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Evening star., 1925-07-26
618 HOMES BURN DAILY.
Residence Fire Loss in q. s. In Five
Years Totals $322, ,S1o,eo4.

NEW YORK, July 25 R.-Ffre de-
stroys 61s American homes every day,
or one every three minutes, it is
shown by statistics gathered by the
National Board of Fire Underwriters
during The past FIVE years, and pub
lished today. 1t was estimated that
so per cent of the $4,000 deaths from
fire. the annual toll in America oc-
cur in dwellings. The total financial
loss in houses burned for the period
covered u the report Yas ia22.alo.SQ4.
Evening star., 1925-07-26
Bugs" Baer a Radio Feature.

Bugs" Baer, the former Washing
ton humorist, who now calls New
York his home, will make his radio
debut Wednesday through station
WIZ. Baer had been rather hard tc
capture and bring before the micro.
phone and the staff of WIZ are com
plimenting themselves on their sue
CeaS
Evening star., 1925-07-26
John Smith and His Radio
BY FREDERICK C. RUSSELL

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Evening star., 1925-07-26
WRC-Radio Corporation of America
1855 Meters).
Goes to California.

Maj. Horace S. Villars, Army Med
ical Corps, has been relieved from
duty at Walter Reed General Hos
pital, this city, ana ordered to Fort
Mcdowell Calf, for duty.
Evening star., 1925-07-26
New Type Set to be Marketed.

A complete radio receiving set, In
cluding a loud speaker, without any
batteries, will shortly be put on the
market by Benjamin +. Miessner, a
radio and accoustical specialist of
Brooklyn, N. Y. The set operates on
an ordinary alternating housekeeping
circuit, which eliminated both A ana
B batteries. Engineers say the 60
cycle hum is entirely eliminated so
that broadcasts may be received even
with ear phones. The cost OF opera
ton by this new method Is said to be
only one-tenth of a cent per hour or
about a fifth of the cost OF an ordinary
electric light. This new set will be
exhibited to the public at the New
York Radio Show in September.
Although the model six-tube set just
completed by Mr.. Miessner, has the
electric conversion system built into
the cabinet, II Is said to have nothing
to do with the type of circuit used;
that is, 1t Is applicable to practically
any standard radio circuit. The mod
ell receiver Is equipped with a stand
ard form Of receiving, using four con-
trols; its selectivity, intensity, range
and volume are reported by engineers
to be equal to IL not superior to re-
ceivers on the market. Standard
radio tubes are used. Complete cab
met sets of this type, although not
manufactured in quantity yet. will be
offered to the public at between Sl0O
and $125, 1t is believed.
The inventor of this new receiver
began his radio work as an operator
in the Navy in 1908, and in 1911 went
with John Hays Hammond, jr.. to ex-
pertinent with radio-controlled tor
pedoes. He studied three years at
Perdue University, and later returned
TO the Navy as expert radio aide,
working on aeronautical-radio prob
lens.
Some engineers predict the set. or
at least the principle of the electric
power conversion, will revolutionize
radio operating, tending to eliminate
the present-day use of both batteries
and chargers.
Evening star., 1925-07-26

WCAP-Chesapeake & Potomac Tel.
ephone Co. 1855 Meters).
IL a.m.-Service at First Church of
Christ Scientist, Washington. First
reader, Elmer I. Baldwin: second
reader, Mrs. Gertrude K. Fullaway.
Subject of lesson-sermon, Truth
p.m.-Outdoor service at the
Peace Cross, Washington Cathedral
Of the Episcopal Church. Rev. Anson
Phelps Stokes, Canon of Washington,
will preach the sermon.
$40 to SIS p.m.-MusicaI program
by 'Roxie and His Gang from
Capitol Theater.
8:15 to 9:15 p.m.-Goldman Band
concert, Edwin Franko Goldman, con-
ductor, from Hall of Fame, New York
University campus, New York city.
soloist: Waino Kauppi, cornetist.
Early Program Tomorrow.
6:45 10 7:45 a.m.-Morning setting.
up" exercises by the Metropolitan Life
Insurance Co., direct from the Metro
politan Tower, / Madison. avenue, New
York city.
WRC-Radio Corporation of America
1855 Meters).
Silent.
Early Program Tomorrow.
8 to 10 a>m.-Woman's hour, broad
cast jointly with station WIZ from
New York
IL MONOGRAM recital from the
First Congregational Church.
l p.m.-Sidney Seidenman's Shore
ham Hotel Orchestra, broadcast from
the ShorehaIn Hotel.
Evening star., 1925-07-26

During an airplane drill in England
commands of the squadron leader
were given by radio-telephony.
Evening star., 1925-07-26
Local Radio Entertainment
Sunday, July 26, 1925.

