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From Indiana—Ernie Pyle

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2 Has Fine Time and. Meets Woman | He'Terms Duchess of Windsor Type.

'AWLINS OR BUST, June 3.—When 1 made plans for traveling from Chicago to the West Coast by train, 1 purposely split the journey into three parts in order to ride three types of trains. The three parts are: 1. Chicago to Denver, via Burlington's streamlined Zephyr. 2. Julesburg, Colo., to Rawlins, Wyo., via the Union Pacific's famous tourist train The Challenger—a train for the peepull. 3. Rawlins to Portland, Ore, via the United Pacific streamliner City of Portland. . So today we begin our series on the No. 2 section of the trip. I rode The Challenger 365 miles, ‘from 5 p. m. till a little after midnight. I liked the atmosphere aboard ; " The Challenger better than any BD an “¥ i train I've ever been on. It’s like : © £ bE going visiting. People talk to 2 i each other, and relax, and have Mr. Pyle parties, and get tight, and out ‘of the whole thing comes a definite feeling that at last you're riding on a train where they're trying to give you your money's worth. The Challenger is a regular, standard type transcontinental train, pulled by a’ steam engine. | Challenger leaves Chicago going west, and Los Angeles going least, once a day. It is a fast train and makes the trip in two days and a half. he Challenger has been running more than two years. Basically, its fare isn't any cheaper than any other train, for the basic fare is the same on all trains on all roads in the West. But the point is, there |aren’t a lot of extra fares on this train. You can| get a berth, if you want to, but even the berths are [cheaper than on other trains. Sh 5 # = Follows Mass Production Principle HERE isn’t much about The Challenger, physically, that's different from other trains. It's the way they do things that is different. They're doing on this train what Henry Ford did with automobiles 25 years ago. In other words—mass production, by putting out a lot of something good for a low price. They say The Challenger makes more money for the Union Pacific than any other passenger train. As soon as I got on at Julesburg I went into the diner, The steward put me at a table across from a woman. She was very tanned and lip-sticked, a sort of Duchess of Windsor type. I'd no sooner sat down than she said. ‘Do you know whether we're in Wyoming yet or not?!’ | } I Do I know whether weTe in Wyoming? Lady, I didn’t ride these ranges 30 years for nothing. So I says, “No ma'am, were still in Nebraska. Won't be in Wyoming for an hour.” | We talked all through dinner. She told me about the dust storm they'd just come through; she said she lived in LadJolla, Cal.; ‘that they moved out there last fall from Iowa: that she had three kids. After she ate her ice cream and smoked her cigaret, she got up and went away. I didn’t see her any more. Nobody ever spoke to me on a diner before. ” = un

Whole Dinner for 35 Cents H yes, I had dinner too. I looked at the menu and yep, there it was, big as life—a whole dinner for 35 cents, just as I'd heard. Served at regular tables in a regular diner, everything just as clean and flossy as in other diners, except that there were about eight fewer forks and spoons. : Here's what we had:-Roast stuffed chicken (good fresh tender chicken, too), parsley, potatoes. String beans, hot rolls, any drink you wanted, and ice

L. cream and wafers for dessert. No appetizer, soup or

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salad, but that’s all right with me. If you don’t like the dinner, you can get a la carte service. } The waiters don’t rush you, but there isn’t all that stylish Park Avenue service you get in most diners. The waiter is pleasant. You leave him a dime. They say waiters make more money than with ths higher tips on other trains—because they get so many more dimes. : ; After dinner I went up to my seat in a day coach. I didn’t take a berth, for I was getting off ‘at Rawlins at midnight, to wait over until the next day. Wouldn't have taken a berth anyway, for I wanted to see how life is lived among the transcontinental sit-uppers. It’s lived fine, as far as I could see. it tomorrow.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

Professional Group Confirms Estimate of Nursery Schools.

