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This Day in History.
r |tHIS is the anniversary of the birth of Joan of Arc,
in 1412, at Domremy, France. In command of an
army, she forced the English to raise the siege of
Orleans, thereby saving France from alien domination.
WAYS OF A HUSBAND -:- By Ann Lisle
A Delightful Sequel to “When a Girl Marries,” Which
Scored Such a Tremendous Success Throughout
the Country.
By Ann Lisle,
Whose Serials of Married Life
( Have Won a Big Popular
Success.
(Copyright. 1923, King Features
Syndicate. Inc.)
UT now I’m not sure,”
she said thoughtfully.
“Marriage does not seem
•o simple as I thought it
■ ? would be. It looks as if
a girt couldn’t be sure of a
man—or of herself. I thought
you just fell in love and that was
all there would be to it. I di ln‘t
know there might be another
• woman having a claim on the
taan you loved.
g I could see that Irma was
groping in the dark. But even
though I was in the light, I had
to groupe also, since my promise to
Evvy held me from the sort of
plain speaking for which I
yearned.
"A young girl’s likely to idealize
the first man who is very atten
tive to her,” I said. “And it is
human nature to want things the
more when someone else seems to
want them That’s the spirit of
competition. As for fickleness, a
girl might think one man her
ideal until she met her true ideal.
I suppose it would be only
t natural for someone who’d nevci
•sen a handsome building to
think the county seat in his State
wonderful until he got to *ne
capital and saw how much more
wonderful that was.”
I looked at Irma eagerly to see
if she took in my meaning. The
•low flush which /mounted to her
placid brow told me that rhe did.
Then, stooping forward still more
•agerly, she asked:
"But wouldn’t a girl be foolish
to wait for a man who’s—never—
spoken—when she has a fine op
portunity to marry a man who
- loves her?” ~-
"Oh, Irma!” I began reproach
fully. “You’d”
I was interrupted by the maid,
Who came to summon Irma to the
telephone.
Idly I picked up an evening
paper to entertain myself while
•he was gone. I fluttered through
3 the sheets and suddenly a picture
on the Woman’s page caught my
•ye.
It was Ruth Gregory’s picture,
▲nd under it was a photograph
•f her painting. “The Young Avi
ator.”
Unmistakably the picture was
a portrait of Jim —there in the
paper for all the world to see.
Across the top of the picture
was a caption:
“Famous woman painter to
turn sculptor. Ruth Gregory
Will model statue similar to this
painting she has just finished.”
~ Almost breathlessly I read the
article accompanying the an
nouncement that Ruth Gregory
was to turn sculptor and to model
• statue after her painting, “The
Young Aviator.” Subconsciously
I was hoping that Irma would be
" kept a long time at the telephone.
£ Bitting there in her den, I raced
through a maze of words which
told how Miss Gregory had been
•warded the commission to model
a statue for the great aviation
memorial in a distant city.
J WHEN DID IT
HAPPEN?
1— When was the first perma
nent settlement in Michigan
I made?
2 When did Henry Ireton,
who signed the warrant for the
execution of Charles I, die?
3 When was The Players’ Club
In New York City founded?
4 When did John Trumbull,
the early American poet, publish
"M'Fingal”?
5 When was Louis XVI, King
©f France, beheaded?
(Answers to These Queries Will
Be Printed Tomorrow.)
answers
To Saturday’s Questions.
1— Florence, Italy, noted art
center, was founded about 80
B. C.
2 “The Golden Legend,” a
biography of Saints, was com
piled in the thirteenth century.
3 Lotteries are said to have
originated in Florence, Italy,
about 1530.
4 The House of Savoy, reign
ing house of Italy, was founded
•bout 1416.
5 Mad Mullah led a rebellion
•f the Somalis, in Africa, against
th© British, from 1901 to 1903.
(Copyright, 1923. King Features
Syndicate. Inc.)
