Evening Star Newspaper, December 25, 1925, Page 13

THE ' EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1925. 13 CABMAN INODESSA " TYPICAL GRAFTER | Bluffs Passenger for Excess| Fare, But Attempt Blocked by Hotel Manager. BY JUNIUS B. W0OD. Correspos nce of The Star and the Chicago ODESSA, U. S. R., November 16.—The City Odessa stretches along and for miles back from a blufl that overlooks t ha s My droshky and a trailing wagon with my | trunk started from the irf for the | hotel. Iaving a strar tor a pas- | senger, the Ezvoshchek (ca an) pat- | urally took a route about three times | as long as the direct way. He was a zenial soul. le waved his whip i various directions and talked volubly in_Russian When the fare i igreed on in | Confederate soldier. Jtmmie Ellen | Jimmie is the youngest daughter of a HOLDS DIXIE RECORD. Girl, 12. Youngest Daughter of | Confederate Soldier in U. S. | CARLISLE, Ky., December 25 (®).— Although the direct daughter of a . 12 years old, Is not eligible to belong to the United Daughters of the Confederacy until she attains her majority. Jimmie is the daughter of A.J. Barr, 86, who did not marry until he was 50 vears of age. Ken- tucky Confederate statisticians believe Confederate s ates. PROGRAM IS ISSUED FOR SCIENCE SESSION Planes’ Use in War on Crop In- sects to Be Described Among Many Features. ier in the United ated Press. CITY, Mo., December vance the cabby turns his stained back and plods by the shortest | route to his passenger de: & | When the question of fare is not se tled he is full of conversation, hilar- | 1ty and entertainment The row comes later. Our a emed aim ar tour of th d in no hur circu- | which I was go spicuous bu! easy occasionally to and Da, d Yes, three half-mi Drives to Wrong Hotel The driver prouc whip, gave a co trill which stops any to the Russian la1 customed n and we were at the cur cabby was obviousl: Dt thi: was my hotel. Promptly chief porter appeared lift out the ba 1 made a motion to He was stopped. “This is your hotel,” he explained in German “It is I'n going to the Hotel de Londres “This is a bette clean, com- fortable, first “I'm going other hotel You ¢ get a room there.” I'm ¢ there anywa If vou don't get a room will you back here® he inquired reins and we He seemed de- t route and when v room awaited me un- | loaded and th Zzvosh- chek began i Fare Is Cut in Half. i Backed by the driver the wagon, he demanded 20 rubles (§10). That he |1 said was a4 minimum An UK"‘dI of the hotel who speaks | uages as badly as he does | English acted as ir nediary. Twenty a ride which should 10 minutes seemed high. lent was noisy but without re waste of t ibles. abby pos the trunk | of an merican rubles, |1 The director ¢ a large, | well appearing young man. came on | the scene. He was much | should be T the | eloguent | i iround the | ¢ director | this hote! lous,” the | outed, but | ved into silence. ou pay him whatey Anyway, 1 | is right Y ven't any money,"” showed tutility of argu- ment “Shall I give him 10 rubles?” the | director & That's a great plenty.” That was dc *“Do you some money?” the di rector continued. He handed over 40 rubles, making an investment of 50 on a guest who had not even registered. The system is different from that in the United States when the en ed guest hopes to a cash advance from the manager to tide him over a Sunday. Room Would House Family. My room was immense—in size The manager said it would be 8 rubles a day. That seemed fair enough in the subsequent discussion of prices. I was advised that I mi have got it | for 7. It was 25 by eet with a 20| by 12 foot alcove for the single bed | and an 18 by § foot hallway. t The room had three fulllength mir- vors and one smaller, two with heavy 1d fram, It had a green plush parlor set including a table, six straight-backed chairs, two armchairs and a straight-backed settee trimmed | with brass. In addition, there were two ratta a clothes cabinet, a writing desls ble in the hallwa + combination desk and clothespress n the bed alcove and various smaller articles of furniture and many pic- Lures on the wall The floors were hare, a_character- istic of Russian hotels. Two sheets and a pi slip for the bed and a towel cost 3 rubles extra and a warm bath was the same price. There was no extra charge for electricity. Some of the furniture seemed incongruous, ospecially a galvanized tin water-pall under a sumptuous marble-topped washstand Ezvoshchek Reappears. The window was being opened for a little fresh when the Ezvoshchek and the doddering interpreter appear- ed, entering without knockin, ‘He wants 15 rubles ($7.80),” the in- terpreter explained. The price had zone down 5 rubles. The cabby scorn- ed interprete of the actors 2nd_ actresses in sia_are former | workers or peasants. Possibly through the process reversed this knight of the whip was once an actor. His stuff was good. Though his oratory was not understood, it was easy to see that he was a hard-working man, that his wife and many children were starving, that his horse was sick and that life in general was very hard. It was all *by pantomime. One real was endur- able, but when it promised to run into 10 he was referred to the director. Later the same Ezvoshchek was quite willing to take the same bag- sage, including the trunk and two men, to the railroad station in his droshky for 1 ruble. Strangers are easy picking in any city. = (Copyright. 