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The Washington times., 1921-11-03

Yes. IL she'll only stick her head
in the yoke and let that kike drive
her the way she otta be driven. he'll
make her into an actress and have
her name in electrics inside Of a
second season. He's paving the
stall-planks to do 1t. And he can do
it. But there's just one thing stand
ing between Torrie and her chance"
Whats that?" asked the man in
the Captain Kidd makeup.
Its you." retorted the other.
and before he could break in with
the protest his lips were framing
she swept on. "You know as we'll
as I do that Tories foolish about
you. And / know her better than
l do you. and l know she's too big
to be broken up for nothing"
The Straight Truth.
Perhaps" Storrow said with a
not altogether successful attempt at
dignity. III you knew me better
you'd not forsee that catastrophe
quite so imminent"
The Washington times., 1921-11-03

The girl slipped down off the
coping tiles. AS she did 80 she
threw away her cigarette end and
sighed audibly. ''If you don't YOU
ought TO break away and amuse
yourself with one OF that bunch
downstairs. II would seem more
like a square game!'
"And II do carer" ventured
Storrow. His companion paused at
the stairhead, arrested by the
solemnity OF his voice.
"Oh. in that case" she retorted
with an effort at lightness. II guess
I'm merely butting into somebody
else's business. But I've said my
little say. and here's where drop
out"
She slipped down the narrow
stairway into the sea of light and
sound and movement. She was
lost in the crowd by the time he
had followed after her, abstracted-
eyed, for he had much to think
over. He circled about aimlessiy
to the door of a dimly-lighted cloak
room when he was arrested by "A
hand on his.
"Honey-boy," murmured the
voice In the uncertain light. Stor-
row turned and looked at a vel
: vety-skinned Lady Pompadour
with a painted ivory fan and rope
of pearls about her powdered plump
throat.
What is it?" he coldly inquired.
Cant you stay and amuse me?"
she deliberately challenged. struS-
Cling a little over the sibilants.
Storrow stared down at her as
she laughed her foolish laugh. Then
he meditatively responded to the tug
at his sash and sat beside her. He
continued to stare at the soft lines
OF the matronly bosom, at the white
and fastidious looking fingers heavy
with rings, at the swollen and slight
ly parted lips.
StorrOw Escapes.
He even laughed, impersonally,
when she pulled the heavy wig
from his head and pushed her un-
steady fingers through the mat II
ris hair. Already his reactions TO
such things were no longer the
vivid and acute mental experiences
they might have been a few sho:t
months ago. He was more directly
occupied. in fact, in thinking Of
what Fannie Atwell had been say
ing to him.
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heard myself crying out in alright.
What do you mean? No right
to marry me? Is there some
other"
Again I felt the surge Of relief
which warmed me as Jim replied In
sheer amazement:
Another woman? Little Anne,
Little Anne! You are my woman
the one woman for me-now and
forever. You must understand that.
And I can't even protect you from
poverty"
/ remembered how wanted to
shout with relief when / found that
1t was mere money which worried
Jim.
Money!
That hateful word brought me
suddenly back to reality. It is
money which took Jim away from
me in such a grim rush. and caused
the unexpected tragedy OF separa-
ton. 1t is money which Is keep
ing him in hiding which even l may
not penetrate. 1t Ia money that
threatens to drag our friends down
with us in crashing ruin. And even
in our glorious honeymoon days,
the fear of poverty for me ate into
The Washington times., 1921-11-03

