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The Washington times., 1922-08-27
FEATURES ARE
INDEX To GIRLS
SELLING POWER
Department Store Employers
Find Certain Types Prove
Most Effective.

NEW YORK, Aug. 26.-Hands
and feet make successful clerks. A
blonde girl with light, fluffy hair can
sell powders and rouge where q
brunette would fail. A pretty hand.
well manicured, makes shoppers buy
neckwear. A beautiful hairdress
looks best behind the jewelry
counter.
These are some OF the pointers
that employers in big department
stores have discovered make for good
business and successful salesman.
ship.
Department stores that sell every
thing from shoestrings to wash
boilers have developed a science In
hiring girls to sell their merchandise
and in picking the right girls to sell
the right thing.
Vamps Not Wanted.
The too pretty girl does not make
the best shop girl. Her mind Is on
her face rather than on her Gus.
toner.
From early morning until late aft.
ernoon there IL q constant line at
the employment offices OF the Dig
stores of girls who would be clerks.
The employment heads say that they
have selected so many girls and tried
no many experiments that they can
Judge an applicant up as she walks
into the office and she is hired or re-
3ected before she opens her mouth.
All stores agree that the first
requisites are neatness and pleas.
ing personality. As to the rest OF
the attributes, the different man
ayers are of different opinions.
One manager said he looked first
at a girls hands. Poorly kept
hands make q careless stockkeeper,
he claimed. II never take girl
with dirty nails"
Another prominent store pays
especial attention to a girls feet. III
she applies for work in fancy lace
stockings and satin pumps she Is
turned down before she gets chance
10 tell her story. "She has no sense
of values or she would not apply for
work in such footwear" Another
manager holds georgette blouses are
IN especial abomination.
Founded, on Experience.
These dislikes are not personal
prejudices based on pet aversions.
They are the result Of long expert.
ence in choosing the right sort OF
girls to make clever saleswOmen.
There is a record kept from month
to month Of the sales made by dif-
ferent clerks.
After a girl 10 hired, she ls as.
signed to the department where she
will fit best. Blondes are chosen to
sell cosmetics-why they can do this
better than brunettes cannot be ex-
planned. but employers agree that
light-haired girls attain the best sue.
cess.
Girls with pretty hair can sell jew
elry where their limp-locked sisters
fail. As this department is generally
located near the front entrance, at.
tractive clerks are chosen for this
vantage point as a lure.
The Washington times., 1922-08-27
Hundred Men at Work
Junking 100000 Shells

PENNIMAN, Va, Aug. 26.-
About one hundred men, white and
colored. are engaged At Penniman
now in salvaglng about 400, 900
shells which were sold to a. private
firm by the Government. The
metal in the shells will be junked
and used for other purposes.
The Government also has thou
sands Of large shells, some OF which
are still good but most OF them
are said TO be fit only for the
Junk pile.
The Washington times., 1922-08-27
MOTHER OF 80
SEES HER SONS
|. AF TER 80 YEARS
Aged Parent, in Poor House
Ten Years, Rejoices When
They Are Restored to Her.
BY KENNETH HARRIS,
p Interna tionaI News Service.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Aug. 2S.--
Just when the clouds of adversely
hung heaviest over the pathway Of
life of Mrs. Mary Margaret Roper,
eighty, a resident at the county
poor house, a ray of sunshine
pierced through. For the aged
woman has just found her two
sons, who were kidnapped fifty
eight years ago. Nearly sixty
wears she had spent alternately
hoping and despairing of finding
her boys, who were literally
snatched from her arms when they
were scarcely able to toddle. More
than 1O.O00-thirty years back
pension-will be her financial com
pensation for the heartaches ex-'
perienced in the years which have
elapsed since baby fingers caress-
ingly toyed with locks of a moth
er's tress whose marital craft at
that time. was sailing upon a calm
| sea.
Bluebird Comes.
There is a spring in Mrs. Ro-
per's step these days, and she is
all smiles. Her "Bluebird Of Hap
piness" apparently has flown into
her window. The cheap calico
dresses which have graced the
hooks in the little room at the
home of the aged, where Mrs. Ro-
per has made quilts for the last
ten years, have been discarded. In
their stead several black silk onSs,
with lace fringes around the COL
lars, have appeared.
This woman, whose three score
years and ten have failed to per-
oeptibly halt her step or dim her
vision received a letter from one
Of her sons-Joseph-in which he
expressed himself as overjoyed, she
said, to learn that she was alive.
He extended her a cordial invita-
ton to come live with him and
| his family. This Mrs. Roper has
planned to do. Her other son,
Charles, is married and has two
children.
A prominent local attorney, who
often visits the poor house and
whose philanthropic actions keep
him constantly in the limelight.
received CHEEKY greeting from
Mrs. Roper when he visited her.
This man has been a marketing
agent for her hanGiwork for some
time.
Won't Make Quilts.
Smiling, she shook hands with
her benefactor. 81 won't be max
ing quilts for you any more" she
explained That money / was saw
ing to bury myself with I've spent
in buying clothes to go TO my sop.
You see, have a family now"
She then showed the attorney
several photographs of Charles and
Joseph which were taken when the
children were one and four years
old. respectively. Her friends
and they are legion-wagered that
no woman in jackson county is any
prouder or happier than she.
Shortly after Lee surrendered to
Grant at Richmond, Mrs. Roper's
husband returned to Springfield,
Ohio. their home, she said. Scarce
ly a week elapsed when Roper and
his wife quarreled. Roper departed
for parts unknown the following
day. taking the children with him.
The strain of the separation from
her loved ones proved too much for
the deserted wife and mother She
went to the home of her sister to
recuperate and made her home
there until her sisters death.
The Washington times., 1922-08-27
BERLIN SEEN AS
/. THE RE|GN|NG
CITY Of CAFES
Reputation Of Mad" Paris and
Gay" Vienna Challenged
by German Capital.
BY KARL H. Won wIEGAND.


