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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-27
TELL THESE AT DINNER

Tim Houlihan had been busy
with a pencil and paper for some
time, and his wife could restrain
her curiosity no longer.
''Phwat's that yer wroitin',
Tim?" she inquired.
"Oi'm maxim a list of all the
men in this street as I can knock
the stuffin' out Of" replied Tim.
Having glanced at the list, Mrs.
Houlihan went out to do some
shopping. She met Mrs. Leary,
whose husbands name was on
Tins list. What passed between
the two ladies will never be
known; but in about twenty min
utes Pat Leary burst into the
Houlihan's room.
"Oi hear we've got a list of mer
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name very well. So l go by the
name of Horned OWL"
David stepped back a step or
so. He had never seen such 4
large owl in all his life. This
fellow was almost two feet in
length. When he spread his
great. brown wings they meas
ured about six feet from tip to
tip. His white vest. peaked nose
and great. big eyes made him
look like a little old man. David
laughed as he looked at him.
Go on and laugh" he draw1ed.
I'm used to it. Most all The
folks around here do laugh at me.
They call me the lazy good-for-
nothing one So I must look.
funny to them"
But why should they give you
such a title as that?.' laughed
David. You're not so funny
looking as you are quaint look
ing"
well, I suppose I do deserve
the title all right" laughed Mr.
Horned Owl, for I am lazy when
it comes to hunting food. Why
4 never go out into the woods to
look for meal"
What in the world do you do.
them" David asked
why should work hard when
can go down in Farmer Toms
barnyard and get a chicken any
time want one?"
"But hasn't he a wire top over
his chicken-pen?" asked David.
II thought"
$50 I guess he thinks. too"
laughed Mr.. Horned Owl. He
did have until old Mr.. Sly Fox
tore it off the other night. saw
him do it, and after he went
away. 1 went In and helped my
self. l guess Farmer Tom blamed
Oily FOA, lOI lIilS HUI HIII6 go" q
. trap outside the chicken-pen. I'm
glad he hasn't seen the hole. for
I'm hungry, and a chicken will
taste pretty good
~ don't. blame you for helping
yourself if the pen is open"
laughed David. But must
hurry home, I've work to be done
before dark" And away David
ran.
That night when old Horned
Owl visited the chicken-pen the
hole had been mended. He tried
and tried to get in without sue
cess. Terribly peeved. he sailed
away to the woods. and for once
in his life old Horned Owl had
to work for his food.
Serves me right" he grumbled
to himself. ut never pays to
prattle all you know"
Copyright. 1923. by Newspaper Fea-
ture Syndicate, Inc)
(AnOther Fine Story MOnday.)
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, attain. But he was grown man,
who had proved, by his business
success, his right to walk among
men. He was good-natured, would
always be od-natured. But he
had self.respect. And now he hit
back.
ooh, no." he said; "she was
afraid that you would accept me-"
Not AFRAID to hit back. never
ltheless, for a moment. he feared
I that he had struck too hard. He
misread, at first, the light in
Clancy's eyes. He thought it was
anger.
But, to his relieved anazement,
she began to laugh.
Some one has a flattering con-
ception of you. Mr.. Randall" she
told him.
He grinned cheerfully.
Not Gattering, Miss Deane-
correct"
HIM" Clancy pursed her lips.
"You think well of Mr.. David
Randall, don't your"
az couldn't offer you goods of
whose value had any doubt,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-27
THE RHYMING
OPTIMIST
BY Aline MichaeIis-
IVY HEN the past is as sweet
W as a flower and the years
only make it more dear.

