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swishins waddle of goods. Her shoes were
much too tight, and her gloves-and by
George her sleeves too! Her dress was
a bewildering creation of seams and re-
infOrcements to insure its standing alone
when the poor thing went to bed-again in
discomfort. For did you ever sleep for
fun, as have, in your great-aunt's nightie,
of icy linen, vOluminOus, with ruffled
sleeves to the knuckles, a ruffled collar up
under your ears and a tucked dickie of a
yoke (hand-tucked) standing away from
your cOmfOrtless and astonished chest?
Think upon your pretty nightie like a
breath of silken air, sleeveless, neckless,
soft as nothing -at-alI!
Look upon great-auntie's picture, in
morning costume, no0n, afternoon and eve
ningl Try to bully your rebellious nine
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growing late. She must get
back as soon as possible.
Have you decided?" he asked
her.
There was no way out. She
said, family:
Very WELL"
There was a dark flash Of
triumph in the eyes holding
her own. He said:
Thank you." And bowed,
with a Stilted, formal courtesy.
''When?' she asked, dimly.
'Let me see. I must" he
looked down at his lounge suit,
well cut and dark in color but
little worn. "I must prepare
myself to do justice to your un-
expected invitation. Shall we
say, the day after tomorrow?
If you are not at home," he
added quickly, Il shall come
again." %
Forced to Be Gay
He took her to the door,
opened it, leaned against it and
watched her down the steps.
When she had walked away
from the house, he laughed
shortly and turned indoors
again.
Fanchon picked up a taxi at
the corner. She directed the
driver to take her to New York
and to leave her at a corner
some blocks below the apart
ment house. She walked the
rest of the way and fear and
self-disgust walked with her.
One Of the worst moments in
her life was when, a few min
utes later, she had to reply to
Mrs. CarstairS' affectionate
greeting, had to hear from
Collin, pacing the living room
with his hands in his pockets,
that he thought she'd never
come home. and had she
bought out the .Shops2 She
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= BY FAITH BALDWIN
In
Brief
By TEMPLE MANNING
RERLIN'S NIGHT LIFE

Although some of the color
of its pre-war days has gone
out of Berlin's night life, suf-
ficient flash and simmer re-
main to dazzle the eyes o.
even the more blase night club
visitors.
Even with the picturesquely
clad officers gone, Berlin's
cabarets have a verve and a
vitality that is somehow lack
ing in the gay places of Paris
Montmartre and New York's
one and only one Broadway.
The night clubs Of the Ger
man capital have been designed
on the grand scale. No squeezed
together tables and tiny dance
floors for Berlin's pleasure seek
ers, most of whom wish to
whirl about without fear of col
liding with other merrymakers.
MOdernistic Structures
Some of the clubs go in for
modernistic decorations. A few
are as resplendent as the new
Chrysler Building, in New York
city, black and silver trim
mings glistening under long,
thin electric light tubes.
One cabaret, the Resi- by
name, has outfitted each table
with a telephone and teller box.
This, in case you see a young
lady with whom you wish to
dance or converse. You Scrib-
BILE a note (paper and pencil
lie on each table,, shoot it into
a pneumatic tube (also found
at each table,. This goes to
the post office" where the
note is read by an official CEN
Sor. If it passes his inspection
it is sent on to the girls table
through another pneumatic
tube.
Romance Begins
The phones are dial tele-
phones. You dial the table at
which the girl is sitting. A
lighted number stands above
each table. You ask her to
dance or for permission to join
her at her table. Thus, some
times, begins a romance.
Most of the night clubs have
bars and along with this Ameri-
can importation they have
adopted the good old Broadway
habit of "kiting'' checks, If
you have four drinks, you are
likely to be charged for six.
However, this does not apply
to the better bars, such as the
one found in the Hotel Adlon.
This is magnificent place and
justly famed as one of the most
popular bars in all the world.
Most of the clubs have cabaret
shows, Of course. After listen
ing for a while to the singing
and dancing of some of the per-
formers, you begin to realize
that there may be good cause
for the low salaries paid to
actors on the Continent.
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There may be other roads to
a mans heart, but the one
through his vanity is the quick
est and surest and shortest cut.
Every woman wants to marry
more than any man THINKS
he wants to marry.
Every woman wants a home
and children more than any
man THINKS he wants these
things.
AS long as marriage looks like
one long, sweet vacation to Q
woman, and like a life-Sentence
at hard labor to a man, women
will be more anxious to marry
than men are.
AS long as a woman must
have some sort Of romance or
other to make her life endur-
able, some sort Of devotion,
somebody to sit beside her at
the theater, somebody to adOrn
the head of her dinner table,
and somebody to dance with
her, she will go right on jOllying
men into fancying that they are
irresistible.
AS long as woman needs man
more than he thinks he needs
her, she will go right on flatter-
ing dubs and, dumb bells and
bcres and antiques into imagin-
ing themselves glorified charm
erS.
It is through mans beautiful,
naive vanity, that woman gets
everything she wants in life,
from love to q limousine, from
a job to a wedding ring, and
from an. escort to a life-partner.
Taking away a mans vanity
is like taking the saxaphone out
of jazz, or the wag out of a
dogs tail. It robS him Of his
most appealing characteristic,
and leaves him so flat and
limp!
The Lord put VANITY into
the male of the species so that
the female of the species might
conquer, soften and civilize him
/, It is his one vulnerable spot!
Don't spoil the game!
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Household Hints

