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Sttlfoma SaiUi SFirnee INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. Daily Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Street. Telephones—MAin 35G0; New, Lincoln 8351. MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. . - \ Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, G. Logan Payne Cos. Advertising offices } ew York, Boston, Tayne. Burns & Smith, Inc. Governor Shoulders th e Blame Every member of the Indiana Legislature, each of whom bears equal responsibility for today’s special session, should feel kindly disposed to Governor Warren T. McCray in assuming more than his share for the mistake in the reformatory removal bill. In his message to the assemblymen the Governor frankly took himself to task for allowing a muddled up bill to pass his signature and kindly refrained from placing at least a part of the blame on shoulders where it undoubtedly belongs. “This mistake was due in part to the unfortunate necessity under our constitution of inducting a newly elected executive into office after the assembly has convened and before he has had opportunity to acquaint himself with the great problems which immediately confront him and upon which he must promptly declare himself,” said the Governor. Governor McCray's protest against that clause in our constitution that brings anew executive into office coincident with the session of anew Legislature is not without merit. A newly elected Governor, fresh from a strenuous political campaign in which all of his thoughts, activities and energies were bent on making a successful appeal at the polls, is seldom in the frame of mind to grasp all the rains of his gigantic undertaking on the day of his inauguration. Os course he has given the State's business a great deal of thought, but the countless details connected with the office have gone unnoticed. When he takes his seat he not alone must take charge of the greatest business enterprise in the State—the State government—but he must contend with the idiosyncrasies of a State Legislature. While he is looking around getting his bearings, keeping as tight a hand as possible on the legislators and attending to the innumerable details attendant upon his adventure into office, he Is besieged by an innumerable swarm of politicians seeking favors for themselves or their constituents. Indeed it would require a superman to successfully cope with the situation that arises after he becomes Governor and at the same time watch carefully the details of every bit of legislation that is sent down by the lawmakers. Perhaps no other Governor in the history of the State has met a situation of this kind more ably than has Governor McCray. Jail Conditions The remarkable escape from the Cook County jail of Tommy O’Connor, gunman, whom the Chicago police have every reason to desire to retain in custody, serves to recall that .nothing has ever been done toward the punishment of those persons who were responsible for the deplorable jail conditions uncovered in Indianapolis by Judge. Anderson of the Federal Court. More than two years have elapsed since the judge, by his investigation, disclosed bribery, poker playing, smuggling of contraband into the jail and a system by which jail prisoners were permitted to spmd the night elsewhere than in the confines of the prison. In addition to thesj things it was disclosed that the food served prisoners In the Marion County jail was deplorable, that someone was grafting off the funds provided bv the county and by the Federal Government for the maintenance of the prisoners. Robert Miller, who was then sheriff, it will be recalled, was indicted but has never been brought to trial. He is now among those mentioned as possible candidates for re-election as sherifT. It is hardly to be conceived that the Republican party would choose as its nominee for sheriff a man who was charged with responsibility for such conditions as were disclosed to exist in the Marion County jail, at least until he has been tried. It is also very peculiar that the public indignation which existed at that time was not of sufficient lasting quality to compel the authorities to bring to trial a man who, it was charged, was chiefly responsible. It seems that in Chicago as well as in Indianapolis public business has not been cared for with any great amount of diligence. We are too prone to regard everything in our institutions as satisfactory, when a little investigation might disclose them to be otherwise. It is the old story of public neglect—of neglect on the part of public officials. Someone in Chicago has been betraying the public trust just as someone in Indianapolis betrayed public trust a few years ago. It remains to be seen whether Chicago is better able to take care of such situation than Indianapolis. This community failed utterly in the punishment of those who were primarily responsible for a disgraceful situation. Will Chicago do likewise?

