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The New York herald., 1922-05-22
PAINT AND POWDER
BANNED AT BEDFORD

Girls are forbidden to paint their
cheeks. blacken their eyebrows, powder
their noses and dress in the latest fash
Ion while Imprisoned in the State Re-
formatory for Women in Bedford under
a set Of seventeen new rules just put In
force there.
The regulations prohibiting the young
women there from wearing short skirts,
low neck dresses and rolling their stock
ings were drawn up by Major Amos r.
Baker. the superintendent. and made
public yesterday. Attendance at religious
exercises is made compulsory.
Violation will mean a loss Of from so
20 900 credit marks.
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KNIGHTS TEMPLAR FACE
DELAY IN LANDSLIDE
Back With Tale of Adventure
in Costa Rico.

party of Knights Templar and their
wives from Pittsburgh, who made a
pilgrimage TO Havana, Costa Rica and
the Canal Zone arrived yesterday by
the United Fruit liner Pastores with a
tale of landslide that held them UP
eighteen hours while they we're on their
way by rail from San Jose to Port
Limon.
The landslide covered the track a
few miles ahead of them and they
we're sent back TO q camp of the United
Fruit Company. whose employees
turned over their tents to the forty
women of the party. The men slept
In the cars. The excursionists were
headed by Charles d. McFail and John
l.. Harde
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MOTOR LAW VIOLATIONS
500 IN DAY, A RECORD
Policemen of City Kept Busy
Issuing Surnmonses.

The highest slngi- days record for
motor traffic violations was reached yes
terday. when II was announced cnrly to-
day at Police Headquarters that between
midnight Saturday and midnight yestcr-
day 4oT surnmonses had been served.
IL was believed that many returns wero
delayed and that the final total from all
boroughs will be 100 higIier
saturdavF record wne .s5 rlnmonres
served, and for tho month up 10 tho 2ist
the total was s.sft Aprirs total was
t.i12. The violations included failure 20
observe the eight foot stopping law, hav-
Ing smoking vehicles. speeding and other
ofrenscs
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TO GUST CRIMINALS
IN POST OFFICE HERE
Bartlett Seeks TO Root Out
Clerks i'm Collusion
With Thugs.
40 IN A LIST OF $50
Postmaster Morgan Backed
by Washington i'm Effort
to Halt Robberies.
ALL ON WAGONS ARMED
Only Seasoned Employees Will
Be Allowed in the Reg
istry Cages.
ALL ON WAGONS ARMED

A thorough inquiry into the postal
organization here. with view to erad-
icating all weak spots in both person
mel and Office construction. is being
made by John Fl. Bartlett, Acting
Postmaster General.
The plan to rob the City Hall Post
Office, which was thwarted Friday
night through the ingenuity OF a pos
tai inspector as well as the extent OF
recent mail robberies. brought Mr..
Bartlett here Saturday.
After tour OF inspection OF various
post offices with w. Irving Glover Third
Assistant Postmaster General and
postal inspectors headed by w. L. Coch-
ran. chief of that bureau. Mr.. Bartlett
said:
I'VE want Postmaster Morgan TO
know that Washington is whole-heart-
edly behind him in effecting any meas
ures he may see At to guard against
any recurrence of mail robberies. We
want tightening up of the service in
various ways.
New Precautions Probable.
''New systems OF precautions" he con-
tinued, may be found necessary, and II
so he will assure Mr.. Morgan that the
Treasury Department will furnish the
means for their establishment Mr.
Bartlett pointed out that not only was
1t necessary to discover what members,
II any more, of the department were in
collusion with outside thugs. but to elm
mate negligence and carelessness among
employees"
The Acting Postmaster-G General, in
discussing the arrest Of the seven men
alleged to have committed a robbery of
almost s1.500.000 last July and to have
been on the point of trying another, said
unseasoned employees should not be en-
ployed in the registry rooms of the post
Offices.
The necessity for careful examina-
tion of every worker in the service was
stressed by Mr.. Bartlett. He pointed
out that recent inquiry into the char
acters of $50 newly inducted employees
had disclosed that 40 had had criminal
records. If man has been arrested or
In jail he committed perjury when he
swore to the Civil Service Commission
that he had no record. That alone might
be grounds for such a persons dis
nissal
Criminals Among Clerks.
There are $4,000 postal workers in the
city, Mr.. Bartlett said. so that it is
virtually certain that there must Re
others with criminal records.
The acting Postmaster-General said
that all screen wagons. those carrying
registered mails, must follow certain
fixed routes, and the police have been
Instructed to arrest those in wagons seen
''off their beats"
He said that all aboard the screen
wagons must be armed now He added
I'VE may urge that marines be per-
nnanently assigned to guard post offices
and mail. There are lots of soldiers
pacing about drill grounds. why
shouldn't some of them be put into post
Office corridors"
Mr.. Bartlett will pay particular atten-
tion to-day to the rooms In which yalu-
able mails are handled. He might find
it necessary to recommend the remodel
ling OF rooms that appear impossible to
safeguard.
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II. y. ALGus DIES IN STREET.

