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Evening star., 1923-08-12
100, TAKES WIFE OF 40.
Negro Farmer Likes Them Young,
He Says at Third Marriage.

SHREVEPORT. La, August IL
Wilson Edwards, negro farmer, 100
years old. purchased license to
marry forty-year-old woman. 1t
will be the former slaves third mar
riage. He says he likes to marry
them young while they can work, as
when they become old the rheuma-
tism hits" them.
Evening star., 1923-08-12
AUTO KILLS DEAF MAN,
Special Dispatch TO The Star

LOEACONING, Md, August Ii
John Grove, sixty-six years old, is
dead of injuries sustained by having
been struck by an automobile while
walking along the state highway
near Homecoming Athletic Park. He
was walking on the extreme right
OF the road. a precaution on account
OF deafness. The driver of the auto
failed to stop. Surviving are a widow
and daughter
Evening star., 1923-08-12

The general tax committee of the
American Mining Congress will hold
it's fourth annual conference on fed
eral taxation at Milwaukee Septem-
ber 24-29. This conference will be
featured by discussions of important
questions arising under the federal
revenue laws relating to mining
profits, Inventories. etc
Evening star., 1923-08-12
LIMITS SONGS BY RADIO.
Court Enjoins Broadcasting

NEWARK, n. j.. August 11.-Fed-
eral Judge Lynch today granted an
injunction sought by NJ Witmark
Publishing Company to restrain a
local department store from broad
casting by radio music that had been
copyrighted by the Society OF Com
posers, Publishers and Authors
Evening star., 1923-08-12
His Great Scheme.

From the Boston Globe.
Mr.. Follies-Waiter, here's a dollar
tip.
Waiter-I thank you. sir. Do you
wish to reserve table?
Mr.. Follies-No, shalt bring in a
party Of friends. Just tell us that
every table is engaged
Evening star., 1923-08-12
sEEIZE $4,000 DRUGS.

tDETROIT, Mich. August Ii
.That is said to- be the largest seizure
DF narcotics ever made on the Cana
.itan border was effected early today
at, "A dock in Ford. Ontario. when
police of that city took drugs said to
bevaiued at $4,000
Evening star., 1923-08-12
Took It Back.
From the Boston Transcript.

Wife (pouting)-Whenever I kiss
you you ask me if it's new gown I
want You are unfair -.
.Hub-Wel1s perhaps l am. After all,
it may be only a hat.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-29
ANNUAL PLAY MAY l
st. Michaers Parochial School Pro
gram To Be Given Tuesday.

The annual play and school pro-
gram, including instrumental and vo-
cal music. of st. Michael's parochial
school will be given in st. Albert's
Hall at Wyoming and Indianola
streets Tuesday evening May / at s
o'clock. The school is conducted by
the Sisters of Divine Providence.
The following program has been an
nounced:
Overture "Home Love-" Ripley.
First violin o. Camerana, F. Gar,
Louise Brogan: second violin X.
Burda, ]. W. Rabb: mandolin NJ. j..
Jiminez, A. Goel; piano L. thinner
man. Chorus by Junior Boys, piano
Annie Goel. Powrot Taty by Monica
Mzyk. Iris, Frances Fisher, H:
the Waters Could Speak as They
Flow" by class, piano Helen Mar
gozewitz. May pole dance, Francis
Fischer, F. Dobrowolski, C.. Zizik, q.
CARA. Chorus "San Antonio" by the
boys, NJ. T.. Jiminez accompanist.
Reading "Sign of the Cross" by
Frances Fischer. "Nymphs of the
Elements" by intermediate class.
dance of the Haymakers," Catherine
Danysh, Mary Carmel Brogan, NJ. J..
Jiminez. Karnek u. PoDiolem by
Catherine Danysh. Piano solo "Valse
Brilliante" L. Zimmerman. Illustrat-
ed Pantomime my Faith Looks Up
To Thee" by seventh and eighth
grades. "The Little Boys Rice Pud-
ding" by X. Grassox. Recitation by
L. Ploch. Dialogue "Rich Folks and
Poor Folks" f. Grams and V. Frei-
tag. Play-"Scene at the Ticket Of
flee" Bodo Gale, Gerald House.
Monica Mzyk, George Kosub, Orel
Camerena, Pauline Kowalik, Joseph
Burda, James Krzesniak, Anton Rut-
kowski, Clarence Horendechki, Rosie
Kosharek and Marie Camarena. Piano
duet NJ. L. Jiminez and E. Con-
zales. PLAYA Mothers Love and
Growing of the May Queen" Cath
crime Danysh, Angela Benke, Lillian
Fischer, Margaret earle, Florence
Fischer, Piatt Koch, Marie Hugely,
Mary Carmel Brogan, Sophie Krzes-
MAX, Monica Mzyk, Pauline Kowalik,
Marie Camarena, Valeska Freitag,
Rosie Kosharek, Conception Cara,
Louise Brogan, Stella Krzesniak.
Ruby Grimsinger, Sophie Ruthowski,
Mamie Schubach, Rosalie Freitag,
Elizapeth Ploch, Elizabeth Grams,
Cecilia Lafunente, Helen Maksam,
Hazel Adams, Florence Fischer, Helen
Margozewitz, Christine Zizik.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-29
FORM LOCAL COMPANY
Mrs. Ragsdale, Inc, Name Of Concern
To Make Salad Dressings.

