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jngm*.. : -r- - it; THE WATERf QWN RE-UNION. : .IU 5\* • **.• *** *'* *<5?!w;« MONG the many famous health and pleasure resorts smoth- ered by the European war, one of the most attractive is Meran. A favored garden spot of earth, an ancient Roman out- post- where legionaries stood guard against northern \ barbarians and, where Caesars sought to regain their diSBipated health, Meran has main- tained through all Its checkered history a high, reputation as a pleasure and health garden, and as a resort for rank and fashion, says the bulletin of the National Geographic society. This pic- turesque Tyrolese city, banked around iy lesser Alps, has been a favorite wintering place for wealthy Ameri- cans, a number of whom have pur- chased villas here and some of whom have become permanent residents. Considerably more than 10,000 guests sought Meran each year, many, nomi- nally, for their health, but most for the beauties of climate and surround- ings and for the light gayeties of the tell and winter season. The counts of Tyrol, the noble fam- ily from which the region took its name, long made Meran their resi- dence. The much decayed castle of Tyrol, the original seat of the family, overlooks the town, and the mountain shelves and cliffs through the neigh- borhood are crowned with many other ancient castles and fine chateaux. Meraa is the first town of the upper JAdige valley. It is 42 miles south- Bouthwest of Innsbruck and 20 miles northwest of Eozen on the Brenner line. The rugged Kuechelberg lies behind it and all the hills beside are covered with miles of arcaded vine- yards. Delicious grapes and wine are the town's most famed products. A grape cure is one of the attractions of the place, while the climate draws jnany suffering from lung troubles. Normally, Meran's season begins in early fall and lasts through to the end of spring. Italians Love Aquileia. Aquileia, one of the first towns cap- jtared by the Italians in their storm across the Austrian borders at the bead of the Adriatic, stands foremoBt emong the Austrian Italian-speaking possessions in the sentimental attach- ment ot the patriotic sons of Italy. Situated six miles back from the Adri- atic sea, at the edge of the lagoons, in the Austrian province of Goerz and Gradisca, it was once a great and flourishing seaport, at one time rank- lag as the second city of Italy. It was, in those days r one of the mighti- est bulwarks of the Roman empire against the pressing hordes of outside barbarians, a city of \proud walls and wide bespoken splendor.\ As late as the and of the fourth century AUsonius placed it ninth on the list of the great citieB of the earth. Today Aquileia is a mean, poverty- marked, dwindling fishing village, with a few thousand inhabitants. The wonderful structures of its heyday nave served for centuries as stone quarries, and nothing now remains of their fabulous splendor. Aquileia, re- gal city ot the empire, and later great seaport and industrial city, has van- ished, in all likelihood for good. There remains from its golden days merely a heterogeneous mass of relics, statues, jhosaics, columns, friezes from its parks and buildings; lamps from its once famous factories,, besides many homely survivals and nicknacks. Grave of Past Achievement. Trieste, the great seaport of today, ft ttbut twenty-five miles distant to J the southwest. All the marks of the prosperity and importance of Aquileia have fled to Trieste, in the east, and to Venice, in the west. The once busy harbor is choked with silt and drifting dunes, while rafts and fishing boats are almost the only craft that now thread the varying channels. The mod- ern village, counting 2,300 people, is unhealthy on account of its Tice fields and is neglected and forgotten. 4Aquileia is a grave of past achieve- ment and a much-weathered monument of the world of the Roman age. Its museum ia'rich in trophies of Roman times and its ancient cathedral and the remains, of the patriarch's palace are its most eloquent concrete memo- ries. Aquileia., as is much of the north- ern and western coast of the Adriatic, is a rich field for archeologists and antiquarians. The city is said to have been colo- nized by the Romans as a frontier fortress against the Celts in 183 B. C, In 168 A. D. Marcus Aurelius made it one of the strongest fortified positions in the empire. During Hadrian's reign its population reached the 500,000 mark. Attila destroyed the city in 452 A. D., and it never recovered its greatness. Aguileia was great and strong only throughout its Roman history, when, during its prime, it ranked immediately after the Eternal city itself, Its fortunes were those of the Roman world, and modern Italy, looking back over the gulf of centu- ries, feels itself not only the descend- ant, but also the heir of Latin Rome, Britain Needs