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Verify. between men. But, happily
for the honor Of my husbands house
I am not bound to their bargain. It
seems at last that women are to have
a hand. Well. so be it,'
Shall they not do better, then, than
the men before them? Lost you a
husband. a son at a woman's COM
mand?"
Nay, but neither heard I WON
ans voice plead for them"
Just and relentless Wan Lee, q
stone cast in pool sends out ripples
without end. Thus will it be with
you, whether you cast pity or destruc-
ton"
Whether I cast pity or destruction
is beside the mark. Will pity bring
me back my son? And will pity still
the gossips Of the market-place, say
ing as | pass: There goes the covet-
Gus Wan Lee, who for a bag of silver
partered away the honor of her hus-
bands house'?"
of gossiping tongues with his life?"
silence, with the lips of Wan Lee
curling insolently: mot If he Is fleet
OF foot, 0 timorous mother Of On
Yick! Tell him my purpose, and
maybe he shall be swifter in his flight
than the bullet that shall speed to-
ward him.
The serving woman, gathering the
gifts into 'kerchief. and the mother
OF On Yick answering proudly:
He shall be told, in truth"
X X X
IF the news of murder and the gossip
Of the tongs flew on swift wings
through the quarter, what could one
say for the speed with which 1t was
reported that the wife of On Wo Low
had humbled herself before Wan Lee?
The streets hummed with conjec' ire,
turning the shutting feet of Shoe
Shee toward Hung Cows household
Wan Lee met the old hag's question
ing with insolent pride.
And mark you" she said, conclud
ing her description of the encounter,
"how swiftly this staggering cox
comb will vanish. Tomorrow he will
not pass again below my lattice, as is
his daily won't"
Shoe Shee lit cigarette "To stir
a pheasant into swift fight does not
insure a feast" she observed.
Wan Lees lips turned white. Zone
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lotch de dOoz-eef he's from nature
mikk-witt a gantle deesposeetion-
eef-he's a beautifool building wot
it's dere de breecks goot didds-eef it's
de still bimms courage witt welor--eef
it's de fondation weem witt weegor
witt witellity-So I weel tai to you so
If it cisses de axeestance sotch man
idder by holly hage odder by late
hage so is de same deeference. Is
complitt by heem de life irrigoddless-
Is complitt by heem in a shut time a
lung life. JoSt like 1t is condansed wot
it stends complitt human mashinery,
witt no potts messing insite from a
meedget.!.-"
Here he halts an looks around the
crowd fer comments, questions. criti-
clSmS or argumentS-one of the ladies'
faints. Then. havin' exhausted all the
stuff he copied Outa the book he gifts
specific and lights into a biology of
Yussle--Boy, oh boy, there was the
original Unhappy Hooligan. Accord.
ing to the dope the orator spilled in
between tears. Yussle was born wild
hives, hang-nails, Il bit tongue. tight
shoes an bad case of sunboin--He
had two strikes on him from the start
if he wuz a buildin'. as the bloke
said, he shoulda been condemned.
plaster wuz hard times, the founda.
ton Wuz fiat feet. the plumbin' wuz
operations an the roof rubber checks
He always got the paper label on
his bread an busted spring under
his theater seat.
When the eighteen to forty-five
Draft wuz declared. his two missin'
fingers started to grow back--When
he wuz born he wuZ one of them brats
that can't breade--the blacksmit who
wuz a doctor on the side hadda swing
him around to get some air into him
De rope slips and Yussle lands versts
up on the Neysky Prospect wild tree
ribs outa joint just as the Cars car
riage Is passin' and his family gifts
sent to Siberia for trowin'' bombs. His
oily life was just one long pogrom.
Then he decides to hitch hike to
America. To hear the speaker tell it,
he reaches the Swiss border two jumps
ahead Of CosSak troop jist In time
for them to finish the game OF tick
tack toe they was playins ON him Wild
there sabers. He swims Alpses, climbs
rivers and folds fiords. arriyin' at the
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which are spread on the ground like
20 minutes after s. He makes noises
wild his troat, counts the house wild
one, takes a quick look at a few
gatherin' clouds outa the other an
brands witt pipple witt fallow
brodders from de lodge"-he starts off
wild one finger up in the Arrive are
congested here to-gadder today on dees
spot, wot it's by itch one witt hall
from us wulcanized de hearts to-gad-
der like annytink in q common cuzz
wot it conseests from a dipp drift.
Bounded in a bound from tsorrow!i
Fascinated to.gadder in woe.!. Mulded
into a unity witt solidarity from
notwithstanding in conjonc-
tion-itch one drum by a megnet wot
its far from a plasure / assure you'll
"Honly jost bot yesterday it received
one from hour beluffed ones a sum-
MONS! Not for spidding widd de
summons, mine frauds,
bickuss dees brodder deedn't he'd a
mutter-car he should speeding in!
Not for padding without a license a
sommOns-not Twin for domping on
do sidewalk gobbidge q sommons--A
far morr hubble sommons mine frauds
Ito de front from de Great lodge
wheech it's impossible you should send
liz d dltOiiiey Ile Siioulu pay iuS LUZ
you de f1ne-odder he should pust-
punning de Gaze.
''Honly jost bot yesterday was by
oss de membership in goot stending
fife hondred witt feefty fife
To-day is fife hondred witt feefty
FUR
Here lies de rizzon--A dollink riz-
zon.!! A witt a wubby.gunn rizzon-fa
flower in de prime from blooming!-a
tree-a chomming one-a--a beautiful
building gudgeous hedifice colt
gudgeous rizzon!--a westfopl rizzon.
a sed huff rom oss in de cuss from
Occurding to usual mine
frauds is de measurements from "a hui
man bling two scurr years witt ten
Is no.? So you weel heSk me den
why does 1t ewaporate gradually by
some pipple de axeestance by holly
hage?? So weel geeve to you mine
frauds a henswer wheech 1t Is tenta-
mount to hexplanation 30: Eef it's
a man-pure witt simple, grend witt
sober witt staddy witt reli-
able wot he's liable to foinish foist
CHESS rafrances--eef he pays In de
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f"ISHIN'??? repeated Moe Mitzic,
l. squirting down the length of
