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The Washington times., 1922-07-26

ough, the Seton Henrys, Mrs. Ogden
Mills and Tommy Slidell.
This particular night Evan Bur
roughs Fontaine saw the dance.
She was amazed. She was inspired.
She left with her brain burning with
ambition to duplicate The FAN OF
Eve" From this time on Miss Fon-
taine neglected her ballroom dancing
for the dances Of the Far and Near
East She went to masters and what
they lacked she created.
Then the Palais Royal was opened
in 1915 and John Murray Anderson
selected the girl from Waco, Tex,
for one Of the leading numbers. She
first danced her Egyptian creations
at the Palais Royal and was so sue
cessful that the future began 10 look
bright.
CHAPTER Nv.
1t was at the Palais Royal that
"Sonny" Whitney apparently saw
Miss Fontaine dance and, 1t IL said,
was smitten. Many times he was
seen leaning on the velvet rail Of the
The Washington times., 1922-07-26
YELLOW PAINT SPATTERS
GROUP OF N. Y. WOMEN

NEW YORK. July 26.-with vel.
low paint spattered over their
dresses. group of women ran
screaming into doorways on lower
Broadway today as painter, on
whom there was not single mark
Of Identification, fell from the third
story above. His body landed close
to the women as they stood chatting,
and a pot OF yellow paint, which he
had been using on a scaffold was
sneared over them.
The painter received a fractured
skull.
The Washington times., 1922-07-26
WACO GIRL
WE'D ONCE.
TO SAILOR
Mystery Surrounds Death OF
Adair, Once Spouse Of
/, Whitney's Accuser.

Econ EVan Is the right name Of
Sodn Bur1Noips Fontdtne, erottc
onoer' toAo 70 suing Sonny" Whtt-
Her We Is one nlIed wsth the
eottVuI otrI toho came from little
e0eorrsh totpn Of TeGds, near the
fertcdn frontier to carve a career on
5road'ody. Then, Nth the aid and
agoe ot her mother, this country
Phorr,. tDon, u Is said, the love Of
"ess a,tstocratic JGmi!.es. , -.
ssM ss;ai rSscsssartly nee be olonk In spots;
eN obscure climber, dltoays stripin0
[or recognition. When she sa,c "Ld
5eNs Comes" Of Paris. perform an
ffottc dance Of the Orient IN res
asrdnt IN Greenpich yula0e she
n The chapters IN her nfe fol-
0tos' as told By frequenters OF Broad
CHAPTER I.
About twenty-three years ago
awn Evan was born in the dusty
tlttle Texas frontier town of Waco.
Her early life was uneventful.
While a girl the dancing craze
woke In her the desire for bail.
room dancing and she engaged a
FOCAL dancing master. She pro-
8ressed and soon took part in small
country affairs that perhaps were
Ithe direct cause Of her eventful love
affair with young Cornelius Wander
|bilt Whitney.
Tales of the Great White Way
caused Fawn Evan to look aheai and
finally urged her ambitious mother,
no had dreams of her daughters s
Future, to take her to New York and
seek fame and fortune.
: CHAPTER ii.
The first thing Fawn Evan did
when she came to Manhattan was
to change her name to Evan Bur-
rows Fontaine. 1t was a high sound
Ing appelation and forever severed
the connection OF her past and the
country village of Waco and Broad
way.
She studied dancing under expert
masters. She then secured several
minor engagements In bathrooms.
Then the Waldorf storia took her
In, and she performed on the roof
with mediocre success. Greenwich
Village then called her.
A few real Bohemians---writers
tctors, actresses and playwright
acre living near Washington. Square.
fuere Miss Fontaine went.
n. CHAPTER III.
Her, life in Greenwich Village
'must necessarily be regarded as the
most important In ner earlier career.
She and her mother secured a studio
In one Of the old buildings on Wash
|tngton Square South. The studio
was small and was not even an
|apartment. Her meager salary at
|the Waldorf was insufficient for
n,ore sumptuous quarters.
One night In 1915 she stumbled
into the restaurant run by Louis
Holloday. Louis was then famous
among certain set of New York's
-Four Hundred. They came to this
little cafe and to none other. Here
they found the real collection of
The Washington times., 1922-07-26
CARTRIDGE ExPLoDES
AS BOY LET'S IT FALL

