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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-05
FOOD PROBLEMS
By sALLIE MONROE.
Reets.

There Is no need Of firing Of beets,
one Of our wholesome and cheap Win
ter vegetables, Just because they become
monotonous. There are 20 many ways
Of serving them that they need not be
monotonous.
You can run them Through the vege-
table chopper and mix with horseradish
to make o very delicious vegetable to
serve with boiled mutton or pot roast
You can serve them cold In salads, with
peas or lima beans, mixed with mayon-
naise or lettuce leaves. And then there
are other ways, some Of which are here
suggested:
Picked Beets.-Wash and boil six
medium sized beets until tender. Re-
move skins; slice or cut into quarters;
cover with one-half cupful vinegar, one
teaspoonful salt, one-sixth teaspoon:
full pepper and one tablespoonful sugar.
Serve hot or cold.
Brown Buttered Beets-Bon beets till
tender. Slice them and sprinkle with
pepper and salt. Add butter that has
been Drowned in frying pan.
Fried Beets.-Boil the beetS In sailed
water until tender; remove the skins;
cut in thin slices and fry In butter;
dust with pepper and add squeeze Of
lemon Juice. or few epoonfuls Of vine
gar
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-05
LITTLE BENNY
NJ LEE PAPE.

After supper was laying on the liv.
ing room floor on my stummick look
ing at the funny page In the paper, and
I started to laff like anything, ma say
ing, Whats so funny, why don't you let
us in on the joke?
was laffing at The Floop Family,
@ WIZ their certeny funny today. I
sed.
Let me see them, ma sed.
And handed her the paper and she
started to look ut The F1oop Family,
being about Mrs. Floop coming down
to breakfast in her dressing gown with
her hair all tied in cerl papers looking
funny as anything, and Mr.. Floop gets
so mad he goes out Of the dining room
and takes on his coat and vest and
things and comes back In his UNDER
shert and sispenders, looking even
funnier.
Ma looking at It with q serious ex-
preston, saying, think that's terribles
the ideer Of Encouraging children to
laH at such truck and making them
bleeve that such manners are funny. It
will be mersey II the present genera
ton duzze1t grow up to be barbarians.
and savages with no more ideer how
to act than q lot of neglected munkies
in a jungle. Willyum I think you awt
10 write 70 the eo1Cor OF this paper and
tell him If this IS his ideer of humor
he better go and get some new Ulcers,
she sed.
Well, they do get pritty run some
times, that's fact, lets have look ct
1t. pop sed.
And he started to look at The Floop
Family and pritty soon what was he
doing but lah1ng like anything even
verse than me, and ma sed, Willyum
p. Potts you awt to be thoroughly
ashamed of yourself.
am, pop Sed. meen I'm not lafing
at old Floop sitting down to brekfist in
his undershert, hope have more dig
nifty than to laff at anything so crude,
I'm laffing at the expression on Mrs.
Floops face, hahaha, he sed.
So was I, ma, sed. G wig would
ent laff at undershert either, I sed,
and ma sed, bleeve either one Of you
would laff ct anything ct all, II It was
ony silly enough.
WITCH we would.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-05
SPRINCTIME
BIZ D. C. PEATTH.

The first Spring birds to most Of US
are simply the robin and grackle and
bluebird and phoebe and swallow.
Country folk know the red-winged
blackbird. Ornithologists' ears catch
the woodcock's note in earliest Spring,
though they get glimpse of him less
often, But it is chiefly the sports
men that know the sora and the coot
and the snipe. The reason, think,
is that few people explore the river
marshes in earliest Spring, when they
are trimming over with dirty water
from the SHOWS melted in the noun
tains. The going is uncomfortable,
these particular birds are not singers
of sweet melodies, and there Is plenty
on terra firma to lure US.
Yet these are the real messengers OF
Spring, these wild, strange, gamey crea-
lures of the reeds and waters, ana any
one who has ever heard the snipe ut
tering his strange love song out OF
sight in the dusk above the marshes
will never forget that song and the odd
mood It induces, any more than one
can escape a sweet melancholy upon
hearing the trilling of the tree frog
in green April twilightS.
Some folk call the SnlpeS CAL
wailing sound, others a hummtng noise;
to me it sounds rather like . soft CUR
Cling In q bottles neck, and scientists
give us their word for 1t that the note
Is produced by o waving motion OF air
ia the throat while the long bnled bird
is sweeping around and around In his
onward flight. Heard only in the pair
ing season, this sound, weird to our
ears. is apparently irresiStibly seductive
to the fair sex, or rather, should say,
since female birds are dull OF wing, the
sex that throughout, Nature does all
the work that Is indispensable.
The snipe's closest relative Is the
woodcock, and every morning now you
can hear him in the woods as close to
the city as Rock Greek Park uttering
the soft-fa1ling noise like a childs
cuckoo whistle. But the sora, or as
the sportsmen picturesquely call him,
the Carolina crake, that comes winging
over the tidewater marshes to haunt
the Lower Potomac basin, is the fellow
after my heart. A stuffed specimen in
a museum shows only q preposterous
looking thing. 1t is the animated crea.
ture whose whirling, crying numbers
rise from the reeds, where the stone
II thrown or the huntsnan sends
death speeding in a white pun from his
rife. that gives to the marshes in
Spring their wild and living beauty.
Mingled with the shot-like sound OF the
coot, 80 mysterious In its nature and
origin, the squealing of the crakes is
heard now by that select company that
loves the marshes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-05
Photographers Hypo.

