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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-07
Miss CrixeH
EntertdinS
Elite Club

Vases Of roses and fern were
placed about the Crixe.l home to
provide a pretty setting for the en-
tertainment OF Elite club members
on Wednesday evening when Miss
Maria Isabel was hostess TO two
tables C. pNyers.
The games OF brisca resulted In
high score prize going TO Miss
Ofelia de la Cara and second high
TO Miss Estella de la ARIA.
An ice course was served follow
ing the playing. HOstesses next
week will be the Misses de la Gar
"a
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-07
PEGGY MARIE JOHNSON


Mrs. K. K. Johnson entertained
with a deligh , children's party
on Tuesday afternoon in honor Of
the fourth birthday anniversary Of
her young daughter, Peggy Marie.
The little folk all gathered on the
lawn for games. Little Dora Hager,
dressed as a clown. distributed gaily
colored balloons, while Miss Jacque-
line johnson. sister Of the honoree,
gave each one appropriate favors.
There was a 'ovely birthday cake,
with four candles, resting on a bed
OF roses and ferns. The cake was
brought to the lawn, where Peggy
blew out the candles, and refresh
ments were served.
Those present for this enjoyable
affair were Mrs. Linton Acker and
son, Junior, Mrs. j. NJ. Reynolds and
son, John, Mrs. William Coe and
small daughter. Ann. Mrs. Henry
Louderdale and daughter, Laura
Nell. Mrs. Hughes Evans and son,
Billie. Mrs. G. II. Lawton and
daughter, Mary Lou. Mrs. John
Herndon and children, Sara Ellen
and John, Jr., Mrs. Fred Brooks and
two sons. Bobbie and Mamie, Mrs.
G. r. Archer and daughter, Marilyn,
Mrs. Joe Brooks and son, Ted, Mrs.
William Copeland and daughter,
Margaret, Mrs. Gilbert Ramsey and
nephew, Ben Sanders Bobbie and
Gene Kirkpatrick, Donald Payne,
Shelly collier, Mrs. Paul Ruckel
and daughter, May Ruth, Mrs.
George Breeding. Mr. and Mrs. II.
K. Hager, Hoyt Hager, ID. H. Ken
meth, Walter MCNEIL and Mrs. o. E.
Van Berg.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-07

for many years. The past several
years she has taught Spanish in
the schools in Tulsa.
Mr.. Quilter Is a lawyer and has
recently removed here from Tulsa.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-07
Beach Party At
Boca Chica Enioved

A beach party az Boca Chica on
Thursday included the following
young people who enjoyed a picnic
supper and swim: Misses Lupe
and Anita Cisneros. Romano Ca
vazos. Lillian and Vivian JUnco.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-27

either in very poor health or an ire
sponsible, indispensable type. Look at
the next letter you write and see into
which class you fall.
You may determine the state OF mind
of the writer from the manner in which
his lines travel across the page. II
they have an upward trend, he is cheer
full and optimistic. On the contrary, II
the lines fall downward he is feeling
blue, tired or depressed. This 1ndica-
ton may be only temporary and can be
told if other specimens of writing are
examined. If the lines are always up
ward you may be sure Of happy, sunny
disposition. II this is temporary char
acteristic there has been some event Of
pleasure and happiness recently in his
life. The same thing holds true for
the other writer. He may be normal
person suffering from some unexpected
disappointment or sorrow.
Some people maintain no regular line,
but write up and down. giving a wavy,
uneven appearance to the page. Such
q person is unstable, easily influenced
and swayed. He clutches at anything
and has no stability of mind or in
dependence of thought Learn your
friends so that you may judge less
harshly and understand more easily.
Note-AnalVsis OF handwriting is not
an exact science. according to. tcorld IN
Uestigdtors; but all aoTes Il is interesting
Gg gi tots 81 fun Tas : StqT presents the
n you tDish to hare Voar writino
analyzed send a sample to Miss Mocka-
addressed, 2-csat stamp ' eapelope. il tSin
be either interDreted in this column or
chart ishich you Seit ind an Interesting
study.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-27
DOROTHY DIX'S LETTER BOX

