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WOMAN'’S PAGE, Psychic Adventu res of Noted Men and Women Baronet's Death Causes Two Telepathic Warnings. BY J. P. GLASS. “He took a light and, as the noise came oppesite his door, flung it open.” Sir Willoughby Jones was taken sud- denly ill and died about 1 o'clock on the morning of August 21, 1884. Heart disease brought death. When he was stricken he was not in his room, Struggling hard for breath, he was car- ried to it, but restoratives were of no avail Sir Willoughby’s wife, one son and three daughters were at home—Cran- mer Hall, Fakenham, Norfolk—at the time and were at Sir Willoughby's side. Two other sons were elsewhere. ‘These latter, however, were awakened from sleep by strong intimations of their father's distress in the very hour when it was upon him. They were his oldest son, Sir Law- rence Jones, later to became president of the British Society for Psychic Re- search, and Herbert E. Jones. The for- mer was then visiting in company with his wife at her father's house, at Bury St. Edmunds. Herbert E. Jones was at Knebworth Rectory, Stevenage. On August 20 neither Sir Lawrence nor his brother had reason to fear for their father. A fortnight before Sir Lawrence had seen Sir Willoughby in apparently perfect health. On August 18 his mother had written him that his father was not quite well. However, she said the doctor had examined him and had made light of his ailment, which he thought was due merely to the intense heat. Herbert Jones seems not to have known that his father had been ailing, even only slightly. On the morning of August 20 Sir Lawrence Jones and his wife had driven Sir Lawrence and, although he had in- tended to spend the night, he decided to go back to Bury. He thought it likely he would recelve a letter the next morning. Lady Jones did not dissuade him, for she experienced a similar feeling. “You may regret it if you do not re- turn.” she said. Late that night at Bury Sir Lawrence awakened suddenly. He seized Lady| Jones' wrist and excltimed: “Something | that “something dreadful” had hap- | pened. | Meantime, Herbert E. Jones had been | having a similar, though in some ways more remarkable, experience. _After | spending the day at Harpenden he re turned home at 8 p.m. and at 10:30 re- | tired. At midnight he was awakened /by hearing his name called twice. He |put on a light, looked about and, see- ing nothing, returned to his slumbers, | convinced he had been dreaming. He was awakened again. This time he seemed to hear & noise as of men carrying something down from an up- per sto He took a light and as the noise came opposite his door flung it onen. The corridor was pitch-dark. i’athing was being carried through it, and ‘here was nobody in it to carry anything. Telling himself that he had been the victim of a night bed. It was now 2 o'clock. In the mor: ing he found a telegram on the breal fast table summoning him home be. cause of his father's death. Sir Lawrence Jones m: lowing statement regarding thrse re markable incidents: “The thougats of those present at my father's death (my mother, brother and three sisters) no doubt turned most anxiously toward us, and it is to a telepathic impression from them In their anxiety and sorrow that I attribute the intimations we received.” ceived.” | (Copyright, 1930.) WINTERTIME —p——— BY D. C. PEATTIE. ‘The wind was sweeping, wintry and chill, through the woods, setting them to humming over my head. Some- where, amidst tumbled logs in the glen, laurel and underbrush, too thick to see through, a wild, sweet song was whis- tled. I circled round the log pile, and the sound circled around, too, keeping THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1930. Julia Boyd Sketches Today in Washington History BY DONALD A. CRAIG. February 17, 1864.—A number of Union officers, who escaped from Lib- bey Prison in Richmond a few days ago, arrived in Washington tonight, after many hardships, and are stop- gllnl at the National and Metropolitan otels. The story of their escape is most interesting. Over two months ago several of the Union officers confined in Libbey Prison concelved the idea of making their escape by digging their way out. Seven or eight of them conferred seriously over the matter and discussed it from every angle, finally deciding upon # plan. The digging was begun in & cel- lar near a chimney and the object was | to reach & sewer known to be nearby. ‘The cellar was immediately under & portion of the bullding used as a hos- pital. The cellar was the receptacle of old straw from prisoners' beds and other refuse. Above the hospital room Was a Toom used by the imprisoned officers and above that yet another room. The chimney ran from the cellar up through all of these rooms. The prisoners who were in the secret improvised a rope and night after night let working parties down the chimney into the cel- lar, where the excavating went on. The excavated earth was hidden un- der the straw and other refuse in the cellar, When the diggers got a con- siderable distance underground it was found difficult to haul back the earth by hand, and a spittoon was made to serve as a cart. A string was attached to it and it. was run back and forth through the tunnel carrying the carth. But, after the digging with pen- knives, finger