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CHAPTER I
Avoiding Danger-By Request

Through the suave, warm radiance
OF that afternoon Of spring in Eng
land a gentleman of modest and com
monty amiable department bore rue
fuI countenance down Piccadilly and
he introduced II to one whom he
found awaiting him in his lodgings
much at ease in his easiest chair
making free with his whisky and to-
bacco, and reading a slender brown
volume selected from his shelves.
This person was patiently an Eng
lishman The other was as unmistak-
ably Of Gailic pattern, though he
dressed and carried himself in thor
oughIy Anglo-Saxon fashion.
The Englishman dropped his book
to the floor beside the chair, uprose
and extended cordial hand. exclaim.
ing: Hare ye, Monsieur Duche-
MINI"
well. for the matter Of that: How
are you. Mister Merthelmer?"
Their hands fell apart. and Mon
sieur Duchemin proceeded 10 do away
his hat and stick and chamois gloves.
pretty way you've got Of making
your friends wait on your pleasure.
Here I've wasted upward Of two hours
OF His Majest's time ."
How was I to know you'd have
the cheek to force your way IN here
in my absence and help yourself to
nv few poor consolations2" Duchemin
retorted, helping himself to them in
turn. "But then one never does
know what fresh indignity or danger
Fate has in store
There are some things one knows
very definitely You aren't forget
ting you have given that Smolny lot
reason for holding your name an
athema?"
"Ahr' Duchemin growlcd-"as for
me. I can take care Of myself, thank
you
"Manr' the Englishman declared
solemnly you're superannuated.
You're nearly 4O-next door to second
childhood"
~ know. and so long rs I feel my
years, even you can abuse me with
impunity."
But Wertheimer would not hear
him. odd" he unused. Il never
thought Of It before, that you are
growing old. You're just doddering-
and I thought you were simply tired
out and needed a holiday"
Perhaps I am and do" said Duche-
min patiently. "One feels ono has
earned a holiday. If ever anybody do
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gone slack and soft with easy living.
A keen sun, darkened his face and
hands, brushed up in mis- cheeks a
warmer glow than they had shown
in many n year. and faded out the
heavier lines with which Time had
marked his cOuntenance.
Moreover, because this was France,
where one may affect a whisker with
out losing face, he neglected his ra-
zors; and though this was not his
first thought, a fair disguise it proved
Rain at length interned the trav-
eler for three days in a little place
called Meyrueis, long leagues rs
mote from railroads and the world
they stitch together.
And for all this mood OF premature
resignation to the bourgeois virtues
Duchemin was glad enough when his
fourth day in Meyrueis dawned fair,
and by eight was up and away, pur-
posing a days tramp to Montpelier
le-Nieux concerning which one heard
curious tales>)
Rumor had prepared him TO know
the place when he saw it, nothing for
its stupendous lunacy. Heaven
knows what CONFUSION or measured
process of nature accomplished this
thing. For his part Duchemin was
unable to accept any possible scien-
tito explanation. and will go to his
grave believing that some half-witted
cyclops created Montpellierle-V ieux in
an hour Of idleness. building him a
play of titanic monoliths, then wan
dered away and forgot it altogether.
When abruptly a man moved from
behind a rock some thirty or forty
PAGES ahead. Duchemin stopped short,
with tangled nerves and a barely
smothered exclamation. Possibly a
shape of spectral terror would have
been less startling; in that weird place
and hour humanity seemed more IN
congruous than the supernatural
It was at once apparent that the
man had neither knowledge Of nor
concern with the stranger For an
instant he stood with his back to the
latter. a stout body filing out too
we'll the uniform of a private soldier
in the American Expeditionary Forces
that most ungainly, inutile. unbe-
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The Raggedies
BIZ JOHNNY GRUELLE

Aha! Now I have you, Raggedy
Ann and Raggedy Andyr' cried Fred
die Fox as no jumped out into the
path and caught the two Raggedys
by the arms. You come with me
back to the little house where the
two funny little old women live
But we do not care to return
there said Raggedy Ann.
That does not make any difference
whether you wish to return or not.
said Freddie Fox. THE two funny
little old women told me that If I
caught yoT and brought you back
to their house. so that they could lock
you up in their iron trunk. they would
give me a great big mince pie"
But If you take us back to the
two funny little old women and they
lock US up in their iron trunk, don't
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Marriage a la Mode

