Evening Star Newspaper, March 1, 1923, Page 37

Al THE HOUSE OF MOHUN BY GEORGE GIBBS Author of “Youth Triumphant” and Other Successes. CHAPTER 1L The Visttor From Mars. T was a gay party and its mem- bers were all young. At loast they were young in years, though compact of the vices and virtues Copyright, 1928, D. Appleton & Co, “The tea table of my younger days seemed a more decorous affalr,” he said slowly. George Lycelt laughed. “My dear innocent,” he replied, “the tea of com- merce is no fit drink for the younger gods of Nineteen Twenty. “Ambrosia for them, born of a Ther- young lady in the crimson sweater, for Cherry Mohun, now standing, held the teapot at arm's length above her. “A small dividend is declared,” she laughed, ignoring the jmportunities. “Behave yourself, Jack. Down Dicky. I'swear that neither of you shall have of the age, the essence, so to speak,| Mos bottle which your Hebe has just| of the fruit of the tree, the clder o life, flavored rather highly with the vinegar of experlence. The place was the octagonal terrace of the Braebank Country Club, on Long Island, the season early autumn, ¢ | poured into the teapot at the angle In | { the wall. In short, the innocent tea- cups which you observe contain noth- ing less than that decoction ofice pop- ularly known as the ‘Orange Blosson: ocktail’ And f 1 were honest I'd | admit that I'd prefer it to the abom- inable affair with which I've insulted had enough. Her glance passed over their heads and met Mr, Lycett's. Per- BOOKKEEPER, ex| rienced ; accounting preferred, Address Box 1LV, 2¢ | paper, i Not a drop. You've | SPUNIN haps Lycett looked thirsty. Evidently | she thought o, for with an air of de- cision 8he eluded the importunities of her companions and quickly crossed i to the smaller table. Both men rose. TF' ARGUS BOASTED OF A HUNDRED EYES, CHERRY MOHUMN LOOKED A HUNDRED WAYS WITH ONE EYE the hour that of the approach to the aineteenth hole, in which the elect congpired by devious ways to defeat the aspirations of thc eighteenth amendment It the girls of the party were not all strictly beautiful dowed them graclously enough, and what nature had negiected art had supplied and was even at the very moment in the act of supplying, for vanity case and mirror were constant- ly in evidence. Pouting iips were being tinted daintily and small noses dabbed from time to time with tiny “white objects which emerged and dis- appeared into mysterious recesses of allken sweaters or silk walsts. These were merely feminine gestures, and meant nothing more depraved than an intense vitalilty, seeking expres- slon in this form of coquetry, which said, “T am lovely. But if I am not Jovely enough, behold! Let me pleaso vou more.” Careless gestures if you iike, but at once a challenge and & reproach to those members of the other sex who amusedly watched the Droceoding. Two men mat at a table noarby. just finishing an atroclous mixture ot sarsaparilia and lime juice. The older man, with more humor than delicacy, had averred that it tasted ‘like the old family toothbrush.” But the afternoon had been warm and helr thirst had been impelling. so that George Lycett composed himself to a cigar, his blithe optimism tri- umphant over hix enforced absten- tion. Lycett was of the bunker type ——bald, affable and highly colored, of the age which young people call old and old people call young. To set the age of his younger com- panion is & more difficuit matter, for, though certainly under thirty, his tor- 1oise-shell spectacles gave Dr. David Bangree an air of owllike sagacity -which went strangely with his boy- 1sh smile. Hlis eager eyes were at present scanning the party of young people, which he found both colorful and informing. Neither of these men spoke. Indeed, had they been in the mood for conversation the riot of Jaughter at the adjoining table would have made thought impossible. The center of interest in the merry group was a young girl in a crimson sweater. She was a fine creature, too Zorgeous to be called pretty and too ‘dluring to be called handsome. She was tall and well made, but the fine roportions of her vouthful figure were somewhat marred by the slouch- ng position in which she held her body:. Her hair was a ruddy brown, hobbed well below the ears, over which her hroad-brimmed hat sat at a rakish angle almost concealing one eye. But rer omniscience