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ONCE-OVERS

You have hard time center your thoughts for any
length of time
Your mind wanders dozen different subjects
it should centered the important matter at hand
You are lazy mentally to control your mind.
It is easier to drift than to make for the desired
channel
That is why you find it hard to make your mind do
real service.
You have intensity of thought only for subjects which
interest YOU you cannot always work along lines
please you.
Your thoughts fantastic air castles which
mind pictures what you would do eff AS for real con-
strcve consecutive practical thinking and concentrated
study you a failure far.
When you lost the to control your thoughts
and direct your efforts through connected thought it
serious thing
When realize that becoming less less able
to get hold of that very most important part of your
make up-your mind-it is time for you to take strong
measures with yourself.
Make your mind servant will ensavs you through
its inactivity.
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NEGOTIATIONS
OF A WIFE
BY Helen Rowland
The Monday Roast

The Monday Roast
MARRIAGE is the miracle.
1V1 which changes a woman's
II love you so"' into Il told you
SOL
A man can see no more sense
in keeping up the role Of Romeo
after marriage than a small boy
can see in being good" after
Christmas.
Every normal husband will as
sure you that what he Is fighting
for, around the house, from the
altar to the grave, is just PEACE.
Tell a girl that she hasn't any
sense and she'll laugh at you;
tell her that she hasn't any will
power and she'll agree with you;
but tell her that she hasn't any
sex-appeal and she'll hate you.
Eternal youth is just matter
of keeping the twinkle in your
eye, the spring in your step, the
sparkle in your sense OF humor,
and the muscles Of your heart
perfectly IIeXlDle.
A happy honeymoon is the "be-
ginner's luck" that deceives a
bride into thinking that marriage
is an easy game-until she dis
covers that she has to play q
brand new hand every day.
Wonder whether it's because he
thinks woman so adaptable or
man so irresistible, that every.
man believes it 50 easy for a
woman TO learn to love him"
Most girls consider a woman
absolutely unrea sonable, these
days, if she tries to hold onto
her husband, after the first year,
instead of putting him back into
circulation again.
Oh, we'll, men may not be so
mercenary as women, but lots of
them marry for moral support.
Copyright. 1925. by King Features
Syndicate. Inc.)
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WHY WE WALK
By Garrett P. Serviss

A BABY can use it's arms be-
"A fore it can use its legs. 1t
has to begin locomotion by crawl
ing. Often a growing baby can
lift itself by It's arms long before
it can stand erect or take a step
on its legs. It begins to walk
by helping itself maintain an erect
attitude with the aid of its arms,
clinging to chairs, tables, vain
scoting, etc.
Nobody can watch his own child
learning to walk without perceiv-
ing that, at the start, the arms
are the strongest members, while
the legs are too weak to serve
their purpose.
Since we have no reason to sup
pose that babies were born with
stronger legs in ancient times,
one would naturally think that
the men Of old who wrote about
the creation Of man and his orig
inal condition at his first appear
ance on the earth, must have no
ticed these striking facts and
tried to understand their mean
ing. But the book of Genesis
which fundamentalists regard as
divinely inspired, and therefore
inerrant, account Of mans origin.
takes no notice Of such. things. 1t
Cd
Gin His own image, In the image
of God created he him" and in
another place it says: And the
Lord formed man Of the dust OF
the ground, and breathed into his
nostrils the breath Of life"
They Knew Little
The fact is that when those
things were written men did not
know much about the world they
lived in, or about their own bed
les. It did not occur to them that
mans close resemblance in bod
lily structure and In physical man
ifestations of life to other ami
mails had any concealed meaning.
So, suspecting nothing, they dis
covered nothing.
But in this later, more sophts-
ticated age. after some thousands
Of years Of hard and enlightening
experience In the world. mans
mental faculties have sharpened
and strengthened with exercise.
Just as his legs will continue to
acquire gradually the ability to per.
form their functions while he is
child. And so his awakening curl
osity, stimulated by his experience
that there Is no divine taboo upon
knowledge. has led him to ask how
he acquired the ability to stand
erect and walk at all.
An answer to this interesting and
far-reaching question was furn-
ished the other day by DR.. Dudley
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> J. Morton. of Yale and of the Amer
lean Museum of Natural History.
Like most things on the surface Of
this planet, mans erect posture is
a matter of adjustment to the force
Of gravity.
Analysis of the inevitable inter-
action between gravity and organic
structures which has characterized
successive evolutionary stages,
definitely substantiates mans der
ivation from an ancient anthro-
poid ape stem. and indicates that
he has been, In all essentials, an
erect terrestrial biped from the
very time Of his origin, and has
never passed through a semi-erect
stage as manifested in modern
apes"
Don't Stop There
But now, IL we stopped there, we
should be without any hint con-
corning the meaning Of the baby's
relative strength of arms and
weakness OF legs. But we don't
have to stop there. 1.-THE Primate
group" says DIR. Morton, has
arisen from tree-living stock I"
We now come upon a unique inno-
walton in the manner of locomo-
ton, which is especially character
istic Of the great ape group. 1t is
the habit Of brachiation or moving
about suspended by the arms.
"The habit creates such mechan-
ical conditions that gravity newt
ably pulls the body into a vertical
position and extends the legs upon
the spinal column Brachia-
ton is the only locomotor phenom-
enon which, in combination with
the influence of gravity, can afford
logical tie-up between the erect
cursortal drumming and walking)
bipedism of man with any other
type OF animal locomotion.
when We note that the gibbon,
the most primitive of the great
apes, Is the only other creature
to employ the cursorial type Of
bipedism. and when paleontologi-
cal study Of fossil anthroids has
indicated that the ancient apes
were more erect than those of to-
day, the evidence clearly implies
that vertically suspended posture
Immediately and directly pre-
ceded the vertically supported
posture of man."
In other words, the superior
strength of the baby's arms and
it's Unborn tendency to cling to
something while trying to walk,
are ancestral "reminiscences of
the tree life of it's far-off pro-
genitors. Read in connection with
this. for there is not room to
quote 1t here. the entertaining
and enlightening description of
the walking and swinging habits
of the gibbon, in Huxley's essays
ON "Man's place in Nature"
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By ELSIE, ROBINSON

!. teIligent and proud to stoop to
such practices, and who does
not blight her children's lives with
: the burden Of her quarrel with
their father. But such women
are almost as rare as purple cows
am not writing this with
malice toward wives or sympathy
for husbands. I am writing It
in defense of the child life which
is poisoned by such atmosphere
of hate.
If it's contemplate for a child.
less woman to prey on her ex.
husband, it is a hundred times
more contemplate for a mother
to prey on her children's lives
that her jealousy and anger may
be gratified. If she is unable to
control her vindictiveness, she
should in decency refuse to take
money from the man she de-
spised. She will then. at least,
save herself and her children
from the defilement of hypocrisy.
Were I a judge, would make
certain conditions before I granted
alimony. to even the most ode
serving" mother.
I would make the continuance
of such alimony contingent upon
her behavior. If at any time it
was proven that she was bring
ing. the children up to depise
their father, the alimony would
be withdrawn. Regardless of her
own feelings toward him. she
should show him honor in her
children's eyes-or else get out
and hustle for her own support.
Copyright. 1895, by King Features
Syndicate. Inc.)
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bodied, childless women. He
enters the ring once more to
describe the tribe of lady weasles
which the alimony business has
produced. AS at least 9,S47 en-
thusiastic male editors and an
equal number of indignant female
ones have taken swing at this
article, it would be presumptuous
for me to attempt further anal
ysis of it's sterling worth. But
there's one point on which Judge
Strong didn't touch which will
bear some illumination.
Judge Strong confines his arti-
Gle to the mean practices or child
less wives to whom he refuses
alimony.
How about the mean practices
of divorced mothers to whom he
grants alimony?
The childless parasite is VIC
ious menace to the community.
But she has nothing on the di-
vorced mama who lives on her
husbands money and brings up
her children to spy on and hate
the man who feeds them.
In the majority OF our States
the wife is awarded the custody
of the children in case Of divorce.
This is done because Of the beau.
tiful tradition that the little dar-
lings need the blessed influence OF
a mothers love on their budding
characters.
The sentiment does us proud.
But how does it work out In
practice?
Usually the children grow up
in an atmosphere of hate and
revenge. The 'love" which the
mother gives them IL constantly
tinctured with the bitter grudge
which she bears against the
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WISE SAYINGS

