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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-20

Old Ben Franklin advocated early
rising and thrift. His circumstances
left him free from the temptations
Of the might club"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-20

Thunder and lightning in Febru-
airy point to the eccentricity of new
conditions. Even the weather is not
what 1t used to be.
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Raps Parental Heads.
From the Boston Herald.

From the Boston Herald.
Commissioner Wallis OF New York
cIinked the dumbbells on the head when
he said the outstanding cause OF crime
L. parental ..cs!~ct ~
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The elders of the family are now in
sisting that even the "old.fashioned
Winter" has gone out Of style.
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shown in China when troops assume
that they have cities to burn.
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Objection to the farm relief bill re-
fers to 1t as good enough politics, but
bad political economy.
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Still Using Chairs.

From the Louisville Times.
Although women are now wearing
only about one-fifth of the clothes
they wore 10 years ago. hooks In
closet are just as scarce for husbands.
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perplexing question. The more cool.
headed Democrats say that the com.
promise was accepted in good faith
by both parties end that the party
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Weather Wisdom.

Now Gentle Spring" is on the way.
You know it by the poets lay.
Yet In the woods the songs are few
Those wise birds know thing or two
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Reticence.

UHtlCGNCt.
Everybody in Crimson Gulch seems
quiet and eubdued."
We've decided" answered Cactus
Joe, that we amt goin' to cut up NC
more unless some movie director offers
a salary
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Ignorance of the law" said Hi Ho,
the sage of Chinatown, us no excuse.
Outside the law, ignorance is made an
excuse for almost anything"
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Jud Tunkins says q fortune teller
is like fiattering friend-often mac
curate, but always comforting.
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Criticism.
Criticism.
We sadly sniff1e
AS hopes are sunk
When praise Is piffie
And blame is bunk.

"A camp meetin'," said Uncle Eben,
makes you feel good, whether you is
or not
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Ofher foundation eau no man
taI than that 1Chich Is laid, tUhtch
IS Jesus Christi Corinthians,
I'LL.
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wanted to sleep, but he couldn't put
| that girl out of his mind, and lying
there alone in his cabin, the moon
light streaming through his window,
his thoughts went back to another
moonlit evening, only six months
ago.
He had been so utterly, foolishly
happy then. SO ridiculously in love.
so filled with hope that Anne was
going to say yes" although he'd
only known her few days. That
midsummer house party at the
Keans' where, during his brief vaca-
ton, he had met and fallen hope
lessly in love with Anne, had been
the most wonderful time of his life.
Robert Kean owned the paper for
which Chris worked day and night.
This successful man had been a
friend of Chris father since their
university days. Prof. Morris, ,Anne's
father, had been another classmate,
though Chris had never met his
daughter. Being motherless. the
scientists only child had been
brought up at boarding school and
college, while Chris himself had
spent most of his life away from
home. He had heard of Anne. of
course, and knew that after gradua-
fathers laboratory in the hills of
Pennsylvania, miles from town, and
only came into the city now and
then to go with Mr.. and Mrs. Kean
TO ball or opera. Chris suspected
that the Keans' house party had
been especially arranged for the
meeting of himself and Anne, and
the plot had been so successfully
carried out that he had become en-
gagged to this alluring person on the
very next Thanksgiving day, fmme-
diately following the Army and Navy
foot ball game!
How long ago it seemed! Deem
Der with Anne's week ends at the
Keans. then the 1st of January with
its. tragedy, and the final curtain.
Oh. well, it couldn't be helped now.
The combination of these MEM
cries with the heat and the headache
were too much. Christopher couldn't
sleep, and he couldn't shut out the
haunting vision of Anne's face with
its deep, violet blue eyes, soft and
understanding. her fair, transparent
white skin, her mass of glorious
auburn hair growing in such eX
Quisite waves about her forehead.
He couldn't drown out the sound of
her voice, her silvery laugh. Had
it been all his fault?
Anne had been the guest of the
Keans and had gone with them to
the ball, where Chris, obliged to ar
rive much later, had met her. Such
ball, such music, such a floor.
Anne's radiant presence, the scent
of the lilies of the valley in the bou-
quet he had sent her--the memory of
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CHAPTER ii.
Behind the Door.

