Evening Star Newspaper, May 8, 1929, Page 25

fiswm RECENES " RARE PHEASANT of Mystery Surrounds Bird, Native of Indo- China Jungles. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, LD i “Put Me Off if You're Big Enough!” Snorts| ART CLUB ARRANGES Irate Woman, but Bus Pilot Gets Last Laugh All passengers except the |Swimming, Games and Dance to By the Associated Press. were transferred, and the first | | alongside. PASADENA, Calif, May 8—“No woma good, too old,” said the bus conductor, | bus sped to the barn. | handing back a transfer. The conductor stepped out to a phone | | while hate to b married to a woman said the conductor with a | | smile as the woman, in high dudgeon, | like you,’ it me off—if you're big encugh,” ed the Woman passenger— | got out at the barn. move till you pay,” or, smiling “I've got lots of time,” replied | few minutes.” he walked away. she retorted. | the passengers exchanged a Nea and looked at watches. A | “I'd like to be married to you—for a the woman retorted as 210,000 worth of toys were ent from the United States to Mexico, Afternoon Be Features of Outing Saturday. Swimming, a treasure hunt, a play and tableaux al fresco will enliven the | annual Spring festival of the Art Pro- | moters’ Club to be held next Saturday and evening at Carroll | T val this year has been named the “Iris Carnival.” | o'clock with swimming, a treasure hunt and games, under the direction of the | reception committee, consisting of Marie de La Cavera, Mae Vance, | Matalee Lake, Mrs. Blanche Foote and Wallace Wright. Tea will be served in the garden at 4 o'clock, to be followed by card games, with prizes, the committee being Deal | Bogue, Mittie Burch, Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Beresford, Henrieita Wingate, Harold Worthen and Mrs. Wright. Dinner will be at 7 o'clock. The evening program will open at 8 o'clock with a short play and. tableaux nl fresco, in_charge of Mrs. Alexander born, Victor Neal and Mme. Susanne WEDNESDAY, | ‘The program will commence at 2! SPRING FESTIVAL| Fordyce | Woodburn, Paul Hunter, Eleanor Col- | Americans and Europeans have taken MAY --8; 1929; munity singing, led by the glee club. Dancing will be enjoyed from 9 to 12 pm.. the committee in charge being | William Huntington, Mme. Julius A. de Lagnel, Gertrude Richardson Brig- ham, Maxine Rolle, Augustus Goodyear and Charles Dunn. The officers of the club, of which Rowland Lyon is executive president, | with Mr. and Mrs. Henry Charles Fin- | kel and Mr. and Mrs. Turin Bradford ' | Boone, will constitute the committee in » general charge of the affair. Guests of honor will include the Turkish Ambas- sador, the Persian Minister, the Chinese Minister and Mme. Chao-Chu Wu and Prince Firouz. In the last few years more than 4.000 up residence in the Maracaibo district Group Asks Free Books. DANVILLE, Va., May 8 (Special).— The Federation of Parent-Teacher As- sociations has launched a movement to secure free text books for Danville chil- dren. It also seeks to eliminate an ad- ditional year added to the public school | course by making two years in junior high school. | ! New Doors & Sash Inclose Your Porch Now! ‘E %1 @7:/ 3 BRANCHES 6”& C Sts SW S*& FlaAe NE i 7 5021 Ga AveNW. Daily Boat Service Proposed. BALTIMORE, May 8 (Special).—An | innovation in water transportation fa- cilities between Baltimore and the East- ern Shore in the way of a daily boat service will be started within a few days, according to & report from Salisbury. Germany produced 165,750,000 tons of | i I | | | | I antee. Barbers or drusgists LUCKY TIGER ¢ | ious gla of Venezuela as oll company employes. | coal last year. fect male specimen of one of st of all rare birds, the ocel- | ant, has just been received sion of birds in the Nnunnal‘ Springs, Forest Glen, Md. The festi- Oldberg. A new feature will be com- “AT SEVENTH AND K”—THE DEPENDABLE STORE—CHARGE ACCOUNTS INVITED few minutes later anotMer bus drew last year. ply hidden in the mountain- of Indo-China that scien- Additional Space On the Second Floor If you would rather make your purchase personally Thursday — you will have plenty of space to inspect the frocks and additional