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Evening star., 1918-12-23
Paris.
To Paris once you had to go

fAIlS.
To Paris once you had to 60
For furbelows and styles,
For pleasures Of the passing show
And fashions dainty wiles.
But ever since the recent row
We turn to serious views
We've got to 60 to Paris now
To get the daily news.
You went to Paris for the dance
That had the saucy kick,
The little manner and the glance,
Which folks describe as "ct,c."
But times are different, We VOW,
And pastimes we refuse.
We've got to 60 to Paris now
To get the daily news.
Evening star., 1918-12-23

Germany insists on having a 'Hin-
denburg line," but this time consents
to construct it in her own territory.
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Strictly Business.


ri desire to ask your daughter to
be my wife," said the young man.
eyes," replied Mr.. Cumrox, "and you're
trying to get me to mix in, so that if
you don't get ON we'll together you can
say it was partly my fault. I de-
cline to concern myself in the trans
action"
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superior Circumstances.

Superior Circumstances.
And still right divine they claim,
Those Hohenzollerns gay;
They ride in autos just the same,
And eat three meals day.
Evening star., 1918-12-23

The fact that Wilhelm still survives
shows that he is not altogether al un-
lucky man.
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ode man dat axes you to fohgit in
juries," said Uncle Eben, "is mos gen
orally an innocent bystander dat didn't
happen to get hit"
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SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Aplications.

Applications.
"Children write to Santa Claus for
what they want"
"Yes;" rejoined Senator Sorghum.
"And when they grow up and happen
to want anything they write to their
senator"
Evening star., 1918-12-23

No Victory Banquet.
Prem the Noatreal Star.
First Of ali. the German people must
rid themselves Of the idea that wars
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-22
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fireworks-the most hazardous, fool hardy and suicidal stunt that any aviator has ever attempted and sur vived. Any bit of trick flying that any aviator does anywhere little Miss Stinson regards as a personal chal- lenge. She felt that never again could she hold up her head as an aviatrice sans peur if she did not pick up Art Smiths gauntlet.
 Writing In Fire
 So, out in Los Angeles in Decem- Der, 1915, she rigged her plane with a lot of calcium lights and an electric igniter, scared to the heavens one dark night, touched the button, dump ed her machine, and the trick was done.
 There is absolutely no excuse for anyone doing this stunt" Miss Stin- sou has since said. You don't stand a sporting chance, for you are utterly blinded by the lights, You have to loop and dip and dive to make a good display, and you haven't the faintest idea of where you are or what you are doing. You just wait for the fire works to burn out, and then--if you are lucky-you right your plane and get your balance"
 The morning after her first fire works exploit Miss Stirson picked up newspaper and found in it time exposure night photograph of her trick, in which the letters "C-a-l-" had been clearly written by her plane in |its fiery course through the heavens Furious. she rushed to her manager | and helc the picture in front of him
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Immediately after receiving her license Miss Stinson started giving ex- hlbition flights. If she had simply gone up and come down it would have been all that was expected of this rara ava--this strange birdgirl. But Kath- crime Stinson has never expected spe- cial consideration because of her sex She figured that the public demanded as much trick flying from her as it did from any other aviator Whether the public expected 1t of her or not, she furnished the thrills. Miss Stinson has been from the first stunt fier, daredevil class.
 She was having a new machine bpilt-a military tractor-when Lin coin Beachey took his tragic crash. Beachey had the best motor in the world-a Gnome-and Miss Stinson knew it. Hoodoos are nothing in her young life. She immediately effected the purchase of the wrecked ma chimes Gnome motor, which she in stalled in the new military tractor
 Twelve successful flights she made with the new outfit, and on the thir- teenth-the thirteenth. mark you she reproduced the loop-the-loop trick that Beachey himself had created. She was the first woman flier in the world to loop an areoplane, and the feat was accomplished by only two men-Beachey and De Lloyd Thomp- son-before she did It.
 Soon after this Art Smith found that he could amuse the public by risking his neck in night flying with
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from Buffalo to Washington in honor of the first Red Cross war fund or s1O0,000,o00 then being subscribed. She picked up donations and cam paign reports en route, and delivereo them to Secretary McAdoo on the Treasury steps in Washington. This was one of the few long g-distance flights that have ever been made ap- solutely on time from start to finish
 Miss stanton now found that she l had made a name for herself as a cross-country fiier. and followed the Red Cross achievement with others of greater risk One was from Chatta- l nooga to Birmingham, 250 miles ! through tricky currents over bad noun tains, where there was no chance to Hand in case of trouble. Her course took her over Fort Payne, Alabama. the town where she was born. and she dropped Red Cross and Liberty Bond bombs" en route.
 Still greater fame came with fight l from San Diego to San Francisco over the Tehachapi Mountains, a hazard ous course that many filers had tried and failed. She did the 6lo miles In nine hours and ten minutes, and was l the first person Wno mas ever nau | breakfast in San Diego and dinner in San Francisco.
 Breaking Record
 Miss Stinsons flight of all flights up | to date was made only this last May, when she hung up master record by making a nonstop, cross-country jump from Chicago to BingEanton, N. Y. She followed the route of the Erie Railroad ever this course, which measures 7S3 miles. But the Aero Club of America figures all distance flights as the crow flies. and her cf1i- cial distance record will be little less.
 Thus did Katherine Stinson break the American cross-ssountry record of 510 miles held by Miss Law. and he- come the und.spused crcss-country champion of all ntsrs h the United States. Shs had already, in Califor- mia, hroler all long.distaSce records for men srl wouicn. sad in the Ch.- cagn- Bisas tslaton flight she broke her own record.
 She hopes to do even better before the summer is over.
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Holder of Americas Cross-Country Non-Stop Flight = Trick Flying Helping Uncle Sam,
 Bond Selling to Charting Air-Routes

