Evening Star Newspaper, December 6, 1931, Page 56

-4 Tt B ¥ vt 6, 1931—PAR'L ThhEE. % :7—-—_——-———j | Madame Debuchi, the Honorable Tady | the “Twenty More” ‘HJoin i Christm as Club Why not make this Christmas, Christmas, as an act of faith that 1 easler times> Why not count up 20 depression en rd times, who are on every day for the next 16 busin them? We're all going to have Christm not, but it is only the ones with imagination full' sweetness of Hundreds of t life normally. The and the enterprise us; on all sides magazines and new are reflecting a tremendous moveme recovery from what was alwa: part genuine economic crisis, too. The fi before you are hurt is beginn'ng to not only what is usual, but twice what this year Not every one than her rigid Chr could send 40 instead of 20 squeeze ee more, or four mor: A rich old Califcrnian is onding pletely unsuspecting persons, magnificent way to spend $10,0007 It's too early to say shaping up already ousands are fundamentai cou that are perhaps can hon determined characteristic of tmas budget, this year extra Christmas gi little gifts out of ey this year Merry Christmas! 1 believe we are going followin, a bad year, a special 932 is going to bring us better and friends who are sick of the talk of afraid and perhaps forgotten, and ess days gather up small gifts for as this year whether we like it or who are going to taste the to spend, to give. to enjoy and commonsense, the vision th's Nation are still with spapers and teachers and lecturers nt toward re-establishment, toward ly panic, if it was always partly & ne old principle of not “hollering” shame certain persons into doing is usual, to make the holidays happy urage lestly plan to spend even $2 But many more couid, and some And some could the tiniest st 00 bills to com- think of a more out one hundre Can any o But the to have one way things are IRLS!" said a 19-year-old college junior ai one of the meetings of a very smart junior club last week, “let’s each give 20 extra presents! “I mean,” she continued, as the other %girls looked at her in surprise, for the ssubject under discussion was that of a #rather sober and somewhat giftless SChristmas 1 mean, let's not give in to this nard-tim Let’s each promise to give 20 ext this year ) ‘There was a burst of laughter - 'Good heavens, Pa one of sother girls expostulated, “we were ju #wondering how we were going to man- Sage on our allowances at she ha * “Exactly.” said Pamela, “and I thin 2the way to do it is to give presents to =20 persons who don't expect anything 20h, 1 don't mean’ she went on, "I $don't mean expensive things. Naturally =we can't do that. But nice little things Shandkerchiefs and boxes znd vases and Zatockings and gloves and lip-red and TANEARANARLARANENRA VAR B e ARSI ENE A, i well, things we'd like to have our- selves, For instance,” she said eagerly. | 3 “suppose you've been entertained by 3 some one this year, or suppose you've | 2 got a grandmother or a cousin or some % 6ld school teacher, or some one you 3 usually forget. That's the person to re- ceive a present!" “Well, I for one, simply couldn't af- 2 ford it,” one girl, and by no means the < poorest girl, cbserved 2 PO Wouldt cost us §3 apiece,” Pamela argued. k “And what good would it d “It would do all the good the world. It would mean that just we 26 2 girls here would make more than 500 4 purchases, and wrap up more than 500 s eave., parcels, and buy pretty wrappers and 3 ribbons and pasters for them, and cards Why,” Pamela one who Christ- & and postage for them % exclaimed. warming & could do that would do i & mas, even with the che; S littlest and the simplest & would be the biggest % glorlous Christmas we ever had! PAMELA, don't talk nonsense.’ a bored voice drawled. “This na- tional depression is a very serious thing § my dear. You ought to hear my fath: talk about it. I was going to get my car this year, and my sister was going to get her fur coat, and now . . " 4 “I'm not talk { and fur % coats,” interrupted the first speaker } “I'm talking of books candy, mags subecriptions, bowls and glassw § toys and perfume from the fi 21f you like. It isn't the & sel It isn't their money 21(!, the fun of oper 2 the ‘excitement, the pleas sons and sick persons and sons feel when something uncxpe comes in the mail. Out of this Nation.” Pamela argued, 2,000,000 rsons could give 20 extra present: this year. That would mean 40.000,000 gifts, 40,000,000 cards, 40,000,000 wrappers, added to what we'd have ay. That would end the depression nela concluded