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The Washington herald., 1922-12-18
Society Notes

CAPT. HENRY c. WHITE, sta
toned at Scott Field, Illinois,
is spending a week with Mrs.
White at the Hamilton Hotel
Mr.. Carter Glass and Mr.. and
Mrs Powell Glass. of Virginia, are
the guests Of Senator Glass at the
Raleigh Hotel.
Maj and Mrs. Parker wessDere
hosts at dinner yesterday.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Evans
Greene entertained at a reception
to meet the members Of the Ma
tional Concert Managers Associa-
ton yesterday evening. at 2601
Connecticut avenue.
Mark W. Potter. Interstate Com
merce Commissioner, and Mrs.
Potter will entertain a party of
ten at the supper dance at Ward.
man Park Hotel on Sunday eve
ming. December 81.
Mrs. Lewis Stewart entertained
at tea at the Lee House Satur.
day afternoon for her schoolgtrl
daughter. Miss Francesca Lewis
Stewart, who had with her
eighteen of her schoolmates
Invitations have been issued for
hA n To
Miss Cecilia Sherman McCullum,
daughter Of Mrs. Mary Sherman
McCallum, granddaughter Of John
Sherman. former Secretary of
State, whose home In Franklin
Park Is now the japanese Em-
bassy, to Chauncey G. Parker, of
New Jersey. The wedding, which
will be a small one, win take
place in st. Johns Church.
Mr.. and Mrs. Amos A. Steele
entertained at dinner in honor of
Mr.. and Mrs Raymond Ogden.
of Middletown, Va, who were
married at Middletown last Satur-
day. Mrs. Ogden Is a niece of
Mr.. Steele. The young couple are
spending part of their honey
moon In Washington and ara
staying at the Powhatan Hotel
Rear Admiral and Mrs. William
Fullam were hosts at luncheon
Saturday at the Hamilton Hotel.
having as guests Mrs. Elisha
Dyer. Of New York, for whom
they entertained: Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward Mitchell, Mrs. Philin
Lansdale. Captain Rigal, naval at
tache Of the French Embassy. and
Capt. Adolphus Andrews OF the
Mayflower.
Mrs. Marshall Field entertained
at luncheon Saturday at LIE Par
adis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sylvanus Stokes
were hosts at a dinner Saturday
At lie Paradi&
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speech q oovsrnor-eisct emirh wfnl
be broadcast. not only throuxhouf
the State. but direct 20 Prevalent
Harding IN the White House.
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Homemade Christmas Gifts on
sale all this week from Q. m. TO
p. m, for the benefit Of the lone
some Christmas Tree Activities, SaIe
conducted by the ladies Of the League
for the Larger Life in the pariors
Of the Hotel Buckingham, geo 18th
ut. N. W. facing McPherson square.
Donations received. Help . worthy
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HARDING 70 HEAR SMITH.

ALBANY. n. T. DEC. 17-Radio
snEtneers arriving here tonight
stated that they wsrs working on
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Ensign Elmer d. Snare. q. 8.
N, who is visiting in Washing
ton. is stopping at the Hamilton
Hotel.
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Mrs. Marshall Field entertained
at luncheon Saturday at LIE Par
adis.
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$50 to 7:so .. m-News itsm.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-18

Warren Gard. formerly a mem
her of Congress. from Hamilton,
Ohio. has come to Washington for
visit and Is at the Hamilton
Hotel
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Mrs. Delos A. Blodgett win en-.
tertain at dinner Christmas night.
Mr.. and Mrs Delos Blodgett I'd,
Of New York. will arrive in Wash
ington Friday to spend the holi-
days with Mrs. Blodgett. Col.
and Mrs. James L. Walsh, of
New York. will also be with Mrs.
Blodgett over the holidays.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Sylvanus Stokes
were hosts at a dinner Saturday
At lie Paradi&
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Mrs. Theodore Tiller. president
Of the District Of Columbia branch
of the League of American Pen
Women, and Mrs. Clifford Ire
land. wife Of Representative re
land. OF Illinois, were the guests
Of honor and speakers at the an
nual meeting OF the Rockville
Women's Club, held on Thursday
afternoon at Rockville, luncheon
following.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Trent
will entertain at the supper dance
at Wardman Park Hotel Decem
her 81 There will be covers for
sixteen.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-02-23
Writer Asserts That "Flu" Is Spread
by Practice Of ooffins the Hat
In salutation.

