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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-16
About Floors

In scrubbing wooden floors with a
brush, care should be taken to use the
brush with the grain of the wood and
not crosswise or In a circular motion, a.
this wears up the wood.
A good way to take q spot from q
waxed floor is to rub the spot with a
very little alcohol and then cover over
with a little fresh wax.
A good way to bleach and clean
unfinished wood that has become dis
colored is to apply with brush O
solution made from one teaspoonful Of
oxalic acid and q cupful of hot water.
This should be allowed to dry on the
wood and then the surface should be
scrubbed well with soap and water.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-16
Stuffed Potato

Stuffed potatoes are delicious main-
stay for luncheon. OF course. you need
rather Large potatoes for stuffing, SO it
is better to use old ones for the purpose
until this years crop is larger.
One we'll known restaurant makes q
speciality Of mealy baked potatoes which
are q meal in themselves, though they
are not stuffed. They are served split
open both ways. with big tablespoon
of butter In each, a tablespoon of chill
sauce and tablespoon of grated cheese
The result IL really . stuffed potato
And delicious.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-16

~ may look back on the Spring OF
"a 1880 as the season when the
4 new, romantic movement in dress
was revived-or they may look
back on this season as time when
there was curious detection from the
steady forward movement toward prAc-
tical. sensible clothes for women, year
when, simply as a matter of diversion,
women who were really sensible and
modern in their attitude toward dress
chose to wear clothes that we're pic
tureSque and romantic and not very
practical
No matter how you look at these new
clothes that have come as a surprise to
many women, they are not so easy 70
those that have gone before, but they
certainly are interesting and to many
women amazingly becoming.
II they do survive and pave the way
for period Of more frivolous fashions
1t will be due to this very fact that they
are becoming and f1attering. No mat
ter how definitely we made up our minds
to dress sensibly, 1t is very difficult to
resist the temptation to wear clothes
that make us look as feminine and as
charming as possible.
THE difference between the clothes
for Spring and those for last Win
ter Is more obvious than actual. The
difference is striking only to the woman
of conservative taste who resisted the
new influence as long as she could and
who Is now needing the last call to dis
card short skirts and low waistlines
Actually there is nothing strikinsly new
for Spring-only carrying forward of
the Il s that were scattered broadcast
several months ago.
The very short skirt II entirely out
of the picture for any occasion. Even
for active sports wear the bend Of the
knee must be covered. The suit skirt
should be four or i've inches below the
bend of the knee, while the length Of
the evening skirt below this line de.
pends on the formality Of the occasion.
The extremely long skirt ~ considered
out Of place for any but the most formal
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-16

Hope Chest Gives Bride Fair Nucleus for
Accumulation of Adequate Supply of Mate
rails for Home Life-Gifts May Make
Further Basis for Meeting Future Needs.
Bride Will Buy What Is Needed to Com
plete Stock of Linens as Household Duties
Begin.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-16

Femininity Now Reigns in Realm of Clothes
While Frills and FurbeIows Show Chief
Trend of Season Experts Uncertain
Whether Onward Progress of Women's
Dress Has Simply Been Interrupted or 1890
Marks Beginning of Romantic Revival
Very Short Skirt Entirely Out of Picture.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-16
BY MARY MARSHALL.

A GENERATION from now women
~ may look back on the Spring OF
~ 1880 as the season when the
4 4 new, romantic movement in dress
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-16
BY HELEN DRYDEN.

