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Evening star., 1936-09-05
Stock Averages
BY VICTOR EUBANK.
Associated Press Financial Writer.

NEW YORK. September 5.-The
rails got up steam in todays stock
market and, pulling many other leaders
along with them, registered gains Of
fractions to point or more.
The brief session had its profit taking
periods, but these were undisturbing in
most instances. The close was firm.
Transfers were around 100000 shares.
While many traders skipped the days
brief proceedings in favor of a pro-
longed holiday those who appeared in
the board rooms displayed sufficient
buying vigor to more than offset the
absentees.
The activity, best for Saturday in
nearly month, was a pleasant sur
prise to the commission houses, which
had expected the dullness customary
before Labor day recess.
Continued progress of economic re-
covery was said to have spurred ac-
cumulation of selected stocks. At the
same time there seemed to be a bit
less nervousness over the foreign
situation.
Conspicuous on the upside were
Delaware & Hudson, Baltimore 81
Ohio. Santa F'e, N. Y. Central, South
ern Pacific, Northern Pacific, General
Baking, American Telephone, Western
Union, Great Northern Ore, Chrysler,
Sears Roebuck, Macy, American Can,
LoeWs and Coca-Cola.
Improvement was also registered bv
Q. S. Steel, Bethlehem, youngstown
Sheet e. Tube. General Motors. REQ,
Montgomery Ward, Douglas Aircraft,
National Distillers. U. S. Industrial
Alcohol. Consolidated Edison, General
Electric, Goodyear, Paramount. Elec.
trio Auto-lite and Briggs Manufac.
turing.
Evening star., 1936-09-05
Books Are Opened
For Steel Orders
In New Quarter
By the Associated Press.


CLEVELAND. September 5.-Daily
Metal Trade said today Carnegie
Illinois Steel Corp, subsidiary of the
United States Steel Corp. has an
nounced opening of books for fourth
quarter contracts.
The schedule of prices" said the
publication. applies on sales for Ship
ment during the fourth quarter and
indicates that, due to the advanced
prices of scrap and other raw ma
terials. it will be necessary to increase
selling prices 81 per ton on certain
products.
AL semi-finished quotations are I'D
81 ton. Hot-rolled bars and small
shapes are advanced 50 a ton, as are
hot-rolled annealed sheets. Other
products are unchanged"
Evening star., 1936-09-05
New Orleans Prices.

NEW ORLEANS. September 5 R-
Cet1on advanced to 8 points at the
ing came into the market on revised
crop estimates. Short covering and eve
ming up of commitments for over-the-
week end holiday also furnished the mar
ket good purchases. October opened at
II ~. December at l1.66. January at
I'LL and March at 11.74. Prices eased
a point or two from these levels during
the first half hour. but maintained a
steady tone
Cottonseed oil opened steady. Septem-
Der. 9-S1 ID; October, o.Slb; December
S.Slo; January 9.slbi March. 9.S3b
Evening star., 1936-09-05
IiYernnnI 0nntafinnx

L1VEPOOL. September 5 0P,.-Cottor.
$4,000 bales. American nil. Spot in limited
demand; prices Q points higher. Quotations
IN pence: Strict good middling, T.4a; good
middling. 7.19: strict middling. 500; mid
ding, 6.79: strict low middling, 6.54; low
middling. 6.14. strict good ordinary, b.p4
good ordinary, 5.64. Futures closed very
steady October. 6.35; December, 6.o7:
January, 6.2S; March, 6.29: May. 6."S;
Evening star., 1936-09-05
new YORK BANK STOCKS
FOREIGN MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL September R,.-Aided
by good investment buying of futures and
the drmness of all shippers offers, wheat
futures shot upward, closing Ia to 17sd
higher
closed very steady today. Bombay buy
ing and short covering. which were in
huenced by reduced American crop esti-
xondof Paris closed.
Evening star., 1936-09-05
q. S. TREASURY POSITION
Nv the Associated Press