WW 7 ASHINGTON, Wednesday.— Yesterday evening was a fairly busy evening! I began by driving out to Arlington to talk on health at a meeting sponsored by the instructive Visiting Nursin Association. I was particularly pleased that my stimate of the value of a nursery school in raising health standards was shared by others who know much more about the prosiom of health in various communities ihan I do. ; i . There are so many sides to the nursery school discussion that I am finding new reasons every day why nursery schools should be included in our public education system. "On the other hand, adult educa- | tion should be made available also so that our less privileged groups may be able to avail themselves of new openings which require more education than they possess. Then, over the radio, I spoke with Mrs. Ellen © Woodward on the Caravan Theater, which is starting out as a part of the WPA project and will give performances during the summer months in parks and playgrounds for adults and -children. with it all, however, I got to kad early enough to be up and cut on the bridle path at 7:30. I got back just as my husband arrived from Hyde Park by the night train. He seems to have had a delightful time with his mother and looks rested and refreshed. Such a variety of appointments this morning! I

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by Miss Jane Hoey, to tell me a little about the work she proposes to start in Siam. Handicapped herself by lack cf sight, she went to Japan some years ago and stayed there, living Japanese people and teaching in their schools. She found they had a program of education for

| “their blind. Siam, however, has none. Miss Caulfield

is raising a fund in .this country for a demonstration there on the value of preventive work and the value of education which can make a blind person at least partly, if not wholly, self-supporting. She proposes to make the demonstration over a period; of years. Blind people, after all, are just like other people and simply to provide a pension for them and not

give them anything to make life worth living, seems .

to me a very inadequate form of care. I know that a few people who have become accustomed to being pensioned may feel they do not want to take the trouble to learn to help themselves, and yet, the majority, I feel sure, will be happier if they have an .interest in life and feel they are doing some work which helps to make them a useful part of the community. eee eee.

Walter O'Keefe —

ELL, “The Wedding March” is number one on the hit parade today. At long last, Wallis got her man. The kids certainly deserve a lot of credit for getting married right now with him out of a job. Of course, estimates place the Duke's income at $3000 a week and I guess until Eddie finds work they can scrape along on that—that is if they budget themselves carefully. ; Rumors say that the settlement on Wallis is $100,000 a year, so it’s nice to know that at least one American is getting some money out of England. America sends congratulations, kids! You might have been crowned King and Queen except for one mistake—you should have had Jim Farley manage your campaign last fall, - - -- ° pa ;

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rather a comic figure. in the days of his glittering triumph later. Nothing he accomplished ever succeeded in destroying the faint,

' malodorous taint of the

phoney. Perhaps it was on account of his legs, which were much too short. Atop a horse, Louis Napoleon made a distinguished appearance. Afoot, he was ridiculous. Or maybe it was on account of his face, a masterpiece in dead-pannery. Try as he might, he could not convince Londoners in general that he was going to be Emperor of France some day. He got little support for his idea that his third attempt would succeed, except from one person.

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HE one person who believed in him was an ex-barmaid from Lambeth, the daughter of a Thames boatman. Her name was Elisabeth Herriott, though by the time Louis Napoleon met her she had renounced the Lambeth “pub” for more luxurious surroundings and associates, and had changed her name- to the more aristocratic Elisabeth Howard. This dockside beauty was to take her place in history. She was to stake Louis Napoleon to an imperial ‘crown. She had a chance—not a great one, to be sure, although she thought so—of being empress. She did become Countess . de Beauregard, chatelaine of a fine estate and rich. Her $100,000 invested in Louis Napoleon had been highly profitable. Elisabeth Howard began life with certain natural endowments. She was radiantly handsome of face, with a splendid physique and figure. Described as taller than average, her beauty was classic, and she had a complexion “which defied the ravages of time and dissipation.” Able to read and write “only with difficulty,” she made up for the lack of these artificial talents by a quick cockney wit, excellent humor, and the “readiness to enter into a flirtation” which made: ker, in Lambeth, quite a unique She was “just the type to attract customers,” Charles Kingston relates, but pretty soon

