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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-02
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milk for n magazine.
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Blos-Not all; they condensed it.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-02

Miss Sue Brette / thought the
company intended touring South
Africa this season.
Manager So We did. But the
comedian read in some paper that
an ostrich egg often weighs three
pounds-and the company struck.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-02

Delaware has such big apple croI
there may not be enough jugs and bot
ties TO hold it.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-02

Never hit train with an auto. Hi
nois railroad sued n man who did anc
won the case.
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Mexico will elect n president. /
she needs any candidates we can lie
her have q few.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-02

Anything can happen. Barber shop
are operating in Moscow.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-02

Kansas City pair, divorced % years
will rewed. This is the longest vaca
ton on record.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-02

Frenchman flew almost seven miles
high. Some say he was looking for
the dove OF peace.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-02

French plane flew go miles guided
by radio. We heard it.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-02

Two New Orleans mothers have is
kids each. What il they lived on
either side of you
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-02

Anything can happen now. Euro.
"ean statesmen are going to Ireland
to rest little while.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-02

An auto in hand is worth two il
the ditch.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-02

Part of an old Jail at Ipswich
Mass. will be used as a school. The
boys think it appropriate.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-02
What Do You Know About That?

MERCHANTS WHO DISPLAY and advertise school supplies
may profit by the appeals but they making
among the small boys and girls who deadng the repn
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-02

These are the days people are as
hot as a woman with nine kids in a
day coach.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-02

The common or garden variety OF
people are growing popular.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-02

Miami (Fla.) motorman wants a
divorce. Says his wife refuses TO
talk to the motorman.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-02

Brakeman in Sioux City, Ia. found
his sweetheart very discouraging. She
used q hammer and razor.
Evening star., 1923-01-04

at dinner last evening in their 18th
street home in honor of the ambas-
sador Of Spain and Sonora de Riano.
Their other guests included the
Minister of Switzerland and Nine. Pc
ter.
Rear Admiral and Mrs. John X. Robi-
son presented Miss Catherine Rad
evening at a large dance at Rau-
scher's Their guests numbered about
four hundred, and a buffet supper was
served about midnight Admiral and
! Mrs. Robson and Miss Radcliffe
were assisted in receiving by Mrs;
Walter NICK. Jones, and they stood
in the small reception room at the
| head of the stairs, where pink roses
and ferns were used in decorations.
In the bathrooms red and green Christ
mas decorations were used. Those
, assisting Miss Radcliffe included Miss
Laura Bryn, Miss Emily Dial, Miss
Virginia Selden, Miss Dorothy War
| rem. Miss Ruth Miller Green, Miss LII
liam Merritt Thompson, Miss Cecil Les
ter Jones, Miss Elizabeth Taylor Joes
and Miss Catherine Weller.
Mrs Frederic Duncan McKenney and
her daughter, Miss Frederick McKen-
ney, will be informally at home to-
morrow afternoon, from to $50
| o'clock.
Mr.. and Mrs. McKenney entertained
at dinner last evening for their de-
/ butante daughter, Miss Frederick Nc
| Kenney. The guests included Miss
! Eleanor Davies, Miss Dorothy Mon
| dell. Miss Laura Bryn. Mr.. and Mrs.
{ Samuel Kaufman, Miss Virginia Nc
/ Kenney. Commander John London,
Capt. William ]. Cranberry, Lieut..
! William Thomas. Mr.. Charles Nolan
and Mr.. Chester Lockwood The COM
pany later went to the ball given by
! Rear Admiral and Mrs. Robson.
| Representative Charles 3. Ward of
/ New York, is again in Washington.
i staying at the New Willard, after
having spent the holidays at his
| home.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Russell Larcombe
announce the engagement of the lat
| ters daughter. Miss Mary Lee Loving.
| to Mr.. Roy Darlington Bragg of Vir-
ginia. No date has been set for the
| wedding.
| a company of thirty-flve at & recep-
ton and dance New Year eve to an
! nounce the engagement. Among the
| out.of town guests were the mother
| and sister of Mr.. Bragg, who came
from their home in Virginia. A buffet
supper was served at midnight and
| the company danced until a New Year
/ breakfast was served by Miss Low
| ing's uncle and aunt, Mr.. and Mrs.
Leon Cohen.
Mrs. Frank Henry Russell has with
| her for the holiday season Miss Bar
cia Jones, daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Bryson Jones of Kansas City. Mo-, and
Evening star., 1923-01-04

