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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-24

Whether a girl has the right 70
withhold this information. which
may completely change the attitude
Of her sweetheart. or whether it is
better to keep things a secret con-
stantly frightened because it may
be found out, is the issue, it would
seem.
AS a matter of fact. the issue IS
not as superficial as this. It is en-
tirely within the mind Of the girl
who has the problem to face. IF
she does tell. she is running the
risk of losing not only her chance
for happiness and the happiness she
can bring the man who loves her.
but she also may be the cause of
disillusioning him entirely and ruin
ing his life. On the other hand. if
she does not tell. the ghost of the
secret may stalk her day and night
until she will have been better of
by telling.
Here is the letter. which is respon-
sible for an endless number Of con-
lectures.
Dear Miss Lee-When I was seventeen.
most horrible and unfortunate expert
ence was mine. Since then I have spent
my life repenting the sin. now am %.
7 never was a wild girl. Miss Lee. but the
affair I am speaking about has made ne
more cautious and wary than most girls.
have a sweetheart who thinks the
world and al Of me. He continually is
talking about our marriage and our fu-
ture together. He so often saws there
is no one else I'm the world like me. that
he Is so glad to have found me. that
am a girl a boy dreams about, but never
expects to meet.
Miss Lee. what am I to do7 This secret
is eating my heart out. If 7 tell him, I
do not know what viii happen. You see
he thinks I am so very fine that it viii
he even worse to take than if he ever had
suspected that I did anything wrong. On
the other hand. how can 1 ever marry
him. having him think I am all these
wonderful things? How can I start my
life with him. living lie? What ever
shall 7 do? II I lose him. it will just
about kill me but it will kill me just as
surely to deceive him. -
Ny dear. can't you see you simply
must answer these questions for
yourself. You must weigh the re-
suits. or rather the chances of the
results. of telling him. against your
own misery at deceiving him.
Must Answer for Self.
You must consider whether the
pain and misery and Unhappiness
YOU would cause him by telling the
secret will be greater or less than
the pain you suffer from keeping
it within your heart. Also. I do not
know the circumstances, which have
nothing to do with making any diff
ference in the magnitude of your
wrongdoing. but which might give
you some personal consolation.
You must work the answer out
for yourself. No one else can tell
you what to do in a case like this.
Perhaps some of the readers might
give you some suggestions and adj
vice through the column.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-24
PLAY SCHEDULED

Miss Nellie Mullis and Ray
mond Barker have the leading
roles in a three-act play, The
Mystery of the Third Gable" to
be given by the Mask and Sceptre
Club Friday night in the Old
Trails theater, Morris street and
the National road, and in the
Mars Hill grade school building
Saturday night.
Other members of the cast are
the Misses Irene Leach. LIE Nora
Hammer, Thelma Douglas and
Edna Ketrow and Harry Ruffner,
Donald Horner. George Weiser
and Curtis Weekly.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-24
Fashion French

Echantillon (eh-shan-tee-yon)-
sample.
Echarpe (eh-sharp)-scarf.
Echaveau (eh-sheh-yo)-skein.
An RPVnirl
The Washington times., 1929-01-31
LAY ANOTHER EGG
By Herbert Kaufman

