davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-07
By Maria Jeritza,
Famous Beauty and Prima Donna
10f the Metropolitan Opera
Company.

: - Company.
Her feet beneath her petticoat
Like little mice stole IN and out
AS If they feared the light"
in the seventeenth century.
A How astonished he would
have been, could he have seen the
girl of today, with her trimf sshod
srd graceful, but far from mouse
lpfe feet.
The modern girl does not wish
a'foot too small to be in proportion
to- the rest of her finely-developed
body. Her feet must be large
( enough and strong enough to sup
port that body comfortably and to
hI4p her to swim, walk many miles
and possibly guide a highpowered
TSietor car and with ease, at the end
Ofr1he day. to weave in and out in
. Intricate fox trot or waltz.
Ycs, tiny, mouse-like feet, ex-
cepting on tiny women, have gone
+ into the limbo of things forgotten,
along with Wasp-like waists and
the marvellous fainting-away pro-
r CliHitics Of Nictorian-novel heroines.
The modern woman takes better
care of her feet than the woman
: efrany other age. with the excep-
= ton perhaps of the period of san
.daled Greek beauty
3. First of all--and most important
--her feet are scrupulous She
bathes them carefully-at least
3 once each day--to insure daintiness
& aud TO avoid the dangers of per-
epiratiOn.
The daily cleaning of her hosiery
helps her achieve this result. 1t
takes. but moment to wash out
=. a. pair of stockings and frequent
laundering not only Increases their
dsintiness but adds to their wear.
. iyaH qualities. .
ITO dry your feet carefully
especially between the toes--is i'm.
portant. If they are put into shoes
AND stockings while still damp,
they may chap and roughen or, still
more annoying, may crack and
peel between the toes. busting
them lightly with your favorite
tatcum powder is pleasant fin
iShing touch to the toilet Of the
:. feet ..
80 Proper care of the nails is
essential. Much the same nipple
ments may be employed as in
planicuring fingernails, but the
nails should be filed straight across
the level of the tops and even with
thS sides of the toes.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-07
WHO SAID IT, AND WHERE?

Better to reign in hell than to
serve in Heaven"
That was Satan's opinion, &C.
cording to Milton in Paradise
Lost
Though lost to sight, to memory
dear, thou ever wilt remain"
This popular sentiment Is found
in the opening lines OF a popular
song by George Linley Q798-1865),
the English poet and composer,
"Men Who Know How to Die"
In June, 1892. Charles Jean Bar
barouX, French reVolutionist, in
message to the municipality
of Marseilles, asked for 900
men who know how 10 die"
(CopryiEht, 1923, King Features
Syndicate. Inc)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-07

N HE found out speedily. Eva"
said the master of the
~ house pointing to the bills
"see those-that's the limit-I'm
? Though
y '"1t's the first of the month,
said Eva suavely.
s'a'And that Scotchman you've got
hanging around here" beloved
Her father, "send him away-I'm
) tired of supporting one worthless
; clothes horse-I'm damned if I'll
!; support another"
. -1.''I won't send him away and he'll
stay around here just as dong as
p@wat him to announced his
Z daughter.
3 'seNever mind him, Eva, he's in
one of his first of-the month
moods her sister made bold to
z assert. backing away at the same
tiTS1e
Bills, Bills, Bills!
The rubber king choked for
SECOND, then he pointed to the
MOUND of bills. why wouldn't l
be-bills-bills, bills. nothing but
bills"
,,a1is voice rose in a sweeping
crescendo as he went on, "and
at half a dozen different stores
EhV SO MANY stores opSuor mo
GMt?"
= 1T seems to make the bills
smaller" answered Eva calmly.
At this unauspicious moment
, Horace entered.
thames" he said, I've been
reconsidering what / said about
leaving, and have decided to
stay provided you make a suit
. eble apology"
This was the last straw. His
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-07

in

Don't mind him, said Hor-
ace; he said the most awful
things to me last night and this
morning. too, but he has apollo
gized and l have decided to re-
main here"
perhaps we'd better adjourn
to the sun porch suggested
Julie, fearing that her father
might return and subject them
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-07

