outstanding musical organizations. It has just been invited to perform at the International Exposition in Paris next year with many of the world's great orchestras. A symphony orchestra is merely a collection of many musical instruments. The idea is to so blend the various sounds that a single musical effect is attained. The word symphony itself is taken from the Greek hove match the num- One of the devices, Which was strapped to wheel of, a wagon, has just been acquired by the North Dakota Historical It recorded the number of revolutions made by the wheel during the day.

Strictly speaking, the device was an odometer, which is still used by surveyors to measure actual, sur-facedisf ances. The surveyor's odometer also, has a wheel, 10 feet io circumference, which is pushed by hand. Connected, to the axle is a dial which registers the number of revolutions. If "the wheel makes 1,000 revolutions between two given points, the surveyor knows that' the distance "is 10,000 feet. The prairie "schooner's "speedometer" worked on the same principle, and did the same job a mileage gauge on an automobile does.

World's Host. They will help you began in 711. In two years" the fierce followers of Mohammed overran the peninsula. For five centuries what is now Spain and Portugal was under their complete dominance. For three centuries more they held southern Spain, the final collapse of their power in western Europe coming the same year Columbus discovered the New World.

As now, these Moorish armies were made up mostly of Berbers. They did not differ greatly from the original inhabitants of Spain. The Arabs commanding them left the greatest imprint on Spanish life. Even today many Spaniards have the facial characteristics of the Arab, and Arab architecture, literature, and art are apparent throughout the structure oi Spanish civilization. One difference between the two Moorish invasions Is that the first was led by Arabs while the present one is led by Spaniards.

event took place, or li On lists of prominent people Oscar Tschirky is simply called "hotel man- in it was centerca. ager." That is gross understatement. Mr. Tschirky, himself, 'is an institution. He is "Oscar of the Waldorf." For 43 years host of New York 's idustry.

kicle is gathered like rubber. trunk -of the sapodilla tree, bh usually growls." in mahogany Waldorf -As to- ria Hotel. Prop- sts, is tapped to a height oi 30 with deep, zig-zag cuts. The which cow's milk. Going Up out and runs slowly down the.

erly it is said Df him "he knows more people from all over world than The latest in elevators I 11 i are wo lifts installed by the U. S. into a bag at the he tree. The flow. generally lasts Taking No Chances.

Z7 Many English tradesmen I are now insuring selves against the possi- hours a day, and may amount to ral quarts. any person uij' America." fj MM mm The story of le "chiclero" collects sap from "walk" of trees once a day, ering about a ton per -season from 200 to 300 trees, Park Service at the famous Carlsbad Caverns, in New Mexico. Each is capable of carrying 500 passengers per hour and takes only a minute to make the. 750-foot trip up. or down.

Dials inside the cages record the depth, arid telephones keep the operator in touch with the surface at all times. The earliest, form of elevator was a simple platform pulled up and down by hand. This was next made word symphonia, meaning, concord of sound. The number of instruments and players varies enormously. The usual symphony orchestra contents itself with from 100 to 115 playersv but festival orchestras use many more.

During the World Peace Jubilee in Boston, in 1872, for example, there was assembled an orchestra whose performers numbered 1,695, not counting 100 firemen who beat anvils during the rendition of Verdi's "Anvil Chorus." which are rested from bility that King Edward will become before his coronation next year. If he did, they would lose heavily through rearrangement of the ceremonials. The insurance is being placed with Lloyd's, London, which insures almost everything, i Some of the queerest insurance policies in existence have been four to seven years be- this one-time Swiss boy's rise to fame begins as a boat swings into New' York Har- bor 53 years ago. Aboard is 17-year-old Oscar Tschirky, fulfilling part of his boyhood ambition to come to America and work his way up in the hotel business. In a day he had started on his way.

One hour after setting foot on American soil he applied for citizenship papers. By 5 o'clock he had a. job as busboy in the old Hoffman House. Studious, determined, Oscar feverishly, worked to learn hotel-keeping backward and forward. Catering, in particular attracted1 him.

