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White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-09-23
Effect of Sanitation
on Literary Manner.

Literary manners have altered, not
only as result of the enlargement Of
the audience-though that was bound
to have an important effect on lltera-
ture-but as result Of changes In the
manners and customs Of everyday life.
The increase of privacy, the I'm
provement Of sanitation, the growing
custom of cleanliness both Of habits
and of the body, and the abolition Of
many gross usages, have resulted In
making many things that once were
the comic contretemps of ordinary
life seem now merely offensive irrel-
evancies
Probably improved sanitation has
had more influence on literary man
ners than anyone yet suspects.
You will notice that what It's en-
emies call prudery is most general in
countries In which sanitation has
made the greatest progress.
II Rabelais were to return as an
Englishman or an American today,
he would probably find himself blush.
Ing like Victorian girl at having
made some Of his own jokes. This Is
not to belittle the jokes Of Rabelals,
but merely to recognize that the man
ners and convictions that were the
natural soil Of many Of those jokes
no longer exist today.-Robert Lynd
In the Atlantic Monthly.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-09-23
Petting Place Was
Poison wv Garden

st. Paul. Minn.-This is the sorrow
full tale that is whispered wherever
summer session students gather on
the Minnesota university campus.
Two romantic young things, the boy
about twenty and the girl not more
than eighteen, came down from the
northern part Of Minnesota where
vines are vines and not poison Ivy.
Before the advent of the decorative
spotlights there had been plenty of
places for little quiet necking. But
all that was changed.
Then one morning he got bright
idea. Every day going to his classes
he passed perfectly luscious looking
garden. Cool and green, all vines and
ferns, it was inclosed by high picket
fence. OF course, 1t had warning
sign on the gate, but then he neither
read nor believed in signs.
That very night he mysteriously
conducted the girl to the garden. She
was charmed with the spot. She told
him that she would never forget the
night and the garden and, of course,
him.
And she never will. The following
morning both their faces were broken
out with rash that closely resemb1ed
that produced by poison Ivy. The gar.
den was filled with poisonous plants
for the usa Of the medical students In
their research work.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-09-23
Poison Room, Located
in Heart of London

The "poison room" lies few yards
from roaring stream of tram cars
and omnibuses and lorries, and with
In a stones throw almost of West
minister bridge, London, room. per-
hape six feet by four, Its walls almost
entirely made of glass, and provided
with double door so that none of
the deadly gas with which II Is often
filled shall leak into the outer air.
This poison room In s. e. is not
the lethal chamber of Lambeth
"supercrook," but Is used to test the
efficiency of gas masks and other life.
saving apparatus by firm which
makes such things.
In most cases the poison fumes from
inside the room are fed" to the ex
perimenters outside through tube,
but they can go In If they like.-From
the Continental Edition Of the Daily
Mail.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-09-23
VIOLET RAYS GOOD
FOR SICK MONKEYS
Valuable Zoo Animals Are
Restored to Health.

New York.-How ultraviolet radi-
alton, used on sick humans, saved
the lives of Eve valuable and desper-
ately i'll animals in the New YORK
geological park is told by DR.. Charles
v. Noback of the department Of com
parative medicine.
His furry patients consisted OF a
red bowling monkey, a grivet mon
key and three lemurs, which are
small animals belonging to the same
order as monkeys but lower In the
evolutionary scale.
They are all expensive animals and
their threatened death from cage
paralysis" which is disease very
similar to ricketts, In human beings
was regarded by the ZOO authorities
as genuine calamity. When they
had reached state in which they re-
fused all food and could hardly move,
Doctor Noback was called in.
The helplessness of the animals at
the outset simplified the treatment.
Doctor Noback simply placed his
QudTIZ-LuD0 IucICuAy NupoI iuiAp w
hind their bowed and immobile backs
and turned on the current, without
needing to tie or constrain them in
any way.
The treatment was kept up for a
month in the case Of the red bowling
monkey, and from three to four weeks
with the others. In all cases the
stiffness and decrepitude that mark
the disease in its extreme stages soon
disappeared, the eyes became bright
again, the hair glossy and the pa
tients displayed u manifest renewal
of their interest in food.
Doctor Noback notes that the doses
of the rays to which he subjected the
hair-covered skins of his animals were
much more intense than those intend
ed for the bare skin of human being.
For this reason he had to be care
full about hairless and nonpigmented
areas, such as the region around the
eyes, to avoid producing severe sun.
burn.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-09-23
Ape Earns Living

