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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-05
TRADE BOARD SEAT
PRICE IN ADVANCE
Recent Gains in Wheat Have
Made Memberships More
Valuable.
BY OWEN l.. SCOTT.

special Dispatch 10 The Star
CHICAGO November 5.-The switch
Of speculative attention from securities
to commodities has brought small
boom in the sale of seats on the Chi
cago Board OF Prade---world center of
the grain trade.
Stock market houses have purchased
eight out OF ten seats sold since Octo,
Der 10. at steadily advancing prices
from low of $4,000 to a last sale OF
Sl1, 900.
AT the same time, as grain values
moved higher the volume of business
on the exchange increased. until on
Monday 1t reached $4,000, 600 bushels
In wheat alone. This, compared with
daily trade of l5,000,0 600 to 0.0O0.-
600 bushels during the dog days when
pubic attention conferred on securities.
Optimism Reigns
AS = consequence OF late develop
ments. the Eoard Of Trade today is
PROBABLY the center OF the Nations
optimism Traders are convinced that
tney again are to be privileged to lead
the country out of the doldrums as they.
did after the panic OF 1898, and have
done In several periods of slack times
since
OF the Chicago Board of Trade were
so concerned over the future of grain
speculation that they voted to add Sc
curitieS to the list of things traded In.
They had seen the Chicago Stock Ex-
change rise to position OF prominence
during the stock market boom, some
what overshadowing their long -main-
tanned position. Now the roles are re-
Versed and the trade is back in grains.
Also there had been a good deal Of
discussion, led by Arthur Cutten, bull
leader, about the prospect of Chicago
losing Its position as world center of
the grain trade TO Winnipeg, owing TO
governmental restrictions on trading.
That talk now has evaporated and Win
n1peg, comparatively, remains a minor
market.
Traders point out that the recent
price advance In wheat has been car
ried out in a free market--one that was
free from restrictions against short SELL
ing and free from Government Interior
ence for the first time in nearly two
years. The local Board of Trade had
been an object Of shipping from the time
the Federal Farm Board agencies en-
tered the trade early in 1880 to the
time recently when an announcement
was made that further supporting OPP
erations would be abandoned.
SHUT oeAhitB.
A committee of the board was in
Washington yesterday 10 confer with
President Hoover and Secretary of Ag-
riculture HYDE on short selling. Since
values have been advancing in the face
of pressure from shorts, traders are
convinced that Federal authorities will
not insist that shorts be curbed as they
are in the stock market.
More Government officials have
added their opinion TO the growing vol
ume of expression that the advance in
grain values was justified. Carl Will
liams, member of the Farm Board, said
that cotton usually leads the way out
of depression, but that wheat seems TO
have gone ahead Of 1t. There are bound
to be reactions up and down on specu-
lative movements, but / have MAIN
tanned right along that the price Of
wheat was too low during the Summer"
tCopyright. i93t)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-05
WHOLESALE PRICES.
BY the Associated Press.

Ey Iht ASSOCIATED Press.
Wholesale selling prices remained I'M
changed last week, as their trend was
measured by the Commerce Depart
ment. In the index that follows the
average level is given for comparable
periods, based on representing 1926
prices as 100. In addition, the selling
price OF ton of composite steel prod
uctS Is given for like periods:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-05
SILVER QUOTATIONS.

NEW YORK, November CP).-Bar
silver strong and liz higher at 1924 on
heavy purchases by spectators.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-05

Washington Gas SIS $500 at 1929.
Columbia Sand s. Gravel pfd.-l0 at
90. 10 at 90, 10 at 90, 10 at 90, 10 at
on az 90
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-05
INVESTMENT TRUSTS

NEW YORK, November S (P).-Over-
the-counter market:
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200 n0n fo.On Arn

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1890 A.M......... 100000 1900 Noon .. 9Oo ooo
1880 PM ..1. 100000 2:1O PM. Il 900, 900
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payable payable
Plus az in stock Plus soc preferred
o 2is% in stock. ~ '~i '~'e nFiuS ." In
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WASHINGTON STOCK EXCHANGE
QUOTATIONS AND DAYS SALES
SALES.
AFTER CALL.

