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Evening star., 1933-04-14

attention u paid to social correspon-
dence In washington, let me explain
that in the Capital, the social code Is
observed to the last dot. All invitations
must be answered Immediately, and in
most cases the answers are dispatched
by hand. while the exact day and hour
OF each event are recorded in ones en-
gagement book. To be late at a dinner
is theoretically unforgivable.
Somebody has said that the most nu-
merous units in Washington's social
whirl are the social secretaries, who run
things from within the houses and the
unattached bachelors. who have the
run of things everywhere Certainly
these two important adjuncts are AL
ways with us. don't know which Is the
more useful without either, many par
ties would be lamentable affairs. The
presentable bachelors are ever welcome.
They may have minimum incomes with
positions requiring great stability or
industry, but a hostess considers her
self fortunate If she has at her beck. a
squad of them possessing good manners,
good humor and more than the average
gray matter.
Another numerically strong group has
been the subject of the chroniclers.
The climbers! But after all, does not
every one try to climb one way or an
Evening star., 1933-04-14

Afterward We went to ball and stayed
an hour. receiving friends in our box.
Home, I worked until bedtime on this
story, an undertaking which played
havoc with social obligations for weeks.
The story is about the only enterprise
I have ever allowed to curtail regular
activities.
As official hostess, I took part in all
sorts of functions. 1 planted trees, pre-
sented cups, dedicated flags, help lay
cornerstones and light Christmas trees,
received groups of children. greeted con-
ventions, sponsored regattas, presented
prizes and ribbons at horse shows,
served food in welfare kitchens, dis
tributed baskets at Thanksgiving and
Christmas, made handkerchiefs for
church bazaars, shook hands with end
less lines at receptions and autographed
hundreds OF letters, cards and programs.
Role Of Social Secretary.
The telephone became Of increasing
Importance to me. We had three wires
into our hotel suite. Less formal en-
gsgements were made continually by
telephone. There was one period when
Washingtons whole list of formal en-
gagements was virtually recast over the
telephone-the month of official mourn
ing after ex-President Coolidge's death.
The institution of social secretary"
has fastened itself permanently upon
Washington society. Few women heads
OF official families get along without
these helpers I am one of the few. I
prefer to do my own work in social
way. as well as in running the details
Of my housekeeping, and also because
my long residence in the Capital has
made It simpler for me to keep track
Of my engagements and arrange my
entertaining, than to train an assistant.
A social secretary can be Invaluable
II she knows her business. The sue
cessful secretary attends to all the
social correspondence of the household,
keeps a record of engagements, gives
notice of the time when her principals
should go here or there, makes sure
they arrive on time, supervises details
of dinners and receptions, attends to
the seating of guests in the order of
precedence and generally looks after the
orderly performance of each days so
cial obligations.
To those who inquire why meticulous
Evening star., 1933-04-14
TRIO FOUND GUILTY

Communist Demonstration Results
in Police Court Fines.
Charles and Harold Spencer and Sid
ney Phillips, who we're arrested fol-
lowing a Communist demonstration at
the Unemployment Relief Agency on
John Marshall place. April S, were
found guilty by Police Court Judge
Isaac r.. Hit yesterday.
Charles Spencer was fined $40 or
10 days on a charge of making speech
without a license, while Harold Spencer
and Phillips were fined S. or five days
each for scattering hand bills. Counsel
for the trio announced his intention to
apply to the Court of Appeals for a
writ of error - e-'
Evening star., 1933-04-14
BY DOLLY GANN.

The KEYNOTE of official entertaining
In washington is the at-home, an open
house reception Anybody is welcome.
II snobbery creeps into official life it
in the snobbery of individuals, not the
system.
Outside OF Government and diplo-
matte circles there are, of course, many
Cliuues and sets and groups. PerhapS
jsocial gayety is somewhat more no
ticeable aspect of Washington life py
heason Of proportionally larger lei
sure class and because men In Federai
3service have shorter working hours.
howhere, however, are the qualifications
dor preferment in society less dependent
SIpon wealth or family.
Men who can talk well. charming
women, have become popular in Wash
dngton without inherited riches or
family. They may have established
themselves in the beginning through
official position. But the billiards and
unsociables eventually are invited only
10 parties where their status prescribes
their presence, while those adding to
the Joy of the occasion are in demand
Tor entertainments not confined to
Nbficial lists.
I. Days when hostesses keep open house
sAre mostly fixed on the calender. The
Awives of cabinet members, jurists, dip
aomats and the others have their regu-
mar afternoons through the Winter.
Svisitors from Oregon, Kansas or the
aCArolinas can inquire at what times
jthe homes of their Senators or Repre-
ssentatives are open to them without
Especial invitations. In the line at these
At-home parties may be a dozen or a
thousand persons.
: Wednesday is at-home day for the
StVice President, cabinet and Speaker Of
Hhe House. The hostess may receive
Severy week, or she may entertain in
selternate weeks or less often. pre-
t3erred to receive some Wednesdays and
use others for calls. For my at-hones
Evening star., 1933-04-14

