Thursday, August 5, 1937
THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON
Marriage May Reunite the House of Bourbon
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By JE A N N E
W orld'» Forem oit Authority
on Etiquette
JOSEF STALIN STUDIED FOR
THE PRIESTHOOD
© E m ily Post.
Cutting Wedding Cake
Calls for Real Skill
Prince Alvaro of Bourbon, Orleans, and his bride, Carla Delfino Parodi, just after their marriage in the
Church of San Roberto Bellarmino in Rome, The wedding brought about the first formal appearance in six
years of former King Alfonso and former Queen Victoria of Spain, stimulating reports that they are con-
sidering a reconciliation. They served as patrons for their cousin, Prince Bourbon-Orleans.
WILLIAMS’ PREXY
Famous Father and Two-Year-Old Son
Dr. James Phinney Baxter I II ,
professor of history and master of
Adams house at Harvard university,
who was unanimously named to suc
ceed Dr. Tyler Dennett as president
of Williams college, at a recent
meeting of the executive committee
of the Williams board of trustees.
An exclusive pose of John Jacob Astor and his two-year-old son,
Forty-four years old, he takes office William Henry Astor, as they appeared in commune, on the steps of
September I as one of the youngest “ Chetwode,” their summer home at Newport, R. I. William Henry re
of the ten men who have held the cently celebrated his second birthday with his dad and mother, the for
presidency in the college’s history.
mer Ellen Tuck French.
Socialite Back From Wild Life Hunt
Bronzed George Vanderbilt, twenty-three-year-old socialite, pictured
aboard his yacht, Cressida, on his return from a 20,000-mile, six-month
cruise in the South Seas during which he gathered about 20,000 wild-life
specimens for the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. George is
shown with Tag-Along, the tortoise-mascot he picked up on the Gala
pagos islands.
M O UN D M ARVEL
Atlea Richard Donald, youthful
pitching sensation of the Newark
club of the International league who
won his first 13 starts, shattering
all previous minor league records.
The future will probably see him
on the Yankee pitching staff since
the Newark club is part of the
Ruppert farm system.
Honorable Artillery Company Has Birthday
ITH what blindness do we at
tempt to guide our children's
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footsteps in life, so often forcing
on them an ambition of our own I
It might tie laughable were it not
TA EAR Mrs. Post: I was at a very so seriously in opposition to the
miniature wedding reception j man's own desires, but Joset Stalin
recently. In fact, there were only was forced to attend the Tiflis Greek
ten persons present. But it was one i Orthodox seminary, because his
of the loveliest after-wedding par ! mother wanted him to be a priest
ties I have ever known. It was i Young Stalin, legally named Josef
late afternoon and almost dark, the ! Vissarionovitch Djygashvili. did not
dining table was set with a lace : want to be a priest.
Born in 1879. Joset was educated
cloth and candelabra, there was a
small bride’s cake ornamented with j in the village school of Gori. Rus
In his young days he was a
the wedding couple’s first names sia
and a bride and groom figurine set fighter who bore many a black eye,
on top, and there was champagne to and he was somewhat of a bully,
drink the traditional toasts. Unlike although he always displayed intel
all other weddings at which I have ligence and character At the sem
been, at this one I sat close enough inary, he led the other students in
so that I could watch the wedding plotting against the authorities, and
cake being cut, and I never be local railway workers met in his
fore realized that this could be such
a task. The bride pierced the cake
with the point of the blade but when
she tried to bring the side of the
blade down through the cake, the
slice broke into many pieces. One
of the guests took the knife then
but her luck was just about the
same. I have wondered since the
wedding whether there was any
right way to cut a wedding cake, or
is it, as in this case, just a matter
of chance?
Answer: Of course you don’t tell
me whether the cake was not very
fresh, or perhaps the knife very
dull. In any case, the best way to
cut wedding cake is to spear it
first and with the knife in this same
point down position, continue to stab
the slice all the way across. If
after the first stab is made, the knife
Eventually, he was dis
blade is brought down as though it room.
were a lever, the piece invariably missed in disgrace. At the age of
crumbles even though the blade is seventeen, he joined the under
ground dock workers of Batum in
very sharp.
a riot and, when the terrorist Bol
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sheviks were formed became active
Write Note of Thanks
in their movement. While attend
ing a Bolshevik party conference in
to Sympathetic Friends
Stockholm, in 1905, he met Lenin
r \ EAR Mrs. Post: Is it proper to for the first time.
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acknowledge notes sent in sym
Josef Stalin was arrested a half
pathy with a thank you card? I be a dozen times, and exiled from Rus
lieve that friends and acquaintances sia the last time. He changed his
should eventually be thanked by name regularly and returned again
note no matter what the extent of and again. With Lenin and Trotsky,
their expressions of sympathy, but he took over the government of Rus
my daughter feels that for slighter sia in October, 1917. After Lenin
expressions a printed form could be died in 1924, Stalin supporters ex
used. In fact, she thinks that these iled Trotsky and through ruthless
times, and birthday and anniver executions made Stalin dictator.
