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Evening star., 1919-03-27
ORGANIZATION ACTIVITIES.
TONIGHT.

Joint meeting of the Washington
Academy of Sciences and the Chem
ical Society of Washington at 8
O clock in the assembly nall of the Cos
mos Club. when DR.. Arthur l.. Day
will lecture on Optical Glass"
Benefit dance for the auartermas-
ter's detachment, Walter Reed Hos
pital, at the Arcade, 14th street and
Park road.
Meeting of Kit Carson Post: No. ?.
G. A. R., at s o'clock at Grand Army
Hall. 1412 Pennsylvania avenue.
Election of officers at meeting OF
the Catholic women's war relief serv-
ice at O'Clock at the Catholic Wom-
ems War Service Club, 240S X street
northwest.
Address by Mrs George Barnett at
S:15 o'clock in the assembly hall or
the arts and sciences building. George
Washington University, 2023 g street
northwest. The public is invited to
this the first of series of evening
lectures.
Meeting of the Kentucky State AS
sociation at o'clock at the Thomson
School, 18th and L streets northwest.
Presentation of Lets Go" at Wash
ington barracks. under auspices of
the war camp community service.
Meeting of the Advertising Club of
Washington at $50 o'clock at Rausch-
er's, l. street and Connecticut avenue.
Meeting of the Mississippi Progress
sive Society at the Twelfth Street
Branch of the Y. NJ. c. A.
Presentation of MY New Curate" in
Gonzaga College Hall, | street be-
tween North Capitol and 1st streets.
for the benefit of the war activities
fund of the auxiliary board of Trinity
College.
Mass meeting to discuss ways and
means of uplifting the colored race. at
Church, n street between 9Th and 10Th
streets.
March prize debate between senior
and junior debating societies of
Georgetown University Law School at
$50 o'clock in law school auditorium,
6th and E streets. Subject, THAT the
Susan B. Anthony Amendment to the
Constitution Be Adopted"
Free play for men in uniform. "Tre-
8 o'clock by the Post Office Depart
ment Dramatic Club at Carroll Hall,
G street between 9Th and 10th streets.
North Carolina Society reception
and dance at S:15 o'clock at the Will
son Normal School. Lieut.. Col. Sam
ueI T. Ansell is to speak.
Evening star., 1919-03-27
WAR RISK WORKERS GO
TO 9TH AND B QUARTERS
BY POP.

ings at 9th and b streets northwest
have been vacated by the ordnance
department of the Army for the occu-
pancy of about 1,S00 employees of the
war risk insurance bureau of the
Treasury Department, pending COM
pletion of the new war risk building
at Vermont avenue and H street
Heavy reductions are being made in
the force of the ordnance department
and it does not need SO much space
as formerly.
Evening star., 1919-03-27
F. A. Sebring Veteran Official.

Frank A. Sebring. veteran Police
Court official. on April l will COM
plete a continuous service there of
twenty-five years. April I, 1897. Mr..
Sebring became deputy clerk in the
Police Court, in which position he
served unt1 January /. 1902. when he
organized the financial clerks office
and became it's head He served in
that capacity up to July l, 1908. when
he was made the chief clerk of the
court, which position he has filled
since.
Evening star., 1919-03-27

grandfather. Admiral Radford. COM
mander of the Mediterranean squad
ron. The play was written by Mrs
Torbert.
Two identical community sings will
be held at the Central High School
Sunday afternoon. beginning at 2:30
and 3:45 o'clock, respectively. The
Navy Glee Club from the naval train
ing station at Hampton roads Will
sing at both concerts. Gilbert Wilson
will lead in community singing.
"Three World Capftals. will be the
subject Of an illustrated lecture by
morrow night before Unity Chapter,
o. E. S., at the Masonic Temple. Rome,
London and Paris will be treated.
Lincoln Post. No. 3. G. A. r., was
entertained last week by it's adjutant,
Addresses by officers of the Depart
ment Of the Potomac, songs and reci-
tations and a banquet served by Daugh-
ters Of Veterans completed the program
A spring novelty dance will be given
by the y: M. H. A. April in the Ar
caie ballroom. the proceeds of the
dance to go to the associations base
ball team.
GeorEetown Chapter, Delta Chi Fra
ternity, is to hold a smoker tomor-
row night at $3.50 o'clock at the chap
ter house. IT'S Q street northwest
Sunday at o'clock the active chapter
of Delta Chi will serve a special sup
per to members of the fraternity from
other cities.
The Aquarium Society of Washing
ton is to hold it's first regular meet
ing since the war Saturday night at
712 18th street northwest. Specimens
acquired by members during the war
will be exhibited. Meetings will be
held once month on Saturday even
ings. Field meetings will be held
Sundays.
Evening star., 1919-03-27
Capt. John v. Chase Ordered Here,

Capt. John V. Chase, commanding
the battleship Minnesota of the At
lantic fleet. has been ordered to this
city for duty in the bureau of ord
nance, Navy Department.
Evening star., 1919-03-27

TAKE BELL-ANs BEFORE MEALS
and see how fine good digestion makes you feel.
Advertisement.
Evening star., 1919-03-27

Shaher's Wedding Decorations Enjoy
wide repute for artistic merit. 900 18th.
Advertisement.
Evening star., 1919-03-27

Lecturing on Psychology at "Y."
Burt B. Farnsworth of New York
city last night began series of three
free lectures on Applied Psychology
at the Central Y. M. c. A., 1876 street
northwest. He will lecture again to-
night and tomorrow night, starting at
8 o'clock.
Evening star., 1919-03-27

Flowers for Sick Friends,
None prettier or more lasting than
GUIDES homegrown flowers. 1914 f st.
Advertisement.
Evening star., 1919-03-27

Mrs. Horace Gates Torbert will ap-
a play to be given tomorrow night at
War Camp Community Club, No. 8.
sI8 10th street. Aunt Mandy was
nurse in the family of Mrs. Torberts
Evening star., 1919-03-27
TOMORROW

TOMORROW.
Annual meeting of Women's Alliance
of All Souls Unitarian Church at IL
o'clock: election of officers and reports.
Mrs George Kicker will act as toast
mistress at luncheon.
Evening star., 1919-03-27
Officer Ordered to Washington.

Lieut.. Commander Harry G. Donald,
U. S. NJ, has been detached from the
battleship North Dakota and ordered
to this city for duty as member of
the board of inspection and survey.
Evening star., 1919-03-27

Members of the Delchi Club are to
give a dance Saturday night in the
new Arcade ballroom.
Evening star., 1919-03-27

Free play for men in uniform, "Tre
lawney of the Wells" to be given at
8 o'clock by the Post Office Depart
ment Dramatic Club at Carroll Hall,
G street between 9Th and 10th streets.
Evening star., 1919-03-27

A spring novelty dance will be given
bv the Y. M. H. A. April 8 in the Ar
dance to go to the associations base
ball team.
Evening star., 1919-03-27

North Carolina Society reception
and dance at s;15 o'clock at the Will
son Normal School. Lieut.. Col. Sam
ueI T. Ansell is to speak.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-08-23
Plan to Make Safe Grade
Crossings and Curves for
Vehicles and Occupants

To abolish the danger of grade
crossings without abolishing the cross
ing, IS the object of the road commits
sioner of one of the Southern states.
He suggests a strip of road running
for about 100 yards alongside the rail-
way track and Joined to the highway
by broad curve, we'll banked, so that
a driver, on approaching the tracks
and suddenly becoming aware OF an
oncoming train, could swerve to the
right and avoid smash .~..
Another road Improvement has been
put into effect In some parts of Cali
fornia where the roads climb steep
hills in long ziz-zags. At the sharp
angles where the zig-zags meet,
large circles of road have been cut,
outside the angle, so that a car COM
ing down the mountains at high speed
can swing around the circle and pro-
coed on it's downward path without
the danger of making a sharp, turn.
A car coming up the mountain makes
similar swing around and thus avoids
the strain on its steering gear involved
in making a turn at an acute angle
when it's engine is already strained
to the uttermost.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-08-23
Quaint Remedies of Past
Produced From Weeds Now
Most Common in the Field

In old-time Philadelphia, says the
Philadelphia Ledger, some quaint rem
edies were used.
Thus we find pokeberries used to
make plaster for cancer. Grapevine
sap was used for hair tonic.
To produce sweat, tea was made
from magnolia leaves. The berry Of
this plant was supposed to cure con-
sumption.
For toothache the bayberry root
was an accepted remedy. Berries Of
the cedar tree were supposed to stiffen
the spine. A purge was made Of alder
buds or of elderberries.
Goldenrod, the mullen plant and
even the lowly burdock we're laid I'M
der tribute for various maladies. 1t is
hard to find a common weed that was
rejected by the eighteenth century
pharmacopoeia.
The grandmother of all the Philadel-
phia quacks was a beldame by the
name Of Sibylla Masters, who 200 years
ago made a fortune by the patent and
sale of '"TuscarOra rice" for consump-
ton.
1t was nothing more or less, appar-
emily, than hominy made from Indian
corn.
Her husband put up a water mill
somewhere near the city to make it. =
She was an innocent practitioner
compared with certain modern profit.
GERS.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-08-23
TEACHING THE
CHICKS TO ROOST

