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Minister to Wed.

ii. Percival Dodge. American min.
lister to the Kingdom Of the Serbs,
Croats and Slovenes. and Miss Agnes
Page Brown, a granddaughter OF the
late Justice Pryor and a daughter of
Mrs. Arthur Page Brown, OF New
York, are to be married in Paris dur.
ing Easter week, according to an an
nouncement received here yesterday
by Miss Browns relatives
Miss Browns mother is in San
Francisco. During the war Miss
Brown served with the Y. NJ. c. A. in
Serbia and later became connected
with the American embassy there,
where she met Mr.. Dodge.
Mr.. Dodge has been connected with
the American diplomatic corps for
more than twenty years, having be-
gun his career as assistant secretary
of the American embassy in Berlin
in 1899. He was graduated from
Harvard in 1892 and spent several
years studying abroad. His first
wife. a daughter Of the late Rear Ad.
miral James Dexter Adams, of WASH
ington, was killed in an elevator &C.
cidnt in Washington, December 81
1919. Their daughter is presumably
with her father now, for she sailed
with him a few months after her
mothers death.
Mr.. Dodge has held posts in Africa
Asia and Latin America, as well as in
| Europe. He is fifty-one years old
and his fiancee is said to be twenty
| nine or thirty. After his service IN
Berlin, Mr.. Dodge became secretary
of the embassy at Tokyo. and in 1908
was appointed envoy extraordinary
and minister plenipotentiary to Sal
vador. Later he went in the same
capacity to Morocco, and in 1910 he
became chief OF the division Of Latii,
American affairs in the Department
of State. In 1911 he went to Panama
as minister, and in 1914 he was sec.
rotary for the United States at the
A b c conference.
When the war began, Mr.. Dodge
went to France as a special agent OF
the State Department to aid the
American ambassador in looking
after German and Austrian interests
He was member of the Brecken.
ridge mission organized TO rescue
Americans who were stranded in Eu.
rope because of the war. In July
1917, he was sent to the Island OF
Corfu, where the ministry of foreign
| affairs Of Serbia had set up quarters,
and remained there until the chang
ing fortunes of Serbia made possible
the return of the government to Bel.
grade.
The wedding in Paris will be very
quiet and only few friends and rela
tives will attend the ceremony, which
is to be held in the Episcopal Church
The Postmaster General, DR.. HUI
bert Work, entertained a company
of six gentlemen at luncheon yes
terday at the Willard.
| -
| Mrs. Taft, wife of the Chief Jus
tice, was the guest Of honor at lunch
con yesterday of Mrs. Frederick
Duncan Mckinney, who entertained
a company of twenty in her residence
on New Hampshire avenue.
Mrs. Taft will leave for New York
tomorrow, where she will visit fol
several days.
Mr.. and Mrs. McKenney enter
tanned a company Of twenty at din
ner last evening In compliment tc
their guest, Mrs. Horace w. Ben
nett, Of Denver, Colo. Mrs. Bennett
| who ia stopping in Washington for
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and will be free to all in
terested in the subject. During DR..
Carrington's visit In the city he Will
be the guest of Col. Allerton Cush-
man, at his residence on Sixteenth
street.
+
IAasker Gave Lunch.
Albert d. Lasker, chairman or
the Shipping Board, entertained at
luncheon yesterday for eight men
in a private dining room at the
Shoreham.
Mrs. T. @. Donaldson, wife of
Colonel Donaldson. who has been
visiting her son-in-law and daugh-
ter. Major and Mrs. c. B. Rucker.
at Fort Leavenworth for the past
month, returned to Washington
Sunday.
Lady Henry. who has been a fire.
quert visitor in Washington this
winter, has arrived for another brief
visit and is at the Shoreham.
Mrs. Francis Nash and Miss Caro-
lyn Nash have gone to New York
for a few days and are guests at
the Hotel Schuyler.
3
Mrs. Virginia Marshall Clopton.
OF Los Angeles, Cal. who has been
visiting In Honolulu FOR the past two
years, Is now making her home at
the New Willard.
Mrs. Clopton will represent the
Aloha chapter Daughters Of the
American Revolution at the thirty
first Continental Congress Of the ID.
A. r. to be held here in April, and
her daughter. Mrs. l.. d. Webbs. will
be one of the pages.
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Eastern Star Card Party.

