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The Washington times., 1919-10-24

Funeral services for Miss Julia
Della Struder, who died at the Alex
andria Hospital on Wednesday morn
ing of injuries received when she was
The Washington times., 1919-10-24

Approximately $4,000 OF this city's
allotment or $4,000 for the Jewish
relief fund had been collected when
the canvassers completed their labors
yesterday afternoon. The drive will
end today. and the committees in
charge will redouble their efforts to
go over the top, as Alexandria has
done in every campaign to raise funds
made necessary by the world war.
1t was stated last night that the
members OF the committee have been
unable to see personally many who
would be glad to contribute to the
fund, and those who have not been
interviewed are urged to send their
contributions to J. T. Preston. secrc-
tary Of the Alexandria Chamber Of
Commerce, Leopold Ruben or Bcne.
dict Well.
The Washington times., 1919-10-24
ALEXANDRIA NEWS
Oklahoma Candidate Installed
a Member in Alexandria
Lodge.

ALEXANDRIA. Va, Oct. "a With
the permission of Sol Cutchins, grand
master of Masons in Virginia, and the
grand master of the Jurisdiction of
Oklahoma, District Deputy Grand
Master Frank A. Darr, of Oklahoma,
and other members of the Grand
Lodge last night conferred the mas
ter mason degree at meeting of
Alexandria Washington Lodge upon
a candidate who was admitted to
membership in the Masonic Paternity
in Oklahoma, but came to this city
to make his home before he had been
initiated. The work was exemplified
in accordance with the Oklahoma
ritual. IL is stated, A number of
Scottish Rite Masons from Oklahoma
who are attending a meeting of the
Scottish rite bodies in Washington
participated in the initiatory exer-
cises. Tho Grand Lodge of Oklahoma
recently appropriated $4,000 for the
fund for the erection of a Masonic
temple in this city as a memorial TO
George Washington.
The Washington times., 1919-10-24

Don't spend your Liberty Bond
interest. Reinvest II In w. 8. 8.
The Washington times., 1919-10-24

Deeds of conveyance were record
ed In the office of the clerk of the
corporation court yesterday as fol-
lows: Mrs. Robert F. Green to
George Wise and wife house and
lots IL and IL. block 12 section 2
Rosemont: Benjamin w. PulIin and
others to Andrew Grady .sr.. and
wife, house and lot at the northeast
corner of Payne and Queen streets
General Realty Corporation to Carl
ton f. Massey. house and lot at the
southeast corner of Lee and Prince
streets; Carroll Pierce and James r.
eaton, trustees. to Mrs. Henrietta
W. Bales, lots Is and IS. section 8,
Rosemont: Mrs. Mary Field to George
T. Finnell and wife, house and lot on
the north side of Prince street, be-
tween Lee and Union streets; Miss
Fanny Dixon to Walter IL. Lotion
house and lot at 2O2 South Pitt
street; Mrs. Elizabeth r. NJ Fair to
Morris Baumgarten and wife. q house
and lot on the west side of Lee
street. between Wolfe and Wilkes
streets; Thomas w. McDermott to
Frank Sheppard. house and lot at
1913 Queen street, and William
Baader TO Edward Dixon. house ana
lot at 4o2h South Royal street.
The Washington times., 1919-10-24

Arrangements have been completed
for the launching of the big stee
freighter E. A. Morse at the yards o
q" Virginia Shipbuilding Corpora
ton at noon tomorrow. Miss Anni
Morse, only daughter of c. w. Morse
will be the sponsor.
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1919-08-28

! lt ia. Me COmplazcO
en- atestiguar que el Com
pueSto MltcheIIa del DIR.
]. II. Dye, que prescribe v
administro a mis- enfermas
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1919-08-28

La respectable Sra. We. C. PaIson
de la POIiclinica Pean. de Port-au
CERTIFICA: He obtenido admirable
MitcheiIa, tanto para hacer desaparecer
como para facilitar el parto dar leche
en- abundancia a la madre Lo reco-
miendo las Sras. encnta a las jove-
mes q, sufren de menstruaci6n dihcil."
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1919-08-28

La dlstIneulda Sra. Conception
ID. Benavides (Partcra Professionally de
Juno, Texas, E. u. de A., CERTIFICA:
"IIe probado el CompuestC MitchelIa
en- una dc mrs enfermas pr6xima dar
luz surtio tan maravilloso efecto. quo
Oued0 fuera de todO DeliprO fando = jul
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1919-08-28

oquedaVd nvencda
tanbien npuedehs
ictoIo La
d
No al
la pi observe 10 Itadoa sdesubs
e ed c III.
INSTITUTE, Buffalo, W E.
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1919-08-28

