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The Washington times., 1927-05-13
LADY OXFORD AND AsQUITH AND THE HON. ANTHONY
ASQUITH.

The world has heard great deal Of the lady in this picture
formerly Mrs Asqu wife Of the British Prime Minister now
Lady Oxford and Asquith the title selected by her husband
and herself when he entered the House Of Lords.
She Margot Tenant before she married Mr. Asuuh
girl great ability and center Of Intelligence mental
energy il London nearly forty years ago
Standing beside her Anthony Asquth her son. brilliant
young Of his time and like his mother and father most
earnest, occupied with REAL things.
This picture illustrates the fact that matter how brilliant
may be- her most satisfactory and best work HER
CHILDREN.
Mrs Asquth daughter the Princess Bbesco recently at
Washington, where her husband the Rumanian Minister
has proved her writings and in her intense political interests
that she inhers her mothers ability That mother you
by her and chin has ability enough for any number
children And her husband formerly Prime Minister
the ables most earnest and sincere Great Britain
Children from such combination OUGHT to do something
worth while.
The Washington times., 1927-05-13
LISTEN, WORLD!
By ELSIE ROBINSON

REM NIB Err Shall We Tell the Truth About
wnen you Ladies?'
The Washington times., 1927-05-13
QUESTIONS OF
ETIQUETTE
BY Cornelius Beeckman-l
The "Pre-Showing"


nEAR MRS. BEEcKMAN:
~ Is 1t proper for the bride
to wear the gift her future hus.
band gives her before the mar.
riage ceremony?
2. How should the bride ac-
knowledge the gifts she has been
given-by q personal letter or q
card? =.
WHETHER or not the bride
Wv wears the groom-to- be's wed.
ding gift before. her wedding day
Is a matter for her own personal
sentiment to decide. There is no
rule about this, but should think
that most brides have an
exquisite sentiment about this,
and wait to wear "the gift Of the
groom on the wedding day.
2. The bride should write a per.
sonal letter Of thanks and APP
probation to every relative and
friend who sends her wedding
gift. It is very bad form for her
to use cards. She should make
each person, each giver. feel the
spirit of her gratitude for the
generous thoughtfulness for her
happiness, and she can do this,
only with her own words-not
with words that someone who
has, nothing to do with the gift
writes for the printer. Indeed,
by their letters of thanks shall
We know the taste and breed.
Ing Of the bride,
The Washington times., 1927-05-13
By Garrett P. Serviss

This little sketch shows what is
meant by wave length and what
by amplitude. The wave length
is measured horizontally from the
beginning to the end OF a COM
plete oscillation. including both
crest and trough. The amplitude
is measured from the median. or
level. line on either side to the
summit Of the crest.
AS already said. the intensity of
light varies with the amplitude of
the waves. and the eve seems to
have first learned to recognize
difference of this kind. Afterward
the process of evolution introduced
the capacity to recognize the diff
ferent colors produced by differ
ence of wave length. After red
and violet came. in the order Of
recognition. the color lying mid
way between the two ends of the
spectrum. viz. green.
Next. 1t is believed. yellow was
included; this was the fourth.
Blue is thought to have followed
of The retina to relatively small
differences increased, the orange,
lying between red and yellow. and
indigo interposed between blue
and violet land still the color least
generally recognizedl took their
ever become able 10 distinguish
places in the gamut of clearly
defined colors. Whether man will
more than these seven definite
colors in the spectrum is an
unanswered question.
The Washington times., 1927-05-13

