Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-31
Highlights on the Wide World
Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands

exercise care when they are passing
| through areas where children are ct
play and in having the boys and girls
understand that they must look both
ways before they cross the street"
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Mexican Contractor
To Build Plant for Ford.
La Noticia, Managua.--The Ford Mo.
tor Co. Is planning to erect great plant
for the manufacture of its automobiles
in Mexico City. The buildings and
their equipment are to cost 100000
pesos. Preference will be given the
employment of Mexican engineers,
technicians and workmen. The con.
tract for the construction of the estab-
lishment has been given 10 Mexican
firm. Manufacturing will commences
when the buildings are completed.
Box of Drab Politicians
Would Not Appeal to Youth.
The Bulletin, Sydney. New South
Wales.-When some amiable pacif1st
was denouncing militarism in the House
of Commons the other day, and express
ing his fierce hostility to every token
and trapping Of 1t, a quiet voice sud-
denly asked IL he had never given q
small son a box of toy soldiers, and the
pacifist was too honest to say he
hadn't. wonder II some Of our Aus
tralian antifiaggers would own up to
such lapse; also I wonder If tina
League of Nations has yet put the
manufacturer of toy soldiers out of q
job. or whether he has risen to the
occasion and devised a substitute. A
box OF drab and uniformed politicians
would have little appeal for youth, I
am afraid, even if It were explained
that they make more wars than soldiers
do or ever have But something might
be done with police constables, mounted
ones especially as guardians of the law
and their fellows they might be given
to a boy without any fear OF intoxicating
this detestable martial spirit in him.
The idea is commended TO the New
South Wales minister of education, who
may bring along a bill at any moment
to prohibit the sale of toy soldiers.
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Finds Woman Pretty
Under Any Circumstance.
LIE MATIN, Paris-A woman reader
asks us question rather indiscreet.
Which do you prefer, messieurs, a
pretty or stylish woman?"
If we did not have the fear of APP
pearing too greedy we would say that
we preferred, in SO far as our own predi-
lections are concerned, ladies both styl-
ish and pretty. Beauty is a natural
gift, while the quality of elegance de-
pendS quite largely upon external con-
ditions. To be "c1icr one must have
taste, ease of manner, and. especially.
money-money hard heavy and re-
sounding. However, there are some
nidinettes (shop-girls) who with two
louis (Sl0} worth of chiffons look far
more bewitching than most millionaires
wives decked out with embroideries and
turbelows that cost 500 times as much.
SO, after all, perhaps, we had better
say in answer to this difficult question
that man who really Is fond Of q
woman finds her pretty under any cir
cuT1stances, and smart and stylish be-
sides; that the plainest girl on earth,
dressed out like a scarecrow, possesses
in the eyes of her adorer the contour
and physiognomy Of the Venus de Milo,
the .sciutillating gayety of dancing
nynnph, and the charms of the love-
Hest model ever employed in the dress
making establishment of Machin &
Machtft0 Is It not true?