Harris ]. Algus. for two years presi-
dent OF the Furriers' Union. was stricken
with an attack Of ncute Indigestion at
iisth street and Fifth avenue last night,
few minutes after he left a physicians
Office. and died before the arrival OF an
ambulance surgeon.
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Joanna Golden, by
Sheila Kaye-Smith

The author of "Sussex
Gorse" has given us another
powerful character study of
Sussex folk. The heroine, in
stead of marrying CONNIE ii
faut, decides to run her farm.
Not only Sussex folk but the
innermost corners of the hu-
man heart are grippingly set
forth. The Book Store,
Street Floor, Old Building
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rRrzEs ron AnT STUDENTS.

Art students IN tho high schools of
New York are contestlug outside OF
school hours for seven poster prizes.
ranging from $50 20 $40. offered by the
Dairymen's League Cooperative Associa-
tion. Inc The posters VIII be used 20
promote a better public understanding
OF the food value Of milk The contest
ing posters must be delivered 20 Dr.
James y. Hancy. director Of art In the
high schools. on June Z.
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Today's Radiophonc
Program

,W.W.Z. WaVeIeagth goo meters
1.4c--- 3sief Victrola Recital
Of special release records.
2.4o--Prcgram by the Hack
e.-Barge Instrumental Trio.
5.4c--Brief Song Recital by
edna Beatrice Bloom, Soprano.
4.40--Children's Hour, given
by Elsie Jean, well-known
writer of children's stories and
verse. Subject-"No Lecture
Today"
1880 P. M.-Musical pro
gram.
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k1C 0xACSy
Consoles many, for the large
important room, or for tho
corridor of the apartment,
where with a ffne old Italian
mirror, one of them is fur
nishing enough.
Book-cases-large, import
ant, finely decorated.
Corner cabinets and large
cupboards.
Commodes, dignified and
large, small and intimate for
a woman's what-nots.
A fine Louis XIV. bed with
headboard in old brocade.
A beautiful old brocade-
covered Venetian spinet.
Canapes and sofas for large
and smaller spaces.
u
Prie-Dieu, quaint and in
teresting-
And chairs. in sets of a, 6
or 8, in pairs or singly.
Arm chairs and side chairs
in gilt or soft Venetian yell
lows, blues and greens, many
covered in the old, original
Drocades and damasks.
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A Rare Event

There is little painted
Venetian furniture to be
found in this country, yet
it is in great demand, and,
because of its charm, is
likely to remain so. This
presentation of the i'm
portant Au Quatrieme col
lection, at prices so radi-
cally lowered, therefore
will assume the proper
tions of ia rare event.
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The collection includes
pieces always used in the
great high-ceilinged, stuc-
coed and gilded rooms of
Eighteenth Century Vene.
tian houses. But they are
suited, also, to many types
of American houses.
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1sp show the extent and
advantage of the offering
we may say that the new
selling prices total S27,568
as against former prices
reaching $50,984, an aver
age lowering of very nearly
half.
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Suggestive settings

have BEEN made in one large
room Au Quatrieme to show
how pieces Of different
periods may be combined.
And how, as one au-
thority on the subject has
said, Zone or two pieces of
Eighteenth Century Italian
furniture, I'd d ed to a
French, English or Ameri-
can room, entangle. the
chance visitor in a sense of
amusing intrigue, although
they make a deep thrust at
all classic tradition"
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Many Men With
Small Ambitions
could rise if they were not
misled by a desire to reach
the top by single leap.
No honest person Is downi
so far that he needs to stay
there unless satisfied and
content with his condition.
My friend Mr.. Selfridge,
of London, formerly a part
ner of Marshall Field, has
just said:
"All young people should
have strong ambition to i'm
prove their position. Ambi-
tion is a necessary asset fer
any young man or woman
setting out on !ife's jour
ney."
[Signed]
nj NaA~<
May sa, Iosa.
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The Ticket

