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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-09
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Mrs. Jack Hayes. Mrs. Victor Kauff-
mann, Mrs. DeloS A. Blodgett, Mrs
Charles Graves Matthews, Mrs. Perry
,. Heath, Mrs. Francis Martin Savage,
Mrs. Edward Z. Robbins, Mrs. Robert
=. Mackenzie, Mrs. Frank w. Mondell,
Mrs. James r. Mann, Mrs. j. Harry
Covington and Mrs. Charles s. Baker
Dr.. and Mrs. Joseph Morgan were
the guests IN whose honor Mr. and Mrs.
Charles A. Barnard entertained at din
ner last evening at the Mayhower pre-
ceding the Bachelors Cotillion. The
company included Miss Emiscah Davis,
Miss Frances Hill, DIR. william Hale,
Mr.. Charles Morrow and Mr.. Allan
Rogers Of New York.
Mrs. William H Knots Of 1474
Columbia road northwest, accompanied
by her grandson. Holland Ray Heacock,
left Saturday night for Ballenger, Tex,
where she was called on account of the
critical illness of her brother, Mr..
Richard Thomas Trail.
Mrs. Harvey w. Firestone of Akron,
Ohio arrived in washington yesterday
and is at the Mayfower.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. w. Croushorn Of
Asheville, N. c., are at Wardman Park
Hotel for short visit.
Bachelors Cotillion
Last Evening Colorful.
Quite the gayest and sprightliest of
the Washington Bachelors cotillions
was given last evening in the ball room
of the Mayfiower, the first of the series
for this season. Many guests arrived
early for the general dancing, which
began at 10 o'clock, and the ball room
was q festive scene with the flags Of
many countries and the Stars and
Stripes in the spotlight, floating in a
stih breeze behind the orchestra.
Nine. Debuchi, wife of the Japanese
Ambassador, received the guests in the
Chinese room standing before tall,
graceful palms. Mr.. George H. Calvert,
r., vice president, made the introduce
lions, and assisting Nine. Debuchi were
Assistant Secretary OF the Navy; Nine.
Lessinoff and Mrs. Henry L. Doherty
Of New York. Nine. Debuchi wore q
gown of gold brocade, made with far
ing skirt from circular peplum at
the hipline. Mrs. Jahncke was in a
graceful and simply made gown Of
orchid velvet and silver brocade, the
Aaring skirt falling into a short train
at the back. Nine. LesSinoh wore white
and silver flame, and Mrs. Doherty was
In white chiffon, made with panels Of
chantilly lace.
The figures Of the cotillion were
danced at IL o'clock, Gen. Horton d.
recttng, assisted by Maj Reginald
Foster, and led by Mai Gen. George o.
SQuier. with Miss Adele Townsend
Jahncke, daughter of Assistant Secre-
tary Of the Navy and Mrs. Jahncke.
Gen. Squier took the place at the last
minute Of Col. Campbell B. Hodges,
q. s. A., military aide to the President,
who was on duty elsewhere. Miss
Jahncke wore a dainty frock of white
chiffon and tulle, trimmed with crystals.
The tulle skirt was very full and long
and fell from band OF the crystals
about the hipline and bands Of crystals
trimmed the bodice, forming a deep
yoke.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-09

w. Hubbard, Mr.. Wilbur N. Hubbard,
Miss Helen Eames Doherty, Miss Bar
rine Drake, Mrs. Samuel A. Kimberley,
Mr.. and Mrs. William Jeffries Chewn-
ing. jr,; Miss Abadie, Miss Frances Viz
GINA Waggaman, Mrs. M. declare
Berry, Mrs. Jacob Leander Loose, Mrs.
Karl D. Klemm, Mrs. Robert Hinckley,
Mrs. Francis Written, Mrs George II.
Calvert, jr., and Mrs. william Laird
Dunlop, jr.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-09

Mr.. and Mrs. william B. Storey Of
Chicago will spend the latter part of
the week in Washington at the May
flower,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-09

Mrs. j. r. Bell will entertain q COM
pany Of 81 at dinner this evening ct
the Shoreham Hotel
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-09

Mr.. and Mrs. Roland NJ Eavenson
Of Philadelphia are at the Dodge Hotel
for several days.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-09

Mrs. Clarence Cary of New York City
entertained q party Of seven at lunch
con today at the Carlton, where she is
spending the Winter,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-09

Former Secretary Of War, Mr.. Newton
D. Baker, is in Washington for q few
days and is at the willard.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-09

Former Controller of Currency Mr.
Joseph w. Mcintosh entertained a small
company at luncheon yesterday at the
willard.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-09

Miss Ada L. Comstock, president Of
Radcliffe College, at Cambridge, Mass,
is at the Carlton for few days. Miss
Comstock Is member of the Federal
Law Enforcement and Observance Com
mission.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-09

Mr.. and Mrs. Carl E. Whitney have
arrived in Washington from their home
in New York City and are at the VIII
lard.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-09

Dance Tonight in Sail
Loft at Navy Yard.
The second of the series Of dances to
be given by the commandment and on
GERS of the Navy Yard and Station will
be held in the sail loft in the Navy
Yard tonight. The Christmas spirit will
predominant, with Christmas trees and
holly decorations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-09
group at luncheon at the shorehan
Hotel today.

Mrs. Henry Fisher Of Florence, italy,
Is the guest Of her sister-in-law, Mrs.
j. j. Fisher, In her apartment ct the
Mayfiower and will leave the end Of the
week to spend Christmas with relatives
in California.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-09

Mrs. Julia Marscher entertained q
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-02-07
dutch Treat" Makes No
Hit With Modern Girl

To the young man who writes to ask
II i is proper to lei the girls pay for
their share of an evenings entertain
ment we reply that 1t is. Perfectly
proper but highly improbable.
Experiments have been made In
this direction, but somehow or other
they didn't work. Even when the girls
propose the Idea 1t doesn't make a
hit with them II the boys take them
too literally In the final settlement.
Positively, the girls don't like It May
be II Is because woman is more con-
sentative than man, and one Of her
inherited privileges is to say that the
woman pays while she sees that the
man does It.
OF course, when the girls suggest a
dutch treat the wise thing is to seem
to fall in with the idea, and then to
buzz your own girl into granting you
the very special favor Of letting you
pay her shot You can do this In the
strictest confidence and with the safe
promise not to tell anyone. You won't
have to tell. The chances are that all
the other boys are begging-and re-
ceiving-the same inestimable favor Of
paying the bill.--San Francisco Chron-
icle.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-02-07
Called Middle Ages
Imaginary, Says Writer

The Middle ages never existed. The
journalistic John Addington Symonds
and others to the contrary, modern his
torians Of scientific temper know that
the content which the phrase common
ly holds for the popular mind is a
myth, a phase and provocative tool
of that impinging superstition Of the
modern world-the superstition Of HUI
manism.
When Flavlo Blonde surveyed the
world from 40 TO 1410 and, convent
emily, laid 1t out in a series Of dec
ades," he was doing no more than to
flatter the self-centering illusions Of
those Of his contemporaries who were
zealously devoted to the newly fash
i0nable litterae humaniores
Hence the picture Of vast expanse
of time, as mortal reckoning goes, ex-
tending from the wall Of the Roman
empire in the West In 476 to the fall
of Constantinople in 1853, dark and
desolate waste peopled by the scholas-
tic ghosts of thought, the intellect
numbed and shivering. Read
a popularizer like Symonds, and you
will get this latter picture: A world
that has been blindfolded for centuries
suddenly tearing the bandages from
Its eyes and awakening to the fact
that life is life and filled with spring
like Joy.
1t IS a charmingly naive conception
charming, but naive. Unfortunately,
the working out of human destinies
in corporate society is not quite SO
simple an affair as all that.-FrOm
"Rabelais: Man Of the Renaissance"
by Samuel Putnam.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-02-07
Cold Water Thrown on
That Milk Snake Story

! am reminded Of . conversation
that once had in the pine barrens
with an old darby who claimed to be
an expert on snakes.
had that day caught large speciI
men Of king snake-that black and
white serpent which is immune to the
bite Of any snake in North America.
and which will kill in fair fight any
rattlesnake which It may meet. The
sight Of the king snake started my
colored friend on line Of snake sto-
ries. Among them, remember, was
one about a COW on his fathers farm
that suddenly went dry. When she
was watched It was found that every
afternoon she would 60 down into the
far end of the pasture and low invit-
ingly, whereupon a milk snake would
creep out Of the grass and milk her.
When the snake was killed several
quarts of milk gushed out of its mu-
tilated body. After Its death the cow
pined away and died.
It was a very sad story and quite
as true as most snake stories. The
stomach Of the largest milk snake
holds about four teaspoonfuls, and 1t
could no more milk COW than could a
bird.-Samuel Scoville. Jr., in "Wild
Honey"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-02-07
courts.x Of the Senate

Senatorial courtesy is something
well understood but difficult to define
One authority defined 1t as indulgen-
cies extended by one senator to anOth'
er. Another suggests that the term
senatorial courtesy" is one applied to
custom In the United States senate
by which the procedure Of that body
Is based, chiefly, on the honor of sen
atOrs rather than upon strict rules.
For example, 1t is customary USUALLY
when former senator's name is sent
In for the nomination for some appOln-
tive position to confirm him as mat.
ter Of course, without going through
the regular routine. 1t is also Gus
tomary for the senate to refuse to
confirm the nomination Of an appoint
ment to Office In any state whose SEN
ator Cor senators) objects to the per
son nominated, on the ground that the
nomination is personally Objectionable.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-02-07
Pretty Girl Has Edge
Over Her Plain Sister

Pretty girls "get away with murder"
In New York. Most of them, know
ing the power they WELD over the
other sex, take advantage Of the men
in various ways.
The traffic policemen are particu-
larry susceptible, and the fair ones
aim their shafts particularly at them.
For instance, II they want to cross a
street against traffic they merely take
a step or two from the curb and then
give a little shrek when a car APP
proaches. That's the cue for the officer
to look in their direction; and, when
he sees them smile, he holds up his
hand, brings all traffic to a stop and
escorts them across, exchanging lit
tie blarney with them en- route. And
the policemen love 1t.
Then there are the girls who fire.
quent soda fountains at noon. They
quickly learn the names Of the dis
pensers, and soon they will work them
this way: "Oh, Artie, don't be so
stingy with that whipped cream" or,
Jimmy, fill up this cup: coffee was too
cold"
Well, why kick? Give the little girls
a big handout.-New York Sun.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-02-07
French Salt Derived
From Lakes Far Inland

Salt is so common and so inexpen-
eive that one is apt to loose sight Of
its value and necessity. In certain
parts Of the orient salt is SO scarce
and so valued 1t is used as medium
Of exchange. France has no salt mines !;
and, as far as the smooth table variety
70 concerned. she is entirely dependent
upon imports. You see fomous brand
Of English packet salt In all parts Of
the country. But it's an expensive busi-
ness getting 1t to every small town,
and that is where the Etang de Berre
comes In handy. II is on the road to
Marseilles-you pass 1t away to your
highland 1t is the largest Of all the
Etangs. They are great lakes Of sea
water, fed, often underground, by the
sea; and they are dotted along the
Mediterranean coast from Marseilles
to Spain. You find them again in the
Landes. that fiat, marshy stretch in the
neighborhood Of Bordeaux. Shallow
evaporation pans, leading away from
the Etang de Berre, and looking in
the distance exactly like vast reser-
voirs, have been built, and these are
filled from the lake. They are then
damned off, and dry air and blazing
sun do the rest
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-02-07
How Color Blindness
Will Be Transmitted

When a color blind man marries
color blind woman, all children will be
color blind. II the same man marries
q normal woman all children will be
apparently normal, though the daugh-
tiers may transmit the defect to their
sons. Should a color blind man marry
q woman that is carrier, half his
daughters will be color blind, the other
half carriers, while his sons run an
even chance of being color blind or
normal. When, however, normal
man marrles normal woman there
will, Of course, be no color blindness
among the offspring nor among the
descendants, unless some Of them in
termarry with strains that are af-
fected. A normal man marrying a car
rier may expect half his sons to be
normal, the other half color blind. His
daughters will all be apparently nor
NAL, but half of them will be carriers.
But when a normal man marries a
color blind woman he may expect all
of his sons to be color blind and all
Of his daughters to be carriers.-Good
Health.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-02-07
Black and Blue Spots

Those black and blue spots we
sometimes find on various parts of the
body are bruises. They are the most
common of all injuries. Sometimes
we find them and wonder how we got
them. Bruises result when we re-
ceive a fall or are struck by a blunt
instrument that doesn't break the skin.
II the injury is slight no treatment is
necessary, but cold congresses will
help. In severe bruises apply the cold
congresses, elevate the injured part to
diminish the pain, then apply witch
hazel or some other soothing lotion.
Be sure II is only bruise and that
no bones are brokcn.-Exchange.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-02-07
Casual Wisitor Seldom
Seen In Italian Home

II 1t is possible to reduce Italy to
a number Of cities. It Is further pos
sible to reduce those cities to num-
Der Of families. have never lived
long in Italy, but all my Italian friends
and I have had maryland ali my
nonItalian friends who have lived
long in Italy, agree that family life is
more jealousy guarded from outside
influences than that Of any other Eu-
ropean country. One can stay for a
score Of years in Rome and be in
tmately acquainted with mobiles and
politicians and officials and the middle
classes and the masses. meeting them
In assemblies and In clubs and getting
on the most confidential relations with
them; and still, at the end Of score
Of years, realize that one has rarely
II ever been invited to cross the TIRES
hold of an italian household and to
mingle intimately with an Italian fami-
ly.-From Europe in Zigzag," by Sis
ley Huddleston.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-02-07
Feminine Punctuation

OF the national magazines especial
ly devoted to the interest of women
and largely written by them l dis
cover none which applies even a mod
erately civilized degree Of editorial
restraint in the matter of purposeless
quotation marks.
Women-apparently without any
teaching or encouragement except
from each other-have evolved their
own idiom in the quotation mark, the
exclamation point, the dash, the un-
derline. So instructive is many
woman's use Of these devices where
no man would think Of using them
that one actually hears them con.
stantly in her oral utterances. Femi-
nine punctuation alone can make a
statistical essay on insurance read like
baby talk.-Wilson Follett in the
Bookman.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-02-07
Backbone Of a Camel

The backbone of the single-humped
camel is not curved upward in the
middle. as many people suppose. It
is as straight as the backbone of a
horse or elephant. Humps on all cam
els are composed chiefly Of fat and
they vary in size according to the
physical condition of the animals
When they are worked hard and poor
ly fed their humps shrivel up and be-
come faced. Much of the ability of
camels to travel long distances over
the desert without food and water is
due to this extra fat in their humps
The surplus fat is reabsorbed by the
body when the animal does not get
sufficient food and water. Thus the
hump serves as a sort of commissary
department from which the animal re-
ceives sustenance II time Of famine.
In certain breeds Of sheep extra fat
is stored in the tail.-Pathinde Mag
azlne.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-02-07
Walt Whitman

Whitman was a great liberator, a
great humanitarian, a great American,
great man; was he, therefore, q
great poet also? Intellectually In
dolent, emotionally mushy, spiritually
chaotic and formless. Walt Whitman
is the great American now safely and
securely enshrined and enbalmed Ia
the hearts of his countrymen not be-
cause Of his poetry, but because Of
his patriotism.
There is wonderful poetic fire in
Whitman as there Is In the life and
work Of every great liberator But
Whitman was not another Shake
speare nor another Milton nor another
Shelley. II he is not of this immor-
tai company, is he truly great poet7
Though no one need deny that he
was a superb human being writing
astonishingly human poems. Poignant
prose poetry.-From "Our Changing
Human Nature" by Samuel D. Schmal
hansen.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-02-07
Bears Propensity for
Hugging Termed Myth

The proverbial hugging propensity of
bears is probably myth, notwith-
standing a vast amount Of alleged
testimony to the contrary. Literature,
reference books and works on natural
history contain numerous references
to the crushing embrace" or "deathly
hug" Of bears. Pope. for instance, says,
"Tis a bears talent not to kick, but
hug" Nearly all careful observers are
agreed that this notion is erroneous.
1t probably arose from faulty observa-
ton. DR.. w. Reid Blair, director of the
New York Geological park, says on this
subject: "In regard to the proverbial
hug, the story is apparently devoid of
foundation. A bear, on account Of its
anatomical structure, strikes round
with its paws as IL grasping, and the
blow of its powerful arm drives its
claws into the body of its victim, which
action apparently gave rise to its hug
ging reputation" Exchange.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-02-07
Abundant Proofs That
Sound Waves Can Kill

