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The Washington times., 1936-07-24
Marry-GO-ROund
By Helen ROlULG11d
CLOTHES MAKE THE WOMAN

lWnaC q man sees ABOUT q woman
that intrigues him; it's what he
gueSSes at. The preview should
not tell the whole story. It should
leave most of it to the magma
ton. That's plain psychology.
1--WE wonder" continue the "Dis-
corning Sailors" whether you
have ever glanced with q critical
eye at some of the So-called femi.
nine beauty which adornS our
beaches. And why one of the ma
tons biggest industries is the pro-
duction of beauty aids to try to
help our fair damselS to resemble
the poets rawlings.
Summarizing your column, We
are Of the opinion that you are
either miSinformed as to the
standards of modern male beauty
or that you have confined your
observations to the Old Mems
Home"
(Ouch! A bulls EYED
IF you have any sporting
blood in your veins, you will an
swer this, in some form-or per.
hapS send us a picture Of your
self in a bathing suit"
Kamarad! Kamarad. YOU
win, my hearties! But, alas, 7
have no picture in q bathing-suit.
Because still believe that most
women are more alluring in frills
and ruffles, and most men in eve
ming clothes or a uniform-ALL
COVERED UP!
Clothes make the woman-as
well as the man. And the MORE
clothes, the more easily she can
make" the man!
Copyright, 1896. by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
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) $50 i am offering my daugh-
ter = certain sum IL she will
memOrize, each day, some pas
sage from the finest books and
write . short but thoughtful COM
ment on each passage. BY 50
doing, she will not only accumu-
late q substantial sum, but she
will continue to develop intel
lectually as she did before mar
rage.
"SOme Of my family consider
this q most foolish plan, and my
daughter herself Is not too en-
thusiaStic about it. Will you give
me your reaction?
"HENRY DICKINSON,
Chicago"
(Real name given but withheld
for obvious reaSonS0
What do I think?
think you're a great Dad and
your daughter should give thanks
for you hourly. The only flaw in
your plan, as see it, is that you
are paying her for doing something
which she should be eager to do
for herself, gratis. And is a plain
little moron If she doesn't!
DISASTROUS
At which point let me assure
all Carping Critics that have been
an old-fashioned housekeeper and
mother-and am now a new-faSh-
Toned one. And I rise to say, with
brickbatS If necessary, that it's as
stupid and Stagnant for q young
woman to limit her interests to
the four walls Of her home and
the people therein as it would be
for a young man to do likewise.
And it will, inevitably, be as dis
aStrouS.
There might have been some
reason for and profit in such limi-
tation in the days when homes
were real industrial centerS. but
there can be no earthly excuse for
it in 1895. when family life no
longer clusters around the hearth
but has, Of necessity, spread into
the city streets and auditoriumS.
I'm no feminist I have no yen
to see women in politics. And I
also believe that every normal
woman'S heart centerS in the
home.
But the Twentieth century wife
who refuses to have any interest
outside the cradle or kitchen sink
is not devoted-she's plain lazy
and dumb.
And her Sickly Sentimentality is
as great a blight to her home as
ants in the sugar or rats in the
cellar.
That's my answer to Dads let.
ter. Now it's YOUR turn to tell
the world. Com'on!
copyright. 1895, by King Features
Syndicate InS.)
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Daily ConstitutiOnals
By Max BernS

