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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-24
Symphony Concerts
At the Water Gate

To the Editor of The Star.
Ten thousand people gathering two
nights a week to hear the Washington
Symphony recitals at the Water Gate;
many other thousands driving by, I'M
able to purchase seats; hundreds of
watercraft gathered on the Potomac
around the concert pavilion.
What is its significance? Certain 1t
is that it has a meaning quite beyond
Just another form of evening entertain
ment.
Part of the answer is found in the
quiet, absorbed, even rapt attention OF
the audience, and in the intelligent
comment on the music rendered. The
listeners at the Water Gate reaSsure us
that love and appreciation of classical
music have survived the noisy blare OF
a jazz age. That quietly intent audi
ence typifies for us the return to beauty
and harmony; they embody the capacity
and desire of our people to Surmount the
disturbed and chaotic conditions of re-
cent years and to achieve an ordered
harmony of life.
The scene and setting Of the Water
Gate recitals, with their thousands of
absorbed listeners, picture an epoch in
our national life.
The nearby memorials tell us that as
a Nation we are now old enough to
have our own great.
The many-arched Memorial Bridge,
the classic Lincoln Temple, the Water
Gate, all blended by landscaping to a
symmetry of beauty and dignity, speak
with compelling eloquence of an epoch
achieved: they are the hallmark of our
Growth hevond mere life struggle and
money-getting to some achievement in
the beauty, dignity and enjoyment of
a cultured life.
The weSterning moon sinks quietly
beyond historic Arlington. Overhead a
great plane lifts dozen men and
women in seemingly effortless flight to
the North-symbol of our latest con-
quest of space.
The last encore has been given by
the orchestra, and the newly inspired
thousands turn homeward with a better
glimpse of the possibilities of life.
GEO, K. MCCLELLAN.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-24
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

In looking over copy Of Jules Verne's
around the World in Eighty Days." long
famous as an adventure story, we were
struck by the fact that adventure and
detective works have come out of their
ancient classification as "children's
books"
Both of these types of fiction now
adays rank high as money makers for
their authors and publishers, and as
mighty good reading for the populace at
large.
Such writer's as Verne and Wells, who
may be said to have pioneered in this
type of fiction for many of us, built
their thrillers on solid facts, or approx
nations thereof, and time has proved
them.
One may make a very pleasant jour-
ney around the world today-unless war
intervenes-in the exceptional" time
which it took Fogg to go from London
| to London.
Fogg had to hurry great deal. He
| made mathematical jumps. some one
| has said, from vehicle to boat and back
again, in order to accomplish his thrill
| ing task just on the second.
Today it is possible to make a very
| leisurely trip around, having plenty OF
| time at all points of interest, and get
| back home again in about the same
time. We are not speaking, of course,
| of airplane travel, by means Of which
| the old thrilling record, regarded as
"just a story" may be beat by many
| days.
1t is interesting, in leaflng through
| the Jules Verne tale, to see what it is
after all, which made it such good
| story.
It was the conversation.
Talk which really sounds natural and
which arises naturally out Of the char
| acterS, still is the honest basis of good
fiction, whatever its classification.
| 1t is not easily manufactured, either
Every one has read books, stories by
| good authors, in which the converse
ton has struck one either as Stilted or
in some way falling to sound as it
ought.
| A reader must beware, on the other
| hand, that he does not attribute life
leSSneSs to book conversations out OF
his own mind. That is, he must be sure
! that the book talk really is lifeless, not
| that it just sounds unnatural to him.
| There is a great deal Of difference
| In this the saving thing is reading
| experience. Just as there is experience
| in life, so there is experience in reading
Not every one who picks up book
| is a born reader. by any means.
No doubt today there are more poor
readers than ever before in history,
simply because there are more readers.
1t is a mathematical world, after all.
Natural conversation flows out of the
| lives of the characters.
1t would Seem easy, but 1t isn't
Any one may prove this statement
| for himself by trying his hand at it.
Just attempt to write a short story,
| that is all.
Get a plot ali you please, even get
a good plot, great deal yet remains
| to be done.
! Making characters act naturally, and
| above all, talk naturally, is a gift.
No doubt more persons possess this
| gift today than ever before, which may
or may not compensate for the fact
that there are more poor readers than
ever.
1t will be found that certain stiff
ness actually lies in words, in attempt
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-24

