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The New York herald., 1921-02-21
TWO DIE IN TWO CHURCHES.
william Charles Ia Brooklyn, Mrs
HIII In Manhattan.

WilliHm Charles 56 years old OF 392
Decatur street. Brooklyn. died suddenly
of heart disease yesterday while attend
l-g solemn high mass In the Church Of
to Holy Rosary on Chauncey street. be-
'weon Reed street ana Stuyvesant ave-
nue He was born IN Greenwich, Conn.
He was an electrical engineer and was
n ch"r rge OF eiectric7l work for the
prooklvn Edison Company for tho last
twentv-five years. He was member Of
tho knights OF Columbus. Holy Name
Society and the Royal Arcanum He
leaves ? widow and four children
Mrs Susa Hi'l 50 years ola, = widow.
~ 243 Eost Ninety-fourth street. died
OF heart fqilure last night while attend
'~g services IN the Catholic Church OF
our Ledy Of Good Council at 240 East
Ninetieth street
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Only $l2.75 pair

During the past year
blankets of this grade have
been as high as $40. Be-
fore the war they were
scarcely lower than the
price we are now asking.
They are absolutely fresh.
We brought them in by eX-
press from the mill where
they have just been made.
100 per cent. wool warp
100 per cent. wool filing
100 per cent. in every way
We have not seen their
equal in recent years at a
price so low as $12.75.
In plaids of pink, blue, rose,
tan and gray-beautiful in pat
tern and color. In texture,
soft and warm, yet light on the
bed.
A limited quantity only is
here. but we will take orders
for quick delivery if the de-
mand exceeds the present sup
ply, which is likely.
Fourth Gallery, New Bldg.
The New York herald., 1921-02-21
Extra size imported
Lingerie at $2.o5

Charming models, beau
tifully executed in Porto
Rico, with dainty designs
in hand-drawn work or
embroidery, on specially
selected material. Entirely
hand made. Simple tailored
lines, well suited to large
women.
Nlghtgowns kave becoming
square neck line and graceful
kimono sleeves.
Envelope chemises wi tn
much favored strap shoulder,
are especially charming.
Sizes 46 to so.
Third floor, Old Bldg.
The New York herald., 1921-02-21
36-in. black silks
Last SIX days Of
the Bedding Sale

Everything we have--or
make-in the Bedding
Store, for six days more,
will be sold for at least 10
per cent. below regular
prices.
hair mattresses, cotton
felt mattresses, upho.-
stored top box springs,
wire springs, pillows.
Some mattresses and
springs and pillows are at
even larger savings-tor
Sir days more.
Sixth Gallery, New Bldg.
The New York herald., 1921-02-21
Some of the Dining
room Suites at half

$681 suite for $340.50.
Heppelwhite suite of mahog-
any, buffet, oblong extension
table, 5 side and 1 arm chairs.
$1398 suite for $699.
Queen Anne suite of walnut,
buffet, china cabinet, server,
extension table, side and
arm chairs.
1898 suite for $466.50.
Louis Sixteenth suite of
mahogany, buffet, china cab
met, server, extension table,
side and / arm chairs.
$500 suite for $400.
Queen Anne suite of walnut,
buffet, china cabinet, server,
extension table, 4 side and l
arm chairs.
$431 suite for $215.50.
Chippendale suite of mahog-
any, buffet, china cabinet,
server and extension table.
$746 suite for 1878.
Queen Anne suite of ma
hogany, buffet, china cabinet,
server, extension table, 5 side
and l arm chairs.
The New York herald., 1921-02-21
Bedspreads
everybody likes

Corded dimity.
They come from abroad.
The are made Of best
grade dimity, in four stripe
designs, hemmed all
around, beautifully made.
Single bed size, $3.50.
Double bed size, $3.50.
Fourth Gallery, New Bldg.
The New York herald., 1921-02-21

The Washington tablet in
the Wanamaker Audi
torium will be decorated
today, at 2:30, with ap-
propriate exercises.
Following, there will be a
Concert, at which the soloists
will be the CHICKERING-
AMPICO Reproducing piano,
and EDNA BE- T r l c E
BLOOM, soprano.
First Gallery, New Bldg.
The New York herald., 1921-02-21
Fly the Flag on
Washington S Day

