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FEATURES. Flower on Shoulder or on Lapel BY MARY MARSHALL, fashion for wearing flowers on shoulder is just one of the many hions of the present time that can ed directly to the dance fad. young women who set this ess fastened their real or artificial gardenias, roses or other posles on their shoulders because this seemed like where they would not ashed and at the s time appear to good > now, whether one dance his is the place, and the only on a frock where flowers of) rt seem to belong. wers likewise of ‘the coat, and would feel not dressed if they sort of themums ion doub! the ¥ ce worn on the some young | quite com- went forth flower, camel- violets, - | ¢ lapels of Nagging Daughters THE EVENING Into ~% | DorothyDix] Unless a Girl Finds Mr. Right, She Is Better Off Single Than Married, and It Is a Cruel Thing for Mother to Nag Her. 0g” Policy Urges “Handa I for Mothers ook this over, Kids, and see what you can do with it. Y are parents so anxious to get their daughters married? Heaven “knowmvll is not because they are under any illusion that malrlmt:;!:; is an elysium into which a girl enters, and Is safe forevermore from auh he cares and troubles’of life. Their own experience, oftener than not, 80 a bitter one, and when they look around among their acquaintances they cannot point to half a dozen couples whose marriages have been happy and successful. Nevertheless, they are eager for their daughters to marry, and at a wedding you never have any difficulty in recognizing the bride's familv. They are the triumphant ones, whose faces are wreathed in smiles and who wear the look of the cat that has just eaten the canary. K Of course, in the past, when a girl was & parasite upon the paterna bough, the reason why her family desired to free themselves of her W obvious. They wanted to shunt her support on to some man as quickly as 1] |HE was Map n/ STAR, WASHINGTO:! D. €, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, Cross-Word Fun for Children 1925, WOMAN’S PAGE. Our Children—By Angelo Patri Contradicting. Dear Children: Stop contradicting people even with & polite “Excuse me, but wasn’t it this way?” That's the best way in the world to make people hate you and to make yourself ridic- ulous. You rarely understand what the grown folks are talxing about when you break in on their conver- sation and contradict them. Buteven when you do, when you are undoubt- edly right and they are surely in the wrong, don’t contradict them and don't offer your knowledge uniess they ask you for it. There's the child you all know who forever c s the person who is ho was wearing a blue , mother, excuse me, it was a gray dress.” ually it makes not the slightest difference in the story and it irris tates the talker and brings down wrath on the careful contradictor. right in secret than to shout your opinion in contradiction of an older person, only to find out later that you were absurdly wrons. It is hard to keep knowledge to one's self when there seems such a good market for it, but if you will build up a reuptation for watchful listening, for respectful attention, for a still tongue, people will coms to you for your opinion and it will count. But if you contradict your olders and shout aloud your wisdom they will turn from you and you will be ridiculous rather than wise, (Copstight, 1925.) Mr. Patrl will give personal sttestion to fnquiries from parents or school teachers on the care and development of children. Writ him in care of this paper, inclosi 1 addressed, stamped envelope for reply. AUNT HET possible. But that explanation of why fathers and mothers are so crazy to marry off their daughters does not suffice now For in these days of fomale emancipation a daughter is not a lability She is an asset. Nowadays there are just as few dependent daughters there are dependent sons, and in every household where the financial question is an acute one the daughters are far more apt to be bringing in money than to be grafting upon the family purse. /' Then there is the child who hotly ~ WOULDN'T YOU BE defends himself against the slightest s hint of eriticism with & flat contradic- MAD IF 50MEO';E tion. He knows that the charge is true, but he wants to push it ide STOMNED YOU ? and he loudly protests. Robert, your lessons are not done. ow hero it fs three days before ex- aminations, and——" ‘“Three days before examinations. It's five days, counting Saturday and Sunday. days. Not three days.” He makes a loud noise and tries to believe he has said something. Te has said nothing at all that matters, but he has been ili-bred and silly. The best way is to listen to the person who is speaking until he indi- cates he is through. Really listen Don’t be standing pop-eyed and burst. ing with your own side of the story. making false starts every few sec- onds, in the hope of shouting him down. Listen. He has a side of the story that you have not seen. There is always another side, and you won't get anywhere by stuffing