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''This was happy thought" he
said. 1T feels like 4 blizzard out
side"
The radiator in the dining room
is out OF order"
s.Ohr'
She was q woman OF the world.
why in thunder didn't she make
things easier? Had she asked him
here merely because she was too
bored to eat alone? He hated smali
talk. There was nothing he
wanted less than the personalities
Of their previous conversations,
but she might have entertained
him.. She was eating her oysters
daintily and giving him the benefit
OF her dark brown eyelashes.
Possibly she was merely in the
mood for comfortable silences with
an established friend. wen, he
was not. Passion had subsidized but
his nerves tangled.
And inspiration came with the
soup and some excellent sherry.
by the way. Do you remem-
Der I asked youat that last first
night you wouldn't like to see
something Of the Sophisticates?''
''The what7"
''Some Of them still cali them.
selves InteIlectuals, but that title
F1ntelIigentia is now claimed BY
every white collar in Europe who
has turned Socialist or Revolu-
ZIONIST. He may have the intellect
Of cabbage. but he wants
new order. we still have 1 few
pseudo-S Socialists among our busy
young brains. but youth must have
its ideals and they can originate
nothing better. thought I'd coin
new headline that would EN-.
brace all jof us"
1T is Comprehensive. WeIf?o
"A friend of mine, Cora Dwight.
at present foremost woman all.
lnoF q america, ~ giving q party
next Saturday night. I'd like
enormously to take you"
but do not know Miss
Dwight =
She will call in due form. 1
assure you she understands the
conventions. OF course, you need
not see her, but she win leave q
card. Not that it wouldn't be
quite proper for me merely to
take you out.
II should prefer that she called.
Then-yes, I should like to 60.
Thank you.
The men arrived with the entree
and departed with the soup plates.
Laid Up.
Once more he had an inspiration.
Poor old Dinwiddie's laid up
with the govt"
Really? He called day or
two after the dinner. and I en-
joyed hearing him talk about the
New York Of his youth, ana Of
The Washington times., 1923-11-27
OXEN:-:By Gertrude Atherton|

''Ohi Not tragedy7'' he cried
In alarm.
mo not yet. Not vet!
am beginning to wish that
had never come to America. i
Now shall ask you why"
.And shall not tell you.
have read your Miss Dwight's
novel, BY the way. and think i.
quite hideous."
$50 do /. But that is the rea-
son Of its success And the
conversation meandered along the
safe bypaths Of American fiction
through the ices and coffee.
To Be Continued T0mOrrow.)
Copyright. 1879, ~ Gertrude Atherton.)
The Washington times., 1923-11-27
500 Years a Saint.

ROME. Nov. 27.-The celebration
Of the sixth centenary Of the canon
ization of st. Thomas Aquinas TOOK
place in the Church of Santa Maria
Minerva in the presence OF Cardinal
VannutelIi and six other members CT
the cardinalate and numerous mem
tiers of the Papal household. The
Papal diplomatic corps also attend
ed the centenary.
The Washington times., 1923-11-27
Novel Tells How
Beauty Returned
to Old Woman

This serial is presented by ar
rangement with Associated First
NatlOnai Pictures, Inc, i'm whose
uim version COrinne Griffith will
appear as Countess Zattiany.
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This Discount of 2O9o makes this event
of tremendous Importance to Every
Woman and Miss in Washington.
All Wonsea's and Misses Suits, Goats, Dresses
Skirts. Al Tots-tO-Teens WeGrGbles All Null
nery, certain brands Of Hosiery and SsOeoters
The Washington times., 1923-11-27
By Gertrude Anterior,

Author Of Many Notable Novels.
and Cine Of the Most Widely
Read Writers Of the Day.
The Washington times., 1923-11-27

Bear in mind that every piece of mer-
chandise is right out Of stock and not
bought for sale purposes. This sale en-
braces everything in our store except
Phoenix and Coral Band Hosiery and silk
underwear. All at discount of
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1923-01-15
ASamblea de
panaderoS

