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Evening star., 1922-06-13
ORGANIZATION ACTIVITIES.
TONIGHT

The Sixteenth Street Heights Citi-
ZenS' Association will meet at s
O'Clock. with B. Z. Scott. 1903 Alas
ka avenue.
Evening star., 1922-06-13

Piano recital at Sis o'clock, North
minister Presbyterian Church. Miss
Alice Dickey will recite.
Evening star., 1922-06-13

The Epiphany Quartet assisted by
prominent soloists, will give a mu-
sical at S:15 o'clock. Church of the
Covenant. Silver Offering at door.
Evening star., 1922-06-13

Division Z. Ladies' Auxiliary to
Ancient Order of Hibernians, will
meet in Kidder building.
Evening star., 1922-06-13

Shnher ArranEes Grnduates' Bouquets
Of choicest flowers. Prices mod. 800 14th.
Advertisement.
Evening star., 1922-06-13

A lawn fete for Aid Association
for the Blind will be held from to
10 O'Clock at the Home for the Blind,
$3.50 + street
Evening star., 1922-06-13
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.


The Lion. Club will meet Mt lunch-
con tomorrow, 1880 pm, New VIII
lard Hotel.
Closing exercises of the Army Med
ical School and the Army Dental
School will be held Thursday. ESQ
pm, IN auditorium of New National
Museum.
Members Of Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mus
sey Tent. ID. of ", will assemble to-
morrow, PM, on east steps OF Capl-
tol. for Flag day exercises. n. L.
DEAN, commander. Department Po-
tomac. requests that members dress
in white. and wear sashes, II they
have them.
A card party for benefit of st. Ga
briefs carnival will be given tomor-
row at $50 pm. Players requested
to bring own cards.
Division No. 3, Ladies' Auxiliary to
Ancient Order of Hibernians. will
meet tomorrow evening in Donahue's
Hall. 325 Pennsylvania avenue south
east.
The Day Nursery Association will
meet tomorrow at 1880 am, Ebbitt
Hotel.
Members Of Georgia Society will
meet tomorrow in offices of former
Senator Hoke Smith. Election. All
Georgians invited.
The graduation exercises of the
Lewis Hotel Training School will be
held Thursday evening, at pm. at
the Washington Hotel. Twenty
men and women will be awarded di-
plomas. The address to the gradu-
ates will be given by John McF.
Howie of the Touraine Hotel, Buffalo.
'Cn11epa Training for Hotel =
keepers" Other speakers will be w.
j. Quinn, jr. manager Hotel Belve-
dere, Baltimore: ]. ]. McCune. assist
ant manager Lee House, this city:
Cuifford Lewis. president of the
school, and members of the faculty.
Evening star., 1922-06-13
GUIDES Roses.

The finest in the world-priZe win
ners. Potted plants. 1914 F.-Adver
tisement.
Evening star., 1922-06-13

The Metropolitan Quartet, assisted
by local talent. will sing for the
Christian Endeavor Society in Nine
teenth Street Baptist Church, s
o'clock.
Evening star., 1922-06-13

The Day Nursery Association will
meet tomorrow at 1880 am, Ebbitt
Hotel.
Evening star., 1922-06-13

Division No. 3, Ladies' Auxiliary to
Ancient Order of Hibernians, Will
meet tomorrow evening in Donahue's 8
Hall. 325 Pennsylvania avenue south
east
Evening star., 1922-06-13

card party for benefit of st. ca
briers carnival will be given tomor-
row at $50 pm. Players requested
to bring own cards.
Evening star., 1922-06-13

The Lions Club will meet mt lunch.
con tomorrow, 1880 p.m., New Will
lard Hotel.
Evening star., 1922-06-13

Members of Georgia Society Will
meet tomorrow in offices of former
Senator Hoke Smith. Election. All
Georgians invited.
Evening star., 1922-06-13
LINCOLN-Creole Follies Revue
BAND CONCERTS.

Probably the most diverting mu-
sical pastime ever presented upon
Evening star., 1922-06-13

Thomson-Tonight: West Virginia
state Society; dressmaking; Column
bia Players; piano practice; Gaelic
Study Club.
Evening star., 1922-06-13

Closing cxercises Of the Army We'd.
ical School and the Army Dental
School will be held Thursday. 2:30
p.m., In auditorium of New National
Museum
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-01-27
TESTING AIR IN OLD MINE
Of All Methods, the Lowering of o
Miners Safety Lamp Is Acknowl-
edged to Be Safest.

