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The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-19

A handsome man is as attractive to most women as a bargain sale, but eventually he gets to be about as attractive to the unfortunate one who gets him as a sink full of dirty dishes.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-19

We are now serving SANDWICHES and SALADS. The best yet. Jr- neau Ice Cream Parlors. -adv.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-19

Film circles, where rumors start almost before the ones concerned know it themselves, are saying that the wedding bells will soon peal for Ruth Elder, top, transatlantic av- iatrix, and Hoot Gibson, cowboy flicker star. Mrs. Hoot Gibson, di- vorced wife of Hoot, has made known her intention to marry a wealthy Honolulu plantation owner.
 Try the rive o'clock Dinner Specials at Mabr1's. ---adv.
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Try . TOASTED SANDWICH st the Juneau Ice Cream Pariors. adv
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LET Amqur. rress TOUT Suit. We call and deliver. Phone 528
The Washington times., 1929-11-27
Will Hunt

The officials of the Riding
and Hunt Club are making
arrangements for a large hunt
to be held Thanksgiving morn
ing at 10:30 o'clock at the end
of Massachusetts, Avenue ex-
tended.
Among those who have en-.
gagged horses for the hunt are
Major w. M. Grimes, Miss
Elizabeth Jackson, Melvin C.
Hazen, H. T. Cole, Miss Margo
CouZenS, Mrs. F. M. Andrews,
John Finerty, Mrs. Arthur A.
Snyder and her daughters and
Mrs. Burdett Wright.
The club plans to have hunts
every Saturday afternoon at 3
o'clock throughout the season.
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MRS. LOMEN IS
GUEST IN
CAPITAL
Former Laura Volstead
Arrives With Husband
From Alaska

Mr.. and Mrs. Carl j. Lomen,
of Nome, Alaska, are guests at
the Willard for a few days.
The latter is a daughter Of
former Representative Andrew
J. Volstead.
In an article entitled Here's
How the Dry Law Came About"
Is appearing in the December
issue of the Junior League
magazine she has assembled
with the aid Of her fathers
secretary, clippings and letters
addressed to him dealing with
the prohibition subject.
Mrs. Lomen is a close friend
of Mabel Walker Willebrandt,
who was an attendant in her
wedding a year ago. Undoubt-
edly Mrs. Willebrandt will en-
tertain for the Lomens IN
her new house in Georgetown,
while they are in town.
Former Senator Davis Elkins,
of Morgantown, w. Va, is spend.
ing the weekend at the May
flower with his mother, Mrs.
Stephen B. ElkinS.
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NEWS AND GOSSIP OF SOCIETY IN THE CAPITAL
Cuban Ambassador Will
Speak at Dinner to Be
Given by WOmGn's s Party

The Cuban ambassador, Mr..
Ferrara, will be one Of the
group of speakers at the dinner
to be given by the members Of
the National Woman's party at
the Willard on Saturday eve
ming, December z. Others will
be Miss Doris Stevens, Miss
Jane Norman Smith, Of New
York, and Miss Fanny Bunand-
SevastoS, of Paris, who Is spend
ing the winter in Washington.
Miss Inez Haynes Irwin will
preside.
Among those who will enter
tain parties Of friends at the
dinner are Mrs. Valentine Win
ters, of Dayton, Ohio; Mrs.
Florence Bayard Hilles, OF Della
ware; Mrs. Donald r. Hooker,
of Baltimore; Mrs. Elizabeth
Selden Rogers and Mrs. John
Jay White, of New York; Miss
Jessie Dell, Mrs. Marie Moore
Forrest, Mrs. Appleton Clark,
Mrs. Harvey Wiley, Miss Sarah
Grogan, Miss Laura Berrien,
Mrs. Paul L. Linebarger, Miss
Aline Solomons, Miss Mabel
Van Dyke, Mrs. Wymond Brad
bury and DR.. Mary O'Malley, OF
Washington.
X
Miss Frances Peralta. dra-
matte soprano of the Metro
politan Opera Company, spent
yesterday at the Dodge Hotel,
en- route to New York after ap-
pearing in guest performances
of Carmen" in Pittsburgh.
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MISS WRIGHT
MAKES BOW
TODAY
Prominent Bud Is Pre-
sented by Parents at
Tea This Afternoon

Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Price
Wright are entertaining at tea
this afternoon from 4 until Z
o'clock in their home at 1912
TWenty-fourth ST. to present
their daughter, Miss Margaretta
Wright, to society.
Receiving with Mrs. Wright
and the debutante are Mrs.
Thomas F. Bayard, Mrs.
Wright's mother, and Mrs. Law
renee Townsend. Miss Wright is
wearing a gown of seafoam
green crepe, made along princess
lines. With this she is wearing
q string of pearls and carrying
green orchids and gardenias.
Assisting at the tea table are
Nine. Peter, wife of the minis
ter Of Switzerland; Mrs. James
Carroll Frazer, Mrs. Walter r.
Tuckerman, Mrs. Pendleton
Mayo, Mrs. John H. Magruder,
Mrs. Wright's sister; the Misses
Bayard. of Philadelphia, and
Nine. ProchnlK, W1e OF the min
lister of Austria.
A group of debutantes assist
ing Miss Wright include Miss
Loranda Prochnik, Miss Elsie
Ekengren, Miss Ellis BoStrom,
Miss Victoria Catalani, Miss
Eleanor Grain and Miss Laura
Tuckerman.
This evening the Misses Bay
ard will entertain Miss Wright
and the buds who are assisting
her at a theater party, followed
by supper at the Club Chante-
cler. Their escorts will include
Sheldon Biyas, Pepe Rivas, r.
r. Bogge, j. Hale McKillip, Rod
ney Fiske, Robert Hinckley, of
the State Department; John
Sweeney and Henry Price
Wright, jr.
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Organizer of Gray
Ladies is Here
For Brief Visit

Mrs. Henry r. Rea, of Pitts
burgh, will be a guest at the
Mayflower until Monday, and
will then leave for her winter
home in Palm Beach! Mrs..
Rea, who organized the Gray
Ladies of Walter Reed Hospital
during the war, will follow her
usual custom of giving a tea at
the hospital on Thanksgiving
for the patients, followed by a
dance in the evening. Her
grandson, Oliver Rea, is with
her in Washington and will ac-
pany her to Florida.
Due to the death Of the Secre-
tary of War, the officers hop
at Fort Myer, scheduled for De-
cember IL, will not be held. The
next hop at Fort Myer will be
held on January Is.
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Republican Women
Attend Lectures at
Democratic Club

Mrs. Hare Lippencott is
among those who are attend
ing the series Of lectures be-
ing given by DR.. w. S. Holt, as
sIsJant professor at the Ameri-
can University at the Woman's
National Democratic Club on
American Foreign Policies"
The next lecture will take place
on December 6, and the last
one on December Is.
Others who have subscribed
to the lectures are Mrs. David
Reed, Mrs. Richard Oulahan,
Mrs. Frank S. Bright, Mrs. Will
liam E. Brock, Miss Anna Con-
nelly, Mrs. Frederick A. Delano,
Mrs. George M. Eckels, Mrs. J.
Borden Hartman, Mrs. Cordell
Hull, Mrs. Rose Yates Forres-
ter, Mrs. Frederic Keep, Mrs.
Adolph c.. Miller,
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Read How Nancy Tempted
Fate to Win Romance

