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Evening star., 1948-09-21
WhyGrow
Old?
Bv Josebhine Lovman

The question of the girdle,
whether to wear one, when to wear
one, and what kind to buy, Is of
great importance to the woman who
wishes to feel and look her very
best!
1t is true that our abdominal
muscles will become lax If we al
ways depend on a girdle for sup
port and never use our muscles to
hold in our stomach. However, the
average woman does not use her
muscles well or keep them strong
through exercise. Therefore, I think
most women will profit by wearing
a girdle part of the time. However,
she should go about part OF the
day remembering to hold her tummy
in and she definitely requires exer-
cises for this group of natural elas-
tic bands. Also, when wearing
closely fitted or clinging clothes,
practically all women are more at
tractive in appearance If they will
wear light girdle Of some sort.
Many saleswomen would be sur
prised if their customers did what
they should do when buying an un-
dergarment. Nothing so detracts
from grace Of movement as stiff
girdle which feels like a diving suit
must, except that the girdle Is much
more closely fitted to the human
form.
After you have been measured for
girdle and have put 1t on, bend to
the left and right, sit far back in
a chair and then on the very edge
Get up out of your chair and then
sit down in it again. Curl one foot
up under you. Stand up and pick
something up of the floor. # the
girdle is uncomfortable while you
act in this strange way, or If II
slips out Of place, try another one
until you find the perfect style and
size.
Type OF figure and build enter
into the selection of your girdle
The short-waisted woman will re-
quire one kind, the long-waisteo
lady another. The large -hipped but
slim wasted woman will benefit by
one style, while her sister with
neutrality-suspicious. hips and rolls
and fatty accumulation above the
waist will require another.
Take time and care in the Sc
lection of your girdle and you will
enjoy it more and look lovelier.
If you wish to have my exercises
for slimming and f1rming the alb.
dominal muscles sent q stamped
self addressed envelope with YOU
request for leaf1et No. Q, "Abdomina
Exercises" to Josephine Lowman
in care of The. Evening Star.
Evening star., 1948-09-21

watched for and bought up
eagerly by women who want
the best and who ore willing
to poy for it.
Pictured ore Two dresses
available in Washington.
On the left, a graceful ol1-
wool jersey in fresh linden
green with deep, deep poek-
cts and a wide eirdIe Of
cinnamon suede. On the
right, her famous coott-
dress. fu|I-skirted, with q
softIy-roIIed collar. fIored
cuffs and q tobacco brown
leather belt to emphasize q
small waist. --ELENl.
Evening star., 1948-09-21

Here Is glamour and practical
Aomfort for the younger generation.
7ais young fiower-trimmed hat and
matching mittens are easily and
quickly crocheted Of double yarn in
Gay colors!
Pattern envelope No. R26l5 con-
tains complete crocheting instruc-
tions, stitch illustrations and finish
ing directions.
To obtain this pattern, send IS cents
tn coins, giving pattern number,
your name, address and zone num-
ber to Peggy Roberts, The WASH
angton Star, P. o. Box 100, Station
g, New York 10, N. Y.
Evening star., 1948-09-21
Capital Careers

She was one Of the two Auaeri.
can representatives attending the
international conference OF Chris.
tian Youth leaders In Europe before
the war. She was chairman OF the
Youth Leaders Conference here foR
two years. During the war she was
the first director Of the USO here
and later area director for the Dis
trict, Maryland and Virginia. She
directed the US Penthouse Club,
which served some 10000 service
men and women . month through
out the war years. The Penthouse Is
still open and it still serves around
$1,000 service people q month. She
trained $1,000 volunteer workers In
one year during the war and when
peace came put into effect the pro-
gram by which many OF them
carried over their work into this
only slightly less hectic postwar
period. And she has just been
elected chairman Of the executive
conference Of the Community Chest.
All these have been big jobs and
most Of them have been designed
toward helping shape the future Of
today's youth, not only here but
abroad. From them, Mabel Cook has
learned that people are the same all
over the world, they have the same
problems and the same hopes. And
like all the other Y workers in those
50 countries she strives constantly
to do her share to alleviate those
problems, and bring about the real
ization Of those hopes for happy
lives. s.
So much for the accomplish
nents Of the executive Miss Cook.
Mabel Cook Of the Argonne Apart
ments has accomplishments, too.
For one thing, she cooks the best
real Southern-style fried chicken
this side Of the Mason Dixon line.
For another she Is the first woman
ever to be invited to speak before
the Rotary Club here.
She loves picnics (that chicken
frying comes In right handy at
these), used to act In Little Theater
productions, loves clothes and un-
usual rings, collects old dishes,
Chelsea's purple grapes in particu-
lar, adores symphony music and
rides In the country, speaks French
and is always the one at q dinner
party to try the new In food on the
menu.
Oh, yes, also she is known rs the
woman who skated to eminence In
the YWCA. She'll probably never
be allowed to forget that the day
she first came down to join the
girl reserves, the move that even-
tually made her what she is today"
she roller-skated right into the
building that she now runs 20
creditabiy.
Evening star., 1948-09-21

