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THE distance does seem great
and greater, doesn't it, dearest.
and makes me love you more and
more each day. Yes. dear heart,
/ think I will be able to get to
Paris along in May.
Cheer up, old dear, it may not
be long before we shall see each
other. and then think of what a
wonderful time we will have to
gether. nest ce pas. dear?
"Good-by. dearest heart: miss
you loads. and love you more.
YOUR OWN SONNY BOY"
81 LOVE AND MISS YOU"
March Z, 1918.
Dearest Love:
Il wrote you this morning.
dear. but received another one
from you this afternoon, so l will
answer 1t now. You were a
darling to write me so late, dear
heart. But really, dear, you must
get your sleep, as you work so
hard every day. Yes, darling,
you mean a lot to me. but if
anything happens to my precious
dear, 1 won't care any more.
Now that 1 am yours, /
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en- OF the cities combine their
collective efforts for individual
Improvement Mrs. Brown ar
ranged for circulating Libraries
among such clubs as she sue
ceeded in starting-not books Of
the literary sort. for the dill
letante, but such as would be
OF practical service for the farm
woman in the useful arts of her
home.
At meetings held during even.
ing hours in county school
houses or town halls Mrs.
Brown. sometimes accompanied
by university instructors. scat
tiers the seed OF these ideas and
gives instructive talks on new
and better ways OF home and
farm management. Her talks are
to the men as we'll as to the
women. Every problem Of the
farm is discussed in these SEES.
sions.
Mrs. Brown is still q young
woman. She has that energy
and ambition that give every.
one shy meets the instant i'm
preston that she must find her
life on the farm very much
worth living and that the PEG.
pie she is working for are in
her opinion very much worth
making happier.
But does she sometimes miss
the thrills that were once hers
on the stage? Perhaps. But we
have her own word that she
finds a stolid audience of the
hill folk OF West Virginia as in
teresting TO play to" as any Of
the most brilliant assemblages
that greeted her In a theater.
PRIDE IN WORK.
1T seems so much more worth
while" she says in describing
her efforts to aid her neighbors.
1T is inspiring to stand before
an audience in jeans and cali.
Goes" Mrs. Brown says. "one
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feels the need Of these simple
folk Is so great-and their re-
Spouse to whatever pleases or in
terests them is 80 sincere and
unaffected. These humble little
meetings are not lacking in in
spiration that more than repays
me for my efforts. And besides
it 10 with both pride and salts
faction that sometimes I can see
the talks in these meeting CIV
ing actual results in better farms
with more ambitious men and
women on them"
Mrs. Brown has come to be
recognized as a distinct asset to
West Virginia. Not alone for
her work on the farm but also
for the important part which she
plays in activities of every kind
among the women of her State.
She is a prominent figure at
woman's clubs conventions and
holds an office as director of the
Women Voters League of West
Virginia. She was the popular
choice as the one who should be
sent to San Francisco to nomi-
nate former Ambassador Davis.
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super-men. But crawl on nv
Knees to you. Robert says I am
TOO old. that you can never accent
me as a daughter. However. the
cat is out OF the bag and 1 have
no regrets. Tell Robert that I love
him and that I cry out, MY God.
my God, why hast Thou deserted
me?'"
The oddly mismated couple were
married in Chicago on July 4, 1919.
and separated soon after the bride.
groom's mother got in communica.
ton with him. Mrs. Dickerman,
Jr.. said that she had met Robert
while she was Red Cross worker
in France and he an ambulance
driver in the same organization.
They did not recognize each other
as former teacher and pupil in Sun
day school. but, she says. after he
was dishonorably discharged, she
rescued him from evil company in
Paris and their affection developed
into love. Then and not until then,
Mrs. Dickerman said, did she recog.
nize In him her star student Of 9th.
er days. and, in this manner she
described her romance:
II sympathized with him and I
pitied him, and when he called
frequently tried to show him how
he could live II all down and even
tually return to his family an hon.
orable man.
SYMPATHY BECAME LOVE.
MY sympathy for him grew into
loving him. and I felt that II my
influence was all for his good and
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Of West Virginia The death of
her husband several years later
left her with a large estate COM
prised of three separate farms at
Kingwood and a baby daughter,
June, now her mothers com.
panion in work or play.
RUNS THREE FARMS.
II the child was to have her
Inheritance Mrs. Brown found II
would be necessary for her to
personally manage her estate and
she gave up opportunities to re-
turn to the stage to become a
farmer. That was seven years
ago. Today she is managing the
three farms with such success
that her fame has spread from
end to end OF her mountain
State. What study, hard work
and ambition did for Izetta
Jewell in making her a success
as an actress. these virtues have
done even more in making her q
success down on the farm"
She personally directs every de-
tail OF the work OF selecting and
planting crops. and the result,
OF her labor are as fine corn.
potatoes. buckwheat and vege.
tables as can be found in West
Virginia.
One OF the three farms Is de.
voted to orcharding and stock.
raising. Her success has been
equally notable in these enter.
prises. Only such assistants as
are necessary to the ordinary
labor Of the farm are employed to
aid her.
Most persons will undoubtedly
agree that managing three farms
Is quite a good-sized task for
almost any man or woman. but
Mrs. Browns activities are not
restricted to this work alone.
In addition TO being Interested
in the promotion of her own farms
she is working earnestly and eff.
fectively for the welfare OF
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r IDOL OF WASHINGTON THEATER-GOERS PROVES GENIUS
MANAGE FARMS AS WELL AS CAPTTVATE FOOTIGHT FAN

