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Evening star., 1932-07-23

There need be no more heSltatlon
about getting new furniture FOR fear
that it will clash with our old pieces;
these old" pieces are up-to-date now.
The first new item We purchased for
our room was a rug from which, you
will remember We selected our color
scheme. Other items that our room
quite apparently lacks at this stage
are sufficient small tables. Before add
ing new tables We must remember that
tables excuse for being in the room
is the convenience it offers. One fairly
large table is placed near the newly
built boOkshelveS and, with a refniShed
occasional chair, forms practical
Evening star., 1932-07-23
D. W. Oman Heads 0ptimists.

SAN FRANCISCO, July % LP).-
David w. Oman Of Minneapolis, was
nominated for president of Optimists
International. to succeed Holmes A.
Spcrb Of San Francisco, at the annual
convention of the organization here
-oStordaV
Evening star., 1932-07-23

writing desk group. low table is
placed in front of the sofa for use as
a tea or coffee table. Another small
table stands at cne end of the sofa and
a little drop-leaf table is placed against
the wall to the right OF the easy chair
to complete the arrangement for con-
venience.
While we must avoid making our
room resemble a museum, useful ac-
cessories are always in order. They
help to round out the decorative scheme
as we'll as supply color accent. Our
accessories include a quaint china ink
pot and a small portfolio Powered in
our blue-green and terra Gotta color
scheme on the writing desk; and an
ash tray and porcelain flower holder
on the coffee table.
On the drop-leaf table near the easy
The Washington times., 1932-05-18
Bids and Proposals

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. Office of
the Director. National Geological Park,
Washington. d. c., May IA, 1932.-SeaIed
proposals will be received at this office
until o'clock p. m. on the 9th day of
May, 1882. and then publicly opened, for
furnishing fish (approx. 5000 lbs. month
ly) and horse meat (approx. $4,000 lbs.
monthly for feeding to- animals for the
period July l, 1882, 70 June 80. 1888. in
accordance with specifications, copies of
which may be had at this office.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT. office of the
c.. Nay IL. 93S.-Seaied bids in duplicate,
subject to the conditions contained herein,
will be publicly opened in this office at
3 p. m, May 20. 1882. for furnishing all
labor and materials and performing all
work for steel and glass partitions in the
y. s.. Department of Commerce Building,
Washington. d c.. the prevailing rate Of
wage shall be paid all laborers and me-
yided in the Act of March 5 1881 GPublic
No. 1881. Specifications. not exceeding
one set. may be obtained by any satisfac-
tory general contractor at this office in
the discretion of the Supervising Architect.
JAS. A, WETMoRE. Acting Supervising
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Office Of the
Supervising Architect, Washington. D.
c., May II. 1932-Notice Is hereby given
that the time for opening bids for furnish
ing all labor and materials and perform
eGleyators1 elevator? ;3t, Of the .. 8: Department Of
is hereby postponed from 3 p. M, May
81; 1882. until p. M, June l. 1889.
JAS. A. WETMoRE. Acting Supervising
Architect.
The Washington times., 1932-05-18
BIRTHS

Joseph F. and Annie L. Miller, twins
(boy and girD.
william A. and Dorothy B. Longh-
way, boy.
Leonard H. and Ruth L. Morse, boy.
William F. and Georgia Bissett, boy.
Francis M. and Betty v. weadOn,
boy.
Charles N. and Elma 1. Burgess boy.
John B. and Freeda NJ. Kendrick.
Silas F. and Edith e. Clark, boy.
Edward G.. and BERTHE L. King, boy.
William E. and Mary ]. Goetz, girl
Frederick ]. and Lottis e. Stevenson.
Ernest ]. and Esther L. Kendrick.
James A. and Marie E. Grant. girl
Jesse L. and Ethel Handy. girl.
George T. and Mabel M. Lewis, girl.
Ray A. and Francis L. Vawter, boy.
Louis and Esther Molenof, boy.
Carl R. and Mary C. Bell. hoy.
William NJ. and Myrtle A. Smith.
boy
Lawrence F. and Mary L. Ayers, boy.
Anthony ]. and Anice J. Lupas, boy.
Frank and Ethel c. Rowley. boy.
Joseph A. and Hester NJ. OConnor
John NJ and May L. Gordon girl.
Russell A. and Laura E. Switzerland,
girl.
John J. and Elizabeth G. Monaghan.
girl.
clifton G. and Anna Hall, girl
Connie C. and Eleanor e. Curtis, girl.
Patrick G. and Laura E. Mckenzie,
girl.
Clarence and Bessie Williams, hoy.
Paul and Lenora Hogue. boy.
James A. and Corinhe Gross. boy.
Ghumward P. and Ersuline Davis,
The Washington times., 1932-05-18
DEATHS

r. Catherine e; Mcintosh, o.. sS4s
Emma Hammock, SO, Garfield Hos
pital.
Edward Knode, rs, Galliugsr Hos
BENJAMIN Johnston. 7s, Providence
Hospital.
Edward Fitzgerald. ~, United States
Soldiers Home Hospital
James w. O'Donnell, II, 715 Prince
ton Pl. N. W.
Mary A. Claxton, II, $40 d st. s. w.
Annie L. Birch. 81, 1898 K St. N. e.
Walter W. Fox, 81, Garfield Hos
Mamie FitzwilIiam. So. 1923 Irving
ST. N. Z.
Jean J: Dickson, SO, 1000 Cathedral
Mary e. r. Matthews, SIS, PA Twelfth
Sophie Smith. SO. George Washington
Arthur C. Lyerly, As, Casualty Hos
pital.
8. joseph $ h. Younger. 81. sos1 ssdrwicis
Lillian G. TempletOn, IS. sOs Ken
Henry S. Lee, 81, GalIinger Hospital.
Marie Myers, "a, en- route Casualty
Infant of Kenneth and Mary Curry,
81 hours, Sibley Hospital.
Mary Cooper, 76, 510 Rhode Island
Ave. N. w.
Joseph Cleckley, 81, $500 Jay ST. NJ E.
Christopher Deas. So, Alb st. N. e.
George w. Parker, 4s, Gallinger Hes
pital.
Clara Lee, "a, 129 Pierce ct. N. W.
Enoch Davis, 27, 2009 e st. N. w.
Henry Muse, IA, tuberculosis Hos
pital..
Tendell Queen. S, Children's Hospital.
Clara Jackson. 6 months, Gallinger
Hospital.
Donald Taylor. month, 2s1 Massa-
chusettS Ave. N, w,
The Washington times., 1932-05-18
MARRIAGE LICENSES

Holland b. Idleman. rs. and Marion
Cox. 20. The Rev. F. S. Idleman.
John Thomas AuId 20. and Marie
Adelaide Long, 21. The Rev. A. l..
Wills.
Andrew o. sullivan. 22. and Frances
Rogers. II. The Rev. J. H. Durham.
Reginald G. Fentner, "a. and G. Pauline
Armel, 10. The Rev. J. Coady.
Robert T. Martin. So. and Elizabeth
NJ. Muir. .27. Upper Darby, Pa. The
Rev. c. e. Hawthorne.
John Ingles Palmer. SO. and Kathleen
BayIy Watts Trist. 55. The Rev. 2. B.
Francis J. o'Keefe, "a. and Lucy t.
Smith, 81 both of Richmond, Va. The
Rev. l.. ]. McDougle.
WILDER c. Redford. %. and Emma l..
Wyatt. 10, both of Richmond. Va. The
Rev. J. C. Ball.
william H. Black. %. and Elizabeth
F. Dherit. 10, both of York. Pa. The
Rev. s. B. Daugherty.
Charles Jackson. 81. and Emma Lucas,
81. The Rev. ]. T. Harvey.
Andrew D. Everett %. and Beatrice
Brown. %. The Rev. J. M. King.
James Parker. "a, and Elizanna
Weaver. FL. The Rev. A. Hart.
Green. AZ The Rev. w. H. Jernigan.
Andrew Vernon. 25. and Leona Grimes.
%. The Rev. l. N. Gooch.
The Washington times., 1932-05-18
Constitution Dead,
Declares Economist

PHILADELPHIA, May Is U.N.
90.-The United States ConStitu-
tion is las obsolete as a stage
coach"
DR.. Sumner H. Slicther, Of the
Harvard School of Business Ad-
miniStration, made this assertion
before the conference of social
workers here.
Until constitutional restrictions
no longer hamper the President
and Congress, he said, effective
economic planning toward emerg-
ei1ce from the present economic
situation is impossible.
The Washington times., 1932-05-18
LOAN PLAN HELD
! ONLY WAY OUT
. OF DOLDRUMS
BY WINIFRED BLACK
ItCopyrIght, I9s2. by Universal Service
and San Francisco Examiner.)