Where a large number Of chicks are
being raised in one brooder house diff
ficulty is often experienced in prevent
ing the birds from piling up at night
after the heat is removed, and causing
serious losses, says T. s. Townsley of
the University of Missouri college Of
agriculture. To prevent this over
crowding the birds should be taught
to roost as early as possible. If roosts
are made, out of 1 by 3-inch strips
placed 12 to Is inches from the floor,
the birds can easily be taught to go to
roost. If the chicks do not go up on the
rOost of their own accord they should
be gently placed on the roosts after
dark for one or two nights until they
get the roosting habit.
Look Out for Mites.-This season of
the year q constant lookout should be
kept by all poultry keepers for mites
in the houses and coops. A mite is very
small and difficult to see unless spe-
ciaI search is made. They appear as mi
mute, gray or reddish specks. when
present in large numbers, the mites
have the appearance of dust. Mites re-
produce very rapidly and are a great
source of annoyance to the hens when
present in large numbers. The mites
live by sucking blood from the hens.
A severe attack of mites will cause the
hens to lose flesh and stop laying, and
will oftentimes produce death. To get
rid OF mites the houses must be care
fully cleaned and then painted or
sprayed with repellent material A
heavy spraying with coal oil followed
iii two or three days by giving the
roosts and surrounding boards thor
ough painting with crude oil will clean
up the mites and keep the houses free
for several months. This treatment
should be applied twice yearly to all
poultry houses as precautionary
measure against mites.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-08-23
Most Garden PoSieS Are
Developed From Wi!dIingS
by Ardent FIoWer-Lovers

Most Of our garden flowers have
been developed from wildlings, in
which some f1ower-lover has seen
promise The five-petaled wild rose
was the original from which has come
the infinite variety we know today.
Humboldt discovered the dahIia on
tabIeland in Mexico, though it had
been introduced into England from
Spain in 1889. From 1t has come the
numerous forms so priced today. The
cosmos was a ditch flower in Texas.
Iris, a connecting link between lilies
and orchids, abounds in many parts
of the world, growing usually in moist
situations. The several types are
among the most beautiful of our gar
den flowers, and the flower deserves a
show of it's own as much as tulips,
dahlias or chrysanthemums.
The poet acclaims the man who
makes two blades of grass grow where
but one grew before as a benefactor
of mankind. Why not also the man
who makes q new flower bloom?
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-08-23
BATTLE WITH SHARKS

Sharks, in their death thrOes. have
been known to attack the boat and
with their powerful rows Of .seFrated
teeth rip great sections from the sides.
The shark hunter first obtains dead
horse, and if it has been dead a week
SC much the better.
The powerboat lows the carcass out
side the harbOr and the hunt is on.
Sharks, attracted by the odor of the
bait, gather in large numbers and soon
begin. striking at the carcass. ripping
huge chunks of flesh from 1t.
At this stage the hunter endeavors
to work his boat near enough to permit
a shot with the harpoon.
Once securely harpooned, big shark
will fight for hours before succumb-
ing.
Recently in Hawaii shark hunting
has been placed on a commercial basis.
and the development of big industry
is forecast.
Shark fins are deemed a great deli
cacy by orientals, and dried shark meat
has found q ready market.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-08-23
Vegetables of the Home
Garden Said to Possess
Medicinal Properties

Watercress is an excellent blood
purifier.
Lettuce has a soothing effect on the
nerves and is excellent for sufferers
from insomnia.
Tomatoes are good for a torpid
liver, but should be avoided by equity
people.
Celery is fine nerve tonic; onions
also are q tonic for the nerves.
Spinach has great aperient quail
ties, and is far better than medicine
for sufferers from constipation.
Beet root is fattening and good for
people who want to put on flesh.
Parsnips possess the same virtues
as sarsaparilia.
Cranberries correct the liver.
Asparagus stimulates the kidneys.
Bananas are beneficial to sufferers
from chest complaints.
Celery contains sulphur and helps to
ward off rheumatism.
CaEpOks are excellent for govt.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-08-23
BOY WINS LIFE
BY POKER CAME
Stephen Seaman Relates Hair"
Raising Experience While
in Mexico.
USE CORN FOR MONEY
Falls Into Hands of Martin Lopez.
Most BIoodthirsty of Villas Fol-
Iowers-Happy to Be Back
in United States.

