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The Washington times., 1927-10-10
SECRETS OF
HEALTH
BY DR.. C. A. L. Reed

noes your child seem to have
II difficulty in learning to
read and write? That Is to say,
your child, Of average intelligence
and up in studies with children
of similar age. il backward in
reading and writes poorly. as
compared with other children of
the grade.
Every school teacher and school
medical officer knows Of children
of this type. These children.
even when. after months or years,
they have learned their letters,
cannot translate them into intelli.
gible language. They cannot learn
the conventional meaning of let
tiers.
Very often, however. the same
children are very good at arith-
metic and even read music with
ease.
These children are said to be
suffering from congenital word
blindness. Most children Of SUBJ
normal intelligence have difficulty
with their letters, but the true
word-blind child is one whose
backwardness in learning to read
stands out in vivid contract to his
quickness at other things.
It is important that both
teachers and parents should know
that these children exist and SUI.
fer from a known complaint. Too
often they are overlooked and
simply regarded as inattentive
and dull. Usually, however, they
quickly grasp anything that is
told them. Sometimes they con.
ceal their defect through being
able to hold a book in their hands
and repeat from memory what
they have heard the others say
aloud. The schoolmaster OF the
first case that was ever recorded
said that, If the instruction had
been all oral, the boy would have
been the smartest in school.
Naturally. the ordinary Binet
Simon intelligence tests do not
give fair idea of the real mental
capacity Of these children, and
many Of them are undoubtedly
relegated to low categories-
lower than they really belong to.
Very often 1t is possible to trace
the influence of heredity in this
failing. Two or more brothers
may be afflicted, and it may ap-
pear in members of two or even
three successive generations.
Word blindness is not due to a.
general mental inferiority, because
so many of the children are par
ticularly bright. 1t is in all prob.
ability due to a specific disorder
of those parts of the brain
which regulate sight. The eye
sees the letters, but the part of
the brain that should reduce this
sensation to order and enable it
to be thought about it not there.
The part affected is probably a
small nerve center called the
angular cyrus When this is
injured In any way the patient
becomes word-blind.
In right-handed people the gy:
rus on the left side is the one
that does the reading. Left
handed people read with the right
side cyrus. Another name for
this cyrus is the "word-seeing
center"
Henschen, a great neurologist,
thinks that this word-seeing cen.
ter is divided into many SUBJ
centers, quite apart from one an
other and each performing its
own function. That would ex-
plain why, when the main center
is partially injured, the victim
may become word-blind but still
The Washington times., 1927-10-10
ONCE-OVERS
PLAN TO ENJOY YOUR TRIP

PLAN TO ENJOY YOUR TRIP
Why make automobile trip such haste and at such speed
that you fail to appreciate the beauties of the country
why drive fast that keyed to the highest nervous
tension?
What good does your family derive from trip drive
far each that they tired all the time
any enjoyment out of their travel?
In efforts make keep fixed schedule
probably probably unnerye the members Of your family
Foolish questions and snappy answers pass
You all thoroughly unhappy.
In planning vacation trip would do well to decide
schedule that does not necessate drive
Delays quite frequent takes extra effort up
for them
You are taking the trip because need rest and recreation
Study the country breathe in the fresh the
ties OF section with another that will
ence when get home often between drives
by the travel
The Washington times., 1927-10-10
Really Bone Dry
Lucky If They Do It in 500 Years

Lowman, head Of prohibition enforcement says his
arm gets tired of signing orders dismiss dry agents that
take brides Bribery rampant says he land the country
VIII do well If it becomes dry in fifty years.
would do well if it becomes dry in five hundred years
Use Of alcohol part of life among all successful combative
races for twenty thousand past cannot be eadcated
easily When you make tigers eat grass and lambs meat you
viii force Northern to drink only water.
Also grass diet might change tigers into sheep and
meat diet might make lambs tgersh.
Three hundred million waterdrinng Asatics in India
held down by fewer than hundred thousand GIN beer and
whiskey drinking Britishers resident in India.
The Washington times., 1927-10-10
LISTEN, WORLD!

