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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-28

tunity during Lent for a number Of
interesting mornings and luncheon
hours, since the lectures are given
at 1880 and are followed by sub
scription luncheons at o'clock.
Among those who are lending their
names in support of the lectures are
the Secretary Of the Interior, Mr..
Hubert Work: Mrs. Harry S. New.
Representative Edith N. Rogers. Mrs.
Mrs. Sol Bloom, Mrs. w. Harry
Brown, Mrs. Richard p. Crenshaw
Miss Cretziano, Mrs. William r..
Castle. jr.; Mrs. Alvin Dodd, Mrs.
Charles s. Dewey, Mrs. John w.
Dwight. Madame Ekengren, Mrs.
Stephen B. Elkins, Mrs. William
Emory, Mrs. Amos A. Fries. Mrs.
Henry w. Fitch. Madame de Ferrara,
Mrs. Henry Fitzhugh, Mrs. Guy Des-
pard Goff. Mrs. Samuel Jordan Gra
ham, DR.. Thomas II. Green. Mrs. Wal
ton Green, Mrs. John Hamilton. Mrs.
George Huntress, Mrs. William S.
Howell, Madame Hauge, Mrs. Hennen
Jennings. Mrs. John w. Joyes, Mrs. A..
Geary Johnson, Mrs. Charles Kerr.
Mrs. Edward A. Keys, Miss Bessie
Kibbey, Mrs. Lindsay Morehead, Mrs.
Eugene Meyer, jr.; Mrs. James r.
Mann, Mrs. Royal De La Matre Mead,
Mrs. Jessie Emerson Moffett. Mrs.
Rushmore Patterson. Mrs. Edmund
Pendleton, Mrs. Thomas w. Phillips,
Mrs. Thomas Walker Page. Countess
Szechenyi. Mr.. c. Bascom Slemp. Miss
Mary Temple, Mrs. Joseph Washing
ton and Mrs. Harley Payton Wilson.
Miss Mary Isabel Kelly has ar
ranged the second Of a series of
musicales for the American Associa
ton of University Women to be
presented at tea at the clubhouse
this afternoon, February %, the pro-
gram to consist of music by American
composers Special features Of the
program will be the rendition of songs
composed by Mrs. Chester Adair to
poems written by Mrs. Edwin e.
Slosson, club member. and the
presentation Of tone.poem for violin
and piano by Cecil Burleigh, based on
Whittier's poem, "SnowBound." The
contributing artists will be. Mrs.
Wayne B. Wheeler. soprano; Miss
Mary Apple, contralto: Mrs. Rose
Maxwell Dickey. violinist, and Mrs.
Chester Adair and Miss Mary Isabel
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-28

Kelly. pianists. Miss Emma c. Grams
will act as hostess, her assistants
being Mrs. Walter c. Mendelhall. Mrs.
Frank E. Edgington, Mrs. John II.
Weyrich. Mrs. T. NJ. Knappen. MISS
Laura Knott, Mrs. Casenove Lee, Mrs.
Hoar, Mrs. Joseph c. Zirkle and Mrs.
Howard G. Nichols.
The diplomatic hour at the Wom'
ems City Club will hear Mr. James
Gustavus Whitley, consul of Belgium.
speak on that country at 4;30 o'clock
Thursday afternoon. Members OF the
club are invited. but their membership
cards must be presented. Among the
invited guests are Viscount Theophe-
Tide de Lanstshure, Mrs. Frank l..
Bacon, Mrs. Charles Dawes. Senator
and Mrs. George Fl. Moses. Senator
Irvine L. Lenroot. Mrs. Everett Saun-
ders. Mrs. Henry n. Hickey. Mrs. Fred
s. Purnell. Mrs. Foster. Mrs. F'remot,
Mrs. Phillip p. Campbell. Mrs. Charles
Williamson, Mrs. NJ. de Glenn Berry,
Mrs. Theodore d. Robinson. Mrs. VIII
liam G.. Wheeler. Mrs. Porter Dale,
Mr.. and Mrs. c. C. Calhoun. Mrs. Han
son, Mrs. John Thomas Oliphant, Mrs.
Jessie T.. Moffatt, Mr.. and Mrs. Stok-
lev Morgan, Mr.. and Mrs. Fred w.
Wiles. Mr.. and Mrs. +. r. Adams, DIR.
and Mrs Julius Klein. Nine. Roso,
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Hall, Mr.. and Mrs.
Wade Fl. Cooper, Representative and
Mrs. J. Charles Linthicum. Mr.. and
Mrs. William Mather Lewis. Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Snydom and Mrs. Henry
Rainey.
Miss Eleanor Kemp, Miss Catherine
Bannerman. Miss Catherine Beall,
Miss Catherine Strong, Miss Marjorie
Symonds, Miss Dorothy Pullen and
Miss Louis Howell will be the honor
guests at the supper to be held Friday,
March 4, at the Carlton Hotel at 8
o'clock pm, to celebrate the seventy.
fifth anniversary Of the founding OF
Phi Mu Sorority.
The February meeting of the Wild
flower Association will be at the Hotel
Continental this evening at 8 o'clock.
DR.. Edgar T. Wherry, president of the
Washington branch Of the Wild
Flower Preservation Society of Amer.
lea, will give an illustrated talk on
1.-THE Wild Flowers Of the District of
Columbia"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-28

