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= the patio. "Twenty-one years
to love, Pat-not too long,
IF we get by as well as
theyl"
It rained on Sunday. Be
tween showers they took pic
tures-film after film Of them.
I'VE shouldn't be so extrava-
CANT" said Laura.
We've builded for 81 years,
Lo. For the next 81 we LIVE.
l Every minute!"
Wednesday the films were de-
veloped. Richard sat with his
feet in q tub Of water while
Pat projected them on the little
screen. He had q cold and
Laura insisted on giving him q
mustard bootbath.
He made Pat rig UP light
and take pictures Of him with
the mustard wringing tears
from his eyes.
She passed her fathers study
Thursday morning. He had his
hat cooked at a rakish angle.
"Pat-are these good?" He
showed her some advertise
n1ents he was just finishing.
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He held his chin up while
Pat tied the black bow tie. He
winked and whispered as she
finished, Which do you love
the best-your old man or
Guy?"
"Youl"
"Liarl" But he went with a
swagger to the bed, pulled on
his coat and stood for a happy
moment surveying himself.
Then he took up Laura's coat,
holding it with a great air as
though he were the lord of the
earth. He whispered something
that made Laura blush.
They went out and down the
steps with as swift q run as
though they were on their first
party.
Guy came UP the path Just
In time to greet them.
Just think" said Pat, alb
sently, they've been married
81 years! A whole life time.
They don't seem OLD--do
they?"
mo" answered he softly.
Then he took Pats arm and
rushed her with a laugh across
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They're wonderful. where
are you goins3 You look
weepy."
"Feeling great. These are
due today-at noon. Aren't
they pretty, thought"
81 don't think you should 60
out"
"Don't you, mama? Well,
I'm only going to stay TIL one.
Nice sunny day"
At 8 o'clock Pat came home.
She was worried, but she would
not have admitted 1t. She
had cut two classes, and was
now trembling when Laura
seemed surprised that she ex-
pected her father to be home.
TITS very early"
''He told me he'd be here
by one."
stood"
Perhaps" she said with .
shrug. "I think I'll do some
shopping"
She drove to the city to her
fathers office.
Continued tomorrow
Copyright, 1925, King Features
= Syndicate, Incl
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Miss Pat stepped blithely
down the path.
"Why, mother If you only
knew how girly and poetic you
look standing there! AS though
you were waiting for your lover.
"Pat," said Laura, muSing,
"do you remember how the
garden looked when we came
here three years ago?"
"Yes-prim. No dream. No
imagination. You've given the
place soul, mother
Laura listened absently. Many,
many nights in the vanished
years she and Richard had
planned this home. And how
far, far distant, often enough
had seemed its realization. Yet
more than they asked was now
given. She was very happy.
This was the twenty-first ami
versary Of her marriage.
She turned a smiling face to
Pat.
Pull your hat on just q little
more"
TITS so devilmay-care perched
at this angle, mother dear.
With an air of suspense as
twere. You don't know whether
It's going off or coming on"
"Oh, here" said Laura, reach
ing in her pocket. your let
ters."
Pat took them with a flush
and sat herself down on the
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thing on the face of the earth?
Really, he's quite as thrilling, or
more so, than Lee. Why are
you against him?"
They're both very fine young
men, of coursel But I'm sure
I don't see what Guy has that
Lee lacks"
"Oh, yes, you do, Mrs. Dawn!
Guy has what Richard has
the subtle, mysterious quality
the come-hither, come-hither!
and when you were picking a
mate for yourself, I notice, you
were very careful to land one
lust crammed full Of it,
Guy" said Laura, in way
she had Of pursuing her own
thoughts and blandly discount
ing Interruptions, "has such q
long, bitter path"
"But he's great engineer,
mother, as well as a thrilling
pilot"
And three years from now"
went on the mother. 'he may
be in exactly the same position
as he is now"
Pat shrugged:
Much has happened IN
tE1irty-six months before! II
William Bryce doesn't appre'
ciate him some one else will.
And, mother, just fancy hop
ping across the ocean on a
honeymoon. Or circling the
globe! Wouldn't you LOVE it?"
"It would be very eXhilarat-
ing, Pat, to wait on the shores
while you took that perilous
trip. Exhilarating indeed"
But, mother, think OF Mrs.
Lindbergh-and he was her
only son-the only thing she
had. But she didn't hold him
back"
mo" said Laura softly, "she
didn't hold him back. We can
not hold them back"
That evening Pat was dream
lily helping her mother dress.
They could hear Richard
Splashing. and singing in the
shower. Dickie rushing in with
his fathers shoes, saying with
satisfaction:
Gee, guess they're shined UP
enough, all right"
Then the youngster came to
the door Of Laura's dressing
room:
What you got planned for
tonight, Pat?"
"For whom?"
"Well-US, of course! You
don't think I'm gonna be left
alone TONIGHT, DO YOU?"
Pat gave him a radiant smile.
"If it meets with your ap-
proval I thought we'd go to
Noah's for dinner and to a
movie afterwards"
well, that's all right. Will
Guy be along2"
"You don't mind, do you?"
"Oh, he can come II he
wants. But I think it's about
time I was getting another ride
in the plane"
"I'll speak to him about it,"
But don't let him know I
asked you to. Just kind of
drop it that I wouldn't mind
going"
For twenty-one years her
mother and father had been
married. Each anniversary they
went to dinner, to a theater or
dancing. Or, sometimes, they
got into the car and drove all
The Washington times., 1929-11-21

