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The Washington times., 1926-01-18
DINNERS
PAST AND
FUTURE
Representative and Mrs.
Wyant to Entertain for
Secretary Mellon

The Secretary of the Treasury,
Andrew w. Mellon, who Is not
given to accepting many invita-
tons. and his charming daughter.
Miss Ailsa Mellon, are the guests
for whom Representative and Mrs.
Adam r. Wyant are entertaining at
dinner tonight at the willard. There
are sixty In the company asked to
meet them, and among the guests
will be Senator and Mrs. George
Wharton Pepper, Senator and Mrs.
David A. Reed and the western
Pennsylvania Representatives in
Congress and their wives.
The Secretary OF Agriculture and
Mrs. Jardine are TO be guests at
dinner tonight OF Senator and Mrs.
Charles McNary. Other parties on
for this evening are a dinner for
sixteen, with the Assistant Score
tary OF the Navy and Mrs. Thee.
dore Douglas Robinson as hosts and
another to be given by the COun-
selor of the German Embassy and
Mime. DieckhOff.
Dinner Concert
The dinner concert, introduced
to Washington last evening at the
Mayflower Hotel with Miss Helena
Marsh, Of the Metropolitan Opera
Company, as the artist, proved a.
delightful innovation, many prOmi-
nent people entertaining guests. G..
BascoA Slemp, sometime secretary
to the President had a small com
pany of guests at the first OF the
series of recitals. Others who had
guests for dinner and the concert
were Mr.. and Mrs. Frederic d.
McKenney, Mrs. Effingham Town
send Mrs. Paul Fitzsimons, Mrs.
A p. Lovej0y, Of GAINESVILLE. Wis;
Mr.. and Mrs. Edison Bradley, Will
liam Phelps Emo, Mrs. Robert Mac
kenzie and Mrs. T. Dewitt Tai
mage.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Wilmer Biddle,
Of Baltimore and Philadelphia, were
the guests for whom William Bowie
Clark gave q. dinner. Others in the
party were Nine Ekengren. Mr..
and Mrs. walter r. Tuckerman,
Mrs. Rowland Quirfby. Mr.. and
Mrs. Hampson Gary, Mr.. and Mrs.
Herman Dierks. Mr.. and Mrs. God.
frey Lowell Cabot. Mrs. w. w.
Spence. Col. Blanton Winship and
Arthur Bradley Campbell.
Diplomats Guests Of Drurys
Mr. and MR.. Peter r. Drury
were hosts at dinner on Saturday
evening. The dinner was origf-
nally, planned in honor OF John
Mccormack, who had to postpone
his CONCERT here. The dinner guests
included the Minister of the Irish
Ere State. Mr.. Smiddey. the Min
lister of Egypt and Nine. Samy,
Nine. Won Lewinski, Mrs. A. i L.
Macfeat and William Maccaulay. of
the Irish Free State: Baron and
Baroness Won Below, Col. and
Mrs. Arthur O'Brien, Major John
Gleason O'Brfen, Mr.. and Mrs. Eu.
gene j. Chevalier. of Panama, and
Miss Barrine Drake
The Washington times., 1926-01-18

washington soon Tor other diplo,
matte posts,
$50
Capt. and Mrs. w. w. GaIbraith
will entertain at dinner on Tuesday
evening. February z.
Princess Thurnand Taxis, Of Paris,
Is q guest at the Mayflower.
ADD soc
ARTISTS BRANCH
OF PEN LEAGUE PLANNED
Mrs. Minuigerode Andrews will
be chairman Of program at the
tea at the ShoreI1afn Hotel this
afternoon for which invitations
have been Issued By Mrs Harry A.
Colnarl, national president Of the
The Washington times., 1926-01-18
MRS. SANDERS TO
RECEIVE on WEDNESDAY

Mrs. Everett Sanders, wife of the
Secretary to the President, who
lives at the Mayflower, will be at
home on Wednesday afternoon from
4 to $50 o'clock.
Assisting at the tea table will
be Mrs. Harlan Fiske Stone, Mrs.
Frederick H. Gillett. Mrs. John O.
Tilson, Mrs. Finis J. Garrett, Mrs.
James Byrnes, Mrs. David H Blair.
Mrs. 6. Logan Payne. Mrs. Sher.
wood Cheney and Mrs. H. l.. Merry.
Mrs. Denys Wolcott, is passing a
few day at the Hotel Weylin, New
York.
X II y
Former Senator George B. Mar.
tin OF Kentucky, is spending a
few days at the Willard.
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My Neighbor Says:

