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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-01
BEATTY CHA TS
FAREWELL TO LONDON!

FAREWELL TO LONDON!
 This is my last day but one in this enchanting city. When I next write I shall be on the ocean, and soon enough back again at my desk. Mean time, I have been informed by my secretary that there are many, many letters waiting to be answered in the column, more than she can use up in weeks.
 And this reminds me to say again to all my readers-please, if you wish a. detailed answer or a prompt an sWer, enclose a self-addreSsed, stamp d envelope with your questions For letters to be printed in the column, appear in the. order in which they are received ana sometimes this means a long dela- In q short while in fact, almost as soon as this chat appears in print shall be home and able to answer all letters myself. Meantime they have been looked af- ter by my confidential secretary.
 After all it will be nice tO be home again, but it is rather sad to leave two places that have been as inspiring g as the two cities of London and Paris. I feel that I have learned an enor- nous amount of Valuable things over here, which will be of lasting benefit to myself and, I hope; to my readers
 The rest of today and tomorrow I will spend going over the places here that I love best-We Westminster, which is always an inspiration; the Gallery with its marvellous paintings; historic Whitehall, and the Houses of ParHa- ment, where visitors are allowed on
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-01

Saturday, and there are many other quaint little spots to be revisited, if I have time. So for today I have little sad at leaving London and a little glad that I will soon be at home again.
 Discoura ged-As a, general thing it is not good to squeeze out a pimple. But in some cases it is the best thing to do. Touch the pimp1e first with peroxide of hydrogen, prick it with a sterilized needle, very gently squeeze touch the place again with peroxide to make it antiseptic. But never un- der any, circumstances allow yourself to scratch the skin that is broken out. You only infect it and might cause yourself a great deal of serious trouble. You must, of course, get your system in such a healthy cOndi- tion that you will not have pimples.
 Miss z. Eff you will send me a letter with self-addressed, stamped envelope enclosed, I will send you a weight chart so you will know just how much you should weigh, and also directions for reducing.
 Trixie-There are several causes for red nose besides indigestion. Very often it comes from poor circulation. Doctors say that the blood circulates very slowly in the nose, and congeS- ton there very often results. Mas sage the nose and tap it with the finger-tips to scatter this congested blood. S
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-01
|CUPID'S CABIN IS
 ESTABLISHED AT
 BLIND INSTITUTE
BY F. R. PYLE.

Everybody knows that the Red Cross Institute for the Blind at Ever green, Baltimore, was organized to train the sightIess me of the United States military forces, but everybody doesn't know that Cupid is working day and night getting the blind sol diers organized to go over the top in matrimony.
 Some one has said that love is like a balloon and marriage is the para chute that lets the occupants down to earth again. But whatever love may be, no one seems to know where it. came from or who found it or who brought it to Evergreen However, we do know there have been many rapid-fire courtships and marriages at Evergreen. Up to date there have been thirty-three marriages. and the end does not seem to be in sight.
 On account of the numerous we'd dings of the 'sbHnks," it was neces- sary for the Red Cross to set aside one of the army barracks exclusively for the brides and grooms. There are four large ordinary barracks which ae ued for quarter asnd one of these is known as "Cupid's Cabin."
 It was hard at first for some of the 'fblinks'' to find their new quar- ters- It was thought necessary for time to have an M- P. stand just in front of the barracks and halt each blink as he passed by with "Stop! Are you married Or single. If mar ried, what is the name of your wife, size. color of hair, good-looking or otherwise?'' The M. P. would then find the missing link and there would be great. rejoicing. Later the fol- lowing method was adopted and has since been employed regularly The married blink now taps his way to t'Cupid's Cabin and calls out his weighing from 80 pounds to 16O pounds, as they do, comes trottine out, greets him and steers him home
 The first wedding at Evergreen took place in the Red Cross house. It proved to be such a. successful event that a few weeks later the hostess herself eloped with one of the 'sblinks' This was only the begin hing Soon one of the teachers in the agricultural department follow ed closely at the heels of the others. The Red Cross workers were very good to the boys, but slowed down bit after 'blink'' captured the die titan. Whenever good food is taken away, an investigation always fol- lows.
 Brides then began to come in from north, south, east and west, until there was not room enough in head quarters and the couples were oblis- ed to take refuge in whatever place was available.
 I, too, climbed upon the band wa gon, and waved the brilliant colored banner inscribed in gold letters, i ''Whosoever fndeth a wife, f1ndeth a good thing"
 A year has-now gone by, and we | find a dozen tiny soldiers. the sons | of war-blinded veterans. When the stork brought my baby boy, I went around like a millionaire. I felt as | if I could write a check that would | look like an autom obile 1icence par ade. This lasted for only a short | time when one of the other ssblinks'' l winked at me and said, ''I am the l proud father of twins, but I don't
 go around bragging about it''
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-01
(By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.)

