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MEXICO: A MODERN BABEL

President Obregon, who has just
been installed as chief executive of
the Republic of Mexico, rules over a
population Of many tongues. This
multiplicity of languages Is not due to
wholesale immigration as in the Unit
ed States, but to failure to -"Mexi-
canize" large part Of the Indian
population. The causes of many of
the revolutions which have disturbed
the progress of Mexico can be traced
to this diversity of tongues and the
differences in thought and ideals that
necessarily follow.
From Sonora to Yucatan, more
than fifty separate dialects are
spoken" writes Frederick Simpich In
a communication to the National Geo
graphic society.
"All the inhabitants of the West
Coast, however, with the exception
of some hill tribes of Indians can un-
derstand Spanish.
"Of these Indians the 5000 Yaquis,
with their crude Bacatete hill forts.
their weird ceremonial masQue dances
and their warlike attitude, are easily
most conspicuous. Many are enlisted
with the federal army or employed as
ranch hands and mine or railroad la
borers.
"The Yaquis with the federal troops
are termed 'Manzos,' OF, tame YaQuis;
those in the hills. wild and hostile,
arc the 'Bronchosl The latter are q
vagrant lot, robbing ranches for food
and animals. carrying rawhide drums
and water gourds, wearing sandals of
green cowskin-living by their Wits.
Pressed BY hunger. they subsist a.
we'll on burros as beef.
"These burros. the short and slim
pie animals Of the poor,' thrive BY the
thousand an the west Coast. Many
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I'M oW that sales of white goods and
,,> wash fabrics are under way in
weil'regulated dry goods stores,
ah,hs Of undermuslins, sewing for
ne mouse and for the children goes
.nerri'y forward. The annual sales
l'he 1t easy to systematic the work
me seamstress who counts upon
aiataihing nail her house furnishings at
east, and occasionally takes up the
p,easaht task of preparing to furbish
w ner home with new curtains
,n,., anu draperies when spring comes. But
m,.h ,h every spring the wardrobes Of
nre,. ene children need replenishing and
,s.ty, new wash fabrics invite their
uers m attention to this fact.
Sor girls from seven to twelve there
a,s ne some cleverly designed new mod.
1as. s N which plain cotton materials, &C.
,',e, ,ee.ed In two colors that combine
fro",.. en, are made up together. Such
tr,ms rUrss need very little IN the way Of
S,mning; some simple stitchins IL
t~ms, vss usually provides the nnishins
!, suenes. .n A dress Of this kind appears
ns,. sne left Of the two shown g ~
= e,ure ~ above. The body of ~ drsas
- inc lighter Of two eolori, With
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The budget plan is sort of blue
print of what one proposes to do with
the funds at command. The builder
can do his work properly only with
suitable plans before him. The differ
ence between the structure erected
with a plan and that erected without
one Is great. The difference between
the results of an income administered
according to system and those spent
at random is one of Just about the
same degree. To attempt to work
without a well-formulated plan, means
a haphazard and unsatisfactory result.
Clarence Flynn.
The smaller the income, the more
important is the making Of a budget
a plan for e5 penditure.
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A FEW cheerful pipings Of spring
Aprecede Its full chorus In the dis
play of blouses and separate skirts
Mat make their initial appearance in
Danuary. They are the straws that
&ell the direction of the winds of
Fashion and likely TO be the very best
Efforts of designers, working with new
Fabrics. Just now the shops are stag
ing the new styles in skirts and
blouses, and already some of them
have made fine success. A favorite
n separate skirts has been chosen
for Illustration here, made of fabric
fhat has been developed In variety
bf ways, and designers show them
felves ingenious In the use of these
btrIped goods.
In this particular wool fabric there
hre stripes Of black and white shep-
herds check alternating with plain
black stripes, but there are several
Combinations In different colors, show
ng the checked stripe alternating
gith stripes that are barred with al-
ernating cOlors also. In the skirt
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THE TRAGEDY OF
ARMENIA

