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The Washington times., 1932-06-25
When Manners
Are Correct
BY MRS. BEECKMAN
Wedding Plans

DEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:
/. I am to be married next
month and we are just going
to the minister's house. I am
going to wear light georgette
dress but I do not know what
kind of hat to wear.
2. Do wear my hat during
the ceremony?
8. Also, do I hold my flowers
during the ceremony, and on
which arm.
4. Do you think long-Stemmed
roses to match my dress would
be right?
5. When do I take off my en-
gagement ring-before I leave
home or after I get to the min
ister's home?
6. After we are married
should my husband take me to
see all his family or should
we wait until they call on us?
READER.
/. Wear a hat of a shade
to harmoniZe with your frock,
and if the frock is informal,
wear a hat of medium size.
2. Yes.
3. Yes, during the first part
of the ceremony. Then, when it
comes to the ring part of the
ceremony, you hand your flow.
ers to your attendant. Garry
your own flowers in your left
arm.
4. Yes, if that is your choice.
But roses are so difficult to
carry, especially long-Stemmed
ones, the brides usually prefer
to carry flowers of a setter
kind.
S. 1t is more convenient to
change your engagement ring
from your left to your right
hand, before you leave home.
g. Your husbands family prob
ably will have called on you
before your marriage, and after
your marriage, you will prob
ably call on them at once.
The Washington times., 1932-06-25
Try This
Recipes

PINEAPPLE UPSIDE DOWN
PUDDING
INGREDIENTS:
4 tablespoons butter
112 cups dark brown sugar
2 cups diced pineapple
1-3 cup fat
cup sugar
2 eggs
teaspoon vanilla
"a teaspoon salt
% cup milk
2 cups flour
3 teaspoons baking powder.
METHOD: Mix butter and
sugar in frying pan. Heat
slowly. stir constantly until
mixture melts. Add pineapple.
Cream fat and sugar. Add
eggs, vanilla, salt, milk, flour
and baking powder. Beat two
minutes. Pour over" pineapple.
Bake 80 minutes in moderately
slow oven. Turn out upside
down and serve.
The Washington times., 1932-06-25
Latest Fashion
Flashes

SUMMER TIME IS FLOWER
TIME and the millinery world
seems well aware Of this fact for
flower-trimmed hats are impor-
tant. Agnes makes a charming
hat in natural Milan straw.
1t is capeline model with the
brim squared off at the back.
It is trimmed with pink angel
skin satin ribbon combined
with blue grosgrain and cluS-
ter of blue cornflowers are
placed above and beneath the
brim.
The Washington times., 1932-06-25
The Rhymins
Optimist
BY ALINE MICHAELIS
When Seen Afar

When Seen Afar
Who knows? Perhaps a life is
like a star
That gains in brilliancy when
seen afar:
We know each orb, which
through the deepening night
Shines with a luster so serene
and bright,
Must be a place Of mingled
grief and mirth,
OF pain and bliss, like this our
changeful Earth.
And so, a life may be a varied
thing,
Now winter,bare, now budding
like the spring.
Now sinister with shadows Of
dismay,
And now like music's self, allur-
ing, gay;
And only the lone dweller there
within
Knows all its heights of good,
its depths Of sin.
Yet, seen from far away, each
life may shine
With the reflection of the Life
Divine
In which all things began. And
the AllWise
May in each life discern sublimi-
ties.
A life glowS like a star, perhaps,
when viewed.
BY eyes that penetrate infini-
tude!
The Washington times., 1932-06-25
CHAPTER XVI

