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their handiWork found a new
and profitable market in Amer
lea. That experience gave her a
fine practice start for her sue
cessful career with little shop
of her own.
AS an important Washington
hostess, the wife of newspaper
publisher, and a most devoted
mother, Mrs. Noyes, never fails,
indication enough of the good
managerial and executive abil-
ity which keeps the machinery
of her life running smoothly.
Her children have mostly
outgrown the need for mothers
knitting, but they may well con-
slider themselves the inspiration
for her present career.
The children are Basil Gordon
Dickey, now at st. Georges,
Newport; Robin R. Dickey, in a
boys school in oxford, England;
Leila Montague Dickey and the
younges Peter Montague
Dickey, aged 8, who are at home
here in Washington.
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They all know the fine points
of achieving simplicity with dis
tinction, yet no minute change
in suit fashions escapes them.
Each has caught the fabric
swing to stripes and has noted
the silhouette employing a
long, three-buttoned jacket-yet
never is individuality sacrificed
to fashion.
In broadway Cavalier" Joan
Blondell wears a suit from her
personal wardrobe which is
gray with a white pin stripe.
Like an English walking suit,
it is knuckle-length and is neat
ly nodded to her figure. Her
skirt zippers up the back for
perfect fit. Unexpected touches
are a flat bow of deep red groS-
grain ribbon emerging from the
tuxedo collar of white crepe
waist and hemlength
streamers of the ribbon falling
off the back of a low-crowned.
dip-brimmed hat in matching
felt. All accessories are gray.
Joan had seven-eighths sleeves
put in a black worsted suit so
that lacy frills on a white voile
blouse might peep out at the
wrist. Another original idea OF
hers was to have lapels and
breast pockets Of teal blue edged
in black silk cord ending in
curlycue designs. She also used
the satin trimming around the
brim of a teal blue felt hat.
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Beauty Slaughter
Creates Spinsters

1t would be interesting, if any
such statistics could be COM
piled, to know just how many
old maids such beauty slaugh-
ter creates. The Garbo bob is
out, and women are replacing
it with something equally un-
becoming to the majority. Not
one woman in a thousand looks
her best when she beats a
French poodle at the kinky,
frizzy game.
The average woman knows
her good and bad points, better
than advising friends, even if
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Home Service:
Check Up On
! Conversation

"Wish I'd said that" says
Kate, listening to Dots gay chit
chat.
You'd sparkle in conversation
too. Kate, if you'd do something
about those dull overWorked
words you use from morning to
night.
How your insipid "repeaters"
do bore intelligent people!
You monotonously talk about
a fine" party, a fine" show, a
"fine" book. You tell your host
ess you had an lawfully nice"
time-thank your beau for flow
ers with "awfully nice" awful
ly pretty"
Why not take a fresh start
with new vivid synonyms? Say
the party is Jolly" enjoyable" :"
The show is amusing" "dra-
matte" The book is "stimulat-
ing" refreshing"
You charm others with your
spirited speech when you de-
scribe your good time as "exhil-
arating, glorious"-when you
say of flowers that you love
their fragile beauty" their del
icate bloom"
Send 1Oc in coin for your copy
of SYNONYMS FOR EVERY
DAY WORDS to The Washing
ton Times, Home Service, 635
Sixth Ave-, New York, N. Y. Be
sure to write plainly your
NAME, ADDRESS, and the
NAME of booklet.
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they mean we'll. Because your
sister-in Law or your girl friend
looks well in one of those Sau-
sage-like arrangements of puffs,
why imagine it will suit you,
who have IN entirely different
type of face?
In shop the other day I
saw pretty girl who had put
on too much weight allow her
self to be persuaded into taking
one of those extra bouffant
skirts. Layer after layer of
tulIe over a hoop-skirt gave her
the look of an ascending bal
loon.
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Wool to Fore

Buyers and makers alike are
in agreement that woolens have
had a lot to do with the success
of color this season, and they
believe that woolens will repeat
their success in spring selling.
So encouraged are they with the
acceptance of lightweight woolen
dresses in color that they are
giving them a strong place in
spring developments.
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Plain Girls

