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The Washington times., 1928-10-01
SECRETS OF
HEALTH
BY DR.. Brice BeIden

LIZ LA ANO D~AA~
YOU are again confronting the
l. season when Winter-cloSed
houses favor the spread Of diph-
liberia. 1t is well, therefore. to
remember some important facts
about the means by which this
germ-caused disease is sometimes
unsuspectingly carried by its re-
cent victims.
It is we'll known that some Pa
tients carry diphtheria germs In
their threats long after they have
quite recovered from their illness.
If they are not discovered. as car
riers, they are a constant menace
to all with whom they come in
contact. II they are known to
the doctors they for a time are a
misery to themselves. Although
perfectly well they must be kept
in strict quarantine until their
Threats are clear. Why some
people continue to harbor the
germs while others go free has
been the subject of a careful i'm
vestisation by DR.. Harvey Han-
ceO. who found that the reason
was that the carriers had some
thing already wrong, some abnor-
mality, in the nose or throat.
First of all, the investigators
found out that carriers might
give a negative swab"-that Is
to say, there would be no diph-
iberia germs in mucus swabbed
from the throat for three or four
weeks on end at the weekly ex-
aminations. Then suddenly
positive "swab" would crop up.
They found it was not safe to
regard a carrier as cured until
his throat had failed to show
diphtheria germs in six consecu-
tive weekly swab cultures.
Some people who simply carry
the bacilli on the surface OF their
threats are not very difficult to
cure. They, however, usually
carry them in the crevices of un-
healthy tonsils or adenoids. In
such cases, as soon as the tonsils
throat becomes clean. 1t is not so
much the very large tonsil as the
small ragged one with deep cor
rugations on it's surface that har-
bors the bacilli.
Much more difficult to deal with
are patients who keep diphtheria
germs in their noses. They only
do so if they have unhealthy
noses, with watery or pus-dis-
charge. They have to have long
course of nasal hygiene, nasal
douching and sometimes even vac
cines. In any case, if the disease
Of the nose were cured by one
means or another, the diphtheria
germs always disappeared.
Sometimes germs hide them
selves in the sinuses, or little bony
air cells OF the face. Then the
doctor is set a difficult problem,
for he finds it difficult to clear
them out.
Another very difficult form of
carrier is the ear carrier. These
are children who discharge the
diphtheria germs from their other
wise infected ears. No really sat-
isfactory way of dealing with them
has vet been discovered. but gen.
eral hygienic measures in this, as
in every form OF carrier, are very
important.
The moral for the everyday per-
son is to keep the nose and throat
as healthy as possible. and never
TO neglect tonsils, adenoids, or q
discharge from the nose.
The Washington times., 1928-10-01
If Gov. Smith Should Lead
It would Hardly Be That Way.

KrR MoRGENTHAU once American Ambassador to
lNl Turkey says the whole world looks to America for
moral and financial leadership and be halls Governor Smith
the capable OF picking up and raising alot the
torch that fell from the hand Of Woodrow Wilson"
If Governor Smith should undertake world leadership
safe to predict that he would lead in the Woodrow Wilson
direction He would lead toward the League OF Nations
or European complications Governor Smith understands
notifies and knows what American people
vote twice in succession with 100000 plurality against
that kind Of leadership
The Washington times., 1928-10-01
You Read of Names Election?
Don't Take It Too Seriously.

Usually Maine vote in Presidential years taken
~ indication of what will happen throughout the nation the
following November.
But wise Republicans will not attach importance
Names figures this year. Maine is the original dry State
With the exception of hard cider other things
Maine has been as dry a bone for generations.
What happens there does tell you much about what
will happen in NEW YORK, New Jersey and other places
wet as sponge or WILLING to be-
The Washington times., 1928-10-01
Usury the Fashion
How About Bigger Interest on Savingsi