DETROIT. July 2e-Joseph Kelly.
eighteen, found a .22 calibre cartridge
on the street. He amused himself
by tossing It up as he strolled along,
catching II as II fell.
The cartridge struck the sidewalk
and exploded. The bullet pierced
Kslly's right hand.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-18

to admission under the decision af-
fecting Viscountess Rhondda viii
avail themselves of the privilege.
The Boston Transcript thinks that,
although the new member of lords
is the representative and presum-
ably a protagonist of the privileges
of BIRTH" her presence will GER
tainly add a new and picturesque
touch to the proceedings of that
body. especially if she is followed
by other ladies who are similarly
eligible" That the Tory con-
servatism of the house of lords IS
in for a shaking up, probably with
even more aggresSivenesS than
marked the entrance of Lady Aston
into the lower house of parliament"
is the belief of the Wilkesbarre
Record. With the Gripping of its
powers the house of lords has lost
much of its prestige" says the
Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph,
but with women members who are
in sympathy with progressive legis-
ton it may obtain a new lease Of
life. The opening of its doors TO
women is certainly in line with The
spirit OF the IlmeS.
Lloyd George Cause.
Cautiously enough" observes the
New York World, lit is all the do
ing of the daughter of a hard head
ed old Welsh mine-owner, raised 10
the peerage during the war, who
had backed David Lloyd George in
his early days when he made his
first political appearance as a
champion of Welsh nationalism
Lady Rhondda promises to be
neither a chronic absentee nor a
do-nothing like most of the peers
who make up its numerous mem
bership" IF she proves as cap
able in the lords as she has been
7 in business management this first
. woman peer in modern times should
be a decided gain to the ancient
house, whose mending or ending is
again a campaign topic in Great
Britain" in the opinion of the
Pittsburgh Dispatch. She is a
woman of uncommon energy and
. loves hard work. She has not only
attended to the great business in
coal, ships, and steel inherited from
her father, but has found time to
: head the Women's Industrial
, league, to edit a magazine, and 10
take hand in welfare movements
/ especially those relating to women
! workers. She is a good speaker
and she does not mince her words
/ The house of lords will be aware
/ that Lady Rhondda is present,
! thinks the New York Tribune
! All of which sets some papers q
musing upon the first woman sena-
! tor. How long will it take the
I United States senate to emulate
| this inspiring example of the
! house of lords?
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-18

Dear Mother:
Have your children ever said
II can't come just now. mother
I'm busy with my blocks!" No
doubt the building of blocks was at
that moment very fmportant-more
important than we can realize. But
more important still should be the
response to the demands OF time.
Some of us are martinets-always
insisting on the accomplishment of a
given task at a given time, till our
children come to look upon time as
a relentless. hateful giant l think
great deal of the slothfulness of
this world comes from that arbi-
trary insistence that things be done
on time. The things hated in child
hood are gladly cast aside as soon
as maturity comes.
But isn't there some way to make
punctuality and a well-ordered life
a beautiful and desired instead of &
dreadful thing? For it is beautiful.
Time is not hard and relentless: If
it is used rightly, life becomes
smooth, peaceful and happy; if used
wrongly, life is a tangled mass Of
fretting and discord You've seen
folks who always had TO rush to
get to places on time-who rush to
get their meals ready-who rush
about their cleaning and their sew
ing. 1t is an unlovely quality. 1t
is nearly always when you come
down to the facts the result of pre-
viously not having done things on
time. Their clothes weren't in ord
er for calling-the dishes needed
weren't Clesn-their materials had
not ali been purchased for the pro-
posed sewing-there wasn't any
securing powder on hand for scrub
bling. Not one of us wants a child
to grow up to be that kind of per
son, who neither gives nor gets
happiness.
However, that state is only a nat
uraI one, arising from a failure to
appreciate the Importance of time.
1t is not the "rusher" who has the
most leisure time. It is the one
: who does each task as it comes.
does it thoroughly, leaves nothing
! for some other time" OF course,
we're all only human and we all
have lapses, but it's just insofar
as we meet duties unafraid and
| willingly that our work becomes
easy, a pleasure instead of dread.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-18

