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EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES.
BUSINESS INSTRUCTION..

CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATIONS.
Bookkeeping examination: special prepara
tion for bookkeeping exam. and stem. ana WI
exam. in Dec The Civil Service Preparator
school sc. cor. 18th & F \. w. Frank. "OSO.
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class laundry. will do all mending and
darning on two days laundry out. Atlantic
l3GI-W
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Cashiers and Extra Office Help
CIALTY STORE: GIVE AGE. EXPERIENCE
AND REFERENCES. ADDRESS BOX 44l-M
O. A u
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JOHNSON REST HOME WISHES TO An
nounce they have moved to 1875 Lanier NJ:
NV. from 1920 18th NV. where they Will
Col 5STT
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1t is just fine to be i'll busi-
ness where the satisfied clients
OF the field representatives help
them to make money by recon-
mending the Air-Way service to
their friends. During the past
week we paid $2,434.41 in com
missions to the men in this sue
cessful branch.
Air-Way has eight basic u. S.
patents protecting its unusual
service features. it is an absolute
aid to sanitation. it saves more
money than its entire cost, the
corporation back of it is given
the highest rating in the busi-
ness guides. with a capitaliza-
ton OF S5,500,O00.00, the corpo-
rate officers are outstanding and
we'll known business men Of re-
pute, and the company policy
protects every one concerned.
With the aid of our enthusi-
astic friends in Washington, we
are now beating the Pittsburgh
branch.
Our men are too busy this
week to help train new men, but
we will open classes again on
December 5th. If you are look
ing for money. future or both,
being honest. neat, married and
anxious to WORK HARD to at
tain the better things in life, it
will pay you to investigate Air
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ton and judge for yourself, if
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perfume day for YOU. -
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ing, 18th and Eye SITS. NV.
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WOMAN. colored refined to care for gentle
mans apt. or Office reference also girl for
nurse or mothers helper. Sunday. :. \.
o1Q1 114 81
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WA NTED. by first-class laundress. laundry
TO take home: bundle or family wash. Call
for and deliver. Phone Adams 9s3o. Isl
81 n oSh
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WANTED--LADY TO SHARE FUR TWO
room kitchen, bath hall. unlimited tele-
phone. FrigiGaire. apt Cheap. Near G: W.
I. Dec. 1. Ref. req. and furn. Address
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PIANOS-EXCHANGE YOU'D OLD PIANO
for new Ortho. Vie. or Radiola comhina-
tIon: liberal allowance made. Call Columbia
1641. MT. PLEASANT MUSIC SHOP. 1910
l1th ST Omen eYeninRs
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HAPPY HOUR" KINDERGARTEN WITH
nursery department. Day, week, month.
nlng. Normal graduate. North $50: 21=
NURSE DEVOTING HER SPACIOUS COM
Portable home TO care of invalids GONZALES
.ents Diet speciality. Shepherd 2hOl.
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WANTED-Wash TO take home. West 2095
WASHING wanted: part-time work; place as
cook maid or Orrse Pot l6io.
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WOMAN. colored reliable work: no sunday
work: pay by the week. 1745 kalorama rd
n W
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FLORIDA-RESIDENT OF STATE. HAV-
| ing wide experience in legal real estate and
| adjustment matters. returning TO Florida
| within 10 DAYS from successful adjustment
| trip through North, open for Florida
assignments by parties having business in
| terest anywhere in State. All matters con-
! fdental and personal attention assured. Adj
| ircsS Box i60-R, Star office.
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II you looking for Office help, chauffeurs,
porters, laborers, domestic help desire to offer
your services. place advertisement in The Star
under appropriate classification.
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TWO GIRLS wish work of any kind: city
reference. 951 Florida ave. Bird floor.
WANTED-Job as cook: can give. city ref
erence. Address Lena Lee. 1853 2Oth st. NV.
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WOMAE-Colored. wants place in private
family; plain cooking city ret. Phone y.
Si%d bSs
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WOMAN of refinement managing house
keeper: capable. efficient willing to leave
city: references. Address Box 320-R. star
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Part 6-8 Pages
HEIP-MAl.E.

