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and cake were served 10 all present.
?ellysnna Corps composed Of mem
bers of the sophomore class Of the High
School tad planned to hold q play at
the club rooms S04 Market street on
Thursday evening, but this has been
postponed from tomorrow evening TO
some later date which will be an
nounced in the near future. The
corps viii give bake on Saturday
morning at Sixth and King streets.
Word has been received from Miss
Mary Ramsey and the seven delegates
who left on Saturday for Camp Nepah-
win, Canton. Pa. OF their safe arrival
and how much they are enjoying the
conference. TIE party will be home
the last of this week.
Members of the Eastlake Corps
have called meeting for IL O'Clock
Friday morning at which time plans
Will be made Tor a lawn fete TO be
held in the near future.
All girls Of the city whether mem
oers of the clubs or corps of the Y.
w. c. A. are asked to come 10 the
club rooms any morning this week at
1890 o'clock and help with the Red
Cross sewing for the children of Eu-
rope. Now that school is closed it is
felt that this week in the mornings
the time can be spent in a profitable
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manner for the little folks that the
Red Cross are ntri9ing To clothe In
Eastern and Central Europe.
Tho Junior Period at Holiday House
begins on Saturday and will continue
for n period OF three weeks. While
some registrations have been made for
this vacation yet there are many
vacancies for this time. Registrations
are now open TO all girls of the teen
ege to visit the house during the three
weeks, and all planning to so between
June % and July is are asked 70
notify the office, s04 Market street as
aoon as possible. The association asks
that All reservations be in early, at
least week before the time TO 20 TO
the house. The first group Of young
girls will leave on saturday after
noon for Holiday House. A straw
ride II being Planned for Saturday
evening IL tho weather permits
Many other special stunts are planned
for the outing.
Niss Helen M. Richards. Office sec
retary at S0f Market street IL spend
Ing this week in New York city.
Members of the Grace Cleaners Mis-
sionary Society will go TO the Y. W.
G. A. Holiday House tomorrow after
noon and have picnic supper. The
young women will 20 10 Shellpot Park
and will be there met bys the Blue
Triangle bus. This is the annual
picnic Of the missionary society.
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visit to the battle fields. They will
srend some time in Paris. Mr. and Mrs
c. +. NJ. Rumford and son will go &c
New York with the Wilmington party
to bid them bon voyage.
The continued good weather il prov.
ing an inspiration TO the golf and tenni.
PLAYERS at the Wilmington Country
Club. The tennis tournament is draw.
ing many visitors TO the club grounds
and through every ones time more OF
less is taken up with the games, there
have been several opportunities for
social diversion, alone. Yesterday Mrs
A. Felix du Pont he'd large party of the
out-of town players as guests for buffet
luncheon which was much enjoyed This
hospitality was rendered at the du Pont
home.
Mrs. Frank ID. Lackey and Miss
Mary Lackey left ON Monday for. And
over, Mass, 60 join Frank Lackey, Jr.,
who is student there. The trip was
made by motor.
Mr.. and Mrs Frederick Bringhurst
will be host and hostess for a weekend
house party entertaining Mr.. and Mrs.
Malcolm 7. Stonev and Mr. and Mrs.
Ralph B. Rohrman Of Philadelphia, Pa.
Miss Marjorie johnson of this city
spent last week in Dover ~ the guest Of
friends.
William II. Laird, Jr., is at home from
the University of Virginia
Laird Stabler has returned from
Princeton University Edmund Laird
and Brookes Stabler have returned from
the Episcopal High School, Alexandria,
Va.
Mrs. James Harvey Sprrance of
Blackshire Road was hostess At tea
on Saturday, IN honor of Mrs. W c.
Hicks, of Philadelphia, Mrs. Utlcy
Crane and Miss Persius Corner Of
Overlook and Mrs. John Colgan Of
Cynwyd, Pa.
Mrs. William Hammond is at Rehobot
for the summer.
The marriage Of Miss Margaret Foster
Whitaker daug hter of Mr.. and Mrs
Herbert ". Whitaker, eo4 West Elev-
enth street. and Thomas Morrison Sloan,
Jr., son of the late Judge and Mrs.
Thomas Sloan, of Ssndusky, Ohio, will
take place Saturday, July ., at G o. clock
in Trinity r f. Church. 4 reception
viii follow the ceremony.
Mr. and Mrs John b. Spicer Of Della
ware City announced the engagement
of :heir daughter, Miss Margaret Spicer,
to Marvin Adams, II Philadelphia, at a
house party at their home over the week
end. The following guests were present
Mr.. and Mrs A. Victor De Revere, MIR.
and Mrs. P. ID. Gochegan, MIR and Mrs
Kenneth Cross, MIR. and Mrs. Leo ID.
Wells, Mrs r. IL Spur, Efminie Quill
len, Lenore Farsor. Mary Farrell, Katha-
rine Spur, Mary Money, Mary Schaffer,
Emma Mulligan, Bessie Neal, Grete
Holiday, Charles Wood, George Clark,
Frank SchaTer, Ralph Mulligan,
William Weaver, Emmett O'Neil, Car
lisle Spicer, Marion Adams.
Continued on page Il.
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Dinner for Bride Elect.

