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for an elderly lady to be out in. Let
me help you part of the way"
The woman recognized the splendid
mercy of the offer and accepted 1t so
far as their roads might lie together.
When they reached the edge of the
park she excused him from further
help, but he wanted to know just how
far she had to go. She told him that
her work place was on Fourteenth
street but she was sure she could
manage the rest of the way.
That's all right. I'll see you to the
door. / can get to my work by cutting
down on a side street" She thanked
him for his goodness and told him she
would like to know the name of so
kind person. and he chuckled his
boyish answer:
I'm Just Bob"
Which shows that when it comes to
You are an angel" said the woman.
earth angels, an overcoat is as good as
pair of wings.
WHEN the World War was calling
W for sweaters and wool helmets
the women of this town went about
with sister susieS over their arms and
needles clicking between fingers.
After the armistice knitting bags
were consigned to the uncertain re-
moteness of that shelf where our
Father Time keeps his outWorn has
beens, and the sweater gave way to
the white robe of peace. Since those
red years many women and some men
have been demanding that the Nation
turn its tireirons into ploughshares-
forgetting that Cincinnatus, who
started the idea, had to see the folly
of it--while less idealistic others are
preaching prepardness-with one club
of women for illustration:
The Maiden Aunters are women
God made to fill In. A facetious mar
ried world tags them bachelor girls,
but you can't snare wise old owls
with sailed taffy. They keep faith
with their birthdays and admit them
selves. as others know them TO be,
spinstery virgins verging on so, and
something dreadful over; dead and
buried under the ashes of that
glamourous dazzle that youth calls life.
Kindly omit flowers.
During the war this little band of
lady sere and yellows knit their ton
of soldier comforts, and in their hearts
and on their typewriter constitution
registered the determination to be al.
ways prepared for any war that might
come along again--so far as sweaters
and helmets could count. Therefore:
At recent meeting, Miss Martina,
the newly elected president, succeed
ing Miss Eliza, who placidly died of
old age, reminded those present
that I'VE have now two sets of
Marines standing by in two foreign
countries. and there is no telling when
those Marines will be calling for
sweaters''-and that in accordance
with their constitution it was time to
prepare.
Next Tuesday at o'clock sharp
you will please bring any brown yarn
you may have or collect, and all the
knitting needles you can find. We
will also take up a collection to buy
what is necessary--and start in"
But, Miss Martina--Madam Presi-
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dent--suppose there is no need for
the Marines to fight, what will we
do with all our sweaters on hand?"
The protest was voiced by a callow
young thing of ~, who had joined
since the last conflict. ~ don't really
think we will ever have another war
not In our lifetime. anyhow"
My dear Cordelia. you may believe
what you please, but you cannot make
prophecy before these women, most
of whom saw our last war rise with
an unexpectedness that sent the
American Army off without sweaters.
or homeknit socks. We will get to
work. and If the Marines come home
without fighting, we can turn our
sweaters over to sailors at sea. The
one necessary thing is to be prepared:
We will pray for peace, but we viii
knit sweaters"
if some good people believe in being
prepared
Why not?
a WRITER from out of the friendly
unknown has been kind enough to
recall a trip TO the Canadian Rockies
taken by this column about a month
ago-With a special reference to Banff:
Il made that trip in 1917. The
larger taxis or autos around Banff
were driven by students of ottawa
University, and some of them were
very attractive to the lady tourists,
both old and young. On my trip. one
of the young women chatted so in
cessantly to and at the young man
driver. that when she got the chance
an elderly passenger said to him.
"'You have to answer many queS.
tons, wise and otherwise
HE assented courteously and quiet
ly, and by that time the young woman
was ready with another foolish re.
mark. He accepted the situation with
politeness, but finally. in answer to
some inquiry as to different stories
about different tourists, genially
responded:
lone of our chauffeurs-a good
natured Irishman--became a bit tired
of being over-questioned one day, SO
at last, when persistent talker asked
If he could tell what made the Bow
River so. green" he answered: Sure.
A couple of tourists fell In about three
years ago and their bodies have never
been found.
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iCOhGh DIS IA S'AS a
didn't have a nerve in her body. lacked
the courage to unite her string be-
cause she knew she was going TO be
disappointed" but the other adVen-
turer, like that brave ballad lady,
"bade farewell to every fear and boldly
waded in"
"Handkerchiefs. Goody, The very
things for Aunt JAMES birthday"
II hate to get handkerchiefs for
present" The interruption came from
looker-on
so do !, but they are grand to give
away-and look at this little sweater,
will you? 1t will just come IN Ior
Daisy's little Paul"
Daisy's little Paul was to come in
for. a pink machine-knit, near wool.
faded in the wash and fastened with
white china buttons as big as poker
chips. poker chips are what you
play poker with--only you wouldn't
mention 1t to those good lady aiders
for anything in the world.)
why, got a whole lot for 10 cents,
didn't /? Open yours, Jule-go on
open it," julie was also unanimously
urged by the lookers-on, most of whom
were chuckling over their own luck,
but the nearest she could come to an
exhibition was a peephole she made
in the paper that revealed flamboy-
ant red.
II bet it's petticoat, and nobody
wears them any more-I know I'm
going to be fooled--serVes me right for
buying a pig in a poke"
Mean? Not a bit of it, folks, dear
julie had spent dollars baking cakes,
boiling a ham and making lemonade
for the refreshment booth; had bought
postal cards and mailed them around.
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lowed. and then having married Dor.
othy Sittenham of New York, he took
his bride to Petrograd in 1915. just as
the clouds of revolution were rolling
up.
Under the stress of exacting serv-
ice as counsellor of embassy there
during those strenuous war days,
when he worked far into every night.
his health became so impaired that he
was forced into temporary retirement,
thus missing the Russian revolution
itself. He left the diplomatic service
for a time, but returned in 1921 as AS.
sistant Secretary of State. and a year
later was appointed Minister to Por-
tugal. where he has again found him.
self in the familiar atmosphere of
revolution.
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DOGS WEAR PAW Plates
Traffic in Paris Disturbed by Pets
of Idle Rich.

