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ton or in warm SteriliZed water and
swab out the ears. Do not attempt to
| push Il SWab actually down into the
| opening of the ear, but Il swab is less
clumsy to use than ones hand and
should be even softer Wash all the
! little creaSeS and creVices OF the ears.
and be sure to wash behind them thor
loughly. If you do not. there is likely
| to be trouble.
a little twist of cotton is a good
thing to use when washing the nos
| trils. Be sure to use sterilized water.
Then the entire head must be gen
tly washed.
Some mothers choose CASTLE soap
for baby's bath, but there are many
pure and delicate soaps that are good.
Be sure TO rinse the soap off well, and
to dry every part with the gentlest of
rubbing or the liGhtest patting with a
soft, old towel. Do not forget to
throw all swabs into the paper bag as
soon as they have been used, and
never let one so much as touch the
wash water after the first time II is
moistened.
Keep Baby Covered.
Under the arms of the baby and
about the legs and the toes are other
places TO battle with special care.
During all these operations the infant
lies on the mothers lap, which is COW
cred with q flannel apron, beneath
which is Il square of rubber cloth.
Only the part of the body being wash
ed at any time should be kept un-
covered. So the apron must be large
enough to envelop the child. 4 soft
turkish towel or flannel blanket may
be used instead of the flannel apron.
Temperature of Water.
When the hJhV has been bdthed IN
this way it is dipped into q tub of
warm, not hot, water. Some experts
advise body temperature for this inn
mersion, but 100 is excellent. a bath
thermometer should he used. and the
water should he a little above the
desired heat when first put in the tub.
so that it will gradually get lower
during the time taken in washing the
baby.
Hold Baby Right.
When lifting the child Hrom the lap
20 put into the water be sure that one
hand supports the head and neck
while the other SuStainS the trunk and
legs. While the baby is very tiny the
mothers hands should be kept as de
scribed during the whole time the
baby is in the water, which, of course,
is lust While the child is dipped once
or twice. Then 1t is laid on the
mothers lap, again covered with the
blanket and each part of the body
thoroughly dried, while powder or an
emulsion is used. No draughts. even
warm ones, should come on the infant
at any time.
If Baby Cries.
The nurse gives the infant its first
bath. 1t is one that requires skill,
r,,.,,tira and Special care. Unless the
nurse Is called away before the
mother is strong enough to battle the
baby, she should do it once or twice
under the nurses supervision. DO not
expect the baby to keep from crying
during the bathing. Most babies do
cry then and it does them no harm
unless the mother gets fiustered ana
does not battle 1t carefully or thor
oughly enough.
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LANSBURGH & BRO.
THE PALAIS ROYAL
S. KAHN SONS & co.
DULIN & MARTIN co.

Finch. W. A., 2414 18th st. NV.
b. M. Flynn. 651 Pa. Ave. Sc.
Goldstein. NJ. 905 H ST. NE.
Haas. Fred NJ, cOO6 Rhode Island Ave.
Ha9snberx. J.. 1875 4 o. HE.
6snks. W. g.. q Son. 72a Tth 81. NV.
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MODE MINIATURES

The slave bracelet OF barbaric charm
again reappears against the white
background of milady's arm-just be
low or. just above the elbow. This
season they are distinguished. how
ever, by colored roundelles of jade
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v. L. Kelly. 1868 Ga. Ave. NV.
Kruger. B.. 2O1O 18th St NV
Landy. s. H., & Son. 1880 Ga. Ave NV.
MOlloy. T. j., 3243 NJ ST. NV.
Reardon. Thos. R.. 1905 Nichols Ave. Sc.
schutt. G. r.. 312o n st. MY.
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Berlin & Freeman, 603 Pa. Ave. Sc.
BrikhtwoOd Hdwe. Co., 5415 Ga. Ave. NV
Cavanaugh & Kendrick. 1878 NJ st. NV.
Cohen, NJ. ASH Ga. Ave. NV.
Cooper, Edward. 1902 18th st. NV.
Enamonx. Geo. -. 2o7, Pa. Avs.-S.E.
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Giving the Little Baby Its Bath
BY LYDIA LIE BARON WALKER

