Evening Star Newspaper, July 12, 1924, Page 18

ITTLE CTORIES ,[}6’ Bflg)ml}r:' BY THORNTON W. BURGESS. The Mysterious Whistle. Your laughter may prove out of tune. e wire you do not laugh too soons —Farmer Brown. How Farmer Brown did laugh when he came home and heard about the mysterious whistle, which had called his boy up from the cornfield. “Either You must have imagined that whistle or else some boy has learned our private signal and played a joke on you,” he declared. But Farmer Brown's Boy was posi- tive that he hadn't imagined that whistle. “I heard it,” said he, “just as plainly as ever I have heard ft. 1 don’t know of any bo who would pla Somebody whistled, find out who it w The next morning Farmer Brown's Boy went to town on an errand, and was gone until noon. He did not re- turn until after Farmer Brown had come up from the cornfield where he had been working that morning saw him come into the look on this the | back sin this mornin around here a trick like that. and 1 mean to you hav You started out early demanded “Ye: * replied Fa do you ask replied karmer Brown, agh 1 heard you whistle to me during the middle of the morn- :r Brown's T didn't” Boy. “It wasn't my you heard, for 1 was at the village. Now 1 guess von 1y do belic that 1 heard 4 wh vesterday.” - son.” replic mer Brown. 1 heard a whistle just i did. 1T T refused to lelieve it 1 couldn’t believe that I heard that whistle myself this morn- ing. and 1 know t T did hear it.| It was our own private signal whis tled just as we always whistle it Some one certainly is play a jok on us. Who it can be 1 have no idea Farmer whistle replied very minute both whistle. Being in the house totell exa where it but both heard it. Farmer jumped up from the din- ing to find that fel- low.” he declared. “I'm going to look through every hiding pl Vhoever is doing that whistling is having a lot of fun. But I'm going to put an end to it by finding out who it is.” that THE NEXT MORNIN BROWN'S BOY ON AN ERRAN FARMER NT TO TOWN Just as Farmer Brown's Boy step- ped out of the house he heard the whistle again. 1t came from back of the barn. He was sure of it. Re- turning_quickly, but noiselessly over 1o the barn he crept along the side of it and very carefully peeped around the corner. No one was to be seen. Such a funny expression as the face of Farmer Brown's Boy wore. He had felt surc that he would find some one hiding behind that barn Farmer Brown's Boy looked every- where. He went all through that barn. He didn't mi place big enough for 3 n. He look- ed under the ven looked in the pig 7 Twice while he w hunting he heard the whistle, but he didn't find the whistler (Copyright, by T W. Burgess) _— e ARRANGE LEAGUE LIAISON. Non-Partisan Association Will Aid Americans in Geneva. July 12.—Charles ew’ York, officially re the League of Nations No: Partisan Associati has arriv here and has established the oflic of an international club to o in_the reception of a num of Americans who ai ing here to study league activ z The league staff finds itself unable to cope with the American visitor prob- lem, so Mr. Bauer will do liaison work between the visitors and of- ficials. c Rauer menting large n- Less than 2 per cent of the total land area of the arid and semi-arid sections of the United States is now irrigated. Be Independent —of the rent man-—be your own landlord. You can find a home to suit you at the , rice you want to pay in beautiful West Chevy Chase Heights 5 and 7 room Hampton-built Bungalows, with ston chimneys and firep conveniences and generous lots —on ATTRACTIVE TERMS. LOTS AS LOW AS $400 West Chevy Chase Heights has water, sewers, paved strects, etc. Lots and Bungalows are 1o- THE DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX' Are Daughters “Supporting” a Mother When She Makes Their Home, Cooks, Sews, Washes and Cleans for Themy? AR DORCTHY DIX: I am a mother, living with my girle. 1 do all the housework, the washing, cooking, ironing, cleaning, and run all over town hunting them bargains in grocerles and vegwtables to save them money. T am happy to do all this, but what hurts mzy heart is that my daughters think that they support me. I do not ask any pay for what I do. but I don't like them to feel that they take care of me, and that I should be grateful to them for doing so. I think I earn my own way. My girls make good money and should be happy ito have a mother to do all the work at home, and make them a nice plate where they can bring their friends, for mother always has a good dimner for them, no matter how tired she is. Now please tell me if I am wron & when I say that ymy