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United States immigration The laws apply to high and low, but when they hit publicity those of usually nrominence much ensues. Such an instance came to the atten.jon last week when the Countess Cathcart, British noblewoman. was barred from entering the country bec she admitted acts in t volving “moral turpitude acceordin to the finmig preven’ aliens from ente ntry. Interest was in this case because the | Craven, who eloped with countess some time ago. was mitted, while the counte: barred. When immigration Sought to arrest him in New he fed to Canada. The for the countess will makg a of the case in court. the ad- was officials York attorneys test Although advocates of the prohi- hition laws have declared repeatedly that “prohibition is a dead issue” now that it is m the statute ks, the en of prohibition reely let a ¢n7 pass without an effort to revive tne issue for discus- sion Representative Britten of 1lli- ne hus introduced a re lution tor tigation Anti-Saloon gue, alleging organization ha spent money election cam- paigns of judges and legislators Senator of New Jers lust week introduced another measure de- signed to modity the Volst act by permitting and light and on the eve L hanquet tomorrow he fution Prohibition Amendment it an opi n from the Attorney A1 as to whether they may have ted at the banquet a king beer written by ¢ Several measurs ding in Congress for investixation the whole question of prohibition, wt it is doubtful if any will live to sec the light in the near future. 1l wines here Agalnst has recipe is in such a The White House rc bad state of repair th: snow might cause i1§ neither Cong especially The roof ident ied over the sit hould be ced, uation. but it would cost $300,000 and require does not that much House months, and the President know when he could s time away from the Whit I, late the cr wn prince of Ru may become numbered among who change their minds. Re cently renouncing his right ef succes- gion to the throne, he has now written & letter urging all Rumanians to sink party feelings and strive for national vnity, supporting the reigning family ifis letter is interpreted in sume quar- w wdicating that the prince re- “foolish episode’” and is mak- = h ing overtures to come back. eventu ally to be a king. The President Roose United States Line vessel which rescued the crew from the sinking British ship Antinoe January received a warm welcome in New York last week when she steumed up the harbor. Her com mander. Capt. George Iried, received praise and honor for his feat in sea- manship. A herd of about 600 heud of elk is being moved across the country from Flathead Indian Reservation in Mon- tana to Middleboro, Mass., s will be allowea to roam the anim: New En 1 hills. Before shipment the bull elks had to be dehorned, Which was a dangerous and tedious process, as the animals fought thelr captors. The herd is being moved in electrically lighted express cars, and the job will cost in the neighborhood of $$0.000 before it is done. After cltminating many of its most fmportant tax-raising features, the House of Deputies passed the French government's financial bill last week. Bhe vote being taken as an expression of confidence in Premier Briand's policy. The measure now goes to the French sSenate, where it is hoped gome of the important provisions de- signed to balance the budget will be restored Leon Trotsky, returned to power ter his recent politi- sed thousands of en- < in last and popularity cal exile, addr thusiastic tes k and pic n Sta L mighty mor )f capitalism dy to devo all Europe and be come the majorit stockholder of mankind.” But the resources o t talism is expiring, he said. and Amer jea's colossal wealth is her most vul ble spot. “The higher America Climbs b pow the more dreadfu will be her fall,” he said. A slide of snow and debris plunged © % cliff and into the narrow gulch here Bingham, Utah, is located, burying a score of homes and half hundred people last week. Fever digging brought bodies to the surfac but it is feared that many of thos crushed beneath will not be recovered Until the warm sun of Spring melts the sSnow away Bingham, Utah, a mining town, is ¢ alled the “‘narrow est town in the world.” It is located in the bottom of a gulch which run: for two miles, but at no point is it more than a0 feet wid The avi lanche of snow started from a point high on the mountains above and wathered momentum and debris orn its plunge of more