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Washington Produce

:, BUTTER-92 score; 1-pound prints 35:
pound prnas md 30 prnts 1aare AZ
tub. 30; market strong: ''' o.
SS: 2S COWS COWS I5; fresh pork; 26; frozen pork,
hams. 20; SLICED bacon. 35; slab bacon IS:
'omPSHns nTTE sroaRkPss o5ak Iass aAaa ,4 u.n, ,o.,
nonna. no17ai oh; ou MEDIUMS 1ohaloh: 22o-25O
of2 stays. 5d7: calves. Slaa9h.
J., Prices paid shippers-Net fob. Wash
ihRton; BY the United States Bureau of
Agricultural Economics:
EGGs-Market full steady and prices
UNCHANGED: Current receipts, 20 to 81;
hennery whites, 211a TO 22ia; Government
Graded and dated white eggs. U. s. extras,
large. 20; U. S. extras. mediums, 24E; u.
LIVE POULTRY - Market unchanged
heavy; l6 to il, a few at Is; No. z. IS;
Leghorns. IL to IA; No. ., 10; roosters. 10.
Chickens: Crosses. 30 to 2l; Rocks. Viz
snia 5a ~ to -; Leghorns 2 pounds, is;
l6 to II: old toms l3 TO Ia
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The Weather

District Of Columbia-Fair tonight
and tomorrow. except probably local
thundershoWers late tomorrow after
noon; not much change in tempera-
ture; gentle northwest winds. becoming
variable.
Maryiand-Fair tonight and tomor-
row, except probably local thunder
showers late tomorrow afternoon in
the interior, not much change in tenn
perature.
Virginia-Generally fair tonight and
tomorrow, except possibly local thun-
dershoWers in west and north portions
late tomorrow afternoon; not much
change in temperature.
West Virginia-Fair tonight and to-
morrow morning; local thundershowers
tomorrow afternoon; slightly warmer
in extreme north portion tonight.
River Report
Potomac River little muddy and
Shenandoah very muddy today.
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COL. SCH|CK DIES;
INVENTED RAZOR
Succumbs After Operation.
Retired officer Was Cited
in Tax Quiz.
81 the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
NEW YORK, July 3.-Col. Jacob
Schick, SO. retired Army officer and
inventor Of an electric razor, died in
Presbyterian Hospital today of COM
plications following an operation for
kidney ailment.
Col. Schick cited before a recent
congressional hearing for alleged in
come tax evasion, had been Ill for
six months.
He underwent an operation for re-
moval of a kidney here February %
and returned to the hospital May %
after treatment at Montreal, Canada,
his home.
His widow, Mrs. Florence Ieayitt
Schlck, and two daughters. Virginia
Is; Barbara l3, survive Funeral and
burial services will be held at their
Montreal home Wednesday.
CITED BY TREASURY.
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CHICAGO GRAIN
e. the Associated Press.

Il tEe hSsOCidttQ q fIeSS.
CHICAGO, July "a reliable fore
cast that wheat yields In the three
Canadian Provinces this year might
be the lowest since 1913 was fol-
lowed today by the skyrocketing of
July wheat at Winnipeg to the S
cents daily limit and a steep rally
that lifted Chicago prices more than
2 cents higher than yesterday.
The Lake of the Woods Milling Co.,
at Winnipeg reported crop condi-
tions in Saskatchewan and Alberta
could hardly be worse as a result of
drought and dust storms.
Wheat closed 81 to l3s cents above
yesterdays finish July. 1251e-o4 +;
September, l267s-l.27, and corn was
2l2 off to IS up; July, 1.25ss-l2; Sep
tember, l.12ls-4. Oats were u
down to rs up.
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PERMIT IS DENIED
DILL FOR STATION
Communications Commission Re-
verses Recommendation
of Examiner.

