Evening Star Newspaper, April 26, 1924, Page 5

GIRL LAWYER, SOUGHT| AS SLAYER, ENDS LIFE| — r Brilliant Immigrant, Who Rose lo: Mother and Father Who Use a Cowhide to Beat Marked Success, on Verge of issi ; Sons Py ons and Daughters Into Submission. & i i What Is Puppy Love? JEALOUS RAGE IS BLAMED i s, 1 l)]‘L\R MISS DIX: Both my husband and myself are old-fashioned enough . B to believe that “sparing the rod spoils the child,” and the result is that Unrequited Love for Advertising |our children get guite a few whippings. Some of our neighbors criticiz . |us for the way we whip them, but we think it is for their good. S| = 3 | Man Led to Shooting. | We have five young hopefuls, three girls and two boys. While they were small I used to take the strap to them, but since they have got older I turn them over to their father, who has a good stout cowhide for the ROIT purpose of correcting them, and he applies it very vigorously when they S 4 e He makes no distinction between them, but whips the girls just a B and dea y a everely as he does the boys. Neither does the age make any difference. stered, ace o y irl, who is past eighteen, has been whipped three or four times tel sinee she Xteen. =My husband is especially strict with the children when they are between twelve and fourteen years old. When 1 was a girl 1 got more than a dozen whippings after 1 was sixteen, and I was more ant girl, who be- | than_twenty-one when I got the last one. . distinguished Do you approve of our methods VERY STRICT MOTHER. ind also Answer: 1 do not. I think your methods are horrible and brutal, and Greenwich 1 cannot understand why your children do not run away from parents who treat them so cruelly. . Certainly the picture of a big, husky man vigorously applying a cowhide < just a fesw LOUTS | whip to the tender white flesh of his young daughters, while the mother olice, who were seek- Hlooks on applauding, is so revolting as to be almost unthinkable. Surely vour method of breaking your children's spirits and making them cower before You must be efficacious, or else an eighteen-year-old girl would not 3 | submit to it. The marvel is that you have not driven her out on the streets ‘o seck the protection of any man who promised to treat her Kindly and| hotel, | not beat her like a dog. While a child is still so young that {t cannot reason it may possibly | ary to give a gentle smack to its hands to keep it from pulling , or to make it remember that it mustn't do certain dangerous t hurts to do them, but beyond that very mild and gentle | punishment a child should never be struck. To be beaten in its own sight, and it degrades ‘the parent in the child's| Il renabilitation. ¥ child knows that parents never whip, except when they are | angry and that the parents are venting their rage upon it because they are Lig and stro d the child is le and weak and cannot fight back. | Certainly th s no more cowardly act than for a six-foot man to pound 1 cannot instill the principles of right living in children with a| cowhide whip, nor can you hold them in the straight and narrow path by In a little while they” will be big enough to defend themselves and | not touch them. Then vou will have no influence over them, because they will no longer be afraid of you. They will have no affection | o ol | or respect for vou, and they will be determined to do the things they have | Witien tha | been beaten for 3 o e P You say vou took your beatings meekly, Very Strict Mother. Remember, | {%ou came of a different race. You belonged to a different era from your | o |own children, who are American born, and who belong to this new, free | zeneration. They will not endure what you endured. They will revolt. | tilator: They will not stand being beaten and to their dying day will loathe you lml‘ as tola |their father. So be warned in time and do not strike your children again.| e | DOROTHY DIX. | ore, a call | o s 0 » pled 7. the AR MISS DIX: I am a bachelor, sixty-four vears of age and very lonely, = and 1 bekin to fecl that T have missed something that I might have | had T managed differently in the past. [ bave a lady friend l\\'fl} inger than myself. We have known each other ail our lives and 2 on friendly terms always. [ she sked her the other day if she would consent to marry me, 50 we L, On'the dre ] pend our last days together. She replied that it I had asked her had contained itk aio she would have sald “yes,” but that it Is too late now | 3 peopl would laugh at us for getting married at our time of I sxpensi “lothe Fiit it seeme | cannot give her up. Shall T keep on proposing until she gives D e, edang |6 consent? % ® A LONELY OLD-BACHELOR. pah hiderta r: Certainly. Al she nceds is sufficient urging. And as for | ing an elderly bachelor and an old maid for getting married, S