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DECORATION IDEAS BEAR FRUIT
Contest Replaced Flowers With Vegetables And Yew

sian embroidery, orange napkins, antique pewter candle-sticks, an old copper pitcher. a lily pool with lotus blossoms shaded by tiny cypress, green glasses and a plate of cumQuats with telling effect.
 One of the most elaborate ta- bles was the French, laid with salmon-pink satin damask cloth, mirror glass service plates and at one end a spray of yellow orchids and two small vases of green leaves.
 The Japanese woman who dec- oratet the Japanese table wanted to set up her tea trays and tiny garden right on the floor, but was finally persuaded to put them on a table. However, she warned that tea and rice will taste better when consumed native-style, sitting cross legged on the floor.
 Tulips on Dutch Tazle
 The luscious clusters of white and green grapes strung the entire length of the Italian table and croWning the heads of three porce- lain figures won second place for the entrant.
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The Dutch table was ountnrsd with a bowl of tulips and was uot for luncheon with a white om. broidered cloth. The Russian mo. tiff was modern except for an an- tique samovar, while tho Hnglish table went back to the time Of Charles IT, with rare old Dewter. dried fruits. nuts and apples and yew.
 The German table was laid half for a kaffee klatch with flna whifa cloth, silver coffee pot and porce- lain cups; half for beer drinking with that half of the table barN boards on which were set beer mugs. A wooden bowl in the center held spring flowers (fOr the kaffee klatch) and radishes ffor the beer drinkers).
 Marguerite Mergentime, W1s6 arranged the American table, de4 signed her own cloth. It was done. modern style, in alternate laven- der, purple and white bands on yellow background. Masses of violets were arranged in . low modern container of tin. GQusra corsages of violets with tiny yels low borders of mimose were plac- ed for each guest.
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i'able) and billowing chiffona (which have to be pressed every- time you look at them). And speaking of linen, Re. member about that Irish linen that is 8 pet subject of ours7 Paris went what you might call sort of hog wild over Ireland's Spiralspun linen. All the biz dressmaking houses used 1t one way or another. Paquin devei- oped it in a cocktail gown od black, yellow and white In q printed design with wide shorS sleeves and a clinging skirt that flowed out in great fullness at the hem, finished with 8 taffeta sash tied in a huge bow at tho back. Rose Descat made lovely large black hat in the same fab. ric to go with 1t.
 Maggy Rouff made the sensation ing a wedding gown in white Spi- ralspun with sunray pleated skirt cut in one with the long trains wide medieval slevees and a nuns like coife to the flowing tulle veil.
 These examples may give you some idea of the numerous usea to which linen Is now being put in the world of fashion. It makes shoes, corsets and pocketbooks aa well-all of which makes 1t . pret- ty versatile fabric, say we.
 TO-DAY'S FASHION TIP Linen evening gowns enbrois
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GOurds, alligator pears, squash, onions and the plebian bean com- priscd the ccntcrs of decoration for the prize-winning Mexican ta- ble at the Tables of Nations con- test in New York. A bright colOred Mexican runner on brown cloth, brown glass steins, native pottery plates and primitive iron candle stocks completed the ensemble. LEFT: The Old English tables, set with authentic pewter of Charles II's time, features walnuts, dried fruit, apples and clusters of yew
 branches.
 RIGHT: Marguerite Mergentime's especially designed tableclOth and napkins of lavender, purple and white bands match the viOletsa in the ccnterpicce and the corsages.
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of us are children until we reach the age of 23 to 25 years. I still think that smart parents will ask every boy or girl to give solemn pledge not to smoke. or drink until he or she has attained full adult development, and to renew that pledge each year.
 I still believe that football is a grown mans game, suitable for college or university men, but much too strenuous for normal ' growing boys, and I believe that many high school youths who go in for football and perhaps win a brief glory of a sort are physically damaged by heart strain from which full recovery is always un- certain. A boys heart has enough to do to stand up to the primary strains of normal physica, and athletic activities while he i. growing. Athletic games of skill speed and agility are best for boy! and endurance contests are not s, dangerous for grown men.
 Why does a child begin te smoke or drink in the first place The child lacks fair home training pride of family, self-respect. The child is weak in personality, in character, hasn't enough spirit oi 1 courage to say no when "all the girls" say yes. And since this de- ficiency in education is now fos- tered at school, 1t is up to the par ents to assert themselves if they wish to save the high schools from going rah-rah.
 need not mention the long list of pathological effects of tobacco nor dwell on the fact that the m '. jury is greater in the young. There is no denying that the tobacco habit is a handicap for any youth to contend with. And as for alco- hol, no intelligent person can con- ceive dose of alcohol having any but a vicious effect on child.
