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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-06
Underscoring for Emphasis

Dear Mrs. Post: have a name
that includes a u" and so often
this is mistaken for an m, which
makes my name anything but
pleasant sounding. May l under
score the III" so that people will
stop to notice that it's not an IN" :?
Answer: II it were my name l
should print the n" without any
upstrokes in front of it or after it.
But if you think undsrscoring
makes it palmer there is no objec-
ton TO that.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-06

points your way. II your daugh-
ter is willing 10 let this man
make a goat" OF her and you,
too. il won't hurt to let her go
away with him for a while and
find out what real hardship is.
But as much as you love her,
II does not stand to reason that
you and your Woodworking hus-
band should allow her girlish
fancy 10 become a milestone
around your neck.
There are too many persons
who are glad to get the oppor-
tunity to live their lazy exist
ences at some hard workers ex-
pense. To encourage such
person Is wrong - wrong for
everyone concerned.
know It il not easy for q
mother 10 go to bed at nights
and wonder how her child Is
getting along, but In cases such
as your girl represents, the
temporary discontinue she en-
dures eventually paves the way
to saner and happier living.
Pie
Dear Miss Grey: Here is my
recipe for Angel pie. cut IL from
The Times.
Four egg whites, Y teaspoon
cream tartar, cup sugar, / tea
spoon vinegar, u teaspoon vanilla
Beat the egg whites with
rotary beaten until they stand II
peaks. Add the cream OF tartar
beat In the sugar gradually anc
add vinegar and vanilla.
Bake In an oblong baking par
'or As minutes t225 degrees).
While this is baking, make the
filling.
Juice and rind of lemon. Il
,up sugar. 3 tbsp. hot water. Cook
Ill together in the top Of a double
boiler until thick, stirring con.
SANITY. Beat until stiff y pint
of whipping cream. Flavor but
10 not sweeten.
When first mixture is cold
spread with a layer of whipped
cream and cover this with a layer
Of the lemon custard and top with
more whipped cream.
One important thing you should
about this pie. i
should be made the day before 4
Is to be eaten as II is not at 1t,
very best when served fresh.
MRS. A. L.
Thank you. Mrs. A. l..
Cat
Dear Miss Grey: Not long ago
a beautiful half-grown Persian cal
came to our house. II has a collar
with a bell on 1t and should bs
easily identified. II has been we'll
cared for and Is surely someone's
pet, SO II the owner will call fol
II they can find out from yol
where l live. MRS. z.
l did not describe the cat as
was afraid someone might take
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-06
Christmas Cards
BY EMILY POST

Dear Mrs. Post: Should Christ
mas card of an NJ. ID. and his wife
be signed "Dr. and Mrs. r. C.
Blank" or "Dr. r. c. Blank and
Mrs. Blank" or "Dr. r. c. and
Mrs. Blank?
Answer: At the top of an in.
vitation or acceptance, etc, the
first one is correct. Remember
that an actual signature should
have no title.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-06

Dear Miss Grey: I wonder II
you could tell me what to do about
a trouble for which / shall no
doubt have very little sympathy
as I happen to be a mother-in-
law and you know what people
usually say about her.
Ny daughter Is married to q
very shiftless man. We begged
her not TO marry him as he had
no work, nor even the prospects
of q job. but she married him
anyway. Since then my husband
and I have had to do all the worry
ing for this lazy fellow doesn't
let anything bother him. He Is
the type who viii work everyone
for what he can get out of them.
Since they have married. my
daughter has kept on with her
work and that doesn't bother him
. bit. He doesn't waste any
energy to bring In a pay check
or fulfill his obligation.
She Ia a stenographer but does
not make enough to keep both Of
them. Consequently. they had to
come home to us to live las he
-<alntil can get job'), but
he certainly nssA't tried to get
He takes money from her and
food and shelter from us without
a blush. He has no clothes to
speak Of and even borrowed the
suit he wore for his wedding. The
diamond engagement was bought
on time" and my daughter is
making the payments on 1t.
All this Is bad enough but he
comes home drunk whenever he
can work his friends for drinks
and this Is going too far. He
can't even buy his own cigarets
or pay bus fare but gets money
from my daughter to spend for
these things.
Ny husband Il WPA worker
and 1t Is all we can do to support
ourselves. With this burdensome
son-in-law It makes 1t more diff
cult than ever.
want my girl to be happy but
! don't think we should allow this
shiftless fellow TO get away with
his brazen actions. Would It be
wrong to ask them to 60 and
shift for themselves I don't want
to hurt my girl but don't want
her to ruin her life and cast away
everything worth while for the sake
Of . no-account fellow.
MRS. NJ. A.
Yours Is = difficult position.
Your mother love naturally
comes first but sound good sense
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-06
American, With Japanese
Wife, Headed for South Seas