FL senior Alberto Espier, presidente
de la Union de Panaderos, nos infor-
ma 10 siguiente:
''En la tarde del microbes 10 del
corriente celebrose una grandiosa asam
bIea de Panaderos organizados en- Ell
local de la Federation en- Santurce, y
en- ella Sc trataron asuntos de vital i'm
portancia para la familia panadera de
San Juan. La orden del d1a consistia
de tres puntos esenciales, pero Ell mas
dlscutido fu6 ell de la situacion en- que
Sc encontraban los panaderos y e. rene
dio que debia aplicarse a los males
que sufren.
Los organizadores de la Federation
Libre, Emilio Fariza Nicomedes Ri
vera. tomaron parte en- la asamblea,
presentando Ell primero un plan para
comenzar una campaia para levantar
Ell salario de los panaderos, establecien
do Ell pago de CUATRO DOLLARS por
bulto de harina elaborada que antes
Sc pag9ba. Fue aprobado por todos los
presentes.
Sc nombr6 una Comision para que Sc
entrevistara con todos los panaderos
organizados Y no organizados de la To-
calidad, a fin de que luego que estu-
vieran enterados de este proposito, die
ran su conformidad para unirse a la
campafa Unconditional solidariamen
tie hasta conseguir de nuevo que Sc les
pague los CUATRo DOLLARS
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ANUNCIO De SUBAS'Tl
GoB1ERNo DE PUERTO RICO
CErAsziETAMENTo DEL INTERIOR
NEGocTADo DE oBRAs PUBIIcAs
San Juan, P. r., Die. II, 1922.

Proposiciones en- pliegos cerrados
para la adjudication en- pdblica subas-
ia de las obras de construction de 5.5
Kms mas menos de Ia caTretera La
res-Adi iuntas, secci6n e'npalme Carre
terra no. IA Rio Guayo, cuyo presH
puesto aprobado asciende cincuenta
seis mil seiscientos setenta y IN do
lares y 551Oo, 1856, 6,671.55) Sc admiti
ran en- esta oficina hasta las P. M
del dfa Is de enero de 1928, en- qua
Sc abriran publicamenta.
Todos Ios dstos necesarios Sc daran
en- esta oflcina donde Sc encueatra1 de
manifesto los documentos que han de
legir en- Il contrato, y podran recoge:
los licitadores los pianos y modsios de
proposiciones que han de presentar, me
dante I'm dep6sito de diez dollars
(S10) que seran reembolsados al Ser
devueltos dichos documentos en- el pIa-
&c de veinte dfas (2O) despues de efec-
7ada la subasta.
Sc llama especislmente la atenci6n
de los hcitadores hacia el nacho de
cue sera rechazada toda proposic i6n
cuyos precios unitarios no Aayan sido
escritos EN- letras ndmeros.
No Sc remitiran pianos correspor
dientes este contrato despu6s del Ola
10 de enero, 1928.
La administrator Sc reserva el de-
recho de rechazar cualquiera todas
las proposiciones adjudicar ell con.
trato bajo otras consideraciones que
las del precio solamente.
JOHN A. WILSON
Comisionado Advt
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HOT EL.ElS I. Z
EL VESUBTO

Participo a mi numerosa clientela
que nuevamente me encuentro al fren-
te de este acreditado Restaurant donde
encontraran un esmerado servicio Ia
carta.
Sc admiten abonados y nunca faltan
los sabrosos spaghetti.
Vicente RINALDT.
Allen 20. San Juan, P. R. Telefono 989.
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Cafe-R estaurant
puerto Rico"

Sc sirven comidas a Ia carta.
Por las noches, toda clase de cenas
pasteles y pastelillos especiales, no
chos per la mejor cocinera ole la Isla
EGagnifco menu para Navidades !!
Ano Nuevo.
Propietario: Pedro vazquez Negr6n
san Francisco 70, San Juan. Advs.
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UN ADoRADoR DE BACo

En- la calle San Juan, de Santurce,
q guardia Nemesio J. Nieves. arrest6
a Hip6lito Reyes en- los momentos en-
que transportaba una lata conteniendo
cinco galones de ron canita. La Corte
municipal lie impuso Reyes $50 de
multa por el delito de haber vio1ado la
secci6n 2 de la ley Volstead.
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10 QUE listed NECESITA

10 QUE US Ed NECESl a
Antes que nada, toda persona
necesita conner bien y dornir
confortabIemente. listed puede
obtener annbas cosas en- ell Ho-
tel San Francisco, Ell ouaI cuen-
ta con un nuevo local, construi-
do expresamente. Ell hotel esta-
RI sifuado en- la esquina San
Justo Luna. Habra habitacio-
mes frescas y ventiIadas, pro-
pias para honbres solos y ma
trinonios sin hijos. En- cuanto
comidas nada nejor. Habra nu-
merosas personas que atiendan
a las nesas y en- la cocina. Tam
bi6n Sc sirVen comidas a doni-
clio. Prontitud y esn1ero es 10
que demanda ell sigIo. Para mas
inforrnes, dirijase a Rosario Gas
tro, Tei6fono 1909 o San Fran
cisco 46.
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CARIRE

Situado en- Ell coraz6n de Ia ciudad.
Perfectamente acondicionado con todos
los adeIantos modernos: Ascensor, Te-
I6fonos, Timbres, Magnifcas habitacio-
nes con bano privado y efectos SANTA
rios. Especial comfort para familias
viajantes. Precios moderados.
Tel6fonos 484 1909. P. o. Box 8o6.
Gale de San Francisco, No. 81.
San Juan. P. r.
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Una Caria iBtereSaRte
San Juan, P. r.
Enero 5, 1928.

