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The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1920-01-05
Crarnton Sees Economy
Ahead, But Not for Schools

While the movement for better
schools will run up against the
economy rock on the Hni. it is ex-
pected to come out with but a scratch
or two. and these not deep.
There is friendly feeling in Con-
sress which the District civic or
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1920-01-05
Plumber, Not Firemen, Needed.

Number Is Engine Company yes
terday responded to an alarm of
fire at the residence of William
Tuberville. 1925 e street southeast.
only to find that q plumber was
needed. A hot water tank had ex-
ploded, causing damage to the house
estimated at $3.50. The loss is COW
cred by insurance.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1920-01-05
Two Laprobes Stolen.

Two laprobes, valued at $50. used as
automobile hood covers, were stolen
yesterday afternoon, according to a
report made to the police by r. X.
Cook, 3102 Eighteenth street. ,Ehe
automobile was parked on Fifteenth
street, just south of Pennsylvania
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1920-01-05
ASPIRIN FOR HEADACHE

Insist on ''Bayer Tablets Of AZ,
pirin" in q "Bayer package" con
tanning proper directions for Head,
ache. Colds. Pain. Neuralgia, Lum.
bago, and Rheumatism. Mans
'Bayer" means genuine Aspirin pre-.
scribed by physicians for nineteef
years. Handy tin boxes of u tab
lets cost few cents. Aspirin is trad
mark OF Bayer Manufacture o,
Monoaceticacidester OF Salicyiicacid
ADV
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1920-01-05

London. Ems. Row
have signed on Rollo. the Irish intse
national right back, Of Linheld. Tn
transfer fee is said to be s1Loeo.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1920-01-05
Fire Cause. $50 Los.

A defective chimney Is blamed for
a IRE in the home Of A. e. Osborn,
Thirtieth street and Bladensburg
road. which occurred yesterday
NOON. Damage Xas- placed 1t s1bo.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1920-01-05
THEATER CROWDS HEIf
DETECTIVES FAMILY

The fund for the relief OF the widow
and orphans Of Detective serrf. g&ncf
T. Afmztrong who died from Eunsho'
wounds inflicted in Union station. o.
December IL by John McHenry, hsi
gone over the 1900 mari, with con.
tributions from washington business
men
An erorT to secure 80 from each o.
the Washington cifisens' Associ.tioI
has. been made. The fund nov stands
at A.lsz-e6 Including donations ~.
ceived by Washington nevspapers ant
the police.f A total OF s1saIT wss 70
ceiyed from audiences at Polls ne,
alter yesterday. f.N
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1920-01-05

Before the subcommittee of the
House Appropriations Committee
takes up the District bill the move
ment Of the District men and women
to acquaint Congress with the real
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1920-09-01
DAILY ECONOMY CALENDAR
{ Copyright 1918. BY the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate. New York City
ARE LEFT-OyERS NECESSARY?

Some women seem to think that it is
impossible TO prepare a lunch unless there
are left-overs They have acquired the
leftover habit TO such an extent that
they cannot manage without them Now
as matter Of fact while il is an excellent
thing TO know how to use up left-overs
it is better plan 10 know how to manage
economically without them.
1t takes some skill 10 plan just enough
vegetables, potatoes, pudding or meat
With the dessert YOU can manage we'll il
YOU make it mp IN individual dishes, 50
that YOU shall have just one for each
person. 1t is no longer considered necessary
to have enough for second helps" Of
these things
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LETTERS OF TESSIE AND JOE