La GAIA DEL RELoJ.
Esta magnifica GAIA es de orc relIeao de-
ealidad fina, con 2 tapas exteriores una
interior para proteger Ia maquina, tiene Ia
corona = la argo1la del ultino sistema, en- 81:
aparienoia es lgual a los reiojes que cuestan
tres euatro veces mas.
0FERENTES Z ToDos SON PRECIoSos.
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1919-08-28

V0Iiosos certifcad0s de encOn1io de pronlinentes
MedicOs y PGrterGS que preScriben ddlni-
niStran SuS enfeTmGS tan fdnlOsa medicinal.
FL DIR. H. r. Koen de la FacuItad de Mcdcina dc Paris
dc POrt-au Prince. Rep de Haiti, CERTIFICA He
seo mis- enermas e Compuesto Mtchela obten
do admrabes resutados los siguente camar
los dolores ecuentes durane e embarazo parto ban
menstruaci6n doorosa t6nco econstituyente n
recomiendo las sehoras senoras que suen de guaes
dolencas.'
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1919-08-28
MuIares de sehoras

MilIares de seiioras y
Y del eXtranjero, pueden
Y felicidad que dlsfrutan
nledicina del DIR. j. II. Dye,
especiaIista eIninente en- la
Obstetricia y las GOienciGs
femeninGs.
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1919-08-28

EI Dr. H. L. CulIiette de la FacuItad de McdIc,ra do
IL Oad Al lie
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1919-08-28

La Leonldas Rumlno Aatrona
dice Hago MltcheIa
ecetado
numente 10 cstare usando recomcndando pacenes
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1919-08-28
para las j "cncs dtbiIcS. nevVio59S
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para alva los dolores del parto coeg las eguadade
Suales me a preado los meoes Lo rccomendo la3
senoras las ioyenes padecen de gua,es doencias
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1919-08-28
DOCTOR ESPECIALISTA
AMPARADOR DEL SEXO FEMENINO
Dedic6 vida al estudio de los dolores del alum
bramiento las dolencias femeninaS.

seiiorltas dc los Estados Unidos
declr que dcben la buena saIud
al usO OpoT uno de la esplendi0a
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1919-08-28

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New-York tribune., 1919-02-23

morning" began Ralston again, but 7
silenced him with wave of the hand.
wanted to think. l did, and then sud-
denly it came to me.
"Can I meet Aunt Aurelia?" l asked
Ralston. Il want to meet her at the
Sixth Avenue loft, and l want to meet
her tomorrow"
1t needed speed. Ralston was too des-
perate for comfort
"Will II o'clock do?" said Ralston, and
we agreed on II.
"1'm an expert" I told him. "What
don't know about antiques was never un-
derstood by the human race. Tiffany's
and Duveen and Christies never buy any
thing without my advice, and it's only as
an unusual favor to you that take time
out Of my heavy schedule to come over
and look over your wares. Meet me at
New-York tribune., 1919-02-23

choked up by some emotion, couldn't,
with all my ntuitive penetration, quite
/ fathom
Buck up, Ralston," said; "there's n
Aunt Aurelia in every family somewhere
sooner or later, and you've no call to be
unduly excited about yours
"No, Orval," he said, "you don't un-
derstand. I'm willing to stand up and
take my aunts like man, but Aunt
Aurelia is different-a kind of super
aunt. I've known you, Orval, for long
time, and hope you won't mind my tell
ing you that I've been adapting some of
your methods to Aunt Aurelia, not with
out success, but, frankly, I'm up against
it, and I can't go along now without
your help"
could see he was tremendously in
earnest about it. His voice shook and
there were dark lines under his ewes.
probably from sleeplessness. l couldn't
do any more than silently give him my
hand in pledge of faithful protection.
1t must have reassured him. He drew a
deep breath, said Thanks, old man." and
sat down in front Of the fire.
"Aunt Aurela," said Ralston, Olives on
movements There's no way of telling
what her next movements going to be.
nothing to go on except that she changes
often, and you can pretty we'll bank on it
that after a month or so of one move
ment she'll shift soon to another. She's
fairly diverse about it, and that's one of
the things that makes it difficult. Why,
| can remember when I was youngster
hearing Dad say Aunt Aurelia couldn't
come to Grandmother Dalhousie's
funeral because she was Shifting from
Egyptian scarabs to Belgian hares, and
Grandmother Dalhousie died between
Shifts
Ralston stopped and looked ren1inis-
Gently into the fire. "The only time Aunt
Aurelia corresponded to every one else
was during the war, and l think she had
to then because there wasn't chance to
do anything else. She went into the war
long before the President did, but by the
time we declared in on it the tide was too
strong for Aunt Aurelia to quit, strong
IS she is, and she had to keep coming
along. l rather expected that Aunt
Aurelia would go in for reconstruction,
and I'd been preparing for it out in the
trenches, but that's where l missed out.
Aunt Aureia signed the peace agreement
while Foch was still considering the ar
mistice, and when l came back last month
l found Aunt Aureia up to her shoulders
in brand-new movement
"What?" | asked of Ralston.
"She's going in strong for antiques,
and / don't know whether it's reaction
from the austerity Of war movements or
New-York tribune., 1919-02-23