than a mile to the village. Congress. A . Kirk, a Republican, has been to fill the va- elected from Kentucky caney in the House caused by the yesignation of John W. Langley. now serving @a term in the Iederal peni- tentiary in Atlanta for conspiring to A e the prohibition law e Senate last week pussed i reso lution to amend the Constitution in orcer that the terms of the President ana Vice President would begin in the January folipwing the election. The chief object of the measure is to eliniinate the session of Congress im- mediajely Tollowing election in which The defented Congressmen — serve. resplution has passed the Senate twice previously, but the House has never acted upon it. Should the Fouse act favorably, the requisite number of iites—two-thirds— would have to approve it before the amendment became effective. The House last week passed the £165,000,000 bullding bill for the entire country, which includes provisions | for the construction of $50,000,000 worth of Government bulldings in Washington during the next 10" vears. The bill is expected to come up in the Senate thls we with indications that it will be vassed The tax, or revenue bill. is in the final stages of consideration by Con- gress, and has finally been ugreed upon by the conferces of the House and Senate. One peculiar phase of the situation has been the absence of party lines in the conference consid- eration of the bill, although delega- tions from the House and Senate have been widel divergent on some issues. On Thu: v the House dele- zates left the conference after a dis- Igreement with Senate members, The Senate is to vote this week on he question of a thorough investi- tion of the Aluminum Company of America, of which Sec Mellon of the Treasury is a stockholder. The investigation would be in accordance with the majority report of the Senate Judiclary committee, which has just completed a superficial investigation. Current _ News Events Summary of Important National, Foreign and Local Affairs Specially Arranged for the Convenience of Students. where the | A minority report, however, recom- mends against another investigation on the ground that there is no neces sity for it, and the Department of Justice joins formally fn thif view of the matter. nnual appropriation bill for was passed last week by te. carying $3816,483,000. The nate restored to the bill several Mitems for aviation, which were knocked out by the House. The bill now goes to conference. | ken o5 of n both hous Steps were ta Congress last week to put a curb on the many investigations which are undertaken every session by con mittees of Congress. The steps con- template a closer and more thorough examination of the subject hefore a formal authorization is given for its | investigation. The cost of congres- sional Investigations which have de- oped little of value has been enor | mous. it is pointed out, as well as | taking the tige of members of Con-! gress and those who are investigated. Aviation. Two of the aviators who took part {in the famous around-the-world flight | have resigned from the Army and are | planning a trip into the Arctic to de- termine the extent of unknown ter | ritory in that part of the world and to claim it for the United States if it} exists. The officers, Lieut. Leigh Wade and Lieut. H. H. Oz n nounced their plans last week. The | expedition will be backed by alumni of seve universities and will be known as the American University 1 Expedition The House naval committee has agreed on a five-ye: for the Navy's avi contemplates the e: | $100.000.000. The amount is about | two-fifths of that contemplated Rear Admiral Moffett, chief of naval r building program ion branch, which renditure of nearly aviation, as necessary to provide an adequate Afr Service for any euer. gency. Among the craft which would [ be built are two dirigibles, each of |them three times the size of the wrecked Shenandoah. and 1000 new plines. Y t Investigation by of the Army to discover the source of wertain “propaganda within _the | Army in favor of u separate alr force and “other policies has resulted in disciplinary action against two majors in the Alr Service, both of whom were reprimanded and one of whom was | trunsferred to a post outside of Wash. | ington. The charges were that the officers violated Army regulations by seeking to influence certain changes by methods which did not progress | through “military channels.” | Music. E Marion Talley. 