A $4,000 company has been or
ganized to provide increased facilities
for the production and distribution of
Mrs. Ragsdale famous salad dressings
in the San Antonio territory. The
new concern, known as Mrs. Ragsdale,
Inc, was recently granted charter,
with the following incorpOratOrs Ira
H. Ragsdale, Robert G. Coulter, A.
II. Cadwallader Jr., and W. NJ. Ak
man.
Incorporation was made necessary
by the rapid growth of the salad dress
ing business started in San Antonio
about six months ago by Mr.. and Mrs.
Ira II. Ragsdale. The two products
manufactured-1000 Island and May
onnaise dressing-met with such wide
favor from the very start that after
few months of operation an expan-
sion was required to meet the heavy
demands of consumers.
According to Ira II. Ragsdale,
president of the new company, popu-
larity of Mrs. Ragsdale's dressing is
due to the fact that they are made
fresh every day from materials of
the highest quality. Deliveries to
grocers are so regulated that their
stocks are kept fresh at all times.
This feature has strong appeal
to women" continued Mr.. Ragsdale.
"They know that dressings shipped
from distant points sometimes are old
before finally reaching the home,
while with our dressings the house.
wife knows that they will reach her
in a state of delightful freshness.
Officers of Mrs. Ragsdale, Inc, are !:
Ira II. Ragsdale. president: Robert &.
Coulter. vice president; A. II. Cad
wallader Jr.. secretary, and W. NJ.
Altman. treasurer.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-29
AID MUSEUM FUND
Dancing Glass Presentation Takes In
Over $500.

In excess of $500 were derived for
benefit of the Attwater Museum of
Natural History fund at the presen-
tation of Peter Pan" by pupils Of
the Hymas School of Dancing, at the
Main Avenue High School, Friday
evening.
Seventy-five students, in beautiful
costumes, took part in the presents
ton of peter Pam The setting
was most elaborate and beautiful.
Among those who took part were
Phyllis kimmel, Jeanette Scharlack
Dolly Horwitz, Dorothy Darlington
Genevieve McDavitt, Lester Franklin
Hale. Mrs. Verna Yturri, Miss Star
Woodman, Rose Harpon, Betty Wild
ing, Helen Frey, Dorothy NenIis,
Marguerite Strobeck, John II. Walker
Bcryl Kroeger. Helen Rose Compton
Agnes Jonas, Nadia Hcnsarling. Sabra
Scott Kecnc, and Clara Marie Ar
rington.
Music for the dances was furnished
by Mrs. Jack Lockwood. pianist, and
Miss Sarah Karcher. violinist.
Following the presentation of the
play, the young folk and those taking
part in the play danced in the cor
ridors of the school.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-29
WHOLE SALE PRICE LIST

