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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-02

MANY ATTRACTIVE ARTICLES AND
PIECES OF FURNITURE FOR THE
HOME CAN BE ORNAMENTED AS
DESCRIBED.
mating use of decalcomania, handsome
printed fabrics and papers are solu-
ton to her difficulties.
The designs on many of these are
made by skilled artists who know bal
ance of pattern and combinations Of
colors. BY using the actual fabric or
papers or by applying the decalco-
manias. effects of beauty are gained
without the workers inadequate abil-
ity. The essentials for success are
dizziness in handling the mediums and
accuracy in applying them.
Decalcomanias require moistening
with water or with solution in which
gum arabic or glue supply the adhesive
agencies. The place on which the pic
ture must appear should be carefully
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-02

was desired. That used to be etiquette
Cream pitchers changed their shapes
according to the contours of the other
furnishings of the home. Just as the
present angular age with its fiat sur
faces and planes has brought in new
silver as well as furnishings, so that
age with its swelling dubious contour
in decoration affected the silver. Some
times the cream pitchers were dainty,
three-legged affairs like the one shown.
This dates back to about 1870.
Earlier in point of time when con-
tours were more substantial we get a
teapot similar to the one shown. This
dates back to about 100. 1t has the
domed top Of the period and uses the
ebony handle to make it easier for a
hostess to handle the pot filled with
hot tea.
Write to Nancy Page, care OF this paper,
inelosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope,
asking for her leafiet On BEVERAGES.
(CODyripht. 1927
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-02

hand. The hand process kept in
certain life of the silver which heavy
rollers of modern usage take out. The
spoons made before 1880 or Whereabouts
had the characteristic rat tall a
short distance down the back of the
bowl. but this extended down further in
later years, say 1850. The crest of ini-
tials were usually engraved on the back
of the handle The bowl of the spoon
became less elliptical in the later years
Teaspoons were not of standard size
Often they we're small and Of pros
portion which allowed them to be laid
across the tops of the small handleless
cup as an indication that no more tea
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-02
Fish Turbet.

Heat two tablespoonfuls of butter and
two tablespoonful Of -four together,
then add slowly one pint OF milk. salt
and pepper to taste. two cupfuls OF cold
boiled or steamed fish picked fine, one
small onion and little parsley chopped
fine, Let all boil, remove from the fire.
and add two beaten eggs. Bake for 20
minutes in a fairly hot oven.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-02

GEORGE J. P. MAIER, 22oo Minnesota Acenae, s. e,
established a years. bias spent lifetime in the
grocery business, and is the third of bis line in this
calling. He has trained The fourth generation,
bis osm sons, to carry on the family tradition.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-02
BEAUTY CHATS
For Elderly Ladies.

II am an old lady of 10 years and
suppose should not care how l look"
This is the beginning of letter l
received the other day, and it is typical
Of many letters that come my way from
readers of the Beauty Chats. 1 do not
see why an old lady of 10 should be
above vanity, any more than an old
lody of SO or even one of 30! Old ladies
can be beautiful in their own way, why
then, should they apologize for doing
things to make their hair nice and to
keep their compilations fresh?
There are three things old ladies
should use every day. One is hair
tonic to keep the hair as thick as
possible, healthy and to preserve any
natural wave it may possess. I advise
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-02
| NANCY PACE
Early American Silver Had a
STYLE of Its Own.
| BY FLORENCE LA GANKE.
BY FLORENCE LA GANKE.

The Nancy Page Club was almost
ready to close its session. They still
had some of the fittings of the early
American home to study. Today they
were interested in silver.
First they noted the exquisite texture
of the old silver. This came from the
fact that it was worked entirely by
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-02

The woman who knows nothing
about painting and is not skilled in
drawing often is seized with the desire
to use these arts to make decorative
articles for the home. The idscrim-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-02
MENU FOR A DAY.

