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Amerikai Magyar hirlap = American Magyar journal. [volume] (Youngstown, Ohio) 1911-1942, 1926-09-02
vERHOVAY 1Os.

Beteg tagjaink nevsora ko-
vetkezo:
Idb. Ivan Janos (65 Parnell
ST., Balasko Gyorgy (878 Will
son Ave., Vakarcs Sander (Ca-
nonsburg, Pa.), Bodnar Istvan
-(City korhaz).
Betegseg a titkarnal jelentendo,
kinek cine 211 Edward ST., tele-
fon szam 78749.
Hoffer Andras, titkar.
Amerikai Magyar hirlap = American Magyar journal. [volume] (Youngstown, Ohio) 1911-1942, 1926-09-02

rendelkezestkre. Azontul pedig vagy
Koran Janos gondnok, vagy Kish Imre
IS F6nagy Janos presbytereknek tegye-
mex jelentest.
Amerikai Magyar hirlap = American Magyar journal. [volume] (Youngstown, Ohio) 1911-1942, 1926-09-02

nLvASHA All AMBRIKAI Ma.
HYAR HIRLAPOT as TAMO-
CASSA AZ ABBAN HIRDE-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-19
WASHINGTON CLUB BOTS
Mak1ns Yu1et1de Radios ~

modified his skill and handicraft
for the making of valuable Christmas
gifts for his family is K. E. Parks,
who lives in the northeast section of
the city A pool table. by feet in
size, which this amateur builder de-
signed and constructed during his
spare time, is one of the finest Yule-
tide gifts, his sons say, which young
fellows could wish. Commercial pool
tables have bases of slate, which can
not warp or get out of plumb. This
homemade table is equipped with a
bed of asbestos lumber, which pos
sesses similar properties.
The table is cushioned by rubber,
covered with green billiard cloth.
These rubber cushions were salvaged
from a dismantled pool table in local
recreation parlor. The rails of the port
able pool table are made of cherry
stained and finished to look like ma
hogany. Mr.. Parks devoted the lei
sure of two months to the design and
construction of the pool table, which
he presented to his sons the following
Christmas a factory-made portable
pool table of this size would have cost
at least $50. Mr.. Parks made his
table at a total outlay of SIS.
Mrs. Parks and her sons have been
the recipients of many other remark
able gifts made by the head of the
household during his spare time An
attractive sewing table, beautiful
floor lamp. models Of ancient Spanish
ships, radio receiving set, tea cart,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-19
Co.

a smoking stand. fancy table lamps,
book ends and other wooden fixtures
and furniture. valued at several hun.
dred dollars, have been made in the
basement workshop of this District
home.
Some so members of the Washing
ton Boys Club have been spending
their spare hours in the woodworking
shops Of that organization for the last
two months, making Yuletide gifts for
parents. brothers, sisters and play
mates. You would be surprised at
the excellence of the work done by
these junior carpenters, who are mas.
tering the complexities Of the cabinet
makers trade. Some of the Young.
sters confine their gifts to toy ami
mails. Others make glove boxes, tool
chests, fancy boxes, cedar chests.
chairs, tables and similar articles of
furniture.
The boys who are studying press
work and printing under competent
supervision have recently designed,
decorated and printed many hundred
Christmas cards, which they will send
to their relatives and acquaintances.
About as many New Year cards have
also been printed, and ultimately will
circulate through the Washington
mails. A certain portion of the hand
some holiday cards which the BOYS
produce is offered for sale, the pro-
ceeds being used in the purchase of
gymnasium and athletic equipment.
Some Of the boys who are interested
In the making Of radio instruments
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-19

from $3.50 to $500. They include
ships. boats, wooden trains, toy
animals, games, quoits, building
blocks, merry-gorounds, tables, chairs,
bookstands, glove boxes. mantelpiece
ornaments and similar articles.
Patients who make a success of toy
manufacture are graduated into the
cabinetmaking class. Finally they be
come expert enough to make fine fur
niture. Some of them practice the
trade which they have learned at this
hospital if they eventually are dis
charged because of restored mental
equilibrium. Toymaking and wood
working never effect cures. They are
contributing causes in a small degree,
inasmueh as they keep the patients
occupied and interested.
In addition to the toymaking and
cabinetmaking classes, such other
simple industries as rug, blanket and
curtain weaving are taught to those
who show interest in such work.
Federal hospital most every week day
The rugs, blankets, curtains and other
useful articles made by men and
women in these occupational therapy
classes are sold at very reasonable
prices to Whomsoever wishes to pur-
chase them. Needless to say, they all
make fine Christmas presents, and
are sold at such low prices that most
everybody can afford to buy them as
potential gifts for relatives and
friends.
Another Washingtonian who has
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-19
BUCK" CAsKlNs boys c1uh) Builds
g. chfi st NaS BOat.

