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The Washington times., 1927-05-09
By Chas. A. L. Reed, M. d.
YOUR children or your neigh.

YOUR children or your neigh.
4 bors' children may be un.
expectedly exposed to diphtheria.
Fortunately, science has SO far
revealed the natural law Of this
disease as to make It preventable.
The research workers discovered
a remedy, means for indicating
susceptibility to it and a means
for preventing 1t. Only one thing
remains to be done, and that Is,
to use the agents they have pro.
vided and to stamp out the dis.
ease.
The reasons for this not having
been done are as follows:
Many parents are unaware of
the possible seriousness Of their
children's sore Threats and do not
call in the doctor until it is too
late. This is the cause OF one
third Of the deaths. Other deaths
are due to wrong diagnosis, to the
physician's failure to give the an
titoxin early enough, or to the
prejudice of parents against anti
toxin at all. Little has been done
in the last rs years to control
epidemic diphtheria, and 1t re-
mains one Of the principal causes
Of death among children.
Possible remedies are the educa-
ton of the public, as l am trying
to do by this and other articles,
They must know the ways of
diphtheria. They must further
encourage physicians to give anti.
toxin Immediately in all sus.
picious cases.
Far better than these, however,
is the practice Of prevention by
the use Of toxin.antitoxin. Diph-
iberia can be entirely prevented
by actively minimizing children,
not only those of school age, but
those under 1t. az well.
The agents are the Schick test
and toxin-antitoxin mixture. The
State departments Of public health
in various States have issued
Schick outfits. In Massachusetts,
alone since 1915, nearly $4,000
single doses have been given.
The number, however, large as it
may seem is too small to have
any mass effect on the diphtheria
figures.
It's results are best seen in pri.
vate practice, In institutions, and
in separate communities.
Many general practitioners
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HOW TO BUY
BLANKETS

no NOT buy blanket just be.
II cause 1t lie cheap. As Is often
the case, the more expensive
article Is the cheaper in the long
run. While many cheap blankets
are excellent products, It is too
often true that the cheapest is
unsatisfactory in its primary func.
ton Of keeping you warm, ana
It win not stand up under wash
ing.
The content Of wool or cotton
in blankets has little to do with
heat-retaining a11ty, despite
popular belief. Wool is warm,
but United States Government
tests have shown that properly
made cotton blankets of the best.
quality are just as warm. This is
due to the firbrous construction
of cotton, which, in the best
grades, forms little air chambers
in itself. which act as heat in
sulators,
The Better Business Bureau has
announced certain standards for
blankets made of both cotton and
wool. These standards urge that
''all wool" shall apply to blankets
containing at least SS, per cent
wool; that wool and cotton"
apply to blankets of more than
half WOOL. that cotton and WOOL
apply to blankets containing a
minimum of rs per cent wool, and
that blankets containing less than
IS per cent wool shall be classi.
fled as blanket without reference
tn NNnnl.
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mirror : those startled
eyes!
There - reflected ss
she saw one round, white arm
lifted up, pressing the point Of
the file into the chiffon Of her
evening dress felt the
harsh dig Of the pointed thing
pressing through the material to
her skin. So
A scream--invcluntary, muf-
fled, throbbing with terror
sprang from. her throat! With
all Of her strength, she flung the
ivory and metal implement from
her, and It crashed with q shat
tering blow against the mirror
The clash and the clatter Of
falling glass!
All at once, uncontrollably, she
went to pieces. Sobbing, violent,
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NOID Go On With The Story

E6I ALWAYS keep my word" Luz
Pine told her. tim going to
put you in . taxicab and send
you home just like I promised.
I told you that If you gave me
that knife I'd let you so free.
But that doesn't mean that I
don't want you, JacQueline, more
than ever now. q hundred. times
more. Maybe I can't have you
/ can't buck civilization complete,
but I'm going to make you an
other promise maybe you'll think
it = threat--K promise you this:
If I can't have you, nobody else
can. I'm built that way. They
could take every cent I've got
in the world and wouldn't turn
HAIRCUT nobody gets the wo-
man love. You ought TO know
that when / make a pledge l
keep it. Well, / pledge you that
eff I can't have you, nobody
else can either
But his words lost any deep
meaning with Jacqueline at the
moment, because already her
heart was beginning to tighten
as the realization grew deeper
that she had escaped q catas.
tropne that would have wrecked
body and soul. The nervous
shock, the reaction had not yet
come; she was buoyed up with
an artificial, unnatural lightness
OF spirit.
you're through at the Sea
Shell, I suppose?" Lupino asked
her regretfully.
s'F'oreverp' she answered with
thrill in her voice.
A taxicab wheeled up to the
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r AS HONS
F A N CIES

