Evening Star Newspaper, November 6, 1923, Page 30

WOMAN’S PAGE. | TREES OF WASHINGTON BY R. A.EMMONS. PAPER OR CANOE BIRCH—BETULA PAPYRIFERA. the birches are trees utl ace and beauty, and the Al of singular g paper birch is the most beautiful of them all, the most striking. exciting the imagination of poet, painter and | layman. This is the birch of the| American Indian, with the bark of * which he covered canoe or his wigwam and fashioned many articles of Indian usefulness. Tt becomes a larger tree than the gray birch re- | cently considered in these pages, and | its glistening white trunk makes a ing feature any landscape. | fally when seen against a dark | cground, as of evergreens or the | dark water of a river or la | It is a simple matter to distin- guish Letw this tree and _its smaller sister, the gray birch. The | leaves are not triangular, nor dou- | bly serrate, but are broadly oval! with a rounded base, and simply though irregularly serra margined, two to three inches long, dark green | above, vellow reen beneath. That a chalky substance on the sur- face of the pearly l BEDTIME Danny Finds'a Treat. | The Great World has too many needs | To love the selfish and the greedy | —0ld Mother Nature. | Mouse was having & wonderful time. He had climbed into the slane, which all the lit- tle people called a man-bird, and which had been left the Green Meadows near Danny's home. It had taken him no time at all to decide s no danger there. Hav- his | think of Nann: Danny Meadow on | | BACK HOME TO THE OLD SCARE- CROW HE HURRIED. ing made up his mind to this, he ran | all over that machine. That is, he ran over all the parts he could get to. | He poked his Inquisitive little nose | into every nook and corner. | So it w that presently Danny | found a great treat. The man who had been flying that machine had | left part of his lunch there. Danny | found it. There were & couple of sandwiches. Danny's nose told him at once that they were good to eat. He began to nibble one. My, how good it tasted! He hadn't tasted any- thing so good for a long time. STORIES | ny wouldn't tell her where he had off is another identification feature. The bark on the base of the trunk is entire and does not split into ver- tical black crevasses, as it does on the gray birch. The breadth of range of this tree is remarkable, reaching farther into the north than any other broad- leaved tree and covering a wider territory, from Newfoundland and Alaska south to New Jers vania, Colorado and Washington. Its maximum height is seventy-five feet with a trunk diameter of two and one-half feet, In youth forming a compact pyramidal head, while in old age its wonderful trunk becomes branchless, lifting up an open, round- topped head of pendulous branches. 1t rapid grower and makes a picturesque, graceful and valuable ddition to the landscape gardener's ect 1ist of materials. The trees shown above are among number that may be seen in a strip Me- a of woods south of the Lincoln morial mirror pool. In fact, fortunate in having four of our na- tive birches growing in this patch of woods, the red, black, gray and paper, in convenient juxtaposition for comparison. By Thornton W. Burgess. Danny forgot where he was. thought of nothing but filling his stomach with this splendid food. He was greedy. Yes, sir, Danny Meadow Mouse was greedy. He didn't even Meadow Mouse. »uld eat no more, and still there was plenty left. Then Dan- thought of Nanny. He knew he wouldn’t be able to induce her to r there. ke her a piece of this o aid he to himself. won't tell her where I got it. I'll say I found it. but I won't say where 1 found it.” At last he took a piece of bread crust mouth and climbed out of the man-bird. Back home to the old scarecrow he hurried. He wonder- ed if Nanny had missed him. He climbed up to their home. Nanny wasn't there. Danny chuckled. Then he left the piece of crust just out- side the doorway and curled up in- side for a nap. He was tired. He was awakened the return of Nanny Meadow Mouse. He heard | her stop § outside the doorwa He knew ‘what she was doinz. Hel knew that she was smelling of that ! piece of crust. He chuckled down | inside. He knew that crust would | smell just as good to her as it had | smelled to him and that she ,would nibble it. He knew that once she had nibbled it she wouldn't be able to resist finishing it. Danny waited and pretended to be asleep. ~ After what seemed a long time Nanny Meadow Mouse came in. “Where did you get that splendid f00d?" she demanded, for she knew very well that Danny wasn't asleep. T found it,” said Danny. “I suppose you did,” retorted Nan- ny. “Where did you find t?" “Oh, T just found it,” replied Dan- ny, and that is all he would say. Nanny teased and teased, but Dan- found that crust. ‘Well,” said she at last, “I'm glad you found it. I hope you can find some more. But, whatever you do, keep away from that man-bird. Danny chuckled, but he took care that Nanny shouldn't hear him chuckle. Then he curled up agaln for his interrupted nap. (Copyright, 1923, by T. W. Burgess.) PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE BY WILLIAM BRADY, M. D,, Noted Physician and Author. Get Fat and Grow Old. Under thirty a little fat, just a nice 7 per cent excess weight, say, keeps ‘em young and happy. After thirty every little pound added to what you really ought to carry helps to hurry vou on to the grave. The way I dwell on this might mean that I de- 1ight in worrying fat folks. I don't. I'm partial to fat folks, like a Turk, up to a reasonable point. 