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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-11-19

37.5oo-House: good location in George
town: reduced to $3.50 hot-water heat:
large rooms and large lot.
35,250-Bungalow; 5-room modern house;
electric lights: in excellent condition:
large lot, 50x170; fruit trees and room
for large garden.
For sale by owner-S4s Lexington place
n. II. This property is a good modern
home in every respect: rooms on the
lower floors. rooms on the attic. and
glassed-in and bult-in sleeping
porch 1t can be bought now for at least
$4,000 less than you can buy the ground
and duplicate tbs kind of a home.
$5,300-6-room horse in a very good N. E.
location; hot-water heat; 500 cash.
$S,500-Near 10th and You streets: s.
room house: furnace heat; new garage.
10x18. $500 cash payment.
34.500-Near Lincoln Park: 7-room house
I in perfect condition: colonial porch:
large lot TO wide paved alley. $500 cash
and $40 per month.
$1,400-b-room frame along the Bladens-
1 burg car line; large lots. 500 cash
payment and $25 per month, including
principal and interest have good
homes for sale in all parts of the city.
J. d. CARAVAN,
District National Bank BLDG.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-11-19

MODERN BUNGALOW rooms, bath,
splendid grounds. fine shade of oaks. on
trolley. immediate possession; IS, 900; terms
WIN. DeMOTT, Berwyn, Md. Phone 28R.
FIvE-ROOM COTTAGE. outbuildings 3
acres rich garden land immediate pos
session: will sacrifice for s2.l50; easy terms.
WIN. DeMOTT. Berwyn, Md.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-26
Toilet Goods Specials

White Rose and Crabapple
perfume, regular soc value, spe-
Cial at. ounce SOC
Mavis perfume, regular soc
bottles, special at. 39c
Williams English Lilac tall
cum powder, regular zoe value,
special at 1oc
Schneider Sisters cream, reg
uIar soc value, special at. .39c
Mentholatum, regular 25c,
SOC and S1.00 sizes, special
at ..........1 9c, soc and 79c
Pompeian night cream, regu-
lar Acc value at zoe: soc value
at OSc
Kinds honey and almond
cream, regular soc value, special
Bocabelli CASTLE soap, special
for Saturday, THREE CAKES
LOT zoe
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-26

Palmolive soap, special at
cake &c
Freezone, regular 35c value,
special at .29C
Amolin, regular soc value,
special at $50
Meet Depilatory, regular soc
and $1.00 sizes at. .39c and 79c
Seven Sutherland Sister hair
cleaner and grower, regular soc
value. special at. 39c
Lsterine regular Csc, soc and
$1.00 bottles at. 19c, 39c and 79c
Mary Fuller nail polish, reg
ular 25c and soc sizes at 10000
Lame face powder, regular
coo value, special at. 49c
Pompeian beauty powder, reg
ular soc value. special at. sec
Hair brushes, regular 75c
quality, special at. ....49 c
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-26
Pretty Spring Gauntlets

These fashions dictates for Spring wear with the onep rSck
black gu trimming Mocha gaun
butternut
in kaffee beautiful embroidered backs.
Priced per pair $3.50
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-26
Smart Spring Bags

Very smart with the Spring Suit vychette
lined fitted These
only built for looks but have splendid wearing qualities
riced irons $3.50 to $1,000
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-26

TERMS OF CREDIT
is US furnsha home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-26
Women's Spring Neckwear

The DRESS blouse and suit is always made becom-
ing by of added extra touch Nothing will add
much a nice piece of neckwear The Gimp and
Modstee vests will take the place of blouse when
with suit Gmps and Vests very beautiful when tail
ored of finest organdy nets trimmed with lace walls
real filet and Irish lace.
Priced at $1OO to $1,000 each
Collars be had in organdy that is hand embroidered
hand hemsttched and trimmed with beautiful aces. Nets
in fine quality that beautifully trimmed Collar and
cuff sets also in the beautiful materials.
Priced at S1.00 to $3.50
Real filet collars in three beautiful patterns to sell at
each. ................ ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS $3.50
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-26
$3.50 to $3.50
Jet .Jewelry for Spring

