Evening Star Newspaper, March 29, 1925, Page 51

» Tales of Well Known Folk In Social and Official Life New Structure Repotted Likely to Replace Presi- dent's Church, Now Vastly OVCI’CX‘OWdCd. BY B. DOWNING. That President Coolidge's church, the First Congregational, at Tenth and G streets, has ambitious projects in the way of a new structure, sibly a tall skyscraper after the Suc s employed in New other cifies, is a fascinat N bit of news which opens interest ng vistas. 1t the fate in ent ye congre satior Chief Magistrate and his on s roster to find that the e fustio Luilding had b wded beyond endurar snseque and mperative tch Reformed, on was one of the cognize this new condi larger und more preten- was begun while this dis- ner was in the | TARGARE almost which numbered a was mode: tended the -enth was during his tenure gotiutions began to or commercial pur- ient for a ngenial lo- up at Six- s is the re the and L s und thus realize st spler & tus given during wtion President Wilson took over zovernment in 1913 the Presbyterian Church tiny place at Third membership in the John Knox faith| immediately in the | fine colonial church and Irving streets. The Church is a revered nark, but even before President became the most important ner it was inadequate for the 1y congregation. The \ented President Harding attended Calvary Baptist Church, and| there on Sunday had been st infir and a rebuilding would undoubtedly have | on ot reational e ist m M. Jardine role in connection with 1 flower shops at which he figure since taking ad of the Agricul-| Department, His delight over | amaryllus display was en- couraging to all who had part in ft, and nthusis over the won- dro bits which he attend- ed i delphia and New York was inspiring. The New York Sprin; flower show, staged about the mid- ~die of March in the Grand Central Hall, ed all previous even Calvin Coolidge rose was again the wearer of a blye ribbon and " was used as the principal decoration at the luncheon which the board of managers gave in_honor of Dr. Jar- dine. This rose, which has completed | two successful years as competitor in | “under g will thi: year be transplanted into experimen- | tal gardens and tried in the open. It is vely full bloom of a cop- pery t shading to deep pink and is unusually fragrant The buds are particularly long and slender and| open slowly. | Not in many years has Washington felt so keen a personal interest in the new appointees in the fareign serv- ice. The former president of Corneli, Mr. Jucob G. Schurmann, now Ambassador to Berlin, is among the veterans in the foreign service of this Republic, and if he had retained his connection | with the State Department unremit- | tingly, he would outrank Edwin V. Morgan, Ambassador to RIG de Juniero, who went from college into a consular office the first year of this The Ambassador to Ger- among these who gave experience to President Me- Kinley when the Philippine problem as new and he has been at the dis-| of every President ce in aid- | tangle k foreign As Cornell Upiversity is c ation and large and in- Washington, Dr. requently been here ay. The recently| ssador to Buenos Augustus Jay, proper fashion in | ent. He h .hmli mino clerk in the| the role of Am- has found | specimens,” has a be- the ladder secretary’s office 10 bassador, unaided by the large circle of relatives which included former | President Roosevelt nor by the fame | which hallows the great-grandson of John Jay. Many of the other ap- Dpointees in the ign service have a | wide acquain the Capital and the trend of signments is to give plomatic corps | an entity and dignity which it has| hitherto | It is accompli Sir Izaac | Walton utive cir cle. and th f General will have an o o po in the wav of 1 local fishing clubs, not emptations which w is way by d ng States day so| ¥ otees in neighbor ho have at present more | the new head of the De- | Justice can t than partment c year. Mr Sargent kn in his mountain streams tslands which dot the map of Maine fe has many pleasant duys ahead if he Will accept the amenities of cer- tain who steal off at break of day t their lines into the Monocacy when the b b E skirmishing und for breakfast. | Secretary of War, who is among the few who knew Mr. Sargent prior to his entering the Coolidge cabinet, is a fisherman of a kind—that he counts it