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In, 800 p. m.
Presiding:
Mrs. Sam j. Smith $500. President
Invocation 49,. Rev. w. e. johnson
Texas Poems
-. Miss Bobbie Irene Cartwright
Aria, Thou Lovely Bird" from
La du Bezit," by David.
"Homing' ............ BY Delriego
Mrs. Jack Cary, accompanied by
Mrs. S. r. Jennings.
Piano solo
~Harkl Harkl the Lark
by Shubert-Lizst. Mrs. B. Frank
Hardin.
What I Saw, Felt and Heard IN
New York" Observation-Disclosures. --..
Mrs. Percy ". Pennybacker, Autsin.
Wednesday Morning, May Eighth
$3.50 a. m.-Call to order.
Invocation ...... Rev. M o. Ewing
Music III. Ora Witte, San Antonio
Reading of minutes.
Report of delegates: L through Y.
$50 a. m.-Parliamentary law.
Mrs. r. F. Lindsay, MI. Pleasant.
1000 a. m.-Report of district
chairman.
Department of American Home
Chairman-Mrs. S. j. Coleman, Bee
vile.
Talk-"Key Homes.
ILL.,. Mrs. j. L. Young. Mineral Wells.
Papers by members.
Home Demonstration ..............
Mrs. w. II. Yeager. Laredo
1920 a. m.-State Convention
... Mrs. O.. r.. Scott. Corpus Christi
Department OF fine arts:
Chairman-Mrs. William King, San
Antonio.
Art-Mrs. J. c. Matthews San An
tonic.
III 100 a. m. Solo
Miss Katherine Redmond. Corpus
Christi; accompanist, Mrs. Otto
Mollering.
1890 d. m.-Luncheon. compli-
mentary of the clubs OF Harrington
Wednesday Afternoon. May Eighth
, y. m.-Call to order.
Reading of minutes.
Report Of county federation chair
man.
Bastrop-Mrs. Emma S. Webb, FL
gin.
Bee-NIrs. S. J. Coleman. Beeville.
Bezar-Mrs. j. s. Peters, San An
tonic.
Caldwell-MIss Margaret Ann Ell
lott. Lockhart.
Gonzales-Mrs. w. nj. Magee,
Nixon.
La Sale. Webb and Jim Hogg-
Mrs. G. G. Burr, Laredo.
Nueces-Mrs. Vincent Bluntzer,
Corpus Christi.
Refugio-Mrs. Harry Cummins
! Woodsboro.
San Particulars. G. c. Conn,
Sinton.
Lee-Mrs. W. A. Barter. Giddings.
Live Oak-AIrs. Z. L. Riser, George
West.
De witt-Mrs. j. H. Pridgen.
Cuero.
Medina-Mrs. <. L. Reasons, De-
vine.
jim Wells-Mrs. J. S. Strickland.
Alice.
Texas Land. My Texas Land.
I2:3O d. m.-AddreSs
Mrs. Cecil Smith. Sherman
800 D. m.-Report OF district
chairman.
Department OF applied education:
$50 D. m.-DeanS OF Women IN
High Schools, Miss Lila Baugh
Kingsville.
Juvenile Literature-Miss Ruby
Cole. San Antonio.
Department of conservation OF
Natural Resources. II
/ Mrs. Earl Reed. San Benito.
A visit to a French chateau ar
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Program Announced
For Federation

Arrangements are practically
complete for the 2Sth annual con-
vention Of the fifth district or the
Texas federation Of women's clubs,
which meets in Harrington May z,
s. and 2.
Hostess clubs are the Study club.
Music Lovers club. Business and
Professional Woman's club, the
woman's Chamber of Commerce,
Delphians. Primera Home Demon
stration club. Palmetal Home DEM
onStrHtion club, and the Harrington
Chamber OF Commerce. Mrs. Polk
Hornaday Is chairman Of the gen.
eral committee on entertainment.
About $50 officers and delegates,
end a number or visitors are ex-
pected to attend the convention.
Reports Of committees and other
routine business will be taken up
during the first two days Of the
convention. Officers for the coming
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Informal Hop
At Fort Brown

