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against dark background after
nlghtfall. creating striking effect.
This model home is relatively near
the center of downtown Washington.
being only three miles from the White
House, and may be reached by auto
mobile by way of Key Bridge and ap-
proXimately one mile of travel west
ward over the Lee Highway. A bus
line, which traverses the highway
from Key Bridge to Cherrydale and
the Washington Golf and Country
Club. passes within 100 feet of the
model home.
The interurban cars of the Airing
ton e. Fairfax Railway. from Twelfth
street and Pennsylvania avenue, or
the Washington & Old Dominion Rail
way, from Rosslyn, also may be taken
TO reach the home.
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INCREASE IN RESOURCES
FOR BUILDING AND LOANS
Returns From Association Show
Gain of ID Per Cent, Reaching
Total of $e,2sO,OOO,Ooo.

Returns received from building and
loan associations for 1925 Indicate an
increase in total resources of about
IA per cent over the preceding year.
This means that the total savings
Of nearly 1900 building associations
in the United States amount to about
6,2S0.OoO, 900, All increase for the
year of $4,000 900. The membership
of these associa tions is now 11,275.-
GOO. an increase of nearly 100000
members during the year.
1t is estimated that over 2,500.0
families are now paying for their
homes through these associa tons. In
1925 they financed the building or
purchase of 100000 homes for their
members and during the last year
assisted more than 1000 families.
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New Model Home in Lyon Village, Va,
Will Remain Open Through Coming Week

Large crowds of interested visitors
continued during the past weel- to in
spect The Star Model Home on Gran
ada Terrace, Lyon Village, Va, which
was placed on public exhibition Au-
gust ~. The house, an example OF
the Italian country house type. will
remain open from 10 I'm. to $50 pm.
through the coming week
Many of the visitors have voiced
praise for the attractive scheme of
decoration employed in the prepare
ton of this house. as well as for its
sturdy construction and furnishings.
Lyon & Fitch, Inc, builders of the
house. during the past few dys have
erected food lights in front, which
are used to throw the masonry walls
of the structure into sharp relief
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DINING ALC0VE IN FAVOR,
Feature in Constructing Small
Homes Becoming 2opular.

feature that is growing in favor
for small homes is the dining alcove.
In appearance the dining alcove sux-
gests double pew or two settees fac.
ing each other with narrow table be-
tween them. Its origin is probably
Dutch. But is adapted to any mod
ern kitchen or can be slipped in be-
tween the living room and kitchen. II
the seats have hinged covers, there
VIII be additional storage space for
linens.
The breakfast alcove can be fur
nished and decOrat ted i'm such a way
as to be picturesque addition to the
small home. 1t permits the house
Keeper to serve meals with fewer steps
because it is so close to the kitchen.
While the dining alcove fulfiIls the
purpose of dining room. yet it does
not take up the same amount of space.
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The sales index system recently in
stituted by the Washington Real Es-
tate Board, which is unique in its
function in this city, is proving an inn
portant feature of the boards activi-
ties. Scores of inquiries are being
made for informa ton from these files
by members of the board, James +.
Schick. secretary, said today.
The system was somewhat of a stu
pendous undertaking. as it required
full details with regard to every lot
and property in the District of Colum-
bia. The compilation of this work
showed that there were more than
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MILLER BUYS FARM LAND.
Manager of Firm Of Accountants
Makes Big Purchase.

J. J. Miller Of Bethesda, Md, who
is manager Of Ernst & Ernst, public
accountants, has purchased two tracts
of farmland in Howard County, Md,
$40, 900, according to an announce.
ment here today by r. B. Farquhar,
jr., real estate operator.
The land is about ATS acres in size
and has a frontage Of about one mile
on the PatuXent River, and also bor
derS on the State road to Baltimore
via Ellicott City for about a half mile.
Two hundred and fifteen acres of
the land was acquired from r. ..
Thompson and others. and the re-
naming 260 acres purchased from
l.. w. Stafford.
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Sales Index System Proves Valuable
In Work of D. c.. Real Estate Board

10000 pieces of property in the Ma
tional Capital.
A filing index system. with cross
references, is maintained, and every
sale and transfer of ownership is
checked by special clerical force with
the court records, and further check
is maintained with the records kept by
the District OF Columbia.
Mr.. Schick expects to work out many
interesting charts and analyses of the
various phases of real estate matters
here from the files, which will provide
daily. monthly and yearly comparative
figures TO work upon.
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Problems in Home Building.

