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Evening star., 1925-02-15

Miss A. e. Hopkins and Mrs. Selden
| Ely made short talks, and refresh
| me7ts were served
meeting Of thu Weightman Parent
Teacher Association was held Febru-
airy with the vice president, Mrs. NJ.
| j. Hanley. in the chair. The second
grade under the direction of the teacher,
Mrs. Thaden, gave play. The fifth
grade won the attendance banner.
The Cranch- Tyler Parent Teacher
Association had an enjoyable evening
at the Hines Junior High on Febru-
ary 5, playing five hundred and bridge
The money raised will be used for the
school The next meeting will be held
, tomorrow at the Tyler School.
Roy H. Wolfe, president of West As
sociation. opened the meeting February
8. Mrs. Brindley, entertainment chair
man, presented the following program:
Pageant OF American History in Poems
by American authors: Our Flag" Jack
Dibble; Columbus" Sidney Zlotrich:
Landing OF the Pilgrims" Regina
Gutenberg: Independence Bell" Alex
ander Mckenzie and Louise Fenton:
Miss Newman, vocalist. "The Star
Commoner,'' Mae Rasdan: Address at
Gettysburg" Author Carroll: "Oh Cap
tain, My Captain Virginia Sutton:
Robert E. Lee" Arthur Stewart: "The
Blue and the Gray" Mildred Walker.
Eleanor Mary Johnson and Jane Gard
ner; MY Fellow, My Lad" Mrs. F.
Brindley; The American Flag"
Eugene Fensteadt. Address-"Palriot
ism and Reverence" DIR. James Shera
Montgomery. Appropriations were made
for additional chairs for assembly pur-
poses; pictures for second hall and to the
Congress of Parent Teacher Associa tions
toward expense of printing the monthly
bulletin. Louis Gutenberg spoke on the
reduction from the Budget Bureaus
figures in the District of Columbia ap-
preparation bill for the public library
and its effect upon the operation of u
children's department in the new
Mount Pleasant branch. President
Wolfe appointed committee of George
Bean, Frederick Stelzer, Mr. Gutenberg,
chairman, to urge upon members of the
appropriations committee in Congress
restoration of the budget estimates.
A meeting of the Bryan Parent
Teacher Association will .be held in the
Evening star., 1925-02-15

Adjt. James f. Smith OF Col Jane.
S.. Petit Camp, at the camp meeting
last Tuesday night, spoke of the i'm
portance of increasing the attendance
at meetings.
Department Commander Arthur H
| League addressed the camp on the
| Maine memorial exercises at Arling
| ton.
| Junior Vice Department Commando
Edward ]. Nolan also spoke.
Department Inspector John A. G
Shuster made an official inspection o.
| the camp.
At the last meeting Of Admiral George
Dewey Naval Camp a short business
session was held at the Masonic Tenn
pie, Eighth and F streets northeast. A
public installation Of officers was held
William /. Jenkins, department install.
ing officer, assisted by Comrade Cur
rier, acting as master Of ceremonies, in
stalled the officers. The Boys Inde-
pendent Band, under the direction OF
Leader kidwell, furnished the music
The following officers were installed
for the ensuing year: Commander
William Lynch senior vice comman-
der, James A. Burns; junior vice COM
mander, Casper Orange; adjutant, John
H. Ford; quartermaster, Charles V.
lIOuSHcI cHd plain, DOlenan ,
officer of the day, j. Lockhart: officer
Of the guard, James Smith; historian,
A. j. Beaupre; patriotic instructor, A.
j. kimmel; trustee, William J. O'Don-
nell; color sergeant, James Purcell;
chief musician, George B. Parker.
A turkey dinner, prepared by COM
mittee from the Dewey Auxiliary, Mrs
Orange, chairman. was held. Past Camp
Commander J. w. Hartman gave a
brief talk and then requested Andrew
j. kfmTel to act as POSTMASTER.
Past Commander-in- Chief l.. c. Dyer,
member Of Congress from Missouri,
gave an Interesting talk on the begin
ming Of the organization, the organ
tzation Of Gen. Nelson A. Miles Camp
of this city, the first one to be estab-
lished, and followed the work of the
United Spanish War Veterans up to the
present day. Mrs. Katherine Lawson.
chief ruler Of the Lineal Society Of the
Spanish War, pledged the support of
the Lineals to the good and welfare
Of the Spanish War Veterans.
Past Department Commander Will
lam L. Mattock spoke of the progress
of the organization and the growth Of
the camps and auxiliaries Department
Commander League. on behalf Of the
members, presented Past Commander
Mattocks with an electric lamp. Past
Department Commander Charles w.
McCaffrey made a presentation speech
and decorated Past Camp Commander
w. J. ODonnell with a past camp COM
manders jewel presented to him by
Dewey Camp for his work as camp
Among others who spoke were De-
partment President Nora NJ. Albers, of
the ladies' auxiliaries; Department Com
mander Briscoe Goodheart Of the
Grand Army Of the Republic; Capt. w.
c. Cluverius. United States Navy; R.
l.. Dean, past department commander
of the Grand Army of the Republic;
Frederick c. Lucas, junior vice depart
ment commander of the Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Commander William
Lynch, and Past Commander w. ].
O'Donnell.
Senior Cayetano de Quesado. Cuban
consul and honorary member of Rich
ard j. Harden Camp, spoke of the love
and esteem which the people of Cuba
hold for the veterans of 1898, and
Dewey Camp for the stand
Evening star., 1925-02-15