acid I showed her just how worm holes
were made and then colored / went
back to a classic diction that I hadn't
thought of in years and some of the
Greek verbs that l used as nouns will
probably be waiting for me accusingly
on the other side of the Styx when I go
across. AS a matter of fact, Aunt Au-
relia had the choicest collection of good
stuff that. even my inexpert eyes had
been fortunate enough to observe But
! between what her pieces really were and
what I said they were lay a vast and
cloudy gulf
We had come up the spidery stairway
from the basement, with most of my
dialogue exhausted. 1t was little UNI
comfortable, the silence, and wasn't al
all sure we were over the river. Aunt
Aurelia's eyes worried me. She seemed
to be in deep thought. Suddenly She
turned to Ralston
Advertise the lot at auction to-mor.
row. Ralston," she said, and there was
the most touching misery in her voice.
1t almost made me ashamed. "And put
both Of the buildings back with tbs
agents. Pm done. Goodby, Mr.. Despen-
ser" q had thought it best to take
new name for the purpose), and she was
off to her car, with Ralston delightedly
after her.
A few days later Ralston came around
to see me. There was something un-
cert oj,, II, y,oopror - 1:44J.
ton that made me suspicious.
After some conversational sparring
he came out with it.
Aunt Aurelia sends message to YOU.
She said to tell you in these words: 4
may be an old fool, but it's a poor fool
that doesn't know anothern And Raj
ston grinned little sheepishly. Sudden
ly / understood
"She knew" I queried, and Ralston
nodded slowly.
All the way back she made fun of
you and said you needn't have taken so
much trouble about it. She'd have liked
1t better if you'd come out frankly and
told her what you thought of her"
L confess it was jolt. Yet when [
looked at Ralston, smiling and carefree,
l had to admit at least I hadn't failed,
even at some personal expense of van
ity. You can't entirely choose your
methods when you're dealing with aunts.
"She sails for Antwerp Thursday,s
said Ralston. "She's decided reconstruct
ton may be better suited to the times
after ALL and he sighed with relief.
AS for myself, I've been taking rest,
l haven't seen anything that resembled
an aunt for six months.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-23

plain enthusiasm, but Aunt Aurelia is
more excited over antiques than I've ever
seen her before. Why, maybe you won't
believe it"-and he got up in his emotion
and came walking over to me-"but she's
hired six story loft downtown on Sixth
Avenue and has got it almost filled up
with wormy furniture, and she's nego-
tiating now for another lease over on
Ninth Avenue-'near the DOCKS she puts
lt-so it will be easier to receive incom-
ing cargoes Of aged chairs
II don't mind her spending the better
part of her fortune on it, though I must
say'-looking at me little nervously-
"it would put terrible crimp into me to
have Aunt Aurelia leave a lot of dirty
Chippendale behind her in place of
healthy bank account. But even that
New-York tribune., 1919-02-23

isn't so bad if Aunt Aurelia would only
leave me out of it. She's got me snoop-
ing around with her in musty old places
on Lexington Avenue and down on the
East Side till I hardly sleep nights any
more. What's more, Aunt Aurelia ex-
poets me to learn all this pedigreed stuff
don't believe there's a house in Con-
necticut we haven't been through from
garret to cellar in the last four weeks,
and most of my mornings l have to spend
over at the Metropolitan Museum con-
sulting experts. If you knew Aunt Au-
relia you'd understand what this means
to me. I've been barely existing this
week in the hope that she'd wear out on
antiques and 60 in for stamp collecting,
OF which I've seen signs, but so far she
doesn't give any hope of letting up.
"And I can't stand it, Orval; I can't
stand it. What with Tanagra and Chi
nese Chippendale and Wedgwood and
Ming and Adam and toby jugs and high
boys and chairs you can't sit in, I'd
rather be back in the trenches any day."
and, somewhat to my discomfort, Raj
ston's shoulders heaved and he put his
handkerchief to his eyes
saw that this was case that needed
swift action. 1t has been one of my
axioms always to act swiftly, to hesitate
at nothing, and frequently the widest
and most impossible scheme in dealing
with aunts is the most successful. |
hunted deeply and fiercely for something
splendid and dashing, something that
would, so to speak, seize Ralston and his
Aunt Aurelia from the mad torrent of
antiquity that was bearing them to the
precipice of destruction
eve passed another loft with For
Rent sign on the way downtown this
New-York tribune., 1919-02-23

