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as the broadcloth coat. On the other
hand. a simply cut fur-trimmed broad.
cloth coat is quite suitable for morn
ing.
A year or so ago most women who
could afford fur coats had them, but
this season the fur-trimmed cloth
coats are so tempting that many wom-
en- have chosen one of them instead Of
the fur wrap-tempting as this may
be. Velvet is a close rival to broad
cloth in the new coats, and at any
smart gathering now you may count
quite a number of red velvet coats
lavishly fur trimmed. These of
course, are not SO practical as those
of black, and word comes from Paris
that many smart women there have
chosen black daytime coats because
of their fondness for wearing colored
frocks beneath-and black goes with
any color. For afternoon tea women
are wearing red frocks topped by
black coats.
Straight-line coats seem to have
won the day against those with a
flare, and last Winter the woman was
Evening star., 1926-12-16
Yesterdays "Puzzlick."

There once was a girl named Amelia,
Who drank half pint of lobelia:
The doctor came quick
And declared, You're not sick.
so why am I summoned to heal ycu?''
(Copyright. 1926.l
Evening star., 1926-12-16

EA2 MISS DIX What in regard to sona ma ana
re- 3''7N10 =" 1''0 ~ BETTY.
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and dancing eyes that
come only from a dream
come-true?
It's not too late yet to
make this Christmas the
one she'll never forget.
There's still time to select
a Kelvinator and have it
delivered for Christmas.
So why not pick up the
telephone and settle the
matter now? Just tell us
you are interested-you
don't have shop. We'll
make the selection easy
and do all the necessary
work. Ask us about it.
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keEVlnatOr

Which will it be-the
usual bit of silk or the or
namental trinket she ex-
poets (and gets) year after
year?
-or the unusual and un-
expected gift that shows
your forethought, consid-
Grafton and generosity all
combined-K
Which will she show on
Christmas morning-the
polite smile and the mild
glow of pleasure that
always rewards you year
after year?
or the excited happiness
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-27
A Stock Market Reaction.

Yesterday the Sharpest decline OF the
wear in the prices of securities oc-
CURED or he New York Stock EX.
change. The Gays trading reached a
total of 2,341.255 shares. the highest
! Of the month and one of the heavies;
single-session totals in the history OF
the exchange.
Reasons for this slump in prices are
numerously advanced with especia
emphasis on the advance in call money
rates. The fact, however, seems to
he that the market has been over
has come for a reaction anr readjust
ment. 1t was somewhat surprising to
find the stock list crumbling on the
very day that the President signed the
taxreduction bill, which might wei
have caused a stiffening of the market
The bears have been out of luck for
a long time. They have had control Of
only occasional sessions. with brief
and narrow reactions enabling them
70 cover their sales, but in the net
of the operations of many months they
have been the losers. They have made
a few raids on overwhelmed stocks
weakly held, and have set them back
l~5ut the general trend of the market
has been upward. The question now is
whether the peak of the boom has
been reached and the natural and in.
evitable recession has begun, or
whether this is but a temporary set.
back, to be followed by recovery.
Some day inescapably there will be
a general reverse movement in the
stock market. Prices cannot continue
to advance indefinitely. The earning
power of the invested dollar has its
limits. The general prosperity Of the
country is, of course. the controlling
factor, and at present there is no sign
that conditions are changing. Employ
ment continues at a high percentage.
The end of the coal strike has closed
up the only hole" in the working
field. Retail trade is excellent, and
money is abundant. There are no in.
ing markets. And yet there must be
a reaction sooner or later.
For some time past students of the
stock market have been figuring on
the possibility of a general backward
turn and picking out particular lines
Of securities that would withstand 4
reaCtionary turn and hold their own.
1t may be that now will come the test
of their deductions. If the investing
and particularly the specializing pub
lie thinks that this present backward
movement is a beginning of the long,
| expected turn of the market" their
| ea gerness to sell may be in itself the
cause of a pronounced drop which in
the end viii have a beneficial effect of
readjusting prices to values.
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Farms in the District.

