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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-08-24

your case, it must be particularly
trying, as you tell me you have
saved the ship" on more than
one occasion. You are certainly
entitled to know how the family
fortunes stand. I think you
might tell this to your husband
in the gentlest terms, but don't
quarrel about it, which will make
him more secretive than ever.
TEN YEARS DIFFERENCE
Dear Miss Fairfax:
II leave Sunday for New York
to continue studying for my pro-
feSSiOn. / shall be away for six
months. The girl am leaving
behind me is only Is years old,
but we love each other, and she
has promised to marry me when
1 get my degree. Do you think 1S
is too young to know her own
mind, and will she wait till / re-
turn?
"Hpw can we prove to each
other that we will be true while
we are separated?
WORRIED"
The best way of proving thaS
your love is genuine, and not .
case of infatuation, is to be faith
ful to each other during the six
months you are parted. Sixteen
is pretty young for girl to be-
come formally engaged. What do
her parents think about this?
Copyright, 1896, by King Features
Syndicate, Inc
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MI
W WILMA LAYlLLEi
WILMA LAVILLE'
Cool to Drink

0NE Of the most refreshing
" favors in hot weather is
peppermint. 1t is time, there
fore, to recommend one Of the
most delicious soda fountain
drinks that we have ever
found while it is yet summer.
This is an ice cream soda COM
bining chocolate and pepper
mint. There are really three
ways of making it-chocolate
soda with peppermint stick ice
cream, chocolate soda with
PEPPERMINT in the soda and any
kind Of ice cream, or pepper
mint soda with chocolate ice
cream. If you've never tried
the combination of mint and
chocolate, you have something
in store for you. They seem
made for each other. These
sodas are 15c, or you may
have a generous serving Of the
peppermint stick ice cream for
15c by itself. 1t has a cooling
taste that must be experienced
to be appreciated.
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Illustrated Step-by-step sewing in
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-08-24
Beauhfying the Skin in
Various Ways
Bv DONNA GRACE

We frequently asked for various cosmetic of tom
toes and other vegetables
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-08-24

; Women tell us when they pre-
pare the tomatoes and work with
them in the process of canning
they find it makes the hands
white.
There are various ways Of using
fruits and other things for beauti-
flying the skin, and many Of them
may be quite effective.
Add to the juice dry substance
such as corn meal, cornstarch, al
mond meal or powdered oatmeal.
The powdered oatmeal comes all
ready prepared. Mix enough Of
the powder to make thin paste
the consistency of mayonnaise.
Begin the facial by cleansing
the skin with cleansing cream or
soap and water, then pat dry and
spread the pack over the face and
neck. Leave it on for 10 minutes
and then remove with tepid water.
After that, apply a tissue cream,
using the regular massage move
ments as they are given in my
Facial Massage Method. When
the cream is removed, prepare an
aStringent or skin tonic.
Place three cubes of ice in bowl
and add three tablespoonful of
water and one teaspoonful of the
astringent or skin tonic. Some
girls prefer to use toilet water. and
when this is done use only a few
drops.
The tomato juice may be used as
a lotion. if you prefer.
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/
and watermelonS are on sale at all
markets and roadside stands and
represent q wealth Of cool low
calory desserts for jaded appetites.
Then, for additional variety,
there are green plumS, grapes,
honeydew melons, and avocado
pears shipped ripe and delicious
from the west coast.
The possibilities for varied fruit
desserts are rather endless.
For those busy apartment dwell
ers who come home from work
with little pep for starting time
consuming meal preparations, this
cool dessert will have an enticing
appeal.
Scoop melon balls from ripe
honeydew melon with a French
vegetable cutter or a round-edged
spoon. Pour into slender glass
jar. Squeeze the juice from two
large lines. Blend with two table
spoons of simple syrup-the kind
used for lemonade or Tom Col
linS-and pour over the melon
balls. Chill. Serve in the sherbeL
dishes on bed of crisp fresh mint
tops. The cool tang of the fruit
will do much to dispell hot wea
ther unpleaSantneSS.
Baked fresh peaches prepared
hours in advance have a diStinc-
tive flavor when branded and
topped with flecks Of aromatic
lemon peel.
Branded Fresh Peaches
4 large peach halves
l tablespoon of butter
"a cup of sugar
/ tablespoon of brandy
"a cup of peach Juice
Grated rind of u lemon
Place the peeled peach halves
on the baking dish. Dot with
butter. Blend the sugar. brandy
and peace juice. Crate the lemon
rind over the top. Bake in mod
erately hot oven until peaches
are soft and tender. Chill and
serve as the dinner dessert. This
recipe serves four.
Fresh pears are quite neglected
in desert making by the average
menu planner. Here is the type
of salad dessert that is delicious
on a summer evening.
Three Minute Dessert
halves Of Bartlett pears
"a cup Of cottage cheese
Plum jam
Arrange the pear halves In let
tuce. Either one or two may be
used for a serving. Place in each
half a tablespoon Of cottage cheese
that has been well seasoned. Next
add a liberal dash of plum jam
letting it run down the sides, show
ing off it's brilliant color. Barbecue
may be used instead of the plum
jam.
Another delicious inexpensive
dessert made with fresh pears looks
like Baked Alaskas when served.
SnOwballs
4 halves Of pear
4 thin slices of plain layer cake
Orange marmalade
egg whites
4 tablespoons Of sugar
Lemon juice.
Place the pear halves on slices
Of the cake with the cut side up
In each pear place tablespoon OF
m q nm q lode NEoEa fha marin o1In
by beating the egg whites stiff, add
ing the sugar, and a few drops
of lemon juice. Completely cover
the pear and cake. Bake in mod
crate oven for about IS minutes
| The meringue will be golden brown
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FaVOrite