a real holiday at his farm near Lancaster, N. H., when he an spend a day fishing. But he never | indulges in the sport about Wash- ington, for he never has time, and| this perhaps will be the regrettable | of the Attorney General. | etary of Commree likes deep- | Jut he has to journey to Californix to indulge in it.” As Judge Wilbur, the Secretary of the Navy liked to fish and belonged to several fishing clubs of San Francisco, but he has never cast a line since coming to Washington epresentative John Q. Tilson of! Connecticut, who has succeeded Nicholas Longworth as floor leader of the Republicans of the House, has an unique achievement to his credit and which has made him a familiar fisure in the scholastic world. About 10 years ago he wrote & textbook on the Constitution of the United States in words of one syllable, and in this task he sought the co-operation of young John, then just turning 7. Whenever a word bobbed up in the text which voung John did not immediately understand it went and the dictionary hed for a short, simple te replace it. Thus Representativ #on and his young son were pioneers we the diversion which is now uni- versally dubbed cross-word puzzles. “Ihis textbook was snapped up by the Connecticut school authorities and later the United States Government " @ook It over and now sells fi to the chools. Mr. Tilson it regarded by his colieagues in the House as the &reatest authority on the rules which govern that body, and he is ranked next to the late James R. Mann for the breadth of such knowledge. Under the present dispensation the expect in a 1 only and off the ws fishi that a | Uni- | | through the death of a ¥ [nm». only son of the former Amb: |and is also now in the foreign office | Bloomsbury was then. | auite a genteel | spacious floor leader of the dominant party is a mighty figure and in some respects overshudows the Speaker. Repre- sentative Tilson is a tariff expert and, like the late Champ Clark, who was majority leader before being Speake he knows the ins and outs of all previous legislation pertaining to tha vital theme. Washingtonians take a kindly in- [terest in the appromching marriage of Capt. Charles Spring-Rice, nephew of the late Ambassador to Washing- ton, Sic Cecil Spring-Rice, to Miss Emily De Kosenko, daughter of Mrs | Bdwards Brooks of Philadelphia ing Charles visited the British em- bassy several times during his uncle's term, and he had just obtained under him when the World W him to the front, He has sin the military establishment, and take his bride to Malta, where regiment is now stationed. The father of Capt. Charles Spring-Rice was that Lord Francis, eldest son of Lord | Monteagle, who had married the only duughter and helress of the Knight of | Kerry, Sir Peter Fitzgerald. Mrs | Brooks, mother of Miss De Kosenko, |is English by birth, and marricd the | Philadelphian after the death of her | first husband, who was a Greek diplo- {mat. The Brooks family has a home | lin the Palais du Bourben in Paris | and the marrfage is to take place there during Kaster. wec Capt Spring-Rice is a vounger son, but ke ently came into a tidy fortune zgerald ve- | lation who had emigrated to South| America and made a successful mir ing venture. Young Arthur Spring-| has followed and is in sador ta Washington, his father into dipl the colonial service of the Downing Street office. His only sister, a charming young mald in the Wash- Ington days, Miss Betty Spring-Rice took a college course at Cambridge, macy, having secured a p ing service under foreign affairs. ce in the decod- the minister Dr. Robert T. Bridges, laureate of Great Britain, spent nearly two yvears as a lecturer on English letters at the University of Michigan, recently celebrated his 80th birthday anniversary in his Lon- | don home, and the occasion was made | memorable by the gift of a clavi- chord, an instrument of a by-gone day, but which the poet plays with indescribable charm. Dr. Brid de- lights in the musical vehicles of a century ago and in the music which was then in vogue, and he has a harpsichord which yields the most plaintive tunes under his manage- ment. he laureate maintains rooms in t celebrated neighborhood in which literary men were so numer- ous, in Chelsea, though he has also a Suite in St. James Palace and at Windsor, His music room is fre- quently