Influenza has always been widely
mysterious in its operations. Long
oco one of our warships was of the
west African coast, says London An
swers. when dense black mist ad-
vonced from the shore and swept over
tho vessel. All the men on deck al
the time we're stricken down with the
FIN: and little later the remainder
of the men and officers were attacked.
The ship was at once ordered home
and though many OF the cases were
complicated with pneumonia and bron-
chitis none, luckily, proved fatal. The
notients were treated with cinchona
bark and ammonia, which was then a
recognized formula for malarlal fe-
vers.
During the devastating epidemic OF
"fu," the Turks in Europe escaped be-
cause. it is said. they never removed
their turbans. The medical faculty OF
Vienna officially declared that infiu-
enza was largely due to the practice
of dofing hats in the streets. In sup
port of this contention, it was point
cd ont that the great majority Of the
victims were of the male sex.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-02-23
DOINGS OF BOY SCOUTS

Boy scouts will cooperate In the
planting of the memorial trees which
1t is planned to place all along the
main highway from New York to Buff
falo, as q memorial to the soldier
dead.
officers of Endicott Post, N. T.,
American Legion, have announced that
they are ready to back scouting to the
limit in the new Town Of Union coun-
ell. which will embrace Johnson and
Endlcott cities.
The boys Of Troop l of Carlsbad,
N. NJ, have been elected associate
members Of the chamber Of commerce
with q scout on every important COM
mittee of the chamber.
In order TO show the public just what
scouts do and why every boy should
be a scout, the Mansfield, Ohio, boy
scouts recently held demonstration
showing first aid, signaling, fire build
Ing and other scout activities. Special
stress was laid OH how to roll pack,
what to carry in 1t, how to put up
tent and the correct manne" OF sleep
ing in blanket.
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are mine and l am yours forever kiddo,
If you come around about friday eve
1t will be all right. aunt Jess will be
gone back home by then so come early
and we will get Sade and Alb to go to
the band Concert. Don't forget what
l said about my putting something
sweet in this note, and l hope you will
think 1t Is a sweet one but not as
sweet as the real sweet one l would
like to
At this point Ramsey impulslvely
tore the note into small pieces. He
turned cold as his imagination pro-
jected a sketch Of his mother in the
act of reading this missive, and of
her expression as she read the SEN
tence: ut is the sweetest thing now
you are mine and l am yours forever
kiddo." He wished that Milla hadn't
written "kiddo." She called him that,
sometimes. but in her warm little voice
the word seemed not at all what 1t did
in ink. He wished, too, that she hadn't
said she was his forever.
Suddenly he was seized with hor-
ror of her.
Moisture broke out heavily upon
him; he felt a definite sickness, and,
wishing for death, went forth upon the
streets to walk and walk. He cared
not whittier. so that his feet took him
in any direction away from Milla,
since they were unable to take him
away from himself-of whom he had
as great horror. Her loving face was
continually before him, and Its sweet
ness made his flesh creep. Milla had
been too sweet.
When he met or passed people, 1t
seemed to him that perhaps they were
able to recognize upon him somewhere
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CHAPTER Vl.-Contlnued.

