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The Washington times., 1922-11-27
Very Recent Purchase
Winter Coats, s18
Smart Sports and Bloused Dress Coats N.
Unusually Good Values

Unusually Good Values
An opportune selling just
before Thanksgiving, when
every woman wants a new
and attractive coat.
Three Illustrated
Vclours and Normandies
Fashion the dress coats. Both
the popular bloused styles
and those with straight lines.
Many Of these have fur collars
Of beaverette or fur fabrics.
Sleeves extending to waist line
give draped effect.
Suedines and Sports Cloths
For the dashing, swagger
sports coats Young women
particularly like these double
faced fabrics with raglan,
sleeves, big pockets and man
nish lines. Belted or INDEBTED.
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The Washington times., 1922-11-27
To Look Well Thanksgiving Day
Two Favored Styles---Footwear

Popular, smart, and
fashionable are these two
very graceful low shoes
for women.
Very effective with the
new long skirts for dress
or street wear.
The Washington times., 1922-11-27

Patent Leather Colonials on new lasts
with Spanish or Louis XVI heels. A few
with Colonial heels. Different styles Of
tongues. Sizes 2Ik to Z. Very specially
priced.
The Washington times., 1922-11-27
The w-Strap, S.. 95

A very new Idea Is this trim, black
patent leather pump, with wide stitched
strap. fastening at the side, with two
eyelets. laced by large black grosgrain
ribbon bow. Spanish heels. All sizes.
STORE.
The Washington times., 1922-11-27
For Men
Shirts

Shirts
A small group Of unusually good
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Nightshirts, 2 for
Fine Quality Muslin shirts. with
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well made.
The Washington times., 1922-11-27
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Bureau Scarfs
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Turkish Towels, 3 for
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The Washington times., 1922-11-27
Three Are Pictured

Fascinating dresses that
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Quaint Tight Bodices
Circular Skirts
Side-cl6sing Effects
Bloused and Draped
Panels and New Sleeves
You could hardly hope for
more delightful styles; then
consider these materials:
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Crepe-back Satins
Tricosham-C Canton Crepe
Poiret Twill
Make your selection tomor-
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events. -,
The New York herald., 1922-06-25

sleuths, the friends and the acquain.-
ances of the varians. Another mur-
der, and an attempt at robbery, ami
a second abduction follow fast, an9
you become bit nervous. 1t looks
as though Headland House were 4
decidedly unhealthy place of abode.
You wish the intrepid seekers after
Betty would call the whole thing of,
pack UP and leave. Anonymous le+-
tiers demanding fabulous sums add
to the excitement. For some unex
planned reason no one thinks that
Betty might have jumped off the
cliff into the sea- She hasn't, as
matter of fact, but il looks to thu
reader as though the supposition
were fair one, even though locke.
windows and doors leave no metho
of egress, since the devoted search
ers do hunt the bit of plateau over
from one end to the other.
The New York herald., 1922-06-25

story runs up and down the Sound,
with a side trip to Sea Gate, and
even out past Sandy Hook, and back
again to numerous points on the
north shore of Long Island. 1t in
wolves nearly all the good old, long
tested and familiar tricks of the
makers of this kind of thriller, even
to the buried treasure, the idiotically
devised clew. the discovery of the
identity of tie long lost heiress and
a good gun fight for a climax. 1t is
pretty well put together, though
some of the necessary love making
is drawn out to tiresome lengths.
The various people, even including
the he'd haired girl and Steven, will
do well enough for this type of story.
But really the author misses a trick
in failing to bring Katy the maid into
the story to marry her off to old
Derrick, the woman hating sailor
The New York herald., 1922-06-25
New Fiction

Duff's artistic demonstration of the
accuracy with which the rsal adven-
lures run true to the theoretical
forms of fiction.
For example, he is greatly inter-
ested in the ugly mate OF the ves-
sci because that mate is so obviously
the villain, or one of the villains, that
he is scheduled to meet. One oddly
successful thing about it al is that
while. the narrative Intentionally
runs true to form, even down to
minute detail, it is ne-er really
hackneyed. 1t always manages, al
most, one might think in spite of
itself, to attach some distinction,
just at the points where you expect
it to be merely formal. Toward the
end it verges upon real tra gedy. but
The New York herald., 1922-06-25