ing to make characters talk as II they
were real characters.
The words creak, just as actions creak
In some stories.
Some fiction writer's, knowing their in
adequacy in this regard, adopt a plan
of making most Of their characters do
a great deal more thinking than talking.
Marcel Proust, the Frenchman, was one
who carried this to great lengths. If
you have never tried whirl at Proust,
you ought to do SO, just to see how an
author who is labeled great" by some
readers can get away with this device.
Poor conversation, in fiction Of all
types, especially in novels, arises from
| an inadequate understanding on the
part of the author Of his own creations.
Mere glibness and number Of words
does not make conversation natural.
The novelist has to be so full of his
characters that their talk flows. 1t
cannot help flowing out of their lives
because the writer knows them from A
to z, and all the way back again.
Any average reader can understand
| this in novel, although he himself
could not do it. That is what he likes
about good story, that some one else
| can do it.
Sometimes characters run away from
| their authors. Perhaps these are the
best characters of all and their ordinary
| talk the most natural conversation in
| the book.
They even may say things the author
had no idea they were capable of saying
One does not have to be a novelist
| in any sense, to grasp this. We have
said that there are many poor readers
and there are, but the salvation of the
| twofold process of writing and reading
| is that there are many good readers
| too. Whitman said Give us great
readers" but just good readers are
| enough.
They will be the first to catch the
spark of reality in good conversation
well handled, adequate. zestful.
| x
What a charm there is, after all, in
| book conversations
| One may feel. after many years of
novel reading, Of short-Story reading,
| that the talk therein is the best part
| of any story. because it is at once
| action, character and theme.
Everything in story comes out in
the ordinary conversation of the char
acters. In this, stage and novel are one
Stilted, belabored talk, talk which does
| not ring true, conversation which be-
numbs the reader as no doubt it does
the other characters in a tale-these
are some of the marks of a fiction
| writer who understands neither his
| characters nor his job enough
Often one reads a story in which a
large use of modern slang and the like
is expected to make up for slight
glimpsing of the characters by their
| creator.
This fools only the newcomer to the
world of books.
| The old hand, who has read good
| book talk" from many lands, in novels
new and old, refuses to be Stampeded.
| Slang and cursing cannot take the
! place of common sense and ideas.
Even when characters talk in high
| flown language" as the old phrase had
| it, as real people never talk, there yet
| may be the saving grace of fitness,
which has carried many book through
| to universal triumph.
! Good readers accept or reject fiction
| more on conversation than any other
one point, perhaps. This is as it should
| be, for what is more human, after all,
! than talk?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-24
A Rhyme at Twilight
By
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton
Iate Summer Dusk

The midnight was divine, with d--t
so deep
That every hill and valley seemed to
sleep.
The flowers dewy and the verdure green,
And over all a armament serene,
From whose blue depths million stars
shone down,
Softening the overlighted streets Of town.
The dawn of day was glory; every cloud
Emerged In radiance from its nightly
Shroud.
The flowers lifted faces to the East,
As if the orb of day were some high
priest.
A fresh breeze blew the leaves down,
one by one,
And birds poured forth their mathis to
the sun.
The dusk came. rainy; heavy clouds
hung low,
And in the town chill winds began to
blow.
But cared not if skies were gray or
blue,
For evening brought me firelight-and
yoS e
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-24

The United States Supreme Court and
the Congress are both splendidly housed.
The White House, though still a little
old fashioned, contends that authority
is not to be measured entirely by
architecture.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-24
Ups and Downs.

