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What Blind Children Can DO

Iunior Red Cross members IN the
Virginia School for the Deaf ana
Blind, situated at Stanton, have,
lust completed another shipment o.
knitted garments for export to the
children of Russia. This makes III
teen sweatres, fifteen mufflers and
fifteen caps that these blind girls
have knitted since last September.
The sixth grade in the blind de
partment. which is composed Of four
bows and two girls, has recently
completed a portfolio letter to send
to England as a beginning OF IN
ternational school correspondence.
This letter is in the form OF scrap
book with interesting pictures OF
the school and Of well known spots
in Virginia. such as The Natural
Bridge, and typewriter letters from
all six children telling their little
friends overseas about their work
and their play and their ambitions
in life and asking many eager
questions about the country across
the water. There are also pictures
of baskets, bowls, trays and lamp
shades mde in the manual training
department, many Of them by total
ly blind boys and girls.
This portfolio letter would be a
credit to any group of sixth grade
pupils, and it is all the more re
markable when one considers that
it is the work Of children who can
not see.
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NANNY" and "Haha'
Visit France

One exciting day last June two big
packing cases were received by the
'Iunior Red Cross community center
NJ Epehv. France. One contained an
assortment of dolls. All of them were
dressed, and some of them we're made
BY American girls. Most OF the dolls
had the givers' names on cards tled
around their necks, but one wonderful
creature had no ticket at all. she
was named Nanny" at once, pc
cause. though she was only made Oh 4
black stoc\mg, she was 50 generously
stuffed that she resembled exactly tSe
comfortable Misunderstanding mann
mys" of the Southern states. She was
corr cctly dressed too, and the French
girls never tired Of examining all inc
details OF her costume and saying;
ooh! What a funny red-and-yeIlow
skirt" "Why does she wear the hand,
kerchief on her heaed" They had
never seen a negro in their lives ana
their wonder was unendmg.
Mammy's eyes were made OF two
flashing white pearl buttons which,
heinz sewed through their indented
center with black thread, had as good
pupils as anyone could wish. Below
the eyes was a nose that was really on
" i triangle embroidered in red, and
mouth that turned up at the corners
into q nice red smile. This combination
rave Nanny the appearance OF be-
ing surprised and amused, and she al
ways wore that delightful "smile that
won't come OFF,.
In the other case were found lot
OF partly used toys of every sort EVi-
IDENTIFY in some town in America the
Juniors had been asked to donate their
old toys. SO each one had brought
some treasured toy and put a niue
message on it for the French boys and
girls. Those messages usually reaq
something like this: Il hope you Will
like nv horse as well as | do" or Il
wouldn't give this book TO anyone OUT
vou. because you got caught IN the
war" or 81 send you my dolly and |
hope you will be good to her" Out
Of this varied assortment suddenly
emerged marvellous doll with no CIV
er's name on her. She was perfect
ln[;an type, so they named her Mime
haha. which her new friends lmmed-
! lately cut down to "Haha.'
She was not a regulation store
doll. She had high cheek bones, fiat
nose, and ewes set far apart, while on
each side oil her bronze-red cheeks fell
a braid of coarse black hair. On ner
| bare feet she wore a pair Of light blue
felt moccasins, edged with pink; Her
skirt was of tan felt deeply slashed
around the bottom. Over that hung q
loose Jacket of rose pink felt strung
with glass beads and laced at the
neck with leather thongs. A brlgh'
blue feather was drawn through the
Sits of her rose jacket. OF course
Haha was a source OF the greatest
amazement to the children who hac
never seen ''redskin'.
In the Junior Red Cross dining
room next to the coy red brick chin
ney, Nanny now rests her broad form
against a golden yellow cushion, anC
Haha leans against a green cushion
Hahas eyes are turned a little on
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Mems and WOmen's clothes
cleaned and pressed at rea-
sonable prices, work guaran-
teed. Hoffman, The Tailor,
80 King St. Phone 1897.
3S-26c.
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FOR RENT

Office rooms furnished or
unfinished $1,000, $500
and $1,000 per month. Smith
Building GA King Street.
Apply to Carter Bros. 1918
King Street. l6Z-zoc
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Southern Railway System

