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add to and subtract from numerous incom-
plete descriptions Of specimens which earlier
scientists may have misnamed in their tech
meal writings. Moreover, numerous early
"type-specimens" have disappeared and many
"type-localities" have been lost sight Of
through the passage Of time.
Uncle Sans chief woman explorer Is Miss
Agnes Chase Of the United States Department
of Agriculture Her official title Is assistant
agrostologist," which means an expert In
identifying every conceivable kind Of grass.
Miss Chase helps DIR. Albert S. Hitchcock,
principal agrostologist, take care of the largest
and most complete grass herbarium in the
world Housed in the Smithsonian, its speci-
mems number about 100000
In the course of a year Miss Chase Is called
upon to identify on an average Of 5000 to
10000 specimens for the Government and for
schools colleges and museums throughout the
world. Personally she has added at least 10
per cent to the worlds knowledge OF the
grasses Of Brazil. Only last Summer she ex-
plored important sections Of Brazil, thereby
adding between IS and IS varieties to her col
lection that hitherto had not been known in
Brazil, and of which at least 10 varieties
were entirely new to science However, their
exact classification has yet to be determined.
Probably not many people realize these sur
prising facts about the wonderful grass family
as pointed out by Miss Chase who said: THE
grasses furnish the principal food supply for
all the advanced races. Here are just a few
that one doesn't think Of as being grasses at
all sugar cane, corn and most Of the other
major cereals, such as wheat, oats, barley
and rye.
More than a hundred different commercial
products are now made from corn, not count
ing the lowly corncob pipe. Indeed, the 1920
census revealed that the Nations most valuable
farm crop was corn, in terms of bushels con-
shutting a fourth of all the farm products"
Miss Anna Mix has fascinating job Ger
tainly her name fits her task, for she's chemist
in the water beverage division of the Food,
Drug and Insecticide Bureau. Every day she
is busy with almost every conceivable kind Of
soft drink. from the cheapest soda pop to the
most expensive grades Of ginger ale.
Miss Mix has the distinction of being the
only woman engaged in this type Of endeavor
in the Government service. She makes an
expert analysis of soft drinks, studying them
for the Government from two major points
of view-frst, as to Objectionable coloring and
havoring, both Of which might well be in
furious to the health Of millions Of people
throughout the Nation, and next, Is to
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LIE came out right after breakfast.
Hello" he said. Morning Mrs. Lea
croft I came to explain"
There's really nothing to explain"
Let him explain, Connie, dear"
"WeIl, you see." He was twisting his old felt
hat round and round; his eyes entreated them.
''Wel, it won't sound like good explanation,
but well, was writing piece in the Office
thing I've been wanting to do, a-well, short
story, you see, and just just forgot it,"
Forgot It'll The party?" cried Connie.
Eyes. You see, it was about o'clock when
began, and thought, well, I'd work about an
hour, then I'd go home and change, and then
we'll got kind of interested, and well, it was
10 o'clock when looked at the clock he ended
up helplessly. Gee, I'm awfully sorry, Mrs.
Leacroft."
Mrs. Leacroft was smiling.
you know, think that's a pretty good
reason for staying away from party, Connie.
How many boys do you know who would forget
a party because Of work? Only you should
have telephoned Eddie"
Should /? Well didn't know I thought
she'd be skating around dancing with Gerry"
Next time" said Mrs. Leacroft, telephone"
And So because her mother took that view Of
it. Connie tried to forgive him. But she re-
membered something he had said: 81 don't
believe a mans love should interfere with his
work" That was Eddie's creed. Work would
always come first with him. He wanted love,
he loved her, but work was his first love, his
real love, his passion.
The two men had been patient, but in Sep
te rber Gerald asked her please If she wouldn't
make up her mind.
But Gerry, can't. don't know"
And the next night Eddie said: Look here,
is it Gerald Giddings or me? I've besn looking
at apartments. I saw one in the Village today
with a kitchenette and everything for $751;"
But don't want TO give him thc gaze"
well, then, I'm going to l2ave you alone
until after Gerald goes. You can think us over.
