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forgive all With our opportunities
little could we girls surmise of what
a man thought of his fairs. and the
deceits the caused, and the conse-
quent hurt to trusting and devoted
wife.
The big difficulty with Martha and
me was that we were forever going
around in labyrinth of confusion,
All my troubles with, Bob had to he
settled by silence on my part. | re-
solved to ask Martha about her avn
experience
Did Ewart take it for granted that
everything was always all right be-
tween them, no matter what he had
been doino if only she wouldn't talk
about it?
And did Ewart smile if she kept
still?
And race if she dared to show that
she knew about his romances?
And grow almost violent if she
happened to touch upon the real
truth?
/ 1t would simply be waste of time
to try to get anything out of Daddy
Lorlmer on that point. | knew well
that even at his age. he would never
hand US girls some facts about the
double standard. Certain truths no
man ever tells any woman.
But from Daddy's attitude to-
ward Martha and me, and his 70.
mark about certain young husbands,
we could sum up the resituum of his
experiences, perhaps, as he looked
back upon them from the serenity of
old age.
"When l see little women like YOU
struggling in net" Daddy liked the
rhrase so nlueh that he repeated it,
struggling in net, and using your
puny strength to save big. strong men
from themselves, sometimes without
$3.50 chance of doing it, I'd like
to make the chaps swallow a bit of
the real truth about their charac-
ters."
Ito Be Continued
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CorlfEesSions ofaBide|
Copyright 1920 By The Neuspa per Enterprise Asooahn

THE BOOK OF MATHA-No. z.
Daddy Had a Rich Store of Philoso-
ply Based on Actual Experience.
Don't look so worried, Jane?"
This fro mDaddy Lorimer, as he
emerged from my husbad's roomn.
THE boy has fallen asleep without
an anodyne for the first time"
"What good newsr' exclaimed
Martha with sympathetic clasp of
my fingers.
"Im going to stay here" Daddy
continued. There may be a big
change in him, the nurses say, when
he wakes up"
"a changer" l cried. IF | could
only be sure it would be for the bet
| ter! Will he ever know me again,
wonder?"
My dear! My dear! Put that
fear away" Daddy commanded.
Il guess we'd better talk about some.
thing else"
But in spite of his determination,
/ could see that it took supreme
effort of Daddy's to turn our talk
from his sons condition. At length.
after regarding US two girls, as we
sat side by side on the divan, Daddy
commented:
You're nice kiddies! Good girls.
you two. But Marie, you're much
too thin! Whatever Ewart has been
up to, don't take it so seriously He
paused, studied us thoughtfully, then
continued: "Good little girls =! You
women don't have the easy rows to
hoe in this life. But man has to
grow old before he finds that out.
There's Earwt, now. What can a
man want in a wife finer than Marie
And what is the fool doing? Gosh,
how I'd like to tell him a few
thingsp
Certainly Daddy had succeeded in
liking our minds on a subject which
absorbs about 80 per cent of the men
tai activity of the average woman,
l became alert for / knew that Daddy
was in a wonderful position to help
Martha and me-if he would.
To know all is to forgive all, they
say. Daddy was an old man who had
had his fling, and pretty complete
one, in his time. He had rich store
of philosophy based on vast expert
ence in all the emotions which move
human beings.
The problems of married life
which distressed Martha and me had
once distressed his own life. And it
was his fault. An il enc could get
it out of hinl-hii opinion, mans
oninion-of the great game-and
shame-of the double moral standard
would be of incalculable value to us
| confused women.
Perhaps, if we knew all we might
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hanging around its neck.
l had a lot of fun when l went
in to see the monkeys. They aren't
quite ready for the ride with Santa.
Some of them didn't have any tails
yet, and some others only had two
feet. But they all looked as funny
as could be, and they seemed glad
that they were going to be in some
little boys or girls home pretty
soon.
All the other animals l saw were
scampering around as if to make
Santa hurry and get them started on
their airplane trip to Americas.
Cows, horses, elephants, donkeys and
zebras are just as happy as you chill
dren are that Christmas is almost
here.
Tomorrow | will tell the little
girls of Americas all about the dolls
that are having new dresses made,
that they may look nice when Santa
Claus leaves them in front of the
Christmas tree in some little child's
home
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WHILE all sorts of other play
-" things, mechanical and otherwise
have come and gone in past CEN
turtles, dolls have remained, through
at least 1000 years, as the rulers
supreme of the worlds toy room.
In the United States alone at least
20 per cent of the total amount spent
in the manufacture of toys in 1920
has gone into dolls. American toy
makers figure there has been 49,
100000 invested in rag, wax, china
and other kinds of dolls this past
year.
And storekeepers see this holiday
season as the banner year in the sale
of little limitations of human be-
ings."
Dolls Have Changed.
1t is safe to say that ever since
the world began there have been
dolls. And with each century doll
styles have changed until today the
up-to-date talking, walking play toy
would hardly seem even a distant
relative of the peculiar figures the
children played with back in 2160 B.
c., just 4040 years ago.
In those days Egyptian children
had dolls made out of stick of wood
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creator began dressing them up in
silks, satins and laces. They were
given real leather shoes and their
tresses were fashioned after the
styles worn by the little girls who
played with them.
1920 Doll Is Prize.
Today it would seem that we have
the last word in dolls. The big toy
shops are showing, for this Christ
mas trade, little men and women who
can walk, talk, turn their heads and
bend their arms and legs.
The little folks of the twentieth
century have their choice of the
largest variety of dolls the world
has ever seen. And of all the toy
departments in the big stores, there
is probably the most interest center
ed around the sections where the
dolls live in show cases.
All over the world the boy and
girl doll are the king and queen of
toyland. All nations are leagued to
possess dolls, all religions are over
coming suspicious and beliefs in or
der to possess them. And all the
time the doll holds sway, knowing
that while she can wait for you four
thousand years and more, YOU can
not do without her.
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put IN their places. The CRATES
are all ready for the long snow ride
and they're anxious to get started.
Santa has the funniest collection
of dogs you ever saw. Big, brown
ones, with long hair, and tails that
wag when you squeeze the puppy.
Little black dogs with no hair at
all and little shining eyes. Then
there are other ones that sit down
and don't fall, over. And they bark
when you push their noses.
Then, way over in another corner,
found a whole lot of cats and kit
tens. They are are of all colors
One of them had big bushy tail
and "meowed" when / pulled his tail
Still another one was all reay to &c
to a party. 1t had its hair all brush
ed down neat and there was bel
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NOW IS THE TIME
To Buy

