Popular Scioicc Monthly 



583 



Novel Application of the Service Flag 

 Idea on a Girl's Belt 



ONE of the latest applications 

 of the service flag idea was 

 displayed recently in public by 

 Miss Evelyn Grieg of New 

 York and attracted favor- 

 able attention. Upon 

 her broad patent leather 

 belt she displayed four 

 stars in token of the 

 patriotic devotion of 

 four members of her 

 immediate family wh 3 

 have joined up to help 

 make the world safe 

 for democracy. 



Orange Tree Made 

 Riverside Rich 



IN 1872, United 

 States Consul to 

 Bahia, Brazil, Mr. 

 W. F. Judson, was told by the natives 

 that some sixty miles inland, up the 

 Amazon, were native orange trees bearing 

 fruit without seeds. Accordingly he sent 

 natives after tree shoots and some of the 

 fruit. The shoots were packed in moss 

 and clay and sent to Washington. They 

 were set out by the Agricultural Depart- 

 ment, but attracted little attention until 



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Belt advertising 

 relatives one has 



the next year, when Horatio Tibbetts, of 



Riverside, California, took the surviving 



four shoots to his home and planted 



them. One died and another was 



eaten up by a cow. At the end of 



live years the two surviving trees 



bore sixteen handsome seedless 



oranges. Next year the 



oranges were even better, 



and the trees bore 



about a box of the 



fruit. 



From that time on 

 the cultivation of the 

 seedless oranges about 

 Riverside progressed 

 rapidly. As there 

 were no seeds to raise 

 the trees from, it was 

 found necessary to 

 graft buds of the seed- 

 less trees into seed- 

 ling trees. 



Riverside has grown 

 from a small village 

 to a town of fifteen thousand people, 

 and has twenty thousand acres devoted 

 to the cultivation of navel oranges. It is 

 the greatest orange producing locality in 

 the world. The two original trees were 

 fenced about and carefully guarded lest 

 harm should come to them, and they are 

 now enjoying a green old age. One of 

 them is shown herewith. 



the number of 

 in the services 



The grandfather of navel oranges. One 

 of the two original seedless orange trees 



Heavy .\rtillery Is the Correct Weapon 

 for Shooting Canaries 



DURING some recent mining opera- 

 tions beneath the German trenches, 

 some canaries were, as usual, taken into 

 the excavation to indicate the presence of 

 noxious gases. One of these little song- 

 sters escaped and flew to the middle of 

 "No Man's Land," where he perched on a 

 shrub and began to sing. Fearful that 

 the Germans would notice him and so 

 discover that mining operations were 

 going on, the British opened fire on him, 

 but he seemed to bear a charmed life. 

 The sharpshooters tried to "get" him, 

 and the rank and file took pot-shots at 

 him, but still the liquid notes flowed over 

 the landscape. Finally, in desperation, 

 he was fired on with trench guns and a 

 well-placed shell obliterated bird and 

 bush and song. 



