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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-28

the grand second floor apartments,
the ones old Pere Lapagorry rents
furnished, on both side of the
landinf, yes, the two of them, be-
cause his wife, a very chic
madame, didn't think one was big
enough, and what can one fam
lily do with two kitchen, tell me
that, and they with only one child
to their name, little girl, who
doesn't take up any more room
than a flea, so to speak, and the
a cook and a maid, and listen,
Tante, she says she will pay sixty
francs a month each, and fed and
lodged!'
She paused to underline
this and looked triumphantly at
her aunt, who for years had
worked as cook in families for
forty francs month and lodged
herself. Jeanne looked back at
her hard? new possibility lift
ing a corner Of it's veil in her
mind.
"What are they like, these
Americans?" she asked, Spanish
BASQUE or French-Basque?" CTo
a Basque, the term American"
means one of his own race who
has emigrated to South America,
made his pile, and returned so
his own country to spend it,
They're not Basques at ALL"
said Anna.
what, French" said Jeanne
instantly incredulHus of Annals
story. There was no use trying
to tell her that any French fam
lily was willing to pay twice the
usual wage for servants.
mo, they don't even under
stand French, but the madame
can read it a little"
ooh, Spanish, then"
mo, had Pedro Gallon go up
to see them and they don't
speak a word of Spanish. They're
not even Catholics!'
The two women stared at each
other. What could people. be
who were not Spanish or French
or Basque, or even Catholics?
Anna went on, "Tante Jeanne,
come upstairs and see for your
self what they are like. You
have seen so many bourgeois
families, you can tell better than
I. I'll only say you have come
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-28

; them, because every morning he
goes in that henhouse and helps
himself to the eggs, and they are
afraid that he will get tired of
omlets and scrambled eggs and de-
eide to have a chicken dinner some
day. They run away so fast when
they hear him and make such a
racket he hasn't bothered them
YETI ,
'"That gives me an idea, Bunny.
I'll give that hawk a silent hen
that can't run to try his luck on"
said l.
Where are you going to find
such a curiosity?" Bunny asked
dQubtfully.
when the cook dresses that hen
we're going to have with DUNN
lings for dinner. I'll tell her to skin
the hen, feathers and all, and give
me the skim I exclaimed. "Iu
fix Mr.. Hawk"
The cook skinned the hen per
fectly. Then I stuffed her until
she looked so real that we expect-
ed her to cacllle.
Now for Mr.. Hawk" With that
l fastened a little trap on her back
and sat her out behind the chicken
coop.
The next morning early we all
got up, hid in the chicken house
and watched.
Sure enough, up in the Sky we
soon saw moving speCk. 1t came
nearer and nearer, and grew larger
and larger, until we saw old Mr.
Hawk ready to aliGht. Suddenly
his keen eyes fell on our hen. He
gave one big swoOp and bounced
on her. Snap went the trap. and
such growls and Shrieks of ange,
YOU never heard as that hawk Ter
out!
Now, Mr.. Hawk, will YOU he
good?" l asked as | loosened the
trap, for 1 had no idea of keeping
him captive.
He gave some kind of grunt as
he flew off, and Bunny said that
it meant, You bet your life I'll be
good"
I'm Mondays StOry-What Hap
pened When Bobby Opened the
Front Door by Mistake)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-28
BY Beatrice Fairfax.
Who Holds a Unique Position in
the Writing World as an
Authority on the Prob
lens of Girls.

<[WKYHY don't you write
" occasionally to the
w married women and
tell than how to treat their hus-
bands?" asks NJ. H. Tell them
what nagging means to a man.
when he gets home after a hard
days work, especially in these
days. Some of the married wo-
men don't know that the war
is over, and they think that the
husbands go down town and
shovel up a few hundred dollars
and that's the days work and
when they get home all they
have to do is 20 hand it over.
They tell how so and so has a
maid, So and so is going TO
Europe, so and SO is sending Ill
he youngsters to camp, so and
% has four new dresses, and why
can't we live on this GcaIe?
Take d woman who had moth
ing eighteen years ago, and who
now has Il fine home in her own
name, a car, jewelry, four beau
tiful children and who gets sew
enty-five dollars week for the
table and the childrens clothes
but she is always growing.
am hoping that your answer will
do my wife some good and get
her to thinking a little along
your lines. That's all / ask"
Of course we al know that
there are numerous parasite
women in the world who take
all they can get and give moth
ing. Sometimes | feel that what
the nagging, parasitic wife needs
Is a little experience in the strug-
gle to earn q livelihood. If 4
woman who never thinks of her
own blessings, but spends her
time reproachipg her. husband
because he isn't providing her
with palace at Newport and
few accompanying Injuries, had
TO go out and earn the funds for
the family, she would probably
land in a tenement in a drab
street.
The woman who has enough
ability and understanding TO face
the world and wrest a livelihood
from it generally has enough
breadth of vision to know what
an effort work implies. The
woman who sits at 5Pme and dis
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-28