an THE wallis
" of a lifer's
cell in a peni-
tertiary which l
visited h a n g s
this slogan:
Whats a Lit
tie Thing Like
Life?"
There's a very
gallant gesture
in those six
words, the ges-
ture Of a spirit
which cannot be
bound by prison
bars. We have
shut his body
away but we
cannot jail his
pro u d, c o u
rageous spirit.
He will be cap
tain of his soul
even though his
years are for
feited to fate.
The Washington times., 1927-10-10

make your cell
ever smaller and
m e a n err q n d
darker by your
cowardice a n d
stinginess.
Many people
do that. They
consider them
selves fire e"
but they are, in
reality, far more
imprisoned than
that 1ifer in the
p e mite n t larry
with his chal.
lenge OF fate.
Or you can
refuse to be
bound by your
cell. You can
cry, whats q
little thing like
life? What If
l am COPIED in
its cell? / need
- ,,,,N -nN~v s,v1Svsa&
The Washington times., 1927-10-10

of the brain to grow to the proper,
size and to perform all its func-
tions correctly.
You can see from the forego-
ing facts how important it is for
you to be both patient and care
full with your otherwise bright
child who seems to be dull only
when it comes to reading.
The Washington times., 1927-10-10

be able to read music, figures
and other. signs. Polyglot people
people who know more than one
language) sometimes lose the
power of reading from one tongue
only. The cause of word blind.
ness in children is therefore
probably. a congenital defect in
this center; a failure Of this part
The Washington times., 1927-10-10

There Is no relation between a
man and a woman, which is so
dangerous, or so likely to lead to
love and marriage as that Of EN-.
pIoyer and secretary.
The Washington times., 1927-10-10

Playing together q few hours
every evening does not bring you
half so much en- rapport as work
ing together all day. There Is
nothing like a lot of mutual In
terests to put two people on the
same wire.
The Washington times., 1927-10-10

Marrying your private secretary
Is getting to be a popular Ameri.
can custom.
The Washington times., 1927-10-10

In these days, a man comes to
depenl on his private secretary
more. than he does on his wife.
From sharing his secrets and
keeping his papers in order, she
gradually comes to selecting his
clothes and choosing his Christ.
mas presents TO- him. From pro-
tecting him from intruders and
remembering ais social obligations,
she soon gets to mothering him
and thinking for him.
The Washington times., 1927-10-10
NEGOTIATIONS
OF A WIFE
By Helen Rowland.

Why Marry Your Boss?
TIHoSE whom the gods wish to
i decoy, they first make private
secretaries.
The Washington times., 1927-10-10

mas presents 70. him. From pro-
tecting him from intruders and
remembering his social obligations,
she soon gets to mothering him
and thinking for him.
from being a luxury, she soon
becomes a necessity and positive
addiction. From being merely q
part Of the office ensemble, she
soon becomes his leading lady,
stage director, scene shifter and
property man--to say nothing Of
prompter, alibi, solace and censor.
But, alas, when q man marries
his secretary, takes her out Of
the office and places her in the
HOME. so often all the glamour
departs, and each of them be-
gins to wonder who this total
stranger is!
She is no longer the minister.
ing angel, who saved him from
importunate telephone calls, from
pestiferous women. She is the
woman who does the importunate
telephoning!
She Is no longer the shock.
absorber between him and all the
office pests and Interruptions.
She is one of the interruptionsl
She is no longer his alibi and
his shield, but his mentor and his
QUESTIONABLE.
The change Of frame and set
ting makes the picture look
altogether different!
Catering to a mans palate and
stomach and picking up his
clothes Is not half So thrilling as
sharing his troubles and enthusi-
asrns and inspiring him with new
ideas.
Turning q private secretary
into q wife is turning an asset
into a liability, a helpmate into
a checkmate and a solace into a
responsibility.
II You want to marry a man,
first get a Job as his private Sec
rotary. It's the easiest way, But
WHY marry him. and spoil the
romance7
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-23

Col. and Mrs. Arthur O'Brien will
sail today aboard the Adriatic for
three months in Europe. Col. and
AIRS. O'Brien left Washington shortly
after the marriage of the latter's
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-23