Without giving this power to
Congress, the States could destroy
the union by failure to provide
for the election of persons to ad-
minister its affairs. Not until 1912.
however, did Congress provide
that members of the House be
elected by districts. Previously,
some States elected them at large.
This gave undue preponderance
to the States dominant political
party, however small its majority,
even though it might not have a
majority in some districts.
In 1872, Congress provided for
election of Representatives on the
Tuesday after the first Monday
in November and subsequently
provided for presidential and sem
atorial elections on the same day.
Under State statutes, many States
also hold their State elections on
this day.
TOMORROW: eft CAN'T HAPPEN
HERE"O
copyright. 1895. by King Features
Syndicate, Inch
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EDWIN c. HILL vulnerable, as
many rich men have learned In
recent years.
Lillian Russell, one Of the glorieS
of an earlier day, burgeoned In
the Splendor of her beauty and
her Jewels. It is sad to think that
her daughter, in financial straits,
physically disabled from an acct
dent, must relinquish her mothers
ring of the "flawless emerald" to
satisfy a petty debt.
Since the death Of Alexander P.
Moore, Lillian RuSSell'S husband.
the six-carat emerald, surrounded
by nine diamonds, has been har-
ried through the courts, as no
table jewels so often are. No first
night glitter and bravura here.
but human contention as hard and
insensate as its own cold facets.
So with the jewels Of greater as
well as lesser folk.
There was the Czarina's $1,000
600 necklace Of 755 diamonds, one
of the most beautiful pieces Of the
Russian crown collection. 1t
seemed to have a regal resting
place in the home Of Mrs. Edith
Rockefeller Mccormick. But the
executors Of her estate found it
necessary to dismember it and
realize what they could.
0TITWnRN TATE
The story of the evil trailing or
attending famous jewels is an out
worn tale. Much fantasy and
much Grass superstition has been
read into stories Of gems like the
Hope Diamond.
No sensible person attributes to
jewels sinister influence or mag
ical properties. And yet, just as
the crude animiSm Of primitive
peoples endowed inanimate OBJ
jects with mysterious powers, so
millions of modern men persist
in endowing jewels with propen-
sites of good or evil.
In the long view. they have
failed to intrench their owners in
power, security, distinction. Their
undimmed glorieS all the more
dramatically set off the tottering
of human thrones, powers and
dominionS."
There is here an understand
able dramatic antithesis, even IL
the evidence Of the gems connec-
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England Takes Precautions We Don't

The British has placed the first orders for what
will eventually be 100000 gas Masks for every man.
woman and child in the island kingdom.
They are to be issued free when and if needed.
The British people and their leaders not alarmsts Al
ready heavily taxed they would not take another burden
unless convinced that it is needed one.
Now there only way in which poison gas could
to England
That is from the air.
England realizes it, England prepares for it, England will
meet it when and if it comes
But what has that to do uUith America?
1t has this:
The arpEane has compressed the lOorId and America
no longer depend upon her to protect her.
The American people not need gas masks but
they do need and SHOULD HAVE an air force capable
of meeting and DEFEATING any air craft Wch, laden
With poison gas, should set out for shores
England gives us the warning.
If we don't heed it fools.
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Every time write aQyCn1ng
flippant or satirical about topless
bathing suits and the male form
not-So-divine, I am due to receive
an avalanche of protests. Men
don't like to be told that they are
not as dangerous to the feminine
heart in shorts as in a dinner suit.
or that the Lorelei had anything
on the caveman.
But here is a protest that gives
me q real kick; because it comes
from the Navy Yard Il won't say
where) and is modestly signed "A
Few Discerning Sailors" And
THUS-after all the years, in
which have been loudly proclaim
ing that the men of the Army and
Navy were our only ORNAMENT
AL men! Clarifying their figures
and their manners, praising their
grace and wishing that all Of our
men could be as decorative!
THERE'S ingratitude for you!
1--WE are of the opinion" writes
their spokesman. "that you are
more than slightly prejudiced in
favor of the female form divine.
In your eyes every woman is
Diana, Aphrodite or Venus de
Milo
Now, where do you get that,
Sailor? Did you overlook the para
graph reading, "It is equally true
that the sight Of q girl in a too
revealing bathing suit has choked
back the proposal of marriage flut-
tering in many a mans throat?
Confidentially, think that most
of these Sun-tanned sirens in half
portion bathing suits are merely
embarrassing themselves, roman
tically, by over-expoSure. It isn't
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=
ing. Architects galore said that
the East front looked like the
dome was top heavy. It had the
appearance Of extending out over
the portico. Not that it does,
mind you, but it looks that way.
And, nothing inks q true lover
OF architectural beauty more than
to have something wrong than to
have it look wrong when it isn't.
So in the due course Of showing
some Of the legislation out Of the
way to make way for Congress to
get down to the business of tax
ing the public, the hearings were
started in the Public Buildings
and Grounds Committee.
Right off the bat things began
to get hot. Members rose on
their hind legs and told the com
mittee that this old building is
sacred, that it would be undigni-
fled to say the least to have its
face lifted in its extreme old-age
and anyway they liked it the
way it was.
In fact, so wrought I'D did
some Of the members get about
the proposition that Represents
tive Otha D. Wearin CD Of
Iowa said if the people Of Wash.
ington didn't like the Capitol
the way it was he would be
pleased to have it moved out to
Iowa where they would revere
and respect its ancient dome,
face and underpinnings.
After this blew over, however,
it got too hot for the members
and they decreed that the Cap
itol, Senate and House Office
buildings should all be air-condi.
toned.
While Architect David Lynn
is waiting for time to open bids
on the installation Of the system
q score or more Of 1aborers are
hard at work cutting holes
through the walls of the Capitol
for the ducts.
First they started in the sub.
way where they could be heard
but not seen very well, Now they
are on the first floor. Electric
drills, plain old crowbars and
good sized sledge hammers are
being used to cut through most
every wall in the building.
The corridors are full Of plaS-
ter dust and falling bricks. The
air reverberates with enough
noise to keep q steel factory go
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That's a strange question to
hear in these emancipated times
stranger still to hear it from q
father. Yet a real Dads asking
it, a Dad who doesn't believe that
Babies and Biscuits should be
enough Brain Work for Sister.
And, believe it or not, Sister is
insisting that they are, and
doesn't care a boot whether she's
rated "old-fashioned" or not.
So Dads bribing her-bribing
her to use her brains! And
but read it yourself. Then have
it out over the supper table or
the office desk-or tell the world
your notions through this column.
my dear Miss Robinson:
"My daughter married six
months since and by all popular
tests i should be q proud and
c0ntented father. Her husband
is q fine young man. He has
given her q charming home and
she is bliSsfully happy. She
haSn't--nOr does she desire-an
interest outside her home.
LIMITED INTERESTS
Though formerly rated q very
intelligent girl, she is completely
absorbed now in her husbands
career and the prospect Of hay-
ing children. Moreover, she pro-
tests that this is q right and
natural attitude.
"But / can't agree with her.
Such limited interests may have
been sufficient for her grand
mother, who knew no others,
but I feel that q modern girl
particularly one who has been
given . good education lis
wrOnging herself If she allows
her outlook to become 50 limited.
"NOr can / believe she will
make q very good wife or
mother. In time, her limited
viewpoint will be bound to at.
feet her husband and children.
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Tri-City Regatta