decorates and costumes so attrac-
lively.
II you CHANGED to visit the Trans
portation Building. at Seventeenth
and H streets northwest, the
were attracted to a wonderful display
of toys exhibited in one of the ground
floor shops. Certain charitable ladies'
of the District We're in charge of the
retail distribution of these well-made
playthings. If you inquired the prices
of the various toy animals, chairs.
tables, benches and bric-a-brac, YOU
probably were surprised at their rea-
sonableness. Doubtless you pur-
chased something to give to some child
on Christmas day.
This collection of toys and play
things came from St. Elizabeth's Hos
pital, out on the highlands above
Anacostia. About 100 occupational
therapy patients at that institution
spend three to four mornings each
week, throughout the year in making
simple toys which eventually become
the treasured playthings of Washing
ton children. The customary plan is
to assemble all these homespun TOYS
previous to Christmas in some central
shop in Washington, where they are
sold at low prices to the general pub
lie. Many Of the toys are also given
to the District orphanages and other
local charitable institutions for young
sters.
During past seasons profession.
al toy dealers from Washington
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-19
Curious HeaddresseS.

IT Is a matter OF historical record
that Marie Antoinette had pas
sion for extraordinary headdresses.
One structure that she invented was
Is inches in height and was composed
Of many yards of gauze and ribbon.
From the folds sprang punches OF
roses, and the entire edifice was sur
mounted by a waving plume of white
feathers. It is recorded that when
Maria Teresa received a portrait OF
her daughter wearing this headdress
she exclaimed, This is no daughter
of mine
The Duchess de Chartres. deter
mined to suppress the Queen. designed
headdress two inches higher. 1t was
made up of many plumes, waving at
the top of a tower. Two waxen figures.
representing the little Comte de Beau
jolais (the brother of Louis Philippe)
in his nurses arms, were worn as
ornaments. Beside them a parrot
picked at a plate of cherries and the
wax figure of a black boy reclined at
the nurses feet. On different parts
of the tower we're the initials of the
duchess husband. her father and her
father-in.law, made from their own
hair.
At this time France and England
were at war. In a naval enga cement
the Belle Poule, a French vessel,
crippled the Hector. an English man
of-war, while the English fleet re-
turned to Plymouth with two French
boats they had captured. The French.
although they had lost a frigate,
claimed a victory. The Queen and her
women wore headdresses that repre-
scented the Belle Poule under full sail.
blowing a sea of green gauze in pur'
suit of the English frigate. This con
struction was known as the couture
Belle Poule.'
The wife of an English officer living
in Paris deemed the headdresS an in
suit TO the English navy and she de-
termined to resent it. At the next
public occasion, therefore. she APP
peared wearing on her head Ave Eng
fish line of battle ships, a French
frigate and a lugger. An arrangement
of silk and gauze represented Ply
mouth harbor, which the English
ships with their prizes were entering.
Each vessel carried a streamer that
bore its name and on the edifice at
the back the word plymouth" APP
peared in glittering beads!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-19

have visited st. Elizabeth's and pur-
chased hundreds of the wooden toys
made by the patients. The last couple
Of years, however, most of the output
Of the toyshop has been sold by spe-
cial shops or at public auction. Usual
ly wooden toys worth about So, 900 are
made and sold: The interesting occu-
patton of toy production aids the
patients to forget their mental troubles
temporarily and brings them the peace
which is the reward Of work we'll done
The majority Of these toymakers are
unskilled in the use of hand tools
when they first enroll in the toymak-
ing class. Some have never used saw
or hammer before. The first thing
the teacher has to do is to train the
patients in the rudimentary uses of
simple hand tools. When they have
mastered the use of hammer, saw
square and chisel, they are allowed to
cut carve and chip the likenesses of
certain animals from wood. Then
they learn how to make doll chairs
tables, benches and stools. Gradually
as the artisans acquire increased skill
and confidence, they make articles
which are more difficult
One of the standardized toys from
ST. Elizabeth's Hospital is d toy horse
and cart, made of wood, about Is
inches long. When completed and
painted it sells for 81. 1t takes about
and necessitates the use of so cents
worth OF material Many other toys
are made, ranging in market price
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-19
Mysterious Snow Pile.