Hummel-Hummel. on a 19.00o-mile
trip to New York. At almost the
same time a family group from
Oregon lifted anchor OF the A.
foot ketch. Oregon Wehfoot, and
headed for the South Seas.
Petersen and his wife were
accompanied by Wendell X.
Parks, Seattle seaman.
The Petersons last year COM
pleted a l1s-day cruise across the
Pacific. They were married in
Japan and bought the junk for
$3.50. With two white Russian
seamen they braved the Pacific
and arrived nearly exhausted at
Los Angeles harbor.
The junk Is dependent who'll
~ ON the wind. Its sails are
old and patched.
Better equipped was the Oregon
family. Capt. Davis S. Dewey. his
father and their wives. Their boat
has both sails and an auxiliary
motor. They built their ketch four
years ago and sailed it TO Hawaii.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-06
Announcing Marriage on
Christmas Gard

Dear Mrs. Post: l was mar
ried secretly--except for telling the
immediate families-and as yet
the announcement has not been
made. My husband and l would
like to send out Christmas cards
and thought these could be made
to announce the marriage and send
seasons greetings both. But how :?
Answer: You might perhaps copy
European custom and underneath
John and Laura Mason" add
born Laura Smith" Or John
and Laura (Smith) Mason" would
be another way. II you choose,
you can put your own name first,
but the other way seems to me
clearer.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-06
CAST FOR WSC PLAY
INCLUDES TACOMAN

Eleanor Young of Tacoma has
chosen for one of the leading roles
in "The Royal Family" which will
be presented at Washington State
college on Jan. 13 and IA.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-06
DEPUT|ESF|ND
STOLEN BOOTS
Question Third Man
After Two Admit
WPA Theft

julius T-hurston. SO, Of s14 SO.
18th ST.. was being held in Pierce
county jail Tuesday for investiga-
ton after Sheriff John c. Bjork-
lund obtained confessions from two
men arrested last Nov. is involv-
ing Thurston in connection with
theft of 81 pairs OF rubber boots
from a wPA storehouse at No. oath
and Stevens SITS.
Admitting theft OF the boots.
valued at IS pair. were Clayton
Boyer. 81. OF 1115 Fswcett ave,
and William tRed) Pitts. 80. OF
1912 Fawcett ave. The two are
being held in county jail on an
open charge.
Burned Insulation
According to Undersheriff Clyde
Knowles, Boyer and. Pitts were
arrested Nov. is when they were
found by deputies in a secluded
area south OF the city limits burn
ing insulation from copper wire.
They admitted that on Nov. 4
they went TO the WPA storehouse.
broke a lock on door and entered
the structure. They then stole 81
pairs Of new, hip boots.
Boyer and Pitts said they stole
the boots at suggestion of Thur
ston. who allegedly informed them
he would purchase them for 81
a pair.
When they delivered the boots
to Thurston. he assertedly told them
he could not Swing the deal" and
advised Boyer and Pitts to dump
them In the bay off Steilacoom
dock"
Buried Under Sand
Instead, Boyer and Pitts hid the
boots in underbrush near the fish
hatchery, near Steilacoom. Deputies
Charles Mcdonald and George
Kupka uncovered the loot, which
had been buried under about two
feet Of sand.
Thurston has denied accusations
made by Boyer and Pitts in their
confessions.
Bjorklund said FIJI agents had
been notified, in view of the fact
the boots belonged TO the federal
government. In event the govern
ment does not desire to prosecute,
the matter will be turned over to
Prosecutor Thor c. Tollefson.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-06

Raymond Massey. outstanding
stage and screen actor. re-enacts
his role Of the Great Emancipation
in Rko Radios ABE Lincoln in
Illinois, screen version Of the
highly successful Broadway play
by Robert f. Sherwood which won
the Pulitzer prize with Massey in
the title role.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-06
The Office Telephone

