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strenuous debate is going in all parts of country
As to whether immortality increasing among young girls
From many of the statements would gather the impress
sion that due to automobiles music hip TASKS
things the proportion Of unchaste girls greater now
il was before the
This is decidedly NOT true
is what each generation has said of the preceding
for centuries In the England of King George III
frequent comment that younger people going the
dogs"
True there petting and necking" parties than
formerly but the proportion which degenerate into
serious affairs is negligible
The interest in athletics among young girls and their
greater indulgence in outdoor life makes their attitude
toward sex much healthier
The almost universal of cosmetics among women and
the desire Of every to make herself attractive as
sble NOT indication Of degeneracy in her morals It
is due to better appreciation of the fact that beautiful
woman is the highest form Of art.
MOI The standard Of conduct the womanhood Of this
country constantly improving They greater respect
and knowledge of their bodies than before
great deal of cy sentimentality which led girls to
make missteps previously has been eliminated by better
understanding of human emotions and instincts
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MEDITATIONS
OF A WIFE
BY Helen Rowland
Cruelty to Dumb.BeIls


TT seems that nothing so terrible
= ever happens, that something
worse cannot happen next week!
The first shock OF the renais.
sance of the derby hat has
scarcely passed-and now, it is
rumored that men will revive
Boards, sideburns and whiskers,
with the coming Of the crocuses!
1t does look as though the
men were determined to discour-
age the last faint flicker of senti-
ment in womenl They are tired
of being loved! They refuse to
be irresistible!
But. dear me. if men don't.
WANT to be kissed, why don't
they try some more humane wax
of defending themselves, such IS
wearing a spiked collar or eating
a fresh onion every morning?
Boards may have been de
rigeur in Victorian DAYS,
when man never kissed a girl
until few days before the wed.
ding, and afterward only on Sun.
days and holidays, and twice on
Christmas day. But tp these
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PAAES " APs
Such is life in our Big Town
In the year 1927. Whose fault
is it?
"The newspapers" cries some
unctuous citizen. They create a
taste for this filth"
mot on your life." retort the
bored gentlemen Of the fourth
estate. Spoiled tripe is no treat
to us. We're not creating tastes
for anything. II you want gar
bage Wen give it to YOU just as
the corner grocer will find you
garlic if you ask for it. But don't
blame us for your depraved
tastes"
The humiliating truth seems to
be that a yen for smutty news
seems as inherent in human
nature as yen to wallow Is
inherent in hog. We liked
questionable gossip before ever
we had newspapers or leased
wires when we had to broad.
cast it by tom-toms or signal
fires across the desert wastes.
In fact, l wouldn't be surprised
to find that they had a Peaches
and Browning scandal on the
ark. and got out daily bulletins.
However, the Big Boys are
closing in on our smutty little
sport.
The British Parliament has re-
Gently passed an act to restrict
the reporting of proceedings in
divorce litigation. and American
legislators are attempting to
follow suit.
4Ong ego. France took = de-
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days OF kiss-as-kiss can, they are
a positive menace.
The very sight of bearded
face closing down on you is
enough to make girl feel weak
and faint and creepy. kissing a
man through a beard is. about as
thrilling as kissing a woman
through crepe veil. 1t gives
you that smothered feeling.
Worse than that, q beard is
absolutely unsanitary now that
the average mans life is just one
lipstick-flavor after another. No
girl could be sure that her lin.
stick germs were thoroughbreds
Petting and whiskers don't mix!
The Clean-shaven face has al
ways been symbolic of the clean.
cut American man. Nobody
COULD be as pure and sweet and
noble and innocent as the aver
age man looks just after a clean
shave! Why doesn't he want to
keep right ON looking that way?
II gives woman chance 10
read 3 mans character in his
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By ELSIE ROBINSON

