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The Washington times., 1926-09-01
SENATOR Mckinley RESTS
Better AFTER BAD NIGHT

CHICAGO, Sept. 1.-The condition
&c United States Senator William
B. Mckinley, seriously III at a
Martlnsville, Ind, aanitariunn. was
reported slightly improved today.
IN q bulletin issued BY DR.. Rob
ert II. Egbert, attending physician,
his respiration was given as So,
pulse 40, and temperature 102.
Senator Mckinley, who came two
weeks ago from Washington TO
undergo treatment, took q sudden
turn for the worse yesterday morn
ing. His condition grew serious
last night, DR.. Egbert reporting he
had little chance to recover. Pull
monary congestion had set in, the
physician said.
The Washington times., 1926-09-01

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PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE
BY WILLIAM BRADY, NJ. ID.

feels convinced ] am wrong when |
advocate the teaching of the truth to
children from the very beginning-at
least the truth about human life. My
critic does not clearly explain just
what he would teach the children
about this sacred question, but per
haps he means they should go on as
they always have, in such dim light as
they may get from their ordinary re-
ligious instruction. Many religious
leaders seem to hold that opinion.
They scarcely take into account the
enormous influence of unreligious or
nonreligious factors in the information
or misinformation, not to call it edu-
cation, of the child. If we hesitate
to teach the child the truth, and the
vicious or unreligious or immoral
source of information or misinforma-
ton is not only available TO the child
but literally thrust upon him and
made as easy and as attractive as pos
sible, the child's mind is certain to be
debauched.
/ do not know what the religious
instruction of the commodore's son is.
but 1 believe the boy is getting the
finest possible moral training-a pre-
cept in every wallop. Not that a box
ing match composes the moral educa-
ton of a. boy, but in this instance the
gloves are padded with parental and
filial affection. The man is his boys
best pal.
Copyright. 1926)
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WHEN WE co SHOPPING
BY MRS. HARLAND H. ALLEN.

fans are ineffective. SO, if your home
is of ordinary size, you will have TO
use for them.
When you have decided upon the
general type of fan that fits your
needs, consider such factors as dura-
bility, noiselessness of operation and
ease of oiling and care-taking.
The frame and motor body should
be of some material which is eX-
tremely strong, but which is light
enough to be carried about easily.
Steel is an excellent choice. Blades
should be SO designed and placed at
the proper angles that they will
operate with a minimum of noise.
without sacrificing efficiency. These
points you can judge quite simply,
merely by putting the fan into
operation.
Ease in handling is facilitated by a
we'll shaped handle. Ease in caring
for the fan means that it should
necessitate oiling only once a season,
and that its oiling system should pro-
vide that surplus oil which may
escape from bearings shall be re-
turned-otherwise you will have to
wipe the grease from the fan every
few days.
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Electric Fans.
Il want an electric fan

Il want an electric fan"
Perhaps the speaker is yourself,
and you have just walked into the
electrical shop, impelled by the heat
of the day to buy a fan--just any
fan.
Now, ii is not likely to be an
expensive purchase for two reasons.
In the first place, since, unlike the
electric iron in which heat must be
generated, the fan generates only
power, it can be operated at negligible
expense. In the second place, if you
are sensible in your selection, the fan
is likely to be quite durable, and SO
economical from another standpoint.
You should consider such factors as
the size and shape of the room sor
which you intend it, and the voltage
of your house, as well as the mate
rails and workmanship of the fan.
Among the types of electric fans
you will most frequently see are the
oscillating fans and the non-oscillat-
ing fans. the ceiling fans and the
gyrating fans.
The demonstrating type is a good
choice if your room is very long and
narrow. If the room is large enough
to require several fans, buy non
oscillators, and point them in the
same direction. preferably toward the
exit. The oscillating fan is the best
if your room is fairly wide for its
length; you should point the center
of oscillation across the room. Ceiling
fans and gyrating fans are suitable
only for places so large that the ether
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BEDTIME STORIES
BY THORNTON
". BURGESS

