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Evening star., 1934-04-20
Nancy Page
Do Clothes Closets Really
Need Doors?
BY FLORENCE LA GANKE.

In Nancy's bed room was a large
clothes closet. That is, 1t was large
in so far as length was concerned,
but shallow as to width. To obviate
the difficulties of getting into the
farthest corners of this closet Nancy
and Peter had had the builders put
on two doors. BY opening these it
was possible to get into the recesses
easily.
These doors had proven satisfac-
tory from another viewpoint-in that
mirror had been fastened to the
inside of one Of the doors. This
gave a full-length view and was used
a great deal.
It was interesting to Nancy then
when she visited an exhibition house
in her city to see a different treat
ment of a closet built like theirs was.
She was not sure that the bene-
fits outweighed the losses. The doors
in this clothes closet had been taken
off. In their place were hung cur
tains of soft velvet, the same shade
as was used for draperies. These
were lined and hung on a traverse
roo. IL was simple matter TO pull
them open or shut by manipulating
the cords.
The effect of the velvet in place
of doors was charming. Nancy was
not disturbed by the possibility of
dirt getting in for she knew that
doors kept out but small amounts.
She liked the fact that the closet
could be aired, for being an inside
closet there was no outside window
possible. The interior Of the closet
had built-in drawers and shelves.
The clothes rods extended outward
at right angles to the wall instead
of parallel. But the greatest lack
that Nancy felt was the full-length
mirror. II she changed her closet
in her home she would have to find
some other place for the mirror.
Evening star., 1934-04-20
Spring Songs
BY ID. c. PEATTIE.

THIS treacherous and uncertain
Spring weather has had the effect
of holding back the birds to some de-
gree. Every big storm banks them up
in the South. except when the storm
comes from the South itself, as hap
pens more than once a year. Then,
perhaps it whips the poor creatures
along before Its tropic fury!
Great was my delight to hear the
mourning or wood doves calling one
gray morning not long ago. OF all
the sounds in the world, there is none
so homelike. can't imagine how any
one could think of mourning and grief
in that love song. 1t breathes of con-
tentment, of tranquility, of home It
is to me one of the more civilized Of
bird songs. The crow, the heron, the
bittern, the loon, even most of the
Warblers. make me think of the wilder
ness, the great American wilderness,
whose ghost still haunts this tanned
continent. But the sound of the wood
dove, like that of the chewink and the
song sparrow and meadowlark. recall
the ways of home, the feeling Of caves
above my window. of rain on the roof,
fire on the hearth. and the dew
d4enched symmetry of ordered gardens,
and smooth lawns and groomed hedges
The morning dove would seem to
be almost more the sort Of bird one
would expect of the European bird
fauna like the cuckoo. There creatures
practically have to be able to live with
man in order to survive All that was
wild vanished long ago in Europe,
somewhere back in the Dark Ages,
when great forests covered most of the
continent and wild Steppes the rest.
There is nothing so attractive to
mourning doves as an Usage orange
tree. They will nest in Usage orange
hedges by preference, at any time,
and though their nests are only big,
clumsy affairs 1t is sweet to have these
gentle birds near tie house to sing all
Summer till the moulting season stills
their voices.
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water, and stir until the marshmal-
lows are well dissolved. Spread the
marshmallows over the lady fingers
until smooth. then sprinkle on one
cupful of chopped nuts; then on this
place another layer of lady fingers.
marshmallows and nuts Leave in
the refrigerator to chill. Cut into
squares, cover with whipped cream
and garniSh with maraSchino cherries
Tasty Sandwiches.
Use a saving motion when cutting
the bread for sandwiches, being care
full not to bear down on the loaf.
Then you can cut paper-thin slices
without any trouble. Cut the bread
lengthwise Of the loaf when making
many small sandwiches. as they cut
to better advantage. 1t is also we'll
to cream the butter and spread it on
the bread before slicing. Cut open
faced sandwiches with a cooky cutter,
making circles. diamonds. small tri-
angles and long, narrow strips. Use
a variety of filings and make before
slicing the bread If bread is cut
lengthwise instead of across it will
be seen at once that you save about
two-thirds of the waste. especially
when sandwiches are cut in fancy
shapes.
Sandwiches spread with a chopped
vegetable mixture are good accom-
paniments for hearty main-course
salad made Of meat. eggs, cheese or
fish. When made into open-faced
sandwiches attractively decorated with
sliced olives, a sprig of parsley or
some chopped green pepper. these
vegetable sandwiches are a good
means Of using such vegetables as
carrots. string beans and chopped
spinach. Open-faced sandwiches
made Of these vegetables may be
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place that it always had been to her
She was lonely. Peter was still miss
ing. Without hin the Old Briar-patch
was no longer the same.
In the evening twilight she would
sit just outside looking wistfully across
the Green Meadows. wondering If
Peter was still alive or if he had been
drowned in the great flood.
He will come back. know he will
come back" she would say over and
over, but she never was quite sure that
she really believed what she was say
ing. He had been gone for couple
of days at a time before, but never
so long as this. There had been times
in other Springs when listening to
the joyous lilt of Carol the Meadow
Lark. she had wished that she, too,
could sing just to express the Joy with
Evening star., 1934-04-20

