Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-08

amount, and rushed it on.
Along in early July she received an
other announcement that she NAG
overpaid her tax liabilities by So.z9:
which would be sent upon receipt VI
her statement as to whether or no.
she was in arrears for her tax %
1924. please make statement on
snace below and return" The woman
Enclosed with this statement a re-
minder of the previous receipt OF "
forgot the bit overland two days
later received a check for $6.29, with
the following explanation from Gaien
L. TAFT:
"An examination of your income
tax account discloses that your COT
rect tax liability is $1S.S7. Inasmuch
as you have paid $25.16. a check ior
the difference is inclosed nerewi.n.
collector of internal revenue
doubtless gets a fighting thrill out OF
his lob of compelling a magnate TO
turn in a. tax that properly repre-
SCENTS the income he is trying TO nloe'
but what a yawning contempt ne mus.
register when dealing with the noIlesl
but dumb! ,s,.,f
You may know for your oWnse1
that no matter how fat your pay en-
velope or healthy your savings az
count, the unexpected return ol even
so Small a sum as 1923 takes on the
value of fairy gold, and the woman
who can buy anything her fancy calls
for. probably for~the reason that her
affections are somewhat limited, en-
loved almost child's delight In
thinking up something she would get
something that she would never
dream of buying under prosalc conol-
lions. ,, cue
There is that intriguing little Shelf
field dish that Judge Mary O'Ioole
uses for breakfast, with the bacon
dry and crisp in the silvery grooves
and the gravy in a little pool. she
might add a little more to the check
and get one for herself, only she hao
three right pretty dishes already.
Or she might get lone of those dear
Iittle-" And that ended her bit of
childish DRAWINGS for the money
went, and as you wouldn't be inter,
ested, why bother you any more!
After all, while we might be happier,
it is doubtful If we would be near so
useful to humanity if all our dreams
came true.
A LADY of golden intentions had
"A just finished a little talk before
a welfare meeting. She had deplored
the shocking extravaganza of present
day styles and longed for some mlllen-
mum day when her sex would dress
with the simplicity of the women or
the Bible. During the discussion that
followed, a guest from outside was
asked to make a few remarks. Which
she did, like this:
Madame president, and ladies': 1t
took Is yards of hand-Woven wool to
make a dress for Abraham's wife,
Sarah. It's seams were defined with
an embroidery in gay yarn, hit-and-
miss design, like the lamp-mat stitch
which, long ago, children used to knit
with pins on a spool. The sleeves
were long enough to do duty as court
trains and there was a girdle of soft
crimson silk long enough for a piano
scarf, with enough left over for a
sash. The dress itself was of an
invisible blue. She wore heavy jewels
of dull-colored stones set in silver pen
dant from silver chains. These chains
were not intended for characterization,
but signif1ed Sarah's standing in her
community and in her husbands
home.
when Jacob fell in love with Re-
bekah at the we'll she was wearing a
flowing-sleeved, full-robed gown of
f1ax-colored cotton, or maybe linen,
with a breastplate Of embroideries in
reds, green's and yellows, each with
it's symbolic color value, and a long
blue sash. I know all this to be true,
because the garments were a part of
q collection Of historic costumes du-
plicating those worn by the women of
the Bible and brought here by the
late Nine. Mountford, who spent years
in gathering these authoritative treas
ures at cost of $4,000. When 1 saw
them they We're on display in the
Methodist University. Nine. Mount
ford, as you may or may not know,
was born in the Holy Land of Euro
pean parents. She was a tall, strong,
wonder-woman of commanding per-
sonality, with rich, ruddy -colored hair,
and in her robe Of coarse, snowy linen
and silver chain girdle bespoke her
rearing in the biblical atmosphere of
the East. Christ was her compatriot
as we'll as her spiritual Father, and
one feels that she must personally
know Him in that Holy Land of
Eternity, where she joined him years
ago She loved her Bible women, but
she would tell you, as 1 am telling for
her, that so far as money and much
sewing and fancy work meant in
those primitive days. the women Of
the Old and New Testaments were as