MENU FUR A DAY.
BREAKFAST.
Stewed PruneS.
Wheat Cereal with Cream.
Baked Eggs.
Toast.
Rice Wafies, Maple Sirup.
Coffee.
LUNCHEON. ,
Clam Chowder. IF
Crackers. Va
Bavarian Cream. III.
Cup Cakes, Tea. ~
DINNER.
Tomato Soup.
Dreamed Finnan Haddie.
Boiled Potatoes.
String Beans.
Watercress Salad, French Dressing.
Rhubarb and Raisin Pudding.
Coffee.
RICE WAFFLES.
One cup boiled rice, pint
sweet milk. eggs, 2 teaspoons
baking powder, / teaspoon salt,
butter size of walnut, -four to
make thin batter. Serve With
maple sirup.
CUP CAKES.
One cup sugar. l egg, little but
ter, cream together thoroughly.
Add y cup sweet milk, u tea
spoon soda, 1la cups flour, ~
teaspoons cream of tarter, l tea
spoon vanilla. Stir thoroughly.
RHUBARB AND RAISIN
PUDDING.
Arrange in layers in buttered
baking pan 2 cups bread crumbs,
2 cups finely cut rhubarb. u cup
raisins, u cup sugar, table,
spoons chopped candied lemon
peel and / tablespoon lemon Juice.
Dop top layer, which should be
of crumbs, with bits butter. pour
in y cup water, cover and bake
l hour. Serve with hard sauce.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-14
Gun and Ballot Box
Are Linked i'm Killing

From the Fort Wayne News-Sentinei.
1t is not likely that Sam Goldberg
East Chicago grocer, shot through the
breast because he was regarded as the
possessor of too much important EVIL
dence for the Government In the Calu-
met scandals, was dreaded so much for
what he might know about prohibition
law violations as for what he might be
ready to spill" about election frauds.
Everybody knows a little something
about prohibition law violations. Many
know a great deal. But Goldberg seems
to have been too close to the manipu-
lators of ballot boxes. So somebody got
scared and plugged him. In the first
place, there is q direct connection be-
tween almost all election frauds and
bootlegging. Goldberg probably knew
a lot" He wasn't just the sweetest
person to have running around talking
about big politicians plots and plans
and turning over to Uncle Sam set
of blueprints of this, that or the other
machine. He had already given the
Government some important informa-
ton. Some politicians probably felt
that he had given too much. So-bang!
Mr.. Bowers Tragic Era" tells of that
sort of bad business in the days of re-
construction. Some day somebody will
write a great and impressive story
about another reign of terror-the pres
emit period of prohibition and the pol
itics 1t soils. There are probably good
many prominent Indiana politicians
VINO know why Sam Goldberg was shot,
and who don't feel any too comfortable
over the promise of resultant prospects.
Just what did Goldberg know?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-14
A Court Test Needed.

If, as reported, Corporation Counsel
Bride plans to take the gas company
deal into court and test It's validity
there he will at least serve the useful
purpose of throwing the light of pub
licity not only upon the Identity and
connections of the purchasers, bit upon
loopholes in law that obviously has
failed to serve the purpose for which 1t
was enacted.
It is doubtful If there has been any
violation Of the letter OF the La Toilette
anti-merger act in the sale of the
Washington Gas Light Co. In the first
place, the purchasers of the 10000
shares of stock are not the sort Of gen.
tlemen who would blindly butt their
heads against the stone wall of the law
and expect to get away with 1t. They
would naturally resort 70 the wiser and
less painful method of examining the
law from distance and circumsrectly
walking around it. One does not blame
them for this. The blame rests upon
a good law gone wrong.
The La Toilette anti-mercer act was
aimed at the prevention Of the purchase
of more than twenty per cent of the
stock IN any Washington utility cor
poration by foreign holding or utility
corporations. In the gas company deal
the purchase was made by the Seaboard
Investment Trust, which is not hold
ing or utility corporation and appar-
entity does not come within the purview
of the law. The Seaboard Investment
Trust, organized for the purpose, bought
its stock for five holding corporations
or banks, none of which now holds more
than the legally permissible twenty per
cent. If he goes into court, Mr.. Bride
may be able to trace the connections of
these five holding corporations step
further back. AS far as the public is
concerned, that has not been done up
to this time.
Following the sale of the gas COM
pany stock to out-of-town individuals
and concerns, Mr.. Bride called upon
the Department of Justice to make a
thorough examination Of the connec-
lions of those involved. This examina-
ton was made and a report was sub
mitted; and while the report has never
been made public, it evidently will form
the basis for the suit now contemplated.
The dangers inherent in the passing
from local control of a local utility are
well known and require little discus
sion. Mr.. Bride can do no less than
take those steps that win serve at once
to test fully the validity OF the gas
company transaction and at the same
time supply the Public Utilities Com
mission and Congress with information
upon which to erect more formidable
barriers against such sales in the future.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-14
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES &. TRAcEwELL.

