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Evening star., 1927-10-23

because she Is woman. To do SO Is
simply adding to her handicap. The
granting Of favor has a dangerous
psychological back kick; 1t creates a
sense of superiority In the favorer
and an unconscious feeling of in.
feriority in the favoree. Let women
stand on their own feet; they may be
double A and French heeIed at that.
but they are a firmer foundation for
business success than the crutch of
chivalry.
But standing on her own feet is not
the whole duty Of a business woman;
II she happens to be. an executive and
wants to remain one, she should
under her. Many women have a
normal and unquenchable desire to
mother everything ~eak-big or little,
male or female-that comes within
the radius of their influence. This is
beautiful quality and the world
needs 1t, but 1t isn't business.
Look AT almost any woman eXecu-
tive you know; somewhere in her EN-.
ploy, clogging the business machinery
and putting an extra burden on the
woman herself, you will find her har.
boring a weakling who ought to be
scrapped- or at least transferred to
job closer to his capabilities. Men
are more ruthless in all their business
relations; women are held back by
their greater loyalty and their fire.
quen- unwillingness to build success
on some one else's failure.
This same protective instinct holds
back married women in business, be.
cause IL they happen to be in love
with their husbands they do not want
to overshadow them. The theme OF
recent popular moving picture was the
horrible selfishness of capable
woman lawyer who insisted on follow.
ing up her first success, instead of
giving up the work she loved in order
to play around with a Hkeable but
weak husband. The audience oh.
viously agreed with the scenario
writer that she was a brute and the
happy ending did not come until the
husband, by indulging in little ex.
tramarital affair, had brought her to
her. senses. The business woman who
prefers happiness in the home to sue.
cess in the Office knows that very few
men enjoy the title husband of
-" placed before their names.
Even Menelaus, though he may have
been proud of II in the beginning,
found 1t OF dubious value In the end.
THE problem of the married woman
In business is one of the most seri.
Gus Of our generation. Economic
conditions being as they are, 1t is
futile to tell women to go home and
let the nearest male relative support
themj such a course would raise
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swered. LAS was about to arrest
Irma Staub this chap threw cup of
| tea In my face. 1 was momentari1y
blinded and while I was wiping the
hot liquid of with my handkerchief
| she disappeared. Meanwhile my sec.
| retary threw himself on Won R.,
| who had drawn q revolver and had
succeeded In firing shot, which went
| wild"
And Irma Staub -. ?"
"She dashed out the door at the end
Of the room there. 1t opens on stair.
way going up stairs. My detectives
are now looking for her."
Fine! And who is this fellow?" ]
| asked, pointing to the bearded man.
II don't know who he is, but we'll
soon find out. He was with Irma
! Staub and Won R, so at any rate
he must be a good haul"
"Of course! But have you searched
him?"
Turning to the man NJ. Sard asked
in Italian.
Have you any Identification pa
pers?"
Yes, SIR"
will you show them to me?"
with pleasure"
He took out a pocketbook bulging
with papers and produced passport in
the name Of Hans W, 72 years old,
professor of foreign languages, born
| in Zurich, Switzerland, of German par.
ents.
These are in perfect ORDER" re-
| marked M. Sarda. Its a pity you
were In the company of two such sus-
picious persons. How did you get to
know them?''
"Oh, / have run across them at
watering places. They are the sort of
friends that one Is likely to pick up
when one travels"
X y X
WHILE the man was making these
w explanations the Commissioner
was examining the pocketbook.
The secretary was sitting at near
by table. writing down questions and
answers.
ut seems that you do lot Of trav-
cling! You cross borders with re-
markable ease! BY the vises on your
passport ! see that within the last
year you have been in France three
times, in Germany twice, and in Italy
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ming a business of your own, from a
,hemstitching shop to a chain of res
taurants, may be sublimation. So
cial work, teaching, nursing-all these
are activities which may carry Gre
alive satisfaction.
: Most people have the feeling that
the greatest creative joy may be de-
rived from one of the arts-writing,
painting. composing. dancing, acting.
Hence our flood of mediocre poets,
painters, actors, musicians-preferrin
starvation in overcrowded professions
to prosperity as part of the business
machine. Hence the present violent
enthusiasm for weaving and batik and
toymaking, which give so many WON.
en- chance for creative work with
their hands.
1t is a mistake to imagine, though,
that for work to be sublimation it
must be impressive enough to give its
Greater q place in who's Who" Not
it's importance to the world, but its
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importance to the individual, Is what
matters. II you can
make a cherry pie
Quick as cat can wink her eye,"
and If. when finished, 1t is a cherry
pie that you are proud Of, the making
of 1t may be, for you. sublimation.
Into many an old-fashioned quilt. with
it's quantity named design. has flowed
a stream of creative energy which ma
ture intended for another purpose.
The idea that women take up work
merely as a substitute activity until
they marry has been back of the un-
Willingness, in many cases, of man
employers to promote women to high
er positions. Many men have the idea
that young women are just marking
time. This is true Of great number,
and those of whom it isn't true suffer
from the generalization. In one great
concern employing more than 1900
women the manager made the state
ment that he did not promote woman
employees as readily as men because
women were considered only tempo
raries. Many of the women who had
been with this firm a long time be-
came depressed and gave up business
because they felt they were being dis
criminated against and had no chance
OF getting ahead, even though they
worked just as hard as the men and
did just as efficient work
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the men with whom she is associated
to fail as well as herself.
In talk to her feminine students
Nine. Curie once said that the two
principal requisites to success-grant-
ed ability-were belief in the worth.
whileness Of what you were doing. and
concentration. Sex consciousness is
an enemy of concentration. Business
demands that woman should not be
sex conscious in business hours. This
means more than that she must not
try to "vamp" all her male associates
or indulge In romantic day dreaming
when she is being paid to add up
figures. Men themselves are not free
from these faults. Women who wish
to succeed should come to the Office
wearing Office clothes, not Haunting
their sex in sleeveless dresses more
suggestive OF the ballroom or the
beach. They should reserve jewelry
and heavy perfumes, those secondary
sex appeals, for parties.
* \ **
TT is significant that when men them.
selves gave up the do.nothing life
OF courtiers and went in for earning
their living instead of wringing 1t from
starving peasantry they discarded
silks and satins. lace and perfumed
furbelows. Many man today thinks
he looks more alluring in a tuxedo
than a sack suit, but he doesn't, for
that reason, wear his tuxedo to the
Office.
The girl who buys her office clothes
principally for their sex appeal may
get by and hold her job, but she won't
progress far in 1t, and her success will
not be permanent. Look around at
the most successful women you know
You will find them. in clothes and
everything else, feminine but not ag.
gressively female.
Some women try to counteract sex
prejudice by an exaggerated masculin.
ity. This is like trying to drown the
taste OF sugar by putting in lots OF
salt. 1t is merely another form of sex
consciousness and is peculiarly irri.
tating to the average man.
Another way in which her personal
approach to problems Injuries the
woman in business is that 1t frequent.
ly makes her unduly "touchy." Many
men hate to administer to woman
employees reproof and criticism which
would be of the utmost value to them,
for fear of precipitating a shower.
OF course it is equally true that a man
dislikes above all things being called
down by a woman superior, but as
many more women than men are in
subordinate positions this tendency
to take business criticism as a per.
sonal affront is more often harmful to
women than to men.
Nor should a woman, except during
J the childbearing and nursing period.
expect and demand special favors just
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Dlp nPurutd dhe Beautiful gL bd CpB Be Prints
FrndA Campaign dos Cb bhnrutd
somewhat later. Good-by, my good

