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Evening star., 1925-02-26
GETS VIRGINIA CHARTER.
Railroad in Big Merger Is Given
Operating Rights.

RICHMOND, Va, February 26.-
The New York, Chicago and St. Louis
Railway Co. has been granted a char
ter by the Virginia Corporation Com
mission. The charter was issued in
connection with the consolidation of
that road with the Chesapeake and
Ohio, the Hooking Valley, the Erie
and the Pere Marquette systems.
Evening star., 1925-02-26
ST. PAUL RAILROAD MAY
AVOID RECEIVERSHIP
Rv DO Associated Pros.

NEW YORK, February 26.-Wall
Street attaches significance to the ex-
pected arrival in New York TODAY OF
II. T.. Byram, president of the Chi
cago, Milwaukee and st. Paul Railway.
in view of possible developments for
refunding the roads $4S,00O, 600 ma
turtles A feeling prevails in bank
ing circles, 1t is said, that owing to
the improved conditions in the rail
road field it will be possible to devise
n plan by which a receivership NAV
be averted.
Evening star., 1925-02-26
PARIS MARKET UNSTEADY.

PARIS, February 26.-Prices moved
srregularly on the Bourse today.
Three per cent rentes 48 francs 10
centimes. Exchange on London, 90
francs so centimes. Five per cent
loan, 81 francs 80 centimes. The dol
lar was quoted at 19 francs 40 cen
iixaess 49, -, l..4-l4. l., -
Evening star., 1925-02-26
Washington Stock Exchange

SALES.
Capital Traction Colo at e2Js 3 at 92b
10 at 92I5, l at 92h, at 9215
Wash Rwy. & Eec. com.-10 at 1o1% 10
at 1919, 80 at 101A, 10 at 1919. 10 al 102
Merchants Bank and Trust Co.-1O at I35
Lsnston Monotype-5 at so, 10 at so, 8 at
80, 10 at so. 10 at so.
AFTER CALL.
National Mtse. & Inv. pfd.-3o at 9I4, 80
at Ga.
Wash Rwy. EIec pfd.-1 at ST.
Merchants Bank and Trust Co.-1O at 134L
UNLISTED DEPT.
Chaplin Sacks IS pfd.-J at 90.
Money-Csll loans, and per cent.
Evening star., 1925-02-26
DIVIDEND DECLARED.

NEW YORK. February 26-The
Symington Co. declared a dividend of
5s cents share on the class A stock.
payable April 1 to holders of record
March 13. This represents 8 cents a
share for the period December II to
December 81, 1924, and the regular
quarterly payment Of 30 cents.
Evening star., 1925-02-26

NEW YORK, February 26.-Follow-
ing is an official list of bonds and
stocks traded in on the New York
Curb market today:
Evening star., 1925-02-26

Out of a population OF .47,747, 100
in England at the end of 1929. fe-
males outnumbered the men by
1.9ll. .a26.
Evening star., 1925-02-26
BEEF IS BIT HIGHER
AT CENTER MARKET
Butter and Eggs Remain
Steady-Cabbage Sales
Continue Very Slow.

Beef went up and eggs remained
stationary at wholesale at Center Mar
ket today. Poultry and live stock were
little changed.
Evening star., 1925-02-26
TRUST COMPANY
SAVINGS BANK.
FIRE INSURANCE.
TITLE INSURANCE
MISCELLANEOUS.

Columbia Title. ....-.......-... ia 81 -
Real Estate Title. ......--..... 135 las p
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Knock Knees.

Knees have come into vogue again.
Quite number of them are knocked
more or less. Knock knee or in knee
is officially designated genu valgum
and is usually rachitic deformity-
that is. it is an effect of ricketts, in
childhood. Mild grades of knock knee
are often due to static conditions, not
the static conditions which spoil all
the best radio stuff, but faults of pos
ture in children without physical edu-
cation. Some severe cases of knock
knee are after effects of tuberculosis
of the knee or of infantile paralysis.
A few cases of knock knee in adults
are the result of prolonged standing
in faulty postures and carrying heavy
loads-sometimes just loads of super
fuous flesh.
In knock knee the deformity may
be mainly in the upper end of the
tibia (the larger bone of the Lego, or
in the condyles or knobs Of the joint
end of the femur (thigh bone), or
both.
AS a rule. persons with knock knees
toe out mark eddy when walking. This
toeing out is in itself a cause of
knock knee. The ladylike posture or
carriage taught a generation ago re-
quired the poor things to toe out,
which was all in harmony with the
sickly, delicate effect then cultivat ed.
Even our soldiers were trained to toe
out up to the time of the great war
when the Army first learned about
physical education. Nowadays it is
both fashionable and healthfuI to toe
in the direction you're going and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-03-14
History of Dour Same,
BY PHILIP FRANCIS NOWLAN.
CONWAY.
VARIATION-Conwy.
RACIAL ORIGIN-Weish.
SOURCE-Lo locality.