The Ticket
on each piece will show the
old and new price so that
every one can see at a
glance the Importance Of the
opportunity presented to
acquire long-coveted ex-
amples of "the art of fur
niture painting in its high
est expression
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1t neuer happened before!

price like this for all-wool lb. double bee
size blanket! "Why, had sale like this in your owr
store during the war;, will say, and had
call upon the police hold the crowds of buyers in line
Yes but the price Of those blankets $3.50 The price
for these--same kind Of blankets-s $3.65!
The St. Johns herald., 1922-07-13
Try a pipeful
 or two direct
 from the factory

Not that it will be any better than the Edgeworth you buy in store, but we want you to have your first Edge worth smoke at our expense.
 You may repay us by finding that Edgeworth just suits your taste. And if it doesn't-for there are some few men to whom Edgeworth is not just the thing-there's no harm done.
 We are glad enough to send free samples in the same spirit that we'd hand you our pouch if circumstances permitted. We wish it were possible to save you even the little trouble of writing for Edgeworth.
 Edgeworth is a likable smoke. Men who have tried it and found it to be the right tobacco for them never think of smoking other tobaccos. They'll tell you there are many good tobaccos-and there are. And when you offer them your pouch with stranger" tobacco in it, they may use up a pipeful just to be friendly.
 But notice how quickly they get back to their beloved Edgeworthl
 Day after day Edgeworth fans write to us. They tell us human little stories, friendly anecdotes centering around Edgeworth. Often it is the number of years they have smoked Edgeworth that prompted them to write.
 Knowing how hard it is for the aver age man to write letters, we consider
 these unsolicited
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CHAPTER III.

He had not forgiven her four years later when he entered high school in her company, for somehow Ramsey managed to shovel his way through examinations a1d stayed with the class. He was uuable to deny that she had become less awful loOkln' than she used to be. Al least, he was honest enough to make a partial re- traction when his friend and class mate, Fred Mitchell. insisted that an amelioratiOn of Dora's appearance could be actually proven.
 "Well, I'll take 1t back. don't claim she's every last bit as awful lookin' as she always has been" said Ramsey, toward the conclusion of the argument. 'T'Il say this for her, she's awful lookin', but she may not be as awful lookin' as she was. She don't come to school with the edge of some of her underclo'es showin' below her dress any more, about every other day, and her eyewinkers have got to stick in out some, and she may not be so abbasalootIy skinny, but she'll haf to wait a mighty long while before l want to look at her without gettin' sick I"
 The implication that Miss Yocum cared to have Ramsey look at her, either with or without gettin' sick, was mere rhetoric, and recognized as such by the producer of it; she had never given the slightest evidence of any desire that his gaze be bent upon her. What truth lay underneath his four ish rested upon the fact that he could not look at her without some symp- toms of the sort he had tersely sketched to his friend; and yet, so pungent Is the fascination of self-in-
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Volcanic Disturbance of 1883 One of the Most Violent of Which There
 Is Any Record.

Krakatoa, a volcanic island In the Strait of Sunda, between Java and Sumatra, was in 1883 the scene of one of the most tremendous volcanic disturbances on record. The crater walls fell in, together with a part or the ocean bed, carrying with 1t two thirds of the island, which had total area before the eruption of 13 square miles, and creating two small islands, which subsequently disappeared. At the same time a gigantic ocean wave inundated the adjoining coasts of Java and Sumatra, causing a loss of 36,6OO lives and the destruction of 300 vil- lages. and then careered round the en- fire globe. The noise of the eruption was heard for a distance of 2,OOO and even 5000 miles. The occurrence like wise set up a series of concentric at- mOspheric waves, which travelled at least three times around the earth. The dust and other finely com minuted debris cast up by the explo- sion gave rise during three years or more to weird sun glows of wondrOus beauty, those seen in Canada and oth- CT parts of North America in Novem- Der, 1883, being especially grand.
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"Just gimme one chance to show that girl what she really isP'

CTO BE CoNTINUED0
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these unsolicited messages the great est tribute to Edge worth we could possibly have greater even than theincreasingsales. It gives the busi- N ness of making A tobacco a pleas
 ure that runs I through the whole gamut-
 from factory ex-
 ecutive to the
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WAS DIRE CONFUSION OF NATURE

of poverty. Also the question must be viewed from the standpoint of social progress.
 We must not live for self alone. Our duty must run further than self-pleas- ure and individual happiness. We must be constructive, not only because 1t is better for us, but also because It is better for all mankind. Let US be extremely careful in discOuraging prac- tices of thrift, even though it may seem that the individual Is denied certain ephemeral and fictitious pleasures Thrift Magazine.
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"MusleaI Calls" of Birds.