seemed to have lost} nothing by this handicap, for, If Argus boasted of & hundred eyes, Cherry Mohun looked & hundred ways with no eye and a half. Like her sisters, she was daintily tinted, but her nose was just a trifle straighter, her 1ips mora’delicately chiseled, her laughter more pleasing. David Sangree caught the blue flash of her eye for a second n one of her Argus glances which pagsed on to the young man by her side, whose entire happiness, it seem- ed, was hanging on her smile. And as’ the visitor still looked, the girl crossed her knees, carelessly, reveal- ing in the act the fact that her stock- :ngs were rolled down, Boy Scout ‘ashion, from her knees. Sangree stared, while Cherry Monun tapped her cigarette on the back of her hand and lighted It carelessly from the match her companion held for her. “It seems,” sald Dr. Sangree, “that Some water has gone under the bridge since I was last in America.” Lycett smiled. “Quite go. Much water. And it's not even the same bridge. You remind me, somehow, Sangree, of Macaulay's New Zealand- er gazing on the ruins of London George Lycett was satlsfled with the aptness of his figure of speech, for David Sangree had been out of America for nearly six years and was, to all intents and purposes, the visitor from Mars. The younger man's gaze was still turned toward the young person who had attracted his attention. “Rather splendid ruins, Mr. Lycett, he sald with a laugh. “Who is she? I mean,” he added, “the one with the orimson sweater and the big hai “Oh, that's Cherry Mohun, ott, ughter of Jim Mohun." h, you don't mean the Mohun Who—"" “Precisely. Jim Mohun's daughter.” *H—m. Debutante?” *“To b This fall.” *Typical, I should say, and quite up to the minute,” replied Sangree arirly. “You mean the cigarette—the im- modesty—-'" “I didn’t wish to infer——-" My dear David, when every one's immodest, no one's immodest. Modesty was an early Victorian convention which exaggerated the importance of the unrevealed. When the hidden is put {n evidence it ceases to be inter: asting. Hence calves of legs instead of pantalets; hence the breast, in stead of the culrass of steel and bone sometimes known as the corset.” David Sangree mused as he listened to fragments of ech from the ad- Joining table, doesn't seem as though their conversation came in pantalets either,” he said. ‘And ‘;t you can't help admiring 1ts_frankness.” David Sangreemused fora moment, ature had en- | AND A LF. your vitals and my own ngree, making 4 wry tace, set his empty glaws down. “Of all Your ar- | guments, I like your last the best |But I fancy i {to adjust my country. | The older ma; | follow the tide, ' angrea shrugged, ing ahove his blac t would be—er—amusing if | |weren't—er—tragic.” He lenned sud- denly across the table, as though to exchange a great confidence, whisper- ing. “Do you know, Mr. Lycett, some ! ¢riends asked me to a dance at ihotel in town last night At the cleakroom window two very pretty girls were checking their stays un- wrapped, as calmly as you or I would check a hat. 1 was informed that ithe boys preferred to dance with | them—ah—ungirdled.’ “Quite true, 1 belicve,” sald Lycott grinning. “These seemed—er—nice girls, Mr. ett. y’ rather puzzling. “My bo¥, the corset hegan slUpping sars ago-—inch by inch. The war kave it its coup de grace. ot has today hecome a girdl ‘morrow it will be a myth. young woman of today wants stays—physically or otherwise. sclf to the customs of smiled_ “You must he said. his brows tan- -rimmed glasses. | IL: s The no She ou must ad- its rath turbing to a one's ideals of woma 00d— one's—er—fondest memories violated {by _these young—er—iconoclasts. George Lycett could scarcely re- presy a smile at the ingenucusness of his companion. “I would advise you not to use 80 big a word with & debutante, She wouldn’'t know what you were talking about.” I won't,” said David Sangreo dry- Iy. “I'm not going kidnaping.” 