Evening Star Newspaper, December 10, 1924, Page 37

WOMAN'S PAGE. | Guests C BY LYDIA LE was pleased areful of Ink and Dishes BARON WALKER. to see that her guest had turned back the table- cover when writing, lest it get apotted by the ink. were as explained my guests who entertains a her comment was irned-back cover on st was writing when knocked on the door and itted to tell of a plan for the The guest was writing on a fine drawnwork and the guest of ink might the cover and her e table he table a turn other writ nt instead_of on the cover. Wh¥, it never occurred anything except tur replied the guest. “It seems o me T am v ally thoughtful, ut that didn't ao much must careles Thoughtiessness. ink to do back the cover Well me tell ave been s, “let ve of shee badly spotted with ifk, €nd as well. There are many like to write bea ist write a line. 1 suppose en the to bed to oft by the first mail in If the fountain per hey table cov persons who the mornin t write and the bed clothes the spots out ed some shake it over the wet hs v marks on your to you so you about the and they ms nic ful let me for this afte ed about other things Experien, not had experience mentioned. It mav an was the w hostesses s simila not 1 1gh exactly ink spots on linen a ps it is a hot-water mark mahogany pitcher or glass r that was thought = poiished surface. ( may have becn spilled and hol have marred the finish r the damage may €asy to remedy ome dresser of hot Pl ater atev Averting Mishaps. While it is true that accidents hap- pen ionally even with the most thoughtful and careful persons, it is BEAUTY CHATS Superfluous Hair. One of the hardest to answer is how fluous hair only on realiy that T know of, process. For yea beauty preparation laboratories have been work this problem, but so far the method, used 30 or more years still the best What the chemists have done is this: Instead of a single needle, four or five are inserted at hair follicles and the current on. Instead of one sti four five, but it isn’t unpleasant (not really a stinging sensation t all, more like a mild pin prick) For me reason, this multiple needle kills off most of the little ungrown hairs that skin, so that only f the hairs grow of 30 per cent as needle If you can afford these treatments, I always advise them If vou can't, rub your skin with peroxide and pull out the large hairs with a pair of tweezers. Touch the spot at once with peroxide, this makes the skin antiseptic and makes the new blond and invisible when it to_grow in again To discourage the growth of hairs and to bleach and destroy the fuzz that comes thickly make a mixture of fresh peroxide of of all queries to get rid of super- the face. There permanent method the electric needle of cosmetic over needle ago. the chemists and turned g, there are process about 10 per cent in again, instead with the single begins great | tion. Hite also true that many of the mishaps | might be prevented by a little precau- If table covers were protected, either by turning back or belng cov- ered with several thicknesses of saper when one decided use the table a desk, or if the container >{ hot water were put on the por- elain of a washstand or on some u polished surface, such misfortunes as ink spots and disfigured furniture could be prevented easily. As for the fountain pen trouble. any writes with one of these pens should know enough to hoid a piece of paper beneath the pen when shaking it to get the ink to flow properly Welcome Guests. It certainly is part of the duty of a guest to make as little trouble as pos- sible in a household during a visit. Some persons succeed so well in doing this that they are in constant demand gue They not only refrain from making trouble, but are a posi- help and joys to hostesses. The help may not be in washing dishes or doing the manual things about a home. It may consist of reading to children, seeing that flow- ers are tastefully arranged, doing a Lit of darning or mending, etc. While such ald as will really be assistance uld be given. there are hostesses who prefer to work alone, either be- they find it quicker to whisk the tasks away all by themselves or because they find conversation while working, is somewhat confusing and wearisome. It for the guest to realize whether her hostess prefers help or quiet and to lend a hand with | the tasks or absent herself they are being performed while When Enjoyable. can fall in with plans for their entertainment with so much evi- dent pleasure that a hostess is happy n doing things for them, or they can accept with no enthuslasm, leaving a hostess to wonder whether some other plan would not have been mor enjovable. These among the dificult ones to have un der one’s roof. They aro enough to make any hostess uneasy. It takes