Most people are under the impress
'ion that the family name of Conway
8 exclusively Irish. 1t SOUNDS" Irish,
people will tell you. AS a matter Of
act, it has a Welsh origin also, and
he evidence goes to show that the
lame more often traces to this Welsh
origin than to any other
And if II sounds" Irish, ii must be
remembered that while the Welsh are
not Gaelic, and, therefore, not so close
TO the Irish in language and blood as
are the Highland Scots, they are,
nevertheless, decidedly Celtic
But you must look for the origin of
Welsh names not so much in clan
names and given names as in the
names OF localities. For a long time,
considerably beyond the period in
bilized and fixed in England, the
Welsh followed their original and
very simple though cumbersome sys-
tenn of identifying the individual. A
man was referred to as John son-of-
Richard SON Of Evanson- of-Ithel- SON
of etc." back as far as it was neces-
sary. But this system finally had to
give way TO the shorter family name,
and, under English influence, the
Welsh, for the most part, adopted Ell
ther the simple son" form of family
name. or the family name denoting
locality of residence. Conway is the
name Of a river Grom con" "princi-
pal" and IVY" "riYer'D. which flows
into the Irish Sea at Aberconway and
which rises in MeriOnethshirc.
Copyright, 1921
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-03-14

strip of chintZ. combined by means
of metallic threads. The effect is
charming, but one needs to look twice
before realizing how it is produced.
Brandt is one of the French dress
max Frs who seem to work much with
the scissors. One of the frocks from
this house is of pale green kasha with
a trellis work of green leaves cut out
from the kasha. Sometimes the mate
rial is cut out in an interesting de-
sign and the material cut out is sewn
on again in fancy and amusing
shapes.
The sketch shows rose chiffon
frock trimmed with rosettes and little
fans of the material. 1t is worn over
slip printed in pastel shades.
Copyright. 1921
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-03-14

This afternoon | bumped into the
china cIosit vile | was pretending to
be a titerope wawller, and diffrent
things fell down inside of ii without
eny thing axually breaking, ony ma
got jest as mad as if something had.
and after suppir she was still mad
and l knew it wouldent be mulch use
asking if l could go out, and / sed
Hay ma?
I'm in no mood to be asked lot
of questions, espeshilly by you, ma
sed.
l ony wunted to know if l could go
up on the roof and look for ball. |
sed. Can l, ma? ] sed.
Most emfatically not. your enuff
trubble to me as it is without having
you dashed to peeceS in million
Fragments, ma sed.
Meening l mite fall off the roof. and
l sed, Well then G. ma, can l go down
the celler and dig for berried trez-
zure?
If it's not one ixtreme it's the other,
do you think / wunt the celler termed
into a mass of holes for people to
break their legs in if they don't break
their necks ferst, ma sed.
l could put red lite up in frunt
of each hole, how about that, ma? L
sed.
How about tawking little sents?
ma sed.
Well then how about If | paint
everything in my room red with that
half of a can of red paint up in the
store room? Can l do that, ma? l
esd
What a thawt. sutch an ideer, l de-
clare my he'd is absolutely Keeling, for
goodniss sakes go out and play and
werk off some of your excess energy,
ma sed
WITCH | cid
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-03-14
What TomorrowMeans to You
Pisces.
BY MARY BLAKE.