4 “It might repay you, my boy. You would find that the average debutante | could teach you more of life itself {in twenty minutes than You could learn in twenty years among the ves- tiges of forgotten races.” “I don’t doubt it sald Sangree with a smile, “That’s just my quar- rel with—er’—he waved a definite { hand— “with this sort of thing. ~To { know life one must have lived it. It {seems a_ pity,” he added, as though |in an afterthought as he gazed at {the other table, “because they'ro so oung and _so flowerlike.” George Lycett grew . rather. serious now. touched him. ! “We all live too fast. | “But what can one with a shrug. out of leading “Why? Have they no mother: Lycett threw back his head with a dry laugh. “Bless your heart! Help- less! God knows the last thing in America mother wants is to sec her 1 daughter unpopular. So she puts on & pair of moral blinkers and goes off and plays bridge.” “I see” sald the younger man thoughtfully. “And the fathers?’ he added. 'he American father 1s too busy to rotice. Busy and incurious. He leaves the matter to his wife. It never oc- curs to him to question thd habits of the women of his household. The mother runs soclety—the daughter runs the mother. So there you are. If you told the average American father that he was making it quite possible for his daughter to go to the devil he would tell you to go there yourself. Te's a fool, then,” said David. No, my boy, you can't altogether blamé him. He errs from pride, af- fection and confidence. ~Quite ade mirable and human_traits in_them- selves, you'll admit. Take Jim Mohun, for instance. Idolizes his daughter. Anything she does is right. In fact, she makes anything right by the mere act of doing it. He's proud of her. She's devilish pretty. And he'd kill the man who whispered a word against her.” David Sangree shrugged. “Let me reassure you,” he sald dryly, “I have no opinion to express to Mr.' Mohun.” Lycett knocked the ash from his eigar with the sober alir of one grant- ing absolution. ‘My dead Dav!d,” he said, “please permit me the iicense of an older man when I say that the study of ancient clvilization has made you just a trifie stodgy, and lately in the near east you have looked too ‘“ns into the faces of unhappy people. Joy as ex- pressed in the antics of healthy young animals like these shocks your sense of ths fitness of things. But they've all done their bit. Cherry Mohun there drove an ambulance in Paris. The boy talking to her 1s Dick Wilberforce, the American ace of aces. Jack Spen. cer, the young fellow opposite, won a hatful of medals. The girl in the yellow sweater is Phoebe Macklin, She was in the Red Cross, emergency ald and sl the rest of It. Worked like a Trojan. And so on with the others. They gave everything they had, and it wus a good deal. Now they've grown different. They say. and rightly, too—that their Jnothers and fathers and grandmothers and grandfathers have had & whack at running the world and have messed the job. Now they expect us to get out of the trouble the best way we can. Jut they won't help, I ocan't blame 'em. We have made & mess of it,” he finished. ‘There was a commotion at the other table, & clamoring of voices as tea oups were raised in appeal to the e muttered. he finished children ure t's going to be difficult | The idealism of the younger man had; “Dear Mr. Lycett,” she sald, “won't {you come to the reseue? Dicky has to rive me home and he's #o used to fl ing in the air that he forgets there are trees and things. And Jack has A more than enough already. But I 't want to waste {t. Won't you?" » nodded prettily to them both. George Lycett was already hoiding out his empty glass. P “Cherry ! You angel child” he anghed.” “Will 17 Won't I! So will Sangrec. Oh, I forgot. You hav sangree, have you? Fa |-scientist. Stranded in the east th= war bro'e out. Been with the st Rellcr. Please be kind to himy cven thirstler than I am.” { “How do you do?' Miss Mohun, while she poured the Insidious orange {blossom, ~which masqueraded 8s orange Pekoe. | At closer range, David Sangree was laware of a swift careless glance of {appraisal from the Argus glance which passed quickly to Mr. Lycett Anad in that glance he had a sense of being swiftly appraised, catalogued and labeled. She would have none of him. The bent shoulders, the studious {air, the tortoise-shell glasses belong- -d’ to one who clung close to the arth. What had he in common with these others who clove the air and { killea_gloriously In the lust of ba {tle? The thing that impressed him tinost about her was her intense vital- |ity. He realized from the natural color of her lips and cheeks that the { rouge stick and the powder bali were mere accessories of the feminine itrade, a part of the technic of en- chantment, which she might well have !foresworn. And yet