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Evening star., 1923-06-03

ploded in Wall street, all entrances to
the Berlin bourse have been closely
guarded and now no stranger is ad-
.mitted unless by special introduction
and card from one of the chief Off
cials.. 1 had a card from the presi-
dent of the exchange and was able
to have an interview with the director
and manager during my stay.
In this talk I asked him who was
doing the chief speculating. He re-
piled:
lido not know any one who is not.
I 1 am sure there is none in this build
ing. Every one from the bank presi-
dent. to the taxi-driver. and from the
wife of the millionaire schieber to the
/! washerwoman, is betting on the rise
and fall of the mark. Even the COM
munists and socialists speculate. al
though every day or so I get letter
from one Of them threatening to blow
the exchange and all of its members
into the air"
What do you think of the future
of the mark?"
TT has no future SO long(as the
re parations now demanded obtain.
Germany is like bankrupt with just
Evening star., 1923-06-03
Well Defined Eyebrows.

The formula frequently given for
eyelashes is also an excellent tonic
for making the eyebrows grow. ]
will repeat it here first and then go
on to explain a new way of freshen-
of tears.
The ointment formula is as follows:
Cocoa butter. l dram; white wax Cor
parafin), 4 drains; lanoline, ~ dram
oil of sweet almonds, drains; per-
fumed oil, 2 drops.
This is a heavy cream, which is
splendid for producing hair. AS it
contains nothing that could possibly
injure the eye, I always recommend
Il for eyelashes. OF course, an ordi-
nary hair tonic could be used on the
eyebrows. but as the girl with scanty
brows usually has scanty lashes also.
this cream will probably be most use
full. / have one word of warning.
Whatever you use here, use only on
the actual part of the skin where
you want the hair to grow. otherwise
you may overdo the treatment and
have shaggy brows.
Now for the new remedy to remove
all traces of tears. Perhaps. however,
some of my readers already know it,.
You simply use tea, bathing the lids
with the hot liquid and then dipping
a handkerchief or bit of old muslin
into the tea and holding it as a COM
press for about ten minutes over the
closed lids. This does away with the
redness and strained, swollen feeling
that makes the eyes hurt so after
crying.
And, by the way. cup of good hot
tea taken internally is an excellent
thing to take if you have been cry
ing; it is soothing to tired nerves
and at the same time little stimu-
Evening star., 1923-06-03
Cream of Macaroni au Gratin.

Boil three-fourths of a cupful of
macaroni, broken in pieces an inch
in length, in boiling salted water un-
til tender. Drain, rinse in cold water,
and drain again. Make sauce Of
two tablespoonfuls each of butter and
-four, one-fourth teaspoonful each Of
salt and pepper, and one cupful Of
rich milk. Mix the macaroni through
the sauce. mixing in at the same time
half a cupful or more of grated
cheese Turn into a shallow dish.
cover with half a cupful of cracker
crumbs mixed with three tablespoon
fuls of melted butter, and let brown
in the oven.
Evening star., 1923-06-03

and gray business-clad shoulders.
Scattered over the floor we're square
pens filled with clerks and about them
were scores of men,. pushing their
way, recording their orders to buy
and to sell. There were. crowds here
and there, .frantically waving their
hands as in the exchange in New
York, and the brokers formed whirl-
pools in which they showed and
pushed in the mad craze of the mark.
At times 1t made me think of a storm
at sea, the winds of which were this
inflated currency, whose future gold
value is about is much per cubic yard
as the infinitesimal gold grains in the
ocean.
During my stay the hour for closing
approached. All orders have to go in
within a fixed time or they must wait
till next day and then depend upon
the rise or fall O.: the mark. This
brings much of the business into a
few minutes while the bell rings and
millions change hands as the loss of
time may mean the loss of "a fortune.
The hour for closing is announced by
the great clocks of the chamber The
ding -donging' of their bells fiIls the
Evening star., 1923-06-03
By Edna
Kent Forces.
BEAUTY CHATS
Manicure Scissors.

