Evening Star Newspaper, September 1, 1928, Page 18

WOMAN'S PAGE.) Ribbon Sports Turbans BY MARY MARSHALL. A Summer fashion that certainly will | lengths of it you might need, and these | not go out with Summer days and that | should be sewed together. with a short| I am sure will continue in favor all Au tumn and into the Winter is the fash- fon far the ribbon sports turban-—or rather the ribbon bandeau worn turban fashion. To _make one of these turbans you 21d choose some sort of wide striped | CREAM, BLACK AND RED-STRIPED | RIBBON IS USED WITH DOUBLE- RING ADJUSTER TO FORM A HEADDRESS APPROPRIATE FOR TENNIS AND OTHER SPORTS. nd get emough of it to wind round the head. with ends hang- g at one side. If you like. you may tie the ends each time you wear it, but it is more convenient to get one of the new slip rings or buckles of the sort show the sketch 1f you want a scaf to go with the bandeau. get enough of the wide ribbon | to make a shoulder square—four or five KEEPING MENTALLY FIT BY JOSEPH Are Humans Intelligent? | 1 admire both vyour articies and vo eourage in undertaking to enlighien peo- ple in regard to their minds. But I think Fou overestimate human intelligénce. Tt fen’t that think the articles are hey e simple enoush tind who would have 'm. But the longer T/ ™ imoresced with the intelligence. T sup- | ndred men every week other, enough to. have them. and if I find » | ent, I think I | a buckle we _ must ration of | realize that pretty small cur articles remind me of the wh was asked e & 10-do'lar Bill 1 preciate ths | eompliment just the same™ Perhaps some ©f vour readers sppreciate the compliment ©f Tour assumption that they are intelli- = H S | Reply. 4 The initials H. S. recall that in the erder of creation man is labeled homo »s. man_the intelligent! Perhaps. s also paying himself a compli- ment. The big idea back of this some- what despairing view of human capac- fty is presumably sound. The difficulty is that we can't ‘meas- ure intelligence in the same way in| whirh we can measure other perform- #nces. If on® man can swim twice as fast as’znother or lay twice as many bricks per hour or type twice as many | words in a minute, it is an enormous | difference. But some men must have | not twice but 20 times the intelligence of others, if what they accomplish is | anv measure of the difference. | At best it's guesswork or rough esti- | mate, but the range of human intelli- gence is a pretty wide one, ane d civili- | zation makes even small differences | count. If you ask the cnatomist he'll tell | you that the most distinctive part of | man is this vastly overgrown mass at the of the nervous system that | we czli his brain, an1 mainly the big brain (cerebral lobes). in appearance like a great cabbage on a stalk. That surface or bark (cortex) is folded so that it looks like the kernel of a wal- nut, in order to pack into a small space a5 many hundred thousand brain cells s possible. As compared with the chimpanzee, the nearest competitor, this top brain has hugely expanded. It varies con- siderably within the species and thus makes it possible that, though all men are intelligent, some may be not a little but vastly more 8o than others | and nothinz tanzible to supy | and a group much abr | stightly | actual mean average). 16 or 17 superior | this ringe left at the two sides where the ends of the ribbon appear. Of course, skirts will be longer Autumn, but for evening and formal afternoon wear there is very good rea- {son to believe that the long-in-back, | short-in-front hem line will prevail. At [ some of the very recent Paris showinzs [ there have boen evening gowns almo: up to the knees in the front and down to the heels at the back. And this down-at-the-back line will su b2 important. Figured prints are apparently o sur- vive frost. The tendency seems to be in the girection of smaller, more s patterns. Printed velvets are spoken of in connection with recent displays of almost all the ing houses. an ly printed cha rials. To give a touch of sm of the frocks you inte Autumn, why not make one of clbow-length cap: They ar and not hard to make and give a wel came bit of warmth. If you will send me your stamped. self-addressed velope 1 will gladly send you a copy « the diagram skeich of the cape and directions for making. — My Neighbor Says: Cut a slit about one inch long with a can opener in the top of a baking powder can and keep it in the bathroom. This is an ex- cellent receptacie for safsty razor blades. To soften butter so that it may be more easily creamed when making eake heat a bowl, put the butter into it and cover a few minutes. Lard will remove grease or tar from clothi: the lard in well and al stain has boen removed wask cloth with soap and mod: hot water. When greens used for salads they \| first be hed, then allowed to stand in cold water until thoroughly Take them from the cold water. pack in a tin p: and put in th> ice cl ready to use i to wear the ne machine Rub w very erisp. | vantago of being cool for for | le | LE POST is the marker to being smart. Lisle Sweaters. to pattern their and the newest is the fine clthes item lisle Such ¢ are 1 5 add to the school wardrobe in half dozen lots, for they wash to per- fection and make versatile and smart costumes j{ ¢ go with one skirt hot Septem- an_ additiona he Fall 1928.) and form * through (Covy NANCY PAGE Labor Day Stands for Last Pienie Day. BY FLORENCE 1A GANKE ber day somethir means the last The Aston rly for hey had ¢ was more fun if Accordingly rseshoes usually vear and picnic of the tarted bright bean bags ded w and the psually were b nd batt all JASTROW If a man is one-fifth taller than the average, he is a giant. Giants in in- telleet wouid tow above ordin: men like telegraph poles. So far as we can measure in gence we find no breaks in the sel ntelli- ries the view that one man is so much more intelligent than anotht If we are satisfied with so rough a division as an average group. a below- par or inferior group. a much-below- par group (including the feeble-mind- ed), an above-par or superior group. par (includ- ing geniuses). we won't be far out if we say that 60 in 100 are average (30 above, 30 slighily below the and the same number inferior. and three or four in the defective, and as many in the highly talented class. Though this is all speculation, it is spezuliion with some basis of findings and the upshot is about this: if you agree that the average of human intelligence is ton low to do much with it in the way of appealing to it to | improve mental fitness. than at best ohe man in five is really intelligent in ricted, rather exclusive sense. Some may call .this view an aristo- cratic and others a cynical view of hemo sapiens: or to repeat 2 jost both cynical and slangv. thet the creature might better called homo sap. I sec no reason why the situa'ion should not be faced frankly. and calm- 1y. If one in five humans is really in- telligent, that is leaven cnough for the whole mase, It is presumably true that | men intelligent enough to consider the | matter, and brain-workers especially are inclined to overestimate the aver- age_intelligence. ‘The must be made as nearly foolproof as possible, and we must assume very little as common knowledge even in a democ- racy with eompulsory education. There is little to b2 don~ about it except to zccept the fact. We can't imorove the brain material per-eptibly, The extent to which stimulation will make capac- ity efficient has not yet been realized ‘The whole sifuation was recently brought home to me by the remark of a physician of a large State prison. | He commented on the low mentality of the prisoners, yet ragarded them as a fair sample of the average outside prison walls. He said intelligent enough to read a popular magazine I call him brother” Such is the brotherhood of hemo sapiens. (Copyrizht, 1928.) MOVIES AND MOVIE PEOPLE BY MOLLY BY MOLLIE MERRICK. HOLLYWOOD, Calif., September 1.— Freak restaurants continue popular. Hollywood as a town caters exclusively 1o the eye. Bhops are camoufiaged to :-Ev-y t qd:a% Spanish inns. ream stan me Esquimau igloos, | made of papier-mache and mica l:un. i And the inevitable restaurant is made &5 fanciful as the proprietor can man- age. Ome of these, modeled after a | roundhouse, even goes 50 far &s to have | &n abandoned engine bullt into one of its_entrances There are weird places where food s served in convict uniforms, which, by the way, do duty for napkins in the ab- « of Jinen. No knives and forks are | 10 descend on one of these urants and make merry. ! these informal places is fa- vie attendance. Motion re likely 1o drop in to the rant, but only as a hap- of the evening's diversion ¥ follow the established rou- parties in their own from the prying eyes of souvenir hunters i hunting Nox reaches its height it eonfined to " weeks among the onee attended an cape of white vel- he returned enir hunt- ery single frond of | the back of her cape. | story begun over | J locale suffer- and the entire trip was ruined Several thousand feet of film. all boxed and ready to send out for proofing in America, were washed eway by the flood The typhoon raged and every inch of hich the picture had been s destroyed The company got s together when the storm cleared » 4 to figure some way out way feasible st the moment a home run. B0 and baggage e company was 1oaded on ship- and ¢ back 1o good old studio | ne Mow the Thiz time feptured ar the « Jost film § n & studio Iot. The story nder-theeses seqience. and aim tropical waters of the 8outh had furnished this in perfeetion siand is furnishing it today. 1. | would be charming in gray or being made again, | becoming to MERRICK. this wise pared and fitted cut to represent sn ander-the-water effect. The sequence will be filmed through & narrow glacs tank in which fishes, artificially created 100 | air bubbles, drifting seaweed and oticr ocean props will be found. The result wiil be a Culver C tropizs, and few will be the wiser—p: hap: Billy Haines represents the new in movie boys. He is never still good humor is unfailing. And his ca- pacity for jokes, practical and impr tical, is enough to drive his co-work: into nervous prostration. Polly Moran is one of his best pal Nonsens> is the order of the day when these two arrive on the scene. AL a recent first night the openfng curtain v ed some 45 m e 2 restless nd thres: and Po They had the ti no time. Yet Haine Haines has a lot of of him in the near future. His produccr dn not want him to become routined Which isn't a bad idea. Jack Barr more’s vears of comedy stand him gnod stead when there is a whimsical MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN Colors in Clothing. One mother says My blond liitle girl 15 often noticed as being unusually dressed. She always looks & bit “different.” The reason for this is that I am nol afraid 1o let her ear the so-called “old” colors. She wears violet frequently and black v often. T often combine black and white to make her disting costumes, and this is supposed to be a sophisticated combination M: Httle P think many children by pinks, yel not be reall a dark or antique crim 1 mothers handicap their dressing them in child) vs and hiucs which may them (Cony h Ehi. 10780 Straw hats imported into the United | Btate the first slx months of {hi year were .nm}’l at nearly $6,000,000 ‘machinery for running the world | ‘and caten'after h | paniment of “oh's” i the sighed to think the picnic season was | “If I find one | A huge tank has been pre- | His serious roles ahead | i family ded on a meal of hot creamed po- . by sliced to- and they made ¢ Th> meat lo: d and served in a“brown hallow platter or casser- | The creamed potatoes were made at home and Kept hot in the food jug. .A hole was made in the ground and filled with bright. hardwood coals for a helf hour. When the ground was thgrouzhly heated the eoals wore raked out The corn, with only one outer husk stripped off, was laid in and cov- ered with hot ashes. These were topped with a heap of glowing coals. After a half hour, the corn was raked out ing. to an accom- nd “ah’'s,” Butter for corn. The as 18" with salt im and salt were tomatoes were e Semetimes the Astons have the ad- | French | aled the buns | DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX Up-to-Date Versus Old-Fashioned Girl—\Why Life| Is Joyous Picnic for Some and Dreary for Others. Treadmill Do you think the modern girl botter than the AR DOROTHY DIX: A READER. Victorian girl? In what way do you think het s0? Answer: I don't think the modern girl is better than the Victorian girl Neither do T think the Victorian girl superior to the modern girl. Their good | qualities are different, but I imagine that each has about the same amount of gold in her character. 5 From Mother Eve down, women have had pretty much the same faults and virtues. There has been no basic change in their natures. They have been vain and fond of pleasure, and selfish and high-tempered and unreasonable. They have thought with their hearts instead of their heads and been mainly guided by thelr emotions. And they have loved and gone to death for those they loved. and have worked their fingers to the bone for their husbands and children. They have laid themselves as voluntary sacrifices on the altars of their families. Through all the ages some women have been gold-diggers and vamps, and | have taken all that they could get out of men and given nothing themselves, and other women have given all and asked nothing. There have been women who have made of their shoulders ladders for men to climb to success; women who have slaved to lift their children above themselves: women who have watched | by sickbeds; women who have been first at the cradle and last at the tomb. There have always been women who were devils and women who were saints. They belong to no particular age. and probabiy they have always been in about | the same proportion throughout the history of the world. We all glorify the past and disparage the present. | the Victorian girl and attribute to her every good qualit: It would shock us to think of our mother as having been anything but a little prunes-and-prisms miss, who always sat on one side of the parlor in a horschair chair, and conversed with her suitor about Shakespeare and the musicgl glasses, or some cqually | innocuous topic. | We could never think of mother as having let a young man kiss her, or !hold her hand. We cannot imagine her going joyriding or staying out after 11 o'clock at night. And. of course, we know she always minded her mamma, and was dutiful and obedient and affectionate, and a perfect model of what a daughter should be. ‘There probably isn't a flapper in the length and breadth of the land whose mother doesn't assure her that that was exactly the sort of a girl she was, and that was how she treated her parents. and who doesn’t have to listen to mother's sobbing that “she doesn't know what girls are coming to nowadays,” when they won't wear decent clothes. when thoy smoke clgarettes, and have dates with heavan knows whom, and won't listen to a word their parents say to them. But in reality mother wasn't any improvement on her own daughter. She was just as crazy about clothes as Sally is, and thought just as much about how wide she could make her skirts as Sally does about, how skimpy and short she can hers. And if the automobile should talk about petting parties, the old | sway-back sofa would yawn in its face and say, “Old stuff!” Certainly the modern girl fsn’t as much under parental control as the Victorian girl was, but she earns her own living, and any girl who has intelligence enough to hold down a good job has sense enough and knowledge enough to decide things for herself. She is no longer a child in leading strings Certainly the modern girl is much freer in her relationship with men than the Victorian girl was, but when you work side by side with mer you are bound | to smash the conventions. Certainly the modern girl is much more sophisticated and hard-boiled than the Victorian giri was, but ignorance is not innocence, and the more a girl knows the better she can take care of herself. And when it comes to the real things, the love and tenderness and self- sacrifice, the modern girl does just cxactly as the Victorian girl did—she marries | the man shs loves and makes a wonderful wife and mother. DOROTHY DIX. [DFAR MISS DIX: My sister and T argue continually over the question of happiness, I say there are some people 'who don't have to worry because they alw: 2 the Food things of Tife, while others never get anything. . She savs a p‘rr:g:\ 3.’,':,‘:1 | have courage and hope fo go through life Do you think that when a person has courage, and hopes for better times, he gets them? And should one keep on hoping despite misfortunes? and othors who are born to ill luck. What do you think? A SISTER, Answer: I think the fortunate people are those who are born with cheerful and optimistic natures. They are far luckier than those who are born with ‘the traditicnal silver spoon in their mouths. For happiness is within ourselves. and that doos not depend upon our outward circumstan One of the most unhappy men I have ever known in my life was a millionaire who did not even have a crumpled rose leaf under his 40 mattresses | of ease. For he had not only all the luxuries that unlimited money buys, but a lovely wife and children and superb health, But he was bored with life, suspicious {of all who came about him, interested in nothing] without & thrill eft in his system. i And the happicst person T have ever known was an old colored woman | who Lived in a hovel, who had the “rheumatiz” in her back and the "misery in | her bones." whose husband had deserted her, whose children neglected her, and | who never knew where the noxt meai was coming from. But God had given {her a singing heart, and she found nothing but sunshine in the world. 1 agree with your sister that all of us have our hap| the law of compensation always holds. What we miss one way we get in another. if only we have philesophy enough to appreciats it. If you haven't the money to feast on caviar and lobster newburgh, you escape the consequent | Indigestion, for example. 