N KATHERINE STINSON, holder of
 Americas cross-country. non
 stop flight record, and the only woman fier to whom has been fntruxted Uncle Sam's air mail did not Intend to make flying her life work when she went into the game, six years ago Her ambition was not to De Americas champion bird girl Fly Ing was to be only means to an end.
 Miss Stinson Is musician, and the dream of the little girl in Jackson, Mississippi. was nothing more sensa- 6onal than to become teacher of plano. She did not believe in doing &hingS by halves, and she wanted to be equipped with the very best musical education that was to be had. Her funds were exhausted before she had Completed her preparation, which was planned to include study In the musical centers of Europe.
 7 So she took up flying with the de- nberate purpose of giving exhibition flights until the education had been provided for. She intended then to come back to earth and live in the came sphere as the rest of us. But the world has moved since the peace t0l days of 1912.
 Pioneer In Aviation
 Miss Stinson has been pioneering in American aviation in fair competition with men flyers, startling the world both with stunt flying and breaking
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Your Husbands Furniture

The story, All in the Family" in tho Woman's Home Companion, brings up the question, When you marry man. do yoa marry his family's furniture ," Here is a description of some of the furniture
 "The mansard sheltered the accumu- lations of two or more Garland house. holds of mid Victorian tastes. It was j debauch of black walnut and hairclotn in a twilight of heavy lan1brequins amt large figured wallpaper Never in al my 2 years had I beheld so many mar ble-top tables gather under a single roof. There were three in the parlor alone. One bore a Rogers group-Com. ing to the Parson, it was called; another stereoscope with views of the Yosemite and the centennial of 1876; the third served as pedestal for a case of pallid wax flowers. On the walls hung oils of mountain scenery which it would have crazed a geologist to classify.
 The sitting room across the wide hall was even worse. It was bullied by the ugly bulk of secretary with vicious rams heads carved on it's lower doors Second in massive gloom was a black marble mantelpiece crowned by a black marble clock with a limping tick and an asthmatie chime. Tables filled the spaces unclaimed by harcloth sofas and chairs, anG a whatnot-you will have foreseen the whatnot-bestrode a cornef. I was now prepared to find The Maid. ems Prayer and I did, poor maiden, neatly done in the best female academy style. There was also bronze plaque of Washington Crossing the Delaware. It was a bad crossing. None of the pia- lures was inspiring, but one at least was appropriate. It portrayed the youthful Victoria in her nightie receiving tns news that she was now Queen of Great Britain, defender of the faith and hl9h sponsor for art"
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vast number of thrills into her six years of flying. Before the idea of be coming a fiier occurred to her she had been impressed strongly by the TO- nance of the air sport, which was then far more hazardous than it is to- day, and John Moisant and Archie Hoxey-flying kings of their time were her idols. It was a tragic CO incidence, but one that failed to daunt her, that both of her heroes were killed on the same day. Moisant in New Orleans and Hoxey in Los An geles,
 Exhibition Flights
 The financial success which these men were making of their exhibition flights inspired Miss Stinson with the idea of going into the work herself to acquire the funds which her ambi- tious musical program demanded. It was an unheard- of thing for girl-- and girl of seventeen at that--to at tempt. But Katherine Stinson is an innovator. Deaf to the remonstrances and dark predictions of her terror stricken friends. she entred an avia- tion school in 1912, and in July of that year the Aero Club of America issued her license number 14S. Few aiers alive today hold licenses with lower numbers.
 Her first solo fight was for this license. and took place in Chicago. She used Wright biplane, with a Wright motor that was good for only forty miles an hour. The model which she used on that occasion was the one with which Walter Brookins did the spiral dive-standing the ma chine on one end and sliding side wise.
