davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1945-09-30
1855 Veterans Due
In u. 5. Today From
Europe and Pacific
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
More than 1856 servicemen are
scheduled to arrive in the United
States today from Europe and the
| Pacific. -.
Five ships with about 300 troops
are due at New York, two with
more than 1900 men at Boston and
four with more than 900 at New
port News. Eleven ships, including
two carriers and battleship, are
to dock in San Francisco with 7,465
men.
At LIE Havre, France, the van
guard of the famous 5th Armored
Division of 1t. Gen. William H.
Simpsons 9th Army, which helped
spearhead the Allied drive to within
48 miles OF Berlin, embarked for
home yesterday.
The Army said the remainder Of
the Division would clear the port by
tomorrow. The 7th Armored Divi-
sion, now at LIE Havre, also is sched-
uled to be homeward bound by that
date.
The 18th Armored Division has
begun to arrive in the lie Havre
staging area for shipment about
October 10. The Army said first
shipments of the 9th Armored Divi-
sion were at sea, with the remainder
to sail soon"
In the Pacific, the 43d Infantry
Division supplied majority of the
9,797 American troops which sailed
for San Francisco today in the first
heavy clearance of Yanks from
Japan.
High-point men from the 1st Cav
airy, Americal and other divisions
also were in the contingents travel
ing on the transports General John
Pope, General Hershey and Kenton.
Vice Admiral James L. Kaufman
at Manila said $4,000 to 10000 off,
GERS and enlisted men. representing
about so per cent Of all naval per-
sonnel in the Philippine Sea From
tier, would be sent home by January
| l.
Ships and Army units arriving to-
day:
At New York-(aboard Gatun.
zenobia, Tawah. Henry Baldwin and
George Bancroft) 1899 troops, un-
designated units.
At Boston-(Aboard Mexico Vic
tory 1889 troops including detach-
ment, 33d Photo Reconnaissance
Squadron. aboard Johns Hopkins
673 miscellaneous personnel.
| At Newport News aboard Joel
c. Harris, Melville Jacoby. John
Maff1tt and R. Ney McNeely) S69
miscellaneous personnel.
Yesterday. the battleship Indiana,
first large ship of the Sd Fleet to
arrive on the Pacific Coast, brought
879 Navy and Marine personnel to
San Francisco.
Ships scheduled to arrive at San
Francisco today include: The carrier
Saratoga from Pearl Harbor with
3,745 passengers, the carrier Hor-
net, 2,20l, and battleship Maryland,
1919. Eight other vessels also are
due today.
Evening star., 1945-09-30
Arlington Board Seeks
To Ban Hunting, Use
OF Guns in County

The Arlington County Board acted
Yesterday to outlaw hunting and all
use OF fire arms in the county.
The board action followed a petit
ton presented by l73 county resi-
dents, which branded hunting and
the indiscriminate use of fire arms
"a threat to the life and property OF
citizens"
The State Game Commission will
be petitioned to close the hunting
season Immediately. and Common
wealth's Attorney Lawrence w
Evening star., 1945-09-30
ASS Veterans Debork
At Historic Yorktown
By the Associated 2ress

os tne ASSOCIATED HF6SS.
NEWPORT NEWS, Va, Sept. 90
For the first time since the American
Revolution port authorities here be-
lieVe, troops were debarked at York
town, when six destroyer escorts
brought 455 officers and men to the
historic port. "a.
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-11

when a skeeter starts buzzing you
at eyebrow level. 1t zooms and il
zimms and it zumms. That's when
I go nuttier than a bag Of New Or.
leans pralines and spraddle detour
across the antiseptic horizon.
What l like about Autumn in the
cultivated weeds Is that everything
moves indoors with the guests. The
field mice, the termites and the
woo1chucks and the cricketS tune
up for an addition they never get.
Have you ever tried TO put the
finger on cricket in an old-fash-
ioned cottage with a fireplace you
could cook barrage balloon In? A
cricket is the only thing In the
world that can spoil nightmare.
Cricket is the game that doesn't
even keep the English awake in the
daytime. Yet / have sat up with one
all night and il wasn't even sick.
In morning there was a hunting
breakfast of library paste and inter
woven anchovies. Then we were Off
TO hounds after the elusive quick
brown fox and il was yoicks and
away.
But don't let anybody say l wore
out my welcome. ] never even got
my hands on il.
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-11

