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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1938-12-01
with their parents.

with their parents.
Alvin Broawater was visiting at the
Robert Grove home on Sunday.
The social that was to have baon
held at Avilton on Monday evening
was postponed on account of weather
conditions. 1t will be held on a later
date.
Earl Garlitz, James Turner and Geo
Brown, Jr., made business trip to
Uniontown Tuesday.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1938-12-01
AVHTON

A few of the roads in this commu-
nifty have been blocked in places for
the past few days on account of the
big snow storm which came on the
morning of Thanksgiving Day.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Fike, Frost
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1938-12-01
IN MEMORIAM

Dearest Ernest, how we loved thee
In the home you loved so well,
But God loved thee far, far better.
Now you've gone with Him to dwell
From our circle once more broken.
Leaving earthly cares aside;
Now you've gone to dwell in heaven
With the angels to abide.
MRS. ETHEL FRIEND and Children
Advertisement 1t*
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1938-12-01
Some Encouragement

Here's some encouragement about
the winter, in spite of what happened
over Thanksgiving and the weekend
The goosebone weather prophets
have informed the world that this will
be mild, warm winter because:
There are no black squirrels this
year.
There are thin corn husks.
Frogs, snakes, and groundhogs
didn't dig in until late.
Groundhog's dens are shallow.
Hornets nests are built close to the
ground.
Leaves fell from the trees instead
of sticking tight.
The meat on hogs was small.
Autumn was dry and late.
Another prediction was that the
winter would be mild, with the cold
part first because there was more
black on the front end oft he cater
pillar than there is on the rear.
If any prophet of Garrett county
can offer any additional reasons, OF
even why the winter is going to be
the reverse, they will be added to this
list as time goes on.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1938-12-01
Lesson for December 4
THE SIN OF LYING

LESSON TEXT-Exodus 2O:16; John s42.
AZ: Ephesians 4:25.
GOLDEN TEXT-Behold, thou desirest
truth in the inward parts.-Psalm 51:6.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1938-12-01
Thawing Out Saturday
Twas Only Eight Below

Most parents, seeing boys gamb-
ling, will either take punitive action or
shake their heads and ease the situa-
ton by comment to the effect that
gambling is an instinct, that instincts
are a part of human nature, that you
can't change human nature, but a
headmaster at an academy did neither
when boys in his charge played the
| slot machine.
He went to police headquarters, Sc
cured a confscated gambling device,
and had it set up in the mathematics
room of his school. Then he arranged
with the mathematics instructor to
work up a problem involving the law
of mathematical probability. The
boys were to play the machine with
"phoney" money to solve the problem.
And they discovered several surpris-
ing things.
They learned, for example, that a
player hits the "jack pot" once in
1000 times. At a nickel a throw
that meant it would cost about 5000
to win S.. They learned also that the
next highest "payoff" was once in
1000 plays, and made it cost 500 to
win 81.
Anyone thinking quite seriously on
the subject couldn't help but decide
that it doesn't pay to attempt to beat
the slot machine.
| Bobbie Bittle's bike ought to be
safe for while, at least until the
snow disappears and it becomes warm
and balmy again. Twice now his
bicycle has been Borrowed" from his
garage. The next morning it is dis
covered in a nearby place. 1t is sup
posed whoever is borrowing" it, is
using it to travel to see his girl, and
when the "date" is over he rides back
to Oakland and leaves the bike where
is can be found the next morning
Evening star., 1938-03-28
Ny Neiehbor Soys:

Early in April and again In
midsummer scatter a cupful Of
air-slacked lime into the soil
surrounding each of your rose
bushes and fork it in. This
sweetens and fertilizes the sell.
Beet skins may be removed
quickly if beets are put in very
hot water for brief time. Drain
off the hot water and quickly
place beets in cold water.
If rust stains from screens
appear after the curtains are
washed, they may be removed
before the rinsing by using
solution Of two tablespoons of
oxalic acid crystals in one pint
of warm water. This solution
may be applied to the stain with
q dropper. Applications should
be continued until the stain is
gone. The curtain is then rinsed
thoroughly, one tablespoonful of
ammonia being added to the last
rinse.
When peeling apples prepara-
tory to making pies. drop each
apple as peeled into a pan Of
cold water to which a few drops
OF lemon juice have been added.
They will not then turn brown.
tCopyright. 1889
Evening star., 1938-03-28
Dorothy Dix Says
Check This List Honestly to Find
Why You Are Not Very Popular.

