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The Washington times., 1916-01-14

up to $25

We can simply say that we're perfectly willing to
refund your money you wish to return of these
Suits or Overcoats after you've purchased and
ined at your home if alterations had been made
The Washington times., 1916-01-14

NEW 1Ohk, Jan. lf--N.ti. iil'v'a''O
- -l -----'i .'..A statement Last nisht
Pay, attacr-
Mexican policy
issatre OF sew
IN chihuahua.
States has a
ication for in
ru It rhe had for
also accused
politics in his
Germany and
rsnC issue
What is ned in Mexico" says the
statement, lis n kind of police work
that should be cone by our regular
army, for It Is not the work for Volun
teers. And the man to hacdle the lob
OF cleaning up MeAicC is Gen. Leonard
Wood. the man who did a slulilsr job
in Cuba in such fine shape
Colonel Roosevelts statement fol-
lows:
This dreadful outrage is merely an
Inevitable outcome of the policies that
have been followed in Mexico for the
last five years and above all the last
three years. The policy OF watchful
waiting, the policy of not interfering
with blood splitting the policy of ask
publtcs to take from us the response
bility that we were too timld to take
has borne it's legitimate fruits.
''In the past the Carranzstas, whom
President Wilsno has recognized as
forming the government of Mexico,
have done to our people Just exactly
such things as these Nilliasts have
done.
at Is but year since President VIII
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New Clothing Arrives Daily

We're offering the balance of stock
have and picked barganmost daily
shed with brand received manufacturers
who under furnish number each month
We guarantee high qualities always
simply ndiculously low for such values.
Among
has individuality than other shown this
found only this shop There also the doublebed long,
models, desirable
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THE WEATHER REPORT.

The forecast for the District of Column
bia-Fair and colder tonight; lowest
temperature about 10 degrees; Saturday
fair and continued cold; gentle to mod
crate northwest winds.
Maryland-Fair and colder tonight
Saturday fair and continued cold: mod
crate northwest winds.
TirRinia-Fair and colder tonight;
Saturday fair; moderate northwest
Winds
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AVENGE MURDERS,
I. R. TELLS WILSON
Mexican 0utrageS Inevitable
Result Of Presidents Poll
CieS, Colonel Declares.

NEW YORK. Jan. 1I.-Ccl. Theodore
- ------'I i,'-'..i otatrment Last nicht
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so that 1t can be controlled by him, a
are the other parks and reservations.
Would Extend Car Lines.


The extension of the Capital Traction
Company's line from its present ter
minus on 14th street to Military road
and thence through Rock Creek Park
in order to secure entrance to the
park is favored in the recommenda-
tions. A station house for the police
department at Brightwood is again
urged this year. The association urges
the Commissioners to recommend to
Congress that the Botanic Garden be
removed from its present location to
Rock Creek Park.
The association expresses qualification
over the failure of the effort to locate
the Municipal Hospital at 14th and Up
shur streets: the appropriation of
$4,000 for the further improvement OF
18th street, $4,000 for New Hampshire
avenue and $1,000 for Madison street.
and also securing from Congress of the
continuation of the half-and-half plan.
The report is signed by Louis P.
Shoemaker. president of the associa-
tion, and the following members of the
executive committee: Charles w. Ray.
chairman: George Francis Williams,
John A. Saul. William Ramsay, James
Holmes. William W. Mathewson, Will
ton J. Lambert. Jacob Xander, DR..
Lewis J. Battle, Charles w. Russell,
Thomas Blagden, Jesse Ergood. John
C. Proctor. Emile Berliner. Daniel OC.
Callaghan, c. C. Lancaster, A. w. Fos-
ter. Albert S. Galley and Lieut.. George
B. Maher.
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Helena Charms in Lucia"

Edith Helena scored a pronounced
success with her beautiful rendition of
the title role in Lucia di Lammer-
moor" the Aborn grand opera offer
ing at the New National Theater last
evening Her voice is unusually we'll
adapted to the part and the applause
testified that she has lost none of her
power to win an audience. Giuseppe
Agostino, as the Earl of Ravenswood.
and Milo Picco. as Ashley. also shared
in the honors of the evening, while the
famous sextet was as always distin-
guished feature of the opera.
Tonight Puccini's La Boheme" will
be sung.
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CROSSING FRONTIER
IS ACT OF INVASION
So Regarded by the 0jinaga
Commander, Who Complains
of Trespasses.
TROOPS TWICE IN CLASH
WITH AMERICAN SOLDIERS
Col. Riojas Reports Fault Is Ad
mittedly With Men Who Pene-
trated Into Mexico.

