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The Washington herald., 1918-12-17
HOROSCOPE.
DECEMBER IL, 1918.

Uranus rules fayOrabIy in the earlier
hours OF this day. according to as
trology. hut later the Sun and mer-
curry are adverse.
1t is a time IN which foresight is
supposed to be granted, snd So while
this cOnfiguration prevails. II should
be fortunate time for making plans
for the new year.
During the next few weeks there
may be a tendency toward hasty de-
cisiOns and unwise judgments. Impet-
uous speech may mark not only do
mestic discussions. but public meet
ings. Congress and all legislative bod
les may develop sensations and even
turbulence
This is not a promising day for seek
ing employment or appointment to po-
sitiOns. for the stars seem to warn
that persons who hold places ia the
sun will not be helpful On the con-
trary many who have been favorItes
of fortune wSll face the new year with
regrets. This prophecy Concerns the
Cnited States and not any foreign
country.
This is not a sway under which TO
enter into contracts or agreements. II
is especially a hazardous planetary
rule for politicians and offioeholders
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House, sz3 II street northwest, will be
promptly acknowledged.
Sends $40 Check.
The Herald announces Thomas w.
Gibson. of Albuquerque, n. Mex, as
their first contributor toward the sup
port OF needy family. Mr. Gibson.
whose health was restored through the
generosity of Washingtonians two
years ago when they raised a fund In
response to an appeal appearing in
The Herald columns to pay his ex-
penses at a sanitarium In New Mex
leo. sent a check of $40 to The Herald
recently with this statement: please
apply my check where it will help
some one in need"
These are the fourteen christmas
opportunities" that appeal to you for
help on this first peace Christmas:
Opportunity No 1. Widow. ST. children un.
der 10. Amount needed. sls.so week or
A,0l4 for the year
Opportunity No. .. Widow with three chill
dren unoer 10. Amount needed $3.50 9 week
or S9 for the year.
Opportunity No. ) Deserted wife. two chill
dren under Il Amount needed. $50 per week
Or SEQ for the year
Opportunity No. 4. Widow, three children
under u. Amount needed, 50 q week or ssss
for the year.
Opportunity No. 5. Aged couple and sister
all over IS. Ten dollars a week or SIS for
the ycr.
Opportunity No. G Widow and Ave children.
two Just beginning to work. Weekly allowance
so or s52J for the year.
Opportunity No. :. Widow ten children.
oldest II. Weekly allowance SIS 20 or sas2 for
the scar.
Opportunity No s. Deserted wife with four
children under H. Nine dollars q week OF
s.6s year
Opportunity No. .. Widow. fre children.
Sixteen dollars a week. $50 year.
Opportunity No. TO- Widow with two chill
dren under Il. Five dollas q week or $50
for the year.
Opportunity No. IL Six colored orphans in
care Of grandmother. Oldest boy learning tSade.
Twelve dollars a week or 62i a year.
Opportunity No. T. Widow. four children
under u, Fourteen dollars a week or SIS
for the year.
Opportunity No. l3 Widow Ccolored) Eve
children under IL. Ten dollars a week or
$50 a year.
Opportunity No L. Widow, four children
under g. Fifteen dolas q week or $50 a year.
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NINETY-NINTH
CHAPTER
LEAN the Agony Of mo
Letter" from My Husband.

