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RITTEN by an Englishman and dedlcated in deep friendship to America, “the 1and of opportunity,” this life of Admiral Mahan is, in effect, a study of the writings and other pro- fessional activities of the ‘“naval philosopher,” whose opinions, accord- ing to this writer, “govern the naval thought of the world.” With & short first chapter on. the birth. and bent and tralning of the young American, the author moves into the public service of Admiral Mahan as rear ad- miral in the United States Navy, as president of the United States naval college and as president, also, of the American Historical Association. It is by the writings or Mahan, however, thag this biographer reaches the per- manent and unsurpassed position of naval authority that the admiral at- tained through his philosophic inter pretations of history as it bore upon naval procedure and objectives in the building of nations and upon the in- ternational futures of the world. Sym- pathetic appreciation is the keynote of this study. A fine sense of pro- portion balances and stresses it at the proper points. An able command of narrative vitalizes it. A feeling for the picture throws it into drama. These, working together, project a story that is informing and inspiring, whether one is considering the central figure or the period of naval history, with its foreshadowing of world af: fairs dependent upon it, which this central figure so brilliantly discusser THE 'BOYHOOD OF ABRAHAM LIN- COLN. By J. Rogers Gore. Illus- trated from photographs. Indian- apolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Com- pany. Twenty-five years ago, or more, Mr. Gore, then a newspaper man in Ken- tucky, used to find great enjoyment in visiting with Austin Gollaher, a playmate of Abraham Lincoln when the two were little boys together. The storles gathered out of these visits make up the substance of this { volume. 1In the main, they are stories which have not, hitherto, been open to the general reader. In relation to them, a daughter of Mr. Gollaher him- ! self writes: *I have known J. Rogers { Gore since childhood, that he was very fond of my father, and that he often visited him and talked with him of his and Mr. Lincoln’s childhood on Knob creek. 1 am sure no one else knows as much of my father's and Mr. Lin- coln’s childhood in Kentucky, and I am greatly pleased that Mr. Gore has writ- ten out these stories, many of which I have often heard my father tel These recollections reproduce many a sketch of the life which, at that time d In that place, was still of the pioneer type. _They re-enact 'in- numerable play hours of a couple of { boys who were in no sense different | from the eternal boy everywhere. Still | throughout the incidents recast here there are signs, more than one, in the Kentucky frontier lad of the man | Lincoln. The book is of great inter- {est and of great value as a part of the j revealing authentic literature that be- | longs to the life of this historic world ! man. | STASH OF THE MARSH COUNTRY. By Harold Waldo. New York: George H. Doran Company. This is the story of Stash Plazarski, the Polak boy, set down with his fam- ily out Detroit way to gather up the free life that old country had with- heldf rom the tribe of Plazarski. That is, it Is the Story of Stash from little THE SUNDAY rS.TAR’,l WASHINGTON, D. C., JULY 24, 1921—PART 1. HOW MANY CARDS? New Books sand times and going back to bed again. A good story of its kind, and a good kind. GHOSTS. By Arthur Crabb, author of “Samuel "Lyle, Criminologist,” etc. New York: The Century Com- pany. Despite its spooky title this is, in the main, an engaging account of the doings of a summer colony of inter- esting people on the New England coast. The larger part of the account is taken up with the pleasant play- time of the intelligent and interesting people of the colony and with the dawnings of a courtship between two delightful people. It is only when mysterious burglaries begin ‘to take place, well along in the season, that the notion of ghosts creepsg into ac- count for the wholly untraceable agency of the disappearances of prop- erty. At the critical moment some one thinks to call in our old friend, the genial Samuel Lyle, with whom Arthur Crabb made us acquainted some time ago. From this point for- ward the story is taken in hand by this lovable and many-sided man, thereby taking on a direction and rapldity of movement that enlists us all over again to enthusiastic support of the big, easy-moving detective who, In some unaccountable way, reminds us of Gilbert Chesterton. And this re- minder is something of a tribute to the substantiality and resource of Samuel Lyle, criminologist. THE HUSBAND TEST. By Mary. Caro- lyn Davies. Frontispiece by Eliza- beth Pilsbry. Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company. Bettina had the theory—and a very sound theory it {s. ‘too—t! amount of pre-nuptial experience is ible to determine in even the least degree the kind of husband that stands concealed within the person- ality of the lover. So Bettina—the happy denizen of a world of make- believe—invented for her two suitors an absurd,/ month-long test in the role ‘of husband. At the end of the time set, thg record showed one of the two to'be a man whose feet would habitually hit the ground squarely, a man who would be =& credit to the community, the father of obedient, uninspired children, a good provider, a stand-ofish man toward women. The other one had only to tap lightly on the walls of omance and the doors swung wide. 'hrough these he led Bettina, “the most beautiful lady in the world,” according to this knightly lover, and away they flew without care of food, or rent, or collectors, or any other of the dull details of keeping body and soul together. One's grand- mother, or mother, would have chosen the substantial citizen—that is, she would have done so out of thie wisdom that being a grandmoth- er, or a mother, is supposed to bring. Bettina did quite the other thing. This comic situation covers, you see, a pretty general truth concerning the behavior of a young woman under the urge of romantic love—and all early love i{s romantic. A patter of amusing talk, clever, pointed talk, goes along with the comedy of Bet- tina’s husband test. WIND ALONG THE WASTE. Gladys E. Johnson. The Century Company. The scene of this mystery tale simply oozes lonesomeness. A bare stretch of dune counmtry, a monoto- nous sweep of sea, a secretive gray house pricking out through the dunes—these pitch the low key and forecast the stealthy and mysterious doings that are recorded her Within the house there is a make. shift family—two spinster sisters, & couple of children, a Chinese sorv- By New York: {boyhood up to the day when he march- {ed away to the great war as a Vol unteer in the Canadian troops befor lour folks went in. The novel 1s, in sub- stance illuminating and dramatic piece o?:-nalwm. setting out In de- tail the adventure of the foreign- born boy and youth in a community of the middle west. With this locality of the great lakes, having Detroit as its point of focus, the author is af- fectionately familiar. Just the marsh country itself takes on moods and be haviors that are akin to human moods and behaviors, under the intimate triendliness of this writer. The amall community is also familiar to him. The reactions of this Polak boy to the influence of the new country, the flashes of his temperament in the strange environment, his attach- ments here and there to the new life —these are put into the realistic story. with understanding and strik- ing appeal. This is a first novel. It lis a true romance in the big sense of the word—the romance of a locality, the romance of an expanding per- sonality. A very exceptional story, both in its theme and in the artistry of \its workmanship. {THE PASSIONATE PURITAN. Jane ander, author of “The Story of a New Zealand River.” New York: John Lane Company. This Is the second novel that Jane n out from New ely mew fleld for A tiny settlement {in the > land bush, with paths {leading off to Maori homesteads, is {the immediate stage of this action. By | Zealand, the stol | California coast. {With it the author is much at home, | picturing graphically the interesting {newness of life in that quarter. Sid- ney Carey, the person of importance here, is a city girl come into this cor- nor to fulfill certain teaching require- ments for advance in her profession. This is a very attractive young wom- an—good to look at, straightforward, plain-speaking, sympathetic—an all- around girl calculated to help the li tle settlement along in many wa: All these activities turn out, howeve to be minor ones, since the main busi- { ness of the story is Miss Sidney's fall- ing in love with the young English- {man who comes along that way. The matter of the courtship varles little from that-of courtships all over the { world. The point of supreme interest is the temperament and outlook of the girl herself. Like most girls, she has the usual girl standard. And like most courtships, this one is shaped by |- the girl’s effort to make her standard fit. that of the man with whom she is_so clearly in love. It comes to pass that he has already been mar- ried and is not yet divorced—not quite. It is without question, besid that he has “lived for a longer or shorter perfod with a beautiful Maort woman nearby. This young woman of straight Puritan strain has some- thing to do