Sodium hyposulphite, the chemical
commonly used by photographers, is a
very good local remedy for the derma-
tits Of ivy poisoning. Those experienced
IN its use advise wet dressings or fire.
quent bathing Of the infamed portions
of skin with solution of one ounce
OF sodium hypoSulphite in pint of
water, or double that strength in some
cases.
The same chemical, formerly called
sodium thiosulphate, has been found q
valuable remedy in cases Of chronic
arsenic poisoning. Here 1t is admin
istered by injection into the vein, in
very dilute solution, or 1t may be taken
by mouth. Moreover, o clinical test in
cases Of suspected occupational or ac-
cidental arsenic poisoning involves the
administration Of q dose Of this chem
ical by injection and then the testing
for arsenic. A minute trace of arsenic
Is normally present, arsenic being one
Of the elements normally present in the
body; but II the patient is suffering
from chronic arsenic poisoning, from
too much arsenic from any source, the
thiosulphate will produce a shower of
arsenic, 80 that the chemical test shows
more than can be considered normal
DR.. w. H Zeigler, professor Of phar-
macology In South Carolina Medical
College, has found sodium thiosulphate,
administered by injection into vein,
good remedy for the prolonged after
effects of carbon monoxide poisoning.
This investigator used dogs, which de-
velop much the same delayed symptoms
Is men do after casing with 1lumin-
ating gas-meptal disturbances, general
weakness, skin eruptions. Besides adj
ministering intravenous injections of
the hypoSulphite OF soda, DR.. zeigler
gave the gassed dogs simultaneous in
tections of calcium lactate, after they
had recovered consciousness. and con-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-05

able work has been found on garments
exhumed. Lavish embroidery appeared
on the fabric and on the patches. There
was no attempt to conceal the patch
It was accented.
The ancient peoples excelled in the
craft Of the needle. Their embroideries
and inset piecework, their appliques and
fine stttchery were accorded a place
among the fine arts, where al such ex-
quisite work with the needle belongs
even to the present time.
When the homemaker OF today has to
mend and patch she can find comfort
In the fact that this is type Of work
that is age-old, and has ranked among
the decorative crafts. It Is for her to
make the work worthy and she, too, be-
comes eligible for one Of the guild Of
patchers.
In france, when my frock had to be
patched. the modiste said 1t must not
be made to look like mended spot. She
took great care to make it show. She
put in two patches instead Of one, in
order that symmetry should be pre-
served. The idea Of intentional use of
the new pieces as part OF the original
design was remarkably carried out. The
work was decorative, but severely
plain, except for the outline with ma.
chine stitching Of the well shaped
patches.
The home dressmaker ID often puzzled
10 know lust what to do when . sleeve
wears out at the elbow, or tho waist gets
ttreadbare under the arms. Then Is
the time to have the patches accented.
Applique q band or some shaped patch
On both elbows, or under both arms.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-05
Your Baby and Mine
BIZ MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED.