In sense, it is rather unfortunate
that. considering the very excellent
planetary aspects prevailing YOU are
perforce, compelled tomorrow to abb
stain from a prosecution of business
or professional endeavor They de-
note incentive to ambition, an urge
to attempt much, and an assurance
of successful accomplishment Doubt
viii vanish. Inaction will be intoler-
able, and, where fear formerly existed,
confidence and Self-aSSurance will
predominant. Not only, however, do
the signs auGur well for week-da
pursuits, but they also favor Sundav v
exercises and will enable you to en-
ter into these with faith, energy and
vim.
Even though the child born tomor-
row may, by its appearance and lusti
ness, give every promise CT Strength.
il will require just as much care and
well regulated nutrition as the che
whose condition does not inspire so
much confidence. It's disposition is
prone to be somewhat callous and in
different, while its character. al
though not positively selfish, will be
eXacting. 1t will, by little and ILL
considered acts, display more con-
sideration for itself. than respect for
the feelings of others, and will pos
sess few, if any, self sacrificing vir-
tues. In a material sense, it promises
to be more than ordinarily successful,
as it will strive ruthlessly, If neces-
sary, to reach the goal that it sets
out to attain.
According to the signs, those whose
birthday is tomorrow are going
through a period of uncertainty, dis
appointment and dissatisfaction. They
cannot possibly decide in their minds
the exact cause of these conditions,
but experience a general sense of
not being satisfied with things as
they are. Their lf-confldence-gen-
Grated by triumphs over failure in
the past-will enable them 10 weather
the storm, and, later on. to wonder
why they worried or fused. This
will, however, demand resolutcneSS of
purpose and determine ton o. char ac-
Inequalities essential to success, and
with which they are richly endowed.
The pessimism felt is only transitory
the troubles are only evanescent,
and self-confdence will again be re-
born.
Success is failure turned inside out
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt.
Don't give up though the race seems slow
You may succeed with another blow.
Well known persons born on thi;
date are: Andrew Jackson, one OF
the Presidents; George c. Chase, edu-
Gator; St. Clair McKelway, journalist;
Wesley NJ Stanford, clergyman end
author; Wallace Irwin, author, Lee
Shubert, theatrical manager.
Copyright. 1921
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-03-14
PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE
BY WILLIAM BRADY. NJ. ID.

keep your feet in front of your own
self. It's safer, too.
Knock knee in child under years
of age may be corrected by physical
and mechanical treatment, which re-
quires the skill and judgment of the
orthopedic surgeon, though when the
orthopedist has examined the patient
and decided on the best line of treat
ment this may be carried out under
the care of the family doctor any
where.
Knock knee in persons over four
can be corrected only by operation on
the bones. The same thing is true of
bow legs, Notwithstanding preten-
sions to the contrary.
In young children when there is a
separation of as much as two inches
between the ankles it is often ad-
visable to have the inner borders of
soles and heels raised one-Quarter
inch, so that the weight of the body
when the child stands or walks is
thrown more on the outer border of
the foot In addition. the child should
be encouraged to toe in a bit when
walking and frequently reminded
about that until 1t becomes a fixed
habit
Bicycle riding is fine exercise for a
child with knock knee or weak feet
or both. So is pony riding. For that
matter, there is nothing better for
| bowleg in a young child than riding
a velocipede or tricycle., and it is well
in the case of bowlegs that the pedals
be so adjusted as TO encourage the
child to stretch the leg out to its
greatest length in pedalinR.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-03-14
BEDTIME STORIES 3! a HaSssy0'

is big, handsome fellow. He SEEM
ed to be very much interested In
Polly Chuck. They are not exactly
friends yet, but I guess it won't be
long before they are. | noticed that
Polly watched him whenever she
thought he wasn't looking. He GER
tainly is handsome Chuck and worth
looking at"
You should have seen Johnny
Chuck as he listened to this. 1t was
all he could do to keep from rushing
right out and saying that he didn't
believe a word of it, But not for the
world would he have had Blacky the
Crow and Sammy Jay know that he
cared. So he kept quiet until they
had flown away
Copyright, 1921
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-03-14
My Neighbor Says:

