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Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1922-03-07
Infant Buried Today

The funeral of James W. Stinch-
comb. two-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Paul E. Stinchcomb, who died
Yesterday at the residence of his par
ents. 112 Charles street. was held
from that address at 8 o'clock this af-
ternoon. Services were conducted by
Rev. Edward d. Johnson. rector of st.
Anne's Church. and interment was in
st. Anne's cemetery.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1922-03-07
SOCIETIES TO COMBINE
IN SUPPER AND BAZAR

The Ladies' Aid Society and the Ep-
worth League of Calvary NJ f. Church
will combine TO hold a threenights
supper and baZar next week on the
evenings of Tuesday. Wednesday and
Thursday. March IA, Is and 16.
The young people of the League will
do most of the work in connection
with the affair and are planning to
have some interesting novelties that
will surprise the visitors.
Mrs. T. J. Linthicum is head of the
Ladies' Aid Society and Reid Jones is
president of the Epworth League.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1922-03-07
.ND0N5HINE"
PLANT FOUND
At LAKE SHORE
,.5.,,I Dry Agents Seize
y.,,3 New Two-Hundred Gal
s,ll And Ingredients On
~. Swift Farm In Upper
County Section
,yprST MAN AS RING
leader OF OPERATORS

DIS agents swooped down
,-u II r } Swift Company,
shore upper Anne Arundel
erlr Baltimore city. yesterday
l.rl tll aud a quantity
uar II 'he making The
81. conducted by Agents Ford,
Hrman and Lindholm.
Ia shapiro one of four men
tap luldiug in which the
located. was locked up at
#rrll Police station. Baltimore.
,r. eum,nt before United States
...aurr Supplcc today. shapiro
.f,l 10 BE- The head of a gang
operated the still
tupd neW Disabling outfit. which
hive cost according to the
s. more than $4,000. together
$500 gallons of grain mash. Is
a., 10 alcohol. 100 pounds OF
rr and about 1000 pounds Of
.r.al corn. also were found. The
sa sugar and corn were de-
r,ti
Samuel and Abe Millstein. brothers.
conduct a store at Lake Shore.
.ag With John Johnson. colored.
-,sr 10 the automobile. were nOti-
~ IS appear before the Commission
= today samuel Millstein was
.,lhi week ago by city police.
8 Pc !, alleged 10 have been trans
rrng moCnshfne whisky. and is un-
,- Sioo bail for court action.
Nrlne 20 the agents the plant
& ne Swift farm was the most com
500 81 any they had seen. 1t was
b basement of the old mansion
ae place 4 floor Of concrete had
,,fa newly laid and concrete drive
sns Rtre constructed for use of
'ru5a> \ steam boiler had been
se3 10 "cook" the mash. and
r7 detail % nm up-to-date distil-
t7 vas IL evidence.
~ carn WHISKY found was said to
a'' been 'he first run of the new
which II was stated. had been
eetgd only last Friday and re-
'..e. an older ana smaller still. The
| ana mansion are in an out-of-
ttonttnued ON Pare ~
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1922-03-07
NORTHEAST CITIZENS
ORGANIZE FIRE CO.

Charles W Tucker, of this city.
president of the Maryland Volunteer
Firemens Association. yesterday visit
ed Northeast. Cecil county. where he
delivered an address and participated
in the organization of volunteer fire
company there The company also
ioined the State association.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1922-03-07
RED CROSS GARMENTS
TO BE READY SATURDAY

Mrs. Carryl Bryan. head Of the An
napolis and Anne Arundel county
chapter of the Red Cross has an.
nounced that the persons who are go.
ing TO make garments for the Red
Cross Near East Relief may get them
at the Red Cross rooms at the end
Of the week. The garments are being
cut at present and will be ready by
Saturday.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1922-03-07
STORM RESIDENCE OF NEGRO
WHO RECENTLY MOVED
INTO A "WHITE BLOCK"
,Bv The Associated Press1

BALTIMORE. MD, Mar. Harry
T. Pratt, (colored) principal of a
negro public school. and his family.
moved into a house on Sanford Place
in solid white block last Saturday
night Today the front of his new
home is a wreck. Every window is
shattered, front door barely banging
on it's hinges. blue and red ink spat-
tered over the marble steps-all the
result of white residents of the neigh
borhood storming the house with
bricks and pistols early today in re-
sentiment of the negro's invasion"
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1922-03-07
FLORIDA WOMAN HELD
FOR HUSBANDS MURDER

