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for things old-fashioned and sweetly feminine,
curls, dimples, long lashes and frilly wardrobes
are in again. And baby dolls Little daughter
has apparently given up dreams of a career and
requests of Santa Claus for this Christmas moth
ing more modern than dolls house to keep in
order and a realistic baby doll to be loved and
nursed and dressed and redreSsed. Her dreams
of miniature domesticity are also, it seems more
elaborate and thorough-going than those of
grandmother, to whom the doll itself was all
sufficient. They include a ready-made ward
robe, for what up-to-date little girl is going to
slave over toy sewing machine, even an cleo
trio one, or prick her fingers with grown-up
needle, what with the grand styles and the bar
gain prices of read-to-wear dolls clothes. And
they include also electric ranges that really
cook, carpet sweepers, or better yet, vacuum
cleaners that really clean.
A very different type of doll, but one also
indicating the influence of current tastes even
on children's toys is the caricature DOLL stuffed
and painted to represent characters already fa-
miliar through the talking pictures, popular
Juvenile books, widely read comic strips and
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He caught sight of a
slight, girlish figure staggering
along the street toward him. She
stopped suddenly with cropping
hands.
Something wrong?" he asked
gently.
Il guess-I'm blind! My eyes"
were the whispered words he caught.
Her wide eyes did seem sightless
to him. He took her arm quickly
under his. perhaps it is Just for
the moment. I'll be glad to take you
home if you tell me where to 60"
She was a slight thing, and pretty
under other circumstances, Ross
thought. He learned in that brief
but eventful walk that she had been
studying art in the city, but sue
cess had not come her way. The
Christmas rush in the stores had
given her an opportunity to earn
money. The lights had bothered
her after the strain her eyes had
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at Can't Be Done"

In the days when electricity was
young, Britain's parliament once ap-
pointed a committee to examine the
matter of electric lighting, and this
committee, after having before 1t as
witnesses nearly all the noted scien-
lists of the day, came to the conclu-
sion that practicable system of elec.
trio lighting for private houses was
impossible!
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Mothers DarlinRs

George, aged four, and Ernest,
aged five, were spending their pre-
cious FIVE minutes with mummy be-
fore going to bed.
81 does love you," sighed Ernest,
contentedly.
"Why do you love me, darling|
asked mother.
Zoos we like your face"
"But it's not much of a face"
said mother.
This was a bit of a poser.
But we've got used to it," said
George, after much thought.-Lon-
don Tit-BitS.
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Pain Quickly Relieved

Most cases of rheumatism and
many diagnosed as neuritis are
caused by germ action. Consistent
use of B. & NJ, The Penetrating
Germicide, will quickly relieve the
acute pain and in most cases the
B. & NJ. Treatment will stop the
growth of the germs.
Your druggist should be able to
supply B. & M. in $1.25 and 70 cent
sizes. If not, send his name and we
will ship direct. T. E. ROLLINS
COMPANY, 53 Beverly ST., Boston,
Mass.-Adv.
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Biddy Outwits Weasel

How a laying hen outwitted a
weasel is reported from Carnwath
England. The biddy had been in
the habit Of laying an egg daily on
the doorstep of a farmhouse, and
just as regularly a weasel sucked the
offering dry. Apparently the hen dis
covered the theft, for it now takes
the precaution of laying its daily
contribution on the farmers easy
chair in the kitchen. And the weas-
el is too timid to enter the house.
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Church Placed in Steel Cage

To reduce the fire hazard and pro-
tect worllmen and passersby during
the repairing of st. Paul's church,
famous landmark of lower Broadway
in New York city, the entire struc-
ture was inclosed in a steel-cage
scaffolding, says Popular Mechanics
Magazine. The cage is 200 feet high,
and 5000 couplings and $500 pipes
we're required to complete the frame.
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Sunday supplement 'funnies." Mickey Mouse,
foot high and true to the original to the last
whisker, may not inspire young owner with
spasms of mother-love, but who would refuse
celebrated movie star warm welcome into the
doll family circle? Thus Mickey Mouse, and
Krazy Kat, and the rolcking Bimbo as we'll as
the entire AesOp's Fables gang, done up neatly
in black velvet, and nine members of Our Gang,
modelled in bsque and waiting for their owner
to paint them they should be painted, are
important newcomers in the doll world. Orphan
Annie and SkeeZiX and Smithy are among
number of comic strip celebrities reproduced
as dolls this year. Rose ONeill's "Kewpies'
done up in flesh pink plush, make a cuddly COM
panion for baby's crib; and from juvenile litera-
ture have been borrowed A. A. Mines funny
little bear Winnie the Pooh, featured in num-
Der of toys this year, and the whole Raggedy
family, from Raggedy Ann down.
Ask anybody who has outgrown childhood just
which toy he remembers with the greatest salts
faction, and you will find, nine cases out of ten,
that it something very simple, set of
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Knew His Rights