Have you noticed the gain,
In girls who are plain,
Girls without beauty Of face
Who have to depend
On the charm they eXpend
Through developing glamour
and grace.
Girls who discover new ways
to attract
Are claiming the spotlight
again,
And once they get started
They're not to be thWarted,
They capture the best of men.
EDITH CHERRINGTON.
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is a man who has made mil
lions designing clothes for Wom-
en-. He's my authority for say
ing:
Women are sheep. You can
put II EN- into any absurd fash
ion you create, either for your
own amusement or because you
happen to wake up with a
crouch the morning you deslgn
talking mgr tmare. Need
less to say. the man was talk,
ing t. a small group at lunch
con, and the sheep comparison
was rot to be mentioned in con
neCtion with lis name.
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Perfume AtomiZer

On the set of RKO Radios
The Saint Strikes Back"
Wendy Barrie displayed her new
est beauty aida minute per-
fume atomizer to be carried in a
handbag. Quite the thing If your
days work away from home is
to be followed Immediately by a
dinner engagement.
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a girl h a S
subtle curves
a nd a soft,
face framing
coiffure S h e
can never be
t h e perfect
tailored type.
I n t h e
movie colony,
a fe W W h o
q u a ! ify for
t h e tailored
title are Joan
Blondell, Bar
bara S t a n
W y C k a n d
L nln L q n
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Can-Can RuffIes

AS already commented in these
columns, it is anticipated that
much yardage Of chiffon will go
into can-can ruffle pettlcoat
foundations for evening dresses.
Bright colors will go under black
crepes and taffetas, plain sheer
black and sheer pastels will be
coupled with such black SheerS,
as silk or rayon nets. silk tulles,
silk-and-rayon laces.
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Short for Dancing

Accordion pleated chiffons
have met with such success in
certain price ranges that they
are expected to go through the
spring season. GirliSh frockS
with flare obtained by pleating
the material on the bias are
suggested, and it is possible that
a new look for dancing will be
given by featuring them in
dresses that are slightly shorter
than floor length, designed espe-
cially for dancing.
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Child'S
Question

Child's Question Editor:
During a bad thunderstorm
in the spring. tiny Elizabeth
came running to her daddy and
asked, Daddy, is God rolling
his beds around in Heaven?"
MRS. ERVING McMICHAEL,
NOkesviIle. Va.
P. 0. Box Z.
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r u n n i n g
S m a r t i n G
e. y e S. w e
know little of
hay fever in
this part of
Ontario be-
cause our air
is exception
ally free from
S m oke and
pollen d u S t.
In fact, about
the only time
we encounter
hay fever is
when some of
ur friends
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Bathing
Trunks


fetching bathing trunks seen in
the male swim of fashion. Very
brief, they're made of striped
white satin lastex with a tiny
flying fish painted at one side.
What's more, "Laddie" is GER
tainly the bestdressed figure
for informal at home dinners,
wearing tuxedo trousers, white
linen coat, black tie, white silk
shirt. black silk socks and black
velvet lounging slippers piped
with patent leather.
You'll note, too, that Laddie's
leather sports watch that hangs
from his lapel always has cord
of a color to match his attire.
while other men change the
linen straps of their wrist
watches to match bright color
of their outfits.
Initials appear on shirts; great
big ones, too, on handerchiefs.
and Jock Mclean has j. r. Nc
in black letters across the
pocket of his white dinner coats.
Without question the white
coat, black tuxedo trousers school
of dress is best suited for these
balmy nights.
AS yet we haven't spied a
single colored dinner coat that
caused such a furore IN Esquire's
best-dressed circles some sea-
son back.
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Devotion to Her Children
Inspiration for Activity
Which Became Career
By BAB LINCOLN

q ONE give their children entirely into the Of
strangers Leila Gordon Noyes always the type to
fuss over her chdrens clothes herself and when they
little she'd sit by hour Pau France where they made
their home and knit pretty little suits for them to
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DR.. D0foe:
Unknown
BY ALLAN ROY DAFoE, MD.
Personal Physician to the
Dionne Quintuplets
DR.. D0foe:

Copyright, 1889, by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
"AY fever and asthma are
H manifestations of allergy
which usually appear much
later in life than eczema. I
have told you of seeing cases
of eczema a few weeks after
the birth of a child, but it is
unusual to find a child suffer-
ing from hay fever or asthma
before the child is at least a
year old. Usually it doesn't
appear before the child is 3
or 4 years of age.
Hay fever j. the name applied
to a condition which is char
acterized by a running nose and
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Women Are 'Sheep,
Designer Maintains
Miss Fairfax Says:
Bv BEATRICE FAIRFAX

