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wWoM CELEBRATED AN’'S PAGE. GOLD-DIGGERS Low-Born Actress Captured First England’s Greatest Banker and Then the Duke of St. Albans. BY J. P. . GLASS. THE COACHMAN TOLD HER TO GET IN AND TOOK THE SHILLING. BUT ONLY A QUARTER OF THE WAY WAS COMPLETED WHEN HE SAID HE COULD GO NO FARTHER. In June, 1795, Harriet Mellon, a young and beautiful provincial actress, went up to London, chaperoned by her mother and stepfather, Mr. and Mrs. Entwistle, ta get an engagement with the great Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Sheridan kept her in uncertainly. While waiting a chance to see him Harriet went out walking one day. She was far from home and quite tired | when a kindly looking old fellow asked her if she would like a coach. “Yes, indeed,” she replied, “and please drive me all over London before you take me home.” “La love ye, miss” said the man, “that would cost ye a sight o' money.” “But look here” said Harriet. “I have a shilling to pay you.” The coachman told her to get in and took the shilling. But only a quarter of the way was completed when he said be could go no farther. | He was mistaken. Tears in her eyes, Miss Mellon wheedled him so success- | fully that he drove her a few blocks more, and he ended up by taking her the whole way. | Perhaps this was Harriet's first ad- venture in gold digging. It was a hui ble beginning toward vastly more im-| portant affairs. | ‘When she finally got her hearing with Bheridan he requested her to read the scenes of Lydia Languish and Mrs, Malaprop from his play “The Rivals.” “I dare not, sir,” she replied, “for my lfe! I would rather read it to cil BEDTIME STORIES Jim Crow Is Tried. In his short life Jim Crow had more | than once been badly frightened, but| never had fear taken possession of him s it now did. He was sitting in the top ©of a very small pine tree. In the trees all about and on the ground were the members of the father and mother belonged. ere | were Crows to the right of him, Crows| to the left of him, Crows in_ front of | him and Crows behind him. Wherever he looked he saw Crows. And he didn't| like the way those Crows looked at him.| Indeed, it gave him a most uncomfort- | eble feeling. He wished they wouldn't | look at him at all. i | At first Jim Crow couldn’t understand | what it was all about, but after he listened for a while to the talk of the other Crows—and they all did a very great deal of talking—he began to un- derstand that it had something to do| ‘with his having left the flock and gone back to Farmer Brown's. Apparently, the other Crows didn't like it at all ‘They said so, and they said so in a way that left no doubt that they meant just what they said. ‘He is a deserter!” said one old Crow. *He has deserted his own kind. He has gone to live with the enemy of the Crows—Man.” “But Farmer Brown's Boy isn't an enemy,” protested Jim Crow, whereupon he was told to keep still. It seemed as if all the Crows there talked at once, as they ordered him to hold his tongue. Even Blacky the Crow, his father, and Mrs. Blacky, his mother, seemed to think that he had done something very wrong. “What is the punishment for a de- serter?” cried an old Crow. “He shall be killed and all his feath- ers pulled out” criew two or three young Crows together. “Of course, it wasn't his fault in the beginning,” said Blacky. “He was taken away. He couldn't help himself.” at was all right” replied one of the oldest Crows. ~That was quite all right. But after we brought him back he left us of his own accord. That is the unpardonable sin. Had he been taken away. we could have forgiven him. But he wasn't taken away: he deserted. Now, what do the rest of you think about it?"” Evidently the rest thought a great deal about it, to judge from the way their tongues flew. Such a racket as they made! seemed to think that Jim Crow should My Neighbor Says: If clothes are scorched in iron- ing, wet the scorched part, cover it with cornstarch and rub it in well. When dry, remove the corn- starch and all trace of scorch will be_removed. 1¢ & pinch of bicarbonate of soda is added to fruit while stew- ing it will lessen the amount of sugar to be used. Only half the required quantity of sugar will be needed. Never allow the water in which vegetables are cooking to stop bolling while they are in the saucepan. If you do they will be- come sodden A fine knitting needle is excel- lent in testing whether baked or boiled fruits and vegetables are sufficiently cooked. It does not break them or leave unsightly marks like a fork. VARIETIES FOR DELIGHTFUL ASSORTED SANDWICHES flock to which his} | England. Suppose, sir, you did me the honor of reading it to me.” | Delighted with this naivete, Sheridan | actually complied. More than that, he engaged her for the part of Lydia Languish. Harriet may have been as simple and childlike as she seemed. But the facts indicate that she had as practical a bent as a present-day heroine of fic- tion