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The Washington times., 1925-10-01
MEDITATIONS
OF A WIFE
BY Helen Rowland.
How TO Spoil a Husband

THE surest and quickest way
to make a failure Of man
is to marry him to successful
woman.
Nothing so effectively dims the
lights of mans anToition as to
marry a. woman who is already
in the limelight of public popu-
larity.
Nothing SO weakens the back
bone and takes all the pep ano
efficiency out Of a. man as being
married to capable ana ek1l-
Gent woman.
When a successful lady lawyer,
writer or stage celebrity marrles
a, fairly nice man, somehow ne
is so dazzled that he just goes
around in circles from then ON
and never gets anywhere.
If the same man had little
clinging vine to support, a house
in the suburbs with a mortgage
hanging over it, and two babies
CRYING for shoes and things, he'd
be out hustling, striving ana
making O. success of himself.
1t is not that successful women
are any harder or any easier %
get along with than any other
kind, and it is not that the men
they marry are any worse nor
any better than other men.
Tt is just that EVERY man
reeds INCENTIVE to keep him
struggling and grinding and dig
ging away at a career on Ire
work, profession or business.
And there is no incentive TO
mans ambition like helpless,
self-indulgent, spoiled and pam
pered woman on his hands. There
is no call to arms so effective
and so inspiriting as the cry OF
The wolf at the door and the vail
of q woman with "gimmies."
Every man is born 3, play
boy" and the successful! men ore
those TO whom life is one long
fascinating game, with Big
Prize or q Big Purse waiting for
the winner.
1T SORT of takes the heart oDt
of man TO know tina lie can
never be anything more than the
Famous Mrs. Fairs Husband,
no matter what he may do.
The cruelest thing that a. ceIe-
brated woman can do TO Il man is
10 marry him-and thereby rob
him of all his hope of glory and
all his burden of responsibility.
1t is like taking the bunch Of
hay from in front of a mule and
throwing away the whip.
You can't beat Nature. And. sp-
parently. woman was intended TO
be only mans rib-and not all his
Vertebrse. Man must be the big
lnjun" in the game Or he Just
won't play"
And many b woman who is
wearing the laurels would rather
be pinning them on Her Man"
Ask any famous woman you know
if she wouldn't rather be just
somebody's wifs'-aud watch
her blush.
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NON VERSATION should always
" be a INSTRUMENTATION.

Joy is the tender shadow which
sorrow casts. Tayiae.
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those years she worked on the
farm and skimped in the city.
BY rights she should be withered
and bent, wrinkled and hopeless.
Actually she's nothing of the
sort. Which fact her daughter,
Alice, mother Of young Constance,
is realizing with wrath and dis
may.
Alice hadn't seen her mother
for ten years. The last time
Alice was home Ma was fussing
around the house in a faded ging-
ham dress and sloppy. old shoes.
Her hair was strained back into
a. stingy knob, her skin was
rough and neglected. When she
did dress UP to so out she wore
O. black alpaca that might have
been handed down from Mrs.
Noah No, she wasn't unhappy
or abused or anything like that.
She was simply the typical, hard
working middle-aged mother of
the year 1915. Which differed
hardly a whit from the domestic
model that has been popular in
the proceeding 5000 or 100000
years.
Ten years passed and Alices
husband prospered in business.
Alice wrote, asking mother TO
come and visit her and enclosed
q ticket. Then she went down
town and bought q, lavender cor
duroy dressing robe for PoJr old
Mother to wear in her ronn.
some fur-edged felt slippers 10
put on her doubtless rheumatic
feet, and bottle of smelling
salts. She also cautioned the
children not to be noisy and
racked her brain for a. list of suf-
ficiently decrepit females who
would make Ora ndma stay
pleasant.
Then Grandma came.
GRANDMA CAMEL,
Ten years had also passed over
Grandma while they had been
fitting by Alice! And. Judging
by the effect, those years were
Some Masseuse!
Grandma's babies bad grown
UP and left her with u lor of
time on her hands. Size. didn't
know what to do with that time
at first. She felt old and flabby
and finished. In an idle moment
she Joined a class that was earn
ing how to make fancy lamp
shades in a department store. 1t
was a nice class. 1t gave her
something TO think sLbour.
She met some women there who
played bridge. They persuaded
her 10 join their bridge club.
That was even nicer than mex
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YEAkS