G. P. Drinkel, a rubber planter in
Sumatra, reports that he has an ape
that earns his living. The pet can
do all the work in the preparation Of
rubber, and Drinkel says that the
climber Is an energetic workman on
the plantation every week day. His
name is Sultan l. He Is particularly
efficient In washing an automobile,
and serves dishes from the kitchen to
the dining room. Sultan l Is also
jockey and an accomplished musician,
being able to take part in the local
Javanese orchestra. For recreation he
enjoys cycling and card playing.
Drlnkel has made hobby Of training
orang-outangs, and he says that in
the anthropoid family of the ape, the
gorilla Is the only one which refuses
to be tanned.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-09-23
Soviet Hopes Match
Story Told of Snake

Senator Guy Golf was talking. at a
luncheon. about the decline of the
SOvietS.
Soviet Russia" he said, sis as in
capable of bringing about world rev.
olution as-well, as the Pike county
blacksnake was incapable of the ruse
with which 1t has been credited.
"a Pike county mother, SO the
story runs, once left her babe outside
the shack pulling on full milk bottle
when blacksnake glided up.
1.-THE snake nestled close to the
child, drew the rubber nipple from
Its mouth, and proceeded to drink the
milk; but at the same time, lest tears
and lamentations draw the mother to
the scene, the clever reptile did not
neglect to slip the end of Its tail
gently between the infants lips by
way Of comforter. detroit Free
Press.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-09-23

paper, and - my husband
bought me bottle, and after the first
few doses 1 felt better. so kept on
taking it until I was well and strong.
take 1t at times when feel tired and
1t helps me. will always have good
word for your medicine and tell any
one what good it has done me. D
recommended it to my neighbor for her
girl, who is sixteen years old, and 1t
was just what she needed. She Is feel
ing fine now, and goes to school every
day."-MRs. E. F. BAssETT, 216 South
Hayford Avenue, Lansing, Michigan.
Do not continue to feel all rundown
and half sick when Lydia e. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound is sold by drug
gists everywhere. 1t Is root and herb
medicine and has been used by women
for over fifty years,
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-09-23
Why the Big Stamps
Are Not Very Popular

New York.-Refusal of the
public to expend the energy and
time needed to moisten and affix
a large stamp Is given by post
Office officials as one reason for
the falling off in the demand for
the new 2-cent stamps celebrat-
ing the surrender of General
Burgoyne.
Sales Of the Burgoyne stamp,
together with stamp commem-
Grating the battle of Bennlng.
ton, have fallen Off since they
first went before the public on
August 5. The Bennington
stamp is Of ordinary size, while
the Burgoyne stamp is oblong,
the shape of the special delivery
stamp. The drop In demand for
the Burgoyne issue has been
more marked than that for the
Bennington.
professional and amateur
collectors and dealers bought
both in large quantities in the
first week." said Edward p.
Russell, cashier Of the post
office. "ihen the demand fell
off. Business houses do not like
to buy large stamps because OF
the extra work involved In
stamping letters"
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-09-23
Airedale Guards Chickens

Rags, an airedale, appointed him
self guardian Of $50 small chickens
running about the Powers farm on
the Bath-Brunswick (Malne) road.
The alredale keeps the chickens out
Of the garden and away from cars
that drive up to the filling station
owned by his master. Whenever a
hayward chick goes where he should
not, Rags noses him back toward the
chicken houses. The dog picked up
the idea Of guardianship all by him
self.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-09-23
What's the
Answer .,,,,....,,.
Questions No. 10

