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Above is the plane of the Wright brothers, which weighed 728 pounds and; hmiv \ of 30 miles an hour. Below? is the new type “three miles a minute\ -Boeingmonopiane used by the United Air Lines. It weighs six and one-half tons, has 1,100 horse power and can 700 miles without refueling. - A Supméme Court -Building Near Completion ////’/% —-' ' -.== E _ § 1%‘ '5 ‘ \‘ :=_—. 7 . E ‘ § ‘ I 0 Q*s e 5 bu Constancewnthrow. '1‘ is the custom in a certain vil- 1‘ Inge near the sea for the men on go into the woods and bring out by ox sled many small spruce trees. These are ranged about -the founda- tions of houses to keep them snug and warm for the winter. Even the poor- est. meanest dwelling takes on a boil- day aspect when surrounded by this hedge of fresh. rigorous green. In I gray. weather-‘beaten cottage close to the shore lived a family whose hard luck was the talk of the village. The father was I ! but now that the winter had set in. he could not go out in his dory; the summer had yielded a fair catch. but the prices were low. The mother was a cheerful, sensible woman who kept the house tidy and her husband and little girl. Sallie. well cared for. when Christ- mas time came. however. she was much troubled. \Shall I write Santa I want a cart with red wheels?\ asked Sallie one day. \and a teeny doll house i can keep my kitten in?\ \He has so many children to remem- ber.\ said her mother. \I wouldn't be disappointed if just this once. Sallie. he kind of forgot.” Sallie's eyes grew round with amaze- . . l1E'Jingl1ng sleigh bells played m merry little tunes as the young . carollerl set out on Christmas Eve. At every corner they stopped end their clear young voices {med the (rusty night with Joyous‘ hymns. “Christ is born.\ they snug. \Good Christian men, rejoice!\ AI they reached the edge of the town. the driver turned. “it's all of | couple ot miles out to Widow El- der's.\ he said. \Shall we go on. or turn back here?\ ‘ AROLD was practically speech- % less on Christmas morning over the present of an electric train from his uncle Dan. There were yards of track. a station. a signal tower, switches. even a tunnel end a turn- table. The train whistied; it shot around curves with breathtaking speed. thundered through the tunnel. in wheel: turning so fast they were romid blur: of speed. View of the front of the palatial new bulldlng that Is being constructed In Washlngton for the Supreme court of the United States. -It wlll be ready for occupancy before long. Never in his life had Harold known 11 gm so wonderful. The rest of the family nbnndoued all their presents to help not It up. to watch It. to exclnim over its uglninture perfection. Harold Biggest Derricks for Biggest Bridge NOTRE DAME COACH \Oh. let‘: do go on.\ said Bob Rules. And then, because he was new in town, and felt that he might have Ipoken too hnsilly. he added. “Of course whatever the others want to do ll all right wlth me.\ ‘Tea, let's.\ saldjlnry Byron. They went on. The crowd seemed always to do whatever Mary wanted. Bob Mlle: thought of this as they lped along the snowy road. But he M» as’? \ - N «o §f%€§“' ;_',=;-_? 5 * 1 ‘:..—(. :\\* \ .4 ' _ 1 £.\\ ‘ 2'] ‘N .':§::‘$g-3 ' \a A _~ 0 -'7' \ ;‘~ .-“‘\ wlr DJ.‘-*1 W\ 2» could\ scarcely take time to eat hi: Chi-i'st‘mxis turkey. He had no appe- me but for the marvels of Uncle Dan‘: gift. \1 can‘: thank you enough. air.\ he said over and over. The old gentleman beamed down at him. “Thought you'd enjoy It. boy.\ he sold. “But. look here. don't thank me . . . thank the hundred wears be him! It.\ \What‘I\ asked Harold. Elmer Lnyden. who was 6116 of the famous \Four Horsemen\ at Notre Dame unlverslty. Indlnna-, in 1924. has been employed by -that lnstltutlon up coach to supplant Heartly Anderson. Luyden has recently been coach of the successful football team of Duquesne university. \All nyramlded. buy. We bene by me brains of men long (lead and gone. Ever think of that?\ Found I-Ilmull In the snow Inido the Overturned Sled. No. Harold admitted. he hadn't thought of that. \We take what they discovered. what they worked at. slaved‘ at. were rldiculed About. and sometimes died for . . . add n M: or our own Ideas . . . and pass It on to the next gen- eration.\ ’ ment. “He can’: forget. Liammn. He'd not be Santa, if he did i\ Mu, Blake repented Sallie’! answer to her best ‘friend. Mrs. Moore. And Mu. Moore said. \Bless the child . . . well . . I never!\ Sallie listened ‘with her {at little hundt clasped behind her back. “i don’! nbelieve it l\ uhe said Itoutly. And nothing her mother said could change her convictions. FROM THE ORIENT did not think it strange, for she wgu charming and vivacious, as well as benuctui. He had come on the ride hoping to get better acquainted with some oi‘ the young people. He was so engrossed in his own thoughts that he noticed nothing until Iomeone caiied \Look out !