Evening Star Newspaper, August 17, 1921, Page 16

FEATURE PAGE. Personal Health Service By WILLIAM BRADY, M. D. Noted Physician and Author (Signed treatment. will be a few can be answered No reply can be Address Dr. Willlam ‘Brady, in care of The Sta General Decline Arrested. . The notorious General Decline, per- haps better known to many of our readers by his aliases, * - and “The Con,” who at one time or another has boldly claimed mem- bership in nearly every family, has Col.; Idaho; Hamilton, Ont.; Oswego, N. Y., and New Orleans, La. not to mention eight hundred an: forty-three other places throughout the country. In fact, this old offend- er may be arrested at any place where his depredations ainst rich and poor subject him to the surveil- lance of the health authorities. Suspicion was long ago directed against the culprit. but although he ‘was temporarily etained,” exami- nation was waived against the advice of medical counsel Not until a “nervous breakdown” persuaded his unenlightened host to slip away to some distant city where a fashion- able practitioner handed out a pleas- ing gnosis of ‘*neuro-circulatory asthenia,” with a fine of $340, did the host begin to cough up anything to speak of. This ‘“neuro-circulatory asthenia” was, of course, none other than the old reliable neurasthenia— itself a twentieth century way of say- ing nervous prostration—with the hu- man circulation grafted in., to cover every conceivable contingency. Had the charge been just neurasthenia a fine of $200 would have sufficed. and back in 1892 probably $48.50 would have been collected for nervous pros- tration. ‘While out on probation, so to speak, the luckless host visited Denver, ‘where shortly after his arrival he spat some blood and was committed 10 a sanitorium on the charge of ob- talning treatment under false pre- tenses. This charge was sustained by the sanitorfum authorities and the previous charge of neuro-circulatory asthenia dismissed for lack of funds. The criminal was now sentenced to complete rest in bed for an indeter- minate period. not less than six months. He served twenty months at the san and by good beh: raroled. Close friends dec] one time the fortunate man was in- dicted by Minnesota specialists for ex- ophthalmic goitre. but he absconded and the operation was quashed. ‘When interviewed by our corre- spondent at his hotel here, where he is staying pending the final disposal of his case, T. B. issued the following statement: My case should be a warning to hygienic lives when that course has broken down their health, to listen to their doctor’s advici when I tried “nerv if I knew then what I know now would have realized that some shrewd is as obsolete as a “heavy e or “weak lungs” or “a little ca- tarrhal trouble.” all of which alib hygiene, mot to dissase seif-addressed envelope is number of letters received, only I'a advise rsons .contemplating a8 run of “‘con™ to turn dowa cold. My message to young people who feel tempted to try this T. B. thing Is this: 1f you're gonna have. ind have {t and get it over w! nd don't try to fool yourself that you have something elsg. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. ‘Badly Advised. I have been told that while babies are teething they must have wool or flannel shirts and a belly-band, no matter how hot the weather is. (B. S.) Answer—In very hot ‘weather a baby should have nothing but a cotton diaper on. through the heat of midday. It is cruel to swathe an infant in heavy clothes or woolen garments when the weather is torrid. f course, all bables are teething from the age of a few months to the age of eight- een or twenty-five years. —_— Lists at Hand. It is a convenient thing to carry about with you in your handbag cer- tain measurements that may prove very useful when you are shopping. They may all be condensed on a small card and can surely not be a burden to you. For instance, at this time of the year when many of the department stores have special sales of table and bed linen, it is a -good plan-to have the dimensions of your beds and din- ing table. Often you see veritable bargains in bedspreads and sheets, but hesitate to ‘buy them because you are not sure that they will fit your beds. : Often you can find odd tablecloths or remnants of table linen that you could make use of if you but knew exactly the size of your table. The dimensions of your rooms are also something that you might carry about with you. A little floor plan of your house giving the important dimensions might be put on the back of the card containing your other list. It may be that you will find a rug that just suits a certain location, but cou are not sure of this without defi- nite knowledge of dimensions. You see a table, lounge or other of furniture, but you hesitate to buy it because vou are not sure that it will fit into a given space. Other lists that are a convenience to carry about with you are the sizes of stockings, gloves, shoes, collars, etc... family, and your own, too, if you are one of those persons who find it a bore ta have to keep such details in mind. i m: piece —_— Plum Pie. Cover some plums with water and boil until very soft, then rub them through