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Evening star., 1939-09-26
Miss Helen Baldwin
To Wed Mr.. Treao

Mr. and Mrs. w. Hunter Baldwin
announce the engagement of their
daughter, Miss Helen Louise Bald
win, to Mr.. Lynton L. Trego, I'd, of
Washington and New Rochelle, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Lynton Trego of
Columbia, S. c.
Miss Baldwin is a graduate of
Gunston Hall and attended George
Washington University. She is a
member of Chi Omega Sorority.
Mr.. Trego was graduated from
Landora School for Boys and George
Washington University and is a
member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon
Fraternity.
The wedding will take place the
latter part of October.
Evening star., 1939-09-26
Miss Kennedy Weds
Mr.. r. N. Lvon

The wedding of Miss Barbara
Kennedy, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Walter Scott Kennedy of Albion,
Mich, to Mr.. Richard Norton Lyon,
son of Dr. and Mrs. Leverett S.
Lyon of Washington, took place
Sunday at Albion.
Both Miss Kennedy and Mr.. Lyon
are graduates of the University of
Chicago and they will make their
home in Chicago.
Evening star., 1939-09-26
Mrs. Emlen Davies
Opens Home Here

Mrs. Emlen Knight Davies again
is in her house on Massachusetts,
avenue for the winter and has
with her her son-in-law and
daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. Adlace
Walker of New York and their
small daughter Suzanne. Mr.. and
Mrs. Walker plan to spend the
winter in Washington and will
take a house here for the season.
Mrs. Walker formerly was Miss
Rahel Davies, a debutante in
Washington a few years ago.
Evening star., 1939-09-26
Miss Arnold Back

Miss Mary Alice Arnold. daughter
of the judge of the United States
Court of Appeals and Mrs William
w. Arnold, has joined her parents
in their apartment at the Wardman
Park Hotel after a summer abroad.
Miss Arnold sailed from Genoa,
Italy, aboard the Conte di Savoia.
Evening star., 1939-09-26
Notes From the Social Calendar of Washington Envon
Miss Henry to Wed
Mr.. VillmOare

Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel j. Henry
announce the engagement Of
their daughter, Miss Adelaide
Henry, to Mr.. Edwin Sherman
Villmoare, jr, son of Mrs. Edwin
Sherman Villmoare and the late
Mr.. Villmoare of Kansas City, Mo.
No date has been set for the
wedding.
Evening star., 1939-09-26
Kinslers Are Feted
At Supper Party

The special assistant to the At
torney General and Mrs. Harry B.
Fleharty were hosts at a supper
party last night, entertaining for
Judge and Mrs. j. C. Kinsler of
Omaha, Nebr. Judge Kinsler is a
former United States attorney for
the district of Nebraska. He and
Mrs. Kinsler have taken an apart
ment in Washington.
Evening star., 1939-09-26
Miss Dorothy Louise Plaugher
Weds Mr.. r. L. Schepmaes.

The wedding of Miss Dorothy
Louise Plaugher, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs Carl Plaugher of Dunn
Loring, Va, to Mr.. Robert l..
Schepmaes, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Schepmaes of Arlington, Va,
took place Wednesday evening at
o'clock in the home of the brides
parents at Dunn Loring.
The bride, who was given in mar
riage by her father, wore a blue
going costume with wine-color'
(ContjnIed IN pape R-4 Column
Evening star., 1939-09-26
Birth Announced

Mr.. and Mrs. w. Harold Haltz-
claw announce the birth Of a son on
September at Drexel Hill, Pa.
Mrs. Haltzclaw is the former Miss
Irma Mae Farr of Drexel Hill. The
baby will be christened William
Farr HaltzclaW.
Evening star., 1939-09-26
Columbia D.A.R.U Unit
To Meet Tonight

Columbia Chapter, Daughters of
the American Revolution, will meet
tonight in the home of Mrs. James
G.. Gardiner, 1884 jefferson street
NV.
Among members who have had
interesting trips this summer are
Miss Harriet M. Cheny, treasurer
who toured the Western National
Parks and the Northwest; Mrs.
George M. Beckett, historian, who
toured the New England States and
the Gaspe country in Canada, and
Mrs. r. H. Lyle Seaton, vice regent,
who was in Massachusetts, and
visited the Worlds Fair. Many
other members, including Mrs. Will
liam j. Myrth and Mrs. Gardiner,
also attended the fair.
Assisting hostesses tonight will be
Mrs. Martha E. Best, Miss Florence
M. Dickinson, Mrs c. w. Heider
and Mrs. E. B. HeirLein.
Evening star., 1939-09-26
Student Departs

Mr.. David Saunders. son of Capt.
Harold E. Saunders, U. S. N, and
Mrs. Saunders of Takoma Park, Md .,
has left for Worcester, Mass, to
resume his studies at Worcester
Polytechnic Institute.
Evening star., 1939-09-26

in Washington to spend the winter
months and they have taken an
apartment at the Wardman Park
Hotel
Evening star., 1939-09-26

The Italian government is assist
ing in financing the construction of
low-priced dwellings.
Evening star., 1939-09-26

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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-03-31
Isle Noted for Loneliness

The loneliest place in the British
empire is Tristan da Cunha, the
largest and the only inhabited island
of a group of three situated in the
middle of the South Atlantic ocean
and named for a Portuguese adj
miral, Tristan da Cunha, who dis
covered these rocks in the sea in
1906. There is but the barest means
of sustenance on the island. Fertile
soil is scant, being continually
washed away by rains, and rodents
poach upon the carefully tended gar
dens. The fish supply is plentiful
except in stormy weather, when it
is dangerous to venture out on the
rolling sea. Tristan da Cunha is an
extinct volcano, the crater of which
is filed with fresh water. The near.
est land is st. Helena, where Ma
poleon died, 1920 miles away to the
north, with Cape Town 1,400 miles
to the east.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-03-31
Various Kinds of Ships
And Styles of Rigging

A full-rigged ship is one with a
bcwsprit and three masts, all masts
being square-rigged. Any vessel
square-rigged on all masts is
termed full.rigged. A barken-
tine is called such because it is
square-rigged on the fore and
schooner-rigged on the other masts.
Schooner-rigged means fore and aft
rugged. Any craft that has more
than two masts with the fore mast
square-rigged is in the barkentine
class. A bark generally refers to
craft that is square-rigged on two
'or more masts, with one or more
masts schooner-rigged. Thus a
four-masted bark, according to a
writer in the Philadelphia Inquirer,
would be square-rigged on fore,
main and mizzen masts and schoon-
er-rigged on the jigger masts.
A brig is a ship of other days,
although some are found in foreign
waters. 1t is two-masted vessel
square-rigged forward and square
rugged aft; a ship square-rigged on
two masts. The hermaphrodite brig
is really brigantine and. is two
masted vessel, square-rigged for
ward and schooner-rigged behind.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-03-31
Indian Once Had Right
To Plot He Cultivated

In an Indian community prior to
the discovery of America, and dur
ing early colonial times, no individ-
ual owned land, but the right OF
each to the plot which he cultivated
was respected. A mans weapons
were his own, but generally the tools,
and often the food, and among the
tribes of the plains even the tepee
belonged to the women. Personal
belongings were often buried with
their owner, that their souls might
accompany him to the future home.
Remaining property was distribut-
ed in the tribe or bestowed upon
heirs.
McNicholls' ''The Amerindians"
says that the conditions of land ten
ure obtaining in America upon the
arrival of the Europeans was such
that the view was held by them
that there was no occasion to bother
about acquiring title from the ma
tives. sit was convenient for the
colonists to conclude that the Indian
right itself was but imperfectly and
partially secured. It was conven-
lent also for the colonists to con-
clude that neither tribes nor individ-
ual Indians were clothed with the
requisite authority to enable them
to make perfect conveyances of
their rights or claims"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-03-31
Liechtenstein Small
Stamp Issuing Country

Liechtenstein is a small agricul-
tural principally lying south Of Lake
Constance between Switzerland and
the Austrian province of Germany.
The original tongue of the region was
Romansch, used by the Grisons OF
Switzerland, and perpetuated in
many of the place names of Liech-
tenstein, notably the capital, Vaduz,
and Stamina, Gavadura, etc., OBJ
serves a stamp authority in the
Chicago Tribune.
This is one of the smallest indie
pendent stamp issuing countries in
the world, being moderated only by
San Marine and Monaco. In area it
embraces somewhat less than 70
square miles and is about IL miles
in it's greatest dimension. The state
is composed of the county of Vaduz
and the lordship of Schellenburg,
both of which were in many hands
before being purchased by the count
of Hohenems in 1913.
The Liechtenstein family pur-
chased Schellenburg in 1899 and Va
duz in 1713. In 1719 the two states
were raised to the status of a prin-
cipality in the Holy Roman en-
pire. This ended in 1906 and Liech-
tenstein was independent until 1915,
when it became part of the Ger
man confederation. In 1865 it again
regained it's independent status.
From 1852 until the close of the
World war, it was joined with Aus
tria in customs, coinage, and postal
matters and appeals from its high
est court at Vaduz were taken to
the princes court in Vienna.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-03-31
How Ants Store Honey

