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, 1923-06-10

A wonderful evening of piano mu-
sic was given by a few of the pupils
of Lulu Elizabeth Sans. last Thurs
day evening at the studio. 515 South
Durbin street. The parents and friends
of the pupils were guests.
This is the first of the June re-
'citals. Several more programs will be
given during the next two weeks.
The following program was played
,entirely from memory:
'Bashful Sunbeam ----Spaulding
Charlotte Mason
LIED" s. Black
Merideth Mason
F"Dr.fting and Dreaming" kern
Ruth Mcfarland
2colden Rays -------Preston
Bower of Roses ---------Greenfield
Helen Engelke
"Just in Time" ---------------Hamer
"Uncle Remus" - Grant schaefer
"Enchantment" --------- Paldi
Mona Mae wolcott
Boys Of the Nation" ------- Geibei
"A the Lions Cage --------Freytag
Forest virgne
"Sparklets Miles
1.-THE Fairy Wedding
Annabelle Rosenthal
"Dancing Leaves ------------ Miles
Here and There" --------- Anthony
plantation Frolics" ------ Anthony
Clayte Shaffer
"Flower Song ---------------Lange
'Vienna Waltz" -----------Schytte
AT Twilight" --------------- Bugbee
Donnabelie Gambell
"Shepherd Girls Dream" --Labitizky
Ruth Bagby
''Firefliesf'
~Loves Enchantment"
Katherine Davis
ct Tulips Miles
Joy and Festivity'' ---------Martin
Mabel Hayes
Second Mazurka" ----------Godard
"Humoresque" -------------- Dvorak
Dora Stanley
hN%filitary P~oionaise" -------- Chopin
Margaret Stanley
A very interesting paper on An
cient Music was reas by Miss Ger
turde Counts.
The study OF musical history and
the lives of famous composers is in
cluded in the piano course which Miss
Sans teaches.
The following names those who
have completed grades in their piano
study and received certificates since
the beginning of the music season.
last August:
, 1923-06-10
Tea Club
Tuesday.

Mrs. r. NJ. Bartholomew will enter
tain the members of the Tea club
Tuesday afternoon at her residence.
1o45 South Lincoln street.
, 1923-06-10
SATIN CANTONS S2.95

Splendid quality Satin Canton. 40
inches wide, hat has been selling at
$3.50 per yard. Colors are black,
brown, gray and reseda green-only
four pieces of this beautiful silk left.
That is the reason you may buy it
Monday at this very Ga NJ
special price, YARD -
The Washington times., 1923-05-25

tourney az y"oclock thiy morning
Mrs. Dave Gaute, OF Memphis, is
matched with Mrs. Kenneth Duff
field. also of Memphis. and Mrs.
Herman Gartner, of Fort Worth, is
playing Mrs. Dozier Lowndes, OF
Atlanta. 5z-
Mrs. Gaute is Western champion
and Mrs. Lowndes is Southern
champion.
In the first match of the day
Mrs. Gaute is favored to win, while
Mrs. Lowndes is the favorite in
the second.
In the championship consolation
Mrs. May Whitley, city champion
OF Fort Worth, was paired with
Mrs. s. G. Hopkins, of Texarkana,
and Mrs. J. M. Taylor, New
Orleans city champion and former
Southern champion. with Mrs. j. P.
Tufts, of Dallas.
Miss Bertha Maxcy. of Houston,
Tex, was paired with Mrs. s. p.
Woodson, Of Sherman, Tex, in the
first flight semi-finals, and Mrs.
Ernest Hightower was to meet Mrs.
wallace Ralston in the same flight.
The Washington times., 1923-05-25