His "eageMo-please" attitude won friends and promotions. The coagulated rffv gum is in large kettles until it becomes a semisolid mass. It is then poured out on canvas and molded into blocks weighing about 25 pounds each. For manufacture into gum, the grayish-brown 'Pretzel' Jewelry. A filigree necklace from I China, made of silver wire coated with gold, are remelted.

all dirt and moved, -sugar and flavoring and the finished product and wrapped in packages hinery. wing gum, according to most physicians, is seldom for the flavor, but mereiy the sake of has lately been acquired by the Field Museum in Chicago. It consists of disks set with inscribed pieces of jade and is said to be very valuable. Filigree is a delicate kind of work made from silver or gold wire. The wire is generally made flat instead of round and is twisted, like a pretzel, into elaborate patterns.

It is one of the oldest kinds of jewelry, fine specimens having been found in Greek and Etruscan tombs. The Irish became famous for their filigree work in the ninth century and some lovely specimens dating from that period are still in existence. Today filigree work is done mostly in India, Turkey and Malta. The natives of Sumatra are also skilled ual gum-chewer, they say, de- a solace from the rhythmic ac- In a few years he decided to learn the restaurant business, too. He secured a job in Delmonico's Cafe, then' New York's most famous eating place.

There his gaining of knowledge and satisfied customers continued. When, the old Waldorf-Astoria opened Oscar was "27. He sought the post of caterer and master of the dining rooms. The manager demanded recommendations. The applicant produced them 10 pages signed with the greatest names in New York.

From then on Oscar of his iacial muscles tnat ing else can supply. ychologists also tell us that a gum chewer registers his into a car worked by steam or water power later by an electric motor Modern express elevators often go 30 floors without stopping, at a speed of 1,000 feet a minute. In dropping, such elevators use the air below them, compressed in the bottom of the shaft by their rapid fall, as a cushion to ease the shock of descent. The largest elevator in the world emotions more clearly, through the movements of his jaws, than do nonchewers. According to "a I 3 taken out with Lloyd's.

Authors insure themselves against plagiarism, wine-tasters insure iheir sense of taste, sportsmen their arms and legs, and once a golfer even insured himself against making a hole in one! The custom, after making a hole in one, is for the golfer to treat his friends to champagne. This canny fellow wanted to make sure that he would have the money to pay for it A lion tamer insured his hypnotic power over lions and a manufacturer of hair-restorer insured himself against baldness. Others have insured themselves against everything from losing their dimples to their wives presenting them with twins. is at Weehawken, opposite New York. Worked by water power, it is used in a railroad station to lift passengers from level to level.

lie mens uis gum is an advertisement of the way he feels. If he is angry, New Iron Hbrse. excited or per- ed, he chews his gum vigor- Ztf A "steam-electric" loco-T motive, developed in 1 Schenectady, N. is the Tschirky has been "Oscar of the Waldorf." In a few days bustlings square-jawed "Oscar" will celebrate his seventieth birthday. Memories of the old and new Waldorf race through his brain, among them: The dinner in honor of the Prince of Wales, now King Edward VIII The looking at the throne-like seat provided him and requesting a smaller one The "bucket brigade" providing water for the bath of Prince Henry of Prussia plumbing in -the royal suite had broken down Li Hung-Chang, Viceroy of China, bringing-his own cooks "Diamond Jim" Brady, super-salesman and Broadway playboy, eating enough for three and washing it down with a gallon of orange juice and "hosts, of other expe Iv, with a jerky rhythm.

But Monsoon Season. In all is. well with the world, the chewer's jaws go through the motions as those of a con- This is our season drought, but India of is dripping with water. id cow masticating her cud, say. tewing gum.

as 6uck is Quite nless. About the only fault doc- latest "iron horse" to pound the rails. Instead of a side-rod drive, the wheels are turned by electric motors. These, in turn, are supplied with "juice" from a steam turbine generator. The builders say it will go 110 miles an hour on level track, pull a train, and use much less fuel oil than standard steam.

loco- motives 1 ''-1 i I For now is the timt of the monsoon, the winds which blow from Australia across India. Sweeping over the hot Indian Ocean, these winds pick up mois at it. In Nicaragua the natives make fine filigree jewelry from virgin gold can find with it is that gum-ers swallow large quantities of ture until are fairly saturated. is interferes with the diges- nuggets jWhich they pick up in the riences of a life of service. some small degree, oeas oi lungie stream i.