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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-04

What is Baby Peggy's ad-
dress?
Care Universal Pictures Corpora
ton, 1900 Broadway, N. Y. City.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-04

Where was Tom Moore, the
movie actor, born?
In County Meath, Ireland.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-04

Prime Minister. The siege and cap
ture of La Rochelle. the stronghold
of the Huguenots, reduced them to
submission, after a gallant resist
ance of more than a year-162S.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-04

Has Owen Moore, Mary Pick
ford's divorced husband. re-mar-
ried?
Yes, he married Katherine Perry,
a Follies beauty.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-04

"A GERMAN baron has been wounded in the knee in duel
probably because the honor involved about that high
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-04

How can one destroy angle
worms in flower pots?
BY watering the plant with a
of lime; about one cup of
siaked lime to a pail of water.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-04

How long is a meterf
1887 inches.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-04

How many deaths in the Unit
ed States were there from cy-
clones and tornadoes in 1922?
One hundred and thirty-three.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-04

What will the earth's distance
from Mars be on Aug. p, 1924?
34,630,000 miles.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-24

N TAKING thick ankles thin is the M latest triumph N la beauty w surgery, %V% and the time is not far distant when almost any undesirable line or con tour of the human body can be corrected by scientific whittling.
 The pioneer patient in ankle surgery is Mrs. Marion Tyler O'Connor, well-t0-dO and beautiful member of one of omaha's most socially prominent families, divorced wife of United States Army major now stationed at Fort Omaha.
 Mrs. O'Connor, her friends would al- ways say, was as beautiful as a peacock except her feet and ankles. Now they compare her to bird of paradise, for the one flaw in her loveliness has yielded to the surgeons knife.
 In an operation said to have cost $10,00O and much discussed in medical circles, the ankles, which resembled those of heavy, classical Venus, have been ehiseled down until they are almost as thin and shapely as those of Mistinguett.
 A long ineision was carefully made on the sides of each of Mrs 0'ConnnP's legs, reaching from point just above the ankle bone to point some six inches higher, or just below the calf.
 The fatty tissue and soft flesh were care fully lifted out, and greatest care was ex- ercised not to touch muscles, fragments or tendons.
 After this was done the skin was tight. ened slightly and the slts were sewn up, "understitched,p with a new surgical thread that resembles catgut, but Is, in reality, gelatinous substance that grad ually dissolVes ss the wound heals, so that no sears remain.
 The wounds healed ip ten days with perfect success, and now both ankles are quite slender, graceful and really nice to look at"
 When performed by 8 thoroughly com potent and skillfll surgeon, in regular hospital the operation is~said to be prac- tically devoid of danger. The use of novo- caine or some other effective local anaes-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-24

tremely thin and tapering female ankle is comparatively modern mark of beauty, as Is the unusually small foot.
 Ia classical times, as practically all the Greek and Roman statues show, the female foot and ankle, in proportion to the whole body, were as big and thick as those of the male There was no difference in rela. tive size, but merely in the smoothness Of the curves.
 The ankles of the average classical Venus were approximately nine inches in circumference. It is needless to say that nineinoh ankle to-day would never be admired on 8 ballroom floor or obtain an engagement in a "Follies' chorus.
 Professor J. F. Helmstadt of the British Royal Society, specialist in the anatomy of evolution, explains how the standards of feminine beauty have changed and how the actual ankles have changed with them.
 The first element in bringing about the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-24

Two other elements hsstened the change, particularly within the last few hundred years tight facing, not of the waist, but of the ankles-and Aigh-heeled shoes.
 The professional beau ty of a century ago, or even of fifty years ago, who wore tight and tiny shoes with high . heels, who did little walking. and who en. gagged in practically no athletic exercises, had no need for sturdy ankles or generous feet.
 To-day, with women engaging in practically every branch of ath.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-24

ter, or his chin bone shattered, b or bis leg smashed they could make him another almost as good as new. ..
 Plastic surgery, as applied to soldiers with facial wounds in particular, made extraordinary strides, and some men who went into the hospital with faces terribly disfiguTed after 2 German harrage, came out looking the same aas the day they enlisted, ea
 Soon after the was was over the argument was advanced. If these surgeons gre able Co mend 3 face diseiguFed by Ger man shFapnel, why can't they remake one spoiled by nature ge,
 At first most < reputable surgeons were disiheiined ta undertake such operations
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-24