. HE simplest and most practical
method of determining the
amount of money to be spent
Il on the trouSseau is to budget
IL LET tha bride ooy,cidar the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-16

ME girl who follows the old ira
dition of keeping hope chest
before she has any definite
plans for marriage may be made
tho l,nht nf q Lat Of nrond N O frtrod
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-15

to have the desired effect. Mil
ler's Herb Extract. however,
proved to be different from other
medicines I had tried and the
first bottle convinced me that I
had at last found a real remedy.
In just a few days the swelling
went out of my feet, other aches
and pains began to pass away
and I felt better in every way.
I am no longer troubled with the
nervous breaking out. rest well at
night and get up feeling re-
freshed. I have o better appetite.
food agrees with me and am no
longer troubled with constipation.
can truthfully say feel better
in every way since using this
Herb Extract and it Is a pleasure
for me to recommend 1t to others.
This great medicine is IN
herbal preparation, formerly
called Herb Juice) and In the
largest selling medicine on the
market where it In known. A
representative for this medicine In
now ut the Peoples Drug Store,
sos 7th st. N. w.; also Peoples
Service Drug Store, 1877 King St..
Alexandria, Va, TO explain this
medicine to the hundreds that
call.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-15

Mrs. Mary e. Riley whose photo
appears here, resides at 1923
Cambridge. Place N. w. and Is
widely known in Washington.
She is great booster for Millers
Herb Extract formerly called
Herb Juice) and her statement
regarding this great remedy,
should be of special interest to
her many friends. In giving her
statement she said SO many here
at home recommended this medi-
cine that made up my mind to
try it also. but I never dreamed
that the first bottle would help
me like it did. I was suffering
with nervous trouble, pains across
the back and my feet would swell
so I could hardly put on my
shoes, some days they hurt so
that I could hardly walk. Then,
too, I was always taking a laxa-
tive, liver was out of order and
due to some disorder Of the sys-
tenn I was also troubled with a
breaking out on different parts
of my body. I thought this was
due to my nervous condition, but
regardless Of what caused it, ]
1 had tried for year to rid myself
Of 1t, yet medicines used failed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-15

And the happy, happy auto, how
We wish we were loved as much.
I'VE wouldn't hurt your surface
If we had some place to go,
So find us stars a boarding house
Don't be so beastly slow.
Some day our little feathers may
All come back In style,
Then you'll greet us little starlings
with a glad and happy smile.
I'VE shan't forget our treatment
If we live hundred years,
And we'll ask good old st.
Peter to wipe away our tears"
The other poem was written by q
correspondent who signed the initials
A. B. w. It follows:
God made the gentle little fly
(Although I've often wondered Why
ours not to question what He sends,
For all Gods children should be
friends.
The fly, he makes his mark in life,
So, also, does his loving wife;
Likewise his parents and dependents
And all collateral descendants.
We may not LIKE the things they do,
It's Just their little nature to.
God likewise made the rat that brings
Bubonic plague to slaves and kings.
It means no harm, then why should we
Curtail its blithe activity?
X X n n
And so q thousand we could cite
That spread disease and filth and
blight.
And each "a part OF Gods great plan
For picking on defenselesS Man
BY all means let the starting live,
And take what he may choose to give
Here's Another Supporter.
Ann H. Cullen, 236 Tuckerman street,
also rallied to the defense Of the star
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-15

lings In q different way. "In my opin-
ion," she wrote, "the starlings should be
allowed to roost where they choose.
I'm certain sense they may be q
nuisance, but what of it? Now, for In
stance, about the smoke nuisance caused
by the use of soft coal in this city. Dc
we attempt to destroy all the apart
ment houses that cause it because we
are forced to spend hundreds of dollars
every year repainting our houses and
having windows washed?
How about the thousands OF unnec-
essary noises that drive some people
particularly those who are Ill, to the
verge Of distraction? How about the
stains left on the streets from oil drip
pings from autos, and so on, ad in
finitum? These are surely thousand
times more of nuisance than the roost-
ing, for q few hours during the night,
OF the poor starlings who are not re-
sponsfble for their existence.
what If the streets do become dirty?
They need cleaning anyway. What II
the tops of autos are soiled? They can
be parked some other place. Let the
starlings have the trees on the Avenue
or any other roost they choose"
The London archives preserve q viii
wW-aIA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-15

nresent through ballots sent to men,
berS Nominees include Mrs. Daniel
Borden, Mrs. william Knowles Cooper,
Mrs Harold z. Doyle, Miss Eleanor
Eckhardt. Mrs. John wesley Hill, Mrs,
william d. Mitchell, Mrs: Edwin B.
Parker, Mrs. Thomas w: Pnnlips, Mrs.
Uilliann M. Ritter, Mrs. D. A. Skinner.
Mrs. George winchester Stone, Mrs.
huston Thompson and Miss Mary Jane
Winfree.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-15