A dinner party was given by Mrs.
Samuel NJ. Zion in the Lambros cafe
last night in honor Of Miss Rehecca
Altman, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Morris Altman Of GIG North Broome
street, who will be married TO S.wein-
berg. Of Philadelphia and Denver, on
June 2e. st the -Stratford.
Philadelphia Twenty-Five guests were
present Another function in Miss
Altman's honor VIII be tea. 10 be
given by Miss Evangelyn Barsky in
the Hotel du Pont on Friday afternoon.
After her marriage. Miss Altman will
reside in Philadelphia.
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81 900 day for spe>isf Golden
Jubilee gift 20 foreign lands. snd a
report was made, on vfpt 10 f~inx
done with the )ubllee money.
The chief address of the afternoon
WAS made BY Mrs. Andrew xacf>isn
of Glencoe. Illinois. Home adninis-
fration vice president ~ the mnriesy.
on The Work ~ our so~ie'y ~ the
Home Base"
Il need spend no words in dsfsneo
Of wornan's work for women In neh-
then lands" she said. We have 1926
schools in which nearly l2s0oo cnii-
dren and young women are being
trained FOR useful Christian living In
them some 1000 native aswi~tants.
product of these schools. are ins'rDct-
ing, while az5 Bible women arr rr~nd-
ing their lives in spreading me rod
news Of a Christ who saves"
Miss Grace Kan ~ China. Khanto
BelaRai and y. Handanah n India.
Nakaii San ~ OSAKA. Japan and Df IA
Saw sa Of Burma. who had come from
their own countries 20 attend no lubi-
lee celebration. spoke ~ appreciate.
of the work u the society in furir 70
spective countries.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Mitchell Davis OF GIG
Fas, Twentv-second street have gone
10 Huntington, L. |. for q two weeks
visit ~ relatives.
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Among the graduates of Princeton
University yesterday was IRVINE NJ.
Finn, Jr., son of DIR. Irvine Finn, who
atterded the commencement exercises.
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Miss Alice Condor, who has peen .
student at Nilla Maria, Frazer, Pa, mas
returned TO Wilmington.
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Mrs. A. b. CARTRIDGE of the Whining
ton Apartments is spending several
weeks with her mother-in Detroit,
Mich.
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Mr.. and Mrs Henry Scott spent Mon
dav in New Haven, TO attend the gradua-
ton exercises of their son, Sidney Scott,
who with Jackson Marvel viii later go 70
New London fo- the boat-races, making
the trip IN Mr.. Scott's yacht, The
Countess
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MUSIC AT THE SUMMIT.
Matters Shaping Up for the Annual
IampmeefIng.

A concert win be given in the tab
ernacIe on Brandywine Summit camp
grounds on Friday night by the Cecil
ton. Nd, band. led by Prof. Charles
IT. Edwards. Vocal selections win be
given by Eleanor g. Kemery, con
tralto; Mrs. Theresa Downey, so
prano, and Wilmer s. Boldly, bari
tone, members Of st. PauPs choir.
Charles IaBoube Edwards is expected
TO give violin slections.
II is planned 10 hold number of
activities for the occupants Of the
cottages on the grounds. prior 70 the
opening Of campmeeting in August
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WESLEYAN FUND is GROWING.
Has so,770,000 Of $1,000, 900 Endow-
ment sum, is Report.