Getting Back Bows and Beaux
are ambitions at which no girl
need scott, this or any other sea-
son. The bow-back hat, with an
upturned brim in front and none
at all in back, gives a close-fitting
contour to the head. OF felt or
hand-crocheted straw. It's brim IL
faced in the same shade Of ribbon
as, that which forms the pert bow
placed at the center back.
Proud or Her Nudity - Dame
Fashion is quite bTazenly fIaunt.
ing it this spring. Nude shades
are all the rage finding express
sion in everything from kid slip
pers to felt or silk hat, from
georgette or wolfe "undies" to the
newest fox scarfs that now seem
& to prefer a French nude tone to
the snowy whiteness formerly so
popular for dressy afternoon and
fer evening wear.
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curb, and Lupino put her inside,
with his hat in his hand.
II can't have you nobody
else can either" he repeated to
her in q low voice just before
he closed the door on her.
CHAPTER THIRTY.SEVEN
As long az she was in the taxi
cab, as long as she was climbing
the stairs up to her own little
apartment, Jacuueline's spirits
maintained themselves at a high,
artificial level of excitement.
She opened the door and
stepped into the coy warmth Of
her. little home. A small gilt
clock was ticking cheerfuIly, and
she saw that the hour was only
2 o'clock. A sensation Of utter
impossibility had swept over her.
She had lived more since before
dinner than most women expert
enced in a hfetiLneI
For a minute she stood Just
inside the door after she had
closed and locked It was
conscious that she was breathing
heavily as though she had been
running : escaping from
some horrifying pursuit. The
cloak she had been wearing slip.
ped from her shoulders and fell,
heedlessly, on the floor. She saw
1t crumpled up at her feet but,
strangely, she had no impulse to
pick It UP strange she
should feel 80 quiet
III at Ease
She pressed the light switch
beside the door and flooded the
place with soft illumination.
Over a narrow table, against
the wall. was a mirgor, and she
moved toward it; stood looking at
herself. Her reflection was per-
fectly natural, and yet and
yet something about the
Dyes something glazed,
some vague horror enameled and
made a part of her expression.
With an effort of the will, she
forced her lips into smile
but the eyes remained
staring.
I'm not. right" she told her.
self aloud. My nerves oughtn't
be crawling this way 80
got to get hold Of myself
The Washington times., 1927-05-09
NEW PHOTO
FILM
A N elastle photographie ann haa

A N elastic photographic filna has
A. been developed in Germany
which can be soaked and then
stretched to any desired sire,
afterward being placed upon d
glass plate and dried.
The advantages Of this method
consist in making unnecessary the
dark room required In the ordi-
nary enlarging process. BY the
new process the film can be
stretched until it IL 10 times the
original size.
The United States weather Blu.
reau was established 81 years ago.
Although originally in charge Of
the Army Signal Corps, it was re-
organized in 1891 under the De.
partment of Agriculture. The
first English weather bureau, the
Meteorological Society OF Lon.
don, was formed In 1926
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been the only victims where all
were exposed to diphtheria.
Nothing illustrates the safety
provided by toxin-antitoxin i'm.
munization better than the con-
dition OF persons directly and con.
stantly exposed to diphtheria in.
lection; such as nurses, many Of
whom used to contract the dis
ease. Now in those hospitals
where only Schick-negative nurses
are permitted to attend diph-
iberia patients, one more risk has
been eliminated. Some hospitals
immunize their whole personnel.
It is a simple matter to con.
vert a partially susceptible school
Or institution into q completely
The Washington times., 1927-05-09
DO YOU KNOW
THAT

