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where does it hurtY' or, "It's the Lord will," and bow her head in resignation. The result was that her mother got bedsores and her husband had to be taken to hospital because Mrs. Kemp insisted upon giving him everything he wanted to ent in spite of the doctors stern mandate that his food should be restricted.
 Bed-sores, like hot water bottle burns, are reflections upon the nurses care, whether she be trained or untrained. Time was when they were regarded respectfully, as part of the business of being sick in bed for many months. But those days are gone.
 There are a great many things for any nurse to do in a sick room before she can conscientiously find time to sit down and read a book.
 The task of caring for the sick does not stop when one dons a uniform and sits down beside . sickbed to hold weary hands and lave aching brows with cologne. The nurse who can find time to do such things (until her pa tient is well on the way to convales- cence) does not exist.
 When one is i'll there are always lit- tie things one longs for. Such as Jumps of ice to suck and water to drink, pill lows to be turned, doors to be opened and closed, window shades to be low cred or raised, fans moved gently, handkerchiefs found, bells muffled, creaking door-hinges oiled.
 These are routine things. Besides, there are most necessary things such
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Il, bed baths uni care of the patents mouth and teeth and hair and (this is where the bed sores come in) that most essential thing, care of the skin surface at the points of the body where there is pressure.
 In ca ring for the skin of sick nar- son, the whole body should be bathed once a day, if possible. Parts where pressure sores, might come, such as the lower part of the spine, the elbows, shoulders and heels, should be washed twice day with warm water and soap, dried. massaged gently with spirits of camphor or an alcoholic back wash (to harden the skin) and well dusted with talcum powder. If necessary this treat ment should be done every four hours. Thin people are more apt to have bed sores than fat ones. Changing the bodily position helps to avert bed sores.
 The nurse who takes care of her patient and saves them from countless unnecessary sufferings, rarely has time to read a book or to hold their hands. There ne too many othe things to do.
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the elevator at the eighth floor, where toys and radios are displayed, no ticed a place enclosed by a fence. in- side were about ten nah jongg tables, all occupied by women playing as II their lives depended on it. l asked my guide if people gave charity partles there. She laughed and said:
 "Oh, no, women come here every alt ernoon to play nah jongg. We have one or two teachers for those who want les- sons, but many just come here and make up games among themselves. It makes no difference whether they know each other or not; they just come here to play and don't care who they play with
 Hard to Take In
 must confess it was hard at first for me to take it in. It was gor- geous autumn day and I had been feel ling regretful at having to spend part ] of it indoors. Yet here I stood and looked at twenty-five or thirty women sitting in an electric-lighted, close room (that is, if you can call space right in front of the elevators in a store room). Hubbub and noise sur rounded them, but they were entirely absorbed in spending their afternoon playing a game with other women whom they had never seen before.
 This picture, at which I stood and Hooked for some minutes, proved to me knore conclusively than anything l have sver seen, the truth of what have long contended. It is not generally the woman with job or strong outside in- terest who neglects her home or her children. There are exceptions, of course, but most often she is capable of so organizing her life that she not only sees much of her children, but Enormously appreciates being with them and thinks of it more as recrea- , tion and joy than duty.
 Would Also Talk
 It is hard to understand how women can be so hard up for something to oc- cupy them and so willing to leave their lhomes on any pretext whatever that |they can go to a store and spend an Aentire afternoon playing a game with ,total strangers. They are certainly not lspending their time in their homes and with their children. I imagine that lthese are probably the very women who Twill talk at length against the so-called 'modern women" and the breaking up .pf the home that has been caused by Eheir interest ill outside things.
 At least, the women who are inter- ested in some real work or in politics zEial probably bring home something of kalue. l doubt that this is true of the
 omen who play nah jongg or bridge or
 pend their days in similar occupations. # Copyright, 1924, in U. $. and Can
 la by North American Newspaper AL
 moe. Rights reserved.)
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FLYING IS SAFE AND DULL"
gess Danger Than In A Motor Car, And The Thrill Is Lacking, Writer Says

9*oSS DdHSeF 1udH HI "A MOCOr Jar, Ana # Fhe Thrill Is Lacking, Writer Says
 question of safety in aviation,
 course, is relative, but it seems to
 at least that travelling three thous.
 l miles by air-in some sections-is
 .er than travelling three thousand les by motor. The mountains of est Virginia are bad; and there are Ills in Kentucky and Missouri which | fe not so good. But compared with De Texas border, where a forced land lg in most cases means the crash of be machine, if not death to the pilot, be Middle West is about the safest lying country in the world.
 Then there is the parachute. For a ag time the army air service was cold
 the parachute. It is heavy and awk- Rrd. Straps buckle over your shoul- Is and around your legs, and the par
 ute itself is packed away in a flat
 that you sit on, without comfort.
 makes a hard seat and it looks about
 clumsy as it feels. Its clumsiness
 the objection raised against it by service officers whose real reason
 not liking to wear it, in all prob 'sility, was the feeling that it was an noble and womanish precaution, in Q hsiness where a man had been ready
 take chances if he meant to stay
 the business at all.
 So a general order had to be issued hat no man should go up in army bips either as a pilot or as passenger,
 .out having a parachute strapped on
 |. As time passed, and men who
 uld, without the parachute, have bpped to quick death floated gently
 wn to the ground from wrecked or lrning planes, the feeling of the air ervice began to change.
 All in all, cross country flying, over flat country, at least-is pretty safe, sufer than cross-country motoring where the road hogs and drunken dri- vers and recurrent city traffic bring repeated peril. It is safer and duller-for you can't get out of the car to walk around and stretch your legs and go up to the farmhouse to try to buy some watermelons and, while the birds eye view has some quite un- equaled merits, it lacks some of the charm of seeing scenery close at hand
 And of course in a smooth flying airplane you have hardly any feeling of motion, and none at all of speed You get more sensation of speed behind a horse at twenty miles an hour than in an airplane at one hundred and twenty.
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the outside of the bottom of his glass. This made him eager to empty it so he could enjoy the surprise.
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Walking On Stilts
Rv ANNE CAMPBELL

I like to walk on stilts; it is such fun TO stand up there 50 JaII, cioo0 So sns We'll, nearly to the tree tops, anyways I like to walk on stilts and upward gaze like to walk on stilts and look below On all the other. girls and boys know But Gee, when I am looking down ike
 that, There's just the time I'm sure to fall
 down flat! ilsSf
 I like to walk on stilts! My ma one
 day -. When she had seen mo tumble down
 that way,
 Sez fallin' down is one O natures jokes One allus gifts when lookin' down on
 folks! s>
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BIT OF ECONOMY

One woman who failed to get sat factory rubber crib sheet for the money he desired to pay decided to experiment protective sheeting. She purchased lpiece of unbleached cloth the required Ee and one quart of alum oil. She tread the oil over the sides of the cloth ! d hung it out to dry. Then, perfectly Y. she gave it another coat of the oil, N when thoroughly dry the sheet was
 y for use. The cost was about half
 she formerly paid for a rubber
 and it lasted more than twice as
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HOME NURSING
Taking Care Of The Sick NHE VILLAGE slattern had illness

hlH 1Al<hoA cAotsSAA @-eN ~~>--S'.'
 i'll her family ut fast. Fer Jyea years Es
 she had ambled on amiably, while other families experienced all the ills the flesh is heir to. Her children, none too clean, had escaped measles, humps, and chicken-pox. Her husband was not even the occasional victim of "rheumatics," while she herself in. dulged in nothing-not even nerves" ard sinking spells"
 But illness came.
 And it did not come alone.
 Her aged mother broke her hip, her husband had typhoid fever. And Mrs. Kemp, the slattern, announced grimly that she knew good deal about "sick nursing and that she would just take care of them herself.
 It was a heroic task and in view of the fact that her knowledge of "sick nursing" was founded on hearsay, poor Mrs. Kemp had rather bad time of it. And her patients suffered more than she did
 Mrs. Kemp's idea of caring for the sick was to sit beside patient and read book, and whenever he moaned to hold his hand and say, "Poor dear, tho nutcido of tho bottom of hiq plass
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HENRY's BOND FIXED

Official bond for County Treasurer NJ. V. Henry for 1925 was lived at $500, ,00O by the board of revenue Fri day. The bond, which is the same as in 1924, is given by surety company and must be approved by the probate judge. At the board meeting. MT. Henry stated that he will not handle as large an amount of money next year, but suggested that his bond be ixed at the same figure.
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If you have not the time to shell peanuts buy those ready for use. Pu, in a colander and rinse until salt nas disappeared. Spread on a clean towe' to absorb the water, then spread them on shallow dishes to get perfectly dry before using.
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ELIZABETH AYERS ALLEN

Elizabeth Akers Allen was borth in Strong, Me, October 9, 1882. She was born I Chase, but became the wife of Paul Akers, a prominent sculptor, who X 1861, and several years later she
 aarried to E. H. Allen, New York
 She began to write verse at the # fifteen. Her masterpiece, Rock Sleep, Mother" was written in Two lines from this famous poem Backward, turn backward, O
 time, in your flight
 Make me a child again just
 for tonight"
 When she wrote this the then Mrs. rs was living in Portland, Me, where V some years she was literary editor ,fGhe Portland Advertiser.
 she went to Rome in 1860 with her husband, and it was from the Eternal Iity that she mailed the MSS. of the poem to a Philadelphia publication, llhich first gave it to the world.
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honest h a t the vote is making women 'too inde- pendent and is distracting t h e m from their home du- ties. I wish that the men who make t h e S e complaints could h a ve seen what I saw the oth- CT day in one of the largest depart ment stores of the > country.
 As I stepped off
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One Mother Says:
 When my two-year-old baby began to grow indifferent toward the milk his doctor said he should have, I pasted a bright-colored picture of flower or bird, or other interesting object, on
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If when baking the fruit cake you find the candied or dried fruit too hard, just steam it for, 2 few minutes peforc using it.
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Women Voters Preferred To
 Mah Jong
By JULIA HOYT

WYE STILL hear some men com w plaining that business and poli-
 tics are taking women from their
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BILLIARDS IN BEDROOM.
Temperament PIays Part
9chaafar'A Game.

A few weeks before Jake Schaefer,
former champion of the world ut 1872
ballkline billiards, came east last win
ter to play Willie Hoppe IN q eElal-
lenge match in which he hoped to re-
gain his lost title, the Hotel PennsyI-
vania received the following tele-
gram:
i, "Los Angeles, Cal.
: Hotel Pennsylvania. N. Y
= WIN arrive IN about two weeks
begin practice for championship
Il &eh. Hold rooms. Have billiard
tab set up in bedroom.
JAKE SCHAEFER."
TIL Hotel called IN an executive Of
q FAM 3 firm Of Billiard table manu-
factur6 to help cater to the needs
Of the Experimental former cham
Accor ng to this gentleman, only
one Othe person has made q similar
request his forty years Of expert
enee witt he billiard game. She was
another Sng-bird." none other than
Adelina tti. the famous singer.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-17
THE ETERNAL
W. s. KIimeF's Horse Completes
Five and One. Halt Raelnp Years.

W. s. KIImer's Horse Completes
Five and one.HaIS Racing Years.
There is 4 wonder horse cropping
up in racing circles every year. He
runs season. or two seasons and an
other horse surpasses him and be-
comes the horse Of the century. What
happens to the former star? Is It a
total eclipse! In most cases yes, but
not so with Willis Sharpe Kilmer's
Exterminator.
At seven years, after having won
four Saratoga Cups. one Kentucky
Derby, three Pimlico Cups, one La
tonia Cup, three Toronto Autumn
Cups, two autumn Gold Cups and one
independence handicap and earned
$233.OOO for his owner. Exterminator
still gallops on to victory, side by side
with two and three-year-olds whose
Sires Exterminator ran neck and neck
with at the beginning OF his career
After beating Billy Kelly at Havrc
de Grace last April, Exterminator
galloped his mile and = quarter il
2s04 rs in the Kentucky handicap al
Churchill Downs. = remarkable per.
Torrance. Next. he defeated Grey
lag IN a renewal OF the Brooklyn
handicap.
Although Firebrand defeated him
IN Ohe Independence handicap later !.
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johnson has topped the 800 mark
nine times only.
Matty's highest total of strike
outs was 259 in 1908. Twice John
son has passed the 300 mark, 31S
in 1910 and 303 in 1912.
johnson the Greater.
II AIRING the winning per-
X centage, which would APP
pear to be explained by the
comparative merits of the New
York and Washington clubs, john
son has topped Mathewson in
almost every way.
, Matty's good fortune placed him
with q strong ball club. He lacked
Johnson's great strength. just as
he lacked JOhnson's wonderful
speed. We were talking Of Matty
and johnson with Jack. CHESHIRE,
himself q hero Of other days, and
what Jack said goes for us, too.
IF JOHNSON and Mathewson had
been in the same league" said
CHESHIRE, johnson would have had
it all over Matty. If they had
been on the same team when in
their prime, johnson would have
smothered Matty. There'd have
been nothing to it."
This spring Johnson is easily
himself, though entering upon his
eighteenth campaign. His per-
Torrance against the Mackmen on
Tuesday should satisfy everybody
that Bucky Harris has at least
one winning pitcher. johnson is
in good health and his training
has been faithful to an extreme
The Griffmen are assured, with
him in shape, of having a chance
to win any game he starts.
There is only one johnson. We
doubt if there has ever been his
equal.
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EXTERM|NATOR
ENTERED IN
EDGEWOOD
Americas Greatest Celding
and Popular Thoroughbred
in Comeback Attempt.
By LEONARD w. COLLINS.


HAvRE DE GRACE, Nd. April
17.-Exterminator, Americas great.
est gelding and second only to
Harry F. Sinclair's Zev IN money
winnings, viii make his first ap.
pearance in a year on an Eastern
track when he goes to the barrier
in the EdgewoOd purse, the pro.
grammed feature at Havre de Grace.
this afternoon.
Handicapped Joseph McLennan
Of the Hartford association, has been
very kind to Old Bones. He will
carry but the feather Of LOT pounds,
the lightest impost he has shout.
dered in an event worth while for
years.
But four others have been named
to contest the Edgewood with the
popular old gelding. Setting Sun,
Golden Sphere, Soggarth Aroon, and
Fatrway are the quartet which will
attempt to halt Old Sims onward
march toward Zev's money winning
record.
In the eight years Exterminator
has been thrilling American turf
AOIlOWOES Will KllS COuQU0BIB ne uAS
won a grand total Of forty-eight
races in ninety-three starts. He has
finished second seventeen times
third fourteen. and unplaced four.
teen.
Just year ago Old Bones went
wrong here after race in which
he was beaten nose by Harry
Payne Whitney's Chickvale. Al
that the Kilmer standard bearer
was wearing Chickvale down in the
stretch run and would have won
in another jump.
His journey to Tia Juana, where
Henry Mcdaniel pointed him for the
$4,000 Coffroth Handicap, and his
failure in the Western Stake, are
Of too recent occurrence to have
been forgotten.
Mcdaniel has him back at Havre
de Grace, the scene of many Of his
triumphs, and it's dollars to dough
nuts that when Old Slim looks
Starter Milton in the eye this after
noon he will have been made the
public choice in the iron men.
Man o. War and other great
thoroughbreds raced themselves into
the esteem Of race followers, but il
is extremely doubtful whether any
thoroughbred has endeared himself
in the hearts OF American turf
devotees as has courageous OLD
Exterminator.
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Ping Bodie Replaces
Crack Batsman at
Des Moines

DIES MONIES, Ia, April IT,
Frank (Ping) Bodie, former
White Sox and Yankee out
fielder, has been purchased by
the Des Moines Western League
club from the Vernon Pacific
Coast League management, Lee
Keyser, local club president, an
nounced. He will be used to re-
place Joe Koran, Des Moines
rightfielder, who led the West
ern League in batting last
year and was sold to the Read
ing international club.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-17
High Prices in Paris
viii Not Dampen
Yank Spirit

The boosting Of prices in
Paris with the approach of the
Olympic games has a familiar
ring. Sport followers the world
over have always received at
tention Of this sort. 1t is prob
ably because sportsmen are SO
good natured that the prices
soar upward whenever important
sporting events are held. The
idea is not original with France
and the Americans who 60 over
for the games should feel very
much at home when entirely
surrounded by high prices.
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O'DONNELLS WILL PLAY
WHITE HAVEN SUNDAY

The O'Donnell's Drug Store team
will meet the White Ravens Sun.
day in game on the Union Square
plaza at 3 p. n, Slim Cooke, former
Marine pitcher, and Bob Heenan
probably will be the Druggists bat.
terry. All players are to report 10
Manager Hauey at O'Donnell's, Ninth
and F streets northwest, Sunday, az
2 p. m.
The Druggists outslugged the
Cardinals, to win by 16 to Is, in their
opening game. They are members
of the Potomac League.
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thought that there must be q way
out, and set myself to find It.
Experience had been gradually
teaching me that the same grip
with slight notifications could be
used for all clubs, likewise the
same stance, and the same swing.
I continued my experiments, and
very soon 1 didn't care whether /
was playing a shot of $50, or one
Of twenty-five yards--I used the
same grip, the same stance ana the
same general idea of swing, short
ening and lengthening according to
the distance that wanted to go.
The change seemed very simple,
and 1 kept right at it. Every time
that I made stroke carefully /
was helping every shot had to
play.
Copyright, John +. DiIIo Coz
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CLANCY IS DISQUALIFIED
AGAIN FOR FOULING FOE

BALTIMORE, April ia ter.
rifle left jab below the belt resulted
in another disqualification for
George (Knockout) CLANCY in the
second round Of his bout here last
night with Redcap Wilson, of New
York.
After lively exchange in
Chaney's corner. Wilson dropped to
the floor writing in agony. Referee
Miller promptly disqualified CLANCY,
stating that the Baltimore battler
had foilled Wilson.
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be good, or bad, but It is individual.
1t is his own. have reached my
method through many trials and
tribulations, and its adoption has
saved my nerves. and physical
strength through many q tourna.
ment ] learned my game in the
hard way-picking up where ]
could, and discarding whenever ]
discovered that was on the wrong
track. | was compelled to pay the
price OF many months and years
Of fruitless practice. My first golf
swing for my longest distance was
no longer than a quarter stroke.
For some reason could not get
the club any farther back, and in
those days I played very wide
open stance.
My grip differed with almost
every kind Of stroke; my stance
differed; my swing differed, i'm
fact / was kept constantly on the
watch in order to follow the va
riOus rules with which I had
weighted down my game. IL re-
quired the hardest kind Of prac.
tice to keep all the details I'm
working Or(ler-practice that only
SchOOlbOy could give.
1t was easy to see that if / ex.
pected to continue to play golf ]
would have to solve the question
Of time-economy. / could not ex
pect to keep all my grips, stances
and swings in order without ex.
hausting my strength and giving q
greater amount of time than pos.
sessed. ! saw clearly the reason
why so many golfers lose their
game when they leave school. ]
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Reason of It All.


EREQUENTLY is it said that
n Matty conserved his
strength, letting the other
fellow hit and tightening up only
when he had to-" Yes, he did all
that, saving his strength and
using his head, yet in spite Of
that he lasted but thirteen years
in the big show when backed by
consistent pennant-winner or,
at least, a first division ball club.
Johnson practically never was
able to conserve his strength"
He has had to use all his stuff
in order to keep the other fellow
from scoring, knowing he had
small chance Of seeing his sup
porting cast score more than q
couple Of runs.
Matty won at least thirty vic
tories in four different seasons.
In but one season, his last, did he
fail to pitch at least 300 innings.
That is a remarkable record.
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A W RLWIND At ea.
Remark, . Record Of wemaa
Golfer;

Mrs. q eb F. Fox OF the Hunting
don Vallk Country Club of Philadel-
phia has lever failed to qualify IN q
single 4 )rpionship in which she has
taken ps since 1899.
This nost remarkable IN the sS-
mails Of Il. considering the fact that
Mrs. F& BIS sixty-three years old. and
at pres(k counting. has ten GVaad-
chiTdre6
Last Gar IN the February touEmA-
ment elleair, Fla, Mira Fox took
the ma die of Miss GIenna Colle4t
the pi National Champion. who
had di$t 4uished herself at that time
by taIS the medal in the National
Chang hship and defeating Miss
Cecil itch, the Bxitish Champion, in
a toIN ament ateSf Philadelphia. Just
to pss tI mis- was not = Auke.
Mrs, g4 repeated the perform
3cS Ir again this past winter
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Cubs Lose Elliott.

The Chicago Cubs have lost the
services of Ace Elliott, their first
sacker. He broke two bones In his
ankle during an exhibition game
and may not be able to play for
two months or 80.
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fore. I seize this
occasion to put
my theory into
practice, and to
place on rec.
ord in this. a
series of newly
written articles,
using the means
that will carry
far t h est, my
method Of play.
Every golfer
who plays regu-
larry has an in
dividual way of
playinR--it may