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Evening star., 1921-02-12
NINE HOME PROPERTIES
DISPOSED OF THIS WEEK
Firm of Shannon & Luchs Reports
an Active Demand fer
Residences.

Nine residence properties We're dis
posed Of this week through the office
of Shannon * Luchs The list of
transactions follows:
Morris Simon purchased from Flea
nor Lansburgh the property at 1886
Lanier place northwest This is Il
three story brick dwelling with hot
water heat, electric lights. hardwood
floors and built-in garage The pur-
chaser will occupy the premises
Edward II. Dulin bought from Ma
bel Tilp tn" house at SO New York
avenue northwest. The propcrty was
bought by Mr.. Dulin as an invest
ment.
John r. Worre.l becomes the owner
of 949 18th stret, the titlc having been
transferred from Ellen Gowana. The
property in question is Il large bricf
dwelling and will be occupied by the
purchaser.
Albert Z. Booth purchased from y.
o Couch the two-story. six-room
brick dwelling at 426 newton street
northwest. It'is understood that Mr
Booth Will occupy the property.
Lawrence II. Allen bought from John
NJ. Falconer property in silver
Spring, Md. This is a detached frame
dwelling on a large lot 1t WAS pur-
chased by MI. Allen for his own occu-
pancE.
Arthur a. Rowland bought from
Charles u. Sanger the two-story, six
room brick dwelling at 151 INLAND
terrace. The property is one of the
High View group,
Tyree 4. Foster purchased from the
NARROW estate the tWo-story, siX-room
brick dwelling Al Ga 18th street north
east. Mr. Foster will occupy the prop
erty after making some alterations
.Irs. Arlieviile Krumkc became the
new owner of ia Y street northeast
having purchased the property from
Samuel Chadwick This is "A two-story
six-room brick dwelling which Mrs
Krumke will occupy.
H. A. Veith bought from Howard T.
Good lot in square 1910. located on
South Dakota avenue. 1t is under
stood that Mr.. Ncith will improve the
property shortly.
Evening star., 1921-02-12
DC. BUILDING OPERATIONS
IN JANUARY ENCOURAGING
Dodge Company Reports $13,967,-
600 in Contracts. Increase of II
Per Cent Over December.

Reports on January building oper-
ations for the district comprising
Washington. Baltimore and Philadel-
the F. w. Dodge Company's review
of construction activity. Contracts
let in this district amounted to S13,-
$4,000. an increase of II per cent over
December'S figure.
The principal items among the
a. per cent. for residential buildings;
s2.e2S.O0o. or IA per cent. for indus
trial buildings: $1.602.00 or IL per
cent. for business buildings.
Contemplated work reported dur
ing the month amounted to S55.349,
600. about four times the amount of
contracts awarded. the largest item
residential buildings.
Contracts awarded during January
in the twenty-five northeastern states
amounted to s111.SO7 eco. an increase
of more than IL per cent over the
December figure.
similar to those of the opening
months of 1919, it is with January of
that year that comparisons should
be made.
Contracts awarded in January of
this year amounted to more than dou-
DIE tnoSe OF January, 1919. Further
contemplated work reported this jan
uary amounted to $342.70S.000. nearly
double. the amount of contemplated
new work reported in January. 1919.
Although many of the elements
affecting building conditions remain
in an unsettled state. the evidence
indicates that the low point of the
slump was passed in December and
that the upward trend may be ex
pected to continue.
The January total included: $50.
7560O0, or 2S per cent of the total.
for residential buildings; s24,1S6.0 900.
or % per cent. for public works and
utilities; $29.561.000, or Is per cent.
for business buildings; s15.42s,o00, or
IA per cent. for industrial buildings.
The largest item reported under
contemplated new work was $S2.569.
900 for public work and utilities.
Evening star., 1921-02-12
ENTERS LOCAL FIELD.
Richard A. Ames Joins Forces of
William K. Hartung.