commandment of the fifth naval dis
trict. at Hampton Roads. Va. mas
been toined at Wardman Park HoIei
nv Mrs. Coontz and their oaush'ei'
Miss Bertha. Coontz.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-28

Rrir. Gen. and Mrs. NJ. Gray Zalin-
s,xi are leaving Washington today Tor
a months stay in New York. Gen.
and Mrs. Zalinski have lived at the
Mayfiower since its opening two years
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-28

The series of lectures that has
been arranged for Wednesdays I'm
March at the Mayf1ower Hotel, be-
ginning March 8, under the auspices
of Mrs. Henry F. Dimock and the
committees assisting her, will have as
speakers Wiilmott II. Lewis, Hamlin
Cortland, John Cowper Powys and
Strickland Gillian.
This series will furnish the oppor-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-28

Condesa de Santa Cruz. wife or the
attache of the Spanish embassy, sailed
on the Paris last Saturday with her
father, the Marquis de Lierta. for their
home in Spain. Condo de Santa Cruz
viii close their apartment at the ward
man Park Hotel and will sail on the
Olympic next Saturday to join them.
They win be gone for about two
months.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-02-05
Abbey Is Battle Pledge

Battle abbey, near Hastings, Eng
land, was built to fulfill a novel
pledge made by William the Con-
queror just before his victory there on
October IA, 1906.
When William was arming for the
fight he is said to have inadvertently
put on his shirt of mail with the hind
side in 'front.' Partly in order to avert
the bad omen, he vowed that, IL vic
torious, he would build on the very
site of the battle a great abbey.
1t was finally dedicated by William
Rufus in 1904. At the dissolution Of
the monasteries under Henry VIII, the
buildings were given to Sir Anthony
Browne, who added to the Abbot's
lodge a west wing for the use of his
ward, the Princess Elizabeth The alb
hey still is In excellent preservation.
F. G. Brabant, In 'Rambles In Sus-
sex"
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-02-05

e. Expiatforl "a Criir11e

In the high mountains beyond Nix
ko, lin central Japan, nesties Lake
ChuzenjL, and above it the sacred
mountain Nantai San rears its bare
crest. Once 1t was the dwelling place
Of a pacific Buddhist hermit saint.
Pilgrims from all parts of Japan climb
its steep slopes. They are dressed In
white robes. carry stats and rosaries
in hand, and chant a Buddhist prayer
as they climb. An avenue Of scarlet
lacquer ''torii," or gateways, guides
the pilgrim to the shrine on the sum
NIT.
Near the peak is a bare patch Of
rock, overhanging steep precipice.
On this rock Is heap of swords. dag
gers and other weapons, rusted with
age In ancient times man who had
committed deed Of blood made a pill
grfmage to Nantai San and offered up
his weapon in expiation of his crime.
To the Samurai, the warrior, his
sword was his most priced possession,
and the murderer who sacrificed his
precious sword gave up In atonement
what he valued more than his own life.
This heap of ancient sword blades,
daggers and other weapons can be
seen on Nantai San at present, relic
Of feudal times.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-02-05
sShut-ins" Not Dead to
All Worldly Affairs