NToBoDY knew you to throw away the deck because
the first shuttle didn't bring topping hand
So why abandon ambition and further hope Of
after disappointing deal?
Cards full of life essons-so is baseball
The patient waiter always repeats his winnings and gets
his innings 100 per cent batter lived, and the
foremost bridge expert can't expect to draw em right
all the time.
The late Paul Armstrong began writing the worst plays
reached managers wastebasket. But his last
dramas showed the technique of a master.
Rupert Hughes hit and missed for dozen years before
magazines starred his novels And Franklin K Lanes early
adventures newspaper publishing staged in the rednk
bottle.
Frank Munsey synonym for journalistic failure
continued his erratc the daily field until he
finally found himself in the New York Sun.
Otto Mergenthaer built and destroyed of typeset
ting machines before the linotype performed And meanwhile
batted hardship and prvaon to the very gutter edge
everyone quailed and quit promptly you dropped
out, the world would be heuva place
We're all capable of hundred times than achieve.
No has yet fully investigated the in his brain
cupboard But you confess mental bankruptcy after
half hearted try at distinction.
Isaac Holden didn't let his thoughts go wool gathering
when he discovered the lucfer match neglected patent it,
and went broke but turned them to woocombng revou
tionized weaving, and died guinea millionaire.
Active minds and hens aren't discouraged by nere
If occasional batch doesn't hatch, they keep and
lay others
hthrght-ts trained product He keeps everlastngly at
it, regardless of boomer and demonstrates by the variety
and multiplicity of his inventions that persistence is bound
TO yield recommending average of results
Joseph Bramah also revealed the infinite Of
determined intelligence with the hydrosatc press the safety
lock- banknote numberer fire engines and paper making
machinery
And Baron Armstrong; credits include the hydraulic &C
and crane flock of electrical devices and the
breech loading gun.
Providence furnished them with standard working kit
the set of faculties that you received.
They gave their inherited tools thorough tryout and
kept applying them at jobs while you let yours rust
before experience could give them chance
The Washington times., 1929-01-31
The New Washington Will Soon
Be Beyond the BLUEPRINT Stage

THE rapid strides which the Federal construction
making srikngly illustrated in the announcement
that the Department of Justice will next fall tempo
rariy Southern Railway building and that the
on of House office Building is to proceed without
delay.
Although city planning experts still debating whether
the concentration of $4,000 and Federal employees in
small south of Pennsylvania Avenue will
and proper from the point of view of traffic. there
that the problems involved in the creation of Wash
ngtons magnificent triangle will be solved. The
Federal Government still has four years which to
solution of the huge congestion which its
program involves
The transit system of the city must be entirely reorganized
thus making merger, in form another imperative
New artera highways for traffic make the suburbs
easier reach must be created by the Park and Planning
Commission Perhaps the entire trend of residential develop
ment will swing away from the suburban northwest to other
sections and easier of
The new Commerce Internal Revenue Bureau and Agri
culture under way in the Triangle With
Department of Justice join the Postoffce Department
fall south of the Avenue the Capital will have
glimpse of what the working center of population will
be like decade from
The Washington times., 1929-01-31
ONCE-OVERS

years married life it to rather
foolish to your wife her birthday
special occasion.
But she will consider such gift in that way.
Romance seldom dies Women like to think that their
husbands hold the feeling they had during
courting days.
Then flowers the most frequent gifts perhaps most
appreciated More appreciated after marriage than before
you ask
Many think they have fully met expectations and desires
thew give the valuable present three times year
might create real pleasure they cut down in
expensive gifts greater intervals and little floral
brances often
many is it. Mr. Man. since wife rose?
It isn't silly find what color carnations her
How Saturday night offering of fragrant blooms
the greeny that does we'll il the house?
may yce9 hearrngs tender ahen you
ths Joy few flowers give your WIFE,
The Washington times., 1929-01-31
SECRETS OF
HEALTH
BY DR.. Louis E. Bisch-