Ell PASO. Tex, September '2S.-That
the crossing of the Mexican frontier by
armed American soldiers isl still re-
garded as an act of invasion to be re-
PEELED by armed force is revealed in
message received today by Consul An
dres Garcia from Col. Jose Riojas. chief
of arms at Ojinaga, relative to the
trespass committed in the Big Bend
district. September 10 and II. For this
act Gen. Funston has since ordered a
court rt-martial of the offenders.
: After satisfying himself previously
that American soldiers had been into
Mexico. Col. Riojas said he. ordered
Mai Jesus Gallegos, commanding the
San Antonio district. to keep strict
watch and send back any patrol cross
ing the line. On September 10 the Car
rama soldiers who went to order back
a party of twelve Americans exchanged
shots with them.
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WILL OF MRS. WILSON.
Daughters Get Jewelry and Sons Are
Left Cash.

The will of Mrs. Nathaniel Wilson
has been filed for probate in the Su-
preme Court of the District of Colum-
bia. Gifts of jewelry are made to her
three daughters and cash bequests of
$1,000 to her two sons, daughter-in-
laY and maid, and $500 is left to the
vestry of Epiphany Church
Nathaniel Wilson. husband of the de-
ceased, is made residuary legatee and
appointed executor. The sons are
Clarence R. and Nathaniel Theodore
Wilson. The daughters are Eleanor
s., Alice L. and Anne Genevieve Will
son. The daughter-in-law is Mrs. Ed
win A. Wilson.
Mrs Wilson died September 5.
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WINTER OF WARFARE
EXPECTED BY FRENCH

tPARIS, September est does not
seem probable that another winter cam
paign is avoidable, says La Liberte. Jo-
seph Thierry, under-secretary of state
for subsistence in the war department.
the newspaper adds, has made all nee
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CARDS OF THANKS.

MAHONEY. We desire to express our
sincere thanks to our relatives and
friends for their sympathy and beau
tiful fioral tributes extended on the
death of our husband and father, Ed
WARD r. MAHONEY.
BY THE FAMILY.
RAGAN. 1 wish to express my sincere
thanks to my friends and relatives for
their sympathy and beautiful floral
tributes extended on the death of my
beloved husband. EDWARD RAGAN.
MARGARET RAGAN.
SCHLERF. We express appreciation to
friends and neighbors for Kindness
extended during the illness of our
father. and for sympathy and beauti-
full floral tributes given at his death.
HIS DAUGHTERS AND SONS.
WYSONG. We desire to express our
sincere appreciation to our relatives.
friends and good neighbors for the
kindness shown my wife and our
mother during her illness. the sym
pathy extended and the most beauti-
full floral tributes given on the occa-
sion of her death.
BY HER HUSBAND AND CHILDREN.
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essary arrangements for supplying the
troops, and garments, blankets and
other essentials for winter warfare
have been going to the front at the
rate of eighty carloads day since Sep
tember Is.
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MARRIED.


MULHALI-GREENE At the Cathe
dral, Baltimore, Wednesday. Septem-
Der q, 1916. by Rev. Louis o. Dava-
nan, JOHN T. MULHALL and COLLIDE
D. c.
On Wednesday.
September 81, 1916. at Zion Episcopal
rectory. at Fairfax Court House. Va.
Miss LIETTIE KATHERINE SWEE-
NY, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. a.
Sweeny. and JAMES F. GATES of
Seat Pleasant Md.
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Second Clash With Americans.

The message continues:
"The 21st. another group of nine
Americans passed above San Antonio.
Five of our men were sent to tell
them the order issued AS before, the
Americans opened fire, which was an
swered. An American horse was killed
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and pools of blood were found which
showed that some of the invaders had
been wounded. This clash took place
four leagues from the river, demon
strating that the main authors of the
trouble were the Americans and not my
troops
Col. Riojas said that the American
commander at Preside, Tex, was con-
vinced that his own men were at fault
and had offered to make satisfactory
amends.
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Death IS ANNOUNCED
| Of ADMIRAL VREELAND
Retired Naval Officer Succumbs to
an Attack of Heart
Disease.

Rear Admiral Charles Edward Vree-
land, U. S. N. retired, died at a hotel
in Atlantic City yesterday from heart
disease. He had been i'll for some time
and went to the seashore about a
month ago in search of health. The
body was brought to this city today and
will be buried tomorrow in the Airing
ton National cemetery with full mill
tary honors. Funeral services will be
held at the Church of the Covenant to-
morrow afternoon at o'clock
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| More cases Of infantile paralysis are
reported In Baltimore and MARYLAND
than at any time since the plague start
| ed, and there was one death from 1t in
| that city.
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BORN

WILLIAMS. On Tuesday, September 26
1915. at Providence Hospital. to
Charles T., jr.. and Gertrude J. viii.
liams, daughter. MARGARET JEAN
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It pays to read the want columns of
The Star. Hundreds Of situations are
filled through them.
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Norwegian Steamer Sunk.