That's what ! want to get at"
explained the girl. involved In per-
plexities which were apparently
new TO her. "A woman as lovely
as Torrie Throssel can't go around
loose in a rabbit-run like New
York without having enough pop
eyed chasers at her heels to turn
her head. II she wanted II turned.
But Torrie isn't built that way.
She's always preferred travelling
light and travelling alone.
She's never looked twice at a
man, as long as I've known her
at least not until she bumped into
YOU and lost her bearings. Oh.
there's no use huh and edging
away and getting up-stage over
what I'm saying TO you. know
what know. And it's considera-
BILE. But the real thing I want to
know is. what're you going to do
about TT"
The effrontery of that demand
rather took Storrow's breath away.
isn't that something entirely be-
tween Torrie and me?" he asked
much more calmly than he had ex-
pected.
The girl beside him took another
deep inhalation Of cigarette smoke.
Then she laughed a little.
IF I thought you were good
enough for Torrie, or II she was
girl who could take her own part
I'm a thing like this. I'd most GER
tainly say yes. But you've got to
show mel!
1t was Storrow's turn TO laugh
a barricading but by no means
happy laugh.
What particular form must that
demonstration take?" he demanded.
He was conscious Of the girls
,ce being turned closer to his In
the darkness.
The Answer.
"It ought to look like what any
white man would do under the cir
cumstances," she coolly and quiet
ly averred. She stopped him the
next moment, as he was about to
sneak. Man to man." she said
with her hand on his arm. "and
straight out. do you honestly care
for that girl?'
And IL / don't?" parried stor-
how, resenting that his reserves
of life should be thus trespassed
over and trampled upon.
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for what proved to be small silver
box. She's a good friend of mine.
that girl, and l don't want to see
her foot slip when she's got the
chance of life time waiting for
her"
What do you mean by her foot
slip?" demanded Storrow. warm and
cold at one and the same time.
Pannie did not explain that
phrase. Instead. she deftly struck
a match on her slipper-heel and
lighted a cigarette.
"Torrie's not like my bunch" she
continued after slowly exhaling
this smoke. "She takes things too
serious. She's got a heart as big
as a moving van, and unless it's
handled right. it's going to get hurt.
Just now she's got the chance OF
lifetime to make a hit with Krass-
ley"
Tories got a chance to make
a hit with Krassler?" echoed Stor-
row.
The Washington times., 1921-11-03
YOUR HEALTH
IN WINTER
BY Brice Belden, M. D.
IN HE surest way to avoid winter

HuvI1D SuTcbt Wdy W hNo'u W"'o'
infections is to breathe as much
fresh air as possible. Everybody
should adopt the open window habit.
The ventilation of the home is
especially important. Proper ven
tilation cannot be maintained un-
less the windows are opened, the
degree Of opening to be regulated
by the severity Of the weather.
They should be lowered more or
less from the top and raised more
or less from the bottom, not thrown
wide open.
Pneumonia, tuberculosis and colds
are bad air diseases. The open
window habit goes long way
toward reducing their prevalence.
During lunch hour or at some
other suitable period all the win.
dows of workrooms, offices and
schools should be opened widely,
thus removing the stagnant atmos-
phere and filling the rooms with
fresh and invigorating cold air. In
the case Of amusement places the
doors should be thrown open at
the end Of each performance.
Ideally, there should be a con.
slant inflow Of air and a constant
outlet, for free and continuous
circulation OF fresh air is essential
for the maintenance Of a whole
some atmosphere.
Overcrowding in street cars and
other public conveyances is a men.
ace to health, since IL encourages
unhyRenic conditions which conduce
to the spread OF disease. Coughing
and sneezing I'm such conveyances
infect the atmosphere, which is
breathed over and over again by
the passengers, thus directly expos.
ing them to tuberculosis, influenza,
tonsilitis, colds and other Injections.
The Washington times., 1921-11-03
BY Arthur Stringer,
Wsll-known Novelist and Author
of Countrywide Reputation.

KIN ten minutes" retorted the
girl, drawing him closer.
"Look-let me show YOU"
1t was time when syncopated
music and dance-movements OF
African origin were at the height OF
popular favor. There was little that
was complex In either the move
ments or the music. and Storrow
surrendered easily enough to that
twin appeal Of rhythm and sound.
'Try that again." commanded the
wisp Of a girl 80 adroftly maneuver-
ing him about the floor. "And hold
me closer. kid! I'm not guncotton.
ysu know. That's better. Now put
some pep into it"'
1t was not easy at first. But the
crowding bodies about him masked
his mistakes and he was able to
master a number of the steps. 1t
surprised him, as he became more
expert, to find his earlier repug-
nance at the spectacle passing away.
Just as his earlier repugnance for
the half-draped girl herself had dis
appeared. He liked the contact OF
that firm. young body against his.
Not Easy at First.
He liked the harmony Of move
ment in their limbs, the pulse of
the music. the utter abandonment
TO motion constituting an end in
itself. Hardy hadn't been so far
wrong. Dancing. after all, was wha,
kept the world young.
Children danced, waves danced,
even the leaves Of the trees danced.
80 why shouldn't men and women?
And Storrow. becoming more adept
in those rudimentary movements.
no longer allowed his partner to.
guide him, but putting out a
strength which easily over-matched
hers, fell to plotting the girl in the
silver tunic as he felt she ought to
be piloted. e,
Gee, that's great" she murmur-
ed, surrendering contentedly to his
mastery. She relaxed in his clasp.
becoming almost passive. permitting
him to lift her clear of the floor In
certain Of their more ecstatic whirl-
ings.
You'll make some dancer. kid,
The Washington times., 1921-11-03
Attractive
NegIigees
BY Rita Stuyvesant
TTRACTIVB negliBees. we'll
cut breakfast coats and wool