W T is now the shank of November
and they are bringing the last
X week end guest in by dog sled,
parcel post and dumb-waiter.
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-11

cised Squatter sovereignty in has
been haunted during the donated in
terim. have never slept in a haunt.
ed castle because have never slept
But there Is no haunt or rural
demon that can withstand the magic
sbracadabra OF spraygun en-.
dorsed by the three mysterious
symbols. "Scram. you buns"
never did care for the royal
suite in a dog and cat hospital.
That's what every suburban home is
these days. And they run as loose
as busted shoe laces.
Neither do I desire the patter OF
little feet on the hall stairways when
they are preceded by inquisitive
whiskers and followed by long tails.
Even after the fifteenth scotch and
soda am not the Pie.Eyed Piper
of Hamelin, or even its suburbs.
When the little feet start patter.
ting in the thousands and the millions
il is time TO ooScray on the lammis.
ter. Nor stand upon the order of
thy SproWling. To this day Favre.
Darwin nor Beebe have told me why
roach requires four more legs
than al elephant.
The ingratisting moments in
lovely. ScoTChed Summer night are
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-11

The retalatory hospitality of the
under nourished suburbs is delight,
ful thing 10 contemplate in an old
photograph album But things are
a bit on The old Eerie Canal when
there ts a Scurrying under the car.
pet. ripple under the wallpaper
and a buzling in the mattress,
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-11

Furthermore. the only key in
movement is round the neck OF the
head butler II is the key TO the
wine cellar and the butler is not
wearing il around his gullet with
suicidal intent
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-11

The ingratisting moments in a
lovely. ScorChed Summer night are
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-11

Every castle have ever exer
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-11

As Observation-Disclosures
and pslatial detours. / represent the
ultra fsstidious in the barnacle class.
| mean | get about very mooch in.
deed
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-11

But don't let anybody say | wore
out my welcome. ] never even got
my hands on IT,
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-11

II IS much more difficult 10 be a
visitor than the host. They have the
keys 10 everything
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-11

am what they call the perma
uent lull in scenic hospitality The
first week I'm a guest. The third
week they're aghast
Evening star., 1945-06-20

USE OUR EASY BUDGET PLAN...
when purchasing home furnishings totoIina SIS or
Simply make small down poyn,ent boonce period
of months. (pus sn1ol service charged.
CREDIT OFFICE FLOOR
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-25
BY Barbara Bell

A slim princess jumper with
gently fared jacket that fits like a
dream! Juniors adore this versatile
outfit that's such a hit on dates, in
classrooms or on shopping tours.
Wear the jumper with your cher
ished blouse or pullover.
Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1887 is
for sizes IL, II, Is, IA, 16 and 10.
Size IL, jumper, 23s yards of 30-inch
material; jacket, short sleeves, rs
yards SO or 80 inch.
For this pattern, send 20 cents, in
coins, your name, address, pattern
number and size wanted to Barbara
Bell, The Washington Star, p o.
Box SO, Station G, New York 10,
N. Y.
The winter catalogue is full of
bright ideas to inspire the home
sewer. Send for it today-10 cents.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-25
Dorothy Dix Says

able to recall how soft was a
mothers breast and how sweet the
sleep in a fathers arms. The mem
DRY of happy childhood has car
ried many man and woman
through all the vicissitudes of a
hard after life
Few people ever do the things that
they enjoy with any thought beyond
the pleasure of the moment, but,
when they do, memory throws in an
extra dividend for good measure.
The thrill of travel in far countries,
the majesty of a snow-clad noun
tain, the rapture of hearing a great
musician, the SAVIOR of a perfect
meal in famous restaurant; they
are not only a passing delight, they
are among the star items in their
collection of memories that one
mulls over for a lifetime.
We often criticize girls because
they are so determined to nave
swanky weddings, with white satin
and tulle wells and orange blossoms
and the hummery that goes with it,
whether they can afford it or not.
How silly, we say, for Mary, who
is as poor as a church mouse, not
to have put that money in pots and
pans and bungalow aprons. But
perhaps the little bride is wiser than
we are. She is buying for herself
a beautiful memory that will last
long after her youth has gone and
her romance faded, and she can only
tell her grandchildren of how pretty
she was and what a grand wedding
she had.
So it is false economy to deny
ourselves every pleasure and make
life hard and barren, for when we
do, we lose out on two counts-we
have missed all the fun and rave
no happy memories to console US.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-25