► The article was lavish in its -♦>
praise of the painter who had
mastered the art of the chisel as
well as that of the brush. As I
read, a cool, aloof part of my
brain sat in judgment and said:
“No wonder Jim is proud of his
friendship with this genius. Who
wouldn’t be? It’s enough to make
any man believe in himself to
find that his friendship means
anything to one of the great art
ists of his time."
But the woman In me was In
revolt. I found myself torn by a
fury of jealousy which was all
the more devastating because I ’
was divided against myself and
could see why Jim must rejoice
in this friendship which had the
more power to hurt me just be- ,
cause it was so important.
I wondered if It was to con
sult Jim about this statue that
Ruth Gregory had sent for him
the evening Rosa Cordova heard
him passing her apartment to go
to Ruth’s studio. For a mo
ment I contemplated talking it
all over with Jim. But in the
next instant I knew I could
never do this.
If Jim comes to me frankly
and talks over with me what
everyone who reads must know,
I can force myself to accept any
situation, including the probable
one that he’s going to pose for
the statue.
When I got to this point in
my cogitations Irma came flut
tering back into the room. Hex
mood, as I saw at a glance,
was entirely different from the
tense, uncertain and almost ter
rified one in which she left the
room.
"It was Tom Mason who
wanted me on the telephone,”
she said with an assumption of
ease. “He’s so chivalrous. He i
YOUR BEAUTY
BEAUTIFUL EYES, BROWS AND LASHES
By Maria Jeritza, ”
Famous Prima Donna of the Met
ropolitan Opera Company and
One of the Most Beautiful
Women of the Day.
A HAPPY NEW YEAR to
you!
May 1924 bring you con
tinued success in your beauty
quest.
There is every reason why it
should, since beauty is the flow
ering of good health and good
health is so easily available for
every normal woman in this en
lightened age.
We are no longer fettered to
ways of living and thinking that
are detrimental to the finest
physical and mental development.
Custom and fashion decree that
we swim, drive, take long walks,
toboggan, skate, golf, ride on
horseback, row boats, canoe, play
tennis. And, what is also impor
tant, we Indulge in these health
giving sports comfortably and
suitably dressed.
Did it ever occur to you that In
the roman tie Elizabethan age soap
was unknown? We are living in
an age of bathtubs, with running
hot and cold water, abundant
soap, and evenly heated, well-ven
tilated homes.
All this is conducive to beauty.
We are free to learn not only
woman’s finest profession—home
making—but to develop our In
telligence as far as we will In all
Ifashion fads
AND FANCIES
By Mildred Ash . ■
Bearing a Saucy Message—all
Its own, the versatile handker
chief, now such an elaborate
dress accessory, assumes another
guise and is seen to train care
lessly from the upper pocket of
the mannishly tailored suit. Made
of a square yard of solid color
chiffon, such a 'kerchief bears
upon its deep white border a
French Inscription that we hesi
tate to translate.
From Head to. Foot —ermine fur
Is featured. Many a small black
satin hat with Its ermine orna
ment, tope a black velvet frock
trimmed in the same regal fur.
From beneath the skirt of such
a gown appear velvet or satin
slippers, whose buckle* are out*
lined with ermine.
THE WASHINGTON TIMES • • The National Daily • • MONDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1923.
z. CSfcsiUjt
- insists on coming to take you
home.
“I don’t need him,” I began
bluntly.
"He’s at his dub-—just around
the corner,” said Irma, over-riding
me with • smile, which seemed
to set us suddenly miles apart.
"He’ll be over almost imme
diately. You know, Ann©, ©v©n
Uncl© has to Odmir© him—he’s
so thoughtful. When I felt I had
. to oom© home ahead of schedule—
to get away and think things
over—instead of oeing hurt or
angry at me for running off,
he offered to stay over Sunday
at the Springs with Uncle.”
"That was completely magnani
mous, I’m sure,” I said, with
addity. "Tom was amazingly
kind to be willing to stay and in
gratiate himself with your uncle.
Does Mr. Haldane like him better
than he did when he sent you
off to your sister?”
