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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-07
More Truth Than Poetry
BY JAMES ]. MONTAGUE
INCURABLE
Who are these people who sit by tn

Who are these people who sit by the
ring
Emitting wild shouts of acclaim
While couple of gentlemen wallop
and swing
In the glorious prizefighting game?
Can they be the people who raised a
hoarse howl
And said it was going too far
To settle an earlier fight with foul?
| They not only can, but they are,
Who are these people close up to the
ropes
Who raise such a deuce of din,
In voicing SO loudly their fears and
- their hopes i
Lest one of the bruisers may win?
Can Cnese be the people who said the
last fight
Was won by an illegal punch?
Regard them awhile, and you'll see I
am right.
They can. Every one in the bunch!
Who are the people who calmly paid
out
With never turn Of hair,
Some two hundred dollars to witness
DOQG
BY the two husky boys over there?
Can these be the people who recently
Sobbed
And made other sounds of distress
At the fact that the public was wick
edly robbed
BY the hungry promoters? Yes, yes!
The fights may be faxed, and the seats
may be sold
For whatever the traffic will bear
But when there's another you'll al
ways behold
All the fight loving gentlemen there.
Can people so Sated with trick and
device
Be trimmed once again to a man,
No matter how boosted the box office
price?
They can, gentle reader. They can!
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-07
Truth at Last

The recent furore over the proposed
10 per cent cut in salaries of the pic
ture industry recalls the law suits over
a contract, fought in the Los Angeles
courts a few years ago.
Just before the trial the cinema pro-
ducer was called suddenly to New
York and was obliged to leave every
thing in the hands of his lawyer. A
few days after his arrival in New York
he received the following telegram.
Justice has triumphed."
And the great man telegraphed
back:
Appeal Immediately"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-07
ENGLISH DEVELOP
LIKING EOR GRAPEI

LONDON. R-The grape fruit, in
troduced to Britain by the Americans,
has come to stay, say the Convent
Garden dealers.
American troops in training in this
country during the war helped to
popularize the fruit. So did American
tourists Immediately after 1918. Larger
hotels began serving grape fruit. In
time the English people themselves
tried and liked it, Before 1914 grape
fruit was almost unknown here.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-07
Plucked From the Plains

No Try-O-Let
held her hand
And kissed her nice;
Oh, love is grand.
held her hand,
But lacked the sand
To kiss her twice.
I held her hand
And kissed her. Nice!
Ohio State Sun Dial.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-07
A UNITED FAMILY

A clergyman named Loos has been
knocking blondes. The Looses seem
to be pretty well agreed on this sub
ject.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-07
Still, GOING ON

We lately read of a poultry congress
in Canada which undoubtedly is mere
ly a continuance of Mr.. Chaucer's
Parliament of Fowls.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-07
BY ANOTHER. NAME

A believer in the rectitude of the
prize ring and his money are soon
parted
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-07
Behind the Door

"John, I wish you'd bring me home
one of those tabloids.''
'"The kind you take with a glass of
water?"
mo; the kind you take with grain
of SALT"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-07
WINGS Were Drooning

Several Chinese orators have Sug-
gested that we show the Chinese a
little more consideration in our per-
them, speaking recently in Pasadena,
suggested that we emulate a certain
man. This man was always very polite
to women and was asserting one day
that he had never seen a really ugly
woman.
A woman with a sense of humor and
a flat nose said: Look at me and
confess that am truly ugly"
Madam" replied the man, ''like the
rest of your sex you are an angel fall
len from the skies; but it was your
misfortune and not your fault that you
happened to alight on your nose"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-07
BSAiEB8

