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The Washington herald., 1914-02-01

each side of her face waiting for the
applause of those present.
Have you anything else?" / in
quired. hungrily.
"Oh, yes!' said Ollie. 81 have some
potato pudding for desert
When / got through swearing. Ollie
was under the stove, my wife was
under the table. the dog was under
the bed and / was under the influence
of liquor.
I'm cured.
After this my digestive tract will
have to fight a sirloin steak every time
| get hungry.
Besides, | don't want TO live as long
as Methuselah. II | did Id have to
learn to Tango some time in the goo
odd years to come-then I'd be just
the same as everybody else in the
world.
Can you get a flash of Methuselah
at the age of sixty-four taking Tango
lessons from Badly Sloane up at Wei
senfeffer's pedal pariors? And then
having to survive for COS years with
the dance bug in his dome!
Close the door, Della; there's a
draft.
When Peaches recovered from the
shock of my outburst over the potato
pudding she said the only way ] could
square myself was to take her TO the
ry-latest-to-to-datest hotel in New
York for dinner.
That is some task if you live up
town, believe me, because they open
new hotels in New York now the same
as they open oysterS-by the dozen.
However, after stuffiing my pockets
with all my earthly possessions. we
liked forth and steered for the Built
fast-the very latest thing in expensive
beaneries.
Directly We entered its polished
portals we could see from the faces of
the clerks and the clocks that lot of
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the waiter. as 1t a bull market for an
order like that?'
"Three dollars and forty-two cents,
answered Henri of Navarro. Forty
two cents for the order and three dol
lars to help pay for the French velvet
curtains in the golden suite on the sec
ond Hoor."
\ Keep on guessing, John; you'll wear
him out" Peaches whispered.
Possibly a little cold lamb with a
suggestion of potato salad on the side
might satisfy u.s. l said. Make me an
estimate"
-Four dollars and eighteen cents. y
replied Patsey Boulanger. Eighteen
cents for the lamb and salad and the
four dollars for the Looey the Fifteenth
draperies in the drawing-room."
ASK him if there's a bargain coun-
ter anywhere in the dining-room,'
whispered Peaches.
MY DEAR" | said to friend wife,
I'VE have already displaced about sixty
dollars worth of space in this dyspep-
STA emporium, and we must, therefore,
behave like gentlemen and order some
thing, no matter what the cost. What
are the savings of lifetime compared
with our honor"
The waiter bowed so low that his
shoulder blades cracked like a whip.
Bring u.s. / said. a plain omelet
and one dish of prunes."
I waited till Peter Giroha translated
this into French and then ! added
"And on the side, please, two glasses
of water and three toothpicks. Have
the prunes fricassed, wash the water
on both corners and bring the tooth
picks rare
The waiter rushed away and all
The Washington herald., 1914-02-01
REVEALED AS EX-SHAH.
Person I'm Berlin, Under an Alias,
Proves Former Ruler.

Berlin, Jan. 3l.-Mohammed Ali. The
ex-Shah of Persia. has been living quiet
IL in Berlin for the last nine months
under the name of kazan Mach NudroSs.
posing as a merchant.
Last spring a Persian. accompanied by
his wife, two children. a small retinue
of servants. and a number of other
Persians. came from Odessa and leased
II private dwelling in Meirotto street.
The stranger who passed himself OFF as
a Persian merchant in bad health went
under treatment by DR. Cohn and Pro-
fessor Klemperer, two specialists.
A short time ago he requested his
physicians to address him as Your
Majesty and according to the Berlin
Gazette. il developed that the alleged
merchant is the ex-Shah.
II Is said that several days ago a
number of representatives of the Per-
sian Ministry arrived and held lengthy
conferences with the eN-Shah, who re-
Gently returned from a visit to Vienna
At present he is much concerned over
the illness of his thirteen-year-old dauGh-
ter. His seven-year-old son Is Just re-
covering from an operation for appendi-
citis.
Mohammed Ali was deposed and ex-
PEELED from Persia in 1903 and allowed
to settle i'm Odessa. a pension being paid
him by the Persian government In 1911
he returned to Persia and attempted to
regain his = throne. but was defeated.
Since then he has been living In Europe.
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money changed hands before the Built
fast finally became an assessment CEN
ter.
In the lobby the furniture was COW
cred with men about town, who sat
around with a checkbook in each hand
and made faces at the cash register.
There are more bellboys than bed
rooms in-the hotel. They Use them for
change. Every time you give the
cashier SIS he hands you hack Sr.5o
and six bellboys. -
We took a peep at the diamond
backed dining-room. and when saw
the walters refusing everything but
certified checks in the way of a tip,
/ said to Peaches, This IS no place for
usr' But she wouldn't let go. and we
filed in 10 the appetite kAlery.
A very polite lieutenant-waiter. wit.
sergeant-waiter and two corporal
walters, greeted us and we gave the
countersign, Abandon wealth, all We
who enter here"
Then the lieutenant-waiter and his
army corps dcployed by columns of
fours and escorted us to the most ex-
pensivc looking trough / ever saw in
a dining-room.
Peaches" / said to friend wife.
I'm doing this to please you. but after
| pay the check, its me to file a petit
ton i'll bankruptcy
She just grinned. picked up the
point-lace napkin and began to admire
the onyx furniture.
"OHc souhditc- vOHS'' said the
waiter. bowling so low that could feel
chill running through my little bank
account.
Il guess he means YOU" whispered
TO Peaches, but she looked very
solcmnly at the menu card and began
TO bite her lips
'Ic Smis toni GofTc Scrsicc,' the
waiter crosscountered before | could
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(COpyrght. lsli.)