Ell Paso. TeXas.-Stephen Seaman.
10 years old, is the youngest soldier
of fortune.
Steve has just tasted all the hair
breadth escape and 'bite-the-dust" ad-
venture you hoped to experience when
you were his age and were thrilling to
the daredevil feats of Diamond Dick.
Handsome Harry and Wild Bill.
Steve lives to tell how he played
poker with Martin Lopez, most blood
thirsty Of Villas followers:
How he narrowly escaped execution
against 'dobe wall
How he secuted for the Mexican
federal troops, and
How he was held by bandits.
All this below the Rio Grande
whittier he had wandered in search OF
adventure when he ran away from his
home town, the tame city of Provi
dence, r. l.
Mexico Appeals to Adventurer.
Young Seaman had read much about
Mexico, and decided that was the
country for him. Making his way to
El PaSO, he evaded the soldier and i'm
migration authorities on both sides of
the line, riding across the Rio Grande
in a box car.
From Juarez he went south on a
Carranzista troop train, and at Meoqui
he got his first thrill.
Villistas threatened to attack the
train. When the bandits retreated
Seaman volunteered to sneak after
them and do a bit of scouting for the
federals. BY way of appreciation, the
federals boarded the train, leaving him
to the mercies of the military police
of the little town. He was being taken
to Jail as a Villista suspect when an
interpreter happened along and Sc
cured the boys release.
Reckoning the troops, Seaman event
ually arrived at Parral.
With an American boys proper
pride, Steve refused to act as SER
want to a captain, and the officer in a
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-08-23
HIS LETTER

Beyond the steel and the fire
Cleans the old desire.
War has not taken wonder away,
More poignant where it's lightnings play
The appeal of Beauty's lonely cry!
1 shall go on dreaming till die.
see wind-burnished coin-bright towns
And roads that shine across the Gowns;
A dusk of forest and line
OF light that silvers the design;
Always the Swallowed and the bright,
A halo for the blacklist night!
Islands where I have never been;
The rainbow topping down the green
OF tilted seas that rake a ship;
The molten lava streams that slip
From fiery crater-rims and fill
The dark with rose and daffod1l;
Lakes, mountain-hid and spiritual:
The undiscovered waterfall
Like white feather through the trees.
The undiscovered bird in these
Singing, always alone, alone,
The lovely voice of the unknown.
This is Romance chameleon-clad
That called me when I was lad.
That calls me now to follow well
Through blighted Picardy to hell,
Through hell to some elusive bliss
Of new adventure after this;
To follow without asking why;
So you will know, if I must die
Upon this last and strangest quest,
1t did not differ from the rest
In simple wonder dark and bright
A halo for the darkest night;
And freedom like the unknown bird
Was a wild voice fought to hear!
These words, to you, my very dear.
Beyond the steel and the fire
Cleans the old desire.
Grace Hazard Conk1ing, in the Atlantic
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-08-23
ROMANS LIVING IN CAVES
High Rents Cause Return to Prehss.
torie Dwelling Places In
italian Capital.

Rome.-"Cavemen," relics of prehas-
toric days of human housing. live in
Rome side by side with institutions of
art and learning"
The caves are under the very
shadow of the British Art school and
the italian College of Modern Arts
Within a short distance is the ma
tional stadium: On the other side OF
them is the Porta del PopoIo, through
which before the days of railways all
pilgrims to Rome passed.
The reversion of Romans to the
caves is not retrogress!on. 1t is eva
sion Of high rents. All efforts of the
police to eject the tenants from the
caves have failed. The "cavemen"
move out but return as soon a. Il
police depart.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-08-23

rage threw the youngster against q
'dobe wall and had drawn his gun to
shoot him when soldier friends inter-
eeded.
Then came the battle of May 4, in
which the ViIlistas drove the CarranEa
garrison from Parral.
Steve was captured by Martin Lo,
peg, the Villista tiger man.
Was he afraid? He was not. When
the battle was over, the boy calmly
proposed a game of poker with the
bandit chief. 1t struck Lopez as anus
ing. He admired the lads cool cour-
age.
''Sit down." he laughed uproariously,
soldiers to gather round. Here's a
gringo boy who would play the great
game with Lopez"
Used Corn for Money.
Kernels of corn were used instead
Of money. Lopez lost several pecks Of
corn-and his admiration for the
American boy grew.
In this way Steve won his release
Som the bandits.
He concluded he had enough thrills
to last him for time, and started hik-
ing the long trail back to the border.
An American mining man gave him
some money. He worked a little, here
and there. A few days ago he reached
Ell Paso-sunburned, in rags, penniless
but happy.
just a plain American kid who had
the nerve to go out and get the ad-
venture which you, gentlemen, got Sec
ond hand from the thumb-marked pages
of "Wild Bill"
Now he's on his way back to that
tame, respectable Providence to tell the
other kids about it.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-08-23
Hawaiian Sportsmen Risk Their
Lives at Game.
Dead Horses Make Best Bait, and
Sport Has Been Com
merciaIfzed.

