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Evening star., 1923-08-12

out OF the rail and on the end of the
rod they's a rabbit only it amt a
real rabbit but is made out of saw
dust or something but if you was be-
hind it you would think it was a real
rabbit, that is if you was a dog you
would think so.
Well the dogs is all brought out
and paraded like race horses and
after the parade they are locked up
in coops which has got windows in
them SO the dogs can see the track
Then the electric rabbit is sent
around the track once so as all the
dogs can get a look at him and the
I'd. time the rabbit comes around the
coops is opened and the dogs starts
after the alleged rabbit but they
don't never catch him, because just
past the finishing line they's open
ing in the inside rail which the rab-
bit disappears into it. The dog that
gets to the finishing line first wins
the race.
I forgot TO say that the dogs is
muzzled and when you come to think
it all over that here is T. dozen
muzzled dogs going after a mock
rabbit that amt there when they
get to it, why all and all you can see
1t is dogs life.
X x x
THEY have got programs with the
i dogs names and their father and
mothers name just like horses and
who owns them and who trains them
and what are their colors and etc.
The prettiest dog 1 seen was a dog in
the first race named Oakland Grit
and I kind of hoped it would win but
the jockey give him a bad ride.
I forgot to mention that the dogs
is all rode by fieas. In the whole
six races only two dogs was
scratched though they must of all
been suffering Maybe Oakland Grit
win his next start as they say every
dog has his day.
Well to make a long story short we
started home the. next AM. and got
to Great Neck that PM. and the
kiddies was glad to see their mother.
RING w. LARDNER,
Great Neck, Long Island, Aug. 10.
Evening star., 1923-08-12
to Sing Their Praises.

= VOW many Americans know
that there are more linden
trees on Massachusetts ave-
L i nue., Washington. d. c., than
Evening star., 1923-08-12

HE praise of the sweet old
fashioned girl has become
almost national anthem.
And always 1t ends in a
Evening star., 1923-08-12

Watches ACled Greyhounds Race After
Scratches Though Jockeys AreF Fleas.

.O the editor: Maybe some OF
your readers would like to know
a few details in regards to my
i recent wk in New jersey. In
Evening star., 1923-11-18

and Miss Selfridge will occupy the
old Chandler residence, on Rush street
where the venerable woman was mar
ried and from which she sent her now
Famous son into the business world
The Selfridges have many relatives
still resident in Chicago, and their
visit will be brilliant, though brief
for both must return to London in
mid. mid, ,January; aanaIy The first amenity has
bart Young and will be dinner dance
during the second week Of December.
After that Miss Selfridge will mingle
In al the .gayeties which encircle
Countess Felicie Gizyski and Princess
Bertha Cantacuzene
opened Saturday last in Squadron A
Armory. in New York, did not, as
usual. conflict with the advent of the
Metropolitan opera, and in conse-
zingly brilliant. Miss Edith Wet
more was in charge of the beyy of
pretty maids who were mattresses in
the tearoom. This adjunct to the Ma
tional Horse Show attracted enor-
nous patronage this year, because the
room had been transformed into a
perfect semblance of the dining room
in Mount vernon, and the maids, who
were chosen entirely from the circle
introduced to society last year, were
goWned in the sprigged muslins, be-
ruffied and held out by hoops popular
in the last decade Of the eighteenth
century, and they wore adorable lit
tie poke bonnets wreathed in wild
flowers. Miss Ailsa Mellon was much
In evidence. but she did not act as a
waitress. but spent much time in her
riding togs. which are the very smart
est which London can boast But 1t
must rejoice the hearts of American
hat manufacturers that, no matter
how far a-field the native woman will
travel for novel raiment, she always
gets her head covering at home. at
least when she goes riding. Miss
Evening star., 1923-11-18

