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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-07-29

Associated Press Day Wire
Service.
For Sc Years Devoted to the
Best Interests of Key West
The Washington times., 1936-02-28

swatch photographed. but un-
fortunately the camera could not
bring out the color, so you'll have
to go into the store to see it. The
man photographed on this page
today has on a dark gray suit
with alternating stripes Of light
gray and maroon, but the maroon
fades out entirely in the picture,
making the stripes look light only.
Widths Vary
Stripes are anywhere from half
to three-quarters of an inch apart.
And further consideration is the
color that may be repeated in a
costume. Although men do not
want to look too monotonous or
matched" it is nevertheless a
grand opportunity to pick up the
stripe colors in small accessories,
to get an extra good effect.
In our picture today, the stripes
are repeated in a shirt with
stripes about the same width,
though they show up much better,
as they are on a white ground.
The tie is striped too, beneath its
figured pattern, but because the
stripes are quite different, you do
not get the impression Of too
many stripes.
The Washington times., 1936-02-28
What They're
Wearing

Chamois takes to navy like q
duck to water. A brief jacket Of
chamois colored tweed flips out
sharply in black over a navy
tweed skirt. Navy hats, Tyrolian,
Flemish or Spanish in type, flaunt
chamois cords, wells Or flowers
Inserts Of chamois kid suede are
smartly slid into navy kidskin one
eyelet ties. and square chamois
handbags boast enormous navy
top handles. For town wear, there
are chamois dresses Of wool or silk,
ensembled with short navy coats
Of everey imaginable silhouette.
All the rage still are those
dainty dancing dresses of pleated
chiffon. For southern wear, a
dress of sea green chiffon has a
pleated skirt and \ simple bodice
with a silver net ruffle and a
broad silver mesh belt.
The Washington times., 1936-02-28
Our Bachelor Girls Study Wardrobe Expenses

} Just because you like the color Of
the feather, like you did last week. F"
"WeII, that would do this sum-
mer. But 1 guess you're right. For
think of gloves. Only two pairs for
a whole year, Sunday and Monday
and what if you should lose
One?" said she, turning to me
rather wearily.
Seeing that the girls were taking
this budget very literally hasten
ed to add that it was made out
for girls who made only a very
small salary-and there are many
here in Washington who make only
$40 a month.
That seemed appalling to them,
as they felt they were living on a
meager income.
It did, at least, change the
trend Of the conversation and we
entered into a discussion on how
hard is the lot of working girl.
And if they attempted to follow
the budget how much pleasure
would be taken from living. Hav-
ing money for clothing and par
ties certainly did make life more
pleasa4.t.
Finally Mary looked at her
watch and said:
Believe 1t or not, it is now
8 o'clock, and we have had no
dinner. On to the kitchen"
Jane hoped up to open the
doors into the kitchenette and
turn on the light, but the glass
stew pan was on the edge of their
little postage stamp size table
with The handle out-you remem-
ber the handle they were so in
trigued with-and you have
guessed it, just one swish and
it broke into hundreds Of pieces.
Jane felt very badly and Mary
offered little consolation. Their
pride and joy in the culinary
world had lived such q short life.
The Washington times., 1936-02-28

Most Of these suits from across
the Atlantic were made double
breasted, with wide lapels, and
with the marvellous tailoring that
we associate with mems clothing
from England. But. we can
have all the same things. For
now those same stripes are smart
in this country, and patterns in
as many colors as you can think
Of are available. The single
color stripe, such as white on
gray or blue, is still good, but
those men who lead the fashion
parade will have the stripes in
two colors. e
Color Combinations
Multiple or alternate stripes,
they are called, and here are
some of the good combinations
Of color you will find: dark gray
with one light gray and one
maroon stripe alternating, or
light gray and light blue alternat-
ing on a dark gray background,
or light gray and maroon alter
mating on a powder blue ground,
and so on.
The effect is much better look
ing than it's possible to ever make
it sound. on paper. We had a
The Washington times., 1936-02-28

