A wealthy resident did not fancy sending his children to the dilapidated shack serving the purpose, and donated this handsome structure as a means of overcoming the difficulty. GIVES COUNTY THE SCHOOL HIS CHILDREN ATTEND THE McDannold rural school, located two and one-half miles from Clarksville, Pike county, Missouri, was made possible through the generosity of E. C. Dameron, a wealthy farmer of Pike county, who desired his children to attend a country school, but did not consider the old dilapidated frame building that formerly served the district, good enough either for his children or the other children of the district. Dameron furnished the brick and the plans free to the county, while the county furnished the rest of the material and the labor. Dameron also furnished the trees and shrubbery to beautify the grounds, and his landscape gardener keeps them in trim. As a result, the community has as good a school as any its size. SUPPLIES HOUSEWIVES WITH WASH STICKS GEORGE PUTMAN, a retired artisan of Edwardsville, Illinois, has an unusual way of passing away his time. Twenty years ago, Putman, still a worker, began to make a wash stick for turning clothes in a boiler, and since then he has cut out and given away more than 5,000 of these sticks. The results of his work are given to friends and AUSTRIAN TRIBUTE TO THE DEAD IN THE PRESENT WAR This unique monument has been erected in Budapest in honor of fallen soldiers. seen walking along the street with half a dozen or more of the sticks. Should he chance to meet the head of a family, this man is offered one of the sticks. Several Edwardsville merchants give him all of the dry goods boxes he wishes to break up and carry away, and in this way he keeps his shop, where he spends many hours a day, well filled with a supply of seasoned lumber. The sticks are roughly sawed out and then cut down to the proper size with a draw knife, and then sandpapered. Of late Putman has taken advantage of the parcel post and sends a stick to anyone who is willing to pay the postage. STAYS UNDER WATER FOR AN HOUR MISS ISS EDNA SWEENEY was kept alive an hour and ten minutes under water by means of a lungmotor, in a demonstration held recently in New York City. The test was scientifically conducted under the directions of Dr. James M. Booker, formerly surgeon of the United States Bureau of Mines, where the lungmotor is extensively used in rescue work. A tank with a six foot glass front was used in order to give observers a chance to see the experiment, and as a precaution against any possible accident that would imperil Miss Sweeney. AN UNUSUAL AMUSEMENT He spends his spare time carving out wash sticks. STAYING UNDER WATER AN HOUR This woman swimmer remained immersed that length of time, in order to test a lungmotor. U DE LUXE By T.W. Ross SUALLY the made-to-order antique is not in favor, and the men who shoot buckshot holes into furniture and then sell the "worm-eaten" pieces as genuine, do not boast publicly of their prowess. But out in Colorado Springs, the faker of antiques has created something of which he is proud, and something which has attracted attention from archeologists the world over; for he has rebuilt, with detailed accuracy, exact duplicates of several cliff-dweller drawings, reproducing every crack, every water mark, and every dimension. Then they transported rock by means of burros, from the Mesa Verde to Colorado Springs, in order that everything might be duplicated exactly. As a result of this work, they have reproduced exactly the better preserved structures in the mesa, and the copies serve archeologists as well as the originals-better, perhaps, because the copies are carefully guarded against the souvenir-hunting vandalism which has all but ruined the original AN "ANTIQUE" SOCIETY RENDEZVOUS The replica of a pueblo known as the Hidden Inn, because it is tucked away between two large rocks, in the fashion shown by this model, has been the scene of many society functions. "cities" in one of the pretty little canyons in the neighborhood, and has added to that an exact copy of an Indian pueblo. It all came about because a group of capitalists in Colorado Springs, in casting about for additional attractions to be placed in the neighborhood, decided that duplicates of the comparatively inaccessible Mesa Verde ruins would prove attractive. They had the canyon, with the horizontal crack, and they had the money needed in order to prepare the copy-so that was all there was to it. That is, all, if we except the months spent by architects and engineers in studying the ancient ruins, and planning the copies. They made innumerable structures. The city of Colorado Springs has also entered the "faking" game. Recently an Indian pueblo, copied after the best designs in Mexico, has been completed in the Garden of the Gods. The pueblo is called the Hidden Inn, because it is placed between two large outcropping rocks which form the sides of the building. It is the only building in the Garden, and is used as a refreshment pavilion and a place for social functions. Smart society has found it attractive for Indian festivals, and dances, dinners and parties with the Indian idea predominating are given there. The original structures afford one of the most fascinating problems in archeology. They are to be reached only after a comparatively strenuous journey, for they are hidden in what might be called the depths of a mountain. The traveler leaves the railroad at a little station near the point where the States of Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah come together, mounts a certain stony trail, and sees before him. a curiously shaped ridge rising from the plain. Its top is flat and half a mile wide, while its end and sides descend sharply to the plain. When he comes closer, he will see that deep cuts or canyons run across this ridge, making huge cracks in the table land above. He cannot ascend these canyons; but there is a tortuous trail, and also now a wagon road, to the top. When the traveler arrives, by either route, on the beautiful little meadow forming the summit of the ridge, he can look down into the canyons, and see there this most curious sight-for tucked away in long horizontal cracks running along the sides of the canyons, are the ancient homes of the cliff dwellers. Apparently the race which inhabited these curious dwellings some fifteen hundred years ago was surrounded by ferocious enemies, because the dwellings in every case were placed as they were in order to facilitate defence. The first line held against the foe was the mesa itself; and probably it was comparatively easy to maintain against an enemy, because of its steep sides. It could hold out indefinitely, because there was plenty of water, and crops could be raised on the plateau. But even were the plateau lost, the cliff dwellers were not conquered. They could have retired down the narrow passages to their dwellings, and they would have been secure, because one man could hold each passage against an army of savages. The dwellings could THE "FAKED" ANTIQUES OF COLORADO SPRINGS The structures are close copies of the most interesting types of primitive American architecture, and have been erected |