When's he going?"
Monday
GOOD. I'll be out Tuesday. And then I
won't bother you any more"
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Resin Workers Increase.

HERE is one thing to be said for the
turpentine and rosin industry from the
workers point of view. While the wages paid
in 1880 were on 10 per cent over 1928, there
was an increase in the number employed a
nearly per cent The average wage for @se
40S43 employed was only around $4Oo for me
year, but at least more shared in it.
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EVERYBODY strained to look. Up the drive
lurched a strange conveyance, certainly
resembling nothing more than the ark of
biblical celebrity, an old-fashioned, high-built.
enormous automobile, Tapping rubber curtains
to the wind and rain, heaving and grinding its
bulk up the gravel drive. Ken had gone to the
window.
what in the devil is h?" he muttered.
'But who is it?" asked Mrs. Leacroft.
"It's the great American novelist, darling,
come to WOO" said Kathleen.
Instantly Connie on her feet
''You make me sick!" she shouted. you're
all 50 smartl You're always making fun of
him." The tears were crowding her eyes, her
face was hot and red. "I-he-" Her words
choked in another moment she had run from
the room.
She met him at the front door. He came in,
looking peaked and anxious, water drops
standing ludicrously on his nose, his hair, his
eyelashes.
Gee" he said, "its awful out Do you think
will your mother-can you go?"
ooh! don't see how we can" Then sud-
denly: "'CourSe can go. Come on in"
Her mother protested. Darling, youm get
pneumonia. You and Eddie just stay here"
Mother, I promised. This is important.
Not to me, but to him. He's counting on it.
Oh mother, I've got to go. He's gone and got
this car and he wants me to-"
Finally, in oilskins and galoshes, she was in
the front seat and they were heaving down the
drive
In half an hour she was thinking: az never
had such hideous timeI I never was in such
a messI" She was cold, she was damp, and
Eddie was in one of his worst moods. He
wouldn't talk and he didn't listen to her when
she talked.
Furthermore. he knew nothing at all about
driving car in wet weather. He went down
slippery hills in high, he got stuck in the mud
twice. he nearly broke their necks once by
skidding dangerously.
Where asked Connie at last, ARE we
headed for?"
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Gerald said: Listen, Connie, wen do
something bang-up Sunday. Maybe then you
can make up your mind
And so she decided that on Sunday she would
go with Gerald. on Tuesday with Eddie and
then, between them, she would choose.
Sunday dawned clear and sunny. Gerald
came in a slick, shining car. They drove,
luncl1ed and had tea, and Comics heart hum
med with happiness every minute. Gerry knew
so well how to make girl happy And Connie,
remembering Eddie's solemnities, his cruditieS,
his oddities his blunders, thought trtumphantly:
"It,s Gerry. He's perfect. And he's mine"
At the tea table Gerry said, smiling: We'll"
az think it's all right Gerry. But I'm playing
q sort of game. I mean, decided that I
wouldn't decide until after Tuesday"
"Oh Connie gToaned Gerald.
"Oh but Gerry, I do think it's all right. I
mean, do think it's you"
Gee, if could believe thatl Then why do
you have to go out with that egg any more?
why can't you just say yes right now?"
mo. promised myself I'd wait until after
Tuesday"
On Tuesday she rose to world of driving
Autumn rain, an ugly, cold wet world that
made yesterdays mellow sunshine seem like an
impossible dream.
Maybe Eddie wouldn't come. She hoped
fervently that he wouldn't She had no desire
to sit indoors all day with Eddie Yackey, the
family swaTming all about them. This was all
ridiculous, anyway. Eddie was dear he had
his points, but ever since Sunday she had known
that today she would merely put in the hours
with Eddie and that would be the end
Eddie not only came but came before break
fast was over. Kathleen, facing window,
started gasped, squinted said: MY dears, it's
the ark Noah is among u.s."
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Shanghai's Synthetic Montmartre
SavOrs of Variety of NationaIities

ter an inspiration for any Maine COM
poser. Tall, deep, mounted in silver
and with porcelain Heidelberg hochs
they cost apiece more than a months
rent.
