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Evening star., 1939-08-17

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Frances arises in ample time to
dress carefully and eat respectable
breakfast before dashing for the
oftlce. No combing her hair with
one hand, while juggling a coffee
cup in the other. Frances owns an
alarm clock with an authoritative
voice, and she pays attention to it.
Even If she's been out late on a
date the night before, she still gets
up at the same hour. She realizes
that employers are remarkably
stony-hearted toward even the best
excuses for tardiness.
In choosing her costume for the
day, Frances remembers that she
Is going to an Office, not to tennis
court or a tea dance. She wears
attractive clothes, of course, because
she knows that men like the girls
who work for them to be pleasing
to the eye. She doesn't go in for
colorless, ascetic, or mannish outfits.
But on the other hand. she definite
ly discards doo-dads, fluffs and
/ furbelows.
Be Sure to Arrive
Few Minutes Early.
Since Frances starts work at 9,
she arrives few minutes before
that hour. This gives her a chance
to touch up her face in the ladies'
rest room, and exchange word
OF greeting with some of the other
girls, without doing it on Office time.
When she has to freshen up her
makeup during the day she goes
| to the rest room. She realizes that
her desk is not a dressing table. But
she makes such excursions out of
the office as infrequently as pos
sible.
Frances is a new employe, so she
adapts herself to the established
customs of the Office. She takes
her lunch hour when it is most
convenient, and doesn't pout if it
dlsarranges her usual schedule
somewhat. She returns on time
and she eats sensibly, so that she
will avoid attacks of midafternoon
sleepiness or listlessness.
Her attitude toward her fellow
workers is friendly, but not overly
familiar. She avoids gossiping and
keeps out of Office intrigues and
quarrels. She is very careful about
becoming too familiar with other
employees. either male or female.
Office romances are far from rare,
but Frances understands that her
employer is not operating a matri-
monial agency. If eventually she
gives a date to one of the young
men in the Office she lets that fact
make no change in her attitude to-
ward him during working hours.
Frances doesn't make personal
calls on the Office telephone except
when absolutely necessary and she
discourages her friends and rela-
tives from calling her while she Is
at work. When such calls are un-
avoidable she makes them brief
Evening star., 1939-08-17
Dorothy Dix Says
Husband Needs Boost From Wife
To Climb Up Ladder of Success

DEAR MISS DIX-Wont you
please say something through your
column to the wives who are con-
tinually belittling their husbands?
So many foolish women do that
without seeming to realize that they
can take no surer way of killing
their husbands love for them and
of making their husbands the fall
ures they reproach them with being.
I have two examples of the effect
of wife's attitude toward her hus-
band in my own family. My daugh-
ter married very young. boy about
her own age who was making SIP
week. She had many hardships to
undergo, but never once has any
one ever heard her complain or
speak of her husband in any but the
utmost complimentary manner. She
was always praising him, always
boosting him, and the result is that
he has gone up the ladder by leaps
and bounds. My son married a
woman who took exactly the oppo-
site way with her husband. She has
never done anything but whine and
cry and bemoan the hardships of
her lot, and proclaim from the
housetops that he has no business
faculty and can't make money nke
other men. The result is that he is
discouraged and brokenhearted and
is Stacking down. Yet to start with,
he had much more ability and a
better chance than my daughters
husband. But one wife made her
husband and the other one ruined
hers.
A TROUBLED MOTHER.
Answer-If women had one hun
dredth part of the intelligence that
they think they have, a wife would
bite her tongue off before she said
one thing in disparagement of her
husband to even her own mother.
Yet so far from keeping silent about
their husbands faults and foibles,
weaknesses and shortcomings, they
are the favorite topics of conversa-
ton where two or three women are
gathered together.
They seem to have no conception
that in thus blithely dragging out
their family skeleton and putting it
through its PAGES that they are not
only committing an act of gross dis
loyalty, but also doing themselves,
as well as their husbands and their
Evening star., 1939-08-17


early, and served cold. But, you
well.trained housewives object, what
of that all important "one hot dish?"
Granted-but easily answered. Make
your one hot dish substantial and
tasty soup, that is quickly made, and
will not heat the kitchen to boiling
point during the process!
With the wealth of excellent can
ned soups on the market, the aver
age housewife has wide field from
which to choose. But there is moth
ing better for festive occasion,
where soup is one of the main items
on the menu, than a good, real
French onion soup.
There are several fine brands of
canned onion soup available, but if
you prefer to make your own that is
not a difficult job, either! For
party-and for use in your family
meals forever after to lend color and
atmosphere to the home-purchase
some of the very inexpensive little
pottery onion soup bowls, with tops.
Serve your soup in these, in the ira
ditiona1 manner, with slices of dried
French bread and Gruyere cheese.
You'll find plenty of requests for
seconds coming along, so be pre-
pared!
Evening star., 1939-08-17

SUNDAY DINNER MENU
Onion Soup
French Bread Gruyere Cheese
Macaroni Vegetable
Shrimp Salad
Toasted and Buttered
English Mu6fns
Mired Fresh Fruit al Kirsch
Coffee
HOMEMADE ONION SOUP.
Az pounds onions.
4 tablespoons butter.
IL quarts stock of boullion
y pound Gruyere cheese, grated.
Salt and pepper.
French Dread.
Cut the onions thin, in slices or
rings, and brown them in half of
the butter. Add the stock, and let
all simmer for half an hour, or
until the onions are soft.
Place thick slice of the French
bread, dried but not toasted, in the
bottom of each soup bowl. Pour
over it some of the soup. Add one
more slice of bread, thin layer of
grated cheese, and some more soup.
Sprinkle with a little more cheese,
dot with butter Put into the oven
until brown and crusty. Serve with
top on, in soup bowl in which soup
is baked.
MACARONI-V VEGETABLE
SHRIMP SALAD.
Here is something really out of
the ordinary, which should please
your guests by its unusual combina-
ton of flavor and texture-and
should please you, too, because it is
so simple to prepare. 1t also may be
started we'll in advance of the hour
set for the party.
y cup shell macaroni.
l cup chopped cooked shrimp.
l cup diced celery.
Il cup green pepper and pimen-
to. mixed.
Green onions (for garnish if de-
SiredDs
Small whole tomatoes.
Whole shrimp for garnish.
Cook the macaroni in boiling,
salted water until "chewey" Drain,
and spread thinly on a platter to
cool. When cold, combine with the
chopped shrimp cooked or canned
the celery pepper and pimiento.
Turn into a bowl. garnish with to-
matoes and whole shrimp. Serve
with the following salad dressing:
2 tablespoons vinegar.
IL tablespoons sugar.
l cup diced cucumber.
l cup mayonnaise.
Add vinegar and sugar to the
diced cucumber; fold into the may
onnaise.
Evening star., 1939-08-17
The Narcissus Climbs

PARIS (P.-Since Mainbocher
lifted the narcissus from the gar
den to the ballroom, this humble
flower has made social progress. It
goes on combs for evening COLI
fures, on clips for necks and ears,
and milliners are keeping step with
1ewelerA
Evening star., 1939-08-17

sleeves As yards; 3a yards lacing
cord required for trimming.
Special extra! Send Is cents today
for your new Fall Pattern Book with
a stunning selection of a hundred
perfect patterns for all shapes and
sizes. Save money and know the
keen satisfaction of personally
planned, perfectly fitted garments by
making your own frocks with these
smart, carefully-cut designs. You
can't 60 wrong-every pattern in
cludes a step-by- step sew chart to
guide beginners.
Evening star., 1939-08-17
It's Not Laziness

Get high stool so you can sit
while washing dishes. It's no sign
of laziness if you sit whenever
possible when doing your kitchen
tasks. 1t will save you lots of
energy.
Evening star., 1939-08-17

The Mexican influence country manifested CAV
pottery chnaware drapees and everything Complement
with today appealing them on chair
or as a picture for the walls they're high style
back rest picture by Is
by II inches with borders complete
With suggestions illustrations
materials how
To obtain this pattern and nclose Is cents
or CON cover service and Address
Nsed1ewo9k Editor Of The Evening stax,
Evening star., 1939-08-17
Simple But Ordinary Foods Appreciated Parties
Wise Hostess Plans Menu
So That Its Preparation
Requires Little Time
That Highly Recommended
One Hot Dish Supplied
By Substantial Soup
BY BETSY CASWELL,

Parties the good old summertime aren't altogether unmixed
blessing the evening pretty
the hostess she be And somehow the
fomaty possible
genial occasion And can't just sit home medang cool
uled drone of the time!
do? thing party beforehand
Evening star., 1939-08-17
Follow Simple Standards
OF Office Conduct to Be
Real Business Asset
Costume Must Be Attractive
AS Well as Appropriate
For Working Girl
BY KAY CALDWELL and ALDEN HARRISON

todays column the
t tno and elusive quarry has been
lono" young empoye
some OF things
10 oe well liked and highly checks
wen call could spelled
Francis just we'll In other Office
Evening star., 1939-09-12
Board Of Trade Group
To Survey Firehouses