tering eye while you tell them how
to settle the depression. stop the war
in China and solve the unemployment
problem? Do you borrow small sums
of money that you never pay back?
Do you ride in other persons cars to
save your own gas? Do you smoke
their cigarettes and never reach for a
dinner check until you are sure some
body else has got it?
Are you chronic arguer who can
start fight over the state OF the
weather or apple pie versus boiled
custard? Are you crouch whom not
even God has been able to please in
takes the fun out of every occasion by
fault-f1nding and criticism?
Have you religious or political opin-
ions that you feel called upon to
thrust down every ones throats. in
season and out of season? Are you
cut-up who thinks himself the life
Of the party when he is doing fool
things and destroying his hostess
cherished belongings and boring the
other guests to tears? Do you give
stunt parties at which grown people
are expected to play childrens games
and sit on the floor and pretend that
they are enjoying themselves when they
are filled with thoughts of murder?
Do you feel called upon to tell
people home truths that they would
rather die than hear, such as that
they are getting fat. or their new hats
make them look like heck, or that
their frail child seems tubercular to
you? Do you call your lack of man
ners and consideration for others
"candor"? Are you a wise-cracker
who thinks it witty to hold up to
ridicule some weakness or peculiarity
of others and who will cruelty his best
friend to get a laugh?
If you have any one of these charac-
teristics, you don't have to seek any
further to know why you are un-
popular. DOROTHY DIX.
Evening star., 1938-03-28
The Serving
OF Buffet
Parties
Everything Placed
On Table EXCEPT
The Dessert.
By EMILY POST

YEAR MRS. POST: There is one
detail about the serving of a buffet
meal that leaves me confused. Buffet
meals are not very usual in this COM
munity, and yet believe buffet service
Is the only kind that will enable me to
entertain the number of people I
should invite on this next occasion.
Let's say there are 10 be three courses
"a fish NeWburg and then chicken
and salad and dessert and coffee. These
are to be served from the dining table,
also set with the necessary silver and
stacks of plates 'and napkins. Are
guests supposed to go into the dining
room first for the NeWburg and then
go back again, after they've eaten this,
for the chicken and salad, and then
back Tor the third time for the des-
sert? Are all the courses supposed to
be on the table from the start?
AnsWer-EVerything except the des-
sert and the after dinner coffee i,
usually put on the table at the start.
People go into the dining room and
help themselves to whatever they
quite without rule. Some might help
themselves to the fish first and 90
back later for the chicken or perhaps
for second helping Of fish instead of
chicken. Others might pile everything
on their plates at one time They 90
back and forth to the table "a often
as they please or make only the nee
essary two trips; one for the main
course and one for the dessert. To ths
particular menu you have described
should be added breads of different
kinds and a substantial starch dish
such as rice or baked macaroni. or
escalloped white potatoes or a baking
dish of sweet potatoes. Otherwise. fish
plain with nothing excepting a little
sauce and the chicken plain with the
salad would not make very substan-
tial meal.
The one complication of a buffet
meal is that those who are not used
to 1t are apt to sit and wait. In this
case they have to be told exactly like
children. will you please 60 out to
the dining room and help yourselves?"
And in the dining room if, after they
have helped themselves, they stand
around in the way of others, some one
has to say, will you please 60 and
find some place to sit?"
X ~
nEAR MRS. POST: We are having
judge and his wife and mother
and sister to dinner Who should be
given the place of honor at the right
OF my husband, and, accordingly, bs
served first?
Answer-The judges mother.
X
nEAR MRS. POST: I understand
when a person receives an invi-
tation to wedding she is expected TO
send gift. How does this apply to
the servants in the groom's family
and to others in the employ Of the
families?
Answer-Only those who are invited
to the reception or the breakfast are
supposed to send presents. II those
in the employ OF the families are In
vited to either of these entertainments
they would probably send small gifts.
BY this I really mean that they would
probably want to send them. On the
other hand. one who is not member
OF the immediate family Of either the
bride or the bridegroom is never
obliged TO send wedding present in
the same way that one is obliged to
take shower present.
Evening star., 1938-03-28