Business Insurance
$4,000, age IS, $46.45; age
limit, 10 to IS. Insurance in
force 300 million; 20 million in
Georgia; 300 thousand in Sumter
county.
Emmett Cook
General Agent. Missouri State Life
ms. Co.. Plains, Ga.
The Washington herald., 1920-10-24
Tangier Natives
Fish and Plough
With Seaplanes

Tangier, Va. Oct 23.-Residents
of Tangier Island have purchased
five fast seaplanes.
The picturesque island village,
which sprang into national promi-
nence few months ago when the
constable shot a boy for not going
to church, has come in one bound
from the dreamy remoteness of the
seventeenth century to the TWEEN
tieth century.
The island has about 1900 in
habitants. There is not an auto
mobile or a carriage there. The
main street is only eight feet wide.
Most of the traffic is handled In
wheelbarrows. Its forty acres of
good soil are not cultivated. Few
of its people ever have seen an au-
tonSbile, a street car, a locomotive
or a telephone. The residents lead
a communal life.
But seaplanes have become a
commonplace. The only doctor uses
one to answer calls to nearby ISL
andS. The sick now are carried in
an ambulance plane to the hospital
at Crisfield, Md, across the bay.
1t is planned to use the planes for
net fishing. They also, according
to latest plans. will be switched to
handploughs next spring. Tangier
has no horses.
The Washington herald., 1920-10-24
LABOR LEADERS.
HIT ATBANKERS.
Gompers and Morrison Say
Capital to Blame for
Low Production.

Resent.ng the imputation con-
tanned in resolution passed by the
convention of the American Bankers
Association that labor is at fault
in the present chaotic economic con-
dition and should produce more"
Samuel Gompers. president of the
American Federation of Labor. and
Frank Morrison. secretary, last
night issued statements in which
they charged the bankers With
shifting responsibility" for high
prices and lack of produetion.,~
Both of these officials are vehement
in theic vindication of labor and
mince no words in setting forth
what they believe to be the true
reasons for the present lack of pro-
duction and resultant high prices.
The outlook" Gompers declares,
would be more encouraging If the
money powers in control of produc-
tion were not themselves engaged in
subtle efforts to restrict production
for the purpose of maintaining &
famine prices.
THE time has come for careful
survey of the activities of bankers
and others intrusted with the proc
esses of production and distribution
of the worlds needs. The workers
are confident that an impartial
analysis of the present business
practices will SO shock our people
that those responding. to an inordi-
nate desire for gold will be com
PEELED to relieve the suffering of the
people"
These bankers" Morrison sets
forth, ARE delightful humorists
when they lecture labor about pro-
ducing more. The government s
record of manufactured goods does
not sustain the bankers. Let them
insist that the law of supply and
demand for which they profess such
high regard. be permitted to oper-
ate. Our banker friends may fool
themselves, but they are fooling no
one else"
The Washington herald., 1920-10-24
M'SWINEY NEAR
DEATH TWICE
Doctors Battle Successfully
To Maintain Dim Spark
Of Life.