daughters do not support me, that I support mysel A POOR SOUL. Answer: You certainly are an independent, self-sugporting woman, Poor Soul, for if there is any human being on earth who swarns his or her own board and keep, and a good fat aalary besides, it is the woman who does the never-ending labor of making a comfortable ‘home. If your unzrateful daughters had to cook their 'own meals and make their own ds and wash their own eclothes in addition to earning thuir own living— s any other girls do—th. would realize how lucky they! are'to have a r who doe all of this for them. And, if they to pay the price that any sort of a competent cook and laundress and hovisemaid gets in these days, and settle the staggering bills that hired help runs up with its wastefulness and extravagance, they would realize that the mother who works for her food and a few jclothes is no object of charity whom they generously support. They would find out that she saves f them a hundred times over all that she costs them. There is nothing mora pitiful and nothing more reprehensible than the way so many daughters make unconsidered slaves of thwir mothers. In thousands of houscholds you will find mother doing all thei housework mother nursing the children, mother making the clothes, mother doing the work that it would take half a dozen servants to do, and getiing for it neither th v. On the contrary, the very daughters. who make an unappre ze of mother talk about mother being a.burden on them. and expec 2 ody to throw bouquets at them for being so good and kind as to give mother a home. 1 s wonder why such mothers as you are, Poor their daughters a good lesson. Why do you not throw up your unremunera- tive job in daughters' kitchen and get one in somebody else’s. where they will be only too glad to give you ood money for doing the work that you are now doing for nothing? There are thousands of strange women who are longing for just such housekold treasures as you are, and who would consider it a privilege to pay vou a handsome salary for giving them good home cooking and keeping down the grocery bill. your walkout. and leave vour daughters to find out whether a se ipporting woman or not. DOROTHY DAIX. Soul, do mot teach ere you [DEAR POROTHY D1 1 am a professional man, very interested’ in my profession, very ambitious, and am beginning to gain distinction in it But my wife is ruining my practice by her jealousy, her false accusa- tions and her nag Tam at my wits' end to know what to do, as I am not qualified to make a living in any other way, and yet If my wife parsists in her course I will soon be ruined professionally and will have to turn to sometking else. Can you suggest any cure for her? M. D. No. “Who can minister to a mind diseased™ A woman's her husband’s business is insanity. because her welfare is it just as much as his is, and when she ruins him she ruins If. Any sane person would see this for herself. When one doesrt, because she is bereft of reason. and there is no use in arguing with . or trying to get her to view the matter in its proper light. Unfortunately, the wives of physiclans seem very prone to this malady. A young woman who was enzaged to a doctor told me that it drove her crazy to think about her fiance going from one pink neglige-clad woman to another, holding their hands and listening sympathetically to theiry mptoms. “Well. then.” I told her. not to marry him. if vou fe Answer: jealousy of wrapped up “at least be honest enough with the man that way. You know in advance wha his profession is, and you have no right to interfere with his lifework, or to torment him to death with your jealousy and suspicions. And if you had any sense the more pink-negliged ladies he went to see, the better u would be pleased, for it means just that much more prosperity for you. | ‘urthermore,” I went on, “no_other men in the world have so few illusions about women as doctors, because no other men see them under such disadvantages. A sick woman is at her worst, physically and mentally, and if you think there is anything alluring about a nervous, neurotic, hypochandriacal female. you have another guess coming your way. The wonder to me is that any doctor ever marries at all. I would think that they woarld be off of the woman proposition for life.” The young woman took my advice and broke off her engagement with the physician, which saved one man from having his carcer wrecked by a jealous wife. And a woman can do that very effectually, for she can not only nag her husband until she destroys his efficiency. but no woman wants to call in a physician who has a jealous wife, be e