subtly she irri- {tated him. She was o self-sufficient. i George Lycett had succumbed at !once to her generosity. She was, it i seemed, one of his favorites. | “"here’s no ' greater compliment {than that pait by Bouaty fo Age,” he said the girl care- | less! ‘But you needn’t accuse me of | politeness. I'm not polite. If you don’t finish this, Dicky will. And when Dicky drinks he never knows when stop.” 1"Lycett drank and then murmured, | 165 eally pathetio how dependent prohibition has made us upon the munificence of our friends. How is your mother, my dear? As beautiful as ever?” “Mother!"” Cherry Mohun shrugge'd in u bored way. “Good Lord, yes. It's her speclalty. She jswinging her legs. “I'm coming out {this fall. I've got to—I'm twenty. { Mother put it off as long as she coul She says it puts her on the shelf. As ¢ anything could do that! But I'm not keen about {t. It's a rotten bore to have to be 8o terribly pleased about evervthing. You'll come to my tea, though, won't you?” “Well, rather. 'm a hardy pere nial, Age cannot wither, et cetera. “Ag obody's old any more. “And nobody’s young, my dear. You youngsters have toppled from the nursery steps directly upon the hard avement of 1ife v"Y ,” sald the gir], toying with the teapot, “that's so. I feel a hundred already.” And then almost flercely, “But I do love life. Don't you?" “If I didn’t;’ sald Mr. Lycett, “I shouldn’t be here.” This conversation had completely eliminated David Sangree, who stood, shifting from one foot to the other ani marveling at the personal quality in Cherry Mohun’s remarks. She was as downright as the noon-day sun “I do wish, Cherry, that you'd pay some_attention to David ‘Sangree, said Lycett, who had noted his com- panion’s discomfiture. “He has been trying to offer you a health for at least four minute “Oh, 1 beg pardon—" “He's a frlend of your father and one of our most distinguished ethnol- ogists. Before the war—" “What on earth is that?” asked Cherry, for the first time fixing San- gree with her blue gaz “An ethnologist, my dear, is & per- son who studies the habitat and cul toms of the different races and fami- lies of the earth. Dr. Sangree— “How terribly interesting,” Cherry, listlessly, and then, with a laugh, “I hope he won't be able to make a study of the Mohun family.” ‘At least one member of it would repay,” sald David Sangree in his stilted way. She glanced at him earnestly. This queer creatufe was actually saying something nice, Funny! A moment ago he had looked a hundred. Now when he smiled he seemed much And his eyes, even through their goggles, were rather compelling. “You wouldn't find me worth while," she sald dryly, trying quite hard to be polite, “Would he, Mr. Lycett?” “That depends. ing’ 1 fancy a study at close range of a debutante of this year would be some- thing of a liberal education in the habitat and customs of the tribe of Manhattan, in the year of grace nineteen twenty. Cherry Mohun laughed. *“I like that,” she said, with a shrug. 'You needn't pay much attention to what Mr. Lycett gays,” put in San- gree quieti: *Bes{des, I don’t dare o hope you'd care what my opinions were.” “Oh, 1 don’t know, They might be worth while,” she sald, indifferently. “Do oome in some Sundsy afterncon | | ' s l 1 | Ix Wwas_sitting on the table NOW. ! help keep this lot | 821a | Thi i.A WEVER moll ORIGINAL v mendations n apply for om- i !rrmk Use_COPIS! 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Address Box 211-V, three, for local work or {ravel- in::kll;ofi omw::rmulty {nrdya\ml men: $35 per week o surt; gunranteed Aalary A Bee Mr. Hess, 901, 1317 F ot. n.vrl‘y. o bomue e — et e for tea. Bring him, Mr. Lycett. Mother would be pleased. She likes— She paused 1n a new glance of ap- praisal as though she had thought of a word and then changed her mind. “She likes different sorts of people” sho finished “Thanks,” sald David shall be delighted.” e Cherry Mohun swung her feet and slid down from the table, selzing tho teapot. “Well, good-bye, Mr. Lycett. Don't be too severe on the younger tribes of Manhattan. They'ro doing | the best they can. I've got to go and | in order. They're getting restless. I'm going to walk Dicky around until he wears off, Dicky, but you know. Good-bye —er- r i r. Sangree. Mother will be de- lighted. She likes people with gog- gles. She runs her llon's den on Sun- day afternoons., Do