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NToRMA DOUGLAS, 5, as healthy
Il and active as any rosy.cheeked

NTORMA DOUGLAS, S, as healthy
In and active as any rosy-cheeked
! Oklahoma farm girl, got a
mighty slow start in life. but you
would never know IL to Look at her
NOW.
Five years ago Norma was herald.
ed over the nation as one Of the TIM.
lest babies ever born.
She was just a mite Of human
flesh, weighing "a ounces at birth
with Il cotton wrapping around her
She measured just nine inches long
She was so tiny that the ring on
an average woman's finger would
slip over her entire hand and elbow
up to her shoulder.
Could she live? There was not a
chance in the world. everyone said
The doctor who delivered the baby
told the father and mother that there
was not chance.
Charmed Life?
But II there is such u thing as pre-.
destination. little Norma bears u
charmed life. The baby was born III
the farm house of the Douglases neal
Oklahoma City Four days and -four
nights after birth the father kept the
bedroom at the insufferablo heat Of
100 degrees for the baby's sake
And the baby lived and grew very
slowly In six months II weighed
six pounds, still two pounds under
what q normal baby should weigh at
birtn.
Then one day the proud father
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PEN POINTERS.

recent New York fashion parade.
SHOWS tendency to Ibnger skirt.
Are women discovering the real
truth about their knees?
New York has just added 1447 new
policemen to the force. They need
EN- to watch padlocked places.
Ihree thousand Americans are re.
ported broke" in Paris. Mavbe
We've gone too far trying to prove
: that we're not Shylocks.
The new thing. they tell US. fs
, permanent waves for men. After
all q baldheaded man does have
something to be thankful for.
new Jersey farms recently fssr,e3 ,
q manifesto that all leopard huntinQ,
on their property must cease. Most
or the people who were hunting an
escaped leopard didn't know n
leopard from cow.
copyright. 1926. NEA Service. Iua,
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SratuAtheo ne c0utinued.~
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
LICE stified an angry exciama.
"A ton. flushed, and then nodded
~ She could not stack her pride
against a hundred dollars a month.
, particularly when she was fiat
Hedge made some more figures.
II will continue these gratuities,"
! he sadi. abruptly
81 Allowances. please!' reminded
Alice.
. Allowances. II you prefer It. One
word Is as short as the other. I
! shall. however. reduce them"
Constance rose out OF her chair as
IL impelled by some unseen force.
She wheeled and glared across the
room. Billy stopped in his tracks.
'AlI allowances will be reduced
fifty per cent" announced Hedge.
until further investigation"
There was a mobilization Of
Brookes on the opposite side of the
table. Alice was thankful for the
arrival Of her reserves.
You are to cut--our allowances
In half?" she asked slowly.
in half-payable daily" said the
efficiency man.
b ''Daiiy!"
81 DAILY"
n Alice was frightened. She felt
! the reassuring hand Of Constance on
: her shoulder and looked up at her
3 appealingiy.
: "You do the rest. Connie" she
: murmured.
z IT fnd,' said Hedge as he con.
/ tinued to make rapid figures. shat
your father has been paying two Of
you at the rate OF approximately
$6.66 a day, including Sundays and
holidays. and the other at the rate Of
about $3.50 a day. Out of this what
do you spend?"
GAIL" said Billy. What did you
expect?"
''What for?"
"Why. anything we WANT. of
course!''
"Clothing-shoes-li orr heat7''
cueried Hedge 'briskly.
Most certainly notw exclaimed
Constance frigidiy.
DO you mean to tell me. Miss
Brooke. that you. for example. do
not at least purchase your clothing
out Of the sum OF $500 @. year9s
Constance laughed. but 4 vas
mirthless. She glanced down at hi
dress. and continued to laugh.
If you understood anything about
gowns. you would not ask SUCH a
question:" she said. "Of course. do
not use my allowance for any such
purpose. 1t Is wholly for personal
expenses. as see fit to use IT,"
Clothes are personal, are they
not?"
Personal-perhaps, she admitted
coldly. But they are on father"
And Is this also true OF you?. de.
manded Hedge. glancing sharply at
Billy.
And ther sorne." declared Ru,v
why. I don't even buy gasoline OUT
of MINER
Well" observed Hedge iud.ciallv
II none OF you employ your allow
ances III the purchase OF food c,ott.
ing, or the necessities of life. which
are otherwise provided by yonr
lather. ! see no Legitimate reason Cor
any allowances at ALL"
ofhere was a chorus Of erie. from,
the three Brookes.
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About 7f0uP
Health
Things You Should Know
LITTLE EMERGENCIES.

