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of those cars that proclaims the fact
that its owner has at least two others.
You know. 1t had a hood over the
back, but no hood in the front, so
that the chauffeur and good half of
the delicate upholstery were unprO-
tected. 1t was proud and insolent
car that said, II am luxury. l am
practically no good. except when the
sun is shining-but not shining too
holly. When it is fair, but not too
cool. ] am only to be used at special
, times by special people. 1 am the
specialist kind of car for people who
don't have to care. / am money. Look
about you. You won't see many like
me-"
Sally looked none to glowingly
happy in the hooded depths of this
gorgeous vehicle, a luxurious rug
| about her gifted knees.
Sally Quails tragic and untimely
death broke her mother completely
or almost completely. Small wonder
Still, she derived crumb of comfort
from the touching last moment that
preceded Sally's going. In the midst
of the fever that consumed her, she
had what seemed to be a lucid last
moment, just before the end. Ma
Quail told of it, often and often, over
| For. at the end, as she lay there.
| looking, in her terrible illness, much,
much more than her 40 years. her
face had assumed the strangest look
the look of girl of 20. There was
ABOUT 1t a delicacy, glow. She sat
up in bed, as though she were strong
and well again. All the little lines in
her face were wiped out queerly. com.
pletely, as though by a magic hand.
Her fever-dried lips took on the trem.
| ulousness of the lips of a woman who
knows that she is about to be kissed.
Her arms were outstretched, her ewes
| fixed on something that she found
wonderful and beautiful. eh
Sally" Ma Quail had screamed.
Sally! What is it! What is it, Look
at me. It's Mother! Mother loves
your
And, "Oh, I love you, too. said
sally Quail. Her voice was a breath.
whisper.
Copyright 1871
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-11