Warden-See here, you've been
sentenced to hard labor and you're
doing hardly any work at all. This
won't do.
Prisoner (calmly) - Won't it?
Well, anyway, yer can't fire me-
London Answers.
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Foxy

"F'lora is a wife whose husband
can't put anything over on her."
''How's that?'
when she heard him talking in
his sleep she went to sleep herself
and talked right back at him.
Vancouver Province.
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Firei Fire!

VI know" sighed Aunt Hannah, 81
know it's wicked to judge folks, but
every time l SINCE a hen 1 get to
thinkin' about poor old Cousin Hen
ry. an the life he led. d."-Wallace'S
FarTiLr.
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SOMEBODY'S COMING


Kris Kringle is coming,
Kris Kringle is coming,
Kris Kringle is coming to towni
He big pack
On the top OF his back.
And looks like funny old clown.
Now wait just minute:
I'll tell what is in it.
Then won't your eyes sparkle with joy.
There's something with curls
For good little girls,
And something as nice for each boy.
There are iaxon haired doies
And all sorts OF folles
To please little folks Christmas day;
There gay horses prancing,
And Daudy Jacks dancing
And everything fitted for play.
From Kris Kringles chin
Hangs plenty Of tin
Tin trumpets and watches and drums;
Noah'S ark painted red
A little dolls bed.
And soldiers with very big drums
From out Of his pockets
He'll take sugar lockets
And candies, all red, white and blue;
And there will be kisses
For nice little misses,
And sweetmeats in plenty for you.
(Aunt Clara in the Nursery, January 1S70)
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Slumber

a natural sleep of three months
Is credited to a woman In Brazil.
Couldn't any good housewife do that
if she had time?-Buffalo Evening
News.
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Driving 60 miles from home, Sleep
ing in a cornshuck bed, eating strange
food and going back next day is an
"outing" if you call it so.
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Mutual Compliments

Maud-Did you hear what your
friend Edith said about you?
Marie-No. | was in the other
group talking about her.
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Don't borrow money just because
you can.
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One may as well be interested in
the question whether Mars is inhab'
tied as in anything else.
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Fishing for compliments is excus-
able if you don't get any.
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Nothing much matters, is the hui
morist's philosophy.
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A phenomenon is a man who never
loses a bunch of keys,
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-12-11

If you are alone, aren't you seldom
irritated?
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-12-11

OSS MERVIN paused a
moment before he went
up the rickety stairs that
led to the room where
dumb "Soupy" Sam would
rent him a bed for the
night for the sum of ten,
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MerC0Iized Wax
Keeps Skin Young

Get ounce and use rs directed Fine particles of aged
skin peel off until all defects such pmples. liver
spots tan and freckles disappear Skin is then soft
and vevety Your face looks younger MercoliEed
Wax brings out the hidden beauty of your skin. To
remove wrinkles ounce Powdered Saxolite
dissolved in half pint witch hazel At drug stores.
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laughed at the idea that he would not
qualify for the championship, but the
Evans of today, afflicted with putter
trouble, views the qualification hurdle
as the toughest of them all to surmount.
THE Evans idea has considerable
J. merit. For example, this year at
Chicago there were four former
champions in the field after the sec
tional qualification test. Only one of
them survived the qualification rounds
at the championship itself. That one
was Francis Ouimet, who won the tour
ney again after a lapse of IT years.
Evans Max Marston and Harrison r.
Johnston, all former champions, all
failed to qualify. Marston and john
ston never had chance after the first
day, and Evans, needing a on the
last hole to tie for last place, three
putted the green and took 6, which
left him one stroke out. That tourna-
ment was a great disappointment to
the volatile Chick" who has as many
amateur championship qualifying med
ais as any living man and at one time
was the finest medal player in the anna
teur ranks. 1t came on top of his fall
ure at Merton in 1880, when Chick got
in Seven-Way tie and again three
putted himself out of the tournament.
EVANS, Marston, Johnston, Sweetser
IL and Ouimet, who are about the
only eX-champions capable of
holding their own in the present COM
pany (barring Bobby Jones, who has
retired), are able to shoot a lot of golf.
Toss them in with a bunch of young
sters in any championship and you will
have plenty of fireworks and consider
able good golf. They are not doddering
old graybeards by any means, and any
one Of them is good enough to win the
championship again, with Bobby Jones
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THE SPORTLICHT
Quick Starts.
by CRANTLAND RICE.