TRITZ, the middle-aged cabin
- steward. was dabbing ice water
| upon the forehead of Chris
i TOPPER Dahlgren when that
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offices downstairs. Long ago Phil
had handed Chris a latchkey.
Come in any time, there's always
an extra divan to sleep on!"
So upon that tragic night Chris,
after bidding Anne a lingering good
night inside the vestibule of the
Keans' residence. had hurried back
to make a last report at his office,
and then instead of making a Ford
trip to his suburban home, had
sought shelter with Phil at 500 am.
And then and there had met with
the shock of his life-the affair that
had eliminated in the collapse of
his engagement and happiness, for
in Phil Sands waiting room, seated
upon a sofa before the fire, he had
found Anne, his Anne. enjoying
tete-a -tete with the man he despised
above all others-Victor Straine.
He had been to dumfounded to
believe his eyes, and the snickering
glance which had shot from beneath
Straine's heavy brows had been the
spark which had blown up the ship.
"Anne!" he had stormed. what
does this mean?"
Anne's cheeks had flushed up to
match her hair. Chris had known
from the beginning that she had
red-hot temper. but before her fury
could be hurled upon him Straine
had interviewed.
You are insulting Miss Morris and
myself. l demand an Apology"
"Anne," Chris had flung the
words at her, put on your wraps
this instant. you're going back to
the Keans' with mel"
Anne's flush had died down, leav-
ing her face a deathly white.
Il am going nowhere with you
ever again." she had said. and handed
him back the diamond-set platinum
hoop so recently and so proudly
placed upon her finger. Il will ask
you TO leave this room. Mr.. Straine
will take care of me-"
He had obeyed her. blindly, furi-
ously, fearing that if he fingered an
other second he would kill Straine
before her very eyes. Murder in his
heart, murder, revenge and a deadly,
crushing jealousy and remorse.
Anne had never allowed him to
apologize nor had she made an ex-
plana ton. The show was over.
Chris sat up. He couldn't lie here
with such thoughts for company
Hed-he paused, his eyes fastened
upon a slip of paper fiuttering be-
meath his window, the moonlight full
upon it. 1t was yellow, obiong-it
was the thousand dollar bill!
Continued in Tomorrow's Star.
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soon steady it, Several passengers
are Ill in the same way. You'll feel
better when we get through the
canal" and to the steward he said,
Bring a bowl of cracked ice
Chris allowed the doctor to have
his way. No doubt now remained
in the young mans mind. His head
ached painfully. he had fever, he
had been seeing things." And it
was not until the ships physician
had left him with final instructions
to lie quietly and so TO sleep that
the memory of Anne returned.
Il even heard her calling me-" he
unused, "she was saying: Chris, OH
Chris. is that you.'"
What a strange thing was heat
prostitution, What painful. mis-
cradle kind of sickness! Chris
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LADY SLIPPER
Bv Ella Wister Huines
Author of MYSTERIOUS SWEETHEART"
Copyright Thoupso Featur

that night. after all these weeks, sent
the blood pulsing through his veins!
He had kissed his beloved several
times, behind sheltering Christmas
trees, met those sweet lips which
had never harbored a lipstick. those
fresh. satiny cheeks. free from rouge.
Her head had rested against his
Notwithstanding own darling
A bitter exclamation burst from
his lips. He wouldn't think, he
wouldn't,
Anne had known that he often
spent the night at DR.. Phil Sands,
directly across the street from the
Keans'. Phil kept sort of young
mems club with steward and all
the comforts of home. an arrange
ment which allowed the doctor to
maintain handsome front room
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Christopher Dahlgren. a young newspaper
reporter. is travelling on a steamer bound
tor Panama. Through coincidence Aune
Morris, his ex-fiancee il also aboard and
in addition Victor Straine. the man who
caused the trouble between them which led
20 the breaking off OF their. engagement.
Christopher is standing on deck outside his
cabin one night when he feels a kiss on
the back of his head and turning. sees that
. woman is sitting in a large armchair
and they are wearing glass slippers. tnder
the transparent stocking thousand-dollar
bill is resting against her ankle. Nhen
Christopher starts inside to investigate ne
Is detained by Straine. who tells him OF a
mysterious Lady De We're occupying cabin
near Anne's and attempting to cultivate her
acquaintance. This lady is apparently
wealthy as she consigned large roll OF
hills 20 the pursers care and 1t was noticed
that one was thousand-dollar note
Christopher decides that this must be the
woman in his cabin. but lust as he steps
through his door he receives blow over
the head and is knocked unconscious,
Continued from Yesterdays Starr
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Berlin has begun preparations for
a big aero exhibition to be held there
next wear
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in every group of our great Sum-
mer Coat Sale. These fall as rule
from the left hip-sometimes ex-
pressed in fur-sometimes accented
by horizontal slot scanning or deep
fabric folds--sometimes pleated-
always superlatively graceful.
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Misses-Coing A,vay to School!
~ A FASHION INSTITUTION
~ Washs~9eer Nas lbs.