IND you know that there is only one nationally known
dry ginger ale that in full 16ounce bottles? It's
true. And that ginger ale is Cicquot Club Pale Dry.
Most of the dry ginger aes you in little 12ounce
bottles, not full pints Compare them, if you will, with
bottle of Clcquot Club Pale Dry. You'll that
Cicquot gives you ounces
And only that, but Clicquot Club Pale Dry made
from finest Jamaica ginger pure table sugar. mellow syrup
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Aged months in the making
The fine ingredients of Cicquot Club suly blended
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Thusis Ccquots and mellow flavor developed Thus
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n real snving
And remember that Ccquot Club Pale Dry full 10
pints. far economical way of buying than
little l2Ounce "pnts" that won't 60 round, a wasteul
nearquart that may "go fat" before you up.
The way to buy ginger ale economically is in pints
So be that you insist Ccquot and you'll get
for your money. In clean botles-at your dealers.
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: NOW CONTINUE
BY ELENoRE MEHERIN
Author Of "Chlckie" and other Famous Serials
THE STORY THUS FAR
CHAPTER 16

AURA stood among the delphinums. They were royal
this April every thrilling blue from the paest azure
to the richest indigo. They bedded there against
background of pink masses OF climbing PINK
lovely color Now the garden sang with beauty-an spring
times happy promise in the song.
The Washington times., 1929-11-21
DR.. Bisch's Daily Health Hint

foreign body such fishbone lodges In the throat
should first swallow crust Of bread some other
hard food Sometimes discomfort pres after the removal
Of the offending object due to the inflammation.
The Washington times., 1929-11-21
This Day in Our History

On November 2 1911 the United States cruisers Washing
ton North Carolina ordered to Santo Domingo to
preserve order The President Ramon Caceres, as
sassinated two days previous to this.
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"A KNOCKOUT FOR TASTE"
says JACK SHARKEY

'DACKED full of punch, that's why
l. every bite of Nestle's is a knock.
out for taste," says the young heavy.
weight contender.
Nestle's beats them all for ito
mellow, chocolate flavor no imitation
has ever equaled. Because it is richest
in cream and blended with the finest
chocolate, it is nOurishing and full of
quick energy. Treat yourself to bar
of NestIe's full-favOred milk chocO.
late today. Once you try it no other
chocolate bar will do.
Everywhere Ncstle's Milk Chocolate
is sold in So and lOG sizes. Look for
the clean silvery bars red-lettered
for plain bars; blue.lettered for
luscious almond bars. ,.-.t....,
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For Your Pleasure
The ClicquOt Club EskimOs - every
Tuesday EUeniHg at 10 PM, NesO
York Time. from WEAF, NeW York
and 20 associated radio SfGtiORo
The Washington times., 1929-02-07
Fond Mothers Who Break Up Homes

ineering that she determined-as
this one evidently did-that he
must be her son all the remainder
OF his life and never, never be an
other woman's husband!
She would call it mother love,
l suppose-but it is not that at
all. 1t is cannibalism-nothing
less. She is willing to consume
the boys future and happiness and
the natural, normal life he might
have to feed her Unsuitable Jeal-
ousy!
And the tragic feature Of Il is
that this mother is only one OF
many. Plenty of others like her
willing to snatch away a daughter.
in.law's husband or son-in-law's
wife, thinking that by this method
she can remah4 the dominant fac
tor in her child's life forever.
1t seldom happens this way;
sooner or later the child wakes up.
But the very saddest case of this
sort I know is that in which the
child-he now is a man of 45-did
not wake up. He is a lonely, crab.
bed, miserable old bachelor with
disaster behind him and nothing at
all ahead-not even the satisfac-
ton of being dominated by his
mother for much longer since she
is well up in the eighties.
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Quick Success

