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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-04-01
CHINA HATES CHRISTIANS, ALAS

What this picture lacks in artistic excellence it. makes up
a intensity Of feeling.
This Of many pictures that have stirred up the Chinese
recently strengthening their determination to drive out all
Foreigners CHRISTIANS ESPECIALLY.
The big sitting at the table in the picture labelled
III Chinese characters Pastor priest meaning that he is
Protestant Catholic missionary.
The Chinese artist shows the missionary devouring the
brains and bones the Chinese people The brains and bones
supposed be the plate front Of the missionary And
meanwhile the missionary dog labelled Chinese Christians
attacks the REAL Chinese people, those that remain Chinese
and refuse Christianity.
The gentleman with the two sticks is supposed be the
REAL Chinese people, trying to defend himself against the
Chinese Christian dog that would devour him. Chinese letters
- the top mean strike and kill this cruel dog!'
we know Of course that the missionaries are in China
errors convert them to Christianity and make it possible for
and unbeevers must surely co. unless they repent at the
last minute, or special mercy saves them.
We know and missionaries know how good our nten
lions
But you know the story Of the barking dog showing its
teeth. One Of two frightened The other man
aed "Don you know that barking dog bites? His
friend replied eyes, know it, and you know it. but does
mat -- dog know it7''
The ingratude Of the Chinese shown in this picture
most deplorable Perhaps the wise thing would be for
missionaries to home look after poor children in our
% work among those that would welcome their services
md let the Chinese to hell instead Of trying send them
o heaven-snce they INSIST being dsagreeabe about
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-04-01

first gave intimation that the
earth, through spherical, was not
a true sphere. About 1872 Jean
Richer, a French astronomer at
Cayenne, South America, found
that his clock, set accurately at
Paris, lost about IA minutes a
day at Cayenne, and to correct its
running he had to shorten the
pendulum. Isaac Newton showed
that this indicated that Cayenne.
near the equator, was farther from
the center Of the earth than Paris.
This method of measuring the dis
lance of certain parts of the earth
from the center of gravity has
been widely employed ever since.
1t has to be corrected by calcuIat-
ing the effect of the centrifugal
force Of the earth's rotation, which
is greatest at the equator and van
ishes at the poles.
But the chief method Of deter
mining the shape of the earth is
by measuring the length Of a de-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-04-01
EARTH'S SHAPE :

A thoughtful correspondent
writes: II claim that the earth
Is shaped like an apple, the
North Pole being at the bottom
Of sea two miles deep, while
the South Pole is on a continent
two miles high, and that the dis
lance from pole to pole is 1851
miles less than that from side
to side in the plane of the
Equator. This, / understand, Is
the claim Of science, but my
friend asserts that it Is only
speculation, because the depth
OF the sea at the North Pole
cannot be measured; neither can
the distance through the earth
in the plane of the Equator.
Please tell me how science
proves its claim.
WIEIAT is one Of the most ro-
u mantle stories in the his.
tory of human achievement. All
over the world, in every cline,
defying and overcoming diff
culties and dangers Of every sort
flaming deserts, entangfed noun
tains. snow, ice. storms, tempests,
Arctic frost and tropic heat-the
emissaries Of science have, for
more than 200 years. been gather
ing the facts on which is based
our knowledge of the shape Of
the earth on which we i've. And
the refinement Of this work still
goes on. It's sole aim is to graft.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-04-01
By ELSIE ROBINSON

intends the work of six other
girls in a large insurance office.
She likes the responsibility and
added work and she's making
good. And yet--sI1e's miserable.
The girls who used to work with
her are jealous of her. The other
women supervisors try to get
ahead of her. There are little
cliques and feuds- schemings and
tattlings.
Il hate 1t alI,' cries Elaine.
"All I ask is a chance to do my
work as well as possible. But
instead have to be on my
guard half the time or other
people will take advantage OF me
or get ahead OF me in some
undetermined way. 1t Just makes
me sick. Don't you think It Ii
terribly unfair, EIsie?'
No, ] don't my dear.
did once. When I first
tackled this difficult game of life,
thought, as you do, that I
should be allowed to work ont
my destiny without interference
or envious competition. And wnen
the interference and competition
started ! was extremely wroth.
And, like you, made loud
indignant speeches against our
fiendish social order which didn't
allow an honest, hard working
human to do his job in peace.
But have changed my mind,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-04-01
MEDITATIONS
OF A WIFE
BY Helen Rowland.
Marriage
Adventure CIR Alternative?

