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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-10-15
P. G. WODEHoUSE
Tells the Story of the
Reunion of Twin Souls.

assass,nate Leuin with j REVOLVER
You know that IL our grea, national
sport. trying to assassInate Lenin
with rewolwers--and the bang puts
Trotsky of his stroke. and he goes
five yards past the hole, and then
Lenin. who is rather shaken Won
| understand. he misses again himself.
| and We win the hole and match. and
I clean up three hundred and ninety
six thousand rubles. or FIVE dollars in
your money. And nor let me tell
you one other VARY funny s-ory--''
Desultnry conversation had begun
| in murmsIrs over the rest Of the room.
as the Wood Hills intelI-ctuals po-
litely endeavored to conceal the fact
that they realized that they were
| about as much out of it at this re-
union of twin souls as cats at a dog
| show
AS for Adeline. how shall I describe
her emotions? She was stunned. Be
fore her very eyes the stone which
| the builders had rejected had become
the main thing. the hundred-to-one
shot had walked away with the race.
! y
! bert Banks flooded her heart. She
saw that she had been all wrong.
| Cuthbert. whom she had always treat
ed with a patronizng superiority. was
T, really a man TO be looked up 10 and
| worshipped. \ deep. dreamy sigh
shook Adeline's fragile form.
Half an hour later Vladimir and
Cuthbert Banks rose.
/ 'Goot-a-by. Mrs Sme.-thirst.'' sail
the celebrity. "Zank you for a most
| charming visit Ny friend Cootaboot
! and me. we go now TO shoot a few
holes. You will lend me cio5s. friend
Cootaboot."
ANY you want
THE niblicksky is what use mos.
Goot-a-by, Mrs. Smet-thirst''
They were moving to the door. when
Cuthbert felt light touch on his arm.
Adeline was looking up at him ten
| Derby.
May I come. too. and walk round
| with you?"
Cuthbert's bosom heaved.
"Oh." he said. with a tremor in his
voice, that you would walk round
with me for life"
Her eyes met his.
Perhaps" she whispered softly, "it
could be arranged"
X x X :,
s. n Nd SO" Concluded the Oldest
"A Member) you see that golf can
be of the greatest practical assistance
to man in LIES struggle. Raymond
Parsloe Devine. who was no player.
had to move out of the neighborhood
Immediately. and is now, ] believe.
writing scenarios out in California
for the Flicker Film Company AIDE
line is married TO Cuthbert, and II
was only his earnest pleading which
prevented her from having their cid
est son christened Jock Hutchinson
Rib-Faced Mashie Banks. for she is
now as keen a devotee of the great
game as her husband. Those who
know them say that theirs is a union
so devoted. So
The sage broke off abruptly. for tn.
young man had rushed to the door
and out into the passage. Through
the open door he could hear him cry
ing passionately to the waiter t.
bring back his clubs.
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outset Of ones career should not be
held against one who has eventually
seen the light.
''Nastikoff no good" said Vladimir
Brusiloff coldly. He paused, listening
to the machinery.
"Nastikoff worse than Sovietski.'
He paused again.
1T spit me Of NastikoR!" he said.
This time there was no doubt about
It. The bottom had dropped out Of the
market, and Raymond Parsloe Devine
Preferred was down in the cellar
with no takers. It was clear to the
entire assembled company that they
had been all wrong about Mr.. Ray
mond Parsloe Devine. They had al
lowed him to play on their innocence
and sell them pup. They had taken
him at his own valuation and had
been cheated into admiring him as
a man who amounted to something,
and all the while he had belonged to
the school Of NastikoH.
Mrs. Smethurst's guests were well
bred and there was, consequently. no
violent demonstration, but you could
see by their faces what they felt.
Those nearest Raymond Parsloe dost-
led to get farther away. Mzs.. 1mst-
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BE cLAssED A xPuEEF Rosr.

literary reception he had been COM
PEELED to attend since he had landed
in America on his lecturing tour, and
he was sick to death Of it. When
his agent had first suggested the
trip ne had signed on the dotted line
without an instant's hesitation.
Worked out in roubles. the fees Of
fered had seemed just about right.
But now. as he peered through the
and realized that eight out of ten of
those present had manuscripts of
some sort concealed on their persons
and were only waiting for an oppor-
tunity to whip them out and start
reading, he wished that he had stayed
at his quiet home in Mini Novgorod,
where the worst thing that could
happen to a fellow was a brace Of
bombs coming in through the VIM
dow and mixing themselves up with
his breakfast egg.
