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The Washington herald., 1921-02-07
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NEW YORK, Feb. 6.-Society
matrons have been holding many
conferences lately behind closed
doors regarding an epidemic of
careless dressing that has afflicted
New York's male eligibles. 1t may
be the back wash of war or it may
be that they have not been apply
ing themselves studiously to the
fashion page of the theater pro-
grams.
1t is true that many of the
young men have been studying
other topics than How to Dress
Well" during the past few years
and this might be responsible Olive
drab was prescribed for all occa-
sions during the war-from poker
parties to formal receptions.
But Then they returned to civvies
it was supposed that they would
take up the dress of the day. So
Ciety editors, however. proclaim
that the debutants-the name OF
the male dancing partners of the
debutantes-have lost their refined
social instinct.
The greatest breach happened,
according to the stories,s at two
select dancing parties given by Mrs.
Charles B. Alexander and Mrs. Hugh
D'Auchincloss-names that are eff
fulgent in Blue Books of Blue
Bloods. One of these dances was
given at a mansion on Fifty eighth
street and the other in the gorgeous
ballroom of the Ritz.
The debutantes arrived in deli
cately beautiful frocks. They were
sartorially perfect The hostess in
each instance beamed. Then the
men struggled up from their coat
checking rooms. In each instance
the matrons nearly swooned.
Nearly all had on dinner coats. A
The Washington herald., 1921-02-07
Borrowed Husbands
AMarried Life Story
WV-Half a Confidence,
Written for The Herald
BY Mildred K. Barbour

+ NO sugar, thank you-and only
a little tea, mostly hot water. Tsa
is injurious-and sugar is fatten-
ing"
''Oh, what it means to be a medi-
cos wife" laughed Nancy. Il Hare
say you always stop to thing about
germs before he kisses you"
She could have bitten her tongue
when she saw Edith's painful flush,
and she hated herself bitterly for
her fiippancy when the latter said
quietly:
That doesn't trouble me very
often"
which Nancy broke by remarkinS
with an effort at carelessness:
I'm glad to hear that YOU are an
| advocate of my movement to dis
courage perfunctory kissing. Espe-
cially between husbands and wives.
Gerry used to drive ,me into trans
ports of mirth by stopping in the
midst of a breakfast table rage in
which he rated me slightly lower
than the angels to kiss me good
bye. Then, as soon as the kiss was
over he would pick up his anger
where he left off and continue until
the car had borne him out of hear
ing"
Edith, looking steadily into the
| fire. made no comment.
What did you think Of the hos
pital?" she asked. WAS the opera
| tiOn a success?"
Nancy flushed guiltily.
IT didn't 60" she confessed. ITO
the last moment"
Edith stared at her incresLousIy.
| SDidn't go? What WILL Frederick
Think" she gasped.
Nancy shrugged.
What difference could it make 10
him? He wasn't operating for my
benentw
But he probably had to make
| special arrangements to have you
admitted to the amphitheater." pro-
| tested Edith. 'and he was so anxi-
Gus for you to be present. You re-
member he even telephoned?"
How ridiculous of Edith to take
| it so seriously thought Nancy re-
| sentfully! Just because she was
visiting her must she be expected
to sit around operating rooms and
watch her famous husband per-
form. Wasn't he conceited enough
already without having adulation
and applause from a chance guest
! OF his wife's?
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all? wouldn't you think IL a pretty
poor way to spend your life?
Never to have stood alone, new
er to have tested your strength,
never to have had anything that
wasn't given to you. never to have
done anything that wasn't really
worth while, or to have had any
interest that wasn't a manufactured
interest, never TO have pitted your
wit and shrewdness against other,
peoples and won out-if you had
missed all of that, wouldn't you
have missed most Of the fun in
life?
"Of course ! would, but I am a
man." said Betty's father.
when a woman has a mans
brains she feels just as a man
feels" 1 responded, and she's got
the same cosmic urge to use her
power as he has. The trouble is
with nature, that makes girls in
herit from their fathers and boys
from their mothers. That's why so
many big strong msn, the men who
do things, have clever daughters
and dull sons"
Girls weren't always restless
like they are now. They used TO be
The Washington herald., 1921-02-07
DorothY,DixsAe

