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On the Spot

A New York business man di-
rected one of his clerks to hang
out a sign, Roy wanted" Five
minutes later a red-headed little
youngster appeared in the office
with the sign under his arm.
Say, mister" he demanded, did
you hang dis out?'
"I did" was the stern reply.
"Why did you tear it DOWN."
Back of his freckles the boy
gazed in wonder at the mans
stupidity,
Why" he replied, I'm de
boy"
The Washington times., 1923-06-16
SMART SUMMER WRAPS
VALUABLE HINTS FOR MILADY

A conservative coat for town
wear. is cut from black canton
crepe and is silk lined in alumni
mum grey. This too is a. wrap
around model, tied at the left
side, and shows the long flare
sleeves and roll collar so popular
at present. Fine puffed cording
is arranged in a border effect,
The woman who stays in town
for the summer will find this
model extremely useful.
The sport coat of plaid is ex-
cellent for rough and ready wear,
and is ideal for motoring. Tan
or beige with cross stripes Of
green. raspberry, orange or black
is popular. and there is a vogue
for sport coats Of all white wool
en- polo cloth.
The Washington times., 1923-06-16
By Maria .Jeritza.

Ut is distinctly charm asset
to possess a voice that is
u clear without being loud, that
is gently modulated yet always
easily heard.
Some persons are sometimes
asked not once but twice to re.
peat a remark simply because it
is so hard to understand what
they say.
This need of endless repetition
IL trying to both speaker and list
ener and so it behooves the girl
who wishes to charm others and
to retain her. own full measure
Of happiness, to cultivate a clear
as well as a. musical speaking
voice.
This should not be difficult
with the basis of good health to
work with, especially healthy
lungs, throat and nasal passages.
ADVFRTTSEMEN
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monials of women who had been like
myself. went right out and got me
abottle of Lydia e. Pinkham s Vege-
table Compound, and before ] had
taken the whole of that bottle ! knew
it was helping me. Itook six bottles,
and then in about three months took
two more. Now ! am in perfect
health. / do all of my own work and
could do more. ! can truly say that
know Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound gave me my health. -.
Mrs. D. J. HNCKLEY, BIC Union
Ave-, Memphis, Tenn.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Private Text
Book upon Ailments Peculiar to
Women =" will be sent you free upon
request. Write to The Lydia E. Pink.
ham Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass. This
book contains valuable information.
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ne Yes were q
wreck. ! could not
sweep a room
without resting. /
could not do my
work except a lit
tie at a time, and
the Doctors medi-
cine did not help
me. One day some
one threwyour lit
tie book on to my
porch, and in it !
read several foSfi.
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A Golden Bed.

RAJAH in one of the northwest provinces of India is
"A the possessor of bedsead constructed of malacca
and solid gold The golden headpeee set with 700 gems
This couch valued at $35OOO0 and is always guarded
The Washington times., 1923-06-16
MRS. HINCKLEY
NERVOUS WRECK
Tells How She Was Restored to
Perfect Health by Lydia Z. Pink.
hams Vegetable Compound

Memphis, Tenn" Twoyears ago.
was completely rundown and my
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about the international Arbitration
Court, about which I have a few
ideas, and was SO kind as to contra
dict me fatty. Hes remarkable
young man, for he asked me what
was the best route to Venice and in
the middle interrupted me to tell
me a story. Finally, you remember,
everybody got out of hand; young
Robertson and girl sat on coffee
trays and slid down the stairs.
Could I have been so bumptious
once upon a timef So bad man
neredf Or is the generation going
to decay
MRS. GEORGE (sympatheticaI
what q shame you should be contra.
Since you ask the question, am qui
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Saturn Takes a Rest.