Bees store their honey in cells
manufactured by themselves; but in
Mexico and the southwestern United
States there is an ant which stores
its honey-in other ants.
Many species of ants collect hon.
ey-dew, store it in their crops and,
on returning to their nests, feed
their brood or other members of the
colony by disgorging the sweet liq-
uid. The Mexican honey ant, how
ever, has gone one better in organic
ing food stores, says Pearson's Lon
don Weekly. In each nest of this
species there is class of workers,
known as "repletes," the abdomens
of which are so tremendously swol-
len that they are veritable honey
pots. The "repletes' never leave
the nest. They stay there and the
honey dew is fed to them by another
class of workers which 60 out to
forage for it. During the winter,
when other members of the commu-
nifty wish to be fed, the "replete"
disgorges some of it's store. It is a
living barrel of stored-up food.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-03-31
OPEN HOUSE AT CAMP
EVERGREEN

Wednesday, April s, 1889 will
mark the sixth anniversary of the
Gee. This has been proclaimed by
Director Robert Fechner as the Of
fetal "Open House Day" for the
CCC throughout the country.
Consistent with this policy to-
throw open the camps to the inspec-
ton of the general public. Camp
Evergreen, located in the Elk Neck
State Park at North East Mary
land, extends an invitation to all
those interested to pay a visit and
get first hand view Of the CCC
camp In operation.
There is a general feeling those
In the CCC that the general public
has very small knowledge Of the
CCC, its problems and Its benefits.
An open house invitation makes 1t
possible for everyone to gain first
hand information in regards to the
feeding, clothing, housing, working
and educating activities that are
carried on by the Officers and Sup
ervisors placed in charge.
The Camp at North East is en-
gagged in the development of State
Park and even though there is much
in the line of preliminary work yet
to be accomplished in some sections
of the park, enough progress has
been made in the development Of
the white Banks Tract" to give
one an idea of what the Park will
offer when it has been completed.
Officers, Foremen and Enr0lles
will act as guides for the visitors
and will point out interesting phases
of the Camp and work activities.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-03-31
Naming Pere Marquette Railroad

just how the Pere Marquette rail-
road got its name is story known
to few outside Ludington, Michigan.
Ludington was originally named
Pere Marquette after the explorer
and missionary who died on the
shore of the Pere Marquette river
here, says Ludington corresponds
ent in the Detroit Free Press. When
a railroad was projected across the
state from Flint it was naturally
called the Flint and Pere Marquette
railroad. But before the road was
completed here, James Ludington
had acquired most of this town and
the name was changed to Luding-
ton. Then the eastern terminus of
the road was extended to Detroit
rather than Flint, which left the
name meaningless. However, as the
name had been widely advertised,
its owners didn't want to change it
entirely, so they just shortened it to
Pere Marquette railroad,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-03-31
Cats Whiskers Serve as
Eeelers; Perfect Organs

There is an old belief that cat
uses its whiskers to determine
whether it can squeeze through a
small hole or opening. According
to this notion, the whiskers are ex-
actly the same width as the animals
body and if they touch the sides OF
the hole the cat will not attempt to
enter. Although not strictly true,
there is a grain of truth in the be-
lief, notes writer in the Indianap-
oils News. The. large facial hairs,
known scientifically as "vibrissae,"
serve as feelers or organs of touch
and contribute materially to the
cats ability to move about in the
dark. These hairs themselves, of
course, are not sensitive, but the
roots are provided with sensitive
nerve-endings. John Fiske, in
Through Nature to God," writes as
follows of these remarkable tactile
organs:
1.-THE most perfect organs of touch
are the vibrissae or whiskers of the
cat, which act as long levers in COM
municating impulses to the nerve
fibers that terminate in clusters
about the dermal sacs in which they
are inserted. These cat-whiskers are
merely specialized forms of such
hairs as those which cover the
bodies of most mammals, and which
remain upon the human skin imbed-
ded in minute sSacS.''
Facial hairs of this type are par
ticularly well developed, both in
number and size, in those predatory
species which hunt chiefly in jun
giles and other thick underground. In
the vegetable eating bears the
whiskers are few in number, small
in size and apparently without any
function.
There may be a relationship be-
tween the cats whiskers and its
sense of sight. A naturalist found
that cats with their whiskers cut
short were unable to judge distances
accurately. In experiments cats
without whiskers would repeatedly
miss their prey when springing for
it. The investigator concluded that
the facial hairs aid the animal to fix
its eyes on its prey and that it is
undoubtedly injurious to remove the
whiskers from a cat which must
hunt for living.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-03-31
Clock Silent Since 1893

Each year in October a clock re-
pairer inspects and oils the grand
father clock standing at the head of
the marble stairway in the COVER
nor's mansion, relates San Juan,
p. R., correspondent. But the clock
has been stopped for 40 years. Its
heavy pendulum will never click off
another second. The hands stand at
6:21, the hour and minute when Gen.
Manuel Macias left "Le Fortaleza"
for the last time, at the close of the
Spanish-American war. The Span
ish flag still floated over the an
cient mansion, citadel and home of
countless governors of Puerto Rico.
At his request, Governor Macias
was not to see the Spanish colors
lowered and the American flag
hoisted. It was not until he was
aboard warship in the harbor that
his aide hauled down the Spanish
flag for the last time.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-03-31
Babe, Hollywood Feline,
Guards Props of Value

HOLLYWOOD.-A million-dollar
cat, guardian of. Hollywood treas
ures-that's Babe, an ordinary alley
cat with not one blue ribbon to her
name. Babe is one of the valued
assets of Paramount, which in
cludes millions of dollars worth of
buildings and equipment.
1t is this equipment that involves
Babe, for she is the sole fighter
against the mice and rats that at
tack the materials stored in proper
ty bins.
IF it wasn't for Babe, rodents
would ruin the props in no time"
declared Jud Weatherwax, custodi-
an Of the bins and Babes care
taker. He thinks so much of Babe
that he feeds her Grade A milk and
once week small jar of caviar.
Nothing is too good for her.
Babes on the job all the time.
and everybody around here knows
how much she's WORTH" says
Weatherwax.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-03-31
Midget's Condition Due
To Affliction of Glands

Midgets are not dwarfs. A dwarf
has the torso of normal-sized per-
son. Heads are broader at the top
than the jaw and there is a deep
indentation at the bridge of the
nose. Legs are short, especially the
thighs, and the pelvic region tits
forward. They are susceptible to
heart trouble, which the midget is
not.
Midgets are people with bodily
proportions of normal childhood ex-
cept that their limbs are shorter in
proportion to their trunks. Cheeks
are fair with little or no hair and
there is more than a normal de-
post of fat in cheeks, hips or waist,
or in all three. They are extremely
youthful looking, especially the
younger ones. This is due to the
fact that they have a dormant Pc
riod between and IL which curtails
their development.
Midgets may appear in any fami-
ly since their condition is due to
non-functioning glands, according to
Harlowe r. Hoyt in the Cleveland
Plain Dealer. When their growth
first ceases, parents as a rule seek
to bolster them with medicines.
Sometimes they succeed to the ex-
tent of an inch or two, in which
event they frequently ruin their
child's opportunity to make a liv-
ing. -Four feet is the limit in height
of exhibition midgets.
About % per cent of all midgets
marry. Of these, about half marry
other midgets and the remainder
normal people. Of all the midgets
who marry, only Al per cent have
children. Midget women who have
children have normal-sized babies
normal at birth and normal as adj
ults. No midget woman has given
birth to child without Caesarian
operation, necessitated by the small
pelvis.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-03-31
Oboe, Wooden Instrument,
Built in Three Sections

Often called the hahtboy, the oboe
is a wooden instrument of conical
bore played with a double reed.
Built in three sections top joint"
clover joint and "bell''-the in
strument contains many keys and
bores. Chief improvements are due
to research conducted by Barre and
Triebert. Like the bassoon, it
evolved from that group called POM
mers, schalmeys and bombards.
The tone, peculiarly distinctive
without being powerful or obtrusive,
is very penetrating. Cambert first
used it in the score for his opera,
"Pomone, produced in Paris in
1871, relates a writer in the Chicago
Daily News.
The cor anglais, not horn, diff
fers in build from the oboe in that
the tube is longer and ends in
globular or pear-shaped bell, and
the crook which holds the reed is
bent back at an angle. Its tone
quality is melancholy and good ex-
amples may be heard in the shep-
herds pipe melody in Act III OF
"Tristan,' or in the slow movement
of Dvorak's From the New World"
Gluck wrote for it in "Alceste" and
"Orfeo," but these parts were
played by the clarinet because the
cor anglais was not yet member
in good standing of the orchestra.
Although Mozart, Haydn and Bee
thoven composed for it occasionally,
it did not become part of the SYM
phonic group until Wagner demand
ed it.
Consisting of a single beating
reed, the clarinet is constructed
with a tube pierced with many side
holes terminating in a bell. The
alto and bass clarinets, however,
have keys instead of holes.
Supposedly invented by Denner
Gutenberg, 1890, the clarinet
traces its ancestry to the chalu-
meau. In 1843 Klose completely re-
organized the lingering, basing it on
the Boehm system. Although Ra-
meau had used clarinets in 1851 in
his opera "Acante ct Daphise,"
their place in the orchestra really
dates to about ITO, when Mozart
employed several in his paris"
symphony.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-03-31
THE SOCIAL SECURITY ACT

@. Suppose man has lost his
job, which was covered by old-age
insurance provisions, and he Is UNI
able to obtain other employment.
Would it be possible now for him
to collect any social security bene-
fits?
A. Unless he has reached the age
of IS, he is not eligible for payment
of his old-age insurance under the
Social Security Act. He might be
eligible for unemployment cOmpen-
sation benefits under his State law.
Q. Gould a worker be covered by
one insurance provision of the Soc
ial Security Act and still not be
eligible for benefits under the other
insurance measure? In other words,
could he come under Old-age tnsur-
ance provisions and not be covered
by the State Unemployment Com
pensation LAX, or vice versa?
A. Yes. Every commercial and
industrial worker under age IS is
entitled to protection under the old
age insurance provisions OF the Soc
ial Security Act. But in this State
the Unemployment Compensation
Law applies only to those workers
who are employed by commercial
plant having four or more EN-
ployees during at least 20 weeks
of the year. On the other hand, a
worker who is IS years old or over
could be subject to the State I'M
employment Compensation law,
while he Is not covered under
Federal old-age insurance provi-
sions. Unemployment compensation
Tor insurance) is one thing, and old
age insurance is something else
an entirely different provision of the
Social Security Act. Only workers
who are employed by 9 firm sub
ject to the State unemployment in
surance Law are entitled TO job
insurance.
@. Why should worker past IS
years of age have social security
account number? What good will
1T do him?
A. While a worker IS years OF
age or older does not come under
the old-age insurance provisions Of
the Social Security Act (as the law
now stands, he might possibly be
included under the State unemploy-
ment compensation law; and the
State agency uses social security ac-
count numbers in keeping unem-
ployment insurance wage records.
@. Wouldn't it be good idea for
a businessman to keep his employ
ees' social security cards in q safe
place, so they will not be lost?
A. No. An employer should not
keep shis employees cards. These
cards are the property Of his en-
ployees. The employer should make
a record of each employees account
but in no case should the
employer keep the account cards Of
his employees.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-03-31
Why Fish Are Dumb

Fish are plain dumb because they
are low in the evolutionary scale,
asserts a writer in the Los Angeles
Times. Fish are the most primitive
of the vertebrates, only one step be-
yond the Crustacea. All our data
point to the conclusion that intelli-
gence is an evolutionary develop
ment, and that the forms later IN
time in developing have more Of it.
A fish, therefore, is extremely UNI
likely to be smart as a newt, newt
as frog, frog a. a lizard, liz
ard as snake OF a bird; and all
the mammals are smarter, have big
ger (proportionately) and better de-
veloped brains than the cold-blooded
animals.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-03-31
Large island in Mediterranean

The Island of Cyprus is located 40
miles from the coast of Syria and is
the third largest island in the Medi-
terranean sea. It's history dates
back to the early Phoenicians, who
established colonies there. Later the
Greeks established colonies and still
later the island formed part of the
Persian, Macedonian, Egyptian and
Roman empires. It's government
frequently changed hands until 1871,
when the Turks took the island from
the Venetians and retained possess
sion until England acquired it in
1878. AT the outbreak of the World
war in 1914 Cyprus was annexed by
England and in 1925 it became q
colony by letters patent