Dear Joe:
The expected has happened, as we ex-
pected IL would, and the landlord dropped
In todap with the cheerful information
that after October !, the rent will be s25
more a month. | say cheerful because
he smiled all over his profteering face
when he broke the news, SO 1t must of
been cheerful. only couldn't see the Joke
Are you laughing, Joe? j
'Do YOU intend to renew the lease, Mrs.
Pick?'' he says, There are other parties
waiting to take the house, he says. well,
MIR. Homer / says, waving the question
| lightly aside, 'of course you intend TO
thoroughly do the house over inside and
out as g slight recompensation," ! says.
well, he says, Il don't wish to appear
to be unreasonable, Mrs. Pick. will glad
w pay half toward repairing that little
matter of the kitchen sink, he says. Can
you imagine that, Joe? What he meant
was those dripping spikkots that you
Away threatened to fix and never did.
was so mad ] could of gladly emptied
two cans of Daisy Soups down his throat.
Not that wish to knock your line at all,
Joe, but two cans Of it at the same time
! wouldn't hardly wish on my worst
enemy. OF course j told him wed renew tie
tease. out i gave MIN 10 uitut1SbdUu tilhl
the pleasure was all his TO put it mildly.
If we must be imposed upon we can least
be ungrateful about it, that's how ] feel
On the subject.
was sure the baby was getting tooth
today by the peculiar faces he was max
ing, but | was wrong. j even looked with
that magnifying glass that you got with
cigar coupons when / wanted to get a
meat chopper, but there's no tooth in
sight yet. | can't imagine what he was
making those faces about, unless he was
sort of trying out his little features. |
suppose a persons face does seem a trife
strange and unusual the first three months
or so.
Ia ia, Joe. Here's hoping the demand
for Daisy Canned Soups exceeds the sup
ply, though i don't know as it's charitable
of me TO wish all that hard luck on so
many people whether | know them per-
sonally or not.
Love and kisses,
Tessie.
Are you interested in Landlords? Look
for Joe's Version of the Species, Tomorrow.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1920-09-01
THE GIRL ON THE JOB.
BY Jessie Roberts.
Copyright. 1920, by wheeicr Syndicate inc.
HOTEL OPPORTUNITIES.

Another excellent opportunity in hotel
work for women is to DO found in train
ing for the position Of employment
manager. Men are now holding the &c
positions In the greater number of the
hotels, but women are really better suit
ed to the work, and are being given the
chance to prove this. The larger hotels
are beginning to have both q man and q
woman in this work, one to attend to
all the women employees, the other to
manage the men help.
The position is a responsible one, for
upon it depends the smooth working Of
every department The woman most
successful in this work is she who under
stands human nature, and who has
the facility to make people help each
other without undue friction. She must
know what each employe ought to do,
she pust be able To get an additional work.
ing force together for emergencies. There
must be no such word as fail IN her
vocabulary.
A woman who wants to attain such
position, should try first for department
head of small hotel. If she asks to be
shifted from one department to another,
and shows ability in handling the different
groups under her, she will soon be pro-
NOTED from the less to the more important
departments, and from them to being
assistant manager, under the employ
ment manager. When she has mastered
her work, she should advertise for
position of this kind in bigger hotel.
For middle-aged woman, ambitious,
Keen and ready for hard though interest
ing work, this particular department of
hotel work will make a strong appeal.
1t is only the woman who likes work that
brings her into contact with her kind that
should try for such position. No amount
of cleverness will help her if she is not a
good mixer, with tact and sympathy for
the viewpoint of others.
The salary is commensurate with the
work done, rising to many thousands a
year in the big hotels, with maintenance.
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II ~ not good management To use left
over meat for luncheon, because it is not
necessary 70 have meat more than once o
day. Id fact we are better off If we have
il but once. II we have small family We
should make roast for two dinners. The
remains Of steak can be made into n
stew or ragout for the secondary dinner.
II there are chops Of any sort, veal cutlct,
or anything Of that sort IT " quite possible
to get just enough. French housewives
plan always to have just enough meat.
An authority in food economy pointed
out the false economy Of buying large
sirloin steak, the tender part Of which
TO use as steak the first night and the
tougher part as stew or r8gotit or ero-
quotes the second night. II is better, she
said, to buy smaller steak, all or almost
all OF which can be used as steak and
then to buy cheaper meat for the stew,
ragolIt or croquettcs.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1920-09-01
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTEBOOK
By Lee Pape.