Giving baby n bath is one of the
dellshtful experiences Of young
motherhood. The tiny child is SO
precious! 1T must be handled with
care, Yet the bath must be thorough
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Copyright. 1925.)

| Across.
| /. Function of an angle lin trigo
nometry).
| 5. a tree.
| s. Jewels.
| y. Raven.
| Is. ROuma MAN coin.
| IA. Existing.
Is. Proposed International language.
| 16. Female sheep.
| IS. South American city.
81. one hundred and one Romanl.
| 2l. Prefix: into.
%. Fabulous bird.
%. Confusion.
"a. Printed notice.
IS. Three-toed sloth,
IS. Placed.
| 81. Head covering.
| %. Prefix: again.
%. 100 Romam.
| 80. Gold heraldryl.
| 81. Seasoned.
80. Intellect plural noun.
| SO. Falsehood.
| 80. Prefix: three.
IL. Cut off u covering layer
| 43. Satiate.
AS. Sun god
IS. Ostrich-like bird
~. Belonging 20 him
| 30. Toward.
| 81. Southern constellation
| %. Morning (abbr.).
| "a. Medical degree.
| %. Make a mistake
| 80. Ridicule.
| SO. Gained.
| 50. Devours
| 81. Hasten.
| 81. Roman date.
| Down
| /. ShrilI cries.
| ,. Covertly sarcastic.
-. Negative.
| :. Water jars.
| >. Choose.
! 6. French definite article.
{. Brother-in-law of Napoleon
S. Hostler
| g. Engineering degree.
| 10. Spaghetti-like food.
II. Those who slip along
| II. Sorrow.
10. Highest mountain in Crete.
| 80. Edge.
80. Group of players.
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Presence of Mind.

OIIe MOINeT Says.
l read or tell my children tales OF
bravery or presence Of mind displayed
by other children. We frequently dis
cuss ina ginary cases and decide what
would be the best thing to do in the
given case. For instance, | might say
to one of them: IF you were crossing
the street and hadn't seen an APP
preaching automobile, what would you
do when you saw il coming rapidly
toward YOU" And he would answer
promptly, I'D keep right on so the
driver would know which way to turn
to avoid hitting me" I believe that
sucn training will help them to exer-
else presence of mind in the time of
danger.
Copyright. 1920
Finland Will build an oil harbor at
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Algeria is increasing monthly its
imports of American barrel slaves.
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Finland Will build an oil harbor at
Sandudden, Helsingfors.
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BARBER & ROSS
GOLDENBERG'S

Takoma Hdwe. Co.. Takoma Park.
UlIman. s.. 177S U st. NV.
Walls, ii. F., 1O6 18th st. Sc.
Walls. W. r.. 739 Sth st. Sc.
Winston. ". r., 2e1s 14th ST. NV,
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Continued in Tomorrow STAR
Evening star., 1925-12-27
FAMINE RAMPANT in HARD-COAL
REGION, THOUSANDS SUFFERING
Strikers Driven to Desperation by Plight of Freezing,
Starving Women and Chdren-Usual Gay
Christmas Mocking Tragedy This Year.