The Department of Commerce has
made a survey which shows that there
AFRO cighty-one farms in the District of
Columbia with a farm population Of
fs2. on these farms are 1892 chick
ems. The news accounts of the survey
10 not show that the department made
count of the cows. horses, hogs and
sheep on District farms. but It counted
yhirty-SiN radios. 1t might be asked
how this information was obtained.
Did representatives of the Department
az Commerce travel through the Dis.
frict to make n count Of the farms, or
IT'D they get from the District assessor
. list of the tracts and lots still as
sessed as agricultural land?
II IS conceivable that there IS con-
siderable land in the District still as
sessed as agricultural" on which no
rcps are grown. The owners of the
land are just waiting for n surveyor
10 lay It off In building lots and to
have it recorded as a subdivision.
That there are now eighty-one farms
II the District will surprise most
Washingtonlans. There is probably
some difference between the commonly
accepted definition of farm and the
department IS definition. Tho inference
IS that a number vi the farms listed
are chicken farms and q chicken farm
may be Gsx acres 90 De<hADs halS O.
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but never containing any books, at Mr.
Carnegie's expense:
1T isn't literatoor, Hinnessy; it's
architectoor" In this matter. it isn't
architecture, it is ''mortoor.'
K X X X
When the question was put to Mr.
kemper, business manager of the
American Institute of Architects, he
telegraphed to the president of the
institute, in Philadelphia, for an Off
Cial announcement on the parliamen
tary question. Back came this reply
from President Waid:
February &c, 1926.
IL. c. Kemper,
THE OCtagOn House,
Washington, -. &.
There may be exceptional circum
stances justifying transport of old
European buildings to America In
friendly Difference to sentiment OF ma.
tons abroad practice should be dis
couraged.
90, EVERETT VVATD,
president, American Institute of Ar
Chitects.'
x x X *
The importation of ancient build
ings, say Connoisseurs, is no coNnter.
part of our bringing over paintings
and sculpture by the old masters, or
even by cotempOrary artists. Art is
universal. We protect" American
artists with tariff on imported art,
except when the imports are for pub.
lie exhibition. The difference IS that
SuCh lmportatiOnS are not because OF
ana affectation of sentiment for the
materials-the paint or marble-but
they are valued for the art design. the
thought. the inspiration. They benefit
American taste and American art.
on the contrary, an artist points
out, an illustration of lmportations
which lose the original effect Of the de.
sign ny tranSmlgration Is the Whistler
Peacock Room which is exhibited
in the Freer Gallery. 1t was intended
fer its setting in the foggy atmosphere
OF London, not in the flood Of sunshine
of Washington. 1t was to be lighted
with the soft warm rays of gas. Here
1t Is illumined with clear glass win.
dows. with fiaring daylight and with
cold false light" of electricity. No
wonder it is cold,
The same artist tells with gusto. as
an extreme instance of America rob.
Ding Peter to pay Paul, of the buying
or a well at the home of Champlain
in Ffhnce, and shipping the entire
we'll to Albany, N. Y.-stones. hole
and even Truth at the bottom, thereof,
The well was duly received by Mr..
John NJ. Clark, curator Of the Art
Museum of Albany, who was much
abashed by Truth in her usual attire,
so that he did not know what to dc
about it, although he looked up the
| success of the producer who dug a
| cellar and retailed it out for postholes
Finally, Curator Clark gave the
well to monastery In Canada, know.
ing that the austere monks would
keep It's occupant well hidden from,
the shocked masses of America.
Copyright. 1925. by Paul V. Collins.)
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acre and that every grain Of corn
which the chickens eat is hauled to
the farm from a feed store.
The line between a farm and q
market garden is not clearly drawn
and perhaps a market garden is
classed as q truck farm. A truck
farm in the District might be fifty
acres or much less and it is conCeiVa-
BILE that 4 garden of half an acre, the
produce of which is carried to mar.
ket, might be classed by the depart
ment as a truck farm. 1t may be that
some of our District farmers work in
office from 8 to 4:3O, or to 5, and
farm garden patches in the hours
just after dawn and between the 40
whistle and sunset. 1t may be that
number of the Districts famous
truck farms are still bearing vegeta
bies in the Giesboro, Barnaby and
OXon Run neighborhOods, south OF the
Eastern Branch, but they must be
small and fewer than a few years ago.
Subdivisions and settlements have
taken their place on the old straw
berry, pea. cabbage and sugar corn
farms. The former trucking districts
around Benning, on the lands between
the Biadensburg pike and the Eastern
Branch, and in the valley of Little
Fails Branch on the west side OF the
District have been built with the
homes of city people who may be
deXtrous with a typewriter. but awk-
ward with q hoe.
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several tribes who had never heard of
the Soviet government, had never
heard Of the revolution, had never
even heard of the Romancff Cars. 1t
seems that the scientists of this expe-
dition carried to these remote people
the first news of the outside world
they had received for several hundred
years.
1t was thought that all these isolat-
ed regions had been reached, that all
the contacts had been made with re-
mote places and groups. Perhaps this
che Is the last. 1t may be that these
are the final remaining members Of
the human race to be brought up to
date, to be acquainted with the mar
wells that have been developed during
the past century, the marvels Of
steam, electricity and etheric vibra-
tons. But that is in itself merely a
speculation. Travellers are going forth
constantly into the desert wastes and
the mountain-girt Islands" of human
habitation and there may be other
places where the isolation has been
complete for long periods.
1t was only a few years ago that
white men reached Lhassa. But they
found that communication had been
maintained between there and China
before their coming. This conquest
Of the hitherto unattainable was not
so important scientifically as the lat
est accomplishment. that just report
ed from Central Asia, which spans
period of several centuries and brings
into the range of world knowledge
primitive people whose concept Of life
is probably the same as that which
prevailed over two thousand years
ago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-27