1t depends upon the state of the
retina of your eye whether your
surroundings have one color OF an
other, or no color at all. The color
is not in the object, but in the
eye, and the eye may be the
victim Of changes imposed upon it
by drugs taken into the stomach.
This Is not only philosophy but
science.
The whole history OF the sense
OF sight and of the perception Of
colors points in the same direc-
ton. Largely from the study of
the phenomena OF color blindness.
the evolution of the color sense
has been traced. Inasmuch as
The Washington times., 1927-05-13

those in whom color blindness Is
nearly complete perceive only red
and violet, which are at the oppo-
site ends of the spectrum of light.
it Is inferred that red and violet
were the first colors to be clearly
Disseminated in the gradual
development of human vision.
Vision began with the percep.
ton of light without color. !. e..
white light. The retina was not
yet sensitive to the effect Of diff
ference of wave length. but only
to difference of intensity. which
depends principally not on wave
length but on the amplitude; while
color depends on wave length.
The Washington times., 1927-05-13

start the engine, before they can
get off to a party.
She waits for him to finish
playing under the car on Sunday
before they can go for q drive
And she waits for him to work
out the puzzle of changing tire
by the roadside before they can
90 ON driving.
She waits for him to recover
from spring infatuation for
some other woman--and for him
to come back to her. full of dis.
illusionment. contrition and alibis.
She waits for him to get bald.
and middle-aged and sensible
And THEN finds shS has to
wait for him to get ovNR his In.
The Washington times., 1927-05-13

have been q reason for this sort
of thing once. When women
were rated as livestock. to be sold
or snapped by their lords and
masters, a lady's reputation was
her chief asset. Robbed of that,
she had neither value nor pro-
lection In cruel world. Naturally
no man with an ounce Of sport
ing blood in him would lightly
condemn q woman to such q
fate.
But those days have passed. A
denied reputation Is no greater
handicap to a woman than 1t Is
to a man. Yet even In the face
of Votes and Jobs and One-Piece
Bathing Suits and every other
conceivable liberty and advantage,
the Dear Girls still insist on act.
ing helpless.
I'm one of them myself, friends
yet / protest that this practice
Is d disgrace to- our sex. It may
be convenient at times, but It
rates us right with children and
idiots. And object. don't
want males to protect me by any
such dubious methods. If there's
blame coming, / am az able
to stand 1t a. any man.
And heartily agree with
the man in Fannie
Hurst's novel "Appasionata'' who
said
II married a hellion. I suppose
that Is a caddish thing to admit,
although NEVER COULD SEE
WHY Al MAN BECOMES Al CAD
FOR SAYING SOMETHING
ABOUT "A WOMAN THAT HE
COULD SAY WITH IMMUNITY
ABOUT A MAN"
The Washington times., 1927-05-13
We Also Shall Fly
Some Day

British arman will attempt flight with one passenger
an American from England to Canada via the Azores Islands
American passenger will pay $4,000 for the trip high price
for being merely freight Two engines developing 900
horsepower will do the work
This Government win watch with interest for the posi-
bes Of flight across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
vital Importance TO Nothing else important Amer
ica's future and security.
Now that the can be flown by planes carrying
explosives and poisonous gases isolation changed to
contguty and at the mercy of ANY flying nation
that send 1000 planes-from little Switzerland to big
China or Russia.
This nation will take real Interest in flying some day and
will develop flying fleet only because hostile armen from
Europe or Asia force to it,
The Washington times., 1927-05-13

You wondered about that then.
You had abundant evidence to
prove that sister wasn't q Nice
Little Girl and you saw no reason
for concealing the fact. IT
Brother Bill had been equally
unnice you could have told him
so without getting a spanking.
Then why couldn't you be equally
frank concerning sister.
Evidently it wasn't healthy to
argue with Mother over the point
but still you wondered.
And the chances are that you're
wondering yet, even though you
may be a big man with whiskers
by this time.
You look around you and you
see many Girlies In the most
select environment, who are any.
thing but Little Comforts. They
lie. They sneak. They waste
money. They are lazy and vain
and conceited and malicious and
bad tempered and generally GUS
sed. II any man possessed a
quarter of their unpleasant
characteristics he'd be dropped
from the club and fired from the
office. Everyone would know the
plain facts about him and pass
the information on. In fact,
everyone would consider it
duty to pass such information on,
as a wholesome warning to other
folks TO look out for Bad Actor.
But can you treat these unde.
slrable Sisters with equal candor7
You can NOT. II you do. you're
rated a Cad.
This IL particularly true In our
divorce courts. where our social
hypocrisy comes to It's choicest
flower, every day some decent
The Washington times., 1927-05-13