T0EAR you matrimonial bureausP
- friend married who advertised through one OF them
a
m married just pick out wife
OH 'Ne si"D"s pp - ' ~ ' ~ BACHELOR
weather and in matrimony
is guaranteeing
beforehand kind of
wife will make couple may have
kindergarten and made mud together and have been associated
after they married
that they are perfect strangers to each other
NOTHING is q been sort of
doomat walk grinding ant
all plenty of who
amped girls pariors at
willing evening they married?
girls
husbands pockbooks We have
naggers prm
whoopee parties.
PUT prove marry
that the odds should
and discrimination In selecting husband or wife
may you everything you
will make pretty much the of and husbands
wives that their
maker selecting husband and wife selecting automobile
~ gambling
that don't do it. Nine people out Of their
their heads in picking
girl a dances or a man
selects wife blond
they make effort anything
strangers ano when they get acquainted they find that they haven't
1copyrgh ~
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that the unframed girl thinks 1t must
be easy to write. But the more easy 1t
Is to read the harder 1t Is TO write. Al
most every writer will tell you that
the first time he writes down a story
it reads awkwardly. It's fun of poor
phrases. Oddly, it sounds as though he
had worked hard over it. Then he re-
writes the story about i've times. Each
time he writes it, 1t reads more easily,
until, when 1t is finished, 1t seems TO
you that he has dashed 1t on.
Another thing, most girls know at
least one good story from real life. They
think that If they could just write 1t
down they'd have something good. And
that's all wrong. When you take a story
from real life and put it down Just as 1t
happened. somehow or other 1t doesn't
sound right. It sounds improbable
And the stories you make up are likely
to sound like the truth.
Try 1t for yourself Just pick out the
queerest real life story you know and
tell it to a stranger The stranger will
believe you've made up half of it.
So you see you must work very hard,
you must practice for months or years
before you can write a good short story.
Many writers of articles. many sue
cessful writers Of long novels. cannot
write a good short story. II you have a
story in your system that you want to
get out. put 1t On paper. It will relieve
you. But don't think of making q 1iv-
ing on 1t unless you intend to spend
two or three years in hard training.
Most of the letters don't ask me how
to learn to write short stories. They
ask how to sell them. They seem to
have the notion that it's harder to sell
a short story than It is to write it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-27

work, she Is sure to find some pleasures
attendant Then she makes the work
f1y almost as fast as the miniature
horses spin. She does not have to lash
herself to perform the routine duties.
A happy heart coupled with genuine in
terest in her home, are incentives as
powerful to make the domestic ma
chinery revolve as is the steam or cleo
trio current forceful in propelling the
merry-go-round.
Every homemaker realizes there must
be a certain established round of duties,
although each task does not have to be
done in definite hourly or stated times.
In most of the things there can be fexi-
bility. But nevertheless the number
and variety of things TO be done are
amazing. This would be taxing were it
not for the fact that some Of the things
are In themselves pleasures. For ex-
ample one woman may love TO cook and
dislike TO clean, one may like to wash
but not &c iron, another may have keen
delight in sewing but just as keen dis.
like in busting.
Unless each woman dwells mentally
on the enjoyable side of her home
making. she can make herself unhappy,
and when such unhappiness reaches a
certain state OF mental misery she
actually gets sick The work gets too
much for her. ~ Is assumed. in this
discussion, that overWork Is not consid-
cred. Nature rebels when 3 person
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-27

oyertaxes her physical endurance, and
illness is unavoidable. But this same
wonderful Nature will aid and abet any
person who determines to master her
mental aversion to the disliked tasks so
that finally the enjoyable aspects OF the
pleasant ones will oyersiladow the aver
sion to others.
A homenaker does not always APP
preciate that in every kind Of work
there are parts that are not to the
workers taste. For example stenog-
rapher may delight in taking down
shorthand notes, but dislike to decipher
and write them out. Or it may be just
the reverse. An author who revels in
developing plots often finds the actual
typewriting or longhand writing ex-
tremely irksome. And so it goes. Every
Job has its "off-side." A homemaker is
fortunate in having so much variety in
her tasks that the merry go-round OF
work brings many pleasant tasks.
(Copyright, 1917
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-27

in the world TO sell today is a good short
story. All the magazines are eager for
more short stories. They can't get
enough.
Stories can be sold directly, or
through literary agents who charge q
commission for making a sale
One girl writes me that she had heard
that you have to pay the publisher to
have your stories published. II any
body asks you to pay to have a story or
book published you can be sure right
then that you're dealing with a faker.
Such establishments have a Door
reputation. and none Of them can sell
any books. If your story is good, the
publisher pays you. Don't under any
circumstances pay the publisher. II ne
asks you to he is not reputable pub
Usher.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-27
A Vice.

