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Evening star., 1935-12-09
BY BARBARA BELL.

THIS model with the double life
is made on coat lines. The
front is fastened on the side,
\ tied with bow. A belt begins
at either side, and continues in back,
holding that portion of the garment
neat and firm. No belt in front, but
because Of its excellent fit none is
needed. The dress has turned-back
collar, and wide reveres which make
the deep v of the neckline. Sleeves
are short, and skirt wide, with COM
fort in view. The laundreSS will love
this on busy ironing days, for the
whole dress lies fiat on the board,
and does up in a minute. In wash
materials, percale, gingham, lawn,
cotton broadcloth this is a grand style
for the busy housewife.
The negligee doesn't admit that it
has the slightest relationship with the
humble cotton frock! 1t really doesn't
look as If it were cut on the very
same lines, the fact is one of those
dark secrets that the family keeps
Evening star., 1935-12-09

w YHY Is 1t that virtually all
M women think Of themselves
wv as martyrs? No matter
what their lots in life they
consider themselves poor, prosecuted
creatures who have been hardly dealt
with by fate and who are entitled to
the sympathy of the community.
OF course, life isn't all beer and
skittles for any of US but. taking 1t
BY and large, 1t isn't any worse for
women than It is for men. Yet you
rarely see a man who is sorry for
himself, while nearly all women are
sunk in self-pity. They don't even
have to have anything to complain OF,
or a genuine affiiction to justify their
bid for sympathy. They just call for
tears on general principles.
Now the worst of this martyr COM
plex is that women are not only OBJ
sessed with it themselves, but they
have sold the world the idea that
there Is something terribly pathetic
and heart-breaking about women
having to undergo the ordinary ex-
periences Of existence. They have
even monopolized for their own bene-
ut certain terms Of sympathy. such
as ''the poor working girl" "the poor
old maid" "the poor old mother"
though why the woman who makes
her own living, or who has not chosen
to marry, or who has children is any
more an object of pity than the boy
with q job. or an old bachelor, or
father, goodness only knows.
&% ~
WHY any girl who has sense and
w intelligence enough to be self
supporting should be sorry for her
self, and why we should pity her. Is
an inexplicable mystery. Neverthe-
less, nine working girls out OF ten
shed tears over the fact that they
are not society butterflies, and have
to come downtown to work instead OF
to play, and we weep with them and
poor Mary" them instead Of congrat-
ulating them on their luck.
For most of them make more money
than the debutantes they envy ever
have in their ornate purses. They
have the self-respect that financial
independence gives. They lead far
more interesting life than the girl
does who spends her time at that
dullest Of all games. killing time. She
has far more, dates and a better
chance to marry than any society girl
has. And. furthermore, she doesn't
have to marry because her family Is
tired of supporting her and wants to
sell her to the highest bidder. No
business girl has right to the martyr
complex, but most Of them have it.
Next come the old maids, who are
virtually always Just overfiowing with
self-pity, even when the reason they
do not possess husbands is because
they didn't want them. Plenty OF
women do not marry because they are
celibate by nature, or because they
have never met any man who came
I'D to their ideal or fired their fancy.
But, at any rate. as they get along
toward 40 they begin to develop the
martyr spirit and to be sorry for
themselves because they haven't o
husband to support or take back talk
from and to put up with.
X = y X
THE old bachelor is as jolly as .
sandboy. He hugs his freedom
to his breast and rejoices that he
does not have to listen to curtain lee
lures or be nagged and that he has
his money to spend upon himself.
The old maid possesses the same
perquisites, but she, consider herself
an object Of sympathy, while the old
Evening star., 1935-12-09

emerge in all
their glory.
Like fruit cake,
plum pud di ng
makes q welcome
Yuletide gift, and
is sometimes the
most perfe C t
solution to the
knotty problem Of
"what to give"
In this connec-
ton we are in
cluding one very
excellent recipe
which will make
aifhor mo very
Evening star., 1935-12-09
Cooks Corner
By MRS. ALEXANDER GEORGE.
crrRSTA MrIAT DINNER