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you whether you can do that and get away with it! Just who do you think you are, you little she devil?" He twisted her arm until she half-screamed with pain. ''Now come up here," he said, ''and give me kiss" She struggled to break free, and he gave her arm such a savage twist that it almost broke the bones. Despite herself, an involun- tary scream was wrung from her lips.
 The door from the hall crashed open. Norman Happ stood on the threshold.
 He had no need to ask the mean ing of what was taking place. The positions of the two people tolG him all too plainly: Millicent Graves, her body twisted, trying to take as much strain as possible from her arm, while Robert Caise standing over her gloatingly. his face flushed. was twisting the arm and deriving apparent pleasure from the torture.
 You dirty cad!' Norman HapL said, striding across the room. Caise whirled to face him. You keep out of this," he said "You damned upstart!" Norman Happ placed his right hand on the shoulder of Caise' $ coat. His fingers gripped the cloth Wait minute,' Caise said "before you do anything rash. See what she's got in her right hand and you won't be so chivalrous. v
 Caise had relaxed his grip some what, and Millicent swung her right palm in slap against the side of his face.
 That's what I've got in my palm, you beast!" she said Caise cursed, jumped back, let ting go his grip of her. He com pletely lost control of himself, and swung his fist sat her chin.
 Millicent flung up her hands in- stinctively. The blow crashed through her guard. struck her an the Aide of the head. Then she heard the smacking impact of punched knuckles against bone. Gile OpSilcu HGI eyes anu SLdTcQ dazedly at Robert Caise stagger- ing backwards, while Norman Happ, standing with his feet plant ed wide apart, his jaw thrust bel ligerently forward, glowered at him.
 ''Get out of here!" Happ said.
 Caise caught at the foot of the bed to keep his balance.
 "I'll get out of here." he said, "when she tells me to, and not be- fore. And if she tells me to, she knows what it's going to mean"
 Millicent felt Norman Happ's eyes turn toward hers doubioSisly.
 Don't think she's one of these sweet, innocent little girls" Caise said. She's got plenty to conceal She ."
 "Get out!" Happ said.
 Not until she tells me to-" Caise said. ..&.
 By way of answer. Millicent
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walked to the door, stood with her hand on the knob, and said, "Get out"
 All right" Caise sneered. "I'll leave you with your little boy hero. You can figure out how much good it's going to do both of you.'
 Frying to insinuate that you've got something on the girl?" Happ asked.
 "I've got plenty on her" Caisc said, and when l leave here, I'm taking 1t with me-"
 "Take this with you, too" Happ said, and swung his right foot.
 But Caise jumped into the hall way ahead of the foot. Milli- cent Graves slammed the door shut, turned the key ill the lock, turned to face Norman Happ.
 "Thank you," she said. "I-er- I-'
 "Has he got something OH you?" Norman Happ asked.
 "Perhaps," she said.
 "Something you'd be afraid to have come out?
 She wanted to lower her eyes, yet could not tear them from his. She knew how a faithful dog feels when it has done wrong and is approaching its master. Her knees felt weak.
 Gan you tell me what it is?' he asked.
 "No," she said in a low, weak voice.
 My father" he said. told me to come to you. He couldn't get away. He's talking with the officers. He said to remember that you had come here from Seattle, that in Seattle you were working for an attorney named Irving Charles Bachelder."
 She faced him and said, But l wasn't in Seattle and l don't know any Irving Charles Bachelder."
 nevertheless" he said, that's what my father says you are to tell the police. They'll ask you something about where you've been."
 "But suppose they should wire MT Bachelder-if there is any such person."
 My father" he said, will take care of that. Please do just as he says"
 But" she asked him, should lie to the police?"
 ,Ie looked at her for moment. You'd better do as Father says" he told her. Father Is nearly al- ways right"
 She wanted desperately to come to his arms, wanted to put her hands on his shoulders. wanted to lay her head on his chest and sob.
 Something of what was in her mind must have shown in her eyes. He stepped toward her.
 At that moment the door open ed. Robert Caise stood on the threshold, With him was a man in plain clothes who, nevertheless, had the stamp of detective writ ten on him, both in clothes and features.
 'Is this the woman?" the man asked.
 Robert Caise. staring defiantly at Millicent, said in a loud, clear voice, "This, officer, is the wom- an."
 (To Be Continuedl
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stitutes. Send a stamped envel- ope bearing your address, and I'll name the nearest competent one I know.
 Consanguinity
 Grandparents were first cousins. Their children and the children's children seem to be fine and healthy. Our children, if any, will be the third generation removed. Will this have any bearing on their normalcy? (S. R.)
 Answer-1f the family was of sound stock originally, it doesn't matter whether the grandparents were cousins. Generally inbreed- I ing tends to lower the quality of the stock, and new blood, if it is good blood,. tends to improve it. Copyright 1885, John +. Dille Co
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SYNOPSIS

