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The Washington times., 1921-11-04
CARELESS FAMILY
EVERY MEMBER TO DO HIS PART

toni am 80 glad you have the
courage to express yourself. Tho
first step toward betterment OF q
political condition Is some form OF
rebellion. You are rebelling men
tally and spiritually and you must
arrange to carry that rebellion out
physically.
You say that your mother al
ways kept the home in order. Fer.
haps that was because she assumed
a certain amount of control over the
family which you in your modesty
have failed to express. Perhaps, too,
you do the work for nothing while
your mother handled the family
funds and had. If ever so little, GER
tain proportion which she consid-
cred as remuneration for her SER
vices. That so?
In the first place, were / you.
find out just how much some one
would pay you for the same
amount of cleaning and ordering.
Call the family together. Explain
to them what your services are
worth. Say you are willing to
work-work, mind you-and keep
the home in order only IL every men,
Der solemnly promises to do his part.
Say to your little friends with
all the courage l know you possess
MY careless family fail to appre-
ciate my attempts to keep our homo
in order as you, possessed Of moth
ers, have yours kept. So, folks, I
Just quit. j shall try to have my
little room in order whenever you
honor me with a visit-and some
day when have a home of my own.
I'll show you how 1 can keep house
with proper cooperation.
The Washington times., 1921-11-04
THE RHYMING
OPTIMIST
BY Aline Michaelis-

ONE readers keep insisting on
realistic stuff; they say
~ there's no resisting conditions
now existing where life Is stern
and rough. They like to see the
hero ascend a rocky road while
folks as mean as Nero reduce his
hopes to zero, and no one lifts his
load. Their granite hearts went
mellow when Maisie weds a crook.
with no one near to below: That.
chap is mostly yellow" for that's
their choice of book. They pick
the tale Of sorrow with tears on
every page; they ask no glad to-
morrow, but buy or beg or borrow
the gloom that's all the rage. The
style may be appalling. they pay no
heed to that but blithely go on
sailing for tales where blows are
falling to floor the good man fiat.
Some people keep declaring such
themes are what we need; they
park by tones despairing where
books go to seed. But nothing tires
me quicker than the tales without
smile, and when the plot grows
thinker without a single snicker,
1 cry: It's not worth while! AL
though the authors able to spin
a yarn that thrills, 1 turn from
every fable that bears the tell
tale label Of realistic ills. Now,
I am not a stranger to books that
deal in strife: like bit OF dan.
ger for sailor boy or ranger to lend
a spice to life. But there is one
thing certain. whatever intervenes,
vicissitudes uncertain must cease,
to let the curtain go down on cheer
full scenes. Each lad must win In
wooing, each friend must clap MS
friend and leave the william stew
ing; that's what folks should De
doing at every story's end.
The Washington times., 1921-11-04
BY Arthur Stringer,
Novelist and Author
of Countrywide Reputation.

~TORROW found himself pos
sessed of a vague distrust
of the influences which the
city had brought to bear upon
him. Nor was this diminished
by the memory of what Fan
ME Atwill had been saying to him.
Yet when the thought Of Torrie
Throssel he thought Of her as he
had last seen her though the open
door of her studio protesting that
she would have to stay at home
to study her part and finish up her
sewing. The thought of her bent
over that sewing. needle in hand
seemed incongruous as it was ap-
pealing. 1t was a new phase of
her character to which he had
given little thought. Yet 1t was
something on which he found 1t
not unpleasant to dwell, until by
way of contrast, he stared about
at the company Of which he found
himself a member.
He became conscious Of the pa
rade of flesh in half-costumes,
The Washington times., 1921-11-04
Stringers THE WINE OF LIFE James Montgomery Fl
A Stirring Narrative of the Influence of
Love on the Lives of a Girl
and Man.