1t is q fresh peach week In
many homes this Deek. This
luscious fruit has a limited
season, therefore, cannot be
Served too frequently. Ne10
recipes are GlUGyS in demand.
That is our contest theme.
You haze a chance to 1Uin. The
simple rules are listed belo10.
A 1Dinner chosen from last
weeks Ginger1le contest
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-08-24
Man s Business Suffers
When Secretary Is
Forced to Quit
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX

Famous Authority ON Problems of Love and Marriage
controversy started by Prof Smith Of Boston UNI
versty said perfect secretary who would
quit Job herself in love with her boss is like
SNOWFALL rolling down hill 1t gathers both speed and volume
goes and the amount of mail receive on the subject
seems to increase rather than diminish
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-08-24

MICKEY MOUSE and Donald
VA Duck, that's who they are,
and they are cut right out of
soap. Any youngSter would take
a bath without objecting if he
could have his soap in these
two favorite forms. They make
nice present. for children or
grown-ups, as each comes packed
in a box, so that they won't break,
and they are but 10 cents apiece.
For names of stores showing
the items described here, call
District 1000, Extension 459,
during business hours. or write
Miss Laville at The Times, in
closing stamped, Self-addreSSed
envelope.
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Ginger Ale Punch

IL cups of orange Juice
p cup of lemon or lime juice
l cup of powdered sugar
l quart bottle of ginger ale
Combine the sugar and fruit
juices. Add the ginger ale and
freeze in three parts of cracked
ice to one of rock salt. Sub
mitted by Gertrude Curtis, 1878
Rosedale st. N. E.
Rules OF the contest: Write
on one side OF the paper only
and include your name and 3D.
dress under each recipe. As
many recipes as you 10iSh may
be entered. Mail them to Miss
Jean Green, The Washing
ton Times, 1917 H st. N. w.
before midnight. August 20.
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HUSBANDS OBJECT

Dear Miss Fairfax:
More than once / have saved
the ship by. coming across with
loan from the money my
father left me. Still, now that
things are going better, l can
never discover just what my hus-
band has, or what his response
biIitieS are. He will talk to his
mother, but never to me. l
hear them mumbling together,
and when come into the room
they change the conversation.
This is extremely trying, as 1
have come to the rescue several
times and am always very gen
erous with my money. We
have been married Is years.
"MAUDE."
It's strange how many men are
averse to talking to their wives
about ther business affairs, and
many a widow has been robbed
of her property and insurance
because she did not understand
! the simplest business terms. In
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-08-24
Markets Offer Bargains
In Fresh Fruits
By JEAN GREEN

still bargain days at the fruit counters The local
peaches here Cantaloupe Bartlett apples
The Washington times., 1936-09-28

when you've been ready to take
the count.
When you find a happy stead1'
ness like that in a man, you can
pretty well bet his own ife's hit
ting on all twelve. Which, &C
cording to Mr.. Mcintyre, is 100
per cent correct in his case and
he gives the Lady Wife credit for
it all in the october COSMO-
POLITAN.
I warn you, it's no piece for
folks who think they're too smarty
to choke up a bit over their First
Sweethearts- Odd not only
chokes up but spills clean over.
Mrs. o. o. Mcintyre, by his ac-
counting, is not only a Honey, but
THE BEST BOSS a man ever had.
And then proceeds to give some
information which will probably
cause more didoeS in the Great
American Home than any docu-
ment ever penned by the hand of
man.
"T have never" seq he, as
calmly rs if he were not drop
ping matrimOny'S biggest depth
bomb, signed a contract with
my syndicate or with any maya
zine that has not been engi-
neered solely by her. 1 do not
even sit in at the conferences"
SORE SUBJECT
Whoops, my dearies-if that
doesn't Start Something I don't
know my Family Dinner Table
For, equal suffrage rumors to the
contrary, Mixing -In-With-P -Papa's,
Business still ranks, generally, as
high in the list of capital crimes
as it did in King Solomon's time.
The writer receives several thou.
sand letters from aggrieved couples
The great majority of these letters
spring from the one debate
who's financial head of the
house?" Always a sore subject, ii
becomes infinitely aggravated il
the wife is also a wage Garner.
Nor is this because most huS
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TOday's BOOndOggle