1t is rot unusual for small boys
who go fishing, to get fish-hook
Embedded in some part of the bog
instead of the fish; due to careless
handling of the fishing-tackle.
Crochet hooks are unpleasant
guests when deeply seated. re-
Gently attended a lady who sat
down in a porch swing that held
a bundle of tatting, the crochet
hook was driven M, than an
inch into her hip. A man, who
was rummaging on a closet shelf
above the level o. his eyes, en-
countered an old crochet hook
which penetrated the palmar sur
face Of his thumb. He tainted
Promptly and a rush call came in
anticipation of deep incision to
remove the offender. ----- -,
Every family should have a
medicine kit, which includes a safe,
reliable antiseptic. In the event Of
wounds like the above, anyone
can, by manipulation, push the
point of the offender out through
the skin; in case of a hook or
barbed instrument, the barb can
then be cut or broken off, and the
extraction easily made in two min
utes; the wound should then be
thoroughly soaked with the anti
septic, and light dressing ap-
piled.
Forcing a fish-hook out through
the skin does not add to the pain
already there. The crochet hook is
best removed in the same manner
the hook cut off with wire cut
ters. Never try to pull barbed
instrument out the way it went in.
This advice may save considerable
expense and trouble, and is worth
remembering when you live away
from the doctor.
ssAAA q . xxa1
sxXSa Next Week. 1!sEA
!, BALD HEADS
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NEXT CHAPTERS E0sp7eSassscn
On ssuseAead pets. - -s,s &c
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Also. "Golf lcr-- zen away
from the churches.'
The remedy l. - rai.c politics
as interesting IS rio ling, religion
as interesting as golf. With
Henry Ward Beechsr i'm a big
church, or Billy Sunday in a re-
Vlval tent, the caddies, not the
clergymen, would complain.
Philosophers from many coun-
tries gathered in Cambridge, Mas
sachusetts, tell the world, "Maten-
allstic theories cannot explain the
marvels of the living world"
Materiallsm cannot explain any
thing for the reason, among others.
that there is no such thing as mat
ter. Reduce solid steel or floating
feather to the so-called ultimate
atom. Examine the atom and YOU
md small solar system like our
own, the nucleus for sun, little
electrons flying around it for plan
cts. Matter is only particles of
electric energy. And no one knows
what that is.
A scientist said, 81 have swept
the heavens with my telescope.
and find no trace of God" A dis
sector of the human body said. 81
have gone all through the human
brain, and find no trace Of
thought, soul or mind"
Nevertheless, thought, soul and
mind do exist in that little uni
verse we call the brain. \ create.
mind exists SOMEWHEcE in TIA.
greater brain, TIE UNIVERSE.
:c;;.N: r,-i- ~T-'t''- .s ':z=r<y-r
Senator Caraway, OF AIlarsa-
wants the United States to de- ~
and bring to America the bod;
or $4,000 American soldiers buried
on French soil. -.
He says Europeans hate us so
intensely that he saw insulting
lines scrubbed on the white
crosses above the graves CT cur
soldiers. oE-s1ssssess c--s,.
! e. - 1~ p
The dead soldiers would saw,
1T was the biggest kind of joe
when we were taken from our
homes, shipped across the sea to
die in a war not our own, and to
lie here dead, killed il the quar-
reis of European high finance and
royalty.
"One more joke, that of hatredN
can't make any difference. Let us
lie in peace"
=
r What man WANTS to do, he can
40. A little while ago the noble |
bison was dying out, everybody
had said farewell to him. Now
the Government, with herd IF b.
son on its hands, offer r., al
vigorous I've bison for cS5, .Irc>
you Couldn't have 'cugL.. %:
$4,000 a little While &C..
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BEGIN HERE TODAY