Jeanne was between evaporation
and greedincss to hear. Like all
illiterates who cannot glut on the
newspapers their appetite for Cos
sip, she was Unsuitable for It in
talk. She sat down on the front
Of her chair, her ear cooked eager
ly. Anna drew her own chair up
close and began to speak in Bas-
due very rapidly. I'm SO
glad you've come, Tante Jeanne,
you've had so much experience in
working out in families, you know
about things. You know about
those American farm machines,
that they're beginning to use on
the big farm, painted red, you
know. Well, the American agent
for that company, he has come
here to live, here in this house,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-28
THE NAGGING WIFE
WOMAN SHOULD REMEMBER SHE is PARTNER

, penses her husbands earnings
should not forget that she is a
partner in a firm, and that wise
and frugal expenditure is her
department.
Gratitude and graciousness are
two things that a wife should
not leave out of her attitude
toward her husband. She ought
to appreciate his efforts, and
to spur him on to greater ones
by believing in him and his flu
ture-not by nagging at him be-
cause the present doesn't come
up to her ideal.
No man can do his best work
when he is facing constant nag
ging. The man who puts IN a
hard days work at business has
right to expect that he is com
ing home to find that work and
love and honest efficiency have
been putting his house in order
during the day when he was do
ing his best to earn the where
WIthal to maintain his home.
Poor and content is ricn
enough, and there are MANY fine
women vino make of home a
haven for the man who earns
five or six dollars a day. But the
woman who has the ''beggar on
horseback" attitude Of thinking
her husband owes her strings Of
pearls and emerald rims and
world tours is likely to wear out
his nervous system, make life an
endless burden and keep him
from accomplishing the best uf
which he is capable
Marriage is partnership-or it
is nothing. The woman whose de-
mands are outra geous and whose
appreciation is zero is bound TO
wreck nerves and hope and hap
piness if she keeps at il earnestly
enough.
Fortunately many women are
appreciative and loving and real
lze that a hardworking man
comes home to be renewed and
refreshed for the next DAYS ef-
forts. But the woman who re-
fuses to do her share IN making
the home even as her husband
MAKES the money to support it
is bound to destroy, since she re-
fuses to build up.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-28
By Dorothy Garfield.
Whose Novel, '"The Brimming Cup"
Achieved Popularity Through
out the Country.

= EANNE, who had less than no
regard for any human nature
e outside the Basque race,
always enjoyed the contempt she
felt for these fashionably- dressed,
Intellectual French weaklings. She
took advantage of the leisurely
wait at La Negresse, while the
luggage was noisily transferred
from one train to the other, to
lean her head and shoulders from
the window, and to indulge her
self in a hearty bout of derision
for the uncomely fashionable
Parisians, city-pale and flabby.
She drew a long breath of salts
faction in her own untrammeled
ribs, to see their rigid bodies like
sadly carved pieces of wood in
the steel armor Of their corsets,
their shoulders grotesquely Wi
dened by their high puffed
sleeves. Used to stepping out for
daily ten-mile walk over noun
tain paths, free and rhythmic in
her flexible cord-and-canvas san
dals, she laughed inwardly at
these fine ladies, tottering on
their high-heeled leather shoes.
Some of them were dragging
along tired. oyer-dressed, paSty-
faced children. Jeanne had a pas
sion for children, and she now
cried to herself, for the thous-
andth time, What can the
Blessed Virgin be thinking of, to
trust babies to such creaturesi"
Straight as lance, with more
vigor in her body at seventy than
any of them at twenty, with more
glistening black hair of her own
under her close black Golf than
any of them could afford to buy,
Jeanne who never altered her cos
tune by hair or line from one
years end to another, who looked
forward confidently to fifteen or
twenty years Of iron health, felt
q cheerful glow of contempt as
she watched them, running here
and there, screaming nervously
that one of their innumerable
bags or valises was lost, their
faces distorted with apprehension
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-28
DIET FOR ADOLESCENT
LENTY OF MEAT URGED FOR BOY AND GIRL