I never knew how many callers to ex-
pect. When my brother Charles was
Vice President I had as many as l,l00
an afternoon, and the average was 40O
to 500. I served simple refreshments.
/ always had an aide, young army
officer, in full dress uniform, who IN
tros'1ced the guests. Four to seven, or
later, was the period TO my at-homes.,
The wives Of new members OF the
Senate and House are sometimes per-
picked and appalled, at the number OF
of1cial calls required. In other citles
the newcomer Is visited first by those
who have lived there longer In Wash
ington, in the official circle, the new
arrival makes the first calls on all OF
higher rank and all of the same rank
with longer service. When I first made
calls. as sister of a Congressman, j had
to visit every one After brother became
Vice President, was not obliged to
call anywhere except at the White
House.
Defends First Call Rule.
I think the first-call rule is good.
1t leaves to each newcomer the decis-
ion what course to follow in social
matters. The woman interested in lit
erature, art or anything else besides
entertainments can stay entirely out of
social l!1e by failing to make initial
calls. II she likes to be on the go, she
starts Immediately to cover the field.
The first step is to leave cards at the
White House.
Of1cial receptions and dinners are
so regulated by custom that the sched-
ule can be recorded in advance. Ger
tain dates, approximately, mean the
same parties each Winter and Spring.
President and Vice President, Senators
and Supreme Court justices, diplomats,
cabinet officers and other personages
entertain those whom tradition DEGREES
they shall entertain.
1 have already touched upon impor-
tant official dinners and receptions We
attended after my brother became Vice
President, but they required compare
lively few of my hours and usually
came after days when 1 had been on
the go since dawn. Here is a typical
day with me, day early this year.
At o'clock in the morning I began
to read the newspapers, in bed. After
breakfast I motored with my husband to
his Office and went to market. Though
fewer heads OF households now do their
own buying than when I arrived in
Washington in the nineties, there are
some left. I still meet friends at the
meat and vegetable stalls. Mrs. Taft
Is a regular marketer, as are wives OF
several Supreme Court justices and Of
q few Senators and Representatives.
After marketing, the next few hours
found me receiving out-of-town friends
and q woman came in to ask my help
in obtaining work. A luncheon was
given for me at o'clock. On the way
home I called on friend. Before the
afternoon. ended I had made IA ofiicial
calls, completing the round in time to
reach my husbands office at o'clock.
We mntored down for brother, at the
Capitol.
AT 3 o'clock we attended dinner.
Evening star., 1933-04-14
S., 100000 JOBlESS
RELIEF FUND RUSHED
Pennsylvania Legislature Ceases
Controversy for Enactment
Of Appropriation.

BY the Associated Press.
HARRISBURG. Pa, April 1.-THE
LEGISLATURE shook OF the shackles Of
controversy wednesday long enough to
rush TO enactment $4,000 900 Appro-
priation for immediate unemployment
relief.
Fractional lines were broken and
precedents ignored as relief bill was
passed by Senate and House and signed
by the Governor.
ON the basis Of this and b previous
$4,000, 900 State appropriation, the Gov
ernor and legislative leaders hope to OBJ
tain $7,000,000 Federal aid and give
Pennsylvania a total Of S14000, 900 for
Evening star., 1933-04-14
distribution to ,obless this month and

oistrlpution 70 Jopiess tIis niofitn Snu
next.
The Senate House Conference Com
mittee presented It's report on the
Sewers Conner beer control bill. The
measure imposes tax Of .s1.24 q bar
rel, estimated to yield $500, 600 for
relief; leaves licensing power with
county courts and permits municipal
tiles, by popular vote, to prohibit the
sale of 80 beer.
The Governor, who has insisted on
licensing wholesalers and retailers
through the State Alcohol Permit
Board and Department Of Revenue, to-
night offered q basis of compromise on
this question. He suggested licensing
by county treasurers.
Over other questions. including relief
beyond June /, the legislators and Gov
ernor continued at odds. Still unsettled
are the methods OF raising more money
for relief, bank regulation, appropria-
tions, prohibition reapeal convention.
old age pensions. highway construction
and State economies.
Evening star., 1933-04-14