Mila hung weightily upon his arm,
and they dawdled, drifting from one
side of the pavement to the other as
they slowly advanced. Albert and Sa-
die, ahead Of them, called good night"
from a corner, before turning down the
side street where Sadie lived; and
then, presently, Ramsey and Milla
were at the latter's gate. He went in
with her, halting at the front steps.
"Well, g'night, Milla," he said.
"Want to go out walking tomorrow
night? Albert and Sadie are"
II can't tomorrow night" she told
him with obvious regret. isn't it the
worst luck! l got an aunt comm to
visit from Chicago, and she's crazy
about playing Five Hundred and
mama and papa said 1 haf to stay in
to make four to play 1t. She's liable
to be here three or four days, and
guess l got to be around home pretty
much all the time she's here. It's the
worst luck!"
He was doleful, but ventured to be
literary. "Well, what can't be helped
must he endured. I'll come around
when she's gone"
He moved as if to depart, but she
still retained his arm and did not pre-
pare to relinQuish it.
well" he said.
"Well what, Ramsey?'
"Well-g'night."
She glanced up at the dark front
of the house. Il guess the family's
gone to bed" she said absently.
II s'poSe So"
"WeIl, good night, Ramsey" She
said this, but still did not release his
arm, and suddenly, in fluster, he felt
that the time he dreaded had come.
Somehow. without knowing where, eX-
cent that II was somewhere upon what
seemed to be a blurred face too full
of ,obstructing features, he kissed her.
She turned instantly away in the
darkness, her hands over her cheeks
and in a panic Ramsey wondered If he
hadn't make a dreadful mistake.
"S'cuse met" he said, stumbling to-
ward the gate. "Well, l guess l got
TO be gettin' along back home"
He woke In the morning to a great
self-loathiEg; he had kissed a girl.
Mingled with the loathing was curl
Gus pride in the very fact that caused
the loathing, but the pride did not last
long. He came downstairs morbid to
breakfast, and continued this mood
afterward. At noon Albert Paxton
brought him a note which Milla had
asked Sadie to ask Albert to give him.
"Dearie: / am just wondering If
YOU thought as much about something
so sweet that happened last night as
/ did you know what. l think II was
the sweetest thing. send you one
with this note and l hope you will
think II is q sweet one. l would give
YOU a real one If you were here now
and l hope you would think 1t was
sweeter still than the one put In this
note. 1t is the sweetest thing now you
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the marks Of his low quality.
"Softy Ole sloppy fool" he NUT
tered, addressing himself. "Slushy
ole muSh! Spooner!" And
he added, yours forever, kiddo"
Commissions seemed about to seize
him.
Turning a corner with his head
down, he almost charged into Dora
Yocum. She was homeward bound
from a piano lesson, and carried
rolled leather case of sheet music
something he couldn't imagine Milla
carrying-and In her young girls
dress, which attempted to be nothing
else, she looked as wholesome as cold
spring water. Ramsey had always felt
that she despised him and now, all at
once, he thought that she was justified.
Leper that he had become, he was un-
worthy TO be even touching his cap to
her! And as she nodded and went
briskly on, he would have given any
thing to turn and walk little way
with her, for 1t seemed to him that this
might fumigate his morals. But he
lacked the courage, and, besides, he
considered himself unfit to be seen
walking with her.
He had a long afternoon Of an
guishes, these becoming most violent
when he tried to face the problem Of
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-02-23
WEST VIRGINIA GOOD TURNS

The following are a few Of the good
turns rendered by troop and indi-
vidual scouts under the Clarksburg
council during 1921:
Paid rent for poor people In order
to keep them from being put out OF
their homes. Paid grocery bills for
other people. Gave $40 cost Of adopt
ing a Chinese girl for one year. Acted
as messengers at various conventions.
Distributed literature for various
causes. Put up posters and cards and
distributed handbills for Red Cross.
Bugled for auto show and chamber Of
commerce annual tour. Assisted In
health drive. Assisted In planting
trees. Gave service to Civic club and
Y. w. C. A. at various times. Built
and set up birdhouses. Erected booths
at church bazaars. While In camp as
sisted farmer in odd jobs. Acted as
gatemen without pay at athletic con-
tests other than scout activities. Put
up side curtains and secured wind
shield on automobile in order to keep
the rain out while owner was in office
building attending to business. Gave
entertainment to public during ami
versary week. Cut grass and kept
lawn on church property in good con-
dition. Cut grass on small park and
kept lawn In good condition for one
year. Worked In booth during better
baby week. Fifteen buglers sounded
calls for the V. f. R. on Armistice day.
Distributed Christmas baskets.
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The Friendly Path
By WALTER I. ROBINSON
SELFISHNESS
n HINK Of your tasks and not Of
l. vourSplf

n HINK Of your tasks and not Of
L yourself.
Most of those who find their daily
work monotonous and imagine they
could get much greater enjoyment out
of other employment would not be
likely to make any greater headway or
find greater pleasure in doing any
other job under the sun, unless they
first had change In their own view
point.
Usually 1t is not what one may be
doing, but the spirit in which II Is
done which makes work pleasant or
undesirable. When people are con-
stantly thinking Of self and placing
themselves above the Importance Of
the duty at hand, the task will seem
distasteful end inconseQuential, re-
gardless of how much its successful
accomplishment means to the world.
The story is told Of school teacher
who hated her work and was eX-
tremely anxious to become a nurse.
She complained that there was moth
Ing to her life but mile-long trip
between two ugly fences twice a day
and the intervening hours spent ip
teaching the same monotOnous lessons
over and over again. So she thought
1t would be so very lovely to don a
white cap and apron and devote the
remainder of her life to caring for
the sick.
Fortunately she stated her opinion
to clear-headed and broad-minded
physician and asked him to aid her in
finding employment as a student in
a hospital. When this man heard
why she wished to give up teaching
as a profession, he kindly told her that
she was temperainentally untitled to
be nurse, for nursing meant ex-
treme self-sacrifice. If she thought
80 much of herself that she couldn't
find enjoyment in the work Of making
good and able Americans through
teaching, due to her constant thoughts
of self, he contended that she would
have even a smaller chance Of getting
enjoyment out Of the nursing pro-
fession, which demanded more devo-
ton to others welfare.
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THE TWO BIG THINGS