The Traffic Problem The most remarkable thing about the traffic problem in Indianapolis which has baffled the present administration and promises to make considerable trouble for Mayor-elect Shank is its utter simplicity. Failure to solve its intricacies in the past have been due almost entirely to the fact that those who have dealt with it have regarded the symptoms too seriously and the fundamentals too lightly. We have a woeful amount of auto congestion in the heart of the city a great deal of the time. This congestion is the first thing that must be relieved and it is really susceptible of relief without a great deal of effort. In the first place, this congestion is due to two things—poor driving and poor facilities for leaving the heart of the city. The poor driving can be eliminated almost at once. Better facilities for egress from the city will take longer but they are inevitable. The greatest interference with traffic today is the driver who has not learned how to handle his car in traffic and for whom the present police regulations all appear to haVe been made. At the present time the traffic police of Indianapolis are being directed on the wrong theory. They are making it too easy for the poor driver to operate and too difficult for the good driver to get along. There is too much of a tendency on their part to slow down the traffic when there should be every disposition on their part to expedite it. Turn loose a few traffic policemen in the heart of Indianapolis with Instructions to make motorists move along instead of sauntering through the streets. Give the right of way to motorists on the boulevards, including North Meridian street and compel motorists to come to a complete stop before turning into or crossing these boulevards. Send a few motorcycle cops up and down Meridian street with instructions to make motorists speed up, not slow' down, drive in lanes at the side of the street, instead of the middle. With these simple remedies applied there will be no need of one-way streets, of municipal garages, or special control systems. Half the congestion of today is caused by the “jayhaw'king” of a few drivers who would surprise themselves almost to death if they ever got out of the center of the street long enough to examine a curb. The other half of the congestion is due to the painful efforts of real drivers to avoid these “jayhawkers.” It Is time Indianapolis wakened up and conducted herself more like a city. Let’s begin by weeding out the drivers who insist on operating automobiles as their ancestors drove ox carts. Shank and Politics Mayor-elect Shank is certainly giving expression to a most laudable ambition in his efforts to make it apparent to the men he has selected for his administration that they are not to take part in the spring primaries to any other extent than the exercise of their franchise. If Indianapolis can have an administration devoted to making Indianapolis a better city instead of perpetuating a machine in control of the Republican party it is devoutly to be desired and it will deserve the support of the whole city regardless of politics. For many, many years we have had the contrary, until there are among us a great many who doubt the possibility to compelling city employes to forego political intrigue. Perhaps Mr. Shank is capable of divorcing the city administration from politics. He has succeeded in other things wherein the odds were very much against him. In this he seems to be proceeding in deadly earnestness. It is, of course, too early to judge his effort by results but it is not to congratulate him on the woH liness of his intentions.

IN THE REALM WHERE WOMAN REIGNS

Keeping House With the Hoopers

[The Hoopers, an average American family of five, living In a suburban town, on a limited Income, will tell the readers of the Daily Times how the many present-day problems of the home are solved by working on the budget that Mrs. Hooper has evolved and found practical. Follow them daily in an Interesting review of their home life and learn to meet the conditions of the high cost of living with them.] WEDNESDAY. Mrs. Hooper had been very impatient to get at her sewing, which had been neglected to a greater extent thau she had intended for a week or more. She was determined to have Betty’s little rose-colored coat that had come out of the dye pot a lovely shade of deep pink, finished so she could wear It to church on Sunday. This would be the first time the child had been able to go to Sunday school since her illness and the new coat was an absolute necessity for this occasion. So Instead of taking her usual rest hour in the afternoon, after she had finished the regular mending for the week, she cut out Betty’s coat, which followed the same lines as the one she had worn Last winter, and for which she us.nl the same paper pattern, simply making it larger on every seam to provide for the little she had grown for the past year. In order to make It sufficiently warm, she determined to interline it with white canton flannel which was inexpensive, and for the lining itself she was using a piece of sateen that had been left over at one time when she had made a gray sateen petticoat for herself. She had dyed it at the same time she had dyed the material for the coat, and because of the different texture of the goods it had come out at least a tone deeper in shade from that of the wool cloth and made a very pretty contrast for the Inside of the coat. What to use to trim it was a question that she debated for a long time, as she didn't want to put