a sieve and add one pound of sugar to every pound of fruit. Bake- with two crusts or with a bot- tom crust and strips across the top. home every evening and cents Sundays. and 5c¢ Sunday The Star delivered by regular carrier to your Sunday - morning for 60 cents a month costs you about 1% cents a day and 5 Telephone Main 5000 and Delivery Will Start at Once Your Ey T W J Heritage An ADITORIAL IRDS have no feathers on their eyelids. - The roots of the feathers would of neces- sity irritate the delcate, sensitive tissue beneath. In every living creature the eyes are given espe- cial protection. Man’s eyes are his greatest asset, and the care and protection en- dowed him at birth neces- sitate proper considera- tion - throughout his life. Few men, however, can alone sense their indi- vidual eye needs. Let our eye experts be your . consulting R optometrists 1217 G Street NW. ST ressed tokeep hem FRESH "HOPS at Gny Dealer Rabbitt-Hunter Co. 919 D St. N.W. Washington, D. C. of various members of your A& + THOUSANDS OF FEET OF FILM PICTURE WHAT NATION'S CAPITAL IS DOING. Dear Junior Travelers: One of the biggest helps to knowing our country and thus helping in our education is the moving picture, and no town ap- pears in the movies as much as Wash- ington. If you just stop to think you will see Washington on the screen rearly every time you see the movie weekly. Now If you divide the rest of the world over the entire feature you will not see the same town very often. Here there are always photog- graphers at the White House. There are all kinds of machines and cameras. The boys have cameras that cost hun- dreds of dollars and work so fast they can even photograph Gen. Dawes, the hurry-up man, whether he is walking or not. Of course, the movie men can always get him, but so can the “still” | the Columbia Country Club, { where the American open golf cham-! pionship was held, was one of the big- gest collection of cameras I ever hope to see. It is certainly a mystery to me how they can get such a wide stretch of country through that little hole. Right after the boys had filmed Jim Barnes, the Pelham Pansy, as I call him, I took a look in one of those little holes where all the action must go, but the man had covered it up so the light would not get in. But I knew that right inside of that little box was Jim, the champion, making all his swings just as I had seen him do a few minutes before. Also right in there was President Harding presenting the cup ta Jim and telling him what a good golfer he It makes no difference how much | a man turns and waves his arms when making a speech, the photographers get him just the same. There are two the other keeps the fiim moving at a certain rate which the photographer | must_decide upon when he figures out the light conditions. He always has to remember that in the theater the flims are run at a certain speed. If he does not remember that he will come out with a “funny picture” such | you have seen when the people are ' moving either too fast or two slow, so | you laugh. That would never do when the President was being photographed or a champion golfer was making a fine swing, would {t? Thousands of feet of movie film are rushed out of Washington every week, and almost every place in the country | you can see some big event that hap- A Queer Friendship. BY THORNTON W. BURGESS. Friendship, stanch through every’ test,” is best. Of all that life can give —Farmer Brown's Boy. “You never can tame a Heron,” said Farmer Brown as he peeped in at the little room in which thé young Heron was a prisoner. Farmer Brown's Boy smiled. “Wait until I have fed him a few times and perhaps you will change vour mind, said he. “I started fishing this morn- ing because I wanted to go fishing. N HE WENT OUT TO THE SMIL- T'?hpfi POOL AND BEGAN TO FISH. Now I guess I'll have to go fishing. 1 Nave an idea it will take a lot of fish! to satisfy .that fellow’s appetite. 1} don't know of anvthing to feed h(m‘ but fish and frogs.” K So once more Farmer Brown's Boy went whistling across the Green Meadows. He found his fish rod where he left it when he went over to the swamp to find out what Sammy Jay had been making such a fuss about. Then he went on to the Smil- ing Pool and began to fish. But instead ‘ot trying to catch big fish he now fished only for little ones. For the first fime in his life he wasn't interested in big fish. He wanted little ones and plenty of them. So he put on a very small hook and fished for minnows and little perch. You see he wasn't fishing for himself, but for that young Heron back in the barn. When he had caught a dozen he wound up his line and started for home. As he stepped into the little room where the Heron was the long- legged bird stared at him with sus- picion_and as he stepped forward drew back his neck as If to strike. Farmer Brown's Boy spoke softly. Then he tossed one of the little fish down in front of the Heron. For a {iong time the Heron refused to touch it. Farmer Brown's Boy was patient. Finally hunger was too much for the young Heron; he picked up the little fish and swallowed it head first at one gulp. Then he blinked at Farmer Brown's Boy and the latter