nest building. And you can find in
sheltered places bits of tiny yellow
peeping up from the just thawed
earth-fragile bits, boosted upward
by hard-fisted buds that serve as
Moral tanks to break the crust of
harder-fisted cIods
Sparrows should know better, Of
course, being here the, year round
and doubtless they do. but the make
believe that nest time has come may
an1use them, just as. way off in quiet
streets, little children chalk lines for
hop-scotch and like street games-so
eager are they for the truly Spring.
One native who bankers for Spring,
for reasons of her own-though, of
course, being human, she doesn't risk
pneumonia by discarding Winter furs
just because couple OF warm days
come along-was saunterinE through
the Capitol grounds that last day that
May visited February, planning what
she would like to have in her garden
1t Is a humiliating fact that she has
no garden, and expects to have none,
but, anyhow
She had planted rows Of sunhowers
along the back fence all in full
bloom, with standards OF hollyhocks-
the ofd-time ones-and tangIes of
morning gloTies up the paltngS and
strailinE In pinky-purple blooms over
the grass; and was just getting ready
to thin out carnations-meaning
pinks-whtn along comes an ac-
quaintance who calls out Good
bordig!" in voice that the 'fu". had
robbed OF half the alphabet
The native stepped out of her gar
den into the asphalt path Of the
grounds and said, by way of answer:
Lovely morning, isn't it? Feels
like SPRING
"Dode talk to be aboud feedig like
SpriE! 1t was so warb yesterday that
l took on by heavy udderwear-ad see
what 4 code hab."
Which is just a mere snat OF
tribe to show that some humans can
be as trustful as birds and flowers
without the slightest excuse
Evening star., 1925-02-15