It is strange that ornithologists and musicians who give such credit to the rooster, Bob White and whippoorwin do not include among highly distinctive bird calls those of the crow, cardinal and catbird, for while most ordinary persons cannot identify the calls of the robin, wren, bluebird, finch, bunting and the like, it is not to be believed that anybody, once having heard the "caw" of a crow, the snake" of the catbird and the "chuck-chuck- chuck" followed by a long clear whistle which the cardinal gives out, could ever fail thereafter to recognize these calls. But it may be that those calls do not fall within the classified ton of what is said to be the musical calls"
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flicted misery, he did look at her, dur ing periods of study, often for three or four minutes at a stretch. His ex- pressiOn at such times indeed resem- bled that of one who has dined un- wisely; but Dora YOcum was always too eagerly busy to notice 1t. He was almost never in her eye, but she was continually in his; moreover, as the banner pupil she was with hourly ire quency an exhibit before the whole class.
 Ramsey found her worst of all when her turn came in "Declamation," on Friday afternoons. When she ascend ed the platform, bobbed a little pre- paratory bow and began, "Listen, my children, and you shall hear," Ram sey included Paul Revere and the Old North church and the whole Revolu- tionary war in his antipathy, since they somehow appeared to be the property of the Teachers Pet. For Dora held this post in "DeclamatiOn" as well as in everything else; here, as elsewhere, the hateful child's prowess surpassed that of all others; and the teacher always entrusted her with the rendition of the patriotic selections" 1"
 Rumsey himself was in the same section of disclaimers, and performed next-a ghastly contrast. He gave a ''selection from Shakespeare, assigned by the teacher; and he began this con
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sure they were mistaken aOOut Abra- ham Lincoln.
 He felt that 1t was just like this Ht- tie Yocum snippet to assume such a thing, and 1t made him sicker than ever to look at her.
 Then, one day, he noticed that her eye-winkers were stickin' out farther and farther.
 His discovery irritated him the more. Next thing, this ole Teachers Pet would do she'd get to thinkin' she was prettyl If that happened, well, nobody could stand herl The long Iashes made her eyes shadOwy, and 1t was a fact that her shoulder blades ceased to insist upon notOriety; you couldn't tell where they were at all, any more.
 A contemptible thing happened. Wesley Bender was well known to be the most untitdy boy in the class, and had never shown any remOrse for his reputation or made the slightest effort either to improve or to dispute 1t. He was content: it failed to lower his standing with his fellows or to i'm press them unfavorably. In fact, he was treated as one who has attained a slight distinction. It helped him to become better known, and boys liked to be seen with him. But one day, there was a encouragement of the seating in the schoOlrOom: Wesley Bender was given a desk next in front of Dora Yocum's; and within a week the whole room knew that Wesley had begun voluntarily to wash his neck the back of it, anyhow.
 This was at the bottom of the fight between Ramsey Milholland and Wes- ley Bender, and the diplomatic ex- changes immediately preceding hOstili- ties were charmingly frank, and un- hypocritical, although quite as mixed up and off-the-isSue as if they had been prepared by professional foreign office men. Ramsey and Fred Mitchell and four other boys waylaid young Bender on the street after school, in- tending jocosities rather than violence, but the victim proved sensitive. You take your ole hands off O mep he said fiercely, as they began to push him about among them.
 "Ole dirty Wes!' they hoarsely bel lowed and squawked, in their chang ing voices. Washes his ears! !" =. ''Washes his neckI" .. Dora YOcum told his mama to turn the hose on him ]"
 Wesley broke from them and backed away. swinging his strapped books in a dangerous circle. "You keep of !" he warned them. q got as much right to my pers'nal appearance as anybody"
 This richly fed their humor, and they rioted round him, keeping outside the swinging books at the end of the strap. "Pers'nal appearance !" 'Yow! Ole dirty Wes, he's got per s'nal appearance "Who went and bought it for you, West" ''Nobody bought 1t for him. Dora Yocum took and give him oneP
 'sYou leave ladies' names aloneI" cried the chivalrous Wesley. You ought to know better, on the public street, you-pupsl'
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TEAcHER's PET."