19-vear-uld girl from | Kansas cCity. made her grand opera | debut last week in New York und | won from a parked house applause | which has never been equaled in the | history of the Metropolitan. Sing- |ing the role of Gilda in “Rigoletto. |she reached the threshold of her ambitions after vears of hard train- ing. Her musical education is esti mated to have cc .000, and much of the money was raised by friends the general staff critics were kind to her, and believe her voice will improve with training jand experience. Mme. Schumann-Heink, ears, old. the mother of 8 children and | grandmother of 11, is going to return | to the opera stage after an absence of 10 years, she announced last week. | “to sing the roles that I sang when 1 first fought, in bitter for recognition.” ' Her r on the stage of the Metropolitan will e | | March 25 a8 Erda in “Dms Rhein | gold.” Economics. i The high prices for crude rubber which obtained a_month or so ago because of the British’ monopoly's control of production has brought | about a greatly increased use of re- | claimed rubber, the Department -of Commerce announced last week. In addition, the manufacturers are! equipping their plants to handle | much larger quantities of old rub-| ber. largely derived from wornout | There ar Government em ployes now in Washington than at any time since the war and du; the last half of the calendar year 1925 16,641 were separated from the | service. THe number now on duty in Washington is placed at 61,501. Taking up the picks they left idle more than five months ago, an army of miners in the anthracite fields of Pennsylvania went back to work last week and long trains of coal- laden cars began the distribution once more of hard coal. The mines for a while will produce only about 25 per cent of their normal output and much of this will be needed for operation of the mines themselves. Work ‘will be speeded up., however, and within a month or so normal production probably will have been resumed. Educational. The department of superintendence {of the National Education Assocla tion, whic . numbers more than 15, 000 in its membership, is meeting in convention this week in Wash- ington. Those attending the con. vention represent virtually all the school officlale in directive educa- tlonal positions throughout the coun. try. They are in direct contact with nearly 750,000 teachers who are re sponsible for the daily supervision of more than 24,000,000 children in the public schools of the Nation Examinations as they are conducted in most public schools are “immoral institutions,” tending to increase cheating, according to Dr. Mark A. May, research specialist of the Teach- ers’ College of Columbla University, who addressed the convention of the National Vocational Guidance Associa- tion here last week. “To some chil- dren.”” he sald, “the:passing of an examination amounts almost to a matter of life and death.” Religion. The government of Mexico, enfore- ing a provision of its constitution pro- hibiting the functioning of foreign- | born priests and the operation of for- eign religious schools, has closed sev- eral religious schools, most of them Roman Cathollc institutions, and has set about deporting priests and nuns. The action has raised a storm of pro- test from some religlous bodies in the United States. but there has been no official action on the part of the United States Government. Science. John D. Rockefeller, jr., has offered King Fuad and the Egyptian nation $10,000,000 for the erection and main- tenance in Calro of a gigantic mu- seum and archeological institute. His terms, it is understood, are that the fund be administered by Americans? but it seems that an element in Egypt wants the control vested in the hands of Egyptians. Mr. Rockefeller's gift Is understood to be in line with his recent donations made toward in- creasing human knowledge. He has become intensely Interested in the and admirers in Kansas Clty, who | Jjourneyed to New York last week to be present at her triumph. The | teachers held receptions in the variou automobile tire tubes and casings. |7 of the Madison Parent-Teacher Association will be elected at the next meeting. Recom- mendations will be made by a nomi- nating committee appointed by the president, Mrs. Johnson, cemprising Mrs. Clarence L. Linz, Mrs. Bowles and Miss Knighton, prineipal of the school. a meeting of the association last School week the purchase of a_projection machine for the Madison School was approved, following a discussion of the effectiveness of