The Woman visited a friend at a
sanatorium the other day-one OF
those places in the country where they
try to make convalescence bearable.
She had to wait until she could see her
friend, so she sat down on the porch.
At the far end a group Of women pa
tients were talking with absorbed in
terest.
The one in the wheel chair evident
ly had a great deal to tell. The Wom-
an wondered what 1t could be about.
She knew the story Of those particu-
lar patients. All three had been in
valids for years; they always would
be bound to their chairs and crutches.
Just then she was called, and as she
passed the group she heard: when /
bake tomatoes I fill them with bread
crumbs and butter and :"
"That's just the way 1 fix peppers,
and my husband used to say !"
The Woman went inside. She was
"smilin' round the mouth, but sort Of
teary around the lashes" when she
thought of that hopeful, reminiscent
group Of cooks.-New York Sun
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-02-05
Mirror Made Trouble

To the back veldts Of South Africa
there penetrated one day a traveller,
who possessed many treasures the old
farmer had never seen before. Among
them was mirror.
"Where did you get that7" asked the
farmer, as he gazed into it; ''that pic
ture of my father?"
The traveller did not explain, but
gave 1t to him as souvenir, and 1t
became his most cherished possession.
Every day he looked at his fathers
picture" and kept it carefully locked
up. showing it to no one:
But there came a day when he left
his keys behind, and his wife, who
had long wondered what 1t was he
kept so carefully. started rummaging
and found the mirror.
"Oh," she murmured, as she gazed
into it, $50 that's the cat he's after,
is it?'
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-02-05
NOT Worth Saving

A Scottish gillie who had accompa-
MED a middle-aged ana corpulent Eng
Iishman on a fishing expedition re-
turned alone and announced that the
visitor had fallen into the river and
been drowned.
aThe first time he cam up / grippit
him by the hair, but 1t was wig and
cam ava in ma hand, and doom he
sank. He cam up again an | grippit
him by the collar, an ii was a dickie
and cam ava in my hand, an doom
be sank. A third time he cam up an
/ grippit him by the leg. Losh, it was
cork, an cam ava in ma hand, an
doom he sank. So l said to myself,
'Weel, ma chappie, Ill let you droOn.
Ye're naething but a bag O. rem
nants.'"
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-02-05
Birthstone Old Ornament

Birthstones are among the Oldest
forms Of jewelry. The group of IL
stones, one for each month of the
calendar year. may have been related
to the - stones In the breastplate
worn by the High Priest Aaron as de-
scribed in the Book of Exodus. Each
of the II stones represented one of the
tribes Of the Children Of Israel and
the name of the tribe was inscribed on
the stone. AS early as 1000 B. G.
another high priest, this time IN
Egypt wore breastplate of II
small stones or crosses. Ancient
Egyptian carvings preserve this inter-
esting bit of history. A relationship
between the breastplates of the two
high priests seems probable.-New
York Times.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-02-05
Nothing lNeIU

A scientist says new drug may
abolish the habit Of sleeping. A new
baby has the same effect.-Altoona
Mirror.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-02-05

Dante wrote a sonnet to his Bea-
trice at nine years; Tasso wrote
poetry at ten, and Pascal was pro-
found thinker at the age of thirteen.
Jonathan Edwards was famous at
twelve. Goethe wrote story in sew
en- languages when he was ten; Vol
taire was busy as writer at thirteen,
and Calderon was writing poetry at
the same age.
Victor Hugo composed 'Istamene"
at fifteen, and by the time he was
twenty had published four Of his vol
umes. Pope wrote his ode to "Soli-
tude" at twelve, and his "Pastorals"
four years later. Moore translated
"Anacreon" at thirteen, and Byron
was already writing verses at twelve,
and by the time he was eighteen years
Of age he had published his Hours Of
Idleness."
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-02-05


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The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-02-05
North Carolina Giant

Miles Darden, who was born In
North Carolina, in 1913. and died IL
Harden county. Tennessee. January .
1857. was the worlds biggest man
claims the North Carolina Historical
Review. He was feet 6 inches tall
and weighed a little more than 1.OOo
pounds
Thirteen and half yards Of cloth
one yard wide were required to make
him a coat. When he died "a yards
of black velvet were needed to cover
the sides and lid Of his coffin. This
was s feet long. only / inch less than
8 feet deep and was 81 inches broad
Miles Darden lived a quiet, unevent-
full life; apart from his world record
size he seems to have been a hard
working, ordinary man.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-02-05

