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gong with a baton of lapislaZuli,
padded in velvet.
Miss Jennifer will join us at
dinner" he said to an imme-
diate butler.
II Hate You"
She waited until the door had
closed again. and then, with
her face set and her hands
clenched and her gown making
jangling little sounds as the
quivers of her wrath shot
through her, she lowered her
face until it almost touched her
fathers.
II just hate you sometimes"
she said, and began to cry the
invariable tears of anger and
humiliation to which these
scenes could reduce her. Il
wish 1 had the CUTS to go out
and scrub floors for prosti-
tute rather than put up with
being treated like one here"
A fit of trembling that went
through him like a tree-shake
caught him at the words which
came off her lips, which we're
SO close to his face that it was
as if he could feel their shape.
You will have dinner at
home tonight. Jennifer, even if
your temper does turn you into
a barmaid."
1T must be a splendid feel
ing to have to force the mem.
bers of your family to your
side"
The Washington times., 1931-05-07
By Fannie Hurst
AdUice to the LOUeLOrn

pretty certain he was acquiring
a milestone and throwing away
his chances. The girl threatens
to marry an older man with
money. Let her. If she we're a
fine type she wouldn't try to
force your hand with such tao.
tics. Look about you at the va
rious young men who have cut
out education that they might
marry some pretty little vamp-
how far have they got? What
type of marriage most quickly
goes on the rocks? The type
which is menacing you. I'm
going to leave out the question
of duty to the women of your
family-the word is taboo with
the young. But in justice to
yourself and your own welfare,
I hope you'll MOVE. Go where
you can settle down and work.
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"It is, Jennifer." he said. and
looked at her with what, for a
moment, threatening to disarm
her, seemed like a film across
his eyes. She sat down, still
pulling at the net edge of her
handkerchief and every so often
scraping it angrily along her
wet cheeks.
We'll, now you've got me,
what is it you want with me?
I suppose it isn't asking too
much to be allowed leave of
absence to get a message off
to the Stuarts. God knows what
1 am to say"
He beat the gong again. "Tel-
ephone Mrs. Delaney Stuart
that, owing to. an unavoidable
change in her plans, Miss Jen-
infer will be unable to come to
dinner tonight"
She held her face. during
this. averted from the buffers
view of it, a little squeal of rage
rising to her throat.
A Great Person
Now what? I suppose I am
to spend "a jolly evening at
home talking isinglass, or blue
grottos, or dinosaurs eggs, or
whatever it is one talks to fos-
sil-finders."
Il want you to meet a great
and simple person, Jennifer. A
man who has not grown sim
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A Boy With a Conscience

A Boy with a conscience
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
1 am Snatching at you as
the last straw. must get this
problem off my chest and
don't dare write to anyone /
know. I am the only male
creature in a terribly poor
Southern family. We had
money once, but it vanished.
My mother nearly kills herself
taking paying guests" in the
old home, mortgaged to the
hilt. My sisters both work in
offices; one of them refused
to marry that I might finish
an engineering course at our
State university. Them fell
head over heels in love with a
girl. who urges me to marry
her secretly. She's poor as l
am, and a flirt. The thought
hurts my conscience because
mother and the girls have
slaved so hard to put me
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One of the first active ex-
tracts of the ductless glands
which the medical profession
had came from the adrenal
glands, and is called adrenalin,
or epinephrine. 1t was the very
first ductless gland extract to
be isolated in pure chemical
form. When it began to be
used in medicine, 1t was found
that it was a very powerful
drug-that it raised blood pres.
sure, contracted the blood ves-
sells Of mucous membrane sur
faces. such as the nose. in
creased the pulse rate, etc. 1t
has now many uses in medicine
in nose and throat affections,
asthma. hay fever. shock, etc.
A Common Complaint
The commonest disease of the
adrenal glands is called Addi-
sons disease. It is usually asSo.
ciated with tuberculosis, and
the adrenal glands, when it is
present, are destroyed by a
tuberculous process. Peculiar
changes occur in the body in
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through college. I live in the
house with this girl and am
so crazy about her that I can't
study. Men are foolish about
her, and she threatens to
marry an older man with
money. There, I've told an
outline. but I've not told you
how wretchedly unhappy 1
am. LOST CAUSE.
I can we'll understand you're
unhappy and you'll need every
ounce of determination and
backbone to prevent you from
making a mess of your life. Try
to look at this thing imperson-
ally-it's another mans affair,
not yours. If another man were
to marry under the circum-
stances you relate. you'd feel
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Your Ruling Star
By WILLIAM SHWADER-