se. They will give ven the glad hand instead of the laugh. | Old people need compan 3 young people do, and they fed and provide themselves > of their own age and | ¥ have a lot of common utes. rat thirty-five wasted s, Old Bachelor, when ¥ who has loved you so long and so patiently, our f. ife; when you might have had a real home t have had childrén, and now have grandchildren about you s a high price a man at the last for evading the re- isibilities and burdens of matrimo! DOROTHY DIX. s s s e DOROTHY DIX: What is puppy love? JACKIEL. Puppy love. son, is tm re love, immature taste, the feeli i girls > when they are attracted to each other one d the next. You know how indiscriminate a puppy’s hew on old shoes and eat thc laundry soap, or appens to lie around handy? And you know how sniffy L wise old dog is of everything? That's puppy love, and Sons it Y E When you are a boy you can fall in love with everything in skirts and writers or arti | vou will be ready to follow every newds;(in that flits across When vou're n back and laugh to think that BLAMED FOR MURDER p < icoats that allured you. Because — ) at all. You will have outgrown your anpn:itelwr old shoes e pe s otionat: soap. Your own taste will be formed. You will know what | Miss Stopa “Highly Emotional adr and need In a woman, and when vou fall in love you will be 7 i s sve for keeps DOROTHY DIX. Says Man in Case. (Cepyright. VANCOUVER, B. C. 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I One room, kitchenette and bath, some with porches and 2 rooms, kitchen and bath. “ " nt';‘;fi,n ER Now Ready for Occupancy il| GLASS fflmY SHANNON & LUCHS INC. ! 713 14th St. Resident Manager on Premies - Main 2345 “THE- EVENING . STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 192%. DR 2 RS AT TR Ly B DU LA N B The Bride of June chooses her trousseau now, for a perfect wedding picture, as befits her wedding day, is not accom- plished in haste. The Bridal Gown of Tradition Softly shimmering, white satin, a vision of loveliness, slender and sleeveless as befits the mode, with its exquisite embroidery of satiny beads, and its courtly train hung from a yvoke ‘of tulle. It is seen through the faint mist of a tulle veil. held by a coronet of orange blossoms and real Tace. . The Gown, $175 The Veil, $35 Bridesmaids” Gowns —are carefully considered to afford an effective setting of color for the white-robed bride. Crepe d’jour, in a delicate Paris rose, with swirls of ostrich outlined in a tracery-of tiny pearls, with long filmy scarfs, and wide-brimmed hats to match. In exquisite color contrast is the gown of poudre blue. for the matron of honor. Bridesmaids’ Gowns, $125 The Hats, $22.50 Gown for the Matron of Honor, $115 “Going-away’ Clothes Since part of the honeymoon is to be spent on the steamer, her clothes must be equal to the occasion; so, she chooses a smart navy twill tailleur, bound in black, boyishly young, with .ts facing of white pique. A luxuriously-warm topcoat of Rodier’s fabric has a full-length revere and collar of lynx. A smart little cloche of “alli- gator” tops the costume. The Suit, $75 The Coat, $295 The Hat, $18.50 * And What of Slippers Hose and Gloves ° _ =0 : White Kid Slippers —a simple opera style, cut low on the sides, are worn by the bride, $13.50. While the slip- pears of the brdiesmaids’ are of white kid, and strapped, $13.50. White Chiffon Hose —exquisitely sheer and fine, $4; or with in- steps of cobwebby lace. $7.50, to accompany the slippers. ' U White Kid Gloves —are now often seen on the bride, as well as the bridesmaids. These with a cut-out rose and applique of net, 16 button. $8. " e v - White Underthings —of, lustrous satin elaborate with Valencien- nes and filet lace and colored ribbons in deli- cate pink and blue; Chemise, and Step-ins. each $13.50. White Satin Girdle —combined with silk elastic, and trimmed with ribbon and lace, $16.50. A lace-trimmed silk bandeau. $3.50. If She is to be Married Informally at Home A Charming Wedding Gown Simple as it should be, and exquisitely fine, may be chosen of lus- trous white satin, with appliqued filet, or lovely Venice lace. $95 or $115, Gowns for Her Bridesmaids May follow varied color schemes, as she desires. Here are charming little chiffon frocks and lusterless crepes, with marabou or ostrich or lace, in Summer’s loveliest colorings. $49.50 to $75. * Gowns for The Guests follow the straight, slender lines of the mode; the lusterless crepes are Fashion's first choice, in such lovely shades as ba- nana, coral, ashes of roses or gray; and much lace is used for trimming. Beaded Paris gowns of crepe are seen; black with ecru is a new color combination in many charming gowns; black over flesh pink. another fashion note. All seen in this distinctive collection. $39.50 to $85 Wootmward &Loathrap