the scene of gatherings of | those who appreciate the music of a century ago ard who like to t in the gathering twilight and hear from harpsichord and clavichord airs which aced Addison when wearied of his | exertions, or Thackera; who, being | an artist, S0 be a lover) of music. Then many collect to hear the love ditties which were all the rage when George III was the first gentleman of Europe. Those lovely old music makers Ifke harpsichords, which are never seen in this country eXcept in museums, are having such + revival in London's music-loving circles that an eminent artist, Arnold Dolmetesh, is now engaged in mak- ing clavichords, and one of his or- nate efforts was the gift presented to Dr. Bridges when he rounded out his fourscore years. the poet who has must needs a Another musical event in London this past month hag been the tender removal of the organ which Handel | presented to the Foundlings' A um in Bloomsbury, and which he | plaved his first public rendition of | “The Mes: ¥ from the chapel of that institution to the Kens ngton Museum. This Foundling Asylum, which gures S0 many of e Dickens books, just sold its site in Bloomsbury for more than $5,000.- 000, and has purchased a tract of 40| acres on the Surrey side of the| hames, and will erect the most sub- | stantial buildings, and them have more than half the purchase money | as a permanent endowment. The asy- lum was given to London in Ho- garth’'s time by a charitable mer- Thomas Coram, and he paid £1,000, or about for acres of green field which When Charles married, he lived Bloomsbury orphanage, neighborhood for the author, because of the grounds, and he took the interest in welfara, He first Mrs. Dickens attended the Sunday services regularly, when the Handel organ was played by vol- | and the choir was formed of | dlings whose fate ppealed @ strongly to the great writer of the London slu This Foundling Asy- lum is vividly pictured in Dickens’ literature, and will suryive the actual demolition of the buildings. actiy the 91 Dickens was first close to the strugeling Sir Charles Higham, the genial head of an extensive and flourishing firm of East Indian tea merchants, has come to this country recently on the mission of making tea more popular as a morning beverage. No one can explain why the inhabitants of this country, so numerously des- cended from English, Irish and Scotch immigrants, are almost to & unit coffee drinking people where the first meal Is concerned. Sir Charles, who is now in New York, but has many friends in the British embassy in Washington and will soon vi here, paints an alluring p ure of the British housemaid serving tea to the entire family while it still re- mains in bed, thus heartening them for the trials of the day. After dis- tributing the piping hot e, “the maid collects the family footwear for polishing purposes and thus pro- vides “another kick,” as the baronet terms it, for the household she serves. Tea, states Sir Charles, in the morning makes everv- one while coffee is soothing and inclines | one to drowse. « golng to cause will not be unfavorable to the harm- less propaganda wincin Siv Clasies has in mind. For the practical mind- ed, one advantage of tea over coffee is that the present generation pays about the same for the fragrant oolong as the grandmothers did, whereas everybody has been pro- testing loudly over the recent sky- rocketing -propensities of coffee. Sir Charles points out the tremendous success of many American business women in London and that their feet became firmly planted on the ladder of fame just as they gave up their national morning coffee and substituted Brit- ish tea, which statement may also-be counted on to result in a wide con- troversy for and against tea for breakfast, cours | Philadelphia, which has the repute of having the most stable and well organized social contingent on Ameri- can soil, has already arranged the list of next Autumn’s buds and.even se- | mains to be i M. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHI GTON, D. €. MARCH 29, 1925—PART 2. i ditional g O MISS KATRINA VAN RENSSELAER, After a vixit in New York and on Long Island, joined her mother, Mrx, Jokn M. Dunn. presented in Mrs. J. famous old Biddle House, on Chestnut Hill and Baltimore avenue, on Satur tay afternoon, October 24, An earlie Icbutante party will be an ex U fresco event at Le Chatelet when Mr. and Mrs seler will introduce Mis ¢ Wheeler. Some 18 or ds from important famili Quaker City have their dates al- ady, their assistants all selected and many are now getting the ne sary togs in Paris and London. The Mask and Wig Club of the University of Pennsylvania, which so often de- lights Washington audiences, is ten- dering the sub-debs a concert and masked frolie on April 24, after which there will be & general dispersal of the younger set for the next 6 months. This specles of social preparedness is utterly confounding the usual Wash- ington hostess whose soclal pro- gram for the season 1924-25 still re- completed tive buds, will be home of her mother. jddle, at the Binderton the Wilm Countess de Jumilhac, who with her husband, Count Plerre, has been visit- ing the Boston kinspeople, was well known in Washington some ye igo, when, as Miss Louise Coolidg she was frequently entertained in this Capital. S arried first Mr. Ray Atherton of Chicago, and the two were considered the handsomest young couple in that city, where they went to live. They were both inte ested in racing, and their Lake Forest estate held a small track for amateur performances. Mr. Atherton entered the diplomatic service, and was sent to Peking, where he and Mrs. Ather- ton were the leaders of society in Anglo-American wing, and were the generous patrons of all sorts of sports. But the Orfental experlence seemed to have divided these two, and their divorce followed hard on their return from China. Mr. Atherton has continued his. career in the foreign service, and is at present first secre tary of the American legation in Athens. Mrs. Atherton took up her residence in Paris, where she married Count Pierre de Jumilhac about two years ago. She s now as enthusi- astic a motorist as in former years she was an equestrienne, and has been touring this country from the Pacific Coast to Boston in a French machine. According to her friends, the countess thinks coverlng 400 miles a day very poor work, and she thinks nothing of 16 hours at the wheel. The magnificent house on Lake Shore drive, in Chicage, which Atherton built for his Boston bride was recently purchased by Mr. A. D. Lasker, who lived in Wash- ington during the World War, and was director of the Shipping Board John Barrymore, the American actor who is proving to Londoners that he is one of the most remarka ble Shakespearean interpreters of his day, is teaching denizens of the Brit- h capital another truth, and that is the comfort of living in a small house right in the heart of the city Mr. Barrymore can afford a tidy rental and some were offered him at comparatively a meager sum. But he declined even to inspect these mammoth establish- ments and instead took a tiny little house in Chelsea near Cheyne Walk, sacred to the memory of Carlyle, Rus- kin and the intellectual glants of their day, and here he lives In ease and comfort and with only one man- servant. London is showing a d position to consider the small house, even the bungalow type of American suburbs, and nothing seems so alien to Americans who have not been to the British capital in recent years as to see row after row of six-room. semi-detached houses ranging all along the streets which face Hyds Park. These small houses are sell- ing like the proverbial hot cakes, and M. P’s are princip the pur- chasers. There is an entire district called Montpelier. where the best architects of London have erected artistic six-room homes complete in every detail, even to a sheltered back verunda, where the tea table is spread in pleasant weather. Savory Loaf. Dry out in a very slow oven some slices of stale bread uatll they are crisped through and slightly browned. Properly done, the slices will be brittle and very slightly colored all through. Roll and sift, then measure enough to fill a half-pint cup. Drain a pint can of peas and press through a colander. Put through the nut grinder one-half a cupful of pecans or Eng- lish walnuts, and mix these with the sifted pea puip. Dissolve one-fourth cupful of butter in three-foyrths of & cupful of hot milk. Add one table- spoonful of sugar, then mix together the crumbs, pea pulp, ground nuts ynd ik, Add while mixing, teaspoonful of salt and teaspoonful of white pepper. For further flavoring