Ye TOWNE GOSSIP Copyright, 1921. by Star Company. By K. C. B, IIIS NAME is Nelson. AND HE’S a doctor. AND HE’S very nire. * • • AND HE laughs heartily. • ♦ • AND HOW I know. • • • IS THAT every day. • • * FOR THREE weeks past. OR THEREABOUTS. • • • HE'S BEEN a caller. • • • IN OUR homo, • • • AND THE other day. * * • HE SAID to me. THE PATIENT should have. • • • THE THIRTIETH of a grain OF WHATEVER it was. • • * IN A LITTLE water. • • • AND FROM out of a case. • * • HE HANDED to me. TW O LITTLE white tablets. • • • AND SAID to me. • • • THAT EACH was a sixtieth. . . • AND AS I do. * • * FOR I’M very careful. I wrote it all down. • • • AND AT 10 O'clock • * * I GOT the glass. • • • AND GOT the wat'T. • • • AND ONE of the tablets AND DISSOLVED the tablet • • • AND POCKED it half out. • • AND GATE (he patient. THE REMAINING half AND SAT and read. * • • FNTIL SHE slept. # • • AND SHF. had a good night. • • • AND TITE following day. • • • THE DOCTOR came. • • • AND WAS very glad. • • • SHE HAD rested well. • • • AND LETT nothing new. • • • FOR HER to take. • * * AND WAS going away. * • • AND I wanted to know. • • • WHAT I should do. • • • WiTH TliE other tablet. • * • AND THEN it was. • * * THAT I discovered. • • • HE LAUGHED so heartily • * • AND THAT a thirtieth * * • IS TWICE a sixtieth. * * * INSTEAD OF half. * * • WHICn OF course T knew. * • * BUT I don’t werk at figures. • * * AND I’M careless with them.

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Men Yon May Marry By ETHEL R. PEYSER HJas a man like this proposed to you? 9vmptom: An important soul. Never sits long when he visits you. Walks up and down like a caged lion. You feel like an early Christian martyr thrown to the lions. Yet you get a certain thrill out of the game. He is absorbed in himself and delivers interesting talks in his walks. , IN FACT: He makes his lines tell. 'K7S Prescription to his bride: IT. Never have slippery floors. Tack down your t/ rugs. Absorb This: LISTENING IS THE SINCEREST FORM OF FLATTERY. (Copyright, 192 L)

a cent of money into it outside of what little the dye, and sewing silk had cost. The only promising thing in her scrap bag were some pieces of black velvet, and she hesitated a long time before deciding to use them because her own impression was that black was too "old” a oo’or for for Betty, but on consulting the Bride about It over the telephone her reply was: "It’s Just the thing I'll come over to tea and tiring the fashion magazine that has Just come in the mail, and that has colored plates. There are several pages of little girls' coats and a number of them show black trimming." Being thus assured that it would be all right she cut out a little black velvet collar, and a pair of cuffs and when the Bride appeared for tea, she had it basted and fitted and the seams sewed np on the machine and was ready to do the hand work on it while they sat and chatted and had their tea. “I think It. is too sweet for words.” exclaimed the Bride enthusiastically: "it doesn't s.tem possible that It inn be that faded old gray coat of Helen’s that you showed me the other day and that tiny little bit of black velvet is Just the thing for even a tot like Betty. What kind of buttons will yon use?" “I haven't anything In mv button bag that would possibly do,” said Mrs. Hooper, “with the exception of some sort of crystal ones that wore on something of mine once, but even they are too small and not a pretty shape.” “Why don't yon cover some wooden molds with a piece of the mater al and have rose colored cloth buttons?" asked the Bride. “They would be much prettier I think than any other kind " “I believe that's what I will do," agreed Mrs. Hooper, "and then if T put a little cross stitch or a center of heavy black silk thread It will make quite a fancy looking button." "Well, that's settled,” observed the Bride ns she put the button hag through which she had been searching back into the work basket. “Then how about her hat?" Has she anything special to wear with this pretty roat?" “No, I don't believe she has.” admitted Mrs. Hooper. "I suppose I shall have to cover a little frame of a becoming shape with the material of the coat the way I did Helen's and then trim it with something." "If you could only get n remnant of corded silk the same shade as the coat,” said the Bride. “It wouldn't take bnt a little piece and it would be o much prettier than this woolen goods for a hat covering. It was all right for Helen, hut it is too heavy fur Betty." “But I don’t want It to cost much." objected Mrs. Hooper, “and if I use this material and hunt tip some scraps for trimming In my work bag, I'll only liavo to buy the frame which won't be more than 2.1 cents." "I know." mused the Bride, “htit It won't be Just right and I think you ought to put more than 2T* cents into Betty s winter hat without regretting it T wish you'd let tne shop for a piece of silk tomorrow while you are doing your marketing and then I can meet you afterward and come- home to tea with you." “Very well," said Mrs. Hooper, “but I shall limit, yon to almost nothing for the material so It isn't going to be easy to find what you want." “I’ll take a chance,” laughed the Bride, “and here is a little scrap of black fur for a band across th * front and I’ll make some tiny pink silk flowers to fasten on either side and a fitting hat to m-'ch that pretty coat will he the result.’ The menus for the three meals on Thursday are: BREAKFAST. Apple Sauce Cereal Crisped Pork and Cream Gravy Rolls Coffee. LUNCHEON. Cream of Tomato Soup Fish Cakes Cookies Coe DINNER. Mutton Broth Spanish Omelet French Fried Potatoes • Fruit Salad. Taplcoa Pudding. —Copyright, 1921. PLANKED SHAD. Have your fish denned and split down t.he hncit Wash and wipe dry. nave ready a dean oak. or hickory plank about two and one-half Inches In thickness and of such a length that it will go easily into your oven. Set it in the oven until It. Is heated through. Rub your shad on both sides with an abundance of butter, and sprinkle with salt and pepper.

