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Evening star., 1924-06-22

, THE first week we bought q dish
drainer with the luxury tax, as
VIII called that part of the budget
1t was a special kind so that you
don't have to wipe the dishes, which
is certainly a luxury when you think
of II that way. The next week Will
bought a pencil-sharpening machine
He said he had hankered for one
me as about the funniest thing
Id ever heard. but / didn't say
word. And the next week / spent
the whole dollar on sacf1et. i felt it
was really for both of us--Will would
smell it just the same as I would
and I was perfectly willing to put
some little bags of 1t in his bureau
drawer, too, but he didn't care to have
me.
1t never oecurded to me the ter
rible worrying that that budget box
would cost me. If had been getting
the respect that young married
woman is entitled to, right along, /
might not have been so weak when
Mr. Wellington Napp came into my
life.
opened the door one snowy morn
ing to find him standing on the steps.
Good morning" he said, with a
very attractive smile. Have ! the
pleasure of speaking TO Mrs. Horton,
Mrs William Etbridgc Hortonr
Yes" I said, wishing l had taken
OFF my apron. although it was orchid
AN unusual color for aprons and
very becoming.
"Mr. Ayers was kind enough to
suggest my coming to see you," he
went on. Mr.. Ayers is the high school
principal. and for second l had the
queer, guilty feeling a principals S
name always gives you, long after
you are out of his clutches.
Wont you come in?" l asked, it
being very cold.
THANK you," he said, smiling again.
II feel very guilty taking up mo-
ment of a busy matron's time
but"
'Oh. I'm not so very busy this morn
ing" l said. You could tell at a
glance that he was very nice young
man.
He sat down in our one overstuffed
Chdlr. tnat We call our SpOOner
chair" because it's strcng enough to
hold us both. He told me that he
was Mr. Wellington Napp.
I'm calling on just few Of the
younger matrons in Montrose," he
said. You young married women
must be awfully conceited." he went
on. with his nice smile. when you
know how all of us who are inter
ested in the intellectual side of the
nations towns have to come to you
first of all to get you to exercise
your influence on our behalf.
I'm afraid" / said. feeling that
must be honest with him, that is.
I'm not sure that 1 could be said to
have 4 great deal Of infuence@'
'I knew you were going to say
that" he interrupted me. It's the
charming intellectual woman, Mrs
Horton, who always tells me that Sh e
hasn't any influence Gou'H be tell
don't like poetry
ooh. no." said. I'm very fond of
poetry"
"There!" he said, triumphantly. 'T
knew the instant ] saw you that I
had made no mistake in coming to
you among the very first here in
Evening star., 1924-06-22
A "Sand Library"

TN the Structural Materials Library
OF the Lewis Institute. Chicago.
there is a special library" consist
ing OF 2.soo bottles of sand. 1t has
taken ten years to make the coIiec-
ton. which Is said to contain speci-
mans from every state in the Union
and from many foreign countries
The purpose has been to make tests
to determine the values for cement
and mortar work and to have tie
findings on record
Evening star., 1924-06-22
MERRY JUNE WEDDING BILLS
Marriage Month
Thao of Auguafor DOG Licenses Age RecoDec csons

GORGE, that's may husband,
is the kind that is SO gener-
J. Gus he'd give his dress shirt
to a beggar. 1 don't believe
he'd go as far with the soft
collar ones, but you know how human
nature is.
However his generosity got ali
stopped up the other day when /
told him where / was going to write
a few selected words on getting
married.
Yes, you have no remarks to write
about that, he says; why, every crack
against it has been already pulled
to the stretching point.
And I says. well, who said any
thing about cracks? 1 am all in
favor of marriage in spite of Group.
collar buttons and cold cream! All
I am going to do this time is pass
a few remarks about the one fashion
which keeps UP steady, year after
year, and which don't let what they
are doing in Paris affect it.
Well, the first thing which strikes
me about marriage is the remarkable
fact how this time Of the year has
got q reputation for being our ma
tionaJ counting days, while of course
the genuine courting days, meaning
when the ex-happy couple take the
matter into court, deh't generally
come at any particular season. But
dope it out that June has got Its
reputation on account marriage is
we got in the country today. and
June is undoubtedly the time Of the
year when business is best.
Whether the couples think ahead
to . cold. lonely winter at this time,
or what the actual reason ts, ! don't
know, but / do know more marriage
licenses get taken out in June the
same IS the most dog licenses get
taken out In August.
June is also the month when even
q minister is not always above en-
Joying the sight of the two poor
stnaps who are eendemninE them
selves for life, Especially II mar
Red himself, he probably gets . kick
cut OF watching the wedding the
same as Rll the married relatives
vito while they are saying. we'll, chill
drsn, ! certainly hope you will be
happy, are at the same time think
ing you got nothing on US any more.
Mid, vsieoms to the ehsin gang.
+ y
IN the old days all the married
ladies' used always 70 cry Ut wed
dinge; It was regular part Of the
spjoyment of geiHG 70 eae, But
aatheFtties differ over what was ths
saHss of 1t,
ssHs claim that when ma thought
how that nice young Hsn, Who dids't
*saiiss the Kind Of siri be was TAX
tag or her hands. was headed for
o siege Of eeaerets BISCUITS. meat Is
heiDisss es the day IL was born and
piss which aeuld Of had gvset
career in moving pictufs eeuAdies "
Evening star., 1924-06-22
Sprgy Tale of Husbands and Wives and Money They Spend

