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Evening star., 1938-09-14


ing subject Of spots and stains. As
they point out, right now, between
the last minute canning and preserv-
ing. the pre-school rush, and the
prevalence Of fruit, fruit drinks, and
general "snack-grabbing" on the part
OF the children, the household and
its linens are apt to take an awful
beating. 1t should be help to know
how to overcome some OF these raw
ages easily, and surely, without hav-
Ing to experiment or ask for advice.
Here. ladies, is the dope:
TOR quick and efficient removal
OF spots on napery you will need
three types Of cleaning agents, in ad-
dition to the usual laundry supplies.
You should have a good bleach and
materials for absorbing and dissolv-
ing various stains.
"A bleach is the substance which
comes nearest to guaranteeing final
spotlessness in removing stains from
white, washable materials. Sodium
perborate is one of the best Of
bleaches because 1t works slowly and
gently. 1t will not injure white cot
ton, linen, rayon. or even silk. Other
good bleaches which are quicker and
more vigorous in their action are
oxalic acid and Javelle water. Oxalic
acid has the disadvantages Of being
harmful to some materials and poison
GUS to human beings Javelle water,
and other similar chlorine bleaches
commonly sold under trade names.
are potent and very rapid in their
action, and must be used with eau
ton. Read and follow directions
when using bleaches-or your table
linen may age before its time.
Good absorbents to use on stains
are chalk, white talcum powder, corn
starch, and corn meal Absorbents
act like blotting paper in taking up
much of the staining material, and
are especially useful for stain of a
fatty nature
"A solvent Of some kind, to dis
solve the staining material, is almost
indispensable in cleaning. Plain
water will do the trick with sugars
and starches. Carbon tetrachloride
is invaluable for taking out grease
and oil stains. It's the only COM
mon grease solvent which is nonin-
flammable. Glycerin is best for dis
solving tannin, which causes so much
OF the trouble with fruit stains.
HERE are some hints for remov-
ing certain stains.
PEACH, PEAR, or PLUM stains
These stains are tricky because OF
the high tannin content Of these
fruits. Tannin seems to- develor
color where no color was and to
darken and change if hot. soapy
water or hot iron strikes It. Heat
and alkali change the colorless tannir
to a rusty brown substance which
clings tenaciously to the fabric. Once
thoroughly set 1t is almost impossible
to eradicate the rusty brown of a
tannin stain.
Soak the peach, pear or plum stain
in warm glycerin. Alcohol may be
used. but it is inflammable. Rinse
out the glycerin and if some of the
stain still remains, follow the school,
boy motto of try again." with a
second application OF glycerin. If
traces still persist use a sodium per-
borate bleach. Dissolve two or three
teaspoons of the bleach in cup of
water and soak the stained spot in
the solution. With sodium perbor-
ate it's not in the least dangerous
to allow plenty of time for the brown
to dissolve. Rinse again. before
laundering in plenty of hot water
and soapsuds,
Evening star., 1938-09-14

or rayon jersey, 16l3-B will be your
most becoming dress.
Barbara Bell Pattern No. 16l3-B is
designed for sizes SO, SO, 40, AZ, A, 46,
48. SO and So. With long sleeves, size
SO requires S yards of 39-inch ma
terial. With short sleeves, ~ yards.
Send Is cents for the Barbara Bell
fall and winter fashion pattern book.
Make yourself attractive, practical and
becoming clothes, selecting designs
from the Barbara Bell well-planned.
easy-to-make patterns.
Copyright, 1881
Evening star., 1938-09-14
7 Y YHICH is the more to blame,
\ a I the husband or the wife,
wv when marriage is a fail

ure? asks correspondent.
1t is $3.50 proposition. should say.
OF course. there are individual cases
in which the husband is brute or a
tyrant or tightwad whom no wife
short of a saint and martyr could
stand. Also. there are wives who are
viragoes and naggers. spendthrifts and
winners with whom no husband could
get along in peace, not even if he had
the patience Of Job and the tact of q
diplomat.
But, generally speaking. when a
home is wrecked it is an inside job in
which the husband and wife have both
done their darndest and they are
equally to blame. Sometimes it looks
as if the only time that many a mar
ried couple ever does any real team
work is when they set out to ruin a
marriage that should have been a sue
cess.
OF course. all of the divorced men
and women will bitterly deny this and
represent themselves as the innocent
victims of philanderers or grouches
or wasters or gadders or Incompatible
Evening star., 1938-09-14
Frozen Fruits.

