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'THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, REVIEWS OF THE NEW BOOKS A Volumé on the Art of the Ancients—Novels Fresh From the| presses—A Mystery Story to Thrill the Reader—:One Book Classed as “Exercise for the Brain.” IDA GILBERT MYERS THE MESSAGE OF GREAT ART. Ry H. H. Powers, Ph. D., author of “Mornings with Masters of Art.” New York: The Macmillan Co. FEW thousand vears from now when our present civiliza tion shall have moved out to make way for its successo then excavators and archae- ologists will unearth or will make surface discoveries here and there of people that had made creditable advance in great projects of engincer- iug and other mechanical inventions. Much as we today stand in wonder be- | fore the Roman arena at Nimes, or the Pont du Gard, or the ramparts of Avignon, or before many another message of old Rome in southern #rance and elsewhere, so will those men in the days to come read the record of our civilization In the warks we have left behind. Tt is this kind of reading, this sort of message that H. H. Powers here «ffers to us out of the enduring of Greece. Not as art alone does he present this work. Rightly in terpreted there is no such_thing as art alone. Rather is it the life of the veople, the life of Greece, that stands embodied in this art. That whole civilization becomes the background from which emerge these examples of that civilization as it expressed itself n one or another plastic form is art as interpreter of the life that comes out of us here. A wonderful ~tvilization, by common consent, that of ancient Greece. Out of it has come an equally wonderful art, and that is as it should be. It is from this standpoint that the author moves from one historic point to another, questing first the life of the count and from this pointing to the art pro- duced by that life. That the Greeks painted the Parthenon is an interest- ing fact. Why they painted it goes much deeper, giving to the fact the great light of motive and quality and and life substance itself. So, this highly endowed man of art goes over the old historic roads of Greece, drawing from these the nature of the art, its contributing cauges in the natural and social and political life of the people. The art is the people, in truth, cast into these enduring forms, from which the whole world has drawn inspiration and spiritual sustenance. A richly pictured book as well as a richly con- ceived and projected one. * % 2 % THE GOD OF FUNDAMENTALISM: And Other Studies. By Horace . James Bridges, author of “Our Fellow Shakespeare,” etc. Chicago: Pascal Covicl. IDESPITE the ominous sound of this title, the book is not of a controversial nature. Beside the study named in the title’ there are others. For instance, a centenary tribute to Huxley, a resurvey of the reformation and the injuence of Frasmus, an examination of both Hil- aire Belloc and Ludwig Lewisohn on ihe attitude of each toward the Jew- ish problem, and a purely literary discussion of Joseph Conrad. A wide range, if not an ill-assorted selection. it this latter implication be true, it of no importance, For these vari- us themes come together here by right of the author's individual char- acteristic independent thinking. Like Our Fellow Shakespeare,” this book is a challenge, first to thinking, then 1o independent thinking. It Is, in other words, a challenge to an inde pendent quest oftruth, to come out of the endless rubber stamping, to aban- don the neverending use of ditto marks, in order that the individual brain may get just a bit of exercise now and then through its own proper t | part, It | tom and law. The old feuds are still existent. They are pursued in a sort of Herbraic righteousness. This background and the girl herself sh: the incidents and focus the feeling against the fntruder. A dr. | matic affair throughout depending for | its intere [of the girl, a triumph that part on her own sturdy | this robust atmosphere, and in-othe | part upon her growth in | dence of the mountaineers. There is a hero to this story, one who finally steps out into the admiration and liking of the reader. The story itself | is deeply intere ing. Its back | s of specially convincing character ok ok % CLOUD CUCKOO LAND. Mitchison, author of quered,” etc. Brace and Co. DDLY contempors rests in growth i By the Con oon torical novel to the fact that |aliels the modern {of small States | government. It | deternination rising tn | extermination throuizh | tion of greater powers. |story of .Athens and Sparta Athens ‘urniug toward its de. Sparta still on the heights. And between them is the smaller ate hating both of these powers, {and secretly dreaming of its own bright future of independence. 