=. JOHN w. BROOKE, Svidower
md head Of a large hardware
concern. IL leaving town for two
} months. He has arranged TO
have nm emciency engineer take
!, charge OF hls household during
hts absence. But he falls 60 In.
) form his three grown children.
Ccnssnnces Billy and Alice. OF
II. HEDGE. assigned 70 the
job. takes charge OF the Brooke
mansion. He occupies the
library into an once. The sscSlI.
! dren," hnding no other way
out: have concluded to petition
J hedge Tor their month1y allow.
ances. Alice 10 nominated AZ
spokesman. She explains 20
soEe. WHO wants 20 know
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Jungle Green Is the color and
satin the fayorite fabric of fashion
lane this FALL And this frock!
newest model from cosmopolitan
designers, shows follow-through Of
pleasing folds, from the full jabot
OF cream silk edged with self satin
70 the graceful silhouette Of over
skirt.
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DEMPSEY AND MILTON
MOVIES AS statesmen
SWEEPING THE HEAVENS
DO YOU WANT A BISON7

A sympathetic editorial writer
bewadls tho fact that Jack Demp-
sey, win got $4,000 times what
Milton got for writing paradise
Lost"
On the other hand, Milton prob
ably would rather write "Paradise
Lost for $40 than beat Tunney for
100000. Abraham Lincoln would
rather have written his Gettysburg
speech for nothing than beat Tun-
ney and Dempsey both Some
things to some men are more inn
portant even than cash. $
The outside world resents
United States domination of NOV
Ing pictures. Those pictures are
marvellous statesmen, selling in all
lands American clothing, automo-
biles, furniture, lamps, and es-
pecially the American idea of
comfortable living. - -,
ps.ss;. 49,. - 80 81 q
y Six of the Indian princes that
share with the British taxation of
their subjects offer 100000 to
help British films displace Ameri-
can films. .,z,,.. s.s,ss,
, AS Mr.. Mellon said when some
body offered him $70,00O,OO0 cash
for his oil company: "That isn't
enough" You can't make moving
pictures with dollars only, any
more than you can sing high C
with dollars. You must know how.
-
1t is said automobiles keep half
the voters away from the polls,
and absentee balloting" is sug-
geStcd. ~ rr-a ,-|g
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WANT NOTICES for persons desir
Ing employment will hereafter b
published free of charge. person
seeking help will pay fun rates.
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WIFE INTERCEDES FOR RUM RUNNER

attention, and left the b1a c k
thoughts homeless. That may, per-
haps, account for the modern dane
ing craze-other people besides boot
leggers have troubles and try to
dance them off. But after the steps
became mechanical, the attention is
free again, and horror comes home
to roost.
Drink and Drugs Helped
But drink and drugs were the
great standby, for US, as for the
tarrassed wretches we were supply
ing. I never learned to use dope
didn't have time enough between
drinks, / guess. Lem was superior
to both drink and drugs He still
had faith that we could climb out
and that is more potent than all the
drugs and drink in Christendom.
Danny kept clear Of those things,
TOO, while he was with us. But
I've heard, since that, he lis headed
for perdition by way Of the drug
road.
I had a habit Of calling on Eileen
when T reached a certain stage. OF
blubbery drunkenness. Sometimes
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New Costume JeWelry
At Sl.OO