Lay it, open side up, on the hot plank and fasten it firmly into place by putting a tack at each of the four corners. Lay the plank on the upper grating of the oven, and rub the fish with butter every few minutes until done. You can tell when this point ts reached by test Ing It with a fork. Remove the tacks and slip the fish upon a hot platter. Serve with melted butter and garnish with slices of lemon and sprigs of parsley. CHOPPED POTATO SACTF.S. Chop cold boiled potatoes evenly and rather coarsely. Put a tablespoonful of butter or of good dripping Into n frying pan and when hot stir the potato dice Into it. tossing and shaking until they are smoking hot. Pepper and salt and dish. PEA SALAD. Drain and press through a sieve a can of green peas Dissolve one box of gelatine in one-fourth of a cup of cold water and stir over hot water until heated. Take from the tire and add one-fourth teaspoon of onion Juice, one half teaspoon of salt, and a dash of pepper. Serve very cold with the following dressing: Put into a double boiler the yolks of two eggs, two tablespoons of stock and two tablespoons of oil. Stir until thick, take from the fire and add slowly one tablespoonful of tarragon vinegar, one

Daily Fashion Hints

ISy AGNES AYRES, Star In Paramount Picture*. We have suddenly developed a flair not only for all kinds of bandeaus and combs with which to garnish our coiffures in the evening but now evening hats as well. Some of them are of silver lace or tissue, some of black lace, but the newest and most overwhelming crop is of gold, gold tissue or gold lace, or a combination of the two. Some of these evening hats are turbans, though the very small turban has completely vanished from our firmament; many of them brimmed, fragile and airy versions of the picture hat. The one In the sketch Is a large turban. made of folds of heavy gold tissue. drawn across the frame from one side to the other, rather snugly and with dignity. Directly in front is a patch of perfect dark brown fur for trimming. Many of these evening hats are made partly of fur, or are trimmed with patches of It. as this one is, while others are regally garnished with huge plumes of bird of paradise, black or brilliantly natural. Though perhaps the smartest, as well as the most beautiful, are made of the heavy metal tissue, exquisitely arranged without ornament. In one of the shops last week I saw a wimple, completely covering the hair, forehead, ears and snugly fastened with a smooth fold under the ehin, of pure and glistening silver. Intensely becoming to the woman who could wear it—utterly hideous on the woman who could not.