MiddIctown, Conn, June 22.--Gifts
10 the $4,000 900 endowment fund
which President w. A. Shanklin pro-
posed for Wesleyan University have
reached a total Of 2,775 900, he reported
to the alumni at a luncheon Monday
afternoon. The : balance must be
raised by September i.
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Graduate From Johns Hopkins.

Albert Chandler Norris Of Delaware
graduated from the engineering school
of Johns Hopkins at the commence
rnent exercises at Baltimore yesterday.
The New York herald., 1921-09-11

TIME sunfower, although it originated In
this country, in the great plains, Is
not used here so extensively as in
some other countries especially Russia in
normal times. II is a long time since the
plant first delighted the eyes Of Europeans.
being then cultivated in the gardens Of
Madrid The early Spanish explorers had
found it in this country and taken il home
with them.
The plant was utilized by the American
Indians long before the days of Columbus.
When Champlain visited the Georgian Bay in
1915 he found the natives growing It and
using the oil for their hair. 1t was raised
chiefly. however, for the food afforded BY
the seeds.
In Russia the seeds have always been
eaten in immense quantities, raw or roasted,
as peanuts are in this country. and the oil
obtained by pressing the seeds Is i'm
portant article Of diet The frequent re-
ligious fast days IN that country restrict the
use Of meat and lead to the consumption OF
vegetable oil. and in normal times the manu-
Facture NJ sunnower oil is always Of CON
siderable dimensions. The best seeds yield
The New York herald., 1921-09-11
Many Uses for the Gaudy Sunflower

an oil which compares favorably with olive
oil.
The seeds Of the larger and finer flowers
are held 70 be quite equal TO most nuts in re-
spect Of palatability and whoiesomeness The
stalks and dried leaves are highly priced for
fuel, being in some parts Of Russia almost
the only available substitute for wood An
acre Of sunfiowers will yield many cords of
good fuel.
The oil appears TO possess more OF the
general properties of olive oil than any other
known vegetable oil II takes about bushel
Of seeds TO make q gallon Of oil, and afty
bushels Of seeds can be grown on one acre
Of land As the oil sells for more than 81 a
gallon the profit is large.
Of late years purified sun1ower oil has
been used extensively in the adulteration OF
olive oil. II is Of a pale yellowish color and
decidedly paatable. In a crude state II is
used by painters to some extent, but It is in
ferior to lnseed oil for use in paint
IN addition to the oil from the seeds the
stalks when green, and the oil cake make
excellent fodder. The fibre Of the stalks,
which i fine silky and very strong also has
a value. In China IL is woven into beautiful
fabrics and II Is believed that by the use OF
proper machinery II might be utilized most
probably in the United states.
The New York herald., 1921-09-11
Woman Now Invading
Stock Brokerage Field

