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CHAPTER XLIII
Making a Bed

Miss Alberta was squarely built.
She had plodding feet and fiat,
irregular face with one eye consid-
erably heavier than the other. She
moved methodically and with an air
of authority.
Chickie followed her down the cor
ridor. The little pin of the dead
woman was in her hand. She wished
to show ito speak of 1t. Wasn't
1t desolatle to die so-be wheeled
away? Where were the old wom-
ans children? She spoke of SON
Were many of the patients so alone?
They seemed happy
They went into one of the ward
rooms. Miss Alberta said: strip
the bedr'
Chickie paused to stick the pin
under her apron. Her hands FUN
bled doing this. Miss Alberta gave
an impatient, sucking sound against
the roof of her mouth. She did this
three times quickly. "Tu-tu-tchut!'
Chickie turned crimson and
reached quickly for the blankets,
whipping them off in great haste. all
in bundle.
"Tu-tu-thcut! You know better
than that!' Miss Alberta flounced
the blankets back to the mattress
and very carefully showed the
proper form Of stripping a bed. She
went through the whole elaborate
process of unmaking and making.
Each blanket seemed to have a
ritual of it's own. Then she said:
Now"
Chickie watched carefully but her
first move was wrong. She went
hastily to correct it; to lay the fold
ed spread precisely over the backs
of two chairs. In her nervousness
she dropped it on the floor.
Miss Alberta gave a long success
sion of "tchuts" that made her
mouth a very feature of disgust.
Chickie was almost in tears. She
stopped over the sheet, trying val
iantly to make the corners stay
square, trying to remember which
blanket went under the mattress
and which was free.
Suddenly the whole of them were
snatched from her. the bed unmade
again. Miss Alberta said briefly,
Now, try 1t again"
But she was too hot with embar-
rassment, too unnerved by the shak
ing experience of the last hour. She
began to make the bed swiftly, with
no ceremony whatever, but just as
she had made her own all her life.
Miss Alberta's eyes, heavy with
authority, blazed. Are you merely
stupid, Miss Bryce, because then
I'll show you again. Or don't you
wish to learn?"
Chickie didn't answer. She gave
the blanket an impatient yank, bit
ing her lips. She pounded it into
place with a furious little fist.
The instructress moved from the
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CHAPTER XIII
Measuring I'm

| Myrtle was sitting up on the edge
of Chickie's bed, filing her nails
Chickie's manicure case, with al
her treasured tools, her fine scis
sors, orange wood sticks, cuticle oil
was open on the dresser. The room
had an. air Of disorder and mussi
ness very irritating to Chickie's lofty
mood.
Myrtle said: "Let him go early
didn't you? Have a good timer"
Eyes. How did these get here?'
Chickie's coat and her blue silk
sweater were flung carelessly on a
chair.
ooh, some Of the girls were in
Getting cold, isn't it Too bad you
didn't come a little earlier. Gates
had box Of pastry. Say, this is a
bird Of a file dandy polish.
What's the name Of 1t?"
Chickie had never known a sis.
ter, nor had she ever shared a room
with any one. She had never come
home to find the air charged with
her expensive perfume, and her best
shoes walking out on some one elses
feet.
Now, seeing Myrtle gouging at her
nails with vigor enough to snap the
scissors, she was all bristling with
resentment. She hung up her
clothes. and, going over to the
! dresser, brushed off powder and
| little crimson flecks Of rouge.
Myrtle laughed good naturally
Pussy as an old maid, aren't
you? You'll get over it, I'll bet g
hat. It's all give and take here"
Chickie thought with a childish an
ger: ooh, yes; I'll give and you
take" But she said: 1--WE have to
get up at 6, don't we? I think II
go to bed"
Good idea! Say-do you smoker?
"Yes-sometimes.'
Where do you keep them? I've
looked everywhere"
ST didn't bring any. I heard II
was against the rules"
"Hell-suppose it is? Go and
knock on Gates door, will you?
I'm famished for puff
What's the matter with your owr
feet?"
I'm sitting on them. can't vol
see? Don't, then"
Chickie laughed. Myrtle slipped
off her shoes. went tiptoeing into
the hall. She came back with {
match and one cigarette. She wen
over and noisily raised the window
81 don't suppose they come shopping
around at this hour, do you? Well
tell us about your friend Lord
you're about as laxative as a wood
en- Indian! Did you go to a shown
| "No-just for a ride"
'Ah-haa!" Myrtle hummed soft
ly in a very sweet tone: Little love
little kiss" Then she asked
What kind Of a machine? Are you
pretty crazy about him."
Chickie was not given to read,
condolences, and she hated questions
even from Mary and Janina. TIL
gall of this Myrtle overwhelmed her
Especially now, when she longed 70
swift communion with herself
when she wanted to get her thought
in tune for the days and the worl
before her.
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BY Gilmore NIeherin

