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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-11-29
Will Legislation Stop Fad"
Marriages Here?

- oNGREsS will probably be too busy and its coming
~ session short reach Of the bills pending
for example the bin Of Representative Hammer Of North
Carolina to protect the sanct and preserve the mstu
ton Of marriage within the District Of Columbia "
The bin makes unlawful for any person @ persons 70
into, contract Of be party to marriage commonly
known the companionate or trial marriage
Introduced BY Mr. Hammer last February, during the
nationwide controversy trial marriages the Dill was
acted By Congress Il received strong approval
and some soothing. ...
the man shall responsible for the support OF the
wife and the wife shall not be obliged to live in the home
Of her husband but they will cohabt IS husband ana W.
for limited period and at the expiration OF the SAID
time either party may desire divorce me csner
will agree to consent resist the same briefly that
the Of matrmcny shall not be permanent except AZ
the option Of the parties
The bill if il became law would soak all taking part
Conviction would bring fines ranging from $lOO 70 SouU
or imprisonment from six months to tive years
Punishment would be the for any or AL persons
promoting encouraging or bringing about or conspng g
bring about any such companiOnate marriage. S.
bridesmaids best men, mothers flower girls Or anybody
else in on the deal would be fined sent to prison
Probably no law no established convention Of society will
be able to stop fad marriages here or anywhere else
but Is great pity that marriage contracts are gettng
so that they not entered into with the soemnl
and serious determination that characterized marriages Of
other days s...
10 some extent ali marriages trial marriages but
well disposed people enter upon the marriage bonds with
every honest purpose to those bonds and
TO rive and take LIES affairs There Is no mental
reservation previous agreement that nules the sanct
Mr. Hammers bin prohibits prenuptial agreements looking
To divorce later on desired by either party and IN that
he seeks to make socetys wise regulations binding BY law
ANY law along the lines proposed by Mr. Hammer would
bs useless applied to the District Of Columbia alone
own terms They would 60 outside the District 70 be
Joined in Wedlock
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-11-29
THANKSGIVING
BY DR.. Frank Crane

FTy THANKSGIVING is matter of fact 1t is attitude
look situation, balance the
= how good things and how many
bad things and arrive arhmetcay at the OF thank
fulness.
A confirmed invalid, blind onelegged be
hanu and favorite of fortune, good health may be
ungrateful.
Thanfulne is like what said of Boston Boston" he
said, is not location. Boston is state of mind
Thandulness of gratitude toward
whatever Gods will be-" and pessimm just querulous
and faut-finding state of mind.
Anybody therefore, be thankful At least he to
himself: Cheer up! 1t might be worse
1t largely of habit People into the
of walking in the of skulkng in the shadows.
change that doggedy about it. Many
has climbed of the and cloud of
into the light of cheerfulness by sheer will power
Abraham Lincoln said that he had observed that
about happy they had made their minds be-
In the of hankfunes it certainly that Virtue
its reward 1t is good thing in itself 1t is better to be
thankful vegetables
with which them For all the food the world all the
clothing in the world cannot render happy who habtuay
unthankful
being good per brings goods
its train.
usually efficient
They agreeable live with And altogether like
would people
like you-and everybody does-culvate thankfulness.
nasty critical MIND complaining dissatisfied
be at times interesting, but who live with him.
Thankfuness not to be reasoned by thinking
always something If YOU are to be
hung be thankful that it will be and not
halter -
n. Mcclure dicste
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-11-29
HERBERr HOOVER AZ box COZ YOUR RIGHT