Rosalie Camelier Miss Virginia Min
negerode and Miss Phoebe Kemp.
Mr. and Mrs. Winchester Moves of
New York and their daughter, Miss
Mary Moves, will sail March for
China, where Miss Noyes will be mar
ried upon her arrival to Mr.. Selden
Chaplin, third secretary of the United
States legation at Picking. Mr..
Chaplin is the son of Mrs. Frederick
l.. Chaplin and the late Capt. Chaplin
u. S. n.
DIR. and Mrs Macpherson Crichton
were hosts at dinner last evening in
honor of Senator and Mrs. Royal 5.
Copeland. Covers were laid for IA.
Former Senator and Mrs. A. OWsley
Stanley gave a dinner party last
evening for Miss Fannie Dial, daugh-
ter of former Senator and Mrs.
Nathaniel 3. Dial. Others in the com
pany were Miss Virginia Belvin OF
Richmond, house guest of the hosts;
Miss Georgiana Joyes, Miss Harriet
Stearns Whitford, Miss Margaret
Howard Kerr, Miss Elizabeth Thomp-
son, Mrs. Dorothy. Dial, Mr.. Owsley
Stanley. Mr.. William Stanley, MIR.
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at o'clock, when an interesting pro
gram will be given by Mr.. Maxim
Karolik, tenor, formerly of the Petro.
grad Opera. assisted by Mr.. Kurt Het-
Eel, accompanist, and Mime. Rimsky-
Korsakoff. niece of the late Peter
Tschaikowsky, Russian composer.
Mrs. Xenophen Price was hostess
at luncheon today in her apartment.
Miss Mary Coleman Taylor. whose
marriage to Mr.. George Paul lid
marsh will take place Saturday.
At the reception to be given on Sat.
urday from to $50 o'clock. by Mr..
and Mrs. Cabot Stevens in honor of
Mrs. James J. Davis, the debutante
attendants, in charge of Mrs. William
G. Sterling Gormerly Marguerite Till
mani, Mrs. Charles Albert Scott for
merly Isabella Larner) and Miss Mon
dell, will be Miss Olive Sherry, Miss
Helen Robinson. Miss Sally Lewis,
Miss Barbara Hight, Miss Lucy Lar
ner, Miss Helen Galley, Miss Geor-
giana Joyes. Miss Marguerite Orme,
Miss Harriet Whitford, Miss Mary
Page Julien and Miss Frances Hop
kins.
The officers and their ladies of the
Militia Bureau, War Department,
gave a very delightful dinner and
dance at st. Marks Monday evening.
Maj. Gen. Greed G. Hammond, chief
of the bureau, and Mrs. Hammond
headed the receiving line. There were
about 100 present, including a few
guests.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. p. Cochran have
gone to Bermuda, where they are
staying at the Bermudiana Hotel.
Mr.. and Mrs, Henry Curtis Morris
of Columbia road will sail today from
New York for a three-week stay in
Bermuda
Mrs John Gilman Walling was
hostess to q company of IS at lunch
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SOCIETY
President and Mrs Coolidge Changing
Plans for Entertainment of the
President of Cuba.