People make collections of many
things that run all the way from
primitive paintings and uncut rubies
to soda pop bottle tops and match
folders, and as long as they get any
pleasure out of them it is all to the
good, unless they force those OF us
who are not interested in their par
ticular line of junk to spend bore
some hours looking at it.
Such being the case, often Won
der, as I see people gloating over
postage stamps and cracked pitch
ers and undecipherable autographs,
that practically no one ever DELHI
erately sets out to make collection
of beautiful memories, which would
be the one thing that would give its
fortunate possessor more happiness
than any other that could possibly
be made.
Of course, as we go along through
Gfe, we do assemble a Let of mental
pictures that I'VE never tire of look
ing at and showing to others, espe-
cially to those who have picked up
the same items that we have and
to whom we can say don't you re-
member" but this is purely matter
of chance. We didn't of set pur-
pose start out to collect beautiful
memories, but who that has one
would sell it for all the money in the
Treasury?
Parents should feel that almost
their most important duty to their
children consists in starting them
to make a, collection of beautiful
memories as soon as they are out
of the cradle. The great tragedy of
childhood is not for the youngsters
to be poor and ragged and beaten
and half starved. It is for them
to have no pleasant memories of
their youth. Never to have known
any love or tenderness. Not. to be
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-25
TINE SAVERS.

From Mrs. E. W., Arlington)
A deep salaam to Mrs. R. E. B.
Of Takoma Park for her letter of
establishment at women who spend
their whole week keeping up a
schedule of housework. I, too, Won
der what makes life worth while to
rise at and work even at night
and on Sundays, as some of the
schedules provided, in order just to
keep the family and the house
going. 1t is better to live IN house
than FOR a house. With Mrs. B.
I wonder how any one can have any
enthusiasm for life without social,
civic, church or charitable activities
When I look back over 1915, I want
to be able to count something done
for others or toward social better
ment on a broader scale than just
my four walls. 1t will not be too
important to know whether I busted
every day at liz. I plan my weeks
around the tirs-s I have to spend,
first, of course, for my child and
husband, then for our social, and, in
my case, my charitable activities
What is left goes to the house, and
If I skip a few corners one week,
they'll get made up eventually. So
much for thatI
To be constructive, I have few
suggestions for short cuts which
work very well with me. They are
all little things, but I believe that
every minute saved in doing things
quicker way adds up to hours at
the end of the week First, work
fast and use both hands. I've no
ticed that many women work so
slowly from habit that it takes them
too long to accomplish a given task.
When l was doing Office work I fire.
quently had to show girls how to use
both hands simultaneously at a
given task-they just never thought
of 1t. The same is true of house
work. l dust with both hands; also
It's twice as fast to button shirt
fronts after ironing by buttoning
one with the left and one with the
right simultaneously, etc.
The drudgery can be taken out of
dishwaShing by getting the pots
and pans and cooking utensils out
of the way before dinner. I put
meat, potatoes and vegetable on a
large oven-proof pottery platter and
put it in warm oven with the gas
at its lowest point or turned off if
the oven has been going. Then I
wash all those cooking utensils and
half the work is done before dinner
Most of the highly glazed colorful
California pottery is oven-proof. I
also purchased some of the covered
soup bowls of fairly large size.
find these just right for small vege-
tables for our small family. Vege-
tables can be heated directly in
them, saving a cooking pot They
are also grand to put leftovers
into the icebox in Saving an icebox
oish) and then right in the stove
and on to the table Saving a pot.
The American Can Co. says it is
more sanitary to store vegetables or
fruit in the original can than to
put them into a dish. Therefore,
keep my cans in the iceboX instead
of emptying the remainder in an
iceboX dish.
The parchment paper dust cloths
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-25

