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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-10
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But with the lingerie frock, as with everything else. it is a case of every woman to her taste. If she is a de- 'votee of the elaborate - after her practical needs have been fulfilled then it may be that her thoughts turn to voi1e and it's dainty allies, net, hand embroidery and file edging.
 Everyone remembers when dotted Swiss was beloved above all other materials and no one is sorry to find it again in the sunlight. And it is just as winning no matter what it's shade. For the street milady likes brown or blue or beige, and she is sure to requisition for it's trimming g tiny flowers and a ribbon gird1e.
 A dress of dark organdie with a panel of white is another attractive combination and right here it may be worth while mentioning that these lingerie frocks are apt to boast skirts that are wide or that are made to u1ate wiwt by full panels or tunics. simulate width by full panels or tIInicS.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-10
Advice To The Lovelorn
 By BEATRICE FAIRFax
Platonic Friendships

Platonic Friendships. Dear Miss Fairfax:
 am a "bride" of but three weeks and have been supremely happy until this morning a letter was forwarded my husband from his old business address to our home address from an old sweetheart of his, who has been married for almost a year and ap- parentIy she is very miserable Do you approve platonic friendships?
 B. M. Dear Miss Fairfax:
 If you do, you can be sure that the chances are you'll make some thing of nothing. The power Of sug- gestion is great. Take the whole mat ter Hght1 wand good-natured1y. Don't stress it or nag your husband about it. Show as much interest in it as you do in any other incident of your boys life. '>~ The Road to Wisdom. A successful wife is one who can preserve the domestic peace with out paying her own personality as the price.
 Most of the unhappiness in mar riage is caused by the terrible life long effort to be happy in somebody e1se'S way.
 A wise woman is one who knows exactly what a man means when she knows he is saying a lot he doesn't mean.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-10

if by some invisible hand, when he has been joining in the gayeties and on end. when the mood was on him, he has been sunk in the deepest gloom. This and a certain tfnge of superstition were the only unusual brother officers had observed. The latter pecuharity took the form of a dislike to being left alone, especial 4y after dark. This puefile feature in a nature which was conspiculously manly had often given rise to com ment and conjecture
 1.-The First battalion of the Royal Ministers (which is the old 117th) some years. The married officers live out of barracks, and the Colonel has during all this time occupied a villa called Lachine, about half mile from the north camp. The house stands in it's own grounds, but the west side of it is not more than 30 yards from the high road. A coach man and two maids form the staff of servants. These with their master and mistress were the sole occupants children, nor. was it usual for them to have resident visitors.
 ttN.ow for the events at Jachine be- tween g and 10 on the evening of last Monday.
 Mrs Barclay was, it appears, a member of the Roman Catholic church, and had interested herself very much in the establishment. of the Guild of St. George, which was form ed in connection with the Watt Street Chapel for the purpose of sup plying the poor with cast-off cloth ing. A meeting of the Guild had been held that evening at 8, and Mrs. Bar clay had hurried over her dinner in order to be present at it. When 1eav- ing the house she was heard by the coachTnan to make some common place remark to her husband, and to assure him that she would be back before very long. She then called for Miss Morrison. a young lady who lives in the next villa. and the two went off together to their meeting. It lasted 40 minutes, and at quarter past nine Mrs. Barclay returned home, having left Miss Morrison at her door as she passed
 'AIh here is a room which is used as 9 morning room at Iachdne. This faces the road and opens by a large glass folding door on to the lawn. The lawn is 30 yards across, and is only divided from the highway by a low wall with an iron rail above it. Ii was into this room that Mrs. Barclay went upon her return. The blinds were not down. for the room was sell dom used in the evening, but Mrs. Barclay 7 self lit the lamp and then rang t. asking Jane Stewart,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-10