Miss Mabel Botsch announces all
arrangements complete for the card
party to be given by Esther Chap
ter, No. S, o. z. s., on April 10 at
Wardman Park Hotel. Tables are
being reserved rapidly and the en-
tertainment promises to be great
success both socially and finan-
/ cially.
Mrs. w. p. Gibbon has a score OF
this seasons debutantes to assist her
in the sale Of cake and candy.
| Mrs. Charles II. Cecil, chairman
Of the paSronesses, announces n
partial list of those who have given
their names and support to the
benefit. Mrs. Calvin Coolidge heads
the list. Others are Mrs. Albert b.
Henry Wallace, Mrs. Nicholas
Longworth. Mrs. Arthur Capper,
Mrs. James Campbell Cantrill Mrs.
Richard Yates, Mrs. Tillman B.
Parks, Mrs. Breckenridge Long
Mrs. James Carroll Frazer. Mrs.
Gist Blair. Miss Edna Patton. Mrs.
Daniel Webster Prentiss, Mrs.
Theodore w. Moves. Mrs Amos
Fries. Mrs. Siebert d. Boak, Mrs.
Samuel Prescott, Mrs. G. Z. Haw-
ley, Mrs. f. r. Jacobsen, Mrs.
Mark Potter, Mrs. Alfred Thorn,
Mrs. Charles O'Neill, Mrs. Flora
Campbell, Mrs. Peter Drury, Mrs
Mural Lynch, Mrs. Laura Bradley
Mrs. Wesley Stoner, Mrs. Maynard
Crane Burrell, Mrs. X. A. Hubbard
Mrs. Edward Stock. Mrs. c. T.
Ford, Mrs. Sterling Kerr, Mrs. Roe
Fulkerson. Mrs. Wallace Streater.
Mrs. c. Handy, Mrs. James Hud-
son and Mrs. c. Allen.
4
| Mrs. II. II. Vreeland, of New
York, is making an indefinite stay
at Wardman Park Hotel
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DR.. Hereward Darlington, the emf.
nent scientist, Of New York, has
consented to give a lecture on the
evening Of April IL in the audi.
forum Of the Public Library, under
the auspices Of the Psychic Re-
search Club of Washington. The
lecture will be on THE Recent
DEVELOPMENTS in Psychical Re-
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Debutantes Ball.

The ball to be given by the de-
butantes Of Washington for the bene-
fit Of the George Washington Vic
tory Memorial at the New Willard
on Tuesday evening, April 26. at 10
o'clock. promises to be a great sue
cess.
The debutantes on the committee
are Miss Annette Ashford, Miss Pa
trica Ainsa, Miss Florence Cline,
Miss Helen Colbert. Miss Isabelle
Crawford. Miss Diana Cumming,
Miss Helen Griffin, Miss Mary Emily
Hamilton, Miss Dortehe Heiberg,
Miss Eleanor Carroll Hill. Miss
Nancy Hoyt. Miss Julia Hume, Miss
Elizabeth Kemp. Miss Alfalfa KIM
nell, Miss Elizabeth Latimer, Miss
Laura Lejeune. Miss Mary Mont
gomery, Miss Alice Mann. Miss Mary
Palmer, Miss Mary Stitt, Miss
Corinne stevens. Miss Catherine
Shaw, Miss Gladys Chapman Smith,
Miss Margaret Treadwell, Miss Sid
ney Webb, Miss Rebecca yelling
ton, and Miss Elizabeth Zolnay.
Miss Ethel Larsen, Of Manistee,
Mich, is a guest at the Powhatan
Hotel.
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Mrs. William F. Dennis and her
daughter, Mrs. Charles Nelson Riker,
have gone to New York to attend
the opera. They will remain there
several weeks.
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SoVvNNVt ~ Vasu<ro = AW"vS
MRS. EMILY NEWELL BLAIR,
Who was recently appointed resi-
dent cOmmitteewoman Of the Dem
Ocratic national committee, to ~
resent the viewpoint Of womeIi mt
the headquarters i'm Washing 4 N.
Before becoming leader Of the
Democratic women OF America,
Mrs. Blair had been national CON-
mitteewOman from Missouri, elect
ed by the State central committee.
She has served with the suffrage
forces Of Missouri and later as
vice chairman Of the League Of
Women Voters in that State.
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10y JEAN ELIOT II

