The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-02-26
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Times Inquiry Department:
WIN YOU kindly tell me who're ito apply for
position as society reporter and wna1 sfg
in the near future, l remain, yours very
truly, M V. l.
Apply to the managing editor or any
newspaper office which maintains So
ciety department, for the position of
society reporter. The requirements in
clude a good education, vast amount
of energy, tact, and resourcefulness, and
a well-groomed appearance.
Y, A. S.-If you will write to the
license bureau in the Municipal building
they can probably tell you what tags
are necessary for the business you refer
to in your query.
Times Inquiry Department:
Kindly tell when President Cleveland
was nominated as President and how many
terms did he serve? NJ. A, M
President Cleveland was nominated in
1884 and served two terms. The other
question you asked cannot be answered
In this column for the reason that it
10 of such an intimately personal ma
ture.
Times Inquiry Department: g..
have an eleven gored skirt made of cream
serge / would like to know how to make
It over into a narrow fashionable skirt.
There Is also a long coat of the same ma
terial Thanking you in advance, am, yours
truly, J. H. S.
You might be able to buy narrow
skirt pattern and cut the skirt along
narrow lines. You also might take out
several cores of the skirt or cut each
gore so that the ripples will disap-
pear. The coat could be cut off short
a shawl collar faced with MORE silk
could be added, and in this way would
be decidedly UP to date.
Times Inquiry Department:
How do you think a girl seventeen years
long and hangs nearly to the waist. Also
where can take dancing lessons?
You are young enough to wear your
hair in a long curl down your back.
There is no prettler way than this for
a young girl to arrange her hair If
you will send a stamped self addressed
envelope the address of a good dancing
academy will be sent to you,
Times Inquiry Department:
am engaged to young man who lives IN
a Western town. have never met his
mother and l would like to know If It IL
her place to write to me FIRST or should
G. E.
The young man should tell his mother
that he Is engaged and she should
write to her. Then you should answer
the letter at once. If the engagement
is announced your friends should in
clude your fiance when invitations are
sent to you.
Times Inquiry Department:
In order to settle a dispute kindly answe
the following; "A" says colored people arr
allowed all the theaters in Washington. "B'
SAYS that they are not: Thanking you in ad
vance, l am. yours truly, MRS. j. L.
~ Is right.
Times Inquiry Department:
Kindly tell me how to rid my pantry o
red ants. Thanking you in advance, am
yours truly, A CONSTANT READER.
You might try placing saucers full o
sweetened water where the ants can ge
at it. They will drown in large mum
bers
Times Inquiry Department:
Please tell me how to clean brass beds.
paste that can be rubbed of and leave a hig
polish. HOUSEKEEPER.
Use pulverized pumice-stone, wet wit
household ammonia, applying as
waste, and when dry polish the bras
with a channels skin.
Times Inquiry Department:
VIII you please tell me the full name {
Churchill, the English statesman, and o6lig'
PERPLESED.
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill.