Evening Star Newspaper, November 17, 1927, Page 29

THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. €. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, — " OLD SCHOOL BOOKS HAUNTED BY DEATH ' SCIENCE MEDALS GIVEN. Dr. H. E. Ives Awarded for Con- tribution to Television. York City, i New . Philadelphia Knen | Dr. 2 ¢ . | television and Mr. Kneass PHILADELPHIA, November 17 (). | {HEEGAT (00 0 exhanst ohn Scott medals for out ~llmlnm’_|,,|,“ Yor the utilization of aohievement 1. salonce and invontion |steam, " ' __________|Mciation for the Advancsment ‘ot |face quicker than her mind." ° " tlon, the victim of n pistol and shovTwounded _______________be mublected to variows trafic teaie | ste: Readers Inducate Chndren Had Gruesome Dreams a Century Ago. ... and like all Brooks Frock offerings . . . this is s & not a sale of haphazard staging merely to sell a lot red over the P e Aeserican of frocks . . . It is an event long in planning . . ®chool child a century Some S obed ) -used In the private ach y hington, were resurrected from | nf the Library of Con other d how ”.VK foot ose ds ‘:".‘ 9 v‘;' a ])v (6!‘7\\1\ : f two-thirds of the les S as the child should never 1 pla that death n descri d of Jos the outcome ul' a desire to make more friends . . instead of more profits! TOMORROW'! ters the hor tim from at the d Anoth pr the education of young children & long, gruesome poenm describin dream in which the dreamer found himself lving among the corpses in| the gravevard. Along came La#rus, | covered h leprosy sores, of the dr in coffins. wed over a few pages, | h ponderous moral re. | flections, and read, “Elegy When the Bells Were Tolling for the Interment | “orpse.” The next selection was The Contemplation of | ng 1 eternity they 1 is something thankful for and nét dreaded. A couple of pazes later the sch Boy of 1787, when this particular - tion was published, found verses en- eflection of a Person in His The old gentleman is | rejoicing that soon his troubles will he over and he will sleep in the sweet,’| sweet grave. ! Compiler’s Name ) The next select bandman’s Medita working in the field: th his sevthe, reflects morally that it will not be | long before Father Death will come | along with a different sort of scythe and mow him down, as he himself ellow wheat. | mes a poem on "“The Church. | nd the reader ends with verses | hts on the Death of a | to he The farmer, The compilerr neglected to put his | name on the title page of this reader. me on this page is that and there is some in- | evidence upon which to base a suspicion that the book was ‘the work of the colonial philosopher and patriot himself. There are many pas- sages which mij been written by MISSES' WOMEN'S LARGE AND EXTRA SIZES gubrious than Franklin’s customary epigrams still more somber reader was pre yided for the school children in 1% This opens with a long poem on “Th Last Day,” describing with vivid de tail the horrors of the day of judg- ment for those persons, children amonz theni, who have lived without reflection on the impending de- on of the world. Xt comes | flections at Evening. Svening is 4 time, the poet says, but the ren should remember that a time | 18 coming when there will be no night. The concluding selection in this book | is “An Ode on the Short:ess of Hu- man Life." i Reform Sets in. By 1811 some reform was evident. One reader, imported from England in | that_year, appeared far less like the | handbook of an undertaker and more | Jike a modern text hook. For the firew 50 pages death is not mentioned. The | aelections are mmostly fables, some of | :l}r:%:-‘.f ',.: o a b ot "».'r‘."'fl They sre Frocks of QUALITY dreamed of placing such light matter | their fabrics . .. and the WAY they are made ... bet voung children, RBut the com- | THAT! Note how FINISHED they are . . . detail . . . Note how perfectly they FIT . Frocks will “sell” THEMSELVES! Smartest Colors Malaga Red, Rose Beige, Nutan, Franciscan Brown, Mocha, Cocoa, Napoleon Blue, Balsam Green, Forest Green, Wine, Navy and Black . . . and innumerable color combinations. piler’s conscience was bothering him. | On page 50 he Introduces Gray's Elegy in a Country ( follows it immediately by the Death of a Young Taay. this time on “death” is sprinkled | quite liberally through the pages, end- ing with a solemn selection: “Elegy on a Captive Fly.” 1 This was be the day of anti-fily eampaigns. The child is urged to contemplate miseries of the unfor- | tunate creature struggling on sticking | paper and fly himself solemnly warns | the public that he never would have gotten into such a plight if he had | heeded the wise counsel of elder flies. | Several hundred readers used at| warious periods in American =chools | are on the shelves of the Library of Congress. Through the nineteenth | century they show a steady improve- ment, seiections dealing with death | and sorrow hecoming er and | fewer un the present, when it would he considered almost criminal | to ir xt book for young | -alculated to pro. urchyard and | & Distinctive! ensch recently raised six of his %ons to the degree of master Mason at the stated communication of Perfect Ashlar Lodge, F. & A. M., of Brook A seventh son was al- | reads tions. A CLEAR COMPLEXION Ruldy Schiasto=spmsid (ngiieves —most women can have. Dr. F. . Edwards for 20 vears treated scores of women for liver and howel ailments. During these vears he gave his patients a sub- stitute for calomel made of a few well-known vegetable in- gredients mixed with olive oil, naming them Dr. Edwards’ Olive Tablets. Know them by their olive color. These tablets are wonder-work- ers on the liver and howels, which cause a normal action, car- rying off the waste and poisonous matter in one's system. 1f you have a pale face, sallow look, dull eyes, pimples, coated tongue, headaches, a listless, no- good feeling, all out of sorts, in. active howels, vou take one of Dr. Fdwards' Olive Tablets nightly for a time and note the plulm‘ results, Thousands of women and men take Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets —now and then to keep fit. 15e, 30c and 60c. For Misses, Women and Larger Women | were awarded by the Franklin' Insti- | tnte 1ast night to Dr. Herbert E. Ives, and Strickland L. Ives was given the medal rm] | his contribution to the development of | for steam in New! FROCKS At a Price That Means Unusual Savings—See Them—In All Their Glory Tomorrow Frocl(s of Flat' Crepe. Satin, Pn'nted | A Satin, Jersey, Sport Fabrics, Velvet. Geor- = | { p{.ette. Crepc de Chine and pretty combina- shades of the season. —Street —Party . —Business —Dinner —Sehool —Sports 1927, Athelsm for “proof of a single cure of Tt o st oo | YOUTH SHOT BY DUELISTS| < being held in Calvary | ¢ Church STRATON CHALLENGED. | Atheists Offer $50.000 fo- Proof n( Healing. ap o Soulg ot QiEnIG | with an answer to the offer, { straton. 2 | Peacemaker in Critical Condition, * said Dr From Wounds. S. C.. 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