and pushes away the sand around it.
Then that point becomes little disk
that clings to the bottom and the clam
pulls its shell right down. Then does
it ali over again, so that it goes down
in the sand very fast.
This clam is also considered very
nice eating by other than Greywing
the Gull, but it is so clever in getting
out of sight In the sand that 1t is not
often obtained as food.
While this particular clam is an ex-
ceedingly good digger. there is another
little clam which is a good swimmer.
Wouldn't Danny Meadow Mouse have
been surprised if he could have seen
a clam swimming? You know. clam
doesn't look bit as If he could swim.
Most of them cannot. But this par.
ticular little clam, which is only about
three-quarters of an inch in length,
can swim for quite distance with.
out once touching bottom. There
is still another clam called the Sand
bar Clam. which comes to the surface
Of the water and skips along by means
Of its powerful foot and the Tapping
motion of the valves of the shell.
(Copyright 1921
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Avoid Accommodations of Papers
BY LYDIA LIE BARON WALKER.

With all their many advantages, the
home maker has to exercise care TO
prevent the papers accommodating too
rapidly before using. 1t is a mistake
to have clutter of newspapers about
O room.
Only the one for the current day
should be in evidence. One reason why
more are apt to be about is because
something has been found that we
want to keep and yet we do not i'm.
mediately cut it out and lay one side.
If day goes by without this being
done, and another paper is with it,
neither can be discarded lest we dis
card the wrong one! We appreciate
that the clipping has just the informa-
ton we want to keep 1t all sounds
so foolish when one writes it down,
but there are very few households
where just this thing does not &C.
casionally happen.
Clip Promptly.
We make so much extra and need
less work for ourselves by getting
into habit of procrastination of this
kind. Do not let the item elude and
cause trouble. Cut it out Immediately.
If we haven't library scissors at hand,
we can use a paper cutter or a pen
knife. often see men in trains cut
ting out items neatly and deity with
their pocketknives. They leave the
paper. If you have neither scissors
nor pocketknives, you can crease the
paper and tear out the articles as
neatly as possible. We should clip
out items and put the rest of the
paper to good use or discard it. We
can make the most of newspapers in
every way, and we should.
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BREWING KNOWS JUST WHERE
TO LOOK FOR THE RAZOR CLAM.
CLAIMS. If you have ever been to
clannbake and had steamed clans, you
know what they are. You see, Grey
wing knows what is good.
But there is another member on tne
clam family quite as delicious eating,
which Greywing is seldom smart
enough to get. Often he sees TINS
clam. but usually that is all. This clam
IA long. quite six inches long, and
narrow, and shaped very much like
fiae handle of an old.fashioned razor.
It doesn't look as If 1t were able to
take care Of itself. It doesn't look one
bit smarter than any other clam. But
try to catch one, as Greywlng mas
tried more than once.
Growing knows just where to look
for the razor clam. He knows a Ger
tain sand bar where at low tide THIS
clam may be found with the upper end
az the shell projecting from its hole
IN The sand. Always it is very tempt
ing and Greywing many times has
xiolded to temptation and darted at
one Of these CLAIMS In the hope OF
catching it. But at the first move.
down it goes, and Greywing has moth
ing but an exasperating hole In the
sand to look at.
Now, the surprising thing is that
this clam can go down into the sand
faster than you could dig down with
spade. Yet he has no feet, he has no
hands, he has no claws; to look at him
you wouldn't think he had thing to
dig with.
Z have said this clam has no feet.
This is true But it has what is called
a. foot. It isn't like the foot OF a bird,
or an animal, or any one else You
know Of. 1t isn't shaped like any foot.
1t looks like merely long fieshy part
pushing out from the lower end of the
shell. But 1t is with this that the
clam can burrow so fast in the sand.
This queer so.called foot pushes out
! until 1t is q point. With this it pushes
right down In the sand. Then through
| the other end the clam draws In water
and forces this water right down into
sYhs Soeta 90 that Thu. loot swells out
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CHAPTER. XVI.