Timber. The demand for timber in Greai Britain is so great, owing t o the war, that the export of this material from Newfoundland, which has been prac- tically abandoned of late years, is now being revived. Until about ten years ago there was a substantial an- nual export of deal and sawn lumber, bill about that time the possibilities of the island for pulp and paper-mak- ing were emphasized to such an ex- tent that large enterprises along theso lines were established in Newfound- land, with the result that a largo quantity of logs that had previously been exported in the form ot lumber are now utilized and manufactured into pulp, and paper on the spot. Now, however, the war has brought about new conditions, and the increased price for lumber has stimulated a re- vival of the exporting trade, the vari- ous concerns throughout the island, which hitlierto have been operating entirely for the local trade, having de- cided this summer to go into the ex- port business on an extended scale, as the compensation, if the cargoes are got securely across the water, is very large. No Use for Small Change. \The United States government could almost do away with coins smaller than a dime so far as the towns of the Northwest are con- cerned,\ remarked Col. George \W. Drewry of Kentucky at the Raleigh, according to the Washington Post. Colonel Drewry spent several months in Montana and Idaho and has just come East. 'The price is 'two bits' for most anything a man wants,' con- tinued Colonel Drewry. \It you want a shave it's two bits,' or if you want a refreshing drink of some kind it's the same. The bootblacks will con- sent to jhlne your shoes a little cheap er, but they warn 15 cents for polish tag your 'kicks, and they appear f. think that is too cheap.\ 1&**w+*++rw**w**0**e****s**+*+*****ww*******i****++*++r++*+**** H ERE are a few contrivances tor tho kitchen and pantry which will be appreciated by mother if made by her handy boy. Nothing better could be selected fpr h9r Christmas gift. The tool rack shown in Pig. 1_ Is most convenient when hung directly over tho kitchen Worktable. The length of the hook strip will be deter- mined by the space in which it is to hang, and by the numbe» of forks. •BOTTLE-RACK spoons and other tools which it will be required to hold. The appearance of the rack will be unproved by planing a bevel on the face edges of the hook strip and the end blocks, as in the Illustration. Use brisB screws or galvanized nails for hooks, and screw a screweye into the top edge of each end block to hang the rack by. The bottle rack in Fig. 2 will hold your mother's bottles of extract, catch up, sauces and dressings, and elimi- nate the possibility of upsetting bot- tles when reaching for the one wanted. Narrow strips should be used for the division strips of the rack, to save space and make the rack light in weight. Laths planed smooth on all sides will do for the side and center ^ PANTKY--SW1MG1NG-SHELF JUli strips, also for the cross strips The ends must be about three inches wide. The swinging shelf shown in Fig. 4 is an excellent provision for the sugar and salt crocks, as It makes it possible to swing these out from between the pantry shelves, then back into place after using, without lifting them. Fig. 5 shows how the swinging bracket is made of a strip two inches wide and ten Inches long (A), with a block two Inches wide and six inches long nailed to each side of it at one end (B/, and how to the top of this bracket a cake tin is screwed or nailed on which to set the crock. Hinge the end of the bracket strip A to one end of the shelf supports, or else set in an upright piece between two shelves to screw the hinge to. Use a me dium-sized T hinge' for this bracket. In the same way that the swinging shelf eliminates the lifting of the sugar crock, the platform shown In Fig. 6 -saves the lifting of the scrub pail from place to place while scrub bing, as it Is provided with castors so it may be pushed about. Fig. 7 shows how the castors are screwed to the platform, and bow strips are nailed to the edges, form tag a rim that prevents tha pail from sliding off. Either paint or shellac each article after assembling it, and if you have done your work carefully, mother will have something to be proud of. (Cppyriirht, to A Neelv Hall.1 J T is high time to be making Christ mas gifts, end the little articles il- lustrated below are so simple that they can be completed in almost no time at all. They are inexpensive io make, too, requiring only bits of cardboard, and some pieces of silk and ribbon from mother's scrap-bag, The pretty heart-shaped needle-book shown in Fig. 1 has a pair of coverB made of two pieces of cardboard meas- uring three and one-half inches each way, and four leaveB ofj the same shape and size cut out of white or pret- ty colored flannel. Place the flannel hearts between the