The TCy Regatta to be held at Herald Harbor the
beat event that has grown in recent
enthusiasm for this type Of sport has developed in the
Washington
is fitting prelude to the Presidents Cup Regatta which
is held in the Potomac off Washington later in the
The races at Herald Harbor attract hundreds of Wash
ingtonians that and Sunday and Judging
from those who sponsoring the regatta they will have
good time,
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FRIDAY. July "a. 1886
Children in Danger

The deaths of two youths in one day from injuries
received while they riding bicycles should prompt
all parents to lay down few traffic laws Of their
for their children to obey
Mann youngsters lUhO haze bikeS-Gnd lOe UiSh
then could all haze them-hGUe no realization of
just hOD dangerous are the conditions under Which
they ride
They don't hesitate to ride into the heaviest auto
mobile traffic at the busiest hours.
They aren't concerned at all with obeying traffic laws
which are established for the safety of all.
They don't seem to bother much about that DID,
old law Of self preservation
YOUNGSTERS CAN GET LOT OF FUN AND A
LOT OF ENJOYMENT OUT OF BICYCLES AND
THEY CAN DO IT WITH COMPARATIVE SAFETY
IF THEIR PARENTS AND THEY WILL GO INTO A
HUBBLE AND DECIDE WHEN AND WHERE AND
HOW THEY SHOULD RIDE.
And while the parents reasoning with their bicycle
riding children motorists might give the youngsters
little thought.
We know it is aggravating for driver to find his
way impeded by weaving bcycist but the youngsters
have some rights to the road too.
DRIVERS WILL FIND IT MORE PLEASANT TO
GIVE THEM WIDE BERTH THAN TO HAVE
TO GO TO THE M0RGUE AND TESTIFY AT AN
INQUEST.
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The Human Side of the News = By
By Edwin C. Hill

ITO exploring strange jewel stories,
would doubtless offer an explana-
ton in the realm of the mystic.
There are a number Of sup
poSedly haunted gems in the Brit
iSh Museum, and Mr.. Shirley has
built up therefrom q fascinating
anthology Of Spooky tales.
One story that has particularly
engrossed him is in the collection
of EliZabethian jewels, strange. va
ried and beautiful, found under
an old warehouse by some work.
men in 1912.
The caSket was taken to the
house of an official Of the British
Museum. At the turn of midnight,
there was a cold, clammy blast Of
air through the house, q weird
luminous glow, a sudden clatte1-
ing and banging of doors, all
seeming to emanate from the an
cient, earth-encrusted jewel caSket.
The story Of these happenings
never was told but when the jew
els were put on public exhibition
in the museum, a young woman,
viewing them, screamed and
tainted. She said she had seen an
emaciated man, in EliEabethean
dress. lowering over the jewels
and muttering excavations. Many
persons profeSSed to see the same
spectre.
These and other such purported
incidents Mr.. Shirley weaved into
his theory that portions of our un-
worthier selves cling to our
earthly possessions. and that
Jewels really may carry a sinister
repellent aura.
Various branches an d deriva-
tionS of theoSophical cults in In
dia advance the same belief,
chiefly with regard to rubies. In
cidentally first treasured in In
dia, which is also the earliest home
Of the diamond.
STRANGE TALES
Lord Dunsany's 1.-THE Idols
Eye" is one of the multitudes Of
hair.lifting yarns which ancient
India has projected into the mod
ern world.
I have seen strange, furtive
whispering figures around that
shabby little hidey-hole in the Rue
La Fayette, which is the Paris
jewel bourse.
Many are Orientals: some are
feveriSh Zealots, burning with the
zeal of pursuit Of some coveted
gem: some are inScrutable. poker
faced men who make you think
they could lead, you to King Solo
mons mines if they only would.
It was here that the great sap
phire of Ghengis Khan, a gem
with a diSquieting portent of evil.
was last seen before it was brok-
en- up.
It had been stolen from Count
Braniciki, Polish nobleman. in
1918, whose family had obtained
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the reign Of Peter the Great.
A little midinette, peering into
the shop, had seen just an in
stant's furtive palming Of the
stone. She reported to the police,
but before they could trace the
stone it had been cut to pieces.
AS ancient English houses are
sold, there come stories of diScov-
cred gem hordes and their &C.
companying SpookS.
Somehow we Just won't give up
the idea that a jinx or a curse
goes with q humping big jewel.
But most of us would take
chance on those extras if a jewel,
say the Kohinoor, came our way.
copyright, 1895. by King Features
Syndicate 1no.)
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Millions Still Persist in Endowing Jewels
With Propensities for Good or Evil

ton with failure and Illustration
is lacking. But there are gem
mysteries which never have been
explained.
Scientists have puzzled in vain
over the curious red ruby owned
by H. w. D. Moreno, Of the Ben
gal Legislative Council.
It is q beautiful blood-red stone
and inside n there is q human
figure as perfectly outlined as If
it were the work Of q competent
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sculptor. The figure wears a white
robe and white 'puggree" head
dress.
Heads Of the Geolical Depart
ment of India have pronounced
the gem q real ruby, not synthetic,
and have acknowledged tn e M
selves utterly baffled as to how
the human likeness got there.
Ralph Shirley. British occult.
ist and writer on such subjects,
who has devoted much Of his life
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Big. ostenta-
tiouS ge m S,
boon Of Sunday
su apple m e n t
writer's, sooner
OF. later, usually
are associated
with disaster.
Their cabalistic
and symbolic
glories have i'm
parted bitter
anticlimax to
human Splen-
doris. Anything
which is too
conspicuous is
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reach out for
wider interests
d e m a nd
larger intellec-
tual ad v e n
lures?
In Sh or t,
S h Guild the
bride of 1886
continue to de-
v e / o p her
raj ms after
m a rr ia &c. or
h ould she
settle down"
to b in g a
Dear Lit I'll e
Woman?
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the old Capitol
now tn y d
faint.
II you re-
member, Rep
re Sc n t q t i've
Fritz q. Lam
h q m CD
T e as, chair
man Of this
important COM
mitt ee, held
S e v er al hear
ings at last Ses-
sion on the pro-
posal to give
the building a
The Washington times., 1936-07-24