'The thread of history takes effect in the Such effect is due, in its theme par poli 1 situation aspiring . to_ selt opposition to the domina This is the | soldier of fortune, moving from point {to point in a restless pursuit of ad | venture. These points of in flowing outline the historic features of this region—the land itself. the sea, the pagan gods controlling both, the warrfors, the people of the fields, the women, the slaves. presents_itself for portrayal this au thor holds to a fine simplicty selection. And out of this there grows a vivid picture of human life reacting to its surroundings as human life reacts through ever. It is, however, a time and a pl great beauty and great significance as well, that Mrs. Mitchison offers here in a simplicity and a grace that ab- sorb and charm the reader, while it brings that far past into the im- mediate present. *ix ik * THE SHIP OF ISHTAR. By A. Mei ritt, author of “The Moon Pool New York G. P. Putnam'’s Sons. FANTASY, a dream that at points becomes nightmare—such is this tale of old Babylon. Suppose an archaclogist—Arthur Welgall, for instance—were to send vou a block of marble from his Egyptian exca- vations. And then suppose on a 'night this gift were to fall apart, and from it there were to {ssue a perfect ship of rich_construction, whose period of active life was 6,000 years ago when rgon reigned in Akkad. And sup- pose the ship were to come to life and motion, manned and equjpped for its own far sailings. By fhat time you would of a certainty be in some- thing like the state of mind of the young man of this story. More than itkely, however, you would not be able t! sustain the fliusion as he has done 8 the making of a gorgeous Eastern drama wherain strange things hap- pen, and beautiful women inspire loves of exotic flavors, and where human hates and loves and sus- piclons and jealousles comport them- selves im alien ways of triumph and consummation. Lucky for you that you are not so charged with a mis- sion on “the Ship of Ishtar,” for it proves to be deadly business to him who dared the old gods of destiny t upon the ultimate triumph | contl- | ound | Naomi New York: Harcourt, | effect, this begutifully written his- | the spirit of self- | down | story of a_young fslander, a youthful | locality | give the author opportunity to build | Where so much | of | functioning. Such, it appears, is the chief literary usefulness of Mr. Bridges. The substance here is, of course, fine. It, however, is the mental activity and the moral inde- pendence back of this substance that give to his work its trus dynamic force. and undoing. A very sumptuous bit of pure invention worked out from the fancies that arise over the modern unearthing of old and buried cities of the East. A THE SEVENTH PASSENGER. By Alice MacGowan and Perry New- berry, authors of “The Muystery Woman,” etc. New York: Fred erick A. Stokes Co. To Sherlock Holmes has been born a hundred sons, each pos- sessed of the father's passion for ciea ing up the mystery that so man: times permits crime to walk in se curity. not far behind the father. The most of them have foliowed him far to the rear. They are all, however, super- ficlally engaging fellows—like their athletic drama of scaling the social sire in this respect. Among them is ramparts. The rest of the family— | jerry Boyne, who before now has the father, a son and a daughter—|turned a couple of clever tricks of are of good substance, with the old- | detection. These are his warrant for rashioned failing of loving the wife|an acceptable performance in the case and mother, even though she be & |in hand. Rather familiar, the situa- plain fool of worthless ambition. It i8 | tion, both in fact and in fiction. A *his strain of good sense and devotion | fighting district attorney bent upon that puts under the surface of the|cleaning house s always overloaded futfle business of breaking into So-|with ememies. A campalgn for his ciety a thoroughly sound foundation |re-election brings these into hectic of American life. activity, Such is the foundation of Tt is said that American men are |this story. The disappearance of the foolish about their women. Mr. Towne | candidate opens up the matter, and appears to have accepted this opinion | gives ground for the duel of wits be. as fact, for the storv permits this |tween Jerry Boyne on the one hand ambitious wife to pretty nearly ruinland the foes of the young lawyer on the whole family before she is called | the other. A decided resemblance off from her frenzy of pursuit. The |between the sleuth and the man whole is pitched to the key of comedy. | sought serves to complicate the mys- Yet, there is nothing of the farcial in | tery even for those who believe they this profection. These are real men | have their man secure. A brisk story, and women. The husband and father | with some acceptable points of fresh is & fine fellow that one takes heyond | device in a theme that has by exces- the book itself, liking him for his|cive use become pretty well formu- personality and character. The boy |]ated to routine and monotony. How- and girl belong to the father more |ever, the detective story has with than