Evening Star Newspaper, December 27, 1924, Page 15

REAL ESTATE. PUBLICS INTEREST IN WAGES CITED Rail Labor Board Says Em- ployes and Employers Haven’t All Rights. Dec The s or of railroads to GO, plove mselves out of court but they eannot default in interes king conditions as argued b H d in a brief tted »s District C wage Brotherhood of Locc emer ‘iremen and i pow- | de- way be the t in dis- oad to- ourt dispute the DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX How Can She Talk Interestingly? —Wife Who Submits to Abuse— Do Tbo Many Kisses Before Marriage Mean Too Few After? } Y DEAR MISS DIX: I am a young married woman, good-looking, dresser, can sing, dance, play ptano, violin and saxophone. But therc is one thing missing. 1 have never been able to acquire the art of conversa- tion. I am not bashful, but T just cannot say anything worth while or interesting. My husband is just the opposite. He can talk on any subject, {while I sit around like a dumb-bell. If I only had a book from which to study conversation I would feel myself on the level with my assocfates; but as things are now 1 am lost, and every time I find myself in need of small talk T could scream for mercy. DISHEARTENED. I do mot believe that any school of correspondence can teach or can any book be a handy manual of W to say and how to say all good talk has to be spontaneous—some- thing that springs to the lips at the minute. You cannot even think out what you are going to say to people, because everything depends on the time and place and circumstances. Certainly, nothing clse in the world is so boring as the stilted efforts of people who talk to you as If they were discoursing from a platform. I ouce knew a woman who handed out this'particular brand of canned conversation. re had studied up about the Lake Poets, and two minutes after you had met her, by hook or crook, she would drag in her topic and deliver a lecture upon it that reduced everybody within earshot to tears. about memorizing jokes. You have heard people Answer: you the art of con It is the same way THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, good LAKE WATER USE i 128 Engineer Leaders of Unit- ed States Approve of Sew- age Plans Long Under Fire. By tle Associated Pre CHICAGO, December drawal of 10,000 cublc feet of water a second from Lake Michigan to dilute the city's sowage was approved yes- terday by a commission of tionaily known engineering experts 0 assembled from all parts of the United States to make Investigation of the soundness of the Chicago sani- tary plans for a $125,000,000 disposal propject, Including the water with- drawal. Several States and numerous lake port cities in other States have made a determined fight against Chicago's withdrawal of 10,000 cubic feet of water a second from the lake on the ' BYCHICAGO 0.KD! ~With- | 28 “na- | ) SATURDAY, PLANE PATROL PLANNED FOR MICHIGAN FORESTS Will Be Used Next Year in Effort to Aid in Protection of Woods Against Fires. By the Assocated Press. LANSING, Mich Aerlal forest fire patrols will be tried in Michigan next year for the first time. The State partment has decided with planes in | the lower and upper peninsula during the dangerous seasox to experiment chines with a 26 which can be foot landed readily. The | pilots will co-operate with observers n the State's observation towers. ¥rom central points the planes will swing out eachi day on 500 or 600 Jmile “loops over the forests. 1f a blaze {s discovered they will fly to the necarest of the observation tow |ana drop a message |den. It is claimed that forest fires are visible on clear days 40 miles, from an afrplane. to the fire war- All would be well if the busine: man went after business the way DECEMBER Conservation De- | the northern part of | It is planned to employ small ma- | wing spread, | rs | REAL Miss Loulse Espey, 27, 1924. . R. Covell, George Francis Willlams, Yvonne Levy, Miss Grace M. Morsa W.S. BOTELER HEAI] Francis bers of the advisory committee. Stephen ¥ | pal of Central, High School Graduates Name | t\.cii e G uhe e mondens Officers at Annual the present student body Meeting. | whose ages range from | years. 