Margot has just weathered a series of storms which are almost of the cyclone variety. Money. love and health were all wrenched from her within a. year. Bitterness and sor- row came to fill her life so full that they elbowed youth out. But that was only for the time being. Eventu- ally Margot recovered her health, and with it returned 8 certain amount of buoyancy.
 The girl who had been in the habit of stepping out of her cltohes in the middle of the room and leaving them there for maid to pick up, faced her poverty and decided to stop liv- ing on the charity of a married sister and go to work.
 She learned typewrfting and steno- graphy, and because of her very real mentality and her capacity for using her splendid brain and using 1t we'll, she is aleardy earning s3O a week.
 On the road to complete recovery and sanity is Margot She has faced her tragedies and has decided to work her way out of them. She talks gaily of the job, is working eagerly toward a thirty-five-d dollar-a-week position, lives frugany in a boarding house and adapts herself cheerfully to the facts of existence. Her new status doesn't quite fit her yet-nor she it. But MarSot ignores this and smiles at b1unders and mishaps ana sorrows. r.
 Anyone can do what she has done But how many do?
 Let's consider. Louise. She. too. met reverses. She. too. found that the man she had expected to marry was unworthy and unwilling to stand by. When diversity came into her life 'the'' went out.
 She released him, and then-toss- snatching eagerly at substitutes Louise began looking for emotions with which to fill the vast hiatus in her life.
 Last week she brought me a letter from an old friend of her family. l am permitted to quote part of it:
 'sI can't quite see why your suffer- ing should make you feel bitter and reckless, it's so definitely in tune with the common lot Of mankind. good times that come your way, you can find ease or comfort or happi- ness or even Expenditures, then take enjoyment and weave something per- manent out of it.
 stBut I feel that it is shortsighted, to say the least. to imagine that at all feasible. I've found that seeking happiness or even forgettfu1ness by empty and bitter and utterly vain. To find relief from pain requires 7omething much more permanent and lasting than an evenings or a months enjoyment"
 Laughing reck1essly, Louise said: Isn't he an old fogy? He doesn't see that when you're as desperate as I am, any substitute will do that pushes out of your minds eye the memory of all you've lost. There's nothing for me in nfe-but to race around so giddily that I won't have time to look back or think or re- 1 gret-"
 Louise, do you ever manage to run away from yourself when you're running away from your mem ories ?- asked.
 | peated.
 "Yes," I insisted. sWhat's the | good of all your mad race if you have | to take yourself with you every where you go? It's the old self. It's | the girl who was hurt and disap- pointed and is bitter None of the
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-01
WILL UTILIZE TIDES
 FOR POWER PLANTS
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(By International News Seryice.)
 London, Jan. l. The greatest water power undertaking in the world, generating about 500.000 cleo trical horso power per day at a cost of one cent per unit, Is foreshad- owed by the scheme of harnessing the tides of the River Severn.
 The project has been worked out by the ministry of transport and all though it has met with some opposi- ton in certain quarters, 1t seems like ly that it will be carried through, if only on account of the large number of unemployed it will give work to.
 The necessity for increased railway communication between South Wales and other parts of Great Britain has been felt for some time. This need will be met by thep resent proposal and. in addition. a level road will be provided over the River Severn for vehicular traffic, thus obvfating the present detour of fifty miles.
 It Is estimated that by utilizing the power of he ides a leas 3,000,00o ons of coal a year will be saved and a large amount of cheap power Wi1 be available for industrial purposes
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-01
Advice To The Lovelorn

good times you give her serve te change her a whit.
 You go to bed as bitter as you wake, and you wake again to the hideous round of trying to forget. You won't-unless your fibre coarsens and all that makes you is buried un- der a coating of reck1essness and cheapness and second rateness. But if you make a new Louise-if you trained a fine Louise who came to see that when she lost a faithful lover she lost nothing. then you'd have a chance. Won't you take it?''
 Louise laughed again.
 'Say-you said a mouthful," she returned with deliberate coarseneSs. When you suggested that I would get a coating of reckleSnesS and commences. Speed the day for then l won't care any more."
 That's the note on which she left me. Which are you, little girl who is learning to face life and to realize that it hurts and cheats and disapr points those who try to wrest it's prizes from it without working for them?? Are you a Margot-or Q Louise
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-01