: But now, awakened and self
aware, she brought her fires to an
altar. They must burn tn smsel..s
to ashes there. It was an alien
shrine, where Jake had never
kneeled.
He still kept her hands in his
$50 you mean to SWEEP away the
soft and pleasant things? Are you
trying to give me a gentle out, too,
Helena, dear?"
"Oh. no! ia be quite broken
hearted If you should disappear.
And yet"
WHAT"
She was thinking Of the rich, col
orful life; the thronging pleasures
that were Jake's and now no longer
hers. She said This way isn't
your way, Mr.. Jake, I guess"
''True enough, my dear" Ho
s1umped down comfortably, regard
ing her with musing, indulgent
smile. "True enough! But who can
tell? Now I may take a notion 10
put an extra rose in that crown of
yoursp' He gave her a cosy nudge
with his elbow. tive had pre-
monition Of it right along. God wot,
an We may reform me yeti!
She laughed; "I'd hate to spoil
you, Jake. I really would"
'Now-weIl see. So that's that.
VIII you come to the opera on your
IA Mice, p,xyOoou
"Oh-so soon? / don't want to
no"
"Why, Chickie? You're back in
the city. People know Of it"
She breathed holly. do they?
But I'd hate to dress all up and go
walking down that aisle. I suppose
they wouldn't be thinking Of me. but
Just the same"
eve could go into the gallery the
first time, if you like"
She gave him a queer, appealing
look. Would you want to be seen
among all that crowd with me? 1t
was different in Chicago. You
didn't think, did you. Jake?"
She could see a Strengthening OF
the red, full lips. "Do you want to
come. Helena? 7 have a box for
every night I'd like to take you"
In her minds eye were faces peer
ing at her Most vivid among these,
strangely enough, was the face Of
Tia Moore. She said, faltering: mot
yet. I suppose shouldn't care If
people think me calloused or If they
talk about me. do, though. Oh, I'd
hate to co. She became nervous
and rubbed her hands together. you
better not be bothering with me, Mr..
Jake. You just better go your own
way. After a while, when I work
hard at this. it will be much easier"
why will it?''
She laughed. "Oh, you see. I'm
to do so much good; I'm to forget
myself so completely that pretty
soon I'll know I don't count. So
I'll be able to laugh at hurts and
such I'll wonder why any one
should bother to snub me. I won't
be touched by it. TIL be so quite
wrapped up in this magnificence.
Wellp'
It seemed to Chickie that an odd
sadness filed into Jake's eyes and
rested there. He said, quietly; lis
it to accomplish all that, Helena?"
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CHURCH OF CHRIST,
SCIENTIST