SALES.
Potomac Electric 5l4 @ pfd.-5 at 1879
at 107l2, l at 107la.
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Illustrated BY
HUBERT M4THIEU

way You see, there's just chance that she
may bel mean, you know how misunder-
standings occur-and-- Well what I'm driv-
ing at, BERTHE, old man, is that I'd rather you
surged round and did bit of paving"
went to the phone ana called up Angela.
''She says come right round" said.
TELL her." said Tuppy in a devout sort Of
voice that I will be with her in something
under couple of ticks"
lie had hardly bifed when I heard a click in
the keyhole and a soft padding in the passage
without.
"Jeeves," called.
Sir" said Jeeves. manifesting himself.
"Jeeves, a remarkably rummy thing has hap
pened. Mr.. Glossop has just been here. He
tells me all is off between him and Miss
Bellinger."
Eyes, sir"
You don't seem surprised"
mo. sir I confess had anticipated some
such eventually"
9Th? What gave you that idea?"
1T came to me, sir, when I observed Miss
Bellinger strike Mr.. Glossop in the eye"
clutched the brow. What on earth made
her do that?"
Il fancy she was little upset, sir. at the
reception accorded her singing"
Great Scott! Don't tell me she got the
bird. too?"
yes, sir"
But why? She's got a red-hot voice"
Eyes, sir. But I think the audience resented
her choice of a song"
"Jeeves!" Reason was beginning to do bit
of lettering ON its throne. You aren't going
to stand there and tell me that Miss Bellinger
sang Sonny Boy, tool"
But Jeeves, what a coincidence!"
Not altogether, sir. I ventured to take the
liberty of accosting Miss Bellinger on her arrival
at the hall and recalling myself to her recollec-
ton then said that Mr. Glossop had asked
me to request her that as a particular favor
to him-the song being a favorite of his-she
would sing Sonny Boy
And when she found that you and Mr..
Glossop had also sung the song Immediately
before her. I rather fancy that she supposed
that she had bsen made the victim of praca
teal pleasantly by Mr. Glossop. VIII there be
anything further, sir?"
mo, thanks"
Good night sir"
GOOD might Jeeves," I said reverently.
Copyright. 1919
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-30
Fars for Milady

A LASKA is supplying the women of this
n country with 100000 pelts of bearing
animals for the coming season This huge
catch is valued at $2,12s, 900, which is less
than so per cent of the value of the previous
years catch, although numerically the catch
is nearly 100000 greater.
Muskrat led in the take with All 900 SKINS
valued at 56 cents apiece. Marmot were the
least in total Of skins, there being but 81
shipped, and these were valued at only 20
cents apiece. Squirrel at 10 cents each were
cheapest, while the once almost priceless silver
fox was the highest, priced at 500 each. Other
skins included in the take were bear beaver,
coyote, other types of fox, hare lynx, marten,
mink, otter, weasel. wolf and wolverine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-30
Safer City Streets
Continued from Eleventh. Page

Continued from Eleventh Page
It was then noticed that practically every State
highway In Massachusetts, was In similar con-
Gition.
.sTn my Judgment, there is no more essential
highway detail before the public today than
radical reform in this extremely important
humanitarian matter-highway sidewalks"
4 IowHERE however has the pedestrian been
protected so lavishly as in Radburn, N. J..
called by its designers 'the town for the motor
age"
Radburn Is only a little more than two years
old The dangers of auto trafic were kept in
mind from the moment the first blueprint was
drawn and the results are amazing.
No child on his way to school or to the park
has to crass street. The position of the houses
is the reverse of that in most towns: their back
doors face the street, and their front doors
faced Handicapped parks The town as result
has more area in lawns, less in streets and yet
more parking space for its cars than any other
town of its size anywhere.
Closed-end streets lead of, from the main
highways at intervals. The town blocks are
composed of certain numbers of these minor
streets and their clustering houses These
closed-end streets are really only driveways
leading to the garages of the residents. They
carry through traffic whatever.
Two rows of houses that face each other are
separated. not by street, as is the case in all
other towns, but by broad expanse of lawns
which is biSected down the middle by a pedes-
TRAN sidewalk. Thus children can scamper
about the yard freely, running no danger what
ever of dashing into street fun of rushing
automobiles.
These sidewalks provide safe means Of COM
munication all over the town. When they
come to the main highways they either 60 over
them, on bridges or duck under them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-30
lcith one Of my looks.