10 to | ing. Many members of the assocl ESTATE. Miss Theodosia Seibold, Miss Sallie Burklin, Maj. W. Clements, Miss cwart and George Hodgkins, mem- Kramer, retiring pginci- who has been appoint- of alumni that among are pupils 2 A dance and vaudeville enter- tainment preceded the business meet- tion who attended the reunion came from other citles. W. Shock Eoteler was elected pres- | e ident ef the Central High School| Alumni Association at its annuall Christmas reunion last night at the school, succeeding Edmund Rheem. Other ofticers chosen follow Miss | Ruth H. Bennett, vice president in charge of records; Miss Grace Ros: Chamberlain, vice president in lhurgc‘ of alumni news; Mi Bessie Whitford, vice president in charge of historical | work; Thomas H. Chapman, vice president in charge of social activ- ities; Miss. Dorothea Sherman, vice presid in charge of alumni inter-| ests; Miss Harrict Lasler, secretary Bruce Baird, treasurer; Robert C Ciree Frederick Ta ishback, Mrs. About 4,000 lamps are in gigantic electric in Philadelphia. 1ong, and v The letters are 50 feet high used The sign is 250 fe a gn recently erected t ighs more than 50 tons. |be bulit W%‘G@%%fl The Value %, Represented in This Home 19 CALLS ELECTION TO FiLL KAHN’S SEAT IN HOUSE : Governor Sets February 17 for Spe- cial Vote to Select Successor to Dead Member. By the Associated Press. SACRAMENTO, Calif, Decemics —Gov. Richardson yesterday issuec i proclamation for a special election to be held in the fourth congressiona .district, 8an Francisco, on Februar 17, to flll the vas vy caused b the death of Julius Kahn, the Repre sentative from that district. metal, used in m: now 1s being emplovec Hungary, in building Four-room bun th metal veneer c it is said, says th Monthly. Thin sheet toy houses, in Budapest, real dwellinge lows covered w 24 hou ience | Popular NORTH _CLEVELAND PARK Will Startle You! THINK of a fine new brick and stucco Home in a choice residential section for less than $13,000! Such features as the great open fireplace, the double inclosed sleeping porch and the large, sunlit rooms will appeal to you at once. Take the Wisconsin Avemue car to Number 3824 Warren Street! Reasonable $12,950 Terms M.S. PHILLIP REALTOER-BUILDER 15th & K Sts. government goes after the business | repea c X o fthe A ers, and you have repeat the witticisms they had culled out o fthe funny pap: man, says the Progressive Grocer scen how fat they fall. You are no more at homo and look no more natural in other people's thoughts and other people’s jokes than you would be in borrowed clothes. To be & fluent talker is a gift of the gods. You either have the knack {of it or you hav and that is all there is to it. But you make a mistake in yearning to be a conversationalist in a world that Is overfull of people enamored of the sound of their own voices. What there is a great and crying need for is not more spellbinders, but more silent people. ground that lowering the lake level is harmful to commerce. The Chicago dralnage canal which reversed the flow of the Chicago| river and diverted the city’s sewage | from Lake Michigan, with dilution of { the sewage as the method of dls-| posal, was approved by the board of | prominent englneers, but it was stated that the city's growth has ex- ceeded the limits considered when | the canal was built, and the program | of the sanitary district providing for additions to the sanitary equipment to care for an increased population || of 300,000 each year was approved. Claims Public public, the bric au Interest. states, a ] @!:aer:’ew!:@zvé@ew—m You think you bore people by not talking. Belleve me, you are giving them the time of their lives, because you probably are the first person they ever met who didn’'t interrupt their monologues by foolish chatter. Ninety- nine people out of 2 hundred are human phonographs that never run down, F and when they find an individual like you, who just sits still and listens, fef of the respondent, Mc- | they grapple her to them with hooks of steel. h the Labor Board's brief T will bet you an extremely popular person, that you are much| Shut Chairman Ben |sought after socially and that you arc generally considered most interesting. the public|And it is all because you don't talk. You just listen. was charged with 1t is a great talent to be a gifted listener. Cultivate that instead of tiality. trying to acquire the art of conversation, which is greatly overdone, anyway. DOROTHY DIX. AB A3 Lakes Are Lowercd. The Chicago water diversion board of review found, has low the Great Lakes about five inches, . . while diversions elsewhere and cli- Excellent nine-room and two-bath home, both in their twenties. The husband | Matic changes have