somewhat later. Goodby, my good
fellow"
"Good.by, commandant."
And he went on in high spirits.
turned and went to the grocery on
the corner where I had occasionally
stopped to chat with the proprietor. /
bought half.pound Of powdered
sugar.
ITO sweeten my Strawberries" I
confided to him. Il love strawberries
in winer'
AS 1 returned to the hotel. 7 passed
the baroness chauffeur, getting gaso-
line. 1 called to him.
Listen. Adolphe, a glass OF white
wine never did you any harm?"
Certainly not, commandant," he
laughed.
Good! Well. here's a louis. Run
down to Martha and Mary's. the
florists on the docks. Ask them to
give you a bunch of white lilacs for
me. / intend to brighten UP the inside
of Nine. d'Aspremont's auto. Then
buy yourself a drink"
Very good, sir. But what about
my carr"
Don't worry. I'll wait here and
smoke cigar"
"oh, that's finew And he started off
in hurry.
When he was gone, I glanced around
and saw that there was no one else in
the garage. Then dumped the half.
pound OF sugar into the gasoline tank.
I'll be darned," said to myself,
IF she doesn't get stuck on the road
somewhere with this mixturep'
Then I went back to my usual place
in the dining room. A young ieuten.
ant in the ZOuaves was telling about
his experiences with the commandant
OF the fortress in which he was i'm.
prisoned in Germany. The young
ster's story was most amusing, and
Irma Staub enjoyed it heartily. Count
Tirlemont's laughter, however, was
palpably forced, and finally he left the
table, remarking to his "sister-in-
law:
You know, my dear, that we have
quite few miles to go in the next
few hours. If you are ready. I think
we might leave at once
She nodded her agreement, and we
soon watched them through the win.
dow as they got into the car.
! beckoned to my two lieutenants.
Get into your civilian clothes at
Cafe Glacier. Above all, don't bring
any weapons"
TEN minutes later, as we were get.
ting into an auto driven by a mem.
Der Of the secret service, we saw Irma
Staubs Mercedes go by. It was evi.
IDENTIFY not running smoothly. We fol.
lowed after. although we let her car
get enough of start SO that they
would not realize this.
/ utilized this time to give my COM
panions a sketch of the plan that
had worked out. by means of which
hoped to get possession of the precious
documents.
Until we got to Chiasso we saw
nothing Of the Mercedes. About half
a mile out Of that town we at last
caught sight Of 1t parked on one side
OF the road. Irma Staub was railing
at poor Adolphe, who was quite up in
the air. We pretended not to recog.
nize them and passed by at full speed
on the road to Como.
We nearly ran over Count Tirle-
mont, who had taken his companions
veil to wave to US with. He was
standing in the middle of the road.
What a shame we missed himw
cried g..
1--WE don't know which of them has
the documents" / answered. More.
over. we want them alive-I've other
matters to talk over with Them"
Evening star., 1927-10-23
Where Hearing Ceases.
IN Franco experiments have beer

