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to them and to their children that
It Is not astonishing that they do
not realize 1t.
The splendor of bearing. the tri-
umph Of knowing that from her
living and loving has sprung this
troop of bright-eyed, eager, re-
sponsive children, and that she has
given to Life these ringing voices
and joyous laughs, these rich heads
OF hair and dancing feet and busy
sunburned hands, is comparable to
no other richness In the world for a
woman! But too often financial
worry, physical breakdown, and
the contempt Of the barren. pros
porous, well-corseted sister next
door have been before her eyes to
make her feel, in her hurt and
puzzled heart, that the selfish.
sterile way is, after all, the way OF
wisdom and peace.
CHILDLESS WOMEN SLACKERS
I think we are beginning to learn
that this Is not true. And some
day all the world will know 1t. and
the chtldless woman will be a
Stacker" in the truest sense. and
the greatest crown and glory Of life
will be More Life. To give the
world men and women is to give it
no mere Stamp Collections or no
mere Theory of Mathematics. Why,
children are the world. and the
woman with children is part owner
of the universe!
THIS is no mere fallacy Of a
sehtimentalist. who happens to
love to hold a lumpy new baby in
her arms. and who feels that there
is no altar more wonderful than
that altar in a darkened, pain
filled room, where a child gives his
first little cry and where a Mother
Is born. This Is the fundamental
truth, and the greatest nation Of
the future will be the nation that
realizes II first. the nation that
guards its children as II does It's
public buildings, the nation OF men
and women who feel that . baby
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brides announcements must be en-
graved and not printed!
Whatever else he thought, or
didn't think, our distinguished
guest would regard us as having
exactly one priceless. one exquisite
and extraordinary thing. and he
might be surprised to find how
lightly we regard 1t, and how wan
tonly we waste 1t.
He would realize, what we do
not, that the reason we are all
here, the reason that there is a.
world. is because there Is life. 1t
Is Life that is immortal. not
French mahogany and African dia-
monds. The smallest child that
dies hungry and wet and dirty in
a London slum is more precious.
In the great scheme Of things to
which we and the stars belong,
than the Romanoff coronet or the
treasure of the Vatican.
And our visitor would see this,
coming from realms where Life,
where Greater Livingness IL the
All. He would look at US in stupe-
faction. saying to himself:
Their complexions-the tiny
bits Of painted canvas on their
walls-the infinitesimal laces shut
into infinitesimal boxes--the petty
admiration Of their gabbling. stupid
neighbors-these things are more
TO this poor. demented people than
Life.
And he would hunt out some sim.
pie, wonderful woman in your
town and mine, some woman with
little sons and daughters gathered
about her, and with a tiny baby
in her arms, and her breast brim-
ming with the glory and beauty of
motherhood, and her he would
envy, and worship. and enthrone.
wOMAN'S ONE KINGDOM.
For that is our one Kingdom, as
women, and that is the greatest
Kingdom In the world-and per-
haps in any world. The living.
NAyssssiass presence Of Life In our
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Bv KATHLEEN NORRIS

is more valuable than a Percheron
or an Airedale.
Whether our white gloves this
year have black markings on their
backs or white, and whether we
adopt the English custom of end
ing formal dinners with "savory"
or continue to stop with ice cream
and CHI hocolate cake, are. Of course,
questions Of international import
ance.
But when these are settled, could
we begin to discuss the absurdity
Of Bottles for Babies?" Could we
- be the first nation in the world that
felt that combating hunger and
want and preventable illness for
our tiny, precious, irreplacable
citizens was as nice as collecting
Rubens or learning to smoke?
Could we work toward a govern
ment recognition Of the women
who bear magnificent little boys
any girls. and could we-by the
potent argument that they are
worth the money-being ourselves
to respect, admire and envy the
mother of sons and daughters?
POWER OF MOTHERHOOD.
You fortunate mothers Of many
children, begin the good work your
selves. Rejoice in them, boast
about them, and let the first emo
ton that attends the knowledge
that the present baby is about to
be ousted from his sinecure be one
Of pride and Joy.