best way to be good is to have loving
thoughts"
No child could have a better doctor
than a wise old mummy like that.
And where could you fnd another
doctor that would prescribe without
IT costing money?
THE woman who felt herself en-.
i titled to free cake with plums in
1t likewise felt inclined just then for
consenial companionship OF her own
age. SO she kited over to the new
museum and spent an hour with pre-
historic man.
First she traced him to a place of
vast silence. where Diana Of the
Tides" looks down from her frame
upon dinosaurs OF other tide. that
ebbed and flowed until Omnipotence
gulped the last wave and turned the
dregs into deserts. Then she trailed
him to another hall of dreams inhab-
gifted than their dumb brothers of
Israel, spoke to her OF lonely cons
when earth's ffrst brown creatures
Clipped rocks with never a premoni-
ton Of the science that was to SCOOP
them from oblivion ana name them
prehistoric men.
They were stocky gods with indis-
tinct faces. chiseled by some Phidias
too crude TO fashion other expression
than the sinister serenity of the cat
that killed the canary. But they
were not in sociAble mood The
sculptor had given each a body. but
failed to add that inscrutable some
thing that most Of us know as soul
and that some call lack OF expression.
And while the woman was trying
to unriddle the why Of such persistent
aloofness-
, Gloriously boisterous chuckles bub-
bled out in the tomb-like quiet Man
had come along with two larkfsh
girls, and as he bubbIed off 1t came
to her that, though the present-day
brother may lack the mysterious
glamour of his predecessor, he is a lot
more cheerful than prehistoric man
And cheerfulness is splendid thing.
RIRDS and flowers ar. trusting
~ little things. Just give them A
few days of warm sunshine, and off
start the sparrows to chAtterins over
Evening star., 1925-02-15
AROUND THE CITY
BY Mamie Lancaster.

child standing before the case-such
a small child that she stumbled over
the reading Of the tag and had to be
corrected by the woman who had har
In charge. But she was an intently
interested youngster, and refused to
bulge when the woman, In q voice
that sounded As sweet pickle tastes,
insisted that she stop soaring herself
over the horrid thing and come on"
wait a minute, Susie. / can almost
hear what he is saying"
But Susie didn't want to wait. She
pulled the child away with the au-
thority Of a nurse who has parental
control and makes the most of il.
There you 60 again! II you don't
stop your foolixhnsss, the doctor will
put you right back to bed again and
make you take more medicine. As IL
that old thing could talk! He couldn't
say 3 word to you. honey child
Il didn't say he said II, Susie.
said / could almost hear him say It.
That's what I said. Susie"
We'll. all right, darling. Go on.
now you are started. so you won't
what the old fellow was talking
about, anyhow"
He didn't 'zactly say 1t in words: ::
he just made me think he said it
that it's awful to be dead as lons As
he 10. Susie. unless you are good when
you are alive. And the best way to
be good IL to have loving thoughts
for everybody. ia like to bo good
like that, Susie"
''Ch. huh. Well must say for
him he sounds better than he looks
Coma on now, sweetheart, and lets
see what the stuffed birds are doins
today"
The withered, grinning think that
had been a man creature 30 centuries
before the Christ walked the earth
had spoken TO childs magination
And his lesson was the same lesson
taught on the mount
1T Is awful to be dead unless you
have been good while alive. And the
Evening star., 1925-02-15

r DON by all the clocks In
Washington, not counting ir-
responsible wrist watches.
Noon means lunch time. which
accounted. for young la
Evening star., 1925-02-15

You mean you couldn't. There's a
difference
That was all there was to II, but
to listenerin it seemed that the
man on the girder stood for progress.
And progress is the thing that runs
the world.
THE next time your vanity rebels
at the injustice of a world that
makes you work for bread when by
rights you ought to be feasting on
free cake with plums in it, go over
to the Smithsonian and call on that
mummy that died 1900 years before
Christ" He will do you more good
than box Of pills. And the prescrip-
tion won't cost you q cent.
One time you would have found a
Evening star., 1925-02-15
JAPANESE GO HOME.