LOWLY the water was draining
from the Green Meadows. The
Big River was no longer much
~ over its banks. Here and there
on the lowest parts Of the Green
Meadows the water still stood in pools,
but daily these grew smaller. Soon
there would be only the damage that
had been done as a reminder OF the
great food.
In the dear Old Briar- r-patch little
Mrs. Peter Rabbit no longer had cause
to worry because of the water. She
was alone there now, for those who
had sought refuge there and left as
soon as the watel would permit. But
Mrs. Peter was not happy. No. sir;
she was not happy. The dear Old
Briar-patch was no more the joyous
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She was too
Inundated to
try to explain

For a startled instant the
small bug that appeared on her
davenport caught and held
every eve. Then with quick
courtesy, her guests turned back
to their game. When she looked
again, the bug was gone. Gone
from sight-but present in her
consciousness and very present
in the minds of her friends.
Housekeepers-the most fas-
tidious housekeepers-need no
longer have before them the
threat of such humiliation. ANY
lurking danger or any hidden
menace is easily handled by
DETHOL. DETHOL penetrates
places beyond the reach of
broom and brush. DETHOL is
the super-preventive. Weekly
use of DETHOL brings to clean
houses the hidden cleanliness
that marks the finest homes.
DETHOL'S place in the
weekly housekeeping is after
the sweeping and the dusting.
Spray the rooms and the clothes
closets. Spray the crevices and
the baseboards with DETHOL
powerful, penetrating, effec-
tive DETHOL and your home
is absolutely clean.
For greatest effectiveness;
Spray Dethol full strength
in closed rooms. All insects
as weH as the eggs and
laruae Of insects are killed
phen properly contacted.
In washing wood,oork,
glass or porcelain it is
ueU to add one or tUo
tablespoons of Dethol to
the ,oater solution. Spray
,cith Dethol once a ,0eek.
Use Dethol in cleaning
,cater every day.
DETHOL is on sale at drug,
grocery, hardware and depart.
ment stores.
Evening star., 1934-04-20
Tongue Canapes.