4 maments, and that n Many a poor woman whose own life has been nothing but hard work and | siavery for her family, reaps her reward in the success of her children. Many a woman whose husband cannot give her fine clothes gets from him a love and 1 devotion that many a millionairess would envy. | And T agree with your sister that uniess we have hope and courage, life is | intolerable. It is only the belief in something better to come that gives us slrenzwlh to fill’fy on to victory. ‘e make our own happiness when we make the best of every day, and find our joy in simple things, in the love of those about us, in the glory of Aysumv, in | our work, in doing our part in the world as well as we can. DOROTHY DIX. | Picarai | [DEAR MISS DIX: Do you think a relative ought to come uninvited and spend the entire Winter with me, without ever offering to pay board in | any way? MRS. X. | Answer: Certainly not, and you should have the courage to dnk the dead- beat to move on., The one drawback to life in California is that you are visited to death, Some day I am going to organize the Anti-Guest League, and millions of grateful houscwives will eiect me President of the United States. (Copyrizht, 1928.) DORCTEE NN )n sharp green wood sticks and toasted | cut side of the halves. Everybody over. MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Grapefruit Hominy with Cream rambled Eggs, Chipped Boef, Raisin Brown Bread Coffec DINNER Chicken Soup. Chicken with: Dre Stuffed with Che Riced Potatoes G n Corn Fruit_Salad Crackers. Cheese. Roust Celers Coftee, SUPPER Escalloped Ovsters Peach Gelatin Macaroons Whipped Tea SCRAMBLED EGGS, CHIPPED EEF Three eggs. ped beef, 1 te blespoons chip- 1 tablespoon drippings, spaon salt, dash white pep- 1 tablespoon finely chopped Lop. Put beef vippings fnto pan over fire 15t only be heated); poor which have been beat- il mixed with milk When it bogins with fork, It until 1 Thi: on toastad bread, n di in hot w pepper cramble only to set must can be which salted chopped cook d ha pped oup old one s quart onlon , cup A be pepper two of Gelery desired. i the and bofl Ty tender h colander and return adding rice, which has been goaking. Chop the po- onfon and (urnip and add '3 after; add celery 20 minutes serving (cut in dice) and st can chicken pour thro soup to ket before matoes ESCALLOPED OYSTERS Mix 1 eup eracker crumbs with . cup stale bread erumbs. Wash pint aysters, reserve liquor, heat 1o boiling point, strain and add enough hot cream to make ! cup. In_ this lguor dissolve 1, cup butter and stiv into crumb: Put thin layer in bottom of bui- teved shallow dish, cover with half the oyster sprinkle with alt and pepper and very litfle mace. Repeat and cover with temaining - mixsture. Bprinkle with buttered cracker — erumbs and hake in modeiate oven 30 minutes o MILADY BEAUTIFUL BY LOIS LEEDS, Becoming Neck Lines. 51113‘5 [';“fl pllm': cu|l. out for ventilation. S 1 aily applications of white vaseline Dear Miss Leeds—(1) My hair used | yiil gradually darken the lashes, If you |10 be blond, but is now a light golden | want merely a temporary color on them, {brown. How can I make it blond | e mascara and remove it earefully at {again? (2) I have falr skin and gray | pedtime. (4) Low-cut oxfords in two eves, What colors are_becoming? n apron WINNIFRED C. Answer-—(1) You may use a blond [tinse of the following: Two tablespoon- fuls strafned lemon juice, 1 teaspoonful tartaric acid, 2 tablespoonfuls peroxide, 1 teagpoonful ammonia, 2 quarts water. Use this after your shampoo. 2) You | | | i front will help' make the feet look smaller. Opera pumps are also suitable. Of course, dark colors in shoes and stockings make the feet seem smaller (5) There are some good bleaches on the market that you may buy. To reduce the enlarged pores you must wash your face thoroughly with warm water and soap every night, rinse and rub with ice or bathe in cold water. Dry and pat on some witch- hazel or other astringent. (6) Almond green and reseda are good colors for you. You may also wear copper-red, henna, blue-gri dark and medium blue, greenish _yellow, - deep cream, lack, very pale orchid and pastel pin in sheer fabries. LOIS LEEDS. (Covyright, 1978.) Indian Chutney. Soek 16 green tomatoes in brine for 24 hours, then slice and chop. Drain for 10 or 12 hours. Core 12 sour apples and chop them fine Peel and slice fine eight onions, Combine the toma- toes, apples and onfons, to which add four cupfuls of vinegar, one poand of chopped raising, twn pounds of half & eupful of salt, one tablesp | ench of cinnamon, mustard and black | Dear Miss Leeds— (1) Please tell me | panper and a pinch of eayenne nepper. I quick way of ridding the legs of | Put into a preserving kettle and cook | blackheads. - (2) How can T make my | slowly until clear ! hands white? (3) What will make eye- | | lashes dark? (4) What kind of shoes | make the feet look smaller? (5) How [can 1 banish freckles and enlarged | {pores? (8) 1 have auburn hair and | green