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ton falls on his sense perceptions
lights, sounds, sensations Of
touch and taste. while during the
second six months 1T falls on
movements and the manipulation
OF objects"
OF course the first development
10 with respect TO motion. Thus
the mouth is the first object of
touch and exploration. At three
to four weeks the child seizes the
nipple with his lips in search for
food, and at seven weeks the lips
and tongue are used for exploring.
There is similar development
OF motor activity in the eyes,
which is accomplished in four
steps. At the age OF two or three
weeks the eyes are held fixed on
brilliant stationary objects, and
in the fifth week they are turned
back and forth from one object
to another. The eyes follow
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ter Of it. For he stopped and
got out Of the car to take her
upstairs.
The next Saturday Honey Lou
and Margfet had lunch together,
as they did often on Saturday.
They felt like children, let
out OF school on Saturday noon.
For 1t marked the beginning Of
their weekend. Their time 10
rest and relax and recuperate.
They lunched at Paton's res
taIirant. IA little French cafe
where very sood food could be
had for very little money.
This isn't much like Sabine's, :
Honey Lou said. thinking Of
the giittering tea-hour she had
spent there with Angela Allen.
There's not Elucll food at Sa-
bine's. bat what there's II is
nectar and ak.1brosia. And the
service! And the women who
come there! Their clothes!s She
cIasped her hands and gave q
deep sigh Of longing.
"Oh, to be Angela Allen!s she
said wistfulIy. To have her
money! To be able to wear
the things. and to do the things
she does She shook her head,
unable to 90 on.
She may have money, but
money isn't everything Mar.
greet answered IN her short, mat.
ter-of.fact way.
II don't like her" she said
as she had often said before.
and wouldn't trust her as
far as you could throw the
Woolworth tower!''
tTo Be Continued Tomorrow
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was! No matter what Angela, or
anyone else. said about him!
Odds and ends Of things he
had said came back to her. as
she stood there in the inky
darkness. Kind, sensible things.
Once or twice his voice came
family TO her from the distance.
where the fire CLEANED rosily
Through the trunks OF the trees. :
I'm crazy about him. Honey
Lou said to herself. The little
slang phrase rippled through her
mind in solemn cadence. Crazy
about him.
She was.
She stood there, with her eyes
fixed on the faint glow from the
fire, and thought how happy she
was-happy, happy. happy.
Then all at once she gave q
smothered shrek. Something
smooth and cold was slipping
across her siIk-clad inst4p. Smooth
and cold and horribly soft. a
snake!
''zow-ee.eeg' Honey Louis srnotl,.
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Do You Know

The home pof Gen. P. G.. r,
Beauregard, distinguished Confed-
crate officer, In New Orleans, will
not become a macarOni factory.
When a company was about to
buy the ground on which the gen.
erals house stands for a factory,
the Beauregard Memorial AssocIa-
ton agreed to buy 1t and q first
payment of $4,000 has bound the
contract.
England Is now exporting motor
cars to the Domini0ns at the rate
of 81 900 q year. In 1929 the num-
Der OF cars exported was only
1000. :
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The Normal Development Of Baby ShoWn By Reed

at which time, when the baby Ia
held upright, he IL able to- look
around. At ten to twelve weeks,
it is abserv6d, the baby attempts
to sit up, and at twenty 70
twenty-four weeks he should ~
able to sit alone.
DR.. Woodley tells us that tho
child first touches his hands 10.
gether at eight or mite weeks,
and at nine or ten weeks he vol.
UNFAIRLY puts his hands to his
mouth. At twelve weeks he ex.
piores objects which his hand
touches but does not look at
them. Reaching and grasping arc
developed at sixteen to nineteen
weeks. At twenty-six weeks he
is able to pick up objects accur.
ately and, sometimes. with one
hand.
In the second six months, DR.
Wooley observes, the, world OF
perceived objects is now suffi-
GENTLY well developed to serve as
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-12-13
LAME DUCK
CONGRESS

QooNER or later we shall un:
~ doubtedly make some change
IN the date Of inaugurating q
new President, and also arrange
congressional dates that viii do
away with what 10 known at
Washington as the "lame duck"
session. The need for these
changes is not desperate. but they
ought to DO made In placid times
like these. with q view to future
emergency. The Congress that
met on December 8. should con.
sist OF newly elected Representa-
tives and Senators, rather than
of members chosen two years
earlier.
These statements are made by
DR.. Albert Shaw. editor OF the
Review Of Reviews, in his months
ly discussion OF current affairs.
The voters Of 10 States decided on
November to send new members
to the Senate at Washington, yet
a year and a month will pass be.
fore those Senators take their
seats.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-12-13
Style Bulletin