her own two sons, Mr.. Frank Ford
Russell of Yale and young Mr.. Wal
lace Alger Russell, who is in Milton
Academy. In their honor Mrs. Rus
sell Is taking q party of young peo-
pie to the theater on Saturday after
noon and to the tea dance following
at LIE Paradis. Miss Jones Is q stu
dent at L'Ecole Francais, in New
York.
Mrs. Alexander Elliot williams has
cancelled invitations for a tea this aft
ernoon on account of the death OF
Col. Williams father.
Miss Jessie Wilson, daughter of the
former Secretary of Labor, William B,
Wilson of Blossburg, Pa, is visiting
Miss Kerwin. having arrived for the
holiday season.
Mrs. Charles Macon wallingsford of
Gallatin street entertained at bridge
and tea this afternoon in honor OF
Mrs. w. Edgar Howser of Philadel-
phia.
Will not be at home Friday, or again
until their return from Florida.
The Rho Beta Chapter OF the Mu
Phi Epsilon National Musical Sorority
will give a tea tomorrow afternoon
at $3.50 o'clock, at the City Club, in
honor of Nine. d'Alvarez, Peruvian
prima donna, who is an honorary
member Of the sorority. Among the
guests who have been invited to the
Evening star., 1923-01-04

Hotel Hamilton takes pleasure
in announcing that, beginning on
Saturday and every Saturday there
after, there will be- dancing in the
dining room during the luncheon
hours from twelve to two-thirty
o'clock. Special music.
Evening star., 1923-01-04

Mr.. and Mrs. Lyman B. Kendall
were hosts at dinner last evening
entertaining informally in their home
on New Hampshire avenue.
Mrs. Kendall will receive Sunday
afternoons in January from to 7
O'Clock, and early in February, with
Mr.. Kendall, will go to Florida for the
remainder of the winter.
Evening star., 1923-01-04

Swiss Minister and
Mime. Peter Honor Guests.
Former third assistant secretary of
state and Mrs. Breckenridge Long
entertained a company of twenty-six
Evening star., 1923-01-04
Society
Pan-American Union Scene of Brilliant
Reception, With Colombian Minister
and Sonora de Olaya as Hosts.

bassy and Mrs Henry Getty Chiffon
entertained q company of sixteen at
dinner last evening.
Mrs. stitt, wife Of Rear Admiral Ed
ward Rhodes Stitt, and their daugh-
ters. Miss Mary Stitt and Miss Emma
Stitt. will be at home this afternoon
again Thursday afternoon, January
Is, after $3.50 O'clock.
The secretary of the Lithuanian iega-
tion. Mr.. Matas ]. Vinikas, was host
in compliment to the second secretary
of the Japanese embassy. Mr.. Masa-
haru Shibatsuji, who will leave the
middle OF this month for his home in
Japan.
Among boxholders for "Rigoletto,"
which Is being given at the President
Theater on January % and 26 by the
WHshinst9n W;,si.s epsra Company are s,Is1 MRS 5;
Phelps Emo. Mrs. r. r. Gown. Mrs.
F. B. Moran, Mrs. Joseph SchwartE of
New York. who Is the wife OF the
noted baritone and who heads the
company In the title role; Mrs. Elonzo
Wood.
Among those who have taken groups
Of seats for the performances are
Mrs. Cuno Rudolph. Mrs. Frederic v.
Mrs. E. H. Goodwin. Mrs: Alice Pike
Barney, Mrs. Victor Kaufman, Mrs
Thomas NJ. Chatard, Mrs. e. M. Hol-
combe. Mrs. Mitchell Carroll and Miss
Lucy Brickenstein.
Miss Cecil Lester Jones was the guest
of honor at luncheon today OF Mrs.
William Bowie, who entertained at the
Miss Laura Byrn, Miss Emma Stitt.
Miss Virginia Edwards, Miss Elisabeth
Marbury Beale, Miss Elizabeth Taylor
Jones. Miss Annette Ashford, Miss Ag-
ties. Miss Elisabeth Duryea Walter.
Miss Catherine Radcliffe, Miss Elizabeth
Turner. Miss Helen Carusi, Miss Jean
Darrah, Miss Virginia Selden, Miss
Alice Milburn, Miss Lillian Merritt
Thompson. Miss Betty Werner and Miss
Catherine Weller.
Mrs. George Weed Wallace will be
at home informally tomorrow afternoon
after o'clock to meet her niece. Mrs Nils
Erik Wahlberg Of Kenosha, Wis, who,
with Mr.. Wahlberg, has been the guest
of her grandfather, Gen. Horatio Gates
Gibson, during the holidays. Mrs. Wahl-
berg was formerly Miss Katherine
White.
Col. and Mrs. e. Lester Jones will
entertain at buffet supper for forty
guests this evening in honor Of their
daughter, Miss Cecil Lester Jones,
going on later to the Williford dance.
Col. and Mrs. Jones will give q
dinner Thursday January IL, in honor
of their daughter, preceding the ball
which the debutantes will give at the
New Willard for the benefit of
Neighborhood House.
Capt. and Mrs. Frank Harrison
Ainsworth of San Francisco are at
Wardman Park Hotel for this month.
Col william C. Rivers, commandant
at Fort Myer. announces that the
public exhibition rides, which have
called hundreds of society folk to
the post each week, will be given
in the Riding Hall on Fridays in
January, February and March. at $3.50
o'clock, instead Of at 2:3O o'clock, as
formerly. The adjutant will furnish
tickets on request.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lyman B. Kendall
were hosts at dinner last evening
entertaining informally in their home
on New Hampshire avenue
Mrs. Kendall will receive Sunday
afternoons in January fcom to Z
O'Clock, and early in February, with
Mr.. Kendall. will go to Florida for the
remainder of the winter.
Evening star., 1923-01-04