lent to them and maintained that 1t
was a gift.
Baus and the Jacobys were neigh
bors in Germantown and, according
to the testimony, Baus developed an
intimacy that scandalized the neigh
borhood" with Mrs. Gallagher, who
lived with her sister.
1t was pointed out at the trial
that after Mrs. Baus discovered the
relations between her husband and
Mrs. Gallagher, he left home and
went to live in an apartment. Ac-
cording to the testimony, the
Jacobys discussed buying a home in
the country, where Mrs. Gallagher
might live with them without her
husband and receive Baus.
Baus was charged with having
lived in Atlantic City with Mrs. Gal
lagher and showered her with gifts,
including $4,000 worth of bonds, an
automobile, fur coat and much ex-
pensive jewelry. The arrangement
in the house at. Willow Grove lasted
one month, testimony showed, when
Baus and the woman Quarreled.
The Washington times., 1923-05-25

paying the officer 800. and r. A.
Whillock, a petty officer in the
navy, charges that Small accepted
SIS from him after being arrested
for a traffic law violation. Small
was suspended by the chief Of
police.
The charges against Officer Scar
brow grew out Of the recent
dancing marathon, when, it is
alleged by Policewoman Alice v.
Summerell, whiskey was obtained
from the policeman and given to
the dancers ito keep them going"
Many witnesses, including Miss
Eleanor Spruel Taylor, who was the
worlds champion marathon dancer
for a few hours, have been sum.
moned to appear at the investiga.
ton today.
The Washington times., 1923-05-25

fashions rainbow announced today,
will be the vogue this fan.
Greens, 1t is stated, will, assume
second in command - turquoise,
feldspar and Egyptian green are
the most prominent. lother authen.
tic Egyptian. colors accurately re-
produced are Carnelian and Egyp-
tian red-also the blues Of F'aience.
Luxor and Blue Lotus.
Colors of the Italian renaissance
are also to play part on fashions
stage, such as a fIamboyant orange
called Florentine, two regal puppies.
old coral, and a wine-dipped red
named doge.
Rare old tapestry hues are like
wise to delight the fashionists with
soft Gobelin and Flemish blues,
antique bronze, and FURNISHED gold,
and piquant rose shades made Ia
nous by the masterpainter- Fra
gonard. Deep reds and spice-toned
browns of India, grays, sands and
navy blues will also keep step in
falls color pageant with the more
daring and capricious colors for
evening wear.
The Washington times., 1923-05-25
MAN MUST LOSE
LOVE NEST
y MIWFI
Plea for Return of %,25O He
Spent on Trysting Place
Denied by Court.

PHILADELPHIA, May 25.-The
suit of Thomas j. Baus, of German
town, to recover $4,25O he said he
advanced to establish love nest"
for Mrs. Eva Gallagher and himself
was dismissed by Judge Miller, at
Norristown, and Baus was ordered
to pay the costs of the case.
Baus contended that he lent the
amount to Robert w. Jacoby and his
wife, Elizabeth M. Jacoby, sister of
Mrs. Gallagher, to purchase a house
in Willow Grove, where he could
keep trysts with Mrs. Gallagher.
The Jacobys denied the money was
The Washington times., 1923-05-25
NORFOLK co s
INVOLVED IN
SCANDAL
One Charged With BootIegging,
Another Suspended for Al
legged Bribery.
BY international News Service.

NORFOLK, Va, May Bon the
eve Of the hearing of Motorcycle
Officer A. L. Scarbrow today on
charges Of bootlegging and running
a still, Motorcycle Officer S. J..
Small, Of the Norfolk police depart
ment, has been suspended and his
case will be sent to the grand jury
on two charges of accepting brides.
T. b. Dyer alleges that he secured
his release after Small had placed
him under arrest on suspicion of
having whiskey aboard his car, by
The Washington times., 1923-05-25

Six of the new models are pictured. Combina-
t;ons Of buck and canvas, canvas with leather or
all canvas or all buck. Sizes to 8 in the lot.
The Washington times., 1923-05-25
PRAYING CARPENTER GOES
TO SEA IN TINY BOAT

SAN FRANCISCO. May 25.-To
take up the work Of Moses in the
Holy Land" Ira c. Sparks, the
praying carpenter" has set sail for
his destination in a secondhand,
twenty-six foot boat, according to
advices from Honolulu.
The Washington times., 1923-05-25
4 WOMEN FIGHT
FORHONORS
IN GOLF
Semi-FinaIs for Southern
Championship Open at
Fort Worth, Texas.