Built UP to standard Kelvinator stand
ard. And not cheap" model built down
to price purely for price appeal alone!
THIS S9s electric refrigerator WAS MADE
TO GIVE SERVICE. beautiful, full sized,
full powered, standard Kelvinator quiet,
economical, good for lifetime. No compro-
mise on mechanical perfection HERE .
no sacrifice in quality =. . no reduction in
Evening star., 1933-04-14

size. But m electric refrigerator designed for
1888, and taken from Kelvinat0rs standard
line to sell for this remarkably low price! An
average family model, featuring AUTOMATIC
DEFROSTNG, more than cubic feet Of
actual food storage space, and standard 2k-
inch improved Kelvinator insulation through
out. MECHANICALLY PERFECT ECO
NOM1CALLY RIGHT :. A FINE REFRIG-
orator :. low-priced .. THE LEADER!
Evening star., 1933-04-14
mrs. GANN DEPICTS
! OFFICIAL HOSTESS
Social Secretaries and Eli
| uibIe Bachelors Called I'm
portant Adjuncts.

This is the thirteenth OF series
OF daily articles IN ,Dhich Mrs. Dolly
Gam, sister OF Charles Curtis, Vice
President in the HooDer ddmtHtStrd-
ton. Is giving "reminiscences OF her
Interesting experiences in politics
and society in Washington.
Evening star., 1933-04-14
Fire Destroys Warehouse.

EDENTON, N. c., April IL R.-Fire
of undetermined origin yesterday de-
stroyed the combination warehouse-ga-
rage Of the Habits Transfer Co. here
ing. Company officials estimated the
loss at $4,000 to s30. .0OO,
Evening star., 1933-04-14

other? When the impulse to climb dis
appears, we are through.
CTomorrow-Hoover and Curtis Re-
nominated)
(Copyright. 1898. BY North American News
paper, Inc, and Dolly Gann.)
Evening star., 1933-04-14

The Scotch pearl necklaces of Queen
Mary are reputed to be unequaled in the
world.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-07
tprepared by the New Yorker Hotel. New York)

leans it's memorable flavor. You use little bit of this and a little bit of that--in true southern man. ner--and the result makes you smack your lips appreciatively.
 To prepare 1t the way it is done in old Louisiana, take a fine g. pound kinghsh (you can use other fish if you don't crave kingfish) 7, two tablespoonfuds of flour; tablespoonful butter; six allspice; l sprig of thyme; two sprigs of parsley; one sprig of sweet basil; l can of mushrooms; salt and pep per to taste; croutons to decorate the firsh.
 Select a fine kingfish and parboil It by scalding well after it has been put in butter and salt and set to bake in an oven. When it is about two-thirds cooked, take out your pan and pour over 1t the following sauce:
 Melt your butter, mix in your flour, add the juice from the bak- ing dish, your mushrooms and all of your seasoning. Stir constantly until 1t is smooth and slightly
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-07
Candy Easter Eggs


 Color youn candy eggs any shade you prefer. or let them harden and coat with dipping chocolate. These are so easy the children can make them themselves, and will be creamy and smooth because of their karo content.
 2 cups sugar
 # cup water
 4 cup white karo
 He'd fruit cOlOring
 tcasp. vanilla
 4 pkg shredded cocoanut
 Boil the sugar, water and syrup to the soft ball stage (238 degrees F). Remove from fire and let it stand until lrkewarm CLIO degrees F.) Add fruit coloring to mako delicate pink. Add vanilla and stir until nearly stiff. Add cocoanut and shape like Easter eggs. Place on waxed paper 10 harden. 12 to IS eggs.
 Rabbits to Eat
 Bunny-faces with long pointed ears are easy to make yourself. Use them for decorating your cakes or for party favors. Make the head and body by fastening together two fresh, round marshmallows with toothpicks, setting ono on top the other, snow man fashion. Make the ears by inserting two tooth- picks at proper angle on top the head" over toothpicks place two pasteurized dates (pitted variety), pInching ends to make them pointed. Make the eyes, nose and mouth with melted chocolate.
 JiR Easter Cake
 Fruit cake is especially appro- priate for the Easter party or for Sunday dinner, and is the simplest of desserts if you use the prepared fruit cake mixture made from a Dixie recipe, which requires but the addition of an egg and liquid before baking right in the tin in which 1t Is packed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-07
BREAKFAST FOR
 EASTER MORNING
Appropriate Food and Dec- OratiOns Helps Start
 Day Off Right WHITE COLOR SCHEME