Montrose. We have q perfectly mar
velous opportunity, Mrs. Horton, to
offer to just few Of the matrons
of Montrose. Now this. Mrs. Horton,
Is the opportunity I am Offering to
you in preference to some Of the older
women of the town. guess I'm
something of a sentimentalist, Mrs.
Horton: I can't bear to see poetry go
into a home where 1t isn't going to
be loved"
Wasn't that sweet of him!
"Out of all the poetry Of the world.
Mrs. Horton, we have chosen only
the finest and the best-ten volumes
of it. 'Epics. Sonnets and lyrics of
the Ages we call our choice. The
books arc bound in" he glanced
around our living room--"isn't it fate
that red books should be the one
touch your color scheme needsr'
But ten books" faItered.
Wouldn't they be terribly expen-
sive?" Mr.. Napp smiled.
Fifty cents a week." he said tri-
umphantly. Fifty cents a week for
hyacinths to feed your soul, Mrs. Hor-
tom"
why, could afford that, all
right" ] exclaimed.
signed where he told me to, on
a dotted line. and gave him the first
so cents. went back to cleaning z
silver with a sort of exalted feeling.
Will might earn money for our ply
sical necessities; it was my part TO
see that the esthetic side of life was
not overlooked.
lust before dinner time, ] was out
- on the back porch a minute and /
saw Dulcie on hers.
Hello" she said. IF you hear
wild screams from our house you'll
know that Roger is cutting my
throat. I've got to break the news
to him that fell for another book
agent this morning"
"A book agent" / echoed.
Poetry" haid Dulcie. "'Epics,
Sonnets and Lyrics Of the Ages He
was a silver-tongued orator, and /
guess ] went into trance. Roger
will have a fit"
went back to the kitchen, feeling
strangely uneasy. Some way. 1t had
never occurred to me that Mr.. Napp
was a book agent. i recalled that
Will is not so very fond of poetry,
For the first time 1t occurred to me
that l had not asked how long !
would have to pay so cents a week
/ didn't say anything to VIII about
it during the first half of dinner, try
ing to make up my mind the best
way to tell it. Suddenly an inspira-
ton came to me. l needn't ever tell
him at all Half OF that luxury
money belonged to me. / would just
pay 50 cents a week to feed my soul
and not say a word to Will about it
The last of the week the books
came, and they were beautiful. but
huge Ten of them! They were a
lnxelx Glowing red. and Mr. Napp was
Evening star., 1924-06-22
VNNId [IH1ID lI|I Ib!

color touch living room needed
But WASN'T going tell VIII
about buying them 1 couldn't very
we'll have them appear in the living
room. They weren't the sort OF thing
one could slip in unobtrusively.
Finally ! took them up to the attic
storeroom and put them under a quilt
1t didn't seem right to keep the epics,
sonnets and lyrics of the ages under
a quilt, but I thought it would do for
Evening star., 1924-06-22

came upstairs to find me. He kissed
me and then kept his arms around
me.
Will" began huskily. Its
easier to tell anybody anything when
they have their arms around you.
Dolly" said VIII suddenly, I'm
a perfect rotter.'
"Oh, Will" 1 walled, wait till you
know about me-you won't say
that"
But he just went right on.
i've been stealing from you-tak-
ing your poor little money that you
save-money that you work and
scheme to get ahead take it out
and spend it"
You what? gasped
I've meant TO pay it back out of
the luxury money some time, VIII
went on; but 1 knew you'd miss it
Evening star., 1924-06-22