TIME other night, seated on the
veranda of IA Summer cottage,
il was my good fortune to
L listen to- the melody of a cor
net borne across the water IN
the stiffness of the evening.
I am quite sure that it was bad
music. But j love bad music / know
that it is bad music from the simple
fact that / like it. When do, 1t al
ways is. am assured of this by my
musical friends.
When listen to really good music
Il mean the kind that is worth sew
eral dollars for half a seat, and where
you can't smoks, and where you know
it won't end for three hours unless
there's an standardization I am
beaten entirely But let me hear
some really bad music, such as Is
played by harp and two violins in
! restaurant while / am smoking cigar
after the eighth course of three-dol-
lar table dhote dinner, and ! am car
ried away.
The best place to hear baG music
nowadays is in such a restaurant or
the palmroom of a hotel. But ex.
cellent bad music may be heard in the
| proper season on the Coney Island
| steamers and on the beach at Atlantic
City; indeed, some of the greatest col
| ored performers on the mouth organ
may be heard on an open street cor
ner on a Summer night.
| In the old, old days very beautiful
| bad music was freely played lin fact,
I 1t was played free) in the saloons. The
| harper and the two men with the
yiolins used to come in and begin by
tuning up the harp with two or three
deep throbs; then they struck right
into the swing of After the Ball.
and all the men standing along the
rail put down their glasses a moment
and listened.
Sometimes they played gay. swing
ing tunes like THE Hot Time in the
| Old Town" or that wonderful crea.
ton, Come on and Hear! Come on
and Hear, Alexander's Rag Time
Band" l always supposed that that
must have been composed by one OF
the great old masters of music. But
it appears it is not so. My musical
friends assure me that they didn't.
Or at other times in the saloons
the music changed TO the appealing
melody Of "Way Down Upon the
S'wanee River" and the listeners
would stand with their Manhattan
cocktails lifted half way to their lips
and a tear glistening in their eyes.
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was perfect muscle control, exact
rhythm sense, and an assumption OF
indolent ease in motion that carried q
touch of humor.
Sally had been on dozens of bills
with him; knew him as a quiet young
man who crushed himself up against
the wall to let her pass: decent
young man, descended from long
line of hooters; a personable young
man, with 1.-the waist. a quick smile,
white teeth. Born. he said, in Kan
sas City. but the world was his adj
dress. His costume was an eXagera-
ton of the then fashionable male
mode; peg-top trousers, wide silk
lapels. saw-edged sailor, pointed shoes.
In contrast with this grotesquerie he
seemed, off stage, all the more shy
and. somehow, engaging and boyish.
AS he bounded off now, went on
again for his bows. off. and turned
toward the passage that led to his
dressing-room, Sally, ready to go on.
forgot her own nervousness in her in
terest at what she had just seen.
Where did you get that one?' She
tried to do it. 1t was time for her to
so on.
NO." grinned Nixon. very earnest
and polite. GO on. You take 'em.
I'll show you"
He was waiting for her when she
came off--a thing that had never hap
pened to her before. Trust Ma Quail
for that.
But l don't want to steal your
stuff" Sally protested.
Say. I'd be proud to have you
even look at it. let alone want to
catch it. Leave me show you how it
goes"
They observed the proprieties by
leaving her dressing room door wide
open. Now look Nav, .
Nav! Look. One and two
and three and slide and turn and
one and two and three and slide and
turn and =. looka what do with
my knee there See? Nav.
Stiff. That's it. You'll
get it. Only you got to practice. l
bet l was three months at it, morn
ings, before put it in
CALLY meant to tell her mother the
~ cause of her delay. She didn't
dream of not telling her. After all,
she had picked up a new dance step.
But. when she reached her mothers
room. she found there a woman in
such a state of hysteria that she
heard herself making up some tale
about having had her spot changed
moved down on the bill-a change for
the better. She felt stricken at
what she had done. Then she realized
that she would have to do it again
tomorrow-and next day-and the
next-and the next. Suddenly a
vista-not a wide one, but still a
vista--opened out before her minds
eye. An hour to herself every day
Every day--an hour-to herself. She
| did not say this, even to herself. She
did not even think she thought it
Something seemed to say it dor her
She did not even think of a way to
| explain her explanation, should her
mother recover before the end of the
| week, But she wouldn't be able
surely, to come to the theater before
the end of this weeks bill. Sally
hoped she would, of course-but she
wouldn't.
| Sally came out of the theater after
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| fraudulent materials and brings about
the punishment of the offenders. In
many cases the producers are sincere
| IN their belief that the products which
they sell are true cures" Their
Ialtn IN their profitable panaceas usu-
| ally is founded on ignorance of the
fundamental principles. of organized
| medical science.
Some $4,000 white rats and mice.
rabbits and guinea pigs, as we'll as
dogs and monkeys, are used annually
IN research and experimentation at
the United States Hygienic Laho:a-
tory. These animals, which in MANY
cases serve as martyrs to scientific
investigation, play an important pat
IN solving the secrets of mysterious
diseases and in demonstrating that
the vaccines and serums circulated in
commerce in this country are suit.
able for human use.
Pellagra, which occurs in all parts
OIL the country, but which claims it's
largest death rate in the South can
now be either controlled or nrevented
as result of Government research
extending over a period of 10 wears
Or. Joseph Goldberger of the Hygi.
enc Laboratory has proved concIu.
slVely that pellagra is a disease of
mulnutrition. 1t is caused by an un.
balanced dietary which Is deficient i'm
vitamin which he calls "PP"-pre.
vention Of pellagra.
The addition of dried and powdered
yeast to the average meat. meal and
molasses" ration will provide the def
clent vitamin and prevent pellagra.
One ounce of dried yeast, taken daily
the yeast costs about IS cents a
pounds a dependable cure for or
control of pellagra. Even the poorest
people can afford to use this food.
The yeast is rich in protein, one ounce
of it containing as much protein as
one.quarter of a pound of beefsteak.
The outstanding Importance Of this
acknowledgement control of pellagra
is illustrated by the fact that during
1926 more than 1900 people died from
the disease in Arkansas. Mississippi
and Tennessee. while 80, 900 were rem.
dered too sick for work or seIfsu
port. These records are typical of the
losses wrought by pellagra. Uncle
Sam scored another great triumph
when he solved the secrets of this
disease and instituted campaign of
education to spread the knowledge
about the new and practical cure to
all localities where pellagra occurs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-11