Such an assortment as is rarely found at such
low price Everything one could want in attractive
manufactured indestructible pearl beads, in white
and colors; antique necklaces; sterling silver
chains; shoe buckles hat ornaments; brooch and
bar pins; bracelets in various effects: mesh bags;
necklaces of many kinds; earrings Every article
an exceptional value.
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But when she overheard sonny.
cursing his. baby sister, in in1itG. !.
ton of me, her mother-heart broke.
She threw her arms around me,
and kissed me, reeking with rum
as / was, and sent me away, the
shoulder OF my coat wet with tears
Eileen understood much, and for
gave all--but she couldn't allow
her children to grow up that way,
could she?
Lem and Danny and 1 set up
bachelor quarters in apartments
not quite so luxurious as LENS
had been in the old days. l secuted
UP the stuff, while Lem and Danny
drove Then came my sickness.
following months of almost unin-
terrupted drunkenness, and Eileen
sold the hoase-foolish girl-to pay
for my care at the sanitarium-
when I would so much rather have
died.
We were going down hill pretty
fast. There was no more legitimate
rooze on the market, except what
could be smuggled in from Rum
Row past the Coast Guard and the
Thirsty Brigade of New York. The
r-um-hounds there made it harder
for us to get any good stuff in
Washington than the dry sleuths
did. Very little of it slipped through
their clutches. The last year we
didn't handle the legitimate stuff
ut alive dealt exclusively in corn
| whiskey and cooked alcohol.
Profit was Little
There was very Iittl" profit in
shat. and we had to haul larger
| quantities. We had a lotion Mack
'"uck going every night for three
months. until we were hi-jacked-
not for the booze but for the truck.
| Then we hauled it in furniture
| vans. Now and. then, when I got a.
| big order we had it shipped to us
| in freight carS-in carload lots, the
| freight cost less than truck haulage.
and there was no danger of hi
iacking, we unloaded in daylight,
lust outside the District. and
| brought the cargo in with touring
cars. small trucks-anything we
could hire for a few hours.
| And the price we could get for
our stuff continually declined. Rum
sells today for about half what it
did before prohibition. In 1919
| WhlSkeV sold at $8 q gallon. Today
| YOU can get something that will
make you just as drunk for "a g.
| gallon. The tenement house dis
| tilleries are bringing the supply 1Ip
| pretty near to the demand.
| Our profits were further reduced
| because we had to split uD with the
| revenue agents. We couldn't have
| hauled all that rum, nor one-tenth
of it, without their permission. And
| their permission cost US monev-it
| cost us more than the hi-iackers
| I'D. At that, we made three or
| four times what we could ever hone
20 make on the outside-men of our
| limited talents and lack of special
| training
! But money earned that way.
goes that way. It's obvious that
! man who can't make money
! decently can't spend it decentIy.
| The nerve-racking strain we were
! under made us irritable impatient
| Of restraint. without self-cOntroI
| If we wanted "a thing. or thought
We did, we bought II, regardless of
| cost. and an hour or a week after.
ward. we lost or forgot it.
| We wanted excitement, gayetv.
! noise-anWhinr to swami our black
! thoughts anything to kill the pain
Of our liberated conscience. Dane
| ing helped, at first. 1t took up our
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"RUM-RUNNING IN
WASHINGTON"
BY DONALD McDOUGAL
tMo7ie and Stage Rights Reserved,
CHAPTER XIII
Copyright. 1926

With the opening of President
Harding's administration things
were frightened up severely for US
rurn-runners. Prohibition men be-
came more active. For a month
the Washington-B Baltimore road
was closed to US altogether and
we transferred our activities to
robbing tank cars in Philadelphia,
bringing the loot in through
Frederick-sometimes by way of
Harper's Ferry and Leesburg.
On the day when Eileen found
out what was doing-but / can't
tell about that--it is too horrible
not Tor me to tell, but for you to
hear. And the time I forced Eileen
To sit with Sonny in the block car.
TO arouse the sympathy of the po.
lice while took breakneck chances
down the Rockville pike, and just
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within the District we swere
| wrecked, and Sonny's foot was
crushed TO a pulp and Eileen
gathered him to her breast and
ran shieEing across the field, while
I was handcuffed and carried of
TO Jail have kept my agreement
Mr.. Editor. and told it.
/ NV lawyer STAYED off the trial.
of that case for over year and
/ worked. as 1 never had during
the war. to pay his heavE fee, TO
Law by money for the fine, to-
pay for the aInputatiOn of S0nnH's
foot must tell tit was so
nominated in the bond.
When he case came up for SEN
tence, almost two years later, Eileen
imp1ored the judge for leniency.
She told him all the favorable
things about me that she could
think Of, and that could not be
brought out in the trial--how I
had cared for her during her long
illness, my overseas record-all. He
was glad to know these things, he
said-glad to know that was not
all bad. He gave me sentence
of 81, 1000 and year in jail--the
Jail sentence suspended during good
behavior.
A merciful penalty. 1t removed
a great deal of bitterness from m Y
heart, and gave me new hope.
There were people, then, who
could be honest and upright them-
selves, and yet show mercy to others
who were not. There were righte-
Gus people who didn't let their
righteousness swamp. them. ]
hadn't supposed that such a thing
was possible. Up to that time my
experience with righteous people
had been anything but pleasant.
Mr. Codding's righteousness was
of a different kind. IT was more
conspicuousIy displayed, like an
automobile tag. 1t helped him to
get around, I guess. He had our
home raided the night our second
child was born. Half a dozen dry
sleuths trooped into Eileen's, room
an hour before the little stranger
arrived, and then trooped out again,
empty handed, and not noticing
they had set the window curtains
afire in their ransacking opera
tions.
Lem Saves EiIeen's Life
Eileen lay there, helpless, and
watched them burn. If Lem hadn't
smelled the smoke and blistered
the skin off his hands beating the
flames out Eileen would probably
have burned too. We had just fin
ished hiding our last bottle in Mr..
Codding's cellar when the raiders
arrived. We only had an hours
advance notice, and there was no
other haven Of safety for us.
I made affidavit the next morn
ing, and had his place raided. ]
wanted the liquor to do some good
Mr.. Coddings got $500 fine and
six months in jail, and that wasn't
suspended.
But Mr.. Codding didn't have any
kick coming. He had always con-
tended that red tape should be cut
in bootleg trials-there were too
many legal technicalities protecting
rum offenders, he said-the mere
possession of intoxicants should be
enough to convict. 1t sure was iii
his case. Even his own lawyer
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GERMAN SHIP NO LON GER
TOURING BRITISH VESSEL