visual education as & supplement to _the ‘“rule of three." Mrs. Victor L. Johnson, president, out- lined the work of the association in January and reported on the results of the successful candy sale held this month. Legislation in Congress affect ing school activities in the District of { Columbia was considered and approval given to thut feature of the legislation ecks to improve the retirement pro- ons relating to teachers in the pub- hools The exccutive board of the District Columbia Congress of Parent- Teacher Asociations will give a tea Thursday afterncon in the Hamilton Hotel to the national executive board. of The national board will meet here Tuesday, Wednesda ‘Thursday and they have thr open their board meeting to the bers of the natfonal board of munagers who will be in Washington attending the cducation conference. The national board of managers is composed main- 1y of the State presidents. Thursday afternoon the national board will pre- sent to the Bureau of Education a portrait of Dr. P. P. Claxton, former commissioner of education, and imme- diately after the presentation to the national members will be taken to the Hamilton Hotel for the weception and tea given in their honor by the District. The tea will he served at 4 o' clock and all the members of the District Parent-Teacher Associationare invited to meet the national member Mrs G. P. Leishear is chairman in charge of the tea and her committee {are the following: Mrs Alfred Tolson, Mrs. Jesse Hilderbrand, | Daniel, Mrs. G. 8. Fraser. Hanley, Mrs. J. R. Cox Manley and Mrs E. W, Patterson The regu business meet r monthly ler spoke on the juvenile court bills now hefore Congress. Harry N. Stull and Willlam S. Torbert were elected as nominees to the Citizens' Council. Mrs. Joseph Sanders, health chairman, spoke briefly on “Medical Examination for Pre-school Children A commit tee was appointed to expr | tlon for the organization to ( ter member of the organiz Miss Richie Mec. only ¢ tion to he present. Lean of the Washington Quartet re | dered selections. Mrs. Gilbert pre- { sented Dr. Lofs Meek, who spoke in structively on “The Child in the Home." he Tenley-Janney Parent-Teacher Assoctation met Friday evening in the assembly hall of the Janney School Mrs. Elwood J. Way, the president, presided meeting was presented. business meeting the turned over to Mrs. who introduced Dr. N. Barnes, di rector of music in the District gave a talk on “School Music,” fc ing which the grade mothers program was and classrooms Refreshments we: served and parents were given the op portunity to observe results of their children’s work Mrs. (i S. Rafter, president of the District of Columbia Congr ent-Teacher Associations chairman of hospitality at tional Vocational ance C held here last wi Many arent-Teacher Association sted her in a sight-seeing trip for the delegates 1o the confer Among those who used their cucs for that purpose were Mrs. Z. D Blakistone, Mr I5. Denton, Mrs Castell, M P Leishear, Mrs. Wollett, Mrs, C. Aires, Laura Williams, Mr&. J. Sanders Mrs. R. J. Jorolemon. There will be a public hearing on the Gasque elective Board of Educa- tion bill next Thursday in the caucus room of the House Office Building, at 7:30 p.m. Every one interested in the school system of Washington should attend this hearing.- Parents of school children are especially urged to at- tend. ate branch of the National Congr of Parents and Teachers held i1 celebration in the Clifton Park High School in Bal- timore last Friday evening, which was attended by Mrs. G. Rafter, Mrs. Alfred Tolson and Mrs. Louis Castell from the Distric; The Maryland The National Association for the Study of the Platoon School Organiza- tion will hold the first national con- ference in Washington during the coming week. The sessions will be held Monday and Tuesday In the ros room of the Hotel Washington. The will be a dinner at §:15 p.m.. Tuesday, at which Dr. W. M. Davidson, super intendent of the Pittsburgh, Pa.. schools, will be toastmaster. The topic at the dinner will be “The Func- tion of a National Soclety for the Study of the Platoon School Organiza- tlon,” and the speakers will include Dr. P. P. Claxton, Charles Ax Ri E. E. Lewis and William McAndrews. Tickets can be obtained from Mi Alice Barrows in the Washington Ho- tel headquarters of the organization before noon Monday. Mrs. Joseph K. Randall, chairman of the shoe and rubber fund for the District of Columbia Congress of Par- ent-Teacher Assoclationd, has an- nounced that her committee’s c: party, recently given, netted $198. The committee who had charge of thi party were Mrs. Randall, Mrs. Louis Castell, Mrs. 8. R. Carter, Mrs. G. P. Lelshear, Mrs. Victor Yaeger and Mrs. J. Sanders. The newly organized Jefferson- Amidon Parent-Teacher Association met February 11 with Vice President Mrs. Reeves presiding. Reports of two luncheons were given. An appro. priation was made to reimburs teachers for a_ stop-watch they had purchased earlier in the year. A short talk on membership was given by Mrs. C. H. Knight, sectional chair- man, District of Columbia Congress of Parent-Teacher Associations. Plans were made to have refreshments and & social at the meeting March 4. Peabody-Hilton Pre-school Reading Circle met Thursday afternoon in the Peabody School. Mrs. L. H. Brown revelations resulting from recent ex- cavations in Egypt. and believes that the story of ancient Egypt is only beginning to unfold. Iis fund is to hasten other discoveries. Parent-Teacher Activities l Officers ! spreciu- | Sher- | the school | | rean of Education sl |y rill at the testimonial dinner to he given him Mrs. J. (. Gilbert had charge of the . which b me a e’ “child welfare day.” the twenty-ninth bhirthda Rt Kaniz tion. Twenty-six presidents of associations, with sashes of biue and gold, placed lighted candles about a birth ike made by Mes. Edward +n, and read appropriate | | Gifts from the various parent teacher associations e hea in the center of the cake. A photograph of the roup was taken, ith Mrs. { Rafter and Mrs. Holtzman Tolson, the {been changed from | Dr. The list of nominations for | ciation met Februar officers to be voted upon at the next|Mrs, H After a short | tjon ! grade, Gilbert Rodter. | o *|be held |to entertain presided in the absence of the presi- dent, Mrs. H. N. Stull. Mrs. Peter Koster read a ‘prize grticle” on or- ganization activities. 1t was voted to enter the 1926 contest offered by a magazine to an organization making the highest per cent progress in par- ent-teacher work. Mrs. G. W. Lady spoke on “The Child, His Nature, and His Need.' Children of the first grade, Miss Barnes teacher, enter- tained with a short play and several sungs. It vas voted to hold the circle meetings jointly with the Parent- Teacher Association meetings. The Peabody-Hilton Card Club will meet Tuesday evening at 648 East Capitol street. Mrs. Herbert Deland and Mrs. Jones, hostesses. The Hubbard-Raymond Home and chool Assoclation met February 15 t the Hubbard School and was pre- ided over by the president, Charles Kern. The assoclation went on record as favoring the Capper-Keller bill for pensioning mothers. The Gasque bill was also discussed. Maj. Covell gave a talk on the traction and bus lines of the city. Miss Neumyer, administrative prinicipal of the two schools, who has charge of the milk luncheons, gave a_report. The ban- ner was awarded Mrs. Ebert's room, the fourth grade at Hubbard, for the largest percentage of parents present at the meeling. The officers of the association are: President, Charles E. Kern; Dr. Kate Kar- peles amuel H. Marks; W. Gilbert. Parent-Teacher Asso- ciation met February 9 with Mrs lum H. Rowe presiding. Reports of chairmen of committees were given and Mrs. Frank Ludlow reported 47 new members as a result of the recent miembership drive. Mrs. John Davls The Carbery and Mrs. A Wine gave reports from the Juvenile Protective Assocla- |tion. The Carbery Association in- dorsed the Zihlman Lill providing for municipal bathing beaches and for swimming pools in playgrounds, es. peclally requesting one to_be placed in the Pluza plaverounds. Mrs. Davis also reported from the Pubiie School Association and the Congrees of Par- ent-Teacher Assoclations. Mrs. A L. ing the District Congress of Grosskurth reported flowers, toys, Teicher Associations was held ete., havine been sent to sick children Hamilton Hotel Tuesday. at jend members, eachens' retire. { The president, Mrs. Giles Scott Rafter. | ment pension in was indorsed. presided. Mrs. G. W. Lady, chalrman [ Mrs. Wine reported on the rummage of pre-school circles, urged co-opera-|sale to be held in March and asked tion of presidents in forming a civele | for rur and helpers. It was in each organizatlon. Mrs. J. W. Bv-|voted to huve one of the teachers ssist etings and Miss Hope Soule was appointed in this capacity. Invita tions were issued to attend A patriotic meeting at D. A. R. Hall February Miss Ruth Dick, treasurer of the Carbery