VANCOUVER, b. c.. February II
Three cruisers, the Asama, Yakima
and 1dzumo, training ships of the
Japanese navy, which arrived in
British Columbia waters February 2,
on the last part of a 2o,000-mile
cruise, started for home via Honolulu
today.
In taking leave, vice Admiral
Naburo Hyakutake issued an oficial
message TO the government and the
people of Canada, expressing deep
appreciation for their hearty welcome
An Investigation in the deaths of
IL seamen of the Idzumo by a COL
lision in the harbor here, February ..
caused a delay in departure Of several
days.
Evening star., 1925-02-15

assembly hall of the school February
20 at 7:30 pm. S. NJ. Ely, supervising
principal. will address the meeting.
The Bradley Mothers Club met Mon
day afternoon with Mrs. G. p Leishear
presiding. An appropriation was made
to buy reference books for the sixth
grade also for the purchase of two
new flags for the classrooms. The
Schick test has been given recently to
l40 children of the school. 1t was de-
cided that the next meeting be held at
night at 206 Fourteenth street south
west so that all the parents could
attend.
Evening star., 1925-02-15
LIBRARY GETS GIFT.
Miss Mary Benton Gives Notable
Postal Cards.

The Iicture collection of the Public
Library Nas been increased recently
by gifr from Miss Mary Benton of
several thousand postal cards, collect
ed from the European countries.
Canada and the United States. Many
are Photographic reproductions, while
others are in sepia, or artistically
colored. A noteworthy feature is the
number of pictures of cathedrals, both
exterior and interior views, showing
the architectural details, frescos,
carvings and paintings. Points of in
terest in the towns where the cathe-
drals are located are also portrayed.
The picture collection of the Public
Library now includes $4,000 mounts,
and circulates 100000 mounts yearly,
especially to teachers for use in their
classrooms. and to artists and design
ers for commercial and illustrative
purposes.
Evening star., 1925-02-15

man, and the two
were s m o X ! n e
their pipes and
presumably pass
ng the time OF
day.
Down on earth h
one man craned
his neck upward
and said to his
companion:
Look at that
chap up on top OF
that girder. will
you? I wouldn't
be where he Is for
a million dollars"
The companion
sized up the sit
uation and cor
rected the others
Evening star., 1925-02-15

The February number Of the Dis
trict of Columbia Parent-Teacher
Magazine will be ready for distribu-
tion Tuesday. The editor, Mrs. Will
liam Wolff Smith, will present the
name of a business manager for the
stan of the magazine for confirma-
ttion by the organization.
Evening star., 1925-02-15

Mrs. Louis Castel, chairman in
charge of conventions, will present a
unique plan to the organization
Tuesday. The convention of the Ma
t1onal Congress of Parents and
Teachers Will take place in Austin,
Tex, the last week in April, and the
District of Columbia must send at
least two delegates
Evening star., 1925-02-15

Norway's coast line-1,T00 miles in
straight line-hecomes over 10000
miles If followed round the fjord.. In
these fjords are over 10000 islands
Evening star., 1925-02-15

borer to be taking his ease on a
girder that shot high in the air.
On a lofty scaffolding, reassuringly
lashed to a wall, sat another york
Evening star., 1925-02-15
RemODe Rust and Ink
Stains Safely

with the handy Erusticator Pencil.
No injury to fabrics or to fast coIors !;
ATE as convenient. Just dip the pencil
into water, moisten rust stain and rinse
n clear water. Equally effective treat
nsnt in same handy PEN n
kiI holder for Ink and H.
ktker staIns. To be had at III
Iominent drug and dry
oods stores in Washing. SE
|on.
6teriing Products Company, z
Easton. Pa.
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1925-05-28
NOTAs DE FORTALEZA

y r y rf
Ell Gobernaddr ha aprobado el
nombramiento hecho favor del
senior Tulio Rodriguez Muniz,
Juez de la Corte Municipal de Ca
guas, para que actlie como Juez
de la Corte Municiual de Hunna-
Gao en- un case criminal pendiep-
te ante esta Ultima Corte en- el
que el Juez propietario esta in
capacitado para actuar.
FL Gobernador ha expedido pa
saporte para todos los paises, al
senior Rafael M. Shuck Y esposa;
senior Francisco Soto Gras y es-
posa, de San Juan; sefor Felix
Morges, de Naguabo; para Vene-
zuela, al senior Manuel Rodriguez !;
senor osvaldo Martinez, y .senor
Julian Yequis, todos de San
Juan; para Colombia, Venezuela
y Brasil, al selor Antonio D'Acos-
ia Morales, de Mayagiiez, y para
Espana, al senor Candido Marie
70, de Lares.
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1925-05-28
Para AncianOS AchaCOsOs y
Enferm0S