The position Of the Treasury September
3; Receipts, $17,O45,68 80; Expenditures.
S45, 186,313.76; balance, 81 $50, 159, ,73S. II.
$4,000. ~o'oo1'
Receipts for the fiscal year (since July
u. S67l $3.50. .5S5.73; expenditures, ST.
OF emergency expenditures; excess Of ex-
pendItures, 1894 .702. 500 ,6S. Gross debt.
187.972.50 under the preceding day. Gold
assets. S10,726. 525,O96.I2
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DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED

NEW YORK. September 5.-Dividends
tistics Corp: S'a
Evening star., 1936-09-05

Approximate Sales of Stocks Stock Exchange
11:00 AM 10000 1900 Noon. 100000
DIVIDEND rates as given IN the above table the
payments based the latest declarations
Unit Of trading ess than 100 shares Annual raenot
Paid being
Evening star., 1936-11-13
DELIGHTFUL story Is told Of

A DELIGHTFUL story Is told OF
Victor Hugo, who was asked to
dinner one evening at the home OF
some very advanced and free-think-
ing friends. The dinner hour came
and went, with no sign Of the guests
being allowed to enter the dining
room. Finally one Of the company in
uuired the reason for the delay. He
was told that, unhappily. there were
13 to be seated, and that one
of the guests had refused to accept
the situation. The hostess had been
forced to send out for fourteenth.
Shortly afterward, the guest who had
made the inquiry, happened to be
chatting to Victor Hugo. The poet
asked him II he knew why dinner was
delayed.
The guest answered, Grossly, eyes,
some imbecile Is afraid to sit at the
table when there are 13."
Solemnly and severely. Hugo re-
torted:
THAT imbecile, sir, Is myself"
NAPOLEON had the "l3 supersti-
1 ton" In q virulent form. So did
Bismarck. So did Charles Stuart
Parnell.
In the Fall Of 1890 the st. Louis
Globe Democrat published gruesome
story Of what happened to IS men
who enacted the scene Of the Last
Supper in q spirit Of mockery. The
details are too long to repeat here. but
the facts as related showed that In the
years following this blasphemous oc-
casion each and every man Of the 13
died q violent and horrible death.
Not one Of them received Christian
burial, through some circumstance or
other, and the last Of them died in
the gutter and was buried in a pot
ter's field.
There are hundreds and hundreds
Of such tales. There have been clubs
formed to scout the superstition and
to promote the belief that the number
13 was lucky, rather than a symbol
Oh lil-OflcA. ECOplC AinhO NAcA @oA
centuries to outwit the popular be-
liefs on the subject-but still 1t seems
to cling tenaciously to life.
Last night at dinner here one OF
washingtons most charming and
popular hostesses was heard to re-
mark:
IT am not afraid Of being 13 at
table myself, but know better than
to spoil what should be a successful
dinner by letting such a situation
arisel Some one would be bound to
be acutely miserable-all the more SO
because he or she would be ashamed
to admit it. What's the use Of having
guests uncomfortable. whether you
believe in their fears yourself or not?"
And right there Is good hint for
. lot OF hostesses to take to heart
and I don't mean Just about 13 at
table. either!
Evening star., 1936-11-13

'NHe Other day we naQ the pleas
ure of interviewing a past
master in the art of knitting
Il who was in town for short
time to tell us Washingtonians all
about it. There just isn't anything
about knitting that Mrs. Wernay does
not know, or cannot tell you in a
jiffy.
The technic has become so mechan-
ical with her that she knits while she
reads and always has several different
pieces of work in the making at the
same time, so that she never tires Of
one before it is finished. She knits
all of her own clothes except. OF
course, the "formals," and when we
saw her she was the acme Of style
perfection in a silky black knit with
a lacy weave blouse trimmed with
gold beaded ball ornaments which
gave the freck dressed-up look.
Mrs. Wernay adores knitting and
had much to say in praise Of it. She
even quoted Shakespeare as referring
to it, as you will recall, when he said:
sleep that knits up the revelled
sleeve of care" Knitting she told us,
began way back in the sixteenth CEN
tury and has continued down through
the ages in various forms, SO that
there is really nothing new about It,,
only we have new ideas that we wish
to work out by this means, and therein
lies its fascination.
n X n
II NITTING has been recognized in
~ rehabilitation work and by psy-
chiatrists in general, as wonderfully
Evening star., 1936-11-13
Wave Not
Destroyed
By Brush
Proverbial Hundred
Strokes Only
Beneficial.
BY ELSIE PIERCE.