nails and anything that could be found had proceeded some dis- tance, the stench and filth from the sewer became so bad that several men fainted and the project had to be abandoned. Another tunnel was then started un- der Carey street and was continued to a point under a carriage house on the opposite side of the street. There was & high fence around this carriage house and the Confederate guard was outside the fence. After nearly a month of digging a party of 109 men succeeded in crawling to liberty, Col. Rose of New York, leading the van. They divided into squads outside and ;r‘\nlde their way separately to the Union es. NANCY PAGE Little Children Dress for Dancing Party BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. In the dancing class to which Joan belonged there were an equal number of small boys and girls. The whole group was delighted when the dancing master told them he wante them to come to the George Washi n class in costume. He combined the party with his dancing instruction. Some of the girls came dressed as Martha Washington with full skirts of flowered material. Over the dress ws & frilled affair of white. The same material made the ample fichu and the frills on the sleeves. Mob caps of white day | | | BY MOLLIE Special Dispatch to The Star. | (N.AN.A) .—After a brief, newsy flutter the village Saturday settled into the | doldrums, with the sun playing Sum- |mer and freshly-peeled ladies ltut\llnl‘ to cover to keep the virgin pink and | whiteness of their Winter faces for a bit ‘lov;'er Claire, preparing for her new Lazy Lady,” is seen about oc- ly with husband Jack Gilbert. Jack is Frvml.flln‘ more fisticuffs in the event of another meeting with Tully. The Tullyites and Gilbertians should get together and settle the dispute with a good, lively tug-of-war on the boule: va ‘The Mechan! ‘obably be glad to pay for a band and ire the necessity publicity agents to put the thing over in good Hollywood style. picture, | casional ts’ Association would | lages S5t | Meanwhile Ina Claire has confided to MOVIES AND MOVIE PEOPLE MERRICK. famous playwright and a locally famous HOLLYWOOD, Calif., February 17| revue supervisor who has come into, power since the advent of talkies: Supervisor (tapping manuscript with a gray fingernall in a very superior | manner)—This dialogue is no good. Playwright—Who says it's no good? Supervisor—I say so. Playwright—Good! I was afrald somebody who knew something about it sald so. You know nothing about it— | nothing whatsoever, Supervisor—Well, I think it's no good. | Playwright—That's better, little boy. | Give me that manuscript. He walked out of the door, off the | lot, into another studio, and a bigger | salary. Some of the New York contin- gent won't take hazing from the vil- s, (Copyrisht, 19! by North Ame per Alliance.) OUR CHILDREN BY ANGELO PATRL Does Child Know It? “I'm doing my very best to break the child of the l"mb!lz. but I don't seem to t on very fast.” "You vmnr’t get on very fast until the child wants to break that habit and establish & new one in its stead. You may wish and hope and labor but until something happens that wakens a desire in the child’s mind to be different, you cannot get far. The child's wish stands in your way. Indeed your wish never moves a child. It may stimulate him to wish to do something and then he does it. Not until then. “Then why is he so mean? Why, when he knows that I want him to change his habits so very, very much, when he sees how he worries me, when | he gets such poor reports, why doesn't | he change?” I dnn"teknov. Perhaps it is because you are trying to get him to be or to do something that his stage of growth does not permit. You know that a mind de- | velops in accordance with its own na- ture. Some are slow, slow along the whole line. Some are slow In spots only | and quick in other spots. Some are quick in all respects. Some have blind spots. Some have very bright ones in- deed. Each mind grows after its kind. Experience teaches a child a great deal. Words teach him very little. Many of the words with which we shower a child remain meaningless for years. One day the right experience comes along and the child says, “That is what my mother meant” “Tha: is what my teachers were trying to tell me.” A mind is deaf to certain appeals for years. Then, because of the ripened ex- periences it has accumulated it hears and understands. We know that morals are an adult conception. It took the race countless years to write the moral codes under which society tries to live. It takes most of us a lifetime to dis- cipline ourselves to accept them. We must remember all this when we are struggling to help a child establish him- self in righteousness at home and abroa ‘We must remember that we cannot do child's thinking and so cannot act for im. We have to help him to know, to understand, what and why, the cause and the reason of things that seem to him meaningless. We have to work day by day by word and example, in school, in church, in socleties of children, to make the child consclous of the good we offer him. Until he recognizes it as good, he will not desire it and until he de- sires it with his whole heart we lose time | scolding. So, when you work to establish a good habit in a child make sure he knows about it. Carry him along