luxurious appointments. Now,
Lord Andrew" said Eva, tell us
something exciting about your
self, and then well all have some
tennis or golf if you'd rather
But it was not of the young
man from the Amazon that they
were to hear. Neither were they
to be treated to an account of
any of Lord Andrews various
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-07

again to a lashing before her
sisters sutton. They trooped out
of the room not in the least
perturbed by the explosion, and
really curious about the new
conner from the banks of the
Amazon.
The sun porch was a place
meant for ease, and each pro-
ceeded to make the most of it's
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-07
oility to wonder what it was all :

bility to wonder what IT was all
about.
II imagine that father will
want to come back here in
minute or So" said Eva; he has
been reading his mail and we
were wrong to break in on him
like this
He did seem a trifle upset, =
said Lord Andrew.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-07

"Sweet are the uses Of adversely"
Shakespeare in LAS You Like
It," bids US keep up courage no
matter how black our outlook
may seem, for adversely may be
turned to our profit.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-07
IADAM AND EVA = : By
A Unique Love Story, the Film Version,
!, !" of Which Appears at LOew's
Palace Next Sunday.

"Adam- and Eva has been Gre
Rted into a superb photo play by
Cosmopolitan Productions from
the famous Broadway success by
Guy Bolton and George Middle
ton, direction of Robert s. Wig
nOla. Scenario by Luther Reed.
1t will be released as a Para
mount picture.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-07
By Blanche Silver.
DOtty Learns Something New.

<<%O away. you horrid in
sectw Dotty cried, as the
" spider crawled over her
pretty white apron. You horrid
old thing" And Dotty shook her
apron so that the spider flew
through the air and landed on the
log at her side. II just hate
bugs
We'll. Is that any reason why
you should take your spite out on
me?' asked a tiny voice, and the
spider crawled up closer to Dotty
and began wiping it's face with it's
foot. Just because you hate in
sects is no reason you should throw
me around that way"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-07
Around the World AfOOt

+ TOURING the world on foot Captain Butler recently
arrived in South Africa. The whole journey will take
him twelve years complete. He left Canada in 1909,
but the interrupted his performance of his Journey
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-07
DO YOU KNOW
THAT

'BriarWood" pipes are made
from the wood of the lobelia tree.
The Collar-bone is broken more
often than any other bone in the
human body.
Some of the most important tin
mines of Cornwall have been
worked from early historic per
iods.
The Bhatghar irrigation dam,
near Poona, India, containing 21,-
100000 cubic feet of masonry. has
the largest volume of any dam in
the world.
Swordfish range from four feet
TO fifteen feet in length, the
sword itself being over three feet
in some cases.
II is estimated that entirely to
paint the top side of a big trans.
Atlantic liner from waterline to
rail calls for enough paint to cover
more than an acre of surface.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-07
"A sadder and a wiser man."

"A Sadder and wiser man"
This expression that we hear
every day spoken of someone who
has been rudely disillusioned Is
from the Ancient Mariner" by
CoIeridge.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-07
This Day In History

1899, by Napoleon. The town reduced to ruins.
It was famous seaport and is supposed to have
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-07

"a fool at forty is fool indeed"
The words of the poet, Edward
Young. 06S3-l765) in Love of
Fame" are reminiscent of the old
saw mo fool like an old fool"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-07

"Briar-Wood' pipes are made
from the wood of the lobelia tree.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-07
Screen Version Novelized.
BY Jane Mclean.