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NOTICE

Having qualified as the admins
traitor of the estate Of Sarah l.:
Taylor, deceased, the undersigned
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FOR SALE LOTS-Choice building
lots for sale il all parts of Del
Ray, MT. Ida, St. Elmo and Brad
dock Heights. City water, electric
lights, sewerage under construc-
ton. Attractive prices, Cash or
easy terms. Apply to J. c. Ellis,
Mt. Vernon Avenue, Del Ray, at
ter ) p. m. Phone Alex. 1O42.
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An average American town uses for
all purposes from 80 to $50 gallons OF
water a day for each inhabitant.
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aslant. so she always seems to be
looking sideways at fat motherly
NANNY. Nanny looks stralgh1
ahead. and no matter where one moves
in the room those pearl button eyes
follow with an amused expression, as
if to say: This is the s;rangest place
| ever did see, child: 1t sho' is.
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MISCELLANEOUS
FOR SALE

No. S17 Madison Street,
grocery store with stock of
goods, D room house, gas,
electric lights, near Parker
Gray School building and a
good paying business for
some young man. Price and
terms good. c. W. WEIGH
and CO., Exclusive Agents,
pa North Patrick Street.
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In the United States more than 155-
100000 Geographic messages are
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Alexandria to Mt. Vernon
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THE BLUE RIBBON
SHOE REPAIR co.