dian Summer Madness before I.
Is REALLY ready to settle down.
She waits for him 70 tell hap
what is in his mind, his heart
his bank account and his WILL
and then has to wait until he a.
dead to find out II he told hef
the TRUTH A~
And. after that, abe ~. -
wait a year for him n -
"mourned." before she renna rries.
and starts the waiting.game ali
over againl
All, yes! Woman's role il that
OF lady-in.waiting. from the
moment she starts looking for her
first husband. until she laws the
lilies In her last husbands handsl
The Washington times., 1927-05-13
MEDITATIONS
OF A WIFE
BY Helen Rowland

Woman's Waiting Game
A LMoST any man will tell you
"A that three.quarters of his life
has been spent in waiting for
some woman to powder her nose,
or make up her mind, or meet
him at the corner drugstore, or
remember what's trumps.
But that warrington. woman"
stuff is an old and overworked
alibil
About the last chance woman
has of keeping her husband
WAITING, Is when she loiters
down the aisle from the church
door to the chancel.rail.
And for that she pays with a
LIFETIME OF watchful waiting!
She waits for him to get
through, shaving before she can
get anything out of the medicine
cabinet-and waits for him to get
through reading the newspaper
before she can get anything out
of the conversation.
She waits for him to find his
hat. kiss her good-by and bang
the front door behind him. before
she can start the day with a
light heart
And she waits for him to stroll
leisurely home to dinner, in his
usual circuitous manner, and by
the old zig-zag route. before she
can start the evening.
She waits for him to finish his
salad, his demi-tasse, his cigar,
and the baseball pages before she
breaks the. silence and the bad
news to him.
She waits for him to come out
of his Srouch or his coma, get
into his evening clothes. and
The Washington times., 1927-05-13
COLOR VISION

ITO an extent that may amaze
i one who has not seriously
thought Of the matter, the APP
pearance Of the world around US
is what we ourselves make 1t,
it is governed by our bodily and
mental states. A striking Illus
tration Is furnished by recent ex-
periments at Aberdeen University,
Scotland, with a certain drug
named "santorin," which has the
remarkable effect OF causing those
who have swallowed it to "see
yellow"
The Washington times., 1927-05-13

were q little
boy and got a
spanking be-
cause you told
Sister that she
was a Dirty Pig
m and Awful
Liar and other
equally uncom.
PHI m e n t airy
truths?
r EN- e m b e r
how 8 h o c X e q
a n d an gr y
Mother was and
how she told
y gu. as sh .
applied the slip
per, that Lit
tie Gentlemen
never, NEVER
s a i'd h orrid
things a b o u t
Nice Little
The Washington times., 1927-05-13

Santorin is prepared from the
dried flower heads Of European
wormwood, or absinthe. These are
OF a yellow color, to be sure, but
that does not account for the
effect Of the drug derived from
them In causing the eyes to see
external objects turned yellow.
Some temporary alteration evil
dently takes place in the retina
of the eye under the influence of
the drug.
But such an effect, produced by
such a cause, seems a step to-
ward proof of the teaching Of GER
tain philosophers that the world
OF the senses is clothed in illusion.
The Washington times., 1927-05-13

fellow is brand.
ed as a deserter,
a rake or q
brute, deprived
OF his children
and forced to
pay alimony be-
c q u Sc "chiv-
airy" DEGREES
that he may
n OF tell I h e
truth about a
b a d-te m per ed,
shiftless. a n d
often unfaithful
wife. Or, If he
does tell 1t. he
isn't believed.
BY the very
telling of II he
has committed
a crime t h a I
outweighs any
thing the lady
m a. y possibly
have done.
Evening star., 1927-04-14
Commissioners and Wives
Honor Guests of League.