the co-operation of both hostess and zuests to make visits thoroughly en- joyable to every one. (Copyright, 1924.) BY EDNA KENT FORBES. |h¥drogen and household or toilet am- |dark glass bottie is | the | I tion live down in the | hair | monia, half and half, and keep in a Rub this over the upper 1ip once or twice a week. If your skin is not sensitive, rubbing with a pumice stone is a great help, but few people can stand this treat- ment without irritation I have told you nothing new—but there is nothing new to tell on this subject Anxlous—Your pimples do not come from taking the agar agar, as action is merely that of aiding nature to clear the digestive tract. Possibly You are taking too little and the pimples are due to your upset condi- A tablespoonful taken with the breakfast food is usually all that most people need. Corned Beef With Peppers. Melt two tablespoonfuls of butter, add beef cut in small pieces, one cupful of cold diced potatoes, three table- spoonfuls of flour and one green pap- per that has been shredded and par- boiled. Stir until well mixed, add one cupful of rich milk or thin cream and heat. Serve hot on strips of toast. In Santo Domingo the medicinal preparations most in demand are those for reducing tropical fevers, preparations made up of quinine, on the upper 1ip, | blood tonics, headache remedies and digestion aids. BeThinner by Tonight I HIS triumph of scientific corseting instantly gives you fashion’s trim, graceful lines and actually reduces waist and hips in a short time. MARGUERITE GIRDLESHOP, 1109 Pennsylvania Ave. Nw Between Star Bldg. and Raleigh Hotel ‘Worn as a corset over the undergarment. Gently massages every portion of the surface continually. Thousandswho do not need to reduce, wear it for comfort alone. Special cuta- ‘way front insures per- fect freedom. Back lacing makes it easily adjustable as you be- come more slender. See it for yourselfl one who | its | five cupfuls of cooked corned | THE EVENING STAR, WASHING/ |DorothyDix Do You Continually Blame Some One Else for Your Faults and Failures>—Your Ances- tors?——or Imagined Ill-Health? Catalogues Our Best Self-Ezcuses What's Your Alibir HAT is your favorite alibi? What is the excuse that you offer to your own soul and to the world for your weaknesses, and your faults, and your failures? Of course, the great general alibi is heredity. You never meet a drunkard or a gambler who admits that it is because he hasn't the strength to resist temptation or control his appetite that he is a sot and a card sharper. Oh, no! He blames it all on great-grandfather. He says it is in the blood. He inherited a thirst for liquor and an itch for the pasteboards, and he pities himself as being a victim of fate Instead of despising himself as a weakling. You never hear of a high-tempered woman admitting to herself that she is & shrew and a virago, and that it is simply self-indulgence that makes her fly into rages when anything annoys her and abuse everybody about her like a fishwife. No, she simply says that she has the Brown temper and ex- pects her family and friends to overlook the scenes she makes and forgive and forget the cruel things she says to them during her tantrums. Environment is the alibi of the slackers. They never had a chance. They had no education because their fathers were not able to send them to Harvard and Vassar. Yet all about them are cultured men and women who worked their way through college, or went to night school, or who are self- educated by reading and study. They are poor, out at elbows, and seedy because they never had any op- portunity to make money. They lived in the country, or in small towns, where there were no big things doing, vet the men and women next door to them found their opportunities right at home or struck out and hunted them up and grew rich and prosperous. LL-HEALTH is the alibi of the lazy. The shiftless never admit that the reason why they do not work, and why they sit around and let other people support them, is that they are lacking in energy, and that the very thought of making any effort is repugnant to them. On the contrary, they alw. say how much they wish they could engage in some strenuous and profitable occupation, but their poor health will not permit it. They have @ bad back, or a weak heart, or some mysterious ailment in their feet or their nerves that incapacitates them from doing anything but eating and playing golf or bridge. A It is perfectly wonderful how many miles an invalid woman, who is too sick to do any of her own housework, can walk around on @ Shopping tour, and how many middle-aged men who have given up work and who let their children support them because their poor feet will not permit them to stand behind a counter or a work bench, can