eyes. What colors are becom- | ing? A DAILY READEX. | Answer—(1) The only way to get rid of these blemishes is to wash and scrub them. Every day scrub them | hard with a sUff bath brush and plenty lof soap and water. Rinse in clean | warm water, then scrub a second time | | with soap and water. Rinse well in | clean warm water to get off all the | lather, and bathe in cold water for [several minutes. ~Repeat (ireatment cvery night. (1) Use a bleaching han ; I pack overnight for at least n — week Serve with melted butter. | After scrubbing your hands with soap DIET NOTE and warm water, rinse them well and | Sl foread bi the following mixture; Twa| | jrovcie furniaios sulphur, lime: | tablespoonfuls cornmenl, alx drops i | (e vitamms A and B present. | tincture of benzoin, one and oneshalf | | Gan he eaten by normal adults teaspoonfuls peroxide, two teaspoonfuls | | of average or underwsight and |lemon juice. - It the misture becomes | | by ‘those wishing to reduce if |00 thick to spread evenly, thin it with | | amount of butter I8 restricted |olive"oll. © Atter coating your “handa| | Couid be given to children of & with this bleaching pack draw on & | | and over pair of old, Ioose gloves with the fAinger- _____r_____ may wear peach, flesh, | brick. rust, orchid y. dark green, | roseda, dark and medium blues. pale vellow, bronze, medium tan, cream and black 1.01S LEEDS | Blackheads on the Legs. old rose, dull | DAILY DIET RECIPE Soallions or Shallots, Scallions, one bunch & lMelmt butter, one tablespoon- | ul, | SERVES ONE OR TWO PORTIONS, Peel sealllons—allow four or five ta a portion. Trim off oot end and green stem, leaving 1t about four or five inches long. The stem trimming can be used to flavor soup or sauce. Pour boiling water over the scalllons and simmer five minutes. Drain She says there is a happy moment for every one who is living. | 1 of one frond of maidenhair by a moun- | It is something that money canot buy | or three eyelets and an apron effect in | freckle | SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. | | Muvver made me put back all them baby trabs I was goin' to take home I be so glad to see ‘em again! r I ain’t seen nuffin berry ‘fectionate. Two ob 'em has been et! That makes us idealize | '| SUMMERTIME BY 0. C. PEATTIE. | Only a long ocean voyage can make [,Vflll know that to leave the land is to | cross a desert. While still on the water | of the continental shelf one sees sea- | weed drifting by. But once in the | great emptines of midocean the last sign of green things will be gone: there | | is often not a gull nor any living thing | except the human beings on the boat | (alive and attractive in varying degrees) .and the pulsations of the engines. | It was on such a voyage just at this |time of year that I was grateful as { never before in my life for the beauty | of flowers at sea. Down every sunny windy corridor of the big ship were | flowers in vases—gladiolus in shell pink | and gold, orange and red, and larkspur | | dark as ihe sea and tender as the sky | { —and lilles unbending. and roses that leaned over in a warm, human way. How bravely they bloomed, how gayly and goodly did their uplifted faces look at us on the wild and sad and great Atlantie. ‘There are sailors who learn are an infinitude of landlubbers armchair poets who pretend to under- | stand its greatness and Its magic. But I. for one, am free to confess that I | would trade the Mosier deep. or the cor: seven of the seas for the touch of one handful of God's green moss, the smell | tain brook, and the laughter of the meanest roadside milkweed shaking her | hoyden curls JABBY I think there are people who are born to good luck | | | | | | “When a fella's got a bad reputation. {it's funny how they run even when vou're fust feslin’ playful.” THE DAILY HOROSCOPE Sunday, September 2. Good and evil Influences will con- | tend_tamorrow, according to astrology. | which interprets the aspects as, on the | whole, rather helpful than otherwise. | Women are subject to | making for success in public activities Reform movements of every sort | should benefit while this sway prevails. | and should be pushed, especially in | the_evening. | The church should benefit while this | planetary government prevails. | Under this direction of the stars |cluvuu in opinion is likely to be dis- ! tinct, making for sharp differences and | even'dissenstons. For those who desire to sway the minds of men and women, sermons or speeches should be forceful rather than persuasive, the aspects presage much vague thinking and lack of logic. Courtships are supposed to be lucky. There is promise of success | | lonship of old friends. It is well not per and to toolish quarrels. There 15 a forbidding sign journeys begun under this rule. for weighing projects that are to be pushed later. The stars will prevent 100 sanguine an outlook. Speculation may tempt many in the coming week, when there will be also A tendency to bet. Ventures of every sort should be avolded. | Persons whose birth date it is may expect a year of many unexpected hap- penings, of changes and surprises. Successful investments in real estate are Indicated. The subjects of this slgn succeed as editors as well as in selentific pursuits. Children born on that day probably will be clever as inventors and able to use their hands in trained vocations. These Virgo subjects usually have a great variety of talents. They are nat- urally ord BRAIN TES1 Many psychological experts have made use of the problems which require the Alling in of incomplete data. Work of this kind requires both ingenuity and previously acquired knowledge. In to- | day's test the elements to be supplied are letters of the alphabet. By inserting | groups of letters you can make them | into names of cities, but you must insert | the same letter throughout each word, Lndn becomes London when o's are added. Allow yourself five minutes for the completion (1) Bstn (2) Dradn (3) Msew (4 tint 8) Qube (6) Chstr ) Pgdd (&) Trat 9 Davr (10) Mdrs 11y Lihbd () Ghnt (1) Roston ecow; () Atlanta; Chester Denver. (10) Madr (13) Cthent, ( ( « ‘ « ‘ « ( i i \ (1) Dresden: (3 Mos 3 Quebec s; (11) Allahabad; wif me; her say they muvvers goin' ter ; But so | ths fascination of the sea, and thers and | -tangled shoals of the Caribbean, | every blue and salty drop in all influences | in all | social contacts and the day should be | fortunate for all who seek the compan- | to argue under fhis | rule which is conducive to rise of tem- | for | It is a day for logical reasoning and i the proper vowel in each of the given | | (1) Bagdad; (1) Toronto; (9) | FEATURES.® The Sidewalks Last week there were printed in this | column some common misquotations furnished by a literary friend. Among them was the statement, “First in war, | first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen,” the firrrct version of which was said to he irst in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his | fellow citizens.” Since its publication, we have recelved from & thoughtful reader the following enlightening note: “May an interested reader suggest that Mr. Fisher's ‘literary friend’ did not go far enough, at least in one in- stance, In misquotation researche: (Sidewalks of Washington; Star, gust 24, 1928. "Congress first heard of Washington's death on Wednesday, December 18, 1799, the day of his funeral, and then only {by a rumor brought by a passenger on the stage coach. The report was con- firmed the following day, and resolu- tions, prepared by Maj. Gen. Henry Lec ('Light-Horse Harry, not Richard H. who had died five years before) and offered to the House by John Marshall. contained the phrase, ‘Pirst in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his i fellow ritizens.' On_ a -report from a | joint committee of Senate and House, appointed by Congress to deliver a funeral oration before both | houses on Thursday. the 26th of De- |comber, in the German Lutheran | Church. after a funeral procession from Congress Hall to the church. In that | funaral oration Gen. Lee used the same | phrase, but substituted ‘countrymen for ‘fellow citizens.” Either might there- | fore be consid ‘correct,’” since both were written by Gen. Lee. “partly. perhaps, because the change | to ‘countrymen’ improves the rhetorically, but chiefly, no doubt, be- cause it was Lee's deliberate revision. | the quotation is usually taken from the | oration, and not from the hastily writ- | ten_resolution of Congress. “References: Marshall's Life | washington, Old South Leaflets, vol. 2 | No. 38, and other imprints of the oration; John Marshall Centenary ad- | dresses on Marshall day, 1901, compiled and edited by John Dillon, vol. -3 pages 311 and 419." We wish to thank the writer of the | above lines and regret that he did not attach his name. of a2 * From a local attorney “T read with inter some court anecdotes printed in “The Sidewalks" recently, The public is familiar with | the difficulty en- countered fre- quently by cutors in effort to conviet woman_ offenders. The folloving may explain why. It is taken from an ad- dress made by a lady defendant’ fawyer. Of course the woman was pretty. “ ‘Gentle- men of the jury. 1 am don~. When T ! gaze with enrap- tured eyes on th~ | matcldess beauty | of this peerless vir- gin, on