Cut some white bread into neat
square slices, removing the crust, and
toast. To two ounces of butter allow
one good teaspoonful of made mustard
and work we'll into the butter. Put a
good layer of this butter on each
piece of toast. over it place a small,
neatly trimmed slice of tongue and
decorate with small pat of the mus
tard butter,
Evening star., 1934-04-20

NIAChtI1 0Oup- STdCh6HS.
Baked Custard.
Chocolate Cookies. Tea.
DINNER.
Tomato Juice Cocktail.
Baked Ham, Escalloped Potatoes.
Boiled Spinach.
Lettuce and Cucumber Salad.
French Dressing.
Peach Tapioca Cream.
Coffee.
OATMEAL MUFFINS.
Soak 2 cupfuls dry oatmeal to
IL cupfuls sour milk overnight.
Add l teaspoonful salt, egg, II
cupful sugar, teaspoonful soda,
IL cupfuls -four. This makes
one dozen.
CHOCOLATE COOKIES.
Two-thirds cupful fat, 11a cup
fuls light brown sugar, 2 squares
chocolate. melted; l teaspoonful
vanilla, "a teaspoonful salt, 2
GSSS, 1 OcdSEOOll1u ul CIcdIli, d cup
fuls flour, l teaspoonful baking
powder. Cream the fat and
sugar. Add the chocolate, va
nilla, salt, eggs and cream and
beat minutes. Add rest of in
gradients. Drop portions of
dough onto creased baking sheets.
Flatten well and bake IL minutes
in moderate oven. Frost with
white or chocolate icing.
PEACH TAPIOCA.
Peel and slice l quart ripe
peaches. Canned peaches may be
used. Sprinkle with sugar and
let stand 3 hours. Make a tap
ioca cream. using l pint milk, 3
tablespoonful prepared tapioca,
y cupful sugar, eggs and pinch
salt. When milk comes to the
boiling point stir in tapioca and
sugar and cook in double boiler
y hour. Beat yolk of 2 eggs with
a little cold water, add to hot
tapioca, stir well and add water,
removing from stove. Let it get
thoroughly cold before stirring in
peaches.
Copyright, 1934l
Evening star., 1934-04-20
Food and Thrift in the Home
Bread, Pastry, Sandwiches
Approved Methods to Be Used With Cakes and
Shortcakes-Pies and Puddings on
Spring Menus.
Spring Menus.

w YHEN bread is ready to go
n | into the tins In the morn
wv ing and hot rolls are de-
sired for the evening meal
part of the dough may
be divided into small rolls and each
roll dipped in melted butter and
placed in a shallow pan and set aside
In the refrigerator until evening. The
rolls will not rise in the refrigerator.
but will come up quickly after taking
them from the refrigerator into a
warm kitchen. The rolls can then be
baked II ten or twelve minutes and
are ready when the rest of the meal
Is served.
After mixing ice box rolls, If the
dough is placed in a bowl with a
tight-fitting cover before being placed
in the refrigerator, il will keep much
longer. This method also greatly i'm
proves the taste of the rolls. When
bowl with the flour, press an egg
will be well cut in by the wires.
Southern Supper Bread.-Sift one
cupful of corn meal to which half a
teaspoonful of baking soda and a
pinch of salt have been added Add
one cupful of sweet milk and one
cupful of sour milk or buttermilk, one
beaten egg and melted butter or other
shortening the size of a hickory nut
Beat we'll Pour into warm frying
pan and bake until firm and brown.
Date Bread.-Put one cupful of
chopped dates to soak in one cupful
of hot water while you cream one
tablespoonful of butter with half a
cupful of sugar, to which one egg is
added Add one teaspoonful of baking
soda to the water which has been
drained from the dates, then add to
the butter, sugar and egg mixture
Sift in two cupfuls of white -four and
three-fourths teaspoonful of salt; beat
well. Add half cupful of chopped
nuts and the dates and beat thor
oughly. Pour into creased loaf pan
and bake for one hour in a medium
oven. This is delicious for sand
wiches when spread with cream
cheese.
Cakes and ShortcakeS.
If cake filling has been cooked too
long or if it has been beaten too stiff,
it can be easily softened to the exact
stage desired by adding white sirup,
fresh from the can, without heating
Just stir into the cake filling about one
spoonful of sirup at time, until Of
the consistency desired. Sometimes it
takes nearly cupful of the sirup and
again only a few spoonfuls, but the
method is successful
To keep whipped cream as stiff as
when newly whipped, use confec-
TONERS sugar for sweetening instead
Of plain sugar. This will keep the
cream firm wherever it is placed, and
1t will not become thin and watery.
To whip canned cream, scald the
cream in a double boiler, then chill for
about three hours, or until real cold,
then beat it as you would other cream.
1t beats quickly. and there is no
danger of its turning to butter. One
cupful of canned cream will be as
much as half pint of sweet cream.
Bisque Cake-Cream half cupful
OF butter and half cupful of sugar,
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wrapped in waxed paper, or packed
with waxed paper. cut to fit, placed
between each two, and the whole
wrapped in a damp cloth. These are
good to put in the picnic basket.
Evening star., 1934-04-20
Fewer Cattle Reported.

