HE DID NOT FORGET.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 30 October 1914, Page 2

HE DID NOT FORGET.

('no of the best stories told about Mr. Verkes, tiio American mills jnaire, is that which relates how lie never forgot an obligation. Tt seems that when Mr. Yerkes rose to the veili lli of his pouiT and heigiit of liis wealth, one of the first things in.' did was to pay a secret visit to l':--ii-irl"].;i!iui, the chy wherein ire ioiir,!y lie hu\ in-t with financial disaster. Thereupon he invited .-11 his ...H cr.dilors t<> a magnificent dinner at the Uading- hotel, when (lie re; ast was over, lie presented to each guest a cheque for ('■e iiiniiMil of the original claim, wall six per cent, compound interest ! At a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences the other day. M. Ma rage described a method by which <>>o can make one's diaphragm write its own record. The diaphragm is the muscular partition that separates the chest from the stomach organs, M. IMnrage had noticed that when a man holds his arm close against his side, with the forearm horizontally across the body, the elbow rests just below the ribs at the very point beneath whivh is the.diaphragm. Among persons who use their diaphragm in breathing—of whom there are more men than women by reason of constriction by corsets —its movements are communicated to the elbow ; the forearm acts as a lever, and if a pencil behold in the hand tin's will write a record of the rising and the falling of the diaphragm in breathing. This record will be on a scale of about lifty tinu-s actuality. An energetic woman in New.Jersey ii'y for more than fifty years con :ucted <!t mutton-pie bakery in a I) i.seiiiesit a-.nrt in-lit, the front room of wliic.h.iwas used as a shop. VVii; 11 she began she had the help of l-er two lit tie . girls. ,-Vftei they grew m< and were married, a stout hi'l; er presided over the big bake <>\<n in the immaculate, kitchen, for the l'iiiiie of the woman's pies had si'ie.id. She no longer confined her ' lent: to unit !on pits, but invented :i * '-a ' i ■!£■; on cream pie which is now included in every standard •' ■' <ry : .io\. And after lifts- years i-'i • ie-inai-inn- she h-ft a fortune of rr,.i;ii(i i,, | XV t u -o daughters. She sini. 1\- usi'd die talent ;-.lu J had. ! n !er ordinaT'\' circumstances her lies w.i:dd ha\e delighted only her li'.inilw When the ne-essity arose si c fou :d she could i urn the homely talent- to g- kx! aiviniil. ilaic. \\or... 7 Yes, of coii..se. Tue world doi-.s not give ii-s moihy fur nothing.