ADVERTISING MAN. high class. perma-
nent position: must have personality. re-
sourcefulness and neat appearance, unllmlt
ed posi- blities: salary and commission; ref
erence must accompany application. Address
Box 344M star office.
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SITUATION-FEMALE.
fEnuttOueh

Observation-Disclosures eight years expe-
shop Adams S071-J.
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HEIP-FEMALE.

cot NTER GIRL. experienced; no Sunday
work: references required G23 18th st. II: W.
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WHAT DO You WANT A DETECTIVE
service to do for you; We ask you this
fronted with the problem of answering il
IN ing Soilr lsi, own mind md when you read the alur
extraordinary things for you. We Law no
clam to supernatural ability to produce re-
suIts. We do claim ~ years of practical
nsatl0n work Our experience of nearly
nall century has taught us much i'm the
ways and methods of securing confidential
and reliable evidence and information
Whatever your personal or business problem
may be-, come In and talk it over with Mr.
Bradford. Consultation and advice free and
entirely confidential. =, Established in, Wash
.nston 10r the past ~ years. the oldest de-
tective bureau in Washington. the third
oldest in America.
Phone Franklin 670O
BRADFORD, INC,
Suite I'll Transportation Building.
18th and Fl st. NV.
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| WOMAN cOlored. firstclass laundress. wishes
4 lirht family wash Phnnp North 4N1S

= WOMAN coIored wishes work in apt; small
O | family no laundry dish washing. 1903
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EMPLOYED MOTHERS WISHING CARE OF
children during day. good meal in cozy
r Prr9testant home, references. Mrs. G L.
STRONG. 1876 14th ST. ne
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An OPPORTUNITY OF A LIFETIME Is
onered the person who Is ambitious. has
vision and, is able to devote his time with
out immediate conversation, in sassisting to
consummation a perfected plan OF excep-
%1ionai % hnanclal possibilities: ..directorship.
no finances or selling requisite: state full
GHallhcatiors. Address Box 333-R Star
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II you desire to sell or purchase anything,
large or small. valuable or nsignfcant-make
it known by means Of the Classified Advertise.
ments of The Star.
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GAkES t;aI PIES. SANDWICHES FOR PAR.
tles. tea rooms. private families bye refined
white woman: delivered. Adams a6SO
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THROW AWAY YOUR ARCH SUPPORTS
All foot troubles come from wrong shoes.
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YOUNG COUPLE HAVE ROOM: GENTLE
men: strictly private home; garage or break.
fast OPTIONAL. North 5H32-W
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PERSONAL.

HUNTING PRIVILEGES OVER LAPGE
area to Pine Needle Camp dwellers; Rich
mond- Washington highway: game plentiful. !.
reservations. Address Box 4O0-M. star
office
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STTIJATION-NIAfE -

ACCOUNTANTS OFFICE MANAGER thor
oughly experienced, desires permanent con
nection with reliable organization: at present
empI0yed. Address Box 309-R, Star Office.
ARTIST. .STIrDENT fllll or nart .tlrle work .
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DR.. FRANK CRANE
DAILY EDITORIAL
vXTHY not undertake the building of Boulder Dami
w Of course nobody wants the government to 20
Why Not?
BY DIR. FRANK CRANE

VXTHY not undertake the building Of Boulder Damf
w Of course nobody wants the government to 90 into
business to compete with private parties. But it is
question whether the Of and Of heat egt
mately belong to private concerns.
They enter into the daily life Of the whole people EVERY
body travels railroads. everybody gas and electricity
and every manufacturing power.
The Government regulates railroads rates for
gas and electricity and It is logical in the that
the Government must supply these things.
The business of rrgatng otherwise desert lands is the
business of the whole people,
Such dam will protect the lives and property of tbou
sands of people It will supply domestic water which
needed IN the rapidly growing Southwest
The Government engineers after looking the lower
river In the past few months report that the the Imperial
Valley menaced by disaster Of gigantic proportions
The Colorado likely to overflow the levees at anv time
and Wp out the $4,000 people and their $1O0OOOO00 Of
property in the valley.
The commissioner Of reclamation Elwood Mead reports
TO Congress that the construction of large reservoir at
Boude Canyon necessary hold back the flood waters
in the spring.
Ony less serious he says sis the recurring danger of
drough during August and September The loss Of crops
in one year has reached the total of $60090OO"
In an enterprise whose results so important and
which apply to the whole public the Government us
fled in taking hand.
While President Coolidge is opposed to public ownership
on principle, yet in this the whole United States
about the only encern big enough to handle this proposition
with justice to- all.
Copyright 1927, by Syndicate,
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: Clean Up, Paint Up" AS An
AIl-Year Campaign