Among the wedding presents
which certain saveges present
their brides are a collar, formed of
a leather thong. a kettle and a pile
of wood.
The symbolism implied by the
collar is that she is to do all the
drudgery. The kettle signifies that
she is to dress all the food, and
the pile of wood that she Is to
carry all the firewood.
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GIRLS! LEMONS
BLEACH SKIN WHITE

Squeeze the juice of two lemons
into a bottle containing three ounces
Of Orchard White, which any drug
store will supply for a few cents,
shake well, and you have a quarter
pint of harmless and delightful
lemon bleach. Massage this sweetly
fragrant lotion into the face, neck,
arms and hands each day, then
shortly note the beauty and white
ness of your skin.
Famous stage beauties use this
lemon lotion to bleach and bring
that soft, clear, rosy-white com
plexion, also as a freckle, sunburn,
and tan bleach because it doesn't irri-
observation-disclosures
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CHAPTER II
4 City OF Lunacy

"a little place called Le Monastier.
IN pleasant highland valley fifteen
miles from lie Puy notable for
freedom of language. and for unparal-
leled political dissension." was Mr..
Stevenson's point of departure on his
Travels With a Donkey" Monsieur
Duchemin made 1t his as well.
The weather was fine. his heart
high. he was happy TO be out Of har-
ness and again his own man.
Constant exercise tuned up muscles
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ALUMNI WILL MEET
BIZ Timss SneciaI

FIT. WAYNE. Ind, Sept. 11.-Dr
Charles J. Sembower. dean Of men
and professor of English at Indiana
University. will be the principal
speaker at the picnic TO be held by
Indiana University alumni, former
students. extension students and
friends at Swinney park Sept. Is.
Word Of this effect has been received
by Clarence R .NIcNabb. chairman
Of the program committee.
Other speeches Will be made by
Charles NJ. Meier, university trustee.
and Clarence O'Deu Miller, a recent
graduate
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WOMEN FORMING
ANTI-DRY LEAGUE
Citizens Liberty League to
Fight for Restoration of
Beer and Wine.

MILWAUKEE,, Wis, Sept. IL
Literature opposing prohibition Is
drawing national attention to an or
ganization said to consist of Wiscon-
sin women with national headquarters
here under the name of the Citizens
Liberty League, which displays this
slogan:
Act now if you want a return of
beer and wine"
Observers have commented on the
fact that the customary qualification
Of light" is omitted by this organi-
cation in its propaganda for the res
toratjon Of wine. In addition to fight
ing prohibition it is the announced in
tention Of this association to war
upon the so-called blue" laws.
Anxious for Peoples Liberties"
The league states in italics that 1t
is organized to oppose all puritanical
legislative interferences with the lib
critics of the people"
Mrs. NJ. Roller, general secretary, is
in charge. She said that the league
had between 1000 and 10, 900 members
and that it could make considerably
more progress than has been recorded
thus far if it had sufficient money.
The literature Of the organization
consists Of a four-page folder. Under
an engraving Of the Statue Of Liberty
is a sixty-four-w word procurement
against prohibition attributed to Alb
raham Lincoln.
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10 Be Continued.)
INVITES OTHER GROUPS
Department Club Asks Writers and
Press to Reception.

Edgar Guest Is to be the guest Of
the Woman's Department Club at 8:45
o'clock Wednesday evening. The
board Of directors Of the department
club has invited the members Of the
Writer'S Club and the Woman's Press
Club of Indiana to be present at this
meeting in the clubhouse on n. Merid-
ian st.
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coming costume that ever graced the
form Of man.
Then he half turned, beckoned
hastily to one invisible to the OBJ.
server and furtively moved on. AS
furtively his signal was answered by
a fellow who wore the nondescript
garments Of a peasant. And as sud
denly as they had come into sight,
the two slipped round a rocky
shoulder. and the street Of monoliths
was empty.
TO Be COntinued)
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SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES.
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A Talk To Mothers.
Not Frivolous,
But Thoughtful Mothers.