1895. Today Especial
price, for a 4x6 #. flag of
all wool bunting.
Double stitched, absolutely
weather proof, fast colors, and
triple stitched along the edge
suitable for home and store
windows, for school use, for
decorations and for celebra-
tions. Third Gallery, New Bldg
The New York herald., 1921-02-21
Much Good FURNITURE at HALF Price
During the Last Six Days of the
FEBRUARY FURNITURE SALE
$500, 900 worth
to 60 for $780, 900

to 60 for $50, 900
This in spite of the fact
that furniture prices show
a drop of but Is per cent,
a third of which is offset
by increased freight rates,
making net decrease only
10 per cent.
And the further fact
that we can find no COM
forting trace Of a down.
ward tendency in the
prices quoted us for fur
niture to be delivered dur
ing the next six months.
Nevertheless, in this
great February Sale, for
six days more, or so long
as the 100000 worth
lasts,
You may buy at half
regular price
bedroom suites, matched;
dining room suites,
matched;
living room suites,
matched;
leather easy chairs;
brass or wood bedsteads;
separate pieces for all
rooms; of which you have
choice from several hundred.
1t is all Wanamaker
Furniture-COOD
And you may travel the
whole length and breadth
Of our great country with
out finding another collec-
tion of good furniture so
large, so varied, and so
low-priced-
for sir days more.
Some Of the Bedroom
Suites at half
$1737 suite for $868.5O.
Louis XVI, walnut, full size
bow end bedstead, bureau,
chifforobe, dressing table, chair
and bench.
$2320 suite for $116O.
Italian design, in antique
green enamel, hand decorated
twin bedsteads, bureau, chiffo-
robe, dressing table, night
table, chair and bench.
$565 suite for $282.5O.
Ivory enamel, full size bed
stead, bureau, chifforobe, van
ity dressing table, chair and
bench.
$438 suite for $219.
Mahogany, full size bed
stead, bureau, chifforobe, van
ity dressing table, chair and
bench.
$258 suite for 1929.
Ivory enamel suite, full size
bedstead, bureau and chiffon
ier.
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A New Georgette |. K. Corsets for
Crepe Blouse, $3.50 large women

Two Well-made and SER
viceable models skillfully
designed and built to give
perfect comfort and yet
show the figure to its best
advantage.
Model for medium stout fig
ure-of firm pink coutil-well
tailored, with elastic insert in
back to make it comfortable
for sitting, S5.
Model for very large figure
of heavy coutil-elastic over
thighs and reinforced over alb
domen to give the desirable
straight front line; top Of cor
set edged with attractive silk
finish tailored braid, S7.25.
Sold exclusively at the Wan
amaker Store.
Third floor, Old Bldg.
The New York herald., 1921-02-21
New---Extra size
Silk Petticoats

Several good-looking models
on both tailored and more
elaborate lines-of satin; also
of silk jersey; in a variety of
dark rich street colors.
S7.45 to S10.95.
Third floor, Old Bldg.
The New York herald., 1921-02-21
Some of the Living
room Suites at half

1882 suite for 1891.
3-piece suite, all-over uphol-
stored with covering of blue
and gold velours, loose cuskion
seats.
$549 suite for $274.50.
3-piece mahogany suite, cane
panel back and sides and loose
cushion seats and pillows with
covering of tapestry.
$666 suite for 1888.
3-piece all-over upholstered
suite, covering of tapestry,
loose cushion seats.
$S71 suite for $435.50.
S-piece reed suite done in
bronze and blue, with loose
cushion seats with covering
of blue and gold damask.
S526 suite for 1868.
S-piece suite of reed in an
tique ivory and lavender en-
amel, with loose cushion seats
with covering of mulberry
figured velours.
Fifth Gallery, New Bldg.
The New York herald., 1921-02-21
This is What Madam
Washington Told Her
Eldest Son, George

when he was thirteen years of
age:-
when you speak of your
Maker or His attributes let it
be seriously, in reverence"
Another from that mother to
her SOM
"Labour to keep alive in
your heart that little spark of
celestial FIRE called con-
science"
Again from the great
mother:-
Let your conversation be
without malice or envy"
Young George transcribed
his mothers words into set of
Resolutions" which he put to-
gether for his own use, to gov
ern his behaviour in company,
at table and in business.
No wonder that the first
President of the United States
said, "All I am I owe to my
mother"
Life is a terribly earnest
matter.
Would that every boy or girl
of thirteen and every man and
woman we know would specih-
cally adopt these "Resolu-
tions" and read them over, if
possible, every day.
[Sig1,ed]
nj WA~<
February III, 1921.
The Store will be closed all
day tomorrow, Washing
tons Birthday.
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AT less than half
their 1920 price

We offer them today
at prices which are lower
than such fine rugs have
borne in years.
The New York herald., 1921-02-21
Prlze capture OF
Oriental Rugs

81 Persian Araks, in
beautiful tones of blue, old
ivory, old rose, tan and ole
gold; extra heavy; thick,
soft pile. You won't be
able to wear them down.
And you won't wish to-
they are SO satisfying to
the eye.
We purchased them
The New York herald., 1921-02-21
February 81, 1921.