his cigar in the La Parriesiene
L lunch wagon.
Yeah, wunst / went f1shin';
jist wunst! Bites??? Ha ha--them
fish musta had bunch. They sneak
ed up to me hook--removed me woims
an swan away. Along about noon
| they begin complainin' about the bait.
I wuz thinkin' of temptin' them wild
| a fried FLY of sole or roast Philadel-
phia capon' when l git bite. Yeah
I caught one-Nope-didn't put up a
| wrigglei Never struggled, twisted,
squoimed: no scene Of any kind. Jist
| Topped into the boat an heaved a
sigh Of relief.
Yessir, sigh Of relief, ats what it
| was. That fish just lay on that Shiny
deck in that bleary ocean on that
clammy mornin'-looked up into the
faces of the 50 baloney benders-- an
heaved-a sigh of relief What's
| 'at??? Fishes don't heave no
I suppose the trained f1eas in the flea
coicus don't guess yer name if va
| write it on card neither-huh-well
nyways-y'know speakin' of fish
somehow reminds me of last Thoisday.
You guys ever hear Of Yussle Gins
boig?? Well. last Thoisday was the
foist mornin' that Yussle Ginsboig
wuznt up at am. worryin'-Why??
He wuz dead. Sure the MD. said
so-Huh??-I don't ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
of the stipend or omethin'-Anyways
he had ceased to function as human
being and the foist thing y'know he's
leadin' procession of friends, rela.
tives an lodge brudders includin' me.
self-down Foist avenue, past Ginny
town--throo de Bridge traffic over de
Island-an' out acrost Queens Bully
vard!M
Time before he made that same trip.
Yussle did, by subway, tube, trolley,
bus an pushcart-him pushin'-This
time he's got a automobile-huh-
that's the satire Of it. Well, the cara
van finally pulls up by the little hole
in the side of the white dotted hill
which Is to be Yussle's foist restin'
place. The 1908 machines spill out
the mourners who walk kind of stiff
after the long cramped grind-over to
the spot where the human tear-bomb
is waitin' to deliver the elegy over
the remains OF the dear departed.
They group around-heayin' an puff.
in'--with the strain Of holdin' in the
Mysteries they've been savin' up all
the way out-an' wait for him to
begin.
Well, Mr.. Mark Antony Goddard
one of the lodge brudders-takes his
place.! He's wearin' silk skull cap
over a kind Of a head wit layer Of
blackish hair on it that runs down to
a forehead big enough to hold at least
10 wrinkles. His eyes is popped an
his nose cleaves the air wild swoop
down over a smear of a moustache.
What there is of chin to his face is
kind OF blush in tint an he has jowls
like the things where squoills keep
their spare nuts in. A three-inch-high
''gates-aj jar" collar has him by the
neck like tin band around a bale of
cotton. He's wearin' dark gray
coat wild satin stuff on the edges, over
vests an shots an underwear an a
set Of porous plasters underneat. 1t
seeuas like. His pinsstriped pants legs
do . psrsnthssis .aSwn to his dogs
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On Yick? You have but to command
it, and 1t shall be done,"
And thus he departed. smiling.
For hours after. Wan Lee was
shaken with fury. Was it possible
that she had ever fancied that the
great house of On vVo Low had been
marked for her honor? An unquali-
fed contempt for all males possessed
her. A woman admitted to the de-
liberation of the Suey Sings? Sugar
for the trapping of even so wary
female as Shoe Shee! What would
that toothless old emissary say when
she heard the truth of the matter?
But Shoe Shee knew not only the
truth, but much more. She had heard
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cony, she saw this On Yick pass, and
her satisfaction grew: a. tall, upstand-
ing youth, who almost equaled this
son of hers. A youth, If memory
served her. who in his boyhood had
romped with her first-born In the
cobbled streets.
She felt no personal hatred, but
she was schooled in matching suffer.
ing with suffering. Had not this On
Yick mother? Let her feel the lash
OF bereavement. And, besides. what
woman, being human. could have
gainsaid the honor of having so
mighty a family chosen TO wipe out
: the memory of the See Yup's last
insolencs? For On Wo Low was their
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banana boat by way of foot, hands,
tight ropes. roller skates and pogo
sticks. He puts in twenty-one days
straight seasick an lands In Savan.
nah. Georgia. lookin' like a vertabrea
wild a loose skin on-Some buns tip
him off how to hop freight to New
Yawk. but he gifts on the cow-ketcher
right in the path of the sparks from
the engine--Fer 500 miles he's putin
out fires all over himself an when he
gets booted of the train he lands on
the platform witt nothin' but a pair Of
sox. some trials an a coupla spare
fluctuations. accordin' to the orator
dope. Then his troubles really start
TO begin.
From then on his life up till last
Thoisday reads like the sad examples
the accident insurance companies use
in their advertiser. The bloke tells
how Yussle had gone wild wild joy
celebratin' the Armistice, heavin' pa.
pers an contetty around. an dancin'
q jig in the street wild Mrs. German,
who had tree sons in de outfit-Den
one night finds him sittin' on the coio
stone askin' himself questions out loud
an answerin' 'em. He's got a tele-
gram in his hand from the War De-
partment regrettin' the heroic su.
preme sacrifice of Private Emanuei
Ginsboig.
After i hold that an a few more de-
tails of the time he had wild his wlfe
after the blow affected her nlinah-An
they hadda steer her out to Farming
dale, / fingered that the only tough
break that coulda topped 'em all
would be for him to suddenly sit up
And there WIZ that speaker mourn
in an grievin'-And there wuz all
that mob a-howlin' an a'yowlin-
teariu' their hair-wringin' their
on the ground In fren-
zies--their eyes rollin'-their chins
quiverin up and down--their souls
tortured wild pain, misery. grief an
film the sky witt
their moanin' an groanin' an wailin'--
weepin' and wimperin'-an because
the poor fish was caught--I mean be-
cause Yussle Ginsboig had Topped
over and heaved his ssigh OF relief
fEanxEieht.. 1o1z.h Aa
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And the trembling voice Of a woman