on the right little, tight little isle.
But at last 1t became too much for
even John Bulls sturdy tummy
and i'm 1926 Parliament passed the
restricting act.
introduced in the New York State
legislature and at the time OF
writing. has received much unex.
pected support. even from the
newspapers themselves.
Make the peddling of all
smut illegal and wen gladly fall
in line" say the big journals.
"Our editors don't want the stuff.
We'd far rather build our circu.
lation. on a cleaner demand, but
il you allow one paper to peddle
It, what are the rest of us going
to do?"
That's reasonable and sincere.
But there's a protest against
such restriction which is also
reasonable and sincere.
This wholesale peddling of
filth is bad" cry the ants.
But IL you clap on the lid you're
going to work greater evil.
Look at France where they
keep such things secret. Any.
one who has money enough can
take the rottenest sort Of a
trumped up divorce case to
France and get away with
murder without peril of pub
licity. Take the fear of public
ity from people and they're
going to run amuck m marriage.
The publication OF shameful
divorce news prevents scandals"
So there you are. Pick your sides.
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QUESTIONS OF
ETIQUETTE
Mrs. Cornelius BeeckElan-
A Casual Greeting
Jar MRS. REECKMAN:

Il NEAES M1t9s 1EE1hM<AGNs
~ / have a young man friend
who went to another State over a
month ago. Al week before he
was supposed to return, he sent
me postcard stating he would
be there for two weeks more. He
also put his address on the card.
/ was speaking to his mother a
few days ago and she told me he
had written to her and stated he
would not return until next
month. Would 1t be proper for
me to write to him? We both
belong to the same club, and /
thought I might write and tell
him of some of the activities of
the club, as I know no one else in
the club. corresponds with him.
A CONSTANT READER.
/ think that, il / were you,
should follow suit" and send a
good looking scenery postal
card" as a little girl / know calls
them. On this just write friend.
ly message. To make such a
point of writing him a letter,
would seem to me bit forced"
The postcard could not be criti-
cized, and you will see him very
soon, in any case.
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mouth and chin, where most of
1t is located, anyway. 1t gives
her an opportunity to admire the
dimple or the cleft In his chin,
and the way his lips turn up at
the corners. 1t makes him look
human and tempting and kiss
able!
Not quarter OF an inch on
Cleopatra's nose, but q BEARD
on Mark Anthony's chin would
have changed the history OF the
world.
Woman's love isn't strong
enough to survive when 1t il
smothered by whiskers!
Darling, wear your fair cheek
plain,
And from whiskers, pray refrain!
Do not, DO not grow heard!
You would look so wild and weird,
That should you attempt to kiss
me,
should only hope you'd miss me!
At our pleading do not scott.
Darling, shave the darned thing
off
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LISTEN, WORLD!
WELL, they're
wv net going

WELL, they're
to give Peaches
any aiimony. So
now we can
settle down and
eat our break.
f@sts In peace.
Queer, that a
whole ma tion
should be con.
cerned with the
prurient affairs
of a silly snip
of a girl and
an even sillier,
elderly admirer.
p apers cram
med. fiji m s
sneared, con-
versation reek.
in g w / t h
p e a c h e $ and
Browning a n d
t h cir maudlin
maneuvers. And
all of us lap
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ICEBERG LORE

THE Ice Patrol is again in.
Il operation on the North At
lantic steamship lanes and win
continue its work until June or
later. 1t is it's duty to locate
icebergs and field ice coming
down from the north. across the
tracks of transatlantic ships. to
determine the southerly, easterly
and westerly limits of the ice,
and to keep ''in touch" with it as
it drifts southwark sending out
daily radio messages to warn nav
igators of the localities where dan
ger turks.
1t would appear from expert
mental investigation, recently de-
scribed in Nature. that the gem
eral impression that ieebergs give
warning of their nearness by
cooling the surface water in their
neighborhood is largely erroneous.
1t seems to be only on the
northerly side, j. e., in the wake
of an iceberg that perceptible
cooling may occur, and the ex-
PLANTATION is as interesting as
In our picture, where the
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speeds given are merely assumed
for the purpose of comparison,
the surface water Is moving in
southerly direction at the rate
OF five miles per unit of time
whatever the unit may bel. while
at the depth OF some hundred
feet the speed Is reduced to three
miles. Then IL the iceberg Is not
grounded it will move with the
average speed of the water. or
about four miles. That being the
case. of course. the surface water
passes the iceberg at the rate of
one mile. and its temperature is
but little affected, except in the
wake of the berg. So, only a
vessel passing through the wake
would have warning from the
cooling of the water.
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BY Garrett P. Servis.