dictory dates show two oppos-
ing influences.
A child born May 8 will be
quick, active, eager and artistic.
He will seek unusual and in.
tereSting people and should sue.
ceed IN educational or artistic
work.
Tendencies for May 9.
Unfavorable vibrations fom the
planet Venus tend to disap-
pointment over friendships,
love. amuSements, art or social
affairs. Important matters con-
nected with bankers, lawyers or
corporations should receive
careful attention.
Copyright, 1881, Premier
Syndicate, Inc.)
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ply great in his work, but
great simply.
Cultivate DR.. Gerkes, Jenni-
fer. Cultivate Gerkes. You
want to learn"
He knew he was being roll
ing and didactic and tiresome
again. but to his surprise she
flashed a tear-stained face at
him that was lit with a sud.
den sweetness. a clear-eyed
curiosity to it that was rerni-
niscent of the small brown jug
of a girl who had bounded
Missouri.
II do, Father! I know I'm
all of a total loss. I'm on to
myself, don't you forget it. I
want to sit at the feet of some
body and learn. God knows I
don't know anybody with a pair
of feet like that.
"Trot out this wise guy,
Father. Ill chuck everything
and stay home at the indoor
sport of improving my so-called
mind. Do you think he'd like
to collaborate with me on a
book I've long had in mind,
called Sex O'clock? Really,
Father, I am in favor Of more
and better brains"
Copyright, 1881. King Features
Syndicate, InC.)
docs Jennifer'S meeting with
Gerkes have any effect on her
attitude toward life? Read TO-
mOrrow's interesting inStaIment.)
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This famous story has been
made into q talking picture
by Metro GOldwyn.Mayer with
Marion Davies in the leading
role.)
What Rarick wanted with his
daughter was to have her meet
Gerkes.
The very modern young Jen.
infer, who wore her docked head
like Jeanne dare, and whose
metallic frock clicked. Sloughed
in on slim, inelegant legs.
Her Smartness, even back in
the st. Louis days when she
had first begun to drift from
him, had always been a source
OF her fathers deep admiration.
Not her indubitable smartness
In the worldly sense, but the
brand Of it that was indicated
in the intelligent bright dark
eyes, set into a head that stood
so erect and right between its
slim shoulders. She could have
been anything, Jennifer could
have been, except the thing she
was. And the thing she was,
without his being able to define
the exact why, was anathema to
her father.
It was not that she carried
her cocktails vulgarly, or said
gross things with what passed
for the new frankness. She
was no more and no less than
any girl Of her upbringing. Or
her mothers upbringing. If
anything, a little more. She
drank rather less, smoked not
at all, and, in her own phrase
ology, had remained a virgin
chiefly because she had never
lei; her curiosity get the better
of her.
To Rarick, this young woman
Of his flesh, his board, his keep,
who stood there on the hearth.
rug before him, glitterlng in
her gown of fake armor, was as
strange as if she had just
stepped full grown from the life
size Silver-and-ch -chalcedonY Zeus
that stood on a credenZa
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THE MARRY-GO
ROUND
BY Helen Rowland

-Dy E1eIeH nOWIdnu--s
Why the "Weaker Sex" Is Weak
Now that women are wearing
pajamas to dance in, they will
probably soon be wearing them
to swim in. Or to fly in.
There ought to be a system of
traffic rules and stop Signals"
all along the path of life for
every woman.
Woman Is always starting
something; but she never knows
when or where to STOP! That
is her weakness, particularly in
matters of clothes and love. In
her bright lexicon there is no
such word as moderation"
A man can be just a little bit
good or a little bit bad; just a
little bit foolish or a little bit in.
telligent: just a little bit in
love-and even just a little bit
married.
But, once a woman starts go.
ing, she never puts on the
brakes. Once she started out to
get her rights" and a few of
mans privileges, she didn't stop
until she got mans haircut, his
cigarette, his pocket-flask, his
slang, his profanity, his knicker-
bockers, his pajamas and most
of his little bad habits.
Once she found the courage to
lift her skirts an inch or two
above her ankles, they kept on
going up, like an express eleVa-
tor, until they were several
inches above her knees. Now,
that she has decided to let them
down, they are already sweeping
the ballroom floor and will prob
ably soon be saving the char.
women work around the office.
X y
Once she started cutting her
hair, she was not content until
she attained the boyiSh bob and
looked almost like a convict;
now she is letting it curl around
her shoulders, like little Eva's,
and soon she will probably look
like the Seven Sutherland Sis.
terS.
Once she starts talking, she
seldom stops for breath until she
has exhausted both her argu-
ment and her audience.
Once she goes in for uplift
and begins trying to reform a
man, she keeps it up morning.
noon and night, until he either
passes on to heaven-or to some
other woman.
And once she starts in the
other direction. she plungeS down
to the end of the Primrose Path
so far, so fast and so furiouSly,
G11dG IL uldhCS LA1AI NAh0S W
watch her. From prudery to pet
ting party, license has been just
a one-way street, with no right
or left turns for HER.
In matters of love, the mod
ern young woman thinks that
she is quite as wise and sophis
ticated as q man. And so she
is-but not as coolheaded. Once
she discovers herself falling
mildly in love with a man, she
is not satisfied until she has
worked herself in a high fever
over him and either Strangled or
stifled him with her devotion.
That is why it is foolish for
a woman to imagine that, Just
by initiating man, she can beat
him at his own game. She never
will until she learns when and
where to STOP!
Copyright. 1891, KING Features
Syndicate, lnc.)
The Washington times., 1931-05-07
Constipated Get REAL HELP
from DOCTORS Prescription