The State crop statistician of Idaho
reported a decline of about per cent
IN the number of cattle in the State.
Evening star., 1934-04-20
Welcome Brings News.

Hope is like ray Of light.
Cutting through the dark OF night.
Old Mother Nature.
Evening star., 1934-04-20
MENU FOR A DAY.
BREAKFAST.

Vi dIISG UuICE.
Wheat Cereal With Cream.
Scrambled Eggs.
Oatmeal Mullins. Coffee.
LUNCHEON.
Chicken Soup. Crackers.
Baked Custard.
Chocolate Cookies. Tea.
Evening star., 1934-05-08
CITIZENS PROTEST.
CROWD|NC OF CARS
KeniIWorth Association
Claims Transit Company
Check Was Unfair.

The overcrowding of Kenilworth
street cars was protested by the Ken
ilworth Citizens Association last night
in a meeting held in the Kenilworth
Church. A traffic check made by the
Capital Transit Co. at Kenilworth
Junction was held to be unfair by the
members, since they complained of
conditions existing between Four
teenth street northwest to Tenth
street northeast
The association pointed out that
the cars bound for Kenilworth start
from the Treasury on a 30-minute
schedule and serve residents of all
northeast, and, due to that fact, ad-
vocated the continuance of cars
bound for Fifteenth and H streets
northeast to Kenilworth. Basis for
their demands for better service, in
addition to the conditions already
cited, centered around the fact that
the residents of Kenilworth had given
the ground for the street car line
Evening star., 1934-05-08
Paper ''StrdW" Hat to Resist
Rain, Claimed by Inventor
Bio Water Reservoirs SaddIed on Backs
of Mule Train May Be Used to
FIGHT Forest Fires.

If woman buys dress goods, indi-
eating that she makes her own
dresses, the sales force will know that
to send her announcements of dress
sales probably will be only a waste
of postage stamps.
The idea is that one purchase gen.
orally leads to- another of some re-
lated article, and that the probability
of the second sale is greatly increased
if the store takes the trouble to sug-
gest it to the customer.
An appointment clock" is another
idea patented last week When the
business man makes an appointment
he registers the day and hour on a
specially constructed Office clock.
When the moment comeS the clock
automatically reminds him that he
has an appointment and he can con-
suit his memorandum to recall the
details to his memory.
Radiant Energy
To Send Signals.
The patents Of the week cover
many fields, from electric transmits
sion systems to rouge applicators.
Among the more serious is one for
the use of infra-red radiant energy
waves for the sending of signals
through tog for a distance of several
miles at sea. 1t is described as a
means of Transforming waves of
radiant energy longer than X-rays
and then Transforming the compress
sion waves into electrical vibrations 4"
This, it is claimed. will greatly ex-
tend the use of such signaling de-
vices which now are confined to
visible light which can effect a photo
electric cell.
Another inventor would put asphalt
collars on trees to protect them from
insects crawling from the ground
The asphalt. ii IS pointed out. would
remain in relatively fluid condition
so that the collar would expand with
the growth of the tree.
Local Dentist Had
Wireless Idea in 1872.
A Washington dentist. Mahlon
Loomis. had the essential idea of wire
less in 1872.
A patent issued to him in that year
is nov on display at the Library of
Congress He described his idea
"As the double wire, first used in
telegraphy. was dispensed with by sub
stituting the earth instead of a wire to
form half the circuit so now dispense
with both wires, using the earth as
one-half the circuit and the electrical
element far above the earth's surface
as the other part l also dispense
with all artificial batteries, but use
the free electricity of the atmosphere,
cooperating with that of the earth to
supply electrical dynamical force for
telegraphv and other useful purposes
such as light. heat and motive power
LAS atmospheric electricity is found
Evening star., 1934-05-08
CLERGYMAN'S ESTATE
is VALUED AT $45,00O
Letters of Administration Asked
for Late Rev. Augustus
M. Mark.