The of Boone n Co. must have been in sorry condition
indeed until the WPA its and started work
project which described in the records here follows
Repairing Streets building sidewalks scarfyng old
faces constructing headwa and cuvert laying pipe clear
ing and grubbng."
The work is to 9 28 about $40 for every inhabtant
of the town. and of this the Federal Treasury will
tribute than 80 per cent.
Moreover this project alone should provide steady employ
the heads of 130 families According
the records there only about 26O families in the
entire town Boone half the population therefore, will
living off the WPA for twelve happy carefree months
Boondogglng7 Well, Boone-doggling at least.
w
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TWO ENTIRE SUMMERS

art, and his work the storm-center
of a controversy which arouseS
violent tempers, or equally violent
amusement, wherever it comes up.
Paul ChabaS met an artists
model-a beautiful girl of 16,
whose delicate charm fascinated
him. Throughout the summers of
1910 and 1911 he worked on her
portrait. To do it, they had to
spend the summers at Lake
Amency, near the Swiss border.
Every warm morning, at $50,
ChabaS and his model would walk
down to the edge of the water,
where she would take off her
clothes and adopt the pose with
which the whole world has since
become familiar.
For 80 minutes he would paint,
carefully and meticulously, for he
was a slow and thorough worker.
Then both would adjourn until the
next favorable day.
BY the end Of the second sum
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The Human Side of the News = By Edwin C. Hill

Hment from critics to which ChabaS
had been accustomed for Is years.
No one seemed to want to buy
the picture.
Chabas brought it to New York,
where a firm named Braun ex-
hibited it in their Manhattan
window.
The next character to appear in
this remarkable drama is Anthony
ComStock, perhaps the most IA
nous of all PuritanS.
And if Anthony ComStock, ever
on the alert for anything calcu-
lated to besmirch or corrupt the
morals of the free Republic of the
United States, had not happened
to be strolling, eagle-eyed, down
Forty-sixth Street, New York, one
afternoon in May, 1913, the rest
of the events recounted here would
almost certainly never have taken
place.
He saw the painting Of the
nude girl in the window. She
stood up to her shins in water,
and seemed afraid to go in fur
ther.
The picture was labeled "Sep-
tember Morn" ComStock was en-
ragged and Mortified. He Stormed
into the shop.
There's too little morning
and too much maid" he rOared
to the manager. "Take it out"
STILL ANONYMOUS
But the manager refused. The
next day all New York, and very
soon all the world. had heard of
September Morn" It was indeed
the picture of the year.
It raised a storm of contro-
versy in every newspaper.
Reproductions of the picture
were on calendars, cigars, Sus-
penders, postcards. chocolate
boxes. Crowds fought to see the
original.
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woman happy. But no man
really understands women! And
here are some of the things that
keep men guessing:
Why a woman doesn't seem to
be able to strike a happy medium
between over-dreSSing in town
and Embarrassing at the beach.
Why she is always sweetest and
most amiable when she is plan
ming to blow him up the moment
they get away from the party.
Why, the more intelligent and
efficient she is. the less she rel
isheS being admired for her brains
and her mental achievements.
Why she thinks she has a 99-
year lease on a mans affections,
just because he offered her a few
weeks option.
Why she thinks more Of the
man who feeds her 2 cents worth
of baloney than of the one who
dimes her on terrapin. but forgetS
the applesauce.
Why she can't realize that q
summer love affair is like rub
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A couplet of anonymous au-
thorship swept the English-Speak-
ing world. It went:
ComStockS arose in every COM
munity in America and Europe.
Furious ComStocks shouted
them down. The picture was
world-famouS.
And now Chabas, world-famouS,
too, recalls that his charming
young model (whoSe name was
never revealed) is middle-aged
and married, a contented mother
and, alas, growing plump with
the years.
But her famous portrait hangs
now in a luxurious mansion in
PlaSsy, the Mayfair of Paris, the
proud possession Of an oil mag
nate who is one of the richest
men in the world.
Copyright 1898. by King Features
Syndicate Ino.)
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Marry-GO-:ROund
Bu Helen ROULGv1d
THE "MISUNDERSTOOD" Sc