l made few remarks about George
Washington.
Enclosed find five nickels, for which
send me some of your best Prudence.
1T would seem that one need more
of that quality in the National Capital
than elsewhere.
Mary's hand, unfortunately, rested
squarely across the signature, so that
even omnisCience, the right OF every
writer. is helpless
Our dainty lady turned to the vir
tue machine with it's rows of boxes,
each lettered with the name of some
desirable quality. one by one she
| dropped the nickels into the appro-
pirate slots. One by one they clinked
onto heap Of coins
She placed Mr.. Rabbits two nickels
| In the slot marked Honesty" Then
she turned to her mail. This time her
beautiful smile failed 10 appear. Mary
did not like criticism any more than
any one else does, and her present
| letter was full of 1t:
Dear Miss Smarty,' began the let
ter. lone Of my friends told me
about you, and all | got to say is that
! you better mind your own business,
instead Of poking into other peoples,
They tell me that you are pretty,
! but that your nose is turned up at
! the end
Mary grinned at last.
SILLY" she said. where else could
it be turned up?" She returned to
i her reading:
IL expect to hear about you, the
next thing, that you are one of them
| women that likes radio.
| yours truly,
! EVA EXTINCTION"
! Eva. old top" unused Mary, you
! got that part about radio right, any
way. l got san Francisco last night
on the loud speaker, which is pretty
/ good even if ! do say it myself.
| And | will admit that my nose
is what is called retr0usse, but most
| of my friends rather like it. The
trouble with you, Eva, my dear, is
that you are enviOus."
! she looked at her machine, then
reached in her purse and drew forth
! some nickels Il am going to buy you
! Il portion Of Charity, Eva, and hope
/ it will do YOU some good"
| Mary dropped three nickels in the
appropriate slot. She opened another
| letter.
ny dear Miss Rogue. it ran. ''you
have come into my life like a ray of
sunshine into a dark room. Your in
! fiuenCe for good is spreading. You
|
brought, and 1t is not necessary that
! you should know, for goodness IS q
quality that loses its flavor in the
! limelight.
Continue to be just yourself. and
| you will have done a great deal more
than most Of US can, for we struggle
| every day in the whirlpool of life,
| tossed here and there both by our
! selves and others.
you, on the other hand, more or
| less, are what We might all like to
| be, and YOU do and say what most
! of us would like TO do and say, if our
! foresight were as good as our hind
| sight"
! That was all. There was no sigma
ture, nor did it need any, for kindness
/ is signature enough.
! Mary blushed, and the happy smile
so peculiarly her own came back TO
! her bright face, and made her more
! beautiful than ever. 80 shines a
| good deed in this naughty world"
| she quoted softly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-27
Primitives Of Asia.

