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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1951-03-08
I AMONG THE
HOMEMAKERS
Learning to Rug

Seven homemakers spent Feb. 26
and 81 at the Extension Office
Tearing to do rugging. The first
day was taken up in the selection
of the patterns and learning how
to put the rug in the frame and
then work out the color cheme for
each rug.
At the close of the second day
the office was really rainbow in
color with the various gradations
of color in woods to be used in the
flowers, leaves and background.
On the 10th of March this group
will be back to actually start their
work. Each women now knows
how to dye the needed colors and
they hope to get off to good start.
Market : Consumer
On March 1 the first aettempt at
a Market Consumer Information
project was held in the Extension
Office with representatives from
twenty-four of the Homemakers
Clubs present, plus a few visitors.
The purpose was to acquaint the
buying public with what to look for
in the purchase of fruits and vege-
tables, how to use the market re-
ports and to give guidance in what
is the best buy of the week. These
two subjects were covered by Har-
old H. Hoecker, Marketing Spec
ialist of the University of Mary
land and Miss Virginia Sherborne,
of the Marketing Service, in Balti-
more. Slides were used to illus
trate spoilage, detection, as well as
how to recognize good products.
Mrs. Natalie Russell, Nutrition
Specialist of the University of
Maryland Extension Service, re-
viewed the nutrition value of fruits
and vegetables.
Miss Christine Blake gave de-
monstration on the cooking of
greens to maintain color and vita
min content.
Miss Evelyn La Fontaine de-
monstrated the cooking of apples
on top of the stove and Miss Turn
err demonstrated how to prepare
vegetables for freezing.
Planning Day
March 6 was planning day" for
the Dress Schools which Miss La
Fontaine will carry this month. At
that time those homemakers who
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1951-03-08
Richard
Montgomery
High School
Win Last Game

The hard driving Rocket basket
ball team of Richard Montgomery
concluded their basketball season
last Friday afternoon by defeating
a Woodward Prep team 1920. Dick
Grist paved the way for the win
ners with 10 points most of them
coming on under the basket shots.
The Rockets used their height adj
on their much shorter OPP
ponents to control both Of the
back boards.
A dazzling II won, 5 lost record
was that of the Rockets when the
season came to a close. Gathers
burg was the only team to down
them twice. Among teams de-
feated were Poolesville, Sherwood,
Damascus, Woodward Prep and
Capitol Page (2), and the Alumni.
The Rockets suffered defeat at the
hands of B-CC, Friend, George
town Prep and Gaithersburg.
Best Publication Exhibit
RMHS won the prize for the
best publications exhibit at the
annual Inter-high Press Convention
last Saturday. Attending the Com
witch met in Sherwood this
year, were Mary Lou Loutnran,
Helen Reeves, Gordon Coleman, and
Joe Bride. Mr.. Comfy was news
in the contest.
Bethesda Chevy Chase won the
Plaque for the third consecutive
year. The schools which had the
plaque before B. c. c. were Dam
ascus and Gaithersburg. The Con-
vention, which has been held for
the past five years will be in
next year.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1951-03-08
Committee Appointed
For Planning Of
Effective TB Control

Effective tuberculosis control
takes long-range planning" said
DR.. ]. w. Bird, President, in an
nouncing the formation sof the
Program and Budget Committee of
the Montgomery County Tubercu-
losis Association. DR.. Bird has
appointed the following committee:
John M. McInerney, Chairman,
DR.. c. Mayhem Derryberry, DR..
V. l.. Ellicott, Winship l. Green,
DR.. Harold H. Mitchell, Emerson
P. Slacum, DR.. X. F. Welte. This
committee had it's first meeting
on Tuesday afternoon, March 6, in
the Office of the Association, 7
Wilson Lane, Bethesda. Plans are
being made which take into ac-
count the importance of case-find-
ing, rehabilitation, and education.
A final program and tentative
budget into the March q meeting
of the Board of Directors of the
Association.
Judge Alfred D. Noyes has been
appointed chairman of the Nomin-
ating Committee, assisted by DR..
Charles R. L. HALEY and Mrs.
Thomas G. Hutton. Nominations
will be brought into the annual
meeting of the Association on
April 25.
Plans for this annual meeting
are being made under the direction
of Mrs. Dexter M. Billiard and
Walter S. Pratt, Jr.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1951-03-08
Potomac Mystery
Prize May Prove
10 Be The Thing
By Betty Diamond