The hen, the egg. and the lily, tho symbols of Easter, furnish the ideal Easter .brcakfast-food, deco rations, and all. A white and shin ing Easter breakfast can be made up of spotless hens, eggs in any form, and cs-of-the-valley. Those early American milk glass hens which have been sitting so content edly on pins for century may be used for a more digestible diet of cereal or eggs. Milk glass also are tiny roostcrs growing between the pepper-and-s salt holders and equally milk-white the place plates. bread and-butter dishes and marmaladc jar.
 Lilies of the centerpiece may be varied with narcissus and daffodils and there you have an Easter breakfast that would make anyone
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-07
Eastertide Foods
 Are Traditional
Starting With Good Friday Hot Cross Buns to Easter { Dinner Dessert Everything Has Its Significance

From the "one a penny, two q Denny-IIot Cross Buns" on Good Friday to the last candy egg on Sunday night, tho Easter season demands It's own special trapplnRs And traditional foods. All the part ties and social events held on the day preceding the festival utilize inc Easter symbols and dishes too, so your thoughts must be turning kitchen wards to discover the easi- est ways to prepare them. Your "kitchen correspondent has been at work already and here are assembled some of the seasons .'premicre succesSes" for your Eas- fer edibIes. Help yourself to the recipes, then help the guests to help themselves to the dilicious re- suits!
 Hot Cross Buns
 An old English superstition has it Chat bit of Hot Cross Bun, made on Good Friday before clev- on o'clock. soaked In q few drops Of water and kept throghout the wear will drive away all illnesses. Be that as 1t may, these buns taHe very good indeed, and, because or the wholesome shortening used, are as hcalthful as those of legend.
 Hot Cross Buns
 H cup sugar
 1 cgg
 ! tblsp. maZ0Ia
 # yeast cake
 T cup iukcwarin water
 $ cups four
 1 tbsp salt
 1 cup scaDdcd milk
 L cup seeded raIsins
 Beaten egg
 FrOsting
 Beat egg slightly, stir in oil, ana add sugar. Dissolve yeast cake Tn Iukewarm water. Add scalded miik t0 egg mixture and when luke warm. add dissolved yeast. TO this. add mixed and sifted dry in- rredients. and quartercd raisins. Cover and let rise over night. Shape in forms of large biscuits, place in oiled pan onC men apart, let rise. Brush over with beaten cgk. and bake In hot oven, )4b0 degrees F.) twenty minutes: Cooi and make q cross on top Of each bun with frosting made by mixing confectioner's sugar with water
 Easter Breakfast Suggestions
 For q breakfast "starter' serve orange juice over sliced Danahas' Delicious, and very easy If you, use tho canned orange juice. or grapefruit juice cocktail, made with the canned juice, Is refreshing.
 Ham and eggs are an ineVitaple combination for Easter breakfast. Vary by serving them la Bcne, dict: Simply saute slices Of boiled ham in mazola until the edges curl slightly. Poach an egg for each serving. Place each slice Of nam on a Holland rusk, which has been buttered. Put tho poached egg on top the ham; cover with Holland aise Sauce and serve hot. If you prefer to serve the eggs scrambled, earnish them with strips of canned IDlmicnto for color and flavor, ana serve them on buttered shredded wheat biscuits which have been toasted, split and buttered. :. If you serve q hot cooked cerea be sure to drop q few pitted past eurIzed dates in it, to add flavor as well as nutrImcnt. Iiominy grIts with sliced dates and cream make an especially Itoothsome breakfast dish.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-07

thickened.
 Pour this sauce over the fish, after making some slits in the fish with q very sharp knife, so the sauce can penetrate the fish. Now crate oven.
 To garnish cut croutons of bread crusts and fry in deep fat, arrang- ing in some symmetrical design on your plattcw. Add parsley sprigs and cancily sliced lemon. Serve remaining sauce in q separate boat.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-07
H1aIHsH|l IIlQIld dl IA H \ Fl l!l E3 8 8 k
Duchess Cream Soup