plain and al Mabel Cook.
though she has never had q baby of
her own she has had hundreds,
thousands of them by proxy.
Attractive, charming Mabel Cook
Is the executive director Of the
Young Women's Christian Associa-
ton here. That means she Is boss
lady of q staff Of 232 and must su-
pervise the extensive activities of
10 different departments ranging
from the Penthouse service center
to the teen club, from adult ed
ucation to world fellowship.
The YWCA is the oldest and larg-
est woman's organization in the
world. It is established in SO coun-
tries, where its goal Of the abundant,
happy life has become a reality for
literally millions of people.
In her position as head OF the
Y chapter in the Capital City, Ma
bel Cook often finds herself called
upon by national headquarters to
act as liaison between that Office
and the State Department, so hers
is no local, one-city appointment.
Just last week, for example, she was
hostess to 48 Y leaders from Pakis-
tan, from Japan, from Germany,
Korea and on around the globe. For
three days she guided and PARTED
them around, not just her home
town, but the Capital of the United
States.
Although she didn't know it In
the fourth grade, by the time Mabel
Cook reached high school she was
on her way toward the fine position
she now holds. In those days she
was herself a member Of the Y's
teen reserves. (Today its 1900 men,
bers make this the largest girl re-
serves club in Washington) She
was there so outstanding that when
she graduated from college George
Washington there was a place for
her on the Y staff.
Evening star., 1948-09-21

There's a greet deal OF
practically In the dresses
designed by Jennifer. In
addition they possess grace,
prophetic design and fine
fabrics.
More and more women in
America have become label
conscious" They ore in
terested in knowing who
makes what. A dress on q
rack no longer supplies the
answer to "just What dress
shall | buy?". They insist
on knowing who makes the
fabric and who hos designed
the creation.
Evening star., 1948-09-21
HERMITS.

from E. E. S., Takoma Park.)
Thank you, Mrs. r. j. c., for your
banana cake recipe! My family
says it is the best cake I have ever
made.
We like those cookies called her
mits: One cup sifted flour, l tea
spoon baking powder, 1s teaspoon
salt, IS teaspoon nutmeg, y tea
spoon cinnamon, "a cup shortening,
u cup brown sugar, "a cup white
sugar, egg, beaten, l cup raisins,
u cup broken nutmeats. Sift dry
ingredients. Cream shortening and
sugar. Add egg and beat. Add raj
sins and nuts. Drop by teaspoons
on creased baking sheet. Bake at
$50 degrees for is minutes. Makes
two dozen.
For a meatless meal ripe olive
croquettes are good: Two cups ripe
olives, l cup nut meats, l slice
onion, 2 cups soft breadcrumbs, u
teaspoon salt, eggs, we'll beaten
Remove pits and chop the olives
nuts and onion together and mix
with other ingredients. Dip in
crumbs, then in a mixture of ]
slightly beaten egg and 2 table
spoons of milk. Roll in crumbs
Fry in plenty of shortening, about
4 tablespoons.
| *kk X
PINK CLEOME.
| h nj
To the party asking the best way
to plant seed of Pink Cleome,
would advise pour seed in the palm
of the hand, shut the eyes anc
throw seed as high as you can
Next spring you will have all the
plants you can use for generation
for Cleome reseeds itself vigorously
My Cleome Is in full bloom now
and is a beautiful addition to the
fall garden. Pink Queen is better
in habit of growth and color thar
the old varieties, being an exquisite
rose and white without a trace o1
magenta.
REFRIGERATOR REFINISHED?
From Mrs. H. S., Washington.)
r. G. H., please come to my rescue
Where can get my refrigerator re-
finished? The dear old thing is II
fine running condition, but JUS
needs a new paint job. The re-
frigerator service people haven't an!
suggestions, nor some Of the pain
stores called. Surely people hav'
lrefrigerators refinished, but where
Evening star., 1948-09-21