Fruits or berries added to frozen
foods should first be we'll crushed,
then added when the mixture is half
frozen. Otherwise the fruit will freeze
in icy particles throughout the mix
ture.
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individual luncheon sets have advantages than the ordinary
three d which enables
them yourself While serving
throughout You'll have friends
crochet the
dolly 16l inches diameter the other inches
and inches respectively
The pattern envelope contains complete directions
what crochet hook and and
Of Evening
Evening star., 1938-09-14
Out, Damned Spot Is Cry
OF All Good Housewives
When Wash Day Arrives
Bureau of Home Economics
Gives Several Answers to
Lament of Lady Macbeth.
BY BETSY CASWELL.

NCE again the Bureau
partmnt of Agriculture gaopng Of
like the knights of old Realizing difficulties
their problems
bureaus greatest services They always Jump ahead
putting out the before the s
To do this up brown their release
Evening star., 1938-09-14
Letter From a Mere Man
Expresses His Outlook
On New Fashion Fads
Hoopskirts and Hair. Styles
Cause Controversies in
The Masculine World
BY HELEN YOGT.

DrToRs NOTE In the midst Of morning mail
following
somewhat mbttered the subject hoopskrts hd
IL typical
publishing think
will
The Washington times., 1938-07-11
Alexis Influence Heiress Life Barred by Miss St. Johns

loved clothes. OF course she had
the most exciting and expensive
debut of any young girl of her
time.
Why not?
She could pay for it. She knew
perfectly well-there is still 6
strain of the shrewd, hard-headed
wisdom of Frank Woolworth in
his granddaughter-that only her
money made her a debutante at
all. Without those millions, she
had no claim to society nor to
presentation at the Court of st.
James, nor to her popularity with
the younger social set.
Even if she might have made
her way alone, she had no chance.
Even if sometimes she thought
people might like her for herself,
because she was young and kind
and rather sweet, she never had
a chance to find out. She was the
Golden Girl, the Million Dollar
Baby, the five-and-ten cent-store
helreSS.
Of course she had a good time.
Perhaps it was a little more hectic,
a little Sillier, a little wilder than
the good times other girls had,
because after all, she couldn't be
a piker, could she? You were sup
posed to make other people have
q good time, too.
Alexis Mdivani married the
stately, quiet, blue-blooded Louise
Van Allen, with her conservative
fortune.
But the letters never stopped.
No Thought of Money
Barbara Hutton met Phil Plant
The Broadway millionaire play
boy and the Golden Girl. Two
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BABS WILL DIVORCE
TOO JEALOUS MATE

therefore in a position to speak
with absolute authority.
Countess Barbara, this in.
fOrmant said, has instructed
Henning RepsdOrph, her DAN
ish solicitor, to prepare legal
documents and institute pro-
ceedings for separation and
divorce as soon as possible
after hearings on the charges
she has lodged against her huS-
band Court are concluded.
Barbara was said to believe
that Count Courts suspicious
were due to a streak of violent
and abnormal jealOuSy-sO viO-
lent that he allegedly threat
ened to shoot the gentleman
in London"
This trait on the part of the
Danish count, it was declared,
is a chief factor in making re-
cOnciliatiOn impossible.
The Washington times., 1938-07-11
Wanted to Help Girls

Among those letters was one
she wrote him about the girls in
the five-and-ten cent stores. It
seemed, to the fabulously rich
young thing Of IT. that she was
getting too much and they were
getting too little. But, she wrote,
there wasn't anything she could
do about it.
The headlines that hailed her
every movement had definitely
antagonized Uncle Charles Wool
worth. He wouldn't listen to her.
And Alexis wrote wisely and
gently of the charity she might do,
of the love of life and enjoyment
she might have, of the friends she
should make without worrying
about the money angle. There
were, he wrote, many people like
himself who liked her because she
was an honest, sincere, kindly per
son and not because some day she
would inherit millions.
Yet no one knew of this. Her
Aunt JeSSie-her father-her girl
friends-none of them knew OF
this constant secret correspond
ence. know that when Barbara
Hutton told me of it in London
was amazed.
Perhaps Mdivani, himself hurt
and buffeted by life, really liked
the shy, frightened little girl who
was making splash headlines be
cause she didn't know what else
to do. Perhaps he understood thai
she was just like any other girl o1
15-16-17.
1t is amusing to think for
moment Of what most girls ot
The Washington times., 1938-07-11

young people with so much money
that between them money couldn't t
matter. Perhaps the only man
Barbara Hutton ever knew who
was in no wise influenced by her
vast fortune, Phil Plant was heir
to $25, 100000 in his own right
and that's all the money anyone
can possibly handle, anyhow.
They each had so much money
that on both sides they knew that
this, for perhaps the only time in
their lives. was an honest emo
The Washington times., 1938-07-11
Barbara Well Liked

