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Evening star., 1939-01-01

our total to an all-time high of 49, =
10000.
The New Year is bringing treasure,
too. Its wallet. unless the signs fail.
will be lined with an average of $500
for every man. woman and child in
the country. Our national income
slumped little in 1898. In the coming
year, the experts tell US, it should pick
up again, pass the 65-billon- dollar
mark. perhaps approach 70 billions
That's lot of money - more than
the value Of all our possessions half a
century ago. But our possessions have
increased enormously too, and during
1899 this national wealth of ours is
expected to jump to 323 billions of
dollars. Which means that each of us
will own an average OF almost So, 500
worth of property.
Life, wealth - and happiness. For
jewelers. and Others who cater to newly
weds are predicting that 100000
couples will exchange VOWS during the
year ahead. If half OF them set up
housekeeping for themselves, as is
forecast, 100000 new homes will be
established in 1899.
The New Year will bring increased
cultural wealth and happiness. too
More children will go to school: more
boys and girls will continue on into
high school: more young men and
women Will attend colleges. Com
Evening star., 1939-01-01

menccmcnt Day next June is expected
to bring diplomas to million and a
quarter high-school graduates - to
1000 college graduates
Commencement used to mean
the finish of the eighth grade Just half
a century ago only one child out of
four went on to high school. IN 1899.
1t will be nine out of ten.
Colleges will gain, too. The New
Year should see at least 100000
enrolled; the million mark was left tar
behind in 1898. Compare that with the
356.694 of twenty years ago. or the
l09,O2e of forty years back.
And, finally, 1899 is expected to
bring added years of life to thousands.
for one of the most courageous. per-
Sistent campaigns to preserve human
life bids far to register magnificent
success during the months ahead. The
safety campaign in motor driving.
kept at high tide in the face of increas-
ing fatalities for twenty years. at last
is winning. There was a drop in auto
mobile deaths in 1898: eight thousand
lives were saved Thousands more
should be saved in 1899.
Other gifts will fill the year. Shorter
hours. additional recreation. It's an
inviting trail that stretches ahead:
treasures and pleasures await you.
May you find them all
-WiLLIAM f. MCDERMOU
Evening star., 1939-01-01
WHAT 1889 WILL BRING US

HE New Year. as all the New
Years of recorded history have
shown, is bound to bring many
surprises to the world; but it also is
destined to bring certain definite gifts
gifts upon which we pretty we'll
know that we can count. Statistics and
study tell us what these treasures are
going to be. And. for the United
States, at least, here are few of the
most important.
1t would take more than third
of all the gold mined since the dawn
of history to pay for the babies who
will be born in 1899. You can't set
price on a baby's smile - but any
mother will tell you that her born
babe is worth its weight in gold. And
she will be right, for court decisions in
different states have held an average
life to be worth 5000. At that figure,
the 2,l30.OOO babies which the Census
Bureau estimates will arrive in the
New Year will enrich our land by more
than ten billion dollars.
This doesn't sound as if the nation
were committing race suicide. as
alarmists would have US believe True.
our rate of growth is slowing up.
immigration has decreased, and the
birth rate has dropped. too. Yet our
population is increasing faster than
the average rate of growth from 1890
to 1890. The New Year should swell
Evening star., 1939-01-01

the evident pleasure with which she
accepts your invitation prompts you
to telephone to the Aliens - whom
you had also been wanting to invite.
The idea is carried through SO quickly
you have no time to listen to IF. of
F. and the party is a great success.
People worry too much about party
giving! The Skimptics. whose facili-
ties are very meager, are distressed at
the thought because of their material
handicaps. 1t does not occur to them
that the Richllngs. whose house has
every perfection of appointment.
whose budget is unlimited. are every
bit as likely to be vanquished by the
Fear of Failure jinx.
The reason is obvious. From flnan-
cial standpoint, the Friendlies. whose
parties are. as all of us know. famous,
are themselves quite handicapped.
Plainly, then. they have other assets.
The Rlchlings. on the other hand who
live in house built for entertaining.
merely feel that they must fulfill an
obligation to their possessions
even though they have no talent for
people - no talent for hospitality
1t Is not because the Friendies live
in little house that they give better
parties than the Rlchlngs IN their
great house - that's foolish. But we
notice that they give such good parties
because in giving them they tr,umrh
over their handicaps! The Little
Houses realize that material things
are of no Importance compared with
the spirit of welcome and with the
gift of comradeship. They rclegatc
material assets to their normal pos
tions. And there is nothing more con-
tagious than the spirit of friendlincss.
Copyright. 1899, by Emily Post
Evening star., 1939-01-01
JUST BE NATURAL
You don't need money TO be a good hostess.
All you need is friendIiness
by Emily Post
by Emily Post