But how can we get our chill
dren to see the need of this? First,
/ think, emphasis should be placed
on the pleasure that accompanies
that instant response to the call Of
the clock. The Come this instant
or you won't get bite of supper
is only too common. Ii seems 10 me
it's only fair. while the child Is
young. at least. that he should lie
told that supper time is near at
hand, that shortly he'll be called
in from play Perhaps you can let
him know of something he likes
that's going to be for supper. You'll
find that he comes much more
readily when it is time. And soon
promptness becomes a habit. Pleas
ant habits cling TO us. Why not
work to make into pleasant habits
all necessary duties that have to be
observed through life? Wonderful
results come from the expenditure
of a little patience and time.
You can have a game of going
to bed time. an exploring trip Of
Mr. Soap of wash-up time and an
independent, gTOwn-up event Of
dressing time Punctuality really
isn't hard if we can only remember
that the accomplishment of things
at certain time is what We desire,
not the accomplishment of things
because we order them done at a
certain time.
Let US keep this Lesson in our
other-consciousnes if we want
our children to become men and
women whose lives are smoothly
peaceful. ordered so that they may
find time for things that make for
culture and soul-growth.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-18
Pungent Paragraphs
The Cream of the Nations Hunor

The boy big boy Landis
-Greenville. IS. c. Piedmont.
We little attention all the clamor about fappers and
today used they
couldn't be worse-Coumba Record.
Scientists make monkey of me- declares Mr.
Possibly them to t-knox
vile Sentinel.
When brewn brew plenty be the motto of the
home observation-disclosures Gazette-Tmes.
Short skirts writer, excit
girl-Charles
ton News and Courier
Another certain dry sign Ring around the moonshineBos
Herald
An Iowa seedman advertses clover that be
That's the kind inNew Evening World
The American thinks thrift getting
with cylinders eght-Hartford Times.
cant tell about just
trying to keep the doctor away-Lincoln Star.
When the election might
the by selling the rghtsBaltimore
If had life to live believe could
better avoiding the mistake for instance of trying
make wes feel home the first they
visit us.-Ohio State Journal
He his political
his grindstoneHartford Times
have learned they a
soldiers
without the centVirginan Pilot (Nor
folk Va
According the the blanks sim
this You twice half the time
Muskegon Chronicle
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-18
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
-From The Argus Files of 1S97--

March 13-Fire broke out in
Rasmussen & Frees photograph
gallery on Second avenue at 1:10
this afternoon. The store of r.
Champion & Co., and Miss Hass
the milliner, were damaged. The
damage to the building, which is
owned by Peter Fries, is estimated
at $500. Miss Hass carries 81 900
insurance on her millinery stock.
William Drury, farmer and
wealthy western Illinois land own
er, died at his home at Keithsburg,
Mercer county, Saturday evening.
He was the largest individual land
owner in the United States, having
hundreds of thousands of acres in
Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas and
Texas, besides 5000 acres of the
richest farming land in Mercer
county.
March IA. B. Schoessel, Rock
Island, H. Abbott, Moline, and Ed
Meadley of Davenport were ap-
pointed organizers for the Ameri-
~N~AA SAVA otAOh VI 4AAOCI III luClT
respective cities.
The Marlin Rifle company has
decided to call all the score so far
made off and to start over again
tomorrow in the contest for prizes.
The contest is to continue 10 weeks,
10 shots each week.
Cooking lessons at the Y. NJ. C. A.
Subject, "Croquets. souffle with
foamy sauce and raglets."
March Representative IF
every Presbytery in Uncle Sam S
domain will be in Rock Island for
| a week in May About 300 minis
tiers and laymen, many of them
accompanied by their wives, are
| expected
There is a prospect for quite a
building boom in Rock Island the
I coming season. Architects are al
ready at work on plans for a NUM-
Der of residences and business
| blocks.
! Circuit Clerk Gamble and his as
! sistants moved into the new court
( house today. County Clerk Kohler
! is having the records of his office
moved to the new building as rap
| idly as possible.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-18
PEOPLES PULPIT
Is AuguStana College and Theological Seminary an
English Speaking Institution?

Rock Island, H., Aug. 17.-Editor
The Argus: In connection with the
effort made by the Rock Island
Chamber of Commerce to remove
Hedding college to this city the
argument was used that Rock Is
land ought to have an English
speaking college, the implication
being that Augustana is not English
speaking. By English speaking we
Will understand that English is
used as the medium of instruction
in a majority of the courses as well
as the vernacular of a majority of
the students and instructors. In or
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-18
A Lady Among the Lords.