Justice EFFORTS no reward, no
kind of price; she is sought there
We sleep, but the loom Of life
never stops, and the pattern
which was weaving when the sun
went down Is weaving when
it comes up.-Henry Ward
Beecher.
Pain. is no longer pain when it
is past.-Preston.
Life is to be fortified by many
friendships. To love, and to be
loved. is the greatest happiness
Of existence Smith.
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Al RE wives Par
IA asites

A RE wives Par
IA asites
Liars
Cheats
Intriguers
Money gra ..
bers.
Contributors to
immortality?
They areaH
too oftensays
Judge Selah b.
Strong In the
April issue OF
the Cosmopolitan.
And he forthwith
proceeds to prove.
his point by ar
gunent tax 9 n
from divorce
cases over which
he has presided.
Judge Strong re-
Gently startled
the country by
refusing to grant
aliInonv to able
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The General Management Of The Washington Times
has been reposed in the hands of Mr. G. Putnam and
will remain there hereafter Mr.. Putnam has long been
associated with the Hearst newspapers in managerial
capacity and will ably represent The Times and add ma
teriay to the notable progress this newspaper has al
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LISTEN WORLD!

father. They con-
stantly hear that
father discussed
with anger and
ridicuIe. They are
taught to think
Of him with con-
tempt. IL the
court DEGREES
that they are to
spend the Sun.
days with him, or
six months Of the
year, they are
taught to spy
upon al he does
and report the
same to mother.
IF he has married
again, the sec
ond wife comes
in for her share
OF sneering and
spying.
In rare cases
there is q mother
Unn Ia fn0 IN.
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PEANUTS AT
DINNER
Mrs. Cornelius Beeckman

nEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:
~ /. When serving dinner,
what is the right time to serve
the peanuts?
2. When walking with a boy,
which side should the boy be on?
C. J. w.
Have individual nut dishes
placed before every place, and
have these filled with the nuts.
Then your guests nibble them az
they wish throughout the dinner.
2. The boy walks on the side
of the pavement nearest the curb.
nEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:
~ Is it correct to congratu-
late a girl upon her engage
ment? Or should it be just best
wishes? SUE.
THERE is a suggestion that 1t
Il is not good form to ''congrat-
ulate" bride-to.be on her en-
riage. The reason given for this
might mean that you imply that
she is fortunate to have won a
husband
This seems to me q bit over
done as to the meaning Of the
word, but since there is this
shadow over the word used In
this connection, one should, I
suppose, not use it, thereby avoid
ing even the chance OF a misin-
depreciation.
Therefore, we had best tell the
groom-to-be or the groom that we
congratulate" him on having
won the fair lady and tell the
bride-to-be and the bride that we
offer her our ''best wishes" or
"our best wishes for her happi-
ness"
DEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:
~ We have been arguing
about a subject which maybe will
not come under correct manners
and then 1t might.
What is the color used for baby
boys, and what for baby girls?
It seems some say blue is for
boys and others say pink.
If you could set us right on
this we would appreciate it very
much. OFFICE GIRLS.
The general consensus of opin-
ion is that pink is the color for
girls and blue for boys. And
most authorities gives this. Some
how, it seems consistent and APP
propriate-don't you think so?
Personally, I am in favor of
discarding or disregarding both,
and have white for all babies.
White seems the baby color.
think. That Is why / think that
birth announcement cards should
be white, and should not attempt
to use pink for girls and blue for
boys.
Evening star., 1926-03-19
BONDS G0[0WER
NSELL|NG ORDERS
Foreign Group Wholly Heavy,
With European Issues
i'm Supply.
BY GEORGE r. HUGHES.