young things that wear junior
sizes and look marvellous in any
thing. But two slips a year at 60
cents each. That would mean
wearing each one for six months. -
"And when would they launder
it. Goodness, with my four I still
have trouble. Would you wear 1t
a week and launder it on Satur.
day night or do your wardrobe
every night like I do my one pair
of hOse?"
"You never would, that's all.
Not the way you like to get up
And shoes here; four pairs ut So,
That is OxfOrdS for fall, suedes for
winter, hid for spring and white
buckskin for summer. That isn't
bad"
mo, if you added those to the
shoes you already have. Really /
would rather spend less on repairs
and buy better shOeS-lOOk, $4.2O
for the shoe doctor"
I did look and saw not only this
but many other interesting things.
One spring coat, which was also to
be used for summer and fall, for IS,
and four dresses at IS each.
Then Mary looked up and said:
"AnOther thing, old dear. On
a budget like this there Is no
changing from green to blue or
black to brown. Once you decide
on q color for your accessories you
are through. You can't 90 down
and nick ND q gorgeous yellow hat
The Washington times., 1936-02-28
By JEAN GREEN

Last night, Mary and Jane
were very puzzled when I went
in. I thought it must be budget
trouble because they had pencil
and paper out and were talking
in terms of $3.50 a week.
Hello. so sorry to intrude. Just
wanted to tell you that they have
some very nice green beans down
at your grocery - also spring
lamb"
ooh, come in," said Jane. eve
are trying to figure this out. To-
night in the paper Mary read that
a poor working girl should be able
to dress on $77.75 q year"
isn't that us? Aren't we poor?
And don't we work? My how we
work." said Mary.
But" continued Jane, "if we
could only dress on that or even
twice that. we would manage bet
ter"
"And why can't we? 1t has
been done before. And If others
have done it why can't we? You
know, Jane, they wouldn't pull it
from the air. Somebody must
have done it,"
Mary handed me the clipping
with the apology that the discus
sion had been going on for hours,
and was getting down to the place
now where she mightn't get one
Of those tricky new spring suits.
I picked up the paper and read ::
"SiIk Hose on $1.5O q Week, "
which sounded quite extravagant,
then Group Figures It Out for
the Poor WOiIkin' Girl"
It went on to explain that New
York experts had figured out that
an American working girl can
dress on $3.50 a week. That was
the catch-the $3.50 was to in.
The Washington times., 1936-02-28
Correct Manners
By MRS. CORNELIUS BEECKMAN

more than the i'm
mediate families and a few Of our
closest friends.
would it be in good form to
have the small home wedding,
with a larger reception, immedi.
ately following the ceremony, at
a club or some such place, to give
q larger circle Of friends, as well
as the wedding guests, the op.
pOrtunity to extend best wishes
to bride and groom?
PUZZLED"
Yes, this plan would be correct,
under the circumstances, and am
sure that your relatives and
friends will understand why it was
necessary for you to make this
plan. It would be well, since you
are to make this arrangement, to
keep your list of guests for the
ceremony very small.
The Washington times., 1936-02-28
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The Washington times., 1936-02-28

clude not only silk hose but every
thing purchased in the way of
wearing apparel.
Each item had been listed for
the minimum wardrobe to insure
health and decency. The cost had
been figured on "cost per year"
basis so that some articles would
not be replaced each year.
"JuSt look. Imagine wearing for
two years winter coat that cost
$12.5O."
mot at my size. That must
have been meant for these slim
The Washington times., 1936-02-28