ct didn't know that such things
happened in real life" Leila fairly
flung the words at him. II thought
such situations as this were confined
to the movies, but l see they aren't.
1 can't tell you how / despise you.
I haven't words for it. / suppose you
never stopped to think that you
could be absolutely repulsive to a
woman. You wouldn't, you're too con-
ceited for that"
With a swift movement, she was
across the room and had flung the
door open.
"Will you leave this room at once?"
she said, still in that low, tense voice.
"Or shall ask Kuwa to put you out?"
On Barry's face there was an ex-
preston of amazement that was al
most ludicrous. It changed slowly
to one of baffied rage.
"You mean that" he asked at last.
Leila laughed almost Historically.
MEAN it, of course l mean it! Not
only that, but il you persist in annoy
ing me, I shall have to go to your
father l told you once that couldn't
afford to lose this place, and / don't
intend to do so because of you"
AS he came toward her she stepped
into the hall. If he attempted to touch
her she intended to scream for help
and Kuwa, who was on duty just be-
low, would be sure to hear her. But
to her surprise. he walked past her
without word. The next moment
she was back in Mona's sitting room
with the door locked.
For a time she wavered between
hysterical laughter and tears. This
situation was really funny if one had
sense of humor enough to laugh at
it, The colossal conceit of Barry
Kingsley! His assurance in thinking
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"Puzz1;cks"
PuzzLe-Ltnericks

There was a young lady from i
Whose fellow stole up and ,;
Come, kiss me"' he >,
But she blushed and A.
And refused to begin til he 3.
1. Town in southeastern Pennsyl.
vsGnia.
2. Petted; feminine pronoun, OBJ
jective two words.
8. Exclaimed.
4. Refused.
5. Exerted pressure upon; last word
of second line two words).
NOTE-There's hint here for
young gentlemen. But you can't find
the hint until you've completed the
limerick by putting the right words
Indicated by the numbers, In the cor.
responding spaces. If you can't fig.
ure 1t out, look for the answer and an.
other "Puzzlick" here tomorrow.
Yesterdays ''Puzzlick."
A pretty young lady named Jane
While walking was caught in the rain;
She ran--almost few,
Her complexion did, too,
And when she got home she was plain
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Clues to Character
He Longs for Authority.
BY J. O. ABERNETHY.

The chap who likes to boss, to
domineer, to lord it over his fellows
either in business or social life will
be found to have a very broad.
square, projecting chin. This type
never is satisfied in any sort of
position where he must take orders
and he does not make a good employe
for that reason.
He longs for authority, for power
to boss and lay down rules of con.
duct for others, but he will not well
come any suggestions from you
even if he realizes they are practical.
He probably would resent suggestions,
but later. without admitting they
were your ideas, put them into
practice.
You know that a square, projecting
chin bespeaks combative and destruc-
tive qualities. Its owner will smash
obstacles whether physical or mental.
In physical combat this type goes in
to win by fair or foul means. He at
tacks or defends with whatever
weapon he can lay his hands upon.
In argument he will more likely use
the broadsword than the rapier. but
he will not hesitate to wound to tile
quick if necessary to win.
He is a good fellow to let alone,
unless you really are interested in a
fierce contest. He takes credit for
all the good things tina. come about,
but blames the miscues on others.
tCopyright 1880
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PALE HANDS
BY HAZEL DEYO BACHELOR.