Alice'S mazed arms was not al
all the mother who had helped
her make clothes for Baby Con
stance seventeen years before.
She was slender and trim and full
of pep. Under her trig white
sports hat marcelled, mahogany
bob nestled it's sophisticated curl.
Her skin was soft. Wrinkled a
bit. but delicately pink where II
should be pink and ivory white In
the shadows. A most satisfactory
skin, but one which Nature never
intended any lady of fifty Si4 70
fIaunt. Her brief sports dress
ended shortly below the knees.
Blonde silk stockings covered her
sIapely calves, flippant patent
leather pumps supported her
sprightly heels. And the laugh
with which she greeted her as
tonished offspring was as free
from grit and carbon as 8 poi
of honey.
And THIS was the lady for
whom Alice had prepared those
felt bedroom slippers!
This debonair lady, who shortly
announced that she was about TO
be married TO Reuben Citation.
the big shoe man, and told the
family they might as well get
used to the idea as it wasn't any
business of theirs. anyway!
And now young Constance walls
that its perfectly disgusting
Grandma is making a monkey ~
us all.
Of course, 1t is a bit ridiculous
for an elderly lady to stoop To
the lures of girl STRIPPING.
Grandma should have a stronger
character and better mind than
that
But it's a good thing for rhe
make a monkey of the Old Age
Fetish. We've talked a lot o.
revere tial rot about THE
BEAUTY OF GROWING OLD.
AS q matter of fact, we never
beautiful. We hated it, but we
were too lazy TO hustle around
and keep young. Moreover, we
liked the drag which gray hairs
gave us over Youth. We .ex
pected respect" and tried to
buffalo ourselves into thinking
that that compensated us for lost
waistlines and dreams.
- But Youth no longer gives us
Instituted respect. 1t exposes our
Middle Age Slump for the cow
ardly. Navy process it is. Youth
ruthlessfg makes a monkey OF us
all--and # Grandma pitches in
and helps Non the job, MORE
CREDIT TONER!
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Defy Quakes

nOCTOR BAILEY WILLIS,
~ president of the Seismologi-
cal Society of America, believes
1t may be possible for architects
and builders to so design and con-
struct modern buildings that they
will practically defy earthquakes.
He says: Earthquakes are
practically harmless If buildings
stand firmly anchored TO solid
rock"
IT is also known by observation
that the destructive action of an
earthquake increases rapidly as it
approaches the surface of the
ground. Deep foundations are
therefore better than superficial
ones.--The Thrift MagSIr Pine.
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DR.. FRANK CRANES
DAILY EDITORIAL
Ry DOCTOR PRANK CRANE
Yours ReceiUed, Contents Noted

EFFICIENCY and personal interest often appear Il
a compatible
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THE wilcox

NlHE W c Q <
4 family are alb
solutely furious.
G r A N D NJ A
EDGAR is MAX
ING A MONKEY
OF THEM! I
have it on the
word of Constance
Wilcox, the seven
teen " . 3 r. o | d
grandchild of the
flock.
Grandma Edgar
is fifty-six. She
married when she
was eighteen, her
first baby came
when she was
nineteen, then she
kept on having
them until she
W as thirty-two
and was a grand
mother at thirty
nine For. all
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LISTEN, WORLD!
By ELSIE ROBINSON

ing lampshadea.
II put a lot more
ideas in her head.
Ideas about using
cold cream or
night and wear
ing rubber COR
sets and having
wr in kIe 5 mas
saged away and
maybe getting q
henna dip.
Other ideas. too.
Ideas about books.
And newspapers.
A n d t h / n g q
women were do
ing in local poll
tics. Before she
knew it she had
the henna dip and
was taking part
in the FAN cam
paign.
So the mother
who walked into
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SAYINGS OF WISE MEN