A very rich man, who, beginning
with the proverbial shoestring, has
converted it into a cable that reach
es around the world, said to me the
other day:
Mt used to be the prodigal sons
who turned their parents hair gray
with worry. In these times it's the
strenuous daughters who keep us
awake at night, wondering how We
are going to keep them at home.
Take my case, for example. /
have just one chick in the world,
and all these years that I have been
toiling, and moiling, and laying up
money. the chief thing that
thought about was that 1 was 60
ing to be able to pad her life with
luxury and that she would never
have to work as her mother and l
had to do when we were young.
Well, I've given that girl money,
and motors, and fine houses, and
fine, clothes; everything she wants,
except the thing she wants most of
all.
And that's work. She hates So
ciety. Going to parties and dancing
bores. her stiff. She even looks on
marriage as a man does-an ac-
cjdent that is liable to hapen to
you IL you aren't careful and don't
watch your step, but that you
needn't be foolhardy enough to rur
into.
mo. What Betty clamors for is
work. She demands that 1 take her
into my ONCE. or set her up in busi-
ness Just as I would do If she had
been a boy instead of a girl, and
don't know what to do about 1t
1t breaks her mother and me al
up. especially her mother, who hac
looked forward to having a pretty
daughter to dress up and show of
somebody who would take a Tea
heart interest in shopping with her
and have romantic condolences t
whisper to her. and who would b'
embroidering doodahs for her hope
chest.
And here's a young person whc
says frankly that If she thought she
had to spend the balance of hel
life trotting around to teas, anC
conversing with the feeble -mindcC
who frequent such places, she woulc
commit suicide at once. because sh'
prefers a swift, short agony to th'
slow torture OF being bored tC
death Here's a girl who prefer.
| reading the stock market to Rob
ert Chambers. and who envies the
girl who has got a Job more thar
the one who is going TO marry a mil
lionaire who has given her a 500 ool
pearl necklase.
It's ridiculous for girl stu
ated as my daughter is to go tc
work. Yet what am 1 going to dc
about it2"
do not believe any girl shouIt
work outside of her home unless
it is absolutely necessary" said an,
other man. "A womsn's place i,
in the home"
Just what I think" said the FIRST
man. why can't girls be satisfied
to go around and have a good time
and dress themselves up, and look
forward to getting married. as their
mothers did? What is the trouble
with girls, anyway"
| We'll" replied, the chief trou-
bile with your girl. is that she is her
| fathers daughter, and that she has
| inherited your keen brain, your en-
ergy and driving power, your vision
and executive ability, and that all
the qualities that have made you
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Feeling somehow that she mad IN
adyertently committed a sacrilege,
Nancy closed the door Of the little
shrine that held the photograph Of
DR.. Langwen.
Her heart was wrung with pity
for Edith, whose secret she had so
unknowingly stumbled upon.
In that tiny, exquisite cabinet lay
the tragedy Of Edith's colorless e&-
istence; the solution OF the mystery
that changed the eager, laughing
girl into the white woman.
Nancy felt a Gerce- desire to re-
open the inlaid doors and look
again upon the image of the man
who had wrought the change. She
wanted to search his face, to study
his features, for some evidence Of
the hidden force which could cause
such a transformation. She wanted
20 guage him cooly and dispassion-
ately, as she knew that she could
never do the living man under the
influence Of his strange magnetism.
But though her slim fingers trav-
eIed over every inch of the mother
of-pearl surface, the spring that
had responded to that chance touch
Of hers remained stubbornly hidden.
Hearing a step in the hall, she
abandoned her effort, and sank
quickly into a chair beside the tea
table.
When Edith, entering with her
step Of dragging weariness, spoke
to7her she felt as guilty as though
she had been caught purloining the
spoons
Don't you think I'm awfully
cheeky-taking possession Of your
sanctum sanctorum this way?" she
demanded laUghingly. Your maid
said only your most intimate friends
we're privileged with a glimpse of
this, room"
you like it, Edith sank with
A. sigh into a chair near the gas
FIRE She held out her hand toward
the blue flames. It's a bit chilly,
isn't it?"
Nancy nodded, busy with the tea
things.
She was thinking how perfectly
hose artificial logs fitted into the
scheme Of the gray room. Even
THEY burned evenly, discreetly
giving light without warmth. Not
a-single tongue OF flame dared lift
its head above its fellows.
You like your tea strong, il re-
member aright-and plenty OF
sugar"
Her hand held the tongs poised
above the fragile Sevres cup when
Edith stopped her with a gesture.
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success and that you have had
such joy in using. are clam0ing
for expression in her. You wouldn't
hitch a seventy five horse power
motor to hve-flea job; and that's
what Betty thinks She is doing
when you ask her to use that great
intelligence of hers on piffling lit
tie things like picking out chiffons,
and talking to jeuybean youths.
suppose you had nothing in the
world to do or to think about ex-
cept dressing yourself up, and buy
ing clothes, and going from one
party to another, where you met
the same set of aimless, inane peo-
pie, who. repeated over and over
and over again the same bromidic
remarks: would you go crazy with
the dullness and monotony Of 1t
The Washington herald., 1921-02-07