tion,'' the girl answered
patiently. Hes from Kan
sas City. And Louis all
wrong about his making
money. He-he's an ideal
list. He HATES business
men. He told me he did.
He hasn't a nickel. He
drives the worst old car you
ever ~saw, and he LIKES
it,"
For a woman who has
just decorated the church
and, chosen the wedding
breakfast, Mrs. Hollenbeck
took the blow brayelyv Per-
haps it was because she had
seen SO many imaginary
bridegrooms shriyel and die.
well, don t see too much
of him, dear. People might
might misunderstood. /
don't want anyone to have
the chance to talk about one
of my girls. :" And after a
long, uncomfortable pause,
"Other young men would
think you were interested in
him, and = - that is ""s
they would be afraid to pay
you attention. +"
She expected an answer, a
protest against giving up the
good looking Mr.. Tully so
soon, but none came. Nancy
lay back against her pillows,
her eyes closed, her young
mouth sullen and hard.
Nancy, promise mama
you won't do anything fool
ish
The dark lashes quivered.
"No, / won't do anything
foolish. | must have been
crazy to ever think >" to
ever think " . ="
"Tell mama-to ever think
WHAT, dear9'
"Oh, to get romantic
about Mat. To think I
s"e the family " e oh,
please, mama, go to BEDp'
" Mama's grille. !" The little
padded figure in the fraying
satin dressing gown leaned
closer. Her dry lips brushed
Nancy sand she had never
felt so far away so
shut out = so unwanted
Nancy, speak to
mama!" she cried, afraid,
afraid of something, of some
new unnamed thing coming
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left Of your shining lover
would be a few discoiored,
decomposing shreds. 1T
isn't FAIR" she whispered,
her lips against the pillow
it isn't fair"
Nancy"
Mama's voice at the door.
Nancy lay perfectly rigid,
feigning sleep.
Nancy, it's mama. - Mrs.
HoIlenbeck tiptoed in, and
closed the door behind her,
switching on the light.
Nancy sighed and sat up.
II should think you d let
me sleep when you know
I'm tired, and it's my turn
to get papa's breakfast
"Lou can get para's
breakfast, - mama said alb
Sently, ignoring the reproach
and shuffling around the
bedroom, Strengthening a
shade here, pulling at a
dresser cover there, a little
blind without her glasses.
This, this Mr.. Tully, dear.
Is he one of the Fairchild
Tullys' Find out if he's one
Of the Washington family,
dear. They re very fine
people. Quite well to do.
/ thought he had an air
about him =" as if he
were used to nice things.
When I was a girl / knew
an Evangeline Tully. Tier
mother was one Of the Skin
ners, the sugar people. They
kept very fine horses. I re-
member the livery, plum
color with"
"I'm sure he's no rela-
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between her and her girA,
her baby
"What do you want me
to say, for goodness sakei"
Nancy was watching her,
with cold, appraising curl
osity.
Its just that-that you
seemed so quiet" she fall
tered. Mama was afraid
you didn't understand"
She wanted to cry out, to
gather her daughter to her
meager breast, to Groom over
her as she did when she was
a baby, but she couldn't do
that. She couldn't even
talk naturally with Nancy
watching her like that, so
coldly ? &" 81 want you to
be happy, . she struggled
on a W k wardly. I'll
haven't anything in the
world but you girls. I'm
advising you for your own
good. You don t know what
it means to be poor-to
marry a poor man. IL did,
you know. It's been so
hard. Nobody knows. Your
father and l have looked
forward so to you girls
marrying well ooh,
you don't understand" She
broke down and wept, un-
comfortably then, until
Nancy, murmurfng endesr-
ments, took her into her
strong, slender arms, aud
bullied and coaxed her back
to calm.
So Kitty Hollenbeck went
back to her room comfortsd,
and it was not until she
woke at dawn twas that
some one crying in the house
or just the wind rafting the
stiff leaves of the magnolia
tree7) that she remembered
that all the while Nancy was
petting her, her eyes re-
NAMED hard and cold.
"a trick of the light =
she decided. "My girls
think too much of their
mother =" good girls
IS" don t have to worry
about them - I know
them too well. So"
But it is the unusual
mother who knows her own
daughter in the year OF our
Lord, 1929.
Ito Be Continued)
Copyright. 1929, King Features
Syndicate Incl
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was why she had said good
bye to him in the garden
though she knew perfectly
we'll they had ordered extra
cream for the chocolate, and
laid the pound cake in
beautiful, overlapping slices
on the best Minton plate.
CT think I'll go right
to bed-I'm awfully tired, :"
she decided hastily, seeing
that the family was in a
mood for talk.
Eyes, get your beauty
Sleep" Louise advised acidly,
resuming her sewing. en-
get this finished somehow.
You IL want it to impress
the Tully person tomorrow
night. ?" She lifted the long,
billowing skirt of the pale
organdie she was working
on, trying to catch her
sisters averted gaze. Men
always love light blue. lie II
go down like a ton of bricks
and after all. he's
worth struggling for-if he
has any money!"
"LOUISE!" Mrs. HoIlen-
beck gasped. Mama won t
have you talking like that I"
"Well, it's the truth.
Nancy might do a whole lot
worse!"
"LOUISE!"
Little Mr.. Hollenbeck,
slow to interfere in the argu-
ments of his women folk,
looked up over his spec
tacles, and returned to the
sport page.