your ears against it. Don't be so sure you are right. Leave a little room for doubt | when an older person takes the trou ble to point out to you that you are | wrong. You may be It you are right it won't do any harm to keep it to yourself until the time comes when the right shows out. It is better to know you are ‘COURSE HE wAS MAD. { rdenia or ca- open to dispute smart women | m, and two of e in white and chosen | | You would think that a mether would oppose her daughter's marriage | unless she were very sure that the girl's Prince Charming had come along and that she was madly in love with him. You would think that the woman Wwho has herself known the pain and sacrifice, the trials and tribulations that marriage inevitably brings to every wife and mother would look at the glrl who was carefree and independent, with her good job and her own pay {envelope, and bid her think long and carefully before she exchanged thesc for a wedding ring. goes & makers c in for not the case. The woman whose own marriage has brought ng but misery and poverty and work and struggle is willing to precipitate a similar fate on her daughter. It is literally true that the average mother would rather have her daughter marry any sort of a makeshift man than not to marry at all, and that she feels it a disgrace |it ner girls are old maids. besid decora- W ehrys reir brief al flow- petals at SOME OF THE FLOWE BY FASHIDN. DARK. WHITE ( ) CHRYSANTH DAISY WITH AN ND VIOLETS = % | FROCK—ALL IOULDLY UT this her not WITH WORN ON “I'm gettin® too stout. A mouse across the kitchen floor this mornin and 1 couldn't climb a i 1o me.” Therefore, there is no position more cruel and humiliating than that in which most unmarried girls find themselves in tleir own families after they are 25 years old. It they have mone; hids. American of the right, 19: turtiums, or beauty mother hawks them about in the matrimonial market and makes such strenuous efforts to rope in any eligible man that the girls feel that they could die of eha: If they are poor. mnother badgers daughter incessantly about not catching 4 husband and wonders why she can't get married when all the other girls are marrving off. In vain the girl protests that she doesn’t want to marry, that she hasn't found any man who either came up to her ideal or fired her fancy. Mother gloomily shakes ler head and does not hide from daughtér the fact that she considers her a fallyre and a blot on the family escutcheon Im forced to be | > | Of course, a girl should have sense enough not to mind being twitted cour’e.ge_cus by her family for not marrving and joked about becoming an old maid, and Pendant of Jade. An exquisitely carved ball of tr lucent jade, from which hang twg slender jade pendants, is attached to a fine cord of black silk. ilies. be nagged by their mothers 1 for whom they have no real affection and unsuited to them. Ma got | Modern copies of the Salem chest | are usually made of solid ogany, like the original. They have ample | N | drawer space and beautifully wrought | metal mounts. Several manufacturer: | colonial reproductions have =p | cialized in making these chests to retail at slightiy over $100. One would {look far to find a furniture invest- iment which will p: greater divi dends in lasting wo and sat He28 tion. tening to > isn't att | e to men Mimi have. , in nay nging on since her takes the widower e can hold up face. daughters are torture they inflict upon their | s0 anxious to get rid of then | | : Ll o would take them. But ; & Boxes of Lacquer. reveals its delicious garden freshness in every cup. Try it. CHOICEST INDIA, CEYLON and JAVA TEAS | - she should have backbono enough to tell her mother that if she is unwelcome | When in d‘&ngep or and a burden in the home will go elsewhere to live: but this takes an | . unt of courage that few young women possess. Moreove are all | despair — strangely sensitive to the strictures and ridicule of our own fa | i = another letter Antj So thousands of girls literally let themselve | T try to run for little “Herbit, saying in|into untimely marriages with | shelter leen, horrers of horters,| who are utterly , it ot lost yestidday and But the fihe&sr‘ SFR% wons dbTavErS T I\ AMIE comes to the point where she can't stand any CiBRT \ to imagine a. wild woman,| mother's querulous wonderings about why i 1snt there. |4 n jand why she hasn't married Sallic and Janie R*CAN of the | desperation, she marries the old beau who has been T 3 . : re inci- | high school days and who bores her to extinction, or she wou aken a miero- [ with six children and lives miserably ever afte scope of fo s of sorrow And the only happy person is mother. whe feels on a singie they went | her head in the company of other women, all of whose erround telling each other little Her- you mite axually of| - was be de- mothers should realize what reely wunt toga,cnter. making ther: feel that they hey are.fynae they would hand them over to any child. | piothers do this every day. and many a woman married to a brute, a roue, a | 4 or a ne'er-do-well, has known that her mother precipitated her 0dd and decorative unhappy fate .upon her just because she could not bear to have an old- | have 4 place in the decorati 1 | maid_daughter. 