To make an old brown leather
bag look like new, first wash 1t
with soap and water, and then
give it a good rubbing with a
flannel moistened in oil. Then
give it at least three separate
coatings of brown liquid shoe
polish. finally apply, a thin
coating of white shellac, which
will provide an excellent polish.
A black bag may be treated in
similar fashion by using black
polish or gloss"
To clean a clock, saturate a
piece of absorbent cotton about
as large as a hens egg with
kerosene oil and place it in the
bottom. Close the door and let
the cotton remain for three or
four days. Then take it out
and swing the pendulum. I'm
less something is broken. the
clock will go all right, as the
fumes from the oil cleanse the
works.
When parsley is not obtain
able for garnishing. use the
tips from celery or finely sliced
outer leaves of brussels sprouts.
When using valuable vases
for table decorations, fill them
with sand. This makes them
stand firmly, and renders them
far less liable to be to be
knocked over and broken.
Never salt fresh meat when
frying it. Salt tends to extract
the juice and at the same time
harden it.
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Wide Brimmed Hats; Feather Boas
BY MARY MARSHALL.

South Americans as well as women
from our own land.
But sometimes 1t happens that In
spite of themselves the French fashion
makers do please the English. They
have done so twice this season. Inc
wide-brimmed hat delights the English
woman. Much as she pretenus 10
scorn French clothes-she VIII always
insisG that they are of inferior ma
terials--she, hasn't quite the nerve to
ABORT a fashion that was not con.
ceiyed along the banks of the Seine.
Now the English woman likes wide
brimmed hats. She fancies that they
become her immensely-and perhaps
they do. And this season every
French milliner of note has been
showing wide-brimmed hats.
Another way in which the French
designers have pleased their tall
sisters across the channel is by bring
ing back into importance the ostrich
feather neck-piece. English women
have always fancied these pieces OF
adornment They like to wear a long
light-colored feather boa to the races.
That is the English woman's idea of
the most suitable costume for certain
races--a frilly, fiuttery, f1ouncy lace
frock. -brimmed. f1oppy hat and
luxurious feather boa.
Needless to say, when the French
dressmaker brought out the feather
neck-piece she had something else in
mind--not a revival of the enormous
old-time boa, but neat little collar of
feathers like the one shown in the
sketch. Here this collar of pink os-
trich tipped with black Is the only
touch of color accompanying a smart
black satin frock.
tCopyright 1897
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Fat Upholstery.

One OF our sharp tongued dramatic
critics wrote a most singing account
of the efforts of one of orr young and
most cavalier matinee idols. The ac-
ton of tn play was in Revolutionary
time The young hero was bewigged
and barbed in a most gorgeous rasp-
berry colored satin coat. knee breech-
es. black silk hose and silver buckled
shoes. The critic in describing this at
tire said the leading man looked Ike
an overstuffed raspberry covered dam
ask chair. And alas, it is too true that
young as he is the gracious young
idol is verging into cherubic softness.
It's really too bad. For his career of
dashing oldtime heroiSm land he runs
to such parts will be seriously affect.
ed. 1t Is not very convincing TO see
fat hero snatch his sword from his
scabbard and Waddle across the stage
at the villain.
Besides the question of looks, exces-
sive weight Is a menace TO health
II should be a cause for alarm. All
stout people are potential diabetes.
High blood pressure, kidney and heart
troubles accompany overweight. Every
body needs a sufficient padding OF
flesh, but no one should go around
with SO much weight that he looks up
holStered.
Healthy people of normal weight
do not need to reduce. But when fat
begins to accumulate In noticeable
rolls the danger signal is out. The
proper thing is so to live that fat will
not steal on gradually.
1t is not necessary to starve. Eat
wisely. Choose satisfying and nu-
tritious but not fat-forming foods.
There is long list of mountaineering
foods. Starch piles up fat. Boiled
potatoes and white bread are pure
starch. But a potato baked in its
skin and whole wheat are mineral
laden. The mineral content of these
food assists in burning or completely
using UP the starch content. Starch
which is properly burned in the
body Is first turned into sugar then
into corresponding acids and gases
and Is then carried off by the kidneys
and lungs. Starch which Is not burned
ia turned into sugar and then into fat.
That Is why an occasional baked pota-
to is allowed a person wishing to re-
duce and that is why one or two thin
slices of whole wheat bread are al
lowed.
Since all the minerals are in the
skim milk, the fat being in, the
cream, the overweight can use skim
milk either in cream" soup or to
drink. Breakfast or lunch of skim
milk and fruit without sugar is ex-
ceptionally good. This affords suf-
f1cient nourishment. and from these
mineral laden foods the blood will
gradually become alkaline-as It
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SUB ROSA
Advice From Alice.

