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The Washington times., 1923-06-30

daughter Of the household a de-
lightful place for q dance, the
only form of polite entertainment
known in Vacaville.
Making the Arrangements.
For days pretty. eager Rose
mary Church had planned for this
gala night Of hospitality. The
shelves and dusty glass show
cases in Blum's general nerchan.
disc store in Vacaville had been
tirelessly scanned on every oc.
casion which took her to town,
for possible new ideas to brighten
the affair. The pages Of Farm
and Fireside and The Fruit
Grower had been studied nightly
and the suggested forms OF en-
pertaining read with the anxious
hope Of discovering something
original. In the end she had de-
cided on some yellow Chinese
lanterns, and had persuaded her
father to purchase three bolts Of
red, white, and blue cheesecloth.
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Narrative of Compelling Interest by the Author OF The
Amateur" and salt, the Education Of Y.
Griffith Adams

nowIedged It. But that was be-
fore Philip had gone 70 Berkeley
In those months Of absence.
natures other than little Lucy's
had matured and ripened and
none more 30 than her brothers.
Philip came home to blush dark
crimson when he met ROseinary's
eve. to stammer when he tried
to speak 10 her. TO find himself
all hands and feet. clumsy and
awkward, when near her. The
old intimacy and cornpaniOnship
were gone; It's self-cOnsciousness
made a barrier between them.
Rosemary did not understand: she
blushed and stammered In return.
She persuaded herself that It was
love.
The company began to assemble
as early az o'clock when Jasper
Sprague, the superintendent Of the
Coachman estate. arrived IN his
carry-all with wife and baby. and
his fifteen-year.old lanlky son. Jas
per Junior. The baby had to be
nursed and settled off before the
party commenced. Mrs. Spragie'
explained, or otherwise he'd
raise Ned and there,a be no fun
for his ma" Rosemary, fastening
the last hooks to her dress, heard
their voices on the veranda and
suddenly stopped to place both
hands over her heart. She drew
q long breath and stared back
at her reflection In the mirror,
scrutinizing the familiar features.
She could not tell whether she
was pretty" or not. She Ionged
with all her hungry heart to be
"pretty'-pretty Hike Virginia
Bradshaw-Ted Bradshaw's daugh.
ter-who had gone East to school,
or like Dulcie Fezreira with her
dark flashing eyes and her thick
coils Of black hair. set off with
an enormous Spanish comb
Beautiful" handsome" any.
thing superlative. meant nothing
to Rosemary. She wanted only
to be pretty" kind OF pretty"
she would whisper to herself,
hopefully Sometimes she thought
she was honestly that: . chance
reflection Of herself in an uncon.
scious moment would give her
this delightful assurance.
CTO Be Continued Mondayl
The Washington times., 1923-06-30