welfare of those who are better fitted
to battle the long period of idleness.
Famine stalks in the desolate areas
of blackened and weather-beaten col
leries. 1t is no dream, no picture. but
is a heart scene Of dire suffering,
smoldering tempest, which may break
forth at any time into demonstration
that will long be remembered. Peace,
arbitrationS, Settlement-theSe Will
o'-wiSpS are fitting ever and anon
Rumors succeed rumors and vanish
as each new move seems destined to
fail. Each side refuses to give an
inch, the deadlock is one which may
last a week, a month. six months. or
until the desperation of those i'm
mediately concerned and those lesser
sufferers, the consumers, arise and
force a settlement. Hunger will not
he the urge of sacrifice on the part
of miners.
If this had been the case the settle
ment would have been reached weeks
ago when the first real hardships
were being felt by the thousands of
people living in the greatest anthracite
producing field in the world.
Today real problem is at hand.
Local charities have almost reached
the END of their resources. The Red
Cross has taken a hand and has done
Continued on Page 3, Column 81
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G. 0. P. TO SUPPORT
FARM COMMISSION
Administration Offers Ex-
port Body to Aid in Dis
posaI of SurpIuses.
By G.. GOULD LINCOLN.

The administration is ready TO sup
port A plan for Government board
or commission to aid the farmers in
the disposal OF their surplus products,
it was made clear by Secretary Jar
dine of the Department of -Asricul.
ture. following conferences yesterday
with President Coolidge and Repre-
sentative Dickinson of Iowa.
The administration has not. how
ever, changed its position in opposi-
tion TO the Government going into
the business OF buying and selling
farm products. or otherwise seeking TO
fix prices. the Secretary said.
Furthermore. it has developed that
many OF the farm leaders in Congress
and out who have hitherto demanded
the adoption OF the Nary
plan for an export corporation to buy
and sell surplus products, particu
larly for export, have aba ndoned the
idea. They are ready to reach an
agreement with the administration.
it is said, for the adoption of some
such plan as outlined by Secretary
Jardine. y
Board to Have Wide Powers.
This plan Conemplates the crea-
tion of a commission under the De
partment of Agriculture, with broad
powers to assist the farmers and
their cooperative orga niZationS. with
the aid of private capital and the
banks, to handle a surplus, 80 that
the prices of farm products may not
be forced to a point where the
producers cannot realize reasonable
profit or may be forced to suStdn
a loss.
Serious efforts are to Je made to
put such plan into leEi-Ative form
Congress.
This legislation will be in addition
to and supplemental of the admins
trationls bill already introduced in
both houses of Congress placing the
Government sQuarely behind the CO.
Operative movementland providing for
the creation of a division of coop
erative marketing in the Department
of Agriculture.
Secretary Jardine plans a series Of
conferences in January with farm
leaders and editors. 1t is his hope
that in these conferences it will be
possible to reach an agreement salts
factory to the farmers generally. His
idea is to have the conferences COM
pleted by the end of January so that
Congress will have the benefit of any
Continued on Page 8, Column A.
Evening star., 1925-12-27
NEAR-zERO MARKS
DUE HERE TONIGHT.
Cold Wave Sweeps This
Way-30 Below in Mime
sota-6 Die in Chicago.

With a cold wave sweeping down
from the North. temperatures of 80
below in Minnesota and the zero mark
reached last night as far south as
southern Iowa and Illinois. Washing
ton is in for increasingly colder
weather, with prospect of the mercury
sliding down to within a few degrees
of zero by tomorrow morning.
These reports from the Weather Blu
reau last night left no hope for an
early let-up of the cold spell which
dropped in on the Capital with the
departure of Christmas and may lin
ger several days.
Advancing Cold Wave.
Prediction by the forecaster yester-
day that this morning would see tenn.
perature around IA degrees above
zero were followed by further indica-
tions of the advance of the cold wave
toward the East and South, with
chances of even Florida catching
killing frosts" or below freezing tenn
the State by Monday. Heavy frosts
may even penetrate deep into central
Florida, according to the forecast.
No snow was in sight last night for
Washington, the forecaster predicting
fair and colder for Sunday night, with
Monday fair and continued cold
A sinister indication of the breath
of old Winter up in Canada was said
to be the barometer, which, In various
parts of Manitoba and Saskatchewan
rose to the unusual high of 3l.10 and
31.15 inches. according to reports to
the Weather Bureau
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'They Got My Goat Says Artist
As He Quits White Collars and Tea