VOU doubtless have fell at times
L that you have been unequal TO
tasks and obligations which at
other times have seemed easy
enouE If you will stop to think,
you will find that such, states of
flatering have been due to fatigue,
and that the fatigue has come
from stress. The fatigue is gen
orally transient, but, if often re-
peated or long inflicted. it tends TO
become permanent. You then are
a neurasthenic or a psychasthenic.
The root of the trouble is that
the psychasthenic' confidence in
himself, which is the hall mark of
the normal being and the. indis-
pensable guide of consistent and
purposeful behavior, is seriously
impaired; ii is undermined by his
failure to face life in his early
DAYS. He cannot realize that he
must. like everyone else, live in an
uncertain world and take chances.
The ordinary man, when faced, as
he is many times every day, by two
divergent paths, decides to take
one of two alternative courses of
action and damn the conse-
quences."
The victim of obsessions is al
ways too afraid of the conse-
quences to risk decisive action, be-
cause he is not sure of himself. As
long as he can be bolstered up by
a parent. an employer, or a strong
rwilled friend and told what to do,
he can live with = fair degree o
adjustment to life. but when he is
faced with neutrality-suspicious.,
isolation, a love affair-in which
he must act for himself and no one
else is any use TO him, he will find
that such determination as he
thought he possessed is broken
reed.
IL he is religious he may throw
the responsibility upon the Deity
or the church and expect to be
guided in every action. He cer-
tainly will be guided, but not by
God his instructive power will
take charge of that suggestibie
part of himself which has hitherto
relied on the guidance of some
one stronger and proceed to lead
him backwards, away from the
fulfillment of his manhood, and
show him excellent REASONS why
he should not go on.
Consequently, he will feel his
scope becoming more and more
cramped and the feeling will ex-
press itself as fear of closed
spaces. His natural desire for
power and possession, which he
has been afraid to express in the
proper way by accepting respon-
sibility, will prompt him to steal.
Obsession is a disease Of the
mind, and, like most other dis
eases. can be cured or greatly
relieved. Undoubtedly one of the
best ways to cure is confession,
which, il properly done, will
enable the patient to see this
buried part of himself as it is.
The value OF this and any other
treatment must depend, how
ever, on the capacity Of the per-
son he confesses to. TN oh
sessed patient Isl very suRgesti-
BILE, and 1t is vital that he should
10 GiysH kAS Eisht suggestion,
The Washington times., 1929-01-31
THREE-MINUTE JOURNEYS
BY Temple Manning

) have reasoned further than the
ancient peoples. They believe
that on the other side of the
world are a race Of people very
much as they themselves are,
but, because of their position,
forced to walk on the bottom OF
the world" like flies on a ceiling.
They think that these people
do their work while walking up.
side down. OF course they have
reasoned these unfortunate peo.
pie living on the bottom Of the
world must exist in utter dark,
ness, However, they have prob
ably evolved the scheme of light.
ing themselves at every task. For
instance, they undoubtedly fasten
huge glowing tapers or torches to
the horns of the oxen to light the
way of the pillow.
1t is possible, according to
them, for the people of the bot.
tom OF the world to visit their
more fortunate neighbors. And
they believe that the explorers
who now and then make their
way to their village are members
of the unfortunate race.
The Washington times., 1929-01-31

DEFORE the days of Columbus
ID ancients believed that the
earth was as flat as pancake
that If you were able to walk
far enough you would fall off into
awful nothingness. However, in
this day OF enlightenment it would
seem impossible for anyone, after
he or she has passed the age of
discretion, to still subscribe to
such a belief. Nevertheless, there
does today exist tribe of people,.
small it is true, but numbering
at least $50 families, who still
think that the earth is flat.
These people are from the vii
lage of Azerbaijan ana are be-
lieved to be the direct descend
ants of the Cha1deans, an ancient
nation, whose belief is closely
allied to that OF the people of
whom / am writing. the Yassai.
The Yassai believe that the
earth is a large mass shaped like
the top of a table, suspended in
mid-air. or course, they. like
the ancients, believe that You can
fall off, if rash enough to explore
to the very edge. However, they
The Washington times., 1929-01-31

WE WERE talking about con-
w version
The old revival days when folk
felt the sudden call and staggered
to the altar, in a great daze of
glory, to have their sins washed
away.
II wonder if they really did
feel anything" someone said-"or
did they just work themselves
up into such state of hysteria
that they thought they did
well, whether they did or
not, those times have passed,
said someone else. People don't
get converted any more. That
sort of thing has no place in
modern life.
j don't agree with that.
| believe that conversion plays
as vital part in the life of to-
day as it ever did. | believe that
because / see it done.
This office is a sort of clearing
house for troubled lives.
Every day they come by the
dozen - broken spirits - stagnant
spirits through which life has not
moved for a very long time
people without pride or desire or
hope.
Every day they come and wear
lily, bitterly, tell their story.
Then presently. after they have
told their story and have received
only respect and friendliness in re-
turn, something happens. Sud
denly the tides move aeain-the
old tides of pride and desire.
Their faces brighten, their spines
straighten, their jaws tighten
they are filled with rushing and
The Washington times., 1929-01-31
LISTEN WORLD!
We Con Be Born Again
By Elsie Robinson