come and roar David Sangree sank into his chalr, watching their visitor as sho rejoined her companions and presently made g00d her promise of “walking Dicky " When at last the younger growd had passed with some commo- tion out of earshot, Lycett with a emile glanced at his companion, who was slowly turning over the frag- ments of ice in his empty glass with & long spoon. If he had expected to find the plot of the Humgan Comedy in the lingering aroma of Miss Cherry Mohun's orange blossom cocktail he at once gave up the effort, “What was the use of that?” he asked aloud of no one in particular. Lycett laughed. “You mean her rudeness? I think she was afraid she have made too good an impres- he sald whimsically. “No—you're _mistaken,” sald the younger man slowly. “1 don't think 8he could possibly have thought that. Because she didn’t make & good im- pression and she's too clever not to know it. And I'm just stupid enough to imagine that her ill-manners were almed at me.” “Perhaps,” laughed Lycett. “But I rather think you flatter yourself. Cherry is the product of her times. nk the war. But she can be ador- able when she lik “H—m,” sald David Sangree. “You ssem to be on tolerably intimate terms with the Mohun “mnx’ “Oh, yes, of course. The friendship began in & business way, you know— over your affairs and my own. But Mrs. Mohun {is the prettiest woman in New York.” “Ah, 1 seo—" sald SBangres slow- 1y, “Nothing 1fke that, n§bw. Quite & wonderful person. ou'll know what T mean &8 500n &8 you see her.” “They are very rich, of course.” “Oh, 'y He's one of the wonders of the age. Theirs is the, big place with the white columns just back of T've just been tell- | Oyster Bay. Nowadays prosperity s him that he needs livening up.|reckoned by the number of servants|gy one keeps. The Mohuns have about thirty—when they can get 'em. Such luxury is impressive, you know, in & promoter of large enterprises. And then, you see—his wife has social am- b S , T see. I feel a certain curlos- ity about the mother of such a = ffi’:cc & little about the daugh- ter herself!” Lycett laughed as he rose and took up his 1f clubs. “David, I must e you to roar for forbld!™ sald Dr. Sangree, lmc through his spectacles. (To Be Continued Tomorrow.) { advertis SALESMAN— 3160 mouth and expenses selling cigars; experfence mot necessars. Send self: INSTRUCTION COURSES ADVERTIREMENT WRITING — Opportusity for limitsd number of inteliigent young men aud women to join evening clkss of instruction in this fascinail pertonally conducted by wuccessful Washin, tising man. Write at once. Address Box 112-V, Star office. BOYD RHORTHAND 0 daye: easy tfo learn and rapld; the world's best syatem: ex. rts uae 1t; inv you will use no ather. Boyd Busicess College, 1304 F CIVIL SERVICE _examination clerk, salary $1,200 to §1,500; epecial instruc- tion begins today. The Civil Service Prepara. tory School, w.e. cor. 12th and F sts. n.w. Phone Franklin 2080. N AMBITIOUS men and cafeterfas, apartment houses; uncrowded fleld ; fina living, quick advancement; our methods indorsed— our students employed by leading hote! . _Open_evenings. Call for pa Lewis Hotel Training cbeol. 1340 ve. DOMENTIC—COLORED, ST HOUSEW a_require | UK _afi@ housework In country. seftied ool woman. Apply Ftay uights; comfortable foom pud bath; $10 per month. - Phone Ci GENERAL H roforences. ORKER — Giri. Apply ORKEK, colored girl; Cleve. 1807, 10 Wouman, for small stay night family; lton_st. 1 07 R, young colored g references. Apt. 256, the Chastleton. ® Tt on table, wash dishes and | ard_si LEARN HOW TO WRITE ADVERTISE. ments during spare time evenings: $100 to 3300 & week being paid to those who know tils work; thousands of positions open for men and women; no previous experience nec- essary; easily learned in six mouths: inter- esting, fascinating work. Limited class now being formed. For particulars see Mr. HAAS, director, National Radio Institute, n.w. n 187 2 MEN—Ambitious, become & Columbla trained diaftsman and assure yourself of permanent, well paid employment. ~ We traln you d your “spare time. day or night, in B to months. Cull, write or phose for particulars. Columbia School of Drafting 14tk and T ets. n.w._North 272. MEN businers: receive pay while learning; need not interfere wilh present employment; some mak- ing $100 & week, Free ciass lectures Thursday, § p.m.” Willlam F. Matteson, 