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Evening Star, Issue 17793, 15 October 1921, Page 10

JVIr ]i. 0. Hope, who has returned to England from a. visit to the United States, asserts that the racial mixture in the United States is slowly approximating, as regards facial characteristics, to the Red Indian. In America, ho says, the Indian touch is shown dearly in men’s faces; whereas national characteristics in almost every other country are more definitely expressed in the faces of women. It is usually in the fourth or fifth generation that "the facial formation assumes the Indian characteristics. The most accurate method of counting coins is that in which counting boards are used, a plan that has been followed in the East for hundreds of years. Tho counting board is a flat tray with several hundred depressions arranged in regular order, and these are of such a-size that one coin will fit into each depression. Handfuls of coins are thrown on the board, and shaken about until every hole has a coin in it. The coins in excess are removed, and as the number of holes on tho board is known tho number of coins will also bo known. Experts can thus count a very large quantity of money in a very short time. Lily : “ I wonder why the poet asked his love to drink to him only with her eyes?” Charlie : “ 1 suppose ho saw them brimming,.over,”.