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New-York tribune., 1920-12-20
ENGAGEMENTS

CoEBCDRAPEH-Mr. ana Mrs. George
". Draner. of 3o7 West soth St. an
nnuncc the engageWrnt Of their daugh-
Ter Beatrice Riffand Draper to Mr.
Elliot Cobb, son of Mr.. and Mrs Henry
iVnS Cobb.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-20
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BIRTHS

I I.OCIM-December % IS. at Wildwood sana-
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Ml!iam Gould Slocum, a son. William
could S'ocNm II. Detroit and Rhode
Island papers please copy.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-20

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Death and In Memoriam Notices
may be tclcbhoned to The Tribune
any time uo 10 midnight for in
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New-York tribune., 1920-12-20
Calls 1t Obligation

"With the completion Of this final
effort we shall have given to American
character lift in pride of a great
duty we'll dore--a pride in a practical
helpfulness hat distinguishes our peo-
pie. We shall have given to Europe
her foothold back to live again. To
me it is a glory to the United States
New-York tribune., 1920-12-20

Every bookstore has them!
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New-York tribune., 1920-12-20

Ma SRTIN-on Friday. December II. 1920
john a., beloved husband Of Ada Mar
TN. Funeral from his late residence So
west 45d st, Monday. $50 a m Mass
OF requiem at st. Kaphael's Church 10
a. m. Interment Calvary.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-20

VI 'Gt fRE-pn Friday, December II. 1920.
John Mcclure Funeral froin the rosl-
dencn or his daughter. Mrs. Mary Ph.lan
~. West Soth st, Monday. December 20
SQleHn requiem mas at St Mlchacls
The Washington times., 1920-09-06
The Washington of Eighty-Six
Years Ago and Today
b y BILL RIG Il

You can look back eghty-sx years at Washington
through City Directory of 1884 said by some to have been
the first published. GEORGE ~ STRANAHAN, a Treasury
Department clerk, owns this prize.
This unique publication contains the residences,
and occupations Of the inhabitants of Washington, George
town. and Alexandria, residences of members Of
Congress- list Of hotels boarding houses and "messes"
Names residences salaries of the principal officers of the
Govemment location of public Offices; names Of clerks
working therein and their salaries
The population of the United States then 1885,
020 with something 100000 slaves and only 10782
aliens New York State had almost onesixth of the total
population or 1,9l8,608 people.
The Districts population 49, 1874 900 less than
today.
There was no Weather Bureau, but the directory pub
shed the perpetual weather table of the celebrated Dr.
Herschel" which told weeks in advance just what the
weather would be. The table based the moons
entrance into any of her quarters and the attraction of the
j. P. VAN NESS was mayor of Washington with
boards of aldermen and councilmen, all ELECTED by the
people Among many city officials three superintend
ents of chimney sweeps, with scavengers in each ward
and three wood corders and coal measurer The poor
evidently got their moneys worth in those days.
JOHN COX mayor Of Georgetown, JAMES DUN
OP recorder and the town had two banks and fire nsur
ance company. BERNARD HOOE was mayor of Alexan-s
dra which had three banks and three insurance companies
The turnpike between here and Alexandria owned by
private company.
There street problem. Senators and Repre-
sentatves lived largely in boarding houses by women
few hotels being mentioned No statesman lived farther
west from the Capitol than Pennsylvania between
Tenth and Eleventh streets.
Ministers of foreign countries lived not far from the
White House, where Andrew.Jackson presided.
In the Senate Webster Prentss Preston, Calhoun
Clay Benton Tyler The majority of Senators and Repre-
sentatves lived Capitol Hill, although many quar-
tered in boarding houses in the vicinity of Center Market
ln the House David Crockett, James K Polk, and
Rufus Choate.
The chief sports of the day BOOZE poker, horse
racing faro and lotteries Three lottery advertisements
tn
selves to buy tickets The tax them $10O per year
The of each male slave paid yearly tax of s.
and of each female slave tax of ST. Taxes low and
no about the half -andhaf
The Washington times., 1920-09-06

sistant buzzer OF the LetNme-show-
you-how tribe?
It isn't weaklings alone who find
that things are spoiled for them by
the insistence of some one else that
the things once cherished are all
wrong and worthless quite. It's In
human nature to value what is well
thought of. The law OF supply and
demand isn't based on every ones
wanting the undesired and fancy
ing the discarded and ignored de-
sirable.
The world would be an altogether
more comfortable place II we all
got into tho habit OF waiting to
offer advice until some sign Is made
that it's going to be welcome. To
put II crassly and straight from the
shoulder, Isn't II fine idea for
folks to mind their own business
not once in a while. but just about
all OF the time!
The Washington times., 1920-09-06
Beatrice Fairfax
ON
Advice.