Enjoy your vacation at home by
using your ingenuity, writer advises.
Our suggestion is that you buy pair
of chaps and some fishing tackle and
pitch camp near the rainwater barrel.
Prince Carol, exiled in Paris, pro-
claims himself king of Rumarlia. That
boy must be a regular Jack Sharkey
when it comes to asserting himself.
The man who wrote "Tis better to
have loved and lost" must have had
good break on the alimony.
Well, maybe the nonstop bug has
bitten the president, too.
A woman in Great Britain recently
was severely injured when she tripped
over her skirt. Now that is news.
Vanity is often more of a mistake
in judgment than a sim
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Sam Mayhem, Tucson: "This
is my first visit to Douglas, and
must say that I do like it here,
! perhaps it is because the people
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-07
Sidestepping

During the war, Yankee ingenuity
was the marvel of the European Off
GERS. General Foch even mentioned
it to Pershing, who replied:
"It's born in us, the inheritance of
our pioneer ancestors. You notice it,
even in the children, like little
Johnny.
Johnny, you know, was asked by his
teacher to write out explicit directions
that would answer a strangers ques-
ton: How do I get from the depot to
the city hall?'
when Johnny turned in the paper,
it read: Sorry, pard, but I'm a
stranger around these parts, too'."
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-07
Trying to Please

They we're having party at the
Ambassador recently at which Hoot
Gibson was guest. Hoot was in
merry mood when time came to GO
home, and stepping into a taxi ex-
claimed blithely: Home, James"
what do you mean Home, James, .
growled the driver. "This is public
taxi"
"All right" said Hoot. Home, Jesse
James!"
a. -
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-07
Real Home

Magistrate Mclean of New York, in
commenting on the heavy fine he had
imposed on speeder, remarked: Jail
isn't a punishment any more. No
stigma is attached to speed court
sentence and when the culprit comes
out he or she is more or less a hero
among his friends.
"Only the other day third offender
was brought in.
"'Hello!' laughed the warden. "You
back again?"
"'Yep!' exclaimed the third termer.
Are there any parcels or mail for me?"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-07
Lonesome LadY

Judge Lindsay, speaking on the So
phistication of youth, said: "I shud-
der to think of the future of this
country when 1 remember the remark
of a young woman on trial for delin-
quency charges.
"'This being good is too much trou-
BILE. It's like life insurance. You have
to die to get anything out of it'."'
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-07
Poor Fishermen

"I believe" said the impatient man
as he put aside the telephone, "that
I'll go fishing"
Didn't know you cared for fishing"
st don't, ordinarily But it's the
only chance have of finding myself
at the end of line that isn't busy"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-07

Before he became famous as the
constructor of serials, William Lord
Wright was a newspaper man and at
one time edited country paper where
the rival editor was most annoying.
This man had the habit of stopping
his press to insert some bit of last
minute news. Hardly day went by
that didn't show on the front page an
article starting: "We stop the press
to announce"
Finally it got on Bills nerves. and
one day his own front page bore the
hated legend: eve stop the press to
announce that there is nothing of
sufficient Importance to justify the
stopping of the press. Giddap!"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-07
Lesson Done

LeSSOn DOUe
A small boy in Glendale school
provoked his teacher very much by
his excessive use of shave went" in
stead of "have gone"
One day the lad was kept in school
after the other pupils had been dis
missed and was told to write "I have
gone" hundred times. When the
task was finished, the teacher being
out of the room, he wrote note to
her as follows:
IT have finished my work and ! have
went home"
Lady (in hospital: Can / see Mrs.
Jones?
Nurse: She is not receiving visitors
yet.
Lady: Can I see Mrs. Johnson?
3 Nurse: I am sorry; she is not al
lowed to see anyone, either.
Lady: Is there anyone here I can
see?
Nurse: You can see the doctor, but
it will cost you three dollars.
Evening star., 1927-12-16