"Soup of the evening, beautiful soup" sang the Mock Turtle in Alice in Wonderland. He must have been thinking of Duchess Cream Soup-wlth it's savory subtle flavor. The tapioca ingredient gives this soup just the right body without making 1t ''stodgy."
 2 tablespoons quick cooking tapiooa, teaspoon salt. 1-8 tea spoon pepper, tablespoon onion, finely chopped, 4 cups milk. scala cd. 2 tablespoons butter, 4 table spoons grated cheese, 2 tablespoons parsley, chopped.
 Add tapioca, salt, pepper, and onion to milk, and cook in double boiler, 15 minutes, or until tapioca is clear, stirring frequently. Add butter, cheese, and parsley. Cook until cheese is melted. Serves G.
 Electric power companies in Japan arc seeking government h- nancial aid.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-07

love the hen and all her works. EASTER BREAKFAST
 .Minted orange sections
 Minted orange sections
 Hot cereal wOth cream
 Devllcd ham OmcIct Kaisin muffin Strawberry jam
 Coffee ApricOts with pineapple wedges Cereal flakes with cream Scrambled eggs, sausage cakes POpOyers marmaIade co0cc By Elizabeth Jefferson in Me Calls Magazine for April,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-07

Kingfish h New Orleans puts n fitting touch to the end of Lenten dishes. It is 50 good, it makes you sorry that fish dishes may take s back seat after Easter, giving pre- ference to meats.
 This dish is one of the campara- lively few toothsome dishes that take such short time to prepare that they are boon to busy house. wives.
 It is the blended seasoning that gives this Kingfish la New Or
Evening star., 1933-08-13

Fine quality filet lace curtains, in
bordered patterns Tailored styles
smart for glass curtains. A very fine
quality net.
The Washington times., 1933-01-12
NEW BEER BILL
. To Be READY
TOMORROW
Considerable Progress Made
Toward Attack-PrOof Meas
ure, Says Blaine

The drafting Of q new bill to
legalize 80 per cent beer while
removing all constitutional objec-
tions by the Senate Judiciary sub
committee neared completion, to-
day with but one controversial
issue to be settled.
The subcommittee headed by
Senator Blame (R.) Of Wisconsin
reported considerable progress" !"
Blaid said he expected the COM
mittee to report the new bill
favorably tomorrow.
Blaine announced there would
be q vote tomorrow on the adOp-
ton Of certain language to legal
ize 80 per cent beer and after
that the bill would be reported.
He declined to say what issue
was in controversy.
The new bill viii outlaw all
SpirituouS liquor and all malt
beverages actually intoxicating
but will remove all Federal pen.
altieS for beer containing 80 or
less per cent Of alcohol. Advo-
Gates Of this plan declared 1t
would not be subject to q con-
Stitutional attack in the courts.
Members Of Group
The new bill was being drawn
by . subcommittee composed Of
Senators Blaine, Hebert (R.) Of
Montana and Dill CD Of Wash
ington. Senator Borah (R.) Of
Idaho did not attend the session.
The new Blaine repeal resolu-
ton, which some vets and drys
are opposing, rested meanwhile
on the Senate calendar. Blaine
says he will call it up for adop-
ton at the first favorable oppor-
tunity. Both Republican. and
Democratic leaders have promised
an early vote.
The Washington times., 1933-01-12
Libby's Father Ready to Launch Fight
For Babv's Share of Huge Fortune

nolds, mySteriously shot to death
on his North Carolina estate last
July 6. In that will, drawn up a
short time before the heir to the
cigarette fortune married the
actress, Reynolds left his estate
to his brother, Richard, and his
sisters, Mrs. Nancy r. Bagley and
Mrs. Mary Babcock. -
Not Yet Probated
The will has been filed by the
Guaranty Trust Company, named
temporary administrator, but has
not been probated.
Brock indicated contest Of
the will may be made on the
grounds Reynolds was not resi-
dent Of New York, where the in
strument was executed, or on the
grounds that being made before
Reynolds marriage, it is invalid.
City police were detailed to
guard the hospital when kidnap
threats were revealed against
Ann Cannon Reynolds, child Of
the first wife of the scion of the
tobacco family, from whom he
was divorced. It was also re-
The Washington times., 1933-01-12

NEW YORK, Jan. IL ON.S0.
Plans for q legal battle to insure
the son OF Libby Holman Reyn-
oldS Q portion Of the trust fund
set up for Zachary Smith Reyn-
olds by his father, r. j. Reynolds,
founder Of the tobacco fortune,
got under way today as the baby
lay in an incubator in PennSyl-
vania Hospital, Philadelphia.
Arnold j. Brock, attorney, an
nounced his first move in the
awaited inheritance fight win be
an attempt to obtain approx
mately $3, ,000, 600 income that has
accumulated from the trust and
then move for possession Of the
SIS, ,000, 900 fund itself.
To Confer With Libby
One-third of the accumulated
interest. Brock said, will be
claimed for the former Broadway
torch singer" and twothirds for
the child.
Brock expects to confer, within
q few days, with Mrs. Reynolds
and attempt to decide whether to
contest the will Of Smith Rey.