The problems which confront the
man who would build his own home
are not confined to structural features.
important as they may be. There are
very vital questions of design, and one
of the earliest which must be settled
determines the mass of the house. This
takes precedence over the choice of
details in determining a good design.
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BUILDING COST SHOWN.
Analysis Discloses Where Dollars
Go for New Home.

This analysis of where the home
builders building dollar goes Is based
upon actual construction costs Of nine
houses varying in price from 100 to
$4,000 and averaging $4,000.
OF every dollar expended:
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NATURAL BEAUTY OF RAVINES
PRESERVED BY HOME BUILDERS
Massachusetts, Park Section Affords Fine
Example of How to Treat Contours
of Rolling Wooded Lands.

TEiS iS fbe n ed Of q >frifS 81 articles
dcSCT}b}1G Tftfprf3rs and ToHtn ~ SH6GbfF
frGfHres Of SeFeTHf o. fhe GrotcinC rfSt-
dcntiq} sections Of UuskinOfoH rhfch
The STR pBbiiShes as an eHCoRrU0fmeM
10 Lnile a,trufsNL
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Mussolini recently issued a general
order to the house wrecklng concerns
of Rome TO cease carrying off the
ancient brick from the ruins Of the
Coliseum for prosaic use in specula-
tive building
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Although the ma iority OF us do not
stop to think Of it, fire Is always
Just around the corner" in our
everyday lives. 1t becomes n fiend.
a dealer of death, only when people
forget" or are Indifferent
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Modern bathrooms express indiv.
iduality with colors In tile and
marble.
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porches opening onto courtyards or
! lawns from which 4 vista is Ia he
| had of the tree tops. roads or ray
| ines many feet below. In other in
/ stances. the houses are set high on
! highsides above the level of the streets
giving almost an impression of castle
like dwellings,.
Home Of Norman Oyster.
! The home of Norman Oyster. the
son of the former District Commits
sioner. is an illustration of the latter,
standing on high point. well back
| from the street at 2707 Thirty second
/ street. This large house is of the Eng
/ liSh Tudor type and has been given a
/ rather detailed treatment. Striking
/ features of the facades of the house
are large. heavy. mulloued windows.
with nodded stone cross pieces. which
have been carried high on the sides
of the house. An elaborate oriel win
dow oNerhanSS the pointed arch of
the entrance and il in turn is sur
mounted by q large shield reminis.
cent of olden times. The oriel window
has a nodded stone top that is
broken into machicolated form simi-
lar to the familiar broken lines of
the castle cornices.
Each of the two massive chimneys
rising at opposite ends of the house
have large chimney pots exposed to
view and the stone work of each
chimney is tied in with Stucco walls
of the building. Stone walls executed
in Intriguing patterns lead from the
street by a number of gradual rises
to the entrance of the house and at
| the left of the place a garage drive
way sweeps up to the rear of the
| home. The grounds about the house
are spacious and we'll handicapped to
alanCe the size of the hOISe
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An English Type House.


The home of Herbert J. Adair, 1850
Woodland drive. modified English
country house type, adapted to AMER
lean conditions and environment.
nestles down on it's unusual site on
the sloping terrain between Wood
land drive and the lower level of Nor
man Stone drive. many feet below.
Set down on this plot, on level about
20 or more feet below Woodland drive.
the great size of the house is some
what hidden and through the spread
ing :.rms of overshadowing trees the
white painted stone walls of the house.
broken by the dark, deeply recessed
group windows afford an effect both
unusual and appealing. Arborvitae.
rows of graceful poplars and cedars. a
winding, fiagstone walk and other
landscaping add to the effect of the
place. but the greatest interests in the
exterior lies in the beauty of the
grounds at the rear of the house
which, beyond a series of terraces and
lawns. fall aw&y precipitantly toward
Norman Stone drive. The great draw
ing room. dining room, inclosed veran-
da and paved terrace on the south of
the house thus overlook both a man
made lawn and natural forest area.
Not far from the Adair house is
the home of Edwin. s. Perot, an Eng
lish tudor residence of three stories
having An exterior finish of rubble
stone of variegated color and size and
roofing of heavy slate shingles of
odd sizes and thickness. all OF
which add to the pleasing rural
feeling of the style. The entrance
door, attractively trimmed with neat
limestone, opens into an unusual
lobby which is ore floor below the
level of the main floor Of the house.
Access to the main floor is gained
by an imposing stairway lighted by
two-story Gothic window with
loaded glass amber in color. An indi-
cation of the costly apportionments
Of the interior of the house is gained
from the great library which is
paneIed from floor to ceiling in oak
and which has an ornamental plas
ter ceiling. stone mantel and book
cases built into the paneling of the
walls. The drawing room, which has
n rough hewn oak beam ceiling and
walls finished in rough plaster, over
looks a garden at the rear of the
house Another feature of the place
is a woven wood fence of chestnut
saplings imported from Europe which
stands to the right of the front en-
oud fnnec in with the land
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Other Attractive Places.

The home of Senator Wadsworth
in the southeastern part of the com
munity, directly overlooks Rock Creek
Park south of the Connecticut Avenue
ridge. 1t is well secluded from the
street and gives a picture Of large
home of Italian mode almost complete
ly covered with vines. The grounds.
which contain many great trees, are
carefully handicapped.
The home of Eugene A. Smith. at
3101 Woodland drive, presents a rustic
effect with it's unusual lines and
brown, weathered shingles, part of
which are in their natural state, with
some Of them dipped. Rough hewn
timbers of the entrance porch add to
the general effect. Interior features of
an unusual chara cter include paneled
oak walls and the tile floor Of the re-
ception lobby, which is carried into
both the lounge and dining room. The
library has an old English oak floor
ing, which is secured with wooden
pegs. The paneling of the library
walls are OF quartered oak. Another
feature of the home is n rathskelltr in
the basement under ne library.
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Reminiscent of the World War days. group of
British Tomies celebrate their embarkation for China
part of the force Great Britain concentrating
the crisis there. Wide "o" Photo"
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ARTHUR SOMERS ROCHE
celebrated author
rs q student I'd often play 80 minutes
Of billiards for lunch and forego food
Ny slim figure is due largely to tie yoHfb-
FIJI diet imposed on me BY BrxnsWiek-
Baike- -Coilender for PVe neSer ceased to
enjoy billiards"
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terminals of the generator were
made movable, so that no matter
in what position the plane was head
ing the needle could be kept fixed
in one position by the combined eff
fect-.of the two forces acting on it.
Lindbergh had a chart on which
were laid out the courses he must
steer. The first course was roughly
northeast.
By what was known as a "con-
troller" he swung the "brushee"
around until when his plane headed
northeast the pointer was right on
zero of it's dial. If he deviated, the
two forces didn't balance any more.
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enOrmal.
FroIicked with the ChiIdIess
The only thing / can think of
that would have compelled me to
stay in and attend to my duties is
children.
All the other married women /
frolicked with and wasted my years
with were women who had no chill.
dren or very few. The ones I
knew VINO had three. four. more
tots born close together-didn't
burn UP their hours like we did.
And they were more at peace with,
world. They were better women,
Zens than we. the set that had
plenty of useless time for useless
occupations.
want to cry aloud. through
these bars ana past these cold
stone walls, out where it can echo
against the sky and reach the ears
and enter the hearts of all women
birth control" is a sin, a crime,
and a lurking peril. 1t is physically
and morally obnoxious and it must
be black In the sight Of God. For
He Furnishes for it with a heavy
hand.
Wants Children for Lorraine
hope and pray that my only
daughter will marry q fine. good,
Od-w0rshipping man and that her
house will be blessed with many
children. To her, as q woman. !
leave this as my fOndest wish and
most prayerful advice. 1t will keep
her-the daughter of the notorious
Ruth Snyder-good and safe.
Yet. in this land, they allow
openly the propaganda for birth
control" 1t is a stylish subject of
discussion among modern women.
publicly and privately. 1t is tea
table topic and no one seems to be
| ashamed to confess practising it.
surely wasn't.
Parent OF One Child
Judd Gray, though a man. was
in a great measure the victim Of
the same disease. He. like myself,
was the parent of one child, like.
wise a girl. about the same age as
my Lorraine. He did not have the
Same conditions at home to contend
with that confronted me. but he.
too. would have been far better off
had he been rearing large family.
The moral effect of it must be
powerful as well as the sense of
responsibility, the ever.increasing
Joy of watching ones own children
grow up. necessarily bringing one
closer to the home and closer to
God.
1t is very hard for one like me, in
my position, to put my own finger
on all the influences which COM
bined to drag me down and destroy
me.
Begins to See in New COIOrs
With the rays of true religion be-
ginning to dawn on me, though J
still feel l am far from converted
and that my struggling sight is still
far from beholding the true light Of
faith, / begin to see many things in
new colors.
Though I always passionately
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wanted more children, l am not say
ing that realized before my trou.
bles broke over my head what a
powerful good they would have been
to me. No more did reach out my.
self for the consolation and salvation
Of real Christianity.