once year. in this beautiful National City the District
Commissioner sOemnly aside Clean Up, Paint Up
week. anG make appeals for general cleanup of trash
cumulatec the winter period.
Cincinnati goes the belief that community campaign
good for week. and brings beneficial results should
become permanent and that city has ayear round
campaign of clean up and paint up.
The yearly campaign in charge of the Cincinnati Chamber
Commerce. but local organizations throughout the city send
representatives to the meetings of the clean up paint up
mee and in this way every community group represented
the organized campaign for Identification of the Ohio
city.
Feprevenon activities part Of the yearly campaign
the coss Of which has been small with all the citizens
operating and manifesting most active spirit.
The fire department and the various other municipal de-
barmen give valuable aid to the citizens Fire apparatus
carry banners bearing the admonition Clean UpPaint Up
and there systematic flushing Of sidewalks in congested
areas
There are block captains who list unsanay conditions
Ct them high school Students and there is likewise anti
litter bureau which directs its efforts the prevention Of
litter in the streets
Washington is much beautiful city than Cincinnati
but its atractveness could be increased by plan
regularly carried through in the Ohio town.
With ali civic and other organizations here committed
permanent cleanup idea wonderful results could be
Complished.
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THIS CHEERFUL FACE, WITH PUG NOSE Is THE
"BLOOD-DRINKING GODDESS" OF TIBET
She Is Palden Lhama

One Of the most miserable earth as regards
backwardness and superstition lives in Tibet They their
Grand Llama ruled by clever Buddhist priests that surround
him. used for their purposes replaced by another when he
dies.
They have their gigantic monastees filled with loafers
that live the Woodworking supersttous population And
they have among other gods and goddees this terrible look
ing lady whose is Paden Lhama known as the blood
drinking goddess
This horrible creature is called by guibe Tibetans lone
Of the Eight Terrbe Mr. Beasey this goddess
informs you that the officiating Llama Buddhist priest
the blood drinking goddess vicious demons
Then he exercises them which should not be very difficult
since they don't exist.
The ignorant that live Llama control
pay him for rendering service which nothing He
lives WITHOUT work, they WORK HARD
Observe that this booddrnking lady made to look like
Tibetanour gods and goddesses always to re-
semble ourselves, less Greek philosopher said
the camels had god, it would have FOUR LEGS AND
A HUMP.
This lady has eyes too close together usually bad spn
She has queer eye in the middle Of her forehead one Of
many strange references to the pnea gland which may or
may not have been active eye when all things
had one eye only.
She has pug have other ladies surrounding her
in Tibet an Informed meaning lack Of intellectual de-
velopment
Generally speaking you Judge the mind by the nose
This lady related to LuYuen the god Of Disease who
also has three eyes, and she cousin to the Thunder God
dess."
Very likely this blood drinking lady was borrowed orU;
naly from india where Kali the wife of silva the DESTROYER
Of the Rahmn Trinity is the goddess and paroness Of the
Thuggees whose religious rites take the form Of rituac
murder,
Let be glad haven't any gods or goddesses of this
kind Think how the fundamentalsts and modernss would
fight if we had.
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sensitive, innocent boyish thoughts
So he dreamed his way toward
his strange destiny.
While, below the hill, an angry
rabbi scolded the truant and a
worried mother wrung her hands
and wondered what that boy
was coming to-"
You and / know what he came
to. that boy with the dreaming
eyes.
You and I know that his dream.
ing ended in a love beyond all
telling and an agony unspeakable
at the foot of a bloody cross.
But would We have known then
II wonder?
Would we have been patient
with the dreams and clumsiness
of little boys?
Would we have withheld our
anger when he forgot to water
the lentils or gather the fagots;
when he failed in his lessons?
Would we have been willing to
let him dream-knowing that
dreams are often more potent
and precious than lessons or
chores?
Would we have understood his
slowness and have been lender
with his NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. God
have His way with him in the
slow, tangled years Of youth?
Or would We have nagged and
fretted, as sometimes we fret
now at other little boys who
dream and dawdle under a blue
sky-other little boys who may
some day, also. bear life's cross
and know its glory?
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young saint John, who was to
grow to be the beloved comrade
of Christ Jesus.
There is no promise Of that
yet, in the childish, dreaming
face. No hint there Of the glory
that was to be his, or the an.
guish. No sign OF great wisdom
or holiness. Not great saint,
this--only the head of a little
boy.
A little boy at the troublesome
age"
A little boy. dreaming Of moth.
ing in particular, under sweet
blue sky.
Dreaming. when perhaps he
should have been doing his les
sons.
Yes. as / look again. / am
quite sure that he should have
been doing his lessons.
And probably his chores.
Hateful chores such as little
boys Of IL always shirk.
A bed of lentils to be watered,
fagots to be gathered from under
the Intel trees, herbs to be-
punched and dried.
But who would water Ientils or
gather fagots or bunch herbs
when a sky as blue as that is
calling. calling on the hill?
So he sits and dreams, this
lazy little boy--dreams of moth
ing in particular.
And, as he dreams, his spirit
slips away from the young body
with the tOIIaled hair tha frocltIad
clumsy hands, the clumsy. blund.
ering feet, and becomes part Of
all the beauty and mystery which
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QUESTIONS OF
ETIQUETTE
The Wedding Procession
MRS. Cornelius Beeckman-