1 am with ‘em and for 'em as long as they do not exceed that point. I'm will- Ing to concede that it is good pature, a kind of laugh and grow fat spirit that carries ‘em up to the point I have in mind. They're still amenable to earnest warnings. They can, if they will, come back with the help of a little sympathetic counsel and instruction. But I wash my hands of 'em when they continue headlong right on past embonpoint. Once they've drifted beyond that they grow i1l natured, hypersensitive and techy and I have found it better to let them severcly alone. Touching and appertaining to the cantankerous disposition of heed- lessly fat folk, I have a theory, or perhaps it is a mere conjecture, that this change of disposition which is striking may be caused by a kind of poisoning, something in the nature of autointoxication. ~Of course auto- intoxication is itself a mere hypothe- sis, a theoretical state. Still,.I feel atisfled in my own mind that frankly if not irrevocably fat folks are short of temper because they are virtually doped all the time with the byprod- ucts of incomplete combustion. We know this much, that most out- size peoplg have a slow metabolism, suboxidation or an inadequate sup- ply of oxygen to their tissues. Now isn't this leading up beautifully to the ulterior object of our talk today? 1f there is anything in this autointoxi- cation inference of mine, it follows thut a more liberal oxygen ration wewid du tucse shamelessly fat fo; 7 l l a lot of good and make them much easier to get along with, Before we approach a line nearer the limit of our space let me mow postulate the principle that an aver- age daily ration of six miles of oxy- gen on the hoof is by all odds the best preventive and the least satis- factory cure for obesity in general. Ladies and gentlemen of too much substance and lefsure should have a thought how they feed, yes, but if they want to stay happy and young they've simply got to perambulate, for hiking is the best all around exer- clse there is available daily in every season and all weather. A good six miles of it, pedometered, insures the absorption of an amount of oxygen ample to prevent all ordina; of_autointoxication, I.dBeLesn Walking is too dangerous and too expensive for many who need it most, Whoever thinks 8o must resign him- self to the doubtful gratification of such other kinds of exercise as he may feel he can afford. Everybody must decide for himself how much his own life, health or happiness, or what may remain of them, are worth to him, and choose his course accord. ingly. I believe that six miles of oxy- gen on the hoof is very cheap medi- cine at all costs; as a rule the less one feels he can afford it the more good he derives from the medicine. Although suitable exercise in fair doses is about the best preventive against obesity, the remedy is not a cure; 0 my advice is walk it off be- fore it gets you. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. Cancer Not Communicable. Is cancer contagious? I ~work alongside a person who has cancer of the stomach and whose father died gmu cancer. Am I in danger?—K. . O. Answer—No danger. communicable. Resnorel Wiaat objection, if any, is there to Cancer is not THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. I was late for skool this aftirnoon, and 1 wawked in with a erly Ixpres: sion thinking maybe Miss Kitty mite not say enything, only she did, sayin Well, Benny Potts, wats the meening of this? Mam? Why, I was saving some lit- tle gerl from being ran oyer by a ice waggin, 1 sed. O, well, if you were performing & noble deed, thats diffrent and 1 will ixcuse you willingly. Sippose you tell the class all about how it happened, maybe it_will be a good ixample for them. Come on, come rite up in frunt of the class and tell us about it, Miss Kitty sed. B Me wawking up slow, thinking, G wizz, good nite, holey smokes, jim- miny crickita. Now, we're all waiting impatiently to heer, Miss Kitty sed, and I sed, Well, 1 was wawking along coming to skool, and I was jest going to cross the street wen a big_ice waggin started to go past with 2 horses run- ning insted of wawking, and some little gerl was standing there and she was too little to know how dan- gerous a Ice waggin is and she start- ed to begin to commence to go across and 1 quick yelled, Hay there, and if her mother hadent of had a hold of her hand she mite of got ran over and killed for the rest of her life. Wich everybody In the class started to clap, and Miss Kitty sed, Silents immeeditly, well for pity sakes, you awt to get'a Carneggle meddle