If you want the kind Of fish SCUM
that made a Marseille restaurant IA
nous. there is the Pavilion Bleu-and
to make no mistake about it, the pro-
prietor daubed brilliant blue paint all
over his three-story house. You eat In
the front rooms facing a blank wall
also blue.
Garden Is Now Coal Yard.
They are friendly at the veranda
care ana the Stolovya Amour. You
close your eyes and eat at the family
table. One cafe serves YOU in the front
yard adJutting the street during sum
mer, RECALLING your ears with a phono-
graph, but in Winter you move into a
back room, for the garden becomes a
coal yard.
At the Cafe du Merle Blanc the dane
ing girls went on a strike not long ago
Chinese dozeS on a futuristic chair
IN the bar. Despite the fact he gets
only few brief patrons each night. he
declares success Is assured. He asks
you to listen. He has q cricket chirD-
ing behind a brandy bottle on the bar
Patrons come early and late, accord
ing to their national habits of dining
Programs begin at 10 o'clock, sometimes
not until midnight. 1t doesn't matter
The casualness of the Russian nature is
stamped on this synthetic Montmartre
Started on slender capital, many OF
the blossoms are blighted before the
first patrons can give them a reputa-
tlon That's mixed metaphor-but sc
Is this Asiatic playground q mixed
metaphor.
(Copyrisht, 1917
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his way In the international sphere so
long as they have theirs in the things
that really matter in the economic
realm.
Socialists Dislike SnOwden.
Philip Snowden, the north country
tax official who turned Socialist politi-
clan after an accident that crippled him
for life, and who will soon be entitled
to wear a coronet and sit in the House
of Lords while his wife gets measured
for her peeresS' robes, is the villain in
the piece to his old Socialist crowd.
But he does not mind, because, anyway,
he has been evolving away from them
and their ideas for years. He is the
accountant incarnate. All the wild and
woody ideas of men who want to put
banks and industry under the control
of cliqueS among the trade union Off
Gals or nominees have made him more
and more tired.
Snowden is not q manual worker or
trade unioniSt, and has always resented
the domination of the Labor movement
7 by the industrial side and the trade
union efforts to dictate the policy of
parliamentary labor. His granite visage
can relax in private life. He has a
very sweet smile when he finds any,
thing to smile about-Which Is not
often. He is bit of a property owner
now, with a nice country place near
Lloyd Georges more pretentious estate
at Churt. He lives simply with his
work books and dog and a wife of
strong character, who has helped him
considerably in his career.
Wife Is Radio Director.
She is a director of the British
Broadcasting Corporation, and lately
has found a means of entrance into
high society by way of strenuous at
tendance at concerts and the grand
opera She gives receptions at her hus-
bands official residence to famous
musicians and opera companies on the
eve of their premiereS, and got Philip
to fight for and get a considerable
exchequer grant to Subsidize grand
opera in England move which
evoked howls of protest, since the chief
beneficiarieS are foreign singers, for
England is not a musical nation.
After the August crisis Snowden said
he was through with politics, but the
plight of poor Ramsay in the protec-
zionist lions den induced him to re-
main as lord privy seal, a post that
carries rowing commission. He has
been an infleXible, obstinate free trader
all his life. and although now con-
verted to q moderate tariff system de-
vised as temporary expedient to help
restore q favorable trade balance, he
will be q powerful check against Tory
attempts to build q permanent, sky
high tariff wall.
Jim Thomas, "Aitchless," genial min
lister of the donlinions, Is happier
| among. the Tories than he ever was
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Britain's 100000 Dogs Cost Nation
$3O,OOO,OOO Yearly for Food Alone

hand there were first class boarding
kennels whose tariff ranged around 81
week. Visits by veterinary surgeons
varied from IS cents to SIS. and there
were hundreds of clinics and dog hos
pitfalls throughout Great Britain which
were kept busy attending to the sick
and debilitated.