Richard y. Ames. veteran real es-
tate man. has become associated with
the offices of William X. Hartune.
Southern building, as manager of the
q apartment sales department.
Mr.. AmeS has had many years eX
perience in the sale of apartments in
New York city and in San Francisco
After a study of the apartment situa-
ton in Washington he was 50 inn
pressed with the opportunities for in
vestment that he decided to enter the
local real estate field.
Evening star., 1921-02-12
SCHOOL TO BECOME HOTEL
Duncan Power Is Now Refurnish-
ing Fairmont Seminary.

Three buildings at the corner Of
14th and F'airmont streets north
west. formerly occupied by the Fair
mont Seminary. have been leased by
Duncan +. Power. local hotel oper-
ator. who will conduct family hotel
at this location.
Extensive alterations 10 the build
ings have been completed. and the
work of refurnishing the rooms fo.
hotel purposes is now under way. The
hosiery will open for business next
week under the name Fairmont Inn.
Mr.. Power leased the property
through the Office of y. l.. Sansbury
Company, Inc.
Evening star., 1921-02-12

st. Louis is. facing a housing short
age of from 10000 to $4,000 homes
this year. it is estimated by the St.
Louis city plan commission.
Evening star., 1921-02-12
1912 Floral Street NV.

Sixteenth Street Heights
magnificent location: detached
home containing IL rooms and
2 baths: glassed-in sleeping
porch: open fireplace: garage:
newly decorated throughout.
Price. $4,000, on terms. Owner
would consider accepting as
part payment a small invest
ment property.
Open for Inspection Sunday.
Evening star., 1921-02-12

pany. trustee. to erect garage alley
between Sd and 4th. F and G streets
northeast: cost, $1.350.
John Wischusen. to build dwelling
6922 9th street; cost. $1,000.
!. j. Koebler, TO erect garage rear
X. y. Boone. to erect garage rear
2015 4th street northeast: cost. S400.
J. r. Chapman. to build store at
$3.50 Georgia avenue; cost, $500.
/. X. Liggett Company. to repair
Evening star., 1921-02-12
36l2 18th Street NV.

Six-room and bath home
with running water in each
bedroom-an unusual feature.
hot-water heat; electric lights:
hardwood floors: ce IN e n t
porches front and rear; open
fireplace. Out-of-town owner
il very anxious to dispose of
this property.
Open for Inspection Sunday.
Evening star., 1921-02-12
BUILDING DECREASE BIG.

Building construction in the United
States in normal times amounted to
about $4,000. 5000 year. Building
decreased from this figure reached
before the war to virtually zero dur
ing the war
Evening star., 1921-02-12
Pennsylvania avenue;
cost.

1897 Pennsylvania avenue; cost.
$1,000.
Michael Paiumbo. to erect garage
rear 9l7 11th street: cost, $3.50.
rage rear 623-G25 II street; cost,
$4,000.
Gavcr & Brown. to build at 2939
Mills avenue northeast; cost. $1,000.
p. r. Moran, to erect garage rear
Evening star., 1921-02-12

a, number of real estate offices and the
abandonment of certain departments in
some of the larger firms. the sudden in
crease in activity with the advent of the
new year is heralded by local realtors as
forecasting a return to normal trade
conditions
Evening star., 1921-02-12

Women in California are not only
building small homes with their own
hands. but are making the brick from
clay and straw with which to build
them, after the adobe fashion.
New-York tribune., 1921-07-03

lieve, Of papias mache-with no de-
sign on it, or on~ very close to the
fabric and unimportant. Not
too bright, rather dull?
"If so, would you get me a piece
about two yards square? I want a
background to PIT Autographs on
things by Shannon and Will Rothen-
stein; and wallpapers are dreary or
hopeless: feel that for white draw
ings gold background is vital"
In his chalet, which overlooked the
sea, Wilde lived quietly, but he missed
England and the comforts of life there
Here is, a letter in which,, after un-
fortunate adventures with French time
pieces, he asked for an English watch
ga nickel watch is what I long for
Silver is bimetallic. 1 never know the
time and my poem goes all wrong con-
sequently, though it aims at eternity
"Please use postcards when you have
no news; they are SO private. I took
advantage of the postcard system yes
terday to thank you for the cheque
and for all the wonderful kindness you
and More have shown me. So is re-
ticence in art taught to me.
Nowadays everybody is Jealous Of
every one else, except, of course, hus
band and wife. l think 1 shall keep
this last remark for my play"
New-York tribune., 1921-07-03
If You Are Topping"