About 30 couples. including a
number of townspeople. participated
in the informal hop at Fort Brown
Officers club "Wednesday evening.
Due to delay in completing wiring
fer the tennis courts. where such
hops are usually held in summer.
the guests danced inside. The hall
was charmingly decorated with cut
flowers. Mesdames Perry f. Tay-
Tor. CLYDE Massey and John p. VIII
ley acted as hostesses. Punch was
served Throughout the evening. with
refreshments OF ice cream and cake
M a lat hour. Music was furnished
bv the 18th cavalry orchestra.
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SAN PERLITA


HOST TO FRIENDS
Ezra Branhill delightfully."- enter
tanned a number of his schoolmates
and friends Friday evening at the
home of his parents. Mr. and Mrs.
G. Barnhill. in South San Perlita.
Numerous games were enjoyed. aft
er which a bonfire was made on
the spacious lawn, where the
youngsters roasted weiners and
marshmallows. Those enjoying this
pleasant occasion we're: Fern
Brown, Joy Clark. Viola Knox, Jean
Rains. Marian Rains. Myrtle Mae
Knox. Allie Alexander Gerald Bris-
toe. RandIe Bristoe. Warren Archi-
bald. Almuth Gilbert. q. q. Barn
hill and the young host.
PERSONALS
Mr.. and Mrs. n. l.. Penny and
family and Mr.. and Mrs. y. III.
Blythe enjoyed a picnic on the Ar
royo near Pasa Real Sunday.
ORGANIZE SUNDAY SCHOOL
A Sunday school was organized
here Sunday with a membership of
%. j. r. Sprouse was elected super
intendent and Miss Alice Barnhill
secretary treasurer. Each class ap-
pointed their teacher as follows:
Glass No. /. Mrs. j. Fl. Davis: No. ?.
Mr.. Audrey Fox: No. 3. Miss Hazel
Archibald: No. 4, Miss nellie Sprouse.
PERSONALS
Rev. and Mrs. John III. Davis ar
rived here last Friday from Miami,
Fla. to make their home. Reverend
Davis will be pastor OF the NJ r.
church at this place.
Mrs. Lois King Parker and baby
Of Livingstone are here visiting
Mrs. Mrs. Parker's sister, Mrs. G. r.
Johnson and family.
Rev. and Mrs. o. G. Crow and
children of Brownsville attended
church services here Sunday. at
which time Reverend Grow address
ed the newly organized Sunday
school.
Mr.. Dave Heath and family ar
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McALLEN


CLUB ENTERTAINS
Members Of the Ma Kocha club
and their husbands entertained
with a delightful social affair Fri
day evening at the home OF DR..
and Mrs. NJ. p. Wilson. compli-
menting Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred
Myers. who are leaving soon 70
make their home in Kansas.
Mrs. Myers YVES the recipient OF
many dainty handkerchiefs. when
the ladies pleasantly surprised her
with a shower.
Several games of bunco were en-
joyed during the evening.
Those present ,vere Messrs. and
Mesdames T. w. Doster. Bob Nc
Kay. Merwin Hale. Homer Isen-
Continued On page nine.)
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Four Guests at
Hi-Lo Meeting

Mrs. Jacques was hostess 10 the
Hi-Lo Bridge club at their regular
meeting on Tuesday afternoon. with
four guests, Mesdames John Hun
ter, B. q. Hanna. Reed Williams,
and Cuban Monsees present. Mrs.
Hunter took guest trophy. and Mrs.
N. <. Randall. Jr.. the club award.
The hostess served a salad course
Mrs. Lindsey Cleckler Is TO have
the club next week.
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M Me9Hs
BY MRS. ALEXANDER GEORGE

