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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-29


in the midst Of n tender scene. Thai
was accident, however. The girl hau
deliberately terminated .Iim's lovia,.
mood when he was singing that | was
all the world to him.
"Wel, how about the carp Mich
olas Perry asked suddenly.
Taken thus unawares, 1 could only
reply:
You'd better speak to Jim. its
Jim you want TO have run it."
Couldn't you put up with me oc-
casionally afternoons?" asked Nicholas
Perry.
Let Arlette run your car for you"
] said GROSSLY. you men seem to
think that everything she does is just
right. / suppose IL l tried to take you
for ride in your own car I'd seem
like an upper-servant to you, but not
perfect one like Arlette. I don't
care to compete. As long as that
child is around l don't feel that I'm
needed to run a car - or anything
else"
Ny words were in bad taste, as /
realized the moment they were said.
1t did not take Nicholas Perry's
scornful laugh to tell me how l had
put myself in his power. I did not
dream how he would remember and use
them against me before many weeks. !.
Ito Be Continued.)
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-29

I'm sorry, Mary, but you can't
have Thursday off this week. Mrs
Stced has asked me to go on an auto
trip with her and I'll have to leave
the children with you. Yes, know ]
said you could have Thursday off
every week. But OF course l didn't
know I'd get an invitation like this,
and you'll just have to make the best
of it.
"Can you get off Saturday night at
Z 80 sharp? Well, I'm sure l don't
know. l really can't promise that far
ahead. I'll try TO let you go, but
something may come up. You'll just
have TO take your chances.
what? You'll cult if you have to
stay with the children every night?
Why, / never heard of anything 50
unreasonable III all my life. What
possible work can it be to stay with
two little children who are sound
asleep at seven? You haven't thing
to do-just sit ard read. You want
to go out? But you can't possibly
90 out at night and still do your
work. 1t isn't good for anyone to
CAD about like that. But / go? 1t
isn't the same thing at all. And at
any rate. what do is my own busi-
ness, and I'm not asking any servant
girl for her opinion about it,"
The foregoing conversation is not
exclusive. 1t occurs in almost every
American home where there is maid,
and always runs true TO form whether
the home be in New York, or San
Francisco, Chicago or New Orleans.
And it explains why letters like the
following arrive i'll this office almost
daily.
Dear Elsie:
Wonder what you think about the
down-trodden domestic who works
from early morning to late at night?
The eight hour law is applied to
everyone excepting domestics. One
would think such a law would be
universal. A friend of mine who
worked for a family is up at six
and ends her daily toll by Z 80 p. m.
Elsie, won't you say something
to these rich employers who forget
the Emancipation Proclamation freed
the slaves and who are doing all in
their power TO reduce their domeStics
to servitude?
Jane.
The domestic's work should be reg
ulatcd, Pal, and she should be accord
ed exactly as much consideration as
other workers receive. She should be
entitled TO certain free hours. and
one whole day week when she is
entirely exempt from service. No plans
of the mistress should be allowed to
interfere with those free hours. There
should be no such thing as the can
collation. of a promise because Mrs.
Stecd asked me to go on an auto ride"
A domestic's time is as sacred rs
President Coolidge's. If the maid is
forced to work overtime she should
be paid overtime.
However, certain allowance should
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-29
Fashions Fads
and Fancies
Rv MslJreI All
BY Mildred Ash

Rough and ready-are the sailor
hats Of pastel colored straw that are
being shown for Southern resort wear.
Made of rough straw, in any one of a
dozen delicate shades, these strictly
tailored models are very smart when
worn with a kaska cloth cape-coat Of
the same shade.
Peeping from pockets handkerchiefs
are being designed so much more for
show than for use that they are justi-
flying the old name of pocket hand
kerchief." Some of the latest silk
ones are finished with corded borders.
while others with colored linen have
borders of net or colored lace.
Displaying discretion at least in
their choice of sports hose, girls are
no longer exposing their ankles to
the wintry blasts but are keeping
warm in sensible and smart wool or
silk and wool stockings. Diamonds.
checks, plaids, all Of the most striking
patterns are being worn although many
plain wool cashmere ones with en-
broidered clocks are also seen. The
time has come when il is no longer
good form TO wear a thin silk hose
with walking shoes.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-29
Regaining a Friend.
Dear Miss Fairfax:

Dear Miss Fairfax:
l am II. About three years ago ]
met a man three years my senior with
whom / went about for a year ana
half.
There was never any mention OF
marriage between us, although / had
met his folks at his home. Some time
ago he told me that he would like to
take my girl friend out, which he did,
When / learned this / was very angry
and told him never to come to visit
me again.
/ now meet him on the street very
often, but we do not speak. Do you
think it would be proper for me to
speak to him? Ii so. how can L do
this now without embarrassment:
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-29
NEGOTIATIONS OF A MARRIED
WOMAN BY Helen ROWLAND
l. That So?