In addressing a gathering of scout
leaders at Lansing, Mich, recently,
Chief Scout Executive James E. West
pointed out that the success of the
scout movement must fundamentally
depend upon two things-frst, the de-
sire of the boys themselves to be
scouts; second, the willingness Of the
right kind of men to give leadership.
He maintained that only as the scout
movement rang true to its ideals
could it get either the right kind Of
men or the boys themselves and asked
every executive present to test out
his plans for scouting, to see If they
contributed to one or the other or
both these fundamental necessities.
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7/IDDIES SIX
NOV% Y; VII, M. nauptp
AT EVENTlDE

TWO little shoes, rundown and
= worn,
Tossed in the corner over there;
Two little stockings, soiled and torn,
Lying beneath the rocking chair. .
One little sweater, one little cap,
Little knee pants, shirt once
white &,
All in heap, and in my lap
One little lad, his eyes shut tight.
Two little arms that round me twine;
Two sturdy legs worn out with
play;
One little heart that beats 'gainst
mine,
Full of JOY at the close Of day.
One little nightie donned at last,
Ready the lad for slumber deep;
One more day with its joytime past
! One little moment-then asleep.
Sleep, little boy, till the morning
breaks;
Dreamless sleep till the stars shall
fade,
And the rising sun ev'ry songbird
wakes
And music rings In the leafy glade.
Sleep, little boy, and watch the ward
Ger thy cot may the angels keep.
Safe in the arms Of the childrens
Lord
Sleep, little laddie-sleep, Sleep
sleep!
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Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-02-23
UNIFORM CIVILITY

TO BID welcome to the world when
L everything seems to be going
against you, is to exhibit the right
sort Of courage and to show yourself
capable of overriding difficulties.
Though frebrands may be thrown
across your pathway and backbiting
tongues assail you, if you still remain
amiable and courteous, you will
emerge from the ordeal unscathed.
Civility and all that 1t implies gives
you the staying strength to surmount
obstacles and to press forward In all
kinds Of weather.
Scowls, frowns and short answers
very frequently make Of the talented
and gifted, sorrowful toilers, while,
on the other hand, urbanity and
suavity elevate men and women OF
moderate attainments to power and
affluence.
Civility commepds itself to people
who know not its name, but recog-
nize it when they see 1t. The grabbed
old boor and the proud youth are now
and again arrested by Its soft answer
and smiling face, and even the rude
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-02-23

Something to Think About
By +. A. UALkER

vagabond will stop a moment when 1t
crosses his path and stare at 1t in
open-eyed wonderment.
In some subtle way civility touches
hearts and knlts mankind closer to-
gether, yet, despite this fact, it has
long way to go and a great deal
of hard work to do before it can over
take the masses and make them un-
derstand its true worth.
To those who are just starting
careers, and especially to the young,
good manners are as essential to
their success as good concentrations.
Indeed, politeness may be said to
be the better thing Of the two, for the
reason that 1t builds character and
makes 1t imposing in the eyes Of 9TH
ers.
There Is no time in ones life that
courtesy Of behavior in the treatment
Of others fails to win recognition.
The employee who is uniformly
civil, considerate Of his or her en-
ployer, and thoughtful Of associates
as well, is usually the first to win pro-
motion.
If you will think back, study cause
and effect, you will find as you reflect
that the greater number Of failures In
life had their beginning in incivility,
and that those who today are conspic-
uously successful in the arts, profes-
sions and industries were In their be-
ginning, and are now, habitually
courteous in words and acts.
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Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-02-23
THE FIRST KISS.