SPECIAL Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, March 19.-The bond
market today was .two-sided affair
to this extent, that the strictly high
grade investment issues. and particu.
larly f1rm mortgage, electric light and
power issues. were in demand. and so
in less degree were the legal rails. but
that secolIdg grade and speculative de-
scrfptions were heavy and in some in
stances actually weak. 49,
In the speculative class, chica so
halfway 3s were an outsta nding fea
ture. Following the announcement
of the formation OF protective com
mittee, the market declined sharply
on comparatively small offerings, I'M
I'll at 721a the bonds were sellin.; only
a point above the extreme low sf The
year. The bonds mature February
| next, which is also the date the
company's franchise expires. and un-
der present circumsta noes refundihe
operations appear Impractical.
Another point of weakness ,oda Y
was III the bonds of railroads oper-
atin@ IN the South. Seaboard All
Florida 6s were again under pres
sure. dropping point. and Seaboard
adjustments and consolidated 6s
sold off easily The former around
20 were at new 1926 low. For a
time the Erie Junior liens were IN
heavy supply. the general as and the
convertible "A and "B" As both los
Ing ground. Erie prior lien As were
firm. Missouri Kansas Texas ad-
1ustments and st. Louis San Fran =
cisco incomes both went lower
Evening star., 1926-03-19
SELLING IS RESUMED
IN WHEAT MARKET
Responsive to Decline in Liverpool
Quotation, Price Takes
Down Turn.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. March 9.-ResponsiVe
to a decline in Liverpool quotations.
the wheat market here went lower
today during the first part or the
Board of Trade session. Yesterdays
buyers were the principal sellers. Re
ports of beneficial rains Southwest
and of favorable domestic crop con-
Hi:fons in general had contributing
tendency 10 ease values down. The
opening, unchanged to Ia lower. May
new 66 to 1861 and July 1.43A
TO 1.43ss, was followed by a material
setback all around.
Corn and oats took their cue nicely
from the action of wheat. Win
rather free selling in evidence corn
dropped to the lowest level reached
of late. Chicago receipts Of corn to-
day, 215 cars, were more than doupie
the arrivals a year ago. After open
ing IS to u off, May 76ss to 7612'
the corn market underwent a further
sag TO well below rs for May.
Oats started at IS off to shade
advance. May 40 to 403sa40h. Later
all months showed some loss.
Provisions were weaker sympa-
thiZin2 with grain.
Evening star., 1926-03-19
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK MARKET

CHICAGO, March 10 UNITED States
Department of Agricultu ure) e).-Hogs
Receipts, % 900 head; irregular; light
er weight moderately active; mostly
10 cents higher than Thursdays best
prices; spots up more: others slow:
steady to 10 cents lower than yester-
days best selling or strong at Thurs
days low close; big packers inactive:
bulk of 24O to $50 pound butchers.
/ 11.3Oa12.25: better 200 TO 225 pound
averages. largely 12.70a13.25; bulk
good and choice. 1870 pounds down,
13.40a13.S0; packing sows. 1025a1o.S5;
sorted killing pigs. 400 down; heavy
weight. 11.25a12.1O: medium weight,
11.75a13.75; light weight. 12.35a13 so;
light light, 12.3oa14.00; packing sows,
10.25a1O.S5; slaughter pigs, 13.5Oa
400
Cattle-Receipts, 1000 head; dull
trade on fat steers. about steady with
weeks decline; shippers outlet mar
row. most steer offering, stale kind,
held from earlier in week; best
heavies, $40: active outlet on she
stock light heifers selling apparently
out of line with well flushed heavy
steers; several loads. S.75a9.25; bulls
weak to lower; vealers, 25, higher at
1925 to 1900 to packers.
Sheep-Receipts. $4,000 head: fat
lambs fairly active; strong: several
loads heavy Nebraska lambs. 1850:
choice 89-pound farmer.fed lambs to
city butchers, 14.00; wool lambs held
around 14.25; no strictly choice light
kind on sale: practically no sheep or
shearihg lambs offered.
Evening star., 1926-03-19
WHITE MOTOR INCREASES
ITS STOCK TO $4,000, 900