yv7HENEVER you see nice little boy recently born ycu
w say 10 the mother ne viii be President some day THE
mother always believes You say II when you see
little girl baby also these days for girl COULD y rrss
dent women would consent vote for another woman
they recently voted for Herbert Hoover.
This picture shows You that the thing really happens and
that boy with no particular start ii life CAN BE PREsI
DENT If HE WORKS
The boy on Tie right with his older brother Theodore 81
side him and his Mary sitting down Herbert Hoover
recently elected President Of the United States
he born little farmhouse His father had nc money
ID give him he had no special opportunities Just the chance
Of the average American boy.
BUT HE WORKED He never stopped working Even
SUCCESS most dangerous Of al things could not diminish
his ambition Or him feel satisfied with himself
The real danger line" that the tooth powder advertise
rnent spealxs Of is the line Of self-satisfacton.
When you reach that line. COOLEY TO FUTURE GLoRY.
Herbert Hoover was never satisfied satisfied yet
although he has elected President BY vote bigger BY
many millions than any man in America ever got.
He won't be satisfied until he say that the engineering
skill he developed throughout his life has solved his ccuns
pressing problems started work that will never be abandoned
By the people Of the United States until this country deserts
and swamps disappeared and is supply put
the reach Of all
AND EVEN THEN HERBERT HOOVER WON'T BE
SATISFIED.
FOR the right kind Of man NEVER satisfied. Whatever
he may do he little however much ne
accomphes he realizes that infinitely more remains TO pc
DONE
However people should be grateful to have man VINO
understands counys problems and how to solve them
Herbert Hoover was fourteen years old when this picture
was taken in 1888 May he live until 1883 and work AL the
time And may millions of American boys be inspired py MS
example They cant all be President only twenty-five u
hundred years at most and usually fewer with the twoer
arrangement.
But they can all be WORTH WHILE, and that's all an
American boy wants
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-11-29
NEGOTIATIONS
OF A WIFE
by Helen Rowland
TIME was, when girl knew
i exactly WHY she wanted TO

TIME was, when girl knew
i exactly WHY she wanted TO
marry.
She wanted love She wanted
home. She wanted children.
She wanted provider. Or she
wanted TO get off the old maid
list and 70 stop hearing her
family apologize for her single
blessedness!
Marriage vindicated her exist
ence, gratified her vanity. an
noyed her enemies, and pacified
her friends. all at the same time.
Marriage WAS sweet!
But when you look at mod
ern, efficient young woman and
the male annex she sometimes
ACQUIRES. you cannot help wonder
what DROVE her to 1t. OF
course, most girls marry for
LOVE-or for what they think
is ioye--but there are still lots
OF subsidiary reasons" which
make marriage look alluring.
For instance, many a tired bust
ness girl has married just for
the sake of having her breakfast
in bed and her dinner in a din
ing room, instead Of in a tea
room Or breakfast nook"
Many successful business or
professional woman has married
Just for the sake of "mothering"
some man. having somebody de-
pending on her, and thereby do
mesticating her life and giving
it a real motif.
Many a lonely widow has step
ped back to the altar. just for
the sake of smelling cigar smoke
around the house again, and
hearing watch wound at night.
Just in order to have the day
"punctuated' by mans depar.
ture and return. Or to have
someone around OF make dinner
worth getting and breakfast
worth getting TIP for. For, II a
husband served no other purpose,
he divides the day into periods
and gives the clock a meaning.
Many bored DIVORCE has re-
married, just in order to dodge
the loneliness and futhity Of I'M
attached middle age; and to make
il worth while to sign A lease and
order a daily newspaper.
All she asks of man is that
he be a symbol in her hfe-some-
thing to keep up hpme for"
use as an escort and display to
the servants and the neiGhhors
as an apparent reason for her ex-
iStence.
And many a thoroughly So
phisticated. modernistic girl has
rushed into marriage merely in
order to escape from parental
authority and try out her the
cries of life" Many a girl has
left good home, where they lis
tened for her latchkey, to live in
a, two-by-four flat and listen for
mans latchkey.
And many girl has married
just in order to prove that she
COULD; TO get. marriage out of
her system and husband off her
mind!
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-11-29

THANKSGIVING and before
the racket starts I'm spent,
ing these few moments with my
self.
In little while I'll he cracking
jokes and slapping backs ard
examining myself with food in
thanks for
WHAT?
What am / really thankful for
today?
Health to get about--a little
money in the Bank-yes, I'm
thankful for such things. But
chipmunk might be thankful for
them.
Friends Heaven knows I'm
grateful for them.--for home. too.
But somehow, in this quiet mo.
ment, even these rare treasures
seem little outside OF me.
What's the great thing for which
I'm deeply thankful--whats the
thing that has kept me going
through this year? What's the
thing that would keep me fight
ing even If | lost my health and
cash and home and friends?
Life!
I'm thankful for life.
Not for just the soft or profit
able spots in life.
But for the whole doggoned,
grim performance.
| don't know why it should be
such a grim performance.
1--we. been hanging around,
watching it go on for as years.
and / haven't as yet been able
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-11-29
THANKSGIVING TRADITION

Egypt which persecution had In
duced them to abandon.
At length. when it was pro-
posed in the assembly to proclaim
another fast. a farmer OF PLAIN
sense rose, and remarked that
the Inconvenience they suffered,
and concerning which they hau
SO often wearied. heaven with tnelr
complaints, were not as great a.
they might have expected, anu
were diminishing every day, ~
the colony strengthened that the
earth began to reward their lapoI,
and to furnish literally for tnelI
subsistence; and, above all, tnat
they were there in the tull en-
joyment OF liberty, civil and re-
ligious.
He, therefore, thought that y
would be more becoming the
gratitude they owed to the divine
being. IL, instead or a fast, they
should proclaim a Thanksgiving &
His advice was taken, and from
that day to this they have, m
every year, observed circumstances
of public felicity sufficient 70
furnish employment Tor Thanks IA
giving day. which Is therefore
constantly ordered and reltginhsly
ahseryeds
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-11-29
SECRETS OF
HEALTH
-Ry DE. Louis 3. Bisch

Woman needs to work as well
as man. Her physical welI-being,
as well as her mental and moral,
requires it.
But what kind of work is best
for her? What sort of activity
should she indulge in so as to
get the best out of her work as
we'll as develop the best in her
self?
The mere fact that a woman
is able to do a certain kind Of
work without showing any marked
impairment in her health does
not prove that that particular
job is as good as any. During the
war women demonstrated on every
hand that they could hold down
most any kind of job as capably
as men, even, laborious work re-
quiring muscular strength.
In such performances, however,
women who were unused to such
strains were often taxing them
selves to the breaking point. They
did 1t as a kind of stunt. surely
work such as boiler making ana
ditch digging do not dovetah with
the feminine character and body
makeup.
In considering the work best
suited to women one cannot brush
aside consideration of the OUT
standing biological characteristic
of the female sex, namely, moth
erhood.
Ry nature women undoubtedly
find satisfaction in motherhood
activities. not only the rearing oil
the child itself, but such CORE
lated motherhood activities as
household management, COOKING
and the like.
Many women, however. claim
that motherhood types ors work
hold no attraction for them'
Especially is this conviction to be
met with among the young Slris
of the rising generation. TO
few, indeed, the idea of mother
hood and the obligations that go
with it are distinctly distasteIul'
That such notions are preva-
lent is a pity, to be sure. Inc
future of the race is in distinct
jeopardy il they become vide
spread.
OF this there is no real danger,
despite the upsetting indications.
For when these rebellious girls
marry and the first baby is born
the instinct of maternity takes
care of the difficulty and each
and every one of them finds both
pride and joy In all forms OF
motherhood activities.
Modern cooking, washing ana
cleaning devices, run by elec-
tricity' or gas. have ALREADY re.
duced sthe drudGery OF household
work. But. Surprising though 1t
may be. comparatively few women
avail themselves, even now, or
these benefits.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-11-29
Support the Red Cross
Your Local Chapter Is Enrolling Memb
Should Be One.

HE District Columbia Chapter Of the American Red
Gross is having IFS annual roll call Of membership not
member you should surely respond to the call Il mem
ber you should renew your connection.
The District chapsr with headquarters at 1912 ST.
one Of the foremost in the United States and has done
magnificent work for suffering and distressed humanity
the support Of every citizen Of Wash
ington
The memberships annual contributing sustaining,
porting additional donations Plain membership alone is
just 81 per year. and your certificate evidence that your
heart always ready respond great emergencies nvolv
ing the lives and happiness Of your fellow men.
Any membership aid in building funds for urgent
occasions.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-11-29
The knowledge Test for
Readers of The Times

Do you know:
l. Who is styled the father of English poetry?
z What King Of England signed the Magma Charta!
x What river is sacred the Hndus
A. What owned 1000 dresses at the time
of her death?
s. What name of the first steamboat that sailed
the Hudson River?
t. Where is the Bridge of Signs?
T. Who Vice President in second term of Lincoln?
Fill blank
g. The President is removable only
g. If the killing be without malice intention it called
TO- Remember Alamo" cry in the struggle of
H. The bateship Maine destroyed in ---- harbor
IL New York first settled by the ---.
Complete these quotations:
10 In Father are 6iDte
a. Take up the whites mans --."--kplng.
Answers on Fiction Page
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Answers on Fiction Page
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-11-29
WORDS FROM LIPS OF WISE MEN

