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Evening journal., 1921-04-06

XXTE know ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
w one of our greatest authori-
ties in food, "that the regular diet
Of large portion of the people of
the United States is falling short of
neutrality-suspicious.. D."
That is the way the famous
scientist points out the significance
of the new, startling discovery
about food.
One single mysterious element
vitamine-has been newly found
in food; its Importance is tremen-
dous. Unless we have enough of
this health-maintaining vitamine
in our daily meals, we cannot get
the energy we need for our daily
work.
Primitive man secured an abun-
dance of vitamine from his raw,
uncooked foods and green, leafy
vegetables. But modern diet
constantly refined-too often lacks
this vital element.
This discovery is making thou
sands of housewives anxiously con-
slider the meals they provide. When
a man, though apparently well-fed,
Evening journal., 1921-04-06

homes. Farmers Bulletin 1887 o
Beautifying the Farmstead may b
had on application.
Evening journal., 1921-04-06
Indigestion
Soon
Disappears

Il is easy to restore a sick,
Iour stomach to normal condi-
Evening journal., 1921-04-06

Yeast mixed with spple
butter or jam makes a
delicious sandwich spread
The Washington herald., 1921-01-19
New York City Day By Day
By o. o. MCINTYRE.

NEW YORK, Jan. 1S-Midwinter
finds Fifth avenue at its most color
full season. The great mansions
are teeming with life. There are
gay dinners attended by white
wigged servants in knickerbockers.
Afterward the opera and then those
informal midnight sessions remind
full of the days when Coquelin. the
French actor gave playlets in the
Vanderbilt hnirrored ballroom.
Professional dancers now do a
graceful turn. There is a flood of
titled visitors in town just now
and the jewel caskets are emptied
nightly to make an impression. The
velvet loges at the Metropolitan are
filled with cleaning shoulders and
sunbursts of riotous headgear. The
society boys are at their best. 1t
is the hour of conquests.
And we laugh at the comic pa
per society names and yet one of
the leading society lions of the
winter is E. de Peyster Livingston
and despite his nomenclature is a
very human looking sort of person
Countess Laszlo Szechenyi, formerly
Gladys Vanderbilt, is brilliant in
this seasons social fare. The report
The Washington herald., 1921-01-19
Did You
See This?

The bicycle cop overlook the Of
Tending motorist just, in front Of
the New Willard Hotel. He pulled
up to give instructions to the man
at the wheel, but the girls in the
back seat, who leaned out of the
car and caught at his coat lapels,
distracted his mind from his duty.
One Of the girls whispered some
thing in his ear, and kissed him
lightly on the cheek.
" In the meantime another police
man had run out from the sidewalk,
and was yanking the motorist
roughly from the car. The bicycle
policeman. completely mollifed, hur-
ried around the car and told the
other policeman that all was we'll,
etc. The motorist got back in the
automobile with offended dignity,
shifted gears, let out the clutch,
and sped around the corner, while
the pretty girls in the back seat
waved and threw kisses at the po.
licemen. -
One man out in front of the crowd
lowered his megaphone, and an
other began folding up his camera.
You will probably see this little
scene later-but this is the way
the Board Of Trade filme dit.
The Washington herald., 1921-01-19

~ TRANCE as It may seem, Adolph
~ Mackenzie, whom the war sent
- home after a double 'amputa-
ton, is the most ardent booster
for the monthly dances at the Car
ry On Club at 1900 Rhode Island
avenue.
Though Mac can't be a dancin'
fool" he manages with ease to be
the life of the. party" He looks
over the visitors from the sideline
and puts words end, on end to form
jokes by the hour. Fven If those
who do the dancing don't realize it,
the music of the affair is his laugh
ter. rather than that which rolls
from rubber phonograph discs.
The Carry On Club is home,
sweet home for fifty disabled men
who. are busy studying professions
which disabilities have not prevent
ed them from choosing. Account
ancy and architecture are the two
most popular courses with the boys.
Mac is examining for accountancy
and in a few months he will be
able to stick a c. P. A. on the end
of his name. after another title
Croix de Guerre-which he doesn't
mention. In fact, the assortment
Of citations within the cosiness OF
the Garry On Club is varied-but
The Washington herald., 1921-01-19
Income Tax
Facts You
Should Know
CHAPTER VIII