Persons who sit and stare at one are
obnoxious anywhere, but particularly so
in Office.
When man is trying to do some
work, he resentS 1t keenly IL a stranger
takes a seat nearby and proceeds to give
him the "once over" with too great per-
sistency.
In the street or in restaurants or
other places these long distance lockers
may be accepted as a part of the scene.
Doors are to be met with everywhere:
maybe they are some of those "snobs"
the professor advised his young men to
become.
Sometimes fist fight results wreh
too much staring Is INDUCED in, but
ordinarily all that is caused is annoy
ance.
We recall young man seated in a
restaurant with a friend. A man at
another table insisted on staring at him.
Finally the young man turned on him
sharply and blurted out, We'll, sir?"
The starer instantly lost his pose and
never again looked in the young fellows
direction.
Those who come into Offices, however.
and insist on staring workers out OF
countenance should be thrown out on
their necks, as the popular expression
has 1t.
Ordinarily both business and courtesy
forbid this plain necessity. Men feel at
home in their Offices and ordinarily do
their best to treat strangers with po-
likeness. There are some exceptions, OF
course.
The one big exception ought to. come
when a visitor persistently keeps his
eyes glued on those who are working
Not every one, of course, is affected
by the stares of others. A small minor
ity of people really like it. AS children
no doubt, they enjoyed showing off"
HHfore company, and now that they are
confined to Offices they revel in attract
ing such stray attention as comes their
way.
The majority of workers, however,
prefer to be let alone They ask nothing
better than to work free from annoy
ance, either from mates or outsiders.
The one pet nuisance is the man or
woman who enters an ONCE and is told
to wait for somebody. This process is
called cooling ones heels" Some Of
fees have it down TO a science.
You wait whether there is any one
to wait for or not. The theory seems
to be that such q period of probation
impresses the visitor as nothing else
will.
Make him cool his heels, while he
looks at the mahogany furniture and
the permanent wave in the typist's hair.
The girl may or may not like 1t, but the
furniture is guaranteed not to bat an
eye.
Those who visit Offices ought to think
about what they are doing there. Often
they have an AK to grind" You have
heard about those axes-every one has.
Some grind them industriously, others
not SO keenly, but they get there just
the same.
Mostly people visit Offices to get
something or other. In plain words,
they want something. Often they are
In the role of supplicator os one who
asks. Surely 1t does not behoove such
to stare those present out Of counte-
nance.
A man in an office presumably has a
right to be there. 1t is his downtown
home, as it were. The visitor should
feel that he, the said visitor, comes as
an interloper.
Few business offices are fixed as well
IN this regard as a dentists Office.
Every one knows the little antecham-
Der, with last months magazines, where
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-14
The Lure of the Unknown.