MILLICENT. GRAVES, secre- tary to GEORGE DRIMGOLD, finds her employer in his office dead. Millicent has a notebook in which Drimgold had begun to dictate a confession.
 In panic she ruShes away, reg isters at a hotel under an as- stunned name.
 JARVIS HAPP, a stranger, Of- fers to help her. He sends her to a beauty parior where she is transformed into a brunei, then takes her homo and introduces her as his secretary. She meets Happ's son, Norman; his step- son, ROBERT CAISE, and MRS. HAPP.
 Milicent falls asleep and wakes to finad notet under her door reading, "T'he woman i'm black ermine Is here9" Millicent dresses, sees the woman in black drive away and follows in Robert Caisc's car, but runs out of gas. She goes tO the chauf- feur's quarters and finds him dead.
 Next morning Jarvis Happ tells her the chauffeur has been murdered and shows her n Handkerchief (MiIlicent's) which heS found in the dead mans room.
 RObest Caise enters MiIliccnt's room.
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Here's crepe jacket dress that's rafy graceful lsck
 And just for frvoiy there jabot fr collars ef wh
 Even the beginner will find it easy to make, and in expensive. s6 Style No 3OS2 is designed for 16 IS years S. s. A
 nd nches bust Size 6 requires yards of 3oneh material with $ yard of 3o-inch contrasting Send FIFTEEN CENTS usc) in stamps or coin (con is erred) for PATTERN Write plainly YOUR NAME, ADDRESS WISH Spring Fashion Book Costs TEN CENTS Send for Your Copy rodayi BOOK and PATTERN together TWENTY-FIvE CENTS Re to state stSes
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The Mexican table which won first prize in this event planned by the Federal Garden clubs of Connecticut, was set with a deep brown cloth and runners of bright-colored Mexican handi- work. Handmade native earthen- ware formed the service plates and the brown glasses were hand-blown. Primitive iron candle-sticks, two bowls of red peppers and center- piece of pineapples, alligator pears and, of all things, scallions with their roots on, continued the au- thentic peasant note.
 The Spanish table with its cen-
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PARIS STYLES
By MARY KNIGHT

Paris, (UP)-Linen evening dresses embroidered in gold and silver is just one of the many clever ideas launched by Patou.
 And think how grand for summer = cool and yet substan- tial and with all the chic and glamor of wispy tulles (so perish
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terpiece Of native fruit was fur ther heightened by tiny porcelain baskets filled with her carnations at each of the four corners of the table. On the handmade beige linen cloth of Swedish were laid ray-blue service plates of porce- lain and in the middle of the table was set soup tureen to match the plates, with cornflowers and yellow freesias planned, garden fashion, at the base.
 Persian Garden on Table l. The co;orful Persian table. done for the buffet supper, used a nat ural linen cloth with bands of Per-
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GIRL BANK CLERKS MARKS
 MEN

Rockville, Conn, (UP)-Rob- bers, beware! Women employees of four banks have interested them- selves in the Rockville Bankers Revolver Club and have been ac- cepted as members. They will practice on the police range with the men.
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
 RcgcncratiOn Time