Mail came Thanksgiving week to
thousands of war brides, some of
whom had been waiting for 1t nearly
two months. Years hence, when the
war brides of today are grandmothers.
they will tell of the weary hours they
spent watching for the postman in the
fall of 1918. Mail came to Mother
Lorimer, a bunch of letters from Bob.
But not line came for Bob's wife!
Mother Lorimer did her best not
TO let me see that she noticed my
agony. She made so much of her own
letters before the family that they
actually forgot to ask me for news.
All that Bob wrote was good news.
He had been hurt slightly, had been
thrown to the ground in an explosion,
and while he had no wound except
a scratch on his forehead, he had
been sent to a hospital in a dazed
state.
BY comparing dates l found that
Bob had gone into action the morning
after writing the last letter / had
received from him. 1t was the letter
containing the famous Henley verses
which end. Not in vain, shall ! look
for you again" T4Rt letter seemed
to unite Bob and me closer than we
had been at any time since our quar-
rel. always carry it with me. But
now / wonder II it Is to be the last
love letter ! am ever going to get
from Bob?
Mother came up to my room with
her precious letters after I was in
bed. She did not try to comfort me
she just stayed around awhile to give
me a chance to confide my GRIEF to
her IL | wished to do so. But L
couldn't refer to 1t directly without
having . fit Of Mysteries. So simply
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show that he can do serious stuff,
Crawford recited Kipling's relentless
"Snarleyhow" with a vital force that
made ii the biggest thing on the pro-
gram
Lucille Cavanagh has more of that
combination of the bloom of youth
and supsrabundant vim that the
French call .la beaute du diable" than
any other vaudeville headliner. But
the studied perfection of her numbers
and her high-caliber dancing show
that her mind has more on 1t than her
curly locks. Her support is perfect
and the same may be said of the set
ting and costumes of her act In par
ticular is she successful in one au-
dacious costume combining scarlet,
sky blue and pink.
AS two octogenariaEs full of
rheumatism and magnetism, AL Ly-
dell and Carleton Macy drew the
most hearty and genuine applause
on the bill with the exception of
Clifton Crawford, although Andrew
Mack comes mighty close to their
mark with a bunch of brand new
stories of one hundred proof quality
and bearing the Killarney trade
mark. Mr.. Mack is also RESPONSE
BILE for the intelligence that shell
shock symptoms may be produced
by osculation.
mo Trespassing" featuring Claire
Vincent is comedy. If there can
be such a thing, of married life and
wife with advanced ideas. A very
unique note is introduced by a little
japanese maid with French man.
nerisms.
Really clever dancing and orig
inal costuming make the act of the
Gardner Trio a real delight to the
eye. James Findlay and Louis
Christensen are a couple of husky
lads dressed mostly in spangles and
not much of those. who go through
a series of startling athletic feats
with amazing facility.
Ethel Hopkins charming voice
was well displayed in Kipling's un-
forge table 'Mandalsy" and other
selections including a patriotic med
ley that evoked continuous waves of
applause.
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Copyright. 1oIS

asked her to read over the parts of
her letters which referred to Bob's
casually"
Hurt about the head"-she read
surgeon thought at first l had a bad
case of shell shock, but when | came
to, after three days of ztupor, l set
out to convince him that I was abso-
lutely all right. 1t took two weeks
for me to make him see il. But at
last, which is tomorrow, I'm of to
take my place with the boys in the
trenches again."
Writing to his father, Bob an
nounced that he had got his Boche
at last, in fact, several Huns. But as
he pulled his bayonet out of the first
man he grew sick, he said, so sick
that only the need Of defending him.
self from a second Hun gave him
strength to go on with the fight.
|. knew very well why killing made
Bob so sick. It's his philosophy.
Once upon a time when walking with
me in the country he had refused to
kill a snake which frightened me:
Let 1t go!" he said. 1T loves its
life as well as you and I love ours"
Bob also had written to Chrys--on
the red triangle so welcome from end
to end of the land. But not even in
Chrys' letter did he refer to his wife.
And only yesterday was earnestly
trying to put that fear Of divorce out
of my mind, Only yesterday / was
thinking about how l and other war
brides ought to reconstruct our homes
on permanent happiness foundation!
1t looks to me as il were not GO
ing to have a chance ito begin over
again" with Bob. He will want his
mother, not me, to make him COM
Portable.
1t seems to me that IL there were a
remnant OF love left for me in Bob's
heart he would want to save me from
the dreadful humiliation I am now
enduring.
Go be continued)
The Washington herald., 1918-12-17
NationaI-wiIiIam Gillette in s'Dear
Brutus."

NationaI-wiiiInm Gillette in "Denr
Brutus."
We have witnessed. in Roads of
Destiny" Mr.. Claiming Pollock's in
ept and bungling efforts to demon
strate, in a play, the theory that
man is a victim of a blind fate We
have heard Mr.. Channing-in the role
of critic-teIl how misersbly Mr.. Will
ard Mack has failed to prove, in
THE Big Chance" how easily mans
life may be redeemed by the play
of circumstances. Let us draw nigh
and hear how easily and deligEtruIly
and with such rare artistry Mr..
James Matthew Barrie has demon
stTated that man is an ass because
he is congenitally an ass. Just as
he is congenitally a Socialist or Il
cab-driver or hen-pecked husband.
The result is quite enough to make
one an AnGlomaniac-dramatically
speaking-for life.
We will admit that there may be
American dramatists of sufficient
breadth and skill and even of genius
to produce a play at once as ephem-
eral and magnificent as the Barrie
vehicle which comes to Washington
for a week at the National. but we
ransack memory in vain for the name
of one with the delicacy and the
blithesome confidence 10 approach
the thing of lights and shadows, of
glaring sunshine and deep shadow
that Barrie has given us in Dear
Brutus."
There is a touch of Kiplingesque
witchery and of the metaphysical
Maeterlinck in this latest Barrie
play which reaches us after a sue
cessful run in London. The Scotch
genius has given the stage a new
Midsummer Nights Dream" though
his Puck is the Puck of Kipling,
rather than the Puck of Shake
speare.
Barrie's Puck is a queer old man
who whispers strange things to the
flowers and to the birds. He is an
ancient elf of Elizabethan England,
an elf of vast and uncertain age,
set down in a setting of the mod
ern Britain. This Puck, whom Bar
rie calls Lob, has been given free
license with the elfin imagination
and fancy of Barrie.
We find Lob inviting to his Eng
lish country-p place for Midsummer
Week. a gathering of the average
British upper-class folk. In the
twinkling of an eye, he transforms
The Washington herald., 1918-12-17