Duluth, MINI, ana Stone Harbor, N. j.,
worth $4,000. His personal estate Is
estimated at $16,205 In the petition, for
probate of the will.
The viii designates the daughter,
Mabel L. Williams: the son, Irwin H.
Linton, and the Federal-American Ma
tional Bank as trustees, with direction
to set aside one-tenth of the income for
distribution among the Africa Inland
Mission, Chinese missions at Tan Shang
and Tu Shan and the Gospel Mission
at Washington. The remaining income
is to be paid to the widow during her
life, and after her death nine-tenths of
the income is to be divided between the
children.
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". w. C. A. TO ELECT
OFFICERS SATURDAY
Annual Meeting Of District 0rgani'
xation Will Be Preceded
by Dinner.

The Young Womens Christian AS
ISOLATION OF the District will hold Its
annual meeting and election of officers
In the Y. w. C. A. Building, Seven
teenth and K streets, next Saturday
evening. The meeting will open with q
dinner at $50 o'clock. Mrs. Thomas
Edwin Brown, president, will preside.
Addresses are to be delivered by Rev.
Henry w. Snyder, new pastor of st.
Paul,s Lutheran Church, and by Mrs.
Toledo, Ohio, Y. w. c. A. and mem
Der OF the national board Of the aSso-
citation. Reports on the progress of
the association during the past year
will be made.
Election of IL additional members TO
the associations board Is being held at
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-15

The London archives preserve q viii
written on q door.
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WILL SHOWS LINTON
ESTATE IS 100000
Missions Share With Family IN
der Terms Of Late Lawyers
Document.

An estate valued at about 100000 is
disposed of by the will of Irwin B. Lin
ton, prominent lawyer. who died Mo-
vember 20. Included among the real
estate holdings is tract Of land In
Africa of unknown value. He owned
property In the District of Columbia,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-21
Marking and Mukden.

News from Asia that the Marking
Government has repudiated portions Of
the protocol signed between Russia and
China at Khabarovsk In settlement Of
the Russo-Chinese quarrel over the
Chinese Eastern Railway and other is
sues, on the score that the conferes
for the Mukden government had ex-
ceeded his powers, does not necessarily
signify the immediate renewal Of hos.
tilities In Manchuria or even the even
tual reopening Of the confetti the ir-
regular warfare of the Autumn may be
so termed. Back OF this Reputation
lies much more difficult question than
that Of the precise terms Of settlement
on the score Of the railway manage
ment or that of the spread Of bolshe-
vik propaganda. 1t Is evident that the
Nanking government wishes to deflne
more specifically the relations between
Manchuria and China proper, and to
insist upon the subordination Of the
Manchurian representative at Khaba-
rovsk to the authority Of the National
Est administration.
The relations between Nationalist
China and the three eastern provinces
which constitute Manchuria are moi
Dreeisely defined. The late Chang Tso-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-21
Dangerous Double Control.

A plane crashed the other day III
Florida. and the owner, a New York
capitalist, who had adopted aviation as
sport. was killed. His professional
pilot, who survived the accident, tells
story of how it happened that illus
trates grave danger in individual n.y.
ing by amateurs. The plane was Of the
dual-control type. with two cockpits, in
each of which may sit an operator,
with stick" for the manipulation OF
the machine. The professional, seated
in the rear cockpit, was running the
plane when, shortly after the start, he
noticed that something had gone wrong
with the motor. He turned OF the tgni-
ton and started to glide down from 800
feet. Then he found that he could not
handle the ship, for the owner, seated
in the forward cockpit, had frozen" TO
the controls. Apparently in his agita-
ton he instinctively reached for the
stick" and it was impossible for the
pilot to reach him or to make him hear
and loosen his grasp. In few seconds
the ship crashed.
It is evidently dangerous to maintain
. dual set of controls in such conditions
as this. An old adage has 1t that two
persons cannot safely or surely drive a
horse. Everybody knows how perilous
1t Is for passenger on motor car to
reach and grasp the steering wheel in
an emergency. In an airplane double
pilot system may be all right when both
pilots ere skilled, but when one is an
amateur, a beginner, the possibility Of
his taking hold of the stick" simply
invites disaster. 1t should be possible
so to arrange the system of dual
control plane that only one set of guild
ing levers can be operated at once.
Otherwise there will be many deaths
from this cause.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-21
Coasting Dangers.