Living creatures can be struck dead
by sound waves too highly pitched for
the human ear to hear them, writes
T. G. Bridges. These high frequency
waves-called super-sonics-have been
tried on animals and produced instant
death. The sound appears to shatter
the blood corpuscles, and death Is as
sure and sudden as If the creatures
had been struck by lightning. Sound
can do many things which seem mys-
FERROUS and almost miraculous. For
instance, fire can be extinguished by
sound. Some little time ago Mr..
Charles Kellogg Of California gave a
demonstration of the power Of sound
over, flame, and by drawing a violin
bow across piece of aluminium ex-
tinguished burning gas jet at so
feet. Sound vibrations can not only
break wine blass but can damage a
building. 1t is suspected that the
deep, vibrating notes of organs can
cause vibrations which may actually
weaken the structure of a church or
cathedral
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-02-07
Simple a. That

Over lunch in q London hotel one
day not long ago, certain wealthy
but unlettered man was invited by a
friend to join his shooting party In
Scotland later that week. man." said
the prospective guest, "that's a splen-
did idea. I'll get on the telephone at
once and get my man to clean my
gum"
He rose and rang up his house. us
that you, Forbes" he said to his serv-
ant. "Well, want you to go ahead
at once and get my gun cleaned" "Beg
pardon, SIR" said the man, did you
say 'gumT" "No," shouted the Scot,
II said 'gun'-G for Jew, U for union,
and N for pneumatic"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-02-07
panuha,. "Iron Gate"

The famous Iron gate in the Da-
nube is not a gate at all. That is
merely the picturesque name original
ly given by the Turks to narrow
gorge or pass where the river has cut
its way through spur Of the Tran
sylvanian alps few miles below
Orsova In Rumania. A real gate of
iron could not have more effectively
prevented the passage of Turkish
fleets than the dangerous rapids and
massive boulders which INSTRUCTED the
channel for nearly two miles. In 1890
a Hungarian company began the re-
moval of many of the distractions by
a series of blasting operations. The
river through the Iron gate or Iron
gates was declared open for navigation
in 1S96.-Exchange.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-02-07
Enrli.h King Held up"

Lawlessness was rampant in Eng,
land during much of the Eighteenth
century and the streets Of London
were so unsafe that even royal per-
sonages were stopped and robbed. A
highwayman once dropped over the
wall OF Kensington gardens, and with
every expression Of respect took from
George ii, who was walking there
alone. his purse, watch and shoe
buckles. Mail coaches were special
objects of attack and they proved
vulnerable until in 1892 an armed
guard for the mails was provided
Detroit News.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-02-07
Magic of Trees

There is magic in the word "Trees."
It means so much to the lover Of ma
ture. Trees stand for all that is best
in life-beauty, loyalty. steadfastness
of purpose, and to sum 1t up, they are
symbolic of life itself.
They live to give. They give us
fruit, they bring the birds with their
cheerful songs. they give us beauti-
full surroundings, they shelter the
livestock from the hot sun. they re-
tard the evaporation of moisture from
the land, they lessen the velocity of
the wind and furnish us restful pleas
ure whenever we are near them
United States Daily.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-02-07
Power From Niagara

The first application of Niagara
power was to sawmill built by a
Frenchman in 1925 on the New York
bank near the rapids. At present Nj
agara power is used in Syracuse, 1856
miles from its source, and also In
Windsor. Ont, 240 miles away. By
treaty the amount Of water that may
be diverted from Niagara for power
purposes has been limited to $4,000
cubic feet per second on the Cana
dian side and 10000 cubic feet per
second on the United States side. The
power is used nearby in electro-chem-
zeal industries, in the manufacture of
aluminium, ferro-sillcon, carborundum,
artificial graphite, liquid chlorine, cal
cium carbide, cyanamide and other
products.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-02-07
Personality"

The term personality" was used by
Wyclif in 1880 to designate the quail
ity peculiar to human being or per-
son, and yet 1t was not until recently
that the word began to enjoy any pop
ularity. Neither Shakespeare, WELD
ing as he did an extraordinarily COM
prehensive vocabulary, nor Milton,
with his stupendous command of the
English language, even to its most
reconcile recesses, ever employed the
word that has had such long his
tory and, more recently, has come to
acquire an interesting past in assum-
ing the abbreviated and piquant form
"lt."-A. A. Roback in the Century.