is all right as place where pictures
can so after they are painted, but
they will take any artist who is
worth his salt and they'll strangle
him. If you're going to do anything
worth wasting material. you've got
to get out and settle it by yourself"
From Vera Cruz, Hart plans to
travel across the Isthmus of Tehaun-
tepec to Salina Cruz and from there
go to Tehauntepec, where he will
make his home outside the cfty
among the OaXaca and Thuanas In
dianS.
There's marvellous stuff to be
painted in Mexico" he said, "and I'm
going to be down at Tehauntepec a
long, long time. I'm through with
civilization, except for an occasional
visit, for as long as I live"
Hart set out confidently on his
quest for men with hair on their
chests"
Travelling, he said. is no novelty to
him as he has lived in the South
Sea Islands, Alaska. Egypt and other
out-of-the'Way places,
Evening star., 1925-12-27
j. s. PARLEy ACTION
GRAT|F|ES FRANCE
Decision to Attend Geneva
Arms Conference Relieves
Paris Uneasiness.
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN

BY Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News
PARIS, December 26.-French .po-
litical leaders connected With the
League of Nations received With sat
isfaction the announcement that Presi-
dent Coolidge intends sending an
American delegatiop<o participate in
the leagues disapTament conference.
Certain uneasfness at first prevailed
because it <as rumored that the ac-
ceptanCe[hy the United States would
he subject to the condition that the
new disarmament parley should take
place at Washington. Announcement
delegate to Geneva was received with
great relief.
The Importance of the meeting to be
held at Geneva February Is must not,
however, be exaggerated.
The task of the delegates who are
going 10 the league capital on that
day is to prepare an agenda for the
conference which, according 10 tho
estimates of even the most optimistic
experts, will last at least eighteen
months. The only objects of the Feb
ruary meeting are to get acquainted
with the general program dra fled by
the council of the league and to es-
tablish a program for the study of
topics which will come up during the
long conference.
Difficulties. of course, are contem-
plated from the very beginning of the
preliminary meeting. The general pro-
gram established by the council pro-
vides discussion of land as we'll al
naval disarmament. This program has
been accepted by practically all of the
nations. except Great Britain, whose
delegates insist that the two questions
be disa associated. In order to comply
with this demand of the British, new
decision of the council will be neces-
sary, and the western powers won't
bother any longer to ask the Rus
slams to participate in any disarma-
mant conferences.
Copyright, 1925. by Chicago Daily News CO..
Evening star., 1925-12-27
COAL GAS BLAMED
IN HARRIS DEATHS
Discovery Leads to Release
of Husband Held After
Christmas Tragedy.