1t is not at all matter of wonder
that President Hoover, who is an ardent
base ball fan" suddenly determined,
while listening to the report of the
astounding game in Philadelphia on
Saturday, to attend today's contest
there. It was not alone that this fifth
engagement may be the final, deciding
game of the world series, and therefore
worth watching from an historical point
of view. There was ooubtless in the
Presidents mind the thought that per-
haps he might be so favored by the
fortune of base ball as to witness an
other spectacular sensational uprising
of batsmen, such as that which Satur-
day brought the apparently beaten
Athletics from far behind to far enough
ahead to win the game
But that is one of the peculiar fea-
lures of the national sport of America.
One can never foresee the nature OF
the play. Twenty games may be played
in succession without single outstand-
ing feature, without one remarkable
play, or sensational hit or rally, Then
the twenty-first may develop lone for
the book" some freak situation that
goes into the records and arouses the
spectators to frenzies of resentment or
rejoicing. And the twenty-second may
yield something even more astonishing,
or may be as tame and uneventful as a
game Of FOUNDERS" or ''two-old-cat" on
the back lots Of q generation or
two ago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-14
Farm Owners Pay Half
Of Proceeds i'm Taxes
tica ohserYer-Dispatch.

From the Utica Observer-Dispatch.
The New Jersey Agricultural Expert
nent Station, after a three-year study
of 70 farms in Is countries, flrds that
owners of rented farms pay half OF
their farms net income to the tax col
lector. To be exact, 47.8 per cent. the
state tax commissioner of New York
has reported figures which look good
deal like those in New Jersey.
This situation upon the farms didn't
come about all at once. 1t was q
growth. The causes are numerous, and
It wasn't all a case of other groups
loading taxes upon the farmer. There
is no doubt degree of contributory
negligence, such as voting the straight
ticket regardless of candidates and
causes. And then one reason the bulk
of the tax looms so large is that the
value of the product and the income
is SO low.
AS county and other local govern
ment takes a large proportion OF the
farmers tax dollar In this State, the
farmer should be in the front ranks in
the State demanding a more simple
and effective local government. Vari-
Gus reforms, such as the merger OF
counties, corresponding to the combi-
nations of corporations, centralized tax
collections in the county treasurer and
county managers and small boards Of
supervisors instead of large ones. have
been some of the Improvements sug-
gested.
Any such changes would involve a
cut in the income of many Of those
who hold Office consequently, there Is
much opposition in political circles to
a change. But farmers and other tax
payers can reduce their taxes by ir,-
SiSting upon the reforms
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government has anticipated and Is sue
cessfully meeting every move Of the In
surgents. There Is no fighting, as far
as can be discerned through the murk
caused by the strict censorship over
news from the interior OF China. The
Campaign" 1t would seem, consists
chiefly of troop movements, by train
and by foot. These movements of the
troops add to the misery of the people,
for they cause heavy drains upon the
food supplies, already desperately low.
They also retard the distribution of
relief supplies, which, as the Red Cross
commission recently pointed out, lie
neglected on railroad platforms until
they rot.
This is a situation in which the true
friends Of China can render no assist
snce. 1t Is impossible to go to the re-
lief of the stricken millions suffering
from lack Of subsistence. 1t is impos-
sible to advance funds to the Nation
alist government, which can give no
guarantees of repayment or dependable
securities. Loans may be squeezed
from the merchants and bankers of the
large commercial centers-such loans
have lately been "requested"-but they
will not suffice to satisfy the rapacity
of the Matchmaking war lords" and
their subordinates, or to provide the
means of raising and equipping q de-
pendable army sufficient to enforce the
authority Of the central administra ton.
It is, taken altogether, about as dificult
problem as ever was encountered by
a national government.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-14
China Faces Civil war Again.