gradwaI change, which has extended over several thousand years, is natural selection. When men began to admire women with small ankles and Wrists-that is, with curves that emphasized the difference between the masculine and feminine lines they chose and married by prefer ence the women whose ankles, by accident and the law of average, happened to be naturally . little smaller than the general run, This process of natural selection went on generation after generation, so that among the beautiful and aristoeratia women 1t became an inherited
 tendency.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-24

but women usually end in having their own way, and now many of the ablest and most ethical men in the profession are en. [ gagged in it.
 They were practically forced to it. for 1T a woman wanted her nose stEalghtened or her face ''liftedi'. and couldnt find q real surgeon to do it, she would go to a
 At first the chief operations were "face llftipgsH to make the faes smooth and take out the wrinkles, straighteniHg or building pp the nose, making the mouth larger or smaller,
 But gradually plastic surgery has como to Include almost every part of the body, and ! lt IS done carefully, under proper , ally successful, Sc that whiting down cne's ankles, if they are .'heafy,a promises to heeone even mors popular than '.lifsD ings the face.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-24

thettc ohviates the need of ether or chloroform, and modern hospital conditions have almost relegated infection to the realm of "inexcus- able crimes" It is pos sible to remove the fatty tissue without in- volVing in any way the muscles or fragments.
 An inefficient sur geop, however, might cripple a woman for life. as the muscles and tendops of the foot and ankle, like those of the hand, are among the most complicated and delicate of the human body.
 If Mrs. 0'Connor had lived 9 couple of thou sand years ago she nsedR't have bothered to have her ankles trimmed" The ex-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-24
F7olO the Plastic Surgeons Profiting by Their War Experiences Reshabe Thick Anqazonian Limbs Into
the Slender, Graceful Ones Essential to Present-Day Beauty

letics and wearing low or moderate heeIed shoes as
 much as they wear high
 heeled ones, going On long hikes, mountain climbing,
 running, tennis playing,
 engaging in the Olympic
 games, there is ap ahse-
 lute eeFtainty that ankles
 will again tend to become gradually larger, and that
 as ath1stEc women ere. more and more sdmRrsd the standards af beauty win change along with the physical fact.
 But that phaage will De grad- ual. and the dainty, slim ankle lR now the ankle that is most admired by connoisaanrR Of fem illIfle beauty. VI This does not mean that . woman who has c0napRret etlyely large ankles Is neeess RFlly lack, ing either in beauty or fA good heredity. The large ankles Alay be a purely individual character istic, they may be merely tha accompaniment Of a generally large body, or they may be large not because of the basic ana tomical lines and structure, but because of an accumulation of fatty flesh, It 10 ankles of the third type that this new opera tion is peaigned to benefit.
 That ankles may happen to be large or small, quite inae- pendent of any other ehafactfr- istic, is illustrated by the various photographs shown on this page.
 These ankles, left to right, be- long to the following persons:
 Miss Aileen Riggin, champion swimmer; Mrs. Nicholas Long worth, formerly Alice Roose- welt; Mile. Spinelly, beautiful French comediepne; Mme, Paw Iowa, famous Russian dancer; Aarilynn Miller, musical comedy star; Mile. Mistinguett, actress, famous for hhying the most beautiful ankles in France; Ann Pennington, dancer, noted for he ankles and dimpled knees; Miss Yanderbslt, society beauty; Hughes, dancer, and Mary Gardt opera star,
 Plastic surgery, as 1t is now 2 fsimpToye on nature" and tnaak' more beautiful, and of which "ap tling'' is the latest manifestation accidental growth of the World
 It didn't begin on waman at all, men. Surgeons at the fropt an hospitals behind the lines found many cases when a soldier had knocked out of shape by Q shrapl aslow-AnkIsa ae a,o90 TeaEa
 of To-day, Showing the Chan ''Stylss." On Left, the Classic the Venps de CyEene, and at RI
 SIendsy, Modern ARkles
 Mrs. FFances sSmmeH
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-10-03
"Sinners in Heaven"
Boasts Fine Cast