SUBSTANTIAL DINNER.
fSerUtng Five or Sir.)
Pot Roast BraiSed Vegetables
Bread Currdnt Jam
HarUest Salad PiQuant Dressing
Prune Upside DotUn Cake
as Coffee
HARVEST SALAD.
I package lime u cup chopped
gelatin mixture carrots
12s cups boiling S cup chopped
water pimento
tablespoon stuffed olives
vinegar Il cup chopped
tablespoon sweet pickles
orange Juice " teaspoon salt
cup chopped 4 teaspoon
cabbage pepper
Pour water over gelatin mixture and
stir until dissolved. Cool. Add rest
Of ingredients and pour into loaf mold
which has been rinsed out Of cold
water. Chill until stiff. Unmold, cut
In slices and arrange on crisp cabbage
Or lettuce leaves.
PRUNE UPSIDE DOWN CAKE.
D tablespoons but teaspoon CHINA
ter mon
Cup 1"A n OA cup cooked
~ cup prune juice
2 tablespoons u cup nuts
lemon juice (optionaD
Melt butter in frying pan dron pre-
ferred), add sugar and cook until
melted. Stir constantly. Add rest of
ingredients. Cover with batter.
BATTER.
IL cups flour tablespoons fat,
8 teaspoons bak- melted
Z, ing powder +,o.
" teaspoon salt oaiI,"
u cup sugar ~
/ egg teaspoon
II cup cold water almond extract.
Mix ingredients and beat two min
utes. Pour over prunes. Bake in fry
ing pan 80 minutes in moderate oven
Turn out, prune side up. Serve fresh.
Evening star., 1935-12-09

Knitting simplicity accessories best And
accessories this matching hat and bag little time The
Joined
to to
with padded roll top and clasp of plain knitting
instructions making the set
all stitches used; material requirements
Evening Please print name and address
Evening star., 1935-12-09
BY BETSY CAswELL,

TOR you energetic and ambitious
- souls who plan to make your
1 own family plum pudding for
a Christmas, the time, as The
Walrus said, has come. 1t is well to
make the dainties now, so that they
may be set to mature and "ripen"
before December rs, when they will
Evening star., 1935-12-09

/. ne0 red and gold enan1eled compact 2. Small
beauty kit tied tUth red ribbon Uch may be initiated
Red ball of talcun7 poOder. e. Very smart manicure
set IN red patent leather IN WASHINGTON snop
Evening star., 1935-12-09

w YHY is 1t that virtually all
A women think Of themselves
Wv as martyrs? No matter
what their lots in life they
Evening star., 1935-12-09

For information concerning items
mentioned in this column call Ma
tiOnal 5000, extension 1896, between 10
and IL am.
Evening star., 1935-10-27

luxury known only to millionaires wives and
lucky gamblers favorites So that in time she,
too became gambler in everything save the
literal CHANGING of literal wealth on the turn
of card. Tomorrow What of tomorrow
when today is so good2 Life? What of life
when fate governs all? Live and play the
game, and laugh and enjoy the good things
that fate brings your way.
Thus she lived, and was happy, until
Chase Harrison came.
Chase Harrison, too. was gambler. and
Chase. too had been an officer in General
Lees army. even as Mart Gentlemen both,
who had known each other as boys. and then
as striplings. and then as young men off to
the war. Gentlemen who had come back
from the war with that tight Tipped smile
and that cynical faith in the turn of card or
the draw of gun.
These things Clarita learned, pieCemeal,
after her first meeting with Chase Harrison;
these things and the fact that between these
two men, reared to the same code, lay
rivalry of years. What it was some honor
in school, some disputed winning at cards,
some fancy for forgotten pretty face
she never learned; only that it was there, just
beneath the gentlemanly surface And she. of
all the women in this world, must be the one
to bring it fully into sight like the fame in an
ember on a hearth long buried under calm
white ash, suddenly blown to life by sharp
breath
Clarita met Chase Harrison at dinner one
night, when he sitting alone across the room,
saw Mart and rose and came to bow in his
courtly way and exchange greetings with an
old acquaintance Mart introduced them. and
the moment she met his eyes. those blue, sad
eyes, she knew it must happen. They were
eyes that spoke without movement, and their
first message to Clarita was. II love you"
Deny it she might, but deep in her heart she
knew that denial was vain. For this was no
flutter of her heart like that when she had
first seen Mart Reade; this was throb.
That one throb. and then he was gone. back
to his table, back to his own world somewhere
remote and yet so close that even when he
had gone his presence fingered.
She saw him but few times in those next
weeks. but he was always with her; and her
life with Mart Reade was like dream life,
through which she walked as in h aze,
numbed to all reality save that which re-
volved around Chase Harrison.
Mart must have known, though at first h e
said nothing Instead he went earlier to hi S
games and returned later, and oftener than
not he brought back gems, for her ears and
her wrists and her fingers, and left them
where she must find them when she should
awaken. 1t was his gesture, the one gesture
he knew. But it was not quite enough and
when he saw that it was not enough. he came
back more often with his tongue thickened,
his eyes bloodshot and, finally, abuse on his
lips.
Through this she lived with a smile in her
Evening star., 1935-10-27