celebrated in a book, on the stage {and on the screen by Anita Loos. Fur- thermore, she was aided by 2 hard- boiled director in the shape of her mother, a lady who could neither read nor write, but who always had her eyes open for the main chance. Harriet made good on the London stage. She married an 80-year-old multi- millionaire banker, Thomas Coutts, and quit the stage. Coutts died and left her all his money. His widow soon after pro- ceeded to another off-stage triumph. She married the Duke of St. Albans, 20 years her junior, but much in love with her, nevertheless. On the whole, the duchess was an extremely likable person. She was good-humored, kind-hearted, charitable. She never forgot her early days and was never ashamed of them. “When I was a poor girl, working hard for my 30 shillings a week,” was a preface she often used in beginning some reminiscence. Her first husband, Coutts, was father of several children by an earlier wife. | He had cut them off in his will, but Harriet made liberal provision for them. (Copyright, 1930.) BY THORNTON W. BURGESS be punished, that he should be given the most dreadful of all punishments. It looked very bad for Jim Crow. Yes, indeed, it lookegd very bad for Jim Crow. In fact, it could hardly have looked worse. It seemed as if he hadn't a friend there. 4 “I'm sorry,” whimpered Jim Crow. “I didn’t know I was doing anything wrong. It was just that I felt so much better off at Farmer Brown's. It was easier to get something to eat there. I felt safer there. I had nothing to worry about. idn't know that I was doing wrong. Truly, I didn't.” “Caw, caw, caw, caw, caw!” shrieked all the Crows. w, caw, caw! This fellow is a traitor! He shouldn't be allowed to live. He should be made an example of.” ‘To all of this one wise old Crow, who was the leader of the flock for the time being, Blacky having left the trial, shook his head and said: “We must do nothing in haste; we must do nothing in haste. Hasty on brings regrets.” ‘Whereupon all the other Crows shouted louder and louder than ever, “Caw, caw, caw! Kill him! Kill him! Kill him!” (Copyright, 1930.) FOOD PROBLEMS BY SALLY MONROE. Do you attempt to keep house without & thermometer? If you do, you deny yourself a convenience that is of slight expense. An ordinary air thermometer should be kept hanging in the kitchen, say, 5 feet from the floor, at some distance from the stove. Remember that, save in warm weather, the temperature in the kitchen should be kept below 70, if possible. The thermometer will serve as & reminder to open windows and doors. is same thermometer may be used to test your refrigerator. Remember that perishable food should be kept be- low 50, preferably below 45, degrees. | Occaslonally test” the temperature of | your refrigerator in various sections You will find that it is much cooler > nd'/ m too, if poss getables may be !Kept in"the parts that are not %o cool This same thermometer may be used to test the air where bread is to be raised. Some women regard an oven ther- mometer as indispensable. Undoubtedly, if one is doing much baking, the oven thermometer removes the hazard that comes from a too hot or too cold oven. The fireless cooker thermometer may be used to test an oven as well. Any one who makes candy should in- vest in a sugar thermometer, and this may be used to advantage in making jeilies and jams. A small thermometer should be kept in the kitchen, if the | baby's meals are prepared there. Cer- | tainly this is a surer and more sanitary | method of testing the temperature of milk than by using the little finger or tasting. Last but not least of the thermometers useful in the house is the bath ther- mometer, which simplifies the problem of getting bath water the right tem- perature when first drawn. Many a mother has caused herself much anxiety And one and all they|and her baby very audible discomfort | by putting him into a bath many de- | grees too hot or many degrees too cold. The bath thermometer precludes such ities. Dethol Kills Flies Quickly—Surely You need no longer put up with flies, Dethol kills them by the roomful. No swatting. No chasing. No fuss or bother. A few quick shots from the improved Dethel Sprayer and the air is misty with & clean, refreshing odor. No escape for the pests. They must breathe it—then die, every Jast one of them. Ask for Dethel by name. Be 1007, satisfied with the way it works or get your money back, every last cent of it. Sold everywhere. Dethol Mfg. Co., Inc., Baltimore, Md. | Dethol THE E\'EXL\'G STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1930. Today in Washington History BY DONALD A. CRAIG. August 8, 1865.