LELAND, FLA, Mar. Acting on
information which the authorities
state was furnished by the Ku Klux
klan, Mrs. Alice r. Shields was ar
rested today at Saint Cloud with a
warrant charging her with the mur-
der of her husband. William II.
Shields. formerly of Moline. H.. who
was shot and killed near here Feb. 6.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1922-03-07
CHANGE IN DATES OF
BIBLE LECTURE SERIES

Owing TO conflict in his engage
ments Prof. Alphonso Smith. heat
of the Department of English at the
Naval Academy. finds ii impossible
to being his series of four lecture.
on Biblical characters next Friday a.
he had planned. Doctor Smith
whose first lecture will be on "Abra
ham," will deliver il at the Y. w. {
A. on next Tuesday. March Ia.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1922-03-07
WILL PREACH TOMORROW
AT ST. ANNE'S CHURCH

The Rev. Or. c. Sturges Ball. who
is to preach in st. Anne's tomorrow
evening at 7:30, is member of the
faculty of Goucher College. DR.. Ball
was until recently a Congregational
minister. but has been ordained in the
Episcopal church and is now in charge
of a congregation in Baltimore in ad-
dition to his college duties.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1922-03-07
RIOTING IN BELFAST
fnr The Asseciated Pressl

BELFAST. IhELAND, NAT. ). =
Rioting in Hanover street today re
suited in firing into a crowd by the
military. killing two boys and wound
ing another. The Lord Mayor an
nounced that the imposition of mar
tial law was imminent.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1922-03-07
Missionary Society To Meet

The regular monthly meeting of the
Women's Missionary Society Of the
Church will be held to-
morrow afternoon at $3.50 o'clock at
the home of Miss Nellie Girault, 1876
Duke of Gloucester street.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1922-03-07
Another Firm Pushed To Wall
fRx The Associated Press)

NEW YORK, Mar. An involun-
tary petition in bankruptcy was filed
in Federal Court today against Chas.
II. Clarkson and Company. stock
brokers. The liabilities were estim-
ated al SI45.OOO and assets at $4,000.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1922-03-07
6 KILLED, SCORES HURT;
IN GEORGIA TORNADO
lnr rhe A..oc,ated Pres.n

AUGUSTA. GA. Mar. six per-
sons were killed and scores injured in
a tornado which just before daybreak
today swept the mill town of Warren
ton. S. c., and the village of Stifieton,
s. c. Langley, S. c.. ten miles from
Augusta. also was reported to have
sustained heavy damage as a result of
the storm
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1922-03-07
MONTHLY REPORT OF
S.P. c. A. ACTIVITIES
Value Of Dogs And Commercial
Importance Of Cats In Marine
Insurance
CHECK-REIN TAGS ISSUED

Owing to the bad weather condi-
tions during the greater part of the
month OF February the S. p. c. A.
agent had an unusually amount OF
work to do. His general report for
the month is as follows:
Cases investigated. 90; horses hu-
namely destroyed. 5; small animals
destroyed, 20: stables Wis
tied. IS; number of prosecutions. l.;
convictions. O; warning check-rein
tags distributed, 3.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1922-03-07
BILL PROVIDES
SEWERAGE FOR
COMMUNITIES

Delegate Rullman Sponsor OF
Measure introduced In House
Which Gives County Commits
sioners General Powers For
Construction And Maintenance
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1922-03-07
BY The President

The summary above gives but a
very brief account of our agents ac-
tivties. which have been very full the
past month. He is always prompt in
attending to cases reported TO him.
Sometimes a little delay may occur
because the Society being unable to
employ him for his full time, he may
be otherwise engaged. This will ac-
count occasionally for case being
apparently neglected. 1t is hoped
therefore, that persons making re-
ports will take this into considera-
ton.
1t is pleasant to report that one
of our life-members, Mrs. F. ID. Ber-
rion Ga life-member is a person who
has contributed 500 towards the So
ciety's work. very generously recent
ly sent us an extra hundred dollars
This she has done annually since
starting the Societ--.
Cats
The value of cats in the postal serv-
ice has come to be so well recognized
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1922-03-07
STATE HEALTH BOARD
MUST GIVE APPROVAL