NCopyrIght, I9s2. by Universal Service
and San Francisco Examiner.)
SAN FRANCISCO, May IS.
"TeIl the truth and shame
The devil"
We'll, they're telling it from
one end of the country to the
other these days, the good,
pl q In, honest, man-Io-man,
Cards-on-the-table truth.
Senator Borah, Of Idaho, told
the truth to the Senate day
before yesterday, the hard
boiled, unpalatable truth, and
It was like some Of the worst
pills the doctor gives you, nard
to take, but the best thing in
the world for ySu to swallow.
Plain Talk
The railroad brotherhood
told President Hoover the truth,
too, the other day-did you
bear about that?
I'VE can not assume re-
spOnSibility for orderly opera
tiOn Of railroads unless relief is
glven."
How do the pusSy-footers and
the hush brethren like that
plain talk, wonder?
Reports are pouring in from
one end Of the country to the
other.
Plain facts and figures that
q boy of IA can understand
that's what these reports from
the various charitable organi-
EationS and relief agencies, and
bureaus of investigation from
Washington, D. c., to Seattle,
Wash, have to tell.
"Year Of Perplexity"
Not a very agreeable tale to
hear - but it took an exiled
Russian to come to this country
and tell us another kind Of
truth.
The Russian said he had
been to America three times
once in 1898, once soon after
the world war, and today in
this Year of Perplexity. 1882.
He said:
Things were pretty bad in
1898, but America held her
head up and battled through.
'The prewar depression in
this country was no jOke-but
Il didn't last.
"America wouldn't let it last.
"I'm not making light of con-
ditiOns here now. I'm just tell
ing you from the standpoint of
an outsider, to look back and
see what you've been through
already, and you'll realize that
what you did once you can do
again."
Good, common sense, I call
it-and they do say you know
that lookers-on see the most of
the game.
"A good, hard-headed business
man made a good hard-headed
business speech at the Back
to-good.times" luncheon in San
Francisco the other day.
U. s. Chamber Meets
He told his hearers to re-
member Washington-not in
his great home in Mt. Vernon,
but. at Valley Forge, hungry.
footSore, ragged-but never dis
couraged, never for one minute
afraid.
The United States Chamber
OF Commerce is meeting on the
Pacific Coast today.
I hope the delegates to that
most important convention will
remember washington at Valley
Forge, and Lincoln when he
was a ragged boy learning to
read by the light OF a pine
knot.
Need to Remember
!, I hope they will remind
America of these things at that
VV14VCA4O4OAAS
II ever we needed to remem'
ber them
we need to remember them
now.
The name of your Representa-
tive and your Senator are
printed here. Write to both OF
them. or better still, telegraph
today, and ask them to bring
hope and courage and warm
hearted friendly promise Of
:, honest work for honest wages
to all honest Americans.
The five-billion-do dollar prosper
ity loan-get behind that, and
the victory is won.
The Washington times., 1932-05-18
Seniors Vote Against
,DrU U,TOnlMOOney

STANFORD UNIVERSITY,
Calf, May 18 S0.-Stan-
ford's senior class believes in ca.
reers for women, the retention of
football and Hoover for President
again. In a QUESTIONABLE the
graduates turned thumbs down
on prohibition, freedom for Tom
Mooney. automobiles for students
and communism,
The Washington times., 1932-05-18
MRS, CLARA v. BENNETT

Funeral services for Mrs. Clara
Virginia Bennett, who died Mon
day at her home, 54 w st. N. w.
after a brief illness, will be held
tom orrow at the Evangelical
Church. Final rites and inter
ment will be in Snyder, w. Va.
Surviving is her husband, Oliver
Bennett.
The Washington times., 1932-05-18
WASHINGTON TIMES

BUsIIESS OFFICE. 1917 II 81. N. ".
RATES DELIVERED BY CARRIER IN
WASHINGTON AND ALEXANDRIA
The Washington Tmes daily IL delivered
oy carrier 1t 10 cents pei week DAILY
rimes and Sunday Herald l6 cents pei
week: daily Times ana Herald daily. ~
daily and Snuda 26 eentP Der week.
The Washington Herald daily ana sun.
day 10 delivered by carrier At lb cents
and SUNDAY OnIy 10 cent? Der week,
Orders can be sent by mail or telephone
District $500. Collection 10 made weekly
by carrier.
The Washington times., 1932-05-18
FIREMEN TO DANCE