You see, I will not deny that ]
like Barbara Hutton. If you in
vestigate you will find that most
people who know her, like her
Hold that against me if you will
But remember that I know her
have talked deeply and intimately
with her, have seen her at crucial
moments. I know, as she knows
that at times she made a silly
wild. young spectacle of herself.
Let's go back and see why.
When she was IA her father
married again.
MY father was young and very
busy" Barbara told me, talking Of
her youth. He loved me, Of
course, but was only an ordinary
rather stupid little girl and ]
couldn't be real companion to a
gay, brilliant young man, coulc
-"
AS it happened, Barbara liked
her stepmother. But it made heI
feel more and more an outsider
1t made her feel more and more
that she didn't belong anywhere
Her father was happy with his
pretty new wife. Her family were
all busy and happy and gay. There
wasn't anyone who really cared ar
awful lot about Barbara Hutton
Puzzled by AntdgOnisn
The Golden Girl was very much
adrift in those days. So she de
cided, at 16, to start life for her
self, to make her own life withou
any regard for anyone else. That
would be the only way she coulc
manage to be the center of some
thing, to be something more thar
O mere outsider.
1t was then that for the frs
time she met Alexis Mdivani.
The Washington times., 1938-07-11
Childhood Unhappy

You knew that her childhood,
that time which should be invio-
late, had not been happy. You
knew she had been lonely and
stood outside, watching the other
girls who had mothers, watching
the other girls who had real
homes.
And then, looking at me again
with those big, grave eyes, she
said, Nothing can happen to me
now, can it?"
That was when she was happy
with Count Court Haugwitz-Re
ventlow. Now, he is her enemy
Now, she is a young American CIR
alone among foreigners, A gir
who made many mistakes, who
made a rather silly spectacle OF
herself at one time, a girl who
tried to drown her loneliness in
excitement and spending her mil
lions, but still an American girl
now alone at the mercy of foreign
courts and foreign men. It's not
at all nice thing to think about
even if it is all her fault.
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tional crisis, without any thought
of money.
Phil Plant had come to think
that most women were out for the
money.
Yet he was a handsome and
very attractive lad.
Barbara Hutton had been told
over and over again that someone
auld marry her for her fortune.
They met as equals. Neither
could possibly be interested in the
others money,
The Washington times., 1938-07-11
any One Friend''

But years later, when he was
tragically dead, when she had
been divorced from him, had re-
married, Barbara said to me:
In those days, when 1 was a
kid. he was my one friend. My
only friend. He was the only per
son who ever talked sense to me.
He was the only person who ever
thought I might have any sense,
any vision, any intelligence.
When we were apart I used to
sit down and pour out everything
to him in long letters, telling him
when my feelings were hurt. tell
ing him about my triumphs and
successes, and had the most won
derful letters from him.
You cannot believe how fine
and wonderful they were, full of
advice and counsel and friendly
interest.
The Washington times., 1938-07-11
Girls Resented Her

"You see, other girls wouldn't t
have much to do with me. They
seemed to resent the fact that
had so much money, as though
that gave me an unfair advan,
tage; as though it might give me
an advantage over them in soci.
ETY., or with men, or something
And I suppose they thought was
just a very ordinary little girl
who was too fat, and they didn't
see why I should have any advan
tage over them. So-they weren't
very nice to me-"
So, into this incredible picture
Of the worlds greatest heiress
came MdiVani.
The Washington times., 1938-07-11
By KINGsBURY SMITH
Copyright. 1898. by International
News Service)

NSOpsEIBnBs 1883. Dy InJeEnatiOnAl
News Service)
LONDON, July 1.-THE myS-
teriOuS gentleman in London"
may be only a wraith-Iike fig
ure in the background of the
quarrel between Count and
Countess Haugwitz-ReventlOw
yet this unknown may stands
in the way of their recOncilia-
ton.
Countess Barbara considers
Count Courts suspicious con.
cerning the gentleman in Lon.
don" so unjustified that she
has taken positive steps toward
q divorce.
This was learned today from
q friend of the WOOIwOrth
heireSS, who is closely con-
nected with the case, and
The Washington times., 1938-07-11
Babs Trusted Alexis