4 1 of things. As reasonable in pric Don't nag vour girls about getting 1 ed are attractive in aprearance are lacquer feel that they are not wanted at home. Dox boxes of red, with touches of gold in | their ornamentation. ! as to dash | an | IOTHERS THEIR CHILDREN. others. Don’t make them | t humiliate them by reproachin, them with lacking charm and attractive for men. The secret knowledge of that cuts a girl to the soul and she cannot bear to have it thrown in her face. = AND 1d of the ony werd I must admit | y developed a| f hing cups of| that poleeceman from the | window wen he wawked past c.®0t to spack of his childish it of trying to bite him in the leg T W past him in the street, but me peceple simpl dont seem understand childern, and at seen Have enough elligence to vealize that unless a girl wakes the very best sort of a marriage, unless she finds a good man whom she loves und | respects and who loves and respects her, she is a thousand times better off single than she would be married. Have your girls taught some gainful occupation at which they can be self-supporting. and =0 not be a burden on you, and then keep your hands Follow the Crowd to the able| o of the rrying proposition. A Househeld Exposition InConvention Hall, 5th and L Sts. N.W. next door naybers | Sweet Potato Pie. j'one cupful of sugar, one-half a cup- | the Salem chest of drawers,| and then follow them to the T think some wimmin | ful of melted butter, and flavor with|tha Wash and boil three good-sized |lemon or vanilla. Bake in an under crust | named for the quaint old seaport| gin not to keep their; { sweet potatoes until tender, then|and when done cover witha meringue | town where it had its o mi And to make H } tionable she| peel and rub them through a colan- | made of the whites of three eggs and| Used with a colonia r of au- t that Her-| der. Add the beaten yolks of three| powdered sugar. Return to the oven | thentic design, it forms a group of | eggs, with one pint of sweet milk, for a few minutes to brown lightly. | great beauty and dignity that \\'oqu See theinterest- ing education- al process of hats down and deff cars wen T Dloave tha i = angel beca h:l\sl tha msle BE teath [t P | lately and I havent cawt him in a lie = for almost 2 d =i how the cooked whole wheat is spun into delicate, porous filaments which are after- wards formed into biscuits or little loaves and then baked in coal ovens. more obje ad the hardihood to in bit had nocked her e simply terned 2 he ixplained that on the floor. . e i ] | Well, all is well that ends well, and { hoping vou are the same, your affeck- My little girl is too in- | tionate sister Fann elined to curl up like yeat in front of the fire. I want her to have | time to’ rest and read. but she mus have exercise. One mother 3 Enrry of Veal. Wipe one and one-half slices of | veal with a damp cloth and eear| quickly on both sides in a hot frying | cut the meat in one-inch | felt one-half cupful of drip- | and fry in this| iced, until brown. Add/] eat with one teaspoonful of | curry powder, boiling water to just| cover the meat, and salt and pepper | to season. Cover and cook slowly| until the meat is tender, which will be in about an hour. Mix three tablespoonfuls of flour with a little cold water and use to thicken the | gravy. Add one teaspoonful of vin {gar and more salt if necessar Serve with a border of boiled ri or : tainments thin i h i difficult se alks t ISt exceeding at larger than season, is of large cornflowers My Neighbor Says: 2 iature replica of the vellow . worn by the oider brother or to be found in the department e needs of the very small emoved by rubbing a r the surface 1. Trays of ver be the It contains more real nutriment than meat or eggs and costs much less. The richest man in the world can buy nothing better. Eat it for any meal with milk or cream or fresh fruits. It is ready-cooked. You’ll like it even better after you see how Shredded Wheat is made i ) It R ON THE NATION’S BUSINESS SLEET storm snaps wires in New England; a blizzard fells a line of poles in the West- ern ranges; a flood overwhelms a valley community; a prairie cy- clone sweeps away everything in its path;—wherever the emer- gency, men and materials are rushed to the spot in order that telephone service, vitally im- portant at such a time, may be restored. the HERTITT I particular path for the passage of his voice. Whether sudden calamity comes from an Atlantic gale or a Texas “twister,” its damage must be repaired at once, because it cripples some part of a communications system that is nation-wide. . ukewarm before the cloth n should dis- TCTTCTRT " eI V- - N> Ly | o far | back asJcan Premember Bakers was the best BAKER’S NATIONAL BANK COCOA Conn. 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