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 young
ster with the significance OF the
great conflict. and many years aft
erward the boy was to remember
his words with startling vividness.
In the schoolroom, a few years
afterward, Ramsey is not distin-
guished for remarkable ability,
though his pronounced dislikes are
arithmetic, "Recitations" and Ger
man. In sharp contrast to Ram
sey's backwardness Is the precocity
of little Dora Yocum, young lady
whom in his bitterness he denomi-
mates Teachers Pet" In high
school. where he and Dora are
classmates, Ramsey continues to,
feel that the girl delights to mani
fest her superiority, and the vim
dictiveness he generates becomes
alarming, eliminating in the reso-
luton that some day he will
SHOW" her. At a class picnic Ram
sey is captured bag and baggage
by Milla Rust, the class beauty,
and endures the agouies Of his first
love. Ramsey's parents object to
Milla and wish he'd taken up with
Dora Yocum.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-02-23
FoRTY.TWo BADGES AWARDED

On December 16, the Newark, N. j.,
council held its quarterly meeting In
the city hail. and 2S life and star and
seven Eagle badges were awarded.
Frank Dlorihy Of Troop 80, and George
Wagner, were given troop aid insignia.
Service badges were presented to John
Paterson and Paul Kraneter Of Troop
8, to William Perry Of Troop II, to C..
Brewer Woodward, Troop 7, and MIL
ford vieser, Troop 100. Deputy Com
missioner Hugo Cederhola and his son
Oscar, Troop SO, received Eagle
badges at the same time.
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RETAIN YOUR HEAD COVERING

A traveller found Influenza to be un.
usually severe in Mexico. where, as
he remarked, there Is so much hat.
doffing.
1t may be the case, however, that
such a large proportion Of males are
attacked because of the constant drain
on their vitality by the nature Of their
daily occupation. The writer was re.
Gently Informed by high medical au-
thority in London that Influenza epl-
denies Of late years showed the prin-
cipal sufferers to be male persons who
had reached the most active years of
their lives.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-02-23
Uncommon Sense
By JOHN BLAKE
ONE JOB Is ENOUGH

A YOUNG reader has asked US IL
"A he can study law and the violin
at the same time. He can. He also
asks If he can be great lawyer and
great violinist. He cannot.
A man who wants to be q great
lawyer is not going to have time to
master any musical instrument more
complicated than the penny whistle.
The law requires time and thought.
The violin requires time and practice.
Kubelik spent about eight hours
day with his fiddle. At the end Of that
eight hours his tired brain would re-
fuse admission to single page Of
Blackstone, even were his fingers not
too weary to hold the book.
No boy should study the violin with
a view to making 1t profession un-
less his talent Is such that he never
could be contented with anything else.
OF all the instruments in the world
Il Is the hardest to master, and none
but geniuses ever can prosper as we'll
by playing 1t as can any fairly
successful lawyer by following his
profession.
A very great illustrator, known To
the writer, discovered when he was
twenty-one years old that he would
have to stop trying to be a concert
singer.
He had a good voice and good musi-
cal ability. But he found that cult.
waiting one or either Of these would
take the time he needed for the study
of drawing. Because he quit the music
he became rich and famous.
Had he kept at it he might have be-
come a choir singer. or sung small
parts In musical pieces. But he never
would have got any further-a fact
he found out before it was too late.
Very few men can do any two things
very well. Nobody ever born can do
two things supremely we'll. Music Is
fine accomplishment and brings
much pleasure to people in other lines
of endeavor If they follow 1t with
moderation. But only musical geniuses
should specialize in it.
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Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-02-23
FROM PRESS TO CHURCH

Troop 40 Of Dayton, o., has, un-
der the leadership Of Scoutmaster
Ray Dibble, established a new mes
senger service in connection with the
church under whose auspices they are
organized. Whenever new church
bulletin or announcement comes from
the press, scouts are instantly on hand
TO deliver the literature to the MEM
bers OF the congregation.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-02-23
The Mummified Miner.

The collection of the Museum of
Natural History in New York has
been enriched by addition of a mum.
mified miner from Chile, which was
presented by the owners of the mines
where the body was uncovered. The
miner was after copper and had bur-
rOwed into the earth distance of IL
feet when he was caught by cave-ln
and buried.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-02-23

The young woman was intelligent
enough to know that what the physi-
clan told her was true. Hour after
hour she battled with herself to get
the right viewpoint, and finally she
won her battle over seltishness. Then
her work became enjoyable and she
did 1t so we'll that Its influence for
good was reflected in her life and her
smiles.
No work will make one happy If he
thinks more Of himself than his Job.
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