Speaking Of picture casts. the Alan
Crosland Paramount picture, "sin.
ners in Heaven" which viii open a,
the Coliseum commencing Saturday
includes n list OF prominent names
that 30 10 make up a truly star
cast.
Bebs Daniels and Richard Dix are
featured In the two principal roles Of
tho production which is an adoption
OF the famous story OF the same name
by Give Arden. The strong support
ing cast includes Holmes Herbert,
Montague Love. Effie shannon. Flor
ence Billings. Betty HiIburn and
Marcia Harris.
Aside from tho notable cast and
dramatic strength OF the story. the
picture In distinguished by reason OF
It's unusually picturesque back
grounds and colorful pictorial set.
tings.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-10-03

Or. Haynes. tonsils, throat. goitre
specialist. 2l6 Denny Bldg.-Adv.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-10-03
Richard Talmadge
Winter Garden Star

Imagine tho star OF Americas
Olympic team involved in running
down a band OF desperate smugglers
who are using his fathers ships to
evade the federal authorities! Imagine
tho situation IN which this boy comes
home from abroad pretending that
HIS manners have become FrenchifIed
by his foreign schooling and putting
this over as joke on his family only
to run Into a thousand serious COM
piications.
These are only two of the situh-
tions which make American Man
ners." the photoplay at the Winter
Garden one Of the most entertaining
pictures Richard Talmadge has APP
peared In for some time.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-10-03
Russell Has Clever
Role in NeU Comedy

New and distinct comedy Of a
laugh.provoking order Is presented
By Jack Russell. who plays n
straight character this week. IN his
latest SUCCESS. The Old Home In.
stead" The Old HONS Instead"
finds Russell without hLs usual make.
up and the audiences extend him
a great ovation. especially when he
leads his company In one OF the
popular songs.
The principals excel In the lead.
Ing roles OF tho vehicle and give dc.
liEhiful interpretation % tho novel
characters. Tho musical arrunge'
ments arc very entertaining and
iSads the popular soloisis at their
hest.
The engagement OF Find Your
Man" featuring Rin-Tip'Tin and
June Mariowo. pretty screen ingenue.
will be concluded with the Saturday
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-10-03

engagement has just been arranged
for with the famous Max Fisher
orchestra, n we'll known musical or
ganiEation. who has played several
long engagements in practically
every Pacific Coast city.
Max Fisher was heard In Seattle
during his last stay here, az the
Heilig theater. and later played at
the cocoanut grove In the Ambassa-
dor hotel OF Los Angeles, where he
was located at the time OF signing
up with Willards.
He brings with him n large or
chestra OF specialists who have won
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-10-03

performances AZ the Metropolitan.
FIND Your Man" IL excellent mslo-
drama with swift.moving action thru.
out and seems 20 thoroughly meet
with the approval OF every audience.
Andy Ward and hts band of picked
musicians contribute largely 10 the
program and arc heard In not only
musical Interpretations but novelty
numbers.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-10-03
Fools Awakening
for Blue Mouse

Fans who like their movies IN large
dramatic slices, well-sugarod with
comedy and beauty Of background.
viii find a feast I'm The Fools Awak.
eninE.' the new Metro picture open
ing AZ the Blue Mouse Saturday. This
feature IL a screen version OF william
.. Loeke's thrilling nqvei. Tho Tale
% Triona'--tho story OF n writer
who assumed another mans name,
and became famous
Tho cast includes n host OF big
players such as Harrison Ford. Enid
Bennett, Mary Alden. and Alec
Francis.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-10-03

individual and collective enviable
regulations turnout the country as
ono Of the leading orchestras in
the field. The Max Fisher organi-
zation opens with wiilards Sunday.
September IS, 1924.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-10-03
Little Jessie James
Coming Sunday

Next weeks attraction at the Met
ropollian theater. beginning SUNDAY
evening. will be l.. Lawrence weber's
production OF Little Jessie James,
jazz musical comedy which sue
cehded In making a run OF Sc weeks
last year on Broadway. This spark
ling play with tunes was written by
Harlan Thompson. who Is responsi
BILE for the book and lyrics. and
Harry Archer, who supplies the syn
copated melodies.
The big company which will pre-
sent Little Jessie James" includes
among It's members Myrtle Miller
Jack Kane. Dorothy Dickerson. Bar
ney Norton, Gertrude Maitland. G
Davidson Clark, Alice Parks, Lee
Kohlmar and Patricia O'Dare.
Or. Haynes. tonsils, throat. goitre
urncIatiat Ola Mann, nidc dx-
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-10-03
Fishers Orchestra
at Wizards