TT wasn't even the suggestion
of a love affair then-I was only
Is or 16 and he was in love with
Louise Van Alen-but he made
himself the one person I could
trust with all my thoughts"
That is the truth, you see. And
it is rather different than the idea
Of a spoiled, headstrong million
aire baby suddenly falling for a
young foreign title, for reasons of
social advancement or sex or
glamour.
my only friend"
That is what Barbara called
him to me.
The only friend of her gay and
wild and headlined days. For it
was then that she made her
$50, 900 debut at the Ritz Hotel. 1t
was then that she was courted by
half a dozen young men, that she
became Broadway'S most no,
torious play girl.
There wasn't" she said, much
else to do"
So she danced at the Central
Park Casino with Winston Guest
and Jimmy Blakeley and he1
cousin, Jimmy Donahue.
And no one perhaps until this
day has ever known that all the
time she was receiving those long
wise, careful letters of friendship
from Prince Alexis Mdivani. Let
tiers telling her of his real friend
ship for her. OF his honest
thoughts about her.
The Washington times., 1938-07-11

And they fell in love. Puppy
love on Barbara's part. And then
so often this is forgotten-began
the Woolworth heiress's great at
tempt to reform the Broadway
playbOY.
The Washington times., 1938-07-11

The people Of America have held
many things against Barbara Hut
ton
Persistent1y, definitely, bravely,
she kept asking me:
why do people in America dis
like me so much? There are other
girls as rich, richer, almost as rich.
Why do they especially dislike
me?"
Well, honestly, Prince Alexis
Mdivani was one reason. We had
an idea-I had it myself that
Barbara had fallen madly in love
with the young Georgian. That
maybe she was intrigued by his
title. That she had given Ameri-
can men the go-by for this foreign
prince.
The truth is different.
When Barbara first met Alexis
she was Is years old. She had no
close friend, no confidant, no
mother. Her father was in the
glamorous excitement of the first
year of his second marriage. Her
No Close Friend
Little Barbara, aged Is, just as
imaginative, just as silly, just as
emotional as any other young
American girl of Is, had no close
friend, no one to talk to, no one
to whom she could tell her little
thoughts and dreams.
1t was then that she met Alexis
Mdivani.
He was so kind and so gen.
tle," she told me. HE listened
to all my hurts and problems.
When I tried to explain to him
all my bewildered young thoughts,
all the hurts and fears that were
upon me, he didn't seem bored
about it at all, the way most older
people did. He didn't dismiss my
fears with laugh the way other
people did, and just tell me that
anybody who had as much money
as I did shouldn't worry about
anything.
The Washington times., 1938-07-11
By ADELA ROGERS ST. JOHNS
Copyright 1898, by King Features syndicate
CHAPTER THREE

"I hadn't had very happy childhood. You don't, you
know when you have millions of dollars and mother and
home"
That in newspaper parlance direct quote from Barbara
The Washington times., 1938-07-11

society headline. The tiUe-dnd-ten cent
store heiress seeks happiness on Broadcay
and in a round of gay events. Enter then
the hands some young Prince Aleris
Mdirani "ny only friend"-destined to
bring happiness and understanding, and
The Washington times., 1938-07-11
One Free Moment

1t was, in all her existence, the
one utterly free moment she ever
had-the one time when no
thought of money entered. So a
man would only marry her for her
money? Or-and there il little
secret romance Of Barbara's to tell
o. the boy who wouldn't marry
her because she had too much
money! man would only think
OF her as the Golden Girl?
Well, that couldn't be true Of
Phil Plant.
Like a pebble thrown into the
water that goes on and on making
ripples, you will find the still
echoing results Of that romance
in London today, where Barbara
Hutton and her second husband
wait for the moment when they
face each other in court on July
13.
Why didn't Barbara Hutton
marry Phil Plant? What hap
pened to break up this romance?
1t was broken up, and Barbara
Hutton, after fleeing half
around the world, married
Prince Alexis Mdivani, the man
who from he time she was IS
was, so she said, her "Only
friend" Read tOmOrrOw's in.
stallment Of this engrOSSing
serial.
The Washington times., 1938-07-11
Loneliness Dr0Ue Her
To Be Golden Girl
Of Gay Hotspots

He, mother dead her father remarked, Barbara Hut
ton Plump lonely girl of 16, finds that her millions
cannot brinq happiness. A 100000 debut becomes q
The Washington times., 1938-07-11

and David-went to Hollywood
and married Pola Negri and Mae
Murray, respectively. But Alexis,
the cleverest and wiSest Of them,
went into society.
The Washington times., 1938-07-11
MdiUanis Real Princes

The Mdivanis had, actually, a
right to a title. Once upon a
time, as history will show you,
they were part of the colorful,
picturesque, fighting little king
dom of Georgia. Then came the
Revolution and all that was
changed. Two brothers - Serge
The Washington times., 1938-07-11