I fixed my eyes on Irma’s, try
ing to force her to remember that
Mr. Haldane had once sent her
away in order to free her from
Tom’s influence. Though my
promise to Evvy held me from
saying anything which could be
used directly against Tom, I
didn’t purpose to let Peter Stan
ley’s cause go without a subtle,
even if almost miscroscoplc, effort
to stand by, so I added quickly:
“It must be a great satisfaction
to you to have some new friends
of whom your blessed Uncle
Loren is sure to approve. Won’t
he cdore Lorraine Thurlow and
our nice Peter?”
Irma stared at me. A tiny
wrinkle came between her brows.
I could see that she was puzzled.
(To Be Continued Tomorrow.)
directions and cultivate the tal
ents that have been given us.
And this is greatly conducive to
usefulness, charm and beauty.
We pay less attention than for
merly to the passing years. They
are no longer dreaded as thieves
of youth and beauty. We glean
from them their treasures of en
joyment, wisdom and opportun
ity for service, then let them go,
quite forgotten except for their
pleasant memories.
Youthfulness, we have learned,
is rather a constructive mode of
thought than a brief span of some
twenty girlhood years.
One of the loveliest women I
ever met was a grandmother
sixty-eight years young.
This woman often golfed with
her husband and children, danced
and swam with them. She was
their comrade as well as wise
adviser. At the wedding of her
youngest daughter the bride laugh
ingly and proudly remarked that
her mother looked younger and
prettier than any of her daugh
ters.
This woman's beauty and charm
were not due to cosmetics, for she
used them sparingly. If at all; nor
to her clothes, though she dressed
well. Her loveliness was the
natural expression of a lifetime
of unselfed, absorbed Interest in
others, together with sensible at
tention to her own health and ap
pearance.
She remained young because she
retained a fresh Interest in life
and a receptive mental attitude.
There is a beauty of autumn, as
well as a beauty of spring. And
winter has its own loveliness of
evergreen and earth dreaming un
der a snowy carpet of Immortal
springtime. The autumn aftd win
ter of life also hold for woman ex
quisite beauty.
A wise woman accepts without
struggle or regret all the myriad
moods of life's loveliness.
When the bells ring in the new
year, as they will a few hours
hence, let us, with due apprecia
tion of all that is good in the old
order of things, yet welcome with
open minds the progressive and
the new. Det the chimes ring out
for us old prejudices and narrow
points of view and ring in new
Ideals of happy service, youthful
ness and beauty.
As the poet sang—
“ Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring happy bells across the
snow,
Ring out the false, ring in the
true.”
In Wednesday’s Article—How to
Make Your Ears Beautiful.
(Copyrlrht. 1921. Premier Syndicate. Inc.)
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I'M
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FOXY GRANDPA’S STORIES
THEY FIND OUT SOMETHING NICE ABOUT RATS
TELL you, Foxy Grand
pa," Insisted Bunny, “rats
-*■ aren’t as bad as people
think they are.”
"Now, Bunny,” said f, "you
know that no one loves animals
more than I do, but i must ad
mit that I don’t consider rats ad
mirable members of the animal
world. They're such dirty things.
I can’t find one trait in their
characters to be admired.”
“Dirty!” exclaimed Bunny In
dignantly. "They’re not dirty at
all. You’re always talking about
Bunch, the cat—how clean she
Is —and holding her up to Bobby
as an example because she
washes herself after every meal.
Do you know that a rat does the
same thing?"
’"No,” I answered. “I must ad
mit that I did not know that.”
“Indeed,” continued Bunny
earnestly. “They’re a lot of good
and kind things about them. They
don’t make bad pets, either,
when they are tamed.”
“Don’t tell Bobby that,” I
laughed. “The house is ho full
of pets now that we simply
haven’t room for another one.”
“Perhaps some day you will
see something that will make you
change your opinion of rats, Foxy
Grandpa,” Bunny added, hope
fully.