Greater authority will be conferred
upon the board of County Commits
sioners in the matter OF establishing
sewerage systems throughout the
county il bill introduced in the
House OF Delegates last night becomes
law. The bill. in short. provides for
the construction and maintenance OF
sewers and drains, the compelling Of
connections with private sewerage
plants under certain conditions. and
the acquisition OF such plants by the
county,
The bill would give the Commits
aioners general powers for the inspec
tion and regulating house drainage
md sewerage connections and opens
the way for persons OF any community
10 make application To the COmission-
ers for such benefits. the Commissions
ers to have full power to act upon
such APPLICATIONS, subject, however TO
approval by officials OF the State
8oard OF Health The measure also
gives the Commissioners power TO go
ahead in providing sewer systems in
whatever localities they be denied nee
essary TO the safety of public health.
giving due notice to property holders
of the intention. and they may levy
special tax upon such communities
to help defray costs OF constructing
the sewers Persons failing TO comply
with any order of the State Board OF
Health will be liable TO a fine of $40
per day for each day that regulations
are not complied with. The bill pro-
vdes that where the cost OF sew
erage system is more than $4,000, II
shall he financed by bond issue. and
in no case will the commissioners be
at liberty TO issue a promissary note
or certificate of Indebtedness at one
time for the purpose of the act, to
exceed $4,000.
This Bill Through House
The bill offered by Delegate Rull-
man several days ago, which amends
the general election law for all the
counties by changing the method OF
swearing in the judges and clerks OF
election, passed tne thlTu feaPIhS III
the House last night.
A saving of something like 5000 per
annum would accrue TO Anne Arundel
county. and other counties of the State
would benefit TO a more or less extent
under this provision Of law.
The bill provides for taking tae for
mality OF swearing elections officials
out OF the hands Of the Board of Sup
ervisors Of Elections and place 1t with
the board OF registration officials. ap-
pointed prior to the election officials.
To be more exact, election officials
would not be required 10 appear be-
fore the Board of Supervisors to
swear in. for which they receive a per
diem fee Of IS.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1922-03-07

The value of cats in the postal serv
ice has come to be so well recognized
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1922-03-07
,SsOCIATED PRESS

Hn;snstches OF ] a c
.S. r'- are published in
o.. e,. Evening Capital
The Washington times., 1922-09-17

'Do not our revered instructors know
that to be lovely limbs must be or seem
young? They must be vibrant with
youth?'
A young artist in velvet coat and
cap quoted from Wordsworth to defend
his opposition to the faculty's choice:
ga simple child
That lightly draws its breath
And feels its life in every limb"
Then the dictum of Kees Van Norden,
the famous painter of fashionable wo-
mems portraits, was injected into the
argument. "True feminine beauty begins
at the knees and extends downward"
Another student vociferously proclaimed:
Beauty is not static. Behold the
legs of Mademoiselle Olcott. They are
not those that walk or dance or run.
They are the legs of Incidence. They
would adorn a harem, but not the walls
of the seven-hundred-year-old Sorbonne.
81 submit that in view of the great
difference in opinion regarding the choice
made by the faculty that the students
themselves decide which are the most
beautiful legs in Paris"
The volatile French character found
means for its expression in an open-air
meeting called outside the walls of the
university. Some of the faculty as we'll
as the students attended this mass meet
The Washington times., 1922-09-17

distinguished honor modestly
submitted to having their ankles
and calves and knees measured
by a specialized woman assistant professor,
who respectfully reported to her male
colleagues.
"Mlle. Vera Olcott has legs most nearly
like those of Mistinguett," was the dictum
of the spectacled instructor. "Her legs
taper in the same rhythmical proportion
and her calves swell gently from the
ankles and diminish as gracefully again
toward the upper part of the knee as
the legs which mac Mistinguett famous.
In fact, there is an amazing similarity
between the two"
The brother professors listened and
nodded, inspected the shapely limbs of the
veil endowed Mile. Olcott, anG granted
the palm to this little English girl. It
was a serious, academic and precise de-
cision and the professors of the Sorbonne
believed in it conclusively.
But they counted without the students.
The Sorbonne is unique among uni
versities in respect to the attitude between
the students and faculty. For always the
student assumes to question the dictum
of his instructor. Not necessarily as in
dividuals, but frequently in body. This
has been brought about through the
system of education which years ago was
quite common in continental universities
and which is still continued at the Sor-
bonne. a. .."4 N..a.
In other words, according to the
Sorbonne method of instruction, the "dis-
putation" still prevails. On the occasion,
when "disputation" is held, the, student
or instructor occupies the seat of honor
in. the classraopx and is called upon to
defend his whatever it may Be,
The Washington times., 1922-09-17