NAA-NavaI Radio Station, Radio, Va,
(4345 Meters),
Evening star., 1925-07-26
WCAP-Chesapeake & Potomac Te
ephone Co. 1855 Meters).

1905 am and 1905 pm.-weather
reports.
Evening star., 1925-07-26

"Roxie," the idol of all radio fans,
will take the air for a farewell per
formance tonight. The adieu will only
be temporary, however.
Radios great impressairo has been
released from his contract with the
Capitol Theater in New York at his
own request and severed his official
connections last night. He will be on
hand tonight when his gang" faces
the microphone for the regular Sun
day night radio concert. After that
'fRoxie" hopes to take a short rest in
Europe.
"Roxie" is going into the show bust
ness on a much larger scale than ever
before. A theater bearing his name
is under construction in New York
City, and Is expected to open in Oc-
tober, 1925. Then "Roxie" plans to
return to the air, broadcasting from
his own theater.
Maj. Edward Bowes, managing
director of the Capitol Theater, VIII
take "Roxie's" place at the Capitol
,rheater microphone on Sunday night.
Final Philharmonic Concert.
The final concert of the New York
Philharmonic Society Orchestra from
the Lewisohn Stadium in New York,
will be broadcast Saturday night by
WRC, WGY and WIZ. Nfkalai
Sokoloff, conductor of the Cleveland
Symphony Society Orchestra, VIII act
as the guest conductor.
Evening star., 1925-06-06

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Evening star., 1925-06-06
SUMMERTIME
Pinks.
BY ID. c. PEATTIE.

Early June would not be June with
out the dear, old-fashioned pink.
Those who prefer size and show may
have its gaudy cousin, the carnation,
with it's elaborate double flowers,
which are generally quite sterile and
incapable of seed production. The old
fashioned single pink with its spicy
aroma of cloves, its graceful salver-
shape, and its single, dainty-colored
petals, is good enough for most of US.
And while these 'old favorites,
brought from Europe, are gracing our
gardens, several wild species are to be
found at this season in the woods of
the District. The prettiest of all is
the wild pink, with flowers more
nearly crimson in shade than pink,
and with five handsome petals ar
ranged like five-pointed star. From
the deep, graceful tube of the flower
the slender stamens hang
And there is bladder campion with
puffy calyx striped with purple brown,
and starry campion with petals ele-
gantly fringed, both of the genus of
the pinks, although their flowers are
white. Most curious of all, the night.
Towering catchf1y, with it's large
white blooms that slowly open as the
dusk creeps on, and may still be seen
for short time at dawn if you are up
betimes of Summer morning. But
they close while the dew is still upon
them. Pale-winged night moths visit
them by starlight. sending their long
curling tongues deep into the tubular
calyx for nectar. and incidentally
fertilizing this strange white flower
that seems as ephermeral as moon
light.
1t is. much easier to observe the
sleepy -catchfly, that opens in bright
sunshine for little while in the morn
ing. and goes to bed by noon. Like
the night-f1owering catchfly 1t gets its
surname from curious habit of en-
trapping insects.
Just below each flower is a ring of
black and sticky eXudation like that
with which we often paint trees. In
consequence it is not pleasant to
handle this species of pink. but the
rather dirty habit has its value for the
plant. 1t prevents ants and other nee
tar robbers who would be useless for
fertilizing purposes from climbing IN
the stem into the flowers One NAV
often see one to twenty crawling in
sects, as well as many. flies, caught in
this natural sticky fly paper.
Strangest of all, one may generally
find 20 to SO plants own seeds stuck
fast, to their destruction in the gluti
nous area.
Evening star., 1925-06-06
Many-Hued Four O'Clocks.