If you have been possessed with
curiosity about the identity of
The Thing, you may find out if
you attend enc of the performances
of Beyond Reason" to be pre-
sented by the Potomac Players at
the School on March 16 and II at
s Pm. Each evening, two lucky
members of the audience will be
presented with a mystery prize,
and it may be "The Thing"
For weeks now, most everyone
up Potomac way has been working
and rehearsing for the forthcom-
ing production of musical, COM
edy, horror show to be given for
the benefit of the P-TA. Mrs. New
bold Moves, Jr. is directing the
play and Mrs. Robert Smeltzer is
production manager. Rumor is
rife that Dave Weeds German
"gutteral" and Mickey Maguire's
Irish brogue will "lay'em in the
aisles". Others who have prom
inent parts in the play are Mrs.
F. Moran McConihe, Mrs. New
bold Moves, Jr. Alvin Durham and
Lyt Gould. Newbold Moves, Jr.,
June Lynch, Eddie Harding, Gill
bert Henderson, Mrs. Mary Ann
Talker, Mrs. Camilla Moore, and
Mrs. Godfrey Kaufman are also
participating. A lively chorus
composed of the following chorines
promises to render some sensa-
tional numbers: Mrs. George
Plummer, Mrs. MINER Hostettler,
Mrs. Frank Counselman, Mrs.
Tinsley Adams, Mrs. Preston
Stearn, Mrs. Doc Mannar, Mrs.
Hal Poole, Mrs. Pollard, Mrs. Max
Snouffer, and Mrs. Stuart Upton.
Mrs. E. ]. Simon is in charge of
refreshments as usual, and dur
ing intermission in keeping with
the erie atmosphere of the eve
ming, "Gould meat sandwiches" and
arsenic and soda" will be on
sale.
If you remember that wonderful
performance of "The Saga of Gal
Looping Gulley", put on by this
group last year, you will not want
to miss this years show. Mrs.
David Weed is in charge of tic
kets, which may be purchased
from most anyone in Potomac.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1951-03-08

signed up for the Beginners Dress
School and the Advanced Dress
School received help on selection of
patterns and materials. The men,
bers were divided into small groups
and worked out the schedule for
days to come to the various schools.
The Agent assisted Miss La
Fontaine.
COMING EVENTS:
March Is the Homemakers
Council will meet for Pot Luck
Luncheon. In the afternoon the
new County Librarian, George
Moreland, will talk with the Presi-
dents of the Homemakers Clubs
about the plans for the Library
System in the County;
On the ID, Is and 16 of March
the third and final Upholstering
School will be held in the Extern
sion Office.
On the Goth of March Miss Helen
Irene Smith, Home Management
Specialist, will instruct the project
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1951-03-08
Annual Dinner Meeting
Of Jersey Cattle Club
To Be Held On The 15tf

The annual dinner meeting OF
District 2 Jersey Cattle Club will
be held on Thursday, March Is in
the Auditorium of the Agricul-
turalCenter at Gaithersburg. Prin-
cipal speaker at the meeting,
which will begin at 7 pm, will be
DR.. Gordon NJ. Cairns Of the Uni
versity of Maryland. National
and State Field Men will also be
on hand to present some interest
ing facts. Other entertainment
will also be provided.
Jersey Cattle Club members will
be required TO pay only one-third
the banquet fee. They are urged
to bring their parents.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1951-03-08

leaders from the thirty-four clubs
in pest Control. ryt
On March 81 big countrywide
meeting will be held at the Agri-
cultural Center, at Gaithersburg,
at / P. M. when Edward X. Bend
er, Vegetable Crop Specialist and
T. l.. Bissell, General Entomology
Specialist, who will talk to anyone
who is interested in planning,
planting and caring for a vegetable
garden.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1951-03-08
Montgomery SideIights
By Elsie White Haines

came a part of District of Col
umbia.
Evidently the residents of George
Town, which was a pretty sofis-
ticated city even then, resented
having a small rural town as it's
seat of government if it did have
a Court House large enough for 80
persons to dine and dance. You
notice in the Journal story that
no town was MISUNDERSTANDING
had no name at that time as we
said before, but had been referred
to during its previous years as
Martins Store, Mr.. Days Tavern,
Ovens Ordinary, Montgomery
Court House, Williamsburg, and
since 1901, Rockville.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1951-03-08

Adams, 81, Norbeck, and Ora Luz
ellie Budd, 25, Sandy Spring. =
March 2 = John Arnold, 48, and
Virginia Mae Shelton, "a, both of
Lincoln Park; William Ernest
Simpson, sc, and Eva jackson
Prather, 60, both of Gaithersburg;
Bernard A. Litchfield, 32, and
Anna Margaret Hohmann, 20, both
of Rockville.
March 5 - Lawrence Mansfield
Olney, 30, and Dorothy B. Wins,
"a, both of Rockville.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1951-03-08

