Evening Star Newspaper, June 4, 1922, Page 72

8 ANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH him. NY WILLIAM L, McPHERSON. N the edge of the little wood a dozen boys and girls were playing. filling the air. with their shouts and laughter. m under the branches one could the roofs of the nearby village ,wing In the afternoon sun. ¥anny, Fanny, you and Emile are Wait till we hide!” cried clear, 11 voices. tanny, a little girl of seven; blond. t and fresh looking. remained ie near the “home” tree with V4 fie. who was busy sucking a stick | licorice. Go that way. said to a few minutes. She herself irted in the opposite direction. Fann: a voice called Wy, he child turned her head. She + a soldier half hidden behind 2 sh. He was a youngish-looking an with a heavy mustache and .nned face. His cap was pulled wn tight over his black hair. He had been there but a short time .4 had watched the children without + \eir noticing him. “Good day. monsier.” the child said. “Good day. monsicur.” the child. said. I'm not afraid. But I must go and £nd the others who are hiding.” “You ean go in a minute or yme here first The child drew near, lifting her lit- = face to the soldier’s. she in man’s two. T “You come from the city, don't <ou™ she asked. “It's very nice, this ath through the woods. It is cool and fresh * * *" The man sat down on a pile of <00d. He drew the child to him, put is hand on her curly head and gazed tently. * ok ok 0k her ..How 1 would have recognized her by the resem- Blarce to her sister. She is the image of the other.” he thought. Are vou sick that your hand trem asked the little one. “You here -is the village—down ou can see the roofs.” with her finger and pretty she is bles so" know there. She pointed added: “Our brown roof.” “Ah, it seel house Is the to me very pretty. vour house does.” waid the soldler in an ingratiating tone. “Come, tell me, do you live w h your mamma?” “Yes, and with my She owns the house i« Bertha. T am her sister. bigger than I am and today she Is She at school.” = And your mamma, how is she What does she do? What is her well now. but she is pretty k. She worked ple said. She works in on tha other side of the village. is Mme. Valin.” Suddenly she made a movement to herself from the hands which softly gripped her fragile wrists. “It is long enough, monsieur. Mayn't 1 go now?" “In a minute. longer. Do 1 bother you? what does your father do?” The child's face grew serious. ~papa? He isn't here. Already be- fore thera was war he wasn't ever He was far away, mamma sald We never see too hard, peo- the factory was = here. Now he is at the war. him | one with the| grandmother. | And then there | is | She | Stay with me a little | Tell me, | —_——— THE BROWN ROOF. By Frederic Boutet All the others have papas who come home on leave, but he never come: “Then you don’t remember him?* asked the woldier, bending over to- ward the little girl's clear eyes. She shook her head. “It is true” he sald to himself. “How could she remember? She was how 0ld? Twelve or fifteen months. And it is six years since then.” “And your mamma he asked aloud, “what does she say about this?" She doesn't say w.~ks. and then she takes | grandmother, who can hard ny longer, and she takes | Bertha and me.” anything. She care of walk care of EREE < | iTHE man stopped questioning her. He tried to reconstruct from the little one's features an image of the mother. The memory of her and of their past—that memory which for months in the mlidst of peril. suffer- ing and weariness had been impress- ‘ed upon him more and more impe- riously, and which at last had brought him here to find out something about her—now stirred him with a strange emotion. He saw agai® the young | girl, timid and tender. v o had be- come his wife and whom he had so unjustly made suffer. He thought of | all the love whiich she had given him | and which he had squandered. He saw from the wood the house which | could have been a home to him. This | fresh and appealing little girl was lis daughter. He had a desperate desire to recover what he had turned his back on six years before. He rose to his feet and sald to the you are going to bring But he hesitated and stopped short. He remembered now their last quar- rels—his harshness to her, her re- volt against him. He asked himself if he hadn't become as much a stran- ger to the mother as he was to the child. He turned to the latter: “Tell me, is your mamma sad some- times?" “Oh, no. She says that she is happy since she has us two—Bertha and me. | And grandmother tells her that now she is left at peace.” “Ah! And what does your mamma | answer? “She answers yes. Where monsieur, that I am to bring you?" he answers yes! She answers is it, ves | ¥ The man bent his head. his face pale and his body tense. “She is at peace. 