AK RS. HARDING will occupy
|" the White House box at
the National Theater this
afternoon for the Philadelphia Or
chestra concert, and will have
Calder, Mrs. Howard Sutherland,
Mrs. Tasker Oddie and Miss Laura
Harlan.
This will be the last appearance
for this season of the Philadelphia
Orchestra, under the dynamic lead
ership Of Leopold Stokowski, and
the attendance will be brilliant. 1t
will. moreover. be the first concert
Mrs. Harding has attended since
her return from her brief holiday
in the South.
nR. BEDRICH STEPANEK.
minister of Czecho- Slovakia,
goes in for the simplified spelling
Of English, with which we Ameri-
cans have SO long been flirting.
Presumably he Is influenced by the
fact that Americans have consider
able difficulty with the jaw-breaK.
ing foreign names. At any rate,
the invitations which he issued for
several dinners to be given this
week read 1.-The Checoslovak Minis.
ter"
The first Of this series Of delight.
full dinners was given last evening.
with the minister's sister. Miss
Anna Stepankova - foreign ter
limitations are also a bit confusing
as hostess. The guests Of honor
were the Secretary of State and
Mrs. Hughes, and the company
asked to meet them included the
Secretary of Agriculture and Mrs.
Henry c. Wallace; the Secretary Of
Labor, Mr.. James j. Davis: the
Postmaster General and Mrs. HUI
bert Work. the Swiss Minister and
Nine. Peter. the Chinese Minister
and Nine. SEE, Senator and Mrs.
William H. King, Congressman and
Mrs. M. Clyde Kelly, Congressman
and Mrs. Thomas B. Dunn, Mr.. and
Mrs. George B. Christian, jr.. Mrs.
Wilfred Du Puy, DR.. and Mrs.
Harry F. Payer, Mr.. John Temple
Graves, DR.. Antonin Sum, social
attache, and Ing. Stanislyas Spa
eek, technical advisor of the lega-
ton.
DR.. Stepanek and Miss Stepan-
kova will entertain at dinner to-
morrow evening for the French
Ambassador and Nine. yusserand:
on Thursday evening for Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank B. Gilbreth, and on
Saturday evening for DR.. Leo S.
Rowe, director general Of the Pan
American Union.
=
The Chief Justice and Mrs. Taft
will be the guests OF honor at din
ner this evening Of the Ambassador
Of Argentine and Nine. lie Breton
=
The ambassador OF Belgium
Baron de Cartier, returned today
from New York.
Mrs. Fall, wife of the Secretary Of
the Interior. left yesterday afternoon
for their home in New Mexico. She
expects to be gone some time.
=
Mrs. Warren Delano Robbins. wifi,
Of the newly appointed counselor o.
the American embassy in Berlin
will be at home this afternoon. Sh'
will be assisted by Mrs. Theodore
Roosevelt. jr., and Mrs. Grafton
Mr.. and Mrs. Robbins will leav'
Washington on April IS for New
York. sailing on April 20 for Mr.
new post.
Tonight they will be entertained
at dinner by the Counselor of tn,
Belgian Embassy and Nine. d.
Selys.
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idiom. do not think so; II seemed need
ful that readers should never lose sight OF
the kind as well as the degree of difference
in Miss Fannie's" and "Chimmie's" social
status; that If he talked the same kind Of
English she did 1t would present a prob
lem for the author to keep readers from
wondering if her interest tn "Chfmmfe"
might not be developing into a tender pas
sion. That sort of story is abundantfy
supplied by newspaper reports Of every
day life. To have let my stories so de-
generate would have been q confession OF
lack of invention.
Charles A Dana came from his inside
editorial rooms one day. sat ON corner
of my desk in the city room, and asked
plumply. What is making the success OF
'Chimmie Fadden'; the slang and dialect ?"
Il think not" said. Il think it is the
relation between 'Chimmie' and Miss Fan
ME; his loyalty and devotion; her SYM
pathy and understanding"
After a pause of some length he said,
Obi" slid off my desk and trotted back
to his room.
When Mr.. Laffan publisher of THE SUN.
learned that ] was preparing some Chin
mic" and other stories for book form he
advised me to offer the collection to his
friend Charles w. Gould, who, at that
time. was court receiver for a publishing
house. So I called on Mr.. Gould. a cor
poration lawyer with offices in Wall street.
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That's too matter of fact" she COM
planned. II think il was an untaught ex-
preston of natural gallantry" She was
probably right.
One afternoon not long after that, walk
ing on the Bowery looking for story ma
terial, / saw that same young woman to
whom, as she passed him, Bowery boy
raised his hat and received smile and
nod in return. Then the boy stepped back
of her, interrupted the progress of man
who had been following the lady-a pick
pocket perhaps or a deluded "masher."
The Bowery boyle was in fact a young
man-convinced the follower that his per-
sonal safety depended upon making a de-
tour. The boy explained to me when
questioned him that de bum had a right
not to be folleyin' a loidy a silk haired
dame, what done good for de boys and
COILS round here"
/ returned to the office and wrote tho
first "Chimmie Fadden" story. naming my
hero "Chimmie" only. using the two Incl
dents have related as the basis of Sun
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poets eyes aame would walk Broadway in arm with
the proud and mighty John L.