T STILL lacked ten minutes of nine when
Clarita thrust her needle through the
silk and laid it aside, to 60 and stand
by the window. 1t was moonlight out
side, but she scarcely noticed Harrison Street
lay below her, loud with Leadvilles nightly
roar; but she scarcely noticed that, either
She was gripping the slender fingers of one
hand tightly in the fingers of the other, and
her heart was beating fast beneath her stays
She tugged at the window, finally lifted the
SASH The below of a drunken miner echoed
up from the street out ofthe welter of sounds.
The air was chill. and she shivered; but she
stood there. looking off across the sprawling
city. She couldn't see the place. but she knew
that somewhere off there on the mountainside
Chase Harrison and Mart Reade were stand
ing and talking, like gentlemen; hating each
other like feudists. but talking like gentlemen.
And she knew that after their few words they
would walk together out into the open in the
full moonlight. stand with shoulder blades to
shoulder blades and then begin to walk,
steadily, in even strides. Five steps each. so
that they would be ten PAGES apart. Then
they would turn. each quick as a cat. and
guns would gleam in the moonlight and fire
One shot, and then
Clarita had met Mart Reade when she was
but sixteen and her Spanish mother nearly
two years dead Her Yankee father, already
middle aged when he married the beautiful
Clara Mendoza and took her to St Louis,
had already declined into dodderng dreams
in his little gunshop. leaving Clarita to her
own fancies So Clarita met Mart Reade
few years home from the war between the
States and now gentleman gambler every
inch gambler, every inch gentleman, by
his own CODE handsome man, tall and thin
and vain of his dress and quick of both eye and
hand; with an easy smile but no laughter,
man who could and did chance life and every
material possession on the turn of card or
the draw of a gun
When she met him. Clarita felt her heart
futter, knew that her dark eyes revealed the
f1uttering. And he. struck by this strange
beauty of mixed blood Yankee and Spanish,
smiled that thin-lipped. mirthless smile and
paid her first polite difference, then polite
courtship, then made her his wife in all but
name.
Gay days, those, in the St. Louis of the
early seventies, with frontier in the door
yard, a growing civilization pressing on from
behind; a town of trappers and traders and
rivermen in buckskin and jeans and blanket
cloth, and of merchants and spectators and
gamblers in silk and broadcloth; of raw mil
lionaires from California and gaunt cattlemen
from Texas and freighters from Santa Fe and
Denver.
Days of easy money for such gamblers as
Mart Reade. with his suave manner his deft
fingers. his quick eyes, his taut steel nerves.
And Clarita was happy. in silks and gems and
Evening star., 1935-10-19

outside door in the kitchen Is con-
venient both to the steps leading to
the basement servants quarters and
to the garage. A den, 8 by II feet
in size, located in the rear center
portion Of the house completes the
first floor arrangement.
Attractive Stairway.
The stairway leading to the second
floor is most attractive. Two Of the
three bedrooms are located in the
right portion of the house or above
the dining room and kitchen, while
the third, the masters room, is above
the dining room. The center hall on
the second floor is large, and Is
equipped with a spacious linen closet.
The master bed room Is 18 feet long
and IA feet wide. There are windows
on two sides, two large closets and q
bath room including q separate
shower. The front bed room, across
the hall from the masters, Is approx
imately IA feet square, while the rear
bed room is nearly the same size.
There is another bath room with
Evening star., 1935-10-19
PACKING BOX USED
AS STORAGE CELLAR
Fruits and Vegetables Can Be
% Kept Nicely-Care Needed
. in Selecting Location.

One practical and economical meth
Cd Of keeping certain vegetables and
fruits during the Winter months Is
by means of q barrel or wood pack
ing box storage cellar, which may
be constructed at home at low cost.
This type of cellar will serve very
well as storage place for such vege-
tables and fruits as apples, pears,
turnips, cabbages, beets, carrots,
parsnips and potatoes.
Care should be exercised in select
ing the site for the cellar, as the con-
tents must be kept cool and moist and
yet must not be permitted to freeze.
For this reason q well-drained hill
side with southern exposure is ideal.
but II this cannot be found, the box
or barrel may be placed on its side
on flat ground. provided it is we'll
insulated against heat and cold.
Where q hillside can be used the box
or barrel Is placed in a horizontal po-
sition against 1t.
p Before the box or barrel is put into
position the inside is carefully lined
with q heavy grade Of paper and it is
divided into two, three or four COM
partments so that the fruit or vege-
tables can be kept separated.
r Next, the container is put into po-
sition and is well insulated with
leaves, or straw and earth. A layer
Of leaves or straw Is put on first,
then about inches of earth. then
. second layer Of straw or leaves
and, finally, as severe weather ap-
proaches, q second layer Of dirt.
Evening star., 1935-10-19
SEPTEMBER SALES
+: SET NEW RECORD
National Association of Real
: Estate Boards Cites
Increases in Cities.