In Vienna. When she or
rived in America she did not
immediately 90 to work de-
signing clothes. For q year
in New York and two on the
West Coost she visited mu-
seuns, theoters, restaurants,
business districts and stores
in an attempt to find out
what designs would be best
for American women.
Today Jennifer's reputo-
ton as q fine American de-
signer is we'll established.
Throughout the United
Stotes her clothes ore
Evening star., 1948-09-21

o10 uN WSE .
chewing cir
stubby pc n cils
er no W to
spell fireman or
detective or ac-
tress, the young
Mabel wrote de-
cisively Il want
to be q plain
lady with q
baby"
InIS Is 10 re.
port that Mabel
never &C h ieved
her q m bi t ion.
She is far from
Evening star., 1948-09-21
By Maysayef Child

When Mabel Cook was In the
fourth grade she had to write one
Of those II Want To Be" compost
tions. While all tho other little boys
Evening star., 1948-09-21


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 1t
is obviously impossible for us
to test all recipes submitted. we
cannot assume responsibility for
them. Betsy Cas,ceH
Evening star., 1948-09-21
ANCHORING RUG7
(Fron, Mrs. r H. H.. Galesuille.)

(From Mrs. r H. H.. Galespille.)
Several years ago I read about a
woman who, in redecorating her
guest room, used q patchwork quilt
on the floor as q rug. This idea
intrigued me, particularly for its
washable qualities, and I got one
that matches the color scheme In
our children's room. Now, my
problem Is to keep 1t down, instead
Of runpling on the waxed floor. I
have heard of some sort Of tape
that is sewn or ironed to the edges
Of rugs to keep them from slipping,
but I do not know what it is, and
hope that some one can tell me.
Evening star., 1948-09-21

This has largely come
about through the efforts
Of the manufacturers and
stores who have spent thou
sands Of dollars on odver-
tisine and educating the
consumer public to recoe-
nize worth when they see it.
Now for q little about
Jennifer herself. In 1910
she and her husband left
Vienna to come to America.
She had studied dressmok-
ing and had been q sample
maker for q leading dress
house for q number Of years
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-07-08
Local Boys Enlist
In The II. S. Navy

On June 80, 1913, two of our To-
cal boys took advantage of the
Navy's high school graduate train
ing program.
Ralph S. Ray, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Ralph Ray of Washington
Grove, and John Stolz, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Joseph Stolz of IS Rus
sell Street, Gaithersburg, enlisted
for three years in the Navy. They
took advantage of the Navy's offer
to high school graduates and Sc
lected radio school as their choice
of trade schools before enlisting.
Upon completion of their recruit
training these Boys will then at
tend the Navy's radio school.
The Navy offers this opportunity
to all high school graduates who
attain the required mark on their
entrance examination for the
school of their choice. For any high
school graduates who are interest
ed in selecting their own trade
school the Navy recruiter will be
in the Post Office in Rockville from
July 21st to July 9th, both dates
inclusive. So don't delay any long
er but take advantage of this OPP
portunity to1select your own trade
and career.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-07-08
Truck Body Business
OnenS In Bethesda

Production is underway in the
new plant Of Better Body Builders,
Inc, located at River Road and
B. & o. Railroad, Bethesda. Wal
ter A. Anderson is sales manager
of the plant which builds steel
truck bodies. He states that the
company is prepared to serve buy
ers in the Montgomery County and
Washington area by having in
stock certain standard bodies and
by quickly building other types not
standard. Visitors are invited and
customers may actually see their
truck bodies being made at any
stage of production.
The management also states that
purchases of supplies and mate
rails including labor are being
made locally as far as possible and
they will be interested in receiving
information from county mer-
chants for such materials that are
used in their business.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-07-08
Building Permits
Approved By Board