what a charming hat, my dear!
But do you think you ought to wear
brown. I've always fancied that
it's better to wear hats of a color
to contrast with your hair"
"By Jove, old man! That's top
ping new car you've got. But why
didn't you get one of those battle
ship gray ones? They don't show
up so badly when they need wash
ing down, and for a fellow who's
his own chauffeur to own blue car
on which every speck shows
''Of course it's very nice that
you've sold story to Blanks maga-
zine, but what you ought to do is
write scenarios. The few paltry
hundreds you get for a story are
nothing"
That's the way to spend a vaca-
ton. Really you ought to change
your plans even IL 1t is the last
moment. I went hiking once, and
between the mosquitoes and the
blisters on my feet I had a terrible
time. Stay home If you have to
and try to keep cool in your own
room, but don't go hiking
Who doesn't know them? Who
hasn't met them-these folks who
come trotting along and puncture
all our pet illusions with their
well meant" but most annoying
advice. They insist on tossing of
some arrangement for us better
than the one we've worked out after
weeks of thought on the subject.
They know that IL well just listen
to them everything will be so much
happier for us than anything we
could hope to arrange by trusting
to our own weak and feeble 1udg-
ment.
Perhaps that brown hat which
Mrs. Fix-It so ruthlessly criticizes
is just the shade we love-or the
one hat that goes with all our
street-clothes--or the only one in
the shop where we like to trade
which came within our present
fnacial reach. But the joy of pos
session is spoiled by one OF the
members of the family of advice
purveyors-free-of-c
The blue car which just suits our
life, which we thought so nifty,
which has been the goal OF our
dreams for ycars-is IL all wrong
now? We wonder and wonder and
forgetting the Illuminating series,
Somebody's always taking the Joy
OUT OIL tIts We ltN p'hNh Oh
the running board for while.
And the people who know just
how a literary career ought to be
steered toward success! How nu-
merous they are. How they manage
to cloud the joy OF achievement
for the young author who has
struggled and struggled to get into
print and who regards his name in
the list OF contents and the check
for nifty dollars as the beginning
of fame. fortune and happiness.
He doesn't want to write scenarios
he isn't fitted to write 'em. he
wouldn't succeed in the field where
he doesn't belong. But II scenarios
and the prices they bring are the
only prizes worth having, why
should he monkey around for weeks
and wear himself out for nothing
that doesn't really count?
The vacation so long looked for
ward to-so carefully planned
what are n few dozen mosquitoes
or a couple of blistors In relation to
TT Nothing roally-but how keen
n perspective In the face OF per-
The Washington times., 1920-09-06
Family Matchmakers.

A new profession, though not a
permanent one, has grown out of
the after effects OF the war in Ar.
menia, Syria, and Palestine, accord
ing to the latest reports from Near
East relief workers In these coun-
trie<. Family matching Is the name
given to II, and the relief workers
who engage in IL are known as
family matchmakers. without the
strictly sentimental Significance at
taching to the word that IL usually
has. 1t Is their business TO get to-
gether the remnants OF families
still remaining wherever II can pos
sibly be accomplished. so that fam
lily life in these stricken lands may
be saved from total extinction. This
is a vast task in the Near East at
present
The Washington times., 1920-09-06

what information I have, I
see no reason or justification
in anyone objecting to the
people of the District of Co.
lumbia being granted suf-
frage.
II am very proud of the
great things the private citi-
zens have done to make the
Capital a great city, and I be-
lieve while we are striving
for the rights of the peoples
of the entire world we should
not overlook the rights of
our own folks in Washing
ton"
Mr.. Howard explained that
for many years his own State,
Oklahoma, as a Territory,
had a delegate in Congress.
With such representation af-
fairs remained dormant. But
full citizenship, the patriotic
were stirred and the State h
all lines since.
The Washington times., 1920-09-06
HE'S UNDER SUSPICION.