Reversing the recommendation of
its examiner, the Federal Comlnunica-
tons Commission today turned down
the application of former Senator
Clarence Dill of Washington, to set
up radio station in Bethesda, Md.
Dill was the Senate sponsor in
1884 OF the law setting up the seven
man commission which rebuffed him.
Dill requested on April 25, 1896,
approval to establish a station opera
ting on 1890 kilocycles with unlim-
lted hours Of operation
Last December, Examiner John P.
Bramhall recommended to the COM
missioners that they grant Dill per-
NIT to construct his station, over
which Dill planned to give chiefly
educational programs Why the
commissioners reversed Bramhall
was not explained today.
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FOREIGN EXCHANGES.

change steady Great Britain in dollars
others in cents: Great Britain. demand
.94as: cables. 4.94as: 6O-day bills 4933s
France demand 3S4ss; cables. 3S4ss
italy. demand. 5.26la: cables 5.26I7
Demands - Belgium 1854: Germany
free, 40.11: registered. % 90: travel
$500: Holland, 54.99: Norway "a S6
Sweden. $3.50: Denmark 22.OS: Finland
2.19: Switzerland. 22.S5: Spain. unquoted
Portugal. 4.5O Greece .9l: Poland. 1925
Czechosloyakia. 3.4S34: Yugoslavia 2.33
Austria. s:75n: Hungary, 1880: Rumania
10: Argentina. 32 95n: Brazil, s.sOAn
Toxic 2S.75: Shanghai. $3.50: Hongkong
30.36: Mexico City 27.S5: Montreal IL
New York. 99.s712: New York in Montreal
10013l
n-NominaI
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U. S. TREASURY POSITION
Py the Associated Press.

The position of the Treasury on July !
Receipts, S12TS25 014 OS; expenditures
Sl33. 3.6sl, 660.33: balance So ST.,
y 16: customs receipts for the month
=, RECEIPTS for the fiscal year ,since JULY
u xlO,63O,533. 1S: expenditures Sl33,
.OI.3l9.Os. including S1.273436l9 OF
emergency expenditures; excess of ex-
penoltures S122 .016.1S5. 90: gross debt
S3n, 5;{6 S45 5.93l OF. an increase of SlI2.-
5s.l9s, over the previous day gold
aSssts aEt ~ ~ 32S 9l9, ,l21 A.. including ST.
w .o'2 1920 of inactive gold
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MRS. M'CANNA DIES
Was Resident of Washington for

Was Resident of Washington for
More Than so Years.
Mrs. Catherine M McCanna, H.
wife of Miles P. McCanna. died yes-
terday after long illness at her
home, 34l0 N street.
Mrs. McCanna, for more than so
years resident of this city, is sur
vived by her husband. four daughters,
Mrs. Elizabeth Dilhooley Mrs. Cath
crime Burton, Mrs. Lucy Mary Han
cock and Miss Clara B. McCanna; two
sons, Thomas F. and John Joseph
McCanna, and IL grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at
$3.50 am. Monday in Holy Trinity
Catholic Church, following brief sery-
ices at the Clements funeral parlors,
1241 Wisconsin avenue. Burial will
be private.
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LIVERPOOL, July 3 CP,.-Wheat future,
closed easy, I'D TO Sad lower. under tht
depresslns influence of freely offered In.
olan Wheat. proht-taklng and extremel,
dlsappolntlnz millerS demand
Cotton futures staged partial rally
after early declines, and closed q to 5
points lower. Scale-down buying and fan
trade calling did not entirely overcome
Bombay selling and liouidation
London and Paris-Closed
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tne tOVerumenL )
fiscal year. The
date of sending
out the call is al
ways kept secret
by the control
ler's office, but II
is anticip a t e d
within the next
few days.
Reports from m
other sections ol
the country show
that there has
been a large de-
crease in deposits
in the last few
W e e k s. This
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Chicago Cash Market