"TRUTH"
= SECOND CHURCH - Delaware at
IEdiRD CHURCH - $3.50 Washington
Sunday Services
In All Churches, II a. m.
and p. m.
Second Church Only
Testimonial Meetings
Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock.
Free Reading Rooms
10 Continental Bank Bldg. II N. Meridian
205 E. Thirty Fourth st.
The Public
cordially invited to attend these services
and to use the reading rooms.
SUNDAY SCHOOL FOR CHILDREN
UNDER 20 YEARS.
Second Church at p:30 and IL A. NJ.
Third Church at 9:16 "A. NJ.
These are branches of The Mother
Church, The First Church OF Christ Sciens
tist in Rostnn. Massachr.e'ts
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Making a bed isn't a simple
proposition at a hospital,
Chickie learns.

to her that they should have waited
that they should have knelt down;
that some one should have pressed
the poor old woman's hand
She passed the supervisor at her
desk. She wanted to say: Where
are they taking her? Isn't it awful?
Why, she was just talking-poor old
thing-she gave me this" The
supervisor seemed to have forgotten.
Not ten minutes after this the in
structress in one Of the sclasses sent
for Chickie. She was to learn how
to make a bed. It was Chickie's
first cruel enlightenment.
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SALEM PARK TABERNACLE

Sunday School $3.50 A. NJ.
Morning Worship 10:45 A. NJ.
Subject Garry Your Corner" or ''The
Healing of the Palsied Man"
At $50 p. m. the Rev. /. 8. Tracy and
wife Of the Nazarene Church in India will
speak,
Rev. John Gaugaware of Bellaire, Mich.
will speak at p. m.
CAMP MEETING
July 30th to Aug. 9th
a Evang. G. Jewell of Columbus, Ind;
other ministers will preach. Missionaries
from China. India and japan will speak
Five services daily beginf1fng at a. m.
o. II. Mater, sec'y. Phone Bel. 1895. w.
Market and Alton Ave; Take w, Wash
two blocks to Alton Ave.
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Puzzle q Day

Grandmother is 81 years old, and
has lived as long as my father,
mother, my sister and I. I am twice
as old as Sue, Willie Dad is twice as
old as Mother. But in nine years
Mother will be twice as old as L.
member of the family is?
Evening star., 1925-06-20
new NAVAL ACADEMY
CLASS TO NUMBER 400
Membership Already Has Reached
227-Win Exceed Last Years
by Nearly $50.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star
ANNAPOLIS, Md. June 20.-The
new fourth class at the Naval Acad-
emy has now reached a membership
or 227, and 1t was stated by officials
tnat 1t would contain. when completed,
at least 400 members. This is about
$50 more than the last class. the
first to enter the academy after the
number of midshipmen were reduced.
Among the members of the new class
are about 80 former enlisted men of
the Navy and Marine Corps. Some
of these have qualified mentally.
few having to take the physical ex.
aminations. This is by far the largest
proportion of the 100 service men per
mitted by law to be appointed an.
nually which has ever entered the
academy.
Evening star., 1925-06-20

is feature of the tableau, and which
is to be danced by members of the
O-E-Mor Club. The Inauguration
of George Washington as First Presi-
of the United States" will form the
final tableau, and is being prepared
by the Park View center, enlisting
in its personnel many prominent citi-
zens in that neighborhood
The finale of the historical scenes
will be the March of Today" and as
many citizens as possible are asked TO
join in this march of honor to the
flag of the United States, which is 10
be carried ahead of the marching
throng by a group of so girls, com
posed Of members of the Pollyanna
Club of the Southeast, augmented by
other Washington girls. The nag
bearers will be led by Mrs Bernard.
and the flag march around the sta.
dunn will be preceded by the District
of Columbia. in the person of Mrs.
Maud Howell Smith, bearing the Dis.
trict seal. The United States Marine
Band will play the professional music,
and the entire stadium, marcbers and
audience will be illumined with
countless red signal lights.
Marie Moore Forrest, director of
historical tableaux and patriotic
marches, announces that no rehears-
ais viii be necessary for the marches,
but that participants are asked to
send In their names as soon as pos
sible to Mrs. Ida E. Kebler, chairman
of personnel, at 1922 Park road north
west. Rehearsals for the tableaux
will be held at Central High Stadium
on Tuesday evening, June %. and also
on Friday evening rJune 26.
Evening star., 1925-06-20
TAb[EAUX PLANNED
FOR DEFENSE DAY
Early National Life Will Be
Shown in Program at
Central Stadium.