Ut was a sad family we were
visiting up in Lapland, I can
Il tell you. Their very finest
reindeer had wandered away and
was lost. He had been gone
three days and not a trace OF
him could be found.
AS we left our Lapland friends
house. I patted him on the shout
der and said:
"Cheer up, my friend. perhaps
Wen have luck today. We may
be able to find your reindeer"
Off Bunny, Bobby and I
trudged.
1T certainly is a great loss to
them" said. as we sat down for
lunch. 1T Is not only hard to
lose pet Of which you are fond
but up in this country a reindeer
is the most valuable possession
any man can have.
Reindeer furnish men with
meat and fur and milk and they
take the place of horses and auto
mobiles. This reindeer was par
ticularly fine animal. No wonder
our friend is sorry to lose him."
We finished lunch and then de-
cided to go home because it was
getting pretty cold and it looked
as If 1T might snow some more.
If it did snow, we might have had
hard work finding our way back
to the village.
We had hardly started when
the snow came down heavily, and
covered the ground so that we
couldn't see even trace of our
footsteps.
This is pretty bad" ] said to
the boys. II don't know what
we're going to do"
The words were hardly out of
my mouth when off in the dis
lance we heard low moaning
sound.
Whats that?" I said. Some.
body's in trouble"
Away Bunny bounded in the
direction from which the noise
had come.
Bobby and I followed, but we
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With these she had decorated the
unfinished pavilion. and while the
effect of the gaudy .cheesecloth
was fortunately dimmed when
dusk fell off, the light Of the
yellow lanterns cast a romantic
glamor over the scene which de-
lighted her.
There had been much CORES
pondence concerning her costume
between her mother and Aunt
Malvena, who lived In Sacra.
mento. The material. finally pur-
chased and sent was dotted white
Swiss muslin, and the dress itself
was copied from a colored Pa
risian fashion plate, also supplied
by this worldly relative. 1t was
sufficiently simple and becoming,
with a broad white satin sash
and white tulle edging about
the modest V-shaped neck; what
gladdened the girls young. heart
above all else were the enormous
balloon sleeves, then in vogue,
whose effectiveness she daringly
increased by stuffing their roomy
interiors with tissue paper.
An Innocent Child.
Rosemary had been born In
Marysville, not many miles from
Vacaville. One Christmas, when
she was fourteen years old, she
had visited Aunt Malvena in Sac
ramento, but with that exception
she had seen nothing of the
world beyond what she found in
VacaviIfe and distantly remem-
bered Marysville. She was inno-
cent, virginia., Arcadian. Her
world was compassed by the walls
Of Pleasant Valley and she knew
only what she had learned in
her fathers home and the public
high schools of Vacaville. II she
was unsophisticated in worldly
matters, she was far from being
IMMERSED in domestic ones. Her
mother was Of the old-fashioned
sort, and Rosemary had spent
more time over her needlework
and in the kitchen than over her
textbooks. AS q result, she was
an excellent cook and her fancy
work had drawn the highest bid
In the auction held by the Rev.
Clement Gould, of Epiphany
Church, to raise funds for the
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! erately, finished masticating
slowly. before he answered:
II sent batch Of Chinks over
there this morning."
ma asked me and / didn't
know" Harry explained.
They talked Of ranch matters,
and affairs In town, and presently
the Judge rose with much scraping
Of chair and clearing of throat.
He seemed to enjoy the noise of
clearing his throat; he INDUCED in
1t frequently, tearing his thorax
with terrific rending sounds. pro-
longing the raucous tones in a
series Of bass rumbles.
Mrs. Baldwin appeared at the
door.
Joe Church spoke about our
coming over tonight" the Judge
remarked, addressing her. HE
asked for Lucy"
His wife slowly shook her head.
She gets to bed too late.
1t isn't for children. Think
I'll stay home, too. You
and the boys co.
II suppose you'll be going,
Phil?" the Judge asked, cycling his
son.
"Oh, sure, guess So" The
statement came quickly, and after
a moments pause, he added: II
thought 1 might"
He rose from the table, kicked
back his chair, and wiped his
mouth with quick motion Of the
back of his hand. He nodded to
his brother and they tramped out
OF the room, their heavy shoes
making clatter on the thinly
carpeted floor. The Judge stepped
to the window ana watched their
figures as they strobe down the
pebble road toward the sheds. A
moments pride in their splendid
youth and lustiness came to him,
but he did not speak Of it. His
mind was full Of another matter.
What's between Phil and Rose
mary Church," he asked his wife,
who was carefully scraping the
unused butteraup his husbands
and sons plates back into the
butter dish.
Mrs. Baldwin cast him a quick,
sharp look.
How'd you mean?" she asked.
We'll =" the Judge pulled
The Washington times., 1923-06-30
TOO MUCH PEP


But like ''too much pep" it can be
over-stressed.
Don't try to electrify everyone
with whom you come in contact,
but get sense of direction and use
your energy to make yourself at
once constructive and amenable to
circumstances.
If you use w your energy on
every little thing with which you
come in contact, you may find
yourself with no more enthusiasm
for a big job (such as building a
bridge or writing a novel; than
you have for after dinner CONVEX
sation or taking a walk in the park.
Soak up a few impressions on
everyone and everything that
comes your way. Learn to relax
to suit your tempo to that Of the
people with whom you are dealing
and the circumstances in which
you find yourself placed.
Don't pride yourself on the fact
that you never get tired, and ex-
pect the whole world to move at
the pace you set. Pep may be bluff
and buster and waste motion when
it is just snowy way of putting
yourself over" Real energy
doesn't babble like spring freshet.
1t moves along steadily and pur-
posefully like a mighty stream 60
ing its well defined way to the
sea Of life.
The Washington times., 1923-06-30
By Beatrice Fairfax.
Who Holds a Unique Position in
the Writing World as an Author
ity on the Problems of Girls.