to the mother. Nevertheless, | thousands of readers the inside track these two come mnear to the edge|of appeal. Mystery of any sort is through the folly of their mother. In | jrresistible to the most of us. Because the main this is a story of fact that|of this security the writer of these is_offered by a smiling philosopher | tales is going to run slack and grow who sees through the flimsiness of |stale on himself unless he watches social ambitions. Always an engaging | out. But he Is safe for a while re- writer, with whom in great joy We |gardless even of his own short- “loafed down Long Island” and went | comings, since evrybody loves the ambling through Arcadia, Mr. | unfolding of crime mysteries. Towne here gives characteristic ac- count of his gift of clear insight and finely picturesque portrayal. * ¥ % X FLIGHT TO THE HILLS. By Charles Neville Buck, author of ““The Call of the Cumberlands,” New York: Doubleday, Page * ox % x TINSEL. By Charles Hanson Towne, author of “The Gay Ones’ New York: D. Appleton Co. HIS 1s the comedy of the climber Travel writer, essavist. poet and novelist, Mr. Towne he! turns his gift toward the dramatization of} wea'th struggling for the heights of social recognition Following the | common rule, it {8 a woman—the | mother of the household—who takes the principal role in this strenuous BOOKS REVELATION IN THE LIGHT OF HISTORY AND EXPERIENCE: An Effort to Think Straight. By Herman Mackensen. Introduction by Prof. Henry Offermann, D. D. Boston: The Stratford Co. 4 A SYMPATHETIC MEDIUM: A Family Chronicle. By Robina Sharpe Tucker. Boston: The Christopher Publishing House. POEMS FOR CHILDRE) George Corbin Perine. Boston: l(‘hfls{opher Publishing House. i A NEW THEORY OF CREATION. By Willlam Newton Benson. Boston: RECEIVED C 'HE Southern mountaineer, ma- rooned in the Seventeenth century, 1= slowly moving out into contempor- ary life. Teachers, preachers, social workers, students of old English by word of mouth, painters, novelists and revenue officers have at points pried rifts in this curiously suspended and barricaded civilization. The subject it- =elf 18 one of exciting import. That this covld happen, that in the midst of By The A few of these have walked | sweeping progress a section of the country could stand immune to its advance, is a remarkable and inter- esting fact. Latterly the novelist has counted this retreat as his own do- main, wherein the truth behaves like the most flamboyant invention, where- in men and women comport them- seives like the resurrected bodies of thelr forefathers. i This region appeals to Charles Nev- lle Buck, as several of his novels demonstrate. “Flight to the Hills” is the latest case in point. A New York flapper, ‘‘on location” in Asheville, finds herself in a situation whose only hope is flight. Such is the motive of the tale. 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La Donna Nella Vita. 1923, KW-L836d. L\;dgofi\;lcl, A. M. Lysistrata. KW- Vincent, Junius. pseud. Ruth Talks It Over. KWW-VT74r. Clubs, Preuss, Arthur, comp. A Dictionary of Secret and Other Societies. 1924. Ref. KY-5P92. Stern, R. B. Clubs. KYC-St4. Rome Traffic Problem. Rome is at last taking its traffic problem serfously. The new traffic IW- 2v. Why Tw. | police really make speeders stop and show their license, and really fine those who pass halted street cars. | But (hey have not yet tackled the | condition, which, perhaps more than - |anything else, makes motoring difi- cult in Ttalian cities—the Ttallan earnestly in the middle of the street. Motor horns make little impression nets | | | i World. | u ser: Calories and Daily | Was Tllustrated by Bagriel {4fter that ther | {often did, begged to get out | whic AROUND THE CITY BYsNANNIE WO women were motoring out Cabin John way. When they me to « roadside that skirted jungle of greenery that i3 going to be subdivided some soon day. the one at the wheel halted the car befor tall, vigorous syca more that rose Saul-like above the sur- rounding growth: “If you don’t mind, I will get out a minute to talk to my tree, haven't been to see it for a week." When she had patted the tree, lean- ed her cheek against it, and picked up p of paper that the wind had blown on its circle of well-kept grass, &he got back into the car, and, without starting the machine, told her guest an gdd shred of story—like this: “In way back days when our son Just old enough to talk we were ing by here, when the child, as he to play what he called the pitty itty s. Suddenly he noticed this tree, was then just a tiny sapling, and his father told him that one day it would be a big tree and have round green balls hanging from its boughs. The idea attracted the child and every time we drove by he would have to get out to see how tall it had grown. That lasted for a yvear, I reckon, and then my husl ordered to an- other p did not see the sycamore for severnl r«. When we returned, his first demand was to see the beloved tree, and his delight at its growth was something dear to see. I was not very well about then, and his father would take him riding—and was another detail, and we did not see the tree for years. It was while he was on duty in the West that « sudden illngss bereft me of the best husband w woman ever had. I was with him, and just before the end he looked beyond me and whispered, with smiling eyes: **“Why, the sycamore is beautiful— 0 big and strong and green.’ Ever since then—over 20 vears I have lived here, and though I cannot let on generally that my dear one's word influenced me—sentment no sense-value, you know—still T selected my home ko that I can keep touch with the tree. I, some way, feel that my husband will never for- get it. Son spent his boyhood in S dri with busl ha Natlonal Tsolation |capt that I was sorr habit of discussing politics loudly and {down and pat schools and colleges, and after that we traveled abroad for a couple of vears, and were no sooner home again than he was off to France. 1 had told him of his baby affection for the tree and of his father’s last reference to it, and was anxious for him to see it, but, for some reason, he expressed no inter est, and when, at last, I drove him here to ask what he thought of the tree in its grown-up splendor he ad- American Institute of International |mitted that he hated to tell me, but that all recollection of it had go of his mind. He had no remem ¢ | Whatever of having seen it before. “Well, you know how children for- get things, so that was all right, ex- because of what hig father had said. So: Time ran of Commerce. | along until son had to be taken to the hospital for a war wound that had not healed. “ There were many months of hopeless suffering, but when the end came he whispered to me, looking ahead with smiling eyes: **‘Mums, darling, there's our sy more—so big and strong and green.’ That was all there wa story, unless—uniess it might possibl bg that the sycamore that served as ladder for Tax Collector Zaccheus, so that his short body might behold the Christ preaching to His followers, may have conferred on its posterity a spiritual something not possessed by its brother trees of earth; though, for that matter, all trees may be im- mortal, for did not a great soldfer of the South say with his dying breath: + “Let us cross over the river and resf under the shade of the trees?” S I“ you have had to peek through a knothole in the back fence of obscurity, you will naturally hanker for at least one good, satisfy. ing look from the world's front door which makes you understand why one Washington woman butted into her bank account and traveled and traveled until she caught a far-off flash of steel that blade, and then a drawn saber, and then the Pacific Ocean, billowing into the sky. When she got back home she reeled it off to another woman— about like this: “The geography doesn't tell all it knows about a prairie. You have to get personally acquainted with its boundless level of waving green turn- ing to & gold that means wheat ready for the harvest—its red schoolhouses, and its gravevards. You notice prog ress and tombstones keep gethe ntii the er-end r: your nerves; vou und_a tree. “When I g I found out fo a bumps t to the cattle country myself why herders go insane. It is the immensity—the lone- liness—the silence! After that I came to a barren world of whitey-gray sand and sagebush, with a few daffy blue blossoms trying to bloom near the track—and failing. It reminded me of some human deserts I have known. Then we got to crawling up, climbity-climbity, like Jack on the Beanstalk, untfi we came to real castles in' the air, with towers and minarets—one of them with o stair- way that broke off into jagged noth- ingness 600 feet in the sky—rocky castles and skyscrapers and dungeons more architecturally imposing than the Capitol, and, in their hideous life- lessness more inspiring than the Li- brary itself—which shows the differ- ence between nature’s work and man’s. “But the greatest wonder I saw, golng or coming, was a_tubercular minister on his way to heaven via Arizona, and who, maybe, would reach eternity first. You could tell, because his wife had eyes only for the invisible rider who was trying to outspeed the train and take him from her. And as the three of us stood at the observa- | tion rail, looking like human ashcans, from the smoke of two giant locomo- tives that puffed and panted, up and up, it seemed to me, all at once, that the mountains that were forever try ing to overleap each other to the sky gates were only so much earth stuff, after all; a few of them the green of Christmas trees, but the blg majority like ash heaps dumped there by Hades. It takes a flesh-and-blood man, who has laid down his life for his kind, to give you a real ‘close up’ of that supreme power we know as Almighty God.” * % ¥ % KITTEN Kkilled a canary and was banished from its home. It was a white kitten, with a black saddle and a black ring