And the trembling voice Of a woman
saying:
20 worthy and compassionate Wan
Lee, behold, you are a savior OF
youth. a drier Of woman,s tears, a dis.
penser of laughter! Truly. there Is
not enough treasure in the world to
measure my gratitude to thee!'
And another voice replying, cutting
the air like thin knife:
THAT being SO. why trouble your.
self with these gauds and trifies? Nay,
put up your giftsr'
A movement Of solicitation from the
two fluttering daughters-in.law.
MAY. you but Jest. Are net the
tarms agreed ppeni" 4-.s:s.sskL..S.
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Gross Exaggerations by a Lunch Wagon:
1t Gives Moe Mitzic Low-Down by Yussle
BY MILF GROSS.

repeated Moe Mitzic,
squirting down the length of
his cigar in the La Parriesiene
lunch wagon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-01
Scores Neglect Of East.

Churchill scores the neglect of the
eastern theaters" of war. and says
the plan OF British and allied war
which would best have served our
interests in the year 1916. would have
been a surprise attack upon the Oar
n
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takes--the decision to march through
Belgium, regardless of bringing Brit
ain into the war; the decision to be-
gin the unrestricted U-boat war, re:
CARELESS of bringing the United States
into the war, and thirdly, the decision
to use the German forces liberated
from Russia in 1918 for final on
slaught in France.
"Of all the grand miscalculations of
the German high command none is
more remarkable than their inability
to comprehend the meaning of war
with the American Union. 1t is per-
haps the browning example of the UNI
wisdom of basing war policy upon
the computation Of material factors
alone.
There is no need to exaggerate
the material assistance given by the
United States to the allies. All that
could be sent was given as fast and
as freely as possible. But the
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RADIO EQUIPMENT
FORSCHOOLSURGED
Should Follow Motion Picture
in instruction Outfit, N. E. A.
Delegates Assert.