FORT WORTH, Tex, May 25.-
Four women, two from Memphis,
Tenn, one from Atlanta, Ca, and
one from Fort Worth--are battling
here today for the Southern
women's golf championship. They
started the semi finals in the annual
The Washington times., 1923-05-25

To force selling have cut prices that we will
absolutely guarantee to you $40 money
overocked account of bad business conditions and do
believe in carrying stocks although clothing
will be higher next This opportunity that means
$40 in your pocket hurry in and make your selections before
it is too late.
The Washington times., 1923-05-25
EATS THIRTY-NINE EGGS,
THREE POUNDS CHEESE

FORT SMITH. Ark, May o.
Alex Ross wasn't very hungry, so
all he had for lunch was: Thirty
nine eggs, three pounds Of Inn
burger cheese, two pounds of bar
beer. e
The Washington times., 1923-05-25
MILADY NJ ] ST
WEAR BROWN
NFALL
Green Will Be Second Choice,
According to Textile Color
Gard, just issued.

II Milady would be in fashion in
the fall she must come to town In
brown.
Brown, syncopated in many varia-
tons, particularly mummy and
Egyptian browns, the Textile
Color Card sociation-arbiter of
Evening star., 1923-10-21
Trapping on Big Scale.

TN the little island of Tasmania
trapping is a very profitable bust
ness. The trappers supply market
that used to look to America and 81
IBERIA with skins of the humble rabbit
the waIlaby, the kangaroo and the
opossum inexperienced trappers earn
sl25 a week, and the old hands earn
as much as 5000.
One of the leading fur exporters OF
Hobart states that this sum Is a fair
average with many of his customers
The trappers are sought after Cara
vans go out into the bush for weeks
buying up skins. Before the advent
of this industry landowners Wers
glad to have trappers 10 keep down
the game that devastated their runs.
but skins have now become SO yalu
able that they lease the trapping
rights for big sums, and there are
many applicants. The state govern
ment has followed their lead In re
spect to crown lands. Options arr
now held for two seasons ahead over
the best trapping country.
Evening star., 1923-10-21
Strength of PlywoOd.

DLYWoOD is wood of any variety
that has been cut by machine
into thin layers and glued together
in such a way that the grain Of one
layer runs at an angle to the grain
of two adjacent layers. The strength
of a plywood panel, in two planes,
greatly exceeds that OF steel. With
some wood. by combining cuts. IL Ii
even possible to get greater resist
anoe to stress In all three planes than
steel affords, although 1t is rarely
necessary to go SO far.
Ordinary wood used for atrpiano
construction Is not required to with
stand severe stresses in more than
two planes. What plywood means to
airpIane construction is well illus
trated In the case OF the HaViland
machine. Before that method Of
using wood was invented the best air
plane wing weighed 7.s5 ounces and
was capable of sustaining a load o.
only 81 pounds. Since then the ply
wood rib used on the Haviiand weighs
512 ounces and will carry a load o..
274 pounds.
Evening star., 1923-10-21
Natures Laboratory.