At G months Of age the baby makes
babble sounds which are similar In all
languages. BY IL months he has begun
to model these along the lines OF the
sneech he hears about him, thus de-
veloping his own particular language.
We can expect that at year the baby
will be able to say i've or more words
with meaning, and that his speech de-
velopment may be delayed while ne
practices the new accomplishment OF
walking, We should expect a 2-year-
old, however, to be able to make him
self understood both in words and short
sentences. II he cannot, we should
search for what may be hampering his
speech development.
If the parent speaks very quickly or
indistinctly, the child may have no good
pattern upon which to build his speech.
This is especially true when the child
is with one person almost constantly
and hears no other speech. What the
the child because of infection and ges-
lures, but the words themselves are
meaningless. The child may then de-
velop a language of his own which no
one but the parent can understand. If
the mother will become more critical of
her own speech and speak each word
distinctly, she may find that the child's
speech will develop rapidly.
Defective hearing may make 1t i'm
possible for the child to follow the
speech he hears. When a child re-
pect that he hears clearly only the EN-
phasized syllables and that the rest Is
unintelligible to him.
Provided one or more OF the above
reasons, and not mental backwardneSs,
is responsible for an indistinct speech,
the mother should put forth whatever
effort Is necessary to make the child
understand all of word and not be so
ready to act upon his system of grunts
and screams and pointings. We keep
the child at primitive level unless we
show him that speech Is to be used for
a purpose. The pampered child, who
finds piercing scream or a command
ing finger quite as effective as a word,
viii go on using this sign language and
let his speech lie fallow.
Sometimes parent expects so much
Of child that in plain disgust he ceases
to talk. Tell mamma what the birdie
says. Tell Mrs. Brown what Daddy
brought you" These and similar de-
mAnos weary the child and make speech
burdensome, not pleasure and q
power.
In the intelligent child speech de-
velopS along well recognized paths. II
his hearing Is normal, parents use clear
speech, and gestures prove futile
methods Of getting ones way, the child
will build up q workable vocabulary with
astounding rapidly.
Mrs. Eldred's leaflet on Speech De-
velopment" is available to any reader
who will send elf-addresSed, stamped
envelope with request for it. Address
communication to Mrs. Eldred, care OF
this newspaper.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-05
Chocolate Sponge Cake.

Cook to q sirup one and one-half
cupfuls of sugar and five tablespoonfuls
of boiling water. Separate six eggs,
beat the whites for 10 minutes, then
beat the yolks very light, then mix and
beat them together for minutes.
Add the strip little at a time and
beat all for 10 minutes. Add slowly
two cupfuls of pastry -four, pinch Of
salt, teaspoonful Of vanilla and two
teaspoonfuls Of baking powder. Bake
for as minutes in a moderate oven. Do
not look In the oven for at least 20
minutes. To make q chocolate icing
for this cake, melt over q kettle two
squares Of bitter chocolate, add one
cupful of sugar and add boiling water
one tablespoonful at time to dissolve
the sugar, but do not add more than
three tablespoonfuls. Spread on the
cake while the icing is warm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-05

not familiar.
Since last December it had become
apparent that Watson had turned over
much Of the leadership work to him.
He handled the details for the big
HooSier leader more and more as the
days passed.
There are some who viii ten YOU that
1t was McNary who finally brought
peace In the drought relief controversy.
His temperament is the sort required
for one in such q position. The Sena-
tors like him and respect his ability.
HIS voice Is soft, though when he de-
sires his words can hit home with telling
erect. But at such times he leaves no
hard feelings in their wake.
He keeps his temper If at times he
seems to be a little impatient. And
Senators, regardless of which side of
the chamber, feel that they can count
on McNary to be fair and reasonable,
A Stanford University man and q
close personal friend of President Hoo
yer, he nevertheless is regarded as indie
pendent in lbs actions. Those who know
him best say that he will listen, but no
one can force him into anything. They
say also that he will make concessions
to get the best obtainable legislation.
but that he will never surrender a prin.
ciple to do so.
Though he viii be 81 years old his
next birthday, he looks youthful. He Is
always well groomed-one Of the best
dressed men in the Senate. He walks
with a springing step, has winning
smile, IS tall, slender and a blond.
When he is not in the Senate, usually
he may be found playing golf with Sena-
tor Harrison of Mississippi and Senator
Couzens of Michigan. He admits that
most of the time he is either In a sand
trap or bunker.
His home in Oregon is a farm, orig
inally owned by his grandfather. There
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-05

BY WILLIAM BRADY, M. d.