With the Washington streets invit-
ing the youngsters to indulge In coast
ing, heed should be paid to the casual
ties Of that sport. fortunately, none Of
the snow travellers met death, but today
as a result of participation in danger
Gus sport on unprotected city streets
some half a dozen boys and girls lie
either in hospitals or in their homes
with painful injuries.
Coastfng is a great fun. 1t thrills
youngster and grown-up alike; but
coasting in 1880 is far different from
coasting in 1910. Twenty years ago
there were many open spaces in the city
which were free from traffic of all kinds.
Today, except in the parks, there are
few such spots.
Even In the open country coasting
has its danger due to the sluggish way
In which sled responds to Its steer
ing control and the fact that the sled
der has no means of arresting his mo-
mentum. Many a scrious accident has
occurred through the failure of the
coaster to make a turn. In the city,
however, with heavy automobile trafiic
at every cross street the dangers appear
to be prohibitive.
In some sections of the city In good
coasting weather police have been sta
toned to protect the enthusiasts. That
is the only possible way that anything
resembling security can be thrown about
the coasters; but because of the scarcity
Of such protected districts it is q COM
mon sight to observe children coasting
blithely along without heed TO the
dangers that lurk at every intersection.
The motorist is practically helpless
when sledder rushes unexpectedly in
front Of him. No noise is made by
the steel runners, and while the motor
ist has more control over his vehicle
than the coaster the chances of avoid
ing . disastrous collision are slim in
deed.
1t is distinctly up to the parents to
see that If their children 60 coastinR
they are surrounded with every safe
guard. Regardless of the distance to
protected zone, parents should provide
transportation for sled and coaster to
that point. It may be the method of
saving q life. The municipal govern
ment on Its part should create as many
of these coasting districts as possible.
Motorists would rather go out Of their
way few blocks on rare occasions
than to run the risk of having young
lives snuffed out beneath the wheels of
their cars If these precautions are
taken Washington's next spell of coast
ing weather should be unique in that
no fresh crop Of victims will be the
result.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-21

