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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-08-23
SMITH MASTER
0 T AIRWAY
TECHNIQUE

Fair weather prevailed along
the sound wave lengths last eve
ming with bit Of noise now and
then. some fading and code an
nOyance. High power stations in
All sections were easily tuncabIe
and provided fairly clear broad
casts i'm good volume.
Two different and very distinct
types of political campaign speeches
came to listeners last evening from
Albany--one by Gov Alfred T.
Smith, from 4 man who has usen
radio, knows it and made what
listeners thought was a very clear
statement Of what he believes. and
the other, presented by Senator Key
Pittman, listeners could not help
but believe was little but pure politi-
cal bunk
With all due respect TO his ability
and sincerity OF purpose, the adj
dress OF Senator Pittman notifying
Governor Smith OF his nomination
was an old time political harrangue
in which the speaker assumed mis-
audience did not know anything IF
whar had happened save what he
told them. His statements regard
ing the unanimity of the Demo
cratic party and its universal choice
OF Smith as the candidate came
strangely to the people who mad
listened to the Houston convention
and the campaign prior 70 The
nomination which, filled loud speak
nS.rr Il
daily newspapers.
Governor Smith proved rather
c0nclusively that he mas mastered
the radio requirements and talks
directly to his audience as a man
would talk to another man he as
sumes knows what has been going
on and wishes the speakers Views.
Senator Pittman spoke as a
stranger to his audience. as an
inspired ballohoo advance agent,
who felt no one who heard him
had ever heard OF what he was
talking about and he was safe in
making any large statements about
it that came into his mind
The sooner the political leaders
learn that the Pittman type OF
speech will lose them votes by
the tens OF thousands, the sooner
radio will be a greater help to
political parties. Radio has put
millions of very literal minded and
plain thinking people into the Pres
idential campaign who have fol-
lowed, and viii continue To follow,
every move OF 1t. Further than that
these millions have become avid
readers OF reports and opinions Of
what they have heard to check up
on their loud speakers.
!. When either parfy--and both
have done it repeatedly insult the
listeners intelligence by misstate-
ment and perversion OF statement
of facts they heard with their
own ears ard know Of their own
knowledge that party will feel
rather Immediate and disastrous
effects. This, we take ii, is the
main reaction OF the radio audience
who heard the Democratic notifi
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-08-23
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-08-23
Vacation Home for Cats
Is Opened ii Leipzig

IsEIPZIG, Aug. 25.--NO I0Eiger
need families worry about the care
ct their cat while they are enjoying
their summer vacation
The Leipzig Association for the
Breeding ana protection of CaFs9
has just opened vacation home
ID which these household pets can
he properly cared for until the
owners return
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-08-23
Loses Beard Az so,
Starts Another At 81

SAG HARBOR. IN. Nv Aux. 2s
Having lost beautiful crop Of SO
year.OId whiskera through 4 misun
derstanding. Edward MuIford perine
who ~ iii his eighty.second year. y
growing another. On 4 hot day be
fell asleep IN d BARRIERS eh&irs
He wanted 4 trim. but the barber
maintains ne was given no such al
recti0ns. Dering found old friends
who could not recognize him after his
first clean shave
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-08-23
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-11-11

"she is 10 months DID," said the
doctor, "but she looks much younger.
doesn't she? She just began to try to
walk and because the bony changes
are so we'll defined she has probably had
ricketts, since she was or 6 months
old. She was breast-fed baby ana
got no other food except crackers until
she was 10. months old. The mother
thought because she had an abundance
of breast milk that the baby should be
nursed as long as possible. That is one
reason why authorities advise mothers
to wean their babies at 8 months.
In her case the ricketts, is due to
race and to a deficient diet and pro-
longed nursing. Colored babies-in fact,
all dark-skinned races who live in a
temperate climate-are particularly
susceptible to ricketts,. They miss the
sunlight that they would naturally get
If they lived in the climate to which
they are indigenous. So, even If their
diet is right, 1t is more than possible
that they will develop ricketts, unless
the mothers understand how necessary
sunlight is to them"
Are breast or bottle fed babies
most likely to get it?" asked a pupil.
The percentage is largest among ar
officially fed babies, especially among
those fed on proprietary foods contain
ing maximum of carbohydrates and
a minimum of milk. Premature babies
are more likely to develop it than full
term babies, because much of the min
eral supply in the baby's body, which
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-11-11
Riches in Temperament