The express company put in q
modern safe Immediately, but that
| didn't help Billy Meath, the agent
at Round Hill, who was under ar
rest on a charge of abstracting a
package containing $4,000 in CIR
rency from the old safe.
1t looked mighty bad for Meath
The safe hadn't been broken INTO.
1t had just been n locked. Further
more, even though the lock was one
; Of those old-style affairs, like an
ordinary door lock, there hadn't
been an opportunity, at the time
Meath testified the robbery had tax
en- place, for anyone to have pick cd
the lock.
There was only one key to the
safe. Meath kept this on his own
key ring. and wasn't supposed to
allow it out of his possession.
Meath was on duty from $50 in
the morning until in the after
6ce opened until it closed. He had
one assistant, a new man. but he
had left him alone in the office only
a few seconds.
The robbery occurred in broad
| daylight, about 10 o'clock in the
morning, according to Meath's story.
The package of currency had been
| there for two days, waiting for the
addressee to come and claim it.
Meath and Gross Cthat was the as
sistant's name) had receipted for it
and registered it, and Meath had
i placed it on the second shelf of the
safe.
1T was< just about s:5S," said
| Meath, when L opened the safe to
get a little jewelry parcel a Mr
Everett Jones called for. The
money was there then. I locked the
safe afterward and put the key in
my pocket. Then 1 noticed my
watch had run down, and 1 told
Gross I was going to step outside
and set it by the station clock. I
had to go about thirty feet down
the platform to see the clock, but
I wasn't gone half a minute. When
came back Gross was at his desk
as usual. He went to lunch at IL.
About 1880 I had occasion to open
the safe again and discovered the
money was missing"
Did you ever let Gross have the
MY dShtO I1dANSy I1uhly WHO " Dc
investigating the theft for the COM
pany.
only once" declared Meath, land
then 1 felt I'd made a mistake.
Never liked the fellows looks. ]
was afraid he might take a wax
impression of the key, so I watch
ed him close. But he didn't have
anything in his hand but a piece of
paper, and he brought the key
right back to me. even examined
the key to see if there were any
particles of wax sticking to it, but
there weren't. That was about
three days before the theft"
We'll. Meath" Hunt said, "it's
clearly between you and Gross. 1t
looks bad for you, but you've got a
long spotless record with the COM
pany, and this Gross chap hasn't
any record at all. I'm betting on.
our honesty and his guilt"
But how could he manage Il.
Mr.. Hunt? He wasn't alone long
enough to pick the lock, and he
couldn't have gotten an impression
Of the key"
Yes, he could" interrupted the
criminal investigator.
But how?' queried the astonish-
ed express agent.
Can you explain how he could have got.
ten iti
TAs answer win appear tomorrow.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-07
G. W. " Dean Accepts
Short Tern, at Cornell

DR.. William Carl Ruediger, dean
of Teachers College at George
Washington University and direc-
tor of the university's summer
school, has accepted the post of
instructor in education in the Cor
nell University Summer School next
season.
Dean Ruediger will retain his
posts at George Washington and
win be present for the opening and
closing of the summer school here.
He will return to the university for
the regular session beginning pext
fall.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-07
Deductions ofHarveyHunt
By Philip Francis Nowlan.

the earth is an sirplane OF a bal
loon. Hence the rope-mark. Since
airplanes and dirigibles are likely
to fly over apparently deserted
ground in the dark to kidnap peo-
pie, I would say that ellison had an
appointment with the pilot, which
establishes his guilt rather than
foul play. Finally, I think il must
have been a dirigible, and not a
plane. The latter would have had
to alight to take on the passenger.
Can you solve this mystery
The Washington herald., 1921-02-07

All bound round with fur and cold in sight
Washington househoders doing homage the gods the
weather for Withholding boreal blasts and antng winter
the government department bellies who laid 5 (inse
from $500 to $1,000 for ossy think the weather
just horrid for anything.
This lady pleased with things general how
She knows that big fur is fai
days If she will don said and journey OF
Col Hasan, Herald Picture Editor 427 Eleventh
she will receive months subscription the paper
Last Fridays fair photographed Mrs H. w. Scheuz,
poyed in the War Department. She given Heradsub
spon and for tickets the Friday showing
of "Way Down East" Polls.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-07