Love In . COttage" is heard
Of far oftsner than seen these
days. Both talked about and
shown, everywhere, are the "cot,
tage bags" that fashionable
women appear to have fallen in
love with this season. In enve-
lope or pouch styles, these
leather handbags have cunning
cottage designs appliqued in con
trasting leather. Sturdy little
smokestacks and cute gable
roofs make these latest patterns
= in purse ornamentation very
artistic and appealing.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-12-13

''My stomach has been giving me
considerable trouble for the past
three months due to gas and bloat-
ing after meals. Ny blood was
bad; had pimples on my body; my
appetite was falling me, and my
nerves were unstrung, ] was adj
vised to try Todd's Tonic, and to.
day I am very glad to recommend
Todd'S Tonic to all. 1t has accom-.
plished wonders for me. have
gained five pounds In weight and
feel like a new man with plenty Of
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-12-13
Science Topics

The seaweed collected along the
Breton coast brings in about S..
100000 a year. The first factory
for the manufacture Of iodine, its
most valuable product, though sea-
weed Is also an important source
OF potassium and sodium, was os-
tablished a. long ago aS 1923 At
Co10nat IN Brittany.
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BAD BLOOD, BAD SKIN, Due TO STOMACH ILLS
QUICKLY IMPROVE, WHOLE SYSTEM TONED Up
Raymond Clancy, Washington, D. c.. Worried Over
Stomach Disorder, Says He Got Relief and Regained
Old Pep Through Todds Tonic.

energy and pep and q splendid AID.
petite and digestion. RAYMOND
CLANCY, AS * st. N. w. wash
ington. D. G.
Todd's Tonic, made Of finest Cali
fornia wine, is pleasant to take, I'm,
like ordinary tonics, Todd's Tonic
is q reconstructive Tonic and not q
mere laxative. Therefore ats results
are greater and more lasting. For
all other drug stores through this
section,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-12-13
Odd Flashes

Five thousand dollars was the
record price paid for a teacup
in Tokyo recently. 1t belonged
to the late Marquis Inouye.
An aIrdale who travels from
door to door In London with a
box and sign hung around his
neck has collected $500 for q
dIspensary for sick animals.
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By Chas. A. L. Reed, MD.
Former President Of the AmeFj.
can Medical Association

Former President Of the Ameri.
can Medical Association
VoU as a parent have no more
4 important responsibility than
to regulate the activities, bodily
and mental, Of your child to its
progressive development.
You need, therefore, to know,
at least approximately, the de.
velopfnent OF your child at the
various short periods Of his early
life,
This subject has been carefully
studied by DR.. Helen Thompson
Wooiiey. Of Columbia University.
the leading authority on child de-
velopment in the United States.
During the first six months"
says DR.. Woolley, "the stress OF
the child's interests and atten.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-12-13
CAN YOU FIT
THIS JOB?

4 SUMMARY Of the physical
a characteristics Of the ideal
business girl. as gathered from
interviews with owners and Oper-
ators of some Of the largest en-.
Payment bureaus I'm America, Is
given by Eileen Bourne In an
article in this weeks Liberty.
The ideal business girl. she says.
sis from 5 feet to feet z inches
tall. She weighs from 125 to 1876
pounds. She is neither over.
weight and consequently slow to
act, nor underweight and with
out the necessary stamina to stand
the strenuous demand made upon
her by her work.
''Sl.e has q well modulated
voice." Miss Bourne continues.
"a voice with charm in it. which
draws people to her. $50 often was
this voice item stressed by per-
sons interviewed that believe
1t the most important Of her as
scts9 She carefully enunciates
her words and uses correct Eng.
lish.
she il perfectly groomsd, from
her sleek head to her neat heels;
never extreme in dress. but always
modish. In these daring days Of
the brief skirt. hers is short but
not extremely so. She contrives
to convey the idea of brevity with.
out exhibiting an undue expanse
Of limb.
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Salient Facts