II, Ralston, and don't forget to lay it on
thick"
He gave me the address and departed.
I never knew a mans back to speak so
loudly of gratitude.
made up with special care the next
morning. I've had to look after my
wardrobe rather sharply since my little
penchant for aunts has become known,
and now I'm qualified to step into al
most any situation at moments notice
That day l wore checked trousers, a
fancy waistcoat, gladstone collar and red
scarf and gray coat buttoned up rath-
er tight and close to the chin, made in
the style of the '80s. I grayed my
temples a bit, carried heavy silver
trimmed pince-nez and put on gray
bowler. 1t was bit neat, at that You
can imagine Ralston when my car put
me down at his grimy-Iooking loft at II
o'clock
"Splendid, splendid, Orval." he chant
ed, and l could see hope lighting up in
his weary eyes. "She's inside, in the of
fce."
She was. Among a good many aunts
Aunt Aurelia was the most distinguished
and determined looking have ever seen.
She almost matched my costume with
her own. She had on lots of black let,
glimmering from between the folds of a
rich Paisley shawl, and tiny poke bon
net on top of the deadliest pair of female
eyes I've ever seen. confess T wasn't
altogether assured when / met her.
Fortunately, my intuition set me on the
right track at once.
"My aunt, Mrs. Dalhousie," said Raj
ston in his most velvet tones. But
didn't wait for her answer.
"Your shawl, Mrs. Dalhousie," I said,
grabbing it and feeling of the fine rich
stuff with an expert gesture. "Why
don't you rich people take expert ad-
vice? can match these any day in a
little factory on Warren Street that
turns them out at $17.50 apiece whole
sale. And I'll warrant you paid all of
$3.50 for this"
1t was a good start, I must admit.
She'd paid 5000 for the shawl, and there
wasn't a word left in her. I don't think
she said ten words from the sixth floor
Of that loft back to the basement, but
what we did to that rare assortment of
rare antique goods cannot be told-it
has to be imagined. I took out little
case of emergency surgical instruments
I had picked up on the way down and
sawed and hacked and bored away at
her furniture until there wasn't a piece
that hadn't been hurled down from its
high eminence. With little bottle of
New-York tribune., 1919-02-23

IN ELATIVES are always difficult,
but among relatives aunts are
IN probably more difficult than any
other species. Uncles are fair
sh in their way-the very process of be-
ing an uncle seems to supply any man
with shade of more than human under
standing and indulgence-and cousins
are usually too far out of the orbit
swimming around in their own circles to
have any chance to be troubling But
aunts, it must be confessed, have an in
vasive quality-if term c~l be made up
for the occasion-that is always sending
them up out of their own territory, even
when they don't mean to invade
haven't any aunts, but know lot
of people who have, and it must be con-
fessed that | spend lot of time saving
people from their own aunts. In fact, if
| may modestly say so, I've become
rather good at it, and it's got now where
it's no unusual thing to be called up
once or twice week to extricate chap
from his aunt. 1 don't mind confessing
it takes little fnesse, bit of subtlety;
an aunt now and then is no ordinary tax
on a mans abilities. But with practice
and intelligence and hardihood you can
get used to anything, and I've managed
to make it much easier by developing a
kind of technique in the matter. l don't
60 in much for card catalogues and the
like, but, just as matter of record, I've
never failed once fatty with an aunt, and
most of the time I've done rather more
than ordinarily we'll. There's Just once
that | came near to putting dent into
my record, and | never think of it now
without shuddering a little bit. 1t was
such narrow escape!
Ralston Dalhousie-he's one of the
Yonkers Dalhousies-came in to see me
the other day, and didn't have to look
at him twice-dntuition' such wonder
ful thing-to know there was something
up with him. Ralston has reddish hair;
IN fact, it's red, and he's always been
very careful about his colors whenever
ne Soiil0 W aee HE because m 1rlgnC-
fully sensitive to colors. But this time
he had on pea-green scarf with a bit
Of blue hairline showing through his
waistcoat, and it didn't need a second
look on my part to see he must have been
terribly upset to come in at me that way.
de grabbed a cigarette from the table
and lit it with hand that visibly shook
and walked around my chambers two or
three times with me looking on before
he could get it out
Finally Ralston came to it, cts ny
aunt" he said, and there was something
Id never heard before in Ralston's voice.
1t was pretty close to terror. "My Aunt
Aurelia," he went on, and stuck there,
New-York tribune., 1919-02-23
Itself an ode and e1egy