The Store wiH be closed all
day tomorrow, Washing
tons Birthday.
The New York herald., 1921-02-21
1t is all Wanamaker
Furniture-COOD

And you may travel the
whole length and breadth
of our great country with
out finding another collec-
tion of good furniture so
large, so varied, and so
low-priced-
New-York tribune., 1921-03-06

ming shells. One game is to start
two shell tops to spinning in a
wooden dish. The one that knocks
the other out Of the dish first is the
winner.
The American Indians had their
tops all ready made. for them.
They simply went to an oak tree
and picked their tops-the acorns.
And now that think of it, / have
seen children--just ordinary Ameri-
can school childrep-make fancy
little baskets and other trinkets
from acorns. So why not tops? The
acorn seems to have been made by
nature just as toy for children.
On certain island in the Pa
cific Ocean the boys can spin tops
on their bare toes. You would
better not try that, for YOU are not
New-York tribune., 1921-03-06

used to going barefoot all tho year
around, as those boys are.
Whipping tops are what you
children call ''peg" tops. Humming
tops are hollow, and that is what
makes them sing.
In Latin and Greek stories we
find words which show that they
had some sort Of tops in days very
long ago. When the priests were
holding services to the Greek gods
and trying to make the people be-
lieve the gods were real top was
used to make sort of booming. 1t
was whirled through the air by a
string. The people could not see
the top, but they could hear it
booming, and they thought the
noise was the voice of the god
speaking to them.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-06
Harben Loved the Life of the Gypsy
his twinkling eyes, is being the i'm
mortal first syllable.

his twinkling eyes, is being the i'm
mortal first syllable.
like to think Of him sitting there,
rapt in the ecstasy Of his woodland
flute playing, because this adorable
humanness, this warm enthusiasm
over charades or anything else, is
surely one Of the most lovable memo
ries we have Of the famous author
OF Pole Baker, Ann Boyd, Abner
Daniel and the rest.
You were much more likely to find
Will Harden down by the river in
the neighborhood Of his Washing
ton Heights home, sitting on a log
beside driftwood fire, his old hat on
the back Of his head, whiting a
stick in his lean, brown hands-the
hands of an artist and yet Of an out
door worker-discussing many of
the problems of life and more Of the
problems of death with whomsoever
should pass by, stop and join the
circle Of free brethren.
Around that casual fire you might
have seen, besides, the man Howells
called our greatest Southern novel
ist, a banker, a world-fan1ous artist,
an East Side Jew, and the elevator
New-York tribune., 1921-03-06
AUCTION BRIDGE

Question-Playing progressive auc-
tion, If all four pass without a bid. is
the deal lost, or are four hands to be
played regardless Of the deal on which
no one could make bid?>-C. H. C.
Answer-The rule is that there shall
be four hands played. AS hand can
not be played if no one makes a bid :.
the rule is that the deal passes to the
left and four hands are dealt and
played. In duplicate games, If there
is no bid at the first table at which the
hand is dealt the deal is void and the
cards are dealt again.
Question-We follow the rule to take
the partner out Of q no-trumper hen
we have FIVE cards Of any suit and no
card above queen. But suppose the
hand has no suit of five cards, what
should. be done to warn the no.
trumper ?-(Mrs.) G.
Answer-In that case, four trumps
being worth little or nothing, the no
trumper must be left to it's fate. Five
trumps are good for two tricks, and
the bid increases the contract, onIv
one trick. Four trumps would increase
the contract without any compensat-
ing promise of trump tricks.
Questionable dealer holds ace
1ack-ten at the top Of six spades, ace
OF clubs alone, ace and small in hearts.
ace and three small In diamonds. What
is the bid ?-E. l. M.
Answer-A spade. Although there
are four aces in the hand, they are all
weak suits at no-trump and the spade
is the safe call. If the partner denies
spades with a suit, then it may be
we'll to consider the shift to no-trumps.
Tho score for 100 aces is not as i'm
portant 90 the game.
osssaaea-Ws Ans told that thasa
New-York tribune., 1921-03-06
Tops are IN.
Spin 'en A'in.