Topping is one of the golfers most
common faults, yet one that is easily
remedied, says Dave Hunter, the ex-
pert instructor in his new book, Golf
Simplified Doubleday, Page & Coz.
Topping is frequently caused by
dropping the right shoulder, due to the
fact that either the wrists or the grip
Of the left hand, or both, are too loose
at the top Of the back swing. The, re-
suit Of this is that on the downward
movement the club gives the impress
sion of being too heavy and the shoal-
der is allowed to drop. This causes the
clubhead to. strike the ground several
inches behind the ball, with the result
that it is badly topped.
"If you find yourself topping see that
your grip is right and that you are
pronating properly, j. e., starting slow
ly back from ball-the back movement
and the turning Of the wrists and fore
arms starting simultaneously"
New-York tribune., 1921-07-03
Book Gossip
PAUL vERI.AINE

The life Of Paul Verlaine, the great
est of French symbolist poets Of the
nineteenth century, the most fantastic
o. men, has at last been adequately
chrenicled. The Honorable Harold
Nlcolson has written brilliant life,
which Houghton Mifflin Company is
publishing this month. 'Verlaine's poetry
is, perhaps, the highest water mark
in modern French verse. Only twenty
five years after his death he is al
ready shrouded with tradition. His per-
sonality has taken on the size and
aspects Of a legendary deity of the
Quarter Latin of Paris. His career
was blackly checkered by disease, pow
erty, prison and bursts of uncontrolla-
Bile passion. In contrast to these was
the deeply religious side of his nature
The poems written in these moments
have the naive and beautiful tranquil
ity of the Fra Angelica paradise. 1t is
sometimes said that he wrote love
poetry during his drunken revels and
his religious poems were, the output Of
the next morning. The truth about
Verlaine - which surely is stranger
even than the strange fiction that has
been woven about hiln-makes one of
the great stories in literary history.
New-York tribune., 1921-07-03
Franck's New Travel Book

The manuscript Of Harry A. Franck' $
next book, Working North From Pata-
gonia, is in the hands of his publisher,
the Century Company, and, unless some
thing worse than usual happens on the
mechanical side Of the publishing busi-
ness, the book will be issued early in
the autumn. This is the volume which
tells Of Mr.. Franck's wanderings up the
east side of South America, being a
companion volume to the authors Vag-
abonding Down the Andes, which re-
counted his adventures and observa-
tions going down the west coast.
BY the way, Mr.. Franck is receiving
suggestions as to what part of the
world he will next explore and put on
paper. Next year he will be on his way
somewhere. Alaska has been sug-
gested; also China, the Straits Settle
ments, Tibet, etc. He has not yet de-
cided, and he is open to suggestion.
His own preference is for China, and a
F'ranck book on that extraordinary
country would be one to look forward
to- He is one of the few travel writers
who can present peoples and places on
paper without either sentimentalizing
then. or SIN offering them in dull statis-
tics. A Franck book is fact book
and fascinating fact book because he
is passionately interested in facts.
New-York tribune., 1921-07-03
Shores of Asia
from Golden Horn
Golden Gate