The following building permits
were issued by Clerk to the Board
Of County Commissioners, ]. Err
nest Hawkins, for the following
period: -,
June 20: Erect dwelling, between
Cedar Grove and Damascus, w. E.
Mullinix, Germantown.
June 20: Erect dwelling, o. W.
Hammond, Clarksburg.
June 20: Erect dwelling, on
Woodfeld Road, Thomas F.
Grimes, RID, Gaithersburg.
June 80; Erect dwelling, Charles
E. Mossburg, Jr., Rockville.
June 80: Erect dwelling, George
l.. 0ffutt, Rockville.
June 80: Erect church, Damas-
cus-Etchison Road, Potomac Con-
ference Corp. of Seventh Day Adj
ventists, Takoma Park.
July L: Erect dwelling, Watkins
Mill Road, Roger Mills, Gathers
burg.
July /: Erect dwelling, on Red
land Road, George v. Mobley, Ri
8, Gaithersburg.
July L: Erect barn, Ounce
orchard-Cloppers Road, Guy l.
Fletcher, Gaithersburg.
July 2: Erect dwelling, Travilah
Road, Eugene Runyon, Mclean
Va.
July 2: Erect dwelling, East OF
RI. % at Dickerson, Russell J. and
Gladys b. Rachel, Dickerson.
July 6: Erect dwelling, on Cedar
Grove Road, Howard r. Watkins
Damascus. Is
July a: Erect dwellings Travilah
Road, Ralph E. Mills, Rt. /, Rock
vile.
July Z: Add three rooms to
dwelling, Frederick Road, Lee
Nichols, Rockville.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-07-08
r POOLESVTLLE
Mrs. C. NJ. Upton
PoolesVille 2115

Mrs. Erskine Hamilton, one time
resident of Poolesville, has been
the recent guest of Mrs. Guy ALL
mutt. While there she was hostess
to some of her friends at Nor
mandy Farms for luncheon.
Mrs. Webb Hersperger is one of
our county delegates to the N.E.A.
meeting in Cleveland several days
this week.
Burr Randles of Denver spent a
short visit with his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. w. B. Handles.
Mrs. Mary Davis is visiting her
nephew, Webb Hersperger.
Mrs. Lee Walden has improved
so much she is visiting her sister
in Washington after undergoing
surgery at George Washington
Hospital.
Mrs. Rose Allison and Mrs. j.
M. White are on trip through
New England.
Warren Irwin has gone to New
York to meet his wife, son and
rnother-in-law who are arriving
from Switzerland this week.
Mrs. ]. M. White was hostess
at an afternoon bridge party on
Friday.
The Sunday School and congre-
cation of st. Peters Parish will
have its annual picnic at Braddock
Heights this year on Wednesday,
July IA.
DR.. Ralph Williams of Cumber-
land visited his father, H. M. Will
liams over the 4th.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-07-08
: WOODFELD
Miss Lucille Priest
Damascus 2577

The Women's Society of Chris
tian Service served dinner to the
preachers, their wives and children
in the Woodfield Hall on Monday.
There were ninety present. After
the dinner horse shoes, baseball
and other games were played.
Mrs. Ava King is spending some
time with her son, Noah and wife,
at Kempton. r-
Those in hospitals this week in
clude Mrs. Jerry King and Nancy
in Sibley Hospital, Washington,
and Mrs. Elmer Green at Montgom-
cry County General Hospital. Mrs.
Ollie King is home after a ton
silectomy at the latter hospital.
Samuel Broadhurst spent Satur-
day with Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey
Burdette. -
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Schwartz
and children of Baltimore were the
guests of Mrs. Marion Duvall on
Sunday.
George Kemp and children gave
a surprise birthday picnic dinner
in honor of Mrs. Kemp on Sunday.
There were several other relatives
present.
Mrs. Raymond Kemp visited her
sister-in-law and niece, Mrs. Jerry
King and Nancy at Sibley Hospi-
tai on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ebert Richardson
are receiving congratulations on
the birth of son at Montgomery
County General Hospital on Thurs
day. Mrs. Richardson is the daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Eli Leishear.
Mr.. and Mrs. Donald Warfield
and son weer supper guests on
Sunday of Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond
Kemp.
Samuel Broadhurst of Brown
ingsville is spending the week. with
his son-in-law and daughter, Mr..
and Mrs. .Cramwell King.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-07-08
County Parents Group Asks For
Inadequate" Educational System