Plans of the executive committee
representing the community center
department and other civic and patri-
ot1c organizations for the evening
celebration of Defense day on July
Fourth are rapidly taking definite
shape, and the exercises in Central
High Stadium that evening are ex-
pected to be impressive and inspiring,
both from the Independence day and
the Defense day point of view
With E. c. Snyder and Isaac Cans
as chairman and vice chairman, re-
spectively, The executive committee
Will meet again on Tuesday morning
IN the community center offices in the
Franklin School Building. with addi-
tional plans for this celebration of in
tereSt to all ages of citizens of the
District of Columbia. The special COM
mittee from the Board of Trade ap-
pointed by President Samuel J. Pres
colt, and including A j. Driscoll,
Charles P. Light, Ben T. Webster and
Conway w. Cooke, has already met
with Mrs. Cecil Norton Broy. director
OF community centers, and Mrs. L. w.
HARDY, chairman of finance for the
July Fourth executive committee of
the centers, and has expressed hearty
approval of the plans, and promised
full cooperation, particularly regard
ing the presentation of the brief Sc
rles of historical tableauX, including
the Declaration of Independence.
Five TabIeaux Planned.
Five tableaux will be given depict
| ing important events in the early ma
tional life, opening with the march
| OF yesterday" with it's great number of
| volunteer participants clad in colonial
costume. in honor of the spirit of
1875. The marches and tableaux
have been arranged and will be
given under the direction of Marie
! Moore Forrest, with the assistance of
Mrs. M. w. Davis, Mrs. Ida E. Kebler,
Mrs. A. c. Driscoll, Mrs. Edith H.
Hunter and Miss M. 1. Burklin, COM
| munity secretaries, and with a large
cast of citizens of the District, COM
posed in part of selected players from
various centers and in part of hun
dreds of volunteers from the COM
munity at large.
| The first scene, that of an Indian
| frontier raid in ITS, will be present
ed by the Improved Order of Red
Men, under the auspices of the South
east center. James j. McCracken,
grand sachem, has appointed Robert
| Strobel in charge of personnel for the
scene. assisted by Mrs. Lulu A. Mas
| tin. past Pocohontas of the degree
of Pocahontas. THE Signing of the
Declaration of Independence" will be
presented by members of the Wilson
Normal center, assisted by Mrs. Gen
evieve F. Bond and a number of the
Washingtonians, community opera
group. Mrs. Kebler, personnel direc-
| tor, will be glad to accept as volun-
teers for this scene, descendants of
any Of these distinguished patriots.
THE Winter at Valley Forge" will
| be given by the Thomson center,
Benjamin Franklin at the Court of
Louis XIV is already in rehearsal
by the johnson Powell center, with
Mrs. Florence Fenton Barnard di-
Fecting the French -gayotte which
Evening star., 1925-06-20
OIL BELIEVED BACK
OF KURD REVOLT
Questioning at Trial of Seized
Leaders Indicates Blow
at MosuI Field.
BY JUNIUS B. WOOD.
By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily Ne