the family have to make some
self-sacrifices.
One vital reason why nutrition
must be looked after so carefully
during this period of rapid devel-
opment is because at this stage
of growth the germ of tubercu-
losis is especially apt to get a
foothold and start active infec-
ton. If children are we'll nour-
ished with protein food the germ
of tu berculosis is put to rout.
Whatever may be said against
the liberal consumption of meat
at later age, its necessity at
this time of life is not debatable.
If an adolescent child has a for
midable appetite it is reason for
congratulation, and the greatest
pleasure should be found in salts
flying 1t. 1t is not to be deplored
and attempts made to lessen it:
that way lies danger indeed
Don't be ashamed of little John
ny's and Mary's appetite; be
proud Of it.
During this period your n.y.
gienic information must be au-
thoritative. The doctor must
cooperate. Follow fads at other
times If you must, but run no
risk of misleading information
during you child's adolescence,
if you love him and have a rea-
senable sense of responsibility.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-28
TELL THESE
AT DINNER

A doctor took a friend on a
fishing expedition.
Early in the afternoon the
doctor lost his sinker. For
moment it seemed that there
would be no more fishing for him.
But a happy thought came to
him, for ne had a bottle in his
pocket. This he filled with sand,
corked, and sent down en- it's
mission.
In a little while the doctor had
a bite and pulled in his line at
racing speed, finding a couple of
fish, one On each hook.
"Ah. Twins shouted the
friend.
Yes" grinned the doctor, land
brought up on the bottle, too"
An old farmer had received an
invitation TO dine at a rich mans
home. But, his two daughters.
who had some little education,
strove their utmost to prevent Fis
going, fearful lest he should
make some slip and disgrace
them.
However, he persisted, but in
order that he might get through
his dinner without discredit, they
taught him such phrases as BEG
pardon" and present company
excepted"
At the dinner the old man re-
manned quiet for some time. At
last he decided that he would
say something.
Turning to a young woman sit
ting next to him, he said: "Why,
miss, at my farm l have the
grandcst litter of pigs ever seen
present company excepted"
Life Insurance Agent-Pardon
me Mr.. Wilkins, but the com
pany would just as soon cancel
your policy if you are willing.
Wilkins-What's the matter;
I've paid the installments, haven't
/?
Agent-Yes, but one of our men
discovered that you are in Il habit
Of sneezing when a barber was
giving you close shave.
Teacher-And now, Mary what
does "c-a-t'' spell?
Mary-I don't know, mum.
Teacher-Oh, come now What
is it around the house that your
father always kicks when she
gets in his way?
Mary-Oh, L know-muvver.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-28

II" CN, gather the eggs,
R Bobby" 1 said one morn
~ ing when l came down
stairs for breakfast.
"All right, Foxy Grandpa" re-
piled Bobby, running out TO the
barn.
But in a moment he returned
empty-handed and with such a long
face that / knew something was
wrong.
Whats the trouble" I asked.
mo eggs for breakfast, Foxy
Grandpa" he answered.
What do you mean, no eggs for
breakfast? Have the hens gone on
a striker"
Indeed they have not" he re-
piled emphatically II heard them
all cackling for dear life telling us
proudly that each hen had laid a
nice egg for u.s."
And now you say there's not an
egg on any of their nests?"
Not a single egg Bobby de-
clared solemnly.
This happened for several morn
lngS. 1T provoked me to have to
go to town to buy eggs when we
mad been having at least a dozen
from our hens every morning.
who do you suppose is stealing
them?" l asked each morning, but
we never We're able to guess.
Finally, on the fifth morning, I
decided that something must be
done, and done right away. 1t
wasn't fair to us and it wasn't fair
10 the hens. So. as usual, | con-
suited Bobby and Bunny, and
Bunny said:
I've played detective before,
Foxy Grandpa. Let me try AGAIN.
"Fine" | exclaimed. ITS YOUR
job to discover who the scoundrel
is. Then when you've found him
III take his case in hand"
1t took Bunny only one night to
find that thief. For the next morn
ing he walked in, with his ears
pointing heavenward and his tail
tw1tching with excitement. I knew
ne mad a surprise for us when he
said:
We found him! It's big chick
en- hawk. The hens are nearly out
OF their minds for fear he will eat
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-28
WHEN DID IT
HAPPEN?