However, even in the wake of
a berg, as shown by the expert.
ments of II. J. Barnes, in the re-
gion where the cold Labrador
current encounters the warmer
waters OF the Gulf Stream, and
where the motion is very slow,
the water, chilled by contact with
the iceberg, sinks vertically
downward along its submerged
TANKS, owing 10 the rapid in
crease of density through the low.
cred temperature, and this in
~duces a tendency of the surround
ing surface water TO draw in to-
ward the berg, thus further mask
ing the cooling effect of the ice.
In case a berg is grounded in
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-04-22
We Invent Well
Not So Good at Using

This country invented teegraphy and uses the invention
than any other nation third all the worlds ele
graph wes 100000 miles, in the United States We
send 200000000 telegraph messages every year SUI.
premacy in telephone service greater We invented
the telephone and we use it.
This country invented the flying machine Perhaps ii
will learn to that also Of these days It hash
learned yet and making much effort to
learn When need flying machines for the postoffce we
rent them paying much per pound That better doing
nothing but isn't much and it makes the pilots work
dangerous
The richest country the world ought to be able to
velop flying machines its without the as
ance of private enterprise any appeal to the lowest
bidder.
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WISE SAYINGS

NTE ARE nearer neighbors to
wv ourselves that Wilderness to
snow, or weight to stone.
Montague.
Things that are not at all are
never lost. Marlowe.
Who are little wise the best
fools be. Donne.
All concord's born of contraries.
Ben Jonson.
Consider
The lilies of the field, whose
bloom is brief;
We are as they;
Like them we fade away.
As doth leaf.
~~Christina G. Rossetti,
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cisive stand in
t his m a t t > r.
Shortly a fte r
the first pas
s a & e of g.
French divorce
a w in Is s 4
a n o t h er law
was passed for.
bidding 1.-The re.
pro d u c t | o n
t h gu g h the
press of what
takes place at
the trial in ac-
tion for d.
vorce." 1t was
many years be-
fore England
t OIL 10 W Q d
Frances exam
pie and during
that time the
penny dread
full" I a b loi d
w a 8 invented
and fhrnya aT1aap
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shallow water, as sometimes hap.
pens on the banks off New
foundland. the chilling may be
more evenly distributed around it,
but the surface effectsis stlll gem
orally slight. A case Is cited Of
a large berg grounded in about
$40 feet of water, where there
WAS no perceptihle change in the
temperature of the surface water
within $50 feet of the edge OF the
ice. But a berg may betray its
presence by its effect upon the
air in producing local fog or mist.
The untrustworthiness OF local
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temperature indications accentu.
ates the value of the Ice Patrol.
whose warnings seem capable of
affording practically absolute Sc
curity. Not many win complain
because these sea scouts diminish
the chances of the traveller to ex-
perience the sensation of sud
denly finding his ship overhung
by the glittering crests Of a
crumbling Greenland iceberg.
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II gives a woman a chance 10
read mans character in his
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-05-05
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.PAN-AMERICAN
FESTIVITIES
OUTLINED
Kelloggs Hosts Tonight /;
Brilliant Reception at
Mexican Embassy
CONTINUED from Page 1ol