1T WILL soon be time Tor top.
spinning again.
Did you ever stop to think
that children who lived long ago
used to spin tops? They did, and
they sang songs while the tops
were humming. Perhaps they
thought the songs made t,ie tops
spin better.
In England every little town used
to have town top" that was kept
in the public square. In cold, frosty
weather the poor people Of the
town could go and spin this big top
vnd forget that they were cold.
When they didn't have any work to
do they spun the top for fun. I'm
sure this helped to keep them out
Of mischief.
Children and grown-up people Of
other countries spin tops. There
are three kinds: the whipping top,
the humming top and tops spun by
twisting them in the hands. This
last kind is called "teetotum." and
has been used in some games of
chance.
In Asia Minor the boys spin tops
with whips. Then when the top is
going fast. they take II In their
hands. They make a game Of this
to see who has the steadiest hand.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-06
By Kenneth Groesbeck
LIKE to think of Will Harden
sitting in the middle of the


sitting in the middle Of the
floor, being the god Pan-and
being it with all the enthusias-
tic delight of his pagan soul.
He is sitting cross-legged, draped
in hastily improvised costume of
which the fur rug off the baby's car
riage is q vital part. On his fine
white head is wreath of holly-for
it is Christmas time-and with his
eyes sparkling in his tanned face he
is playing white toy flute from the
children's room, bending over a
woodland pool which is ordinarily
the center table mirror.
Around the kind and pagan god
caper his animal friends, strange
shapes who might be recognized as
people Of some distinction in ordi-
nary life, for they are playing cha
rades, the word is panic" and Har-
ben, with his whimsical smile and
New-York tribune., 1921-03-06

Some Of the cleverest Of these top
spinners can skeep the top going on
the tips of their fingers and hold
it out at arms length.
We find that in some countries
the tops have queer names. At
least they seem queer to US, but
this is probably just because they
are different from our word. In
Asia little whipping top is called
"dance button; in Japan all tops
are known as s|tok-lok," and they
call the big humming tops "earth
thunder" and "noisy goose" 1t is
hard to find just where we get the
name "top," but some say it comes
from the German word "topf,"
which has the meaning of "pot" or
"kettle."
Japanese tops are usually made
of bamboo and are not the same
shape as American tops. They
look like spools with lead pencil
through them. These Japanese
tops are good hummers. Even
young men play with them quite
openly. That isn't strange, how
ever. for perhaps you have seen
how interested your father or your
big brother sometimes is in your
new tops.
Shells make good tops if you
New-York tribune., 1921-03-06

Tolstoyan sort Of feeling toward the
world.
How can a man develop the life
Of the spirit wrapped in material
comforts?" he would say. "What
right have l to live in luxury when
other people have less than II"
And no argument based on his
own ability and its natural reward
carried any conviction to his mind.
Only the good his books might do in
terested him-not their sale. In his
innate modesty he always doubted
his own ability, in the face Of a sue
cessful novel every year, translation
into foreign languages, syndication
all over the globe, and even the
crowning glory Of being turned into
moving pictures.
He never spoke Of his work to his
comrades around the fire. Few of
them knew he was a writer. To
them he spoke Of what seemed to him,
more vital things-tl1eir own affairs
rather than his-and always Of the
spiritual life.
Summers he wandered over the
nearby country, with a new book
taking shape in his mind, whiting,
chatting, smiling his kindly smile
with its hint Of sadness - tall,
tanned, an old straw hat on the back
of his head, an old and shapeless
blue serge suit hanging on his gaunt
frame-he who had been in his youth
the dandy of Paris, as an old illus
tration in Harper's Magazine pic
tured him-Harben the academician,
the friend of Howells and Mark
Twain and all the rest-wandering
over the countryside studying man
kind, telling jokes on himself in his
soft, Southern drawl, with his eyes
twinkling behind his glasses.
At least once year lie went back
to his home in Dalton, Ca, and, for
all we know, lived the same seltiess
life down there as he did up North
, with us.
Whatever he found in the flotsam
and jetsam Of his daily wanderings
ended up in his books, did it but shed
some light on humanity, or, better
yet, refer to the spiritual life.
Thus, in The Inner Law you may
find the reflection of our trips across
the Hudson to the little camp colony
who lived like gypsies under the
shadow Of the Palisades, cooking
their meals on waterside fires, sleep
ing their babies in washbaskets,
swimming daily in the friendly il
not immaculate river, living the out
door vagabond existence each for his
or her two weeks vacation-tha kind
Of simple life he loved best-indeed,
the only type of life he thought
worth living at ALL
So most of his book people are
real people and he merely one who
reproduces bits Of humanity as It
was revealed to him-and it was re-
vealed to him, for everybody trust
ed Harden.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-06