1t used to be said that there were
people living in the United States. In
remote districts of the South particu.
larry, who did not know the war was
over" meaning the Civil War. 1t
used to be said likewise that there
were people still voting for A drew
Jackson" in the Businesses of the lower
Alleghenies. These tales may be true.
Doubtless they are. Now comes q
tale that is quite as strange, perhaps
even stranger. It is reported that an
exploring expedition of the Russian
Academy of Sciences has returned to
Lenincrad which used TO be st. Peters
burg and was afterWard known as
Petrograd. from the Kara-Kum des.
egs In Central Asia with Q rsport Of
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George Washington's
Orders TO His Troops
To tho Editor OF The stsr

To tho Editor OF The star.
Solely in the interest Of patriotism.
loyalty and truth, and I'm order To re
lNte Tor all time the disparagi7l- re-
marks which were recently made AZ
II public gathering against the char
aCter and the religious views of the
founder of this greatest OF all republics
Gen. George WashinetOn-mav
little space i'm the columns Of VOW
widely read paper be given 10 tho
following extract copied from the
Iiarper's New Monthly Magazine TO-
January, 1856:
July 9. 1875, lust after the D,sclsra tio-,
Of Independence, we find the follow
ing entry Of an order given 20 ~
Army:
The Honorable Continental co..
gress having been pleased To u low
Il chaplain to each regiment. the co..
onelS or commanding officers Of each
regiment are directed to procure
chaplains accordingly; persons OF
good character and exemplary lives
and TO see that all inferior officers
and soldiers pay them a suitable 70
spect. The blessing and protection %
Heaven are at all times necessary.
but especially so in times Of public
distress and danger. The general
hopes and trusts that every officer
and man will endeavor to live and
act as becomes a Christian soldier.
defending the dearest rights and lib
critics Of his country
"A month after this. in the order %
the day, Washington issued the fol
lowing notice to the troops,
The general is sorry 20 b In
formed that the foolish and wicked
practice of profane cursing and swear
ing. a vice hitherto little known in al
American Army, is growing into fash
ion. He hopes that the officers viii
by example as we'll as by influence, en-
deavor TO check it, and that both they
ana the men will reflect that We car
have little hope Of the blessing OF
Heaven on our arms If we insult il b.
our impiety and folly. Add to this
It is q vice 50 mean and low, without
any temptation. that every man q,
sense and character detests and de
spises IL"
AAR3X ~ @oRA6AS;h =.
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ClOries of the Jewels
in the Winter Skies
To the Editor OF The Star:

To the Editor OF The Star:
How glorious are the Winter suns
OF night! How beautiful and bril-.
liant amid the chambers in the
South Capella. Aldebaran, Betelgeuse,
Procyon. Rigel and Sirius. The con-
stellation Of Orion, containing Betel.
geuse and Rigel. And the Pleiades,
Castor and Pollux. also the Belt stars.
Sky Jewels. adjoining the darkened
dome Of evening. Millions Of suns
and their solar systems, trillions Of
miles away. Suns comparatively close
to our little earth; suns so remote
from us that their light-rays speed
for centuries before reaching us. Stars
moving slowly amid the ocean of
space. Stars travelling like veritable
sun-projectiles. Stars Of divers colors
small or gigantic. AS through a
vast window, sometimes curtained by
clouds, we watch the bespangled
armament. How glorious are the
Winter suns of night, amid the cham.
bers in the South
CHARLES MEYERS HOLMES,
-----.-----.. ---- Reading. NasA
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The Democratic Perspective.


