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THE SUNDAY “STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. AUGUST 22, 1926—PART 1. y lbut 1 suppose T'd better give it to|sums up very simply. T just loved |for camp. Two other magazines| SMOKE VEXES POINCARE. ! you to buy camp equipment.” her with all my heart, recognized |asked her to write for them, but there For she was going again to Camp |from the first her right to be a per-|was not time, and her contract with " . Serrana, at Pike, N. H.. where she|son, not a child puppet, dancing to|Vanity Fair calls for her exclusive | Herriott, Briand and Tardieu Fill| had the year before spent the hap-|my whims; did all for her physically | services until six articles have been = plest Summer of her life. She was|that books and common sense could Y e ‘\:'h?; Elizabeth f;locs Air at Meetings. awarded # half scholarship on her|teach me; made her obey implicitly | wit er life will her own affair, > 3 - el hria mierits jas . camper. T have befors | eVeFy commandil Banlla riRtngive | it 88, th the sasshtiain. 1t ran always| PARIS, August 21 (P.—The briar You Will Miss The Star— I (cgvynxmhl_:wrg in Unitad States and Great | person so free of vanity. 1 had|me. as I write, a letter which tells of [and “almost all of these commands |been. » pipe of Edouard Herriot, the equally 4 3 y Aitance. ALl onig hmerican | Newspaver | trembled with fear of the effect it|climbing Piermont one day and_of | were for the sake of her health: tried| I am not ‘a professional mother. I [legendary cigarette of Aristide So ()l‘(l(‘l' “ Sent might have on her—this sudden flare- | hiking to Haverhlll the next. ~She |to make myself a mother whom she|do not know whether my rearing of Bt ani SHa ot dor EgaTaaE . up of mnewspaper fame-—and it ap-|SWims, plays tennis, hikes, takes part |could respect and of whom she could | Elizabeth has been scientific or not XV.—Graduation. n.';remh- had it at all! In amateur theatricals and makes |be reasonably proud; made myself her [or whether the methods I have used | but just as perpetual cigarette of B e o = TRING Slizabeth’ tire ey Jed Scholarshi things with her hands in the* crafts|friend and her confidant from the|would work at all well with other| Andre Tardieu have combined in e p = i sentor \'Q‘l’;:‘”fi:l’ef()“l: Garduer A w am S time she could talk, and—taught her |children. For Elizabeth has been 80| Raymond Poincare's new cabinet to cation arrange t i On the night of her graduation, Admitted to Barnard. to rely upon herself. largely a result of circumstances— f li S v v | just o1 r ¢ for Star— Fvening ?hc|22-011vxlrv|:g:, ax‘\h;\'m'e“;:n:;;“ hen she was presented with hef| | - A i Writes for Magazines. | early poverty (our moving rr‘nm_ town | create just one more difficulty for Star—FEvening n a hospital and iwo trips in |diPloma. Rev. Mr. Barnhill made a | 1n June. just vefore camp opened.i _ : i to town, our friendships with clever, | the premier. . sentito: voit s al and Rept | Short speech to her she took her six college board exami-| Because we have always been so|creative people, my repeated illnesses,| For M. Poincare has never smoked ; N m M ELnE nsuine kent | 8o ehie i Elizanethy wal A nations and applied for admission to |close to each other in our aloneness which forced her to physical Inde.| He detests the odor of tobacco. hut will want to get the new me away from her ut a e th‘"\;‘- ® Ibeth. $hey tell me that vou Barnard College. T have just learned |there have not been the problems of | pendence. But circumstance has made | in the interests of .“national union ¢ 1T " needed me most. T "”m‘“"“\l‘j‘"- % |reached the ripe old age of 12 years!|that she passed her examinations aid discipline that undoubtedly arise in a of her a superbly healthy, mormal, ' find conciliation” he allows his from home, and The Star York from California on 22 . . RPRIEAE i : . & . e 1 1s that right?" that Barnard’s committee on admis. |large family, especially ~where the|happy, self-reliant little girl, and I am cabinet colleagues to light up and 2‘:3}",,.3,‘;.(233"ifl;,’;{;l’f};"r"“-’."fiidbifi Poppy-cheeked with embarrassment, | $1ons had voted to accept her. though |father and mother have different ideas | abundantly satisfied. pull away during their official meet- Biere for bier Brasuation and cotnite |She nodded mutely they have had a hitherto unbroken |about child rearing. She obeys be-| o the other hand, I have never for| Ings. Some of those meetings are J AT gratulate vou, Elizabeth, on [Tule not to accept any girl under 15.cause she loves me and because she |, minute rearetted that 1 have had to| so long that by the time the min- duation from this splendid | Elizabeth had applied a year ago|understands the reasons behind each [pe the sole support of myselt and a | isters have left the premiers office school at such an age. And I have |for admission to Bryn Mawr. but as|rule or prohibition. : child. The necessity to provide for | there is a thick blue haze in the ithorized by the heads of the |the time drew near to go away from have conscientiously refrained |per, 1o give her all the good things to | room, nd by the Gardner Alumnae |home for & long nine months she |from trying to'mold her opinions on|which she Is entitled, has proved the | Sloreover, Mi Poincare is a “man tion to tell you that, because |COUld ;‘“' f‘*flrhlhe lhgughldflfhlhe any shubkcu I could not tol_erau‘va most powerful stimulus for ambition. | of order,” and the stray cigarette you have for three years headed ths | SPSTRIE Trom Ree Motiivr did fhots | Avooslnnt T e ] Baveliercr [t am neither vich nor famous, but 1] anills. and matehos Bl ndnistes honor roll of this school, and because | clever friends who have made life mo |urged her ambitions along any line. |have made