COME years ago at Minersville, In
Schuylkill County Pa. there was
being operated the Wolf Creek wash.
cry. The business OF the operators
was to reclaim the immense banks of
culm that has been deposited on the
surface during the Civil War. With
the aid Of modern machinery thev
were able to obtain thousands Of tons
of marketable sizes of anthracite =
the rate of about 1000 tons a mo-
These culm banks were more Ike
mountains than refuse piles. In some
instances they were so feet high and
covered the surface for approximately
a half mile. The culm was taken in
conveyor lines TO a breaker, where 1t
was washed through revolving screens
and the coal reclaimed.
One day in the month of June, when
the thermometer registered from 80
TO 100 degrees, the operators uncov-
cred in the heart OF one of the banks
a large quantity of ice and snow Tn ~
reasoned that this deposit was cav
cred with culm during che Writer.
and thus protected from the air had
been preserved for about IL wears T.
seemed almost incredible that such
condition was possible in the ten
ture zone, and yet no other ~
seems satisfactory. The snow
OF course. from the elem
by the tons Of culm SO fee high Az
hundreds of. yards wide; and pet II
this theory Is not tenable, then some
scientist may offer a more convinc-
ing theory for It's remarkable state Of
preservation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-19
Sea.Salt Industry.

MUCH attention has been drawn
to an enterprise inaugurated not
| long ago in California to extract salt
from sea water. Enormous quantities
are being obtained by the use of the
RAYS of the warm sun of California
and as a commercial venture the en-
terprise is a success. But making
salt from sea water is a very old in
dustry in the British West Indies; one
colony depends upon 1t for its main
asset to fill it's local treasury. For
more than a hundred years ships have
anchored north of English Point.
Grand Turk Cay, in the Turks and
Caicos Islands Dependency. and filled
their holds with salt for the Canadian
and United States market. And until
recently. Great Inagua Island, 100
miles to the southwest; Anegada in the
Virgin Islands and Rum Cay and
others of the Bahamas were busy
scenes of salt-making. Today one or
two Of the Bahamas still export salt.
The method of making salt from sea
water is the same in up-to-date Call
fornia as it is in the sleepy West In
dies. Sea brine holds nearly / pound
of salt in every 2a gallons of liquid.
No caStaway or ships company need
run out of salt, if little ingenuity be
devised. Salt is to be had from about
IS inches. Then the sun plays its part.
bringing about capitalization.
In the West Indies the hot season
from April to October is the salt
makers busy time. The evaporation
is very rapid until the snowy-white
crystals begin to appear. the salt form
ing in thickness according to the time
it is left exposed to the sun and the
trade winds from the southeast.
1t is then raked into heaps by bare
footed laborers and Carted away TO the
depot, where it is piled up in the open,
a spotless, glittering mass. Already
the emptied pan has been filed with
sea water from the storage lagoon.
The process of evaporation continues
throughout the hot months. with the
exception of May, which has a rather
heavy rainfall.
In the California salt works their
product Is further treated, being thor
oughly dried, purified and finely
ground down, the finest quality being
utilized for table salt and the coarser
for industrial purpose. In the West
Indies, where such manufacturing IA
cilities do not exist, the salt Is shipped
unrefined. Many hundreds of thou
sands of bushels of it are used in the
United States and Canada for the MAX
ing If ice cream alone. Among other
purposes, shiploads Of the 1000, 900
bushels or so which Grand Turk and
the Caicos export are used for picking
meat and fish.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-19
PORTABLE POOL TABLE
built bY y, Il"
WASH ANStoW dad