THAT is your last word. is it?n
ct is Once and for all, Aunt Dahlia,
nothing will induce me to let out so much as a
single note"
And SO that afternoon / sent a prepaid wire
TO Beefy Bingham, offering my services in the
cause and by nightfan the thing was fixed up.
was billed to perform next but one after the
intermission. Following me came Tuppy. And
Immediately after him, Miss Cora Bellinger, the
well known operate soprano.
How these things happen couldn't say. The
chivalry Of the Woosters, suppose.
THOUGH I had steeled myself to the
ordeal before me and had set out fun of the
calm, quiet courage which makes men do
desperate deeds with proud, set faces. I must
admit that there was a moment, just after I
had entered the Odd Fellows Hall at Bermond-
sey East and run an eye over the assembled
pleasure seekers when 1t needed all the bulldog
pluck of the woosters to keep me from taking
a cab back to civilization.
The clean, bright entertainment was in full
swing, and somebody who looked as If he might
be the local undertaken was Teciting "Gunga
Din" And the audience had grim look which
didn't like at an.
"A nice, fun house, sir" said voice at my
elbow.
You here, Jeeves?" said coldly
yves sir. / have been present since the
commencement"
"oh?" said. ANY casualties yet?"
"Sir?"
'You know what mean. Jeeves" I said
eternly Anybody got the bird yet?"
oh no, sir
II shall be the first you Think"
"No sir, see no reason to expect sach a
misfortune"
sudden thought struck me. And you think
everything viii go according TO plan?"
Yes sir"
'sweu. don't" 1 said i've spotted a flaw
in your beastly scheme. Do you suppose for
moment that when Mr. Glossop hears sing
ing that dashed song he'll come calmly on
minute after me and sing it, too? Use your
intelligence, Jeeyes. He will perceive the chasm
in his path and pause in time"
Mr. Glossop viii not hear you sing. sir. At
my advice he has stepped across the road to the
jug and Bottle, establishment Immediately
opposite the hall and he intends to remain
there until it is time for him to appear on the
platform"
"Oh!" said.
IF 1 might suggest it. sir there is another
house named the Goat and Grapes only short
distance down the street. ! think it might be
o judicious move"
IF were to put a bit Of custom in their
vay?"
1T would ease the nervous strain of waiting
sir"
1 had not been feeling any too pleased with
the man for having let me in for this ghastly
hinge but at these words I'm bound TO say my
austerfty softened trife.
He had studied the psychology Of the indi-
Vidual and 1t had not led him aStray. quiet
10 minutes at the Goat and Grapes was exactly
what my system required.
The treatment worked like magic. It COM
pletely altered my outlook on life That curious,
gulpy feeling passed. I was no longer conscious
of the sagging sensation at the knees. The
limbs ceased to culver gently, and the back
bone stiffened Pausing merely TO order and
swallow another OF the same, bade the bar
maid CHEEKY good night and came prancing
back TO the hall, ready for anything
And shortly afterward was on the platform
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to stand up, and yet his mouth went on opening
and shutting, and you could see that in dazed,
automatic way he still singing Sonny
Boy"
Then coming out of his trance, he began to
pull for the shore with some rapidity. The last
seen of him he beating a tomato to the
exit by a short head.
Presently the tumult and the shouting died.
] turned TO Jeeves.
Painful Jeeves," said But with this
happening beneath her eyes, I think that
may definitely consider the Glossop- Bellinger
romance off,"
Yes, sir"
At this point old Beefy Bingham came out
upon the platform.