Raising and lowering a bucket sew
mine fresh air from the surface, is
common practice. Methane may be
expected in abandoned shafts or pits
driven in coal measures or carbona-
Ceous states, or where a heavily TIM
bered shaft is partly filled with wa
ter If methane is suspected it is best
10 lower nothing but a miners safety
lamp. If the light is not extinguIshed.
the descent can be considered reason
ably safe. When no safety lamp is
available, and it is necessary to test
with an open light, care should be
taken to Immediately withdraw all
persons in close proximity to the shaft
or pit as there may be an explosion.
Generally, there is no physiological
warning of oxygen deficiency in the
air. The first decided feeling is one of
extreme weakness accompanied by dir
illness, better described as partial
paralysis, and the victim collapses
practically without warning. To guard
against this danger, man should not
enter old workings without having q
rope tied around his body and at least
two men on the top. The rope should
be kept taut. Then if a distress signal
is given, the explorer will not only be
prevented from falling, but can be
quickly pulled to fresh air and his life
saved
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-01-27
BKRNAcLES LONG A MYSTERY
Up to a Comparatively Few Years Ago
the Small Creatures Were
Wrongly classed.

So indefinite and hazy were the re-
suits Of investigation In its case that
until o very few years ago the
barnacle was classed with the mol
lusca although it is really a crusta-
cem. 1t Is developed from free-swim-
ming larvae and attaches itself to
rocks or timbers, which 1t never leaves
again unless torn off by force.
There prevailed during the Middle
ages a curious superstition that the
barnacle was the egg of a migratory
goose, the eggs being attached to the
branches Of trees that overhung the
water. Not until it was found that the
bird had its nesting place In the
Arctic regions and came South dur
ing the polar winter was this fiction
disproved. But the bird is still known
as the barnacle goose
The barnacle also attaches itself
to living organisms, one Of its fnvorite
lodging places being the huge bulk of
the whale. Sometimes, it Is contend
ed, it ventures even into the jaws of
the big mammal. 1t Is one of the
paraloXes of nature that the leviathan
Of the deep is utterly powerless to
cope with the small crustacean. which.
at its largest size, when within the
shell, is about as big as chestnut. 1t
is believed that whales sometimes rub
themselves against ships in their at
tempts to rid themselves Of their I'M
welcome tenants.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-01-27
BARGAIN AT $50 A MONTH
Chinese Boy With Exceptional knowI-
edge Of English" Should Have
Been Snapped Up Quickly.

The following application for en-
ployment was received by u Shanghai
hong from a student In the Shanghai
college:
Nothing is Of less Importance than
the age Of a person; nevertheless, 1t
is proper to begin that l am in my
twenty-frst year. Having firing am
bition to do some service in the bust
ness world, I grasp this opportunity
to insert myself into the sphere. 1t
Is true that many are now wandering
idly in the market awaiting employ
ment. But it is true to the same ex-
tent that many of these, if not all are
good for nothing. To take notice upon
them, or to put some duty upon them
is to give gun powder to children az
plaything The danger can be mag
ined
Il am now going to give some ac-
count of my personal abilities. 1t is
not too much to say that my knowl-
edge of English can hardly be repre-
scented to the full color by such little
adjective as thorough 1t is e1cep-
tionalIy excellent, to he outSpoken.
As to the art of typewricing my hands
go on a. smoothly as to skate on on
lev river. With such intellectual
weapons any hard duties can be as
easily conquered as an egg she'll by
a wave. The salary I look for would
be $50 a month.
Awaiting your answer earnestly. |
am. Sir. -."-North China Ca
zette.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-01-27
SlDELIGH.T Cil SYRIAN LIFE
writer Gives an Insight Into His Life
as Small Coy in That Little
Known Country.

The roads were open. Travellers
came into our village. Scarcely a
night was the guest house in our court
yard unoccupie1. | liked to sit with
my father and his guests in this room,
Dullt after European style with four
large windows over which in winter
oiled paper was passed to keep the
cold out The walls of the guest room
were white and on them We're hung
the choicest rugs brought back from
kurdistan by my Grandfather Mira.
There were chairs in this room. |
was very proud that we should own
chairs, but l found them most uncom-
Portable to sit on After a few mo-
mentS my legs began to ache and |
slipped down on the cushions. In the
alcove of the guest chamber We're
some old manuscripts bound in course
leather. They We're holy books with IL
Illuminated margins. Among them was
Bible in Syriac / carefully refrained
from touching it. 1t was too holy, |
might perhaps be struck dead for nv
temerity.
Among the travellers that came along
the road was Hady, the singer. He
was the ugliest man that I had ever
seen, sore-eyed, pock-marked and dirty
But he was very wise. His ivory han
died dagger in its silver sheath was so
long that it reached from his chest to
his hips. My playmates and l would
have laughed and jeered at him, per-
haps, it he had not carried this dag
ger.-1ouel B. Mira in Asia Maya
zine
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-01-27
SUGAR Once a DeIicacy.