NHE found out speedily. Eva"
"a said the master of the
~ house pointing to the bills
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-07

" HE school whic fails to
interest the pupil harms him
- permanently.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-07

Her feet beneath her petticoat
Like little mice stole IN and out
AS If they feared the light"
Evening star., 1923-01-07

is perfect and specially amongst
the ladies. So Mr.. Whelton wants a
law past in every city and town
makeing it compulsory for every citi-
zen male and female to keep down to
the weight which the insurance Co.
says they should be according to
there hight and age and If this was
done he claims that enough people
would get narrower so that the con-
gestion amongst pedestrians would
be reduced to minim. And theys
no doubt in my mind that he amt
right.
After the passage of the law the
enforcement would be the next ques-
tion and I suggest the following as
the best method. Have traffic police
mans stationed at every corner in the
middle of the side walk and also at
the entrance to all st. cars, subways
and elevators and have these police
mans equipped with a reliable scales.
They would be required to observe
every Individual that come there way.
In many cases 1t would be evident
that the party observed was o. X. and
fulfilling the law, but when a party
come along that looked suspicious the
policemans would have authority to
stop them, inquire in regards to there
age and hight: and then ask them to
kindly step on the scales for just a
moment.
II IT was found that the polcemans
Evening star., 1923-01-07
HAVE TRAFFIC POLICEMANS STATIONED AT EVERY CORNER
IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SIDEWALK"
tCopyright.l

suspicious was wrong the party
slight apology on the part of the po-
licemans.
If on the other hand the party was
found to be over weight he or she
would be ordered to stay home till
they had trained down to the proper
weight. There name and address
would be wrote down and if they
were caught I'd. time before they
had fulfilled the law they would be
locked up couple wks. in a cell too
tight for them.
The policemans would half to kind
of. make a study of gents and ladies
clothes and be able to tell at a glance
what would be the differents In there
weight dressed and vice versa. A
good many butchers is expert along
these lines and 1t might be a good
idear to draft some of came in to the
police force.
1 give you Mr.. Whelton's sugges-i
tion for what 1t is worth which to my
way of thinking is a whole lot but
don't suppose nothing will come II
it as they's too many over size peo-
pie with influence to let such law
get past. In fact when you. come
down to cases pretty near everybody
that has got influence Is over size
Hence the expression he carries a lot
of weight. RING w: LARDNER.
Great Neck, Long Island Jan. J.
Evening star., 1923-01-07

ht by the end of that time ! had
some sort of scheme evolved. Be-
tween the Friendlies and Australia
there were no islands of particular
interest, anyway. We would con-
tinue our journey by steamer-it
would be a pleasant change-and in
New Zealand or Australia / would
invest my ill-gotten gains in a far
more magnificent vessel than the
Dream Ship.
On this more magnificent" craft
we would carry out our original pro-
gram of cruising up the Queensland
coast to the islands of the northwest
Pacific, and so home via Java. Co
lombo and the Suez canal. thereby
avoiding the monotonous passage be-
tween the Friendlies and Australia.
Rather clever. I thought.
Nevertheless. L prefer to draw a
veil over the communication of this
brilliant scheme to the rest of the
crew. Peter did not speak to me for
Evening star., 1923-01-07
Dream Ship Voyagers Watch Amphbious Race Gatherr

and half Is occupied in its exha1a-
tion.
Then. too, every movement below
water is made with the utmost con-
servation of energy; vet good diver
can bring $50 kilos of shell in a day,
which means in the neighborhood of
600 francs
Y X !;
a ND it is just these same nimble
"A francs that tempt the Paumotan
to abase his talents even as others
are tempted the world over. For the
sake of few me re shells. another
cluster a little farther down, he re-
mains below just that trifie longer
than is good for him, and I'm time it
tells. The eyes become bloodshot
and start from the head; he goes
deaf or paralysis seizes him.
But the women are the worst. a
sun baked trader informed me; "the
worst or the best. as you like to put
It," he added, grinning. They'll go
on till they burst, or pretty near it,
Bargain-counter instinct Il guess We
call 1t the bends"
The bends'?''
Yes. One of 'em goes down and
down: sees sonre more shell a bit
lower than that. Then she's reach
ing out for one last fiutter at some
thing like twenty fathoms when they
get her-the bends 1 mean. You
can see her. fighting against them.
but it's no good: they bring her knees
to her chin, and she can't. straighten
up, and she drops the last lot of shell
she's gathered, and hates that worse
than the bends"
What does she do?''
Nothing. except lie there crumpled
up until her mate fetches her up and
messages her back to life. Then
she's no sooner conscious than she's
down again.
Water never kills this crowd: it
takes dry land to do that. Why,
there's a diver close on fifty years
old here, paralyzed clean down one
side. He can't walk, but he can
! swim. He gets them to carry him
down to the reef and heave him in:
Evening star., 1923-01-07