tinued this for several days. Dogs 80
treated made good recoveries, compared
with dogs similarly gassed and treated
in ordinary ways. DR.. zeigler, there
fore, recommends that human victims
Of carbon monoxide or gas poisoning be
given intravenously 5 &C. of 2 per
cent solution Of sodium thiosulphate for
every 25 pounds of body weight He
cites recent studies of Kuhn and Reese,
who found that the administration Of
half as much again as that, In cases
of metallic poisoning, was harmless over
a period of IA successive days. As q
second step in the treatment DR.. Zeigler
suggests an injection of 5 &C. of 0
per cent solution of calcium lactate for
each 25 pounds Of body weight, and
after consciousness returns the patient
should receive q daily dose Of gram
(about Is grains) Of calcium lactate for
several days.
(Copyright, 1879
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-05
For Tan Shoes,

If you will polish tan or brown shoes
with good russell polish before wear
ing them you will be spared shoes with
unsightly spots. 1t is almost tmpos-
sible to clean them thoroughly, after
they have been worn. The polish,
when used at first, closes the pores
and prevents discoloration. Later, If
you happen to be without shoe polish,
q few drops of lemon juice sprinkled
on black or tan shoes and rubbed
briskly viii impart a brilliant shine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-05
A WASHINGTON DAYBOOK
By HERBERT PLUSnKR.

he has q trout pond where he feeds
ground liver TO HIS pets. He has built
o high observation tower which affords
a commanding view Of his many acres
Of pr1lnes. There's n specially construct
ed sand trap there, too, where ever so
often he goes with his niblick for bit
of practice.
He is usually In good humor. and II Is
not uncommon to encounter him in a
all his might on . popular tune.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-05
Skill i'm Decorative Mending
By LYDIA In BARON WALKER.

Turn in all edges with care to make
them regular.
Machine stitch these pieces down
close to the edges. In sleeves cut away
the textile beneath the patches and In
the underarm mending also, unless the
textile adds strength without bulk as is
occasionally the case. These examples
are but two of hundreds Of ways in
which modern patches can be accented
gracefully and the art remain.
Copyright, loSI)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-05

assistant to Jim
Of Indiana,
the pub ! lean
floor leader of the
Senate.
Those wishing TO
get the "inside" on
questions Of impor-
lance In the Sen
ate long had been
in the habit of
talking 1t over
with McNary. All
knew that he kept
his ear about as
close TO the ground
as any Of his col
leagues; that very
went on
around the Capitol
with which he was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-05
Apple Meringue,

Peel, core and slice four large tart
apples. Stew them in one-third cupful
Of water until soft, then press through
O colander. Sweeten to taste and flavor
with the grated rind Of one lemon. Make
a meringue of the white Of one egg and
one and one-hah tablespoonfuls Of SUI
gar. Put the apples In o pudding dish
and cover them with the meringue,
busting with grated nuts or coconut.
Brown in the oven and serve with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-05

The ancients, In their attitude toward
the person whose business it was to
mend garments, recognized the excel
lence Of the work, which was raised TO
an art. The putting on Of patches was
an actual bit Of artistry. 1t became a
decoration to the textile. In old Egyp-
tan excavations some of this remark
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-05

QUIETLY and unobtrusiyely, in the
" latter days of Congress, a dapper.
well groomed Senator from the Pacific
Coast was making name for himself
on the Hill.
He was Charles McNary Of Oregon,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-05
Protecting Varnish.

Rubber hot-water bottles past the
nending stage make excellent mats to
put under flower pots to prevent them
from spelling a vanished surface upon
which they are placed.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-07-29
BULLETS
HIT FIVE TOTS
Machine Gun SIugs Pour
Into Midst OF Children
While Playing

NEW YORK. July 29-tF- Lit
tie Michael Vengali. TO whom five
years was a lifetime. died today:
and a mantle or silence. born or
frantic fear. settled upon Harlem's
little Italy"
The child was murdered BY gang
killers in an automobile; killers
whose machine guns and ShOtguns
poured between SO and 90 slugs in
TO the midst OF playing children
last night.
Four other tots. one in a baby
carriage, e critically wounded
by the gunner I'm "a reckless at
tempt To assaSSinate IN man who
had been lolling about the street In
which the youngsters had been at
play. The man. believed to be Joe
Rao or his cousin. Vincent Rao,
fell TO the pavement and was IN
hurt SlugS. however, found little
Michael Vengali i'm ga vital spot,
and they dropped four OF hts CON-
panions.
Salvatore vengali, seven year old
brother OF the dead boy, was wound
ed five times. He may die. Michael
Bevilacqui. only three years old.
who was In "a baby carriage. was
struck twice in the back by the
slayer's slugs. He. too, may not sur
vive.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-07-29
II Duce' 5 Ears Tweaked--
It's Old Italian Custom