From China comes word of condi-
ton of ferment and unrest that gives
ground for anxiety on the part OF the
sincere well-wishers for that unhappy
land. This anxiety, 1t appears. is even
more keenly evident in Marking, the
seat of government, headquarters of the
Nationalist administration and Of the
Kuomintang party, which is in effect
the Chinese government. Recently
manifesto was published by the generals
attached to Feng Yu-hsiang, the So
called Christian General, reiterating
certain charges against the Chang
Kai-shek regime, comprising corruption,
illegal assumption Of dictatorship, nepo-
tism, the foiling of the purposes OF the
revolution, and especially failure to af-
ford relief to the twenty million people
said to be starving in the northwestern
provinces.
Not very long ago an attempt to
assassinate the President was foiled at
Shanghai, and a number of plotters
were captured and put TO the question.
1t is now indicated that they confessed
to knowledge of a combination to over
turn the Kuomintang government. Ger
tain Of the armies" not absolutely con-
trolled by the Marking administration
were to be Unanswered into positions to
effect the seizure of Marking, Hankow
and Canton. Then the Marking govern
ment bryan to move and to effect dispo-
sitions of troops calculated to break UP
the revolutionary combination. Armies
OF doubtful loyalty were shifted, divi-
sions were ordered to new assignments,
and soon the interior of China was
aswarm with troops, moving here and
| there.
But the anxiety at Marking was not
allayed, for scme of the doubtful divi-
sions and the known hostiles refused to
be transferred as directed. Meanwhile
considerable "disbandment" of the
organized military forces has been sup
! posedly in progress, and large sums had
been raised by bond issues for this pur-
pose. But it is alleged by Chang Kali
shek's critics that much OF the money
thus raised from loans has found its
way into private pockets, and dishand-
ment has been failure.
A spokesman for the Nationalist gov
eminent at Marking has just admitted
in statement to press representatives
the seriousness OF the situation "Let
us be done with fairy tales, he said
There Is no denying the gravity Of
the present crisis" But, he added, the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-14
Gastonia, Charlotte and Marion.
From the Birmingham News

From the Birmingham News.
Latest intelligence from Marion, q
manufacturing town in Tho western
portion of North Carolina, Sc ms to be
one answer, II not a conclusive answer,
to Gov. Gardeners recent none-too-
fortnight statement respecting lawless-
ness in that State. At Marion five citi-
zens have been done to death. These
citizens happen to be textile workers.
Their occupation is not the pc int. The
point is that their lives have been
snuffed out. It is tremendously impor-
tant point Evidence thus far presented
indicates that these lives have been
taken by sworn officers of the law. Here
is one phase of the case that would
make the whole country shudder II the
whole country had not already been
tempted to become Injured to this life
taking habit by law enforcement offi.
GERS. The cry, Down with Commu-
nism!" does not satisfactorily explain
this tragedy away, any more than
similar cries explain away "Gastonia"
or Charlotte" Needless bloodletting
breeds more-and more heedless-let-
ting of blood. Anarchy, committed by
sworn officers of the law, Stays the thing
1t feeds on. Gastonia, Charlotte, Mar
ion-are not these three all In one
direct and inevitable line? More--where
is this line to end? Gov. Gardiner
should reflect upon the question
where Is this line to end?"
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frauds IN order that later they might
be challenged and the right Of the
Square Deal" candidates for municipal
Offices to stand in the campaign
queered.
What a wicked world this Is! Here
is an honest citizen seeking office for
the sake of public morals, for the bene-
fit of the downtrodden taxpayer, an
altruist willing to sacrifice himself on
the altar of his city. He has no regu-
larry organized political party behind
him. He has to go out and ask the
people to ask for his nomination in
order that his name may be placed be-
fore the voters on the official ballot.
He hires a professional petitioner, who
in turn hires name-getters. The crafty
machine" interjects its tricksters into
the ranks of the signature hunters and
they write all sorts of fake names on
the papers, and then, at the well known
psychological moment. they slip the
word across and the works are blown.
1t is a poor campaign manager who
cannot turn a scandal sprung in his
disinterest to his own advantage. So
Enright is now brosdcasting the wicked
ness of Tammsny-with which. by the
way, he was once rather closely asso-
ciated as exemplified by the scoun-
drelly trick of smearing his petitions
with false and fraudulent signatures.
The election Is only about four weeks
off. There is time to spring some new
sensations. But this one serves for
a while.