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energy, work. A woman who has
followed q profession to some pur-
pose, a woman who is a success in
business, one who is an artist or a
worker for her felloWmen deserves
consideration on the strength Of
what she has accomplished. She
may be married or single. Accord
ing to any really sensible stand
ard, how can this possibly matter?
1t is true, admit, that a woman
who has successfully brought up a
healthy and promising fam,!y of
children is entitled to be regarded
seriously. But it takes years for
a woman to establish her right to
credit as . mother. There are
mothers-and mothers.
With all these points in mind,
many advanced women Of the pres
ent day have advocated the abOl-
ishing of the titles Mrs" and
Miss" on the ground that they
create an artificial distinction.
Does this seem an unnecessarily
radical departure? Think it over
and see if the advantages Of such a
change do not become apparent to
you.
A youthful bride whom nobody
addressed as Mrs. John Smith"
would perhaps have less tempta-
ton to boast about her connection
with the excellent but by no means
unique Mr.. Smith.
"People speak to me as though
/ were no different from what l
was before" she might reflect.
"Can it be that really AM no
different? Can it be that really
have no cause to be airy and su-
perior because Pm married."
Wait until you have shown that
you are different, in some particu-
lar, from hundreds of thousands of
other women who have husbands
and homes. Wait until you have
thought out some way of making
home life happier, more COM
Portable, more complete, more
beautiful. Wait until you have
some contribution from your own
experience to the problems of mar
riage or motherhood. Wait until
you have found out bow to make
housekeeping simpler or more eff
fective or more economical.
Then it will be time enough to
boast that you are married and
housekeeper-time enough to ex-
pect consideration and precedence
and praise. You will deserve them
then.
But to expect these things be-
cause you've married the man you
loved, while your neighbor hasn't,
yet-i3 this reasonable or is it
just & little vulgar?
At all events, Pm sure you won't
be guilty OF it.
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repeatedly to whomever will lis
ten, that she has a husband, but
the details of her housekeeping
are advertised in her conversa-
tion, rs though they had an i'm
pOrtance that mere unmarried
housekeepers never acquired. And
her struggles with shopkeepers,
landlords, dressmakers, and ser
wants, if she has any, are thrust
upon the worlds attention with an
air that she could never have sum-
moned before that ceremony for
which she so complacently robed
herself in white satin.
There is no Tlistaking the sig
nifcance of her manner. 1t means,
not only that she herself is aware
of having triumphed, but that she
is grievously sorry for those who
haven't.
Pity For the "OId Maid"
No fate seems to be so deserv-
ing of pity, and yet, at the same
time, sc contemplate, as that of
the spinster. 1t is as the "old
maid" that she thinks of her-and
she doesn't hesitate to use the
term. The unmarried woman is
for her the unpreferred, the un-
loved, the Unoccupied, the useless
and negligible. Nor does she hest
tate to let an unmarried girl know
that she has this view.
1t doesn't make her popular,
of course-among the unmarried.
But even if she knew this /
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WHEN THE BABY CHANGED INTO A FOURTEEN,
YEAR-OLD, THE MOTHER WEPT

At Bottom of Last Column)
about able to walk and about little We do not
our future clearly and many Of US look back regreu to
the simple days of industrial babyhood
But those days never be brought back even if We
wanted to bring them back The thing for to do is to
remember that great progress and great future are ahead
of US and to do all prepare for the future and
hurry along We should refrain especially from feelings
of pessimism We should study and work to control
selves as well and look ahead into the future.
Remember this very true saying and apply it in your
attitude toward the world:
It is not enough to believe in God; must believe
in man. in humanity and its future"
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H HEARD AND SEEN

The Ad Club plan to advertise
Washington's Voteless Condition to
the whole United States receives the
endorsement and cooperation Of the
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
And also of the KIWANIE
CLUB.
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"CamOuflaged" Reader Wants A
Brown Mouse.

