Evening Star Newspaper, October 9, 1925, Page 6

6 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON. D. C. FRIDAY........October 0. 1925 THEODORE W. NOYES. Editor Chicago Ofie Enropean Office 16 Rez England The Eva fng edition. tha Siix at 45 cents ‘o er Tontl; relephone Ma:n arrier at the end ng Star. with the Sul is deitvered by Within ¢ onls. ents A1 or Rate by Mail—Payubl Advance. Maryland and Virgnia. X 1mo.. F‘\n States. S10.00 o oo 1mo 1 mo 1 mo. Daily and Sunday T only ~unday only ted Press. h‘-q A it o ot otherwl the oAl news 4 D teation French Politics and Debt. nd the mem- commission rry coposal Although M. ¢ ux bers of the French deln have not yet landed in ing With them the An iod of fi nee, ¢ rs Fran S40.000 its war over ] foreizu rela nklin dent of the an sment. His opposition rected, it scems, to the postponement of the debt settlement for five years. 1 willing. is di States has Dbeen very of having the funded owed proposal with had indeed desirous promptly debts ilong the to post- France Frenc with nited none s was smads The h a settlement only after to agreement fc debt. The French sis on the fact herself In an found impossible reach sat tory wnding of the mmission laid cmph Fr n that . and would payments hardship. neh proposed urity e to the clause, suspend payments and call for another revisi of the debt in such an event. To thi were unwilling to a proposal that the set- red five years was give the French ore stable financial | iv n re and their post order to to reach a or them to a ient Rejec less ion of the Ame woul en advar France that the French do not intend own commis: n its proposal tlement fixed $40,000,- 000 as the proper payment for the first o years, In the - debts have bee {0 & great extc flapublicans alike inistration in 1rench debt on and to this coun . the debt, i n made a foot any faction that terms that do n the amount to States is in danger from power. Such a situation fortunate M. Caillaux is said to *hat if the proposal su T'nited States is not accepted by the zovernment “conversations continued.” nably with Tnited States Government. The i’rench must fully understand the tion of the American Government nd the American people on the debt this time, and if further negoti ions are entered into it should be in ght of that understanding. - Stricter methods of determining just what persons are insane are to be cought. - of ascertaining just which persons are only foolish one way «r another is too broad a subject for ctical research. The psvchoanalyst vet has before him a vast and still :ncharted domain of activity. ——ve— The enthusiasm with which his cpeeches are greeted indicate a popu- Iar inclination to encourage President t'ooltdge to go as far as he likes in breaking away from his reputation as man of silence. o Maryland authorities have not yet ily recovered from their righteous ndignation over the discovery of lilicit 1. C. license tags. ——er—s The Breaks of the Game. Many base ball games are won and likewise lost—for every game that is won is also lost—hy what are in the vernacular of the sport known as breaks.” They are the unexpected, abnormal happenings, lucky bounds of the ball, freak twists, chance taps, sitps and strange slants. Last year washington scored the final winning tally in the twelfth inning of the seventh game on a grounder that struck a pebble and hopped over the head of the waiting third baseman of the enemy. Yesterday the Natlonals lost'the second game of the present serfes by a bad break, when Roger Peckinpaugh, so regularly reliable that he has just won the title of the “‘most valuable member” of his team in the Amerfcan League, fumbled an ordinarily easy roller, which put a Pittsburgher on base to score ahead of » home-run hitter with the tally that proved just the margin of victory. A batsman’dodges an erratic pitch and the ball, striking the bat, pops up for an easy out. That is one of the rad breaks for the batting side. Or in lodging he may accidentally tap the lall over the infield for a single, a bad Lreak for the flelding side. Last year, {his favor. it ma standing as rd to the questic tion and v War and rmy regulation: whether he is quizzed by the Presi- dent’s commission or by the naval sourt of inquiry. The question before fthe Army court, which is probably | to he surumoned for his trial, is | isimply whether his utterances have | { constituted a breach of discipline. His | he has committed on will not be magn d by which he might give | naval court of inquiry, ap- | ing before it under summons. ¢ would be better for Col. Mitchell, | ving started out on a cou |form, to go the limit in giving his testimony without regard to what may thappen to him. He started in that {role, and be should, in justice to him- self. not change i —— e The Weather Bureau predicts rain | at thls time of vear with perfect conti dence that its announcement will not be resented. o long as the snow pre | dictions can be postponed there will Le general satisfaction. e Predictions of a decline tn Florida land values were to be expected by this time. The real estate market, {like other markets, has its bears as | well as its bulls States the European politics 2d en out of nd Democrats and sre ba < effors ng the ad to settls the s just to Fran In F is reported. Al of polit secks to settle t reduce enorme paid the United of being ousted is un- 1 Las has be 1ve declared rencl will be pres n that same twelfth {nning, the New |after all, average up pretty well now- [ awhile without danger of bein’ hit by York catcher, going after & high foul ladays. Dekerneling a roasting ear by ig fivver.” itted by the | Terom the bat of “Muddy" Ruel, stepped ‘in his own mask and missed what ishould have been an easy putout, whereupon Ruel expressed his thanks