the housemaid, to bring her a cup of tea, which was quite contrary to her usual habits. The Colonel had been sitting in the dining room, but hear ing that his wife had returned he joined her in the morning room. The
 coachman saw him cross the hall and enter it. He was never seen again alive.
 ''The tea which had been ordered
 was brought up at the end of ten
 minutes; but the maid as she ap-
 hear the voices of her master and
 mistress in furious altercation. She
 knocked without receiving any an
 swer, and even turned the handle but
 only to find that the door was looked
 upon the inside Naturally enough
 she ran down to tell the cook, and
 the two women, with the coachman,
 came up into the hall and listened to
 They all agreed that only two voices were to be heard, those of Barclay
 and of his wife. Barclays remarks
 none of them were audible to the lis. teners The lady's, on the other
 hand, were most bitter, and when she
 raised her voice could be plainly heard. You coward!' she repeated
 over and over again. What can be
 done now? What can be done now?
 Give me back my life. I will neveS
 so much as breathe the same air with you again! You cowardi You cow ardi' Those were scraps of her
 conversation, ending in a sudden dreadful cry in the mans voice, with a crash, and a piercing scream from
 the woman Convinced that some tragedy had occurred, the coachnan rushed to the door and strove to force it, while scream after scream issued from within. He was unable, how | ever, to make his way in, and the
 maids were too distracted with fear to be of any assistance to him. A sudden thought struck him, however and he ran through the hall door ana round to the lawn upon which tssN l long French windows open. Ossv side of the window was open, wniUr- understand was quite usual tin the
 summertime, and he passed without difficulty into the room. His m1s- tress had ceased to scream and was
 stretched insensible upon couch,
 while with his feet tilted over the | side of an armchair, and his head upon the ground near the corner or the fender, was lying the unfortunate
 soldier stone dead in pool of his own blood.
 Tomorrow-The Crooked Man eCon- tinued1.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-10

One week she sends forth her heralds annunocing that this is to be Q silk year. If madame wishes to be in the mode at all she must provide herself with crepeS and tafetS in variety. At the end of the next seven days comes the announcement that the lingerie frock has been revived in all it's beauty and that the wardrobe that will not boast one will be incomplete. And there is much truth in both statements. The fact of the matter is that fashion is dividing her fayors and giving to each frock, lingerie or silk, the need that is it's rightful due, a. virtue that can not invariably be accredited to her in the days of the past.
 Delicate batiste, sheer lawn, heavier linen, dotted Swiss, organdie-each and all of these materials are being given flair dea1,'' pleading guilty to using the vernacu1ar, but perhaps with them all no more interesting things are being done than with linen.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-10
BILL HART "NOT QUITIN',,
 HIS PINTO PONY EXPLAINS

'"Reck'n it seems strange that when my boss pictures are breaking theater records he aims to take q long vacation
 Lots of folks want to know if we're quitt1n'--we ain't- Me an my boss have heen workin' together for seven years We are four pictures ahead of our MT. Paramount releases an we want to hit the trail an play awhile, where the buffalo grass shines all pink am purple. an the yuccas stand out agin' the sky.
 'So long, till We meet again,
 Bill Hart's Pinton Pony,
 Me, too, BILL. HART
 Six stars are promised in Five Kisses
 Someone's going to get left
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-10
THURSDAY
Funny Pays Past, Present and Future

Everybody has seen-funny Fay Tincher. with her striped suits, her Della Fox curl and her yards of chewing gum. She has been keeping herself out of sight lately, so far as the screen is coneerned, but that isn't her fault, says she, with some asper- ity. She; has been making a coast to-coast tour with one of her latest pictures at>%A Seaside Siren," but now she's returned and is hard at work again, for which fact her many ad- mirers will be grateful
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-10

"OIiver Twist, IT," a 1921 version of Dickens celebrated story in which Harold Goodwin will make his initial bow as a Fox star, has been com pIeted. The production is said to be a. particularly fine piece of Stagecraft. incidents are in the main exactly the same as Charles Dickens penned them, the entire locale has been shifted to America and mjodernized- with all the characters garbed in the clothes of today.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-10

Did I ever play vampire roles Certainly, that's the way I started in motion picture, with D. w. Griffith
 as the very wicked lady in The Battle bad that was funny, for a few weeks later l was on my way to California to work for MT. Griffith in comedies"
 That is Miss Tfncher's own version Of Eer entry into filmdom. Without passing on the truth of the remarks
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-10