THE planet Saturn just now seems mmovable IN the
sky, because his notion in his orbit combined with
the earth motion in her orbit the line OF sight
between them to point in unchanging direction.
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selves, and very often their aggres-
siveness is only form Of shyness.
And If young Robertson had been q
girl you'd have thought her per-
fectly charming.
MR.. GEORGE (grudgingly)
Yes, there's something in that.
Their manners are bad, yes, and it
may be shyness. But very likely it's
something else. Boys and girls
don't hold their opinions very
strongly, for they haven't had them
long, SO they proclaim them, and
champion them, as a sort OF uncon-i
scious experiment. Boys and girls
are not rude; they are merely trying
to discover what they really think.
If Young Robertson contradicted me-.
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Crude Young Men

MIR GEORGE: wonder if was like young Rob-
lVI ertson when was twenty. suppose you didn't
notice him last night at the partyf He talked
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seniors In fact only last week uncle told me how
self-opinonated you were boy But / don't think
young Robertson bad young must assert them
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shouldn t wonder If young Robertson contradcted me
whatever said AS for what should have felt if ne
been pretty girl don you feel rather nice toward hin
because lie happens to be good-looking young mani
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ADVERTISEMENT.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-25
REMEMBER, THE
LADDER OF Sue
CESS IS NOT AN
ESCALATOR

The sign above is not very big, but it would pay many
young and old to cut it out and keep it. past
ing it up somewhere desk in drawer for frequent
private inspection.
The escaator wonderful invention You walk straight
along STILL and the first thing you know what WAS the
flat floor becomes staircase and UP with effort
all. The escalator does it.
It's wonderful but it isn't in the REAL LIFE Of
petition.
REAL LIFE, when you haven't got your fathers money
other lucky accident to push you up must climb
every step of the staircase every rung of the ladder Miss
Lulu Bird puts relying your muscles and OWN
strength.
And you amount anything among Others you
must KEEP GOING.
There is no SUBSTITUTE for hard work. There is no
''just good" as hard climbing.
Many stand and wait expecting that things will upward
Of themselves They people Them and sometimes they
envious they would look little closely they
would observe that all of those passing CLIMBING and
going granting and putting, standing still and taking
things quietly On behalf of than million young Amer
lean citizens this newspaper extends its thanks and appreca
ton Miss Lulu Bird for excellent motto and Mr..
Westover for printing it.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-25
HEROINES OF HISTORY
Significant Incidents in the Lives of Famous Women
MARK STUYYESANT=

Usher sent her one hundred
pounds for 1t. This book of Man.
chester life was an immediate
Then followed an interesting
life Of Mrs. Gasken. She was
invited to London. where she
made many splendid friends.
Among them was Charlotte
Bronte. who afterward became
her devoted friend and whose life
she so brilliantly wrote.
A charming story is told Of
Mrs. Gaskell suddenly gathering
her four young daughters and
spiritinG them away to the coun-
try with her. where che could
write undisturbed by the inter-
rupttons of the town and parish.
During the great cotton famine
in Manchester. in 1852, when thou
sands of girls were thrown out
OF work in the mills, Mrs. Cas-
kell was active in the great sew.
ing-school movement which aided
those out of employment.
At fifty-five years Of age. when
she was still busy with her novel,
wives and Daughters" Mrs.
Gnskell WAS staying with her
daughters in a house which she
had bought as n surprise and
which she intended presenting to
hor husband. Hero she finally
laid down her pen In 1861.
copyright, 1923. by Newspaper
Feature Service, mo
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-25

vHE "Deys Grip another medical mystery, begins to
ravage the south-three fatalities yesterday. Spanish
flu and pneumonia thanks to last winters empty coal
bins have filled national veins with malignant germs that
will feed fat through the United States further fuel
famine delivers enervaed, shvering millions their swift
poisons.
IF can't get to dig anthracite won't find
enough sections to dig graves.
James Marks vicepresdent of the United Mine Workers
in District g. says that "f the Government begins dis
tributing substitute products it will be equivalent to
Federal between Administration and bituminous
operators to crush the Anthracite Miners Union
We beg to remind Mr. Marks of more important union
than his and all labor organizations too Union of forty
eight States responsible for the health and webeng of
their citizens-a with Constitutional authority and
protect itself in economic well military
The Commonwealth is supreme
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-25