The sun which ripens the corn
and fills the succulent herb with
nutriment also pencils with
beauty the violet and the rose.-7A
Abbott.
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SAP AND SALT
BY Bert Moses

10y UCAV NAV5NS7
Recognizing the truth is nine
tenths of the battle in oVercom-
ing any trouble.
Hez Heck says: A railroad train
is somethin' we are constantly
Waitin fer or runnln after to
ketch."
-s--4
Many man runs the lawn
mower who doesn't run the
house.
The Washington times., 1925-04-18
THE G ATE-POST
.BU Harold Phillips
In E0srybodys.C

Believing that its support the jury system
ang in New foresa political censorship the Actors
Equity pledged full cooperation with the move
ment Actually of America is the moving force
jury working with the New YORK
district attorneys office.
have been viewed since William A. BRADY
"a Good dropped wrench into the smooth workings
of the smut machinery of Others view and IN the
making handled silently under system OF ethical
attack permits the drama league to summon author pro-
its offices and make suggestions and changes
behind closed doors.
The which viewed the first three atrac
tions under the system follows
For "Desre the EmsDon C. Sez OF the New YORK
Evening World; Prentice; Charles Rosenbau
writer: Mrs James Harvey Robinson wife of James Harvey ROD
inson and lecturer; Lawrence Abraham Mrs waiter mart
vig George Gray Barnard sculptor Mary Dale Clark e. A.
Maurice Mrs Norman Dike wife of Supreme Court Justice
Nonsn s. Dike Mrs. Donald G. Clarke and Mrs. Victor D.
Fo- The Firebrand-Doctor S. searns Olivia Bull
lows: Hrsch; Wolfson F. D. Deenbaugh Miss Mar
ioc q Sney Holmes Adh archtec Robert Bridges
editor and author; Harris conductor and composer F. d.
Field: j. ". N Derr and Mrs. B. M. L. Ernst
For Thev Knew They Wanted-Doctor Samuel Mibank
Henry Barto brokers Blair; Miss Florence 0verton
John Ersne professor Columbia University Mrs Ernest Poole
wife of Ernest Poole Henry Sydnor Harrison auhor Miss
Mary Garrett Hay; Helen Redng Mrs Henry Clark Coe
wife of Doctor Henry Coe Miss Mabel RUSSELL and Thomas
McCrath.
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GLORIA: MESSENGER OF
AMITY AND LOVE