Famous Authority on Probems OF Love and WaTTlage
Features syndicate lnc)
DERIAIS sense of loyalty Your vii! make YOU
boil with rage this report of conversation with
famous Paris arber of fashions The mgracfu creature
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Hard to
Differertiate

1t isn't hard to tell the diff.
ference between hay fever and
the common cold, for in the
former the victim may be suffer
ing acutely from the complaint
and yet, an hour later, may be
entirely free from it.
1t has been given the name
hay-teVer because at one time it
was supposed to have been
caused by hay pollen entirely.
Obviously this isn't true be-
cause there are those unfor-
tunates who have the same
complaint all winter, when
there aren't any pollens in the
air at all.
Asthma in general, is more
serious than hay-fever. It is
characterized by very difficult
breathing and wheeling; this
is caused by a spasm of the
tubes leading to the lungs.
Asthma may be due to pollen in
the air during summer, but it
also may be caused by other
substances in the air the year
around.
PolIens Divided
Into Groups
Summer is the most common
season for both hay-fever and
asthma. and the pollens which
cause the trouble are divided
into three groups: Early pollens,
usually the trees-maple, oak,
and others-which pollinate in
late spring or early summer;
summer pollens, usually the
grasses which pollinate in June
and July; the fall group, plants
which pollinate in August and
September. RagWeed is the
worst offen6er in Onatrio. It
pollinates in mid-August and
remains in the air throughout
September.
So, if a person develops hay
fever or asthma during the sum-
mer months of the year and is
free from it all the rest of the
year, he is likely allergic to
some pollen which is in the
air. Treatment generally con-
sists in performing skin tests
such as described to you last
week. and ascertaining the par
ticular pollen which is causing
the trouble. This is followed by
the patient receiving injections
of increasing amount of the pro-
tein by means of a needle.
Inspect Larger
Protein Group
If these two complaints bother
a person the year around, then
we have much larger group Of
proteinS to suspect. In all prob
ability, it is some protein which
is inhaled, so our chief suspects
will be the materials which float
in the air about us. Feathers,
furs and dust are chief amongst
these. After the offending pro-
teins have been discovered. then
treatment is the same as de-
scribed in the previous para
praDh.
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Hollywood
On Parade
BY ORRY-KELLY

Famous Hollywood Stylist Writing
for International News Service
HOLLY WOOD, Jan. IA
GN.SD .-Tailleurs are a peren-
nial foil for femininity. Unless
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come up from the United States
or from southern Ontario to get
some relief from it.
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Fashions
FdUorite

This season brick red seems
fashions tavorite color for
heavy lineJ, slackS.
Doc" Holden and Allie"
Macintosh add black jersey
shirts. ana Winston Guest is
another to sport this type Of
linen trousers, choosing, how
ever, brighter shade of red.
He wears a natural gabar-
dine coat and his linen antibes
sandals are an even brighter
tone of this same shade.
Another day Winston appears
in pale blue denim slacks, a
While shirt and the same type
of slipper IN blue.
Eddie" McIlvaine comes
into the Alibi Bar in dark red
linen "trou" and black jersey
shirt th"t he lets hang outside.
In fact, it's about half and
half toss-up whether shirts go
in or ou+.
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Jacket
Effect

The shirt is a long "gyb"
jacket effect. This is particu-
larly popular to wear after ten
mis-, golf or for the late cocktail
hour.
Arthuro Ramos goes in for
beige in all mis- Palm Beach
"get-ups," wearing Well-cut slackS
and short (the tucked-inside
variety made of hubby cotton.
He Invariably tucks a tie silk
scarf, preferring green and beige
or red and beige in the open
neck of his shirt, and his brown
leather moccasins look the tops
in comfort. Holden Macintosh,
"Bev" Bogert and Lytle Hull
wear this same soft leather slip
per.
The ray Hawaiian printed
shirts and shorts have caught
the eye of more than one gen.
tleman about these parts, and
very gay they are. too. With
scenes of Waikiki and the native
island life painted in tones of
blue, beige and brown. The
shirts hang loosely below the
hips and are split up each side.
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Hughes in Florida:
Men S Wear
Goes Gay
At Beach
By JOSEPHINE HUGHES

DALM BEACH, Jan. IA.
l. No matter how much of
a kidding we girls take from
the male sex about our Schi-
aparelli "get-ups" and our
Suzy Chapeaux, we always
notice that, given half a
chance, these same gentle
men go pretty gay and giddy
when it comes to their own
sartOrial effects.
In this tropical cline, where
the sky's the limit when it
comes to colorful masculine
attire. the boys have a field day
rigging themselves up in trou-
SerS Of one color, shirts of an
Other, ana comfy" lounging
S1iOperc
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CROSSWAITH ON
JOBS FOR COLD.

