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The Washington times., 1927-07-19

ing SO carats, was picked UP by
a Hottentot, who received what
he thought was remarkable
price-500 sheep, 10 oxen, and q
horse. The diamond was easily
sold later at a great price.
The news of the discovery of
this beautiful gem started a for
tune rush, but it was not until
the following year that anything
important was discovered. In that
year they found fertile ground
on the property of De Beers,
where the richest mine in the
world is now located.
Subsequent discoveries at Bull
fontein, Du Toit Pan. De Beers
and Kimberley were so marvellous
that news of them spread all over
the world and great numbers of
people started in search of their
fortune. Gradually there was need
Of capital and individuals had to
give place to companies and the
companies amalgamated. Cecil
Rhodes formed the De Beers Con-
solidated Mines and bought out
all rivals.
The Washington times., 1927-07-19
SECRETS OF
HEALTH
BY DIR. C. A. L. Reed

NERvES." or nervousness.
IN generally means nerveless
ness.
This doesn't necessarily mean
that the nervous system of the
nervous person has absolutely
ceased to function: for, If it had,
the victim would cease to live.
But it does mean that the ner-
vous function is so below par or
above par that it is not harmoni-
ously adjusted to the other func-
lions of the body.
We hear of a nervous break
down." of a "'neurosis," of "ner-
vous exhaustion" all of which
involve disturbed harmony of nerve
function with bodily function.
A neurosis may mean an actual
breaking down of nerve tissue
when it is called organic; or it
may mean disturbed action when
it is called functional.
Fairchild studied the nervous
state in several thousand profess
sional women. including 800 teach
ers.
The latter series contained 240
cases of functional neurosis and
concluded that these conditions
are particularly commin in teach
ers of both sexes, probably
because the constant strain on
the attention and the enforced
contact with many different per-
sonalities.
Hart, on the basis of a long
series of investigations, found that
nervous and mental conditions"
were responsible for 1878 per
cent of the total absence on sick
leave among men, ia per cent in
single women and 17.2 per cent in
married women. :
The 24O cases of Fairchild's in
cluded every form of nervous and
mental disturbance, from slight
fatigue and depressions to certi-
fable insanity. No attempt at
classification was made, but hys.
terra seemed to be very rare; neu-
rasthenia was the most common
and anxiety neurosis a good Sec
ond. The Investigator was struck
by the Importance of nervous
disease as a. cause for unhappi-
ness. The woman with nioperable
cancer is less to be pitied, and
certainly pities herself less, than
some of these neurotics, any one
of whom can blight the lives of
90 children for a year and spread
misery among her relatives and
colleagues. Yet both the cure and
the prevention of the neuroses are
on far less satisfactory basis
than those of physical ailments.
In too many quarters any remedy
other than rest and change of
scene is regarded as black magic.
In all the series the severity of
the breakdown was in inverse
ratio to the alleged cause. Where
the teacher had collapsed as a
result of losing her only child or
seeing her father killed before her
eyes she was back to work with
In a month, shaken but anxious
to carry on. The only exception
was an unhappy love affair.
Where the cause is vague or
trivial the outlook is much more
doubtful.
Overwork is one of the com.
monest alleged reasons for nerv-
GUS breakdown, but Fairchild has
never in the whole Of her expert.
ence seen a single case of seri.
Gus breakdown due to this cause.
The fatigue due TO genuine over
work clears up rapidly with rest,
under good hygienic conditions,
for a few weeks at the outside.
Xhis investigator has never
The Washington times., 1927-07-19
Who Understands Money?
France and Italy Wish They Did

France and Italy both confront currency problem The
Ira and franc fallen since the to oneourh and oneh
respectively of former value present difficult situation
To stabilize currency gold basis Britain and
many have DONE to accept reduction
in currency value ending the hope of those who have
in ultimate complete financial recovery
The sabzng would be hard those whose life savings
invested in government securities in Retes
perpetue for example French people have bought
Petdt paying only three per interest and
reemabe to principal convinced the was
sound France herself.
France and Italy fortunate in possession of populations
intensely industrious and economical With time and the
operation Of other nations and freedom from or both
tries reducing paper money issues might fight their way back
to the old parity Of franc and Ira.
The difficulty that nobody really knows anything scien
hicaly about money least of ALL the high finances How
little they know was shown in this country when they violently
attacked the Federal Reserve system known be their
financial life preserver
The Washington times., 1927-07-19
By ELSIE ROBINSON