with you in your effort to form the new associations. | Attract him by making the new idea very alluring, get him to wish for the thing you want him to have and he will have it and never let go of it. Th: wish is the thing. ONNYSAYING BY FANNY Y. CORY. an News- | | sugar, FEATURES. MILADY B BY LOIS Graceful Figure. ‘There has been a great deal of talk in recent years about the “modern fem- inine figure.” Some people seem to think it possible for women to change the type of their figures from one gen- eration to the next. Different fashions in clothes give color to this illusion; panniers, bustles and tight basques made the waist seem smaller and the hips large in proportion. Tight corsets squeezed the figure together in the | middle. Ruffles made the bust seem | large; tight brassieres made it seem flat. | Through all these changes in fashion | and in feminine ideals of beauty, Old Mother Nature goes on producing the normal type of body that is guitable for performing its functions in life. Stu- | dents of biology know what the average woman seems to have forgotten, namely, that it takes ages of time for variations of bodily structure to become estab- lished. Yet some of my readers write to ask how to devclag a “modern figure” with- out bust or hips. This is impossible. There is & type of figure, however, that | is normal and that may also be called | “modern” and it is a graceful, well portioned figure. ‘This is the strong, lithe, athletic figure of the girl or woman who enjoys exercises and out- | door sports; there is no flabbiness about | it; the muscles are firm and the con- tour graceful, no matter whether the individual be tall, medium or small in stature. This type of figure may be ac- quired. ‘While it is foolish for a woman to expect to have a figure like a beanpole, she need not let herself become so | padded with excsss fat that she loses grace of line. The line down the side | of the body from the armpit to the | MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN, Graham Sweethearts, EAUTIFUL LEEDS, ankle should be kept trim, curved and shapely by correct stretching and relaxing exercises and by other simple enfld-y exercises, Symmetry and physical grace cannot be expected from the woman who does not adopt a complete health and beauty program suitable to her individual needs. This is the reason why all your favorite screen stars, professional beauties and a great many successful business men and women exercise to keep themselves youthful, beautiful and physically fit. In this world of balanced compensa- tions, everything, including a trim, graceful figure, must be earned by effort. Overeating and underexercising cause excess fat In individuals who have such a tendency as surely as night follows day. In order to undo the mis- chief, one must curb the craving for fattening foods, and at the same time assist the body to burn up the accumu- lations of fat by active exercise both indoors and out of doors in the fresh alr. Effortless reducing systems do not | bulld well knit, supple, youthful figures, ‘The so-called “modern figure,” with ts straight, boyish lines, is an imma- ture figure. In other ages the feminine figure was admired, and thanks to the broadcasting of scientific knowledge by our physicians and health experts, this ideal feminine figure is admired today regardless of fashion dictates and the modern cult of youth that exalts an | undeveloped type of figure. While the bustless, hipless figure of the very early |'teen age has a charm of its own for | that period of life, it is only a fleeting | ome. "It it is retained in the maturer | years it is by a process of semi-starva- One mother says: My children are so fond of “Graham Sweethearts” that I e them quite | often, as I believe the yare much more | mal. nourishing than the usual cooky or cake. 1 mix together until creamy, equal amounts of butter and brown then spread this mixture be- tween two fresh graham crackers, as if I were making sandwiches, then I spread some more on the top one. I put them into a pan and heat in a hot tion that wrecks the health and beauty |of the individual. The woman more | than 21 to 25 years of age who has a | fat figure is not a normal type. As | she becomes older her body becomes skinny and prematurely old; she is a poor risk for insurance companies, and she is usually a bundle of nerves with a sallow complexion, lusterless eyes and a predisposition to various ailments, including prematurely fading hair, wrinkles and a disposition to worry over everything in general. What constitutes good bodily propor- tions is a question that comes to me | again and again. There can be no dog- | matic answer to this query. It is per- fectly natural for wome young girls to | have well developed hips and bust; oth- ers remain slender until their early | twenties and still are healthy and nor- | One's height and physical type must also be considered. A girl whose bones are naturally heavy will have | relatively thick ankle bones and wrists; | the small-boned type will be slender at | these points. The width of the hip lbones is an inherited characteristic. | Some small, dainty girls have relatively | wide hips anc narrow shoulders, and oven for about five minutes. The heat | some athletic girls have wide shoulders 3 dreadful is happening; I