too good for a “pub.” A mercenary-minded young rake, with some noble connections, convinced her of this. His plan was to start a gambling hall in the heart of London's elegant West End. He wanted Elisabeth as a come-on and as a consolation for the losers (for Jack Fitzroy had made precise arrangements for having plenty of losers). “There isn’t a young man in London with money who would not cheerfully lose a fortune provided you were in the same room,” he told her. “8 ITZROY’S prophecy came triumphantly true. By the time he was exposed as a cheat, Elisabeth had made the acquaintance of all the young bloods in the metropolis, had won the title of “Queen of London,” become the pre-eminent light lady of the town. A major in Her Majesty's Life Guards established her in a dwelling in Oxford St. so lavishly furnished that he almost went broke. Well established, Elisabeth quarreled with him. A mere major, without a great for-

By L. A.

MERICA has consumed astonishing amounts of beer since the New Deal legalized the foamy brew. Consumption in the “3.2” days of the last half of 1933 was 14,386,190 barrels of 31 standard gallons each. In the full twelve months of 1934, the figure leaped to 40,034,907 barrels, in 1935 to 15,143,032 barrels, in 1936 to 53,000,141 barrels. The 1936 figure represents 1,643,004,371 gallons, or a per capita ration of 12.6 gallons to wet the whistles of 130,000.000 Americans, including babes-in-arms. Beer-drinkers, at any rate, “love it in September as they do in May,” but their affections cool considerably in December, January and February. The five late spring and summer months of 1936 witnessed the withdrawal of 28,240,847 barrels of taxpaid” beer, or 53.28 per cent of the year’s total consumption. - A graph of America’s seasonal beer-drinking follows almost exactly the curved line representing mean temperaJuly is the peak—for heat and thirst-quenching, too. 2 \& a URIOUSLY enough, however, the “warm weather” states are not the heaviest beer-drinking states.

A sectional breakdown of Government statistics on withdrawals of tax-paid beer show the following sectional division of total- 1936 consumption: New Englang states, 6.39 per cent; Middle Atlantic states, 33.33 per cent; North Central states, 39.78 per cent; South Atlantic and South Central states, 11.23 per cent;

Mountain and Pacific states, 9.07 per. cent. ‘ : Specifically, New York, New Jer-

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The Indianapolis

THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1937

HE young nephew of the great Napoleon was in exile. He considered himself the pretender to his uncle's Twice he had attempted a coup d'etat against the established government of France. Each attempt had ended in ludicrous failure. : Established in London, in 1846, Louis Napoleon was He was always that, in fact, even

tune, was not her destined mate. Several stories exist of the meeting of Elisabeth and the fledgling and slightly moulted eagle. Capt., the Hon. Binghav journalist, relates how a friend of his, one night in Drury Lane, advised her to take the prince instead of some English peer for whom she had been angling. Another account states that Count d'Orsay, compatriot of Louis Napoleon and the “most accomplished dandy of his time,” introduced them. By that time Elisabeth was fairly rich. Three English nobles had made her presents of approximately $150,000. But there was a streak of romance in her. She could be generous as well as shrewd. And when generosity and romance were coupled with the possibility of a fabulous return, she persuaded herself to take the plunge. : Louis - Napoleon had another passion, apart from his ambition to be Emperor of France. The list of his conquests reads like the “Bottin Mondain.” He was a gusty lover. His moods were sudden and violent. While still an exile in London, he won the hearts of several beautiful and titled English ladies, put it was to Elisabeth finally, that he devoted most of his attention. To her, he could tell his hopes, his’ plans, with some expectation of belief. Events developed suddenly in France. The revolt. of 1848 drove Louis Philippe from the throne. A republic with “universal suffrange” returned, and the campaign to bring Louis Napoleon to power commenced. His name was enough. The pretender was elected deputy from several departments of France at once. The exile could return. He did. Equipped with Elisabeth’s money for bribes and his own expenses, he set up his campaign in Paris. Within a year, he was president of France. The name of the great Napoleon had “put him over.”