I RECENTLY attended hair styl-
ing exhibition that was worth see
ing. The hairdresser by way Of prov
ing how easy it is for head that has
been properly cut and arranged TO
keep its curl, combed and mussed
1t alternately. He had the head
beautifully arranged every wave and
ringlet in place. and when the audi
ence least expected it he jerkily
mussed it. 1t was very dramatic. The
audience "tut-tut-ed" audibly. And
then by careful combing every wave
fell right back into place again.
HairdreSsers have repeatedly told
women that brushing should not tend
to destroy fingerwave or setting.
But women evidently don't believe
1t. For very often they admit that
they brush their hair the night be-
fore they are to have it shampoo'd
and reset, but not between settings.
The proper way to brush, as you
know, is up and out-up and away
separate the hair into strands and
brush each one away from the head.
Years ago the vogue called for waves
down and around. The hair was
parted and then waves put in cross
wise. Brushing up and away might
have been difficult then and might
have destroyed the waves.
But hairdresSers soon introduced
the swept back effects. And brush
ing seemed TO be more naturally al
lied to this vogue.
Now come the swept up effects, the
up from the nape, the upward swirls
and "pomp" adaptations. The de-
sire to brush the hair up. when these
fashions are worn, seems to be what
we call "a natural"
These styles are very easy to keep.
even though they may not look it.
But good permanent Is the very
necessary foundation. Without it the
setting won't stay 'in" for any length
Of time. But with good permanent
to back it, 1t is not only an easy
matter to keep the hair looking
groomed and glamorous between set
tings but in addition you can brush
away the proverbial hundred strokes
day, then comb and coax your hair
into place and it's easy as can be.
When you can combine the latest
vogue with boost to daily brushing.
you're making beauty history. And
I sincerely feel that the new "pomp"
effects do just that.
My bulletin on brushing explains
the proper way to brush the hair. the
choice and care of the brush. Please
send self-addressed, stamped (3-cent)
envelope if you wish this bulletin.
Evening star., 1936-11-13

misfortune to fall upon those who re-
fused to observe her day with the
proper rituals, and, instead, insisted
upon going about their own personal
pursuits and businesses.
Friday being associated with the
Passion of Christ also has had much
to do with 1t being q day OF dread.
There Is an old story about q ship
which was built on Fridays by sea
captain to put an end to the old
superstitions, which foundered on her
FIRST voyage, with all hands on board.
THE fear Of the number ls has Its
l. roots so far back that they are
lost in the mists of time. In the
myths Of the ancient Hindus one
reads that 13 at table boded disaster
to some one there. This superstition
reappears in the Morse sagas, where
legend has 1t that one night, when IL
major gods were seated at table. in
valhalla, Loki, the evil spirit. crashed
the gate" to make the thirteenth.
Quarreling with Baldur. one OF the
gods, Loki shot him dead with mis-
tletoe arrow.
Leonardo da vincrs famous fresco
Of the Last Supper had much to do
with spreading this unhappy belief.
The picture, as every one knows,
shows the Twelve Apostles, seated on
either side OF the doomed thirteenth,
the Messiah. Thus the superstition
was kept alive in Christendom, and is,
perhaps, one of the strongest in
tangible fears which We experience.
So disliked is the number Is
that many high buildings omit the
thirteenth floor: often there Is no
Apartment No. 49,; hospitals keep
IS from appearing In the nu-
merals on the doors Of private rooms.
and some people cannot bear living
In q house or on q street numbered 13.
We are told that in the Moham-
medan world the people were so
afraid Of the number that the name
for 1t has become an almost obsolete
word. In Paris at one time there was
. profession whose members earned
their living by hiring themselves out
to be 'fourteenths" at table!
Evening star., 1936-11-13
TIPS on the Food Market
BY LUCIE EBERLY.