I always thought that Beethoven
wrote the "S'wanee River; but it
seems not. He refused to.
Yet the true lover Of bad music will
find it with no trouble wherever he
goes. AS with everything else. the
love Of it seems to bring 1t near. Very
often gifted amateurs can delight one
with the finest bad music, quite up to
the level OF a saloon orchestra. In
deed, excellent amateur bad playing is
heard at poker parties or at college re-
unions or at any place where men
gather in the evening and where there
happens to be a piano.
Often these amateurs are entirely
self,taught. may mention here the
case of my brother Jim, who has never
had lesson in his life and yet whose
playing on the piano-so am told by
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doesn't want to marry. Sally doesn't
want to marry. She's told me so.
"Yeh?" The old eyes regarded her.
Freud and fixations were not can't
words at that time; and certainly old
Ben Kiper foresaw nothing of the
latter-day psychology. But he knew
many of the tortuous paths that
twist the human mind; and here he
recognized something familiar and
ugly. "Yeh?" Who put that funny
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-11
Training Bad Germs.

Continued from First Page.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-11

SALLY QUAIL. WITH
HER HEAD THROWN
BACK, WAS LOOKING
INTO THE EYES OF
JIMMY NIXON, OF THE
DANCING NIXONS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-11
BY STEPHEN LEACOCK.

TIME other night, seated on the
veranda of IA Summer cottage,
il was my good fortune to
L listen to the melody of cor
net horne ACROSS the water in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-11
M u SIC
FRA DIAvoLo" is GIVEN.

The Junior Opera Players club
graduated from Juvenile operettas
into the field of grown.ups serious
operetta production when they gave
the first. performance in a. series of
three presentations of Fra Diavolo,
the classic from the pens of the two
French writer's, Scribe and Auber.
last night. Produced as usual. In the
auditorium of the immaculate Con-
ception School by the choir boys and
girls who are doing such admirable
work under the direction of Harry
Wheaton Howard, with Mr.. Howard
both directing and playing the piano
score, ''F'ra Diavolo" was received
with enthusiasm by a large audience.
All of the leading roles were well
sung, the chorus showing fine en-
senhIe work, and 1t was a well staged
production and the costumes attrac-
tive. OF the singers, Leonard Town
send showed to best vocal advantage
He has a fine voice and uses 1t we'll
Frederick Nolan and George Neuman
were excellent bandits and Florence
Yocum was a charming heroine. VIII
liam Stoddard was. quite at home in
the title role.
A particularly admirable ballet
group was prominent in this produc-
ton. Four dances that won special
applause were the mazurka by Mar
garet NeaIon, duet waltz by Irene
Bontz and Joseph de Marco, Original
Spanish dance by Irene Bontz and
Russian duet by Dorothy Graham and
Margaret Fallon.
The production will be repeated to-
night and tomorrow night.
Those participating include Mary
Anderson, Teresa Behabetz, Gertrude
Becker, Nora Bice, Irene Bontz. Julia
Frederick, Julia Burke, Margaret Cal
low, Mabel CARL, Dorothy Clark
Catherine Considine, Vera Crawford
Kathleen Curtin, Elizabeth Danhakl
Helen Dean, Mary Deck, Virginia
Delfinger, Agnes Dowd, Loretta Dr1s-
coll, Margaret Driscof1, Helen Fallon,
Margaret Fallon, Lucia Ffster, Helen
Carver, Emily Gateau, Dorothy
Graham, Violet Hambleton, Eleanor
Hopkins. Helen Koch, Ann Loveless.
Mary Catherine Loveless. Frances
Mcdonnell, Helen Mayer, Dorothy
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-11
SOUGHT REWARD
TO GET DIVORCE
States Key Witness in Mel
| let Murder Trial Reveals
Confession Motive.
By the Associated Press.