Jet Jewelry for Spring
Add that touch of black that chic and charming.
One of the long chains variety of styles either in
opera neck length had in beads of beautiful
and variety of shapes.
Priced per strand at $1.OO to $1,000
Bracelets Ear Screws, Cameo Brooches and Bar Pins
can be had at nominal price range. sec to $3.50
Slipper buckles be had in beautiful cut jet at
nominal price range of 2.25 to $3.50 per pair
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-26

Priced from $3.50 to $1,000 each
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-07
LUKE M'LUkE SAYS

When woman gets into the forties she would rather tell you her age than have you guess at it.
 There's an awful difference between being anxious to kiss your affinity ana being compelled to kiss your wife.
 Ten years after girl turns you down and marries the other fellow you are kind of pleased to see that she is fat and hcmely.
 Do not growl because you have lot of responsibilities. Be thankful It is a sign that you amount to something
 If man calls another man hor.~ thief when he meets him, it is sign that he likes him. But if he calls him "Mr." it is a sign that he hasn't much use for him.
 If P. T. Barnum were alive today he would be the head of the Anti-Saloon League. He knew that there was one born every minute in this country and he liked 1 to humbug the suckers. You can't accuse chronic borrower of ingratitude. Lend him sl0 and he will feel so grateful that he will come bacH and borrow another ten. No matter what party is in power, some men are not happy unless they are asin the government. The family skeleton is the liveliest thing One time wife gives her husband her undivided attention is when he talks in his sleep.
 And you can't dodge an argument with your wife by agreeing with her.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-07
THE TEACHERS REWARD

Ralph Loisele in the Christian Herald. SM ERSONIFY the American school
 lU ard let it speak for itself: 'So S you are thinking of working for me are you? Well, I will tell you what want and what I have to offer. First, you must have a good education. If you have graduated from a high school with perhaps a year or two of normal work, I may let you teach in country school even in a small town. But if you want a really good position you must have college degree. If you have masters degree from a university, so much the better. In that case you may get place i'll a high school in the city. In other words, you must have some sixteen or eighteen years training in order to re- ceive work that is considered education ally important.
 And what will you be paid in return for your preparation? We'll that is a rather delicate part of the discussion. My friends in the United States bureau Of
 education tell me that in 1919 the salary
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-07
Merchants to Take
 Time by Forelock

M MONO the keynotes sounded at < S the enthusiastic meeting of Alabama retail merchants resulting in the organization of the Alabama Retail Merchants Association, incor- porated, on Tuesday evening, was that which was expressed in this language:
 "We should educate our legislators before they leave for Montgomery"
 That is the soundest of philosophy. As the proponent of this principle of action set forth, the average legis- lator wishes to do right by his cona stituents, but the merchants, like others, have been too prone to wait until Legislation inimical to their in- terests has been placed on the statute books before they enter protest. His view is that the merchants should acquaint their representatives ahead of lawmaking time both as to what they wish and what they regard as discriminating and unfair.
 The merchant has been a voiceless political entity for generations. pay ing the bills just the same. To the extent of educating" their own leg islators the merchants propose enter ing politics. They have right there. All citizens have.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-07
PEN PICTURE OF HENRY JAMES

From Henry James," Second Paper, by
 Edmund Gosse in the May Scribner
 1T ] IS outward appearance developed in JD accordance with his moral and
 intellectual expansion. I have said that in early life Henry James was nov Impressive" as time went on his ap- pearance became, on the contrary, excess sively noticeable and arresting. He re- moved the beard which had long dis guised his face and so revealed tue strong lines of mouth and chin, which responded to the majesty of the skull In the breadth and smoothness of the head-Henry James became almost wholly bald early in life-there was at length something sacerdotal.
 As time went on he grew less and less Anglo-Saxon in appearance and more Latin. I remember once seeing canon preaching in the Cathedral of Toulouse who was the picture of Henry James in hie undtion, his gravity, and his vehem- ence. Sometimes there could be noted what Henry James would have hated to think existed-a theatrical look which struck the eye, as though he might be some retired jeune premier of the Fran
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-07
GAPsIEs OF THE SEA