KIT D hate to have her for my
wife," said Joe. "She has
too much pep"
He was speaking of vital and
dynamic young woman who does
not always direct her energies to
productive ends. Her restIessness
sometimes gives folks ST. Vitus
dance feeling Of having to move
fast. to keep constantly on the
alert, and to exert themselves con-
stantly in order to keep up with
the march Of her incessant activity.
And so woman who might easily
be charming If she ever were in
repose misses her point by over
stressing 1t.
A fault like this may easily be
made virtue. The failing Of over
emphasized activity can be turned
into the strong point of construc-
tive energy.
The trouble with the too much
pep" kind Of folks is that they
aren't working toward a definite
end. and that they spend them
selves in reaching all sorts of un-
important goals and in making all
with whom they come in contact
race along little side paths, from
which they have to retrace their
steps In order to go somewhere
that counts.
Now, II you have a very hard
pencil, you have to press down
hard in order to make it trace
legible characters And if you
have blurry, soft one you write
lightly so your paper won't
smudge. But the over.eager per-
son Is likely to press down hard
and race the pencil across the
sheet at one and the same time.
The result is not pleasant. It
bears no reflection to the kind of
lead in the pencil.
SO. II you are vital, energetic
individual think of yourself as
hard lead and force yourself by
heavy pressure to make your mark
by expending a certain amount of
effort and force.
RepOse ie a charming quality.
The Washington times., 1923-06-30
HOUSEHOLD
HINTS

A Swiss roll will never roll
properly unless cooked to
turn" The jam used should be
warmed and the rolling done as
speedily as possible.
Grease a cake-tin with suet,
The cakes are not so likely to
burn and will come out Of the
tin better than If butter is used.
Lard is better than butter II suet
is not available.
Meat will be hard, however
good in quality it may be. II
when being roasted 1t Is not put
for the first five minutes into
an oven hot enough to seal the
outside Of the meat and so pre-
vent the juices from escaping.
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Compound and what it had done Tor
other women and gave it trial. l be.
gan to eat better and could sleep, ana
consider it a wonderful medicine. !!
recommend it to my friends and VIII
never be without it. Mrs: NJ. OHLEN'
364O S. Marshfeld Ave., Chicago. Ill.
It is such letters as these that tes-
tify to the value of Lydia =: PINK
hams Vegetable Compound. This wo-
man speaks from the fullness Of ner
heart. She describes as correctly %
she can her condition, first the eymp,,
toms that bothered her the most, ana
later the disappearance OF those
symptoms. It Is Q sincere expression
Of gratitude.
For nearly fifty years Lydia 2.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compoun0 nas
been 90 praised by women.
The Washington times., 1923-06-30
DAUGHTER GOES
ENCOURAGE HER IN HER NEW JOB

movement Of the day-toward eco-
nomic freedom OF women al well
as men. II all the girls 90 wen
as all the boys learn to work and
to do something independent, theirs
will be no fewer jobs for good
men, but an abundance of places
for all of both sexes.
Finally. dear Abused Father, OBJ
serve that human nature il the
most powerful living force In the
shaping of society today. Get into
harmony with the heart of youth.
with the ambition of girls. with the
natural desire OF your own girl to
do something in her own right
and in her own authority-get into
sympathetic touch with the mighty
force of youthful ambition, and
you may suddenly discover that
your life, also, has come into tune
with the Infinite.
The Washington times., 1923-06-30

look them. Your attack
is Besides it's
during stopped shaving before breakfast
MR. GEORGE defence Is subtle. You make that
started It, who in the morning creature Of hghtness and
charml you lavshed
attentions that time rich In? Have
tried? No! Have tried to beat down the barcade Of
the newspaper? Mol When spoken you you haven't
answered why? your mouth I sup
pose g ii
my shaving before breakfast did you any
the first morning woke w. L.?
By Syndicate.
The Washington times., 1923-06-30