Alice was by far the "cagiest." can
niest girl in her crowd. Every one
| looked up to her. respected her, asked
her advice on all sorts of questions.
She had had short but glorious
life, they all agreed. Shed been pop
ular since she was old enough to walk
b" herself.
Every one envied her knowledge of
how to gain friends-her wisdom on
the subject of clothes, MN, sports,
books.
So it came to be rather a habit for
girls in search of advice to go to
Alice. If they wanted to know how
to handle a difficult situation they
sought her out She told them some
thing She never sent any one away
without some definite instructions as
to how to act under such and such
circumstances.
Alice was witty and amusing. Her
replies to many of the questions
asked her We're couched In the most
picturesque terms.
She was cynical, bland, calm, cool
collected. If a heart-broken maiden
staggered into her presence weeping
over the unfaithfulness of men, Alice
told her to snap out of it,
How could she win him back? on
by buying a lot of new clothes, flirt-
ing desperately with other men, treat
ing him With absolute, open indiffer-
ence.
And away would go the forsaken
damsel to follow the instructions of
her mentor. Not always with excel
lent results, however. Somehow al
though Alice herself was a whirling
success, the girls she advised never
seemed to achieve their goal.
Despondent maidens asked them
selves why her excellent suggestions
should fail to work for them Never
theless, they never lost faith in her
fitness for the task of guide and men
tor.
Yet they were doing the very worst
thing for themselves in faithfully
needing her lightest word. Alice
wasn't really fitted to tell them what
to do.
Alice was too cynical. too hard. too
brought to her.
She hadn't any real interest In any
one but herself. The troubles and
trials of her friends interested her
vaguely, but didn't arouse In her any
real desire to mitigate their sufferings.
She infinitely preferred to be anus
ing rather than helpful. She got
great deal more fun out Of sounding
really hard-boiled and thoroughly the
woman Of the world than she did out
of giving earnest, thoughtful advice.
The Alices of this world are many.
They seem SO wise, so sure, so thor
oughly mistress of every situation
that we are moved to trust them with
our secrets--to ask their counsel and
to abide by what they tell us.
Usually we are wrong to believe
them too Fundamentally. The cynical
point of view won't help you mend
eart-break.
The advice to treat men outrageous
~ sounds well, but seldom works.
Before you go for advice to the
cagiest girl you know. be sure that
her heart is in the right place-not
ruled by a cool. calculating. thor
oughly cynical mind.
Copyright 1890
Mimi will be glad to answer any inquiries
directed to this paper, provided stamped.
addressed envelope is enclose.
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Howe Gets His Answer.

1LADIILPHIA, July 20. 1176.--
Lord Howe has submitted his peace
proposal and received his answer. He
, offers pardon and forgiveness TO all
who will confess the error of their
ways and return to loyalty to the
King. eBfore al others he brandishes
his sword and points to the King S
army and navy. He gets his answer
from DR.. Benjamin Franklin, who
tells him that lit must give your
Iordship pain to be sent SO far on so
hopeless a business.
81 know your great motive in com
ing hither was the hope of being in
strumental in reconciliation" says DR..
Franklin to Lord Howe, land ! believe
when you find that to be impossible,
on any terms given you to propose,
YOU will relinquish so odious COM
mand and return to a more honorable
station.
DIR. Franklin further tells Lord
Howe that if England really wants q
reconciliation. one way for her TO
begin would be to punish her COVER
nors who have fomented the discord;
rebuild the towns they have burned;
and repair, as far as possible. the
mischief already done to America.
They might thus. he says, recover
a great share of our regard, and per-
hans. also. the greatest share of our
growing commerce. He says:
Directing pardons to be offered to
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HOW 1T STARTED
By JEAN NEWTON.
The Brides Wreath.