NV cuzzin Artie was round for sup
pr yestidday. and after supplr we went
back in the ldtchin to get drink and
there was a raw egg on the kitchin
table and Artie sed. | tell YOU lets wat
lets play hide the egg.
Wich we started 10 do, and tho 3rd
time hid it | hid il in the pockit Of
pops coat hanging over dining room
chair. and jest then the fellows YELLED,
outside and we ran out, me forgetting
all about the egg in pops coat p0ckit
till this morning. thinking Holy sm0aks.
gosh, G., / wonder If he found it, And
this afternoon ] was setting on the
frunt steps and pop termed GROUND the
corner looking like a. man that had
found a egg in his pockit, and ! quick
went in the house and up in my room,
and pritty soon / herd pop saving
Wares that devilish kid? Benny, Benny
Me not ansering, and | herd ma say,
Wy, Wullyum, wat do you want him
for? and pop sed, III show him wat
wunt him for, look at this pockit but
don't put your hand in it, ware. is that
boy, he's in the house sumware, / saw
him 90 in, Benny, Benny. Ne not an
sering, and he called about 4 more times
and then ! called down, Did you call
me, pop!
No, you must Of bin dreaming. come
down heer, sed pop. Wich | did, and
pop sed Did you put that confownded
miserable thing in my coat poclit?
Sir? No sir, ] meen | dident put
it there, / jest hid it there and forgot
it, wy, pop, did it brake? / sed, and
pop sed, No, you silly faced imp OF
Satan, it neerly Exploded, and / sed
Well gosh, G, pop, if | ony Of remem-
bered to take it out agen it would oil
bin all rite, did it brake mulch, pop?
Folio me, sed pop. WITCH ! did, up
TO the setting room, and he gave me
about 10 fearse kracl1s some place with
his slipper, being pritty pane6ll but I've
felt verse.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1920-09-01
SANDMAN STORY.
BY Mrs. F. A. Walker.
Copyright, 1910, by the Mcclure Ncws-
paper Syndicate. New YORK City.
HOW Mr.. COON GOT HIS RINGEO
4. TAIL

HOW MR.. COON GOT HIS RINGEE
TAIL.
One day when old Grandpa Fox was
feeling in a storytelling mood little
Reddy Fox asked him to tell how Mr.
Coon got such pretty white and black
ringed tail
"Our tails are bushy, but they arc
all one color, grandpa. Why didn't we
have the rings around our tails like Mr.
Coon?" asked Reddy Fox.
"You will not wish for tail like Mr.
Coon's after have told you how he came
to have it, /" said Grandpa Fox
Long, long ago when my great-great-
grandfather was boy, SO the story was
told to me, our family had great deal
of trouble, because Mr.. Coon had tail
so mulch like ours that the farmers often
thought we were TO blame for the loss Of
their poultry when it was really Mr..
Coon who took them.
"You see the farmer and Mr.. Dog
would see the end of MIR. Coon's tail
disappearing around the side of the
barn and think it was one of our family,
and so we would be hunted and chased
until life was not worth living for the
Fox family"
"At last one very wise Fox said some
thing must be DONE so he called meeting
one night in back of a steep hill and they
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talked over plan to mark MIR Coon so
there would be no mistake about who
took the things.
"Of course our family did some hunt
ing and catching about the farms, but
as they had all they could do to take care
of their own troubles they did not wis!
TO take on the Coon families also.
After talking IT over while the
wise fox said: II think if we could IN
vite all the Coon family to come TO
the woods tomorrow night VIC could
get them all into one house and lock
them in.
We viii let them out one at time
and as they come out we will have two
pots of paint, one black and one white,
and while some of us hold each Coon two
of us win paint his tail.
We viii put rings around il SO It can
be seen easy, and after that | guess he
will not get us into any more trouble
They had no trouble IN getting the
Coon family to come to the woods, for
they were always proud to be noticed by
our family, and when they left that night
every one carried behind him a black and
white ringed tail,
''Of course, it is rather pretty, but
who would want it when they know how
they got it, and on a moonlight night Mr..
Dog can easily follow it, YOU see, and
that is one reason the Coon family live
most Of the time in trees. They think that
rlnged tails cannot be so easily seen as
when they are on the ground.
Il am glad YOU told me, said Little
Reddy, when his Grandfather had finish
ed the story; Little Tim Coon is always
Dragging about his tail being prettier than
mine, / guess he does not know how his
family got it. Anyway, / d rather have mine
II is bushier, | think, and little Reddy
Fox switched his tail and danced about
in the sun in front of the door where his
grandfather sat.
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greatest asset that a woman can possess,
while women put good looks at the bot
tom of the list of qualities they admire In
men?
Nobody will contend that it is because
men possess finer, or more highly de-
veloped aesthetic sense than women have.
On the contrary, the average man IS color
blind. and cares nothing for abstract
beauty.
In proof of this, observe his clothes.
Hideous tubular garments, crowned by a
hat patterned either after stove lid or a
chimney pot. And, unless forcibly re-
strained, he will deck himself out IN
passionate hues that swear at each other
and set the beholders teeth on edge. Nor
is the average man sensitive to his sur
roundings. As long as the springs are
good, and the cushions soft, he can be as
happy on a magenta couch on peacock
carpet in yellow room, as he could be
in one in which every tone blended into Its
mate.
II is the feminine love of abstract
beauty that expresses itself In clothes OF
exquisite materials, shapes and colors. 1t
is the woman who can not live without
beautiful surroundings who makes the
artistic home, and cultivates the flowers.
The indifference that the majority of
men display towards beauty In general
makes their insistence upon physical
beauty in woman all the more inexplicable.
Perhaps they, themselves, cannot tell why
good looks attract them more In woman
than any other thing, and why LONELINESS
repulses them, though it be overland with
thousand attractions of mind and charac-
ter.
The first question a man ever asks about
woman whom he has never seen, is
concerned with her appearance. He always
wants To know whether she is pretty or
not Never whether she is intelligent or
amiable or a good taker, or companion
able
And any little fool, or shrew. with a
onk and white complexion and yellow
ear muffs. and a willowy figure, can marry
whom she pleases, while the cultivated,
big-hearted. big-souled girl with sallow
skin and a nondescript nose, and strlngy
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1920-09-01
GOOD HOUSEKEEPING.
BY Laura A. Kirkman.
MORE PICkLING RECIPES.