The plight of Armenia about the
end Of 1919, condition which has
been aggravated by the recent defeat
of Armenian forces by Turkish ma
tionalists, is described in the following
communication to the National Geo
graphic society from Melville Chatter.
"Erivan, the capital of Armenia's
provisional republic is an inconceiv-
able contrast to the Georgian govern
ment seat at Tifiis. At Erivan one
finds no spacious prospect nor vice
regal palace, no smart shops, Russian
opera. nor gay night life. To behold
misery in Tifiis, one must search 1t
out. In Erivan one cannot escape 1t.
This poor, struggling, dingy city Of
the plains, whose government offices
suggest some hastily extemporized cleo
ton headquarters and whose parlia-
ment chamber is rigged up with bench
es and cheesecloth In the auditorium
Of the second-class theater, boasts Of
but one beauty, and that-to speak In
paradox-is forty miles away; for, in
whatever quarter of Erivan you may
be, lift your glance and great Ararat
tantly over the mean streets with his
aspect Of majestic calm. He is the
Armenian's Olympus, or rather say,
the Sinai of race which has known
bondage and wilderness-wandering
and for centuries a peoples imaglna-
ton has turned toward him.
1.-THE little Erivan republic has been
the center of refuge for Turkish Ar
menians ever since the massacre of
1915. and between 100000 and 3OO,-
600 of them are camped within its
borders. AS for the city itself, its
former population of 10000, has been
doubled by this influx. There, star
vation and typhus have claimed their
toll Of 5000, the death rate fluctuat-
ing between fifty and eighty day.
Though the doctor and were here
to observe the worst phases of the
situation, each of us waited for the
other to suggest trip to the Igdir
region, where we were told starvation
was most acute.
1.-THE town Of Igdir, with its local
and nearby populations of 10000 Ar
menians. 10000 Tatars, and $4,000
with but few people seated here and
there, as we drove in. Throughout
those tortuous. sun-beaten byways, no
children played and no animal roamed.
The air was heavy with dreadful ST.
lence, such us hangs over plague-smit-
ten communities.
1--WE found the children, such as
they were, inhabiting an orphanage
wherein one sickened at putridity's
horrible odor, and were informed that
there were neither medicines nor dis.
infectants wherewith to allay the con
dition of the many little sick beds.
"Sick?- Say, rather, the bed-ridden
"a word which more justly describes
those tiny, withered-up. crone-like
creatures, upon whose faces the skin
seemed stretched to drumhead's
tightness; whose peering eyes shot
terror and anguish. as II deaths pres
ence were already perceptible to them.
and who lay there at famine's climax
Of physical exhaustion. In those
young. yet grotesquely-aged faces, we
seemed to see long lifetime Of trag-
edy packed into eight or ten childish
years.
"The mcd huts which we visited
presented an :nvariable picture-a
barren, cave-like interior. lacking one
stick Of furniture or household uten-
I'll, and with q few bleached bones
scattered here and there" :
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BESSARABIA: SHAPED LIKE
A PITCHER WITHOUT
A HANDLE

Roumania, since the conclusion of
the World war. the largest of the
states of southeastern Europe, owes
much of this increased area to its re-
cent annexation of Bessarabia, pre-
viously part Of Russia.
Bessarabia, the former Russian
province lying between the Pruth and
the Dniester rivers, and bounded on
the south by the Danube and the
Black sea, might be likened in shape
to q tall, slim pitcher, without ham
die. 1t is completely bounded by wa
ter except at very narrow point at
the mouth of the pitcher. The Dnies-
ter river forms the eastern boundary
of the province. Flowing out of the
crown lands at Galicia, the river runs
east in general direction for approx
mately fifty miles. Then it turns
southeast for ninety miles to Dniester
bay, an arm of the Black sea, some
fifteen miles from Odessa, Russia's
principal port on that inland body of
water. The Pruth river, flowing out
Of Galicia, runs east for about twenty
miles, then turns southeast for a hun
dred and ten miles, and then slightly
west of south to its confluence with
the Danube.
Bessarabia is little smaller than
Vermont and New Hampshire togeth-
er. Its greatest length Is 275 miles,
while its greatest width is 175. 1t is
mostly fiat, except for some we'll
wooded off-shoots of the Carpathian
mountains In the northwest. 1t might
be said to be the vineyard of Russia,
being u great producer of wine. The
population >of 2,5OO,OOO is made up of
Moldavians, Little Russians, Poles,
Roumanians, Bulgarians, Jews, Arme-
mans, Greeks, and Tartars. More
than 100000 of the Inhabitants live
on the soil. The capital is Kishinef,
which is located almost at the center
of the province. To the west of Bes-
sarabia lies Roumanian Moldavia, and
to the east the Russian province of
POdolia and Kherson.
The original Inhabitants of Bessa-
rabia are believed to have been Cim-
merians, after whom came the Scyth-
ians. Because 1t was the key to one
of the approaches toward the empire
of Byzantium. the province was in
vaded by many successive races dur
ing the early centuries of the Chris
tian era. Trajan Incorporated it with
the province of Dacia, and in the next
century the Goths poured into it, to
be followed in turn by the Huns, and
Avars, and the Bulgarians.
In the seventh century Thraclan
tribe, known as the Bessi, settled
there and gave to the land its name.
Between I'LL and 1872 it was the
great bone of contention between the
Ottoman Turks and the Russians
The Russians lost and recaptured 1t
FIVE times in that century. After the
Napoleonic wars, 1t was definitely an
nexed to Russia, and its frontier
pushed southwark SO as to include
the delta Of the Danube.
AS a result Of the Crimean war,
Moldavia was given Dobrudja and
other territory, but under the treaty
of Berlin in 1873. following Russia's
mastery of Turkey and the congress
of Berlin, Russia secured all of the
territory east of the river Pruth. Bes-
sarabia remained a part of Russia
from that time until the dismember-
ment of the cars empire, following
ne Russian revolution.
~r-xyv~~ us0~r~Hv Arrv
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children and the
custom of having
them served away
from the tempta-
ton Of such food
Is followed In most
families.
The mother who
I a es time to
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maste.
Sour Cream Cake
Sift together two and
one-fourth cupfuls of
flour with two teaspoon
fuls Of baking powder.
one-half teaspoonful of
salt, and one teaspoon
full each of cinnamon and
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TheKitchen
Cabinet 80