SIN GIson, manager of the
Buford smeIters, disappeared
with the company payroll His
footprints vanished into air.
Friends tkosEht Sim was slug
xed and robbed. Harvey Hunt
wasn't 80 clumsy in his specu-
lation- Harvey could tell the
trace of a lariat from the wriE-
ling imprint of a snake. There
81 hangs the tale, and below
Huat explains 1t.
Xxx.
HTrS the hardest thing" said Har.
vey Hunt to Sheriff Mcguire, ir
explaining the puzzle of the Van
ishing Footprints" Ito keep ouI
perfectly good brains from getting
that parslyZed feeling when we run
up against a mystery that smacks
of the supernatural. 1t was one OF
the things I had to fight hardest
against when I was new at this
work. II you go at a problem like
this with the possibility Of the su-
pernatural in your thoughts you're
half beaten before you begin
Here we read from the foot.
prints and the other marks in the
dust that apparently Sim ellison
walked out into the middle of this
stretch Of ground, that he was over
taken by something, that he strug-
gled and was dragged for some dis
tance- Then the marks vanish from
the soft alkali dust. The thing that
throws our reason out of gear and
brings US that sense of the super
natural is the fact that there are
no hoof marks about, except what
looks to be the work of a lariat or
ROPE.
but suppose Ee forget, Sheriff,
that there are no hoof marks Sup
pose we assume that such marks
were there, how would you explain
ire fact that Gilson's footprints dis
atPearedT
Easy" laughed Mcguire. They'd
disappear because ellison had been
lifted OF the ground"
FTThaL's precisely what happened
then," Hunt continued. And Ih2
oily thing that can lift a man on
the ground without itself touching
The Washington herald., 1921-02-07

q. What is your name:
A. Isaac Cans.
q. What is your businesss
A. General manager, Saks and
Company.
q. What do you like most
about its
A. The friendships make
through it.
@. What was your nickname
when you were in school:
A. i had none.
q. What Is your favorite
sport or hobby:
A. Nothing. am a small,
quiet, modest man.
O. What Is your favorite
actresss - ..H
A.. have mo- favorite actress,
hut 1 try to see Otis Skinner
every time he comes to wash
ington.
q. Do you enjoy jazxs
A. Not particularly.
q. What Is your pet supersti-
tionf
A. ME famiIiar .Ia.s
The Washington herald., 1921-02-07

shocking display. Other matrons
there to look on lifted their
lorgnettes dropped them in speech
less horror and then looked again
and again. 1t was unspeakable. A
chill is said to have permeated the
rooms. |.-. -.
And on top OF this terrible faux
pas of the dinner coat practically
every one Of the male guests COM
mitted the impropriety of appear
ing on the dance floor without the
conventional white gloves. In the
old days to attend a select dance
without white gloved hands would
be as objectionable as emulating
the quaint Sockless Jerry Simpson.
The passing of the white glove is
felt more deeply than the tragedy
of mere social blunder. 1t has it's
economic side. The matrons of that
portion of the 400 whose position
on the social calendar is more hered-
itary than financial, for there seems
to have been little reaction 20 the
wave of price cutting among the
modistes, are disturbed because the
ungloYed hand of the dancing man
can wreak much damage upon the
debutante's frail drapery in these
days of the toddle and shimmy.
Carnegie Hall was filled last
Saturday night to see a Recital by
the prize pupils of Louis H. Chalif.
Theatrical managers filled the
boxes, for in the past year three
of Chalif's pupils have embarked
upon professional careers before
the ink had become dry on their
diplomas. 1t was an exhibition of
what might be called high brow
dancing and yet the balcony and
gallery were filled with middle class
folk from the Bronx and poorly
dressed foreigners from the East
Side. 1t is an indication that de-
spite the wave of toddling, jazzing
and shimmying, people still desire
to see the dances where the spirit,
grace and beauty of the art are pre-
served.
Prohibitions progress in Gotham
A Columbus avenue saloon keeper
has renewed his lease at an in
creased rental of $4,000 a year.
Fifth avenue, which had only one
saloon 25 years ago, has many to-
day. Many saloons have revived the
free lunch.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-07