whose re- : | splendent charms suspicion never darcd | to breathe—when T behold her radiant |in this zlarious bloom of luscious love- Mness. which angelic sweetness misht envy, but could not eclipse—before th~ star on the brow of Night ows pale, and the diamonds of Brazil dim, and then reflect upon the at so much beauty would expose it- If to the terrors of an empty build- ing. in the cold, damp. and dead of night, when innocence like hers is hid- ing itself amid the snowy pillows of : gentlemen of the jury, my feel- are too overpowering for expres- | sion, and I throw her into your arm for protection against this foul charge. which the outrageous malice of a dis appointed scoundrel has invented | blast the fair name of this lovely | meiden, whose smile chall be the re- | ward of the verdiet which I know you | will give. ! “I ask you, what would you do in |case like that? “LEGAL." 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BY THORNTON FISHER. from a two week's vacation which re spent—drawing nlccuru‘ * % & Not long ago we witnessed a tehnis mateh. It was of local signifitance. and important only to the two testants. Both young players eager to win. The umpire sat on his perch calling fauits and errors. One of the players smésh- ed the ball and sent it speeding across the net. As |it struck the ground, there was a flurry of dust and the umpire cried “Outside!” | The player who missed it saw, how- ever, better than | the umpire. He knew that it had | been a fair ball. g On the umpire's decision it meant |a point In his favor. During & suc- ceeding volley of shots the player iri whose favor the umpire had decided sent a ball deliberately into the nef | Very few, if any, of the spectators werc aware that the shot had bheen inten- tional. Even his opponent thought it was a natural error. As a matter of fact, the game youngster withed. to | win on his merits and not on a fluk: He gave the point back in this way to the other fellow. What better illus- tration of sportsmanship? We are glad ‘0 say that he finally won the set. Today in Washington History BY DONALD A. CRAIG. September 1, 1792.—A contract was made today for the construction of a canal to join the tidewaters of James Creck and Tiber Creek within the Fed- oral City. The distance is one and one- cighth miles. The cut is to be 15 feet wide and 12 feet deep. This is in ac- cordance with the plan for a city canal < delincated on the map of the city n by Maj. Pierre Charles L'Enfant. For some time there has been an tation among the citizens of George- n and the new Federal City to im- e water transportation both in th- tomac River and the Eastern Branch |and to begin building the proposed city | canal. Rock Creek forms a broad openinz that begins at the base of the ridge | west of the creek, along which M street | passes, and extends as far west |Tmrly-sernnd street. In consequence | the Jine of K street on the west side | < entirely through water, a cause- being necessary to make a bridge w The ground | available at that point. {north and south is being drained and mad» available for the construction” of butldings | The scheme is expected to be of just as much advantage to the owners of adjacent land as to the public. of | Georgetown and the Federal City. The plan is to defray the expense by the sale of the land thus reelaimed. but. the |sale not being successful. the . City | Commissioners have advanced the Furthermore ths plan for -building the arches-of the stone bridge over Rock Creek - proved defective. The bridge fell down and the city authorities have had to suffer that additional: lose. As if this ‘train of disastars was not enough for them to bear the Commis- joners have been ‘made the target of tart criticism by residents of the east- ern part of the Capital City, whe claim that favoritism is being shown toward the saction nearest Georgetown. Another project under consideration is to continue the canal of the Potomac | Company {rom Little Palls‘intd George- town and thence into the Fedsral City in connect with the proposed city | canal. It seems that the trouble which the | Commissioners have had with the stone | bridgs across Rock Creek i3 to be laid | to the door of Leonard Harbaugh of | Baltimore, who had the contract for its | construction and whose plans were im- perfeet. s-Word Puzzle ht. 1928 Windmakers. Collection of facts Affirmative. Consteliation Say. White substance Before 9. Japanese statesman. Mixture of sand and cla: BEskimo dwellings. Nodule of earth. Make crimson. Parent. Feline. The eream Declare untrue. Sun god Rescue Certain Naughty. 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