say: :"I'll telephone Mrs. Jones today"
Then you begin thinking of whom else
to ask. And perhaps. it all goes well,
But perhaps again you begin think
ing that you don't know the Jonescs
very we'll You would love to have
them some Saturday. but not this
immediate Saturday. The more you
think about them, the less are you
Evening star., 1939-01-01

in Alice or Mabel or Bill or Fred. And
then you get an lnferlority complex,
with the idea that the Joneses won't
be amused unless you can think Of
something very special. That little
antl-social jinx called Fear of Fail
ure' jumps upon your shoulder and
your party impulse is all dampened.
On the other hand. let US say that
you telephone Mrs. Jones and that
Evening star., 1939-01-01

somewhat like this: Something re-
minds you of the Joneses; at once you
think how nice it would be to see
them! So you say to your husband:
you know. we haven't seen the
Joneses for nearly three months. l do
like the Joneses. don't you?"
If he answers positively: eyes, let's
ask them to dinner Saturday." your
first impulse is one of delight and you
Evening star., 1939-01-01

ways. for millions upon millions of
people, the safety pin has carved itself
a we'll deserved niche in the heart of
humanity.
Take the baby, snugly comfortable
in his diaper. Until recently, before
strings on diapers began to supplant
the diaper pin, any baby would have
told you that the safety pin was
Heavens gift to the Diapered King
dom. enthusiastically endorsed by
everybody under two. No more pin
pricks, no more sudden howls to con-
sternate mothers.
And the grown-ups. Is there anyone
who hasn't. at some time, somewhere,
found himself in terrible predica-
ment which only a safety pin could
relieve? Just one little safety pin to
hold two sundered parts together, and
your day was saved.
As we know it today the safety pin
Evening star., 1939-01-01
Ar MIDNIGHT on New Years
A Eve, according to legend, a
q 4 cherub with streamer across

~ Eve according to legend a
4 4 cherub with a streamer across
his chest labelled 1899" takes old
Father Times place And, also accord
ing to legend, we must show our well
come by writing out long list OF good
intentions - most particularly in re-
gard to hospitality.
The New Years Day receptions of
the past - led by the reception of
the President at the White House,
and followed by thousands of hostesses
were all symbolic of the importance
of friendly hospitality. In Maryland
when | was a child, there was great
to-do in the houses where the hostess
prepared to be at home. Custom diff
fered from that of all other days in the
year since today the visitors were all
gentlemen.
To US of the modern day it all seems
fantastic! Ladies of all ages - grand
mothers, aunts, daughters, cousins.
granddaughter and friends all in
evening dress receiving an unending
procession of gentlemen whose ages
ranged from eighteen to eighty and
who trooped in to wish every one
Happy New Year; to pretend to eat
few morsels at the overladen table in
the dining-room; to sip swallow of
eggnog or China tea; and then to 60
on to the next house.
Today, many hostesses will also be
at home, but their husbands and
brothers or sons will be at home with
them. Moreover, their friends and
neighbors will not come trooping in.
unless they have received an invita-
ton sent out on visiting card and
reading. New Years Day Eggnog
from to g.
There could be no better suggestion
for beginning the new year. however,
than to start now, and with no more
preparations than can be made in an
hour or two. to welcome your friends.
Nothing could set better precedent
for the enjoyment of the coming year
than proving to yourselves that the
simplest, most quickly y-prepared-for
party is likely to be incest of all.
Perhaps your own thoughts run
Evening star., 1939-01-01

into existence. and then only after
18th century inventors, attempting to
make the safety pin secure and safe,
had produced some fearful and won
derful contraptlons, replete with
chains, locks, springs and whatnot,
all of which would have required
mechanical bent in mothers with
babies to diaper.
The secret, of course. was sim
plicity. The early 1905 produced a
number of patented safety pins that
any ancient Greek brooch maker could
have contested on the grounds of in
fringement, but finally, in 1875, one
A. V. Sergeant, of Newark. N. j., put
small cap on the head of his pin, thus
using practically all the principles in
volved in the modern safety pin.
But in New York City there was
one inventive mind to whom the safety
pin was evidently major concern,
and he went to work on it with a
vengeance William A. Butler was not
satisfied with pins as they we're. He
wanted head on them, and a good
one, and he wanted the point we'll
guarded, so in March, 1877, he in
vented fanged head. very much like
what we have today. Pictures of his
first idea and subsequent patents he
took out show that at first he wasn't
quite sure of the angle at which the
head should be set but after the first
few experiments he went back to his
original idea, and it has remained with
us. to be improved upon in minor
details by later gadgeteers.
Lest an injustice be done, it should
be noted that at about that same time
Zephaniah G. Pierce. of Providence,
r. L., got the same idea with regard to
the nanged head. But the records show
that Butler was the persistent pin
man of his time He not only con-
Ce!ved the principle of the guard. but
also invented. with the aid of William
Wellge. machine for making pins and
another tor sharpening the points.
Safety pins today are no doubt
better made. but for the principle
which makes them possible we must
20 back to the Greeks, and for the in
genuity which made them safe we
must honor the determined fathers of
two generations ago who set out to
make the baby's crib nest without
thorns. THEODORE kAGHAN
Evening star., 1939-01-01
Getting to Know People

