Evening star., 1923-04-24

the records show an average of
may be a cosmopolitan endurance
dance of Mother Earth, but there is
a better explanation.
An international scientist, who
studies the aura and vibrations as
they affect the human mind, states
that vibrations will end the divorce
evil-and so maybe that is what the
world is up to. This authority is no
less than Baron Eugene Fersen, who
has been lecturing at the City Club,
Washington. He is quite handsome,
but persists in remaining a bachelor.
1t Is the duty of some young and
charming Washingtonian Cleopatra to
catch him and shake him real hard.
Vary the shakes so as to be sure to
strike the right vibrations. Tune
him with the right rythm and he
will eat out of her hand. Like medi-
cine, all bachelors are "to be shaken
before taken" What they lack is vi
brations-or earthquakes.
X X X x
Financial experts are warning
business men against the temptation
Of overexpansion of enterprise. La
bor Is doing more than warn in the
building trades, for it is expanding
its own wages to such an extent that
hesitate in planning broad building
programs. Throughout the country
skilled mechanics are demanding
s1.25 and hour Bricklayers, in some
places, are getting $3.50 an hour, with
bonuses on the weekly pay above the
hourly rate as high as SO extra
The value of all existing buildings
keeps pace with the cost of repro
ducing similar buildings. SO the
higher the wages, the greater the
valuation of present homes.
x X x x
The index price Of food fell { cents
last week, but it's dull thud" was
hardly noticeable in the midst of the
efforts to pay the retail prices. What
had been costing s3.39 for a pound
each OF thirty-one articles of food
one really eats were the ones which
went up, while the things we don't
care for did all the falling. Pessi-
miStO
lamity. 1t was such a crisis when
the Daughters Of the American Revo-
luton hesitated to declare an emer-
gency and suspend their rules, so as
to reintroduce and pass resolutions
reiterating the society's backing of
the policy Of national preparedness
for war. Such a resolution had been
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referred to the committee on reSo-
lutions. The committee did not re-
port out the resolution. and the ex-
planation was made that the society
had gone on record last year as fa-
voring preparedness, and therefore
another such resolution this year
would be superfiuous.
The daily press commented on the
action as indicating a weakening of
the D. A. r. stand on preparedness,
especially as the resolution specific
ally indorsed the position of Secre-
tary of War Weeks, in combating the
protests of pacifist women.
On the last day of the convention
the rules were suspended and the
Endorsement was overwhelmingly
passed. If that had not happened.
the society would have lost prestige
immeasurably throughout the coun-
try, and not realized the extent of its
loss until the delegates had reached
their homes. Now it stands clear
and proudly the foremost patriotic
society in the country. 1t asks moth
ing for itself but the privilege of
patriotic service.
X X x y
There must have been mischief in
the mind of the young lady who met
the emergency Of Gen. Pershing' s
failure to keep his appointment to ad-
dress the D. A. r. congress, when she
was asked what she would play first
on her violin. Miss Ruth kemper re-
piled: Yankee Doodle in honor of
the distinguished, but absent soldier,
for whom I am pinch-hitting."
But Yankee Doodle came to town
and that is just what Yankee Pershing
did not do. Yankee Doodle called him
self "macaroni"-the equivalent of
IAN exquisite. or fop." In the pres