to make the adjustment in this case that her soul demands. These discoveries and this adjustment make up the action of this admirably conceived' and sustalned romance. The theme is as-old as mzn and wom- And this theme is Bindled with ht and able restraints. The set- ting is fresh, and these new points of background the writer keeps to the front in a clear appreciation of their fresh appeal. A novel that is well worth reading. BELONGING. thor of “The Flam York: Dodd, Mead & Co. This story reaches its climax when Sara Desanges is tried, sentenced and committed to prison for a supposed crime whose perpetration, but for her, would have been charged against the man she loved. The otherwise unre- vealing titlg of the novel takes its meaning from the selfless quality of this kind of loving. Despite the gray hues of this climax, the story itself develops in the bright colors of wealth and social sophistication. {England, France and Tunis give bril- jliant background to the various stages in the life of Sara Desanges. The girl herself is made up of sincerity and fidelity. At one's first meeting with her she is devoting herself to a para- Iytic husband. And in no part of the romance does the author surpass, of even reach, the charm that she man- ages to weave into the simple and absarbed interest that this big sick man is able creafe in the young wife, in the f2ithful man servant, in the doctor and even in the puzsled and pathetic _ little black dog, William. This really is the beautiful part of the whole story. But Cotiron Desanges dies and the wife finally passes oh'into the love for which she makes the great sacrifice. Pure romance, this, of the opulent order, with here and there a touch of Ouida’s sumptuous old-day manner. One likes it, though. It is a welcome change from the reg- ular tuppenny realism that makes many a novel nowadays no better than actual living—just a photograph of the daily program of getting up in th New By Olive Wadsley, au- |/ ant. To governess these children Ann Belmont has come down from San Francisco to this arid stretch of It is Ann who tells the story, ai mysteries begin to trouble her not long after her ar- rival. is the dom- i rigid New Englacd woman, or a Spartan, or any other of the heroic mold of women. The secret out-farings and returns are all of her doing. Whatever the mystery is, it {8 this woman who is supporting and cherishing it. There is a Bluebeard chamber in the house, to which no one, save this woman, dares to go. e solution of the matter reaches over into China for its origin. ecret band, a stolen idol, a crusade of vengeance against the woman who years before was a missionary in China, where she dauntlessly challenged the hatred of a fanatic group of natives. The au- ther, you see, goes a long way from home for the seeds of her mystery, but the home stuff has been used over and over again, so, the impor- tation—far-fetched as it is—gets its excuse in the plea for freshness. A love story shifts the role of heroine from the strong woman to Ann Bel- mont herself—or, at least, divides it between the two—when a young man takes up his abode in the house of mystery and proceeds, on the one hand, to unravel the queer tangle and, on the other hand, to make love to Ann. The tale is undoubtedly creepy and puzzling In spots—and that is what a mystery tale Is in- tended to be. BOOKS RECEIVED. HISTORIC ENGLISH. By James C. Fernald, L. H. D., author of “Ex- pressive English,” etc. New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company. BOOKS AND FOLKS; A Volume of Friendly and Informal Counsel for Those Who Seek the Best in Litera- ture and Life. By Edward N. Teall, formerly of the New York Sun. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons. THE LARGER SOCIALISM. By Ber- tram Benedict. 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PORT OF NEW YORK ANNUAL; Val- uable Port Studies and Useful In- formation Regarding the Greatest Port in the World, ete. Compiled and edited by Alexander R. Smith. Smith’s Port Publishing v By ISABEL OSTRANDER A uthor of “The Island of Intrigue,” “Suspense,” “Ashes to Ashes,” etc. Copyright, 1921, by Robert M. McBride & Co. (Continued from Yesterday’s Star. Synopsis. Ex-Roundsman Timothy McCarty, forgetful that he had retired from the force, follows a figure whose type had been well known to him in the old days—that of an undersized, nar- row-framed man who disappeared into a palatial residence, but the suspect returns instantly and in much per- turbation. When pulled up by Mc- Carty, the man protests his innocence and swears that he had “nothing to do with what's in der Clancy, the real policeman on the beat, and demands, ‘W h: says McCarty. “We'll take him along and find out,” Clancy declared, briefly. The trio enter a large room, on the floor of which lles a man in evening clothes, the white waistcoat and shirt stained crimson, in his pocket a cigar- ette case initialed “E. C. C."