1 must leave her at peace. 1 made her endure enough before. Later, since she has remain- ed free. when the war is over and if | T return, well. we'll see “Where is that T am to bring vou, monsieur?" the little girl repeated. | tugging at his hand, for she was im- | patient to go back to her play. He hesitated a moment and then simply: how me the road which leads to 1 must get back and take the city my train.” She pointed out the road. He cast la glance toward the brown roof. Then he bent down to the child and | kissed her fervently. = | She escaped from his arms and ran | to resume her game of hide and seek | as he walked away. : Tons of Food for Steamer 00D by the ton s required to stock the larder of world largest ship. the 36.000-ton White Star liner Majestic. for a round voyage scross the Atlantic, according to the ship's victualing list This list shows that in spite of great quantities of food that have been taken on great liners of the past. | the Majestic will carry more for a single round trip across the ocean ferry than any other vessel ever built. * x x % FIGURES based on the full number of passengers which the ship can carry at one time—4,100—and a crew “of 1,000 show that to feed 5.100 peo- ple for a single round trip it will be necessary to stock the ship erators with 75 tons of meats. besides 10 tons of bacon and hams, 28 tons of fish and 1% tons of poultry There will also be included stores for a voyvage 1040 each of plover. quail. snipe and pheasant. 750 PBistory of Pour Hame. = BY PHILIP FRANC DE WITT VARIATIONS—V;I!(; witt, Wittman, Witteman, Wittier. RACIAL ORIGiN—North German. SOURCE—Descriptive, a personal char. acterl NOWLAN. witter, De Witt sounds as if it might French. The prefix “de.” however. is not what it seems. It is not the Frenca word “of,” which came into England in the middle ages in so many ot the Nor- man names which identifled their bear- ers with mention of.the locality from which he came or over whicn he held sway. In this case the “de” is simply a sur- vival of the Teutonic word for “the.” De Witt means, literally, “the white,” and Wittman, Witteman and Wittier “white man.” In individual instances. such family names may possibly have been evolved from the similar English names of Whit- tier, Whitman, etc., but from the fre- quency in which the names occur among Teutonic peoples or the continent it is certain that they developed naturally and spontaneously there as well as in England, and the absence of the “h" is strong evidence that if found in Eng- land they had already become family names before they crossed the channel. The family names of northern Europe developed gradually and naturally and became permanent distingulshing appel- lations just as they did in Great Britain, but_probably, in greater proportion, from trades, callings and descriptive adjec- tiv and in less proportion from given names. The adoption of such a name as ‘Whitteman in the middle ages did not necessarily mean that the adopter was & man of light complexion. It may have referred to his habit of dress, or the color of his house. There are thousands of families in the United States today bearing names of this group. whose ancestors came to this country-directly from Germany and never lived in England. refrig- | in tne | | be | each of partridges and grouse and 00 wild ducks—a total of 6,000 game | birds. The vegetables to be served with | these supplies will include about 30 tons of potatoes, 7 tons of carrots and turnips and about 10 tons of | cabbage. besides several tons of onions and miscellaneous vegetables, including 1.600 pounds of tomatoes. Fruits for the vovage will include 800 boxes of apples, 400 boxes of oranges and grapefruit, 60 boxes of pears and 1 ton of hothouse grapes. For desserts there will be 1 ton of American ice cream, and of jams and marmalades to be served at breakfast and tea there will be 3 tons. 5 * % X ¥ 7O supply the ship's tables with i bread and pastry 35 tons of flour | will be required for eah round voy- age. The list of supplies calls also for 8 tons of sugar and 5 tons of butter | per vovage, besides three tons of tea and coffee, 80,000 eggs and 500 gal- | lons of milk For those who care for those things there will be put on board each voy- age 80000 bottles of ale and stout, | 1,000 quarts and 1,600 pints of cham- | pagne, 1,000 quarts and 1,300 pints of | other wines, 4,000 bottles of whisky, trandy and gin and 300 bottles of | liqueurs. | Smokers on board will be fortified with a supply of 250.000 cigarettes |and 2,240 pounds of tobacco per voy- |age. Electromagnet\ic Brakes. ]~ England there is an electro- mag- netic brake for street cars. It con. sists of a horseshoe electromagnet sus- pended on spiral springs, and hung in such u manner that tae poles of the magnet are directly over the rails. When the magnet is excited, the poles are forced downward so that the shoes of the brake grip the rail. - By a system of levers connecting with the wheel-rim hand-brakes of the car the reaction of the shoes of the electromagnetic brake in gripping the rails increases the pres- sure of the hand-brakes also. The brake is not actuated by the current that drives the car, but by an independent {current derived from the momentum of the car, and the interruption of the driving current, instead of preventing the action of the brake, causes it to act | automatically. Tree Pruning. RESULTS which may surprise many practical horticulturists have been obtained by sclentific experiments on the Woburn fruit farm, in England. 1t has been observed that the less a. fruit tree:is pruned the larger and heavier it becomes, even when al- lowance is made for wood removed in annual pruning of normai trees. The fruit crops are also increased as the amount of pruning is diminished. The general conclusion is that the less pruning, the better as regards growth and fruit. This applies, however, only to healthy and astab- lished trees. Transplanted, !njured and ailing trees are benefited by pruning. ' THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JUNE 4, 1922-PART 4 ' i Miss Phang, Chinese; Only Girl Student At Commercial School She Attends. A Lofty Institute. — -} Remarkable Sun Spokes. ; OME time ago there.was inaugu-| AN unusually perfect and beaugitul rated at the Col.d'Olen, close by|® example of the atmospheric feet, one of the most remarkable In-|was witnessed in England in July stitutions for scientific reseach in the |last, Five distinct bands of a lght world. It owes Its existence to the)®almon pink color, separated by Gve Jamaica, She Hopes to Enter Politics in China and Promote Feminine Movement—Puzzling ‘Marriage Problem. BY SARAH MACDOUGAL H the civilizations clash there no telling how revolu- i i tlonary the result may be. Here Is Inez Phang, who had ber views of two career all nicely planned. If she had not capitulated to a composite crush of opinions that were alien to her own, Miss Phang would now be doing a man's work in China. Instead, she is back in college, a student in New York University, where she is the first and only girl in the commercial school, and before long she expects jto be the first Chinese giri in tre world to have the degree she is work- ing for. She is an attractive oriental maiden, with eves that are dark and snappy and searching, hair that glossy and black and abundant. and she wears very smart New York olothes. Looking®at her you might expect her end of a casual conversation to be sing-song clattering chatter some- thing like this: “Ju ski yiu lang-sin-che. chang tsai gan-li, i yen-yu hwuijin, ar pu- chl shi tsz hwui. Shin chi! * k& x S a matter of fact, she talks as if she had just stepped out of an English boarding school. Over a leisurely breakfast one sunny spring morning she summoned up the trials of a Chinese girl who cannot speak a sentence in Chinese, but who con- sidered herself a superior sort of oriental until she met the amazing young generation in Shanghai last vear. and it is because she is de- termined that these smart youngsters shall notice her that she is bagk in college getting more of a certain sort of education than she wanted She had always valued knowledge for its own sake and she had a par- ticular reason for ‘not wanting a college degree. She shbwed some reticence in divulging just what that might be. Then she explained: “It has been my ambition to marry a successful business man. But few Chinese business men are college grad- uates, and a Chinese does not marry wife if he thinks she is more clever than he. Even