Some women just naturally feel
rich-and there are others with whom
1t is just as natural to feel poor. And
their actual financial rating doesn't
seem to make much difference.
One woman l know in very mod
crate circumstances not only feels we'll
to-qo-but has magic way of making
other people she comes in contact with
feel the same way about her. There is
something about her small house, mex
pensively furnished as 1t is, that
breathes an air of comfort. wellbeing
and almost luxury She never talks
about being poor and you feel that the
things that she really wants in this
World-and usually manages to obtain
have very little to do with money.
she can take little trip in her
dilapldated old car to some out-of the
way place ten miles away spend the
day there with friend and come back
as much refreshed and with as interest
ing experiences as would be the case
with most women If they had gone
across the ocean or the continent.
Anyway, / am sure you would have
to lead her off to the poorhouse and
have her duly admitted to its household
before she would begin to suspect that
she wasn't rich-and even then she
could doubtless find aspects of the poor
house, views from its windows, rare
characters within its walls, that would
give her something of the same feeling
of wellbeing.
Then there are the rich women that
we all know who worry, endlessly about
money and are forever quibbling about
prices and complaining about things
that they cannot afford, l know women
who never enjoy a new motor car for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-11-11

pallor-in fact, generally unhealthy
look, which warns the observant mother
that things are not going well. Later
the mother will be worried because the
baby does not try to sit up, when her
neighbours children Of the same age
can't be kept down; the baby will fail
to teethe during the first year, or
won't have any desire to crawl or stand
up, and If he does his legs will be-
come bowed or knockneed"
do babies ever die of rickets?"
mo, ricketts, itself is not a fatal
disease--in fact, it is usually cured very
speedily when the diet is corrected and
the baby has plenty of sunlight, cod
liver oil, or perhaps ultraviolet ray
treatments. OF course, malnutrition
grave enough to cause ricketts, would
make baby susceptible to almost any
infection, so that he might be an easy
victim. IF he does recover spontane-
ously, as may happen when the child
gets a more complete diet and begins
to run around outdoors, he is likely to
carry the bony deformities throughout
life in the shape of bowed legs, or a
pigeon breast, all evidences that he had
bad case of ricketts,.
lone must be careful of the diet DUR
ing the second year as we'll as the first,
for If the baby gets only milk, and an
inadequate supply Of solid foods, he is
the very child who will be most likely
to suffer ricketts,, and these consequent
deformities, because of his greater ac-
tivity"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-11-11
Beauty ParlOr Conducted
With Small Money Outlay

rebel at the ministrations of a man
barber. So would suggest making
start just with work for children-or at
least stressing this part of your work.
Send out cards or telephone to all
mothers of children in your community.
Lay special emphasis on the fact that
your methods are strictly antiseptic-
as of course they must be If you intend
to succeed.
good plan is to suggest a season
ticket. Children's hair should be cut
at regular intervals and your tickets"
might provide for a regularly monthly
haircut and shampoo at rates lower
than you would allow for individual
treatments, / suppose you would have
to specify that money would be re-
funded in case of illness or inability to
make use of the ticket.
For children of school age your
work should come on Saturdays and
after school hours You might specify
then that special attention would be
given to toddlerS in the morning when
they need not be brought in contact
with other children. Mothers who fear
contagion would be glad of that
If you did not want full time work
you might continue to work only with
children. Otherwise you should take
up Snampoolng, Iaclal treatments ana
manicuring for adults. Unless you have
special knack for marcel waving it is
better not to attempt 1t, but the equip
ment for water waving Is not expensive,
nor is it difficult to do.
The woman who has been a trained
nurse would have an especial advantage
In this sort of home enterprise, because
of the confidence that this experience
would give to her patrons. A young
woman know who completed her hos
pital training before her marriage now
specializes in facial treatments given IN
her own home in a small room that
looks more like an up-to-date doctors
office than beauty parlor. Through
a number of doctors of her acquaint-
ance she is called on for special mas
sage treatments, In fact, she has come
to be looked upon as something OF
a specialist herself
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-11-11
BY HOUSEHOLD EXPERT.


I have contrived a device for holding
shoes that is so inexpensive and yet so
entirely satisfactory that am going
to tell you about it. AS matter of
fact, we stumbled upon it quite by ac-
cident The little device was originally
made by a carpenter to serve as a
sort of bookcase. There was a very
broad work desk at the back of which
we wanted place for a collection of
reference books, so the carpenter ar
ranged three long boards with shorter
boards for uprightS It was stained a
dark brown to match the dark oak of
the desk, and served its purpose very
we'll for the time 1t was needed.
Not needig 1t any longer as book
case, it occurred to me that 1t might
do very nicely as a shoe shelf in a
room to be occupied by two young
boys. The closet floor is never a very
nice place for boots and shoes and de-
cidedIy the wrong place for boys shoes
that often come home damp and fire.
quently smell of shoe polish-iust
enough of this smell to stick around
when the shoes were placed in a closed
clothes closet.
So we put the quondam bookshelf in
front of window and called 1t a shoe
shelf, painted it to match the wood
work In the room and provided 1t with
a pair of little curtains of unbleached
muslin dyed a soft old blue to harmo-
nize with the chintz window drapery
And then to make it serve two pur-
poses we placed on top a fiat cushion
with cotton Stufhng and cover of the
dyed muslin. There are two shelves. SO
each boy has ample space for his shoes
and a bit of room besides for shoe
brushes. There is plenty of opportunity
for ventilation SO that there is never
any smell of leather or shoe polish. II
is possible to dust beneath it quite easily
and no hard task to move it on clean
ing day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-11-11
Cushions Add Charm to the Room
BY BETSY CALLISTER.