you can use one tablespoonful of onion juice, or two tablespoonfuls of browned onion that is, finely chopped onion, heated in | butter until a golden brown, or two tablespoonfuls of capers, or one table- spoonful of Worcestershire sauce. Let the mixture stand for 20 minutes be- fore turning into a small bread pan lined with greased paper. Cover with another sheet of greased paper and bake for three-quarters of an hour in a slow to moderate oven, Serve, after turning out onto a hot platter, with tomato sauce, and garnish with cress or parsley. Caulifiower-Chicken Sauce. Let a choice head of caulifiower stand, head downward, in cold, salted water for an hour or longer. Cook in boiling salted water until just tender. To make the sauce, melt four tablespoonfuls of butter. In it cook four tablespoonfuls of flour and one-half a teaspoonful of salt. two cupfuls of chicken broth and stir until boiling. Add the yolks of two eggs beaten light and diluted with a little of the sauce, then stir in one tablespoonful of lemon juice, lected the day of the great event. Miss Sarah Stanley Gordon, who is among the most important'of prospec- drop by drop, then finish by beating in two additional tablespoonfuls of butter, sumptuous mansions | one | one-fourth | Add | Something of a sensation was caused among Washington Scouts last week, when 18 was discovered that the thirty | first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook announced a radical change in the method and order of awarding Life and | Star rank. Both deslgnations apply to | first-clasy Scouts who have obtained a certain number of Merit Badges. Here- tofors “Star” has heen the higher rank rating next to “Hagle Scout”; and ¢ ditions of award have been such th practically all Scouts became “Life and “Star’ st the same time. Under the new arrungement, a Scout mes “Star” when he has won any badges, and “Life.” when he has 10, including 5 that are specified ange has automatically given 1 Scouts the previously coveted rating of ar’ He sensation! “Life Scout’” will the highe “Bagle ¢ the first time In Washington the r of Merit Badge Scouts has gone 400. won The now There ave at present 10 including about 0 1 Scouts and some 157 Star Scouts. the Lone Scout merging of with the Boy Secouts of has opened up a4 new outh and activities of b of and below the age when they may hecome Boy Scouts. Little is known by most of our Boy Scouts concerning the apportunities “lone” scouting afford J. Hugh “Lone Scout No. C 20,939 e ission through this column to tell the s of Wasl ton and other boys something these opportunities In space to allotted to him every other week This week, for the benefit of the hoy: who are not Lone Scouts as yvet, the column will give an explanation of th Scouts of America. . The L couts of America is 4n orsganizatio boys everywhere. It was originated | W. 1. Boyce, who started the Boy Scou | movement in the United States, because |he was interested in all boys and wanted to offer them, whether living i small tow villages or on the the e of bel e to ar organization without expense and that they could operate with each other, or alone. Hence the name Lone Scout In 1915 the Lone Scouts of Amerlca was Incorporated 1n this city. W. ¥» Bovce was elected chief totem at the first meeting of the incorporators and continued as such until last year. The Lone Scouts are taught about their and how to care for it; the principles of honor and truth and hon- esty; how to make things; all the pra tical lore of the big outdoors—in fact the things upon which is laid a foun dation for clean living and good citi zenship. 1t Is not a military organiz tion In the scouting lttle or much you wish. It { voluntary, but you will get out of it just as much as you put into it. There are first—the passing of the degree tests (seven of them), through which you learn the lore of the out-of-doors, the mysteries of nature, the ways of anlmas, the trail, the camp, first emergency helps, and ever: y knowledge. The Lone Scout will learn to take care of himself wherever may be. There are next the many con- buting and other medals and badges the early part of last Winter— 1924—the Lone Scouts of America W, merged with the Boy Scouts of America This was accomplished by the eclecting of the Boy Scout officers as of the Lone Scouts. This merely in