The ideas sort of . hangover from
medieval times when cat and evil
meant the same thing, along with
witch Tommy Cat helps it by being
very curious and extremely fond OF
warm, soft things.
There's new baby in the house.
Kitty's curiosity is stirred up. She
approaches it shifting, that being the
way Of animals with q keen sense of
smell, and people in the vicinity Of
apple pies. Having walked around
and investigated a couple of times,
she finds that it's soft, warm and
snuggly. Feline paradise. She re-
lakes her weary limbs, snuggles up to
baby and all is we'll Enter Mama,
screaming! Exit cat! The same old
story is told. Wrong again.
"Of course, it's just as well to keep
kitty of the person Of baby proper.
Babies are delicate creatures, as any
one knows who's held one for the
first time. No matter how harmless
kitty's intentions, she still can be
mighty heavy and wide. But As for
this breath-sucking business, ridicu-
lous!"
Evening star., 1938-03-28

information as to what, where and
The battle for new slipcovers-al-
ways lost cause, because the old ones
won't wear OUT
The mad decision to have a brand
new coiffure-and the result anything
but welcomed by the family
The realization that although it is
spring, and we feel kittenish, we
ance-
The pretty bitter reaction to this,
and the sulk in the privacy of the
bed room
The martyred re-doing of the hair
in the old manner and the anti-climax
of finding that nobody notices it
The shoes that have been too loose
all winter and suddenly become three
sizes too small
The first flies
Spring vacation for the offspring
with attendant problems of dentistry,
clothing and social ACTIVITIES
Exhausting procession of young fry
staying for meal after meal
SGuaWk Of radio and shrek Of
gramophone from dawn to dusk
The never-ending amazement at the
manner in which the young, ably as
sisted by school laundries, can make
hash of an entire wardrobe bought at
Christmas time
The fascination of the 700
The overwhelming desire TO get out
OF doors. and draw deep breaths OF air
and sunlight-and do nothing else
The utter impossibility of making
sense about anything!
Evening star., 1938-03-28

be able to pass a florists without
taking home potted plant or two
these glorious spring days. But potted
plants are not confined to the flower
shops. We found some very tempting
ones in local department store and.
although they had every semblance
of the real thing at distance, they
proved to be in reality only synthetic!
These gay-colored pots with their
bright blue hyacinths, pink geraniums
and little crocuses hold bath salts in
several different odors, nicely hidden
away under a fiat covering of cork
through which the flowers appear to
grow Two of these charming little
pots blooming on the bathroom win
dow sill would not be bad idea for
spring. And what splendid bridge
prize. or birthday remembrance. or
Easter gift. for that matter-Easter
being not SO far away!
More bath news concerns an idea
for which We must thank the French.
They have concocted a soap that
blends cream. glycerin. lanolin and
some special French oils with a soap
base in the form of a grooved cake,
over which is stretched rubber
jacket. As the soap is used and worn
down the jacket slips to the next
notch, so that waste from melting
Evening star., 1938-03-28
The Season
Discard the Headv
Ones for Softer
Floral Scents.
BY ELSIE PIERCE.

&PRING has always been the open
season. for change Of perfume
The heavy, heady perfumes you wore
with your winter mood, manner and
furs should give way to softer scents.
This spring more than any other
calls for floral odors. Why? Because
flowers seem to dominate the fashion
and beauty scheme. They blossom
forth in beautiful. bold patterns on
dresses. in tiny clusters on boleros, in
giant size blooms perching on little
bits of hats. Flowers are everywhere.
It's the season for flowers, so why not
perfumes that capture the very essence
of the flowers themselves?
One of our leading perfumers in
PRODUCES for spring a new bouquet of
floral odors-a choice Of nine favorite
flower perfumes. They come in lovely
fluted flacons with the stately grace of
Doric columns. If the gardenia is the
grandest flower to you. you can have
this scent: if the lily of the valley or
the lilac seem loveliest, yours in the
choice: then there's the inevitable rose,
carnation. there's yanky clover, jasmin,
narcisse and the violet.
So, select your favorite And apply
it in a daring new way Spray it on
the little boutonniere for your new
spring suit, whether that boutonniere
is of silk or enamel. Wear one OF those
clever little pins which conceal a bit
of cotton to be soaked with your fas
vorite scent. Give breath to the flowers
on your hat, or the ones you wear in
your hair. Touch your palms and
wrists (old reliable tricks, these).
And if you want more "old reliable
tricks for applying your favorite per-
fume, there are any number of them
outlined in my bulletin called: Per-
fune Tricks. Please mention it by
name and inclose self-addressed,
stamped (3-cent) envelope.
Evening star., 1938-03-28
r YOU wonder why you are un-
popular and people avoid you as
they would the plague. do you:

popular and people avoid you as
they would the plague. do you:
Talk too much? Is your tongue
a perpetual motion machine? Do you
slay every one with whom you come
in contact with the jawbone of an ass?
No one individual in a thousand en-
Joys listening to any voice but his own.
Do you monopolize the conversation
wherever you 60 and spoil every party
by making it one-man talkfeast?
Plenty Of people are never invited out
because they grab the floor, go into
their monologue and never give any
one else a chance to get a word in
edgewlse.
Are you an egotist who believes that
the world is just dying to learn all the
details of your private affairs: is wait
ing with bated breath to hear all
about your major operations and what
the doctor said and the nurse said: !:
what you planted in your garden;
how much you paid for your new hat:
what sort OF a diet you are on; the
cute thing the kitten did and the
clever way the baby acted?
y X X X
A RE you a braggart9 Are you al
ways boasting OF your success
and telling of the big deals you made !;
how you know it is foolish of you to
waste your talents in small city in
stead of going to Wall Street and
making billion. but you just feel
that it wouldn't be right for you to
60 away and leave your home town
fiat? Do you always drag your an
cestors out of the grave and into any
conversation? Can you never talk
for five minutes without referring to
your Rolls-Royce and your footman
and mentioning that you always buy
your clothes at the most expensive
places?
Do you back helpless people into
corners and f1x them with your gilt
Evening star., 1938-03-28
By BARBARA RELI.


THERE'S a new feeling this
spring for softly full, rather
loose lines, very gracious and
feminine This model
achieves the effect with a pointed
girdle topped by gathers, and shoul-
der yoke that creates bust fullness.
This Is a design that practically every
figure can wear and that adapts
itself to many different fabrics both
for immediate wear and for later
fat crepe, silk print, linen and tub
silk.
This is delightfully."- easy dress to
make, so easy in fact that It's an
excellent style for beginners to try
their hands on. The results will be
so satisfying Your pattern is accom-
panied by sew chart with complete,
step-by-step directions. For other
designs which can be made at home
consult the Barbara Bell Spring and
Summer Fashion Pattern Book.
Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1893 is
designed for sizes IA. Is. 18, 20;
40 and ~. Corresponding bust
measurements 80, "a, 36 3S, 40 and
AZ. Size is (34) requires yards of
Evening star., 1938-03-28

39-inch material II you make it with
long sleeves. 35s yards with short
sleeves. Three-eighth yard contrast
for the draped girdle
Send IS cents for the Barbara Bell
Spring and Summer Fashion Pattern
Book Make yourself attractive. prac-
tical and becoming clothes. selecting
designs from the Barbara Bell we'll
planned, easy-to-make patterns.
(Copyright. 1880
Evening star., 1938-03-28


The burning question OF when to
put up the window and door
screens
The insistence OF common sense
that there will be more cold weather
before summer-
The giddy feeling that OF course
there will not
The itch to dig in the back yard.
and the sudden interest in the fate
Of last years window boxes
The dissatisfaction with furniture
and draperies that seem to have be-
come inexpressibly soiled and shabby
looking in the last few days
The hankering after new frocks, and
the lure of patterns and bolts of
shimmering silks and crisp cottons-
The absorbed perusal Of all fashion
magazines. and the bullying of the
fashion editor to get some first hand
Evening star., 1938-03-28
The Old Gardener Soys

Lawns ought to be fed as soon
as the ground is dry enough to
be walked on. It is not neces-
sary to wait until the grass
starts to grow. In fact, it is
much better to apply fertilizer
before the grass starts, for then
there will be no necessity of
using the hose to wash 1t into
the ground. The rain will carry
1t down to the roots, which start
into activity long before the tops
show signs of renewed life. Fer
tilizers vary in strength, but four
pounds to 100 square feet of lawn
area is about the right amount
to use. It is best to apply the
fertilizer on q still morning and
to distribute 1t evenly over the
whole surface.
tcopyrisht, 1881 .
Evening star., 1938-03-28
School Work
Is Hard Job
For Child
Home Should Be a
Place Where He
Moves Freely.
BY ANGELO PATRI,