~ URING the nineteenth cen
fury in England, six distin.
~ guished women lived and
wrote. This was the time when
English literature was enriched
by the charming books of Jane
Austen, George Eliot, Mrs. Brown
ing, Christina Rosetti and the
Brontes.
Ranking with these splendid
authors is Elizabeth Cleghorn
Gaskell, known Familiarity to the
literary world as Mrs. Gaskell."
Elizabeth was the daughter Of
William Stevenson. who started
life as a tutor in the Manchester
Academy, later became a minis
ter, then a farmer and after.
ward an editor of the Scots
Magazine and a contributor 70
the Edinburgh Review.
At the birth Of Elizabeth,
her mother died. The baby was
brought up tendcrly and with
the greatest devotion by her aunt,
Miss Lunar, in the little town
Of Knutsford. about which she
30 humorously wrote In later
years in her masterpiece, Gran.
ford"
When she was twenty.two,
Elizabeth married a minister, the
Rev. William Gaskell, and went
to live In Manchester. where he
preached,
Mrs Gaskeli was an unusually
beautiful woman. whose smile, It
is said. was benediction to tho
many poor Of Manchester, whom
she helped with sweet and
simple sympathy
To the Gaskelis came seven
children. two OF whom were born
dead. But their home was ex-
tremely happy with four little
girls and one passionately loved
baby boy.
So terrific was the blow when
this little son died. that 1t seemed
an II Mrs. gaskell could not con
uuer her grief. II was at this
time that her husband suggested
writing to relieve her mind and
to "fiIl' It with other thoughts
than those Of her baby who bad
left her so soon after it's birth.
The novel. MARY Barton" was
the result of her early labors
and, after keeping the manu-
script for over a year. a pub.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-25
ONDON.-Great Britain

r ONDON.-Great Britain is
forging rapidly ahead in her
- plans to build up a powerful
air fleet, both for military and
commercial PURPOSES. In the con-
struction of powerful engines for
airships England already is claim
ing world leadership.
What are believed to be the
most gigantic engines in the
world, huge dynamos of power
that represent an almost incredi-
bic advance in aircraft motivation,
orders of the British air ministry.
Successful completion Of these
engines, it is declared, heralds the
day when an airplane. fitted with
three of them, will fly from Lon
don to New York, carrying 100
passengers, in twelve hours.
The air ministry is now build
ing series of powerful air
engines. These giant motors
range from 75O-horsepower to
1,600-horsepower. Bench tests al.
ready have been successfully
made on some, while others now
under construction rapidly are
nearing the test stage.
Probably the most remarkable
Of these engines are the 1000.
horsepower motors of which Brit.
ish engineers are anticipating
amazing achievements. Two Of
them are being built, each Of
six cylinders. This would mean
that each cylinder would develop
more than 250-horsepower, an ac-
complishment hitherto undreamed
Of in aerial construction.
Although air ministry engineers
are extremely reticent regarding
the details Of these monster mo.
are spoken OF with utmost re-
serve-it Is learned that one of
the 1900 horsepower engines Is
semi-Diesel type. 1t IL declared
to mark a new era in flight. since
1t reduces In a minimum the dan
ger of fire both in the air and In
the event of forced landing.
Preliminary trials of this engine
are said to have been successful.
The secret Of the other 1900
horsepower engine is being 40
zealously guarded that no inklIng
Of the principles involved In It's
construction has reached the pub
lie. 1t is no secret, however,
that air ministry engineers nre
anticipating amazing results that
will -evolutioniZe aircraft con
struction.
Besides these 500 horsepower
machines two 1000 horsepower
engines, designed chiefly for mill
tary use in bombing machines are
being built. One of these engines
already has been fitted into
bombing plane and the other is
hearing completion.
The $50 horsepower engines are
chiefly oil-burning, and they also
are designed principally for mill
tarV uses.
Facts that are known about the
air ministry's program make 1t
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AN EARNEST PROTEST