Use copper wire for picture
hanging; it does not rust easily,
is mothproof and will last for
years.
Rub cloudy mirrors with
cloth wrung out of cold water
and dipped in dry whiting, and
then polish them with a dry
buster.
Straw mating should always
be washed with warm water
and salt. Water alone would
turn it yellow. The salt has
a counteracting effect.
To make a strong glue soak
some ordinary glue in water
till quite soft. Then dissolve it
over a slow fire in linseed oil
till of the thickness of jelly.
When steel becomes rusty
rub it with a piece of emery
paper that has been dipped in
turpentine. Polish with a fresh
piece of emery paper, and you
will be delighted with the result.
To make a nice gloss on linen
when ironing, cover a piece of
heeswax with flannel and rub
over the surface of the iron.
A MARBLE topped washstand
can be kept in perfect condi-
ton by rubbing with turpen-
tine.
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Old Orchard she has made a second
mistake. If she wants to live up In
the Old Orchard she can live there
alone" My, but Johnny was cross!
Polly Chuck wasn't cross She
chuckled to herself as she headed for
the Old Orchard Johnny thinks he
is going to stay down on the Green
Meadows, but he isn't l know him, -
said Polly to herself He'll stay
down there while, and then when
he finds that ] really meant what /
said and am going to stay in the Old
Orchard, he'll come back. 1t will do
him good to be away for a while. 1t
will do me good not to see him around
all the time. There is such a thing as
two people seeing too much of each
other"
For a week Johnny Chuck wander
ed about on the Green Meadow. He
went way over to the Big River. But
somehow he was disconnected. Moth
ing was as he had thought it would
be. There wasn't much sweet clover
over there. and what there was some
how didn't taste as sweet as that he
used to find up in the Old Orchard. He
did his best not to think of the Old
Orchard and not to wonder what Polly
Chuck was doing up there. But de-
spite all he could do he did think
about the Old Orchard. He wondered
If Polly Chuck had gone back to that
old home under an apple tree in the
far corner of the Old Orchard, or If
she had dug a new home in some
other part of the Old Orchard
II don't care what she's done,
grumbled Johnny. But he did care.
If he hadn't have cared he wouldn't
have kept thinking about II.
Then, one morning, just as he was
poking his nose out of an old hole
where he had spent the night, he
heard voices in the trees over his
head One was the voice of Sammy
Jay. The other was the voice of his
cousin, Blacky the Crow,
Il hear Johnny Chuck and Polly
Chuck have separated" said Blacky.
"1 saw Johnny down here on the
Green Meadows yesterday, but i
didn't see anything of Polly
shes up in the Old Orchard" re-
piled Sammy. Il see her every day.
She seems very we'll satisfied up
there. Yesterday 1 discovered an
other Chuck up there. / don't know
where he came from, but he certainly
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-03-14

The exquisite colorings and con-
tours Of Venetian furniture have
brought ii into favor along with the
other artistic achievements of the
eighteenth century, but only in the
homes of the very well-to-do would
one expect to see a room or a suite
completely furnished with these
costly and elegant pieces. The ma
jority of US must consider ourselves
extremely fortunate if we possess
even one piece as a decorative &C
cent.
The Venetian designers were clear
" Influenced by the eighteenth cen
fury French furniture although
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-03-14
HOW 1T STARTED
"Wet Your Whistle. "
BY JEAN NEWTON.

Prohibition days have dimmed
somewhat the popularity Of this
phrase. Yet it is by no means ex-
tinct.
Slang and American slang is it's
flavor, but it turns out to be of old
English origin, going back all the
way to Chaucer for its first recorded
use as follows:
$50 was Hire Jolly whistle well
wette."
wet your whistle" seems to have
had a French counterpart, for as
early as the thirteenth century we
find in a translation of THE Battle
of the Wines" by Henri d'Andeli,
these lines:
Listen to great fable
That happened the other day at table
To good King PHILIPPE who did not incline
To wet his whistle with good white wine.
Copyright, 1929
All kongo women and girls, save d
few whose parents have embraced
Christianity, are really slaves.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-03-14
Lily Salad.

Take the number of eggs required,
one for each person, cook hard boiled
shell carefully, then put in vinegar to
which cooked sliced beets have been
in for awhile. Let remain overnight,
which will turn the eggs a light pink
Cut off the ends of the eggs and care
fully remove the yolks. Cut the white
carefully. so is to look like pond
lilies, take the yolks and rub melted
butter into them, then carefully I'LL
in the mixture in the whites to form
the center. Arrange on a platter with
fiat green lettuce leaves. Serve with
French dressing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-03-14
PLUM GLACE.

For this delectable sweet choose one
can of large plums Turn into por-
celain- lined pan and bring to the
boiling point. Drain until the plums
are dry, then roll them in powdered
sugar until coated a snowy white. To
the juice add cupful of sugar sirup
and a pint of grape juice, mix well,
turn into a freezer, and when frozen
stiff pile it on the plums which have
been placed in dish.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-03-14
Trimming for New French Frocks
ny MARY MARSHALL,

Trimmings byb the yard, such as we
find so profusely spread on the trim
ming counters a this time of year,
are seldom used by the renowned
Gressmakers of Paris. 1t is those
dressmakers who originate and de
sign the trimmings that are later pro-
duced by the yard to be sold to
smaller dressmakers and the innu-
merable women at home who contrive
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-03-14
New Onion Salad.