AGNES-What part have I most enjoyed playing in pictures? An old
 question, and a hard one. l have been so many different things the last year or so that I can never think of any one part better than all the oth- CTS. As a rule I like scenes of gen era1 festivity and pretty clothes bet ter than the gloomy cellars and rags, but even that is qualified by what op-
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-10

portunity there is for acting in each role.
 The picture that has just been shown, Away Goes Prudence," has plenty of variety-laundry women's kitchens and SangSterS' denS and drawing rooms and aeroplanes and Inediaeval scenes all in the course of a few short hours The Misleading Widow, too, was a part liked, though l have often wondered what the
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-10

If there is anything you want 10 know about motion pictures, write to Eleanor Dale of this newspaper. Give your correct name and adrcss in case your an- Syvez, must be sent through the mail
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-10
ATLAS BATHS.

"Good Times" Certainly there are good times to be ad- The theatre, the club. and the street corner may offer real solid comfort the, man-about- town knows that the Turkish bath, with it's heat, its luxurious divans, shower and plunge, are unequal1ed.
 Indigestion, languor, and dispirit- ednesS must disappear under the eN- pert administration of water which to the body is the same as 1t is to other materials Try the Atlas Turk ish Baths on Fairfield avenue.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-10

pr. Stahmer, German anbassador3 to Great Britain, has left London for Berlin, it was announced
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-10
PARK.

When they call the chorus here
 Thursday, Friday and Saturday at the Park with the Sporting Widows
 one of the best looking in burlesque, it will not be a bit exaggerated. Spe- Cial attention is being paid in the se- lection of girls who would promi- nently stand out in the. production and this is one particular item of credit that must be given this attraction. The cast is one that spells the best in burlesque, Al K Hall, the happy go lucky comedian, June LeVeay prma donna, Gertrude Beck. Eugenie La Blanc, Bob Startzman,. George Weist and the Rex Trio, the latter being the pick of the best singing acts in vaudeville. Added to this array of talent that is most particularly wor- thy of nlenton is the waltz contest,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-10

Funny Fay's striped stockings, and so forth. Della Fox curl and chewing gum have come back.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-10

Tomorrow-The Crooked Man eCon
 tinued1.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-21
BUREAU EMPLOYEES
ELECT OFFICERS

Llewellyn Tapp of the U. s. Bu-
reau of Engraving and Printing will
head the mems branch of Federal
Employees Union, No. 2, of the bu-
reau following the annual election
of officers at the business session
and smoker yesterday afternoon at
headquarters. 1923 New York ave-
nue..
other officers elected without
contest were: Vice president. M. A.
Myer; financial secretary and treas
urer, C. M. Stewart; corresponding
secretary A. N. Dewey.
A new executive committee was
also elected, as follows: d. C. Jones,
John z. Borland, A. S. French and
Harry ]. Eisenbeiss. A. s. French
will serve as inspector and L. A.
Reese as guardian for the coming
year. d. S. Jones and S. E. Beach
were elected delegates to the joint
conference of the board of the bu-
reau.
The new officers were installed by
Miss Gertrude NJ. McNally. third
vice president of the National Fed
Grafton of Federal Employees. 1t
was unanimously resolved to re-
quest a separate charter for the
mems branch through Local No. 2
at the next convention of the Ma
tional Federation of Federal Em-
ployes.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-21
Awakening from a Dream.