He handled the subject without
gloves or cold cream for that
matter. He said:
"Our ablest people breed the
leaSt-and the least able breed the
most"
And again he brought his audi
ence up sharply with:
'Tt doesn't do any good to be
right If you don't have babies"
Mr.. Durant evidently think
you've got to have family on
whom to try out your own right
0ouSneSS.
Segregation
Regarding the decline in moral
tty, he said:
Morality is as indispensable to
. civilization as the soil on which
1t lives. Morality does not neces-
aaEily mean religion, but there Is
almost invariably a connection.
Some form of religion seems neceS-
cary.
"ReligiOn has lost its hold on at
least half Of the people Of the
United States. No civilization has
survived its code Of morality"
Among other subjects the author
of the "Story Of Philosophy"
touched upon was sterilization or
sexual segregation" for the men
tally and physically unfit. He also
advocated wide dissemination Of
birth control information and ia
oilitieS among the noorer and more
ignorant classes.
The most novel contribution to
the evenings entertainment was
when he suggested subsidies or
pensions for physically fit people
boaSting a high degree Of intel
ligence, who would become par
entS.
Glancing about the audience
at this point, one could almost
discern q suppressed purr. Evil
IDENTIFY, everyone who had pur-
chased a ticket felt there was
no suggestion Of being even a
high-dilution moron about him or
her. All seemed confident of the
ability to carry on the torch Of
civilization.
One More Chance
He also begged for one more
chance for the nations industrial
lists and financiers, saying in re-
gard to the economic problem:
'Tf they fail again, natiOnalize
all natural resources except farm
ing, 50 that there may be more
guidance and order in our eco
nOmic system"
The "panel'-that is, those in
vited to sit on the platform and
take up the question presented
did not always agree with the
speaker.
Rebecca GreathouSe, former AS
sistant District Attorney, said that
DR.. Durant had failed to mention
women in his address. The impli.
cation seemed to be that the
speaker, in the good old Victorian
manner, still regarded women as
THE Ladies' Auxiliary to Crea-
ton"
Prof. Fairchild, also on the
"panel" looking about the we'll
dressed audience, asked:
care the wealthy always the
more intelligent"
Will Durant did not answer that
question.
DISLIKES GLASSES
"Dear Miss Fairfax:
The Washington times., 1936-02-28
GIRL GRADUATE
Dear Mrs. Beeckman:

DOSA GVAAOs A1OSNAAAAeSAAs
Last summer we went on a
trip and while there we met some
Of my fathers friends. There is a
young girl in the family who is
to graduate this month. I would
like to know If it is proper to
send her . graduation gift, and
whether to indicate that it is from
the whole family?
'What sort of gift would you
suggest? T."
It would be a charming and
thoughtful and thoroughly correct
thing for you to send this girl a
graduation gift. And I am sure
that she would like to have the
gift sent as a remembrance from
the whole family.
Books are, Of course, always one
of the first things we think Of
when we think Of appropriate
graduation gifts, for graduates
usually have started or are think
ing of starting their own libraries.
Monogrammed handkerchiefS are
nice, too. she would love one or
two especially delicate linen, small,
white ones for evening wear. A
purse, too, either for day wear or
an evening bag. Or a matching
beret, scarf and bag, for sports
wear. Or a pen and pencil set.
with her name embossed in full
on it. Or a writing-portfolio. Or
a clock for her desk or dressing
table, perhaps one of the travel
ing-clock variety, Or an accessory
for her travelling bag.
The Washington times., 1936-02-28

Jane and Mary tOo girls 'cho came to Washington to
cork for Uncle Sa had difficulty finding satisfactory
place to ue on their income They are moo renting one
apartment oUith very small kitchenette.
Pay day is Saturday. Last night they had vegetable
meat loaf and made enough to hare for tOo dinners They
partly because is only 13 days this time beee checks
and partly because Marys cousin Josephus here and
took them out for lunch severa days.
The Washington times., 1936-02-28

Beauty
reatnent for
Tired Hair
Ry DONNA GRACE


The spring and summer are
the best seasons for permanentS,
or so say the hairdressers.
Every girl want to have nice
waved hair for the outdoor sum.
mer sports, and she knows that
her wave will be more tractable
and shaped to her favorite style.
if it is done a month or so ahead
Of the regular playtime.
The best waves are done when
the hair is strong and healthy,
and If you will begin now to re-
condition your hair. you may be
sure when the time comes you
will have a beautiful, softly
waved permanent. One Of the
first steps in your reconditioning
treatment is to secure a good
shampoo. You may make your
own. if you wish.
The following method is very
good for a cleansing. nourishing
treatment: Shave a half Of a cake
Of good soap in pint of water,
boil and strain; then add a we'll
beaten egg, two tableSpoonfuls Of
bay rum and a half teaspoonful of
borax. Apply some of the sham.
poo to the dry hair and massage
it in well. Then rinse with clear
water. Repeat the operation until
the shampoo is all used.
The following rinse will impart
fragrance and fluffiness:
The strained Juice of 2 lemons
l quart of clear cool water
/ teaspoonful Of cologne Of toilet
water
Pour over the hair several
times. Half the amount will do,
if the hair is thin and short. AL
ways strain the lemons through
a gauZe or cloth, so the fibrous
little particles will not deposit
themselves in the hair.
A simple and effective oil mas
sage may be done every week in
this way: Mix a teaspoonful of
vaSeline and a teaspoonful of
castor Oil and two drops of Oil of
lavender. Comb the hair thorough
ly. Then dip the tips of the fingers
lightly in the warmed oil and mas
sage the scalp for five minutes.
After that brush the hair so as to
distribute the oil evenly to the
ends.
Do not use much oil. just a very
little on the tips Of the fingers is
enough.
You may have my Hot Oil Treat
ment, Head Massage, or Treat
ment for Tired Hair if you will
inclOse q stamped, Self-addressed
envelope for each and address
Donna Grace, beauty editor Of this
The Washington times., 1936-02-28