Dear Mrs. Post: When I call
my husbands office, nine times
out of ten when l ask for Mr..
Brown stenographer asks, rs
this his wife ?" l think she should
ask, rs this Mrs. Brown" My
husband thinks the girl is prob
ably right in asking the way she
does.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-06

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over 10 million bottles Of Buckley,s
CANADIOL Mixture, for coughs due
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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-06

vance over more ordinary remedies
'0ctor
thousands OF Canadian mothers know
its worth and would hardly dream
OF facing winter without II. They
know that Buckles's Mixture contains
no dope. Your own druggist has this
remarkable Canadian discovery get
a small bottle right away and give Il
20 the little sufferer for more restful
sleep tonight, Quickly looSens Up
thick choking phlegm. making
breathing easier.
Drug Store, Riser Drug Co,
Use Store
Evening star., 1939-07-08
Star Home
Continued From First Page.)

backs. Furniture of classic design is
used in this room.
A second bedroom has been fur
Evening star., 1939-07-08
SCOTS at Fair Influence
On Future Architecture

The New York Worlds Fair will
exert no more influence on the
architecture of the world of tomor-
row than would a band of musicians
on musical tastes If each member
were playing a different piece, it was
declared at the Columbia University
summer session by Harvey Wiley
Corbett, noted architect.
"The architect who comes away
from the New York Worlds Fair
is more confused than enlightened, u
said Mr.. Corbett, one Of the designers
Of Rockefeller Center, who gave the
first lecture in a summer symposium
on contemporary art and achitec-
ture.
"At the fair each building screams
at the visitor in it's own different
voice. Walking through the various
courts gives one the impression that
he is being yelled at by a row of
barkers. each trying to sell his own
show. Such disharmony reflects the
conditions which exist in the world
today. This has always been the
Evening star., 1939-07-08

italy has decreed that all cotton
tablecloths must contain other vege-
table fiberS.
Evening star., 1939-07-08
WASHINGTON c, SATURDAY, JULY 1899

mouldings. The design of the door
way and its material provides re-
strained contrast with the sur
rounding surface of brick.
An open portico or verenda orig
inally extended beyond the south
doorway, which opened on a brick
courtyard to the rear of the house.
The upper portion of the portico
provided smoking gallery for men
addicted to "the weed" to avoid
communicating the house. The
stairway to this porch has more
recently become the central feature
OF the Children's Playhouse.
The first house erected on the
site was a pioneers cabin. The
cabin, with a large surrounding
acreage, was purchased by William
Duncanson, a British Army officer
from India, as tobacco planta-
ton. Here he built a large frame
house which he enlarged in 1896.
George Washington described it as
"a fine house in the woods between
Capitol Hill and the Navy Yard"
extravaganza was responsible for
the downfall of Duncanson and in
1909 the property was placed in the
hands of a group of trustees. A
few years later it became a hos
pital for soldiers wounded in the
battle of BladenSburg.
Francis Scott Key-author OF
The Star Spangled Banner"-pur-
chased the house in 1915. After
few years of occupancy by Key, the
property passed through a varied
series Of ownerships. In 1888 it ac-
quired the reputation of being
haunted, following the suicide of
the wife of its owner.
In 1856 Senator John M. Clayton
obtained title to the estate and made
extensive alterations to the old house.
1t is believed that the original frame
house is inclosed by the present
brick walls. One may assume that
the south doorway dates from the
alterations made by Senator Clay
ton. At that time an east wing was
added as ballroom-now the Little
Theater-With walls and selling
decorated by Constantine Brumidi,
an Italian artist who also painted
the frescoes in the Capitol.
The next occupant of the house
was Louis Pourtales, son of a Ger
man count. He contributed large
vine cellar AZ feet below ground,
Evening star., 1939-07-08
BY ANNABEL PAXTON,