IOpynshts Isli1
1T certainly is exciting to get Bridge
pad for a present when you know moth
ing about Bridge and care less, lament
ed Bess watrous. handling the brown
leather score pad she had received by
parcel post.
Her brother laughed. Yes. Sis, YOU
don't know a Grand Slam from load
OF hay nor 'Chicane Counts from little
fishes
Il admit it-what them" asked Bess,
throwing down the book
You should keep your friends in
formed" teased her brother, picking up
the pad and examining it. lie shifted
And il smells of camphor balls worse
vet, Some one must have given " To
Mary last Christmas and she's palmins
il off on you this year. That's one way
- do with unwelcomc gifts. I must say
Ralph Watrous laughed mirthtuiy. III
nice little pencil. any way-wlth an
ivory tip, Sis. See"
II do see-but you may have II. TIP
and ALL I'd much rather have laundry
list, though goodness knows that's about
the most useless thing in the world.
Sort o peevish, aren't you? Cheer
up. Sis
I'm not the least bit peevish. though
Il -
half "A notion to sit down and write Mary
a straightforward letter telling her that
she in a chump! ] certainly can't con-
scientiously say Thank you for the love-
" present, &c for then | would he as
big a chump as she. We're good enough
friends to be frank.
IAN right-you know Mary Ayres bet
ter than I do
And, believing that she did know her
friend Mary sufficiently well to repri-
mand her for her carelessness-for 1t was
not the first time she had displayed u IN
gift giving-Bess watrous wrote letter.
Also. she returned the Bridge score pad,
since, as she explained, she had no earth
ly use for 1t.
Some weeks later a reply came. The
letter was accepted in the spirit In which
II was sent, with perhaps n triffe more
Of humor injected into the situation than
Bess had implied in hers.
your letter amused me SO much that
read II aloud to Jim and his friend Tom
Cassidy. who is spending the winter with
us on the ranch. Tom was SO much
tickled with the frankness or the writer
that he insisted on knowing all about you.
I have told him all know. but he seems
Unsuitable and keeps bothering me to ask
YOU down here while he is with us. Can
YOU come? OF course you can't at this
busy season, bury yourself on Texas
ranch. but-at least I've asked you.
This, in part, was Mary's letter, and
Bess was not pleased. at first, at the idea
of having had her letter read for the
amusement of two men-Jim Ayres and
this Tom Cassidy.
And vet" she said to her brother that
night. 81 really would enjoy the novelty
Of a ranch in winter. Mary Is only half
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Waiting for Patty