The Public Order Committee of
the Washington Board of Trade will
make survey to determine whether
firehouses, particularly those in the
downtown section, might be CONSOLE
dated and will cooperate with Dis
trict authorities making a similar
survey, authorized by Congress.
The committee was instructed
last night to make the survey by
Lawrence E. Williams, president of
the Board of Trade, at a dinner
meeting of the Public Order and
Membership Committees in the
Washington Golf and Country Club.
Mr.. Williams advised the committee
to withhold any recommendations
however, until it has made care
full survey of the facts"
The District governments survey
is being made under direction of
Capt. Patrick H. Tansey, Assistant
Engineer Commissioner.
Many Of the firehouses, Mr.. Will
liams pointed out today, were built
in the days of the horse drawn
engines, which were confronted with
different problems from those faced
today by the motorized engines.
Speakers at last nights meeting
included Col. D. M. McCoach, jr.,
Engineer Commissioner; Capts.
Tansey, c. l.. Adcock and J. L. Per-
sons, Assistant Engineer Commits
sioners, and DR.. James A. Nolan,
director of the Criminal Justice As
sociation, who outlined the purposes
and progress of his organization.
Commissioner Hazen was unable to
attend, due to the illness of Mrs.
HaZen.
Evening star., 1939-09-12
Girl Bicyc|ist, 13,
And Woman, SO,
Hurt in Traffic
Several Other Persons
Suffer Minor Injuries
In Accidents

A 13-year- -old girl bicylist and a
60-year-old woman pedestrian were
seriously injured in traffic accidents
yesterday. Several other persons
suffered lesser hurts.
Frances Harry, ,l3, of ST New York
avenue NE. was in an undetermined
condition at Emergency Hospital to-
day from possible internal injuries
suffered when her bicycle, going
down a hill, struck a truck parked
on the grounds of woodrow Wilson
High School.
The girls sister, Miriam. IL, who
was riding on cross bar of the
bicycle, escaped injury, police re-
ported.
Sue E. Williams, go, of 2106 F
street NV. was seriously hurt when
knocked down by a street car at
Evening star., 1939-09-12

Washington's Gloria Lane, who
had tumbled pre-war London of its
dignity with her twinkling toes, said
today that she left scores of Amer
ican entertainers doing snake dances
to steamship Offices trying to book
passage to this side of the Atlantic.
Miss Lancer Miss La nellie
Avery in local theater circles and
around her home at 1440 r street
NW.-was more fortunate than the
others. She obtained last-minute
passage aboard the French Lines
lie de France, which docked in New
York Friday night.
But I know at least so artists
who are still getting the blackouts, y
she said And are they clamoring
to get away!"
Miss Lane, petite and 20, and her
partner, Chester Fredericks of Lin
den, N. j., were all set for return
engagement at London's Savoy
Plaza when the government ordered
curtains" on all entertainment
Blackouts and gas masks were the
vogue. Dancing feet could keep
still for a while.
Was Able to Get Cabin.
So Miss Lane and what she terms
the better half of her act (she plans
to become Mrs Fredericks' as soon
as they make enough money to
settle down hastened to a steam
ship agent for whom they had
danced at one time.
III stand up all the way back if
you can get us home Miss Lane
said she offered She and another
dancing girl got cabin and Mr..
Fredericks was given comfortable
quarters. They sailed that afternoon,
September 2.
Miss Lane said she had the op-
portunity to put her dance-cultivated
balance to excellent use when the
Evening star., 1939-09-12
Science Argues 3 Theories
Of Divorce of Continents
Geodesy and Geophysics Union
Hears Borroge Of Discussion