We are apt to forget how snort
time it is since sugar vas regarded
as a costly delicacy, proper to be used
by the wealthy alone or as a medicine.
In the early colonial days it sold at
about IS cents a pound, in the loaf,
and granulated sugar was unknown.
1t was with the growth of the custom
Of drinking coffee and tea that it be-
came a food staple. When it was in
troduced to England in medieval times
it was as Indian salt" u rare and
precious condiment, although the art
of boiling sugar was known in India
before the Seventh century, and in
Egypt much earlier. The Dutch
brought sugar to Manhattan, and a
New York Gazette of 1870 carried
this advertisement: public notice
is hereby given that Nicholas Bayard,
of the City of New York, has erected
house for refining all sorts of sugar
and sugar candy, and has procured
from Europe an experienced artist in
that mystery. New York Evening
Post.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-01-27
RELICS OF AGES LONG PAST
England Has Three Of the Most Re-
markable That ths Whole World
Has to Offer.

A loaf of bread more than 600 years
old. it is said, is to be found at Ambas-
ton, in Derbyshire, England. 1t was
included in a grant of land from the
crown in the reign of King John, and
has remained in the Soar family ever
since.
Almost as great a curiosity as this
is a house LOO years Of age, and yet
fit for habitation. This old dwelling.
the oldest inhabited house in England,
was built in the time of King Offa Of
Mercia. 1t is octagonal in shape, the
walls of its lower story being Of great
thickness. The upper part is OF oak.
At one time the house was fortified
and known by the name Of St. Ger
mans Gate. 1t stands close to the
River Yer, and only few yards from
st. Adams abbey.
A marriage proposal $500 years Of
age Is in existence in the British
museum. It is the oldest marriage
proposal Of which there Ii any definite
recOrd. It consists Of about ninety
slgAt lines Of very fine ctnelform writ
~, and IL on small clay tablet nads
q NM mud. Il Il = marriage peo-
pssal q Z Pharaoh 1er H. hand e
- annghtsr e - king q Dehg1sa.
r - NJnlAba 49, - - -
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-01-27
Peculiar Manx Cats.

The origin of Manx cats is now at
tributed to the arrival of these cats
on the Isle of Main from ships belong
ing to the Spanish armada that were
wrecked there. They were probably
brought from Japan or eastern Asia.
They are distinct species with short
forslegs, and elevated headquarters,
ard differ from other cats somewhat III
call, ways, and character. They vary
IN color. People who have owned them
for long periods say they are not good
meusers or hunters. In character they
are rather similar to a dog, being high
" companionable and having some OF
the qualities of guardian, but they
are not considered hunters in any
sense of the word.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-01-27
FALC0NRY AN ANCIENT SPORT
Amusement, Practiced in East, Can Be
Traced to Period That Antedates
Era of Christianity.

Falconry, the art of training fall
cons and hawks to the chase has been
traced back to a period before the
Christian era. 1t was practiced in the
East and also in Europe long before its
introduction into England. The English
kings used to anfuse themselves with
this sport, which was for LONG time
the leading amusement. such as base
ball is In America today.
Falconers use two kinds of birds
the long-winged, dark-eyed falcons and
the shortwinged, yelloW-eyed hawks.
The former take their prey by rising
above it in the air and swooping at it
from considerable height and strk-
ing it to the ground; the latter pur-
sue In q straight line, and ovestaking
the object Of the chase by superior
speed, clutch it and bring it do vn.
The larger falcons are sent after
winged prey of all kinds, crows, mag
pies. rocks, herons and wild fowl. The
smaller falcons, such as the merlin
and hobby, are flown at larks: while
of the short-winged hawks, the spar
roW-hawk Is flown at blackbirds and
thrushes, partridges early in the sea-
son, and quails, the goshawk taking
pheasants, cartridges and wild fowl,
rabbits and hares.
With all birds of prey the females
are invariably larger and more power
full than the males, and the sexes are
consequently selected according to the
game they have to pursue.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-01-27
FISH NOT BRED FROM EGGS
Scientists Have Discovered Small
Species That Undoubtedly Bear
Their Young Alive.