LONDON, September 2S.-The Nor
wegian steamer Haila has been sunk. The
crew was landed.
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Rose From the Ranks.

Admiral vreeland had the distinction
at the time of his retirement. in March,
1914, of being one Of two men in the
navy to have risen from the enlisted
ranks to rear admiral. The only other
officer to share such honors is Rear
Admiral William H. H. Southerland, re-
tired.
Rear Admiral vreeland was appointed
to Annapolis July 81. 1856, while one of
the crew of the Sabine. He was grad
uated from the Naval Academy in 1870
and commissioned ensign July IS, 1871
While in the grade of captain he was
appointed chief intelligence officer in
Washington. AS rear admiral he
commanded the fourth division, making
the Virginia his flagship.
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IMPROVEMENTS SOUGHT
IN BR|GHTNOOD SECTION
Citizens Association Submits te
District Commissioners Wants
for Estimates.

recommendations for appropriations
for public improvements in the Bright
wood section by the executive commit
tee of the Brightwood Citizens Asso-
citation have been submitted to the Dis
trict Commissioners to be included in
their annual estimates to Congress for
expenses of the District for the fiscal
year 1877.
The association requests the extern
sion of the sewer from 18th street and
Military road north along 18th street
to the high ground at Fort Stevens;
also that sewer be laid on Quackenbos
Georgia avenue.
The opening, grading and regulating
for travel of 18th street from Spring
road northward to Colorado avenue as
soon as possible after the condemna- :
tion proceedings have been concluded
is also recommended. Other similar
street improvements are asked for by
Farragut street from 18th street to
Georgia avenue; Arkansas avenue from
Emerson street to Farragut street;
Quackenbos street from Georgia ave-
nue. to the east side of 9Th street; 9Th
street from Rittenhouse to the south
side of Quackenbos street; Buchanan
street from Georgia avenue to 18th
street and the opening of Colorado
avenue to 18th street; Montague street
be regulated and macadamized
Where Macadam Is Wanted.
Thoroughfares which are included in
the list to be macadamized are Long
fellow street. from Georgia avenue to
Colorado avenue; Madison street, from
Colorado avenue west to 14th street;
9Th street from Sheridan to Tuckerman
street Sidewalks are requested on
Georgia avenue: west side of Colorado
avenue from 10Th to 14th street and
on the north side of Madison street De-
tween 14th street and Colorado ave-
nue..
The lighting with electric lights of
Beach driveway in Rock Creek Park
from Pierce Mill to the Military road
and 18th street in the vicinity of Colo
RADIO avenue is also urged by the as
sociation. A request Is renewed that
some provision be made for concerts
of the United States Marine Band dur
ing the summer months at some suit
able place in the park. The associa-
ton also recommends that the present
management Of Rock Creek Park be
transferred from the commission as
now organized to the engineer in
charge of public buildings and grounds,
Evening star., 1916-09-28
zuazua Guard Exterminated.

Details of the last stand of Col. Car
los Zuazua and his guard of thirty
men, who fought to the death against
Villa at Santa Isabel, about thirty
three miles west of Chihuahua city. the
night of September 20. are given in
copies of Ell Democratic. a Carranza
organ of Chihuahua, reaching here to-
day. The account is as follows:
"Col. Zuazua occupied his private car
at Santa Isabel, guarded by, thirty men
the only ones who had not deserted
him to join the Villa band. Suddenly
band of twenty. led by Villa in per-
son, opened fire on the car.
"Zuazua. in his night clothes. jumped
from his bed and, after letting in his
guard, locked the doors. For two hours
Col. Zuazua and his band made a des-
perate resistance. But the Villa men
rushed the car, killed every one inside
and then burned the car"
After this success the bandits sacked
the stores of the town and the supply
station of the Carranza forces, seizing
food and clothing.
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Cavazos Surprised and Routed.