\ To clean ebony piano keys,
rub with a warm flannel over
which a little pure salad oil has
been sprinkled. Polish with a
chamoiS.
When mixing whitewash for
ceilings, add a handful of COM
mon salt, and the whitewash
will spread more evenly.
Apple tart will be greatly i'm
proved in flavor if two or three
tableSpoonfuls of orange juice
are shaken over the apples be-
fore cooking.
When cake is nearly finished,
or about five minutes before
the end of the full time re-
quired for baking, turn off the
oven burner. Sufficient heat
will be retained in the oven to
finish the baking process.
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on your conscience, would it, if
she were-lesS well treated.
A Simple Request

on your conscience, would it, if
she were-lesS well treated.
A Simple Request
Tony
Listen, Fanchon," he went
on, as she grew cold and sick
all over, listen! If you will do
as I ashland what I ask of
you is simplicity itself, I will
say nothing. You may go on
being Evelyn Howard for the
rest Of time as far as I am
concerned. This girl upstairs,
with the child's mind, shall not
Suffer. If it becomes expedient
for me to change the manner
of my living and my household
I will put her in some home
where she will be well cared for
the rest of her life. No danger
from her; for you. OF course"
He went on "if they decide to
operate ="
What do you mean?" asked
CdAACAlOAlS AIdAIACd1y.
The One Chance
There is just a chance of her
regaining her memory and her
wits. A very faint chance.
There is something at the base
of the brain, an abSceSS, un-
derstand. In all events, some
pressure. It is a dangerous
operation and when first cav
her her general health was not
good, her physical condition.
1t was out Of the question to
operate then. Build her health
up they told me. They also
told me, that the best brain
specialist, the best brain sur.
geon, was in this part Of the
country. I have not consulted
him. Perhaps I never shall"
Fanchon said slowly:
''You must. I must"
''Not so fast 1t is one
chance in a thousand. She
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sure the other man loves me
too, but he won't say so be-
cause I am engaged to be mar
ried. I think of this other
young man very often and
sometimes when my fiance
speaks to me, I do not even pay
attention to what he is say
ing. I would not like to hurt
him, and feel that I love him,
but sometimes I feel I care
more for the other fellow. Do
you think that if I marry my
fiance I shall be happy and
forget the other?
MISS SALLY ANN.
1t would be a mistake to
marry in your present frame of
mind. I am rather disposed
to think that you are not sure
enough of your own feelings
to marry anyone just now.
Would it be possible for you
to go off for a month to think
things over, having no COM
munication with either of them
during that time?
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What Do You
Know?
AnSDerS to TodGy'S Test
Questions On Editorial Page

w OS7S'S I OVV
Questions On Editorial Page
1. Yorkton-Captured Oc-
tober 10, 1881. 2. Troy-cap-
tured 1884 B. C. 8. Delhi
captured September 20, 1857.
4. Carthage-captured 146 B.
c. 5. Boston-captured March
II, 1776. 6. Hell Gate. z. g.
973,774. 8. Mount Simplon,
Switzerland. 8. Appian Way.
10. Fiord. IL. Twenty days
before and 20 days after dog
star Sirius rises, July 3 to SAu-
gust IL, or thereaboutS.
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MASQUERADE =
Fast-Movins Story Of Girl
Who Craved High Life
By FAITH BALDWIN
The Story Thus Far