Urban real estate sales for Septen-
ber set new recovery high, according
to reports compiled for the National
Association Of Real Estate Boards from
major cities scattered from coast to
coast. The compilation is Of number
of voluntary transfers, and is corrected
for seasonal variations. 1t shows total
number of sales for September to
have been 48.5 per cent Of the 1926
base figure.
In the cities studied, cross section
OF t'-e country, the tabulation shows
that the upturn of long-term curve
in real estate sales began in 1888. in
the months Immediately following the
bank holiday. Since June Of the pres
ent year there has been no interrupt
tion of this up movement.
Some further figures and their sig
nificance, as pointed out by Walter
s. Schmidt, Cincinnati. president of
the association: with vacant dwell
ing space disappearing, rents in metro
politan centers have risen for apart
ments to 56.7 per cent of the 1926 level,
for single family dwellings to 1913 per
cent of the 1926 rate. While con-
struction costs rose sharply in 1888
and have not fallen. chart would
show the line of income return of eX-
isting buildings rapidly moving to
cross and top the line representing con-
struction costs. But meantime, new
family accommodations being con-
structed are as yet only 20.4 per cent
Of the 1926 volume. AS a people we
would do we'll to realize that by en-
couraging sound new home building
now, before shortage becomes too
drastic. we shall do much not only to
take advantage of the present favorable
market, but also to mitigate sudden
climbing Of rent costs, construction
costs, and costs Of new homes, which
we shall certainly have If fear on the
part Of investment groups (Which prop
er mortgage discount facilities would
.dissipate) is allowed artiflcially to hold
us back"
Evening star., 1935-10-19

ton by study of the total market
values of the 200 Eastern issues which
shows o rise In indicated cash value
Of $73,695,548 during the last n
months. With 336 per cent gain
for 1884 and q further advance Of 26.2
per cent for the current year, the to-
tai market value Of the 200 issues has
climbed from $123, 3,294. .698 at the end
Of 1898 to $196, ,99o,24a at september's
close.
In the opinion Of Amott-Baker exec
utives this improvement may be at
tributed both to an increase Of con-
fidence in real estate and realty Sc
curities as q medium Of investment
and to q clearer understanding Of the
earning capabilities Of various types
Of properties. It Is their belief that
future conditions in all phases Of real
estate will be Influenced to q marked
degree by the availability Of accurate
and comprehensive information about
specific properties and issues.
Evening star., 1935-10-19
Realtors
CONTINUED From First Page.)

ticular interest in view Of the fact
that David Saperstein Of the Securi-
ties and Exchange Commission will
discuss "Real Estate Bond Issues Of
the Future" and ]. Howard Ardrey.
assistant administrator, Federal Hous-
ing Administration, will discuss "The
Government and Real Estate Financ-
ing"
Another discussion which will be
Of interest to Washington realtors, in
view of the recently announced plans
for the development near Berwyn, will
be 1.-THE Federal Rural Resettlement
Program" This will be made by VIII
liam z. Sweet. former Governor Of
Colorado, who is connected with the
Resettlement Administration here.
Real estate appraisers will find good
material in the talk to be made by
Frederick M. Babcock. author Of the
Federal Housing Administrations ap-
praisal manual, who will discuss "The
Underwriting System Of the Federal
Housing Administration" while the
practical side of depreciation will be
covered by Ayers ]. Du Bois Of the
underwriting and realty division Of
F. H. A.
Plans for q nationally co-ordinated
Evening star., 1935-10-19
Silver Star
Continued From First Page.)