Col William c. Rivers, commandant
at Fort Myer. announces that the
called hundreds of society folk to
the post each week, will be given
in the Riding Hall on Fridays in
January, February and March, at $3.50
o'clock, instead of at 2:30 o'clock, as
formerly. The adjutant will furnish
| tickets on request
Evening star., 1923-01-04

Capt. and Mrs. Frank Harrison
Ainsworth of San Francisco are at
Wardman Park Hotel for this month.
Evening star., 1923-01-04

Mrs. Frank Henry Russell has with
her for the holiday season Miss Bar
cia Jones, daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs
Bryson Jones of Kansas City. Mo-, and
Evening star., 1923-01-04

CONTINUED on Ninth Page.)
Evening star., 1923-01-04

Mrs. Bates Warren and Miss Warren
will not be at home Friday, or again
until their return from Florida.
Evening star., 1923-01-04

Mrs. Wadsworth, wife of Senator
James w. Wadsworth, jr., was among
those entertaining at the benefit
luncheon yesterday at LIE Paradis
for the Washington Chapter of the
Women's Overseas Service League.
Others who took tables and enter
tanned parties were Mrs. John N.
Speel, Mrs. w. D. Rodgers and Miss
Lena Hitchcock
Evening star., 1923-01-04

Mrs. Albert Morgan Gilbert is en-
tertaining a company at bridge this
afternoon for her daughter, Miss Al
berta Gilbert, in their apartment in
the Wardman Park annex. Her
guests include Miss Laura Bryn, Miss
Helen Campbell, Miss Dorothy Mon
dell, Miss Cecil Lester Jones, Miss
Virginia Selden, Miss Virginia Ed
wards, Miss Emma Stitt, Miss Alice
Milburn, Miss Catherine Weller, Miss
Frances Wiser, Miss Margaret Cros-
son, Miss Catherine Let's, Miss Doro-
thy bennett, Miss Charlotte Freeman
Clark, Miss Henrietta Hill, Miss Myra
Morgan, Miss Pamela Henry, Miss
Eleanor Carroll Hill, Miss Helen Col
bert, Miss Dorothy Johnson, Miss Mar
cia Chaplin. Miss Mary Askew, Miss
Rita Weller, Miss Elizabeth Turner,
Miss Katharine Shaw, Miss Atala
Kimmell, Miss Annette Ashford, Miss
Dorothy Boucher, Miss Theresa
James, Miss Caroline Henry, Miss
Betty Werner, Miss Elizabeth Sims,
Mrs. Frank Easby-Smith. Mrs Peter
Arthur Drury, jr.. and Mrs. Charles
Mathews Dick.
Mrs. Gilbert will be assisted by Mrs.
Victor Bookmiller In presiding at the
tea table. Additional guests have
been asked for tea following the
game.
The counselor OF the Rridyh erh-
Evening star., 1923-01-04

Representative and Mrs. Fred Brit
ten Will entertain q company of
eighteen at dinner tonight, going on
later to the Pan-American reception and
ball to be given by Mr.. and Mrs. Penn
broke Thorn,
Evening star., 1923-01-04

Mrs. Lehlbach, wife of Representa-
tive Lehlbach of New Jersey, left
Washington for the holidays, and will
not return until the middle of Febru-
ary,
Evening star., 1923-01-04

The assistant secretary of the
Treasury and Mrs. Eliot Wadsworth
Will return this evening from New
YORK, where they went the first OF
the week
Evening star., 1923-01-04

The charge d'affaires of Japan and
Mime. Saburi will entertain at dinner
this evening in compliment to the un-
dersecretary of state and Mrs. william
Phillips
Evening star., 1923-01-04