I boy from his own apartment. Har-
ben was brother to all men and made
them free Of his heart.
The smoke would curl up around
his bronzed, gentle face, with its
close-clipped gray mustache and it's
crown of softly curling white hair.
faraway, contemplative look would
come into the keen but ever so kindly
brown eyes behind the rimless
glasses-and then a sudden change
Of mood would twist the fine mouth
into quizzical smile and some per-
fectly absurd whimsy would set the
circle a-shake with laughter. Or
and oftener so-looking off over the
shining, gliding waters Of the Hud-
son, he would talk Of the spirit life
with craving for knowledge and
belief on this one subject which
made him bring it up for conversa-
ton on every possible occasion and
with all possible men. He was al
ways on the alert for any crumb of
belief, anything that might be con-
strued as evidence bearing on the
life to come.
A reported case of telepathy, a
strange dream or even the evidence
OF unsupported faith adduced by
some friend-these Will Harben
would seize upon with an eagerness
that told part of the story Of his
life.
He had lost very dear son years
before. Always in the back Of his
mind, beside his craving for knowl-
edge Of the life to come, lay the
yearning to be sure whether or not
he had done forever with the sight
Of his boys face.
Harden never allowed the thought
Of his loss to cloud the happiness of
his life with his gracious and charm
ing young wife or his two remain
ing children, but we who knew him
saw constantly in his eyes the pa
tient and wistful searching into the
infinite for the face of the boy who
had gone on ahead.
The combination Of his natural
altruism and his constant preoccupa-
tion with spiritual things made him
toward the end of his life more and
more regardless Of material COM
forts.
The quaintest example Of the un.
worldly quality of his mind and of
his perfect lack Of self f-conscious-
ness was when he forgot his sons
age and indulged in mild and smil-
ing argument with his wife as to
whether the boy was nineteen or
twenty. ~ have i'll" he ended sud-
denly on note of inspiration; "look
him up in Who's Who'w Never. !
am sure, has that august publication
been consulted with less self-con.
seriousness.
believe that had it not been for
his family he would have given his
entire substance to his fellow man,
with no thought except that it was
the obvious thing to do. His WAS Z
New-York tribune., 1921-03-06
Auction Bridge
By r. F. Foster
Author Of Foster Auction auction Made Eosu.
Fosters Complete Hoyle, etc.

i; contract for a bid Of four by dou-
bling three spades.
q passed up the double and A
called four diamonds. Y reads his
partners hand as seven spades, with
nothing outside, as he would not re-
bid. Therefore he has six losing
cards, or at least six that might
lose. Two hearts and two diamonds
would set a four-spade contract at
once. so Y passes. This shows good
judgment. Even three spades would
have been set, but the shut-out
would have saved the game, which
A won in diamonds.
Y opened with spade, and z went
back with the singleton club, family
hoping for a ruff. 1t really does
not matter what he leads. Most
players would lead the keart, as the
two tops must make, and the ruff
seems hopeless. B won the club, and
led king and small heart, ruffing A..
The declarer, A, then led spade,
which B trumped. Two rounds of
trumps followed, leaving Y with the
ten. A trumped heart and pulled
Y's trump, dummy discarding a
club. Y had to cover the eight Of
clubs, and made the last trick Of all
with the king, after dummy had
made two hearts. Five-odd.
This deal scored ia points for A
and B, which 2 would have saved
at an expense Of being set 80 and
scoring 81. in honors. The difference
would have been more than two hun
dred, If B had not been venture
some enough to double a three bid.
Here is the solution to problem
No. A3, given last week, in which
there were no trumps, z to lead and
w to win four tricks.
z starts with the club queen, on
which Y plays the seven. This is
the key to the solution. The next
lead is the losing heart, which B
wins over Y's play. If B makes the
second heart at once, z gives up the
winning diamond. A discards a
spade.
Now B must lead the diamond, 2
discarding the spade, and Y wins
the trick. In the mean time A has
either made both rs clubs good or
has established the spade five for Y.
The play Of the club seven on the
first trick enables 2 to overtake the
deuce with the six and lead the ten.
If B leads the diamond instead Of
the winning heart z wins and A
must discard a spade. z leads a
spade and puts him in, and makes
two clubs, as before, Y being out Of
the way. The false solution is to
start with the heart, as B will make
two tricks and lead the club, not the
diamond, A having discarded spade
so as to keep three clubs.