ty, Mrs. Ernest Thompson Seton, Mrs.
Daisy Fitzhugh Ayres, Mime. Fanare-
toff, Mrs. Horne, Mrs. Frederick !.
Cox, Mrs. aillett EIill. Mrs. Emerson
Howe, Mrs. Cabot Stevens. Mrs.
Southgate, Mrs. Frank +. Hatch, Mrs.
Bernard b. Jones, Mrs. William Wolle
smith, Mrs. Henry, Mrs. John Mock.
Mrs. Conrad III. Syme, Mrs. Charles
a. Matthews, Mrs. Forrest, Mrs.
Rhett Goode, Nine. Charles Cahier.
Mrs. Harry Rickey, Mrs. Poteet. Mrs.
Theodore Hance Tilier, Mrs. Florence
Costinett. Mrs. Beverley Williamson.
Mrs. A. 8. w. Frailey, Mrs. L. d.
Cardwell and Mrs. Abasolm Waller:
During the luncheon Mrs. Cnaries
Nelson Riker, soloist, accompanied py
Mrs. Hornback, gave a charming pro-
gram of music. The table had an ef-
fective arrangement of Christmas
greens and berries.
Mrs. William Howard Taft, wife OF
the Chief Justice, was the guest OF
honor at luncheon today of NINE.
Roso. who entertained In the Chinese
room of the Mayiower. Others In
the company were Sonora dc Alfaro,
wife OF the Minister OF Panama; Mrs.
sanford, wife of Mr.. Justice Edward
Terry Sanford; Mrs. Goff, wife or
Senator Guy Despard .Goff: Mrs. Ed
ward w. Eberle. Mrs. Frederick Dent
Grant, Mrs. stephen b. Elkins, Mrs
John B. Henderson, Mrs. Henry f.
Dimock, Mrs. George Barnett. Mrs.
Joseph Strauss, Mrs. Charles Wood.
Mrs. Robert Lansing, Mrs. ]. Harry
Covington, Baroness Korff, Mrs. Ar
thur Lee, Mrs. Mary Stewart. Mrs.
Daniel b. -Devore. Mrs. Wilton j..
Lambert, Mrs. Duncan McKim, Mrs.
William kearney Carr. Mrs. Lindsay
Moorehead, Mrs. Walter II. Tucker.
man and Mrs. John Allan Dougherty.
Mr.. Justice and Mrs. Harlan Fiske
stone have given up their apartment
ut 2400 Sixteenth street and have
moved into their new house at 2340
Wyoming avenue, which was recently
completed.
| The Minister of Greece and Nine.
Simopoulos went to New York last
night and will remain over Sunday.
Representative and Mrs. 8. Wallace
Dempsey OF New York will entertain
at small dinner party this evening
in the presidential dining room Of the
Mayflower.
The attache of the Netherlands lega.
ton and Nine. van Schuylenburch en-
tertained at dinner last evening. their
Evening star., 1927-12-16

Feyre, Miss Jeanette Hume. Miss
Florence wetherill, Miss Charlotte
O'BhAughnessy, Miss Helen Harter,
Miss Exiiona Hamilton, Miss Frances
Montague Hill, Miss Ernogene Taylor,
Miss scuyler Dunlop, Miss Celeste
Pops Miss A,,.. Virginia % d. Russell Mis- MIS-
Anna Louise Abadie, Miss Caroline
Wilcox, Miss Lila La Qarde, Miss Re.
becca Davidson, Miss Peggy Burch.
Miss Ellen Peelle, Miss Edwina Nor.
row, Miss Lillian Latimer, Miss Mar
garet Bacon and Miss Margaret Bouve.
Mr.. and Mrs. Love viii entertain at
a dinner dance January 2. for their
daughter.
Evening star., 1927-12-16
SOCIETY
The Chief Executive and First Lady
/ Of the Land, Hosts at Dinner to
Diplomats Last Night.