to Dame Fortune hy whanging out a ‘lean hit that contrfbuted to the win- |ning run. That was a decidedly bad {break for the Giant Yesterday Washinggon's right tielder, tiguring on a possible short fly, played a bit too far in. und tie ball when hit went over his heud ainl hounded into [ the temporary stands %or the homer save Pitishurgh its winning {brace of runs. Had he heen playing farther out the hit would have been either caught or h#d to o single. That was one of the several bad breaks for the Nationdals. A hit batsman, a stumble on the base lines, a moment of off-balance when the runner is maneuvering for a possible start, a partitle of dust in thoe eye of a batsman or @ fielder in a gust of wind, these play im ant parts in the contests. Thqy are part of the game as a whole, thy elements that go to make base ball = fascinat- ingly uncertain. Of course. i@ the long jrun skiil in fielding. pitching and bat- ting tell in the resuits. Penrgants are not won by breaks, unless, perchance, fthey happen in league races that ar i a sinsle ga series contests of seven games at the | most the breat decide the wesilt S Washington team Tooks ta the than ™ teo decided by \ay To date, with the {tied v IIH.I\ < contender, | prejediced zht bive bail it ohserver t u n oibatt 2 nt ) the fit is not now cut with vietories to n w Mitchell's Refusal to Testify. Col. Mitchell has shifted ground and adopted a changed position with re- gurd to the developrient of facts at | tecting the aviation practices and poli cies of the Government in refusing testify before the naval court of in ry on the Shenandoah disaster on e ground t his appearanco before that court would prejudice his rights in the Army court-martial which s now expected. When Col. Mitchell niade first statement after the { Shenandoan dlsaster, which he | scored the practices and policies of the | Navy Department in aviatian, he de- clared that he was willing to go the limit to bring out the facts regardless of the himself. He has President’s testimony, I the consequences weared before ion and given consisted mainiy in s and arguments. Now he i 1t appearance before the naval court the Shenandoah disaster wis his i 1 comm | which hus eriti It is difficult to conced of this procedurc. Technically Mitchell may be fmriune to subpoena by a val court, being an oflicer of another branch of the And { technically, likewise, servic | when he is v | 1 court of his i it Mitchell es no difference w Army officer, 1 of has ! | season for “beauty | zood loser in a 1 thrilling in face of the fact that only {our own part of the world is deeply ! citement. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. nature's own process is likely to re- main popular with them for centurles to come for, after all, in no other way does “Giolden Bantam” and “Country entleman’ taste so good. Aeons ago all natlonalities ate pretty much alike. ! The (ro-Magnon epicure of both the 1 0ld and New Worlds munched his grain from the ear. The miniuture eohippos was caten on the hoof. Few fish were annoyed by being cooked following their capture, custom Russians maintain until today. There are those who complain that the world is be- coming too standardized; that quaint costumes and customs are disappear- ing and all nations are tending to dress and act alike. It 15 hoped that such gastronomic techniques @s eating corn on the cob may persist, in spite of such refine- ments as little silver graspers with which the two ends of the ear may be delicately held: As a matter of fact the Gallic friends have never seen Americans in thelr real glory, which is by a fire out in a fleld, with one blacked ear, dripping golden butter, held firmly in the fists while a couple of cthers, cither on sharpencd sticks or in their natural husky coverings, are just the right distance from the owing embers. Americans form the habit early; it i a hard one to conquer, nor 1s it%ne that should be conquered. There is {1e Washington small boy whose Gither found him on the verge of tears because of several badly loosened first frout teeth. On being reassured by his urent that these would out [without pain and be replaced by |larger and better ones, he replied that |he knew all that perfectly well, but jwhat worried him was that this won- derful process of nature might not dake place before corn season. s = Those who were hurt fn a Jackson ville elevator call attention to the fact that in Florida, where real estate val- ues now soar, the ascent is easy, but the descent, as in all other specula- tion, may be sudden and unhappy. ——ons The Hawalian Islands are an fdvl region that seems destined to assume a part in military strategy. Tt would be a pity trains of the steel gu of the ma- chine gun, a come to silence the with the ratt B The importance of air service popularly felt, but not universally un derstood. Whatever may be the tech- nical results of inquiry will give the public the benefit of a | campaign of is present they education. e =t Weather reports indicate that the contests” is about prize winner whose n abundantly wtable Winter wardrobe. over. It is a lucky rewards equip her with com e e It i8 a long time since Sir Thomas Lipton was able to convey assurances of entire international good feeling simply by reasserting himselt as yacht race. ———s e Prohibition enforcement hLas dis- pensed with the persuasive eloquence of the old temperance lecture and brought up the question of who s quickest on the trigger. o There are fears that the education John T. Scopes is getting in Balti- more will not do him much good in Dayton, Tenn. e The “world series” {s none the less iuterested. ————— There are so many matters of great interest under way that the strike proceeds without the usual ex-| _ An ovation such as was received by | { Col. Mitchell is gratifying, but it does not figure with weight in the official record. - e Ovations to Col. Mitchell may or may not have been overheard by the Secre- tary of the Navy In any event, he does not regard them as pertinent evi- dence. At stand how there could just now be so many people watching a small matter like a horse race. o Tt is possible to have a quiet fnaugu- ration, but championship game. . Shifting Gears on Roasting Ears. The ancient gag about going to the Palmer House to listen to nouveau riche Chicagoans eat soup has found a modern echo. According to dis- patches from Paris, watching Amert- cans eat corn cn the cob is one of the Autumn pastimes of the boulevardiers. In fact, one famous restaurant which speclalizes in American dishes pulls its window curtains back in order that passersby may miss no detail of this barbaric custom. Among things not easily changed are national predilections for, to others, strange foods and in the modes of consuming them. Travelers cheer- fully carry these fascinating little tricks to other climes, where they be- come nine-day wonders. Our French friends have some spectacular gas- tronomic habits, including the skillful pronging of delicately browned snails. The Britisher, no matter what his sta- tion, likes to keep two table imple- ments in use at the same time if the delicacy consumed will permit. His knife and fork, or knife and spoon, work with the beautiful synchroniza- tion of a war plane’s propeller and machine gun. The Italian can per- form wonders with a single fork. a flexible neck, an unerring eyve and a batch of spaghetti resembling a mul- tiple steel bridge cable. The table manners of Americans, i base ball fan cannot under- | never a quiet base balll ———— Mussolini is a great dictator who knows how to use even a king in his political businet —_— —— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHX | ! i | | NEON The Overwhelming Interest. There are things to be done, Both {n duty and fun. ‘There are questions to, meet, ‘Where reformers compete; But the problem supreme Of our civilized scheme Isn’t solved up to date; So, be patient and wait. { When the laurel we set On the world’s base ball pet; When the umpires we've heard ¥ the big final word, ‘We can talk of affairs And political cares: But, till then, I will state, We will all have to wait. Politicians All. “Wouid you advise me to go into politics?” “You're a voter, aren’t you?” asked Senator Sorghum. “Certainly."” “Then you're already in politics. The only thing for You to decide is how deep you'll get.” Back to the Farm Around the village ptreet I roam, ‘With weary indecision. For what was once the dear old home Is now a subdivision. Jud Tumkins says a traffic cop works hard but has at elast the satis- faction of knowing he’s the only man in the street who is sure of not being hit. Style Mathematics. “Modern clothes are puzzling.” “They are,” answered Farmer Corn- tossel. “When I last went to town I couldn’t decide whether to say one trouser makes a skirt or two skirts make a pair of trousers.” Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving day! Thanksgiving day! You are already on display For every time the home team wins { An hour of gratitude hegins. ““One of de beauties of a base ball bulletin,” sald Uncle Eben, “is dat it lets you stand in de street once in I | play {phibi | Stephens is a lawyer by calling, with a i No man is so swagger, No one is so ugly he No man is too ignor well of himself. These thoughts came the other us 1 watched a streetful of people £0 by, some east and some west, each in_the way that he thought best. It wus Just an ordinary, everyday Washington street scene, not as crowded as in some less fortunate cities, but still bustling enough, with hurrying pedestrians, swiftly moving automobiles, slower moving street cars. All around me was in commotion. The sun had come out, for the first time in a week, and men and women seemed to respond Immediately to its genial touch. The small number of children was noticeable. The little ones of Washington do not floc duwntown as they do in smaller cities. They stay home and unnoy the nefghbors. of all poor he cannot nnot strut. ant 1o think the men who passed me scarcely a one there was but swag- gered, strutted, or in some way o conducted himself, in a physicnl rian- ner, as to show a pretty good per- sonal opinfon of himself. And these outward signs were manifestations of inner thinking. Some one may ask: “How s it pos- sible to tell, by looking at another, whether he thinks well of himself? And, if he does, whai's the harm?” As the questions e pertinent, T will do my best te wer them. In the first place, it auite possible for any one Keenly interested in his fellow human beings, (o discern the conceited man from the poor in heart,” as the Bille puts ft. This is not a matter of Imagina- tion, but of fact. It should b recog- nized that there are, in general, two main types of men, the observant and the non-observant. The former can- not help themselves from looking on life as something of a spectacle, and all those they meet as players in it. Shakespeare phrased this idea in tmmortal words in his lines begin- ning, “The world's a_ stage,” etc. Such spectators of Iife look upon the players in an objective manner. They include all writers, ministers, edu- cators, socfolozists and others whose business in life 1t is to observe as well as to act The “plavers,” we may call them. include the great generality of mankind, the so-called “man in the street the woman in the home, the man in the mine—or out of the mine as the i children of all ages, et Which.of the ty an o groups s the hap. plest. no man can say. Indeed, there is no such hard and’ fast division as our discussion might lead the