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thrown back We have taken Cour' melles, and are near {west of) Viiie montoire, west of (about 800 metres) Plessier Huieu and have taken Rozet-St. Albin and Maubry In the Rozet-St. A bin region the Germans appeared to De fleeing, as few prisoners were made.
 ''It was reported at 1 o'clock on the morning of July 20:
 We have taken 17,000 prisoners, actu- ally counted, and 560 guns. At the north, near Sossors, we hold the Montaig De Paris, then further south we hold Cour. melles. Villemontoire is held by tae Germans, but we are still advancing. We are just west of Tigny, Rozet-St. Albin is OUTS. Maubry is ours Above We are west of Plessier Haleu. We are making good progress.
 Reported at 10:30 o'clock on the morn ing of July 20, from the French general headquarters.
 "Germans have retreated across tas Marne river. There are no Germans on the south side. French are attacking more or less everywhere. Attacking on the west. but the morning reports hava not come in so far"
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on all sides of the salient. giving them less front to hold and therefore more men 10 concentrate at selected points of attack.
 The French advance toward Oulchy- Lc-Chateau. about midway between Sois- sons and Chateau Thierry, seems to hold large possibilities. This spearhead thrust may throw the whole German retire. ment south of that point into confusion II French and American guns are thrust forward far enough on this front to command the German communication lines, the plight of the enemy divisions retiring from the Marne would be des- perate.
 German official statements continued to be the most convincing evidence of allied successes They dared not report tho progress the allies are making and confined themselves tc declarations that attacks upon them were being repulsed That may be true regarding any partie- 1ilar sector and any particular moment, bat Berlin Was forced to add that fur thet attacks al these points were in progress. which hardly serves to encour- age the people at home very much
 The Germap statement tonight that American troops had suffered partcu- larly heavy losses at one point is the first time the enemy has conceded that Americans were playing a part in the battle It was noteworthy that up to this time nothing has been given to the German people officially so far as known, showing that probably 250,c00 Ameri- can troops are enga ged. To do so would be to admit that what the German high command has insisted was impossible, the placing of an American army in the field in France this year, has been done.
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You know what I think of cheap press-agent stuff like this." she ex- ploded, Isn't my flying good enough so you don't have to fall back on faking?
 Do you mean to say,'' he de- manded, that you didn't mean to spell the name of the State?"
 "Of course not" she returned. hotly. Tt can't be done! I know faked photographs when I see them" :"
 The manager had to call in two newspaper photographers, who had 'shot her night flights" and get them to show her their negative before Miss Stinson was convinced that she had done what she thought impossible Even then she disclaimed credit TOT lit, and called it just Katherine Stln- son luck" But the Californians. took t as an added trick in their honor and the story of her writing m hre- works went all over the world In November, 1916, the bird girl took her plane to the Orient to fly for the Chinese and Japanese. Two days before she sailed Ruth Law broke the American cross-country flight record,
  against a burning desire to cancel the trip across the Pacific. She wanted that record herself. But honor pre- vailed. and over she went. She gave special exhibition trick fights for tha Emperor of Japan and the President of China, and did the fireworks stunt over Picking.
 1 Not being able to write Chinese, she did not attempt any heavenly 1nscrlp- lions. vet an E,rglish-larguage news pa per published in PcNins announced ! the next day that shc had only spelled "P-e-k-," and complained that she must have got frightened then and quit.
 once again she exercised her pro fessional and feminine prerogative o1 going up in she air.
 1T srpposc.r she SnsfTci. that II ] had spelled it ali oat they would have felt they were swln sled if I forgot tn dot the i'."
 FIsght ter Rcsl ;ss-oss l After six montEs in the Orient. Miss Stinson returned to San Francisco on \ Decoration Day last year. Her next big fiigne was a cross-country toui
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THREE KNOWN DEAD
 AND AZ MS SIN C
 FROM SAN DIEGO
Continued from Page one)