Mellon habitually wears a brown soft
felt Dunlap. This autumn's is a trif1e
higher in the crown and wider In the
brim, but seemingly like those she
has been accustomed to since she left
OF short frocks.
Mrs. Jack Gardner of Fenway
Court Boston, has just held her an
nual public opening Of her art mu-
scum, and her guest of honor was
resident of London. With the hostess
of Fenway Mr.. Sargent entertained
the hundreds of guests and explained
the best points in the newest offer
ings and, on the whole, proved almost
as much of an attraction to the eX-
hibit as the paintings and sculpture,
or the marvellous hangings and dra-
peries, or the superb floral display
Whlch always marks these annual
openings of the finest private mu-
scum Of art on the Atlantic seaboard.
Mrs. Gardner, who is active and en-
ergetic despite the passing years,
spares no expense or trouble to keep
her handsome collection and it's en-
vironments up to the last point of
perfection. Mr.. Sargent, whose fine
portrait of the chatelaine Of Fenway
Court always calls forth renewed ad-
has been retouching some Of
his choicest work in the Boston Pub
lie Library and incidentally visiting
New York. He has returned to Lon
don and begun another exceedingly
busy season. Mrs. Gardner will pass
part Of the winter in Florida, as for
the past few years she has abandoned
her usual program of going to
ton en- route to visit the Freer Gal
lery, the one collection of art in the
National Capital which she has not
visited.
Evening star., 1923-11-18

liant sister of Theodore Roosevelt.
who has gone in so enthusiastically
for a public career, is making as
strenuous a campaign for the perfect
litical reform. She Is unalterably op-
posed to untidiness or the least care
lessness in apparel. and especially in
the woman who mounts the platform
to proclaim political doctrines or to
launch Crusades. Mrs. Robinson gives
much time to the selection of hef hats
and they fit snugly and are always
becoming. 1t is the common remark
that her hats alone are an inspiration
and invariably call forth as much
commendation as her speeches, and
no one ever saw her steady her head
piece even in the most impassioned
flights of oratory or have to catch up
a stray look even after an open
demonstration. She presents the per-
feet sartorial appearance, nearly all
ways in black, strictly tailored and
without frills of any sort, and she
wears her raiment as gracefully and
unconsciously as bird wears it's
plumage. Under her example and
precept the strong minded women, as
the term goes, are outdistancing the
sisters of the clinging vine type in
the distinction of their appearance
and their feminine charm.
The bachelor prime minister of the
Dominion Of Canada, the Hon. Mac
kenzie King, Is making his first visit
to London since he became the out
standing political figure from his
part of the world, and he is receiving
more social attention than is general
ly accorded what the Londoners call
the "coloniais." The Canadian states
man has been dined at Buckin CHAM
Palace by the King and Queen and a
representative company was asked to
meet him later in the evening. Lady
Astor snatched a day from her busy
program and had him down to Give
den, where all the youth and heautx
Evening star., 1923-11-18
D. A. R. Chapter Plans
Gard PARTY Serie.

The Louisa Adams Chapter, d. A. r.,
is arranging to give series of card
parties as a means of raising funds Ito
carry on its work. The first one vail
be at the residence OF Miss Nellie e.
Brown, 514 Quincy street, Tuesday
evening, December 4.
Evening star., 1923-11-18