TINE incidental table has been
much talked of within the last
few years by interior decora-
| l. tors and furniture dealers. They
have not talked so much of the
| incidental chair. But really the easily
moved little chair or bench or stool
does as much to give finish and COM
| fort to the furnishing of room as does
the small table.
And If you go about shopping for
these little seats it is quite evident that
the makers and sellers of furniture
have your needs in mind. There are
little upholstered benches to place be-
fore the fire or under window. There
are all sorts of incidental chairs that
would At into almost any room. Chairs
Of every period, and some OF them so
attractive, so dainty, so utterly con-
venient that they would harmoniZe With
furnishings of many periods.
Our English cousins or sisters have
long been devotees of the pouffe, and
the vogue for this very comfortable and
practical bit of furnishing is growing
here. It is particularly useful If you
have not enough money to spend to
buy good chair. For you can buy
pouffe for a reasonable price, and
make 1t yourself for much less.
You can make a pouffe Of any good
upholstery material. Chintz or velour
or taffeta, rep. poplin or sateen. The
procedure Is the same. To begin with
you will need the foundation This
consists of sturdy cylindrical cushion
To make It, cut two circles from some
heavy cotton fabric. Unbleached mus
lin is good choice, in a strong
quality. The circles should be about
Is inches across. Now cut two side
LII g. Ia
circles-about so inches across-and
from Is to 20 inches deep.
Seam the strip of material along the
sides to the two circles, and theh partly
sew up the two ends leaving a 10
inch space in the middle of the seam.
Now, stuff the bottom of the cushion
with cotton batting, fill in the middle
with shredded newspaper, or excelsior,
and when it is about half full fill the
top with cotton and then fill in the
remaining space with the coarser
packing.
The shredded newspaper is quite sat
isfactory for this middle part. 1t should
be cut in Shreds not more than a
inch wide, which pack very nicely into
the cushion. OF course, if you want
and don't mind the expense, you can
fill the whole thing with cotton batting
The batting must be stuffed in very
hard and tight, so that your pouffe will
keep its Sha~n
When you have good cylindrical
foundation made, overland the open
part of the seam.
Now, from the covering material cut
two squares. and seam them together.
leaving a space open on one side big
enough to get the foundation through
If the pouffe is Is inches high. the
squares should be about 81 inches
across to allow for good l2-inch seam.
You will see from the sketch how the
pouffe is arranged inside the cover
When you get 1t in place, tie a silk or
cotton cord securely around the middle
of the pouffe, leaving the four corners
dixie four ears above the cord. Gather
the squares, double, to make the cor
ners or ears stand out pertlv above the
cord. You can tie the cord in a bow
and ends. or else fasten 1t of securely
with needle and thread.
(Copyright, 1929
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-11-11
Accessories for Evening

est ones are merely squares of chiffon
printed in floral designs. The edges
are picot finished.
other large handkerchiefs have lace
corners and some are edged With wide,
fine lace.
And scarfs-of course, there are some
very flattering scarfs. Some Of the
newest are of silver or gold lace. But
if these are not especially becoming
to you, choose something else. There
are small scarfs of embroidered or
painted crepe edged with white fur
hens. There are others lined with fur.
Not big enough to be claSsed as eve
ming wraps Just scarfs to give little
warmth if the room is cool.
And, of course, one may consider the
becoming cocktail coat as an accessory
of evening clothes. These are still in
good style, sleeveless or sleeved, In geor-
gette or tulle with incrustation OF pail
lettes and sequins or with light
tracery of bead embroidery.
incidentally, you can make a lovely
evening frock by buying one of these
little jackets and wearing 1t over a
homemade frock of tulle or georgette.
Flowers, of course, are still lovely
incidental to evening dress. But flowers
must be a part of the composite of the
frock, planned to be worn just where
and as they are placed by the designer.
1t does not do to pin flower. no mat
ter how lovely 1t may be, indiScrimi-
nately on ones evening frock.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-11-11