GONE savings banks interest for the full time Of
- deposits beginning the day money put in the bank This
feasible presumably when that saving
earning per at most be lent ION CALI for per
cent regular business purposes for 7 per cent
Possibly fnancier will find way give savings bank
depostors little interest since usury to be the
fashion in the United States. Or is the little man, the
politician put it, "only there to be worked
The Washington times., 1928-10-01
The knowledge Test for
Readers of The Times

you know:
l. What gas forms nearly four fifths of the air?
the Democratic candidate of the
United States in 1924?
g. What island Mediterranean famous
know the Blue Grotto?
4 Denmark of
Hametf
the Conference
6. did the Eighteenth Amendment go effect?
T. When did hostiities in the great cease?
Fill each blank
g. Newton discovered the law of -
A performance.
TO- -- the of Don Quxote's mare.
correctly:
H. Precipice Agricultural implement
IL Quagmire Place appointed for meeting
49, Rusk Step overhanging place
IA Scythe A light soft bread
Is Rendezvous Soft, wet land.
Answers Fiction Page
The Washington times., 1928-10-01
NEGOTIATIONS
OF A WIFE
By Helen Rowland

Picking . Matrimonial Candidate
MUMMY how q woman will elect
T man to a life term as husband
without knowing half as much
about him as she demands to know
of a presidential candidate before
she will put her x beside his name
on the ballot.
BY the time the average woman
is ready to give her vote to a can
didate, she has looked him up and
knows all about his boyhood and
early environment. whether he has
been brought up on pancakes and
sacred Sabbaths" or on MARINA
lade and philosophy whether he
wears a soft hat or a derby. and
whether he has small-town out
look or a metropolitan sophistica-
ton.
The Washington times., 1928-10-01

1t IL easier to control a hun
dred thousand men in battle than
to subjugate the mind of one
thoroughly convinced individual.
Voltaire.
Nothing II clearer TO me than
that the present period Of your
life Is as good for philosophy ana
for Improvement as any other
AurefiuE.
The Washington times., 1928-10-01

Before a woman gives her sup
port to a political candidate she
insists on knowing what his
policies are, whether he is wet or
dry. whether he likes girl shows
and detective stories or goes in for
chamber music and Havelock Ellis,
and whether he goes in for COM
panionate marriage or the usual
life sentence.
Now, isn't that just like
woman! And yet when you come
10 think OF 1t. we always have a
choice of at least TWO prospects
for President, while the choice of
matrimonial candidates is so
limited, You have TO take just what
you can GET-and then pretend
that 1t was just what yoa yAAtAd!
The Washington times., 1928-10-01

Hollow reinforced concrete poles
are now made that can be bent
several reet, returning to their
original position.
Hemp is said to he the Oldest
cultivated fiber in the world. As
early IS 1000 B. C. it was grown
in China.
All travellers by air in Spain
must insure against the risk of
accident.
The Washington times., 1928-10-01
DO YOU KNOW THAT

An electrically driven apparatus
has been invented for mending
runs in silk stockings flawlessly
and speedily.
The Canadian government is
trying to stop the damage, to
timber and grain by insects by
busting with airplanss.
The Royal Mint Of London en-.
ploys blind man to ring" the
Coins to test them
The Washington times., 1928-10-01

Yet she will cheerfully MARRY
a man without knowing whether
he regards chicken dinner on sun
day as a moral principle and a
Saturday night bath as sacred
rite, or whether a morning shower
and a dose of bromide constitute
his whole religion.
Before she votes for White
House candidate she knows all
about his past" and not even a
little corner of his life is dark to
her. She has studied his mothers
picture and seen all his baby
photographs in the newspapers,
and knows more about his hobbies,
temperament and weaknesses than
he knows himself.
She knows whether he has a
weakness for early rising and
fresh trout or for late suppers
and cigar smoke; whether or not
he takes cream on his cereal, what
brand of tobacco he fayors and
whether he is early or late for
his appointments.
But when she elects a husband
for a full term she doesn't even
know how many blondes there
have been in his life; whether he is
HOME broken or an all-night
prowler, or whether he is going to
get up at a. m. to close the win
dows, or to keep her awake until
l a. m. while he practices on a
saxophone. She knows nothing
Of his past or present. except what
he chooses to TELL her.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-26
HARRISON PREDICTS
BIG VOTE IN SOUTH
Senator Says Democratic Majority
Will Be Biggest on General
Election Record.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July Ex-senator Pat
Harrison Of Mississippi said Tuesday
that the South will roll up a larger
majority for the Democratic ticket this
year than any on record in general
election.
The Mississippi Senator. who accept
ed place on the Democratic advisory
committee, said there was no doubt
about the South remaining true to its
Democratic traditions. 1t may be, he
said, that in certain Southern States a
campaign more militant than usual
would be necessary to increase the
ma jorities and added that such CAM
paign would be made.
Senator Harrison said that the organ
lied attempt in certain Southern States
to bring about the defeat of Gov
Smith. ITO which attention first was
called by Senator Robinson, the Demo-
cratic vice presidential nominee. had
put Democrats In the South ION their
toes as they never had been BETTE
in his memory This. the Mississippi
Senator said. would mean larger vote
than ever was cast at a general election
in the South
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-26
MEXICAN SITUATION
STILL UNCERTAIN.
0bregonistas Continue in
Full controI-BitternesS
Forms Main Danger.