Now that spring is here the old
 mans fancy fondly turns to
 thoughts of prolonging or bringing
 back youth, and all that sort of thing. In other words, give us a good spring tonic in the shape of
 some sound health building in
 struction GA. T. B.) Answer-rve yelled myself
 hoarse trying to hawk the very
 thing you need. But you don't get | 1t. Once more, then: Send dime
 and stamped envelope bearing
 your address, for copy of book | let 'The Regeneration Regimen" Frozen Milk Will freezing destroy any of the qualities of cows milk? In very cold weather the milk in the bottle
 left by the milkman Is sometim es frozen solid before we get up. :. | (Mrs l.. R.)
 AnsWer--So far as l can learn,
 freezing does not have any bad ef- | feet.
 l Sculptural Surgery | Would like to have my funny
 nose corrected. Will any surgeon
 perform this particular operation ?
 About how much would it cost ? | (B. Al
 1 Answer-You should consult only a sculptural surgeon of good i repute, and beware of self-com-
 mended plastic surgeons" or in-
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Some Settings, Adiudged Blooming
By MARY MARGARET McBRIDI

NEW YORK The flowers that bloom in the spring had
 V comparatively and even surprisingly little to do with the prize tables arranged by American in the Tables of the Nations contest at Horticultural ha Rocke- feer Center Indeed fesoons of purple and green grapes nuts yew trees decorative beer sein lily poos goldfish and dried fruit notes popular than the ventona tulps narcss and crocuses of the usbuddng
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GLORIFYING
 YOURSELF
By Alicia Hart
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Martha Mears, well-known sing CT, is one actress whose chief con- cern is with her feet and ankles. She believes that healthy feet, shod in beautiful but comfortable finest attributes to beauty. Whats more, she really practices routines that keep her own ankles slender and supple. Of course, we all know that un- less ankles really have surplus flesh and fat on them, there Is | nothing that can be done to make them smaller. After all, you cant | reduce a bone. However, for wo- men who want to have a graceful, beautiful walk, here are few ex- ! ercises which help to keep Miss Mears' ankles supple and lovely: Stand on your toes in front of a wall with hands placed lightly
 against the fiat surface. Keeping
 the knee rigid, raise the right leg
 backward as far as it will go. Then
 bend the knee, pointing toes out ward. Repeat rapidly twenty l times.
 l When you have finished, do this
 exercise, too:
 Stand with feet few inches
 apart. Jump upward, about six
 inches from the floor, coming
 down and balancing on the left
 foot, keeping the right one off the
 floor. Alternate, rapidly, landing first on one foot and then on the | other.
 ii addition, remember that
 massage will break down fatty
 tissues around ankles. Put a tit | of cream on your hands and, be- ginning at the toes, massage up- | ward to the ankles. Use your fin | gers as well as your palms and
 make sure that you are bearing down into the fabby flesh.
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PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE
 BY WILLIAM BRADY, MD.

health and hygiene not to dis
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NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER XVI

CHAPTER XVI
 Millicent held her hand close to her side, hoping she had con- cealed the key container which was pressed against her robe.
 ''Wilf you learn to keep out of my room!" she blazed with an in dignation which did much to con ceal her panic. "Is it going to be necessary for me to have a spring lock put on that door, or must I appeal to your mother to force you to show at least ordinary decr ency and respect to a woman?"
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FEEBLE-MINDED AND
 PRECOCITY

In a girlish hand on girlish sta tionery comes this inquiry:
 As a doctor what would you
 say IS the actual harm of high
 school girls smoking and
 drinking cocktails?
 The other day some citizen wrote to the paper to praise the decision of the graduating class in high school to serve no liquor at the class dinner this year.
 The more license children in high school are given to initiate college men and women with fra ternities, sororities, football mock heroics and theatrical extrava- ganzas, the less conspicuous is scholarship. If some hulkine adult still in high school makes the headlines in the football game, the principal calls general as- sembly to celebrate the achieve ment, and this is shrewdly calcu- lated to distract the attention O1 parents from the inferior order ot school work.
 One high school teacher, an anx- ious mother informs me, assures the girls of her cnorus--her class, l mean--that it is all right to smoke as long as you don't in hale.
 Probably I am narrow, preju- diced and old fashioned about these things, but I cant conceive of a sound argument or defense for smoking by children, and most
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|I Up 70 7he Minute Democrat Fashions
Edited ky LAURA I. BALDT, A. M.