Louise was the older Hol-
lenbeck girl, a little sharp
of tongue, a little wistful al
ready at "a. She looked
very tired and plain tonight,
with her straight, dark hair
clinging damply to her FORE
head and her eyes heavy
with fatigue. "The way I'll
look in five years, if I stick
around home like she hast"
Nancy thought, seeing for
the first time the faint lines
under Louis eyes, the bitter
droop Of her mouth. Some
thing like panic seized her.
Suppose Mat didn't really
love her! Suppose nobody
ever really proposed to her,
and she had to wait around
year after year, like Lou
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Wonderful night, he
mumbled, suddenly conscious
that he ought to say some
thing. Wonderful night.
Too nice to go in.
YES" she sighed, "but
it's late. It must be awfully
late. =
He fumbled for his watch,
opened it, and returned it to
his pocket without having
noticed the time. She moved
on slowly, pulling at the
blossoms that bordered the
path. The heavy headed
dahlias, the tall columbine,
the yellow jasmine that was
the very breath of romance
itself. He followed, slower,
still. But no matter how
they dallled, the front steps
doomed just ahead.
And now they had come
to the steps, and she had
turned, starry-eyed and a
little tremulous, to say good
night. "I wish Il weren't
so late-I'd ask you in"
The slim little hand that
had plucked at the flowers
came to rest on his arm. She
was family smiling, search
ing his troubled face with
dark, yelvety eyes.
"JuSt for a few minutes
pleased" he begged.
She shook her head. 't'No,
/ couldn mot tonight. I'll
have to run, it's so late.
It's been wonderful" Her
mouth quivered. "And I'll
see you soon"
Tomorrow. T m o ROW
night, sure. -
She nodded, and made q
little movement, as If to slip
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from his OBTAINING grasp.
Their hands touched. "Well,
if you won't let me come
in, /" he began. And sud-
denly he was kissing her,
hungrily, as if he could
never let her 60.
She found her voice first,
GOOD nightMatP'
Awkwardly he reached for
the capNhe had dropped in
the tangle Of honeysuckle
near the gray front steps.
tGood night, Nancy.
He turned and retraced
his steps down the path.
She waited, shivering slightly
in her light dress, until she
heard the sound of his motor
starting. When its rum
bling and snorting had died
away she turned swiftly and
went into the house.
They were all in the living
room, the big, comfortable,
shabby room that stretched
across the front of the
house. Papa, mama, and
Louise, all waiting up for
her, Of course.
Papa lifted pudgy fingers
and pinched her check.
Have a good time, baby?"
"Why didn't you invite
the young man int" mama
asked mildly. ''You could
have made chocolate, and
there's some Of that pound
cake"
But it was Louise, as al
ways, who spoke what the
family really had on it's
mind. 81 like that Tully
boy" she said in her I'M
compromising, matter Of fact
way. i" He's different from
the others. Means business.
I caught the look in his
eye.
"You don t miss anything,
do you, darling?" Nancy
countered flippantly, but
her color rose. She was
suddenly conscious of her
tumbled hair, of the tell
tale wrinkles in her brief,
corn-color frock. She didn't
want Lou to know he had
been kissing her. Not that
she was ordinarily shy or
secretive about such things.
Petting parties were CON-
mon enough in their set, ard
she had had her share of
them. goodness knows. Put
this I" = I" this was different
She wanted to keep
Mat Tully all to herself >
:" = to keep him away from
the family, from papa's too
cordial welcomings. from
mama's sly, eager question
ings: from Louise's too
understanding stare. That
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''Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound is a wonder
full medicine at the Change Of
Life. | would get blue spells and
just walk the floor. / was nerv-
Gus and did not care for any
thing, could not sleep at night
and was not able to do my
work. know if it had not been
for your medicine | would have
been in bed most of this time
and had a big doctors bill. If
women would only take your
medicine they would be better.
Ieat and sleep as | should and
can do lots of work now"
MTS. Anna Weaver.
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.Ttook Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound at this
time Change Of Life), also
lydia E. Pinkham's Sanative
Wash, which | think is won
derful, and the Pills for Con
stipation. | recommend this
full treatment whenever |
can and / am perfectly will
ing to tell anyone what |
know about it. | am in better
health than / ever was and |
am often told that / look
more like a sister to my
daughter than her mother.
/ am a hotel cook and have
been at one place for six
years. Mrs. MinnieSheTiddn.
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F." like the old Arnold
girls, still wall flowers at
college dances, still, Looming to
Girls Friendly meetings,
feverishly pretending they
were young, and everybody
remembering they had their
coming out party in 1918
30
"But 1 won't be like
that" she promised herself
quickly. "I'm-different!"
She had only to Lift her
eyes to the mirror over the
mantel. Different /! OF course,
she was different! Nineteen,
and as fresh as a flower.
Young, and truly =" the
prettiest girl in their set
49,
"You don't have to worry
about me!' she burst out