against the attacks of the assembled
student body.
As conducted in the Sorbonne, the dis
putation" has given rise to many unique
situations and is constantly used by the
students whenever they wish to enter
disagreement of opinion against the teach
ing body Hence "disputation" arose
over the awarding of the beauty prize
for shapely legs to Mile. Olcott, as it
appears the students had agreed among
themselves upon another candidate. Thus
when a photograph of the young woman
was posted in the halls of the Sorbonne,
many vigilant students saw an opportunity
to register their protest and decided to
avail themselves of it at the earliest pos
sibility.
In the course of the next few days the
art students held "disputation" on the
value of a straight line and curved line
in art. The lecture of the instructor was
interrupted and then the heckling began.
One young student arose and asked
this question:
"Why, sir, did the faculty make such
a poor selection Of legs to take the honors
Of Mistinguett's?
"Have not our instructors always
stated that the straight line is the line
of beauty? That the nearly straight line
is the line of youth?
The Washington times., 1922-09-17

plea they did not mention anything about
"legs." They merely asked for "beauti-
full feet" But everybody understood
what was meant, for are not beautiful
feet the beginning of beautiful legs?
Soon young women from all. over Paris
appeared in answer to the Invitations to
come to the Sorbonne and to be
measured, and those who could not appear
in person sent duly authenticated photo
graphs of their pedal extremities.
Then these applicants for such
The Washington times., 1922-09-17

ing. The chairman called the meeting to
order.
eve are met" he began, "to consider
a new standard for portion of the
feminine form. What are beautiful
limbs? Not the heavy limbs of that
matronly figure that has stood too long
at the end of the main gallery of the
Louvre. Not those of the Venus de Milo.
Nor yet those of the Venus de Cyrene.
Let US Danish those heavy bulging speci-
mems of the too amply developed figures,
products of the minds of an older world.
"How shall visualize to you the legs
of beauty? The legs that are fitting
foundations and companions of beauty?"
He paused for rhetorical effect. A
student of the class in mythology cried:
"The legs of Atalsnta. The legs that
would win a race"
The Washington times., 1922-09-17

weary of their
fame. I have
o t h er charms
besides e G s."
A C c ordingly
W h e n success
sors to t h e
beautiful ! e G S
o f Mistinguett
were sought, the
professors o I
t h e Sorbonne,
as was their
us,,al custom.
let it be known
that they were
ready to receive
photographs of
a n y you n g
ladies who felt
thus equipped to
earn the honors.
Now the pro-
fessors of the
Cnrhnnna ora
d | g n i + / e d
if nothing else,
and in their
The Washington times., 1922-09-17

the inflammable student body. The pro-
fessors, studying the exhibit, smiled and
struggled to reach the platform and con-
gratulate the students choice. But the
students kissed her hands and carried her
on their shoulders.
The winner was Miss Josephine Mac
Nicol The age of her legs, as of herself,
is nineteen years. She was born in Bos-
ton. Her father was Stewart MacNicol,
a lawyer of that city. Her mother is
French woman. Miss MacNicol has spent
much of her life in Paris.
She is a dancer of reputation despite
her youth. She was a child member of
the Ziegfeld Follies. She is sorry to have
caused a schism in the venerable
Sorbonne. "But what can you do with
five hundred boys on the rampage?" she
sagely inquiries.
Which, in a different way, is what the
Sorbonne instructors are asking each
other. 1t is of no use to ask Paris the
question, for Paris, once it had seen the
published photographs of the respective
choices of the professors and of the stu
dents, agreed without a dissenting voice
in the choice of the students. All, that
is, save a curator of one C., the museums.
A grand pere who talks of the good old
times and who laments the passing of the
French figure-the French figure of the
pinched waist and the bulging hips. The
hour-glass is no longer the symbol of
beauty for the feminine form.
As witness the liberal waistline and
fiat thighs Of the girl who won the Paris
prize.
The Washington times., 1922-09-17

