Life in Washington on.—With the ‘little eat started, and few officials f smart society returned inter homos, Washington to interest society except "air brides and the making ing of the plans of the ebutante. i'or as fast as are made, they are seem*e, and as fast as one bud > be held back until , which promises a more circle of debutantes, is due, not only to this ection year but to the fact e last winter of an admin of administration brings s all along the line from House to the residential th“ only certain thing at Is that everything Is unmatter which way the Oflkr'al entertaining be at a low ebb for feels that It is no ’ upon her to do any r enteHsiaisg, owing e which she may ;l-lly when there will be ng in the White House, one, probably who will occasion and do more enof the lack of . affairs. By the majorbed at, as an excuse for ~ elhing which has been i them, rather than asm. This Democratic adwill go down in history E socially, even aside J misfortune of the war was a charming bud in ! Baron Romano Averproperly as Baron Rothe baron is transferred st, not named. One reregret the latter an- , while rejoicing over the » Romano's have mao • gtiends for themselves here, e not strangers when tary of tho embassy 20 or more, and during that s Jacquelin Taylor of St. 3 married when transer post. He has crept la the diplomatic service try and returned here as i year ato. Naturally of their oroity young daughed upon with great in-

terest and enthusiasm by their old friends here as well as the new on< of their distinguished circle many of the other buds are returning to i school books for another and a more premising year for buds. This year is really an off year for buds, with no ambassadorial nor official bud of the higher circle, so there is little debu tantes. The bunting season is on in Virginia and every available house in the heuse in the section of Ixmdoun, Fauquier and Fairfax counties has been taken for the autumn, and every country home is filled with guests. The weather is ideal and never was the Country Club more flourishing or more delightful. The martial affairs of the Chinese Minister Dr. Wellington Koo, who is about to leave for his new post of duty as Minister of Great Britlan, are interesting society in several citK«. It has been repeatedly reported that he was recently married to Countess Weitingham, widow of a German officer, who is well known to the family and who h.\s been at the same hotel in Atlantic City with the minister's children throughout the summer. She sailed last wek for England with eth children, to await his cor. lng later in the month. Yet the minister's secretary and all about the legation staff deny knowledge of the marriage. The minister has been in Chicago this week and will return here in a few days and sail October 23d for England. The naval attache of the legation is enroute home for a vacation and is superintending the transportation of the body of the minister's wife, picturesque little Mme. Koo. who was one of the first victims of the flu in 1918 whin It first ai>peared in Washington. She left a little family of three children. Naturally when one is almost in the act of burying the body of one's spouse. would hesitate to announce one's marriage to someone else. Che Countess Westingbaia Is a Chinese lady who has been in New York and Atlantic Cityfor a year or more, with her mothet. Her mother sailed also for Englandwith her this week. October 17th is the banner day for brides, a number of qirls In the same set In Washington having chosen to wed on that same da>. Chief amoung heae brides is Miss Ursula Harrison, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fairfax Harrison of Virginia and Washington, who was married today to Charles Julian Baird of The Plains, Va., a native of Akron, O. T1 ceremony war performed in the beautiful coon-

Manufactured Rubies Reconstructed rubies are real rubies made by taking ma’.l real rubles or particles of ruby dust and melting them togeather, so that they cryatalize into one larger gem. Synthetic rubles are manufactured by fusing and crystallizing togeather the still more minute particles of oxide of aluminum, the matter of which the ruby itself consists. It Is not a question of colors. To reconstruct a pale ruby one begins with little pale rubies and fuses then togeather. To reconstruct a ful-eol-ored ruby one natuially begins with the dust or fragments of full-color Hi rubles. But whealher pale or fullc >1ored the reconstructed ruby Is i nquestionably a real ruby, fused ogeather, it Is true, .n the labor&u ry of the chemist, and not in the um.erground laboratory of nature. I- is equally hard, equally capable of taking a polish, and identical in cry. tal-

Une form.

The expert can distinguish It by slight differences In the Inter or flaws and miicroscope bubbles, or he manufactured rabjr has usmlly fewer flaws than the natural riby. and the microscopic bubbles in R have a different shape from those of the natural ruby. The undoubt -d fact that the dealers charge mu h higher prices for the catnral f m than for a manufactured one -f c ,uai weight, color and clearness does touch the question of tbe genuineness of the manufactured article.

Tact

Dorothy—“Was Jack engaged t Mable before he married Evelyn?" Kathryn— "Yes, and do you know what Mable did"' "No. What did she do?” "Sent Evelyn to read on the honeymoon. Stevenson's Travels with a Donkey"--Life.

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Where is it Going—

This One-Man Railroad Rudolph is

Building

The Kansas one-m-n railroad is progressing at the rate of nearly a mile in the grading. For 13 years Rudolph Myers has been building a railroad all alone in Hodgeman County. The grade is now 12 miles long. The right-of-way has been paid for in cash. All of the expenses Incident to the building of the line have been paid for in actual cash. It Is an unusually good ra'lway ‘Trade, as good as any standard gunge railroad anywhere In a prairie country. It has been built without surveyorts lines being run. without the use of levels or other mechanical devices, yet the top of the grade is absolutely level and ready for the track

to be Uid.