Quick Starts.
The West Coast had four starts
against the Midwest and the East. and
the final answer was cleanup against
Minnesota, Notre Dame, Dartmouth and
New York University. And three OF
these games were played on hostile
fields. This Just about closes out any
debate for the year.
Some one might just as we'll hand it
to that Georgia squad for being ready
Tor Yale early in October and reaching
December l with only one defeat. And
Georgia finished with a rush, with a
fellow named Smith still pretty active
in his various specialties.
Georgia has had to play one of the
hardest schedules of the year and her
campaign still has a game left against
Southern California at Los Angeles.
Imagine team, which has had to meet
Yale, North Carolina, Vanderbilt, New
York University, Florida, Tulane, Au-
burn and Georgia Tech still in training
for Southern California. II that isn't a
seasons work, you can think up an
other answer
The two round-rooin series among
eight Eastern teams will be among the
most interesting spots of the year.
There should be more action and more
chance taking than any single game
has shown where quarterback general
ship had to be trif1e conservative. In
these two round robins they can touch
off all the fireworks and let nature take
her course.
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Newspaper Alliance, Inc)
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L. S. Golfers Afraid Britain
May Stop Walker Cup Play
Because of Economic Pinch

ford star, and Johnny Lehman, former
Western champion.
Gene Romans of New York and Ro-
land Mackenzie have been battling in
championships long enough to be con-
sidered veterans and would have
chance for the team if they played
themselves back into top form. The
presence of several juveniles on the
American team would add much in
terest to the international matches
and the makeup of the squad would
be more cosmopolitan than any we
have had
Already there has been considerable
discussion in Great Britain as to the
method of selecting the British team.
In the past the task has been In the
hands of the Royal and Ancient and
there has been the complaint that only
oxford and Cambridge players were
given any consideration.
One of the leading golf writers of
Britain has made the suggestion that
the selection of the Walker Cup team
be deferred until after the information
al matches between England, Scotland,
Ireland and Wales and that the four
golf1ng unions have hand in picking
the squad. But the opposition Of that
idea was the thought that the interna-
tloildl "Oulu nc llelQ 100 laCe IN the
Summer to make such scheme prac-
ticable.
The wide margin by which the Brit
ish were defeated in the last two
Walker matches killed much Of the in
terest in the play throughout England
However, with several new players of
promise available, the British were
eagerly looking forward to the 1882
matches on this side. But the financ-
ing OF the junkets to the United States
always has been serious problem for
the British, and the present conditions
make the task almost impossible.
The possibility Of the British being
unable to finance Walker Cup squad
of 10 men opens the question as TO
their ability to support a team in the
1882 Olympics at Los Angeles. STILL
the British have faculty Of overcom-
ing obstacles, and it is to be hoped they
will be able to keep the Walker Cup
matches going on schedule.
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Running the Blockade.

Two unbeaten teams, each hooked up
with tie, still have the blockade to
run before they reach open seas. The
two are Tennessee and Southern Meth
odlst, and each has large section of
work to handle. Tennessee meets a
strong New York University team in
New York on Saturday for the unem-
ployment fund and Southern Methodist
goes West to face St. Mary's, con-
querors of Southern California and
California.
These will be tests enough to prove
any teams place. Tennessee has two of
the countrys outstanding stars In Gene
McEver and Herman Hickman. McEver
Is star back and Hickman is a huge,
fast guard, who is somewhat remindful
OF Henry Of w. and j., another big boy
who used to be as fast as his backs.
The TennesSee-N. Y. U. game should
be one OF the most interesting of the
year. N. Y. U. was strong enough at
its last start to beat good Carnegie
Tech team and it will be in shape for
Tennessee.
S. M. U. will have all it can handle
to get by st. Marys without having its
slate marked up.
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CHICK EVANS SEES
FLAW IN AMATEUR
Tourney Interest Lost When
Aces Are Eliminated in
Preliminary Play.
BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.