I chopped olive, and two teaspoonsful of | chopped parsley. Helpful Household Hints To Kill Plant Dugs. If you find bugs on plants, save cigar | ends and soak in water for one day, then j pour over the plants. Improving Rubber Plants. I To improve rubber plants break up ground and add one teaspoonful of castor oil. „ FASHIOX HINTS. | Some very pretty party and afternoon i frocks of canton are combined with i Spanish, lace. One particularly lovely model uses the Spanish lace for butter- ! fly sleeves and cascade side-drapes. It j dhows jet bead fringing oif the trout and i t aek panels. The Spanish hip line has become popular in New York. All the smart new frocks have the little flare on either side I and are long and graceful iu the skirt. Tim smartness at the waist is given by ! a corset. This model will be mueh iu vogue through the winter and spring. j BUSS iN BOOTS JR. Bi David Cory It was now getting dark and the path ir. the woods could hardly be seen, and pretty soou the Robber Kitten lay down Oil a mossy spot beneath a tree, and then Puss Junior turned to Tom Thumb and said: “When he goes to sleep do you thiuk we could grab the pistol away from him? 1 wouldn’t lie afraid then, for I have my sword." "I think he sleeps with one eye open," replied Tom Thumb. “Robbers verv often do.” “Well, I’m mad clear through and through to think that just an ordinary kitten should rob you and me," said Puss. “If I can only get that pistol away from him. I'll soon show Mr. Robber Kitten who is the best tighter.” "S —s —s —h,” whispered Tom Thumb. “I thiuk I saw his eyes open!” For several minutes they both kept silent. Then Puss Juuior said in a low voice, "We'd better watch him tonight, and if we can, we'll sneak up and take the pistol from him.” 'T il go to sleep first.” said Torn Thumb, “anil when you get tired you wake me up. and I'll keep watch." It was very still in the woods. But oneo when nn owl tooted Fuss saw the yellow eyes of the Robber Kitten gleam through the darkness. But poor little Tdu Thumb was so tired that I verily believe if tile Robber Kitten had fired off tils pistol he would have still slumtiered ,on peacefully. Puss Junior felt wideawake. and the more he looked at the Robber Kitten, the more angry be became. I “This is the first time a eat has got the best of me." said Puss to himsylf "I've gotten the Lest of giants and other ter- ! ritde people but here I am, Puss in Bi ots. Junior, held up in the woods and robbed by a kitten!" Puss was so tna 1 ns he thought this over that he pinched himself. “I'll gel the hesf of that kitten." he murmured, “if it takes me the rest of my life. I don’t propose to have a mere eat roll me. I’ll get his pistol and then It will lie an even tight.” And after that Puss settled himself ermfortably by the side of little Tom 7 climb, and by and by Puss Junior's head began to nod. and before very long ! be. too, was fast asleep. And In the next story you shall hear what happened In the morning. (Copyright. 1921.)

In tlie World of Books

Are American girls of today really different from the girls of our parents’ youth? If they are, what has changed them? And will they tie better for ttie change—or worse? If they are upsetting old standards and traditions, will they make new ones and better ones? These are questions which everybody is asking today. They are particularly Interesting to tile people of Indianapolis because of the strong, dean-cut answer which is being given in Meredith Nicholson’s Indianapolis novel,” “Broken Barriers," which is now appearing in Cosmopolitan Magazine. Mr. Nicholson is writing about Indianapolis not only because he lives here and knows the city, but also because be believes that Indianapolis is a thoroughgoing American city. “Broken Barr'ers" is the story of an everyday American girl who lives with her family In a good home in one of the modest sections of the city and who is forced by an upset in her father's business to earn her own living. She takes a position in a department store where for the first time she comes in contact with life as life really is. Temptations beset her; not the temptations of melodrama. but the temptations faced by hundreds of thousands of American eirls. And no matter how hard she tries her barriers go down. The publishers declare that Mr. Nicholson’s story is more than a novel about Indianapolis that it is ono of th* most powerful American books e'ror written. How would Ring Lardner have described the Boston Tea Pnrty? Donald Ogdon Stewart, author of “A Parody Outline of History," thinks It would have gone something like this; “Well I and Prudence follered the crowd down to Griffins worf & them indyans which was only wite men drest up dumb onto a ship there & begun throwing the cargo into Boston harbor & I says to a fello what is In them boxes and he says T. & I says well why are they throwing it away & he says because they do not want to pay the tacks which is about as sensible Ethan if I was to rite a lot of letters & then as fast as I rote I would tare it up because I did not want to pay for a stamp." This passage occurs in “A Parody Outline of History,” a deliciously humorous volume of a different sort. The book contains nine chapters covering some of the principal events of American history, each chapter written in the style of a different American author, albeit, the style in most cases is considerably exaggerated. The authors who have been accorded this somewhat doubtful honor are William Lyon Phelps, James Branch Cabell, Sin-