Roche Immediately set sail Tor
paris and one of the first official
acts of Miss Swanson on ar
rival was to journey to the tomb
of Madame Rejane, the famous
French actress, where she laid a
wreath as a fitting tribute to
the woman who first interpreted
the title role. This made a pow
erful impression on the French
people who hold the play in great
veneration.
On top of that, Miss Swanson
met and later married the Mar
ouis de la F'alaise and further
endeared herself to the French
people.
The coming of Miss Swanson to
France to make the picture, the
care exercised to make it accu-
rate and authentic and Miss
Swanson's eventual marriage to
a French marquis all made a
powerful impression on the
French masses. Now the picture
comes to America and it Is dif-
ficult to see how it can fail to.
result in a much broader appr4-
citation Of French historical back
ground.
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No matter how cynical one
may be toward the. power Of
literary or histrionic endeavor to
cement international relations Of
two big nations, it is very diff
cult to escape the impression that
Franco-American relations may
be measurably improved through
the production in France by
Gloria Swanson Of Sardou's ia
nous costume drama of the Ma
poleonic era, MADAME Sans
Gene" which comes to Loew's
Columbia tomorrow.
Work on the screen produc-
ton of this famous story was
started in France last November,
after the Famous Players-Lasky
Corporation has arranged with
the French ministry Of fine arts
to use wealth of historic. relics
of the First. Empire in the Sardou
drama. The French government
imposed the condition that the
picture must be directed by a
French director, and Leonce
Perret, one Of the best-known di-
rectors in Paris, was selected.
Miss Swanson and Charles De
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work he made her his leading
woman and placed her under q
long-term contract.
Pinero read his play to Hare
and Nethersole, after a matinee
performance at Birmingham. Hare
was scandalized. Nethersole was
enchanted. She wanted to pull
stakes and appear in the new
piece.
Never, while you are under my
management" Quoth Hare.
produce clean plays"
Then she would leave Hare,s.
management and play Paula
Tanqueray, for she believed in
the play. Hare reminded her OF
her contract and obligations to
him. And he could not be moved.
So Pinero went back to London
with his drama. Mrs. Pat Camp
bell was the next choice. The
play was produced and greeted
with sensational success. Prob
ably it did more than anything
else to establish her as IAN emo
tional actress of the first water.
It was years later before
Nethersole had discharged her
contract duties with Hare; and
then one of the first things she
did was to make arrangements
to appear as Paula Tanqueray,
which became a choice morsel in
her repertory. When she ap-
peared in repertory at Sarah
Bernhardt's Theater In Paris. It
was selected as the first play.
Since then 1.-THE Second Mrs.
Tanqueray" has gone around the
world. Eleanora Duse used to ap-
pear in it-she called It La
Seconda DANA" All Of the great
emotional actresses. Of the con-
tinent, as OF America in later
years, have wanted their fling at
it. Undoubtedly, it is a tremen-
dous acting part.
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riously considering the usurp-
ing of the Parcheesi Juan VAL
entino's steadily trembling
throne.
These things will all come in
due time.
The Rudolph Valentino medal
for the best performance by a
screen actor during 1924, has
been awarded to John Barry
more for his "Beau Brummel."
Norma Talmadge ran the dis
I tinguished star a close second
and the runners-up were, many.
The medal is the size of
dollar and was designed by
William Cameron Menzies. The
award will be made annually.
Despite the fact that she has
a contract with First National
Pictures which still has con-
siderable time to run, Barbara
LAMAR is reported to have left
that organization following
trouble over her latest produc-
tion, "The White Monkey" an
adaptation of Galsworthy's pop
ular novel.
Miss La Marr's contract is
with Associated Pictures Cor
poration. The distribution is
made through First National.
The contract. calls for six pic
lures. Two, "Sandra" and "The
Heart of a Siren" have been
made, and the third, "The White
Monkey" is practically finished.
X
A sad commentary on the
American movie patron t is-
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Watch For Him

Not since the days when the
late Frank Bacon was butlering
in Phoebe Fosters support in
"The Cinderella Man" has the
theater met a more gentle, kindly
and delightful play butler than
the one Alec Francis creates in
"Man and Maid" Elinor Glyn's
latest story which comes to Loew's
palace Sunday afternoon. At two
or three points in the action, Mr..
Trancis makes serious threats of
stealing the picture.
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Keith's Signs Him

Lew Whisky, the dynamic drum
mer of the LIE Paradis Band, on
last Thursday signed Keith
vaudeville contract which will
take him away from Washington
in a few months to become leader
of the Cameo RambIers," the
snappy band which plays "big
time" vaudeville in conjunction
with the headlining team of
Kramer and Boyle. Whisky, who
also numbers large assortment
of mean dances among his ac-
complishments, has just finished
teaching them to Miss Katherine
Hayden, late of "Rain." Miss
Hayden is now switching from
the drama to musical comedy,
according to Whisky.
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Sophie Tucker who, on her
last two appearances here was
billed, respectively as Miss
Sophie Tucker and Madame
Sophie Tucker has had another
attack of the deadly name
changing malady and is now an
.ouncing herself as Dame So
ohie Tucker. AS such she was
billed at Keith's Palace Theater
In New York last week.
Eddie Cantor sent blurbs to
the press boys conjecturing
that next season she will be
known as Notre Dame Tucker.
Note has also been taken by
the penetrating eyes of this, de-
partment@ that Elinor Glyn is
now being identified to all
points of the compass as
Madame Elinor Glyn. This may
be an unauthorized device by
the press agent of her latest
picture, "Man and Maid" which
comes to the Palace tomorrow.
And of course, Gloria Swan
son is now the Uneasy Mar
quise; to anglicize her new
title literally. A title, by the
way, which has one of the few
escutcheons not yet ready for
the wet wash.
It is a little too early to
announce that Sir Jack Demp-
sey will shortly renew his
screen alliance; or that Don
AIvera Ben Turpin is looking
sideways at new contracts; or
that the CabaIlero Ricardo Cor
tx (nee Jack Stone) is Sc
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A Bargain, This