Lovely Fanhon Meredith is wanted by the San Francisco
police in connection with murder committed by her sweet
heart "Tony" FanchOn did not know he She
by arpane under the Of Smith Aboard is
Evelyn Howard whom FanchOn had met voyage from
Hawaii Evelyn going to New York to live with her aunt
the wealthy Mrs. CarSta SWhOm The
crashes FanchOn the only survivor To get from
Tony the past to the Carars home EVELYN
bond affection between Mrs CarStairS and
"niece Collin Carsta at first anagOnsc because Of his
COUSINS Hawaiian escapades her SefghteOus attitude
when his mother offered aid but FanchOn sincerity
his objections They fall in After happy at
Southampton FanchOn makes debut New York Collin,
though realizing relationship resist
Tossing his FanchOn acknowledge hers without
vealng her identity few later threatening note comes
from Tony She visits him repuSeS his advances Tony
forms FanchOn that alive but lost her
threatens introduces him
Mrs. Carstairs "Cesare Gill;"
N0W Continue
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teen-thirty-one waist into her purple cloth
riding-habit! Stand breathless in front of
your silvery mirror and see that gape-six
inches wide, where it will not meet, and
YOU show through. Remember that she
buttOned this baby-size bodice over
waist already secure in a steeled corset.
Then you will be glad to remember your
self, Jill, and your own all-day clothes!
Where, from the last shining hair on your
crown, to your big toe, are you uncomfOrt-
able, no matter how dressed up you be?
Nowhere. Not a thing to annoy the spirit
or the flesh. AS free a body, free to do
as It likes without a curb, as an ancient
Spartan girls! Il will except a few toes
here and there, for there remain some
foolish maids and madams who hurt their
own feetO NELL BRINKLEY.
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A Painters Problem

DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
I'm a painter by trade, and
therefore, with mixing paint
and turpentine, have a slight
odor Of some about me which
I cannot get rid Of by the
time I get home. So my wife
makes. it very unpleasant for
me with her constant remarks
about it. wouldn't mind so
much, but she does it. even in
front of my friends. Sometimes
I think it would be best for me
to leave her. Please try to help
me to decide what I should do.
A. T.
I may say in justification of
your wife's antipathy for the
smell of paint that your con-
stant contact with the smell
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By BEATRICE FAIRFAX

Dining With Married Men
Dear Miss Fairfax:
am a girl in my early
twentieS and have a great
many admirers in the office
where I work. Some of these
men are married, but that
doesn't seem to make any diff
ference. They are all the time
asking me out to dinner or for
a ride. Once in a while an
other girl and myself allow
them to drive us to lunch. We
have decided to stop this, be-
cause they insist on paying for
our lunches, and we do not
think it is right, because these
men have wives and families
to support. Another thing is
that they insist on kissing the
girls in the office. What can
we do to stop their feelings?
ANN.
I think you are quite right
to discontinue going to Munch
with these men, some Of whom
are married. It would be all
right in the company of others
to 60 out occasionally to lunch,
but the very fact that you feel
yourself it isn't right ought to
control your actions. I am sure
that, if you will be resolute in
resisting the men who offer to
kiss you, they will give up the
effort and think better of you
for it.
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
I am 19, and considered very
sweet and have a splendid po-
sition. I am engaged to the
most wonderful man in the
whole world, and have been
for nine months. I had planned
to be married twice, but kept
putting it off because 7 believe
I love somebody else. I feel
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SOMEBODY mas SAID CnaC there
is a sad dearth of attractive
men in the world today.
Be that as it may, why should
men be as attractive as wo-
men? They don't HAVE to be!
It is true that the average
girl goes about with a lot Of .
men who bore her to tears, Just
for the sake of having some.
thing in trousers sitting Oppo-
site her in a restaurant; and
that she sometimes marries one
Of them just for the sake Of
having something besides an
empty chair across the break
fast table and something be-
\ sides the clock to make a noise
around the house.
It is perfectly true that when
a woman gives a dinner party
she can think of a dozen beau,
tiful and attractive women to
invite, and of only one or two
men who could possibly stir the
feminine pulse and heart.
1t is perfectly true that eUeru
hostess has to "tHI in," Dith
blobS and flat tires and make
shifts.
But why give the SECRET
away? Why spoil the game?
AS long as women can go on
perSuading men that it is their
fatal fascination that makes the
weaker sex pursue them, they
will be pliable and yielding and
easily broken to harness.
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1t is perfectly true that every
hostess has to "tiH in," With
blobS and flat tires and make
shifts.
The Washington times., 1931-09-05
The Marry

