Evening Star Newspaper, December 14, 1921, Page 13

“Brighten Up” for Xmas If there’s a room to be “done over" be- fore Xmas it's timc you saw us about the Painting and Papering We do prompt, satisfactory work, and prices are right. Get our estimate. HARRY W. TAYLOR CO. 2333 18th S§t. N.W. Phone Col. 1077 The Chastleton Sixteenth Street at R Handsomely Furnished Apartm ents One and Two Rooms and Bath Hotel Service ‘Weekly and Monthly Rates 2 SN Glove Silk Hose *1.95 Women’s Heavy-Weight Glove Silk Hose, with wide or narrow drop stitch ; deep garter hem and reinforced toes and Pointex heels. Black and cordovan are the colors. Sizes 8% to 10. Down Stairs Store. Christmas Sale: Collar and Down Stairs Store. Bedroom Slippers 85¢ Warm Bedroom Slippers, of felt, with padded soles and raised heels; contrasting plain " designs around top. Many pretty colors, finished with pompons on front. Children’s- Felt Slippers 65¢ In many pretty styles, hav- ing painted figure in ?laca of pompon. Sizes 5 to 11 Bath Sets Special, $1.25 and $2.25 Made of fancy Turkish toweling, with pink or- blue designs on border. Set c®a- sists of 1 wash cloth, 1 face towel, 1 bath towel. Two sizes. Down Stairs Store. Table Sets Special, #3.75 and $4.95 Consisting of 6 napkins and 1 tablecloth. Made of good quality damask, with beauti- ful drawn work. Down Stairs Store. Petticoats Special, $2.95 Of Heavy Silk Jersey, in good street colors, in deep- pleated flounce or with narrow pleating. Practical and always acceptable as gifts. Solid or Two-toned Taf- feta - flounce Petticoats— Special, $1.58. With deep silk flounce with pleated ruffle finish. Colors are navy, burgundy, green, black and blue. Down Stairs Store. A Sale of several variations. Down Stairs Store. DOWN STAIRS STORF Your Opportunity to Save on Christmas Gifts Special, 65¢ and 95¢ Collar and Cuff Sets in a variety of materials and styles; some all white, others “'it!’l co]o!-ed edges. Some trimmed with filet; others with venise, hemstitching and rickrack. Prunella and Serge Skirts ’5.00 and *9.75 Good-looking Plaids, Stripes and Checks of wool , prunella cloths and serges in pin stripes, checks, plaids and plain navy and black.: These are the wanted and color combinations in the favored pleated models in Waist measures 26 to 31. You will find this an unusually desirable assortment, and the values very noteworthy. Eyesizht Specialiat, emanty, With Powin B £ta) s Now Located I?llfl MoLachlen Bidg., and G Sts, N.W. m;hu Main 781 To You Farme Lanch at Bellevue Farms Lunch 1332-34-36 G St. N.W. 1338 New York Avenmus L Mathwop Glove Silk Vests *1.75 Women’s Glove Silk Vests, with built - up shoulders hemstitching around top., Reinforced arm pits; full cut. Sizes 38 to 42, in flesh only. Down Stairs Store. Cuff Sets Turkish Towels 60c Fancy Turkish Towels, in many designs of contrasting colors; also plain Turkish towels in larger size, with pink or blue border. Make beauti- ful and useful gifts. Flannelette Gowns Special, 95¢ Warm, Fleecy Flannelette Gowns, in neat light striped patterns. Fine Lace and Embroidery- Trimmed Muslin Chemise, in various pretty styles, with ;;rap or built-up shoulders. c. Bloomers of fine Windsor crepe or_sateen, in pink or white, with ruffle knee. 95c. Down’ Stairs Store. SALE Dimity Blouses Special, $1.45 A special purchase of Fine Dimity Blouses, in fine and wide stripe effects and small checks; finished with roll or Peter Pan collar. Trimmed with narrow rickrack edging or narrow French pleated ruf- fles;; long sleeves with open cuffs. Sizes 36 to 46, but not all sizes in each style. Down Stairs Store. If She Likes Silk Undergarments Camisoles, $1.95 — Lustrous Radium and Satin, in shoulder strap or built-up styles, hem- stitched and finished with fine picot edge, in many pretty styles. Beautiful Crepe de Chine Bloomers, special, $3.95, with real lace and insertion, in blue G cial, $14 Muslin Gowns, spe S, with high neck and - long sleeves, and neat embroidery trimming; regular and extra sizes. Down Stairs Store. colors N\ 8] ’ THE EVENING.I STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1921.