The Bicentennial dance Of the
Potomac Fire Department will
be. held in the fire house, East
windsor Ave-, Alexandria, to-
night. Dancing will be from
$50 totr12:30.
The Washington times., 1932-05-18
JOHN E. CLANCY

Funeral rites for John n.
CLANCY, Department of Commerce
attorney, who died Monday at
his home, 607 Emerson st. N. W.,
will be held at the residence to-
morrow morning at 8:45 o'clock.
Requiem mass will be said in St.
Gabriels Church at 9:15, with
interment following in Mt. Olivet
Cemetery.
Mr.. CLANCY was graduated
from the Georgetown University
law school, and had been a resi-
dent of washington for 80 years.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Kathleen M. Clancy, and three
children, John E., Thomas x. and
Mary K. Clancy.
The Washington times., 1932-05-18
MRS. AMELIA A. LANE

Funeral services for Mrs.
Amelia A. Lane, 80, who died
Monday at her home, 1875 Third
st. N. E., will be conducted
there late today. Burial will be
in Lake View Cemetery, Cleve-
land, Ohio.
Her late husband. John H.
Lane, was well known in Wash
ington building circles, having
been instrumental in the subdi-
viding and building of lexington
and several other washington
sections
Mrs. Lane, who was a"native
of New York State, came to
washington after her marriage.
and for the last so years had
lived here in one Of the first
houses built in the lexington
subdivision. She was an active
member of the lexington Presby'
terian Church for many years.
Surviving are two granddaugh.
ters, Mrs. A: M. Groncke and
Miss Elizabeth M. Marshall, and
two grandSons, Housden L. Mar
shall and Joseph w. Marshall.
The Washington times., 1932-05-18
MRS. EMMA E. HANBACK,

Funeral services for Mrs. Emma
Estelle Hammack, 80 years old,
of 2602 Mozart Pl., N. w., who
died in Garfield Hospital Sunday,
were conducted from the w. w.
Chambers Funeral Home this af-
ternoon. Burial followed in Con-
greSSional Cemetery. Surviving
Mrs. Hsmmack are her two sis
terS, ErneStine A. Coggins and
Julian L. Hammack.
The Washington times., 1932-05-18
Business Opportunities
Financial

81 Money to lOan-On Real Estate
500 pay 81 wkiy. $500 pay So wkly.
~' BfLDMAN Co. NAT. 249O.
$40 Bond Bldg. 14th and N. z. Ave.
SMALL PAYMENTSi QUICK SERvICEi
nearby Nd. and Va No red tape. DIR. A.
HENRY INC. 1915 Eye st. n. W.
FOR REAL ESTATE LOANS SEE
SUPERIOR FINANCE CO.. Inc.
1881 ST. N. ". Room 200 NET. 24So
The Washington times., 1932-05-18
Educational
Reantx CuItnre Schonl

Learn Beauty Culture. Stewards School. IS
starts you short course. e21 +. ME,0795,
The Washington times., 1932-05-18
MRS. IDA M. ROTT

The funeral for Mrs. Ida M.
Rott was held this afternoon
from her residence at 4616 Fifth
st. N. w. She was buried in
Rock Creek Cemetery.
Mrs. Rott, who died on Mon
day, was rs years old. She had
lived in Washington her entire
life and was an active member
of the Concordia Lutheran
Church.
Surviving are two sons, Fred
and Louis Rott; two daughters,
Mrs. Anna c. Helm and Mrs.
Augusta K. Schneider; ten grand
children and one great-grand-
child, all of this city.
The Washington times., 1932-05-18
Helm Wanted-Male
CHAUFFEURS (10)
With Identification Cards
ARCADE CAB CO.:
Rear Riggs TompkIns Bldg
14fh and Park Rd. N, w.