The Famous Players-Lasky Cor
poration made good it's boast
that they would offer New York
a S5-a-seat picture in Gloria Swan
sons new classic, Mime Sans
Gene" by presenting this made
in-France production at Broad
way Theater Friday night at the
SIS price. notwithstanding the
premium placed on the New York
premiere of Mime. Sans Gene"
The picture will be given its
initial Washington showing at
I,oew's Columbia tomorrow after
noon with no change in the regu-
lar LoeW's Columbia scale of adj
mission prices,
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Early in his career. Pinero was
an actor. Then he took to play
writing. '.The Second Mrs. Tan
nueray'' was one of his early out
nut. with the manuscript Of
sDThe Second Mrs. Tanqueray un-
der hts arm he took the train Tor
birmingham, where Sir John Hare
and Nethersole (then a very young
actress) were appearing. Neither
sole had juse flashed upon Lon
don as the most extraordinary
ssdiscoyery' OF years. Sir John
took full credit although he held
hack as long as possible when
the aspirant was haunting his
office begging for an opportunity
to act. Immediately he saw her
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and this is said in the face OF
many such previous MORNINGS
that Washington audiences
did not more enthusiastically
support "The Last Laugh"
This wonderful picture was
unappreciated even by many
who saw it. 1t was advertised
as a screen play without SUBJ
titles; and-Good Heavens
the boobentsia cried for "came
the dawns."
They felt something was lack
ing in that there was no vir-
tuous district attorney, no
heroine's imperiled honor to get
excited about, no De Million
revels, no HOKUM! And this,
after the whole crowd had been
kidding the movies on to big
ger and better things!
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SHE'S SCRUBBED AFTER
EVERY PERFORMANCE

gree in order to accept Miss
Stransky as "Tondeleyo." a Circe
OF the west coast OF Africa,
Miss Stransky's makeup is an
elaborate one to put on and take
off, and, so she says, reminds her
very much of the tanning process;
tanning her skin to mellow her
art. Also, she sometimes regrets
that her tanning days" are not
over.
:. AS a child it was her mother
who tanned" her when the occa-
sion warranted. it, now it is her
/, colored maid. The colored maid,
by the way, acts as model, and
applies enough brown fluid on
Miss Stransky's body until the
actress skin matches her own.
To get back to normalcy or
whiteness after each performance
it is necessary for Miss Stransky
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First Dramatic Role

Helen Stransky, who plays
''Tondeleyo" in Earl Carrolfs
white Cargo" is a daughter OF
the South, born in Raleigh, N. C.'
and a graduate of the Flora Nc
Donald University. Later she
took a course in the savage
Dramatic School, and at the
school Gus Edwards saw her ana
signed her on one of his acts.
Her stage career of nearly IA
years was spent mainly in nlusi-
cal comedy, but about three
wears ago. when Earl Carroll
was ready to cast for "White
Cargo" she accepted the role, of
Tondeleyo-the first part she has
ever played where real tears and
dramatic intensity are the 1irSt
requisite. Next season she VIII
be featured in a new play.
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The Greeks. who are credited
with having originated the drama.
had comparatively easy time OF
their art in those days of un-
beatable architecture and poor
plumbing. A good makeup in
those primitive days consisted of
heavy raifnent, usually carved out
of wood and luridly painted. But
in order to do a play of the prim-
itive-Africa, not Greece-noW-
adays it is necessary to have a
bathtub or at least a shower bath.
Were it not for the shower bath
which had to be rugged up in
Helen Stransky's dressing room
nightly at the President Theater
drama would be devoid of one of
it's chief glorifiers. White Cargo
Without our modern plumbing
systems our imaginations would
have to be taxed to the nth de-
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Last Yale Film