1t is only now as look back over
my past, my future rapidly slipping
off to its day of doom, that = begin
to search myself and live over my
lightless life.
How could have been so blind i
cannot understand. If didn't know
too well / couldn't believe it. 1t was
all so plain. My finish stood there
before me every moment, blazed in
letters of fire. I was looking at it
and never saw 1t.
Lacked Only Joys of Spirit
I was unhappy, inside myself.
Outwardly 1 had everything a
woman could crave. My husband
was never brutal to me. / lacked
only the joys Of the spirit. And I
didn't realize that they could have
been mine through the spirit. I
was trying to get out of physical
understand clearly that no fleshy
things could have given me the
cure for the gnawing inside me.
could, so easily, had I not been q
weak, unseeing fool. have soothed
it all and saved my life and my
happiness and my soul.
But, unfortunately, too many of
us do not realize while life runs
bright, while earthly recreations
are at hand to ease a little pain
or drive away worry.
On every side are willing helping
hands to guide the lost and
stumbling.
Shipping Toward PerditiOn
But we, who are skipping toward
prediction, wave aside those strong,
saving hands and trust our own
dest1nies in our own pitifully weak
and erring ones.
Every child has the lessons of
religion, decency, purity given to it.
But how many take them to their
Hearts? How many more sheer at
them and think them false, or lin.
important? They find out in time.
when it Is too late. how true and
how all-important, they are.
Therefore, i say, children must be
taught religion in their infancy. 1t
must take. 1t must be deep.
rooted and tended and nursed, so
that the child grows up with it q
part OF life, so 1t cannot die or be
killed. 1t. must be taught with a
full sense of its real value to the
living. Nothing hazyf about it,
Nothing matter-Of-fact 1T Y1llSf
be pictured as the guiding force OF
this existence, Just as important as
the beating of the heart or the
drawing of the breath. More i'm
portant. For it does not end with
mortal death.
Another intensely inter-
acting ehanfor ~ R,,fh
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ruth SNYDER'S final
APPEAL FOR MERCY
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in the death house of Sing Sing
condemned to die as a murderess
my soul within me cufdles and
Weeps over those misdirected years
Of birth control" TO that, directly
charge my present plight.
Had /, like a Christian and q
woman. refused to fall so abomin
ably low as to trifle with the will
OF God and the law OF nature,
would not. be where I am and
what am.
Children Would Have Saved Her
II I had had child every year
or so-half a dozen or more in my
~ years Of wifehood, would have
kept out of mischief.
would have been tied down to
my fireside and my crib-side. where
belonged. where every married
woman belongs.
wouldn't have been gadding
around, meeting strangers. with
time on my hands for frivolous and
sinful pleasures. ...
tell you, the salvation on earth
Of true woman Is children-many
children.
You rarely hear Of the mother Of
several children getting into trouble
through her own follies.
They are an anchor, they are re.
distance to temptation. that idle
hands and hearts untitled yield to.
Religion Would Have Helped
Had l been intensely religious,
could have fought off the lures of
the flesh. But that, the greatest
of all forces being asleep in me, the
only other one I can see that / am
certain would have saved me from
going the wretched paths along
which blindly tripped, would have
been children.
My mother always lived with
me. She was as much a mother to
Lorraine as / was. AS soon as
the child was weaned. my duties
toward her were light. / always
idolized her and I am sure she
will say. even in after years when
the full and frightful knowledge OF
who and what her mother was must
bend her pretty head. that she
loved me.
Idleness Is MischievOus
But she didn't keep me busy. /
was an uIluSudllY SWIlE anu IlduQy
housewife. had no servant. |
did all my own marketing, cook
ing. sewing, and homework. But
was quick. ] couldn't keep busy.
had nothing to bind me down.
My husband left for the office early
and came home at dinner time.
That was usually about 10 hours
apart. Meanwhile I could do all
had to do in half that time. The
rest was a sheer waste. l never
was much of a reader. So 1 fitted
here and fitted there, visiting, COS
eiping, throwing away my God
given hours of freedom on nothing
or worse. How I wish / could have
q few Of them back now.
There Is nothing so miSchievOus
as idIeness. 1t leads to wickednesS
1t cOrruptS the soul. 1t gets one
In a frame of mind to seek un
healthy means to fill it. 1t isn't
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BAL ANGE[)
BY EARTH
FORCES
By COMDR. FTTZHUGH GREEN,
u. s. Navy.
(CopyriRht 1871