Train your bowels to be regular;
to move at the same time every
day: to be so thorough that they
get rid of all the waste. Syrup
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viii help you do this. When you
take this compound of laxative
herbs. pure pepsin and other valu-
able ingredients. you are helping
the bowels to help themselves.
DR.. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin is
the sensible thing to take when
ever you are headachy, bilious,
half-sick from constipation. +
When you have no appetite.
and a bad taste or bad breath
shows you're full of poison.
DR.. Caldwell studied bowel
troubles for AZ years. His pre-
Scription always works, quick |
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cream spoon or tea spoon. The
cake is served on a small des-
Sert plate, with its own fork.
Just Isn't Done Nowadays
DEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:
l. Is it correct for a lady 20
take her partners arm when
leaving the floor after a dance9
2, Should he offer his arm to
his partner?
w. E. and D. F.
I. No, this isn't done" now
days.
2. No, this isn't done"
either.
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ly, thoroughly; can never do you
any harm. 1t just cleans you out
and sweetens the whole digestive
tract. 1t gives those overworked
bowels the help they need.
Take some DR.. Caldwell's Syrup
Pepsin today, and see how fine you
feel tomorrow-and for days to
come. Give it to the kiddies when
they're sickly or feverish; they'll
like the taStel Your druggist has big
bottles of it, all ready for use.
The Washington times., 1931-05-07

IT'S a temptation, sometimes, to
i save a few pennies by accepting
a substitute for Kotex.
But what a costly saving it may
be! What guarantee have you of
the bygienic safety of this sub
stitute, if you know nothing of its
makers3 Is it fit for this personal
use? ? How was it made? Where?
When your choice is Kotex,
you're backed by medical approval.
The best hospitals use it, They
appreciate the splendid purity of
Kotex, the exauing care with which
it is made.
You should never consider Sani.
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WHAT DO YOU
KNOW?
AnSWsrS To TOdGys Test

AnsWsTs To TOdGys Tsst
Questions On Editorial Page
l. Minnesota. 2. Missouri. 3.
Ohio. 4. Rhode Island. S. Ne
braska. 6. North Carolina. 7.
New Hampshire. 8. Oregon. 8.
South Dakota. 10. New Mex
leo. II. John Calvin. II. Hard.
ing. Is. Longworth. IA. Ten.
Is. Publication.
Copyright. 1871. King Features
Syndicate. Inc,)
The Washington times., 1931-05-07
By Anne Adams

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with long sleeves, short sleeves
or sleeveless as Sketched.
0btainable only in sizes IA,
IS, 1s, 20, 80, "a, SO, SO, 40 and
q. Size IA requires 312 yards
Of 36-inch fabric and "a yard
contrasting. Yardage for every
size, and simple, exact instruc.
tions are given.
send IS cents, coin or stamps
cor each pattern giving name,
address, style number and size
wanted. Send for Spring and
Summer fashion book, price Is
cents. Book with pattern, 25.
cents. Address Washington
Times Pattern Bureau. 243
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Wear Your Hat-And Be Sure
You're Right
DEAR MRS REEHKMAN.

