Evening Star Newspaper, December 22, 1923, Page 8

Dorothy Dix’s Letter Box How Can a Girl Get Acquainted With Nice People in a Strange City?—Should a Gir 1 of Sixteen Become Engaged?—The Bad-Tempered Girl Who Is Trifling With Love. S DIX land?" How does one mak I have lived her PEAR MIs strange exactly two men, cne of whom is so undesirable as possible. The other is very nice, he doesn’t come around very often. T are not friends. They have never call 1o their homes. One of them frankly of friends, whom she had gone to sch; to the circle. At church I was so cor 1 haven't been to church for more one knew 1 was there. So T spend my time in this manner: except on Saturdays, when I have a b and do a bit of shopping. Sundays T with a book of solitaire lamp at my or a game f side, 1 ask you what kind of an evening is that for a glrl who is pr full of life and pep, who dances, and and who is a good talker, and a bette: can a nice girl get acquainted with when she goes to live in a strange town Answer: You have propounded on: Sal by which the friendles fellow creatures. But nobody Yet bringing congenial strangers s that would not have in unsophi: and offer every oppol S0 the tragedy of loncliness in ¢ ou, with their feet aching to dai d’girl comradeship, sit up and chile plenty of nice hoys, who are d forlornly up and down the ree: a only knew a nice gi likn e irls And nobody knows how to Cheer up, though, Sally, After all, a city is not a de meet some boy or girl whose this is ted of it will introduce you to his cr her friends, vou to their friends' fricnds, and bofc own tight little circle. and barricadt But_remember this:' You have to sure. Wlhen you are introduced to pe. to them, you have got to make them Zot to be attractive enough to them to It is a matter of personality, and it's IDEAR MISS DIX: 1 know a girl who personality. She is also an accon at the age of sixtesn she has ater promise is being held out for hes This summer she became acquain of twenty to work his way throu for the last three mon Her parents are willin He has been such time as he is in a position to marry deciding her whole future life at the e Answer: Certainly not. A girl of taste and a child's judgment busband than she is of steering a shin on Wall street othing is more curlous than that a ehoose a fur coat for herself on her select her life mate, and that a father of men and things to make a hundred- her whole future happiness. A girl of sixteen 18 going to like when s no idea in is twent The v bores he engagemen For a blight on h studies if ry type that appeals to he to tears, when she arrive to_be engaged K. voung girl education. for one thin o is waiting for love letter: ber work by wondering what her fia For another thing. it cuts off a keeps other men away from her. carefree, irresponsible fun of girlhood tssed the gift of the gods. are certain hes of a long engagem \, to remain free until they 1¢ they truly love each other. th and if they don't, it will be far bette: to break EAR DOROTHY DIX: and there is nothing he would not dc The. although he tells me that there are lots of things that I do of which h't approve, but he will not spoil my happines: he do But when 1 get grouchy, and am long. Then he loses his temper and s off the engagement Do you not thi T am in a good temper or a bad temper? Answer 0. Why should he unreasonable? avery whit as disgusting but not temper. a drunken righ CHRISTIAS RUSH BREAKS RECORDS. New York Wild Mob of Rush- ing Spenders, Heedless i of Accidents. | \ | BY ROBERT T. SMALL. Eperial Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK. December 22.—New York is ending up its year of tre- mendous spending with a Christmas | shopping rush that is breaking all records. Through trade channels it is reported fhat many lines of merchan- | dise have been cleaned out fully a| week before the Christmas trade usually ends Virtualy al!l of the big department stores have been swamped with erowds that they have had to insti- tute traffic regulatic One-way aisles and one-way entrances and mits have been established and uni- | formed employes are acting as traffic | police, giving the signals when to | “go" and when to “stop.” Late de- liveries have been made next to im- <ible and limousines and taxicabs | Pave been pressed into service to ocarry home the bundles. 1 Street Traffic Heavy. i Traffic in the Streets has become | an almost impenetrablo maze. The| pelice have found it difficult enough to handle the vehicles. They have thrown up their hands at the task| of trying to direct the onrushing| Christmas shoppers, who o dashing | across the street, regardless of the semaphores turned against them. Six| pollce stationed at the busiest cor- ners of 5th avenue have been unable | 1o stem the tide of reckless walkers who will not walit for the safety ! eign. Much of this wild traffic run-| Ping 1s attributed to the thousands' of out-of-town people in the city. Among the most distinguished of the out-of-towners has been Mrs.! Henry Ford. She came all the way | from her home. in Dearborn. Mich.. in a private car to do a single day’s | shopping in the metropolis. Tike all the rest of the metropoli- tan “commuters,” she almost missed her homebound train. Mrs. Ford traveled in the private car Falr Way and she was accompanied by a party of friends and a whole retinue of servants. They trailed through sev- eral of the more exclusive shops, Mrs. Ford in the lead and friends and rervants following in close