At this point in his meditations he
was aware that his hostess was loom
ing up before him with a pale young
man in horn-rimmed spectacles at
her side. There was in Mrs. Smet-
bursts demeanor something Of the
JUNCTION of the master of ceremonies
at the big fight who introduces the
earnest gentleman who wishes to
challenge the winner.
"Oh, Mr.. Brusiloff." said Mrs. Smet-
hurst. Il do so want you to meet Mr..
Raymond Parsloe Devine, whose
work expect you know. He is one
If our youngest novelists."
The distinguished visitor peered in
Il wary and defensive manner through
the shrubbery. but did not speak. In
wardly he was thinking how exactly
like Mr.. Devine was to the eighty-one
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about the room, searching for some
one capable of coming to the rescue
2:,e drew blank.
And then. from a distant corner,
there sounded a deprecating cough.
and those nearest Cuthbert Banks
saw that he had stopped twisting his
right foot around his left ankle and
his left foot around his right ankle,
and was sitting up with a light al
most of human intelligence in his
eyes
''Er." said Cuthbrrt. Flushing as
every eye in the room seemed to
fix itself on him. Il think he means
Walter Hagen and Jock Hutchinson"
walter Hagen and Jock Hutchi-
son." repeated Mrs. Smethurst. blankly
II never heard Of"
''Yais! Yais! Most. Very" shouted
Vladimir Brusiloff enthusiastically.
"volterragin and Yarker Sheeson.
You know them, yes. what. no, per-
haps?"
1--WE played with Walter Hagen
often. and 1 was partner with Jock
Hutchinson in last years open"
The great Russian uttered cry
that shook the chandelier.
You play in re open? Why" he
demanded Of Mrs. Smethurst, was !
not been introduced to this young
man who plays in opens?"
We'll, really" faltered Mrs. Smet-
hurst. Well. the fact is. Mr.. Brush
She broke Off. She was unequal
to the task of explaining, without
hurting any ones feelings, that she
had always regarded Cuthbert as a
piece OF cheese and q blot on the
landscape.
'Introduct me- Numbered the celeb
rity.
why. certainly, certainly. OF course.
This is Mr. she looked appealingiy
at Cuthbert.
Banks" prompted Cuthbert.
Banks" cried Vladimir Brusiloff.
Not Cootaboot Banks7"
is your name Cootaboot?" asked
Mrs. Smethurst. family.
well, it's Cuthbert"
"Yais! Yais! Cootaboot:" There was
a rush and swirl, as the effervescent
Muscovite burst his way through the
throng and rushed to where Cuthbert
sat. He stood for a moment eying
him excitedly. then. STOPPING swiftly,
kissed him on both cheeks before
Cuthbert could get his guard up.
MY dear young man, I saw you win
re French open. Great! Great! Grand.
Superb! Hot stun. and you can say I
said so! Will you permit one who is
but eighteen at Mimi Novgorod to
salute you once more?"
And he kissed Cuthbert again. Then,
brushing aside one or two intefiec-
tuals who were In the way, he dragged
up chair and sat down.
You are a great man. he said.
''Oh. no." said Cuthbert, modestly.
''Yais! Great. Most! Very! The way
you lay your approach-putts dead
from anywhere"
Mr.. Brusiloff drew his chair closer.
Let me tell you one VARY funny
story about putting. It was one day
play Nijni-Novgorod with the pro
against Lenin and Trotsky, and Trots-
ky had a two-inch putt for the hole.
But just as he addresses the ball,
some one in the crowd he tries to
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Cuthbert wondered whether he had
had bad news from home.
This was not the case. The latest
news which Vladimir Brusiloff had
had from Russia had been particular
ly cheering. Three Of his principal
creditors had perished in the last
massacre of the bourgeoisie. and
man whom he had owed for five
years for samovar and a pair of
overshoes had fled the country and
had not been heard of since.
1t was not bad news from home that
was. depressing Vladimir. What was
wrong with him was the fact that
this was the eighty-second suburban
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There was a painful sensation. The
lot Of a popular idol Is In many ways
an enviable one. but 1t has the draw
gone tomorrow. Until this moment
Raymond Parsloe Devine's stock had
stood at something considerably over
par in Wood Hills intellectual cir
cles. but now there was a rapid
slump. Hitherto he had been greatly
admired for being Influenced by
Sovietski. but it appeared now that
this was not a good thing to be. 1t
was evidently a rotten thing to be.