cut SbhlhHl COdlb ana WOOL
ly bathrobes are all repre-
sented In the new autumn displays.
Corduroy, both corded and bro
caded, is used with success for break
fast coats, and may be lined with
soft silk or crepe. Although the
shops are now showing these coats
at great reductions, they may also
be made at home with very little
trouble. These coats are cut on
straight lines to the hips, and are
there lengthened by a flounce Of the
material set on by a heavy cording.
A slim sirdle of corduroy confines
the fullness at the waist. The neck
IL finished with a sailor collar and
the sleeves are short.
A dainty negligee for ceoi morn
ings may be made from pink wool
crepe of a light weight and pret-
tily embroidered. 1t is slip.on
affair, having a length of the ma
terial folded over and stitched flat
at the under arms. The round neck
is scalloped in French blue silk, and
there is bit of French blue en-
broidery scattered across the front.
Deep Sits are buttonholed in the
blue at the waist line, and a girdle
of blue gros.Rrain ribbon is drawn
through them.
Another quaint negiigee combines
flowered albatross with black vel
vet ribbon and the effect Ia most
picturesque. 1t is a high wasted
model, made from a yoke. Lace
beading is threaded with the velvet
ribbon, and borders the yoke, neck
and sleeves. \ frill of fine filet
edges the neck and sleeves. There
was a velvet bow with enormous
ends hanging at the front.
The Washington times., 1921-11-03
By William F. Kirk
DA bringed sum late goldenrod
hoam last mite wen he calm
to dinner.


hoam last mite wen he cain
= to dinner.
Here, wife, sed Pa, 1 tender this
little gift to thee with tender thots
beefoar l eet my tenderline stake,
sed Pa.
Why did you bring that in the
house? sed Ma. You know it gives
me hay fever. sed Ma.
Science has dis-coeverd, sed Pa,
that goldenrod is not the cause OF
hay feever. & it was wen the gol-
denrod was gleeming, sed Pa, that
I first saw you & you won my hart.
sed Pa.
Oh, all rite. deerest, sed Ma, you
are so romantick. l had forgot, sed
Ma. You may keep 1t.
Yes. indeed, sed Pa. Doant you
remember the butiful poem I rote
you on that sus.pishus occashun?
sed Pa.
think I do, dimly, sed Ma.
Dimly? sed Pa. Why, sed Pa,
them dethless lines shud glow for
evver in yure memory like the glow
of these here goldenrod, sed Pa.
They went like this, sed Pa:
When the goldenrod was gleeming
In the feelds OF Long Ago
You was setting thare & skeeming
How to nail me for yure beau.
OF a husband you were dreeming
The Washington times., 1921-11-03
BY Ann Lisle
MYTH a little song on my lips,
" turned from the tele-

MYTH a little song on my lips,
" turned from the tele-
phone over which I'd been
talking to Neal and Phoebe.
THE blessed kiddies"' cried
aloud. "If any romance in this diff
ficult old world Of ours can hope
for the fairy story happy ending.
And 80 they were married and
lived happily ever after 1t ought
to be this one. The darling"
And then-as II it leaped from
some dark corner to assail me
came the realization that this was
the hotel where Jim had brought
me for our honeymoon in the won
derful long ago. l was leaving 1t
now to go and make my home with
Carlotta Sturges.
/ was on my way to share tho
home of q woman I hadn't even
known In those enchanted honey
moon days. Jim was away-far
away-out OF reach of my voice or
of the arms with which ! longed
to enfold him, as Phoebe now must
be holding Neal.
The thought clutched at my
The Washington times., 1921-11-03
As
DebUters
BY w. A. McKeever.
m EACH your child to speak, to
argue, to debate. and you will
- make him a contender for