tossed: another fish to him. There was not 80 long to wait this time. The third little fish was picked up almost as soon as it touched the floor. Two days later that young Heron was taking fish from ‘the hand of Farmer Brown’s Boy and not them, either. If Farmer Boy gave them to him talls first always turned them so that they went down his long throat heads first. And he always swallowed a fish at _one xul;‘ It tickled Farmer Brown's Boy. “You don't get any pleasure out of eating,” sald he. But apparently the young Heron thought otherwise, for he was always ready to gulp down another. Ten fish a day it took.to keep him satisfied, so that Farmer Brown's Boy had to go fishing every evening aftér work. But he didn't mind. He and the young Heron were becoming friends. The big bird weuld allow him to handle him as he pleased. He never offered to strike with that great bill of his. He would ev take the hand of Farmer Brown's Boy in that great bill and gently shake it. There was no lo fear or wild when but instead nge 100k of pleasure. y by the poor hurt foot healed and at last it was well. The bandages were ramoved for.good and the young Heron walked as It J more Browh's Boy him up in his arms, but this time no coat was wrapped about him. In that little nning American open golf ch: plomship, but Travelog Boy can't see it. pened just the week before. Maybe it takes a little longer to get to the far west. What a change from the time the funny little engine and the open c: sta out on a railroad ninety vears How strange that engine looks beside famous old that itself is a back number, might say, I wonder what a movie of the “DeWitt Clinton.” as they called the engine, would be worth today? That is why 1 say the movies are such a help to the members of the Junior Travel Club, who travel with me by letter. Have any of the mem- bers been in the movies? Write and tell me how it came about. RUSSELL BURKE., The Traveloy Boy. hole is Jim Barnes 4g0. were friends and the big bird didn’t in the least mind being carried. Down across the..Green Meadow swamp on the edg of the Big River. At the place where he had found the young Heron fast in_the dreadful trap he put him down. Then he fed him three fish and turned back. The young Heron watched him go. Lonesomeness swept over him. He croaked harshly as if to call Farmer Brown's Boy back. But almost at once it was answered by a glad cry, glad despite its harshness, and a great bird drop- ped down beside him. mother, Mrs. Longlegs. Farmer Brown's Boy (Coprrigit, 1921, by It was his o for a time was forgotten. W. Burgess.) [LISTEN, WORLD! BY ELSIE ROBINSON, Nelly Higgins is forty-five and a widow. She¢'s a nice widow with a comfortable waist line and a smile, Lut lately the smile has become some- what dented. For Nelly is worrying over her looks. She's goipg to be married again and she’s wondering if this “facial reconstruction” work which she hears every one talking about wouldn't renew her youth and kelp her hold her Thomas, I wonder if Nelly ever heard of a “reconstructed ruby A reconstruct- ed ruby is something that isn't. The front of it is a slice of real ruby stuff and the back of it is plain red lass. And where it oughta have a ruby heart it has only a lot of paste to hold its front to its false back. It's not a comfortable stone and it e —— i Open Saturday THE . RECON3TRUCTED RUBY ) isn't a success. If it had been all ruby it would have been a blinger. Or if it had been all red glass it would have warmed any number of common, cheery humai and led a busy life. But as it is, it's nothing. It can't associate with the higher-ups because its back is glass, and it has no place with the fower-downs be- cause its front is ruby. So there you are. ‘Well, “facial reconstruction” at for- ty-five seems to me to be in the re constructed ruby ¢lass. Take it any way you please, forty-five is no beau- ty age. You may steer as gently é iw please, but there are no shock bsorbers on that particular birth- day. You afe what you a and all the false fronts in the world won't help you. ~They'll simply hide the friendly red glass you're really made of and turn your heart into a bunch of anxious paste in your efforts to hide behind your acquired looks. If I were Nelly I'd cultivate the virtues of forty-five—which are con- siderable—and not try to hark back to those of eighteen. A complexion may brush off any minute and leave you stranded, but an ability to make a good apple pie and listen to an old joke will endure forever. (Copyright;’1921.) Potato Cups. ¢ Take three cups of cold mashed potato rather solid. Form:into balls and then into _cup-shaped forms, brown in a hot ovenm, transfer to a platter and fill the depressions with thick cream sauce to which p little finely chopped parsley has beed added. ! tramped Farmer Brown's Boy to mi 99.” | replied with evident reluctanci HOW MANY CARDS? BY ISABEL OSTRANDER. - | Author of “The Island of Intrigue,” Copyright, 1921, by Robert M. McBride & (Continued from Yesterday's Star.) “Police—!" The clerk gripped the edge of the showcase. “Those—those Hildreths—7" ‘Have you been on every night this week?’ McCarty interrupted. Y-yes, sir! 1s there any other public telephone booth in the nelghborhood? “None any place that keeps open all night.” The clerk seemed to be gather- ing_his dazed faculties. Do you have many calls from here between midnight and early morning? The clerk shook his h that phone last night?’ +Certainly; a lot of people early the evening, but after midnight! paused and his eyes widened. “No one came in here to phone after l—until half-past 4 in the “Who McCarty asked sharply. “‘Some one from the neighbor- hood that you know?” “It was Mr. Hildrefh prised, for he looked and 1 thought that he must be sick and have come in for some medicine, but he said that he only wanted to use the phone. He went in the booth and closed the door and 1 didn’t hear what number he called, but it must have been a city one, for he was only in there a minute. When he came out he looked so pale that I thought he was going to keel over and 1 offered him a bracer—er—just a heart stimulant, of course. 1 fixed him up a dose with a dash of strychnine in_ it and it seemed to pull him together. He said he had been out of town on aj business matter and traveling all night to get back; that his train should have been in_at midnight, but was delayed and he had to phone to his partner at the earliest possible moment. 1t did strike me as funny that he hadn’t tele- phoned from the station if it was as important as all that, but I didn't say so. I was kind of sleepy, and it wasn’t any business of mine. He hurried off | home and I settled down for a nap in my chair behind the cash registe “Did vou see him again before he| came in’ tonight? 4 'No.”" The clerk hesitated. “I don’t know what you've got against the Hild- reths and I'd hate to get them hllo’ any trouble, for they've been good cus- tomers here and pleasant to deal with. I'd never belleve a word against Mrs. Hildreth, anyway.” g “You said that she didn’t come in here often.” McCarty eyed him quizzi- cally. en did you see her last There was a pause and then the cl in He morning. I was sur- very bad l “Early this morni “How early? “I suppose I'd better tell you: you fellows would find out, somehow! It was just before 5, less than half an hour after her husband left. I told you I'd settled down for a nap; well I was roused by the bell that rings whenever the door is og‘aned and looked up to see Mrs. Hildreth come in. She's always as neat as wax, but this morning she looked as though she had just thrown on her clothes every which way, and ehe seemed excited, too, about some- thing. She asked in that soft foreign voice of hers if she could use the tele- phone, and it must have been an out-of- town call this time, for she was in the booth nearly twenty minutes and I heard money rattle in the slot two or three times. She thanked me when she came out, but didn't try to explain about the call the way her husband had about his.” He paused and added: “I'll tell you one thing I think, sir; whatever it was that happened to make her hus- band look more dead than alive it cer- tainly put new life into her! She walked out of the store as though she was treading on air!" McCarty frowned thoughtfully. He had found confirmation of his suspicions from a totally unexpected quafter and one of the minor mysteries of the case was cleared up, but it led him no-nearer to the truth; rather by its very nature it raised compléxities which he had not hitherto considered. “We may want you,” he “What is your name “Willis Udell, and you'll find me here or in the flat over the shop any time| you want me!” the clerk declared. “I've done nothing to be afraid of you fellows | for, nor said a word I can't stick to, but hope you are mistaken .about the Hildreths. He shook his. head lugubriously after them as they left the shop and when the door had closed behind them Dennis, too, drew a deep breath. %Well, that settles the two phone calls, anyway,” he commented. “The whole thing is as plain as the nose on our face, Mac! The man that Killed | ¥ in that shop this( cCarty interrupted impa-{ “Come on till we hop a car} and yowll hear what the inspector | has to say about it! He's waiting for us downtown, v But when they presented them- selves at headquarters Inspector Druet appeared to be very much of the same mind as Dennis. McCarty told the whole story of the night vicissitudes, sparing himself not at all in the recital for permitting the woman known as “Mrs. Hildreth” to escape, but the inspector did not censure him. Instead he listened thoughtfully until the end and then brought his hand down resounding- 1y on the desk before him. “That is about the last link we needed in the chain of evidence, I think!” he declared. “We'll clean this case up in record time now, Mac., Don’t worry about the woman; she won't get away from us again now that we know she is in the city, and Yost has phoned that Hill is back in the Creveling house. He’'s camped outside the fellow’s door now.’ “Did you hear anything from M-lr-l 1d at las! sir’ , but the officer on the beat up there on 3d avenue called up to say SR o o— s 14-carat Lady’s Soli- taire Diamond $8 5 Ring ........... 34-carat Blue White ' $15 Solitaire Dia- ‘White mond Ring . l.l/.