The Christmas day tragedy in the
Trueman Leon Harris bungalow at
4429 p street, in which Mrs. Harris
and her year-old son John lost
their lives and two others were made
i'll. one critically, was caused by the
escape of carbon monoXide gas from
the furnace.
In arriving at this conclusion yes
terday afternoon, Coroner J. Ramsay
hewitt issued certificates of acci-
dental death in both cases, based on
reports of an autopsy made TO him
by Deputy Coroners Rogers and
Martyr and DR.. Oscar 3. Hunter.
chemist. The conclusions of Drs.
Rogers and Martyr. who performed
the autopsy, were born out by the
blood examination conducted by DR..
Rogers, who reported definite re-
action to carbon monoxide gas.
Meanwhile, Mrs. Mary f. Beyer of
Schenectady, mother of Mrs. Harris
and on a Christmas holiday visit to
her daughters family, lies uncon-
scious at Emergency Hospital-the
same condition when found shortly
after 8 o'clock Friday afternoon by a
hospital physician. Because of this.
physicians are unable to make much
headway in treating her case and lit
tie hope was held out last night for
her recovery.
Youngsters Better.
Two others concerned-James w.
Harris, four years old, and Mary Lo-
rena Harris, two years old. are out
of danger. James, who was found on
the bed with his grandmother, is re-
covering rapidly at Emergency Hos
pital while little Mary, apparently
unaffected by the unseen, odorless
fumes that permeated the household,
still is being carefully watched at
Georgetown University Hospital.
The grief-stricken father, who had
been held at the seventh precinct po-
lice station for nearly "a hours pend
ing an outcome of a subsequent in
vestigation. was at the home of his
father, 3171 Eighteenth street, suffer
ing from shock. 1t was he who dis
covered the bodies of his dead wife
and dying son about , O'Clock FRIDAY V
afternoon. and sounded the alarm.
Immediately on hearing the results of
the autopsy yesterday afternoon, Capt.
L. J. Stoll of the seventh precinct re-
leased Harris. Called TOR by relatives,
he was taken to the Eighteenth street
address and there collapsed.
Inquest Unnecessary.
There will be no inquest over the
two bodies, Coroner hewitt declared
last night, explaining nothing can be
accomplished by bringing this man
CHarris) before a coroner's jury AL
ready he has been submitted to enough
harassing."
The carbon monoxide conclusion of
the coroner's deputies cleared UP a
perpleXing problem in the minds of
hospital physicians and police who
while unable to give the cause of the
deaths, leaned toward the theory of
ptomaine poisoning. A faint odor of
gas was said to have been detected by
police on entering the Harris home
Christmas afternoon but this was dis
PEELED because of the wide difference
in the condition of the occupants. The
food theory, therefore, was followed
closely, the immunity of Mary from
the illness was explained as being due
to the fact she was not fed solid foods
from the table.
Coroner hewitt, in making an in
vestigation Of the case, said last night
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Pope Will Avoid Appearance of Meddling
With U. S. Issue in Reply to Dry Law Plea

BY Cable to The Star and New York World.
ROME, December 26. Pope Plus
has received the message of the
American United Committee for Pro-
hibition Enforcement, but is reserved
concerning his reply.
The view is taken that while the
Catholic Church teaches temperance,
it does not and cannot support the
whole program of the prohibitionists
because Christ Himself countenanced
the drinking of wine, as more than
once set forth in the New Testament.
The reply of the Pope is likely to
take the form of conciliatory advice
which will be disseminated through
the local church authorities. rather
than any explicit utterance for rr
against the prohibition program. 1t
Evening star., 1925-12-27
SHENANDOAH HERO
HELD IN DRY CASE
Sightseers Ruined Farm So He Had
to Bootleg, Man Will Tell
Grand Jury.
By the Associated Press.

BELLEVILLE. Ohio. December 26.
How the wrecking of the Navy dirig-
ible Shenandoah on his farm near
Ava, Ohio, last September, caused the
ruin of his farm and drove him to
bootlegging. is the story Andy Canary
is prepared to tell the Noble County
grand jury. Canary, one of the he
roes of the disa ster, is now in Jail
awaiting grand jury action. having
been recently arrested for possessing
liquor. Contrary to stories published
after the wreck that Canary and
other farmers of the neighborhood
would become rich by collections from
sightseers and by compensation paid
by the Government, Canary says the
accident ruined him.
When the wreck took place, Gam
airy relates he had a nice little truck
garden all ready for harvesting. What
was not destroyed by the wreckage
was trampled by the sightseers and
his well. drained bone dry on the day
of the wreck still remains so. So he
says he was forced to seek another
occupation.
When officers raided Gamary's place
they found him in bed and for safe
keeping he had taken his still to bed
with him.
Evening star., 1925-12-27
SPECIAL Dispatch to The Star.