Each winter season brings coughs,
colds, catarrh, pneumonia, ''tlu", and
tuberculosis. Loving mothers dread
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The Ladies Aid Society OF the Mora
Wan Episcopal Church will meet
Wednesday afternoon at the home of
Mrs. Fl. S. Romminger on Sutherland
.&va
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-04-16

various correspondents and writers
l have met in Europe
Americas chances to develop are
limitless.' said Col. Repington. 1.-The
enormous foreign population should
be utilized. The characters and
events in the past 400 years Of his
tory in every European country af-
ford a vast laboratory for the liter
airy worker. The foreigners in Amer
lea should be encouraged to delve into
this sort of thing"
Then Col. Repington spoke Of the
fact that Americans never walk, his
ideas of women in politics, and again
very strongly of our lack of leisure
class. and with that the boy from
the porters desk announced the taxi
for the dining gladiator. as he is ia
cetiously called by his confreres in
London because Of his continual ref
erence to the interviews he has had
at dinner. at luncheon and at tea here
and there and everywhere in Europe.
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"HAVING NO LEISURE
HAVING INO -ITIOUNT
I"YOU CAN EXPECT NOTHING
GREATINA ART ORLETTERSFR FROM
AMERICA"-AN INTERVIEW
WITH COL. REPINGTON,
JOURNALIST.

that after they leave college there
is no time for prolonged study or
thorough absorption of knowledge.
"All men must work or receive
condemnation of disrespect. Men
who have done we'll in business keep
at it; they hate to let go. They hate
to lose track. All men say, I must
amass a fortune No one says. I
will produce great literary work"
1t is physically impossible for Amer
leans to produce anything worth
while In literature, because such work
must be fostered by a leisure class
At this point we depressed into
conversation concerning walking
sticks. He says that in. America a
man who carries a walking stick is
considered either a cripple or an i'm
beetle. Whereas in England men
wear walking sticks with as much
concern and as much unconcern as they
wear their shoes.
X X X
"WHY. it is only in the small con-
w fines of the city of London "a
district in London) that men go about
without walking sticks, shifted thu
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Light Pressure.

SCIENTIST who has been study-
ing the effects of the scattering
of light by atmospheric molecules
finds that the force concerned is iden-
tical with what is usually called the
pressure of light" There is, he says,
a widespread impression that light
pressure acts only on particles the
linear dimensions of which include
several wave-lengths of light. but
this is not correct. The determining
factor. it appears. is the extinction OF
light, whether by scattering or abb
sorption. Since propagation of mo-
mentum accompanies the transmits
sion of light, the momentum is de-
stroyed whether the molecules act as
scattering or as absorbing centers.
The extinction by scattering near the
surface of stellar bodies does not
however, appear to be sufficient to
cause any measurable effects com-l
parable with their gravitatisa.
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as expressed to the personages whom

X 4 \ X
THERE were many things I should
like to have said to him. l should
like to have spoken Of some of the
mutual friends we had in Europe. !
should like to have talked with him
of Gen. Phillips, the British general
of the Balkans. whom several times
! dined with and teaed with in Scutari,
Albania. and whom i knew Col Rep
ington must have dined with and teaed
with.
l wanted to speak to him of the
British general in command of the
army of occupation at Cologne, Ger
many, whose box / occupied one night
at the opera. l wanted to speak to
him of many little personal things
like this-the things he likes to talk
of with men that he interviews.
But to get back to the interview
Col. Repington feels that our hope
lies in women's clubs. 1t is just pos
sible that this journalist. because of
his lecture tour, knows more of WON
ems clubs than of any other attempt
at organization within the country.
l spoke of our schools, our modern
educational methods. Since his Wis
it's to America have been so exceed
ingly short, of course he has had no
time to Investigate our numerous ac-
tivities. He spoke of desire to look
into our, educational system ard of
an interest in many things within
our country which he has not had
time to consider.
Concerning the Americans who
travel in Europe, I asked him. They
were butterflies. he said. skimming
the surface of things. For the mo-
ment I was glad that Col. Remington
does not number among these the
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w s GU: ss;,'. to e W: : s's:%
that they are the
largest. the finest and the best
equipped in the world. And we have
asserted this so often that most of us
are convinced of it. Nevertheless, in
their service and especially in their
are far ahead of even the smartest
places in our big cities
Coming from Charles Gehring, edi-
tor of the New York Hotel Review,
this is rather startling. But he has
ample evidence to sustain his state
ment. And as he has just returned
from another of his periodic Euro
pean trips, he speaks with the author
ity of recent observation.
Mr.. Gehring does not offer any spe-
cific criticisms of our hotels. In
many respects he, admits they are
marvellous. But they are not the un-
paralleled institutions Americans in
general imagine them to be. He tells
why:
X X X X
ttrHE cuisine of the highest class
1 hostelries in Europe excels the
hest we have to offer, for the simple
reason that they are not handicapped
by refrigeration plants. They buy
their food supplies from day to day,
which means that what they serve is
fresh. Our big restaurants keep enor-
NOUS supplies of food on hand, with
the result that fresh vegetables, for
instance, are comparatively rare.
The average great American hotel
has $4,000 or $4,000 worth of food
on hand. as compared with $1,000 or
$4,000 worth carried by the average
flrst-class European hostelry.
.sThere Is no question about it, the
use of refrigeration plants makes our
cuisine distinctly inferior to that of
the continent. We can and do bring
over their best chefs, but without
flesh foodstuffs they can do little"
Mr.. Gehring. despite his experience
in all departments Of the hotel BUSH
ness, seemed unaware Of the two
fundamental reasons for the superb
GRITTY Of European, and particularly
French, cooking to American. The
first Of these is the palate; the second
is butter. These two. butter and the
palate, are the twin columns which
support the mighty edifice of the
Gallo cuisine.
The F'renchman knows good food
and he demands it. He demands it
vigorously and not infrequently- pro-
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Artificial Carnphor.