argue, 10 0eDate, ana you Will
make him contender for
n.nt and righteousness.
As an instrument of attack and
self-defense there is no more pow
erful weapon than the tongue train
ed in the use of forceful speech.
Muscle, mind, and tongue are
three mighty agencies OF achieve
ment. Muscle produces goods; mind
produces ideas. and the tongue hurls
these as intellectual shafts.
The orator Is by nature or by
training a fighter. Not guns and
shrapnel but logic and utterance are
his weapons. He is a platform bel
liaerent." Parents will do well to
teach their children public speaking
as an aid to courage, selfreliance,
and aggressiveress.
The two may not be inseparabie,
but ability to speak forcefully in
public and sound business success
seem to be closely associated. The
very attitude of the orator Is one of
certainty, self.assertiveness, and sue.
cessful enterprise.
DIR. Frank G. Lockwood, Of the
University Of Arizona, thus pleads
for oratory:
You see In the practice of public
speech a source and an avenue Of
mower and fame. Athletics is all
very well for the high school and
college.
but when the shouting and the
tumult OF high school days has died,
and when the athletics captains and
kings shall have departed. he will
be glad. also, that when he became
"A man he put away childish things,
and that he got early practice I'm the
enduring art Of intellectual combat" !"
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after night or two Of this" panteu
his partner, with little squeeze Of
appreciation as they came 20 a stop
when the music ceased. They were
both thirsty, so they made their way
arm in arm to the punch bowl, into
which their host was putting fresh
Strawberries and another bottle of
cognac.
"Give 1t a kick. Brownie" cried
the girl on Storrow's arm as she
watched the last Of the brandy flow
out of the bottle. And the kick
was there, Storrow felt, as he drank
his second glass of that beguiling
concoction, so deceivingly chilled
and sweetened. The music started
up again, provocative, challenging.
almost mystic in it's aboriginal mo-
notony of beat He had been liv-
ing too long, he felt, on the north
side of life.
Captured Again.
I'm next here" announced a
fuller-tone voice, and a girl with
laughing eyes caught Storrow by
the arm.
1t was Pannie Atwill. She had
been a trained stage dancer and
she moved with a quiet and mod
Grated grace which Storrow found
f~l~ 90
limbs to limbs, in her case, was
more impersonal. Her mind
seemed intent on movement alone.
Storrow was even conscious of the
fact that at the moment he meant
nothing to her, beyond being the
The Washington times., 1921-11-03
This Day in History.

THIS is the anniversary of the bombardment of Acre.
in 1910, by the British, French and Turkish fleets.
Acre is the Accho of Bible days and since 1900 b. c.
The Washington times., 1921-11-03
That City
THE STORY so FAR.

owen Storrow, a young sculptor. com
ing TO New York 70 perfect himself In
his art. takes room In a third-rAte
hotel. He sees Torrie Throssei. q strik-
insly lovely girl. on a fire-escsps drying
her hair. Below. tho engineer OF the
hotel engages In a brutal battle with his
wife. Torrie cries out In protest. and
the engineer calls her a name that sends
storrow scurrying down to combat
royal, After conquertns the enemy, the
girl plays the good Samaritan to Stor-
row and falls In love with him, He goes
to the luxurious home or 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 to
Torrie. who informs him she has fol-
lowed him. She has taken a part In 4
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 tho 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 a costume ball with Hardy
The Washington times., 1921-11-03
A Lake of Pitch.

AT the sides of the famous pitch lake of Trinidad
"A the pitch hard and cold, but at the center it is
almost constantly boiling. All efforts to ascer-
tain the depth of the lake have been unsuccessful.
The Washington times., 1921-11-03

((IN ten minutes" retorted the
girl, drawing him closer.
"Look-let me show YOU"
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-12-25
HumOrist Art
Shown i'm N. Y.

NEW TORK.--Thls town is no
toriously lowbrow. with no sense Of
thccsthetlc. n fragrant ignorance OF
the Einstcin theory and totally lack
ing appreciation OF art. But every
body who is anybody went 20 the
humorists' exhibition at the National
Arts club, whore newspaper funny
men who turn out comic strips every
day have given Father knickcrbock.
cr's family OF some scVein million
the Ecntecl rnzzhcrry
The show Is mostly pen and brush
-etut1 with small smattcrinE OF
sculpture for good measure. II is
as free as ireland. That's enough
TO know about 1t before we take you
on "A personally conducted tour OF
the exhibits. Now read and weep
First. there is a masterpiece OF
suporfuturistr effort vnttt lc Il
Noodles Descending the Smear
knsc.' about which the less said the
better It's Chccsy
There there be- a beautiful thing by
Tony Mills, called Home, Sweet
Home depicting male quartet
thror mon and tenor grouped FOR
close harmony at the supreme mo-
mcnt In the lie of a male quartet
that holicst OF instauts when each
OF the four realizes for the first timo
that the others can't sing
Mona, the Mouse Faced Girl" by
A. Garfield Learned, H. sad pic
ture. II reminded us OF u girl Ike
that We once knew Her name was
Lena. We hated Lena and always
wanted TO say tu Lena what this pie
turc expresses. Mona is blonde,
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-12-25