Chop, but do not mince, two or three
new onions. Let them stand in cold
water for half an hour, then drain dry
on a napkin, dress as liked best
freeze slightly, but not solfdly, just
enough so that it will be cold and de-
Ifghtfully crisp. Serve a heaping
tablespoonful on lettuce leaf to
each individual
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-03-14
Home Evenings and Other Pleasures
BY LYDIA LIE BARON WALKER.

occupations, which stimulated his
already overstimulated mind A lady
who threatened to become a patient
at psychopathic hospital found the
making OF baskets a delightful. pas
time for home evenings. 1t gave her
the satisfaction OF thinking she was
doing something and at the same
time really offered her relaxation
Quiet Evening.
Let US now be up and doing" is
a fine adage for before breakfast and
the major part of the day. But be-
fore retiring il is well to pr epare for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-03-14

For some reason the impression
has arisen that an evening at home.
or without company, is not as I'M
portant as an evening that one
spends out or in entertaining How
easy it is, if you are going out, to
change to pretty frock, to arrange
your hair with particular care and
TO put on your company manners"
If you are staying in, how much a
matter of course it is with some not
to do any of these things. That the
art of spending an evening at home
be not lost one, 1t is well If we
think occasionally of a few of the
things to give it character of a
pleasant kind.
Nearly every one, by thinking back
a little, can call to mind some family
that practiced the art of an evening
at home, with some degree of sue
cess. How many others there are
who seem to practice it not at all.
1t is the spirit Of the thing that
counts. 1t is possible to create at
mosphere of restfulness and cheer
merely by the attitude with which
one approaches the occasion.
RestfuI Atmosphere
Restlessness and a feeling that you
ought to be doing something else
have no place in it. These emotions
will communicate themselves invol-
unfairly to the other members of the
household who are In the living room
with you and may set everybody else
on eggs. On the other hand to enter
into the spirit of an evening at home
as though it were something worthy
Of your time and the best that you
have to offer in the way of cooper
alton with any plans suggested for
spending it, is to do much to make
that evening success. d positive
benefit to your health and efficiency
the next day and a joy to those
about you.
1t is not necessary to play games"
or make any formal attempt at joll
fcation to insure the success of an
evening at home, but often some
pastime foreign to the days activi-
ties helps. Reading aloud may be
the fayorite way of spending an
evening otherwise unoccupied in some
| families Where there are those in
the family who are musical, music Is
a never failing recourse of enter
| tainment
Hobbies Helpful
Not always is it possible merely by
| saying so to be able to relax. Many
| business men and women reach so
! high a pitch Of nervous activity dur
| ing the day that il seems as if they
/ could not 'let go" when night came.
| SO it is often they, who are most of
| all the people who need to relax, find
| themselves rushing about in search
! of excitement because they are mere
| ly at loss to know what else to do
The evening at home is TO them in
deed a lost art What they most
need is a hobby, entirely different
from their work and of a. nature 50
absorbing as to take their minds
completely from it.
To such a purpose a bank president,
much overworked. took up the max
ing of hooked rugs. 1t was some
thing he could do at home and was
better for him than bridge or other
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-03-14
Johnny Hears a Rumor.
Alas Alas IT'S true. I fear,
That rumOr finds ready ear.

Johnny Chuck was obstinate. Polly
Chuck was obstinate. Johnny had
said that he was going down on the
Green Meadows over toward the Big
River. and he went Polly Chuck
had said she was going up to the Old
Orchard and she went. They had had
a most unpleasant falling out over the
matter. Yes, sir, they had so.
IF Polly Chuck thinks l care be-
cause she wouldn't come along with
me she is greatly mistaken" NUT
tered Johnny Chuck, as he made his
way across the Green Meadows. Il
don't care a fit of my tail. And if she
thinks that l will follow her up to the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-03-14
DOROTHY DIX'S LETTER BOX
Hearted Wife Helped Husband to Pros
perity and Is Now Discarded Tribute
to the Working Girl

DEAR MISS DIX:
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! youth Tor TINS other "'"'" and ''" to the love
own S ' s" Gs f % make scandal for s. '7 ~ @
DEAR ago some one told me that all girls who
the 's SUBJECT a EASER one
@ MY girl f5, y sa nj @ m
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beauty paror 1t grinding labor machine
rather than sell their souls of living.
a a no
girls who straight
DOROTHY
shows D ss o pi nm sn D @ s the girl
s' " men f s sI e. s4 ss l hex
distress at losing him and his sympathy with at missing
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