Thus does the feminist move
ment carry another stronghold of
ong-entrenched masculine privi-
lege," asserts the Norfolk Virginian
Pilot, commenting upon the action
of the house of lords committee On
privileges in granting Niscountess
Rhondda a seat among the peers, a
triumph which, in the opinion of
the New York Globe, lis chiefly n
teresting as the ultimate achieve
ment of the faminiist movement"
since the viscountess will become a
member of one of the most orna-
mental and least useful legislative
bodies in the world"
Further discounting the practi-
cal advantage of Viscountess
Rhondda's achievement, the Chi
cago Journal calls attention to the
possibility that "one of these days
there won't be any house of lords
for anybody to sit in; and there is
Il
day will come before the gifted
daughter of the food controller has
successor or companion of her
own sex AT almost any
moment some issue may rise that
! will range the nation on one side
and the peerage on the other, and
when that happens, the hereditary
Legislators will have to go. The
Briton may love a lord. but not
enough to stand much interference
from him" Badly as they have
/ been denied time and again in the
last 10 years or so, the old notions
! of the peerage of England were
/ given the worst wrench they ever
/ received" when the viscountess
was admitted, thinks the Reno
/ Gazette.
/ The effect of this innovation in
the house of lords will be seen in a
( far larger representation of wom-
/ en- in the upper house of parlia-
men than is ever likely to be had
in commons" prophesies the Rich
mond News Leader, since "as the
new theory of succession is extend
/ ed, it is quite likely that the heir
| esSeS OF peers IN practically all
| cases will take their fathers seats
in default of direct male Issues.
only few years ago nobody could
! have foreseen that the rules which
: in exceptional cases allow women
; to inherit titles would in 1922 give
the house of lords a much larger
| feminine membership than any
other of the leading legislative
| bodies of the world can show
states the New York Herald, as
Stunning that other peeresses entitled
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-18

der 10 ascertain where Augustana IS
English speaking in this sense, the
following QUESTIONABLE was sent to
the heads of the various depart
ments.
l. In how many courses in your
department is English used as the
medium of instruction?
2. In how many courses, and
which. is a foreign language used?
Please specify language used.
5. How many students and teach
ers use English as a vernacular?
T. How many students and teach
ers use a foreign language, and
which, as a vernacular?
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-18
Hunting a Ha'nt.

at is not in the cards for ghosts
and humans to dwell together"
says the Anaconda CMont.) Stand
ard In discussing the investigation
N the ghost of Antagonist. Nova
scotia, by DR.. Walter Franklin
prince, director of the American
Institute for Scientific Research.
More than passing editorial at
tention was given to this ghost of
antigonish. Although, as is point
ed out by the Lafayette Qnd)
Journal and Courier, ghost stor-
les have gone somewhat out of
fashion" even though twenty-five
wears ago they were source of
amusement around the fireside," it
would appear that interest has
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-18

March 1.-THE total cost of
Rock Island county's new court
house is $171,769.S3 March 1. sIe.-
600. the first payment Of the court
house bonds, was made A year
hence $4,000 will be paid and so
on the payment will continue until
the Indebtedness is cleared
Tn books returned to the city
clerks office show the registration
Of yesterday to have been: First
ward, $50; Second ward. first pre-
cinct, $50, second precinct 30;
Third ward, first precinct, 500, sec
ond precinct, 1898; Fourth ward,
first precinct, 430: Fifth ward, first
precinct, $40: Sixth ward. 60:
Seventh ward, second precinct, ass.
March 1S.-The Rock Island Plov
company has been experiencing
quite a squirt in business. The ma
chine and painting departments are
running until O'Clock nights a.
present The company is employ
ing 800 men. The shop will not
close down for the annual inventory
before June 1.
A school room has been esta0-
lished in the building at the cor
ner of Thirty-eighth street and
Fourteenth avenue by order of the
board of education, to relieve build
ing s. which is in a crowded con-
dition. Miss Estelle Vandruff has
charge of the new room.
March 19-Rock Island has beer
accorded an opportunity for secur-
ing the headquarters of an order
+: The Fraternal Tribunes, which has
the prospect of becoming one oil
the largest and wealthiest of its
kind in the country. Such men as
]. F. Robinson, Charles McHugn
I Walter Johnson, H. D. Folsom, G. Z
Bailey, T. J. Medill. Jr., l. S. White
| T. A Fender, H H Cleveland, B
| F. Knox and DIR. ]. F. Meyers are
active in trying to secure the in
situation.
The water is subsiding at Bars.
tow, Joslin and other places in the
| upper end of the county and the
danger of a disastrous food S ems
to be practically over for the pres,
| ent at least.
! The baltenders had a ball a
Turner hall last night. 1t was wei
attended.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-18