IN France experiments have been
made showing, 1t Is said, that a
vibration Of sound having an ampli-
tude of less than one twelve-millionth
Of a centimeter could still affect the
sense of hearing. Such a vibration
would be so short that 1t would have
to be enlarged 100 times before the
mostpowerful microscope could render
it visible, supposing that 1t were sus-
ceptible Of being seen at all. Aged
persons do not hear high notes that
are audible to young persons. and
there is reason to believe that babies
hear notes that are inaudible to their
elders.
Evening star., 1927-10-23
Woman's Business Success Depends on Creative Sa
By ANITA M. MUHL. M. D..


Former Assistant Physician at st. EIzabeth's
Hospital.
TT will always be harder for a
woman to succeed in business
than a man because nature has
i loaded her with handicaps from
the start.
Contrary to popular belief. her
handicaps are not physical. If they
were, she might have reason for de-
spair, for nothing that lies within her
power to do will change the physical
characteristics of her sex.
The greatest difficulties which a
woman has to overcome in the bust.
ness world are psychological. In this
fact lies her hope and her opportunity
for explorations in the hitherto al.
most uncharted sea of the mind are
proving to us that the pattern of a
though the pattern of a body-except
for the work of time and the beauty
doctors-must usually remain essen
TALLY the same.
That the physical limitations Of her
sex are not the important limitations
IS visibly proven, no matter in what
direction you choose to look. Among
many primitive people the woman
was, and still is, the field laborer, bur.
den bearer and general man of all
work. Any one who has watched the
immigrant families landing at Ellis
Island has seen the fathers striding
ahead. free and unincumbered. while
their wives followed leading the chill.
dren and carrying on their broad
backs all the family possessions.
Even when the Old World family
learns that this arrangement is not
de riguer in the new country. the
heavy physical labor often continues
10 ran, though not quite so obviously,
on the feminine half Of the combina-
ton. Many an impressive elevator
starter would crumple up IL he had
his wife's job Of scrubbing office floors
at night after a heavy day in the
home kitchen!
No; IL more women fail in business
than men-or rather, IL fewer succeed
1T Is not because of greater physical
handicaps, but because business is.
generally speaking, a man-controlled
anair; because manv women approach
IT in the wrong state of mind, and be.
cause 1t Is. for the majority of them.
only substitute activity for the
great job for which nature nodded
them,
In all their relationships women are
apt to be more personal and more emo.
tional than men. This characteristic
is useful and often endearing outside
the Office, but in the business machine,
Keared so that every foot of space and
every hour Of time should earn its
regular share of the dividends, too
much emotion skaters efficiency, con-
fuses issues, muddles clear thinking
and produces distrust and fear.
OF course, the very fact that wom-
an is usually of the opposite sex from
her boss-a situation which does not
confront the average male employe-
makes getting along more difficult
than it otherwise would be, but this
difficulty need not be exaggerated. A
woman who is eternally sex conscious
I In all her business relationships helps
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calls up the specter of. Johnny run
ming out in the street in front Of
the automobiles. This problem will
probably never be met with com.
plete success from a psychological
angle. though nursery schools. super
vised community Fairgrounds and
labor-saving household devices are
doing a good deal, in a material way.
to take home burdens from the mar
ried woman in business.
All of these handicaps which the
business woman faces are, however,
subordinate to the great handicap
from which most Of them spring-the
fact that business IL, for most women,
Evening star., 1927-10-23