Millions OF dollars were realized
in 1920 from the sale of property,
real and personal Profits from such
transactions is income, and must be
carefully accounted for in the re-
cipient's return, whether it be SIO,-
006 on the sale of real estate or $40
on the sale of a second d-hand auto
mobile.
The return must show the kind
of property on which the profit was
realized: the name and address of
the purchaser or broker; the sale
price; date acquired; cost of subse-
quent improvements, If any; de-
probation subsequently sustained:
and cost, of market value as of
March l, 1913. II acquired prior
thereto.
Profit from the sale of property
is taxable income for the year in
which the sale occurs. This profit
is measured by the differences be-
tween the cost, if acquired subse-
quent to March /, 1913, or the fair
market value as of March l, 1918,
if acquired prior thereto, and the
consideration received for the prop
erty. The profit, so determined, is
subject to a further adjustment on
account of additions or betterments
added to the property and to de-
probation sustained.
For example. real estate acquired
in 1903 at a cost of $4,000 incFeased
in value and on March l, 1918. is
worth $4,000. Real estate is not
subject to depreciation, and no i'm
provements were made thereon. In
1920 the property was sold for SIS
900. The profit over the cost is
$1,000, but the taxable profit is only
$4,000.
The bureau has not formulated
any definite method for determining
the market value as of March l,
1918. What that value was is a
question of fact to be established
by the taxpayer. Sales of other
property in the neighborhood SINH
larly situated on or about March l,
1918. is evidential as to the March l
value. The opinion of experts, bid
and asked prices for similar prop
erty, and any other relevant evil
dence or facts with respect to value
on March l, 1913, may be placed in
the record.
The Washington herald., 1921-01-19
The Horoscope
For Today
January Ie, 1871.

Lucky stars prevail today, ac-
cording to astrology. During the
day Saturn, the Sun and Mercury
are all in benefic aspect. In tho
evening Uranus is adverse.
All the influences should be slim
ulating and conducive to confidence
and initiative where business af-
fairs are concerned.
The aged should be >favorably s,f-
fected by the rule of the planets,
which gives strength of mind and
body.
Again mines and mining should
be favorably affected, and in both
labor and minerals should prosper.
1t is a lucky day for those who
desire promotion or preferment. APP
plicants for positions should make
the most of the sway.
For all new incumbents in State
or county offices kindly stars are
seen. Cooperation and careful ad-
ministration of public affairs are
indicated.
1t is a fortunate rule for leasing
lands and for real estate invest
ments. Again the seers prophcsy
that land ownership will assume a
new Importance to Americans.
Persons in the Sun will profit by
the prevailing planetary rule which
makes for added honors' and bene-
fits.
Publicity is especially well di-
rected, and wherever 1t is employed
for personalities rather than for
propaganda 1t will avail much.
Uranus Is in an aspect in the
horoscope of the English statesman,
Lloyd George, which is exceedingly
menacing and seems to foretell
trouble at the end of his life.
Diplomatic difficulties will con-
front the new administration in the
United States, but a statesman will
be found equal to coping with the
khottiest problems.
Persons whose birthdate it isH
have the augury- of year in which
fortune bestows many favors. Those
who are employed will benefit.
Travel aud change will not be
lucky. . 7..a 4
Children born on this day will be
reliable. sturdy and clever They
win rise rapidly in life. -.
The Washington herald., 1921-01-19

life bright and cheerful, and she de-
MED herself all of them because she
was dreading that a thing that was
not within the bounds of possibility
might happen to her.
She has many sisters in melan-
Choly. You see many mothers who
do not enjoy their children because
they are afraid they might get sick.
or die, or go wrong when they grow
up. You see many wives who worry
themselves to death lest their hus-
bands should cease to love them
when they get old and fat. You see
many women who never use their
pretty things, or wear their good
clothes, because they might possibly
need them twenty years hence.
The next aid to cheerfulness is
making the best of now and here, OF
getting every possible drop of hap
piness out of the present situation
Suppose it is raining today, and you
had planned to go on a picnic. Quit
fretting over the picnic and do some
one of the thousand entertaining
things that a rainy day is just de-
signed for doing.
Suppose you have to work. Have
enough intelligence to realize that
there is a million times more fun in
working than there is in any play
It's the great game with the big
stakes. Suppose you have had heart
breaking sorrows. You can bear
them with a courage that lifts you
above all petty trials of life, and
lights the fires of victory in your
soul.
And the final aid to cheerfulness
is to establish the habit of looking
on the bright side of things, and. of
smiling instead of whining You
can cultivate hope just as easily as
you can despair, and with just as
much reason, for the law of average
always holds good. There is just
as much sunshine as there is rain,
just as much happiness as there is
sorrow. Things are just as liable
to turn out well as to turn out dis
astrously. We can say with just as
much truth of misfortune as we can
Of good luck, that this too shall pass
away.
Cheerfulness is worth cultivating,
because, like virtue, 1t is its own re-
ward. 1t brings us health and hap
piness, because II is like a sun shin
ing in our own souls. It brings joy
and contentment into a household,
where a cheerful woman Is like a
warm fire upon the hearthstone. And
1t brings prosperity to. US because
people like to do business with an
optimistic person.
The habit of cheerfulness is the
concrete expression Of the brave at
titude towards life. 1t Is only the
heroes who smile and carry on. The
towards crouch, and gloom, and
whine.
The Washington herald., 1921-01-19
y MILDRED X. BARBOUR.
H-A Disturbing Tea.
tCOpJriEht, 1920. by Ths wheeler Syndicate. Ine.I

