. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . oking for what he called, and if the twirler throws something else,the backstop might easily be is the first time in my long careerthat the color of a catchers hand playedsuch an important part in baseballgames. Every fan knows that the faceof a backstops glove becomes a darkbrown, and when, in addition, thecatchers hand is tanned to an unusualdegree, it is some job for the pitcher totell the difference between one and twofingers.—Ed. A. Goewey, in Leslies. THE RED SIGNAL Dr. W. H. Tolman, author of the re-cently published work, Safety, su
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . oking for what he called, and if the twirler throws something else,the backstop might easily be is the first time in my long careerthat the color of a catchers hand playedsuch an important part in baseballgames. Every fan knows that the faceof a backstops glove becomes a darkbrown, and when, in addition, thecatchers hand is tanned to an unusualdegree, it is some job for the pitcher totell the difference between one and twofingers.—Ed. A. Goewey, in Leslies. THE RED SIGNAL Dr. W. H. Tolman, author of the re-cently published work, Safety, sug-gests the necessity of adopting some uni-versal danger signal which all may com-prehend. Foreign-born workmen, for in-stance, he points out, who do not under-stand English must be warned by some unmistakable sign. In his trips abroadDr. Tolman found that it is customary inmost continental workshops to paint alldangerous portions of machinery red,thus arresting the attention of the mostcareless worker. —From Harpers Literary ADJUSTING COUPLER KNUCKLE WITH HAND WHILE CARS ARE COMING TOGETHER DONT DO IT. (See Rule 904.) A little girl friend of mine once gave aparty to some of the children in her neigh-borhood. Among those who were invitei Iand came were two boys, Daniel andHarold, aged twelve and nine respec-tively. They were unusually well-be-haved youngsters, and when five-thirtycame (the invitations read from three tofive-thirty) they paid their respects totheir hostess, and although cordially in-vited to stay longer with the others,promptly went home. Scarcely ten minutes later, when onlya few of the other children had left, theycame running back into the yard in whichthe party had been held, and when askedby one of the older folks why they had re-turned, responded Oh, weve just comeback now to play the way we always do. At the corner of Madison Avenue andThirty-eighth Street, New York, there isa beautiful brown stone residence. Itfaces on Madison Avenue, and in
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