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The Washington times., 1926-09-06
SANDLOTTERS
SALT AND
PEPPER
By r. D, Thomas

Only an utter collapse can pre-
vent Pete Haley's Knickerbockers
from winning the championship Of
Section A, the big section Of the
Capital City Baseball Association.
Their 5-to-1 victory over Chevy
Chase made 1t 10 straight for sthe
Knickerbockers and leaves them
with only four games to go. Their
only formidable opponent is the
Shamrock team.
The Shamrocks are in second
place and they look natural there.
1t has been many a year since
the Big Green failed to finish
somewhere near the top.
Lefty Flynn stopped Chevy
Chase cold. He yielded only two
hits and his mates backed him
with fine fielding.
The Rialtos held their winning
pace in Section B by whipping the
Capitals. to /. The Rialtos look
to be the goods in their, section.
The Auths are home In Section C..
Perhaps the most interesting race
Is in the Arlington county series,
where the Cherrydale and Fort
Myer clubs are tied, each with
nine victories and one defeat.
Pitcher Brown, Of the Virginia
White SOx, halted the CherrydaIe
winning streak after it had en-
dured for nine games. In the
second half of q dOuhIe-header,
Brown held the leaders to two
bingles and won, l to 0. Cherry
dale took the opener, to 3.
Fort Myer caught CherrydaIe by
taking boths games of a double
header from Hume Spring, to 5
and Is to 0. Mclean pitched the
shutout for Fort Myer.
Gilly Gutenberg pitched a fine
game for the Rialtos against the
Capitals. The Capitals never scored
after the second inning.
The Shamrocks made 10 hits.
many of them extra basers, to
down Arlington, . to 3. Smithson
and Moran led the attack with
three hits apiece.
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On
TOP AGAIN

The ST. Louis Cardinals we're
back in the lead for the National
League pennant this. morning AZ
4 result Of beating the Cincinnati
Reds IN the finale of their series.
The cards also gained on Pitts
hurgh, which again finished sec
ond to the Chicago Cubs.
They top the Reds By five per-
cenfage noints. less than game.
The Pirates trailed By az games
but have chance 10 cut down
this margin in double header
with the Cards today.
Cleveland.a even break with the
Detroit Tigers permitted the Yalixs.
who were idle, to gain few points.
Their lead remains at six games
with only % remaining to be
played.
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GENE BUSY
IN CAMP

sTRouDsBuRG, Pa Sept. -
while the rest Of the populace II
this summer resort were preparing
for q holiday Of merrymaking 70
day. Gene Tunney planned 9 day
cf extreme activity ia preparations
for his heavyweight championship
bout against Jack Dempsey.
The challenger had looked n0E@
ward to d day OF rest along WITH
the other temporary and permanent
residents here. but because rain
him from going through
his training stunts yesterday. ~
decided not to let the weather
cost him whole days training,
and 50 donned the gloves and
made ready q climb into the ring
this afternoon. This morning Tun-
ney took his usual road work over
the hills and through the valleys
OF the Poccno Mountains.
The challenger already has
reached 3 fine physical point and
aaid this morning that his work.
outs IN Che ring for the re.
nlainder 81 the week VIII Be
light. He III afraid oi becoming
too fire too long before the bout
Yesterday Gene paid visit 70
the township 81 Stroudsburg and
gossiped III the lobby Of the Hotel
Penn-Stroud all afternoon with
newspapermen and visitors. Among
those who had long conversations
with the fighting ex.naarine were
Tim Mara and Chicago o'Brien.
both OF whom have placed largu
bets at odds of To 2 that Tunney
viii win the worlds heavyWeiglIs
championship on the night of Sep.
TENDER Is.
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Figure II Out

The Chicago Cubs Of 1906 finished
the season with the best record OF
any team in the history Of the ma
1or leagues. 1l6 victories and SO de-
feats, for a percentage Of 1855, but
lost III the worlds series to the
White Sox, known as the "Iitless
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Knicks TRY Again