superbly, “for a while, anyway In the end they quite solemnly pledged themselves o _member in the “Twenty More” Club, and b>gan excited lists as to the lucky 20 friends who should be surpris is C tmas. One girl told me the next morning that her father was o much taken with the idea that he was g ropose Rotary, and I hope he does. Another girl's father opened his pocketbook and took out a big yell X “There’s your 20 mc “But, daddy stupefied daughter hard times, you've eouldn’t— “I know seems to me upon one way out “HIS Christmas memory of the Baby's unsilenced voice that comes ringing down to us through the long centuries, let U get into this “Twenty More” Club. "By this" said that voice, “shall all men know that ye are my disciples, that ye love one another. % His birthday is Jove ever knows. Alien nations, nations that do not come under our wide-flung * category of “Christendom.” never know ® festival like this one. Why not make this Christmas, following a bad year, & special Christmas, as an act of faith that 1932 is going to bring us better and easier times? Why not count up your 20 today, those 20 friends who are | sick of the talk of d:pression and hard | { times, who are afraid and perhaps for- gotten, and on every day for the next | 18 business davs gather up small gifts for them? They needn't be cxpensive gifts. Which cne cf us has not seen some exultant child display ng the red pencil “my auntie” sent him for Christmas, or the feeble old mother roudly fingering the post card with a p - f»m wreath on it? Purs and motor Z.-cars are gifts, but an initialed handker- chief is & gift, too, and o is & box of “epuikies, and #0 is en ink eraser. { One weman, down in a Long Island h-1e|rs ago, used to maks a tpecial | P EEPR 64t ILE BAO RSB HARARS. ey ammerec you've been tal been saying CALAANINOAVARAN SRS said, “but reiaan the greatest feast FETTTSTREIN e little German honey cake at Christmas She was really poor, she was a woman who did housecieaning to support her- <elf and a crippled boy, but every friend she had got a liitle frosted honey-cake on Christmas eve Another woman, far from rich, hold- ing a private secretary’s job, begs hand- some toys from her friends all the year through, has them mended, has the dolls redressed, and presents her humble little neighbors with magn:ficent gifts ] ™ was Barry who <aid of his mother years ago, in reference to fortunes in {eacups, “We all had tea-leaves, but imagination.” We're all going to have Christmas this year, whether we like it or not, but it is_only the ones with imagination like Pamela, who are going to taste the full sweetness of it Why not 20 extra gi begin to buy them no and why not If only b: cause of the excited pleasure that gift- | giving brings to us all, the experiment | ould be worth while. Your laundress has a sick sister or a small child; your postman knows some family that is blue about Christmas. Those 20 gifts may cost you no more than two dollars, but they ‘will bring you in a thousand dol- lars' worth of satisfaction Don't think you're going to' be alone in helping the situation alcng, this Christmas. thousands—of others are cetermined to spend, to give, to cnjoy life normally, too. The fundamental courage and common sense, the visicn and th- en- terprise that are characteristic of this Nation are still with us; on all sid magazines and newspapers and teach- ers and lecturers are reflecting a’ tre- mendous movement toward lishmer, toward recovery as always partly panic, if it was al ways partly a genuine cconomic erisi: t00. The fine old prineiple of not “hsl- lering” before you are hurt is beginning to shame certain persens into doing not what is usual, but twice what is te make the holidays happy this re-estab- ook % ()N general principles, today is a good day for Christmas lists, and to morrow a fine, quiet Monday cn which to wander through the shops, with those same lists in mind. Little thing inexpensive things, are all about us, early December. But on December 2: somehow they are all gone, and the desperate last-minute shopper has to spend three dollars where she meant to spend one. See if you can find an hour on some club program this week for a talk about canity and courage this Christmas and sce what you can do about a “Twe Mcre” movement Not every one perhaps can honest plan to spend even $2 more than her rigid Christmas budget, this year. But many could, and some could send 40 instzad of 20 extra Christmas gifts Ard some could squecze tnree more, or five more little gifts out of even