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Evening star., 1935-10-21
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEYELL.
Can any one under 40 years OF age
be said to possess q definite and wholly

Can any one under 40 years Of age
formed signature?
1t is doubtful.
Those who have made habit of writ
ing their name in newly purchased books
over a long period Of years will know
this better than most.
The popular idea, we believe, is that
ones signature is fully formed at about
the legal age.
One ought to be able to write easily
by that time certainly, and one almost
always can, but that is not to say that
the ordinary signature does not change
thereafter.
AS a matter of fact, each one of us
has two ordinary signatures, one written
in the fast tempo and the other In the
slow or formal.
Each Of these differs. What greater
perfection In letter formation is achieved
by writing slow and taking pains" as
children say, Is more than made up for
by the greater character shown in the
speedier or informal signature.
The habit Of writing ones name in the
fyleaf of every book purchased, along
with the date, at least month and year, is
an excellent one to form.
1t recalls so many things later
1t shows the progress OF signature
formation in a way than is inescapable,
provided the spectator is able to assess
his changes at their true value.
There will be nothing really startling,
of course.
Trnc tio nh Nndn ~
made a dozen times before the subject
became 18 years of age.
Every one recalls them, some of them
absurd, others no more than queer SPELL
ing of usual names. The good name
Edward, for instance, became Edouard,
as one came under the spell Of French
for the first time.
The first name was abbreviated, the
second spelled out; sometimes the order
was reversed. One took great liberties
with ones name, because it made no
difference.
Perhaps the first sign of an inferiority
complex in many life has been the
desire to use initials rather than the COM
plete name all spelled out.
These, and many another change, all
are revealed as one looks back over the
signatures in ones books.
y y
There is a more subtle change, how
ever than any Of these.
1t has to do with the formation of the
letters themselves.
1t is not much Of change, from year
to year, but a sure one. Perhaps it con-
centrates in the capital letters. Many
an otherwise good signature founders
on them.
One way to solve this is to print the
capitals. Some people do this who dc
not realize it. They still retain enough
of their old penmanship to disguise what
they have done. Really they print once
regarded as a penmanship crime.
1t is probable that not as much stress
is placed on penmanship today as in the
old times, when many hours were used
up in writing and rewriting the same
sentence in the copy book"
We believe it is no longer a crime to
use the left hand. In the old days chill
dren were forced to use the right, whether
right-handed or not. The left-handed
Evening star., 1935-10-21
A Rhyme at Twilight
By
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton
Addition to His Kennel

Addition to His Kennel
In street of finance at the end Of the
day
Where homegoers waited within door,
way
For their often-belated automobiles
A ncndescript puppy shifted at their
heels. Z
The pup, in the nonce, was a topic OF
mirth
In genial converse that gave him no
berth
without tag or leash, without grooming
or car,
Just good for a Jest or two far below par.
1t happened nabob whom most Of them
Was famed for his pride in the moment
came thru
The group in the doorway; with nod
here and there,
That weighed to the fullest each envious
stare,
He entered his car, fianked by liveried
man
Nor did his face change when the stray
mongrel ran
And jumped on the running board, with
For the laughter evoked at the nabob's
expense.
The chauffeur stood ready to do the pup
harm.
But the master could summon a smile
of rare charm.
And to the chagrin of the gentlemen gay.
With the dog unmolested-he drove on
his way. -
Evening star., 1935-10-21

