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Evening star., 1933-04-12
My Neighbor Says:

Leather-covered chairs that
have become sticky should be
cleansed with q cloth moistened
in gasoline, benzine or alcohol.
Then apply olive oil, let stand 48
hours, and wipe thoroughly with
cheesecloth. Mildewed leather
can be restored by applications
Of petroleum ointment.
Never sprinkle pongee. Roll 1t
up in a towel while wet and iron
while still damp.
To cook a ham so that 1t will
retain all its flavor, encase 1t
with paste made Of common
-four and water, taking care to
see that the steam cannot escape.
Bake in a hot oven, allowing q
quarter of an hour for every
pound. The paste can be easily
removed and it takes all the rind
with it. A ham cooked in this
way is delicious.
When stockings grow thin at
the heel, patch the inside with a
small piece of stocking the same
color and darn carefully. The
darning need not show and the
stockings will wear much longer.
When a recipe calls for maca-
rooms and there are no more on
hand, take a cup of dried bread
crumbs, one-half cupful sugar
and two teaspoonfuls almond
fiavoring, mix together and put
in the oven to get very brown.
This cannot be told from the
real thing.
When broiling or baking with
gas put saucepan Of water on
top Of gas oven or broiling oven,
and you will have nice hot water
for your dishes.
Evening star., 1933-04-12
SPRINCTIME
IA
BY d. C. PEATTH.

though that was his speciality; many
queer fy-like bees and bee-like fiies
and dangly-legsed creatures. beside
some stonefiies and caddis worms.
Let me, however. 60 back to This
matter Of looking under stones. There
has always been mysterious charm
In the notion of something under the
common cobbles Of the shores. the
rocks Of the pastures. You win recall
the legend Of Theseus and how hts
mother made him 60 out every day and
try to heave up q huge stone, under
which was hidden o great sword. Wen.
II you think you are pretty well ac.
quainted with the ordinary signs Of
Spring hereabout, from Spring beau
ties to warblers, try turning over some
of the stones, even In o garden Or
vacant lot, and see what . whole unv
derworld you unearth and spy on with
god-like omnipotence from above.
call it an underworld, because moSe
of the under stone creatures are q bit
disreputable or in bad odor-little mil.
lipedes, beetle larvae, grubs, worm4
SOW bugs and other creatures that
distraught with terror, flee the light
and melt away down cracks.
The real nature lover never requires
that all shall be pretty.
Evening star., 1933-04-12
UNCLE RAYS CORNER

Long in advance they. give the time OF
day or night when such eclipses Will be
seen from certain parts Of the earth.
One interesting thing scientists have
done has been to study the gravity" OF
different planets. They have learned
that some planets do not have as much
power to pull things to them as other
planets have.
Jupiter, largest Of the planets. ap.
pears to have the strongest gravity. II
an expert high-jumper from the earth
could go to that planet and use as
much strength and skill in jumping as
he uses on earth, he would find 1t hard
to leap over wheelbarrow! After
testing his ability to jump he might
say:
"Well, we'll! have lost my power.
Never again shall be hero in track
meet!"
If such were his thoughts, he would
be making a mistake. If he returned
safely to earth, he would have no
trouble in jumping over horse.
Let our same athlete 60 to the moon,
and what would he find? Supposing,
as before, that he could live after the
trip, he would amaze himself by his
jumping abilities. Gravity on the moon
! is not nearly so great as on earth. The
man could jump over two-story
house, if he found such house on the
moon We know there is not. ono
chance in million of finding house
on the moon, but we are "fust sup
posing" UNCLE RAY.
Evening star., 1933-04-12
Everyday Psychology
Pretenders.
sY DIR. JESSE ". sPRowLs.

It is now an established fact that
every person is something Of q per-
tender. OF course, no one likes to ad-
nit that fact. It's painful confession
to make.
The situation is this: Eevry person
has many selves in his body. He
possesses a multiple personality; per-
sonality for every ticklish situation,
every perplexing social problem. If he
can't make a satisfactory adjustment
to a situation through his dominant
self (the one he usually uses and Is
know by) he calls into service one OF
the psychological bench warmers" that
he carries around to use In case OF
emergency. For purposes OF self-re-
spect, If for no other, he generally
keeps this retinue Of substitute selves
out Of sight
Now and then some one VIII tell you
how he found happiness. 1t was when
he quit pretending. William James
tells the story of woman who began
to enjoy life the day she quit trying
to be beautiful. Many a policeman
becomes a good public servant the day
he quits angling for the position OF
chief of police. A private secretary
becomes a successful employe when he
quits trying to run the whole business.
When q persons ambitions outdistance
his abilities, he begins to 60 to pieces
mentally and starts on q voyage OF
Copyright, 1933.)
Evening star., 1933-04-12