The Greater Boston branch of the
NAACP held a meeting arranged by
Mr.. George Goodman, chairman of the
Program Committee, Sunday evening
at st. Marks church in Roxbury on the
topic "Jobs for Colored People" with
Frank R. Crosswaith, chairman of the
Race Labor Committee in Harlem as
the speaker Mr. Roy F. Teixeira who
is now the first vice president of the
NAACP, and has been recommended
without dissenting vote by the Execu-
tive Comm. of the Greater Boston
branch of the NAACP for election as
chairman for the coming year, acted as
chairman.
Mr.. Crosswaith is one of the general
organizers Of the International Ladies'
Garment Workers Union, and has had
great deal of experience in getting
colored people into unions and securing
for them the advantages of higher pay
and working conditions such as mem
bership in a union makes possible.
Mr.. Crosswaith explained that the
bulk of the colored group were confined
to the agricultural life of the Southland
and to domestic service in the North.
During those years of slavery and
since, the natural resources and wealth
of the nation were being developed and
monopolized, until today the bulk of
Americas wealth and industrial me-
chanism are solidly in the hands of a
mere handful Of individuals numbering
not many more than few hundreds.
Mr.. Crosswaith went on to point out
that it is only within very recent years
that colored have been given an oppor-
tunity to enter industry and the skilled
trades. with emigration cut off, the
recruits Of American industry must in
evitably come from the ranks of the
colored race. However, because of the
increasing INFLAMMATION of our in
dustrial efforts there will not be enough
room in industry for all workers.
Therefore, except during the period
of war, millions Of workers, black and
CONTINUED on Page d.
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JAMES FORD
SPEAKS in HUB

Boston will hear two vital subjects
discussed Wednesday night when
James w. Ford, Communist candidate
for vice-president, addresses a Wash
lngton's birthday mass meeting at
Butler Hall. Mr.. Ford will speak on
The Anti-Lynching Bill". Another
timely address will bring the question
OF "Boston's Program for Federal
Housing.
Ford is making his first appearance
here in more than two years. In the
intervening time he has visited Cuba,
Spain, and many other countries, and
his talk will contain a wealth of infor-
nation he has gathered in these trips.
In this country he has made the most
intensive political compaign for the
Vlce-p presidency of any colored man,
utilizing newspapers and frequent
radio, hoopup broadcasts. During these
6roadcasts much of his air-time was
devoted to the subject of lynching.
Also on the mass meeting program
with Ford will be Howard Carter. To-
cal leader of the Communists, and Phil
Frankfeld, Massachusetts secretary of
the Party Entertainers, vocal artists
and others will be heard.
There will be no charge for admis-
sion and the public is invited. The
meeting starts at s o'clock, Wednes-
day, Feb. 22nd, in the main hall at
Butler Hall.
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from representatives of a number of
Jewish organizations.
The bill, House 638, was introduced
by Pep. Roland D. Sawyer of Ware
and the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People, to
prohibit public service corporations
from making discrimination in en-
ployment on account of race, color or
religion. 1t reads:
House No. SO
By Mr.. Sawyer of Ware, petition of
the National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People and
Roland D. Sawyer that public service
corporations be prohibited from max
ing discrimination in employment on
account of race, color or religion
Labor and Industries.
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GAY PARTY FOR
YOUNGSTERS

st. Valentines Day, 1899 will long
be remembered by the 500 children of
Roxbury that attended the party given
for them by the Fathers Club at the
Robert Gould Shaw House last Tues
day afternoon. The gymnasium was
filed to capacity; with many of the
Mothers and Fathers in attendance to
watch their little darlings enjoy the
elaborate program arranged for them
by the committee composed of mem
bers of the Fathers Club and the staff
Of Shaw House. Group games, spec
ialty dance routines, marching, singing
and cheering were included in the pro-
gram put on by the children themselves.
Continued on Page 81
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CLUB PROTEST
WINS APOLOGY
MILK co. REGRETS