Cash wheat: New crop, No /, red,
l.30; No. 2, red, l28-29l2. No 2, red,
garlicky, l.25; No. 3, red, garlicky
l,2312; No. 3, red. tough, l24; No. g.
mixed, 1.24; no old wheat. Corn, No
2, mixed, 1876; No. O. yellow, 1928;
No. 3, yellow, l,25; No. 4. yellow
l.l6l2; No. 2, white, 1873; sample
grade, l00-l0. Oats. No 2. white
52l4-s. No. white, 49l2-5O12: sam
pie. 48Ha -49; no rye: no buckwheat
soy beans, No. 3, yellow, l411a 40;
barley feed, 55-7l; mailing, 7l-9l; no
timothy; no clover.
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NEW YORK PRODUCE

NEW YORK. July 3 LP,-Eegs. 27,26@
firm Mixed color white brown and
duck eggs unchanged
Butter. 1889. firm. Prices unchanged
Cheese, rs 224 firm and unchanged
Live poultry. by freight nominal. Nc
quotations
BY express. nominal. No quotations.
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Report for Last 81 Hours.

Record for Last 81 Hours
From noon yesterday to noon today
Highest, so. noon today Year ago %
Lowest, 65, 4:3O am. today. Year
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest. 93. on April IS
Lowest. 10. on February 2S
Humidity for Last 81 Hours.
'From noon yesterday to noon today
HlGhest. S6 per cent at 5:l5 am. today
Lowest, 81 per cent, at 3 pm YESTERDAY.
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FOREIGN.
MONTREAL SILVER.

MONTREAL July 3 lP-Silver futures
| closed steady and unchanged. No sales
Closing bids: July. 44.6O; September
~ rs: December. A.26.
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M|DYEAR BANK
CALL IS SAWA|TED
Deposits in Capital Are Ex.
pected to Show Drop
From March Total.
BY EDWARD C. STONE,

EOVv7H1eD u 01~I'
Washington bankers are expecting
the controllers usual call FOR the con-
dition Of all banks in the city, the
date to be as Of June 80, the end Of
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1n Mrntnrtutt1.

ALLEY. JOHN PULLAM. In loving re
membrance Of JOHN PULLIAM ALLEY
who passed away one year ago, July 5
1895.
We have not forgotten him.
God knows we never will:
Though one long year has passed.
We tondly love him still.
Heaven now retains our treasure.
Earth his lonely casket keeps:
sweetest thoughts shall ever lineer
Where our precious boy sleeps.
MOTHER AND GRANDMOTHER.
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The Sun and Moon.

Sun today 4.4R
Sun tomorrow - 4:47 7:37
Moon. today ----- 1870 am. 2:55 pm.
Automobile lights must be turned on
one-half hour after sunset
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Precipitation

Monthly precipitation in inches in I
Capltal (current month to datel:
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FOREIGN MARKETS.

Spot steady middling. le.4o.
Evening star., 1937-04-16

cussed, one by each group, include
integration, guidance articulation, ac-
tivities programs, curriculum revision,
special provision for gifted pupils,
special provision for backward pupils,
remedial reading homework, health
education, character education and
relationships with the home and conf
munity.
Banquet at Raleigh.
DR.. Holmes will preside at the final
banquet at the Raleigh at 7;30 pm,
with Lawrence C. Schilder, admins
trative assistant to the director of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation, as
guest speaker. The Eliot Junior High
Glee Club will sing and there will be
vocal and piano solos by Gladys San
ders and Helen Bellman, respectively.
The group plans sightseeing tours
Saturday afternoon to include the
White House, Arlington Cemetery and
the Lincoln Memorial.
An information booth will be MAIN
tanned at the Raleigh during the entire
conference.
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submarines Permit and Plunger and
the destroyers Case, Conyngham, Cas-
sin, Tucker and Downes. The sub
marine Pompano and the destroyer
Somers were launched and keels laid
for the destroyers Lang and Wilson.
OF the So ships under construction,
II are now more than rs per cent
complete and 13 others are more than
so per cent complete.
Among the ships on which work was
started during the month were the
submarines Sculpin and Squalus at the
Portsmouth Navy Yard. No work was
started on those ships until the Navy
had been assured of the required ma
terials. Steel companies, after a long
stalemate over provisions of the Walsh
Healey act, finally bid on Navy orders
several weeks ago, assuring sufficient
steel
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ROOSEVELT BACKER 107

ATLANTA, April Is P).-Henry
William, an ex-slave who says he Is
lot years old, explained today why
he thinks Abraham Lincoln and
Franklin D. Roosevelt are among the
Nations greatest figures.
Lincoln gave me my freedom and
Roosevelt is going to give me my
pension" he said.
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NAVY CONSTRUCTION
BEHIND SCHEDULE
Lag of One Month to Year Re.
vealed in Work on 46 of So
Warships.