One of the most useful implements S
invented is the little pair of manicure
scissors which every woman pos
sesses It's much too useful, for 1t
tempts one to keep the edges of the
nails smooth by cutting away the
little pieces of skin that collect and
grown down over the nail. It's so
much easier to cut off this skin than
to keep it pressed back gently into
place, for il it is cut smoothly the
nails will look we'll for about a week
and need not be touched. whereas the
orangewood stick must be used once
or twice q day to keep them nice
looking otherwise.
The various cuticle removers on the
market are a boon to the woman who
cannot afford the time or expense Of
a professional manicurist. These re-
move the dead skin from the nail and
in most cases give smooth finish
without any further trouble. How
ever. great care must be taken, for
these, which are only diluted oxalic
acid. are very drying, and in the end
will make this tender skin rough and
dry. Whenever a cuticle remover is
used, the fingers should be scrubbed
thoroughly with warm water. soap
and a small brush after the dead skin
has been scraped away. Then a little
cream should be rubbed thoroughly
into the nails and around them and
allowed to stay on several minutes.
There are times. of course. when
manicure scissors must be used. Even
the cuticle remover will leave jagged
ends. and 1t will never get out the
odd bits of skin that collect on each
side of the nail in those little cor
ners where the nail grows out OF the
flesh But do not overdo the manicure
scissors habit. Cuticle, cut too often
will grow tough and unsightly
Evening star., 1923-06-03
Cream of Lettuce and Rice Soup.

Wash four medium sized heads OF
lettuce, separating the leaves. Drain
and place in kettle in the bottom
of which has been placed some butter
or cooking oil-about three table
spoonfuls. In this fry the lettuce,
and when beginning to turn color
slightly add a seasoning salt. pepper,
a little celery seed, two handfuls of
parsley, three-fourths of a ,cupful OF
dry. uncooked rice and two quarts
of chicken stock or milk and water
mixed. Cook for three-fourths of an
hour. Put through a colander. Add
one or two tablespoonfuls OF cream
and serve. The rice may be omitted
and thickening made of three table
spoonfuls each of -four and butter.
Evening star., 1923-06-03

with a. product which brings in tens
of millions of dollars. The chances
are that none of the marks will have
any permanent value, and the busi-
ness resolves itself into that of
printing establishment pure and SIM
pie, where the power of the money is
all profit
The reischsbank paid a dividend of
s% per cent in 1920. 1t paid 10 per
cent in 1921. and 1t ought to pay
many times that this year IL IL has
sues. During my stay here 1 have
visited the institution and had talk
with some of the high officials. !
have asked them ito let me see the
printing presses which are now turn
ing out from fifty to seventy-five bill
lion marks per day, but have been re-
fused.
.NNE'S head grows dizzy as he tries
" to comprehend the enormous
number of marks in circulation and
the extent to which the Germans are
going in debt, as estimated in these
paper promises to pay. I have fig-
ures stating that the amount Is now
something like twenty trillion, or
twenty thousand billion marks, and
that the budget of the government
last year showed a deficit of over
seven thousand billion marks ! have
tried to figure out what these sums
Let US go back to the time of the
pyramids and put the treasury ex-
perts of Tut-ankh-Amen at work. Let
us suppose them, like the Wandering
Jew, endowed with perpetual life and
forced to keep going. How long
would it take to count the financial
output of the Germans if the same
were divided into notes of one mark
We shall give each expert counting
capacity of sixty marks per minute.
or thirty-six hundred marks an hour.
and let him work twelve hours every
day for the three hundred working
days of each year. At this rate one
man could count just about thirteen
million marks per annum, and 1t
would take him eighty years. or the
maximum lifetime, to count UP to
one billion. 1t would take him eighty
thousand years to count every tril-
lion. and sixteen hundred thousand
years to go carefully over the twenty
trillions which the Germans have is
sued. Supposing King Tut-ankh-
| Amen to have lived six thousand
years ago, he might have put 266 ex-
perts at such counting and they
would be still on the job. Do you
wonder the thought makes one crazy?
This speculation in marks is going
| on notronly in Germany but all over
the world. Every country of Europe
istengaged in it, and the great finan-
cial nations have losses running into
the hundreds of millions of dollars
II is estimated that more than s1,o09,-
| 100000 in paper marks have been
sold in the United States, and that
more than 10000, 900 American specu-
lators have lost their money that
way. The British losses are esti-
mated at $soo,o00.0oo, and the car
| toonists of London are laughing at
the "gulls' who have been feeding
the Germans. Here, for instance, is
verse printed under a cartoon pub
lished by the Daily Express. not long
ago:
Evening star., 1923-06-03
BY FRANK G. CARPENTER.