For many years Assistant Professor of HouseboH Arts, Teachers College. ColnmIa University, New York, W. Y.
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TO-DAY'S FASHION TIP Linen evening gowns enbrois tered in gold and silver. s
The Washington times., 1935-06-06
Wrestling Results

I AT LOS ANGELEs-Man Mountain
Dean; sIsA, U. S. A.. detected Ernie
Lake City flattened Jim Browning,
former world champion. Vincent Lopez.
Mexico, threw Mike Romano. Italy.
:. Stranger Lewis dOwned Hans kampher,
German Sander SzabO. Hungary,
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Va. NINE FACES
FINAL GAMES

UNIVERSITY, Va, June s.
Virginia's baseball team will re-
sumo practice in a few days for
the final home game Of the 1885
campaign here next Saturday and
a trip through New England.
Yale in New Haven on June IL,
Brown in Providence on June IS,
Amherst in Amherst on June IS,
and Vermont in Burlington on
June II are the teams the Cava.
liers will play on their first trip
north of the Mason-Dixon line
in several seasons.
AS feature attraction Of
Alumni Reunion Day June 8, the
Virginians will make their final
home appearance. They may play
a Southern Conference rival, or
they may meet a nine Of former
varsity stars.
Virginia has won 10 games and
lost eight of those played during
April and May. All but two of
those lost were during April when
unusual rain and cold kept a
team made up largely of mex
perienced men in a hitting and
fielding slump.
Capt. Orlin Rogers, star south
paw pitcher and leading batsman,
will be making his last appear.
ance in Cavalier uniform. At the
end of the trip he will go to Wash
ington to report to Clark Griffith,
owner of the Washington Sena-
tors. He has agreed to accept an
offer by Mr.. Griffith, the best of
several he has received from ma
jor league clubs, but will not sign
a contract until the season ends.
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CEN TRIAL NINE
IN VICTORY

Central High School diamond
ers had one-sided victory on the
books today, following a Is to 3
rout of the Fort Belvoir nine
yesterday at Fort Belvoir.
George Rowles, southpaw,
hurled for the school lads and
granted four hits. His mates
gathered 10 off three soldier fling
ers. Lefty Chumbris, with five
bingleS, led the attack.
Western High netmen are today
the inter-high school series tennis
champions. Yesterday the George.
towners copied the title by defeat.
ing Eastern, S to 4 in matches at
the Columbia Country Club.
Eugene and Logan Owens were
the stars for Western. The former
won in the singles, defeating
Crawford, of Eastern, 60, 60,
while the pair triumphed as
doubles partners in the doubles,
defeating Crawford and Burns,
6-3, 6-3.
The Hatch brothers also played
a big role for Western. Both John
and Mac lost in the singles, but
came back strong as doubles part
nerS to defeat Contreras and
Litchliter, Ga, 2-6, Ga. 1t was
in the doubles that Western raj
lied to win the title.
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to- win in the finale.
Although held to five hits by
Gene Schott, Cincinnati rookie,
the Chicago Cubs continued their
fight toward the top of the league,
defeating the Reds, So.
In the American League it was
a tragic day for the rookie pitch
ing sensations, Vito Tamulis, Yam
KEGS, and Johnny Whitehead, Chi
cago White Sox. A five-run Phila-
delphia Athletic attack, featured
by Bob Johnson's homer with the
bases loaded, stopped Tamulis'
win streak at five as the Ath-
letics defeated the Yankees, 81.
Whitehead Stopped
Whitehead, who had won eight
and lost none, suffered his initial
setback as Jack Knott, st. Louis
Browns hurler, whitewashed the
Chicago White Sox, 2 to 0. White.
head went the route and allowed
seven hits.
At Detroit, the Tigers engaged
in a double header with the Cleve
land Indians, winning the opener
from the Tribesmen, 5 to 4. This
game was held up for some time
due to showers. The nightcap got
off very late, and went just six
innings, when darkness forced a
halt, with the score tied 4-all
Manager Mickey Cochrane hit a
home run in the last inning OF
this game for the Tigers.