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Smyrna times., 1937-03-18
PERSONALS

Revs. France, Quigg and White
have departed for the Conference
which meets tomorrow at Girls
field.
Rev P. B. Lightner of New Cas-
tie, preached for Rev. w. B. Cor
don last evening at st. Peters
Church.
Miss Annie Matthews, of Cam
den, is visiting Mrs. John H. Hof-
fecker.
John c. Gooden of Willow Grove
has been in town two days the
past week with apparently a good
deal of confidential business.
Albert Taylor, son of Isaac Tay-
lor, has obtained a position in q
mercantile house in Philadelphia.
The friends of William A. Dew
nish made a visit on Saturday
night with a purse Of over thirty
dollars, and other articles for fam
lily use.
Smyrna times., 1937-03-18

m, ! N AFRAID | have ,
VINO 5 a good doctor to 81
lomalnes! Oh, for an,
matter with my toes I al
on a chiropodist."
Smyrna times., 1937-03-18
Entirely at Sea

Passenger - Really, steward, I
have forgotten the number Of my
cabin.
Steward - That's bit difficult,
madam; haven't you got the slight
est idea where it was?
Passenger - Oh, just minute
l remember now - the window
looked out on a lighthouse.
Smyrna times., 1937-03-18
Try This One

willie"
"Yes, pop"
"Can you carry a tune?"
Certainly I can carry tune,
pop"
well, carry that one you are
whistling out in the back yard and
bury it,
Smyrna times., 1937-03-18
UP-T0-DATE

Those Newriches are
illiterate. "
Yes; they are much n
liar with the parts Of an
the parts Of speech"
Smyrna times., 1937-03-18
KENTON

On Thursday evening Lewis F.
Hilyard and Miss Matte Wallace
were married at the NJ E. Parson-
age at Smyrna, and, after their re-
turn, a reception was given at the
brides sister.
On the same evening our Sunday
School held their Missionary An
niversary, at which music and reci-
tations were given and also inter-
esting addresses by R. NJ. Cooper
and the pastor.
Last Saturday night shower that
in fair weather, the Lyceum will
find the Hall insufficient to accom-
modate all who attend its meet
ings. The newly elected president,
D. S. Wilds, entered upon his term
of Office that evening. The noted
question, Resolved that the death
of Caesar was a benefit to Rome"
was decided affirmatively. "Re-
solved that city life is preferable to
country life" is the subject for the
next discussion. We fear the
speakers for the affirmative will
have to talk about something con-
cerning which they have had little
experience, for all are tanned sons
of the rough fisted swain.
Last evening party of young
folks met at the house of Miss
Elva Biggs for a few hours f so
cial enjoyment.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-09-16
WOMEN WHO HOLD
Their men
never LET Them KNOW

MO matter how much your
IN back aches and your nerves
scream, your husband, because he
is only a man, can never UNDER
stand why you are so hard to live
with one week in every month.
Too often the honeymoon ex-
press is wrecked by the nagging
tongue of a three-quarter wife. The
wise woman never let's her husband
know by outward sign that she is
o victim Of periodic pain.
For three general ions onewoman
has told another how to go ''snnil-
ing through" with Lydia e. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound. 1t
helps Nature tone up the system.
thus lessening the discomfo from
the functional disorders which
women must endure in the three
ordeals of life: /. Turning from
girlhood to womanhood. 2. Pre-
pairing for motherhood. 8. APP
preaching middle age"
Don't be a three-quarter wife,
take LYDIA e. PINKHAAd'S
VEGETABLE COMPOUND and
Go Smiling Through"
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-09-16
,eN|0F INTEREST 10 |
i THE HOUSEWIFE 4