Satire L. sort of glass where.
in beholders do generally discover
every face but their own.
Swift.
Morality knows nothing OF geo.
raphical boundaries or distinc.
tions of race. Spencer.
What is not in a man cannot
come out of him, surely.
Goethe.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-11-29

Take away from our hearts that
love of the beautiful. and you take
away all the charm OF life.
Rousseau.
Books without the, knowledge of
life are useless, for what should
hooks teach but the art OF living.
johnson.
There in always victory where
there is unaninity. -Syrus.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-11-29

+ @ y - 81 a &
Richardson's American School
Reader of 1910 carries an m
teresting story of the Nee Eng
land Thanksgiving Day trd-
dition. IL wGs-pritten by Ben
jdmiM Franklin more than Lao
gears ago. It aoas printed as
folloWs::
BY BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
THERE is a tradition that in
\ the planting of New England.
the first settlers met with many
difficulties and hardships; as is
generally the case when :, civilized
people attempt to establish them.
selves in a wilderness country.
Being piously disposed, they
sought relief from heaven by lay
ing their wants and distresses be-
fore the Lord, in frequent set
days of fasting and prayer. Con
slant meditation and discourse on
these subjects Kept their minds
gloomy and disconnected; and like
the children OF Israel, there were
many disnosed to return to that
The Washington times., 1928-04-12
By Lucy Lowell

I've been wondering q lot lately
just how it IL that women Of ed.
ucation and intelligence and cul.
ture and wide general experience
In living can manage to make
such fools Of themselves when 1t
comes to marriage.
1t isn't so bad when they're
very young; q girl Of Is or 20 or
even % is expected to pull piece
Of poor judgment now and then.
No matter how much good sense
she possessed naturally she lacks
experience and accordingly is due
4 little leniency If she marries
someone who turns out to be quite
different from what she thought
he was and they wind up in dis.
aster.
But it's the woman who has
turned 80 I'm thinking about: the
one who Outlines il considered
an especially keen business per-
son or q success in some pro.
fession; one who would be the
first to condemn sentimental
wandering in someone else.
A woman Of this type were she
considering q position Of any sort
The Washington times., 1928-04-12

don't say they're all this way.
but q lot of them are-meet up
with some vague, uncharted male
who has not a thing to recon-
mend him but Q pleasant, SOFT
spoken manner and perhaps
knack OF making himself seem an
adequate background: and let this
male invite her to marry him;
does she hunt around for all the
information she can get about
him? Does she consider his
weak points as long and care
fully as she considers the ones
that appeal to her? Does she
ask herself IL she will be happier
and better off married to him
than making her way without
him?
She does not. She crashes into
marriage, and nine times out of
ten he turns out to be q cross
between pet lapdog and q per-
petual expense.
Why do they do It? Blessed II
] know!
OF course it's because they
don't stop to think. But why
don't they stop to think?
don't know. Neither do they,
probably.
The Washington times., 1928-04-12
Mysteries Of Life
ExpOunded By
Philosopher
BY George A. Dorsey,
Phi. D.. IL. D.
CHAPTER So