Itself an ode and efegy
Commem Grating the inspired dead
Who--even as he
Survive their dark nterment; and for us.
lnseparable from all he wrought or said,
Still rise illustrous
The words he spoke of those who gone before,
Came living homeward from heroic war;
And now again they come;
Again. in proud mortality,
Homeward once more
They march with unvanglorious Victory
And muted drum
Rolling the pageant Of vaster stage
lhe heroes of our age:
Our country 8 soul PERENNIAL
And now once more Q now
In that "clear-ethered" hall
OF Memory and of Exhortation seated,
How those great words with which he greeted
Our fathers still resound, and how
1t stirs to surmise
The exultation in his eyes,
And from his lips the lyric reverence
AS he might now greet these
These men who bore America overseas:
Armies, that the righteous eoquence
OF peace; soul-swords oracular Of truth;
Battalions that were ballads Of wild youth;
Dun khaki boys, who sowed the mud fields pied
With blue and white and red of Towering pride
Rooted in justice: Those, returning now
The live. and living dead-are they who left
The dreams of their civilian years,
Their work at loom and desk and plough,
Self-choosers, through their chosen peers,
To yoke themseves to help set Freedom free
Conscrpts of Conscience. Duty's grenadiers:
Young New World Jasons, banded oversea
With allied hearts sore wcaried out.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-23

Freeman and lyric scholar: not
Because his name, Of honored line,
Is craven golden on another age
Among recorded lives
On boarded scripts, in husht archives
OF academe and nation;
Not in dull homage to a shrine
OF bookworm-cult or worldly heritage
We give to-day his birth commemoration:
But because his spirit wrought
Its image surviving thought
An image, cast from it's clay mould,
10 rise in clean, unulsting gold:
The mind, whose many dartng prism
Resolves in reasons lucid white;
The heart, wherein hidden schism
Warps sense of beauty from the sense of right
But wherein one clear burning human lpht-
Are welded poetry and patriotism.
SO Lowell, outlastng the years.
Stands forth-no sanctum statue but man
Whom all his human peers
Honor artist and American.
x II y = y
v
he heeting lines forbid
10 follow, year by rpening year.
The stately footsteps of that sure career.
Where on the singer fell the statesman's cloak.
And where the scholar-artst stood amid
Ills peers OF Europe, and bespoke
Our countrys character
In London and Madrid
he tokens of his missions still aver
His rich felicity, and still
In Cambridge, between Shady Hill
And Elmwood the remembering air
Is fragrant OF our Friend of Learning there
But more than all cndearcd to memory
OF varied life and long
His most enduring substance is sony-
New-York tribune., 1919-02-23

Whose van at Chateau Thierry cleft
he Prussian Dragon through his iron snout.
Wrestling the Golden Fleece of Libertv
10 cothe the words bereft
VIII
What patriot pride
Not counterfeited by the noisy clan
Who toss at coins to make the Eagle scream,
But that unravished dream
And love of country which is faith in Man
Lowell might feel, prophet justified,
| o hail these men, and the victorious
Vow they redeemed for us:
Renouncing neutral will
| o know one faith-and live it,
| o share one life-and give it:
That choice they made and kept, It's ours to fu6
Yet how fulfil the test?-
He is slave, who dares not be
In the right with two or three
Twas Lowell said and they who know the zest,
OF battling, singlehanded, for the best
| he multitudes dsdan,
racing their whips to earn them their own gain.
Will sanction that brave wisdom. Yes;
But 0, the large delight
| he majesty of gadness and excess
OF Splendor. when the multtudes are 7iohti
Then. then-with all ones spirit bended tense
10 lean against the tide for liberty
Sudden the awful tide itself, immense.
Lunar with mystic life-birth, turns to sea:
lhen-as swimmer, caught from undertow.
Who yields, all free,
His body to the goaward bilIow, so
The one-will yields its atom. in the shoal
OF muttudnous life-w toward the goal
Of tidal Freedom. There,
In strange md-sea
Between the darting northern lights of death