CANTON. Ohio, February IL
Steve Kascholk, the States key wit
ness in the trial of Ben Rudner for
the murder of Don r. Mellett, Canton
editor, admitted under cross examina-
ton today, he revealed his version OF
the plot originally in order to collect
a reward, with which he hoped to OBJ
tain a divorce.
1t was a point strongly stressed by
defense counsel in an effort to I'M
peach his testimony. Kascholk' $ story
was that he had been approached Dy
Patrick McDermott, now serving a. IRE
sentence for Mellett's death, and had
gone to MaSsillon. Ohio, where he dis
cuseed with McDermott and RuGner
a LOB" in connection with Mellett 8
editorial campaign against vice and
crime in Canton. He said that when
he learned that murder was contem-
plated he withdrew.
George Gordon Battle, of defense
counsel, drew the admission from the
witness that he had watched Cleve-
Land newspapers while the rewards
for the editors slayerS mounted from
SIS 600 to more than $4,000 before ne
told his story to the authorities.
Mellett was shot down by the door
of his garage on the night or last
July 16 at the height of his news
paper drive on the Canton under
world
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-11

Mitchell, Ethel Murphy. Margaret
Nealon, Teresa Neuland, Helen
O'Connor. Helen Russell. Mary Lee
Russell, Catherine Ryan, Mary
Frances Shanahan, Edna Sheehan,
Ann Sweeney, Mary Sweeney, Sarah
Sweeney, Frances Sweeney, Louise
Sweeney. Nora Trent Helen Walsh.
Margaret Wholihan, Adelaide Yocum.
Florence Marguerite ,Yocum, Richard
Babcock, Martin ,Boliston, Robert
Boteler, Robert CalIow, Joseph CARL.
Harold Clark, Joseph de Marco.
Wyatt Edwards. Arthur Ellis,
Thomas Gallagher, Phillip Hannah,
Gwynn Horstearnp. E. Knapp. Rich
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-11
MILITARY CAREER ENDED.
ssColonel'sf' Rise Halls with Arrest
for Impersonation.

CHICAGO, February II P,.--Stan-
ley Rubick's rapid rise and decline IN
military service was described by MS
wife in her divorce suit yesterday
Stanley was drafted in 1917. Later
he came home in a lieutenant uni
form Having heard privates talk
about lieutenants, she told him ne
didn't amount to much.
Thereafter he came home as cap
tain a major. a lieutenant colonel and
a colonel. He had just been made a
brigadier general when he was ar
rested for impersonating officers and
sent to Federal prison, she said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-11
Church Cashier Pleads Guilty.

NEW YORK, February IL Cp).--Ar.
thur M. Flade pleaded guilty to
stealing thousands of dollars from the
church funds entrusted to his care as
cashier OF the Methodist Episcopal
Board of Foreign Missions. He was
continued in $4,000 bail for sentence
February II,
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statement to the student body. in
which she declared that smoking was
not q question of ethics or conven-
ton, but rules of courtesy should
prevail.
A number of sororities here recently
lifted the ban on discreet" smoking
in their houses.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-11

The claim of Mrs. Mary Jane
Thompson, 90. Strabane, ireland, for
an old age pension was supported by
John Blue, who said he was 102.
A young woman in Nottingham,
England, recovered from a trance
lasting more than two years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-11
LAWSON RESIDENCE SOLD.
Peter F. Reynolds Purchases Lake
Shore Drive House.

CHICAGO, February II R.-The
imposing Lake Shore Drive residence
of the late Victor Lawson, former
publisher of the Daily News, has been
sold to Peter F. Reynolds, a real
estate dealer and builder, with indi-
cations that. 1t will be leased to the
Casino Club.
The price was not announced, but
It was understood to be In the neigh
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-11

ard Maggenti, Raymond McMahon,
Francis Mitchell, Adoiphe Meyer,
George Neuman, Frederick Nolan,
John Rack. William Reith, Beal
Robson, Harry Rohrkemper. John
Sherman, Joseph Sherman, William
Stoddard, William Sullivan, John
Sweeney, Arthur Tho1l, Leonard
Townsend, Urban Tretler, Paul Urci-
ola, Warren Wilkerson and Dominic
FaIcone.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-11
FIRST PHONE LANGUAGE.
Japanese First to Converse Over
Bell Invention.

BOSTON, February. IL P).-The
Boston University News asserts that
Japanese was, the first foreign Ian
guage heard over the telephone.
A. Japanese student asked Prof.
Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor,
if the new device could speak Japa-
nese'' and, being allowed to try, with
a compatriot at the other end, went
away convinced the phone was a
complete linguist.,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-11

borhood OF $50 a square foot, or more
than three-quarters OF a million dol
lars. At one time the building was
considered by Cardinal Mundelein as
a possible cardinals palace.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-11
the answer

Customers often ask us: How
can you self nationally known mer-
chandise at such low prices?
The answer is simple enough
our competent buyers keep in con-
slant touch with the markets,
always on the alert to take advan-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-11
COED SMOKING DEFINED.
California Dean Says It's Matter of
Courtesy.

BERKELEY, Calf. February II
F).-Smoking among goods at the
University of California is a mat
ter of courtesy" and the problem up
for solution is how smokers may in.
dulge without annoying those who
dislike the weed.
Lucy Stebbins. dean of women at
the university, defined the status of
the cigarette yesterday in a formal
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-11

For z cents a passenger can ride
171a miles. passing through four
cities, on a street car operated by a
transit company of Oakland, Calf.
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tage OF exceptional offers by manu-
facturers; this combined with the
purchasing power of 46 progressive
stores, enables us to offer our
patrons only the highest quality
merchandise at prices which mean
a definite saving.
The Washington times., 1927-10-11
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The Washington times., 1927-10-11
Organizations Unite
To Mark Columbus Day

Honoring the memory of the
man who discovered America, the
knights of Columbus, the societa
Cristoforo Colombo, and the Societa
Italianas with the Italian ambassa.
dor and officials Of other Italian
organizations in attendance, will
hold memorial services at the foot
of the Columbus Monument in
Union Station Plaza at 10 o'clock
tomorrow morning in observance Of
Columbus Day.
Edward P. Warner. assistant Sec
rotary Of the Navy for aeronautics,
win be principal speaker on the
X, of G. program. following invoca-
ton by the Rev. Francis X.
kavanaugh, State chaplain of the
order. Georgetown University Stu
dent Band will play. Virtually all
State officers win be present.
Immediately following the exer-
cises by the X Of G. end the
italian organization, wreaths will
be laid at the loot of the monu-
ment.
The Washington times., 1927-10-11

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The Washington times., 1927-10-11

are engaged in a series of what
they call "Thank You" programs,
directed to the people of various
States. Maine was the objective
last evening and the excellent Or
chestra, with Lewis James, tenor,
as guest artist, played and sang
things the Maine people like. James
was in fine voice and provided at
least two groups OF delightful songs.
The grand opera was a repetition
Of 'Traviata" which we've heard so
many times and the Swanee Synco-
pators delivered dance music for
the last WRC hour.
The new ice cream subsidy from
WIZ came late in the evening and
provided q number of old songs
Spanish war period--as well as
some new music in its contrast Of
how the old and the new genera
tons entertain themselves.
The Washington times., 1927-10-11
Washington Children
Set Library Record

The children of Washington are
reading more books than ever, and
circulation Of books from the chill
dren's department Of the Public
Library shows a greater increase
than that of the "grownups," &C.
cording to the annual report OF
Librarian G. F. Bowerman, sub.
mitted today to the District Com.
missicners.
A gain of lis per cent in the
circulation of children's books over
last year with 697,145, a gain of
1913 per cent in eight years, was
reported.
The library circulated 1,4O7, 4S9
volumes and 1913, 597 mounted pic.
lures in homes and offices in ad.
dition to the children's books,
gain of s per cent over last year,
DR.. Bowerman showed.