BERLlN.
LII Germany is crazy over the
~ rise and fall Of the mark, and
~ as I try to follow its multi
tudinous gyrations2 l feel
crazy. too. / have spent this week in
the stock exchange and among the
big bankers in a hopeless endeavor to
fnd just where the ebony angel in the
woodpile is hiding. I have given up
In despair. This Teutonic madness is
such that it is impossible for. the out
slider to comprehend it. and just who
is making the profits I am unable to
say. t-.
In the first place. @et me state just
what the mark is. Before the war it
was a silver coin of the value and size
of a quarter. 1t took four marks to
equal one dollar, and there were
twenty-mark goldpieces worth as
much as five dollars. AS the war
went on the silver coins turned to
paper, and one-mark notes, about the
size Of a business visiting card, took
their places. There were five and ten
mark notes, which were little larger,
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We don'd want to pay,
But, by Chinko, il We do,
We've got no ships,
We've got no coal.
Und We gif de marks to you

In former letters I have shown how
the fall of the mark. has financially
ruined the masses of Germany, but
the nation in one way or another has
involved the whole world In this
speculation and gotten some billions
Of dollars for nothing. How many
of the billions still remain here and
how much of the sum is on deposit
to the credit of the great German
spectators in the banks of outside
nations 1 do not attempt to conjec-
4 u X
DUT come, with me to the Berlin
- Stock Exchange. 1t is the great
gambling hell Of the nation and we
can see the financiers buying and
selling. There are 5000 men entitled
to enter. and they represent custom
ers from all over Germany and from
all parts of the world. 1t used to be
that any one might have access to the
galleries but since q bomb was ex-
Evening star., 1923-06-03
Nut Waters.

Beat two eggs well and add them to
one cupful of brown sugar. Next add
one-half a cupful of nut meats. pref
erably walnut. butternut or hickory
nuts, chopped fine, and two tea
spoonfuls of -four. Drop by small
teaspoonfuls on buttered tins and
bake in a slow oven until brown.
Evening star., 1923-06-03

no subject about which she takes
less.
The bride-to-be asks her mother
and her best friend, her dressmaker.
and, mayhap, her lance. what sort of
Evening star., 1923-06-03

'Is Germany in any danger of Boil
shevism?"
Not if we can improve our eco
nomic conditions, but If we do rot
have help from the outside fear ,yb
shall soon be in the same situation
as Austria, and If the situation grows
worse there is the possible danger
of bolshevism.''
What are the chances of union ,
between Germany and Russia?" =
asked. =
All Of the nations are doing their
best to get what trade they can with
the Russians" replied Herr Won Men
delssohn, "but the Russians are tco
clever to give monopoly to any one
nation. 1 think things are growing
better in Russia. but they move,
slowly. The country may possibly
recover under the present regime. but
If it does the progress will be
gradual and 1t will take long time"
What do you think the United 8
States should do in the present stu
alton in Europe?" ,'.
II believe that this world Is too
closely connected financially for
great entity like the United States
to act independently of the other ma
tions. You cannot afford to leave
Europe alone. Your country should
take a live. active interest in affairs
this side of the water, and I believe
it will be to your financial advantage
to do So"
THE. rise and fall of the mark has
i made the Germans a nation of;
gamblers. 1t has had the same effect
on Berlin that the Louisiana lottery
had upon New Orleans when that in
stitution was in the height of its
prosperity. Every one speculates.
The servants who go to market short
change their employers and buy
marks or stocks. My waiter at the
hotel told me this morning that he
had tripled his money on the stock
of one of the German electrical COM
panies, and he is disappointed that
he has not been able to buy some
Hamburg American shares, which
have almost doubled in value within
the past twenty-four hours. Much
speculation Is done in the mark itself,
the changes being so rapid that one
can make or lose a great deal within
short time. Yesterday 1 went to
the bank to cash draft for 500, but
got there too late. / drew this
amount today, and find that I have
made 10000 marks by not reaching
the bank upon time. :.
am paying my German girl typist
in dollars. She Is to be married this
summer and is saving her money for.
her trousseau, When 1 hired her
proposed to pay her in marks, but.
she said she preferred dollars. Our :
account ran for some time and when
I gave her 800 in settlement she
tucked 1t away in her stocking. Since
then the mark has steadily fallen, and
the other day she asked me IL apA
preciated how much she had saved by
not taking the marks.
"I can figure 1t out" said I. g
Yes. it is easy to figure" she said ,
"At the time got that 500 the mark
was running at about 1000 to thG
dollar. and that sum would now be
worth only $5. So you see, Mr.. Car
penter. instead Of SIS have $l0O!' :
tcopyrght. 1928. by Carpenters World TravelsJ
Evening star., 1923-06-03

THIS GERMAN BANKER, FRANZ
, Won MENDELSSOHN, THE
i ROTHSCHILD OF BERLIN"
, SAYS HE. BELIEVES AMERICA
] WILL GAIN A FINANCIAL AD-
! VANTAGE BY TAKING A MORE
! ACTIVE PART in EUROPEAN
AFFAIRS.
and we cow have n-thousand-mark rk
notes as dig as a page of social note
paper. Tie denominations are still
increasing. At the first Of this year
they jumped from ten thousand to
twenty thousand, and the country
will soon be flooded with bills of fifty
thousand and one hundred thousand
marks each.
Asst is now. the one-mark and Ave-
mark notes are not worth the paper
on which they are printed, but those
of the high denominations are enor-
mously valuable in comparison with
their cost. and the government In this
way is running printing business
Evening star., 1923-06-03
What the Bride Will Observe Selecting Her Trousseau

frock is most appropriate for goins
away. and ends by selecting a frock
the like OF which had been mentioned
| maker counsels a one-piece frock
with wrap to match-and she selects
a three-piece suit. Her mother urges
lightweight wool-the daughter Sc
Iects crepe de chine. An elder sister
assures her that a straight. plain
skirt Is best suited for travel, but
the willful bride decides on plated
| panels. The flance casually remarks
that he thinks navy blue most becom-
ing, but the fheadstrong little bride
chooses dove gray because a recent
distinguished bride went away" in a
gown and wrap of that color. II
So what's the use?
What profits 1t to visit the shops
and the dressmakers and closely to
scrutinize the new mode to find it's
best offerings for the bride and her
trousseau, when the chances are that
the bride won't take a word Of ad-
vice? Probably she settled the i'm
portant points of her trousseau the
very day after she became engaged,
possibly before.
The American bride usually regards
it as her exclusive privilege to select
the design for the bridesmaids
frocks, and the wise bridesmaid ac-
cepts the brides verdict without a
murmur. even though the frock de-
cided upon may be anything but be-
coming. But unless the bride in
sists on paying the dressmakers' bills
she should not select a gown so
bizarre that 1t cannot be worn on
some future occasion.
"A little banale, but charming" is
the way a French observer has de-
scribed the robe de style" or period
frock," as worn by the bridesmaid
of today. Verify We have had an
abundance of bridesmaids dressed
quantity in close fitting basques and
bouffant skirts. There is certainly
nothing novel in the idea. But when
ones bridesmaids are young and pre-
possessing the result is surely charm
ing. The period frock for the brides
maid and maid of honor has been
popular for several seasons here as
abroad. At a recent wedding of a
charming bride the wedding gown
itself and those of the attendants
were clever adaptations of gowns de-
picted on the canvases of Burne
Jones, chief of the English pre-
Raphaelites.
X X
YELLED bridesmaids are something
' of a novelty. though, of course.
the fashion is merely a revival of a
very ancient custom. The wells are
short, sometimes draped merely at
the side and back and sometimes over
the face as well. White taffeta BRIDE
maids frocks that have attracted
much comment are trimmed with
daisies. The short tuile wells over
hair and face are held at the brow
with bandeaux of daisies. Obviously
enough, the bouquets to be carried
with such frocks are large punches
Of daisies The brides dress to be
worn with these frocks has a short
lace veil, which, by way of contrast,
does not cover the face.
There is a "Sunday-best" appear
ance that the bride surely wants to
avoid in selecting her going-away
costume. 1t is look that proclaims
the recentness of the wedding quite
fetti clinging to ones hat or lodged
in the crevices of ones wrap. There
| is a certain much-to- be desired cas-
Evening star., 1923-06-03
BY ANNE RITTENHoUsE.

- HERE is no subject about
which a young woman usually
asks so much advice as this
subject OF her trousseau--and
Evening star., 1923-06-03

About a hundred pins are produced
each year in this country for every
person
Evening star., 1923-06-03


Hell of
Who Makes t
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-13
SPOUSE OUSTED
HER AYERS
WIFE
Took "other Woman" in
Home, Mrs. Edna A. Randall
Says, Suing for Support.

Claiming that her husband, Arthur
Randall, ousted her from their home
in October, 1922, Mrs. Edna A.
Randall yesterday filed suit in the
District Supreme Court to compel
him to support her and their three
children. Mrs. Randall, represented
by Attorney r. e. Lynch, alleges
that soon after she left another
woman went to her husbands home
to live. She also declares that
recently she visited her husbands
home and found a picture Of the
other woman on a mirror In her hus-
bands room.
Mrs. Esther X. Murnane, wife OF
Carroll Murnane, yesterday was
awarded an introductory decree of
absolute divorce by Justice Hitz.s
Mrs. Margaret /. Perry, suing Earl
B. Perry for a limited divorce, was
awarded $3.50 a. week temporary all
mony. Justice Hitz ordered the ar
rest Of Manuel r. Shanha1tz, whose
wife, Mrs. Louisa M. Ehanholtz, is
suing him for q limited divorce. The
order directs Shanaholtz to furnish
ia bond of $500 to guarantee that he
will remain In this jurisdiction until
settlement Of his wife's suit.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-13
RATE IS
ASKED IN j. 8.
HOTELS
Plaza Council Sees Revenue
Gain by Reopening Two
Closed Units.

Reduced rates at the Government
Hotel for Women would give great
er profits than the existing rates,
the Plaza Council representative,
organization OF the women who live
In the hotels, declared today.
The council points out that some
months ago two Of the hotels were
closed and rates raised from $3.50
to $50 month.
This was done to increase the
revenue of the hotels. The council
says the revenues have decreased
instead.
Restoration Of. the former rate
Of $3.50" the council says, would
obviate the necessity of CLOSING
any more buildings, and would ben
eft the Government financially by
filling all twelve buildings"
The council is seeking the open-
ing Of the two buildings closed last
May. contending that both the indi-
vidual and the Government. would
benefit by the reopening of the
two buildings.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-13
AVOIDANCE Of
| RAIL STRIKES !.
/ PROBABLE
Rock Island Lines Are Report
cd 20 Have Signed With
Brotherhoods.

CHICAGO, Dec. 12.-Peace in
railroad circles, IN place Of wage
disputes expected on the expiration
Of the agreements between carriers
and ran workers entered into a
year ago. was the prospect today
following an unofficial report that
the Rock Island lines have renewed
for year their contract with the
Brotherhood Of Locomotive Engi-
neers.
Rock Island officials today had
not confirmed the report, which
said that the old rates OF pay were
TO remain In effect.
Although working conditions also
have been a factor in the disputes
It was expected that with wage
agreements signed, the other diff
ferences would be forgotten.
Previous reports have had
pessimistic turn, but hopes for a
spread OF peaceful negotiations to
other lines and other brotherhoods
was evident In rail- circles here
today.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-13
CONVICT STAYS GUARD;
FLEES IN HIS CLOTHES

. CHESHIRE, Conn.,, Dec. H..
Philip Rousch, twenty years old, Of
Clintonville, an inmate of the State
Reformatory at Cheshire, escaped
after he Is said to have killed Al.
bert Hoag, q guard, under whose
charge he was chopping wood. In
a field about a half mile from tile
prison.
prisoner hit tHoag over the head
with an ak. Rousch then stripped
the guard Of his clothes and left
his own olive drab coat ana
trousers.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-13
Paris Radios Pick Up
Speech Sent From
New York
By international News Service.

PARIS, Dec. I2.-GoVern-
ment wireless receiving sta
tions early today picked up
extracts from a speech deliv-
cred by Senator Paul Dupuy in
New York. It was impossible
to take in the whole speech
owing to static conditions. Oper-
ators of the Petit Parisien's
wireless station said they recog-
nized the Senator's voice.
Senator Dupuy's speech was
broadcasted from the sending
station of the Radio Corpora
ton Of America in New York
city.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-13
LIFE UNDERWRITERS
WILL GIVE LUNCHEON

Edwin r. Rorebeck, former vice
president Of the Metropolitan Trust
Company Of New York and now chief
banR examiner Of the Fifth Federal
reserve district, and John L. Snuff,
former postmaster of Cincinnati,
win be the speakers tomorrow at q
luncheon Of the Life Underwriters
Association In the City Club at 1890
o'clock.
Guests at the luncheon win be the
presidents Of the Board of Trade,
Chamber OF Commerce, Credit Mems
Association. the District Bankers
Association and the American Insti-
fute Of Banking. Life Insurance
as q Banking Credit viii be dis
cussed by the speakers.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-13
Worr1en's
Models

An unusual group of Women's
Dresses for such low price. Their
styling is replete with fashion pref
erences. Very smartIy show the
straight line, pleated and one-piece
effects.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-13

They are becomingly trimmed
with ribbon, rosettes, embroidery
and beads. Materials include Poiret
twill, twill bloom, chiffon velvet,
satins and sports plaids. Navy, tan,
brown, black, rosewood.
The Dolores star., 1923-12-28

FOR SALE Homemade sorghum y
gallon cans, cheap. G. d. TAYLOR. 2tf|