Prices quoted below are Saturday
morning quotations from jobbers and re-
taller to .San Antonio retailers Prices
paid shippers and prices charged out-of-
town buyers are subject to the usual
commission and other charges made by
the Wholesale and jobbing trade:
CHEESE.
Elkhorn Brick cheese: 81 cents per
pound.
Kraft American loaf. 50 cents per
pound.
Kraft Swiss Loaf. 40 cents per pound.
Kraft Pimento loaf: ~ cents per pound
Daisy cheese: 25js cents per pound.
Colorado cheese: 2iia ccnta per pound
Longhorn cheese. 26 cents per pound
FRESH VEGETABLES.
Green beans: $3.50 per bushei
Turnps: rs cents to sl.O0 per dozen
Garlic: 20 cents per pound.
/ Parsley: so cents per dozen punches.
Radishes: so cents per dozen punches.
/ Tomatoes: s2.75 to $500 per lug
Green Peppers: 25 cents per pound.
| Celery: sl.25 to sl.75 per dozen.
punches
/ New potatoes: $3.50 per bushei.
Potatoes: s2.35 10 $3.50 per cwt.
Sweet potatoes: sl.75 per hamper.
| Onions. yellow, cents per pound
white. cents per pound
Spinach: 30 cents pef hushci.
FRESH FRUITS.
Bananas: cents per pound.
Lemons $3.50 TO 1915 per box.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-29
adng Stock Exchange Quets Down During Prices Hest

general attention. 1t is found in the
traffic statistics, which show an al
most uniform decline in the number
of passengers carried during the year
1922 over 1921 and preceding years.
Taking roads as widely separated as
the Central of Georgia, the Northern
Pacific, the c. & o., and the Atchison
and the result is the same.
Why the steady decrease?
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-29
Sweet Home Resident Dies.

Yoakuni, Tex, April IS. : Mrs.
Euphraisie Donnelly, 40, died at the
family home at Sweet Home Monday.
following an illness CT several days.
The funeral services were conducted
from the Catholic Church at kocrth
Tuesday morning. Rev. G. Kuratka
officiatcd and intermcnt was made in
the Koerth Catholic Cemetery. She
is survived by her husband and other
relatives here.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-29

Oranges: 1915 to s5.75 per box.
Lines: s1.15 per basket.
Apples. $500 to 1926 per box.
Grapefruit. $500 per crate.
Strawberries: 2i-pint crate, $500.
DRIED FRUIT.
Peaches: is TO II cents per crate.
Apples: 10 to IL cents per pound.
Apricots: IS to 80 cents a pound.
Raisins: IL cents per pound.
PruneS: 12H to 1879 cents per pound
Dates: s6.75 per case.
NUTS.
Walnuts: 80 cents per pound.
Almonds: 2S cents per pound.
Roasted peanuts: IL cents per pound.
FRESH FISH.
Trout: 20 cents per pound.
Redfish: Is cents per pound.
Sheephead: 10 cents per pound.
Drum: Il cents per pound.
Halbert: rs cents per pound.
Barracuda: 80 cents per pound.
Red snapper. 20 cents per pound.
Shrimp: is cents per pound.
Founder: IS cents per pound.
oysters: 81 per 1000.
Fresh Water Cat: 81 cents per pound.
SEEDS FOR PLANTING.
Miilet: $3.50 per cwt.
Red TOP Cane Seed: Sc per cwt
Faffir Corn: 81 per cwt.
Sudan Grass: SIS per cwt.
Seed Potatoes: Irish cobblers, 1i-peck
sacks. $i.75; Red Bliss. 1l-peck sacks
$3.50.
Barley: ,i.,6 per busheL
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-29
Textiles.

Boston. April 2S.-Leading commits,
sion houses handling cotton ana
wooden goods report that there has
been slight slowing up in demand
This may be largely seasonal as many
jobbcrs already have provided for
their summer requirements. Some
slackening would not be an evil. for
mills still are congested with orders
and have difficulty meeting deliveries
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-29
Sugar.

