Evening Star Newspaper, December 20, 1924, Page 9

NEEDY CHILOREN T0 GET CLOTHING Approximately 1,000 Laden Bags to Be Distributed by Central Union Mission. Between 1,000 and 1,200 bags con- taining clothing will be distributed by Central Union Mission at Thezter at 9 ‘clock Wed- nesday morning to needy children. John §. Bennett, superintendent of the mission, will act as Santa Claus and distribute the Mrs. Coolidge has been invited to attend by Mrs. Bennett. She was present at the distribution last Christmas In addition to the distribution, Le- nore Marie de Grange and her child players will give a little sketch, “On Christmas Eve.” On the stage will be erected a huge Christmas tree. which will be filled with the usual Yuletide decorations Beneath the tree will be stacked the bags for the children ery case in which a child will receive a bag has been investigated, and each bag will be marked with the name of the child and contain the thing the child needs most The mis into its new ana avenu Additional fur- niture Is still required, and it is an- nounced by Supt. Bennett that the following sums of money will accom- plish these resul To furnish the boy reading room in the ct $200. To furnish the Bible class and pray- er meeting room, $200. To furnish. complete, a bedroom in the children’s emergency home, $120. To furnish complete equip: jormitory t of provisions for a wcetion with 7 expects to baskets at to move Louisi- sitting and iren’s home, last item the about mas supply a 351 To supply a family ter-ton of coal, § The mission will give a dinner at noon Christmas In the new building in connection with its rezular Ch mas religious service. In the chil- dren’s emergency home, which is un- der direction of Mrs Bennett, Santa Claus will provide a tree laden with gifts for the 30 children there. Also there will be a big Christinas dinner served James T family with a half-ton with a quar- Lloyd. president of Board of Education, will speak rorrow night at 7::45 o'clock at gious services in the new mission build- ing. ONE KILLED, TWO HURT | IN SEAPLANE CRASH Motor of Machine Believed to Have Stopped Over Pensacola Bay. ACOLA, Fla Warren, & was instan hberger December ler's mat killed chief machin , chief g tion pilot, were | a seapiane crashed from | 2 low altitude to Pensacola terday 2 " Officers condueting an investigatior were unable to give the probable cause of the accident, but the motor of the large HS-21 ship is believed to have stopped or become disabled The plane was completely wrecked All three men are married, their families residing here. Neither Syl- vester, who has been an aviation pilot since 1916, n hrassenberger will die from their injuries, attending physicians indicated. Sylvester re- cently had been ordered detached to the Pacific Coast and was understood be making up a few hours of re- quired fiying. He suffered only a simple fracture of the left leg. The her man suffered concussion of the brain not believed to be serious. CHURCHES TO COMBINE IN ACTIVITIES FOR MEN Baptists, Methodists Presby- | terians Take Part in New and Council. Ry the Associated Proce, PHILADELPHIA, Decombor 20 Organization of the Dnteid mina- tional Council on Men's Work was an- nounced by Dr. Charles 11, McDonaid, sssociate director of men's work and weneral promotion. The nina- tions participating in this orzaniza- n are the irch in United rica, the >resbyterian Church in the United States, the Methodlst »pal Church, Reformed Church, Evangeli- cal Church, Protestant Episcopal and Northern Baptist convention The officers elected are: Chairman Rev. William F. Weir. Chicago; vice chairman, Henry W. Schulthels, Bal- timore; secretary and (reasurer, G. Frank Shelby, Philadelphia These offic with the Rev. Philadelphia, Charleston, W onstitute the committee to arrange for the place, time and program of the next meeting, in June, 1925. Dr. Weir is general director of men's work and general promotion for the Presbytefan Board of Chris- tian Education. in Presbyteria States of A It’s jest about got so children are neither seen nor heard any maore. Th’ feller that discovered that a paper dollar only lasts seven years must have been in jail, or fived with his wife’s folks. \Gegusiglity doba L. Dille o) i2-20 SETTLEMENTS IN AMERICA - [ITTLE STORIES rBEDm&E BY THORNTON W. BURGESS. Curiosity Satisfied. The curious to gratiy You first will bave (o satisty —Peter Rabbit. Peter Rabbit sat at the top of a steep bank of the Laughing Brook in the Green Forest, as puzzled a Rabbit as ever had llved. He had fol- lowed a quoer trail In the snow. It ended in long furrow from where Pcter was sitting straight down the st bank to the water. Peter hadn't the t idea who had made that | queer trail. So he sat there, staring all about rather foolishly, and now 1)0!