You may have my Hot Oil Treat
ment, Head Massage, or Treat
ment for Tired Hair if you will
inclOse q stamped, self addressed
envelope for each and address
Donna Grace, beauty editor Of this
naner.
The Washington times., 1936-02-28
HOME WEDDING

Dear Mrs. Beeckman:
my daughter is planning to be
married in the spring. We favor
q simple home wedding, but our
home Is not large enough to ac-
The Washington times., 1936-02-28
Famous Author Advises
Several Novel Ideas
For SOc1ety's Use
BY BEATRICE FAIRFAX

Famous Authority on Problems of Love and Marriage
Will Durant whose book, The Story of Philosophy made
genuine appeal people who have not the time patience
to philosophy at its source talked birth control few
nights ago.
The Washington times., 1936-02-28
Two Co1ors Now E17IVen
Men;s Suits For
SDri176
Spring
BY WILMA LAVILLE

II you've had friends returning from England the past
year. you doubt admired their gray flannel suits with
srpes-no the usual chalk stripe that wearing
here but two stripes in color light and dark.
The Washington times., 1936-02-28

and, Of course, the one I like
doesn't seem to pay much atten-
tiOn to me. This may be because
I wear glaSseS-and he does not
like glasses. The other one, who
likes me, wanted to give me ring
for Christmas, but I declined that
and said / would prefer q card.
I'D like q little more attention
from the boy who doesn't like
glasses. "A. l."
Perhaps the glasses you wear
are the unbecoming kind which
suggest grandma. Some styles Of
eye glasses are really piquant and
becoming. Ask some friend in
whose taste you have confidence
to go to the optician with you
and select a pair. RimleSS pince-
nez are usually smart looking.
UNKIssED"
Dear Miss Fairfax:
please don't think I'm trying
to scare up an acquaintance with
the two girls who wrote you . little
while ago and signed their letters
Blonde and Brownie. I acquit
your column Of making intrOduc-
tiOns, or in any way acting as q 60
between with correspondents. But
want to assure these young ladies
that there are men who appreciate
and honor decent behavior on the
part Of girls.
II am a student "a years Of age,
do not drink or 60 on wild parties.
You may regard me as a freak, II
you will, but / am 3 man who re-
CARDS q kiss as sacred; I have
never kissed . girl since I was IL
years old.
"My reason for asking you to
publish this letter Is that Blonde
and Brownie" may be assured that
a type Of man still exists which
honors girls who are decent.
&c. K"
Here's hoping that Blonde
and Brownie" may see this young
mans letter and realize that the
masculine equivalent Of their own
type really exists. Here's hoping
that Fate-the unchancy dame
may bring about an introduction,
which, alas, this column cannot
undertake to do.
The Fort Peck press., 1936-04-16
Aunty Bixler's Quiet, Solitary Existence
Is Invaded by Little Joe Henry and
His Old Home Week Visitors.
Copyright: 1886: BY Alma & Paul EI,erbe)

those feathers, and-she gave her visit
full old sigh again as she thought of 1t
that smile lit a three-sided grin, and
broadened. She held out her hand to
the biggest boy, and then, changing her
mind, pulled his ear hard, and he liked
it. A sudden spark of comradeship
cracked in the air.
Come back again." she said, ANY
time, all of you" and they shouldered
around her like colts. She found her
hands patting them, almost surprised
that they hadn't the shaggy names of
little rough country colts.
I'VE shore WILL" they said. I'VE
shore had a good time to your house.
Come N see us sometime. G'bye, m
thank you" They weren't bad boys,
just roWdyish.
1t hadn't been Joe Henry's scene,
though. He had looked shrunken and
old mannish. His thanks, when they
came, had been stiff and unnatural.
He had wanted to get away from her
The Fort Peck press., 1936-04-16