BY MRS ALEXANDER GEORGE
Menus
Breakfast
Orange Juice
Wheat cereal and Cream
Poached Eggs OF Buttered Toast
Coffee
Luncheon
Peanut Bread Sandwiches
Dreamed Carrots
Baked Apples Sugar Cookies
Dinner
Asparagus and Cheese Sauce
Buttered Potatoes
Bread Grape Jam
Head Lettuce and Olive Salad
Dressing
Rhubarb Pie Coffee
Peanut Bread. One Loaf
3 IL cups flour;
3 1-2 teaspoons baking powder;
| teaspoon salt:
2-3 cup light brown sugar;
l egg,
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rlsp ~arra ptus Srro nAEEs sorr s~krtR
No dirty ring
around the bathtub

BATHING in soft water Is very pleas
ant. And less work. Not only while
you battle, but afterwards too. Fer
when you bathe IN soft water no
dirty ring forms around the bathtub.
Soften hard water with Melo. IL
makes water a wonderful cleaner.
with or without soap. 1t prevents
the dirty ring from forming. Il makes
soap more effective. II makes your
bath more pleasant Get q can 81
MeIo at your g~roccrs today.
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% cup chopped peanuts:
/ 2-3 cups milk:
2 tablespoons fat. melted.
Mix the ingredients and pour into
a creased loaf pan. Let rise for TO-
minutes. Bake In n slow oven for
1 hour.
Asparagus and Cheese Sauce,
Serving Four
20 stalks cooked asparagus.
A pieces hot buttered tcasts
2 tablespoons butter:
4 tablespoons flour.
2 cups milk:
IA cup cheese. cut tine:
IA teaspoon paprika:
IA teaspoon celery salt;
/ teaspoon finely chopped onions
Melt the butter and add the
flour. Blend and add the milk and
cook until 4 creamy sauce forms.
Add the rest OF the ingredients and
cook slowly and stir constantly
I'll the cheese has melted. Pour
v e the asparagus which has been
arranged on the toast. Serve at
once.
m
Olive Salad Dressing. Serving -Four
Ia cup salad dressing.
Ia cup chopped pimento stuffed
olives.
2 tablespoons chopped sweet
pickles:
IA teaspoon salt:
I tablespoon salad oil.
Chill all the ingredients. Com
bine and beat for l minute. Serve
on head lettuce or tomato salads.
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A Fashion Models Diary
BY GRACE ~THORNCLIFFE
She Discusses a Dinner Dress.

7 isn't often that We have as
much excitement in the shop as
we had today. The days gener-
ally u along very smoothly. with
customers coming in and out and
orders being quietly filled.
This morning. however. something
very interesting happened. IL was
Just before the luncheon hour. and
the shop was pretty well find.
Helene and ! were waiting on two
OF Madame's best customers. Il
noticed "A slip OF a girl come in and
sit down quietly in "a corner. as II
she were getting ready 10 wait
patiently for attention from one or
Us. It wasn't unusual for someone
to do Just that and. had n been
one Of our familiar customers. !
probably wouldn't have looked her
way again. after greeting her How
ever. ] had seen her before.
and DO we ~~articuiarlv well.
dressec
I kept CHANGING IN her direction &C.
casionaily and wishing that some
body would get through soon 10 wait
on her because | don't think II is
good business TO keep a new Gus
toner. waiting. I noticed that she
UAlN1 I EtEAA " hAAAAAs 49, AAHAEHNN
that perhaps she was waiting TO
meet someone. I had Just about
forgotten her. when Helene nudged
me In passing and said. Say. Grace
look what that girls doing" ! tool
another good look. She had some
slips or paper In her hand and
seemed 20 ~ s~ketchinE. In a flash
Z thought she must be "A designer
from some other shop getting ideas
from our models. OF curse. we can't
copyright our clothes. but we do like
% keep them original and exclusive.
But II turned out that she was
merely a student in designing. anxi-
GUS TO get something new int a test
drawing. All this we found out
later. after Madame had asked the
young lady If she couldn't serve her.
The poor girl was so flabbergasted
at Madame's personal attention. that
che hastily stammered an explana-
don and dashed out.
AS she o she dropped 4 peach
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FRIDAY .