THE VANISHING OF BETTY VAR
IAN. BY Carolyn Wells. George
H. Doran Company.
"HERE is plenty OF mystery in
Carolyn Wclls's latest dete--
tive story. a situation being
posed that seems to have no possible
explanation. Dreadful things hap
pen. with no apparent agent. and
even that wise person, Penny Wise.
is completely baffled-for a space
A house on a high bluff, with ths
wild Maine sea beating against tle
rocks at the bottom, and only ono
narrow approach, guarded by high
wall and massive gates. The cliff
had an overhang that made it i'm
possible to scale, and the table lard
on which the house stood was 50
small as to be easily comprehendea
in glance. That is the scene OF
the tragedies that follow close upon
one another, each more astonishing,
more inexplicable. Miss Wells has
set her stage well, there is no doubt
of that.
In full view of a large group pf
persons Betty steps into this house
and disappears. When she fails t.
return in a reasonable amount o.
time her father follows her. When
he fails 10 come back, two of the
guests go up to see what is keeping
the two. They find him lying deal
in the hall, and no trace whatever
of Betty, unless a yellow satin pi-
low lying in the middle of the kitchen
and a few amber beads from a neck
lace she wore when last seen scat
tered on the floor can be termed
traces. There you are. No way in
or out of the house except the one
under the gaze of half dozen peo-
pie. No one in the house when il
was left by the party some five or ten
minutes earlier-and yet!
OF course there must be a secret
passage. and it is the hunt for this.
and for any possible enemy whc
could have murdered the unfortu
nate Frederick varian and abducted
his daughter that occupies the in
genuity of the amateur and other
The New York herald., 1922-06-25
Mr.. Nicholson
in the Controversy.

In an interview in ST. Louis the
other day Mr.. Meredith Nicholson
Joined in what might be called the
Anglo-American literary contro-
versy.
81 co think it's impudent," said he,
"of these Englishmen to come over
in droves to this country and criti-
cize US almost before they've been
through the custom house and regis
tered at their hotels. There's an
awful sort of intellectual snobbish-
ness about the Americans that lets
them take to their hearts all the
English writers who come Over.
reminds me of the old days of the
New York Ledger, which was fond of
printing all il could get about the
foreign dukes and counts and their
grandeur a heavy word.
"our people still love to read about
that sort of thing. We're romantic
and sentimental people who dom
want the straight dope. We like
fancy trimmings and the s>G SO
cratic airs and graces, wen take
all the real stuff we<can get about
the English. but not about ourselves
We don't like to read novels and
stories about our everyday life.
We're too easy going with ourselves
and too self-satisfied-another rea-
son why the Americans should en-
courage Americans to write about
ourselves instead Of taking up the
English. who go back home and
sneer at u.s."
The New York herald., 1922-06-25
Continued From Preceding Page.

thing very much. If there is any
advantage worth while it belongs to
the heartless person. The English
form of this philosophy of life seems
more hopeless than it's familiar Ger
man and Russian parallels-which
are not entirely parallel after all.
But it has a family resemblance to
the Russian, and to Schnitzler,
though where SchnitZler is a thor
oughly malevolent, sneering Meph
istopheles. and thoroughly enjoying
himself in that role the Englishman
is somewhat unhappy about it, and
possibly not quite so sure of himself
as he seems. And behind the Rus
sian there is usually a reserve of
mysticism, limbo of possible escape
into which he is ready to vanish If
too hard pressed.
1t is not a little remarkable that
in all these there is a very high at
taniment in art, fineness and even
beauty Of expression. 1t is almost
as if the nihilist artist, believing in
nothing else is somehow constrained
to believe at least in his art, to take
ii very seriously, as the only thing
that really matters.
The tales in this volume are tense.
dramatic, and sure in their move
ment. There is very much human
material in them, much keen insight,
much of even true vision, or at least
fine semblance of truth. Almost,
at times it comes near to contradict
ing itself. as thesis. Thus in THE
Gioconda Smile" where the victim,
'unjustly convicted of killing his wife,
foreseeing his condemnation reflects
a-"Confusedly he felt that some ex-
. traordinary kind of justice was being
done. In the past he had been
wanton and imbecile and irrespon-
sible. Now Fate was playing as
wantonly, as irresponsibly with him.
1t was tit for tat, and God existed
after all.
They are all grim affairs but per-
haps the last, Nuns at Luncheon"
is the blackest. 1t deals with the
tragedy of woman who, because
of a generous impulse is utterly
broken and outraged by the fates,
and thrown aside as wreckage. 1t is
sheer tragedy, but like the rest it
nevertheless leaves one with a feel
ing of a certain vacancy, not merely
a bad taste and depression, but an
irritated certainty that something
necessary is persistently being left
out. And just in so far it remains
essentially an untruth; a vast devo-
ton of skill to the shaping of an
artistic lie.
The New York herald., 1922-06-25