IVY HEN the past is as sweet
" as flower and the years
only make it more dear,
then it's wise to remember each
hour and to treasure it, vivid
and clear. From the light-hearted
days of your childhood, filled
with innocence, laughter and
love, when your song rang as
clear through the wildwood as
the carols Of bluebirds above, to
the times of your triumph and
pleasure when you grew to mans
lofty estate, oh, recall every item
you treasure; but forget every
moment, of hate! When the days
that are\ gone bring you sorrow
with it's shades of remorse and
regret, then keep turning your
face toward tomorrow and just
try to forgive and forget. Though
our lives are so ordered and fash
toned that the shadow must fol-
low the sun, cast away angry
thoughts, words impassioned, let
them die with the day that is
done. And when some one comes
asking your pardon for a fault or
a folly or wrong, don't refuse him
and let your heart harden when
the chance comes to help him
along. You should tell him the
best thing in living is to make
each days work better yet, and
show him the joy of forgiving
and the wisdom of folks who for
get. For there's nothing so foolish
as wasting the tribute of even a
sigh, and the day that is here is
now hasting; do not let it slip
uselessly by. Here's one rule to
miss worry and trouble and to
gain in both pleasure and pelf,
while your heart grows as light
as q bubble; leave the past to
take care of itself! Though for
culture and lore you are yearn-
ing. do not let it's lack cause you
to fret, if you're sure that each
dav YOU are learning better how
to forgive and forget.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-27
BY Arthur Somers Roche
The Most Popular Author of Love
And Mystery Tales
Today,

6HE tramped across Forty
- second street to Fifth ave-
~ nue., fought her way,
buffeted by the wind. up to
Forty-eighth street, and then
crossed over to Park avenue. She
didn't know exactly where Zanda
lived, but she did know that it
was a corner building
on the east side of the avenue.
Her fourth inquiry was rewarded
with the information that Zenda
lived there. But when her name
was telephoned upstairs, word
came back that Mr.. Zenda had
been taken ill last night with in
fluenza, and was unconscious at
the moment.
She turned away. The Fates
were against Clancy and with
her enemies
Still-she had ten thousand dol
lars in her poeketbook. One
could do great deal with ten
thousand dollars. But she dis
missed the temptation as quickly
rs it had come to her. Shed go
home and wait the certain arrival
of Vandervent's men.
She shrugged, her lips curling
In self-amused smile Shed
been frightened at arrest on a
trumped-up charge, while immi-
merit arrest on charge that
would be supported by strong cir
cuTnstantial evidence was just
around the corner. She was
funny person, this Clancy. Little
things. scared her; big things
But big things scared her, too.
For when Mrs. Gerand met her
at the door of the lodging house,
after Clancy had survived the
perilous journey down Fifth ave-
nue. on the bus, the landlady's
first words were that a gentle
man awaited her. Not until Ran
dali had held her hand a full
minute could Clancy realize that
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as he ran over to the tree.
There Mmong the branches.
blinking at the light, sat a funny
old owl. He didn't see David at
first, but when he barked again,
David laughed and startled him
so that he nearly fell off the
branch he was sitting on.
well, of all things" David
laughed. IF it isn't a hoot-owl!
So you're the fellow who has
been barking all this time. 1
thought it was my dog, Tige. 1
could hardly tell the difference
between the two barks."
"Yes?" drawled the old owl,
lazily. so you thought it really
sounded like a dog barking, did
you?'
ut sure did, Mr.. Hoot-owl," re-
piled David. That's why l ran
to see what he was barking at"
well, it was I. But please
don't get me mixed with old Hoot
OWL" And he shook his great,
wide wings and cried like a child
I'm the wizard ct these woods.
I'm what they call the Great
Horned OWL I'm not a hooter
at all. I can bark so much like
a dog that I can fool folks, or I
can scream like a person in pain.
Who ever saw a boot owl with
horns" And he flew down SO
David could get good look at
him. Some folks call me the
Cat OWL but I don't like that
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-27
HEALTH A BIG
ASSET
BY Brice Belden, nj. D.
= GU start life with a certain
amount of original capital