The law could not touch you for being
Influenced by Sovietski. but there is
an ethical as well as a legal code,
and this It was obvious that Raymond
Parsloe Devine had transgressed.
Women drew away from him slight
ly, holding their skirts. Men looked
at him consciously. Adeline Smet-
hurst started violently and dropped
a teacup. And Cuthbert Banks, doing
his popular imitation Of sardine
in his corner. felt for the first time
that life held something OF sunshine.
Raymond Parsloe Devine was plain
ly shaken. but he made an adroit at
tempt to recover his lost prestige
"When say l have been influ-
enced by Sovietski, mean of course.
that I was once under his spell. A
young writer commits many follies.
have long since passed through that
phase. The false glamour of Soviet
ski has ceased to dazzle me. I now
belong whole-heartedly to the school
Of Nastikoff."
There was a reaction. People nodded
at one another alphabetically. Aft
err all, we cannot expect old heads
on young shoulders and q lapse at the
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Continued from Second Page,

CONTINUED from Second Page)
enormous quantities of beer con-
sumed on the little island. West
Croydon proved to be even more in
me conditions in Industrial centers.
while it gave me an opportunity to
run up to London as often as 1
pleased. since 1t could be reached IN
half an hour by train and in an hour
by bus. The expediting that is An
American habit is wholly unknown
there. There seems to be no prog
ress: only a looking backward. a safe
walking in the paths worn by the
feet OF the past.
WHILE waiting to enter West
w minister Abbey for the funeral
services Of Lord Northcliffe 1 be-
came acquainted with the engineer
on the stan Of that noted Journalist
He invited me to come up to London
to see Carmelite House and the me-
chanical end of making one of the
papers. the Daily Mail. He piloted
me through the various departments,
from the linotype rooms to the rotary
presses.
While standing before these mar
wells OF engineering he remarked:
by the way. We bought every bit OF
this machinery in America" In an
swer to my simple word, "Why?" he
replied: Because you fill An order
quickly and because you make the
best presses on the market" And yet
England has fostered and developed
printing and has encouraged writing
until it has reached perfection.
From the manager Of the depart
ment Of household linens (sheets and
towels) in one Of the oldest and most
reliable linen houses in London I
learned that his weekly wage was
fa.15 ts12.ss at the present rate Of
exchange). plus a commission of one
half Of per cent on the sales he
made. He supported a family on that
wage and had to dress well properly
to fill the position he held. There
was no future in his position. and.
on account Of the general depression
in business, no certainty Of tenure,
for men are being laid on every day.
He is already past middle life and
still clings to his rosy dream Of some
time saving enough to take him to
one Of the colonies, where oppor.
tunities still come to . man. All
those workers dream of some time
leaving England, and there would be
q general exodus, except for the fact
that few ever get enough money
ahead to pay for the passage. They
must remain in England.
After years of training a girl may
become an expert typist and stenos-
rapher. but she can even then not
expect more than ESQ a year, q sum
that is not worth $500 in our money
In all my conversation found the
subject of children paramount. The
parents have no faith in the public
schools. and they plan and save from
their meager earnings in the hope Of
sending their children to q private
school in order that they may be
fitted to hold better position than
tho father holds. This means an out
lay Of four to six guineas four times
q year, with additional fees for
swimming. music, dancing, tennis,
ETC., totaline at least $50 q year.
This eRost 70 educate the child means
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lifetime of strict economy on the
part of the parents.
England does -excellently well b.
schools and universities can scarcely
be surpassed. but for her masses she
is doing little. Would that the
earnestness Of British students Were
| a part Of our splendid schools il
America. We have everything in our
schools except the moral earnestness
that makes for real education. We
! are surfeited with too great an
abundance-have los. our appetites
from a too rich diet.
So * x
THE evidence OF unemployment in
i England is never better demon
strated than by the long lines Of
men and boys and girls and women
that pass through the labor ex-
changes each week to obtain each
his or her unemployment dole, a
married man receiving five shiliings
q week "a little over 81.
II there any city this side Of ancient
Rome that does not find It necessary to
tear up its street pavements for repairs
at least once a year? In England they
are Just beginning to use the electrical
drill for this purpose. and there is
tragedy in its Introduction, for two men
and a drill can do the work Of twenty.
The eighteen others stand on the side
walks in crowds that make progress al
most impossible and watch with curious
hao ,etn hot
takes the bread from the mouths OF
their hungry children. It's a queer
sight and it moves one to pity. just as
the sight Of the ex-service man too
often does.