BY the Associated Press. a
DALLAS, Tex. March Radio
should follow the motion picture az q
definite part Of schoolroom equipment
teachers attending the convention OF
the department of superintendent of
the National Education Association
here believe.
Radio Is developing new life" Will
liz A. Sutton, superintendent Of
schools at Atlanta. Ga, said. 1t gets
hold of that ethereal element known as
imagination. Curiosity is aroused and
more information is sought"
Sutton told how Atlanta used radio
devices in many courses and found the
equipment of unusual value in illus
trating scientific subjects.
Scores of Devices Inspected.
Scores of radio devices were inspect
Cd by the educators yesterday. follow
ing Sutton's address.
Sixteen branches of the department
were to continue business sessions to-
day.
Poor lighting in American school
rooms is impairing the vision Of thou
sands of children, George d. Strayer
Of Columbia University told educators
here yesterday at the convention of
the department of superintendent.
I'VE need throughout the United
States an overhauling Of old school
buildings, and in many cases the
abandonment Of building and class
rooms that cannot be properly
lighted" he said.
Vision Impairment Stressed.
MIR. Strayer declared that "the fail
ure to provide adequate daylight and
artificial light IL responsible for the
impairment Of the eyesight Of tens
OF thousands Of children
Miss Hazel Crane Hadley, director
Of special classes in the Ohio State
Department of Education, estimated
that IL per cent OF all school children
suffer from defective vision. Sight.
saving classes almost invariably check
further deterioration. she said.
Latest methods of teaching children
who have eye troubles were demon
strated in an exhibit.
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If your little one is out-of-sorts,
won't play, seems sick, languid, not
naturai--suspect the bowels! A tea
spoonful of delicious California Fig
Syrup" given. anytime s,Weetens the
stomach and soon moves the sour
lamentations, gases, poisons and in
digestibIe matter right 5of,t of the
bowels and you have a we'll, playful
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war ended long before the material
power of the United States could be
brought to bear as a decisive or even
as a principal factor. But II
the physical power of the United
States was not in fact applied in any
serious degree to the beating down of
Germany: If, for instance. only a few
score thousand Germans fell by Amer
lean hands, the moral consequence of
the United States joining the allies
was indeed the deciding cause In the
conflict
Refers to President Wilson.
OF President Wilson. Churchill says
in part: president Wilson did not
during the first two and a half years
of the war allow his mind to dwell
upon the German use of force with
out restraint, and still less upon the
ultimate consequences of it's success.
He did not therefore feel that Amer
lean interests were involved from the
outset in the European struggle"
What he did in April. 1917. could
have been done in May. 1915" he
continued. And If done then what
Arrangement of the slaughter; what
sparing of the agony; what ruin. what
Catastrophes would have been pre-
vented - how different would
be the shattered world in which vic
tors and vanquished alike are con-
demned to live!''
The war industries board of the
United States is praised for it's 'reso-
lutte understanding, and broad-minded
co-opera ton with the British ministry
of munitions"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-01
BARBER-BANKER WINS
FIGHT ON EXTRACTION
Illinois Governor Refuses to Turn
Marsino Over to Mas
sachusetts.
Nv the Associated Press.

Hy the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, March 1.-Wanted in
Massachusetts, for Incorporating
funds from the First National Bank
at Warren, Mass, Joseph Mar
sine, former Chicago barber who
turned banker. yesterday won his
fight against extradition when Gov.
Small refused to grant the Massa-
chusetts requisition.
Marsino was brought to Chicago
from the Federal prison at Atlanta,
Ca, where he is serving a four-year
term for Incorporating the Ma
tional Bank funds, to testify at an
involuntary bankruptcy hearing on a
petition filed against him.
Massachusetts authorities were on
hand TO take him into custody on
State charges against him in connec-
ton with the transportation of
5s=s /"
Marsfy1r has served more fhaY n three
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child again.
Millions OF mothers depend upon
this gentle. harmless laxative. 1t
never cramps or overacts. Say Cali
fornia, to your druggist and avoid
counterfeits. Insist upon genuine
California Fig Syrup" which has di-
fections for babies and children of
all ages plainly printed on bottle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-01

Marsino has served more than three
and onesfaif years and with time
Off for good behavior, his term is
about ended.
Evening star., 1927-04-26
FAMILIES TO BE UNITED,