(COnLlQueQ from flTSG HdSe.J
posed of experts in all phases Of home
construction, planning and designing.
These men Endorsed the home. Head
ing the committee is James S. Taylor,
of the Federal Housing AdminiStra-
ton, and formerly chief of the
Division of Housing of the Commerce
Department. Other members include:
Harold E Doyle, who has served dur
ing the last year as president of the
Washington Real Estate Board; John
Nolen, jr. city planner of the Ma
tional Park and Planning Commis-
sion; Irwin S. Porter, well-konwn
architect and former president of the
Washington Chapter of the American
Institute of Architects, and Edwin H.
Rosengarten, builder and member Of
the firm of Davis. Wick & Rosen-
garten.
Colonial Brick Used.
An interesting Colonial brick vas
used in construction Of the house. All
the brick work has a pushed solid
joint. Special attention was given to
waterproofing the exterior walls below
grade. A half-inch Of waterproofing
cement was used first, and after it
was allowed to dry. another half inch
of cement was used. Hot asphalt was
then spread on as a final coating. The
basement walls are Of solid brick IL
inches thick. All the walls are furred.
and five inches of rock wool insula-
ton was used in the roof. A WELL
blended Vermont slate was used for
the roofing. Exterior metal work. in
cluding flashings, cutters and down.
spouts, are Of heavy weight copper.
Entrance to the home is made
from a small porch supported by
white columns into rather large
entrance hallway. The living room
to the left of the entrance hall Is
z3 feet inches long and IA feet
wide. It has a window on the front.
two windows and fireplace on the out
side, ano a door leading to tagged
terrace in rear of the home.
The dining room to the right Of
the entrance hall is IA feet by IS
feet inches in size. It has windows
to the east and north. The kitchen
Immediately in back Of the dining
room is large. though compact, and
filled with the latest equipment. An
Evening star., 1935-10-19

realtors the Washington delegation
will comprise the following: John L.
Weaver, L. T. Gravatte, A. c. Hough-
ton, J. McKenney Berry. Waverly
Taylor. ]. Wesley Buchanan. r. Eliot
Middleton. w. c. Miller. H. Clifford
Bangs. Harold e. Doyle, r. @. Fristoe,
r. Marbury Stamp, Charles c. Koones,
Morton ]. Luchs. Frank J. Luchs, M. z.
Hyman, William Shannon. jr.; H. L.
Thornton. Ben T. Webster, H. r. Knox,
c. r. Alley. Homer Philips, Percy H.
Russell, Donohoe. Leonard Downie
and Charles J. Rush.
Evening star., 1935-10-19
GAINS IN REALTY
BONDS IMPROVE
New York Concern Cites
32.2 Per Cent Increase
Since January |.

Real estate owners and operators
should find a basis for optimism re-
garding the financing of future build
ing in the gains being made in the
market values of realty bond issues
as shown by indices compiled by
Amott, Baker g. Co., Inc, Of New
York. covering the month-to-month
market movements Of 200 typical East
ern issues and 200 issues secured by
properties in 81 Midwestern cities.
Based on dealer-to dealer bids for
specific securities, these indices show
q rise Of 36.2 per cent since the first
Of the year In the market value Of
Middle Western issues and q gain Of
26.2 per cent during the same period
for Eastern securities. During the
nine months the average bid price per
81 900 face value mounted from 1928 to
$305 for Middle Western issues and
from 1894 to $371 for Eastern issues.
The issues which are the basis for
this compilation were originally out
standing in amounts Of $500,000 or
more and include bonds secured by
housekeeping apartments, hotels, the
aters, apartment hotels and Office
buildings. Classified by underlying Sc
curity. housekeeping apartment issues
with an improvement Of 46.4 per cent
have shown the greatest market
strength since the first Of the year.
Theater issues with a 379 per cent
rise and apartment hotel securities
with a 80 per cent betterment also
have made important contributions to
the general advance.
In so far as types Of liens are con-
cerned the Amott-Baker averages
show an average gain of 25.5 per cent
for first fees, an improvement of 24.8
per cent for first leaseholds, and q
gain of 1872 per cent for junior liens.
The significance Of these advances
is indicated in terms Of cash apprecia-
Evening star., 1935-10-19

system of home expositions will be dis
cussed by Henry A. Guthrie, chief Of
the exposition unit Of the F. H. A.,
Donohoe said.
Arrangements have been made for
q special through car to accommo-
date the Washington delegation. The
party will leave over the Pennsylvania
Railroad Tuesday at 8 am, arriving
in Atlantic City in time for the first
session Of the Appraisal Institute,
which precedes the opening Of the
general convention. In addition to
the foregoing Federal officials and
Evening star., 1935-10-19
FAHEY TO SPEAK
Will Address Paint and Varnish
Association Session.

John H. Fahey, chairman Of the
Federal Home Loan Bank Board and
chairman OF the Home Owners Loan
Corporation, will be q headliner on
the program Of the National Paint.
Varnish and Lacquer Association
Convention, which is to be held in
Washington at the Mayfiower Hotel,
October 30-November l. Mr.. Fahey
Is one Of the outstanding figures in the
national administration in Washing
ton and his address is expected to be
of national importance. He will speak
Wednesday morning, October 80.
Evening star., 1935-10-19

shower adjacent to the second and
third bed rooms.
The new Silver Star home will be
open each day for the next four weeks
from 10 am. until 8 pm.