When Gen. Trevino, in Chihuahua
found communication at Santa Isabel
broken he suspected something was
wrong and ordered Gen. Jose Cavazos
to get information. He got as far as
ST. Andrews, near Santa Isabel, when
he was surprised and routed by Villa
Five survivors of the fight arrived in
Chihuahua, according to the paper
with their ears cut off and suffering
from exposures and hardships, to tell
the story of the rout.
Later on Gen. Cavazos appeared. He
said that one of his officers had been
thrown alive into a well by the BAN
dts.
Fortune Zuazua, a former Villa gen.
eral, and brother of the dead colonel,
went to Santa Isabel to recover the
body.
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DIED.

ATKINSON. On Wednesday, September
81. 1916, FRANCIS J., beloved husband
of Susie Atkinson (nee Forteney).
Funeral from the residence of his
brother-in-law, Henry w. Forteney.
1403 New Jersey avenue northwest,
on Friday, September 90, at $50 am.
Requiem mass at the Church Of the
Immaculate Conception at o'clock.
Relatives and friends invited. In
terment at Mount Olivet cemetery.
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Steyenson,s Brownies.

Stevenson maintained that much of
his work was only partially original.
His collaborators were the brownies
who ran riot through his brain during
the hours of sleep. He instances the
case Of ''Dr. Jekyn and Mr.. Hyde" 81
had long been trying to write story
on this subject" he writes, ito find a
body, a vehicle for that strong sense
Of mans double being which must at
times come in upon and overwhelm
the mind of every thinking creature.
For two days I went about racking
my brains for a plot Of any sort, and
on the second night I dreamed the
scene at the window and scene after
ward split in two, in which hyde, pur-
sued for some crime, took the powder
and underwent the change In the pres
ence Of his pursuers. ALI the rest was
made awake and consciously, although
I think can trace in much OF it the
manner Of my brownies"
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Ernst Cracks.

In the annual lists Of earthquakes
registered at the Harvard seismograph-
ic station occasional shocks occurring
in winter are noted as due to frost
cracks''-i. e.. the sudden opening Of
assures in the ground, resulting from
freezing. The late Professor Shaler In
one Of his lectures mentioned the oc-
currence of a sensible shock at Cam
bridge some forty years ago, which he
traced to a crack in the frozen ground
An apparent earthquake near Akron,
O., probably due to a frost crack, was
described in the American Geologist,
Vol. 1, 1893. while another, which
caused a mild panic at Attleboro,
Mass, was reported in the Attleboro
Sun of Jan. 23. 1903 Professor Wood
worth says that this idea Of frost
cracks is very widespread in New Eng
land as an explanation of many small
shocks coming at time when the fro
zen ground is known to have cracked
open.".Philadelph Press.
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Crab Locomotives.

The dueerest locomotives are the
types used in mining and called
"crabs." Gliding into the black gal
Ieries Of coal mines and hating at
crevice in the wall from which issues
the distant ring of pick and shovel, the
crab lets out a flexible tentacle "a steel
cable for perhaps 200 or 300 feet
drawing it back presently with a car
of coal in tow. Feeling into the holes,
first on one side, then on the other, 1t
moves along and never fails to secure
its prey. Finally, with a dozen or
more cars in its wake, it proceeds to
the shaft or outlet and delivers its
booty to the crusher.
These crabs operate by trolley con-
ductors. They run through the main
passages Of the mine. Each crab Is
furnished with an electrically operated
drum, on which are carried 200 or 300
feet Of steel cable. This is hauled Into
the side passages or drifts by man,
who couples the end to a loaded car,
then gives a signal, and the crab does
the rest-George Frederick Stratton In
st. Nicholas.
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Abusino n True Friend.

The truest and most devoted friend
that man ever had is the little mani
mate bundle Of nerves that stands
guard by his bedside through the dead
hours of the night, its palpitating lit
tie heart spreading cheer and conf
dence over the surrounding gloom. Yet
man often forgets the debt Of gratitude
he owes this faithful and tireless little
friend for the sleepless, watchful hours
it subjects itself to In order that he
may slumber in security and comfort
and when it sings its merry morning
lay I have seen him, instead Of be-
slowing fond caresses, reach from his
warm quilts, grasp it ruthlessly and
slam it into the farther and darkest
corner of the room, crushing the dainty
hands that seemed uplifted in an at
titude Of horror and protection, scorn-
fully muttering such uncouth and un-
worthy reproach as 'Hang that blink
ety-blank alarm clock, anyhow then
return to his snoring!-Zim in Cartoons
Magazine.
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True Fish Stories.