a fury of faith-faith in them.
selves.
And they walk erect, hope
burning in their eyes.
That is conversion.
That is being born again"
1t does not always last. But
when it does, the whole life is
changed. When you once awaken,
or reawaken. q mans respect for
himself and desire for life, almost
anything may happen. The most
amazing and lovely transforma-
tions take place in his character.
Hate turns 10 love. Sneering
suspicion gives way to generous
friendliness. Pride grips him
pride powerful enough to drag
him out of any gutter. He may
actually become a different man,
''he born again" almost in the
"twinkliug of an eye"
OF course, it isn't actually in
the twinkling of an eye. The
seed of greatness always lay in
hint only needed 10 be stirred
to life.
The old-fashioned religionists
called that which stirred sinner
The Holy Ghost" and rated such
conversion a miracle. We mod
erns speak of glandular reaction,
stimulated blood streams. One
explanation is as good-and as
futile-as another. A stimulated
blood stream is as mysterious as
a Holy Ghost.
TVTTEH DnTNTr 4
MEN CAN BE AWAKENED TO
A NEW LIFE AFTER THEY
HAVE FAILED WITH THE OLD
ONE.
WE CAN BE BORN AGAIN.
Remember that if you fall on
evil daNs.
The Washington times., 1929-01-31

forehead. WnaC counts, aICer
all, is INTELLIGENCE, not
curls, real or false. And intel
ligence shows in the FORE
HEAD.
The face is divided as fol-
lows: The forehead indicates
intelligence. The eyes indicate
character. The nose indicates
breeding. The mouth indicates
affection or the lack of it, and
the chin indicates will power.
Eyes, nose, mouth and chin
are always revealed by women
no matter how they dress. Pos
sibly it is because they haven t
found any fashionable ways of
GoNCEALING them. Moham-
medan women until recently
covered the lower part of their
faces completely, as you know.
That was foolish, but not quite
The Washington times., 1929-01-31

bI bh1 Wu1u6I dIIu mSH d1SO
mouths. They said that the
process of eating was disgust
ing" and the mouth that per-
formed that process should be
kept covered. Perhaps they
were right, considering how
and what they ate.
On the march they drove
their cattle with them, and
when they camped they would
cut a piece off the living ami
nal, eat it, and next day march
on, driving the suffering
creature with them.
The mouths of such mon-
sters might well be covered.
Different types of English
women are taken here. No. l
is a very thoughtful, fine
young woman.
No. 2 represents dignity and
rrare nf the old school.
The Washington times., 1929-01-31
WORDS FROM LIPS OF WISE MEN

We are very apt in blaming
the fault of Others, but very slow
is making use Of them to correct
our own. La Rochefoucauld.
Strong men delight in force
full speech. Soldiers relish
speaker delivering himself a lit
tie unreservedly. -Keble,
Faith. mighty faith. the promise
sees
And rests on that alone
Laughs at impossibilities
And Gays it shall he done.
Wesley,
The Washington times., 1929-01-31

Music is the sound which ones
own children make az they ronnp
through the house. Noise IL the
sound which other pepole's chill
dren make under the same cir.
cumstances-Spurgeon.
There is many a rich stone
laid up in the bowels OF the earth,
many a fair pearl in the bosom
OF the sea that never was seen
nor never shall he. Hall
When secret is revealed II
IL the fault of the one who con-
hdsd Il. lie BruyarO.
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dress, coupled with common
sense and intelligence.
Cant you see how these
women's faces would be spoiled
by tacking foolish curls upon
those foreheads? Are not those
foreheads THE LIGHT of the
faces? Does not every man
want to marry an intelligent
girl with a good BRAIN that
will LAST and be able to bring
up children properly?
Women show other things
abundantly, heaven knows
legs, arms, chest and back.
Thank heaven for the BARE
FOREHEAD CRAZE.
The Washington times., 1929-01-31
The knowledge Test for
Readers of The Times

Do you know:
l. Of what the letters A. NJ, used in telling tme an
abbreviation?
z What is meant by the expression, specific gravity?
3. What is a
A. In what line did Langhone Clemens gain lame
o. " what is diamond composedE
O. What does the emeritus mean
Z What the hole in the center OF the IRIS OF the eye
called?
Fill each blank:
O. Ice and salt make mixture
o. Cleveland is a lake port in
H. The light is reflected --.
IL Boiled water tastes flat because -- mas Deeh re-
moved.
Complete these quotations:
H. If anyone attempts haul down the American
shoot him the spot."-Dx; -, - !,
ID Where your - is, there VIII your heart De
flso--Bible.
16 Cd helps those who - themseves'-Sdney
Answsrs Oh FieuOs PsSs
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MEDITATIONS
OF A WIFE
BY Helen Rowland