W on start life with certain
amount of original capital
as regards the constitution.
This capital you must safeguard
throughout life by maintaining or
acquiring large reserve of vigor.
You cannot begin to make in
roads upon your constitution un-
til you have exhausted your re-
serve energy; therefore you are
safe so long AS you take proper
care Of yourself.
Taking proper care of yourself
means exercising, getting a gen.
erous supply of fresh air, not eat
ing between meals, and not abus-
ing such things as nicotine, cot
fee, tea, alcohol, etc.
People who contract such dis
eases as tuberculosis are simply
those who for one or another
reason have depleted their re-
serve energy and then have be-
gun to cut into their original
capital persistently. We can
stand that sort of thing once in
while, perhaps under enforced
conditions, but we cannot con-
tinue it without paying some dire
penalty.
Having a good reserve of vital
ity is like having an assured in
come to live on. But when one
spends this income too rapidly
and draws upon his principal he
is sure to find himself poverty
stricken If he keeps the pace up
and takes no steps to replace
his depleted capital. In the same
way you can spend your reserve
vitality and then draw unduly
upon your original capital.
1t is taken for granted that
you will eat good food and seek
the right sort of recreation. The
other measures recommended sup
plement these. We may regard
sleep as form of recreation.
When you think you need
stimulants and tonics you are in
need of rest. You may get enough
sleep, but your fatigue may be
due to incessant activity while
awake. Lying down for awhile
will rest your circulatory and
nervous apparatus greatly. At
any rate take q rest now and
then during the day.
Hurry means worry, and worry
means dangerous friction.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-27
Charm and Beauty, Magic and Intrigue,
Temptation and Triumph In Man
hattan's Exotic Whirlpool
it wasn't a detective from the
district attorneys office.
XVII.

Clancy had, on the other occa-
sions on which she had met Da-
vid Randall. been cool, aloof,
mildly flirtatious, fun-making.
Even when fear had swayed her
and he had guessed at some
worry eating at her heart she
had managed to preserve a YER
bal self-command.
But it was Clancy whom he
had never met before who faced
him now. 1t was an incoherent
Clancy, who said brokenly. WI lie
his e hand still held hers:
What "a surprise! 1 expected
I'm glad-What terrible storm
so much snoW-in a few hours
Wasn't it filn-last night?"
Then the incoherence that, from
a person who had heretofore been
always in complete possession of
herself, was all the more charm
ing, vanished. She looked down
at her hand, then demurely up
at him. With Vandervent's de-
tectives ready to knock upon
the front door-it is a peculiar
thing that one always thinks of
detectives as knocking, never
ringing-with ten thousand dol
lars of venal money in her purse;
with flight from the city as Ter
only escape-and that, her COM
mon serse told her, temporary
one-from her amazing difficult
ties; with her career, not merely
the moving picture ambitions, but
the new one of achieving sue
cess with Miss Henderson, van
ishing as the snow upon TIE
streets would vanish before the
rain and sun; with more trou-
BILE than she could cope with,
Clancy became demure She was
thoroughly feminine. And a
woman regards a man as some
thing to be swayed by her. So
Clancy forgot her own troubles
for the moment in the pleasing
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-27
By Hereward Darlington,
Ph.D,
Writer Of Wide Repute and Author
of Books on PsychO-Analysis.

Writer Of Wide Repute and Author
OF Books .On PsychO-Analysis.
TUST as telepathic impressions
from distant minds may af-
u feet the mind of the sleeper
and cause telepathic dreams, SO
may the. future be seen, appar-
emily, in certain prophetic
dreams" The following are sam
pie cases of this character. The
first is reported by M. Camille
Flammarion. the eminent French
astronomer:
"I dreamed that was on my
vacation, at the place where I
usually go, but the room which
was given. to me was different
from my own and behind a clothes
press / saw spreading flames -" ..
six months later / reached my
destination. I was led into
very small summer house. AL
though I had never seen 1t before.
I recognized this little corner
which was meant for me. The
clothes press, in the same spot,
recalled the fire. I spoke of it
and then treasured me. For ten
years no fire had harmed the
neighborhood
II had begun to lose my fear
when, toward the fourth week,
the tocsin sounded. An immense
fire consumed a farm not far
from my dwelling and even lick
ed the wall where the clothes
press stood"
The following case is recorded
by Princess Emma Carolath, of
Wiesbaden:
II have just fallen asleep, very
anxious over the health of some
one I loved, when I found myself
carried in a dream to an unknown
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Apparently misunderstanding her, believing
she was not telling the truth, Grannis had then
left on the table the money and departed.
Clancys adventures started the moment she
landed in New York from the country, an in
telligent and beautiful country girl, determined
to become famous film actress. She assumed
the name of Chlorine Ladue' and Immediately
became enmeshed in tragedy as result of an
effort to land position! with some moving pic
ture concern. She made two good friends, David
Randall and Mrs. Carey. The Beiner death cut
short her theatrical ambitions but she became
connected with real estate concern and because
of her business ability was rapidly achieving
success She had hoped that the past was buried
until Grannis confronted her and recognized her
as the girl at the Zenda party.
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Nd THE WOMAN By ARTHUR soMERs ROCHE
CLANCY FACES HER PAST