Ry The Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY. July 26,-The situa-
ton into which Mexico was plunged by
the assassination of President-elect Al
earo Obregon continued charged with
uncertainty TO-DAY. Obregonista leaders
were comforting to determine where
their support in the question OF preSi-
DENTAL succession would be thrown. !.
They are undoubtedly IN fun control
OF the situation and il they remain
united can dominate events of the I'M
mediate future Some iii considered act
might. however, upset all calculations.
Bitterness Forms Danger,
A week has elapsed since the assassi-
nation without any fighting and revoiu-
INN under conditions inviting trounie.
The most dangerous element perhaps
ia the bitter feeling against Luis MO-
rones, resigned secretary of labor. nS
snms of the Oregon group. There nave
been promiscuous charges that Morones
and his I,aborite aides created ''psycno-
logical background" by their opposition
to Obregon. which made his asSassina-
tlcu possible.
Wen informed observers. however. saw
prospects that Mexico would emerge
peacefully from the present tufuuieli'
political situation.
Many B0oms Launched.
Those who conferred on the presiden-
t.al question included Aurelio Manrlque
and Antonio Soto Cana, Agrarlan
leaders and Ricardo Topete, leader Oh
sshe ohregon bloc, which controls Con-
SreSs.
It seems probable that either Presi-.
dent Gales would be asked to succeed
himself as provisional President under
certain constitutional arrangements
r.hich might be made or that Aaron
Sasnz. Governor of Nueyo Leon. wouio
o. favored
. Numerous booms for various local and
national figures have sprung up in vari-
Gus parts of the republic. Most OF these.
however. have remained in formative
stage instead of gathering strength.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-26
Fl. McHenry, Near
Restoration, to Be
Used i'm War Rites

Old Fort McHenry, of Star
Spangled Banner fame, at Balti.
more. is being SO rapidly restored
to the condition 1t was in at the
time Francis Scott Key wrote the
inmemorial ode that the reconstruc-
ton will be made an appropriate
and interesting part of the Biennial
Congress of the National Society of
the war of 1912 to be held In Balti-
more September IL.
Secretary Davis has informed
Gen. Clinton L. Riggs. president OF
the society, that the restoration, au--
thorized by the last Congress, will
be completed sufficiently TO permit
making 1t feature of the meeting
and the War Department will be
glad to cooperate in the ceremonies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-26
MACARTHUR TRANSFERRED.
Olympic Official will Commanc
Philippine Department.

An order issued at the War De-
partment today directs Mai Gen.
Douglas Macarthur, commanding the
Sd Corps Area, now at Amsterdam,
Holland, as president of the American
Olympic Association. on his return to
the United States following the COM
coed to Seattle. Wash, and take the
first available steamer to Manila and
assume command of the Philippine Mil
itary Department. He will be relieved
of command of the Sd Corps Area by
Mai. Cen Fred w. Siaden. now in this
country on leave of absence.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-26
ARMY MEN CHANGED.
mai. Hicks Ordered Here From
Kansas National Guard Post.

Mai. Edward H. Hicks. Field Ar
ssiliery. has been relieved from duty
with the Kansas National Guard at
Hutchinson. and ordered to this city
Tor duty in the Militia Bureau. War De-
partment; Capt George A. Horkan,
Quartermaster Corps. from duty with
the Organized Reserves. Third Corps
Area. TO duty with the American Bat
lie Monuments Commission, War De-
partment; Capt Ernest c. Aver 5th
Infantry, from Fort Mckinley, Me-. TO
Topeka. kan First Lieut.. Thomas
lMcGregoT, 18th Field Artillery, from
Port Bragg. N. c.. to the Iowa State
College Of Agriculture and Mechanic
Arts at Anes: First Lieut.. Hugh p.
Push. Air Corps. from Brooks Field.
Tex, to the Massachusetts Institute Of
Technology, and Second Lieut. John
y. Tower. Signal Corps, from Fort Mon
mouth. n. j.. 10 Rutgers University.
New Brunswick. N j.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-26
Austria to Deport Bella Kun.