BY the Associated Press.
Naval construction is from one
month to year behind schedule on 46
of So warships, due to strikes, altera-
tions in contracts and plans and in
ability to secure materials on time, the
Navy Department disclosed yesterday.
Seven new ships have been COM
pleted during the past month-the
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street and Constitution ave, at pm.
next Wednesday. The lecture Is to be
free to the public and will be Illus
trated.
Disher will describe the beauties OF
the Southwest, as he has seen them.
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LECTURE SCHEDULED
K. B. Disher to Discuss "Trekking
Through Southwest

Kenneth B. Disher, associate mu-
scum expert of the National Park
Service, will lecture on "Trekking
Through the Southwest" in the De-
partmental Auditorium, Thirteenth
Evening star., 1937-04-16

Eat candy II you want bright eyes,
declares an Amsterdam, Holland, doc
tor,
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the the steadily market and manufacturers we're
offering these celebrated Sheldon less than
2450 Wool has approximately 1870 Costs 1921
reduced their 2275 Little WONDER then,
thot breaking records mems clothing de-
portmn Smart patterns superb Sheldon workmanship Come
and yourself whot excellent values they
usmm4n The Koch
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Glee Club to Be Heard.

The program will be opened with
selections by the Powell Junior High
Glee Club under Thelma H. Tawney.
At IL O'Clock the conference will
break up into II discussion groups,
each to be led by local and visiting
educators. The subjects to be dis
Evening star., 1937-04-16
SCHOOL PARLEY
TO OPEN TONIGHT.
Visiting and D. c. Educators
to Discuss Roles of
Junior Highs.

The second general session of the
Junior High School Conference, which
opens tonight at Langley Junior High
School, will be held tomorrow in the
high school auditorium starting at 9
am.
Fred Alexander, supervisor of the
division of instruction of the Division
of Education, Richmond, Va, will give
the principal address on the prospectus
for the future of the junior high
schools.
The panel of four who will give
five-minute speeches will be Paul A
Carr, professor of history at Wilson
Teachers College; F. B. Gruen, pro-
fessor of secondary education at Cath
olic University; ]. Carey Taylor, as
sistant superintendent of schools in
Baltimore, and John B. Whitelaw,
chairman of the executive committee
Of the school of education at George
WASHINGTON University,
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Ocean AlrmaI Expected
To Use Northern Route
To
Issue New
Stamps Set

From an exclusive Canadian
source, The Washington Times
stamp department learns that
Canada will soon issue a new
series of postage stamps from
the 10-cent denomination to the
dollar, a new air mail and spe-
cial delivery stamp.
It is said that the stamps are
already printed and are vaulted,
to be used when the current is.
sue has been exhausted. De-
tails as to the designs are I'M
known save on the dollar de-
nomination, which depicts the
Chateau de Ramezy, However,
it Is said that pictorial designs
have been discarded for engine
turned designs.
The series includes, aside from
the 10-cent and dollar stamps,
10, 20 and so cents.
This set Of Canadian adhe-
sives may be referred to as the
second secret date" issue.
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Best Sellers
FICTION