EXPERIENCED soft drink or beverage
salesmen: local trade acquaintance es-
sential. See Mr.. Meyers, Terminal storage
Co, 1st & x StsN E.. Thursday, to 10 am
1 WANT to talk to (2). men over As
years of age who have been turned
down on account of age. These men
are sick of promises of 500 per week;
work, No lay offs and where they can
really earn $36 to $50 per week to
start. If you are this kind of a man.
see Mr.. Heine before / p. m. 6633
Illinois Ave. N. W., corner of g 'orsia
The Washington times., 1932-05-18

MEN for high-class dignified work, 70
selling. Your spare time should be
sharp. Thurs. or Friday. 317 Metropolitan
Bank Bldg,
The Washington times., 1932-05-18
Rentals
Board and Rooms

SCOTT. HALL INN. 1873 Mass. Ave. n. W.
Lovely rms: delic. meals. Reas. NO. 93Oe
VERMONT AVE. N. W.. 133O-Beautiful
double rooms. twin beds So week
18th ST n. W.. I743-Beau. furn. rms.
rates reduced. quiet home, unlim. phone.
BEAUTIFULLY FURN. extra large front
rnl, with priv. sitting rm. off study:
young people or couple Very reas Best
n. W. section; nnlim. phone. Pot. 22s2.
NICELY furn. rm., next bath. 2 gentlemen
or couple priv. home. reas. Clar. 1888.
The Washington times., 1932-05-18
80 osO New Detached Brick

$9,950 New Detached Brick,
Located in the prettiest section of Mari
eta Park. Is the popular CENTER HALL
type, red brick, has seven fine rooms.
ment, green kitchen with all fittings to
match. pantry, Frigidaire, 2 large porches.
daylight cellar. big lot and bElilt-in
garage. This is an exceptional value and
HOOKER, metropolitan 1868. Evenings
to call Cleveland 0033.
The Washington times., 1932-05-18
Summer Resort Property

BEAUTIFUL WATER FRONT LOT and
cottage priced right. terms. Closest to
Washington. Highly restricted To see is
to buy No brokers' Box 60 this office,
The Washington times., 1932-05-18

SMITH. ROSA JANE-Passed away on
Tuesday morning May II. 1882; at the
wife of the late william B. Smith. She
is survived by one son. T. Blackwell Smith.
Funeral services will be held from her
day afternoon. May is. 1882. at 2 O'Clock
Interment will follow in Ivy Hill Gene
terry. Upperville. Va. Services by W. W.
Chambers Company.
The Washington times., 1932-05-18

WOODBRIDGE. D. C.-6 rooms. sun porch.
builtin garage. gas refrigerator. dish
washer sink in excellent con. $500 down.
$50 per mo. Call North 1908 or inquire
2377 Rhode Island Ave. N. E.
The Washington times., 1932-05-18
Real Estate
Waterfront Property

EPPING FOREST, MD,
On the Severn River. water front lot. B.
room semi-bungalow; also 5-room semi.
bungalow one block from river. All con.
veniences. Will finance. Jos. D. Groh, Pas.
adena. Md. Phone Armiger 9-F.6.
The Washington times., 1932-05-18
Furnished Rooms
A WARM WELCOME

Awaits tourists or permanent guests at
the following places: The Grafton Hotel,
1139 Conn. Ave. N. w: The Grafton
Annex, 1888 De Sales St. N W.: The
Westminster, 1907 18th st. n. W.
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-08-12
SMART SPORTS TOGS
SUGGEST MILITARY

There are still no fashions that
have endeared themselves to all
Paris as much as those which sug-
gest the military. Coats with
shoulders like the epaulets of an
officers uniform, capes in the dull
pale blue worn by the French army.
gold buttons and anchors and other
insignia that suggest the navy
all of these are still favOrite fash
ions of young people in Paris.
Sports clothes. especially, take
frequently the military line and
color. There is much blue and
bright red, many combinations of
red, white and blue, and many brass
buttons about the suits and coats
and dresses that are designed for
golf, for yachting, for the beach and
for general county wear.
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-08-12
GEM RUSH IN ARCHIPELAGO