° MY FAVORITE STORIES BY IRVIN S. COBB. THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY. I can remember when, in one of the mountain counties of Kentucky, there Wwas only one sewing machine and not a single cooking stove. Things have changed there since. The railroads, bringing with them civilization and its by-products, have crept up through the gaps; the feuds have died out; schoolhouses have sprung up; there are live newspapers, colleges even, and modern systems of living. But these things mark the transi- tions of recent years. It is not so very long ago that life was primi- tive. They used to tell a story to il- lustrate how primitive things actually ere. It may unot have been true. robably it wasn't, but at any rate it was an illustration, even though an exaggerated one, of a prevalent con- | Do: dition. There was a narrow-gauge, jerk- water road which skirted through the knobs about the feet of the moun- tains, One day the train—there was! only one train a day, each day—was! | laboring slowly upgrade when the en- gineer “halted his locomotive to let a cavalcade cross the track ahead of him. First there streaked past a pack of hounds, all baying merrily. Be- hind the dogs followed men, on horse- back and muleback, galloping at top speed and cheering the hunt on with shrill whoops and blasts from a horn. The troupe had vanished into the deep timber bordering the right-of-way when a northern man, riding in the shabby day-coach, addressed a fel- low-passenger, who was a native. “Sheriff’s posse, I suppose?’ he “Nope,” sald the mountaineer. “Perhaps your people are seeking to lynch somebody?” suggested the northerner. 0, 'tain’t that neither.” hen may I ask what is the pur- —the Intent—of this chase?” “Well, mister,” said the native, “it's like this: Judge Sim Hightower's oldest boy, Simmy Junior, comes of age today and they's runnin’ him down to put pants on him.” (Copyright, 1921, by Central Press Assoclation.) Legion’s New Chief Chaplain Is Fighter in Peace and War By the Associated Press. CHANUTE, Kan., December 14.— The fighting instinct, which won for Rev. Earl A. Blackman, the newly elected national chaplain of the American Legion, the title of “Fight- 7i|ing Parson of the Thirty-fifth,” dur- :ling the world war, has stood him _| well in hand snice he came back to | ble opposition. his peace-time vocation as pastor of the First Christian Church here. En- lightenment gained in his war ser- vice created new ideas as to the scope of religious activities. The new planks he inserted in the church’s platform_created considera- But thus far the ;| “fighting parson” has won. /|Kansas he helped pay ‘Would Meet Social Needs. ‘“We have never had dancing in the church,” he said,"the main reason be- ing that we have no suitable room for it. I do not favor the use of the sanctuary, in the church, for any pur- pose other than worship, but believe the church could well have a dancing floor in a building adjacent to the church, or in the same building; also billiard tables, social and card rooms, if they seemed to be required to meet the social needs.” _Mr. Blackman's church has a mo- tion picture machine, for use in con- nection with services. Indications arexthat his policy is popular. On this point, Mr. Blackman said: “‘Our church has outgrown its pres- ent plant. A lot has been purchased and a new building is contemplated. The church usually is crowded Sun- day evenings, about three-fourths of the audience being young people. Frequently many are turned away before the serivce starts, so crowded is the auditorium.” The career of Mr. Blackman has been diversified. He was born in Kendallville, Ind., October 2, 1882, on a farm, and received a common school education. He studied steam _|and machine designing in Pratt In- stitute, Brooklyn, N. Y.; followed en- | gineering and electrical work, Includ- ing firing a locomotive; assistant en- gineer on a steam yacht in New York harbor; chief engineer of an inter- urban power house in northern In- diana and worked in an automobile actory at Kokomo, Ind. These ac- fivities overlapped some with farm- going to college, earned his own way. S harontie While attending the University of expenses b evangellstic singing, preaching. run Rier]lgla;r‘aclllon snxlne in the wheat , private boxing 1 selling automobiles. = ooon 2nd Chanute Pastor Since 1914, In 1914 he became pastor of Chanute Church and has held this oac sition since, with exception of two vears spent 'in military service, - Blackman was commissioned first lieutenant and chaplain and was —— HELD FOR MURDER. Indictments Are Returned by the Grand Jury. John Gentry, colored, was indicte:l yesterday by the grand jury on charge of murder in the second de- gree. It is alleged that he stabbed to! death Charles Tolson, also colored,; in Hollidge court June 29, 1919, fol- lnwlng a quarrel. Gentry escaped and eluded the police for more than two ;| years, being arrested December 2 at Poughkeepsie, hall quarrel. Others indicted and the enamal N. Y., during a dance against them are: Charles Smathers, larceny after trust; Clyde H. Sheldon, bigamy; Willlam A. Smith and Clifton Brown, assault to rape; Frank G. Bernhardt, assault with a dangerous weapon; David H. Miller, grand lar- | ceny; Arthur Davis, robbery; John-| son Washington, assault with dflngt‘t’-' § _ | ous weapon. A\ N\ 7 : 7 7 Z Z . 