"He's not nearly so good
looking as Tom" Lynn said
abSently, and wondered where
Tom was and if he we're having
q good time. Shed danced with
him a little earlier. The orches-
ira was playing some old hits,
by request. II Can't Give You
Anything but Love, Baby" Tom
had sung, holding her close.
"And that's no idle jest" he
had added abruptly; there
won't be any penthouses for a
long time, Lynn"
"As If I cared!"
-::-"You do care-for me?"
,"Idiot!" And she had looked
up at him, gray eyes shining
between the duSky lasheS, lips
curved in reproach.
IT want like the devil to kiss
you" Tom had told her say.
agely and a sharp tremor of
emotion troubled her pulses
and sang in her veins and
weakened her knees, very sweet,
very disturbing. And she had
Swayed closer and murmured,
her breath catching. Don't
look at me that way, Tom. I
can't bear it,"
;. A moment of pure desire,
pure and perfect anguish, pure
and ecStatic happiness. =. Then
Fame had cut in.
But something of that pleas
ant trouble, something of that
burden of languor and pain
ful, frustrated delight remained
with her now, as she stood on
the terrace with Dwight beside
her.
o. A Hot Number
Inside, they were now ploy-
Ing one Of Ovens songs and
she was singing to it, husky,
sweet voice drifting over the
brasSy yearning of the Saxo-
phones:
When my mans away, there
- amt no peace,
7 dunnos what to do
Can't sleep, can't walk, can't
smile, can't talk.
sFeelin' so dog-goned blue.
When my mans away, I Just
sit and pray,
God, bring him back to me,
When my mans away, for a
night, for a day,
There amt no peace for me-"
Trivial words and an i'm
portant truth. The husky voice
made magic of the dragging
music; invested with the eter--
nal glamo"r Of human long.
Ing the tinsel, tawdry lyric.
Only the truth remained,
heartbreaking.
okum," com m ented
Dwight, at Lynn's side, "but
like most hokum so internally
veracious." ..
She said, in dreaming
voice. "It'S-lovely. So real"
Women feel that way,
The Washington times., 1932-06-25

There have always been two
types of dyspeptics. One is the
patient with acid indigestion,
sour stomach-whose i1ldiges-
ton is really caused by peptic
ulcer. He has almost always a
ravenous appetite and the indi-
gestion consists of discomfort of
more or less severity after a
meal has been eaten. But he
really digests his food all right,
and on account of the appetite
keeps in good weight.
The only good name for the
other kind is "asthenic dyspep-
sia." The patients present the
typical picture of the dyspeptic.
They are thin and bent over
and the brow is farrowed with
a general dissatisfaction with
life. They can't eat. They have
no appetite. They belch. They
are constipated.
They take dyspepsia tablets,
sometimes one kind and some
times another. changing around
charcoal one month, pepsin
The Washington times., 1932-06-25
All Depends on the Man

All Depends on the Man
Dear Miss Fairfax:
A man of 36 is in love with
me. I'm 20, and also care for
him very much. Do you think
that the difference in age will
mar our future happiness? I
do wish you would give me
your best advice, as everything
depends upon it. I shall be
watching the papers anxiously.
L. c.
Please let me say that it
depends entirely on the man.
Are your tastes congenial? Do
you enjoy the same things? Is
the man a "young-old man" or
an "old young man?" If he
thinks a good deal about his
own likes and disliKeS, his
health, his tastes-that type is
hard to get along with.
The Washington times., 1932-06-25
Contract
Bridge
BY E. V. Shepard
End Play Problems

Problem "a and its solution
are given below. In this origi-
nal Heard problem, hearts are
trumps. z is to lead. w are to
win nine Of the eleven tricks,
against any defense of ABB.
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The Washington times., 1932-06-25
HOUSEHOLD HINTS

Soak salt fish in sour milk
and the delicate flavor will be
brought out.
Sandwiches will keep for
hours if placed in a covered
earthen receptacle set in a pan
of cold water.
The Washington times., 1932-06-25
Just an OuergrOwn foul
BIG ENOUGH TO KILL!

T~ALL as the natives of the Papuan Islands who
= have domesticated it, is the Cassowary giant
bird with talons sharp steel! ornery and stub
born like the American turkey, it is demon when
aroused. Let Frank Buck take you to the Papuas
and show you the havoc this overgrown bird can
work-how one of them caused the only death that
occurred in his years of experience in bringing
Jungle animals back alive! Watch for this exciting
series of true stories
The Washington times., 1932-06-25
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The Washington times., 1932-06-25
Advice for
LoveIorn
BY BEATRICE FAIRFAX
Thought She Meant to Return
His Ring