Sres. Wyman & Shine
San Juan, P. r.
Muy Sres. mios:-
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CENTRAL

Edifcio construido expresamente para
Hotel, modernamente eQuipado, con as
censor, habitaciones con banjo, tel6fo-
no, timbres cuanto requiere eI moder-
no comfort. Plan Europeo. Restau-
rant la carta. Tel6fonos: 381-1144.
Box 1852, San Jose, Plaza Principal,
San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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Creo conveniente que Ell pdblico Sc
pa Que la Pepsina y Ruibarbo del Sr.
Bosque de la Habana, que Uds. repre-
santan, es un excelente preparado para
Ia dyspepsia des6rdenes intestinales.
He sido sienpre refractario toda
publici5ad pero sufriendo a veces de
ma defectuosa asimilaci6n debido sin
duda a la labor que me he impuesto, he
probado el preparado del DR.. Bosque y
les confieso que sus resultados me han
sido muy satisfactorios.
Deseo que otros en- iguales circuns-
tancias puedan obtener ell mismo bene-
fcio usando tan recomendable prepa-
rado.
Soy de Uds..
Atentamente,
Teodoro Moscoso.
7res;dente de la
Torto Rico Drug Co.
Advt.
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Advt.
The Washington times., 1923-02-25

whose life vocation is really children,
should |be educated into the beautiful pro-
fession- of caring for children, other
women's, as we'll as their own. Thus the
mothers of the world would be free to ex-
pertinent as To- fathers, for fit children,
as a botanist experiments as to fertilizer
for fit seed. What preposterous thing
that woman should give children to the
world by only one father! The Russian
Communists have the right idea.
Look at the race of run down, lily
livered, stoop shouldered, dreary minded
American men who yearly are becoming
the fathers of the new generation of little
Americans. Why should woman who is
really mother at heart have to bear the
children of one of these sublimated
essences of fddle-dee-dees of fathers to
the sixth or eighth child? Why shouldn't
she have the right to choose a better
father for her sixth child then she chose
for number one?"
Isadora paused for moment to make
sure that full significance of her wretched
doctrine of freedom" had made due inn
preston and then went on as she gaZed
at her own boy-husband:
"PerhapS in some cases the father, in
his youth, was fit to be a father. But in
his knock-kneed ffties he is too hard
headed for anything spiritual to spring
from him. Then let his wife rotate the
children crop Just as sensible farmers ro-
tate the crop of potatoes. Let her look
about for a young father, fit to be perpet-
uated in a child. After all, should think,
the baby crop is quite as important as the
potato crop. But, in these somnolent
United States, you will never get our
President, our law makers, our ministers,
or our doctors even, to see the vast wis
dom of what | am now setting forth.
You'll all keep on having humdrum chill
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that you should want marriage, too?
After we are married. what them
"'Why,' said he, gasping, why, mar
riage ends all. Well just sit down and
be happy
That's the trouble said l, 4 could never
be happy, sitting down. l could never
be happy with matrimony which always
ends it all. l want revolution which
cleanses. / want debts, if l must have
them; I want suffering and hardships and
love that is more cruel than pain. ] want
life and adventure and the whole world.
Who are you, with your millions, to try
to capture my SOUL?
"And | did not marry him. At one time,
if | had exacted money in return for my
affections, | could have owned Madison
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the people who have enough guirnpe to
their upper story to ask 'why-why---
Why?' That's the color of the blessed
folk who won't lie down, under the old
tyrannies, but who rise in honest revolu-
ton. That's the color of the artists and
the creators, the great soldiers and fight
ers and poets. And that's my color,
praise the Lord! For, you see, the color
of my blood am glad, glad'to say is still
red, even after my American tour ..I4
And then Isadora let out some real
truth about why she no longer loves
America when she said
81 have been in sad financial straits,
in America. That is one grudge / feel
toward my country. She lets her artists
starve. And my manager had me- by the.
throat. To save money on the last two
concerts, he refused to give me an or-e
chestra L had to get along with a
pianist. 1t seemed to me that art suf,,,
fered too greatly if 1 could not haveaan-I
orchestra. So l went to a woman who
says she is my friend. .,ea -,4s
"She is one of the richest women in,
New York She has told me, again and.
again, that my dancing has healed her.
children's souls. So 1 laid my need, be-
fore her.
"'How much will an orchestra for the.
last two concerts cost ? she asked me.
Twelve hundred dollars, I told her.
sShe said the income tax was so ex-