Eliminate from your lives all the
articles and empty conventions
that have been put there by idle
and barren women. and make your
home simply a safe, efficient, hap
py place for the children. They
are your excuse for the fact that
the plain deal table Is washed
after every meal. and that you
have dispensed with table cloths;
they are your reason for not Join.
ing the Dante Society. and for
dropping chopped nuts and stuffed
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sharply,
"The thing that I cannot under
stand II why Miss Katherine Dur
fee should play such q prominent
part In this affair. Why. that g1ri
was blind drunk when she came
here and tried to get liquor.
eft 10 possible that she might
have got mad because she could
not get any and then told the
officers"
And Mr.. Downes declared. with
emphasis:
"spite work and jealousy! Just
because my wife is the best cook
in Bradford, and entertains most
Of the wealthy parents Of students
on commencement day!
And Miss Durfee, half smiling,
half fearful, repeats:
"I did 1t for the honor Of the old
schooIr'
And-oh, but the president, prin.
cipal, faculty and students are glad
that the school year Is closed az
last! When the school reopens
there will be more to be said.
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Chief Roberts had her sworn in
rs a dry agent, gave her a flask
and the girl went after the evidence
like a trained sleuth.
At the home Of the Supervisor
Of Music and Church Organist
Herbert w. w. Downes, Just across
the road from the academy. she
charges that Mrs. Downes filled a
flask for her for 81.
SOLEMN PRELIMINARIES.
Dry agents then raided tho
Downes home under the leadership
of Mrs. Hannah Brigham. the first
woman officer to head a raiding
party, and found a small quantity
of liquor, they assert, and ar
rested Downes. The raid was a
scandal in the college. which is the
oldest women's educational institu-
ton In New England, II not in tho
country.
Mr.. Downes denied ownership Of
the liquor. and even more vigorous
ly denied selling any. United
States Commissioner Hayes refused
to issue q warrant or hold Mr..
Downes. terming him q victim Of
circumstances.
The raid. Miss Durfee said, who
10 now teaching rhythmic express
sion at the Noyes School. was
planned in the Roberts home. at
No. IL Park street, Brookline. Tho
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m r course the next genera
ton will have its own
~ amazing inventions and
discoveries" said one Of us-ono
of US parents In tho early forties.
I mean. when we were all discus
sing tho age and the children the
other day, but It IL hard to i'm
agine what they arc to ber'
And We began to review the
achievements Of our own genera
ton, and to tell tho unbelieving
youngsters about the days when
electric light-that same light
that illumines whole cities and
creeps so brilliantly today into
the humblest homes-was the
novelty called "the incandescent
light" and when motor cars were
"horseless carriages docs any
one else remember those tiny PEN
and-ink sketches Of them in the
funny little magazine that used
to be "Vogue7'D. and when the
telephone was still exciting, and
before the movies and radio were
In existence.
We don't feel very old, we
children of the eighties. and yet
all this has come in our day.
WELL" somebody suggested, in
answer. perhaps the next big
thrill will be when we get in
touch with a star"
We were talking in the star
light, and we all looked up at
the velvet blackness above us, and
the solemn great tapestry of the
planets, and the Milky Way lying
like a scarf very low and very
close across the brighter constel-
lations, and something OF the aw-
full, inspiring beauty of that posi-.
bility came over us all.
Our world-this little floating
speck in space-sending out its
greeting into the big unknown,
and convulsed in Europe, in
China, in the smallest African or
Brazilian village where there Is
man. by receiving a reply!
What would we learn from that
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By KATEHLEEN NORRIS:

It is Life that is immor-
tai, not French mahogany
and African diamonds.
The smallest child that
dies hungry and wet and
dirty in a London slum is
more precious, in the great
scheme of things to which
we and the stars belong,
than the Romanoff coro-
net or the treasure Of the
Vatican.