London, Oct. 23.-Doctors at Brix-
ton prison battled successfully
throughout the day to maintain the
dim spark OF life that remains in
the body of Lord Mayor Terence
McSwiney. Despite the fact that
the hunger-striking mayor was so
near deaths door at two different
times he was thought to have passed
away, the physicians declared that
IL they were able to keep him alive
through the night he would likely
be safe for several days because the
mayor has begun to assimilate some
OF the food that has been forcibly
administered.
The authorities are barring every
one from the death chamber except
his wife and the priest The wife
is allowed twenty minutes three or
four times n day.
The prison is surrounded with
mounted and foot police prepared
for demonstrations should death
occur during the night. 1t is un-
derstood that the police and mill
tary in Cork and Dublin have been
notified to prepare for emergencies.
1t was learned today that Mary
and Annie MCSwiney, sisters of the
mayor. had Joined him in his hunger
strike, following refusal by the
prison authorities to allow them to
visit their brother. Mary and l will
stay in the prison and starve until
we see Terry" said Annie. "If they
put US out we will stay at the gate
day and night"
The Washington herald., 1920-10-24
AGED MOTORIST
HURT IN CRASH
Mrs. Frazier, II, Badly In
jured When Auto Over
turns in Collision.

Mrs. A A. Frazier. IT years old, OF
1907 Massachusetts avenue north
west. was seriously injured yester-
day when the automobile in which
she was riding overturned near Six
teenth and p streets northwest,
when it was struck by a machine
operated by Isaac Majors. 1919 NJ
street northwest.
Mrs. Jesse +. Webster, also of 1907
Massachusetts avenue, an occupant
of the machine with Mrs. Frazier,
suffered cuts on the head. Mrs.
Frazier had several ribs broken, and
cuts on the face. Both women
were taken to the Emergency Hos.
pital in the White House automobile
which happened to be passing at the
time of the accident
Struck by an automobile at Mo-
zart place and Columbia road north
west yesterday, Stanley Newman, S
years old, of 309 Twelfth street
southwest, suffered injuries on the
head and was taken to the Emer-
gency hospital.
The Washington herald., 1920-10-24
DESCHANEL, IMPROVED.
TO RESUME WRITING

Paris, Oct. 23.-The poor health
which caused Paul DeschaneI TO re-
sign the Presidency is reported to
be steadily improving He already
is planning to return to Paris with
in the next few days to attend A
session of the French Academy.
Physicians advised him to take a
continued rest during the winter,
but NJ. Deschanel became impatient
to resume literary projects aban-
doned when he became President.
He explained to friends today that
he intended to write book in
which he will relate important
events during his incumbency at the
Elysee.
Copyright, 1890 by Public Ledger Coz
The Washington herald., 1920-10-24
YOUTH, Is, SUSPECTED
OF KIDNAPPING HIS WIFE

Chicago. Oct. est begins to
look as if Virgil Regan. aged is,
has kidnapped" his own wife, Alice,
also is years old. That is the the
ory of the girls mother, Mrs. Her
man Behman, who has called upon
the law to do its duty.
Two month ago Virgil and Alice
eloped to Crown Point, Ind, and
were married. Mrs. Behman de-
manded that her daughter begin
annulment proceedings. The girl
resumed her occupation as a typist
in an insurance office, but a few
evenings ago she arrived home In
a disheveled and flustered condition,
saying her husband had intercepted
her on the street and beaten and
pinched her.
Last night she started home as
usual from work, but that is the
last anyone has seen of her. About
the same hour Virgil's parents say
he hurriedly packed a suitcase and
slammed out of the house.
The Washington herald., 1920-10-24
VII SON PINS LEAGUE HOPES
ONVOTES OF YOUNG PEOPLE.