familiarized by brides pendant or
black pearl earrings.
Ten years ago one could learn of
the Paumotu islands-known also
as the Tuamotu archipelago-only
from pilots charts and half recon-
dite books of South sea lore. Now
there are a dozen books, by tired
business men, college boys, high
seas racketeers, and Gov. Clifford
Pinchot of Pennsylvania, which tell
of their palms. pearls and soft trade
winds.
The Panmotu or Tuamotu, archi.
pelago is situated about 400
miles southwest of Panama. II
comprises about 100 island and
islets, in total area $50 square
miles. scattered over 1000 miles of
ocean expanse. The population is
variously estimated from $500 to
5000. chiefly Polynesians, but in
the black pearl days including also
numerous Europeans. Americans
and Asiatics.
Because of the uniformly low ele-
walton of the Paumotu coral isles,
usually only Is to 45 feet above the
sea, they are known to mariners as
the Low" or Dangerous" archipel-
ago. and countless ships have
dashed to pieces on unlighted
reefs.
The islands were discovered in
1901 by the Spanish navigator
Pedro Fernandez Quiros, and after
centuries of indeterminate status
were occupied by France in the mid
die of the Nineteenth century and
annexed in 1881. They are admins
tered, with other French posses
sions in the eastern Pacific, as a.
dependency, with administrative
headquarters at Papeete, Tahiti.
As the valuable black pearls are
rarely discovered. the more certain
income depends on commercial lots
of small pearls and cargoes of moth
er-of-pearl shell. Prosperity, there
fore, depends to a considerable ex-
tent upon the status of the button
trade in America, which affords a
market for the shell.
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-08-12
Science Finds That
Bible Is Correct

pueblo, Colo. - Science has
proved a Biblical theory.
Clarence r. Studinski, assist
ant city engineer, has completed
a graph showing the weather cy-
cles in the vicinity of Pueblo for
a period of so years.
The graph was prepared from
local weather records kept over
that period by the bureau here.
1t proves that, In Pueblo, ar
least, the weather runs to seven
year cycles-as told in the Bible,
written long before there were
any weather men.
The graph revealed some un-
usual facts. July, usually thought
of as a dry, hot month, is the
wettest. August is next. Janu-
airy is the dryest month and No
vember the second.
The month of the great flood
at Pueblo, June, 1921, a total of
7:14 inches of rain fell here.
Studinski's figures show that
droughts occur at regular peri
DDS, and on the basis Of his
graph, he believes 1888 will be
a very dry year.
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-08-12
Dark Dress With Touch
of White BIG Success:

Paris has never yet found any
more all-'round success than the
dark dress, marked with touches of
white. White pique collars, white
taffeta scarfs. white satin hats and
white gloves continue to hold forth
in the best of company. despite any
another color propaganda that the
French dressmakers may take up.
This years version of the dark
with white dress has its own 1882
idiosyncrasies; it has developed
certain new mannerisms in the way
the two contrasts are combined.
For example. many coats. made
without collars, are designed to be
worn with dresses whose white col
lars appears outside the coat. Often
there are white cuffs with no col
lars, or white collar without cuffs
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-08-12
BUILDS ROCKET TO
REACH 100000 FEET

ditions in the stratOsphere and the
mysterious layer of ionized gases
which lies beyond will be contained
in the rocket, he said.
Poirler, owner of a Canadian
ranch on which he hopes to grow
the weeds from which his fuel gas
is distilled, says he dreams of per-
fecting, eventually, a rocket capa-
BILE of maintaining a speed of 25,000
miles an hour.
In explaining the weed gas,
Poirier said it was discovered by ac-
cident by a German druggists help
er. who sought to fill a prescription
and joined the two chemicals by
error. The inventor said the weed
gas contracting another chemical
makes n more powerful explosive
than any other yet known.
He intends TO launch the new
rocket some time this summer.
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-08-12
Writer Sees No "Punch"
in Rereading of Book

We see frequently the statement
by some one that he has read a
certain book, usually fiction, two or
three times. 1t seems to US that
anyone who can do that and find
anything new must have been a
negligent reader the first time. We
don't care for the bony wreck Of the
turkey for days after Thanksgiving
to be picked over in search of few
shreds we may have missed; and
what we haven't missed in a story
is like hearing an anecdote a sec
ond time. Where's the punch?
Music, our hearts may call for,
over and over again, but literature
doesn't seem to be that way, unless
it is a gem of word coloring like
Ruskin's or Carlyle's or Maeter-
linck's, or a poem, which is an
other form of music-or ought to be
if it is a good poem.
But why should one want to read
David Copperfeld' five or six, or
dozen times is to us Incompetent
sible; or Tess of the D'Ubervilles" /;
or Jane Eyre" We grasped their
pictures, their emotions, their les
sons the first time.
True, if after many years, we
have well-nigh forgotten a book, we
may refresh our memory by reread-
ing, but while our memory would be
refreshed, we fear we wouldn't be.
The mill will never grind with the
water that is past."-F. H. Collier,
in the st. Louis Globe-DemOcrat.