The Knickerbockers will attempt
to run their winning streak to IL
games today when they meet Arl-
ington in the Georgetown hollow
in a section A contest. In the
same section the Marlboro and Mt.
Rainier teams will clash at Mt.
Rainier, both games starting at 8
O'Clock
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Familiar Affair

Bill and Mike Harrick. prospects
for the University OF West Vir-
ginia football team this fall, were
preceded 10y older brothers, Joe and
Steve, both of whom made names
Cor themselves as athletes for the
Aountaineers' institution.
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Lacrosse In OIympics

An official request to include la
crosse in the next Olympic Games
program has been made by DR.. A.
S. Lamb, honorary secretary OF the
committee, to Capt. r. w.
Scharroo, president OF the Neder-
Idndsche Athletiek Unie, Amsterdam,
holland,
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sox Win Suggest

The Browns and White Six EN-
gagged IN a royal slugfest and the
Sox found themselves ahead, 8 TO 8,
when the smoke had cleared away.
Sisler had q perfect day at bat,
getting four hits.
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Heroic Swimmer

Lieut.. Col. Bernard Freyberg.
British war hero who has twice
failed to swim the English Channel.
is known al the most wounded man
in the world" He won the ID. S. O..
10y swimming with dispatches from
the British fleet to troops in the
action at Gallipoli.
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Alexander stars

Grover Cleveland Alexander was
the big noise as the Cardinals felled
the Reds Z to 3 and regained the
lead IN the National League
scramble. Pitching out Of turn a.
his own request, the grand old man
blanked the Reds until his mates
had given him = SIX run lead.
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Cubs Land One

The Cubs handed the Pirates an
other Jolt by pulling a Z to game
out OF the fire on hits by Pinch
Hitters Freigau and Kelly. The
Bruins tore into Yde in the first
frame and 81 ored four runs before
the Lfeguards arrived.
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BUGS Corner Market
On Bespectacled
PLAYERS

In announcing the purchase Of
Carman Hill, from the indiana
apolis club Of the American
Association, the Pirates have
cornered two-thiTds of the be-
specialized hurIers in organized
baseball. The one they lack is
Pitcher Shea, Of the Sacra-
mento club Of the Pacific Coast
League. Dreyfuss ii reported
to have paid more for Hill than
he did for Glenn Wright, who
cost him $4,000.
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JACK ONCE
MORE IS
FIERY
BY George Barry

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., Sept.
e.-Jack Dempsey plans TO do his
last two days Of training here at
night, e the lighting arrangements
at the DOG track are still intact.
"It's Just with the idea Of get.
ting used to working under lights,
said the champion today. When a
fight is put on at night the view.
point is a bit different than when
you're working in the sunlight.
Objects do not look quite the same
for a few rounds and, therefore,
tn. old accuracy Isn't so good. II
can box a night or two under the
lights / guess 1t win help. Any
way, II certainly cannot hurt.
Fight fans here are still buzzing
with surprise toby over the come
hack. OF Demp yesterday after.
noon, when the champion cut loose
against his sparring partners ana
was the murderoIs Dempsey or old.
Those who were nodding sad
heads and wondering II the cham
MON ever could preserve his reign
after ten rounds Of duelling with
Gene Tunney on the 23rd now are
trying 10 decide II Tunney viii
70 as FAR as three full rounds
with the Utah Assassin.
Dempsey's only comment today
II was only foollng . bit yester,
this stuff. Then maybe I'll show
q little something.
BiII tate. veteran of Dempsey's
eparrfng partners, and a keen stu.
dent OF fistlc quality and physical
condition, said today:
Jacks really a bit overturned
right now, In q certain way. Tie
three DAYS OF rest-Tuesday, We'd
nesday and Thursday is just about
what be needs After that about
seven or ten days. OF final tuning
nm. seven or ten days OF kind or
timing the punches q little better
and shifting around a bit more
and then he'll be ready to fight
eight Tunneys at once.
"I'ye been laughing myself dizzy
Tor the last week because the ex-
pefts have been saying that jack
looks kind of bad. Tate said. "Of
course he dfd-but there were a
lot Of reasons One was that he
was Just taking it easy, SO as not
to no stale right now. Folks for
get that this fellow Jack has been
IN training for nearly five months
and he's been training about as
hard during all that time as most
folks train for the last week or
two"
'sIf Jack had been fellow who
vas loafing. around for three
years then he'd be needing all
this hard work. But he's been
I'm the mink, or near Il. all the
time. An he's needed Is tuning
up and improving his marIsman-
ship and some stiff runs on the
road. All that win come after
he gets busy again after his lay
off. Then watch that boy when
he gets in with Tunney-just
watch him.
Tate win assume the role OF
chief conditioner for Dempsey dur
ing the wind-up week. He will
probably set the pace for him in
his road work in the mornings and
in the afternoon Tate, who has
been resting for week, will carry
the brunt of the champions attack.
It In against Tate's chin and body
that the champion will ileave his
vicious blows and acquire the
needed accuracy.
Dempsey's workout plan for this
afternoon called for six rounds of
boxing and about 10 minutes of
extra labor at the punching bag,
the pulleys and shadow boxing.
After that will come the 72-hours
lay-off-the longest Dempsey ever
has IN the midst of any champion
ship training period.
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FANS EAGER.
TO KNOW STAR TEAM