lowered the lake ing all modern improvements, including two or three feet. Reduced lake lev- 3 ” . ¢ garage. Third floor arraged for two rooms, s out nearly every night and leaves At i Pt . ctte and bath apartment. In good condition. uses himself with other women} that s v e he drinks The wife is crazily in love with her husband. She|fRavigaiion and harbor worke WLakc) i 1 e lak excellent home and investment. Priced for quick and on reasonable terms. Phone for inspection. keeps her house beautifully and does cverything to make him comfortakle. | TICLUEENS COn bR GrEEN COmEAT She also is in business, and when her husband has wasted his money on his est desirable levels, the board said, Main 3830 1430 K Street N.W Bloomlngdale e 2104 1st Street N.W the ¥ one of those A : Sometimes in- AR MISS DIX: I have two frien \ lezal proceedings for thelr professes to love his wife, yet h ct her alone, mitting that he a contain two-car kitchen- An sale Riased Opinions. Chairman brief out- 10 Chorge respone th nst nt's remarks attributed which it said “di { Hooper from acting dissipations she helps him out with her salary, paC Cleniran) Els, the g et They have frightful scenes, for when he comes home at 2:30 in the|}¥, Works constructed mcar their out i i ! lets, these works being necessary, re- morning the wife greets him with a little cave-woman stuff. It does no good. | 1% ACSE FOTHE, AU RR TRCORE T He goes his own way, regardless of her feelings, trampling upon her bleeding | &% : : | 2 these rail-|heart and lMterally killing her, and yet she stays on. What is the good?| The diversion of water here, the| rs, and makes | And can anything be done for her? c.R. |board said, is necessary for sewage| to render a - — disposal because it prevents pollution | Answer: Absolutely nothing. That sort of a woman is hopeless. T have|°f the lake, improves mnavigation |seen them in police courts drag their ragged shawls across their bruised wn the 1llinols and Mississippi and | breasts where they had been beaten by brutes of husbands, and lie about kes available hydro-electric ¢ "|< having fallen over a ¢ and hurt themselves. y where needed. .\\ ith l.tl»,e and | The trouble with women like this is that they have not the courage|Tiver regulation it wiil confer ".Iu to fight or to endure. T hold that only two courses are open to a woman | benefits without damage :»;y G One is to get up and le: d husband. and the other ls, if she elects|l:Akes navigation and Aithou to stick to 1o be a good and take her punishment without howling | {ecting navigation conditions in St. Lawrence River, and for years about it. ° i i i without reducing power at Niagara Falls and S$t. Lawrence, | ! board sai Showroom or Office Space On Second Floor WOOLWORTH BUILDING 12th and F Streets N.W. APPLY STORY & CO. 812 17th St. N.W. Franklin 4100 d carri petent Board reptied _that no of Chairman ird member of the £ to 49 specific decisions wnd. It also the | one diss SAILS TO ESTABLISH STATION IN AFRICA » particle of affection for his wife she can e a flame by showing some spirit and inde-| ely submitting to ill treatment, for we all not only instinctively despiso those who let us trample upon them, but we | come to hate those whom we wrong. We can forgive those who injure| The recommendations of the board | us, but we never forgive the people we injure | included the following 1f a husbend cares for his wife, he will reform rather than lose her. | That the sanita; distriet {Tf hie doesn't care for her, and neglects and insults are only the ex-|every effort to clear up the pression of his dislike toward her, she is a crazy creature to hang on to|!rOVersy over the drainage canal; { him, and 1t the part of wisdom for her to go aw whare she will not|the district proceed as rapidly be tortured dally with seecing his conduct.. Her only chance of peace | POSSible to construct treatment works and happiness is for her (o put him out of her life. {costing $1 upplemen- 1f she would rather stay with him and be kicked ahout like a dog, then | tary treatment works be built to care she should be fair enouzh to play the ne and let him go his way un.|fOF dry weather sewage and part of molested. | the storm flow; that the district hurry | the building of plants to care for | industrial wastc: that the city be urged (o save as much Walcr as pos | sible by installing meters and making | I believe t | come nearer to rav pendence than she can by into g it Recomniendations Made. Window Shades it's to your acluantagc to see make | con- | that | us prst. Let us estimate. Yale Astronomer to Set Up Observ- atery in Veldt Ter- The bost snort I ever knew was would go down to the gutter and 27.