TT is said that in the United States
there is an establishment for the
production of artificial camphor, this
being intended to compete in the mar
ket with the natural substance. most
of which comes from Japan and For
mosa.
sential oils derived from turpentine.
Chemically the only difference be-
tween turpentine and camphor is the
possession by each molecule of the
latter of one atom of oxygen, which
is lacking in the former. BY chem
ical process the needed oxygen is
supplied.
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fanely. He will invoke the name of
a dog. a pig. a COW and the Deity to
express his wrath when the sole is
UNDERGONE or the ragout too watery.
The European restaurateur. serves an
preparations to the taste that can dis
criminate.
But he would be powerless to pay
this homage were he not cognizant
of the secret of butter. An American
who during the war was in the
French army informed me. Even at
the front, unless the commissaire had
brought up fresh butter. no butter
was used in the cooking. II there
was fresh butter and that other kind
which we designate cooking butter
the chef doled out the latter to spread
nm the bread or to consume raw with
the hors doeuvres. Unless there hap
pened to be a surplus Of the former.
But the sauces must be made of the
freshest butter or no sauce would be
made.
ucERvICE in the expensive Euro
y pean hotels also is superior to
ours" Mr.. Gehring continued. "The
best trained servants Of the conti-
nent do not ,enigrate to America.
They remain where they are. We get
tbe ones who are discharged for in
competence. if we get any trained
ones. The adventurer comes to us
the man who is, not satisfied to re-
main long In any one place. Our big
hotels have few American-born en-
ployes. They depend largely upon
immigrants from central and south
ern Europe, and no matter how care
fully they are schooled here they do
not equal the trained employees Of an
average high-ciass continental hos
telry.
gwen in equipment our hotels are
NOT superior to some OF the newer ho-
tells in France. Our architects utilize
every bit Of available space to better
advantage than the architects ct the
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Not in America" Says Editor Of
Hotel Review, Explaining Why He
Considers the Much-Abused European
Establishments Superior to the Ameri-
can In Comfort, Convenience and
Service.

majority of the continental establish
ments, but they do not provide the
maximum of comfort. The rooms in
the best European places are not
only larger but better furnished but
when it comes to bathrooms. another
feature in which we are supposed to
lead the world, we are hopelessly out
classed. The bathrooms of the de
luxe continental hotels are as large
as the average American hotel bed
room. And their plumbing is years
ahead of ours.
"You .see," the editor went on, ''our
hotels are put up solely to make
money. Every bit of space is utilized
to the utmost. In Europe ground
rentals are less and there is less need
Of crowding. The result is larger
guestrooms and more spacious
lounging and dining rooms. Take
the site Of the Grand Hotel in Paris.
1t is more than twice the size of the
site of either the Commodore or the
Pennsylvania in New York. Those
hotels have more than 1000 rooms;
the Grand Hotel has only 500.
the advantage of ours in their weekly
pay rolls. The majority of hotel en-
ployes in Europe do not receive any
pay at all. Their living comes from
tips At one of the smart hostelries
in Nice where 1 stopped for several
days with Col. Charles Consolvo l
discovered that the monthly pay roll
was only $4,000, scarcely one-third
the monthly pay roll Of Col. Consol-
vo's hotel in Norfolk, Va, which has
less than half as many employees.
~ ~
ADUT because of these advantages
= do not go to Europe this sum-
mer expecting to have an inexpensive
holiday" Mr.. Gehring warned. Ho-
tel prices are almost as high as they
are here. despite the advantage in
exchange. There Is nothing cheap in
Europe that is any good. OF course,
it IL possible to stop at third-rate
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