Martha Haskell Clark. in the Youths Companion
 Their patteran is the streamered keIp
 that drifts on the naming tide; The gray gulls loiter on widespread
 wings to answer their brother hail; , The roads they follow across the world
 are the white sea trails untried, The tents they pitch when the day
 grows dim. the lashings of wind-
 swept sail.
 And ever the sing of their bearded lips Comes echoing back to me, Mates of the wave, Kin to the winds
 Lords of the Open Sea!' Their campfre's light is the leaping
 flame that burns in the dying west, And catch the lilt of their zither song
 in the beat of the mid-sea rain; Their loves, the breast of the tickle sea,
 and the sweet of a dreams unrest When the moon, as bright as a gypsy
 coin, drips up from the waves again. And ever the song of their bearded lips Come echoing sweet to me, Mates of the wave, Kin to the winds,
 Lords of the Open Sea! The sea wind plucks at my silken sleeve
 in the streets of the crowded mart; The sea gulls circle and find me out.
 and buffet along beside, Tho ! i'll my ears with the testers mirth
 to stifle my criyng heart, And turn my face from the gray-winged
 ships that strain with the seaward tide.
 But ever the call of gypsy song Comes echoing clear to mo, Mates of the wave. Kin to the winds,
 Lords of the Open Seals
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-07
< # * Chamber Should Own Its Own Home

WlXHAT o. L. Bum achieved sev-
 w eral years ago in Chatta- nooga as manager of the Traffic Bureau and Manufacturers Asocia- tion (Chamber of Commerce). can be more than duplicated with similar ef- fort in and for Birmingham, where he occupies precisely the same posi- tion in the community which he held in the Tennessee city. Birmingham has ere this realized why it was so difficult for the Traffic Bureau to wrench MT. Bum from Chattanooga.
 The achievement alluded to was the purchase of home for the Cham Der of Commerce and Traffic Bur of Chattanooga. In this owned home there was established permanent ex- hibit of Chattanooga manufactured products. Mr. Bum conceived the feasible plan that eventuated in the splendid result and carried it 'nto execution on such practical and sound financial plan that the sub scribing members obtained their home and the permanent exhibit without cost.
 The Chamber of Commerce cannot fully measure up to the service which it should give the people of Birming- ham without it's own home and per- manent exhibit of Birmingham made goods. Installed in an attractive home, equipped for the convenience and recreation of it's membership, men would naturally gather there and unconsciously establish that solidarity of citizenship whose absence spells lack of cohesive and progressive eff fort.
 No doubt MT. Bum will soon pre- sent his plans and renew the earnest plea which he made in his last annual report as manager of. the Traffic Bureau. Birmingham will do the rest, because it can be done here as we'll as it was done in Chattanooga with the same man merely duplicat- ing a prior notable success.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-07

yet endure. While millions of their people, old men, women and children, were dying of hunger and disease and falling victims of racial hatred, the young men were playing gallant part in the armies of democracy. They fought for England, France, Russia and America.
 In taking this occasion to welcome the delegates of B'nai B'rith to Bir- mingham, The Age-Herald heartily agrees with the resolutions committee that neither this splendid organiza- tion nor any other reputable Jewish society will have its Americanism questioned.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-07
Texas Voters Blight
 Ambition of Bailey

HE overwhelming defeat of Joe
 S Bailey in Texas, apart from it's vindication of the Wilson adminis- tration, is interesting from the fact that it seems to have ended the .po- litical career of man who was at one time a notable figure in public life.
 Bailey aspired to "come back" The Houston Post, in commenting on the result, says he conducted a remarka- ble campaign and his partisans were confident of victory. The Post says, Senator Bailey had the greatest audiences ever assembled to hear a candidate in Texas. Not in ay preyi- ous campaign in Texas history has a candidate attracted such throngs of farmers-they exceeded the multi tudes of Jim Hogg's day, but with the difference that Hogg won his audiences, while the former senator seems to have utterly lost his."
 Texas seems to have no5 only given overwhelming indorsement to Presi- dent Wilson, but there was cn evil dent determination to repudiate Bailey and all his works with such force that he could never again as- pire to political leadership in the Lone Star state. The Post thinks Bailey has been eliminated from the guber- material race winch, 1t is beliey l, he intended to use as stepping stone to get back into the Senate.
 A great orator, man of brilliant intellect and one of the ablest law yers in America, Bailey has been weighed by the people who know him best and has been found wanting. The time has passed when spellbind- ing, without the right sort of prin- ciples behind it, will .insure a candi- dates election.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-07
Speeding Things Up.