hundreds OF other West Virginia
farmers BY example and by Civ.
ing her services in spreading the
gospel Of better farming.
SPREADING SCIENCE.
All the time that she can spare
from her own work she is giving
to the task of instructing the
country folks Of the northern
West Virginia hills in ways that
are different from those Of their
grandfathers' time. There 10 real
need for her help in this particu-
lar part Of the country. Thousands
OF West Virginia farmers. isolated
by high hills and inaccessible
roads. have not yet learned of the
advantages of rotating crops.
scientific fertilization. pure-bred
cattle. orchard spraying and inten-
sive cultivation which is the
message that Mrs. Brown Is now
carrying to them.
They have raised the same
crops in the same fields year after
year, seeing them grow poorer as
the soil elements become ex-
hausted. They have practiced in.
breeding of scrub cattle for gen
erations without a thought OF =
new blood line. Manual labor
with the implements Of civil war
days Is still the only way Known
to keep the farm producing.
The women tote" the water
from hillside springs when, a few
feet Of pipe would carry It into
the kitchen. Mrs. Brown found
one woman whom she estimated
had walked a distance equal to
once around the world in jour.
neys with a water bucket be.
tween a spring and her home.
Although q homemade wooden
trough would have supplied the
entire house they lust never
thought of IT,"
But this is getting ahead Of
the story. One of the lessons
that Izetta Jewell learned years
ago on the stage was the fact
that one must be prepared and
equipped to play any role with
success. And she realized that
study and knowledge were fully
as important in the creative
work of the farm.
ENTERED UNIVERSITY.
So to prepare herself for the
practical as well as the scien-
tific side OF farming she enrolled
with a class in the agricultural
department OF the State Univer.
slty at Morgantown and for sew
eral years she gave the winter
months to study and attending
farmers institutes. II is hard
for those who have seen Mrs.
Brown to conceive her seated
with class OF freshman stu
dents. One cannot imagine a
greater distraction for the less
ambitious among the male por.
ton OF the class. But Mrs.
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FROM BROADWAY TO THE FARM

The formor footlight
favorite, Izetta Jewell,
who as Mrs. w. G. Brown,
jr., is a successful farmer
in West Virginia.
Above with her little
daughter, June, in work
ing garb, and below, as
the charming matron and
hostess that she is.
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Think Human Race
Will Die of Thirst