for that, I must say, it must of taken yoy a haff a second, at leest, no wonder you were late, kindly remain a half hour after skool. ch 1 did. 1714 Bloses 1889sxet’ If you're tired of one-piece dresses, why don’t you wear a camisole skirt like No. 1889, and top it off with a smart blouse made after pattern No. 1714, which cuts in sizes 16 years, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46 inches bust measure? The little sketch in the upper right hand corner shows the skirt attiched to & camisole top, but if vou preferred, it might also be made on an elastic and worn without the camisole, as shown in the other small sketch. The skirt pattern cuts in sizes 16 vears, 28, 30, 32, 34 and 36 inches walst measure and requires for the medium size 2% yards of 36-inch material. The blouse and skirt patterns are separate. You can order hoth for 30 cents or each for 15 cemts, in post wtamps y. Orders should be dressed to The Washing: tern Burean, 22 East 18th street, New York city. Please write name and address clearly. “Just Hats” || By Vyvyan. To Match the Vests. A sports hat seen at the foot ball game was covered with a knitted top in tan and deep brown, done in dia- d figures. . The same effect is fined in the smartest of the new knit- ted vests and sweaters. With this hat = big polo coat was worn, and under it a tweed suit with a dia- mond-flgured vest showing, just like the stuff on the hat. the continuous use of resorcin in a solution for_dandruff and oiliness of the scalp?—Mrs. M. E. Answer—I know of none, except that resorcin sometimes stains white or very light hair a yellowish color. A lotlon or solution containing ten grains each of resorcin and salicylic acld to the ounce of witch hazel ex- tract or cologne water or any toilet whter or grain alcohol, rubbed into the scalp by parting the hair here and there, is exceellent for exces- sive ofliness, but the tendency to stain the hair yellow should be remem- bered and the resorcin discontinued if the vellowness begins. Scrofula. v ‘What is scrofula?—T. Ei'P. Answer—An old fashioned name for tuberculosis of lymph nodes (glands) in the neck. —— The largest whales give as twenty tons of oil. s much 3 o, The Woman Whose Husband Has Grown Tired of Her—The Sissified Man Who Blames His Mother — Shall She Wait for Riches or Marry for Love? EAR DOROTHY DIX—I have been married nearly three years to a young man I fairly worship. I have tried to be a good wife to him, and kept on with my job after I was married and did my own housework until last January, just before my baby came. Now, very much to my sorrow, my husband tells me that' he is sick of being tled down to a wife and home. He says he is tired of having any one looking for him and worrying if he doesn't come home about such a time, and that he is anxious to go about like an unmarried man. He wants to take out girls and do what- ever he wants to do and not have any one to report to. He says he cannot settle down to one woman or be_tied to @ home. He wants me to take the baby and g0 back to my father to live, but says that b may stay here if T will not interfere with him or ask him any questions about what he doe: My heart is torn in two, but what can T do? I love him too much_to leave him. A BROKEN HEART. Answer—If you are one of the doormat type of woman, who. will let & man trample over you and kick you about, there is no use in asking advice. You will continue to be & doormat, and get dingler, and more worn, and be more knocked about until finally you will find vourself kicked out of the house altogether. DOROTHY DIX. Broken-Hearted Wife, when we save ourselves much future suffering by having the courage to face the truth. That hour has arrived for you. Sit down and have It out with your own soul Admit to yourself that your husband is tired of you, and that his fancy for you is over, and that, so far as you are concerned, the episode is finished. There are times in life, For the man who Is tired of a woman is tired of her forever. She Kias no miracle by which she can revive his interest, or bring back his love, and she deceives herself if she believes that any patience, or devotion, or goodness on her part will ever change his feelings toward her in any respect. Then admit to yourself what you know is the truth—that vour husband is a rotter, utterly unworthy of your love. There {8 nothing to tie to, nothing to depend on, in a_man who has no sense of duty or responsibility to the woman whose life he has taken in his hands and the child he has brought into the world. He is as weak and unstable as water. There fs nothing but misery for the woman who hangs on to the man who doesn't want her. Better let him go, and build your life along your own lines. Make your husband buy the freedom he wants so badly by providing for the support of his child. Then go back to your old job, and in your work, and in your baby, forget him. And do it now, while you are young and there are no more children for you to have to take care of. The parting may hurt you, but it will be the &wift, clean cut of the surgeon’s knife, soon over, instead of the long-drawn- out torture of living with an unfaithful husband. DOROTHY DIX. EAR MISS DIX—You wrote about the injustice a mother does a boy who raises him up to be a sissy. I am one of those unfortunates, who neither fish, nor fiesh, nor good red herring, My mother kept me tied to her apron strings until I was nearly grown. I was never allowed to play with other boys, for fear I would get dirty, or learn rude ways, or hear improper langua When I went to college I was under promise not to take part in any athletic sports more vigorous than golf, for fear I might get hurt. The result was that I grew up to be a perfect lady, without any boy friends or real knowledge of men, and it has made me shy, and self- consclous, and utterly at a loss how to deal with men in busine Is there any way to overcome the handicap that a fond and foolish mother laid upon me? PERCY. Answer—I belleve that if we have enough determination we can over- come almost any defect, and literally make ourselves over. The main thing for you to do Is to quit dwelling on your sissified qualities. Keep the thought perpetually in your mind that you are just as strong and manly as any man about you. Earn the respect of the men you know by beating them at their own game. If you know more than they do about banking, or stocks, or the green- grocery trade, they will not think of you as effeminate, nor will they call you Sister Lizzle If you can sew them up in a trade, or if you walk off with the trophy at tennis, or golf, or drive a mean automobile. But one feels like shaking those silly mothers who are trying so hard to keep their baby boys unspotted from the world that they do not realize that these boys have got to, live in a world that laughs at Miss Nancys DOROTHY DIX. « s e o DDEAR MISS DIX—1 am in love with a to let me marry because he is poor. rich man comes along, and marry him. Oung man my mother rcfuses he tells me to walt until some What shall I do? ANXIOUS GIRL. . _Answer—The girl who marries for money has no right to draw her skirts away from any woman of the streets. She gets her living in the same way they do theirs. Nothing but love sanctifies marriage, and nothing but loves makes it endurable. If you give up your poor sweetheart to marry a man just because he h: money, you will be just as miserable as you deserve, and get vour just punishment. Moreover, the woman who sells herself for money generelly makes a ) losing bargain, because a fatality of bad luck seems to attend the unholy trade. s A curse is on it. Times out of number the rich man loses his money and then his avariclous wife has nothing—neither love nor riches. Better mArry a poor, energetic man and advance with him. Then you will have all that heart can wish. DOROTHY DIX. . (Copyright, 1923.) 4 i Yeil in Combination With Cloche BY ANNE RITTENHOUSE. The strengthening of autumn winds, the Increasing signs of wear on\ one's autumn hats, the presence of | Jack Frost in the air, making red | the noses even of the most fair— | these are some of the things mn] carry women to the vell counters | as sutumn comes on apace. The merits of the cloche hardly need to be enumerated. The fact that next to every woman you meet wears some sort of cloche should testify to the fact that women do not need to be urged to wear it. However, the fact that a cloche ca ries-a veil to such excellent advan- tage really does endear it to us at this time of the year. Some cloches are made with veils as part of their original trimming. One of them is of brown velvet with | a vell that falls from a slit at the side. The veil is short at the back, | with long points at the side edged | with tiny brown tassels. This sort | of vell does not, of course, help to secure the hat or to hide errant | locks of hair. But it does add an | interesting _and rather flattering | shadow on the sides of the face and | heck that recommends the ATTAnge. | ppowx VELVET HAT WITH ‘IN- woman who fnds ¢ A SLVET - s ‘ot “autamn rather trying. FECERTING VEIL OR " BROWN Even ' the tam s Jon excellent | for the vell. Sometim X y '.".f.fli‘“‘u.m»-.:.m veils bought by |coiffed as sleekly as they are, there . L re ui and sometimes |18 hardly any need for the veil to :::d. :Tll..wllh the long ends looped | keep the hair in close confine. A And tastened at the right side hang- | favorite way with the French mil- ing down over the right shoulder. liners is to drape a large veil over ¥ has been said that the French|a plain small hat, bringing the edge milltners this year did not look upon |30 it just shades the eyes, and then the vell in the light of something |fastening it in place at the crown o). but only 08 something deco- [ With a decorative pin of some sort. rative. Really, with Frenchwomen (Oopyright, 1028.) Our Birds in Verse By Henry Oldys KINGBIRD. Quo warranto, tyrant warder, Sallying forth to overwhelm, Driving these across the border Of imaginary realm. ‘Where the mace that thou should’st carry— ‘Where the badge that thou should’st wear— If thou art.an emissary N Of the powers that rule the air? An_unfortunate hiatus In thy warrant I s\:spect— Or art a posse comitatus By thyself and self-elect? Heed me not, I do but hector Thee in banter, not in spite— I know thee well, small birds’ firotector. Sturdy champion of the right. Hawk and crow and jay may fear thee, But not so the wren and tit; On the first, when they come near thee, Only dost thou serve thy writ. And if some of guile accuse thee, To the hive let such apply— Hear the worthless drones abuse thee And the workers praise thee high. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1923, COLOR | 'CUT-OUT || Poultry Show Opens. “One cent admission—pay at the gate” cried Billy Cut-out, untying the rope that held back the eager, shoving crowd on the opening day of the poultry show. “Finest ex- hibition ever held, including Prof. Goose, Mrs. Grump, a setting hen, the Czar of Russia, a prize rooster and a turkey gobbler. For goodness sake, don't do anything to the tur- key to make him thinner. He has' o gain four pounds a week!" In poured the curious boys and girls to the first whitewashed cage, where Betty Cut-out had just placed Prof. Goose in a pair of colored specta. cles, The children looked at the pro- fessor and laughed. He looked at them and choked with rage and frigh faces were green. The sky was green. The sun—everything in the world was a green color. Two large tears rolled down his beak. Betty's friend Nancy took pity on him and removed the colored spectacles, and once more Prof. Goose smiled on the world. - Prof. Goose has a vellow beak and yellow legs, as well ellow but- tons on his red coat with its green lapel and blue tie. (Copyright, 1923.) Menu for a Da; BREAKFAST. Baked Apple Sauce Hominy with Cream Baked Sausages Griddle Cakes with Maple Sirup Potato Salad with Frankforts Rye Bread Apricot Pancakes DINNER. Vegetable Soup Broiled Steak Creamed Onions Baked Potatoes Buttered Beets Caramel Bread Pudding Coffee. BAKED APPLE SAUCE Pare and chop the apples, put in_pudding dish, sprinkie well with sugar, add ‘enough holling water to one-third fill the dish. Bake slowly two hours Tea. Bistory of Pour Name BY PHILIP FRANCIS NOWLAN, BENNETT VARIATIONS—8ennis, Bennison, Benn, Benedetto, Di Benedetto, Bennewitz, * Benedict, ‘Benedikt, RACIAL ORIGIN — English, Itallan, Slavic. SOURCE—A given name. Family names in this group are quite widespread, not only among English-speaking peoples, but among virtually all the countries of Europe. So many variations are there, in fact, that it is not practicable to discuss them all in one article. The group, of course, is the out- growth of the given name of Bene- dict, or, to glve it the original Latin form, Benedictus. This given name has a meaning of “blesse, literally, “well spoken of.” Tt natu- rally ranked high in the middle age Germ; Jor PANCAKE Jor MUFFIN and WAFFLE AUNT JEMIMA “Ise in town, Honey!” drink. APPRICOT PANCAKES. Mix and sift twice one and one-half cups of flour, one and one-half teaspoonfuls of baking powder and one-third teaspoonful of salt; add three eggs, the volks and whites beaten separ- and “one and one-half cups of milk and bake in four large cakes. Spread with soft- ened butter then with stewed apricots which have been press- ed through a sieve, lay the cakes one on top of the other and dust with powdered sugar. CREAMED ONIONS. Peel one quart of silver skinned onions, put them into bolling salted water and_boil ten minutes, then drain. Cover again with boiling salted water and cook until tender and drain thoroughly. Melt three table- spoonfuls of butter, blend in three tablespoontuls flour, stir in slowly one-half cup rich milk, season with pepper and salt and stir until smooth and creamy. Add the onions, place over boil- ing water and let stand twenty minutes before serving. To women who must be careful | DAVIS BAKING POWDER Almost Unbelievable nhardly realizethe wonder- fal improvement to your skin and complexion themirrer will reveal toyou after usin, Gouraud's Orien Gouraud’'s Origntal Cream INTERNATIONAL BEDDING CO., BALTIMORE anp RICHMOND or, more | as a given name, and quite logically there developed from it a host of family names. Bennett is the survival as a sur- name of a Norman diminutive of the given name, Bennis represents - shortening from Bennison, whick in turn was a development ¢ “Bennettson. Benn is & still further shortened example, Be edetto and DI Benedetto are Ital- fan forms. the latter being closer to the original, the “di” meaning “of and standing for “son of” In thix country there has been a strong tei- dency to drop the “di” from tran planted family nam Benedict appears for the most part |to be a straight English developmerrt from the given name, while the k |in Benedikt betrays German influ ence. | " “Bennewitz in its ending, which a dicates *son, mes from fartl st, in view of which it is interes! ing to notice the sin rity of th | ending_and the old Norman-Frenc | prefix_“Fitz," with exactly the san. | meaning. 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