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And So Victoria
Vaughan wilkins Macmillan
Northwest Passage
Kenneth Roberts Doubleday
Life with Mother
Clarence Day Knopf
The Seven Who Fled
Frederic Frokosch Harpers
Song of the World
Jean Giono Random
One Life, One Kopeck
Walter Duranty Simon
NONFICTION
How to Win Friends
Dale Carnegie Simon
How to Lose Friends
Irwin Tressler stokpole
Ordeal in England
Philip Gibbs Doubleday
The Life and Death of a
Spanish Town
Elliot Paul Random
Miracle of England
Andre Maurois Harpers
Present Indicative
Noel Coward Doubleday
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Warm Novel
Of Mullat
Life in South

Recently there has crept onto
the bookstands a group Of books
devoted to a greater under
standing of the position of the
mulattos in the South. They
have made rich warm reading.
Such a volume is Their Eyes
Were Watching Cod" by Fora
Neale Hurston, the author of
Mules and Man" and "Jonah'S
Gourd Vine" She was awarded
a Guggenheim fellowship in
1886 and again in 1887.
In Their Eyes Were Watch
ing God," she tells the story of
jamie, who was married off to
Logan Killicks as soon as her
grandmother saw that the young
un was feeling the delight of
living.
jamie didn't like Logan and
got right down peeved when he
suggested she pillow in the field.
Shortly thereafter Joe Starks
appeared and JAMIE went with
him to a village that was to
be built UP for colored folk.
Joe, with whirlwird success, be-
came the mayor and leading
citizen. In that station Of life
he determined that jamie live a
dignified existence. jamie didn't
like that much, but she stuck to
it as long as Joe lived. She was
left pretty rich when Joe died
and had a lot Of suitors. At
last she chose Tea Cake, a
gambler. It is the story of Tea
Cake and jamie that adds a real
spirit to the volume and ends
it in rush of action.
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on
Sale Oct. Is

First day sale of the threecent
Hawaiian postage stamp, the
first of the Territorial series, has
been set for October 10 at the
Honolulu post office.
AS has been noted in these
columns previously, the stamp
is purple and depicts a repro
duction of the statue of King
Kamehameha 1, who first placed
the Hawaiian Islands under his
sovereignty, arranged vertically
on the size O84 by LA inches.
The statute stands in front of
Iolani Castle in Honolulu.
AS for the other details of the
design, rays of light as from
the rising sun form the back
ground for the central design.
The usual script in Roman type
worked in pleasing order with
the title, Hawaii" rounding
out the design.
Collectors desiring first-day
cancellations may send a limited
number of addressed covers not
in excess of 10 to the Postmaster
at Honolulu, Hawaii, with cash
or postal money order remit
lance to cover the cost of stamps
required for affixing.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-09-18
Philippines Put In
Order For STAMPS

One hundred thousand dollars
worth of 20 and 10 pesos post
age stamps have been ordered
by the Commonwealth of the
Philippine Islands. They are to
be printed at the Bureau of En-
craving and Printing, here, &C
cording to PHILIPPE Cuaderno.
acting director of Philippine
post.
This is the first time that the
Islands will use a 20.peso stamp,
the highest previous denomi.
nation having been 10 pesos.
According to the director, the
new stamps will be used by min
ing companies in the shipment
of gold bullion through the
mails. If shipments become as
large as expected. a higher de-
nomination may be required.
The present printing order
calls for 100000 of each stamp.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-09-18

Reorganization of the Fed
eral service is expected to
again be a foremost topic of
conversation-and probably &C
ton this time-when the next
session of Congress convenes
on Capitol Hill. The usual talk
of eliminating various bureaus
and their "tax-eating" employees
will undoubtedly arise as
amendments to current reor-
ganizing bills are considered.
Fer this reason, it is pleasing
to note progress of the Bureau of
Mires toward eliminating the
tragedies Of ;iIlcosis, dread dis
ease which attacks the lungs of
those who must mine rocky ter.
rain.
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Old Story of the South
Pictures Postwar Period