610- |~ €11 Fond bldg. STENOGEAPHERS desiring to become news paper. conference, court reporters will report at Harper's Stenographic Rchool, 1727 F. Gregg | axe shorthiand aught in two months; new method. ADUIAS Tady. STCDENTS OF FRENCH, chiidren, desired by French EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES D WOMEN quickly learn roal estate | ref. 5Tt | pew ~ connection. OR Novrs | office. SITUATIONS—MALE. BOOKKEEPER, experienced, desires permi references. Address Box 1 v accountant, tanking, financing, ‘young man, wants position of trust. real 80, Address estate, experlenced; lafter 4 pm.. Col PRACTICAL NURSE, competent best. references, Call Franklin RACTICAL 66531 Harlan koma Purk. D. C. SECRETARY STE SITION WITH MERCIAL FIRM: experics 81 3 SALARY orth 8190, s SRAPHER, clerk, Tespocd ). desires change of position; uaw references. Address Box 811-Y, { { STE: teer STE fice work to get experien: | without pay. Address Box 171- X experiens erences Tae STENOGRAPHER, ness educa rerretarial, nt expert, usi- or | desires position: T 507 TYPING Line. TYP willing young Calli Colux Tical povitio lady: experience LADY, govt., munt Lave work: will housckeep or car or ehildren wiile mother shops or enter- Wil mend ard dacrn: home nights. Ad ar_office. 1 ER’S HELPER with children, enced: refined and reliable. V. Btar ofice.__ 4 | remodels 17 Ward pl (BERMAID, or Tght house work, mo cooking, wanted by colored girl oty _reference. 6 CHAMBERMAID or vored_gil. Phone neat, respectabie girl, 1822 H st CLOTHE “ GOLD, silver, watches, diamonds and old Jewelrs peeded in our mfg. dept. Full casi Sel 20 F . . kold, silver. platia D. Alpker, 9 monds_aud _jewel v. Main 8 TRUNK, V., Star offier TANO for u r desired, ARE PROMIT busers. Trs us ok patd for men's worn clothing. JUST] ANTEI—LOAD G0 FAL Aludeipita, Lo Special ratos. RTOKAGE (0. _Fiione F_ 7256, RiC BATH MASSAG * far, nerve troubi Vie. viraduate nurse )V PIANO TUNING, $2: ALL M3 sraphy ropairel. FRANK A. RHUE .. Roam 36, Phon RATS, R D stant buiding, s LECTRO T CTICS AND _ PHYST cal cuiture given men, women and children by Office honrs, 9 a.m., Nozth 2 TO $10_FUR Our yprices for Clothing 3978, COF LOAD FORt ashington Satuedx TRANSFLR men'a and old clothiug sre the biggest. Wash Exchange. 033 e Pho night 20th at. o.w i Invalids and re and dsy nuree. _North 24 { RECOMMENDED SERVICE The following busincan concerme Rave Been recommended to The Atar and guarom- toe aatistaction to Star readers. Amy com plaint fousd meccssary to bs made fo The tar weill recetce piompt attention. ¥or admission 1o Recommendrd Service Ocl TATG) Lamue. tanks. Jow 08 Tuiin Marchall .. CARRON” RPRNING, 40 esitn Temove. pluge and wires: frozen relinders cast inge. steel and alnm welded properiy: alt work guaranteed. M. Coleman, 207 12% FR EXPERTS TUCKER €0 6420 b ant fhe beat i o hene W, 105, 04 RPENTER AND RUTLDER—For econem in onsalt BROWER, 4631 Be! . r.w. im; vi CARPET CLEANIN Tine. norch rocke: 10th ot. oW i of hardwor Instde D Frankiin 7 FLWE Siing and_waxine. | P . 729 15t n.w ADINTOR WEPATRIN Avtharized Ford Dealer Call 1518 Corcoran_st i E or maid. colorsd girl_wants po- 1002 Rnode Island_ave. n . COOK or chambermaid. Bessie B th < " COOR, first-clank, for private family or board- { ing_house. 1 Ty, unholaters Snzgestions w, 219 T n DUPTICATE KV 2 Tarner & KFYS while you wait. Yo Place ; reference. 920 “tay nights: have ety No laundry; 509 Rbode Islan ? please write TOOK_ DINN of any kind; best reteren COOK, by colored wom H y colored position in mall family 1123 20th st woman | city refer- | & RFRILVEREN: Jastingly brighi: wind H. M. SAC - promi e Main 6708, v < pered. #7 and up 4 s.w. Telephons e Frank PAPERHAS o paner ard entont’ border WICK, 1018 Danelar s e TP, INCLUDING WALTER CHAD 405, ERAL HOUSE colored 204« GIRL ¢ t with housework, stay ni Call_1428 Corcoran st WORT iass work. Promnt ne Shop, 100 W, n. Phane Main & PAPERHAN: = Tent-nt “GDAL. 33 Fla 55, wants day's work or LAUNDRESS, firstcli e 132 Florida place to cook dinners evenings. ave. n.w. TAUNDRESS, first-class, wishes washing to{ best of reference. Call Pol\:mb]ll LAUNDRY or _day's work, sny kind. Call smail set of book: Address Box 136-V, BUTCHER_and_manager of retail marke g Ay uamuews of Tetail markat CHAUFFE! references. _Linc. MAID or general honsework, Eirls. Apply <24 25th st by two colored o et B0 F work, reli- 428 K s, n.w. THAUFFEUR, white. experienced, wants po- | sition; private family preferred; best refer- | Hox _830.Y, Star office. or_general work, Japau 1351 @ & CREDIT AND COLLECT " 3 experfence, wholesale and re- tail;’ conversant installments: Christia thirty-two; married; uow employed; desires Address Box ISV, St FAMILY LAUNDRY, reasonable charge; well cared for; rough dried or ironed; calied for and delivered. 1518 6th st. n.w. Call North 1699. 8. W. Johnson, colored. 5e COLORED HOUSEOLEANERS, cooks, bermaids supplied free. White Cros: 921 N Dr. Drew, president. cham- ureau, our consideration. urean. COMPETENT HELP for North 6009, Super Service G00KS and housemen wanted; aiso Gishwash: s ern. Fuller's Exchange, 1221 25th st. TOOKS, 10; 9th n.w. N. 2689-W. Phillips Exchange. ® COOKS, maids, dayworkers, etc. 2001 9th st. n.w., room 4. OFFICE POBITIONS—Free registration, Wash- | V s'. in on Emplo; public by ent Exchange, W hington School e for_ Secretaries and_Nat. School of Commerce, 1410 F st. n.w. | ences. Phone | Box ©_houseworkers: reference. 1621 | position. Phone Col. 3136, FARMER, efperienced, wants position as working foreman of farm or dairy. Address v, Star ofice. oo cows, g & ‘Address ition of an; taz omce. o MORNING'S WORK by colored girl. 1747 11th_st. b NURSE or mother's helper, stay nights. 1911 PAPERHANGING A AT pered. &8 un, _Interlor and_extoride pain 3¢ lnteest nrices: all wark enarantaed. ropalitan Dec. Co.. @18 E &t n.w. Frank, APTIS REPATRED DY PERTS. Phonograph Hospital, oo T — Phosographs repatred by exnert: paris for all makes ma chinoe _Franklin 5075 800 th st n.w: PIANO anos and pl; pafred, refinishod and rennile br ekl n._Plana Tnning—$2.00. Scheefar. n Plano Co.. €14 H st ne. L 1087. PLUMRING. TINNING, JORRING I8 OUR epeclalty. Quick servica {n emerzency camee When Fou think of plumbing. think of CAROW 1011 H st. n.w. Mnin 1261. s re- Render URSE—Good colored girl, for child. Phone W, 3 vate family, neat colored girl desires Job. Josephina. WORK of any kind, mirl; answer Friday ing. 403 Oakdale st. m.w. or maid in b Ca PLUMBING AND AFATING. John R, Gerir, fap, #t—Linc, S07—fteam and ot ¢, plimbing. boiler and power . "Fonad relinble for 25 senrs. Al ‘of the famons Tdeal Arco Boflers fu Stock. Can place a boiler 1o your premlses Te dav_ardered, PLUMBING. _HEATING _AND _TINNING, fave It Done Right—Get Casey.” 8207 14th - nw. Columbia 1551831 ; P . ~Complete printlng service. writ- ing, fllustrating, composition and presswor high.grade commercial work. Colnmbis Prin ing Co.. Tno.. 815 14th st n.w. M. 4250. RUG WEAVING — RUGS REWOVEN ©ROM worn enrpets. durable and cheap. OLD LAT- REL ECIAPSE, 309 100h st. e, Frank 8977 WORK AT NIGHT in hotel. Viola Fractious 2882 Flvin_nd., An . R, —amateur, experienced, . desifes ank for Panl. _1° MECHANIC, experienced, wants work - rage. 2112 10h str oo i PAPERHANGING, by day, plece, job. PHARMACINT—College_Pharmacy _graduate, ten years' experience in retail stores; refer: Address Box 137-V, Star office.” 2° s | 3o WAITRESS, white, $65: cook. $75; butler. Ladies’ Exchange. 07 Vermont ave. PLUMBER, good mechanic, wants position. Adatess Box 184-V, Star office. 1 WAITRESS, white, Protestant pref. ences required. Heid st_nw. e HELP—FEMALE. 'ADDRESSING WORK—Young. write good hand. Kaplowits Bros. st n.w. APPRENTICE to learn beauty business. Ap- refer- 9th ply Betty Scull, 308 Kresge bldg., 11th and | sonality and sppearance, G sty . ATTENDANTS, female, for the rchop#thic s, Gallinger Municipal lo-rf" App! per month and meais. tendent, 19th and O streets ‘Southes OANVASSING, _bouse-to-house. New Jersey &ve. o.w. Bteady em| Call 8:30 to ® a.m. or 4 to 6 p.m. CHARWOMEN, expsrienced, for evening work in office building. Call 506' U street n.w. be- fore 2:30 p. ‘10 COUNTER GIRL, experienced, for eafeteria. Apply atter 2:30 pm. 1000 Pa. nw, apt. 2. 419 experienced, aver mowes ra GIR Laundry. 620'B n.w. LADIES, five, to sell BraziNan Cream. can_walk and ehow you can make easily’ $4 day, This is new and different. Oxford_bldg 20 LADIES—Have several openings for ladies to | to garden and nursers work e _trained to sell well known ‘‘made-to-meas. | ing_worker. Frank Morphy, | ure” corset; whole or part time; liberal com- mission. For particulars call Room 227, Hotel Wanshington, between 1 and 4 Thursday and & LAD Four Bandi ro l-T-I'N': ] l'!