stated my business and received the smil-
ing but To me almost startling response,
IT was about to send for you to can On me
lished for me two books Of short stories
and my first novel, "A Daughter Of the
Tenements," and we became and remain
friends, not q customary relation between
publishers and authors, / am told.
In the evening of the publication day /
dined at Mr.. Gould's home with three or
four other guests, Industrial and financial
men. hts clients. and at each plato q COPY
of 'Chimmie" was placed. This caused
enough chat about the stories to give q cue
to our host to identify me as the author,
but as he did not do so and seemed to be
enjoying the situation as II stood did
not identify myself Conversation over the
after dinner cigars was an Greek to me,
relating to finances of Mount Everest
height, so I was the first guest to depart
Then Mr.. Gould. as l learned from him
later. casually referred 20 me as the author
of 'Chimmie Fadden," and enjoyed hts
Joke. The first of the guests to recover
his breath spoke what seemed to be the SEN
timent of the others. He said: We'll I'll
bedami" / relate the incident because IL
was the first OF many which afforded me
and my friends amusement: strangers
meeting me expected it was often appar-
ent, to find in me a Bowery type Some OF
my fellow workers in the attempt to make
Continued on Page Ten.
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The Story Of Chimmie Fadden
Bv EDWARD W. TOWNSEND
By EDWARD w. TOWNSEND.

day supplement fiction feature. Two or
three days after the story was published
the city editor asked me the full name of
my hero and when I told him had not
We'll. give him name and write some
more about him. Mr.. Dana's orders This
looked like a chance for SERIES and /
believed that it would be wise to establish
sentimental relation between a typical
Bowery boy and q lady; devotion and 10y
atty on his part, sympathy and under
standing on hers. / had to take my char
acter away from the Bowery to give him
variety of opportunity for mischief and
let him view new social conditions upon
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which TO comment l thought il could
do this yet keep his Boweryism alert, I
could interest a larger group of readers
than If his activities were confined to the
Bowery.
Events justified my decision, for. besides
running as SUN story feature, the stories
have been syndicated: written exclusively
for magazines: made into a play: used for
two motion picture comedies. and in their
various collections and editions in book
FORM in this country and England have
sold more than 100000 copies AS I have
been chaffed by friends for the many uses
/ have made of the character for purpose
OF profit, I should, to complete the record,
set down the fact that / have also read
from the stories on tours with the late
John Kendrick Bangs
The group of characters which grew up
around "Chimmie- gave material for short
story incidents. and that 10 what the series
developed into. short stories which some
critics believed might have earned popu-
larity If written without Bowszy dialect Or
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Z newsboys' dinner provided by a
welfare organization I noted a

n welfare organization I noted a
woman who enjoyed her task serv-
ing the hungry youngsters One she served
had eaten enough dinner to content a
husky longshoreman, yet when he was
served with apple pie he ate that also,
with undiminished gusto. His lady wait
ress seeing this leaned over him and, with
an air of Neutrality-suspicious.
whispered, Jimmie how would you like
another piece of pie?" Great" he an
swered. She brought 1t, and as she placed
1t by his plate he lifted up one of her
han s and kissed it,
81 Q saw that saw, and asked me, Now.
why do you suppose he did that?"
From a gallery seat he saw the hero
of play kiss the hand of the heroine" /
answered
The Ocala banner., 1922-05-12
WHY NOT SEND ANNOUNCEMENT
CARDS?

A good friend. writing from Florida,
tells us that the national chase after
the international bootleggers was an.
nounced long in advance; it was brag.
ged and diagrammed; it was survey
ed and routed; it was even concluded,
theoretically. before it was started
practically. Results: Moonshine
largely evaporated; and bootleggers
mostly posing in sanctimenious regard
for law.
In the name OF common sense, why
did the various squadrons advertise
the proposed raids? Were they in
league with the devil? Or were they
just plain foolish?
They remind one of that Eastern
colonel who went on a still hunt for
Indians with the regimental band
playing a lively quickstep.
The Indians took the hint-and
quick-stepped lively.-Christian States.
man.
The Ocala banner., 1922-05-12
JAckSoNvILLE'S FRIENDSHIP
TOUR