BERLIN, Aug. 28.-Berlin has all
but replaced Vienna and Paris as the
''city OF cafes" The Berlin cafe has
not been fairly treated by the writer
OF romance in the past. He has sell
dom deemed IL a suitable place In
which TO allow his hero and heroine
to lean breathlessly across the tapie'
drinking deep of each others eyes
and thrilling to the wild strains or
the orchestra.
1t is invariably In mad" Paris
or In gay" Vienna that such NOV.
ing scenes are staged, the two cities
whose woI Id. wide reputation for cafe
life in it's fullest flower entities them,
We suppose, to this distinction.
But, Berlin has an unending assort-
ment of cafes, quite as suitable IN
which to set the most frivolous flirta-
ton or the most serious love affair
Fine Cafe Settings"
There are, for Instance, innumer.
able cafes lining the Kurfuersten-
damn, where any bender OF best
sellers could safely trust his rich
American heiress with hher fond
adoring parents, or his wealthy Japa-
nese financier, or any OF his charac-
ters whose purses are plentifully
rich countries.
The prices Of the mokka and cakes
are exorbitant from the German
point of view, but are in no danger
OF taxing the foreigner. The wait
ers, for the most part, speak charm
ing broken English and are assidu.
| ously attentive, with an ever hopeful
eye on the foreigners pocketbook.
These cafes frequently have or
chestras which play with consider
able charm and spirit.
Friendly and Warm.
More bourgeois cafes are numer-
Gus, where the eminently respectable
middle class drinks its coffee, where
the plump. brightly-clad German
"hausfrau" meets with her friends
for a bit Of gossip and a cup of cof-
fee, where the young students gather
to read the daily local and foreign
| newspapers and magazines, which
are quite beyond the reach of their
and letter writing between gulps of
coffee.
The coffee and cakes are usually
Of q grade inferior to the Kurfuer.
stendamm palaces, but there II a
certain warmth and friendliness that
Is lacking in the latter. Marble
topped tables are used here instead
of the dainty wooden ones of the
cafes Of the rich. and the walters are
quite content with the regular 10 per
cent. which IL always added to the
bill. Over one cup OF coffee one may
tarry hours with no fear Of becoming
de trop."
The Washington times., 1922-08-27
MARRIED ON BRIDGE.