II you got on a street car. And
right alongside of you sat a dame
with one of them white summer fur
pieces around her neck. And II just
happened that while she was sittin'
fur got II into its head to shed. And
for an hour after you got Off the car
you were busy pickin' them hairs of
your manly shoulders. And when you
got home friend wife accused you Of
hsvin' blond hairs on your coat lapel
And you had to buy her a new hat
so that she wouldn't tell all the neigh
bors about you. Wouldn't you feel
kindo sore, Bill? JIMMI%.
The Washington times., 1920-09-06
Europe Could Produce Food If 1t
Would Make End of Fighting

A Universal Service dispatch from Paris says that
the French crop statistics, published recently reveal
shortage in the French grain crop of than
bushels -
The dispatch continues as follows
"The United States is now the sole hope as Ar
geutiua has banned expectation. Great Britain
monopolizes the Canadian supply, and Russia as
grain source is hopeless. Italy must import 6o-
bushels and it is revealed that similar needs
exist throughout Europe"
So the story goes Always it is being proposed in
Europe that the United States should bear the white
mans burden or rather the burden of the white mans
folly
It is considered quite natural that the Argentine Re
public should place embargo the expectation OF its
grain so that its people may not be obliged to bear an In
in the cost of living by reason OF sending It's grain
abroad
It is considered reasonable that Great Britain should
monopoize the grain fields of her colonies
Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
It is considered natural that France should waste her
substance in unjust and a wretched immoral
intrigue against the independence of Russia and of her
late allies Syria and Persia and her late ally the Arabs
1t is considered natural that Russia, the feeder of
Europe should be prevented from producing the
of life to feed the wretched and underfed white population
of Europe order that the few bankers of London Paris
and New York. and elsewhere get their pound OF flesh
Thousands of dying every day in thirty nine
wars in Europe and Asia, and millions of property is
being destroyed production is being demorazed and
millions of people starving until degeneracy threatens
the white
Could there be more complete exposure of the
League of Nations cloak for the aggressions and
greed for the dozen unregenerae nations which were
made victors in the late by the self sacrifice of
Americans who believed that they fighting the war
to make the world safe for democracy?
What these nations really fighting for was tol
impose upon the world their brand of Imperialism in
stead of Germanys brand, and the socaed League of
Nations, which the White House and the Democratic
nominee for the Presidency trying impose upon the
49,
mtaristic league of oppression and suppression for
which liberty loving nation should have support
and sympathy.
If the Democratic party is to be merely the party of
European mitarism and the Republican party the party
of American independence there doubt how every
American should vote.
The Washington times., 1920-09-06
wHIRLPoOL's DIRECTION.

J.. BRODTON, answering II. 3.
ROSSELL as to the direction of a
whirlpool says it is true that a whirl-
pool revolves from left to right, bu:
does this no matter which direction t
revolves in. (He then furnishes Illus
trationJ
'BIFF" states that. although whirl-
pools revolve from left to right lin
this part of the world, they revolve
from right to left below the Equator"
This is an interesting question
which some of the experts might read
up on and make report.
BRODTON thinks he wins the con-
crete bicycle" for his illustrations.
The Washington times., 1920-09-06
A Color for Each Face.

At Deauville, the famous French
water place. where the beauty and
fashion OF France and her neigh
bors disport themselves, women are
divided into two csmps-those who
have chosen a bronze shade OF com
plexion and those who prefer
msuve color.
n The effect Is attained by means OF
carefully selected face powders. and
the tint is sufficiently pronounced
to be in harmony as a rulH. with
the dress.
The idiots don't sll live In
America.
The Washington times., 1920-09-06
AGAINST THE LEAGUE.

7 have met hundreds OF ex-servicn
men and do not know one who -
for the League OF Nations, ! am still
carrying the result of Article y from
tho battle of the Marne--gassed and
one leg shot to pieces. II might be
a good idea for all tho candidates TO
find out what has happened to the
wounded soldiers OF the country, who
seem to be forgotten in this Leag9
of Nations talk. II
WARD. NJ PORTERv
The Washington times., 1920-09-06
HOW CONTRIBS MEET

uere's a secret for you from me.
I'm "a happy as mortal can be,
For i've met two contribs fair.
win laughing eyes and curly hair.
Their names? Well, you'll have to guess
couldn't say whether Grace or Bess.
"IIow Eisn you 2" They asked Of me,
And | replied--"Just plain
The Washington times., 1920-09-06
WHO remembers KANN'S rem
'nant department, third floor? Those
we're the happy days? c. T. H.
A Rad STARING TOWN.

7 have been in the District most OF
the last 20 years but have Travelled a
good deal in other cities. ] must say
that ] have yet to see a city where
the people are so bad on that staring
stuff as right in Washington. They
stare at you wherever you go. Even
in Alexandria they do less of it than
here. CONSTANT READER.
The Washington times., 1920-09-06

A Dublin paper says that in an
llford house lives two families named
Bottle and Cork, while their neigh
bors are named Brewer and Bccr
II they lived in America they would
be jugged. f. M. S.
The Washington times., 1920-09-06
SOMETHING NEW IN smLE.

