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-Modern arables- 4C Sept. 20, 1950 ST.L0U1S POST-DISPATCH Lessons In Using Sign Language By Henry McLemore Legend of Silver Stitches By Fulton Oursler I -ft; 3 I buried beneath it. By this time the Frenchman, if he hasn't ru away, will understand what yot want to see. Then act out a bus in motion. To do this run along the street with your head lowered, alternately stopping and starting, and making a noise like a horn, and pretending to be taking up and punching tickets, putting on brakes, turning corners and, well, acting out a bus from start to finish.

If you happen to be headed in the right way when you start playing bus the chances are that you'll eventually get to Napoleon's tomb. ORDERING ROAST BEEF in Switzerland: Almost too obvious to describe. Use the fingers to indicate horns on the head. Moo and bellow. Take pocket knife and simulate cutting chunks of meat off your side.

Chew vigorously. Swallow. Pat stomach-Swirl like a matador. Fall down like dead steer. For some reason all this will sometimes get you roast chicken in Switzerland.

It isn't bad, so go ahead and eat it. MISS DONNA JANE HOGAN. LEFT. AND CRAWFORD OF SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Debutante Party Today to Present Mary Richmond ABOUT 150 guests have been asked to call between 4 and 6 o'clock this afternoon at the home of Mrs.

H. Mills Richmond, 9743 Litzsinger road, Ladue, when she will introduce her debutante daughter. Miss Mary Richmond. The hottse, 100-year-old homestead of the Litzsinger family, is decorated with yellow chrysanthemums in the living room where Mrs. Richmond and her daughter will receive before the mantle, and red roses on the tea table in the dining room.

Weather permitting, the punch bowl will be arranged on the terrace. Thirty-two of Miss Richmond's contemporaries will serve. TODAY'S DEBUTANTE will be gowned in white marquisette and lace. The double-layer circular skirt is trimmed on the underskirt with lace appliqued in points and the marquisette bodice, designed with a low V-shaped neckline and cap sleeves, tops a camisole effect of lace. Miss Richmond will hold an armful of roses.

Mrs. Richmond will wear grey chiffon fashioned with a peplum banded in matching lace. Miss Richmond is a graduate of Mary Institute, class of 1949. She will remain here until after the Veiled Prophet ball and then return to Garland School, Boston, where she is majoring in dress designing. Her younger sister, Miss Celia Richmond, will be a freshman this year at Pembroke College of Brown University, Providence, R.

I. MRS. ADOLPHUS BUSCH III of Huntleigh Village is in New York, a guest at the Sherry-Netherlaud Hotel. She departed early this month, and will return home in few weeks. DR.

AND MRS. Robert Porter, 18 Lake Forest, Richmond Heights, have returned from a vacation in the Hawaiian Islands during which they visited the more important ones Oa-hu, Kauai, Maui and Hawaii. On Hawaii they rode over some of the Mauna Loa lava flow, which now is several months old but still emitting heat. They also visited the Punchbowl National Memorial of the Pacific, where the body of Ernie Pyle, noted war correspondent, is interred between two unknown soldiers. En route home on the Lur-line, on which they made both trips, the Porters met several Hawaiian students coming to the United States to attend college.

Dr. Porter, former minister of First Congregational Church, delivered the Sunday sermon on board ship on both trips. PARIS, Sept. 20. IT being my observation that 99 per cent of the Americans who visit the Continent of Europe do not speak more than half a dozen words of the languages spoken on the Continent, I have decided to do a book on sign language.

For the past 15 years I have used sign language abroad with tremendous success. Authorities on this means of tion have told me that were it not for a slightly stiff elbow (I got it earning my leap-frog letter early in the Wilson administration) I would be recognized as one of the best in the world at wig-wagging my wants to foreigners. A WORD of warning is in order for those who might be tempted to drop those "French In Three Easy Lessons," "Spanish While You Wait For the Bus," and "Italian Before Breakfast" books in favor of the sign language. It is a much, much more rigorous means of communication than by the tongue. Road work is essential.

Twenty or 30 miles of jogging and sprinting a day is none too much, for unless the legs are strong one can never hope to order properly a stepladder, say, from an Italian assistant hotel manager. Ordering a step-ladder in Italy and you know how you're ALWAYS needing one of the things sometimes requires hours of pretending to climb in the air. And even then you are likely to get a fly swatter, not a stepladder, and have to begin all over again. ONCE I HAVE pounded the necessity of physical fitness into my readers' heads, I will give hundreds of examples of effective sign language motions. With your permission without it, even I will describe one or two.