The girl who uses an embroidery
needle today is praeticing an art that
was highly developed in Egypt 5000
years ago.
The accomplishment was brought
from Egypt to Europe, and was also
highly developed in early Greece and
Rome. The women of medieval days
In Europe were excellent at 1t, and
many splendid ornaments were made
for churches and monasteries. At the
present time the Orient leads in the
art, with the work Of the Chinese
probably being the most elaborate.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-02-05
AIways Polite

The manager of the isolated factory
had received a letter from a woman
stating that her husband, who worked
In the factory. had sent her no money
for weeks and weeks.
So the manager, kindly man, sent
for the delinquent there and then.
Jackson" he said. when the man
made his appearance, do you ever
send your wife anything when you
writer"
"Oh, yes, sir" answered the other,
brightly, always my k1ndegt re
CARDS"
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-02-05
Sharp

"Oh, DOCTOR" cried a wlld-eyed man,
II am dreadfully afflicted The ghosts
Of my departed relatives come and
perch on the tops of the fenceposts all
round my garden when dusk is fall
ing. 1 can look out onto the cleaning
any evening and see couple Of doz-
en- spooks sitting on top of the posts,
waiting, waiting, waiting! What shall
I do?'
SHARPEN the tops Of the posts"
came the cool reply.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-02-05
Little Sermon
Lo, the young intellectual
He is esthetic.

Lo, the young intellectualI
He is esthetic.
He dwelleth among his kind and
talketh confidently Of his art. He let
teth his hair grow long and discourseth
of Freud. He shaveth not, but he I'M
derstandeth the futuristic. He laugh
eth to scorn the conventions and
prateth of free love. He derideth in
dustry.
And yet, being hungry, he buyeth
sustenance with money which his
father hath earned. For he remain
eth esthetic only SO long as he is COM
Portable.
So we mock him, knowing in our
hearts that we, too. would be esthetic.
But for the absence Of rich fathers.
kansas City Times.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-02-05
"VoicinR" Piano

In voicing piano the hammers are
softened in order to make the tone
more uniform. This process does not
prevent a piano from being tuned aft
erward.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1927-04-21
INDUSTRIAL GROWTH OF
SOUTH Is INCREASING

Atlanta, April 20.-That the South
is, tending rapidly toward industrial
development and is now far from be-
ing who'll yam agricultural section, de-
pendent upon cotton, was pointed out
here today by business men and man
ufacturers.
Figures made public by railroad in
dustrial agents show the overwhelm-
ing superiority in the total value of
manufactured and mineral products
over the value of agricultural prod
ucts on one or more of the railway
systems.
1t is, of course, true that more peo-
pie are engaged in agriculture than
in manufactures, but the number of
employees in factories and mines is
steadily gaining on the number of
farmers and farm hands, and this
change will go on rapidly for years to
come, it was predicted here
The assertion is made and strongly
corroborated by national trade jour-
mails, that the South, with all its vast
agricultural interests, is no longer de-
pendent upon one line of agriculture,
such, for instance, as cotton, but that
with industrial growth there will be
created home market for all the di-
versified products of southern farms
and that any hysteria based on the
thought that the low price of cotton
this year will retard the progress and
prosperity of the South to any mark
ed degree, is wholly erroneous.
Industry's Rapid Growth
How rapid has been the South's
industrial development is shown by
the fact that in 1910 the gross value |
of manufactures and mineral prod
ucts in siv statef faw ftmem nm
ucts in six states of one railroad sys- !
tenn was S1,057, 100000 as compared |
with a total gross value of agricul
tural products of S955, 100000. In 13
years, with the census compilation of
1928, the value of the manufactures
and mineral products increased more
than 800 per cent.
Atlanta business men point to the
fact that the industrial development
is coming along to add to the wealth
Of the South, to add to its home de-
nand for the diversified farm prod
lcts, and this will be more and more
intensified by the low price of cotton.
Farmers are advised by the experts
If the state agricultural department
20 raise all their food and feed sup
plies and make cotton their surplus
crop.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1927-04-21
CIGARETTE DEMAND
MAKES MARKET FOR
LIGHTER TOBACCO