CLEVELAND, Ohio. March l9 w.
Stockholders of White Motor Co. at
the special meeting today, authorized
the nroposed increase in capital stock
from $25 900 900 to 10000
OF the new stock authorized $1,000
moo will be issued about April 10 as a
stock dividend, payable to holders OF
record March 25, and $l0,O00,OOO VIII
he offered at par also to holders OF
record March %.
Warrants evidencing the rights 10
subscribe TO the 100000 paid in
stock will be mailed to shareholders
about March 27. and subscriptions
will be payable at the Irving Bank
columbus Trust Co. New York City.
on or before April 10. Stock certifl.
Gates covering paid subscriptions Will
he issued as soon as possible there
after.
Evening star., 1926-03-19
STOCKL|ST BREAKS
IN CLOSING HOURS
Prices CrumbIe Again-Close
Finds Shares Little
e Above Bottom.
RY STUART r. WEST.
special Dispatch TO The star.

Special Dispatch 10 l ne ota''
NEW YORK. March l'.-i''''es
broke again in the stock hatAe' w
dav following "A period when some re
sistance was shown in parts OF thf
list. Motor shares and high-priced spe:
cialties met the downward path. Inc
selling was particularly heavy IN me
last hour. although the decline was
orderly. There We're II" oulsiue
causes. Ii was simply felt that lquloa
tion had not gone far enough To com
nensate for the recent spec uiatlNe tA-
cesses on the side OF advance. Al ''e
close urices were mp very little from
bottom -,
Hudson Motor crashed down sun
'lr:her. The whole motor list was pau'
lv upset-Chryser. Pierce arrow
Mack Trucks, Willys-Overland. Nash
and finally General Motors. Steel com
mon was pressed for sale in large VOL
ume as it dropped below l24.. There
seemed to ne considerable CLOS
ing out of speculative accounts !us'
under that figure. The pupilc
utilities joined in. with speclai
weakness in Consolidated Gas and
can and other favorites of the late butl
campaign. Anaconda dropped below
As and Railway shippers bore tnelf
uart in the general down sWlns. bu,
the principal losses occurred IN lhouS'
trials of the speciality type.
Evening star., 1926-03-19
GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

BALTIMORE, March ~ (Specialt-
White potatoes, 100 pounds, 2.OOa4. so;
beans. bushel. 7.00a7.50 cabbage,
hamper. 1.50a2.25; potatoes. barrel
2.00a55O vans. barrel. 2.00a4.5O; car
rots. bushel. LIS; cauliflower, crate
2.25a2.5O; celery, crate, 2.00a5.o0: Gu
cumbers. crate. 600a10.00; eggplant
crate. 3.O0a6.00: kale. barrel, 2.5Oa
2.75: lettuce. basket. 2.00a3.25; onions
100 pounds. 2.50a3.00: oysterplant. 100.
6.0OaS.00: parsnips. basket. 50a65; to-
matoes. crate. 3.50a7.00; spinach. bar
rel, 1.25a1.75; Savoy cabbage. bushel.
75a 90: turnips. basket. 20a3o.
Apples. barrel. 2.0Oa5.50; bushel. 20
oranges box, 3.50a4.75: taAgerines.
box. 2.00a3.00: Strawberries. quart. rs
a7712.
Selling Prices at Noon.
Wheat-No red Winter. spot. do
mestic. no quotations; No. 2 red Win
ter. earlicky. 1.7612: nominal.
Corn-Cob. new. spot. 3.75 per bar
rel, as to delivery: domestic yellow,
No. 2. new. 80 per bushel: exports,
No. 2. 76A asked: No. 8. 72l4.
Sale-Bag lot of mixed at wharf
at 72 per bushel.
Oats-No. 2. 4s1a: No. 3. new. 4sta
Rye-Nearby. new. S5a90; No. 3
rye. spot no quotations.
Hay-Receipts. 96 tons. The supply
of hay on this market is liberal. but
consists principally of medium and
low grade stuff. the movement of
which is very draggy. A limited in
quiry is in evidence for the better
qualities of timothy and choice light
clover mixed hay at steady prices.
Quotations. per ton. today: No. 2,
timothy. 2350a24.5O; No. timothy,
21.00a22 100; No. l light clover mixed.
c3.50a 24.00; No. light clover. mixed.
2O.0Oa21.00; No. 1 clover mixed, $500
a235O: No. l clover. 23.00a23.50: No.
2 clover. 1S.00a 1000.
Straw-No. wheat. 130Oa1400; =;
No. l oat. 14.O0a14.50.
Evening star., 1926-03-19
BIG OIL MERGER NEAR
COMPLETION IN WEST
Negotiations to Unite Standard OF
New York and General Petroleum
Virtually finished.
Bv the Associated Press

BY the Associated Prees
LOS ANGELES, March 19.-Nego- :
atoms through which the Genera
Petroleum Co. and the Standard On
CO. of New York would be consoN-
dated were virtually completed mere
last night.
II. NJ. Speer. general counsel for
the Standard Oil Co. at first an
nounced that the merger had been
consummated. but later modified his
statement, saying that negotiations
were still in progress.
Lionel T. Barneson. president OF
General Petroleum. issued brief
statement, saying:
Merger negotia lions are under
way. which. if completed, will result
in an exchange of two shares OF
Standard Oil of New York for one
Of General Petroleum.
Evening star., 1926-03-19
GENERAL MOTORS SALES.

NEW YORK. March 10 R.-Gen-
eral Motors dealers sold 84.946 cars
and trucks in February, compared
with 53.698 in January and 39,579 in
February. 1925. Sales to dealers by
rhe manufacturing divisions totaled
a1.136 vehicles. against 1882 in Jan
nary and 49.146 in February year
ago. The corporation announced
that for the first time since last Oc-
tober it had arrived at point in pro-
duction where it is supplying dealers
with cars in excess of their sales to
users in sufficient volume to build up
a small reserve against the customary
Spring demand.
Evening star., 1926-03-19
Markets at a Glance

NEW YORK LP).-Stocks. weak
MANY motors break | TO 10 points u
1926 lows. Bonds. lower: seml'specu
lative rail issues react. Foreign eN
changes easy: French francs lowes'
since 1924. Cotton. firm, trade buying
weak stock and grain markets. sugar
easy: lower spot market. Cofee
barely steady; commission house sup
port. .,,1
CHICAGO.-Wheat weak; faVorabie
southwest crop report. Corn. lower
large stocks. Cattle, dull; shipping
outlet narrow. Hogs, irregular.
Evening star., 1926-03-19
PARIS PRICES.

PARIS, March l9 P.-Prices
moved irregularly on the Bourse to-
day. Three per cent rentes, As fra ncs
AZ oentimes. Exchange on London.
136 francs 63 centimes. Five per cent
loan, 56 francs 35 centimes. The dol
lar was quoted at % francs 9 cen
times.
Evening star., 1926-03-19
KRESGE PLANS EXTENSION

NEW YORK. March 19 OPS. s.
Kresge Co. plans an extension pro
gram this year surprising anything
previously attempted. Twelve new
stores have been opened this year. and
the total for 1926 probably will exceed
the record of SO new establishments
for 1925. It is estimated that sales OF
the stores opened last year will con
tribute S12,OO0,00O to the 1926 total.