We broke all records of the local office in the handling O. mail yester- day with our new truck system" said Postmaster R. B. Smyer. "L, & N. train No l was on time and pulled into the station at 9:36. Just twelve minutes later the mail brought in by that train was in the office and was being distributed to the carriers.
 That was fast work. The mail was unloaded and thrown into the motor truck and driven to the postoffice and gotten ready for distribution in record time. Fomerly, with the old wagons, we were doing we'll if we got the mail over and ready in a half hour The new system is speeding things up con siderably all along the line, as the quick handling of the mails to and from the trains saves time in the or flee"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-07
Patient Work Required in
 Building Up an Orchestra.

11T7 HE Boston Symphony, in which
 0 so many music lovers took so much pride and which had begun to assume an autocratic position when
 trouble came under Dr. Muck, is on
 the rocks to stay. At least it is not
 believed that a rival organization will
 come in view in the near future. The glory of the old forces departed, and new and more virile material will take their places.
 The Chicago orchestra is still a
 name to conjure with, but the Minle-
 apolis has come to belong to a class
 to itself. It is one of the great or chestras, and is the result of tireless rehearsals on the part of MT. Ober- hoffer. Other great orchestras that have achieved triumphs in recent years are the Cincinnati, with Ysaye
 as conductor; the Philadelphia, with Stokowski as leader, one of the greatest, and the St. Louis, with Max Zach, who is regarded as one of the
 most finished and is almost sure to
 be heard in Birmingham during the season of 1920-21.
 The Detroit, with Ossipp Gabrillo- witch, as conductor, will perfect their ensemble if painstaking work will do it. As Nikolai Sokoloff of the Cleve-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-07
HERBERT-SPENCER

From the New York Evening Sun.
 6NHE centenary of the birth of Her
 bert Spencer, which fell upon last
 S Tuesday, finds the great English
 philosopher living factor in the thought
 of the modern world. Spencer's service lishments as in what he tried to do, not so much in the progress he made along
 the path of knowledge as in the pointing out to future generations the direction in
 which that path lies. It is in the inspira- tion of his ideas that resides his chief claim to greatness.
 His demand that the evolutionary con
 cepts be unified is an ideal so natural,
 so inspiring, that it has fired the popu-
 lar imagination, has made its permanent
 imprint upon philosophical thought. rnat
 he himself succeeded but in limited de-
 gree in effecting fhis unification does not
 matter. The task was impossible for one
 intellect, perhaps for one age; but other
 minds, other ages, will pursue the worK from where he left it.
 But SpencerS s applications or HIS iuiuo- mental ideas to the practical problems of society contain so much of sound wis., dom, are so Illuminating, that thelr imprint upon the world of today has been weep and lasting During the latter part of his life he was continually sought out by men occupying public positions. who desired his advice in solving sociai problems. One day it was an Australian seking direction as to the employment of black labor in the cane fields, the next | A New Zealander applying for enlghten- ment on the conflict in his islands be- tween individualism and socialism. The passage of time has but evinced the eternal truth of some of his concepts. How many illustrations does modern fife afford of his contention that mechanical reforms. although perhaps attaining their l immediate object. often introduce new l and unforeseen evils, and in the end become more productive of harm than goodl It is yet too early to say. that the passage of the prohibition amendment is or is not an illustration of this truth, yet time may conceivably prove it to be co.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-07