when was the noted English
actress Ellen Terry born?
2-When was the German king
dom of Westphalia founded?
3-When was the battle of
Fredericksburg in the civil war
fought?
4-When was the Franco-Rus-
sian alliance formed?
5-When was Nevada admitted
to the Union as a state?
ANSWERS to these queries will be
printed MOnday.)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-28
A RECIPE YOU
WILL LIKE
EGG NIAYONNAISE.

Required: Three hard-boiled
eggs, mayonnaise sauce. Cut the
eggs in halves lengthways, ar
range in a silver or glass dish in
a circle or nest Of finely shred
ded lettuce. Coat with mayop-
naise sauce, and a mixed salad
made with cooked potatoes,
beetroot, carrot and turnips. Cut
into small cubes or dice. dressed
with a little mayonnaise and gar
nished with the best portions or
a lettuce and little tufts of mus
tard and cresS.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-28

mented walls Of the Old Castle,
substantial enough that, and plain
enough and old enough to please
even a Basque.
An Unsuitable Gossip.
AS she turned in at the door of
Annals apartment house, her
mouth was open to begin her
litany of grievances; but when
she entered Annals one.room,
brick-paved, lodging, she found her
niece with a budget of exciting
news Of her own, "Oh. Tante
Jeanne, what do you think ."
she burst out as. the old woman
swung lightly in; but before she
would go on, she went to close the
door, bearing herself so secretly,
with such self-importance that
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-28
ANSWERS.
To yesterdays questions.

1-Tennyson wrote his poem,
"Timbuctoo," in 1929.
2-Jack Ketch. famous Eng
lish executioner, lived in the
seventeenth century; he died in
November, 1886.
3-The wonderful Sistine Chap
ell In the Vatican was built in
1873 by Pope Slxtus ".
1.-THE Six Months War, be.
tween France and Germany, took
place from July, 1870, to January,
1871.
ct e first Pan-American
conference was held at Washing
ton in 1SS9-90.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-28


had been caught by that impudeEt
little French girl, one OF the
chamber maids in a Biarrltz MOTEL
a girl who did not know how
to spin, who laughed at the de-
cent Basque ways, and who had
no shame for her sterillty, refus-
ing to go to Lourdes to pray for
children.
Hampered.
Jeanne had never had any ro-
mantle feeling for her sh1ftless,
hard-drinking husband, whose IT,
regular earnings as a fisher she
had been forced to piece out With
much domestic service in the
houses of others; and now he was
dead, she, never thought of him.
She had never been to a theater
in her life, Eor read novel, for
she could not read at all. None
of her native capacity for emo
ton had been used in her youth,
nor .frittered away later in the
secondhand make believes Of
modern life. 1t had all been pour
ed out upon children; on her five
sons, and on the one little dark
eyed, black haired daughter, the
little Marie-who had died at
eleven, so many years ago, just
after her first communion-the
blessed saint Marise had looked,
slim and straight in her white
dress! The Blessed Virgin had
found her name sake too sweet to
wait for, and had taken her at
once.
And now those strong, yearn!ng
old arms were empty of young
life, and Jeanne's heart was bit
ter. She might scold her loudest
over the waste of butter and eggs
at the farm, she might gossip her
head off about the faults of the
neighbors, and shrek out maledic-
tious on the stingy bourgeoise
who wanted to buy her vegetables
for nothing. she could not drown
out the forlorn echo of emptiness
and loneliness within.
She turned up the Rue Theirs,
glanced .frowningly at the Paris
like department store on the other
side of the street with it's gaudy
plate-glass show windows, the
pride of the younger generation IN
Bayonne, and looked up with APP
prevail at the huge, thick, battle,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-28