NEW YORK, Feb. The Ger.
man liner Hanover today sent ont
4 radio message announcing that
she. has given up towing the Brit
ish steamer Manchester Product
The Manchester Product sent out
j distress call early yesterday.
The Hanover radio states that the
tow was given up late yesterday
at 45 North 38 West The message
did not state whether the Man
chester Product was proceeding to
the Azores under her own steam.
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Go Be ConcIuded Tomorrow
S. Z. Kersey sued for Diyorcs

Mrs. Dorothy 3. Kersey. 500
Thirteenth st. s. e.. has filed
suit Ia the District Supreme Court
against Samuel e.. Kersey, for a
limited divorce and alimony, alleg-
Ing desertion, cruelty and non.
support. They were married In
this city october rs, 1922, ard
have one child which Is In the Gus.
.tody of the mother
The Washington times., 1926-02-05
81. 95
The Porto Ric0n Hand
made VOiLe Dresses at

Made of fine quality French Wolfe and adorned
with long lines of dainty draWnWork; some have
little inset squares of contrasting color, outlined
with draWnWork, others have little sprays Of hand
embroidery down the front. Some have elbow
sleeves others are short sleeves. The colors are
very much the same as in the silks Sizes SO to- 46
Kanns-Second Floor
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SYNOPSIS

Il
Philip. Jones, out of a job, turns
Funu-runner to get easy and quick
money to pay hospital bills for
his soife Eileen and infant, Sonny.
CoRVoging the liquor into Z ga
r0ge IN southwest Washington
alley, it is necessary TO nearly
spreck an auto bearing prohibition.
officers. These prohibition men
hare had a bad aUeek; they hdUe1e't
made many arrests and they
frame an innocent boy, Daa,ey
Harris, slipping a pint of liquor
INTO hie pockets and then arrest
ing him. Jones and has feLloaO
runs-pumners give Danny legal aid
md he IS acquitted. With slight
tang of conscience, Jones enters
into a bride plot which aOOatld rid
his path of Barker and other pro-
hibition officers. HIS neat venture
Is to rob Government liquor
warehouse of ats contents. NoW
30 on aeith the story.
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Children love its delicious taste.
Ask your druggist for genuine
California Fig Syrup" which has
full directions for babies and chill
dren of all ages plainly printed on
bottle. Mother! You must say
California" or you may get an
imitation fig syrup
The Washington times., 1926-02-05

When your child is constipaued.
bilious, has colo, feverish-breatn,
coated tongue, or diarrhea, a tea
spoonful of genuine California sig
syrup sweetens the stomach and
promptly cleans the bowels of poi
sons. gases. bile, SQUIRTING food and
waste. Never cramps or overac+s.
The Washington times., 1926-02-05

i forgot to tie my shoe laces and
they Topped in q disorder1y way as
walked and was always opti-
mistically hoping she wouldn't mo-
tice that hadn't shaved for three
or four days. And / left an 0dor
OF gin in the hallway for an hour
and half after / was invited out. 1t
was embarrassing for Eileen, and
she had to change her boarding
place three or four times on &C
count Of it.,
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turks Restrict Licenses

CoNSTANTINOPLE, FEB. 81
The Turkish government has f.
sued 4 decree forbidding licenses
to chauffeurs, street porters. wafer
men and taxi drivers who are no.
Turkish MussuInen: