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8 RHODA A Red-Headed Girl By Henry Kitchell Webster Copyright ISM. Worth Amtrlean and Metropolitan Nawssasar Servlet. SYNOPSIS. the deeth of her father, whose last years were clouded by poverty and Rhoda McFarland calls herself Rhoda White. An ad In the papers asklna for information as to the whereabouts of a Rhode McFarland catches the eye of Martin Forbes, a reporter and a friend of Rhoda.

She tells him part of her story. Later a stranser, Cleveland, comes claiming to have known her father at the time of his misfortune. She adds that he had certain papers belonging to her and asks to have them returned Rhoda says that all her papers are In a sealed trunk In her apartment. When the trunk Is stolen, she accuses Claire, who makes a denial. Forbes retrieves the trunk, but.

before he can tell Rhoda this, she goes to see a man named Forster, who. according to Claire had been Mr. McFarland enemy and the person responsible for the ad. She tells him about the theft of thg trunk and about her meeting with Claire. He Is frantic with fear and anger.

He denounces Claire as a blackmailer and says she was discharged from his employ. He even goes so far as to say that he does not believe Rhode's statement that she Is Rhoda McFarland. SEVENTEENTH INSTALLMENT. Bewildered by the ness of question, Rhoda could only echo In amazement, am And. for that he went on.

old are you? Eighteen, you say. Sure you 18 six years ago? Thought you'd cooked up something good, did you, when you got together and swapped stories with a discharged employe of mine, faked up the red hair, and came here pretending to be Rhoda McFarland." am Rhoda she told him. don't know who you think I am. I know what talking mind telling you what talking about. talking about what happened to Prof.

McFarland six years ago. when he got on a train here In Chicago to go back to the coast. He'd been East to read a paper before the Oil Institute, and he found a young girl on the train across the aisle from him crying because had her pocketbook stolen after got on the train. was sorry for her and paid her fare, Pullman and all, so they wouldn't put her off the train. And she promised him that her friends would send the money as soon as she got to the Coast.

But what she did was to make a complaint before the district attorney out there that he'd taken advantage of her. claimed It was a frame-up. and, when it went to trial, the jury acquitted him. although he couldn't snow any reason why any one should want to frame him that way and no one else could either. And the scandal of the trial cost him his job at the university.

he came back here and told me story, and I believed him and gave him a job. He felt disgraced about it. He was like a man hiding from the police; didn't want anybody to know who he was or what he was doing. Well, I could see how he felt so I never told a soul anything about it. I even paid him bis wages In cash every week.

Cleveland couldn't have found out anything about him, even If she tried to. He never came near my office nor where I lived. He worked at a place I fixed up for him, and I used to go around there once a week to see how he was getting on and to pay him bis money. dead sure he never told his daughter anything about that California mess. She was nothing but a kid.

have kept It from her, if been telling everybody else In sight. when you said that Claire Cleveland was talking to you about what happened to McFarland out In California have known you were lying even if you given yourself away by other things. And If you want to know who I think you really are, I mind telling you that, either. I believe the one person alive today who really knows whether Walter McFarland was telling the truth or Until finished, she seen what he waa driving at. And, when she did.

she could do nothing but stare at him, confounded by the mere monstrousness of his mistake. To complete her discomfiture she found she was beginning to cry. Silly unwanted tears were welling up in her eyes, anyhow, and blurring her sight of him. can cry, can you? Well, It worked with him, but it wont with me. So you may as well He broke off there as the telephone bell rang.

He seemed rather startled, though, by the message he was getting. he barked. does he say he He shot a sharp look at her when he got the answer to the question, as though he suspected her of having had something to do with that call. he said, after listening for a minute, see him, but not in here. Have him shown up to the library.

see him there. And find DeGraw and tell him I want He put the telephone back and pressed an electric button. going to leave you for a he said to Rhoda, think things over, and you'd better think straight, If you can. going to get this Cleveland woman. But got nothing against you.

And, if you can make up your mind to come through clean and tell me the whole conspiracy. let you go Meanwhile, it do you any good to try to get away. You could holler your head off. and nobody would pay any attention to He left and Rhoda sank back in her chair, too limp to obey her rather weak Impulse to dart out of that room before they should have time to lock her up in It. What possessed her mind was the story Forster had been telling her about the girl he'd preposterously taken her to be.

Did he really believe that? Was there a scrap of doubt In his mind that she was Walter daughter? Wasn't the whole thing a bluff to put her on the defensive and frighten her Into doing, eventually, whatever It was that he wanted her to do? It would have been a rather satisfactory explanation, if she could have adopted It, for no other reason than that it brought him out In a clearer, less ambiguous light. But she found she adopt it. He any more of an actor than she was. His manner, while he had been trying to convince her that he had been led by nothing but disinterested benevolence In trying to find her, had been utterly unconvincing. Three times during their talk she had startled him Into explosions of uncontrolled fright or anger: when she had mentioned the theft of the trunk, when she had spoken Claire Cleveland's name; and, finally, when she had referred to what had happened to her father in California.

The first two times he had seemed more frightened than angry. But the last time he been frightened at all. Indeed, hii anger had seemed to carry with It a relief from his former fear, as If given herself away, and perceived at last that what been frightened about true. And that must mean that he believe It possible that Claire Cleveland could have known anything about the California episode. She found herself accepting what told her about that as the truth.

Some of the other things he'd told her she knew to be true. Her father had been paid in cash through the four years lived at the hotel. Forster wouldn't have known that, unless paid him himself, or It likely that he would. What he'd said about her father's feeling disgraced and having lived practically in hiding was confirmed. too, by Innumerable memories of his having cautioned her not to talk to people, nor answer their It was quite likely that Forster had guarded his secret, though perhaps for reasons he avow, as carefully as he said he had.

But Claire Cleveland, somehow, had found the secret out. Bhe'd spoken of the laboratory on Erie street, where her father had worked. Had she really worked for him as she said she had? It was possible, but it seem very likely. At any rate, it was flatly unbelievable that he would have confided to her, as she said he had, the story of his California disaster. And yet It was clear that she knew about that.

Bhe'd spoken of it with easy, unguarded familiarity. apoken of the trial and the sensation that It created. been hardly anything else In the at the time, she least, in the San Francisco papers. Rhoda sat erect and held her breath. Why, why hadn't she caught that slip at time? All It meant, all it could possibly mean, was that It had been In the San Francisco papers that Claire had read about It.

Bhe'd been In Ban Francisco then during the trial. She said so. She hadn't meant to Sve that away. pretended that from Walter McFarland that heard this story, long afterward, In Chicago. Os course! Claire Cleveland was the girl on the train.

Strangely enough the first feeling this conclusion brought Rhoda was one of relief, like waking up from a long nightmare. She had always been sure of her rectitude. But now, having heard the story for the first time, she was sure of it in a new way. She could face it now. She could talk to Martin about it.

She was confident that her father had been the object of a conspiracy and that she had sat at lunch today with one of the conspirators. She recalled her first Impression of Claire, her momentary belief that she couldn't be the woman because she looked rather nice, and young not much over 20. Six years ago she could have looked convincingly like an innocent young girl crying forlornly over the loss of her ticket and the prospect that put her off the train. Had she hated the job they'd given her to do? At any gone ahead with her work of betrayal, anyhow. but not, Rhoda believed, without a sense of the fine quality of the man she ruined and of the infamy of the plot she had consented to.

She had said at lunch today that, while a pretty girl could fool almost any man, there were a few men who were different and she that Walter McFarland was one of them. She had also stated her that he was innocent; thst had put something over on Os course it was hard to tell where the truth left off and where the lies began. professed hatred of Forster true, though as yet specifically unaccounted for. She had tried to convince Rhoda, though with a suspicious insistence upon her own lack of knowledge, that Forster was the person primarily responsible for the plot against her father. That felt like the truth, though it obviously Forster had stopped being frightened and had burst into a rage of pure relief when she had told him that Claire had said that.

That had been what had convinced him that she herself had been lying all along. It had even led him really to the belief had seemed she herself had been the girl on the train. That disposed of the possibility that he could be the man who had compelled, or persuaded, or coldly hired, Claire. And yet he couldn't be left out of the pattern altogether. He had advertised for Rhoda McFarland and no one but an Idiot could doubt, after seeing him and hearing him talk, that he had done so in the furtherance of some mean purpose of his own.

Claire, who had once been his private secre- and Max Lewis, who was his nephew, knew, or thought they knew, what that purpose was, and had tried to forestall him by finding her first. It wss her papers that Claire had tried to get a chance to rummage through, and, at her own mention to Forster of the theft of those papers, he had started as If she had drawn a revolver on him. There must be something among those papers that he wanted pretty badly; something that had nothing to do with the California episode, but with the work he had done here In Chicago. Was there, or did Forster believe there was, among her papers some precious secret formula? Was that what with his dying breath tried to tell her about? And was that what Claire and Max had been trying to steal, so that they could sell It to Forster on their own terms? Was the conspiracy to ruin her father at the university an entirely unrelated thing, except for the coincidence of connection with It? That seemed rather unlikely, but It was the only way the story made sense. (Continued In Tomorrow's Star).

Y. W. A. News Each Sunday until Christmas, association teas will be given from 4 to 5 in the fourth floor assembly room. Seventeenth and streets, preceding the twilight music hour at 5 This afternoon the education department will be In charge and receiving will be Mrs.

Harry E. Hull, chairman of the executive committee of the education department; Miss Frances Chickerlng, chairman of the general education and Mrs. Irving W. Ketchum, director of education. Assisting also will be members of the education council, of which Miss Belle Logan Is president.

At the twilight music hour this afternoon, Mrs. Martha McAdoo, general secretary of the Phyllis Wheatley Y. W. C. will lead In some Christmas spirituals.

There will be general Christmas carols, led by Lucy Clarke Street, music director. Miss Katherine Moritz will be the hostess. The public is Invited to attend both the tea and this Informal hour of music. At the Elizabeth Somers residence this afternoon, Dr. Frederick Brown Harris, pastor of Foundry Methodist Church, will speak at the vesper service, at 8:30 pun.

Visitors are always welcomed at this service. A world fellowship luncheon will be held December 4 at 12:30, when Mrs. Camilo Osins, wife of the new resident commissioner from the Philippines, will be the speaker. Mrs. Robert Lansing will preside at the luncheon.

Registrations should be made for the luncheon by noon Tuesday. The booklovers will meet tomorrow at 8 p.m. In the fourth floor assembly room. Miss Alice Hutchins Drake, the leader, will speak on "Mental will be the subject for the staff meeting Tuesday morning and Father Moore of Providence Hospital will speak at 10 In the evening a visit will be made by the staff to the Jewish Community Center, where they will have dinner together before making a tour of the center. The Y.

-Y. w. C. A. committee will sponsor a dance December 6 at the Blue Triangle Hut, from 8 to 12 p.m.

Committee meetings listed for the week include: On Monday the health education at 1:30 and the membership at 4:45 and on Tuesday the Street House committee at 11. Chapters. Princeton nhaptr will have a pancake, sausage supper December 4, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., at the Petworth Methodist Church, Grant Circle and THE SUNDAY STAR. 'WASHINGTON. D.

T. FOTTT. New Hampshire avenue. The Mount Pleasant Chapter will hold a rummage sale December 5,6, 7. Gifts of rummage will be appreciated and will be called for If the president of the chapter, Mrs.

Thomas H. Mitchell, 1364 Girard street, Is notified; telephone Columbia 4346. Health Education Department. Inquiries In regard to badminton show an Increased Interest in the game. An Invitation Is extended to all those interested to watch the mixed group which plays regularly in the gymnasium Wednesday evenings from 8 to 10 p.m.

The balcony of the gymnasium Is open to visitors. Mrs. John Howard Ford of the health education committee and Miss Phoebe Moorhead, who head the Wednesday evening group, which incidentally includes some of Washington's best tennis talent, will be glad to an' swer any questions visitors may care to ask. There are several open periods during the evenings when the badmin, ton courts may be used for practice. Saturday afternoon the health education staff will entertain the physical directors of the private schools and universities In this vicinity for badminton and tea from 3 to 5:30.

The staff includes Anne Van Busklrk, Marion Hunt, Dorothy Latham and Marion Meigs. Miss Helen Jacobs will pour and the health education office staff, Dorothy Dawson, Elsie Huntley and lone Whaler, will assist. After January 1, instead of the present required medical Inspection examination fee there will be charged a matriculation fee, which will include the medical examination and other Incidentals. Several new claases In swimming are starting. There Is the diving class meeting Monday at 7:30 at Seventeenth and streets.

Class work will be suspended at both pools from December 19 to January 1, Inclusive, but the dip periods will be continuous from 11 a.m. p.m. during that time. The bowling alleys are also much used by the schools. Holton Arms School is running off a tournament during the afternoons, while Madeira School is preparing for a tournament.

Business and Professional. On Tuesday evening the Amleltla, Wohelo, Tip Top, Premiere, K. G. and Hltika clubs will hold their monthly business meetings at 7 Club supper will be served at 8:15. After the business meetings, the clubs will work on the articles being made for the carnival.

The Blue Triangle Club will hold its monthly business meeting Thursday evening at 7 club supper being served at 6:30. The December issue of the Blue Triangle News will be distributed at this meeting. The dress rehearsal of the will be held Thursday at 9 One of the big events of the B. and P. year will be the Winter carnival to be held in Barker Hall on next Friday and Saturday from 6 to 10 The auditorium will take on the appearance of an Iceland scene.

In the midst of which, the department clubs will have booths, and competition will be strong between splendid arrays of articles just right for Christmas gifts, and between tempting, dainty viands at other booths. At 7:30 and at 9 there will be an depicting some of the happenings In Santa's land. The general admission is 25 cents. Industrial Department. The K.

E. Y. Club members will have supper together on Wednesday evening followed by a bowling party from 6 to 7:30. On December 5, the Thursday Club will have tea at 4:30, and in the everting will bowl from 6:15 to 7:00. There will be a regular business meeting of the Greek Club on Thursday, December 5, at 2:30 p.m.

The Upholstery Union will hold a meeting on the third floor, December 5, at 8 p.m. Girl Tomorrow afternoon at 3:15, the Girl Reserves at Western High School wilr have their meeting. At 4 o'clock, the Girl Reserve Club at Friendship House will meet. Tuesday afternoon at 3:30, the Tri-Hi Girl Reserve Club from Business High will meet in the Girl Reserve Club rooms. At 2:45, Miss Street and Miss' Moritz will visit the Girl Reserve Club at Silver Spring High School.

Maryland, and have tryouts for the Girl Reserve Glee Club. Wednesday at 2 p.m. the Girl Reserve Clubs at Dennison Vocational School will meet. A branch of the Girl Reserve toy shop- Is being conducted under direction of the members of the faculty. At 2:20 the Girl Reserve Club at Jefferson Junior High will have a hobby meeting.

The Tech Girl Reserve Club will meet at 3:20 In the Girl Reserve Club rooms. The Girl Reserve Glee Club will have a rehearsal at 4:30 In the fourth floor assembly. It is very Important that each member of the Glee Club Is present at this rehearsal. At 4 the Junior High Council will meet on the third floor. Thursday at 2:15 the Langley Junior High Girl Reserve Club will have a hobby meeting and Miss McDowell will have charge of the program.

At 2:20 the Powel! Junior High Girl Reserve Clubs will meet and at the same time Girl Reserve Clubs at Macfarland will have their meetings. Les the Eastern High Girl Reserve Club, will have their meeting In the Girl Reserve club rooms. The Fidelia Girl Reserve Club from Eastern High will have their meeting at the same time. At 4:30 the Girl Reserve Club at the First Congregational Church will meet. Friday afternoon at 2:20 the Girl Reserve Clubs at Hlne Junior High, Stuart Brightwood Junior High and Columbia Junior High will have their meetings.

At 3:30 Bon Seccur. the Central High Girl Reserve Club, wili hold their meeting in the Girl Reserve ooms The High Council will have a meeting at 4:30 p.m. The Saturday morning grade school Girl Resenre program is held at 10 which consists of hobby groups Dramatics, first aid, the toy shop clog dancing, gymnasium and swimming are some of the hobbies. Old tovs will called for by the Girl Reserve depart? ment If notified. Metropolitan 2102.

The Locomotive's Smokestack. 1 During the career of the locomotive the smokestack has undergone very radical changes. The first ones were 11 following the design of that which had been used on the boats of that i time. This was found to be unsatisfactory and the change was made to what was called the the idea 1 being that the swell In Its lines would be the means of reducing the volume of sparks Issued from the suS: At this time the stack was the most conspicuous part of the engine. In the latest types the stack is barely notlcei able, so diminutive has It grown, in the meantime the size of the boiler has Increased In the same ratio that the stack has decreased.

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Bayersoa OU Works Columbia. 5228 D. C. Naval Reserve Following a month of intensive drilling and practice both in the armory and aboard their training this, U. S.

destroyer Abel P. Upshur, berthed at the Washington Navy Yard, members of the Ist Battalion. United States Naval Reserves of the District of Columbia, were put through their monthly inspection at hands of the commanding officer, Lieut. Comdr. I Finney Bascom Smith, laat Monday night.

The men, It was said, put up a very fine appearance, and showed excellent results of the training they have received. Although the arrival of Winter has made It necessary to abandon the drills on the Upshur, the men nevertheless will be kept In training by a thorough course of practical and theoretical instruction In the armory during the next few months, with plans to resume operations aboard the training ship as early as possible, in preparation for the annual Summer cruises with the Atlantic Scouting Fleet. Considerable attention will be given during the armory drill period to the training of gun crews for the target practice next Summer with the big guns aboard the Upshur, and the and marksmanship will be kept up by intensive practice in the rifle gallery, which has been installed In the basement of the armory. The loqal officers hope to produce by next Summer some of the best gun In the Reserve, and to increase the very high mark which some of them attained last year. The local battalion has received some very Interesting moving picture films from the Navy Department to be used in the Instruction courses of both the deck and engine room forces, and these will be shown in connection with lectures to be given the classes by the officers of the command.

Following the completion of the formal ceremonies incident to the monthly Inspection last Monday night, a part of the drill period was given over to the men for athletics. There were several interesting boxing bouts between contestants from the three fleet divisions. George L. Barkley, aviation chief mate, has been transferred to the local Reserve from the Naval Air station at Anacostia, D. G.

Joseph P. Comiskey has been promoted from yeoman, second, to yeoman first class In the Headquarters Division. The following enlisted In the local battalion: Perry J. Jecko, 1855 Calvert street, seaman, second class, assigned to the 2d Fleet Division, and John P. Manyette, 4036 Second street northeast, seaman second class, assigned to the Ist Fleet Division.

Discussing the abolition of the headquarters divisions of Naval Reserve battalions, recommended by the naval inspection board, the Bureau of Navigation of the Navy Department, says that these divisions, under the plan of organization, are intended to include officers and men not required for mobilization In the designated ships for the fleet divisions, but required for the If only enough IF you think you've experienced all the pleasure Christmas has to offer, give your family a 1930 Nash "400" on December 25. a thrill in giving or receiving a car so different from the rank and file of motor cars. In the Twin-Ignition Eight, the Twin-Ignition Six, and the Single Six, Nash engineering has obi. introduced one new feature after another to add pleasure to the 2SS pleasure of motoring. Here are refinements hitherto confined to very costly motor cars and others that are entirely new.

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3110 St. N.W. peace-time administration of the battalion a whole. It Is pointed out that Included in the headquarters divisions are the executive officer, the battalion staff officers and those enlisted men in excess of mobilisation requirements for the fleet divisions, or In ratings not required by fleet divisions, but who, due to their personal characteristics, previous naval experience, are available or necessary for promoting the efficiency of the organization during peace times. Each fleet division, it was asserted, is required to furnish a specified number of trained men in certain ratings for mobilization as the crew of a designated vessel; most of the designated being destroyers now out of commission.

Should an ex-Navy turret captain, for example, the bureau adds, desire to enlist In the Naval Reserve, there is no place for him In the fleet division, because this rating is not required on a destroyer and the number of men allowed to the fleet division Is considerably below the number required for mobilisation. If the ex-Navy turret captain could be usefully employed as an Instructor, drill master, or for other duties in connection with organization, his proper place Is In the headquarters division. Likewise, in many locations, it has been found advantageous to carry cooks and mess attendants In the headquarters division. Taking up the recommendation of the abolition of the two-division battalions, the bureau says that upon the reorganization of the Naval Reserve in 1925 existing organizations were utilized so far as practicable. Prior to that date the Reserve organizations more nearly paralleled the militia organizations, In that they consisted of brigades, regiments, battalions and divisions.

The militia organizations were generally In accordance with existing State laws. Certain financial advantages. In the way of free armory rent, are enjoyed by the Federal Government when an organization has the dual status of naval reserve and militia. In bringing the two into conformity there was a certain amount of give and take. Brigades and regiments were abolished, but battalions were retained, and the necessary changes were made In the various State laws to bring the militia organizations Into conformity with this reorganization.

It is felt, the bureau comments, that the harmful effects due to vacillation in policy would more than offset any advantages gained. The comments above on the suggested abolition of two division battalions, the bureau says, also applies to the recommendation for the abolition of battalions made up of scattered divisions. Trotsky ag a Gallant. Trotsky, the exiled commissar of Russia, is pictured as a gallant In a story being told of a visit In Russia of Mrs. Philip Snowden, wife of the British chancellor of the exchequer, a few years ago.

She attended a Moscow opera and sat in a box beside Trotsky, then Bolshevik minister for war. English is not good, and he said little until a love scene was being acted. Then he leaned across and whispered: Mrs. Snowden, that Is the only real international MOVIES AND MOVIE PEOPLE BY MOLUE MERRICK. HOLLYWOOD.

Novembtr SO (N.A.N.A). be seeing him from time to time In pictures. seen him already In one or two. His blond hair, laughing eyes and rare smile are fated to be popular. why Regis Toomey went over in his first cinema appearance, and why just signed a long-term contract In one of the larger Hollywood studios.

He Is the type that makes you careful lest you tag him If you careful you might say he had a wistful smile. But he's far too much a he-man for any such philandering in prose. And the grind he went through In small English companies has made this American youth one of the most firmly rooted, In experience, of all the younger group of artists the talkies have brought us. Regis Toomey is the boyish detective who died so well In "Alibi." the naive insurance agent who fell In love with a very wealthy girl and In the process completely stole the picture from Constance Bennett, who was very busy wearing French frocks as the wealthy girl. And soon going to play opposite Nancy Carroll in a cute little play that has to deal with kitchens, kisses and komedy.

He poises a character on that shadow line between comedy and pathos so cleverly that you laugh ana cry and wonder. You smile with dimming eyes, but laughing again before the tear has gathered sufficient momentum really to fall. That Is the secret of Charlie Chaplin's hold upon the world in his comedy field. And it's a formula very hard to beat. when Regis Toomey was a lad in the British Isles a Californian by birth, but he did his apprenticeship small stock companies over there he rode a bicycle and read Western stories.

They were printed quite conveniently for him in paper binding and fitted snugly into the pocket of a Norfolk Jacket. You could lean your bicycle against the wall of a village Inn and prop your paper-covered blood-andthunder story against a toby Jug while waiting for the barmaid. When producers sounded Regis Toomey out regarding Ideas after his first success in cinema roles they found his ambition was to make Saga of Billy the Kid." Investigation revealed that Bill Haines was slated to do this very thing, with the story all tied up and waiting, so the first Toomey ambition had to go by the boards. Billy the Kid was the youngest desperado to snuff out a life with the same disregard for the victim we have whan we step on a spider. His victims were numerous, his career a crazy patchwork of kindliness and cruel criminality.

