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sleep on. 1t gets your asthma. Some
calls 1t rabbit tobacco.
"Hoarhound for colds, with boneset,
an life-everlasting. May-apple root
that's for constipation. Pipsissewa,
you boil for your kidneys. Black
snake root, brew for your blood
These Indian turnips, hotter'n red
pepper, you peel EN-, cut 'em up, an
put EN- in whiskey. Drink table
spoonful twicet a day. for rundown,
worn-out condition. Calamus, some
calls it flag root, I gathers in the
swamp now. Chew it for stomach
pain. Red-clover, that's for beauty
An joint-root's for good luck. You
makes a wish an the wish comes true,
or you sprinkle little on your door
step to draw the trade your way"
She has other odd products, about
whose properties she makes slight
comment. Their names are classics
of suggestion: Devils shoestring, lion
root, Queen Elizabeth, King Solomon,
High John the Conqueror, dragons
blood, ginger root and gall-earth.
Only four months in the year pre-
serve their proper names for Hattie,
from November through February.
These are the months when the
ground is too hard to be seeking her
supplies in the swamp ground nearby.
Beginning with March, she explains
as follows:
That's SaSsafras time, then next
comes hearhound and catnip. Be-
ginnin, of Summer, that's luck root
and May-apple. Schools out when !
get devils shoestring, blood and lion
roots. Wood-bittra's best after that.
Then I get boneset and life-everlast-
ing. Then it's bittersweets and
leaves"
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quent radio addresses from the White
House.
Under the kindly guidance Of T. w.
Church. assistant manager in charge
of the Columbia Systems Washington
studios, and armed with an official
o. K from "Steve" Early, the Presi-
dents secretary. you are privileged to
visit the diplomatic reception room,
where all White House broadcasts are
held.
First Of all you enter the front door
Of Americas best known residence
The neatly uniformed guard escorts
you to your left and then through two
exceptionally heavy double DOORS
Next you turn directly to your right
and down o white marble staircase.
At the bottom Of this and again slight
ly to you right is the door to the
diplomatic reception room. The door
takes you through the north entrance.
Now, as you stand in this doorway
and look in, you note on your imme-
diate left q number of visitors. You
count them and discover exactly six
A couple Of them are sitting down.
But the majority are standing in
groups of two, smoking and chatting.
On your left and In front Of win
dow facing you is medium -sized desk
of the ordinary business type, fiat
topped and dark stained. It contains q
microphone, without lettering, and a
number Of wires. You ask Mr.. Church
what all this Is for and he explains
that both Mr.. and Mrs. Roosevelt use
1t for all White House broadcasts.
"If the First Lady were sitting at
the desk right now she'd be about
halfway facing you," Mr.. Church fur
ther points out.
You look at your watch-exactly rs
minutes Of show time" 50 YOU
glance about the room which you've
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4 4 of a First Lady? However,
here's little incident Wash
ington radio executives like to tell
personal friends:
1t seems that almost year ago Mrs.
Roosevelt was making broadcast to
help raise funds for the operation of
an orchestra in New York City. The
First Lady was speaking from the
diplomatic reception room in the White
House. 1t is on the street level under
meath the south portico. At the outset
all went well. Mrs. Roosevelt was her
usual calm and perfectly poised self.
However, right in the middle of her
talk Scotty puppy, newest addition
to the White House canine family,
scampered into the room. How he
escaped the usually alert eyes of the
numerous attendants no one knows.
Anyway, there he was, very much in
evidence. Naturally, all those present.
about a half dozen, all told-made a
valiant bid to catch the pup. But in
vain. For fully five minutes he
frolicked about the room, evidently
having grand and glorious time
Meantime everybody held their breath,
convinced that nothing short of a
miracle could prevent the dog from
utterly running the broadcast.
Finally, however, the pup calmed
down, placed his front paws on the
broadcasting desk at which Mrs.
Roosevelt was seated and looked an
pealingly at his famous mistress, as If
to say, well, here I am, and what
are you going to do about it?"
Now this latest canine maneuver
bumped the desk only trifie. But
even q wee bump Like that y eaAly
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Fight Apple Worms.