Of the British Isles were invited to
aid in entertaining him. Mr.. King
is what the movie authors cal "wom-
an proof" Many times he has been
rumored to be paying marked atten-
ton to this young lady and that, ana
there were many assurances that ne
would soon lead well known belle
of Montreal to the altar. But OBJ
viously all these reports had no basis
of fact, and so far his London visit
has not given rise to a similar sug-
gestion. AS a young man the prime
minister was a protege and trusted
friend of the late Sir Wilfrid Laurler
and frequently accompanied him TO
sion on the Canadian boundaries ana
fisheries controversies was sitting
here. Even then he was shy and diff
ficuit to obtain for social purposes Sir
WtTfrid left his handsome country
estate. outside of Ottowa, to his pres
ent successor and Mr.. King lives there
entirely rather than in the spacious
and formal palace which the Domin-
ion provides for it's loftiest elective
officer.
Miss Beatrice SeIfridge Of London
has definitely announced that she viii
spend part Of the winter in her old
the chaperonage of her venerable
grandmother. known in England as
Nine Selfridge, the mother of Mr..
Harry Gordon Selfridge. London's s
merchant prince. Nine. Selfridge is
just about to celebrate her ninetieth
birthday, but she is active and alert
and free from all infirmities of ex-
treme old age. Her two older grand
children, Rosalie. now Nine. Serge de
Relotoff, and Violette, who married
Viscount di Sibour last summer, made
n debut in Chicago as well as in Lon
don, and she wishes the youngest girl,
Beatrice, and the present chatelaine
of I.ansdowne House, to revive this
ceremony During their visit, Nine
Evening star., 1923-11-18
Reception Is Planned
For Alabama Visitors

In honor of the Alabama delegates
to the convention of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy, the
Alabama Society of Washington will
entertain with a reception and dance
in the ballroom of the Hotel WASH
ington from to 7 o'clock the eve,
ming of Friday, November 23.
Evening star., 1923-11-18

Vernon. Patsy or Martha Custis was
the second Of the Custis children. Her
elder sister Elizabeth-Betty in the
family. and Eleanor, or Nelly, mar
ried, respectively, Thomas Law of
the Federal city and Fielding Lewis
of Fredericksburg, Va.
Mrs. Douglas Robinson the bril-
Evening star., 1923-11-18
Some Oyster DresS<e.
From the Kansas City Star.

From the Kansas City Star.
The newly married Swuple w.rs
having turkey for .ne fret time.
II don't know how it is," he re-
marked. but this birds got bones eli
over it. Just listen to the knife on
them, my dear!
"Oh. how silly of you, darling!
Those aren't bones. Those are the
shells"
"Shells?"
yes, shelly. Don't you remember,
you said you liked turkey with oyster
stuffing?'
The Alaskan yak will be crossed
with the COW to produce AN animal
that will withstand the cold
Evening star., 1923-11-18

Letters sent to foreign ports not
containing sufficient postage will be
returned to the sender.
Evening star., 1923-11-18

We cdHuof too strongly
recommend this sale to GHy
one aVisIluug a fine aciuter
coat. Richer furs or better
fabrics are not obtdiudbIc.
The styles speak for them
selvcs.
Evening star., 1923-11-18

Slim straight coats,
side fastened, or,
again, slim an d
straight until they
end in a deep hounce;
coats with stunning
circular d r a pes
caught with a gor-
geous orn a m e n t;
coats whose sump-
tuous fur c ollars s
graduate into panels
that extend to the
hem; beautiful shawl
collar styles; sleeves
with flares or with
d eep circul a r
hounces, side godets,
rippled or fur-bor-
dered, tiers of furs
and many other be-
witching Municipalities
whose charm fails of
description.
Evening star., 1923-01-26
COUNTRY BOARD.

TRAINED NURSE will room, board and car
for invalids, convalescents, elderly patients
also chronic cases. Maple Wood Farms, Silye
spring, Nd. Telephone Sandy Spring. 3e-F-21
Evening star., 1923-01-26
FOR RENT-ROOMS.

FURNISHED ROOMs-COntinued.
1901 WYOMING AVE, Apt. 35-Large from
rOaIn haf
Evening star., 1923-01-26

1906 17th-Hot breads homemade desserts
cnlcken dinners twice a week; individual ta-
bles. Phone North 914s sss
l'33 ST. N.W.-EIcellent meals home cook
ing.
ioi6 VERMONT AvE--Hot breads, homem ade
desserts. chicken dinners twice a week 3Is
THE KENTUCKIAN, II Dupont ctrcle-Ffrst-
class table board: reasonable
Evening star., 1923-01-26

9th St near L-Modern storeroocn, Sos.
Near walter Reed Hospital-New stores, $6J
10th st. near D-4 story bldg, 2cI9o, to al
ley; long lease: $325.
Evening star., 1923-01-26
AUTOMOBILES FOR SALE, ETC.
Continued.