Only six more baseball fans viii know the makeup
of the alar team picked by Ruth will be published
Saturday and the five whose teams come
closest to matching Babes will get their rewards.
It baseball knowledge to pick alar
good for position and to be abc
put your finger the who the best of the lot not the
The Washington times., 1926-09-06
Black sox Divide

The Black Sox and Iedroit Tigers
split even in q doublelleader, the
Tigers taking the first, 8 to 4. and
the Black Sox the second. 4 to 2.
The Washington times., 1926-09-06


Babe Ruth himself always has e
lot of trouble picking his team.
He knows all the players. and he
always calls In baseball experts
from every big league city to aid
him.
If the Babe isn't satisfied in his
own mind as to who are the best,
how can the mere layuan?
It's a cinch that the Babe will
have TO do q lot of sleuthing be-
fore he finds two better pitchers
among this years crop than PEN
mock and Uhie. Without Pennock.
the New York Yankees wouldn't
be where they are today" and
without good old George Uhle the
Cleveland Indians would not he
anywhere near the place they
hold.
True, there are many fine pitch
ers in the National League but no
two of them stand out like Uhle
and Pennock.
1t is also true that the home-run
king will have to do a lot of search
ing before he finds a catcher who
possesses more baseball qualities
than Bubbles Hargrave, the sensa-
ton OF the National League.
Those three positions are fairly
easy to pick. But when you come
TO second base you have something
else again. Who can say which
is the better, Hornsby or Eddie
Collins. And there are others.
Who Is better than the best
around shortstop?
The five fans whose teams and
explanations are the nearest to
Babe Ruth's will get the surprise
of their lives. They usually expect
to pay for everything they get, but
this is one time when they don't.
Tt Is hard to believe that they
will be given free tickets to the
first block of games i'm the world
series, will be given their railroad
fare, with Pullman and meals,
will be given their hotel expenses
and will be given other legitimate
incidental expenses.
The Washington Times gets ,ot
| OF fun out of the annual Babe ] e /
| Contest. 1t stirs up the fans CAl-
siderably. They get into hot argu-
ments over their favorite players,
and they usually fall back on the
Times to settle their disputes.
The Times will give the Babe
Ruth team. with pictures and stor-
les, Saturday. 1t is hard TO wait
that long, but it can't be helped.
Just take it easy. All your work is
done, and the work of the Babe
Ruth Editor Is just starting.
The Washington times., 1926-09-06
NJ. BROWNE
TURNS Pro