Half Soles S1.OO. All kinds
rubber heels 40 cents. Use
best leather. Work guaran-
teed. 407 King Street.
1926
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exchange. At Berlin they looked very
disparaginsly at the Polish money
and offered him ESQ German marks
for the lot. He changed this for IL
forms in Amsterdam. for which
when he reached Antwerp he re-
ceived 40 Belgian francs. His f10
fingered tentatively over the abyss
of a nothing.
",rhe title of this story should be
Exchange Is No Robbery"
In happy contrast with material
things is the monumental interest
in the arts. The great masters of
literature, music and the drama Of
fer secure values to a shaken world.
True. their presentation is not al
ways perfect. But there is one irsti-
tuition which appears to be uphold
ing its high standard in. spite of a
change from Russia to Austria.
"AtNthe Stadt- theater, the Moscow
Theater of Art was giving nightly
from its repertoire, and it was in
structive to see that great theater
lacked with Russians, from the stalls
to the standing room at the back
&C the gallery. all listening intently
to The Three Sisters of Chel1hof;
many demonstrations at the end of
the performance, too, and making
the building resound with Russian
cheers and plaudits.
AT Vienna you naturally spend
the opera. 1t is famous for its stage.
There. however. you do realize how
Vienna has fallen. The theaters are
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nation whose working men are ready
to do most work is the most unfor-
tunate in 1921"
France has been sharply criticized
for her attitude in the Washington
conference and elsewhere. Graham
does not altogether exonerate her.
But he finds there yet a spirit that
recalls Joan Of Arc. an unquenched
idealism.
This review may well close with
paragraph on the little nation most
closely related to the wars begin
ming, a nation too often lost sight OF
to-day.
ITO the Serb" writes Mr.. Graham,
"the enmity Of the Magyar is DIS
concerning. BY crossing the Danube
Serbia has become genuinely part OF
Europe: she has turned her back on
the Balkans and the eternal strife on
barren, empty hills. The new Serbia
can afford to forget and forgive Bull
garia, now a remote sort OF country.
She can retort to Greece concerning
Salonica: we have no need OF that
port now, for We no longer aspire
to be a power on the Aegean, we are
Central European people. Jugo-
Slavia is not Balkan country. She
is ashamed of the Balkans and OF
the Balkan past. She will loyalty
look to Geneva or any other capital
of the League of Nations. She will
cling to the center. All seems well.
Perhaps Bulgaria will cease to be AN
enemy and Greece will cease to be q
rival"
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ly, with restraint of utterance which
doubles their forceful effect. This is
especially noticeable in Chapter XXX,
for example, when Stefansson de-
scribes how he and two companions
found themselves marooned on an
island of ice, "a sort of Robinson
Crusoe party" and what happened
before they were able to reach land
after spending ninety-three days on
drifting ice.
Another surprise is the main
reason given by Stefansson for car
rying on tho expedition. 1t is fair
to say that at least until he de-
parted on his long period of discov-
cry, the public generally understood
that the principal object in view
was to reach that unknown and I'M
explored Arctic region which sew
eral other explorers for many years
have believed to consist either of an
enormous archipelago, or else of q
small continent. Stefansson did dis
cover and map great areas. But now
we are told that the main task of
his expedition was to prove, IL pos
sible, that food TO sustain indefi-
nitely both men and dogs could be
secured anywhere on the Polar Sea-"
And he adds that if this could be
proved, then, obviously, journeys
over the ice would cease TO be lim-
tied in time or distance" and as
logical sequence, men would be able
tc penetrate even that remote area
which Stefansson terms "the zone
of inaccessibility." Hitherto it has
been, apparently, inaccessible. Ste
fansson, however, proved as far back
as 1906 that q single white man
(himself) could live off-the ice, so to
speak, as Eskimos do when neces-
sary. And now, it would seem, he
has proved that this is possible for
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ready so rich in other aspects. Dip
into Chapter XXX, where the au-
thor compares methods of men and
his description beginning on page
307, of one method whereby q man
initiates seal basking on the ice, by
lying prone thereupon himself, and
slowly, cautiously working himself
along sidewise over the surface, stop
ping now and then to raise his head
and sniff in air, then to lower his
head and pretend to doze-as does
the basking seal-careful not to
show his arms because they would
give him away, for the reason that o
seals fore flippers are very short;
and from time to time during this
long, slow stalking, pausing TO
scratch himself with his feet Tin
place of hind flippers), and to roll
over on the ice. thus counterfeiting
the seals efforts to get rid of coolies
infesting hair and hide. If anything
more delicious than this can be found
in modern American humor it would
be difficult of Identification.
BY thus referring particularly 10
entertaining features of the volume,
there is no intention of sighting or
minimizing the Importance of that
great array of solid and valuable in
formation with which it's pages are
filled to overflowing. But books of
this nature are few wherein such
scientific knowledge and such humor
may be found so happily blended. In
writing THE Friendly Arctic" Ste
fansson has aimed true and hit the
bullseye. He has produced a book of
compelling interest, nSt only for
those especially interested in Arctic
exploration, but for all who enjoy
good tales well told, and true tales
at that. HENRY ROOD.
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studied. The daily life of Warsaw
was added to the grandeur Of rich
Oriental merchant. Shylock's clever
ness and intellectual assurance were
obscured by funniosities such as a
sing-song Potash and Perlmutter
speech breaking into gable. finger
counting and beard strol1ing. lying
flat in. the street and bowling. But
the audience appreciated this highly
and clapped only Shylock.
This book is rather heterogeneous
in character. The reader must re-
arrange impressions and fit them
into his other knowledge. But he
will find more meat here than in
some of the more logically arranged
volumes. One impression worth
gaining is that of the survival of
hope and courage. Europe is not
dead yet, in spite of all the doctors
bulletins. There has been much
mourning over Austria and Hungary,
and with reason. Graham writes:
zone feels that Hungary, how
ever, is rich country even as she
stands to-day, and that the people
have sterling qualities which make
for the recuperation of the new
state. There is still a love of work
in the country, comparatively a