daughter, Miss Allison Roebling, tC
Baron van der Elst. which took place
Saturday, and went to New York
where they have been at the Hotel
Ambassador through this week.
Mrs. Schofeld, wife of Comdr. ]. A
Schotield, and Mrs. Lauriston Hannah
luncheon tomorrow at the University
/ Club, in honor of Mrs. Horace Chick
ering of Wilmington. Del.
| Miss Betty McAlister, daughter of
Col. and Mrs. j. A. McAlister, will go
to West Point to spend the week end
with Capt. and Mrs. w. F. Stafford.
Miss Elizabeth A. Greenlees will en-
terrain at bridge this evening in com
| pliment to Miss Elizabeth Dorsey
| whose marriage to Mr.. Donald Holt
will take place Saturday The guests
will number "a and include the wed
ding party.
The ushers for Alice in Wonder
| land" to be given by the Junior
League Saturday morning at 1890
O'Clock. at Keith's Theater, will be
Miss Francesca Mckinney, chairman;
| Miss Dorothy Bierer, Miss Mary Brad
ley, Miss Alice Cults, Miss Charlotte
Childress, Mrs. Theodore p. Noyes,
Miss Louise Clayton, Mrs. Robert
Grain. Miss Katharine Dunlop, Miss
Dorothy Hill, Miss Hlda Anne Hill,
Miss Elizabeth Hume, Mrs. Reeve
Hoover, Mrs. Gerald Linke. Miss Maud
Mason. Miss Florence Marlatt, Miss
Dorothea Morgan, Miss Sidney Neale
Miss Olive Sherley, Miss Lenore Soul
lin. Mrs. Chester A. Snow, Mrs. Stott
and Miss Elizabeth Simms.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jerome n. Bonaparte
are at the Carlton Hotel for several
days en- route from Palm Beach.
where they have been passing the
late Winter, TO Their home in New
York
Mrs. Norman Murray Smith enter
tanned today IN the presidential dining
room of the Mayf1ower with a lunch
con of IL covers in honor of Mrs
Maurice f. Crumpacker, wife of
Representative Crumpacker of Oregon.
who leaves next week for her home
in Portland, and for Mrs. Lewis f.
Watkins, wife of Maj. Watkins, L. S.
A, who returns soon to her home in
Chattanooga, Tenn.
Baroness Won Below was hostess at
luncheon today in honor of Mrs. John
B. Henderson. The other guests were
Mrs. James A. Reed, Mrs. Wood
bridge n. Ferris, Contessa Rogeri di
Villanova, Mrs. Harry K. Haugherty,
Mrs. George G. Thorpe, Mrs. William
A. Rodenberg, Mrs. Charles L. Will
hanson. Mrs. Elbridge Moore, Mrs.
Georgia Knox Berry and Mrs. Mac
pherson Crichton.
Baroness Won Below will entertain
at tea Saturday afternoon.
Last evening Baron and Baroness
Won Below were hosts at dinner in
compliment to the Ambassador of
Chile, Senior Cruchaga, and the Am.
bassador of Cuba and Sonora de
Ferrara.
Mrs. Charles Augustus Hawley gave
luncheon followed by a matinee
party at Keith's yesterday for her
daughter, Miss Carlotta Hawley. The
company included Mrs William G..
Browne; Miss Jean Ulman, Miss Kath-
Jewel, and her daughter, Miss June
Browne; Miss elan Ulman, Miss Kath-
leen Orme, Miss Dorothy Nicholson.
Miss Dorothea Whicover, Miss Betty
Chandler, Miss Amy Chandler, Miss
Elizabeth Ulman, Miss Priscilla
Evans. Miss Heath Evans, Miss
Dorothy Tyrell. Miss Mary Katharine
Spinks, Miss Barbara Wilson. Miss
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con today at the Congressional Coun
try Club in honor of Mrs. Gilbert
Aubrey Davidson, jr., who will shortly
leave Washington to make her home
in San Diego, Calf. The guests are
remaining through the afternoon TO
play bridge.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles j. Brand have
returned to their home at 1861 Cres-
cent place, from q two-week visit in
the South. including Atlanta. Ga;
Hollywood and other points In Florida.
Rear Admiral Richard r.. Leigh.
newly appointed chief of the Bureau
Of Navigation. will be POSTMASTER at
the annual dinner Of the American
Society of Naval Engineers at the
Carlton Hotel this evening. The AS
sistant Secretary Of the Navy for
Aeronautics, Mr.. Edward r. Warner.
will be the principal speaker.
Many people prominent in social and
scientific circles will attend the an
nual Cornell dance and card party to
be given tomorrow evening at 24O0
Sixteenth street for the Washington
Alumni of Cornell University and their
friends. Miss Ruth Peterson is chair
man of the committee in charge.
Members and friends of the Cornell
Club who are sponsoring the affair
are the Minister of China and Nine.
SEE, Lieut.. Comdr. and Mrs. Lewis j..
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Bruce McMullin, Mr.. Richard Zant-
Finger, Mr.. Frank Zantzinger, Mr.. Ned
Farrar, Mr.. Jack Hanna and Mr.. Paul
LuteS.
Mrs. James w. McAndrew enter
tanned at a farewell dinner Sunday
evening in honor of Col. and Mrs. John
l.. Dewitt Other guests We're Col.
Charles r. Rowland, Mrs. L. Zaruak,
Col. and Mrs. Parker Hit Col. and
Mrs. Grunert. Col. and Mrs. George
Perkins and Mrs. Charles Townsend.
Col. Dewitt sails for Geneva on
March 2. replacing Maj. Gen. Harry
a; Smith on the disarmament com
mission.
Miss Goldman Hostess at
Musical This Afternoon.
Miss Martha Goldman has loaned
her house for musical this afternoon
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Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. p.sCochran have
gone to Bermuda, where they are
staying at the Bermudiana Hotel.
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Mrs. John Gilman Walling was
hostess to a company of IS at lunch
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Mr. and Mrs, Henry Curtis Morris
of Columbia road will sail today from
New York for a three-week stay in
Bermuda
Seward daily gateway., 1927-06-10
TWO MEN ARE BELIEVED
 BEEN DROWNED AT FLAT

That one man was drowned while crossing Crooked creek and his com panion is believed to have met the same fate is the information contained in wire sent by Deputy Sam Kincaid at Flatt to United States Marshal Lynn Smith, reports the News Miner.
 The wire said: Al Welch reports raft on which Charles Lindfors and Arthur Kirk were crossing Crooked creek May 19 sank and Kirk was drowned. Lindfors made his way to the bank and went to Barney Welch's
Seward daily gateway., 1927-06-10
LEGAL NOTICE
NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE

F May 31, 1927.
 Notice is hereby given that on the 11th day of June, 1927, at 2 p. m. in the Federal Building at Seward, Alas ka, I will offer for sale to the highest bidder, but at not less than the mini mum appraised price of $1,000.00, the following described property in the townsite of Seward:
 Lot No. 2 of Block 4, Federal Addi- tion, and House No. 3 located on said lot; frame cottage, three rooms, hall |and closet on first floor; three rooms, bath and two closets on second floor. Attention is invited to the terms offered: One-third cash and the bal ance in five equal annual installments, payable in one, two, three, four or five years, respectively, from date of sale, without interest.
 The house may be occupied after payment of the first installment, which must be paid within three days after date of sale. Title will be transferred when payments have been completed
 J. A. RAMSEY,
 Superintendent of Sales, i Alaska Railroad Townsites. Publish June 4, 7, 3 and 10.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-06-10
MARINER HALLS END
 SERIES IF TRIALS
SUIT FOR FEES BROUGHT BY s. F. ATTORNEY DEciDEDEp BY
 DEFENDANT

For all time, the narrowing days for Capt. Christian Klengenberg over the grim tragedy 20 years ago when he, as captain of his ship, shot and killed a man in mutiny, were laid away by Judge James B. Kinney in Superior court in Seattle.
 Forced to twice face trial for the same occurrence on the charge of murder, once before customs officers on a customs ship in the North and again in a Federal court in San Fran cisco, Captain Klengenberg doubly cleared, again was faced with the grim spectre when J. Delmore Lederman, San Francisco attorney, brought suit against him for legal fees in the sec ond trial years ago.
 The trial here, which came to con- clusion, was the result of a suit brought years ago by the San Fran cisco attorney. Captain Klengenberg, however, had returned to his fur gathering lands beyond the Arctic circle, and it was years before pro- cess server caught up with him on one of the captains trips to the United States to sell his furs.
 The jurors returned a verdict in fa- vor of Captain Klengenberg, but Judge Kinne sent them back tQ the jury room and directed them to return with a verdict that not only was he not li- able for the S3,00O the San Francisco attorney demanded with interest, but that the court had found he had not even employed the counsel at any time.
 The verdicts were announced in court and Captain Klengenberg again departed for the land of furs with the prayer on his lips that at last the ghost of former years might now rest forever.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-06-10

Mrs. Fred Wright, wife of one of the proprietors of the D. D. Cafe, in An chorage, is returning home on the steamer Aleutian. Mrs. Wright has been on an extended visit Outside on account of her health.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-06-10

Special deliver of freshly baked goods from II a. m. to 12 o'clock and from 4 to , o'clock in the afternoon. Seward Bakery. Phone Madison s2.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-06-10

camp for help. Lindfors then went to Crooked creek for more help and canoes. He has not been seen since and is supposed to have been drowned. Efforts of search parties to find the bodies have been in vain."
Seward daily gateway., 1927-06-10

Hubert Oliver, son of Mrs. o. Krogh of Matanuska, who has been attending school in the States, ar rives in Seward tomorrow on the steamer Aleutian.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-06-10

Mrs. H. c. Scott, wife of one of the employees of the Alaska Railroad, is a passenger aboard the s. s. Aleutian, due in Seward tomorrow.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-02-16

solution To Monday Puzzle
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-02-16
FINANCIAL Bill
NEAR PASSAGE

The 15-month battle Of Eastern
financial interests for enactment Of
the McFadden-Pepper bill, strength
ening the whole Federal banking
system, neared a close today with
the Senate ready for final vote on
the measure.
The bill will pass easily, Admins
tration leaders predicted, following
the adoption Of a cloture by a vote
Of IS to IS.
The measure then will go to the
White House for the signature Of
President Coolidge as the House al
ready has approved it.
Opposition to the bill, coming
chiefly from the Insurgent bloc,
was strangled by the adoption of
cloture.
Under the limitation of debate go
imposed the Insurgents charged the
bill was being "railroaded" through
Congress without the American peo-
pie being given an opportunity to
learn its possible effects on the ma.
tons financial life.
All charged the bill would estab-
fish a financial octopus under the
Governments control which might
be used at some future date to ruin,
by deflation, any selected section of
the country. r
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-02-16
NEW YORK COTTON

NEW YORK, Feb. 16.-Slight re.
dictionary tendencies accompanied
dealings in the cotton market here
today, largely the reflection Of con.
tinued favorable weather conditions
over the cotton belt, especially in
the southwestern section, and dole
full trade advices from the manufac.
turing centers.
Another disconcerting factor
which assisted in the turning of
sentiment was the failure of trade
demand to broaden out to any ex.
tensive proportions on the upturns.
Insignificant gains were recorded
after the call on buying by the
trade, New Orleans and eastern in
terests for short account, but rap
idly wiped out later on with the
appearance Of increased offerings
from the south and spot houses,
March liquidation also was evil
denced in greater volume, owing to
the proximity of first notice day
in that position.
Noon prices were: March 1887.
down OF; May, $14.12. up OF; July
$14.3S, unchanged and October,
$14.54, unchanged.