Who used the pen name George
Eliot?
2-What was the longest game In
the American league?
9-How many secretaries of state
became Presidents and who were they
4EWhat state was named for king
Of England of the House of Stuart
and who was he?
5tWhat is blology2
Gin what branch of painting, be
sides portraits, was Thomas Gains
borough celebrated?
7-What Is the name of the largest
lake in Russian
StWhat country is the turkey ma
tive of and how many species are
there?
GLOW many letters are there in
the French alphabet
1O-Where in the Bible does this
verse occur: "And he set the sea or
right side Of the east end, over against
the south?
(which Of Tolstoy's novels deals
with Russia's wars with Napoleon 1?
12-What Is record and who made 1t
for one mile walking?
13-Who was the last President
elected by the Wing party?
14-What Confederate general led a
raid into Ohio during the Civil war;
15-What is chemistry?
16-What master among composers
wrote many Of his greatest works after
becoming almost totally deaf?
17-What country has the greatest
irregularity In outline2
18-What Is a tulip and how many
species are there Of It?
1o-Where is the Basque language
spoken7
20-Where is the word SHOW"
spelled "shew"?
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-09-23
AnstDers No. IL
Harvard.


2-California, Florida.
8-Dr. William Eustis in James Mad
ison's administration.
by the washing up of particles OF
rock broken away by the action OF
water.
5-The deepest spot in the Atlantic
is 27,368 feet In the Pacific 1t is 10000
feet.
Jealousy between the adherents
of the tragedians, William Charles
Macready and Edwin Forrest, on the
occasion of the visit Of the former to
New York city In 1949.
7-West Indies.
8-Henry James.
9-George Washington.
1O-Only when the companies cease
business.
11-William Dean Howells,
12-Grove of the Athletics.
ia native fish Of the southeast Of
Asia. remarkable for its pugnacious
propenslties.
IA phantom ship said to be seen
In stormy weather off the Cape OF
Good Hope, and thought to forebode
Ill luck.
15-Samuel Colt, 1886
16-January /, 1915.
17-Leonardo da Vincl.
18-Northern United States and
Canada.
19-Benedict Arnold.
Manufacturing, agriculture and
mercantile business.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-09-23
Better Than Chimes

Seattle, Wash.-An offer to buy
chimes for large church being fin
ished here was turned down by its
pastor, who replied that bells are out
Of date. A well-planned newspaper adj
vertisement announcing the Sunday
features, he contends, will draw more
folks to church than noisy chimes and
at the same time not disturb those
who habitualy sleep late on the Sab.
bath.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-09-23
Az If II We're Proper

Two children, less than five years
old, entered Il grocery store and stood
holding hands waiting for the clerk
to approach them.
"Well, what did you want?" he
asked In kindly tone.
1--WE came to steal peach" lisped
one.
Explanations proved that the chill
dren had heard other children in the
community telling Of stealing peaches
and In their innocence they thought
their procedure proper.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-09-23
Honor Queens Memory

Queen Louise of Prussia Is buried
in the garden OF the palace at Char.
lottenburg In Germany. A mausoleum
and recumbent statue have been
erected on the site. 1t is the custom
among admirers of the queen to place
wreaths on the grave on the annlver
sary of her birth or death.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-09-23
Coin Bank Idea Old

The use Of coin banks as thrift in
EDUCATORS can be traced back far be-
You'd the Christian era. Probably the
oldest coin bank Is that found by
Count de Prorok and now in posses
sion of the National City bank This
savings utensll, which Is In the form
Of closed urn of baked clay with a
slit in the top, was found In the ruins
Of Utica, an ancient PhoenlcIan city
on the African coast near Carthage.
1t is believed to be at least $500 years
old.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-09-23

pOuuu whenever !
needed 1t. When I
first used 1t I was
so bad could hardly
W Tx across t b Q
room without cry
ing. I was tired all
the time. I think
my trouble was COM
ing on me for six
m o n t h 8 before I
realized it. l read
Of your wonderful
m q dicine in the
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-09-23
The Other Possibility

Chlldren-No we're not twins.
Teacher-But IL you are both six
years old on the same day Of the same
year you must be twins.
ChIldren-But, we're notl There's
another one of US; we're trlplets.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-09-23
Unafsc.'d to Look Prayed

The NV kasha coats consider
frayed ed II sign OF style, not shah
biness 81 Of the smartest wooden
models Of n. season has collar, re
veres and us edged with narrow
fringe ma,, t. raveling the fabric.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-09-23

II this ocean flight epidemic gets
any worse the passengers on steam
ships are likely to have monkey
wrenches dropped on them at any
time.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-09-23

Then there is the kind Of wife who
makes pretty good first sergeant for
the kind of husband who is fond Of
declaiming, II am the captain Of my
soul"
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-09-23

A bulletin of information on the
purchase of garden hose has been Is
sued for home owners by the United
States bureau of standards.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-09-23
Black Satin Bags, Light Frocks

Very smart are pouch bags of black
satin to carry with black satin or
printed silk frocks. They are mount
ed on amber frames.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-09-23

common Sense Would Avoid Many
Divorces'-headline Yes, and many
marriages.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-09-23

Shoe store advertises reptile skin
oeach slippers. Water moccasins, no
doubt.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-09-23

A politician Is man who divides
his time between running for office
and running for cover.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-09-23
Evils in Ignorance

Ignorance gives sort Of eternity to
prejudice and perpetuity to error
Robert Hall.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-09-23
MRS. BASSETT
ALWAYS TIRED
Now in Good Health by Using
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound

Lansing, Michigan.-"I have taken
Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-09-23
Straw and Lace

A big black hat seen recently had
much to commend 1t in the way Of
picturesqueness. 1t was made of
black straw and had narrow frill Of
cream colored lace edging the brlm.
An ornament Of the lace. plated very
finely, was placed upon the right side.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-09-23

Join the marines and avoid ennui
Evening star., 1927-05-02

Georgetown Prep gridmen will be
led this Fall by Howard Boyd, Wash
ington boy. He was chosen at a re-
cent meeting of letter men. Boyd is
an end. Robert Rothert was named
manager of the eleven.
Frank Emmett, base ball coach at
Georgetown Prep, also is tutoring the
Evening star., 1927-05-02
WOMEN In SPORTS
by CORINNE FRAZIER

behavior viii be carefully watched.
Should she conduct herself in a strictly
"amateurish" manner during this
period-avoiding even the appearance
Of professionalism in any sport. she
will be reinstated among the amateurs
OF the green.
The question that will insinuate it
self into the too logical mind is this
will Mary's performance with {. &.
Pyle as a professional tennis player
be expurgated Of it's professional
faint by the lapse of time? And
whether or no, why should her activi
ties in the tennis world affect her
standing as a golfer?
An unnecessary question, perhaps,
since the gods have spoken, but still,
| it win persist. .
An amateur golfer, according to a
strict definition of the term should be
one who plays the game purely for
sports sake, and who does not or has
not received money for her per
| formance. A professional. ION the
other hand, is one who has received
remuneration for her performance
with the clubs. According to our
understanding. the distinction was
made originally to prevent those OF
| professional skill from competing
with those who were amateurs and as
such, supposedly less skilled. 1t was
not a question of separating the chaff
from the wheat, but of classifying the
experts and the amateurs in order
to give each an opportunity to develop
| in his own class.
Evening star., 1927-05-02

golf team just organized at the Gar
rett Park School. Hugh owens is
captain of the combination and other
members are Leonard Donoghua.
Arnold Caffery, James Owens, Lewis
Dole and Richard English. Bob
Bohert, manager, wishes TO book en-
gagements with scholastic teams Of
this section after May IL when the
Garrett Park course will be ready for
play.
With the veteran Lefty Kagle al
lowing but hits and tanning Il,
Sea brook. Md, tossers turned back
the City Post Office team yesterday
on ahe Seabrook diamond 70 4.
Errors were responsible for the losers
runs all of which came in the sixth
inning Tompkins visiting hurler,
held the home club at bay until the
fifth after which he was touched
briskly,
Pop kremb is casting about for a
pitcher and outtielder who would like
to play regularly with his Liberty
A. c. Such candidates are asked to
attend a meeting of the club to be
held tonight at kremb's home at 71S
Taylor street or telephone him at
Columbia 4165-J
Evening star., 1927-05-02
HONORS In BIG MEETS co
TO WESTERN ATHLETES