-urs:. Blue T $300 sonbes B " SIS0 31;-carat Perfect Soli- | 0'Rourkes: [partner and meal ticket ‘ anythinj “Suspense,” “Ashes to Ashes,” etc. Co. that he'd followed your instructions, but no trace of the woman was found. Martin's watching the flat, and I'll see that both he and Yost are re- lieved in the morning by the most reliable men connected with the bu- We'll wait a bit to see if the Hl’" and then gather him in. “On a charge of murder, sir?” Mc- Carty’s tone was respectfully inquir- ing, but there was a skeptical quality in it that made the inspector raise his_eycbrows. “Of course! We've got the motive now. 1 thought before that it might have had something to do with black- mail, but it's revenge. He's infatu- ated with the girl and whether she's gullty or not she is facing a long term in son, for the evidence “gainst her together with the fact that she jumped her bail would make any jury in the country convict her without leaving the box. Remember, it was Creveling’s testimony before the magistrate which was most dam- 4ging to her, proving it to have been virtually impossible for any one €lse to have taken the jewels. I sup- pose she and Hill both held it against Creveling and we can’t tell the de- tails yet of what happened last night, but they must have had a violent Quarrel for the man to have shot his employer.” “Wait one second, sir,” McCarty in- terposed quietly. “I didn’t start work- ing on this case tonight when I first telephoned to you, but from the min- ute you took me on, and there's a lot you haven't heard yet. Some of it would seem to point to Hill being guilty, but there’s more that he couldn’t have had a hand in, and et‘l:"br{)n;ad reason that all those so- v folk would put the: Vi to fishleld him.” ® e “Shield him? " repeated - inspector, with a frown. -What ‘4 You mean? What society folk, Mas 3 he whole kit and boodle of them!” i hand expressively. friends except the They're every one lying or trying to hide something and hold out on us, or 'm & Dutchman! But there's one thing: Hill was in the house long before he showed himsedf at the door of the breakfast room, and when you and me were going through the rooms upstairs and you laughed at me, sir, for seeing and hearing things, If TI'm not mistaken, *twas Hill I lieard down in Creveling's room when we were up in the servants’ quarters and Hill's shadow I saw on the stairs.” He told in detail of his second and solitary search of the rooms upstairs and the discovery that the desks in Creveling's room and that of the housekeeper had been tampered with since their first examination, and In- spector Druet nodded emphatically. “That only makes it more certain, Mac. We won't have much trouble in sending Hill to the chair! “Maybe not, sir,” McCarty acqui- esced, noncommittally. “Did you find that pair of gloves on him that I asked you to look for when you got him down here?” “They were taken from his coat pocket at the station house and that's another strong bit of evidence against him, for they are stalned and reeking with oil—oil from the pistol that kill- ed Creveling! “Perhaps the same kind of oil that was used to clean the gun if it was Creveling’s own, sir, and the can left lying around handy.” McCarty sug- gested. “The oil might have been used on those desk locks. Apyway, what has the girl Ilsa and the jewels to do with a playving card?” He produced the bloodstained nine of digmonds and laid it before his chief. M““;)!ere the devil did you get this, “Under theedge of the strip of cover on the table right beside where the body wi lying, sir. McCarty e ained the circumstances and added f Hill fired that shot, whatever would he be doing with that lone card, and why would George Alexan- der be in league with him? Didn't you see the looks that passed between them and the way they tried to get |away for a quiet word together? The old man wants to keep something dark. and 'tis not to save Hill from punishment for murdering his own ‘No. It was to prevent notoriety, if the inspector remarked. You must have noticed how ready he ‘was to accept the suicide theory which he had first rejected, when he saw to what lengths his niece was pre- pared to go to learn the truth. If he doesn't actually know of any scandal in Creveling's mediate past he must suspect it, and rather than have it unearthed, as it was bound to be if we hadn’t so promptly discovered the identity of the murderer. he preferred to let sleeping dogs 1i {_“So do the rest of them, it seems! i Walt, sir, till you hear.’ [cCarty gave the gist of his inter- views with Douglas Waverly, Mrs. Kip, Miss Frost. the Fords and h olas Cutter, but when he had con- cluded the inspector shook his head. “Whatever reasons they may have for holding out on you as you Sus- pect, Mac, it isn't because of a guilty knowledge of the murder. By your own showing the Fords. Cutter and Waverlys have established alibis which no possible circumstantial evi- dence could shake. and you haven't a thing to conmect Mrs. Kip with the affair. : chaperone of hers said about her with a grain of salt; the old woman was ‘mad enough at being sent packing to have sworn Mrs. Kip's life away. 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