DO Men Resemble Cats'
LIVERY now and then, some
IL masculine philosopher goes
miles out of his. way to prove
that woman resemble cats, while
men resemble that nobler animal,
the dog.
This always gets a perfectly
good rise out of me. Not ne
cause adore women-but, be-
cause adore, admire and envy
CATS!
envy the cat his perfect poise,
his calm self-assurance, his peau,
tiful self-complacency, his placid
indifference. his love of neatness
and order, and his imperturbaple
masculine DIGNITY. And, for
all these qualities envy man! In
NV next incarnation, oh Lord
make me a cat-or a man.
Cats and men have NO inferi-
ority complex. It is only women
and dogs who suffer from hu-
militv and self.doubt and are
forever running about trying 10
.nlease somebody or to lnSraIlate
themselves With somebody or 10
attract somebody's 5 attention.
Cats and men are attached 10
places. 1t is harder to dig cat
or a man out of a comtoflapie
home or his favorite easy ehalr
than it is to dig the first olive out
of bottle or a secret out ot the
Sphinx. Once a cat takes a nklng
10 a place, families may come ana
families may go-but the cat stays
on forever!
A dog and a woman, on the
other hand. will follow the man
they love to the ends OF the earth
Dogs and women are always wan
dering out. shopping into the
neighbors' affairs, and trying TO
get friendly with strange people.
Their ruling passion is curiosity!
But dogs and woman CAN be
tied-and often have to be.
Whereas, what cat and what man
could ever be held by main force
They abhor that cited feeling
and even collar around the neck
gals them!
A dog and woman love TO De
loved, and are grateful for pat
on the head, and a kind word or
bone flug at them. But a cat and
= a man flee incontinently from any
: thing flung at them-particularly
affection.
A cat and man will sit coldly
across the room, and utterly
ignore the woman who tries to
allure them with her tender ad-
vances. But the woman who
pretends not to notice their pres
ance. and treats them with polite
indifference, will soon find them
purring around her and bidding
for attention. 1t breaks a dogs
heart to he ignored-it only hurts
cats vanity.
Cats, like men. prefer to do
their own pursuing and HATE
being chased. Their affections,
If any. are given to the woman
who flatters them the most,
makes them most comfortable
and lets them ALONEl
The Washington times., 1929-01-31

You can't blame yeterrer having the hair fall into
his eyes has forehead anyhow. But lady that has
her hair bobbed shnged fizzed curled banged like skye
terrier does herself great injustice
The Washington times., 1929-01-31

is really like without cur or hat tilted down
over the eyes, covering the forehead
Men should study these pictures and encourage women
through iudcous praise be ashamed of shaped
The Washington times., 1929-01-31

as bad covering up the forehead.
Tartar and up their
The Washington times., 1929-01-31
The New Forehead Craze
Thank Heaven for 1t.
3 TouNG ladieg and Old, be

UoUNG ladies and old, be
/ kind enough to study
these portraits from the ex-
hibition at the Royal Academy
in London, Notice that a
''bare forehead" is now the
fashion among British women
of the upper class. If you are
sensible you will be glad of
it. For what the upper classes,
so-Called, do in Europe, par
ticularly in England and in
France, women and men copy
here in the United States.
We are democratic, but we
do not believe IN oVERDo-
ING our democracy.
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No. 8 represents intellect and earnestnesS.
No. is dashng mpersonaton of fashion and exquisite
The Washington times., 1929-01-31

All these women represent
in British society noble rank
or superior intelligence, The
artists who painted them had
for once in their lives a
chance to see what the face of
The Washington times., 1929-01-31

Cats, like men, prefer to do
their own pursuing and HATE
being chased. Their affections,
if any. are given to the woman
who flatters them the most.
makes them most comfortable
and lets them ALONEl