NEW YORK, Sept. 6.-Miss Mary
X. Browne. former national tennis
champion, will give up her non.
professional standing and becoms
the opponent Of Suzanne Lenglen
during her exhibition tour Of the
United States, according TO an an
nouncement made here TO-DAY by
G. C.. Pyle, manager OF Mile. Leng-
len.
Miss Browne, who comes from
California, has long been an out
standing figure IN the world Of
female sports in the United States.
This year Miss Browne was
member Of the Weightman Cup
team that represented the United
States in England, and she
staged what was regarded rs
remarkable comeback.
During the French hard court
Championships In Paris this spring
she met Mile. Lenglen in the finals
ana was decisiveIy beaten.
In the Women's Nationals at
Forest Hills this year Miss Browne
recalled the semi finals.
Several years ago Miss Browne
gave up tennis and took up golf
and Iii her first national tourna.
ment was runner-up to Glenna Col
let.
Miss Browne Is 4 hard fighting
tennis player and although she
can not be expected TO defeat Mile.
LengIen, she can force the French
star to do her best.
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Runs Scored Daily

(Week Ending Sept. 81
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Leaders for the day--St Louis. u
Chicago. Z
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Daily totals.a1 is Is IL as 81 2s--1ss
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Leaders for the day-Detroit, 3; CHI
cage, 3.
I.ow--Boston, q
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-11-02
FLETCHERS TO
BE FETED
HERE
Visit of Ambassador to
Italy Revives Reminis-
cences Of Bachelor Club
By JEAN ELIOT

4 RRIyING in town this evening
A Henry r. Fletcher. Americas
ambassador to Italy, and Mrs
Fletcher will be guests at dinner
tonight of Assistant Secretary Of
State and Mrs. Leland Harrison,
It's an impromptu party. as it was
only learned d few days ago thai
the E9etchers- were coming, but in
spite Of this fact the Secretary Of
State and Mrs. Kellogg win be
guests and there viii also be pres
ent several old friends of Mr.
Fletcher from the days when he
was Undersecretary of State and
Mr.. Harrison was serving under
him at the State Department.
Friends of the Fletchers don't
seem to know whether or not they
VIII stay at 171S H ST., the famous
bachelor club of which Mr.. Fletcher
was charter member. It's
character as a bachelor club per-
sists. although most Of its members
are long since married, but occas.
ionaIly the ban against petticoats is
lifted for a day or two in order
that some member may put up
there with his wife.
Mr.. Fletcher has stayed at IT'S
II pretty regularly when he has
visited in washington since his ap-
pointnaent to an European post.
cts his home, you know, il he
chooses to regard 1t %, when he Is
ri Washington" says the factotum
In charge. BUT Mrs Fletcher hasn't
been back h many months and,
with her coming, it may be de-
cided that the two viii 80 to a
hotel.
BY curious twist 1cf fate all the
sixteen living members of this
unique club are barred from pro.
Ionged residence there BY their own
rules-rules made when they were
all bachelors and sang of bachelors
bliss, And one lone bachelor,
eligible but hopeIessly and in.
c0rrigibly q bachelor, occupies
alone-as a guest-the clubs pig
turesque quarters in III Street. He
3 Colonel Bianton Winship, chum
OF several men who were organizers
Of the club but never a member
thereof.
Leland Harrison was one of the
early members Of the club and the
last 10 wed. It wasn't until June,
OF 1925 that he was married to Mrs.
Coleman Churchill, OF Philadelphia,
and moved out of the now historic
house in Fl Street.
The Hargisons have but recently
returned from Manchester, Mass,
where Mrs. Harrison and her baby
daughter spent the GUNNER. They
seem to have launched out upon q
series OF informal parties. They
had a dinner last evening. informal
but delightful. for 20 guests and
MrA Harrison Is planning luncheon
on Saturday.
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AGRICULTURE HEAD
TO ENTERTAIN. AIDS