1925. by Chicago Daily News Co.3 Disease Carrier Healthy. In one of the logging camps near ‘Wheeler, Oreg., & man who has been carrying cerebro-spinal meningitis dis- ease germs has been segregated after much research on the part of the phy- siclans in charge. The peculiar in- terest In this case is that the carrier himself appears to be in perfect health. He is nevertheless believed to have been the carrier of the disease to many others. Legless, He Circles Globe. George Pernot, famous as a French aviator, who lost both legs in an air- plane crash during the World War, is walking around the world on two pegs. He was 20 months crossing \Asia and Europe, and just completed ‘nis peg across Canada. He availed nimself of§ the money which the rench government offers war crip- ples who wish o g0 around the worid, -{jects will be discussed in papers be- | stitutes. Deprived of her daily ration i Chopin, Mendelssohn and other mas- |in every cabaret In Mantla. Science in its war upon destructive acids and even parasites. hese and many other scientific sub- re entomological societies meeting with the American Association for the ment of Science here Decem S-January s of parasites, mustered in the season, are battling to save | corn crops. J. H. Bigger d W. P. Flint of the Illinois State u 1 History Survey explain 'h(“ ites were sent out to check the | ages of the European cornborer. he two entomologlists, however, do not feel that America can depend on parasites alone to control the insect which has made marked progress westward in the lower peninsula of ichigan and southward from the lake in_Ohio Wireworms vae of snapping or “skipping jacks,” which also have con- tinued their raids on germinating corn, desplte the chemical warfare of scientists, cannot attack when the seed fs soaked in mercuric acld, is the discovery of F. A. Fenton of Flor- ence, S. C. low at 85 miles an hour, »aded with arsenate of lead, 1,000 acres of peach orchards Georgia this vear and the fruit so treated was equal to that of orchards isted in t I manner. The re s shoulc epted tentativel says Oliver I. Snapp of Fort Vallp: 15 experimentation has not yet gone r enough to fully establish the de. rability of the new method. A queen bee can be fooled with sub- of pollen, she will accept finely ground rye, wh oats, corn or buckwheat | £o ahead with her job of laving s and ruling the hive. But the rvae (baby bees), if deprived of pol will die. alph L. Parker. api 1sas State Agricultural College, as. serts that during the first two days of larval life the infant bees partake liberally of royal jelly, which he de- scribes as a concentrated food of a gested nature secreted by the | ger worker bees. r the rematnder of the larval says Mr. Parker, “undigested poilen is mixed with the food derived from a secre FILIPINO BAND BANS JAZZ.| Noted Constabulary Organization | to Play Only Classics. | Correspondence of the. Associated Pro. MANILA.—Jazz music has been | banished from the programs of the | constabulary band. Thousands of young men and women, who have been accustomed to hear the band put on the latest hits, will have to be con- tent with the music of Verdi, Wagner, Rafael Crame, chief of sald he had taken this of criticlsm in certain intellectual quarters,” which com- plained that the band played “street music.” These critics declared that band which had gained world-wide me should not descend to the level the six-piece jazz orchestra found The band gives concerts three eve- nings a week on the Luneta, the his. toric park whose name the Legisla- ture would change to Plaza Woodrow Wilson. rist of the | ¥ RUSSIAN PRIESTS BOB | HAIR TO ESCAPE REDS Disdain of Bolshevists Meted Out to Churchmen Results in Upsetting Tradition. Correspondence of the Associated Press. n priests are bob- bing their long hair after the fashion of the American girls. Some of them are also discarding their beards. Thi done for reasons of hygiene and convenience, but more particu- larly to render thelr appearance on the street less conspicuous, for among theistic Holsheviks a priest is looked upon with disdain. Formerly mem- bers of the Russlan Orthodox clergy wore long, flowing hair which fell loosely over thelr shouiders, giving them a pat Al appearance. Many of them cultivated bushy whi ker: ch reached almost to their w Ever since the Soviet government separated the church from the state large numbers of priests and bishops have been discarding their clerical robes and scrapping their high, conical black hats. They found it they wore their ecclesiastical garh they could secure neither cmployment nor recog- nition. U. S. Lace Used in Paris Correepondence of the Associated Press. PARIS.—Zlon City laces for Paris gowns which Zion City would be far from approving are the first Ameri can-ms < ever to be imported by A dress dresses trin the little ith the product of || wis town will go back gain. 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WORGHS 1110 G g Mutual Fire Insurance % Company’s Office Will Be Closed Saturday, December 26, 1925 Legal Holiday Merry € " g A BLOCK BELOW THE To All of the Patrons of €} The MODERI DOWITOWN_ STATY #STAR SERYICE STATIO 12th and C Streets N.W. EST. 1879 The Boss Says: “THANKS— AND THE SAME TO ALL OF YOU” = In Other Words hristmas LD R RR - ERERER AVENUE AT TWELFTH We Start our Semi-Annual Clearance of Suits, Overcoats and Top Coats Following custom. the entire stock is included—without reservation or exception— Fashion Park Suits Fashion Park Overcoats Mode Suits Fashion Park 4-Piece Suits Mode 4-Piece Suits Mode Top Coats Mode Overcoats Richard Austin English Overcoat We only have these ““Sales™ twice a year—and this s the mid-winter event—when you will buy the best Clothing possible to produce—at deeply reduced prices. Suits Single and Double Breasted. Three ‘! and Four Piece Suits—Fashion Park and Mode makes— $90.75 $30.75 847775 $55-75 Overcoats and Top Coats Single and Double Breasted—Fashion Park, Mode and Richard Austin makes— $920.75 Q.75 —that were $35 and $40—now— —that were’$45 and $50—now— —that were $55 and $60—now— —that were $65 and $70—now— —that were $75 and $85—now— —that were $35 and $40—now— —that were $45 and $50—now— —that were $55 and $60—now— —that were $65 and $70—now— —that were $75 and $80—now— " —that were $385 to $100—now— $ 75-75 ‘Alterations, if any are necessary, will be made without charge. _ The Mode—TF at Eleventh St.