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Evening star., 1924-04-28
Mothers, Do This.
When the Children Cough. Rab
hfnsfernLe nn Thrnnfs and Chests

When the Children Cough, Rab
Musteroie on ThrOafs and Chests
No telling how soon the symptoms
may develop into Group, or worse. And
then's when you're glad you have Z
Jar of Musterole at hand to give
prompt relief. 1t does not blister.
AS first aid, MusteroIe is excellent
Thousands of mothers know it. You
should keep a jar ready for instant use,
II is the remedy for adults, too. Re-
lleVes sore throat, bronchitis, tonsiIIitis
Group, stiff neck, asthma, neuralgia
headache, congestion, pleurlsy, rheu :
natism, lumbago, pains and aches OF
back or joints, sprains, sore muscles
chilblains, frosted feet and colds OF the
chest Git may prevent pneumonia).
To Mothers: Musterole is also
made in m lder form for
babies and small children.
Ask for Children's Musterole.
35c and Csc Jars
and tubes
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Better than mustard plaster
Evening star., 1924-04-28

Mrs. William Leonard Thurber has
issued invitations for large bridge
tea Tuesday afternoon in honor of
Mrs. Jeter c. Pritchard.
Evening star., 1924-04-28

\ very pretty tea was given Satur-
day afternoon by Miss Virginia Her
ford and Miss Anna Herford at their
home on Massachusetts, avenue. They
were assisted by their grandmother,
Mrs Anna Byrd Howell. and their
sisting in the dining room were Mrs.
Phillip Kiemon, Mrs. Cyril Smith,
Mrs. Charles Allies, Mrs. William
Rodgers Mrs. Pardoe, Mrs. Granville
Hunt and Mrs. Morgan. The house
was a bower of spring flowers.
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aTt1 t%tS tTft Up Q|Ht o. aT tIt tI VII

An Interpretation of this brief note
shows that the band of Colonel Proc
tors Fourth Continental artillery ap-
parently took it upon itself to serenade
the commander in chief. This old rec
ord brings to light that Valley Forge,
with all that that name means of priya-
tons and suffering, was the setting
where was staged what was undoubt-
eddy the first recognition in any public
way Of Washington's birthday.
French First to Celebrate.
There is still another record of those
Revolutionary times which touches US
perhaps most poignantly today. To the
French is credit due for the first pub
lie celebration of Washington's BIRTH
day. 1t was in February, 1871, that
Comte de Rochambeau, with true
French spirit, declared a holiday for the
French troops who were then located
in Connecticut. Washington's BIRTH
day fell that year IN Sunday, so the
Frenche general specified that the fol-
lowing Monday be set aside for the
celebration of the birthday of his COM
mander, whom he SO highly esteemed. I
1t was another Of the many evf-
1ences of the close ties between France,
and America which existed in Revo-
lutionary times. 1t was on that mem
Orable occasion that was first laid the
foundation of our national holiday. |
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house of old family furniture, of old
memories.
1t was now ten minutes of eight.
She had just about time enough to
reach the meeting place by the hour.
She did not seas it was intended
that she should not-the large man
who had been waiting down and
across the street from her door for
the past half-hour, and who followed
her now at a distance as she went
through Forty-second street toward
the west.
Here" announced a clear voice she
recognized, and she turned and saw
the mar she was to meet at the IL
brary entrance.
Suppose we go up" he suggested,
into the art museum. 1t will be both
quiet and public there. We can talk
at any length, entirely undisturbed."
Every WELL" she answered him, and
was soon there listening to him, in
side the quiet, sleepy, half-deserted
art museum, as he told her his ex-
traordinary business.
"You are not contented now exact
ly, in your positions" he asked.
I'm not, no." said Mary Manches-
ter sharply.
"And how is it at your home-your
ties at home?" he asked her nova
rather peculiar question, she thought.
And as she told him, she had again
that feeling that she was telling him
a thing that he already knew.
"You might be willing" he suggest
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CHAPTER ~

Fifth avenue at night, at eight
thirty, even, is so different a place
from that other street, the golden street
of the women-the Fifth avenue of the
day. Vacant, resounding, its black
shining floor passed beneath the lonely
lights, between the palisades of dark.
ened buildings and shadowy streets on
either side, free and opened and unem-
barrassed to their hurrying t~axi-drive1
on his way toward the dark elm border
of Central park.
The ancient motor-vehicle passed the
golden horsemen at the southern gate,
went northward several streets that
Mary Manchester did not accurately
count, turned eastward and stopped.
The two figures, the girl and the cold,
courteous, finely dressed man, alighted
and went up the high outside steps to
the door. 1t was a place obvious
ly of much more than responsibility, of
wealth, security and refinement-the
office, in point of fact, of a very cele-
brated doctor.
Here is the young woman OF whom
1 spoke to you" said Jasper Haig,
when the two had passed together back
into the private office of the celebrated
doctor.
"Will you explain to her the condi-
ton of your patient?" the lawyer
asked him when they were seated.
The doctor did so, very simply, very
certainly-in the convincing way which
men of unusually clear intellect com
mand. His very presence and manner
carried conviction with them.
"It is a matter of hours now" he
said, concluding, with Mrs. Ruther-
ford. / was waiting with some anxi-
ETY. for you to come; and now, if you
are willing" he said, rising and inclin-
ing his distinguished head in the direc-
ton of the girl, we will be going there
at once"
1t was not to be a very difficult mat
ter after all for a man of Jasper
Haig's to present to her the
proof of the extraordinary story-his
theory of this case. He had had many
greater difficulties in establishing
other legal theories in cases he had
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DuIr up in the past-this because, nc
doubt, for one reason, his present
theory was so largely true.
There, as the yelled visitor came
into the high sick-room, lay the WON.
an of the photograph. A pronounced
shudder passed over the slender figure
with the yelled face. For there, but
for he grace of God, from every APP
pearance lay her own self, dying.
For no one, in fact, once seeing it,
could doubt the condition of the WON
an in that great bed. She was prac-
tically dead now. Thought had long
passed from those eyes, as the yelled
girl could have seen for herself, with
out any of the careful explanations
of the men with her.
For the woman in the great bed,
death had come already-to all prac-
tical purposes; for the woman at her
bedside health and happiness and life
and wealth were to be had for the
taking.
You see !" said Jasper Haig.
YES" said Mary Manchester, con-
senting, bowling her head to her great
new fortune.
And yet strangely enough-so inse-
cure is life for all of us-it was that
very night that Mary Manchester was
found by chance wandering dazed,
stricken by the heat, and taken up by
a singular good fortune by a kindly
and very famous physician, and
brought into the great hospital in his
own limousine. And the next day,
never regaining consciousness, she
was dead.
Mary Manchester was dead-a num-
Der, one of a million, a working-girl
whose very identity after death would
have been unknown but for a message
by mail-whose origin he did not seem
to know-to her half-drunken stepfa-
Their.
Mary Manchester was dead in Belle
vue You will find it in the records
there today. Adelaide Rutherford, the
great heiress. by a fortunate turn in
her illness, though still delicate, was
evidently rallying from her recent des-
perate illness. And the great Gorgam
Trust, unlike the despairing lover in
the ballad, had still something of it's
own to live for-aHd lived on.
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THE DATE OF
WASHINGTON'S
BIRTH

old records-what stories they can
~ tell. Sometimes full of romance,
sometimes startling in their disclosures.
1t would seem that Washington's
birthday, observed for 80 many years
on February %, was a celebration
founded securely on accurate historical
facts. Yet buried in the family Bible
of W~ashington's mother and written in
her own handwriting is IN entry which
makes one pause with surprise. There
she has clearly recorded the astounding
statement that George Washington
was born on February IL.
Certainly no one should know more
about this important event than Mrs.
Washington.
There it is in black and white in
her own handwriting:
George Washington, son to Au-
gustine and Mary, his wife, was
bore We 1.-the of February, 1892,
about 10 in the morning, and was
baptised the Sd of April following.
Mr.. Beverley Whiting and Capt.
Christopher Brooks, godfathers,
and Mrs. Mildred Gregory, god
mother.
Family Bibles, especially in those
times, were the last word in accuracy,
so this statement must be accepted as
indisputable.
By the latter part of the Sixteenth
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SYNOPSIS

CHAPTER Jasper Haig and Has
brouc Rutherford were searching for
a young girl who resembled
Adelaide Rutherford enough to serve
as her double. For Haig was manager
of the great sixty-million-dollar Cor
gan trust-peneht, created by old Dan
Eel Gorgam in his will for the benefit
of his daughter Adelaide during her
lifetime; Rutherford, the husband of
Adelaide, shared her great wealth.
And-Adelaide Rutherford was dying.
was already unconscious.
CHAPTER II-They found the young
woman-Mary Manchester, a work
weary but still beautiful young shop
girl who was thoroughly discouraged
with life. and arranged for a meeting
with her to present their proposition.
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century the calendar year had become
askew with the astronomical year. 1t
seemed important that a readjustment
be made and Pope Gregory XIII, after
careful consultation with the learned
men Of his time, decreed that In 1882
10 days should be dropped and ar
ranged what has since been called the
Gregorian calendar. The mandate Of
the pope was followed that year by
Spain, Portugal, Italy and France, but
England would have none of 1t and
continued OF the basis of the old cal
endar for another century and a half.
Difference of Eleven Days.
BY 1852 in England the discrepancy
had mounted III to II days, and the
disadvantages of two systems of dates
was causing great annoyance. 1t was
necessary to date letters going from
England or her colonies to France with
the days of both systems for instance,
February 11-22. So at last to avoid alb
this confusion England officially adopt
ed the Gregorian calendar and decreed
that II days be omitted in the year
1907 DeLWeeu NeplcluUeT D anu oepLeu~
Der IA.
So for Washington, his birthday i'm
1853 and all succeeding years fell ON
February %.
But there is another record which
throws light on what was probably the
first public recognition of his birthday.
This time the record is in his own
handwriting. While commander in.
chief of the Continental armies, with
all his other responsibilities and duties,.
Washington found time to keep exact
records of all his expenses. These ex-
pense accounts were several years ago
made available by their transferall
from the Treasury department to the
library of congress where they we're
placed with the great collection of
W~ashington's papers there.
In one of Washington's daily ex-
pense account books there is an entry,
under date of February %, 1778, which
Cash paid the 22nd Inst. to Proc
tors band by the G. O.......15s /.
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willing" she
cried. ITO change!
I'll do anything at
all that's decent"

ed next with that meaning smile, ito
have an entirely different lifeY'
"Willing!" she cried. ITO change!
I'll do anything at all that's decent"
He smiled again.
And then he made herewith proper
reservations, naturally-his extraor-
binary offer.
II am a lawyer, Miss Manchester"
he said with that cold, oblique, but
always most intelligent smile of his.
Zone chief business that we have is
building up in advance a theory Of a
case. Suppose" he went on to Mary
Manchester, 81 do this now, in our
conversation. 1t might be one way of
approaching u subject which would
be of advantage to both of us.
LET us suppose, them" he said
when she assented, "that on u
theory of a possible case, there are
two women who look exceedingly alike
so much so that the resemblance is
more than striking, is really deceiv-
ing. There are, Of course, such cases
in the world"
"The woman of the photograph !"
The girl could not help e%xclaiming.
"This is one of them, we will say"
the lawyer went on with his theory
not answering her. snow, let us as
sumo that one of these women is quite
poOr-in circumstances that make her
most unhappy, let US say"
"Say desperate, if you like!" retort-
ed Mary Manchester.
He smiled. Put it as you like" he
said deferentially. She could not help
noticing his uniform politeness. "Des-
perate, let us say!" And he went on
with his artful argument, framed with
that last art that %conceals art. but
the other woman, on the other hand,
has everything in the world to live for
ar immense wealth held for her
alone, centered on her. And yet in a
way she is more unhappy-much more
unfortunate than the one she so much
resembles"
"How?' asked the girl sharply.
Sickness" said the lawyer briefly.
"And now death !"
"She is dead?" asked Mary Man
chester, shrinking in~voluntarily.
Modifying" replied the man, hold
ing her eyes with his, now apparently
without resistance on her part.
"Well7" she asked, frightened IN
spite of herself and her surroundings.
Suppose" he said, sin the circum-
stances some one-a lawyer. let US
say-came to the girl who was so poor
and said: How would you like to live
your life as a woman immensely rich.
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cared for day and night by servants
in one of the most palatial houses il
American"
'How-how could she?" breathed
Mary Manchester from dry lips.
Easily enough" said the lawyer
smoothly, "by our theory of the case
She would only need to change her
name. 1t is no harder, properly ar
ranged" he said, regarding her, than
a change of dresses.
But there are other matters" he
went on 1uently. 81 will be frank !
Matters which the poorer woman
would have to face, which are not so
pleasant or so easy She would be-
come, by necessity, an entirely differ
ent woman. She must learn and act
an entirely new life. She would be
for a long time, months, possibly
years. a chronic invalid, secluded
from every one by ill health. But
that, perhaps" he said, and she felt
again the sense that in ONE way he
must know of her, might be borne
by the other poorer oma for a time
at least. She might ever welcome for
a time the chance to rest"
But what" she replied, turning at
the last moment from the question
she most desired to know, lis all this
for?'
He explained it to her-most plaus-
IDLY, the business reasons why the
Trust must not be dissolved-to the
disadvantage, among other things, of
thousands to whom it gave employment
and living, so long as it was intact. 1t
seemed convincing to her, very. as he
told 1.-THE more so, no doubt, because
her mind was preoccupied with another
questionable question that she did
not yet dare to ask.
what is it?' Jasper Haig inquired,
encouraging her. what else do you
wish to know-about this case we are
supposing?"
"The other woman" she ventured,
"the rich one"
yes"
anu sic SWClNGu dSluC dSdAh doh-
ing still another question. Il suppose,
of course, that she is not marriedT' she
said.
YES" said the lawyer gravely. "She
is married. But that would not be in
any way so difficult a matter to her
substitute as many Others"
mot difficult?"
NO." returned the lawyer slowly,
not when she has lived separated
from her husband-in a different
dwelling for years-by mutual agree
ment."
"The other-the other woman" she
asked at length, what would become
of herr"
"She will die" he said.
Die" cried Mary Manchester,
standing, her eyes dilated.
But the man soothed her with a
quiet motion of the hand. Don't be
alarmed he said. mo slightest
harm will be done her-or can be-"
What do you mean?" demanded the
girl.
II mean that she is dead now-prac-
tically dead already. She has passed
all possible harmon even sensation.
But the other woman" he added, "the
'eal Mary Manchester, let us call her,
would, if she entered into such an ar
angement as we suppose, naturally
lot wish to take all this from the state
nent of a lawyer. She must be shown
positively-so there could be no
possible mistake"
"She must be! !" the girl cried vehe-
"She will be-very simply" repeat !
d Jasper Haig; and he explained to !
ler at more length the other woman's
.ituation. ,
II must see all this,' said Mary Man
hester, getting up, with my own
yes" ]
Naturally" said Jasper Haig. And
out with her, he hailed a taxi.
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One of the unique relics of Amerf.
ian history still extant is the 16-blade
rocket knife which was presented to
George Washington by Capt. Samuel
De Wees in 1884. The many blades,
t will be noted, are arranged to fold
nto four slots placed at right angles
o each other in the handle. The knife
s now the property of George De Wees
# Chicago, Ill., a descendant of Cap
ain De Wees.
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sI '|
WASHINGToN's EXPENSE u

a Based on the expenses for
4 three months in 1889, Wash
: ington figured his years out
!. lay at about $4,000. When
Washington became president ,
= he was unwilling to receive
= any money from the public
treasury beyond his actual ex-
q penses. At the time his house
4 hold included a secretary, an
4 assistant secretary, three aids +.
. and eighteen servants, while ,
a livery of sixteen horses also \
. figured into the yearly cost. )
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NOT AN ASSET
Why do you
pay so much for
a watch when
you can get one
for a dollar?
Did you ever
try to pawn a
dollar watch?
The Washington times., 1924-12-25
FIRE SIREN TooTS
IN MYSTERIOUS WAY

BRoOKLAWN, N. J. DNc., 25
Firemen Of Westville and Brook.
lawn are worried. They want to
know whether spooks, short circuits
or OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES are sounding
fire alarms.
AT o'clock one night the fire
siren erected in a tower a short
time ago, sounded and the two fire
departments Of WestyiIle and two
from this town turned out, as did
most of the residents, but they
hunted in vain for the fire.
AT 2 O'Clock the next morning,
while Chief OF Police Sipple was
watching one of the boxes and
the crossing Waterman the other
the siren went off again. The
volunteer firemen left their beds
and again hunted in vain.
Twice in one night to be called
to Brooklawn was too much for
the Westville firemen, and they
protested, and to be sure that the
siren would not sound the third
time one box was disconnected
The firemen have been unable to
find the trouble, nor has Council
man Davis, so it must be a ghost
from the farm house, according to
Davis. A few weeks ago Westville
had similar trouble.
The Washington times., 1924-12-25
WAS KIND
To NATIONS
Continued from First Page.)

Continued from First Page.)
the establishment Of better condi-
tons during 1925.
In South America, Europe. North
American countries and Australia
the business situation is excellent.
Europe particularly has a new
aspect over last Christmas. Ger
many. through the operation Of the
Dawes plan, is on a rapid road to
recovery. Production in that coun.
try is increasing, she is reopening
a pre-war campaign for capture of
world markets, and it is the view of
officials that within another year
a new Germany will have appeared.
British Conditions Good.
British conditions are good, with
production heavy and a conserva-
tive government favorable to bust.
ness interests in the saddle. The
British budget has been balanced
and the pound. sterling is again
almost on a gold basis.
French and Italian industry is
booming, but France is still faced
with a heavy governmental deficit,
adversely affecting her currency
exchange and some lack of credit
owing to failure to settle her debts
with the United States and Great
Britain.
Reports show that in the United
States Christmas shopping proba.
bly, exceeded a billion dollars. a
record for all time. Bank deposits
are heavier than year ago, and
commercial and industrial condi.
tons said to be practically normal
Farm Conditions.
In the agricultural population
the. livestock growers of the South.
west are still In considerable trou
BILE, according to War Finance Cor
poration reports, but in other d.
visions of farming the situation IL
more nearly normal than on Christ
mas, 1924.
The Washington times., 1924-12-25
5CAR
At CURB IS
STOLEN
Harry WhaIen Hopes Some
Friend Has Just Bor-
roWed 1t.

After completing his Christmas
shopping, Harry Whalen, local at.
torney. returned to his home at 326
G street northeast last night to
trim his tree and parked his :-ar
out in front.
Two hours later it was gone.
1T was a newly repainted Elcar
touring car" Harry said today
after he had reported the facts to
Police Headquarters" and as thou.
sands of people know it as mine.
don't think it will be gone long"
~ had left it out in front about
two hours" he continued. land ]
don't think anyone would be 80
mean as TO steal my car on Christ
mas Eve, so am hoping that some
friend just borrowed it Tern.
porarily."
The Washington times., 1924-12-25
REPORT URGES
MORE SCHOOL
PHYSICIANS
Trade Board Committee Also
Recommends Additional
Dental Clinics

Increasing the number Of physi
clans, dentists and nurses in attend
ance on the public schools was rec.
commended by the committee on pub
lie health Of the Board of Trade In
it's annual report made public yester
day. Additional dental clinics also
should be provided for the schools
the report recommended.
The committee recommended that
the Board Of Trade urge the appro.
priation Of $4,000 for the establish
ment and maintenance of a mental
hygiene clinic at Ga1linger Hospital
Approval Of the Senate bill to regu
late the milk bottle traffic In the
district was recommended.
The committee renewed its recon-
mendations Of establishment of q
dispensary and clinic for the early
diagnosis and treatment of non-hos
pital cases of tuberculosis, and
urged that provision be made fol
the education and medical care Of
children under the age OF twelve
who have contracted this disease
The report was submitted by the
chairman, Doctor d. Percy HiciS
ling.