Josef Stalin’s life is hardly the
sary occasions are the only ones
when printed cards of thanks would kind of biography you would ex
be suitable. Will you give us your pect from a boy who studied for
the priesthood.
opinion.
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Answer: In return for a card an
other card is suitable. But thanks
JOAN CRAWFORD WAS A
for a present or a real favor or any
TELEPHONE OPERATOR
thing as serious as a letter of con
dolence must be answered by a note
IOAN CRAWFORD’S life is an
or at least a handwritten message. •J example of a girl who had tal
Sympathy snown to a family in deep ent, ambition and enthusiasm, but
mourning can be answered with who might never have risen beyond
fewest handwritten words on a vis an ordinary occupation without the
iting card. This limited answer is necessary confidence to keep try
obviously permitted because of the ing.
effort that any longer reply would
Joan Crawford was born about
be to one in sorrow. Moreover, less 1907 in San Antonio, Texas, daugh
near members of the family may ter of a theater manager
Most of
write in the places of those most her play hours were spent playing
nearly concerned.
“ show,” and she danced her way
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througii many struggling years be
fore a real opportunity came her
M o u rn in g H u sb and ’s D eath
EAR Mrs. Post: I have lost my way. At fourteen, Joan went to
1 J husband and will shortly leave work as a telephone operator in
to make my home with a sister on Lawton, Okla. Then, she was sent
the West Coast. (1) 1 would like to to a convent in Kansas City, where
tend a written note of resignation to she had to earn her way by acting
a local club of which I have always as a kitchen maid and waiting on
been a member and wish you would tables. After leaving college, Joan
suggest what 1 write. (2) Also, will Crawford found a job in a Kansas
you tell me whether it would be in
correct to wear black satin slippers
with a black dinner dress while I
am wearing mourning? I find it im
possible to get suede ones that are
comfortable.
Answer: (1) You write to the sec
retary of the club, wording your
note more or less like the follow
ing: “ Dear Mrs. Green: Owing to
the changed circumstances in my
life and the uncertainty of my ever
returning to XX-town to live, it is
with very deep regret that I must
ask you to present my resignation
at the next meeting of the board of
governors.
Sincerely, Mary K.
Blank.’’ (2) Black satin is not suit
able for mourning but any dull silk
would take the place of suede.
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B irth d a y G if t Puzzle.
EAT Mrs. Post: My sister and
I are invited to the birthday
party of a neighbor’s son. Mother
ind this neighbor are dear friends
put we hardly know the son. Are
we each supposed to take birthday
presents to the party? We always
:ake presents to other birthday par
ies but in those eases we knew the
hostess or host very well. And yet
we would hate to arrive at the party
he only ones to be empty-handed,
».'hat do you suggest that we do?
Answer: If I were you I would
ake a trifling present from both of
zou together—not because it is nec
essary, or even customary to take
> present to one whom you scarcely
(now. but because he is the son of
zour mother’s friend.
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T each er on T elephone.
EAR Mrs. Post: When a teacher
Sir George Broadbridge, the lord mayor of London, inspects the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company ' ' announces herself on the tele
of America during a garden party in honor of the British Honourable Artillery Company on the four hundredth, phone, to a student I mean, what is
anniversary of its founding recently. The British company is one of the most exclusive regiments in England he proper form?
The American company dates from 1838 when a group of planters in America who had been members of the
Answer: “This is Miss Green" or
British company formed a similar regiment.
This is Mr. Blakely."
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City department store as a stock
girl at $10 per week, working dur
ing the day and practicing dancing
at night.
Finally a theatrical agent found a
job for Joan in a show which failed
a month later, leaving her stranded
300 miles from home. Courageous-
ly, she found job after job in cab-
arets and night clubs in Chicago,
Detroit, and New York. She was
working in a Shubert show, "In
nocent Eyes,’’ when a Metro-Gold-
wyn-Mayer executive saw her and
signed her for pictures.
Think of the troubles this girl had,
the disappointments and struggles.
Born in the atmosphere of show
business, she was inspired from the
time she could first toddle to find a
place for herself in that glamorous
life. Then, circumstances took a
hand and forced her into occupa
tions that were far more on the side
of drudgery than glamour. She
plugged lines into a switch-board,
washed dishes, swept floors, car
ried heavy trays, wrapped pack
ages. But through it all, she kept
her confidence in herself
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ily crocheted Individual medal
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9 inch medallion shown; an illus
tration of it and of all stitches
used; material requirements.
To obtain this pattern send 15
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preferred) to The Sewing Circle
Household Arts Dept., 259 W.
Fourteenth St., New York, N. Y.
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