Ups and Downs.
We've but a little while to stay
Upon this earth, strive as we may.
To sleep and toll and dine and sup,
So why shoot one another up?
The hope of pleasure feebly clings
When bombing planes are sprouting
wings.
When Mars puts on threatening frown,
Why can't we simply call him down?
ct likes music" said Uncle Eben, but
I can't see de sense in de drum major
of a band takin' SO much credit TO
hisself.@@ s
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-24

The demand of that gentle humorist
and admired official, Tom Marshall, for
a good five-cent cigar has been fully
met Utilities experts are now being re-
quested to consider the advantages of
a five-cent car fare.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-24
Selecting the Scouts.

The trusts in bygone days we feared,
Though sometimes we derided them.
New-gilded then they reappeared,
Although we subdivided them.
We only ask some way to show,
Amid financial dizziness,
To put, while good ones bravely grow,
The bad boys out of business.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-24

Argument is offered that the United
States, for the sake of moral influence,
should retain the privilege of getting
into war if it wishes. 1t has done no
once and there is no assurance that a
new deal in that line would be any
luckier than the old one.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-24

England has had experience in colo
NAL management that should enable
her to offer the League of Nations expert
advice concerning Africa.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-24
Tighten the Load.

From the Indianapol News.
Maybe the Milwaukee inventor who
says that having q million dollars is
burden could invent something to lessen
the strain. =.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-24

Those who love old German traditions
hope that in his elimination of groups
Hitler will spare the Turnvereins and
the Sangerbunds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-24
Tiny Tokens.

From the Cleveland Plain-Dealer.
With pockets well-stocked with these
new square coins, the only thing that
remains to roll under the dresser is the
collar button. -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-24

Financial experts say there has not
been so much agitation about death
sentence" since Kipling described the
execution Of Danny Deever.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-24
Ancient Brain Trust.

II wonder what the secret OF Solo,
mons wisdom could have been,' said
Mr.. Meekton's wife.
my DEAR" said Leonidas, think OF
how many wives he had acting in an
advisory capacity"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-24
Songs of a Nation.

GAS youngster you had a promising
career"
IT still have it," answered Senator
Sorghum. "Only my art constituents
are reminding me that, in spite of its
romantic charm, oh, Promise Me- is no
good as campaign song"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-24
Member of the Associated Press.

The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled TO
The use for republication Of all news dispatches
credited to 1t or not otherwise credited in this
paper end also the local news published herein
All rights of publication Of special dispatches
herein also reserved.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-24

America is still rich in undeveloped
resources. The new taxation deal may
be the means of bringing some of them
into circulation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-24

Jud Tunkins says some politicians use
loud speakers when they ought to be
trying the soft answer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-24

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-24
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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1935-08-15
Birthplace of Permanent
Wave Claimed by Britain

1t is interesting to learn, as one of
the results of the hairdressing exhibit
ton at Olympia, says the Manchester
Guardian Weekly. that it is British
hairdressers who claim to have discov-
cred, in the year 1897, the art of ap-
plying permanent wave to tresses
that would otherwise be as straight
as the path of duty.
For it seems an epoch-making event
to have put the permanent wave on
the restless sea of fashion-perhaps
the most important contribution to
waves and their behavior from this
country since Britannia began to rule
them. One has n feeling that other
countries might possibly challenge the
British origin of what is now so wide
spread an addition to the resources
of civilization-but then other coun-
tries are always challenging some
thing, including the original Britain
MAS supposedly commanding interest
in wave management on the ocean
model.
And any little arguments over the
waves of the hair are certainly likely
to lead to less trouble than conflicts
about command of the sea. In the
matter of expense there may be not
much in it; it possibly costs about as
much to keep all the permanent waves
of old England in working order (for
their permanence is not so imperish-
able as it sounds) as it does to build a
few battleships.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1935-08-15
Largest Ranches