Do you remember some years ago
we gave you Scharf's (History of
Western Maryland) version of the
celebration that took place at
Montgomery Court House (all the
name Rockville had at that time) +,
when there were thirteen toasts
drunk-and we wondered if the
company ended by slipping under
the table. .t
Thanks to our good friend Miss
Lucy Leigh Bowie, of Baltimore,
we can now give you the story
straight from the Maryland Jour
nal and Baltimore Advertiser, of
Tuesday, April %, 1888, No. %,
of Vol. x: ~
"Miss Goddard, Permit me the
happiness of informing you that
the glorious event of Peace and
Independence was celebrated at
our Court House, by at least 80
most respectable Gentlemen and
Ladies, on Wednesday the 9th in
slant. An elegant dinner was pro-
vided, after which the following
toasts were drank, the Hessian
band (being previously procured
from Frederick-Town) playing the
whole time. Here you might see
displayed on the countenances of
both Ladies and Gentlemen that
pure and unmixed' joy which is
supposed to be depicted on those
of the upper regions. A ball was
opened in the evening, and con-
tinued with the greatest decorum
and vivacity till II, when the COM
pany dispersed.
eve are, l believe, the first to
celebrate this desirable event in the
State; and, from your well known
liberality, | fiatter myself you'll do
us the favour of publishing it, in
your useful paper, to the world
l had like to have forgot to tell
you, that we had a discharge of 10
platoons after dinner.
81. The United States in Con-
gress. (2) General Washington
and the Northern Army .(3) Gen
eral Greene and the intrepid Of
ficers and soldiers of the Southern
Army. (4) His Most Christian
Majesty and the Queen and Royal
Family of France. 90 Perpetual
Alliance, and mutual good Offices,
between France and America.
(6) The Count de Rochambeau
(7) The Marquis de la Fayette
81 The Chevelier der la Luzerne
(9) The Ministers of France and
America at Paris. G0) Governor
Paca and the State of Maryland.
GD The Shades of those gallant
Heroes, who nobly fell in defence
of American Liberty. (12) May
Literature, Philosophy, and all the
Arts and Sciences meet with every
Assistance and Encouragement
from the Legislature of Maryland.
(13) The truly virtuous and pa
triotic ladies of America, who re-
jected luxuries. and even the con
veniences of life, for the Saliva
ton Of their Country"
Earlier that same year, the
Maryland Journal Of February 26,
1888. had carried this item.
NOTICE The inhabitants Of
Montgomery County intend petit
tioning the next General Assembly
of MARYLAND for the removal of the
Court House from the place where
it now meets to George Town"
We do not know whether or not
the measure was ever introduced TO
the Legislature-at any rate just
few years later, George Town be-
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1951-03-08
Marriage Licenses
Issued In Rockville

February 81 Glenn Worth
ington Mills, 20, Rockville and
MYRTLE Amelia Thompson, "a, Der
wood.
February 70 = Alfred Dove, rs,
and Clara Russell, 10, both of
Rockville; Andrew T. Letro, Wash
ington, 81, and Evelyn c. Norris,
81, Rockville; James Alexander
Mathis, 80, Gaithersburg, and Julia
B. Ruddell, Al, College Park; John
Franklin Moore, 38, Takoma Park,
and Carolyn Jane Billey, 81, Rock
Vile.
March 1 = William Hawthorne
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1951-03-08
Storing Honey

Unless 1t is stored in a tightly
closed container. honey should be
kept in dry place, as 1t can alb
serb moisture and ferment Just
like any other sugar syrup.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1951-03-08

Just off the presses and ready for distribution the
official Guide the annual Maryland House and Garden
Pilgrimage april q through May 81 contains
photographs and detailed descriptions of the IT'S noted houses
and gardens to be opened during the Pilgrimage.
This year. for the first time, have been made
that admission tickets and guide books be purchased well
advance of the actual Pilgrimage Both be secured by
writing calling the office of the annual The
Federated Garden Clubs of Maryland PIT Sheraton evedre
Hotel, Baltimore 2.
This also for the first time those who do not plan to
drive their automobiles nevertheless bus
transportation to each of the Shown this picture
Mrs. Willard j. Weaver Executive Secretary of both the Pill
Federated of
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1951-03-08
Meat Pie

Meat Pie
Poultry seasoning" adds Q, pleas.
ing flavor when added to the biscuit
dough used on meat pie.
Evening star., 1951-07-22
Family Chronicle
Has Sinister Vein
THE DARLINGTONS
BY Sylvia Brooke.
StrauS & Young; S3.)