around one eye, and nothing was seen of it, until: One morning, about dawn, a woman who has an apartment in the house looked out of her back window and saw a big cat sneak over the alley fence and drop into the yard to curl up as if it were at home. It was a white cat with a black saddle and a black ring around one eye. The wom- an called to it as loudly as she dared —people hate to be aroused before sun up—but the cat heard. You could tell by -its frightened disappearance. Which shows that a cat can remem- ber. Another time, about dusk, the woman came across the cat treading along with sprightly curves as if it were on its way to a party. and though the woman is not addicted to cat pets, she was glad to see the bit of live thing that had played around the house, and, of course, she called to it again. - At sound of the voice, and perhaps with an understanding of its friendliness, the cat paused, sidled close enough for the woman to stoop it on the back—and then flashed off. ‘The woman kept on to a place where * on patriots busy enlarging the empire. & wise man put some drops of warm, A to the little | a life | D. O, JUNE 20, 1926—PART 2. ! LANCASTER. | soothing stuff in an ear that had thed and told her to run home and get to bed quick, so that the dose would drive the hurt away and let her sleep like a top. | She obeyed him to the extent of| slipping into a kimono and an easy | chair under the droplight, with a pile | National - Woman Class in Political Organization Inaugurated by Woman's Na- tional Democratic Club—Women Voters Open Exhibit: s Party Entertains. of magazines to choose from, and with an almost hilarious enjoyment from the sudden cessation from pai She was so happy that she couldn’t even read—you know how it is when the primt biurs and the pages seem to welgh a ton—so she just let the old thing drop in her lap—or o@ the tloor —or anywhere it wanted to go, when —all of a sudden—there on the sill of a window she keeps forever open, stood a big white cat. It had a blac ki saddle and @ black ring. around one eye. And it was purring. The ad come back! Rigid with astonishment, and some other feeling of bewilderment that she couldn't quite account for, the woman called the visitor over. Wh upon, with no scruples whatever of being caught where it had no right | to be, it accepted her invitation and cuddled in her lap. As all visitors should be entertained according to their whim, she thought it would be interesting to state that it was a rat that killed the canary. And tho cat purred extra loud to let her know it was stale knew it from the woman, befng really now that her ear w well, told her vis BY CORINNE FRAZIER. OMEN have taken the busi- ss of citizenship much seriously than was ed of them when constitutional amendment e them the right to express them selves politically. Fresh evidence is seen on every side. ington the clubwomen of one of our prominent national organizations have planned u novel course of instruction in political organization which illus- trates the eager desire of the women to gain u working knowledge of this new power which_is theirs. The. Woman's National Democratic “lub has opened a training school in political organization for women this Jast week, 1o be conducted at the club- £20 Connecticut avenue, rouchout the Summer months end Saturday, August 28 Mrs, Minnie Fisher Cunningham, who is in charge of the school, states that the course will be entirely free and will be open to all women of the State Democ * clubs well as to w0se of the il organization. En- sliment {8 limited to the number that e entertained in the clubhouse, all out-of-town students will be 1 there, struction nent club orgs chinery, politi eral Governme |ing will consist courses, in orde Ereatest course field wi ive of their earnestness Here in Wagh- he the | ad for company, | > beautlfuliy | hout some other | fl gray tabby of her childhood that to tangle up the ball of varn brown Jane was teaching Her to knit —and about those three little kittens | bereft of their mittens—and the ju- | diclal Thomas that turned the good sister’s words to diamonds and m; her cruel stepsister talk toads about Puss in Boots who liked to himself the Marquis of (arabis the accomplished cat that killed rat that ate the malt that lay House that Jack Built—and Dick Whittington’s Cat—and the trave cat that went to London to see queen—and about Buffon, who know more about cats than anvbody excep: the good Lord who made them The cat must have been fed up on fairy tales, for with sudden altertne: he roached his buck and laid his purr aside “Buffon' know evervthing, wouldn't have been not finding a in the ark. Noah could have told him that if he had taken old Tom aboard there would have been no history of the dove.” This was a startiiag turn in the co versation, but the woman had no chance to arguge because the maga zine had truly fallen to the floor with a nofse that aroused her and fright ened the cat back to where