SCRANTON. Pa. December 20
While children OF the Nation today
are gleefully playing with the toys
and knicknacks from Santa Claus,
and while they are munchina the
cakes and sweets of the Yuletide,
there is quite different picture being
enacted throughout the coal regions
of Pennsylvania. where for four
months the anthracite miners have
been idle.
Instead of the gay hearts of all.
there is the bread line, the soup
kitchens and the constant milling OF
grim-faced miners waiting for some
power to intervene to give them back
their jobs, but yet stubbornly fighting
on and on until what they term as
Just demands" are met by the coal
operators. Children are crying for
bread crusts and cherishing them as
they have the candies and cakes of
Christmas seasons in the past. Fam
lilies are living on almost bread and
water, the health of the people is be-
ing undermined the restlessness of
good order is fast giving away to
daring which BODIES lawlessness and
desperate disregard for society or the
Evening star., 1925-12-27
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW ORLEANS, December 60
George Hart, New York artist and
president of the Brooklyn Society Of
Etchers, sailed from New Orleans for
Vera Cruz today on the first leg of
a fight from civilization.
Hart, whose etchings hang in New
York's Metropolitan Museum, the
Eritism Museum and South kensing-
ton Museum in London, said he was
in full fight from white collars and
cups of tea. They got my goat" )"
he said.
IF you're going to paint picture
that's worth painting or etch plate
worth etching, you've got to so off
in corner by yourself and suffer"
continued the artist, whose friends
call him Pop
You can't do it wearing white
collar and holding a tea cup and sit
ting around with a bunch of artists
talking art with d capital A Civili-
zation. with white collars and steam
heated houses. subways and taxicabs,
Evening star., 1925-12-27
DRUSE PEACE REPORTED.
Chiefs Said to Have Accepted
French Proposals.

LONDON, December 26 R.-An
Exchange Telegraph dispatch from
Bagdad gives a report brought by a
convoy from Syria that the chiefs of
the Druse tribesmen in Syria have
accepted peace proposals offered by
the French authorities.
An armistice was reported to have
been signed several days ago between
the Druse tribesmen and the new
French high commissioners in Syria,
Henri de Jouvenal. This report came
from Cairo, Egypt. The French for
eign office admitted that negotiations
looking to peace were going on in
Syria, but that no final signature had
vet been affixed. 1t was admitted,
however. that signing Of an armistice
at any moment would not surprise the
foreign office.
Evening star., 1925-12-27
S135,OOO DAMAGE
|NALEXANDR|AF FIRE
Four Men Injured and Navy
Torpedo Plant Threat
ened for Time.

Four volunteer firemen were in
jured and property damage estimated
ut sl35. 900 to sl45.0O0 caused by
flames which partly destroyed two
large brick warehouses at Alexandria
late Yesterday and threatened Il
naval torpedo plant containing 500
100000 worth of unloaded shells.
The victims were:
Leo Lyons. fell several feet from
A wet roof and suffered serious in
ternal injuries.
Clarence Padsett. cut on head by
falling brick. Not serious.
Frank Simpson, fingers lacerated
by glass in breaking window for
hose. Not serious.
Tom Rowen. struck by fire truck
and knee injured. Not serious.
All were treated at thsc Alexan-
dria Hospital, and. with the excep-
ton of Lyons, went-to their homes.
Started ju Warehouse.
The fire, largest in Alexandria
since the obstruction last Summer of
the Nati6oal Fruit and Products Co.
and the second recently in which
serious injuries have been suffered
- firemen, originated in the rear Of
the four story warehouse of Holstein,
Harvey, Kirk & Co, dealers in gro
ceries and bottled goods, on King
street between Union and Strand.
The adjoining structure, occupied by
the same company, became ignited
before arrival of the firemen. who
were summoned by Steve Davis.
Davis rushed into the warehouse and
telephoned an alarm.
Although the walls of the buildings
We're left standing, practically the
whole interior was damaged by
either fire or water.
The origin of the fire is unknown
and there was nc estimate of the
damage given. However, the build,
ings were said to be valued at be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000 and are said
to have contained about SIS 900 worth
of goods. A large crowd looked on
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