vet it is not in the Chinese nsychology to set a wife on a pedestal and look up to her. And I fancy now that 1 shall have to marry some Chi- educated in an American college and has a tremendously good opinion’ of himself. These men are not nearly so congenial as the jolly type of business men who are my fatkers friends. . But one has one’s work to Go in the world. What is a success- ful life, anyway, but a series of care- ful compromis: I can’t have every thing my own way." N 1683 an embryo vamp opened wide, staring eyes to gaze at this world for the first time. She look- ed up at the rude ceiling of the hut in which she was born and de- cided it didn’t suit her taste an interior decorating. She let out one awful yell “Our daughter cries so sweetl let's call her Martha,” explained the parents. So Martha was labeled. and when her parents depagted this sphere a sky pilot named Pastor Gluck took her to raise. Mrs. Gluck couldn't hand Martha much, so as soon as pos- sible - she donated her to Johan, a Swedish dragoon. Johan sounds like he belonged to the Odonata family of ! insects. but he was really a soldier. Martha was kinder fed up on praying | i BY ANNE JORDA' H worr out their welcome in Lithuania. The Russians stormed the place, and among the prisonegy was Martha. She was to be“sold as a slave. One day.a iprince named Menshikov chanced to stroll by to give ihe slave girls the double O. Martha dried her stage- fright tears, threw out her chest and winked at the prince. Thereby the prince made a purchase and Martha made a slave. * £ x % THE prince’s idea of a good time wasn't to last long. Time he got back to Moscow Peter the Great called to see if Menshikov had any- thing he wanted. Martha served the drinks. y ;i 7/ "‘ nese professional man who has been | THERE ON HER VANITY DRESSER, IN AN around all of the time, o Johan look- | {ed pretty good. She made a good SC ook up her feoupon and wife, never calling her husband ai p,:,' e ST blg Syede, and pulling him homel Fete missed hef Hke & front toett. nights when he'd had too much:1i¢ also missed the “coupon. & I i flattering courtiers said was exactly yodka. {like him. So he went to find h However, the Swedes had about}. <& MM S0 1€ PR ! | INEZ PHANG. That was one phase of Miss Phang's philosophy. * k% % ° [¥F% PHANG is the fourth child in a family of six sisters, all of w m.ml were born at Balaclava, near King-| ston, on the Island of Jamaica. Her| parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Phang. | are full-blooded Chinese Her father has made a fortune as an exporter and importer, and he owns sugar planta- tions in West Indies Since she was a little girl it has been the am | bition of Inez Phang to be the boy « the family and assist her father in business. During the vacations when she was in high school in Kingston | e would go With him on business| trips to the states and he would take her with him to the New York ufllnv_\‘! where business transactions were | made. Sometimes he would turp ove ot hll}ln:! to her the responsibility zreat quantities of dry goods which considered suitable for ASS BOW Peter pulled his beard_in ecstasy. | (This was before he went to Paris | and learned to shave.) “Knouts and| Vodka!" the monarch was heard to exclaim ,“that's the chicken for me Pete wouldn't hear of Martha being sent C. 0. D. He wouldn't even wait lto have her wrapped. He took her just as she was, and Martha vamped herself a place in the history of Russia. Martha played around as a pet for Peter till the advent of a daughter put ideas in her head about women's rights. By this time she had made herself almost a part of the palace : furniture. Teter had gotten so used 1o seeing her around that he felt like ne was sitting in a fast-running flivver without kazoline when she was gone. But now Martha got a tspell of conscience under her bonnet. She wasn't hard to locate. She thadn't run far. When Pete found (her she was sitting with her baby 1in her arms, An airy veil thrown over her head, trying to look Md¥onna- like. “For why vou gotter leave me, Martha, Oh so Pure?” asked Peter, committing lese majeste in his hur- ried diction. “But I can't dwell in von castle now,” yodled Martha in heart-broken terms. “As much as I love you, Pete, dear, 1 must be pure for the sake of the cheild “You shall come back,” cried Peter. * x * X WHEFLEUPON Peter did some heavy thinking. Of course, he could | obseure resuited ical trade at