By Helen Rowland
Why Men Are Vain

Somebody has said that there
is a sad dearth of attractive
men in the world today.
The Washington times., 1931-09-05

But why give the SECRET
away? Why spoil the game?
The Washington times., 1931-09-05

Every woman wants to marry
more than any man THINKS
he wants to marry.
The Washington times., 1931-09-05

Every woman wants a home
and children more than any
man THINKS he wants these
things.
The Washington times., 1931-09-05

There may be other roads to
a mans heart, but the one
through his vanity is the quick
est and surest and shortest cut.
The Washington times., 1931-09-05

woneN ARe MORE ANXIOUS
The Washington times., 1931-10-08
BRUEN|NGFACES
ONEROUS TASK
international Photo

BERLIN, Oct. 8 U.N.S0 With
apparently little hope Of success,
Chancellor Heinrich Bruening was
engaged today in the difficult task
of organizing the nonpartisan gov
ernment desired by President Won
Hindenberg.
The president wants a cabinet
strong enough to deal with oppo-
sition in the Reichstag to the new
emergency economic measures
which have been put into effect
by decree, but the widening breach
between Socialists and National
lists indicated the chancellor would
be unable to form anything like a
national government"
The chancellor himself planned
to act as foreign minister in place
of Julius Curtius, with Secretary
of State Bernhard Won BuelOw in
active charge at the foreign Of
flee.
The Washington times., 1931-10-08
ROBOT PILOTS
BIC A|RPLANE

The first public demonstration
of the Sperry automatic pilot was
made yesterday at Newark air
port. Newspapermen we're taken
aloft in an 1S-passenger plane of
the Eastern Air Transport.
The robot pilot-and electro
mechanical apparatus, gyroscopi-
cally controlled controls the ship
when in the air. A human pilot
makes takeoffs and landings,
switching in the robot when the
craft is in the air. The apparatus
keeps the ship at an even alti-
tude, allowing the human pilot
time for navigation and relieving
him of physical exertion.
While it has been used by the
Army and Navy. it is the first
time it has been installed for COM
mercial flying.
The Washington times., 1931-10-08
HOOUer, Laval Talks
Seen as Worlds Hope
In Facing NeIU Crisis

The approaching conference be-
tween President Hoover and Pre-
mier Laval of France appeared
today to carry the hopes of the
world for solutions of the three
great international problems -
war debts, reparations, and dis.
armament.
On the outcome of their delib-
erations, it was believed here,
rests the fate of the European
demand for longer holiday on
war debts, the American hope for,
a new world disarmament treaty
at Geneva, and the German hope
for reduction in reparations.
The two nations control the
worlds gold reserve. Both must
agree to any program touching
debts, reparationS. or disarma-
ment before it can be applied.
From recent developments it ap-
peared Mr.. Hoover and M. Laval
would discuss the American sug-
geStiOn for a twO-year extension
the war debt moratorium, the
creation of a consultative pact be-
tween France and America, fur
ther reduction of armamentS,
proclamation of a world holiday
in naval construction, revision of
the Versailles treaty with q down
ward slaShing of reparatiOnS, and
possibly the calling of an interna-
tiOnal economic conference.
The Washington times., 1931-10-08
Cardinals Special Saved
AS Crash Kills 2 Fans

LANCASTER, Pa, Oct. 3
Q.N.SO.-A Pennsylvania Rail
road signal tower operator who
threw a switch and shunted the
special train of the st. Louis
Cardinals baseball team onto a
siding after an automobile acci-
dent blocked the path was a hero
today.
Two men were killed in the
auto collision and another is in
Lancaster hospital in a critical
condition.
Less than two minutes before
the Cardinals special passed Lea
man Place, where the Lincoln
Highway crosses the railroad
main line between Philadelphia
and Harrisburg, the collision oc-
Cured.
An automobile driven by Alex
ander Golden, of New York, side.
swiped a car containing three
men,. GOlden's car remained on
The Washington times., 1931-10-08
BLOC To WAR
! On PLAN IN
PROSPECT
Democrats, Progressives Gird
to BaIk Extension, Fearing
Step Means Cancellation
By ROBERT S. ALLEN

