9k AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE * * JOURNAL * * While we’ve never seen the statistics, we’ll wager fast in your room, it quietly appears (with a flower and there’s no home in the country staffed with such reti¬ the morning paper on the tray). If you crave in-season nues of valets and butlers, chefs and secretaries, maids or out-of-season delicacies, you'll find them in any of and men servants, as our hotel. That’s why we say the our restaurants. Prepared with finesse and served with New Yorker is "no place like home" — purposely. We finesse.You may have your railroad or air-line ortheatre know that everyone secretly longs for and enjoys the tickets ordered for you and brought to you. You may luxury of perfect hotel service. And you have your shirts and suits speeded back know it is yours at the New Yorker, with¬ from laundry or valet, with buttons sewed out luxurious cost. • It is unobtrusive ser¬ 25^6 reduction on and rips miraculously mended. You may vice, too, that never gets on your nerves. to diplomatic and have all this service by scarcely lifting a fin¬ Everyone—from the doorman to the man¬ consular service ger. • You will find the Hotel New Yorker NOTE: the special rate ager—is always friendly, always helpful— reduction applies only conveniently located, its staff pleasantly at¬ to rooms on which the but never effusive. If you want a lazy break¬ rate is $4 a day or more. tentive, and your bill surprisingly modest. HOTEL NEW YORKER 34TH STREET AT EIGHTH AVENUE .NEW YORK CITY Directed by National Hotel Management Company, Inc. • Ralph Hilz, President OTHER HOTELS UNDER SAME DIRECTION: HOTEL LEXINGTON, NEW YORK • NETHERLAND PLAZA, CINCINNATI • BOOK-CADILLAC, DETROIT • THE ADOLPHUS, DALLAS • HOTEL VAN CLEVE, DAYTON CONTENTS COVER PICTURE ‘‘‘Hamilcar” Bridge, near Barcelona When you come to Washington I See also page 504) —or when you want to shop in PICTURE BRIDE Washington—it is quite natural By Winifred Cullum 489 that you should come to CHINA’S DISTINCTIVE CULTURE By John S. Littell 493 THE CORPS OF CONSULAR CLERKS WOODWARD & LOTHROP By Augustus E. Ingram 498 "A Store Worthy of the Nation’s Capital” IMMIGRATION PROBLEMS OF THE PAST 501 10th, 11th, F and G Streets WASHINGTON THE PRINCESS OF THE ALCAZABA By Augustin Ferrin 502 TEN YEARS AGO IN THE JOURNAL 504 Briefly here NEWS FROM THE DEPARTMENT 505 are some notes you will want to PAN AMERICAN COMMERCIAL CONFERENCE 507 make when you NEWS FROM THE FIELD 508 do come — or you do shop — A POLITICAL BOOKSHELF Cyril Wynne. Review Editor 510 LUNCHEON at THE TEA ROOM— “The Last of Free Africa” famous for its delicious food, its refined Reviewed by C. W. atmosphere. “The Economic Literature of Latin ENGRAVING to be done—our Engrav¬ America” ing Shop offers a most excellent service Reviewed by Yale O. Millington —both at home and abroad. FOREIGN SERVICE CHANGES 512 CLOTHES—our fashion sections (Third Floor) constantly in touch with all that MARRIAGES, BIRTHS — 515 is new—both from Paris and American OBSERVATION TEST 516 designers. VALEDICTORY SOMETHING FOR THE CHILDREN By Gelett Burgess 516 —an entire floor, the fourth, devoted to the younger set—and a year-’round Toy MARINE INSURANCE 520 Store. PINKERTON’S SKILL 523 SEE THE STORE FOR MEN—every¬ thing for men, and for women who shop SIDI Bou SAID, VERSE 524 for men. (Second Floor.) ON HAVING FOUR INITIALS By Roy E. B. Bower 526 SOMETHING FOR THE HOUSE— a most complete house-furnishing and SONG OF THE ROLLING STONES 528 furniture service—model apartments and a dozen or more rooms offering the SERVICE VISITORS 529 smartest new ideas in decoration. (Sixth To THE SOO 530 and Seventh Floors.) I\ MEMORIWI 532 AND GIFTS—the Gift Shop on the Seventh Floor abounds in delightful gifts for everyone. Issued monthly by American Foreign Service Associa¬ tion, Department of State, Washington, D. C. Entered as second-class matter August 20, 1934, at the Post Office, in Washington, D. C., under the Act of March 3, 1879. 485 IMDER B3 FLAGS there is one sign symbolical of quality in petroleum products. SOCONY-VACUUM OIL COMPANY, INC. and affiliated companies are represented in sixty-three of the sixty-four nations of the world. 486 To ‘•Patronize Our cAdvertisers Is to Insure a Pigger and Petter Journal for Our Service. INDEX OF ADVERTISERS American Security and Trust Company 513 Bacardi. Santiago de Cuba. - 539 Cathay Hotel—Shanghai - — 539 Chase National Bank —- 536 Continental Hotel—Paris 539 Crillon, Hotel—Paris - ~ 539 Dunapalota Hotel- Budapest —- 539 Federal Storage Company 522 Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. 488 France et Choiseul Hotel—Paris - 539 General Motors Export Co. 517 Giro Sales and Service, Inc. 536 Goodyear Tire & Rubber Export Company 521 Grace, W. R., and Company 527 Gude Bros. 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Listen to the Voice of Firestone—featuring Margaret Speaks, soprano, and the Firestone Choral Symphony, with William Daly’s Orchestra — every Monday night over N. B. C. — W EAF Network, also Short Wave W2XAF—9530 KC. Tinstone~ © 1935, F. T. & R. Co. 488 Picture Bride By WINIFRED CULLUM IT was a Heaven-sent morning in Honolulu, then remembered to attend to her husbands early enough so that the sun was not too coffee, before letting her glance wander back to bright on the face of the water. The Eltons were the grounds, still puzzled. She could discover having breakfast as usual on the lanai. Later, no one, either behind the tall fringe of poinsettias even the thick tropical foliage of the well-kept out by the scarlet hibiscus hedge, or under the grounds—pride of the young Japanese gardener, great banyan tree. Takai -was not sufficient screen from the glare. “Teena, where is Takai?” she inquired, turn¬ Mrs. Elton, looking very American in her ing at last to the maid. yellow silk sport dress, sat by the coffee urn, Teena bowed politely before answering, her her graceful hands automatically filling her hus¬ smile not quite as sunny as usual. “He very band’s coffee cup. She took a pitcher from the sorry. This morning I think go to town. Sister maid’s tray at her elbow, looked over the lawn, send word. Come back tonight, all right, he say.” poured cream on the luscious figs before her, Mrs. Elton nodded. When Teena had gone in- Photo by Eleventh Photo Section. A. C., Wheeler Field, T. H. WAIKIKI AREA AND DIAMOND HEAD, HONOLULU 489 Photo by Eleventh Photo Section, A. C., Wheeler Field, T. H. HALEMAUMAU AT NIGHT, KILAUEA VOLCANO side for more toast Mrs. Elton turned anxiously Mrs. Elton was overcome. Teena was such a to her husband. “What do you suppose has pretty little thing, no bigger than a child, that happened, between them?” it was impossible to scold her. She looked, in John Elton laughed good naturedly. He was a her native costume, more like a picture than a big blonde man, never worried over details, who real person. Even her tears, glistening on her always expected everything to turn out for the smooth brown cheeks, did not make her appear best. less doll-like. “Why should anything have happened? They “Why go, Teena? If it’s because you and arc madly and devotedly in love—more so than Takai want to marry, you can stay here all the any two Japanese I have ever seen.” same.” Mrs.