the tinfest Jist A rich old Californian is sending out one hundred $100 bills, t> completely unsuspecting persons, this year. Doesn't it come out $100007 I am like the mother in “The Show Off” who always had to say, “How many naughts is that, Joe?” But can any one think of a more magnificent way to spand $10,000 It's to0 early to say “Merry Christ- mas!” But the way things are shap- ing up already I believe we are going to have one. (Copyright UiSkSonnt At Willard After Holiday The holiday ball of the united services at the Willard Hotel, Tuesday December 29, has as patronesses: Mrs Hoover, Mrs. Edward Everett Gann Nobil Donna_Antoinetta de Martino, Madame_de_Perrara, Madame_Claudel 1931) Remodeled . Repaired Cleaned and Glazed Have Your Fur Coat Reconditioned Now for Xmas Collars end Culls for Cioth Coats a Specialty T'e Shop to Save Money ISADOR MILLER Mfg. Furrier 509 114 St. N.W. Nail 5628 Our Work Is Guaranteed Thousands—hundreds ~of | : | SUNDAY DINNER frem what | | Lindsay, | Madame Mrs, Henry L, Peter, Madame Prochnik, | Madame van Royen, Mrs. Patrick Hurley, Mrs. Charles’ Francis Adams, Mrs. William E. Borah, Mrs. Duncan U. | Fletcher, Mrs. Claude A. Swanson, Mrs. | Morris Sheppard, Mrs. Charles L. McNary, Mrs. Willlam J. Harris, Mrs, | Tasker Oddie, Mrs. David A. Reed,| | Mrs, Jesse H. Metcalf, Mrs, Hugo L.| Black, Mrs. Fred A. Britten, Mrs. Percy | E. Quin, Mrs. Carl Vinson Rkprtsenta-‘ | tive Florence E. Kahn, Mrs. Frederick | | H. Payne. Mrs. Ernest Lee Jahncke, | | Mrs. Trubee Davison, Mrs. David 8. Ingalls, Mrs. William V. Pratt Mrs. | Arthur MacArthur, sr.. Mrs. Ben H.| | Fuller, Mrs. W. R. Smith, Mrs. Jacob | | Leander Loose, Mrs. Walter R. Tucker- | man, Mrs. Henry Alvah Strong. Mrs. | Thonras C. Hart. Mrs. Sidney Cloman, | Mrs. Jokn Allan Dougherty, Mrs. James Carrcll Frozer and Mrs. Emerson | Liscum Stimson, | . | Texas Sccie'y Host i To Congressional Set| Mr. Gilbert Fraser and Mrs. Marietta leetwood, who have both been con- | testants in the Atwater Kent radio! audition, will furnish the music pro- gram for the meeting of the Texas! ate Society Saturday evening at 8:30 | | o'clock at Meridian Mansions, Sixteenth street northwest Those in the receiving line that eve- ! | ning wil! by the president of the soclety |and Mrs. ugen® Black, nator and | Morris Sheppard, Senator 2400 | { | Mrs Mrs. Tom Connally, Representative and | Mrs. Wright Patman, Representative | | and Mrs. Martin Dies, Representative | |and Mrs. Morgan G. Sanders, Repre- | sentative Sam Rayburn, Representative | Hatton W. Sumners, Representative and Mrs. Luther Johnson. Representative and Mrs, Clay Stone Briggs, Represent- ative and Mrs. Daniel E. Garrett, Rep. Tesentative and Mrs. Joseph J. Mans- field. Representative and Mrs. James P. Buchanan, Representative and Mrs. Oliver H. Cross, Representative and Mrs. Fritz G. Lanham, Representative and Mrs. Guinn Williams, Represent- ative and Mrs. Richard Kleberg, Rep- resentative and Mrs. Ewing Thomason, Representative and Mrs. Thomas L Blanton and Representative Marvin ! Jones. Dancing and cards will | program “and all Texans | friends are invited to come the their follow and | . | Breakfast Follows | | Hunt Club Weekly Run' | The Riding and Hunt Club had their from the Harris farm. near the | National Woman's Country Club on De- cember 5, at 2:30 p.m Following the hunt a breakfast was held at the National Woman's Country { Club where the field gathered with their | many guests Among those who followed the | hounds were Maj. Willam M. Grimes | Mr. and Mrs. Marbury Stamp, Mr J. J. Cotter, Maj. George S. Patton, Mr | Roland Dawson, Mr. Robert Robey, Mr | John Finerty, Mr. H. T. Cole, Col. and | Mrs Robert Guggenheim, Mr. and Mrs Charles Carrico, Mr. Walter Tucker- {man Maj. Harry Leonard, Mrs. F. M. | Andrews, Mrs ‘Burdette Wright, Mr | Moran McConihe, Mr. and Mrs. Mar- | shall Exnicious, Mr. Hubert Quinter, Mr. Percy Niepold, Mr. and Mrs. Wil- | liam G 'Hill and Miss Maude Preece, | and Miss Elizabeth Jackson | Classes of Notre Dame : Giving Ball Friday| The Classes of 1929 and 1931 of | Notre Dame Academy are giving a! dance for the benefit of their Alumnae Schlarship Fund, at the Kennedy- | Warren Hotel, Friday night, at 10 | o'clock. Plans are now being made by the Committee on General Arrange- ments to make this a particularly important social event | Miss Irene McNamara and Miss Rita Walsh, assisted by the Misses Helen | Early, 'Margaret MacInerney, Margaret | Murphy, Kathryn Gwinn. Mary Con- | nors, “Catherine Rhatigan, Dorothy { Burch and Charlotte Gartner, form ‘Why not count up 20 friends who are rerhaps forgotten, and on every day for | the committee in charge the next 16 business days gather up small gifts for them? The University of London has decided to help the city by foregoing $93,750 of the covneil’s pnn T ~ens of 5625,000 That's what our patrons say about our Special 5 Course 12 Noon to 8:30 P.M, Features Reast Turkes, Rosst Long Island Duckling. Broiled Tenderloin Steak, strictly fresh seasonable vegetables. Our famous clover leaf rolls homemade muffins and corn sticks served with all meals Come to the T Shoppe for | Sunday dinner enjoy the best of foods.'splendid- 15 prepared. daintily served Monday—Special Broiled Tenderloin Steak Dinner 75¢ + Convenient Restaurants: T1th and Monroe 1124 Vermont Ave. 1ith and Thomas Circle 1835 Columbia Road WILBUR COON SHOES For Wide, Narrow, Long, Short, Small or Large Feet “No Foot Too Hard to Fit” | 1to 12 EEEEE FIT ENUG AT THE HEEL Custom - Made Stylish Steuts in All Leathers and Fabrics 37.50 to tloM Nurzec’ White Cloth, Calf and Black Kid Oxfords Complete Line of Mirh Shows 0YCE & LEWI CUSTOM FITTING SKOE 439 7 st NW. Just Below E St Baltimore Stere, 212 N. Liberty St. and ||| He Will Be Pleased with the Practical You can be sure of the two important considerations of wardrobery for gifts if selected here—Mode value and fashion correctness. quality and character. Lounging Robes and Lounge Suits Imported from Welsh-Mar- getson, of London—and others made for us by leading Amer- ican designers. $5 to 350 With These Three Important Specials Handsome brocade effects, as illustrated, lined with Skin- 39.85 ner's silk Imported Flannel, plain shades; double-breasted model All-wool striped flannel; in smart combinations. $585 Neckwear Of the very extensive assortment in our showing from Welsh- Margetson of London, and American makers—all are exclusive with us—ranging in price from 69c to $5.00. three immensely interesting We offer these Specials— High-grade silk four-in- hands ; usual $2.50, $3 and $3.50 $1.79 3 for $5.00 Pure silk, hand-tailored and silk-lined Persian Cravats— rich colorings and beautiful patterns Fancy figures and stripes, in handmade silk cravats—very special 69C 3 for $2.00 Handkerchief and Cravat Sets Pleasing combinations of handkerchiefs and four-in- hands, in matched sets— $2 to 5250 a Set Mufflers Many kinds from which to choose—plain and fancy effects. Imported from Welsh-Margetson, and American makes, Very practical for day znd evening wear. $195 to S15 Special Rich, plain shade Mufflers, for day of evening wear. some fringed ends Hand- Hosiery The best makers in the world have supplied us with our stcck of Hosiery—Allen-Sally & Co. of London and others. The very latest and the S0c to $3:50 Special : Hand - clocked Hose, in silk-and-wool, and lisle—the wanted weight —and colers ... $1 00 Mode Dress Clothes Glenbrook Tuxedo Suits lenbrook Dress Suits Imported French Opera Hats s These make gifts of House Coats There has been special attention given to the cut and quality of these coats to make them truly comfortable and practical gar- ments—that will give real service. As usual, we are showing the best assortment, 3585 to 325 Two Specials— vDouble-face cloth; all wool; All-wool cloth, effectively with two frogs .$5,85 trimmed with brocade $785 Handkerchiefs Silk and Linen, in the new effects—fancy and initialed— special creations of Welsh-Margetson, and others of the foreign leaders. 35¢c to 3% Specials— As illustrated — Imported Imported Pure Linen Hand- Linen Handkerchiefs in colors o “with fancy borders; hand rolled - em b roidered Handkerchiefs, and embroidered initials. The : initials were embroidered in with hand-rolled hems, Porto Rico; the handkerchiefs made on the other side. 6sc 3 for $1.75 and initials in colors 6 for $2,50 Pajamas and Pajama Lounges A very select assortment of styles—plain and fancy effects. 155 to 515 Specials: Lounge Pajamas with convertible collar. silk. $15 value Made of radium 3 Others at $3.50 and $5 Regular Pajamas—made of high-grade broadcloth; with collar and front plait piped in contrasting color e 3 for $4.50 Pure Silk Pajamas; regular model, with collar and front plait piped with silk in contrasting color. $6.50 value. $395 Mark Cross Gloves Here is the distinguishing mark of the finest Gleves made for men's wear. There is a Mark Cross for every hand, and for every occasion, 18375 c 300 Our special pigskin glove— Pigski‘n‘ § made of perfect skins....$285 The Mode—F at Eleventh