when your wandering soul ran
through the jungle on squat,
crooked legs and fought for life
with british hairy hands.
Beautiful memories. ugly memo.
ries-memories helpful or hurt
ful-BUT ALL OF THEM ALIVE.
Yes, the memories are only
asleep in those hidden rooms of
your mind, They wake when you
open the door and quicken into
the life they once had in the
flesh. When you wake the
memories of Hate, or Fear, or
Envy, they live again and set
about their old poisoning. When
you wake the memories of Love,
or noble Ambition, or Courage
or Beauty. they smile and shed
their lovely light upon your
soul.
When you wake a memory you
set a Living Thing to work.
Poor Mary knows that today. A
year ago she lost her child, and
there, in a. dark and pitiful room
of her mind, lie terrible memories
Of shock and suffering; glimpses
The Washington times., 1927-07-19
NEGOTIATIONS
OF A WIFE
BY Helen Rowland
The Tie That Binds

HAVE often wondered what
Il summer resorts" were for.
And, now / KNOW!
A summer resort is a place
that fills you with such a pas.
sionate love of the city, that YOU
will resort TO ANYTHING, Just
to get back to home cooking. hot
running water. and a soft, quiet
bed, again!
A summer hotel is an institu-
ton which inspires you with a
beautiful love of HOME!
There is nothing like con-
slant diet of canned lobster, soft.
shelled crabs, mock turtle soup,
dessicated cream and store cake,
to make you long for good old
roast beef and honest broiled
chops.
There is nothing like dancing,
night after night, in French.
heeled slippers, to make you
yearn for an old pair of mules"
There is nothing like a sue
cession of potatoes parsilade and
pommeS de terres OBrien and
other carefully disguised forms
of food to make you sigh for
an honest baked potato or a plain
boiled "spud."
There is nothing like a few
weeks of ennui, gossip, relaxa-
ton, lounge lizards, and petting
parties on hotel piazza, to
make you dream of a quiet eve
ming in the old morris chair un.
der the old shaded reading lamp,
opposite the dear old familiar
face, behind its newspaper and
its brier pipe.
And there is nothing like get.
ting an inside unexpurgated view
of OTHER women's husbands, TO
make you appreciate your own
taste and judgment in the choice
Of mate.
The married flirt with the wan.
dering eye, the sheik with the
dancing foot; the summer wild
over" with the weakness for
flappers and flattery; the windy
old bore with the passion for
telling long and pointless stories;
the callow youth with the stay
slick hair and the self-complacent
air; the sentimental and mushy
septogenarian; the Rabbit with
the ingrowing egotism; the hus-
bands who crouch at their wives;
the husbands who laugh at their
wives; the husbands who flirt
with other mems wives-all these
make you think tenderly, warmly,
rapturously of the nice, clean,
solid, sensible herman you left
behind you, grabbing in the city,
to pay your hotel bills!
And you say, in your heart,
BLESS him! A poor thing, but
mine OWN, withal.'
And you catch yourself count.
ing the days until you can pack
up and get back HOME-and to
Him!
That's what a summer yaca.
ton is FOR!
1t is the separating link
that binds husband and wife
TOGETHER!
The Washington times., 1927-07-19

did great wrong once. Inc
memories in her room are
gangrenous with remorse. They
sicken Edith when she handles
them and yet she forces herself
into that room because she thinks
this is her "just punishment.
It's all so wrong!
We have no right to wake old
heartbreaks or old sins. There
is neither loyalty or redemption
in such waking. The present
needs all our strength-we have
no right to spoil the present with
sick ghosts from out the past.
We must lock the door to many
rooms in memory and throw away
the key. We must never allow
ourselves to enter those rooms.
1t can be done. We have the
power to go and come in our
mind as we please. We do not
acquire that power easily. We
must fight for it and cultivate it
constantly, but it can be ours il
we so will. And if we would live
life sanely and speedily, we must
acquire it.
SHUT THE DOOR OF THAT
TERRIBLE ROOM IN YOUR
OWN MIND!
The Washington times., 1927-07-19
ONCE-OVERS
Limit Your Circle of Friends