The presentation at Crandall
Ambassador Theater next Iues-
day afternoon, April Il, at
%. M, of Daniel Boone and
yorktown" will mark the next
to last showing of the Yale enron
icles of America photoplays that
have been running Tuesday AFTER
Moons at the Ambassador since
March 10, under the auspices of
the public service and educa-
tional department of the Gran
dali theaters.
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Versatile

From the old-time tent shows
come Max Coleman, the featured
comedian with "Step Alongs"
which Is to play a return en-
gagement at the Mutual open
ing with a matinee tomorrow
1t Is a long, long trail from the
tent show to modern burlesque
and Coleman accomplished the
journey via dramatic and musi-
cal companies and even appeared
in motion pictures.
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AN ELOQUENT LIT TIE
BIT OF HISTORY

STAGE reference credit with being
Sir Alfred Wing Pinero wrote his play
Second Mrs revival OF which Is TINS season elng
her to the National week. opening Monday But the honor
CampbeIls the
NethersoIe had been Peros first choice
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to oil and boil her skin; hence the
importance of the bathtub.
But it is not even a matter or
conjecture that Miss Stransky had
to use a sort, of tin washtub for
her immersions. One day the bot.
tom of her bathtub fell out and
she went on strike, refusing to go
on for the next show unless bath
ing facilities less primitive than.
her role were installed in her
dressing room.
Tt is to be assumed now that
all's right with Eer temperament
again, fc:' Earl Carroll. the pro-
ducer. is known to. have paid
large plumbing bill, and Miss
Stransky is a cleaner and happier
girl after each show.
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Writes Tunes, Too

Victor Schertzinger, who di-
rected Elinor Glyn's latest screen
production, "Man and Maid.
which comes to Loew's Palace
Sunday afternoon for week 9
engagement, has wca interca-
tionaf fame in at least two fields
of artistic endeavor. He Is not
only well known as the director
of such pictures as Bread" and
"Long Live the King" for Metro
Goldwyn, but he has achieved
renown as a popular composer.
''Marcheta" being his biggest
hit up to date,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-01
HOG PRICES ARE
MOSTLY STEADY
Few Choice Kinds Sell 10
Cents Higher.
1O.60@10.SO HOO

Hog trading at the local market
started off the year in slow, irreg-
ular style. Most Of the prices were
steady with Wednesday, although
one rather large string of medium
and heavyweight porkers were sold
a dime higher. Top was $11 and
the bulk of sales was at $4,000
1890. Mediums sold at 10000
1920. Hevay hogs brought $1,000
oil and 1ightweights were quoted
at $10,60010.7O. Pigs were steady
at 5000. Light lights cleared at
S10@10.60. Good, smooth sows were
priced at $9.75@10 and lower quail
ity sows sold at $8@9.7b. Receipts
were estimated at 5000. Hold
over was 1900. Another fair clear
ance was made.
Cattle receipts were estimated at
400 and the market lacked breadth.
The short session was dull and prices
ruled unchanged from Wednesdays
quotations.
The calf market was active and
all prices ruled strong. Top was
$3.50. Bulk Of good stock brought
SIS. Mediums sold at $10@12 and
common calves moved at 5000. Re
ceipts were 500.
Not enough sheep and lambs were
offered to give the market test and
all quotations We're nominal Less
than 100 head were in the pens.