stands, also will be pleased to note
that turkey Is q few cents cheaper
this year. Rabbits, small and large,
the first Of the season, have arrived,
too. Small ones are selling for as little
as 40 cents apiece.
Long Island duck Is still one OF the
favorites in the poultry line. They
are priced low, too, for this time OF
year. Jumbo squads for dinner party
menus, keats, small broilers and regu-
lar fryers are all plentiful. Young
capons for roasting, and stewing
chicken for fricassee provide q splen-
did choice for Sundays piece de
resistance.
CMALL lots Of butter fish are still
- coming in at the fish stalls de-
spite the sharp cold weather! The
delicious little breakfast fish will dis
appear in q day or two, however, and
wen have to wait till next Spring for
another taste. Enjoy them now!
Tiny herring, those oily fish that are
so good panned and served with tart
sauce, have been received in good lots.
Large rock for baking, fllet Of sole,
frozen swordfsh and halibut. large
blues, red snappers and salmon trout
from North Carolina are all excep-
tionally fine this week. Perch, q few
from nearby waters, were seen at
some of the stands.
Lobster meat, fresh and cooked
shrimp and oysters, frog legs, scallops
and clans are all fine.
Il n
MEAT has definitely taken a tumble.
AVA Prices are considerably cheaper
than they were at this time last year.
Prime roast of beef and Spring" lamb
are being featured at many Of the
stands. Pork, too. Is on the bargain
list. Fresh spareribs, roast pork loin
and sausage meat are surprisingly
reasonable.
Butter Is very irregular, dropping q
few cents one day and then jumping
to new high prices. Wisconsin tub
butter, however, stays reasonably
steady.
With the first really cold weather
we find eggs jumping as much as 10
cents o dozen. Hennery, the day-old
eggs, are very scarce. Storage eggs, on
the other hand, are plentiful, and the
Government inspected are moderately
priced.
Evening star., 1936-11-13

A SPARAGUS, large. tender stalks,
= continues to arrive at local mar
kets in splendid lots Ready to meet
the first demands of holiday buying,
we notice all the stalls stocked with
additional crates and large punches
are selling at IS cents. Artichokes,
the cold weather speciality, have been
received in extra large supplies. too.
Brussel sprouts, rather scarce Tor q
week or so, have appeared again in un-
usually fine lots. Broccoli, peas, and
beans are among the buys Of the week.
Okra, Chinese cabbage, as well as reg
ular white and red, are especially good.
Spinach, landcress. baby kale, chicory
and escorale are piled high at all the
counters. Caulifower, large, snow
white heads, firm and tender, are rea-
sonably priced. Mealy Idaho baking
potatoes, small, tiny new potatoes for
boiling, sweet yams and Nancy Halls
are all waiting to be carried home for
week end feasting. Other root vege-
tables-carrots. baby beets, turnips,
parsnips, rutabagas and oyster plant
are plentiful and cheap.
Ayocados, mammoth-sized ones,
well ripened and free from blemish,
are very reasonable. Watercress con-
tinues to come in regularly. Ro-
maine, endive. celery hearts, as well
as large, crisp celery stalks, and
Boston lettuce, luscious tomatoes, both
hothouse and garden from California,
assure q good salad selection. Iceburg
lettuce, we find, is far below par, but
merchants expect normal shipment
again any day now. fortunately, the
generous supply of other salad green's
makes its absence less evidently Rad
ishes and potted chives round out q
GOOD list for this weeks buying.
CALIFORNIA oranges, for Juice, are
~ about gone, but the new crop OF
navels will be in any day. Grapefruit
Is at Its prime. Kumquats, the first
large batch of the season, have been
received and are being featured at all
| the larger stalls. Cranberries are, Of
course, at their best and are also
being listed among the weeks spe-
cials. Honeydew, large casabas and
Spanish melons are very good, and
cheaper. Prickly pears, large persim-
mons Qusciously ripe), Hawaiian pine
apple, ounce and pomegranates Offer
an unusual breakfast fruit selection
Peaches, Q few medium-sized ones
continue to come in small lots from
the West Coast. Large Bartlett pears
as well as the small Oregon Seckels
are still good. Golden Delicious ap-
Piles seem to have arrived in very
large shipments, for every stall ap-
pears to have an abundance Of these
favorites.
White seedless grapes are becoming
very inferior. It Is hard to f1nd q
good green bunch; it Is evident their
season Is over. Tokays and large
black Belgians, however, are at their
best. You'll be sure to want some
for. the fruit bowl-they are cheaper
than We have seen them in many .
day.
| HkH
| A T THE poultry stalls we find fresh
young turkey moving" fast
The old-fashicned idea Of waiting TIL
Thanksgiving day for the drst bite O
turkey seems to be passe. You WI
and . splendid selection st al sns
Evening star., 1936-11-13
Dorothy Dix Says
In Seeking a Wife, Look for Her in a
Quiet, Dignifed Home.