stand beside & pool table. “Doesn’t understand me,” is the alibl of the wife who lies down on her job and quits trying to make herself attractive to her husband and the home pleasant for him She expected matrimony to be all thrills and kisses, and lovey-dovey | sentiments. ~She thought her husband would remain the perpetual lover ang spend his time paying her gorgeous compliments. She has found out that matrimony is a dull, deadly grind of doing vour duty; that it is full of work and worry; that her husband is a commonplace human being instead of & | romantic hero, and she has grown tired of it all and quit cold | She thinks it isn't worth while to dress up for doesn’t notice how she looks. She thinks there dinners for a man who gobbles them down wit she feeds him out of tin cans and paper bags, peevish and lets her marriage o on the roc the nerve to row away from th age and seamanship. a man who apparently is no use in preparing dainty bout saying “thank you.” So and she gets disgruntled and ks because she hasn't the grit or em and save it from shipwreck by her cour- ISILLUSION is the alibi the philandering husband | stepping. His wife didn’'t prove to be the angel he thought he was ing. She has nerves and a temper. Tt takes money to support her. She is unreasonable and exacting. They have dissimilar tastes. Sne is tog domestic and smells of bread and butter, or elso she gads (oo much. a s anyway, she has become middle-aged and fat, and is not slim and protiy, and gay like some young flapper in his office or some vamp who has hee eve on his pocketbook makes for his side The man never blames himself, and admits that that he is tired of domesticity, craves adventure and roman and hasn't the rock-bottom principle that makes him stick to his bargain and be tajin. ful to the wife he has sworn to love and cherish, just because he is in duty and honor bound (o do so, even after the gilt has rubbed off the gingerbreaq, the reason he roams is A mother's alibi for spol inculcates selfishness in them bear to disappoint them She does not teach them obedience because it fight strong-willed youngsters. She does not form | them because it takes time and patience and stren, them weaklings by pampering them and spoiling them, but she never blames herself when they turn out to be rotters. She excuses herself for rginy their lives by thinking how she loves them. pgir A great and glorious thing is the alibi elves as we are. There is alway for the misfortunes we have really ing her children is love and ! tenderness. She denying them nothing because she can't is too much trouble to habits of self-control in gth to do it. She makes It keeps us from seeing our- somebody or something we can blame brought upon our own heads. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1924.) ok m Our Children—By Angelo Patri ter visitors are | It's the Way. j had undertaken a job and who would P | execute it to the last minute detail “Please give me'another teacher. I (DUt would never, never, as long as he don't like this one.” The little lad |lived, love to do it. The little lad seneng Was very earnest, so earnest that he |t and it hurt, was almost unable to control the nerv- | Children know when you like them ous quiver of his mouth as he begged | 27d Wish to help them, and they know the principal for this favor. unerringly when you don’t. Even the But that was a very serious thing. | baby learns that the hand that tends You know changing teachers means|him moves in the spirit of love amq a loss of work and you'd have to| Service or does not. It it does not, work very hard for a week or so|be it ever so accurate and competent. to even up.” he will cry in protest. He asks that “T'll_work very, very hard if you'll | the service rendered him be rendered only let me have another teacher.” in the spirit of love or not at all. But why, son? You have a very| The teacher, who loves her job, will good teacher now.” do more with children than the one “I know it, but she Wwho doesn’t. Degrees and certificates me. What good is it being a good | are £ood things to hold, but it is the teacher if she don't like you? She|Quality of the teacher who holds them don't like me. When the teacher| that counts in the lives of the chil- | doesn’t like you what good does it |dren, and that quality does not come do you to try? She won't see your|from books. It is a thing of the soul, hand when i raised or nothing.” Books inspire and feed it, but they “What makes you think she doesn't | never create it. Its the way that | like you?” counts “Lots of things. I asked her for a | notebook and she made a mad face and told Hennie to get me one. He handed it to her and she slammed it on my desk and never even looked at me. That wasn't treating me nice.” “Don’t