Sweet Watermelon Pickles.-For sweet
picked rind, cut the rind into small pieces
and soak it for three or four hours, then
weigh IT and to 5 pounds Of it allow )
pounds of graduated sugar and 3 pints
Of vinegar Put the sugar and vinegar into
a saucepan and bring il to n boil; skim
we'll and add spice bag containing nut
meg, stick cinnamon, mace and whole
cloves, then let it cook for 4 minutes and
pour it boiling hot over the rind. Allow
to stand all night and next morning drain
the strip from the rind. boil IL up once
more with the spice bag, and again pour
il over the rinds Repeat this profess
twice, after which put the entire mass
rlnd and all-into preserving kettle and
LET ii boil for minutes; add the Juice Of
four lemons well strained and cook for
three minutes more Then seal. boiling
hot in hot, sterilizcd fruit jors
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else out of it as you can. Y ou're through
by-when-9?
Nine when / haven any special clean
ing"
Special cleaning one day week,
then you needn't follow this schedule, +"
she relented Because you'll have to
! be dressed differently if you do hard
work
All right Lie down for half an hour
Then st $50, do your exercises. At 10,
take hot bath Lie down till H. Then
YOU may do your other work-going out,
getting ready for dinner, getting lunch,
or sewing After lunch, go for a brisk
walk-you can combine shopping with il
If you want, so long as you get the walk
and the fresh air
If you're out late in the evening.
she went on, do your face and scalp
massage late in the afternoon. If not
at night. Once a week-Fridays, shall
we say-a Turkish bath. Yes" as / pro
tested, 1T will make your skin mar
velous, and it will tone up your whole
system. One night-W Wednesdays
lessons. III go with YOU.
Good heavens" was all | could say
But Helen was obdurate. and I began
meekly to follow her routine, as l once
followed Esther's
Now about Violet, she went on, set
ting herself more comfortably among
the cushions.
tomorrow Drop Five Years.
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Too Many Children.

Pontiac, Mich, Sept. Mrs Esther
Cuncaz Of Royal Oak has been held for
trial in Circuit Court on charge Of
operating a boarding home for children
without q State license. IL was shown that
she had been refused a license. Mrs.
Cuneaz recently was sued for divorce by
her husband, who charged that not con-
tent with having six children Of their own,
she had taken nine children under six years
Of age into the house as boarders.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1920-09-01
A Free Sailing Bulletin