The Commissioners of the District
of Columbia and their wives, Mr.. and
Mr.. Proctor l.. Dougherty, Mr.. and
Mrs. Sidney A Taliaferro and Col.
and Mrs. Franklin j. Bell, will be the
honor guests Of the District Of Colum-
bia branch of the League of American
Pen Women at the authors breakfast
Of the National League, which takes
place Saturday, at 1890 o'clock, in the
ballroom of the Mayfiower Hotel, and
for which the District branch has
taken seven tables.
Final rehearsals for the pageant,
which is to be one of the attractive
features Of the entertainment program
are being held under the direction of
Mrs. Marie Moore Forrest, general
chairman Of the pageant, and every
thing is in readiness for the staging
of what is expected to be the most
brilliant in the notable series of au-
tf1ofs' breakfasts that have been given
by the league.
Mrs. Stephen B. Elkins, who has
taken a table for the breakfast, will
have among her guests Mr.. and Mrs.
Herbert Adam Gibbons of New York,
Mrs. Minnigerode Andrews and Mrs.
Stoddard Johnston.
Mrs. Edward Nelson Dingley, first
vice president of the National League,
will have among her guests at the
breakfast Mr.. Edward Nelson Ding.
ley, Mr.. and Mrs. William D. Leetch,
Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Andrew J. Hero
Rev. and Mrs. Jason Noble Pierce and
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Payson Terhune
Recent additions to the already long
list of subscribers are Mrs. Charles
Boughton Wood, Mrs. Robert Ash,
Mrs. u. w. Oglesby, Mrs. Van Valzah,
Mrs. Ella K. Gardner, Mrs. Hermann
Bellefeldt. Mrs. Dwight Howerth, Mrs.
John Jay White, Mrs. E. Herbert
Micou Miss Katherine Jacobs and
Miss c. Florence Harper.
The alien property custodian and
Mrs. Howard Sutherland will have
with them for Easter Mrs. B. M,
Hoover of Elkins, w. Va, and Miss
Margaret Sutherland, their daughter,
who will come from New York.
Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook, past
Evening star., 1927-04-14
Spring Dancing Festival
To Benefit Girl Scouts,

The childrens Spring dancing fes.
Hawke for the benefit of the Girl
Scouts Association of the District of
Columbia will be given at the Belasco
April 26 at 2:15 o'clock. Prominent
women have already taken boxes for
the event and are making up theater
parties of young people. A number of
the Girl Scouts will take part. Nine.
Ekengren Is chairman of boxes and
Miss Caroline Thorn vice chairman,
Mrs. John Philip Hill chairman of
patronesses, Mrs. John f. Dryden gen.
eral chairman of tickets and Mrs.
Lindsay Russell chairman of the
Evening star., 1927-04-14

president general of the D. A. r.,
has come from her home, in Cooks
burg to attend the d. A. r. Con-
gress next week and is at the Ward
man Park Hotel. Mrs. Cook will
go to the Willard Hotel tomorrow,
where she will remain during the
sessions of the congress.
Col. u. S. Grant, Sd, head of the
public buildings and parks, was guest
of honor at luncheon yesterday at
the Willard, given by Mr.. j. L. Nagle.
Covers were laid for IA guests.
Mr.. and Mrs. William G.. McAdoo of
Los Angeles arrived in Washington
yesterday and are staying at the May
flower, where they had as their guests
at luncheon yesterday Admiral and
Mrs. Cary Grayson.
An engagement of interest to
Washington is that of Miss Isabelle
de Kergoloy to Mr.. Raimond de
Sayye, son of Viscount and Wis
countess de Sayve of Paris. The WIS.,
countess was formerly Miss Aileen
Evening star., 1927-04-14