OCALIT1ES where nature plays
Il queer tricks are not wanting. but
one of the most interesting is the ''guli
coastal Plane" or the gulf coast OF
Texas Down in Brazoria county they
get pure sulphur, oil. salt and gypsum
out of one hole. Within a 100-foot radius
there have been drilled a dry hole. 4
small oil well that Lad 20 be pumped
out, and one which gushed 10000 bar
rels a day. Recently. however. this
territory added new freak Of nature
an oil we'll owned by one company a.
West Columbia, which had been pump
ing 100 barrels day for the past coupl,
of years, suddenly turned, without
warning or any work being done, into
gusher making 1000 barrels day.
Evening star., 1923-10-21
II REALIZED THAT DEATH WAS
BUT AN INSTANT AWAY"

beasts. l have tried also to study his
living characteristics and habits. but
that Is much more difficult. After all,
about lion is his fore leg.
The more you know OF elephants
the more you regard the elephants
trunk. The more you know of lions,
the more you respect the lions fore
leg and the great padded and clawed
weapon at the end of II. 1t is per-
haps the best token of the animals
times as powerful In proportion to
weight as the arm of a man.
He can kill man with one blow
Of his paw.
His other weapon-his iaw--is
strong enough to break a zebra's neck
at one bite. These are rather rough
measures of an animals strength, but
they give some idea of 1t.
There Is a record which says that q
lion has dragged an African buffalo
nifty yards. buffalo weighs at least
three times as much as a lion. / have
never had evidence of this much
! pulling power" but have known of
many instances of lions dragging ze-
bras that far. and the zebras weigh
nearly twice as much as the lions do.
Another test of a lions strength Is
his ability to stand punishment. l
nave seeA lion which charged with
seven lead bullets from an old SIT
Express rife through his shoulder,
and only finally succumbed to the
eighth bullet In his head.
Lions do not usually have any habf-
tation; but occasionally they live In
caves. When i say live, 1 do not
mean that they inhabit them contin-
uously They roam about, following
the movements of the game. But al
though accustomed to roam, one OF
the most interesting lion encounters I
ever had came from acting on ex-
actiy the opposite theory.
There Is place where LITTLE
Evening star., 1923-10-21
Listen, World! By ELSIE ROBINSON

the Iady's feelings? Real sensitive
ness isn't shown by hurt feelings
It is. rather. the most sympathetic
and understanding thing on earth.
II absorbs love, 1t harmonizes dis
order, II radiates helpfulness.
The "sensitiveness" that constantly
demands attention and considera
tion proves it's falsity by that very
attitude. It's a graft instead of :
grace. It's tyranny rather than
tenderness. It's conceit rather than
cooperation. The very expectation
which is held by so many women.
and not q few men. that others
should devote all their thoughts TO
making them happy" is preposter
GUS.
Who are you at any rate, Lady Fair.
that some one should give his life e.
make you happy? Why should you de-
mand that every thought, word AND
deed be so planned that you shall be
spared discomfort? And what supreme
egotism prompts you to think that ever
a whispered word has you for its sub
Ject?
AS a matter Of fact, this Order ol
Tear isn't half as much concerned with
it's hurt feelings as 1t pretends. Its
main object In all these scenes snd
sniffies Is to get its own way.
1t wants to boss. 1t wants to have
its finger In every pie on the shelf.
And where some people attain such
power by smiles and service. this clan
attains it by raising Cain. Oh. the hurt
look in those dear, dear eyes-the euf-
fering in silence and the suffering that
is a long way from silent-the wild re-
proaches-the freezing snubs--the head
aches-the sulks.
"Sensitiveness?" Guess again, BOZ
Cussed, that's all.
X 4 x
IF this sort OF tragedy were Inevitable
4 there would be no use In writing
about it. But it isn't. If you'll once
expose a shell game you won't be bet
ting on marbles that aren't there. And
if you'll once expose this sensitlveness
game. you won't be breaking your heart
over a contemplate persecution.
Also, If you have the strength to cal
the bluff you stand a fair chance OF
winning real respect and affection from
the one who has been battening on you.
emotions.
/ have spoken as If this sort of Of
fensiye were largely the expedient oi
the feminine sex. 1t is, but that is sim
ply because in the long progress Of hu-
manity the feminine sex had few other
expedients whereby It might protect
itself and gain Its ends. The ladies hao
fairly hard time of 1t. despite the
pretty poetry which was written about
them.
But they are not having a hard timo
of lit now. They're sitting soft RnG
pretty on nearly everything In sight
There's no more reason for a IoVely
little lady to defend herself by such
tactics than there is for some sIx-foot
bruiser to break into muffled sobs be
cause the boss docks his wages.
It's old stuff, pals-as out of date "a
the powdered wigs and snuff boxes. So
the next time any one tries that little
shell game on you, Bob, turn the shells
over and yell for the police.
Copyright. 1882
Evening star., 1923-10-21