Our hebbaceous border must have
ANIMALS as well as perennials," ! said.
Surely" said Mr.. Burbank, they
will make a show the first year be-
fore all the perennials begin to bloom
and their bright colors will come and
go and make the Summer garden
beautiful"
I'VE must have the annual poppies
and ZinniaS, rnarigoldS, naSturttumS,
sweet alyssum, coreopsis, pansies,
love-in-the nest, mignonette, salpig
lossis which comes in such wonderful
colors, gaillardias and annual chrys-
anthemums.
Perhaps not all of these the first
year." said Mr.. Burbank, but it is
a good list to select from. and you
might add clarkias, native Califor-
mans, of many lovely colors and
easily grown and they may be sown
at this season in partial shade. Also
schizanthu
Has not this any other name
prettier and more easily pronounced?'
1T is also called butterfly flower, !"
answered Mr.. Burbank, land poor
mans orchid, and indeed it resembles
small orchids in its shape and deli
cate coloring.
Then If annual sunfiowers are
sown now they will bloom form July
to November, but they must go at
tthe back of the border as they grow
about four feet high
I'VE are forgetting old-fashioned
sultanas," 1 added, "and petunias,
which are blooming now. and ager
atum with its soft, fluffy blue flowers
and blue lobelia for a border, and
four o'clocks, which l have been try
ing to remember to ask you about.
They are very interesting studies
in color variation answered Mr..
Burbank, "and experiments with this
Evening star., 1925-06-06
In THE GARDEN WITH BURBANK


last mentioned plant will prove of
great interest to the amateur"
They are natives of both Americas
and have been under cultivation for
more than a century. Having been
crossed so much they have nearly all
the colors of the rainbow and are re-
markable for their peculiar arrange
ments Of these colors in the tubular
blossoms.
they make use of all of them by ar
ranging them in stripes of white,
crimson and yellow.
Also on some of the plants are
pure white flowers and flowers of col
ors without stripes and on other
plants half of the flowers will be of
one color and half of another.
THE four o'clock seems determined
to make use of all its allotted colors al
once, and as it shows such wide vari-
alton, the experimenter need not try
to make further color combinations,
but may create new types of good
colors or combinations and try tc
fix them so they will come true TO
type from the seed"
AS our ANIMALS are only Summer
visitors they might be planted among
the perennials, so that they will not
be too much missed when they go.
l ventured to remark
And if they are planted from fresh
seed" said Mr.. Burbank. also ar
ranged with care in regard to color.
they will give joy all through the
Summer, and the blooming may be
prolonged by cutting back all stalks
that have bloomed and not allow
ing seeds to form, except those want
ed for next years garden, and by
studying the plants and the causes OF
success or failure, next years garden
will profit greatly by this years ex
perience.''
Copyright. 1921
Evening star., 1925-06-06
REEHE1ME CEIlRIEHS BY THORNTON
DLD l1YARl ~ O1OllIO ". BURGESS

white Robin. you will find that If
you want to live you will have to be
lot smarter than your relatives who
haven't white coats"
'Humph." grunted the little white
Porky with the pink eyes, and went
right on eating.
you see,' explained the young
white Red Squirrel, your white coat
makes 1t easy for your enemies to see
you, and that is why you have to be
smarter than you would have to be
without a white coat"
"Humph." grunted the little white
Porky with the pink eyes, and this
time he ratified the thousand little
spears hidden in his white coat, and
went right on eating
The white Robin and the white Red
Squirrel at last gave up. Hes
stupid" said the white Robin. He's
Just plain, everyday stupid With
that white coat and such stupidity he
won't last long in the Great World. ;"
Peter Rabbit, who had listened,
scratched a long ear with a long hind
loot Then he scratched the other
long ear with the other long hind foot.
Then he stroked his whiskers thought
fully. DO you know" said he, cit has
just popped into my head that having
White coat doesn't make any differ.
ence TO that little Porky. You fellows
with white coats have got to be on the
watch every minute because those
White coats can be so easily seen by
enemies. But why should that young
Porky care if he is seen? 1t makes
no difference to him. Who is there
who will touch him? You heard him
rattle the thousand little spears hid
den In his coat. l guess those spears
are just as sharp as the spears of any
or his relatives, and no one wants to
md out how sharp they are He
probably won't be any smarter nor
any more stupid than any of his rela.
tives. 1t really doesn't make a bit
of difference to him that he is a freak
He is one freak who doesn't have to
be smart"
1t turned out just as Peter had
said. The white Robin and the white
Squirrel had to be very smart. indeed
all their lives, but the white Porcu-
pine didn't have to be smart at all. So
you see there is such a thing as be-
ing too well protected. BY the way.
when one Of these little people who
shouldn't be white at all is all white
1t is said to be an albino.
(Copyright, 1925, by T. W. Burgess)
Evening star., 1925-06-06
PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE
BY WILLIAM BRADY, Nj. d.