Lansing, Mich. April 2s.-Em-
ployes in two large manufacturing
plants here have entered into "buy..
crs strike" against the high cost OF
sugar by taking pledges to use sugar
substitutes. Efforts are being made
by leaders in the movement to extend
it to other cities.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-29
Cotton.
Atlanta

Atlanta, April 2S.-Cotton crop
conditions in the Southeast have i'm
proved. Nights are still cool, but
precipitation has been slight and tenn
pcratures are gradually rising. Chop
ping has begun in the southern part
of the belt and will begin in central
portions in Q few days. Rcplanting
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-29
To Build New Bridge.

st, Paul, April cs.-Municipal of
ficials have ordered surveys made for
a bridge over the Mississippi river
near the government high dam to
meet the needs of railroad and trolley
traffic arising from the activity caused
by the location here of the new
Ford factory.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-29
CITY Sells Own Cars.

Pittsburg. April cs.-The city OF
Pittsburg recently decided to make
use of taxis. instead Of keeping It's
own automobiles for departmental ser
vice. As n result eighteen used city
cars have been sold at an average
of 5000 each.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-29

is going on today in northern sections
where seed rotted in the ground dur
ing the protracted rains.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-29

Milo Maize: SO per cwt.
Feterita: $3.50 per cwt.
EGGS AND POULTRY.
Eggs: Fresh. $3.50 per crate.
Hers. Alive. 20 cents, dressed IS
cents.
Springs: Alive, IS cents; dressed, 30
cents.
BOOSTERS: is cents per pound.
PRICES TO PRODUCERS.
Hens: IS cents; springs. to 2-pound
sizes, 30 cents.
BOOSTERS: cents per pound.
Turkeys: is cents.
Eggs: s5.75 per crate.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-29

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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-29

Beautiful Roselawn Cemetery. not
a graveyard. a beautiful, well kept
burial park. Crockett16SS.--(Adv.)
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-29
marv of Sales and Range of Prices New York Exchange
STOCK MARKET AVERAGES.
THE WEEKS RANGE OF PRICES OF NEW YORK
STOCKS.


New York. April 2S.-Total sales for the week on
the New York Stock Exchange were 3.96s4l5 shares
compared with 4.sS66l0 last week; 6,si2,250 same
week a year ago and 5.l71,35S two years ngo.
Following is a list OF individual sales for the week
100 the Stock Exchange with the high
and closing prices and the net changes for the
week:
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-29
Workers Still In Demand.

Whatever check there has been
sales. there has been none in dcma
for labor. Turnover of labor is
creasing for laborcrs are placi
slight value on their jobs as they (
that they can always get others wi
out delay.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-29

Bananas: C cents per pound.
Lemons. $3.50 to 1915 per box.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-29
A Case Against Culberton
By Beatrice York Houghton

You don't want Wallace any more than we do.''
 Sam removed his cigar. Have any of you talked POLITELY to the women?" he asked.
 'I tried it wid Mary" said Riley. T says to her, Dye think Culberton will git elected, darlint?' Says she, Are you votin' for him, Moike?' 'Yis,' says l. Thin you and me are strangers from hinceforth, says she. Some Min have eyes and nivvir use them,' says she, and that's the last worrd I cud git out av her. And now," end ed Riley mournfully. "she trates me loike a thafe in the house."
 It's the same wid Molly" confessed Fla herty. "On'y l nivver axed her what the trouble was. I didn't dast."
 The other men corroborated this testi- mony. Finally Sam, again removing his cigar, said, "But it ain't altogether the women."
 ''Ain't it?" asked Riley.
 "No," said Sam. "They are hearing some thing which is turning them against Gull berton, which comes straight from head quarters of the opposition. Let's send for them and find out what. They'll talk all at once where they won't talk single.'
 "Good advice, Sam,'' said Battison, and in less than an hour Mrs. Flaherty, Mrs. Battison, Mrs. Riley, Mrs. Hills and a dozen others were marshalled into the room.
 Battison gave them seats and then ad- dressed them. "We men are up against it, :" he told them. "The situation is beyond us. So we are going to ask you plain question and we want plain answer. Whats wrong with Culberton?"
 The women looked at one another. Then Mrs. Flaherty tossed her head and rose. I've feel no call to tell you that" said she tartly "Oi'm lady and there are things do not sphake about in public"
 "But, Molly" pleaded MT. Flaherty.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-29
"I can't understand it," said Riley.