1t would be difficult to find a
more inviting doorway than the one
which marks the south entrance to
house known for a great many
years as the Naples. OUTLYING the
trees for which it was named, sur
viving many remodelings and own
erships, the original part. now the
central portion of a rambling house,
is little changed. OF simple Colo
NAL design, its brickwork painted
white, this dignified, homelike house
is set we'll back from the street and
is now appropriately known as
Friendship House.
The south doorway is typically
Georgian Colonial, stately and
classic in character and simple in
its detail. A thin, refined pediment
surmounts the semi circular fam
Evening star., 1939-07-08

nished for the young lady of the
family. The paper has an off white
design of dogwood against a back
ground of blue. Draperies are of
yellow satin with a swag valance.
The tester bed is draped with a
valance of lace, edged with yellow
ball fringe, over lining of yellow
satin. The furniture is typically
early American.
The guest room has walls papered
in pink, gray draperies and a bed
room suite of the Louis XVI period.
The boys bedroom has draperies of
Williamsburg design in glazed chintz
of rose tones with yellow ball trim
ming. Furniture in the room Is
Chippendale in type. One of the
rooms on the third floor is supplied
with a Hepplewhite suite, while the
other is furnished as a sitting room
or study.
One of the outstanding features of
the Star home is the electrically
lighted garden.
Evening star., 1939-07-08

Full two-story brick, slate roof. attached
garage. First floor has kitchen. large
room with lavatory. Second floor, two
bedrooms with connecting tiled bath
and bright. spacious living room with
fireplace This home insulated and
stripped with latest type win
tersummer "hook-up" forced circula-
ton, hotUater oil heating plant.
Evening star., 1939-07-08

said to be patterned after a similar
one in his German ancestral home.
Mrs. Emily Edison Briggs, who, as
OLIVIA" a journalist, covered the
Civil War for Forney's Philadelphia
Press, bought the Naples in 1871.
She added more rooms, bringing
the total to 81. During her owner
ship the original carved wooden
Colonial fireplace mantels were
replaced with marble and the house
largely furnished with furniture i'm
ported from France. Mrs. j. Edison
Briggs, daughter -in-law of OLIVIA, +"
occupied the house until an "anony-
nous" friend, in 1887, purchased and
presented the property to Friendship
House Association Here the asso-
citation maintains settlement
house, providing educational and
recreational facilities for children Of
the neighborhood.
Evening star., 1939-07-08

case with any art. Artistic accom-
plishments mirror the temperament
Of the people.
The many admirable purposes
which both the New York and San
Francisco Fairs are serving. Such as
pointing out the advances of in
dustries and the opportunities which
remain for talent in the industrial
frontiers, are not carried over into
the art of design. The theme center
at the New York Worlds Fair, where
harmony prevails, including the
lagoon, the Court of Nations, and
the trylon and perisphere, is the
most impressive section of the dis
play on Flushing Meadows"
Evening star., 1939-07-08
Foreign Language
Savings Groups Seen
Americanization Aid
Chieoeo's Experience
Pictured as Typical
For Big Cities

Savings and loan associations or
ganized and managed by various
foreign language groups have played
prominent part in the Ameri-
canization of new citizens, A. r.
Gardner, president of the Federal
Home Loan Bank of Chicago, said
in a report to the Federal Home
Loan Bank Board in Washington
today.
The report was based upon a sur
vey by the Chicago bank of the op-
erations of foreign language savings
and loan associations, mutual saw
ings banks and other home-mort-
gage institutions in the Midwestern
metropolis.
Mr.. Gardner's observation regard
ing the value of these neighborhood
savings institutions in promoting
good citizenship among the nat
uralized and first generation groups
is given weight by the fact that IS
per cent of Chicago's 3400 900 popu-
lation is foreign-born. he points out.
The large majority of AL savings
and loan associations in Chicago
"are of the foreign-language group"
Mr.. Gardner said.
Chicago Experience Typical.
The stimulus toward good citizen
ship of building and loan associa-
tions found in Chicago is typical
of a dozen of the larger cities
throughout the country, especially
east of the Mississippi, information
of the Federal Home Loan Bank
Board shows. Scores of ASSOCIATE
In these cities which are members
of the Federal Home Loan Bank
System carry names which link
them with racial or national groups.
These mutual thrift institutions,
where the English language is sell
dom heard, passed through the worst
of the depression with compare
lively slight difficulty and negligible
losses to their members, Mr.. Gard
ner said.
Their civic influence, rather than
waning with lessening of the eco
nomic stress, has increased since
1929 he added.
They were quick to take advan-
tage," he said, "of the facilities
offered by the National Government
beginning in 1882, in the form of
the Federal Home Loan Bank Sys-
tenn, Federal charters and insurance
of individual investments in savings
and loan associations.
Croufb RaHactS E,;fb
THE growth of many of these
institutions since their conversion
into Federal savings and loan as
sociations and the ease with which
those which retained State charters
have been able to attract new cap
ital as part Of the insurance pro-
gram forcibly demonstrates that
these people have not lost con-
f1dence in savings and loan as an
American institution nor in their
own countrymen who operate them
II believe that these simple home
financing institutions have been as
great a factor in the Americaniza-
ton of these peoples as any other
one instrumentality with the pos
sible exception of our public school
system. These folks are better citi-
zens today for having put their
savings into their own associations
than they would have been had
they ventured their money in many
other securities I might mention
Their children are learning it pays
to be thrifty"
Evening star., 1939-07-08
Ends Concrete Dust