the delegates got together in their evening duds to watch the dancers, there was no doubt about it The unanimity rule in the league coven- ant that sometimes tied up assem- bly, procee dings didn't bother any one. Forty-one nations were represented, and all their delegates, secretaries and clerks were for Siam in the beau- ty competition.
 Center of Attraction.
 The Siamese belle made her first appearance at the grand soiree given by the French delegation at the Hotel des Bergues. SHgh-, olive-complex- toned with just a touch of color in her cheeks, she wore a rose-colored evening gown direct from 9 great Paris drossmaker's.
 A Siamese secretary escorted her to the ball and danced the first dance. Thereafter she became the dances by young delegates and sec retaries from about all the nations of the world. Paul Hymans, of Belgium, president of the assembly; ex-Prem- fer Paderewski. of Po1Iand: Leon Bourgeois and a host of other bis ones cast approving eyes she shim- mied and one-stepped around the big hotel ballroom.
 It was the same old story at every dance, except that she wore a diff ferent an1 seemingly more ravishing costume every time. Now, not a sim gle delegates believe the story that the king of Siam is going to leave his own doninions to tour Europ and the United States in search of a bride.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-01

Or suppose this corner pictured to- day were in a great big room that had hitherto been bare and forbid ding of aspect. Can't you imagine how even so much would "cosey up'' the room? An Anler;c9n beauty silk shade threaded with silver, an old black and gold lacquared table, black,
 blue and rose req l1angings putty gray and ivory woodwork - these things in even one corner would cre- ate a warm glow that would focus in a very short while. this influence would be so great that the rest of the room would surely grow to match.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-01

Before spring if you have time, ar rarSe some new pretties in at lea st one corner of your bedroom. The dingieSt of small rooms might be completely transformed by a delight full color scheme, for instance. which may begun now as well as some time far into the future; and the most barren bedroom may be comic ted by ingeniously arranged and friendly corners combining an inviting chair, table and lamp or by curtains dar- ingiy patterned, curtains softly fril- ed.
 Suppose this accompanying picture reproduced one side of a room only more than two by four, with
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-01

it's one lonesome window; suppose the walls were g. soft buttery cream, white woodwork binding it, the floor a duh blue, painted and shelacked, the rug showing predominant tones of rose, the blue urn lamp showing a, shade of yellow. the chair upholstered in pale peacock with yellow feet. the cur- tains of blue, yellow and black on cream ground with blue tie-backs fri1led with yellow, the two oval pie lures of sparkling rose tones. Can't you see what a gay color scheme like this would do for a dark little room :? And can't you imagine the joy of waking up in the morning surround ed by such delight?
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-01
1HE BRIDGEPORT TIMES MAGAZINE PAGE
When A Girl Marries
By ANN LESLIE

ing, in the brief second that it took me to echo, "JimI'' My answer was ready after a moment of silence.
 Jim" I said again. But it Isn't Jim: I've brought you here to discuss. Jeanie. It's Phoebe.''
 ''Phoebe?'
 It was virginia's turn to echo now and she did it rather blankIy.
 You don't like her friendship with Evvy, I know that,'' I began
 4es, you're right about that, but I can't interfere merely on the grounds that I don't like the friend
 'No, you can't" agreed. That would be stealing Phoebe's freedoyh. But you would interfere, would11't you, if Evvy's friendship were sweep ing Phoebe into real danger
 "fd try. But I'm not much good at managing Phoebe" confessed Vir- gi~ia-
 Between us. we must manage "Of course, I haven't any list of ac- quaintances. But we might give her debutante tea Or dance and have her. meet the Right People" = Unconscious1y I capitalized and ! italicized my words I hadn't any snobbish feeling, but I realized as soon as I had spoken that Virginia had Her reply told me a great deal. 'I don't think, we'd better try. The Harrisons had a real position once. l But our loss of money-and-well you see my own position is difficult | now, Anne. And Jim hasn't the money. The Masons are a good fam ily: that makes it easier to reconcile l oneself to Evvy's ways" | Virginia stumbled and stammered bit. and I felt the tiny, impalpable | barrier of caste between us. But I | charged right against it.
 ''Evvy's ways are getting ineXcusa- i ble,'' I declared. | You mean?"-
 "I mean that she and Dick Vi l and Sheldon Blake are seen nia | after night in that horrible Chin
 dance hall where MT. West took | the night of Jim's last dinner. A | people are taking"
 | "Oh, no, Annei Really dear yd
 rather alarmed me for a momenty But Jin's partner-and Sheldon. NoN l one will discuss Phoebe for being seen about with them- Really She1- don is a splendid fellow and the l Blakes are quite one of our best fam lilies. I've the utmost confidence in Sheldon"
 But, VirginiaI People ARE talk ing, I tell youI Phoebe's crowd is lawfully hilarious. And they're out so late! Such gay, conspicuous places, tool And they don't drink-lemon-
 ade!'
 What a catalogue, My dear. that's society. And, of course, now [
 know that Sheldon Blake is in the party. I discount all the malicious
 details some jealous cat of a gos- sipy woman has been giving you" , ''But it wasn't a jealous catr' I
 flashed oC. in reply. 'It was'-I I had actually been on the verge Of
 telling Virginia that Pat was my fn-
 formant.
 : CTo Be Continued.)
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-01

Recently another "blink'' took his girl to minister's home. but be- fore the ceremony he told the rever- end to leave out the word "obey" The reverend omitted it-from the lady's questions-but the poor worse half had to say "YeS"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-01

Alba B. Johnson, president of the Pennsylvania Chamber of Commerce, in an address before the Boston Chamber of Commerce, expressed the belief that business readjustment and deflation 'is more than half complet-
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-01

E,rancb Chamber of Deputies voted confidence in the government after Sioussior, of an interpolation regard- inr inc Tours Socialist Congress.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-01
WEDDING sUPERSTITIONS.