LYNCHBURG, Va, Aug. 2e.-Be.
cause of a desire to be married
over running water a wedding took
place here on the Sixth street
bridge, over Biackwater creek.
when Miss Signora Taylor became
the bride Of William H Broach.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-09-11

There are times in fashions his
tory when one cannot deal out
generalities concerning miladyts
dresses, but the present season is not
one of them. Practically all new
frocks can be illustrated in one as
to line, color, fabric and trimming.
Skirts are long and narrow, but
loose panels are featured which are
full and usually fastened on the
hips with rosettes or cabochons of
self material. Waist lines are low
and blouses are plain. Sleeves arc
usually wide and flowing and the
material is almost invariably can
ton crepe. The color is black, with
an occasional blue or brown. With
these general ideas in mind de-
signers have made many attrac-
tive frocks by&ntroducing little
variation here and there.
This frock shown here while
conforming with most of the gen.
eral rules. is made out of crinkled
satin instead OF the usual crepe.
A long medallion of vivid bead
work fills in the space between the
panels in both front and back. The
sleeves while set in a large armhole
taper toward the elbow and are
tight from elbow to wrist. 1t is
simple frocll but it is fashionable
tosthe nth degree.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-09-11
ELECTRICAL KITCHEN
IS HOUSEHOLD DREAM
OF MODERN WOMEN

When dreams come true every
woman will have:
the day is warm.
A kitchen free from SCOT, smoke,
fumes, flames, Goals, ashes, or
greasy film.
l. A kitchen whore there is no
danger from explosion or asphyxia-
ton.
A kitchen where food is cooked
with maximum deliciousness and
minimum shrlnkaGc.
A kitchen where food may be
cooked without watching.
A kitchen where cooking heat
may be regulated to an absolute
degree of temperature.
A kitchen where dishwashing lis
not slavery.
A kitchen where hands need not
be Redeemed or marred by soaking
in soapsuds, by continuous beating
or chopping, by scrubbing ana
securing. ".
A kitchen where no ice pan runs
over and no ice man leaves muddy
footprints on the floor.
A kitchen where cooking odors
are skilfully shown the shortest
way out.
A kitchen where kitchen charms
still live but kitchen horrors have
been electrocuted.
An Electrical kitchen!
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-09-11
IRON
GIVES SERVICE
IF GIVEN CARE

"Thefe" said pessimistic new
ly we'd when she found her electric
iron refused to get hot. II suppose
I've been stung with one of those
faulty made-in-Germany irons I've
been reading in the papers about
lately!"
But her husband knew some
thing about irons, and he came to
the rescue.
Don't be cynical; 1t isn't becom-
ing" he said. Anyway, don't you
see the iron has an American
trademark And he proceeded to
tell her some of the things the
iron would request, If it could talk,
in the way of considerate treat
ment.
Next to the electric fan, the
electric iron is probably the most
popular household device in the
world. But in spite OF this, 1t is
only the minority of housewives
who treat it with respect.
"The weakest part of an electric
iron, and one part that should be
protected by an occasional eXami-
nation, is where the cord connects
into the plug. Insulation sometimes
wears through here by the bend
ings back and forth; one or both
Of the wires break, there is perhaps
hardly discernible spark or puff
OF smoke, and your iron is cold in
spite of the current being turned
on"
"Can 1t be flxed?" asked the lit
tie bride, doubtingly.
Certainly it can" he replied. ~
can fix it myself by simply short
ening the cord a bit.
Another thing I'd better do"
he continued; ''I'll get you a new
connection and mount it here in
the WALL just at the end of your
ironing board This will have a
tiny rcd bulb to burn when your
current is on and go dark when 1t
is off. Then you VIII not be likely
ever to go away and leave your
iron to burn out its heating element
or worse, to burn up your ironing
board"
Clever" said the bride.
"Nope-just commemorative,
he replied.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-09-11
lEAR lEII;,: HSs|e|'!l!El R|Rgl0 Rob RL EMsK

Dear Mrs. Thompson: am
% years old and the oldest in a
family Of five children. 7" work
every day pay board, and then
when / get home in the evening
l am expected to work hard
there. Mother is the kind of
woman who thinks she and /
ought to do all the work and let
the children" have a good time
while they can. l have sister
who is - and one who is IS and
it seems to me they could do the
dishes at night and help with the
ironing as | have to help.
/ have been thinking a long
time about the way things are at
home and I have made up my
mind to go away and board for
awhile so that they can get along
at home without me. You may
think / am unfair, but I don't
believe / am. ] am so tired all
the time that | don't believe l
can stand office work and work
at home every night. | never
have tine to enjoy myself. l
have never been the kind of girl
men like, but I have many girl
friends who want me to go to
the picture show with them and
to come and stay all night, but
after the dishes are done and
usually some other task. l am
too tired to go out for enjoy
ment.
Do you think I would be I'M
fair TO get a room somewhere
else for awhile? ANXIOUS.
1t would be very wise for you
TO 90 away for awhile. | pre-
sumo your family will have a
chance to see that you have been
imposed upon and in few
months they will welcome you
back, willing that conditions
should be different and easier
for you. ! also imagine you will
be quite lonely and miss the
home life. There is one thing,
however, you will be able to rest
more. 1t is true that you should
not have so much to do at home !
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-09-11