a fair success as strew about his office distress him | vour conduct has at all times becn | Pleasant fm‘] af in ) P}:\ York 0 "d If she pecomes a writer, I shall be | If it had not been for Elizabeth T greatly. He must, however, put up |that of a little lady worthy of the 1Ot try to influence her to this de-|very glad. It it develops that she has | might still have been teaching school with it, as he knows it would be bring it to ycu—accurate and completely i #hort of death could have prevented my keeping that promise. She had spent an extremely busy two months since I had seen her As one of the editors of “*Milestone: her high school annual, she had worked harder than at any time in her short life s typewriter sw was given the Job of coy Rates by Mail—Postage Paid i Payable in Advance Maryland and Virginia— Exening and : j cision, but it has made me very happy |only & deft lttle ta] e i 1 . ST, . e erial [honor, you have been awarded the | cision. b 2 ¥ |only a deft little talent, without real|in Texas. T recommend motherhood | mioseible fo o0 Foritor Cld, Do e guniar i e o nENeRRLHAY | Coaner A Safonischonr s Eamantis Mot e e e Nn. noir beutito bes Tier din essentinl toward success|and Tardieu to sit through a three- One month. 50c 23c 3 o Ry 8| or coll: chake hands E , » S| & 1 o k = She was carrying an unusually | {00 08 €G0 When people ask me how I account |so the choice Is her own and is made THE END. | BouE conterence: without & smake- One week. 15¢ 10¢ heavy course her entire senior My Elizabeth shook hands, then | for Elizabeth-—her mentality. her per- |after long deliberation. | e | since she was completing the four-y high school course in three ve All other States— turned toward me, where T at on |Sonality, her rapid advancement, her| When she is graduated from col- | Sent to Hawaii Capt. Root Resigns. s iy /25 eserved for | Very real goodness as a daughter—I |lege I shall expect her to earn her 5 o Aud there were ther homs duties=—g ([ first tow of seats reserven for[lU8 i Ll oinow o (renty. HOE lovn, lislog. Bhe hab Alran tepe Lieut. Col. James E. McDonald, In- One month....................51.00 ¢ 35¢ A trained nurse friend of mine occu coerlihadB el by trem. |all 1 can truthfully say is, “Elizabeth [to do that. for she is contracted te| Resignation of Capt. Stanley W | fantry, has been relieved from duty GRS Weely. . .....ccanvccnuacacs 3B < 10¢ partment with her during n bling. T half rose to meet her. blind- |did it all herself.” But T can't tell | write for Vanity Fair, and has already |Root, Field Artillery, recently sta. | with Organized Reserves at Richmond t SEL S nGIu A Eettng IeroWn | 5 ith i tears Of Dride andidovsithien JHDV § been paid for two articles, written be- | tioned at Fort Sill, Okla., has been ac- | and ordered to Hawail for duty with b o h“;’m- "l;"el:,l'nfimhel'h:u'-‘mhhplr::uf] she remembered, and I remembered My part in the making of Elizabeth | tween graduation and her departure |cepted by the Presiden i regular troops. b It ner, g dishes 1 o 2 < {and she walked to her seat on waves How she found time to write a short | ©f deafening applause. story und a poem for “Milestone: That was the proudest moment of as well as cramming for June coltege | my life. But that night I could not board examinations, 1 't for the|sleep. And every mother will under- v th looking after her clothes. life of me sec. But she stand when 1 it was pain all—and had sent out a great sheaf orjas well as foy ’ graduation invitations. hot-eyed into the darl o i was " growing up. Life Hectic for Elizabeth. Rt e e it | % Graduation was to take place on [W€ in the futur 2%, and on May 24 the heads of | She had long since learned to take the school, through their press care of herself, and now she could sentative, gave to the New {even earn her own living. if neces. World the announcement of the|Sary. Colleze would take her away | school's graduation exercises, includ-|from me for four vears; afier coar-old girl |She would be a grown-up lady “hool course | as old as T was when I marrie rving, too, i “ing the fact that a 12 was finishing the high ! with highest honors. haps she would be For the rest of the week life was ex. | When she finished colleg tremely hectic for Elizabeth Benson, | 5 " her mother and the Gardner School. | Siessaties a1, S Every paper in the city sent reporters | There s even a danger that I and photographers to our home or to | might be a grandmother in fi the school Elizabeth was photo. | vears! The picture of graphed in every concelvable pose—at | Rrandmother at 35 was at once so her desk. with her classmates, in front | humorous and tragic that 1 of the school, on the roof garden with [laughed out loud—and then the tears her mother, and smiling, smiling, smil- | came, and I felt better and went to ing, until she said her face muscles |sleep. After all, T consoled myself, Ached so that she longed to scowl for |maybe Elizabeth wouldn't be s August Sale Floor Coverings at least one snapshot. |as T had been—marrying at 16. ‘Nyorste ace a st At first she was excited and flatter-| But on the heels of t thought d F T pe ') 9x 2 ‘ ;{) m ed. then she heartily wished the fuss came the question: If T hadn’t mar- ] =Ft' ngOleu Art Squares nas all over, so that she could do|ried when I did, and whom T did, Brussels Rugs the hundred and one lastminute and in defiance of poverty as I did, S i i i things connected with winding up a | would there have been such n c 9 ft. by 12 fi 8 ft. 3 i 10 6 ft. by 9 f beconds_SUb]eCt to slight m $ 95 high school course and preparing for Elizabeth? With even the pos: t. by b DY e gy rints (n bord ) —. Eraduation exercises 1 was tremen- | hillty of Bliziheth's following my exy Brussels Rugs ft. 6 in. 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