—Eugene Christopher Creveling—and beside his body a huge Army pistol. On the person of the suspect is found keys, pistol and blackjack. In the breakfast room McCarty finds a table set for two, with champagne on ice, and on the floor a cigarette holde: Inspector Druet arrives on the scen AND HERE IT CONTINUES. “I think 1 do, sir, and I can't get! it through my head where they've all gone to," responded the officer. “To my knowledge there were ten of them, not counting the housekeeper; the cook was the butlers wife, and besides there was & footman, valet and houseman, then the kitchenmaid, housemaid, parlormaid and laundress, and the lady's maid, of course. The valet I almost never saw, but comes to me now that the cook and the butler are the only ones I've no- ticed around for some tim “What do you mean by ‘some time'?" barked the inspector. “Woeks,. anyway, sir. maybe a month.” Clancy shifted uneasily from one foot to the other. “Not since a few days after the last big entertain- ment the Crevelings gave. “When was that? What sort of an entertainment?" *“How should I know, sir?” the offi- cer replied to the last question. “Twas a dinner or dance or some- thing; awnings and a red carpet spread out to the curb and an orches- THE PUBLIC LIBRARY. L. Mc- | The following list, arranged by subjects, includes some of the latest additions to the Public Library: History. Besant, Sir Walter. London City. 1910. F45L-B463 lc. Besant, Sir Walter. London North of F45L-B463 1m. London South of . 1912, F45L-B463 1s. , N. H. The Elizabethan Religious Settlement. 1907. F4549-B537. Blakesles, G. H.. ed. Mexico and the Caribbean. F955-B683m. Cross, A. L.. 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Except when they glve some big soclety shindy like that the house is the quietest on the block, as I was remarking to McCarty only tonight—but where is he?”’ Clancy had turneq for superfluous corroboration to the spot where the ex-roundsman had stood behind his chief, to find that he had vanished. “I thought that I heard the front door close just now, sir,” Pete ob- served. “You're getting jumpy, like Mac,” the inspector laughed. “You couldn't drive him out of the house now that he's on the old trail again; wait till you boys retire and then open the papers some fine morning and find a fresh murder mystery staring you in the face and the force being rlkgfl over the coals for not pinching the man who did it before the first edi- tion reached the press! There isn’t one of the three of you who wouldn't want to be back in harness with a chance to clap his hand on the shoul- der of the murderer!—Mac’ only poking around on his own account, but Clancy, this looks bad for you; a prominent citizen shot to death in his own house on your beat with an army .44 that could be heard a mile off, and it took a cheap crook to discover the crime Clancy turned a rich crimson. verything was qulet and the house dark when I went my rounds up to mear midnight, sir” he said with dignity. “We'd received no noti- fication of the family being away or any speclal watch being necessary. Besides, there's a private watchman employed on this block, the same as on the others up and donw the ave- nue. It did come to me as strange that I didn’t run into him, but I thought no more about it. There's many a night 1 don't see him.” “You say that the house was dark up to nearly 12 o'clock,” repeated Inspector Druet. “When dig you no= tice first that it was lighted? “At about a quarter before; I rang in at the box on the next corner ten minutes afterward, more or less” Clancy’s tone was cautious. “The faint little stream of light coming from the window here on the first floor meant nothing to me, for I'd often scen it till near dawn, and lots of the ground floor windows are left open the night long in all the resi- dences on my beat this mild spring weather. 1 passed regular, and nat once did T hear the sound of a shot or anything else, for that matter, but | the motor cars going up and down the avenue. “What w the first you knew of this affair, then?" hen I heard a pounding on the sidewalk, as though some one was rapping for help. That must have been a little after 2 o'clock, and 1 was a couple of blocks away. I saw two figures standing under the lamp post out there And I came on the run. It was McCarty and the young sec- ond-story crook. that he'd nabbed crawling out of the window here half a minute after he'd got in. Clanoy continued his narrative with impartial justice to the ex-member of the force and much dramatic detail as to his own finding of the body, and at its conclusion McCarty reappeared. He entered silently and took up a respectful position in the background, his face guilelessly stolid as the in- spector went to the telephone and called for the chief medical examiner, turning in a brief report to head- quarters. “Did_you find out anything, Mac?” asked Clancy anxiously in an under- tone. McCarty shook his head. “What could you find out in an empty house?’ he countered eva- sively “Well, there's @ smell on you as though vou had been to some high- toned barber's, and Pete thought he heard the front door close a Wwhile Claney sniffed the air audibly, much as a dog on the scent, and McCarty’'s twinkling blue eyes narrowed for an instant as he backed slightly away from the other man. “Barber's, is he repeated, in great disdain. ve been poking around the rooms upstairs and some of them smell yet of perfumery; Pete must have heard me closing a door up there behind me. if he heard any- thing at all. It'’s a wonder you and | the boys wouldn't get on the job and do something before the papers get hold of this, and you have a howling mob of reporters storming the house!™ | “It's up to the inspector,” retorted Clancy. sullenly. Then his tone; changed: ‘There’s a bell ringing somewhere!” ! Inspector Druet had turned sharply and the two detectives glanced at each other. There was silence for a moment, and then the subdued but in- sistent peal was repeated. “You answer it, Mac.” the inspector ordered. “Try the front entrance door first. The medical examiner or one of | his assistants wouldn’t have had time to get herg, and it's § o'clock in the morning.” McCarty crossed the wide rotunda, and even as he flung open the front| door the bell rang once more through the silent house. i A middle-aged gentleman, small but erect and dapper despite the evident | haste with which he had clothed him- ¢ self, stood fuming on the threshold. “Who are u?" he demanded, pers emptori ‘What_is the meaning of this? _ Where is Mr. Creveling, and! why have I been summoned from my bed at this unseemly hour? I insist upon an explanatio “Just a moment, sir.” The inspector had followed McCarty, and the latter stood aside. “1 am afraid that before you get your explanation I must ask you who you are, and who summoned you. I'am from police headquarters.” | The little man shrank back aghast, and his Vandyke beard, tinged with gray, waggled in outraged amaze- ment as McCarty shut the massive double doors behind him. ! “Polic he gasped. “What on earth has Eugene—? I .(.!emlnd to see Mr. Creveling at oncel! f “I am afraid that impossible,” | Inspector Druet replied, smoothly. | you answer my question | ‘What brings you here at! What you yourself have admitted is| an_unusual hour?” i ‘Unusual!” the newcomer exploded. Then, with an obvious effort, he controlled himself and responded in dignified resentment: “I am George Alexander, Mr. Creve- ling’s banking partner and the uncle and former guardian of Mrs. Creve- ling. That should be sufficlent answer to you, sir. Will you inform me why I have been routed from my bed——?" “Who sent for you, Mr. Alexander? Who told you :to come here The inspector’s tone was- deferential, but it held a note of unmistakable stern- nes: | i at is a point upon which I should like to be informed!" retorted the! other. played my usual rubber of bridge at' the club, went to my rooms and retired at 11. A few minuts ag I was aroused by my telephone and told that I was urgently needed here at once. I expostulated but could gain information, so I dressed recognize the voice over Mr. Alexander paused, thoughtfully, and then replied, with conviction: “No. ‘was that of a man, of course, but it was totally strange to me, and ‘when Idemanded my informant’s iden- tity he hung up the receiver. I am qulta’_ re I have never heard it be- re. ‘ (Continued in Tomorrow's Star.) l will .;lve Teplacing LAy e e g Interior and Exterior Work. = = FERGUSON, INC. 3%, Patating Department, Fh. N, 281888, | AROUND THE CITY | HERE is a row of right pretty little houses on a street in the southeast, with iron-railed front seps and trees at the curb. The other morning two mice, oldish, neighborly men were sitting on the steps of one of the houses, hobnobbing over their newspapers and pipes. The night rain had freshened the afr till it was as sweet as a just-washeq baby; the trees were rippling out breezes and ev- erything was perfectly fine when a huckster driving his vegetable cart halted before a house across the street. A plump little woman, who owns the house, bought & cucumber and some tomatoes, and as the huckster moved on he began to whistle a tune. And the tune was “The Star Span- gled Banner.” The woman, being a school teach- er, whose