The Cyclosama negrofasciatus VIII
fight with the savage tenacity OF DULL
dog and will leap high out Of the water
in pursuit of tantalizing finger.
The walking perch from India will
climb out of the aquarium and take a
stroll around the floor looking for an
other pool unless you put a wire over
the top of his home.
The shishigashira has a round Tat
kewpie body topped by chubby cheek
ed cherub head, with the tiny eyes,
small mouth and nose Of human be-
ing. Its coloring is marvellous, and 1t
Is considered sacred in Japan.
The angel fish IS wider than 1t Is
long and has a chameleon-like quality
of changing its color at will.
The Indian gouramis has arms with
which it feels its way about or In
spects anything new in the aquarium
There are tailless fish and scalelesS
fish and fish without fins, blue fish.
pink fish, lavender fish and particolor'
ed red, white and blue fish, but they
are all goldfish, especially as to price
Philadelphia North American
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The Great civiIizer.

In many recent editorial contribu-
lions and magazine articles it Is con-
clusively proved-were new proof nee
essary-that the railroad is the most
potent of all factors in the civilization
Of mankind. Not only in commercial
sense, but in an ethical and religious
sense, the railway is pioneer, for it
makes possible the intercourse Of ma
lions, the broadening of ideas, the seek
ing of newer and better things and the
escape from the undesirable. In the
wake of the railway come better con-
ditions of every sort, for better trans
portation advantages beget better COM
mercial conditions, and they in turn
beget more intellectual development
and higher ethical standards. That the
railway is built primarily as a bust
ness investment does not alter the case.
No claim was ever made that the rail-
way was an ethical enterprise, but
the fact remains, whatever the motive,
that the railway is the handmade of
national progress, commercial, intellec-
tual and religious.-NewY York Mail.
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Edison and His Mother.

During the short time that he at
tended school Thomas A. Edison was
nearly always at the foot Of his class.
On one occasion a teacher remarked
to the inspector that the boy was
added" and that trying to tutor him
was a mere waste Of time.
The youth overheard the remark He
repeated it to his mother, who prompt
" took the child back to the school and
told the teacher he did not know what
he was talking about and that the Lad
had more brains than the teacher.
Referring to this critical period OF
his existence, Mr.. Edison once said:
"Had it not been for my mothers ap-
probation and faith in me / should
very likely never have been an in
ventor She was so true, so sure OF
me, that 1 felt that had some one to
live for, some one / must not disap-
point. The memory Of her will always
be a blessing to me."-Columbus Dis
patch.
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piseomforts of Coaching Days.

Posterity will know nothing Of the
misery their forcrathers underwent in
the travelling way. and whenever we
hear-which we often do-unreason-
able grumblinCs about the absence Of
trifing luxuries on railroads we are
tempted to wish the parties consigned
to a good long ride in an old stage
coach. Why. the worst third class that
ever was put next the engine is inf
nitely better than the inside Of the best
Of them used to he. to say nothing Of
the speed. AS TO the outsides Of the
old coaches. with their roastings, their
soakings, their freezings and their
smotherings with dust. one cannot but
feel that the establishment Of railways
was a downright prolongation Of life
Surtees QS5S).
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Luxury In Puritan DAYS.

At no time, Of course, was lurr,-
completely absent from America. NJ
spend when the purse is full, evon
though the purse be small. Not all III
sumptuary laws of seventeenth Con
fury Massachusetts, could prevent %
Der Puritans from launching into O,
travagance, from purchasing apparel
"wollen, silke or lynnen with lace IN
1t, silver, golde, silke or threed." EvoD
the piors slid back into embroiderud
doublets with slashed sleeves int
"gold or silver girdles, hiatt bands
belts, ruffs, beaver hatts," while WON
en- of no particular rank appeared IN
forbidden silk and tiffany hoods. A
century later we encounter disapproysI
Of John HancOck'S 'show of extraya.
gance in living" of his French and
English furniture, his dances, dinners
carriages, wine cellars and fine clothes
Washington starved with his soldier
at Valley Forge, but lived like an Eng.
lish gentleman in his home at Mount
Vernon. Luxury, pomp, ceremonial
were not absent in the eighteenth Cen
tury.-Walter E. Weyl in Harpers
Magazine.
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Lordly Disraeli.

Disraen once told a woman that two
possessions which were indispensable
to other people he had always done
without. 81 made" she said, every
kind Of conjecture, but without sue
cess, and on my asking him to enlight-
en- me he solemnly answered that they
were q watch and an umbrella. But
how do you manage asked, If there
happens to be no clock in the room
and you want to know the time? 4
ring for a servant was the magnilo-
quent reply. Well continued, and
what about the umbrella? What do
you do, for instance, If you are in the
park and are caught in sudden show
err Il take refuge he replied, with a
smile of excessive gallantry, under the
umbrella of the first pretty woman 1
meet"