1hot's where hosoifoiity helps and
Mrs. Post onswers questions about
how, when, ond whom TO eoteytoin.
TO get her ieoflet, send q three-eent
stomp ITO cover the cost Of moiiins)
with O note TO Emily POST Service
Department. This Week Magazine,
in core Of TIL, newspaper.
Evening star., 1939-01-01
Kvst :. Hsissnss

is comparatively recent invention,
but don't think the Greeks didn't
have word for it, According to the
British Museum, the safety pin goes
all the way back to the Bronze Age,
when the brooch pin. the Adam OF all
safety pins, is first known to have ap-
peared. The earliest type known was
found at Peschiera on Lake Garda.
Italy. and is dated around l40O BIC.
In 1900 BIC. the Greeks at Mycenae
we're wearing them on their right
shoulder to clasp their flowing gar
ment together But the word safety"
in connection with ancient pins was
synonymous with secure rather than
with "non-prlcking." for though the
pin point was held IN place, it was not
set in guard that would keep it from
prickIng the wearer on occasion.
Not until recent times - the 1905
- did the modern safety pin come
Evening star., 1939-01-01

Many Of the familiar and indis-
bensable boons Of mankind hare been
gifts of men and ,Uomen Who hare
been all but forgotten BY their .fellows.
This is the second Of an important
series of articles that ,ptN ten about
these unsung heroes.
NE of the greatest inventions
ever conceived was the safety
~ pin. The man. or men, who
created it assuredly deserve place in
Humanity's Hall of Fame.
Just thin length of metal, bent
double and snapped together, the
safety pin. for all its simplicity, took
thousands of years to develop and
today is one of the most indispensable
gadgets known to man. Its job is
small one simply to hold things
together - but by doing that little
job in thousand and one different
Milford chronicle., 1939-09-01
OCEAN VIEW

There will be Sunday School helG
at 9:45 on Sunday morning at Bethe
Methodist Church, after which ths
sermon will be preached by Rev
Jonathon E. Parker at II O'Clock. Al
are welcome to attend these services
On last Sunday evening the sermon
by Rev. Parker was taken from the
text found in End Corinthians, 4th
chapter and 7th verse.
On next Tuesday night, Sept. fifth
the official board Of Stewards, and
Trustees OF Bethel Church will meet
in the Sunday School room to trans
act business for the church.
The Ladies' Aid will hold its month
ly meeting the same night, in the
Sunday school room. A full attend
anee is desired.
The wedding of Miss Vera Kathryn
/ Wharton, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
George Wharton of Ocean View, who
was united in marriage to Mr.. Fred
erick G. Hudson, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry Hudson, of MillsborO on
Sunday afternoon in the Ocean View
Christian Church at five o'clock. Rev.
j. X. Glenn performed the ceremony.
Mrs. Helen Bunting played the we'd
ding march. Their attendants were
Miss Mabel Wharton, sister Of the
bride, and Mr.. Claude Hudson, the
grOom's brother. They will reside
at MillsborO. The community extends
best wishes for long and happy life.
Mrs. Sallie Rittineur, of Selbyville,
called on Mrs. Clarence HeaTn on
Sunday.
Mrs. H. o. Murray attended the fu-
neral services of George Smith, the
husband of Mrs. Beatrice Roberts
Smith, held in Philadelphia on Satur-
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chester Richards and
father, Mr. Vim. Wharton and Mrs.
Charlotte Cathell mOtOred to Phila-
delphia. also. to attend the funeral
Of George Smith.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ebe H. Davidson.
Mrs. Martha BrasuTe and Mrs. An
drew Davidson attended the funeral
services of Frank Timmons. held in
DagsbOrO NJ. E. Church ON Wednes-
day afternoon.
Vernon McCabe has been appoint
ed to the office of notary public in
ltlA5 IlG buGCEGub
E. Hickman, who has held the same
office for the past "a years.
The residence Of Mrs. Rella Evans
v hich she occupies with her daugh-
ter Cynthia, was damaged on the
roof by lightning which struck the
same on Friday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clifton Williams and
three children, Nanette. Tom and
Kenneth, of Sioux City. Iowa, and
Mr.. and Mrs. Chester Williams and
two children. Mary Lou and Byron.
of Fayetteville, n. c.. motOred here
and are guests of their father. Charlie
Williams. and several other relatives
here for two weeks.
Rev. and Mrs. w. Stanley Grant, of
Tangier. Va, were guests Of Mrs.
Georgia Richards overnight, while
among their many friends
here during the time spent here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Calvin and two |
Ruth and Barbara. motor !
ed here and are guests of their mo-
ther. Mrs. Lille H. Belts, and sister,
Mrs. Elsie Hickman.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vernon Cobb enter |
tained at dinner on Sunday Mr.. and |
Mrs. Amos McCabe.
Paul Kitchens is spending a few !
days with his family in their new !
home along Whites Greek.
Milford chronicle., 1939-09-01