still manages TO keep in proper tune
with the rest.
Its characters. especially the girl
and Duff himself, are by no means
mere puppets; they are often yividly
alive. The whole thing IL pitched
in a very high key but still har-
monious. Or. perhaps a better
figure, it is painted in sap dash,
strong" style, in high colCrs; colors
that are strong but also clcar-never
crude or muddied. 1t makes an un-
usually good story, not merely for
the lovers of action and adventure
but also for the smaller audience
who value fine workmanship.
The New York herald., 1922-06-25

II is all kept at a boiling point, in
the skillful manner habitual to Miss
Wells. and no confirmed reader o.
mystery yarns is going TO leave
the book until the end is reached
and the solution with it, perhaps
some OF these readers will have sus
pected the end and before arriving a
il. but even then confirmation is d =
sirable. Penny Wise is rather long
at finding what he looks for, eve.,
with Zizi to help him, and the ulti-
mate discovery of Betty hangs on a
chance that locks remote, but =
nevertheless amusing.
The New York herald., 1922-06-25

THE QUALIFIED ADVENTURES.
BY Selwyn Jepson. Harcourt. Brace
&Co.
ERE is something distinctly
out of the commonplace
in stories Of adventure.
There is adventure enough in it
hectic enough and lively enough to
satisfy any professional student Of
that curiously specialized form Of
current Iiterature-but there is also
something more, in the gently sa-
tirical humor of the central idea.
Mr.. Jepson is not guying the thing;
not at all. for, like his qualified
hero, Duff, he is taking the gen.
timely adventurous part oil his tale
quite seriously. 1t is no bprlesque.
Looking at it from the inside of the
story Duff is all that a competent
hero should be; but looked at from
the readers point of view he is
also a subtly conceived bit of satire.
To begin with, Duff was sub
editor on an English periodical de-
voted to stories of adventure. He
was theoretically perfect in adven-
turing. What Peter Duff did not
know about adventure" We are told,
twas not worth knowing. He could
tell you exactly what should happen
at any stage of any adventure you
cared for-mentally AZ the
age of five he had learned to read
BY the age of fifteen he had mastered
the worlds literature of adventure"
And when a chance comes to him
to put theory into practice. in real
adventure, he is not only ready, but,
marvelously, the adventure itself
works out precisely according to
the theories.
Duff is romancing at a restaurant
table in London and is overheard
by a gentleman who takes him at
his face value and actually COM
missions him to go treasure hunt
ing. He is sent after hoard of jade
to be found on a Chinese island, and
he finds it. Also, of course, a girl.
Then a surprise in the disposition
of the treasure, and finally an un-
expectedly happy ending. All these
adventures are amusing'y worth
following for their intrinsic inter
est as adventures, but beyond it all
The New York herald., 1922-06-25
ALL THE WAY BY WATER. BY
Ell Zabeth Stancy Payne. Penn
Publishing Company.


Publishing Company.
I'm order to get this story going
poor little Bernice had to swim
oh, ever so far-from the
Connecticut shore clear out to where
Stevens motorboat was anchored
off the Thimbles in a September
squall. She had to steal a bathing
suit and sink her own clothes in the
Sound and cut her hand so as to
leave blood stains behind her. She
even went to the trouble of stealing
$40 that belonged TO Katy the maid
Fortunately the stolen bathing suit
was equipped with a pocket. But
that was all Bernice could take with
her. She could not even. take her
last name along, for she had just
rather, that the name she had been
using didn't belong to her. The
kindly gentleman and less kindly
lady with whom she had been living
were not really her father and aunt,
but wicked plotters who had stolen
her and expected to get possession
of her mislaid fortune.
Naturally she was very wet and
shivery when Steven hauled her
aboard the yacht. OF course, al
though she was complete stranger
and her arrival somewhat uneon-
ventional. Steven had to take care of
her and fall in love with her, because
she lad marvellous red hair. But it
made lot of trouble for Steven.
From that exciting beginning the
The New York herald., 1922-06-25