it is too dangerous. There is no telling what unfounded scandal may start. S DOROTHY DI EAR DOROTHY DIX: What do you think of a father who threatens to disinherit his two sons if they marry while he lives? Both sons have found the girl A DAILY READER. Answer: Why. T think it sounds like an old-fashioned melodram, Disinheriting sons because they won't marry to please a stern parent simp! isn't done ;now, and I think the sons would just laugh at father and go along and ‘get married anyway. But arty man who tries to keep his sons from marrying nice girls and living a normal, domestic life is not only cruelly selfish, but lacking in good, hard, commomn sense. For it is not the old bachelors who make the finest men. but the men who have wives and children, somebody to work for and achieve for. Father married and had children that he loved enough to want to keep them for himself. Why does he want to denv his sons the same source of happiness? Why does he wish to impose his tyranny upon them so that they will look forward to his death as something that will free them from bomdage? But. at any rate. any man who doesn't think more of a girl than he does of his father's will won't be much loss as a hushand, s DOROTHY DIX. Auto Theft Suspect Is Killed. BENLD, IiL. July 12.—John Crochete of Benid killed and Johnny Crowe of St. Louis, Mo., was arrested here | yesterday by members of a posse which attempted to arrest them on suspicion that the automobile they were driving was stolen. Three bank officia re_members of the posse. GEORGIAN ASKS ACTION. Seeks Speed From Cuban Court to Regain Property. HAVANA, July 12.—Petition that the lower court carry out the order of the court of appeals and restore his property at Marianoa Beach, which he asserts was illegally taken away from him in 1919, was pre- sented to the court yesterday by Capt. Walter Fhstcher Smith. The case has h2en in the courts for Imost five vears, and Capt. Smith, wealthy resident of Havana and head of the local post, United Span- ish War Veterans., appealed to the United States enrba: to aid in pre- venting further &elay. The property is valued at aromnd $200,000. Capt. i « Apartment for Rent 3409 29th Street N.W. (Just_ morth of Cleveland Park. Take Conn. Ave.car and get off at Ordway St. Walk one-half square west to 29th St) 2 rooms, kitchenette and bath $60.00 . 3 rooms, kitchenette and bath $72.00 All apartments in excellent condition. ~All outside rooms. One of the coolest spots in Washington. Open for i - tion. " i B. F. SAUL Co. 1412 Eye St. N.W. Main 2100 COMPLETE wE carry every kind of lumber meeded in building. You ' will save money by buying from us. Orderss filled promptly. “Better Lumben Here” Galliher & Huguely Sherman Ave. & W St. Northwemt cated two blocks above the Bank of Bethesda, on the main Rockville Fike. MOTOR OUT. Representative always on property T 2 2R 22T E T A BARGAIN 3921 McKinley Street One Block South of Chevy Chase Circle Chevy Chase, D. C. 8 Rooms—2 Baths Hot-Water Heat Garage W. H. West Company 815 15th St. N.W. Main 6464 Phone Northj 436 APARTMENTS The Cleveland 3039 Macomb St. N.W. DeBEghtful for Summer Reduced Rentals 3 Rooms and bath $50 and $5750 4 Rooms and Bath, $75.00. H. L. RUST COMPANY 912 15th Street N.W. Main 6888 Story-and-half bunga- low with large screened- in front porch, large liv- ing room with open fire- place, kitchen, two bed- rooms, bathroom, Delco electric light plant, Sec- ond floor: Large open room can be made into four bedrooms. Pump and well with exception- ally fine water, garage. This house sits on a high bluff surrounded by beau- tiful trees and has a most wonderful view of South Rive Edgewater and South River Park. The house is completely fur- nished and ready to move into. Terms can be ar- ranged. ‘We_have other attrac- tive ready-built bunga- lows on ¥%-acre tracts as low as $1,200. Building sites, %-acre tracts, at trom $500 to $1,250. C. H. NEELY 113 H St NW, / EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, JULY 12 110 CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHES ARE CLOSED Autos, Drift to Cities and Federa- tion Move Are Reasons Given for Year’s Record. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 12--Extensive use of automobiles, the concentra- tion of rural population in cities and towns and the growing spirit of church federation resulted in the closing of 110 Congregational churches in the United States last year, the annual report of the church, made public yesterday, disclosed. Membership, however, increased 63,630, the. report said, boosting the averaige membership per church from 147 to more than 150. Church prop- orty value also increased $8,412,261 to a total of $132,388,237. Rev. Charles E. Burton, secretary of the Congregational Churches in the United States, sald the tendency toward “fewer and better churchés” was welcomed by the church. The uevelopment was also responsible, in part, he sald, for an increase in the average pastors salary from $1.778 to $1,534 a year. California was once a famous sal- mon state, but now the fish of the only river that has a run of salmon are threatened by the erection of a dam. Store Property 1315 7th St. N.W. First floor, large store, vacant. Second floor, 5- room and bath apartment, rented. Third floor, 3- room and bath apartment, rented. This property must be sold. No reason- able offer refused. W. H. West & Co. W. L. F. King. . G. Perry 815 15th St. NW. Main 6464 o Lo Michigan Park 12th and Michigan Ave. N.E. A neighborhood of en- hancing value, zoned and restricted. Individ- ual or group building lots and properly con- - structed houses and bungalows. Call at 4207 12th street northeast, or Middaugh & Shannon, Inc. Dupont Circle. Potomac 2200 Must Be Sold 2630 Garfield St. Modern Brick Home 9 Rooms—2 Baths Just Around the Corner from Wardman Park. Weaver Bros. 735 15th St. N.W. M. (1821 S.E. Corner First and Channing Sts. N.W. Overlooking Beautiful McMillan Park Open for Inspection Sunday 2:00 to 600 This is a very attrmctive tapes- try brick house, his_home, ~ containing rooms " and tlle bathp sleeping rch ; porch; double brick garage: Bas bot™water heat, electricits and gas. Don’t fail to stop and in- spect the best constructed house in this section. 5 THOS. E. JARRELL 837 Woodward Bldg. Phones Main 766, 3370 1924. RUSSIA MISREPRESENTED, SAYS U. S. RELIEF AGENT Great Opportunity Seen for Amer- ica to Create Better Feel- ing in Europe, . By the Amsociated Press. 7 OCEAN CITY, N. J,” Jily 12— | Rusela, without being understood, is being “maligned and persecuted,” Wilbur K. Thomas of Philadelphia, member of the Friends Service Com- mission, yesterday told the Friends' general conference in session here. “I am not speaking in defense of Russia or its political entanglements,” said the speaker, “but I am interested in its 115,000,000 people Who must be interpreted to the world and the vorld to them. The whole of Russia NINE HURT IN AUTO CRASH. One May Die as Result of Detroit Motor Bus Collision, DETROIT, July 12.—Willlam Dorn- bush of Halway, Mich., a suburb of Detroit, suffered injuries which doc- tors say probably will prove fatal and Mrs. Mary MoGlll of Halway was badly cut about the head and is re- ported to be in a seriout condition a8 a result of a collision last night between a motor bus bound for Mount Clemens to Detroit and an au- tomoblle. The accident occurred near the Detrolt city limits. Seven other persons were Injured seriously enough to require hospital attention, but none of them 18 be- lieved to'be fatally hurt. All reside in Detroit and vicinity. A number of other passengers in the bus sut- fered minor cuts and bruise CLEVELAND PARK 3233 Thirty-Eighth Street achied brick home, built by one ton’s best builders. Complete in Contains eight rooms, tvo tiled ric lights, hard- car of lot. The nd has reduced baths, wood 'floors g owner is leaving the city the price $2,000. Open for Inspection From 2:30 to § ‘Present Price, $14,250.00 H. L. RUST COMPANY Exclusive Agents 912 15th St. N.W., M. 6888 Biggest Home Values Offered in Washington NEW HOMES Priced Under $7,000 1701 to 1731 D St. S.E. 6 rooms, bath, H.-W.H, electric [lights, wash trays, built-in ice box, l-piece sink, double rear porches, wide front porch, extra deep lot to wide alley. ASK THE MAN WHO OWNS ONE Built, Owned and for Sale by Thomas A. Jameson Co. Owners and Builders 906 N. Y. Ave. N.W. Phone Main 5526 First Time Offered 1801-23 B St. Southeast Price, $7,150 $500 Cash Terms to Suit 4 Sold Before Completion Colonial type tapestry brick homes of 6 rooms and tiled bath. Hardwood floors. Hot-water heat, gas and elec- tric lights. Built-in ice box. Laundry trays in cellar. We consider this one of the best buys in the District of Co- lumbia today. ING & BOSSE 1213 Eye St. N. W. Franklin 9380 Northeast Price, $8,950 Moderate Cash Payment Balance Like Rent 1 Sold Colonial brick, 6 rooms and tile bath, hardwood trim and floors. Hot-water heat, gas and electricity. 2 large rear porches and concrete front porch. Room for garage. Near churches, schools and stores. Only 2 blocks to Lincoln Park. THERE’S A REASON! —for this impressive list of purchasers in Battery Park and Edgemoor. They are DISCRIMI- NATING. They could have gone elsewhere but—BATTERY PARK and EDGEMOOR most nearly met their requirements., Here are some of the reasons: 1. Location 2. Environment 3. Transportation 4. Conveniences 9. Restrictions 10. Management 11. Price 12. Terms 5. Architecture 6. Construction 7. Community Features 8. Landscaping There are others. INVESTIGATE for yourself. Partial list of purchasers in Battery Park and Edgemoor. Colonel A. P. Andrus *Mr. W. K. Bachrack Mrs. Melita Barnes *Mr. Walter F. Baughman *Major J. L. Beatie *Colonel J. B. Bennet Mr. V. T. H. Blen oMr. Cecll Biilupe *Captain James H. Beals Bogman Mr. G. 8. Bohart Mr. James T. Brazelton *Mr. William 'W. Bride Mrs. Evans Brown Colonel Fred R. Brown Colenel 0. G. Brown Mr. W. H. Colonel Fred W. Coleman *Colonel Sherrard Coleman *Colonel Wallace M. Craigie “Mr. R. Granville Curr, General Richmond P. Davis *Colonel H. Mrs. Elizabeth rake sMr. J. 8. Easby-Smith Tieutenant Co ler E. C. Rdwards sCommander Cbarles K. Mallory *Captain George F. Seibels, U. 8. N. 4+ 1108 16th St. *In front of purchaser's name indicates that hoote is completed and cocupied. MADDUX MARSHALL & CO,, Inc. *Professor David Lumsden Miss Blanche Maddux Major H. C. Maddux Mallan H. Mallory Colonel R. H. Pierson *Mrs. C. 8. Poe Mr. J. R. Pope *Major Ira A, Rader *Mr. C. Griscom Randle Mr. B. H.,Ransom *Colonel J. Reeves *Mr. Charles 5. Robb Colonel Stanley S. Ross Mrs. Moylan Sams Mrs, Mary A. Schaat *Mrs. Helen R. Scudder Mr. C. W. Seibel Mr. Jerome C. Shear “Mr. Jesse F. Sprinkle *Mrs. Grace Staley Mr. Eugene Stevens Mr. Walter F. Eller Colonel R. B.Eilix Colonel Oliver 8. Eskridge r. B. P. Evans r. Robert F. Fleming ise Sara J. Fleming Mr. C. A. Galbraith Mr. S. Franklin Gardner *Colonel Joseph L. Gilbreth 2 General Willlam 8. Gr: N *Mr. J. W. Green Colonel Dabney H. Maury Colonel E. I Griffith Colonel Alfred A. Masbach r. Frank N. Grigg Mr. Joseph B. Morgan r. Eugene W. Goodwin Mr. J. E. McClure “Colonel E. H. Hartnett ir. Dallas L. McGrew Dr. H. C. Haves Colonel_Joseph T. McMullin Mrs. Rosa P. Haves. Major_Henry Cla *Oolonel C. A. Hedekin Mrs. Jobn D. Miley *Mrs. B. R. Heiberg Mrs. Florence B. *Captain 8. D. Hervey *Mr. L. C. Mitchell “Miiss Fiizabeth A. Hillyer Lee Moxett Mre. L. I, Stewart Mx. Oliver Hogem “Mrs. Bdwin A. Morse *Captain L H. Strickland Colonel Paul C. Hutton Colonel James' A. Moss 3 Geweral Merritte W. Ireland Major Charles G. Mortimer *Colonel Frank. O. Jewell Mr. Thomas H. Mott Mrs. Cathrine Johuson Captain M. P. Novak *Lievtenant Harrison Johnson ~Mr. Joyce Ol A. G. Miss Mary 0'Leson Dr. C. P. Olivier *Major _George Pariseau Frederick Parkhurst *Mr. J. G. Peters Colonel A. §. Perkins *Colonel William A. Phillips Commander H. M. Walker Mrs. L. 1. Townshena *Mr. T.' Hardy Todd aries P. Lindsay, Jr. W. Linneil Captai: D.’S. Lockwood Colonel N. E. Wood *Mrs. Caroiine’ M. Wood *Mr. L. E. Whittemore Realtors Main 8970 is not corrupt. Famine came because | of lack of rain and it was not due to political conditions.” Mr. Thomas also declared there is a great opportunity for the United | States to create a better feeling of understanding with countries of Europe as well as Mexico. STUDEBAKER Just Drive It; That’s All JAMESON-BUILT HOMES 1313 to 1319 Taylor St. N.W. 4004 to 4022 13th St. N.W. Only One Square From 14th St. Car Line 6 and 8 large rooms, attic, tiled bath, h.-w.h., double floors, built-in ice box, servant’s toilet, wide double rear porches, cement {front porch, deep lot to wide alley. : ASK THE MAN WHO OWNS ONE Built, Owned and for Sale by Thomas A. Jameson Co. Owners ana Butlgers 906 N. Y. Ave. N.W. Phone Main 23 “A SHADE CAREFULLY MEANS LASTI Window Shades that are plains the reason for their > BETTER” TAILORED NG SERVICE m, S receive the utmost of attention in We Specialize in Residential Properties and City and Subur Investment, Business and Apartment Consult Our Sales Department for Your Require THOMAS J. FISHER & CO,, Inc. 738 15th St. N.W. Building Sites Dan Properties ments Main 6830 One-Fifth Cash Monthly Payment Less Than Rent Will buy an individ apartmert in this new build- ing under th: co-operative ownership plan. Just west of the intersection and Mount Pleasant Street. One markets, etc. Convenient to the the city. beautiful Rock Creek Park and light. Representative on premises Satu For Plans and P Main 7253 1705 LANIER PLACE NORTHWEST Just the right distance irom downtown. All outside corner apartments, insuring excelient vent of 16th Stree! lumbia Road block s, store finest churches 1 s Over roks ation 1 Sunday rticulars Apply Edmund J. Flynn Company, Inc. 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