VIENNA, July 90 Lpl Bella Kun, for
mer Bolshevist dictator of Hungary, will
be deported tomorrow by train to Pas
sau, Bavaria. where the German au-
tforities will assume responsibility for
his immediate dispatch To Russia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-01-05
LITTLE BENNY
ny LEE PNl'E.

Last mite il was showing and hall
ing and blowing all at the same time,
sounding fearse out. and ma sed 20
pop. Willyum. you may call IL a silly
vim IL you like, but l have an ire
sistible desire TO 20 out wawking in
this snow storm like we use to do
before we were married.
Yee gods. are YOU sure It's irresist.
ible? pop sed. and ma sed. Yes I am.
and II you don't take me out IL will
just show that I'm still young and
your not
Well. cant have II showing envy
thing like that, wait tin | finish glanc.
ing over the paper and We'll go, pop
sed.
And he kepp on reeding. saying.
Hello. ! see there are 80 new cases
of newmonia reported. no wonder. in
sutch weather Hows that cawff Of
yours. mother? he sed.
Wat cawff. / haven't had a cawff for
weeks and weeks. / mite almost say
months, the ideer ma sed, and pop
sed. Good, I'm glad to heer 1t. try not
to get one. there are too meny germs
floating around looking for a comfort
able cawff to roost on.
And he kepp on looking at the
pal per, saying, wen well, another
epidemick OF 400 trying to brake out.
hope you've got good strong galoshes
to put on. Pawleen.
Well. I've got rubbers, OF corse their
not very high ones. ma sed. and pop
sed. There better than nuthing. ]
Suppose, you awt TO have boots, RELY.
My my. heers whole nayberhood
down with the Alaskan furry. he sed,
Wat In the werld is that? ma sed.
and pop sed. 1t comes from Exposure.
they say it's terrible. and ma sed.
Well j don't wunt 10 get IL. I'm sure.
maybe we better just stay In ware
its warm and comfortable. Willyum.
IL sounds sensible to me. though
think II bundle up well mite get
to the bowling alley safely, pop sed
And he put on his things and went
out. and ma started 10 look at the
paper. saying. | don't see enything
about eny epidemicks or enything
we'll II that man izzent terrible,
think he's awful.
Meening pop.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-01-05
A Floor Book.

Are there any floor books in your
library?
A floor book is a very big book
that fiattens out easily on the floor
and allows one to lie on his front and
con lis pages.
Remember the old-fashioned Bibles?
Huge things with large print and
host Of colored illustrations. There
was a picture of Daniel in the Lions
Den, in mine. II never frightened
me. ] was always so proud Of Daniel.
who could get the best Of the lions
with just a look. a naughty, sturdy
look. / used 10 gloat over the lions
lying there like tame cats. licking
Daniels feet. Later on ] knew. just
knew out of clear sky. all about the
courage OF Daniel.
Did you have an Unabridged? Did
you ever lie on the floor and find the
names Of all the animals under A?
Did YOU search the back OF the book
for foreign phrases? Remember por'
ing over the list of proper names 10
ind the one your sweetheart should
have:
How about an atlas? II you liked
maps. and many people do. what a
fine time you had tracing with q
wooden skewer saved from the roast
the Old Roman Road. or the Retreat
from Moscow. Did you ever go on
lima ginary Journeys from country 10
country and order a dinner at every
town? And then 20 years after find
Il all come true?
is there a big globe in your house
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-01-05
OUR CHILDREN By Angelo pa,ri