MIR. GEORGE: But you
Just said she had made it her
self.
MRS. GEORGE: said moth
ing Of the sort. What / object
to is your talking about that
frock as If it was a homemade
one. You men are all alike.
II you see a perfectly plain,
simple little frock, you at once
think it's cheap. Mrs. Den
MISS frock probably cost a
hundred and fifty dollars.
No, l did not say she made it
herself. Why don't you
listen?
ARD NrNDHT (nao0oR,1I1xyN
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-28

Soap can be used by itself IN
n multitude of ways. If you find
Il small hole starting In a pair of
silk stockings you are wearing
you can stop 1t for the moment
from becoming huge ladder"
by dabblng the hole with soap.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-28

THIS is the anniversary of the birth of Alexandra
Dumas the younger, in 1924. As dramatist he
created school with Camille and other realistic
plays of like nature. He died in 1895
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-28
Photographs Like Sculpture.

PORTRAITS like sculpture be made by
machine. Working Photographic basis and
with mathematical precision it produces figure carved
out of stone, wood ivory with astonishing speed
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-28

You must endure that which
cannot be altered.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-28

The miser is as much in want
OF what he has as Of what he
has not.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-28

//H UN, gather the eggs,
TX Bobby" 1 said one morn
~ ing when l came down
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-28

Agent-Yes, but one Of our men
discovered that you are in a habit
Of sneezing when barber was
giving you a close shave.
The Washington times., 1923-02-13
Nancy Hanks Lincoln
Is Name Given N. Y.
Founding

NEW YORK, Feb. 13.-The
name of Nancy Hanks Lincoln,
President Lincoln's mother, was
entered last night on the roll
OF patients at the General
Hospital, Elizabeth, N. j..
Nancy is not relative of the
martyred President, nor is she
ill. She is handsome, healthy,
blue-eyed baby, two months old,
whose name was presented to
her by the hospital authorities,
in honor Of Lincoln's Birthday,
when she was brought in by a
patrolman, laughing as cheer
fully as if she had not been
abandoned a short time before
on the doorstep of 921 East
Grand street, Elizabeth.
The hospital will remain her
home, until the police discover
her parents or a family adopts
her.
A boy born to Detective and
Mrs. Max Leef yesterday was
promptly named Abraham Lin
coin Leef. Mr.. Leef's asso-
ciates Of the West Thirtieth
street station sent q huge
horseshoe of flowers to the bed
side Of Mrs. Leef and the
martyred Presidents namesake.
The Washington times., 1923-02-13
HOUSE To TAKE
Up US. BIRD
LAW
Protective Legislation Urged
BY Senator New to Save
Game Of Country.

Migratory bird protective IegiS-
lation is scheduled to be taken up
by the House today for consldera.
ton.
This legislation has knocked
about Congress for the past year,
waiting action either by the House
or the Senate. Persistent efforts in
its behalf by Senator Harry A..
New, Indiana, have resulted in
pressing 1t forward in the House
at this late date in the session.
The bill establishes at the ex.
pense Of the Federal Government
feeding grounds and protected re.
serves for migratory birds, fixes
closed seasons during the mating
and breeding periods when it shall
be unlawful to shoot or trap the
birds, and provides Federal licenses
with annual fees for hunters.
Support for the legislation has
been given by game protective as
sociations through the country, and
by a large element of sportsmeYl
who see in unrestricted hunting and
The Washington times., 1923-02-13
!. NC. A. DRIVE
IS NEARING
GOAL
Campaign Reaches $4,000
Mark, With Only &c.,
900 to Get.

! The Y. M. c. A. So, 900 campaign
is expected to reach its goal today.
The $4,000 mark was reached
Saturday and the majority of teams
have since then reported heavy con-
tributions. The teams led by Post
master Merritt o. Chance and H.
S. Omohundro have been in close
competition for the honor Of raising
the largest team funds and are both
confident of finishing first. An
other contender for first honors is
the team led by w. A. Rawlings,
which has won the prize banner
three times during the week. Judge
w. w. Warwick and c. III. Harring-
ton are also putting up a fight for
first honors.
l.. A. Snead. who recently pre-
scented the ''Y" Boys department
with a complete radio outfit, and
who last Saturday contributed $341
to make up $4,000, points out that
special requests have been made
in wills to the association by per-
sons who wanted the good work
perpetuated. One of the team
workers yesterday was shown a
will in which $1,000 had been pro.
vided for the association. John
jay Hammond yesterday sent in a
check for $3.50 toward the work
of the association.