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Novelist.


18th happens to be?"
Philip frowned, lifting an eve.
brow.
''Why = let's see il g
Wednesday, a week from tonor-
row. Oh, I have it!' A
light broke upon him. Its q holi.
day, isn't it? Wasn't Columbus
born that day, or didn't he do
something unusual?"
Leila squinted at him from be.
tween narrowed lids, dry, hope
less smile twisting her mouth.
iii at Ease
"I'm we'll aware it's Wednesday.
and I believe it also marks the day
that America was discovered.
=. But doesn't it mean any
thing else to you? Don't you know
what day it is? What occasion?"
He stared at the floor, frowning
fiercely. He tried to think of q
forgotten birthday; Leila's was in
May.
81 wouldn't expect you to re-
member" his wife remarked WITH
mild sarcasm. ut happens to
be our wedding anniversary-"
ooh, I know that. 1 know that
Of course. planned to
surprise you with something. :.
Really, I did -
Leila shifted increduously She
dismissed the subject with a wave
of her hand.
Listen here; we ought to give
a dinner--a big dinner-that
night. Eighteen or twenty peo-
pie, should say. You remember
everyone was exceedingly gra-
cious to us when we were mar.
ried. and there's a few 1 am anx-
ious to be nice to. -. I've
written a list; tell me what you
think about it. There'l be Will
bur and Lucy, and Beckie-I1l
get Joe Gillespie for Beclie; he's
always amusing-and Gerald and
Flossie. and Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
lin Erb, and Lily Short
Philips attention wandered; he
was not interested; these affairs
were Leila's anyway. If there was
going to be dinner, he would
have to order some new dress
shirts right away; they would
have to rush to get one ready for
him in time. He disIiked formal
entertaining; he foresaw another
disagreeable evening. Leila was
always excited and irritable be.
forehand, and she acted so af-
fectedly and superciliously when
she was hostess. She was not u
bit like Lucy; she hadn't Lucy's
knack. At his sisters house he
always met people he knew fairly
intimately, and was sure of hav-
ing a good time. Frank
lin Erb! Philip disliked him. He
was sure Erb considered him a
"four-flusher," an upstart!
He dared say something of this
to Leila when she had finished,
but she eyed him coldly, and
without replying continued to dis
cuss the details of the dinner. He
Redeemed. Her glance was elo-
quent, conveying far more effect.
lively than any words her con.
tempt for his opinion. He con-
templated an angry protast-then,
with a tried shrug, decided it did
not matter.
You'll see about the wins?"
she asked. Get the best-you
know"
What do you want?"
She jotted down a list and
handed it to him.
Order 1t in the morning and
be sure to speak to Wilbur.
want him particularly. He was
your best man at the wedding,
and he ought to be here. If
there are any toasts to be drunk,
it's his place to propose them.
Then, I've other reasons.
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It came every TWO
weeks and lasted
for two weeks, and
during that time ]
would have the
blues and cry.
Since Ihave taken
Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable
Compound am 50
happy lean hardly
express myself. I
have gained sew.
oral hounds and
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ADVERTISEMENT.
The Washington times., 1923-11-01

~ NOwBIRDs are fluffy little chaps who begin
to be seen on the great highways when the
~ brown leaves skipping. Sometimes the
little chap ID tiny, perky gray bird making dainty
little tracks, begging for a bit OF a crumb cooking
q bright eye at YOU puffed up around the throat
40 II he had fur boa on and was nesting into It
to keep his chin warm; he matches the murmuring
dark water that sings in a silve rvoice and he
SwAys on the bare boughs and utters a tiny call
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to meet him like child, she told
herself impatiently that it was
due to mere physical clements
his health, the great strength
which made itself felt in his quiet
est movements, and a certain ex-
preston Of his deep-set eyes, which
might very well not have the
slightest connection with his per-
sonality, which might be a mere
trick Of bone structure, the way
his eyes were set in his head per-
haps. They chose the show priests
for the great festivals at Lourdes
for some such casual gifts of physi-
cal magnetism.
No, there was nothing whatever
to be known from surfaces, Marise
told herself. The subject of the
portrait was always really quite
invisible behind the thick, thick
screen of his physical presence.
All that was safe to do was to
watch the strokes by which one by
one he himself painted his own
portrait.
Marise often told herself all this
as she was hurrying down the
corridor to be tho first person in
the breakfast room-the first,
that is, after Mr.. Crittenden, WHO
was a very early riser.
To begin with there was the
dashing outline sketch Of the first
two or three days when, in a few
bold lines, he had seemed to set
up the figure on the canvas; the
rescue Of the swallow; justice for
the cat; that first walk and home.
The Washington times., 1923-11-01
Literacu in the u. S.