much to get away with.
Confronted with saucer of spinach
our heart falls us. We have eaten it.
under compulsion-in all forms, and in
various DISCUSSES.
Lemon juice cannot make it anything
else than spinach. The finest of fine
butter, melted to the queens taste, fails
miserably to transform spinach.
1t is always spinach, and spinach IL
Will remain, a horrid, tasteless, messy
dish, fit for hogs, maybe, but not for
human beings.
We deplore the examining of bushels
of this vapid substance adown the in
nocent threats Of the younger gener-
alton.
It may be good for them-we hope It
ls-6ut It is terrible price to pay for
rudy cheeks, straight bones, pep, .
vigor, peace and plenty.
X &*&
II we were child again, Just for to-
night, we would rise up in rebellion
against the tiniest saucer of spinach
which might be placed before our trust
ing face.
Mother, will not eat It"
we would say 1t firmly determinedly,
with full knowledge Of the various vita
minis it is supposed to contain.
We would discourse further as fol-
lows:
Mother, science postulates the ex-
lSCence OF varied and assorted life
substances, called vitamins, in this
mass OF mingled green's and sand.
The truth is that no man has vet
seen vitamin. If DR.. McCollun of
the Johns Hopkins University met
Vitamin B face to face he would not
tip his hat to 1t. Poor Vitamin q would
be terribly snubbed by the learned ex-
pert, simply because a vitamin is some
thing which science says is there be-
cause it must be there
Something or other, mother, must be
there to account for the effect of GER
tam substances on white rats. I accept
retically, but actually I take my vita
minis with grain of salt.
wherefore, and therefore, mother, I
am now going to heave this saucer of
spinach through yonder window, and l
shall do the same with the next. and
the next, until there are no windows
left In my fathers house. Spinach, my
eye!"
The snow is a nuisance because II
tends to thwart our little plans of the
day or night. Mostly, we suspect, older
people resent its coming because 1t
eAAO"c oAACAA AAOW Ad1 JAACy 1AdNC JTAVGlGQ
from their own childhood.
Those shadows of the prison house, of
which Wordsworth sang so sweetly in
what some of us think his best poem,
have, indeed, closed around us. We
know that there are certain hearty.
rudy individuals who put up a great
blum about thinking and acting like
children, but they mostly are fooling
themselves-compared with the real,
genuine to IL year old kids, they are
Just oldsters taking q last fling at
innocence.
This, one may suspect, is the real
reason why older people find themselves
disliking the white, cleaning. beautiful,
fairy snow. Pull the kids around the
block as long as you please, shout even
louder than they do, time has taught
you that tomorrow the virgin whiteness
will be soiled and gray, and even now
the flakes do not look as large and white
as they used to. Snow, snow, beautiful
snow, indeed!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-21
Spanish Dictatorship
Seems to Be Near End

From the Columbus Evening Dispatch.
News from Spain, In spite Of the am
biguous or contradictory character of
much Of it. seems, on the whole, to
point toward the return of more nor
NAL form of government. Primo de
Rivera, the dictator, is not likely to abb
dictate his power and position offhand,
but has in mind, apparently, a gradual
change that will put the government
back upon a constitutional basis. One
cannot blame him for wanting to get
out without the appearance, or reality,
OF having been kicked out. II the
change can be effected without the cost
or q revolutionary uprising, 1t will be
lar better for all concerned.
The people OF Spain adjusted them
selves to his original usurpation of
power with surprisingly few open in
dications of resentment; but there has
been ample evidence, during the past
year or two, of an increasing unrest
because Of his delay in carrying out
his repeated assurances that the dicta-
torShip was never intended to be per-
manent. and that preparations were in
progress for the restoration Of consti-
tutional rule.
Under the circumstances, any, very
long indulgence In the policy Of delay
might easily lead to an explosion. The
problem of effecting the change smooth
~ is sure to be made harder by undue
procraStination. Gen. Primo de Rivera
mas no such hold on power as MuSSolini
has secured, and q movement which
would bring his immediate downfall is
not at all impossible.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-21

lin, whose officiaI rank was that Of gov
ernor Of Manchuria, even while dictator
Of North China and aspirant for ma
tional control, regarded the three east
ern provinces as apart from the main
body Of the former empire. His son
and successor has taken no definite
stand upon this point. but 1t is known
that he regards Manchuria as semi-in-
dependent Of nationalist China. The
action Of the Marking government in
repudiating the signature of the repre-
sentative at Khabarovsk now rather
puts it up to Chang Hsueh-liang to
"fiSh, cut bait or get ashore" He must
elect to stand by his agent and insist
upon the acceptance Of the protocol
signed by him at Khabarovsk, which
means to defy Marking, or consent to
renewal of the costly and dangerous
process of what in the dispatch is
styled pickering with Russia.
There are clear signs that Chang
HSueh-liang is not ready for present
test OF strength with Marking, If in
deed he contemplates q definite break.
The fact that he allowed the recent
crisis in China proper, when the fate
Of the Nationalist government was in
the balance with revolution in full
swing, to pass without a move toward
independence is regarded as a token
that he does not wish to precipitate the
issue. Perhaps he wants the Russian
affair fully settled first. This war"
has cost his provincial treasury heavily.
This is a bad season for new moves. AS
they say in Manchuris, the kaoliang
must grow before the field is good for
military operations.