Martino, the Ambassador from Mexi.
co and Mrs. Teller. the Ambassador
of Argentina and Nine. Pueyrredon.
the Ambassador from Cuba and Nine.
Ferrara. the Minister of Nicaragua
Evening star., 1927-04-14

The cherry blossom festival to be
given by the National Memorial
Foundation. on the afternoon of April
is at 3 o'clock on Hams Point, with
the Ambassador from Japan and Nine.
Matsudaira and Mrs. William Howard
Taft as honor guests. and Mrs Dwight
f. Davis, Mrs. John B. Henderson
and Mrs. James Brattle Burbank as
honorary chairmen, will have the fol-
lowing distinguished persons in the
reserved section:
The Secretary of State and Mrs.
Kellogg, the Postmaster General and
Mrs. New, Attorney General Sargent,
the Ambassador from Italy and Mrs.
Evening star., 1927-04-14

and Nine. Cesar, the Minister of Vene-
zuela and Nine. de Grisante, the Min
lister of Guatemala and Nine. de San
chez Latour; the Minister of Panama
Continued on Nineteenth Page)
Evening star., 1927-04-14

Miss Lille D. Stichter of Reading,
Pa, who is at the Willard for an in
definite stay, has issued invitations
for a luncheon which she will give
there Saturday for 10 guests.
Evening star., 1927-04-14

Mrs. Thomas s. Crago, widow of the
former Assistant Attorney General,
and her daughter, Miss Ruth Crago,
are at the Wardman Park Hotel for
several weeks, coming from their home
in Waynesburg, Pa.
Evening star., 1927-04-14

Mr.. Marion Duckett announces the
engagement of his daughter, Mrs.
Agnese Wooton, to Mr.. John Boland
Thomas of Baltimore, the wedding to
take place in few months.
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SOCIETY
Ambassador of Cuba and Mime. Ferrara
Issuing Invitations for Reception
to Honor Cuban President.

1908 street northwest for three
months.
| Former Senator and Mrs. Truman II
| Newberry arrived in Washington TINS
morning and are staying at the May
| flower.
Sir Edwin Lutyens, one of the fore
most British architects, who has drawn
the plans for the new British embassy,
is stopping at the Carlton Hotel for
few days. Mr.. Harry Wardman en-
tertained informally at luncheon yes
terday in his honor.
Mr.. Craycroft Schofield will come to
Washington today from the University
of Maryland and will spend his Easter
vacation with his parents, Comdr and
Mrs. Schoheld, on oPrter street.
Miss jeanette Hume, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Rawlins Hume, will leave
Washington this evening in company
with Miss Florence Wetherill, daugh
ter of Mrs. +. II. Wetherill, for Pine
hurst, n. c., where they will be guests
Of Miss Wetherilrs relative, Mrs. w. A.
J. Wilkens, for Easter week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Prescott Galley are Civ
ing a dinner at Chevy Chase Club on
April 20. Miss Nancy Hamilton and
Miss Helen Galley are the guests in
whose honor Mrs. William M. Williams
is giving a luncheon on Easter
Monday.
Mrs. William II. Hollister enter
tained at dinner last night at the Will
lard.
Miss Mary Herbert Watkins and
Miss Rhoda Watkins entertained a
company of 20 last evening at
shower in honor of Miss Virginia Ma
son Nichols, whose marriage to Mr..
Wyatt Yelverton Whitley will take
place Easter week. They were assist
ed in entertaining by their sister-in-
law, Mrs. Daniel S. Watkins of Du
Bois, Pa, who is their guest.
Evening star., 1927-04-14

O'Donnell, daughter of the late Mr..
C. Oliver O'Donnell of Baltimore.
She spent much of her time in
Washington.
DIR. T.. B. Swormstedt has gone to
Wellesley, Mass, to spend Easter with
Evening star., 1927-04-14

