Evening Star Newspaper, February 7, 1925, Page 10

BEDTIME STORIE Proves True Friend. . Blest is ho who may depend On prompt assistance from a friend. —Happy Jack Squirrel. 1t is dreadful to feel safe, and then suddenly find that you are not safe at &Il That is how it was-with Happy Jack Squirrel. When he had run up that small tree and so escaped from WHILE,” THOUGHT PETER. ddy Fox he had felt perfectly safe. But when he had discovered that he was a prisoner in that little tree he hadn’t felt so safe. Now, as the Black Shadows came creeping through the Green Forest he didn't feel safe at all. So he was very much relleved when he saWv Reddy Fox stretch, vawn and trot away without once looking back. “He has given up at last,” thought Happy Jack. “He knows 1 won't come down while he is around. He has gone to hunt for some one else. My, I wish those Black Shadows wouldn’t come so fast! They make me creepy. I don’t like being out after dark. 1 never did.. I'll wait a few minutes longer. By that time I guess it will be safe enough for me 1o start for home.” Just then he heard a sound that sent little shivers chasing each other BY THORNTON W. BURGESS up and down his backbone and all over him. It was the fiercesounding hunting call of Hooty the Great Horned Owl. It was some distance away in the Green Forest, but it meant that Hooty had begun his nightly hunting and there .was no knowing when he might happen over that way. Again he,heard it and his teeth chattered. If Hooty should come over there, there would be no hiding from those wonderful eyes of his. “I want to go home,” sobbed Happy Jack. “I want to go home.” Then he started down that tree. He had made up his mind that he would go home. But hardly had he taken two jumps toward the nearest trees when there was 4 sharp thump over in the bram- ble-tangle. Happy Jack understood it. It was a warning from Peter Rabbit.” It meant that tlere was danger very mear at hand. Happy Jack turned and scrambled back up into that little tree. He just didn't dare do otherwise. Peter Rabbit gave a little happy sigh of rellef as he saw Happy Jack once more up in that little tree. You see, from where Peter was in that bramble-tangle he ‘could see Reddy Fox. He knew just what Reddy was hiding there for. He knew that if Happy Jack had kept on Reddy would surely have caught him. At the sound of Peter's thump Red- dy looked over to the bramble-tangle and, drawing back his lips, showed all his teeth. He made no sound, but Peter knew that he was snarling under his breath. Peter grinned. He himself was safe in that bramble- tangle. As long as he remalned there he had nothing to fear from Reddy Fox. He didn’t feel.at all uncom- fortable. He isn’t afraid of the dark as is Happy Jack. He knew that Happy Jack was frightened, but he had had no idea how frightened Hap- py Jack was. “I'll just stay around a while,” thought Peter. “I've saved Happy Jack-twice, and perhaps he may need me again. Happy Jack may be thrifty, but what good is thrift if it gets you into trouble?” - (Copsright, 1925, by T. W. Burgess.) Qur Children—By Angelo Patri ° The Best Hour. For every one of us there is the best vear, and the best month and day and year when we are fittest and hap- plest and work moves like a song. We know it when it comes and re- gTet it as it passes. But there 1s, too, in each day the best hour for each of us, and if we watch for it and get to know just when it is due, we can use it to great advantage. You know there are some folk to whom it is not wise to speak hefore 10 o'clock in the morning, and others who must not be glanced at hefore dinner. One learns to wait for their best hour and get in one's idea then. The time varies with the individual so one must remember to study him and become acquainted Wwith the curve of his day. Children have marked high spots in their own days. These vary with the child and his temperament and his daily routine. The schedule must take his peculiaritles into considera- tion if it is to be the best one for him. There are certain fixed periods that are usually easy to meet, such as rising time and meal time and bedtime. The occasional child will have to be adjusted even here but he is truly occasional. It is the demands of life that one must keep watch over lest they fall at the wrong time, in