peaceful pastoral landscape to the re.
mote surroundings of the pageantry
of playthings. A river which is
shown winds its way to the terminal
of the railroad. A cleverly made
ferryboat is waiting to transport the
passengers who come by train to the
opposite side of the river.
The railroad yards contain passen-
ger and freight depots, turntable
for reversing the locomotives, a large
power plant, roundhouse, and an
automatic device for replenishing the
fuel supplies of the engine tenders.
There is a wonderful replica of a sin
gle-span steeltruss railroad bridge
which crosses the river, while a tun-
mel through the neighboring mountain
range is another realistic contribution
to this remarkable model of modern
railroading achievements. This bridge
is modelled after Chain Bridge, which
links the District by highway with
Northern Virginia.
The main line railroad track, as
we'll as the innumerable switches and
sidetracks, is made of sheet brass
nodded to the shape of steel rails A
copper wire, soldered to wooden
screws, runs down the center of each
track. 1t facilitates the use of cleo
trio power for the operation of the
Lilliputian trains. BY the use of a
transformer, Mr.. Boutell steps down
the alternating current in his house
lighting system so that he can use
1t to run the midget trains. The arc
lights in the railroad village as well
as the illumination systems of the
passenger trains and ferryboat are
from this selfsame source of electric
ity. BY means of ingenious controls,
the lights in the trains are switched
on just as they enter the railroad tun.
mel. When the coaches come from
the tunnel, the lights are shut off.
The locomotives, freight cars and
passenger coaches are shunted about
by electricity, exactly as though the
system were full size and true I'd life.
Mr.. Boutell will run the complicated
trains and machinery for his daugh
ter whenever she wishes, but it wilt
be many years yet before she will
be able to play president of the rail
road line herself and control all its
multiplied activities.
X
THERE is a talented Washington
lady who makes. dresses and
sells from $3.50 to $500 worth of fancy
dolls each Christmas Some of these
Ool4S retain lot DIS much DIS 9oO
apiece. Their amateur producer sup
plies them to shops of Washington,
New York and Philadelphia. Experts
who have examined the artistic and
beautiful dresses on these dolls say
that they are as fine as any ever
made for similar use.
A year ago she devoted many days
of painstaking handwork to the pro.
| ductin of as fine a lot of dolls fur
niture as human eyes ever examined.
The tiny chairs, touches, day beds,
tables and art articles were accurate
and complete in every detail. They
represented entirely too much skill
and artistic labor to command re-
tail prices commensurate with their
| production value. Their skillful pro.
! Queer made them originally as an ex-
| pertinent. She found that such toys
and trophies would not bring as profit
able prices as the dolls which she
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-19
FICTION AND
HUMOR
lfu Amateurs Produce Yuetide Gifts During Idle Hour

have worked overtime the last two
weeks completing receiving sets Of
one, two or three tubes capacity. In
the Majority OF cases the youngsters
will present these radio outfits to their
respective parents on Christmas morn
ing.
None Of them has told his moth
er and father at home what he
has been making in the club wood
working classes. The gifts are to be
surprise presents. Several OF the boys
have finished exceptionally we'll made
radio sets which would cost from SIS
to SS5 apiece IL purchased at a pro-
fessional radio store.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-19

PEvhoue Toy Railroads Doll Dresses Radio Other ANd by City db
PenbP ToN Of
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-19
BY GEORGE H. DACY.

. HE Yuletide gift made at home,
product of loves labor, is the
most treasured of all Christ
Il mas presents.
Nav. D;ct,-ict folks and resi-.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-18
Realtors First
to Urge
Auditorium

VTYITH the opening of San An
" tonio's Municipal Auditorium
w the vision of members of the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-10-09
SUES FOR RUM
j. s. SEIZED

What right has citizen to pos
sess intoxicating liquors in his
home during these turbulent days of
prohibition?
Can the Government seize his pri-
vate stock, dismiss the charges
| against him and still keep his
! booze?
These two questions the District
Court of Appeals took under con-
sideration today in the case OF
Walter and Anna Dickhaut, 916 Vir-
ginia Ave. S. W., who appealed from
decision of the Police Court which
said they had no right to recover
from the prohibition officers sundry
cases of Black and White, Canadian
Club, old wine, and a little lowlY
moonshine seized during a raid on
their home July IL, 1924.
Assistant District Attorney Ray
mond Neudecker, appearing for the
United States, argued that even
though the search warrant under
which the home was raided was
faulty, Dickhaut has no lawful
claim to the liquor, because he
failed to prove when it became his
property, though Dickhaut testified
he got it before the Volstead act
! became a. law.
Dickhaut and his wife were sue.
seQuently freed Of the liquor
charges in Police Court, it was
claimed by Attorney r. E. Lynch.
representing the defendants, and
the Government, having raided the
home without right, has no claim
now to the liquor seized. Fhe de-
PENDANTS sued out writ Of error
from the order in Police Court by
which they lost the liquor.
1t was claimed by the Government
| that the Sheppard act and the Reed
bone dry law made it impossible to
| lawfully obtain liquors here for
! beverage purposes, even before the
| national prohibition law became ef-
| fective, and that whoever posse sses
| liquor is obliged to prove his right
to 1t in case of seizure.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-10-09
PRESBY7ER|ANS
ASK $4,000