VICAR 1OuT naG-Anu nc SuFc
You're Right
DEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:
I was invited to a bridge and
tea. The invitation was sent
on visiting card. There we're
three tables of bridge. Six Of
the girls kept their hats on,
and six, including the hostess,
did not wear their hats.
The girls who did not wear
their hats felt very uncomfort-
able. but did not know whether
they were right or wrong.
They just felt that way be-
cause the other girls. more "in
society,"" wore their hats. Will
you kindly solve this problem
so that I can tell the girls?
was one who did not wear
her hat, as I did not think that
1t was necessary in the girls
home for a bridge and tea.
HATLESS.
Usually, now it is the custom
for women to wear their hats
at this kind of party, despite
the informality. Indeed, very
often the hostess also wears
her hat, especially if the party
is luncheon or bridge.
All Gifts Are For the Bride.to-be
DEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:
When sending a gift to
bride.to-be. is it addressed to
the bride only or to both the
bride and bridegroom?
E. M.
The gift is addressed to the
bride-to-be only all we'd
ding gifts belong to her. 1t
is sent to her home.
Plans for a Real Birthday Party
DEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:
l. When having a birthday
dinner in honor of a friend
and a regular birthday cake
is being served with ice cream,
how should it be served?
2. Would one serve the cake
on small plate with a des-
sert fork. and ice cream in a
sherbet with a small plate un.
der 1t. or both on a small plate
ana q spoon and fork, or Just
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against the wall. Everything he
felt about this Illuminated edi-
ton Of himself was imbedded in
disapproVal.
On Her Guard
He despiSed what she had be-
some, chiefly in terms of what
she might have been.
you sent for me, Father?"
she said. the glance she guarded
from ever meeting his sliding
to the spot where his graying
hair hung in the Napoleonic
forelock down his brow, and
Stimulating unconcern by feeling
very concernedly along the rear
edges Of her shining curtain of
coiffure.
"Dr. Felix Gerkes, of the Ma
tional Museum and a scholar of
considerable consequence, is 60
ing to make his home with us.
I suppose you know that, Jenni-
fer?"
A sense of relief ran through
Jennifer. Thank Heaven, he
had not got wind Of the whole
silly business of Casanova, Be
Careful"
"1'm like the fellow, Father,
when it comes to science, who
kept Stones of Venice on the
geology shelf of his library"
DIR. Gerke'S scientific achieve.
ment is by no means all there
is to him, Jennifer. I want you
to cultivate him."
His ability to antagonize his
children was infallible.
Has Other Plans
Il want you to have dinner
with DR.. Gerkes and me to.
night"
That's impossible. I'm late
as it is for early dinner with
the Delaney Stuarts. Shibby
sails tomorrow"
The name -"Shibby Stuart"
was no more anathema to him
than dozen others which were
constantly on the lips of his
wife and daughter. In fact,
there were important reasons
OF diplomacy when there should
be an entente cordiale with
Delaney Stuart, president of
an Eastern Federal Reserve
Bank with which the Rarick
Chain, Inc had enormous
transactions. But the picture
Of Shibby Stuart as he HAD
once seen her lying Sick-drunk
on a couch in his house, during
one Of Jennifer'S dinner dances.
rose crazily before him.
"You will remain at home for
dinner tonight. It may help you
to remember you have a home.
Don't be absured, Father"
said Jennifer, and began pull
ing at the net edge of her
handkerchief. Her rage. which
she felt hitting in hot points
against her eyeballS. was out of
all proportion to the dilemma
OF being obliged to cancel
her dinner with Shibby Stuart.
InSiStent In His Demands
1T isn't often I make de-
mands, Jennifer. I let weeks
go by without so much as see
ing you at the dinner table,
This is one of the times I want
you here
you should have given me
warming"
you should have had suffi-
cient Judgment to know there
comes time when a halt must
be called, if you won't call it
yourself. You haven't sat down
to dinner in this house for
three weeks or more"
why should I? Everything
I do gets on your nerves. If
I'm so much as called TO the
telephone, you humiliate me be-
fore butler by refusing to let
me answer it,"
Il have known you to spend
20 minutes of a dinner hour
at the telephone"
II I say the moon is made
of green cheese, then I've said
something off-color. Hell! why
should I want to stay at home,
Father"
He reached out and hit a
The Washington times., 1931-05-07
Times Daily Health Hint

The first teeth 20 in number and the second
permanent teeth 30. One cannot be too careful
with either set
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Rarick Forces Jennifer to
Cancel Dinner Plans
The StOry So Far

John g. Rarck has made millions
His wife, Jenny shortly marriage S25OO
she had, when he failure and this
built riches But Jenny his farfrmmpOsng
and longer feels love for him. She the social
cation Of their children Jennifer and Avery The thought
mind that without $2SOO Rarck
achieved nothing goadng agreeing
East and to buy magnificent home secretly finds
himself hating her. This accentuated by his
mental inability to his children their appeals
to him made through their mother Rack
genius Dr. Felix Gerke authority art and and
nstals him his objects presence
bitter follows Rarick insists
sends to Jennifer to him.
The Washington times., 1931-05-07
NOJU Continue
Rv Fannie Hurst