Socialism in its varied forms is bird of fine
pumage 1t is very attractive but every test of its
substance from Russia to North Dakota, shows that
it is all feathers there is meat. 1t promises
much for nothing, but it gets much and gives moth
ing, but debt
The Nonpartisan League of North Dakota is
about to pass the way of its forebears 1t has pro-
vided the stage, with footlights, brilliant scenery
and much hapdoodle, on which few could strut
and have their day. Now has come the inevitable
day of reckoning.
The State bank faces insolvency. The farmers
are paying their taxes with State certificates which
are evidence of debt, not money. Over 200
banks must nave support to prevent closing their
doors. All the public work, State financed, has
stopped while taxes have doubled and quadrupled.
The State must market $6ooo,ooo in bonds
Naturally there has been no desire of those who
deal with other peoples money to invest in them,
that Townley may continue his dramatics So the
league has had to make terms.
There terms agreed upon with Chicago and
Minneapolis bankers mark the close of the States
career in Socialism. The State bank will be
changed to a farm and loan bank The State -four
ing mill and elevator will be completed as mat
ter of economy. How they will be operated will
then be determined.
Other State undertakings and investments will
be abandoned. Laws will be passed to safeguard
State funds and to sinking fund. The
States affairs will be stabilized and there will be 10
more high finance for personal aggrandzement and
political preferment.
1t is estimated that the $6,oooyooo will just
squeeze the State through its financial straits 1t
does not all represent loss 1t is largely to cover
long time loans obligations which cannot. be
liquidated. On the other hand much of it is total
loss. -
1t is probable that the final argument which
made the league leaders yield, was the purpose of
the independent voters organization to start re-
call of all State officials representing the league
They did not dare face the electors. AS it is, they
but get out gracefully. but their day is over.
Mr.. Harding will at least escape being
The Washington herald., 1921-02-21
COMPARES ACTS OF nRIrArS To
US. Foley IN HAITI.

To the Bdits. rse wsshinstos BersId:
Mr.. Ross-Hayes misses the mark
and misrepresepts Modestinus. And
he declares that he IL an English
man and that Americans are irno-
rant of American history or the
Spirit of '7s. freeing their ancestors,
would cause them to free ireland.
Eonsense! We. have no more inter
national law right TO interfere with
Britain in killing a few hundred
Irfshmen than Britain has to inter-
fere with America in killing /. few
thousand Haltisns. Besides. in ous
revolutionary war the British arrnS
was three-fourthl Irish. and when
Lord Howe saile6 into Philadelphis
the Irish-Amerieans deserted ana
fiunkily new to his lordship 80 fast
that he got a whole regiment Of
them and nearly half Of another in
no time. But whoever heard Of an
E4glishman knowing American his
tory. anyway! He also seriously ar-
CUES that Germany has the same
right to hold Belgium that Britain
has to hold ireland. and therein r.
r. Kelly agrees. and Bill Kaiser
would. too. no doubt.
But. against the argument Of this
great triumyirate of English, Irish
and German representatives are the
historical facts that, centuries ago.
some Pope gave Ireland Can aggre-
cation Of small, Quarrelsome tribesD
to England TO get rid of her. and
ever since England has owned and
held the little island by right Of in
ternational law and the skin Of her
teeth. which nations have respected
whereas Germany never owned Bel
gium. declared her solemn treaty
with that little nation a scrap or
paper" and automatically seized
her against all international Law.
This the other nations could not
countenance-Ross-Hayes ans Kel-
ly and the Kaiser to the contrary.
Notwithstanding.
Mr.. Kelly very disjointedly asks
and answers: How many Americans
believe Cuba Oor. IL my memory
serves me correctly. she is freeD is
to be feared. Wonderful Americans
IL they do"
IL would SEEM that Mr. Kelly
never heard OF the Plstt amendment
or resolution. and that Gen. Crow
der lately dictated Cubas constitu-
tion and is down there now amend
ing and enforcing it,
Now, why the Plat Amendment ~
Americans did not fear a free Cuba
And in freeing Cuba and shame
fully shackling her with the Piatr
amendment were Kelly's wonder
full Americans" in united voice of the
nation, including it's Congress. it,
President Mckinley and Cabinet. its
army and navy its Theodore Rooso-
welt and Cabinet. it's Woodrow vii
son and Warren Harding. and even
Modestinus. MODESTINCS
February IL, 1921.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-21