regurgitated from the mouth of
The entranced medium, or even
low from her body.
After the excitement of ecto-
plasm had subsidized, the matter of
beautiful eyes came up. And
these were judged by Paul Hell
leu, Leon Bakst, Lucien Ballet,
George Barber and their col
leagues, all members of the
Sorbonne.
What, then, was more natural
to become the subject for dis
cussion than the beauty of legs?
Especially since that distinguished
dancer, Mistinguett, had held the
honor of having the most beauti-
full legs for ten years-far, too
long in the estimation of so
estimable critic as Professor
Henri Durant-and had set a
standard by which to judge all
future aspirants for her honors.
1t will be recalled that the late
Professor Cattule Mendes, the
accomplished critic of the arts,
startled Paris a decade ago when
le announced that the young
woman who was at that time in
reducing the famous Apache
lance on the Partisan stage had
he most shapely limbs in Paris.
This contention of the distin-
yuished critic naturally caught
he attention of the Partisan
'Moderns," who never intend to
allow anything to escape them.
A new kind of beauty-that of
he lower limbs, was open for
discussion. And the name of
Mistinguett was on everybody's
.ips almost over night. Many of
:he connoisseurs pressed forward
he claims of other candidates, but
presently all Paris agreed that
Cattule Mendes was right, and
he palm for having the most
beautiful legs was awarded the
1.-THE French dancer, who has re-
.ently visited America.
But since then Mistinguett wan
tnown for her other charms. Al
years of such reputation for bea
10 doubt felt that the time ha
When her legs were losing some
lrtistic curves, and in a recent ir
he broke out into this statement:
"My legs, tut, tut. My arms, n
ny voice, my smile are all muc
wonderful than my legs. l ha'
ny legs supreme for ten years by
hem in champagne. But now
The Washington times., 1922-09-17

Thank you, sir" the
chairman bowed to the
pale young man who had
interrupted him. "The re-
ply is an inspired one.
lAtalanta ran so well and
her lover, Hippomenes,
was so feet beside her that
a jealous goddess changed
them into lions. Legs that
are light enough and feet
enough to win a race are
those we seek"
Several of the candi-
dates that the young art
students were advocating
as models Of feminine
beauty were present at
this meeting.
A slender young woman
blushed and tried to slip
away as her photographs
were passed from hand to
hand. Across the sward
toward the street she ran.
Her short, narrow skirt
and her transparent stock
ings revealed the slender
symmetry of her limbs.
The eyes of every stu
dent, and those of all the
professors, followed the
flying figure. Three gal
liant student hgures fol-
lowed fleetly, three would
be Hippomenes, members
\ of the committee that
had been appointed to
select the most beauti-
full legs in all Paris:
They overlook her and
4 escorted her to the plat
form.
The chairman offered
his arm. He led her close
to the edge of the plat
form.
Behold" he said, "the
students choice. We hail
you, Atalanta of the Sor-
borne.
"The most beautiful
leos in Paris" screamed
The Washington times., 1922-09-17
Dispute That Gave an Am
Girl the Distinction O

...s~ PARIS, Sept. 10,
~ EADERS of this page will recall the
R great difficulty distinguished French
artists recently had in choosing the
most beautiful eyes in Paris ...
AS there was no standard by which the
eyes could be measured the arbiters of
orbal pulchritude found they could not
all agree on any one person. The result
was Inevitable. Now six young demoi-
selles are claiming the honor. .... 81.
Scarcely had the perplexities of the
eye controversy begun to be cleared up
when new cause for excitement raised
its head in the French capital. :.
This time it was legs!
Yes, legs, no less-and the argument
as to who has the most beautiful legs in
Paris, which, of course, means all France,
is still raging between the professors of
the SOrbonne on one side and the students
on the other as to whether Vera Olcott,
of England, or Josephine MacNicol, Of
Boston, should be awarded that distinc-
ton.
The Sorbonne, grave and dignified
house of learning, sometimes concerns
itself with odd subjects-matters indeed
quite outside the pale of ordinary
scholastic ed"cation.
But the Sorbonne is something more
than a mere institution of dogmatic
culture 1t has its human side--that in
lefinable something that makes it diff
ferent from any other place of class room
and laboratory in the whole world.
Take, for instance, its consideration of
hat perplexing fabric or figment-
ectoplasm. Long and acrimoniously
,piritists and anti-spiritists argued for or
against the existence of this mystic
essence, which is supposed to be
The Washington times., 1922-09-17

Vera Oleott,
the Little -
English Girl
Whose Legs
Were Chosen
by the Faculty
of the
Sorbonne as
the Exact
Duplicates of
the Famous
Mistinguett
Legs.
The Washington times., 1922-09-17

Great Britain Rights Reserved.
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Evening star., 1922-11-26
A Week Of {,
Thanksgiving
Values

This week we are thinking
of the appearance of'the: Din
ing Room. And because
great many people think about
Dining Room Furniture for
Thanksgiving Day at this
time, we are meeting them half
way by offering some excep-
tional values in Dining Room
Furniture.