II IWIVOIIs
I don't think anyone else ever
heard her say just that. But as
she said it quietly, gravely, so
soon after she had almost died
in giving birth to her baby, there
was no way to diSbelieve her.
The Washington times., 1938-07-11

that age would do if they suddenly
became heir to millions and mil
lions of dollars. OF course Barbars
The Washington times., 1938-07-11
On new Y0RK-PAR|S
Nonstop Flight

HOWARD HUGHES flight bring together the New York
u Worlds Fair leading representatives of aviation from
the world has been successfully Paris
Hats off great ier his and his Wright Cyclone
gnes for great fight He joins small army of headners
started from the ESQ The list back the Wright Brothers
Kitty Hawk 1t includes Dick Merrill the China Clipper General
Babo the Queen Mary, the Nomande and countless others
Aarge army motorists starts from the ESQ daily make
records for gasoline mileage They gasoline different it's
patented Motor Fuel contains exclusive solvent that prevents
gum formation carbon keeps your in better condition.
gives power and mileage months trial will convince you
Smyrna times., 1938-11-10

ford, president of the board presid-
ed. An address by t he Rev. DR.
@. A. Richardson, of Philadelphia
a member Of the national boards
office dealing with various aspects
Of its work, marked the meeting
Others attending, ministerial mem
bers of the board, the Rev. DR..
Leonard White, Newark; the Rev
Preston w. Spence, Preston, Md;
the Rev. Ralph Q. Jones, Delmar;
the Rev. R. T. Thawley, Selbyville;
the Rev. L. E. Windsor, Whining
ton; the Rev. w. A. Hearn, Will
mington; laymen members, G. H.
Thomas, Dover; L. NJ. Price, Smyr-
na; A. c. Humphreys, Snow Hill,
Md; F. D. Layfeld, Princess Anne,
Nd; r. S. Loomis and w. L. Over
deer, both of Wilmington.
Smyrna times., 1938-11-10
STATE SAFETY
COUNCIL NEWS
More Deaths By Careless
Automobile Driving
Than By War
'ARMISTICE DAY LESSON

This week the world celebrates
the signing of the Armistice.
Twenty years ago, the nation went
hysterical with joy at the news
that peace at last had closed a bit
ter and bloody world conflict. Wars
tragic waste Of life makes US all
shudder. But here is something
that may surprise you: More Amer
leans died in traffic in the past
year and a half than We're killed in
the World War! The psychological,
the economic, and the social effects
OF war are tremendous and far
reaching, often affecting the lives
of generations. Yet the life-losses
of Americans in war are dWarfed
by comparison with the annual
death toll Of carelessness and poor
judgment. Our World War loss in
lives was only half the 1887 acci-
dental death toll. The War is long
since over, but until each American
enlists in the attack against acci-
dent hazards, the toll Of accidents
win be an annual calamity. Yes.
a traffic accident can be just as
cruel as war when it comes to sep
arating families, leaving children
destitute Or converting healthy hui
man beings into helpless invalids.
This carnage can be stopped And
you can help stop it. The Delaware
Safety Council urges you to help
in the campaign for safety on the
Delaware highways by resolving to
drive at safe speeds and with con
sideration for others, to walk safe
ly in the proper places, and with
the signals. Let us declare an arm
istice on traffic accidents.
Smyrna times., 1938-11-10
KENT FAMILIES
SPEND S1,357,356
For Retail Purchases of Food,
Clothing and Fuel
Annually
THRU HIDDEN TAXES

Families in Kent County pay ST.
357 1856 annually in taxes on their
retaal purchases alone, according
to a survey by the National Con-
sumers Tax Commission.
Most of that amount is paid
through hidden taxes in higher
prices on food, clothing, fuel, med
icine and other daily purchases, a
report of the survey stated
The survey, directed from the
commissions headquarters in Chi
cago, was made public through
Mrs. William H. Beacon of Will
mington, the Delaware member of
the commissions national commit
tee. She said the analysis was
based on total retail sales in the
county's 634 stores of S8,701 600,
as reported by the U. S. Bureau of
the Census.
Mrs. Beacon, describing the com
mission as representing a nation
wide fight by housewives on hidden
and direct taxes that 'penalize the
consumer" declared:
Every day shoppers, whether
they know it or not, carry a major
share of the nations S12, 300, ,OO0,-
900 tax burden. Hidden taxes, in
creasing the cost of even the neces-
stiles of life, furnish SO percent of
all local, state and national reven-
ues."
Mrs. Beacon. who said commits
sion units are being organized
throughout Delaware in the nation
wide fight, pointed out the Kent
County tax figure concerns retail
sales only and does not include the
many other taxes, hidden and di-
rect, which families here have to
pay.