7 {é ! % 7 7 Z % Z % 1 mustered into federal service August 5, 1917. He saw a year’s service over- seas. After the armistice was signed Mr. Blackman challenged any chaplain in the A. E. F. to a _boxing bout under auspices of the Y. M. C. A. The challenge was accepted by Chaplain Rexroed of the 91st Division. All ar- rangements were made, but the bout was stopped by the “G. H. Q. It was overseas that he gained the title of “the fighting parson,” because of his activities as boxer and boxing referee. “I have refereed perhaps two hun- dred bouts since I returned from France,” he said. “I have a class in boxing for high school boys, meeting once a week.” Because of the oppositlon within his church to his policy on amuse- ments, Mr. Blackman once each year has submitted his resignation. Last spring it was rejected for the third time and a raise In salary was voted En grave— Your Cards of Christmas Greeting ; —let your signature be en- graved on any one of the hun- dreds of good-wish cards—in the design you like best. Our present stock of *‘Yuletide’® Cards offers a complete and va- ried assortment. A card ta fit every personality, rela- sion and age—so you are assured of finding just the Verse and Paper Stock to suit your individual taste. - N we are able to war- ow, rant a definite time when cards engraved will be completed—later, it will not be s0 easy. SELECT NOW—and you will suffer no disappoint- ment. We have facilities for ad- dressing and mailing. PRODOCING 2252 SIOCES Our Victrola rather than some make you ‘The Latest as Well as the Best include the latest 1922 models —with all the excellences for which Victor-Victrolas are world famed. Buy a Victrola that will be satisfactory— Here’s one of our Special Christmas Combinations Combinations know nothing about. & This Vic- trola — style 90—in hand- some cabi- net........ $125.00 B 10-inch Double disc Vic tor Rec- ords ....cce Complete 1312 Special Terms g con t . amounts— without interest. him. This he declined to accept, how- ever, stating that he made money in| addition to his_salary by refereeing boxing bouts. His new dutles as na- tional chaplain will not interfere with his pastorate. We Have L Your School Eversharp Stop in today and get your Eversharp for School. We have them in Red, Blue and Black enamel—take y\mtdlm' RW' this is & genuine Ever- sharp. It carries enough lead up its slecve to last all year. It has a handy eraser out in the open L oy S tert weh g, 50c; &?lflu with clip, 65c. QGet yours today. EVERSHARP S50¢ The Gibson Co., Inc. 917-919 G St. N.W. Aveilabls with risg or aafety clip EDMONSTON’S Home of the Original FOOT FORM Boots, and Oxfords for Men, Women and Children “FOOT FORM” SHOES The highest development in the Art of Scientific Last Designing and High-Grade Shoe Making There are thousands of people, all over America particularly, who now enjoy Perfect Foot Health as a result of wearing the perfect Foot [ woes ShoOES MCMMIE —suited for their particular requirements—the shoes WIEthat are not only Correct in Last, but are Fitted by the trained experts in our employ. TI-fitting and improper Shoes cause nine out of | ten of the Foot troubles of today and can be Relieved and eventually corrected by the right shoes. Inves-| tigate Foot Forms—ask questions—try on your size in a pair. All leathers,-at a wide range of prices. EDMONSTON & CO. (Incorporated Andrew Betz, Manager Advisers and Authorities on All Foot*Troubles | 1334 F Street 4 Give the Kind of Present You’d Like to Get One of the most attractive Christmas presents you can give to anyone is the beautiful Wahl Combination Writing Set. This set contains a handsome Eversharp Pencil and a Wahl Pen to match, both nestled together in the neatest gift box you ever saw. When you give this present to a friend you are giving the two finest in- struments ever made for writing. Eversharp needs no introduction. Its wonderful writing record has made all other pencils obsolete. The Wahl Pen is as good a pen as Eversharp is a pencil. It is beautifully designed to match the pencil in sterling silver, gold filled or solid gold. Made with the same jeweler precision as Eversharp, to match the Eversharp, it is a fitting writing companion for Eversharp. This is the pen with the famous Wahl Comb Feed, the device that holds ink as a comb holds water, permitting it to flow perfectly to every wtiting touch. This Combination Set makes the very best kind of Christmas gift for men or women. For sale by Eversharp Dealers. Eversharps for gifts, $1 to $65; Wahl Pens $6 to $50. THE WAHL COMPANY, Chicago Match H