The Brownsville Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 153, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 1, 1929 Page: 14 of 26
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Flag Collection Displayed at Mercedes Assembly
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Historical Lecture
Entertains Students
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(Special to The Herald)
MERCEDES. Nov. 30.—Mrs. Wal-
ter Weacer of Donna was the
principal speaker at an assembly
of the junior and senior high
schools of Mercedes in the
junior high school auditorium this
week. Mrs. Weaker who has an
unusual collection of flags from
many foreign countries and all the
flags of the countries which have
been in the United States gave
one of the most entertaining and
Instructive talks of the year on
this tubject.
Each member of the Girl Reserve
held a flag as Mrs. Weaver ex-
plained the history of each one
and told many incidents concern-
ing them.
A model of the flag which flew
over the ship in which Frances
Scott Key wrote his famous song
“The Star Spangled Banner.” was
shown and the first stanza of this
famous song was sung by the as-
sembly’.
At the close of Mrs. Weaver's talk
the Girl Reserves formed a semi-
circle around the stage of the au-
ditorium and exhibited the flags
while Miss Ruth Wood president
of the Oirl Reserve stood by the
American flag the entire audience
singing “America.”
Miss Fern Alfrey of the high
school faculty sang a beautiful
solo accompanied by MisS Mildred
Schubert also a member of the
school faculty.
The Choral Club accompanied on
the piano by Miss Elizabeth Rogers
gave a beautiful number "Thanks-
giving”.
The Rev. James Me. Intire of
the local Christian church led the
devotional for the assembly using
“Thanksgiving” for his subject.
• • •
LUNCHEON HOSTESS
Mrs. M. H. Keen was hostess at
a most enjoyable luncheon on Tues-
day her guests being the Ladies
auxiliary of the Methodist Church.
Baskets of roses were used for the
table center-piece with a most de-
sirable effect.
Following the luncheon. Mrs. L.
Donley supervisor of study led the
program on Basil Matthews book
•Roads to the City of God".
Those assisting on the program
were Mrs. N. M. Ragland Mrs. N.
L. Harrington Mrs. Paul Ruckell
Mrs. J. L. Vlning: Mrs. Keen having
charge of the devotional service the
subject being "On the Road to
Jerico ’*
Twelve were present on this oc-
casion.
• • •
CIRCLES MEET
The different circles of the Pres-
byterian church met for their ses-
sions this week in the homes of the
members
Mrs. W. W. De Cell was hostess
to the Ruth Circle with Mrs. A. K.
Phillips having charge of the de
WATCH THE HERALD
TUESDAY
for the announcement of our
SECOND ANNIVERSARY
SHOE SALE
On Wednesday. December 4 we will start our Second An-
niversary Shoe Sale. Every shoe In the store will be marked
at coat and below....there will be no exceptions In this
drastic slashing of prices.
This includes shoes that we have just received as well
as those we have had for a few months By attending this
sale you are sure to find shoes for the entire family at
prices to suit any purse. All styles will be shown.
International Shoe Store
Mrs. Elsie C. Barrrda Mfr.
W9 Twelfth Street Brownsville Texan
votional service and study program. j
Six ladles were present.
* • •
The Martha Circle met at the
home of Mrs. Lee Freeman on Mis-
souri avenue. Mrs. E. B. Witmerl
led the devotional and Bible study
with five ladies taking part.
Mrs. William Lick led the de-
votional service at the Mary Circle
with Mrs. Leeland Matthews in
of Mrs. J Schmitter.
An interesting program was had
with Mrs. Leelanud Matthews in
charge.
Ten members were present.
• • •
STUDY CLUB
-Hungarian Drama” was the sub-
ject discussed by the Mercedes
Study club which met this week
with Mrs. O. E. Van Bergas lead-
er.
Mrs. Henry Allen gave a most in-
teresting paper on “Franz Molnar—
The Man and The Play Wright."
Mrs. Van Berg discussed Molnar's
play -Lilian.”
The program was concluded by a1
round table discussion of the play
and it's author.
* • •
HONOR GUESTS
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hall were
named honor guests at a delight-
ful dinner-bridge Monday evening
at the home of Mrs. Florence Kal-
bflelsch in honor of their twentieth
wedding anniversary.