—Promising news re- garding the 1aying of the Atlantic tele- graph cable was received here today. According to The Evening Star this afterncon, the Great Eastern, which is Jaying the cable from East to West across the ocean, was. about 450 miles from Valencia when last heard from. “We may now expect to hear of the arrival of the Great Eastern on_our coast at any moment,” says The Star, “and of the failure, or the success of the great experiment. The last signals Teceived were over the cable, and it was reported that the weather was fine. The Great East- ern then had been at work seven days, having begun operations Saturday, the 22nd ultimo, at 8 o'clock in the morn- ing, 1anding the shore end and paying out the first 27 miles of the cable on that day. Nearly the whole of the second day was consumed in making the splice be- tween the shore enc and the ocean cable proper. The payingrout of the ocean cable was begun on that day at 25 min- utes after 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Another delay occurred Monday, in the afternoon, when it was discovered that there was some defect in the insu- lation of the cable, Preparations were immediately made to run under the cable laid and find this defect. But it proved to be due to & kink, apparently in a part of the cable still on the ship, and that laid was not taken up. The cable now being laid is 2,600 | miles long and 1'3 inches in diameter. The weight of the mass is said to be over 5,000 tons, and the Great Eastern is the only vessel in the world capable of carrying it. The “core” or conduc- tor is made of seven fine copper wires twisted in a strand. NANCY PAGE Beauty and Sport Go Hand in Hand BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. Beach clothes are picturesque affairs, far removed from the old-time, ugly and unsuitable bathing suits. How any one ever could swim in those cumbrous affairs is a question. But nowadays the one-piece swimming suits, the beach wraps and pajamas are an inducement lnt'.hemelv:s to get folks into the water. One of the girls at Edith's house %rty had & large beach rug made of rkish toweling. It was a yard wide and a yard and a half long. With the advent of colored Turkish toweling it is possible to get the material in a number of different colors. This particular one was bound with round thread linen in a two-inch band. It gave stability to the beach throw and, in addition, made it easily wash- able. Such a throw may be used on the sand. One can lie on it or under it, or it may be used to wrap around one's self as one goes to the tent to change into another beach costume. Such a one is the newest of pajama—the one which is & glorified overall. These come in prints, in polka dots, in bandanna colors, in plain colors. They are picturesque with their knotted shoulder ties, their capacious kets and their wide, loose trouser legs. !Vll(h them one wants a beach hat that shades the back of the neck and protects it from that ugly line of sun- burn which is distressing with evening dresses. Also it protects the eyes from the sun's glare on the water. Clogs of wood or cork are the last article in the modern and up-to-date beach ensemble. They fortable and durable an of gay colors to match the hat a overalls. t-of-doors does great things e to cy Py Ou tites. t care paper, envelo tamped. P e interested in ! sandwich recipes. (Copyrizht. 1930 True malamutes, huskies and Eskimo dogs are so closely related to wolves that they utter howls instead of regu- lar dog barks. Granulated Sugar best for cooking preserving baking candy-making “Sweeten it with Domine” Granulated, Tablet. Superfine, Confectioners, Dainty Lumps, Powdered, Old Fashioned Brown Yellow: Domino Syrup. 4 Always full weight, American Sugar Refining Company MODEST MAIDENS “SAY, HE'S 80 WEALTHY EVEN DISTANT RELATIVES SEND HIM BIRTHDAY GREETINGS!" Bandeaus for Summer Dresses BY MARY MARSHALL, about 35 inches round the bust are as follows: AB and CD—17%5. AE and FB—4 inches. ‘You may buy & ready-made bandeau of the sort shown in the sketch for a very little, but you can make one for even less if you have a little material left from one of your Summer dresses and the idea of having a bandeau to % You will need to cut two pleces of material like the pattern. Join them | with a flat seam at the front and take four or five narrow tucks here or ar- range the fullness in gathers. Take darts at the sides of the fronts at L. Cut narrow ribbon in half-yard lengths for each shoulder strap, which should be attached at F and H. Hem the top and lower edge and under face | the back and finish with hooks and eyes. (Copyright, 1930,) . | you. | “Enty slayeth the silly one.’—Job 5:2. | doth envy consume a man,” says St.