According 20 recent announcement
by WIZARDS cafe, the popular inn
on the Bothell highway. an extended
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-23
Reriggs WhalebOat
From u. S, Battleship
To Cruise Kennebec

The "Sculpin-A-7655." is the
new name Of an unbeautiful but
strictly seaworthy whaleboat model
lifeboat, which once graced the da-
Wits Of q United States battleship. It
Is now reposing In the yards Of the
Edward Manufacturing Company,
completely overhauled and remod-
elled for the edincation of its owner.
Milton o. Dean, superintendent of
the mills, who recently bought the
lifeboat for cruising purposes up and
down and among the islands Of the
Kennebec.
The boat 10 q former government
whaleboat model lifeboat, which
with others of like make, was taken
from strapped battleships and sold.
II has a 24-foot over all length. a 8
IT. 10 inch beam and draws about
z 1-2 feet Of water.
Under the supervision of NJ. b.
Dove, Mr., Dean has had the boat
schooner rugged with two latino spirit
sails. A Hartford z to 10 horsepow-
er engine has also been installed, as
surfing propulsion II the wind dies.
The old fashioned tiller and rudder
still retain their old place at the
stern instead OF being replaced by
the newer wheel.
The Sculpin will be taken to the
waters edge below the dam some
time today and will be launched
either this evening or tomorrow
morning.
Mr.. Dean purchased the boat pri-
marily for his ward. Roger d. Jack
son, who Is now at Squirrel Island.
but says he expects to have bit OF
fun with It himself.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-23
STATE TRAP SHOOT
AT COUNTRY CLUB
AUGUST 1916

A trapshooting tournament, State
wide In scope. win be one of the
major events at the new traps Of the
Augusta Country club about the mid
die OF August. The tentative dates
for this big gathering Of the clay
pigeon pickers from all sections of
Maine have been set or Friday and
Saturday. August Is and 16, and the
arrangements are being handled by
a committee from the Augusta Coun-
try club composed Of Leigh d. Fyint,
chairman, Kenneth =. Lee. Theodore
Emery, and Danforth L. Nash.
The Augusta host committee ID
comforting with q committee from
the Waterville Country club made
up of Messrs. Green. Getchell. Clark
and Stobey. and q comprehensive
program Of events for the scatter
gun artists is being arranged which
It II expected viii attrack q big
squad for the two days shooting
over the trap pit.
The new traps and gun shelter at
the Augusta Country club comprise
one of the finest equipments for the
enjoyment Of this sport in the State.
and the August meet In the FIRST of
many similar matches which win un-
doubleday draw representative trap
shooters to the beautifully located
range on the Country club grounds.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-23
PASSED HIGHWAY
POLICE CHIEF AT
FAST CLIP--FINED

Irving Lowell, an automobile me-
chanic, OF Waterville, driving a small
roadster was unfortunate in his choice
when he passed Captain H. A. Miller OF
the state highway police on the Au-
gusta-waterville road about midnight
Monday night. Capt. Miller. who was
sending his own car over the road at
a speed close to the legal limit, soon
found that the car which passed him
was pulling away from him as if he
were hitched to the post. Giving chase
he found 1t necessary to accelerate his
machine close up to the mile minute
clip to catch UP to and pass the Wa
terville man. so the enforcement chief
decided Lowell better come down to
the Tuesday morning session of munich
pal court and explain the matter to
Judge Cony.
When arratgned yesterday morning
on q charge Of speeding, Mr.. Lowell ad-
mitted his detection. Capt. Miller tes-
titled that the Waterville man was driv-
ing 81 miles an hour when he pulled
along side. Judge Cony assessed the
respondent for SIS fine, which he paid
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-23
Father of Physical Education
Former Maine Man,
Dies in Cambridge. Mass.