Paul, Ainn
 Julius L. Murphy boatswains mate, Fort Collins, Col.
 John E. Pearce. seaman, Milton, Wis. Fred L. Polk, seaman, Lumberton, Miss.
 Charles A. McKibben, chief boatswain' , mate, New York.
 Norman P. Robertson, seaman, St. Clair, Pa.
 Eugene L. Rocks, fireman. Honduras, Richard Russell, seaman, Leonard, Texas.
 Carl Shank. seaman, Mont Joy, Pa. angelo J. Sibilia, seaman, Brooklyn. Elon C. Sorensen, seaman, Mammoth. Utah
 lsans I'd W. $ madaist, seaman, Los AneeleS.
 Francis NJ. Tiffany, seaman, San Fran ~!sc,,
 Ash,ey c. venu .g, seamcn. Charles ton. <. C.
 ''hance M We'Es, gunner mate. Lii nc arr ,. Mo.
 Dewey H. Wheeler, seaman, Brookln,
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General March and Secretary Baker were at the war department until late tonight and eager for every word that came over press wires regarding progress Of the battle, Official reports were be- lated, and at late hour it was inn possible to say whether the enemy was going to get the majority of his armies away by sacrificing rear guard units. The unofficial reports showed that a great stride forward had been made by the Franco-Ameriean forces on the Aisne- Marne front, including the danger in which the enemy stands of having con- siderable force pocketed and captured.
 HEAVY ENEMY LOSSES
 Under any circumstances, it seems cer- tain that the enemy has already suf- fered heavy losses in guns and other war material. His main lines of communica- ton have either been broken or are the vast impedimenta of great army to the rear seems greater than he can hope to accomplish without losses that will soon reach serious proportions
 Rear guard actions depend for their success largely on holding the enemy body which is being protected has es- caped. For that reason German losses in guns are almost certain to be heavy as invariably many rear guard batteries are unable to escape the advancing foe.
 The salient in which the Germans ap- peared to stand tonight is still suffi- ciently broad at the base to furnish way of escape if the communication lines they have built up since they invaded the region last May are so placed as to fall in the center of the wedge. Their main rail connection is already useless to them as the Franco-American forces stand along 1t at many points.
 The appearance of British troops on the Rheims side of the salient may mean officials said, that General Foch is pre- pairing to drive in another spearhead from that side as he is forceing ahead Franco-American thrust on the north western line between Soissons and Cha teau Thierry whenever the opportunity offers. Should he strike also from Rheims, it was regarded as probable that his object would be primarily to get be- hind any line that offered a possibility to the Germans of making a stand be- low the Aisne.
 The enemys defense of the north bank of the Marne promises to collapse if the F'ranco-American advance from Chateau Thierry to the east continues with the success with which it was started The German forces are between two fires, as this movement advances on their right flank, and the moment they fall back increased pressure will be brought against them as the French cross the river in pursuit. The allied lines are steadily shortening as they press forward
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records for distance flights, and has nonstop flight record that surpasses all other distance flights of both men and women aviators in this country
 She can stop flying now any time that she wants to, and get the best that the musical world has to offer But no one seriously expects her to. for the government has observed her work. and found 1t good, and since by her sex she is hopelessly barred from active participation in the war, she has taken up, with characteristic vim, the job of charting new air routes for mall transportation and carrying mall over the new highways in the clouds.
 Means To An End
 Miss Stinson has also found way to express her patriotism in a way that is more directly connected with the war. In many cities where she has been flying since the United States entered the war she has volunteered her services to the army, navy and marine corps recruiting stations, and has been an earnest and enthusiastic recruiting sergeant protein. This summer she is taking up, in addition to her recruiting activities. the pro- motion of the sale of War Savings Stamps
 Katherine Stinson has crowded a great variety of experiences and
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region southwest of Vlle En Tardencis are reported by aviation. This may be for a counter attack on the center of allied attack of yesterday. German counter attacks were very strong today, especially flom Aisne to Chaudon, where they seem to have reached the plateal west of Ploisy and to have taken Chau- don. Further south We progressed to Chouy and Neiully-St. Front On the Marne Rhems front the enemy appears on the defensive and We advanced slightly in places.
 Tt was reported 11:S0 o'clock on the evening of July 19:
 Advance continues Counter attacks
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Despite counter attacks and rear guard actions of q desperate nature the Americans advanced steadily early yes. terday, says the communique. The towns of Courmelles, Rozey, St. A1bia and Maubry had been entered by the Amen- cans before 1 o'clock Saturday morning
 The text Of the communique follows;
 Tt was reported at 6:3o o'clock on the evening of July 19:
 Aviation reported dense cloud of smoke covering the bridge over the Marne This may be to hide with drawal. Large assembly of troops in the
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Johnny Knew