NOTWITHSTANDING the great sums spent on educ
cation in the United States, our country stands
eleventh among the nations of the world in teracy,
owing to the great number Of literate immigrants.
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Scent In White FIOIUers.

have offensive odor, 1900 no perceptibe smell,
and 420 emit pleasing fragrance. Most numerous of
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WOMAN so
BLUE She CRIED
Because Of III Health-TeIls How
She Found Relief by Taking Lydia
E.Pinkham' Q Vegetable Compound

Burlington, La used to dread
the time for my monthly period az
The Washington times., 1923-11-01

Sometimes the snowbird is q perky little gay
girl, also making dainty tracks, with crumbs in
her muff for her little name-brothers, she, too,
cooking bright eye at you, nesting her pinky
chin into the black fur at her throat; and she
matches the snow and the last Fall leaves for her
hair is russetgold and her throat and hands are
white; and she stands beneath the boughs and
answers the call above her with laugh and Q
whistle: What do we care for the nip of Winter4
NELL BRINKLEY.
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New York Day by Day
BY o. o. MINTYRE.

York, 17At the eutenan
the Iendoin there intimate studies of Exhibit AS
There the angular fellow with toob
Ipahicaly dangling watch chain minus
girl named kitty bumped into him accidentally
window. . . b. " N' - u" ''0
Conversation! walk in Central he is Then the
interested nightly
drop inc handsome diamond horse shoe stick
He didn't Well well. 1t
pawnshop
Inc Under mas to Leave for Oklahoma midnight
the he
there the trusting telling
either rock candy There a
the woman who suddenly faint
dentay is waiting She
goes along with her The breaks
uyer ns himself into the business
out $1,000 'N'"'" 1N''s
Strangers wonder why New coy aloof when they
attempt
array trusting souls police stations they would
Poor Eddie Foy finds that he are still out the
cod world The Welcome his
s niue foys nave disowned Pop and his wife,
years OF age believes that he has will
welcome at the family hearth. - ~ ~ WIZ S0'" W
There cigar store Yors busiest corners that has
In the
spobe executive positions the
IN hr contact with customers One
a year. Two years ago he SIS clerk. " 'O'O
The Stage Door lima cooperative restaurant for irIc, r
nre VINO have not had jobs opened than year
But they have hope stage do On b
menu at ach table line which the of
however the term hostess her. l
electric hghts as supporting member of big "
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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-17
LESSONS THAT GO BEGGING