In Trafalgar Square l saw one of
these unemployed men wearing upon his
breast three Of the highest decorations
granted in this late war-the congress
sional medal OF honor. the Victoria
Cross and the cross OF the Legion Of
Honor. That man was selling bars OF
chocolate in an effort to make a living
The Enslishman has q dogged endur-
ance that wins approval. and many of
his foibles should be overlooked in
recognition Of the bedrock Of character
which keeps him true to form In spite
Of any adversely.
When all is said and done, there is a
charm about England that is almost in
def1nable, charm that only time. and
tradition. and breeding achisos In their
silent but gracious way, and this charm
fingers always in the memory OF those
who have lived for even brief space
close to the heart of her people. AL
ways at twilight shall hear the air
break into q mist with bers, and aoune
time shall return to hear their Chin
ing clearly as the soft shadows fall.
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THIS has no reference to the "

THIS has no reference to the wild
plans that have from time to
time been exploited for extracting
gold from sea-water, but II relates
to the attempts made in Queensland
and New South Wales to recover
gold and other precious metals from
the sands on the seashore. The treat
ment Of these sands has been under
taken, it would appear, with some
promise of success Not only gold
but platinum and. uranium have been
found It is thought that the metals
ind their way to the strand from
submerged rocks which are broken
and triturated by the violent waves
&1Ailing the coast. -
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back away if somebody suddenly
asked him what he thought of the
somber realism of Vladimire Brusilof..
1t is little wonder that he tossed in
bed. picking at the coverlet, through
sleepless nights. and had to have all
his waistcoats taken in three inches
10 keep them from sagging.
y X Y X
THIS Vladimir Brusilof to whom i
i have referred was the famous
Russian novelist, and, owing to the
fact OF his being In the country
on lecturing tour at the moment.
there had been something Of boom
In his works. The Wood Hills Lit
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Aristotle recommends. but there arc
limits. In the ancient Greek TRACE
dies II was An iron-clad rule that all
the real rough stuff should take place
off-stage. and shall follow this ad-
mirable principle. 1t will sufiice II
I say merely that J. Cuthbert Banks
had a thin time. After attending
eleven debates and fourteen lectures
on vers libre poetry. the seventeenth
century essayists, the Neo Scandinav-
ian movement In Portuguese litera-
nature. he grew SO enfeebled that, on
the rare occasions when he had time for
q visit to the links he had to take full
iron for his mashie shots.
It was not simply the oppressive
nature Of the debates and lectures
that snapped his vitality. What really
got right In amongst him was the
torture Of seeing Adeline's alteration
Of Raymond Parsloe Devine. The
man seemed to have made the deep
est possible impression upon her plastic
emotions. When he spoke. she leaned
forward with parted lips and looked
at him. When he was not speaking
which was seldom-she leaned back
and looked at him. And when he
happened to take the next seat to
her. she leaned sideways and looked
at him. One glance at Mr.. Devine
would have been more than enough
for Cuthbert: but Adeline found him
q spectacle that never palled. She
could not have gazed at him with q
more rapturous intensity II she had
been a small child and he q saucer Of
Ice cream All this Cuthbert had to
witness while stu endeavoring to e.
tain the possession Of his faculties
su0sisasiy - enable him . duck snA
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table and working away with a nib
lick, the afternoons session had to
b classed as q complete frost. Mr..
Devans's determination, from which
no argument could swerve him, to de-
liver the rest Of his lecture In the
coal cellar. gave the meeting q jolt
from which It never recovered.
have dwelt upon this incident, be-
cause Il was the means Of introducing
Cuthbert Banks to Mrs. smethurst's
niece, Adsline. As Cuthbert. for 1t
was he who had SO nearly reduced
the muster-roll Of rising novelists by
one, hoped down from the table after
his strike he was suddenly aware
that q beautiful girl was looking at
him intently. As q matter OF fact,
every one In the room was looking at
him intently. none moro 50 than Ray
xnond Parsloe Devine, but none OF the
others were beautiful girls.
Long ~ the members Of Wood Ellis
Literary Society were on brain. they
vere shert on looks. and. to cuth-
berte excited eye, Adeline Smethurst
stood out like . Jewel In . Pile Of
coke. He had never seen her be-
fore. for she had arrived at her aunt's
house on only the previous day. but
he was perfectly certain that life.
even when lived In the midst Of grav.