String Quartet, the New YORK string
Onartet. the Vertchamp Quartet ana
the two double basses, played py Mr.
paville Ouglitchky and Mr.. MAX
President and Mrs. Coolidge and
tha,r guests heard sixteenth and sew
enteenth century music played Tor the
arst time by artists on rare old Italian
viollns. violas, cellos and doubie
hasses from the Rodman Wanamaker
collection. this being the first time
the famous collection was ever loaned
for n private concert. The instru-
ments used were fine specimens OF the
handicraft of Stradivarius, Montag-
mana. Guadagnini, Amau and other
noted mthiers of the seventeenth anu
eighteenth centuries. The program
was modelled after those given by the
private orchestras of the courts ana
mobiles of those centuries and contained
rare old MSS, which were performcu
last night for the first time In Zoo
wears. One was work by Domenlcio
Searlatti arranged by Malipiero. the
Italian composerl, and the others were
compositions by Thomas Tompkins
and William Byrd of the sixteenth
century. The last two works were dis
the Bodleian Library at Oxford Uni
versity. and especially arranged for
the concert last night by Canon E. II.
Fellowes, the noted English authority
on Elizabethian music. who is director
of music at Windsor Castle. 1t was
one of the most remarkable and inter-
esting programs ever given i'm the
mansion and received constant ap-
plause.
Mrs. Coolidge will receive a small
group this afternoon at the tea hour.
The Ambassador of Cuba and Sonora
de Ferrara will give a tea this AFTER
noon from to Z o'clock in the en-
bassy, when Miss Mary B. Pierce OF
Boston, house guest of the hosts. will
assist them. Others assisting Will be
the wives of members of the embassy
staff.
The Ambassador and Sonora de Fer
rara will leave the middle of next week
for their home in Havana In prepara.
ton for the Pan-American Congress,
which will open there January Is and
to which the Ambassador is a dele.
gate. The tea this afternoon is the
last of a series which the Ambassador
and Sonora de Ferrara will give until
their return after the congress.
Postmaster General and Mrs. New
In indianapolis for Holiday.
The Postmaster General and Mrs
New will leave Washington Friday to
spend Christmas in their home in
indianapolis.
Mrs. Hoover, wife of the Secretary
of Commerce, entertained at tea yes
terday in compliment to Mrs. Walter
r. Brown, wife of the new Assistant
Secretary of Commerce, and Mrs. L.
+. Morgan, wife of the new solicitor
of the department. The other guests
were the wives of executive heads and
the heads of divisions and bureaus of
the Commerce Department.
The Secretary of Labor and Mrs.
James J. Davis will be the honor
guests at dinner this evening of Mr..
and Mrs. Joseph e. Davies.
Mr.. and Mrs. Davies have as their
guests for the week end Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward r. Tinker of Syossett. Long
Island, for whom they will entertain
at dinner tomorrow evening.
Sonora de TelleZ, wife of the AM
bassador of Mexico, and Mrs. Wilbur,
wife of the Secretary of the Navy,
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soCI r + r.

dance v1u be MRS. Dcios a. Blodgett,
Mrs. Ollie James, Mr.. and Mrs. vic1
tor Kaufman, Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney
Taiiaferro. Gen. and Mrs. Albert Dal.
ton, Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick McKen.
ney and Mrs. Emerson Howe.
The deputy commissioner of nra.
hibition and Mrs. James r. Jones
win give a tea this afternoon from,
4:30 to Z o'clock in their home. at
311I Thirty-fourth street, Cleveland
Park. to present their daughter. Miss
Ruth Jones. The house will have
pretty arrangement OF palms, ferns
pink roses and pink carnations and
Mr.. and Mrs. Jones and their daugh-
ter will stand before a cluster Of
palms, studded with the pink flowers
The debutante will wear a dainty
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guests including Miss Theodore Cata-
lani, Miss Evelyn walker, the secre.
tary Or the Netherlands legation and
Baroness van Boetxelaer, the counsel
or the Spanish embassy. Senor do
Amoedo, the secretary OF the Italian
embassy, Signor vitetti; the secretary
OF the spanish embassy, Senior Len
ares.Iaivas, and the secretary OF the
Greek legation, Mr.. Diamantopoulos
Evening star., 1927-12-16
Miss Jane Love Introduced
TO Society at Club st. Marks.