"WILL the human race eventu.
ally die Of thirst?" is the
foreboding question asked by the
French scholar, Marcel. in the cur
rent number Of lie Nature.
This prophet Of evil bases his
theory upon the fact that the
Desert Of Sahara was formerly a
gigantic lake, and that the power
full springs once found IN innum.
cradle caves in the Pyrennees
mountains have now dried up,
leaving distinct traces of their for
mer activity.
NJ. Marcers theory that the sur
face Of the earth will in time be-
come an arid waste. Is not &C
cepted by other scholars.
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forgotten. as ! thought you told
me you believed me in what told
you before ! left.
Il received six letters today my
self, and simply tore yours to
pieces to get at il and read IL over
many times, and then again at
dinner.
We certainly will have to visit
the Latin quarter again when
return. read by the paper to-
day they raided Paris last night
and killed several. hope you
are all right. because IL anything
happens to you it will kill me.
You really don't know yet. dear.
how much really love you,
sweetheart.
oh! how ! wish you were with
me, darling. After this war, moth
ing will ever get me away from
you.
with heaps Of love.
SONNY BOY"
AVOIDS OTHER WOMEN.
MY Dearest One:
Your dear letter Of the 25th
arrived this afternoon and have
missed you and you can't imagine
how much so. II made me feel
much nearer to you, dear. and
just simply must have a chat with
you before ! go to dinner. You
cant imagine, sweetheart. how
much l have missed you. and j
think Of you every minute.
IL simply read and. reread your
letter and then some. This Is =
fine town. having many fine stores
with very good window displays,
and restaurants, but l haven't
seen a good.looking female since
] have landed in this country
oe ne faut rien - they don't
bother me, any way.
Loving you heaps, l remain,
Always your Bobbie Isl vous
voulez?J'
'I NEED YOU AwFULLY."
"Varese, March 20. 1918.
MY Dearest Sweetheart:
IT did not write you yesterday
as there wasn't thing to tell you
and except that | always love you
and think OF you. which you know.
Oh! rapture, JOY and bliss. I re-
ceived four letters from you, darl.
ing. Just now, and have never
been 20 happy since left you.
with heaps and heaps Of love,
"BoBBTE."
The Washington times., 1922-02-26
BY ROBERT L. PLUMNER.

~ NODcItA As ILOuhuAAAss
ITS long way from Belasco
drama and the lights Of
Broadway to q farm in King
wood. w. Va. but Mrs. w. g.
Brown. known to the stage az
Izetta Jewell. has found success
at both the beginning and ending
Of this unusual route. In her ex-
periences may be found an inter
ssting answer to the old question:
What becomes of the stage stars?
Here is one, at least. who has left
tho stage behind only to find that
the same qualities that made for
success there can lead on to great
or usefulness In a new and en-
urely different field.
Do any Of the thousands who
attended the Democratic conven-
ton in San Francisco sometimes
wonder where went the small.
golden haired woman who stood
on the speakers platform on a
sultry July day and told a sim
pie little story of how woman
was created from the brains Of
man and has been hb brains"
ever since, and concluded by
nominating John W. Davis for
President in a speech that was
described as the most charming,
feminine touch Of the convention?
That was Mrs. Brown, of West
Virginia. who left her farm to
name her States most illustrious
son as the choice of his people
for President.
A protege Of the Belasco school
during her stage career, Mrs.
Brown has played opposite Otis
Skinner, James Hackett and
other stars hardly less we'll
known. She appeared in special
performances before both Presi.
dents Taft and Wilson. But
when near the zenith of sue
cess she suddenly gave I'D the
theater to become the wife OF
Congressman W.. G. Brown. Jr.,
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w HEN a super .woman stoops
" to matrimony, she should
mate with a super man.

mate with a super-man.
This is the moral which Mrs. Eu-
genie Dickerman draws from her
own marital experiences-particu
larry the last, as a result of which
she brought suit for 100000 for
alienation of affections against her
mother-in-law in the Massachusetts,
courts. Mrs. Dickerman is forty
seven and was a widow before her
marriage to twenty-seven-year-old
Robert Dlckerman, whom she used
20 teach in Sunday school.
The jury awarded $4,000. the
largest amount ever granted in an
alienation suit in the State.
They met Economically in Paris,
toward the close of the war. after
he had left the army and was
amusing himself in Partisan re-
sorts.
The alienation suit was one OF
the most amazing examples Of liti.
CATION in the history of the Boston
tribunals. Bushels Of love letters
from husband and wife were intro.
duced, breathing devotion In warm
est terms and at times emptying
the courtroom Of female auditors
with the fervor OF their frank ex.
pressions.
~ AN A SUPER.wOMAN."
The wife's matrimonial platform
was outlined in a letter TO her
mother-in.law, in which she said:
II am a super woman. but we
apparently are never mated with
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EUGENE DICKERMAN
WE'D YOUTH WHOM
SHE ONCE TAUGHT