News, reported a profit of $58.70 on the first four editions of vear. Miss Florence Fox llen Lombard, of the Bu spoke of the read- and Miss ing courses of the bureau and how the children of Carbery were tuking u e courses. It was decided 1o 1 ve g mothers ding club in school and Mrs. Charles Duvall and Mrs. W. L. Hagen were appointed by the presic to formulate plans for this club. It was voted to huy more stereopti con slides for class stidy and also rolls will be purchased for the new player piano, which is proving a joy to both teachers and pupils. The banner for attendance wus by the fifth grade, Miss Ruth Dick, teacher. The Bryan Parent-Teacher Associa- tion will meet February The regu- lar meeting of this assoclation has the third Friday to the fourth Thursday of each month. Richmond, professor at George Washington University, will be the speaker of the evening. The Maury Home ind School Asso- 9 at & p.m. with man presiding. The associa- entertained by the third wi which was under the direction Kaplan, and Miss Hansel with Gretel” two and plays, “Snow He | Drop,™ meeting of Walluch held February 11, was devoted to business. The plans on call for the expen- diture o derable money, so ar- angements were made for a cake and candy sale to be held February 25, and a committee was appointed to se- lect & location for a rummage sale to this Spring. Miss Rawlings has arranged for the different grades at the monthly meetings nd several of the grades have already ontributed to the afternoon’s enjoy ment. At the last meeting the two first gyndes, under .the direction of | their tenchers, Miss Mason and Mrs. Denn, s collection of songs. The com playgrounds met with members of Hine Junior High School to study conditions of the play space used by the three schools. These | erounds need grading and resurfacing. The Edmonds Parent-Teacher Asso iation met February 9, with Mrs. delaide Shannon, president, presid- ing. It was voted to send $5 to the shoe and rubber fund, $5 for child wel. fare and $10 for the general fund of the District Congress of Parent-Teach- er Assoclations. ‘The association en- tertained the eighth grade graduating class, Miss Hopkins, principal. The Gasque bill was unanimously fndorsed. A Mother Goose play was presented by the first grade pupils, Miss Clem- ents, teacher. Miss Adelaide Davis, supervising principal. introduced Miss La Salle, gence test. who explained the intelil- The Brookland Parent-Teacher As- sociation will meet the school next Friday, at 3 pm. The card party given b association, February 4 was teported a WILL ADDRESS WOMEN. Mrs. Harris Baldwin to Speak on Tariff Issue. Mrs. Harris Baldwin, chairman of living costs committee of the Na- 1l League of Women Voters, wiil address a meeting of the District of Columbia League of Women Voters Tuesday evening, at 8 o'clock, at the Mount Pleasant branch_ of the Public Library, Sixteenth and Lamont streets, Her subject will be “The Tariff in Its Relation to the Home." Other business will be the election of members of the nominating com- mittee, election of delegates to the Law Enforcement Conference and of delegates to the convention of the convention of the National League which feets in St. Louls the latter part of April. The public is invited. INSURANCE MEN HONORED 8ix Local Agents Placed on, Com- piny’a Merit ~Bcll‘ Six members of the local agency' of the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co. of Newark, N. J., were awarded certificates of merit by John R. Hardin, president of the company. at a luncheon at the City Club yes- terday. Mr. Hardin made a short address and awarded the certificates to George T. Howard, John H. Snyder, Frank E. Roach, Adolph Krechel, Edwin T. Parker, A. I. Strasburger. The men constitute the Washington repre- ADOLPH FISCHER - sentatives whose work last year;] Wholesle Chrysanthemum Grower placed them on the company’s honor roll. Thirty members of the local agency attend the affair. the mothers as hostess at the | MAN was buying darning cot- ton. The woman next had just transacted a little deal in pins—black-headed. Counting by seasons, he ‘was early Summer and she Autumn nipped by frost. The classification is neces- sary to explain the impersonal chum- miness of the two. “Hello, Frank, boy! Looks as if vou have been getting married.” “Never trust to looks, lady! We ran out of thread and Joe tled & string around my finger—see? He's the officiul mend- r It sounded cryp- tie, so Autumn asked for enlight- cnment. And