the rest of the day. / verify believe
she hates me. but not tithe more
than | hate myself. IL is enough
THAT we took our departure by
steamer according to schedule and
without daring to look back on the
good ship we had left behind. The
heart had gone out of things; the
Idream was ended
= X y \
4 LREADY we were changed in
1 each others eye. Oftcnt:mes I
stood with Steve on the promenade
deck and his well known ngure
camoufaged at the moment under
natty blue suit and collar and tie
complete, would fade and merge like
dissolving view into a brown
skinned. happy savage in towel and
sola topi And as for Peter. she was
no longer the Peter we had known
for happy ten months. but a female
slave to every twist of convention.
At Apia. Samoa. Steve was so
heartily tired Of his environment that
he left the s.ip. He said he could
scent civilization afar and would have
none of it. He had met a military
official ashore who had offered him a
post in the government on the
strength of his war services and he
had accepted. He would stay there
in Samoa until l had found another
dream ship. when he would join her
on receipt of cable and continue
with US over the remaining half of
the world.
He left in a native outr:gger canoe
hugging his knees on a pyramid of
bananas. wHile the remainder of the
Grew" waved him farewell from the
steamers ra and turned sadly awfy
4 better NAL for any venture call.
ing on the b.st qualities of a man
never breatned.
Life for the sad remnants Of the
Dream Ships crew resolved itself into
the pursuit of will-o'- -the-wisp.
1t was a strange craft that we were
after-sufficiently stanch to stand
any weather. yet small enough to be
handled by crew of three. The New
Zealand seaboard had neither heard
of nor seen such a thing. At Auck
land and Wellington we were hustled
off in launch or car with high hope
in our hearts and shown every man
Her Of contrivance that floats, but
there was no choice between 100-ton
schooners and harbor racing machines.
New Zealand is beautiful, over
legislated. intensely earnest little
country. but for us it held no dream
ship and we passed on.
Australia was little better Ade-
laide. Melbourne and sydney were WIS.,
tied in turn and secured from end to
end without producing anything
within coo-ee of what We sought.
eye. Peter departed on jaunt TO New
Guinea and l continued the search
alone. after the fashion of the lost
little nigger boy.
At the end of a sojourn al Thurs
day island. where I had put in on
my quest. southbound steamer. di-
rect from New Guinea. touched there,
and as she came alongside my gaze
became fixed on a. slight. inconspicu-
Gus but vaguely familiar figure stand
ing at the rail.
1t was Peter.
There, on Thursday islands rickety
jetty. seated on a stack of sandal
wood, we talked of many things; but
behind all lurked the eternal ques-
tion. and ] was obliged to answer it:
"Fm beat. You're right, both OF
dream Ship @ -
But there l was wrong.
fCopyright.l
Evening star., 1923-01-07

people. But the genial gentleman did
not laugh.
You would take no less?" he sug-
gested bTavely.
Not a cent" said l. LAS a matter
of fact"
Il suppose a draft on will
satisfy your"
Whats that?" I stammered
I'll take her." said the genial gen.
tleman. 4 was saying that -
But heard no more. I had sold
the Dream Ship!
Confession is said to be good for
the soul, but / have not noticed much
Improvement in the state of my own
since making the above statement
Imagine parting for pelf with a home
that has conveyed you across $4,000
miles of ocean. Or, better. try to
imagine selling your best friend. and
you have some idea OF my feelings
since the transaction. And there was
no going back on il. l have not the
Evening star., 1923-01-07
Lardner Would Keep Fat Folk at Home