n I T-'s'' description and pho
wv tograph, the officials of the
Belgian Secret Service had
taken the precaution of also
sending me his finger-prints. I had
studied these finger-prints carefully.
A glance was enough to convince me
that they were exactly the same as
those that l now saw on the frame Of
the picture.
After swearing the two French Of
ficers to secrecy, / showed them the
similarity between the finger-prints.
Remember that to everyone except
you I am still Commandant Luneau,"
I warned them.
That they might have no doubts.
told them about the job that / had
under way, and let them know that
was member Of the Counter.Espion.
age Service.
THE devil" exclaimed Lieut.. M,
"then we are safer
Don't be too sure! First of all. we
we must be sure not to make any
Slips
Tirlemont had stolen the papers,
photographed them. and then replaced
them. It was up to me to steal them
back before he could cross the border.
realized that 1 could never find
two better assistants than the victims
of such a disgusting theft, so I told
them who the Baroness d'Aspermont
and Count Tirlemont really were.
c. was furious!
Name Of she-goat! he exclaimed.
81 will kill her with my own hands,"
He was already starting out of the
room, and I had some difficulty re.
straing him.
whats your plan Of campaign"
NJ asked. How can we retrieve
our documents? You know that IL any
dirty work Is necessary. you can count
on us.'
II know! That's why I must ask
you to act as If you had never heard
anything about the AFFAIR."
They protested vigorously. and !
burst out:
Are you going to let me run this
as 1 want to, or not?"
Yes. but you are asking us to do
the impossible" said G.. II know
myself. The first thing will do when
i see Won R will be to slap his
face: That would be something he
can't steall'
'And then?"
And then -. Well, then we'd
see what happened.'
There you arei II he slsips with
your documents. would you be any
better of? Rely on me, do as I say.
and everything viii come out all
right"
THEY were finally convinced and ten
minutes later I went down to the
bar. where I was pleased to see them
sitting at table with Madame d'As.
Fremont and her "'brother-in-law."
They did, it is true, keep a respectful
distance from them. :.
presented my respects to the
Baroness" as il nothing had hap.
pened, and shook hands most cordially
with the Count. Then had break.
fast, and went out as usual for a walk
around town. &C.,
whensI returnedI Il bumped sauareIy
into the chauffeurs OF he Baroness
who was dashing. down, ,the main staif.
case so fast that he almost knocked
me over.
Wen! hope there isn't a fire UP
there" said.
oh, no. commandant! It is merely
that my mistress just called me to say
that we shall have tea today at Como.
So. have just time to get ready"
AT Como. exclaimed. 'well,
that is nice! c., M, and had
Just decided to go there, too. We shall
have the pleasure of seeing the Bar.
oness there. But don't tell her. Then
we will surprise her when we arrive.
When do you leave?"
AT two o'clock, comfnandantr'
Good! We shall probably start
Evening star., 1927-10-23
BUSINESS FOR MERELY SUBSTITUTE ACTIVITY