at home. This course was served from
a large bowl at the table.
The frozen fruit salad calls for may
onnaise, cream cheese and cream. It
has bits of pineapple and creme de
menthe cherries in 1t. 1t Is pleasantly
acid and not cloying after the cream
soup and hominy course.
When the coffee was poured,
spoonful of whipped cream, unsweet-
ened, was placed on top of each cup.
It gave snowy white look to the bev-
erage.
frozen salad. The mints were white.
The flowers were white freesias or
sweet peas with maidenhair fern.
1t was q pretty luncheon and good,
Evening star., 1933-04-12
Collecting Insects.

Collecting Insects.
"HosE daring folk who collect
insects are practically in q
class by themselves for distin-
i Ruished bravery under FIRE
Any one caught collecting any
sort Of insect Is fair game for more
than derision; the crowd feels en-
titled to persecute him in every way.
Not long ago, saw young man
out sweeping the Potomac meadows
with q collecting net. He was about
81 wears old, and he interested me for
that reason; he was too old to have q
bows mere collecting mania. too young
to be one Of the veteran collectors.
He was, indeed, precisely at that So
cially sensitive age when one fears
most not to cry as the others CRY, and
laugh as the others laugh.
So I climbed down from the high
wav and traversed the brushy, marshy
ground to talk with him. His finds
Tor the day were significant Of a seri-
Gus collector. He had fine vernal
tiger beetle, an anthobium or rove
beetle. which Is abundant on the
flowers of early Spring around WASH
ington and is probably very instru-
mental in their pollination; species
Of lady-bird, and species I'd never
seen before, of click-beetle, that he
said was very common under stones II
early Spring.
He had others than beetles, too
Evening star., 1933-04-12
Pointed Paragraphs

The man who fails to start doesn't
have to stop to think.
That wife governs best who doesn't
let her husband know she's trying.
Girls who act kittenish when they
are young often act catfish when they
grow up.
You can sometimes judge mans
ability by the number Of relatives ne
has to support.
The difference between a cook and
a chef Is that the latter can fix things
I'D so you can't tell what they are.
Our idea of a hero is young man
who attempts to prove that two can
live as cheaply as one, just because his
best girl told him so.
Even a $40 bill Is good only SO far
as 1t goes.
He who borrows trouble pays the In
terest with worry.
Evening star., 1933-04-12

ment invited to come or to stay. In
the first case, strictly speaking, you
should have worn dinner coat, but
o cutaway is considered proper for
family supper on Sunday, the fault was
not q great one. The white waistcoat
is always worn by younger New Workers
of the smart world. Elderly gentlemen
and those who dwell in the quieter by
ways of society wear black ones.
I lCopyright. 1933)
Evening star., 1933-04-12

for an able-bOdled
man. But for hours
of leisure (especi-
ally If wearing a
cutaway coat in
the daytime, and
always with eve
ming clothes, a
cane Is essential
to smartness. A
heavy stick is also
proper In the
country. Derby Is
the American pro-
nunciation; darby
the English. This
hat Is worn from
Autumn to Spring
by almost every
man In the city Of
New York. But I
am told that it !
Evening star., 1933-04-12
How 1t Started
Weighed in the Balance
BY JEAN NEWTON.

We have an INQUIRY for the origin of
the expression, Weighed in the balance
and found wanting" to indicate an in
accuracy, failure to live up to expec-
tations, a lack in some important re-
spect.
Weighed in the balance and found
wanting" comes to us from the Old Testa-
ment. In the Book of Daniel, chapter s.,
where Daniel, after all the wise men
had failed, interprets for King Bel
shazzar the handwriting on the wall,
Nine, Nine, Tkel, Upharsin," we find
the following:
This is the Interpretation Of the
matter: Nine, God hath numbered thy
kingdom and made an end Of it.
"Tkel, thou hast been weighed in
the balance and found wanting.
Press, thy kingdom hath been
divided and is given to the Medes and
the PerSianS"
Evening star., 1933-04-12
Wonders Of the Heavens.
GRAVITY Power