Some day the childless
woman will be a slack
er" in the truest sense,
and the greatest crown
and glory of life will be
More Life. To give the
world men and women is
to give it no mere Stamp
Collection or no mere
Theory Of Mathematics.
y 4 +
There is no altar more
wonderful than that altar
in a darkened, pain-filled
room where a child gives
his first little cry and
where q Mother is born.
And the greatest nation of
the future will be the ma
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return Of alumnae for commence
ment exercises caused the college
authorities to fear a repetition of
the flask parties that had become
common gossip. according to the
girl raider. in the institution.
She decided to protect the fair
name Of the academy. she said, and
so volunteered to Chief Roberts to
get the evidence.
THE GIRLS STORY.
Here Is Miss Durfee's own story
of the scandal:
IT went to Mr.. Roberts office
in Chauncey street and was sworn
in as a special deputy. I was a
prohibition officer for just one
night. And one appearance in that
role was quite enough.
"other officers were there and
had to raise my right hand and
swear. Then Mr.. Roberts gave me
a flask and / went back to the re-
union OF my class, which was be-
ing held through COMMENCEMENT
week."
Incidentally. the flask which Miss
Durfee used in collecting the evi-
dence was the same vessel cap.
tured by former Dry Agent Harold
B. Wilson in his famous hotel raid
in Springfield last New Year Eve.
With the flask snugly reposing
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ed to its traditional place In safe
keeping. Katherine said she stfll
played the part Of a frightened
student. She explained to the wom-
an, she said, that she was afraid.
and asked her to go to the door
and see II the coast was clear for
a quick, clean getaway.
Then went on Katherine:
MRS. Downes went to the door
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Ks i'm STOCKINGS OF FIAAPPERS AT EXCLUSIVE SCHOOL
BRINGS ARREST OF CHURCH ORGANIST AS RUM SELLE

the world. I just hate It."
Tears welled in the eyes Of the
brave sleuth at the thought. and
then she told OF the grief she felt
for the girls, younger even than
she, who she said had been staging
drinking bouts at the college she
loved so well. making its fair name
a mockery.
JOYOUS WELCOME.
Then Katherine laughed at the
reception which she said her class
mates gave her when she returned
triumphant with the full flask to
them. She continued the narrative
with a smile:
II showed them what had got
and they all crowded around and
clapped their hands, but wouldn't
let them touch IT. not a drop, for
I knew It had to 60 straight to
Mr.. Roberts, my chief. the prohibi.
ton enforcement director.
THAT night locked the flask
in my bag and hid it under the
bed. and then next day, commence.
ment day. brought 1t into Mr..
Roberts office.
IT didn't get chance totell Miss
Marion Coates. principal Of the
academy. as she was busy with the
other members Of the faculty on
the platform.
But before i went over to get
the stuff I told Miss Coates that I
had been selected. and she said:
why Katherine! You. Of all
girlsr"
Ransome Pingree. a trustee Of
the academy and attorney for the
institution, is directing the inside
investigation Of the situation which
has brought the traditions and
morals Of the academy into ques-
ton in the courts-and the press
and he is determined to learn who
gave the first tip to the Federal
authorities.
The trustees are firm In their in
sistence that. despite the charges.
there has been no drinking In the
academy. The tiny silver TASKS OF
LIQUOR which the students are re-
ported to have carried In their
stockings never existed. or II they
did. the school authorities never be-
fofe heard Of. much less saw them.
TRUSTEE AMAZED.
For Mr.. Pingree, trustee and
lawyer, declared:
"It is all news to me. l was
dumbfounded when picked up
the papers and saw that Mr..
Downes had been arrested, and
that rumor had 1t that our girls
were staging wild parties.
"I am certain that the rumors
are not true. We are very careful
With the girls in our school.
They are not allowed out to
leave HaverhiIl without proper
chaperones. They are not allowed
to mingle with the residents OF
Bradford. They are not allowed
to 60 to tea houses that are not
approved by the school officials.
"It stands to reason that they
would not have been permitted to
go to the house Of Mr.. Downes
II We thought there was any
thing wrong going on there"
Miss Marion Coates, principal
of the academy. was indignant
over the affair and made no ef'
fort to conceal that emotion. but,
aside from issuing-a general de-
NAL, she merely referred all
questions to Mr.. Pingree.