the wrong mood, In the wrong place. It is not wise to begin new work the morning you glive out report cards to a group of adolescents, for instance. A far better way would be to make no mention of them until immediately before dismissal and then hand them out. There will be an afternoon and an evening and a night for the re- action and work can be safely start- ed_the next morning. If you have a hungry boy coming in and a list of errands to be done before he starts for the afternoon game it is best to feed him first and then present the list of jobs. A well stayed stomach can heip out a ca- tastrophe like a trip to the grocer’s while the team waits on the field. The musio lesson has to be given at a time when the child feels like music. Now, that may be before breakfast, but not usually. As a gen- eral thing a child has to be well warmed up to the work of the day be- fore he wants his music lesson. But that is & matter of the temperament and the schedule of the child. Give thought to the best hour for the child and ask the teacher to fit his time to it. Sometimes the teacher says that is the only hour he has, but a little adjustment all along the. line will usually bring things right. Arithmetic and reading lessons ahould come at the time when the ehild feels ready for them. There is . tradition of arithmetic to begin it Rhe very first thing in the morning but very often it is better as the second lesson, depending again on the children and on their day's pro- gram. Reading is considered a rest- ing subject but the primary teacher will tell you more accurately that it is one of the most difficult lessons of the day and the condition of the children must be taken into con- sideration before it is attempted. That is why, sometimes, the teach- er will turn her day's order upside down and put the last lesson first. Something subtle passes between the teacher and the class that warns her of the trouble ahead and she tells a story where she intended to hear a recitation and gives an arithmetic lesson where she thought to give reading. She searches for the best hour. It is worth searching for if we are to give the children the most out of their day. Mr. Patri will give personal attention to inquiries from parents or school teachers on the care and development of children. Write him in care of this paper. inclosing self-ad- ressed stamped envelope for reply. (Copyright 1925.) Abe Martin Says: Nothin's ever said about th’ lives th’ average autoist saves durin’ a little spin around town. Prosperity an’ economy are supposed t’ work hand in glove th’ comin’ four years, but watch ’em split up when prosperity ap- pears from around th’ corner. (Copyright, Joha F. Dille Co.) Cross-Word Fun for Children KiBhat useful articles | can you find here ? WHATS THE MATTER WITH YOU ANYWAY ? —DIONT | TELL YOU THIS MORNING | WANTED YOU TO CLEAN UP THIS BACK YARD 2 P\ t1 DID, POP, | THREW EVERY- & N i, \V./‘\,'/"" 24 Vi Vo HORIZONTAL THING OVER THE BACK FENCE ANDP WHEN | CAME OUT 4 FROM LUNCH THE NEIGHDORS HAP THROWN 1T ALL T\VERTICAL Z-ONE 1 ~POINTED PIECES °F 6 ~TREASURER. (AB) 9 ~LIKE. 10 ~INSTRUMENT FOR PRIV- ING NAILS. 11 -FOR EXAMPLE. (AB) 1z -MLY'.;ELF: 3 -POUND. (AB) 4 -NOTING SOMETHING S - PONKEYS. 7-A BIT °F CLOTH, 8-AMOUNT (AB) 9 -A LMB oF THE 80PX. |5 SEMIO] [TIQIF NG IAIT] THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ©. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1925, The Fall of New Netherland. BETWEEN THE NORTHERN H AND SOUTHERN ENGLISH LOST ON THE CONNECTICUT RIVER. . IN 1654 THE ENGLISH SETTLERS DELAWARE BAY IN 1655. DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX Fiancee Wants Showy Ring Instead of Home— Must a Younger Daughter Wait Until - Older Sisters Marry? EAR DOROTHY DIX: I am a young man engaged to be married, but when I told my fiancee about the engagement ring I had picked out, which I thought was all that a man in my circumstances could afford, she immediately informed me that she would not have it, and told me the kind of ring she expected, the size of the dlamond, the amount it must cost, and the firm from which it should be purchased. It I comply with her demand, I should have to use all the mnoey that I have saved for the first payment on a home. Do you think that I should comply with her wishes in the matter, or do as I think best? I am not a “cheap skate,” but I do not like extravagance and going beyand one's means. DOUBTFUL. Answer: I should think that a girl who would rather have a showy diamond ring to flash before her friends' eyes than the start toward buying a home would make a highly undesirable wife for an ambitious man who has his own way to make in the world. She will be all for show, and will keep her husband's nose to the grindstgne as long as he lives, trying to keep up with people who are better off than she is. It isn’t possible to exaggerate the curse that an extravagant wife is to a man. He literally sells himself into bondage, for she forces him to toil like a galley slave to gratify her endless demands upon hiry, and at the end of a life of hard labor he has nothing to show for his work but a pack of receipted bills for foolish finery. An extravagant wife blights a man’'s ambitions because she ties him to the one job he is in. He has no chance to change into a more congenial or better paying occupation, because with the butcher and baker and candlestick maker crying for their pay, he dares not risk his job. He can never take advantage of any opportunity, because when opportunity knocks at the door you have to unlock it with a golden key, and he never has a chance to save up the money with which to buy one. The extravagant wife fills a man’'s days with cares and worries and anxjieties, and makes his home a place of perpetual discord and peevish complaints. You can never satisfy an extravagant woman's whims, for like the daughters of the horse-leech, she is always crying: “More, more, more.” I think you are very lucky, Doubtful, to have gotten a line on the young woman’s extravagance before you married her, and if she still demands a diamond ring that you cannot afford, instead of being satisfied with the one you can give her, you will be wise to conclude that she cares very little for you, and that she will be a very risky matrimonial proposition. DOROTHY DIX. P EAR DOROTHY DIX: Iam one of a vhry large family, and have several oider sisters. A splendid young man wishes to marry me, and his family approves of the match, but my family have forbidden me to marry him or even to see him, because they think that I should walit for my sisters to marry before I do. Do you think that parents have the right ta.plan their children’s lives for them? Have they the right to keep a younger daughter from marrying, if the older ones are single? Have the sisters and brothers a right to interfere? Is it wrong for me to meet my sweetheart on the sly when he cannot come to the house? 1. M. HOPEFUL. Answ No, to all of your questions! Parents have a right to try to guide their children and shape their lives along the right lines, but they have no right to try to force a child into conforming to their every plan. Every human being is a separate individual, with his own peculiar abilities, tastes and desires, and these very often are entirely at variance with his parents. As for your parents’ refusal to let you marry a worthy young man simply because your older sisters are single, that is too’absurd to consider. Perhaps your older sisters are not attractive to men and will never marry. Are you, then, to be doomred to old maidenhood just to save their faces, as the Chinese say. If your parents had any legitimate objection to bring against the young man, if he were immoral or a drunkard, or trifling and lazy, it would be your duty to listen to them, and be guided by their adyice. But when they try to break off the match for such a preposterous reason as that the older sisters should marry before the younger, you are justified in going on and marrying your sweetheart anyway. As a general thing, it is wrong and dangerous for a girl to meet a man out of the home that her parents will not receive in the home, but in this particular case I can see no objection to it. Sometimes we have to follow the old injunction of dealing with fools® according to their fdlly. As for your sisters interfering in your love affalr, pay no attention to them. They are probably jealous. DOROTHY DIX. PR DFEAR Mss DIN: My daughter became engaged last Summer to a very charming young man, with whom she is much in love, but he has one great fault. He d‘;inklh. e My daughter