child had no standing at all in educa-
tional circles. No doubt 1t was the fact
that, to all who used the right hand
and this included teacher-he seemed
to push his signature into being rather
than let the pen trail away from it.
The real crime was not in using the
left hand in writing, but in forcing a
normally left-handed person to write
with the right hand, whether or no.
Thousands of persons thus had their
writing wrecked, to no good purpose,
and certainly to no gain of any one.
4 **
It takes between 80 and 40 years to
mature a signature. Since few persons,
even nowadays, begin to write seriously
until about 6 years old, it may be real
lied that the age Of 40 years is as near
theoretical one as possible for the COM
pletion of signature.
All during this period, of course, the
signature may seem remarkably the same
to the casual observer.
Not to the owner, however. Not to
the writer. Not to the maker
He sees the slight differences surely.
1t may be nothing more than the failure
to close up the tops of such letters as
20" and "a" 1t is very rarely that a
signature natures by closing such letters.
The usual maturing of signature is
made sure by these apparently careless
strokes these little discrepancies between
the perfect handwriting Of the copy
books and the signature of the prime
of life.
This may show the real lack of SYM
pathy that most persons, as children.
had with the desire of pedagogueS to
compel as perfect handwriting as possible.
They sensed, more perfectly than the
authorities, the fact that in an imperfect
hand, rather than a so-called copper
plate one, lay the possibility of attaining
a signature which would at one and the
same time be legible and packed with
the inner character of the writer.
There is a vast gulf between this sort
of good signature and the illegible mess
Of hen scratches which often does duty
on check.
Some famous men have been addicted
to the latter Therefore it cannot be said
that to write a good hand means any
thing in itself or that to write a very
poor one, either The man is more than
his signature.
That there is a relation, however, be-
tween the penman and his penmanship
has long been believed and some have
gone to the extent of working the thing
out to a science of a sort.
Most of us will be willing to be con-
tent with the plain feeling that a sig
nature ought to be legible, but beyond
that ought to portray the person who
makes it. Just how this is achieved is
not plain, perhaps. A signature is a
growth, much as human body is. 1t
comes in time to form in which it is at
its best. Thereafter it changes little,
being partly mental, and therefore
scarcely subject to the ordinary hazards
of the physical life. If handwriting is
indicative of inner character it is
pretty sure thing that it changes little
after IS or 40 years. Up until then it
is in formation. After that-who knows?
Certainly not the person whose books
have been collected over no longer period.
All he can say is that he believes his
signature formed for all time. Time
alone will show.
Evening star., 1935-10-21

scious Of the victory. joyfully joins in the
everlasting song. And the noblest
crescendo is that of October, praised by
the poets. but no less keenly appreciated
by folk who mistakenly suppose them
selves to be only an audience.
The democracy of the season, however,
need not be argued. It is given to and
may be taken by everybody. All that
is wanted is receptive soul. and the
number Of those so endowed is legion.
Evening star., 1935-10-21
Shooting Stars.
Melody.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

MelO0ys
Singing'-jes' singin' bout nufin' at all,
Like de breeze in de Spring or de wind
in de Fall!
Like de baby's sof' cry when II puts up
its hands
To its NANNY. Tain language. but
she understands!
Like de notes dat a bird sets adrift on
de air
Feb no reason at all, 'cept a heart free
fun care
De music most sweet dat dis old world
kin make
Is de singing dat's done foh de singins
own sake!
Oh, de horns an de drums set you
marchin' so gay.
Like a soldier prepared foh q battle
some day
An de fiddle puts dancin' right into
yoh feet,
Or you're fallin' in love to its melody
sweet.
But de music dat's better dan any Of
desc
Is de kind dat you hears FUN de waves
an de trees,
Whar dar's no shown of an no hirin'
hail.
But singin'-jes' singin, bout nothin'
at all.
Evening star., 1935-10-21

A biology building in a handsome
suburban area is resented by neighbors
of intellectual and conservative tastes.
1t might be proper moment for Prof.
Wilbur of California to train his test
tubes on an effort to make it easier for
the cervical cortex to get into practical
relations with the germ plasm.
Evening star., 1935-10-21

School books may be none the worse
for plain, nat definitions of such words
as socialism, radicalism, communism and
niflilism, with succinct descriptions Of
how such ideas have worked out in
the past.
Evening star., 1935-10-21

Some of the newsstand censors are
objecting to college publications that
affront the ordinary proprieties without
trying to make literary distinctions as
to communistic theory and common rub
bish
Evening star., 1935-10-21

Some phases of warfare will go further
back in Ethiopia than even the classic
combats on the Mediterranean Sea. War
cannot be wholly modernized, even in
its killing machinery.
Evening star., 1935-10-21

Women in politics are now so power
full that q drawing room tea party may
develop events ranking in historic i'm
portance along with that famous old
Boston tea party.
Evening star., 1935-10-21

A commonplace remark must be
analyzed before its expression. It was
q pleasant day yesterday-until the re-
ports of motor crashes were tabulated
and announced.
Evening star., 1935-10-21
Motors on Trees.

From the Jackson tMich) Citizen Patriot.
New York Chamber of Commerce
executive says machines don't grow on
trees" On a busy highway they some
times appear to sprout from trees or
telegraph poles.
Evening star., 1935-10-21

The League of Nations survives and
calls attention to Great Britain as a
country that has managed to be some
thing Of League of Nations on its
own account.
Evening star., 1935-10-21
World Average Maintained.

World Average Maintained.
From the Boston Transcript.
No sooner have London and New York
started anti-noise campaigns than the
war breaks out in Africa. 1t looks as
If the sum total of human sound was
under mystic control, and always stayed
the same.
Evening star., 1935-10-21
All Running.

From the Lowell Mass) Evening Leader.
And as somebody suggests, if political
candidates. continue to multiply, we
shall soon reach the time when nobody
will remain to sign the nomination
papers.
Evening star., 1935-10-21
Symbol of Uncertainty.

SVmDOI OF UnCertalntV.
From the Birmingham tAla) Age-Herald.
The new potato tax stamps will bear
the picture of a woman. Perhaps as q
symbol of the way in which the admins
tration has, for various reasons, changed
its mind about the potato law.
Evening star., 1935-10-21

A family quarrel may be less bitter in
the home than it becomes between
bellicose attorneys trying to settle it
In court.
Evening star., 1935-10-21
A Recreant Scot.

A ReCreant SCOt.
From the Grand Rapids Press.
A Scotsman has invented bagpipe
which plays when plugged into light
socket. And yet 1t Il said that necessity
n the mother Of invention.
Evening star., 1935-10-21
A State of Indignation.

80 you sold that mule for $8?"
"Yes," replied Erastus Pinkley. HE
kept a-beatin' me down an a-beatin'
me down, till finally I jest sold him de
mule at his own price. I didn' want
to miss de chance Of de mules turnin'
loose an kickin' dat mans stingy head
clean of i'm"
Evening star., 1935-10-21
Just Another Princelet.

It must irk King Georges new grand
son to learn that he is seventh in line
of succession at time when most new
babies meet with no competition in the
family.
Evening star., 1935-10-21
II Duce's New Deal.

Prom the Austin Tex) American.
Mussolini's idea isn't new. It's just the
usual scheme to divide the wealth accu.
inulatsd By somebody else.
Evening star., 1935-10-21
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Member Of the Associated Press.

The Associated Press is exclusively entitled TO
the use for republication Of oil news dispatcnnes
paper and also the local news publshsd nersin n,
All rights of publication Of special olspatcnes
herein are also reserved.
Evening star., 1935-10-21
Dangerous Extremes.

Oh, Patience leads us into dreams
OF comfort so immense!
But when it's carried to extremes
It looks like Incidence.
Evening star., 1935-10-21

'rDar ain many of U.s." said Uncle
Eben, $50 free from fault dat we can
take chance on de argument dat could
start if we tell other people bout
their'n."
Evening star., 1935-10-21
Always in Season.

Always in Season.
Oh, you da'snt shoot a rabbit
II the season isn't right.
If you have the hunting habit
You must pause and be polite
To the partridge and the pheasant.
To the duck you must be nice
And particularly pleasant
To the bird of paradise.
But the creature we are striving
Most sincerely to protect
Lives, in spite of our contriving,
Mid suspicion and neglect.
Through the world the bands are footing
AS we call on strife to cease;
Yet some one Is always shooting
At the poor old Dove of Peace.
Evening star., 1935-10-21

Self-esteem is excusable II q man
works to earn it instead of being born
with it.
Evening star., 1935-10-21
DOdging the Facts.

Have you decided what you will tell
your constituents when you get homer"
YES" replied Senator Sorghum. I'm
going to tell 'em funny stories exclu-
sively, If they will listen to them"
Every time famous man goes wrong
lot of parents wish they had been more
careful about naming their children.
Evening star., 1935-10-21

@. How many living college graduates
are there in the United States?-A. N.
A. There are about 100000.
Evening star., 1935-10-21

O. How long was a round in a prize
fight under the London prize ring
rules?-M. w. M.
A. A round ended as soon as a man
was knocked down or slipped; thus a
round might last few seconds or many
minutes.
Evening star., 1935-10-21

@. What is the enlisted strength o.!
the United States Navy?-C. E. L.
A. AS of September IL, 1885, there
were 9,672 officers and 84,277 enlisted
men.
Evening star., 1935-10-21

A reader can get the answer to anu
question OF fact by ,Urittng The Washing
ton EDening Star Information Bureau,
Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washing
ton, D. c. Please inclose stamp for reply.
Evening star., 1935-10-21