Miss Clara May Ruby will entertain
at tea this afternoon from 4 to s o'clock
in compliment to Baroness Won
Ascheteberg. The hostess will be as.
sisted by Mrs. Marion A. Tyler, Mrs.
Fred Thomas of Sandy Spring, Mrs.
Flora B. WEIGH, Mrs. Grace Ruby and
Mrs. William J. Thomas.
Evening star., 1927-04-14

young women's special committee for
tickets.
Mrs. Herbert Hoover. first national
vice president of the Girl Scouts, has
taken a box.
Evening star., 1927-04-14

his son-in-law and daughter, Mr.. and
Mrs. Paul Mansfield. He will return
to Washington Tuesday.
Evening star., 1927-04-14
1921 Connecticut Avenue

Dorothy Weaver is giving bridge luncheon
week after next at the IRON GATE INN.
She said yesterday that she felt so safe in
giving 1t there, because II the weather happened
to be good she could have luncheon served in the
garden. and If it turned out to be rainy and cold
Mrs. Morgan would have fire going in that
lovely old fireplace and no one would mind being
indoors.
Do you remember that day two months ago
when you came up to shop and how It rained
Evening star., 1927-04-14

lunch? was how
and toasted after lunch
in there number Of times then.
from the
Evening star., 1927-04-14

Representative David II. Kincheloe
of Kentucky has gone to Minnesota
and will deliver an address on Jeffer-
son Davis. at st. Paul, where Jefferson
Davis day is being celebrated. Mrs.
Kincheloe has staying with her over
the Easter holiday their niece, Miss
Geneyieye KincheIoe Of Richmond, Va.
Evening star., 1927-04-14

The WILLARD SHOP is con-
tagious, my dear. I found, to my in
finite amusement that there was
not man at the Howards' dinner
the other night who had failed TO
catch it. 1t was the first time in
my life that have ever seen men
hob-nob over clothes as women do.
Even my dinner partner, an Eng
lishman, who had looked most un-
flatteringly bored all evening, be-
came entirely human when / men
toned the place and asked him il he
knew 1t.
Later cornered Allen Rightor
and asked him-"Look here, Allen,
know it's an excellent shop and
all that. but just what is there about
the WILLARD SHOP that is so diff
ferent from all the rest of the
haberdasheries in town? Can you
tell me?"
"I think I can. Aside from their
Evening star., 1927-04-14

The Secretary to the President and
Mrs. Everett Sanders had guests
dining Informally with them last eve
ming in the presidential dining room
OF the MayffOWer
Evening star., 1927-04-14

%HE Ambassador Of Cuba anC
Nine. Ferrara have issued in
vitations for a reception Fri
day evening, April %, at II
o,nlnnlc 81, The nnlh ha SSN- il
Evening star., 1927-04-14

honor of the President Of Cuba, Gen.
Gerardo Machado. Small cards Of ad-
mission to the embassy are inclosed
with the invitations.
Evening star., 1927-04-14

The Assistant Postmaster General
and Mrs. w. Irving Glover and family
are leaving today for Asheville, n. c.,
where they will spend the Easter
HOLIDAYS.
Evening star., 1927-04-14

Mr.. and Mrs. lie Roy Eakin, ac-
companied by their daughter, Miss
Helen Eakin, have returned to Wash
ington from a tour of the world and
are again domiciled at the Mayflower,
where they make their home when
in the city.
Evening star., 1927-04-14

Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook, past
, 1927-12-31
EDITORIAL.

Tomorrow being January 1, New
Years Day. we wish all our readers
A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW
YEAR 1t affords rs much pleasure to
review the activities Of The OLD year and
to note among our subscribers many
who have appeared on our list for many
years, also some new ones. We desire
TO extend our thanks and appreciation to
one and all of our subscribers, and adj
vertisers, readers, and others who have
in one way or another contributed a
measure of support to the Avis. We
trust that the New Year will find US
working together and we crave that
same allowance shown us in the past of
which we may stand in need at odd
times in the future.