don't know |the log pile between it and me. what.” The inexplicable horror that gripped | him caused him to break into a cold perspiration. Lady Jones had difficulty in persuading him that nothing was wrong. Pinally, though, both fell| asleep again. In the morning Sir Lawrence was greatly reassured when he received a letter written by Sir Willoughby him- self. But ter i death about the hour when he had been awakened from sleep by the feeling| THE STAR’S DAILY PATTERN SERVICE Tiers Slenderize. A black silk crepe that owes its dis- | tinction to chic details that designer used to disguise overweight is illustrated in style No. 220 The upper tier of skirt shows wrapped | movement split at center-front. It s stitched to dress at center-front with downward curved tendency toward the back that creates & decidedly slimming line The bodice has collarless neckline, which is best for larger women. The cleverly shaped jabot rever of eggsh:ll crepe silk narrows toward the shoulders and lower bodice. The sleeves are slightly full, neat turn-back cuffs. Every effort has been skillfully used to give the figure sleek slenderness. It can be had in sizes 16, 18, 20 years, 36. 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46 inches bust. It makes up lovely in chiffon that ts lfl‘ smart now for afternoons and eve- nings. Crepe marocain, wool crepe and satin crepe chic. For a pattern of this style, send 15 conts in stanms or coin directly to The Washington Star's New York Fashion Bureau, Pifth avenue and Twenty-ninth street, New York. We' suggest that when you send for rattern, you inclose 10 cents additional Zor copy of large Fashion Magazine. with at normal walstline | stayed till my ears were aching with cold (and curiosity) and then went home. By my fire of pine wood I ransacked my books, asking of all my old favor- ites among ornithological authors who sang this song. Presently I turned to the more modern authors (who are often more nearly right, but I like them far less) and the result was the same. At the end of three hours I gave it up. The next moirning’s mail brought a scientific_monthly with an artice by Ralph Danforth on “The Winter Wren,” and then I found my chorister. Rather disgruntled, I turned back to | my favorite ornithologist, Nuttall, and I 211 afraid he must be reproached, with faint praise for the Winter wren. Pos- sibly he had never heard one and was merely relaying second-ahnd informa- tion from his contemporaries, Wilson and Audubon. My books inform me that this en- chanting little singer us company here quite commonly all Winter, from ber to May, and that he is a close kin to the European wren, one of the sweetest singers in thé world, though not so noisy and intimate as our house wren. Por wistful magic I prefer the marsh wren, and the Carolina wren goes straight to the heart, for he says, “Bweet-heart, sweet-heart! I think now I have new favorite among birds since I heard the Winter wren give voice. If modesty is any vir- tue in a econcert singer, and I believe it is, then we should give the wren more credit than we do. One of the joys of the radio is that you can’t see the mouths and faces, the affected poses of the average performer. Paderewski was the only man that I ever heard who played with the lights turned out. As the goodly little tribe of wren throws out its shower of notes into the air they, too, play with the lights turned out, indifferent to ap- 3 tablespoonfuls. Milk, 1 ‘cupful. ted Grat American cheese, 3 Y SERVES 4 OR 5 PORTIONS. Melt butter over fire. Add flour. Stir until well blended. Add milk gradually, stirring all the time. Then add grated cheese ahd salt. Take from fire. Add well beaten e yolks, htly cool mixture. Fold in well beaten whites of eggs. Pour into buttered baking dish. Bake about 20 minutes in slow oven (250-275 degrees F.). Serve at once. DIET NOTE. Recipe furnishes protein. A little starch and fat present. Vitamins A and B present. Can be eaten by normal adults of average or under weight, e Y A\ | \ ) “1 think Old Man Jones gets more fun sulta his garden than anybody, ‘cause he never goes further than the catalogs.” (Copyright, 1930.) [ | grace and distinction. danced the minuet. Q3 £ were perched atop curly héad boys wore court suits of velvet with | knee breeches and coats of velveteen. Frills and tied back queues belonged to that age, so the boys wore them with ‘These children Another group of children came in character costume. Joan was a cherry with a cherry red apron rounded at the bottom to resemble the fruit. A green underdress made leaves. On her cherry apron was appliqued a bunch of cher- ries. Her cap was another cherry. She held the time-honored hatchet. Hers was not the only hatchet there, ho ever, for an Indian brave flourished his tomahawk. This little boy required almost no special costuming since he wore an Indian suit he had received for Christmas. The dancing master used folk dances for the character children. He did not have the children attempt the Indian war dance, although he gave them a sample of it himself, Some simple refreshment is needed at party of this kind. Write to Nancy of this paper. inclosing stamped. s ssed envelope. asking for her leaflet on Unkling beverages in glasses. & (Copyright, 1930.) | hero of the moment. close friends that she is