,OING to school is job 1t means
concentrated work for long
periods, Grown people are likely to
overlook this fact because their school
days are far behind them. They forget
the times when they pushed the clock
hands with the full pressure of their
minds, when their legs and arms ached
and their heads went light. All this
happens to school children.
The dismissal bell is the sweetest
sound a school child's ears enjoy.
Even the child who loves going to
school loves to get home again. Home
spells release from restriction, chance
to move freely under ones own will.
1t means rest. recreation. and an
audience friendly to. the performer.
At least it ought to be.
Some anxious mothers make the
mistake of continuing the school at
mosphere in the home The moment
the child enters the house he is
ordered to get ready for his music
practice sit right down now and do
his homework; bring his book and
recite his lessons to his mother. Make
accurate and prolonged reports on
what he did today and what he is to
do for tomorrow.
The child'S first need on coming
home from school is to feel released.
Mind and body need stretching. Pre-
pare for that period in the home as
carefully as the teacher prepares for
the first period in the morning, and
the children will thrive better at
school and at home, and life will be
more pleasant in both places for all
concerned
Somebody. mother most of the time,
ought to be on hand when the children
get home. If nobody is waiting. why
hurry home? 1t is better that children
get home promptly after school. for
many reasons. First, having been
freed of school control they should
feel home calling them. That steadies
them and prevents their getting into
places they would better not be.
Have light lunch waiting. An
apple and few cookies, an apple and
bit OF plain cake, or brown bread
and butter. Let them tell their ad-
ventures. Listen generously. When
the last crumbs are gone start them
on the afternoons routine. Play
clothes, spell of outdoor play: then
music practice; rest; preparations for
the evening meal Study hour, rest
without restrictions as to duties; then
preparation for bed.
Home should not continue the school
atmosphere. It should break into it
with a more wholesome, more zestful
air. It is too had to have mother and
father turn themselves into drill
masters and coaches every night. Why
should that be necessary If the school
is doing its work? The homework
ought to be closely associated with the
days lessons, easily done, and soon.
A few questions on occasions: a sug-
gestion offered; quiet and order main
tanned for the study hour. and home
should be done with lessons.
The children ought to be able to
turn toward home at the close of their
day with the feeling that they are
going to the place where they are most
welcomed, most loved, most cherished.
They should turn to it knowing that
there they will find comfort and peace
and laughter and the true friendship
of lasting friends. They should. as
they cross the threshold, leave school
cares behind them and find home
most gracious place.
Evening star., 1938-03-28
BY MARY ALLEN HOOD,

7 7 ELLO Oh, hello Mabel. 1
- was just getting ready to
phone you. Must have been
mental telepathy. You want
to ask my advice? That's funny.
What about?
will a cat suck a babys breath?
Well, for goodness sake, of course not.
What would kitty do with it after
she got it? No, literally, mean it.
"A cat is member Of the mammal
tribe. Sore babies and mamas and
papas. Well. SOS the whole human
race. Mammals must have oxygen to
live. A tried and true method of OBJ
tanning this is by breathing. In fact,
its the only method in everyday use.
Now, when a cat, or q baby, takes on
lung full Of oxygen, it breathes out
a gas known as carbon dioxide. Car
bon dioxide is poison. It can't be
tolerated In the body. What on earth
would kitty want with baby's carbon
dioxide when she's doing her best to
get rid of her own? That's Just what
shed get If she sucked baby's breath,
meaning, or course, feline suicide.
And cats love life.
Evening star., 1938-03-28

Inc charm OF
the outside of
the great mar
kets, t e e m / n &
with blossoms, as
opposed to the
darkness within.
surrounding the
fish and meat
departments
The difficulty
of putting ones
mind on tables
of calories and
such hum drum
matters as the
removal of spots
Evening star., 1938-03-28
Sandwich Filling.

Mix two tablespoons of chutney
sauce with one cupful of cottage
cheese. You'll have enough filling
for 18 sandwiches of rye or graham
bread.
Evening star., 1938-03-28
r Calls Time Out on Hard Work, E.
|Grubbing in the Garden
And Window Shopping
Main Temptations
Visions of Daffodils, Zoos,
SlipcOVers and Dresses
Upset Concentration.
Ry BETSY CASWELL.

N a
/ definite reluctance sit in Office all
Visions dafodi that
= and
The necessity
The perennial problem newly seeded
beds, and nature-lovng pedestrians
m the
Evening star., 1938-03-28


bothered to make
this
knit this design
useful It's economical
directions; needles
obtain this pattern,
Address
Of The Evening STAR