'ber bathing suit or straw hat
good for one season only.
Why she harps on the good
pal" racket, and then gets sore
or hurt if he drops the gallantry
and tries to be really platonic.
Why it gives her a thrill to see
the heroine being bullied or
bossed by the he-man lover in the
movies when she would flatten
any man out if he tried that
stuff" on HER.
Why she never seems to know
when love is done-but always
insists on trying to add a post
script or stage an encore.
Why she gets a kick out Of
leaving daubS of lipStick all over
a mans collar-aS though it
were her trademark.
Why she would rather be one
of half dozen women in mans
life than only one of TWO.
Why she thinks of herself as
tender-hearted and a good sport,
yet will cheerfully use the orchids
which one man has sent her as
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being "chief Of Senator ihOmas
operations" on several "jobs" ex-
planned for the benefit Of Senator
Elbert D. Thomas of Utah just
what a hooker" meant.
This witness said the term
"hooker" originated rig ht in
washington under the Burns ad-
ministration. 1t was understood
he meant when William j. Burns
was in charge of the Justice De-
partment agents. He said one OF
the men from the South was very
fond of fishing for catfish. He
used to catch a plenty and SO
when he went out to make a
pinch one time he came back
and announced:
81 hooked him."
The witness said the use Of
the term in the Strike-breaking
business was new to him as he
always heard it referred to as
"roping."
"Roping," he said, meant to get
a man working in a mill to spy
on his fellow workers; fink" is
a man who actually takes the
place of a striker and works at
his job in the mill; noble" is
a guard who is used to watch the
property, slug the pickets and
do anything else his agency de-
sired done.
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as slender as EDWIN C. HILL
when she posed in sweet nudity
for the painting whose celebrity
swept the world.
Do you remember september
Morn'-the portrait Of the young
girl standing in a pool, in un-
adorned loveliness?
One has to go back Is years
for the beginning of the tale. 1t
began in Paris, as it has ended.
There, in 1910, lived a prosper
Gus, affable, middle-aged and mod
estly talented artist named Paul
Chabas. For years he had ex-
hibited at the annual Paris Salon,
attracting respectful notice, though
very little enthusiasm.
TWO ENTIRE SUMMERS
In 1910 and 1911 he worked pa
tiently on a picture which, though
he could hardly have anticipated
it, was to make him the most
talked-of figure in the world of
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y o u h We to
&C k so miles
to the nearest
S e t t lement-
I've found lone
ly m en- an d
women wait for
Cd d. S column
like news from
home. Not just
t h e words he
writes, but the
spirit b e h | n d
them a heart
ening warmth
that makes you
b e Ii We in
THINGS q o. n
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PUZZLERS

Overheard in a Capitol cor
ridor. A guard was talking tc
his friend:
"Of all the nOnSenSical queS-
tiOns I've had asked me since
I've been on the job the one
today was the worst. 1 saw a
couple walking around the Cap
itOl looking in here and there.
FINALLY they came up to
me and asked me where the
animals were. I told them this
was the Capitol and not the
Zoo and they just looked at
me and walked away.
"A lady asked me the other
day where the elevator was to
the dome. told her there
wasn't any. She wanted to
know why? / don't know. 1
guess there ought to be one.
So many people ask for 1t. l
guess a lot Of people think we
had one once.
Its the same about the Pres
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dozen lines,
compress sSed a
page of THE
Human Side Of
the News" Paul
Chabas, famous
French artist,
confided to a
Partisan jour
nalist that Sep
tember Morn" is
now Al, married
to a rich French
industrialist, the
mother of three
lovely children,
and no longer
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PROTECTIVE

Someone apparently Thought
the committee investigating the
labor "spy systems" might be in
danger. A lieutenant of the Capt.
tol police and five privateS have
attended every session.
At the opening session, three of
the men stood behind the chair
mans desk at all times.
So far the only service they rem
dered was to see that the glasses
OH the table were well filled with
ice water. They are much better
at this job than most walters.
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tol last week.
In t e rlarded
with the stories
of such SadiStic
ra C t i C es as
Slugging, using
live steam on
S trik e rs and
pickets, electro
c u t ion a n d
shootings we're
moments of a
m uch lighter
nature.
One of the
witnesses who
b o a S t e d OF
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AMUSING

Into the torrent of political lit
erature has been injected a
pamphlet labeled Uncle Sans
Farmyard." 1t was written by
Owen R. Wasburn and carries on
the cover the legend:
"Since men refuse to reason
the animals and fowls speak
plainly of these alarming
times"
Inside the front cover it says:
"Children should buy their
book of fables for the edifica-
ton and instruction of parents,
and parents should secure it for
the education of those with ten
der minds"
Its thinly veiled sarcasm makes
it amusing reading.
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Greatest Show on Earth
Bv Frank Miller Smith

ident. They think he lives here.
A lot Of them will ask, Where
does the President sleep? l
tell them about a mile from
here and they don't believe me.
"They must have heard about
the Presidents room. But the
President doesn't use that. He's
never been in it. In fact, he's
only been up here two or three
times.
81 don't see why people don't
know more about their Govern.
ment."