D EsEARCH experts of the Dep'

p ESEARCH experts of the Depart
ment of Agriculture are seeking
elimination of the worms of the cod
ding moth which destroy large guam
titles Of apples and pears. One effec-
tive method has been the use of the
poisonous spray, lead arsenate being
employed. This method, however, has
drawback in the occasional disclo-
sure of quantities of poison still re-
manning on the skins at market
ing time.
One angle of the new attack Is
along the line of development of new
spraying materials which would be
death-dealing to the moth, but harm
less to man. Another plan is proper
practices within the orchards to cur
tail the changes Of development Of
the moth, and, thirdly, all other meth
ods failing, new means of removing
the spray residue before marketing
will be sought
In the search for substitute sprays,
nicotine has proved the most promis-
ing. Before this alkaloid can be used
in a practical way, however, 1t will
be necessary to develop means to make
it stick better to fruit and foliage in
spite of rains, and also to prevent too
rapid evaporation. In this direction
some progress has been made with mic
otine combinations such as with ben
tonite, with tannic acid, and with
mineral oil. None of the combina-
tions developed thus far, however, are
sufficiently effective, cheap and sat
isfactory to replace lead arsenate.
Derris, a tropical plant containing
q poison known as rotenone, and
pyrethrum. which contains the toxic
substances used in most insect pow
ders and fly sprays. failed to control
the c0ddling moth under the condi-
tions of last years experiments. The
department is keeping up a search
for new plants which may contain
substances harmless to human beings,
but deadly to insects. Information
on such plants has been collected
from many parts of the world.
Tests last year with bait traps and
light traps reduced the number Of
moths somewhat, but not to the point
OF lessening greatly the need for
spraying. The orchard sanitation
practices recommended by the de-
partment and successfully demon
strated last season are of value in
reducing the number Of spray appli-
cations needed. Fewer sprays, espe-
cially late in the season, mean less
residue to wash from the fruit. Elec-
trifled light traps used iri the work
in 1884 were very expensive to install
and operate, but it Is hoped that with
improvement In their effectiveness the
number needed can be reduced to a
point where their employment in
practical orchard operations would be
profitable.
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spoken only 81 times. At his present
rate, the Chief Executives average Of
about 20 broadcasts a year is less than
that of MIR. Hoover. e.
What are the exact figures in the
case of Mrs. Roosevelt? The two
major networks, National Broadcast
ing Co. and Columbia Broadcasting
System, do not agree exactly. N. B.
C.'S main office in New York City
claims the First Lady has spoken Il
times over its network since Mr..
Roosevelt's Inauguration, of which 18
talks were made during 1888 and 23
up to November /, 1884. Columbia s
New York headquarters claim some
what higher total.
Mrs. Roosevelt makes so many
broadcasts that it's next to impossible
for both networks always to put them
on the air simultaneously. On a sin
gle day, for instance, around the mid
die of last November, she spoke twice.
Usually, therefore, most of. the First
Lady's radio talks are exclusive to one
network at time There are very
few joint broadcasts, by mutual agree
ment.
Just why does Mrs. Roosevelt broad
cast so often? This is very easy to
understand, studio executives agree.
First of all, because she thoroughly
enjoys radio work, and, secondly, be-
cause she is tremendously interested
in almost everything under the sun,
particularly civic, educational and
charitable enterprises. Invariably,
then, since Mrs. Roosevelt Is admit
tedly socially minded in every sense
Of the term, her speeches have been
in connection with some helpful social
movement. Furthermore, she takes
no recognition whatsoever OF the va
rious criticisms.
Take o peep behind the scenes q
Mrs.. Roosevelt makes one Of her fre.
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been told is one of the best known in
the entire White House set-up.
The ceiling must be IL or Is feet
high. A highly decorative chande-
lier bangles from its approximate CEN
ter. The room itself is oval-Shaped,
as its nickname, the oval room, sug-
gests. There are two large windows,
both on the south side. One faces
southeast, the other southwest, and
they offer you views of the south
grounds. There are only five chairs
in the room, and each is of the So
called occasional" variety.