For the first time since 1880,
a giant arum lily has bloomed in
Kew Gardens. The plant is S feet
Z inches in height and feet In
diameter, and produces leaf ono
year and a flower in the following
year.
Mosquito nets were used by the
ancient Romans.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-12-13

eight weeks old. At this period
the head Is held up, but is very
wobbly at first. =
The baby voluntarily straightens
its back at eight or nine weeks,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-12-13
The knowledge Test for
Times Readers


Don't let your mental muscles get stiff Timber them up each
day by working out the to these questions.
Which is
l. Mineral
Perfume
g. Fish
T. Animal
s. Bird
g. Hero Of medieval romance
eau OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Jaguar-Trstram)
Can you locate
z. Waltham
g. Tokyo
g. Ural River
TO- Sistne Chapel
II. Brussels
Complete these familiar quotations
H. at is a-- father that knows his chld"-ShAke.
Is. "Man is born Is sparks fly upward
Old Testament
II. "Oh be wiser thou!
Instructed that true knowledge leads to .Wadsworth
Is. And the night shall be filled with music
And the that infest the day
Shall fold their tents like the
> And as silently steal away."-Longfellow.
See tomorrow's paper to verify your
Answers to Saturdays test:
Great Britain; Thunder, Florence,
Italy; Indies; s., 1899; Readings z, Yak g. Basica 9,
Fez TO- Ganne H. Haddock; H. Italy, 13, Spain; H. South
America 49, London 49, Brunswick Maine IT, Pennsylvania
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slow-moving objects in the sixth
week, and are fully accommodated
TO distance in the ninth week.
The first effort toward rising Is
made when the child is seven or
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-12-13

Lilies Of the FieId-xwere never
arrayed SO brilliantly as are the
Gala lilies of silver wire. on
which rhinestones are strung
that are used as shoulder orna,
ments on many black velvet din
ner gowns.
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) q basis tor motor responses.
DR.. WoolIey tells US that icon
scious interest Is in the motor re-
spouse. rather than in the de-
velopment OF sense perception
which results from the activity.
Coordination Of eyes, hands,.
body, feet and legs advances
rapidly.
At the age of six months 1t is
observed that the child learns to
put hts toe into his mouth, Be
fore he IL eight months old he can
rise on hts hands and knees.
In the ninth month the child
can bring himself to sitting
position. About two weeks later
he can lie down and sit up at
will. Creeping is also observed
to begin In this period.
The hands become active at
nine or ten months. At eleven
months. right or left handed
ness" should become evident.
At nine months, IL is observed
that the baby is usually able to
pull himself to a standing posi-.
tion and can stand when Steadied
by one hand. Before he 10 ten
months old he should Be able to
stand alone without support. At
ten months the child walks by
showing b chair or baby cab. and
ID able to walk with little diff.
Guilty at twelve months.
The point about all this Is that.
you ought not to impose activi-
ties upon your child before It
has deVeloDed to exercise them.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-12-13

Centering their attention upon
geoEgette. evening handkerchiefs
take fICweFlike colorings. With
georgettA centers, some have wide
borders OF cream lace or net while
others are perfectly plain with
hAnd.rolled hens.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-12-13

Don't let your stiff Timber them each
day by working the these questions.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-03-12

to offer that the South has not
Northerner-Ice. Think of the
satisfaction of knowing that YOU
can get nice fresh ice by merely
opening your window and scrapine
the sill!
Floridian: I've always
thought I'd like to have a
little ice could call my own.
Northerner-You'd be surprised
the things You can do with it.
Some people just let it collect on
the window panes and then while
away the long Winter evenings
scratching illustrations on it. II
is very diyerting.
Floridian-Your story interests
me. After all, / get bored down
here, where the climate is always
comfortable and there is nothing
to see but oranges and palm trees
and flowers and so forth.
Northerner-No man can say
he has really lived who hasn't
hung around on a zero day and
watched the automatic snow-re-
moving machines at work. New
York offers you a real oppor-
tunity in this line.
Floridian: What about
these things they call furn-
aces up there?
Northerner: There're great
fun. Every home has one.
Floridian: What do you do with
them?
Northerner: Play with them.
It's a kind of game and very ex-
citing. The idea is to build a fire
in them and keep it going.
The people in each community
get together and give prizes to
the man who keeps his fire going
all Winter. This year prizes were
given to men who kept them
going over weekend. They
boost community spirit.
Floridian: What do they burn
in those furnaces?
Northerner: This year they
burned everything: chairs, bench
es, straw hats, ladders, wooden
legs anything.
Floridian tresignedly): Oh
well, put me down for a coupla
lots. / might as well go where q
man can really live.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-03-12
What Skinny Men
Ought to Know