In the games following the dinner
Mrs. W. L Bradbury won high score
trophy and Mrs. E. P. Cartweil of
La Feria scored for consolation.
Mr. and Mrs. Hall were presented
with a lovely gift.
Mrs. Kalbfleisch's guests included
the honor guests and Messrs and
Mesdames Harry Rouse. V/. L. Brad-
bury. E. P. Cartweil of La Feria
and Mri Bess Roberts. Albert Lynch
and Clayton Malone the latter two
from Progreso.
• It
ALL DAY MEETING
Mrs. Etta Ringgold. Hidalgo
county home demonstration agent
gate a demonstration on the mak-
ing of candy and crystalizing citrua
peel at an all day meeting of the
Just We Neighbors and alternate
Wednesday Clubs held at the City
hall Thursday. Eighteen different
kinds of candy were made at the
meeting.
Twenty members of the two clubs
were in attendance at this interest-
ing meeting.
• • •
NEEDLECRAFT CLUB
Fourteen members were in at-
tendance this week when Mrs. N.
L. Harrington entertained the
Needle Craft club at her home in
Queen City Annex.
The afternoon was soent in the
exchange of fancy work ideas and
sewing*
Guests of the club on this after-
noon were Mrs. Robert Taylor of
Weslaco Mrs. Harold Roland and
Mrs. F L. Welter of Fort Worth
who is a house guest of Mrs. J. R.
Barry.___
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SHOUTERS WERE BAD;
SNORTERS ARE WORSE
“Where Are the Singers of Yesterday?” Plaintively
Asks Winifred Black Lamenting Over Today’s
“Groans Moans and Whiffles.”
By "WINIFRED BLACK
FR goodness sake what’s happened to all the singers—just the
plain everyday sopranos and tenors and baritones?
There used to be plenty of them—all over the place.
Tune in your radio and try to get a singer now—I dare you l
A year or so ago the singers turned into . .
thouters. They were sort ox funny at xirst
weren’t they? But after a while didn’t you
begin to get sort of tired of feeling as if you
were down on the levee listening in on a Sat-
urday night with the river boats just in and
all the gin in the world circulating like so much
water?
And then came the crooners the lonesome
fellows with a girl somewhere on the other
side of the world a gi^ who had turned their
down; a girl who had “said good-bye;” a girt
who didn’t care but oh some day she wuuld
wake up and see what she had done and then
she’d be. oh. so sorry!
The crooner was always a man who re-
minded me of a shadow flitting and flickering
when something had happened to the light*.
And. oh how he did mourn and sigh poor
thin*. He was actually soggy with sorrow.
WINIFRED BI/CR
He always bad the "blues" all ainos oi oiues ana ne naiea «
so and how he did love to tell the world about it.
1 thought the crooners were just about the worst of the worst
but oh 1 had not known tne*
morter—
The enorter appears to be a
woman and of ail tho terrible
guttural groans and moans and
snorts and whiffles! Why it's
like a rhinoceros in pain.
I couldn’t believe It when 1
first heard it could you?
There was something primi-
tive and animal about it and at
first you thought “Oh. well
this is just one of those things”
like the smell of a sewer or the
finding of a vase of lilies that
has “gone bad” for want of
water. But last night 1 went to
a church entertainment and a
missionary arose and told us of
his work among the heathen—
and when he had made us all
feel like cold-blooded monsters
because we wouldn’t go to Afri-
ca and live in a hut and tell the
poor heathen all about iced
water and motor cars and ant
paste and everything—the min
ister's daughter came out on the
platform to entertain us and
she was a shorter—just a little
frail blonde girl in a pink drew
and her hair m a wave—and she
snorted for us and groaned and
moaned and gurgled like the
Jabberwock in ms most ugly
moments.
And all the nice kind people
smiled and said ‘isn’t she
cute?”—all but two or three
rather worldly-looking men. They
looked up at the ceiling and
never said a word.
I’m afraid they couldn’t
think of the right word to say.
What will the next freak be?”
Talk about the heathen—why
not a savage in Africa would
step out in public and exhibit
his primitive emotions —- for
money.
But we— Oh. well we art
“sophisticated” — and when
you ve said that you’ve said
everything.
Comtsiu. i»l». StwttMpmt f« 1.1 or* Burlc*. im
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of the Day
By MRS. ALEXANDER GEORGE|
MEALS FC!t A DAY
Breakfast
Grapefruit
Wheat Cereal and Cream
Poached Eggs
Bran Gems Coffee
Luncheon
Escalloped Rice and Tomatoes
Bread Apple Sauce
Sugar Cookies Tea
Dinner
Escalloped Oysters Baked Potatoes
Cabbage Relish
Bread Butter
Fruit Pudding and Lemon Sauce
Coffee
Bran Gems (12)
(Leftovers are good served cold)
1 cup bran 1 cup flour 4 table-
spoons sugar. 1-4 teaspoon salt 1
teaspoon soda 1 teaspoon baking
powder 4 tablespoons molasses 1
tgg 2-3 cup sour milk 2 table-
spoons fat melted
Mix the Ingredients and beat
for 2 minutes. Half fill greased
auffin pans and bake for 20 min-
tes in a moderately slow oven.
Escalloped Rice and tomatoes
Serving Four
(Using leftover)
11-2 cups cooked rice 1-2 tea-
on salt 1-4 Va^poon paprika
4 taespocn celery salt. 1-4 tea-
-on cloves (powdered). 1 cup
natoes 1-2 cup cracker crumbs
I’ed 4 tablespoons butter melted
! tablespoons finely chopped on-
jns.
Mix the ingredients and pour in-
fo a buttered baking dish. Bake
for minutes In a moderate oven.
3etve in dish in which baked.
Cabbage Relish
2 cups chopped cabbage 2 table-
spoons celery seed 1 tablespoon
mustard seed 3 tablespoons chop-
ped ptmientofl. 1 tablespoon horse-
radish 1 teaspoon salt 1-4 tea-
spoon paprika 2 tablespoons vin-
egar.
Mix and chill the ingredients.
Bran gems when cold can be
thinly sliced and made into sand-
wiches for the children’s lunch box- j
es.
Girl Reporters
(Continue From Pag* One.)
responsibility and the feeling that
at last I was to have a hand in
moulding public opinion. I was a
member of the Fourth Estate.
When my train arrived in the
wide open spaces of the Panhandle :
section I assumed a bored blase
air and climbed off the train. I
still say I’ll stay Just as I am. de-
spite the fact that when I entered
the newsroom certain members of
the staff against whom I still hold
j grudge looked me over grinned
and ducked.
The sports editor on the North
Texas sheet w s a genial gentle-
men of rotund appearance. He nev-
er seemed to realise that I was a
brand-new reporter almost pain-
fully conscious of such. He had seen
girl reporters come and go and of
course couldn't know that I had
>nce tried to get fat and failed and
that the defeat still rankled. He
immediately tacked his first epl
thet on to me—4 Half Pint.” From
day to day others came out “'Little
Bit." "Small Change” but "Half
Pint” was the most undignified.
And I still despise the youth who
brought in a social item and told
his mother that the society editor
was not in. but that he gaye the
notice to a "real thin looking girl."
But I pass all that up. and I
advise the author of the article
which inspired this outburst to do
the same.
It doesn't matter If the can’t
fill up the folds of a cut-away
tailored suit whil* on duty as i
lady journalist; better that thr
be bursting out the seams. Any vs-
who ever heard of a fat girl repo.
cr? Can you imagine a fat w.uu
dashing madly down the street an
up a stairway ™ith a ten-mlrsu:
deadline s.aring her in the lace
No. she'd have to stop too mar
times to catch her breath. A s’.n
ny girl reporter can slip in and o
of lots ot places she isn't suppo .
to b? in much easier than a f.
could. She could hide behind a f;
man and get tne lowdown on hi:
while hes talking to a woman
that's not his wife but could sh*
do It if she was spread out all
over creation? Neither could she
climb a fire escape nor chin a
window sill. Do you think the
court reporter could host a 150-
pmmder on his shoulder while she
peers in on a secret session of
some kind?