standing will be in session at
4:SO o'clock at room "a, Admin
istration building. on Tuesday
and Wednesday afternoons. On
wednesday evening at 1880
o'clock the committee on student
affairs Will hold meeting at
room 2, Chemistry building.
Glasses will start at 8 O'Clock
Thursday morning in all depart
ments. The usual university con-
vocation will be held Friday
morning at IL o'clock and will be
attended by the general public.
At this time President Hill and
other members of the board and
faculty will deliver short adj
dresses.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-09-11
N. NJ. UNIVERSITY
CL ASSES START
NEXT THURSDAY
Registration for BernaliIIo
County Students Slated
for Tuesday; Reception
ON Friday Evening.

Miss Anita Osuna arrived here
yesterday to assume her position
as instructor in Spanish and ro-
nance languages at the New
Mexico State university. Miss
Osuna is q graduate of the State
university, where she received
her degree of bachelor of arts.
she received the degree of mas
ter of arts last year following
special work at Stanford univer-
sity.
The electric sign which has
been erected at the university is
now completed with the exception
of the sockets Arthur Prayer, of
the Albuquerque Gas and Elec-
trio company, notified President
David Spence Hill Saturday that
the sockets would arrive this
week and would be in place so
that the new lights can be OPP
Grated Friday evening when the
annual reception for students,
graduates and the faculty will be
held at Rodey hall from s o'clock
until 1890 that evening. Gov
ernors and Mrs. M. c. Mechem
will be gusts Of honor at the
reception and will be in the re-
ceiving line with President and
Mrs. David Spence Hill and other
members Nof the faculty land
board of regents.
Students from Albuquerque and
Bernalillo county will register at
the university Tuesday from 9 to
IL o'clock in the morning and
from | to A o'clock in the after
noon. Special arrangements have
been made for caring for the en-
rolling students and a representa-
tive of each department will be
stationed at Rodey hall to give
advice and instruction. This will
save the students from having to
visit the various department Of
fices through the grounds.
Students from the other sec
tions of the stare will register
Wednesday at the SAME hours in
tho morning and the afternoon.
Dining room and residential
hats will open Tuesday morning
The committee ON student
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-09-11

when you work hard all day in
an office. 1t is all right to let
children be children" in some
ways but they should be taught
responsibility and it would not
hurt your sisters in the least to
do dishes and iron; it would do
them good. Your mother will
spoil them unless she let's them
share in the work. +
Dear Mrs. Thompson: Will you
please tell me what / can use for
a bad case of blackheads?
ELSIE.
Tincture of green soap, two
ounces; distilled witch hazel, two
ounces.
Let this mixture stay on only
few moments and then wash off
with hot water. If the green
soap irritates the skin, as 1t
will, use it every other
day. Apply cold cream. Green
soap may be purchased at any
drug store. 1t is not q regular
cake Soap" but is Of about the
consistency of custard. Open each
seed acne with the point Of
fine cambria needle. The hard
ened mass must be pressed or
picked out. The empty sac of
the gland should then be bathed
with little toilet vinegar and
water, or with a very weak solu-
ton of carbolic acid and water.
Sterilize the needle before using
it by dipping into boiling water,
as the use of any instrument,
unless it is thoroughly cleansod,
Is dangerous.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: I am
very much troubled with an oily
skin. What can l do for this?
My skin also seems thick and I'M
attractive. POLLY.
Use the following lotion for
.hick, oily skin:
Boracic acid, one dram, distill-
I'd witch hazel, four ounces.
Apply with piece Of old linen
Or bit of absorbent cotton.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-09-11
TODAY's RECIPES

Casserole of Rice and Salmon
Line the bottom, and sides of the
casserole with cold boiled rice one
half inch thick. Fill the cavity
with creamed salmon and cover
with rice. Steam for forty-five
minutes and serve hot. May be
served with cream or tartar sauce
if desired.
Biscuit-A never falling recipe:
Two cups flour, two tablespoons
baking powder, a pinch of salt,
two tablespoons shortening, milk.
Sift dry ingredients together in a
mixing bowl and press in the short
ening with a fork until well mixed.
All enough milk to make a wet
dough and then add flour enough
so as to handle it. Roll, cut and
crate oven until they are soft and
fifteen or twenty minutes.
Candied Sweet Potatoes-Boil
sweet potatoes until partly done,
remove skins and cut into slices,
Put a layer of these slices in the
bottom of baking dish, sprinkle
with two tablespoons of sugar and
little cinnamon; another layer of
potatoes and a sprinkling of sugar;
add half cup of boiling water,
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-09-11
BUSINESS WOMEN TO
HOLD DINNER MEETS
AT THE NEW HOTEL

The club dining room of the new
hotel will be patronized by the
Business and Professional Woman's
club of Albuquerque for its fort
nightly dinner meetings, 1t was re-
Gently announced blythe president.
Mrs. e. J. Strong. Until the hotel
is completed, however, the dinners
will be given at the Y. w. c. A.
The club will be revived for the
winter at a meeting this evening.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-09-11
BUILDING AND HOME
SITES SOLD AT MIGHT
BY ELECTRIC LIGHT

Selling home and business sites
at night by searchlights is the in
genious plan of Harry Prettyman,
a real estate man of st. Louis, who
thinks this is the most convenient
time for q business man to visit
and choose such property.
Mr.. Prettyman's plan is meeting
with great success. He deals only
in the disposal OF large subdivi-
sions, and this one. where the
searchlight plan has been intro
duced, is the Richmond Heights
addition, at the end of the Market
street car line.
Here two towers with giant
searchlights have been erected
which are kept playing about the
property while it is being shown.
Besides these, electric lights have
been placed all along the streets
of the subdivision. "There are
many men who do not have an OPP
portunity- to visit property they
wish to see through the day, but
must go out in the evening, and
want to furnish them as much light
on the subject as possible---in short.
make 1t as plain as day." said Mr.
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Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-09-11
ELECTRICAL NOTES

Small, but extremely convenient,
the electric immersion heater is
one of the handiest devices to have
in the hot weather when, the fur
mace has shut down and there is re-
luctance about heating up a big
body of water that is apt to make
the whole house warm. The i'm
mersion heater is especially con-
venient for a small amount of
water to be boiled. such as that for
tea or shaving, and the traveller
will find it a most useful device
whenever an electric outlet may be
found.
n twelve million horses were
Juggling and pulling and hauling at
the worlds loads today, their
strength, energy and accomplish
ment would not compare to that of
the electric motor power of the
United States. according to H. c.
Hill, motor specialist. There are
motors Of every size and purpose.
There are motors that perform the
worlds infinite variety of work
from the daily household task 10
the driving of the greatest ocean
liner. The largest motor in the
world Is situated on q great ship.
The smallest motor is that which
turns the crrrent on and Off the
electric rang
Perishable foodstuffs and dairy
products will be carried in the
specially fitted 500 ton refrigerated
cargo holds of the first electrically
driven ships of the Minnesota AT
lantic Transit company, to be built
Immediately. This company oper-
ates their, line of ships from the
head of the lakes to the seaboard
and coastwise.
Without electricity, loading and
unloading rates on seagoing and
river vessels would be excessive. /
The ore carriers of the Great |
Lakes. as big as ocean liners, need
only the touch OF hands at two
electric switches to load or unload |
them with tons of material. II is
an interesting sight to see one of |
those huge vessels swing into n
dock empty Scores OF hate cs lift
ing as If by magic and streams OF
ore beginning to pou: into those
matches at the rate OF hundreds OF
tons a minute. In less than half
an hour the hull of the vessel IS
loaded to the main deck and the
vessel is backing away to its desti-
nation, making room for another. 4
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-09-11
SUGGESTIONS

SUGGESTIONS
Here is a suggestion that may
help mothers who have a difficult
time getting their children to drink
milk or cocoa. Get five cents worth
of soda fountain straws (you get
about twenty-five for five cents at
the ten cent store), cut them in
half with shears; this makes fifty
or more, so they are inexpensive
Now, show me the child who won't
take delight in slipping milk or CO.
Goa through a straw!
Tartaric acid is most effective in
removing stains made by perman-
ganate Of potash; it-also removes
fruit stains.
If the machine belt is loose and
there is no immediate time to re-
pair 1t just snap two or three good
sized rubber bands around the top
wheel and you will have no diff
Guilty in sewing.
Suet should be wrapped in grease
proof paper, put into a linen bag
and kept in a dry, cool place. If
this is done the suet will keep for
twelve months.