Regret that the Pet Milk Company
radio advertising program had used a
song ridiculing the colored race was
expressed this week in a letter from the
cOmpany's advertising manager to the
Mass. State Union.
In substance the writer stated that he
regretted that such a number had been
included in their radio program, that
he is deeply interested in the progress
of colored people" and promised that
the regrettable incident would not oc-
cur again.
At the January meeting of the execu-
tive board of the Mass. State Union,
the union went on record as strongly
denouncing the Radio Broadcast listed
as the Saturday evening Serenade. The
program was sponsored by the Pet
Condensed Milk Co., one of the songs
introduced was that of "NIl LilP Ala
bama Coon" in which occurred the
words, "Pickanneny" "darky", "kinky
hair, and other derogatory epithets.
The matter was brought to the atten-
ton of the Board by Miss Susie Jones,
chairman, an ardent supporter of equal
rights who is continually on the alert
for the elimination of everything that
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ARISTO CLUB
AGAIN SCORES

A large and appreciative audience
was present in Jordan Hall, Thursday
night. for the ninth annual production
by the Aristo Club, "a Woman I'm
sung" a pageant which artistically
portrayed the achievements of So
journer Truth. The entertainment
was given for the benefit of Aristo's
scholarship fund.
The program:
|.
STARLIGHT: Scene: Slave Quart
ers on Master Ardenburgh's Estate.
Time. About 1910. Narrator; Donald
Joseph. Dance: Nobody Knows the
Trouble l Sec Kindred Davenport's
Dance Choir; Mau Mau Bett, Beatrice
Simpkins; Selma, Annetta Elan; Isa-
bella, Gertrude E. Smith; Children,
Barbara ]. Burnett, Randall Dane,
Thelma Gaines, Jacqueline Parker,
Alice Taylor, Cecil Taylor, Clyde Tay-
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SPUR ANTI-BIAS EMPLOYMENT BILL
Milk CO. Regrets = Aristo Pageant Superb
Rev WI lines Speaks NAAcP Feb 23onor Douglass
BILL
HAS STRONG BACKING


Vigorous support of the anti-dis-
elimination employment bill was
voiced at a hearing before the Labor
and Industries Committee Tuesday
morning. The hearing was originally
scheduled to be held in Room 433 of
the State House, but so many persons
appeared on behalf of it that the hear
ing had to be adjourned to a larger
room.
Representative Roland D. Sawyer
who introduced the bill, spoke in favor
of it, and introduced Matthew w. Bull
lock, who made a strong plea for the
bill. He then introduced Roy F. TEX
ezra, first vice-president of the Greater
Boston branch, NAACP and Mr. TEX
EZRA conducted the hearing, calling on
representatives of numerous organiza-
lions.
A number of members of the Execu-
tive Committee of the NAACP sup
ported the BILL including George Good
man, who spoke both as chairman OF
the Program Comm. of the NAACP
and as representative of the Urban
League, Miss Florence Luscomb, JUL
an D. Steele, and Alfred Baker Lewis
secretary, Boston Branch, NAACP.
AS last year the representative of
the state branch of the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor, Kenneth F. Taylor
recorded his organization in favor of
the bill, this year David Boynick, legis-
lative agent of the state branch of the
CLIO. supported the bill. Theophilis
NuneS also went on record in favor of
the bill on behalf of the Knights OF
Pythias.
The bill likewise received support
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CAMBRIDGE-The pressing need
of better housing conditions will be the
topic to be discussed Sunday night,
February 10, at a meeting to be held in
Hotel Continental, Harvard Square.
Among the guest speakers are: Mr..
Corcoran, president of the Cambridge
division, FILA; Mr.. Spencer, president
of the First National Bank, Boston ;
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Barred from New York's Broadway
because the British-made film Showed
too much racial equality, "Big Fella"
was transferred to the Apollo Theatre
on 125th Street, Harlem. With Paul
Robson in the picture are Elizabeth
WEIGH, Roy Emmerton, Lawrence
Brown, Zardee Jackson and several
other white and colored actors.
Crowds focked to see "Big Fella"
but reactions were not wholly favor
Continued on Page 81
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Chr GnnttnnnmPaltlr nf
=.
MdEsdfIrltsFttH

In the Year One Thousand Nine Hun
dred and Thirty-Nine.
AN ACT TO PREVENT DISCRIMI.
NATION IN EMPLOYMENT BY
PUBLIC UTILITIES.
Be in enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives in General
Court assembled, and by the authO.
rity of the same, as follows:
Section l. 1t shall be unlawful for
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