An elevator conductor in
business establishment gave
many of us good laugh the
other day when we saw that ms
soft collar was fastened with
large blanket pin. II. H.
The Washington times., 1920-09-06
Once-Overs
Copyright 1920, by International Feature Service
KEEP YOUR BRAKE IN ORDER.

KEEP YOUR BRAKE IN ORDER.
a which that tears
you all pieces?
Niagara greatest power the world
could nothing till had his
harnessng the force
You that have been growing
and bounds and feel it, but do let it bowl
Keep control
Don't control by fits and starts; keep steady
such feel strength
thing high and disaster day
Junk pile.
power we'll running
wild
the which
Of power?
those that softly that
riding is like floating along
your completely your efforts win
quality and not quantity.
The Washington times., 1920-09-06
box closed

We had one cakie in the Dis
trict National Guard Encampment
at Camp Lee, Va. He wouldn't
eat hard tack unless II had but
ter on II. He wouldn't go to bed
unless he had his pink pajamas
and his blue silk night cap on.
Private II. II. HARLOW.
The Washington times., 1920-09-06

THERE CAME this boy
THROUGH HIS basement door.
AND TO the street.
AND HE held q sack.
A PAPER sack.
THAT WAS soiled outside.
AND FILLED within.
AND l was there.
JUST PASSING by.
AND HE held the sack.
so could see.
AND THERE were cakes.
FROM A grocery store.
AND HE mumbled something.
WOULD I have one.
AND said ! would.
AND THE bigger boys.
CAME CRowDING over.
AND EACH took one.
AND THE little fellow.
ATE NONE at all.
AND asked him why.
AND HE up and said.
BECAUSE I found them.
"OUT ON the street.
land MAMMA says,
THEY AMT good to eat"
BUT I still live.
SO THEY must have been good.
THANK you.
The Washington times., 1920-09-06
TT WAS A WATCH.

The answer to S. Is. DIS question I
a watch. IL went TO South Amcr,,i
and stopped there, but was sent homo
because II didn't go there.
NJ. TESSIER.
The Washington times., 1920-09-06
a!51nEARDa "a
A .GINGHAM JANE FOR HIM.

I've read comments on Goldie,
And she may be some Jazz Queen
With her kippy clothes and many bcaus
And admirers in Heard and Seen"
But. somehow. I'll take the Bingham Jane,
With her little gown of blue.
Her dimpled smiles. which are worth while,
sAnd heart that is always true.
The Washington times., 1920-09-06
ANOTHER PRIZE.

7 have arranged with tire com
pany to give a handsome corrugated
celluloid tire to the II and S fan who
answers this question correctly:
when does "a hen resemble q
thIuk<rs Il. &. l..
The Washington times., 1920-09-06
thinker

Poverty may be "the soap that
protects us from filthy lucre," but,
being an optimist, I've yet to see the
man who can't keep himself clean
even with filthy lucre. DOT EBERT
The Washington times., 1920-09-06

| once saw this funny sign in a
Michigan saw mill: "The saws are
running. No use to touch them to
convince yourself" X. G. l..
The Washington times., 1920-09-06
"Bugs'' Baer
Labor Day.
Labor Day is the public's last
big field day OF the year.

All over our smiling country the
good folks will bust right forth in
a rash OF picnics. lawn parties and
croquet massacres. There will be
baseball for the young and beauti-
ful, golf for the aged and infirm,
tennis for the nori-pa rtisan, row.
ing for the nimble, motoring for
the income tax holdouts. walking
for the pure in heart, yachting for
the proud. and moving pictures for
the meek and lowly.
The Washington times., 1920-09-06
Votes For Washington

lone of the boasted principles of republic is that
all citizens shall have voice in Government Con-
gressman Everette B. Howard of Oklahoma SAYS with
The Washington times., 1920-09-06

I'm going to wear a straw hat
after September Is. How abog
others? J. r. b.
The Washington times., 1920-09-06

The next big holiday is Thanks
giving. After that, Christmas. But
why speak OF expenses before
they're due7 Sufficient to the day
is the rent thereof.
The Washington times., 1920-09-06