WHAT power mas Congress
over national elections?
Our Constitution provides that
State Legislatures may prescribe
the times, places and manner Of
holding elections for Senators and
Representatives "but the Con-
gress may. alter such regula-
TONS"
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Wise Words

To have a great man for an
intimate friend seems pleasant
to those who have never tried
it; those who have tried it, fear
it.-Horace.
No well-informed person has
declared a change of opinion to
be inconStancy.-Cicero.
No true and permanent fame
can be found expect in laborS
which promote the happiness Of
mankind. Charles Sumner.
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Listen, World!
By Elsie Robinson
DO WOMEN NEED 10 DEVELOP THEIR BRAINS
AFTER MARRIAGE9

Is q happy wifehood and<
motherhood a sufficient career
for the Twentieth century bride?
Or should she force herself to
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NOISE AND NOTION

Boy, II some members Of the
House Public Buildings and
Grounds Committee could see
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Greatest Show on Earth
Blu Frank Miller Smith

ling and the place looks as though
the British may have come back
again.
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Modest gems seem to ride along
nicely down the centuries with
out being mixed up with trouble.
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HERE'S HOPING

HERE'S HOPING
Senator William Gibbs McAdoo
Cd, California, has a budding
playwright in his office.
Eleanore Golden, one Of his sec
retarieS, has her fingers crossed
and is hoping hard that Spring
Dance" now scheduled for an
opening in the Empire Theater in
New York in August, will be a hit.
Miss Golden and Eloise Barring
ton wrote and produced the play
upon which it is based at Smith
College. 1t was called Extra
Curricula" then, but no one out
side of a college cares for a name
like that, so they changed it. The
thing that Is worrying Miss Col.
den now is that no one seems to
care a lot for the name Spring
Dance" and it might open under
some other title.
The play that will hit Broadway,
II it does, however, will not be ex.
actly the same one the Smith Col
lege girls saw. It has been re-
written by Phillip Barry and is an
adaptation. Jed Harris will pro-
duce it. According to Miss Golden
it was given a try-out at 1.-THE
Cape Playhouse" Dennis, Cape
Cod, recently, and she had the
time of her life.
It win be given another tryout
at East Hampton.
It's a comedy. ALI about prom
at q college and how O group Of
girl friends ganged up to keep one
Of their number from being left
flat by an unappreciative male.
Miss Golden says she under.
stands that Mary Rogers. Will
Rogers daughter, will play in the
New York cast.
President Roosevelt before he
left on his summer cruise unwit-
tingly revealed that ne had read
Lewis Carol at sometime or
other.
He informed the newspapermen
at q press conference that he was
going to have talk with Cover.
nor Curley Of Massachusetts,.
When they asked what he was
going to talk about he said:
''What am L going to talk
about? Oh, ships and kings and
sealing wax"
1t wasn't an exact quotation, Of
course, but they got the idea.
ROLLING ALONG
It Is reported also that Marvin
Mcintyre, the Chief Executives
secretary, is not having such a
wonderful time on the trip. Mac
is travelling on the boat acting
as an escort for the little sailing
boat the President is navigating.
The boat that Mac is on was
built to make 40 or so miles an
hour and in order to keep close
to the yacht they have to go
about IS miles a day. ConSe-
quently the narrow boat rolls a
little in the swells. Mac wasn't
so well when he started and the
rolling hasn't helped a bit.
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OLD FAVORITES
Sleep

Steep John Fletcher
Come, Sleep, and with thy sweet deceivng
Lock me in delight awhile;
Let pleasing dreams beguile
All my fancies that from thence
may feel an influence
All my powers of care bereavng!
Though but shadow, but sliding
Let me know little joy!
We that suffer long annoy
Are contented with a thought
Through idle fancy wrought:
let my joys have abiding!
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