The characterization is one of the most complex and at the same time maddeningly simple any young actor could attempt. one thing to choose a story In Hollywood, but quite another thing to get It. When Richard Dix was advertised as slated to appear In "Bulldog the powers that be at the studio where Ronald Colman afterward made this picture held their tongues. They allowed their rivals to announce all the preliminary detail of the story, but when the time came they quietly took up their option on the tale, leaving the opposition to smile wryly and look elsewhere for a story. One of the greatest bugbears in the industry is the difficulty of finding a role that will fulfill all the requirements of John personality.

is made and on the shelf. Ahd the molnar, which presents him to the public, is rather in lighter vain than we are accustomed in the Gilbert type. Jack Gilbert has a brunette personality and a blonde menacing eye and disarming, silvery speech. Scenario staffs pale and look baffled when the word goes out to dig up a vehicle for the gelatin ldoj. So far the boys of Regis type require a role to fit the personality.

They bend their types to meet the exigencies of the roles given them. Men with the training of Basil Rathbone escape the glorification which the Jack Gilberts and Rudy Vallees achieve. In the past they were a minority in this village. Today the motion picture industry is making an honest and sincere endeavor to give the public well interpreted plays with capable players In them. This will not do away with stars.

The mystery of mass appeal will always be with us. It seems to be a quality which arouses in the beholder a reaction out of all proportion to the apparent endowment of the person responsible for its origin. The old devil magnetism working overtime. (Coarrisht. IMS, by North American Newspaper Alliance.) W.

C. U. The North Star Union will hold its monthly meeting, Tuesday, at 2 at the home of Mrs. James E. Douglass, 10 Hesketh street, Chevy Chase, Md! The speaker will be Mrs.

David Lum, formerly president of the W. C. T. U. in India.

The West End W. C. T. U. met at the home of Mrs.

Annie Dumbaugh, Monday, the occasion being the celebration of her eighty-ninth birthday anniversary. After the usual reports of the secretaries, various topics pertaining to the temperance cause were discussed. The speaker was District President Mrs. N. M.

Pollard, who gave a report of the proceedings of the National at Indianapolis. Mrs. Mc- Campbell, wife of the chief of the United States prohibition agents, recently from Buffalo, spoke. Entire Family Air-Minded. Plying has become so common to Lord Sempill and his family of England that they are giving up the use of aerodromes and land in fields wherever they happen to be.

The master of Sempill and his wife take many air trips together and often are accompanied by their two daughters. June and Ann, who are Just as air-minded. Not long ago the family surprised an automobile road scout by dropping down from the air and asking him to look after their baggage while they parked their plane hetween a haystack and wagon. RHONE NAME TRACED 3,000 YEARS Ligurian Language In Geographical Instances. The Ligurian language, which was spoken in Europe 3,000 yearn ago, survives only in the names of a few rivers, lakes and mountains, says the Living Age.

One of these names is that of the Rhone. A recent contributor to the Journal de Geneva has traced the history of that stream back to the bronze age, when a dark-haired race inhabited the forests of Prance and Switzerland and left behind them no written language, but only such familiar words as and WALKS 8,000 MILES. A. Hlggo, a young man from Paarl, near Cape Town, has Just walked 8,000 miles during the last 10 months, visiting Bechuanaland, Swaziland, desia. Portuguese East Africa, besides many towns in the Union, says the Hartford Courant.

He started out with £25 in his pocket, and experienced adventure as well as hardship. In his wanderings he had to run away from a pack of baboons, lived solely on wild bananas and cocoanuts in lonely parts of Portuguese East Africa, and often had to sleep out on the veldt. In Swaziland he was welcomed and entertained by the King and Queen of the Swazis. He found the King a polished and interesting potentate who spoke perfect English, having been educated at a public school in England. All through his walk he says he never asked for help or accepted a lift.

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