Evening Star Newspaper, July 21, 1931, Page 10

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A few drops of FREEZONE instantly .put the corn to Bleep. Pain is deadened at once, and soon the corn be- comes 5o loose that you can actually 1lift it right out with your fingers. Hard corns or zoft, corns—all yield to FREE- ZONE. Why suffer? ALL DRUGGISTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY JULY 21 WEALTHY ENOY MUSEAL TALENT | 'Mrs. Mitchell’s Composition | Brings to Light Many Melody Authors. By the Associated Press. YORK, July 21.—In America nd of their wives—are often filled with melodies of | their own making. | Now that the secret is out about Mrs. s E. Mitchell, artistic circles here i are recalling a long list of prominent {men and women similarly smitten by | music’s charms. The thy wife of the chairman of the Vational City Bank has been shutting erself up in the music room of her | house at Southampton, denying herself to visitors and foregoing teas and re- ceptions. Mystery Is Revealed. Every one wondered what was the matter until an announcement the | other day from the New York Philhar- | monic Symphony Orchestra explained It sald that Chopin's 26"—orches- -would be on | the program at Lewisohn Stadium to- | morrow night. fitchell, who would like tq see | music “made a part of life again the | way it used to be in past centuries, | disclosed that a lot of prominent so- | ciety women, ingluding Mrs. Vincent | Astor, a pianist, have started a sort of | amateur “back to music” group. | Perhaps the most outstanding musi- clan in the public eye nowadays is Charles G. Dawes, former Vice Presi- dent. Sandwiched in between his actty- ities as lawyer, engineer, 'bgnker, sol- dier, author and public official he found time to attain such proficiency in mu- | sical compositicn that he caught the | ear of critics. His “Melody in A Major” | was once played before a group here as |an example of the curing powers of music in cases of hysteria. Walker Is Composer. 4 | Everybody kn | J. Walker and about Mayor James You Love Me in | December as You Do in May?" a song | that rang down through the years. | Pretty nearly every one has heard of | Kav Swift, first woman composer ever | to put a musical comedy success on | Broadway. It was “Fine and Dandy” | and before and since that time she has | written a lot of lilting strains that have | set Broadway's feet a-tapping. Her | husband, James Paul Warbwz, noted | banker, helps her out by w.¥ing lyrics. Not everybody knows that Charles M Schwab, head of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, can scrape a good tune on a violin or “preside at the organ” with a good deal of eclat. His love of music | all goes back to his younger days, when as a dollar-a-day stake driver he picked | up a little extra money by giving piano | lessons. Longworth a Violinist. The late Nicholas Longworth, debo- | naire Speaker of the House of Rep-| resentatives, could play a fiddle so well | that critics 'sat up and took notice. Otto H. Kahn loves music so well | that he hes become foster father of the Metropolitan Opera Co., and just to | show that such things sometimes run in the family, his son. Roger Wolie | Kahn, established several jazz orches- tras, and only left that work to devote more time to composition. Some of the society women on Southampton and elsewhere say their husbands would rather talk golf than | music, but there are plenty of excep- | tions. | For instance, George Eastman, cam- era king, likes organ music with his breakfast. | U.S.LABOR TURNOVER | 5.09 PER CENT IN JUNE Statistics Show Aut:ndustry Has Highest Rate of Lay-off for Month. By the Assoclated Press. A net labor turnover of 5.09 per cent for all industries in June was reported today by the Labor Department. Employment data for 10 separate | manufacturing industries also were given by the department, which based its industrial statistics on figures from firms employing 1,250,000 persons. | Men's clothing industries showed the | lowest lay-off rate of .56 per cent, while | the automotive industry had the high- | est, 10.57 per cent. The iron and steel industry® reported the lowest discharge rate, .11 per cent, and the highest of .52 per cent was shown for the meat packing trade. Kentucky Banker Dies. LOUISVILLE, Ky. July 21 (A).