20. 1921. Western Newspaper union.)
DIR. Johnson was as constitutionally
prone to melancholy as any man who
over lived, yet he said: MANS being
In good or bad humor depends very
much upon his own will. The habit Of
looking on the bright side of things"
he added. ''is worth more than a
thousand pounds a year"
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am now able to do my work. recom-
mend the Vegetable Compound to my
friends and you may use these facts a. .
testimonial. Mrs. SALLIE SIEFERr,
3l3 w. Fourth Street, Pottsville, Pa.
The everyday life of many housewives
is a continual struggle with weakness
and pain. There is nothing more wear
ing than the ceaseless round Of house.
hold duties and they become doubly hard
when some female trouble makes every
bone and muscle ache, and nerves all on
edge.
If you are one of these women do not
suffer for four or five years as Mrs.
Siefert did, but profit by her experience
and be restored to health by Lydia e.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
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collar. cuffs, belt, pockets and band
about the skirt in the darker color.
The elbow sleeves have their GUNS
slashed in accordance with the mode.
and the collar follows their lead In
this particular. AS for the pockets.
they are both pockets and drapery.
but a panel of the light-colored ma
terial at the front Of the skirt Is an
entirely new feature which distracts
ones attention from the unusual pock-
ets. On the belt and above 1t little
stitchery outlines points in the Sim
plest of finishing touches.
The white dress shown at the right
might be made in organdy or other
sheer fabrics and in light colors. 1t
has flounced skirt, elbow sleeves
finished with frlll and round neck
with turn-down collar. The bodice 10
shirred across the front and the full
sash tied at the back ls made OF the
material. 80
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ABLE TO
DO her WORK
After Long Suffering Ma. Sefest
Was Restored to Health b.
LYDIA E. Pmkhan's Vegetable
Compound
Pottsville, Pa.-'T suffered with
female trouble for four or five years and

was very irregular.
j was not ht to do
my work at times
and took medicine
from q doctor and
got no benefit. /
saw Lydia E. Pink
ham Vegetable
Compound adver-
tised in the news
papers and took It
and got all right. 1
gained twenty
pounds or more and
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GOOD THINGS IN SEASON.

Sour cream is so delicious in cakes,
biscuits, mullins and cookies, that not
one bit should ever go to
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Their Use.

Their Use.
Courtroom doors ought to be made
on liberal scale.'
"Why so?''
Because they are intenGed to be
open to conviction"
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VDcllnI a SAx.s I.l SCI. sH!.. ssslnyrsIsgL. e .sI.I..
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MEALS FOR THE CHILDREN.