home. “I was only fifteen when I finished high school,” she related. “And though we were all decided that I should have A business career we wanted to make sure that my education ‘Would not be too one-sided. So I was sent to Lon- don to study music. Two of my sis- ters are graduates of the Royal Lon- don Academy of Music, one a violin- ist and the other a pianist. My in- strument is the piano. I had no wish to get a diploma, because I was not looking for a professional career in music. After four years’ study I came to New York and entered as'# Spe- cial student in the commereial col- | lexe. Meanwhile my father and ¥ decided that 1 should become the firm’s representative in China. Last year we went to Shanghal together. It was my first visit in the orient.” * ok ¥ ALTHOUGH Inez Phang's parents 4L are what their daughter calls “a very modern palr of pals” and thor- oughly western in their outlook on life, the children were brought up to understand that it was the wish of their parents that they should marry Chinese husbands. These girls knew that when generations of their grand- mothers were young and wanted an education the most they could expect was to be instructed from the learn- ing of Chu-tze who laid down simple rules about the things that should concern their daily life—duty to par- ents teachers and all superiors, and a subservieni acquiescence to the old system of marriage Inex cannot remember that her par- ents ever insisted on obedience. They just grew up and had an awfully good time. And they were all agreed that when a girl got to be about twenty she should have an opportunity to meet marriageable young men, which was one of her reasons for going to China. “I am afraid I imagined I was going 10 he rather a superior person there, or at least that I sho: be able to hold my own in any company." she confesses. I thought I had been keeping track of the new movement in politics, for 1 had been accustomed to talk things over with Chir in New York, and to se stu- dents ead the | best periodicals "My first shock was Shanghai itself. The buildings were not at ail the quaint old structures T had imagined It might have been an American town, But the terrible disillusion that shat- tered my poise and made me feel very from my first en- counter with a group of young peo- | ple. There were two leading ques- ‘What university did you at- nd ‘What degrees hav RESTED THE HEAD OF HER SWEET WILLIAM, PRESERVED IN ALCOHOL." have had Martha tied and brought back to his castle. bu' that would h spoiled her sweet disposition, and a sweet disposition in Russia Is a rare thing to find. So he tried an- nother plan. “You shall marry me!” he ex- claimed, and Martha became his mor- ganatic wife and her daughter was his morganatic child. Just about this time some wild Turk wrote Pete a blackhand letter and made him mad. So he went down to wipe Turkey off the map. And nothing would do but Martha must cut her hair, don a Sam Brown belt and overseas helmet, check her oftspring i a day nursery and go with Peter. She won herself a wide welcome on the way. The Turks, with a whale of an army, surrounded Peter and were about to make an exhibition of him at the state fair when Martha vamped the grand vizer and won Tete back to Russia. When Pete got home he was so tickled over Martha's usefulness that he tied the can to Queen Eudoxia, who looked just like her name sounded, and made Martha the Queen of Russia. He made her take the nom de plume of Catherine to hide her plebian origin. As Catherine the first, Martha made quite a hit with the people of Russia. She went to war with Peter, more from a political standpoint than a desire to found a legion of death. She knew that Peter was getting on in years and she wanted to make a hit with the Russian people so that when Peter uttered his last oath she would have some chance if she want- ed to run for office. During Peter's lifetime Catherine Has No Interest in Degree or in Studies She Is Takir;g; But Finds Younger Set in Shanghai Demands College Attainments—Born in corresponding - bands _of _pale - hluec sihle, strefehing up intg the ns from phe. sinking S - The inftiative of Prof. Angelo Mosso of Turin and is called th. Institute of the Col d'Oten. It contains labora- tories for research in botany. bac- Zoology, physiology, ter- restrial physics and metéorology. All these subjects are studied from the special point of view of the effect of heav phenomenon