Grannjs had taken Clancy Deane to fash
ionable New York restaurant and given her
banknote, the biggest she ever had seen in her
life, $1,000. It was all so strangely mixed lp
with the Staying of Morris Beiner, whose face
Clancy had slapped some hours before he was
killed. There's more where that came FROM"
said the man, in crooks jargon, as he left her
too startled to either accept or refuse the bill
The sudden twist of events had left the little
country girl fashionably clad as she was, speech
less.
At first Grannis had threatened her with the
police When she had accompanied him to the
restaurant he had at first questioned her as to
her knowledge of one, Ike Weber She replied
truthfully that she had never met Weber before
attending party composed of theatrical people
You'll stick to that in court?" he asked And
she nodded.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-27
PEOPLE WHO IRRITATE
'ON'T JUDGE THEM HARSHLY AT FIRST SIGHT
; judgment and placer

judgment and place?
The street-car conductor may
have a sick child at home. His
cross tone may have nothing 10
do with you. Why absorb it?
Your neighbor in the office may
have been awake with a jumping
toothache most of the night.
Nothing would look good to her.
She may admire your dress ex-
travagantly tomorrow without
dreaming that she criticized it
today.
Suppose You are affected by
these two tiny irritations, how
eVer-you go in to take dictation
from the chief and he is gruff.
BY that time you are in a state
bordering on delirium. Perhaps
you resign from your perfectly
good job. Maybe you go out. to
lunch with your chum and quar-
rel numerically. You accumu-
late a few more troubles through
acting on the impulse of irritated
nerves, and by the time you 20
home you are impudent to your
mother and ready to break your
engagement to 1.-The sweetest bow
in the world
OF all the ugly cumulative eff
fects in the world, none uglier
and more menacing to peace of
mind and happiness can be pro-
duced than the irritation which
starts as a grain of dust and ac-
cumulates enough other grains to
become a mountain in the end.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-27

~ NE day as David was out
in the woods playing, he
~ heard a dog barking near
by. and he ran to the bushes
from which the noise seemed to
come.
He whistled. The barking
stopped for a second, then began
again.
Why, it sounds as If it might
be up in that tree" David unused,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-27
Smile at These

Love is illusion, man delus.ons
and woman confusion.
People hate to get a reputation
for what they really are.
Marriage is the boundary line
between romance and reality.
He who lives without folly Is
not as wise as he fancieS.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-27
Household Hints

Grained woodwork should not
be washed with soap and water,
but cleaned and polished by rub
bling it with a cloth dipped in
turpentine.
Moisture is unlikely to form on
polished or vanished furniture II
a little linseed oil is rubbed over
the surface of the wood after it
has been polished
The freshness of linoleum can
be restored by cleaning with bees
wax and turpentine. First wash
the surface with hot water; then
dip a dry rag into the polish and
rub lightly over the surface.
Onion juice will remove rust
from knives.
Hard water is easily softened
by the addition of a spoonful of
borax or of bath salts.
A light sprinkling of finely
chopped nuts is usually pleas
ant addition to a fruit salad.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-27
Dreadful Quarrel.

Criss-So you and Jack don't
speak. What's the trouble?
Chris-We had dreadful quar-.
rel about which loved the other
most.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-27
By Beatrice Fairfax.