Mrs. Frank White, wife of the
United States treasurer, will not be
at home this afternoon, bus will re-
ceive next Thursday afternoon from
to o'clock at her home, 5000 18th
street northwest, at which time the
will have with her Mrs. Edwin r.
Ladd. wife of the senator from North
Dakota.
Evening star., 1923-01-04

Mrs. George Weed Wallace will be
at home informally tomorrow afternoon
after o'clock to meet her niece, Mrs. Nils
Erik Wahlberg Of Kenosha, Wis, who,
with Mr.. Wahlberg, has been the guest
of her grandfather, Gen. Horatio Gates
Gibson, during the holidays. Mrs. Wahl-
berg was formerly Miss Katherine
White.
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were an extra session to be called. AS
to what will become of the presidents
two chief measures, the Ship Subsidy
bill and the British Debt Funding act,
no one at this stage can hazard a guess.
The legislative calendars OF both houses
are full of measures pressing for action
but very few of them are in line for
passage before the session expires.
II there is one thing more than an
other to upset business and otherwise
add to the general Generalization, it is
a session of Congress. Although we'll
Informed business men long since have
BECOME aware that Congress as a rule,
does more bluffing than acting, the rank
and file of the country are not so well
posted. When a new tariff schedule is
proposed, although those on the inside
know from the start that it has no
chance of passage, all the varied indus
tries affected by such legislation inn
mediately begin to take in sail until the
gale is past. Apparently the fact that
they have been doing this for the last
twenty-five years and that no gale
stronger than a summertime zephyr
has blown, seems not to have impressed
them. BY the time Congress gets around
to passing tariff measure of any kind
the effect has been so largely discounted
that oftentimes the regulations them
selves are obsolete by the time they
come to be enforced.
Likewise the American farmer who
waits Until Congress provides relief for
his ills by enactment of any or all of
the various farm relief bills in Senate
and House, will most surely starve to
death or die of old age.
Also the shipper who hopes to see a
special act of Congress to lower freight
rates, might just as we'll begin loading
freight cars again because before Con-
yress gets around to it, the railroads
will lower freight rates of their
OWN accord.
The latest reports from Washington |
ire that another OF the interrninable and |
entirely useless Investigations is soon
% get under way. This time Congress
will investigate foreign embassy liquors
it Is more or less of an open
secret that Congress or at least some
members of Congress, has nothing to
gain By congressional inquiry, having
llready much information on the sub
ect, substantial and otherwise.
1t may be, as alleged, that the Presi-
lent is tired, that he pines for a rest
away from it all. If so we can not feel
t in our hearts to censure him. He has
nothing on the rest of us in that respect.
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A TOAST FROM DREAMLAND.

/ sit here smoking at even
Under the influence mild,
OF a pipe of good tobacco
So I'll rove in dreams awhile.
I'll fancy in free abandon
As the smoke clouds drift away,
And call to mind the girls I've known
And loved, for n year or day.
Their forms and faces come crowding
Making a picture, I'd say,
That's painted in cOlors vivid;
And time can't fade them away.
But what's the use Of this dreaming
OF girls that are past and gone,
When they mean no more to me now
Than some old familiar song?
So here's to n little dream girl
That seems to come from a land.
Which whispers rainbows Of promise
Like some far off distant strand.
Here's to the hair Of golden hue,
I'ere's to those sweet red lips
That would entice the honey bee,
From the flowers that he sips.
Here's to her eyes, bright with star
light;
And her smile of sunshine too,
For she's the only one ] know
That can make my dreams come
true.
CHARLES CAMP.
SIT West Weodlawn.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-18
A WIRELESS MOTOR CAR