courses English is the sole medium
of instruction.
The above figures are published
for the information of those who,
for whatever reason, have the i'm
preston that Augustana is any
thing but an English speaking in
stitution. True, there was a time
when Augustana was not wholly
English speaking. but that time has
long since passed and anyone who
uses a fluent English will now find
no difficulty in making himself I'M
derstood among US.
]. P. MAGNUSSON.
Professor of Chemistry.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-18

From the table the following
facts are shown:
l. Less than one per cent of the
students and slightly over three per
cent of the teachers at Augustana
use a foreign language as a YER
nacular.
2. Slightly over five per cent of
all the courses are given in a for
eign language, the languages used
being German, Swedish and French.
In the college department these for
eign languages are used only where
they are the subject of study and
in the advanced courses when the
student has acquired sufficient pro-
ficiency in their use. In all other
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-18

when he started out to study
plant life. years ago.
1t has taken years to become
master of plant knowledge. But
he is master,
That's why The Argus asked
him TO write IL stories about
what he has learned. These
stories, to appear in The Argus
daily. starting Monday. will let
YOU in on the knowledge that
will mean better gardens.
Read these stories, care for
your garden accordingly, and
watch for real results.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-18

enrolled
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-18

L. S. geological survey has a
huge camera which has TO be oper-
ated by small electric cranes.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-18
Parents AS Educators
4rHE Chips FIRST SCHOOL is THE FAMILY.--Froebe

National Kindergarten Association West 4oh
City These articles appearing weekly
our
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-18

Neglect a tiny baby and that
baby's health fails. Give it
proper care and the baby will
thrive.
The same is true of plant.
If you don't know how to take
care of a flower or a vegetable
from the time it peeps through
the ground. that flower or vege-
table is going to die-or at least
not be productive of the best
life there is in it
Luther Burbank knew this
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-18
Table Showing Results of QUESTIONABLE

Dept No. of No. No. of No using using
studts for lang. teachS for. lang cours for lang.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-02-24

her head, and on her neck were so
many strings of beads that Nancy
couldn't help wondering how she
could stand so straight.
81 suppose you came back for a
smell of my cake"
at looks very NICE" said Nick,
wondering if he were ito be offered
slice.
"And SO it should" nodded the
gypsy woman, smiling, "fcr dear
knows, enough trouble I've had bak-
ing it. I've spilled half of the sticky
icing on my floor and TScan,t get It
off I've hurt my finger and | cant
hold cloth"
"Oh," cried kind Nancy, Can't
do it?" Pll clean your floor.
"Then here cried tive gypsy
woman, thrusting large rig into
her hand, Come, Ill lead YOU to
the place.
AS she led her away, the Mt7sh-
rooms note fell to the floor.
Nick stopped to pick it up.
Ito be continued)
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-02-24

MICK turned when he saw the
y chocolate cake If there was any
thing he loved it was cake, and choco-
late cake was not to be resisted.
ooh, come on Nick" Nancy
pulled at his arm.
The red feather in his hand, too,
kept bending the other direction,
which showed that if he would avoid
danger he would keep away from the
strange cave and all it contained.
But chocolate cake! Round, high
shining and delicious!
Something in poor Nick's legs
seemed to be pushing him back to-
ward the cave. He tride to take a
step away, but he had no more will
than terrier on the end of chain.
And there was nothing for Nancy
to do but to follow.
@Hellow, children" came voice
out of the cave, followed at once by
a figure in the form of a gypsy
woman dressed in red with a green
cap and yellow sash. Her hair was
done in long braids wound around