unwary to think, for every man, at times, is something of a looker-on, as well as a ¢ in the game The matter mostly concerns habits of the mind. If one belongs in our first classification, he will find him- self. as he walks down the street. looking somewhat curfously at those who pass. He then will see that scarce a man but has It in him to strut, if given the slightest opportunity. This uni versal capability of men well of themselves every turn. One man has a swazger to his shoulders, another holds his head a bit too high, another tiits his hat at an angle, another manages to get out of his automobile with ar of prid still another man achleves it by mere glanc Ionce knew a man who could thank a store clerk with such unbearable civility that the clerk felt like murder- | one at| 3 a WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. The next shindy in the aircraft unl- verse (where there seems to be noth- | ing else but) is due when Comdr. Don- | ald B. MacMillan returns from the Arctic and blames the Navy's flving hoats for the failure of his Arctic ex- pedition. The Navy 1t isn't going to rise in its own defense. That will - attended to by Grover Cleveland Loening, the brilliant voung aeronau- tical engineer who designed the “am- n” planes which accompanied acMillan to the North. Ever since MacMillan sent back word to civili tion that his aircraft equipment hadn't come up to the mark, Loening ha worn war paint and proclaimed h intention of holding MacMillan to strict accountability. If the commander re- peats the charge in the press or on the lecture platform, it is Loening" determination to pursue him and use a term which “Teddy” Roosevelt used to like to eall “the and uglier word.” Loening declares that if any v ought to have known in advanc the limitations of alreraft in the Arctic ficlds, that man is Donald MacMil- lan. The engineer is not minded that the “buck’ Tor MacMillan's ill-starred venture shall be “passed” to the Navy planes as such. * Xk ¥ % One of Gen. Herbert M. Lord's prin- cipal stants in the administration of the budget is Redmond D. Stephens, who brings to his task a wealth of ex perience in various professional fields. itse | sh | record of successful corporation prac- tice to his credit. Since the war, in which he held the rank of captain, he has been assoclated with various Fed. eral activitles in Washington, mostly connected with the \War Department. In Chicago Stephens was a law part- ner of the late American Ambassador | to Japan. Edgar A. Bancroft. He vis- | ited Mr. Laneroft in Tokio some time ago. and while there took occasion to | quake smote Nippon the Japanese | budget system. Lver since the earth- quake smote Nippon the Japanese have had a pretty rigid Coolidge econ- omy program of their own. Stephens found that it contained mnot a few points of interest for the United States ¥ % ¥ % So seriously does the Navy take the charges that Col. Mitchell has prefer- red against it'that it has sent over- seas for American officers who can give the President’s Alr Board first- hand information. Rear Admiral Luke McNamee, who for the past year has been Unifed States naval attache in Great Britain, arrived from London a few days ago at Secretary Wilbur's order. The Alr Board has already in- terrogated him. McNamee, who used to be chief of the naval intelligence service in Washington, 1s an_out- spoken opponent of the united air service idea. He has been able to ob- serve that system at work in Great Britain and to acquaint himself with the British navy's reasons for insist- ing that {t be abolished a3 soon as pos- sible. * ok ok ¥ Onver on Sixth street northwest, Washington, stands an old-fashione® three-story ved brick dwelling that ought to be christened ‘Telephone House. On f{ts third floor back, 47 years ago, & young man named Emile Berliner, then a clerk in a dry goods store on Seventh street, burned the midnight ofl while he worked out the invention of the telephone transmitter. One day this week Berliner, still hale and virile at 75, took a group of friends to visit his old home. More than a generation has passed since he last attempted to inspect the humble lodgings he occupied there. The place is still a rooming house. The land- lady had some misgivings about show- ing Berliner and his party through. When he finally contrived to identify himself, she was overjoyed and felt honored by the disclosure that she sow inhabits so historic premiges. | we | selves more as we want ourselves to | sal ! have a right to be proud |country fell in price only 2 per cent !in some other parts, 6 per cent, lcent.” i | | Ing the fellow. Just what he did, or what accent he gave to his well bred voice, wis past analysis, but the fact remained that he could insult others without committing any overt offense. The thing was a masterplece in its way. | { | * ok %k This man swaggered mentally, as others do with thelr shoulders, or u too-erect carrlage of the body, or a tilt of the head, or a visible sneer. To the observer of life, this ability of men to “strut their stuff,” as the slang phrase has it, fs intensely in- teresting, since it shows him that no matter how low a man gets, he still possesses this divine spring, which enables him to “come back” upon the slightest opportunity. So the reader will see that I have answered the second question. “If he does swagger, what's the harm? ‘There i no harm, only good. Without this inner, secret convic tion that we are protty good stuff, after all, only the fortunately situated from the beginning could ever be any- thing, or ever achieve any mark of distinction. Unless we could strut, now and then think well of ourselves when no one else can see for what reason, we would find this a bad world indeed. One has | only to saturate himself with