81 soil. main drainage. and company's
own water, was going to be . pretty
posr affair II he did not see her again.
Yes, Cuthbeft was In love; and 1t 10
interesting to record. as showing the
effect Of the tender emotion on
name game. that twenty minutes
afssr he had met Adeline he did the
sAeee eleventh In one end e near -
Q tsueAsr esS . thsso sa tho lse-gAs1
sx4lA,
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EPIDEMIC OF ACCIDENTS.

sunday seemed To Ice a bad day for
accidents for the residents on the Ores
den Road. three families on that road
being injured in automobile accidents.
Ina addition 20 the accident TO Mrs. G.
n. Rutter. Mr.. and Mrs. Burley Phelps
and two of the teachers of Hickman
College had their can run into by an
other car near Jordan, Mr.. Phelps sus-
tanning a cash in his cheek and other
bruises, his wife receiving slight bruis-
es, also the teachers, one of whom Miss
Carpenter. suffered broken tooth. The
Windshield was demolished Ca the
same day AIRS. W. J. Harper received
slight bruises ana her son, John IIar-
per, sustained wrenchcd shoulder,
when their ear went into ditch
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DORENA NEWS.

sunday School was conducted by Mrs.
Mamie Dick. y good crowd was pres
ent.
Miss Retha McDade' spent Thursday
night with Miss Befana ByasScc
The singing school TINT il being
taught at the Bayou school, Is progress
ing nicely.
AIRS. J. W. Allen. Mr.. Marcie Futch
ana Mrs Stella Hall spent Sunday with
Mrs. Will Green.
Mrs. Lola Pickett. MIR. Marshall and
Charlie, and Mis-, Esther Green were
the guests of Miss Mae Pui~ton sunday.
MIR. and Mrs Doe Pickett have been
spending a few days with the latter :
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. j. j. Dick.
Mr.. and Mrs.. Goel,lc webb and Mrs.
Nannie Dick spent sunday with Mr..
Mary ByaSSec.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul DoSs spent the
week with the attcr'~ parents. Mr..
and Mrs. H. J.. Forgey.
Misses LYDIA Pickett, Bcfanu ByaSSee,
Rctha Mcpadc and Jim ChildreS. Andy
PolSton. Swuyc and John Pickett spent
SUNDAY with Miss Ncruie White and
ben White. Jr.
Mrs .. n. Franks l. on the sick list
Miss Befana Byassec i ou the sick
list
Henry Everett, who has heen sick
for some time. is now improving.
Singing services were held al Locust
Grove Church sunday afternoon at 3
O'Clock. by BRO. AusbOn.
Miss Marguerite DoSS spent Friday
night with her sister. Mrs. Lucy Byas
see.
Mr. and Mrs. W C. Bryant motored to
East Prairie sunday.
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An enjoyable affair of the week was
the bridge and rock party given on Mon
day evening from 40 To 10 80, by Mrs,
+. Dobson i'm honor of her sister-in-law
and guest. Mrs. Martyr TorhnOr, Of
Franklin. Tenn. There were eight Ia
bles Of bridge and three OF rock. The
bridge prize. pretty blue vase, was
won by Mrs. Karl Talley. while the con-
sofia ton prize. a tiny kewpie. was won
10y Mrs. Anna Sims. The guests were
Mrs. Torhnor, Mesdames Dee Mcneil,
Karl Tslley, Delbert ChOate. Milton
Spradlin, Guy Hale, Jr,, b. NJ. Maddox.
W. H. lsait1er. Henry Sanger, Chester
Bondurant, r. II. Prather, SIR, w. y.
Dodds. Jessie Dillon. Herman Bradley,
Il. L. Bradley. Joe Engel. J. G. Nor
rison. y. 4. stephens. Rob Copeland, +
:. Moore, III. y. Cowgirl, Sr,. Alex
Stone. Olney Johnson, T., j, Stair. Mack
Reid Edward Prather, Jr.. G. Nj. Rey-
nOlds. Anna Sims. ID. l.. Aquino, BOlin
Roney, Goalder Johnson, III. L. Amberg.
+. T. Randle. j. III. Russell. Ben Briggs,
and Misses Allie DOdds. Carrie Male
Reid, Frank Reid, nellie Bondurant. Es-
;her Bartlett, Mary Hollan. Helen Ham,
by. Jane BinfOrd. Mildred Thompson.
The Out-Of-town guests were Mrs. w.
y Eaker and Mrs. Hardeman Howard,
Of Fulton.