Editor The Washington Times:
"Dear Sir-some time ago,
during the Presidential cam
paign, l was much agitated by
the movement that was on foot
threatening the happiness of
about 5000 of US, the deaf from
birth and the deafened. This
was a movement to prohibit the
freedom of the highways to the
deaf from driving automobiles.
1t has gained considerable head
way, and is even now the law in
q number of States.
"No one better than yourself
realizes the Importance Of the
automobile in everyday life. 1t
is no less important in the lives
of the 5000 of US living from
coast to coast. In fact, it is
more important. With the pleas
ure of the ear shut off, a pleas
ure of such magnitude as auto
MODELLING is doubly dear.
"Now this agitation to prohibit
our driving is not the result Of
accidents or damage caused by
the deaf. Their record is clean,
but from the large number of
accidents caused by the public at
large, they have very unreason-
ably sought a remedy in a to-
tally innocent locality. 1t may
not be too far-fetched TO say that
it is like prohibiting the general
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; minimum overhead for an evening
with Irene, Mary or Sally.
"F'ifty's the smallest with a
Broadway Rose," the other type
of hoy friends" declare.
1.-THE boys out on Main street
may envy New Yorkers-don't,"
urge the town boys.
"Out there one finds a front
porch with a swing-or a parlor
one can have to ones self. Or
there are parks.
"Here-well, just find a front
porch in Manhattan, or q parlor
in the Bronx parks-sure, lots
Of them-but being used by
5000. 900 people.
$50 there's nothing to do but
go out" say the New Workers..
And here Is a composite pro-
gram Of the dozen interviewed
"a minimum at that.
Taxi down town-no girl on a
date ever rides In the subway -
$3.50: dinner before a show, 81:
the theater, $3.50; supper. after
the show. Sc; taxi home. $3.50.
There's a grand total Of $22.50.
"Try to make the average
weeks pay check look happy
after that.
And you can't get out Of 1t
for less-generally It costs you
more" the youths complain.
"Most girls want wine at least
with the after-theater supper.
That's IS, anyway. And so cents
a box for cigarettes"
Now out on Main street
The street car or the boys
flivver eliminates the S. taxi bill.
Even the "Follies," on its annual
tour of the sticks, draws but 81
head. Who, out where the
West begins and ends - ever
heard of dinner before the
theater? A man eats that at his
own home.
After the show IS spent make
the walters think multiTnil-
lionaire Is in town.
SO. go West, young man; go
West
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-25
The Deaf Not Allowed to
Drive Automobiles
Is Hearing ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY
Difficult Decision.

Regulations in various States forbid issuing automobile
drivers license anybody that is deaf whose hearing
seriously defective.
Against such laws many and eloquent protests
received. You will find published below
may said offhand that if deaf and cannot hear
the warning horn behind him. he should not be allowed drive
automobile since his driving might endanger others
But there several BUTTS
In the first place. the important thing in driving SIGHT
When driving it is the business of the BEHIND
him look after his car the business of the
ahead.
automobile behind another has the right
to expect that the will and make way it
going very slowly That the main point involved As
danger pedestrians and other it is not clear
The horn used less and less by good drivers except to
those ahead out and deaf with good eye
sight what is ahead and his horn for warning
Automobiles run, at least ninetynne per cent by
sight, not by hearing.
It is be decided carefully No afflicted
with deafness would protest against discrimination deprv
ing him of natural pleasure could be shown be dan
gerous to others
We present letter from Washingtonian the subject
today that will interest all the deaf.
The writer makes it clear that many of the dangerous
drivers those that drive the big noisy trucks hear nothing
but the noise of their engines matter how good their
hearing Read the letter and reach conclusion
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use of matches because they are
a prolific cause of fire.
"Were there any basis for
viewing our driving with alarm
we should not complain, but the
deaf societies have every iata
to prove US capable. We are
but a small band of Christians
amongst the Romans.
"The head Of the traffi. bu-
reau in Washington freely ad-
mits that the drivers of most
trucks are deaf to all noises
outside of their trucks and in
sist upon mirrors. We deaf all
use mirrors-as well as a very
acute and highly developed sixth
sense because of our afflic-
tom. which the driver of a
noisy truck has not.
81 believe that the highest
type of rose is produced by the
suppression of nearly all the
buds upon one bush. Why is
it not clear that of our five
senses, where one is curtailed
the rest are more highly de-
veioped? The very deafest of
US are sensitive to every sort
OF air-vibrating sound; it's only
the human voice we fail to get.
And as for seeing, it is said We
have eyes in the back of our
heads.
"Very truly yours,
BERT FORSE."
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-25
SAFETY TALK