uL nuevo regoc.jo para los ancianos
y peTsonas mayores que sc sienten can
s9dos y gastados con los trabajos de Ia
vida.
Millares de personals estan tomando
una preparation Tamada Nuga- Tone IN
forman haber reclbido maravtl1oso alivio
e. uEos pocos d5as. lPor que? Porque
ss una preparation que reconstituye Ia
ssLgre, nervios. musculos v Ell s-stema
eE general. Produce buen apetito, esti-
mula Ell higado, los rifiones y hace que
los intestin0s sc muevan con regu aridad.
Es iragnifico, para la indigestion, him
chamiento del est6mago, dolores de cabe
"a. estrehimiento lengua saburrosa. gusto
desagradable en- la boca, deseos frecWen
tes de orinar. NAL suefo y ese malestaI
irquietud que Sc siente por las mana
mas
S: su medico aIn no Sc 10 ha recetado,
vaya donde su boticario consiga un
frasco. Su nombre es Nuga- Tone. Es Ia
medicina de los pobres pues cualquiera
puede consegu,r la cantidad sufciente
para un mes por solo la cantidad de S1.00
Es agradable para tomarlo. Ensayelo por
unos pocos dias; usted NADIA puede per-
der porQue debe darle complete salts
faction o de 10 contrario su boticarto
con todo gusto ie devolvera su dinero. Es-
ia es la forma en- que es vendido. Yea
la garantia en- cada psquete.
Recomendado. garantizado de venta
poss todos los farlnaceuticos boticartos
Advt.
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1925-05-28
YEA I'D: AQUI ESTA
LO MAS NUEVO
FL Aceite de Higado de BacaIao
Viene Ahora en- Confites sin Gusto.
Ell Mas Grande Reparador de
Fucrzas.

Sonora, va no lloraran sus ni1os
debiles Y delgados cuando I'd. ne
cesite darles Aceite de Higa6o de
Bacalao. La ciencia medica progre-
sa rapidamente Y I'd. puede conse-
guir ahora en- todas las boticas, ell
verdadero Aceite de Higado de Ba-
calao en- pastillitas azucaradas que
tanto chicos como grande pueden
tonar con facilidad Y placer, du-
rante verano invierno.
El nuevo sistema le evita ell SUI
frimiento del nal sabor Y la con-
tinua repeticion estomacal. del acei-
te por su pesada asimilacion.
A los hombres, las mujeres v los
niiios que ,estan anemicos, debiles,
o delgados y que necesitan obtener
fuerzas o aumentar su peso, les
aconsejamos que tomen los conftes
de MCCOY de Aceite de Higado de
Bacalao Y 81 no aumentan cinco IL
bras en- treinta dias les devolvere-
mos su dinero.
Una sonora aumento ounce Ii
bras en- tres semanas, segun su mis-.
mo medico y otra, diez iibras en-
tres semanas. Un nino sumamente
enfermizo de nueve amos de edad
aumento doce libras en- siete meses
y en- la actualidad juega con sus
amiguitos v tiene un buen apeti-
to que no tuvo nunca. Pida las pas
tillas de Mccoy de Aceite de Hi
gado de Bacalao a su boticario y
| 81 81 no las tiene las podra COM
prar en- todas las buenas droguerfas.
Unicos Distributors para Puerto
Rico y Santo Domingo:
LEE-O'NEILL. COMPANY s
San Francisco "a -Telefono 719
San Juan, P. r..
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1925-05-28