When her eye caught the CLEAN of
something on the top of a dry goods
poX and she Strengthened up again for
d peCter look. 1t was an aluminium
saucepan. And there was a tiny oil
stove beside it. Dishes, a cup and sau-
Ger, a knife and a fork and a spoon.
And a homemade sign over them: Joe
HenryS Things-Keep Off"
There was another box against the
wall, with Joe Henry's stockings rolled
INTO balls and his folded un~derclotheS
on shelves in it. And there were some
OF his clothes drying on a piece of
string. And a cake of soap, a tooth
pruSh, toothpaSte, and a glass on a
smell beside a grimy stationary wash
poW!, There was a shelf with two books
on it, a baseball glove and the big
KNIFE with all sorts of blades that she
had given him. There was, quite pos
Slbly, everything here that Joe Henry
had.
She didn't see him open his eyes. but
when her glance got back to him he was
looking at her.
Joe Henry" she said, where's your
father?"-her old heart pounding, her
old legs weak.
He looked at her for a long mo-
around. He's gone off SomeWhereS."
She sat down heavily on top OF his
clothes in the greasy chair, principally
because she had to.
1t don't make any difference about
what those boys broke. You ought to
that without my telling you. Lis
ten, Joe Henry: Do you know where
your father is, or don't you?"
Not egzackly," he said.
The Fort Peck press., 1936-04-16

Joe Henry pondered for a moment
"Nothin' much" he admitted at last
Lessen you count huntin' an fishin'.'
Where do you live, you and him
when he's here?"
co." Joe Henry said, "all sorts O
places"
And you've been living here since
he went away-like this?"
"It's a all right place to live" Joe
Henry said.
Joe Henry" she said, Il haven't got
anybody in the world but you. I'm a
lonely old woman Sometimes I get SO
lonely I wake up in the night and CRY.
Wouldn't you like to come and live
with me?"
Propped up on one elbow, his head
a little on n side in that way he had,
his eyes as bright as a SQUIRRELS, he
said with the same clear intuition that
had made him write his note and leave:
"Yes'm, I'd like it fine"
Two rivers of feeling were running
brimful through the two of them. Each
was afraid the other would spill over.
Such a thing to either would have
come right now with a touch of agony.
Later it would be different. Fol lust
a moment Martha Bixler thought Joe
Henry might throw his arms around
her and kiss her. For just a moment he
thought she might do the same thing
to him. There was something in each
of them that wanted it. But not yet.
Turn your back, Aunty Bixler," he
said, " an I'll put on my pants"
THE END
The Fort Peck press., 1936-04-16

muscles she bent him over her ample
knees and using the back of her hair
brush, gave him a licking that compared
f%avorably, even, with those provided
by the state. Her hand still tingled
with the thought of it.
,"Whee-per, Whee-per, VIII e e-p r,
whee-per," said the pewee fly-catcher.
He had come back. And then, very faint
and far off, his mate answered in her
lower key. And then again, a little
closer. Life was flowing back into its
old quiet channels around the Bixler
cottage.
If she had licked that biggest boy
at the beginning instead of the end
of the visit She sighed. She couldn't
them. She only knew she was glad
they were gone, and ought to have
been born with more sense than TO
have asked them.
They had taken the licking of the
biggest boy, when it came, as something
natural and expected, that they were
surprised hadn't come sooner. Two of
1T was over, shook himeSlf, blinked,
grlnned, and went out to chase the
old dominecker rooster he had been
told to leave alone.
And then they all went away, and
Joe Henry went with them. She had
eAPeCCeu JOe f1ellTy TO stay ana Cdlk,
and was relieved when he didn't. She
had been sitting here where she was sit
ting now, listening to the noise of the
three getting ready upstairs and the
small, discouraged sounds Joe Henry
made Kidding up as best he could in
the kitchen-nothing left inside of him
to raise his whistle with-when sud
denly they had whooped from above
there was Johnny Slocum and the
truck, and Joe Henry had come out
and said he was going to the station
with them, and, like the falling of al
full of bricks, they had all come
Gathering down the stairs, scrubbed
md freSh-faced, straw suitcases in their
lands, and a tail feather apiece from
he old rooster sticking in their hus-
)andS.
Outraged afresh for the old roost-
sake, still she hadn't been able to
Keep from smiling at the sight of