| | flesh and dryeth up the marrow of the i Veal Crouquettes. In & saucepan dissolve five table- spoonfuls of corn starch in one cupful of milk, bring to a boil and cook for five minutes. Now add one and one- half cupfuls of cooked veal minced fine, | two tablespoonfuls of finely minced parsley, one teaspoonful of pepper, one tablespoonful of grated onion and one and one-half tablespoonfuls of Wor- cestershire sauce. Beat to blend well | and then pour onto a greased platter and set in a cool place for four hours to | mold. Form into croquettes and then dip into beaten egg and then in fine| | bread crumbs. Fry in a deep, hot fat | and serve. | DAINTY BANDEAU MAY BE MADE FROM A SMALL STRIP OF FIG- URED ORGANDIE AND A YARD OF NARROW RIBBON FOR THE SHOULDER STRAPS. Cl Ccok one cupful of cream or milk | with three tablespoonfuls of butter, three tablespoonfuls of flour, three cup- fuls of warm stock, and pepper and | salt. Pour this over boned chicken. | Make a crust as follows: Mix one beaten | egg with one cupful of milk, add two | cupfuls of flour, making a batter. Pour | over the hot chicken and bake for 20/ minutes. match the dress will doubtless appeal | to you The bandeau shown gives the needed | support without being at all tight, as | it is no lonfix;lthe fashion to make the | line of the y as straight and flat as possible. The measurements needed for a figure | that we do not have, | only return it ylelds is bitterness and identification as far back as 700 A.D. LITTLE BENNY Pop was reeding his paper and ms! was hers, saying, Imagine it here we sit berried alive in the utmost | trivialities from the 7 corners of the werld, when at any momient an event of the utmost importance may come to pass and our ferst grandchild may | proudly present us with his ferst tooth. I dont bleeve that baby is capable of having a tooth, pop sed. He's been per- | tending he's going to have a tooth for | more than a week. Any baby that | makes as many falts promises as he has can cry his hed off before Ill give | him a letter of recommendation. I dont | bleeve that child will have a tooth if he lives to be a hundred years old, he sed. Willyum P. Potts arent you ashamed of yourself? ma sed. Dont you realize there such a thing as thawt trans- ferents? Dont you realize that that little child concentrating in his little crib and striving to bring his ferst tooth into the grate big werld mite exsidently receeve an adverse thawt wave from his own grandfather and be 80 discouraged he will just stop trying forever? Have you no consients? she sed. How is the poor little thing going to get his tooth through before that Bhooster baby gets hers through, if his own grandfather terns a cold shoulder against him? Whats a use of my send- ing out encourraging thawt waves if oure delibritly going to counterbal- ents them with discourraging ones? she sed. By gollies I better fix that up, pop ted. 1 here announce to the lissening air waves that I bleeve my grandchild can shove up a tooth with the best of them. In fact if any baby named after me cant beet a Shooster bs»y to nis ferst tooth he awt t¢ Liave his bottle | shot from his hands at sunrise. Go to it, Willy, your grandpop is rooting for Take a cupple of encourraging thawt waves and chew them well, he sed. Thats a little better, ma sed. Tl call up in a few minnits and see if the tooth is through yet, she sed. Wich she did, and it wasent. A Sermon for Today BY REV. JOHN R. GUNN, Slay Envy. Solomon describes envy as “a rot- tenness in the bones.” Another de- scribes it as “the beginning of hell in this life.” “As a moth gnaws a garment, 50 | Chrysostom. Socrates wrote: “Envy is the filthy slime of the soul: a venom, & polson, or quicksilver which consumeth the bones.” Every other passion looks to the gain- ing of some end or object. Ambition looks to the gaining of power, covet- eousness to the gaining of wealth; but envy can gain no reward but vexation. Envy is an evidence of littleness, an | acknowledgment of inferiority. It shows that somebody has something something we want and are not smart enough to get The tragedy of this is that we let it make life a “gall of bitterness” to | us. In whatever form it appears, envy is the most acid fruit that grows on the stock of human nature. It is hard to explain why anv one will hold envy in his heart, when the vexation of spirit. ‘To be envious of another cannot pos- | sibly add anything to one's own stand- ing, or good, or happiness. On the | contrary, as Socrates puts it, “An envious man waxeth lean on the fat- ness of his neighbors.” Envy allowed to have its way be- comes revengeful and murderous. It should be suppressed in its beginning. | A tiger pup can be held in and its claw: cut with little difficulty, but it is quit a different thing to handle a full-| grown tiger. Do not let envy slay you—slay envy. —_——————— China, to whom many modern inven- tions are a part of her ancient his- tory, used finger prints for purposes of |a justice of tne peace. FEATURES. The Dagger -- A Mystery Story By Mary Dahlberg Copyright, 1930, by Duffield and Company. (Continued Prom Yesterday's Star.) CHAPTER XIL WAR FORCES THE ISSUE. AGGER was waiting on the ve- randa one evening for Vaneer- ing to come to escort her to & dinner given by one of the of- ficers at Fort Sam Houston. he drove up something in his bearing as he stepped from the car at- tracted her. “What's the matter, Jack?” she asked quickly. “I've got my orders.” His voice was dull and heavy. “For France?” He nodded. Her own heart missed a beat. She stood, swaying. ‘That’s fine,” she heard herself say