A globe furnishes food for dreams un-
numbered You can do a lot with a
globe.
A blackboard cloth stretched and
tackled on floor makes a lovely place
10 lie and draw things on. What you
draw doesn't matter so long as the
chalk glides over the surface and
makes a white mark. You can dream
yourself to great heights while you lie
fat on a blackboard floor and push
bit OF chalk.
Don't forget chiid's encyclopedia.
IL you have one please don't keep IL
on the shelf but let the children have
1t on the floor. Learning isn't con.
tagious. You have 10 get right down
on the mat with it and wrestie for its
blessing.
Nowadays you can have a fairy
| tale map that gives you the location
| OF Jack and Beanstalk's house and the
/ place where he sold the cow and all
that down TO the very spot where he
| brought the fortune 10 his mother. Or
| you can buy the map that tells you all
about literature. or all about history.
| These maps are the kind that have
| pictures on them and much fun and
many hints for dreams.
il is for that ] would give a place
10 the floor books and things. There
is not much good in studying lessons,
| in hearing lectures, I'm listening 10
preachings IL there liz no time. no
| place for dreaming things over. Chill
| dren find the floor and the things oi
| the floor the very right answer for
| this problem.
| Ii won't hurt TO try.
| tcopyrixht. 1879
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-01-05
Pockets in Form and Name Only
BY MARY MARSHALL.

a tailor for kings, not for queens, ana
the story is told in Paris that the King
of England once ordered Spanish
cane from this thoroughly French
tailor. The young Shah is counteo
among his interesting man CUSTOMERS
1t was with strictly tailored suits that
he first extended his field from Una, Oh
a mere mans tailor. but OF late ne mas
hcen putting out many suits ana en-
srmhlcs that depart somewhat from
the strictly tailored conventions.
Worth and Doucet, ! was recently
reminded are among the oldest OF 'ne
we'll known dreSsmaktnS houses ~
Paris. 1t was to the house or Nortn
that the beautiful Empress Eugene
Of Paris went for her famous crino'
i;nod Gowns when her husband, Napo,
loon III, was Emperor of France, anu
ovcn now il is usually Worth who
makes the wedding gowns for the most
arjstncratic of European brides.
Tho house of DouCet was founded
more than a century ago. ana untli
unite recently has been actively al
rrcted by some member OF TINS famous
family OF drcssmakers.
Now that simply made felt hats are
really smart, there is no reason why
vou should not take advantage OF the
fashion and make one for NourseH.
The most important consideration
ahol,t any Of the new hats is to have
them of exactly the right size. They
,,ust be snug without actually bind
ing. II you are interested in the
Of making hat for your
self and want pattern that can $.
liz he adjusted 10 At your head. send
me- a stamped self-addressed envelope
and will send II TO you Mt once.
tCoryright 1889
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-01-05
WHY WE DO WHAT WE Do
BY MEHRAN X. THOMSON. PHI. d.

achieve a kind of dissertation which
permits us to choose only what we
like and ignore the rest. with no fear
of being haunted by the ghost OF
murdered fears.
The fairy tale and other forms Of
imaginative folk lore serve us in two
ways. They take us up in the clouds
OF romance and excitement and they
reverse the process by projecting our
own feelings and emotions into ma,
ture itself. 1t has always been the
delight of mankind to personalize and
spiritualiZe nature. We read our emo.
tons into the phenomena of nature.
This is the poetic spirit In us. We
rightly speak OF poetic license for
such phrases as Jack Frost
Mother Nature" Father Time" and
Sadly, Sadly Rose the Sun"
We like fairy tales because they
appeal to our esthetic sense. because
they constitute a delightful game OF
the lima gination, because we Identify
ourselves with the fairies who do the
impossible things we have wanted 10
do in our daydreams and because
we are born with a measure OF poetic
Insight and the desire to share our
emotional life with Mother Nature.
whom we spiritualize instinctively.
tcnDyright 1881
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-01-05

Every normal child delights in fairy
tales. We are all fascinated by crea.
lures of the imagination, because they
take us away from the stern realities
of life.
The fairy tale In really a daydream
in which we have our desires without
the price Of work. The more weird
ard impossible the story :he better
we like Il. because nowhere else are
we likely 10 have these dreams come
true. The real world is too chary OF
It's gifts OF musical genius, exquisite
beauty OF face and form. lovslins SIS
and charm OF graceful and swift mo.
ton. In fairyland all OF us are II
these things for the wishing.
The real world In bound by mechan'
teal laws The fairy world is as free
"a the imagination itself. whose crea.
ton II liz.
We like fairy tales because they
feed our appetite for beauty and the
esthetic. We prefer them to our own
ugly world. The law of associa ton
will not permit us TO think OF beauty
In real experience without recalling
the seamy side. In fairyland we