A definite movement was un'
derfoot among Democratic anc
Progressive leaders today to fight
any attempt by President Hoover
to put through a two-year eXten'
sion of the intergovernmental
debt moratorium unless Europe
acts to scale down reparations
and drastically cuts armaments.
Senator BOrah (R.) of Idaho,
chairman Of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee, set these
two conditions as absolute essen
tials before he would give his
approval to any further breath
ing spell" to Europe on the $1O,-
OOO,OOO,OOO of war debts it owes
the United States.
Representative Garner Of Tex
as, Democratic choice for Speaker,
was not only adamant against
the extension but declared his in
tention of opposing the one-year
moratorium.
Other Democratic and Progress
sive legislators expressed hostility
to the Presidents proposal.
Fly in Ointment
The spark that aroused the
legislators was the realization
that what the President had at
tempted to pledge them to at
his special conference Tuesday
night was not an extension of
his one-year reparations and war
debt moratorium Of last June but
an extension limited solely to
war debts.
This would apply only to the
money owed to the United States.
ReparatiOn payments due the al.
lied pOwesr by Germany were un-
affected by the Presidents plan.
The Hoover formula was char
acterized as cancellation by con-
gressional leaders. For the United
States to extend the holiday on
debts owing it and not to re-
quire that Europe do the same
on debts it claims, these leaders
declared, would mean that this
country would never be able to
collect any more payments.
Watson Saves Farley
Additional information on what
occurred behind closed doors in
the Tuesday night White House
conference reveals that the part
in the original statement read by
the President dealing with the
moratorium was the longest Sec
ton in it, and was five times
longer than the published YER
sion.
Debate over the issue took up
half the time of the three hours
conference and no agreement on
any part of the agenda would
have been reached but for the
tactfuI strategy Of the veteran
floor leader, Senator Watson (R.)
Of Indiana.
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BANKERS FIGHT:
DEBT POLITICS

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., Oct. 8
G.NSD.-Political efforts to frus-
trate an extension of the mora:
torium on international debts
were vigorously denounced at the
concluding session Of the Ameri-
can Bankers Association conven-
ton here today by Fred I. Kent,
director of the Bankers Trust
Company, New York. d.
Kent, who was speaking in be-
half of the associations commerce
and marine commission, of which
he-is chairman, also attacked the
British dole and the German un-
employment insurance systems.
He said:
Prevention of the extension
of the moratorium on interna-
tiOnaI debts beyond July, 1882, =
will result in world economic
catastrophe. We must keep pol
iticS out Of this sort Of eCOnOm-
iCs,"
The Washington times., 1931-10-08
HOOVER FLAYED
FOR SECRECY
IN METHODS
Bipartisan Confab Violated
Constitution, Says Shannon;
Favors An Extra Session

President Hoover has done VIC.
lence to the Constitution by call
ing to the White House the group
of congressional leaders who on
Tuesday night considered his re.
lief plans, Representative Joseph
B. Shannon CD of Missouri
charged today.
The Presidents message, the
MiSsourian declared, should have
been delivered to a special session
of Congress. Representative Shan.
non asserted that an "extraor.
binary" occasion existed and that
it warrants the assembling of the
Congress in extra session as con-
templated by the Constitution.
Text of Statement
In a statement Mr.. Shannon
said:
els an extraordinary situa-
ton confronting the United
States? I think 50.
"ArticIe I, section 3, para
graph 189 Of the Constitution,
provides that the President
may, on extraordinary Occa-
siOns, convene both Houses, or
either of them
"The trainers Of the COnstitu-
tiOn plainly intended, by this
wording, that when a matter
of as great moment as this
critical financial condition Oc-
Cured, then Congress should
be assembled in extraordinary
session and the whole story
uncovered.
But the President chose to
call a selected group of lead.
erS who, 1 take it, were ex-
pected to stand by the action
concerning the moratorium rs
it affected Germany. Many
believe that this was not in
the interest of anyone except
the bankers who had invested
money in Europe.
Bankers in Distress
"NOw it seems that the bank.
ers are again in distress, and
the Chief Executive sees fit to
make further use Of the often
Sive system of calling into &C.
ton q commission. This COM
mission is to represent the rep
resentative Of the peOple-COn-
greSS. However, the commits
sion has not been named by
Congress, nor by the people,
but by q mere executive call.
Therefore, when the PreSi-
dent does this in an emer-
gency as great as now exists,
he does violence to the Con-
StitutiOn and he spreads bu-
reaucracy of Government as
was n ever intended-GOvern.
ment officials acting cOllec-
lively and secretly. 1t was
never intended, at a time like
this, that a mere handful Of
members of Congress should
purpOrt to represent the body
elected by the people to rep
resent them.
IF it is mot of sufficient i'm
pOrtance to warrant the as