The Butler County Press, 1913-09-19

Vagamundo, the western traveler ex experienced - perienced experienced 1q the ways of the east, catches flight during a stroll through the bazaars of an Arabic blade that takes his fancy. It hangs high at the top of tbe open booth, on the raised floor of which serenely squats the pro proprietor, - prietor, proprietor, with folded legs. Vagamundo, as from the merest curiosity, pauses to run his eye over the countless ar articles, - ticles, articles, suggests with a half stifled yawn that the scimitar looks like what might be a cocvlnclng weapon in the bauds of an enemy, ventures to hope ehut the merchant is enjoying fine weather and strolls leisurely on. The shopkeeper continues to puff drowsily at hid water bottle until the western westerner - er westerner la all but out of earshot Then he ap apjkears - jkears apjkears suddenly to awake and drones out a languid invitation to return. Vagamundo pays no heed to the sum sumxnoiiB - xnoiiB sumxnoiiB for some moments, gazes ab abstractedly - stractedly abstractedly upon the wares displayed in another booth, then wanders slowly back. The merchant hopes that the traveler is enjoying tbe best of health, invites him to squat in the bit of •pace not already occupied by himself or his wares, offers a cigarette and fall* to discussing the state of the cot cotton - ton cotton crop in the delta. By tbe time the second cigarette is lighted be turns the conversation deftly to the scimitar and remarks that though it is hung among his wares rather for ornament than for sale it is possible he may some day tire of beholding it and part with

The speaker was a banker from Du Duluth. - luth. Duluth. He continued warmly: 'What are you frowning about? I asked the waiter. 'Isn't that a gener generous - ous generous tip for a few minutes work on your part?' 'In New York,' the man answered, the rule is always to give a tip of 10 per cent Your bill, sir, called for a $2.50 tip. So, naturally, I feel a little aggrieved. But it is easy to see, sir, that you are not a New Yorker, and so it can't be expected that you'd know the rules.' "Well, I pocketed the waiter's insult, and the next time I was in that neigh neighborhood - borhood neighborhood I dropped in on him again. This time I was alone, and, not being hungry, I only ate a $1.15 meal. When It was over I handed the waiter a tip of 11 cents. You ought to have seen his face. It was worse than before. 'It's all right,' I assured him. 'It's according to the 10 per cent rule that fou taught me. If a man's bill is ex exorbitant - orbitant exorbitant that makes no difference, ac according - cording according to the rule Well, then, when a man's bill is small, It should make no difference, either.' "The waiter glowered at me. He shook the 11 cents in his palm sar sarcastically. - castically. sarcastically. I said, as I rose to go: 'And, by jove. It won't make any difference either. If you waiters ins' on your 10 per cent for large amoui then you've got to take it for sm amounts, too. At least, by jingo, you' got to take it from me. I'm from I iuth, but I know my way about."

The nervous system is a unit, and most of the emotions of anger come from a sudden thwarting of a calculat calculated - ed calculated nervous plan. Thus if we are about to sit down on a chair and a mischievous urchin yanks the chair away just as we have let the muscles of the thighs relax the anger excited Is out of all proportion to the actual bruises that have resulted, if a child wants a pot of jam and is denied he Is immediately angry unless he has been taught to control himself. The desire for the Jam. for example, has set in motion a nerve plan, and when this is suddenly stopped there Is a flow of nervous energy which has to spend itself in some way. In the case of the child, he usually works this off by stamping bis feet and crying. In the case of the man, he usually goes through exactly the same processes by thumping the table and swearing. In the ease of a hysterical woman, she beats upon the floor with her heels and screams. It Is all the same thing.

What the Patent Home Will Be. The number of patents issued last year was greatly in excess of all other years. And yet nobody in all inventive America has patented a home We must all live. The old home is now a back uumber It Is bound In time to be succeeded by the patent home. Hasten the day The patent home will have all its beds made up automatic automatically. - ally. automatically. It will cook Its own meals, keep Itself dusted, decorated and disinfected It will h**at the baby's milk at all hours of tbe night and will be servantless All the pictures will be changed at reg regular - ular regular Intervals, and new furniture will automatically replace the old Family prayers will be provided by phono phonograph, - graph, phonograph, and births, weddings and funer als will be covered by pressing a bat batton.—Life. - ton.—Life. batton.—Life.

Strange as It may seem, moreover, the outflow of emotion Is far better for an angry person than It is to bottle It up. Emotion Is going to express itself in action somewhere, and if the muscles are kept still tbe brain cells will be exhausted Instead. Emotional force has got to go somewhere. It can't just stop and disappear Too great a suppression of the emotions leads a gradual atrophy of tbem. and whi*u the emotions begin to die out the per person - son person himself or herself Is of eompara tively little use to the world. It Is for this reason that nothing should ever be done to "break" a child's temper, but only to guide It Into rieht chan channels. - nels. channels. You can teach a child not to lose control of his temper, but never as you value the child's development, try to train him not to be angry.— New York American.

He la tbe selfsame fellow still, the Cairene merchant, as Id tbe days of Haroun-al-Raschld. He squats In cross legged contentment as of yore, amen amenable - able amenable only to the loquacious system of bargaining dear to the heart of the oriental. The western tourist, foolish foolishly - ly foolishly regarding time as of value, will lose 11 equanimity long before he has com completed - pleted completed the smallest transaction. If his knowledge of the east and his patience suffice and he begins negotiations early enough In the day not to be driven forth as the merchant Bets up his shut shutters - ters shutters at nightfall he may obtain the ar article - ticle article he seeks at a just and equitable price. If he gains possession of it in less than the accustomed time he will certainly have paid more than its mar market - ket market vulud.

Jn Korea Males Are Looked Upon aa Children Until They Wed. The Koreans marry very young, gen generally - erally generally between the ages of twelve and fifteen. For a woman to reach twenty without marrying is considered a ter terrible - rible terrible thing. A peculiarity of these weddings is that they would appear to be a matter of interest to every one except the parties mostly concerned, who often see one another for the first time on the wedding morning. This is because in a Korean household the boys are kept apart from the girls, the father and the sons occupying the front of the house and the mother and daughters living in the rear of tbe es establishment. - tablishment. establishment. Moreover, In their social life the boys are not allowed to mix with the gentler sex.

A New Yorker was speaking of a London horse show he attended. "A feature of the show," he said, "was the magnificent riding of certain Arab chiefs. These chiefs gave a din ner one evening, an Arab dinner, and they ate the first course—kous kous with their fingers. "An Englishman asked for a fork for bis kous kous. When it was brought to him a young chief said: '1 beg your pardon, but I don't see how you can bear to eat with a fork.' "'I.' the Englishman replied, "was about to remark that 1 didn't see how you could bear to eat with your fingers.' 'But my fingers,' said the Arab, 'are clean—clean. 1 know It. I see to it myself. But you, sir, how can you feel sure about the cleanness of your fork?'"-—New York Tribune.