Sunday school rooms, new car
pet. She had made her own
dress for the birthday party,
and Mrs. Church, kneeling on the
floor to pin the bottom hem OF
the skirt to an even length,
thought to herself with satisfac-
ton that her daughter was well
equipped for the demands Of life.
Both she and her husband al
ways thought of Rosemary as
some day marrying Philip Bald
win. Rosemary thought 30. too,
but she would have died Of nnorti-
fication had she imagined her
girlish fancies and dreams were
ever suspected. Mrs. Church and
her husband. lying side by side
in their old walnut bed, after the
lamp had been blown out, :re-
quently referred to the posi-
bility in whispers.
THAT can wait until after
Phil and Rosemary are married. !"
I'm saving that spread OF
Mas for Phil and Rosemary
3. It'1l come In handy In
the housekeeping"
Rosemary in her own narrow
bed, tucked under the shelving
ceiling of her little room, would
suddenly feel the warm blood
pounding in her cheeks and her
heart hammering to suffocation
when maynard thoughts led her
to fancy the touch Of PhiI's dig
hand and the protecting circle Of
his great arm.
Juvenile Fancies.
The girl had a right to her
fancies, though Philip, knowing
ly had never justified them. He
had never kissed her, nor hinted
at love, had never 50 much As
held her hand. They had played
together as children, and in high
school had been thrown daily In
each others company. At picnics
and dances he had sat beside her,
! and occasionally had taken her
to school baseball games or to
entertainments by home talent In
Walkers Opera House. They
thoroughly liked one another,
they, enjoyed and sought one an
others society. they were great
friends and unhesitatingly ack-
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Mrs. Georges Goodness.

Now you're aloof, silent, you
eat with unfeminine voracity.
/ might as well not exist.
MRS. GEORGE (sententious-
ly): Mother says that when
q man doubts his wife's affec-
ton 1t shows that his own Ii
waning. She's perfectly right,
too. You used to court my
attentions, but now you bar
ricade yourself behind the
newspaper. II / wanted to
kiss you should have TO climb
upon q chair now. You com.
plain Of my appetite, but you
used to press me to eat things,
1rharaaa now vnIa carafu1lv ae.
The Washington times., 1923-06-30
CONTINUE THE STORY:

vt was this partially for popu-
larity that drew Harry toward
Vacaville's bright lights on
Saturday nights. and made him n
frequent visitor In its pool.rooms.
Occasionally he was driven home
at an early hour on a Sunday
morning, In a befuddled condition
due to too much beer. No one
not even his staid, slow-witted.
heavy-going brot er-suspected
Just how far Harry went, or
what happened to him on these
Saturday night jaunts into Vaca-
vile.
Healthy Pursuit.
Philip and his father were
finishing their dinner when Harry
Joined them. He had been in the
carpenter shop all morning, knock.
Ing boxes together, and he brought
with him . fine aroma of fresh
sawdust and clean new pine. He
swung a chair between his legs
ana sat down. leaning his elbows
on the table. He had had his
dinner with the rest Of the family
at the noon hour.
when you goin' to begin on
the HaIe's Earlies?" he demanded
Of his brother. THE Alexanders
are all in"
Philip. moving his jaws DELHI
The Washington times., 1923-06-30
ADVERTISEMENTS.
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Compound Made Her Eat, Sleep
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and had no appe-
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years, but they
did not help me.
Then I read in
the papers shout
Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable
The Washington times., 1923-06-30
READ THIS FIRST.

The little town OF vacaville. in the
heart Of the great California fruit
belt, sweltered in the merciless June
heat. Gathered In the commodious
membled every day Q motley collection
Of townsmen, chief among whom was
Judge Baldwin, picturesque jurist of
waxed eloquent when he confronted his
auditors this particular morning. All
his powers Of oratory were hurled
against the Japanese invasion of the
fruit country. He urges the extermi.
nation Of the "canker striking at the
very roots Of our civilization"
After the Japanese discussion IL at
IN end, Judge Baldwin meets his son,
Philip, an outstanding young citizen,
and the pair drive home. where Mrs
Baldwin, her daughter, Lucy, and
son. Harry, are awaiting them.
The Washington times., 1923-06-30
This Dav in Our History.

THIS is the anniversary Of the establishment by
Congress, in 1864, of Yosemite Valley and Maui
posa, big tree reservations, public parks. These
mighty preserves visited yearly by thousands.
The Washington times., 1923-06-30
WHEN DID IT
HAPPEN?