AROUND THE SHORES OF ASIA. BY
Mary A Poynter. Published by George
Alien ana linw.tl. London; 16 shillings.
"a ar Re. P0YNTER'S trip from Con-
IYs atantinople to San Francisco
took her through the regions
OF the world which must always appear
most picturesque and exotic to West
crn eyes. Egypt, Arabia, India. China
Japan-tiie very names conjure up i'm
ages Of strange people and strange
faiths, Of ruined temples seen by moon
light, Of elephants and pagodas and
incense and bright costumes.
Mrs. Poyntcr, the wife of British
official, is sometimes disappointingly
conventional in her reactions to the
scenes which she describes. However,
she is faithful, If somewhat matter
of-fact, reporter, and the readers i'm
aginatien can sometimes supplement
her accounts.
The author visited chief cities of
India-Benares, hallowed i'll the eyes
OF Buddhist pilgrims; Agra, with its
rare monument, the Tai Mahal; his
toric Delhi, prosperous Calcutta. Stop
ping a. Rangoon, Penang, Singapore
and Bangkok, she caught glimpses of
the care-free life of the Burmese and
the various tribes Of the Malay pen
insula. In Siam she saw the famous
sacred white elephants, which she de-
scribes as white only by consider
able stretch Of the Observers imagi-
nation.
The book also records the authors
impressions of Japan and China, and
ends with her arrival in San Francisco.
New-York tribune., 1921-07-03
Pilgrim Tercentenary

"The Pilgrim Spirit" is the title of
the pageant to be given in the State
Reservation by Plymouth Rock in July
and August Of the present year under
the auspices Of the Pilgrim Tercente-
nary Commission of Massachusetts
The pageant was written and will be
produced by George P. Baker, Profes-
sor of English, Harvard University.
The verse is by Robert Frost, Hermann
Hagedorn, Josephine Preston Peabody
and Edwin Arlington Robinson; the
music has been composed by George w
Chadwick, Chalmers Clifton, F. 8. Con
verse, Arthur Foote, Henry F. Gilbert
Edward Burlingamc Hill, Edgar Still
man Kelley. Lee Sowerby and Johr
Powell The book will be published by
the Marshall Jones Company Of Bostor
early In July.
New-York tribune., 1921-07-03
Love Triumphant
Good Character Sketches
in English Novel

THE ISLANDS OF DESIRE. BY Diana
Patrick. Published by E. p Dutton &,
Co. ST.
tn HE triumph of love over greed
and intrigue is the dominant
theme Of Miss Patrick's novel.
Rose Binns, young girl of eighteen,
revolts against the gloomy tyranny of
her father, a sanctimonious manufac-
trrer whose religious creed shuts out
all pleasure. She marries Richard
Caradoc, strolling musician and ad-
verturer, whose virtues do not include
constancy. He deserts her on the eve
OF the birth Of her child, and she be-
comes convinced of the fact of his
death and marries q faithful friend, in
spite of her fathers objections. and
warnings.
Pearl and Vivien, Roses daughters
by her first and second marriages re-
spectively, meet each other without
knowing that they are sisters. Vivien
is a wholesome, straightforward girl
while Pearl possesses the unscrupulous
seductiveness of Becky Sharp. Vivien
is outwitted in intrigue by her half
sister, but by happy twist Of the
novelist's pen Pearls triumph actually
turns to Vivien's advantage, SO every
enc is satisfied.
The stuffy background of narrow
cheerless bigotry against which Rose
rebels is sketched with vigor and con-
viction. Miss Patrick is also forum
ate with some of her minor characters
The genial auctioneer, who goes about
quoting and misquoting poetry, and the
lady who excuses her inability to read
on the score of weak eyes are especial
ly we'll done. The novel as a whole
reveals at once a keen sense OF
romance and an intimate knowledge of
people.
New-York tribune., 1921-07-03
A Hesitant Bride
Greenwich Village Wittily
Satirized