And look, Taps. don't worry about
Evelyn. That's horrid of her to say she
knows too much about what naval o.
fcers' wives have to endure. It's mean
of her. too. to get you to try to leave
the service, even il you have got coolies
ard coolies of money. Don't you nina
her, Taps. / tell you, you wait for me.
I'll grow very, very fast-just as fast
SIS l possibly can. and / won't ask you to
leave the service. I'd be proud of you
especially in full dress uniforms. You do
look awfully distinguished in those, Taps.
You wait for me-
"All right" said he. You hurry up and
grow fast
II WILL" she declared. "You wait till
you come back from Manila. I'll surprise
you. And won't think Of anybody but
you. and how good you look in your
uniform. Write to me-to me all by my
self and not put the letters in with
Evelyn's. Good-by, Taps, dear"
He stopped. She lifted her pretty, child
| ish face and kissed him resoundingly, not
once, but over and over.
Then he went on down the path. the
incident forgotten. He was scowling
again and his heart was sore within him.
Evelyn Rowland. had. indeed, intimated
this last afternoon that II he would
leave the service she would marry him.
But that was the one thing Taps Scud-
der could not do. The service was as
the breath of life to him.
why. hang it." he told himself as he
went along, its the only thing l can
do well, and a chap has got to do some
thing worth while, even IL his aunts and
uncles and grandmothers do keep eter-
naIly dying and leaving him more and
more money"
The next day he sailed on the Comor-
ant. And 1t was a very depressed Taps
Scudder that cruised about the Philip
pines.
He wrote Evelyn often-it seemed to
be his only solace, that and waiting i'm
patiently for the letters from her. They
were all of the same general trend. Why
did he stay In the service. especially when
he had plenty of money? He couldn't
really care very much for her IL he
wouldn't leave the service for her sake
Taps read those letters and hit his Inns
and paced the hot deck, and groaned in
wardly and fought stubbornly against a
temptation that was growing stronger
And Taps, being a man of very slow
mental processes, six years went past in
this way.
Then he was ordered home, and the
waters did not foam and hiss half loud
ly enough beneath the homeward point
ing prov to suit him
Evelyn was still heart-free. IL he could
believe her letters. and in a few weeks
new he would see her. Yes: he'd see her
for the rest of his life: his mind was made
up. Despite all the pangs IL cost him, he
would leave the service. Between that
and Evelyn. he had come to the final de-
cision; there was no longer any ques-
tion. Six weary years had done their
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By T. Blair Eaton

work. He couldn't get back to her fast
enough now. He might send her his de-
cision by wireless. Then he thought he
would rather give il to her personally
During his absence Rear Admiral How
land had reached the age limit and been
retired. He now lived in an imposing
house in an exclusive suburb near the
navy yard. commanding which had been
his last active duty. Mrs. Rowland had
money of her own. Rest assured such
a place never came out of a rear admir-
ais pay.
No sonner was he landed than Taps
Scudder headed thither. II was a spIen-
did place, with spacious grounds and a
long, low rambling house set among Lom-
hardy poplars.
Taps stood at the wide gates admiriu-
it. The carriage which had brought hi,n
thither was rattling backtoward the
little suburban station.
Well, he'd go up and tell Evelyn his
decision med take her in his arms and
tell her that all the powers in the world
counted for naugft against her. He
started up the drive.
motor car came whirring into the
driveway. A horn honked its strident
warning. He turned about. There was
cry from the car; instantly 1t stopped.
flushing vision before him. and then two
soft hands were on his shoulders and
some one was saying:
"Oh. Taps, Taps, dear. I'm so glad
to see you-so. SO gladi'
He looked at her dazedly. He could
not realize the change in her that six
years had wrought. Could this be the
little spindle-shanked girl he had left
behind the syringa bush at the navy
yard? He muttered in bewildered
fashion:
Patty! For goodness sake-Patty,"
you've grown handsome, Taps" she
declared. why you're awfuIly dis
tinguished looking-not SO boyish as you
were. Aren't you glad you stayed in the
service?"
"You bet am, IL get my reward for
it," said he with sudden remembrance
of syringa bush in the old navy yard.
what was that said she
do / have to ask your said he
She flushed.
mo. Frankly. you DON'T" she de-
clared. I've remembered it every day
and every hour since you left. But
didn't suppose you had"
He spied syringa bush In full bloom
on the lawn. He began to laugh softly.
Come over here" he said. leading the
She followed him. a question in her
eyes.
You gave me my good-by kisses be-
hind the syringa bush in the old navy
yard" said he. You'd better give me
my welcome home kisses behind another
syringa BUSH
She flushed beautifully. But she stepped
closer to him and lifted her face to his.
You've kept one PROMISE" said he.
The Washington herald., 1914-02-01