tied their father, David Quillen, who
is receiving treatment from injuries
sustained in an auto accident.
Mr.. Quillen's car cOllided with the
car of George Ellis on Monday of last
week. Both men were injured and
cars damaged.
Mrs. S. T. Belts and daughter,
Jeanette, and mother. Mrs. E. C.
Hooker, motOred to Rehoboth with
Charles Hooker, on Thursday, and
spent a pleasant day with relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Belts and mo-
ther. Mrs. Julia Hudson. of Philadel-
phia, mOtOred here and are visiting
Mrs. Annie B. West at her summer
home
MILTON FIREMEN'S CARNIVAL,
Firemen's Parade. Friday night,
September lot. 1t
Milford chronicle., 1939-09-01
DELMAR

Rev. and Mrs. Sidney Bradley and
small daughter are spending two
/ weeks at Ocean Grove. N. ]. The
pulpit was filed Sunday morning by
Rev. .. ]. Bunting, of Salisbury.
Miss Mildred Smith, who mas been
secretary In the Delmar (DeD school
fer the past eight years, has rendered
ber resignation, AT the meeting OF
the school board on Saturday Miss
Emma Hantworker, graduate of the
school, was chosen as her. successor.
Miss Betty Morris, of Spring Hope,
n. c.. has been visiting Miss Viyian
PanlsOh. Miss Paulson accompanied
her guest home and will spend some
time with her prior TO leaving for
Western Maryland. where she is a
student.
Mrs, S. B. Waller and her guests,
Mrs. Robert Wilson, and Mrs. Ann
Robertson, of Whitman. Md, spent a
few days last week at the Veterans
Home at Rehoboth.
Mrs. William N. Villa, a member
Of the Delmar CMd) school faculty, is
visiting relatives in Hampton. Va,
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Williams, of
Georgia. are visiting their daughter
and sOn-in-law, Mr., and, Mrs. Daniel
Culver.
Mrs, Theodore Shea and children.
Of Centreville, Md, are spending
some time here with Mrs. Shea's
mother, Mrs. John Killiam.
Miss Rita Smith and Wesley Kib-
BILE, Jr.. of Baltimore, were weekend
guests of Miss Imogene Gordy.
Mrs. f. +. Freeny is spending
some time at RehObOth as the guest
of her. daughter. Mrs. ID. II. Adams.
o. Prof. II. C. Whiteside, principal of
the Delmar High School for the past
four years, and Miss Mildred Smith.
school secretary, were united in the
bonds of Holy matrimOny at noon.
Monday, August 2Sth, at the Brandy
wine NJ. +. Church, Wilmington. The
ceremony was performed by Rev.
Ralph C. Jones, pastor of the church,
assisted by Rev. Carson Wasson, pas
tor of the Presbyterian Church,
Jeanette, Pa. Following the cere-
mony, wedding breakfast was
served to one hundred twenty-five
guests at on-the-Delaware
Among those attending from Del
mar were Mr.. and Mrs. George NJ.
Nelson, Mr.. and Mrs. V. ]. Carmine.
MIR. and Mrs. S. n Culver, Mr.. and
Mrs. F. NJ. Wright, Mr.. and Mrs. Ce-
Gil Ford, Mr.. and Mrs. F. E. NunYar.
Misses Ruth Jones, Mollie Ellis and
Pauline Ellis, Mr.. and Mrs. Reese
Peters. Mrs. James Adams. Mrs. Ma
bel Hearn, Mrs. Georgia Ellegood.
Mrs. Thelma Campbell. Mrs. Leslie
Roberts, Mr.. and Mrs. Victor Beach.
Samuel Phillips. Mrs. Grayson FL
liott, Mrs. Anna Ellis, Mrs. Daniel
Culver. Mrs. Luther Workman. Mr..
and Mrs. r. r. German, Mrs. Howard
Kirk, Miss Eunice Lee Hastings, Mrs.
Stella Steadman, Mrs. Sadie Brickert.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Smith. parents.
and Messrs. Millard and Randell
Smith, brothers of the bride. Cover
nor and Mrs. Richard McMullen and
9. Morris Whiteside. of Wilmington.
Col. and Mrs. A. H. Lord and Mr.. and
Mrs. Norman Hearn. of SeafOrd. were
some of the prominent guests from
Ither parts the state. t..
MILTON FIREMEN'S CARNIVAL.
Parade. Friday night. !
September 1st. 1t /
Milford chronicle., 1939-09-01

