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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-20
HOUSEHOLD
HINTS

An excellent ironing blanket can
be made from old newspapers.
stitch half dozen large sheets to.
gether, getting them quits flat and
smooth before sewing. This -
really an Improvement on an ordi-
nary blanket, because newspapers
retain the heat longer.
Grease can be removed from the
hair by washing it In warm water
to which q teaspoonfuI Of borax
has been added.
A pinch Of bicarbonate Of soda
or a small piece Of camphor in the
water will do much to prolong the
life Of cut flowers.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-20
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:

Five years ago., when was
%, kept steady company with
young lady for two years. !
never had asked her to marry
me. and one night in q tit Of
anger, II told her was Through.
I've never taken her out since.
but whenever ] see her she IS
an nice and sweet TO me as u
nothing had ever happened. 1t
seems the fact that broke
up never altered her affection
fol me.
girl, and five weeks ago we
became engaged. It Is true
/ care for her. but my first
girl is always on my mind. No
matter what / am doing. or
whom ! happen to be looking at.
she ,s always before me.
simply can't erase her from my
mind. / am sure love her.
for she IL the last thing in my
mind at night and the first
thing in the morning.
If l should marry the girl
am engaged to. would be UNI
happy all my life. / am sure
my first girl would take me-
back. for she once loved me
dearly. and she is still single.
am in a very uncomfortable
predicament. Any advice you
give me In the matter will be
greatly appreciated.
AN UNHAPPY SWEETHEART.
You are in a predicament, ana
you have also made things most
difficult for your fiancee by be
coming engaged 10 her while
you were in love with another
girl To go on with the marriage
under the circumstances would
be still more unkind.
suggest that you have a
frank talk with her; tell her the
truth and ask to be released
from your engagement, taking all
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-20

the blame on your. own SnouloerSs
where il belongs.
Be very sure Of your own mind
and heart, my friend, before YOU
ask another girl to marry you.
Can You Forget?
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
am a young man 26 years
of age and about to become en-.
gagged to a young lady four years
my junior.
My heart has just been crushed
by a confession from the lips
OF the girl / love, telling me
a story of a man and a moment
Of weakness.
love the girl so dearly thai
| want to go on loving her
regardless of anything and for
give and forget. / am a worldly
fellow and know that my past
was not altogether on the straight
and narrow. But the thought of
anything like this in the past
OF the one who is nearest ana
dearest to me has put my mind
In a whIrl. / am at a loss 10
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-20

who seemed interested for
time, no longer calls. What can
be the matter. she wonders. Why
does she fail just short Of success
) in romances. business. charm and
attractive appearance? The sn"
swer is simple, IL my friend Jill
would but analyze the situation
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-20

happy and keep our beauty at its
best, we need work and exercise,
but we also need rest and play
If you do hard physical work all
day. take up checkers or cards
as a hobby in the evening and
read interesting newspapers and
books. Tell jokes and stories.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-20

logically. She does not under.
stand the importance of relaxa.
ton. Rest, recreation, fun, good
times are not included in her
scheme. All work and no play
has made Jill a very dull girl
indeed.
In order to be healthy. and
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-20

Laughter will refresh and rest
you and Danish lines Of weari.
ness from your face.
When you come home tired out
after hard work at the office, lie
down fifteen minutes before din
ner. Sleep five minutes ii you can.
Walking home from work VIII
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-20
TASTY CORN
CAKES

. Use two cups Of corn cut from
the cob or canned corn Add
three eggs one tablespoon flour
one teaspoon salt and pepper to
taste. Stir all together and drop
by spoonfuls into hot tat TO fry.
When Drowned on one side. turn
and brown on the other. They
will be better. but harder to fry.
IL you omit the flour.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-20
RINSING THE
HAIR

To cut the sticky curd when
you have washed your hair,
squeeze lemon juice into the rinse
water. A little vinegar viii an.
swer the same purpose.
A new adhesive fabric has been
developed for "darning" socks.
The material covers the hole ana
then is stuck by an application Of
a hot iron.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-20
TAILORED SHARPNESS
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-20

all gentlemen would like
w family visiting the morgue look tor her Cn.e Is having oyeg
amhes of wide Aencon deep brown in
newD - -. -,
breakfast the she ray far from the
that she should Eutace Dressed simple rock OF blue
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-20
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ANSWERS TO TODAY's TEST
Questions ON Editorial Page

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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-20

Of jabot
suggested in the lace insert The wide grde and skirt dsps are
other sketched These other though show other ways
Of the skirt the other has inset peated panels There's lace here too Lace
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-20