firmly believes that under her infl this vice and reform, but I do not think it probable. Smil evemmonie 1 do not wish to see my daughter’s life ruined, but she will not listen to my entreaties. I am much distressed about it. Can you tell me what to do? MRS. R. Answer: Well, Mrs. R, 'if the girl were my daughter, T should give her an object lesson in what it means to be a drunkard’s wife. I should look around until I found some woman who, in the folly of her youth, had also thought that her ennobling influence would quench a man’s thirst, and lift him-out of the gutter to the heights of sobriety, and I would see to it that my daughter spent a week in her household and got a close-up on a drunkard’s home life. I would let her see the constant afixiety in which the drunkard’s wife lives. I would let her watch with the drunkard’s wife for the drag of a stumbling foot at might. I would let her see the poverty into which the drunkard drags his wife. I would let her see the burning shame she feels for him. And if that didn’t cure her T would get some man friend to arrange it so that the girl saw her sweetheart when he was intoxicated, and if the loose and drooping mouth, the shambling gait, the foolish talk do not disgust her, and kill every illusion, nothing will. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright.) Fluffy Pastry. Chocolate Milk Shake. One cook says that baking powder improves short pastry. This is the way she makes it: Sift four cupfuls of flour and two teaspoonfuls of bak- ing powder together, add one-half a teaspoonful of fine table salt and chop in one heaping cupful of butter with a knife. Add one cupful of cold water and mix with the knife. Avoid using the hands. Turn out onto a floured pastry board and roll thin. Dot lard in small bits all over the dough, using one-half a cupful of lard, then sift flour over it. Cut into stripa. Lay the strips in a pile, one above the other. Cut them into squares and pile up again. Press down with the hand and roll out thin. Cut into strips and then in dquares and roll out again. Repeat this sev- eral times and roll thin. Always roll in the direction from you. This pas- try is good for pies, for dessert and also for oyster and chicken pates. Green Pepper Soup. Wash six green peppers and re- move the stems and seeds. Cut the peppers in small pleces, then cook in boiling salted water until tender. Drain, reserving two cupfuls of the pepper stock. Put the peppers through a puree sieve and add to the pepper stock. Meanwhile, melt five tablespoonfuls of butter or substitute in a kettle. Add fiive tablespoontuls of flour and stir until thoroughly blended.. Then add the puree togeth- er, with three cupfuls of milk, two teaspoonfuls of salt and one-eighth teaspoonful of pepper, stirring con- stantly. When smooth and creamy, sprinkle with paprika and serve at once. Grapefruit Jelly, Use any standard recipe for fruit gelatin, using grape juice instead of lemon Julsee Mix together two tablespoonfuls of chocolate sirup and one cupful of rich, cold milk. Shake thoroughly or beat with an egs beater until well mixed and frothy. A well beaten egg may be added to make a chocolate egg and milk shake. Any fruit sirup or any de- sired flavoring may be substituted for the chocolate to make milk shakes of various flavors. If desired, a spoonful of vanilla ice cream may be beaten into the mixtus Aspirin Gargle in Tonsilitis Cut This Out and Save if Subject to Sore Throat A harmless and eflective gargle is to dissolve two Bayer Tablets : of Aspirin in four tablespoonfuls of water, and gargle throat thoroughly. Repeat in two hours if n . Be sure you-use only the genuine Bayer Tablets of Aspirin, marked with the Bayer Croes, which can be had in tin es of twelve tablets for few cents. 