Steele G Kaufman, who were en-
gagged in the feed and poultry bust
ness, have sold their business to Mr..
Chester Townsend. Jr & Co., at the
same place.
Mrs. Mamie Hickman and Mrs. Dor
othy Burbage have returned home
from visit to the New York fair,
made last week.
Mrs. Kate Wells OF Philadelphia.
and son, Clinton Wells and wife, of
New York, have been spending their
vacation at the Townsend Hotel at
Bethany Beach. They visited Mrs.
Clarence Hearn here on Sunday. The
latter Mrs. Hearn is improving slow
ly.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vernon McCabe mo
tored to Milford Memorial Hospital
on Thursday evening, where they Wis
Milford chronicle., 1939-09-01

BEFORE automobiles came. retail
stores could expect to draw trade
only rs far as people cOnId travel
comfortably with horses. In an au-
tomobile age. they can draw it as
far as people can travel comfortably
in their cars.
Milford chronicle., 1939-09-01

Intermittent rains in lower Pela-
ware recently broke the drougM and
reduced crop damage.
Milford chronicle., 1939-09-01

MILTON FIREMEN'S CARNIVAL.
Firemen's Parade, Friday night,
September 1st 1t
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GIRL. neat coored. experienced desires
five or six DAYS per week WORK hobart
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ROOMS FUR. 9 UNFUR.
ROOMS UNFURNISHED.

COLORED-2lO2 18th ST. nw-Large
front room. unfinished. light housekeep-
ing.
COLORED-15l4 T St W.-Large bright
unfinished front room; privileges. Mich.
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ROOMS WANTED.

YOUNG LADY. Govt employe. desires furn.,
unfurn. apt. room! practice piano ewes,
Sun Box 1911, Star.
GENTLEMAN desires room. possibly meals
in private family; reasonable; preferably
near Capitol. Boz l15-J. Star.
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ROOMS WITH BOARD WANTED

WANTED, by a convalescent bachelor. room
and board, with meals served in room
viclrity Rock Creek Park preferred BOX
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MISCELLANEOUS FOR SALE.

WASHING MACHINES-ABC. $50; Thor,
$50; Apex. S39.95 General Electric, $50;
Maytag, S49.50. All brand-new 1898
models. Also many others at all prices;
the largest selection in the city. Pay 81
weekly. 10 DAYS TRIAL. Republic
1890 The Piano Shop 1Ol5 9TH st NV
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SUBURBAN ROOMS.

LYON PARK. ARLINGTON, 916 North
Daniel st.-Large front room. twin beds.
cont. hot water; gentlemen. Chest 1920.
LARGE MASTER BEDROOM private ba tn
ano shower. huge closets: twin beds If de-
sired Chestnut 1924. Conv. transportatlon.
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TRAVELS,

1923 18th ST NV
Double and single rooms with running
water. Within walking distance Of Govt
Departments and theaters. Excellent home
cooked fnod
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RE-UPHOLST STEERING

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cluded; made like new in finest tapestry
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1900 CONN. AVE.-SUBLEASE THREE
rooms, kitchen, bath, three exposures: fur
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FARM AND GARDEN.

LILY POOLS. outdoor firepaces, rock gar
denS. dry walls, driveways. fences. flag
stone walks and terraces. everareens, flow
er!ng shrubs. hedPeS. yards rebuilt re-
paired seeded. Sodded and manured top
soil 81 30 ton rich manure. SIS ton.
FVerereen Co Jack oOf3