THE HUSBAND TEST. BY Mary Carolyn
Davies. Published by the Penn Publish
ing Company, Philadelphia. $1.75.
IN OMANCE and the solid comforts
EN. of life seldom go together. A
girl must usually make her
choice between them. Bettina, the ad-
venturous daughter of respectable
family, is determined to possess both.
She has two suitors-a correct lawyer,
with substantial bank account and ex-
cellent future prospects, and hand
some young poet, who is quite without
money or the hope of ever making it..
She decides to give them both months
trial, and starts out with the poet.
The story then becomes clever
satire on the eccentricities of New
York's Bohemia, Greenwich Village.
Bettina is introduced to penniless poets
and starving artists and girls clad in
smocks of vivid coloration, who talk
long and soulfully of the cause of down
trodden humanity, the sacred fire of
revolution and the neglect of art in
materialistic world. At times the
picture is so exuberantly exaggerated
that the story verges on farce, although
the author is lavish with such touches
of local color as the description of
Bobby Edwards playing his ukelele in
the Romany Marie.
Bettina's month with the poet comes
to disastr end when an avalanche
of bills, presented by an army of irate
creditors, descends upon them. IN
deed, the poet is in imminent danger
of being hailed of to jail when the law
yer arrives on the scene like a good
angel, pays the bills and triumphantly
carries of the chastened and disillu-
STONED Bettina.
Everything seems prepared for
proper and happy ending But at the
very moment when Bettina is awaiting
the signal to accompany ner fanee to
the marriage altar tha poet turns up
again and actually persuades the fickle
girl to elope with him. There is some
sparkling Dialogue in the story. and the
constant ncts Of comedy saves the au
thor from the charge of being trifie
uncnaribahls in her keen characterize
tion of the foibles Of the Village folk,
who, after all, are human beings. like
the rest OF as, and who add splotch
OF badly needed color to metropolitan
New-York tribune., 1921-07-03
I Hitherto Unpublished Letters
Cast New Light on Oscar Wilde
Bitterness and Pathos of Authors Two Years
Imprisonment Reflected in His
Correspondence
Correspondence

Twenty-Five hitherto unpublished let
ters, written by Oscar Wilde On his
release from Reading Gaol, have just
been issued in book form in After
Reading. The letters show his charac-
teristic wit, but are marked by the
bitterness and pathos of his two years
imprisonment.
81 am" he wrote to Mr.. Ross ten
days after leaving prison. "to write a
political economy in my heavier mo-
merts. The first law lay down Isl:
whenever there exists a demand
there is no supply.
"This is the only law that explains
the extraordinary contrast between the
soul Of man and mans surroundings.
"Civilizations continue because peo-
pie hate them.
"a modern city is the exact opposite
Of what every one wants.
Nineteenth century dress is one re-
suit of our horror of the style.
"The tall hat will last as long as
people dislike it."
Soon after his release from Reading,
Wilde went to France, where he rented
a chalet at Berneval, which he was
most anxious to make "look like home.'
He again wrote to Mr.. Ross, saying:
"Could you get something in London
I want very much? Do you know that
Japanese cloth in gold - made, I be-
New-York tribune., 1921-07-03
The Will to Work

WILL. POWER and WORK. BY julie.
Payot Translated by Richard Duffy
Published by Funk g. Wagnalls s1.7s.
rEsHE essential stimulus to effective
< work is the development of the
will. DR. Payot suggests various means
to strengthen, control and direct this
faculty. He tells how to read sys-
tcmatically and intelligently, how to
improve the memory, how to supple
n,ent and utilize ones education. The
book should be warmly welcomed in
America. where books on mental eff
cheney and practical character building
are apt to find wide audience.
New-York tribune., 1921-07-03

