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BRAISED OXTAIL

BRAISED OXTAIL
Wash the oxtail very care
fully and cut into pieces at the
joints, having each piece about
two to three inches long. Brown
in hot butter or drippings with
one medium-sized onion, sliced,
and one sliced carrot. When
everything's nicely Drowned, re-
move to a casserole and add
half a teaspoon mixed spices
cited in & little muslin bag),
one shredded pepper. Bring to
a boil one pint of stock, one
pint canned tomatoes, and pour
over oxtail; season with salt
and pepper and cook until done,
about two to two and a half
hours. Add one cup canned
peas. season more if needed,
and last, add a glass of sherry
wine. If you like the gravy
thick, rub one tablespoon flour
with a little butter and stir into
the gravy.
SPINACH DUMPLINGS
Wash and clean and dry
spinach thoroughly. Chop very
fine, so that you have about one
pound in weight. Put two
tablespoons butter in a sauce
pan; melt. Add the finely
chopped spinach and steam
slowly for 20 to 80 minutes. Re
move and pour into a bowl.
Add two eggs, a little nutmeg,
season with salt and pepper.
Add two slices of diced toast.
Mix all this well and add
enough flour to hold the dump
lings together. Form into
medium-sized balls, and boil in
salt water for 10 minutes. Pour
brown butter over them and
serve.
PINEAPPLE PUDDING
Soak one-half package gela-
tin for one hour in one-half cup
cold milk. Put two and half
cups milk in a double boiler
and heat. Beat together a cup
of sugar with the yolks OF six
eggs. Stir into the boiling milk
three cups grated pineapple
the gelatin and the egg mixture.
Cook for five minutes, stirring
all the time. Turn into a bowl
which has been dipped in cold
water, and set aside to cool.
Serve with VIII. 0ed cream.
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InSOn1nidc Helps

If counting sheep doesn't help
your particular brand of sleep
lessness, try a hot bath. 1t
will let you down gently into
sound, restful slumber.
Get into a tub filled with
water slightly above body tenn
perature-about 100 degrees F.
on the bath thermometer is
about right. Use soap laviShly
to remove soil and skin secre-
tions, then lie back and relax
for 10 minutes or so.
Resist that impulse to drift
right off into slumber. First you
must pat yourself dry, don a
clean nightgown, and slide be-
tween crisp fresh sheets. And
be sure to cover up well.
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Work magic with color, as
professional decorators do.
Tie adjoining rooms together
with clever variations Of har-
monious color accents. Keep
backgrounds the same color for
spaciousness.
Let us say walls in both
rooms are ivory, rugs dark
brown. Use clear green, yel-
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Bea1utY C01A10>9& ?: (:

not at ease and really sure you
do so correctly, keep the hands
folded over the left knee and
cultivate poise without move
mentS.
The course Of hand anad arm
gestures included in ballet dane
ing or any of the interpretive
dances is the most expressive
and graceful of any we know.
Professional dancers know the
meaning Of every gesture and
practice them constantly.
The first movement is the
flexing of the wrist. That Is q
kind of Tapping of the hands
from the wrists. Do q lot OF
those whenever you can. This
will keep the hands supple.
Some of the awkwardness may
be avoided by remembering to
keep the elbows close to the
body. Never extend the thumb
out beyond the index finger but
keep it drawn under, toward the
palm of the hand.
When extending the arm, let
the wrist lead and, as the hand
is finally extended, touch the
tip of the middle finger to the
end of the thumb. Then in this
position, point the first, fourth
and fifth fingers straight with
the line of the hand. Hold this
position and extend the arms out
and back and up and down, with
wrist leading, always. 1t will in
sure grace, if practiced several
times daily.
You mag 'eep your hands
soft and aDhite tOith n1y hand
and arm treatment. Send q
stamped, Selt-GddreSSed envelope
for your reply. Address Donna
Grace, Beauty Editor OF this
paper.
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shock. Also ne mas l0St Welg
Do you Jump to the conclusion
that he is applying for divorce.
and that it is his wife who Is
responsible for the miseries he
enumerates? Nothing, Of the
sort.
It's the local telephone COM
rany toward which Mr.. Whig-
ham feels so passionately resent
full He is suing it for $2,999
damages, alleging that it per-
mitted, even invited, his wife to
listen in" to his conversation
with another woman-a conver-
sation that seems to have been
one that wife shouldn't hear.
NO EAVESDROPPING
Well, listening in" is a trou-
ble-making business. I'd advise
any wife who wishes to preserve
her peace of mind to do as little
of it as possible-even If her
husband is utterly beyond re-
proach.
But what if you already have
a notion-and nothing could be
more upsetting-that your huS-
band is maintaining an indis-
Greet relationship with a lady at
the other end of the State?
What If it seems to you impor-
tant to get a line on their con-
versationS? And what if a girl
employed by the telephone COM
pany amiably offers to tip you
off if this distant friend calls
your husband?
Certainly, if you were human,
you'd accept the opportunity,
even If, as I'm afraid was true
in Mrs. Whigham's case, you
discovered something that pretty
nearly broke your heart.
Now Mrs. Whigham seems to
have been as blameless and
probably as affectionately a de-
voted a wife as you could find.
Hasn't she lost weight, one won
ders? Didn't she suffer any Sc
we're shock when she listened to
the soft accents in which her
husband addressed ano t h e r
woman? Didn't she mind the
collapse of her marital happi-
ness? And what legal compen-
sation is she seeking?
SILENT TOPICS
Not a word leaks out as to
this unhappy lady's suffering,
which is so entirely natural and
so easily imagined. Not a word,
either, as to Mr.. Whigham's re-
morse, or as to any promises on
his part to renounce long-dis-
tance conversations and to make
his wife as happy as possible
from now on.
Has Mr.. Whigham no COM
passion for his wife, no blame
for himself? There is no evil
dence of either.
No, that peaceful, domestic
life of his would still be unfair
nished, he believes, if it weren't
for "the willful, wanton and
malicious acts of defendant and
its employes"-meaning the
telephone company.
Now, a man as blind as this
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NAPKINS AND COCKTAILS