the Knickerbocker on Thursday after
noon, and that of Mrs. Wilmer to the
patronesses.
reception was held at the Beaux
Arts Salon. 1413 II street, Sunday
afternoon at which the members of
the French Clu0 entertained as their
guest of honor Mr.. Earl Goodwin, the
well-known editorial writer, who gave
a short talk on practical newspaper
work and the ethics of the profession.
Mr.. de Zapp was host and Miss Helen
Griscom Borton poured tea. being as
sisted by Miss Bennett, Miss Rolph,
Miss Austin. Miss Utz and Mrs. john
son.
Mr.. Gus Karger. president of the
National Press Club. and F. P. DAILY,
editor of THE Come Back" the news
paper OF the wounded men at Walter
Reed Hospital will be the guests of
honor next Sunday, when Mrs. Emily
Newell Blair will pour tea and will be
assisted by Miss Frances Ransom,
Miss Marguerite NJ. Van Dyke. Miss
Bonita Morton and Miss Berindene
Hull.
The French Club will have its
Christmas celebration on Friday night
and a special program of entertain
nent numbers has been prepared.
here will be refreshments and
dancing.
The Y. p. B. c. young Peoples BIZ
BILE Glass;, held its first entertainment
this winter at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. D. E. Miller. SOC c street south
east. Saturday night. The program
consisted of recitations by Miss Goch-
enour; piano selections by Miss Goch-
enour and Mrs. Long: song by Mrs.
Miller. Mrs. Craver and Mrs. Sprenkle:
dialogue by Carroll Flohr and Miss
Biddinger; piano selections by the Mis-
ses Taylor; reading by Miss Ulrich
and clarinet duet by Mr.. Sprenkle and
Mr.. Craver, accompanied by Mr.. Mil
Ter at the piano; and vocal duet by
the Misses Brumbaugh. accompanied
by Miss Ssther Brumbaugh at the
piano.
Those present included Rev ]. NJ
Henry, pastor of the Church of the
Brethren: ]. Fl. Hollinger. superinten-
dent of Sunday School; Mrs. and Mrs.
D. E. Miller Mr.. and Mrs. r. c. Long.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Craver, Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Sprenkle, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Austin, Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
F1ohr, Mrs. Charles Nay. Mrs. Meal
lister, little Miss McAllister. and Mis-
ses Othetta Biddinger, Bessie Ulrich,
Hazel Smith. Mable Burkitt, Esther
Brumbaugh, Emma Brumbaugh, Mary
Brumbaugh, Margaret Brumbaugh,
Gretna Gochenour. Sarah Evans, Viola
Weibley. Anna Sommers, Lorraine
Taylor, Elsie Taylor and II. B. Ryan,
Raymond Duffy, Dewey Radcliff, Jas.
Brumbaugh. Carroll Flohr and A.
Vitan.
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Will Take Off
All Excess Fat

DO you know that there Is a simple harm
less effective remedy for overfstnes that may
be used safely and secretly by any man or wom-
an who is losing the slimness Of YOUTH
There 10; and it Is none other than the tab
let form Of the now famous Marmola Prescrip-
ton, known as Marnola Prescription Tablets
You can well expect reduction OF from two
to four pounds week without dieting OF ex-
ercising Marmola Prescription Tablets are sold
by all druggists at 75c for a large case or il
you prefer you can order direct from the Mar
mols Co, s64 Woodward Ave. Detroit. Mich
Adv.
The Washington herald., 1918-12-17
b. r. KeIth's-yaud