Nobody believes in love, thes,
days." declares a cynical young man,
amy more than he believes in per-
sonal devil"
Is THAT so. Then why is 1t so
easy for n woman 10 make Il monkey
out of man who has assembled so far
above the monkeys?
Why are the sentimental movie
shows playing to capacity-and why
do people flock to see emotional ac-
tors?
Why are publishers begging popular
authors for romantic novels"-and
who do "love-story" magazines flour
ish, while cynical, highbrow magazines
are gasping for breath?
How do florists manage to exist,
selling violets and roses-and why do
jewelers. still advertise solitaires and
wedding rings?
Why is st. Valentines day so pop
ular-and why is Beatrice Fairfax?
Why do girls continue to commit
suicide "for love-" and men continue
to shoot each other over a woman?
How does Elinor Glyn manage to
make so much money--and why do
divorced couples remarry each other?
Why does ANYBODY get married?
Why does a man cheerfully unite
himself from all the other women in
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-29
Who Said It and
Where

THAT chastity Of honor that felt
stain like a wound"
Such honor as Burke speaks of in
the above terms, in his Reflections
ON the Revolution in France" should
be everyone's endeavor to have.
"Hunger is sharper than the sword"
Hunger kills more than the sword
does, Beaumont and Fletcher observe
in ''The Honest Mans Fortune.
"Grant the bad what happiness they
would;
One they must want, which is, to pass
for good"
People who are bad cannot succeed
long in posing as good. Pope asserts
in his Essay on Man"
"If we cherish the virtues and the
principles of our fathers.
Heaven will assist us TO carry on the
work of human liberty and human
happiness"
Daniel Webster, in his eulogy OF
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
urges loyalty to American traditions.
early TO bed, and early to rise,
Makes a man healthy, wealthy and
WISE"
This old saying is found in Benja-
min Franklin's Poor Richards Al
msnac"
'Where'er a noble deed is wrought,
Whene'er is spoken n noble thought,
Our hearts in glad surprise
To higher levels rise"
Noble deeds and noble thoughts
gladden. mems hearts, Longfellow OBJ
serves in "Santa FilOmena."
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-29

the world. just in order to tie himself
TO one woman for life?
Why does a flapper stop Tapping
and give up n perfectly good pay-en
velope, in order 10 burn her fingers
three times day over a gas range
Why does a sheik, who has been the
darling of the chorus, the walters and
the taxi-drivers, suddenly slow down
and begin wheeling a baby carriage?
With world full of kissing ac.
QuGintances, why does n hard-boiled
bachelor suddenly become soft-boiled
melt and slop iover-becausc he cannot
live without the kisses Of some partic-
ular woman?
Call it imagination. sex-appeal,
spring-fever, the mating instinct-any-
thing you like; but, like the hotel
gravy, it is all from the same "stock"
and the stock is LOVE.
All of the good and beautiful and
wonderful things we do in this world,
rs we'll as most Of the selfish and fool
ish things, are inspired By love.
You can live your life without love,
perhaps, and can build an automobile
without a carbureter. But it won't be
life" and it won't be an automo-
bile, and it won't be much Of a "go."
Nobody believes in love-: it's just a
mid-Victorian myth, like a personal
devil. Oo-la-la. Sos your old man.
Copyright. 1925, King Features Syn, Inc.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-29
LISTEN, WORLD!
Domestic Service
By ELSIE ROBINSON