forma- tion. When the party dashed through the Grand Central station to make The Wolverine” express the serv- ants, each ad every one, looked like & Santa Claus. It was said at the railway offices today that the trip cost Mrs. Ford nearly 21,300 in railroad charges nlone. Henry Ford is president of 0 pletely | than a ye y. The churches, the women's clubs, and philanthropists have acquired gray n a city could has ever bring aura corresponds to future. two years, who is just commencing his 2 for them to become engaged. and wailt until he is no two. is not so disastrous as an early marriage. it is a he and does Very foolish who let a voung girl tie herself up My trouble is that T cannot seem to get along with oung man to whom I am engaged. When I am pleasant he is lovely nk that if he really loved me he would love me whether A high-tempered woman. giving rein | ilege of selling {at from 360 to $100 apiece have been | in_great demand. ! not |lars in 5 and 10 cent purchases. | taking in more than $1,000.000 a day. e friends when one is “a stranger in a years, and today I know that 1 avoid him as much but financially embarrassed, so that now possibly twelve girls, but they ed on m; d have never invited me told me that she had her own circle nd she dldn't care to add yred that it was humiliating. r, because when 1 did go no © for two ool with 1 work from §:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m half holiday. en 1 go to a movie do nothing. My evenings are spent or company, and a friendly reading etty, and how, and dresses well, 1 ask you again, ho would like to know SALLY. likes a good r listener? So the_people she e of the greatest riddles in the world, the social workers, humanitarians hairs trying to devise some plan establish social relations with their been able to formulate any er, and of making wholesale them every element of danger to the rtunity of crime to the evil-minded. [ties goes on. and pretty young girls | nce, and their very souls hungry for | eat their hearts out in vain longing, ving for just such girl pals. wander 4 think how fine it would be if they K ho \e two together olatlon doesn't last island, and sooner or later you will yur own, and he or she and their friends will introduce sre vou know it you will be in your & against newcomers yourself make vour own calling and election aple you have got to “sell”_ yourself want to know you better. You have make them follow up the introduction. up to you DOROTHY DIX. togeths That's the pity is good looking, with a very attractive lished pianist and singer. and already ed attention by her work, and great ntlemanly voung fellow ollege course, expecting ery evening ted with a n calling on her almost e; Do vou think she is capable of arly age of sixteen years? W. A. sixteen is still a_child, with a child's more capable of picking out a across the ocean, of running a corner mother, who wouldn't let a girl own unaided judgment, will let her . who would not trust her knowledge dollar trade, will let her gamble with the world of what sort of man she r at sixteen fills her with disgust, or s at woman's estate, and while an handicap. during her school davs is a fatal She cannot put her mind on her Jand her attention is distracted from ce doing. girl's opportunities in the bud. It her out of all of the gay. And the girl who has missed that It is far better. both for her and the are ready to talk matrimony as well ey will stand without being hitched. r that there will be no hated halter DOROTHY DIX. for me. He never begins a fight with by nagging. hateful. he can stand it for just so ays that he doesn’t care if we break UNPLEASANT. vou when you are disagreeable and | to her passions. is Love survives many things, DOROTHY DIX 19251 | of the courtesy of free transporta- tion on the “connecting lines” of his own personal railroad. Mre. Ford and her party got caught | in several of the worst trafic jams of the day, but avoided the accidents | which befell so many other shoppers. The police say that war has nothing on the present street conditions in New York and they seriously assert that every one visiting the city at this time of the vear ehould wear identification tags of some sort Speaking more lightly, however, one | of the policemen at 42d street and 5th avenue allowed that he would | not have to o any Christmas shop- | ping if a few more pedestrians would only get hit and have their bundles | scattered far and wide, Greatest Rush Known. There is not only a greater shop- ping crush than New York has known bofore, but the average of purchases per shopper Is the highest in history. Tkis is in_ keeping with the lavish pending New York h been doing during the last twelve months. Theatrical and moving _picture prices have been at their highest this season. It has made no difference what prices the prize fight promoters asked, their “mills” have ground a| golden grist from the public. Cab- aret “palaces,” deprived of the priv. liquor legitimatel | have placed outrageous prices on tood | and water items, only to find that the | public has clamored for more and: more extravagance ‘The toys this season have been far beyond anything the country has ever known before. Toy limousines, driven by foot-power, have been bought for kiddies at a price that would pay for a regular automobile. French dolls The Christmas buying, however, has been confined tp:the more ex- pensive shops. The' 5 and 10 cent stores report that during the first two ecks of December their returns have | own an Increase of 20 per cent bove the sales of the same period last year. This means millions of dol- | The Woolworth chain is said to be PERPETUAL BUILDING ASSOCIATION _Pays 6 Per Cent on shares maturing in 45 or 83 months. It Pays 4 Per Cent on shares withdrawn be- fore maturity. Assets More Than $8,500,000 | gated mostly in the Cascade mou | tains of Oregon. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, GAVE JGEF ONLY TEN LINES IN TELLING ©OF HIS WITHDRAWAL FROM THG PRESIDENTIAL BY R. A. NORDMANN'S FIR—AB Of the eight fir trees (Abies) in cul- tivation In this country the Nord- mann's fir is the most frequent. It is | a very beautiful tree during the first fifty years of its life, and as depend- able and satisfactory as any of th desirable genus. In New England it | frequently suffers from cold and be- | comes thin and unsightly, but in the middle states is often a tree of great beauty. Its native home is in the mountains to the south and south- east of the Black sea and the western | spurs of the Caucasus range. | There are twenty-three known | species of fiv in the world, confined to | the northern hemisphere and segre- in the countries to the north and south of the Mediter- ranean sea and in Japan. As timber- producing trees they are less valuable | than the spruces. The wood is soft | and perishable. In the Pacific states | PACTS WITH MEXICO NEARER APPROVAL President of Senate Denies Con- " flict of U. S. Claims Conven- tions With Constitution. By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY. December (via Laredo).—Prospects for approval of the claims conventions, formulated last summer by the United States and Mexi- | co at pre-ecognition conferences, | brightened perceptibly upon announce- | ment by Teofilo Orantes, president of | the senate, and Enrique Colunga, secre- tary of the interior, that they hold groundless certain objections presented that the conventions conflicted with the | constitution. Orantes headed a commission which 22 The manufacture of first class mirrors is an art calling for a fine degree of experience, judg- ment and skill. 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MY WITHDRAWAL WILL CREATE A SENSAT EIN DRINKER WALKS HIMSELF TO DEATH Liquor Also Found to Cause Fatal Attacks of Ap- pendicitis. TMONS. Epecial Dispatch to The Star. SAN FRANCISCO, December Two new and grim penalties of boot- leg liquor—in both instances arlsing | from the use of so-called synthetic gin—have introduced themselves into | the Pactfic coast death records with- in the last twenty-four hours. ! In one instance insomnia, induced | by over-stimulation of the nerve cen- ters from a few glasses of gin, re-, sulted in a man literally walking| himself to death His death, at- tributed to heart failure, disclosed the fact that the gin-drinking had caused more than 100 deaths from heart af- fections in the last two vears. Causes Appendicitin. The other penalty of synthetic gin- drinking is acute appendicitis. State hospital records for the first eleven months of 1923, just made public, show 3,000 cases of acute appendicitis traceable to gin-drinking. Of these, | more than 2,300 were fatal The man_ who walked himself to death was Charles H. Haughton, & ro- bust, six-foot bricklayer. Last Sunday night Haughton went out on a ‘‘party” and drank four or five glasses of syn- thetic gin. Returning home early Monday morning. he was unable to g0 to sleep. He started pacing the floor. ‘That afternoon doctors were called in and administered a sleeping potion It was ineffectual, and Haughton kept walking. He walked incessantly, day and night. until_Thursday. Finally he keeled over dead. His heart had falled Unable to Sleep. Physicians said that there were at least a hundred in which overstimu- lation of the “sleep centers’ had caused death. One man hanged him- self becauss he could not sleep. Another drink-crazed patient killed himself with athletic gyrations, imagining himself to be an acrobat. The fatal appendictis cases attrib- uted to consumption of synthetic gin showed that Intestinal decay in the vicinity of the appendix. caused by poisons in the zin. had caused death In the majority of the cases, peri- tonitis followed the operations. - Thers are now about 40,000,000,000 copper coins in citculation in China— S0 many that it is no longer profitable to_mint them n IES NORDMANNIANA. the wood of several of the firs is used in making fruit boxes and woodenware. In Europe the wood of fir is valued, and the mes planted as a forest Nordmann's fir is producing « tree 100 to in height, with a trunk diameter of four <'feet. The leaves are dark and abov giving the active color of rich- ss and qualit s true also of Some of the other firs. The under sides of the | are silvery white. There is a v aurea variegata. , which the llage on the new shoots is pure golden yellow in color. l The cones are four to six inches long, cylindrical and slightly larger near ! the base, dark orange-brown It is fairly frequent in the parks of the Distric The tree illustrated s a labeled epecimen growing in_ the northeast corncr of Lafavette Park There is another Nordmann's fir in the northeast corner of Franklin Park. This tree also is labeled. was named at yesterday's secret in- tormal meeting of the senate major- ity, which included both administra- tion and de la Huerta supporters, to investigate fully the conference con- ventions. 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