PARIS. March 10 Gp1.-Paw plates
for dogs of the idle rich are disturbing
traffic on Paris boulevards.
A nice little silver chain holds a
nice little halfinch silver plate on the
left front leg of the dog. The plate
carries the name and address Of the
wearer II looks, at first glance. much
like wrist watch. which may be the
next step.
At the upper end of the dogs leash
is the fair owner. who usually gets her
share of attention from the staring
public.
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and the Irvine and manila paper for
fixing up the bundles-besides making
the grab-bag from some cretonne left
over from couch cover. So 1t wasn't
meanness. The trouble was that julie
didn't know how to take a chance.
And 1t may be some such cranky
little kinks in our own mental make
ups that keep such legions of US peg
ging away at desks and counters in.
stead of risking life out In the open.
We are afraid to take chance.
A MAN and a woman-oldish, home
ly and blessedly unworried by
either fact-were cumming along In
a park. BY the graveled path a bush
of forsythia in full bloom brought
them to stop.
It's just like ours, isn't it? Except
that the blossoms are not such gold
en- yellow"
That's because the poor thing
doesn't get good country soil with q
breeze from the river"
why, of course. Seems like it was
only yesterday, doesn't it?'
Well, hon. we've been living here
for thirty odd years.
The woman put her hands together
with the gesture that may mean either
surprise or prayer, and maybe both
and the man gave her shoulder the
little pat that stands for comradeship.
And another woman, who also owns
a memory garden where golden flow
ers-jonquils, marigolds and tiger
lilies-get breezes from bay hurried
out of hearing distance.
1t is always well to know when
three is q crowd.
IL II ~ "
THIS goes back to what will have
to register as our Winters one
big snow. 1t has to be remembered on
account of a man in an overcoat who
was really an angel in disguise.
1t was so early in the morning that
Franklin Park might have been q
movie of the Polar Sea--except for the
trees, of course, with two black blots
moving along to show that they were
human.
: One of the blots vas a woman who
had come to a halt in the frozen white
ness. She just couldn't go on. She
gaSped 1t to herself with the weakness
of one whose life of comfort had unfit
ted her for such drastic ending. But
the other blot, who was the man in the
overcoat, heard enough to know that
help was needed. Before he reached
her the woman hitched up her courage
and started on.
The man, being really an angel in
disguise, had been stamping along
with the buoyancy that only youth can
give, but at sight of his fellow explorer
resolved himself into a relief 'eXpedi-
ton, and having forded the white sea
between them took her by the arm.
Good morning! This Is bad weather
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freshments on sale
in the back room,
a smell of good
coffee from the
kitchen and a grab
bag in the hall.
You paid a dime.
dived a hand in its
mystery depths
and, after feeling
around among the
bundles. fished out.
Two neighbors,
who had invested,
sta ged their eX-
ploratiOnS on the
stairca Sc wit n
other neighbors for
q u d / e n C e. The
pudgy one. VINO
V1-Iynl nc IL CHI a
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ADOPTS AMERICAN WAY.