By GEORGE McMANUS.

~ LAUDER STARTED AS ‘PIT BOY’ And Now He Is a World Character

Sir Harry Lauder’s elevation to the knighthood has not brought an;- forgetfulness of his early struggles or the days when scarcely able to make a living as a singer of comic ditties, he was often threatened with the possibility of a return to the coal pits in order to make a living. Sir Harry began life as a “pit boy,” driving a Shetland pony and otherwise making himself useful to the miners. When he had advanced to the position of a full-fledged coal miner he felt that be was on the highway to riches. It was, however, hard work. Often he was up to his hips in water, with the coal vein over his head, and compelled to swing a heavy pick in that awkward and wearisome position. While at work he often

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clair I.ewis. F. Scott Fitzgerald. Ring Lardner. Thornton W. Burgess, Harold Bell Wright. Edith Wharton, Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews and Eugene O'Neill. In his preface the author outlines the necessity for the volume. “Mr. H. G Wells in his ‘Outline of History' was forced of necessity to omit the narration of many of the chief events in the history of these United States," he says “Such omissions I have in this brief volume endeavored to supply. And as American history can possibly best be written by Americans and as we have among us no H. G. Wells. I have imagined an American history as written conjointly by a group of our most characteristic literary figures.” The book is illustrated by Herb Roth. Anew writer of short stories. Elizabeth Bibesco, has come forth with a volume of her work that is a least bit startling. The stories are absolutely frank as to human relationship and emotions. but at tlie same time they are not sordid and in no wise repulsive. It might be mentioned in passing that the author is a daughter of Margot Asquith who never hesitated to speak her mind. The little house on the side street where children reign In autocratic splendor, where toys sprawl carelessly on the best rugs and where a mellow air of happiness touches the homely shabbiness to real beauty—this is the house that sits calmly through the poems of Christopher Morley’s latest volume, “Chimneysmoke.” From the hospitable doorway of this house the poems go out Into all parts ot the metropolitan world and finally come hack to the peace and comfort of the hearth. Real children, real houses and real hearth-iires speak to you iu these poems. Tea and toast and a crackling fire warm the very cockles of your reart. “Chimneysmoke” in this instance uieans far more than a spiral of smoke against the sky. It means home, hearth and happiness for the householder. According to Mr. Morley. no man is quite a householder until he has seen his Chimneysmoke mounting to the sky. He writes: “And of all man's felicities The very subtlest one, say I Is when for tile first time he sees His hearthtire smoke against the sky." No ill wind of cynicism has crept through the walls of this house. No sinister modernism has destroyed the naturalness of these children. They dine in royal state in the kitchen on cocoa and animal crackers, they do not