Myers ha., done nearly ad of the work himself. For a short time his brother helped him but they quarreled and the brother left Then a newspaper reporter went out on the grade and heloed Myers for a month. The rest of the construction work has all been done by Myers and his four mules. The work of the newspaper reporter was entirely gratuitous as he wu* trying to get information about the way and wherefore of the railroad line. He blistered his hands, sunburned his face, tore his clothes and wore out his shoes, besides learning f 'mething about manual labor in the hot sun. but that was all he obtained in the way of information about the railroad. Myers is S5 years old. He was a railroad sec'ion man and later a grading contractor in a small way from the Santa Fe and other western

roads.

Just why ?-e Is building the railroad, where It is going and what he Is going to do with it are questions he refuses to answer. Everybody between Jetmore and Garden City and a goodly number of other folks do a conside* -ble amount of buessing b”.t that is as far as they get. A short time ago a committee of business men of the Garden City Chamber of Commerce went to Jetmore to see Myers. Garden City would like to help build that railroad as It would open some new business territory. The committee found Myers drinking soda pop at a soft drink emporium. One of the Jetmore men who accompanied them went to Myers and explained that the Garden City men wanted to talk with him about the railroad. Myers became quite iritable. "That Is all hot air." he said. '"They an- Just a bunch of Junk. The Garden City men went home without obtaining any further infor-

mation.

Thirteen years ago this fall Myers landed in Jetmore with four mules, a wagon, plow and an ordinary road scraper. He had a full set of hand gardening tools, picks, shovels and other Instruments. He drove a mile out of Jetmore and pitched his camp. The next day he went to the owner of the land and asked to bu> a strip of ground 100 feet wide through his farm. With the farmer he staked off the land desired and after some negotions the farmer and myers got together on the price. Myers paid cash and obtained a deed for tbe land. The next day ho wen, to work grading for his railroad. i bought the right of way a mile at a time and goes ahead with the building of the road at about a mile a year. It took him nearly tvo years to build one mile of the grade which went through a hill, necessitating a out of 14 feet a fall on each side of about 12 feet. Except for the stakes which laid out his right of way lines there never has been a Hake set for the construction work. Gaps for bridges have been loft and the curves have been properly banked

for the rails.

Nothing has been left undone to build a perfect railway grade, 14 feet wide on top with standard slopes for all fills and cuts and standard drainage through all tbe cuts and level places. Real railroad eng* noers have been over the grade at various times and havepronounced it as good as any grade In the countryMyers has paid as high as 3500 rash for a mile of his right of way. He has paid cash for his own food and cash for feed for his teams. He has paid cash for whatever repair work had to be made en his cquip-

Where his money comes from

a has been able to ascertain. He disappears for a week and returns in a eka substantial deposit in the ak. H© bought some Liberty Ronds and still holds them. He lives in a little iron shack, three miles from Jetmore, and drives hac kand forth

to the end of his grade.

He works steadily each day. If someone comes along and tells him it Is Sunday Myers knocks off work for the rest of the day. He never attenip. to k«*p track of the days of the week. He has been sick a good deal of the . E present summer and has not done

much construction work for several

' months.

Myers has about four mile? of his grade yet to bring it up to an old railroad grade that was built during the boom days and has been aabndon® 10 or 12 years. It is what was known as the old Nickel Plate Road, which started to build northeast from Garden City to Jetmore and thence up through the great Kansas wheat fields into the coraq country of Nebraska and Into the wheat sections of the Dakotas. It was also planned to build a lien straight throngh Western Oklahoma and Texas to Brownsville, Tex., where there would be an outlet to tide water for the wheat. Myers has not followed the old survey of this road. He has built his line almost on a straight line. He did not dodge tbe hills and built fills across the ravines. By continuing In a straight line for practically four miles he will cross the old railload

grade.

The Santa Fe Railroad which owns a line at Jetmore and has its main line at Garden City, 40 miles southwest of Jetmore. has disclaimed any ownership or interest in the property Meyers is constructing for himself. The line might be a useful link in that company's system. Meyers has always said that no railroad has any Interest in his railroad. He has always also declared that it was no one's business why he wanted to build the road but his own and he proposed to keep right at work. Incidentally he has frequently made It plain that he wished 'oiks wouldn't bother him by asking too pertinent questions. Would Close America’s Doors to Immigrants Washington—The closing of America's doors to immigrants for a period of several years will be urged upon Congress when it convenes December 6th, according to members of the House immigration committee. Representative Johnson of Washington, chairman of tbe committee, will arrive at the capital soon, according to word received at his office today. He plans to start committee machinery to get early consider!, tion of an immigration reFlrictlon measure. A bill restricting immlgratior. already is before Congress. It was introduced at the last session as well as ’he session before, but the House was unable to give it attention because of the press of other business. Johnson wants it taken up at this session soon after it convenes. Several arguments for the passage of an immigration restriction bill will be advanced by its sponsor^. One will be that immigration already has reached pre-war figures and is rapidly going beyond them. Another will be that a flood of Austrian and German Immigrants is expected to rush for American shores as soon as peace with those two countries is established. The proposed restriction measure will have the support of the Arne; ican Federation of Labor, woose officials today declared that tbe floodlt.g of this country with cheap European ,abo.- will result In lower living standards for the great mass of workers. Organized labor also claims a Mock of fifty votes in the House which can be counted in support of the measure. Juft a Line From Larrupin Larry Blues I've lived in Kansas City and I've had the K. C. Blues; and lots of us have Volstead blues without our hootch and booze. I've heard my buddies talk about the Blues of Memphis town and well I know about the blues that get you when you're down. Rvo heard 'em sing about the blues that came from losln' gals, and well I know those indigoes you get from quitting pals. The cost of living blue.have grabbed the nation's nannies, too and yet it costs too much to die. so what's a man to do But quite a different sort of blues have got mo in their grip. In fact, no medicine can cure thos« blues and make 'em slip. They're bluer than the ocean or the blue of summer sky. You want to hunt th" coroner and say you like to die. The blues I've got are catching, like the measles or a cold, and onothey've got you In their grip you cannot break their hold. The Frame-Up Blues I got. from reading sporting heels ea h morn and they’ve got me so awful bad I wish I wasn't born. The series fixers started it, and boxers took tho cue; the wrestlers did their little act nnd billiard players. too. At every turn you find tome new and startling piece of graft. And If they keep it up. the Frame-Up Blues will drive us daft. Larrupin' Larry. All monkey business has been banished by the new Green government. Callnfornia wits believed by the t«irly Spanish explorers to bo an island of Amazons

Duchess of Marlborough Gets

Divorce

London—The Duchess of Marlborough. formerly Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt. today was granted a divorce decree nisi from the Duke. Neither of the principals were present in court. Counsel informed the court that the duke world refuse to return to the duchess in compliance with the decree of restitution of conjugal rights obtained by her March 22. »* Attorneys for the duchess then offered to show that since the duke was ordered to resume his life with her. secret agents had foilowad him to Paris, where he is alleged to have spent a night in the Hotel Claridge with a woman, they registering as Monsieur and Madame Spencer. To this the duke's representative entered

a formal denial.

The court, however, granted the decree of divorce and ordered the duke to pay the costs of the suit, which was Instituted in May. ‘ The duchess, who was the daughter of the late William K. Vanderbilt, was married to the duke in New York in 1895. They have two children, the Marquis of B'anford and Lord Ivor ChurchilL The former, who is heir to his father's title, married the Hon. Mary Cadogan on February 17. The first rift in the marital life of the duke and duchess came in 1907 when they separated and lived apart for two years. Ae reconciliation was effected through th© influence of the late King Edward. They : epamted again last spring, however, the duk* announcing it was impossible for them to live together. Driver Didn’t Keep Bargain lajndon—Jack Crawford is In Jail here charged with stealing a motor truck and a load of wool worth $10,000. Crawford, it is held, persuaded the driver of the truck, owned by the government, to deliver the goods to him and then report that they were stolen The driver followed orders, but he wasn't a good liar, say the police, and they arrested Crawford. Combines Role of Teacher and Pupil Corvallis, Ore.—Teacher In the morning and pupil In the aftaraoon— that is the double role which Is being played here by Miss Gladys Kies, of Vancouver, Wash., senior In the home economics department at the Oregon Agile tural college. ML«g Kies Is an Instructor In kindergarten work during the forenoon and goes to bee sociology, bacteriology and other "ology" classes at the college after lunch. Being an expert cook. Miss Kies assumes a third role whenever the cook at her sorority house is ill, or on a strike. Undecided "I almost hate to buy a new dress," Mrs. Dubbs observed. "I am so tom by conflicting desires." "Quite a proper felelng. I'm sure!" Cubbs hastily agreed with hopetul enthussiasm. "Just what—” “Well, when other women admire a new frock of mine I can hardly decide whether to tell them the price was half what It really was, and make 'hem envy mt for my wonderful bargain. or doubl" tbe price and make them envy me my ability to spend so

much money."

A Novelty "I'm certainly worried.” the Teat politician confided to his friend. “If I tell the people that my business connections with the city administration brought me In twice at much as they did. they'll think I'm a grafter; and if I say I got only half what I did they'll think i'm a dub for not grabbing off what I might have. I don't know what to do about it.” "Why not tell the truth?” "Say! the great politician exclaimed in delight. "That's the gnat idea. Wonder why none of us thought Boy! Do a Page

for Noah

Oklahoma City, Ok la.—-When floods endangered the city zoo here, keepers worked many hours making the animals safe from the waters. Commissioner Joe Patterson took the young deer home and kept 'em in his kitchen. "Arks" were built to float the -birds and scaffolds raised in tho lions' cages and bears' dens ao that they might scramble above the water line. No live* were lost.