"l can't understand 1t, said Riley.
 "Nor can l." agreed Battison, puffing at his cigar. "I've been boss of this district for twenty years and I never saw anything like it. Of course the women voting makes a difference-but the women always liked Culberton--and so did the men. Now you mention lis name and anybody starts to slink away"
 "It may be the wimmen. You nivver can tell aboot them," said Flaherty, splitting neatly into the huge cuspidor which dec orated the center of the Committee Room. There's Mrs. Dooley. She wasn't goin' to vote until my wolfe axes her to moind the childern while she does it. Whereupon she goes and votes the Dimocratic ticket, just to kill my woife's vote. Can you bate it?"
 "Did she now? Well, it wad be loike her, unused Riley. "Mebbe it's her as is responsible for the propygandy against Gull berton-"
 "How do you know there is any propa- ganda against Culberton?" put in Sam Hills, a mild-mannered elderly man with repu- tation for talking sense when he deigned to talk at all.
 "Now, Sam, where are your wits?" asked Battison. ~I just been telling you that there doesn't seem a chance of electing Gull berton to the House.this year. For why? I dunno. He's always been popular. And Wallace-in opposition to him-nobody can stand Wallace, yet they're going to vote for him and desert the party. When I ask the reason, nobody will answer. l call it noth- ing less than damned queer."
 "I dunno what more we kind do," said Riley after pause. "Ive shouted myslf hoarse at the metin's So have the rest av ye. Sam Hills is the only one that ain't opened his mouth.'
 Everybody in the long room looked at Sam. Sam smoked.
 How about it, Sam?" asked Battison. ~Aint it time you suggested something?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-29

We're goin' to lose out widout knowin' what has bate us. Wallace is goin to git Cuibertson's sate-"
 'I nivver heard that the sate BELONGED to Culberton," snapped Mrs. Flaherty. "If it does, let him take it and git out. We want none av the loikes av him in the House of Reprisintatives."
 "Won't one of you ladies answer mel" asked Battison wildly. "Not when it means the winning out of the party to which you pledged your support?"
 'I tell you vance and fer all, Mr. Bat tison," said Mrs. Flaherty. 'There are some subjicks ladies do not discuss
 Maybe they would write it," suggested Sam Hills.
 "Would you write down what is wrong?" aswed Battison eagerly.
 "We wad not" declared Mrs. Flaherty. The other nodded.
 ''Did anybody iver see sich obstinate ould hins?" cried Flaherty. "I've good notion to bate it out av ye, Molly"
 'Thry it." answered Mrs. Flaherty, glaring at her husband.
 'If one of them won't write it all, maybe each would write piece of it," suggested Sam Hills cunningly.
 q will write the first two letters, and that's all," declared Mrs. Flaherty.
 q would write the last two," said Mrs. Battison primly.
 'I suppose I could write the fourth and fifth and sixth," unused Mrs. Hills.
 ''Tll write the seventh, eighth, and ninth and tenth," said Mrs. Riley in burst of good will.
 "But not wan av us will write the third letter, for it's awful" added Mrs. Flaherty. "You can guess it or go widout knowin'."
 There was blackboard in the room. Bat tison handed out chalk Mrs. Flaherty stepped forward and wrote "S-E."
 Mrs. Hills carefully printed, AGE"
 "N-A-R-I," wrote Mrs. Riley.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-29
Long Distance"