this is what she got: “Two years 4go four of us fellows in the department set up housekeeping, and have just renewed the lease. It's a bully way to live. Miss Ann. The house is big enough for each of us to have a room, which we furnished to suit ourselves, and a family den with a billiard table in the middle, and a double parlor, and a dandy dining room when we spread ourselves und entertain. We have a man to cook and a Saturday cleaner to make the wheels go round. Bob attends to rent and wages, Joe markets and mends. Rilly keeps tab on fuel and lights and I'm’ the general shopper. Well! Of all the unusual— Unusual? Say, Lady G you want to get wise. Most of the fel- lows I know either have apartments | or go in for co-operative housekeep- ing—and T tell you what, this house- keeping stunt of ours is great! We have our whirls out when we want to, but they can’t hold a candle to the blowouts we have at home. It great to be able to have your hobbies, too—pigeons, dogs—any old thing your fancy calls for, with nobody nigh for to hinder. And, say, Miss Ann, 1 don't wonder you successful women don't marry unless you want to. because I'm that way myself. A fellow used to have to marry to have 2 home, but—this is the day for bachelors—and having weathered through the infatuations of éalfhooc vou don’t catch me leaving the bo: for anything less than solid lov \What do you say to that, Honey W DeBeXng 2 wise woman, Honey Dew sald nothing—mainly for the reason that he didn't give her a chance “Going to have a little jamboree | next Thursday, and each of us will invite two woman friends. Tt you'll come I'll bring you in my car and take you home And lend you on-‘ of my dogs, or a couple of Bobs bigeons, unless vouwd prefer Biily's canary. 1'm to say th has just lost his last gold All of which is foolishne: course. but, for one thing, it explains | that much-discussed query Why bachelc * % o E ST VALENTINE is a as Santa Claus. A lady myth—same visitor sald so. and was wearing n mink cloak that | cost a thouband dollars, she naturally | knew what she was talking about alentine, bishop of the church, was martyred under Claudius II. Febru- ary 14, 270, but as her special gulde | failed to call attention to her theory remains argument-proof: St. Valentine would never have been heard of—except for valentines! He was created by trade expressly for lovers, and had no more real exist- ence than the groundhog or the wolf that hangs around doors or—— She was telling all this to a plain woman at a desk who also had made her pilgrimuage to Valentine's death- place, but who, with the common | sense that usually goes with plain | in defense of a saint who had heen butchered to make a Roman holidx |6n the principle that it is foolishly useless to bang one's head against the stone wall of ignorance, but—- She could save the day from its romance-limitations by proving it available for friendship, as well—with | her own exhibit to go by. This lay-out represented 31 valen-, tines, mainly cards: a pot of prim- «, three paper carnations made v a chair-bound woman, and extrn | dear because of a memory back of the gift: a gingerbread couple, name of St. Valentine and wife—poor, denr celibate—with raisin eves and grins of white sugar—and three letters— himself. Greetings from out of the triendly unknown, each exaggerated into . impersonal gallantry in tribute to the day, and to be’accepted in’ the same spirit. A big, beautiful and appreclated batch of regard from men and wom- en, high and middleclass—not for- getting the colored sculptor of the valentine family. And not a romance in the lot! “Which proves nothing except that you are an unusually lucky woman, | sald the lady visitor, as she took a jonquil from her corsage to add to the gift-pile. ‘Which left nothing more to say. * ok K spite of song propaganda, Lon- don Bridge is not falling down. Likewise, in deflance of prophecy, Bow Bells peal out today as clearly as at that time when they called out to Dick Whittington to come back and be lord mayor of London town. Un- fortunately, Dick's cat is missing. But there are others. As no tourist could expect to see all the sights of London's 10,000 streets in a ek’ it _to that wonder. 