- hurt? Some one whom you
adore, but whose ''sensitiveness''
makes that alteration a species of
penal servitude? II you haye-and
who hasn't?-lend a sympathetic ear
to Bob. Yes, this is a real letter.
Dear Elsie Robinson:
Your column, Listen, Worldr is
always of great interest to me.
never miss reading 1t if can help 1t.
And nearly always / agree with you.
OF course. sometimes don't. But
those times are seldom.
II wonder If you would write some
day upon doubt. Doubt of ones
friends. i have had a very heart
breaking experience with it-and 1t
seems to me such an unnecessary
experience, too.
"I had a friend-a new friend, and
quite the most charming and whole
some young woman have ever
known. We enjoyed each other much
and we enjoyed the same interests
together. She seemed to have only
one fault-extreme sensitiveness: and
1t became a part of my devotion to
take great care never to hurt her. !
love her very dearly.
"But one day she saw me talking
In an undertone with another friend.
Instantly, but very enormously, she
decided that / must be talking
against her. To my shock and dis
may she approached me with look
of bitter hatred In her eyes. She did
not speak. She gave me no chance
to explain--just cut In with that look
and passed out of the room.
weeks passed by. Our work made
1t necessary for US to meet every day.
tried to show her by my manner
that she had misjudged me. / tried
to get a chance to talk with her. She
would allow no conversation, save
on business. Our business relation
ship made business conversation nec-
essary, The expression In her eyes,
the f1nality of her tone, were alike an
agony and an insult.
81 bore II eight weeks, hoping
always that some good chance would
show her her mistake. And then
something turned right about face In
my soul and my loyalty toward her
ceased. i said some cutting things
against her--true things, but harsh.
/
disloyal to a friend. And ! realized,
too late, that had forfeited my right
ever to have her friendship back.
"Yet / still hunger for the friend
that she once was, and I sometimes
wonder IL she is not lonely for me,
too. So far as I can see there Is no
solution. Our friendship is gone for
ever. Yet Is 1t not a pity that doubt
unjustified douht-should cause such
wreckage as that? BOB"
X " % y
TN going to give you the little talk
you want, Bob. but we won't name
il doubt In the first place, doubt is
too wide term and too ambiguous.
There are fifty-seyen varieties of
doubt, and many of them have a sane
basis. You can't get along in this
world without a little doubt now and
then---it's merely o display OF intslli-
gence.
That's one reason why we won't
Evening star., 1923-10-21