Ger; que la fiesta del Dia de Es-
yes y otras fiestas mas hayan per-
dido su importancia estsn pun
to de ser anuladas. LA Legislatn-
ra, para ratifcar mis- palabras, aca-
ba, por medic de una Ley, lie de-
ciarar d1a de fiesta Official Ell dia
de los santos Reyes). Todavfa Sc
grtmos comiendo el apetecidc arrcz
con dulce para los dias de Navi-
dad, y el tiple, el giiiro, q cuatro,
la bordon1a, no han eamudecido
aLn en- nuestros campos. Todavia To
nemos Ell bohio y La namaca tan
buena en- donde he dormldo bas-
tantes siestas. No hemos perdido
|nuestra caracteristica de pueblo
mspano; nuestra alma esta intac-
ia, intocada.
En- fin, no Queremos cansar mas
al lector. Ell sefior Font salse to-
4 f
das estas cosas, v las sabe mejor
que yo. Es tan POGO juiciosc ese ata
que que solo Sc puede tomar como
ell desbordamiento de .mueha bills
que al fin ha encontrado una val
vula por donde escapar..~
v &c este hombre tan yilmente ca
lumniado, tan acerbamente critica-
do, cuya labor han querido manchar
muchos de sus compatriotas, al que,
posiblemente, volveran elegir los
"Cesares de Washington a pesar
de las bajas intrigas, de las iris
tes maquinaciones Y mucho mas, a
pesar de las acusaciones pueriles
del sefor Font.....
T.rANDRo
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1925-05-28
Ell JuEz MANzANo AvrNo

Entire los jueces municipales que
hemos tenido en- San Juan, figura
en- primera Inca, por sus conoci-
mientos y experiencia, ell Hon. Juez
Pedro Manzano Avff16. Sabemos
que en- la combination judicial, el
fgliraba para ocupar Ell cargo &c
Juez de la Corte de Distrito de
Guayama, ", sabemos tambien, qIe
tenia v tiene ell endoso de los Sc
nadores del Distrito para tai pues-
to. Hubo cambio de Attorney, Y
hoy quizas puedan zanzibar Las CO.
sas, pero, en- bien de La justicia,
creemos, que 81 ell rluevo Attorney
sigue respetando las aspiraciones
del pals, 81 sera nombrado juez de
Distrito en- Guayama. Seria un ac-
to de justicia que Sc haria Y por
clio habria que felicitar al pais.
Para Ell cargo de juez de la seccion
segunda de la certe Municipal de
esta ciudad, suenan los nombres
del Lcdos Garcia v del Lcdo. Car
ballefra Tambien ell nombre del Sc
nor Diaz Arana suena para venir
a San Juan, v entonces uno de les
renctonados pasarfa a ocupar en-
la isIa5 81 puesto del senior Diaz
sArana. LO que fuere sonara.
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CENTRAL

Ed1fic1o constru1do ekpresa meaus
para Hotel Modernamente euuipa-
do. con Aseensor. HabitacIones con
bafio. TeIefono. Timbres. Rarberfs
y cLaato reouiere Ell Moderno Com
fnrt
Plan EuropeO American Plan
Desde $1.OO a $50 BESIDE 2.50 8 10
Restaurant . la Carta- Cubierto -
SAN JosE NO. IA,
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1925-05-28

bien conocida por el pueblo puer-
torriqueno. Esa n1isma integri-
dad ellos Ia transmiten su De-
partamento. Adenas la labor de
este departamento es muy necesa-
ria porque un pueblo sin salud
no puede ser un pueblo feIiz. ESQ
nosotros somos los primeros en-
reconocerIo, por 10 que toda la
Dor realizada en- bien de Ia salud
del pueblo tiene nuestro aplauso.
Pero, nunca podriamos toierar
que los encargados de vigilar por
la salud que todos anhelamos,
sean parciales y tengan favore-
cidos en- el desempeHo de los de-
beres que su cargo les impone.
LuICHE.