Mrs. Thomas Buchanan Love enter
tanned at luncheon today at the Club
st. Marks for her debutant daughter,
Miss Jane Love. The guests included
Miss Bina Day Deneen, Miss Sarah
Major, Miss Theodoria Catalani, Miss
Cunliffe.O Owen. Miss Ruth Jones, Miss
Emily Ecker, Miss Hester Ann LIE
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Harris Ewing Photo.

guests were Mrs. Ernest r. Acker-
man, Miss Adam M. Wyant, Mrs. Will,
liam Il. Hull. Mrs. Harry X. Daugher.
Evening star., 1927-12-16

shared honors at the luncheon today
given by Mrs. William II. Dennis In
her home on r street. The other
Evening star., 1927-12-16

The first dance Of the Friday Eve.
ming Dancing Club will be at the VIII.
lard this evening. Among those who
will entertain at dinners preceding the
Evening star., 1927-12-16

Sonora de Teller, wife of the Am
bassador of Mexico, and Mrs. Wilbur,
wife of the Secretary of the Navy,
Evening star., 1927-12-16
Postmaster General and Mrs. New
In indianapolis for Holiday.

The Postmaster General and Mrs.
New will leave Washington Friday to
spend Christmas in their home in
indianapolis.
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tContinued on Nineteenth Page.)
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The Secretary of Labor and Mrs.
James J. Davis will be the honor
guests at dinner this evening of Mr..
and Mrs. Joseph e. Davies.
Mr.. and Mrs. Davies have as their
guests for the week end Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward r. Tinker of Syossett. Long
Island, for whom they will entertain
at dinner tomorrow evening.
Evening star., 1927-05-08
A Homing Sunfsh.

THE uncanny ability of carrier
pigeons to find their way back
to the home loft is we'll known. Dogs.
too. have been known to travel great
distances to reach the old home from
which they have been separated. And
now we learn that fish also have a
sense of direction.
A Kansas man reported to tho
American Game Protective Associa.
ton an interesting occurrence. He
was fishing with a fly for bass when
he noticed near the shore of the lake
most peculiar blue-gill tanning her
nest He put on small fly and after
several attempts hooked the fish.
which he merely wanted to examine.
He found that it had no tail: it's
body had been cut Off close behind
the dorsal fin, undoubtedly when the
rish was very young. Nature had
MADE amends for the accident by pro-
vlding ABNORMAL growth in the dorssl
nm. which extended back behind tho
fish and acted as a rudder. The an.
pearance OF the fish was so remar,.
able that the angler dropped ii into
his live box" in the boat and toor
1t back with him to the clubhouse,
more than mile away. There other
members of the club came down TO
the dock and viewed the freak. After
all had satisfied their curiosity the
nsh was tossed back into the water
That afternoon the same angler was
walking up the bank of the lake. fly.
fishing from the shore. He was
greatly astonished. on reaching the
spot where he had caught the freak
blue-gili in the morning. to soc her
again peacefully tanning her ncst.
Evening star., 1927-05-08

two men shouted. shaking with mirth.
| soon learned where to grasp the fish
spear, and later in Africa l put this
knowledge to account. Africa is even
vet so unexplored that / believe few
people, outside Of the scientists. have
ever heard of these African electric
fish.
Hardly a day goes by, out in the
wilds of Sierra Leone. without some
question presenting itself, whose an
swer hardly know. For instance,
there was that time, 80 days inland
from Konakri, when Hector came
running back to camp, his eyes wild
with excitement. Even lean Hector
was out of breath.
Master when we da go look at
traps. big lion-him walk past me.
Look at me. one time. Brush me
shirt Then run off wagging him tail,
No eat me-"
It seemed rankly impossible. Yet.
I have often wondered if Hector did
not tell the exact, though perhaps
never duplicated. truth. l do not, OF
course. vouch for his story but what
| am about to tell came right under
my own eye, and I am inclined to
believe it is the only instance of its
kind on record.
When l was visiting at a coffee es-
Evening star., 1927-05-08