De crushed under the heel Of Ulste,
ascendancy.
Mf. o'Donovan handles material that
readily lends itself to propagandist use
with understanding and broad minded.
ness. His sympathies are clearly with
'he people OF southern Ireland, but the
case for the English official and the
ulster Protestant is fairly stated
There is great deal of conversation
III the novel, and in the swift clash of
opposing views and personalities the
reader gains clearer insight into the
numerous ramifcations OF the Irisl
problem than he might get by reading
hundred controversial books.
The novel is realistic to the core
Inc author knows his Ireland and loves
IT, The life Of the Irish village and
countryside is portrayed with strikina
fidelity.
There are scenes in the story that
fasten themselves to the memory with
the vlvidness of silhouettes. 1t is diff.
cult to forget Jim's grandfather. ar
old Fenian and Parnellita, suddenly
stricken with loss Of memory by Red.
mond's speech at the outset Of the war
which ran counter to all his cherished
convictions. And there is gripping
tension in the debate between two
farmers - father and son about Ire.
lands duty in the war. The fathe,
finally joins the British army; the sor
remains behind, to fight and die in the
Easter rebellion.
Mr.. O'Donovan has double achieve.
ment to his credit. He has given fai,
and faithful picture of the forces at
work in Ireland to-day and he has en-
bodied this picture in an uncommonly
good novel.
New-York tribune., 1921-07-03
Explaining the Bible
ESSAYS IN BIBLICAL INTERpRE,

ESSAYS IN BIBLICAL INTERPRETA-
TlON. By Henry Preserved Smith. Pub
lished by the Marshall Jones Company,
Boston. $3.50.
PROFESSOR SMITH traces the most
important interpretations Of the
Bible which have prevailed from the
early Hebrews to the historical critics
of the nineteenth century. The work
Ia characterized by notable scholarship
and impartiality. 1t gives a dispas-
sionate account Of the interpretations
which were favored by varying schools
of Jewish and Christian theological
thought, without showing marked bias
in any direction. The author does,
however, express the belief that the
Bible offers US not revealed philos-
ophy, Or static faith, but rather "the
record of the religious experience Of
men terribly in earnest In seeking for
God"
New-York tribune., 1921-07-03
turmoil Portrayed in Novel News of Books and Author
May Best Sellers

AS shown by special reports from
seventy-four booksellers in fifty-two
cities of the United States. Compiled
by Books Of the Month
Fiction
Main Street. By Sinclair Lewis
(Harcourt, Brace Coz
: The Brimming Cup. By Dorothy Can.
field. (Harcourt, Brace CO..
Sister Sue. BY Eleanor Porter
(Houghton Miffljn Coz
The Mysterious Rider. By Zane
Grey. (Harper Brothers.)
Kingdom Round the Corner. Bv
Coningsby Dawson. (Cosmopolitan.1
The sheik. By H. Hull. (small
Maynard & Coz
Non-Fiction
Mystic Isles of South Seas. By J
o'Brien. Century Coz.
The Outline of History. By Fl. G
Wells. (Macmillan Coz.
The Peace Negotiations. BY Robert
Lansing. (Houghton Miflin Coz.
Mirrors of Downing Street. Anony.
nous. C. P. Putnam's Sons.l
What Happened at Paris. By Colonel
(. M. House. (Houghton Miflin Co..
Ballads of Bohemian. By Robert
Service. (Barse & Hopkins.)
New-York tribune., 1921-07-03
Workers in America
WORKNRS IN AMERICA

The WORKERS IN AMERICAN HIS-
TORY BY James oneaT. Published by
The Hand School. ST.
rENHIS work published in new and
a enlarged edition, undertakes to
portray the role which the workers
have played in American history. The
author emphasizes the state of peon-
age, or practical slavery in which
many white immigrants were held in
the early days Of American history.
This condition did not altogether dis
appear until many years after the
Revolution.
New-York tribune., 1921-07-03
Mormons in Arizona

MORMON SETTLEMENT IN ARIZONA.
BY James II. Mcefintock. Published by
the author. Phoenix.
STUDENTS interested in the history
of Mormonism, or of Arizona, will
md a wealth Of information on both
subjects in this work. which has been
carefully prepared by the Arizona
State Historian. Colonel McClintock
describes the causes which led to the
gradual infiltration of Mormons into
Arizona and their successful cultiva-
tion of desert regions, in spite of the
handicaps imposed by the occasional
attacks of bandits and Arachss.