In the best bill seen at Keith's for
some moons. Lucille Cavanagh and
Clifton Crawford run a dead heat for
headline honors.
Even the most frozen-faced of front
rowers thawed out, perforce, at Craw-
ford's stories which included the
classic of the waiting lady, the
stairway and the abandoned banana
peel. There was also a delineation
of an elocutionist mistreated by fate
with an attack of sneezing. And to
The Washington herald., 1918-12-17
WON'T YOU HELP MAKE.
FOURTEEN FAMILIES HAPPY?
Every Washingtonian Requested to Give His
or Her Bit" Toward Worthy Christ
mas Cause

There will be more happiness in
more American homes this season
than any other Christmas In the
past. With the long anxiety Of her
sons facing the firing-line. the nnal
silence on the Western front, the re-
turn of the war heroes, and the
hopeful signs of present and fu-
ture countrywide prosperity, our
own United States understands as
never before the meaning of peace
on earth; good will toward men"
and rejoiees in her deliverance and
promise for the future.
And yet the little house next to
the one with a Christmas holly
wreath at the front window may be
a home of sorrow. Perhaps. through
no fault of their own, the little
family is facing a Christmas of de-
privation instead of plenty. because
of the death of the head of the
household, or the wage-earner. or a
long drain on the family purse on
account of the "nu."
Families Need Help.
The Associated Charities of Wash
ington, s23 H street northwest, have
fourteen such families that need help
their Christmas Opportunities" fam
ilies who will suffer this Christmas
and throughout the new year unless
the more fortunate Washingtonians
help them over their present rough
path.
1t is not necessary for any one per-
son to assume the responsibility OF
one particular family. but IL every
Washingtonian selected a group and
gave his bit," fourteen families
would face the first peace Christmas
with happy faces and the New Year
with hope and cheer in their hearts.
To maintain these Opportunities"
for the year social workers have care
fully planned the family budgets with
the aid of the heads of the families.
and have estimated that ss.7ss will be
necessary to keep them together. Con-
tributions sent to The Herald or to
John Joy Edison, treasurer of the As
ISOLATED Charities, Social Service
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Tires Worth SITS Stolen.

Theft Of six cases Of tires from
Frank Shaw. l25 New York avenue.
between s o'clock Sunday evening
and ! o'clock. Monday morning. was
reported to the police yesterday. The
tires were valued at S215.
The Washington herald., 1918-12-17

Rebuilt typewriters in Paris cost
!, 80 francs $50.
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the Khickerbocker on Thursday after
noon, and that of Mrs. Wilmer to the
patronesses.
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Str Richard Crawford, Commercial
Commissioner of Great Britain, and
Lady Crawford sailed yesterday morn
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The Medical Branch of the Army
Emergency Committee has added the
names of Mrs. oliver. Mrs. Sands,
Mrs. Pillsbury, Mrs. Lochran, Mrs.
Williamson and Mrs. John S. Morris
to the reception committee benefit for
its motion picture entertainment at
The Washington herald., 1918-12-17

The Secretary OF War, Mr.. Baker;
the Secretary Of the Navy. Mr.. Dan
iels; the Secretary of the Interior,
Mr.. Lane. and the Secretary of Agri-
culture, Mr.. Houston. went to An
naDolis, Md, to attend the tenth an
nual conference of governors. which
opened there this morning. Tomor-
row evening a brilliant reception
will be given at the executive man
sion in honor of the distinguished
visitors.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-10-07
NO PEACE DICKER
WITH INVADERS
llnS Must Leave Belgium and
France to Get Results.

Washington, Oct. lit is declare.
II official circles that there is Sigh
probability of any serious attention
icing paid to peace propositions which
ONE from the Germans while they
still occupy portions of France and
Belgium
One comment was that Germany is
seeking to make a diplomatic virtue
out of military necessity.
No communication had been receiv-
ed in Washington, either by the state
department or the Swiss legation re-
@arding Prince Maximilians offer. Il
such a note is received through the
Swiss legation. reply will be sent
through the same channels, but 1t is
felt i'll Washington that no showing
has yet been made by the German
government which would warrant en-
tering upon any discussions.
There is no question, however, that
the prevailing impression in army and
navy circles is that the suggestions of
Austria and Germany do not 90 far
enough to warrant the belief that they
will be entertained seriously, or in a
manner that will lead those nations
to believe that they can evade uncon-
ditional surrender.
The presidents attitude up to this
time has been and Is construed to
mean just that
The opinion still obtains among ar
my and navy officials that Austria
and Germany are working together
with deceptive propositions to gain
time within which to overcome the
panic among their peoples, who are
clamoring for peace on any terms that
will stop the bloodshed and relieve the
starvation of the dependent classes.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-10-07