Probably the largest ranch in the
United States, according to Winters
book "Texas the Marvellous" is the
X l T ranch in the panhandle Sec
ton of Texas, owned by the Farwell
brothers of Chicago. This is said
to amount to three million acres in
all. The King ranch, situated in
Kleberg county, Texas, is over mil
lion acres. The Kennedy ranch liz
Texas near the gulf coast, is about
100000 acres. The Hearst ranch at
San Simeon, Calf, is about 100000
acres. The Arnold X U ranch in north.
west Nebraska and southwest South
Dakota is about 100000 acres. Accord
ing to Winkler's biography of Hearst,
the Mexican Hearst ranch at Babicora,
Chihuahua, is a million acres. Another
million acre ranch in Durango, Mex
leo, Is that of Higginbotham brothers
Of Dallas.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1935-08-15
Finds Gold Vein Hidden
Under His Own Kitchen

There was only small cellar under
the Merle Kessey home at Victor, Colo,
not big enough to be of much use, and
Mrs Kessey wanted a full-sized base
ment.
Kessey wanted to please his wife
and started blasting out the solid rock
that had to be removed.
And that's why the Kesseys now
have gold mine-under their home.
Almost directly under the kitchen
stove, Kessey, theater owner and dep
uty county treasurer, blasted into a
vein of gold ore, worth all the way
from SIS to $40 a ton.
He removed all the ore he could find
under the kitchen and moved the work
ings under the bathroom.
Indications were that he would be
under the bedroom shortly.
What will happen to the house when
and if he continues his operations re-
mains to be seen.
If it doesn't fall into the excavation,
Kessey may have to move his family
out and convert it into a mine office
Thus far Kessey has removed more
than 20 tons of ore, most of which
is piled beside the house, and he in
tends to start shipments to the mill
shortly. He has leased adjoining prop
erty, even obtaining control of mineral
rights under the street, on which his
home is situated.
The vein has been identified as the
old Spicer vein of the Rexall mine,
which has not been operated since
1916.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1935-08-15

of the fact that the old man weighed
pretty close to 200 pounds, I'd say that
the man who killed him would want to
keep him near the river. 1t would
lessen the work when it came to carry
ing him to the water"
"And to boil it down still further"
Warren agreed, "the murderer would,
likewise spare himself the effort of re-
moving the body far from the scene of
the murder for the same reason. And
if the scene of the murder was right
here :"
Bradley turned completely around
and let his eyes sweep the immediate
vicinity. /
The nearest hiding place. 1t seemed,
was the grove of aspens, where now
sat young Barnes. !,
He made as IL to start in that direc-
ton, but Warren halted him.
Let's just suppose" said the inspec-
tor, "for the sake of argument, that
young Barnes Is the murderer. Look
at him. He can't weigh over 100
pounds, and he looks pretty weak to
me- Frankly, don't suppose he could
carry 200-pound dead man 10 feet"
$50 what?" said Bradley. ,
Warren's eye dropped to his hand,
which still held the screw with its
splotch of blood.
"Jim," he said quietly, "the most log
ical and convenient place for young
Barnes to hide the body Of his uncle
is right over our heads amid the thick
branches Of this tree. He used block
and tackle to hoist the body up there.
A screw must have been loose, and
dropped out guess we'd better climb
this tree and take a look-see. 7 have
bunch wen not only find old man
Barnes up there, but complete block
and tackle, which the youngster intends
using to lower the corpse into the river
after we've dragged it. But first :"
Warren paused, and his eyes went up
and out toward the grove Of aspens. !
Bradley nodded grayely, and the two
men set out toward the figure in tweed
Knockers that waited there, idly switch
ing at the tall grass. !
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1935-08-15
Precancels and Cachets

Precancels are stamps which have
been Cancelled at the post Office before
being affixed to envelopes. Thus they
do not bear date. They are extern
sively used in business and facilitate
the handling of mail at the post Office.
First day covers are new issues of
stamps which have been sent to GER
tain favored post offices several days
in advance of the time where they be-
come obtainable at all stations. each
cts are pictures printed or hand
stamped on stamps TO commemorate
an event such as an initial air flight
or the like.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1935-08-15