—Dr. | put him to bed and put ice of Yale|reproaech. *T took the chance gland to- | when I married him.” nsport liner s way to South | [PEAR DOROTHY DINX: My fiunce Is very affectionate and demonstrative Hsh « brar and, although I love him very much, T never show that T do. I he- He will be lieve that too ma kisses befo arriage will mean no more kieses after| 1 and Walter O'Connell [ marriage. 1 am afraid that before long we wil both be tired of so,much | Observatory staff, whollove and romance. Don't you think I am right? INGAGED. in South Africa. He is = + mew -ineh photographic Adswer: You certainly are, Mi Solom specially for the new ob-|that every man's ideal woman was one who snow and ice to d as Dr. Seulesinger did [world, but fire to him. That holds even In an engagement. send it by freight, officials very lover values his swectheart just & little bit more if ghe still holds | have put it into a state-|aloof, and he has to woo her a little, and beg for a kiss, instead of hl\lhki 1t her throw herself at Lim and smother him with carcsses. As long ng first to London and | human nature las the peachiest peach will still be the one that is highest Dr. Schlesinger |on the tree. is no really good the Southern Hemis- are golng to establish s not been determined yet, wh it will be at Bloemfontein » woman married to a_drunkard, who bring hi home with her, and would cloths on his head without ever uttaring a | he used ¢ “I knew he was a druniard|® Wwater waste survey: that funds DOROTHY DIX | from the sale of bonds be used for . [new coustruction only and that other expensos of administration be raise fl: by taxation; that the district co-oper- | with interests favoring the lakes to-the-gulf waterway; that a fair, settlement of all damage in the| Illinois River vall by the div at Chicago be made promptl the district contribute its proper toward the construction of lake regu- | lating works and that the district] apply to Federal authoritics to divert | an annual average of 10,000 fect of | | water per second from Lake Michigan. | The control of the lake levels ha been under jurisdiction of the War Department, “and 1t is claimed that | the sanitary district was never au- | December director will sail for I Atlantic t his &W ]th St. NW. W. STOKES SAMMONS, Proprietor JAMESON-BUILT HOMES! 1700 to 1732 D St. S.E. ONLY A FEW LEFT Priced at Less Than $7,000 Easy Terms Here s of ately priced - every Washinzton's viston— EASTERN TERRACE Tapestry 6 rocm 1 bath; hot-wa lights and refrigerator; and double laundr: n. Monsleur Beaucaira said all the The Choicest Colored Homes in Northwest Washington . 730-740 Fairmont St. N.W. Every modern and up-to-date housekeeping comfort and convenience is already installed. You'll find these Homes practically planned and conveniently arranged to lighten housework and eliminate many of t disagreeable features of home makin, Finished in the most expert manner and built of the best materials—don’t take a chance on missing this op- portunity—come and see them today. Six rooms and bath, Arcola heater, hardwood fl and back porches; tastefully finished throughout. As regards the domestic brand of kisses, mistake to make kissing as much a part of the daily routine washing | thorized to withdraw more than 4,167 | 1 your face or eating your cereal. It is because husbands and es are | cubic feet of water a second. | expected to kiss when they part and when they meet that conjugal kisses| The report formally wa opted by ‘. i have no flavor. Retter one kiss a year, full of passion and love, than the sanitary district trustees, and it jpecks of duty on the chee was announced that the findings. vll we would only just nibble, instead of trying to| which are voluminous, will be d make a whole meal on it, DOROTHY DIX. { as the principal argument in favor of | new legislation taking control of the | | lake levels from the War Depart- | ment, and enable Chicago and other | cities procecd with sewage dis- | posal projects No attempt, it was stated, will be | made to utilize the commission’s re- | port in the oral arguments before United States upreme Court next week upon the appeal of the sanitary | district from the injunction ordered | by Federal Judge George A. Carpen- ter, which, if upheld, would restrain the district from taking more than 4,167 feet of water a second from my own theory is that it is a| larg Seek Steady Sky. el ohject of establishing an ob- sty i the Southern Hemisphere | (Copsright. 