For months continuous, terrible
anG murtlcrous battle has been raging
in The west. ThIH5S TO the incom-
parable heroism of our army. which
will live is an Immortal, glorious page
7n the history of the German people
for an times, the front is unbroken.
This proud consciousness permits
rs 10 look 10 the future with conf
dence. But, Just because we are in
spired by His feeling and the con-
viction that it is also our duty TO
make certain that the bloody struggle
he not protracted for Il single day be-
vond the moment when Il close of the
war seems possible 70 us which will
rot affect our honor. | have, there
fore. not waited until now to take a
step I" further the idea of peace.
support by the consent of all duly
authorized persons in the empire and
~ consent of all our allies. acting in
concert with us. | sent on the night
Of October 40. through the mediation
If Switzerland. a nore To the presi-
dent of the United States. in which 7
requested him to take up the bring
tH@ about of peace and 10 communi-
cate IL this end with all the bellig
"rent states.
Il have taken this step NOT only for
The salvation of Germany and its al
lies. bur of all humanity. which has
been suffering for years through the
war.
Il have taken it also. because I be.
lfeve the thoughts regarding the flu,
ture well-heing of the nation which
We're proclaimed by Mr.. Wilson are
N accord with the general ideas cher
iShed by the new German government
and with ii the overwhelming major
ltY of our people.
what ever this outcome may be
7 know ii Will find Germany firmly
resolved and united either for an up-
right peace, which rejects every sell
ISL violation of the rights of others
# for a closing of the struggle for
life and death to which our people
would be forced without our own fault
II answer to our note of the powers
opposed 10 us should he directed by n
ill To destroy us.
Il do not despair over the thought
hat this second alternative may come
know the greatness of the mighty
lower YET possessed by our people
nd l know that the incontrovertiblc
onviction that they We're only fight
ing for our life as a nation would
double these powers.
Il hope. however. for the sake of
all mankind, that the president of the
nlted States will receive our offer
$ we meant it. Then the door would
he opened to a speedy. honorable
Neace Of justice and reconciliation for
s as we'll as for ON. nnnonontS,
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-10-07

TO see our performance today"
She would sometimes say this aloud,
swinging her trunk as she spoke. and
Matty, another elephant. would say
''What makes you think that?"
well" said Babe, I've been in the
circus business for years and years
and years. We are the members of a
very big, three-ringed circus, and we
travel to big cities as well as TO small
towns"
Qn the cities Babe led the way
through streets down to the circus
building. She also would lead the way
from one small place to another if the
distance was not so very great.)
"What has all of that got to do with
your speech about thinking there won't
be many coming to the circus tOday?"
"Just this" said Babe. at seems to
me that every single man, woman and
child in the whole world has seen my
tricks. They have seen US all put our
front feet upon each other and stand
over the keeper who would lie on the
ground. We would do it just So. and
would never step on the keeper. Oh
no, we could never make such mis-
take. And the people would hold their
breath and say: How does that man
dare do that? Just suppose that an
elephant should step on him.
But we wouldn't step on our nice,
kind keeper, Oh no! Oh now
And Marty swung her trunk high up
in the air and said, "Oh no! Oh MOI"
WELL" continued Babe, 81 don't see
why folks all over the world aren't
through seeing the circus. We have
done our tricks for years and years,
beautiful ladies have ridden bareback
on white horses, bears have ridden BIZ
cycles or skated on roller skates,
clowns have cracked jokes and laughed
and gone around with painted faces.
"Girls and men have swung way up
in the air on trapezes, ladies have
walked along narrow ropes, carrying
narasols. Men have swung by their
hair, ladies by their teeth.
"Some folks have sung, others have
chariots. Yes, all sorts of tricks have
been performed and as long as l can
remember elephants have always been
n part of the circus. l have always
led the parade of this circus and have
always known the way from town to
town, from station TO circus ground"
"They say elephants are famous for
their memories" said Matty, land you
certainly live up to that saying for you
have a wonderful memory, all right"
ITS just as easy to remember things
as to forget Them" said Babe mod
estly.
Every one doesn't feel that way
about it," said Matty. "Most creatures
find 1t easier to forget"
But really" continued Babe, 81
don't believe anyone will come to the
circus today. We've performed for
such crowds that we must have per-
formed for every living person. And I
think perhaps We'll find that no one
will come for time because every one
has seen us so many years.