Continued from Page 100
Minister Of Greece and Madame
simopoulos. the Minister Of Haiti
and Madame Price, the Minister of
Austria and Madame Prochnik. the
Minister Of Egypt and Madame
Samy Pasha. the Minister of
Czechoslovakia, the Minister OF
Poland and Mime. Ciechanowska,
the Minister of Bulgaria and
Madame Radewa, the Minister Of
Sweden and Madame Bostron, the
Minister of the Dominican Republic
and Madame Morales, the Minister
Of Albania, the Minister of Rumania,
Miss Jeanne CretZiano, the Minister
OF Persia, the Minister of Canada
and Mrs. Massey, the Minister of
the Netherlands and Nine. van
Royen, the Charge D'Affaires Of
Paraguay and Nine. Ramirez, the
Charge D'Affaires of Bolivia and
Nine. de la Barra, Mr., and Mrs.
Henry Getty Chiffon, Of the British
embassy.
Other guests were Representative
and Mrs. Sol Bloom, Miss Vera
Bloom, Commissioner and Mrs
Sidney Taliaferro. Mr.. and Mrs.
Franklin Mott Gunther, Mr.. and
Mrs. Williamson Howell, DR.. Leo
s. Rowe, Admiral and Mrs. Edward
w. Eberle, General and Mrs. Charles
p. Summerall, General and Mrs.
George Barnett, General and Mrs.
John A. Lejeune. General and Mrs.
Dion Williams, Col. and Mrs. u, s.
Grant, 3rd., former Governor and
Mrs. Clifford Pinchot, Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward Heating, Nine. Charles
Philippe Soyez, Miss Lilita Dawson,
Mrs. Emerson Howe, Bishop and
Mrs. Freeman, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
]. Bell, Mr.. N. G. lobe, Miss
Elizabeth lobe. Mrs. r. B. Moran,
Mrs. Warner Gibbs, DR.. and Nine.
Stephen Panaretoff. Mrs. James
Huntington Turner. Mr.. and Mrs.
Breckenridge Long, Mr.. and Mrs.
Roy L. Newhauser, DR.. John C.
Merriam, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry f.
Guggenheim, of Long Island, Mr..
and Mrs. Theodore w. Noyes, DIR.
and Mrs. Davenport White and
DIR. and Mrs. Macpherson Crichton.
A group of important guests from
other cities included: Sebastiao
Sampaio, Brazilian Consul General
New York. Valdivieso Valdes,
Consul Of Chile; julie r. Brewer,
Consul General of Guatemala in
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Mrs. Harold p. Norton, Mrs. James
w. Orme, Mrs. Allan Pope, Mrs.
Francis Riggs, Mrs. William r.
Sands. Mrs. B. r. Saul, the Misses
Saul, Mrs. George F. Scriven, Mrs.
Charles w. Semmes, Mrs. Raphael
Semmes, Mrs. d. C. Shea, Mrs.
Joseph p. Tumulty, Mrs. John
Walsh and Senator Thomas J..
Walsh.
Mrs. Helen Ray Hagner enter.
tanned last evening at dinner at st.
Marks in honor of Miss Halle
Brooke. daughter of Col. ana Mrs.
Mark Brooke. There were 10 guests.
y \
Mrs. J. Davis Brodhead has re.
turned after passing the winter In
Italy. She will not open her house,
but will remain at the Grafton Hotel
several weeks before going West for
the summer.
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etc and the technical side Of his
rapidly maturing art.
Paul Brightehburg win play the
first two movements Of the DeBeriot
Concerto, O major: David Legum,
the third and fourth movements OF
the same work, and Jean Westbrook
will play DeBeriotis ''Fantasie on
Russian Airs"
. A string quartet. composed Of
Isaac Minovich, David Legum, Mr..
Kaspar and Herman Sevelg, the lat.
ter guest" ceIlist, will be heard.
and an ensemble Of % violins viii
play in unison the Borowski "Adora.
tion.y Dora Minovich and Emerson
Myers VIII be at the piano.
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the former Ambassador Of Peru ana
Nine. Pezet, and the delegates from
Panama to the Pan-American con.
Because of the death of Mrs.
George Leonard Smith. wife Of
Lieutenant Commander Smith, the
luncheon, which Miss Mary Page
julien had planned for today has
been postponed until Thursday,
May IL. It will be given at the
Congressional Country Club.
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Music News
Continued from Page 1OJ