and beauty treatments, but are they
irresistibly attracted to the drab little
wren who looks as If she had grown
her own feathers? Not q bit Of it.
It Is the daily hint from Paris that
catches their eyes and, as every girl,
knows, q pink chiffon will do more
toward getting her husband than
will the whole category of domestic
virtues.
So, perhaps, the reason that men
cannot find the wives they want is
because they ask TOO much of poor,
frail, human women. They want wives
who are domestic and frugal and good
cooks, yet they expect them to be
glamorous, entertaining. amusing and
beautifully dressed. And there are
mighty few women who combine all Of
these attractions. DOROTHY DIX.
Evening star., 1936-11-13

r GET loads Of letters from men
saying that the reason they do
not marry is because they cannot
L find the kind of q girl they want
for q wife. They assert that what
they desire Is q quiet, modest, home
loving girl whose favorite indoor sport
Is cooking; who takes no interest IN
style shows or beauty shops; who Will
save her husbands money and darn
his socks, and where is she? Where
Is this rare avis in these days OF wild
women and clothes-horses and wise
cracking co-eds and business girls who
can make out an income report with
out making an error, but who can't
make coffee that isn't rank poison?
Well, a man doesn't need to be a
Sherlock Holmes to locate the domes-
tic paragon he processes to want for
a wife. She is in the next block, or
she is just around the corner, spend
ing her evenings in the bosom Of her
family reading an improving book
because no man ever dates her. Or
If q man can't find her for himself
his mother can put her finger right
on her. She is that nice Mary Brown,
who is her mothers little helper, who
has taken q prize with her cakes and
who makes her own clothes and trims
her own hats so that they cost her
hardly anything, whom mother has
been throwing under his feet for the
last two years without his ever noticing
her enough to see that she was his
ideal.
MO, THE man who is looking for
q wife who will be a homemaker
hunts for her in night clubs, at sup
per parties, in cocktail bars, theater
lounges and the other haunts of fash
ion and frivolity, which is about as
intelligent as it would be to seek
orchids in the Arctic Circle.
Another reason that men cannot
find the kind Of wives they want is
because they demand the impossible.
They want wives who combine In their
own proper persons every antagonistic
characteristic. They want wives who
are both Marianne and Mary Anne;
wives who are brilliant and snowy, yet
meek and humble; wives who can play
on the piano with one hand and per-
form on the gas range with the other:
wives who can look like a million
dollars on fifty cents. There Isn't any
such an animal.
Look at the way men go about
selecting their wives! Do they PICK
out the kind of wives that they need
and can afford? Not at all. They
choose something that hits their taste
and fires their fancy without any
reference whatever to its practical
bility. Then they complain that they
are disappointed in their wives who
are Just exactly what they always
were.
A& ~
MOST men, for instance, want
Az wives who viii be thrifty and
economical and save their money In
stead Of blowing It In On fns clothes
Evening star., 1936-11-13

necklace but instead OF adding pearls you
, add squares And looks complicated
that its very far being there only two types of the
little triangle YOUTH
make 1t long enough or short enough
10 inches in width ana the ne'n
Of course depends number Of squares you make
contains complete Illustrated
aid wnat CROCHET HOOK anu
teial much win need -.
pattern 800 and nce Is cents In stamps
Address oroers 70 sne
of Evening
Evening star., 1936-11-13
Oriental Canapes.