BUICK.
Good used cars priced to move.
BUICK 1910 COUPE.
BUICK 1920 ROADSTER.
FORD 1921 TOURING.
FORD 1920 SEDAN. .
DODGE 1918 COUPE.
BUICK 1920 7-PASS. SEDAN,
1927 SPECIAL 90
STUDEBAKER TOURING.
The prices on these ears will surprise You,
Investigate. Liberal terms.
EMERSON s. ORME,
Evening star., 1923-01-26
APARTMENTS TO LET
FURNistIED-Coufinued.

FOR LEAsE--ADULTS' HOME. Wv; THREl
rooms. bath, anil; references. Columbia It4S
Evening star., 1923-01-26
FOR RENT-RO0MS.

2b03 COLUMBIA ROAD-Large, double room
tor two young men twin bedsl; reasonable.
Evening star., 1923-01-26
WANTED-REAL ESTATE.
FOR SALE-L0TS.


STORE SITE NEAR 10Th AND II Ne; ALL
improvements: priced al half cost of adJoin
ing property; terms. Call Columbia 1907. 2s'
8 CHOICE lots on 47th ST; NV. OVER
looking Mass. ave-. $3.50 each; easy terms
Address Box 16-R.' Star ONCE. 26s
MASS. AVE NV. HIGH ALrITUDE.
above grade: lot ideal for bungalow: 20 cts
90. IT. Address Box 17-R. Star once. zee
a APARTMENT HOUSE sfTES-CoRNERs.
n block from Conn. ave. ana near Million
Dollar bridge; price reasonable; act quick;
large and sHnall sites.
THE JOSEPH SHAPIRO co. si4 n. z. Ave.
ON 18th ST., 50xIS0; 81 PER SQUARE FIT. /;
no agents Address Box 253-R. stas office.
CHOICE LOT NEAR CHEVY CHASE CIRCLE.
4Oxl3aIs IT.; attractively priced for quick
THE REALTY INVESTMENT CORP.
WASHINGTON.
49, 18th st. NV. MAn =SOS
FOR sALE-TwO BEAUTIFUL LOTS oN
Conduit rd., 25x10o IT. each; Price, $oI5 eaeh
sewer and water; snap; act quick. c.. r.
Waring, 219 Bond bldg.
BEAUTIFUL HOME SITES. OvERL0OKING
18th ST. and Rock Creek Park. OWNER, Co
lumbia 421s, after pm.
A FEW BUILDING BITES. COVERED WITH
trees; overlooking Rock Creek Park. west OF
18th st. at varnum. Phone Nneoln 6221.
70.FT. FRONT. DENT ST. 90. 1iso.
loft front, D n.e.. 90. 1850
T0-ft front, Florida ave. and 1Sth w.@s
67-ft. front, N. J. ave. NV.
loft. front Ivy at. Sc.
w. =. NASH. I22 u g.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-06
THE EFFECTS OF POLITICS