matters. / have heard countless peo-
pie say that the money question is
| probably the one greatest cause of
| married quarrels. Mother says so.
When first got back from Chicago,
she said that I'D better have good
straightforward talk with viii. and
get him to give me an allowance to
run the house on. 1 did so. but Will
| did not care for the idea at all.
II don't want to dole you out money
as if it belonged to me and that it
was favor to you to buy a couple
of lamb chops with it," he said man
fully. ''You know what salary Dad
is paying me, and that after We pay
for the new rug and the dining room
suite. I'll have around two hundred
dollars in the bank. Everything I've
got belongs to you just as much as
me-"
Yes" i said rather family. Uncle
Horace had sent me SIS for a wedding
present, and had sort of figured that
it would belong just to me. However
i could see that it wouldn't be fair
to have everything that belonged to
Will ours and everything that be-
longed to me mine.
Then he suggested that, instead of
the allowance idea, We should have a
budget. and both keep accounts.
Father said that was a fine idea and
he gave US book on How to Stretch
the Dollar" Il big account book and
the cutest little budget box" all lit
tie squares like the drawer of a cash
register. AS soon as / saw it ] know
that having a budget would be fun.
SO every Saturday night we divided
up WINS salary. the proportion the
budget said to save, he put in the
bank Monday morning The rest we
divided UP in the little squares, so
much for meat, so much for groceries
so much for dentist and doctor. That
little box took care of everything.
There was even one square for wear
and tear on the house and furniture
1t was perfect circus to work it.
There was one square in the budget
box marked 'Luxuries." This was
beside the one for Hospitality and
Amusement" from which we bought
tickets to the movies, an extra bottle
dinner. and 50 on.
Suppose we put dollar week
in for luxuries." Will suggested 'If
We don't spend it, all right: but We
need a little leeway. There isn't any
other square, for instance, where I
could get the money for the basket
ball pool"
"Oh, Will" I said reproachfully
There is a basket ball club in the
five towns around here, and they play
once q week. A lot of the young fel-
lows in town have got up a pool
everybody puts in a half dollar apiece,
then draws lots to which team
he's betting on, and the whole
amount is divided up among those
who bet on the winner That sort of
tR|Bg i gI sIsbl T.. hssoa..Io,.~. !
bling like a wicked
extravaganza
1T isn't the money. Will" / said,
Its the prin ciple Of the thing. You're
so uniucky. 1t isn't as if you might
win once in a while" Will said, well,
he supposed he ought to cut out all
that sort of thing now that he was
a married man.
Evening star., 1924-06-22
ILL and I have been mar
M ried four months, and yet
" " practically everybody still