In entertaining do only those whom like do
you invite many whom you dislike?
Is 1t a matter of policy, those whom you entertain?
IL don't pleasure from entertaining those
whom do not should accept receive avor from
such persons
circle smaller and composed only whom you
could enjoy would get of life.
10 have to aabe and pleased in the society Of those
whom merely endure you feel like hypocrte
not?
You think and correctly that your dsa for certain persons
is probably reflection of their mutual disregard
AT times get tired appearing what
You would respect yourself more true yourself
but you carry on to please your vanity
And what does the sham to?
You play others to position many
have reasons OF as little merit for favoring you
The Washington times., 1927-07-19

known a girl break down perma-
nently in the preliminary stages
of the teaching profession who
had not already desired to give
up teaching, usually for financial
or aInorous reasons.
What is called oVerwork is
usually either monotony or lack
of recreation and emotional out
let. Sometimes this is the fault
of relatives, who are apt to make
enormous claims on the time and
money of single women. Many
suffer from misunderstanding
their own needs.
One depressed lady in her late
thirties remarked to Fairchild
that she had been wasting her
time at evening classes when she
should have been learning to fox
trot. Teachers as well as children,
must know how to play il they are
to kssr healthy. Fox trotting
The Washington times., 1927-07-19
In the Diamond Country

KIMBERLY, in South Africa, il
Ia today a city with broad streets,
a fairly large residential section
and a number OF banks, shops,
theaters, churches, and libraries.
1t was originally considered a
part of the Orange Free State,
but when diamonds were discov-
cred, the British bought the land,
which has since yielded many
times the sum paid for it.
The first diamond in South Africa
was found by a poor farmers
little boy. He had been playing
on the bank of the Orange River
and one day came home with a
handful of pebbles he had picked
up. A neighbor noticed one un.
usually pretty stone among the
child's pebbles and offered to buy
it. The child's mother thought it
was just an ordinary pebble and
told the man he might have it.
The man sold it for $500, and
thus started the diamond industry
as we know it today. In 1869 a
marvellous white diamond, weigh
The Washington times., 1927-07-19
LISTEN, WORLD!

YOUR mind is
i a house with
many room s
a n d m a n y
doors.
Some of the
memories ar e
as young as
yesterday, some
60 far back to
your childhood
time and hold
the seed Of many
a. trouble which
has afflicted you
all your life.
And there are
other memories
of things which
Y ur present
body never did
- m e m orr e s
which are your
inheritance from
the whole hui
man race-faint
records of daVS
The Washington times., 1927-07-19

OF a tortured
fac e; broken,
gasping words;
wild prayers
that were not
answered.
IT can't get
over it because
l keep remenn-
bering," cries
Mary. And yet
she keeps o n
touching those
memories and
bleeding with
each touch. She
has a strange
feeling that she
must do this or
she will be dds
loyal" to her
precious dead.
Edith has a
horror chamber
too, in her
mind. Edith
The Washington times., 1927-07-19
WISE SAYINGS

The world is a comedy to those
who think, a tragedy to those who
feel. Horace Walpole.
'Tis expectation makes a blessing
dear; heaven were not heaven if we
knew what it were.
Sucking.
The choicest pleasures of life liz
within the rind of moderation.
Topper.
The Washington times., 1927-07-19

would have been better for her
and for her pupils. One must
sometimes have the stimulus that
comes from gratified desire. A
life of constant repression in q
life of danger.
Evening star., 1927-04-21
15-YEAR- -OLD BOY SCOUT
is REPORTED MISSING
John f. Kelly Began Hike" Eight
Days Ago and Has Not Since
Been Heard From.