President Wilson believes that and of the
United will defense of his league of
election day. He expressed this thought telegram
terday Holland Bradley of Columbia University to be read
meeting of the Young Americans Democratic League The
sage follows:
please my warmest greetings to the meeting The
and of the country should be interested
deeply
issues the issues of the future They will determine the future
influence greatness United States
nations They will determine moral force all the great
pending of right with which the world already quick
believe that the and of the will
the vision of opportunity which itself and will rally
the support of the pepeuaon of the high ideals which
fought in the great war"
The local committee yesterday
ton the President address meeting Masonic
Tuesday night response invitation
The Washington herald., 1920-10-24
Shot Near Heart,
Gambler Stays
Rival and Lives

Norwalk, Conn. Oct. 23.-Vener-
able Williams and Ira Anderson,
colored crap-shooters, made the
final passes in a game with lead
instead of ivory.
Anderson was shot through the
body near the heart. Williams was
instantly killed.
Anderson walked nonchalantly TO
the curb. hailed a taxi, had himself
driven to a hospital and told the
chauffeur to wait, as he would be
right out"
Physicians prevailed upon Ander-
son TO wait until his wound was
dressed. They expressed amaze
ment that he was not dead. Then
the police came and led him 70
headquarters, where he complained
that the bullet wound made him
nervous"
The Washington herald., 1920-10-24
Fire Ends Vigil
In Valley Where
His Squaw Died

BakersfeId, Cal, Oct. 25.-The
forty-yenr vigil of Philip Left
hand, Indian. said to have been
l3S years old, over the valley
where his squaw was killed
ended today with Lcfthand lying
In grave in the little cemetery
at Weldon, near BakcrsfeId.
Forty years ago n cloudburst
in the Kelso Valley drowned the
aged Indians squnw. Since then
he has refused to leave or to ne
cept the hospitality of n county
farm or Federal reservation. He
lived alone.
Lefthand's blankets caught fire
while he was sleeping. He died
shortly afterward.
The Washington herald., 1920-10-24
Body Found Floating
In the Delaware River

Philadelphia, Oct. ga card
bearing the name of Ethel SAKE,
Children's Hospital" and a letter
addressed to an Oklahoma man are
the only clues the police have to es-
tablish the identity of the body Of
man found floating in the Delaware
River off the Municipal Pier today.
At the Children's Hospital nothing
was known of Miss Sake.
The dead man was about 20 years
old, five feet five inches tall. weighed
about $50 pounds, light complexioned
and was described as heavily built
A dlscolored eye led the police to
believe that he may have met with
foul play.
The Washington herald., 1920-10-24
FILIPINOS FEAR G. O.P.
MAY CURB SELF RULE

Manila, Oct. 23.-Filipino politi-
clans are worried over the pros
poets of a Republican victory in the
United States election, fearing the
curbing of self-government.
There is a bill before the House
designed to avoid exercise of the
veto power by a Republican gov
ernor. 1t provides 100000 pesos
to become available automatically
for an annual independence mission
to visit America.
A Nacionalista party caucus has
been called to prepare for protec-
.tion against Republican Limitation
on autonomy.
The sugar planters are sitting
tight and the banks are tightening
credits. The sugar crop is esti-
mated at $4,000 tons
Copyright, 1890 by Public Ledger Co..
The Washington herald., 1920-10-24
LAFAYETTE STUDENTS
HAZE NEW TEACHER

Philadelphia, Oct. 23.-Leon T..
Lerando, an instructor at Lafayette
College, EastOn, Pa. was locked in
his room in one of the dormitories
last night and kept a prisoner until
this morning by students who were
mildly hazing members of the fresh
man class.
They nailed a board over his door
and secured the knob with a stout
rope. The instructor was released
this morning by the combined eff
forts of a woman employe and a
carpenter.
The Washington herald., 1920-10-24
JURY EXONERATES HIM
FOR KILLING BURGLAR

Chicago, Oct. 23.-Police tonight
released Frederick w. Sextro who
shot and killed his landlord, the
KeV. Frederick G. Ruff early today.
The coroner's jury gave credence to
SeXtro's story that he mistook the
landlord for a burglar.
Rev. Ruff. accompanied by his
wife and three children, was pre-
pairing to leave for the country to
spend the day The minister found
he had forgotten the key to his
automobile and returned to the
apartment for it while his family
remained in the machine.
He entered the building and a
minute later a shot sounded.
Mrs. Ruff rushed into the building
and found her husband lying on the
first landing. in front of his apart
ment, in a pool of blood. Sextro,
who lived in the apartment above,
was throwing cold water on his
wife, who had tainted.
The Washington herald., 1920-10-24
LIGHTS MATCH TO SEE
IF GAS TANK Is FULL

Philadelphia, Oct. 23.-Francis r.
Beck had no trouble this morning
in learning that he did have some
gasoline in the tank Of his automo-
bile. He struck a match in it to
get a good look.
The explosion that followed
knocked Beck to the ground and set
fire to the machine. Pedestrians ex-
tinguished the flames, while Patrol
man Riley arrested Beck for driving
an automobile while intoxicated and
for failing to have an operators
card.
The Washington herald., 1920-10-24
ITALIAN SOCIALISTS
ARE SPLIT IN TWAIN