While women having scanillv-
skinned anatomies may be the vie
Urns of unkind taunts and thrust*
what could be worse than reoeivin
anonymous suoertitious notes ir
the mall such as “How to Be Ha j
py though Fat” "Get Rid of that
Fat;” "Why Men Leave Horn*;; ’
• The Covered Wagon ” If the thin
girl reporter does succeeed In get-
ting fat how will she enjoy having
the elevator boy slam the door In
her face with “Next car please?”
And. who will follow her around to
extricate her from revolving door-
ways?
I hope this thin-skinned lady
journalist will take heed and stay
off any “Get-Fat-Quick” campaign.
However if she's bent on it she
may borrow my Nina Wilcox Punt-
nam diet.
If she does get fat. maybe she
can give up her newspaper Job
and get one with the circus as fat
lady. Then I’ll come around and
look at her and say. “I used to
know her when she wasn't any
bigger than that—honest!”
Unique
CHRISTMAS GIFTS
at the
BASKET PLACE
In Matamoros
It is well worth a trip to
Matamoros just to look
through our distinctive
stock of articles suitable for
Christmas Gifts. Complete
line of Mexican curios bas-
kets pottery drawn work
etc. at unusually reason-
able prices. Visit us when
in Matamoros.
Northeaat Cor. Plasa
Achieving
Beauty
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By MADAME RUBINSTEIN
Who can tell what brings women
into beauty parlors? Vanity most
of you will answer but I am not
so certain that this is the case.
After one has studied the thousands
of women who make of the Salon
de Beaute a Mecca one gets a dif-
ferent view of things.
I have only to recall a middle-
aged wealthy woman who quite
suddenly became a regular visitor
to a well-known beauty salon.
Her husband a wealthy mid-
western merchant had started from
the very bottom and "had worked
his way up to the enviable position
which he held while she could nev-
er get used to their new social
status. She regarded beauty as
something strange and sinful. Their
newly acquired fortune was some-
thing mysterious to her.
The husband who was quite dif-
ferent In mental make-up wanted
to enjoy the fruits of his labor
and since his wife would not be hi*
companion he sought other and
more responsive company but be-
ing at heart devoted husband he
suffered at the necessity for de-
ception.
Undoubtedly the whole situation
would have ended disastrously ii it
had not been for an unexpected
visit of the wife to her husband s
office. It happened in this man-
ner:
One afternoon while down town
shopping she -cund herself in the
neighborhood of her husband's of-
fice. and realizing that 6he had not
been there for a long time she
decided to pay an unexpected visit.
Her husband was not in and
while she wai. ;d she saw all the
young girls and women employed
in the office. Exquisitely gowned
ladies ■ neatly costumed girls glided
before her. im -.culate from the
tips of their perfectly chosen pumps
to the tops of their beautifully
marcelled heads—$30 to $50 a week
clerk*! And this was the atmo-
sphere in which her husband work-
ed. Like a flash she contrasted her
own dowdy self with these lovely
attractive girls and felt ashamed
She hurried out of the office with-
out waiting for her husband's re-
turn. and since her Instincts after
all. were feminine she landed in
a beauty salon.
The beauty expert whom she con
suited studied her features the
shape of h hr- and her figure
and realised that basically she had
good material to work with. The
results were so enthralling that the
husband could not understand what
had transformed his quiet little
wife into a charming companion for
him. And thus what might have
been a marital tragedy was tran-
sformed into a happy companion-
ship. I
■-:==——a "I
1st Of Month
SALE
December 2nd to 7th
125
Misses and Womens
Silk Dresses
s5=
2 Dresses *10
Mostly $10 and $12 dresses
in practically all shades
and materials
«£♦ & & &
200 DRESSES AT
y2 PRICE
Aziz
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Gifts
of
Taste
For Madam
SOMETHING
subtly artistic
even a bit bizarre
...something that
reveals individuals
ity and refinement.
For such a gift you
will find McKay’s
Pharmacy the pre-
ferred place to make
your purchases... the
home of attractive
cTorsay perfumes
Beauty sets by Rubenstein.
Dorothy Gray and Elizabeth Arden.
Le Debut — an exquisite perfume
by Richard Hudnut.
Compacts and compact sets.
Atomizers.
McKAY’S PHARMACY
IN EL JAR DIN HOTEL
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