The Secretary Of Agriculture and
Mrs. Jardine will give an informal
reception and dinner for the bureau
chiefs of the Department Of Agri-
culture and their wives, and also
to the assistant chiefs and their
wives. on Friday evening at the
bureau OF home economics. Several
OF the new departmental movies
win be exhibited.
Senator and Mrs. Charles McNary
of Oregon have arrived in Wash
ington and have taken possession
Of residential apartment at the
Mayflower.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Meyer, jr.,
who went to their home at Mount
Kisco, N. Y. to vote, will return
to Washington on Thursday.
Mrs Marshall Field, who has re.
opened her Washington home, viii
give a dance on November Is In
compliment to Miss Laura Towne,
daughter of Mrs. j. A. Towne, who
is In her apartment at 1902 Eight
zenith st.
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MUSIC NOTES
q JESSIE MacBRIllE.

Thus the runs are fleeing clear.
They are chiseled out with purity
and have a tenderness over which
Chopin must have fingered often.
Perhaps we have lest something
that IL purely planiEtic In the huge
orchestral possibilities Of the piano
OF today.
Two preIudes. MazurlSa, a night
song "Nocturne," and a waltz were
heard as Chopin heard them. And.
the hands OF the living artist
played them lovingly.
Chopin at his most profound mo-
ment. in the great Funeral March
Sonata, was given on the modern
concert grand piano, with the tones
that perhaps Chopin dreamed OF
when he gave the mighty rumble Of
the bass In that prOcessiona. With
the dead.
But we return to the historic evil
dence Of his genius. We owe this
rare privilege to the piano house OF
Pleyel, In Paris, and to the piano
house OF Chickering in America. Be-
hind It. TOO, Is q benefit to relieve
aged teachers Of music in Paris, 70
maintain student cafeteria con.
nected with the Paris Conservatory,
where a meal may be gotten for 2
centsI
Further than that. at the Ameri-
can School Of Music. at FOntaine.
bleau. there win be given, from the
proceeds OF this pilgrimage Of the
Chopin plano, two prizes to two
American girls who reach the high
est achievement there next summer.
NJ. PHILIPPE, the director Of the piano
department there as Of the Paris
Conservatory AZ well. has been In
strumentaI In bringing this about.
~ -
Within the cover Of the piano Is.
now a brass plate recording the
masterpieces Chopin composed upon
the rosewood instrument.
Chopin's piano was to play one
last part IN the life Of him who
had so often drawn out Of II the
soul OF It's music. The master lay
In his bed, pItifuIly wan and tnins
His life was but q breath, his body
almost diaphanous. About him were
his sister, an old pupil, and a
friend Of two-one Of them the
Countess Delplline PotoclSa.
It seemed almost as u the end
CONTINUED on Page n
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MRS. MARSHALL HOSTESS
TO DERUTANTE GROUP.

Mrs. Richard C. Marshall, wife OF
General Marshall entertained at
luncheon today in her apartment
at 1871 K Street in compliment to
Miss Allison Roebling, debutante
daughter Of Mrs. Arthur O,Brien.
Other guests were Miss Mary Page
Julien, Miss Helen Galley, Miss
Harriet Whitford, Miss Fannie Dial.
Miss Adelaide Douglas, Miss Eliza
beth Fries, Miss Cleaner Preston,
Miss JuIiette Carpenter, Miss Alice
Cults, Miss Macy Hamilton, Miss
Harriet Huntress, Miss Eleanor
Smith and the hostess daughter,
Mrs. Edward Derry Fisher, wife of
Ensign Fisher.
Mrs. Fischer viii leave this even.
ing to visit her aunt. Mrs. s. b.
Peters, in Hampton, Va. Ensign
Fisher will return from Cuba on
November %, and shortly after he
and Mrs. Fisher will 20 to Norfolk,
Va, where he will be stationed.
A&H
The Military attache Of the Cuban
Embassy and Sonora Prieto, had an
their guests at luncheon yesterday,
at the Mayflower. Mr.. and Mrs.
William Meyers of Pittsburgh, and
Miss Matilda Meyers. and Miss N.
Dawson of National Park Seminary.
y -
Col. Robert M. Thompson, who is
in New York for the early winter,
viii speak on Europe and the repa.
rations at the reception to be given
on Saturday evening by his con-in.
law and daughter. Mr.. and Mrs.
Stephen II. p. PeIl.
=
Mrs. Charles Warren. who Is
visiting in Montclair, N. j.. will
return to Washington on Thursday.
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AWAKE OUR HEARTS! TO
CHOPIN,S PIANO STRAINS