~HARLEs EVANS, Jr., of
[ Chicago, the grand old
VI master of golf, who as the
more familiar "Chick"
Evans, spread the fame of the
Windy City all over the golfng
world two decades ago, has an idea
about the qualification round of
the national amateur champion
ship that might well recommend
itself to the United States Golf
Association for the 1882 amateur
tilt at Baltimore.
The idea which has taken firm root
in the Evans mind is that all former
champions who survive the sectional
qualification tests for the amateur
should automatically qualify at the
through the narrowing ordeal of medal
play in competition with lesser but more
lusty youngsters. Chick" says that not
more than two or three would survive
the sectional tests and adds that their
presence in the match-play rounds
would not only add zest and spice to
the championship, but would probably
increase the size of the gate receipts
After viewing his own dismal failures
in the qualification round over the past
two years, Chick" views the qualifica-
ton round of the amateur champion
ship as the toughest obstacle any old
time golfer has to surmount. The Chick
Evans Of 20 years ago would have
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K. Of c. BASKETERS
SHOW REAL POWER
Indicate They Will Be Big
Factors in Unlimited Ranks
This Year.

THAT the knights of Columbus
basket ball team is going to cut
quite swath in unlimited ranks
here this season appears certain.
In conquering Chevy Chase Grays
last night the Caseys, in their first for
may game, showed some real class. They
had to battle, though, to check de-
termined last-half rally by the Grays.
Eggie Anderson and Johnny Hickey
for the Caseys and Augie Turneak and
Bill Evans for the Grays played
strongly.
The Caseys have arranged practice
game with the ST. Johns College quint
for tomorrow night at BIS o'clock in
the Vermont avenue schools gym.
Dixiana Barbecue tossers, led by Fox
downed Central A c., % to II, in the
Lee jackson High gym in nearby
Virginia.
SCHOLASTIC An-Stars, quint
- made up mainly of players who
have made the grade in public
high ranks, has been organized and
Is SSthAls bAAiOuSA A'1aaa06SA
Brinkman at Georgia 3065-J.
Saks outclassed Fort Myer tossers all
the way to bring up their third win
in as many starts, 40 to %, in Central
High gym.
Vermont and Montrose quints have
listed game for Friday night at 8
O'Clock at Langley Junior High.
A practice game is slated tonight be-
between Jewish Community Center and
Columbus University quints in the Cen
ter gym at $3.50 o'clock.
TONTESTS with unlimited class
~ teams Of Washington and vicinity
are wanted by West Baltimore
A. C. basketers. Les Tarbutton Is
booking at 8l6 N. Payson street,
telephone Madison 1871, Baltimore.
Adelphia A. C. and Alexandria Aces
will hook up tonight at Mcfarland
Junior High School at $3.50 o'clock.
Wiler and Beck were the big shots
for Griffith Blue Goals In their 1873
rout Of Capital Awning Co. toasers at
Eastern High.
Delaware g. Hudson Coal Co. quint
will engage Blue Streaks tonight In the
Langley Junior High gym at o'clock.
Among quints seeking games are:
Ten Hills Cardinals Of Baltimore
want 135-pound opposition. Address
C. L. Knight, 5l05 Woodside road, Ten
Hills, Baltimore.
Wilson Avenue Baptists want games
with l30pound teams having gyms.
Hudgins, Decatur 4392-W.
District Firemen, unlimited games.
Pvt. Burthe, No. II Engine Co., after
pm.
Trinity M E. game for tonight at $50
O'Clock in Central High gym. Frank
Xanten, National 5000, Branch lit.
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ALL SIZES AND AGES
PERMITTED TO SWIM
Program for December II Meet
Includes Events for Men,
Women and Children.