Few girls in pictures have made
such rapid strides toward success
as this charming New Yorker. Just
a few months ago she was given
her first job, shadowing star.
Within three hours, she had a real
part in the picture-s"The Loves
OF Sunya.''
Miss Bayard says: ''I am told my
selection was largely due to my per-
feet skin and lovely hair. I've really
never taken much trouble with
either. For my hair / use the
simple method that most Of the
girls ] know here in New York are
SO enthusiastic about. It's so easy.
All you do is put little Danderine
on your brush each time you use it.
This method is Just what a busy
girl needs. It's so easy; and it
keeps your hair and scalp so clean
you don't need to shampoo half so
often. am letting my hair grow
and / find Danderine helps make it
soft and easily Manageable. can
arrange it any way / want and il
stays that way. All my friends are
complimenting me on the appear.
ance of my hair, nowadays because
Danderine has brought out all it's
natural color and made it so soft
and lustrous."
Danderine removes the oily film
from each strand and makes dull,
stringy hair gleamy, soft, easy to
dress. 1t tones and refreshes the
scalp; helps overcome dandruff. It
is delicately fragranced: isn't sticky
or oily; doesn't show. All drug
stores have the generous 35c bottles.
The Washington times., 1929-02-07
By Constance Cameron

A woman went into court the
other day and asked for a divorce.
TT isn't that my husband and l
couldn't get along-if we had half
chance" she told the judge. "you
see, the way it was, we were mar.
ried when we were just kids-I'm
only 25 now, your honor--and Jim
wasn't making much money.
That's why he took me to live
with his mother, She's well.to-do,
but then sort of paid my way by
helping about the house. But that
didn't seem to satisfy her-I guess
the trouble was she didn't want
Jim married. She didn't seem to
like it when we went out together
or when we seemed to be happy
together, and she'd always say or
do something to keep us apart.
"Of course, Jim didn't notice
The Washington times., 1929-02-07
YOUR BEAUTY
THE TAILORED MODE IN TWEED
The Washington Times 15-Cent Practical Pattern

Straight, slim and chic for all
day wear, this adorable two
piece frock, Pattern 1868. The
collar, vestee and pockets are
pointing their way to smartness.
Inverted pleats afford grace and
fullness to the skirt, which, by
the way, may be worn with
other blouses If one wishes.
A lightweight tweed fashions
this lovely model. Brown mix
ture will prove stunning with
tan linen vestee and cuffs, and
a brown suede belt. Other suit
able fabrics are kasha, jersey or
flannel. For spring, the tweed
stippled silks are charming.
This pattern may be obtained
only in sizes ID, Is, 1S and 20.
Size Is requires 3% yards
54-inch material and Y yard
trimming.
This model is easy to make.
No dressmaking experience is
necessary. Each pattern comes
to you with simple and exact
instructions, including yardage
for every size. A perfect fit is
guaranteed.
Patterns will be delivered
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wanted.
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mail and ,rders to The Wash
ingtOn Times Pattern Depart
ment, 243 West Seventeenth ST.,
New York city,
The Washington times., 1929-02-07
Famous Opera Star
Gives Timely
Advice
BY Maria Jeritza