Whether or not you know 1t, your
workaday self Is very little other than
the habits you have acquired. OF
these habits, some are good, some not
so good. You refer to the good ones as
your virtues; your neighbors refer TO
the others as vices.
OF all the vices one may acquire. the
habit Of feeling sorry for oneself Is by
far the most devastating. You find 1t
among those who may have reason and
among those who have no reason to
feel sorry for themselves. Al times it
seems to exist independently of cir
cumstances. In that case it's day
dreaming directed toward the self, in
carried to extremes.
The habit Of self-pity has its easily
recognized physical expressions. The
sufferer shakes hands very formally.
talks in subdued voice, walks with slow
tread and stopped shoulders, turns his
attention slowly to objects in his en-
vironment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-27
"BONERS"
Humorous Tid-Bits From
School Papers.

FLOODS FROM THE MISSISSIPPI
MAY BE PREVENTED BY PUTTING
BIG DANES IN THE RIVER.
Quartz Is the name for two pints.
Queen Elizabeth swore like trooper
and painted herself and other things.
One mineral found In Canada is
conundruIn.
Medieval cathedrals were supported
by flying buttocks.
II you are very kind indeed to your
dog It may follow you to your grave.
A problem is q figure which you do
things with, which are absurd, and
then you prove it.
Copyright, 1872
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-27
EVERYDAY PSYCHOLOGY
BY DIR. JESSE W. sPRowLs.

There is only one thing to do If you
have somehow acquired the habit Of
self-pity. Instead of looking at every
misadventure in terms of external cir
cumstances which seem to be stacked
against you, begin to ascribe some Of
them to yourself. Select one of your
most easily corrected habits to begin
with. Correct that and proceed with
others. For example. a mere straight
ening Of the shoulders viii help some
When you really take a thorough mental
inventory Of your habits. you viii find
lots of ways to help yourself out Of the
difficulties that tend to aggravate the
vice of self-pity.
tcopyright. 1879
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-27
My Neighbor Says:

When making jams be careful
that only dry fruit is used If it
is wet there will be difficulty in
keeping the jam and it will be-
come moIdy very quickly. Boil
the fruit as soon as possible after
gathering.
If new enameled saucepans are
placed in a pan of warm water
and allowed to come to boil
they viii last much longer with
out cracking. or burning than II
they are used Immediately.
Sweet potato croquettes are
very good served with chops or
patties.
Discarded f1atirons with iron
handles, If painted with bright
colored enamel, make excellent
bookracks.
Copyright. 1917
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-27

Ills lIIldBuldIlOA 10
usually well de-
veloped.
AS other hand
writin SIS come
closer to the YER
tical, there is more
restraint S h o W n.
Straight up and
down writing Is
that of an essen
TALLY practical, I'M
imaginative person.
When the writ
ing seems to have
no special trend
and gives q con-
fused and ragged
a p p e ar ance, the
writer shows poor
cnntrol He is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-27
Handwriting
What 1t May Reveal.
BY MILDRED MOCKABEE.

. EXAMINATION of individual let
- tiers is very important in read
ing character from hand-writ-
. ing. Much can be learned, how
ever, from the general appear
ance of a written page.
First determine the general slant OF
the writing. If it slants decidedly to
the right or left you may be sure the
writer has strong likes and dislikes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-27
Mushroom Soup.

Prepare a we'll seasoned beef broth
by cooking a soup bone with little
meat on 1t. To each quart of broth
add one cupful Of chopped mushrooms
and cook for 5 minutes. Serve hot.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-27
MENU FOR A DAY.
BREAKFAST.

BREAKFAST.
Halves Of Cantaloupe.
Wheat Cereal With Cream.
Dreamed Goldfish on Toast.
Graham Mullins.
Coffee.
LUNCHEON.
Dreamed Salmon. Green Peas.
Icebox Rolls.
Sugared Blackberries
Hermits.
Tea.
DINNER.
Tomato Soup.
Broiled Swordfish, Hollandaise
Sauce.
Dreamed Potatoes.
String Beans. Cabbage Salad.
French Dressing.
Baked Indian Pudding.
Coffee.
DREAMED GOLDFISH.
Put fish in dripping pan. Cool
with water, place on back OF
range, where it viii heat slowly.
Let stand Is minutes. Drain
fish and pick into small pieces.
Make white sauce with table
spoonful flour, tablespoonful
butter and ] cup milk. Season
with salt and pepper and stir in
fish. Cook until thoroughly
heated. Serve hot on buttered
toast.
HERMITS.
Six tablespoonfuls shortening.
Il cupful sugar, egg, " cupful
molasses. Il cupful milk, y cup
fuls flour, 2 teaspoonfuls baking
powder, "a teaspoonful soda, "a
teaspoonful salt, "a teaspoonful
cinnamon and / cupful seeded
raisins. Cream shortening. add
sugar, egg and molasSes; mix
well; add milk slowly; Sift flour,
baking powder, salt, soda and
cinnamon together and add
slowly. Add raisins and mix.
Drop from spoon on CREASED tins
fand bake in moderate oven about
IL minutes.
INDIAN PUDDING.
Put 3 cupfuls SKINNED milk
: and / cupful hot water on to
boil. Add when boiling table
spoonfuls yellow cornmeal wet in
little cold SKINNED milk and
stir until thick. Let 1t cool and
add 2-3 cup of nolasses, X tea
spoonful cinnamon and a little
salt. Stir well, put on buttered
pudding pan and set it in oven.
When hot add 2 cupfuls cold
skinned milk. Do not stir.
Bake 3 hours.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-27