There is much on the grownups'
tables which should never be given to
Evening star., 1921-12-06

ner last evening at 3S15 Massachu-
setts avenue. Covers were laid for
thirty-two guests, among whom
were several members of the vari-
GUS delegations.
!. Mira. Whitelaw Reid gave lunch
con In her Madison avenue residence,
lew York, In honor of the RI:
Hon. Arthur James Balfour, who will
sail for England on December B1.
Evening star., 1921-12-06

: Patrons Of the Michigan Alumnae
benefit, Carmen" to be given at Polls,
December 10, by the San Carlo Opera
Company of New York, are Treasurer
and Mrs. Frank White, Mr.. Justice
Day and Mrs. Rufus 8. Day, Senator
and Mrs. Truman II. Newberry, Rep
resentative and Mrs. George W.
Evening star., 1921-12-06

Young. Representative and Mrs. Ed
ward T. Taylor, DR.. and Mrs. Victor
C. Vaughn. Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Den
by. MIR. and Mrs. w. ]. Ransdell, DR..
Jane Sherzer. Mr.. and Mrs. w. c. Men
denhall. Miss Ida Hafford and Mrs. A.
G. Draper.
The benefit is given for the purpose
II aiding the alumnae at the Univer-
sity Of Michigan to raise a million
lollar fund to build and endow a
woman's building at Ann Arbor. The
llumnae committee members are: Mrs.
william r. Bolton. Miss Hilda c. Bow
IN, Mrs. Elmer w. Brandes, Mrs. Alice
T. Buchanan Miss Nellie Brown. Miss
Angie Beckwith. Miss Helen S. Bur-
lingham. Mrs. James G. Cumming.
Miss Jane +. Cooke, Miss Sara S. De
Forest. DR.. NJ. w. Dickerson, Miss
Jane E. Harvey. Mrs. James Alfred LIE
Roy, Miss karoline Klagler. Miss
Clara Hasse. Miss Edith r. Macauley
Miss Edna B. McNaughton. Miss Mary
Reynolds. Miss Aida Smith. Mrs. Oil
yer L. Spauldng and Miss Sophronia
T.. Stevens
Evening star., 1921-12-06
Society

from New Yerk. wheres shes went
Sunday. r -
Senator Miles peindexter has re-
turned from a hunting trip In .Vir-.
gfnia. : Senator ard Mrs. Poindexter
will have dining with them this even
Ing DR.. o. III. Holmes of the Congre-
gational Church at Walla Walla,
Wash.
Evening star., 1921-12-06

Unique Lace Renovating.
Laces and Linens Hand Cleaned
Dry Cleaning, New French Method
Mime. VIBOUD, Inc, TT 11th
Laundsrsr and Dry 0Isansr. II. 4s7l
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in a
Charities
aDda of
Of
aged with his
to hears
picked
wi veeans wife
Evening star., 1921-12-06

In honor Of the women Of the con-
ference. the Twentieth Century Club
viii be at home, from to o'clock.
Saturday. December 10, at the Cosmos
Club, Madison place.
The Chinese delegation to the
arms conference entertained at din
Evening star., 1921-12-06
women's City Club during the present
week.

Miss Anna Marie Sweeney will be
hostess at dinner at her home this
evening In compliment to Miss Mary
Rose Bills Of Shelton, Neb.; Miss Eva
Slapnicka of Cedar Rapids Iowa,
and Miss Catherine Bowies OF WASH
ington. The dinner will be followed
by music and reception.
Evening star., 1921-12-06
French Umbrella Shop.

Buy Xmas Gifts early. Large assortment
Ladies', Gents and Children's Umbrellas. Ren
sonable prices. Canes and Suit Case Umbrellas
71s 18th St. NV.
Repairing. Franklin 4594W. Recovering
Evening star., 1921-12-06

Mrs Dimook. Mrs. Medi1l McCor-
mick. Mrs. George Martin. Mrs.
Richard Harlow, MrR Joseph Wor-
thington, Mrs s. w. Layton and Mrs.
J. M. Helm are among the boxholders
for the benefit performance to be
given at the Belasco Theater by tho
Evening star., 1921-12-06

The marriage Of Miss Margaret
Tompkins to Mr.. Austin Warner
Hammond took place Friday, Decem-
ber 2. at Arlington. Va, in the pres-
ence Of a small group of near rela-
tives. The marriage WAS to have
been solemnized November 30, the
change being made on account Of the
Death of the brides father, DIR.
Metellus Woods Tompkina
Evening star., 1921-12-06