The Wedding Procession
NEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:
~ Please outline the formation
of the wedding procession when
the party consists of a ring-bearer,
a flower girl, four ushers. four
bridesmaids, and a maid of honor,
best man and train-bearer.
READER.
This should be the order Of the
professionals:
1. Two ushers. the shortest,
walking together.
2. Two ushers, the tallest, walk.
ing together.
8. Two bridesmaids, the short
est, walking together.
4. Two bridesmaids, the tallest,
walking together.
5. The ring-bearer, walking
alone.
alone.
8. The bride, with her father.
The best man does not take part
in the professional, but waits with
the groom at the chancel steps.
! This is the order of the recess
sional:
/. Bride and groom. together.
Tor the flower girl may walk in
front Of the bride and groon.I
2. Maid of honor. walking alone.
8. Bridesmaids. walking to-
gether. two by two.
4. fishers. walking together,
two by two.
The hast man has. T., fha y,,aau.
time. gone to the vestry.room to
hand to the clergyman the envel-
ope containing the clergyman's fee
which the groom has given to him.
He gets the hat and coat Of the
groom and takes them to the
groom in the front of the church.
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fore he had known only partially
and imperfectly, because most had
been handed down to him. and
relatively little acquired by him.
self in presence OF the object,
would now be grasped by his con.
sciousness in new way. The
quality of his knowledge would be
vastly altered. 1t would no
longer be made up of imperfect
bits. hastily and separately &C.
qnired in a broken series of in
vestigations, each uncompleted
and fragmentary on account of
the brevity of individual lives: but
it would possess that real unity
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MEDITATTONS
OF A WIFE
BY Helen Rowland.
"Suppressed Desires"