of her words had suddenly occurred
to him also.
He drew away his hand and stared
moodily out over the lake.
For a long moment they remained
thus.
At last Nita turned to look at him.
Julian, can't you think of some
way?"
Julian didn't return her look.
''Nita, don't want you to get mar
ried"
Don't want me to! Julian, what
ever are you saying? Why shouldn't I
get married? Why don't you want me
to-"
He didn't reply at once, and Nita
went on:
II know what you're thinking.
You're thinking he's a cad for making
me miserable. But he isn't, Julian.
He's wonderful and grand and hand
some. And. oh, he could make me SO
happy. I've waited and waited for
him to propose. And-and now, Jul
ian, I've come to you for help. You
simply must think Of something!"
I, Julian turned at last and met her
gaze sQuarely.
ut isn't that that I was thinking.
Nita. wasn't thinking about him, or
how miserable he's made you, or how
to solve your problem"
Mia looked at him aghast
"You weren't! Then you don't
carel Then you won't help me; don't
want to help me?"
II was thinking" Julian went on,
that it isn't fair. 1t isn't fair at all
to have you want to marry"
"Fair? I don't believe understand,
Julian. What isn't fair?"
at isn't fair" said Julian, drawing
close to her, ut isn't fair to have you
love some one else when
He suddenly reached out, and his
arms encircled her in fierce grip.
He drew her toward him.
His lips crushed against hers.
She yielded.
He held her thus for, it seemed, an
eternity.
He kissed her again and again.
Hot passionate kisses that sent little
tremors vibrating through her body. I
At last he released her, looked fierce
ly into her eyes.
SIT isn't fair" he continued huskily,
'for you to want to marry some one
else, when love you madly, when I've
always loved you, when I've dreamed
endlessly Of the day when can claim
you all for my own. That's what isn't
fair!"
Breathless flushed, her eyes shining
with strange, unaccountable light,
Nita chung to him tenderly.
Julian! Julian! Dear, darling Jul
liam! 1t is fair! 1t is! Don't you
see? Can't you understand what was
trying to say Trying to make you
do?'
And when he stared at her in speech.
less incredulity, she went on happily.
Julian, darling. precious, you're the
man! You are the man I'm in love
with, who won't ask me to marry him,
who is making me miserable ~
And then the white frock became,
more grease besmeared than ever.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1935-08-15
The Mandrake

Ancients believed in the magic pow
er Of the mandrake and there are many
legends based upon the properties Of
this peculiar root, which in the Middle
ages was used for various potions. The
plant was supposed to contain magic.
Modern scientists say the root contains
a potent narcotic stronger than NOR
phine.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1935-08-15
Effects of Salt

If your ancestors ate salt you prob
ably are fair skinned, according to a
theory discussed by DR.. Thomas G.
Orr, professor Of surgery at the Uni
versity of Kansas. Blond races, says
the theory's sponsors, invariably come
from the north where salt has been
available for centuries. Darker and
black skins, on the contrary, are as
serted to be derived from ancestors
native to intermediate countries such
as China, Korea and India, where salt
formerly wasn't so plentiful.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1935-08-15
Southern Lights

Aurora polaris is the name given to
these atmospheric displays. When
seen in the northern hemisphere they
are known as the aurora borealis; If
in the southern, aurora australis. 1t
is believed that they are caused by
electric discharges originating with or
induced by the sun.-Pathfinder Maya
zine.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1935-08-15
Mountains Named for Mineral

The Dolomites, favored by mountain
climbers, are the only mountains on
earth named for a mineral. The min
eralogical form of the mountains IS
calcium and magnesium carbonate,
which is known as magnesium lime
stone or dolOmite.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1935-08-15
Speed of Light

Light, travelling at rate of 1S6,2S4
miles a second, is many times faster
than sound. which in dry air moves
of mile In less than five seconds. In
water sound travels five times as fast
as in air, and in iron or steel Is times
as fast as In air.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1935-08-15
Long. Hard Battle

There are no definite figures giving
the number of Indians killed, as the
whites settled this country. However,
per cent or per cent of the Indian
population was estimated to have been
exterminated.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1935-08-15
Plav Ball for Rain

In the Sahara native tribes play Il
game called "koura" with ball made
of palm wood as o charm against pro-
,longed drouth. So much noise is made
during play that 1t is supposed to!
brighten the drouth devils away.