Gravity Power.
~ FTEN have spoken Of "scien-
fists" and Of the things which
they tell US; and no doubt you
~ feel that they must be won
derful persons.
think it is right to give them honor
They work long and hard to study the
facts about this problem or that prob
lem. Usually they do not have much
reward in gold; but they have great
reward when they find that their study
helps the human race.
True scientists are careful about what
they state. If they are not certain
about something, they say 1t Is a
theory" or that they believe it is
true, or that the facts seem to prove
that 1t is so. Then they work on and
on and on, in efforts to make sure.
About many things, scientists are as
certain as we are when we say, 1.-The
sun will be seen in the sky tomorrow
If the day is clear" For example, they
can tell what eclipses of the sun and
moon will take place for years to come
Evening star., 1933-04-12
Metal in the Radio.

A great variety Of metals, minerals
and alloys enters into the construc-
ton Of the radio. Steel, In strips and
bars, leads the metals in quantity, total
ing 10000 tons a year. Copper, in
sheets and as wire, follows with $4,000
tons, with copper alloys accounting for
1000 tons more. Tin in foil form and
tin-plate aggregate 1900 tons. Nickel
alloys, used in tubes amounts to 1,500
tons, and zinc totals 1 200 tons.
Evening star., 1933-04-12
NANCY PAGE
Spring Luncheons are Green
and White symphonies.
By FLORENCE LA GANKE.

What would you think Of white
and green luncheon for Spring day,
Nancy?"
II think it would be fine, Lois, f.
and here's big n-f and only If
YOU viii invite me and let me help
plan and prepare it."
Nancy knew that Lois was apt to
get tired rather easily. She knew, too,
that Ann got on her nerves occasion
ally, these days.
Lois consented. The two women sat
Evening star., 1933-04-12
Jolly POLLY
A Lesson in Etiquette.
By JOS. J. FRISCH.

H. M.-Continual nagging Of chill
dren at the table in the presence of
company" should be avoided. Such
treatment usually lessons a child's in
centive to good behavior before
strangers. Many families do not per-
NIT the children to come to the dinner
table until they have learned proper
table manners in the nursery.
Evening star., 1933-04-12

down. Here is the menu they planned:
parsley or leeks, sauted hominy, breast
Of chicken with cream gravy, parsley,
celery sticks stuffed with cottage cheese
and chives, frozen fruit salad, saltines,
coffee with whipped cream on top,
mintS.
The hominy was purchased In the
can or in bulk. It was drained and
then sauted In butter or bacon fat.
The white meat of chicken was taken
from a tin of ready canned chicken,
but it might well have been cooked
Evening star., 1933-04-12

THERE 4 rs A FINE. QUALITY OF
RHYTHM IN. Thee TREE AND
TRUTH PATCHWORK QUILT,
WHICH CAN BE MADE SUCCESS
FULLY FROM PIECES OF DIFFER
EMF DISCARDED FROCKS.
early, settler days Of America. and
amo11K the pioneer families during the
era Of opening and developing our
western territory. Thrift was not an
Evening star., 1933-04-12
About Clothes.

A NIGHT letter from a man asks
~ three questions: "Is it proper
~ to carry cane to business?"
4 \ when Is a derby (or is it
darby?) worm" When are
spats in good taste?"
Answer: In these days of rushing
in and out of subways and Office build
inRs, a cane Is not especially suitable
Evening star., 1933-04-12

u n AKING the most of things is
NH again assuming place of i'm
Nv portarce in homes. 1t Is
VI minor virtue which thrives
= best under financial pressure.
I was held in very high esteem in the
The Washington times., 1933-07-04
independence Day
Founding a Government

Americans today celebrate the anniversary of the laying Of
The cornerstone upon which has been reared mighty nation
On this anniversary of the signing Of the Declaration of Inde
pendence well for all people to give thought to the in
domiabe courage and arseeg wisdom of the orefaher
who created and signed the instrument which proclaimed the
rights and aspirations of people
Upon that declaration of rights has been buded form
Of government Upon has been erected mighty and
full nation.
philosophy.
Today throughout the world governments changing.
Here in America Government undergoing radical re-
vision.
We find Congress surrendering apparently without
thoughmmense powers reserved to by fathers
who wrote the Declaration of Independence.
We find process of accomplishment theory of direct
ing all of Americas affairs from the central seat Of
We find the individual States surrendering the national
powers heretofore exclusively their owpowers
which they formerly guarded jeaously
These changes is true brought about emergency
condition.
They put into effect effort retrieve the creature
comforts which have lost in the last few years.
Will these rights be recalled the people when the ener
gency to exist?
go fundamental concept Of the fathers of
Q theory Of government?
overheard short months the funda
mena which nourished the struggling colonies of 176
the great nation of today?
Has system of government which existed and fourshed
without basic change for than $50 years suddenly
come useless?
These questions which American citizens are asking
themselves today
They questions which be solved and to the solution
Of which should bring the lessons Of history and patriotism
The Washington times., 1933-07-04
Washington Alone
Uncertainties Here