Night Final and Sunday Star----Euc per montthh onth
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Collection made at the END OF eacn mon5n.
Orders may be sent By mail or teIepnone IVA
tional RO00
Evening star., 1935-10-21

@. Who was Oenone?-F. H. r.
A. In Greek legend she was nymph
whom Paris loved before he met Helen.
When Paris was wounded in the Trojan
War he asked her to heal him, but she
refused. Later. on hearing that he was
dead, she killed herself.
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oil for the Lamps OF China
Western Life, Love Clash With
Ancient Ways of the
Far : asst
IThis is sterilization of the Cosmopolitan production
soon to be skown at Warner Brothers Earle Thedter)
WHAT LAS HAPPENED

This is seriaization of the Cosmopolitan produce
ton soon to be released BIZ Warner BrotherS.)
Stephen Chase, youthful and ambitious is field man
in MGnchuria for the American Oil Company When he
had devoted three gears to the o he arranged for MS
THROUGH during 1Ohich he planned to marry Lucy, his
American Sweetheart.
But Vhen the time Lucy refused to 90 through
4vh the MARRIAGE the grounds that Stephen eCdS non0
q portable stranger.
Bewidered Stephen marries the first girl he encount
ers Yokohama who proves to be Hester Wentworth,
CkoSe father had Just died trip to China and Cho IS
eoO alone in the eCod The couple start housekeeping
in company hut in Manchura but Stephen spends most
of his time travelling in the vast Manchurdn eCastes
He conceves idea to haze the company manuacture
and sell cheap lamps to coolies, thus increasing the OIL
output tremendously But during his travels he acoders
If he had done right by bringing Hester to this terrible
country aChere she forced to be alone great part
of the time.
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row." this surfeit of humanity
came each spring to this rich
outer country to work in the
fertile fields. returning in the
autumn to their clans to live
meagerly on the boarded pit
tance until the next spring?
Why should Hester know any
thing about it?
But when Stephen had left
her, Hester fingered within the
shadow of the two walls that
bounded the lane leading to the
bund. These women with their
hoof-like feet, hobbling forward,
leaning on their staffs, babes
lying within their blue top
garments, next to their sag
ging breasts! What was it that
was written in their faces?
What was it stalking behind
their eyes?
Stephen, too, was held by the
sight. Like swarms Of locusts
they seemed. devouring Man
churia's plenty.
Kin Must Go
He tried to imagine what life
must be like for many of the
Chinese-the life of men like
Kin, we'll paid. compared to
most. His wages. twelve Mexi-
can. six American dollars
month. Twenty cents a day for
Kin and his family to live on.
He thought of the look in Kin's
eyes as he Unanswered for
every extra cash of squeeze in
the days expenditures. A little
he began to comprehend.
And yet here was Kin, when
he had given him his choice of
obeying Hester or of leaving,
choosing to give up his security.
What was it in the relationship
with Hester that made Kin re-
fuse to obey her? Stephen gave
it up. Well, Kin had had to
go. He wished Hester could
have managed him. He was 60
ing to miss him. Kin was like
a part of himself, his China
self.
AS the morning wore on.
Stephen forgot about Kin, even
about that throng, although
another ship had come in and
the dense mass of humanity
pressed close up to the low
windows, darkening the room.
There was an undertow in
the office that pulled at his
thoughts. All through the win
ter, each time he came back,
he had felt a growing excite
ment, talk of the foreign di.
rector who was travelling over
China and would be here some
time soon; talk of the pioneer
days of the company being
over. A new note. Change
of spirit. Expansion. The next
step forward. Many new class
men had been sent out.
AS he and Jim walked to-
ward the club at noon, his
friend said, Likely to be fire
works around here when the
director comes"
Whats his plan, anyway"
asked Stephen.
Expand the organization.
Open substations with white
men in charge. It's the highly
developed type of organization
which they use in America.
But the boss contends it's only
a waste of money-and it iso-
lateS the men"
To Be Continued
Copyright. 1884, by Bobbs-Merrer Co.
Distributed by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
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Led by the odd inquire OF the
compradore, the agents adj
vanced. Three times they sa-
luted the boss, shaking their
own hands, murmuring Exon
shi, kon shi." In silence reced-
ing. Alone, the compradore
came forward, presenting the
boss with two scrolls. Then
with dignity so great that it was
unimperiled by his strange garb,
once more he stepped forth
bearing something very heavy,
wrapped in red paper. With his
two hands he presented it to
the boss who, embarrassed. de-
posted the parcel on the table
behind him.
Jim tore off the wrappings.
The last red paper fell away. A
great incense burner, and Of
pure gold! No one could mis-
take that soft CLEAN. These
old-time Chinese knew nothing
Of alloys.
The house boy, with an air Of
Difference matching the total
respect accruing to the boss
on this occasion, entered with
glasses of sherry. Austerely,
the agents slipped the unaccus-
toned foreign wine and then,
as solemnly as they had entered,
folding their hands in their
sleeves, they filed out. Jim,
Stephen and Hester broke into
excited exclama ton, but the boss
himself showed only discom-
future.
What will a simple old fell
low like me do with a gold in
cense burner? I'll have to put
1t in the vault at the bank. MY
payment to the king of the rob-
berS wouldn't protect me now"
HE was pleased, wasn't hep"
said Hester, as she and Stephen
walked home arm in arm, the
wind at their backs.
Eyes, he couldn't help but be.
It places him very high in their
regard. Only few white men
ever attain it."
They fell silent, Stephen op.
pressed a little with the thought
of those agents, in the mass a
formidable foe, his old uncer-
tainty returning and the sense
of his youth-how had he ever
had the effrontery to accuse
them of miSdeeds?
CHAPTER IL
1t was a spring morning.
When they reached the bund,
out on the river in the direct
line of their vision, rusty old
tramper had just dropped
anchor.
Look" said Stephen, the
first steamer! Winter is really
over. The river is open!"
Hester stood transfixed,
watching the human mass
packed on the decks OF the
tramper, seething up and down,
splitting over the sides of the
ship. Scrambling like rats, men
dropped into the flat-oottom
Ecows beneath, a multitude of
a bj ect creatures - poverty
striker, dirty past all belief, the
marks of disease upon them.
Hurry home, where it's
Clean" said Stephen, kissing
her. Why should Hester know
that out Of the oldest province
of China, where the race had
been conceived thousands of
years before, out of the valley
OF, the river called "China'S Sor-
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NOM READ ON