that he could buy his way into her
favor with gifts, dazzle her with his
ability to spend money, simply be-
cause she hadn't any herself.
She wanted to laugh, but instead
she found herself crying. 1t had been
somewhat of an ordeal and her nerves
felt raw. She wondered if Barry
would leave her alone now that she
had threatened to go to Richard IL
he persisted in annoying her, and as
this thought crossed her mind, she
could not hedp contrasting the two
men. How different had been Rich
ards offer of assistance and how ap-
parent the fact that he respected her
in spite of the position she was &C.
cupying. If she were forced to go TO
him she was sure he would see things
from her standpoint. He would
never think as Mona had, that she
had encouraged Barry by flirting
with him.
While Leila was crying in Mona's
sitting room, Barry was in his own
room sprawled in a chair. On the
floor at his feet was the blue velvet
box where he had thrown it savagely
on his entrance. His face wore an
ugly expression.
He had been so sure of her, SO
certain of his tactics. He had eX-
pected her to be dazzled by the gilt
tering costly thing hat he had bought
her and instead she had spurned his
gift. Not only that but she had
made him feel ridiculous. She had
said he was repulsive to her. Did
she really mean that? Certainly no
woman had ever told him such
thing before. He had learned it for
the first time from his mothers maid.
Barry tried to tell himself that after
all it didn't matter. The world was
full of beautiful women who were
willing to be agreeable, but for some
reason he could not do this. Per-
haps it was because Leila symbolized
the thing he couldn't have. Perhaps
it was because through humbling his
pride, she had aroused the good that
was buried somewhere in him. At
any rate he could not hate her for
telling him that he was repulsive to
her, no matter how much he wanted
to do SO. She was more desirable
than ever because she was more re-
mote.
He got to his feet finally and pick
ing up the blue velvet box tossed it
into a drawer. Then he did a thing
that he could never remember doing
before. He went out for a walk.
(Copyright. 1880
Continued in tomorrow's Start
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Coal Gas.

People often say. II smell coal gas"
This is impossible, as it has no odor.
What they smell is fumes rising from
the furnace which are generally sui
phur and other bad-smelling gases
given off by incompletely burned coal.
Probably there is coal gas in the air,
too at such a time, and it is well to
see that the furnace has enough air
to burn the coal completely. The in
sidious thing about coal gas is that 1t
produces drowsiness very slowly, and
If the occupants of a house are asleep
when coal gas escapes, they may be
asphyxiated quite painlessly and in
sensibly in their sleep. In mines,
aboard ships, ETC., canaries are often
kept because they keel over from the
first whiffs of coal gas, and SO give
warning. Our Illuminating gas con-
tains coal gas, and a bad-smelling gas
is added purposely just to give warn
ing of leak
Now what do you know about that?
Answers to Yesterdays Questions.
/. The red rays of the spectrum
have the longest waves.
2. The violet waves of the spectrum
have the shortest waves.
8. Ultraviolet rays probably have
a color. but our eyes are not sensitive
enough to detect what it may be.
4. Infra-red rays are those with
longer QoWer) vibrations than red, and
hence like ultraviolet are invisible.
5. Leaves are green because they
absorb all the colors of sunlight except
green.
6. Black clothes are hot because
they absorb al the colors of sunlight.
Copyright. 1890
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What Tomorrow Means to You
BY MARY BLAKE.

Tomorrow's planetary aspects are
variable. In the morning, they are
adverse; in the afternoon they are
distinctly favorable, and after sunset
they assume negative character. Al
though not much success is promised
for any task that may be commenced
during the early hours of the day.
great amount of benefit can be de-
rived from the careful preparation OF
plans, as, although the signs are in
imical to activity, there are not pres
ent any evidences of encouragement
or peSsimism. The afternoon is, of
course, the appointed time for doing
that which you have determined TO do
and success will crown all conscien-
tious effort. Relaxation is strongly
recommended for the evening.
Children born tomorrow will, with
the exception of one or two very
slight ailments, enjoy fnfancies free
from care or trouble. The signs, how
ever, indicate that between the ages
of 10 and IL years they will require
much watchful care, as at that time
they are threatened with at least one
grave illness. There is nothing, how
ever. to cause alarm and they will at
tain normal adulthood. Their DISPOSE
tons will be very amendable and, ow'
ing to their natural charm and frank
ness, they.4will be able to get away
with pranks that would only insure
punishment for others. They will not
be either ambitious or Studious. They
will gain more by personality than by
toll.
If tomorrow is your birthday, you
are more fastidiouS than congenial,
more exacting that compiaisant, me.
ticulously careful in your plans and
able in their execution. You are
what the world calls a fussy person,
without confidence in the ability OF
any one to do what you want done in
the way you want 1t done. You are
prone to overlook basic essentials and
to devote all your energies to details
that are often insignificant. This con-
dition is all the more unfortunate, as
you possess wonderful foresight and
unerring Judgment. You could &C
complish much If your mentality were
even of the wholesale" rather than
the retail" variety. You are, scrupu-
lousy honest and severe in judgment
of others, and intolerant of their mis-
steps. 1t would be difficult for you
to find congenial mate, as, although
willing to give much, you fwill de-
mand much in return. Your marriage
should be only effected after careful
thought, and it should not be dis.
tinguished by haste or impulse.
Well known persons born on that
date are Charles Stewart, naval Of
ficer: William Mathews, author; John
H. Brown, inventor; Ballington Booth,
philanthropist; Mary Anderson, ac-
tress.
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Your Baby and Mine
BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED.
Seems Like Poor Diet.

Mrs. H. G. e. writes: 'A1y baby
girl is Az months old and weighs
little over IL pounds. She is very
good and sleeps we'll and almost never
cries. l feed her PA ounces of malt
food every three hours and she seems
satisfied.
II am told that she should have
orange juice, as she is apt to nave
ricketts,. She cannot keep it down.
Every few days | try to give 1t to her
and she spits 1t up. She takes prune
juice all right. l cannot even get
her to take cool boiled water; she
spits it right out.
1.-The baby is slightly cons1pated
and l use milk of magnesia for that.
which is generally successful. she
also gets cod liver oil daily.
"She cannot sit alone as yet and
her back seems weak. Is her weight
all right? Do you think If | give her
ounces every four hours 1t would
be better?"
Answer.-The surprising thing is
that your baby is satisfied on such
meager diet. At months a baby
can easily take 51s or ounces OF
food every four hours and this
should be, in addition to the malt
food, which is only part of the
IE6SII COW chAlA DNAA|N
water. Without the cows milk am
afraid you are simply counting trou-
BILE, ricketts, and otherwise. Babies
cannot get along without milk in some
form and if your baby's diet is just
the malt food she cannot possibly be
receiving the essentials for growth
and development.
The baby really shows no inability
to digest orange juice. since she acts
toward the water exactly as she acts
toward the juice. Won't you write
for leaflet No. g. This may help you
in correcting that tendency to spit out
foods.
The baby is not good weight, IL
pounds being the average for )
months. l would change the diet, con-
tinue the cod liver oil, try tomato
Juice instead of the orange juice, and
do not urge the baby to sit up until
her back is strong enough.
Please ask for the No. leaflet also.
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Colonial Gingerbread.

This is the name of delicious loaf
cake which is served at certain well
known dining places in southern Cali
fornia. To make the cake, put one
cupful of New Orleans molasses in a
mixing bowl with half cupful of
butter or lard and half cupful of
brown sugar. Over this pour a cupful
of boiling water in which level des-
sertspoonful of soda has already been
dissolved. Stir we'll and let the mix
ture cool, then add two and one-half
cupfuls of flour, one-half a teaspoonful
Of cinnamon and one-half q teaspoon
full of ginger Mix and then add two
eggs that have been thoroughly
beaten. Bake in a shallow pan. If a
fruit loaf is wanted, you can add a
cupful of walnut meats, cupful of
raisins and an extra one.half cupful
of -four.