Dainty Shoulder Straps.-When
making your indies try using mar
row velvet ribbon for the shoulder
straps. The velvet side next to
the skin acts as grip, while the
satin on top looks dainty. You
will find that ribbon-velvet straps
will outlast any garment.
Save the Curtains.-A finger cut
from an old glove and slipped over
the end of a curtain rod enables
it to be pushed through the cur
tain hens of the finest net with
out catching and tearing the fab
ric.
For Basting Roasts.-Leftover
fruit juices, especially those from
spiced fruits, make excellent bast-
ing liquid for roasts, chops and
ham dishes.
Raspberry Shrub. - To three
quarts of red raspberries and one
quart of sugar add one cup of
vinegar. Cook slowly for half an
hour and strain through cheese
cloth. Pour into sterilized bottles
and seal. Serve over ice cubes
diluted with water to taste.
WNU Service.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-09-16
GOOD TASTE.
n TODAY =
by "A
kEMILY POSTlb
Worlds Foremost Authority
on Etiquette
@ Emily Post.
ooo . . . Q Q eoeev
Shaking Hands Is
Matter Of Impulse

EAR Mrs. Post: Should wOrn.
~ an, when taking leave of q
small family group, several of
whom she met on this occasion for
the first time, shake hands with ev-
eryone? And would the fact that
she shook hands with each one an
hour or SO before when meeting
them have any bearing on your an
swer? While I know that shaking
hands is not SO much practiced to-
day as it once was, wish 1 knew
a. what times it was still the polite
thing to do.
Answer: The question of whether
to shake hands under the circum-
stances you mentioned is far more
matter Of impulse than of rule.
If those whom you have been talk
ing with are standing directly next
to you, your natural impulse would
be to shake hands. But if they are
sitting in different parts of the room
you would certainly not 60 from one
to the other. Again, if one of them
goes with you as far as the door,
you would probably shake hands
with her, or him, as you say good
by.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-09-16

CLdSC SAdVSoAOC GU
logy is belated plea for the defense,
offered after the evidence is all in,
so an epitaph is an advertisement
for a line Of goods which perma-
nently has been discontinued.
Somehow this burying ground
stuff reminds me of hired critics of
other mems efforts. The difference
between professional book review
ers and the other obituarians is that
the latter do their work after you
pass on, but the reviewers can't
wait until you're dead to write your
literary death notice for you.
Maybe critics are to, authors what
fleas were to David Harurn's dog;
they keep authors from brooding on
being authors.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-09-16
Let Members Pour
at Wonuen's Club Tea

N EAR Mrs. Post: Our women's
- club is giving large tea for
approximately a hundred and fifty
guests. Would you suggest that it
is better at tea of this size to let
the hotel do all the serving, or do
you think it more friendly to have
members of the committee preside
at the tea table?
Answer: At a tea for as many as
fifty the details of serving are more
often than not taken care of by the
caterers, or by the servants in q
private house. However, in your
case, if sufficient members Of the
committee take turns at pouring, it
should not be too firing for any one
of them, and there is no question
that club hostesses at the tea ia
BILE would create a more friendly
atmosphere. In any case, all the
other details Of replacing used cups
and saucers with fresh ones and re-
plenishing sandwiches and cakes
and passing them will be taken care
Of by the hotel.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-09-16
Tombstone Inscriptions.

Tombstone Inscriptions.
DHOENIX, ARIZ. -Agentle-
i man took me sightseeing
through a cemetery that
abounded in proud mauso-
leums and stately shafts.
figured he wanted to show me
that rich folks continue to enjoy the
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-09-16
Catching Barracuda.

&c. GARLIC is quite yachts
Imam when not acting for the
screen or leading parades. He's our
champion parade leader. It's got
so they don't dare let colored flu
neral 60 past his house for fear he'll
rush right out and head the process
sion.
On one of those days when there
wasn't a parade, he took Victor
Moore and me out on his boat. We
caught mess Of slim, yet fragrant
fish. Leo called them barracuda,
but, with their low retrea ting fore
heads and greedy jaws, they looked
more like shyster lawyers to me
the kind who chase ambulances and
eventually get disbarred.
Glad, Mad Artists.
III ERETOFORE, the glad, mad
- geniuses, who produce master
pieces of sculpture and painting
which resemble nothing on heaven,
earth or in the waters below except
possibly some bad dream which
these parties had once while feel
ing pretty bilious, have depended
upon the ultra-ults among the intelli-
gentsia for support.
But now one hears divers million
aires may endow for them an aca-
denny or gallery-or possibly it's
an asylum for the more violent
cases. Anyhow, there's money be-
hind the cult, and when money gets
behind thing in this country, it
usually fourishes, provided the
money doesn't get too far behind,
as happened in 1929, when the rest
Of the country was trying to figure
out what had become Of the deposits
and investments, which we, of the
sucker class, had entrusted to our
leading financial wizards.
Still, we Of that same ignorant
mass-group do not have to buy ex-
amples Of this new school. We don't
even have to look at them unless
we're in Germany and are escorted
to the official state-run display by
regiment Of Nazi storm-troopers.
And, aside from their ideas of
what constitutes art, it's said that
some Of the artists themselves are
not really dangerous, merely annoy
ing in an itchy sort Of way. In
other words, they're all right If you
don't get one Of 'ern on you.
IRWIN s. COBB.
0-WNU Service. ,>.-,--~.--
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-09-16
Serving Young Guests.