NlHERE Is lovely feature Of
feminine beauty that is too
often hidden and neglected-the
forehead. Why a serene, intelli-
gent, beautiful forehead should
remain hidden beneath masses of
dips, curls and bangs is a hard
question to answer. Yet many a
woman. with a well-formed brow,
seemingly feels that to show 1t
would be immodest. just as un-
covered ears were at one time
looked upon as startling and ugly.
A we'll developed forehead
what is known as high fore.
heads considered q sign Of well
developed mentality, an d Of
course, we used to feel that in
telligence and beauty were on
bad terms with each other. Now
we know that any intelligent
woman, who uses her intelli-
gence, can make herself beauti-
full in some degree as well as in
teresting.
Are you sure you are wearing
your hair over your forehead or
on YOUR forehead in the way that
Is most becoming? Are you sure
your forehead is as smooth ana
lovely as it should be?
Suppose that you study your
forehead for moment. in clear
mirror, by a good light. Lifting
the hair from your brow. notice
whether it is high. with what is
known as widows peak or
point of hair at the very center
of the hair-line.
A Frenchwoman with wid.
Ow's peak is rightly proud of 1t
and arranges her hair to show it
10 advantage. She is not afraid
of looking bit "different" when
she knows the difference is all in
her favor. She may draw her
hair back from her brow in soft,
loose waves. Or she may part it
In the middle and softly wave it
back.
A rather low, forehead with an
evenly-arched hairline Is too lovely
to hide. l have friend with
this type of brow who trains her
natural curls up over a short
bristled wire brush after each
shampoo in the outstanding,
statuesque Greek fashion so pop
ular at present. Her head is a
mass of curls. She keeps her,
hair exactly two inches long all
over her head. A marcel will
give the same effect. If your face
is round and full ask your hair.
dresser to mass your hair high in
front.
A wrinkled forehead or one with
hair too thin over the temples,
may look well with a bang. A
gide-part is almost universally be-
coming and the side-dip that -es
with it helps hide forehead
wrinkles.
The beautiful forehead is serene
and unlined. Eliminate fear,
worry, hatred, bitterness, spite
and intolerance from your
thoughts, then your forehead will
gradually smooth out and grow
as lovely as your viewpoint.
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There! They've told him again
exactly how to do a certain piece
of work, and he has gone at it
in a bored way. And pretty soon
they'll be around to see how he
is getting on with it, and then
they'll tell him all over again to
do this and not TO do that, and
it will go into one ear and out
the other. And. eventually, after
he's done his worst, they'll take
hold and do the thing the way it
should be done. And there will
be a little sputtering about it.
but he won't care, for he's one of
that kind.
And very shortly las soon. in
fact. as it happens a couple of
times more-he will be told that
his services are no longer re-
uuired, and then he will have re-
The Washington times., 1929-02-07
RECIPES FOR
SALADS

Here we have grouped the
most beautifying salads we know.
They are of the iron rich foods
and iron is a blood builder. They
are also mildly laxitive and have
plenty of health giving vitamins.
For color from the inside we
recommend them.
Dates with Ceiery-Mix ~equal
quantities of sliced dates and
celery and marinate in French
dressing with a few leaves of
mint. Add shredded salted al
monds and serve with a mayon-
naise.
Date Fruit Salad-Let dates
stand in grapefruit juice. Drain
and arrange with grapefruit and
orange sections on lettuce. Serve
with French dressing made with
grapefruit and lemon juice instead
of the usual vinegar.
Fig and Orange Salad-on a
bed of lettuce leaves and slices of
orange, place figs that are slit
open and garnish with mayon-
naise.
Figs with Tomato Salad-On a
bed of lettuce and sliced tomato,
place slices Of chilled figs (use a
very sharp knife, and serve with
tart dressing. Garnish with
cream cheese balls or nut meats.
Raisins and Carrots Mix to.
gether twice as much grated car.
rot as raisins, add salt and may.
onnaise and chill well. Shape and
serve on lettuce.
Raisins and Pineapple--I4et rails.
ins stand in pineapple juice. Drain
and combine with finely chopped
cabbage and crushed pineapple.
Serve with tart boiled dressing
made with pineapple and lemon
juice.
The Washington times., 1929-02-07
Sidesteppers Lose Out
By Lucy Lowell

gained his usual status-that of
the man without q job.
It's inevitable, though, for he is
one of those who will not do what
he ought even with some one
standing over him to show him
how. And he wastes time and
squanders opportunity and his
end doubtless will be that of all
spendthrifts.
And the inconsistent thing about
him is that he began all well
enough, though without much in
itiative. He would do what he
was told If he felt like doing 1t.
though that was not always.
When he saw he could get by
with not always doing it. he be-
gan to wait to be told twice. And
wondered why his positions were
not so good as they had been, and
why his salary kept getting lower.
His next step was to remain
idle good share of the time.
He would sit around, telling his
hard-luck story now and then till
the landlord or some other creditor
got too bothersome, and then he
would find a job whereby he could
earn few dollars.
And now, as say, he is out of
a job most of the time. Employ
ers figure that they may as well
do his work in the first place as
to straighten it out after him,
provided he does 1t at all after it
is given him.
And once in awhile someone
asks what's the matter with him.
And, of course, it's true that he
had no initiative in the beginning.
but that would not have made
him lazy.
For that's his trouble-mental
laZiness.
The Washington times., 1929-02-07
MOTORIZED
LIFEBUOY

A new motor-driven lifebuoy
has been designed to enable
a rescuer to reach a drowning
person quickly 1t is four feet
long and looks like a small mo.
torboat, On the stern is a
bar to which one or more per.
sons can cling. A button on
the stern bar starts and stops
the motor. while the operator
act as the rudder.
The Washington times., 1929-02-07
Pronunciation

DEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:s
My sisters name is Adrienne.
Some people pronounce 1t, using
a long A and some use short A.
Which is correct?
WONDERING.
The pronunciation of ones name
is as one chooses to have it. and
your sister should decide which
pronunciation she prefers. Then.
as she pronounces 1t her friends
will--or should-follow suit. Usu-
ally, as this name is pronounced,
the A is given the long value,
but the short A is charming. too.
The Washington times., 1929-02-07

anything. but. he listened to her a
lot. He'd been used to doing that
all his life, you see. And, finally.
when / begged him to take me
away and have home of our own
he wouldn't listen.
And / just can't go along that
way, judge, with Jims mother COM
The Washington times., 1929-02-07

ing first. A wife has some rights,
hasn't she?"
"She has" stated the judge, and
gave the woman her decree.
But what a sad and unnecessary
thing-a happy young marriage
broken up because the mans
mother was so selfish and so DOM
The Washington times., 1929-02-07
TIMELY WORDS
ON PROPER
ETIQUETTE
Not Significant"
DEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:

DEAR MRS. BEECKMAN;
Is it correct for a girl in her
senior year in high school TO
invite a young man from a dit-
ferent school to her schools prom
enade?
2. Who should purchase the
tickets?
al would like to know the
significance of a girls wearing
young mans signet ring?
B. S. X. !.
Yes. unless there is tradition
or custom against doing this.
2. The girl, who Is the hostess.
3. The usual significance is that
the girl feels very romantic" In
wearing a boys ring, whether or
not he wishes to have her attach
so much Importance to 1t. And
usually, too, it is very unbecoming
to her hand. In other words.
there isn't any significance to this
unless the boy and the girl have
decided to have it significant.
The Washington times., 1929-02-07

jean Roberts
of 1905 S. Belmont
Aoe, Indianapolis,
co1Idn't go to
school on account
of a bad cold and
cough. TkeR
mother GGVe her
REM--and it quiek'
ly brought relief:
The Washington times., 1929-02-07
Timely Topics

According to Prof. w. Wey-
gandt, a neurologist OF Hamburg,
Germany, the whale possesses the
largest brain.
Prof. Charles Nicollo, director
of the Pasteur Institute at Tunis.
has been awarded the Nobel
medicine prize for 1928. in con-
nection with his work to combat
typhus fever.
The Washington times., 1929-02-07

DOSALIE is taking the risk. of
N catching cold just so she can
wear her new printed silk scarf
with its matching hat band. And
concealed beneath her jacket is
a belt OF the same silk. The set
is one of her first spring pur
chases. Handbags frequently sub
stitute the hats in these printed
silk sets but Rosalie thinks she
won't have enough money left
to put in a handbag when she
finishes her spring shopping.
The Washington times., 1929-02-07
What Do You Knou?
For Questions. See Editorial Page
ANSWERS TO TODAY'S TEST

One of the dscoveres electricity After dark
plants give little carbon dioxde they spoil the air while
we are sleeping Clyde Fitch Interest at higher rate than
circumference s. Acute Poll TO- Optic II. Shakespeare
r. Lew Wallace 49, Maurice Maeternck. L. Edmund Rostand
Is. r. L. Stevenson.
The Washington times., 1929-02-07
DIR. Bisch's Daily Health Hint

Prca regular hours for Sleep Try to bed the
hour each night hour each morning FIND
out also hours sleep rest the most Too much
sleep is as upsettng too little.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-25
Texas Club Girls
Picked To Attend
National Sessions

COLLEGE STATION. March Is.
Two 17-year-old home demonStra-
ton AM Club girls, Mary Lou Har-
bour, Of MI. Pleasant, Titus county,
and Clarice Young, of Lake Creek,
Delta county, have been selected to
represent Texas girls at the Ma
tional Al Club encampment at
Washington, D. O., in June, Miss
Mildred Horton, state home demon
stration agent Of the Extension SER
vice, A.. & M. College Of Texas, has
announced. These girls will share
the honor of representing the youth
of Texas at the national gathering
with Paul Robinson, OF Madison
county, and Isaac Corns, of Cam
eron county, whose selection to rep
resent the boys at the national
capital as guests of the Texas Bank
ers association was announced re-
Gently.
Announcement of the girl repre-
sentatives comes following a state
wide competition open to the more
than $4,000 All Club girls of the
state.
Mary Lou Harbour, working under
the direction of Mrs. Beulah Muir
phree, home demonstration agent in
Titus county. showed net profits Of
s1642.A in four years of club work
besides SIS in prizes. Clarice
Young, during the past year work
ing under the direction Of Miss
Anna Mae Russell, home demon
stration agent in Delta county, for
her four years work showed a net
profit of S1192.67 in addition to
S67.25 in prizes.