There are so many charming access
series of dress for evening that no
woman need depend solely on her looks
or her frock. And there are many
times when neither looks nor frock
satisfy us. The little accessories help
us at those times.
One of the accessories to evening
dress is the cap. And 1t Is certainly
a big help, for 1t covers up an I'M
becoming hair arrangement and often
adds a charming note to the whole
costume.
OF course, the evening cap should
not be pulled on over an unattractively
coiffed head. The hair should be as
carefully arranged when cap is worn
as when 1t isn't.
The wig caps of silk in white. silver
or yellow are really quite pretty. The
hair" is drawn down over the ears
where it Is pulled or plated fatty in a
sort of rosette A silver silk hair wig
worn with a black and silver frock is
quite attractive.
Then there is the fan. Never before
have fans been so full OF possibilities
The big fan of feathers is still avail
able, and there are other big fans OF
velvet or tulle.
The velvet fans match the frock, usu-
ually, although occasionally black
velvet fan is carried with a light tulle
frock. The tulle fans are made OF
quill-like sections of tulle, stiffened and
mounted on sticks of ivory, amber OF
tortoise.
Another accessory for evenings is the
big handkerchief. Strangely enough
these rather Enthusiastically large squares
have not lost favor, yet they have beer
in vogue for months. Some of the new
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-11-11

Among the many possible ways of
earning a living without leaving home
that of conducting a beauty parlor is
one that should at least be considered.
The first requisite is an interest in
this type OF work and a willingness to
do it for others. Next to that you
will need to be located in a fairly popu-
lous residential section. You must
have a room that may be given over
to the work, andea few hundred dollars
capital.
Some Of the capital should be spent
on a course in the sort of work you
expect to specialize in. There are
schools for hair dressers and beauty
operators in most fair sized cities. and
as a preliminary to your work l would
advise taking some such course. Sham
pooling and manicuring you might man
age to do without such course If you
are pretty skillful in doing this work
for yourself. but hair cutting needs
special training and hair cutting is i'm
poTtant.
The room should, if possible. be on
the ground floor. One woman l know
had the side porch of her house OPEN
ing off the living room incloSed In
glass and provided with steam heat,
and used it for beauty parlor. This
improvement she did not charge up
entirely to her enterprise. as it added
to the actual value of her house. But
she did charge up the cost of putting
in running water and a good sized wash
basin. Tables, chairs and other fur
nishings to start with she took from
her general supply, finishing them with
a coat of cream color paint and enamel
A morris chair finished in the same
way, with cushions covered with wash
able, removable linen she installed as
an operating chair" and it proved
most satisfactory.
1 am sure that in every community
there is possibility for success for the
woman who will give special attention
to hair cutting and shampooing for
children. Many mothers hesitate to
take their children to regular barber
shops and younger. children sometimes
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-11-11
Curtained Shelves Provide Place
For Footwear in Bedrooms

It has proved so satisfactory that
am passing the idea along. You could
get a carpenter to make the same sort
of thing for you, though any amateur
with hammer, nails, saw and some
wooden boards could easily make it at
home.
In the accompanying diagram and
sketch I am showing distance Of z
inches between shelves, though in the
original built for books the distance
was somewhat greater. But z inches
is as much as one could possibly need
for shoes or boots, and the deeper
shelves make the window seat just a
little too high.
The boards used were hree-uuarters
of an inch thick and IL inches wide.
The three long boards were cut feet
long and the other two should be 21A
in length. The lowest shelf should
be inches from the fioor-then three
quarters of an inch for the first shelf,
inches between and three-uuarterS
for the middle board, another finch
space, a three-quarter-inch board for
the top and an inch of board to serve
as a sort of retaining wall" for the
little cushion.
There is no back to the shelves. and
this is best, as without a back there is
better ventilation and it is much easier
thus to wipe them of with a damp
cloth on cleaning day. The little cur
tains, which part conveniently in the
middle and are mounted on fiat brass
rod escape the floor by full inch and
half, but completely hide the shoes
and keep out dust. The hem for the
rod at the top is best made without
a heading.
AS indicated in the sketch, the cross
shelves are fitted into the uprights by
means of grooves in the uprights. This.
/ suppose, would take the skill of a reg
ular carpenter. The amateur might
find 1t more convenient to use nails or
screws for this purpose and these could
be hidden well enough when the shelves
are painted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-11-11
Your Baby and Mine
BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED.

Jennie, small colored child. was
lifted to the chair seat while the pupils
stared at her interestedly Even to
their inexpert eyes it was plain that
Jennie was different from the average
child. Her head was square, her fore
head fiat and her eyes had an anxious
and melancholy look At each wrist
was noticeably bony lump. and the
same kind of lump appeared at her
ankles. Her stomach was round and
distended and by comparison her chest
looked strangely depressed. while the
ends of each flaring rib marked on her
thin body definite chain of beadlike
protuberances. The legs were both
bowed, the right one more definitely
than the left J
Poor little soul" said one mother
pupil in this nutrition class. How old
is she, Miss TomSon, and how long
has she been this way?"