Will find the Jeeff Shops of youtf--even at this
early date-ready with the smarty youthful new
Fashions-that the school season demands.
Plenty OF charming little campus and classroom
frocks-in the new jerseys-the silk and
angora wool combinations-the new tailored dull
crepes-plenty Of fascinating new velvet and satin
afternoon frocks-new chiffon party frocks-new
ideas in sweaters and skirts-the new bouclet
costumes-new leather ackets-new neggees
and undes-new colors in Gold Stripe Silk Stock
ings-and of course new Winter Coats most in
triguingly priced-No certainly it's not too early
to select school clothes at Jeilefs
FRANK r. JELLEFF, INC.
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There Are Flares-and Flares
I'm the Smartest New Coats!
But the back line remains STRAIGHT
But the back line remains straight!

And that is the reason why the flare is so
successful this season. It's the straight line
back that gives the slender effect-so essential
to twentieth century smartness. It's the
straightline back that is so universally becom-
ing-its the straighne back that accents the clever
of the flare expresson-and it's the tailoring and
fit of the straighne back that reveals clearly whether
not coat is we'll made
That is why take such pride in the fared coats
that offered in Great Summer Coat Sale.
Whether it's side fare front flare, abot flare,
$3.50 coat Or sos coaalways the lines of the back
testify to the immaculate tailoring
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Continued from Yesterdays starr
Evening star., 1927-11-18
The Sidewalks OF Washington
BY THORNTON FISHER.

or from one who has been playing
the same lobby.
Dear Sir: | am the man you re-
ferred to in your column about hang
ing about the hotel corridor.
(No hotel was specified) The low
down is this: The nights you men
toned l was waiting for my wife. |
can see Cne movie a week. but six
are too many. She can't drive the
car. so | run her to the show and
wait. The other night | got tired of
waiting more than an hour overtime
and registered for Il room. She says
she met some friends. Any way,
thanks for the ad. Yours sincerely.
(Signe0 +. T. c."
A we'll known lobbyist dropped into
town Tuesday night. For many years
he represented II large national or
ganizatio During his residence here
he entertained lavishly and generally
made things pleasant for the boys.
One of his old friends who greeted
him asked IL he was still lobbying.
No. was the reply, I've given it
all up and turned square"
X X X X
You may believe this or not, but it
is hot off the sidewalk A member of
certain local country club who has
had social ambitions had never at
nj Lo ictt
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! could take EN-" as the boys say.
| He is engaged as a rubber in small
gymnasium today. out West.
| Like most of the old clan, he eXhib'
it's n fine contempt for the present
powder puff maulers. Said he:
"Nho today can measure up to the
| incompatible Jeffries? Joe Cans. the
very quintessence of ring skill. would
have conquered and consumed the
| present group of lightweights. Gene
| Tunney may be an honored member
of the inteiligentsia. but one cannot
imagine him exchanging gloves with
| the inimitable Fitz. Dempsey. as su-
perb as he was when he sent the Her.
culean Willard to. the floor, would
have proved the veriest tyro In con-
| test with members of the old regime.
II myself would have encountered
no particular difficulty in decisively
eliminating the eminent boxers OF
today"
We are quoting him in substance
for the gentle readers of this column.
Actually, this is what he said
"Whatsa use'n chewin' the fat about
'ese here present fiat tires? They
amt one of 'em jeff couldn' bust in
half. / mean. You couldn a drug TINS
here Tunney in the same room wit old
u
who did this actor Dempsey ever lick.
I ask va? If l couldn' beat him and
Willard the same day / hope l may
choke t death this mint. Holy
smoke. F'itz would knocked that
false alarm for a loop in the folst
round, / mean.
What bunch of buns. and they
call 'emselves fighters! Where does
this Tunney guy get that high hat
stuff? Lotsa hoobs fall for that line
about him learnin' all that fancy talk.
It's the bunk. And llssen. where is
they any Joe Cans today? They amt.
This, now. Leonard was ga-ga.
Smart guy, plasterin' his hair back
and actin in the movies. Ha! He'd
been a push over for little Joe. 1eh.
I'm rubbin out in Frisco. / admit |
amt as young az I used to be: but
| lissen, buddy. don't be surprised if you
read about me comm back some day
and knockin' flock. of these yams
| through the concrete"
Knowing this mans past reputation,
we would not be astonished
There is a small restaurant down
| town. On the window there are or
were letters attached to the glass
saying Tables for ladies'" Yester-
surprised to note change in the
sign In it's place were the words
Tables for lads Seeking catch
| in the thing. we inquired of the nro'
prietor the reason for setting tables
aside for boys. PerpleXed at the pues-
| ton, he replied that he had no such
sign on the window. He was finally
invited to see for himself. Sure
enough. there it was.
| Good heavens"' he exclaimed.
''Some of the letters have been falling
off, and / asked the porter to stick
them on again. l reckon the i and
| e were lost"
| X X X
! At last we know the truth. In this
column the other night reference was
made to man who, though apparent
ly not guest, seemed to hang around
a certain local hotel lobby. Arousing
the suspicious of the house detective,
he pointed out his name on the regis.
ter. 1t was the first time he had
taken room. We are copying let
ter. either from the, man mentioned
Evening star., 1927-11-18
Your Baby and Mine
eY MYRTLE MEYER ELDREp.