THE Tail Waggers' Club" said Capt
Hobbs, "airnS at improving the condi-
lions under which dogs are kept by edu.
eating dog owners in their responsible
ties toward their charges; at giving
financial assistance to deserving dog
welfare institutions, and by promoting
the welfare OF dogs individually and in
the mass.
Among the earliest members of the
club were the favorite dogs of the Prince
OF Wales, Princess Mary and Queen
Maud OF Norway, and other members Of
the royal family have since Joined up."
Although the Tail Waggers' Club IL
the largest and best known ia the coun-
try, there are about $50 other subsidiary
clubs for various types of dogs. Club
life has become almost a necessity to
the canine species of Britain. and in
most of the clubs the dog, not thu
owner, is admitted as a member.
As well as providing for the wants Of
their members" these clubs are con-
stantly assisting dog charities. The
Tail Waggers' Club recently raised $780,.
600 for the Royal Veterinary College.
At institutions trained stats are re-
tanned to minister to canine patients.
Practically all Of them have casualty
wards. where dogs injured in street ac-
cidents receive immediate and skilIful
attention. Apart from these institu-
tions, there are large number of homes
and dog beauty parlors run by private
enterprise. At one of the former. Ia
Gloucestershire, dogs suffering tram
nervous breakdown" receive spediai
treatment.
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among his fellow Socialists. A Welsh
man and former engine driver, he 1t
was who built the great Railway Mems
Union. But in the process he found
congenial companions in the big bust
ness world, and gradually evolved into
a Tory.
Political Labor is through with him.
An executive of his union even refused
him his pension. But big business Is
likely to look after him when he is
through with politics, and he has not
done so badly for himself. Quick
witted, shrewd, very able negotiator,
astute, too, in his judgment Of men and
events, he plays the imper1alist big
drum and the patriotic side drum
loudly now.
He is strongly in favor of imperial
economic development. The ColonialS
like him and his endless anecdotes.
He knows more Rabelaisian stories than
any man in politics, and prefers stag to
cat-and-dog parties.
Baldwin In Strategic Post.
Ramsay Macdonald wanted Baldwin
to be chancellor of the eXcheQuer, but
that astute Tory leader preferred the
strategic post of lord president OF the
council. This minister presides over the
business of the privy council, the Kings
lead in the House of Commons when
the premier is absent.
He likes the easy life. He has put on
some weight since the last time he was
premier, but may drop some in the
process of trying to keep the unruly
Tory team in line. Baldwin has over
200 enthusiastic Tories in the present
pack who never have been in Parlia-
ment or politics before. A number got
in like the admiral who beat Arthur
Henderson simply by shouting: II stand
for the Union Jack, and the only reason
I am here is to give politics kick in
the pants"
Baldwin is quiet. upper middle-class
man who finds it difficult to be politi-
clan, and occasionally is more sympa-
thetic to the Socialists than to his own
party. His family has been 100 years
in industry. He succeeded his father in
Parliament in 1908, but remained OBJ
scure until the Carlton Club speech, de-
nouncing Lloyd George as destroyer
of politial parties. smashed the coalition
and broke the Welsh wizards spell.
He invited the sympathy of his audi
ence once by telling them that he had
hung on to his family shares all the
way from three pounds down to three
pence, and during the war he gave q
nth of his fortune to the state-but he
has enough left to live very comfortably
on his worcestershire estate with his
pipe, pigs and beloved books, and ia
allow his Socialist son, Oliver, $4,000 9
year pending the revolution which said
Socialist son desires
On the news that Neville Chamber
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-22

SHANGHAI, China. - Color music,
life and romance-also poverty and its
obtrusive sister, tinSel-on ShanghaiS
synthetic Montmartre.
This flamboyant section of Asia used
to lie in a modest sort of way along
Range road, between the isolation hos
pital, the fire station and the depot, but
the drains got bad, for the plumbing
was Victorian, so Montmartre moved out
and blossomed on Avenue Joffre, the
handspring of the French town
With its by-Street cafes, beauty par
Tors and wine shops, it extends almost
a mile, its crude, poorly lighted signs
and its neon lights in Russian, French
Chinese and English. 1t Is redolent of
laughter and tragedy.
