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Evening star., 1924-10-26

Once every day cleansing with
Ponds Cold Cream. 1t gets down into the
pores, and brings up their days collection of
dust and dirt, rouge, powder and excess oil
Apply the cream generously spreading it
over the face and neck; let it stay on few
moments With soft cloth take off all the
cream and dirt. And now apply the cream
anew and wipeit off once more. Your pinky
clean skin heaves sigh ofrefreshed delight!
Next lovely finish and protection
with Ponds Vanishing Cream. Smooth
on a little of this greaseless cream, just the
amount the skin will absorb. See what a
velvet surface it gives. 1t protects your skin
perfectly from its enemies, winter and
rough weather." too, so you should always
use it just before powdering when you're
about to 60 out And how you. powder does
cling! You never could make it 60 on so
evenly before, nor Gnger half so long
Learn from the lovely society women who
keep their skin perpetually fresh and youth
full Buy Ponds Two Creams today. Your
complexion, responding Immediately to
their deft services, will show newloveliness
in spite of days brimful. The Ponds Extract
Company, 13l Hudson ST., New York.
Evening star., 1924-04-20
Languadges (to use on Guides. Mule.
& Camils)

Languadges (to use on Guides. Mules
& Camils).
suit Unwashable Underware,
which will be useful in China where
laundries are app. to be poison.
l portable pocket adding machine
which will help me cheat the natives
of foreign lands while making change
in a form languadge.
Mr.. Editor. / were thankful to my
friends for telling me about those
useful Supplies. They look very nice,
all stacked up in my floating bedroom
till last night. Then 1 did not need
them very muchly. The High c got
so rude that it spank Hon. Resolute
with a billow while I was asleeping.
Crashes. When l awoke from my
nightmare that seasick remedy had
fell from shelf & stroked me in my
headache where it did not cure me.
Also that useful Book, How to Swear
in All Languadges come down Hit
my panied stunnick so could only
swear in %. While in bed Cousin
Nogi thought those Skyrockets were
some kind of Egyptian cigar, so he
commence smoke one which almost
pull him out of Hon. Portfolio by his
teeth. G. so onwards.
Evening star., 1924-04-20

Mr.. Togo, you wish to play the
Pool?"
"Stroking. splashing, doving, adore
them in water" This from me.
so very well! he say, 1T will cost
you SIS for one plunge"
This seem a kind of high bath, Mr..
Editor, but in travel we must be
recklus. Therefore I pay IS and await
for water to turn on. For Is hrs
set there. Nothing to do. At lastly
one enlarged Cruiser from Cleveland
come booling through making finan-
cial noises with big cigar.
why so happily. Mr.. Sir7" I mar
rate peevly.
st have just won the Pool" he
maoevrc.
well So" I jeruse, now that you
got it what will you do for bath -
Therefore I go back to my bedroom
on 3rd floor and am seasick again.
Hoping you are the same
Yours truly
Hashimura Togo.
P. S.-I will write soonly, IL ever.
from MADEIRA where the Gov
ernment make it illegal for
people to stay there without
getting drunk. Think that.
(Copyright, S9s4l
Evening star., 1924-04-20
Teaching Blind Boys.

| RLIND boys as well as any Others
| - have their schools. and the aim
Of the teachers in the blind schools
is to render the blind 10y as much
| like other boys as possible. Blind
| lads are expected to dS the same
| work, to pass tho same examinations.
| to submit to the same discipline and
| to enjoy the same recreations as
bboys who have two good eyes.
| School routine at an institution for
| the blind differs but little from that
| which other boys know. Their day
| begins with tho half hour in the
| gymnasium, where the boys are quite
| at home on the parallel and hori-
zontal bars, the rings and the rope
Exercise for which running start
Is required is, however, usually d
little beyond them
| In the classroom the work done by
| tho blind boy reaches q. high stand
| ard Books, whether classics, mathe-
| matics or music, arc in Braille type
and, therefore, very awkward 10
| handle. And to read a story through
| some times means the handling of
| dozen or moro clumsy books with
raised type
| All writing is done upon little
wooden frames filled with d bras
| guide, either with style or a small
seven-keyed machine Blind boys can
| write as fast as can the average boy
with perfect sight, and their writing
Is always plain TypewritinG ma
chimes are much used. Mathematical
problems are worked out with
mechanism on a zinc board that car
be made to represent sixteen signs
and the use of spurred oompasses
and rulers for geometrical drawtrg z
is Of course, slower than the ordj :
nary process on paper In the natural
sciences the blind boy finds himself
at a decided loss Hence classics
theology, law. music, modern Ian
guages and history hold the great
est attraction for him.
When it comes to amusementS there
is a wide choice OF games. It is pos
sible to play ball games by means of
balls containing bells Other games
are better for him, however. At foot
ball, for instance, he cannot trust
himself to run at full speed unless
he can hear his boundaries" and
grass does not give him sufficient
echo to locate his position. There
are chess. checkers and similar
games, while older boys get lot OF
fun out of rousing debates, lectures
and concerts.
Evening star., 1924-04-20
~INCOME OUR STEWARD"

I are fearful that this Siberian In
sex Powder will never reach any ORR
entail bugs, because Cousin Nogi drunk
it this am, thinking it was coco.
Otherwisely. voyage going smooth.
On B deck there are All passengers
laying out in rows. all covered with
Scottish tabIecloths while learning
how to travel Some young gentle
men promenade rapidly all day, wear
ing golfing pants. When / ask one
Yale person why he wear such pants
on Ocean he report, 1--WE are now on
the Golf Stream" / could not assimi-
late those words he spoke it
TIP on the roof of the Resolute
- there are a open-air Swimming
Pool. Very delicious exercise. IL you
know how to do so. But not sure l
unstand that sport when at sea
Yestdy pm. go up there, hoping to
show my skillfuI strokes. But what
happen? Hon. Pool all empty from
water.
"Why are there no wetness in that
splandid cantainer?" require of Hon.
Seward who was theer.
TOO rough" he commit with voice.
Pretty soonly long come another
Steward who ask chivalry.
Evening star., 1924-04-20

THO the editor: Since the news
licked out that l had been to
Washington city the mails
has been flooded with a couple
Of letters wanting to know did l meet
the President Yes friends we both
had that honor and the meeting took
place in the executive offces On one
Of the days when he receives what
ever newspapermen is able to be UP
by pm.
The doors is throwed open at
given signal and all the correspond
ents rushes in and stands around
his desk, and he stands UP and reads
of a few replies to queries that has
been wrote in to him, and vile he is
reading any correspondent has got
tho privilege Of interrupting him to
ask extra questions provide 1t they
don't care if they get a answer. The
day I was there he might just as
well OF said nah jongg as soon as we
had him surrounded.
When meeting was over Mr.. Wat
kins of Indianapolis paper says
for me to lag behind like usual and
he made the introductions and we
shook hands, and the President says
/ have heard your name a good many
times and l wanted to say horse a
piece but 1 just give him one of my
smiles and says I had heard of him
too, and he says what was / doing
in Washington and I says I had came
there hoping to testify but nobody
would call on me so l had called on
him. He laughed till you could OF
heard a pin drop. So then ! left be-
fore he had a chance to ask me to
supper, as 1 all ready was dated up.
Tho date was with a stage actress
WHO I had kind OF Dragged around
that knowed her and promised some
of the Washington folks that 1 would
introduce her to them, and the ar
rangement was that they would wait
for me down the restaurant and I
would bring her there. Will state at
this point that the lady in question
was starring in a music show which
seems to be getting kind of popular.
Well anyways l could not find her
and the folks who was waiting for us
got kind OF hysterical.
Tho taxi drivers was telling me
about a congressman who they had
all been trying to get but couldn't
seem to do no more than graze him
till finely they hired a policeman to
Evening star., 1924-04-20
Turks Rulers of Own Country, Have Advanced Rapidly

When / frst saw Abdul-HAmid he
was going across Stamboul to kiss
the mantle q Mohammed, and 1t
seemed to me then that / could see
the fright in his black bearded. SAL
low, anaemic face. He was, you
know. practically the successor Of
Abdul-Aziz, whose son, Abdul -Medjid
Efendi. was deposed and sent into
exile the other day. Murad came
in between, but he reigned only three
months.
AbduI-Aziz. the uncle Of Abdul
Hamid and the father of Abdul
Medjid Effendi, was a most remark
able character, and it was his ex-
travagance and -misgovernment which
finally forced him from the throne
and prepared the way for the ma
tional spirit which permeates the
Turkey of today. Before he was de-
posed he had promised to give Turkey
a new constitution, and when Abdul
Hamid came in he renewed that prom
ise and actually signed a constitution
on December 23, 1896. But 1t was
not long before Abdul-Hamid was
following in the footsteps of Abdul
Aziz He went back on his promise.
and the result was his deposition in
1909. My second visit to Turkey was
at the time he was torn from his
throne. I then saw the fighting,
watched the sultan taken from his
palace, and photographed the long
procession OF cabs, hundreds in num-
ber, which carried his harem across
Constantinople. The ladies wore
black gowns and thin white veils.
and each OF their carriages was
guarded by . eunuch whose jet-black
face shone out under his high red fez
Evening star., 1924-04-20

everything that was said up to or 3
am ! figured that the Washington
newspaper men being right there on
the grounds, why they would have a
better inside in the situation, but
they was very few names ] didn't
hear favorably mentioned for the
presidents chair, speaking of which
they will half to make 1t a couch or
can count me out
Spent one pleasant PM. out to the
Central High School where the ath-
letic director is Doc White that used
to pitch and sing baritone for the
White Sox. Docs high school base
ball team was having their work out
and will state that it is good thing
for Philadelphia that they amt in the
National League.
Well, the last day I was in the old
Evening star., 1924-04-20

Abdu1-Hamid's whole life was one
Of conspiracy and treachery and of
playing with the great powers Of
his throne. He found the Turkish
empire bankrupt and added to its
debt. To get to the throne he prom
ised to grant the constitution and
then went back on his word During
the latter part Of his reign the senti-
ment against him grew stronger and
stronger. The Young Turks formed
secret societies in all parts OF the
empire. They established headquar-
ters in Paris and sent out propa-
ganda They smuggled into Turkey
tons Of literature published in Arabic,
and rs . result raised 4 revolution
ary army to support their demand
that Abdul-Hamid give them a con-
stitution at once. Tho sultan was
ready to accede to their demands, but
before he did 50 tho Young Turks
had marched upon Constantinople,
seized the city.
The occupation was we'll managed.
with but little bloodshed- The Young
Turks had about 10000 troops. and
their armies surrounded CONSTANT
nopIe. While out riding the day be-
fore to the sweet waters of Europe
I found soldiers at all tho crossroads.
and at several places I was turned
back. The Young Turks had bribed
some Of the common soldiers OF the
sultan, many Of whom came from
Bulgaria, to kill their ofncerx. and
800 were murdered that night The
rebels then came in and took posses
sion Of tho barracks and disarmed
the soldiers, most Of whom were
asleep. At the same time they sta
toned their men in every part OF tho
city to keep order. The whole was
done SO quietly that the day after
the occupation this city of a million
showed as little disorder as New
England village on Sunday. The only
shooting that occurred was in the
early morning. I was stopping at
the Pera Palace Hotel, and was awak-
ened at o'clock by q noise that
sounded az il the whole city was en-
gagged in corn-popping. 1t was the
Calling guns hrins away within q
half mile Of my hotel and during
that firing ons ban went through the
Evening star., 1924-04-20

A BDUL-AzIZ was one Of the great
"A est spendthrifts who ever sat on
the Turkish throne. His reign was
a long series of splendid extrava-
gances, founded on money borrowed
from England and France. He built
palace after palace, for it had been
prophesied that he would live as long
as he kept up his building. He i'm
ported lions and tigers from Africa,
filled his palaces with parrots. and
had pianos strapped on mems backs
and played there.
He liked women SO we'll that his
harem is said to have had as many
women as that of King Solomon, who.
IS / remember it, had 1000. namely,
800 wives and 700 conoubines- Among
others, Abdul fell in love with the
Empress Eugene. and when she Wis
tied him at Constinople he put up a
palace for her entertainment on the
Asiatic side Of the Bosporus. where
she lived during the few days she
was here. At one time Abdul-Axiz
went to Europe, and upon his return
commented upon the ugliness OF the
European ladies, saying that all he
saw were hideous, with the exception
Of Eugene and the Empress Of Aus
tria- He said a kings wife should be
the most beautiful woman, in the
country, but as a rule the European
monarchs selected the. ugliest. He
said he would try to find a woman as
beautiful as Eugene, and he thought
he had done so when he took into
his harem a Circassian slave girl,
named Mihri, who remained his ia
vorite wife until the day Of his death.
According to the old custom, the
sultan was given q new wife, q beau
tiful slave girl, at the close Of Hama
dan, or the Mohammedan Lent He
received her on Easter. day, or Bal
ram. The girl was selected by the
velideh sultana, the mother of the
sultan, from a large number. and was
kept in training for her new position
for several months. When the avail
able girls were looked over the hf-
teen most beautiful were picked out
and taken into the palace. Here they
were fed. groomed ana put through
their paces, to see who should win
in the race. Shortly before Bairam
the lucky girl was picked out, and
she became the bride Of the sultan
Evening star., 1924-04-20
Stimulating a Glacier.

l. rate glaciers has been established
by observations made in Alaska The
quakes have the effect Of shaking
down loose snow from the slopes
above the glaciers source, thereby
swelling the snowfeld in which 1t
rises. This increase in bulk moves
slowly down through the mass of the
glacier-slowly. because of the Wis
costly Of ice-and, reaching the foot
pushes 1t forward
Evening star., 1924-04-20

tell him about the safety zones in
the middle of the street, and he
stepped into one of them one night
and they kept him there till he
starved to death. Personly I was too
smart to walk anywhere in Wash
ington and all l got was strained
ligaments from trying to work the
foot brake from the back seat
Another chance a pedestrian takes
is on acct of the bootleggers being
jealous OF each other. and every time
one of them sees another, which you
can't hardly help. why they's a mu-
tual shooting ARRAY. But the boys
has generally always been trying
their own stuff and being IL blind
they are just as libel to hit you or /.
kind of expected that rybody
in town would be speaking in code
but was able to understand practally
Evening star., 1924-04-20

transom above the front door of the
hostelry. Tho lighting was all over
before the sun rose. and when I went
out on the streets the city was under
martial law, but the soldiers were
polite and one could walk anywhere
without trouble The revolution was
practically bloodless. and that after
noon I was able to drive past the
YiIdiz Palace, where the sultan was
still imprisoned
have never published a story of
those days, and there are some Incl
dents which even now will bear tell
ing. One happened on Friday. the
day before tho dethronement. when
Abdul Hamid went to worship at the
mosque. / had gone with our minis
ter to watch the celebration, and was
in the kiosk. or pavilion, given over
to the diplomats for this purpose. 1t
IL just opposite the Yildiz Mosque,
ride under its windows, to the place
where he gets down from his car
rage and walks in to pray.
The event was a spectacular one
The roadway had been covered with
six inches OF sand. SO that the royal
bones might not be shaken, and when
I arrived At the palace 1t was lined
on both sides by regiments OF SOL
diers. There were at least 10000
troops, and from the pavilion I could
see acres OF red fez caps with the
DARK brown and white faces below.
They formed q human flower garden
along both sides of the road and
reaching far back into tho field
About the mosque was a great bed
Of red caps amid shining bayonets
OF steel and in the court in front of
us were companies of lancers dash
ing about on Arabian horses. At the
gates OF the palace were mauy tall
eunuchs, with faces as black as the
crows that I'LL the trees about Con-
stantinople. They were fezes and
gorgeous uniforms.
II i
TN short time the chief officials of
= the sultan appeared. His young
son, with a face like chalk and an
effeminate look, rode by. Then came
the sultan's bodyguard Of finely
dressed soldiers on magnificent horses.
Opposite the gate Of the palace they
raised themselves and stood with up
Evening star., 1924-04-20

for that year, although he had right
to take such other girls from the lot
as struck his fancy. He did not see
his Bairam bride until the night after
the feast and then only when he had
retired to rest If she happened to
please him, she was then given sepa-
rate apartments, and il she had chill
dren they were legitimately ranked
with the other princes and Processes
On the other hand, if the sultan did
not like her she was put with the
other slave girls and she might never
see him again.
Abul-AZiz spent so much money on
his wives and palaces that the people
dethroned him and confined him in
the palace he had built for Eugene,
where he died five days later. Ac-
cording to one story, he committed
suicide in the Seiamlik, adjoining the
harem. He had sent away his ladies,
asking mhri for a. hand glass and a
pair OF Persian scissors. saying he
wanted to trim his whiskers- She
brought them and he locked the door.
It WAS opened by Ismail Bey, who
said the sultan had cut open the veins
and arteries Of his arms, wrists and
feet and that he died in his presence.
Another story Is that Abdul was
really assassinated by his political
enemies In the meantime. Murad v,
who had succeeded Abdul, became
terrified, and after three months he
went crazy. He was kept in seclu-
sion until the day of his death, and
Abdul -Han1id took his place on tho
throne.
\ X i
THE stoy of Abdul-Hamid covers
= thirty-fve years. He was the
younger brother Of Murad v and a
nephew of Abdul-Axiz. This makes
him a cousin of the present caliph.
He was the son OF Abdul-Medjid, the
predecessor of Abdul-Aziz, by an
Armenian slave girl. When he first
came to the throne he was twenty
four years of age. He then occupied
the Dolmehagtche palace. and after
ward moved to the Yildiz Kiosk,
where he was living during my nrst
visit to Constantinople, and from
where I saw him taken away by the
! Young Turks during my second visit,
In is1a.
Evening star., 1924-04-20
Lardner Visits the White House
Ring Writes About His Talk With President

burg they was d n..svy blizzard and
the senator's adjourned two hours
early for the fear it would get worse
and they couldn't get home Only for
this sighted action they's no telling
how long they would Of been detained
in tho senate, of all places.
Evening star., 1924-04-20

TIME Russians are now out OF
the great International strug-
gle for possession Of the Bos-
phorus, and for the time the
English and all other foreign powers
as well have lost their control over
the affairs of the Ottoman empire.
Constantinople is no longer the capi-
tai of Turkey, and for the first time
in centuries it is without a sultan or
caliph, but 1t is still one OF the most
interesting cities on the face Of the
globe.
have been in Constantinople three
times in my life. and at each in
a momentous era Of the great city's
history. My first visit was in 1889,
thirty-f1ve years ago, when the noto-
rious Sultan Add dul- Hamid was at the
height OF his power. lie was ruling
Turkey with an iron hand. giving Sc
cret orders for massacres and putting
out of the way any of his subjects
who opposed him. At the same time
he was in constant fear Of assassina-
ton. Garjulio, the dragoman OF our
legation, who knew all tho ins and
outs of the court, told me that Abdul
sat UP in his palace night after night
trembling with terror. and his fear
OF assassination continued until he
was taken from the throne by the
Young Turks In 1909
Evening star., 1924-04-20
By FRANK G.. CARPENTER.
CONSTANTINOPLE

CONSTANTINOPLE.
We don't want to fight, but by lingo.
if we do,
We've got the ships. we've got the
men, we've got the money. too,
We've fought the Bear before, and
while we're Britons true
The Russians shall not have Con-
stantinople.
Evening star., 1924-04-20

Mr. EDITOR. before Eeet'aE on
IVA shipbored considerable kind
friends tell me something to take to
kssp me from dying far from home.
One sweet-hearted lady say, Togo.
be sure wear a veil in Egypt because
shA plsos are billed with kind OF nies
tina. killed King Tut" ! do so. Yet
another one say, Garry plenty OF
rockets Yep can shoot them on when
lost In the Pyramids." And etc. good
ayise from everybody. Therefore
start .eut with following arcticies IN
my baggage:
IL skyrockets (sorted)
yrds fashionable green ven
cans Siberian inxex Powder (fof
bugs, scarabs etc)
70 dox bottles Uncle Bills Seasick
Remedy.
dust-proof bathing-suit tor swim
ming IN Nile, Red Sea. Ganges d
whsfover comes along.
/ Book Of title How to Swear In All
The Pleasantville press., 1924-12-20

Every year circle grows little larger and the friends
greet little The time has again
for reach and extend them HOLIDAY GREET
INGS From Tuckerton the North Ocean City the
South from Atlantic Mays Landing
Egg Harbor the West greet all many friends with
the wish for
4 Very. Very Merry Christmas
The Pleasantville press., 1924-12-20
For the
Ladies'

The wises and discriminating shoppers are
the Ladies' he selection of gifts for them science.
Handkerchefs, with artistic designs worked in the
corners. boxed and we'll displayed, all prices
Draperies, for fine decorating work
Sweaters-for useful gifts
Fine Silk Hosiery-always suitable.
Gloves-Appropriate for just
Merode Underwear-Finest made
Silk Observation-Disclosures
Boudoir Caps-Very nice
Umbrelas-Most acceptable gifts .....
Table Cloth Sets-vvth Napkins
Beads, Combination Boxes, etc.
The Pleasantville press., 1924-12-20

For long Silk Hosiery has been favorite gift
article for the Holidays, and why not? 1t is
viceable never out of place; it has appeal to the
fastidious
GOLF HOSIERY
his style has just recently come into common
We have a large line for men, also for boys
Some in cotton and wool mixed, others in pure wool
Various colors, with the fancy top.
75c in heavy Cotton.
$1.0O, very large line of styles
$1.50, in heavy pure wool, up to $2.95 pair
Mems and Ladies PURE SILK HOSE
In all colors and various grades.
HOSE for Boys and Girls School Wear
The Cadet line of Hose, nothing better for
strength and long
WARM HOSE for the Old Folks
A pair of Real Nice Hose, boxed in neat way
makes ideal gift