Rev. Augustus NJ. Mark, formerly of
ST. Francis de Sales Catholic Church,
left an estate worth S45 600 when he
died April 7, according to a petition
for letters of administration filed in
District Supreme Court yesterday.
The petition, filed through Attorney
James F. Reilly, asked that Edward P.
McAdams be named administrator.
Another petition, filed in connection
with the death April of Michael j.
Keane, valued his estate at 1852 ,277
His daughter. Helen M. Keane. was
named as sole heir and next of kin
The petition, filed through Attorneys
G. Percy McGlue and Thomas F.
Burke. asked that the daughter be
named administrative.
Evening star., 1934-05-08
CONVICT FACES PRISON
AGAIN AFTER RELEASE
West Virginia to Claim Man for
Life Sentence Upon End
ing Montana Term.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HELENA, Mont, May 8.-When
Luther Wilkinson steps out of the
Montana Penitentiary Thursday he
will be taken into custody by c. C.
Hunter, guard at the West Virginia
Penitentiary, to be returned to that
prison to resume serving a life SEN
tence as an habitual criminal.
A requisition for Wilkerson, con-
victed in Montana of forgery, was
honored today.
Wilkerson, alias L. A. Wilkderson,
alias Frank O'Neill, was committed
to the prison at Moundsville, w. Va,
September 81, 1920, for a life term.
He was pardoned in 1923, but the
pardon was revoked He later was
granted a respite, but failed to abide
by its terms, authorities said.
Evening star., 1934-05-08

One inventor proposes imitation
earthquakes to get rid of ground
moles. These bothersome creatures
he says, are distressed and repealed
by certain character of discordant
vibrations which may be caused to
| occur in the soil, resulting in their
burrowing to the surface and retreat
ing as rapidly as possible" His idea
is to place a mole-proof fence around
the area in which the discordant vi
brations are created. with traps on the
surface to catch the animals.
Customers Future
Needs Checked.
Yet another inventor has patented
a customer control" device for de-
partment stores.
1t sounds ominous, but what it
amounts to is a combined system OF
bookkeeping and salesmanship by
which record is made of each pur-
chase of each customer. for the
guidance of the sales force. For eX-
ample, if person buys a new taole.
he or she is Immediately checked as
a good prospect for a new tablecloth.
Evening star., 1934-05-08
CLUB HEARS HATCH

Senator Carl A. Hatch Of New Mex
leo addressed the National Parks Club
and its guests last night in the audi
torium of the Commerce Department
on The Glories of Our National
Parks"
The speech followed an illustrated
lecture on Indian detours and the
Grand Canyon by Mary Tucker,
writer and traveller, OF New York.
Among the 1900 persons present was
Mrs. Harold l.. Ickes, wife of the
Secretary of the Interior.
A tour of the national parks, to be-
gin June 80 under the auspices of the
club, was announced by Mrs. Laura L..
Waters, president, and Miss Lois Cor
nell, secretary.
Evening star., 1934-05-08
Finnan Will Speak.

c. Marshall F1nnan. superintendent
of National Capital Parks, will speak
on Beauty Spots of the National Cap
ital Parks" at meeting of the Powell
Junior High School Parent-Teacher
Association in the school auditorium
tomorrow at pm. Mrs. Dell Gilbert
Sale will give a reading of Ma at the
PIT. A." Doris Shof will play piano
selections Election of officers will
precede the entertainment.
Evening star., 1934-05-08
Parking to Be Studied.