Marriage
Adventure CT Alternative?
ENOR some women marriage is
II the Great Adventure - for
others it is the Great Alternative!
When you see a bridegroom
walking down the aisle, you may
be reasonably sure that he is fol-
lowing his own inclinations.
But when you see a bride tread.
ing the flower-strewn path to the
altar, you never can be certain
that she is not running AWAY
from something!
A man may be blindfolded and
backed into marriage, or lured,
steered or eased into it, under the
anaesthetic of a springtime pas.
sion. But only a woman can be
DRIVEN into it with her eyes
wide open!
A man usually marries in order
to GET something that he thinks
he wants-love, a home, or a par
ticular woman. But girl, alas,
often marries in order to ESCAPE
something she thinks she doesn't
want.
At is. many q girl takes the
fatal plunge into q foolish mar
riage, just in order to escape
mothers nagging," dads restric-
tions,' or the boredom Of another
year at school.
To her, marriage looks like a
gorgeous lark. with the beautiful
promise of chance to ''be her
self" and lead her own life."
At Is many a foolish young
thing rushes into matrimony with
a man twice her age In order to
escape WORK! ITO her, marriage
looks like one long, grand vaca-
ton, a glorious and eternal graft!
And not even all the alimony
fights that brighten the morning
newspapers can shatter her IL
fusion.
At 80, IL her ''love ship" has not
come in, many a girl desperately
snatches the first fife preserver"
who offers to save her from
spinsterhood. She is literally
driven into marriage by the COM
passionate urgings Of her patroniz-
ing married friends!
AT 40. many a perfectly sane
woman marries just in order to es.
cape boredom and to acquire
permanent "theater.beau" and reg
taurant companion, only to dis.
cover that she has gotten a iailer,
who goes to sleep every evening
after dinner.
But the Prize Dumb.belI is the
@Aiaabe-aSed widow or diyoCoaa.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-04-01
By Garrett P. Serviss

gree on the earth's surface in a
north.and-south direction. e.,
along meridian. This is effected
by measuring long arcs of merid-
ian, some near the equator, others
in high ATTITUDES, as near the polar
circle as possible. Comparison
shows that arcs covering the same
number of degrees are longer in
high ATTITUDES than near the equa.
tor. Thus, to quote an example
given by Prof. Young. a degree
near the equator is about 1862. 800
feet long, while degree in north.
ern Sweden is 365. 800 feet, a diff
ference of 5000 feet.
How this fact indicates that the
earth is flattened around the poles
so that its surface there is nearer
the center than is the surface at
the equator, is shown by the pic.
ture. In this I have enormously
exaggerated the flattening or OBJ
lateness of the earth. in order to
make the effect plainly evident to
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-04-01

spineless parasite IL / didn't have
to meet such handicaps.
Consider a sprouting seed,
Elaine. A seed has two jobs to
tackle when 1t terminates in
its dark earth cell. 1t must
grow by sending out roots and
shoots. BUT TT MUST ALSO
PUSH THINGS OUT OF ITS
WAY AS 1T GROWS. Every inch
of its progress is impeded by
roots and rocks and other grow
ing things. It's up to the seed
to find its way about and over
those impediments. There's no
unfairness In that--no sinister
wallace. It's simply part of the
natural job Of being seed.
Life makes the same rule for
the sprouting seed and the sprout-
ing human, my dear. We all
have two jobs to tackle first to
grow-second to make our way
against the competition OF other
growing things. That isn't a
cruel nor an unjust law. Your
spirit needs that competition as
much as. your body needs food.
Your character needs a scrap to
tougher II. as your bones need
lime.
YOU WOULDN'T AMOUNT TO
MUCH IN, THIS WORLD OR
THE NEXT IF YOU DIDN'T
HAVE TO WATCH YotxR
6X&6S -.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-04-01
II
Washington and Grand Opera