the dire forebodings as to the ultimate destiny of man to he found in all literature to see to what depths of misery we are exposed. Fortunately, we are so constituted that these calamity-howlings slip off us like water off a duck’s back. If look in the mirror, we sce our be_than as we really are. Everywhere in the world we Iive in | this divine Impression of one’s worth | 1s strongly manifested. From our very birth we look with pride upon ourselves, and what we do. “She has pretty hair,” say friends of the ugly child. It is all that they can say. The child, hearing, prides herself on her halr and forgets her ugly fea tures. We can thank Heaven for this abil- ity of ours, and hope we will never become such observers of life as to forget to act our part therein. The psychoanalysts have a term that is more or less understood now ! throughout all walks of Society: An nferfority complex.” they say, is u manner of thinking and acting which rises from the secrct feeling of the vietim that he 15 outclassed, in various wiuys, by others. A man may feel this | way without particularly knowing he has the obsession. Ko they account for people with | chips on thefr shoulders, too great strenuosity, and all forms of conceit | and “push” carried on to an extremc | degree. The victim is doing his best. | in his way, te zhow the world that | “he is just as good as you are.” i T sometimes wonder if all men are not working under some sort of univer- | inferfority complex.” either be.| cause they feel the. and the angels, or, if they have terialistlc conception of the universe, because they resent their general help’ | lessness in a world o vast and so heartless. Wherefore, T felt, as T stood in that busy Washington street, that it is well for us If we can throw our chest | out and out head up in the face all creation. Let the poor man sw ger, the ugly man strut, the ignorant fellow sneer at the learned. If we are the sons of God then we If we not, we can show the universe some. thing new under the sun—pride—and be proud of it! Then she did a bit of disclosing her-| self. “My three daughters and two sons-nlaw are employed by the tele phone company, and my late hus band,” she explained, “was an invent or himself." All concersed think ii an interesting batch of cofncidences. * k ¥ & Huston Thompson, one of the mi- nority members of the Federal Trade Commission, who, in deflance of com- mission rulings, revealed the facts about the new “bread trust,” gives some striking figures in Jjustification | of their insubordination. ““Covering a| period of four recent years,” says Thompson, “the price of wheat fell 50 per cent and the price of flour 33 per cent. During the years in question, however, bread in some parts of the | | | and in one place only, as much as 15 per Thompson, a fighting Demo- crat. proud to call himself a Wilsonian of the deepest dve, thinks his party has a 1926 campaign rlogan in the “bread trust” that can be used with deadly effect against the G. O. P. He believes it 1s loaded with enough po- litical dynamite to last over into 1928, * ok oW Washington's_ lame-duck _ congres- stonal colony—Senators and Represent- atives entitled to write ‘“ex” after their names—grows apace. Thomas Sterling, former Senator from South Dakota, has become dean of a law school in the District of Columbia. Any number of his old colleagues have followed his example and continued to pitch tents here in this community of rumor, recrimination and remorse, Former Senators George L. Chamber- lain of Oregon, A. Owsley Stanley of Kentucky, Willard Saulsbury of Dela- ware and Hoke Smith of Georgia are practicing law in Washington. For- mer Senators Fred T. Dubuis of Ida- ho and Porter J. McCumber of North Dakota have good-paying positions on Federal commissions. Former Senator George Sutherland of Utah is a mem- ber of the United States Supreme Court. Former Senator Frank B. Kel- logg of Minnesota is now Secretary of State. Two one-time stars in the G. O. P. firmament in the House— Frank W. Mondell of Wyoming and Philip Pitt Campbell of Kansas—are now members of the District bar. Sometimes it is the opportunity for lucrative incomes, through their ‘Washington ‘“‘contacts,” that anchors these unappreciated statesmen along the Potomac. Sometimes it’'s the lure of Capital life, with their woman folks' reluctance to return to the sticks. * ok kK This observer here repeats, by re- quest, 2 ‘yarn he has spun before. Years ago he was an American news- paper correspondent on duty in Eu- rope. As at this witching hour, the world’s base ball championship was at stake. The second Balkan war, threatening the long-feared general European war, had broken cut. The writer was cabling liberally the news that had the whole continent on ten- terhooks. Came this imperious mes- sage from his editor: “Lay off war stuff. World series now on.” (Copyright. 1925.) ——————————— And it's too bad that the Senators, who won the American League flag, do not instill some of their team. work iInto the Senators of Capitol Hill.—Savannah Pre: oo “Young Bob” La Follette may not be able to wear his father's shoes, but he can use the same comb.—Peoria Transcript. | i | i | They speak of “the man higher up” in the bootlegging business, but isn't one as low down as another?—Lexing- ton Daily Leadet, | count of the high | ekirt {instances a {lower lim | when womer | important. 0., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1925 Short Skirts Not New. Press in 1867 Was Exercised by Proposal to Cut Them. To the Editor of The Star The women of today are very agitated over the question as to whether skirts should be worn longer or shorter. It is not the first time that the feminine world has been in such commotion on this subject, as is evidenced by the following article: “The Star, April 13, 1867. The New York Times says that the introduc- tlon of the short dress is attended with considerable emburrassment. Ladies fear ridicule and imagine that it will have but a brief run, even if it should come Into general use. The short dress 1s not so very short as to offend the taste or the scruples of the most fastidfous. It simply dls- penses with superfluous length, there- by enabling women to make some other use of her hands than holding her dress out of thé dirt and mud. Tt subserves cleanliness, for the most sight of all sights s that dress after a wallk upon s It also removes the from the waist which has heretofore been so destructive of female healthe In with the thick soled boots that are coming in vogue the short dress is sensible in every point of view. Flora McFlimsy had nothing to wear,” but from the appearance of ome of the fair sex it appears as if they were wearing next to nothing, and should there be any reduction in the mmount of raiment it would not be surprising some day to &ce upon our streets some of our women ar. much muc extr ter the manner of Cleopatra, | Hland. orperhaps Salome. vemarkable that for hundreds of ars the style of the Dutch women's biliments has not changed. It is usual for them to be possessed of quite a number of skirts of various colors, and it was the custom to wear four or five of these skirts at a time. Under the Directoire in France it was constdered comme il faut for women to appear In the streets scantily garbed in single raiment, and at the time it caused no comment other than that the physicians claimed it was very harmful for thelr health. Many who are possessed of puri- *anical prudery have been greatly shocked on account of women ap- pearing in public in bare arms. In vgone days it was quite custo- v for women of all classes on all asions to appear in_bare arms. The ladles-dn-walting on Empress Eu- genie on morning, noon nd night. moved about with their arms exposed, and even in the Occi- dental court of the Empress Josephine it was quite in Vogue for the women o ap r in sleeveless garme: PAnd even in the days of good Queen Victoria it was the fashion for women to appear in Hyde Park with nrins exposed, 43 it was the custc of the day. There is a report that tke Pope has prohibited women from antering any place of worship in bare arms. This must be a slight exagger ation—probably there are reasons for uch an edict, and it prob terred to extremely low neck The hosiery manufactur W decided to make the upper half all silk stockings of cotton. on ae- price of material. This would prevent in a measure, women from wearing a very short he rolled stocking does not seem to be in evidence as much as formerly and is confined to the younger set. It Is claimed that women have al- most abandoned the use of corsets, notwithstanding millions of these wrticles are munufactured every year, as statistics will show. In nany it was q for the younge e provalent officers to be correted, and, of course, it would be a humor- ous sight to see these fellows with their narrow walsts doing the goose step. In 18G5, at Saratoga, the then fash. ionable resort, many of the women affected what was termed the Grectan bend. The bodv inclined well forward. etbows held close into the waist and hands were turned down and resembled the position of a kangaroo's front paws. In fact, was_known as the “kangaroo At that time the bustle was much in evidence, it being an abireviated hoop skirt, which caused the skirt to stand well out. In many Lunch of crumpled news- paper was used as a substitute for the regular bustle. In the early 60s the skirts were made very voluminous and expanded out in every direction to & considerable length, due to enormous hoops and _crinoline. This applied to dresses of nforning wear as weil as evening. Later on he prevailing style of the skirt was what is known as the “pin back,” and it was very remarkable how women were able to hobble about when the skirt was bound so tight around the but after all, there never was a time when the style of skirts was €0 grotesque as they are toda: and never before was there a time s clothing was as costly 2 as it is tod or 14 yards were required for u dress pattern; today a robe may he con- tructed out of three or four yards, and vet the prics far exceeds that of an elaborate gown such as was worn in the 70s, which usually con- sisted of flounces, furbelows and trimmings, Lut then everything is higher now than then, even the skirts. “And the eyes of both were opened and they knew that they were naked, and they sewed fig leaves together and made them into aprons.” Gen- eses, L7, FRANKLIN STEELE. Fame Evolutes Backward For the Foot Ball Star For three years the foot ball star s After that he is spoken of as the man who was a foot ball star once. And the fact that he was a foot ball star once helps him not in the least to get along in any business that he takes up. It is a fine thing to be & hero, while you are being a hero. But after the hero days have passed, which they do quickly with the ama. teur hero, there is nothing left but USOTTOW’S crown of sorrow* which, as Mr. Tennyson tells us, consists in *re. membering happler things.” The real hero in peace or war probably gets considerable fun out of his fame. But the real herces are so few that it is hardly worth while writing about them. Unusyal circumstances give most of them thelr opportunities— clrcumstances that figure in fewer than one life In a thousand. Young men who are famous in col- lege or in early life because they have the physical co-ordination necessary to excel in some particular sport, usually get their heads so turned with early success that they become unduly con- .2ited. And as conceit is a belief that one is as good as he needs