covers, and pierce two holeB through both covers and leaves each side of the jenur of the top. Then pull a piece of narrow rib- bon through the holes and tie a small bow. Fasten pieces of ribbon to the lower points of the heart, bo'h front and back, by which to tie the little case shut when not in use Mark A-NEEDLE-BOOK A 30OK-MAHKE1R \Needles\ upon the front cou-r with ink or water colors. Fig. 2 shows a book-marker made of one and one-fourth yards of No. 7 white satin or grosgrain ribbon. Cut the ribbon into two pieces, one piece measuring 12 inches and the other 2-1 inches, and pull them halt way through a little brass ring such as is used in crochet work, fastening ihem in place with a few stitches. To ccmplete the marker, letter the follow- ing upon the ribbons with black ink or- water colors, placing one line of the stanza on each ribbon end: \Not mine to tell If the book is good; But 1 keep my place As a marker should.' M. The triangular-shaped bookmarker shown in Fig. 3 is cut from a piece of white writing paper seven inches square. Fold the square in half, diag- onally, in' cut along the folded line. Then take one-half and fold It in half again. The dotted line in Pig. 4 In- dicates where to fold, Punch holes through the folded piece near one open end (theso holes are indicated on the unfolded piece), and with narrow rib- bon lace the edges together, and tie the ribbon ends in a bow. Cut u pic- ture from a magazine and paste it upon the front. TMs little marker lips over the corner of the page you w*nt to mark. Tne i<in case shown in Fig. 5 re- quires two pieces of car j board each A PIN-CASE six m; ie» long _nd one ai.-J one-half inches vide. Cover each : .ece with pretty silk, turning over t'i edges ji the silk and basting on in- wrong side as shown In Fig. 6. rb-u lay the pieces together, and Dew the edges over and over as indlcat'\) n Fig 7 Fasten a ribbon to the eii'ls of one long side by which to Bang up thf case (Fig. 5). (Copyright, by A. Neely Rail.) PAY DAY IN THE GERMAN ARMY •*Tj-\ 1 s E \M .« » •»<>« <'t9WHIMMfr £fc*f These paymasters of the German army have arrived in a town in Gallcia and halted in front of a castle where tha soldiers wiil receive their pay. Statistics show the kaiser's men send back home from the front every month between sixty and seventy million marks. TOOK A FEARFUL JUMP ** III ft* WRECKED BY MEXICAN BANDITS. l *, • 'J . '^ A J? H(t , ^^ l fei**yw*H» vw * Krt » 4 *% jg5£ -OJJSWM^ ^ ft < 'V^-.j V Ji******tH<.JAt/{4tttrJiW-l,A*fjj l tffrt* On tho day that Carranza was recognized aB president of Mexico by the United States and tho Latin-American republics, Mexican bandits derailed a train near Brownsville, Tex., and robbed tne passengers, murdoring several' who resisted. Among the dend and wounded were United States soldiers. The picture shows tho wrecked train and United States soldiers on guard. ARCHDUKE'S VILLA BOMBARDED Mounted on a horse, \Art\ Davis appearing in the film version of \Cai mon,\ rode off a precipice 83 feet high into Au Sable chasm in the Adiron dacks. The wild leap terminated In a pool of water dotted by sharp crags oi rock. Both horse and rider struck tho water together, turned two com pleto somersaults, and one of the live cameramen assigned to cover the dar ing scene fainted as horse and rider fell. Davis received a broken leg and many bruises and lacerations. Tho horse was uninjured and swam ashore. Inexorable Order. Numberless are the stories told of George Washington. Upon one occa- sion, while the American army waB In camp, Washington heard that the negro sentries were not altogether re- liable. He determined to test the mat- ter for himself. One night, therefore, when the password was \Cambridge the general went out and walked up to a negro sentry. \Who goes there?\ cried the senti- nel. \A friend,\ waB tho reply. \Advance friend, and give the coun- tersign.\ \Roxburgh said Washington. \No sah,\ replied tho soldier. \Medford said Washington. \No sah,\ was the response. \Charleston said Washington. The sentry lost patience. \I tell you, Massa Washington,\ he said em- phatically, \no man can go by here without he say 'Cambridge.'\ The villa of the Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand, near Carso in the Isonzo district, after it had been bombarded by the Italians. MEETING' OF TWO AMERICAN WIZARDS . given Saving Something. Tho sunshine had suddenly way to a perfect storm of rain. \What a terrible downpour 1\ sighed a girl to her male escort. \Yes replied the man, \and I am afraid that my umbrella is hardly large enough t o cover all your picture hat\ \What a shame,\ mourned the girl; \taut anyway, see what you can do tor the pink n'ush rose!\ l&to&fctfd&Sti .Luther Burbank, the piant wizard, welcoming to California Thomas Edison, tne wizard of electricity. The photograph was taken at Sacramento. •! Vi - 11