Jacksonville. May s, 1922.
To the Editor of the Banner:
You are requested to give space
in your columns to the following reso.
lutions adopted by the Jacksonville
chamber of commerce:
Whereas, the Jacksonville chamber
of commerce in an effort to foster
greater friendship and greater ac-
quaintance among all Florida COM
munities in order that interests of the
state be advanced to the greatest pos
sible extent, and
Whereas, toward this end, business
men of Jacksonville engaged on a
special tour over large portion of
Florida, April 25 to 90, inclusive, bent
on spreading doctrine of friendliness
among not only such cities as were
actually visited, but all others which
in the aggregate comprise the great
state of Florida, and
Whereas. the spirit in which the
tour was undertaken, was in every
case responded to in kind, and all
visits were especially marked by an
all-pervading cordiality, evidencing the
fact that there has indeed been en-
gendered firm conviction that individ-
ual community advancement is entire
ly dependent upon allstate develop
ment, now therefore
Be it resolved, by the delegation of
Jacksonville business men, in meet
ing assembled aboard their special
train, by some very pertinently desig.
mated the Friendship Unlimited -,
that sentiments of deepest apprecia-
ton are hereby voiced as regards the
receptions accorded by the several
Florida communities visited during
the "All Florida tour, and
Be it resolved, that the delegation
thanks the citizenship of Ocala for
its friendly reception of the .All Flor
ida" boosters, and
Be it further resolved, that especial
qualification exists in the realization
the many communities indicate their
full realization in common with that
of the Jacksonville men, that aAll.
Florida" development is the para
mount concern of all places within
its borders, so that finally each local
ity win achieve to the splendid DESTINY
that spells the ultimate for every
place SO fortunately situated, and
finally
Be is resolved, that copies of these
The Ocala banner., 1922-05-12
STATE DIVISION

AS for state division, that is the
best thing that could happen. 1t would
create in south Florida one of the
richest and strongest states in the
south. Florida is growing fast and
there is Just as much difference be-
tween South Florida and West Flor
ida, when it comes to enterprise,
growth and increase. of wealth, as
there is between night and day. The
majority in the legislature now held
by North and West Florida was Great
ed when South Florida was nothing
but sand and pine trees with a lot of
cabbage palmetto trees stuck in the
lowlands for ornaments.
Tallahassee was selected as the
capital of the state and it was some
journey for senators and representa-
tives to reach that town. Now the
time has come when South Florida is
the bigger of the two and growing
seven times as fast. Removal of the
capital to any town in South Florida
viii not boom that place. 1t will
create q building boom for about two
years and then that will be the finish
The Ocala banner., 1922-05-12
TO CONDUCT EXPERIMENTS ON
HARDENING PEANUT-FED
HOGS

Cooperative soft-pork experiments
conducted by the United States De-
partment of Agriculture and the state
experiment stations of Georgia, Miss
issippi, North Carolina, and South
Carolina during the last three years
have shown conclusively that when
hogs, starting at a weight of approxi-
mately 100 pounds, are fed on peanuts
in the dry lot or grazed in the field
for period of 60 days, or more, a
soft carcass is produced, and that it is
impossible to produce hard carcass
by feeding corn and tankage or corn
and cottonseed meal to these soft
hogs for subsequent period of 60
days or less.
The above statement, unanimously
approved by representative of the
Bureau of Animal Industry and of the
various experiment stations at a meet
ing held at Chattanooga April 10 and
20, is not meant to discourage in any
way the feeding of peanuts to hogs
in those sections of the south that
are well adapted to the production
of this crop. The experimental data
compiled by the southern stations in
dicate very clearly that peanuts are
one of the most economical feeds
known for hogs, and that they can be
fed with profit in many parts of the
south, even though soft hogs are dis
criminated against on the market.
Many farmers in the South have the
idea that soft hogs can be hardened
by 80 days feeding on corn and tank
age. But, according to the depart
ment, it has not been shown that this
can be done in twice that time. Next
autumn the department will start feed
ing tests to last 80 and even 120 days
in an effort to determine just how
long it takes to firm a soft hog car
cass. 1t is an important problem, as
the firmness of the carcass has
very noticeable effect on the price
paid by packers.
The Ocala banner., 1922-05-12
ORANGE SPRINGS

Several farmers are shipping veg
etables 90 northern markets.
Mr. and AIRS. Rast were in PaIatka
Saturday.
Mrs. ,. d. Hall. who underwent an
operation AZ the hospital In Jackson
vile. Is reported doing nicely. which
IL certainly good news.
Orange Springs people are getting
ready for the big barbecue on the
25th ~ May. All are invited and vel
come. We hope TO have a big gath.
ering Of neighbofs and a general good
TIME.
Many from other cities are taking
advantage of our mineral springs
There were thirty strangers here on
sunday.