Evening Star Newspaper, July 5, 1926, Page 18

The Geneva Watch. ARA CURTIS had met Julia Bolton and young Mrs. Bruce at the ¢ of Star and Hor- ~ ton e had joined them 1y, errand she was they did. Very proud was she to be seen dn the company of the two fashion- able young w beautiful cl and knew e been married fi]lnr with such giving up the on and going the way 1 standing, and she meant both in abundance, no mat- might stand in ial dignity to have t - what in her scheme of welcomed this small r in public with king people e | weep. She * | suspected lars, a small price for a Geneva of the finest quality,” answered the salesman. Sara felt her heart dying within her. She thought she heard the sound of a snicker beside her, then all the blood in her body rushed into her white face. “Why, that is reasonable, I am sure,” she said quietly. She opened her purse. “I have only $25 with me, but I will make a payment and Mr, Curtis will send you a check " | for the balance.” The salesman bowed. A few mo- ments later Sara, decorated with ' | the exquisite timepiece, walked out of the shop with the two mystified women. “My new watch tells me it is later than I thought,” she smiled. “I must hasten home.” Pleasant _good-bys were changed and she departed. her back Mrs. Bruce and Julia Bol- ton_exchanged another curious look. “I knew they were Genevas and she didn't,” Julla said. “But she did. They must have more money than, we thought, Madge.” Sara hastened home, took off her street clothes, laid aside the watch and flung herself upon her bed to was half distracted. What a fool she had made of herself. inter- Behind *| And where was the $100 to come . | story. from She decided to throw herself on her husband's mercy. When at 6 o'clock he came home she told him the whole miserable He listened, sighed and then took her in his arms. - I will send the check tomorrow,” 1 down C s in all g room suite Ned Bruce could fe anvthing. The rues { Mmenian rus fancy next dow of the Ar- ~aught iheir o the ~ug oom!™ Julia price know whether e 800 to me,” said Mrs. satin cases lay of odd design. " Julia_said | he said. “I have a hundred that I s saving to buy a davenport. No- need ever know, my darling.” . 1 did so want the davenport,” Sara. “I hate that watch, 1 , | shall hate all watches forevermore.” Her husband soothed her. “I am glad it has happened at the | beginning of our married life,” he said. “We will both learn from it.” And they did. (THE END.) (Copyright. 1926.) Pictures and Peace BY FLORENCE DAVIES. Oddly enough, while the high ex- plosives made possible by the scien- tific research of Hudson Maxim were blowing up property and men in the last great war the inventor’'s brother, Hiram, was dreaming about messen- gers of peace. It was Hiram Maxim who.wanted _|the world united in an amateur radio league, so that we could exchange messages around the world. If we could just speak with each othér on opposite sides of the world, we wouldn't feel like enemies, this man thought. But now Maxim belleves that if we could just see each other we wouldn't . | want to fling bombs at one another. wish Ned watch for nine,” Julia | what time watch at home,” Mrs. Curtis?” tempted to home.” but rent She ed. - “T haven't a watch. but T need d to buy one hite gold So he wants to form a kind of ama- teur movie society and exchange homemade films with our neighbors in far countries. What would happen, asks Maxim, it I could send my film, “Winter in Con- necticut,” to some little far-off town, and in exchange could receive a film that showed how the folks live in Timbuctoo? You can’t look in on people’s lives |and want to kill them. 1It's only the | things we don’t know and don’t under- stand which we come to hate. | Just now the making of films is either the business of professionals or a rich man's game. But it isn't al- ways going to be so. We can develop a process by which the home folks | can take their own motion pictures | without exorbitant expense, and it is these simple pictures of our own | times and lives which Mr. Maxim wants us to exchange with amateur ps everywhere. s the same only story. What we is understanding to take the e of igncrance. . When we have 3 [that hatreds will die. A hundred years ago we accepted & leal of dirt and disease as a ary evil. But today even a fly in a household is a disgrace to the housekeeper, and no self-respecting person would think of admitting that . | he slept in a room with closed win- dows. " Thus gradually public opinion makes the thing that seemed respectable enough yesterday a disgrace today. ¢ | And so, too, some day it will be a dis- | grace to believe in war for greed. | The radio and the film will bring | our neighbors closer, so that we may »d | hear their voices and look into their down upon the fon hefore h ) a d much is it?” “One hundred and twenty-five dol- homes. SEIEER - e~ Working under a subsidy granted by the French government, a pas- senger, freight and mail airplane service will be established between Antibes, Ajacclo (Corsica), Tunis, and Constantine (Algeria). ‘All things come to the other fellow if you sit down and wait. CompleteFuneral,$125 A black broadcloth or gray plush casket, with a sik interior, 6 fine handles, engraved name plate, outside case, embalms moving washing, dressing and shaving sf necessary, re- om any caty hospital or home, advertise the death, hearse of limougine type and two fine Cunningham limou- sines. 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