when did Gen. Robert e.
Lee, commanders n-chief Of The
Confederate forces. die?
2-when was Charleston, 8. c..
founded?
3-when were Prussian May
Laws, regulating church matters,
put in force?
4-when was the Mazarin Bible,
the first book ever printed with
movable types, published?
5-when, during the last CEN
fury, was a republic set up in
Rome?
ANSWERS to these queries will be
printed Monday
ANSWERS
To Yesterdays Questions.
1.-The triumphal arch (Arc
de Triomphe) in Paris was begun
in 1906, but was not finished until
1886.
2-Maude Adams, the noted
American actress, was born No
vember II, 1872.
3-The French Mississippi scheme
for colonization and trade in
Louisiana collapsed in May, 1920.
4-"Lays Of Ancient Rome"
Macaulay's poems, were publish
ed in 1912.
5-Florida was discovered by
Ponce de Leon, April s. 1913.
Copyright. 1923. King Features
Syndicate, Incl
The Washington times., 1923-06-30
WHO SAID IT
AND WHERE

with all her faults she is my
country STILL"
This patriotic sentiment Is from
1.-The Farewell Ito England by
Charles Churchill 1731.1764.
Zone foot i'm the grave"
Beaumont and Fletcher used this
expression in speaking of a per-
son whose death should not have
been far off, in their play, THE
Little French Lawyer"
"a acknowledging"
Is a term used by Burton in his
Anatomy Of Melancholy" to sig.
nifty neighborliness.
ITO hold q persons nose to the
grindstone."
This much-used phrase Of every.
day conversation was common
when Haywood published his
Proverbs.
Copyright, 1929. King Features
SYNDICATE. InO.>
The Washington times., 1923-06-30
By Charles G.. Norris,

Author Of Nationwide Reputation
and Writer of Popular
Novels.
The Washington times., 1923-06-30
LASS = Novel of = By Charles G. Norris

". L. George and His Wife
ACROSS THE BREAKFAST TABLE
Mrs. Georges Goodness.
N n r. GEORGE: You've cold to lately. don't
IV what's the matter with but upon time
AV4 breakfast in Whenever gave
used to hand, and when
paper disturbed parting
The Washington times., 1923-06-30

[[T D hate to have her for my
wife" said Joe. "She has
- too much pep"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-01-27

S. B. 1862, Rusch, (Ind.) Cass-Pre-
pared in the office of the state ex-
aminer is designed to strengthen
the Blue Sky Law including provi-
sion forbidding newspapers from ad-
vertising any stocks, bonds or Sc
curities not approved by the Blue
Sky commission and also an escrow
agreement under which securities
regarded by the board as weak, but
not actually fraudulent, may be sold.
Bills Passed Senate
S. B. 30, Porter, (Ind.) Cavalier
Defining legal newspaper without
dissent.
S. B. 81, Rusch, raising the maxi
mum pension which might be paid
by firemen's relief associations from
$40 to $50 per month. Passed 80 to
5.
S. B. SO, providing for a home
stead exemption up to $4,000 free
from judgment. % to 6.
S. B. 1, Rusch, amending present
laws to grant perpetual charters
to trust companies in the state in
stead of requiring renewal of chart
er each 20 years. Approved unani-
mously.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-01-27
By Charles P. Stewart
NEA Staff Writer

AS might have been expected, tae
Franco German trouble is getting
around to a point now where Euop-
can diplomats are beginning to hint
that the whole thing could be fixed
up if the United States would can
eel lot of the war debts due to her
from the Old World powers.
At any rate, dispatches from
across the Atlantic are saying "re-
paration experts" are working on a
plan to settle the entire question
on the supposition that America
forgives England half of what the
latter owes to .1er--that Isl that she
wipes out a couple Of billion dollars
in obligations.
This kind of talk starts so natur-
ally as almost to hint that the
Ruhr invasion may have, been staged
to some extent with a view to scar
ing the United States into making
financial concessions, as the only
means of averting another world
conflict.
Will America Agree?
But will the United States fall for
such program?
1t doesn't seem very likely.
Americans have been pretty balky
hitherto whenever it has been sug-
gested that it would be good idea
for them to give up any or all of
their war claims.
|. BY curious coincidence there
was a.. British mission, headed by
Chancellor of the Exchequer STAN
ley Baldwin, in Washington, discuss
ing the question of war debts, just
when the Ruhr invasion occurred.
This mission has gone nome now.
The negotiations are said not to
have broken down. On the contrary,
it's understood the British commits
sioners, having found out how
Americans feel about the indebted
edness matter, returned to London
to talk it over with their own gov
eminent.
Now or Never for France
If, by any possibility, the French
really did think their Ruhr venture
would prompt the United States to
make financial sacrifices and the
United States doesn't do it, the in
dications are that France has under
taken a pretty serious contract.
+, For in that case France positive
ly MUST get her money out of the
Germans by her present method, or
the Germans will fairly we'll, have
proved that they aren't ABLE to