Dear Mrs. Beeckman:
/. On which side is it correct
to place the napkin?
FL plan to serve fish cock
tail, but do not have cocktail
forks. Woul. it be all right to
use salad forks? E.
/. When the table is set, the
napkin is placed either on the
plate, or on the left of the plate,
parallel with the forks.
2. 1 believe that you would be
worried about the size of the
salad forks if you serve them
with a fish cocktail in a glass
that is appropriate for a fish
cocktail. I think this might be
awkward for the guest to use.
So, since you have no cocktail
forks, I suggest that you serve
the fish cocktail on one or two
small leaves of lettuce, on a
small plate (say a siX-inch plate,
perhaps a bread and butter
plate, or a tea-plate), and then
the salad forks will be of appro-
pirate size.
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AdUice to LOUebrn
By Beatrice Fairfax

Famous Authority on Problems of LoVe and Marriage
YNHERE'S husband in Eastman, Gar Otis Whigham
by name who feels that he's been badly used His mari-
tai union has been shattered" he says He has suffered
mental and physical pan,' well Severe nervous
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Manners
By Mrs. Cornelius Beeckn0n

Dear Mrs. Beeckman:
/. When a gentleman helps a
lady with her coat. or helps her
down from the bus or in any
of the other ways gentleman
often does, is it necessary for
the lady to says Thank you,
or should these services be taken
for granted?
2. When someone excuses
himself or asks your pardon, IN
case of a cough, or a sneeze, or
something like that, is it neces-
sary to say, Certainly" or is
that too much. F.
l. Yes, gracious THANK
you" is always in order for these
polite services. Never, never
does the mannerly person take
any service "for granted" he or
she couldn't, for the habit Of
saying a word Of appreciation,
q thank YOU" is too deeply a
matter of habit.
2. 1t isn't necessary to make,
an answer to such an asking-for-
pardon. And, indeed, it isn't
necessary to ask anyone's par
don when we cough or sneeze.
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ingless gestures are boring and
will detract a great deal from
any girls style. So, If YOU are
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Skillet and SbOOn
By Sibilla Campbell

BIT different an often-used phrase in the general
"A description of foods Yet it is this difference that
makes dish piece of when the simplest materials
are used So can't hesitate these recipes I'm giving
Won today are "a bit different"
The Washington times., 1937-12-30
The Vdgdbond