he cume from And as the open window was screened and two stories from below she knew it was a mira until ne morning made her reali relief of a medicine whose is dope A womax modis} will be given in perma-| zation, campaign ma- al parties and the Fed- ction. The train- series of short to accommodate the of students. Each veek. The entire | each time in in-| all and th in the study ¢l oretical the voted to a of | the theo Jvernment organization | nd each afternoon wiil bé given over | to actual visits to the departments. | whera some idea of the actual working | of the departmental machinery gained Lecturers I 1 1l be presented to the « the term. Mrs. George Mrs. Florence wi |course on ' poli | Echels will- devate her [outline of the histerical background of | party Ame and Mrs.'Far- | is a national committee mem Huh! Buffon otherwisé he so surprised at didn’t of prominence | es dur hels and cond the e Mrs. | tention to an w in | ber from Kansas. will discuss the rent organization of the various p: tied Mrs. will conduct the lub organization hinery. Mrs. Rose have charge of the the course gistered from all cording to Mrs is the belief of yarters that the h has been orga: will prove to Cunningh: 1 permane; m Clubwomen have over the country, {Cunningham, and the women at h ining school, w periment, it . * mentally alive and a d just stepp can be | : be a very popular addition to the club's activitles. Mrs. Borden Harriman. past presi- dent of the Woman's National Demo- cratic Club, safled last week for Kurope, to be gone until September. Miss AnitaPoliitzer, secretary of the National \Voman's Party, will head delegation of American women so. journing in Paris and London mammoth parade urging full franchise for English women, which will be held in London on July 3. More than 500 American women are expected 1o carry the colors of the Party in this demons the first time in international work. Miss Pollitzer was one of the group sent to Paris by the organization to attend the recent Congress of the In ternational Woman Suffras Seven members of the Parls delega will arrive in Washington the latter part of this weel or early week and will be gu at a T to be given in their honor at Nat headquarters on Capitol Hi Wednesday, June it 8 oclock Miss Jessie Dell, siater of Commis- sfoner J. Franklin Dell, will be on the fivst of the delegates to arrive. She -ation, aiding for reach New York e Mrs: Florence Bavard Hiiles of aware, one of the national cha Miss Mabel Vernon. e tary of Delaware, Miss Doris Stevens of New York; Mrs. Clavence Swmith, State chairman of New York; Mrs Robert Walker and Mrs. Dixon of Baltimore are the delegates who will attend the reception.. Mrs. O. H. P Belmont, natfonal president. who headed the delegation to Paris, will remain in Europe indefi v A full report of the congress, cluding. a detailed account ¢ tion taken by that body refusing ad- mittance to Woman Party. will be gi\ > returning delegates at the reception bers of the District of Columb) s hostesses riy this week nch Emile B Fronp, W Wiley, Mrs. Law, Miss A benefit of which w penses of the Dis i day garden estate on Capita al Woman's I’a efray the ex rict delegate to ti ane: ple, whi tion col bloomir charmi taken h pring in loca The purple iris from a June the head of & nd on the page, stood g s with one sther HE]d Blind to By Europe Under Would you mind letting me catch hold of your arm? Both elevators | were crowded, and as I'm in a hurry | I-thought I'd walk down, but 1 feel | rather dizz | The other woman helped out, of course, and when they were on the ground floor asked if there was any- thing she could do—wouldn't it be | wise to call a cab? “Oh, no, thanks. I'm all right now. 1t's just that T have lived in an apart. | ment for so long. and so seldom walk { up or down stairs that f am timid at sight of steps—the &teep incline, you | know, as if 1 were looking down into a o m."” ntinued e possible for British reinforcements to arrive in time to help the Canadians. Tn this situation, what warrant ve we to go to Europe and preach | s doubled our by Obviot | view anythin up from the French point of only warrent would our | " t was first a knife | to- | Which gnat of an incident is merely | to show that the time may be coming | when we can no longer illustrate any simple doing with that hoary adage: “'As easy as going downstairs” And, what is worse and more of it, we | may become the ancestors of a gener. | atlon that will put feet back in the | rudimentary stage, along with the | third eye somewhere in the back of | our heads = Sing-Song Girls Face lump in Business The pretty b night life, the sing-song g whose | entertainment con wely of sing- | ing and reciting and who adorn then,. | selves in bri jewelry and | colorful silks, are now facing a slump | in demand for their services, and some of them have been forced to extremes. Two sing-song girls appeared at the Mixed Court to testify against two robbers who