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LISABETH lived first at the Hotel Meurice. Her apart-

. ments there became headquar-

ters for the group which was planning a “putsch” to make Louis Napoleon emperor. Later, she moved to a house in the Rue du Cirque, just around the corner from the Elysee Palace. This, was after Louis Napoleon was president. Late most every afternoon, passers-by could perceive him leave the garden gate of the presidential palace in the Avenue Gabriel, and saunter around to Miss Howard's. A year later, Louis Napoleon was Emperor Napoleon III. His destiny was fulfilled, thanks to the help of a Thames-side barmaid. It seemed to Elisabeth Howard that all was well. Once installed as president, Napoleon began paying back his debts to her with interest. As emperor, he was even more lavish. A million francs in money in a single month—approximately $40,000— wiped out a big slice of the principal. Almost another million in jewelry helned. The Beauregard estate which he bought her when he made her a countess cost two million francs, $80,000. ‘The emperor was devoted and .—moderately—faithful. Elisabeth, knowing him so well, could hard-

Indiana Has Nation's 12th Biggest Thirst for Beer, Figures Show

sey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Illinois consumed 56 per cent of all the beer sold in the United States last year. Add to these in geographical order, Massachusetts, Maryland, Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri and California, and you have the folks who drank 81 per cent of all last year’s beer. ” ” ” OLLOWING is the pgrcentage distribution of the 1936 beer supply among the states, listed in order of their thirst: New York, 16.71 per cent; Fennsylvania, 11.68 per cent; Illinois, 9.25 per cent; Ohio, 6.91 per cent; Michigan, 6.86 per cent; New Jersey, 4.93 per cent, California, 4.68 per cent; Wisconsin, 4.20 per cent.

Massachusetts, 3.39 per cent; Minnesota, 3.35 per cent.

Missouri, 2:65 per cent; Indiana, 219 per cent; Iowa, 1.86 per cent; Maryland, 1.78 per cent; Washington, 1.77 per cent; Texas, 1.69 per cent; Connecticut, 1.42 per cent; Kentucky, 1.28 per cent; Louisiana, 91 per cent; Kansas, .88 per cent; West Virginia, .87 per cent; Rhode

| Island, 79 per cent; Nebraska, 78

per cent; Tennessee, .72 per cent; Floriaa, .71 per cent.

Virginia, .66 per cent; District of Columbia, .58 per cent; Montana, 37 per cent; Oregon, .51 per cent; North Dakota, .51 per cent; Oklahoma, 48 per cent; Georgia, .44 per cent; New Hampshire, 40 per cent; Maine, .37 per tent; South Dakota, .35 per cent; Colorado, .33 per cent; Idaho, .30 per cent; Utah, 25 per cent; Arkansas, .25 per cent; North Carolina, .24 per cent. Mississippi, .24 per cent; Vermont .23 per cent; Arizona, .22 per cent; South Carolina, .20 per cent; New

- Mexico, .20 per cent; ‘Delaware, .19 y a WARY wi ik 3

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A comic figure except-when he Louis Napoleon (right) reversed cedure of kings—it was in exile

ly expect more. She was at the peak of her success. The notion began to dawn that, perhaps something even more spectacular, ‘more magnificent than hitherto imaginable, might be written in her destiny. But she was wrong. Presently, she began to hear that Napoleon, for dynastic reasons, was contemplating a royal marriage. To wad some - European princess would go far to 'cement his throne. Putting aside the notion of being empress herself, Elisabeth became fairly philosophical about a regal ‘marriage. Such a match would surely not be a love match. After a little while, Louis Napoleon would come back to her. With some complacency, she watched events. She would still; She felt assured, be maitresse en itre,

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‘With the Women They Loved’

| Louis Napoleon, His Crown Gained, Jilted Pert Barmaid

(Fourth of a Series)

was on a horse, the usual prothat he found

this upstart ruler. Suspect, shaky, .

he offered no security. There was no- belief the new regime would last. It would probably topple, Europe thought, even more quickly than the First Empire had done.

Irritated, piqued, Napoleon gave up the quest. And at that moment a vastly shrewder blow fell upon the beautiful Miss Howard; for Napoleon III fell in love—and with a commoner!

A royal marriage she could have accepted. But, if Napoleon were going to marry somepody like Mademoiselle de Mantijo, that was too much! But it happened —with a great assembly of prelates and nobles in Notre Dame (not so great, by the way, as the Emperor would have wished, since the old French aristocracy still scorned him as an upstart, and his match with Mademoiselle Eugenie was heartily disapproved as meaningless). However, it was fatal to Elisabeth Howard, whose charms were slightly fading, and who, with vanishing power, was growing more exigent. She began to haunt the places where Napoleon and his empress were to be. Her spies told her when they were driving in the Bois, and she would drive, too, very handsome behind her

per cent; Wyoming, .14 per cent; Nevada, .08 per cent; Alabama, no report. The 1936 total consumption included 32,768,743 barrels of beer “on draught,” and 20,231,393 barrels in packages—bbttles, cans and kegs. Draught beer sales increased only 29 per cent over 1935, but packaged beer sales went up 52 per cent

in. the one year, and were better than double such sales m 1934. .

Heard in Congress

Senator Clark (D. Mo): As I listened today to the very eloquent plea of my distinguished friend from Tennessee (Senator McKellar), one of ‘the most consistent and ablest advocates of economy at all times, in his argument in behalf of this: further appropriation for the Tennessee Valley, I could not help being reminded of a story that ussd to be told in the House of Representatives when I was a boy. It was about an incident in connection with a very distinguished Representative from Indiana, the late Judge Holman, then chairman of the Appropriations Committee, and the original member of Congress to win in the country the title of “the watchdog of the Treasury.” It was noted that on one occasion an appropriation -was presented having to do with the section of Indiana which Judge Holman represented. To the surprise of everyone, Judge Holman spoke vigorously in support of the item. In beginning the debate in opposition to the amendment, Col. David B. Henderson of ,Iowa, later Speaker of the House, began his remarks in this way: . "Tis sweet to hear the honest watchdog's bark

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love, in the person of buxom, flirtatious Elisabeth Howard (left), and used her wealtlt as stepping stones to the French throne.

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The last hopes of Elisabeth Howard, barmaid who aspired to be queen, that Napoleon III would make her his bride, went glimmering ‘when the great Bonaparte's nephew married another commoner, Eugenie de Montijo, in the imperial ceremony (sketched above) in

‘Notre Dame Cathedral.

high-stepping bays. She frequented the opzra on nights when the imperial court atliended, taking, with very bad taste, the box opposite the royal family’s. It was the end. The idyll was over, Napoleon, no longer an exile, had no longer the need of Elisabeth Howard which he once had felt. She was persuaded to retire to her country place. Her allowance, however, was still generous. State papers, discovered after Napoleon lost his throne, re-

ASHINGTON, June 3. — It seems to be Roosevelt's fault again. He grows indignant aver, de luxe tax dodging but through the first ‘reaction to his complaints runs a cynical tendency to blame him, somehow, for it, If. a man incorporates his yacht fo escapz taxes, or if a woman incorporates her home and hires her husband at a neat salary in order to chisel the Government out of taxes, they are not to be criticized, it seems, Roosevelt has made. the tax laws too tight, or he has left them too loose, or he is excited about abuses that have existed for years. Or. why should he complain if a man takes advantage of every losphole he can find or every deception he can devise? In private business mistakes are rectified every day because the beneficiary of the mistake voluntarily calls attention to it. But when you are dealing, with the Government you are a sah if you don’t resort to every kind of tricky misrepresentation that you can get away with. This is accepted practice and in some quarters there seems to be surprise that Roosevelt should take exception to it.

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UCH is being made of the distinction betwen tax avoidance and tax evasion. The line is thin, and shifting. It is fixed where the courts place it. Tax avoidance is when you try to escape paying and get away with it. Tax evasion is when you try to escape and get caught. Or, as one tax lawyer explains it, the difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is a term in the penitentiary. If you get away with it, you are a fine, patriotic citizen, doing your duty. If you get

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vealed that he had paid her five million francs in cash before his marriage. Elisabeth Howard presently married in Florence. Her husband was a member of an old English family. She was 41. Her beauty and seducfiveness had not entirely vanished.| But shs had lived through her hour of greatness and she presently died. I

NEXT—General Boulanger and Mme. Marguerite de Bonnemains,

Roosevelt Is Blamed for Tax Dodging, Clapper Says

By Raymond Clapper

Times Special Writer :

An Army officer, retired, is drawing retired pay and also reaping considerable profit from a patent which he owns. He doesn’t like paying taxes. So he applies for Canadian citizenship. When he gets it, he relinquishes his Army retired pay and then incorporates in: the Bahama Islands, where taxes are easy. Although his profits come from the sales of his device in the United States, he can thumb his nose thereafter at the U. S. Government and Secretary: Morgenthau's nosey tax collectors. President Roosevelt ‘feels’ that such instances involve more than a legal issue. He insists that a moral question is involved. He doubts if the laws can be made tight enough to prevent every conceivable kind of wilful evasion. :

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ANY in Washington are inclined to be cynical about it. They can see a fine bit of . demagoguery in a President publicly whipping rich tax dodgers. The affair does not make appropriate reading at this time = when thousands of young men and women are being graduated from schools and colleges. Commencement orators are stuffing them with dreary advice about the ideals of ‘citizenship, how they should work hard, and do their duty to. their country. Trusting graduates listen .to this and then read their newspapers and make the. shocking discovery that they haven't been told the facts of life. They have been told to save their money. But they haven't been told how. They haven't been told. the way to save money is’ to hire a good lawyer who can convert dear old dad into a foreign corpora-

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Qur Town By Anton Scherrer J’

Miss Tennessee Warfield of Indianapolis Believes Wedding Suppers Have Deteriorated a Lot,

ITH social values dodging and twisting about the way they are today, 1 regard it as something of a duty to tell you about Miss Tennessee Warfield, who lives at 1655 Yandes St. :

Miss Warfield, or “Aunt Tennie,” as everybody around here calls her, gets in today’s column because she’s the only Baltimore Warfield I know. She takes it in her regular stride, which, of

course, is the way for a Warfield to behave. Aunt Tennie came to Indianapolis by way. of Tennessee. Her mother came from Baltimore, however, and so did her grandmother. Both were slaves of George H, Warfield, a lawyer by profession, who made his money running a store in Baltimore. When the Civil War came, Mr. Warfield packed up everything he owned, including Aunt Tennie's mother, and moved to Tennessee, and that’s where Aunt Tennie was born. She was always known as a Warfield, although, of course, she was no relative to Mr. Warfield. It was a Southern custom for slaves to take the name of their masters, Mr. Warfield gave Aunt Tennie her first name, too, and when it came time for Aunt Tennie’s sister to arrive, he went the limit and called her “Georgia.” Mr. Warfiéld was mighty good to her, says Aunt Tennie. She still has a cherry table he gave her, and it's one of the prettiest in town. For this reason, if no other, Aunt Tennie believes that Wally will be mighty good to the Duke. The Warfields are great stock, she says. . :

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Worked for Best Families

IN ouorY is a better judge of stock than Aunt : Tennie, because if you examine her record vau’ll discover that ever since she’s been in Indianapolis she’s worked for the best families. Aunt Tennie says it's been her privilege, but if you ask me, I'll say that it's the Warfield gift for picking the right people. Her record reads like the Blue Book. I can't begin to recall all the families Aunt Tennie has served, but I know enough to tell you that they include those of Simon and George Yandes, the Jack Hollidays, the McKays, the Stantons, the Dyes, the Downeys, the Nicholsons, the Woollens and goodness knows who else. Aunt Tennie says she remembers plenty of Indianapolis girls whose wedding suppers she cooked. Most of them are grandmothers now.

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ALT TENNIE says wedding suppers have deteriorated a lot in the last 30 years. When they were going good they always included chicken salad, escalloped oysters ‘and roast turkey. And champagne, too. Party affairs aren’t what they used to be, either, and it pains her to see what passes for a Christmas dinner nowadays. Time was when they always had a baked ham besides the turkey, and a couple of mince pies besides the plum pudding. Aunt Tenhnie has her own notions about mint Juleps, too. She picks the mint fresh out of the garden, washes it, and carefully picks off the leaves. No stalks, mind you.| Then she mashes the leaves and puts sugar and water on top. taking infinite pains to caress the whole with a silver spoon. The whisky is the last thing to go in. It's the Warfield way. : :

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’ ‘ A Woman's View By Mrs. Walter Ferguson i

Swift Blooming and Passing Of Flowers Lesson to Women.

Al this time of year nature sets woman a good example. Unless you think of it that way you are often depressed by the swiftness with which the flowers bloom and fade. First the timid crocus peeps out upon our lawn, then the red bud flames, and one morning we are surprised at the whiteness of the Dian wreath and the sweet-smelling plumes of the ilac. One by one the flowers greet us and pass, making way for others even more lovely. The blooming time of Mother Earth gives us a constant colorful beauty parade—humble little flowerets, great gorgeous blooms, and all the in-between sizes that march before us all the year through. Each has its peculiar place and use and each gladdens our eyes and our hearts. We enjoy them all; we need them all.

Their loveliness is so satisfying because every cne ]

ppears in its proper season. It belongs to iis time. Life too ought to be like that for us. The season of our days can be made full of beauty if we would have it so. In the garden of womanhood there is the loveliness that. belongs to 16 and the loveliness that belongs to 60. There is a time for budding, for blooming and for bearing fruit, and a time too for fading and dying. A good deal of feminine discontent can be traced to the fact that we women are not wise with Nature's ancient wisdom, but put too much trust in the knowiedge found in books. Therefore we are beset with longings. Somebody who makes money at it tells us| that we can always remain 16, or at least 35, and forthwith our desire is set upon doing so. Instead of living richly and fully through all our seasons, we fret because it can’t be always spring for us. Sometimes our summer has gone before we cease to regret May. |

New Books Today Public Library Presents— oa

Almas of Robert Graves will greet TH ANTIGUA STAMP (Random House) wit relish. The life-long quarrel between actress Jan and author Oliver Price begins with the possessio of the stamp album—is it his or “ours”? Their attack upon each other are amusing in spite ot mean, spite ful, and malicious intentions. | The Antigua Stamp, rescued from a bottle thrown into the ‘ocean from a sinking ship, is the main bon of contention. It is the basis of law suits, hatred jealousy, enmity between friends; becomes notoriou and high priced; is stolen and recovered, sold anc retrieved. The fact that a mere 1 penny postag stamp can cause sO much excitement is rawthaw jolly.” Stamp collectors will enjoy the story and a preciate Oliver's belligerent attitude; others will commend Jane on her reaction. For those who’ prefe British stories this one is definitely Londonish. : . 2 8. 8 - HOSE who fear war and rumors of war as pigs" tured in the daily press, should find some comfort in a little book called VIEWBD WITHOU ALARM, by Walter Millis (Houghton Mifflin). It contains a very brief review of the European scene from the standpoint of a tourist who does not pre tend to have gone deéply. into) the problems confronting that supposedly explosive continent, but whe nevertheless has glimpsed something of the everyday life of its people. And the result of the author's experiences is a message of hope, for the common man is much the same the world over—and therein lies the strength of the future. The little time necessary to peruse this book will be well spent.

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