Mrs. Morris Clint Is entertain
ing her bridge club.
EuzeIian class at the home OF
Mrs III. II. Tucker, with Mrs. Bert
Neil ms joint hostess, $3.50 p. m.
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knows that suggestion must be employed
along with his other instruments of
healing He also knows that 1t is al
most impossible to determine the exact
value of many remedies In modern med
icine, because so many as yet unknown
fatcors enter into the case. He Is, there
fore, often obliged to shoot more or less
blindly at a symptom, not knowing
whether the treatment he Is giving is
the right one or as far off the mark
as the witch doctors lamentations. He
knows that even If it is off the mark
the patients faith in it will frequently
effect a cure, just as 1t would in the
case of the powwow doctors ministra-
tions.
For example: A certain woman, let
us say, is battle-ground OF conflicting
emotions. This disturbance produces
In her certain symptoms, such as nol-
gestion and sleeplesSness. She may
realize the real reason for the symp-
toms, but does not want to admit the
fact even to herself. She prefers to
ascribe them to some physical trouble.
So she goes to a physician. She de-
scribes and probably exaggerateS her
physical symptoms and in various ways
sets the stage to deceive him. He dag
noses her trouble as physical and gives
her medicine for it. She gets well, not
because of the medicine, but because
after taking it she can ascribe her cure
to its effects and therefore save her
face.
This Is not meant as a criticism of
legitimate physicians or as plea for
powwow doctors or other fakes, or even
as an implication that all physical
troubles are psychological in origin. 1t
is given to illustrate the fundamental
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not understand if he did. It seems to
the patient like the physicians personal
failure and the failure Of the science
which he practices.
The powwow doctor, on the other
hand, bases his treatment on the simple
claim that he can or cannot control
evil spirits. If the patient gets we'll, as
he often does in spite of everything
done to him, the witch doctor takes the
credit. If the sick man does not get
we'll, the so-called magician simply says
that the demons he is fighting are too
powerful for any incantations or for
mulaS. This seems reasonable to the
primitive mind.
Another difficulty in eradicating belief
in magic and other medical fakes is
that so often these "cures" really work,
or appear to. The person who has had
some mystic formula muttered over him
and been given some noXiouS brew to
drink, or who has paid dollar for
Is cents worth of soda water and qui-
nine, put up under fancy patented
name, does frequently recover from his
ailment.
The answer, of course, is either that
he would have recovered from it any,
way or that the origin of his trouble
was psychological, and all that was
needed to straighten him out was the
untangling of his mental or emotional
difficulty, a process made much easier
by his faith in the ability of anything
to cure him. This is what I mean by
saying that the same kind of mental
processes which eventually brought
Blymyer to commit murder appear in
other DISCUSSES in practically all of us.
X X X
NOT infrequently the authentic ply
stefan is. consciously or uncon-
sciouSly, a party to the deception. He
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modes of thinking which lie back of all
us may cast the first stone at Blymer
and the other believers in "hexing."
CIRCUMSTANCES like the York
murder should arouse in society
not simply spirit of satirical con-
but realization of its own
responsibility. Here is a social situ-
alton growing out of ignorance, poverty
and disease. What shall We do about it?
First, we should Danish from our
minds the idea that our only duty is
to punish. OF course. society must pro-
tect itself from such an individual, must
make some immediate arrangement to
prevent him from repeating his crime;
but after that Is done, We should ap-
proach the question in a broader sense.
We should, first of all, examine the man
mentally as we'll as physically, diagnose
his mental processes just as we would
diagnose his body. and on the basis OF
that individual diagnosis decide what
should be done with him or for him.
Our present criminal code and proce-
dure do not give enough consideration
to the individual abilities and limita-
lions of the lawbreaker. The code is
based on all kinds of untrue assump-
tions, such as the power of every adult
who is not drunk or legally insane" to
know the difference between right and
wrong. Even legal insanity" is deter
mined often on emotional rather than
intellectual grounds. A rluder is COM
mitted and the MURDER GENES ~
for trisl before jury Witch represents
in general, the opinion CT society. Per-
hans his lawyer put in plea of tenn
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porary insanity" and the jury listens
to expert" opinion for and against
on this point.
Which opinion they accept Is almost
certain to be decided by their emotional
attitude toward the prisoner. If he is
wronged husband who has killed the
wrecker of his home, the jury is almost
certain to decide that he was insane
when he did it, though now perfectly
responsible. If he is second Hickman,
who has butchered little girl. the
jury is almost certain to hold him to
full responsibility for his crime. Legal
insanity" has thus become ineffective.
To the distinctions which the law
now makes in handling those who
have committed crimes 1t should add
many others, differentiating more and
more until finally it has reached the
point where it can prescribe individual
rather than mass treatment. Such
a procedure would not only be far more
just, but in the long run far more
constructive.
From the angle of preventing crime.
the witch murder should teach us the
need of improved methods Of education,
greater distribution of opportunity
and the elimination of poverty. with
al the degradation and suffering that
result therefrom.
In one of his speeches President
elect Hoover has spoken of the elm
nation of poverty as an engineering
problem. problem in efficiency. The
world seems to be ready for such
yrcat social experiment looking to the
Welfare Of its people, and by that same
token should be ready to discard the old
methods of melting out punishment for
crime and ignoring the public respon-
s,rility therefor.
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Washington Scientists Explore Undersea Life in the Tropc
Prof Longey Charge Laboratory Loggerhd Key Carnegie
sutton Has Spent More Than 5000 Hours Under Waer-Variety
in Celebration of Fishes Revealed Bottom