ROME, July 20. tPl-It was the
privilege today Of Anna Maria
Mussolini. two. and her brother Ro-
mano, going on four. to tweak the
ears Of the premier Of Italy As
times.
For today was the forty-eighth
birthday Of their father. and such
ear-tweaking by the younger MEM
bers Of the house Is an old Italian
custom.
The birthday celebration plans
we're simple. including no provision
for the receipt OF gifts. for Mus
solini does not like personal pres
ents and he has set forth his senti-
ments many times in stern orders
Signora Mussolini and four Of
their children we're at home at the
villa Torlonia for the birthday. Ed
da Mussolini. who married Count
Galeazzo Ciano last year. IS in
Shanghai. where her husband IS
Italian consul-general.
At forty-eight. Benito Mussolini
is one Of Europe's youngest states
men. His ,ealth Is excellent and
he sticks to the way Of life I'M
posed on him by his doctors to Off
set an ulcer Of the stomach. He
eats lightly, Is an abstemious drink
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-07-29

Boom days did not help Florida
development, and the Valley IN max
ing satisfactory progress in its de-
velopment without the aid OF a big
boom, W. A. Ross, president OF tho
Brownsville Lions club, told H0tnr-
ianS nt their luncheon Wednesday
Speaking along the same lines,
John Tanning told the Rotarians
there was no use in talking about
something that did not exist and
adm0nished his hearers to stop
thinking the word depression
5igmar the magician wns intro
ducBd by MIR. Planning and enter
tained with sleight or hand tricks.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-07-29
KILLER CAPTURE
HOPES DWINDLE'
Charges Are Filed Against
Girl, Man Is Released
BY Officers

RAYMONDVILLE. July 2s.-Al-
though formal charges as an &C
complete. to the Staying OF Constable
w. r. Haywood and Deputy Fran
cisco Cisneros have been filed
against Domingo Bueno. Raymond
vile girl. a man who had been held
in the case was released at 8 o'clock
this morning.
The man, held as a material wit
ness, produced an alibi which was
satisfactory TO officers. The girl has
not asked for an examining trial
and bond has not been set.
Hope OF apprehending the fu-
gitive slayer or the two officers dwin-
died this morning Is mounting
hours made possibilities Of his
escape greater. Officers continued
investigating clues and a sharp
lookout was maintained about this
section.
The girl likely will be held for
the August III meeting OF the grand
jury.
Services for Cisneros will be held
this afternoon at 800 o'clock at
the First Baptist church with Rev.
ID. q. de la Cara. brotheT-in-law
OF Cisneros, officiating.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-07-29
COTTON CALL
INTEREST Low
Governors Reply Official
Duties Conflict With
Farley

AUSTIN. July 2e.=P1-Indica-
lions today were that official
duties would prevent most cotton
states governors from attending a
conference here Tuesday 70 attempt
to relieve the cotton 0Terproduc-
ton situation.
Gov. Ross s. Sterling had re-
ceived no acceptances Of the Is in
vitationS he wired yesterday. How
ever. some OF the chief executives
were studying the proposal and
several others indicated they would
send representatives.
The Texas legislature, in special
session here to consider soil and oil
conservation. requested Gov. 6terl-
ing, as chief executive OF the state
producing one-third OF the nations
cotton. 10 issue the call Reduction
OF cotton acreage Oh an interna-
tional scale will be discussed. A bill
has been introduced TO reduce the
Texas acreage.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-07-29
HOP OFF
FOR NORTH HAVEN

NORTH BEACH AIRPORT. WI.
Y-. July 29-P-C0l. and Mrs
Charles al Lindbergh took or at
1850 a. m, 90. :. tn, today for
North Haven, Me-, preparatory 70
start OF their flight TO Toxic.
The Lindberghs hoped off after
u satisfactory final test OK their
planes elaborate radio equipment
which had failed tO work when the
couple flew 20 washington Monday
for their passports.
After spending the night at tha
Morrow estate. the LindberFhs ara
expected t0 hop Off sometime TO-
morrow for Ottawa. ont, 0n tha
first leg or their aerial vacation
trip 70 Toxic.