Some people simply will not learn by
experience. This means, of course, that
they will remain unenlightencd, as eX-
periencc is the most competent OF all
teachers. The French and the Germans,
one might think, learned much about
each other during the world war. But
recent dispatches from both France and
Germany indicate that both OF those
peoples have forgotten some of the most
conspicuous facts which marked that
conflict, il they ever really learned them
1t is reported, for example, that the
Germans are refusing medical aid to
FrenChmen in Germany, and that the
French military authorities are threaten
ing dire revenge for any outrages the
Germans may commit. Apparently, then
the French learned little about the ma
ture OF the Germans during the world
war, and the Germans were not kccnly
observant when they came into contact
with the French.
When the French entered the Ruhr
region recently they were equipped as
for war; they had gas masks and even
IdlihS' IHCN SCSlllCu 10 DC pICpdl GU
for the most serious resistance. Whether
they were surprised at the lack OF ply
steal resistance one cannot pretend to
know. But when the Germans began
to resist in other ways the French be-
gan to talk as though they had been
taken completely by surprise.
Did they expect the Germans to hold
celebrations in honor of the invaders,
and hand them the key to every city
in the Country'S richest industrial dis
trict: The French knew, or ought to
have known at the outset, that Germany
was not prepared to combat them with
physical force. Although it may be true,
as the French have charged, that Ger
many has not disarmed in strict accord
ancc with the terms OF the Versailles
treaty, it is incredible that she could
mass enough modern war weapons to
match those with which the French
came armed.
Just because the Germans were I'M
able to put into the field such armies
as those which invaded Belgium and
France in 1914, the French, after meet
ing no physical resistance worthy the
name, apparently assumed that the Ger
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The Once Over
A LETTER TO THE INFANT SON
OF YISC0UNT LASCELLES
AND PRINCESS MARY.
BY ii. ]. PHILLIPS

Dear Master Lasccllcs:
| see by the front pages of all the
newspapers that you have started life
under highly suspicious circumstances
Congratulations, and may your life be
| q long and merry one. The chances
of any great happiness are, lOwcyer,
against you. You will have a very
crying existence. Very, very early in
life you will develop Il strong aversion
to photographers. Later this will
turn into a positive hatred of any
body with anything that Looks like a
camera. Your career will be one
Sunday magazine section picture after
| another.
From now until you reach the age
| of is months you won't mind it much.
After that you will begin TO get very
curious with regard to this endless
chain of men popping about with lit
tie black boxes and making funny
faces at you. Around the age of
years you will begin TO feel very
vexed about it and you will seriously
doubt the assurance of your mother
and father that mice man won't hurt
little boy. Nice man likes little boys
like co." You will then begin to get
extremely jumpy and will break into
a cold perspiratiOn at the sight of any
person pressing a button or turning
crank.
II We were in your place we would
make IN our mind very carly TO put
stop TO this photography business.
Just how to proceed is question.
but it might be n good idea for you
to bite any photographer on sight.
The newspaper photographers and
movie men are bard boiled birds and
one must discourage them very early
in the game or lose the battle. Any
infant has right TO be consulted
about his photographs being pub
lished in photogravure 'cctions all
over the world. There is always n
grave danger You will he over press
ACCENTED and you should have the
right to sit for pictures only when
you please.
And you will have other reasons
for discomfort. You probably never
will know what it is TO have new
tooth come in or tummy-ache de-
velop with only a mild amount of
interest being manifested. Doctors
will surround you. poke you and
stare at you strangely at the faint
est yelp. You will never know what
it means TO swallow part of tin
rattle and go hours without anybody
discovering the fact. You will never
know the experience of falling out of
a highchair and whanging your little
head against the side of the wall.
Guards will be stationed about you
in group formation at all times to see
that nothing exciting happens to you
under any circumstances.
BY the time you reach the age of
4 years you will have begun to won
der whether life is worth the living.
And when you get to be around
II you will have to travel lot. You
won't have much TO say about this
You will have your trims all mapped
out for You by the movie picture men
and newspaper correspondents. You
will. of course. have to 60 on tiger
hunt every other year or SO. And you
will have tc stand for annual rumors
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-17
Watching the Parade
BY John Pilgrim,