‘l 1] llll’g' °.“ 2 pets._517 District National Bank bidg. 2% LADIES of type be for the SRR ERERS Agency, 2112 14th | Phone ol lady; must | groceries, ginger t. | tion, rej White, experiented on collars. Page | Rerienc PORTER, pantry man or waiter; young m e e PORTER. butler or waiter, experienced. North 2002-W. 1¢ SALESMAN—Married man. 25, desires with reliable firm: experienced in le, tobacco and eiga: ferences. Address Box 189- ition cellent ce. | ANTIQUES, "ait ~ WANTED—MISCELLANEOUS. SEWING MACHINES CLUANED. REPAIRED and_adjusted: all mokes: parts for all make ranteed In writing for one ye hop uigue, Weshingto hine dealers, 8th and & s ATK_COMPRESSOR with d.c. elec. motor on wheels. 1100 8rd_st. n.e. Linc. 4680-d. st prices paid, Sinic 8178, " ices for Tadie Write or phone D. Btein. 1308 Tth st. n.w.; phone North 499. OLOTHING—Army _and ¥ clothing and | Liest_prices 11_Fraokiiz 1290, | T Highest prices paid for men's | and boys' wora clothing and sboes. G. Licht- man. N. 8815. 1744 7th st. CLOTHING—WIll call Ta my uniettered auio: mobile, city or suburbs. and pay you highest prices ‘for ladies', gentiemen's, children's. ai farded clothing of all descriptions. Addre: tal or phone. I will call. W. Rice, 1333 th st. n.w. North 1786 A ¥. Aruold, 1328 office. SALESMAN—Successful, axgremsive, ¥ desires local or tra eling connection with established firm. dress Box 115-V, Star office. SONCRETE BIOCK MACHINE wanted, Phons Kensington 76-R. e NDS. old gold, silver, bought for cass. D ekamms, i8-8 o nwr ot for STENOGRAPHER, (ypist, secretary. oix % experience. _Addréss’ Box' 172.V. Sidr office. 3¢ SUPERINTENDENT or manager of apartment et twenty Soars eaperioace Cometimes Dlon, 'repairs, rentale, Teal ¢otater purchaps of furnishings, et well educated and ited. Ldaress” Box TIEY, giar mates folly q office. DRAWING BOARD for mechanical drafting. Address Box 81-W, Star office. by THER BEDB and furnitnre. Best prices T Sguare Deal Furaitare Co., 801 Kre oow Bhose Main sase. FURNITURE—Want encugh {o ontft six.room also player-piano, large mahogany Victor Phane Vranitin 8143, ar WAITER, reliable colored man; excellent re erence. 1280 4th st. n.w. 2 WATCHMAN —Mliddle-aged white mfn. 627 E st._s.e._Linc. 6345.J. WORK. full_or spare time; in privatc pl Accornérs, 1788 G_st._n.w. £ ORK of any kind by Toung colored b3, €. 9268, i FORX all kinds; office furniture a specialty. W, k. 6183, TURE_High trices” for furiture of | 3 30° dining room 2391 | FUKNITUK all kinds of YOUNG MAN, 4 years' experlence soliciting T2 you | general insurance, wishes position n insurance dept. of real estate firm. ~Address Box 175-V, Star office. g YOUNG MAN white, secks empioyment; used capable and will- 739 Princeton pl. o due YOUNG_ MAN dvsires store,_Address Box b e b SITUATIONS—MALE, FEMALE. oF ~ — | TRNITORE and rugs, lamedidtely { room_house: whele or i Pléa Franklin 13397 AN FURNITURS, pianos. carpets, etc, Phone M 1282 for wagon or have me call. “*Weschler,' 920 Pa. B.w. f 7o have any furitare of o sell, and you want to obtals wend for Louis Notes, 814.E st. RK_REPATRING. Mints repairs trunke, bhage, ladies’ handbags. ete. Call of Ve 38 Font. Mal 5 3] FURSITURE REPAIRING: : formiture . CT JEWELRY REPAIRL F. Cooper, 503% 11th o.w. Plone Fri lin 8008 Gl L p et WINDOW AND DOOR SHADES, Good qual~ ity opaque shades fitted to y: s the Dest qualiss of opaque shades, $1.15; bung free. We call with mples. Kleebiatl, 11th BUSINESS OPPORTUNITI! T requires from advertisers in this column references and a detailed ___ statement of their proposition. ROOMING HOUSE wanted at onc ddress Nox 99-V, $tar o FOR SALE, shoe repair aliop ca 14th st., near establ atied five years. Al R_Cala o GROCERY STORE Ir. fixturea and good wili, $3,800; $500 per week sales: free rent for th five years under lease. Apply DIST. R N OH.. 934 N ve_nw. 3. = thousand dollars paid In burs a U e ith &1l modern improvements, stock i od 5. of n with 5o oppos| turther fnformation, DIST. REALT' us other business. office, CLE. 10 years. 1in 1843, Call between @ und i3 o mmediate Seed of Taratrury oda ‘v Call_Franklin mi STORE WITH LIVING QUARTERS ABOVE. new, pever occupled; hot-water heat, electr! 1ight building for sale without any cas ent; $100 per month covers all princi; & all {nterest; new, g, sorthwest gse tion, JOHN H. WRIGHT, 15th st mwy ! Math 8897 or Adams 1875, 3 R 4