Serving Young Guests.
N EAR Mrs. Post: 1 would like to
~ give an evening surprise birth
day party for my son, asking
dozen or so of his high school
friends. Everything is to be sim
pie and the evening will probably
be spent in playing a variety of
games, as our house does not af-
ford space for dancing. For re-
freshments, would chicken sand
wiches and milk be sufficient? 1
know all the young people drink
milk and hardly any of them drink
coffee, and thought milk would be
very easy to serve. Or can you sug-
gest something that you like bet
ter?
Answer: If you are sure they like
milk better than anything else, this
is an excellent reason for serving
it. Otherwise, think I would sug-
gest that you have cocoa for
change, and also because hot
drink would taste better with cold
sandwiches.
Fine Technical Point.
N EAR Mrs. Post: Which is cor
~ rect? Drink your soup or eat
your soup?
Answer: Eat your soup with
spoon and drink it from a cup. In
other words, you eat it with table
spoon when served in a plate; you
sip it from a teaspoon or drink it,
when served in a cup.
--., WNU Service.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-09-16

utmost luxury even
after becoming de.
ceased.
How futile and
how vain are most
tombstone inscrip-
tons. They give the
dates Of birth and
death - events in
neither of which the
departed had any
say-so ~ unless he
committed suicide.
And just as the av-
Evening star., 1937-03-13

among the purchased works One OF
the contributing artists--Inez De-
monet has, since the close Of the
exhibition, received orders for several
duplicates Of the print shown therein.
Evening star., 1937-03-13
Bulletin of Exhibitions

CORCORAN GALLERY American
paintings sculpture Barge
paintings tapestries
exhibition OF portrait drawings Telling closing
NATIONAL GALLERY National M,e,n-Pe
manent coectionsEvans Geatly Harriet
Lane johnson and Herbert Ward
windows by John La
ings by Thomas
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION GRAPHIC ARTs-Ex-
hlbition OF etchings by Charles B..
NATIONAL MUSEUM ARTS AND INDUSTRIES
ton OF photographs members
japanese textile pins-Loaned D.
FEER GALLERY OF ATPermanent
ana echlgs oy whistler The peacock Oriental
hronzes. pottery miniatures,
PHILLIPS MEMORIAL
old and modern masters
st Peter by and
water colors by L. Eishemu
OF the Virgin Islands Washington nartists
TEXTILE MUSEUM OF DISTRICT COLUMBIA-Pemanent
collection tapestries
open Mondays, Wednesdays
card obtanabe Office
ARTS CLUB OF
G. Bradley and etchings w.
CONGRESS,
echngs and other prints by
graphs; drawings
LIBRARY,
by Richard Iahey Northeast
ton artists lately shown In the
Banch-Pantngs members
ant Branch-Waer Null Paul Art
WOMENS CITY CLUB-Pantngs by
DUMBARTON HOUSE-Historica
utility and pictures
GALLERY. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. oil paintings by
Anthony
nhooorsnhc
INTIMATE BOOKsHOP paint
tngs by Rear Admiral Charles Russell
Evening star., 1937-03-13
An Engaging Exhibition OF
Photographs by Junior League.