This morning l was sitting on Doc
Henneberry's back porch talkinr
about his game chickens. WEEK. hotb
Of us perfectly good churchn3en and
we would never dream of delfberataIv
fighting a chicken with L1other cbict.
en-, and if we sec two chickens fight.
ing without permission we "a ont and
stop 'em-after a time. But we lie
the little warriors because Rhev are so
brave. fD'' "'' 81
They take what's comin% without a
squawk," said Doc. II
just then Hiran came, in with q
query about Mrs. Hiram's health. He
said she seemed to be dissatisfied ali
the time. She pans Hiram, III annears,
coming and going, which seer 5 Unfair
because Hiram is a good knan She
doesn't like anything very Well She
listens to the world with pecvIsh up-
lift of her superior lip and then SpiIls
lot of acid. Hiram said he Thought
she needed a tonic.
''DOggone it, Hiram" said the Doc
what do you want TO treat her that,
way for?'
After Hiram had proved that it
wasn't his fault Doc let out on him.
He said flat in ninety-nine cases out
of 100, and usually in the hundredth
case also, a sour wife has been soured
by the husband. He doesn't know it.
the poor NUT, in most instances. But
1t kicks back on him. so that last year
in one. Mt least, of our large cities.
twice as many married men committed
suicide rs single men. Life had be-
come too added for them. Doc said
it was mostly their own fault.
"You go home" he said. tired and
grumpy, and you want dinner in
hurry and you ask why she's gotta fry
onions every night or why is it you
can't ever have any fried onions. Aft
err dinner you nap for little while
with your mouth open and then go to
bed. No wonder wives get so per-
nickety. The husband is often the
sole point of contact for the big world
for the world that lies outside of
frying pans. tatting. what the minister
said, and the movies"
A sort of intelligence dawned on
Hiram's face and he went out. as
chastenPd as a lamb. started home
on Hiram's heels. Old Doc called aft
or the two of us:
You might go on making love to
EN-. too" said he. 1T doesn't seem
reasonable. knowing you two the way
| debut it may be they miss it"
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VERY LITTLE MATTERS"

A writer in The Longhorn, student
magazine of the University Of Texas,
diagnoses what is wrong with the
campus" and that institution as a whole
by attaching broad significance to the
conclusion of group of students that
the greatest disappointment they had
suffered from the defeat of the schools
football team was "the discovery that
it did not really matter after all" The
trouble with the University and its STU
dents, the writer goes on, is that very
little really matters, and far, far less
matters much"
This student commentator rlay have
been bit unfortunate in the selection
of an incident upon which to hinge the
moral. Even so, the moral is strong
enough to stand alone 1t is applicable
to the conduct of life in the world at
large as well as to campus, classroom.
gridiron and ballroom activities. MANY
people in all walks of life fail to make
any notable contribution to the sum OF
human welfare, not because the door
of opportunity is closed to them, but
because they have let their brain, be-
come atrophied by the notion that moth
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Pointed Paragraphs