Quartet in d. and Brahms Quartet.
G minor, opus 81. No. /.
The Lett Quartet consists OF Hans
Lett, Edwin Bachmann, william
Schubert and Horace Britt. They
VIII be newcomers to us here in
Washington.
The Saturday program at 4:30 con
sists OF the Haydn Quartet in d.
opus 81. No. 5. called "The Lark;
Ravels Quartet in r major, and
again Brahms, In the Quintet IN q
major. opus III, with Hugo Kort.
schak playing the additional viola.
The concerts are In the Elizabeth
Sprague Coolidge Foundation series
and are free to the public, but by
card of admission only. Cards may
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-05-05

Isaac Minovich is playing two
movements Of the Vieuxtemps Vic.
lin Concerto. d minor, Friday eve
ming at the Masonic Auditorium In
the recital of Josef Kaspar's young
violinists that begins at S:15. The
friends Of this violin class are cor
daily invited to attend.
Isaac will also play two Wieniaw.
ski works, the Romance" from the
violin concerto, and the @scherzo
Tarantelle." demanding both the DO.
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TO SAIL FOR
HONEYMOON ABROAD

Mrs. Nicholas James Francis an.
nounces the marriage Of her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Lucille Francis Long, to
Kingman Brewster, which took place
at the Carlton Hotel yesterday at 4
o'clock. The Rev. DR.. Farnum,
clergyman of the Cleveland Park
Congregational Church, performed
the ceremony. Only the immediate
family and close friends of the bride
and bridegroom were present. Mr..
and Mrs. Brewster will sail on the
Olympic on Saturday for a two
months honeymoon abroad, and
upon their return will take possess
sion of their home at ZOOS Wyoming
Ave.
The patrons and patronesses for
the annual dance of the Delta Chi
Fraternity, which will be given in
the patio of the Carlton Hotel Sat.
urday evening are, the District
Commissioner and Mrs. Sidney
Taliaferro, W. w. Bride, corpora
ton counsel of the District of Co.
lun1bia, and Mrs. Bride, Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas W. Brahaney, Mr.. and
Mrs. A. E. Berry, Mr.. and Mrs. w.
H. Hahn and Mr.. and Mrs. Stanley
Willis.
Mrs. s. D. Cowles, of Chicago,
who is visiting in Washington,
entertained guests at the Club
Chantecler last evening.
\ 4
Mr.. and Mrs. Reed Riley. OF
White Post, Virginia. are guests at
the Mayflower.
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SPONSOR ARTS AND
CRAFTS BENEFIT

Lady Isabella Howard, wife of
the British Ambassador, heads the
list Of patrons for the bridge to be
given on Friday evening, May 20.
at Wardman Park Hotel for the
benefit Of st. Gertrudes School of
Arts and Crafts. Others on the list
are: Mrs. Milton e. Allies, Mrs. D.
j. Callahan, Mrs. Washington Lee
Caps, Miss A. c. Connolly, Mrs.
Thomas Cost;gan, Mrs. James
Cousins Mrs. S. A. Drury, Mrs. j.
j. Early, Mrs. James A. Emery,
Mrs. Martha Fitzpatrick, Mrs.
Henry N. Flather, Mrs. James
Gowane, Mrs. John w. Guider,
Mrs. John I. Hama, Mrs. Harry M.
Haynes, the Misses Hickey, Mrs.
r. T, Holden, Mr.. and Mrs. Paul
johnson, Miss Monica Joyce, Mrs.
Irwin Laughlin, Mrs. Louis Lehr,
Mrs. George J. May, Mrs. David K.
Mccarthy. Mrs. John j. Noonan,
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