~ IAhL1 SHouSH, no IldII6F
how close we are to people
~ no matter how much we
love them. and how completely
we feel attuned to them, we can
not read their secret thoughts.
We catch glimpse of the minds
and souls of those for whom We
care. but we cannot dig deep into
their natures, read their motives
Or interrupt their words to con-
vey their deeper meaning.
Most of us don't know our
selves any too well. So we can
not show our real selves to others
nor yet see others as they truly
are.
Since all this is true of close
friends, of those linked by the
ties of love-how can we escape
the fact that when it comes to ac-
quaintances, to those we meet
casually in passing-we get mere
ly fleeting, glimpses of their real
selves?
So why under the sun should
We permit Ourselves to be irri-
indications of someone whose I'M
pleasant words or deeds may be
meant far differently from what
we see them? Why be affected
by cross word from one who
may be in soul agony and whose
ugly tone may be due to some
thing which would make us far
more Irritating if we had the
same difficulty to handle?
Apart from the fact that it
isn't fair to other folks to get
irritable over the things they do
and say-there is the grave con-
sideration of the harm we do our
serves when we permit our nerves
10 be rasped and sandpapered all
the time.
Suppose the street-car conduc-
tor is fussy about changing a
dollar bill when you ride down to
work in the morning, is that any
reason for getting jumpy nerves?
Granted that the girl next to Won
at the office says something I'M
pleasant and discouraging about
Your new dress II is that inst
cause for losing faith in your own
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-27

The diner helped himself to the
salad oil, tested it, grimaced, and
handed the bottle to the waiter.
Take it away" he said in panied
tones. lis there anything wrong
with it, sir?" the waiter inquired
deferentially. Wrong with it?"
said the diner. Certainly not; but
you should have brought 1t in
lamp"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-27

We think we can thrash, and me
own names on it," roared Leary.
"Oi have"
"But ye can't lick me, ~red-
headed son of a gun" stormed
Leary, now thoroughly incensed.
Thin on take yer name off, ;"
said the obliging Tim, reaching
for his pencil.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-27
A Cook Island Custom

the Pacific, it is provided by law that the head of
each family shall plant coconut tree for each year of
childs age until the child is old enough to plant trees
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-27
QlsadrupIets and TlDi1,s

OUADRUPLETS are, according to official estimates
twenty times as rare as trplets, and more than
1000 times of twins. Roughly the proportion
is set of quadruplets to $4,000 births
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-27
GOOD NIGHT STORIES
BE SURE TO READ THEM TO YOUR CIR DPEN
DAVID MEETS QIEER rrrr n $500

DAVID MEETS QUEER LITTLE BARKER
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Onion juice will remove rust
from knives.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-10-24
Editors Letter Box
Be Up and Doing
Editor Kennebec Journal:

Editor kennebec Journal:
There is an organization endeavor-
ing with time, money and energy to
overthrow the 18th amendment and
the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union, with q membership Of nearly
Ealf a million God-fearing. home
loving women, proposed to secure a
million numbers. in the campaign of
this jubilee year and if every member
secures one new member, it can be
done.
Some of the things for which to
work.
To elect Congress that Will per-
NIT no weakening of the Volstead
Act. To elect State legisla tors, who
will vote for the retention or the
enactment Of enforcement in har-
mony with the Volstead code and en-
forcement of the 18th amendment, in
the confidence that it will forever re-
main part of the Constitution.
The w. c. T. L. is asking the wo-
men of the nation to favor at election
time those Congressional candidates,
who will promise to vote and work
for the retention of the Volstead Law
and the Eighteenth Amendment and
for their enforcement.
The slogan of the National w. c.
T. L. in the campaign for 1924, Help
us to Hold the Eolstead Law"
The vast benefits of prohibition,
testified to by the governors, mayors.
health directors. business men and
other well-known authorities ought
to convince everyone that disasters
would follow the return of the traffic
in wine and beer.
so let us be up and doing
With heart for any fate"
ANNA c. BEALE
Augusta, Me-, Oct. %.