The children had kept me up. Billy was fretful-poor little chap!-as he had been every night since that day when the house was filled with white flowers and people in black. The older ones, too, were restless and hard to satisfy. Their world has been upset. Somehow they couldn't seem to un- derstand the absence of that Person who had never before willingly left them and who, if she did, always came running up the nursery stair, her voice calling eagerly ahead of her to ask if all were well there. No wonder they were troublesome, and l was long in soothing them, and longer still afterwards quieting myself, till fell into a grief stricken sleep.
 It was the telephone, struggling to ring, that reused me. l sat up in bed with an awful dread of some fresh misfortune catch ing at my heart. The bell couldn't seem to ring, and the thing just stood there, fight ing to tell me something but horribly un- able-inarticulate, clicking and buzzing. l pushed the hair out of my sticky eyes and seized it, called into it....
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-29

The night was unusually still: no wind moved the trees. On the floor lay bars of bright moonlight. looked at them as I waggled the hook up and down and tried to win some answer out of the clicking and buzzing For few minutes there was hopeless chaos of sounds and then the dis turbance seemed to clea. up or die away, giving place all at once to that tense vii brating hum, singing over the wires, which always means a long distance call. Who could be calling me in the middle of the night from such long distance?
 Now feverishly awake and frightened, I called again, but only that soft song of the wires answered me. My imagination, as al- ways, seemed to follow those wires where they hummed in the night-wind or shone in the moonlight-across towns and fields and prairies, over mountains and rivers, from far, so far, away-beyond the world, beyond space and from the stars. .....
 "Hello-whe's calling, who is there?" begged. The, thin and faint and far far as the stars themselves-cam the voice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-29

"AN," ended Mrs. Battison.
 The men looked puzzled but at last a light broke upon Sam Hills. He got up and wrote an X in the proper place. The word "SEXAGENARIAN" stared at them from the blackboard.
 "So that is the terrible charge against Culberton?" asked Sam Hills.
 Don't you sphake the worrd in our prisinee," screamed Mrs. Flaherty. And it is thrue for I seen it wid my own eyes in the newspapers. 'Culberton is hale and hearty you-know-what,' says the papers. Wallace has it down in his circulars and it ain't nivver been denied"
 "Tis an awful charge,'' said Flaherty gravely. 'I'll vote wid ye against Culber- ton, Molly.
 "What may you be thinking the word means?" asked Sam.
 "Wd all the lectures we've attinded, for wolves wid no min allowed, and for hus- bands for men only, haven't you learned what it names fer yersilf, Sam Hills? Oi'm ashamed av ye,' said Mrs. Riley severely.
 "Have any of you ladies dictionary" asked Sam.
 All of them shook their heads.
 q recommend that you consult one. 'Sexagenaran' means man past sixty years of age. Culberton is sixty-one."
 "You lie," sniffed Mrs. Riley.
 ''Pm a sexagenarian myself" confessed Sam, smiling.
 ''Indade, but Pm sory for your woife,' cried Mrs. Flaherty. q can't brathe the air here, and now know why. Come la dies, all as IS ladies, and lave the awful crathure to his sn.'
 All but Mrs. Hills swept out of the room, and Mrs. Hills sat sobbng.
 So this is why Culberton lost the cleo tion Sam Hills his reputation, and Mrs. Hills could never look at her husband with the same trusting eyes again. Copyright 1923, Doubleday, Page & Col
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-29

A Voice knew, and, oh marvel of Heaven! a Voice I expected to hear.
 "Nan-O Nan, is it you? o Nan, are you there?" So faint, so far, so LIVING, that Voice. . the horrible, heavy beating of my heart leapt to recognize it.
 "Yes-I am here-it is I. Speak to me! :! o God, what miracle is this!''
 "My children-how are my children? Nan, can you hear? Tell me about my chldren!'
 I pulled myself together. I wasted no more time. Somehow seemed to know that only moment would be vouchsafed to us and that must make haste. So I spoke into the telephone as steadily as I could.
 "The children are all we'll, dear. I am doing the best can. Billy has been lit tie fretful with his teeth, but Floras cold is better. Helen went back to school today she wore her sweater and warm cap. talk to them about you-every bedtime, think. I hope they will get used to it soon they are so young! shall not let them