Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-13
Higghligghts on the Wide World
Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands

over the town, and goes on pound
ing the horseshoe as If nothing had
happened, while the amorous gent
slowly gathers up the scattered frag-
ments Of himself and sadly crawls
away.
Financial Depression
Often Blessing in~Disguise.
Manchuria Daily News, Dairen.-A
times blessing in disguise. If it cur
tails to any great extent wholesome
and beneficial activities, it also, and in
far greater ratio, restricts the eXpend-
itures for unseemly diversions and in
furious commodities such as intoxicating
drugs and liquors. Even the use of to-
bacco shows a marked diminution, and
frequently those obliged to forego these
Stimulants for a time, because of pc
cuniary circumstances, find that when
their finances are again recuperated
they no longer have the same irresiSt-
ible and deleterious appetites.
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Berlin Paper Flags
American Methods.
Berliner Tageblatt-A curious phe-
nomenon of financial conditions in
America is that following nearly every
optimistic expression on the part of a
high Government official that business
conditions are getting better and will
soon reach their normal processes again
they Immediately become worse. 1t ap-
pears that the public resentS the COM
ment of those who, though supposed to
be financial authorities and in control
of the commerce and resources of the
country, were not intelligent nor. able
enough to prevent the monetary dis
asterS and the unemployment of the
co hot d. - -
anceS even of the Chief Executive and
of members of his cabinet are no longer
received with any confidence that they
know what they are talking about.
x X
characteristics Seen
Changing for Women.
Neues Wiener Tagblatt, Vienna
Man has always divided women rough
ly into two categorieS The slender,
graceful and at first glance bewitching-
ly beautiful frauen and the corpulent,
ladies with double chinS, broad
launches and overplump extremities.
We say that women used to be divided
into these two classes; of late the lat
ter types have almost disappeared.
All our women seem to be now rather
Slim and attenuated, largely through
the increased activity of their lives,
SAlSS Illc WdIB III SJOTJS, DuSuleSS ana
other vigorous pursuits In fact, there
are very few really plump and heavy
women any more, not even in Germany,
where the voluptuous figure of generous
proportions fingered the longest
Indeed, in foreign countries, and par
ticularly in America, it was always be-
lieved that all Germans were fat, re-
gardless of the fact that there emil
grated from the Fatherland to those
shores every possible variety of human
physique. Most Americans have seen
thin Germans, fat Germans, tall Ger
mans and short Germans, in all sorts
of combinations of stature and "speck"
(blubber), yet their conception of the
German woman, as reflected in Ameri-
can caricatures especially, has always
been that she was stumpy, and nothing
lacking in embonpoint.
1t is scarcely to be hoped that such
illusions will soon be dispelled for all
the present rarity of the buxom type
and the general prevalence, in Austria
and Germany, at least, of sylphlike and
elegant contours.