An Engaging Exhibition OF
Photographs by Junior League.
THE Second Annual Washington
Photographic Show opened last
Sunday at the Junior League Gallery.
to remain until March 81. It includes
48 photographs by SO artists, both
amateur and professional. In addi-
ton to the work of Washington pho
tographers, there are prints from such
contemporary masters OF the camera
as Man Ray, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward
Steichen, Anton Breuhl and Bernice
Abbott, and by "old masters" the
American pioneer, Mathew c. Brady,
and the sParisian, Eugene Atget
1t will be recalled that Brady was
the official photographer to the Union
Army during the war between the
States. and was the foremost daguerre-
otypist in the United States at that
time. Three Of his Civil War photo
graphs have been lent to the Junior
League exhibition by L. C. Handy
Studios.
Eugene Atget devoted 20 years or
more, until his death, in 1927, to
photographing Paris. Working with
the cheapest lens he could purchase,
and living on a starvation diet, he
succeeded in making more than 5000
negatives Of Paris, the image Of the
city, not only in its majestic and beau
tlful aspects, but also in its humbIest
and most intimate. So great was his
success that he Is considered as among
those who revolutionized the medium,
Berenice Abbott discovered" his COL
lection shortly before his death and
introduced his work to the United
States. She has lent one OF his photo
graphs to the Junior League show, as
well as one Of her own, Willow Street
Brooklyn" From the Museum OF Mod
ern Art have come two "rayogra phs"
by Man Ray, which were made without
camera, by intercepting light rays,
with objects placed on sensitive paper.
These are entirely abstract.
The works Of Washington photop-
raphers run gamut of Photographic
approach, from traditional to modern.
and OF subject matter, from the
specific to the abstract. OF course.
photographers are limited to real OBJ
Jects, but they have proven they can
handle such subject matter in radical
~ different ways. Mental attitude
Evening star., 1937-03-13

such subjects to the current exhibition,
but each is different and individual:
"Old Mill-1749," Across the Canal
and "Kennebunkport Wharf" The re-
Election Of the building, in reverse,
gives a formal balance to each Of these
compositions, and Miss Mulletts han
ding OF water is very successful; one
feels one could swim in it. She also
has one portrait and one abstract work,
Cape Porpoise," in which the in
fuence OF cubism is obvious. A stark
flight OF wharf steps cuts diagonally
across one corner, while its thrust is
resisted by the horizontal masses OF
water and wharf and balanced by a
triangular mass of sail in the upper
right. Miss Mullett, by the way, is a
granddaughter of the late A. B. Null
lett, architect Of the State, War and
Navy Building.
MIR. Arts handling is extremely
broad and sketchy, although one is
IN no doubt as to the identity of his
subject matter. He reveals a liking
lor the bare black shapes of trees
In late Autumn and Winter, silhouetted
against snow. He shows a number
Evening star., 1937-03-13

success in spite Of this indicates how
wild his JOY would have been with
modern, quick-exposure cameras The
number OF his negatives this would
have inspired can only be conjectured.
THE impression, after seeing many
Of Brady's prints, Is that he
wanted nothing 50 much as to present
people and places exactly as they were.
The officers were not encouraged in
pomposity, but If pomposity was
natural it did not escape the candid
lens. The men were not tidied for
parlor-mantel display and the places
were not sentimentalized. Strange
angles were not thought Of, as the
straight view OF the eye needed only
the selective range of the lens. There
are Brady views of Andersonville
Prison. which. IN quiet. simple way.
Evening star., 1937-03-13
BRADY Camera Made Records of American HISTORY
Exhibits in Junior League
Collection Show His
Candid Attitude,

are more candid than many Of the
daring shots Of our news pictures.
Matthew C. Brady is the earliest
undoubtedly one Of the best, proofs
that the value of candid photography
depends ON the motivating intelligence
back OF the camera, not on impudence
and the speed OF the lens.
The original Brady prints, in the
warm purplish brown of albumen
paper, are an exciting memorial to
his extraordinary Photographic in
telligence. There are many dull pic
lures among the thousands. but the
best are not relieving accidents, They
clearly show an honest and tntelligent
recorder. who appreciated people, de-
sign and circumstance That Brady
bankrupted himself in his zeal, after
years Of fashionable success, intensi-
fies this belief in his intelligence and
integrity. Beyond the routine work
there were things to be photographed
that asked superior understanding
OF reality.
There are three other prints with
this viewpoint from guest exhibitors
IN the Second Annual Washington
Photographic Show. One is the Bere-
nice Abbott Willow Street, Brooklyn" I"
which, however lays greater empha-
sis on design; the Atget photograph Of
a Paris shop window, print made BY
Miss Abbott from Atgets original neg
atlVe and included in the book on At
get published in this country a few
years ago, and "Steerage," by Alfred
StleglitZ, who preached the realistic
viewpoint when almost none would
listen. BY that time the c4mera was
technically capable OF candid shots.
People could be photographed In COM
plete naturalness, often unaware.
THIS emphasis on Brady and the
candid, naturalStic attitude is not
special pleading for that type of pho
Biography But by an outline of the
candid attitude and the character of
Brady's prints an attempt has been
made to show once again that even In
the most spontaneous type OF photog-
raphy the degree of motivating intelli-
gence makes the camera a machine or
an interpretive agent.
With these prints are two Man Ray
distractions, rayographs, that offer
violent contrast and no possibility OF
mention here. Over 40 pictures by
Washington photographers are shown,
and the selection was made by Miss
Jackie Martin, Mr.. Theodor Jung and
Mr.. Walker Evans from over 375
prints submitted by twice as many en-
trants as last year. The exhibition at
the Junior League Gallery, 2001 Mas
sachusetts avenue, will be open week
days from $50 to o'clock and on
Sundays from $3.50 to $50 through
March 81.
Evening star., 1937-03-13

discernible. The horses usually found
the six-second exposure intolerable.
All OF Brady's war portraits show
the attempt at naturalism, and even
the most elaborate tableaux are stud
les in the casual attitudes. Certainly
the group about the cannon in the
Junior League exhibition is q care
fully and handsomely designed study
In deliberate naturalness. The small
groups were easier to handle, though
in them the problem became more
personal. How Brady managed the
vast numbers of people, even with as
sistants, and persuaded them out OF
self-consciousness is something to
wonder at and admire.
To call them attempts at natural
ism Is not to accuse Brady Of affect
ing naturalism. An attempt was the
most his equipment would allow. His
Evening star., 1937-03-13
Washington Prints Added to
Those of Army in an
Artistic Career.
By Prenfiss TavlOr.

n ROPER attention has never
- been given Matthew c. BradyS
Photographic career in Wash
a ington. There has never been
a large exhibition OF his prints and the
three photographs on view IN the Sec
ond Annual Washington Photographic
Show at the Junior League Gallery
are barely an introduction. There was
the contemporary attention that was
given his success as portrait photog-
rapher. Later there was the attention
given his request for remuneration by
the Government for his work as OIL
cial photographer to the Union Army,
but by the time Brady was old and
dying, in the nineties, photography
had changed. It had become an "artis-
tic medium. 1t was painting pictures
with lens and emulsions. And the
artistic photographers" had no inter-
est IN Brady's straightforward, honest
viewpoint.
The insistence by Alfred StiegHtz
through the last 40 years on this hon
est vision and the change in creative
temper generally to an objective view
point has revived an interest in
Matthew Bradys prints.
His significance to his contem-
poraries was that he was the foremost
photographer. He worked in New York
| and Washington, where he made da-
guerrotypes and ambertypes, then later
photographs Of the statesmen, theatri-
cal people and attendant citizens.
Abraham Lincoln sat for several por-
traits and gave a pass and what en-
couragement he could to Brady's ap-
pointment as photographer to the War
Department. President Lincoln could
not ask for an appropriation and
Brady drew on his profits to finance
the OUTFIT.
I>HE photographs Brady took of the
officers, men, depots, hospitals,
prisons, battlefelds and aftermaths.
when he toured his wagon dark
room" and helpers down to Atlanta,
up beyond Gettysburg and a still
debated distance West, are his great
est contribution to Photographic his
tory. 1t is in these that Brady showed
his candid" attitude, which has most
| significance to moderns.
Candid is the current name, Brady
would undoubtedly have said he was
trying to get only the most natural
eject conditions would permit. And
conditions were hard. The length OF
exposure was the greatest barrier to
naturalness. and Brady's frequent
success in overcoming this was one
OF his greatest achievements. In large
general views there are often blurred
spots where horses or men have
moved. but there are many pictures
OF whole companies ranged on hill
sides, where littA or no movement Is