woman heart or flower, and the
owners initials are painted above
them, or woven into place in the en-
circling garland, then little per-
sonalized story is the result.
Wheaton frisky little mouse
is more fitting for breadboard than
tulips or roses or horses. I like to
paint ducks and hares and game for
the kitchen, and keep the roses and
the people for the living room.
Make patterns of events in your
life in this manner, too. We painted
settles for a charming little inn on
Cape Cod with the saga of the
Owners start as an inkeeper and
with many of the amusing, enter
tanning and dramatic incidents in
the history of the building, including
a shipWreck.
! That you haven't painted before is
mo bar to creating entertaining,
naive patterns that really express
you. I am sure that Is important
express yourself and enjoy your in
genuity, which can be limitless.
haven't yet found a piece of out
NODDED furniture that can't be turn
! ed into something new and smart,
and appropriate for the way we live
today. A desk needn't be limited to
being a desk. If the shape of it
seems to you to be better as basis
| for a Welsh dresser, make it into a
Welsh dresser. Or maybe you need
a dressing table and can convert it
appropriately.
You can make gay things for chill
dren and their playrooms. Every
child loves a chest. For your boy,
make one as if for pirate. Put
rockers on a drawer from a bureau
that has fallen apart and your little
! girl will consider it precious cradle.
! Everything seems grist to the mill,
/ the more absurd the better, eSpe-
cially for game rooms. Old metal
kerosene lamps fitted with round
| boards on top become stands to
draw up to the arms of a chair to
hold smoking paraphernalia. Tin
washtubs make amusing wine COOL
ers and ice tubs, sometimes mounted
on legs and sometimes fitted with
covers and decorated with decoys
swimming in painted water.
/ Every family seems to have an
ironing board that isn't being used.
Make it into a coffee table. Or
make a coffee table out of your
broken hobbyhorse; or trays out of
discarded picture frames.
| A country house seems the ideal
setting for this kind of furniture.
But I have also seen it used aston
ishingly we'll with conventional pc
Rod furniture.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-25

You say it can't be done?
WeH Mrs. Aris Bacas of
Washington aciH argue that
point any day. This desk,
end table and dresser are
her oson artistic ranstorma-
tons, done z0ifh the help of
the Peter Hunt booklet
i0hich is available at a local
paint shop. The childs desk
lOas done over for the time
s0hen her little 2-year-oid
granddaughter Lynn gro,cs
large enough TO use it.
"The basic stroke is easy
to make" says Peter Hunt:
press the Tip of your brush
dozen and draao it f0,card
you, constantly and evenly
lifting it until the stroke
comes TO a slender end as
yon lift the brush off.
"DramafiSe suitably, don't
Just stick to meaningless
decoration. II cupboard is
for a dining room, 1 like to
use fishing scenes and hunt
ing scenes and the gathering
OF grapes and vegetables"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-25

PROV1NCEIOWN Me. -(NANA).
To reconstruct your old furniture
and decorate it in a peasant manner
should be lot of fun for you. In
fact, "blithe spirit" is an impor-
tant part Of your equipment. Peas
ant designs must be created in that
frame of mind. If at the very be-
ginning you realize you aren't going
to have grand time doing it, just
stop right there because as sure
as death the result will be a tired,
dreary affair.
The happiest people I know are
those who make things with their
hands, either as a recreation or pro-
fessionally. The result is incidental.
The main thing is the enjoyment,
zest, kick that you have while you
are making your little wood box or
coffee table or hanging shelf.
Some people once sold me the en-
tire contents of an old house they
had inherited-a house that, SO
years ago, had had barber shop
in one corner. I think some of the
incest things I ever made were
those remade from the cupboards
that held the mugs and shaving
brushes and razors. Even the old
barber shop chairs were converted
into smart furniture. The owners
were aghast. They told me that they
could have sold the house contents
several times, but no one had
wanted the barber shop articles.
Often the secondhand furniture
I buy is a challenge to my ingenuity
to find a new, practical use for it.
But when l buy old furniture I look
first for pieces that do not involve
intricate conversion. 1t is in the
game to use as lumber those parts
that are eliminated, although occa-
sionally we do. have to use new
boards for shelving and backing.
Naturally. the simplest renovation
is that of elimination.
Designs must be personal They
must be yours and not slavish COPY,
stroke by stroke, of some one else
design. And nothing is sadder, to
my way Of thinking. than to work
out a motif with patient care, and
then apply it to a whole set of furni-
ture, matching it all assiduously and
disregarding whether that motif is
appropriate to each piece or not.
Let the article designate the design.
Dramatic your decorations, and
let your drama be a comedy. Let
each piece of furniture have decora-
tons on it appropriate to the use of
the article. And, if possible, why not
let the decorations tell a little story,
no matter how remotely? 1t is all
very well to have a little man and a
little woman standing side by side
framed in a garland Of hearts and
flowers and birds on a bridal chest
for instance. But if the same little
man is handing the same little
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-25