Men, women and children will bs
eligible to compete in a swimming meet
to be held the night of December II
IN the Ambassador Hotel pool Nine
events have been arranged. The meet
has the sanction of the District A. A
u, and all contestants not members
OF this organization must register with
Charles Fyfe, A. A. U. registration
chairman, at the Boys Club, 230 q
street.
Entries will be received by Bill Lew
at the Ambassador. The list will close
December 10.
Cold, silver and bronze medals will
prizes.
Inc events will be as follows Men
5o-yard free style, 10O-yard breast
stroke, 10o-yard back stroke, seward
free style for boys under IA years of
age and fancy diving. Women-5O-
yard free style, 5o-yard back stroke.
o0-yard free style for girls under Ia
and fancy diving
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at an average cost of 80 cents mile. Many
claims have been made on operating costs, but
here in the carefully kept motor car records of
the City of Detroit is positive, convincing proof
of Ford economy.
In the column at the left, it is seen that 81
Ford scout cars averaged less than l g cents
mile and 800 Ford cars in all branches of
Detroit police work averaged 80 cents mile!
Day and night, twenty-four hours day,
these Ford cars are in operation. Few branches
of transportation demand such grueling SER
vice. The records show that low fuel and oil
consumption is but one of the Ford's many econ
omies. Ford materials, simplicity of design and
accuracy in manufacturing provide unusual
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CLINNIN MAKES DRAW

CHICAGO, December (P).-Mai.
Gen. John v. Clinnin, president of the
National Boxing Association, today had
date to pull names out of hat to
determine the pairings for the first
round of the N. B. AS light-heavy-
weight elimination tournament.
More than 80 light-heavies of greater
or less renown had entered and after
checking over the entries to see that
all forfeits had been posted, Gen. Clin-
min was to draw eight names for the
four opening bouts in the Chicago Sta
dunn December IL.
The second round VIII b fought 81
On December 10.
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Looking Backward.

DART of the answer in regard to Notre
L Dame and Northwestern can be
traced back two months. While the
world series was under way around the
first few days of October. word came
along that Notre Dame and Northwest
ern were like two foot ball war camps,
getting ready for their big game of
october 10. It was impossible for any
set Of coaches to keep the fire and dash
out of early season play, since Notre
Dame and Northwestern appeared to be
two of the country's strongest teams.
They both were all steamed up from
the start OF the training season and it
isn't in the cards for any team to be
that far along in early October and
still have all the flame and flare left
around the last of November.
Foot ball burns out the emotional side
rather quickly at times, and periods of
rest along the schedule route are needed
for any squad to keep its keenness to
the final game.
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Central High Dine Into Basket Ball Campaign With Limited Pr

out. But their main hurdle is the quail
fication round. The nerves of golfing
middle age are not like those of young
sters and puts do not drop with the
ease of other years. But put them in
man-to-man match play and they will
60 places. 1t might be a gallant ges-
ture on the part of the U. S. G. A. to
allow three or four places in the first
match play round for former champions
who survive the sectional tests. At the
least it would bring back lot of the
oldtimers to watch their OLD favorites in
there battling the youngsters who dom
mate the game of today.
THE Evans Idea could also be made
l. to apply to the open championship
without any serious disruption to
the normal operation of an memorable
system. Those former open champions
who fail to survive the sectional tests
might be invited by the U. S. G. A. to
play in the open without harming the
balance of the field. There are not SO
many of them, anyhow, for Jones has
won good many opens and he isn't
playing IN them any more. Let Freddie
Mcleod, Tommy Armour, Walter Hagen
Gene SaraZen, Willie MacFarlane. John
Farrell and Jim Barnes in the open
without qualification and you would see
a quickening of interest among the old
timers. 1t sounds sentimental but If
would pay in increased gate receipts.
And the U. S. G. A. needs Increased
gate receipts in these Jonesless days.
Somewhere In the South TODAY are
two washington professional golfers on
their way to spend the Winter at
Miami Beach, where they will hold
down the Job of pro and assistant pro
at the Indian Creek Golf Club. They
are Bob Barnett, the Chevy Chase pro,
and Elwood Poore, Washington boy
who is the professional at the Rolling
Green Club at Media Pa. They will
remain at Miami Beach all Winter, re-
turning to the Capital about April |.
Gene Larkin, assistant pro at Chevy
Chase, will return to his Winter berth
at Lake Wales, Fla, shortly after
Christmas.