pherently the homes, and that the
present trend of control over the
clubs, organizations, camps, vaca-
ton time and out-of-school leisure
time activities be discontinued i'm
mediately."
That the "best way to preserve
cur traditional American way of
life and government is by teaching
only those PHILOSOPHERS which are
based thereupon" is expressed by
the group. The group further re-
solves that "our school system i'm
mediately sever it's connections
with those particular institutions
Of higher learning, associations
and educators who are bringing
about the GENERALIZATION of control
ever education and the regimenta-
ton of our children.
1--WE further believe that it is the
duty and moral obligation of our
Board of Education of Montgom-
cry County to provide that system
of education which the parents and
taxpayers want.
eve, therefore, resolve that the
Board of Education take immedi-
ate action to provide us with school
administrators and person e |,
known and regarded as opponents
of the system of education which
we are requesting, and who can
and will sincerely comply with our
requests"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-07-08

~ 6AOuP VI N4OillSOHHcIy NOuHIy
parents and taxpayers interested
in restoring to the public schools
of the County an adequate system
Of education, at its third meeting
held June %, in Bethesda, adopted
27-point resolution.
Present at the meeting were par
ents with children attending Be-
thesda Elementary, Alta Vista,
Bradley, Rockville Elementary,
Kensington Elementary, Leland
Junior High, and Montrose. The
group, which has ad here s
throughout the county, plans to
follow up the resolution with Pc
tition to the proper authorities re-
questing that their resolution be
put into effect. Signatures to the
petition will be obtained from par
ents and taxpayers on a county
wide basis. The next meeting of
tie group will be held on Monday,
July IL, at 9 P. M. at the Boule-
ward Bowling ALLEYS, Wisconsin
Avenue and Leland Street, Bethes-
da. The resolution states in part:
1--WE, a group of parents and
taxpayers of Montgomery County,
Md, believe that our public schools
should exist for the primary pur-
pose of training our children in
the essentials of knowledge, name
ly, reading, writing mot printing
or script, arithmetic, spelling,
language, phonics, American his
tory, American geography and
civics.
1--WE, therefore, resolve that the
present system of education, which
is based on the Experimentation
Philosophy, and which has not pro-
duced the scholastic results we
know our children are capable of
achieving, be discontinued immedi-
ately, and that system of educa-
tion be installed which is based on
presentation of subject matter in
systematic, sequential and or
ganized manner; that the above
named school subjects be taught
separately and as such, and that
art work, music, ETC., be relegated
to a minor position in the school
curriculum"
The resolution, which is signed
by John H. Hiser, provisional
chairman, further resolves that
"each child be provided with an
approved textbook for each and
every subject studied and that the
purchase of textbooks be given
precedence over and above any
other materials of instruction"
The group also believes that par
ents should receive report show
ing the children's progress in sub
jects and in department; that the
teachers should assign a normal
amount of homework regularly
that classrooms should be orderly
and disciplined and that the "pres.
ent allowance of too much freedom
be discontinued immediately" The
parents resolve that children
should be encouraged to continue
their education after graduation
from high school" and properly
prepared for entrance in any insti.
tuition of higher learning.
! Resolved further that "our chill,
dren are capable, intelligent
healthy, normal young Americans
that they be so regarded" ant
mot be treated as guinea pigs, be.
havioristic, psychiatric, personality
or social problems. The parents
ask that "the system of education
in Montgomery County leave t.
the jurisdiction of the home those
duties and privileges which are in
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-07-08

Legs have, always been import.
ant. Years ago, reporters used
them to get news; nowadays,
photographers depend upon them
for their art.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-07-08

The go-to-church drive can re-
ceive your personal support re-
CARELESS of whether other people
fall in line, or not.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-07-08

Any newspaper editor will admit
that it is impossible to run a news
paper to suit all of several thou
sand readers.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-07-08
General Rules

Only garments articles made from Southern
States feed bags will be eligible for prizes.
All articles garments entered must have been
made by the person entering them since September
l, 1947. Only farm women and farm girls are
eligible to enter the contest.
Garments or articles may he made of Southern
States (a) plain white cotton, (b) dress print, or
(c) osnaburg bags Trimming may be of other
materials.
Garments of any kind for women and girls may be
entered by the maker in Glass l. Garments of any
kind for men and boys may be entered by the maker
in Class II. Household articles of any kind may be
entered by the maker in Class Ill
All entries should be at the meeting hall at least
80 minutes before the meeting hour Entries bearing
the and addresses of contestants may be left
with Agency Manager in advance Of the meeting.