Telling a Frenchman that you want to catch a bus to Napoleon's Tomb. This is comparatively simple. First, shrink yourself to approximately Napoleon's height, twist your hat around until it looks cockeyed, poke your hand in your coat, and say, preferably in French, "Napoleon." Then, just as if you were playing "the game," act out a tomb with Napoleon CAPTURE 51 Iter Mlc BUT AS THE WEEKS passed, the old one grew weaker and her young friend feared that soon she would die. "Won't you give me some little thing to keep when we are no longer together?" the young mother asked. "Some reminder that will steady me and keep me straight when I get out of here?" The old woman had nothing to give, but she promised to think it over.

S-cretly, she knew what she was going to do; the jailers must not know. She had made up her mind to produce a piece of embroidery that would be a keepsake for her friend, and she would work on it in the first hours of dawn, while mother and child and guards were still asleep. She had neither thread nor needle, and only a tiny sliver of light to work by when the sun came up. And yet with unbounded persistence, she did manage to make an outlandish decoration on her head scarf. Under glass, nearly a hundred years afterward, I beheld the finished task a religious text that she had sewn; the embroidered letters graceless but clear: "I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way that thou shalt go I will guide thee with mine eyes thy home is in Heaven." HER NEEDLE had been a carefully concealed hairpin.

But what had she used for thread? Where had she obtained those long silvery strands? From her own head, that's where! They were her own gray hairs, plucked one by one, and stitched into the words of a Bible promise, reasserting the faith which she had found again; faith that God would help all of them, such as they were; the old alcoholic, the younger thief, and the baby; faith that in Heaven there would be a home and happiness for them. Soon after her job was done, the old lady died. The fabric she made from the hair of her repentent old head is in the Black Museum and in my heart. Plaid Scarfs Scarfs of plaid woolen to match the lining or the trimming of a suit jacket or a coat illustrate the trend toward bright themes for autumn. Many of these scarfs are attached to the coat although some are sold separately to be used with several different costumes.

SPECIAL REDUCE NOW! 10 VISITS in ONLY LImiffJ Tim Only LEON'S naw-thapa lona-torto drats THERE is a tale of deathless hope that I found in the Black Museum. One of the strangest collections of crime relics in the world is housed in that maze of ancient dungeons under London's Scotland Yard. One rainy morning I was allowed to visit its dark chambers below the embankment of the Thames, and it was then I came upon this relic of old sorrow and faith, so poignant and so trustful, that I have never been able to forget it. Shelved in glass cases around the dank walls are displayed not' for the public, which is barred from the scene but for the instruction of rookie policemen souvenirs of old crimes exhibits from murder trials and leftovers of unsolved violence. Amidst knives and guns and poison vials, I chanced to notice, in an obscure corner, the saddest object, to my eyes, in that or any other collection.

It was a fading piece of needlework, fashioned by a woman prisoner nearly a century ago. MY DETECTIVE FRIEND and guide told me its brief official history the rest is legend. Fifty times the woman prisoner a homeless dipsomaniac had been jailed. She wag regarded as incorrigible. But during her last stretch in prison, some mysterious change came over her.

No longer did she rattle bars, spit at guards or curse the human race. Instead the dull eyes took on a hopeful luster, withered lips silenced in a smile. What had happened? Perhaps it had begun when the guards shoved into her cell two cellmates one, a young woman who, at 24 years of age, was a drunkard, a thief, and a mother, the other, her baby, locked up with her, for those were barbarous times in prison practice, everywhere. By some revival of womanly tenderness in her heart, the old sot took pity on her young companion. She comforted her, and helped nurse the child through a fever.

And as time passed, she began to plead with the young mother to reform; to bring up her child in decency. Why had this alcoholic hag suddenly become so interested in helping another human being? So much so that she even turned to the Bible. How she ever got a Bible in those callous days is a mystery, but she did get one, and in the feeble light of the cell she would stumble through texts, cracked voice echoing in low vaults. One verse from the Bible especially warmed their hearts a promise that God would teach and guide the soul. Chops Chlldra This (frj Aspirin 1.

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45WrTt 7 Buy Mcimana Skin Cream today. 3 Sc. Social Activities St. Louisans Return From Vacations AFTER an unusually pleasant summer of European travel the Joseph L. Werners and their daughter, Miss Claire Ann, returned Thursday to their home, The Woodlands, 9625 Ladue road.

They arrived In New York last Tuesday on the Queen Mary after skirting the edges of a hurricane in the Atlantic. Their son, Joseph Gar-neau Werner, met them briefly at the Ritz and then went on to Princeton University for his senior year. Shortly after their return Mr. and Mrs. Werner saw for the first time their young granddaughter, named Elise for Mrs.

Werner, the first child of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Werner II (Anne Desloge). In Rome the Werners had a special audience with the Pope whom they had met in St. Louis while he was still a cardinal, and attended two general audiences.