In this preparation is a huge map
Of what is known as "the basement
Of the United States" prepared by
DR.. Thorn and viewed with great
interest by geologists and geophysi-
cists.
What the basement OF the United
States looks like is shown by strip
ping away all the earth and shale
and getting, actually, down to bed
rock. BY that process, the map
in relief-makes easy study of
the whole structure that supports
the America Americans know. 1t
was pointed out that, in the making
of this unusual map. DR.. Thorn had
the assistance of $500 oil geologists,
members Of the American Associa-
ton of Petroleum Geology. the
United States Geodetic Survey,
numerous State geologists, and such
State organization as the Kansas
State Geological Society, who
mapped the Sioux Uplift, the Twin
Cities Basin and the Wisconsin
working with the Texas
State Bureau Of Economic Geology.
80 Per Cent Accurate.
One point brought out by this
study is that, in the central low
lands of America-from the APP
palachians to The Rockies-there
are oil, gas and artesian wells to
the number of 100000. The whole
map is described by its maker as a
picture puzzle, or probably the big
gest jig-saw puzzle ever put to-
gether. Still, it is not complete, but
it is nearly four -fifths accurate
This because modern scientific
methods. in use since 1928, made
the map possible. The other one
fifth, in doubt. will be completed
no man knows when, but the work
will go on.
with continents occupying less
than one-half of the globes sur
face, we've got to explore the ocean
beds to get the complete picture,
DR.. Thorn said. but already this is
being done" And he told of surveys
recently made of the Atlantic
Coast. Also of work done in the
central part of the Hudson Bay
country-and as far down as Nash
vile, Tenn. This section is known
among the scientists as the Cana
dian Shelf. 1t starts in Southern
Canada.
DR.. Thorn, congratulated on his
scientific work by men from other
nations, is formerly a member of
the United States Geological Sur
vey and lived in Washington many
years until he went to Princeton IL
years ago. His work for the Gov
ernment was mostly in the petro-
leum fields.
Evening star., 1939-09-12

Fourteenth street and Pennsylvania
avenue NV. She was taken to
Emergency Hospital and treated for
a broken hip and wrist.
Lucien w. Bowen, ~, of 1914 S
street Sc, and Frank Parnell, 38,
of 1881 D street NE, were slightly
cut and bruised yesterday after
noon when their automobile ran
over the sidewalk and hit tree in
the 5000 block of Alabama avenue
Sc.
Bowen was charged with reckless
driving after his hurts were treated.
Kenneth Langham, %, and Jack
Sadler, 81, both attached to the 18th
Field Artillery, Fort Myer, were cut
and bruised yesterday afternoon in
an automobile accident at Glen
Echo. They were treated at George
town Hospital and discharged.
Ten-year-old Leslie Wilson, col
ored, of 604 I street Sc, was slight
ly injured yesterday afternoon by
an automobile which struck him as
he ran into the street in front OF
his home, police reported.
He was treated at Providence Hos
pital.
Evening star., 1939-09-12
Seal Wont Appeal
Ruling Of Appeals
Court on 6. H. A.
Quantity Purchase Of
Service, Not insurance.
Is RutIedge's View

Corporation Counsel Elwood H.
Seal said today his Office would not
appeal the ruling of the Court OF
Appeals yesterday that Group
Health Association is not in the in
surance business.
After a conference with Assistant
Corporation Counsel Vernon West
on the decision, both decided they
would not go any further under
the language of the opinion"
If the insurance case should be
appealed to the Supreme Court of
the United States, Mr.. Seal said,
there was some doubt as to whether
the highest tribunal would grant
writ of certiorari to review the de-
cision Of the appellate tribunal. He
added that he felt his Office had dis
charged it's obligation to the COM
munity by appealing the decision of
the lower court to the Court of Ap-
peals.
The ruling in question was issued
yesterday by Justice Wiley Rutledge
holding Group Health constituted
quantity purchase of well-rounded
continuous medical service" The
association, Justice Rutledge said,
was in function "a consumer CO.
operative" rather than insurance.
The appeal was by the District
superintendent of insurance from
an earlier decision by Justice Jen-
nings Bailey in District Court hold
ing that G. H. A. violated neither
the medical nor insurance regula-
tions. Only the insurance angle,
however, was appealed.
In deciding not to appeal Justice
Rutledge's decision to the Supreme
Court, Mr.. Seal said the ruling does
not exempt from insurance regula-
tions businesses which issue policies
covering payment of hospital bills.
Meantime there is pending be-
fore the Supreme Court an appeal
in another medical case. The De-
partment of Justice has asked for
writ of certiorari to review the deci-
sion of Justice James M. Proctor, in
District Court, which sustained a
demurrer of organized medicine to
the indictment charging organized
medicine with violation Of the Sher-
man Antitrust Act. The Proctor
decision, which was a victory for
the forces of organized medicine,
also was appealed to the Court of
Appeals.
Evening star., 1939-09-12
Two Suspects Returned
To Face Robbery Charqe