BERLIN, March (P.-The Ger.
man post office hasn't adopted the sys-
tenn proposed and then abandoned in
England, of putting out private ad-
vertising matter on letters in the form
of postmarks, but it is now follow
ing the method long used in both
England and America and doing a
little advertising on its own account
in this way.
Letters Cancelled in the Berlin post
Offices now bear beside the postmark
the familiar legend prominently dis
played: Don't forget to address your
letters by street and house number"
- .
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bearing, Long Stormy Petrol of State
Department, Watches New Revolution

Fred Morris bearing, one time dis
trict school teacher of Columbia. Mo-,
career diplomat and former Assistant
Secretary of State. whose legation at
Lisbon was recently "shot-up" during
q revolutionary outbreak. is a stormy
petrol of the State Department.
Wherever bullets fly thickest in
riot or revolution at some foreign
capital. 1t seems that, bearing. a man
of medium stature and evident ply
steal frailty, is most likely to be
found,
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He received his baptism of gunflre
In Havana, in 1906, when President
Palma was put out of office. He had
gone there as secretary to the minis
ter, but soon became secretary Of le-
CATION, thus beginning his long dip
lomatic career.
He found himself in the path of
revolution for the second time at
Mexico City. where. during the De
cena Tragica, or tragic 10 days, the
embassy was under fire almost con
tinuouslY. More TRANQUIL wears fol.
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AROUND THE CITY
BY MAMIE LANCASTER.

~ HERE is a little church way
out where the pavement steps
into a country road. And the
"A other day band of good women
who represent the aid society
''held'' card party and rummage sale
at a nice little home on nice little
street-with it's parlor filled with sec
ond-hand flnery and pictures, with re-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-20

Italy has a cocoon shortage.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-20

BY applying a little Barnard's
Eau de Quinine to the scalp and
rubbing gently every day, falling
hair and dandruff can be eliminated
in a very short time. 1t opens the
pores. cleans the scalp and pro-
notes the growth of hair, This
special price is for Monday. Tues
day and Wednesday only.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-20

An unusual purchase enables
us to offer these bath towels at
this ridiculously low price. Made
by Cannon, of very high quality,
heavy, absorbent material go by
Is inches). This special price is
for Monday, Tuesday and We'd
nesday only.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-19

vince them that burglary is not such
a profitable pastime after all.
Charles Davis and his musical
gang will be the attraction on the
stage in an offering entitled Green
witch Village" and Bob Gordon, the
Ohio's organist, will play at the
organ. A Pathe news will conclude
the film program.
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NEW YORK" DUE
ATT APOLLO SUNDAY