relays; ThornhilI. Kansas. 143 $40
POIE yAULT-Penn relays: Tie at
rDFf RflS1SG s n il HreT ssS' nfn relays
rsags qaF Ghe@so III as Feet aefs inchss Inches Drake
JAVELIN THROW = Penn relays:
Gafs Teays eRS"P Indiana i5 feet
inches
SH0TPIT--Penn relays; Anderson.
Cornell i6 feet inches. Drake relays:
Lyons, Illinois. AZ feet inches.
SO it will be seen that with the ex.
ception Of the quarter-mile relay and
the hammer throw and ties In the
running high and the pole vault. all
the honors go to the Drake event.
With nearly 10000 spectators III
the stadium on the first day of the
Penn relays, there was every indica-
ton that the second and final day
would see a sell-out of available ac-
commodations In the immense amphi-
theater at Franklin Field.
But with downpour of rain set
ting in, all calculations of the Penn
relay authorities We're set at naught,
and the attendance was slightly
above 10000.
But a crowd of this size, in view
Of the inclement- conditions, was an
Of track and field sports on the popu-
lar mind and may be regarded as a.
significant outpouring, weather or no
weather.
Auguries for the future, so far, not
only as popular interest is concerned,
but as to the supply Of athletes.
abounded at Franklin Field in the
hordes of youngsters representing
public and private secondary schools,
all Of whom revealed we'll grounded
knowledge OF the fundamentals of
their specialties. They were cheered
on by thousands of young enthusi-
asts, whose shrill shouts of triumph
and of encouragement dominated all
other sounds.
The sandwiching in Of scholastic
local events rather mars the Penn re-
lays, inasmuch as there is break in
continuity, but the good accomplished
in the development of athletics and
the creation Of general interest in the
sport outweighs all disadvantages.
Evening star., 1927-05-02
TRIO OF COLLEGE MINES
PLAY GAMES TOMORROW

gate twelve in the second game of a
brief invasion of the North.
A diamond brush between Gallau-
det and Quantico Marines is the only
contest booked Wednesday.
A couple of ball games and as many
tennis engagements appear on Thurs
days card. George Washington and
Gallaudet are slated to renew hostili-
ties on the diamond after having their
game Saturday halted by rain before
it had gone far enough to be legal. and
Catholic University tossers will HE
themselves to Emmtsburg, Md, to
tackle Mount St. Mary's in the Cardi-
nails lone contest of the week. While
the G. u. ball tossers are away the
Brookland tennis team will be enter
tanning Randolph. Macon. Maryland
Evening star., 1927-05-02

|EAM leaders Of the Women $
District Tennis League will
meet tonight with the presi-
dent at the Burlington Hotel
ut s o'clock 10 make final ar
rangements for the opening of the
round.robin schedule this week.
Any leader who has experienced
difficulty in filing out her team IS re-
auested to report this tonight in order
that players may he assigned TO her
from the list of new members. Team
leaders having more than their quota
Of racketers are requested to report
the names of those not placed on their
squads. Places will be found for these
on the incompleted teams
New members and applicants for
membership in the league who have
not gotten in touch with officials are
welcome to come to the meeting and
arrange for affiliation with one of the
eight teams. Dues are 81 year to be
paid TO team leaders before May Is.
IntercIass base bali honors at Busi-
ness High School arc expected to be
decided this afternoon, when the Fifth
and Sixth Semester team meets the
combination from the Seventh and
Eighth Semesters.
According to the dopesters, the Fifth
and Sixth nine, which has not lost a
game this season, has more than even
chances of victory today. In this
event the championship will be theirs.
In case of an upset the Fifth and
Sixth will be tied for first place with
the First Semester nine, which has
suffered but one defeat.
The match this afternoon is one of
q triDIa.b aa dor which pOn1DlafRS the
regular series. 1t was scheduled to
get under way at 3 o'clock.
Mary X. Brownies golf status is a
much-debated question. The United
States Golf Association has ruled her
professional because of her participa-
ton in professional tennis matches.
She has been placed on three years
probation, during which time her