They spent some time in Paris, after visits at Lake Como and Lucerne, and there saw several St. Louisans, including the Marchese and Marchesa Anthony Mattel fshe was Miss Georgette Madill). Miss Werner, traveling with i-Iiss Loraine Grover and Miss Cornelia Gibson of New York, both of whom were here for her debut ball last winter, motored through Europe, and met her parents in Paris. MR. AND MRS.

WALKER HILL, 6416 Cecil avenue, too, returned recently after a long summer vacation and on Friday night, Oct. 6, will give a debutante party honoring Miss Julia Lawnin Gordon. Miss Anne Stanard McCandless and Miss Sally Bixby. It is to be a costume party, with 75 guests arriving at 6:30 o'clock in South Pacific attire some the clothes similar to those worn in the famous play by the same name which will be showing at the American Theater at that time. They will be entertained in the play house on the Hill property.

Mr. and Mrs. Hill had a cottage at Sea Island, for the month of July, then went to Highlands, N. and finally to Oconomowoc, for a houseparty at Begg's Isle, summer home of Mrs. Richard Mc-Culloch, who at the time was entertaining her son-in-law and daughter, Mr.

and Mrs. James Lowell Oakes of New York. Among the Hills' neighbors In Sea Island were Mr. and Mrs. L.

W. (Chip) Robert of Washington and Mr. and Mrs. Douglas MacArthur II, who also have houses there and who shared in the many parties, not only at the homes of friends but on boats and air-conditioned cars. Mrs.

MacArthur, whose husband is the nephew and namesake of Gen. Douglas Mac-Arthur, is a daughter of Vice President Alben W. Barkley. MR. ROBERT is on a round-the-world flight on government business, but his wife (Evie Robert) and their 12-year-old daughter, Birney, now on a ranch in Cody, will be here Friday to be the Hills' guests.

Also arriving to complete the houseparty at the Hill home, will be Mrs. Ryburn Clay of Atlanta, and Mrs. Harry Walsh of Chicago, who will be entertained, as will Mrs. Robert, at a series of informal parties over the weekend. MRS.

ROLAND C. BAER, 19 Pointer lane, Ladue, will depart today for Paducah, to spend a few days with Mrs. Alben W. Barkley, wife of the Vice President, at the Barkley home, which she has occupied since early July and where she expects to stay until November. Mr.

Baer will join his wife Friday to help celebrate Mrs. Barkley's birthday anniversary the following day, and will return with her Sunday. Mrs. Barkley's daughters. Miss Anne and Miss Jane Had-ley, were here for a few days last week with their paternal grandmother, Mrs.

Everett A. Hadley, 10 North Kingshigh-way. Mrs. Hadley had previously been in Boston, the guest of her brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.

Herbert M. Stur-devant. Miss Anne Hadley will resume her studies at Sophie Newcomb College, New Orleans, and Miss Jane, at Holton Arms School, Washington. ACROSS 1. Astonished t.

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Swlndlaa S4. Remalnad 29. Exist U. Happaa MISS JOANNE ELIZABETH WHOSE ENGAGEMENTS ANNOUNCED. Miss Joanne Crawford Betrothed to G.H.Bohn ANNOUNCEMENT has been made of the engagement of Miss Joanne Elizabeth Crawford, daughter of Mrs.

M. H. Crawford, Saratoga Springs, N. and the late Frank F. Crawford, to George Harting Bohn of St.

Louis. Mr. Bohn's parents are Mr. and Mrs. Charles A.

Bohn, 5456 Partridge avenue. The wedding will take place in December. Miss Crawford received her bachelor of science degree in psychology at St. Lawrence University, Canton, N. where she joined Kappa Delta sorority.

At present she is doing social work with the Saratoga County Child Welfare Department. Her fiance attended Pomona College, Claremont, and was graduated in 1949 from the University of Missouri with a B.S. degree in electrical engineering. His fraternities are Pi Kappa Alpha, social, and Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, Pi Mu Epsilon and Omicron Delta Kappa, honorary fraternities. During the last war he was stationed in Italy as a fire lieutenant with the fifteenth Army Air Force.

He is now a member of its reserve. Mr. Bohn is currently living in Schenectady, N. Y. Jean Rnnegan Plans October Marriage MISS JEAN MARIE FINNE-GAN, daughter of Dr.

and and Mrs. Francis R. Finne-gan, and Thomas J. Ryan will be married at 10 o'clock the morning of Saturday. Oct.

7, at St. Roch's Church. The bride's uncle, the Rev. Joseph Poel-king, will perform the ceremony. The reception will take place at her home, 6233 Westminster place.

Miss Finnegan's two sisters will be among her attendants, Miss Jane Ann, her twin, as maid of honor and Miss Mary Esther Finnegan, as a bridesmaid. Others will be Mrs. Edward J. Sheridan Jr. (Patricia Balducci), Miss Carol Joan Twiellenmeier and Miss Peggy Hume.

Glennon Ryan will be his brother's best man. They are the sons of Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Ryan, 7221 Chamberlain avenue, University City. Ushers will be the bride's brother, Frank R.

Finnegan, Herman Thomas Fikes, Donald Sheehan, Edward Crane, Jerry Shasserre, Frank Bick and Mr. Sheridan. TWO PARTIES were given for Miss Finnegan and Mrs. Sheridan before the latter's Sept. 9 wedding.

Miss Hume and Mrs. Bick were co-hostesses Sept. 2 at a cocktail party at the Bick home, 4207 Shenandoah avenue, and Miss Charlotte O'Mara gave a dinner Sept. 6 at her parents home, 1297 Oak court, University City. Miss Finnegan also was guest of honor at a personal shower Sept.

12 at which Miss Mary Lou McConnell was hostess, and the prospective bridegroom's mother gave a kitchen shower for her Sept. 14. Miss Twiellenmeier will give a shower next Sunday afternoon at her home, 7309 Ravinia drive, Normandy. Dr. and Mrs.

Pierce J. Reilly will be host and hostess at a dinner Thursday, Sept. 28. at Normandy Country Club. The prospective bride's two sisters will give the spinster dinner Monday, Oct.

2. A miscellaneous shower was given last month by Mrs. Sheridan at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Balducci, 7000 Lindell boulevard, University City.

I A Nam to Remember For I FINE PHOTOGRAPHY MARTIN SCHWEIG 4727 Dalmar mm UDnMdDMin) HAVE BEEN Late Winter Wedding For Miss Donna Hogan THE engagement of Miss Donna Jane Hogan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Michael P. Hogan, to James Edward Farley, Janesville, and Minneapolis, was announced Saturday at a cocktail party at the Hogan home, 6133 Waterman avenue. Mr.

Farley is the son of the late Raymond R. Farleys of Janesville. Miss Hogan's niece, Colleen Hogan, presented arriving guests, about 100 in number, with miniature silver engagement rings to which were attached cards bearing the names of the engaged couple. The bride-elect attended Fontbonne College where she participated in numerous academic and extra-curricular activities. She is the sister of Mrs.

George Lurie, Mrs. Daniel B. Tammany, Mrs. William P. Lapping and Miss Doris, Miss Patricia, Miss Joan, Edward Michael J.

and Glen-non J. Hogan. The prospective bridegroom is the brother of Thomas P. Farley, Janesville, and a nephew of Mr. and Mrs.

Louis A. Farley of the Monticello Apart-hents, 4535 Lindell boulevard. He is an alumnus of St. Thomas College, St. Paul, and served with the Navy for two years.

A late winter wedding is planned. The Rev. Robert J. Hogan, S.M., cousin of Miss Hogan, will officiate at the ceremony. MRS.

ELLIOTT O'REILLY Lucia King) and her young son, Elliott Howard, will arrive Saturday to be with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Hop-kins King. 16 Pine Valley drive, St. Louis Country Club grounds, until Oct.

1 when Dr. O'Reilly will join them to take possession of their duplex at 460 South Price road, Ladue. The O'Reillys, who have been living in New York for the past year, spent the summer with his mother, Mrs. J. Archer O'Reilly, 6369 Pershing avenue, at her home in Kingston.

Mass. The senior Mrs. O'Reilly will return to St. Louis Saturday with her daughter-in-law and young grandson. air.

and Mrs. Carl F. G. Meyer gave a cocktail party late yesterday afternoon at their home, 7330 Maryland avenue, University City, in honor of their daughter, Mrs. David Nelson Burruss ct Shaker Heights, who arrived here a few days ago for a short visit with her family.

The Meyers son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Carl F. G. Meyer III, 59 Kingsbury place, have departed for an early autumn sojourn in New York.

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Red-lick (Patricia Van Schoiack), and their two young daughters. Duff Ellen and Tracy Lynn, are the guests of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Tracy W. Van Schoiack, 56 Crestwood drive, Clayton. The Redlicks, who spent the summer with Mr. and Mrs. Van Schoiack at their cottage on Crystal Lake, Pilgrim, will depart by motor Monday for their home in Palo Alto, Calif.

Two St. Louis young women will enroll as freshmen at Bradford (Mass.) Junior College this week. They are Miss Abby Caywood, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harley B.

Caywood, 4951 Laclede avenue, and Miss Margaret Rodes. daughter of Mrs. Boyle O. Rodes, 9610 Ladue road. Seniors at the college from St.

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