Honolulu.-Using the carcass of a
horse for bait, a Honolulu sportsman
went fishing recently in powerboat
and returned with a fish weighing
$500 pounds and measuring almost
IN feet from tip to tip, the largest
shark killed in Hawaiian waters for
many years.
shark fishing, or rather. hunting,
nc It is conducted In Hawaii Is a
thrilling sport, not entirely lacking in
danger to the hunter.
Tn ract, a death battle with har-
pooned shark, according to big-game
hunters, Is about as safe as nhonlght
combat with q hungry tiger.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-08-23

Sent to you FREE on Ten Days' Trial,
full treatment of DR.. NARDINE'S remedy
for catarrn, hay fever, asthma, influenza,
bronchitis, and all ailments of the throat
and lungs; chronic cases where specialist,
doctors and other remedies failed invited;
no charges If not benefited @you are to be
the judged sit down. order now, everything
to gain, nothing to lose. Nardine Medical
Co.. Inc, Dist. Dept. johnson City. NJ z
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-08-23
Dipiomaey.

1rdY0IlQg dlOuc
this trip, boss ?"
said the Pullman
porter.
Eyes, George"
replied the little
man. But why
do you call me
boss? The last
time I was on
your train you
called me chief ,"
Eyes boss ; but
your wife was
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-08-23
ElYind Tcins to Eurona.

A flyer predicts that we shall within
few years fly across the Atlantic in
the forenoon and return in the after
noon. We shall return in the OTTER
noon, no doubt, because after paying
fare for flying so high we shall have
nothing left upon which to "do" lands
beyond the misunderstanding Cour-
ier-JOurnal
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-08-23

''By CORY, there is no room in this
country for them internal bolshevikf !"
sternly declared the landlord of the
Palace Hotel at Peeweecuddyhump.
"Well, don't know" replied weary
looking guest. 1t seems to me that
incarceration in the room l occupied
in this hotel last night would be none
too bad for them"
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-08-23
- All Of Ninety Ecos Matched.

Marysvil1e, Pa.-Results of a hatch
OF 80 eggs, set under six hens of Mrs.
Daniel Kunkel of Jackson township,
it is believed have made a record
which others can aim at for years.
Every one of the eggs produced baby
ton
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-08-23
Hobbiedehoy.

"See that fellow yonder marking
time? He must be a returned soldier"
mo, he isn't. That is Billings. He's
a great ladies' man and he is practic.
ing to keep in step with the girls who
wear narrow skirts"
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-08-23
Her Only Chance.

poor old Miss
Skinnay goes to
e cry blessed
rummage S a / e.
l wonder what
she's looking for. ="
perhaps S h e
expects to find
a cast-off hus-
band"
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-08-23
Like a Veteran.

A friend of mine who was down in
the Hawaiian islands with the Ameri-
can first field artillery told me he had
not been in the service long but was
already as tanned as a raspberry and
as bowlegged as a donkey.-Exchange
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-08-23
Worse Than War.

Corporal-What's the matter? You
look more scared than when you were
bucEing the Hindenburg line.
Private-Tm getting ready to go in
side to ask the boss for my old job
back.-Life
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-08-23
Too Realistic.

''Those barks off stage didn't sound
like the real thing at ALL
II know they didn't. We foolishly
tried the experiment of ringing in q real
dog"
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-08-23
Shave With cutlcura Scan

"'Au SH]IS0Ea SOAP
And double your razor efficiency as
well as promote skin purity, skin COM
fort and skin health. No mug, no
Shiny soap, no germs, no waste, no
irritation even when shaved twice
daily. One soap for all uses-shaving,
bathing and shampooing.-Adv.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-08-23
Very DutifuI,

Elderly One-A wife should defer to
her husbands wishes, my dear.
Younger One-I have done so ever
since he told me his one wish was to
see me happy.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-08-23
Twins, Unfortunately.

boy or girl. doctor?"
zone Of EACH"
That's too bad: my wife and 1
never see things in the same light,
and was hoping to break the dead.
lock-"
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-08-23
Her Discovery.

"How long have you been mar
ried?"
Just long enough to discover what
awful bores my husbands business
friends are"