you think you are making too muck of little things? The teacher | has a lot to do and may not have been thinking about you and the book at { all” “Oh, it {sn't just the book. always like that. If she says uny- thing or does anything she does it just like she hated to. I know when | she tells me something that she | wishes she didn't have to. So Id| rather go into another class, even if | I have to work harder and not have to see her every day. She does every- thing, but it's’ the way she does it | that makes me sore.” . | And all the time the little lad talked to me I knew that he was right. The teacher he talked about didn’t like to teach children, really She was a conscientious soul, who CCIDENT The Guaranteed Flour isn't nice to| Poached Eggs can be given a really distinctive flavor. When fl;e e are done and pla on toast, ture the yolks -nm son each one with two or three drops of the famous LEASPERRINS SAUCE THE ORIGINAL WORCESTERSHIRE s Why trust to luck? Put cer- tainty of success in every baking with Occident Flour—guaran- teed to make More and Better Bread Green-Mish Company Wholesale Distributors Hibbs Bldg., Washington, D. C. ON, D. C, | What Today Means to You BY MARY BLAKE. The influence of adverse planetar aspects continues and prevails today, indicating’ an even more pronounced proneness to quick anger and un- curbed speech, while the vibrations presage an atmosphere of dissatis- faction and pessimism, with an alto- gether too critical attitude toward the efforts of others. Many bitterly regretted estrangements, many broken friendships, have all had their origin in yielding to the un- controlled emotions prompted by a condition such as that which prevails today. Only by careful self- restraint and exercise of will power can these dangers be avoided and such risks eliminated. A child born today will enjoy fairly good health, although, just subsequent to the period of adoles- cence, it will probably be subject to one illness that will cause deep anxiety and require much care. Later on in life harmonious and pleasant surroundings, some one to love and to love it will fill its cup with happiness. Its tastes will be decidedly domestic, and it will not be ambitious to shine in soclety. It will be demonstrative and impulsive, rather jealous, easy to please and unusually amiable. It should exer- clse more than ordinary care in the selection of a mate. If today is your birthday, you are rather excitable, imaginative, im- petuous, energetic and capable. You possess marked executive talent, and you are positive, honest and earnest. Your mind is judicial, keen and dis- criminating. You are kind and affectionate in your home circle. You have many traits that have prevented your attaining that ma- terfal success to which your capa- bility entitles you. impetuosity are your worst enemies, and you jump to conclusions that are often the reverse of correct You are, in addition, an extremist, and seem to forget that it is not always necessary to cut, and that sometimes a cure can be effected without a drastic operation. You sometimes allow your imagination to sway your decisions. You very often ignore cold, hard facts and let your fancy play, to your own undoing. Well known persons born on this date are: Matthias W. Baldwin, in- ventor, pioneer locomotive builder: Willlam ~ J. Rolfe, author; Emily Dickinson, poet; Edward Eggleston, Methodist clergyman; Frances E. Nipher, scientist; Melvil Dewey, educator. (Copyright, 1921.) . Gelatin-Fruit Dainty. Take one-half an envelope of gel- atin, one-fourth cupful of cold water, one-half a cupful of sugar, the white of one egg, one cupful of canned pineapple and strawberries, one pint of cream and one cupful of chopped { nuts. Soak the gelatin in cold water for five minutes and dissolve it over hot water. Add the dissolved gelatin to the cream and sugar, and stir in the beaten egg white. When cool add the fruit and nuts. Serve ice cold decorated with fruit sprinkled with sugar. When you have opened a can of fruit save the juice from it, and when you make plain gelatin use the fruit juice for dissolving gelatin instead of using water. The juice gives a better flavor and is more nutritious WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, BEDTIME STORIE Fhgpice best 1s ho doth posse: Excitability and | jie5 Was wise | hunter w keen | 1924. Proves True Mate. whatever his fate a loyal mate. —Reddy Fox The clever trick Reddy played by running aheac of an auto- mobile on a sandy road and so break- ing his trail had ziven him a good long rest. He had needed it. But for that rest those dogs would surely have caught him soon. He had even begun to hope that those dogs would not be able to find his trail again, and that his troubles for that day were