Take time to decide. Do not
marry her, for her sake as well
as our own. unless you are sure
you are big enough and wise
enough freely to- forgive and for
get the past. If you do decide
that happiness and success for
you ana for her can best be
realized by your marriage. never
by word or thought or deed refer
to her mistake of the past. Give
her whole.hearted trust. IT you
cannot do that, do not marry
her. All happiness to you and to
her, despite mistakes!
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-20
Telling a Flower by Scent

1t Keats could every 1,cwer
by scent the dak-or rather the twhgn.
for wknown fact that few flowers give OUT any
scent after nghtfau
Evening star., 1928-12-28
Some More About the Weather,

One of the bright, optimistic little
sayings heard at this season of the
year is that "A green Christmas means
fat graveyard" There is as much
foundation for this cheerful adage as
for most of the proverbs concerning
the weather. In other words, there Is
no foundation. For the implication Is
that a green Christmas" hereabouts is
unseasonal weather, while white
Christmas" is according to Hoyle, and
snow on the ground at Christmas will
tend to keep the Capital healthy,
wealthy and wise.
AS matter of fact, q green Christ
mas" is the expected thing In wash
ington, while white Christmas" is
unusual. The Weather Bureau Is able
to furnish facts that cannot be dis
puted. Your average thirty-six-year-old
Washingtonian will probably tell you
that in his youth 1t always showed on
Christmas day. But II this Washing
tonian consults the records at the
Weather Bureau he will find that in
the thirty-six years Of his life in WASH
ington there have been only five Christ
mas days when there was an appreci-
able amount Of snow on the ground at
o'clock in the evening.
In the last thirty-six years there was
snow on the ground at 8 o'clock Christ
mas night in 1902, 1908, 1909, 1919 and
1914. In two cases, 1902 and 1909, snow
fell on Christmas day. In three cases,
1908, 1912 and 1914, snow fell before
Christmas. In 1907 and 1923 a trace
Of snow fell on Christmas day, but in
amount 1t was too small to measure.
If all Of the bright little proverbs
about the weather were subjected to
comparison with Weather Bureau rec
ords few could stand the test. But none
would suffer great damage, for those
who believe in weather proverbs do not
believe the Weather Bureau.
Evening star., 1928-12-28
Exposition in Spain
To Recall 5 Centuries
From the Schenectady Gazette.

From the Schenectady Gazette.
The pendulum will apparently swing
backward almost half a millennium, if
the plans now in preparation are car
ried out as contemplated for March Is,
1929. The occasion will be the opening
of the Ibero-American Exposition at
Seville, Spain.
Prominent among the exhibits will be
a true copy of the Santa Maria, the
flagship of the fleet, with which the
great Genoese navigator made his west
ward trek, which resulted in the dis
covery of new continent. The fac
simfle of this famous little vessel is
already completed, and will soon be
placed at anchor in the Guadaluuiver
River.
There. also, will be found the ex-
hibit from United States Navy De-
partment which will have some unusual
and unique features These include a
large Illuminated map, illustrating the
activities of the United States Shipping
Board In passenger and freight lines,
and showing the progress on the sea
since the days of the galleon of the
Spanish armada.
This duplicate Of the historic ano
history making little vessel will be
christened by q special papal repre-
sentative from Rome The Spanish
King, wearing period costume, will dine
on board and eat from dishes similar
to those used in the time Of Columbus
The exhibition buildings which are
Ito house the exhibits from the United
States are nearing completion. They
| are to remain as permanent reminders
OF the bond between old Spain and
young America.
AS Is natural. electrical and mechani.
cal devices will have prominent place
| In Americas contribution. Amons
| THESE VIII be a machine, installed By
the United States Department Of Com.
| merce, which will count all visitors a;
they enter, making possible an accurate
| record Of the total attendance.
Some of our most eminent historian:
contend that the birth of our, countr,
should not be dated from the discoverS
| OF the land, but rather from the culmi.
nation In revolt of the English colonies
Yet IN the minds of most of us, tht
vision OF the stalwart Columbus spring.
ing to its shores and planting thereon
the flag of his patron, Isabella of Spain
begins our country'S story.
What happened before that time, the
ventures of former explorers, we see
but as mirage. Christopher Colum.
bus, on the other hand, is as real to us
as George Washington.
The fact that England soon wrune
the supremacy from Spain, and that
the preSent-day descendants of Great
Britain far outnumber those of Span
lsh blood in the United States, does not
detract from the glamour and romance
OF SPANS part in the discovery and
settlement of our country. Even the
TACT that 1t bears another name than
tnat OF its most popular discoverer
makes not one whit of difference in this
regard. '--'4
The name of Americas Vespucius NAV
De immortalized in that of the great
couple continent occupying the whole
OF the Western Hemisphere, but it is of
Columbia, the Gem Of the Ocean, ;" that
we sing with an enthusiasm nothing
short Of patriotic.
so to us, as to the land in which il
occurs, this Ibero- American Exposition
cannot fail to be Of special interest and
significance. 0' ''AAO
Evening star., 1928-12-28
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