The habit Of laying eggs is so near
~ universal among fishes that prob
ably most people will be surprised,
says Science Siftings. to learn that
certain small species actually bear
their young olive. Among these is the
large family Of killifishes, or Cyprino-
dontidae. In such species the young
are born in a comparatively advanced
stage of development When born
they closely resemble the adult fish.
All of them are very tenacious of life.
That the bearing Of the young alive
by certain fish is not significant Of a
higher state Of evolution, as the lay
man might naturally suppose, Is
proved by the fact that it occurs In
many species Of the sharks and their
cousins the rays. though these are
among the earliest, |. e., the most an
cient fishes that we know This habit
Of procreatien has been developed In
order to give the young fry better
chance OF survival than they might
otherwise have-it Is literally a case
Of fewer babies but better ones" The
most curious of all these fishes is the
genus Anableps which lives In the
streams of the American tropics. This
Is sometimes calls the four-eyed fish,
for the reason that its large promi-
nent eyes, which actually resemble
marbles on the top of the head. are
divided horizontally into two parts,
the lower half being fitted for water
Vision and the upper half for air
vision.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-01-27
CULTIVATE HABIT OF THRIFT
Practice Means That One Will Be
Ready to Seize Opportunity
When 1t Comes.

Practice thrift habitually. Make 1t
as much q part Of your routine as
eating and sleeping. Get yourself sys-
tematized. Work on a definite Sched-
ule. Save regular amounts. Plan your
work and your actions so that you
will have no idle time no lost motion,
no wasted energy.
These are among the secrets of sue
cess, happiness and progress.
The time to begin the cultivation Of
thrift habits is now.
The most important message that
can be conveyed to the people Of this
nation today is: Get the thrift habit"
Practice thrift not for brief inter-
val or internationally, but habitually.
; Disraeli said, 1.-THE greatest secret
of success In life is to be ready when
your opportunity comes"
This brief sentence furnishes one Of
the best reasons for practicing thrift
that ever has been given. 1t presents
a phase Of the question to which not
enough attention is paid. Ordinarily
thrift is looked upon as a means Of
/ safeguarding one against possible
emergencies or Of building up an ac-
| emulation Of money for some definite
purpose. But there are many unex-
pected turns in the pathway Of life
Thrift Magazine.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-01-27
ALWAYS SKELETON AT FEAST
Egyptian Merrymakers Had Custom
Which Must Have Been Something
of Check on Revelry.

Accounts which have come down
of Egyptian banquets indicate that
among the wealthy people and those
Egyptians who were 'in society" they
were very elaborate affairs with a
great variety of rich and high-spiced
and high priced food and many wines
wines rare and strong.
But no matter how jovial and hap
DIV and hilarious the feast, a mummy
was there as a reminder of death.
At the conclusion Of the most sub
stantial part of the banquet and when
the wine began to flow most freely,
an attendant, perhaps one of the wait
ers, would carry around a coffin con-
tanning the image of a dead body
carved in wood, and as the Greek his
toran, HerOdotus tells US, made as
like as possible in color and workman
ship, and in size generally about one
or two cubits in length" The bust
ness of the waiter was to show this
to each member of the gay and Joy
Gus company and say, Look upon this,
then drink and enjoy yourself, for
when dead you will be like this"
Herodotus wrote about $500 years
ago that this practice they have at
all their drinking parties"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-01-27
Robin Is inventor.

The robin lives in trees and part
" ON the ground, so that it some
times hops, like birds that live in
trees, and sometimes walks or runs,
like birds that live on the ground.
The robin is a plucky little fellow.
He will stand W. for himself, and
refuses 10 let other birds put upon
him. Generally he lives aIone-some-
times with mate, but never do you
find robins in t1OckS.
This little bird can claim to be the
inventor of pottery.
Look at robins nest and YOU will
see that it is clay pot, set into a
pile of straw. When a robin has fin
ished with a nest, take it and put it
on the fire, having first thoroughly
dried it. Leave it on the fire until all
the straws have been burnt, and If it
has not broken, you will find that
you have perfectly good earthen pot.
-Pearson's Weekly.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-01-27
WiIIed EVERYTHING Away.