Mother. every so often, has flash
| of intuition. 1t is usually when She
| isn't the least Bit tired and son OF
daughter seems more than ordinarily
wonderful and she feels like taking
! time of to think about their prob
lens. Perhaps she wants sonny 10
help her with something. Sonny is
full Of imagination. lie Is pretending
something every minute OF the day.
In fact, it Is hard to keep up with his
flights OF fancy. because at one mo-
ment he may be heap big Indian"
strutting about laconically wrapped in
the Navajo blanket. which is at
other times quite prosaic rug. and
again he may be a cowboy with hol-
ster strapped to his side, intent on the
bloody doings that always seem to he
concerning these men of the West :.
Mother is almost quite ready TO fail
into these games and when she sees
the holster she knows exactly what
kind Of guy is going TO help her
move the living room bookcase.
And then in one of those flashes or
intuition which are vouchsafed even
the blindest OF parents. she realizes
that the right way to get sonny's help
and still keep him happy. and unaware
that he Is being just helpful, is to
make all work like play. She knows it
we'll enough for she sees how eagerly
sonny falls to when he can continue
his game and doesn't have his own
train Of thought disrupted too vio''
lently.
She knows that and yet some Sat
urday morning she settles down into
A he re of reality. She asks sonn% to
run an errand quickly. Sonny is this
morning intent on aviation. He is
soaring in the clouds and before he
can run any e:rards at all he has to
pretend to whirl the propeller. warm
up the engine. with much zizzing and
zuzzing, and then has to hop" to his
destination.
Meanwhile the cake sits on the
kitchen table awaiting the baking
powder, whose can was astonishingly
empty. while sonny zizzes up and
down the room getting the necessary
power to rise to the occasion.
1t is too much for mother For
this morning mother is all realist.
So. forgetting the fash Of intuition.
forgetting everything. she says
GROSSLY: "Oh. do stop being an avia'
tor long enough to so over and get
me the baking powder"
And sonny COMES down to earth
with thud. Instead Of a happy boy.
whirring his way like bird. he be-
comes just 6. little boy who has to run
to humdrum grocery three blocks
away and buy baking powder.
Parents are funny. We don't won
der children think so.
Evening star., 1927-11-18
Nutrition Nuggets.