\ and he tound himself in the wow beside the overturned sied. Harold. gnzlng down It the aplendld electric engine. black and gleaming. snld slpwly. \By George. that’: so. Ian‘! It?\ It was: brand new Idea. \We'd never get anywhere other- wise.\ continued Uncle Dan. \We in the present benefactors of the race.\ Harold was frowning. \I suppose if engineers hadn't nut worked out steam and all that. we wouldn't have an electric engine elther,“ he Idmmed. \'l'hat‘| It . . . thnt':rIt'! It pays When they went to bed there wasn't I present in the house-not an orange. not a candy cane-hut selile was sure about the morning. She ‘woke when the dawn wan guy. she pnttered over to her’ window. The Ientwn like 1 Itlll. llnt Iheet of metal. the alt‘ wn chill. Down below we’! the green hedge of little treee. Sallie‘: eyes etijck out at she looked at them; she nve 1 high. delighted squeal On’ every at the tijrtop. wen 1 little package done up In bright paper and tied with colored Itrlngi A row of twenty Chi-lltmee trees. each hearing a gut!‘ \He did come. __l1ammei\ Ihrleked. Sallie. \Santa trimmed [twenty tree! ingzteed of one!” Mrs. Moore told M:-I. Binke that »ev‘enln§-'; that village children had crept over in the night and each tied n pree- ent to I tree. \I don't suppose yoq had anything, to do wlth it?’ Imlled Sallie‘: mother. ‘'4 will in the snow never hurt auy~ body.\ one or the boys called out. but It had. Mary Byron had 3 broken Inkle. \I've had two year: of surgery,\ Bob lllles stated. and the other: drew ulde. As he deftly put the ankle back In place. and tied on a tempor- ary ppllnt with handkerghleh. he kept up a constant flow of little stories until Mar: forgot the pain to laugh at them. Work on the Golden Gate’ bridge nt San Francisco‘ is progressing rapidly. For the construction of this. the largest span in the world. the largest derricki ever used are doing the lifting work in the erection of the llnrln tower. to thluk about It eerlously. Make: you understand progress better . , . our duty to the past. as well an responal blllty to the present. I‘ don't want tb talk llke an old fogey.\ Uncle Dan lowered hls vblce to 3, con note. “but I've always felt strongly about thls particular thlng. ll. Enr- old, we do accept the benefit: gulch clever. hard-worklng men have given us. we don't deserve to be called clvll- lzed ll‘ we can‘: like these benentl In- telllgently. Ind try to had our blt . . . for the next lot. Get It?\ Be stared hard at Harold. 30! 03 Luke Ei Days Toning Snootlnciu of Mauls Perched on a ledge overlooking an abyss 7,000 feet above sea level, four- yenr-old; Antonio Plodari was found in the mountains nenr Bergnmo. Italy. after being lost eight days. He had lived on a crust of bread which he had in mi pocket when lost and he was nearly dead from exposure when mountnlneers. who had heard his cries, rescued him. Antonio had ac- cbmpnnled his two brothers into the monngalns when they went to en; wood and but! strayed from them. Parties from nearby village: genréinedl in vain for him for A week. The photoelectric cell, which has ul- ready been found an Improvement upon the human eye In many Illdllk trial operations. has been adapted to still nnother_ by the French melnllurglst. Dr. Albert Portevln. who applies’! It to determlnlng. the degree of smoothness of pollshed ‘metals. A beam of light tocuged on the metal specimen‘ is re to the» cell. When the speclmen is moved along In the pull: or the beam. any microscopic hllls or valleys will register an tuntlonn In the electrlc‘ current pro- duced hy the cell.-Literary Digest. Garefully the was loaded haek on the slelgh and taken home. “It's a phune l Ipolled the Widow Elder‘: Chrlstmu Eve.\ she Iald. “You must all promlne me to ‘go out there tomor- :ow night and em; for her.\ They all promised but Bob lines. \I won‘t.\- he sald. \I'll want to know how you Ire getting‘ on.\ \Well sheglnswered, qmlllng. “you will now, won't you‘! ‘I never did believe in changing doctor: In the middle of I case)’, This vlsltor In the United states, from ‘the Orient In ‘Princess Nour Banmdu, leader of the syrign. Arabian and Oriental Women‘: alliance. she seeks the co-operation’ of American women In working -for world peace. \Yes I think I do . . . wen. any- how.” the boy _him a smile, \I thank you for the electrlctruin . . . and‘ ‘all th'e__lnventors. deal and alive, ‘who-mnde it possible !\ 0.1m. ' '-‘What do you thlnk of the ‘bear who walks like a man?” \I h:‘wen't met one in yet,” nu-* sweretl ‘mus Qnyenne, “But I hopo he'll ‘prove more agreeable than the man who dance: like 1 bear.“ ' -on. wen.\ said am Moore. -mun like Sallj_e's can't be disappointed.\ ‘é a. 1011. ' ‘ ~ ' 0. nu.'wugon iuwuponoc unxon.