N/ ried four months, and yet
" " practically everybody still
calls me Dot Aldrich.
When we got back to MontroSe,
after our honeymoon in Chicago, 1
was so busy for the first three weeks
that 1 didn't notice the utter lack of
respect l was getting. We took the
stucoo bungalow right next to Duioie
and Roger Lane, and what with buy
ing furniture and moving over chairs
and things that Willis mother or mine
could let us use for a while, we
hardly had time to think.
The first time that l noticed it was
when ] was going to have mother
and father for dinner. called up
Mr.. Libby in the morning and told
him TO send me nice roast by 2
o'clock. / called him at O'Clock, be-
cause it hadn't come.
II sent it, Mis- Horton just as you
said at o'clock" he said; "and there
wasn't nobody home"
why, I've been right here ever
since" began. and then the truth
dawned on me He had sent it to
Wills mother.
This is Mrs. W. f. Horton" i said
icily. Did you make a mistake?"
Mrs. w. h. Horton?" he repeated.
Mfrs Oh. for the love of Pete.
You're Dot Aldrich, Why didn't you
say who you was?"
Any one would have thought that
was using an assumed name!
Although I was irritated a little,
didn't lay it up against Mr.. Libby
really. because you've got to expect
old people to be little slow about
catching on to things. However,
everybody else was just as bad.
Mother kept right on telling me to
wear my spats on damp days.
Mother" I finally said gently,
"you know I'm a married woman,
now"
Father laughed. And has the
weather" he asked. no effect on a
married constitutions"
| was talking to Mrs Dunwoody
one day about Mrs. Henning's divorce,
and I said how strange it was that
some couples couldn't get along. 'Of
course, Mr.. Horton is quite easy to
get along with in the main, but there
are times, when he has business
worries on his NINA and
paused, for Mrs. Dunwoody's chin had
begun to shake as though she were
going to cry. Then she lost control
altogether. But she wasn't crying
she was laughing.
"Oh, excuse me, Dot" she said at
last, but ] just couldn't help tit
was your calling him Mr.. Horton
and having business worries on his
mind"
Il don't see what's the matter" I
said stiffiy. you call your husband
Mr. Dunwoody."
II know it." she said. ~ apologize
But IT," She was still breath
Ies---I got thinking about one
Easter when Will came trailing into
2uH(ly ICDNlI, III [ll ylIy ll( q lBg
infant class. in a little white dress
with all little soft tow hair in
one big curl running along the top
of his head and-and-Oh, just can't
help H!'' And she was off again.
GO / realize that it would do me
~ not the slightest good in the world
to pass on discovery have made.
NV discovery has to do with money
Evening star., 1924-06-22
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l
| w the rain pattered cheer1ly
the caves and talked long time We
agreed to split the luxury money
fifty cents a week apiece Neither
had TO tell the other one what he did
with his fifty. We even went further
than that-we made the absolute
fat rule that neither one could tell
or ask the other what he did with his
share.
Now, that may sound very simple
and trifing, but / honestly believe ii
is one OF the secrets of happy ma
riage. There is something too tight
| fitting about owning every single
| penny together and having to spend
| it together, like machinery that 5
screwed up SO tight it won't work.
| Having fifty cents week that be
longs just to you alone is just like tn
| oil on the machinery-it seems 10
/ give a little slip and ease to the bud
! get wheels.
/ know that this one little secre'
| would make thousands of marie
people happy. I'd like to tell therl
| about it, explain how, although ! am
| saving every penny of mine to bu
| Will a birthday present with. Jus
| knowing that ! don't have to. make:
me feel so free and comfortable. il
| is a valuable discovery. But would
| it do any good TO tell this to anybooy
/ in Montrose who, perhaps, can re
member me when l had mumps ola
both sides at once? 1t would not.
4 Oh, but that is a true saying-thc
prophet in. his own country.
1t doesn't make any difference.
though, in a way. because / doub.
| that many married women would
\ have strength of character to carr
| it out, anyway, and keep from ask
| ing their husband questions. ] have
| unusually strong will power, and il
| takes every bit ] have. Basket bat
| season is over now, SO there Is no
pool Sometimes ] sit on the other
| side of the light and look at Will
| sitting there, and want to ask him SO
| bad that I have to bite my tongue
| to keep from doing it.
| What can Will be doing with all
| that money?
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.. i
square bills and Se-oene pieces
my heart like lead L could see win
getting sicker and sicker, and no
money for the doctor, just because /
was indulging myself with epics and
lyrics
And then, suddenly, an idea came
to me. Maybe. if I should refuse to
send the SO cents, they would take
the books back and drop everything.
New hope in my heart. I rushed up
right. lifted up the quilt and looked
at the books Ny heart sank again,
lower than ever. There must have
been a mouse in the storeroom. be-
cause one corner of the lowest book
looked as though it had been nib
bled- 1 realized that now the firm
would never take them back.
II was raining and / could hear it
dropping gloomily on the shingles
over my head. / opened the top
book and read sadly. 1t seemed fate
that should open to
Out Of the day and night
A joy has taken flight;
Fresh spring and summer, and win
ter hoar,
Move my faint heart with grief. but
with delight
No more-O, never more!
Then went on and read THE Land
of the Leal" and The Light Of other
Days'' and my Highland Mary" the
rain dripping sadly on the shingles.
X X
T MUST have been up there for ages,
because at last I heard Will come
in. He whistled his frat whistle. The
sound of that familiar whistle was
just too much. 1t brought back SO
clearly the happy. care-free days
when my conscience was clear and
VIII and / could be happy and silly
together. I couldn't stand it another
minute. Come what might, I would
tell Will.
he found the open attic door and
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Finally we opened up the books
and found the slip saying how long
I'd have to pay fifty cents a week
and how you got discount for cash.
Will said they were a darn hand
some-looking set of books, and why
didn't / take Uncle Horace's twenty
Ave dollars and pay them off.
THAT would not be enough"
said, thinking of that money for the
first time
Will started to laugh again
I've got just enough" he said, "to
make up the difference"
where did you get it, I asked.
'1 won it," said Will. That's what
gave me the nerve to 'fess up"
You won it? You won the basket
ball pooIc'
-Yep-' said Will
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a wicked
extfaNaSance-
1T isn't the money. Win,' I said.
Its the principle Of the thing. You're
so unIucky. 1t isn't as if you might
win once in a while" Will said, well,
he supposed he ought to cut out all
that sort of thing now that he was
a married man.
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to ease my conscience little. Once
or twice when ! did this, he looked
at me SO queeriy that l wondered if
he suspected anything. And all the
time the luxury money kept mount
ing higher and higher. Will never
touched il. but he seemed to take a
morbid pleasure in counting up just
how much there was, SO I never dared
touch it, either.
Then came a week when i couldn't
possibly skimp the so cents out of
the housekeeping box. I went to the
den tist- -and-doctor square again, re-
membering how viii had said proud
ly that he'd die before he'd go to his
father for help, now that he was a
married man. I wondered il he really
would, if he should be terribly sick
and there WAS only enough doctor
and-dentist money to pay for one or
Evening star., 1924-06-22