forests had come into a lighted room,
stolen a good sized dog, and depart
ed, leaving twelve persons absolutely
unharmed The dog had not barked
to give us warning. We had not
known what was happening until the
jaguar had made good his escape.
One of my trips was made primar-
lily to fill an order for a hyena. | OBJ
tanned boys at Elizabethport. South
Africa. and after finding a suitable
place we built a trap and baited it
with the body of a goat.
The very day after we had finished
the pen, one of the boys came, cry
ing, "Massa. massa. big Bo is caught
He has swallowed the goat, one chop"
We set out on n run for the trap
Our hyena was glowering and shak-
ing with bottled rage, With my staff
I cleared away enough loose green
from the sides of the pen. The hyena,
at this, made for me: head averted, he
was trying to push his heavy muzzle
through the side. After a moment
he backed down and huddled into a
dun ball. l could see that his eyes
were a soft hazel, but never once did
l get a fair look into them. And all
about was the rank smell of the ami
NAL, pain in our nostrils.
l put my boys to making a cage of
llama. When all was ready, l backed
the cage, door open, to the pen. Then
lifted the pen door The boys prod
ded the hyena with slaves into the
cage. He went slowly, stubbornly, at
times pushing with all his force
against the blunt cudgels. But at last
I had him shut in. My porters slung
his cage over a mahogany pole and
carried him to the seacoast.
Just before the sailing Of the Elder
Dempster boat, l was awakened in my
upstairs chamber by the barking of
a couple of terriers that had strayed
from a ship and adopted me. l reach
ed out for matches to light the kero.
sene lamp on the table near my cot. |
tried to hush the dogs. / listened in
tently. From downstairs came the cry
Of the birds. Suppose some drunken
sailor from a ship had broken in?
Suppose a bad black boy was trying
to steal my birds? l drew on my
Evening star., 1927-05-08

Excess Of fat. on the other hand, in
the child as well as in the grown per.
son, while it protects one somewhat
against cold and forms a comfortable
padding, is, beyond this, not a very
useful tissue to carry around. Fat
cells require a good deal of extra food
and nutrition, and If they involve
many pounds OF weight, good deal
more blood is needed to maintain life
and health of the fatty tissues. 1t
requires considerable additional work
the fat cells, and food and work on
the part of the digestive organs to
nourish them.
Indeed, the excessive fat furnishes
an extra weight and responsibility for
virtually all of the vital organs. Fat,
also, is a definite handicap to children
as well as TO adults in certain infcc.
tious diseases, such as pneumonia.
In diseases of the exhausting type,
with acute inflammation due to
serious infection, the excess of fat
may be quite an obstacle to recovery.
The handicap of excessive fat is, how.
ever, relatively greater for the adult
than for the child.
On the other hand, some statistical
studies which have been made of over.
weight children show that these over.
weight boys and girls do not, on the
whole, vary much from their fellows
in mental and muscular ability and
accomplishments. In fact, a study
Of a considerable number of over.
weight and moderately fat children
shows that they are superior to under
| Welght youngsters. it has been
shown even that some children in the
overweight group surpass other chill
dren in speed and in activity. Over
| weight children. on the average, come
I TO maturity earlier than children of
| other weights and types.
! On the other hand, the overweight
children seem to fatigue more easily
/ than the others; this is perhaps partly
! due to the excess baggage which they
are forced to carry around with them.
! Such children also do not have as
; good, posture as the other types. Sew
eraI physicians have noted that over.
weight boys and girls who accumulate
fatty tissue about the shoulders and
around the hips, are not apt to be in
as good health, and have not as great
vitality and resistance as children of
the same age and weight who have
their excess of fat more evenly dis
tributed over the body. Finally, it is
/ true that overweight boys and girls
have, in significant proportion OF In
stances. a greater tendency to fear, to
worry, or to other disturbed emotional
states, in spite of their apparent pia.
cidity. How far these attitudes and
emotions are due TO greater self con,
sciousness, to a feeling of inferiority
on account Of their size, is not fully
understood.
There are many more overwaight
children who are conscious of their ex-
cessive weight, and are desirous of re.
ducing or willing to diet, than there