Probably no two are of the
same opinion a. to what consti-
Eutes socially useful behavior.
But there can be no doubt that
many do not set out of life what
life might be expected to yield, CON.
aidering the length OF time 1t
has been on the job, and that
many do not give TO society the
service society might expect to
receive. considering the energy It
expends on educational and social
endowments.
Why this Is 50 is ain enormously
difficult and vastly complicated
problem. Is it because society
solves living with the latest me.
chanical contraptions and solves
life with old rules? At any rate,
It knows next to nothing about
life. but does have large col
lections OF sadgets for living. ~
. consequence. we are at the
mercy. and not in command, of
the tools Of living.
This Is no plea, for the simple
Mfe's or j remedy for anything.
Goodness knows. we have enough
prescriptions, and enough band
wagons and bankers inviting u
60 climb aboard. But have we g
sound diagnosis Of social Ills ana
Individual disabilities?
Are our teachers and parents
setting examples Of rational ana
intellectual living, and are they
getting into the rising generation
such an outlook on life. such
conception OF the possibilities OF
life, and such q comprehension OF
the unIimities capacities for LIE,
that the next generation VIII IN
evitably live a broader. saner'
sounder. and more intellectual NE
than We are living
And by intellectual I do not
mean ssl1ighbrow" stuff. ] mean
the kind Of intelligence that dis
tinguishes men from cats and
cattle what they think about,
what occupies their gray matter.
There is no inherent reason why
the miner. plowmaIl. and milk
maid should not be as intellectual
as the poet auditor, or school,
teacher. Coal, corn. and milk
furnish us more energy than
mems. balance sheets. and schools,
II ignorance is bliss, all right.
BIT this country proceeds on the
theory that ignorance Is . defect,
that education will cure it, and
that the opposite OF ignorance II
intelligence; and that compulsory
education makes for intelligence.
But does it? What has tho boy
or girl Of intelligent behavior on
leaving school? 70 say that they
have !, smattering Of this and Of
that is to say what everybody
knows and what has been said
thousands of times; that they have
added q few hundred words to their
vocabulary, have memorized q few
facts and formulate, have dissected
d fishworm (possiblyl and a flower,
and have read several hundred
pages OF history and polite ntera-
fure. That may be education. but
III il not life; nor Is 1t hitched to
human lives or human society; nor
n IL intelligence.
Coed, honest. hard-headed char.
acter il 4 function Of the home. II
the proper seed ID sown there and
properly nourished for . few years,
ii will not be easy for that plant to
Be uprooted. But It 10 the bust
<
The Washington times., 1928-04-12
CAN SPLIT A
HAIR

An instrument has been de-
Veloped that is so keen and ac-
curate that 1t will split a hair
into so equal parts. The ma.
chine IL known as the micro
tome and il used principally by
scientists in the preparations of
specimens for microscopic exam.
nation. It il so accurate that
1t will cut slices one micron in
thickness. A micron is one-mil-
lionth of a meter, or one-twenty-
five-thousandth of an inch. These
slices will be absolutely accurate.
In using the microtome it is
often necessary to freeze or
otherwise solidify the material
to be cut. In other cases it is
necessary to keep q flow of alco-
hol running over the knife to
prevent particles OF material from
adhering to the blade.
The Washington times., 1928-04-12
BEEF SUPPLY
IN PERIL

a continuously dwfndling sup.
ply of beef henceforth il the
prospect which this country faces,
according to "Capper's Farmer"
ssThe supply Of beef in the
United States decreased 632 mill
lion pounds or 81 per cent in
1895" points out the farm
n,anfAllv. For several years the
beef cattle situation has pre-
seuted the anomalous condition
og q constantly dwindlinR herd
supplying more beef each year.
such q paradox, of course. could
not continue indefinitely. and
now that the turning point has
been reached, 1T IL all thu more
difficult to see any possibility
OF q rapid upturn, in the in.
dustry. Slaughter figures show
4 gradual rise each year from
STA million pounds in 1921, to
the high record total Of 7,458
million pounds in 1925. During
this same five year period the
total numbers Of beef cattle in
the country have steadily dinin.
isl1ed year by year from 81, 1885,.
900 to %, 1877 900"
The Washington times., 1928-04-12
When Manners Are Correct
BY Mrs. Cornelius Beeckman-
Dear Mrs. Beechnan:

Dear Mrs. Beecllnan:
I am going 70 be married at
home, with just my family pres.
emit and the groom's family. Is 1t
proper to send them written In
Vitatio
2. In sending out announce
ments to friends is it proper to
send them about two weeks be-
fore the wedding or a day or two
after the wedding?
8. Is it all right to have the
groom's sister and brother for
bridesmaid and best man?
DOTTY.
1t will be enough, in this case,
when you are inviting only the
families, to invite them by word
of mouth. But, If you prefer,
YOU can write notes of invitation.
2. Announcements are sent out
after the wedding. when 1t can be
announced that the ceremony has
been performed. If possible-and
it generally is possible-they
should be all ready to send and
then should be mailed just after
the ceremony has been performed.
8. 1t is the best form for the
groom to have his brother for the
best man, but usually the bride