(WhOSe novels have her place IN the rank
modern authOrs)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-28
KokomO School Teacher
Asks $4,000 Damages
From Farmer.
By Times Special

Il = 4 SWCOG y pOCtUb
KOKOMO, Ind. March 28.-Rapid
progress is being made in the trial
Of the damage suit filed by Miss
Ruth Covalt, Kokomo school teach
er, against Samuel H. Hurd, How
ard county farmer.
Miss Covalt is asking $4,000 dam
ages as a result Of injuries received
in an automobile accident on U. S.
Road 81, six miles north of here.
when a car driven by her brother,
Walter Covalt, was wrecked in
avoiding a collision with the Hurds'
machine, which approached the
highway from a side road. Her
brother, his wife and baby and DR..
George Haworth were killed. The
accident occurred Aug. IS, 1929.
while the party was en- route to a
picnic.
The plaintiff contends that Hurd
pulled his car out on the highway
in such a manner as to cause the
wreck Of the Covalt machine. The
defense claims the excessive speed at
which Walter Covalt was driving at
the time caused the crash. Covalt
was employed as a cashier in the
Citizens National bank and was &C
tive in club and lodge circles. DR..
HaWorth'S home was in Hamilton
county.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-28
IMMIGRANT BAN
IN FULL URGED
Manchester College Profess
Sor Asks 5-Year Closing.

BIZ Times Special
RICHMOND, Ind, March %
Total prohibition Of immigration
for a period of five years WIS the
proposal advanced by J. Raymond
Schultz Of Manchester college in an
address before the Women's Club
here.
This, he stated, would give Amer
lea an opportunity ito learn if i'm
migration seriously affected our ma
tional life.
eff at the end Of these five years"
he stated, Eve found that it was
not effective, we could again open
our ports. But the closed period
would be an interim in which we
could find out"
Overproduction, in the opinion of
Schultz, is eating the foundations
from the nations economic struc-
ture. He deprecated the emphasis
placed upon the acquisition Of ma
terial objects.
"a civilization which does not
balance its scientific developments
with its spiritual values and re-
sources is destined for humiliation, "
Schultz declared.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-28
NEW CHEMISTRY
BUILDING READY
Dedication Thursday for
!. U. Structure.
81 Tunes Special

~ mes SpCcbIb
BLOOMINGTON, Ind, March %.
"A general committee for the
chemistry building dedication pro-
gram to be held at Indiana univer-
sity Thursday is announced today
by DR.. Robert E. Lyons, head of the
chemistry department.
The committee is composed of j.
@. Batman, E. B. Birge, H. T. Bris-
coe, O. w. Brown, T. A. Cookson,
j. w. CravenS, E. r. Cummings, S.
@. Davisson, c. E. Edmondson, F. r.
Elliott, A. L. Foley. j. w. French,
r. ]. Hartman, G. H. Hays, Harry
Johnson, e. w. Kanning, F. G.
Mathers, G. E. May, Ruth j. Nc
Mutt, w. j. MoenkhauS, D. M. Mot
tier, E. B. Myers, Mrs. Ralph J.
Nelson, D. D. Nye, F.. Payne, ]. w.
Piercy, j. j. Pirtle, o. P. Robinson,
D. A. Rothrock, H. L. Smith, U. H.
Smith, H. T. Stephenson, Mrs. San
ford F. Teter, Agnes E. Wells and
D. A. Wylie.
DR.. Lyons also announced per-
oNAlA4CA VI oil CACQISlOll COLlIllCDee
which will have charge of arrange
ments for bringing members of the
American Chemical Society to
Bloomington for the dedication pro
gram. This committee includes E.
B. Carter, j. r. Kuebler, R. M.
Lingle and K. S. Means, all Of In
dianapoliS, and w. E. Sayer, Bloom
ington.
The excursion here is part of the
regular program of the division of
chemical education of the American
Chemical society, which is holding
its eighty-f1rst annual meeting in
indianapolis. Limestone interests
are providing transportation for the
visitors and will conduct them on a
tour OF quarries and mills.
The program is regarded one of
the most important in the history
OF the university, since it will at
tract here leaders in the field of
chemistry from many parts of the
United States, as well as from Can
/ ada, Belgium and Japan.