Reviewed by Margaret Blair Dickey
The Darlingtons-one and all
are fantastic people.
Even readers hardened to the
idea that children are monsters
by "The Turn of The Screw" and
'"The Innocent Voyage" will balk
at how much of monster Hen
rietta Darlington can be.
It's pretty far fetched to believe
that Henrietta could derive her
greatest pleasure from terrorizing
her sister, Susan, with threats and
blood-curdling tales of the cruelty
of life. But that Henrietta would
send the unsuspecting Susan off
in the night for a rendezvous with
a sinister and vengeful bailiff is
more than fantastic.
This novel has a certain amount
Iof interest for its very strangeness.
AS picture of Victorian family
life, which it occasionally purports
to be, however, it leaves the read
er shaken and wondering how
these could ever be called "the
good old days."
Evening star., 1951-07-22
Story of Southern
Family in Midwest
THE GOLDEN HAMMOCK

The GOLDEN HAMMOCK
BY Laetitia Irwin. little,
Bro10n & Co.; $3.)
This is a long, minutely detailed
chronicle of a well-to-do family
of well-born Southerners. who live
happily in a small town dur
ing the golden years before World
War 1. The story is centered in
Sophonisba Bonnycastle Douglas,
eldest daughter of kindly
father and an importunate
mother. Disastrously tall for a
debutante, Nisba cannot go to
college or take a job in defiance
of her mothers social code, and at
%, though still sought after, she
is regarded as an old maid. But
by the time the war rings down
the curtain on this sunlit world,
she has met and married a highly
suitable and congenial man, which
is all that was ever expected of
her. THE Golden Hammock" is
sensitively written but it is rather
formless and the absence of any
real suspense or conflict makes
the reader feel that he is looking
through an affectionately as
sembled old album rather than
reading novel which has some
thing to say.
Mary McGrary
Evening star., 1951-07-22
Exciting Story of
British Ship Told
YANGTSE INCIDENT

4ANGISE lNClDENI
BY Lawrence Earl. (Knopt;. $3.)
The laconic title of this book
Identifies in the records one of
the most heroic exploits in the
modern history of the British
Navy. 1t followed the sudden, un-
provoked attack on H. M. S. Ame-
thyst by Red Army batteries as
she was steaming up the Yangtse
River in China on a peaceful mis-
sion April 20, 1949. Shore guns
hit the little frigate So times, dis
abling her. killing % and wound
ing 81 of the 1873 men aboard.
The Amethyst grounded, and crew.
men made their way to an island
with the wounded. But the ship
was never abandoned. For 101
days the whole Far Eastern sta
ton of the British Fleet tried to
rescue her. Finally, under cover
of night. Comdr. Kerans and his
intrepid company, getting the
damaged frigate under way, made
a dash through the perilous waters
and rejoined the fleet. The au-
thor, British correspondent, was
not aboard the Amethyst, but he
talked to 36 survivors of the ad-
venture. He has absorbed their
story so thoroughly that he is
able to describe these key char
acters, to quote what they said
and even relate how they felt.
Mr.. Earl's accurate account has
the color and suspense of fiction.
Why the Communists, in the lull
Iof temporary armistice with the
Nationalists across the river, fired
on a ship which was observing
long established treaty rights has
never been determined. 1t is
simply another entry in the
lengthy log of Red ruthlessness
CARTER BROOKE JONES
Evening star., 1951-07-22
A New Collection
OF Keats Letters
THE SELECTED LETTERS
OF JOHN KEATS

THE SELECTED LETTERS
OF JOHN KEATS
Edited and with an introduction
by Lionel Trilling. (Fdrrar,
StrauS & Young; $780,
The poet John Keats is one of
the enduringly attractive PERSONAL
tiles in English literature. This
new collection of his letters re-
veals him anew as the selhess
brother. the beloved and loving
friend, the wholehearted lover
They have been chosen by the
editor to show the development
OF Keats intellectual and emo
tlonal maturity. Mr.. Trilling dis
agrees with Yeats that the author
OF Isabella" was "a boy with
his face pressed to the window
OF a sweetshop." The selections
show him to have had the liveliest
kind OF speculative mind. We fol-
low him as the buoyant young
writer modestly sure of his place
IN posterity. rejoicing in hi.
friends and his brothers gooc
fortune, gallantly enduring hi.
own troubles, both personal ane
professional; We see him finall,
as the tormented suitor of Fam,
Brawne. Surely he is, as Mr.
Trilling contends, "a certain kinc
Of man, a hero"
MARY McCROPv
Evening star., 1951-07-22