business it has been to train children in patriotism, held her hand over her heart and looked judicially up and down the street to see If any passerby was lacking in_ respect to the anthem. The only people in sight were the two nice, oldish, nelghborly men on the steps. And they had lumbered up clumsily from their comfy roosts and | were standing, each with pipe and paper in hand. And kept on stand- ing until the huckster had whistled himself out of sight and sound Which is one reason—sma first class, as far as it goes—why we don't need to get scared when pessimists insist upon telling us that the country is going to the dogs. * k% X THE other day a man and woman who were motoring along a couns try road got out of the machine and crossed a bit of green open until they came to a house under a tree. “This is where the March Hare lives,” prophesied the woman, *“and there is Alice digging in the garden.” The man chuckled and asked the Alice-woman if she would give them a drink of water. spring a little way off under another tree—such crystal cold water that it misted the glass pitcher. You don’t meet up with the March Hare's home on every motor trip you take, and it was so cool and shady and restful. with breczes all around nd a stream skipping over rocks at e foot of the slope. that the ma sked Alice if she could accommodate | hem with lunch, as they were tour- | ni the countrv and had to depend on hotels and farms alonZ the way. Alice had nothing to sell. being overnment clerk who came home venings. but if they could put up with tea and chipped beef sandwiches —and her hens had laid two egzs. The man and woman—oldish and travel worn—were as pleased as ch dren at a play-party, and while he went back and rootcd Fdam cheese and a lot of crackers nd fruit. Alice put the kettle to bo: ing under the tree and set the tab on the porch. The open door showed that the March Hare lived in a gay nittle box mostly cretonne, prints and d flowers: its roof umbrellaed over with the branches of the tree. and the sloping garden a joy of bush and bloom. “This 1ittle s id the woman, but Alice warded off the t much of a house. but there take about its being a home the only one I've ever had. And I'm glad you like it. because I built counting man- I call it Leavings, because it began as a toolroom that the owner didn't want any more. A nice man hauled it here and the two of us tacked it together. Every evening after I get home I drive more nails to make it steady. The uprichts of this porch were left over irom a house burning down the road. The roof of it fs batrel staves with cut cedar boughs lashed on ton and straw wedged in to keep off the rain. Makes a dandy dining room, doesn't it Noth- ing in the world equal to putting y feet under your own table! Next you come by we will dine in the| house. Going to add a wing as soon as somebody advertises a second-hand garage. A friend out Chevy Chase way who wanted to use his side gar- den for building gave me all his rose bushes and I started my privet hedge with clippings I picked up after the government gardeners had trimme My literal God's acre cost me $500—which I never could sell until I She invited them | in and brought the water from a truly | in the car for} built the shack, and now I am having offers right along, but—wouldn't I be the foollsh woman to sell the first bit home happiness that ever came my ay? Nothing to all this, of course, except that as the man who was telling about it explained: To build.a house for a few cents and to make a home of itewithout the help of husband or_ children shows what a woman can do. * ¥ x ¥ 7TWO ancient horses—one a pallid gray with many fine points in the way of bones, and the other a moth-eaten sorrel—were tied to tree on a countrified road in the sub- urbs. They were hitched to a cart and the colored driver on the seat had gone to sleep while walting for some- body or something. One must not be too curious as to a gentleman's busi- ness affalrs. On the ground in the shade his presumable son was play- ing mumbletypeg. A track with grass between the ties, lazed along ethe and a stop: implied that a car was coming. when it got good and ready. A woman who was waiting for the car stood near the tree and watched the ancient horses tive, thelr ceaseless flickings of ears, pawing hoofs and switching tails im- plying such flery mettle that she felt called on to apply for information— you can always rely on_boys. *Say, son, why are {hese horses so fidgity? They must be very high spirited to carry on like they The boy dispensed information with the affability to be expected of his age and occupation: wm. That ain't spirit. It's flies! You don’'t know much about horses, lady, do you?" Well, I know more than T