From the Philadelphia Telegraph.
 Last summer little Johnny paid his first visit to farm. All his life he had lived in the heart of a great city and when he suddenly came in sight of a haystacl< he stopped and gazet earnestly at what appealed to him as a new brand of architecture.
 Say MT. Smith he remarked tc the farmer pointing to the haystaeEi
 why don't they have doors and win doys in it?'
 .'Doors and windows!" smiled the farmer That ain't house. Johnny that's hay
 Don't try to josh me. MT Smith, was the scornfu1 rejoinder of the city boy. Don't you suppose that l know that hay don't grow in humps like that?''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-22
TWO OFFICERS DIE
 IN 1OOO-FOOT FALL
Two Flying School Instruc- tors Instantly Killed in
 Tail Spin Fall

Fort Worth, Tex, July T Two officers belonging 10 the Carruthers Field were killed ir a 1000-foot fall in d tail spin to- day near Benbrook
 The dead:
 Lieut.. Robert YarnaI Snyder. 919 College avenue, EImira, N. Y.; uncle. Seth NJ. Snyder. He was commissioned June 1e.
 Lieut.. Olaf John Tanner, Moor head, Minn., son of Jacob Tanner. He was commissioned July 15.
 Both men were instructors. They were killed instantly
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NetU Flank Operations
 h Vicinity Of Rheims
 By Gen. Foch Expected
Serious German Losses in Men and Guns Certain, as Rear Guard Batteries Will Be Unable to
 Escape Advancing Allied Armies

Washington, July 21.-Wth the German retreat from Chateau Thiey and the Marne in full swing officials here watching reports indications that General Foch might launch flank operations from the vicinity of Rheims der to break the withdrawal and nfct the maximum m on his hea
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Iowa.
 John |, Williams, seaman, Plainview Arkansas.
 Lysle L. Wiley, seamae Island Falls Chester J. Hamilton. seaman, Denver olriE 0. Pollock, seaman, PowervilIe Missouri.
 UNACCOUNTED FOR I'ilaecounted for esuppcsed to be or leaye):
 Charles l. Baekus, cook, Grunwalk Iowa.
 Fal eth A, Barnes, pl,e hinists mate Duluth, Minn.
 Walter J. Cham9ets, chef electrician, San Francisco.
 J1n'es E. Compton, coN@ vain. St. Jose California
 Ranry C Constant, seileimaker, Wills Point. Tex.
 Joseph [. corbett, gunner's mate, La Grande, Ore
 Edward F. Doyle, stor ekeeper. Ale. 6neny. Pa.
 William H. Gage, chief maehinist s mate Denver.
 Charles H. Gsrnsen, seaman. Jones' 5oro. Ark.
 l.lyood R. sFo}mos, seaman, Oakland, California
 Leon E. Dahlstr1t, quartermaster, MarGuette, Neb.
 Lawrence Spaulding, seaman. Indian apohs.
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Getting the Cue

From London Opinion.
 The Actor-My son is acting captain now.
 The Barmaid tbored)-Well, I hope he makes a better job of it than his father made of Hamlet.