She is FoHy-SeVen and HE is Only TWENTY
SeVcn-BuShelS OF Love Letters Were Intro-
duced at Court Hearing when She Demanded
100000 for Alienation of Affection-Met
i'm Paris, Where Boy Was Amusing HfmseIf
i'm the Gay Resorts.
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COUNTRY FOLK LOOK
UPON HER AS MASTER
OF FARMING INDUSTRY

Mrs. Brown, Finding Three Tracts of Land
Under Her Control at Her Husbands Death,
Enrolled For "Aggie" Courses AT State Uni
verSity, and Now is Authority ON Stock
Raising, Crop Rotation and Other Scientific
Methods For the Advancement of Her
Neighb0rS.
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IZETTA JEWELL RUNS
VAST ESTATE i'm w. VA.
ON SCIENTIFIC BASIS

Star Who Once Held Wide Circle of Admirers
and Later Married Congressman w. G.
BROWN, Jr., Inherited His Farming Lands AT
His Death and AS Mother, AgriculturiSt, and
Politician She Proves Her Superiority and
Adaptability I'm Many Activities.
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IS SUPERWOMAN" lrins $32,5OO for loss of
~ lore! Mrs. Eugene Dickerman, forty
seUen and still fair, ICON the Lore of tUenty-
seUen-year-old Robert Dickerman in France,
only to lose it in America. She sued his mother
for SIO0OO0 for alienation of affection.
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UNHAPPY FAR FROM HER.
MILAN, Feb. 1, 1918.

Milan, FeD. l, 1918.
MY Darling Heart:
Your dear second letter and
postal arrived today and oh, JOY.
and rapture. how happy they made
me. Oh! sweetheart, you can't
imagine how much I have missed
you. too, moro so than you have
missed me. I'll bet when get TO
dreaming I'll think Of you at my
side every minute. II makes me
feel mighty unhappy, too, thinking
OF you way up in Paris, but I'll be
back before August, dear one,
probably the middle OF June.
But I think OF you every min.
ute. dear. and please don't men.
ton II again that you will ever be
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dear, who care about. Can you
guess7
Yes, my pompaiour is quite
becoming to me and would give
anything 10 have you run your
fingers through 1t this very min.
ute, but II will be well trained
and long when I see you in Paris,
and then I will be In heaven.
IAN I think of. dear. is Of
getting to Paris and you and
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PRIDE IN WORK.

don't know what I will do if I
don't see you before you go back,
but l am just praying and hoping
you will find something before
long.
Il was so glad 10 hear you
got my cigarettes. They are quite
plentiful here, so smoke up. old
dear. let JOY he unconfined. Do
take care of that cold of yours
| love and miss you dearly and
then some. and am counting the
days when will see you, my
darling. With heaps OF love and
kisses,
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have you in my mind every min
ute. Please don't feel blue about
IL, dearest mine, as told you
in this mornings letter that l
will undoubtedly sec you in a
couple. OF months In Paris and
then how happy we shall be to-
gether for q while, won't we,
darlinEf
You can and will wait for mo
there rant you, dearest, as ]
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YOU X ." y sun IN \ BOY.
my ADORABLE SWEET.
HEART"
With the A. f. F.,

April II, 1915
My Darling Old Sweetheart:
Yesterday brought me a nice
letter from you, dear heart.
which pleased me 80 much.
am sorry l mentioned about an
other man, but you did the same
thing to me in a past letter,
which made me feel like slap.
ping your wrist, likewise. How.
ever, am so glad there isn't
any other. as I don't know what
would do il you ever leave me.
as love you just heaps and
want you so much.
II can't tell you how much in
letter. Golly! dear heart, I
am glad you didn't go with
Miss Mullen to churchill would
have just about killed me IL
something terrible had happen
ed to you, dear. There seems 10
he reward in virtue and word,
nest ce pas?
I'VE played craps again. and
won $50 lire by o'clock, when
we quit-l,100 Ira in two days.
Not so bad, nest &c pas?
Goodbye. my adorable sweet
heart, with just heaps of love,
Your own
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particularly she became interest
ed in the burden OF the farm
woman.
She could see no reason why
the more prosperous class OF
farmer who can afford an auto.
mobile could not have some Of
the thousand and one other mod
ern conveniences and inventions
TO make the days work shorter
for his wife. She believed firm.
~ that the farmers wife is en-.
titled to her share of the house.
hold devices that make the work
so much lighter and less toll.
some for her city sister.
PREACHING REFORMS.
With such ideas as these she
has become actively interested in
preaching these reforms. The
task she set for herself was the
organization of the women of the
farming communities in clubs
and societies by which the WON
Evening star., 1922-04-04

GOWN OF BROWN CREPE WITH
LONG POINTS AT. SIDES. LOUIS
XIII COLLAR AND CUFF OF
WHITE ORGANDY WITH WHITE
BEADED BELT. LANVIN'S HAT
TRIMMED WITH TWO WIDE
RIBBONS THAT FALL TO KNEES.
Evening star., 1922-04-04
New French Models of Organdy
by ANNE RITTENHoUsE.

Crepe continues in fashion. This
is a statement with more significance
than length. Hundreds of people ru-
mored that the fabric belonged to a
day that was done. More than hun
dreds of people argued that women
would not give up anything that
served their needs SO completely as
crepe. New gowns are built of it.
They started at Palm Beach. They
stopped over at White Sulphur
Springs. They have arrived in New
York and they will be worn with
fur neckpieces or fanciful capes.
Black crepe is not as beloved as
1t was in America. France is hold
ing onto 1T. We are discarding it
by. piecemeal. What color do we
substitute for it? Well, brown for
one. Also dark blue, almond green,
beige and sand.
Brown has been quieseent for a
year. 1t suddenly leaped into fash
ion. 1t becomes a leading fashion
between black and red. The sketch
shows frock of it, imported from
France. which is enlivened by col
lars as big as those worn by any
Puritan Priscilla. The cuffs are big.
htts ger than nrs the s collar; y, Both ARE are = Of
Lanvin, Worth, Poiret and many of
their equals and imitators decided on
organdie as a finish to the neck and
wrist of the spring gown.
There is broad belt of white beads
fastened with heavy buckle in front.
and this, to say the least, Is a novel;
ty. The hat of this frock is not in
significant. Its advent into smart
society was not sufficiently heralded.
Lanvn and Paul Poiret both show it.
and Lanvin often hangs short ribbon
ends instead of long, full ones from
the brim of the hat, wheh she intends
the hat to be worn with a severe
tailored suit.
1T, That question ,, ot,.s of organdy & is one 9
wrinkle. 1t is devastating to the
household budget. 1t costs money to
keep organdy as it should be. 1t is
the orchid of fabrics. One touch of
the hand and it's fragility vanishes.
But we will wear it. All of US. 1t
is the fashion. That suffices.
1t is not necessary to limit the color
green, Chinese yellow especially
Chinese yellow-are colors that cry
out for acceptance.
The collars and cuffs fashioned of
organdy are not obscure. They hare
over the better part Of the shoulder
and forearm. Cromwell himself could
not have had more attention paid to
his cuffs than the average woman
pays to hers today.
They are hemstitched or they are
bound with linen tape, but. they are
not embroidered. The butchers cum
of heavy white linen, sponsored by
Jenny and other French designers,
started the fashion this spring. The
kind Of cuff that Jenny sponsored was
Evening star., 1922-04-04
Food Amnities.

Perhaps we feel less bound by the
old rules of food affinities than house.
wives did a generation ago. Perhaps
we feel as If it were less of a social
error to serve the wrong vegetable
with. the meat, or the wrong dressing
with the salad. Still you will find that
most of those traditional rules OF food
Accomplishments are founded on pretty
good common sense.
If you are endowed with an abun-
dant supply Of common sense. and il
you apply that common sense to the
subject of menu-makinE and add to 1t
some knowledge Of food ingredients
and the principles of dietetics, then
you need not concern yourself much
about the cut-and-dried rules for food
combinations. But for most OF us not
SO literally endowed the rules come in
very conveniently.
From time out of mind some form Of
apples has been used with pork dishes,
and there is good reason for this. The
sharpness of the apples. combines
well with the fatness of the pork.
However, if you like, you will find
that cranberries, also sharp and acid,
combine excellently with pork. The
things to avoid are vegetables that
give an effect of heaviness, vegetables
made with cream sauce or rich Dress
ings.
Creamed vegetables and creamed
potatoes combine well with q juicy
beefsteak. Creamed vegetables also
go well with fish, provided the fish IS
not prepared with white sauce.