and bettered the organi Scouts are ellgible for membership and many are members of both organiza- ns. Armstrong Perry, of whom all boys have heard, Is in charge at the Long House—James E. West is ¢ toten moyement America for the interest work you can do boy may join the Lone Scouts ica If he is old enough to un derstand the Lone Scout pledge. The membership fee is 15 cents. For this the boy recelves a certificate of mem- bership and a Lone Scout handbook, which tells all about the organiza- tion, its requirements and privileges and the many medals, badges and homors which may be won. For 15 cents more he may receive a hand- some membership badge. Thero are no dues or assessments to pay there- after. Application blanks may be ob- tained from the Long House headquar- ters, Lone Scouts of America, 300 North Dearborn street, Chicago, 11l Mention L. A.—C-2053 A sesslon of the Fourth Forum was Reld at 25 | street morthwest Monday evening, | March 16, Deputy Commissioner E. L. Mattice presiding, and 20 scoutmas- ters and members present. Detalls | concerning “the standard troop test in the division were discussed and a plan of procedure to govern | next year's contest adopted report on the divisional be held April 18, wa by Assistant Deputy Commissioncr A. Boserge. He stated that the com- mittee on outdoor activities was plan- ning a morning program of athletic events, to be . Mowed by the Scout events in the afternoon. Suitable troop and individual prizes for win- ners are to be provided. The awards will be made on the basis of both morning and afternoon events, but with the afternoon events counting more heavily. Dr. Paul Bartsch. deputy commis- sioner at large, announced that a ant, donated by a friend of the Scout movement, would he warded to the troop winninig first place in the dav's events. Scoutmas- ter Lester G. Wilson offered a suit- | able stream for second place. | Scoutmaster John O. Bvans announced he would donate a silver cup to the {winner of a 220-yard dash for Seouts jold, silver and to be presented by re announced as i prizes for first, second and third places. Troops of the division will assemble at some convenient point on the morning of the field meet and mareh to the new athletic grounds, near the Tidal Basin, which have been offered for the meet by Col. Sherrill, During the past Winter Scouts of the fourth division have been operating with the educational de- partment of the Crandall theaters by of A Division ourteenth field bronze the divi- idual medals sion ~w BOY SCOUTS merit | | tying stunts and gave an interestimg gnation, ranking next to | sl i appearing on the stage at the Satur- day moxning educational programs, sounding Qugle calls, pledging allegl- ance to the flag, et Last Satuiay 15 Pe-An-Ke-Shaws staged a stunf. A select number of Troop No. 49 Druw and Bugle Corps, under the leadershtp of President J Wilson Loverton of .the Pe-An-Ke- Shaws, and 14 members of the tribe, all under the supervision of Assistant Deputy Commissioner I5. A. Besarge, formed a fine group on the stage and | played a few selections. Bugler bev- erton biew to the colors, Mr. Bosagge led in allegiance to the flag and knat- address on the Scout requirements for cagle rank A beautiful loving cup has been of- «d to the fourth division by Harry andall to be contested for annually the troops of this division under such conditions as the division staff may p For the present year o short period advancement contest will be held, running from April 1 June 1, to determine what troop have the cusiody of the cup. will be based the number of Scouts registered In gach troop at headquarters AprN 1. Each derfoot will count 25 points, each advancement to second class, 30 points: to first class, 40 points, and each merit badge 10 polnts. Credit will be @ percentage pasis, and the dropping of Scouts wilt have no affect on the final standing, the effort being to stimulate enroliment and the wdvarncement of Scouts from the 1dyer ranks. Deputy Commissioner E. Mattice announces the contest and #ift of the cup in the fourth division bulletin for March. The cup will be sn exhibition at the Powell School au- ditorfum April 25, on the occasion of ) the big fourth division celebration, to* be_held that night i Divisional field meets for the se- tion of teams to enter the final ijact, May 