with n sensitive nosc--the idea prob
ably being that she can thus better
sniff a piece OF cheese.
Tony Sarg has painted tho much.
photographed. much -cartooned and
mort misspcllCd Irwin $ Cobb whose
given name appears In the catalog as
irving lrV is shown as AN angel
golden harp In hand stepping grace
iully from q Currus 60 circumam-
hicnt cloud, His filmy raimcnt
might disguise his Identity 30 Tony
has stuck I'm the omniproscut cigar
and the face one always secs behind
t. This Ia humor ON the Cobb
r. E Lippcrts bit Of torture is
ASK Dad, Hc Knows" aud is a
litc-lilo picture of tho Volstcad act
In the form of a human sSul and "a
bottle of whisky side hy side
The Wrath of God" o. right ncNt.
thus acceutuatcd I'm It's tragic awful.
ness. Grace lla2cn horc gives ocular
proof that all real comedy i4 based
on tragedy The same thing goes for
&. de Grlmm's picture. when ttl-
Han Russell Lost Her Dog which
shows Ill knccling iu "a Morris chair
looking as uuronrrrurj 1s possible
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-12-25
Releases Mo0nshiner
Going to Italy

SIT. LOUIS. Mo.---Tropea Giuseppe
IL not "a man without country"
but no doesn't belong TO the Cnited
stateA And so he's going back TO
italy. TO be forever barred from
America" not as deportce--but 20
keep out OF jail. Following his con.
vlctlon on "A charge OF making
"moonshinc," Giuseppe was sem
fenced TO pay a fine OF $1,000 and
serve a year inNprlson. Presiding
Judge Wurdemanl played Solomon.
however, and rcmltted the sentence
upon promise OF tho Italian 60 "go
home and never return"
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-12-25
War Pay Cause
OfNew Crimes

LONDON. - The high wages
uhlch prevailed in war times are
ssmed by the governor of Durham
.,,on for the creation OF new
r,.ss Of lawbreakers who have
.''ring into existence In the last
~ months. The governors CON
.,nsions are given in the report of
ho commissioners OF prisons.
Tho governor does not accept the
,hsorv that the spirit of lawlessness
scotired by men while serving with
s,peditlonary forces is to blame for
,his outbreak OF dishonesty.
''The fact that women equally
,,,b men are the offenders dis
counts the value OF this explanation,
se says: Il think the explanation Is
ra,her to be found I'm the fact that
hieh wages. once easily earned,
more easily spent are now not OBJ
tainable.
Jscd 10 "Big" Money.
oMen and women, boys and girls
have all become used to big money
ant OF all proportion to the slight
efiort TO obtain 1t.
THE slow but sure economic re.
Adjustments Of the past year have
created n number OF discuntented,
,ecklcss people. who do not realize
that they have been living iN an ar
official wage market and uncon-
sciously resent the changed condi-
tons OF supply and demand. work
and pay.
"Thcy must have money TO pro-
vide the Injuries and amuscments
TO which they have grown accus-
ytomed so they steal, pilfer and loaf"
A large increase I'm garage break
ing and motor thieving is reported
by the governor of Wandsworth jail,
whose view Is that the experience
and knowledge OF motor mechanics
gained In the army" are largely re-
sponsible for this.
Element OF Sport.
"a sort OF esprit dc corps or cam
radcrie seems to have sprung up
among these men," adds the govern
or. 1T is a form of thievinR that
has an element of sport and pleas
ure, with good returns when success
full and II seems to have attracted
many who would not otherwise have
taken to crime as profession"
"The commitais 10 prison for non
payment of income tax show a
marked increase" states the gov
ernor Of Birmingham prison. This
Increase would seem to call for
some alternative method of col
lection, such as deduction from
wages when paid. The men earn
ing high wages are not taxed until
some months afterward, by which
time as at present, work is slack,
and they have not the money TO
pay
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-12-25
strnngc MIdnlght NIsIinr.

WELLlNGTON-OffiCials are in
vestigaung the nightly visit OF an
auto, between midnight and "A. m.
which throws spotlight onto and
miuutely sCrutinizcs. the ruins of the
TollinB Belle vernon Compauy's
plant. destroyed here about three
weeks ago at loss OF 100000
IL has been definitely decided
that the fire was OF inccndiary
origin. The plant had temporarily
opened ana received $50 cans OF
milk. but acceptance OF milk was
ordered stopped Ivy officials at the
main office I'm Cleveland. Officials
claimed the firse was a result OF the
milk wagon drivers strike at Glove
land