Mr.. and Mrs. Wilbur w. Hubbard
were among those from Washington
who went to Baltimore last evening
ia attend tho Bachelors cst!llon or
the flrst Monday german.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-16

| iahed. Defecticns. 10 the one side or the other
from the task are hurting what ought TO be
considered the common cause and mutual in
terest of all political parties and OF all or
ganizations in the country. Politics has con-
founded and confused the spirit of American
patriotism Capital is being made OF errors
when quick interest should be taken in meas
ures that will restore normal conditions. That
interest should be one felt by the Republicans
and Democrats alike They ought TO forget
for the moment that they are Republicans and
Democrats, and remember only that they are
Americans faced with task that Is all i'm
portant that transcends all the petty feelings
OF partisanship, which at this time can be con-
sidered as nothing else but expressions Of
Grass selfshness.
President Harding was elected because the
majority of the American people preferred him
to James NJ. Cox. Politics had its sway dur
ing the presidential campaign and that should
have been sufficient. The country and the
people could not have two presidents. a Re
publican and Democrat, so when the deci-
sion was made politics should have been rele-
gated to the background at once, made to yield
to the broader vision of the nations pressing
need 1t Is recalled that much was said about
unfolding President Wilson's hands. He was
the war president and all Americans should
help him to win the war. He was helped
and by Republicans. Now Mr.. Harding is the
reconstruction president 1t is just as innpor-
tant to have the job of reconstruction well
cone as it may be to win What profit
to a nation can it be to win If it fail
to recover from the conflict as it should? The
politician should not put self nor party before
country, and the mandate is equally binding
upon all
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-16

After listening to considerable talk, most
of it hot air, farmers in this part of the coun-
try are to receive some genuine relief from
the federal government The interstate COM
merce commission, which has an impossible
job that it handles as well as might be ex-
pected under the circumstances, has author
west of the Mississippi to Chicago That will
be a boon to shippers who of late have been
returning from Chicago to subtract their
freight expenditures from their receipts at the
stockyards to ascertain just how much they
have lost
But here is the funny phase of the situa-
ton: THE new rates are expected also to have
helpful effect on the cost of living because of
the price reductions that will be possible in
the manufactured product the result of the
cuts in the prices of raw Materials says the
news dispatch from Washington in which the
rate reduction is cited
The battered consumer has ceased to fall
for that sort OF stuff. And the consumer who
knows anything at all about the situation in
which the farmer, principal shipper of live
farmer isn't debating the price he receives
and cannot reduce that price simply because
he pays lower freight rates. It is possible that
livestock quotations will go down, but at the
behest of the buyers, not the shippers, unless
the latter flood the market unnecessarily.
And, in addition to that, the consumer has dis
covered to his sorrow that livestock quotations
seem to have absolutely no relation to the
cost of meat on the dinner table. Strange
but true.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-16
ill., Ait E TEL MS
BY WILLIAM BRADY nd.

Slipping.
| In most lives a time comes when
youth says last goodbye and the
long slide down the other side be-
gins. Just when we begin slip
ping depends on many things, the
family habits, our mode of life
our education, the customs of the
! community in which we live. 1t is
not a question of chronological age
or years, but one of physiological
age. In some families, places, races
senility arrives at so, and in others
at so, and in very few not at all
Louis Cornaro, born 1864, died 1866,
is a shining example of the few
who never grow senile, although he
came near heading that way when
he was a young fellow. Not until
40 or Whereabouts did Cofnaro pull
up and take his bearings. Then
he made new start along a differ
ent road, which ultimately carried
him past the century mark in fine
shape. In word the secret of
Cornaro's eternal youth was self
control. In two words it was self
denial and self-discipline And no
one can read Cornaro's life and dis
course without realizing that the
man found not only health and
longevity but an enviable happi-
ness and peace of mind in his alb
stemious, orderly life. He enjoyed
life fully, at least for the 60 years
he practfced self-discipIine.
Habits of self-indulgence bring a
man too soon to the turning point.
Not the least of these habits is
sloth. This might be called the age
of sloth, for nowadays every in
genuity is drawn upon for labor
saving-it has become almost bad
form to walk or to work. We give
The human machine the least pos
sible work to do, yet we fairly
choke it with rich fuel. And then
we wonder why the blame thing
doesn't run perfectly.
Since work is no longer popu-
lar, and most of US pretend we are
too busy or we can't afford to
devote the necessary time to play,
there remains but one thing we can
DO to keep from slpping-we can
exercise. Yes, there is another
thing, only it is hard, very hard,
to realize that we can do it, and
that is eat less.
The only reason why men and
women tend to put on srperfiuous
weight, Stacker flesh, after 80, is
overeating- The tendency is to eat
more than the body can use, and a
body doing little work and having
little play or exercise can utilize
little food. There's an unfortunate
popular fancy that the more you
eat the stronger and healthier you
will be-a fancy which no one with
common sense would for a moment