with the 1mmortals' Of a ma
ton and of art, we sat last evening
In the classic hall of the -. "A. r.
Continental Memorial Hall-where
America was to hear, for the first
time on her soil. the tones Of the
cherished rosewood piano upon
which Chopin played in those golden
days OF music.
Such occasions humble our souls,
or make them soar to dreams I'M
told.
1t was in that attitude of rever-
ence that Maurice Dumesnil, fore
most among pianists of France, APP
preached the historic grand piano
to, as he said, 'sreawaken" its tones
by playing 1.-THE best that ! pos
s'bly can.
We met together. an appreciative
audience assembled by the League
Of American Pen Women, where the
father of our country shared his
halo with the music-maker who
reigns alone as ''poet Of the piano.
Chopin!
M. Dumesnil. a princely person.
atty with an art OF equal elegance
and beauty, gave historic incidents
and word-pictures OF much OF his
music which greatly enhanced
the interest Of the evening. And
he chose TO link his native
France in that atmospheric symbols
list Claude Debussy; with Chopin in
this recital.
Debussy's sfirst Twelve Pre-
ludes'' opened the recital, poems IN
tone that reflect, for instance, In
the words Of BaudeIaire ''the sounds
and the perfumes waited through
the air Of eventide,'' or that mighty
Breton legend of the 'Engulfed
Cathedral that once q year rises
from the depths OF the ocean and,
to mariners ears. clangs forth its
bells before the innpenetrable sea
closes over it and leaves but a.
rhythmic quiet so well put into
music. .
~,
Some such resurrection of the
soul of Chopin seemed to come
when the sweet. gentle tones Of his.
loved piano were first heard. It
admits Of values Of the modern
Instrument without its immengi.
ties. There Is no sustaining pedal.
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PATRONESSES NAMED
FOR MILITARY RALL

The patronesses for the Army
Relief Society ball, to be held at
Washington Barracks November 16,
are: Mrs. Dwight Davis. Mrs.
Robert III. Allen, Miss Mable Board
man, Mrs. Deios Blodgett, Mrs.
Frank Coe, Mrs: Fox Common, Mrs.
Afahn Craig, Mrs. Robert c. Davis,
Mrs. Charles s. Dewey, Mrs. e. w.
Eberle, Mrs. Houston Ely. Mrs.
Frederick Dent Grant, Mrs. John
L. Hines, Mrs. Merritt Ireland. Mrs.
Henry Jervey, Mrs. y. w. Mac
Murray, Mrs. Hanford MacNider,
Mrs. Mason Patrick, Mrs. William
]. Snow, Mrs. Harry Taylor.
Miss Elizabeth Fries, who is in
charge Of the young ladies' COM
mittee, has many of this seasons
debutantes on her list, while Colonel
Kilby, in charge Of the mems floor
COMMITTEES, has assisting him the.
young bachelor officers OF the Corps
of Engineers stationed in Washing.
ton and Fort Humphrey.
Mrs. Richard Cuts will entertain
at debutante luncheon at Club
St. Marks on December / in honor
OF Miss Jane Kendall, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Lyman Kendall.
Captain and Mrs. A. w. Stuart,
OF Paris, France. have arrived In
Washington for a short visit and
are at the Willard.
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Robert OF Paris keeps the stand
ard OF excellence which Mr. Robert
set for his own work. The shop
does this by employing skilled ana
clever operators, artists In their
line.
Colored wigs. 80 much IN vogue
for evening wear, and for fancy
dress parties. may be secured g
Roberts in splendid selection. Fine
transformations which women and
girls wear with great chic Tor
evening. can be made up TO suit
the Individual.