The that the Metropolitan Opera Company
viii return to Washington after absence Of seventeen
years and that its appearance this year may mark the begin
ring annual series Of performances by this company
M civic interest because it indicates clearly that
We have here brilliant and cosmopolitan society and we
also uncommony high proportion Of highly educated
n and is to these classes that best in art ap
pas The Metropolitan foremost opera company Of the
ppn has recognised this fact already recognized by the
chicago Civic Opera Company and by the many successful
prbductions Of the Washington Opera Company.
The coming Of the Metropolitan is proof that Wash.
ngton has attained to its full artistic stature.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-04-01

the eye: but the exaggeration does
not alter the principle. Observa-
tions or stars show that the plumb
lines at "a" and ID, near the
equator. are 90 degrees apart.
Similar observations made near the
pole show that there plumb lines
the same angular distance apart
are separated by a greater dis
lance measured over the earth's
surface than at the equator. The
radius of curvature at ''a.N-b" is
greater than at ALB" which
manifestly brings the surface
nearer to the center OF the soblate
earth.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-04-01
LISTEN, WORLD!

Elaine.
/ no longer
consider myself
abused because
/ have to watch
my step. Nor
do l feel that
other workers
should be boiled
in oil aor shot
at sunrise be-
cause they envy
me or try to
upset my WHEEL
barrow.
Once I called
such practices
rotten business
m e t h o d g." I
now realize that
they're simply
part OF tn 9
strenuous and
necessary pro-
gram Of life
and that I'd
DrObably be a
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-04-01
WISE SAYINGS

Our best thoughts came from
others.-Emmerson.
For the whole world, without q
native home,
Is nothing but prison Of larger
room. --Cowley.
What narrow innocence 1t ii
for one to be good only according
to the law!-Seneca.
One may be humble out OF
pride.--Montaigne.
X
Love in it's essencs 10 spiritual
fire.-swedenborg. III
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-04-01

~ the greatest OF human desires
that Of KNOWING. But the
results attained have incidentally
aided the material Enrichment OF
mankind.
They are not, as your friend
thinks, mere speculation. They
are based on actual, observed and
measured facts, and the calcula-
tons that complete the work are
made by the soundest kind OF old.
fashioned mathematics.
1t was the pendulum clock that
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-04-01
66TT isn't the
IL work /

GIT isn't the
j work 4
m / n d." com
plains Elaine,
Its the unfair
ness in office
life. The way
the other work
ers try to inn
pose on you
and make you
do their work.
4 h Q suspicion
and jealousy
2 -
always having
to watch your
. t ep because
someone is try.
ing to get some.
thing on YOU
that's what /
hate
Elaine has a
good position
and she has
won 1t fairly.
&hM mnuy sY1par
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-04-01

But marriage. to be happy.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-04-01

should be the Great Adventure,
not the Great Alternative! Hymen
is a jealous deity and Furnishes
those who trifle with him!
Rushing into matrimony, IN
order to escape from something
else is like running into a trolley
car in order to avoid collidinR
with a taxicab! The quicker tine
tragedy is over, the more merci.
full!
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-04-01

who seeks to insure her Indian
summer against solitude by marry.
Ing some sheik half her age!
life irksome, parents trouble.
some, work burdensome, or single
-blessedness lonesome, she Is apt to
plunge madly into marriage, and
drag some poor helpless man with
her!
But marriage, to be happy.
Evening star., 1927-10-26
LITTLE BENNY
BY LEE PAPE.

Pop was watching the waves and
looking kind of thawtful, and another
man was sitting next to him looking
jest as thawtful. Being man in a
brown derby hat, and pop sed to him
Have you bin across often?
o yes, I've stopped counting. the
man sed. and pop sed, o yes? Well
be in soon, wont we? he sed. and
the man sed, 48 more hours, and pop
sed, o. reely? Ever trye to smuggle
in eny Ticker? he sed.
Never, and never ixpect to, the man
sed. Having brown eyeglasses and a
brown mustash to match his brown
derby hat, and pop sed, Well. I CESS
your wise at that.
I'm within the law, that's enuff fol
me, the man sed, and pop sed, Yes
Of corse, certeny. Personly, I'm bring
ing in a little star conyack in q
toothwash bottle, and I admit it's got
me a trifle worried, not that there's
RELY enything to worry about, OF
cOrse.
The man not saying enything, and
pop sed. OF corse / realize 1 have a
thousand chances to one that Ill get
by with it safely, but then on the
other hand one is a number too anC
Of corse there's a chance it's the mum
ber Ill draw, jest one chance in q
thousand, to be iXact, but l mite be
jest the Jonah to draw it, wat do you
think?
The man not saying wat he thawt
and me and pop started to wawk
around the deck, and pritty soon we
met MIR. Bingam wawking the other
way, and he sed, Morning. Mr.. Potts
jest saw you in deep converse with
the new prohibition enforcement of
ficer.
The who, the wat, yee gods, por
sed, and Mr.. Bingam sed, Sure, the
man in the brown derby, that's him
they say he's tarter.
Ixcuse we vile l go down in my
cabin and throw a little something
out the portfolio, pop sed.
Wich he did, being the Jargons
TootWash bottle with the conyack
in it.
Evening star., 1927-10-26
|DorothyDix
Says, Marry
Your Double
| Not Your
Opposite
Picking Out
a Husband
g Just So He Likes to Do Same Sort of Things You
Enjoy-Therefore First Study Yourself
and Pick Out Man of Own Type"

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sa
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ever his mouth.
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buying Kemer You
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woman bubby excited; you
as happy and thrilled as child over going on trip and Just love to make
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to
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whether pal around with dancing
he
and that
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cles could doubtless be happy mated together
make paradise of sort OF commonplace rounders
ghwads OF
pinching nckes watching
he likes do the
will affinity
X.
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Evening star., 1927-10-26
Colors.

II you are completely dissatisfied
with everything you have to wear at
the moment, you will probably dis
cover that the real fault is not with
the fashions, but the colors. Not only
do certain seasons require certain
colors, but some cities take quite diff.
ferent colors from other cities. I
bought a whole outfit of clothes in
New Orleans and took them with me
to Boston and they were hopelessly
wrong. Boston was colder and the
colors of it's buildings were different,
and the Autumn season was much
further advanced; and the peach-col.
ored chiffon and the rose beige wool
that looked 80 appropriate to the
Southern city looked hopeless In the
North. + took them to a dyer and
when one was maroon and the other
dark blue they looked excellent.
have a friend who bought an out
fit in New York just before going
abroad. Her travelling suit was a
neutral color between beige and gray,
cool and delightful to look at in the
brilliant sunlight Of New York and
on the boat. She arrived in London
when the rains and fogs of October
were beginning. She wrote me that
her suit was the color Of the climate
and the color Of the buildings, and
Evening star., 1927-10-26
Apple Parties for Halloween
ny t.xmA liz aaRoN WALKER.