Lieut.. Gen. A. G.. wauchope, who has
been named high commissioner and
commander in chief for Palestine, COM
manded q Black Watch battalion IA
France and later brigade in Mesopota-
mia during the World War.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-27

"She was IN exactly the same pre-
dicament found mySelf-loving hot
biscuits, waffles and the like, but Just
couldn't seem to have any success
baking them.
Molly Steuart showed me the
simple secret was all in the flour
Ss1f-RiSing Washington Flour. SO
this is what ! am writing to Mae.
Mae, Dear:
"You can Danish that baking
fear now. if you will take this
suggestion and put 1t into practice as
l did. You know how we have bat
tied against seeming fate and lost out
whenever we tried to have hot bis
cuts, or waffleS, or cakes. The
other day Mollie Steuart was here.
You know, my friend from Raleigh.
She suggested we have waffles for
lunch. was scared to death, and
frankly told her so. Foolish GIRL
said Mollie. Send down to the
store for a sack of Self Rising
Washington Flour and forget all
about your fright. I'll show you how
to make the best waffles in jiffy you
every ate
"And she did.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-27
Merry-Go-Round of Homework
By LYDIA LIE BARON WALKER.

Housekeeping is merry-go-round of
work. 1t can be as upsetting to the
homemaker as ride on one of the gay
looking little wooden horses, IL she is
not in the mood for the circular trip.
But, If she gets into the spirit OF the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-27
Salad Plate.

Maearoni salad. half a stuffed egg.
picked beets, a slice of cold corned
beef, jellied shrimp salad in small
mold, buttered finger rolls. and melon
balls on a lettuce leaf
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-27
Salad Dressing.

Add one well beaten egg, dash each
of pepper and paprika, half tea
spoonful of salt and a pinch of mus
tard TO one-third cupful of condensed
milk. Beat well and add lemon juice
as desired.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-27
Selling Short Stories.

Everybody In the world who has made
4 failure In everything else wants TO
write q short story. Yet the hardest
.hings to write are short stories. Then
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way wv 49,
think that she can
write them? Every
girl thinks she
could make a living
writing short
stories If she had a
chance. This is so
universal that there
must be q real rea-
son for 1t. 1t can't
be as foolish as it
sounds.
A good short
cf0rv req fic en- easily
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-27
The Woman Who Makes Good

HELEN WOODWARD
AZ
highest paid business America.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-27

This "aeee pte a. seal
denotes that Self Rising
Washington Flour land
advertisements fer IT. are
acceptable to the com
iaIttee on Foods Of the
American Medical Asse-
eiation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-27

Just to make sure she had me mix
a batch of biscuits with this Self
Rising Washington Flour right then
and there. Of course, I was dubious
of the result. But, Mae, they came
out of the oven light as feathers:
Drowned to a turn and of delicious
flavor.
John says I'll give him indiges-
ton with so much hot bread. But !
reminded him of what DR.. Gerry
Morgan said IN his lecture before
class in Georgetown University
Medical School-that baking pow
der biscuits properly made was bread
in its hea1thiest form. You don't
have to bother with baking powder
when you use Self-Rising Washing
ten Flour. It comes ready mixed
with the right proportions of health
giving 1eavening phosphates.
stop grieving over baking fail
tres. Take my advice and try Self
Rising Washington Flour and you'll
surprise yourself. I am sure you can
get it at your erocer's in Baltimore,
same as do here In Washington.
Truth is, feel like champion
biscuit maker now ohm says am.
Adios."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-27

Selt-RiSing Washington Flour is for
sale by grocers and delicatessens in
all sizes from 2-lb. sacks np-tUith
euer sack GUARANTEED.
Wilkins.Rogers Milling Co.
Washington, D. C.
The Washington times., 1931-06-10
STEAMING DUST
HIDES RELICS