madly in love with the actor gentie, but becomes very | Jealous by reason of the fact that so, many more people know who Jack is than are aware of the glory of Ina Claire. Hollywood in general seems to be aware of her not at all so far as pro- | fessional glory is concerned. Nor has the making of one of the very satis- factory and charming talkies of the past year put her in any more glamor- ous place in their 3 It probably hasn't occurred to her that cinema ladies do not like the idea of an actressfrom the East Coast com- ing in and getting $100,000 the picture. Gelatin strip ladles are strong for Rr!urvln‘ the integrity of the sister- The term “gelatin-strip lady” was | used the other night at a very formal | movie occasion. An outlander to whom | it was addressed scanned the group | about him. “I get the atrip all right" he an- swered, “but where does the gelatin come in?" | Boulevard boys always imitate the When Gilbert Roland was the leading man of the hour, by reason of a cream-colored | Rolls roadster and the patronage of one | of the most prominent and beautiful actresses in the colony, the Boul Holly- | wood was full of replicas of this Latin | gentie. Every one, from newsies down, | oiled their hair, let it hang in little tor- | tured locks toward the brow, affected the same little moustache and the lan- guors of the type. ‘Then the Don Alvarados of the vi| came into vogue with sideburns and waist lines. The Conrad Nagel blonds may be found on every alde. This | type is largely imitated by who decide to bleach the hair, have the nose | remade and forget the streets on which their families first saw the light of day. But the imitators are stumped in try- ing to duplicate the hero of the moment. | Lawrence Tibbett hasn't any character- | 1stics which may be copled oil-hand. His is not the conventionally regular face which the camero loves. And his | power lies in his magnetic personality and sheer ability to act and sing. He is taining his individuality despite the earnest endeavors of the plasticites to remake his countenance into the con- ;::m'onll Hollywood masks of youth and uty. Behind the scenes on a studio lof being a snatch of dialogue between | trary with THE WIDOW | I fear she’s broken-hearted, poor Mary | Gingham Cho her husband has de- parted, and she's a widow now. He left | her some insurance which may relieve her woe, if she has the endurance to make the sharpers go. These birds are always waiting to carry coin away; their zeal is unabating and widows are their prey. Be very wary, Mary, and guard your bundle well; be stubborn and con- gents who've things to sell Smooth delegates will trall you, to sell you phony stocks, and bonds that will not fall you, if you'll put up tke rocks. | They'll show you how to double your assels in & week; but most of them mean trouble, and disappointment bleak. These heartless men and cheesey they | figure, to their shame, that widows all are easy, and fall for any game. And often, more's the pity, their figuring's correct, and so, in every city large bun- dles they coliect. They see a widow weeping, and say, while she's bereft, “She must have in her keeping the coin her husband left; she always has de- pended upon her husband's care, and now his days are ended, she cannot guard her share. All matters of invest- ing to her are anclent Greek, and it is easy besting a victim who's so weak. We lack the nerve to tackie the male, upstanding skate, but we can snare and shackle the widows, sure as fate.” Be very wary, Mary, when smiling gents arrive; suspicious be and chary, If you would wish to thrive. Beware of smil- ing strangers who hope to make you rich; their smiles are full of dangers, their fingers have the itch. WALT MASON. o s Lemon Cream Sauce. One cup confectioners' suj quarter cup lemon juice, one | cream. Mix the confectioners' r and | lemon juice well together and let stand | at least two hours, Then add the cream | gradually and beat thoroughly before serving. ' This 18 an excellent sauce to |serve with yesterday's sponge cake to | make a more appetizing de: | | | I'm such a big feller now I kin wipe ! the dishes fer my muvver. I kin wipe | free, or eben four saucers at once, too! | Her don't bellebe it, an’ I has to show | her eber’ time that they is sure ‘nough | dry. . (Copyright, 1930.) LITTLE SISTER BY RUBY HOLLAND “If Dod sends the snow an' the rain both from his Heaven, like my muvver | says, why don't the snow thunder like | the rain do?" Copyright, i | 1930.) TEXTURE P IMPALPABLY SMOOTH BECOMING PART OF THE SKIN ITSELF. LES POUDRES IN THE COMPLETE RANGE OF PERFECT FLESH-TONES = ERFECTION | melts the brown sugar mixture, but it | hardens again when the cracker is cold. 1d. | All through the night she cried after Jim broke the engage- ment. She had loved him so! And now he was gone . . . At theoffice, too, there wastrouble. Another girl, far less capable, had been promoted to the posi- tion she, herself, had been promised. She was in despair— at the end of her rope. It's unforgivable Don't let a case of halitosis jeopardize friendships, love fairs, and business relation- ships, as so many have done. ‘The intelligent and fastidi- ous precaution is to use full strength Lister- ine every day as a mouth rinse. 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