THE ANSWERS,
JOSEPH NJ. GEIER. National
Bank of Washington, "Discon-
tents because Ii breeds worry
and pessimism In some and yfo-
lence in others. Both of these
factors tend to make the world
worse than IL is.-
FRANCIS Y. FUHRMAN, As
toria spartmentss "sToo, much
ccBtentment. II makes peopIe
want to lay down on the Job
and take things easy Instead Of
improving the world"
#. }. NEFF. OIL East Capitol
streeti "Boisheyism IL at pres
cnti but when the smoke clears
away and things begin to settle
I'll have TO think Of new an
swer." sa.-.
JEROME o. HUGHES, student,
Georgetown University "Prices.,
c. ID. LEsHER, clerk, Railroad
Administration .sThe force be-
hind the men who are trying to
bend the world TO their fnnafical
wny of thinking--I mean the
present brand Of reformers..
The Washington herald., 1921-02-07
Numbness of Hands.

Q. Shortly after I go to bed,
both of my hands go to sleep, and
some times the whole arm. The
only way can make them become
only way I can make them become
bed toward the floor for some time
and then it seems as if the blood
runs down them. Then 1 cover up
my arms and go to sleep again, and
soon 1t comes back.
A. II is impossible for me to
say what the trouble may be. You
should go to a good physician and
have him give you a thorough phys
icat examination. It is possible
that the blood vessels in your arm
are at fault.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-07
Pains I'm Side

q. have sharp pains in my left
side running sometimes to my
breast, and when lie down at
night I can hardly go to sleep, for
! have shortness Of breath when
] begin to get sleepy. My doctors
tell. me that nerves are run down."
but their medicine does not seem
to help me.
A. 1t is not possible for me to
say what may be the nature of your
robbie. II you have not been ben
titsd by the doctors treatment, by
II smeans speak to him frankly,
nd, II necessary, have him refer
u to s2nae reputable specialist for
rmins&on-
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Can you explain how he could have got.
ten iti
The answer win appear tomorrow.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-07
THE SECOND KEY.

Can you solve this mystery
The Washington herald., 1921-02-07

Plain Brown Linoleums. in, large guam
titles for home or contract work. Re
duced to $l.65 Square Yard.
Parquet Patterned Inlaid Linoleums.
Reduced to $500 Square Yard.
Grade A Straight-line Inlaid Linoleums.
Reduced to $2.65 Square Yard.
Ldnoleum Section, Sixth boor.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-29
Motor Car Makers
May Form Mutual
Insurance Company
High Rates Likely to- Force
Re-adoption of Plan That
Was Put Into Effect Four
Years Ago, Says Reeves

Forced by the increase of insurance
rates during the last few months, the
automobile manufacturers and dealers
are again turning their attention to
the need for an insurance company to
care for motor cars an dmotor trucks,
similar to the one launched four years
ago. At the Office of the National Au-
tomobile Chamber OF Commerce in New
Y ork, it was stated that the methods
of accepting risks, coverage and over
head expense on the part of the in
surance companies, has resulted in
their requiring rates from which the
only relief lies in the furthering of
plans for mutual companies and for
dealer organizations which are now
actively under consideration.
There are some 100000 motor
vehicles in this country" said Alfred
Reeves, general manager of the Ma
tional Automobile Chamber of Com
merce, "and a decreasing percentage
high rates. The moral hazard receives
no consideration. A burglar just out of
jail gets the same rate as respectable
citizen. The amounts allowed on cars
being burned up or destroyed to be re-
ported as stolen.
eve hear many times of legislation
to force everyone to take g bond on
his car on the ground that it would
prevent accidents. Such action would
make accidents more frequent because
it would shift the responsibility of the
driver
at would be of more help in pre-
venting accidents if no owner was per
mitted to carry liability insurance and
no car was equipped with a horn.
"a sedan insured new las year for
fire, transportation and theft to the
amount of $1,000, at cost of S33.8O
has just been renewed at a cost of
$55, and is now covered for $500. The
policy holder in this case is displeased
at the amount of the premium and sur
prised at the amount of the coverage,
as he would gladly take $4,000 for the
car.
"At the same time we read, within
the last few days, of several automo.
biles being found in Lake Erie near
Buffalo, where they had been intention
ally dumped, another in New York Bay
and half doen in an old quarry in
Illinois.
"These facts undoubtedly throw
great light on the high cost of automo-
bile insurance, and it is evident that
the methods of writing ordinary fire in
surance on buildings and furniture
and furniture without actual knowledge