Can you direct me to a place where
/ can procure one of those cute litsle
BROWN LOW MICE for a house pei,
to turn loose when my wife is on my
trail for being too convivial with my
club friends? Nothing else will
serve my purpose, for it is the only
thing that can possibly divert such
a mind on mischief bent.
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FOUR ACES

At the Press Club Tonight:
Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker.
Lieut.. John D. Donaldson.
Major Harry Meissner.
Capt. Douglass Campbell.
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sadly to work, wondering about my
ashes, and had them on my mind
until / lunched with MAJOR MAU-
RICE CONNOLLY-he upon rice
and peppers and / upon shell fish. To
the admiralty again where saw
COMMANDER PERCY FOOTE, who
commanded the ship President Lin
coin when it was torpedoed.
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As Sam PepYs SAYS:

/ A6 Gam CPyS OegS
Monday: Up before seven and cold
morning. To my office afoot where a
stint of work awaited me. ROBERT
MATTHEWS, private secretary to
/ the Reverend WILLIAM SUNDAY,
| a droll preacher, was dining at my
club and l chatted with him with
great merriment. To the tabernacle
where this droll preacher was a
preaching, and there l saw many
great folk, including JOHN LET'S,
nv neiphbor. And afterwards to
Mr.. WESER'S where l did eat a
dozen clans and MISTRESS MARY
with me, who said raw clans were
like eating tin.
Tuesday: With w. W. BRIDE in d
gB chariot to my office, with COM
/ MANDER DEFREES, of the navy;
and then later to the admiralty
where did chat pleasantly with
JOSEPHUS DANIELS on private
matters, he being pleasant and
chummy withal. Later to lunch on
cold boiled beef and horseradlsh
sauce. Then to the office Of GEN
ERAL MENOHER, who led the
Rainbow Division and is now director
of the air service, a fine man who
believes in the common or foot SOL
dier a great deal.
Wednesday: Looking out my
chamber window l espied my four
ash cans which have sat there un-
emptied, 10, these many days. So
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What's Doing; Where; When

Lecture-"Duties of Paying Teller" d"
w. y. Seay. OF Federal National Bank
before Washington Chapter. American IT
stitute OF Banking. l4l2 street north
west, p IN.
Aeettng-The California State Assacia-
tion. Thomson School. Twelfth and l.
streets northwest. p. IN.
heetinE-Dunbar Community Center.
Dunbar School. D. m.
hee;ing-COmmunty Buying Club Of
the Birney Community Center. Birney
School. p. m.
heeting-CathOlic Women's War Relief
Club, @40s X street northwest. 2. m.
Tomorrow.
Meeting-Emery School Alumni Asso-
citation, Emery School p m.
Address-Cons gresham Wright, before
Georgia State Society, Thomson SChOO..
Twelfth and l. streets northwest. s p IN.
Authors carnival and bali-Auspices OF
the League or American PenWomsn, VIII
lard Hotel, p. IN. Letters. pictures and
manuscripts of famous authors will b'
auctioned on to highest bidders
lecture-ThnmsF A. DH!y, or PhiladeI-
phia Record, "Bolshcvist Bards. Mchahc n
Hall. Catholic University Of America,
BrOoAland. p, m,
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Here's a good friend of the army.
MARIE Carroll had five minutes
notice that she was expected to ap-
pear at the dance and show given by
the Surgeon Generals office at the
Willard the other night, but she
dashed into a taxi and got from
Polls on time to make the hit Of the
evening before that bunch of soldier
folks and their friends.
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LIEUT.. BLAIR SPENCER, U. 5.
N, is back in town after a lot of
hot experiences abroad.
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When the Baby Changed Into a
Fourteen-Year=Old, the
Mother Wept

Later She Felt Better This Is Parable Our Short
comings
The Washington times., 1919-02-13
ROBERT V. OUTERBRIDGE.

"Chauffeurs' Head Back From the
War."-News headline.
Great Scott! Where's the rest Of
him?
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With two wound chevrons and
three gold service cheYrons, and a
croix de guerre, CAPT. L. W. WHIT
ING, of the Sixth Engineers, has just
blown into town and is at Walter
Reed. Captain Whiting is IAN old
Washington boy" played football on
G. W. U. teams and worked as an
engineer on big construction work.
He IUus the first American officer to
get into Belledu Wood.
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Village Items

Enlage Items.
W. WILSON, of 1900 PennsyI-
vania avenue, who is now abroad, Is
expected home shortly.
VIC KAUFFMANN, our pop.
newspaper man, is going to give a
theater party for Walter Reed boys
next Tuesday.
DAVID HUSTON over TO the
Agri. Dept. is giving black looks
toward BILL SPILLMAN these
days.
JUDGE MCCOY has a swell Jury
this term. HARRY MEEM,
GEORGE HERTZ, TOM MEL
TON, HENRY MCKEE, and F.
GHISELLI are on it.
To say nothing of HEN HAN
FORD.
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We Blush.