Around the world I've been in
many a guise,
In cape, or furs, or oil-skin,
fronting fate;
Down rainy seas, through many
a stormy strait,
BY upland forests, over hills
that rise.
White, green or crimson, in
the season skies;
Through civic arch and eagle
crested gate,
Imperial boulevards and halls
of state;
And asked for fame-and
failed of every prize.
Except, except the experiences
eye and free,
And these impregnable old
sides of mirth;
Except, except, a glorious wis
dom worth
All the poor Scorn these tatters
bring to me,
Some feeling for the massy
bulk of earth,
Some still monitionS of NOR
tality.
WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD.
FROCK TONIC
A tonic to the simple black or
brown frock is the twisted girdle
of lustrous gold metal cloth with
bows that are adjustable.
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to the real nature Of the mess
in which he finds himself, a man
as incapable of seeing that he is
in the wrong, is pretty much Of
a child. And women often have
to treat such men as children.
If an occasion arises when a
woman has something to forgive
in such a husband, and If, at
bottom, he really loves her and
she him-perhaps she does well
to forgive him. What do you
think?
In any case, I don't know
that a domestic spy system is
to be recommended. I won't
attempt to protest against els
tening-in" in the deep country,
where the telephone is the &C.
cepted news medium, and where
listening to your neighbors' talk
is an entertainment nobody does
without. But I think the privacy
ofhusbands and wives should be
respected, whether deserved or
not.
AS for telephone companies
the part of villain in domestic
drama is a new one for them to
play. And they probably won't
need any warning to keep out
of such entanglements in future.
MARRIED SWEETHEART
Dear Miss Fairfax:
I divorced my eX-husband,
when my old sweetheart's wife
died of T. B., and married the
sweetheart. He's a very hard
man to reason with, and I now
realize that he kept his de-
ceased wife in a pitiful condi-
ton during their married life.
didn't know this, as I did not
see him during the Is years he
was married. He is a heavy
drinker and goes out with gang.
so that I never know when to
expect him home.
There are weeks when I never
have one cent in my purse, then
he will give me IS. I need
winter clothes which I can't get.
My husband owns three nice
homes and a ranch, and his in
come is over $500 a month, but
we live a little better than day
laborerS. 4
Now want to know-what
rights has a wife as to the
finances and cunning Of a home.
REGRETFUL OLD
SWEETHEART.
It is not quite clear to me
from the long letter you wrote
me whether you actually wish
to divorce your husband and
claim alimony, or whether you
want him TO be more generous
in the matter of a household and
clothes allowance.
AS laws relating to the rights
and privileges of wives differ in
different States, I'm going to
suggest that you consult the
Legal Aid Society or the Family
Court. Certainly a husband
whose income is $500 a month
should be able to buy his wife
winter clothing, and give her
more than an occasional S. bill
S>So ,~,to;oIa "a VIM tho ho1Ico,
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Mrs. Beeckman tDtll be glad to
dnSWer questions on Good Man.
ners submitted BY reGdersJ
The Washington times., 1937-12-30

be so smooth and perfectly done
as to seem a natural impulse.
Obvious, awkward and mean
The Washington times., 1937-12-30
FROCK TONIC

A tonic to the simple black or
brown frock is the twisted girdle
Of luStrous gold metal cloth with
bows that are adjustable.
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GIVEN LIFE
AS kIDNAPER


TRENTON, Feb o. Arthur c..
Cunningham, "a years old, former
Trentonian, has been sentenced by
Mercer Court Judge James s. Turp
to serve life imprisonment on q kid
mapping charge.
Cunningham left this city in 1928
with an l1-year-old girl and subse-
quently was arrested at New Ha-
ven, Conn, and sent to prison there
on a statutory charge. He was re-
leased recently after serving six
and one-half years and was sur
rendered to police here. Cunning
ham asserted the girls parents
knew she was going with him.
Judge Turp, passing sentence UNI
der a State law which fixes thirty
wears as the minimum term, said to
the defendant:
Coming at this particular time,
I do not feel disposed to exercise
discretion allowed the court toward
leniency. I feel that the more ex-
IRENE penalty will make others real
ize what serious matter it is to take
a child of tender years away from
its parents"
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Appearing last spring at hearing
to discuss what to do with Bonnie
vile power, Ross proposed a vast
grid system interlocking Grand Cou-
lee, Bonneville, the Seattle and Ia
coma municipal systems. and pro-
iects as far south as northern Cal
ifornia.
Acting Commissioner Page also
wants to be commissioner, and is
looked upon as less power-minded
than Ross.
Several favorite sons have been
put forward, too, latest of whom is
Gov. @. Ben Ross of Idaho. He is
deemed a stout friend Of reclama-
ton, but is not an engineer. In
side talk is that an engineer is
wanted. tiEa 'fe
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new HEAD OF
RECLAIM ALTON
bureau LOOMS
John c. Page Wants Posi-
ton While Former Seat
tie Man Also Bidder