sang, and in tune the other miners learned to enjoy his Singing. Sometimes when he sang at local concerts, he was paid about fifty cents a night, and even this modest sum seemed to him to be extravagant. J His first professional appearance he left the mines was at Lanarkshire, Scotland, with a concert company. He got the equivalent of? 7 a week, but he did not have to get up at five o’clock in the morning and spend the day underground, so he considered himself well off. After a time he became well known in the provinces. but it w: fourteen years before he made his first appearance in London. < where he made an instant hit. Since that time he has frequently appeared in London. and last spring he created something of a sensation at the Palace Theater in the British metropolis, where he drew crowded houses for many weeks. Sir Harry lawider. who comes to the Murat for three performances only oomrnecing next Friday night, with matinee Sat rday is- more than a mere entertainer. H - is a unique character; nd is known ad popular in all English aking countries His friends include . ores of the world's leading statesmen, stage players and writers. He is an honorary member of dubs al! over the world. During the year he receives hundreds of invitations t > become the guest of honor to dinn -s given in his honor by noted organizations. As an afterdinner speaker. he has rarely been equalled and few men have had so remarkable a career without losing the simplicity that has always characterized him. - -!- -IM KS. FISKE DI E JIONT W AT ENGLISH’S. A English’s next Monday. Tuesday a- Wednesday, Mrs.. Fiske will make her first appearance in two years, presenting her newest comedy, “Wake I'p, Jonathan!" which scored a season’s run at the Henry Miller Theater, New York. “Wake Fp. Jonathan!” is from the ppn of Hatcher Hughes and Elmer L. Rice, the former a professor of the drama at Colnmbla University, and the latter playwright. It is an unusual play and" far afield from any of the vehicles which have served Mrs Fiske in recent years. The story is strictly modern, thoroughly American, entirely domestic and decidedly feministic. In the role of Marion Blake.- wife of a financial giant and super-egoist, and the mother of four children whom she tries to shield from the gross materialism of the day, she has a role that gives fine sweep to hpr unapproachable style of playing high comedy—the art of creating laughter which masks an occasional tear. Mr-. Fiskp Is under the management of sain H. Harris, while Harrison Grey ■ Fiskp personallv directed the production -I- -I- -I----ON VIEW TODAY. The following attractions arc on view today: Frederick Burton as Abraham Lincoln at B. F Keith's; “Beans. Beaus, Beans." at the Lyric; “Some Show.” at the Park: Alla Axiom in per-on and Anita Steva t in a movie, at the Circle: “The Sheik." at the Ohio; “The Mysterious Rider." at the Alhambra; “Chivalrous Charley.’’ at the Colonial; “Ladies Must Live,” at Loew’s tSate; “First Love.” at Mister Smiths; “Shams of Society.” at the Isis; “Devil Dog Dawson,’ at the Regent, and official war movies of the World War at the Broadway. CARTOON SHOW - OPENS THFRSDAY. On Thursday night at English's, “Boob McNutt." a musical comedy based on cartoons, will open a three-day engagement.

want to stop playing and put their toys away at bedtime. Mr. Morley's poetry makes you believe more than ever in the saying that. “Under God's mysterious dispensation! there are no trifles.” for it is woven around the “tremendous trifles” of life. Topaz, the taffy colored cat, stalks through the pages: the toy elephant lies in careless dignity on the hall rng; father, in the capacity of camel moves majestically around the nursery with small intrepid passengers on his back. All these bits of childhood are here treasured—fragments of a kingdom too short-lived and fleeting. But there is another side to this volume which one becomes increasingly conscious of as the pages are turned. In addition to the songs of simple, unaffected, homely things, Mr. Morley has added a group of unpublished lyrics which represent the most mature and thoughtful work he has done. They are significant, these later poems, of a sensitivity to the things that lie outside or four walls of the intimate life. Added to this collection of the choice poems from “Songs for a Little House,” “The Rocking Horse." "Hide and Seek," they forecast in a way the direction of his work from now on. In theme one finds a greater power; less of the details of life and a preoccupation with its realities. Offer Big Prize for Airplane Engine PARIS, Dec. 14.—With a view to finding a really reliable and easy working airplane engine a committee founded a few months ago and known as Le Comlte Francais de Propagande Aeronautlque has Just created a prize of one million francs to be awarded to the constructor who can produce an engine giving necessary guarantees of durability, regularity . easy dismantling and cheapness in up" keep. The competition is open to any foreignmade engine. Foreign constructors, however, before submitting their engines, must undertake by contract to manufacture in France should their motors be accepted. All engines must be ready for testing purposes ou June 1, 1923, at the latest. The prize will be awarded some months later. The French Aero Club has promised to launch the competition and will receive all engines and have them tested by proved experts in aeronautical motore. One or more engines may be submitted by any constructor. The Idea prompting such a competition is a desire in France to find an absolutely sure engine for commercial purposes. Speed will be of minor importance. Re liability is what is first needed.

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