over. “TURN TO THE LAUGHING BROOK AND WADE ACROSS,” SAID SHE SHARPLY But in this he was mistaken those hunters who had helped smoke him out of his home in the in the ways of foxes. He had taken note of the directlon in which Reddy had gone away. He knew that Reddy might go straight away for a long distance, but that sooner or later he would turn and work around in a big circle. He was not likely to run in a country with which he was not familiar. this h his terrible gun had cut across to lie in wait where he thought Reddy would be likely to appear. He had come out onto the road wher: Reddy had played his clever trick, and he had met that automobile The driver of the automobile had told the hunter of how a fox had run ahead of the machine and finally had leaped into the bushes at one side. of the road. The hunter had asked just where Reddy had done this. Then he hurried on down the road until he had come to where Bowser the Hound and the other dogs were vainly try= ing to find Reddy's trail again. He had led Bowser back up the road to the place where Reddy had leaped into the bushes, a wonderful nose soon found the trail At the sound of Bowser's voice the other dogs had hurried to join him So_once more Reddy had had to run ow. all this time Mrs. Reddy been listening to the voices of those dogs in the distance, and waiting for Reddy to begin to circle back, as she knew he would. As soon as the sound of those distant voices began to sound louder, Mrs. Reddy started swiftly to- ward a certain place where she knew Reddy would be likely to pass. Mean while she had found out where most of those hunters with terrible guns were waiting. Mrs. Reddy lay down on & certain flat rock, which she was sure Reddy would pass. of the dogs nearer. ng down a Fox had |de One of | Old Pas- | 7 d there Bowser's | had | | | down beh.nd him. FEATURES. BY THORNTON W. BURGESS hill, she saw Reddy. Poor Reddy! His ig tail was almost dragging on the ground. He was running as if so tired hat he was ready to drop. As he drew near she saw in his eves a look of pair. He didn’t even look upon the rock.as he passed. “Turn down to th Laughing Brook and wide across, said she sharply. Reddy did as she commanded. As he entered the water he turned to give her a grateful look. Then he splashed across and threw himself down be- d an old log. Mrs. Reddy walted. She waited until those dogs were in plain sight. Then she started off without appearing to hurry. The dogs saw her, and away they went after her. Behind the old log beyond the brook Reddy panted and panted as {f he never would breathe easily again. He trembled with weariness. He was safe now. Mrs. Reddy was fresh, and those dogs were tired. If she kept away from those hunters with ter- rible guns she would be quite safe She had proved a true mate. She had saved Reddy's life. Reddy was think- ing of this when, from the direction in~ which Mrs. Reddy disappeared, thepe came the bang, bang of a ter- rible gun! I sometimes think my life will be And has been since my birth A war my little ego fights With “everything on earth RMeCAne Sold Mrs. Reddy Jeaped | Last nite after suppir [ was think- ing about doing my lessins and pop was smoking behind the sporting page and ma was looking at her cross werd puzzle book, saying, Willyum wat do you sippose could be produck of South America in letters? Thats one of the meny things 1ve sone through life without sipposing and I may add, without regrets, pop sed. You'd sit there and let me struggie up to my neck in this cross werd puzzle and never lift a finger to help me if I was breething my last gasp, ma_sed. Now you touch my simpathies, pop sed. Wat was the question? pop sed A produck of South America in 4 letters, ma sed It couldent be mullasses candy, pop sed. Of corse it couldent, dont be re dickuliss, ma sed. Parrots come from South America, but theres 6 letters a parrot, she sed. And 7 letters in 2 or mors of them as_for ixample, parrots, pop sed. Well wat could it be, thats wat I wunt to know, ma sed. It couldent be watch cristals, pop sed Im not intristed in wat it couldent be, ma sed. Ostrich feathers come from South America, I bleeve, but theres too meny letters in ostrich feathers, she sed. Thats wat 1 allways thawt, pop sed | Are you going to help me? ma sed | and pop sed, It couldent be golf balls | If you mention one more thing it | couldent be 11l go rite in my ow: {room and finish this, now you cant I didn't warn you, ma sed, and pop sed, Yes, you tipped me oft a rite, it couldent be apron strings. Good by, ma sed. And she wawk out proud with her cross werd puzzie book, pop saying, Benny, wats a good werd of § letters meening peace, con fort and good will to men? Anser cigar. 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