| of the dictator receiving a distin-
guished Englishman while he was
undressing, after finishing which
Garibaldi got into bed. completing
the conversation and signing a dceu-
ment from that haven.
Although Ell tt could contain
himself when il was necessary. Off
cially, he could be amusingly frark
on occasions. OF Alexandre Dumas's
appointment as Director of the Mu-
scum at Naples and of Pompeii. SIR
Henry wrote: no small disgust has
been created by the nomination of
Alexandra Dumas and the
people fully expect with such a
blackguard there some of the great
est treasures will soon be missing.
The said Alexandra Dumas is lodged
at one of the royal palaces drinking
the Kings wines and feasting at the
public expense with the choice COM
pany that he is in the habit of keep
ing about him, among which there
is a very charming midshipwoman
who does duty in the yacht in a
dapper jacket and trousers" He
also tells of the correspondent OF
the Londan Daily Mail having been
taken prisoner in one of the engage
ments between the Neapolitan and
Garibaldian troops, and adds: Arr
vabene 1.-THE correspondent is Iuite.
safe. They are going to try ana ex-
change him. and offer two NeaDoli-
tan colonels for him; such is the
estimated value of a correspondent
of morning paper
One of the most striking reveh-
tions made in the "Reminiscences,
and the precise kind of thing that
will make this work of interest TO
historians. is the story of the .'burked
dispatch" from Constantinople in
1876. Just before the notorious "Bui-
garian atrocities" of that year be-
came known the British Vice-Consul
at Adrianople sent to the Consul
patch telling of the beginning of he
atrocities. Instead of transmitting
this to the Amba ssador the Consul
General showed it TO the correspon-
dent of the London Daily Nelcs, who
promptly sent the story 10 his paper.
When this was printed Lord Bea-
consfield made a savage attach on
Elliott for not keeping the Govern
ment informed; and ii was not until
two years later, and after the Con-
sul-General had died, that Sir Henry
played on him. In view of the vitri-
olic abuse poured out on the Ampas-
sador by Disraei. Sir Henry's COM
ments are decidedly mild.
1t was during this time in his
service that Sir Henry went to 2
diplomatic dinner one night at which
Mime. Bludow, wife of the Rus
sian Ambassador. expressed some
resentment at having such a COL
league as Nine. Mamiami. wife of
the Italian Ambassador. Sir Henry
wrote: "She is. think. ignorant OF
her Mime. Miamiamil former call
ing as a painters model The poor
woman is decently drapej now and
/ did not uncover her" 1t was at
Constantinople that Sir Henry and
his family had the embassy burnt
over their heads in a particularly
devastating fire. an episode which
suggests = that Marion Crawford
might have had il in mind when he
wrote of a similar episode in Paul
Patoff."
The New York herald., 1922-06-25

F" HE late Sir Henry Elliott's
/ volume of "reminiscences. is
the kind of book that fur
nishes footnotes to history. Begin
ming his career in the diplomatic
service as il proved to be as secre-
tary to Sir John Franklin in 1856 in
Van Dieman's Land, he afterwar6
went to Russia and in six years had
risen to the rank of Minister. his
real "Reminiscences beginning in
1859, when he was sent 10 the king
dom of the two Sicilies on n special
mission to King Francis H., a politi-
cal change in the British Government
giving Elliott TIE post of Minister.
He afterward was in Greece and in
Turkey and in, each of these posts
served during momentous times. OF
which he set down an almost daily
record. rich in interest both human
and historical.
Most interesting of his experiences
while he was at Naples were his re-
lations with Garibaldi. and the.Iarra-
tive throws some unusual rays nf
light on Italian politics of that time
as well as on Garibaldi's character
One Of the most am,sing of these
was the Italian patriots habit Of
going to bed at certVin time every
day after dinner. and sar Henry tells
The New York herald., 1922-06-25

man. But as Derrick comes nearer
to being a human being than any
one else in the story. maybe she
hadn't the heart to do it.
The New York herald., 1922-06-25
FOOtnOte to
History