Dear Heard and Seen Column:
Permit me to thank you for the
really good work you did in making
the Government service see the light
in the matter Of taking back soldiers
in their former ratings in the Gov
ernment service. Your good snappy
stuff put THAT thing over for the
people.
ROBERT Y. OUTERRRIDGE-
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from his pocket that NOT sound would il
emit. He pulled and he puffed. but his man
got away And one sunshiny day when he
was sitting there studying and tapping
pencil against his teeth the incident re-
Cured to his mind and he decided there
ought to be some way of keeping lint out
of police whistles. There was. and he
found it. It's being used now not onlv in
New York but by the police of South
American, cities. And the royalties on the
simple little device help keep the lint from
gathering in Faurot's pockets
Then there's a sleeve valve to make anv
motor silent motor. 1t is adaptable TO
automobiles or aeroplanes. 1t is of simple
constructions reduces friction to remark
able degree and is of light weight and cheap
to build. One of the biggest automobile
concerns in the country is making one now
Tor testing purposes. Its inventor is Sc
reney confident that it will meet every test.
That contrivance will bear the name of
Faurot, too. An improved transmitter for
telephones and dictagraphs is another idea
that occurred to this deceptiveL leisurelv
policeman
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And the Stakes He Plays For, in Com.
pany With Villas Teacher,
: Angeles

clercals and anti-churchmen, liberals,
radicals. Felicstas, Maderistas. Villistas
and some who have changed parties fire.
quently. Luis Manuel Rojas, one of Car
ranza's chief legal advisers, was a mem
ber
Americans in close touch with Huetta
say his method Of dissolving Congress
was typical of the safdonie humef Of
the man, He had invited the members
Of Congress 90 dine with him Al the Cafe
Bach and the management Of the eafe
had made elaborate preparations, The
climax came at the end Of a typieaI
Huefta day, Such days began at 1890
a, M, when Huerta, unshayen and I'M
buttoned, drove from the Castle of
Chapultepec to the Cafe Chapultepec, at
the foot of the hill on which the Presi-
Dental residence stands. Out would
dash a waiter with a bottle bearing the
magic three stars Thence Huerta would
drive to the Cafe Colon, where his barber
would meet him, and he would breakfast.
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From Sporting Goods
To the Force

1t was good deal of an accident that
taurot IS policeman at all little
more than twenty-three years ago be was
clerk in Spalding's sporting goods house.
he policemen whose post it was on used
70 come into the engine room 10 smoke
faurot stll smokes cigarettes with fhe
afdor OF MS clerking days. II was quite
hstura that he and the policeman should
become we'll aequante Another empleye
OF tbs itm, stfappng freshman, often
loihed the smokers ~ the cellar
"fbe copper was always telling him,
laufet said, "iWhY don't you Join tbs CONS,
young fellow and he kept al ma The same
Wsy Well weighed only 40 pounds in
those days and ! didn't think had =
ehanee' Roosevelt WAS Commissioner then
ana the exams we're pretty stiff. This big
lrlshman decides all of a sudden, though,
that he'll try it and more because |
wouldn't take dare han for any other
reason | went along, too.
well, he was turned down and passed
And he wanted the job and | didn't know
whether did not. took it. though. and
I've been twenty-three years in the de-
partment now"
Faurot is one of the few scientific do
tectives among American policemen and he
is among Che best Of the few. He was ac-
qualnted with the great Bertillon himself
and developed the Bertilon system Of
measurements in the New York Police De-
partment. Later identification bv the
fngerprint system became his hobby. He
studied it in London and Paris and in
stalled it in New York
IT
through the calculated wizardrv of
finger smear identification he has solvod
crimes that would have remained forevor
mysteries had they been committed n,;or
TO 1905 A corpse buried in Tbomnsop
Street cellar, the dingy house above do
serted and the only significant bit Of owl
dence left behind n rusty spade. constitute
the maklngs of fair to middline mvsterv
Finger prints solved X Thew ;dan,isoa
the corpse and imprint on the handle
OF the shovel weeks later identified rho
owner OF the house and the murderer after
he had been killed in d brawl in Cnliforri,
ihen there Is the story Of the fngor nrin.
on the soup ladle brought out by corrosion
a year after a burglar had made 1.-THE
ar IN that little Office fronting on Centre
Market Place reeks OF mystery stories
Tracking and the measurements and No
culiarities of footprints also have ercsr.d
the attention of Faurot; likewise metric
photography, by which a diagram To scs,o
40 "'Aue Oh inc scene OF crime simply by
opening ana closing the shutter of CAM
cru IN ms spare moments during the last
iour years faurot has been writing a book.
~ IS 20 be published III few months. It
's study of police methods the world
over particularly with regard to the trac-
ing and identification of criminals.
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the one which is dearest TO Inspector
Faurot's heart, II is the great jewelry
houses in The Maiden Lane district that
he hopes most to see try the gate with
success. There floor after floor is laden
with priceless treasure of assorted and
matched gems. The deadlne which Byrnes
set ut rulton Street is scoffcd at by thieves
OF THIS generation. The Maiden Lane dis
trict is an allurng prospect.
The safety of valuable museum conec-
''eHs would be increased greatly by use Of
thc cate. Thcfts from museums are of rare
occurrence, but the loss is often irrcpara-
bic when it does occur, and the skilful
th'cf might be able to smash a case, seize
his plumber and escape in the confusion
caused by the crash. But with the thief
catching gates at work guard could close
every exit at the first suspicion that any
thing was wrong
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Trapped i'm the
pOSf0MCe