pensive that she couldn't do this little
thing for art. l then sent her a rare
piece of lace, the last nice thing have
l thought if she. would buy it l would
give my all to make those concerts right.
And she sent the lace back by the chauf-
feur, without even note. That was all
she cared for, her children's souls-I had
healed them, she said, but they weren't
worth two hundred dollars apiece to her;
those souls. In these United States we
value the unseen things of the spirit in
very few dollars and cents. ia
"Of course, later, got an orchestra of
Russian players, thanks to my strenuous
ness. But that | had to stand moments
worry on this score is outrageous.
Routine, weary routine, the same old
table in the middle of the same old floor
the same old books on the same old table
that's America ...@<~J
But there IS still hope for AMERICA
glorious future may yet come as it has
come to Russia, that happy land of
Freedom" poverty and starvation which
Isadora loves: SofNsnnly she added:
But l will predict | have seen the
Russian Revolutionists in Moscow stand
ing in the street, some so poor that their
feet are done up in newspapers, for lack
of shoes. l have seen the freedom in
their faces, as they sang the InternaticN
ale, waving the red fag.S l have seen
your workers parade, also, down Fifth
avenue. have watched the poor, starved
bodies, their weak backs and shrunken
limbs. Yet l see, in those downtrodden
exploited ones, the promise of America. s's
awake up, in time! Or else those
crushed will start thinking, from over
burdened necessity. And, on Fifth ave-
nue., they will start up the Internationale,
while the Red Flag is waving all about.
After ALL since red is the color of youth
and promise and vigor and initiative and
all virile creation, that may be the only
cure possible for these dreary, routinizrilH
Emitted States"
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Square Garden. The millionaire
would have given it to me- Now
q what do / get instead? l have had
q the receipts of my last two concerts
attached for debts that were incurred
when my life was bound up with that
millionaire's. The debts were in
CURED in my name, of course, but
they were his debts. He could pay
for them, easily. But the man who
offered me stultifying marriage, turns a
deaf ear now.
'NThe curse of the United States is its
humdrum old life, same yesterday, to-
day, and always" she continued. "The
curse of my country is it's slavishpess,
mental and spiritual Most of us in the
United States are dead-all dead-at the
top Nothing new and progressive, like
the Russian Revolution, can come out Of
America-just yet, at any rate. We
think the same old thoughts about life
and love and art, that our round
shouldered old grandsires thought, as they
twirled~their struggled whiskers of an eve
ming, as they sat huddled before the air
tight stove. Air tight-yes, that's what
we are now, in America. No breeze of
progress can ever pierce our air tightness.
"Bah, I am tired of the American
hypocrites who lift their eyebrows at the
barefoot dance; at the exposure of our
bodies which should be the temple of God
in man. Bah-Bah again! l have had
about as much of chance this Winter
in America as Christ had before Plate.
We both were doomed before we even
spoke. When / think of some of the ex-
periences | have lived through on my
American tour it lakes me want to be
a Christian. 1t makes me feel even that
mean.
cake Boston," she added. 'In Boston
Mayor Curley enuneiated some dreary old
bromides about indecent bodily exposure
and barefoot dancing ON the occasion of
my appearances in his town. And | came
back-and do come back now, saying |
know what is the matter with Boston.
Boston-you intelligent, who are still liv-
ing in America, if there are any of you
still living, is in rigor morris because of its
fearful conception of life and culture.
| do not know, on the whole, but that l
should call it 'culchoor,' when l speak of
it in connection with Boston.
'Now, in that city, l heard, they OBJ
jected to me because they thought | was
a Red; because they heard l sympathized
with the Bolsheviks. l will explain
There are, in the world, persons of three
colors. There are the whites. Their color
typifes a purity which is useless; a
starved quality of the body and mind and
emotions from which no young may
spring; sterility which is praised only
by it's own barrenness. That's your ultra
pure, all over our country.
"The next color is gray. They paint
the walls of their Symphony Hall gray
in Boston because that is the color Of
polite funerals and ~hearses where too
much sadness is not desired. Gray is the
color of Boston-people who are del
and buried already and past the wreath
hanging episode which comes shortly after
the demise. That's Boston. BEAD
politely, positively dead, so far as any
thought or any feeling, or any quickene>:
intelligence are concerned.
''The last color of all is red. That's
the color of the people who do the real