Aftsr being freed by United
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where flappers usually carry their
containers. Miss Durfee was ready
for the big adventure, and shortly \
after midnight Tuesday she start
ed out.
she told the other alumnae and
students as she was slipping out
OF the house to wait up for her, as
there m ght be something good
and exciting" .~ .s
Brave in a sport skirt and knit
ted sweater. with her bobbed hair
Tapping in the night wind, Rather
inc, girlish Of figure, clear of COM
plexion and guileless Of manner.
the young deputy looked for all
the world like any OF the girls at.
tending the academy. She went
OH with the tale Of her adventures:
"I rang the bell at Mrs. Downes'
house and Mrs. Downes opened the
door. Then I pulled out the silver
flask and asked her II she would
fill 1T for. me.
SAID PARTY WAS ON.
1T pretended to be very much
afraid of the college authorities
and told her that she must not
let any Of the faculty know about
It, for 1t would get me in trouble.
That's all right Mrs.
Downes told me. 1T would mean
a great deal more trouble for me
than for you II this sort Of thing
was let out
I'VE were standing in the hall
way near the door and then we
moved out toward the kitchen.
Mrs. Downes asked me IL I be-
longed to the college.
"'Yes. I said. we are having a
little party over there and We just
want little moro to finish up
with
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planet II some day va began TO
communicate with one? Might that
be a world that had really believed
in It's Master, had never known
torture and starvation and wars
and pestilence and famine? Or
might II be a world even less ad-
vanced than ourselves7 For we
do make occasional struggles to-
ward the light.
And what would q visitant from
that other planet think about US?
Did II ever occur to you to
imagine logically what he must
think about us, in one particular?
This visitor. studying us with none
Of our deep-rooted. long established
stupidities and prejudices to blind
him, would look with a perfectly
indifferent eye upon the things we
treasure.
He would see in Jewels only bits
Of stone; in fashion only a most ex-
traordianry custom Of cramping
our bodies; In magnificent fur
niture only annoying impedimenta,
and in our much manipulated food
I'm bits OF animals and roots and
milk Of cows all heated and chop!
ped and divided upon bits Of color.
ed china) only a sort OF universal
insanity.
THE PRICELESS GIFT.
He might think grand opera
strange-little creatures pretend
ing to be something else, and
screaming and paradins in dark.
crowded rooms, to the noise Of
small brass tubes and wooden
boxes covered with horse.hair and
cat-gut. And what he would think
of such things as feathers, finger
bowls, buttons, foutain pens, head
ache powders. servants liveries,
bracelets, embroidery. pillow shams
and pate-de-foi-gras makes one
dizzy to imagine
Imagine yourself trying to ex-
plain to him why machine-finished
silver forks are so much cheaper
than hand-finished ones, and wss'
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Captured Foxes Play
With Police Dogs

LEwIsTowN, Pa, July "a
Sheriff A. c. Rendering has three
fine red foxes at large in the yard
Of the county prison here. They
play all day long with . brace OF
police dogs obtained by the sheriff
several weeks ago.
The foxes are half grown and
were caught in . den in the Seven
Mountains section ~ Howard
Ksaxps-
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homes, rather than the dusty, stale
accumulation of what Is dead.
Everything else may be bought
and sold, may have value today,
beauty today, and may be trash
tomorrow.
But childhood. the tender. mar.
velous little structure of delicate
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flesh and blood, the awakening
eyes, the exploring feet, the little
voices taking a stronger and
stronger part in the family coun.
cils-that Is the true richness, and
the only miracle we ever will know.
Women do not believe that now.
and civilization has been 30 unjust
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and looked out and beckoned to
me that everything was all right.
I said goodnight to her and went
back to the house where the othe7
girls were waiting up for me in
keen anticipation. The filling OF
the flask cost me 81.
Right here / want to say that
didn't taste a drop Of the hard
stuff. 1 wouldn't touch 1t for all
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eggs permanently from your bills
of-fare.