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C, FEBRUARY 21, 1926—PART 1 AROUND THE CITY BY NANNIE LANCASTER. world, the next bekt thing to do is to follow Gladstone's, advice, and “Take the top of a bus, ladles and gentle- men—take .the top of a bus"—so: nel in a stateroom of a comfy steam- er and a train ride that turned us in, th for & breakfast at our hotel in Scuth Kensington, and a bath and a rest and general lolling around until an early dinner, we started on top of a motor bus—leather-tufted armchairs for seats—with special gulde. mally, for the reuson that we were too fagged to get out for close views. brown house on a shabby street, with W this house when squares later larger building on where he taught a half year. are old enough—that Dickens was|home where Nell had lived, found that writing “The Mystery of Edwin|improvements had o altered the piace Drood” at the time of his sudden |that he could only draw with his stick death, and that a critic, of the class that came in with Adam and will go out on judgment day, proclaimed fo the public that the title of the novel, of itself, should have given warning of the deterioration of the great mas- ter's brain—no entirely sane writer could have coined so meaningless a name as Drood. Dombey was foolish enough, but—Drood!" On that first afterncon we came across two business signs: “Drood & Co., Glassware,” and “Dombey & Son, Tailors. There is & quaint little brown frame and cement bullding on the corner of Portsmouth street, Kingsway, which flaunts itself as the “Old Curlosity Shop, Immortalized by Dickens,” but the gloom ard loneliness of Little Nell's nights of waiting while that blessed old grandfather of hers gam- bled away the small returns from the shop have gone forever, submerged under great modern steel and con- crete buildings that tower all around. The shop is now under a 20-vear lease to a society of tallors, and in the window where Nell would look out timidly for grandad's homecoming is a fashion-plate young man in “soup and fish,” with ‘a companion in out- ing flannels, “latest pattern.” You have your doubts as to this being the shop of the Dickens story, for toward the last of it you may recall that good old Kit, when he came to look at the After a night crossing of the chan- red, dusty and hungry, at 9 o'clock, an Englishman for ‘We rode around infor- For one place, we passed a Small tablet above a window to tell the orld that “Charles Dickens lived in a boy."” Several pause was made at a a better street You may recall—wurra, for us who the spot where the old house used to be. 8till, you can’t blame the tailors for playing up the reputation they bave paid for. On that afternoon ride you take in Baker street, where Sherlock played his fiddle, injected his dope and told his yarns to friend Watson. And a bit farther on, you ride into Maryle- bone road, where an inrush of mem- ory pictures dear, funny, tragic Hood —and the ghost-wife of a sleepy workman, 'to whom the dead one wails: ““And from her grave in Maryle- bone they've come and honed your Mary. Dusk makes a big change in sights and fancies. As you near the end of your ride you come to “Albert, Prince Consort,” on horseback—straight and handsome and young—and marble. A bit away is a snowy statue of Vic- toria in the days when the Queen was girlishly sweet. And each carrfes such a buoyant, secret look, as if of gladness within, that you are quite convinced that when late night comes, with the moon shining on deserted streets, the prince will ride gallantly to the Queen’s monument, lift her from pedestal to pummel, and together they will gallop back to life and vouth and love—but to no throne, please goodness, geelng that King George and Queen Mary are all right, and young David even better. Then you have supper and are so fagged that you have to say your prayers in bed—and go fast asicep be- fore finishing them. And the next thing you know it is morning, with another day for thril And as she has been abroad | kg cut, ‘reinforced at. al ¢ Al ol, full lined. tan and other colors. NS | Resular anextra 69¢ 68 DRESSES White na cotoran e That were $1295 to $25.00 Fine Satins. Cantons, s 88 Canton Crepes, et~ . 59¢ nnelette Good styles, meatly 8:-— BLOOMERS tsitameds blessing | £ 24th St. and Wm. Penn Highway, EASTON, P, foooooo'oonoooooooooooz g RUMMAGE SALE ¢ * 2 ‘;00“00000“0“00"“0‘ (THTEm it i ‘ ; L TRRTERTI “UP WHERE PRICES ARE D $90000000000000000000, $000000000000000000000000; $ RUMMAGE SALE § $ Rummage Sale * Second Floor s D 300000000000000000000% $ Women's Wear 90000000000000000000000. $1.00 Embroidery Flounce 40 CQATS 3 * * * * . 3 PRINCESS SLIPS White musin, . wide o oy Cc P id 59 That were $25 to $39.75 ~ Pin Pointe. 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