Nor are the city despcradoes the
only ones to which the Faurot-Wolfe
gate is applicable. The brotherhood
of yeggs, less skiful and less daring
craftsmen, who ride the brakebeams from
county seat to county seat, stopping off
to ply their trade Mt the most insignificant
villages, Will have an interest also in this
invention Of two New York policemen
A drill and jimmy, a supply Of "sounv
and dark night make an almost nerfoct
combination for yegg now He ia likeIv
to 70 about his task in carcfree man
neF' even If he doesn't take the risk of
"h'stllng as he works. For it is freouentlv
the case that even when he is discovered
at work in the village postoffice or bank
no ono darcs to give the alarm until the
burglar hns put safe distance between
hlmself and the townsfolk
But put n Faurot- Wolfe gate on the bank
the postofficc the railroad ticket Office
ana It VIII be resourceful ycgr indeed
who makes his getaway with the currency.
postage stamps or railroad tickets. The
contrlvance can be connected with Tho
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the Cafe Sylvan and others, followed h.
an auto ride In the suburbs.
On the evening of October IN /.
strolled into the Cafe Bach and was j.,
mediately ushered to the banquet hall
"Ail is prepared" said the bowins bs.a
waiter. How careless Of me, snswsrea
the general. II did not invite chs bss,'
ties 70 dinner tonight" In the sssa
time the 10th Battalion had surrounded
the Chamber ~ Deputies. two blacks
away. arrested the Deputies and tsksn
/ o Of them 10 Beiem Prison,
"fhey must not think ME neglect
full host" said Huerta "They shall
have their dinner" And he made tbs
cafe proprietor pack the banquet into
baskets and carry it to the prisoners IN
Belem. What had happened to the i'm
prisoned Deputies became known 70
their families and friends only throuob
the nerve of a newspaper reporter Gon.
salo Espinoza, who took a workman.
coat and dinner bucket and talked h.
way past the guard, carrying hastilv
written messages from the Congress-
men.
The grim humor of those DAYS was
not all upon the side of Huerta. Arch
bishop Mora y Rio, ranking prelate Of
Mexico, accompanied by the Archbishon
of Pueblo, now dead, and the Arch
bishop of Guadalajara, still very much
alive, sought Huerta to plead with him
to give UP his personal ambitions and
resign for the sake of the country and
to avoid further disorder and b.oodshed
Huerta received them graciously. but
declared that while he had no personal
ambitions, he could not be so unpatriotic
as to abandon his. post when the country
faced such a crisis. He concluded hv
dropping to his knees and asking the
archepiscopal ~~ blessing Archbishop
Mora Rio extended his hand above
Huerta's bald head and pronounced in
Latin the blessing used in consecratine
the candles burned in the cathedral. It
may be freely rendered: ''You, who are
about to burn, bless you Huerta
arose from his knees and bowed his
visitors out with perfect satisfaction.
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The Perils That General Blanauet
Goes TO Face Against
Carranza
By John c. Royle