By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News.
PERA, Turkey, June 20.-The re-
cent unsuccessful Kurdish revolt.
which generally has been considered
as a trivial desert uprising, actually
is part of a worldwide battle for oil,
according to Turkish information.
Witnesses at the trial of the rebel
lious sheiks, now drawing to a fatal
close at Angora, invariably are asked
whether England encoura ged the re-
bellion, promising support to an indie
pendent Kurdistan. At the same time
the present uprising of other Kurdish
tribes on the British side of the Mosul
oil region quite obviously is not being
discouraged by Turkish authorities.
The League of Nations is expected
to decide in October whether the Mo
sui oil area belongs to Turkey o. TO
the British mandate of Mesopotamia
A sheik named Said, who seems des-
tined to hang as soon as his presence
is no longer needed, is the principal
defendant in the present trial. Ap-
parently prematurely, he started one
of the most carefully planned revolu-
tions of recent years. The plot con
templated overthrow of the republic.
the return of the ex-Sultan from exile
restoration of the Caliphate and dras-
tic suppression of the present liberal
tendencies, as well as Kurdish auton-
omy under British protection, in
new kuristan, including the oil fields
However, the plot was not to mature
until next year.
tCopyright. 1925. by Chicago Daily News CO..
Evening star., 1925-06-20
RUM SQUAD SEEKS
BOOTLEC'S SOURCE
Adopt New Policy After Cap
ture of Truckload of
"Corn" From Baltimore.

Arrest of Harry Wernek, %, 1916
East Chase street, Baltimore, Md,
early this morning by Capt. Guy F..
Burlingame and members of his rum
squad and seizure of q motor truck
and 100 gallons of corn whisky, start
ed an investigate to determine the
Baltimore source of supply and the
identity of the local bootlegger for
whom the whisky was intended.
Heretofore persons arrested In such
cases were taken to Police Court with
out delay and the cases disposed Of
without efforts to locate the base of
supplies. Capt. Burlingam me does not
intend TO take the defendants TO court
until he has exhausted every means
to hit At the source of supply.
When members of Commissioner
Jennings rum squad were thought to
have gone home. Wernek, driving a
motor truck. entered the District on
Rhode Island avenue northeast, at a
rate of 35 miles an hour. Sighted by
the rum squad, a lively pursuit ter
minated at Rhode Island avenue and
Nineteenth street northeast. two
blocks from No. IL police station,
vealed the large consignment for a
Washington bootlegger.
Is Carrier Only.
Police reported that Wernek had no
registra ton card or drivers permit
and that he willingly made state
ment of what he was doing. He had
driven here on prior occa sions with
bootleg cOnsiguments, he is said to
have told members of the rum squad
and also said today's supply was to
have been delivered to a colored man
on the street.
The prisoner was unable to tell
Just where he was to meet the colored
man, he declared. and objected to
telling from where the consignment OF
the inJoxicant was obtained. he
said he had merely been employed by
another man TO drive the truck TO
this city and meet the colored man,
who was to get the corn beverage.
Charges Of Illegal possession and
Transporting liquor, speeding, falling
10 have a drivers permit and having
no registration card were preferred
against Wernek. He will not be ar
ra igned in Police Court before Monday.
Evening star., 1925-06-20

be left to the plea of his chief counsel,
w. S. Stewart.
One defense witness yesterday was
called to attack F'aiman's veracity,
while two others attacked the story
of Faiman and John p. Marchand.
former representative of Faiman's Ma
tional University of Sciences, that
Shepherd had written a letter to the
school inquiring about, course in
criminal bacteriology.
Faiman and Marchand said this let
ter was written on stationery of Shep-
herds one-time law firm.
Miss Isabel Anderson. however, told
the jury yesterday that this law firm
was dissolved in 1919 and all of the
firm stationery destroyed that oc-
curing five years before the letter
was alleged to have been written.
Arthur Conway. former convict at
Leavenworth penitentiary, said he was
acquainted with Faiman and had at
tended his university" He said F'ai-
mans reputation for veracity was
very bad"
Evening star., 1925-06-20
WOMAN WHO SLEW SICK SISTER
OUT OF PITY GETS TWO YEARS
Paris Dressmdker, Going Prison, Says God FISHES
Her to AUenge Killing Landlord Who Or.
dered Them Out of Home.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
PARIS, June 20.-Found guilty of
killing her sister at the latter's re-
quest, to put her out of her suffering
from an incurable lung disease, Anna
Leva sser, Paris dressmaker, today
faced the necessity of atoning to the
law by undergoing two years impris.
onment.
Mile. Levasser was found guilty
and sentenced last night after telling
graphic story on the stand Of the
death scene.
Her sister, Anais. wracked with
pain, besought her to put her out Of
her misery and, her argument finally
prevailing. they decided together upon
the means to be used.
IT seated her in a chair Anna tes.
titled. She told me: You will shoot
and I will move my head until 1t is
finished
Theedressmaker withetrembhng.hand
Evening star., 1925-06-20
Meet Next in Montreal.