— | Embry L. Swearingen, 68, prominent retired banker of Louisville, dled of a heart attack early today at his Summer | home at Cape May, N. J. | anced ration. | lettuce in a diet Diet Shaped by Habit Government Specialist Shows How Lettuce Became Second Largest Vegetable Crop Because of Green Leaves Generally Thrown Away. 3 BY THOMAS R. HENRY. hat Americans eat is largely a mat- ter of habit. The dinner table, says Wells A. Sher- man.” specialist_in charge of the Fruit and Vegetable Division of the Bureau of Agricultural, Economics, is loaded with inherited tastes, prejudices and tradi- tions, Take lettuce, for example, says Mr. Sherman. Within the past 10 years it has risen from comparative insignifi- cance to the status of the second largest vegetable crop in the United States, second only to the potato. And this | despite the fact that few persons really like it and leave it on untouched. The demand for lettuce, he says, largely grew out of health propaganda— the need for something green in a bal- But this soon was lost sight of, and folks began attributing the supposed health-giving qualities of the green leaves to anything that was “letuuce.” The health doctrine, he says, “began to be preached with vigor at about the same time as the present hard-headed type of lettuce began to be grown suc- cessfully and on a large scale in sev- eral of the irrigated districts of the West. ‘This struck the popular fancy, and probably would have brought about a tremendous increase in the total con- sumption had there been no particular urgency on the part of the dieticians. their plates’ Green Leaves Trimmed. “Now, the, health appeal if strictly followed. would lead us to prefer the green lettuce to the white, but as & practical matter the green outer leaves of practically all iceberg lettuce a trimmed and thrown away, while the white is served. When the Bureau of Agricultural Economics recommended the first official grades for head lettuce of the iceberg type it was assumed that the demand of the trade would make it necessary to ship head lettuce an abundant covering of green wrapper leaves, considered nece to protect it from. injury by the crushed ice in which it was packed. “Within a few years, however, the chain stores discovered that they were retrimming nearly all their lettuce so that consumers were buying almost e clusively bald heads. Therefore, they began to demand that the lettuce be shipped to them more closely trimmed, so that five dozen heads could be packed in a crate which formerly carried four dozen. The number of green leav shipped with a head of lettuce tends, broadly speaking. steadily to decline Retailers tend to trim more and to sell little more than the bard, white head. Consumers seem to prefer white lettuce to green, and by some gross misconcep- tion flatter themselves that they are eating green stutf, although it shows no tinge of green.” Experiments with rats, Mr. Sherman said, seem to have shown the value of but they also have shown that the rat thrives just as well 24 months, finds his neces sary supply of green stuff in a piece of lettuce leaf as large as a nickel once a week, may we not raise the question as to how often the human, with a life cycle of threescore years and ten, must take, for the sake of his health, some- thing which does not appeal to him as a daily diet? Statistically a week in the life of a rat is about equal to a year in the life of any of us. Is it not pos Hot Weather Westinghouse Fan ~$6.50 inghouse fane P are economical as well as qulet. RUDOLPH & WEST CO. *1332 N. Y. Ave. N. W, Hardware Merchants Since 1885. 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New kinds of rice were developed, but best suited to grow in other regions. Today rice and its products are seldom as cheap as | wheat and corn, vet the rice-eating | habit persists in that area. ‘The same applies, he said, to the bean-eating habit of New England. New Englanders started early as a seafaring Deople. Beans were the traditional food of sailors, easily stored on shipboard. | So an agriculture was built up to supply the ships. It was found that beans flourished in the New England climate. There was an oversupply to be con- | sumed at home. Now Michigan raises | beans for Massachusetts, but the food { habit which furnishes so many jokes for the rest of the country persists, The € ns back of it are forgotten most American mark:ts, Mr, Wells says, customers demand clean, white epgs. New England regards them as inferior and demands brown eggs. A chemist can detect no diffcrence be- tween the two except the color of the shells. But folks are willing to pay for whiteness or brownness of eggshells It is all explained, he says, by the his- i tory of the poultry industry in the Col- onies. The first fowls introduced ‘were Mediterranean breeds, with a strong | mixture of gamecock blood, for cock | "I Subscribe Today It costs cnly about 1% cents per day and 5 cents Sundays to have Washington's best newspa- per delivered to you regularly every evening and Sunday morn- ing. Telephone Natioral 5000 and the deiivery will start immedi- ately. The Route Agent will col- lect at the end of each month ’His Master's Choice” | i Recommended <"\ by leading s, veterinarians e | i | CALO DOG and CAT FOOD “’His Master's Choice” FREE! Voluoble booklet en Train ing and Care of Dogs. Write to Californie Animal Produets Co. 67 W. 44th St New York City. C you. Seventh Street fighting was ‘popul sport. These hens laid prolifically in Symmer and stopped in Winter. 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