supposed that he was about to rebuke his
flock for the recent expression Of feeling. But
such was not the case.
Ladies and gentlemen" said old Beefy. THE
next item on the program was to have been
songs by Miss Cora Bellinger, the well known
operate soprano I have Just received a tele-
phone message from Miss BeIlinger, saying that
her car has broken down. She is, however,
her way here in a cab and viii arrive shortly.
Meanwhile, our friend Mr.. Enoch Simpson will
recite THE Charge of the Light Brigade"
I clutched at Jeeves. "Jeeves! You heard?"
yes SIR
"She wasn't here!"
"No, sir"
Come, Jeeves," I said and those standing
by wondered, no doubt, what had caused that
clean-cut face to grow so pale and set. II have
been subjected to q nervous strain unparalleled
since the days of the early martyrs. have gone
through an ordeal which will make me wake
up screaming in the night for months to come.
And all for nothing. Let CO."
IF you have no objection, sir, would like to
witness the remainder of the entertainment"
"Suit yourself Jeeves" II said modify.
It must have been about 1890, and I was
in the old sitting room somberly sucking down
a restorative when the front doorben rang
and there on the mat was young Tuppy. He
looked like a man who has passed through
some great experience and stood face to face
with his soul. He had the beginnings of
black eye.
oh huIlo, BERTHE" said young Tuppy. 'T've
just been singing at Beefy Binghams enter
tainment. You weren't there, by any chance?"
"Oh. no." said. How did you go?"
Like a breeze" said young Tuppy. Held
them spellbound."
Knocked 'em, eh?"
Cold" said young Tuppy.
And this mark you man who had had
good upbringing and had no doubt spent years
at his mothers knee being taught to tell the
truth.
IT suppose Miss Bellinger is pleased?" said
"Oh, yes. Delighted"
$50 now eveTything's all right?"
"Oh, quite" Tuppy paused. "on the other
hand, BERTHE"
"Yes?"
Well, I've been thinking things over. Some
how, don't believe Miss Bellinger rs the mate
for me- after all"
what"
mo / don't. These things sort of flash on
you. respect Miss Bellinger, BERTHE. admire
her But-er-weI can't help feeling now
that a sweet gentle girl-er-like your cousin
Angela Bertie-would-er-in fact Well
what came round for was to ask If you would
phone Angela and find out how she reacts to
the idea of coming out with me tonight to the
Berkeley for a bit Of supper and q spot of
dancing"
Go ahead There's the phone"
mo I'd rather you asked her, BERTHE. What
with one thing and another If you paved the
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her right. and so on around the
table. After the soup serve the
toasted bread rounds. Guests pass
these around to the right.
Remove the plate of toasted
bread, then the soup. Then place
the hot plates in front of the host.
Put the carving fork to the left.
the carving knife and serving spoon
to the right. Place the meal plat
ter in front Of the host, above the
hot plates. Serving dishes contain
ing carrots and mashed potatoes
with serving spoon beside each
are set to the right. The serving
dish containing the lettuce is placed
in front of the person at the hosts
right. The host serves meat and
vegetables and passes the filled
plate to the person at his right. who
serves the creamed lettuce The
filled plate is then passed to the
hostess. The second plate goes to
the person to the hostess right, and
so on around the table. II desired,
the vegetable dishes NAV be passed
from one to another, each helping
himself. The host serves himself
last. Relishes, more butter If need
ed. and bread are then passed.
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Bright Accessories