Cut bread In small oval shapes,
saute In olive Oil. Spread with mix
ture of chopped chicken moistened
with lemon juice. Diagonally across
center place line Of chopped chutney
and outline with two strips pimiento.
Over mixture, ct ends, place tiny tips
Of watercress or the tiuisst possible
leaves Of lettuce.
Evening star., 1936-11-13
My Neighbor Says:

Don't forget to water hydran-
geas stored in your cellar. They
should be watered occasionally
during the Winter.
Celery. onion and green pepper,
when they are to be added to
stufings or meat filings, are
better when cooked for five min
utes In O small amount of water.
Potatoes bake more quickly II
placed on the broiler instead of
the floor of the gas oven and the
flavor will be much improved by
quick baking.
When restringing beads use two
strands Of dental floss instead Of
one. Beads are not 20 likely to
cut through two strands.
tcopyrfght. 1851
Evening star., 1936-11-13
iske of Friday the Has Ancient Superstons
Wrath of the Goddess
Freya Fell Upon Those
Not Honoring Her Day
Fear of the Number Thirteen Traceable to
Oldest of Hindu Legends.
BY BETSY CASWELL.

this morning with little feeling Of apprehension,
realizing that today to be Friday the tteenth or are you
for whom FRIDAY togeter
both the number the day
Evening star., 1936-11-13

Friday has had
o black mark
against IL ever
since the times
when 1t was the
festival day Of
the Northern We
nus, the goddess
Freya. The i'll
luck associated
with projects or
journeys under
taken on Fridays
began I at that
time, due to the
fact that the eel
ebrants believed
Ereya would cause
Evening star., 1936-11-13

you are In good ana ancient coIhPoii
have long been q source Of dread ana
worry to mankind. and, when they
come hand in hand, SO to speak, their
dangers are doubly magnified.
Evening star., 1936-11-13

smartly. whether for once or school,
on the campus or at the bridge table.
The very new neckline features q
dropped-shoulder yoke that is ex-
tremely hattering. while the ball
shaped buttons in triplicate give the
last touch In smartness. It fastens
on the left shoulder so that front and
back are left to look smooth and suave.
while at the same time simplifying the
sewing.
Try 1t in matelasse, a fancy nubby
crepe. wool crepe or printed satin.
Barbara Bell pattern No. 1853 is
available for sizes IL, IA, Is, 1S, 20
Evening star., 1936-11-13

and 40. Corresponding bust measure
ments 80, 80, "a. 36, SO and 40. Size
II (32) requires 434 yards Of 39-inch
fabric.
Evening star., 1936-11-13

MOST men, for instance. want
Az wives who viii be thrifty and
economical and save their money In
stead Of blowing It In On fins clothes
Evening star., 1936-11-13
BY MARGARET WARNER.

other day we had the pleas
ure of interviewing a past
master in the art of knitting
Evening star., 1936-11-13

Mr.. Patri has prepared leafiet en-
titled Spelling" in which he tells
parents how to successfully help chill
dren with their spelling lessons. Send
for it, addressing your request to Mr..
Angelo Patri, this paper, and inclose
@ self-addressed, stamped (3-cen)
envelope.
Evening star., 1936-11-13

At THE poultry stalls we find fresh
young turkey moving" fast.
The old-fashioned idea Of waiting TIL
Thanksgiving day for the nrst bite OF
turkey seems to be passe. You WIZ
and splendid selection st Al the