S. K. Murphy, w. A. Barnes and
w. H. Webb were appointed as COM
Evening star., 1934-05-08

mittee to study the an-night parking
problem.
The improvement Of Kenilworth
avenue from the District line to
Douglas street was urged and it was
decided to take the matter up with
the proper authorities.
w. H. Webb, H. A. Wardius and
S. K. Murphy were appointed to serve
as a Police and Fire Committee.
Mrs. Clara Wiseman was elected to
membership.
Evening star., 1934-05-08
CONFESSES ROBBERY

WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE,
Ohio, May 8 R).-Leo McDaniels, 81,
has confessed, Sheriff w. H. Icen-
hover announced, to participation in
the robbery of the Farmers Bank of
Good Hope last week, and accom-
panied the sheriff to Columbus in a
futile attempt to find the $567 loot
he said had been hidden in his home
there.
Icenhower said the confession
cleared up the robbery, since Howard
Douglas, %, previously had admitted
a part in it.
Evening star., 1934-05-08

more abundant when moist clouds,
heated currents of air and other dissi-
pating influences are left far below, my
plan is to seek as high an elevation as
practical on the tops of noun
tains and thus establishing electrical
connection with the atmospheric
stratum of the ocean everything local
disturbances.
Upon such mountsin tops I erect
suitable towers and apparatus to at
tract the electricity of the air, or. in
other words, to disturb the electrical
equilibrium and to obtain current Of
electricity, or shocks and pulsations."
Evening star., 1934-05-08

Another patent was for a mule fire
engine, designed for the fighting of
forest fires in rough, mountainous
country, with no water available. Un-
der such circumstances the fires are
fought bv the somewhat risky practice
of backfring. This inventor would
saddle big water reservoirs on the
backs of mule train. All would be
connected together, with pump on
the saddle of the first mule.
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to the company on the condition thai
they be rendered good service.
Would Enforce Terminal Acts

they be rendered good service.
Would Enforce Terminal Acts.
Enforcement of the terminal acts
Of l90l-2,. requiring bridges over
railroad tracks at intersections, to
be built at the expense of the rail-
road company, was urged by the as
sociation. BY this action the aSso-
citation joined with the Joint Con-
ference of Northeast Suburban Citi-
zens' Associations in recommending q
bridge over tracks In a line with
Franklin street northeast between
Seventh and Ninth streets, which
must be crossed by school children
living west of Seventh street In order
to gain access to the Crosby Noyes
School.
The Endorsement of Col w. L. Peake
as superintendent of the District penal
institutions when and If such vacancy
should occur was approved by the as
sociation.
Protest Of P. w. A. funds for i'm
provements on Kenilworth avenue
being transferred to make improve
ments on River road was registered
by the association. F. B. Shipley,
president, appointed a committee to
see why this was done.
Parking to Be Studied.
S. K. Murphy, w. A. Barnes and
w. H. Webb were appointed as COM
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BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

And now for the synthetic straw hat
patent for one made of paper was
granted here this week. 1t was de-
scribed in the application as lighter
more resistent to rain. and better look
ing than the genuine article. The
paper Is made into imitation straw
fibers, which then are woven in the
customary manner.
Evening star., 1934-05-08
Claims Record for Icing.

PHILADELPHIA LP).-"Slim" Jones
went underground for 73 days in
''buried-alive" stunt when the weather
was cold. Then he scared upward
with the mercury.
He had himself frozen in ice and
carried by airplane from Philadelphia
to Newark, N. j. Now he claims a
tWo-hour record for icing.