They're the agents Jimmy they're certainly doing the
old boss honor!'' Stephen whispered back They all
here-from all over Manchura You don't know what that
means Even Liu from up the sungar He's had to travel
days in cart and hates travel All Chinese hate travel
the way cat hates water wouldn't believe they were
here if I ddnt see them with my eyes
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Here's Prudence Lutrelle-no pirate, but pris-
oner-guest aboard Bonnets ship. What colors?
Mail your coored strip to Charles B. Drisco, care
this newspaper enclosing stamped envelope, adj
dressed to Yourself.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-05-06

Blackboard, Terror of the Seas wore gaudy clothes
and plenty of arms Today we invite boys and girls
to color these pictures of characters so as to
make them more real for their entertainment. Use
coored pencils or water colors.
, 1935-07-07
Brownsville
Youth Makes Hit AS
Musical Director

drinks anywhere from 10 to 20 cups
Of coffee a day. depending en-
tirely upon how hard he has been
working. and uses lots OF cream
gno sugar.. Is continuously called
cynical. VI. really Is not. Likes 10
tiavel BY plane II he Is going any
distance. III. and usually does
never sleeps at night. but catches
10 IN the daytime. /. really does not
writer poetry, rumorS TO the con-
trary.. likes Carlo and Joan
Crawford. Gary Cooper and Robert
Montgomery Thinks Robert Liv-
irFston, a newcomer to the screen,
will 20 far. Jack Fulton ano
Connie Boswell are his favorite
radio singers. Paul Whiteman his
favOrite orchestra-leader ... viii not
under any condition listen to Guy
Lonbardo on radio or record. ...
orce said that Robin Cook OF Yves
laco, Texas. would be a sensation
on radio II she'd just 90 after II. N.
usually wears dark glasses in the
daytime 10 DR. .ect his eyes.
actually. .. made records for the
Victor people with Mack Rogers
Orchestra. .bcing featured on
several Of them. the musical
theme you hear on his radio pro-
grams Is just an unnamed i'm
provisation Of his own. ... thinks
Portraits In Dots" Is 4 lot OF hooey
and saws sol