Although Brussels sprouts belong to
the cabbage family. their supply vt
mineral salts is not quite so easily util'
lied as that of cabbage. The texture
of this vegetable, while agreeable. is
slightly more difficult of digestion. For
this :Cason, sprouts are best reserved
for he vegetable portion OF c;cwn-ups'
dieta.y rather than those of The chill
dren.
The molding of cold greens like
spinach to form salad is often a
help in Ccaxing these who do not like
vegetables to eat them. Nevertheless
the ideal way OF serving such vege'
tables Cor younger children at least is
freshly cooked with the addition only
of fresh butter. The nodded salaGs In
the very nature of things carry more
or less rich dressing AMI tins addition
of fat makes the salad somewhat diM-
cult fer young digestions.
This is the season of cranberries and
those interested in studying the food
values of the family fruit supply may
like To know that cranberires are in
about the average group so far as min
cral salts are concerned. These min
eral salts form one of the chief I'D.
van;ages of eating fruit. Cranberries
give us a fair amount Of lime: in fact.
as much as many of the vegetables.
They furnish considerable phosphorus
and small quantity of iron.
The term vegetable broth IL un-
derstood by many to mean strong
beef ftock with vegetables added.
Vegetable broth really Is the liquor
that IN obtained after cooking vege.
tables slowly. This is the type of
vegetable broth that nutritionfsts are
more interested in serving. since it Is
r.f er
essential salts for which vegetables are
so much priced. After cooking one or
more vegetables together until the
broth is like a strong extract. it should
Chen be strained. seasoning added II
lecessary. and reheated to serve piping
hot.
An excellent way Of using. canned
fruit throughout the Winter liz In the
form of puddngs. The simplest of
these are in the group whichswe call
betties. Brown betty made from apple
is the most familiar. but blueberry
cherry, blackberry and other small
fruit betties are nourishing, digestible
and delicious. Furthermore, there are
two methods of making these betties.
The cld.fashioned Is perhaps best for
children, since slices of bread and but.
ter are used to line the pudding dish,
adding fruit and bread in alternate
layers with bread on top A richer
| pudding Is made by having the bread
dry, ground into fine crumbs, these
crumns to be mixed with melted but
ter. The buttered crumbs are then
| used in the same way for alternate
! layers While this latter form Of fruit
| pudding is far richer in energy than
the former pudding, it Is more grown
up padding. One reason for this Is
that til, sauce is usually that known
| as har,l sauce. composed solely of but
| ter ard sugar.
Evening star., 1927-11-18

more easily. Some hang on a long
time through sheer grit and pride.
They hate to give in. They do not
want to be classed as cutters.
Low vitality is also IL common cause
for getting discouraged easily. Sue
cess has d tendency to stimulate the
energies of the individual: whereas
failur" and encouragement react un-
favorably and have a depressing infiu-
ence. 1t is said that a winning crew
never collapses at the end of the most
grilling contest. while it Is common for
, the losing team to so to pieces at the
moment of defeat.
We get discouraged because we
abandon hope. We abandon hope
when we come to the end Of our re.
sources. And If our resources are
| meager and our vitality at a low ebb,
we get discouraged all the sooner.
To overcome encouragement one
needs to develop vitality, resourceful.
ness, sense Of humor. self-respect.
and a mountain of pride. And il he
docs rot have these things and cannot
! develop them. he is simply out of luck.
Evening star., 1927-11-18
WHY WE DO WHAT We DO,
by DIR. MEHRAN X. THOMSON.

Repeated failure is the most obvious
reason for getting discouraged. 70
try 1ui tai! again and again viii event
ually !ead TO d S 'oura@epl"nt. Hut one
MAJ ID, in a pruiecl ana give it up as
bad oh without i""cm.n.y really dis
cout"sed He may say. "Wcil. 7 guess
that cut Of IN" linz. | will have to
do something else Ir this day of
specialiZa ton it is no disgrace TO ad.
nit failure in any one field. provided
there is something we can do tolerably
we'll
One real reason for getting discour.
aged is failure in an enterprise in
which we had high hopes of success
and cne we do not care to give up or
for Which we can find no adequate sub
stituie. We get discouraged when we
reach the end of our rope, when we
have completely used up our re-
sources. when we cannot see our way
out
There is great difference among
people in this respect. Some people
get discouraged more quickly than
others, because they are ready to quit