\4] then scratching a long ear with a | hind leg. Hello, Peter Rabbit! Isn't at weather? Don't you just T do,” said a voice. Peter stared all around. every- where but in the right direction. Finally he just happened to look down in the black, cold water of the Laughing Brook. There in the very middle of it he saw a brown head, with a pair of bright eyes full of mis- this sr love it 4 = == : OTTER,” OODN CRIED PE HOW YOU f looking up at him ttle Joe Otter!” cried Peter. odness, how you startled me! 1 ldn't_tell where that volce came from. Yes, this is fine weather. I like it, to But T hope it won't get any colder. “I don't care how cold It gets,” de- clared Little Joe Otter. “By the way, what brings vyou over here to the Laughing Brook?" = That reminded Peter of the queer traln_that ha so puzzled him. *Some one, T haven't the least idea who, has been traveling about Iin the Green Forest and has left the queerest trail I've ever seen. In parts of it are no footprints at all. There is just a long furrow in the snow. Here Is one of those furrows right down this bank. Little Joe Otter's bright eves tw kled. *That is queer,” said he. . who under the sun do you suppose could have made It" That's what I want to know,” d clared Peter. “But I guess I'll have to keep on wanting, for I don't see that trail coming out of the water anvwhere. “Ill have to have a little sloser look at that. Tl join you in a min- ute,” sald Little Joe Otter. He swam swiftly up the Laughing Brook and came out of the water where the bank was low. Then he made his way around up to where Peter was sitting. “That is a queer trail,” £aid he, trying to keep his eves from twinkling. “It looks to me as if some one had slid down there. I tell you what, Peter, let's slide down, too, and see how it seems.” No, thank you,” replled Peter promptly, and backed away in a rather undignified manner. Just look- ing at that cold, black water made him chilly. “Oh, come on, Peter! It is the great fun in the world eried Lit- tle Joe, and, giving a quick, hard push with his hind feet, he glided right down that furrow, flat on his stomach straight into the water. Pe- ter looked over at the trail Littic Joe had made getting up there. Then in a flash he understood. That trail which had puzzled him so was made by Little Joo Otter himself. He had made those queer furrows by sliding on his stomach in the same way that he had gone down that bank. Peter gave a happy little sigh. His curios- ity was satisfied. ATTACHE WILL CONFER ON PRICES OF COFFEE Schurz to Sail for Brazil Today After Conference of Dealers Here. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, December 20.—A dele- gation representing the National Cof- fee Roasters’ Association, which re- cently discussed with Secretary of Commerce Hoover methods of reme- dying the present high cost of coffee, reported on returning to New York yesterday that Dr. William L. Schurz, United States commercial attache to Brazil, would sail today to confer with Brazllian officials on the sub- ject. The plan submitted to Secretary Hoover urged co-operation between the Brazilian government and the De- partment of Commerce in making available to coffee distributors in this country, reliable statistical informa- tion concerning stocks in port and interior warehouses, weather condi- tions, growing crops, cstimates of plantation stocks and the prospective yield of the coming crop. Engine Fires Bridge. Sparks from an engine set fire to boards on the railroad bridge con- necting Potomac Park and the Vir- ginia shore last night about 3:30 o'clock. The first was discovered be- fore much headway had been gained and was extinguished by firemen with chemicals. Firemen sald the fire did not damage the ties. Two trains, an express and freight, were delayed about 20 minutes. B HIGH LIGHTS OF HISTORY + PP '?HE FATE OF RALEIGHS COLONY AT ROANOKE l-ub NOT PREVENT THE ENGLISH FROM PLANNING FURTHER || TWO COMPANIES WERE FORMED IN i606 OF EARLY IN THE 177 CENTURYAN ENGLISH SBA CAPT- AIN NAMED GOSNOLD WAS TRYING TO RAISE FUNDS| TO FOUND A COLONY IN VIRGINIA AND ANOTHER NAMED WEYMOUTH WAS LOOKING FOR. SOMEONEY 7O FINANCE A LIKE VENTURE iN NEW ENGLAND, THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, . TR — RICH MERCHANTS AND ADVENTURERS FOR THE PURPOSE OF ESTABLISHING COLONIES IN AMERICA ONE WAS CALLED THE PLYMOUTH COMPANY, THE OTHER THE LONDON COMPANY. QUEEN ELIZABETH HAD DIED IN 1603 AND KING JAMES 1, WHO SUCLEEDED HER ON THE THRONE, ||BEING EAGER TOBXTEND HIS DOMINIONS,GLADLY GAVE CHARTERS YO THE NEW COMPANIES . Copyright, 1984, by The McClure Newspaner Sundicale. DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX How to Treat the Man Who Doesn’t Say It With a Wedding Ring—Parents Force Girl to Meet Boys on the Sly. Y DEAR MISS DIX: I am 35 years old and for the last two years | have been going about more or less with a man of 50. He has a good post and some money. There is no question of marriage