Belts and handbags. hats and
scarfs are allied this spring to intro
duce spots of color contrast into
otherwise dark ensembles for street
and town wear.
Patent leather in lacquer red, in
bright yellow, brilliant green, APP
pears in wide belts and in matching
handbags to enliven dark costumes.
Scarfs in harmony, that Introduce
the bright color of the patent leath-
err, the dark of the costume, and a
touch of white or another bright col
or add to the effectiveness of the
belt and bag combinations.
Bright hats in straw or felt. or
dark ones with bright trimming make
a fourth in many accessory en-
sembles. The reverse effect-dark
accessories with light costumes-is
also in vogue. And black, brown
and navy patent leather is doing for
light ensembles what the bright col
ored leather does for dark ones.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-04-16

Dear Miss White:
If you think you can help me with
a problem | shall be very thankful
to you.
| have been going with man for
two years and we love each other
very much. He is 81 and | am 26.
He is as good as good can be and
always loves to help people. Every
body who knows him has good
word for him. Being a good worker
and man of clean habits. he has
quite little money saved. He never
drinks nor smokes. Then, too, he
treats his parents with consideration
and helps them whenever he can.
The only objection | can think of is
that he has been married twice.
AT 81 he married and four years
later his wife died. Then, when he
was 30 years old, he married again
and his second wife passed away soon
afterward, leaving a boy. | know he
always was good to these women.
Really, everybody likes him. but
they tell me not to become his wife
because he has been married twice
before. People make me feel so un-
happy when they tell me that. He
wants to give me a good home. You
see. he always wanted home and he
thinks it is the only thing in the
world worth having.
Do you think ought to marry
him and make him happy, or must I
try to forget him and marry one who
never before has been married? Will
the fact that he had two wives be-
fore me mar my happiness? I know
he would willingly do anything in his
power to make me contented and
happy. Is it all right to marry a man
who has been married before? 1t
actually was so long ago since he did
have wife.
This is the only thing that anyone
has against him. I do not want mar
riage to bring me the greatest hap
piness, and ! don't like people to talk
about us. He isn't too old for me,
do you think? Please help me de-
eide. UNHAPPY.
If there is no other objection to
this man, go ahead and marry him
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Serving Informal Dinners Correctly

An attractively set table and
pleasant service makes the simplest
meal something of feast. To set
a table properly it is necessary to
have definite knowledge of the menu
and the number of covers to prepare.
Silver must accord with the courses
and covers must be spaced in as bal
anced order as possible.
The selection of a cloth will de-
pend on the character of the meal
Damask is the customary thing for
formal dinners, and luncheon sets of
simplicity and color for luncheons.
Before laying the dinner cloth
the silencing cloth or board is care
fully laid. Any cloth should be put
on with absolute evenness, the crease
down the exact center and the edges
hanging evenly all around. At din
ner the napkins are always of dinner
size.
Next comes the centerpiece. Beau
tiful flowers, tastefully arranged,
always are and probably always will
be the most acceptable central dec
grafton, but there are hundreds of
ways of getting smart or beauti-
full effect with various combinations.
Old, attractive pieces of silver; new
modernstic pieces of pewter or pot
terry, or any appropriate grouping of
figures, fruit or even ship models
can be utilized with excellent re-
suits by the clever housewife.
Well in front of the tables edge
are placed candlesticks, which are
usually unshaded, but too tall to
shine directly into the eyes. Each
individual cover should be so care
fully laid that it duplicates exactly
the next one. The standard space is
two feet, measuring from the center
of one plate to the center of the
next.
The service plate is set in the cen
ter of each cover and usually the
napkin is laid on the plate or for in
formal dinners. to the left. If on the
plate, it may be flat or with the cut
side folds slightly rolled under SC
that the monogram corner is upper
most.
The Silver
In the placing of silver these
rules are -invariable for dinner: AL
forks go to the left with the single
exception of the oyster fork; spoons
and knives 90 to the right and eaef
piece is placed in the order of it,
use, from the outside in. At in
formal dinners and at luncheons
bread and butter plates are used
they never are used at formal din
ners. In the case of the former thu
bread and butter plate with th'
butter knife laid across it is place.
/ to the left, above the forks AT ;
small table salt and pepper shaker
/ or dishes may be placed at boil
ends of the table or at every plac
or between every two places at
large table.
] If the first course is soup or
fruit cup the spoon goes first o.
the outside at the right. The larg
knife and fork for the main cours
comes next, at the right and LEI
respectively, and the knife is place
with the edge in. The salad for
is placed on the left on the insid
next to the plate. Dessert silve
is brought in with the course. Ate
dinner coffee spoons come in o
toe saucers of the cups.
There are no set rules about tn
kind Of china and glass one shout
use. Some hostesses have eae
course served on a different typ
OF pattern of china; some prete
sets. Glass plates are often use
for dessert, even though precedin
courses have been served ON Chin