You probably know that Cod
Liver Oil is the greatest flesh
producer in the world.
Because it contains more Vita
mines than any food you can get.
You'll be glad to know that Cod
Liver Oil comes in sugar-coated
tablets now, so if you really want
to put 10 or 90 pounds of real
healthy flesh on your bones and
feel well and strong ask The Key
West Drug Co. or any druggist
for a box of McCoy's Cod Liver
Oil Compound Tablets.
Only go cents for so tablets
and if you don't gain five pounds
in 80 days your druggist is au-
thorized to hand you back the
money you paid for them.
1t isn't anything unusual for a
person to gain 10 pounds in 80
days.
.1Get McCoy's, the original and
genuine Cod Liver Oil Tablet"
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Observation-Disclosures
WORLD NEWS IN BREF
fBy Assaeiatea Press,


fBy Associated PressI
Swedes at Geneva charge pow
ers, particularly Britain, are trying
to coerce them into enlarging
league council; Austen Chamber
lain denies using menacing lang
uage to Swedish delegates.
Governor Whitfield, of Missis-
sippi, signs anti-evolution bill; bill
for repeal is presented in legisla-
ture.
Palmer Hutchinson, newspaper
man with Wilkins arctic EXPEDITION,
is killed by airplane propeller at
Fairbanks, Alaska.
Joseph Cowen, iron worker, is
acquitted at Elizabeth, N. J., of
hammer murder of William J..
Clark, whose wife he admired.
Law enforcement league IN
Philadelphia applauds General
Butler for liquor charges in San
Diego against Colonel Williams;
Butler denies his act was breach
of hospitality.
Leopold Schepp. New York f.
nancier and philanthropist, who
asked public advice on how to
spend his money, dies at IS.
Italian senate passes Mussolini's
bill for compulsory strike arbitra-
tion.
Eric Hagenlacher, Germany,
wins worlds 1872 balk line billiard
championship from Jake Schaefer
at Philadelphia, 500 to 1,344.
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How Doctors Treat
Colds and Flu


To break up a cold overnight
or to cut short an, attack of grippe,
influenza, sore throat or tonsilitis,
physicians and druggists are now
recommending Caiotabs, the puri-
fled and refined calomel COM
pound tablets that gives you the
effects of calonel and salts COM
Ebined, without the unpleasant eff
fects Of either.
One or two Calotabs at bed
time with swallow of water,
that's all. No salts. no nausea
nor the slightest interference with
your eating, work or pleasure.
Next morning your cold has
vanished, your system is thor
oughly purified and you are feel
ing fine with a hearty appetite for
breakfast. Eat what you please,
mo danger.
Get a family package, contain
ing full directions, only 35 cents.
At any drug store.-Adv.
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ONE IN TEN

Neslecting little wound, cut
Or abrasion Of the flesh may in
nine cases out Of ten cause no
great suffering or Inconvenience,
but Il Is the one case in ten that
causes blood poisoning, Iockjaw
or chronic fostering sore. The
cheapest, safest and best course is
10 disinfect the wound with liquid
Borozone and apply the Borozone
Powder to complete the healing
process. Price (liquidl SOC, 60c
and Sf.20. Powder soc and soc.
Sold by all druggists. NJ w F
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(Whetein the Northern Visitor
tries to interest the native
Floridian in the North as a
place to Iive).
Northerner-Conld I have a
few minutes. of your time to in
terest you in real estate opportuni-
ties in the Northern States?
Floridian-What part of the
north?
Northerner-New York, Chi
cage, Boston, etc.
Floridian-Are those places
still there?
Northerner-They can still be
found if you have good shovel
and dig deep enough.
Floridian-Wha have they to
offer?
Northerner-Well, for example,
take our billiards.
Floridian-W What's a blizzard?
Northerner-A blizzard is an
abundance of snow, snow, beauti-
full snow.
Floridian-What is snow?
Northerner-Snow is fluffy,
white stuff that comes in little
flakes.
Floridian-Why?
Northerner-Nobody knows. 1t
is so plentiful we never bother to
reason it out. These flakes fall
in large numbers, reading from
top to bottom, and pile up, end
upon end, until they cover a city,
rendering it most picturesque.
New York, Chicago and Boston
are three of the greatest snow
producing cities in the country.
Any man who buys home there
viii get all the snow he can pos
sibly desire.
Floridian-But is this snow
equally distributed?
Northerner = Positive. Every
property owner gets his share. OF
course the more land a man owns
the more snow he is entitled to.
Floridian-How do / know, If ]
buy up North, ] viii get all the
snow / desire?
Northerner-We give a blizzard
guarantee with the deeds of sale.
Floridian-- What else have you
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-03-12