District of Columbia Judge, was the
first president of the National Associ-
alton of Colored Women and the first
woman of her race ever to serve on an
American board of education. She
functioned In that capacity in Wash
ington few years ago. At the great
Quinquennial International Congress of
Women in Berlin in 1904 Mrs. Terrell
achieved the distinction of being the
only delegate to deliver her address in
three anguages-English, French and
German. In 1919 she was at Zurich as
a delegate and speaker at the Inter-
national League for Peace.
X X X X
The Forthcoming pacifist demonstra-
ton against the cruiser bill in Wash
ington is being engineered by con-
cern called washington Council on In
ternational Relations" This organiZa-
ton is not to be confused with two
well known and highly-esteemed instis
tutions with somewhat similar names
the Council on Foreign Relations, at
New York, which publishes the infiu-
ential quarterly. Foreign Affairs, and
the Foreign Policy Association. head
quartered at New York and with rapid
ly increasing branches all over the
country. Just who the Washington
Council of International Relations" is,
and what 1t is, will probably be de-
termined at the impending anti-pre-
paredness orgy in the Capitol.
X X X X
Washingtonians in charge of Hoover
inaugural ceremonies are hopeful the
President-elect will "loosen up" in favor
of truly joyous affair as the result of
his recent experiences among the tenn
peramental Latins. Hoover survived, in
both Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro,
celebrations far beyond anything his
fellow countrymen on the Potomac and
elsewhere are planning for March 4.
Persuasive pressure is to be applied to
the shy and self-effacing Californian
when he reaches Washington in jan
uary. Perhaps the argument may ap-
peal to him that what he stood for" in
South America ought to be no less ac-
ceptable to him here.
Copyright. 1927
Evening star., 1928-12-28
Radio Used to Measure
Impulse Over Nerves
BY r. q. FREE. PH,D.

New facts about how nerves carry
messages from eyes, ears or other Or
gans to the brain or take orders from
the brain to the muscles, were de-
scribed by DR.. E. D. Andrian, physiolo-
gist of the University Of Cambridge,
England, in two recent lectures at the
Royal Institution, London.
Recent developments of vacuum
tube amplifiers, like those used in ra-
dio, have made it possible, DR.. Adrian
reported, to detect the tiny electric i'm
pulses that run along nerves and to
magnify them so that their nature can
be studied. These impulses turn out
to be not unlike the electric currents
that carry speech over telephone wire.
Such telephone currents are pulsating
ones, the number of pulses in each sec
ond corresponding to the pitch Of the
tone that Is being sung or spoken over
the wire.
Nerve currents are similar, but slower,
ranging from pulses a second up to
about $50 pulses second. Brain cells
at the receiving ends OF the nerves
evidently perceive the number of these
pulses and translate that into a judg-
ment of intensity.
A bright light, for example, makes
more pulses per second over the optic
nerve than does dim light. Not the
amount OF electricity flowing through
nerve, but the number Of pulses that
traverse 1t each second, Is what deter
mines. DR.. Adrian believes, the strength
or weakness OF sensation.
Evening star., 1928-12-28

available. A memorial to Samuel Com
pers, the late president of the American
Federation Of Labor, viii be erected by
the membership of that organization,
to stand on a. site yet to be selected.
The form of the memorial is to be
approved by the joint committee on
the Library, with the advice of the Fine
Arts Commission. A statue of Cardinal
Gibbons, to be erected by the knights
of Columbus, will stand at the inter-
section OF Park road and Sixteenth
street. in front Of the beautiful Church
of the Sacred Heart. A memorial to
Peter Muhlenberg, to be erected by the
Peter Muhlenberg Memorial Association,
is to be erected without expense to the
United States, under supervision of the
Director Of Public Buildings and Public
Parks. A memorial to Gen Artemus
Ward is to be erected by the president
and fellows of Harvard College on site
yet to be selected.
So the list grows. washington, the
Memorial city, hands down to posterity
and keeps fresh the memories of great
men and great deeds that have played
part in the building of Nation.
Evening star., 1928-12-28
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