to be, there is scant prospect of his ever getting any better. A great many young men who from utter obscurity have looked upon Mr. Ruth and Mr. Dempsey and envied and admired them wijil far eclipse them at 50. For these young men will wake up some time to the discovery that the real hero stuff is in the mind and in the soul and in the spirit, not In the biceps or muscular wrists and calves. Any heroism that is based on sport is really amateur heroism. The amateur lasts only through youth. After that he fades out of the pic- ture and is forgotten. The kind of reputation that is made of mental abil- ity is the one kind that is enduring and worth having. Keats, who lived to be little more than 22 wrote a few poems, and on them was erected a fame which far eclipses that of any athlete, from the Greeks down, and which will never while people can read be forgotten.—Canton Dally News, = their | In the bygone days 12 | seem to QUESHONS BY FREDZRIC J. HASKI. Q. Is the land surrounding 1 Beach and Miami below sea leve M t on the Q. How hea is the traffie 1 Philadelphia 1 Atlantic Cit highway?— 70", S A. Th H heavy fand Sy wen The Coast and Geodetle Survey says that not only this land above sea level, but the entire peninsula of | Florida is above mean sew level. Q. How long can milk, tea and | coffee be kept safely in a thermos bot- | tie?—C. ¥, | A. All thermos bottles are not P of packed in the same way. For this rea son, milk will not keep in all hottles SRIBIUI o L L the same length of tme.- It the Dack- | groas urifr aroione of the four ing s good, the milk should kecp | op doctrif that wae founded by he about as long as it does in a refrig- | [ oy Shati. | Shafilfes are mos: erutor. The tea and coffee will keep as (A0 @I TL | Shadites long as the thermos bottle holds the | " Py in northern Africa. temperature. | @ win was | luminatjs purpos Q. What does ‘riparian B mean?—('. 0. ¢ A T Washin A. The definition of “ripartan| A 77 ‘ashi rights,” according to common law, is SV 'f b “a person owning land bordering :“f‘\")'i":’_;"' s ‘a non-navigable stream owns the bec L nnavigable stream owns the bed | el (TG ton, I © - carries aturd, a thre wcluding onday, wis with a ma cen 5 and y urday, gindas 10,500 vehies imum houg 143 Q. Whats a Shafilte?—C. €. M for day 1 be vehicles. first us rights” in Washing rights’ b T ton Gas sossit exact Lizght | is Ating 1 date on i I I ishing of the stream to the filium aquae, or o thread of the stream, and may 1 reasonable use of lts waters.” Will rock sult put on a cinde injure the adjoining grour act of Cor minutes 1 Ly The board Q. drive —J A. The Bureau of Solls says that the application of rock salt upon the driveway will injure the soll for a|to ‘hpcrinter radius of about three feet. If the roots|of I of & neighbor’s trees or shrubs extend | tha.\ under the driveway, rock salt will be Pryide poison to them. Otherwise, it will not ed hurt his property S the rain | hes this subs on to d and e What 1naterial would make cor sle smoke when burned, and it tle heat P. McN. ¢ A. In meking a flame that will| generate a great deal of smoke with | 2 small umount of heat it is necessary | to admit as little air as possible. Use | . papers soaked In a concentrated so. | lution of potassium nitrate. Allow th&¥ papers to dry before burning. ! Q <ide; e constituted and 1 occupied now rtel, was the fir Q. Can sun #pota be seen without a telescope .J. L. A, Tf a spot of the sun s as large || 2, CaN water Le cooled helo as 27,000 miles in diameter it can be ||s/ 0 Doint withou: seen without u telescope as n very |, c minute black speck. Occasionally | A- If it fs « spots are even larger than this, and |7/t Wth the 50,000 miles is a size not unkn prdercooled L The largest sun spot on record 45 observed in 185%; it was nearly 1 miles in breadth and covered of the whole surt Q. Where are the principal we: [Ing centers of the United State e A. Among the princip: |centers of the cotton manufact jindustry are the cities of Lowel] rence, New Bedford and | Mass.; Manchester, N. I {R. I, and Danville, V: Among th | of the sflk manufacturing {ndust ithe cite of Paterson, N. J., and Al}fons of our {lentown, Pa.” ~ Philadelphia, Pu., i4/4rnish facts for {prominent as a general weaving cen|? 1707 contract—onc that has ne ter. been gilled before could be | sible only in Washingt : has cating sources ber mav be any s er|The darkness need not Feh rget When in doul offers kimself as a Q. Are any substances non-condud one ko tors of electricity at a temperatur of 6.000 degrees’—J. G | does not knoie all the A. The Bureau of Standards savy ple ask him, but he knows peoyls that %o far as it knows all materialf do know. Try iim e qu conduct electricity with relative eas{tion briefly, write plainly and inel at such high temperature. All pr ent knowledge indicates that ther iever will be found any substanc which could be classed as a non conductor at 6,000 degrees Farenhet 2 cents in_sgmps for return pos tddress The Star in Burea Frederic J. Haskin tor. Tu first and C streets northicest, Wash- ngton, D. C.) WHAT GERNANY WANTS BY FRANKY. SIMONDS. format Perhaps the greatest possible errofthe border I with respect of the current confer4and of Eupen-)al taken by enco at Locarno, whether it succeedszium. She will even consent 0 or fails in producing a Franco-Ger-fhe League of Natigns, but o man security pact, would be to attachfetual or tacit assertion of ti too much importance to the meetingfion that she will not hers or to the pact. What Is being at- me: tempted, after all, is no more than it ne to give Europe u period of re tranquillity following a _temporar truce between France and Germa A security pact cannot insure abso- lutely against a future war, and the danger of war between two nations with