The United States is exporting
a large amount of canned salmon
to Yucatan, where it has become
very popular as food product.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-03-12

Canadians last year ate an
average Of sl2 eggs apiece, ac-
cording to statistics made public
BY the Dominion Department Of
Agriculture Domestic produc-
ton totalled 2S7.000,OO0 dozen.
representing an increase Of TO-
100000 over the previous year.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-03-12

Mrs. Elsie Bible Malinsky, nm
der life sentences at Flora. Ills,
for poisoning third husband, adj
mits poisoning her second husband
and his first wife. and attempting
to poison first husband.
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Flashes of Life



LONDON-Gaiety girls are per-
turbed over the marriage Of Con-
ME Talmadge to Captain Alastair
Macintosh. They think Holly
wood is usurping some of the
privileges Of the chorus at this
theatre, whence have come many
eountesses and baronesses. Some
of the girls had eyes on the cap
tain, who was once equerry to
Princess Beatrice.
WAGHINGTON The dollar is
going TO last longer. This does not
mean that it viii take you longer
to spend it, but the treasury has
a new process to make it more
durable.
NEW York; is probably not
case Of cause and effect, but just
after Berlin police official came
to town with description of COM
plete nudity on the stage at home,
the New YORK ponce raiaeo 9 Dur-
iesque show ana arresteu 70 girls
OF wild women VINO wore some
thing else besides rouge.
LOCARN0, Switzerland-F Erie
derieh Wilhelm Hohenzollern is
living here, but nothing has de-
yesoped to show that this has any
relation TO the present verbal war
at Geneva relating to the peace OF
Locarno.
-
NEW YORK-The second bride
Of ]. @. Phelps Stokes is to be of
vorced Rose Pastor. former East
side cigar maker, the millionaire,
SO. Is to marry Miss Lettice Lee
Sands. 90.
NEW YoRR--Marilvn Miller Il
al e.. 80 ~. bsen ana 81 an
-. =, ~, -. 's* 49, $3.50 Mar,,sv
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One hundredth anniversary of
the birth of Robert Lowry, who
wrote 81 Need Thee Every Hour
and other famous hymns.
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Seventy-five years ago today
Nevada City, Calf, was almost
wiped out by fire.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-03-12

1925--Steamship President Ar
thur sailed from New York with
500 Zionists bound on pilkdim-
age to the Holy Land.
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ssessssssssssssessssssse
TODAY I'm WASHINGTON

Senate considers Gooding long
ard short haul bill.
Drafting of farm relief measures
continues in house agriculture
committee.
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1s76--Gen. Joseph D. Web
ster, chief Of staff to Gen. sher-
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1920--Lydia Robinson, . me-
gress, died in Natchez, Miss. at
the reputed age of 11S.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-03-12

One hundred and fifty years
ago today was. born Lady Hester
Stanhope, the brilliant niece and
companion Of William Pitt.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-03-12

1894 bill was introduced in
Congress for the organization of
the Territory of Arizona.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-03-12

Observance of Arbor Day in
Oklahoma and New Mexico
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USING SNOW SHOVELS AND
TUT-ANKH-AMEN METHODS TO
FIND CITIES In NORTH

Phillips Over The Boston Globe Reyerses
the Usual Order
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-03-12

New Orleans holds a special
election today to choose a mayor
in succession to the late Martin
Behrman. Arthur j. 0'Keefe,
commissioner Of public finance, is
expected to be elected without
opposition.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-03-12

I917-Russian Duma met in
defiance Of the Gar and nearly
the whole of Petrograd fell into
the hands of the revolutionists.
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TODAY'S EVENTS

Festival of St. Gregory the
Great.