-o the editor: Nobody that
drives a car or rides III one
will question the statement
Il that the traffic conditions in
big cities is something terrible and in
small towns even worse.
This fact has been pointed out
Vulnerable times by the undersign
and have also suggested remedys to
which nobody seems to pay no ten
sion to them probably because they
did not have the brains to think them
up personly.
am all through trying to tell the
police how to improve same as far as
vehiclar traffic is concerned but my
tension has now been called to a
traffic situation which is whole lot
worse in small towns on a Saturday
night and in big cities all the vile.
namely the sidewalk traffic situation.
and 10 yrs. ago it was possible
for a man to walk a block in the
business dist. of pretty near any
town and not get showed off in to the
gutter or worse and it was also pos
sible to step In to a elevatorNor a st.
car or subway and find enough stand
ing rm. so as your figure was no
different when you come out than
when you went in. But that was S
and 10 yrs. ago.
Since then the population of the
entire country has increased 1 forget
how many per cent but any way a
person and a specially a man Is take
ing there life in to there own hands
when they try to walk anywheres
now days except out on a lonely
country rd. like the ones they have in
New Jersey and even that is danger
Gus and when you half to ride in a
elevator or st. car 1t is seldom never
you come out the same man.
WELL you will ask how can these
w conditions be remedied because
you can't make no distinctions be-
tween people and keep some of them
home where they belong vile others
is allowed to rome the great out doors
at will.
This would be in direct violence to
our constitution which declares every
body equal which is no sillier than
other things in the constitution a
specially some of the recent addi-
tions to same.
Lucky man in Boston name Paul
whelton has came forwards with a
suggestion which 1t looks to me like
1t would solve the problem and at
the same time cause a great many
men and women of both sexes to
think seriously about physical train
ing and the proper diet and thus con-
fer a boom on the future race.
Mr.. Whelton's idear Is something
like as follows.
He points out that every insurance
Co. has provided themselfs with a ta-
BILE of statistics showing how much,
every man and woman should ought
to weigh according to there hight
and age.
Like for inst. am man. 81 yrs.
Of age and 6 IT. 1 and y inch tall
and my weight is 1s7 lbs. which is
exactly what the tables say ought
TO be.
But there Is very few othsrs that
Evening star., 1923-01-07

moral courage of such deeds. The
draft lay on the table before me,
had a pocket full of money and no
ship. / have never been so miserable
in my life.
1t took me the best part of an
hours wandering over the powdered
coral roads of Nukualofa to summon
the necessary courage to break the
news to the crew of the Dream Ship.
Evening star., 1923-01-07

says it's the only place he can get
any comfort"
How about sharks?"
"oh, there are sharks. all right.
but the divers mate looks after that;
gives the signal, and they're all in
after him double quick"
Finish him off with knives, eh?'
The gun-baked trader smiled remi-
niscently.
We'll, hardly" he said. "A dead
shark makes a square meal for the
others, and that's all. What they
need Is an example, and they get it.
They're cruising about some time
when they come on one of their num-
Der with no tail, one fin, and sundry
other decorations that wouldn't ex-
actly please the S. p. C. A. He is not
Evening star., 1923-01-07

" y y y y = = = = <
nice 10 look at and they clear out of
a place where such things are posi-
Bile.
"When an islands thrown open Tor
pearlings, we spend weeks mutilating
sharks before the divers II go down.
ana small blame to them. 1 say.
Sharks are-well sharks"
There are pearl buyers from Paris
and London; representatives of she'll
buying concerns from Europe and
America; British, Chinese ard Indian
traders: speculative schooner skip
pers and supercargoes, not TO mention
the riffraff of the beaches. all intent
on pickings from the most prolific
pearling islands in the south Pacific
And this is the law of the group
infringed. circumvented, broken, but
still the law--that, although under
French government, the Paumotus
and all they produce belong to the
PaumotanS.
CTIL.L further to protect the native.
y diving apparatus is banned
throughout the group. The oyster
as he brings it from the water. is
the divers property. He must open,
the shell aboard his canoe before
touching land, remove the flesh, and,
after testing IL for pearls Casually
kneading it so thoroughly between
finger and thumb as to crush the life
out of iD, throw it back into the
lagoon to propagate its species
Should he find a pearl, it is his also.
From the buyers point of view, the
sooner and the deeper he gets a good
diver into his debt the better. He
then has some hold. Consequently
he spoon-feeds his selected Divers