Copyright. 1871
NEW YORK May 26.--After the
first gasp Of relief and admiration
for Charlie Lindbergh's historic
flight to Paris. everyone asked:
but how was it possible for him to
find his way through all one night
and two long days without navigat-
mgr"
It is Just beginning to leak out
that the answer Of this puzzle lay in
Lindbergh's compass, which, like a
guardian angel. guided the lone man
through darkness and fog and sleet.
This compass and it's demonstration
form the flights outstanding contri.
button to the science OF aviation.
Principle Is Ancient
Lindbergh's compass was quite
new, although the principle of 1t has
been known for more than a century.
To understand It one must know
roughly the principles of the ordi-
nary compass.
The latter consists of a mag
netized needle pivoted at It's center
SO that it can turn freely.
Our earth is a great magnet with
two powerful poles or centers of
attraction, the north and south
magnetic pole.
These two poles are not the
geographical ones which Peary and
Amundsen reached, but are located
In the Arctic and Antarctic many
hundreds Of miles from the other
two.
Charts are made out for the
geographical poles. So when we
say north" we mean towards the
north geographical pole.
AS a result it is possible to be
| travelling south" by compass on
ones way to the North Pole when
one Is on the line between the
magnetic and geographic poles.
Like a SailbOat
The principle of Lindbergh's new
compass Is easily described. 1t is
the same as the principle of the
sailboat going up a river against
| the current. If the wind Is just
strong enough to hold the boat
against the current the boat stands
Estill
In I1lnoOerSns compass the
pointer or needle on a small dial in
front OF him corresponds TO the
boat in the river The earth's mag
netisna tries to pull this little
| pointer in one direction Just as the
river current tries to push the boat
downstream.
! At the same time a little electric
generator, run by wind on a tiny
windmill under the plane. is grind
ing out electricity that works on
the pointer and tries to pull it in
the opposite direction. This CORE
spends to the wind pushing the
boat upstream.
Now il the earth's magnetism and
the generated electricity act equally
| upon the pointer it stands still just
as the boat in the river did.
Once this principle was estab'
lished, the rest was just a matter
of design.
Followed His Chart
The generator under the plane
was made just large enough so that
the electric force it produced would
neatly balance the earth's mag
netism. The brushes" or magnetic
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Elaborate Costumes
Mark Opera Recital

Elaborate costumes were a dis.
tinguishing sidelight at the opera
costume recital given last night by
the pupils of Mrs. Genevieve r.
Bond in the Opera School Of the
Washingtonians, 456 N st. S. w.
Selections were given from 81
Pagliacci,n ''Cavallieria Rusticana,"
N. M. s. Pinafore,' and Cherry
Blossom Time"
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The needle promptly hoped off its
zero and warned Charlie to get back
to the correct heading.
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Snyder's own story tomor-
row, exclusively in The
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Washington Times! Watch
for it.!
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Photo by International

-Ph b
MISS DOROTHY BRITTON
ENTERED AS miss New York Miss Dorothy Brit
ton, who really is Jersey City girl the title of
Miss United States and finally was crowned beauty
queen of the world at the international contest con-
Quoted recently at Galveston, Texas.
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Another intensely inter-
esting chapter Of Ruth