ed. Nancy's maid entered with a
yellow envelope on a salYer.
"a telegram, Mrs. Burrard. The
boy is waitlng-if there is any an
swer."
With a murmured excuse to her
guests, Nancy tore open the en-
velope and unfolded the slip.
Why" her face lit UP magical
ly, It's from Ger.
She broke of with a glance at
Connie, and added, after a moments
hesitation:
It's from an old chum Of ours,
Connie"
She handed the missive to Mrs.
Stanley, who read it with raised
brows-
''ReallyT How interesting! Are
you goingT
Nancy looked uncertainty at her
guests.
Il could just manage it if
she stopped. but Major Desmond.
quick to sense her thread of
thought, rose quickly.
IF We all clear out" he finished
for her, II Judge it's a train you're
meaning to catch, Mrs. Burrard.
Can I do anything for your
Nancy thanked him prettily, smil-
ing with weH-assumed vexation as
her guests gathered up their wraps.
It's too inhospitable," she pro-
tested, but this wire is from an
an old school friend who is leav-
ing for the-the Orient, and I'll
just have time to say goodby in
Chicago II I get the Lake Shore
Limited this evening. We are-er-
very fond of each other"
The two men were unsuspecting,
but shrewd little Peggy Lewis was
nobody's fool She sent Nancy a
comical wink out of the eye on the
farthest side of her former husband
as she murmured:
Such a nice tea, Nancy. Give my
love to-er-Geraldine.
Major Desmond contrived to drop
behind the others as they. passed
out of the drawing room.
You're sure there's nothing I can
Nothing. thank you," smiled
Nancy.
AT least let me drive you to the
station when you're ready" he
pleaded.
Nancy hesitated. 1t was ridicu-
lous to refuse. He knew that she
had to drive to the station, and why
not with him rather than alone?
She nodded a quick acceptance.
AT $50 then"
He was of without further adieu
Nancy looked after him for a
moment, then picked up the crump-
led telegram and reread 1t.
Ship sailing to be delayed two
days on account Of strike. Come
to Chicago and spend time with me
here. (Signed) Gerry"
TomOrrow-A Persistent suitor.
The Washington herald., 1921-01-19
Can you solve this mystery
THE BOLTED ROOM

Harvey Hunt laid his newspaper
aside at his friends remark, and
laughed
There's nothing so mysterious
about the process of deduction in
criminal investigation" he said,
though people love to believe there
Is. AS a matter of fact. there is no
more magic in 1t than in the deduc-
,tions~ which daresTs say. you make
every day in the cotton brokerage
business" .fi -.
I'll wager they arc more accu-
rate than the ones / made today, at
least" commented DeKyne, with a
wry smile, but suppose you give
me a case and see IL can deduct
it as successfully as l deducted
from my profits today"
We'll" said the criminal investi-
gator, here is one of my early
cases: I'll give it to you stripped
down to essentials.
"A man was found dead in his
study. There were but three open
ings in that room-two windows
and a door. All three were locked
or bolted on the inside. Bear that
in mind.
We affected our entrance by
breaking the glass in one of the
windows. The man had a bullet in
his brain. and beside him on the
floor was the revolver from which
the shot had been fired at close
range. The marks of the powder
were on the flesh around the wound
There was another man who had
very strong motive for killing him.
This man could not prove an aIibi.
But while there was every moral
The Washington herald., 1921-01-19

~ really think, Nancy, that you
should give up this big apartment
aey that you are. alone"
Constance Stanley looked critical
" around Nancy's drawing room,
lit only by the siIk-shaded candles
81 the tea table. The early winter
twilight was creeping in through
the partly drawn curtains at the
windows
Major Desmond sat across the
room almost lost in the shadows.
ms expression was one of polite
interest in Mrs. Stanley's spirited
chatter. but his eyes fingered on
Esncy's piquant flushed face across
the flickering candles.
His were not the only eyes that
dwelt on Nancy. Peggy Lewis
former husband was also disereetly
engrossed in his pretty hostess,
much to Peggy's amusement.
Moving to Nancy's side on the
pretext Of examining a tea dolly,
that irrepressible young woman
murmured:
,S"Sic 'em, Nancy" and her amber
eyes danced as she made a slight
movement Of her FLUFFY head toward
her late spouse.
Have you been a-ah-a widow
long, Mrs. Burrard!" inquired that
gentleman politely.
Nancy flashed a swift glance at
Major Desmond.
mot long. Mr.. Harding" she re-
piled sweetly, can I give you more
tear
He rose to hand her his cup.
TT would be superfluous to re-
mark that you will not-rernain one
long" he remarked pointedly.
Nancy lifted eyes that belied the
little .quiver Of merriment around
her mouth.
"oh. Mr. Harding" she said re-
proachfully, and conscious Of Con-
MES keen scrutiny brushed her
Risp Of lace kerchief across her
eyes.
"A suppressed giggle from Peggy
of--the company.
7 was just thinking about the
joke I read in Life yesterday" ex-
planned Peggy hastily. What were
you people talking about?''
Nothing" spoke up Mrs. Stanley
Crisply, But to get back to a real
subject: don't you think Mrs. Bur-
rard ought to take a smaller place,
Major? It Is much too lonely for
her in a barn like this, and it must
be Allied with-ah-painful memor-
les"
''Oh Connier' reproached Peggy,
Nancy isn't a divorce-she's a
real widow"
She glanced pointedly toward her
former spouse, who, as pointedly,
avoided her gaze.
While q strained silence prevail
The Washington herald., 1921-01-19
Good Morning,
Judge!
ny RUDOLPH PERKINs

. Joseph A Proctor was employed
for ten years in a big F street de-
partment store as a porter.
According to his own admission
he has been stealing small articles,
such as hosiery, petticoats and
gloves, since last July.
Detective Sweeney. arrested the
man and he made a clean breast Of
the whole affair and shouIdered re-
sponsibility for everything.
Proctor's excuse was that he made
but little money and had TO steal
to support HIS mother and blind Sis
ter, but the court was deaf to this.
He wanted another chance and
asked the court to put him on pro-
baton. The court refused to listen
to this plea, too, and stated plainly
that fining people for stealing did
not stop the stealing.
The only proper punishment for
his offense. the court told him, was
a jail sentence.
He got sixty days
Action on Running Board.
Lawrence Jenkins works for the
Pierce-Arrow agency here.
But the night. he got into trouble
he was driving a Packard.
z IL was half-past three in the
morning when Policeman Earl Skin
ner hoped on the running board Of
the car and demanded to see hfs
drivers permit
Lawrence said he had left the per
init in his other overcoat pocket
but he fshed around for II in the
one he wore.
Skinner thought the man was up
to something and is alleged to have
hit him on the head twice with his
stick. This dazed the driver and
the car made a wicked lunge.
The policeman fell on the run
ming board. He accused Lawrence
Of knocking him of and put a
The Washington herald., 1921-01-19
n THE INQUIRING
REPORTER
THE QUESTION
What Is Your Favorite Brand
Of Fiction?
THE ANSWERS

IhE ANs"Ehst
DON MCCLURE, House once
BuiIdingi 1--WE don't except any
brand, ...
JOSEPHINE WARNER, 1885
Monroe street northwestI what
is more refreshing to the we'll
known, tired business man or
woman than nm hour or two in
n thrilling romance. Recreation
Is the purpose of fiction and
romance serves its purpose wcII.-
AUGUST GoRMAN. Fort Myer,
"a good snappy detective yarn
with n weiI.deveIepcd plot AIis
the bill for me.-
MRS. J. l.. McCuen, 2s12 o
street northwest, aThere is MOTH
ing more interesting and fas-
cinating than fables as told by
George Ade."
LOUIS ROSENBERG, I27 r
street northwesti ssFfction In the
novel form hits the spot for me.
L read fiction for diversion and
there is no limit In the novel,
The Washington herald., 1921-01-19