Tons of dust that had not been
disturbed for centuries, and was
so fine it penetrated triple dust
masks and floated in the air
like steam when disturbed, was
carried out of an ancient Texas
cave in buckets by DR.. F. M.
Settler in his search for pre-
Pueblo races during the past six
weeks. .
DR., Settler, assistant curator OF
the division of archaeology Of the
National Museum, is back at his
desk Today with mating, gourds,
implements and other relics which
he dug personally from a newly
discovered cave in Preside county,
Texas, so miles west of Maria and
20 miles south of Valentine, the
nearest railroad stop.
Just before he started digging,
much of which he did lying flat
with a flashlight held between
his knees, DR.. Settler helped
authorities to capture a typical
Mexican bad man" who broke
jail nearby and stole a horse.
Bats, rattlesnakes, gila mon
sters, iguanas, owls, scorpions,
tarantulas, bugs and windstorms
which did mean things with the
flour-ike dust, were accepted by
the scientist as natural handicapS
of an archaeologist. He believes
his relics will help link up the
ancient pre-Pueblo Indians wi h
later tribes,
The Washington times., 1931-06-10
NORRIS INQUIRY
i LOOMS ANEW

Further proceedings against Vic,
Tor Seymour and George w. Nor
ris, Nebraska grocer, involving al
legged perjury, may be undertaken
before the Federal Grand Jury in
Nebraska, according to a report
to the Justice Department here
yesterday from the U. s. attorney
ct Lincoln.
In a statement the department
said:
"The Federal Court sustained
the Governments contention
that the Nye Committee under
the Senate resolution authOriz-
ing the investigation, had power
to inquire with respect to the
application filed by candidates
to have their names placed on
the ballot in primary elections.
However, the court held the
indictments were not good mas
much as they did not alIege that
the answers given by the defend
ants to the question propOunded
were material to the matters
under inquiry, hence, consider
alton is being given to the next
step to be taken in the matter"
The Washington times., 1931-06-10
Noted Astronomer
Is Dead in London

LONDON, June 10 0N.S).
william F. Denning, one Of the
worlds best known astronomers,
died here tonight at the age Of
50.
For the past So years, Mr.. Den
ming had been active in astrono-
mical work in Great Britain. He
discovered five comets, several
new nebulae, and made a num-
ber of planetary observations. He
was particularly interested in the
study of Mars, Jupiter, and
Saturn.
The Washington times., 1931-06-10
Language of FlOwers
Becomes Popular
On Riviera

NICE, June 10 Q.NS0-"Say
1t with flowers" is getting to
be a very common expression
on the Riviera where all kinds
Of blooms are plentiful and
can be seen in every one Of
the flower-shops and bouquet
stations and the florists here
have established a veritable
flower language which is get
ting to be very much employed
by the younger set.
For instance, sweet peas and
myosatis mean II am leaving.
Forget-me-not and most roses
and ivy denote a confession Of
friendship.
Lilies Of the valley stand for
unconscious sweetness and ferns
mean fascination.
Helitrope signifies devotion
and the pansy kindly thoughts.
The Washington times., 1931-06-10
WESTERN UNION

Western Union Telegraph Co.
declared regular quarterly div
idend of 50, payable July is to
stock of record June Is.
The Washington times., 1931-06-10

rAKoMA PARK. MD.-Cozily furnished
4-room and bath cottage: sleeping
porch: ideally situated; trees: ample
ground: excellent neighborhood. Tel.
SHep. 2453
The Washington times., 1931-06-10

PONTIAC COUPE. 1e2s-Fine condition:
small cash payment, balance $3.50 week.
". Call Mr. Stakes, Hyatts 1920, after
80 DEC. 5223-W.
The Washington times., 1931-02-25
BROTHERS HELD.
IN ROBBERY

Luther Cramer, 19, and his
brother Milton. %, both of
Takoma Park, Md, were arrested
yesterday by Detective Elmer
Lewis of the Thirteenth precinct
and are being held on a charge
of stealing $240 from a cash box
in the office of the Brightwood
Auto Supply Company, 5913
Georgia Ave. N. w.
Lewis learned that Luther, a
former employe Of the concern,
had been discharged several days
ago when an alleged shortage in
receipts was discovered at the
place.
Lewis located the youth near a
construction job on which his
brother was working at Seventh
and Rittenhouse Streets North
west. Both men, according to
Lewis, made signed confessions.
Police reported 1922 of the money
was recovered.