Cabbage, raw as salad or relish. or
cooked with corner beef or salt pork,
when cabbage is in season in your
own vicinity.
Peanuts by the pound, for they are
more nutritious than meat.
Cheese, any kind available, except
cheese containing unnatural additions
of spices
Margarine as a butter substitute.
provided the children get their proper
daily ration of fresh milk.
Tomatoes when they are in season
in your vicinity. Some tomato juice
is as good as orange juice for the
babies, and tomatoes may be used to
improve many dishes.
Old-fashioned molasseS, as a sweet
ener especially for the children, and
good substitute for more expensive
sirupS and other sweets.
A bushel of wheat. in lieu of any
breakfast food. Serve the wheat
cooked two or three hours in double
boiler or f1reless cooker, or ground
coarsely in the coffee grinder and
cooked a shorter time
Given a skillful cook, dad may Sc
lect the cheaper cuts in steaks or
roaSts with the certainty of getting
the most nutritious meat and a meal
that hits the spot absolutely.
Copyright 1920
Evening star., 1925-06-06
Coffee Dessert.

For this will be needed three tea.
spoonfuls of very strong coffee, four
tablespoonfuls of sugar, one and one.
half heaping tablespoonfuls of pow
dered gelatin. one cupful of whipping
cream, little salt, one and one-haif
cupfuls of milk, three egg yolks. some
lemon jelly, chopped pistachio nuts
cocoanut and cherries. Rinse out a
mold with cold water and coat It thin
ly with a little liquid lemon jeIly.
When this has set, decorate with
chopped pistachios. cherries and
chopped cocoanut, pour a little more
jelly on these and allow to set. Put
the egg yolks into saucepan, add the
sugar and one cupful of the milk, stir
over the fire until they thicken, but
do not boil. Remove from the fire, add
the coffee, the gelatin dissolved in the
half cupful of milk, and the salt. All.
low to cool, then fold In the whipped
cream. stir occasionally until begin
ming to stiffen, and pour into the pre-
pared mold. Turn out and garnisb
with chopped lemon jelly.
Evening star., 1925-06-06
HOW 1T STARTED
Miss Is as Good as a Mile.
BY JEAN NEWTON.

Constantly in everyday speech we
meet with this saying to express the
fact that to have almost achieved
something, to have just missed reach
ing goal, is no better, as far as re-
suits are concerned, than never to
have made the attempt. 1t is a far
cry from the significance of this say
ing to the medieval tale in which it
had its origin.
''Amis ct AmiIe'' is a French lyric
dating from the twelfth or thirteenth
century, consisting of about thirty
nye hundred verses, which detail the
adventures of the two noble knights,
the story of their great friendship
and mutual sacrifice.
Closer than brothers, and resem-
bling each other to a remarkable de-
gree, Amis and Amile are in the serv-
ice OF Charlemagne, where they bat
ton OF the treacherous Hardre, and
Amls wins for his bride the niece of
Charlemagne. Bellicent, the emper.
or's daughter, loves Amile, however,
so darkest clouds gather over the
heads of the knights. Amis saves
his friend and obtains for him the
hand of the princess.
In the course of his efforts on be-
half of his friends, however. Amis
mas perJured himself, for which he is
punished with leprosy. Amile then
voluntarily sacrifices his two sons
that Amis may be cured by their
blood. BY a miracle then the sons
are restored to life-and they all live
happily ever afteri
whether 1t was in the thoughts of
their resemblance to each other or
their great attachment which made
them inseparable, that our modern
saying had it's beginning we do not
know. We do know, however, that
there is little similarity between it's
original significance and the sense in
which we today say "A miss is as
good as mile"
Evening star., 1925-06-06
Title BenfYS
Note. Book