strangely. He offered his hand, without reply, and assisted her into the front seat, got | in, slammed the door, and threw off the brakes, grinding out of the driveway at 30 miles an hour. “When do you go?” she asked then. “Next week.” “It's not very long, is it?” she an- swered. He muttered an oath, over to the curb and sjcosas erfed. aer breath qulckened.k 1 love you,” he hurried on. you love me—don’t you,” “I—I don't know.” “Yes, you do, Dagger. You love me. I've felt it ever since we first met that night at the St. Anthony. You've felt, too. Why, we couldn't have been to- gether much more if we had been mar- ried. And I need you, little girl, I need you more than you know." “But I've only known you a few ‘weeks."” “What does that matter? We know each other better than most people who've lived together for years. And you do love me—don’'t you?” He caught her to him, and she ex- rienced no distaste for the clasp of his arms. His face hovered over hers in the dusk, her lips met his. Mechani- cally she drew closer to him, ylelding herself with an abandon she had never known before. “Darling, darling, darling!” His voice was low in her ears. She raised her lips again, and he crushed them as if he'd drink the life from her throat. “You will marry he begged she whispered. Tonight?” “Oh, yes, Jack! I—I want to.” He kissed her a third time, then threw in his clutch and pushed the car for all it was worth, On, and on, in the night, stopping more than once to inquire the way to ‘The dinner party was forgotten. Aunt Espy was forgotten, Uncle Jim, Howard, every one. Each was wrapped in the other. An hour later they stood up before a bewhiskered old man and his agitated wife and a farmhand, and listened to the solemn gabbling to a set formula. “No ring?” the old chap inquired fretfully, marking his place with a forefinger. “My, yew shore were in a hurry, folks.” Dagger stared helplessly at Vaneer- “I think me?” | ng, whose answering gaze was more vacuous. “Can't we—get married?” she pleaded. The woman patted her shoulder. “Don’t yew worry, honey. I got a ring lett by a feller got pinched afore Mister Shoreman could spell the bonds onto 'em. That'll do.” It did, but Dagger couldn't keep her eyes off the cheap gold circlet that presently adorned her left hand. A criminal’s ring! Was that auspicious for her and Jack? Nonsense! What id the previous ownership of a wed- ing ring matter? If they ioved—and at the thought her eyes shone dewily and her fingers trembled under Vaneer- ing’s arm that must be enough. At any rate she was married. And when Jack stooped to kiss her her lips conveyed a silent message that made him tremble against her. That was a time of ecstasy, sharp and ddenly pulle-| heady. And Dagger loved it all; the drowsy clerk at the St. Anthony, Who was 80 discreetly interested; the ning beliboys; the belated couple the roof, who recognized them “You've gone and done it!" ‘The one worry she had—how Aunt Espy would take the news—turned out to be a false alarm. She had done what her aunt expected, which was more sat- isfactory than not having done it. Probably, too, the old was in- fluenced to & certain extent tention the newspapers paid to the riage, both as a romance of the Air Service and because of its social re- actions. There were long dispatches from New York, surveying the tumultu- the Vaneering family, n _promin ous history of which had bee ent for several generations. San Antonio, like Aunt Espy, was impressed, but r her- | self was inclined to be reproachful, espe- cially after Jack received a telegram from his mother complaining of the suddenness of his act. “You should have told me, Jack! And it was inconsiderate of us to forget | every one but ourselves.” | “Why? It's our marriage, isn't t?” “Yes, but it affects other people. Your family (mwe wever met me. Perhaps Saey won't like me. Perhaps they'll think I'm a fortune hunter.” He caught her to him flercely. “They'll love you! You'll see.” | _“But tell me about them,” she com- manded. “They're just names to me.” Jack set her down on a couch and reached for a cigarette. | “Well He hesitated, striking a | match. “Kitty—my sister—is a scout, says what she thinks, does about | what she pleases. You ought to get | along fine with her. Father's a corker— | kind and sort of gentle. Everybody loves | him. “Mother—humph! She’s a_spoiled ibaby. We've all spoiled her. She used to say she wanted me to marry a prin- cess—meant it, too.” He snatched | Dagger to him again. “But then I have 80t & princess—a Texas flying princess.” i Dagger cuddled closer to him. He | was very satistying, this ace of hers. | But that didn’t remove her forebodings. | An instinct beyond control warned of | her mother-in-law's hostility, and she | made up her mind no act of hers should furnish that hostility any excuse. (Continued Tomorrow.) || ABE MARTIN SAYS | | “I don't know when I've enjoyed & slump so much as I have this year. 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