mented with the golden deur-de-lys.
| It would appear to be a stroke OF
genius to make D'Artagnan meet Cyra-
no de Bergerac, hero of Edmund RoS-
tands great play. Either by himself
is enough for one story. but both to-
gether ought to be almost too muchl
We will forever recall our first read
| ing of "Cyrano de Bergerac." At the
time we thought it better play than
any Shakespeare ever wrote, and we
are not sure even today that we were
not right.
He who has not read Rostand's
masterpiece ought to look 1t up. The
character of the big-nosed Gascon is
one of the great ones of literature. The
, atmosphere of the play, half romantic.
half matter -of-fact, Is such as to appeal
to the lovers of both romance and re-
ality.
| X \ X X
The feast of Dumas is the last of
| that writer's works which we have
| managed to find in translation. Age
nor de Mauleon" looks to be one OF the
best Of the great writer's novels. rank
ing with "Olympe de Cleves" and THE
She-WolveS of Machacoul," TWO otner
little known masterpieces.
"The Black Tulip" of course, Is one
of the most widely read, being required
reading in most high schools and COL
leges. The two "Tales Of the Caucasus
included in the volume, are interesting
as showing what Dumas could do IN
the shorter form.
"The Ball of Snow" tells the legend
of inducing rain by reason OF pure
young man going to the top OF a great
mountain and bringing down snow to
pour into the Caspian. 1t is written
In a playful style, almost burlesque,
very we'll done in the Oriental manner.
"Sultanetta,' tale of treachery, would
be horrible if not rescued by the mas
terly handling of the writer. If you
want to know Dumas in an unusual
mood, read these two short shockers.
X X *
The samples of the modern bio
graphical manner look interesting.
"Voltaire" was issued a few months
ago, and THE American Orchestra"
last year. It will be noted with ap-
probation that neither descends to the
use of flippant title such as mars
some of the other biographies now on
the market. We regret (before read
ing) that Mr.. Thaddeus saw fit to use
the present tense. Such verb form
gives merely fictitious sense of reality
and is disquieting to many.
Mr.. RusselPs book on Theodore
Thomas appears to be somewhat less
"modernistic" in tone and treat
ment. 1t would seem to bring out to
the full the tremendous growth of the
symphony orchestra in the United
States.
The two murder" books are typical
examples of the present-day detective
story" which branch Of the narrative
art has received impetus through the
avid demands of readers Of all lines
of literary endeavor.
The detective story fills genuine
need in the reading habits Of thou
sands. It gives a .vicarious participa-
ton in deeds Of action, and thus helps
to compensate for the sedentary lives
lived by many.
The mystery story. in addition to
keen narrative, offers the reader the
pleasure of participating to an unusual
degree in the solution of story plot.
Every such story Is solidly based on
this fact, one of the main reasons for
their perennial popularity.
Evening star., 1928-12-28

now to add the reapportionment bin to
the census bill, which has passed the
House, as Senate amendment. This
is one way out of the situation which
has arisen. The House Is properly more
interested In reapportionment bill
than the Senate, since 1t has to do with
the membership Of the House itself, and
does not affect the upper house Of Con-
gress. It would be the more orderly
procedure If the House would promptly
pass a reapportionment bill and send it
to the Senate for its approval. But the
duty of maintaining the provisions Of
the Constitution Is not alone upon the
House. If that body is unwilling or
unable to take action on a reapportion-
ment bill, then it seems clearly the duty
of the Senate to act in the matter.
especially, as Senator Vandenberg has
pointed out, since the Senate was
responsible In 1921 for the failure Of the
reapportionment bill which the House
then passed.
Evening star., 1928-12-28
Tail Light Ruling
Applies to. Animals
from the New York Times,

TAom the new York Times.
That Morris. Miller, a Connectic,,t
Iarmer: faces $2,500 damage suit be-
cause ne failed to put a tail light on
ms COW after dusk, as the law provides.
brings strongly to mind thoughts of how
complex our civilization has become.
Mr. Miller was leading his darkened
COW along road; an automobile turned
a corner; because the animal was un-
Ilgnted the machine ran into the cow
ana an occupant was injured.
The law is plain. Mr.. Miller violated
1t. The Legislature of Connecticut was
not humorous when 1t provided for such
contingencies. Headlights may pick out
COWS and other beasts on straight
away, but where roads turn. danger lies
In some countries such legaliSmS would
start agrarian revolts, and we should
have dispatches relating how armed
with p1tchforkS and riding work horses,
embattled farmers charged motor
corps OF city folk bearing walking sticks
and wearing silk hats. But the Con-
necticut farmer, like the dwellers In the
cities. Is a motorist, too. and the law is
Even If farmer ran into his own COW,
the fact would not compensate him for
injuries received.
The matter must be left to the courts
But what will these tribunals do about
collisions with unlighted animals which
do not belong to any one? It is not
easy to think of applying tail lights to
the wildcats which roam Connecticut;
and as for the polecats, Is there an off,
cial in the Commonwealth who would
take on the task? Stories used to come
from Winsted Of marauding bears, and
even lions. escaped from Winter quar-
ters at Bridgeport. AS Douglas once
asked In paraphrase, Who will tie some
thing on these? The problems are
grave, but they should not be beyond
the solving Of a bar and bench which
has in its time included Simeon e.
Baldwin.