Meet Bob Trout, official White
House announcer for the Columbia
Broadcasting System" says Mr..
Church.
and this is Clyde Hunt, Columbia's
engineer, who has charge of the tech
nical radio set-up."
Here comes Mrs. Roosevelt" some
one says in stage whisper.
Sure enough, here's the First Lady,
accompanied only by a woman COM
panion. While offering friendly nod
to all those present, she moves to the
broadcasting desk, sits down and
starts to knit.
This lifts the tension. Every one
relaxes. The hum of conversation
continues just as before.
Mr.. Church nudges you. 'It ought
to be exactly q quarter of TO-" he
whispers. Almost always we can
tell the exact time by the moment Mrs.
Roosevelt arrives for broadcast"
Once more you glance at your
watch. Three minutes of 10. Getting
mighty close to SHOW time" Bob
Trout whispers something to the First
Lady. There's mild dash for the
three unused chairs; no further at
tempt at conversation. All cigarettes
are snuffed out. Bob sticks his pipe
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the total population, are always heavy
buyers of natural medicines. To cater
to their requirements there are more
than score of dispensing agents
here of one sort or another.
One local company is probably the
largest firm dealing in bottled and
boxed patent herb remedies. 1t does
a large volume of its business by mail
and through local drug stores. Half
a dozen other similar firms in the
city are regular compounders of pat
ent medicaments and large users Of
raw drugs. Only 8 Of the approx
mately 275 drug stores in the city deal
in drugs exclusively. Bottles and
drawers line the walls inside certain
portions of these stores. No drug in
the pharmacopoeia is missing. Below
the Latin titles on the drawers are
more familiar homely names. These
latter undertook the arcana to the
layman.
They form a genuine litany of
simples: Foxglove. squaw vine, Sum-
seal, life root, hySsop, sweet marjoram,
rosemary and rue, dogweed, man
drake, bugleweed, thyme, king meadow,
queen meadow, princesspine and lady
slipper. Here are yarrow, balmony
and celandine, feverfew and fireweed.
mistletoe and goldthread. coltsfoot and
waterpepper, broom, larkspur and dit
tany. There are motherwort, FROST
wort and lungwort, spearmint, horse
mint and peppermint. For contrast,
the triad of poisons show henbane,
aconite and belladonna.
One store, besides dealing in patent
remedies, does a large business in raw
herbs. Once the shop stocked over
800 varieties of pharmacon; one en-
tire side Of the shop, in fact, was
given over to great square boxes
labeled with the picture and descrip-
ton Of exotic plants and herbs almost
unknown in the pharmacopoeia Of to-
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audible on the air. OF course, Mrs.
Roosevelt was fully aware of the fact,
being seasoned broadcaster. Yet she
on talking while she looked up and
smiled at her pet, reached over and
patted his head.
Evidently the pup now realized he
was being somewhat of a nuisance
Anyway, he leaped down off the desk
and parked beside his mistress. From
then on he stood fairly still, happily
wagging his tail while she continued
to pet him during the remainder of
the broadcast.
Studio mechanics refer to impromptu
noises as ''hits." Needless to say they
bring many gray hair to an other
wise youthful-looking crop of curls
belonging to a studio executive. This
incident, insignificant in itself, is
mentioned only because it throws init
mate light on two fascinating phases
of the First Lady's radio character
her informality and her failure to get
wrought up, no matter what annoy
ance suddenly may break into the
usual well-oiled machinery Of a White
House broadcast.
Certainly there are a number of
things about Mrs. Roosevelt which
make her a unique radio personality.
Figures show that she has spoken over
the air more than all the preceding
Presidents wives put together, and a
trif1e oftener than has her distin-
guished husband. Phrased in another
way, Mrs. Hoover spoke only 10 times
during her four years residence in the
White House, whereas Mrs. Coolidge
spoke times, the radio folks say.
As for the Presidents themselves
Mr.. Coolidge gave only 81 radio ad-
dresses during his seven years incum-
bency, and Mr. Hoover offered 100
broadcasts. President Roosevelt, dur
Ing his hrst 20 mouths In once has
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aSphyxia, meningitis and respiratory
collapse from shock, from anesthesia
and from hemorrhage.

aSphyXia, meningitis and respiratory
collapse from shock, from anesthesia
and from hemorrhage.
RUT long before the seventeenth
century of King James the Indians
were discovering the therapeutic quail
! ties of their native flora. 1t was from
them that our pioneering forefathers
gathered their store of herbal knowl-
edge. 1t is from them that we have
inherited the great majority of for
! mulae for the common "homely" all
ments.
| The principal narcotic plants and
stimulants of ancient America were
tobacco, cohoba. red bean, peyotl,
ololiuhqui. jimson weed, huaca -cachu,
coca. aya-huyasca. yerba mate, cas-
sine guerana and cacao. Divine at
| tributes were aScribed to them and
they were used in medicines, divina-
tion, ceremonials and many times
were carried by the Indians as safe
guards or amulets to insure success
in warfare and the chase.
These herbs were gathered with
sacred ceremony. Specific chants were
uttered during the ceremony which, If
not spoken, rendered the remedies en-
tirely non-efficacious. Scholars who
have reported on the subject, however,
are unanimous in agreement that none
of them has ever seen the actual cere-
mony of herb gathering among the
Indian tribes.
The shamen (medicine mem of the
tribes were usually divided into three
classes. Two of these dealt with herbs
and roots entirely. The "Wabeno"
engaged in the general routine of fur
nishing hunting medicine" and "love
powders" the "Mashkikikewinini," the
had to know the many mysterious
properties of vast variety of plants,
herbs, barks, roots and berries, and
they guarded their secrets jealously.
From the Pima Indians come sew
eral remedies still known and used
widely. There is ataftak, the wild
gourd plant, used for earache;, koi,
the gum from mesquite plants, braised
for wounds and. oddly, sort of red
mans candy also; rsios, or bigelovia,
for cuts caused by broken glass; vi
ipam, the milk of sweet potato-like
vine used as a chewing gum for
constipation, and vaiewa, or cookie
burr pulp, macerated for eye trouble.
Each of these drugs may be purchased
in Washington in any one of a num-
ber of places, under different names,
perhaps, but essentially the same
simple.
THREE unusual elements in the
Capitals population make the
city large center for the sale Of root
and herb remedies. First, Washing
ton has a population of almost 20 per
cent of men and women over so years
Of age, 80 per cent Negro, and small,
but concentrated sector Of Chinese
These three groups, nearly half Of
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in a pocket. The room is now so
quiet you could hear the proverbial
pin drop.
"All ready, Mrs. Roosevelt?" asks
Bob.
The First Lady smiles.
Clyde Hunt, the radio engineer, does
something or other to the wires; Bob
Trout moves the mike" closer to
Mrs. Roosevelt. She picks up a tiny
piece Of paper bearing a few notes
penciled in her own writing.
The White House broadcast Is
ready to start.
Good evening. ladies and gentle
men. We are speaking to you from
the diplomatic reception room In the
White House in Washington. Tonight,
Mrs. Roosevelt will talk to you on the
subject"
a Does the First Lady, while broad
Wasting, have any personal manner
isms? Just one in particular-that
Of placing both elbows on the broad
casting table, lacing and unlacing
her partially folded fingers.
All the while, she seems perfectly
poised and at ease You do not get
the impression, as you watch her,
that she's making q speech. On the
other hand, you have q feeling that
she's talking exactly as If she were
in friendly conversation with . hand
full Of friends seated at the table
alongside.
The result Is q delightful feeling
Of informality that warns the hearts
Of all those watching the broadcast.
Meantime, mind you, Mrs. Roosevelt
seems entirely .oblivious Of her sur
roundings. She doesn't look at any
one. She seems to be imagining the
people she's speaking to, whether they
are on the farm, at the city 1ireside,
Ia the factory or Ut Tie otace.
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ounce. Moy has had few customers
for it. The rare one gets a shaved
off, powdered pinch of the valuable
piece, which probably weighs about
half a pound. 1t has special cura-
tive properties bound up in the lore
Of centuries.