Do you have trouble with con-
crete floor which 'dusts"? Wet it
down with a solution of pounds
of zinc sulphate to the gallon of
water. Pour on and work we'll into
the concrete, let dry, then brush
clean. This treatment will bind to-
gether loose particles and make the
surface hard again.
Evening star., 1939-07-08
Home Costs Lowered

Americans are lowering the costs
OF their homes. Five years ago the
average for all individually built
residences in the United States was
nearly $4,000 per unit Today F. H.A.
loans are averaging between $4,000
and $4,000 per unit.
Evening star., 1939-07-08
Color for Entrance Hall

An entrance hall of large Chi
cago apartment was made most
striking by decorating it in shades
of beige and brown The walls and
ceiling were painted beige color and
the floor covered with brown limo
]eum with beige inserts. A bleached
mahogany console and two barrel
chairs covered with beige velour
completed the ensemble.
Evening star., 1939-07-08

light and six-paneled door. Broad
fluted pilasters frame the doorway
and support the broken entablature,
bare Of ornament except for the
reeded panels and we'll ll-proportioned
Evening star., 1939-04-03
Wirephoto Network
Extended 10 Canada
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
. NEW YORK, April 3-For the
. first time in the history of news
picture transmission by regular
leased wires, Canada and the United
:, States were joined today by eXten-
sion of the 12,O00-mile Associated
Press Wirephoto network to Toronto.
Ontario, to serve both the Telegram
and the Daily Star.
The establishment at these two
newspapers of regular stations on
the cross-continent wirephoto chain
brings to 80 the number of regular
sending and receiving stations and
to 40 the number of newspapers on
the wirephoto machine network.
The addition increases to II the
number of newspapers receiving
news photos from wirephoto.
With this step. only little more
than four years after its start, wire
photo becomes an international in
strument for the collection and dis
tribution of news pictures.
In addition to the 80 network sta
tions the Associated Press has two
dozen portable wirephoto transmit
ters either used regularly to feed
news pictures into the wirephoto
network or available for assignment
to the scene of story in the event
of news emergency. Another II
of the portable transmitters are in
the possession of wirephoto member
papers for their own use in sending
pictures in their respective terri
tories.
Evening star., 1939-04-03
BY GRETCHEN SMITH.

Riding bull-back from Texas to
New York is the novel method of
transportation adopted by Texas
Jack Hill of Old Glory. Tex. who
expects to arrive in Washington
Thursday.
Scandalous John is the name of
Texas Jacks mount and he might
we'll be a first cousin of the mild
hammered Ferdinand from the
placid outlook he takes of those
he passes on the highway, over
which he travels at the rate of two
miles an hour.
Accompanied by a regular Texas
caravan, travelling in motor cars in
stead of covered wagons, comprising
Elmer Westbrook c'Singin' Elmer')
of Old Glory, Mr.. and Mrs. c.
Meadows, also of Old Glory, and
Miss Ellen Edgemon cMiss TexasD
of Weatherford. Tex. Texas"
Jack left Old Glory, a town about
$50 miles west of Fort Worth, last
August %. Sponsored by the State
of Texas and the Texas beef indus
try, which he will represent at the
New York Worlds Fair, Texas
Jack carries letters from James "
Alfred. former Governor of Texas,
and Gov W. Lee ODaniel to Grover
Whelan, director of the New York
Worlds Fair: Gov. Herbert Lehman
of New York, and Mayor Fiorella
La Guardia of New York. The