They will tell you that many of the
walters at Tchakenka's garden cafe are
former officers Of the imperial Russian
armies but you will hear the same thing
at the Madrid, at Kavlaz and at a host
of Caucasian cafes. Repetition does not
augur truth
Tchakenka has a good Russian or
cheStra and a penchant for lively gypsy
songs and hot-tempered melodies. The
garden stage comes in for the Winter
and looks more gaudy at closer range,
but the food there Is good A dinner
for two, including huge mugs Of beer
roast pheasant, thick soup and a des-
sert, comes to a little more than a dol
lar, and there Is nothing tinSel either
about the meal or the dollar Wine in
stead of beer would bring it up a little
more.
Every other door f1auntS a "Stolovya'
sign - handmade - which in English
means restaurant or cafe. Some change
names overnight. The idea seems to be
a sort of healthy family tradition, if you
will open restaurant and feed me and
my family for a time. when you &c
broke well open one on our premises
and feed you and yours. The chance
patron may be able to balance the
budget between red and black.
Rapid Changes Take Place.
Take the Aquarium. That's the new.
est-or it was recently. The Aquarium
Is a cafe. 1t used to be a priests house
possibly he still rents room In the
back. The orchestra is Russian anc
the ballet learned its tricks in NORTH
Manchuria. 1t used to be the Tiny
Hotel. but progress is inevitable.
Stenka Rain, named after q notori.
Gus CoSsack hijacker, has color and de-
sign in the futuriStic sense. 1t used Il
be Uncle Toms Cabin-until q young
Russian getting drunk there one nigh
decided to open up a music shop Of thu
same name. Though the sign ha
changed, the memory fingers. The bat
tered, aged Russian who used to tap tn
drums fell asleep one night and, com
ing to, punched the cymbal during
violin solo. Today he's frequenting tn
pawn shops, for there are many in thi
neighborhood
One Of them has been trying TO sell
piece by piece. the imperial crow
jewels They stand on the shelve
among the imperial beer mugs, the lat
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From q currier and ives Print.

From Q Currier and ives Print.
| established this yearly custom was is
sued by Abraham Lincoln In 1858 at
| the instigation Of Sarah Hale.
How it all came about, and the part
Mrs. Hale played in this bit of domestic
history, makes q story every American
Sarah Hale was born in New Hamp-
shire in 1888. There, in all New
England States, Thanksgiving was OBJ
served-not every year, but generally;
not by every community or household,
though by most; but never in State
wide unison and never as a set, recur-
ring date.
First Thanksgiving in 1871
Search of old records has revealed
that the first Thanksgiving was kept
in Plymouth in 1921. This story is well
known, told and retold. It is one of
the best loved of our historical tradi-
tions-how the pitifully few Pilgrims
who survived the pestilence and famine
of that first terrible Winter in the
wilderness of the New World bravely
went to work, once Spring had opened
and planted their meager crops-and
when the harvest had come, prepared a
feast Of thankfulness. 1t is further re-
COTQeu JIldL Tile 1IluldA OHACL NI1dood~
soft and 80 of his husky braves also
partook Of this first feast. Some histo-
rians find in this fact the origin Of the
custom that at every Thanksgiving
table there be invited guests. But
Sarah Hale, the paramount authority
on Thanksgiving, doubted this.
The lesson she drew from that sitting
down Of white and red men together
was that Thanksgiving should be q
holiday Of peace, when neighbors re-
united, laying aside their differences,
| forgetting their chickering's, and writing
of, as it were, all the years unkindness
of word or coed. But, above all, she
saw In Thanksgiving the great Home
Festival. In New England it had been
so kept in her childhood-the day on
which to go home. For years it out
rivaled Christmas in this respect, and
home for Thanksgiving" was a phrase
On every tongue and In every heart.
! When Mrs Hale began her campaign
| for unified national holiday she was
editor of "Godey's Ladys Book" now
re-leafed by modern decorators for the
sake of its charming old-fashioned
prints. But what the admirers Of
Godeys prints fail to take into account
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