GO I realize that it would do me
- not the slightest good in the world
to pass on a discovery have made.
MY discovery has to do with money
Evening star., 1924-06-22

infant class, in a little White dress
with all his soft hair in
one big curl running along the top
Of his head and-and-Oh, just cane
help it," And she was off again.
Evening star., 1924-04-06
ALLEN SEEKS AIDES
FOR GERMAN RELIEF
Many Westinghouse Respond to
Plea Seeking Members for
Endorsement Committee.

Representative men and women of
Washington have accepted the invi-
tation Of Maj. Gen. Henry 7. Allen.
chairman of the American commit
tee for relief Of German children, to
serve on the District indorsement
committee of 100, sponsoring the re-
lief cause here. This committee is
now being organized.
Secretary Hoover has indorsed the
drive. pointing out that children are
the innocent victims always ground
IN the mills of international dis
putes. The Secretary has shown
Keen interest in the progress of this
movement to help them.
Purchase of supplies and foodstuffs
Tor the under-nourished children, ex-
pectant mothers and nursing moth
ors of Germany is being undertaken
Dy the American Friends Service
committee (Quakers).
Plan Executive Organization.
Upon the completion of the per-
sonnel of the Endorsement commit
tee here, executive organization will
ne established for the preliminary
work. in connection with the cam
paiSn to raise the Districts quota of
the dollar fund, Gen. Al
ems committee is raising through
y
Which already has been subscribed
and campaigns for which purpose are
now in progress in twenty-six states
Statements by DR.. Haven Emerson,
professor of public health adminis-
Lration at Columbia University, and
DIR. Ernest Patterson, professor Of
economics, at the University of Penn
sylyania, and others, are to the eff
rect that twenty million people in
Germany will be dependent upon re-
lief until the next harvest.
Washington Endorsement Body,
Announcement was made yester-
day that the Endorsement committee
for Washington so far includes: Post
master General New, Secretary of
Labor Davis, Assistant Secretary of
War, Dwight f. Davis, Commissioner
Cuno Rudolph, J.. S. Rowe, director
general Pan-American Union; Frank
White. treasurer of the United States
Senator Simeon ID. F'ess, John J. Esch
commissioner Interstate Commerce
commission; Mrs. Hamilton Fish, jr.;
Anne NJ Hoyt, DR. George Kober,
JOHN II. Storer, DIR. Margaret Eek,
Representa- tive Theodore e. Burton
Col. G. J. Fieberger. Simon Lyon, Rep
resentative Edward J. King, Senator
Edwin r. Ladd, Representative Mer-
rill Moores, Representative Roy G..
Fitzgerald, Joseph 3. Easton, COM
missioner Interstate Commerce Com
mission: Maj. Gen. Frank w. Coe,
Representative Edward B. Browne
Wilhelm Kiessel bach, Chaplain John
IT. Axton L. S. A; Eliot Collier, Miss
Grace Litchfield, Gen. Tasker II. Bliss.
Christian Heurich, John B. Larner,
Howard Sutherla1d, Otto H. Tit
mann, Senator James L. watson and
Edward y. Hartman.
Contributions may lie sent to Wash
jngton headquartt RS, American COM
Inittee for reief of German children,
1917 + street
Evening star., 1924-04-06
Thirty-Eight Years of Endeavor

With the advent OF April have served Washington For
nness Of purpose born the day opened doc
inviting patronage continuing until attain pla
in the community confidence and
remitting endeavor.
There has been than merely sell goods We ha
heerinsss Of comfortable furnishings and the Of mel
merchandise 1t pride feel that have strengthened
mera fast and FIR business friendships
No succeed the approving
has loyal ciene-hh has ped make
increasingly successful and future hopefully bright.
duty you emphasized birthday
must confidence with renewal of effort
As THANK for the eference Of the past
repdg ndeavor the
tical will always that quality
and that the traditions of the will better
rendered to a still wider circle of customers?
Evening star., 1924-04-06

In 1887 the Pope received as an
Easter gift an egg Of ivory. When it
was opened it was found to contain
y golden case aad a ruby worth SO, =
p0G