(Kansas City Star)

    A KANSAS TOWN FEELS ITS OWN PULSE

Lawrence, Kas., was not ill.  Most of its citizens did not even think it was ailing, but there were some anxious souls who wondered if the rosy exterior were not the mockery of an internal fever.  They called in physicians, and after seven months spent in making their diagnosis, they have prescribed for Lawrence, and the town is alarmed to the point of taking their medicine.

That is the medical way of saying that Lawrence has just completed the most thorough municipal survey ever undertaken by a town of its size, and in so doing has found out that it is afflicted with a lot of ills that all cities are heir to.  Lawrence, however, with Kansas progressiveness, proposes to cure these ills.

Prof.  F.W.  Blackmar, head of the department of sociology at the University of Kansas, and incidentally a sort of city doctor, was the first “physician” consulted.  He called his assistant, Prof.  B.W.  Burgess, and Rev. William A. Powell in consultation, and about one hundred and fifty club women were taken into the case.  Then they got busy.  That was April 1.  This month they completed the examination, set up an exhibit to illustrate what they had to report, and read the prescription.

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    (Popular Science Monthly)

    BREAKING THE CHAIN THAT BINDS US TO EARTH

    BY CHARLES NEVERS HOLMES

Man is chained to this Earth, his planet home.  His chain is invisible, but the ball is always to be seen—­the Earth itself.  The chain itself is apparently without weight, while the chain’s ball weighs about 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons!

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    (Associated Sunday Magazine)

    IN TUNE WHEN OUT OF TUNE

    BY JOHN WARREN

    How many persons who own pianos and play them can explain why a
    piano cannot be said to be in tune unless it is actually out of
    tune?

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    (Railroad Man’s Magazine)

    MAKING STEEL RAILS

    BY CHARLES FREDERICK CARTER

To make steel rails, take 2 pounds of iron ore, 1 pound of coke, 1/2 pound of limestone, and 41/2 pounds of air for each pound of iron to be produced.  Mix and melt, cast in molds, and roll to shape while hot.  Serve cold.

    Rail-making certainly does seem to be easy when stated in its
    simplest terms; it also seems attractive from a business standpoint.

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    (Leslie’s Weekly)

    WHAT ELECTRICITY MEANS TO YOU

    ONE CENT’S WORTH OF ELECTRICITY AT TEN CENTS PER KILOWATT-HOUR WILL
    OPERATE: