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Evening star., 1924-05-24
HOLDS VISITORS NIGHT.
Little Congress Debates Question of
Reapportionment.

Members Of the Little Congress,
composed of secretaries and other at
taches ION the HILL" are forensically
rushing in where their elders have
feared to tread They are going to
thrash out the reapportionment prob
lem tonight Visitors night" in the
caucus room of the House office build
ing.
The subject Of debate is:
Resolved, That the Little Congress
favors a reapportionment of repre-
sentation in the Houe of Representa-
tives based on the number of electors
in the several states rather than on
total population
Judge Walton Perkins. Kentucky,
and Cameron Sherwood Washington
will argue the affirmative; opposing
them will be r. Fl. McGimsey, Louisi-
ana, and j. 3. Gilbreath, Oklahoma.
Speaker George w. Stafford will
preside, and Paul John Kvale will
act as clerk.
Evening star., 1924-05-24
PLAN MAY PROCESSION.
st. Peters Children to March BE.
fore Providence Hospital.

The May procession of st. Peters
Church. I'd and c streets southeast
VIII take place tomorrow at O'Clock.
Ihe line of march will be through
Folger Park and pass before Provi-
ocnce Hospital. in order that the pa
uents at that institution may have
an opportunity to view the process
sion. AS they march, the children
viii sing hymns in honor of the
Blessed Virgin. Returning to the
church, the May queen, Miss Margaret
OConnor Will crown the statute Of
the Virgin with flowers and recite
the act of conservation. The queens
guards, composed of boys of St. Ce
Gelia's Academy. will be led by Leo
Lee and Charles Boyd. These bows
will wear duplicates of the brilliant
uniforms which were designed by
Michelangelo for the papaL guards
at Rome. Other attendants of the
queen will be Misses Julia O'Donnen.
Catherine Schubert, Mary Ellen
Arendes, Margaret Cecil, Muriel Haz-
ard. Maria Wilkinson, Virginia. Cowig.
Margaret O'Donnell, maids of honor:
Misses Margaret Streator, Mildred AL
bert, Mary Agnes O'Connell, Mary
Kane. canopy bearers, and Catherine
Murphy, crown bearer.
The ceremonies will close with
benediction of the blessed sacrament
Rev. Eugene Connolly, pastor of the
church, will officiate.
Evening star., 1924-05-24
STUDENTS GIVE RECITAL.
King-Smith Studio Pupils Heard
in Pleasing Program.

Fourteen young girl soloists and a
chorus, Les Fauvettes," presented the
final in series Of four recitals for
the season of the August King-Smith
Studios last night. Two young sopra-
nos, Margaret Kramer and Clara
Hoffst etter, both of whom appeared
in solo recitads earlier in the week,
received their diplomas at this en-
tertainment Both sang charmingly.
Miss Kramer singing Chaminade's
"Ritournelle" and Miss Hoffstetter,
Marters May Morning" Miss Jose
phine Houston. post graduate MEM
Der of the school, also sang four
delightful numbers. The chorus sang
Warmers arrangement of MacDowelrs
ITO Wild Rose" as a finale.
Beside the graduates and Miss
Houston, young soloists on the pro-
gram were the following piano and
voice students: Mary Crawford Mays,
Ruth Easling, Esther Caruthers, Flea
more Hulburd. Sally Boggs, Camille
Allensworth, Mary Allen, Theodosia
Shaler. Katherine Watsonx Delphine
Marcier, Margaret Howard and Edna
Zindel.
Evening star., 1924-05-24

give me. | shouldn't have come /
knew 1t would but make the load
heavier; yet l felt I could not stay
away, ! could not leave without once
more gazing on your face and hear
ing your voice"
Leave" she repeated.
Yes, Elise. | have, in these past
weeks. sold my practice, and ] am 60
ing away from Paris. I don't think l
shall ever come back to it,"
"But-doctor. You will work some
practice? You are not-fnishing?
He shook his head II shall prac-
tice medicine no more. Through it
have killed the thing I love most in
all the world, and l dare not touch ii
again. Dare not, DO you know.
Elise, from that moment when you
walked from my consulting room
ceased to work? 1t was for me the
end just as it was for you. Only
He stopped, evidently finding no
words to say in explanation.
What will you do?" she asked. in
a low voice. for she knew that even
with the proceeds from the sale of his
sufficient to sustain him for the rest
of his life.
He answered her in just the words
she had used to him when he pro-
nounced sentence upon her.
God d. no1s Then ,sa Wi.h nnjs 5fls
nothing persuade you to abandon this
career to which you have set your
hand? Nothing at all?"
Nothing can. doctor. l have signed
Il contract and you have received
money on account of it. Brunei has
spent already considerable sums upon
me. | cannot withdraw. And-any-
how-what does it matter? | am COM
mitted altogether. and must go
through. Besides-it will insure
Marthe's safety and perhaps Marthe's
recovery"
Tomorrow: The Lonely Path.
Evening star., 1924-05-24
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North American Newspaper Alliance. 4
rights reserved. Copyright in England.
HOW THE STORY OPENED.

ELISE DUCHANIER is a beautiful and inno-
cent young girl of gentle birth. who. 10y mis-
fortune. has sunk to be dresser in a sma ii
Montmartre theater. Elise has the care of a
bedridden sister. who is attended by an ell
dcrly doctor named Lapierre. who loves Elise.
The young girl is dresser to the Partisan
star.
LOLETTE. gorgeous creature of flaming pas
Sions, glaring appearance and equally glar-
ing morals Eise's natural modesty and
beauty are thorn in LOlette's jealous side,
and the star desires the downfall of her lit
tie dresser. IOlette's manager and pro
tector is
MAURICE BRUNEI, the great entrepreneur,
while another follower of IIolette is Ger
tain Count Mortac. To this latter Lolette
confidps the feet :hat she is determined to
ruin Elise. Elise meets young American
named
TOM KENDRICK whom she at once recog
nizes as a man of different stamp from the
hangers-on of the theater. Kendrick asks
Elise to accompany him TO great bal
masque and the girl accepts. At this ball
in pursuance OF her plan. Lolette induces
Elise TO dance with her, so that the little
dresser attracts the attentions OF the famous
Rr1Inel-the man through whose hands many
beautiful girls have passed. Rrunel offers
to make Elise star-on conditions that the
pure, young girl Indignantly rejects one
day Elise faints dead away in her room. Dr.
Iapierre who is summoned, reluctantly in
forms the girl that she has only short time
to live. The doctor asks Elise 10 marry him.
but she refuses: she has come to IA decision:
Since she had only year TO i've she VIII
live to the full. Brunel's promise to MAKE
her a star springs to her mind. ana She
agrees to dance for him, signing contract
which is financially in her favor.
Evening star., 1924-05-24
LUTHERAN SYNOD RAISES
$4,779,35O FOR SCHOOLS
Missouri Organization Expects
Total of $5,OOO,OOO to Enlarge
Facilities.

NEW YORK, May 24.-Lutherans OF
the Missouri Synod say they furnish
still another concrete proof that
churches are not failing, as many al
lege. In an effort to obtain $3.50. 900
in gifts, they have just received
checks and pledges totaling s4,779,350,
and declare they will go over the top
with s5,000.000.
A year or more ago so many men
seeking to become Lutheran ministers
crowded their theological colleges
that these colleges had TO be en-
larged, larger facilities provided, new
colleges founded At first the Mis-
souri, Synod felt s2,00O,000 was the
limit of possible gifts. They tried for
$3.50, 900, however. The money has
come, Lutherans announce, not from
a general educational board, Car
negie foundation or Rockefeller.
but from Lutherans themselves-each
family does its part.
Theological colleges located at the
following named points are to see
their plants enlarged in various ways
at the costs named: Fort Wayne.
Ind, s257, 900: Milwaukee. Wis, s305.-
900: ST. Paul. Mimi. $4,000: Rover
Forest, Ill. s173. 900; ST. Louis. for
group of buildings to accommodate
400 students. s2.500, 900; Seward, Nebr..
s175, 600; Winfield. Kan, s1S5.000
Bronxvilie, n. y, s125,OO0, and for a
college to be located in Texas, place
not yet chosen, $4,000.
Evening star., 1924-05-24
CHURCH GROUP TO MEET.
Sunday School Workers Union to
Gather Wednesday.

The monthly meeting of the Sunday
school workers of Elementary Union
of this city will be held Wednesday
at 7:45 pm. at the Mount Vernon
Place Methodist Episcopal Church
South, at which representatives of
the various denominations in the
union Will be present.
A talk on story telling, and in par
ucular, specimen story for Decision
day. will be given by Miss Braxtion
Howell of Foundry M. E. Church.
Miss Hummer of Wilson Normal
school will speak on Child Life and
Child Nature" Work of the cradle
roll department will be discussed
under the leadership Of Miss Graham
OF the Vermont Avenue Christian
Church Mrs. Darnell of the Mount
vernon Place Church will lead the
beginners department. A special pro-
gram is planned by the primary de-
partment workers. demonstrations of
the birthday period work in the Sun
day morning programs to be given
by Mrs. La Place of Ninth Street
Christian Church ard Mrs. Barnhart
OF Calvary Baptist Church. TIE Junior
department work will be in charge of
Miss Mansfield of Mount Vernon Place
Church.
Evening star., 1924-05-24
CANADIAN SOCIETY HERE
OBSERVES EMPIRE DAY
Picnic in Rock Creek Park to Fea-
ture Celebration of Anniver-
sary of Victoria

Today. the birthday anniversary of
Queen Victoria, known in Canada as
Empire day, will be celebrated this
afternoon by the Canadian Society of
Washington at a picnic to be held in
Miller cottage. Rock Creek Park The
picnic is scheduled to begin at 4
o'clock.
DR.. j. Stanley Durkee is the new
president of the society for the en-
suing year. other officers being: First
vice president, DR.. w. H Ross: sec
ond vice president, Mrs Cyrus Whit
ney culver: third vice president
I'homas j. NJ. Cavanaugh. fourth vice
presldent, Mrs. Joseph NJ. Michaelson
ana nfth vice president, Mrs j. Burr
plggott; secretary, Miss Bertha Car
ter: tres ssurer, Mrs. Fred A. Coldwell:
board of governors, chairman, DR.. J.
Miller Ramsay; Milton Trenham, Mrs.
Robert j. Bates, Mrs. o. l. Woodley
and DR.. Robert A. Ramsay. The nom
mating committee for the ensuing
year is composed of Gen. Robert j.
Bates. DR.. Robert Atkinson and Fred
a. Coldwell
Evening star., 1924-05-24
Sunday School Lesson

sisted that the nation should fear
God and do right"
His victory came later. In the
contest with Hananiah, who broke
the wood yoke that jeremiah had
been wearing as a public evidence
that he stood for the nation to ac-
cept the yoke Of Babylonian power.
the prophet predicted that the wooden
yoke would be exchanged for an iron
one. and that within a year Hananiah
his death. The fulflllment of his pre-
diction concerning the degenerate
prophet did more than anything else
to give the people confidence in his
words and avert for a season the ma
tion's doom.
In connection with his imprison-
ment, which came later, a trusty
negro slave championed the proph-
cts cause with boldness that
gives him a rank as a hero. Ebed
pealed upon general principles to
Zedekiah. the younger son of Josiah.
whom the Babylonians placed upon
the throne as their vassal ruler, to
save jeremiah. He pointed out that
the prophet was being allowed to
slowly die in the darkness and damp
ness Of the pit where he had been
imprisoned for his opposition to
forming an alliance with Egypt. The
king gave his permission, and the
the tenderness Of a woman. He won
the prophets friendship and protec-
tion.
Jeremiah was called upon to live
his lifelong martyrdom filled with
dependence and loneliness, which
caused him at times to bemoan his
hard lot and curse the day of his
birth. Centuries passed and men saw
in Christ the life of jeremiah. Dur
ing the days of the exile the Jews
were inspired by the teachings Of the
prophet, whom they had despised and
rejected. Like John Huss, who suf-
fered as martyr and lives today in
Czechoslovakia, Jeremiah has come
into his own, SO that he is recognized
as the greatest prophet Of the spirit
ual life of Judah. History is silent
concerning his end. There is a ira
dition mentioned by Tertullian,
Jerome and others that the men of
p-panhes. stung by his bitter
words. stoned him to death. and it
has been thought that in Hebrews,
1887, there is an allusion to this cir
stance" 1t was probably as a
prisoner in Egypt that the great.
courageous champion of loyalty to
God and doing His will passed
out to meet his Lord. His record has
inspired all men to live a life Of
fidelity and faith, doing daily what
ever the Lord calls for US to perform.
Evening star., 1924-05-24
PLAN HYGIENE MEETING.
Society to Gather in Mount Pleas
ant Church

The Social Hygiene Society will hold
it's last monthly meeting this spring.
Monday. at the Mount Pleasant
Congregational Church. Columbia
road near 14th street northwest at
SIS pm. Rev. Walter a. Morgan will
preside.
The speakers will be Rabbi Abram
Simon. of Eighth Street Temple: SEN
ator Royal s. Copeland of New York.
and DR.. William c. Fowler, health
officer Of the District of Columbia
DR.. Simon will speak in The Ameri-
can Physique" and DR.. Fowler. Re
marks on the Venereal Disease Situa-
tion in the District" Senator Cope
lands subject has not been announced
The public is invited.
Since deciding. a little over a year
ago. to interest the churches in social
hygiene. lie society has held six
meetings in the following churches
with the pastors presiding: First
Congregational Church, St. Patrick's
Church, Vermont Avenue Christian
Church, Trinity Episcopal Church and
two meetings at Eighth Street Temple.
Evening star., 1924-05-24
THEORIES BRING WAR.
WEEKS TELLS SCHOOL
Have Never Brought Peace, Says
Message at Celebration at
Fort Monroe.
Ry the Associated Press.

Ry the Associated Press.
FORT MONROE, Va May 24-In
an address prepared for the celebra-
uon here today of the Tooth anniver-
sary of the establishment of the Army
coast artillery school. Secretary
Weeks warned his hearers that "the-
orles have created wars, but never
have they made peace"
American armies have never ere
ated wars" the address continued
but have made peace many times"
The War Secretary had expected
10 deliver his address in person, but
was unable to leave Washington and
entrusted the document to the Off
GERS who represented him at the
school ceremonies.
Declaring the world war had left a
sreat confusion of thought in the
reactlon of many minds has now TAX
en- definite form in expressions in fa-
ror of universal action toward
peace"
Warns Defense Is Vital.
we all laud the commendable pur-
pose of these movements" he said,
but we must be watchful that ma
tlonal security is not threatened by
the acceptance of wishes for facts.
War may be abhored. but so is pesti-
lence, and we must be ready to cope
~SdiisI lHe former Dy uelenSt meas
urcS as against the latter"
Mr.. Weeks said the Army school
system, of which the coast artillery
school is the pioneer element was es-
sential to carrying out the defense
plans of the nation.
Ihey are our only means of as
surins that all officers will be thor
oughly competent to command; that
our system of instruction will be uni
rorm, and that the Army of the
United States will be prepared to
meet all requirements in organization
ana instruction., he said. There is
no complete substitute for an efficient
school system, short of the war ex-
perience we avoid by readiness at
tained by other means"
The ideal system ought to be short
school periods for officers followed by
long periods with troops TO exercise
functions of command, Mr. Weeks
said, but the Regular Army was too
small and too scattered to permit all
once such practical experience,
and this increased the responsibility
of the school system.
Evening star., 1924-05-24
One Year to Live
By JOHN HUNTER.

it the hour when he would expect her
to fulfill that part Of her bond which,
though unspcken, he understood to
have been sealed and signed?
His fingers eriuped hers closer.
Little girl" lac repeated. and My
little girl, Mine"
He kissed her hair where it drop
ped over her forehead.
And then he let her GO.
She stood back while, with his ten
derness gone. he spoke briskly,
watching her covertly.
We must remember that there is
yet work to do-lots of work-and
that afterward can come the leisure.
Now today you dine with me. No,
There will be no refusal For the
rest OF the afternoon l am busy with
various people, and tonight l must
be at the 1nternationale. So over
dinner we can discuss out little
changes and set all things to rights.
The Cafe de Paris. | will reserve a
table table and VIII call for you soon
She could not protest. for the propo-
tition was perfectly reasonable. and,
having bid him goodbye, she left
him.
SO she had succeeded Brunei was
to make her dancer
She was throbbing with excitement.
and under the excitement was an
ache so dreadful that il threatened to
break her heart and her spirit.
"Marthe will be saved, Marthe will
be saved" She repeated it again and
again.
And as she repeated it she though,
of kendrick.
Surely he must come back to Paris
one day, Suppose he came and found
her as La Phalene. Suppose he came
back to seek her-discovered her
and learned that he had lost her and
that she had lost him
Yet that would not be. He had for
gotten. He must have forgotten For
men forget so easily. 1t is only the
woman who remembers. and the
memory sometimes bears her down to
destruction.
She went back to her little suite of
rooms near the opera. and there she
found visitor awaiting her, visitor
who her rather uneasy maid informed
her had insisted on waiting no mat
ter how long it might be before she
returned.
The visitor was DR.. Lapierre-
Evening star., 1924-05-24
BISHOP FREEMAN INVITED,
Anglo-Catholic Congress Wants
Talk on Cathedral.

Just previous to his departure for
New York this week, Bishop James
E. Freeman, received an invitation
extended by the local Office of the
Anglo-Catholic Congress upon cable
instructions from London 20 address
the Anglo-Catholic priests convention
at Bournemouth. England, in June,
upon the subject of the National Ca
thedral -
This is an evidence OF the keen in
terest which the English branch of
the church Is taking in the construc-
ton of the great Cathedral of S.
Peter and Paul on Mount st. Alban.
The Anglo-Catholic priests conven-
tion will be attended by clergy from
all parts of the Anglican communion,
but particularly from the United
Kingdom.
Evening star., 1924-05-24
CHAPTER XVIII.
The Last Bond.

When she saw him, dressed more
carefully than usual, sitting in the
little drawing room, with its tasteful
imagining the closing of her old
room above the Rue Jacques to be
the severance of the tie in her old
life, she had been wrong. For this
man was the Iast-this man who had
pronounced the doom upon her-this
man whose love for her showed in
his face as he got to his feet to
greet her on her entry.
Elise" he said. and was silent.
She invited him to sit. Il an ever
so glad to see you, doctor You know
Marthe has gone away to the seaT'
Yes. / went round and heard it
from Froquin, the concierge. 1t was
he who gave me your address. Elise.
What are you doing with yourself?"
Il! 1 have become dancer She
strove desperately to be lightly in
different to the accusation in his
gaze.
For Brunei" he asked. quietly.
For Brunei"
"Ah.' 1t was a long indrawing of
breath. He still watched her stead
lily and accusingly. II know about
.
What Paris knows doesn't interest
me, doctor"
He was silent a space Elise! You
have changed-changed even in this
short time You are harder and-and
how can I express it? Different"
Some of the dreadful bitterness
which she tried to cloak showed it
self for a moment.
"One must change when one faces
death for long time. knowing that
at the last death must win
. He broke in. Il am sorry, truly
sorry. Forgive me. But L am agi-
tated-you understand. 1 love you
still, Elise, and now I am losing you
altogether. losing what short time 1
might have seen you and stayed with
you, You are going from me-and-
Elise--it just fills my heart and my
thoughts. There is nothing else in
life for me-nothing at all. AS I walk
as l ride, all the street noises seem to
say, She is gone. She is gone! All
the world is full of it, for me; and
always know you, very sweet, with
out this hardness, this businesSike
attitude-just you, whom I learned to
love when you had nothing but your
beauty and your grace-just you! Ny
His eyes were streaming, and his
whitened face, thrust forward, was
filled with light which transf1gured
it, made it younger, stripped all the
years from it,, and showed it as
something urgently youthful and ap
pealing. One of his hands was out
held toward her, trembling.
She uttered a little sound, like a
moan of pain.
"Doctor"
She could have fallen at his feet
and Sobbed out all the secrets of her
heart, all the horrid tortures she en-
dured beneath the surface of that
hardness he disliked, all the terrors
which afflicted her in her lonely mo-
ments through the long night
watches and the silence of the dark
ness.
He sat back, recovering his self
possession by a tremendous effort Of
will.
Forgive ma" he mnttered. For
Evening star., 1924-05-24
ASKS U. S. CONTROL ISLE.
Coolidge Recommends Sovereignty
Extended to SWANS Island.

President Coolidge forwarded to
the Senate yesterday a recommenda-
tion of Secretary Hughes that Amer
ican sovereignty be extended over
SWANS Island, an isolated atoll, 200
miles east southeast of Apia, Samoa
The State Department records show
that the British mariner who discov-
cred the island decided it to an Amer
ican and that the sovereignty of this
country has been conceded by Great
Britain, the only other country which
might have an interest.
Evening star., 1924-05-24
Iris Show to Open Monday.

The annual iris show of the TAX oma
Horticultural Club will be held at
the Takoma Library on Monday eve
ming and Tuesday afternoon and
evening, Eight classes are provided
for exhibitors.
w. T. Simmons is chairman Of the
exhfbition committee. The iris show
comi1ittee consists of DR.. William A.
Hooker. chairman; ]. w. Wellington,
w i. Morse Mrs ]. H. Morgan and
Mrs. Margaret Parsons. The public
fs invited to attend, and there is no
charge for admission.
Evening star., 1924-05-24
MISSIONER TO SPEAK.
Rev. N. P. Farrior Is at Central
PRESBYTERIAN Church.

Rev. and Mrs. n. P. Fsrrior, who
have been missionaries in Uruapan,
Mexico, for the past few years, are on
a visit to the Central Presbyterian
Church Mrs. Farrior is a member of
this church and has been sent to the
mission field by this congregation.
Rev. Mr.. Farrior will speak at the
evening service tomorrow. The pas
tor. DR.. James H. Taylor, will preach
at the morning service.
Evening star., 1924-05-24
OBSERVE ASCENSION DAY.
Apostolic Churches to Hold Special
Services Thursday.

Ascension day is to be celebrated
next Thursday in the churches of
apostolic origin. The date of Ascen-
sion day is fixed as forty days after
Easter, it being the testimony of the
gospel that Christ was on earth for
forty days after His resurrection
before He was taken up and a cloud
received Him out of their sight"
In the Episcopal Church Ascension
day is recognized as one of the three
great festivals of the year, ranking
with Christmas and Easter. In
recent years, however. its festival
observance has been somewhat neg
lected, ami it is accorded hardly
more in the way of ceremonial than
the other holy days of the church
year. In Washington there will be
in the Episcopal churches an early
morning celebration of the holy
communion and in some of the larger
churches a service at IL am.
Evening star., 1924-05-24
DR.. J. Stanley Durkee to Preach.

DR.. J. Stanley Durkee was in Boston
attending the annual meeting of the
Joseph Warren Commandery of
Knights Templar, where he was the
speaker Wednesday evening in cele-
bration Of Ascension day. This is the
twenty-second consecutive year he
has addressed this body. He will
preach tomorrow morning and eve
ming at the First Baptist Church, 18th
and o streets; IL am, "The Be-
trayer"; pm, "Right-hand Men"
Prof Ferry will give an organ re-
cital at S7:40 to 8 pm