Thought She Meant to Return
His Ring
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
1 am terribly in love with a
young man to whom / was en-
gagged for about seven months.
All of sudden we had a mis-
understanding and he stopped
calling me. This happened
nearly a year ago. One day I
took all my courage in my
hands and called him up at
his place of business, and he
spoke to me, but didn't even
ask how I was.
I told him I wanted to see
him. We met, and he told me
he thought I wanted to return
the engagement ring I still keep.
I told him that wanted him to
make up, but he was very stub
born. Shall I call him again. or
what should I do? He said he
was glad to see me. am maoly
in love with him. H. B.
I know it's a case of locking
the stable door after the horse
has gone, but will you young
sterS quarrel and fuss over little
foolish MISUNDERSTANDING, then
break your hearts about making
up? Your letter, which is too
long to print, may be read be-
tween the lines-that the young
man would not be averSe 10
making up.
Just overlook your spat and
invite him to your house to
call.
The Washington times., 1932-06-25
THE SOLUTION

Trick 10. A must lead from
his KIT of hearts, up to Y's
A-10, so that Y must win the
last two tricks, or nine tricks
total of the eleven tricks played.
A few unimportant variations
in play may be made by ABB, as
given below.
Trick /. A need not play his
Jack upon the Eight of Hearts
led from dummy. AS refusal
to put up his Jack saves the de-
clarer entering dummy so many
times, thus making play easier.
Trick 2. B may decline to win
the spade trick, allowing rs
Queen to win. The variation
will not alter final results. B
may win the last lead of spades,
or he may allow AS Jack to
win the last lead Of spades, but
neither variation in play will
prevent w from winning their
nine tricks.
Trick 8. Y need not lead the
Ten Of Clubs, as it makes no
difference in Ohe total number
Of tricks won if A refuses to
win a club trick. In that event
A will be able to win a heart
trick as a substitute, but the
nine trick will still go to w.
There is nothing that ABB
can do to prevent w from
winning nine of the II tricks.
1t may be an interesting fact
that I had to play the entire
hand sometime ago. My partner
had made an. opening bid of
1-No Trump. I bid up to f.
Hearts. The opening lead was
won by BIS K of Spades. The
second trick went to dummy's
K of Diamonds. To go game
had to win nine of the eleven
tricks left.
PROBLEM IS
This is an L. j. Bruck varia-
ton Of a "Bedouin" problem.
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to lead. w are to win four
Of the seven tricks against the
best play Of ABB. The solution
will appear next week.
Copyright. 1882, King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
Milford chronicle., 1932-04-01
ROCKING THE BOAT

Just as soon as this poor old world
begins to settle down little and re-
cover from the storms with which it
has been buifeted, then some en-
thusiastic person begins to rock the
boat. So it may be considered that
when President De Valera's govern
ment in Ireland notified the English
government that it would refuse to
subscribe to the oath of allegiance
TO the English government as it had
agreed to, and would also decline
to pay the annuities in payment for
land which had been settled upon,
it was case of rocking the boat.
The English government in past
years alienated the Irish people by
a policy of stupid repression. But
since Ireland was made practically
free under its Free State govern
ment, its condition has greatly i'm
proved. 1t would seem as if that
state affairs become a bit more set
tied.
Milford chronicle., 1932-04-01
sOFT ANSWER TURNED WRATH

The worlds greatest book of wis
dom has said that "a soft answer
turneth away wrath. Perhaps this
has proved true in the recent rela-
tions of our country to the trouble
some mess over i'm China.
1t was with profound relief that
the American people read a few days
ago, that Is of their warships had
been ordered away from Shanghai,
and that more are to follow soon.
/ This seems to indicate that perils
that had lOomed imminently have fad
ed. Our people answered softly to
demands that they do something
cal,andthesoft answer has saved
muc htrouble.
1t was only few weeks ago, that
our people dreaded to pick of a
newspaper, for fear it would tell of
an American warship blown up. or
of American citizens losing their
lives in that wild Chinese fighting.
Had such events happened, who
could tell how far our people could
go? We know how far they went
back in 1898, when the Maine was
blown up in Havana harbor.
1t will never pay our people to be-
come too excited about these con-
trOversies on the other side of the
world. OF course it is important to
have our commercial rights in the
orient protected. But there are much |
better ways of protecting them than
fighting about them, or even remote
ly threatening to fight. If people fail !
to grant us trade rights we desire, |
we can find good excuses for deny
ing them something they want, which /
is very different from war talk.
So it should be in our commercial
relations with the orient. The United
States government has always as
serted the principle of the open door,
by which is meant equal rights with
other nations to trade with those
But there is 10 use pre-
tending we would ever fight for such
a principle. If they deny it to us,
we may have to deny some corre-
spending favor to them, but it is
leedlessly provocatcd to use any
language over such mat
crs.
Milford chronicle., 1932-04-01
WHERE THAT BABY is