drunk. don't even like TO see
them. II still gives me a shock.
the same as-as that doddering old
skeleton In the Beau Brummel get
up.
Storrow followed the line OF he>
vision and stared at the arresting
enough figure which had just sn-
tered the room.
That's Modrynski." he said. with
a vague sense OF chilliness in his
bones.
IL know IT," admitted the wistful-
eyed woman. "and ! imagine there's
a moral in him II you cared to find
it."
More eyes than Storrow's stared
at Modrynski as he made his en-
trance into the room. He carried
a shepherds crook tied with dang
ling white ribbon. and was dressed
in cream-colored knee breeches, a
satin tunic with lace at the cuffs
and neck, a brocaded waistcoat. silk
stockings and very pointed pumps
with silver buckles.
A heavily-powdered periwig orna-
mented his bald head and on one
flaccid cheek a beauty-patch had
been pasted. He seemed to real
ize that he was the momentary tar
get Of that company's attention.
for he made an effort to enter the
room jauntily, with his head high
and his thumb and forefinger daint-
lily touching, as though in the act
of dispensing a pinch of snuff. But
a slight palsay shook the fastidiously
poised hand. The decrepit legs in
the shimmering silk stockings were
without spring.
The woman beside Storrow stirred
uneasily.
He makes me think Of a Vatican
fan that's been used as a fly-swat-
ter" she meditatively observed.
Then she added, almost with shud-
der, "And there are the flies, stu
clustering about him."
To Be Continued TOmorrOw)
Copyright. 1870. by Arthur strinssr.
| (Published by Arrangement With lntsrns
tional Feature Service. Incl
The Washington times., 1921-11-04
A CHURCH OF
NEW IDEAS
Widely Known Lecturer and Author
and National Authority on
Juvenile Problems.
BY w. A. McKeeyer.

wv E often speak of the church
" as in the community and
the church as serving the
community. but it has remained
for the First Christian Church in
Kansas City to become all but the
community itself. We have here
perhaps the most pretentious pro-
gram of general service for the
young which the churches OF the
country can offer well. including
clinic. for children, playground
for the children's Bible school. a
day nursery for babies. a milk
depot for the entire downtown
district, home for dependent chill
dren, a MONDAY cafeteria for junior
college students, a hotel for young
men. a hotel for young women, a
commissary where food may be
supplied to the poor at cost,
made-over store where repaired
articles may be sold at a nominal
price, a gymnasium with two full.
time instructors, a Friday evening
entertainment supervised by the
deans of the Sunday school, a mo-
ton picture equipment to be used
in connection with the Sunday
school, and system of shower
baths open daily and with free
towel service.
DIR. Arthur Braden, the minister
out of whose brain and heart has
grown all this program of Christian
service, already has the favorable
report from his official board that
the projects will be carried out.
And. best of all, the many boys and
girls of the congested residence
of thnrna n
that their present happy church
center is to be expanded soon into
a place of larger abundance of the
things which make glad the heart
Of childhood.
How many churches are there
in the great cities today going
through a process of slow deca-
dence because of the fact that the
merry laughter of children Is
hushed by the pseudo solemnity Of
the services and the general re-
ligious atmosphere.
And yet how many of these sepul-
chral places of worship could throw
off their mantle of mourning, IL
they only would, and become trans
formed by the renewing of their
minds" in favor of a progressive
program of service of the young?
Often they have the wealth and
even the willingness, but they lack
the will power.
Health, sanitary food, cleanliness,
play, entertainment. mind employ.
ment-these might not at first
seem to be related to the church
and its proper services. However,
on closer consideration we find
them resting very close to the early
laid foundation stones of a sub
stantial Christian career.
But the Church of the Living
God proves to be made not out of
timbers, brick and mortar, but
rather n structure erected partly in
the spirits Of happy young wor.
shippers.
The Washington times., 1921-11-04
By LOrettO c. Lynch

ERHAPS you belong to this
r family. but even il you do
= not. you may have some real
practical advice to offer this child
housewife who has written me a
letter in Just the incest copybook
handwriting you'd want to see. The
letter in part follows:
"I am not thinking OF getting
things together for a home Of my
own, for / am but fourteen and at
tend the graded school. I have no
mother, but have a sister, several
brothers and, a father.
q: "It is this way: Every Satur-
day I clean my fingers almost Off
me putting our home into perfect
order. 1 just love to see 1t clean
and home like. The family says 1t
looks nice, but they say 1t in a sort
of cold, Indifferent way. This
would not be quite so bad II I'd be
able to get the least bit Of help
from the family, but when l go
home to the home j have cleaned,
when 1 get home from church on
Sunday morning, the house is In
wild disorder. The family clothes
are thrown about everywhere and
they would stay there for the day
II did not pick them up.
my mother always had a nice
looking home, but l cannot keep
our house as she did. How can /
make the family understand that I
want-oh, so much-an orderly
home?
naar uttIe Girl with the hiphest
instincts peculiar to our civiliza-
The Washington times., 1921-11-04

Broadway star, turning 10 Storrow.
But I'm afraid they're not all work.
ers. Donnie Eastman, I'm sure
never worked at anything but en-
toying life-though that. / suppose.
noon becomes as onerous an under
taking as any man can face. And
these girls, for instance. seem TO be
the Greenwich Village product. who
try TO give you Murger and Mont
martre with American trimmings.
But TO me it's always terribly like
the cammembert that comes from
the Connecticut creameries. The
note seems forced. They make ready
for It too deliberately and work
over II too hard"
"It isn't a romp. you'll notice."
said tho actress. "a romp which
young people have suddenly decided
upon. It's something as carefully
planned and staged as a theatrical
production. And there are too many
oldish men about to let It keep its
air of innocence, even If It began
with one.
1T could oven stand Brownies
Sodom and -Gomorrah atmosphere.
for that merely affects ones morals.
but I can't stand air like this. for
smoke affects my throat. and that's
what have to make my living
with"
"It has the trick Of getting into
your blood, all right" protested
storrow. edging away from what
seemed like useless philosophizing.
What has?" He could feel the
disdainful absinthe-green eyes once
more judicially inspecting his per-
son.
THE being keyed up to carnival
pitch, even If 1t is helped along
by the punch bowl"
"Since you have mentioned the
punch bowl" answered the cool
eyed woman beside Storrow. look
at the girl opposite here trying to
dance with that man with the
leopard-sk over his shoulder.
don't like women when they're
The Washington times., 1921-11-04
By Garrett p. Serviss,
Eminent Astronomer and Authority
On Subjects Of Scientific
Interest.

r SOMETIMES receive letters re-
preaching me for speaking Of
God, or of a supreme intelligence
controlling the universe. Some OF
the objeCtors seem to believe that
science has disposed OF the idea OF
God by proving it to be an untenable
hypothesis.
According to them, chemistry and
biology have explored all the
mysteries Of life and death and dem
onstrated that there is no lurk
ing place for an intelligent creator
They sneer at belief in God as pure
folly.
More strange still, they grow an
cry and indignant at the least hint
of such a belief. 1t seems to be a
kind OF red rag" for them, and
they are filled with insensate fury
at the mere sight Of it. They are
for an exterminating crusade
against all such "abasing super
stitions," as belief in the exist
ence of God, of a future life, Of
moral responsibility, of the efficacy
of prayer of the need, or value Of
religious meditation and spiritual
aspiration. These things excite
their contempt, as being altogether
beneath the lofty dignity of man
with his triumphant science and his
glorious free thought"
But il is rather pitiful, Is II not,
considering the position and the
dimensions of man in the universe,
as science itself presents them, to
see him exalting himself to such an
imaginary height that he can have
no superior. Mans substitute for
the moral government of God looks
extremely inefficient, not to say in
expressibly horrible, to anyone who
has shrunk into himself at the touch
of the awful fields of recent human
slaughter. To entertain belief. or mt
least hope, that there exists a God
toward whom man may aspire, hard
ly seems "aba sing" in the view and
the presence of these things.
They are not calculated to breed
confidence in human perfection, or
in the ability Of science to raise man
to n higher moral level. Science
never more convincingly proved
that IL is not n moral force than
when It remorselessly invented the
means for the denominations of tho
great war.
But true science has never pre-
tended, or intended, to be a moral
force. That Is not its field. That
is the field of religion, and the field
of faith in God. The real "abase-
ment" is the abasement of science
by those who falsely and ignorantlv
use it's name as an oriflamme in
their assaults on the idea of n Su-
preme Power or Being, existing In,
The Washington times., 1921-11-04
" Beatrice Fairfax.
Who Occupies Unique Position in
the Writing World as an Author
ity on the Problems OF Life.

the Writing World as an Author
ity on the Problems OF Life.
~ ROBABLY there isn't one OF
us who hasn't asked at some
u time or another whether the
business of struggling along day
after day is worth while. OF course
the cynic might say: well If you
don't struggle, what are you going
to do about it?" Rut that isn't
very helpful way of putting 1t. So
let's consider q very interesting let
ter which has just come to me and
then see if we can find an answer.
Here is, what r. W., has to say:
After, all, is life worth the strug-
gle? At times l think how monoto-
nous it all would be If things just
came as we wanted them to. Then
again, / wonder why we couldn't be
given a better chance.
Its all very well to say that he
who works for that chance will get
It, but it is only small minority
that has the initiative and push.
For we're not all born with the
same ambitions and thoughts and
ideals. What can the majority of us
do with so much against US? Is 1t
our fault for being born? And why
can't we all get the same chance at
the start?
81 get all flustered when I try to
think 1t out. One part of me argues
against the other part.
"I'd sooner be at fault with my
self than at fault with the world.
For after all 1t is much more simple
to correct ones thoughts than to
try to change so many others
:"
And there lies the clue to the
riddle. 1t Is so much easier to cor
rect ones own way OF thinking than
TO upset the whole scheme of things.
Surprising we don't all start out
with an equal chance-that we can't
change, can we?. We've all seen a
man who started from scratch pass
one after another of the contestants
who had a good STRAIT, and, discount
ing his handicap, win the race.
Sometimes it seems as II that were
The Washington times., 1921-11-04
SuggestiOns For the Household

their kind. viz, slice apples m rings.
shred cabbages. slice carrots and
turnips, peel and cut onions in
rings. Then spread in single layers
on tins and put in n warm oven till
shriveled and dry. When they are
cold pack them in alright tins or
lars. and store them TIL wanted.
Then soak them for Mt least twelve
hours in cold water, using the same
water to cook them In afterward,
The Washington times., 1921-11-04
The Story of an Ambitious Young ScIlp-
tor Who Goes to New York to Win
" His Way to Fortune.

models and bobbed hair girl artists
with insurrectory eyes and voices
made loud by wine. The earlier
freedom OF intercourse which had
seemed so like sexlessness to him
was now not quite 30 innocent OF
aspect. There was more abandon
In the dancing. a frank and some
what dishevelled surrender to volup-
tuousness that was even more
marked in the tired and sprawling
couples in the half-lighted alcoves.
The woman who had appeared so
rose-like in their loveliness. earlier
in the evening. now seemed to carry
a taint of coarseness. Even the
most girlish of the women began
to look old, drained of their vital
young forces by those Bacchana-
lian hours where the spirit OF car
nival finally balanced her ledger,
demanded final payment for exact
ing hostess that she is, and de-
manding final payment for excess.
A Second Thought.
Loosening and levitating as that
atmosphere was, with it's negroid
music and its nosy camaraderie,
Storrow was still insufficiently
touched by its spirit to overlook its
labored and strident light-hearted-
ness. 1t had the trick when the
music stopped, Nof flattening out into
over-colored ugliness.
The joy that it harbored had to
be kept spinning, or 1t tumbled
heavily and lay inert along its dusty
floors. Storrow found himself ask
ing If this was the New York he
had come in quest of, and If this
was the New York from whose lips
ne had once hoped to drink wisdom.
Almost as If in answer to that
question be found himself con-
fronted with Chester Hardy with a
regal-looking wman on his arm.
'Storrow, will you guard Miss
Klennert from this army of outlaws
until find her chauffeur for her?"
Storrow recognized the BroNd-
The Washington times., 1921-11-04

tired of the crowd and noise.
1.-The Anglo-Saxon can't get away
with 1t, can he" remarked Hardy,
lingering for a moment to view the
multi-colored mass of merrymakers
The Washington times., 1921-11-04
THE STORY so FAR.

owen Storrow, young sculptor com
ing to New York to perfect himself In
his art, takes room In a third-rate
hotel He sees Torrie Throssei. a strlk-
inkly lovely girl. on a fire e-escspe drying
her hair. Below, the engineer OF the
hotel engages In a brutal battle with his
wife. Torrie cries out in protest, and
the engineer calls her name that sends
storrow scurrying DOWN to combat
royal After conquering the enemy. tho
girl plays the good Samaritan 10 Stor-
row and falls in love with him. He goes
10 the luxurious home OF his step-aunt'
who has offered him a studio there. He
meets Charlotte Kirkner, his cousin,
whom he saves from drowning, and who
tells him she loves him. Storrow leaves
his aunt's home. takes a studio In New
York and finds himself next door 10
Torrie, who informs him she has fol-
lowed him. She has taken part In a
new play. Storrow finds himself think
ing more and more of her. She brings
Modrynski, a famous sculptor. to see his
work. He sneers at II. and Storrow de-
cides to follow the advice OF Hardy. a
novelist friend, and write OF North
Country life instead OF trying to repre-
sent IL by means OF sculptured forms.
He attends costume ball with Hardy.
The Washington times., 1921-11-04

about them.
''It seems to need a touch Of the
Latin" assented Miss Klennert.
II was wondering" observed Stor-
row, "if il wasn't because they
The Washington times., 1921-11-04

worked so hard that they found 1t
necessary to play so hard"
"Wait until the side show starts
called back the departing Hardy.
You're right in a way" said the
The Washington times., 1921-11-04

r F fruit stains on linen can be
dealt with as soon as they are
done, place the stained part
over a bowl, and pour boiling water
through IT, II later the best way is
20 steep It in oxalic acid, being care.
rul to rinse the parts thoroughly
fterward.
and prepare thom according to
The Washington times., 1921-11-04
I30- Year-Old Footprints.