Ollie. The members of this house
hold are vegctarians for the time being.
All of us are vegetarians, including the
dog, so please govern yourself accord
ingly.'
Ollie smiled in a broad Hungarian
manner and whispered that vege-
tarianisms was where she lived.
She, confded to us that she could
cook vegetables so artistically that the
palate would believe them to be flct
Mignon with champagne sauce.
Then she shook the rolling pin at a
picture of friend wife's grandfather,
and started in to fool the Beef Trust
who put all the butchers out of BUSH
ness.
Dinner time came and we were all
expectancy.
The first course was potato soup.
Filling but not fascinating.
The second course was potato chips,
which we nibbled slightly while We
looked eagerly at the buffers pantry.
The next course was French fried
potatoes with some shoestring potatoes
on the side, and l began to get nerv-
GUS.
This was followed by dish of Ger
man fried potatoes, some hash-brown-
ed potatoes and some potato sontc,
wi,ereupon my appetite got up and left
the room
The next course was plain boiled
potatoes with the jackets on and baked
potatoes with the jackets open at the
throat and then some roasted potatoes
with Bolero jackets.
| was beginning TO see tina: a man
must have in his veins the blood of
martyrs and of heroes to be a vege-
tartan and at the same time | could
feel myself fixing my fingers to choke
Ollie.
The next course was large plate of
potato salad, and then | tainted.
When | got back. Ollie was standing
near the table with sweet smile on
The Washington herald., 1914-02-01
He Attempts the Vegetarian
Diet with Friend Wie's
Consent and the Duchiss
Of Dishwater's Disdainful
Assistance Now It's SIR
loin Steak for His.
BY GEORGE v. HOBART.
Copyright. lslIl


+ WAS complaining to some of my
i friends in the Club the other even
ing because germ Gen. Villa was
storming the outposts of my digestive
tract when Nut in the party began to
slip me line of talk about vegetable
diet.
/ didn't fall for il until he proved
to me that Kid Methuselah had pro-
longed an otherwise uneventful life and
was enabled to make funny faces at
the undertakes until he reached the
age of six sixty-nine simply because he
ate nothing but dandelion salad, mashed
potatoes and stewed prunes.
Then / went home and told friend
wife about it. She approved eagerly
because she felt that it might solve
the servant problem.
Since we started housekeeping about
eight months ago we've averaged two
cooks a week. Tuesdays ard Fridays
are our days for changing chefs. The
old cook leaves Monday evening and
the new cook arrives Tuesday morn
ing. Then the new cook leaves on
Thursday evening and the newest cook
arrives on Friday, and so on, world
without end.
Friend wife decided she could dip
a few parsnips in boiling water with
out the aid of a European kitchen
mechanician.
Vegetariansl What a great ideal
Now she could get out into the sun
light once in a while instead of stand
ing forever at the hall door as a per-
petual reception committee to frowsy-
headed Slovenian exiles demanding SIS
per and nix on the washing.
But it was Friday and Our latest
cook was at that moment annoying the
gas range in the kitchen, so why not
experiment and find out what meht
there is in a vegetarian menu.
The ayes have it-send for the
Duchess of Wishwater
Enter the Duchess, so proud and
naughty. with rolling pin in one hand
and a guide to the City of New York
in the other. During her idle moments
she studied the Guide Even now, and
only three weeks from Ellis Island.
she knew the city so well that she could
60 from one situation to another with
her eyes closed.
Ollie" said friend wife, do you
know how to cook vegetables in an
appetizing manner?"
"Of course" answered Ollie. her lips
curling disdainfully.
Then l Clipped i'll with: Very well,
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You've grown awfully fast-just as fast
as you could. / imagine"
q always keep all my promises" said
she.
He bent his head to hers.
There should be just as many or more
when l come back there were when
l went away" he argued presently.
She merely smiled and lifted her face
again.
And you haven't changed a hit about
your ideas of the service?" he asked at
last.
why should I when you look so per-
fectly splendid in a uniform, Taps she
asked.
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Copyright, leli.l