Rome. Oct. GAS the German in
dependent Socialists have split into
Right and Communist wings. so in
evitably will the italian Socialists,
with this difference-that while in
Germany the Communists go to ma
jority in Italy they will be in a
minority.
The possibility of avoiding a split
rested on the extremists abandoning
their too rigid solidarity with Rus
sian BoIshevism. Now, however, they
have to take the decision to form
a new party called the Italian Com
munist party, which will adopt the
program of the Moscow Third In
ternationale.
Copyright, 1920. by Public Ledger Coz
The Washington herald., 1920-10-24
Mistaken for Burglar,
College Student Killed

Galesburg, Ill, Oct 23.-Luther
Kron. a senior in Augustana College.
here, was shot and killed today by
two policemen, when he failed 10
stop when commanded.
kron questioned the authority OF
the two plain clothes men to stop
him, then turned and ran. the police
report said. The officers. believing
Kron a burglar, opened fire and he
dropped with a bullet through the
back.
The Washington herald., 1920-10-24
DEFICIT SHOWN
BYDEM0CRATS
Only $677,934 Raised to
Date for National Cam
paign Expense.

The Democratic National Commit
tee has raised s677.934s7 to date for
the Presidential campaign, according
10 the report filed today with the
Clerk of the House OF Representa-
tives. The expenditures have been
S69S.071.6s, leaving a deficit Of about
s2l.OO
The Congressional committee re-
ceived $l3,475.35, Of which $2.500 was
contributed by the national com
mIttee. It's expenditures were Sl2,-
ll5.6l. Among the contributors to
the Congressional campaign fund
were Thomas Fortune Ryan $1,000,
and Henry MOrgenthau $500.
The largest item OF expense as
shown by the report is for transpor-
tatiOn. which cost $4,000, Of which
sS.0 is charged specifically to Gov.
CoN's Western trip, and the balance
to the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany for general transportation. The
tour of Franklin d. Roosevelt cost
the committee SS.l6O.2S.
Texan Gave $4,000.
The largest single contributor to
the national committee fund was
H. a. Wroe OF Austin. Tex. who
gave $4,000. Robert Pesle Of Car
rolton, Pa, gave $4,000, Edward L,
Doheny OF Los Angeles. Cal. $6.5OO.
Cleveland H. Dodge Of New York
$500, Mrs Dodge $500 and $500 for
each of three children. All Of the
other contributions were $1,000 or
under
President Wilson contributed $500
and Mrs. Wilson gave the same
amount. Gov. Cox gave $1,000 and
Franklin Roosevelt $4,000. The CON
tributions Of members OF the Presi-
dents Cabinet were as follows. Sec
retary Colby $1,000, Secretary Alex
ander 500. Attorney General Palmer
$500. Secretary Payne $1,000 and
Undersecretary Of State Davis s2.OOO
Col. E. NJ. House gave $500.
Three brewers contributed They
are: Michael Liebel, jr.. of Erie, Pa.
$4,000; 4. J. Casey. Of Scranton, Pa
32,50O, and Michael Bosak, also Of
Scranton. $1,000.
Other Notable Names.
Other contributions were: Vance
Mccormick, $500; Senator Gilbert
NJ. Hitchcock. $1,000; William c
Douglas, Brookline. Mass. $1,000
Joseph Z. Willard $4,000: William
Church Osborn, $1,000: Barnard NJ
Baruch, $1,000: Edward y. Hurley
$4,000; James w Gerard $4,000: Au.
gust Belmont, $4,000: Charles B
Alexander, $4,000: Mrs. Emmon.
/ Blaine, Chicago. $4,000: Thomas [,
I Chadbourne. $1,000: Joseph f. Da.
vies. $4,000: Allen A Ryan. $4,000
Nathan Straus. $1,000; Nelson Morris
$1,000. and those represented by
smaller sums.
The women's bureau. under tn,
direction of Mrs. George +. Bass
raised $3.50. which was turned ovel
to the national committee
The contributions and eSpendi
tures of the Democratic committee
as shown by the report. are far Re,
low those of the Republican com.
mittce. which was shown in the re.
port filed yesterday to have raised
s2,446.0l9.54 and to have spent So.
74l.5O3.34
The national committee Of the So
cialist party tiled its report. show.
ing contributions Of S5l.O2S.24 and
disbursements amounting to $4S,.
1859.