Why has not the Lindbcrgh baby
made known its presence by its lusty
cries? is the question many persons
have been asking since the date of
that diabolical kidnapping.
With practically the whole Ameri-
can people stirred by this most ter
rible case of child stealing. it seems
singular to many that this cherished
infant could go so long undiscovered.
The suggestion has been made that
it is quite likely that the child was
substituted in some family for one
of about the same age, and then the
child whose place it took may have
been sent elsewhere, possibly to
some foreign land. In such a case
the crying of the Lindbergh baby
might not have been different from
the one whose place it took.
Slight indications of the presence
of the stolen child might be noticed
by neighbors in some remote country
district. But in some crowded city
apartment, where people come and
go all the time, the residents do not
pay much attention to the incidents
about them. Or it is possible that
the child might me taken into some
family where the are other small
and SO one more set of
squalls and fuses might not at
tract much attention.
1t would seem the limit of tragedy,
if this child for whom life was OPEN
ing up so fairly, who was so sur
by care and would have
every opportunity for development
must grow up in some family of de-
based motives, who would turn his (
career into some story of crime.
Meanwhile the cOuntry's ardent /
goes out to the anguished .
parents, who wait day after day by
hat pathetic empty crib. But while
t must be severe strain on them
o have to follow up so many futile
people who see any
hing suspicious, or pointing in any
way to the presence of this child,
hOuld not hesitate to report it to
heir own local police or other au-
hority.
Milford chronicle., 1932-04-01
INN SrRING CLEAN.rr

Every week in the year really
ought to be a Cleanup Week. The
family which is so disbusted by dirt
and disorder that it never allows re-
fuse to collect on any part of it's
grounds for even one week, is the
one that does it's part to make Mil
ford a SpOtlesstown. Unfortunately,
everybody is not of that type. and
some people have the unpleasant
habit of allowing refuse to collect
week after week in their back
yards.
Such ones should realize that such
a plan becomes more and more Of
fensive each year, and turns their
places into eyesores. They should
take occasion at once to give their
home places a spring cleaning. and
have every bit of refuse removed
Of burned, or in some way disposed
Of.
Milford chronicle., 1932-04-01

Santa Rosa. Evidently the Califor-
mans have the vision to realize that
the dream of James Monroe is to
become a realization.
In President HOOver's message he
spoke of the building of new ships
for service between the Americas, as
"an augury of closer communication
and intercourse with our neighbors
to the South" Hhe said our Mer-
chant Marine act of 1928 enables the
Government to help finance these
new ships.
Chairman O'Connor of the Ship
ping Board viewed the launching
and said the Santa Rosa initiated
greater entrenchment of our new
er American lines" eve must re-
double our efforts to persuade the
American manufactures, merchant,
importer and traveller to use Ameri-
can ships" he added.
Of course other ships will be
launched, other similar events viii
be proclaimed by Presidents, Cover
nors an dsteamship officials. But the
ceremony of the Santa Rosa means
more than that, because it leads the
procession which is to be Joined by
countless more American ships i'll
the future.
Those ships will resusitate the
doctrine of Monroe throughout the
New World, adding new hopes for
"the Americas First"
Milford chronicle., 1932-04-01
SPLIT-UPS or STOCK