19 s obgerve and 10 PhOtoRraph SLATS | e———— not visible in the INSPECT SCHOOL LOT. | G. U. Registers Moderate Quake. here Conditions onomical point of $ | An earthquake of moderate inten- Officials Look Into Proposed EX-|sitr, 5,600 miles from Washington,| tension at Brightwood. it Jove it would last nd romance, rs, front Representative in Charge Every Day and Sunday— Evenings, Too Attractive Price and Unusually Liberal Terms May Be Arranged B. B. PINN (Owner’s Representative) 712 Kenyon Street Phone Col. 5817 Selling Fut r blocks Eastern Hig! these ideal he Ask the Man Who Owns One Built, Owned and For Sale by Thomas A. Jameson Co. Owmers and Builders 906 N. Y. Ave. NW. Phone Maiu The Big Thing is du for has veldt condition steady The astronomer, | stars through a tele-| they a to_tremble. | aves, and he | was registered early today on the i A || setsmosraph of Georgetown Tniver- Property adjoining the Brightwood F 4 Park School was inspected yesterday | o™\ athergtondorgiplscediche tine by District government and school| Of the vibrations as beginning at officials, with a view to acquiring it; 6:35 a.m. and lasting until after § for the proposed addition to thelam. He said no distinct maximum school. was shown. Lake Michigan, About Our T ou are Home- | A - e is unting— The Small Price Haycock and Maj. W. I. Holcombe, You'll find in this new group of Kite- assistant District Engineer Commis- sioner. onvenience, livable comfort and in- —gives you possession of the finest of home comfort and content in a neigh- vestment value. Six rooms, bath and separate garage. borhood altogether desirable and convenient. ound that out on the re better in' respect han in other parts | Hemisphere, and that by have s Africa r than South America, which is ssible. The work will be e ficld of measuring the ice from the solar system of a number of stars and also to t to other stars. . Alden of the University will follow us and will be e of the observatory after T ki Different Homes Unusual Attractive Dr. Miller on Lecture Tour. ‘ Prof. Kelly Mil dean of thel r College of Howard University, vashington today on a lecture tour through the Middle West. His itinerary includes Indianapolis, De- troit, € nbus, Zanesville, Hunting- on and Charleston, W. Va. He will uss the negro Sanhedrin. Beautifully Appointed $500 Cash Improved Offices Balance Less Than Rent YOU GAIN prompter and cheaper contacts with all important centers by lo- cating your office in the Southern Building. 24- hour elevator service to every office. Excellent furnishings and almost sound - proof offices. The building itself is located in the city’s best possible of- fice building location. For rental information see agents in THE SOUTHERN BUILDING 15thand H Sts. NW. ALL WA Sample House 4315 39th St. Convincing Price and Tempting Terms Open Every Day—Including Sunday Our Mr. Hamilton is in charge of the Park: Office, at 4301 39th St. If you wish a special appointment, phone him at Cleveland 1430. Motor out Conn. Ave., west on Albermarl, St., turning into 38th or take Wis. Ave. car t just beyond the National Cathedral at Win. dow St.—it's but a square to these Homes, ‘There is through car service via Wisconsin; Avenue. Ask for the Houses Themselves —you’ll like the 6 bright rooms, tile bath, sleeping and breakfast porches, hot-water heat, built-in garage. “GIMME !”"—Says the Never-Bird (Repeat twelve times a year) E’LL show you the cure for the landlord’s “Gimmes.” We show you a plan that is practical, that will enable you to buy your own home—NOW. 5206 and 5208 Colorado Ave. N.W. Immediately 4djacent to 16th St. 10 Large Rooms 3 Complete Baths Breakfast Porch and Sleeping Porch Large 2-Car Garage OPEN SUNDAY, DECEMBER 238 L€ Breunanger &Sox - BUILDERS and REALTORS Exhibit House—222 Cromwell Terrace—Open to 9 P.M. TO INSPECT Take auto, car or bus to 4th St. and Rhode Island Ave, N. north three blocks to Channing St. and one block west to prop- erty. Or, phone North 2150 or Columbia 4946 for FREE AUTO SERVICE. 7J/LDPU SHAPIRO CO 010 Lom et rz Built, Owned and Fbér Sale by %//—l JLLEY Member Washington Real Estate Board 1514 K St. Phone M. 4846=—"= LB - LI —T— X