had held them up in the early hours of the morning and robbed them of jewels worth $3,000. Their predicargent was brought out in court when they were forced to admit that | they did not own their brilliant orna- | ments, but. in common with many others of their profession, they ha been compelled to rent thefr jewelry | by the month. As a result, an exten- | e and elaborate jewelry hire service had arisen in Shanghai, girl by spending a few dollars a mont could wear enough jeweiry to envy in any millionaire’s breast The system exacts that the girl must sign a note guaranteeing to pay for the jewels if lost and also provide | shop security to guarantee her credit, Only the stars, the queens of tl flower circles, can afford to own their own jewels. Safer H;—ndl’ixrlg Advised Of Oil of Wintergreen Chinese K | | Oil of wintergreen, commonly used | in salves and liniments, is extremely | poisonous when taken internally even in moderate doses. Drs. N. C. Wetzel and J. D. Nourse report that quan- tities of less than two flulds ounces have resulted in death. The toxic effects of this famillar drug, in frequent use in medical prac- tice to allay pain and reduce fever, seem-not to have been generally recog- nized. They are ascribed to the fact that ofl of wintergreen, after being taken into the body, undergoes very little chemical destruction, or break- ing up into less dangerous compo- nents. Editorial comment in the Journal of the American Medical Association says that from the standpoint of public wel- fare “access to oil of wintergreen should be made impossible for children and for persons ignorant of its polson- ous proportions.” | and | aments before to four financial strength was such that we were prepared to say to France to Italy, to Poland. to all the other nations, Reduce vour arnies and if | vou are attacked our Army and our fleet and beyond this our financnal re. | sources will be at your disposal. But, | of course, we have no intention of | saying that | Again, imperfect as it is, the league i Is the single piece of machinery which since the war, ha et the problems of pe t we | olutely refuse to become a member of the league and thus to accept any responsibility for mainte: world peace hus we will oper hin the lea responsib outside the maintenance of pe In effect our representa arms conference can only bit all the political questions which weigh fn the European mind and insist upon | discussing at once what with I is the last and incidental problem, that of the limitation of armaments, ignoring the fact that Europe cannot and will not discuss this subject until it has in some fashion met the vital issue of security not Security Issue Not Solved. 1 not fairly be said that Europe has vet reached any solution of the question of security. Indeed, it had 1ot vet progressed to the point where there is real promise of a solution | possibly no solution is to be | found. But what is true is that Bu- | rope has been working steadily and arnestly at the' problem, that it has tried several partial solutions and that it has certainly made progress toward the organization of peace | which promises to last for.a consid- erable time. But it is &till on that Question of rity and it is absolutely con- ced that it cannot deal with arm- it has reached some kind of adjustment there. And this is the moment we chose to come bus tling across the water with a new urge disarmament. Furope did not want us. Our coming was a com- plication and an embarrassment, but no on could afford to affront us. It was necessary then to find some anodyne method of placating us while avolding any real discussion of issues for which the time was not ripe. We have had our domestic outburst of anti-war propaganda. We have had our domestic parade of pacifist notions, but abroad we have accom plished nothing beyond irritating the not too friendly nations of Europe, precisely as all our Ambassadors and , Ministers warned Washington in ad- vance that we could accomplish ! nothing. Now, apparently, we are to settle back with the good old convic- tion that Europe is incurably militar- istic and wickedly deaf and blind to the light and learning we have offered. The fact is, however, that Europe is quite as awake #s America to the evils of war, it is working with all the strength and ability it has to find some method by which to organize peace, but it is limited by the realities of its own condition and history, which our o country does not have and does not Filipinos more often than not are|rocognize. At a moment when the wedded before they are 21. Of the |roast is just being put on the fire, we marriages recorded in Manila during | have arrived and insisted upon serv- one day four of the men were 20 years | ing the meat, that is the size of it. old, four 21 and five from 22 (o 25.