2, when the team to reprusant Washi in the big interesancil meet at Bolling Field will bs sosen have been ounced, as follows: cond and fourth divisiong April 18 nd third divisions. April 25 ision (Virgista troops) to nnounced sphy cups will be g¥arded to the y6°7ep making the gereatest number. P35 in each of fhe five divisions in the pr&iminary meets, and at the finals a sitaigs trophy to the troop scoring the greatest number of nts, and medals to winners of first \d and third places in each event In the final contest events will in- lude semaphore and Morse signaling, first aid, knot tying, fire by friction and by and fire-making. String-burning, setting up of an over- ) and cookiing. il mect events for be chosen by mem- department of national headquarters, New York, and 11l not he known by the participat- ing teams until they are called to the field and asked to perform them. These preliminary meets are an at- tempt to prepare the Washington team for whatever may be demanded of them in the intercouncil competi- tion Two _scouts, Troop 71 and Scout new te ftint steel ntest will hers of the camping George Tolson of Francis Wayland of 00p 100, became cagles at the court of honor last Tuesday evening. n addition, one or mora merit badges were granted to each of the following 39 Scouts; Troop 2, Irvin Brown, Don- ald Saunders and Wilson Taylor: Troop 8§, William . Westlake and Richard Glaser: Troop 10, Ralph W. Watt; Troop 15, Erfie Durand and John Kerkham; Troop 20, Edmond Fakes. Jim Freeman, F. Gemeny. t Hedges, W. E. Shoults and Gil- bert Wild: Troop 29, Fred Lawless; Troop 42, Ben Morgan: Troop 44, Min- ter Dial, Willi Dukes and Harold Caul; Troop John Cotton, Joe H Goldberger, Robert Horne, H. Mears and Bartleft Whipple; Troop 55, Jack Davenport and J. R. Troth; Troop 67 William Blum; Troop 63, Frank Der Yuen; Troop 71, Mil d Edelin, Frank Rodgers and George Tolson; Troop 75 Hyman Klein and Joe Rosenthal Troop 99, Joseph Bogan, Vincent Bor- , Carroll Brown, Richard Clague Danlel Connors, Gerald Cush, Warren | Finch, John Graziani, Edgar Hugu- | ley, Edward McManus, Walter Preller, Thomas Ricker, Jordon Schwartz, Bernard Sheehy and Henry Von- drehle; Troop 100, J. Loren Adams. | Ellwoad L. Koch, Fred Marshall, Rob- { ert Paull, Donal® Pitts, K nt, Al- de Snell, Francis Wayland nd James E. Weedon; Troop 103, Vincent | Ax: Troop 128, Donald Dudley. | A meeting of the Camp Roosevelt | Honor Tribe, the C. M. ( will be held n the assembly room of Central Y. M C. A. next Saturday evening, April 4 Skipper Holbrook and the program | committee hive arranged a surprise v the members, and a large atten- is expected, couts of Troop 111, Bethesda, Md ve been receiving many warm co mendations for the aggressive work they did in helping to extin- | guish a stubborn fire that got started {in the fields and wood at Bradley Hills and threatened the whole com- munity from Bradley Hills to River road. Four scouts especially distin- guished themselves—King Mallory, Horace Whalen, Curtis James and Henry Allen. Troop 73 of the Y. M. H. A. also re- ports having extinguished a fire that got beyond control in the wood near Chain Bridge last Sunday. Assistant Scoutmaste Abbey Mintz and 10 Scouts had part in this good work | At the meeting last Tuesday evening | the Silver Fox Patrol won the in- spection contest, with a al of 75 points. 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To our old customers who know the class of merchandise we handle, and to those whom we have not had the pleasure of serving, we extend an invitation to call at our establishment to view the new Spring and Summer fur- nishings. Place Your Order Now for Summer Awnings Window Shades Areolux Porch Blinds Slip Covers Cretonne and Light-Weight Draperies, Etc. We will be pleased to give estimates and wish to urge you:to placejyour order as soon as possible so you can have them ready to:install;when wanted. The new ruffled curtains, some with valances and others without, will certainly please you and there is such a variety of the newest sunfast colors that you will not fail to match any color scheme. -8 "% The Oriental Rug Salon Scatter size Oriental Rugs. Deep pile, and in a beautiful as- sortment of colors. $39.00 Purchases Forwarded Prepald to Any Shipping Poiat in the U. 8. INQUIRE ABOUT OUR DEFERRED PAYMENT PLAN