Washington, April 20.-American
tobacco growers are faced with diff
cult problems due to rapid changes
that have taken place in market re-
quirements, the federal department
of agriculture announced Tuesday.
For several years there has been a
tendency both at home and abroad
for cigarette consumption to outrun
the consumption of pipe, chewing, CT
gar and snuff tobacco. This tendency,
which is expected to continue, has
produced sharp contrasts in the posi-
ton of various groups Of tobacco
producers. Growers of the lighter to-
bacco, suitable for cigarette manufac-
ture, are selling their output at good
prices on an expanding market, while
the growers Of dark fired and dark
air-cured types of tobacco seem com
PEELED to reduce their production.
A study of foreign tobacco markets
made by the federal department of
agriculture indicates that competition
is increasing strongly in the produc-
ton of dark tobacco Moreover, pres
sure is stronger in the inferior than
in the better grades. American grow
ers are accordingly advised to i'm
prove the quality of their leaf. Atten-
ton to the foreign market situation is |
the department said, be-
cause more than one third of the to- !
bacco crop of the United States is
exported annually In 1926 the
of manufactured tobacco
exported totalled 478, 1887 pounds,
or 36.1 per cent of the total United
States crop Most of our exported to-
bacco goes to western Europe and the
Orient, with Great Britain and China
the most important mar
lets.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1927-04-21

know aDOuC i AulhC. EOA ~ h0o AS'SA
failed to help me.
"For some time my stomach was In
such bad shape that could not eat a
great many things without suffering.
Meats and cabbage disagreed with me.
NV troubles became worse. i felt weak
and had to drive myself to work. AL
though / would be too sleepy to sit up
in a chair could not sleep in bed. In
search for relief l began taking Tanlac.
"Since then Tanlac has always benin
our house. 1t brought me relief. can
eateverything, even cold lunches, with
out suffering. 1t built up my strength
and gave me good health. My i3-year,
old boy is taking this tonic now. And
it is helping him to keep his strength
through the growing years. "
Tanlac, Natures remedy made from
roots, barks and herbs, is sold by your
druggist. First bottle shows amazing re-
suits. More than 40 million bottles sold.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1927-04-21
CLAIMS CELLS OF CANCER
NOURISHED BY SUGAR

Chicago, April 16.-One of the
most important steps yet made to-
ward the control of cancer is believ-
ed to have been completed, according
to paper made public by the Illinois
branch of the American Society for
the Control of Cancer. 1t is by DR..
Joseph C. Bloodgood, of Johns Hop
kins University, and was read at a
meeting Tuesday.
The paper sets forth some of the
findings of Prof. R. Beirich, director
of the Institute for Cancer at Ham
burg, Germany, who regards the most
dreaded of human maladies as a re-
suit of the action of sugar on cancer
cells, leading to the accumulation Of
Tactic acid in the tumor tissue.
Our Investigations show" DR.. Bel
rich declares, that Tactic acid is pro-
duced by all chemically active cells,
cancer cells and cells of the muscles.
1t results from the burning up Of
sugar within the tissues. Normally,
Tactic acid is reconverted into sugar,
but this normal procedure is believed
to be prevented only in the case of
cancer"
Then, according to the theory, this
excess of Tactic acid is not carried
away by the blood stream, but instead
it concentrates within the tissue and
destroys it. When the tissue along
side cancer cells is destroyed, the cam
Ger cells grow into the normal tissue,
which explains the capacity of the
malignant growth to invade neighbor-
ing tissue.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1927-04-21
TUNNEL TOO SMALL

West Portal, N. 1.-The LeHigh
Valley railroad is spending $3,0OO,-
900 to make an old tunnel fit its new
freight cars.
The railroad found that twentieth
century freight cars wouldn't squeeze
into its nineteenth century tunnel
through Muscanetcong mountain, so
it is charging the tunnel.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1927-04-21
Producer to Consumer

do you think poultry-keeping
pays?"
"Well, that | don't know; but l
think it pays my boy Tom"
Flows that"
"Well,, you see, l bought him the
fowls, have to pay for their keep,
buy the eggs from him when there
are any, and he eats them"