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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-11
BY Universal Service.

BERKELEY, Cal, March 10.
ADVICE to the lovelorn was
\ given the other day by Bald
win Woods, connected with the
engineer department and dean
in the University of California
summer school.
In cold, cruel words. Woods adj
vised his students to refrain from
matrimony until the prospective
husband had saved at least S2.500.
This advice may sound unro-
mantle, but loves own sweet
dream can flourish more readily
when the proper financial goal is
reached" declared the savant.
who has won the title "Instruc-
tor in Matrimony" through his
advice.
1.-THE young man who finds
himself with nothing more than a
college diploma and a promise
of a job should not plunge head
long into matrimony," he says.
THE average man Of twenty-five
years can command salary OF
$3.50 a month.
~If the girl is worthwhile and
has real interest In her prospec-
tive husband, she will not hest
tate to wait for him. And II tho
man is worthwhile he VIII not
want his bride to be deprived
Of anything she has been ae'
customed to Just for The privilege
of. marrying him.
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right piece for any possible given
requirement.
The loneliness Of home, all it's
taste, peace and serenity, the
restful, spiritual opportunity
which comes to one in such
home. are the predominating in
fluences felt after studying the
illustration of this early English
dining room, delightfully."- appeal
ing to it's Jacobean atmosphere
made pronounced by this excellent
suite.
ENGLISH MOTIF
Made in oak, with walnut burl
panels, and high lighted, the am
bition of the designer seems to
have been realized in the inspira-
ton gained from the charming
pieces.
The dining table, which opens
in the middle to receive extra
leaves, is supported by attractive,
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and to have George, otherwise per.
lection, show signs of irritation
when one is late!
HOW STRANGE 1T is!
We all know these things. We
listen in tender pity to little Ten
when she gables joyfully that the
new school is going to be just
nothing but fun--to little Twenty
when she confides to us that she
and George never can quarrel, be.
cause they are going to be too
utterly happy among the new sill
yer spoons and the new mahogany
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nv HE present revival Of inter-
est in decorated furniture
- is of far more than tran
silent importance. 1t is a recogni-
ton of the lasting merit of GER
tain past phases of furniture de-
sign. and an expression and evil
dence of the discernment and dis
elimination of today. Recent
years have witnessed a wide
spread and deep interest in differ
ent forms of furniture, and a
ready familiarity with the period
styles is no longer the exclusive
accomplishment of the connois-
Seur or expert.
With the increase and diffusion
Of popular interest and education
in furniture have come strong
modern revivals of such furniture
styles Of the past as may logically
be adopted for use in the modern
American home, and today there
Is accorded to decorated furniture
a degree of popularity which 1t
has not enjoyed since the eight
zenith century in England.
Lest the collection of decorated
furniture fall to the unfortunate
level of being merely a fad" of
the hour, it seems timely and
may prove acceptable to point out
q few of the proper and more ef-
fective uses to which decorated
furniture is suited, Since this
kind of furniture possessed real
and distinct merits and uses in
earlier days of it's popularity, its
claim UPON our attention has not
lessened with the years-lts .rer-
its and uses are the same today.
LOGICAL REASON.
To say that there is at present
o vogue for decorated furniture
would be a correct, but not a
complete statement. There is,
without doubt. vogue, but there
Is also a logical reason for deco.
rated furniture. 1t possesses, pri-
marily, two distinct decorative
properties-color and decoration,
and may be selected for either
reason, or for both--to add to on
interior a certain color-va1ue or a.
certain element of interest, or
both.
Thus, for example, the first
might be the reason for selecting
q tea-cart finished in deep YER
million red, to strike an effective
note of color in a room of which
the color scheme was SO har-
monious as to run the danger of
being monotonous.
Decorated furniture might be
chosen to lend an element of in
terest, or of the unusual, to a
guest bed room, or to create an
effort of cheerfulness in a break.
fast room or sun parlor.
The impulses toward color and
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this success; she is restless,
anxious. exacting. jealous.
As for queen-she pays her
discount. too. I remember study
ing the itinerary of one queen.
with emotions far removed from
envy. The queen was an elderly
woman. and days work would
run something like this:
'Her majesty win leave by spe-
ciaI train for Oxford at $40; she
will greet the Oxford Girl Re-
cruits at IL; attend the public
banquet at II. receiving addresses
by the mayor and chief citizens:
win address the women workers
of the blanket mills at 4; inspect
the work of the Orphans Needle
work Guild, and return to Buck
ingham at 5. Their majesties
will entertain at dinner this eve
ming ambassador and countess,
ETC., etc.
GIVE THE DISCOUNT.
And all that time nobody would
speak to one normally. humanity,
even truthfully. Nobody would
say:
Listen, Mary. did you know
that the Smiths have actually
made an offer for that old
house down back of the high
school your dress is
lovely did you get q
chance to run in and see Minis
baby -
No, I don't think the queen
would change place with amy
beggar along the embankment.
But I suspect that there is many
a titled lady of her acquaintance,
comfortable, free, happy in wife
hood and motherhood, whose
peaceful days she must watch
rather wistfully. And when she
figures out her discount. I sus-
pect 1t is heavier than yours or
mine.
Give your husband. and the
children, and the school. and the
house. and the neighbors, and
for that matter-the Government
and the weather, the advantage
of that twenty and ten off!
The only persons who don't need
the benefit of 1t are the dead.
And some of them do!
Copyright, 1923, by the Republic
Syndicate).
This is one Of . series of
Woman to Woman Talks on pres
emit day family and social prob
lens that Mrs. Norris, Americas
best loved and most popular
woman writer, is writing espe-
cialIy for The Times Herald. An
other talk win be printed next
Sunday.
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though their decorations were of
Classic and Italian feeling, rather
than Oriental. They employed,
in fact, many Italian painters
to execute the painted vases,
garlands, wreaths and flowers on
their furniture, and introduced as
well charmingly painted allegori-
cals figure panels by Angelica
Kaufman.
This kind of decorated furni-
ture, exceedingly graceful and
delicate in character, is also re-
produced with remarkable sue
cess today.
Following the popularity of
decorated furniture in England.
much furniture of the style
known as American Empire"
in this country was embellished
with quaint painting of conven-
tional flowers and emblems, and
excellent current reproductions
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well, was surprised at Lucy.
She's always been such saint, so
wonderful with those step-children
and her old father and ALL And
she's so capable. and economical.
and hospitabIe, and pretty. And
to hear her snap at Margaret that
way-well. I'll never feel the same
to Lucy, neverr'
EVER SAY SUCH THINGS?
I'm so Disguised with the
bishop" says another voice. you
know how wonderful he's been
getting the social work going and
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decoration are elemental human
instincts, which ethnologists have
proved by study of the most
primitive savages. Immediately
man had mastered any problem
of construction or manufacture,
he turned his attention instinc-
lively to color or decoration
usually, in the case of savages,
combining the two. After a dug
out canoe was discovered to be a
practical invention, it was carved
and painted.
And so, from the earliest times
there has been decorated furniture
in many lands. Splendidly colored
and decorated chairs and beds
have been found in the tombs of
ancient Egypt.
The Chinese and Japanese, pos
sessing from earliest antiquity
the art of lacquering, made fur
niture of peculiar interest and
beauty, later serving as the in
SEPARATION for decorated furniture
in England.
PEASANT ART.
Peasants have produced many
varieties Of painted furniture,
some of which has been developed
today into pieces remarkably at
tractive for cottages or for the
breakfast room of the average
American home.
It is on record that few small
pieces Of Oriental lacquered fur
niture found their way into Eng
land as early as during the reign
of Queen Elizabeth. but it was
not until the adventurous voy-
ages of the East India Company
chartered in 1900 that these
wonderful and rare curiosities
were much seen.
Commencing with the period of
William and Mary Q669-1702), the
vogue of decorated furniture in
ISdCIlCu It's
der Queen Anne Q7O2.17l4, and
during the reign of the first
George G714-172O. The "Chinese
TASTE" as it was called, was SUI
preme, and since it was impos-
sible to supply by importation
the great demand for lacquered
furniture, English cabinet. MAX
ers addressed themselves diligent-
ly to the task of mastering the
art. Some real lacquer was pro-
duced; and many limitations of
varying degrees of merit, as well
as good deal of decorated fur.
niture which did not pretend to
be lacquered-was honestly paint
ed. The Oriental furniture of
this period in England has been
the inspiration of much of the
most interesting of the decorated
furniture of today.
BROTHERS ADAM.
Later the Brothers Adam
showed a distinct feeling for
color and decoration in furniture,
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chairs to proud and trembling
Twenty-Five when she opens the
folded pink blanket to show us
a scowling newcomer sucking a
notified fist, and says that the baby
is so good and so bright that she
feels sure that they'll never have
any trouble with him; he's going to
be like. George, wide-awake about
everything, and he seems to have
Mama's angelic nature.
And then, knowing all this, how
strange it is that we all are eter-
nally ready to say things like:
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practically carrying that orphan
asylum. And then playing bridge
on Sunday night! Why. we were
brought up"
"Jus1 heart broken" interrupts
third. His father told him he
would give him his bicycle If he
got "A in everything, and he
would have-except for that mis-
cradle cold that kept him home!
Poor little fellow, we were so
sharp with him
"All true about the sunlight. and
the trees, and the two big bath
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WV HEN the pleasant young
" stranger who sells you
the gas stove shows you
his nice little catalog with the
shining pictures of stoves with
in it, your eye moves uneasily
below the vision of the bright
knob and the convenient shelves
and falls upon the list price"
Sixty dollars!' you say family.
'You know we said about forty
five-not more than fifty"
How cheerfully and casually
he takes out his sharp pencil and
draws a line through the printed
sum.
''Ah, that's the list price," he
assures you hearteningly. I'VE
cut way below that. Let's see
twenty and ten, and ten for cash
that stove. just as she stands,
set up in your kitcehn, If you
buy now, will csst you just thirty
eight dollars and lightweight
cents!'
LIST AND DISCOUNT.
And this is one Of the crafty
ing moments Of life. A sixty dol
lar stove for less than forty-of
course. you want it! You learn
then and there that list price
Is one thing, and what we actual
~ pay is another.
Everything in life has its list
price-and it's discount.
The heaviest sorrow that ever
befell mortal man is one thing
on paper-and another thing to
experience.
have no doubt that Joan the
Maid jogging through the streets
Of Rouen to the shameful pyre,
looked at some old belfry clock
and thought in her glorious
heart:
Before those hands move very
far, it will all be over. The IA
tigues, the responsibilities, the
clatter of arms, the reek of dry
ing blood, the dark camps and
the wet marches-even this final
horror-all over. There will be
peace for me. and perhaps even
joyI'
SOME HEAVY DISCOUNTS.
For the old lady who goes
yelled and bowed to the poor
house, for the strong man whose
eyes have paid their tiny toll to
the monstrous injustice of war,
to the mother who sits dazed and
stricken, with little cold hand
unresponsive in hers-there is,
thank God, always that little dis
count. that strange spiritual adj
justment that makes it possible
to live, and to go on.
And on the other side there is
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Quilt of 2,1f5 Pieces

MRS, JOHN SMITH. of Wash
ingten. IND. has completed
quilt she has been working Oh
for twenty-five yeara. AAd which
has e,115 pieces.
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KATHLEEN NORRIS.

rooms, and for 80 much less than
we expected to pay" says sotne-
body else. But imagine-we hear
every one of those factory
whistles, and we're afraid the rail-
road company"
mo, absolute divorce" inter
rupts another speaker. ''Mary
said she never wished to see him
or hear of him again. Imagine a
man telling his wife that she had
gotten so fat it didn't matter what
she worei
Yes, know, he was generous
man, and she had everything she
wanted, and all tlnat-but when he
gets tired she says he's always
rude! Mary says it's his one
fault, but she won't stand it!'
TO WIPE OUT DIVORCE.
If men and women, marrying in
the radiant flush of young love,
would make a mental resolve to al
low for the trade discount, how
few divorces there would be!
It is because we all have in
mind that 100 per cent of per-
lection, that list price, that the
blow is so bitter when the man
of the house takes a stand about
asking. the Watsons to dinner or
is cool to darling Mama.
Thousands of children, all over
the land. are being made unhappy
today because mothers and teach
ers are exacting from them that
visionary 100 per cent of POI
likeness, responsiveness, beauty,
cleanliness. health and intelligence.
Mother, got Baby asleep, and
I've done my homework. says
happy little Ten, in the doorway.
shut that door, and next time
use the back stairs, and go wash
those filthy hands" says mother.
Ten obeys- But she never for
gets.
UNHAPPY WOMEN.
Thousands of young women, all
over the land today, are unhappy
because they fancy that there are
lives that do not have to pay that
heavy discount.
They don't realize that the
more conspicuousIy happy and
successful a life seems to be. the
more probable it is that that very
life is entirely devoid of the true
sweetness OF living.
The very fact that wealth and
fame and success have been won
by girl of twenty-five gives
that same girl an unreal, an alb
normal perspective of life Sim
pie things satisfy her no longer;
she is hardly conscious of the
process by which she has achieved
The Washington times., 1923-01-20

aHEARID1t0SEElNI(2
80 BY BILL PRICE G Nll&KADST
ZEN LOVE HOLDS SWAY.

WHEN LOVE HOLDS SWAY.
DEAR BILL:
1 KNOW two girls
WHOM I'LL call L and NJ.
EACH OF these girls
HAS "A .sweetie and sometimes /
AM INVITED to their homes
10 MAKE up a fifth hand
AT POKER, and sometimes the
FATES ARE kind and will hold
A FULL house or four jacks
THEN 1 say quite casually
TIL OPEN,' and then L and NJ
AND THEIR sweeties win say
SIMULTANEOUSLY 81 pass"
AND TIL look to find
THAT THE four Of them
ARE GAZING into each others eyes
AND PLAYING hands under the
table
AND THAT all of them have
PASSED" WITHOUT looking
AT THEIR cards and it always
HAPPENS THAT an errand takes
me
TO THE parIor at just the time
THAT L and her sweetie
ARE ABOUT to embrace
1 WITHDRAW in confusion and
DART INTO the dining room
WHERE M and her sweetie
ARE ALREADY embracing
FOR THE rest of the evening
I WANDER about from kitchen
TO HALL and at half-past ten
BID THEM good night and thank
THEM FOR a pleasant evening
WHY THANK me? ~
o. HOWE WISE.
The Washington times., 1923-01-20
President Improves
From Attack of
Grippe

President Harding is continuing
to improve steadily from the
attack of grippe which has con-
fined him to his bed for the past
four days, Secretary Christian
announced today. His fever has
abated entirely and his physician,
General Sawyer, anticipates he
will be able to return to his desk
Monday.
While the President has left
his bed, under order of General
Sawyer he will stay close to the
White House today, with the
possible exception of a. short
automobile ride. No engagements
have been made for next week.
and White House attaches state
none will be made until Mr..
Harding actually returns to work.
The Washington times., 1923-01-20
PISTOL IN AUTO
CONV|CTS
DRIVER
Jury Finds Weapon Under
Cushion Violation OF
Gun Toting Law.

Washington automobilists who
fancy themselves within the law
when they pack a gun" In their
machine convenient to their hand
are liable to a heavy sentence under
the concealed weapon statute, by
the terms of a ruling Of Judge NC
Mahon in the United States branch
Of Police Court.
Pomeroy Brown, colored, was ar
raigned on charges of carrying
concealed weapon and carrying a
weapon to use. Several prohibition
enforcement operatives testifled
they recently chased Brown in a
machine along Rhode Island avenue
northeast, believing him to be
convoy car" for bootleggers. De-
tective Bauer, Of the local police
declared that when run to the curo
Brown slipped a pistol from his
pocket under the seat of the car.
Judge Mcmahon charged the jury
that they should bring in verdict
Of guilty If they believed thaa the
defendant had the pistol hidden In
such q way that 1t was convenient
to get at, namely under the cushion,
and the jurymen so found. Brown
was acquitted on the charge OF car
rying q weapon to use.
Attorney James j. O'SheA repre-
senting Brown, noted a motion for
a new trial and sentence was sus'
pended for three days.
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SENTENCED
BEAU
FA|NTS
Mrs. Evelyn |. Wood. Con-
victed Of Drug Selling, Col
lapses in Court.

After being sentenced to three
years in the penitentiary, Mrs.
Evelyn L. Wood, young, pretty and
stylishly attired, screamed and fell
in a swoon in Criminal Court No. L,
today. She was carried out of the
court room by deputy marshals.
The woman had been convicted Of
selling drugs and was charged with
similar offense in December, 1919,
with her husband. She was
acquitted then and the husband was
sent to the penitentiary for five
years. It was stated that she did
not stop selling the drug, q large
package OF morphine directed to her
address having been intercepted by
revenue officers.
Robert Wright, colored, convicted
Of cruelty to three-year-old Jennie
Wright, will spend three years in
the penitentiary. The child was
found in Wright's house chained to
chair, and had been locked in the
room for nine hours. The child
was almost naked and had marks
on her body showing that severe
punishment had been inflicted on
her. The court stigmatized the
crime as most brutal and regretted
that the law did not provide
longer sentence.
Alice Stewart, colored, was sent
enced to serve two years in the
Ipenitentiary on a charge OF robbing
C. Delise Of $50 and put on proba-
ton. William j. Sloan, colored, will
spend one year In jail on charge
of stealing a ring from Robe Dimes.
Edward Green, was sentenced to
two years for joyriding. Dennis
Terrell, colored, was given a one.
year Jail sentence on the charge OF
stealing tires from the Union Sta
ton Auto Supply Company. AL.
phonso White, colored, will spend
one year in Jail for joyriding and
the probation of James Young,
colored, was revoked and he will
have to serve a two-year PEN
itentiary sentence.
The Washington times., 1923-01-20
TWO TONS
Of STOCK
WILL Be
TESTED
pr. Fowler Says Sweets Are
Unfit to Be
Eaten.

Health inspectors, under orders
OF DR.. William @. Fowler, District
health officer, entered & downtown
candy store yesterday and confiBs
Gated 4,44S pounds Of candy.
DIR. Fowler charges the candy
was rat and vermin infected.
Two trucks were employed tu
haul away the tons Of sweets.
Practically all the stores stock was.
taken.
"I have warned the owner severa
times that his store must be kept
in clean condition., said Dr.
Fowler, ''and each time the Warn
ing has done no good When our
inspectors visited the place yesteH*
day and reported to me, ordered
them to clean out the store CT
once.
the name and location Of the store
the case was taken to court.
..I intend to prosecute the ownef
under Federal laws, said Dr.
Fowler. HE win be given hear
ing and then VIII take him C.
court"
The store owner viii be charged
with keeping dirty store and alse
keeping on hand, with intent q
sell, candy unfit for human con-
sumption.
Health inspectors reported the
store was overrun with rats and
vermin. The candy was lying about
in boxes all over the floor.
DIR. +. M. Price, District chemist,
has several boxes Of the candy
which he viii test. The candy Is
The Washington times., 1923-01-20
FOREIGN WAR VETERANS
WILL ELECT DELEGATES

Delegates will be elected at the
next meeting for the constitutional
convention to be held here Feb
ruary IL, the National Capital Post,
No. 127, Veterans of Foreign Wars,
decided at a meeting in the G. A. r.
Hall last night.
The service men unanimously
passed a resolution asking Presi-
dent Harding to set aside one week,
to be known as "Anti-Narcotic
Week." in line with the campaign to
stamp out this evil being waged
by the Hearst newspapers all over
the United States.
Among the new members taken
in were Raymond F. Fiilion, Ed
ward d. Walker and Charles p.
Travers. ~
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z MORE flu
CASES; ONE
DEATH
Fifteen Sufferers in St. Johns
orphanage-PoIice and Fire
Victims Still Many.

Twenty-Five additional cases of
influenza and one death from la
grippe were reported to the District
Health Department today. This
brings the number of cases for the
month to ninety-six and the number
of deaths from la grippe to four.
Fifteen of the influenza cases
reported were from st. Johns
Orphanage, 1922 F street north
west.
DR.. William c. Fowler, District
Health Officer, said today that the
situation was improving.
"By the middle of next week /
think that the hundreds of grippe
cases in the city will be gone, p"
DR.. Fowler says. THE number of
cases reported as of influenza do
not indicate that a further increase
is In sight"
The sickness cases in the fire
and police departments continue
high, it was said today.