work of the world. That's the color OF
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nothing but stereotyped wedding ring.
cts the smugness, the sanctimonious
righteousness, the God bless me and my
and no more, Amen quality to America
which brushes my soul. AS for me |
would rather be free than be out of debt.
| would rather see with clear eyes than
be millionaire. | remember some years
ago a millionaire whom l associated with
for eight years. He wanted to marry
me. But l shuddered at the stall fed
project.
''He took me to France. He bought a
chateau. He filled the garage with fifteen
costly motors. Now, Isadora,' said the
millionaire to me, marry me, and these
are yours
"And l replied, lis not my love enough,
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II ~
shaking the dust of your mar
row-minded, hypocritical, loath-
some United States from my feet" Isa-
dora declared.
"America makes me sick-positively
nauseates me- This is not mere figure
Of speech. America produces in me
definite malady-I know the symptoms;
have felt them here on other visits.
Stupid, penurious, ignorant, intolerant
America digusts me and l am going
back to Russia, the most enlightened ma
ton of the world to-day"
Isadora paused, and then continued:
eYou feed your children here canned
peas and canned art, and wonder why
they are not beautiful. You will not let
them grow up in freedom. You prosecute
your real artists. You put them under
the heels of fat policemen, like the ones
who sat on the platform of my concert in
indianapolis. You drug your souls with
fhatrimony. You import what art you
have, which isn't much. And when any
one tells you the truth, you say, they are
crazyr
"I am absolutely, unutterably and
vehemently opposed to all legalized mar
rage" she said 81 think the wedding
ceremony is a most poisonous foe to the
poor little victims of marriage-the chill
dren If it were not for this dreary,
monotonous, miserable, wretched, inanc
life mating of humdrum Mrs. Brown
with Grabbed, cranky, shifty Mr.. Brown,
the poor little Browns might have had
some chance in life.
"What do parents do in their holy
welded life? They browbeat, intellect
ually and spiritually, every child that is
born to them They commit malpractice
upon the souls of each of their offspring.
How can children be expected to grow up
in honor, happiness or even common de-
cency when they have to stand the meal
time quarrelings of their parents till they
are old enough to leave the parenta!
rooftree? Oh, | know, some parents think
they are enjoying their chickering's and
still sparing their children by talking in.
yelled language. But any child worth the
name sees through that talk. Marriage
is a failure. Ask Geraldine Farrar.
maybe some people may think | do
not practice what | preach, since just a
year ago | got married myself. Well, l
was forced into matrlmOny by the silly
laws of the lands had to travel through
as an artist. / married my husband to
get him past the customs officers. | maE-
ried my husband because if | were not
married to him in our-huh huh! =
free America, two burly policemen
would have the right to raid my hotel and
take us into court because we were
natural enough, and sane enough, and
loving enough, to live together without
this throttling wedding ceremony That's
why married, and that's only why.
"Oh, yes, 1 knew anybody who heard
me talk of marriage. as the institution
which more than all has cursed our
country would inevitably ask, how about
the children? How will they be taken
care of if the parents don't set up house
keeping?'
81 reply, BY the State. Every mother
should be at liberty to do some sort of
decent work for the world while women
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dren in the same humdrum
bondage of old> matrimony.
"But it is not alone on the
score of the family that | so
object to my native country.
l object also because my
country has no imagination.
When | tell my friends that I
love my husband, because.
when l slept, my soul travelled
off into space and joyed in
finding his soul there, they
think | am crazy. When l
explain that | was a dancing
girl on the Nile, ten thousand
years ago, and that my hus-
band was then a soldier, and
that we two were lovers and
merely renewing the ancient
associations now again CEN
turtles later in the year 1921,
they again think / am crazy.
All, they understand not true
love which means to them
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YSADoRA DUNCAN, the American interpretive"
dancer. has gone back to Russia with her
Russian poet boy-husband Isadora came over
a@few weeks ago to get little real American
money; but her tour not success. They
laughed at her in Brooklyn, the Mayor
stopped her dancing in Boston and
: !: : J:
told her to put some clothes, police &
men with nartistic feet insisted on
sitting right the stage with her in A.
Indianapolis and-oh well, read what
Isadora herself says about this horrid
land of her birth.