is the rent thereof.
All over our smiling country papa
and mamma and the baby will
spend the day next to III nature
Pop will try to forget the cares OF
the office buying gasoline at thirty
cents a smell. when you buy gaso-
line in a garage now the man at
the instructed pump doesn't think
you want the gas to run the car
He thinks you want to take the
spots out OF it.
All over the smiling country the
families will be carrying food to
the red ants and substance to tho
. squirrels. Pop will pick out a nice
place to stop. The car will pick
out a thousand nice places to stop,
but pop Is one OF those stubborn
mokes who does just what he wants
to when he doesn't want to. The
place that pop picks will be
chubby little glen right near the ex-
haust OF glue factory and used
for generations as the convention
hall at all the red ants in the
world plus some more.
BY the time pop jimmies the twin
sardines out OF their appetite proof
tin vest the baby is fun of poison
ivy, skeeter bites. ant kisses. and
hornet tails. Nom has the hives.
sunstroke, equal suffrage, and other
ailments authorized by the Nine
teenth Amendment
They eat 'cmselves into three doc
tors visits, throw bottles and
garbage around for Santa Klaus to
pick up, and then toot back home
through the smiling country sorry
that the picnic is over, but refus-
ing to sign any documents to that
effect.
No wonder it's a smiling country.
1t deserves great credit for not
laughing.
The Washington times., 1920-09-06
HOUSTON, Alexa

solving the recent army problem, de-
clares the courier travelled 81 IL
miles. and he furnishes the proof.
The Washington times., 1920-09-06

If it was not for the cakers around
First and G streets northwest PETE
LAZZARI could not keep his bread
box closed. T.. B.
The Washington times., 1920-09-06
IGNORANCE AND BLISS.

Going back to that kissing prob
lem of "Why does a girl close heI
eyes when she is being kissed?"
read these lines somewhere long ago;
where ignorance IL truly bliss,
'Tis folly 60 be wise.
We never know what joys VIC miss
where Ignorance ia truly bliss;
For when maiden wants kiss
She
always
eyei"
PERCY +.
The Washington times., 1920-09-06
We TOWNE GOSSIP
Registered u. q. Patent OfneA
BY X. C. B. -

HE ISN'T very old. o"
MAYBE ABOUT four.
AND HAS black eyes.
AND BLACK hair.
AND DEEP red checks.
AND HIS parents live.
IN ONE Of the houses.
OF A brown stone row.
NEAR WHERE I live.
AND HE'S very quiet
AND wANDERs around
AND LOOKS in Easements.
AND DELIVERY wagons.
AND is always interested.
IN WHOEVER gets out.
OF THE taxi-cabs.
WHEN THEY stop nearby.
AND THEN he'll sit.
ON HIS row Of steps.
WHILE THE bigger boys.
HAVE THEIR baseball game.
OUT ON the street.
AND I suppose.
THAT MAYBE he dreams.
OF FUTURE days,
WHEN HE'LL be big.
AND THEY'LL let him play.
AND ANYWAY.
ON YESTERDAY.
The Washington times., 1920-09-06

No wonder it's a smiling country
1t deserves great credit for not
laughing.
The Washington times., 1920-09-06

when Statehood came, with
impulses of the Oklahomans
as progressed steadily along
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1920-09-03

Harry G8llzher, ChiroqrEct0r has
moved his offices from the lone Hotel
70 the Oklahoma binding. rooms rwO.
three and four over the Owl Drug
store. Dr.. GsIlspher directs IN physical
culture and dietss1cs- and uses Other
natural methods in his practice Cal
srs .or zppointlnsnt Res phone. lane
Hotel
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1920-09-03

y used q ho11le q Charrh heriz3r's
TaAle1E some -i-ne aEo and they prpr-
ID 10 be Just What ] needed. Nrsies
Mrs Volta BElksun. Chlliico-he. No
They nor only relisreo me q ln6i-
Eesti0u bus toned NJ ny liver aHc
r5d NJ of asckache and dizziness ttztI
] had been sut5er1 10 Tor some ana
They did ns 3 world ot Eood sa1 Il
wiz always speak : g0o5 word for
sham
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1920-09-03

Practically sFerr nonresident own-
- o. brick business blocks II Guth-
ne has sold ths gsuse-zF u home
owners splendid index y Cp1h-ss's :
substantial comeback
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1920-09-03

Judge HornA6Ay: Sensible men
do not lock upon the existing orgy "a
prosperity Thece is more sanity ia
what Senator Harding Wanld CAL
-normslcyr
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1920-09-03

School starts Monday Have rou
outfitied rour bor with serrieeahl
eloth11gs Il Dot. see Ton Jenkins.
he has 3 hns q BOYS suits. caps.
shirts. ties shoes and Al the oibsr
tixn'g
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1920-09-03

Sugar may yet get b2ck 10 where
some ut il can be spared 10 Tie little
red Rnus II the pantry without DE-
zDoralizinE the households finances.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1920-09-03

Boys and girls ara enrolling iaf
school TODAY. Earollments wll Ae
much heavier than was anticipated
School vii begin next Monday morn
anE.