Do you know that you can apply
the sauerkfaut method to scores If
vegetables other than cabbage? Do YOU
know that you can put spinach, kaIe,
beet and turnip down tops in salt and
have fresh greens any day in the wear?
DO you know that fresh corn, beets.
string beans, tomatoes, many other
vegetables, can be given the dill pickle
treatment? The government has com
piled bulletin on the preservation Of
vegetables by fermentation and sailing.
IL is free at our Washington Information
Bureau. It win offer many pleasing sur
prises to the housewife.
Use the coupon. Write plainly
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/ Sliced Cucumber Pickles. quarts
| sliced cucumbcrs, 3 cups brown sugar,
Ia teaspoon mixed spices, 4 large sliced
onions, tablespoons salt and vinegar
enough 10 cover the vegetables. Put the
sliced cucumbers md onions in jar and
| sprinkle salt over them, allowing them To
stand over night In the morning drain,
place in a granite kettle and add the other
ingredients; cover with vinegar bring to
the boiling point, then pack in jars while
still hotl
-GauliHower Pickle cauliHowers, 2
cups small onions, 3 red peppers, ] cup
salt, quarts vinegar q teaspoons mus
| tard and u teaspoon tumcric. Cut the
caulifiowers and peppers into small pieces
and put them in n crock with the onions.
Dissolve the salt in enough water 10 cover
the vegetables and pour this brine over
them. Let stand over night; in the morn
ing drain, add mustard to the vinegar and
bring the vinegar TO the boiling point, then
add the vegetables and boil all together
until the cauiifower is tender (about -
mInutes1
Crab Apple Pickle Wash and stem
crab apples until they can be pierced with
small wooden skewer. Have ready
sir,ip made "a follows: Boil together 4
cups of cider vinegar, ] ounce stick Gin
namon and cups sugar, skimminp as 10
cooks. Place the steamed crab apples in
this strip, each apple with two whole
cloves stuck into it. Cook for minutes
and seal in preserve jars.
Corn Relish-l5 ears sweet corn, !
bunch celery, ] small cabbage, 3 onions,
/ green pepper, 2 quarts vinegar, cups
brown sugar, "a cup -four, II cup salt,
teaspoon mustard, | red pepper. Cut the
corn from the cobs and place it in the pre-
serving kettle Chop the other vegetables
and add these also TO the kettle, covering
all with one quart of the vinegar Mix
flour, salt, mustard and the remainir &
vinegar and add this to the vegetables;
bring all TO the boiling point and let sim
ner for as minutes. Seal in jars.
All inquiries addressed to Miss Kirkman
in care of the Efficient Housekeeping de-
partment win be answered in these
columns in their turn. This requires con-
siderable time, however, owing to the
great number received. So If q personal
or quicker reply is desired, a stamped
and self-addressed envelope must be en-
closed with the question. The Editor.
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DOROTHY DIX TALKS


straight hair which she never learns how t.
comb, never gets in telephoning distance
of a proposal from any man, and, at last
has to espouse career.
fit were only the fool men who married
| the fool girls for their looks, it would not
matter, but so obsessed are even the
cleverest men by this beauty cult, that
they too, fall victims to it, and wreck
their lives by tying themselves to pretty
dolls who lose their only charm as soon
as the paint wears off and their hair begins
to get NANCY.
That is the tragedy of marrying for
beauty. 1t is the-one worst bet III all
matrimony, because it is bound to lose
out in the end. A few short years
spell of ilness-the inevitable strain of
caring for family-and your beauty 8
roses are numbered among the roses OF
yesterday. What then has the man to
sustain him through all the long pull
of domestic life, if all that he married a
girl for was her good looks?
Nothing Absolutely nothing. Hence
the prevalence of divorce, for when the
beauty's complexion and figure are gone,
her wand of enchantment is broken, and
she has no power to hold her husband.
Yet men, otherwise sane and sensible, go
on gambling their life happiness away on
the turn of hair that is bound to go gray,
and a dimple that is foreordained to be-
come a wrinkle. And the plain girls, who
would keep a man interested and enter
tanned all his life, and make him thrifty
and happy home, and who would be better
looking at fifty than they are at twenty,
swell the ranks of the old maids.
There is no more pathetic thing on
earth than that the women who could make
the best wives and mothers so seldom get
the chance to do it.
The very fact that men pick out their
wives by their looks, and without reference
to their other qualifications, and while
women consider a mans heart and brain,
and soul, of more Importance than his
profile or his figure, is the best possible
reason why women should be given the
right to pick out their mates and pop
the question.
If a man was intelligent and interesting
no woman would turn him down because
his hair was getting a little thin on top
and he was developing a bay window, for
some little snip of q boy with ambroslal
curls, and a straight front figure, and a
head that was solid bone Nor would
they prefer an ox-eyed movie hero looking
creature whose sole accomplishment was
to wear good clothes, to a regular herman
with hands like hams, and freckles on
his face, and squirt eyes, but who had
gotten out and done things.
1t takes men to commit the supreme
folly of marrying for beauty. Women
have more sense, and when women pro-
pose, we shall have more rational marri-
ages and more happiness in marriage
unless the men all say mo" when a
homely woman pops the question.