enter into the entertainment features
Also present each guest on arriving
with buttonlere OF these blossoms,
| rh. mon should have odd numbers
and the girls even. Each man finds
his partner by the number next high
er than his own. Thus one VIII have
| two, three will have four, etc.
| Provide each couple with a score
card, apple shaped, either cut from
white paper and tinted to resmble an
apple or from rosy red paper. In
either case have a stem at the top, OF
brown. and through the blossom end
tie a tally pencil, using brown coro OF
warn for the string, so that the Knot
nrovides the blossom" On the cards
write the words, "Apples we pick.
Halloween Apples.
Each couple is to write down on
the card the names Of as many or
the kinds of apples as they can de-
termine in a given time, not more tnah
minutes. If the company 1s large
have the couples form q procession
and headed by a leader march around
the rooms and about the tables, which
should be numbered. More than one
| table may have the same KIND Oh
apples. When the march is done, the
coIInIes must not only write down the
kinds Of APPLES, but the number OF
tho table where it was. This is espe'
ciaIIy good where the variety IS nm
tied. for double guessing mas 10 pe
done. and the teamwork Is helpIul'
In any event no guessing must ne
allowed in sight of the apples 10
| refresh memories. The couple having
the most answers that are correct
| wins a prize which may be two
enormous fancy apples, one for each
highly polished having a blue ribbon
nrize number tied to the stem of each.
or thew may be awarded one OF the
nlates or piles of apples. to be divided
between them at the end of the enter
, tainment.
Reverse Your Partners.
Couples now change partners by
having the odd numbers find the even
numbers next lower than theirs. This
will leave the man whose number is
| to the girl whose number is high
est, while all others will follow in
correct sequence. For example, the
next mans number is 3; he takes for
his partner, 5 takes 4, etc.
The hostess now brings forward one
of the vases of apple blossoms, ana
asks each couple to guess the number
of blossoms. There should be too
many for counting to be possible IN
the time allowed, though undoubtedly
many will endeavor to find out in this
way. After a few moments the
hostess removes the vase, and the
numbers are set down and prizes
awarded. Each prize may be pencil
with green paper to form a stem
tipped with a cluster of the apple
blossoms. concealing some trif1ing
favor.
Each person is now presented with
a twig of apple blossoms. If the
number of flowers is even on the twig.
the person will be married: if odd. he
or she will remain single. By repeat
ing the months of the year. assigning
one blossom to a. month, the time
when q marriage will occur Is indi-
Gated. If there are less than -
blossoms the wedding will be within
the year, If more divide the number
by 1G to find years. The remaining
numbers mean months.
Evening star., 1927-10-26
DEDTTNEE CTADTEG BY THORNTON
DELI lNlL - OlOlllLO ". BURGESS

said he. "Where can Mrs. Peter have
gone to? I do hope she hasn't been
caught.
Meanwhile, Peter was using those
long legs of his to the best advantage.
Lipperty y-lipperty-lip, lipperty-lipperty-
lip, he ran through the moonlight,
straight through the Green Forest.
He knew he was taking risk, but he
didn't care. Nothing happened until
he was almost to the Green Forest.
Then, as he looked back over his
shoulders, he saw a swiftly moving
shadow almost at his heels. Instantly,
Hooty the Great Horned Owl snapped
his bill angrily, as he reached in vain
with those great curved claws of his.
Now, Hooty may not look as If he
can turn quickly, but you should see
him when he has just missed some
one. You would be surprised to see
how quickly he can wheel in the air.
1t was just so now. He turned like
flash, and once more swooped at
Peter. Again Peter lodged just in
time. There was nothing to spare.
One Of Hooty's big wings actually
touched Peter. For a few moments
that was very lively place there in
the moonlight on the Green Meadows.
i es, SIT, II was very lively place.
Peter Rabbit was jumping and dodg-
ing this way and that, and just above
Hooty the Owl was wheeling and turn
ing and swooping and swapping his
great bill angrily. as he vainly clutched
at Peter.
1t was fortunate for Peter that he
was almost at the edge Of the Green
Forest. With final effort he lodged
as Hooty swooped and then bounded
straight for the shelter Of the Green
Forest. He lodged into an opening
under a bramble-tangle barely in
time. There, painting ana putting and
blowing, be rested while Hooty flew
of in disgust. For a few moments
Peter, in the excitement, forgot what
had brought him over to the Green
Forest. Then he remembered. But
for a long time he didn't dare leave
That bramble-tangle. He couldn't he
sure that Hooty wasn't watching for
MIN from some nearby tree. So he
sat there patiently, chewing angrilv
on nothing at all, anxious to resume
his search for Mrs. Peter and the
handsome young rabbit he was sure
was with her.
tCopyrisht. 1927
Evening star., 1927-10-26

If your hair won't keep the
simplest wave for several days, there
is probably too much acidity. A
condition that causes hair to be
stubbornly straight and stringy, and
to lack all iustre. Acid scalp.
From the hour you check this
excessive acidity your hair will act
and appear very different. 1t will
arrange easily in any style that be-
comes, for it will have lovely soft
ness, and all the sheen all healthy
hair normally has. Danderine will
neutralize the acid, and actually dis
solve every particle of dandruff scale.
Your hair won't need anything else
to keep it fresh, wholesome, and
free from the least Objectionable
taint that is too often noticed in
otherwise fastidious women.
Danderine sells for only thirty-hve
cents at any drugstore, and as only a
few drops on comb or towel will do
the work, bottle lasts for weeks!