Suppressed Desires"
LIVERY undented rolling-pin Is
II a monument to some wom-
ans suppressed desires"--if we
can believe the comic artists.
Every hair in a married mans
head may mutely attest the
strength and nobility of his wife's
self-repression. And every pearly
tooth in a wife's smile may be a
monolithic tribute to her husbands
magnificent self-control.!
Most families would have to eat
off of cast.iron. non-destructible
dishes. il we were all determined
to express ourselves" at the
breakfast table. The broken china
would litter up the floor so!
No husband knows how oft in
the Silly morn his fond wife
chokes back the primitive desire
to hurl the coffee-pot at him.
when he sccrnfully shifts at his
chop. Or insists on reading the
newspaper aloud!
And there is seldom a dinner
party at which the suffering hos.
tess does not check q wild yearn.
ing to fling her demi-tasse at
her unconscious husband as she
hears him telling the wrong story,
or sees him flirting with the
wrong woman.
~
Suppressed dssirssi without
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them the earth would be simply
Uttered with the dead and the
dying!
III all the average woman's sup
pressed desires were laid end to
end. they would create an earth
quake that would shake the
world from New York to Japan
and back again.
Every happy marriage Is built
on a solid foundation of sup
pressed desires. The only diff
ference between a good husband
and a wife-beater, or between a
devoted wife and a shrew, is the
difference in the number Of de.
sires which they SUPPRESS!
Twenty times a day a woman
suppresses her desire to tell her
husband the truth about himself.
Twenty times day the average
man suppresses his desire to
brag to his wife about all the
pretty women who try to flirt
with him, and to remind her
: what . lucky little thing she is.
A hundred times a day both OF
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Suppressed desirssl Without
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HYGIENISTS and doctors as.
III sure us that we may increase
the normal length of life TO
century or more. That would
enable individuals to accomplish
a great deal more, though it would
put a brake on the increase of
population. A man who lived a
century, in complete health and
activity, bodily and mentally,
would have a broadened view of
life and the world.
knowledge comes, but wisdom
fingers" says the poet. Knowl.
edge and wisdom are related to one
another like the Alpine rivers and
the Italian lakes. The streams
are muddy and broken with tum-
bling rocks; but when their waters
spread out in the quiet lakes the
sediments settle. and the wide blue
wave becomes as serene and trans
parent as the sky.
Work brings knowledge, but
time brings wisdom. Time has at
least one characteristic OF space
it affords an outlook. Man sur
veys the world from "the summit
of the years" Other. things equal,
the loftier the summit the more
commanding the view. That is
why "the wisdom Of age" has been
automatic among all peoples every
where.
Full Understanding
But, let us suppose that mans
active life could be extended to
embrace not petty century or
two, but a million years. What
would he the nature of his new
wisdom? Many things that be-
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and evolution would seem to him,
phenomenon as natural and TN
questionable as the rising and set
ting OF the sun.
We Lack Experience
1t is because these things come
to US as matters of history and in.
ference instead of personal obser.
walton and experience, that so few
grasp them. For there is a plenty
Of wild imagination, but only q. lit
tie that has been trained. To be
able to see much in little and make
no mistake is a rare gift.
A glimpse covering millions of
years Is afforded in the announce
ment of the ''soil scientists" of the
Department of Agriculture that
rain removes 20 times as much
plant food every year as is con.
sumed by crops. Rain is a geo.
logical agent of long range and
double-faced. 1t is the demon of
erosion at the same time that it il
the god of fertility. 1t lowers the
land a few inches In an ordinary
lifetime. but in millions of years it
lowers whole mountains to their
roots. To behold the hills melted
and carried off by the rain and
towering peaks abased and shat.
tered into low-lying sands is the
experience that man with a life.
span of million years might have
between childhood and age. The
lettering up and down of a CONT
nent through thousands of feet
might become for him a sense i'm.
preston instead OF a mere mental
conception based on reasoning
from isolated facts.
But what marvellous fact that
man is so organized that, though
living but hundred years at the
longest. he can bind the past and
the future into a picture that is
virtually q mental "mnvia >,
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BY Garrett P. Serviss

which is necessary to full com
prehension.
For an illustration take the fun.
damental idea in geology of the
secular wearing down of the
e&rth's face after a period of ele.
walton. Let man continue to
live million or more years amidst
these slow, but in the aggregate
enormous, changes, and he would
be keeping step with the earth's
evolution. Let him watch with
the same ever waking intelligence,
for a million consecutive years,
the development of the animal and
vegetable organisms around him.
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LISTEN, WORLD!
BY ELSIE ROBINSON

lies about him.
And the peace
and mystery of
the great sky
enters into him.
the force and
urgency of the
thrusting grass
and swelling tree
t r u n k s. tn g
beauty of the
flo W ers, the
purity of the
tinkling brook,
the joy of the
small butterflies
that circl e d
above the sleepy
face. And al!
the glory and
tragedy of hu.
man life-he en-
tered into them,
too, wondering
curiously what
it was all about,
touching IL with
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them suppress the impulse to
yawn at each other, nag, criticise,
advise or reform each other.
THAT is LOVE! Sweet, beauti.
full. unselfish suppression!
The jails. divorce courts and
prisons are full Of people who
lust couldn't suppress them.
selves" II we ever let the
suppression cap blow off our de.
sires, what things we should saw
and do to our friends and neigh.
bors. A brickbat would be- the
popular calling card and no
woman would drop in on another
for q quiet little chat without q
bright little stiletto in her hand.
One game Of bridge would leave
the parlor floor strewn with the
wounded and dyingl And prussic
acid cocktails would be served to
the bores at every party.
Be yourselfr" may be the popu.
lar slogan. But give me a man
with a lot of suppressed de.
sires'-and the power to 20 right
on SURPRISING themi
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TVHERE is a
\ plaque on my

pA0N oG OlA my
wall.
1t is the head
of a young boy
of, perhaps, IL.
The slender face.
the thin. child
ish neck are
m o d g lie d in
ere a my porce-
lain against a
blue as deep
and warm as
those brig h t
$ k / e Su n d 9 r
which that boy
once played. Be
hind the head.
as though they
stiu fingered in
the dim blueness
of the years,
there is a sl1ad-
owy cross and
halo. 1t is the
h e ad Of the