suddenly. 81 won't die an
old maid. And besides-Mat
Tully isn't such a prize!'
That last was mere school
girl bravado, but Louise,
stitching YEARLY on the frock
that was to be his downfall,
didn't take it as such.
ttNeither are you," she re-
turned tartly, keeping her
eyes on the sewing, ignor-
ing the almost breath taking
loneliness reflected in the
old mirror across the room.
She didn't have to look.
Ever since she was a pale,
gangly-legged girl Of five
and baby Nancy lay dimp-
ling and cooling in her basket
she had been hearing about
her sister 3 beauty. And
now, at 19, it had come to
its height. Everything about
Nancy. from her warm,
flawIess skin, to the delicate
turn Of her wrist and ankle,
was perfect. The clear,
aristocratic features - the
Italian painters loved-the
soft russell cloud Of her hair,
the very curve Of her long,
dark lashes with curled back
from her velyety brown eyes,
giving her a family sur
prised, small girl expression.
"LOUISE!" mama cried
again.
Nancy's perfect mouth
hung open. Her jaw dropped.
Why, Lou! Don't you
think I'm pretty3'' she fall
tered, her vanity pricked.
Lou stitched on in the cleo
trio silence. Mama's chair
squeaked. Papa rustled his
papers, pretending to read.
Nancy, flushed and more
surprised than indignant,
hung on her answer.
"Oh, it isn't that you
aren't pretty she said
finally. "You are, of course.
Awfully pretty. I didn't
mean that you weren t, but
who cares9 Not Cary Flem-
ing and Gil Neal and all that
crowd. They can get a mil
lion pretty girls-not as you
perhaps. But pretty enough.
The woods are full Of them.
All looking for men with
money. What the men want
is someone with a fortune
like May Belle Craig. Or a
wonderful place in society
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like that TAT PRESTON girl.
Wonderful chance WE have!
Take my advice and grab off
the Tully person if you can.
He may not have much now,
but I'd bank on him get
ting ahead. You'd never
starve with him-he II make
money fast enough !"
Hmm . 4" mmm." Papa
cleared his throat nervously.
He was sensitive about the
subject of money. Poor
Peter Hollenbeck, who had
never made any money, and
owed SO much " F" so ter
ribly much. -"
"I'd like to see May. Belle
Craig or Vera Preston get
Mat fully away from me !!
Nancy hadn't meant to say
that. it just slipped out.
"Girls!" Mama's little
wrinkled hands fluttered IN
protest. "You mustn't SAY
such things. lit sounds
common.
"The truth is always COM
mont" Louise flashed hack.
"That's why we never hear
it around here. We're co.
so damned refined we never
face anything. We just go
on pretending, fooling our
selves, and nobody else"
"LOUISEi" Mrs. Hollen-
beck's voice rose to a shrill
whistle. ''I won't HAVE ii.
+ don't know where you
GET that common streak.
I'm sure it s not from MY
side Of the family. When |
was a young girl, I'd no
more have thought of ours
ing at my dear mother than
than I'd have thought of
jumping in the b-bay.!" Her
voice broke, the little CLAW
like hands CROPPED for her
handkerchief, her mild eyes,
forget-me-nots in the color
less wreck of her once
pretty face, dripped slow
tears.
"Kitty, Kitty dear papa
begged, "don't excite your
self" You II have one of
your headaches. Here, dear,
take my handkerchief, it's
clean. Why, Louise didr t
mean to hurt your feelings,
did you, Lou?"
Mama shifted hopefully,
waiting for the apology.
But Louise, tired and angry
after a long, hot day Of
washing and ironing and
mending-" pressing out a
few things, it was euphem-
istically called in the Hol-
lenbeck household--shut her
mouth tightly, and made it
plain that she had nothing
more to say.
In the angry silence.
punctuated only by mama's
heartbroken shifts and
papa's clucking comfort.
Nancy slipped upstairs to
bed.
1t was just as sne knew "
would be. The family post
mortems were always the
same. You couldn't even
fall in love decently and
quietly. Louise hawk eye
would discover it, and mama
would start prying, and in
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II am taking Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound
at the Change of Life and it
certainly has done wonders for
me. I highly recommend it TO
all women who are having
troubles like mine. 1t has
helped my nerves and my
appetite and l sleep well. | feel
much better and am gaining
in flesh. | am able to do my
housewOrk for my husband
and little boy and am always
busy sewing or crocheting. /
am willing to tell other women
what the medicine has done
for me if they care to write to
me. Mrs. MeFton Secor.
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A Tense Story of Love and
A Girls Ambition
CHAPTER /

yHE boy and the girl walked close together up the grassy
path the house The little garden, weedy and over
grown the daytime, full Of tropic beauty at night
place of moonlight and dapped shadow of whispering
leaves and dense spicy smelling shrubs crowdng the
crooked narrow path.
Not 20 feet from the street where his parked to
the house where behind deeply drawn shades her family
was waiting up" Not 10 feet and it had taken them half
an hour to reach the bird-path half way up
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One Of the Largest Docks

The Gladstone Dock Liverpool England opened
short while ago. take the largest vessels aoat
state Of the tide There three miles of and the
area is about S.
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