ATLANTA. April 26 CP).-Several
of the South's most prominent and
wealthiest families will be united in
June with the marriage of Miss Nancy
Carr, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Clark
Howell, ST., and William Thomas
Healey.
Miss Carr's father was the late
Julian S. Carr, jr., son of Gen. Julian
S. Carr, Durham, n. c., commander
in-chief of the United Confederate
Veterans. On her maternal side, she
is the granddaughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
]. w. Cannon. Concord, n. c. Mr..
Howell is editor of the Atlanta Consti-
tuition.
Mr. Hea1ey is the son of Mrs.
Graham Johnson and the late William
Thomas Healey sr., families descended
from pioneers of South Carolina and
Georgia
Evening star., 1927-04-26
FOXES FOIL HUNTERS.
English Society Sad as Sir Reynard
Becomes Elusive.

MELTON MOWBRAY, England,
April 26 CP1.--Society's boom bubble.
which began to swell when this town
gained popularity as a hunting GEN.
ter for the Prince of Wales, has sus.
tanned sudden check.
AT the height of the season a
scarcity Of foxes has developed, much
to the encouragement of the fash.
ionable boarding house keepers and
the real estate agents, who had laid
out tracts in anticipation of the de-
mand for houses by members of the
smart set.
On one occasion a hunt partici-
pated in by both the Prince of Wales
and Prince Henry resulted in the rails
Ing Of only a single fox. As a conse-
quence, the impatient riders, includ-
ing the two princes, amused them
selves by holding impromptu races be-
tween coverts which repeatedly were
found to be tenantless.
Evening star., 1927-04-26
RAILROAD FOUND GUILTY
IN FREIGHT RATE CASE
Pennsylvania Company Charged
With Discrimination on Long
and Short Hauls.
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, April 26.-Federal
Judge f. p. Schoonmaker, in an opin-
ion, found the Pennsylvania Railroad
guilty of violating the interstate com
merce act by charging discriminatory
freight rates for long and short hauls.
He ordered judgment entered against
the company.
The company was indicted on 10
counts of violating section 4 of the
act, which provides that common car
riers may not charge higher rates for
a shorter haul than for long haul
Counsel for the company waived a
jury trial.
It takes an extemporaneous speaker
TO talk f1uentlv about nothing
Evening star., 1927-04-26
STORE OWNER HELD UP.
Family Upstairs Unaware as Rob.
Der Gets $40.

A colored bandit held up David
Slackman last night in his store, at
1137 First street, and escaped with 500,
the contents of the cash register.
Pointing revolver at Slackman, the
robber ordered him to put up his
hands. Slackman obeyed, and SO
quietly did the man work that Slack.
mans family, on an upper floor, were
not aware Of the hold-up.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-15

Patent is the shoe
leather for gs'ear
1e1th more conSer-
uatla'e 1lavy or black
costumes:
81 Small tongue
pump with b a c k
lizard calf saddle. SO.
(S) Two eyelet tie
has parchment sad
die strap. $3.50.
90 Two straps and
small cutouts on this
sandal. $3.50.
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Hand. ailored Ties, S1.5O

In new stripes and figures and
vivid colors-these ties are a mascu-
line version of chic! They will har-
monte beautifully with Spring
suits.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-15
Broadcloth or Madras
Shirts, $1.05

The shirts that will be worn with
Easter suits-at a tempting price.
In white, tan, gray or blue or fancy
stripes and figures.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-15

Ind parchment
IS ideal qvjth dress
es ~ rose or any Of
the beige shades:
(4) Square t o e d
sandal with ankle and
instep straps. $40.
80 Short vamp OK
ford with high heel.
Trimming of light
parchment. $3.50.
90 Sandal with cut
outs on vamp. Mesh
calf trim. $3.50.
TsfaarI ausku rsrV,se ~fb
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-15
Plain Silk Socks
Soc, 75c, 81

Socks in plain shades to har-
monte with any suit color. The
fine silk of which they are woven is
both attractive and durable.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-15

The 4-inch garter
welt is a practical
feature of these good
o o kin & stockings.
They are in chiffon
or service weight.
Exclusive with Lans-
burgh's.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-15

Gray shoes, Of
Course, a0ith your
gray green or blae
dress or coat:
(1l Tongue pump
with compose trim
ming. SO.
~ Strap pump with
darker lizard collar
and strap. $3.50.
go Oxford with gun
metal trim. Spanish
heel. $3.50.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-15

The very names
suggest the alluring
subtlety Of the shades
themselves - file 8 h,
pearl, blush, alesan,
shell gray, atmos-
phere and piping
rock.