II Henry made walking a pleasure
what sort of medal ought to be hung
upon the man who, as he claims, has
invented an automobile that moves on
legs instead of wheels? There are a
lot of questions concerning this new
machine which one might like to ask
the inventor before crediting his claims
for. it. However, it will not do to be
too skeptical, because the impossible"
has been achieved many times in the
field of science.
This wheelless, gearless, springless We
hlcle Is described as walking like a
man. although it has four legs. If
quadruped should undertake to walk
like man it would be seized Upon as
the missing link. Let a strange animal
have prehensile forefeet and he is sure
to be given some high-sounding name
and nominated for anthropological hon
ors as mans next of kin--or rather
latest of kin. Then the animals repu-
tatlon is saved by those who disclaim
him as distant relative.
But this new means Of locomotion
IS an imitation of man. However, one
might be doubtful whether it should
be regarded as compliment or re-
Duke to man. Modern humans are
walking less and less, and rolling more
and more. True enough, there were
wheels in prehistoric times; they have
been found among the remains OF ex-
tlnct civilizations Just how far back
toward the dawn of creation one would
have to go to discover a whcelless civ
l!ization is a question that may intrigue
the imagination.
1t seems that the inventor OF the walk
ing automobile, in trying to develop
something. different" in the field OF
locomotion, had to rely upon the prin-
clple which makes extremely old things
new when they are revived. But it
would seem that he must carry his re-
searches back of the time when the uni
verse was created if he is going to make
his vehicle ride comfortably without
springs, shock absorbcrs, or something
at the maximum rate of speed Of which
he says it is capable-about so miles
an hour.
Fancy riding on the shoulders Of d
man walking at the rate OF one and a
third miles a minute! If the man were
made OF steel or iron or any other com.
paratively durable material, what sort
OF road could stand the impact OF his
swiftly moving feet? And if he should
start up a steep, rocky mountain, ant
stubbed his toe on a small boulder, wha
would become of the passenger?
The inventor OF the walking automo
bile says that his machine can do various
kinds of stunts" that tax ones cred
uIity. Maybe it can; people nowadayj
are too wise" to express a positiv,
opinion to the contrary. But it is no
likely that people of the present ag
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would be in hurry to trade in" their
perfectly good neurnaticwheeled cars
for any walking cart that might be put
upon the market. When they walk at
all they want to walk slowly, and not
at so miles an hour. Riding in one of
those new-fanglcd, wheelless contrap-
tons might be too much like working
Nobody is going to say that it can't
be done, but the average person is like
ly to say, if he should be approached
as prospective buyer OF an automo-
bile that walks like a man." that he
doesn't give honk whether it is done
or not.
Besides, if inventors continue to de-
wise new means of locomotion at the
rate attained during the last decade or
so, mans principal worry will be over
the problem how he may live long
enough to try all of them.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-18
EAST AND WEST"

Men look to the east for the dawning things. for
the light of a rising sun.
But they look to the west, TO the crimson west
for the things that are done. are done.
The eastward sun is nGw-made hope from the
dark of the night distilled:
But the westward sun is sunset sun. is the sun
of hope fulfilledi
So out of the east they have always come the
cradle that saw the birth
OF all the heartwarm hopes Of man and all Of the
hopes of earth
For out of the east arose a Christ, and out of
the east has CLEANED
The dearest dream and the clsarest dream that
ever a prophet dreamed
And into the waiting west they go with the dream
child Of the east,
And find the hopes that they hoped Of old are
hundred-fold increased,
For here in the east we dream our dreams Of
the things we hope TO do,
And here in the west the crimson west, the dreaas
of the east come true
Douglas Mallssh
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-18
40 EXTRA SESSION

4 Reports in Washington, according to
some of the best informed correspond
eats are that an extra session immedi-
ately after this session of Congress ends
Is improbable. 1t is declared that Presi-
dent Harding has had a hard winter.
Rexatious questions, an attack of the
grippe and other troubles that have
made him long for few days of peace
and quiet away from the congressional
entaglements and quibblings.
To the average citizen, no good rea-
son for an extra session of Congress
IS apparent. The winter session has
been largely unproductive of results and
there is little hope for anything better
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-18
Poets Corner
THE CALL OF THE TROPICS.

I'm tired of drab existence,
Just an old work-day life
That has its share of sunshine,
Also its share of strife.
Oh! what's the use of living
Where thrills don't often come,
"And day by day in every way"
The same old courje you run.
Each morn upon arising
You now just what's in store,
Just what is on the program
That day and Faany more.
Fain would I go adventuring
Into some distant cline,
Where woodland shadows beckon
And tropic stars do shine.
I'd find an isle Respondent,
In fact, beyond compare,
All decked in gorgeous verdue,
Composed by blue seas rare.
And on this chanted island
Far off in southern seas,
The perfumed winds would whisper
OF hidden mysteries.
And oh! I'd catch their meaning
Held by their subtle spell,
Nv ears would be attuned'
To what they had to tell.
And then upon my vision
Would burst a magic scene,
A maiden wondrous fair
With hair of midnight sheen.
Yes, here l find my dream girl
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-18
MY VALENTINE.

Ny dear, if all the worlds stage,
For dancing dolls, from age to age,
To skin into our view,
I'll walk. the footlight's gaudy way,
TO pose and bow in false array,
Or dance across for you.
My dear, if all the world is real,
TO men and women who are leal,
Instead of to the few,
The best / have my soul will give,
To live as God would have me live,
And be myself, for you.
HALL I. DAY.