did.” And by way of paying for her |apple she had picked from a tree. {Then they played mumbletypeg until a car came along. * k kK GHE was a lumpy woman who had. somechow, achieved the hipless ef- fect, and she was telling another woman, between bites—steak and French-fried—of the nobility of coun- tenance that comes from the doing of good deeds. The other woman had her doubts. “All T know is, T had to tramp home in the rain last night because I | had given my last cent to a poor | soul who was hungry, and when | wus brushing my hair before the glass 1 looked like a plaster cast of Medusa—marked down. “That is because you had an in- terested _motive. Now, I find that true selflessness irradiates the face with a shining, inward light. The trouble with vou is that your money, but not yoursel And you give vourself, don’t you Well, my dear, 1 don't like praise my own deeds. but since have asked me, 1 certainly do. “Then that accounts for it. Tve been wondering what you had done ! with your fat | "And the man who told this thing said it actually made his heart ache to have to get up from that table | to make room for another customer— but you know what cafes are! NNIE LANCASTER. to ou schooling, the lady tossed him a June | WILL HONOR DANTE | ON 600TH ANNIVERSARY ‘The 600th anniversary of the deatl of Dante Alighieri will be appre priately celebrated throughout Amer ica and Europe next October. The observance will be held ir this ciy October 3. It is plannet to have a simple and dignifleqa ob. servance, in which many prominen in national and local affairs wil participate. A meeting will be hel¢ that day in the auditorium of tl Museum, under the chair: of Secretary of Stat Addresses will be delivere( ¢ A_paper significance on the work of Dante wiil be read by Prof Charles H. Grandgent of Harvaré | University. The honorary committee consistt of President Harding. chairman; the Italian_ambassador and Secretary o! State Hughes, honorary vice chair- men: Vice President Coolidge, the French ambassador, the ambassado; of Spain, Cardinal O'Connell, Arch bishop of Boston; Cardinal Dough erty, Archbishop of Philadelphia Speaker Gillett of the House of Rep- resentatives, Most Rev. Edward J Hanna, D. D.. Ph. D. Archbishop ol San Francisco; Rt. Rev. Alfred Hard ing, D. D. Bishop of Washington: Rt. Rev. Willlam F. McDowell, D. D. resident Bishop of Washington area Very Rev. John B. Creeden, S. Ph. D.. rector of Georgetown Uni- versity; William Miller Collier, LL. D. president of George Washington Uni- versity; Rt. Rev. Thomas J. Shahan, rector of the Catholic University of America; Rt. Rev. Bishop John W Hamilton, chancellor of the American University; Rev. J. Stanley Durkee president of Howard University’ Charles D. Walcott. secretary of the Smithsonian Institution; Leo & Rowe, director of the Pan-American Union; Herbert Putnam, librarian of Congress; John Merriam, presi- dent of the Carnegie Institution of \Washington; James Brown Scott secretary of the Carnegie Endow ment for International Peace; Wil- lard Austen, librarian of Cornell University; Prof. George L. Burr of Cornell University and the American Society of Church History; Prof. Joseph Dunn of the Catholic Uni Versity of America, Prof. D. M Ford of Harvard University, Prof. Charles Hazll Grandgent of Harvard University and the Modern Language Association of America, Prof. Sidney Gunn, curator of the United States Naval Academy; Rev. Patrick J. Healy of the Catholic University of America; Theodore W. Koch,” li brarian of Northwestern Univer Prof. Henry R. Lang of Yale versit rof. Courtney Langdon of rof. Kenneth nois, Charles man of the Fine Miss Ruth Putnam, American His torical _ Association. Washington D. C.. Paul Reinsch. American Political Science Association; Wil lam R. r, Cambridge, Col. Robert M. Thompeon, Archeological Institute of America Dr. James J. Walsh, president of the American Catholic Historical As- sociation, New York city; Dr. An- drew F. West, dean of the Graduate Sehool in Princeton University, and Prof. Ernest H. Wilkins of the Unl- versity of Chicago. The committee in charge of ar rangements for the observance con- sists of Waldo G. Leland of the de- | partment of historical research of the Carnegle Ingtitution: Mgr. Aluigl | Cossio. J. U. D., of the apostolic del- | egation, Prof. Henry G. Doyle of George Washington University and Constantine E. McGuire of the Inter- American_high commission. dental sufferin 1 have beem cstablished Washington for years, whis | is your assurance of perfect dentistry at mederate prices. Opponite Woolworth's 5S¢ and 10c store. Hours: Dalily, 8:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday, 10 to 1. Phone M. 19. 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