Packed with situations that run
the gamut of human emotion from
comedy to pathos, and tense, thrill
ing drama; with scenes that range
from the dives of the slum districts
to the grandeur of the palaces of
millionaires, Luther Reeds big film
production, New York" to be
shown at the Apollo next week, is
declared to be the most comprehen-
sive depletion of the many sided life
of the metropolis ever conceived.
Ricardo Cortez, Lois Wilson,
Estelle Taylor, William Powell and
Norman Trevor are featured in the
cast which, also contains Margaret
Quimby, Lester Scharff, Charles
Byers and Richard "Skeets" Gala
CHER of musical comedy fame, an In
diana product, by the way, hailing
from Terre Haute.
The picture, screened from an orig
inal story by Barbara Chambers and
Becky Gardiner, has literally cap
tured the vibrant atmosphere of the
metropolis with it's teeming millions
it's East and West sides, the Bowery
Riverside Drive and the white lights
Of it's night time gaiety in all its
garish splendor.
"The worlds greatest city" alone
could offer such a plot-a story
woven around the career of a Jazz
musician who struggles from early
poverty and squalor to the heightl
of fame, winning the love of a so
ciety, debutante, an heiress to vast
fortune; triumphing in spite of grin
tragedy, which almost wrecks the
lives Of the principals in the 70
nance.
Other films will be a comedy
James Predicament," and the Foz
news weekly. The program will In
clude an organ speciality by Lester
Huff and musical novelties by Emf
Seidel and His Orchestra.
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an architects office, who becomes en-
amored at first sight with the niece
Of his boss"
The efforts of the two i'm being to-
gether following their engagement
and the schemes of the gruff old
uncle to keep them apart furnishes
The light thread of plot around
which many uproariously funny sit
uations are created.
During a sudden rain the young
man halls a taxi, finch is white car
that had been used in a robbery and
for which the police were search
ing. and the fun arising in their
extricating themselves from this sit
uation is said to offer many mirth
provoking situations. Many thrills
are introduced and some unique cab
aret scenes. The supplemental fea-
lures of the bill will include an Aesop
Fable and the current international
News. Floyd Thompson and His
Gang will present two musical nov
elites and will interpret the high
lights Of the picture.
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THE UPTOWN LISTS
IT'S NEW MOVIES

Three comedies are scheduled for
the Uptown theater, Forty-second
ST. and College Ave. On Sunday
and Monday Laura LaPlante and
Tully Marshall are featured at the
Uptown in Her Big Night" This
is a comedy-drama of stage life.
In addition the second of "The
Collegians," Fighting to VIM" will
also be shown on Sunday and Mon
day. A news weekly and fable are
other features.
stepping Along" the new Johnny
Hines comedy sensation. is featured
on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs
day. It is one of Johnny's funniest
pictures. Another comedy, 1.-THE
Marry Month of May" and a novelty
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-19
FRED HUMES is
STARRED AT ISIS