bitter snimosities, ancient and recent, as France will not b abolished by any “scrap of puper. What the pact will do, at most, is to contribute a sense of temporary security, which may gradually grow into a feeling of real safety. Today both the French und the Germans are apprehensive of the Immediate or ultimate designs of their neigh- bor. France is dominated hy memory of the aggression of and the partition of 1871, German: ) the anclent history of France on the Rhine revived by the occupation « the Ruhr and the propaganda for a Rhineland republic. . % o As between German and Iy statesmen there is vastly less di ence than between the public opin ions of the two mnations. Strese- | mann and Briand will not find their |} Weaken the alliunce {chief obstacle mutual hostility, but |fance and Poland und IFrance the overshadowing fear of the fashion | kechoslovakia, a nts in which what they may do will|ive for the French a very real va react at home. There is a real anal- || terms of their ogy in this respect between the situa- | Fance would like to < tion at Locarno this week and that |frtake cblizations at Washington last week. The great- ||ed8e8 (o maintain t danger is that what both nego- |['S Of Germany as they s ors perceive 1o be essential muy || IMpossible, but, on the other The German Reiehstag nag |pe French are détermined that n {the French Parltament inacceptable. |}$ $hall be dene to weuken the pre: fermany comes 1o Locarno for the [I* tertitorial status of her alltes. first time since the war as an equal. || . proposing a system of peace between || Britain wants to bring herself and France which involves a |F{"e Speeian Nt s, formal recognition of the territorial |[I® S2Me time to escape t settlements of the Wwar in the West. |, Making any alliance with She proposes to ugree to accept the [HICh might scem o I loss of Alsace-Lorraine as permanent, (K40 G any. Ina word the on centain conditions. But she wili [j1, Wish to avoid rcturning not make this concession, which in |*1} situation of rival alliar the German mind is very great, save [orocded by the British that for balancing compensation. She JilY aEaln attacked Frau comes| {o trade, not to accept any/la o qir gt toig, sond have allied demands, and at all times she > 1°,the aid of both, as in 1414 can and will insist upon being treated [ nive 1O desire to support Fra = phaE HDN gainst Germany generall d the as an equal. This is the first out- (i y determingii standing difference between Locarno |c ‘oot piinaion 1oL 10 be dragse and any of the preceding conferences [jors. = Ahis (hee Coftoy Crarern fron ers. Thus they offer Germany since that at Parls more than sixfyarantee N Cern years ago. narantee against an French nge to the existing Western frontier, s they offer France a guarantes gainst Germany. If Germany rejects this opportunit Alsace-Lor ny war wit nce sha - France goe e esti ierman promise, f a British guarant rontier betweer T is some fo b Fra tis a F wan promise, tial to her it r fasl bained is by Fith Germany. fans are not ew German plex leve that the Ger total fbmpan ach bnd e - || Apart that own n in sk 19 rench and b from this liritish guarantee, t sol ncern is that nothing shall be th. ind. fry Th the Tt 14 * ¥ * What Germany will ask is, broadly speaking, that she be freed from ail of the temporary political servitudesh real Franco-British agreement of the treaty of Versailles; in a word, practically inevitable, for Diitish that there be a liquidation of the burity is now permanently locked p political phase of the peace as there [vith the question of peace on the was of the economic when the Dawes [thine. But if she aceepts it the dan- plan was adopted in London a year fer of a hostile alliance disappea e, ago. The Ruhr has been evacuated. Pritain also seeks to prevent a Russ: Now Germany asks the immediate[ierman combination, which might evacuation of the Cologne zone, which fasily come about if the old Franco- would have been cleared in January Pritish entente reappeared. Britain had it not been for the dispute over|vishes to isolate Russia, bring Ger- German armaments, and an assur-[nany back into association with the ance, if not a contract, for an accele-\Vestern nations and insure a long ration of the pace of evacuation of allfruce between France and German the remaining oceupled regions be i * ok % ok ween the French and Belgian fron-| No agreement made at Locar: tlers and the Rhine. reglons whichiaiva permanent peree i e, pot under the treaty would not be clearedfause any agreement there made will for ten years yet. e based on present, not eventual, in- Assurance of a_positive sort thatfierests of the nations engaged. evacuation will take place, coubledliny agreement that may be made will with the past evacuation of the Ruhiulmost certainly serve as the nece. and the certainty of the ¢ clearfsary prelude to a long truce, to a con- ing of the Cologne zone, will give thojsiderable number of years of tran- whole German people relief from thelquillity, during which the real obsta- general belief that France meant tdcles to adjustment can be removed!. stay on the Rhine permanently, too, means the rveturn it will very greatly strengthen as a ‘mreat and independ- hands of the Luther-Stresemann calrjent . 1t will, as I have saic inet, which has all along perceivedmark the liquidation of the politic that, not in resistance, but in agrec{phase of post-war circumstance, anid ment with Germany’s recent enemieqin that sense prove the most sig must solution of the current difficulinificant event since the peace con- ties come. ference itself, save perhaps the mui k- = *x ok % ng of the Dawes plan, which had Germany will seek to buy evacuadequal and similar meaning. kon by the pledge of renunciation ef ACopsTishi. 19250