The glcry in our wedding costume
for the prospective bride, the univer-
sal sentiment that makes every girl
want to be "real BRIDE once, though
almost all men would rather spend a
day in hades than attend their own
wedding, lies not in the pomp and
show of ceremony, not in the gown of
virgin white, nor yet in the simmer
ing train. Nor is 1t in the veil. one
moment kind to maiden bushes, the
next lifted to reveal the glowing fea-
lures of the new-made wife.
1t is in the wreath, her blossom
crown. that the bride finds glory,
though of but an hour or a day, that
lights with hope the dream days that
precede 1t and the after years with
reminiscent joy. For was she not a
queen, there crowned beside her king
to ascend the altar of his heart?
Little does the bride realize the
literal truth of this sentiment. Ac-
cording to it's significance from its
ancient origin. she is really being
crowned, for the wreath is the Chris
tan survival of the gilt coronets with
which the ancient Hebrews crowned
their brides.
!, Among the Russians and certain
Christian denominations of northern
Teutonic countries the old practice of
browning their daughters during the
wedding is still literally adhered to.
(Copyright 1920
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$50 YEARS AGO TODAY
BY JONATHAN A. RAWSON. JR.
Story of the U. S. A.

the Colonies, who are the very par
ties injured, expresses, indeed. that
opinion of our ignorance. baseness,
and insensibility which your unin-
formed and proud nation has long
been pleased to entertain of us; but
it can have no other effect than that
of increasing our resentments. 1t is
impossible we should think of sub
mission to a government that has.
with the utmost wanton barbarity
and cruelty, burned our defenseless
towns in the midst of Winter. excited
the savages to massacre our peace
full farmers, instigated our slaves to
murder their masters, and is even
now bringing foreign mercenaries to
deluge our settlements with blood.
These atrocious injuries have ex-
tinguished every spark of affection
for that parent country we once
held 50 dear.
1.-The well founded esteem and. per-
NIT me to say, affection which /
shall always have for your Lordship,
make it painful to me to see you en-"
gagged in conducting a war, the great
ground of which (as described in
your letter. is the necessity of pre-
venting the American trade from
passing into foreign channels To
me 1t seems that neither the obtain
ing or retaining any trade, how
valuable soever. is an object for
which men may justly spill each
others blood"
Copyright. 1897
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Our Children By Angelo Patri

prescribed and it would be very wrong
to disturb that regulation. Ask no ex-
cuse from routine for your child. You
are there to see him at work in the
camp environment, Ask no questions
of the children. They think they
know things that are not even under
stood by them. Ask the director. If
you cannot trust him he is not the
person to care for your children and
that is enough for you to know. You
will not need to ask another question.
Make sure that there Is an educa-
tional program for your child Camp
is not school. 1t is bit of life in the
open, where children are to gather
educational experience from Nature;
a place where they may listen to the
silence of the stars and perhaps hear
God speak A place where they may
catch His whisper in the still forest
and see His hand in the faint tracer
les of a wild flowers petal. Make sure
it is like that and the uniform will
not matter.
Downright 1875
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Visits the Camp.

Now is the time to visit the camp
you sent your boy and girl to live
in for the Summer. Unless the chill
dren are in the camp and things are
going on at a lively pace there is not
much use in visiting it. There IS
nothing so awful as an empty school
and a camp comes close second In
it's graveyard atmosphere when the
children are gone.
The only way to know whether your
child is getting anything out of a
Summer camp session is to be on the
ground and see for yourself, just how
and where he spends his time. IT
will be enlightening, too, to watch how
he or she measures up to the other
children Your own child is a
stranger to you often until you dis.
cover him through another child. II
that does not mean anything to you
it means that you ought to watch
your child at play with other children
OF his own age and experience and
opportunity.
IL you have the opportunity to stay
a day and a night, that will be quite
long enough: you will be in a position
to know about the food your child
gets; the kind of bed he has. the
sort of a days program he follows
and about what his response to the
whole situation is. His letters are
honest enough, but few children have
the power to tell the story as it is.
There is much they do not see and
more that they do not understand,
but which would be very plain to you
Se YOU were on the ground
The quality of the other children is
very important to your child. Children
learn far more through the associa-
ton with other children than they
get from grownups and it behooves
parents to see that what they get
from their companions is good 1t is
much easier for children to register
impressions that affect their conduct
than it is for us to remove those i'm
pressions after they have received
them.
But my camp director doesn't want
me to visit my children. He does not
allow visitors on his premises at all.
How can get around that?"
Any director that knows his work
will welcome you on a visit that In
forms you about his camp and about
his staff and himself He knows that
his success depends upon your good
word and that the best way to forfeit
it is TO close the door in your face.
But, when you go, be good guest,
Observe the rules of the camp and
ask no special favors. Bring no
sweets for the children. If the camp
is right, the diet Is carefully
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-27
LITTLE BENNY
BY LEE PAPE.

