Evening Star Newspaper, November 12, 1935, Page 29

Washington Wayside Random Observations of Interesting Events an BICYCLE FOR TWO. | HE Dansburgers of Arlington County, Va., don’t have an automobile, but that doesn't stop Gloria, 13, and her liitle | brother Paul, 2, from going to Sunday school regularly. The Dansburgers live about a mile | from the Sunday school—the Faith | Lutheran Church Sunday school. Gloria's older brother, it happens, has a bicycle equipped with a package | carrier attached to the handle bars. | Gloria rides like a veteran. So on Sundays she rides the “bike” to Sun- | day school and takes her little brother Paul along in the carrier basket. * ok ok % BENEFICIARIES. Among those who benefited by the removal of the street car tracks from Connecticut avenue are the radio enthusiasts. The trolley transmission set up a constant interference with distant broad- casts, particularly upsetting the 1 delicate tuning for short-wave re= ception from Europe. * o ox % WEATHER LEGERDEMAIN. ]:REAKISH November weather has| done some strange things to the thought that flowers may bloom enly in the Spring, tra la. Out Conduit road way. one of our | most ardent amateur gardeners reports his yard was abloom November 9 with 8 number of species in addition to| late flowers. Forsythia, or golden bell. an early- blooming bush, one of the first of the Spring. had flowers on it. Then thrroi were blooms on nasturtiums, hy- drangeas. begonias. roses and violets. But in the same garden a recent frost had blighted giant decorative dahlias. And just a block away a neighbor boasted of dahlias that had gone un- touched by the frost. ok ! THIS HOUSING DEMAND. ! Here’s a story that illustrates ! how hard it is to get one of the low-cost F. H. A. insured apart- ments just completed at Colonial Village, near Clarendon. Gustave Ring, the builder, rented all of the 276 units before the buildings were completed. Just about the time the last group of tenants was mov- ing in Ring decided that he would d Things. move his office from the West- chester to Colonial Village. But there was no space left, so he paid one of the families who had planned to move in $100 in order to obtain office space. * ok ok X BUCK ROGERS IN TROUBLE. ANN GILLIS, prolific publicity | writer at WJSV, tells this one about Curtis Arnall, ‘the radio Buck | Rogers of Columbia: | Rogers, who, as every youngster knows, catapults through space to| Neptune with nary a scratch, was brought to grief by a 10-foot fall. Hiking in New York State recently. | Arnall slipped on a rock and plunged | | down an embankment. Rescuers re- vived him and rushed him to a doc- tor, who found his back injured. | DOG GOES NATIVE. A female police dog has taken her litter of puppies into a_re- mote section of Rock Creek Park near the District line and “gone native” after the fashion of her wild ancestors. An occasional hiker passing through the deep woods gets a glimpse of the wolflike mother and still rarer glimpses of her puppies fleeing to cover. One passer-by chanced too suddenly upon the mother in a thicket sev- eral days ago and received a lac= erated ankle before the police dog vanished. cs WHAT? “A"? A WASHINGTON traveling sales- man phoned from another city the other night to find out what ranks the children got on the report cards TheBest GRAY HAIR | REMEDY IS MADE AT HOME Y QU ean now make at home & Z better gray hair remedy than you can buy, by following this simple recipe: To half pint of ! water add one ounce bay rum, & small box of Barbo Compound and one-fourth ounce of glycer- ine. Any druggist can put this up or you can mix it yourself at very little cost. Apply to the hair twice 8 week until the de- sired shade is obtained. Barbo imparts color to streaked, faded or gray hair, makes it soft and glossy and takes years off your looks. It will ot eglor m: not sticky or greasy and does mo! Tob " Do mot be handicabped by wray haie Bow when it is 80 economical and ety to &#id of it in your own home THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, due that day, The smallest child proudly told his father he got one “A."” “In what subject?” asked his father with intense interest. “I can't read what it is,” the little boy answered. “Well, spell it out!” said his father, “S-p-e-1-1-i-n-g,” came the slow and most unexpected reply. * %k X ¥k OTHER OCTAGON HOUSE. MUCH has been written about the famous Octagon House, at Sev- enteenth street and New York avenue, now the home of the American Insti- tute of Architects, but few people know there is another famous Octagon House in this section of the country. It is located at the foot of Melrose avenue, in Hyattsville. In passing through Bladensburg on the Baltimore pike, it can be glimpsed through the trees, high on a hill, overlooking most of the surrounding country. Atop the octagon part of the house is perched a little cupola, from which, in the old days, it was the custom to watch for the approach of friends who often rode miles on horseback to visit with their friends. The entrance hall in this house is larger than most living rooms of to- day, and a circular staircase, with a | soild mahogany handrail, mounts in a graceful sweep to the third floor. All the rooms, of course, are of odd dimension due to the unusual design D. C, of the house. Six Couples Get Licenses. FAIRFAX, Va., November 12 (Spe- cial).—Marriage licenses have been issued in the office of the clerk of the Circuit Court to the following: John | Wrenn Pearce, 24, and Grace Victoria | Gorby, 24, both of Washington, D. C Dewitt Carlton Bailey, 36, and Eliza. beth Reigel, 29, both of Dundalk, Md.; Denby Barnes Prince, 32, Washington, D. C., and Annie Elizabeth Tipton, 32, Fairfax, Va.; Edward H. Smith, 21, and Emma Lansdown, 22, both of Herndon, Va.; Herman C. Adcox, 22, and Margaret M. Simon, 21, both of Washington, D. C, and John M. Chinn, 22, R. F. D, Vienna, Va., and Theresa P. Croson, 21, R. F. D, 3 Famous "Old English” Household Cleaning Aids . . . 12 ox. Bottle Old English Furniture Polish wax polish, without oil or abrasives. Gives a hard finish—an in- visible film of protec- tion against and scratches Exclusively t ai 1 pt. Old English No-Rubbing Floor Wax—Reg. 5%¢ —Regularly 50c ... A ~—A liquid wax. Polishes and waxes as you spread it on easily with cloth or applier. 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