Eleanor Hayne Of cooperstown,
New York. has twelve living
grandparents, consisting of two
grandmothers, four great-grand-
mothers. two great-great-grand.
mothers, two grandfathers and
two neutrality-suspicious..
Lieut.. w. r. Lynch, U. s. NJ,
was in charge of the first Ameri.
can expedition that surveyed the
Dead Sea so years ago. He &C.
complished in less than a year
what countless others had failed
to do.
From the straw vote taken
among the 1000 goods Of the Uni.
versity of Southern California, it
was found that cave men" ran
far. behind 'home lovers as pre-.
ferred husbands,
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broke from her dry throat and
wracked her entire body! Every
nerve twisted and writhed
wave after wave Of intolerablo
anguish swept over her physically.
On the bed she flung herself
On the divan. In the living rooml
Soon Immediately
she knew she would have to have
help!
Somehow, after . seething pas
sage Of time, she had Tom Ware
on the telephone.
toni Tom! For Gods sake
come to me! / need you, Tom!
I'm alone. Hurry! Hurryy'
His voice. startled and pleading.
begged her to wait for him.
After an endless duration of
time he was at her door. She
flung it open, and he burst into
the room.
CTO Be Continued Tomorrow
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bigger and better car. These en-.
vious thoughts soon leave their
mark on a pretty face!
The guileless sweetness Of their
youth soon turns into a forced and
pretended gayety, and the natural
ness of their real beauty Is soon
submerged and lost in q veneer OF
artificiality. They get that
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properly consider &C O part Of
their responsibility to give i'm
munizing treatment to all chill
dren over six months Of age.
They have been highly success
ful. 1t would seem, therefore,
that any physician who fails to
exhaust every effort to persuade
parents to have their children
similarly protected. may rightly
be blamed for any cases Of diph-
iberia occurring in the ronIm-
munized children under his
charge.
Instances have frequently been
known where one or more unpro-
teeted children in q family or
group OF imnnunized children have
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held in her hand.
Her voice was q harsh. un-
natural whisper:
"I'd rather die than
The little black pool Of a scowl
gathered between her straight
brows as she stood thinking, bit
ing her lip. Slowly, her eyes
raised, she was in front Of the
The Washington times., 1927-05-09

fun and finery in which these
other girls move may at times
seem a fairy world with nothing
left to wish for.
But they are always wishing for
something more than they have,
and can become disconnected and
inconsolable when one of their
friends has a finer fur coat. or q
The Washington times., 1927-05-09

firmly. "Got to move around"
Presently she found herself
again in the little living room and
realized. with . little start Of
surprise. that the nail.file was
stiil in her hand With
an effort she tried to recall what
similar article she had recently
The Washington times., 1927-05-09
The FrOth and TnseI Of the Gay White
Way Lured the Heroine of This
Astounding Serial Story.
REM Thfa Firat !:

Jacquene Longanport
the Sea She'll club
meets informed By LuplnU that JacQune
LnpinO After her first night the club Lupino
taking
enaus Lupino kills the man. known ahe Lump criminal Of
the Further publicly declares hs love
while admitting
she viii In
killing Lump" public sympathy
make Of warfare Abe Gordon
Lupinos lawyer Jacquee resume post
declares that matter
fellowship, JacqueIine her loyalty to LuplnO.
NOU Go On With The StOru
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''gimmO" expression.
Many q maid who works for
such mistress would not change
places with her, and sees how 1t.
tie she really gets out Of life.
The business girl who does her
work has many interests In life
besides that Of pleasing men for
gain.
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got to, snap out OF 1t
She began moving aimlessly,
about the room; went into the
bedroom and turned on the light
there.
For no adequate reason she
picked up the ivory-backed buff
fer and began, absurdly to brush
The Washington times., 1927-05-09
Preventing Diphtheria Epidemics

immune group. In large schools
where the Schick tests and the
immunization are matters Of rou-
tine, the development Of diph-
liberia in a new pupil or q SER
want causes no anxiety, az the
disease cannot gpread,
The Washington times., 1927-05-09

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inch lining, 1H yard Of 40-inch fig.
ured material and ~ yards Of plain
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at the lower edge Of the dress Is
IL yard. Price 1Oc.
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Here and There

= At one time the death penalty
was prescribed for more than 100
different offenses in the United
States
The Washington times., 1927-05-09

The good times" she misses are
mostly drinking bouts IN which old
bores with large bank rolls must
be humored. And nothing Is 80
quick to take the sparkle out Of
young eyes. and change the music
Of joyous laughter into q set smile,
and q stupid mask, and pretending
not to be bored when you arei
The Washington times., 1927-05-09
Rhubarb Popular in England