DR.. Dudley A. Sargent. called "The
father of physical education In
America" died Monday morning in
his home in Cambridge, Mass. of
heart disease.
DIR. Sargent was widely known for
his contribution to the physical ed
ucation of America. He was the
founder of the Sargent School for
Physical Education in Cambridge,
and the Sargent Camp for Girls at
Peteboro.
He was a native of Maine, born
in Belfast, on September %, 1S49.
He was graduated from Brunswick
High school in 1871 and Bowdoin
College in 1876. While at Bowdoin
he was director of the Bowdoin Col
lege gymnasium from 1867 to 1870.
He also was director of the Yale
gymnasium from 1876 to 1878. He
was a graduate of the Yale Medical
School, leaving there in 1873.
Following his graduation from
Yale, he became director OF the
Hemingway gymnasium at Harvard
University, where he remained from
1879 to 1919, q period Of 40 years
of duty to physical education. 1t
was during this time that he became
the founder of the Sargent school.
The present gymnasium at Bow
dom College is named after him, an
was the one preceding 1t and he
contributed largely to the building
of the present one. He won re-
nown for his inventions Of modern
gymnastic apparatus. and apparatus
for tests of speed, strength and en-
durance.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-23
Less Cotton Spinning

washington, July 22-Cotton
spinning activity which has shown a
continual decline monthly since Jam
uary. registered a further decrease
in activity in June.
The census bureaus monthly re-
port, issued today, recorded June
with almost half billion active
spindle hours less than in May, the
total number having 1886, 401 ,S4S, or
an average of 141 per spindle in
place compared with 500, $40. O26, or
an average of 156 per spindle in
place in May this year, and 1884
55S,5S2, or an average of 224 per
spindle in place June last year.
Spinning spindles in place June 80
numbered 37,803, 946, of which 90
216. 1856 were active at some time
during the month, compared with
81, 7S4 800 in place May 81, of which
30. 49,, 165 were active at some time
during May. The average number of
spinning spindles operated during
June was 24.422. 1902, or at 64.6 per
cent capacity On a single shift basis.
compared with 25.506, 973. or at Els
per cent capacity in May.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-23

The valuation FOR the city Of Angus
Ia as finally returned by the assessors
for 1894 shows an increase over 1923
greater part Of which IL accounted for
under the classification OF personal
property and 10 largely due to the care
full check made on radios. diamonds
and automobiles.
The increase this year totals $45s.-
e57. which 10 divided $13s,o5x real es-
tate ana $320,Ee3 personal property.
The increase in the real estate valua-
tion IL largely accounted for by new
building. and this war largely In new
homes ana residences.
The assessors this year made a care
full check Of the automobiles owned by
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-23

Msserve Of Richmond gave very
helpful sermon Sunday morning. which
the large congregation enjoyed. Mr..
Meservs also helped in the Sunday
school.
John Tarr, has bought the hay on the
N. e. Douglass estate.
State officers have been taking the
Federal road trafIic the last Of the
week.
B. F. Humphrey and family visited
relatives in Livermore Fails Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John witham welcomed
a new daughter, Edna Philips, to their
home Sunday.
Ralph Holt Of Fairfield IL visiting
his aunt, Mrs. Ray Toothacker.
=. z. Purinton. Rufus Maxwell and
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-23
A Tribe Which N.v.r LAUGH,

For more than 1000 years, 1t is said,
laughter has been unknown to the
Veddas, tribe of aboriginal inhabi-
tants OF Ceylon. who have maintained
a secluded existence in caves and
jungles of the region.
Cut on from other peoples and
subsisting on bats. owls and crows
that they shoot with arrows, these
strange people are said TO have lost
entirely the sensation Of laughter.
They are thin and fiabby, and fat
man is unknown to them. Efforts Of
a scientist. who recently visited them.
on the soles Of their bare feet or in
the ribs met with no success. Their
stony countenances did not even
wiggle.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-23
RICHMOND

CoRNER--Mrs.. william Dingley and
Mrs. A. o. Lancaster visited in Au-
burn Monday. Mrs. John Clark, who
passed several weeks with Mr.. and
Mrs. Dingley, returned to her home In
Auburn Thursday.
Mrs. Giles Mainwaring, who has been
Ill since her return from Massachu-
sets, is slowly gaining.
Kenneth Small Of Lewiston IL visit
ing his grandfather. J. B. Ward.
The entertainment by the college
players in the Grange hall Thursday
evening was we'll attended and OF q
high class. They are planning TO
come again in about two weeks.
Hosea Hartford of Rochester, N. H,
Is visiting his brother, John Hartford.
through the haying season.
Mrs. William Meserve and daughter
Grace visited at Mrs. John Williams
Friday.
r. A. L. Colby. pastor Of the church.
is away on two weeks vacation. Ray