Pop took me down town to get me
a pair of shoes today, and after
tryed on about 10 pairs without liking
eny of them, he Sed, Now this is the
last pair I'm going to let the man
show you, I bleeve in letting every
body Express their own individuality
in clothes but you haven't bin Express
ing enything but vacant mind, your
verse than a half duzzen wimmin
now do you like this pair or don't you?
No sir? l sed.
Then wich pair do you like. speek
now or forever hold your tung, pop
sed.
The ones. with the little holes ir
the tips, | sed.
zee gods. that the ferst pair he
tried on, pop Sed.
Ill get them agen, the man sed
Being a little bit of a short man that
would proberly never be eny taller
on account of having a mustash- al
reddy. and he went and got the ferst
pair agen and put them on me, pop
sayin, Are you quite sure their per
feckly comfortable?
I'm pritty sure, / sed.
Pritty sure, yee gods, pop sed, and
the man sed, If their tite on you you
better say SO now because we cant
take them back after you've worn
them.
l don't think their tite, L sed, and
pop sed Well for Peet sake take d
little wawk erround the store and
argue it out with yourself
Wich l did, and then I came back
saying, / CESS they aint tite.
How I've lived as long as / have
with you erround me for 8 yeers is
a MYSTERY to me. pop sed. Now do
those shoes pintch your feet or don't
they, yes or mo? he sed, and l sed.
No. I'm almost positive.
Ill send his mother down with him
to get him a pair of shoes, this is
wimmins werk, pop sed.
And he took me out Of the store
looking weak and the salesman stayed
there looking jest as weak.
Evening star., 1925-06-06
Lure of Parasol Colors and Designs
BY MARY MARSHALL.

foundation. Black lace parasols with
pink or white Innings have been seen.
A parasol of light silk embroidered in
large bright floral design and edged
with deep silk fringe smacks strongly
of Spanish inspiration. Printed silks
of vivid design are playing an impor-
tant parasol role this season, when
printed silks and crepes are so we'll
liked by well dressed women The
designs are painted sometimes.
The sketch shows a white georgette
foundation painted with a fruit design
in bright colors. 1t has a wooden han
dl ecarved like basket, holding paint
ed fruit. Beside it in the group
sketched is one showing uncurled
black ostrich over a black georgette
foundation. This trick of making the
handle match the design of the cover
ing is a clever one carried out in many
of the new parasols. The sketch
shows one covered with printed crepe
de chine with handle painted in the
same design and trimmed with ruff
fling. 1t is carried with frock to
match.
Copyright. 1925D
Evening star., 1925-06-06

Treliises and lattice work have two
distinct purposes. They may serve as
decoration or they may act as
screens. In both instances they add
to the attraCtiveneSS of place.
Within the last few years lattice work
has been gradually increasing in
favor. This is fortunate, for many
an otherwise plain and even ugly
house has been transformed into an
artistic residence by the felicitouS use
of trelliSeS, and premises that would
otherwise be unsightly have been
peautified by we'll placed lattices.
The ultra modern object of a trellis
is ornamental. In this it differs from
the old-fashioned purpose, which was
apparently for the support of climb
ing rose bushes, clematis, Virginia
creeper, or some other plant that re-
Quired training in order to appear to
best advantage. A trellis without a
vine was considered a bit incomplete.
Together the trellis and the vine
formed decoration which certainly
was used to advantage in country resi-
dences and quaint farm houses. To-
day roses may. or may not, lend their
fragrant charm to trelliseS. The net
work of slender CroSSbars may have
no vine or tendril on it. Nevertheless
1t lends decoration. 1t is sufficient
unto itself.
This does not mean that trellises
without vines are preferable to those
with them. 1t simply indicates a
change in emphasis. 1t is the trellis
that is featured. Plus the roses or
vine, it is more ornamental But it
has passed beyond the place of d
subordinate object.
To Beautify House
1t is well, therefore, if you have a
house with walls that are stark, to
consider putting up trelliseS. If the
house is too high for the width, use
trellises to break the height. Accent
the cross lines. If you use q section
of the same width of lattice as the
uprights to cross the house between
the windows of the first and second
story, and have the supporting ends of
the trellis as near the ends of the
house as the style of the dwelling per-
mits artistically. the good effect will
be apparent Immediately. Sometimes
the lattice extends all the way across
the house and sometimes it is wiser to
have it end between the windows or
just beyond the window frames.
When Houses Are Wide.
If the house it too wide for it's
height, the space may lend itself well
to perpendicular trellises. There may
be one, two or even three such trellises
on one side of a dwelling, but one or
two is the usual number. One spread
ing fan trellis may serve the purpose
admirably, or wide perpendicular
trelliS may be in three divisions of
straight or slanting crosSbar sections,
having two unlatticed sections separ-
ating them.
The top is apt to be tent-shaped,