FORGING rhubarh has become big industry Leeds where
there about 900 devoted the cultivation Of this
vegetable From eabshmen alone 1000 Of
xhubarb sent to London every year.
The Washington times., 1927-05-09

tractiye to Ynoneyed men and have
launched themselves into that at.
moaphere OF competition and
scheming, are soon surprised to
see they are In sad need Of a.
beauty parlor!
TO the plain girl who finds con.
tentment and interest IN her work
and simple pleasures, the world Of
The Washington times., 1927-05-09
BY Fay King

By Fay King
1T is astonishing to see how
4 quickly a pretty fresh face be-
comes hard and cold when a girl
begins to feel the pangs Of greed,
envy and pretense!
Many girls who have been at
The Washington times., 1927-05-09

her nails. But this, she told her.
self, was abnormal : queer.
She put the buffer down amid
the array of toilet articles on her
dressing table, and picked up a
long, steel nail.file with q heavy
ivory handle.
~ can't sit IN her playing with
these things" she told herself
The Washington times., 1927-05-09
Age

to divine the needs Of girl Just budding into woman.
hood My sister not very strong and had been taking
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curb, and Lupino put her inside.
with his hat in his hand.
If I can't have you nobody
else can either" he repeated to
her in a low voice just before
he closed the door on her.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-03-23
Four Ornered Tie
Offers Bike Thrill

CHICAGO, March 23.-Spectators
today milled about the rim Of the
wooden saucer waiting for the
jam or dash that would break the
four cornered tie existing for first
position in Chicago's fifteenth inter.
national six-day bike spin.
The American team, composed Of
Charley Winter and Freddie
Spencer had been riding away the
night in tie with Franco Georgetti
and Carl Stockholm. the American
Italian combination, until Kockler
and Merkner. the Chicago team,
Tapped the first and crossed into
the first sector with the leaders.
Pounding, the pedals hard came
the team that had trailed the Chi
cago pair during the entire race.
Bill Heinsberg and Norman Hill.
Hill on a signal from Heinsberg
dipped into the lower saucer and
was off before the leaders could
bottle him. When he had reduced
his speed to the pace-setting leaders
he had Tapped the field and the
four team tie was on. Spencer has
replaced Winter as individual high
man
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-03-23

teenth Street reservoir field and is
reported as pleased with the show.
ing the team is making. Beginning
today he will take his team to the
Ellipse, where it will workout
during the remainder of the train.
ing periods.
He has about decided upon his
first-string men. although the squad
will consist Of 20 players.
Business High coach, Jack Col.
Inns, has made wonderful Roadway
with his team on the Eastern High
School field. Capt. Ed Marosey and
Randy" Shreve, both lefthanders
will share pitching duties. RevilIe
Jones and King will take care OF
the catching. while Slye. first base
Sigman, second base: Keefer. third
base. and Lynch. shortstop, will
make up the infield. The outfield
will consists of .Eberly, Marks. and
Brady, while Lash, Darne, and
Newman will get in the lineup.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-03-23
SCHOOL TEAMS
SHAPING Up

Baseball candidates at Central
High School may get real action
this afternoon. and 1t depends on
their showing in a practice game
with the Arcadia nine as to
whether they will make the team
this year.
Coach Kimbie In booking this
practice game has the idea of
giving every member Of the squad
chance, in hopes of finding
capable material to fill the places
OF the ineligible players.
western High School, with sew.
eral veterans back In uniform, Is
making rapid progress on the
GeorgetoMn Hollow field, where the
team works out daily.
owens at first base and Rooney
at third are making the grade. and
VIII be new faces on the Western
nine when the scholastic series
opens April 20.
Over at Eastern High School,
Coach Charlie. Guyon is experiment.
ing with his material to devotion
hitters. He has also worked out
several infield combination. any
one Of which can be used In the
series.
Coach eileen has had the Tech
Ash RaAe working out on the Six.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-03-23
L,IGL 1T"
FLASHES