"a One Man Game" starring Fred
Humes, the feature of the Isis pro-
gram for the first three days Of next
week, is Western comedy drama in
which Humes is cast as a cowboy
who masquerades as a foreign noble
man in order to make an impression
upon an Eastern beauty visiting the
ranching ranges. Because of the
impersonation Humes is the innocent
prompter of q bank robbery and a
lot of other exciting things that hap
pen as the story unfolds. The star
has the support of Fay Wray, Harry
Dodd, Clarence Geldert, Lotus
Thompson and others. The program
will also contain a Harold Lloyd
comedy entitled Kicked Out" and
an Imperial comedy, 1.-THE Bathing
Suitor."
For wednesday and Thursday the
attraction will be 1.-THE False Alarm"
thrilling spectacular drama based on
the life of fire fighter, embracing
beside the heroic deeds and narrow
escapes that are part of the call
ing, an intensely interesting ro-
nance The story was writer by
Leah Baird, herself a star OF the
screen. Ralph Lewis, Mary Carr,
John Harron, George O'Hara, Dor
othy Revier, Lillian Leighton and
Maurice Costello are in the cast.
Battling Kangaroo" an Imperial
novelty farce, will be the comedy.
Starring in "Homestruck," a ro-
mantle drama of the stage, which
will be shown Friday and Saturday,
Viola Dana will be seen as Barbara
Page" chorus girl who aspires to
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No. Pauline Starke and Ben
Lyon i'm "The Perfect Sap" will be
at the Circle all next week.
No. Laura LaPIante will be
seen i'm Her Big Night" at the Up
town, beginning sunday for two
days.
No. 3.-JOan Crawford and Doug
las Gilmore i'm a scene from "The
Taxi Dancer" at the Ohio next
week.
No. Aired Humes in scene
from "a One-Man Game" at the
Isis for three days starting Sun
day.
No. edward Horton and Mar
ion Nixon in "Taxi-Taxi" at the
Colonial next week.
No. 6-Lewis Stone and Doris
Kenyon as they appear in THE
Blonde Saint" at the Palace the
first half of the week.
No. Lois Wilson appears this
way in New York" at the Apollo
all next week.
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''The Perfect Sap" which Is an
adaptation of Howard Irving Youngs
story and stage play, mot Herbert, !"
is a farce-comedy with Ben Lyon in
the role of wealthy young Herbert
Alden, who hopes to become detec-
tive when he finishes a correspond
ence course in Sherlocking.
In order to more closely study the
methods of criminals he breaks into
a home one night accompanied by
his valet, Fletcher. While they are
funbling with the safe, they are
surprised by another pair Of house
breakers. man and girl, who ap-
pear to be real burglars. Intent on
studying the habits of laW-breakers,
Herbert invites them to his home,
where he introduces himself as the
Colonel" a notorious safe-cracker
The complications that ensue when
Tracy Sutton, the master mind be-
hind the workings of band of inter
national crooks, enters the story in
the guise of a polished man about
sister, ali the time planning the rob-
berry of the Alden country home,
make up a very entertaining story,
Astounding in humorous situations.
The climax comes when Herbert,
partially awake to the seriousness
of the situation and partially through
his laundering detective methods,
uncovers the plot and effects the cap
ture of the crooks, at the same time
winning the heart Of the girl, Polly.
Pauline Starke and Virginia Lee
Corbin are featured with Lyon in
this production, which was directed
by Howard Higgin, and others in the
cast are Sam Hardy, Charles Craig,
Tammany Young and Diane Kane.
Tom, Brown, with his original Six
Brown Brothers Saxophone Sextette,
together with his Merry Minstrel
Orchestra, will return to the Circle
for his fourth successful engage
menE bringing with him an entirely
new and novel act. The organiza-
ton now numbers fifteen men, all
individual artists.
The program will include the play
ing of I'm a Little Spanish Town"
by Dessa Byrd as an organ solo; the
overture, played by the Circle Con-
cert Orchestra under the direction
of Stolarevsky; the Circle News; and
The Last Lap" the fourth of the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-19
TWO FEATURES AT
THE OHIO NEXT WEEK

"The TaxiDancer, lin which Joan
Crawford plays the leading role, and
SHOULD Men Walk Home" starring
Mabel Normand, are the two pictures
which will be the features on the pro-
gram at the Ohio theater for the
coming week.
"The Taxi Dancer" written into a
screen play by A. P. Younger from
the novel by Robert T. Steadman, is
a modern story of New York, set in
the night clubs and jazz districts of
that metropolis. 1t was directed by
Harry Millarde.
AS Jocelyn in 1.-THE Taxi Dancer"
Joan is cast in the role of a beau
tiful southern girl, carefully reared
in very sheltered surroundings, who,
nevertheless, has an inexplicable
urge to dance. She finally runs away
from home, and tries to get job in
the Follies, and other similar New
York institutions, but on running out
Of money, is forced to accept work as
a taxi dancer" a girl who works on
a commission with a dance hall,
dancing with any unattached males
that may care to choose them.
This part is said to afford the &C.
tress her greatest opportunity to
date, giving her chance for great
display of emotion, as well as some
delightful comedy. She is surrounded
by a cast that includes Owen
Moore, Marc MacDermott, Rockliffe
Fellowes and other famous actors.
In the comedy feature, Should
Men Walk Home" Mabel Normand
is cast as a girl bandit tired of the
city and out to get what she can
in the country. She runs across
Creighton Hale, who plays the lead
ing male role, but he happens to be
an amateur crook himself.
Mabel sells him the idea of combln-
ing forces and they attend a swell
ball where a famous brooch is to be
handed out at midnight. They plan
to be in on the handout, but lodging
detective who sizes them up for
what they are, leads to a compiled
ton of circumstances which con