WOMAN in Wall Street, The last
II feminine ramparts down!
4 looked upon Kathleen Taylor with
awe and admiration. Mathematics and
finance seem to the common or garden va
riety of women something like Choctaw or
hieroglyphics. Yet here was one who juggled
with the fate of hundreds OF clients. and
daily beared or bulled the market or did
some menagerie stunt wholly Incompetent
sible to the writer.
From teaching the young idea how to
shoot in an elegant estate UP the Hudson,
to operating in Wall Street is a far jump.
She was born in America. even in our
exclusive Gramercy Park. but all the tradi-
tons OF English sristocracy encompassed
her, including private tutors, with never a
public school. Then there were skating and
other outdoor sports. which she afterward
taught. along with French and German, to
the favored darlings of rich folks in a castle
up the Hudson. Mathematics. too, of course,
even IL that were "a bit unmaidenly."
Sne has a fine, strong face. straight
bobbed hair and a humorous smile. Decid-
edly feminine is her humanitarian desire to
put some kindness into the soulless game
and to educate women so that they vol
untary investors. not ignorant dupes.
Teaching was the only occupation OF any
importance open to women until recently"
she told me. And even now IL has its
points. There is something rather big and
fire about imparting information. | am a
pioneer In Wall Street opening up the path
for my sisters largely because ! found how
helpless they were In the world of finance.
Suffrage had an intellectual appeal for
me and was a cause for fairness, but the
old. timid methods of obtaining the vote left
me cold. 1t was when the Englishwomen
forced the issue upon Parliament and In
Washington the miltants insisted on con-
sistency in our democracy that I became
intensely interested and went West as an
organizer.
but the franchise is not all sufficient.
Women need freedom In industry. Jobs for
women are quite important as votes for
women--economic opportunity. The field
of finance is the one big field, beside which
the unorganized timd professional worker
has little opportunity to amass a compe-
tence. This held peculiar fascination for
me and | determined to storm the doors OF
Wall Street for my sex.
strangely enough, even since so many
women have owned and operated large for
tunes the Stock Exchange has not wanted
them. There are plenty of sharks looking
for their money, and bewfldered. many OF
these women have gone into wildcat schemes.
But the substantial brokers hold fixed
ioea that women are bad losers. not good
sports, viii be fuSsy and notionate. ana SO
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they have not made bid for their accounts
until recently.
There are several women IN New York's
bond houses, notably Miss Alice Carpenter
and Mrs. Jacob Ris. but l guess I am the
only living woman stock broker in captivity
The Stock Exchange is mans last stronghold
throughout the world. My ambition is to
buy a seat on Change, or rather to try, for
no woman can. IL would be a test case
which is most desirable and might revolu-
tionize womans world"
1t seems that as the psychological moment
when Miss Taylor was yearning for finan-
cial world to conquer an old conservative
firm of brokers sent for her. When Il seemed
feasible that she should begin as clerk or
minor broker the question of salary was
broached
What do you want?" said the venerable
man who was to make the new experiment.
what do the young men usually begin
att"
why. while they are learning we gen.
orally give them s35 week. How would
s25 suit your"
"The deal is Off" replied the young
woman. III am to underbid man / will
not go into the game I'd be willing to work
for S. IL necessary-money is OF no i'm
portance while learn-but to receive less
than a chap who brings to you no superior
qualifications, just because / am a woman.
Is IHpoSSiDit,
The old man capitulated, and the first
feminine broker became reality
OF course / yearned to see the ticker in the
act of ticking. On the stage one sees cor
pulent man, red with approaching apoplexy.
bending feverishly over the little tape and
falling in a fit when his stock goes down.
Such scenes may take place In real life, but
| saw none
New York women won't go down TO wan
Street to invest-they force Wall street 70
come to them! TOO busy" they exclaim.
And it's too inaccessible and dirty down
town. Come on up to the fashionable shop
ping district where we have to be, anyway,
and then Il will be convenient for us and
we will look into your propositions"
So the firm that Miss Taylor Is with tas
well as some Of the bond houses) has ac-
tuaIlv established womcns headquarters at
rortv-second street and Fifth avenue.
II was thence we repaired after luncheon
4, order that might see the ticker. We
sscended an elevator with nice gilt grill
work that looked very plutocratic, and
M ssed the blackboard, where men were
scanning chalked figures and on into the
"woman's department" There was one
middle aged client who transacted her
business quickly and quietly, and at tho
ticker was a handsome. black eyed. young
woman lingering the tape. who. / learned
was structural engineer. recently grad
uated from Cornell Nearby, in office, she
.esgns skyscrapers.
The New York herald., 1921-09-11

two conflicting emotions; on the one hand
there rises before him the SCARED trees the
gaunt ruins of homes. churches and public
buildings and. on the other hand, there
appears the marvellous and heroic achieve
ment of reconstruction In the section sur
rounding Ypres both extremes are visible.
Here destruction reached its maximum, and
here rebuilding proceeds on a magnificent
scale
The procedure Of reconstruction is from
soil TO homes and lastly TO churches and
public buildings All of the villages follow
designs presented by the Reconstruction
Council, and the architectural effects pre-
sent pictures OF unity as well as beauty.
II is hoped that permanent homes will be
supplied for all by the year 1924; public
buildings will probably not be completed
before 1926 The owners of private buildings
may choose between individual initiative or
governmental initiative in rebuilding. In
either case the costs are borne by the
Government
The "School on Wheels" instituted by the
Ministry Of Agriculture, travels from village
to village. giving instruction In home
making, agriculture, dairying home and
child hygiene, cooking and sewing.
This novel venture of postwar family
rehabilitation reveals once more the chan
nels Of service which have made their ap-
peal TO women who found themselves
during the war. One Of the women teachers
in the School on Wheels" received five
decorations for valor as war nurse; she
now devotes all of her time to the teach
ing of girls and mothers in the devastated
areas.
No one can appreciate what such instruc-
lion means 10 these families so ruthlessly
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Enfranchisement of Sex Works Out Far Differ
emily Than Politicians Imagined and Women
Are Taking Serious View of Their Duty

quickly dispersed by the signs of energy
and rehabilitation at hand 1t is very i'm
pressive how the genius of the Belgian
people Is being Incorporated in their material
construction.
To replace the library of the famous uni
versity in Louvain the Carnegie Foundation
is giving building designed by an American
architect, Whitney Warren. It's cornerstone
was laid recently, and the flags of the Allies
are still triumphantly flying from It's scat
folding.
Linking together these little towns-jewels
in the crown of Begium-is the golden
countryside. Here may be studied the
fascinating drama of the lacemakers. As
with the folksongs the secrets of the beauti-
full designs were passed from mother to
child for generations-each region guarding
jealously the way they interpreted pattern.
A picturesque feature was the singing or
chanting by these women of the country
songs as they worked.
Not long ago a woman of ninety years
was discovered who had the secret OF how
to work out the most lovely design to be
found in Belgian lace. With difficulty she
was prevailed upon, for the sake of patriot
ism, to teach three young girls how to
interpret her design, and they In turn have
signed paper each promising to teach
three more girls-thus insuring that the
secret shall not be buried with the ancient
piceuse-the woman who decides how many
threads shall be used in a given design and
where to place the needle.
To an American woman married to a
Belgian-Mme. de Beurghen-is due great
credit for keeping the lacemaking indus
try alive during the years of occupation.
Fifty thousand women were furnished
frames and bobbins and given work to save
them from starving. Her organization
LES Amies de la Dentelle," has established
schools and Is making an effort to keep
the art as pure as 1t was before the twen-
tieth century. Less beautiful designs had
crept In, through attempt at CONNER
cialization. BY bringing the buyer into
direct contact with the schools LES Amies
de la Dentelle" are hoping eventually to
eliminate the mddeman
Deadly Terror Over the Country
ConpeIs Army of roo, 900
With the bright threads of art and tradi-
ton that have come down the centuries in
Belgium has been woven leaden sken
A deadly terror that clutched at the hearts
of their fathers has been transmitted to
the sons. Scarcely rural family but goes
to bed at night with the fear that til
Germans may be again at their doors in
the morning.
To this may be credited the army of
100000 men, while the country carries its
load of debt. Ask the average Belgian
to-day about disarmament and the reply
will be the equivalent in their tongue for
"preposterous."
In this crowded corner of the earth filed
with age-old jealousies and hatreds and
only recently laid low by ruthless force.
there can be but little sentiment for doing
away with what seems to them to be their
only sure protection.
1t Is the great nations that are strong
in isolation that must some day contrive
to lift this nightmare of armed antagonism
from the world.
The New York herald., 1921-09-11

torn from their homes and obliged to return
to elemental ways OF living. For them life
had to begin anew Deep in their hearts
they cherished the small bits of soil where
once stood their homes When peace came
and they were once more permitted 10
return to their native villages they per-
sisted in living on the old sites. Many
of the temporary shacks stand on the very
-uins of former homes. The tie which binds
The Flemish family to its soil Is one of
unyielding sentiment and devotion
Here and there one meets with dramatic
situations. One mother, for example, found
herself left completely alone upon her re-
turn to her village. Her three sons had
been taken as her toll of the war. I'm
daunted, she proceeded to build for herself
a shack and to prepare her bit Of soil for
cultivation. She presents a solitary but
courageous bit Of Flemish character. On
the maEtel of her present "home" stands
the shell which she believes killed her
youngest son. She displays this to her visi-
tors as If to indicate that this gruesome
article is all that she has left of family
memories.
Amid all this practical awakening the
romance of the little towns of Flanders is
still vivid to-day, notwithstanding the desc
Grafton of their soil by the foot Of the
invader.
In the page mon1stiqne of the poets Is
situated Louvain, once called the citadel of
Flemish piety. Seven years ago to-day the
gray armies of the German came sweeping
down upon her. leaving fire and ruin in
their path. The only building Of any impor-
tance that was undemolished was that jewel
of great price standing in the Grand Place