be made for the peculiar nature oil
homework. The consumption Of three
meals a day cannot be compressed
within eight hours. That is funda-
mental fact which the domestic must
consider in planning fair schedule
1t is possible to do all necessary
homework in the average family in
the course of eight working hours
But since three meals require a GER
tain space between them, these hours
should be broken up, allowing a GER
tain free time every afternoon, over
which the mistress has no claim.
1t is not unreasonable that your
friends work should begin at @ and
end at Z 80, but it is unreasonable
ii that service is continuous.
Also, the variable nature Of house
hold duties must be taken into con-
sideration. HOusework cannot be run
on rs hard and fast a system as office
work and the fair domestic will re-
member this fact. Moreover, the close
contacts in the home demand certain
friendliness and understanding which
is not necessary in the office. You
can scrape along without brotherly
love in the factory. but it's absolutely
essential if you would have harmony
in the kitchen.
That's the duty for both mistress
and maid. And how are we to arrive
at this happy Utopia? Probably as
workers have arrived at other Utopias
through unionization. It's sweet to
dream about loving cooperation but if
you want action in this old world
you'd better cut yourself n club.
Copyright, 1925. King Features Syn, Inc.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-29
The Rhyming
Optimist
The Seeker.
By Aline Michaelis

There is never cottage so low
and poor but some treasure is shelter
ed there, and hidden away in each
humble scene is some gem that is
priceless, rare. oh. it may be the
love in a mothers look and it may
be the laugh of a child; but safe in
that world-unheeded nook dwells some
wealth that is undefiled. And my
pleasure it is to CLEAN as / go the
beauty Of gems like these, to search
for these secret joys that glow far
fairer than sunlit seas. While the
swift years come and the swift years
pass many raptures may wax and
wane; but though they may fade like
the autumn grass, tranquil joys that L
seek remain. They are hidden away
in the humblest street, in the homes
of the poor and weak, but their shin
ing beauty will ever greet wise men
who for treasure seek.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-29
Foxy Crandpa's
Stories
How a Peasant Boy Became
One of the Worlds
Greatest Painters.

Bobby took piece OF chalk out Of
his pocket-now, piece of chalk is
very useful thing for boy to carry
in his pocket-went over to big rock
where we were sitting in the park and
commenced sketching a picture Of me.
Bobby, you remind me of great
man who lived hundreds of years
ago."
WAS he Greek. Foxy Grand
pa?" asked Bobby.
NO.. I laughed, thinking of Bob
by's weakness for Greecian heroes,
"this man was an Italian"
please tell me about him." said
Bobby, sitting down on the bench be-
side me.
well, once upon a time during
the Dark Ages, art vanished from
the world. No one was interested in
beautiful things and culture was at a
low ebb. People had forgotten how
to build fine houses and paint good
pictures.
"But as it happened there lived
4 man in Italy who was different.
This was about the thirteenth GEN.
tury-two hundred years before an
other Italian took a cruise across the
ocean and discovered new land.
"Cimabue was the name Of the
man and he was different from
painters of that time.
"Cimabue struck out for himself
and expressed his independence Of
thought by painting people and things
as he really saw them. And because
he did this he is called the Father of
Modern Painting.
"But he wasn't as great as the
boy he discovered. One day he was
walking out in the fields near Flor
cnce and he saw a boy tending flocks.
But while he watched his sheep he
drew pictures on the rocks with chalk
just as you were doing.
"Cimabue was astounded at the ex-
cellent pictures which the young shep-
herd drew, and asked him if he would
not like to come to Florence and learn
to be an artist.
"Giotto-that was the shepherd
boys name-was delighted. For he
loved drawing, above everything else
in the world.
$50, the good Cimabue took Giotto
to Florence and there he worked with
him and taught him everything he
knew. And in short time Giotto
became a greater painter than his
master. He painted pictures in pal
aces for kings and popes-in Flor
ence and Assist. Padua and Verona
and Naples. When we go to Italy
again / will show his wonderful work.
For it is still regarded as among the
most beautiful in the world.
"But Giotto never changed. His
great success never went to his head.
He always remained the simple-heart-
ed peasant boy whom Cimabue had
found on the hills. He was a great
joker, too, and made people laugh.
"One day he was painting great
picture on the wall of a kings palace.
He was high up OH seaffold-near
the ceiling, where it was very hot.
"The king came into the chamber
to view the work Of the great artist,
and the king felt sorry for Giotto,
working so hard there in the heat,
and he said:
at wouldn't work there on that
scaffold on this hot day, if i were
YOU And Giotto laughed and said
"'Nor would i if I were you
Must be a wonderful thing TO
be a great painter" said Bobby, TAX
ing up his chalk again and walking
to the rock.
Copyright 1925. International Features
Syndicate, Inc.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-29
Advice to the Lovelorn
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX
Does She Love Him ?

Dear Miss Fairfax:
am 81. About three years ago
met a girl Of about 10. to whom
was Immediately attracted. .As she ap-
peared to be interested IN me, and We
became very good pals.
As my business grew lighter, j
asked her to go out with me, and she
consented, although half-heartcdly. i
am afraid she holds it against me that
l haven't taken her out for so long q
time. l told her how much l like her,
but she just laughed as if she thought
/ didn't mean it, and didn't say any
thing.
like her, and I would like to know
Just how she feels toward me. ii. j..
The chances are you're friend likes
you or she would not accept your at
tentions and encourage your friend
ship. I'm afraid you'll have to be con
tented with that. assurance of her
friendship.
You'll never know whether she
cares seriously for you unless you
prove TO her that you love her by ask
ing her to be your wife.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-29
Yes or No?

l. Is the skin of the face as sensi-
tive to wind as smoke is?
2. Does fasting affect the tempera-
ture of the bodyI
3. Docs any group Of animals out
number the mammals in species?
Answers TO these questions may be
found -.
l. No. Smoke drifts in wind Of
less than three miles an hour, but
unless the velocity reaches five miles
an hour, 1t is not felt on the face.
2. Yes. During fasting, the rate
of heat production in the body dim
inishes and the skin temperature fails
10 retain the heat in the vital organs.
In prolonged fasting, the blood pres
sure and pulse rate are also lowered.
3. Yes. The insects outnumber all
other species OF animals now living
on the earth.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-29

This incident occurred about a year
ago. PUZZLED.
You were in the wrong in the first
place to fly into rage because your
friend divided his attentions between
you and your girl friend. After telling
him never 10 call on you again, it's q
bit difficult, isn't it, to resume pleas
ant relationship! But you might
write him a note, asking him to cali
on a special evening. Tell him you
have a message for him.
When he comes-if he does accept
your invitation-explain frankly you
were in the wrong in trying to monop-
Ollie his attentions and dictate his
friendships and that you would like to
resume the old friendly feeling. This
may put your friendship on the former
basis. Be careful not TO endanger 1t
again by being dictatorial. Remember,
you and he are not engaged.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-29
Who Gets the Order?

Dear Mrs. Beeckman:
Will you tell me, please if after
having selected your choice from the
menu in a restaurant. it is correct TO
give your order direct to the waiter
or to your escort and have him re
peat your order with his to the
waiter? X. W.
The lady should tell her order to
the gentleman and he gives it, with
his own, to the waiter The reason for
this is that the gentleman is the
host. 1t is very bad form and most
discourteous to the gentleman for the
lady to give her order TO the waiter.
A well-trained waiter knows that he
is to receive his order from the gentle
man.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-29
Eating a Fruit Cocktail.
DEAR MRS. BEECKMAN

DEAK MKS. BEECNMAN
VIII you kindly inform me which
is proper to use, a spoon or a fork
in eating a fruit cocktail? At a we'd
ding dinner recently in large hotel,
noticed both used. There was no cock
tail fork, just two dinner forks. BY
using the fork for the cocktail, there
was no fork for the salad.
4. +. G.
For eating fruit cocktails a small
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-29
Do You Know That

In 1850 it took John G. Fremont,
the Path Finder" rs days to make
the trip from California to New
York with his wife and daughter.
They set out from San Francisco on
New Years Day.
Francesca Filefo, of Tolentino, Italy,
went in the fifteenth century TO Con-
Stantinople TO perfect his Greek, and
married a Greek wife, who proved to
be a scold and taught him only words
expressing anger and abuse.
Three presidents of the United
States were born in the month of Feb
ruary-George Washington. our first
president, in 1872; Abraham Lincoln,
our sixteenth, in 1909, and William
Henry Harrison, our ninth, in 1773.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-29
DEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:

DEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:
Please explain how a thirteen-piece
luncheon set may be used.
GERTRUDE s.
A thirteen-piece luncheon set is used
on a bare table. The large piece
round or squares the centerpiece,
the six pieces of secondary size are
the "place" or "plate" doilies, and the
six very small pieces are the doilies
used under the water goblets or under
the finger bowls. This set can be used
for luncheon or for 8 O'Clock tea, but
not for dinner. If there are no very
small pieces, then there must be twelve
plate" or place" doilies.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-29
Helpful Hints

1t is not generally known that eggs
covered with boiling water and allow
ed to stand for five minutes are more
nourishing and more easily digcsted
than eggs placed in boiling water and
allowed to boil furiously for three
and n half minutes.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-29
POINTERS ON ETIQUETTE
The Thirteen-Piece Lunchean Set.

spoon is used, unless very small gold
tipped fork, about the size of psoon,
is provided. This is different from
a salad fork, first since it is smaller,
and second, since one Of the prongs
is very thick.
Since at the dinner that you men-
ton there were only two dinner forks.
it would have been better to have used
spoon for the fruit cocktail.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-29
THE MAKING OF A HUSBAND
A SERIAL BY Ann Lisle
Chapter 155.