WASHINGTON, FEB. $50 much
ocscured by newer and buster
WPA and PWA is the reclamation
ureau that growing battle to head
Bureau almost has been over
locked
The Reclamation Service, which
has the job of building dams to
make the desert blossom, was di-
acted by Elwood Mead for so many
ears that Mead and reclamation
me almost synonymous Months
go he died and since then John
c. Page, Meads second in COM
nland, has been acting as commits
sioner.
The long time problem of recla-
ration enthusiasts has been to
demonstrate that federal money adj
vpnced for reclamation is not lost,
but will be repaid into the recla-
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WEATHER SYNOPSIS

talking, but he's hard hitter.
He lost his first fight for economy
when the Senate passed a recent
bill extending the reconstruction
finance corporation for two years.
IF we are to start economies,
now is the time to begin" Byrd
pleaded The bill passed, 70 to /,
Byrd casting the lone vote against
it.
But that experience will hardly
stop him. When he began talking
governmental economy in Virginia
there were more than a hundred
agencies in the state machinery.
Jobholders and politicians howled
against reorganization. But Byrd
went over their heads to the voters,
travelling all over the state, lectur-
ing about his plan, which called for
so changes in the state constitution.
When he finished his lecture tour
he threw the issue into a special
election and won. The state ma
chinery was classified under IL de-
partment heads, and its income and
expenditures SO systematized that
the Governor gets a daily balance
sheet.
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Crashing in the show windows of
Mrs. Giovannetti's Venetian Shop
at Front and Main streets, the wind
scattered baby and doll clothes far
and near.
Nearly all windows facing on
Front street in the old Occidental
and old Franklin Hotels were shat
tered, while the marquee on the
George Simpkins Company building
gave way and crashed to the street,
but without damaging the large
show windows.
One of the freak incidents oc-
Cured at the lynda Hotel, where a
small oval of plate glass was broken
out of rear window The piece
came out whole, as though it had
been cut, leaving an almost perfect
ly smooth, clean opening in the win
dow, with all the appearance of hav-
ing been done by an expert burglar.
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nation fund to help build more
dams for more reclamation.
POWER LINK

The going became doubly hard
when crop SURPRISES began to pile
up and lend fuel to the eastern and
midwestern argument that the gov
eminent was bringing more land
into production with one hand while
trying to throttle production on the
other. Desperately reclamationists
argued that settlers on irrigation
projects consumed as much as they
produced in the long run.
An old and smouldering idea also
helped the dam builders. Why not
develop power to offset part of the
cost, and also charge some to flood
control and navigation? Under that
theory Boulder Dam on the Colo
RADIO and Bonneville and Grand
Coulee dams on the Columbia river
and part of the Tennessee Valley
project found shelter.
But handling of several of these
jobs was taken out of the reclama-
ton service and the bureaus pres
tige suffered.
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same subject.
Disagrees With Roosevelt

same subject.
Disagrees With Roosevelt
Now the Presidents plan has
been announced and there are
whole sections of it which Byrd
does not like. That means this ses-
sion of Congress will see tug-of-
ar between Byrd and Presidential
spokesman in the Senate, because
Byrd is a tenacious fighter not east
ly dismayed by odds against him.
Byrd is an erect, nervous talking
man with chubby, pink cheeks, darl.
blue eyes and curly, light-brown
hair. He often seems shy when he's
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w. @. CARLSONS SEE
ROSE BOWL GAME ON
TRIP TO CALIFORNIA

Returning passengers on the Prin-
cess Norah were Mr.. and Mrs. w. O.
Carlson, who had been south for
some time on business and pleas
ure trip.
On their way south they picked
up their daughters Gene and Kath-
leen, students at the University OF
Idaho, and took them to California
by motor.
New Years Day they attended
the Rose Bowl football game in
Pasadena and witnessed the Rose
Carnival Parade.
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By SIGRID ARNE
AP Feature Service Writer