assumed by a number of species under
controlled conditions has been made"
THE institution laboratory Is the door
l. leading into the tropical under
sea world, through which many noted
scientists have entered in their quest
for new scientific truths. Does De
Laubenfels need living sponges Of par
ticular kind, or BlinkS fresh supply of
valonia, or Grave certain species of
ascidian, or Mccoy trematode larvae,
or Gordon and Lewis fish of specified
types, or Lewis given species or algae?
Instantly Prof. Longley directs his as
sistants to the places where these may
be obtained. His intimate knowledge
of his submerged garden and Of the
things that are living therein Is of in
calculable aid to the scientists who go
to Tortugas, many for but brief
period, and who could Ill afford the time
it would take new men to find the ma
terial they require.
The working season at the station Is
short-only the four Summer months.
For the most part, the men who accept
invitations to TortugaS occupy positions
of responsibility in established institu-
lions. They can leave their Offices only
In the vacation period. Again, weather
conditions at Tortugas are not pro-
pitious except during Spring and Sum-
mer, for the islands lie in the zone of
tropical hurricanes.
Two days from Washington on the
Havana Special and one is at Key West.
Eight hours directly to the west, aboard
the Anton Dohrn-past the MarQuesas
atoll, uninhabited and mangrove COW
the 1919 hurricane hurled the Inflated
Val Bonera and her $50 passengers;
past Rebecca Shoal Lighthouse, holding
sleepless and lonely vigil; past Fort
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probably You Scon Witches Yet May Have Some Supersons
DR. White Finds That Almost ayh Average Person Influenced by Some
Thought Primitive the Weird Rites That Resulted in
Pennsylvania Crme-Fath in Odd Cures.