John Francis Kelly. is years old,
member of Troop 90. Boy Scouts, hik-
ed away from his home at ll32 JEFF
ferson street eight days ago and is
still hiking, so far as his father, J. j.
Kelly, knows. John having failed to
drop a card home. Last night his fa-
ther appealed to the police TO make
an effort to locate him.
John is student at Gonzaga Col
lege. and on approach of Easter hol-
idays he conceived the idea of going
on a protracted hike but failed to
disclose his plans to his family. He
told a boy friend he thought he would
hike to the home of relatives, but this
statement meant nothing to his par
ents because of their large number
of relatives, the nearest residing in
Philadelphia.
Members of the Kelly family are
not fearful that any harm has come
to the missing boy. lie is in robust
health and we'll able to take care OF
himself, his father said. Police were
told that he is about five feet eight
inches tall and weighs 1876 pounds.
He has light hair and light blue eyes.
When John started on his hike he
wore a gray suit broadcloth shirt
black and white jacket, grayish blue
golf stockings and light tan shoes.
Evening star., 1927-04-21
DESCRIBES ALASKA
A|R7MAPP|NG WORK
Interior Department Official
Tells of Last Years
Expedition.

The aerial map-making expedition
through the mountaious area of
southern Alaska made last year by
the Navy at the request of the Interior
Department proved of inestimable
value to the United States In providing
accurate charts of this vast and
largely unexplored territory as well
as in locating potential power sites
and new salmon spawning grounds.
This belief was voiced by r. III.
Sargent, representative of the Interior
Department on the expedition, last
night in an illustrated lecture on the
accomplishments of the Alaskan sur
vey delivered before the joint SESSION
of the Washington Society of Engi-
neers, held at the National Museum.
Wants Work to Go On.
Mr. Sargent. who is chief topo-
graphical engineer of the Alaskan
branch of the Geological Survey. ex-
pressed the hope that the Navy De-
partment would be able to go on
with the work in cooperation with
the Interior Department and other
Government units.
The lecturer paid high tribute to
the efficient and conscientious services
OF the personnel of the expedition,
which was headed by Lieut.. B. Wyatt,
u. s. n.
Photographic and motion picture
views of the rugged mountain areas
charted by the flyers, taken from the
planes 10000 feet above sea level,
were thrown on the screen during
Mr.. Sargent's lecture. The Looming
amphibianS used for the mapping
work were shown at actual work
Skimming over snow-capped peaks.
while photographers took "shots" of
parallel strips of the country.
250,O00 Square Miles Charted.
Two hundred and fifty thousand
square miles of the Alaskan territory,
most of it virtually inaccessible to land
surveyors, were charted by the Navy
expedition, Mr.. Sargent said. In this
work 10000 feet of film was used, the
speaker said.
The possibilities of the development
of water power was shown in pictures
of great lakes lying high in the
mountains in areas covered with heav-
lily massed timber which might be
raw material for paper pulp manu-
featuring.
Mr.. Sargent. who has made IS or
more trips to Alaska, praised the
SodSb dudIuT AlBHlHOuS6 service. inc
residents of Alaskan towns and other
agencies which co-operated in making
the expedition a success.
Brig. Gen. William H. Bixby, Rear
Admiral Charles Wilson Dyson and
John Hays Hammond were unani-
mously elected to honorary member
ship in the Washington Society of
Engineers.
F.. B. Scheetz, president of the so.
ciety, presided
Evening star., 1927-04-21
WOULD DRY U. S. SHIPS.

Orders designed to prevent bootleg
ging by crews of Shipping Board YES
sells were issued yesterday by Presi-
dent Dalton of the Merchant Fleet
Corporation, who declared 1t was his
purpose to make all Government YES
sells bone dry.
The corporation chief served nat
notice that members OF the crews OF
Government ships found to be direct
ly or indirectly responsible for trans
portation or concealment of liquor or
narcotics would be summarily dis
missed and prosecuted.
Managing agents, operators and
charterers of Shipping Board vessels,
Dalton said, will be held responsible
for the enforcement of the order.
Evening star., 1927-04-21
SEES TEXTILE TROUBLE.

LEWISTON, Me-. April 81 CP.-
Labor troubles in Southern textile
districts within the next three years
and the consequent return to New
England of textile companies which
recently moved to the South were
predicted by Fred Babcock, editor of
Fiber and Fabric, a national maga-
zine, in an address before the An
droscoggin Valley Mill Mems Associa-
ton here last night.
He asserted that Southern textile
manufacturers do not want New Eng
land business moved to the South.
Evening star., 1927-04-21
PLANS OFFICE IN CAPITAL.