RICHMOND, June 20.-Montreal
was selected as the 1926 convention
city of the American Association Of
Railway Superirtendents in session
here yesterday and present officers of
the association were reelected, which
includes E. H. Harman of ST. Louis as
president. Today the delegates. more
than $50 in number, will visit Mount
Vernon. -
Evening star., 1925-06-20
DEFENSE ATTACKS
POPE GIRL STORY
Records Show Differences in
Testimony - Faiman's
Statements Disputed.
By the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, June 2O.-The defense of
William d. Shepherd continued its
case today by further attack on the
testimony of Miss Isabelle Pope, who
waited with a marriage license while
Millionaire Billy McClintock, foster
son of Shepherd, died of typhoid fever
+. T. Squibb, shorthand reporter.
who recorded a portion of Miss Pope's
testimony before the coroner's jury,
testified that the young woman had
not mentioned germs" or study of
germs On the witness stand against
Shepherd she said the defendant had
informed her he had studied typhoid
and germs.
The second defense witness of the
day was Walter Smith, drug clerk
former electrical worker and graduate
in chiropratic from the National Uni
versity of Sciences, a tiny school con-
Quoted by G.. c. Faiman, star witness
against Shepherd
Through him the defense sought to
show that Faiman.s school never
houses test tubes filled with live
germs.
Denies Presence of Germs.
Faiman testified that from an ice
box in his school. where he had pre-
served typhoid bacilli for some time
he gave Shepherd three tubes of
them. learned later they were wanted
for the murder of Billy McClintock
and aided the conspiracy by teaching
Shepherd how to administer them.
Smith said that there was an ice
box at Faiman's school, but denied
that it ever had contained pathogenic
germs In test tubes.
F'aiman testified that the germs
were obtained by him from the
laboratory of the Chicago Health De-
partment by merely asking an un-
known attendant there for them, no
record being made of the transac-
ton.
To counteract that testimony the de-
fense called DIR. f. o. Tonney, direc-
tor of the Health Department, who
placed upon the passing out of germs
at the laboratory.
Dr. Tonney denied that F'aiman
ever had requested cultures from him.
or that Faiman's name ever had been
called to his attention prior to the
Shepherd trial.
The doctor denied that F'aiman
could have obtained the germs he
said he gave Shepherd in the manner
described
The witness gave technical reasons
why Faiman could not have gone to
the laboratory. told the boy at the en-
trance he wanted three tubes of
germs and have obtained them i'm
mediateIy without giving his name or
address.
Shepherd to Testify.
Some 10 witnesses remain to be
called by the defense before the op-
posing attorneys make their final ar
guments to the jury.
China king their testimony, Shepherd
will take the stand on Monday, and
then sthealast efforts in his behalf will
Evening star., 1925-06-20

was unable to finish the deed with
one shot. A second, a third and 8
fourth followed and finally Anais
head did not move"
Anna said she had planned to shoot
herself afterward, but that she was
SO unnerved that she was unable to
put the cartridges in the gun.
Then" she went on, "r understood
that God did not wish me to die God
wished me to live as an avenger. for
my sisters assassin is not I, it is
the landlord who ordered US out of
our poor lodging. God wished mo to
ayenge my sister and I am here only
for that"