And do you know, that very
thing happened, it was not a
week before I had completely
forgotten my bad impression of
the rat family, and I will tell you
why.
One day while we were out in
the barn—what a lovely place a
barn is and how many wonderful
things happen there Bunny
nudged me and notloned to me
to be quiet. I knew something
was up and turned my head in
the direction to which the little
rabbit was pointing.
What do you think I saw?
You’ll never guess in a thousand
years. I saw a very strange
sight.
There right in front of our
4- very eyes were two big fat rats.
That was not so strange, because
one expects to find rats in a
barn. But it was what they were
doing that was so extraordinary.
For between them was a match
stick.
“Are they fighting over It?” I
asked.
"And what do they want with
a match stick?” asked Bobby un
der his breath.
“Perhaps they are going to put
it in their nest,” I ventured.
“Sh," said Bunny. “Watch
i them.”
Watch them! I should say we
did. Because I soon saw that
they were not fighting over it.
But that one little fellow was
holding one end and that the
other seemed to be sharing the
weight with him.
"Surely the one rat is not help
ing the other one,” I whispered.
"Can’t a rat carry a match
stick? queried Bobby.
“Sure,” whispered Bunny. “But
watch them carefully.
“I do believe 1 ’ I gasped in
amazement, “that they’re playing
a game. The one rat seems to be
leading the other by that stick.”
"That rat is blind. And the
other one is leading him. "Bunny
said with a choking in his voice .”
“Os all things!” murmured.
"How kind of that rat,” said
Bobby as we turned to go into
the house.
"Yes,” I agreed. “I’ll never
criticise rats again. “That just
goes to show you never know
what good there is in an animal,
even a rat.
(Copyright. 1923, by International
Feature Service, Inc.)
In Tuesday’s story Bobby dis
covers why Speckle lost her ap
petite.
Slow But Sure
“You and Fred have been en
gaged six months now; won’t you
be getting married pretty soon?"
“Good Lord, no! Why, he
hasn’t even paid for the engage
nent ring yet.”
A ROMANCE IN A BIG STORE
The Story of a Girl Who Did Her Work So Well That She Won
the Admiration of a Young Man Who Had
a Good Deal to Recommend Him.
By A. M. Crawford. ’
zz’W’FES, indeed, chaxmeen is
•• th© most popular ma-
JL terlal for dresses this
winter. Five ninety-flv© a yard.
You’ll make no mistake in select
ing It for it never will wear slick.
It certainly will make a smart
traveling dress.” Barbara Anne
Le© was happy when she had •
prospective customer.
When two dresses had been
purchased and the customer had
gone, Lillie Maskall, who was in
trimmings at the next counter,
pushed back a pile of new dress
goods and joined Barbara Anne.
“Why didn’t you tell this new
bird today that you would not be
here after the first?”
"Because I don’t think it’s fair
to advertise Mr. Bart’s store
while I am still on Mr. Wilhoit’s
payroll."
Barbara Anne was carefully
cutting new papers to wrap
around a bolt of delicately
colored Paulette crepe. “He’s
very pleasant, I think. He was
in the office yesterday when Mr.
Wilhoit sent for me.”
“Boss ask you to stay on?”
"No, just said that he appre
ciated my services here and hoped
I would be happy at Bart’s ”
Barbara Anne did not look up
as the new man walked slowly
by her. He was young, good
looking, the most attractive man
she had met in the store.
She was sorry to leave Wil-
SECRETS OF HEALTH
YOU AS A SYSTEM OF SYSTEMS
By Charles A. L. Reed,
M. D.,
Former President of the Amer
ican Medical Association.
r)U —by which I mean we,
all of us, all mankind —are
classified by scientists as the
highest typo of
animal life.
Wh y 7
Because the t$ y ', '
jelly specks or Iw
cells of which wßfr B
you are com
posed are of jB
more shapes
and are made "
up
n umer ous UH
structures and Vp
exercise a lar
ger number of distinct functions
than In any other form of animal
existence.