Copyright, leli.)
Taps, his intimates called him-Taps
Scudder. He was big, more than pass
ably good looking. had a splendid in
come quite outside his pay, and was a
lieutenant. Junior grade. in the navy.
Orders had come detaching him from
duty at the yard and instructing him
to join the Comorant for sea duty.
He stood on the steps of the admirars
house-the admiral was commandant Of
the navy yard-a scowl on his face and a
heart within him like several tons Of
lead. Evelyn Rowland. the Admirars
daughter, had just refused him again.
and tomorrow he would be at sea for he
knew not how many years. The Comor-
ant was headed for the Philippines.
Still scowling, he began to walk down
the path. syringa bush on the little
lawn was in full bloom. Rear Admiral
Rowland was very fond of shrubs.
Behind the syringa bush sounded a
childish voice singing a popular song.
1t ceased as he moved down the path.
and Patty Rowland. with all the i'm
pulsiveness of a dozen years coupled
with very strong likes and dislikes, sped
from behind the bush and threw herself
into Taps Scudder's arms.
'oh, Taps" she cried, ARE you really
going away tomorrow
Tonight, Patty said he, smiling
down at her. I'VE sail tomorrow"
And you've just been up to see
Evelyn"
He nodded.
She looked at him with amazing
shrewdness for a child OF her years. In
some things PATTI was distressingly pre-
cocious.
And she turned you down again?"
That's not nice way OF putting it,"
he chided mildly.
well, did she?" she persisted. You
needn't answer, Taps 1 see IL in that
scowl Of yours. And you look hurt and
angry, too. Did she say she'd marry you
II you'd leave the service?"
He smiled rather wanly.
You're not going to-"
I'm sailing tomorrow on the Comor-
ant" said he.
well. don't you leave the service,
Tsps-not for Evelyn nor anybody else."
she said
''Why?'' he asked.
''Oh, well. for one thing just because,
and for another because you are SO
awfully. awfully handsome in a uni
form"
That last is the best reason, Patty"
he laughed. Just for that won't leave
the service"
Wen, don't Promise me you won't"
Il promise"
The Washington herald., 1914-02-01

London, Jan. 3l.-All London is In
terested in the suit that is now being
prosecuted against the Baroness de
Chicago, for the recovery Of $4,000.
DR.. Ernest villiers Appleby, formerly
a professor of chemistry at the Uni
versity of Minnesota. Is the plaintiff.
and he alleges he had given a Paris
jeweler notes for a string of pearls for
the baroness, and that she had prom
ised to Indemnity him. DR.. Appleby
admitted on the stand that he and the
baroness had been frequent visitors at
Monte Carlo, and that these visits
netted him more than $4,000 in one
year. The couple first met several
years ago, when they were passengers
New York. The chance acquaintance
resulted in the two travelling half way
around the world together.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1917, 1914-07-14
, NOTICE DEMOCRATS.

On judy 2Sth, 1914 the club rolls
VIII close. After that date no narnt
shall be enrolled. iAli democrats
are urged to Gntoll ut their nearest
club without delay. II any iduaIiiied
voter fails to earol! NE can bisnie
only himself. Write yoiir fulIs name
ON the sclcb ryli and do sc now. Ali
cIubS except Cox mill. Grove school
and SlabtoWn have sent IA the names
OF their enrolirnpnt COMMITTEES !. These
clubs are urged to scnd thorn In with.
put deiay. ~ y s.
s. &; The 9: s:s ttsss a:if a::aibs
win sSend ID the club rolls between
the 2Sth of July and August 1st. and
the 2 executive cop,u.ittcennen from,
;ench club "a reqnest<d TO Hee > thSt
this ri1le Is compiled with. 3 ID
= The lime, for filing pledges and pay
ing assessment OF cnnid dates I e4pires
on august III. at IL o'clock af.afp;
The pledge ia TO be- FLED with tina
.secretary and the aasesansrt paid ID
him. Sstss
\ u {; - Lecn Z. Rice. 81
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IS isinty Char man.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-05-02

ornaments adorn their persons. What
interested us most was the way they
slit their ears, inserting a piece of
wood, ring or horn, or other article.
In cases where there were no orna-
ments in the ears this long ring of
flesh would be hung over the top of
the ear
The King of Uganda
While on the lake trip side ex-
cursion was taken from Port Bell to
Kampala in a motor dray, a distance
Of six miles. This place is the resi-
dence. Of the King of Uganda and his
semi-savage court. Miss Doering
says: THE present king is a boy in
his teens, and possesses little power.
He is carefully looked after by the
authorities and is a baptized Chris
tan. He has an English tutor The
king speaks English we'll and is an
enthusiastic golfist. His father, the
blood thirsty Mwanga, was lifelong
enemy to progress and white rule and
finally cut short his own career by
joining the Sudanese rebellion in
1897"
Miss Doering spent ten months on
her African trip. In South Africa
she visited relatives. She went to
the dark continent" unaccompanied,
by way Of England and the west coast,
and returned by the east coast route
making several side trips including
an excursion up the Nile in Egypt