salesladles to wait upon you. Elevator or stairway direct to Second Floor. Advance Phone Orders Tonight from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. As an added service we will take ad- vance phone orders on *I Frocks tonight from 5:30 to ply call either Main 10396, 10’ so remotely separated from that, although fts existence 194! been known for 75 years, it has v been seen in its native habitat by white man. Missionaries who have | attempted access to its highland jungle | haunts have found it impossible to do h the very edge of this | 7, 10395 or more than 10399 and leave your order. ning of satisfactory natural history specimens has depended almost entirely on the chance skill of the na- tives who hunt these birds extensively 16r food. Unfortunately, the native method of capture, by trap or snare, is | ive that the birds are often in- _ rendering them undesirable for | ~ [EXTRADRDINARY VALUE SALE OF ’ ' Every Dress Guaranteed to Wash Wzthout Fadmg with certain of its relatives. such as| the golden pheasant, in brilllancy of | Never before have we been able to offer such smartly styled Washable Frocks with an Unconditional Fast-Color Guarantee, at so low a.price. Each garment carries this guarantee— printed right on the label— plumage, it surpasses them in volume and lf‘nmh of tail feathers, which in “Guaranteed Won't Fade— Another if it does.” There are no special washing instructions. If you can fade the garment, bring it in, and we will replace it with a new dress. STYLES ALL NEW AND PLEASINGLY DIFFERENT These | remarkable tail {rn(hfl'fi qulln’ out of proportion with the length of | the bird's b which is only nboul 12 inches long, f from 5 to 6 inches Charming styles, ideally suited for Spring. Smart, Youthful Lines, in a wonderful array of fascinating new patterns and beautiful color combinations. These are dresses you may wear on all occasions, confident in the assurance that your appearance is always fresh and charming when greeting the umexpected calle'r for shopping, for marketing, outings, street, and home wear. Many Other Attractive Models Besides Those Sketched finely mottled with light colored spots. ‘These feathers are highly prized by the Annamites as theatrical ornaments s for a ritual present to the | of Afnam from different provinces on special occasions. Ac- cording to the natives, the male birds clear spaces in the forest for dancing or display purposes when the tail feathers are held vertically as in the display of the peacock. According to Aeschylus, the Greek | tragic poet, long-tailed, ground-! -loving birds of brilliant plumage were abun- dant 25 centuries ago along the banks of the River Phasis in the vicinity of | the Black Sea. Both the Greeks and | the Romans, it is said, esteemed these | birds as food and called them phasianus :’}I;Tlihef hlné 117( the- Phasis, a.term ich is found, in modified form, in the word pheasant. s Pheasants were painted and embroid- ered on old Chinese paper and silk tap- estries perhaps a thousand years before they were known to the Greeks, but mledge of these early records is very Of even less definite report, though ©f far greater interest, says a noted sgl- entist, are the giant pheasants which flapped their wings and crowed, nested | 8nd laid their eggs in the strange old Miocene days, when mammals from shrews to mastodons were in their yrm& w-x;nu ¥as when the saber- l Ts and huge primitive dq pursued tapirs and the tiniest of (oa:: over what is now the beautiful south- land of France, from the Garonne to the Pyrennes. Forever lost are the col- ors, patterns and habits of these pheas- ants of old, but from their bones it is known that some of them were larger than any living today. These and a s le! e countless 2 » 4 : : : : @enerations of birds which preceded the % v '.‘“ hfi:" :\‘é‘ magnificent pheasants living the . | T‘" : nt_time. s Do FALSE TEETH | Rock,SliJc or Sll’p?n 2 § < do ( 3 ;:;mll:mm& i ¢ . Colored Organdie £ Bor O Ruffled Organdie Organdie Inserts Two-tone Binding Hemstitching Dimities » Broadcloth - French Lace Vari-colored Buttons Contrasting Self-material. 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