| As for the preliminary conference it Eighteen out of the total 21 were un- |failed as it was bound to fail because der 30 years old and 15 under 25 vears. [ nothing could or can be done of real Sixteen of the brides were under 20 |importance in the matter of the limi years. In the provinces the marriage |tation of armaments until Europe has age is earlier. Behind these mar-|found some viable solution of the | riages are long engagements in almost | problem of security or has settled every. case. The customary law, by |down to some compromise which satis which the mass of the people still live, | fies its very natural and wholly under- delays marriage until the parents of [standable fears. the girl give their gonsent; and under| Our presence has doubtless accentu- this same law it Is the man, not the |ated the general dislike of the United girl, who brings a dowry to the union. States which extends from one end of Man Provides Dowry. | 1 ' War Peril Faced Present Conditions the other. since desired and unwar- ranted intrusion by a nation which has outdistanced all others in the ex- pansion of its military and naval ex- penditures in recent years, utterly refuse: interference with its own resolutely absents itself from cfpation in the s going concern occupied with peace questions. It has once more demonstrated that not o do we refuse to see Europear ions from a European point of view t we insist a little arrogantly that ope shall see them from the Amer. ican point of v the continent t must seem an a Must Wear Clothing Made in Bulgaria a has torn from Turkey’s book, a or Parliament has passed a compulsor deput rnment employes to we: and shoes made in Bulgaria was done in order courage a full page W m " clothes . home of commerce g to work ou will place this is sitting a s law into ights tr: which Most of the government employes in poor but proud Bulgaria are wearing | last vear's regulation tail-coat office raiment. so the minister has plenty of time. Government pay does not per- mit many suits and palrs of shoes. The national costume, while ple- turesque, is not obligatory. Wearing it would guarantee its having been made in Bulgaria Fines Await Keepers Of Pictures of Cows His exalted highness the nizam has now isstied an order by beat of drum at Aurangabad. in British India, that hereafter it will be considered crim- inal to keep the photograph or picture of & cow within the nizam'’s territory, that within 18 days from the date of the order-all such photographs should be surrendered in the courts of the nizam, and that after that date any persons found in possession of photo- graph or picture of a cow will be lia ble to a fine of 500 rupees (about $160) in the | ational Woman's | Alliance. | next | proceeds | which [ 50 per ce: to permit the smallest | 1 nd | house d: ques. | first honors at the fris show held the Mayflower several weeks nzo while a mixed bouquet of flowers fron: the garden was awarded the prize for the most unusual flowers at the Wash ington Hotei flower show lust week Miss Genevieve Allen was chairman of the entertainment committes | Among the hostesses and giests of the afternoon wers Mrs, Emil 0. Ber liner, Mrs. Legare H. Gbear, Mes. 1t J. Purcell, Miss Aline Sullivan, Mis ara. Grogan, Mrs., L. P, ow, Mis th Crocker, Miss Edith Hall?®ise ce Miller and Miss Alva C. Thbmy G son Hostesses for the Miss Mabel Law, | Miss Laura B {Cooper Shaw, Mra. 1 | Andrew Ste carty | Among | were Mrs | Rapley, 3 A evening M s Helen 1ons, Mrs {and M of | | 1. linter proper sense of his ¢ responsibility in the {tional League of Women ged an effective and {nstructive lexhiblf as a_part of the giant Sesq centennial Exposition at Philadelp: | The League exhibit will he show |in & house on the famotis High street | which will be opened tomorrow wit 1 Nixon Mawr 1 per cent « to vote do s | tiona! Tes effective o completa d of which show rast in vo ted S rnments ted wtion 18 provid slzed gnes gov s repres Ninety-one pr 1 Citizens D T - tl e el are d picted who prefer . the movies and ot > exercising their righ voice in the conduct of government. A third section depicts the “Vanis ing American Voter” and the shrink age from the 81 per cent vote in 1876 ial year, to little more than today There 1 attendant at t ons fron lare expected be exposi closes, Assistir ment | 1. Wells ¢ nomies and Mrs group of and Del he Department Politics at F ad in checkin v of all details A reunion of a group of nationally known clubwomen was held this week which brought back scenes of mo ago when Mrs. Carrie . Mrs. Mary Gar the little This | T no rendezvous but on- of this week men the organization gathered at Jones’ farm on the road X. Va., to renew their ties an open-air supper. - Among the “charter members’” the club who attended the picnic were Mrs, Kate Trenholm Abrams. Mies Clara Noyes, Mrs. Clara Sears Taylor Miss Marfon Parkhurst, Mrs. Al Dodd, Mrs. Mary Anderson, Miss Ethe mith, Mrs. Raymond Morgan, Miss zabeth Eastman 'and Mrs. Mina { Van Winkle. Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrand:. 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