other and wished 10 cleanse himself OF
the sin would put caldron OF water
over fire. When it was boiling vigor-
ously, he would lift the cover, shout his
name into the caldron and slap the top
on again. In this way his name was
boiled and purified. Therefore, he was
purified.
Belief in spirits as motivating forces,
rather than in natural laws, is the
foundation of all primitive thinking
Aboriginal man has the idea that moth
ing can move unless it is inbued with
life, because he himself moves only
when he is alive and ceases to move
as soon as life deserts him. Hence the
clouds which drift across the sky, the
waves which dash against the shore, the
rivers racing to the sea, the sun on Its
daily journey, the thunderbolt that
strikes with such ferocity-all these are
animated by spirits.
From belief in the power OF the
spirits, the next step is search for
some way to control them, and thus we
have all the complicated hocus pocus
of witchcraft, necromancy, astrology,
numerology and fake medicines OF every
description. We have presumably edu-
Gated people changing their names so
that the numbers" of the letters will
harmonic with their personalities;
bridge playing ladies walking aroundthe
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dren and among the mentally i'll. But
the same kind of mental processes that
underlie superstition are also found
among the most intellectual and
sophisticated individuals.
The primitive person does not differ
entiate clearly between himself and his
environment, just as a golfer is not
differentiating between himself and his
golf stick when he breaks it in anger
because he himself has made a bad play.
In the savage this takes the form of be-
lieving that part of himself Is con-
tanned in everything with which he has
been aSSociated-in his clothes, his hair,
the parings of his nails, pictures or
images of himself, and even his name.
Certain primitive men will not tell their
real names to their enemies, because to
do so would be to give away a part of
themselves and therefore put themselves
in the enemy'S power.
This was the reason for Blymyer's de-
sire to get lock from the head of his
supposed prosecutor. Superstition con-
fuses the whole man with a part of
him; to bury his hair eight feet under
the ground would be, from the witch
doctors point of view, almost the same
as burying the owner of the lock.
X X X
A MOTHER illustration of this is the
"A ancient practice of exercising a
murderer. A man who had killed an
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about their branches, where its inert
ness completely bellies its amazing power
Of motion.
Large spiny Holsters, torn between
distrust and greed, from under mush-
roomed heads of coral extend their an
tennae and wave them frantically over
proffered food. Hermit crabs with
heavy shells sit aloft on purple sea fans
With their spoon shaped fingers, spider
crabs, ensconced in safe retreats, grub
off the incrusting growth of plants and
fill themselves to repletion, Others lie
safely buried, to venture abroad only
under cover of darkness. But manifold
as are the forms and habits Of other
creatures, and particularly of crustacea,
the fish fauna SurpaSS all in number
of species, vivid celebration, variety OF
adaptations and. one might almost say,
in personality.
1.-The variety in coloration of fishes is
an unfailing source Of delight. Whether
one locks down upon them through the
CLASSY water or whether they float into
ones field of view through the circum-
ambient haze, they provoke recurrent
expressions of admiration. Particular
coIors are correlated with specific hab-
It's. fttu, lpI ID Windy
restricted to nocturnal fishes, which lie
hidden by day. The greens, on the
other hand, characterize such species
as live upon the green reef-flats or
swim near the surface in open water.
The fishes displaying the most vivid
/ color combinations move in the most
varied environments. The colors of all
appear to conform to rational and
simple system of distribution.
THE celebration of many of the spe-
cies is changeable and may be expert
mentally controlled. Equipped with
diving hood, one may walk about freely
and thus lead carnivorous forms from
point to point by offering them food
1t is possible under such circumstances
to evoke their various color phases at
will by selecting the spot to which the
creatures are led and, If desired, to OBJ
serve at closest range each minute effect
of their changed environment.
THE movements of herbivorous forms
are not subject to quite such definite
control, but one may walk up to browS-
ing schools of tangs or parrot fishes
follow them about and secure informa-
ton with little effort. All the creatures
may be photographed amid perfectly
natural and typical surroundings with
much less difficulty than might be ex-
pected. Hence encouraging progress In
securing pictorial record Of. the phases