Of all the teachers in the country av- eraged $63o .64 They also tell me that scrub women working for the government received sS73 .60 and that common labor CTS averaged between $1, 100 and $1.20o. But of course they weren't educated, so that may account for the difference.
 .'Philander P Claxton, Commissioner of education, says that in the last lhre. years the average wages paid to rail- road employees, 2,0Oo,000 of them. has been increased $5S0, so that the wages of the 6e0, GOO teachers in the elementary and high schools average about $50 more than the increase in wages of the railroad em- ployes within three years.
 And perhaps you would like to know what you have to look forward to in fu- ture years. We'll, there are seven cities
 in the United States with population ex- ceeding 100000 where the maximum sal- cry exceeds S2,500, and this maximum isl reached after some eight to twenty years of service Of course if you stay in the' smaller places you can hardly hope to receiva a much as this"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-07
NATURAL ILLUMINATION

cais, jeune no longer; and often the preS latical expression faded into a fleeing likeness to one other celebrated FrenchA man of letters (never to any Englishman or American), somewhat of LacordairN in the intolerable scrutiny of the eyeA somewhat of Sainte-B Beuve, too, in an except the mouth, which. though mobile and elastic, gave the impression in rest of being small.
 All these comparisons and suggestions, however, must be taken as the barest hints, intended to mark the tendency of Henry James radically powerful and unique outer appearance. The beautiful modelling of the brows, waxing and wan- ing under the stress of excitement,- is point which singularly dwe1ls In the mem- ory.
 It is very difficult to give an impress sion of his manner, which was complex in the extreme, now restrained with . deep reserve, now suddenly expanding, so as to leave the auditor breathless, into flood of exuberance. He had the habit of keeping his friends apart from one another his intimates were contained in many water-tight compartments
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-07

Although Spencer was typically British in life and in thought, Americans have the right to claim no little share in the credit for his success. Full recognition came to him here before it did in Eng land, and the assistance of American friends made possible the publication of some of his greatest works. It Is pe- culiarly appropriate. then. that Amer jeans should celebrate the centenary c. the birth of this remarkable man, the man who gave birth to what has been oalled"the grandest concept of modern fines
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-07
UNANIMOUS FOR THOMAS
Tu six egee News.

From the TuSkegee News.
 As personal friend and long time admirer of Judge William H. Thomas, a member of the supreme court of Alabama, we are more than gratified that some of the leading newspapers of the state are voluntarily urging that his reelection be made unanimous. Truthfully can they say that no more worthy or splendid gem tleman has ever graced the supreme bench than Judge Thomas. His entire life has been full of devotion to duty and those who know best of his work feel proudest of his great success in every place filled by him and we want to say right now, we trust that every vote cast al the primary by Macon county people will be given to Judge Thomas.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-07
SHE PAINTED

From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
 In a rather nice section of New York lived widow who had a little money-a little. not much. She rented four-roomed apartment and was sat isfied with her lot, also her rent, until a short time ago. The landlord tackled on $1O a month, then $15 additional, bringing the monthly ante up to s95.
 Still the widow did not complain. Seeking out the landlord, she said: MT. Blank, now that you have raised the rent so high, you will paint the walls and woodwork?"
 MT. Blank raised his hands. Nothing stirring in the painting line. Paint Is too dear and money too tight We'll, could the widow do the painting her self, at her own expense?
 Certainly; she could paint the wood work and the walls any color. she de- sired. just as long as the expense did not fall on the already heavily-weight- ed shoulders of the landlord.
 A month later MT. Blank was in formed that the tenant who held a one month lease was going to move That afternoon he brought man and wife around to look at the apartment. You must ina zine his tickled fancy when he found everything had been painted a dull, somber, funeral black. The case was heard in court yester- day, the widow having been accused of sabotage. Her attorney had the land lord to admit he told the widow she could paint the place any color she desired" Testified the widow: T like black; anyhow, I am still in mourning and I thought I might just as well make the color scheme of my hcme abide with my widows weeds. The complaint was dismissed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-07
Praises ponsene,s Voice

During last week. when I attended the opera in Atlanta. I had the pleas, ure of hearing Rosa Ponselle. the sem sational dramatic soprano of the Metropolitan. who is to sing here in concert next Wednesday evening under the 'All-Star Concerts.'" said Mrs, Robert Jemison. Jr. who is one of Bir- minghams most accomplished musi-, clans.
 T must congratulate Birmingham upon the opportunity Of hearing this great artist. I heard Ponselle with .Caruso in La Juive.' the Halevy opera which has been one of the revivals at the Metropolitan this season and Pon- selle, in the title role of the Jewess. Is marvellous. She has a very beauti- flu. voice and sings delightfully."-"