Much important legislation is being ignored through
ubcan fight get control of that $00000 in the State High
*ay Department that they may partisan purposes
&erth Amboy being hit particularly hard
In the place. the bill enable the city finance the
ade crossing elimination having pretty hard shedding and
likely be lost in the shuttle This bill has been very poor
handled from the There has been the cooperation
the interest of the city that there should have been Politics
been the bottom of it and the desire the part of the
party dscredt the leaders the other
|bded every other consideration
Perth Amboy is again suffering through the delay naming
State Highway Commission. Serious complications
rising the Amboy paving 1t is matter that vitaly
the State Highway Department and great deal
taxpayers Perth Anboy There ought be
the matter be taken up there go
AS long the Republicans continue play peanut politics
Trenton the delay will continue In the meantime city
[fers.
It is politics from beginning to end One side is as bad as
other Both outwardy claiming have the interest of the
W heart and hear the leaders talk would think that
hey alone the friends of city yet both sides
laying politics to the limit Everything sacrificed partisan
vantage if side put the other hole that all that
and the city the taxpayers can get from under the
Est way possible.
IF the Republican leaders do anything embarrass the
Democratic administration this city they only
filing do it regardless of what effect it may have the
ogress of the city how much the taxpayers have suffer
kewse if the Democratic leaders dscred and embarras
Republicans who in office they welcome every oppor
nifty to do it, and the city struggle along best it
Politics is the of municipal government and
is being felt than right here in Perth Amboy It is
cs that holding up the progress of the city and long
present game being played hope for little in the
ay Of real municipal development and reduced taxes
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-06
GOING CRAZY?

The American people rapidly gong crazy, says LII.
j. N. Hurty nationally known Hoosler medical man. some
will comment: "Gong? They're already bughouse.
EAmercans fast becoming race Oh morons' lmoe-
Giles and maniacs Dr. Hurry comments IN encouragement
He thinks in another hundred years there will not be sane
person in the country.
Cheer I'D Doc Feeble-mindedness and maniacal hys-
terra are pandem in these United States But that's be-
cause the war left us in hghystrung nervous condition
In time we IL settle down to normal Are headed that way
now. And normal is sanity.
The crazies ones never locked up the asylums
That's because sanity and insanity terms that
be accurately Defined except that average mentality
sanity and that insanity is deviation from the normal
above below.
The greatest scientists of Europe least most of hem
thought Columbus crazy when he argued that the earth
was round instead of flat (Accepng hearsay evidence
now know it's round)
It's only decades nearly every America
thought the Wright Brothers had 'bats the befry be-
cause they insisted that possible for to fly through
the air like bird.
man may be crazy by standard, and sane by an
other In grading mentality most OF us are like the soldier
who said: ''Everybody's out Of step but me-
An English brain specialist writing in London Daily Mall,
says of the forms OF insanity the arrest
of the basic human instincts in the ndvid
ual.
For instance most powerful control is the instinct of
sepreservaton When fail to respond to that instinct,
sanity. We also crazy, less when fail to
respond normally to the domestic instinct the herd social
instinct and the normal expression of the religious instinct
Chronic gloomnes bad temper defects of memory pre-
inferences and exravagan imaginings-a these
are mild forms of mental arrangement, says the English
specialist.
He adds: 'Gubty is also indicator Of weak thought.
AS regards the affections the webaanced mind shows
likes dslkes friendness than hatred SYM
pathy than antipathy.''
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-06

Q. Why do the wheels on auto
mobiles seem to turn backwards in
the movies TIN.
A. Motion pictures are in reality
a combination of still pictures. The
first picture of the automobile shows
the spokes of the wheels in one posi-
ton. If the next exposure of the
film were made when spoke number
one had advanced far enough to be
in the position Of spoke number two.
the picture would show no motion,
as spokes are identical. If spoke
one had advanced less than half way
to position of spoke two, the forward
motion would be noticed. If, how
ever, spoke one advances more than
half way, to the observer 1t would
have the effect of spoke two moving
backward, as that distance would
be shorter and the apparent motion
would be in that direction.
Q. What are the largest 1000
fish ?-P.H.
A. Sturgeon, tuna and sword fish
which sometimes attain a. weight OF
1000 pounds are probably the larg-
est fish caught for food.
Q. How does the mass Of the
eartt's atmosphere compare with
A, The total mass of the atnaos-
phere has been calculated to be ILL.,
100000 or -1,125.000 Of the mass of
the earth.
@. Is it true that buzzards sleep
in caves and hollow trees in winter?
GALL.
A. The Department Of Agricul-
ture says that buzZards do not hi
bernate nor spend the cold season
in caves or hollow trees. The ma
iority of buzzards migrate southwark
in the fall.
G. Who first grew the apple call
ed Baldwin ?-W.E.C.
A. The Department OF Agricul-
ture says that soon after 1740 the
Baldwin came up as chance seed
ling on the farm of Mr.. John Ball,
Wilmington, near Lowell, Mass, and
for about 40 years afterwards its cul-
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-06
REPUBLICAN FOLLY AT TRENTON