Two suspects charged with rob-
berry in the $4,000 holdup of the
Washington Mechanics Saving Bank
in June of 1882 were returned here
yesterday from Utica. N. Y, by Capt.
Floyd Truscott and Detective Sergt.
Frank Brass.
They were Samuel Rubin, As, and
Joseph Flynn, IS, both of New York
City, who had just completed SEN
tences of from 7 to 10 years at Dam
nemora Penitentiary for a holdup
in New York. A third alleged men,
Der of the gang, James Foley, IS, was
returned here q month ago after
serving a similar term at the same
penitentiary. District officials lodged
retainers for the prisoners.
A fourth suspect, Barney Newfield,
IS, is at liberty under $4,000 bond
on a robbery charge, according to
Inspector Bernard w. Thompson,
chief Of detectives.
Evening star., 1939-09-12
Blasts for Sewer
Alarm Residents

Residents in the vicinity Of CAL
vert Street Bridge last night made
anxious inquiries OF police and news
paper offices after two blasts rever-
berated through the neighborhood.
They were Informed that work.
men were dynamiting in the new
sewer tunnel being built in Rock
Greek Park. It was the first time
that blasting had been done at night,
although the work has been in
progress for several weeks.
The blasts were plainly heard by
guests of the Shoreham and Ward
man Park hotels and by residents
of apartment houses on the east
side Of the park.
Evening star., 1939-09-12

big liner-completely blacked out
swerved sharply in mid-ocean to
avoid ramming a fishing vessel.
Il was almost tossed on my head"
she related. I'VE had heard about
the Athenia's fate and most every
one thought for a minute that a
torpedo had hit US
Has Travelled Widely.
In the year and half that has
gone by since Miss Lane tapped and
glided on local theater stages and
at Presidents birthday balls, she has
donned costumes in South Africa,
Belgium, France, Ireland, Scotland
and England. not to mention several
tune up appearances in New York.
Her scrapbook is jammed with
pictures and newspaper clippings
One English paper in praising her
and Mr.. Fredericks' act, referred
to it as "legamania. The beating
it out" routine which the couple de-
veloped for their European engage
ments had the club clients jittery
with rhythm. rather than from the
prospect of air raids.
Speaking of air raids, Miss Lane
said London's famed theater district
is one solid mass of sandbags. En-
tertainers went to work with gas
masks hanging from their sides like
handbags before the night spots
were closed.
Miss Lane brought her gas mask
home with her, much to the delight
of her 10-year-old brother Jackie.
Miss Lane said she plans to go
with Mr. Fredericks to New York
to continue her career.
But not until she gets rid Of
that cold" her mother, Mrs. Harvey
v. Avery. interrupted. The dancing
daughter allows she's lucky a bad
cold Is all her presence in war
! plagued London cost her
Evening star., 1939-09-12
Bond Concerts

BY the United States Soldiers
Home Band this evening at o'clock
in the Soldiers Home bandstand.
John S. M. Zimmerman, bandmas-
ter; Anton Pointner, assistant.
PROGRAM.
March, The World in Arms" "-Teike
Overture, my Lady Mistress"
Won Suppe
Solo for clarinet, Lies Alsachiennes, :"
LIE There
Musician Virgilio Villatice
Duet for clariet and flute, "Lo, Hear
the Gentle Lark" --- Bishop
Musicians Villatico and Preziose
Excerpts from Irish musical comedy,
Barry of Ballymore" Olcott
Popular numbers
The Donkey Serenade" Friml
I'm Just Vagabond Lover"
Zimmerman
Valse petite, "Valse Bluette" Drigo
"The Star Spangled Banner"
BY the United States Army Band
this evening at $50 o'clock in the
formal garden at Walter Reed Hos
pital Capt. Darcy, leader; Mr..
Hubner, assistant leader.
Program.
March, "The Battle Of the Winds"
Duble
Overture, "The Mill on the Cliff."
Reissiger
Popular, "Over the Rainbow" from
the Wizard of o."
Harburg and Arlen
Quartet, 1.-TWO Pairs of Slippers"
Putnam
Messrs. Keig Garvin. Clarence Hur-
rel, Randolph Walters and Will
liam Vogelson. trombonists.
Suite Espanol, "The Courts of
Granada" Chapi
Valse, Oriental Roses" -Ivanovici
Vignette, Manhattan Serenade."
Alter
Selection, Alma, Where Do You
Live?" Briquet
Finale, "Grandioso March" Seitz
"The Star Spangled Banner"