~ ELLULOID Ia similar in COM
position to the gun cotton
used to propel shells from
big guns. Celluloid Is highly In
flammable and under favorable
conditions It may explode.
A heated curling iron or even
a steam radiator may ignite 1t,
Many persons have been seriously
burned while wearing celluloid
collars, combs and other articles.
Everyone handling celluloid
should know it's inflammable and
explosive qualities and use the
necessary caution in handling II.
The danger may seem trifllng
and remote, but it is the neglect
of trifles that is responsible Tor
the frequency of accidents in the
home.
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SAP AND SALT
Bert Moses

You get more thrill out of being
talked about" than from being
ignored.
No matter how much a man es-
teens his wife, he ia amazed at
the number of fools in her family.
Being proper" is cemmenda-
able in man, but little Varia-
ton from 1t gets the admiration
of the ladies.
fIez Heck says: "They's two
kind o wimmin, the chaste and
the chased"
Copyright. 1928, Premier Syndicate. Ing
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-25
IT COSTS MONEY TO TAKE
GIRLS OUT IN n. Y.
Boys Back Home" Have 1t Easy Compared
With What Broadway Beaux Must Spend.

ANEW York; it il true
that it's the woman wArb
\ always pays" then why are
their boy friends always broke?
New York's 1923 crop of beaux
wants to know.
The question isH't put by the
Broadwayites. It's the honest
plant Of the everyday fellow
the boy with a girl.
"a fellows got to have $25 to
stage a date" An even dozen
boys-about-town gave this as the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-25
ENGLAND SHROUDS NEW AIR
FLEET IN SECRECY
Formidable Floating Navy Being Constructed Experts
Point Out Perils Facing Nation.

evident that England Is sparing
no effort or expense to evolve
the most powerful and efficient
air engines in the world. In sup
port of their claims that the en-
gines now being developed are
the most powerful in the world,
British aerial engineers point out
that no other nation has yet sue
ceeded in evolving a 1000 horse
power motor that has passed sue
cessfully even the preliminary
tests.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-25
Who Car, Foreteu Our Fate?

HE mlestones of history the tombstones of king
doms Some of them like over-gorged pythons, were
by sudden enemies before they could digest their
rumphs Some the blind with assurance, persisted in
pits Of their making.
Wanton indulgence Slapped the stamina Of Others and
plague devoured them.
Vice slew Babylon. Intolerance and persecution first
served, then betrayed Spain to degradation.
Religious ealousies prepared India bound and ready for
British suzerainty.
And gnats fleas, and mosquitoes wiped hundred
satrapies from memory.
Who knows how long shall survive the fate that
awaits us?
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-25
THE MAN WHO SAW A
PIGMY BECOME
A GIANT
By HERBERT KAUFMAN.

DNIIRAL KATO passes at the age Of sixty His
n exactly spans the modernizaon Of Japan Steam and
guidance could again be transformed in forty years
foremost power earth
At Kato's BIRTH Nippon wasn't thread in Diplo-
macys tricky Now statesmen darent re-desgn the
Of border without Difference to Tokyos opinion
Every century invokes a cock -the-walk.
One by emnence enjoy their brief day,
and yield place to insignificant people.
Ninevah Persia, Greece, the Roman Empire Denmark
spain Portugal, Holland, Turkey Austria and Germany
have each had their little hour Of might and and
promptly withered to inferiority.
The of Tamerane and Genghis Khan scattered
nomads with but tawdry city in all their barren domain
Phoenicia, Carthage the Caphate, the realms Of the
crumbs
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-25

Mr. Wesover who makes comic pictures and asks young
people send in moral notices gets fror Miss Lulu Bird
that deserves wider publicity than comic strip give it.
This is Miss Lulu motto that should be framed and
hung up in offices where young work.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-25
Cancer Sweeps England and Wales.

r%ATO died from cancer The Royal Sanitary Institute
of HULL issues warning that the dread malady
- - now taking heavier toll through England and Wales
than in these countries every
week
Nobody has ever found its cause-nobody has yet dis
covered remedy.
At calculation there 100000 lepes wander
ing through Asia.
It's wonderful to learn that flying time between San
Francisco and New York has lowered twenty
hours and fourteen minutes but it's well to think of vital
statistics also. es*<