lasted showt-an-hour. and later on the same evening a violent thunderstorm broke over the pl where the spectacle had been wit nessed. There are # pumber of ot 4] staved in China long cnough to reafize that It Would be mugh | casier to come back to New York and { get & degred than to stay on there. and try to convince them that I was not exactly an ignoramus, and that 1 really might be entitled to some con- sideration. It was a compromise in the interest of ambition. T hope even- tually to go into polftics, and I fancy there. may be some prestige attached to"the fact that I shall be the first Chifgse .woman to be a bachelor of commerclal sclence. Almost every girl I met in Shanghai was a B. A. or ®n M. A, and at first T found {t very amusing to see the importance ‘they | attach to a degree. It is all so new to them. And just because they dc feel that way about it I am here tak ing studies in which I have not the slightest interest, so that I, too, may have a degree. “When I return to China ] shall not bury myself in a business office. My father is a successful man and I have always observed that he loafs a good deal and plays a lot, and he is my model. T shall use some of my rec- reation time lecturing to audiences of college graduates on the feminine movement and woman's place in pub- lic life. There aré so many things I want to tell the women of Chi * K *x % ( SH}: may run the risk of offending young men and women of theedu- cated circle when she sets out 1o in- form them that, modern as they {m- agie themselves to be, they are. | | after all, very old-fashioned. Thean- cient Chinese tradition, she recalls, was too likely to reverence scholar- ship for its own sake. She can | about obscure huts in the interior of | Ching where people are in mufllu"j and making no effort to better their | condition, but who point to a deco-| rated pole beside the door that blazes to the world the information that cen- turies ago there was a scholar in the family, “Too many Chinese youths who | have been educated in America have | inherited that tradition,” Miss Phang | regretted. I saw some of them in Shanghal, and 1 could not see how it would be possible for them to become useful to the country. get a perspective of them, have been brought up in a tradition of free- | dom and accomplishme When 1 | think of the shallow ar opinionated men with whom T have so many heat- | ed arguments of an evening, and re- I could because I flect that one day 1 shall have to marry such a person or be an old maid. it makes me feel very serious | ana rather dubious about the good of | | degrees. especiaily when acquired in la st ge civiliza 2 had but one affair. She fell in love with William Mons, a “gentleman of |the bedchamber.” -This title had | something honorary to do with Peter’s | { bedroom. Possibly he hung. up Peter's nightie. * * * ¥ ATHERINE was pretty far gone "C over William. She had planned to | give up all hope of ever amounting to anything in politics, and loped with the gentleman by way of fast sleighs through Siberia. The lovers| were to meet at Peter's hunting ledge, which was miles from the palace. Thither, through the snow and ice, plodded Catherine—she was afraid §o tell Peter she wanted a sleigh, be- cause he might have decided to go riding with her. So she jumped a wood-carrier's cart and rode to the jlodge. There she waited. with the fast horses hitched to the sleigh out- side, stamping impatiently. But Wil- liam never came to the lodge. When Catherine reached home that night, having no other place to o. she went to her room, and there, on her vanity dresser, in an immense handwrought glass bowl, rested the | head of Wer sweet William, preserved in aleohol. Deprived of her loved one, Cather- ine kept her mind on her business from that time on. She made up her mind that zhe would be queen or nothing. Catherine had never even been to grammar school, but she was right there on the go with good old horse sense. And whan Peter died she vamped her first friend, Prince Menshikov, who was head of the party of progress, and gat herself elected queen of all Russia: She ruled alone until she died. Alpine conditions. | ! l i ful relief, instances on record fn.-ufm;. ve beemmfollowed phenombena J; thunderstorms. o al 1. 12evas Don’t limit the use Pf your porch to the hours when it’s “in the shade”. Aerolux itand snap your fingers at the glaring sun. 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