President Roosevelt returns to Washington find the only
large group Of employees which does not stand to find its
condition improved a result of his "new DEAL
At any of the ports at which he touched while his
vacation cruise the President could have and undoubtedly did
find spirit of courage and confidence engendered
among working and by his actions since entering
the White House.
The President could have extended his any State
in the country and he would have found the justified
confidence
But he back the Federal City to find just the
opposite condition prevailing.
he finds workers Of the Federal Government
whom he is the supreme boss unable share the renewed
security which he has brought millions of workers other
establishments.
He finds here hundreds thousands Of loyal and
women workers dismissed virtually without notice.
He finds thousands distraught and worried the i'm
mediate possibility of losing their jobs.
He finds the holding inquess into suicides brought
directly by loss of their positions.
The Washington side Of the picture Is not pleasant
70 contemplate.
Certainly will add to the peace of mind of
humane President Roosevelt.
But in simple justice he should study the picture for he
alone change it.
He alone can wipe many determinations the many
unnecessary hardshps which bureaucratic ubordnaes
visiting upon the file of Government workers.
He alone holds in his eliminate the uncertainty
and dread which exists in virtually every home in this city
Of half million.
Will he tell his subordnate that the time for the
Government practice in its personnel relations the preach
ngs which those subordnates making to private indus
try?
Will he tell those ubordnates that the reign of terror
In the Civil Service must cease?
The Washington times., 1933-07-04
Human Side Of the News
Ogden Mills Buys the Virginia and Truckee-
Worth It's Weight in Gold-Dollar
Onions-Glass of Fashion
BY EdUin C.. Hill

William Jennings Bryan,
talking things over with
Mckinley and Mark Hanna
on the other side of the
River Styx, is nodding his
head, most likely, and say
ing: 81 told you so," to
those old champions of gold
and foemen of silver.
For the world needs
silver and the restoration of
silver as backing for cur
rency, along with gold, is
engaging the attention of
the great financial experts
of the world today. One
Of the most important tasks
Of the Great Economic Con-
ference in London is to re-
monetize silver and free the
enormous buying power of
one billion people in the
Near and Far East.
The Washington times., 1933-07-04

sand dollar watches and
Eastern theatrical entertain
ment-all ratified down the
V. and T. to the Comstock
Lode.
The best dressed man in
Nevada was the superinten-
dent of the V. and T. There
were plenty to say he was
the class of fashion for the
whole Pacific Coast, for Vir-
ginia City was expansive in
it's boom days, and there
was nothing it would not
claim or dare to be. H. NJ.
Yerrington was a Canadian,
a pnliSH d, leisurely man,
but withal a great executive,
a gentleman who bestowed
the same care on the lend
ing of his Ascot tie as he
did on the building of a
locomotive; a railrOader who
lavished equal Love on his
rolling stock and the tilt Of
his derby.
The Washington times., 1933-07-04
Good Prospects

Suppose that one Of these
days a bright young mining
engineer stumbles on to a
process for making low
grade gold and silver ores
profitable. Well - Mount
Davidson, BADLY frowning
down on Virginia City, is
5000 feet high, and every
foot is worth a million dol
lars if they could slice it
down and hack it to pieces,
wash it away and utterly
reduce it to smelling size
for some cheap extraction
process.
They say there Is a BILL
lion dollars in the old Com
stock dumps, awaiting the
man who can get it out
without spending a billion
and a half in the process.
And the man and the day
will come. When they do,
the old Virginia & Truckee
will be once more the most
prosperous railroad in the
world.
Copyright. 1893, King Features
Syndicate. Inc.)
The Washington times., 1933-07-04
Big Bonanza