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.-Senator
Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia start
ling his mother when he was only
IA by acquiring the Winchester, Va,
Star" thereby becoming its pub
Usher, editor and copy boy. Now 40,
he still owns the paper, in addition
to many other things.
His father was brilliant law
yer and once speaker of the Vir-
ginia house of delegates, but when
Harry was IA the family was not
wealthy. 1t included his mother
who still manages her own affairs
and refuses to tell her sons her
age; his brother Tom, who now
manages the family's huge apple
orchards; and his brother, Rich
ard, the polar explorer.
Harry ran his paper, made other
investments and before he was 81,
and could vote himself, he was
elected to the Winchester city
council In 1926 he became COVER
nor of Virginia. and in 1888 he was
appointed to the Senate, to fill the
post of Claude A. Swanson, who was
made secretary of the navy
Finances Intrigue Him
Throughout this busy career.
Byrd was interested most in finan-
cial matters. When he entered the
senate he turned his attention i'm
mediately to the budget. There
seemed to be big leak in it. He
had felt the same way about pub
lie funds when he was governor
of Virginia and had shaved $780,
900 from the states $15,O00,O0O bud
get.
He decided millions could be
shaved from the federal budget.
so last spring he had senate reso-
luton passed creating a committee
to investigate duplication in gov
eminent machinery. He was APP
pointed chairman. A week later
the President appointed a commit
tee of his own to investigate the
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GALEN, WESTWARD
BUSINESSMAN, GOES
SOUTH ON PRINCESS

James L. Galen, manager of the
tourist and transportation company
at Mt Mckinley National Park, and
prominent Cordova businessman,
was a southbound passenger on the
Princess Norah
Mr.. Galen, who is on his annual
trip south in connection with his
business, arrived in Juneau on the
PAA Electra Saturday.
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ELECTRA OFF FOR
FAIRBANKS WITH !.
TWO THIS MORNING

Taking advantage of lull in the.
local winds, the Pacific Alaska Al-N
ways Electra plane piloted by Al
Monsen and Walt Hall, took off
from the PAA Airport here th.s
morning and headed for Fairbank /
with two passengers: t. M. Odosns
and Ed TownSley, aboard.
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Excayating an Indian burial
mound on his grandfather's farm,
Howard Kohr Of Salina. Kas., un-
earthed 10 skeletons. With the
bones were clay pots, grinding stones
and shell knives for use by the spir-
its in the next world
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o. M. Merriman. Farwell, Texas,
farmer. says he averaged 80 bushels
OF threshed hegari an acre on his
200-acre farm this year.
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Scholars report that approx
mately 10000 variations in manu-
scripts of the New Testament are
known.
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ROSS SUGGESTED

Probably the most powerful mind
ed candidate advanced for the office
is J. D. Ross, until recently Securi-
ties and Exchange Commissioner.
and for many years superintendent
of the Seattle municipal power sys-
tenn.
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u s. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE WEATHER BUREAU
THE WEATHER
(By the U. s. Weather Bureau,

Forecast for Juneau and vicinity beginning at Feb
Fair and continued cold tonight and Wednesday fresh to srt
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WEATHER CONDITION AT A. M TODAY

Seattle 49, Blaine cloudy 26 Vic
2 Lam
showing 49, Prince Rupert clear IA Triple Island parity
cloudy Ketcnkan 49, Wrangel ou-
49, Petersburg cloudy 49, Sika cloudy ~
Radiov IA; Skagway clear Anchorage clear q Cape
30 Mccarthy
Fa5ar partly cloudy clear Hot Springs
partly partly cloudy Ruby clear o. Nulato
Kaag clear 10; Fiat l6; Ohagamue clear l.
WEATHER
pressure continued this Wangeh
reported pressure 2940 inches distance
prevailed inches Yukon Terri
reported the Pacific Coast States at
Generally prevailed
northwestern Canada ?
night Southeastern Alaska and interior
the Pacific
being above freezing at Portland and
Seattle
Eastery prevailed last night and today mmu
velocity sustained period of five minutes at
536 m. and fo miles at 538
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THOUSANDS or
DOLLARS
FROM STORM
Windows Broken, Roofs
Torn Off, Other Damage,
Severe Taku Hurricane

Continued from Page One
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Try an Empire ad.
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SUBURBAN HOUSES FOB SALE

RETIRED physicians home Berwyn, Nd
acres ground in lawns; rooms, tiled
large porches. newly screened: many large
trees. Slthes hedge. shrubbery, rose garden:
stores; fire department.: property clear:
house newly painted. DR.. Turner. Ber-
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AUTO ACCESSORIES
BICYCLES q MOTORCYCLES

SALE 10000 used tires. S2.45 up. Ben
Humidity. 3446 14th st. n. W.
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AUTO GLIDE, almost new: will sell rea-
SOnable. 040 Mass achusettS Ave.
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1884 EUCLID ST. N. VS. r, bedr..
bath and shower: redecorated: h.-w.h..
automatic hot water. $6,950. Terms.