Synopsis.-With his grandfather, small Ramsey Milholland is watch ing the Decoration Day Parade" in the home town. The old gentle man, a veteran of the Civil war, endeavors to impress the youngster with the significance of the great conflict, and many years afterward the boy was to remember his words with startling vividness. In the schoolroom, a few years later, Ramsey is not distinguished for bPilliancy. He hates German even more than arithmetic.
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tinuous misfortune by stumbling viO- lently as he ascended the platform, which stimulated general giggle al- ready in being at the mere calling of his name. All of the class were bright with happy anticipation, for the mis- erable Ramsey seldom failed their hopes, particularly in Proclamation" He faced them, his complexion wan, his expression both baleful and horri- fled; and he began in loud, hurried voice, from which every hint of intel ligence was excluded:
 Most pOttent, grave and rev.
 The teacher tapped sharply on her desk, and stopped him. You've for gotten to bow," she said. "And don't say 'pottent' The word is potent"
 Ramsey fopped his head at the rear wall of the room, and began again:
 'MOst pottent potent grave and rev enerd signers my very nObe and ap- proved good masters that I have tan away this sole mans dutter it is nose true true I have marry dur the very headan frun tuv my lending hath this extent no more rude am in speech in speech-rude am I in speech-in speech-in speech-in speech"
 He had stalled. Perhaps the fatal truth of that phrase, and some sense of its applicability to the occasion had interfered with the mechanism which he had set in operation to get rid of the recitation" for him. At all events, the machine had to run off it's job all at once, or it wouldn't run at all. He gulped audibly. Rude rude rude am I-rude am in speech-in speech-n speech. Rude am I in speech"
 "Yes," the irritated teacher said, as Ramsey's failing voice continued husk- fly to insist upon this point. "I think you areI" And her nerves were a ht- tie sOothed by the shout of laughter from the schOol-it was never difficult for teachers to be witty. "Go sit down, Ramsey, and do it after school"
 His ears roaring, the unfortunate went to his seat and, among all the hi- lariOuS faces, one stood out-Dora Yo- cum'S. Her laughter was precociouS; ; 1t was that of a confirmed superior, in- sufferably adult-she was laughing at him as a grown person laughs at child. Conspicuously and unmistaka- bly,, there was something indulgent in her amusement. He choked. He didn't care for George Washington, or Paul Revere, or the teacher, or the President of the United States, or Shakespeare, or any of lem. They could all go to the dickens with Dora Yocum. They were all lot of smart ies anyway and he hated the whole stew of 'emI
 There was one, however, whom he somehow couldn't manage to hate. even though this one officially seemed to be as intimately associated with Dora Yocum and superiority as the others were. Ramsey couldn't hate Abraham Lincoln, even when Dora was chosen to deliver the Gettysburg Address" on the twelfth of February. Lincoln had said Government of the people, by the people, for the people, '" and that didn't mean government by the teacher and the Teachers Pet and Paul Revere and Shakespeare and suchlike; it meant government by everybody, and therefore Ramsey had as much to do with it as anybody else had. Beyond a doubt, Dora and the teacher thought Lincoln belonged to them and their crowd of exclusives; {; thev seemed to think they owned the whole United States; but Ramsey was
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True Thrift.

While it is true that thrift is not miserliness and that parsimony does not bring happiness or upbuilding, it cannot be disputed that judiciOus sav- ing forms the only basis of economic progress and lasting happiness. ThoughtleSs spending may bring transitOry joy, but such practices also come accompanied by. the torture of worry and the more tangible realities
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Uncle Eben.

'Tts dangerous to do too much ex- plainin'," said Uncle Eben, "'cause you never kin tell de point where de explainin' is gineter git so energetic dat it's jes' de same as quarrelin'."
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|. "Well, that's what call her, too, don't IT" "Well, do; that's all she is, anyway-dirty ole Teachers Pet l"
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An ounce of gold could be drawn into a wire 30 miles long.