At Los Angeles-Tommy O'Brien,
Santa Monica, Calf, defeated Baby
Joe Cans, Los Angeles, ten rounds.
At CIeveland-Eddie Roberts, Cali
fornia, defeated Jack Zivic, Pitts.
burgh, twelve rounds. Carl Tremaine,
Cleveland, defeated Joe Lynch, Cali
fornia, six rounds. Charlie O'Con'
nell, Cleveland, defeated Solly Sea.
men, New York. six rounds.
At Seattle-Charlie Belanger, Win
nipeg, defeated Jack Roper. Los
Angeles. six rounds.
At New York-Bruce Flowers
New Rochelle, defeated Tony Vac
carelli, New York. ten rounds
Jackie Pilkington. New York de
feated Nat Xavier, New York. ter
rounds. Sam Hoffman, New York
defeated AL Matera, New York. ter
rounds.
At Albany-Giovanni Salerno, New
York, defeated Sailor Beautisto
Philippines. ten rounds. Sancio
Cruise, Philippines, defeated Bobby
Bolin. of Brooklyn, ten rounds.
At New Britain, Conn.-Alex Hart
Of Philadelphia, outpointed Erwin
Bige, Of Nebraska, ten rounds.
At Portland. Me.-Pete Lucci, OF
Clinton, Mass. outpointed Wee
Willie Woods, OF Scotland. Nose
Hanlon, of Portland, won decision
Of K. o. Therrien. of Sanford. Ken
lucky Ferguson, Of Lewiston, out
pointed Bud Nichols, of Portsmouth
N. H.
At Reading, Pa.-Johnny Hay
stack, Of Binghamton, N. Y, out
pointed Battling Willard, Of Ian
caster, Pa, eight rounds.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-03-23
Higgins Is Banking
On Lazzeri AS
Gehrig 5 Sub

Although no first basenlan ex-
cept Lou Gehrig appears on the
Yankee roster, Miller Higgins
insists that he is not worried
about what might happen if
Gehrig should be forced out Of
the lineup. Says Higgins:
II have one fairly able per-
former around this sector in
Cedric burst, who came to the
club in the Jones deal, but there
is another member of my club
who would be able to play that
bag in a finished manner, or /
miss my guess. You probably
would mention dozen or more
names before calling the right
one, so | will tell who ! think
can play first base capably. His
name is Tony Lazzeri."
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-03-23
Jockeys in Fight for First Turn

1t believing lungs
thousands doomed They're off in the Cooth three horses
running head and head fast their trim legs could
them, the phase Of stake batehe fight
the first turn Backbone Lang up the rail- Justice F.
Callahan at the anks matching strides inches
To the right Of Justice F. Carlars Edwards up taking
diagonal toward the rail after breaking from the
outside
Possession of the rail ofttmes victory turf classics
Riders Hence the fight positions. Carars
fast pnchd Justice F. and threw him completely off
balance The colt lost his footing and falling Serious danger
impended spill would have piled the field and might have
death to Callahan and other riders.
Lang alert with hardly running for Backbone did
nficient thing He might have pushed and left Callahan
his fate. Master Chckadee What glory
such price? He freed his right Backbones bride,
gasped the leather in his left and reaching asped Gala
hans arm firmly, righting horse and rider.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-03-23
.ToDEYS SPOR7uRIAL
BY kIrk Miller

Ova Bourassa Sir Harry victory
Handicap Tia Juana week Sunday at Bowie and has
strange story herom telheroism his
the of Jockey Chick Lang and all happened during
crucial moment of the $4,000 event.
List then, tale of gaantry in action which the battle
field would gain soldier the highest honor within the
his beow The told by Bourasa
whom riches and praise lavshed result of his brilliant
victory justly but he feels that Chick Lang the
hero of the 1927 nsaent of the famous handicap and thereby
is paid high tribute to jockey by another.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-03-23
Backbone Is Almost Thrown

The almost threw Backbone but saved his rival
his saving hold
by superb effort saved Backbone from being victim of gracious
gift Justice regained his feet Backbone Strengthened
out on an even they went with few of the thousands
aware that they witnessing disastrous
spill that would have marred the running of of the greatest
turf classics racetrack
Jockey Callahan lavish in his praise for Lang
1T was fine thing for Chick to do declared Johnny by
his fast thinking and quick action he certainly
tkh situation Justice going down and nothing could
have saved him Chicks timely assistance"
One Sunday to be specific Chick Lang astrde
the Backbone, captured the Tia Juana Cup wome
$O0O event And while Lang might have been busy
the Cofroth for his string Of victories he saving
life and limb of a fellow jock