in cost and in operation. will do two things: 1t
viii radically reduce the number ofsthe present
ployes. II will consolidate bureaus, boards and
commissions and transfer activities in departments
and as between departments.
This invites the opposition of every one who
win fear losing his BERTH 1t will invite the oppo-
sition of department heads and lesser lights who
may lose certain authority and influence, prestige
and political power. This opposition may not al
ways be open, but will be there with stilettos. if
not biudgeons. There will be plenty Of it. 1t will
reach into Congress
= This same attempt to reorganize, condense and
simplify administrative machinery has been under
taken IN several Of the States 1t has succeeded in
but two or three, either partially or fully.
1 Where it has been effected, this has come only
through theSpersonal nsistence and demand of the
governor. who has usually had to answer to
strong faction of hisown party for his courage and
disregard of ioaves and fishes.
If Mr.. Harding has determined upon 'reorgan-
ization, he may as well realize the price. He will
set the profit of public approval only as Mr. Dawes
suggests by making squarely defined issue and by
taking it to the folks. There is no doubt of the
public demand.
There is less doubt as to the need. There
never7was worse hodge-podge, more of dupIica-
ton, more OF useless effort and greater accumula-
ton OF titles without service, than is to be found in
most of the departments. Alongside of this will be
found underpaid ability, unapprecated effort and an
earnest desire for service that is blocked by techn
calites which shackes
To bring order out of this mess; to clean out
the pure junk; to combine and give full opportunity
to honest effort and ability; to take from the
|perfluous and give to the deserving is not small
task. Yet the program a plan, is simple COM
pared to having the plan accepted.
s.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-21
General May Be Guest
OF Former CHARGES

Maj. Gen. Charles T. Menoher.
former fighting commander" of the
Forty-second (Rainbow) Division. is
expected to be the honor guest to-
night at the d. C. Chapters. cele-
bration of the third anniversary Of
the divisions actual entrance into
combat. The celebration will be
held at the "dugout." 1904 e street
northwest.
Three years ago today the divi-
sion went into action in the Lune-
vile sector. Lorraine. France.
President Edward J. Mahan has
endeavored to reach all local vet
Grams Of the division in this sec
ton. Visiting veterans are invited
to attend the meeting tonight.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-21
Nothing, If Not Modest.

The liquor dealers are nothing if not modest.
They once owned the United Statos, or seemed to
think they did 1t was taken away from them and
now they only ask to have from $2ooo,oooooo to
$4,000 100000 paid to them and they will give quit
claim deed reserving, of course, the right to the
collection OF further damages for other damages"
When the saloons breweries and distilleries
were closed there were business losses. These the
United States Treasury is asked to pay. OF course
many breweries making as much income from
near beer, candy and other products as they did
from beer, but that is not to be considered
Many distileries are making alcohol and other
distllation; many have been turned to other kinds
of industry, but this is not to be considered The
saloon buildings are quite generally rented. Some
are still operated blind pigs, just as some brew
cries still making real beer but this too is not
to be considered
As'the Supreme Court has held that the liquor
men are not entitled to any payment for any of
these losses, they will go to Congress for specific
law in their behalf. No little thing like Supreme
Court decision faxes them
Nor is this all Liquor for medicinal pur-
poses is taxed at $40 gallon. That used as
beverage is taxed at 500 gallon. Those who
have paid the higher rate without protest, ask
for refund of the 81 difference. Most of it was
gotten out of bond by the route of bogus theft or
forged permits. But what are such things as
among friends?
According to statistics, if all the liquor that
came from the warehouses in 1870 was used as
medicine, this must have been year of unexampled
sickness No one of the population can have
escaped. There can have been no other epidemic
like it known in history 1t must have been unani-
nous.
Will the liquor dealers get all these billions?
Hardly. But that will not keep them from coming,
hat in hand, with the hat full of tears. They have
passed the militant period and have come to that
of weepy begging. They might as well save their
mock mourning as there abundant other uses
for taxes.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-21
Wholesale Reorsanizatie.

Inan address in New York, Charles G. Dawes
expressed the belief that Mr.. Harding would have
much opposition in putting into effect any plan to
remodel and coordinate the administrative depart
this
afhe President" he said. must present the
pisn-i4 such, a distinct and comprehensive shape
thai the people of this country unite in their
sentiment behind it and override the selfish interests
which from the beginning to the end viii attempt
to block IT,"
Any su<h plan to produce real economy both