A lawyer in Chicago was retained
by contractor to draw up his will.
The task was accomplished apparent
iy to the satisfaction of the client;
the lawyers fee was paid, and the lat
ter supposed, Of course, that the mat
ter had been concluded. To his great
surprise, therefore. he received an
other call from his client the next
day, who expressed his conviction that
the affair had not been properly adj
justed.
"Why. what's the troubled" asked
the legal light.
Trouble enough" said the man. Il
didn't sleep the whole night through
for thinkin' Of that will You've fixed
It 20 I've not left myself chair to sit
snr-Philadelphia Ledger. +
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-01-27
RECORDS HUMIDITY IN AIR
Both Temperature and "LivabiIity"
Shown by Twin Thermometer
Likely to Become Popular.

Sensations of heat or cold. as ex-
perienced by a normally healthy per-
son, are caused almost entirely by
the condition of the surrounding
atmosphere. If it is still. damp. and
about IS degrees or more In temper
and oppression results; while II of
the same temperature but dry and In
moderate motion. no discomfort is
felt. The reasons for this are that
dry, moving air takes away bodily
heat about as rapidly as 1t Is gen.
Grated. while damp. still air does not,
explains writer in Popular Mechanics
Magazine.
Therefore in designing an instru-
ment to determine whether atmos-
pheric conditions are conducive to
bodily comfort, other factors than
temperature must be taken into
account. For this reason the ordinary
dry-bulb thermometer Is unreliable
and has been supplemented by another
instrument Of the so-called wet-bulb
type, in which the bulb Is inclosed In
a fabric mesh bag which keeps It
damp. To use. both bulbs are i'm
mersed in hot water until they register
no degrees. They are then removed.
and the time required for each to
drop to atmospheric temperature
noted. The wet bulb will always cool
more rapidly than the dry one. This
difference in cooling rates serves to
index the degree Of comfort one should
BE experiencing. as It roughly indi-
Gates the moisture in the air and
whether or not air is In motion.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-01-27
Heads sized Up"

The size of a mans Uranium has
nothing to do with the size of his head
Truly big-headed men are usually so
modest you have to push them into
their honors.
Often big bones are bestowed by a
plying providence to compensate for
the lack of gray matter their bigness
would suggest.
Napoleon was small man with a
bullet-shaped head He was Dictator
al and imperative. But then you can
forgive such a fellow, when he has
the goods It's the would-be's that try
mems souls.
Many of the nations greatest men
have very ordinary-sized heads when
measured by their hat bands. In fact.
they offer no suggestion Of the big
head when viewed from any angle
Grit.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-01-27
PROGRESSED by Slow STAGES.

Thirty years ago the men of Hart
shay hamlet of Derbyshire, England,
were accustomed to meet at bridge
on the edge of the town, where they
would read the papers and discuss
events. This was all right in summer
time, but In the winter it was differ
ent and they would occasionally adj
journ to a sheltered spot under the
bridge. From this they moved into
vacated pigsty and later annexed an
other pigsty. This rude building was
improved by their own efforts until it
was fairly comfortable place. From
this humble origin there is now a
rather pretentious library. with the
best papers and magazines and
stock of good books.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-01-27
Woods Flower-Carpeted.

Soon after the earliest blossoms have
lifted their heads to the sunshine the
stately queen of the vernal woods
the large white trillium-unfurls her
banners of snowy white. : In many
woods this species occurs in such
numbers as to give the forest floor
the appearance of white-starred car
pet. We are likely to find white
spider, with the front two pairs Of
legs much elongated, sitting close to
the center of the flower. This is the
white crab spider, a species which
thus maintains an attitude Of waiting
with its long legs spread like a pair
of forceps over the middle of the bios
som ready to seize such insects as may
visit it in search of nectar or pollen.
American Forestry Magazine
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-01-27
Australian Cattle Stations.

Afghan camels are practically the
only means Of transport In Central
Australia The North South. railway
runs 1T present from Port Augusta.
near. Adelaide. to Oodnadatta. but be-
yond Oodnadatta the sandy nature Of
parts Of the country makes 1t impos-
sible to use motors or wagons. Central
Australia IL by no means a desert: it
II land Of wonderful possibilities for
raising horses and cattle. In many
parts the vegetation il luxurioas but
the country 10 50 thinly populated that
enormous areas are owned BY . few
people. One man owns 1000 square
miles-Dore than half the area .ol
Wales. When central Australia ID
sDeaed - and irrigated 1t may we'll
bees0e eos Of the most prosperous
pasto q Australia.