of her divorce plans against the
Hungarian nobleman was the cruel
work Of the society tabbies. He ar
rives shortly to set the rumors at
rest for all time
Firth avenue scenes these morn
ings are like the stolen settings of
musical comedy stage. Long i'm
ported cars with the front seat oc-
cupied by those Apollo twins with
immobile faces, the chauffeur and
footman, glide up and down the ave
nue. to the merry zing and slither
OF rubber on asphalt. In the back
seats are figures wrapped in Rus
sian sables and mounted with gaudy
Partisan toques. The funkeys at
the tradesmen's doors are busy sa-
laaming.
Afoot are the young girls with
great white Russian wolf-hounds,
collies and Boston bulls on strained
leashes. The young bloods too are
out for the first time since the war.
They have great blanket-like coats,
rakish velour hats, cream white
muff1ers and have brought back
the swagger stick of all descrip-
tions-the long reed-like and the
short and blunt.
IncIe are DO"lnSS ana ScraplngS
and handwaves for there is an easy
familiarity among them naturally.
They herd together in the mid
winter, later on in Florida and in
the summer at Newport, so it is
like one large family.
All doubt as to the fate of the
Hotel Astor has been removed. This
incidentally will be great news to
the theatrical and moving picture
men who have made this place their
luncheon rendezvous. The present
management has secured a twenty
year lease on the property and will
continue the hotel. 1t was reported
that the building, like the Knlcker-
booker, was to be torn down. The
only change is that the front of
the Astor will be remodeled to &C
commodste ten stores which will
be located there. That means the
death of the famous Astor canopy
which has been the loafing place
of celebrities who like to stand in
the Broadway spotlight.
The Washington herald., 1921-01-19

modestly unmentioned, unless one
insists on the facts.
The club has a basketball team
composed of wounded men whose
disabilities do not interfere with
participation in the strenuous game
of the COURT. After a few practice
matches the team will be ready TO
take on games with other soldier
outfits. Dates may be arranged
through Marvin E. Maddox, mem
Der of the entertainment committee,
at the clubhouse.
The Washington herald., 1921-01-19

IF A book is charefully balanced,
back down and covers and pages
perpendicular, and then one draws
ones hands quickly and carefully
away. IL will fall open; and 1t will
fall open at the page that has been
most frequently in use.
This was the principle that Har-
vey Hunt made use of in .determin-
ing the direction in which Henry
Carlton had fled, in the case Of
THE Turn of a Pages
The railroad guide was new one.
Therefore, there was, not much
chance of going astray. Harvey
Hunt balanced IT as indicated, and
let the leaves fall apart. They did
so at the timetable of the Sante Fe
route. He repeated this FIVE times.
and each time the book fell open at
the same page. 1t was obvious that
this was the timetable Carlton had
gotten the book to consult.
AS a matter of fact, owing to this
clue as to the direction of his flight,
he was finally located and arrested
in Topeka. -.s
The Washington herald., 1921-01-19
Deductions of Harvey Hunt
By Philip Francis NowIan.

reason for believing him guilty of
murder the apparent facts permit
teo no other explanation than sui
cioe, Tor all the exits We're locked
or yooited on the inside. How could
a murderer have gotten out of the
room and left them that way?
The position in which the body
was found and the condition of
surrounding objects would have Ft-
ted either the murder or suicide
theory. The revolver Welded no
fngerprints thai were satisfactory.
Il turned my attention TO the
door. It had no transom. 1t was
soiidly built and fitted quite closely.
IL was not locked, though the key
was on the inside of the lock. but
II was bolted with an ordinary, sub
stantial bolt about two feet above
the lock. The bolt moved a trifle
stiffly. 1t was somewhat tarnIshed
except on Its knob. There was a
rant little streak on the back of
the shank which connected the knob
with the bolt itself, but II did not
seem possible to me that anyone
could have manipulated IL through
the keyhole with any sort of a
curved lever. 1t was too far above
IN lock, and besides the key was
stun In the keyhole, and from the
inside, mind you.
Then 1 looked at the windows.
Ihey were locked on the inside with
catches OF the sort which cannot
De moved from without by a jimmy.
besloes there were no marks on
them TO indicate that any instru-
ment had been used on them. The
grass was puttied into the frames.
OUT the putty was on the inside,
ana appeared to be quite old and
dried out. 81.
That was all"
The Washington herald., 1921-01-19
Where Wars Disabled
Stage Life's Comeback

Here Is a "Carry-0n" smile
direct from q ten months run
at the sCnrry-On' Club for
disabled soldiers mt 1000
Rhode Island avenue. AdIoph
Mackenzie. or "Mac,, hasn't
been home to CIaredon, Tex
since the wnr, but he finds
the club house where he and
fifty other overseas men are
coming back the most COM
Portable duEOut this side of
bonneville.
The Washington herald., 1921-01-19
BEGYOUR
PARDON!

THE HERALD takes
precautions to be ac-
curate.
But In making up news
paper editions every twenty
four hours errors are bound
TO occur.
Readers of The Herald
are requested to address
the beg Your Pardon" de-
partment for the correction
OF any errors which they
find IN the columns of this
newspaper.
In order to hasten cor
rection of errors, readers
are requested, when making
their complaints, to tell the
column, page and date IN
which the mistake occurs.