between us—I had n such intention, and he very clearly and unmistakably let me know there w no such intention on his part. I like him very much—I respect him, would not hurt his feelings for the world. But e comes to my home four or five times a week. After supper he sits in the easiest chair and smokes and talks over his business affairs with me. | He takes me to the movies and to dinner on an average of once every two months and for a ride once a week. I am not complalning about this. I earn @ good salary and can take myself about. What troubles me is that he does not wish me to go any place with other men. I get a few scattering | Invitations &t intervals. T know he would feel himself aggrieved if I should accept them, but T do want to go somewhere once in a while with a male | escort. I don’t want always (o be paying for my own tickets and scaring up an old lady for an escort. The point on which I want your common sensc brought to bear is this: Would you go out with these other men and say nothing to him about 1t or would you tell him you were going? He reall has no right to object; he has no moral claim on me. But I would feel rather sneaky not to mentirn to him that I went places with other men. Would you come right out and say that you were accustomed to golng about and that you felt he had no right to object to other men taking vou places if he did not want to? Or would you just be quletly independent and go, and say nothing? Answer: Certainly you should be independent enough to go out with any man you choose without offering the slightest explanation or excuse to this other man who has no authority over you or claim upon you. Why any unmarried woman lets a stranger interfere with her goings and comings is past my comprehension. Why, the one thing that reconciles a woman to spinsterhood is the freedom it gives her. It you will calmly analyze vour friend's attitude toward you, you will see that it is one of such complete selfishness that you will not feel called upon to make any particular sacrifices for him. He makes of your house a free club, where he spends four or five evenings a week, where he is fed without cost, sits in the easiest chair, and enjoys all the comforts and luxuries of a home that somebody else supports. He talks to vou about himself and his own affairs, and he gets from you the patlent listening, the sympathy and understanding that he would get rom a wife, yet he has none of the responsibility toward you that he would have toward a wife. He doesn't have to provide for you. stand for your moods and tenses | You haven't any right to scold him, or to interfere with his plans, or to | call him to time for what he does. And all he does for you is to take vou to | the movies and to dinner occaslonally. Yet he thinks—and you seem to| think—that he has some sort of an intangible right to control your| movements. | Don’t you see how idiotic it is for vou to make yourself a voluntar slave to such a man? Wake up, and have enough spunk to stand up for| vour own right to do as you please: The man who considers that he is privileged to monopolize a woman and keep away all other men should say 1t with 2 wedding ring. The man whose attentions are without intentions is a curse to any woman, and the sooner she gets rid of him the better. DOROTHY DIX. DR AR DOROTHY DIX: Tam a young girl 15 years old. I have been going with 2 young man for two months, and we are devoted to each other. But here is my trouble. My parents will not allow me to keep company with any young man. I am not permitted to look at one, or to have one come to the house, so I have to meet boys on the £ly. 1 just hate to do sneaky things, 5o please tell me what to do to make my folks understand. But the are very strict, and If they knew about my love affair I would die of fright, vet I can't get along without my present friends, and I want to have beaux and good times like other girls. I would be satisfied if my parents would only let my friends come to the house, but they won't do this. BLUE EYES. Answer: Of course, little girl. You are too young to be thinking about beaux and sweethearts, or to know what love really is, and if you are wise vou wlll just play around with the boys for two or three years without entangling yourself in any sort of an engagement. Because you will outgrow this boy sweetheart and you will laugh to think what funny taste you had when you thought you cared for him. And it Is very wrong of you to lie to your parents and meet boys on the sly, but I am blaming your parents for not having sense enough to see that they must deal with conditions as they are, and not as they would like them to be. It is a hard thing for fathers and mothers to realize that their children grow up. They think they are still bables at 15 and 16, and they don’t realize especially that this a fast-developing age in which (he