Copyright, 1875. King syndicate Incorporated.
Nicholas Perry cried Ar in the midst of tender sc
Evening star., 1925-11-03
EXPLOSION IN MOUTH
KILLS BOY UNDER KNIFE
Surgeons Unable to Account for
Accident in England During
an Operation.
Oorespondence OF The Star and New York
World

correspondence Of The Star and New ro-t
World
-ONDON, October IA n,isban
sald 10 be rare in surgical operations
~ lnls country, caused the death Of
laurence Sims, 16, at Queen Mary's
hospital Stratford. The patient was
nelng operated on for a broken law,
tHe result of a collision between his
pIcycie ana motor car, and it be-
, oiiie necessary to use warm air to
Keep his teeth dry.
rms was applied with a denta,
syringe, ether and oxygen being the
anesthetlc used. and the light at
Nlilcn lhe syringe was being warmed
was Ieet away from the operation
taoie. suddenly, at the third appli-
cation of the syringe, a tremendous
explosion occurred-in the patient 8
mouth-and within a couple of sec.
onds the whole apparatus was in
flames. Every effort was made to
save the youths life, but he died
within 10 minutes.
Ihe operating surgeon and the
anesthetist explained at the ino,,est
that they had used the same system
many times, but had never known or
heard or such an accident. DR.. Cole.
the operating surgeon, said he had
handled some 1900 similar cases dur.
ing the war and regarded the task as
merely routine, while the anesthetist.
DR.. Mcdonnell, claimed 1000 similar
cases without a mishap. Ether is
infiammable, II was admitted, and in
cases where flames were used it was
not utilized. In the present case, how
ever, there was no naked light near
and, in the opinion of experts. the
explosion must have been caused by
the mixture of vapors.
Evening star., 1925-11-03
WOMEN ADD TO NUMBER
OF WASHINGTON CLUBS
Employees of Local Railway and
Electric Company Form Organi-
zation Known as Wrepepco.

Another club was added to the long
list Of those active III the Capital yes
terday with the formation OF the Wre-
pepco Club by woman employees Of the
Washington Railway and Electric Co.
and its subsidiary, the Potomac Elec-
trio Power Co.
The officers of Wrepepco are: Miss
+. j. Dolan. president; Mrs. May
Blakeney, vice president: Mrs. Briska
Jones. secretary; Miss Esther Greece,
assistant secretary; Miss Elsie Ben
nett, treasurer; Miss Margaret Skelly,
Miss Marie kershaw, Miss Grace Nc
Kay and Miss Mildred Durand, direc-
tors.
Miss Mabel Lotus was named chair
man of the program committee. which
consists of Miss Catherine Bishop,
Miss Ann Moffatt, Mrs. Helen King
and Miss Mary Berberich.
William +. Ham, president of the
Washington Railway and Electric Co.,
spoke 10 the members of the club
Miss Berberich and Miss Moffatt gave
a musical program.
The purpose of the club is to pro-
mote the welfare of the employees and
to increase the knowledge and eff
cheney of the individual employees to
the end that the increased knowledge
and efficiency would benefit the public.
Evening star., 1925-11-03

initial broadcast other than radio anna
teurs of the East and the observers
stationed by the Westinghouse com.
pany to report on the reception of the
election returns that constituted the
first broadcast program. But .he ex
pertinent was a success.
From that November I'd radio broad
casting began to make history. AT
first it's progress was slow and spas
modic. Following the initial trans
mission. the KDkA transmitter was
overhauled and preparations made to
schedule regular programs Other
electrical laboratories and manufac-
turers took cognizance Of the work at
the little Westinghouse shack at East
Pittsburgh and began consideration of
plans for their own experiments.
Eventually WIZ made its appear
ance at Newark and other curious call
letters came on the air with radio