Washington's quota in the $15,-
100000 national budget drive by the
Presbyterian Church general assem-
bly, to provide a self-suStaining PEN
sion fund for retired Presbyterian
missionaries and clergymen will be
$135, 900.
The quota was set and plans
made for the drive. to begin October
80. at a meeting of the pastors of
the % churches of the local presby-
terry yesterday at the Cosmos Club.
Solicitation will be made by lay
men, under direction of the pastors.
A lay chairman will be appointed
in each church.
John E. Larner will be chairman
Of the general laynen's committee
for the Washington area.
The campaign will begin with a
dinner on October 20, to be attended
by all solicitors and clergymen. Oc-
tober 81 has been set aside as PEN
sion Saba III"
On that day all Presbyterian
ministers will explain the pension
plan to their congrega tons.
Will FL. Hays. former Postmaster
General. is chairman of the national
laymen's committee. Secretary of
the Treasury Andrew w. Mellon IS
treasurer OF the fund.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-10-09
GIVEN AS
DEATH CAUSE

Following an autopsy performed
last night on the body of Frank
Adams. "a years old. 432 Tenth st.
y. W., who died in Emergency
Hospital without physicians having
determined the cause Of his suffer
ing, DIR. Joseph Rogers, deputy
coroner, stated that he had found
traces of narcotic poisoning in
the mans system.
Although he is reasonably sure
Of his finding. DR.. Rogers said. he
would not state definitely that it
was the cause of death until after
Ia chemical analysis Of the contents
Of the stomach.
Adams was taken suddenly I'll in
his room and was taken to the
hospital in a taxicab operated by
Joe Caruso, 4036 Georgia Ave.
n. w.
Police think there was no effort
at suicide.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-10-09
CAPTURE
BIC STILL

Swooping down at 1915 Seventh
st. n. W., early today. police of
the Second precinct seized, they
say, one of the largest stills re.
Gently uncovered in this city. They
found no one in the house.
The alleged still consisted of two
200-gallon pots, completely fitted
for making liquor They also seized
% gallons of alleged liquor and
destroyed $50 gallons in the making
in barrels. and 5000 gallons Of
mash.
The raid, carried out after several
days of observation Of the occu-
pants Of the house, was in COM
mand of Lieut.. James d. McQuade.
He was assisted by Sergeant Mey-
ers, and Policemen Parks and
Poole.
According to Capt. Guy E. Bur
lingame, the plant had been m
operation for but two weeks. He
expects to make arrests today.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-10-09

Chadwick will announce the winner
and will present the cash prize Of
500.
Clip out the coupon today, write
your last line and take it or send it
to the Dizzy Blondes Limerick
Contest" 3. f. Keith Theater, Fiji,
teenth and G Streets, Washington.
D. c. The Times requests the use
of the coupon printed elsewhere in
this issue but it is not essential in
competing for the prize.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-10-09
STEEPLEJAcK "CASSED"
ATOP 22o-FOOT STACK

IRVINGTON, n. J., Oct. 9.-Res-
cued from the top of q 220-foor
chimney after being overcome by
sulphuric acid fumes, Walter Carver,
a steeplejack, is recovering in Irving
ton Hospital. Pedestrians saw him
fall unconscious at the top of the
. chimney of the Irvington Smelling
and Refining Company and called
the police.
Several men climbed to the top.
They bound Carver hand and foot,
fastened one end Of a large coil of
rope to his waist and started to
lower him to the ground. The rope
was too short and Carver was sus-
pended for two hours before addi-
tional rope was obtained. He did
not recover consciousness until he
had been at the hospital for some
time.