children of really as old and worldly wise as their fathers and mothers were at 20. And it 1s harder still for strict parents to realize that they can't protect | thelir children from the world by shutting them up and forbidding them to do what the other voungsters do. In the end the children always outwlt the parents, and all that the parents have done is to make liars and cheats out of their children and drive them into danger. Foolish indeed is the mother whe doesn’t recognize that every glIrl of 15 and 16 has to go through the boy-crazy period just as she went through the measles, and who does not let her recelve her boy beaux at home, where she can keep an eye upon them, instead of driving her out on the street to meet them. e DOROTHY DIX. EAR MISS DIX: I am very much in love with a girl who sometimes seems to be devoted to me and at other times is simply frigid in her attitude toward me. How can a person who professes to care for you treat you so differently? THEODORE. Answer: She may be just a temperamental lady who blows hot or cold, or she may think that she makes things interesting for you hy keeping you guessing. I wouldn't take her too seriously. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 192: DROOP——1800 G 8T. OPEN UNTIL 9:30 P. M. TODAY — MONDAY — TUESDAY We Are Prepared to Take Care of the Late Shopper . With The Largest Stocks of Distinctly Dependable Musical Merchandise Embracing: Steinway AND OTHER LEADING Pianos Player Pianos Reproducing Pianos Victrolas Records PLAYER PIANO ROLLS He doesn’t have to DRroor’s Mocs: 1300 G HOUSE , —The Two Companies. LONDON COMPANY-1606, “THE KING GAVE THE PLYMOUTH COMPANY AUTHORTY TO SETTLE THE REGION BETWEEN 41°AND 45° NORTH LATITUDE AND THE LONDON COMPANY BETWEEN 34° AND 389 BOTH GRANTS EXTENDING A HUNDRED MILES BACK FIROM THE COAST, THE SEABOARD BETWEEN THESE GRANTS WAS LEFT FREE TO BOTH COMAANIES ON THE CONDITION THAT NETHER BUUD A SETTLEMENT ‘WITHIN A HUNDRED MILES OF THE OTHER. The Daily ACROSS Make speed Highway (abbr.) Foot lever Always. Basis Capital of Livonia To refurnish with On horseback tiles Exist. Suffix denoting little Run away. Senlor (abbr.) Drain off 1 am, Fragment of little value Ornamented with beading . D. T. SATURDAY. DECEMBER 20, 19%2%.° By J. CARROLL MANSFIELD ToMoRrR Cross-Word Puzzle (Copsright, 1924.) 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Render harmless Apparatus for with steam Weighted down Chain of rock Personal pronoun Pound (abbr.) Olive drab (abbr.) Part of a number which does not | divide it without a remainder An issue on a point of law. Was stocked to overflowing vivan Greek deities Blow of the hand Disport Preposition. Support. Morning (abbr.) Old Testament (abbr. ) East Indies (abbr.) Senior (abbr.) Uplifts Idle chatterer. Division of the calyx of a flower Lubricates. Specles Small pulpy Capital of country. One hundred and one Greek letter. Period of time. A high explosive Brother (abbr.) Father. Preposition. aging materia truit a South American (Roman) Former House Member Dies. ST. PAUL, Minn, December 20 James T. McLeary, former Represent- | ative from the second Minnesota dis- the | trict. died at | according Lacrosse word Wednesday to received vester- day | mately | committee of the | tives 11,000 miles handles only | the business | caring RAILROAD SEEKING 10 GURTAIL LINES Boston and Waine Would Drop About 1,000 Miles of Branch Trackage. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, December 20.--A | { which the Boston and Maine railroad would undergo a physical and finan readjustment, discontinuing appre 1,000 miles of track and « taining $13.000,000 cash improv ments to the s retair lined in a communiecat Loring, chairman rail It was sald to follo with general bondholder of the United Stat which holds _$48,000,000 and large stockho ment bongs classes. Motor traflic h part of the alwa branch lines that losses have resu Of the 2,450 mi all taken such s mea rapid ed, Mr es of road Lorin per cent « i ed 10 abandon, and the and Maine Transportation Co. has been o ized to assist with motor for the needs of th nities involved servi Maj. Pillsbury Transferred Maj. Henry C. Pillsbury. Army ) cal Corps, at the Army Medi this city, has been assigned Fort Sam Houston, Tex George M. Edw Medl at San Francisco, has been to the Army Medical 2l The Crowds don’t worry the man who drives with— 330 304 | ‘N CEeW RIEW SPEAL Traffic is at its peak in the downtown sections these days. Christmas crowds throng the sidewalks. Taxicabs, trucks, delivery and private cars make each street a crawling tangle. Speed is impossible. A few feet gained and then stop. feet more and stop again. A few It’s in traffic jams as this that you learn to appreciate AMOCO-GAS. You may have been using it for months or years. ing ability, its all-around dependability. 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