over night the greatest army of en-
battled males the world has ever
seen. Aside from womans inherent
right to work If she wants to, thou
sands Of families could not face the
grocer without the help of the wife's
pay envelope.
This means. though, that every
married woman in business Is holding
down two jobs, or at least q job and
a half. For marriage brings duties
and responsibilities to a woman that
even the most slSillful servants can
not take from her shoulders. One
hundred per cent concentration is i'm.
possible II, in the middle of planning
an advertising campaign. her mind
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merely substitute activity for child
bearing. @
All Of us possess a greater or less
amount of creative energy. men as
wei! as women. If this energy Is
used to reproduce living human
being. We say that 1t functions at
the biological level" That is. it ex-
presses itself in physical result.
Business does not, in the main, in
terfere with mans natural express
sion of his creative energy. On the
contrary. the urge to produce and
protect a family Is the great force
that turns the wheels of power
houses, filings bridges across OBJ
structing waters and sends great en-
gines and ocean liners flying across
the earth's land and water surface.
But this is not true of the woman
in business. She handles her creative
energy in one of three ways: Stiles
1t in some form of substitute activity
which brings her no real satisfaction.
simply because it is only a substi-
tute; or marries and is thus put un-
der the nervous and physical strain
of double role, that of both home
maker and me-supporter; or sue
ceeds in what psychologists call sub
limating-that is. using her energies
to create constructive ideas and
work.
If this is true, then why isn't sub
limation substitute activity, and
why is 1t more successful?
Because a substitute activity Is
just what it has been called--merely
a substitute, with no thought given
to its suitability. it's constructive
value, or the sense Of ACCOMPLISH
mcnt which one should derive from
it. When, on the other hand, you
have succeeded in sublimating. you
have found some kind of work which
really replaces the work of child
bearing. You are satisfied because
you are creating, not children, but
something less tangible but no less
real. Psychiatrists describe this by
saying that your creative energy is
functioning at the psychological
level"
EOR work to be a real sublimation
it must give woman a sense Of
satisfaction, feeling of accomplish
ment, the Joy Of creation. Selling rib
bon behind the counter Is not likely
to give this feeling, but buying for
that department, building up the best
ribbon counter in town. may do so.
Pounding typewriter all day prob.
ably won't, but being secretary to an
able man and taking part in his con.
structive work probably will. Run.
Evening star., 1927-10-23
BY CHARLES LUCIETO.

w YHEN they gave me Count
n T-'s" description and pho
NV tograph, the officials of the
V Belgian Secret Service had
New Britain herald., 1927-03-17
THREE WILL DIE IN CHAIR TONIGHT
Blind Slayer Of New York
 Woman One Of These

Oss!nins, x. Y. March Y (UP)-
 Unable to see the sunlight Of his last
 day or taste the food Of his farewell meal, Harry Cowan. slayer of Miss
 Edith Burton, sat on the edge of his cot in the death house here today, waiting for the eXecutioner to con- plete what he himself tried 10 do. No indication that Governor Smith will pardon Cowan had come from
 Albany, and there were no friends
 to intarcede for him. His eleCtrocu- ton is set for tonight. ! Cowan shot himself in the head
 after he killed Miss Burton, his
 sweetheart, and although his life 1 was saved, he lost his sight taste
 and the sense Of smell and became
 deaf in one ear.
 ! His sister. Mrs. Gladys Hoff, has
 been his only visitor and now she is l too ill to see him. His wife has , ignored him since he shot Miss
 Burton.
 l Joseph Fria and Joseph Proven
 sana were scheduled to go with him ] to the electric chair. paying the 1 penalty for tho murder of James Lemarde in Rochester
New Britain herald., 1927-03-17
GOLD MADNESS HITS OLD FRONTIER
 FROM ARIZONA TO NORTHERN CALIF

ping Springs region between Globe and Winkleman, AriZ.. where . rich gold strike was reported yesterday.
 Many Of those 10 arrive today changed their plans to go to Weepah, Nev., where new strikes were re- ported following the find of two young prospectors three weeks ago. Nearly all used automobiles in the effort 10 beat prospsctors from the hill country to the latest boom cen- ter.
 Recent heavy rains were respon- sible for the Arizona discovery, min- CTS said. The water washed away the dirt from the dyke Of rock in which the gold ore is located. One of the rivulets carried bits of gold into the adobe hut Of Joe Lee. vet eran sourdough who banned enough gold from the silt left on his floor to cause him hastily 10 start search for the mother lode.
 Other prospectors. seeing his un- usual activity, investigated. The rush followed.
New Britain herald., 1927-03-17
Arizona Gold Rush

Phoenix, Ariz., March II P>- Prospectors, capitalists and treasure seekers today poured into the Drip