- It may be said that each of
these many structures is a part
cf the most complex but normally
the most harmoniously working
mechanism that has so far been
evolved.
Certain of these structures are
more distinctly related to each
ether than are others in the exer
cise of a certain general function.
Structures so related comprise
a system.
The “systems” that are neces
sary for your life and health are
variously constituted and variously
named.
Thus the system which gives
strength and stability to your
body consists of bones of dif
ferent shapes—long bones, flat
bones, Irregular bones and is
called tk 3 skeleton or bony sys
tem.
The system by which you move
your bones, by which you move
ycurself, consists of muscles, most
cf which are fastened to your
bones, and is called the muscular
system.
The system by which you think;
l.y which you see, hear, taste,
srnell and feel; by which you di
rect the movement of most of
your muscles and all of your
movable bones; by which is con
trolled every other function of
your body, is made up of your
brain and literally millions of
nerves and is called the nervous
system.
The system by which you take
in food and prepare it for the
use of your body, a system made
up of your teeth, gullet, stomach,
Intestines and a lot of associated
organs, is called the digestive or
nutritive system.
The system by which not only
digested food but various other
substances, many oT them poison
ous, are filtered out of the mov
ing current within your body, the
filters consisting of thousands of
little glands connected with each
other by myriads of little canals.
Tomorrow Earth Is Nearest the Sun.
*pHE earth is at the perihelion point of its orbit to
morrow night, which means that it is at its least
distance from the sun. This is about 91,330,000 miles.
July 3 it will be at aphelion and 94,445,000 miles away.
r holt’s. She had been there for
- years. It was beginning to
feel like home but when Mr.
Bart approached her one day
when she had been looking
through hie handsome ziew store
during her lunch hour and had
made her the amazingly good of
fer of thirty-flvo • week and •
10 per cent bonus, she had gone
straight to Mr. Wilhoit. Sho
wanted to give him an oppor
tunity to keep her if he cared to
meet Mr. Bart’s offer. But he
had only expressed his regret.
The new man’s voice sounded
suddenly across the counter. "If
I can manage to have Mr. Bart
release you. Miss Lee, will you
remain with us at his terms.”
“I believe I can swing the deal
with him. I have a small block
of stock in his concern. My com
pany is taking over Mr. Wilhoit’s
holdings the first of the month,
and I am to be manager here.
“If you will stay I want to
make you buyer for your depart
ment, for trimmings, too. Miss
Maskall’s sole interest seems
to be in watching the time clock
and in holding out her hand for
her pay envelope. I’m afraid I’ll
have to let her go.”
Quick as a flash, Barbara Anne
lifted pleading brown eyes.
“Please, Mr. Calhoun, try her
out in the children’s department
before you discharge her! She’d
be so interested there and happy,
too. She has often mentioned the
fact to me.”
* is called the lymphatic or glan
dular system.
The system by which you dis
tribute the food that you eat and
the air that you breathe to every
part of your body and by which
waste products are started on their
way outward from the tissues
where they are formed, a system
that consist of your blood, heart,
arteries, veins and the little ter
minal blood vessels called capil
laries, is known as the circulatory
system.
The system by which these
waste products are taken from
the circulatory system and elim
inated from the body, a system
consisting of your liver and kid
neys and the millions of little
glands in your skin and of some
ether glands in other parts of
your body, is called the excretory
system.
The system that secretes sub
stances called hormones, that thus
furnishes particular kinds of
energy for the other systems and
makes them work harmoniously—
the Ignition apparatus, as it
were—is made up of a number of
widely separated little organs and
is called the’ hormone system.
Now stop to consider the rela
tion of these systems to each
other. The bony system of
strength, the muscular system of
motion, the nervous system of
power, the nutritive system of
energy and repair, the excretory
sytem of waste and drainage, the
hormone system of regulation—
all of which, with the special
senses, work harmoniously in one
grand system which is you your
self.
That is the reason why you
speak of “my system” or of the
“human system” —a “system.”