Under the heading Republican Folly Trenton the New
IL Sunday CALL of the most conservative Republican
hpers in the state says:
1t was clear fortnight ago that the New Jersey Repub
ican machine viewing the appointment of State High
way Commission from political standpoint That sorry fact
plain MONDAY. When committee of Republican
presented to Governor Szer Wednesday request
that he name for the commission Republicans place of
General Scott and Walter Kdde the governor properly asked
Them why they objected the latter Are they n-
competent to construct roads? the question he put
the senator's 'They not outstanding Republicans
khe only answer the committee made.
This means Just one thing we said week. the
mission win need employees and the Republican machine is
ryng to the appointment Of party workers. and they
General Scott and Mr. Kdde thus regard these
appointments legitimate party spol Perhaps under
Interpretation the road building it will be possible for
the commissioners show favortism in the awarding Of
ing contracts for the furnishing of certain sup
plies The Republican machine wants these pums to the
right
Whether Senator Edge the Republican state senator's
aone have placed their party in the position which occupies
today before the people, the fact stands out that tactical
buner has been made 1t not necessary to give Governor
szer any credit for shrewdness in driving them into this
position Higher praise is his due He took stand for
bsnesslke handling the Highway Commission problem.
He said to the senatorial committee that waited him:
Since the purpose to get outstanding honest, capable
men why should the question Of politics have anything to do
uh it at a9' This the right stand to take but the
Republican machine had opposite view Of the matter
and today they poried before the people woulbe
shucksters of public patronage.
They may capulae and confirm the governors nominees,
but they the mischief to their party which they
have wrought And it, the other hand they decide to drive
ahead and pass ripper BILL they will but plunge the party
deeper into the morasS whittier they have guided it.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-06

tivation was confined to that irnms
diate neighborhood. Eventually thA
farm came into the possession of s
Mr.. Buffers, who gave the appla
the name Woodpecker or Pecker,
and it was called Buffers. Deacon
Samuel Thompson, a survivor OF
Woburn, brought 1t to the attention
Of Colonel Baldwin of the same town
by whom 1t was propagated and
more widely introduced in eastern
Massachusetts as early as 1884. From
Colonel Baldwin's interest in the var
iety it came to be called the Bald
win. In 1917 the original tree was
still alive but it perished between
1917 and 1882. A monument to the
Baldwin apple now marks the loca-
ton.
Q. What did the ancients use in
stead of soap?-R.N.
A. The art of soap making is
very old. Pliny refers in his writ
ings to both hard and soft soap. Re-
mains of soap makers shop were
discovered in the ruins of Pompeii.
Before the invention of soap making
the juices of certain plants were used.
as cleansing agents. Fuller's eartn
was also used, the method being to
spread it over the garment to be
cleaned and then to stamp it in with
the feet.
@. Did congress pass a bill au-
thorizing the United States hag?-
S. S S.
A. On June IA, 1879, congress
adopted the following resolution:
Resolved, That the flag of the thir-
teen United States be thirteen stripes
alternate, red and white; that the
union of the flag be thirteen stars.
white in a blue field, representing
new constellation"
Q. What is the record yield of
wheat on one acre of land
A. The record of 117.42 bushels
OF wheat raised on an acre of land in
Ireland county, Washington, in 1895,
has not been equalled.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-06

NATIONAL CASH REGISTER co.
'KREBS" only authorized agent for
Middlesex County; new and second hand
ash Registers on monthly payments
Repairs, Supplies. 10 West Grand Street
Eliza beth. N. ].