One of the most peculiar features
of the highly inflated period of 1925
20, was the action of many corpora
tions in splitting up their stock into
fractions. Many stocks were pushed
several times above par by the exag-
gerated dreams of spectators. If
one believed their earnings for that
period would prove permanent there
was reason for a high price.
When the price of stock thus went
way up, it became somewhat COM
mon for the company to vote for
"split-up". Two, three, or four
shares, or some other proportion,
would be issued for each one share
held before. This of course did not
add to the real value of the property.
But investors and spectators
usually felt that a given holding of
such stock became worth more
money If stock selling at 200 was
split two for one, the chances were
quite good that the new shares would
sell for $50 each. Thus if holders
sold the stock. they made "A profit of
100 each >On the old shares. Such
split-ups were considered good bust
ness in many cases, partly because
il was considered easier for employees
and small investors to buy the stock,
and sometimes it was claimed that
this reduction in the price of the
shares lesscned public feeling that a
company was making too much
money.
Some companies are now cOnsid-
oring reversing their former action. |
so as to get back the original status
of their shares, which would seem
good judgment.
These stock split-ups had ten
dency to increase the speculative /
fever. II is to be hoped that when !
the country RECEIVERS prosperity, con-
servative managements will discour- /
age such tendency, unless ade-
mate reasons exist in special cases.
ri profits prove generous, they would
better share with the public through
higher wages and lower prices for
Such a policy would
end to make general business run
more smoothly, and help avoid spec
ilative fever.
Milford chronicle., 1932-04-01
TIGHTENING UP THE FARM
BELT

/ Out in the farm belt, prohibition is
still a moral ISSUE No matter what
the cities may say, Puritans die
hard among the great agricultural
population of the United States.
This is cOnclusively demonstrated
by a QUESTIONABLE just completed
by the editors of the Country Home,
who have analyzed responses from
5000 farm men and women on sew
eral moral issues" now before the
country.
On the question of alcoholic bev-
erages, these 5000 typical farm folk
were asked such questions as
Should an American drink liquor at
his own discretion when he is in
foreign country which has no pro-
hibition?" Sixty per cent, of the
answers were a blunt and uncom-
promising mo"
Should an American take drug
store wines or "tonics" to stimulate
his system? Seventy per cent of
farm folk say mo"
Should an American farmer sell
grapes to be marketed legally as
concentrate" Fifty-three per cent
of the awnswers were mo"
There are many other questions in
the long list submitted to these 5000
farm folk which tend to show the
way rural America is thinking. The
farm viewpoint on alcohol extends
to one-piece bathing suits, petting,
gambling at church fairs and Sun
day movies.
Should farm girls be permitted to |
pet or spoon within reasonable !
limits? Sixty-three per cent answer
a vigorous mo"
Should wheels of fortune be al
lowed at church fairs? Eighty per
cent are against it.
Should farm folk go to Sunday
movies? Sixty-three per cent say
mo"
Those who answered the ques-
tionnaire were asked to pick out the
"gravest and most important prob
lem" among all those listed. Here's
where the farmers sprung a sur
prise. Few of them thought prohibi-
tiOn serious issue. None of them
bothered about war defts or inter-
national relationships. Their votes
went, by large majority to a pure
ly family matter. listed as "Wo-
mans Rights in Money Matters" by
which was meant the right of a
-arm wife to share fifty-fifty in the
farm income. Even the men voted
or an equal partnership. Fifty-three
per cent of the men, and fifty-nine
per cent of the women favored
partnership between the
armer and his wife. OF the men,
'eventy-seven per cent favored
oint checking accounts, and so did
per cent of the women.
Milford chronicle., 1932-04-01
BICENTENNIAL FLOWER
GARDENS

This is the time of year to think
about planting flower gardens. Ev-
cry back yard, every strip of fertile
soil is potential flower garden and
may be made to bloom in honor of
the Father of His Country in this
Bicentennial year. Even as little as
fifty cents worth of seeds will plant
garden anyone may be proud of
and which will give joy to hundreds
of passersby.
The Garden Clubs of America are
cooperating in this plan as well as
school garden clubs and other floral
organizations. The Bicentennial
Committee in each State is promot-
ing interest in planting flowers in
honor of this great celebrotion. The
United States Department of Agri-
culture Colleges in each state are
doing effective work in promoting
this activity, through the schools of
each state.
In consequence, hundreds of anna
teur gardeners will plant Colonial
flowers. ANIMALS and perennials.
which were familiar in the time of
George Washington and which will
bloom each year as permanent
memorial to his memory
The United States George Wash
ington Bicentennial Commission has
secured from the Department of Ag-
riculture, list of flowers which
were familiar in Colonial Days which
will he particularly adaptable to
this kind Of celebration.