end Immediately left him and came to
the United States Villa was soundlv
thrashed at Celaya for the first time and
began the slide which bumped him,
6rohe'i IN health and military strength,
ut the bottom Of the bandit class,
NOW Angeles. according 10 his friends
mere, Is going back 10 "befsilade" Villa
"a eliminate himself rs a political faetof
IN Mekje9, IN other words, he is going
to supplant Villa In command of the
forces opposed to Carran1a in the north,
Any one who has dealt with Nilla knows
now amenabe he is to "persuasion."
Angeles must face not only death in bat
Tie but the possibility of a knife in the
RIBS and dose of loco weed in his food
as we'll The latter was the fate of
Empress Carlotta, wife of Macmillan.
above all he, too, can see, when he
shuts his eyes, the staring muzzles of
the firing squad, either of his friends or
the Carranzistas. Angeles lived in pros
perlty and comfort in New York. He
was trusted inspector of munitions for
the French government during the late
years OF the war He has known the
best social life in European capitals, vet
ne, too, unhesitatingly answered the
call of the game. although few would
sleep soundly in his present bed.
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home of The hank president, the postmss
ter or the station agent, with the alarm
right at the head of his bed
AT sound of the gong the man who is
belhg robbed opens his eyes, yawns
stretches and looks at his watch. He gives
the yeeg few minutes to get we'll inside
the building, telephoning meanwhile to
the neighbors who have shotguns and buck
shot. Then he presses button which
cages the intruder, perhaps so silentIv
mat ne is not aware he is a prisoner; pulls
on his breeches and boots grabs his guns
and goes out to join the posse.
All the shotgun company has to do.is to
SIT down and besiege the burglar, Ncure
in the knowledge that he can't subsist
forever on postage stamps When he sur
renders they can direct him to toss that
canister out of the window and then 70
lease him and march him to the ca1anoose
The same features which make the oa+e
a handy thing in Maiden Lane or for tho
metropolitan Museum of Art render il usa-
iui also IN criminal courts, prisons and in
sane asylums. Harry Thaw might still he
IN MatteaWan; Vincent Gaffney might never
have escaped from the Tombs to enoaoe
'HV'''S idtcl III ms spectacular rOOf-tOD
battle with the police in Harlem if the
thief catching gate had been in use.
How did come to think of it? In
spector Faurot repeated. ooh, don't
Know; how does a fellow come to think of
any Of those things? Something of the
KIND had been in my mind for long time,
| couldn't tell you how long You lust sit
and study for a while and an idea hits YOU.
and when you get a chance you work it
out and after while you've got the whole
thing
SO the man who sits tilted back in his
desk chair overlooking that insignificant
byway of Manhattan isn't so inert as he
looks He's Just sitting there studying
and some time idea will hit him Sew
erni have scored bull's-eyes already. In
spector Faurot is an easy mark for them
when his consta bulary duty has been done
once when he needed help in a hurry
and whipped his police whistle TO his lips
nc found the cylinder so stuffed with lint
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sh'sf' One thrusts revolver through
tellef's window and orders the gate in the
grating opened for his aocompliee Tn,
bank force Is transfXed, with hands raised
high in obedience to the threatening re-
Volver. Not n movement is discernible in
that tense second which is to decide the
success Of the robbery
Click!
There is metallic note of fnalitv in that
sudden sound which comes from behind the
robbers backs And on the instant the
brazen clangor of an alarm gong sounds
outside tho windows on both sides Of the
building
The bandit with pistol turns-or
doesn't he?
That sudden alarm brings everything to
locus. The hold-up man gets sudden,
numbing suspicion that he has walked into
a trap.
you can't tell what he'll do" Inspector
Faurot says "Ilc don't know himself un
til he does it. But one things sure. most
men who set out to rob have no intention
of committing murder"
II the robber does swing around if he
loses his grip even for a second his fangs
are drawn For the alarm has no terrors
Tor the bank employees. Probably three
or tour of them have loaded rcvolvers
"ltnIn arms reach At this particular
brooklyn bank the weapons were living in
plain sight on the counter behind the rrat
ing. When the robber returns to his task
ne will be facing firearms
In such case, of course, the button
WORKING the steel gate is in the floor.
There may be two. three or n dozen of
them IN various parts Of the room so that
II man always viii be standing over at
least one Of them. A pressure OF the foo,
and the thing is done. 1t is done without
trcmor of the appraised arms. With such
an appliance bank employees could have
drills similar to the fire drills in foctor,os
which would enable them to deal bv force
OF habit with any emergency that miph,
arise.
But While this is the most spectacular use
70 which the gate might be put, it is not