That is the reason why you are a
system of systems, but a system
that operates under natural law—
harmoniously in health, inhar
monlously in disease, but always
under natural law.
Tomorrow—How to Care for
Your Scalp.
(Copyrirht, 1923. Klnie Features
Syndicate. Inc.) —”
An Easy One
The minister was making a
speech urging the formation of a
young people’s society. As he
surveyed the smiling young faces
about him the benevolent old gen
tleman dwelt upon the Influences
which bind the ties of friendship
between boys and girls.
“What is this great institution,”
he Inquired heatedly, “which
brings our young people closer
and closer together with each
passing hour?”
“That’s easy,” offered a cake
eater In the back row. “Danc
ing.”
► He smiled. “Thank you for tbh
suggestion. I*ll test her out up
there. There is to be a buyers’
meeting tonight. I'm depending
on you to be there. I know that
Mr. Bart will give you up to me.
Fact is, I’ve already mentioned
the matter to him.
“If you win allow me, I’d like
to run you home after the buyers*
meeting tonight. We can talk
over business conditions at the
same time. You can give me *
line on the employes* attitude to
the managemenu—that will be
worth a great deal to me.”
Was that a flush mounting
from his collar to the roots of his
blond hair. “Ordinarily, I don’t
do this sort of thing, but you
seem such a sensible, capable
girl, you can help me so
much ” He was stammering,
“Mr. Wilhoit will tell you that
I’m just a harmless bachelor,
wanting more than anything else
in the world to make a success
out of this business .”
“I’ll be glad to help you in any
way I can.” She marveled at
her own steady tones.
“Funny, but from the minute I
saw you, I felt that you could
help n»c —would help me,” he cor
rected smilingly. “See you later!”
Such Simple words, but they
turned her heart to love’s old
song. She smiled back at him.
She woula dream, for dreams
sometimes miraculously came
true! Cinderella fashion, like the
lovely fairy tale of long ago.
APPETIZING
SALADS
By Hannah Wing ■ ——
HERE are some suggestions
for salads worth trying
with company dinners or
with any heavy meals.
A salad elegant and yet satisfy
ing the other qualifications of
flavor and juiciness is made from
the small, tender white stalks of
celery and the little white, glis -
tening onions used for pickling.
These two delicacies are steamed
separately until tender and trans
parent. They are then placed on
ice to chill and later placed in
French dressing to marinate for
an hour or so.
Another good as well as color
ful salad is one in which smooth,
round beets about the size of
small apples are cooked until
tender, the skins slipped off and
the centers removed leaving a
hollow shell. Chop the removed
centers, add diced celery, apples
and nuts mixed with French
dressing and fill the beet cups
with the mixture. Serve on let
tuce with French dressing to
which a little Roquefort cheese
has been added.
Another salad delicate and in
dividual is made from the very
tipmost tips of asparagus set in
a sharp aspic with peas and
cooked carrots cut in tiny balls
the same size as -the peas. The
salads may be molded in t tiny
custard cups or after-dinner cof
fee cups. A little experiment
ing will develop a pleasing ar
rangement of the colorful vege
tables in the jelly.
This salad may be served on --
lettuce and with garnished curls
of celery and mayonnaise dress
ing. The molds should be rinsed
out with cold water before the
jelly is poured in. The vegetables
should not be placed until the
jelly has begun to set and is
thickened enough to hold them
in place.
The cool crispness of froaen
salads is not out of place even in
winter menus. A sharp aspara
gus mousse or a frozen fruit salad
makes a pleasant contrast to
heavy, hot dishes.
A simpler salad may be made
from tomato juice drained from
canned tomatoes, well seasoned
with cloves and onions and set
with gelatin. This should be
seasoned to taste. Some like it
sweet, some like it sour. Mold
this aspic in brick form and
serve in slices or mold it to indi
vidual servings.
A little ingenuity will contrive
a passable poinsettia salad by
cutting tomato jelly in petal form
and arranging it in flowery shape
on the salad plate with mayon
naise dressing for the center.