Other rare Oriental physics in Moy's
store include $l00-an-ounce ginseng
root, costly because Of its age, its shape
and the fact that 1t was secured from
an almost inaccessible mountain re-
gion in China, where actual lives are
lost in the gathering. There is other
ginseng, popular Chinese root, rang
ing in price from SIS down to $40 an
ounce, the cheapest. Some of this
latter comes from nearby West Vir-
ginia, where the ginseng gatherers
have for generations been known as
"seng diggers."
Chuntong, Spring tonic; kamtek-
peng, laxative; mah-wong, an herb
resembling a broom straw, for colds;
ting putting, for rundown condition,
and foo-kling, a rheumatism remedy
that looks like hollow cigarettes after
being rolled of large, dubious root
with a sort of cabbage-cutter board.
and locust chrysalises are few inter-
esting products in common demand.
There are many private herb gar
dens in the Capital, none Of them as
extensive, however, as the Cottage
Herb Garden of Washington Cathedral
at Mount st. Alban. Mrs G. c. F.
Bratenahl, head Of the Washington
Garden Guild, gives her full time to its
upkeep. Its simples, carefully gath
cred, dried and prepared under Mrs.
Bratenahl's supervision, are sold in
the Spring, Summer and Autumn
months to an ever-growing list of GUS
toners.
1t specializes in about so herbs,
among them ambrosia, basil, borage,
burnet. cammomile, chervil, carraway,
coriander, clary, cumin. dill, elecam-
payne, fennel, germander, lovage, Law
ender, lemon verbena, mugwort, skir-
ret, santolina, saffron, sweet woodruff,
Southernwood and tarragon.
NO STORY of roots and herbs in
Washington could stand without
ample space devoted to Hattie Robson,
colored vender, who has been at her
stand, rain or shine, for more than
40 years, at the old and new Center
Markets.
Hattie is not unknown as a lee
surer on her speciality. Twice she has
been called for at her stand, whisked
away in q big limousine to a univer-
sity and asked to explain slowly and
carefully the exact status, in the
curative" field, of each of the herbals
she gathers There on the rostrum,
before the students, she has delivered
her chant of the .simples, the sing
song of the strange roots and herbs
of her forest and swamps.
There's wild plum bark from the
north side of the tree That's for
your blood or rundown system. An
sa'S'parilla, make tea and drink it.
Red-oak bark in solution with mullen
you bathe In that for dropsy an
rheumatism. White-oak bark, that's
for women. Sos pennyroyal, too, an
tansy. This herb here is iife-everlast-
ing, blooms in September. Make 1t
into tea, put it under your pillow to
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day. The store has been there for 81
years, and although fewer shelves are
given over to these boxes. 1t Is still
the most popular center for the Negro
trade in herbals. The owner lists as
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his best sellers more than Al different
roots and herbs, among them anise,
skunk cabbage, yellow dock, clover and
dog grass.
Another shop keeps a supply of
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left: Sioux medicine when America young
These fellows native herbs in their medicines
Moy Washington center)
compromising prescription whose formula China ITSELF
right Hattie Robinson Washngtons
Center left Drawers herbs washington
right Backfoo pedocor in full regaa Below Three thousand
dollars worth Of Chinese drugs photographed in Washington
One the cinnamon bark Of special
Washington
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RUT long before the seventeenth
By joyce McGhee.

A CAT may look at king. But |
~ who ever heard of pet dog |
~ all but running the radio address |
4 4 of a First Lady? However, |
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The program for the convention OF
the National Association Of Real Es-
tate Boards which opens in Atlantic
City next week should be of particular
interest to Washington realtors, ac-
cording to Clarence F. Donohoe.
chairman of the local Real Estate
Boards Convention Committee.
Home builders and brokers will find
the discussions by Waverly Taylor on
THE Practical Uses of New Material
and Equipment" and Miles L. Colean.
director of low cost housing, Federal
Housing Administration. on Stand
ards of Residential Development" of
unusual interest because of the large
amount of home building which is
under way at present in the Washing
ton area Those interested in fnan-
cial matters will find the sessions OF
the National Mortgage Board of par
(See REALTORS, Page o.