You don't know how powerful
you are. You don't know how other
women feel. in their hearts, when
you say conclusively:
"Ah. but you haven't children!
And we have four, you know"
You let some other childless
woman shame you. make YOU
who are four times a millionaire
feel inferior. But, believe me, she
goes on to her Dante Society with
a primordial jealousy within her,
with a pain as old as all history
gnawing at her heart.
After all, II my mother had pre-
ferred Dante. and yours had, you
and would not be meeting today.
And what about Dante's mother7
I wonder II she rebelled. and talked
1t over with some neighbor, and
suffered the neighbor's superior
pity. and regretted that now she
probably couldn't buy that bright
red peplum, It would look too
ridiculous!
Copyright, ls2s. BY Republic Syndicate.
This L. one Of . series Of Woman
to Woman Talks on present day
family and social problems that
Mrs. Norris, America's best loved
and most popular woman writer, Is
writing especially for The Wash
ington Times. Another talk will
be printed next Sunday.
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CAY GIRL GRADUATE,
PRESENT AT PARTY,
TURNS DRY DEPUTY
wife of Church OrganiSt Held i'm Raid Denies
Charges of Implication, and Declares Girl
Sworn as Sleuth Was "Blind Drunk" when
She Tried to BUY Illicit Spirits. '

BOSTON, July %.
<<TNLAPPER FLASKS,'' mounted in silver and gold
and each capable of containing gill of gin, in
- spred investigation Of bootlegging in exclusive
Bradford Academy that is producing dramatic results
Here few of the developments already record:
IA girl graduate, in a prohibition enforce
officer caused the arrest of the supervisor Of
music and church organist Haverhll seller of liquor
to flapper students.
s1-The supervisors wife involved in the charges
81 and the supervisors home raded by liquor
squad, led by
C-Evidence brought out that the girl students
staged hilarious rum parties nightly in the historic
academy and the fapper flasks declared to be a
scandal of the campus
IThe church organists wife, denying the charges
X serts that the pretty volunteer seuth "blnd
drunk" when she tried to buy the illicit spirits.
The raid made after Miss Katherine Durfee graduate
student who lives at the Brookne home Of Prohibition
Enforcement Director James p Roberts, told him that sk
stocking flask parties of public discussion on
the campus and that she knew where the "booze
bought"
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MAIDENS' HOSE HID
NECESSARY STUFF"
=. FOR FLOWING CUPS

Historic Academy Scandalized BY Hasks
Tucked i'm Silken Stockings and Rum
Parties, Which, by Evidence Brought Out,
Were Staged Nightly With Much Hilarity.
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SCENE OF FLAPPER FLASK PARTIEsLHere in his
torc Bradford Academy old New England center feminine
culture modern appers said have staged wild hooch
parties each contributing to the flowing bowl from TASKS
tucked in sken stockings girl graduate sworn in as
led to conducted by Mrs Hannah Brigham pictured
above,
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Milford chronicle., 1922-10-20
BROWNSVILLE

Mrs. Pearl Voss was suddenly TAX
en- very ill Saturday and an ambu-
lance was called and she was taken
to the Milford Emergency Hospital,
by the advice of DR.. Chipman.
Miss Addie Barker Of Harrington
has been spending some time with
her sister, Mrs. Helen Bullock, who
has been on the sick list.
Will Price still remains very i'll at
his home, near Melvin's Cross Roads.
Miss Mildred Brown gave party
to a number of friends recently.
There is too much Sunday cider
drinking around some neighborhoods,
and it should be looked into as it will
make drunks, as well as whiskey.
Mrs. Mollie Tatman was a Denton
visitor Saturday last.
Stanley Wyatt and Russell Brown
went duck hunting last Monday at
the beach.
People are almost done seeding
wheat and then comes the husking
bee and pumpkin pie.
Burton Cartwright and mother mo-
tored to Wilmington and spent the
weekend with her daughter.
Miss Louise Tatman has entered the
Harrington High School.