The four bonanza kings,
Mackay and Fair, O'Brien
and Flood, discovered the
"big bonanza" in 1873 and
took out $21,OOO,OOO in one
year. By 1878 they were
digging $36,OOO,OOO a year
in gold and silver, in pro-
portion of about two or
three, out of the steaming,
dripping shafts that honey
combed Mount Davidson.
Those were the great days,
the real bonanza days, when
nothing was too good or two
expensive for the men who
were tapping an apparently
inexhaustible vein of gold
and silver. The Y. and T.
trains that hauled out their
ores returned with every
wild extravaganza that a
miner heart could covet.
The treasures the V. and
T. poured into Carson City
and Virginia City in the
twenty years or so of pros
perity could not, in the ma
ture of things, balance the
wealth that it carried out
but it did its best.
The Washington times., 1933-07-04
After Repeal
Education for Temperance

Apparently the drys have concluded that they whipped
They still make the old statements and through the
old motions but with 16 States already voting repeal and
fine prospects that the required S6 will have done before the
year out signs of resignation to the inevitable may be de-
tected from their camp
Mrs Ella Booe for example about dry they make
them.
In her latest public uerance she reeraes that the proh
tonistS will fight repeal the last ditch But she adds-and
this what makes her remarks worth readngthat dry
ganzatons in future must devote time and energy
EDUCATING the people against the Demon Rum.
prohbtionists would concentrate that instead of
uitless fight to keep the Eighteenth Amendment they would
be doing their country real service and would have also the
respect and cooperation Of majority Of the anprohbitionsts
All rational persons believe in temperance but they that
temperance cannot be achieved by law.
The nation rapidly being educated toward temperance
when prohibition along and turned to ntemperance
With prohibition out of the way the ground will be clear for
educational programs along temperance lines and the dry
in for that with the cordial approval Of enhs Of
the American people,
The Washington times., 1933-07-04

AND - THEN - GO -
OUT - AND - EAT -
WORMS!
For it's surely time. This is
a grand country. It was made
by great men and women. But
most of us who are doing the
loudest talking are neither.
We're just a bunch of lazy.
conceited NUTS who are liv-
ing on the records Of our
grand-dads. And while we're
shootinf off the rockets, what
sort of a show have we been
running? We have been run
ming a helluva Show-and II
the whole universe isn't sneer-
ing at our showdown and
snickering at our show-off, it
should be.
Just listen for five minutes
to the cheering, and then look
at these simple facts concern
ing conditions which exist
throughout our union.
There shouldn't be an idle
man in this country.
Or a sweat shop.
Or a man working for less
than a decent living wage.
There shouldn't be an 49,
year-old youngster who has
not received a PRACTICAL
education in some craft which
will enable him to earn his
living.
There shouldn't be an edu-
cational system which does not
include a PLANNED PRO
GRAM FOR AFTER-GRAD-
UATION JOBS.
There shouldn't be a work
ing child.
Or a whipped or chained
child.
Or q Child entertainer"
The Washington times., 1933-07-04
ONCE OVERS

You often think of the
changes you would have made
in your life if you had been
permitted to live it over again.
You excuse yourself from
making an effort to start from
where you are. under the plan
that you think might have
been more beneficial, because
you are colder now"
Naturally you might have had
a greater start beginning
younger, but what is there to
prevent a start now if the
thing you have in mind is worth
while?
Isn't it that you are not so
anxious to change your present
routine?
There would be self.denials
The Washington times., 1933-07-04
Redemption

For thirty years he rode
the V. and T. and ruled it.
1t was a great sight to see
him striding across the
tracks and through the
rough crowds in the G
Street Station, bowling low
to the ladies with a Good
morning, Madam" and a
punctilious lifting of his
hat to one and all.
He was a tall man and
spare, a Western-built man
with the manners of an
fastener. His cos tu m Q
never varied; gray cutaway
and low-crowned gray derby,
Ascot tie and pearl pin.
From under his stiff
brimmed hat, gray Dun
dreary whiskers swept grace
fully down his cheeks like
the dropping arms of a
silver spruce. If every other
vestige of culture had dis
appeared from Nevada, II.
NJ. Yerrington alone would
have redeemed it from bar
barity.
Such is the railroad Ogden
L. Mills has bought. He IS
the grandson Of the man
who built the V. & T., and
so he may have bought it
purely out Of sentiment;
for a man could be proud
of the family enterprise that
called for skilled railroaderS
from two continents to man
a 52-mile line. Maybe it
was more than sentiment;
maybe it was shrewd busi-
ness; for the man who con-
trolls the V. & T. railroad
controls the life of Virginia
City and Comstock Lode.