NEW YORK, April 81 OP).--William
Gibbs McAdoo. former Secretary of
the Treasury, yesterday affirmed re-
ports that his law firm was to estab-
lish an office in Washington.
A partner of the firm, McAdoo,
Nebiett & O'Connor, will be in charge
of the Washington Office, Mr.. McAdoo
said. He added that he will not give
up his residence in California, al
though he will devote some of his
time to the Washington office.
There is no political significance to
the establishment of the Washington
office, he said, giving as reason for
it's establishment the development of
the firms law practice.
Evening star., 1927-04-21

next--is still "a
mystery TO Ed
nond e urt OF ,
manager and head
designer of the
dressmaking house
of Redfern, in
Paris.
Years of de-
signing women's
clothes for fa-
mou dressmakers
of Paris have not
taught this French
man why women
appear sylphs one
season and plump
cherubs the next.
II have never
u n de rstood, :" he
confesses, how
Evening star., 1927-04-21

women's figures change with the
mode. The fitted Innings of this year
are entirely different from those made
for the same women last year, al
though the women show relatively the
same measurements"
NJ. Courtot is one of the Paris de-
signers who are gently pushing women
toward more feminine lines.
Evening star., 1927-04-21
Women's Figures
Remain Mystery
To French Expert

PARIS. April 21,-The mystery of
women's figures---how the same per-
feet thirty.sixes can look perfect thirty
twos one wear and thirtY.eiGhts the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-18

Statewide usefulness in populous COM
munities.' said the governor. lob
lection is made that 1t is too ex
pensive and cumbersome. At the time
of the adoption of this system | was
one of those who questioned it's ex.
tension to State offices. / believed in
its virtue when used in smaller DO
litical units, where the people had
the opportunity to know candidates
at first hand. In the main | think
it must be admitted that it has been
satisfactory TO che people"
On the prohibition question the
governor said he believed 'in law
observance and law enforcement"
THE eighteenth amendment and
attendant prohibitory laws" he as.
serted will be respected by all law.
abiding citizens and made effective
by every public official.
'"Those who are guilty Of making
and distributing for beverage pur:
poses alcoholic liquors containing
deadly poisons will be subjected to
every rigor of the law. 1t is lust
as much murder to kill with poisoned
beverages as to kill in any other
way. The law should be made ade-
quate to the offense."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-18

terry, as investigation disclosed nc
marks on his body, and Dean Wilbur
Teeters of the Iowa University chem
istry department announced no poison
was found in Elrod's stomach.
Evidence first indicated that Elrod
took poison after receiving letters
from a rival for the affections of his
sweetheart, Miss Veda Bellefeuille. 49,
year-old high school senior Miss Bel
lefeuille told police the letters were
written by herself to arouse Elrod' S
jealousy. Her testimony also dis
closed that she had told Elrod of the
hoax before his death.
Elrod left a note to police express
ing fear that his rival would kill both
himself and Miss Bellefeuille. In
closed was one of the letters from the
supposed rival, who signed as Keith
Clayton" The coroners jury at Mar
shalltown planned to take up the case
again today, and Miss Bellefeuille
may be recalled.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-18
POSTPONES ACTION.
Senate District Body to Consider
Mckinley School Building.

The Senate District committee has
postponed until tomorrow at o'clock
the hearing that was to have been
held this afternoon on the question of
locating the heating plant of the new
Mckinley High School.
Residents OF lexington are pro-
testing against the plan of the Com
missioners to put the plant on the
corner of Second and r streets north
east. contending it should be placed
on the interior OF the large tract ac-
quired for the high school.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-18
FAIL TO GET MAJORITY
FOR LAUSANNE PACT
Vote on Second Article Reported
Approved by 80
to 80.

Although the Senate approved one
article of the Lausanne treaty in
executive session yesterday, the ad-
ministra ton forces failed on this
vote to muster two-thirds majority,
which would be necessary for rati-
flcation of the pact for the re-estab-
lishment of diplomatic and CONNER
cial relations with Turkey.
The test came in executive session
on the second article of the treaty
relating to capitulations. This was
approved by a vote reported to have
been 50 TO So
A final vote on the treaty itself is
expected today, with opponents pre-
dieting it's rejection.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-18
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