stream flows into the Theba river,
where. one time ] was looking for
buffalo and heard the snarling of two
i lions. The beaters began their work
with their usual noises, which I
/ checked as soon as possible for fear
that the lions would go out too far
ahead of us to get shot. / instruct
ed the beaters to go up the little
stream with the cover along Its banks
, throwing stones In ahead of them.
But my precautions were too late.
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TNHEY had hardly started to work
l. when noticed on the hills lion
and LONESOME going to the left
and the other to the right They
were in the open. The lion disap-
peared over the crest of the first hill.
had theory that he would lie down
on the top of that crest and watch us.
/ accordingly left part of the men In
sight while I, with a few others, ap-
Eproached the hill under cover. final
ly succeeded in getting to a point be-
! hind a pile OF rocks.
Motioning the men to stay quiet
and keep back, when carefully
poked my head up / saw the old
fellow as he lay looking toward me
about seventy-fiye yards away. /
drew back, and then, to my disgust,
one of my companions raised up In
full view of the lion, who made off
unscathed by the hurried shots I
fired at him. This lion stayed con-
stantly In my mind.
Three years later was camped on
the Tana river with Mrs. Akeley,
John 7. McCutcheon, the cartoonist,
and Frederick NJ. Stephenson. When
we decided to march from the Tana
to the Theba I told the crowd that
was going by the spot where 1 had
lost the big lion three years before
I had "hunch" that he would still
be there--or perhaps be reyisiting the
spot, as was At all events, the
feeling was strong enough to make
me go. Stephenson went off on an
independent hunt The others. with
the safari. came with me.
We loitered along photographing
rhinoeeroses until we cana in sight
OF my spot--the place where the little
stream emptied into the Theba.
noticed that Stephenson was coming
toward us and about to CROSS the
little stream. remarked: Fred is
going to drive our lions out and
never know It," then felt a little
foolish, but, nevertheless, watched
him go through my pet lion bed.
Only a few minutes later McCutcheon
! pointed toward the upper end OF the
stream and said:
What is that?''
my pairs of lions" answered
They were going up the hill exactly
as they had three years before, except
this time they did not separate. We
watched them to the top OF the hill.
We started out TO head them off, AS
we reached the top OF the hill to one
side of where they had gone we
heard a lion grunt behind us. There.
about 125 yards away, were the lion
and lioness, apparently in a very
nasty humor.
We all crouched down. and as we
did SO the lions raised up to see US.
/ said to Mrs. Akeley:
Shoot whenever you are ready"
I was pretty nervous, for a couple
OF mad lions In the grass make &
very bad outlook.
She fired and missed clean. The
lioness began lashing her tanks. Mrs.
Akeley fred again. The lion fell dead
with bullet through his brain.
McCutcheon and I urged each other
to shoot the lioness, who, In the
Evening star., 1923-10-21

felt satisfied. none the less. because
the lions had likewise failed to get
me. That one moment In that day
when ! saw the lioness In the air I'll
never forget, for l realized that death
was but an instant away.
l.. ]. Tarleton, one of the best shots
that ever hunted game in Africa,
told me once. when we were both re-
cuperating from sickness. that he
was going to quit shooting lions.
What had brought him to this con-
clusion was an experience which he
had just had with a charging lioness.
He had hit her three times in the
chest She finally died touching his
! feet. When he examined her all
three bullets were within a three
inch. radius and every one should
| have been fatal. Yet she had almost
reached him despite his fast and ac-
curate shooting.
Il BOUT the nearest approach to get
"A ting mauled 1 ever had from a
lion came from this same capacity OF
! lion to carry lead and to my own
carelessness. / had seen a lion stand
| ing some little distance away from
me clearly in view and had shot
him. The bullet knocked him down
and. as ! thought. hurt him badly.
After a while he got up and came my
way.
When about forty yards away he
gave me another clear shot. So,
without reloading the first barrel of
; my double -barreled rifle, l fired the
second. / hit him again, but not with
the desired result He charged
There 1 was with an empty gun to
meet the charge of a wounded lion.
and with no one else, not even a gun
boy, near.
And the rules of lion hunting say
that you must meet charge without
moving. But all the promptings of
instinct were to move, and / moved.
/ slipped to one side behind a clump
of high grass as fast as l could-en-
deavoring meanwhile to reload. A
. few seconds after l had left the spot
where l should have stood the lions
spring landed him directly on IL.
He had had to come through a little
depression. and this and the long
grass had obscured his sight so he
had not seen me move. But as he
landed he saw me. and instead of
stopping, merely heStated and then
sprang again, but not at me. He
dived into some thick brush right
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follow. I let him go.
In the mix-up my Syce had become
so completely frightened that he had
jumped into the river, so he was quite
unable to tell whether the lion had
gotten my pony or the pony had run
away. After certain amount of
fruitiess searching / walked the ten
miles back to camp.
The lions days work. instead of