bone. She grew up, after the
war, on a large Virginia plan
tation. Through correspondence
and widespread social connec-
tions she collected a graphic pic
ture of the Civil War era and
what followed. Bound together
these impressions clear up many
mysteries.
HUMAN JEFF DAVIS
The discerning and unprej-
udiced reader will appreciate
her introduction to jefferson
Davis. Most of us know that he
was an Indian-fighter, a MeXi-
can veteran, a member of Con-
gress and former Secretary Of
War, but few historians have
made him as human as Mrs.
Avary. She is equally as en-
thusiastic in her collection of
eyewitness portraits of Presi-
dent Lincoln. She always saw
DoCn sizes. Sucn stories OF SCl1I-
backed bitterness as her re-
counts are sailed with a saga
cious humor. Examples of
tyranny on the part of the North
by no means outweigh the ex-
amples she gives of unyielding
allegiance to the South on the
part of the conquered.
Dixie After the War" wasn't
written to reopen old wounds.
1t has been republished to sat-
isfy the curiosity aroused by
newly revived interest in the
Old South. AS such it stands
as a valuable contribution to
current reading.
"Dirie After the War" Both
sides of the question as pre-
Sented By Myrtn Lockett AUary.
Published By Houghton Mittlin.
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eral Employees, rolled the first
ball.
Heading the Bookkeeping and
Warrants team of Treasury is
Joseph E. Started, of Hyattsville,
an Eastern High graduate who en-
tered the War Department 10
years ago and became Treasury
minded via transfer in 1894 :.
Stratzel, who Is president Of
Sigma lambda, makes golf an
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to the Capital and since has taken
further courses at American Uni
versity. Getzin's hobbies. away
from his desk, are dramatics gen.
orally and golf in particular.
And More Notes
DR.. Louise Stanley is directing
Argiculture's survey in regard to
how 2,145 families in 80 South
eastern towns spend their income
Rufus Lane. Falls Church, Va,
has been assigned to Mazatlan.
Mexico, as American consul he
was formerly stationed at Cal
cutta, India John Holt, for
merly with Resettlement, is
author of booklet analyzing Sc
lection methods Of families for
colonization projects now being
issued by Farm Security Admin.
iStration
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c.. B. Storms
Novel Keeps
Reader Alert

A character study, soundly
conceived and expertly drawn,
makes any book worth reading.
Several character studies be-
meath the same cover increase
the score. Add to that a char
acter who dominates the scene
while remaining an unknown
quantity and we have something
very special.
Not only does the readers
temperature rise, not only do his
thoughts race ahead of the mar
rative, but he must be forever
alert for fear something will be
put over on him and his under
standing Of the character dis
torted.
g. B. Stern manages to treat
her readers Just like that in her
newest novel "Oleander River"
A better title would have done
greater justice to her book, for
this is no frothy romance to be
gulped down between dinner
and bedtime.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-09-18
"M0idCr0ft" SOLUes
Servant Problem

"Maidcraft," by Lita Price
and Harriet Bonnet is a bro
chure for the pantry shelf. Un.
less, of course, you can memorize
it's contents in one reading. That,
however, would prove a little
difficult considering its assert
ment of household hints. This
book is about everything from
how to remove rust with the end
of a raw potato to how to serve
a formal dinner with one maid.
It was written to solve the
ever-present servant problem.
Women, according to the text.
are utterly unable to switch from
one servant to another without
a domestic upheaval. Either the
mistress has to roll up her sleeves
and do half the work herself or
conduct a one-woman question
and answer bureau to instruct
the new maid. Mrs. Price and
Mrs. Bonnet, however. have
changed that. All you have to
do now, is to Jake down Maid
craft" from the pantry shelf.
Your maid, no doubt will be
able to read, and they've thought
of everything. Granting your
maid can't read, you can read
it to her. At any rate, here are
all the things your maid needs
to know starting with what con-
stitutes courtesy I'D a neat ap-
pearance and ending with a de.
scription Of how to handle the
coffee and liqueurS in the living
room.
Aside from the servant prob
lem there are such valuable
features as hints on laundering.
on regulating the housework and
on keeping everything shipshape.
Both authors deserve bright new
medals for their industry.
"Maidcraft," a guide for the
one-maid household. Published
by Bobhs Merrill.