with life, delineates its characters
and explains why some of them
feel impelled to break the ties
which have held their families
to this spot for unremembered
generations and try their fortune
in a strange land. The second
part is taken up with their ad-I
ventures at sea, the many weeks
they endure in a small sailing
vessel in 1850. The book closes
with their arrival in New York.
1t seems that in the 1850s fully
one-fourth of the population of
Sweden emigrated to the United
States. There were cogent rea-
sons, for many of the voyagers
were not impetuous youths in
search of excitement; many were
settled peasants, who grew up
never suspecting they would one
day break an age-old way of
living. Most of them were farmers
or petty artisans. 1t had become
increasingly hard to wrest enough
to eat and wear out of a reluctant
soil which often burned under
drought and refused to yield a
crop.
The word had gone around that
everything was different in the
republic across the ocean. Young
persons were not bound out as
hired hands. unable to quit even a
brutal employer until they had
served out their contracts. You
could take or leave a job as you
chose. The soil over there was so
rich that seed sprouted almost the
moment you dropped it. There
was no state church, and if you
disSented in particulars from
Sweden's established Evangelical
Lutheran Church and held private
services. the sheriff would not
come around and serve you with a
civil writ and maybe throw you
into prison. People were free to-
do as they pleased. In a place
called Minnesota, somewhere in
the Western wilderness, fertile
land could be had for the asking
Pioneers in Making.
Karl Oscar Nilsson was Is. His
heritage was one sixteenth of one
homestead. It had been enough
for his ancestors. He already was
married and had four children.
He was a sturdy, honest, indus
trous farmer, but stubborn. Once
he made up his mind, nobody
could change 1t. When the little
farm was blighted under success
sive seasons of drought, and his
daughter Anna died from the in
direct effects of malnutrition. Karl
made his decision. They would
emigrate. 1t took long time to
persuade his wife, but eventually
a number of others in the parish
Joined them in the project. These
included a relative who was a
fanatical dissenter and had been
imprisoned for fouting the state
church. There was, too, Robert,
Karl's 17-year- old brother, whom
Karl had rescued from cruel
bondage on neighboring farm.
Mr.. Moberg gives a wonderfully
clear account of the way peasants
lived in the Sweden of that day
Evening star., 1951-07-22

CALL FOR A MIRACLE
BY Benedict Kiely. (E. P. Quito;
If you can believe some Irish
writer's. their countrymen are SO
conditioned by Celtic mists and
twists as to be almost freakish.
Benedict Kiely. a young man, but
a wise one, takes the dissenting
view that they are just like people
else. His novel, despite
it's intense local flavor. has a uni
versatility that is a small miracle
in itself.
Dublin is the scene Of this story
Of three interlocking romances
Dublin, cozy between mountains
and sea. is apparently an intimate
kind Of a city so that the COIN
dental meetings and circum-
stances do not seriously tax the
belief.
In writing Of the place and Its
people Kiely's prose Is SO buoyant
and sparkling that you may real
ize with a start that his theme
is not happy one. Though he
pictures doomed loves and dam
aged souls, he does not insist you
follow him down to tho realms
Of bootless gloom. Miracles do
not happen often today, he rue
fully concluded, but then whose
fault is that.
All the characters are in need
Of a miracle. They specifically
look to Father Peter, the humble
humorous priest to lay healing
hands on Dave Murray, the young
cripple who in Illness has become
a child again to his possessive
mother. Mrs. Murray, graspine
at Straws, thinks maybe beautiful
Mary Fergus can lure her sor
back to life and health. Mary
seeking revenge on mankind fol
giving her a brute Of a father, is
Mr.. Kiely's most arresting char
acterization. Blackmail and theft
are her weapons for striking back
at the world of men. Mary's
friend Brian Flood, the best
natured man in Ireland, can't get
along with his wife. When he
meets blonde Christine. his boy
hoods idol. he believes he is to
have recompense for all the empty
years. Only Dinny, the sleek
plumbers helper, and Mary's
maid Philomena, a bouncing coun-
try girl. do not need miracle to
bring their wary courtship to a
happy conclusion.
Mr.. Kiely has a way of charging
the simplest scene with symbolism
When, for instance, Dinny and
Philomena visit the ZOO, he de-
scribes the Gagged lions as a coun-
terpoint to their suppressed de-
sires. And there is the coming OF
Father Peter to Dublin, cut of
from his daily company of chick
ems and holy men. sunnily quizzine
dark Mary and telling her of the