The popularity of June Tor Wed. JIno takes an especial interest in noarriape and she protects and biesses all who are welded in June If 2 widow marries a second tune 1ns unet sanoa month in which she was mar-s Tiad before she will be a widow twice.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-01

King Albert of Belgium sent a m essage to Cardinal Gibbons express ing hope for his complete recovery.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-04-21
APP0I|NT TMENTS
BY PRESIDENT
More Jobs Given Out by Hard
ing Harrison Charg-
es Politics Naming Harvey

WASHINGTON, April 21:-Presi-
dent Harding today nominated
Claudius III. Huston, of Tennessee. to
be assistant secretary Of commerce;
renominated Charles +. Marvin to
be chief of the weather bureau, and
nominated David f. Blair, of VIM
ston-Salem, North Carolina, to be
commissioner of internal revenue.
Secretary Mellon recommended the
appointment Of Blair.
Senator Harrison, Democrat, Mis-
sissippi, charged today in the senate
that the appointment of George
Harvey by President Harding. as
ambassador to Great Britain was a
reward for his efforts to dlscredit
the Wilson administration.
The nomination probably would
be sent to the senate today, the sec
retary said, adding that no consid
Grafton had been given to appoint
ment of a prohibition commissioner.
that matter remaining as it was on
March 4. Possible transfer of the
prohibition unit from the treasury
to the Department Of Justice, Mr..
Mellon said. would not necessarily
alter plans for appointment of a new
prohibition commissioner when the
question was considered. Such a
transfer was being considered as a
part of the departmental reorganiza-
ton plan being worked out by the
administration.
Senator Harrison said. "Mr. Har-
vey's pursuit of Wilson through his
journals and otherwise, are only
comparable to Millions hell hounds,
that were stationed at the gates of
the Internal region He added,
tba q goa dor had no aOtI1
as creator of prejudice and stirrer
of strife, and that he was a vindic-
tive, self-announted intolerant, po.
litical accident"
He said he feared Colonel Harvey's
arrival in London would cause Great
Britain and other countries to be-
lieve that he will use whatever in
fiuence he may have, in an attempt
to destroy the League of Nations.
P. A. Hdwe. for Fertilizer. Lawn and
Garden Seed.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-04-21
SENATE TO TAKE UP KNOX
PEACE RESOLUTION SOON
[By The Associated Press. ]

WASHINGTON, April Elk
pressions of qualification were gen.
eral today in administration circles
over what was regarded as a signif-
icaHt test of senate support for ad-
ministration's foreign policy in that
body's ratification of the Colombian
treaty providing for payment by the
United States of $25,000,000 to the
South American republic. The vote
was 69 to 10.
Rejecting all amendments to the
pact the senate turned down propo-
sails to restrict the rights of Colom-
bia under the treaty as to use of
the Panama canal and to insert
clause declaring the treaty was not
to be construed as implying the
United States had aided in the Pan
aman revolt. Another amendment
defeated included one proposing an
alliance with Colombia and the
cession by that country to the Unit
ed States of several islands.
With the senate in a lull today,
after clearing it's program of the
first major business of the extra ses-
sion the House was prepared to re-
sumo debate on immigration restric-
ton bill with probability of reach
ing a final vote before adjournment.
The next business to come before
the senate, the Knox peace resolu-
tion was to be taken up today by
the foreign relations committee,
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-04-21
HEAD
Of WAR STAFF
Organization Formed to Take
Charge of Field During
Time of War.

WASHINGTON, April 21.-Organ-
ization of war staff, headed by
General Pershing. to take charge OF
field operations of the armies of the
United States in time of war, was
announced today by Secretary
Weeks.
Instant preparations in time of
peace for active military operations"
was given by the secretary as the
reason for the new organization.
The organization headed by Cen
eral Pershing will be entirely separ-
ate from the Office of chief of staff,
Mr.. Weeks said, which will continue
to direct the administration of the
military establishment in time of
peace. General Pershing will have
a skeletonized staff which will cor
respond to that at Chamonte during
the world war. and which will con-
Germ itself with problems of strategy,
tactics, and war organization.