i''o''iilE forward 10 I'-H' the pc
l''-'''i PeiSi'ee'''e haFro"S "eeluedty
'lo OH .'e DeillorFatic viewpoint II Is
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me suggestion that COY. Richie Of
MARYLAND is a "nocSibilit,- thinks ,val1
of I,a,,-,r4 r., ,rar.5i.l, 80 11,,-.. 49,,
GUY" " iONd anu
'nlikS most hlEhiy OF Gov. Victor
Donahey Of Ohio. to whom, he be
neyes mo nn,,ira+ior ,-iI1 o,-o,,,,,
. a. u
hiy 20.
That is rather definite forecast. but
# Is c1or6od b1, tha eienifioan+ of"
90 N"1 I'Si''I''c li'"t 'ledi9 IHc HeIa OF
the two major contestants Of 1924.
There is no suggestion Of \ gentle.
mans aoraa,,,ant ,ba+ roitbar c,,,i+b
nor NTcAdoo will be in the field There
is no guarantee against the intrusion
Of the issues that tied the Madison
SQUARE Garden convention into 2. Cor.
dian knot.
To be sure. Mfr. Rockwell who rnuet
,,a rated as q noli+ical ontin,js+ dasDita
the paiuf,ll disannojrt,nent of 1904
sees a GREAT change for the better in
4be Democratic nominating system
lie ea,.e.
pubIfr sentin,ept will have forced tb-
abandonment of the two-thirds rule
and the unit rule before the delegates
',i' ~ - - oi'S . no
INC Democratic leaders will MOI RIM
the risk Of q repetition Of the 1924 con
Nention' WIN rs plttfrh ., ana II
sill sT,fe,,ino The tu-o-tlir1e y,,ie
kept us In Madison Square Garden
through that terrible ordeal In 1921.
slu - - 4,i,n ~ .,i'tC I tioe
Is describing the two.thirds rule that
body will doubtless make clean-cut
."n "l II anu 40 away WI" Ihe ui1io
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THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES L. TRACEWELL.

Mary Rogue was opening her
morning mail.
The first letter She came to was
the following, which she read with
interest, after first abstracting a
check for $500 from the envelope:
My dear Miss Rogue:
Enclosed please find my check in
payment for your recent services at
my store.
"YoI will be pleased to know that ]
discharged the two young ladies who
were rude to customers without my
knowing it.
Perhaps l ought to have fired my
self, ZOO. as you so taCtfully init
mated, but ! rather hesitated to do it
for reasons that / need not go into.
Il am, however. keeping a weather
eye on my new clerks and with such
good results that sales have already
picked up marvelously.
L would be forced TO admit you
are right even If | didn't want to
which l Will admit did uut after yol
you gave your diagnosis.
Il may say, too. that your bill
struck me at first as way UP stage
but since thinking it over 1 believe
your charge is correct, too, SO ! in
close check
Very truly yours.
u. JEFFERY LOCKSMITH,
President j. Jeffery Locksmith and
Company
Not bad" smiled Mary. carefully
1eposltlnS the check, which she had
held in her left hand during the read.
ing, In the top drawer of her desk.
j. Jeffery," she unused, was not such
fool as l thought"
The next envelope felt slightly
heavy. Mary opened 1t carefully, when
two nickels rolled out. She read:
Dear Miss Rogue:
Il have heard about your automatic
virtue machine, and as | seem 10 be
IN need OF virtue-or at least, so
the critics have declared-I am in
closing herewith two (2l coins Of the
realm, commonly termed nckels. for
which please send me Il portion of
Honesty.
MY Washington brothers III the
Ota Club which has for its motto.
Not just service. but superservice.
have informed me of the work which
YOU are doing in all branches of re-
search.
-. ALLOW me to state, my dear Miss
Rogue. that your field is not so wide
as perchance you might think. Here
in Zenith we feel thai your endeavors
are more or less misguided. and that
YOU had better stick to the ways of
private investigation in which you
first made a name for yourself
Public service, my dear young lady,
is beset with many pitfalls which miti-
gate the refulgent glory of everyday
endeaVor. l am not exactly sure what
that last sentence means, but 1t sounds
good, 50 / propose to use it in my
next speech before the club.
with every best wish In the world
l remain
Sincerely,
GEORGE L. BABBITT."
= x T. X
Mary felt quite hattered at this
letter, as indeed she might, since she
was the first person in the world to
receive a personal lettr from the hero
of Sinclair Lewis famous novel.
The next was brief, but to the point:
Dear Madam:
while in your great city recently