not only pick up more dust and
leave mirrors and feathers and so
forth lint free, but also eliminate
washing busters and avoid the pos
sihility of dust explosions from OIL
treated dust cloths.
I also find it a great help to use
parchment cooking paper. I pre-
pare my vegetables such as broc-
coli, ETC., in the morning, tie them
in the wet parchment paper and put
into icebox until ready to drop
paper and all in boiling water.
Again no dirty pot. I prepare my
whole purchase of vegetables this
way, tieing them in individual bags
for future days. Parchment cook
ing paper can also be used for lin
ing cooky sheets; pie plates and
fish broilers, cutting down on pot
washing. The paper may be re-
used by just rinSing.
Another time saver are the paper
baking plates for deep-dish or shall
low pies, custards, etc. They are
discarded after each use, but bake
as beautifully as any pie plate.
be an efficient one. I notice many
cooks use too many dishes in pre-
pairing food. Before my cook left
she taught me to mix my meat loaf
right in the dish I bake it in and
instead of slightly beating an egg
in separate dish, to merely punch
a well in the middle of the meat,
drop the egg in and proceed. The
same is true in mixing dressing for
fowl-miX it right in the roasting
pan. This is merely one example
of saving two dishes in the prepara-
ton of a simple course. 1 have
found many others as I am sure
all of you will if you think about
what you are doing Another that
comes to my mind is instead of boil
ing potatoes in pot and then
transferring them to the skillet for
home-frieds, why not slice and boil
them right IN the frying pan, then
just pour off the excess water and
fry?
My letter is getting much too long,
but l will add just one more thing
that has been a boon to me, who
hates to get up in the morning!
prepare the grapefruit, put the
coffee in the automatic maker, and
set the table the night before. My
3-year-old gets up at goodness
knows what hour, but has been
trained to dress herself and play
in her room quietly until the alarm
goes off. AS result I don't have
to get up until almost 8 o'clock.
This night-before breakfast pre-
paration is my one schedule"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-25

Contributions and requests
must be accompanied by the
Sender's full name and address.
We will withhold both and use
only initials. Please address
mail to the Readers Clearing
House, Woman's Page, The
Evening Star, Washington 4.
Views expressed in the Clear
ing House are not necessarily
those of The Star, and as it is
obviously impossible for us to
test all recipes submitted, we
cannot assume responsibility
for them.
Betsy CasweH.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-25

66J 1NUOcTto
Jumpers are smart and practical.
With a design like this, your color
full jumper can be made up in a
couple of hours.
Pattern envelope contains hot
iron transfers for the embroidery
designs and full directions for max
ing the jumper in sizes IL, IA and
16.
Send Is cents (coim for Pattern
No R2159 to Needle Arts Dept, The
Washington Star, p o. Box 172
Station D. New York 3, N. Y. Please
include your postal zone number,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-25
Regent Diamond Returns

lery Of Apollo in the Louvre, and at
night the marble block on which
the case stands is released by
spring and lowers into the vaults of
the museum.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-25
GRAPE WINE2

From Mrs. J. N. SteUart,
WdShington.)
I wonder if some of the ladies
could tell me what to do with some
grape wine I made which is much
too street..
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-25
Make Do
By Peter Hunt

Peter Hunt is the foremost American decorator furniture
along the lines OF folk art His Prounceown workshop peasant
Village" is nationally famous The folQng story Is taken
from his book "Peer HUNTS Workshop" published by zf
nnris
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-25

From E. o. D., Arlington.)
This was requested recently and
have not seen it printed as yet, so
am glad of the opportunity of send
ing in both to a wonderful column
Il love you. Mother" said little John;
Then, forgetting his work. his cap went
on,
And he was of to the garden swing:
And left her wood and water to bring.
II love you, Mother" said Rosy Nell;
L love you better than tongue can tell"
Then she leased and pouted full-half the
day,
Till her Mother, rejoiced when she went
to play.
I love you, Mother" said little Fan:
To-day I'll help you all can:
How glad l am that school doesn't keep"
So she rocked the babe till 1t fell asleep.
Then stepping softly she fetched the broom,
And swept the floor and tidied the room,
Busy and happy all day was she,
Helpful and happy as child could be.
Il love you, Mother" again they said
Three little children going to bed,
How do you think that Mother guessed
Which one Of them really loved her best?