A brave man never lifts I'D a foe
for the purpose of knocking him down
again.
A woman's idea of a model husband
is one who takes housekeeping philo.
sophically.
Women may come ard women may
go, but a man can always depend
upon his mother.
When the yellow streak begins ia
work out on some people they have
fit Of the blues.
Talk is scarce during courtship. but
the woman in the case more than
makes I'M for it after marriage.
A girl who sits and waits for man
to propose must feel good deal like
the cat that is watching a rathoIp.
Jealousy indicates misplaced affec,
ton.
Some men are self made and some
others are wife made.
The ships most successful nayigated
by women are courtships.
Slow wisdom is sometimes better
than sudden inspiration.
After young man kisses a pretty
girl once he gets the habit.
a man is never his own worst on.
envy as long as he can keep his TEN.
per.
Some mothers spare the rod and
spoil the slipper.
BY adding another syllable to
short" it becomes shorter.
There's no place like home even il
it is Il hOmely place.
Perhaps time is money because it
manages to slip away so fast.
An ideal woman is one who sue
Ceeds in cQncealing her imperfectiOns.
4 faint heart is considered an easy
mark by the up-to-date girl.
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mans would treat them as guests rather
than as invaders
The Germans, on the other hand, be-
gan to, display their superficial knowl-
edge of French nature by various kinds
of mean tricks. They must have known,
if they knew anything at all, that resist
ance would avail them nothing. They
had played the diplomatic game-ard
lost. They had been charged of "hold-
ing out on the French; doubtless there
was some basis of truth for that charge.
Dislnterested economists had said that
the French were demanding in repara-
tons more than Germany could possibly
pay; doubtless there was large element
of truth in that appraiscmcnt Of the
situation.
Even so, what had the Germans to
gain by any sort of resistance that
would not result in Kidding the country
OF the invaders? Didn't they know the
French we'll enough TO foresec that to
nag them would be to provoke them to
Sterner methods Of eXacting the toll
which they had come to take?
Thus, il the French have failed to get
the full benefit OF lessons presented by
their wartime experience, which showed
that the Germans would adopt any
means to attain an end, the Germans
have displayed extremely poor judg-
mcnt in their treatment of the French
invaders Judgment scarcely less poor
than they displayed in provoking ncu-
trail countries to enter the world war on |
the side of France and Belgium.
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ing is really worth while, or that moth
ing matters"
For the tabled average person life
may be a process of establishment.
But the stuff that dreams are made of
sometimes materializes into great
achievements. Pity the man who has
no illusions, for him the joy OF life has
vanished. What if the odds are against
ones rising above dull, colorleSS medic
Gritty? The incentive to great effort
should be all the more effective. There
is distinction to be won if the mark OF
the average is passed. there is disgrace
TO be suffered if at least that mark is
Observation-Disclosures or disgrace in ones
own consciousness. and that should count
even if nothing else did.
The trouble with too many students,
the University writer explains in greater
detail, is that they are reaping the dis
advantages as we'll as the advantages
"cf a generation OF humoring and spoil
ing. They have both too great freedom
and too great care given them. The
process has not gone on long enough
to devitalize, but it is surely headed in
that direction. While there is yet in
the young people of the country a de-
sire for something that really matters,
something to work for and strive. for,
is the time for parents to stop making
spoiled children OF them, and to begin
letting them be real people"
Accepted This student commentator
might pass for critic OF the old school
Yet, wouldn't it be advisable to inquire
4 little more deeply into the mental
processes OF those students who fur
nished symptom of the r1alady with
which the University is said to be at
flictcd? Isn't it possible that there vas
some real thought back OF their dis
covery' that the defeat of their schools |
football team was not, after all, crush |
ing calamity:
Perhaps they were just learning to
discriminate between the vitality impor-
tant and the inconsequential. II so,
they deserve to be saved from involuu-
tary immolation--and that rescue may
be effected without spelling the student
writer's moral
As a matter OF history, conditions
adverse to the educational interests of
he state have resulted from the at
aching of too great Importance 70 the
outcome OF college games. Consider the
strained relations between the
University OF Texas and the State Agri-
cultural and Mechanical College. The
outcome OF the Thanksgiving Day foot
'aIl game between those two schools
'mattcred" so much, at one time. that
What had formerly been good-natured
1valry degenerated into bitter contempt.
The outcome OF the game really didn't
natter; the notion that it did was an
Illusion OF the kind that will always be
Inferior even to the stuff that dreams
ire made of. When the students of the
wo institutions made the discovery"
hat it didn't matter so inuch. after
IL, what the score was or who won
he game, friendly relations were re-
umed, and traditions worthy OF higher
displaced a spirit OF which
ven the illiterate should be ashamed
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of your approaching engagement, to
some young woman of royal blood and
Of stories that you are really in love
with n beautiful milliner's assistant.
However, You are one az the mem.
bers of reigning families in the world
,today who haven't done anything to
make them unpopular. NOBODY can
blame you for any wars or any peace
treaties. You start out in life as
perhaps the most widely liked baby
in the world You may turn out all
right. The best of luck, anyhow.
Sincerely,
o. HOWE DUNN.
p. S.-Whatever you do. don't be-
lievc anything Lloyd-George tells
you.
Copyright. 1928. by The Associated
Newspapers)