FOOTPRINTS, believed to be 130 years DID, of Ha-
waiian army that fled from the wrath of the vol
cano Kilauea, have been found in Kau Desert by
professor in charge of the volcano observatory.
The Washington times., 1921-11-04

way star, as she held out her hand
TO him, from the familiar enough
pictures in the magazines. She
complained, in a surprisingly full
and throaty voice, of being a little
The Washington times., 1921-11-04
This Day in History.

THIS is the anniversary Of the DEATH in iS47. Of
Mendessohn, composer of Songs Without Words"
During his life he honored and his music ac-
corded what is considered too extravagant praise
The Washington times., 1921-11-04

VKY E often speak Of the church
" as in the community and
tho GhiifCh onI1ritnIr tEnl.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-07-16
HOMELAND
..----s
woyts dpy kstFi dali
meNsnts astay,

SEw YORK, July i5-The photo.
play producer and the author have
feaehed d stslsmate. Neither Of
tfem kneW how 10 meet the Other.
Rtpdtcers man effort 70 gain the
best Story material available used
ready money TO Induce the best
~Fitefs 10 devote their attention 10.
Many writer's who had pooh.
pooh thesphotoplay became willing
converts 10 tie screen when the
price per scenario reached a hand,
some figure.
Gold#yn and Famous Players
were leaders in bringing most OF
Tie prominent Ntars OF the day
20 the screen. his was on the
, taise supposftion that great au.
thets write only great stories.
Pietufes that have been made
Win the closest cooperation OF the
alithef have shown no improvement
owe thosH made without benefit Of.
thegwrttets suggestions.
That IS because the mind trained
10 express action and setting Id
prettygphtase and high.sounding by
pefbole does not adapt Itself to the
exigeneiss Of ptntomime action.
II IS the BELIEF Of this writer that
Of all tt,e authors who are spend.
ing their time at the studios to
hhye d direct hand In the filming
Of their stories Rupert Hughes IL.
the only one who has thoroughly
graspedg the needs Of screen writing
y would pc unfair to pass tudg.
meut on Elinpt Glyn. Her first
story Tor the screen has not yet
been shown. Is should show defi-
niteiy he value OF an authors help.
She wrote the story, followed
every movement Of the players, die
tatedS the ~costunilng and even play.
sda small part IN the story That's
about everything that an author
could do to make q photopay. or
ruin NJ
Booth Harrington went into great
dstaisl In his suggestions on the
dining of 1.-THE Conquest Of Ga.
naanr Yet the picture Is not pro-
ytlclal Indiana as Harrington knew
Iit OF asfthis writer knows It or as
anyone who ever lived in Indiana
knowssit.
The two pictures OF the last six
months that have been faithful to
Their stories from A 10 lizard are
Sentimental Tommy ana with
out Benefit to Clergy" Barrie had
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-07-16
FOR TORPID LIVER
ennessee Lumberman Talks Of
His Successful Use OF Black
prausht for Colds and Head.
aches.

jamestown, TENT have used.
Thedford's BlRck.Draught for
years, In fact II is The only liver
medicine that does me any good"
says Mi. L, a. Ragan, a well-known
lumhermap Of this place. When
l was single, l used II for head.
aches, and especially II ! get q cold
and feel feyerish, / take 4 good dose
Of Black raught, and II sets me
right.
have used 1t in my family, and new.
er have found its equal for torpid
liver or d~isarranged stomach, es'
pecially with children . | can rec.
ommend Black.D raught,- and glad.
ly do So"
Every member OF the family oc-
casionally needs the assistance
that Black raught can give. IN
helping to cleanse the system and
relieve or prevent the troubles that
come from a lazy, torpid liver.
II your liver is not doing iit4 duty,
you may suffer with headaches,
constipation, biliousness, indiges.
tion, etc. Unless relief Is obtain.
ed, serious sickness may result. In
It's long and successful use, Thed.
Black.Draught has been
in thousands OF cases to re-
lieve such disorders, by stimulat.
ing the liver to do its important
ASK for Thedtord's Black
Draught. and insist on the genu.
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