SOME REVOLUTIONS AND OTHER
DIPLOMATIC EXPERIENCES. BY
Sir Henry G. Elliott, c. c. b. z. p
Dutton & Co.
The New York herald., 1922-06-25

THE VANISHING OF BETTY VAR
IAN. BY Carolyn Wells. George
II. Doran Company.
The New York herald., 1922-06-25

THE QUALIFIED ADVENTURES
BY Selwyn Jepson. Harcourt. Brace
South Bend news-times., 1922-07-14
Singers Defeated
In Fast Contest
With Sturgis Nine
Home Club Fails to Score
Earned Run, but Downs
Locals, 3 TO l.

STURGIS Mich. July 13.-Play-
ing one OF the best ban games seen
here this season. the south Bend
Singers Wen down in defeat before
Spentzs Million Dollar baseball
club Thursday afternoon by the score
OF 3 TO l.
The Singers were the aggressOrs
most Of the way and Sturs.s failed
TO register an earned run off Of Hen
ming, the Singer hurler In the sec
ond frame Sturgis runners reached
first and second on a scratch hit and
ielders choice with no outs Hem
ming retired the next two hltters, but
Marvin, Sturgis middle gardener.
sneaked a blow inside the first base
line that was good for two runs.
Singers came back in the third
and scored one on a double by shin
ske, a sacrifice and a scrath single
by Wolf. After this the visitors were
unable to score again although they
threatened on several occasions. In
The pinches al Collamore. Sturgis
pitcher, tightened and the Singer
hitters were unable to connect
In the seventh Sturgis scored their
third run on an error and scratch hit.
A fly ball that should have been
caught The Singer club played a
fast brand Of ball and with any hit
ting at all would have walked oft
with the game.
South Bend news-times., 1922-07-14
WILLS MUST MEET
TOUGH FISTS FOR
PROOF OF RIGHTS
Title Aspirant May Face Jack
son While Jack Whips
Self Into Condition.
BY HENRY l.. FARRELL.

NEW YORK. July 13.-(By L. p. }
because it. is a prescribed part OF
every build-up. Harry Wills Will have
10 light someone 90 show that he is
qualified fer a chance at the heavy
weight crown.
Carpenter had tc knock off Bat
Levinsky as required proof that he
was good. and wills may have TO
polish the hide of one Tut" Jackson.
the latest phenom from Ohio.
Dave Drscol. match maker FOR
the hghung department OF the
Brooklyn Baseball club. is after n
Wius-JaCkson hsht for early fall
and Jackson - said 20 be IN more
than a listening mood
jackson. who halls from Washing
ton Courthouse. Ohio. has been
bowling them all over with a couple
of punches and he would have
fought Jack Johnson on the Fourth
IL couple Of courts hadn't inter
fered
wills can't make as much I'm six
months on the HOboken docks as ne
could get for an hour against Jack
son and he probably VIII accept
Being as Dempsey wants 10 dght
himself into condition and since the
jury box cf tho ring IS inclined TO put
thumbs down on the champion op-
the British champion Joe Beckett
may be iured across the pond 10 Lay
himself on the altar
South Bend news-times., 1922-07-14
GOLF TOURNEY AT
ELKHART TOMORROW
Thirty Local Golfers TO Enter
Annual Invitation Meet at
Christiana Club.

The Chrstiana Country Club,
Elkhart, will hold their annual In
vitation golf tournament Saturday
and viii be he host to all the clubs
Of the St Joseph Valley Golf asso-
citation. The event will be over the
.27 hole route and play Will start in
the morning out of town players
will be allowed to start as late as
1890 o'clock.
The committee i'm charge viii
have a big list of prizes which viii
be distributed through The various
classes giving everybody an equal
chance at trophy. All members
of the association clubs which in
clude South Bend, E.khart, St.
Joseph. Iaporte, Nishawaka and
Niles Buchanan are eligible to COM
pete and. with good weather. a big
turnout is expected.
The course at Elkhart is in fine
condition from the recent rains and
with all the big guns in the alley
on the job some record scores
should be made. South Bend VIII
send about 30 players who are ia
miliar with the Christiana course
and with Sanders in the field viii
make a strong bid for the top hon
ors.