rare virtue in modern Europe. The
working class, as in Germany, feels
that it lost the war and cannot ex-
pect extra fine conditions. The Hun
garian working man outworks and
therefore undersells, or can under
SELL. the English working man. The
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all full Of the sort Of people who
demand excellence. Perhaps it would
be, unfair to judge the opera by a
performance of "Parsifal," that heav-
ily overdressed story of sentimental
religiosity and pedestrian symbolism,
but it was done in the most Stat
ternly perfunctory style. The theater
was crowded. But it was q strangely
mixed crowd. In lonely grandeur in
one Of the boxes were three English
men in evening dress. In the fifth
row of the stalls was servant girl
who kept asking her neighbors the
time in the midst of Parsifals mysti-
cal moments"
The new Poland, like Germany,
values .England's supreme poet dra-
matist. Among Graham's best chap
tiers is that upon Warsaw, which
contains this paragraph:
IAN interesting diversion from
politics was provided by q visit to
the Polish Theater. where Shake
speare's 'Kupiec Wenecli' was be-
ing performed. The main interest
was naturally in .Shylock. The
Polish actors made very attractive
Italian Signors. POrtiG was full
bosomed Polish beauty. who. with a
male voice, made a fine effect as
doctor of law. The Prince of No.
rocco and ShylocHe were, however,
autographed studies. The Moor
roared and barked and cut about in
the air with his scimitar and made
the ladies scream and the audience
laugh. Shylock was deliciously over
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ings. Sometimes it tasted fishy, as
if it were a decoction of Dutch her.
ring; and then it would taste very
beef had been boiled in it; and then
again it would taste sort of cheesy,
as if the captain had sent his cheese
parings forward to make our coffee
of; and yet another time it would
have such Very bad flavor that I
was almost ready to think some old
stocking heel had been boiled in it.
Notwithstanding the disagreeable-
ness of the flavor I always used
to have strange curiosity every
morning to see what new taste it
was going to have; and / never
missed making new discovery and
adding another taste to my palate"
Mr.. Viewers book is just as varied.
1t is fishy at times, salacious at
times and always cheesy in the sense
in which Stevenson spoke of Mel
vile as o "howling cheese"
Mr.. Weaver tries to believe that
Melvilie's years of meditation were
as fine as his years of Yanderlust.
He wants to take his hero seriously
as pessimistic philosopher. He be-
lieves that Melville ceased to write
because he felt a complete disillu-
sionment. He says: After Pierre
any further writing from Melville
was both an impertinence and an
irrelevancy. No man who really be-
lieves that all is vanity can consist
emily go on taking elaborate pains to
popularize his Indifference. Schopen-
hauer did that thing, it is true, but
Schopenhauer was an artist, not a
moralist; and he was enchanted with
disenchantment." Such is Mr.. Weav-
er's explanation of the big silence
which overlook Melville.
1t is said that every human being
has one book in him. 1t was Mela
ville's good fortune that he had in
him one book sg astounding merit.
Tales of the sea and of the Pacific
Islands may LOSE their vogue. Molly
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Kensington to find, AID I gave him
mp as apparently non-existent. With
the representatives of Latvia / had
q troublous conversation and finally
obtained another useless risa for 40
shillinss. The Germans would not
give a Elsa, as I was entering Ger
many from the other side of Europe.
| spent about f10 in London merely
fer the application Of rubber stamps
and eonsuls' signatures. In the course
OF my travels that passport became
IN appalling wilderness of pisas and
remarks climbing out OF their legiti-
mate spaces to get mixed up with
wife's signature and the color of the
hair. The most ftattering of these
remarks is no doubt that affixed ut
Sofia station-'not dangerous to So
ciety.' But had to show that pass
port not only TO the police and the
military of all nations but also be-
fore entering the gambling halls of
Monte Carlo on the one hand and
before entering the gates of the
Cathedral of Sancta Sophia at Con-
stantinople on the other"
Incidentally he refers to the break
down of postal and telephone service
AT the time of writing" he as
serts, you can send a letter from
San Francisco to London for less
than il costs to send similar letter
from one London suburb to another
In America you have interstate
telephone service. you have the, con-
slant extension Of an elaborate and
efficient system, while on our side
OF the water we intelligent Euro
peans are asking to have the appara-
tus removed as a hindrance and a
failure"
The tour narrative itself begins at
Athens, with a rather upsavorable
view of the Greeks. He calls the
modern race IAN indolent and elegant
people" far removed from the Greeks
who built the Parthenon. plato now
means nothing" 1.-THE cradle of the
ideal is a city where there are no
ideals at all." II there is a sugges-
ton of unfairness. lack of sympa-
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thetic Interpretation in the book il
seems to be here. Graham judges
Greece too much by the look of the
Doulevards, as one might Judge New
York b. a Broadway matinee crowd.
Nevertheless he does not deny all
merit to the people. what Greece
does is generally subtle and shrewd;
what she says is often madness.
8 he wins by statecraft and
loses by politics"
At Constantinople Mr.. Graham saw
much from which to judge it "a city
now of appalling unhappiness and
misery" Despite allied occupation,
"the Russians have got Constantine
pie at last" A hundred thousand
strong. the Russian refugees swarm
in the city, sad remnants of a fugi-
tive aristocracy. The Russian count
ess reading the American Tarzan
novels right through-just to forget
our coming fate"-is Indicative of
things witnessed.
One theme with endless variations
runs through every account of to-
days Europe money and the rate of
exchange.
THE Germans have just now a
very popular word for a nouuedu-
richie, it is sehieber. one who ex-
changes. Getting your money
changed is one of the most wasteful
processes for you and one Of the
most gainful for him.
a certain man had f10 which he
exchanged for $50 francs Then he
exchanged The francs for GOO Ira;
he journeyed by F'iume to Serbia and
changed again for 800 dinars. At
Belgrade he bought 5000 Hungarian
crowns. lie carried the money TO
Budapest ana then TO Vienna, where
he had some luck and got $4,000
Austrian crowns. However. at
Prague the bankers said they did not
encourage the sale of Austrian
money. as they lid not know what it
was worth. He got 1000 Czech
crowns, which in turn he changed to
10000 Polish marks. He then
changed those for 500 Rumanian
lei. returned to Poland again and
only received 5000 marks at the re-