This afternoon went out and j
dident see eny of the fellows. and ]
went around the corner and Shorty
Judge was sitting on the cerbstone
next to the fire plug, me saying, Watts
you doing?
Jest waiting for something to hap
pin. Shorty sed.
Me sitting alongside of him and
starting to wait with him, saying. q
WIZ its certeny slow this afternoon,
If enything happlns this afternoon 1t
will be a aerprise to me.
/ was sitting in this very place last
Sattiday and patrol Wagon went
pass with prisoners in 1t with hand
cuffs on, Shorty sed.
Sattiday Is diffrent, more things are
libel to happin on Sattiday, sed.
well watts a use trying to discour.
age guy? Shorty sed.
I'm not, jest don't want you to feel
too disappointed, that's all, / sed, and
he sed, Well l Jest bet you eny
amount of money something will hap
pin If we sit heer long enuff.
All rite, how mulch do you wunt
to bet? / sed.
A cent, Shorty sed, and I sed, All
rite. i bet you. And we kepp on sit
ting there and nuthing dident happin,
and all of suddin Shorty sed, There,
that's something.
Wat, ! don't see enything, I sed, and
he sed. They jest flew pass, / cant
help it If you don't keep your eyes
open. you owe me a cent.
i do like fun, bees don't chase spar
rows in the ferst place, and in the
End place even if they did i wouldent
call that enything axually happening
to pay a cent for / sed. and he sed,
All rite, then the bets off.
All rite, let it be off. wat do I care?
/ sed WITCH jest then dogs belong.
ing to 2 ladys started to fife like eny-
thing, me injoying it but Shorty ony
partly injoying on account of jest
having called the bet off and losing
chance to win q cent.
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Oklahona. CITY. Okla

Oklahoma City, Okla.
What place is the Young Mems
Christian Association really filing in
the community today?
Answer-Its chief purpose is to-
build serviceable character in boys.
adolescents and men upon an avoW-
edly Christian basis.
II is not primarily an institution for
welfare work, charity or reform, nor
does it have specific accommodations
for abnormals or subnormals.
1t supplies the training in physical.
mental, moral, social and religious life
which promotes personal and general
development. This training is i'm.
parted both by formal and Informal
methods, the latter reproducing, so
far as possible, the right sort of home
atmosphere.
Its task begins with the acknowl-,
edgment that the home is the best
educational center. The church fol-
lows as the complement of the home.
The school. from grammar grades 10
the college or university. is regarded
as the outer circle of the three in
educational influence.
Upon this theory the work of the
Young Mems Christian Association is
being done at time when some mod
ern social developments have deeply
disturbed the older American tradi-
tons.
Only II per cent of our children
complete their studies in the public
schools and but per cent so to col
lege. The Young Mems Christian As
ISOLATION and Young Women's Chris
tan Association are keeping the edu.9
cationaI pass for the remainder TO the
utmost of their resources and to the
best of their ability.
Copyright 1920
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SUMMERTIME
BY d. C. PEATTIE.
Hollyhocks.

They say that hollyhocks are the
Holy Mallows" which Crusaders
brought from Syria to Western Eu.
rope. Certainly Syria is a land of
mallows. And certainly Europe once
knew, not the gay holloyhocks of our
garden.
Though the popularity of holly
hooks may now be somewhat adapted,
because of discouragements that the
hollyhock disease has caused-a nasty
little fungus named Puccinia-holly
hooks will ever remain old garden
favorites. For size of flowers, for
lofty stature, for mere gayety and
showineSs, they surpass anything.
Sunfiowers may be bigger, but GER
tainly not as pretty.
The hollyhock, SO big in all it's
parts, is a perfect example of the
structure of the flower Of the mallow
family, one of the largest and most
important of all plant groups, be-
cause it contains so many garden
flowers, as well as cotton, ochra and
others. Besides the green cup of the
calyx, there is an outer whorl of lit
tie leaf-like bracts. And in addition
to the regular, pretty petals, there is
a curious central structure, the
stamens united into a ring or tube
around the pistils. Once seen in the
hollyhock, this curious structure will
never be forgotten or mistaken. No
other plant family outside the tropics
is remotely like it.
Hollyhocks invite a golden flood of
bees by the freedom with which
nectar flows in those brilliant petal
cups. First the anthers mature,
hanging out showers of pollen to dust
on the bees; then come the pistils,
pushing up to catch the pollen from
some younger flower Thus nicely
timed is the blooming of the holly
hook.