4 QASBIrin® What Tomorrow Means to * You BY MARY BLAKE. Aquarius, Tomorrow’s planetary aspects are very benign and they favor all Sun- day exercises and recreations. The vibrations are stimulating and all in all the signs portend a day unmarred by discord and rendered happy by peace of mind and contentment. Only at one period during the day, just be- fore sundown, is there one adverse aspect. This, howover, is of short duration, afd a little circumspection is all that is needed to avoid dis- agreement, A child born tomorrow will be normal both in appearance and in health, and subject to the normal ups-and-downs of childhood. More than ordinary care and vigilance must be exercised in bringing up this child as it will be more liable to suf- fer from accident than from any in- herent weaknes: Its disposition will be sunny and bright and as a child it will prove to be a veritable sun- beam in the home. It will develop conspicuous strength of character and will possess all the earmarks of being successful in life. This child will be very loyal to all the members of the family and will always be willing and’ anxious to help them when help is needed. It will require no urging along these lines. If tomorrow is your birthday, you have a very strong and compelling personality. It is not, however, of the unpleasant genus, but is as at- tractive as It is powerful. You have had, or will have, several serious dis- appointments, but your equanimity has enabled, or will enable, you to bear all these gallantly and with a brave heart. In short, they will only nerve you to greater effort in the future. You do not make use of your com- manding personality as you should, as in any walk of life in which you engage, whether in the home or in business, you can at all times be a leader and never a follower. There are in this world millions of people who are only fitted to serve in sec- ondary positions. There are very few who are born to dominate. You are one of the few. Well known persons born on that date are: Leander J. McCormick manufacturer; Willlam T. Sherman Federal general; Thomas Pattison, Oliver Bell Bunce, author; Richard ‘W. Gilder, author; Rush Rhees, edu- cator. (Copyright, 1925.) - State railways of Italy showed a slight revival, particularly with Ger- many. %= 5 HEN COLONEL NiCOLLS SENTeA LETTER DEMAND THE SURRENDER OF NEW AMSTERDAM AND OFFERING THE TOWNSPEOPLE ALL THE RIGHTS OF ENGLISHMEN , STUYVESANY TORE IT UP AND ORDERED THE GITIZEN'S “To DEFEND THE TOWN To THE LAST MAN. @ McClure Newspaper Syndicate —By J. CARROLL MANSFIELD ING B The Daily Cfoss-Word Puzzle Believers in the supernatural Equip. Combine. Skilled knowledge Chasm. Called for in public Roman household god Continually. Short poem Repairs. Subdues. Eocentricity. Extra actors Makes savory Scratched by a iancet. Satisfies. Deed. To damage. Clamor. Eastern State. Mistake. Certain malicious crime. Cleared out. Peculiarity of utterance. Down. Indian chief. Besought. Hang over. (Copyright.) Mischief-maker. Afternoon party Impel. To mellow. Conducte Herodias' daughter Merchant. Smphasized. Thin, flat, round object Vapor. Country in Africa. Recess at end of choir. Ready at hand. Malleable. Blockading attack. Ridicule. Death. In a different style. Basic center. traightway. Torn. Sward. Before. Common part of Gaelic names. Luminous electrical discharge. o Buffalo hides and sheep. skins are important items in Java's leather in- dustry. | SUADED HiM T0 YIELD AND THE TOWN SURREND- ERED WITHOUT FIRING A SHOT- NEWAMSTERDAM NoW BECAME NEW YORK ANDTHE ENGLISH CONTROLLED THE COAST FROM| MAINE YO FLORIDA —» MoNDAY- Bistory of Pour Name. BY PHILIP FRANCIS NOWLAYN. ALDERSON. VARIATIONS—AIldred, Alred, Alders,® Aldrich, Aldredge, Alridge. RACIAL ORIGIN—English. SOURCE—A given name. Here is 2 group of family names which for the most part are the development of a given name, though in individual instances you have to know something of their genealogy to be_sure. For example, the forms Aldredge Aldrich and Aldridge may likely be in some instances either from other given names or from original phrases descriptive of locality. Generally speaking, however, the names of this group are all founded upon a given name which, with slight variations, was widespread botl among the original Saxons of England and also emong the Norman invaders and settlers, the old Teutonic name of *“Aldred.” The transition of “Aldredson” into Alderson is not hard to trace. The former became a clumsy phrase on the tongue as soon as its patronymi iptive meaning subsided, and it m Aldregon, and then Alderson by inversion of the middle syllable. It was the soft-tending speech of South 1 which produced Aldridge 4Jdreds” (when this famil name really comes from this given mame), also Aldredge and Aldrich. (Copyright.) Two Skulls, Single Idea. From the Edinburgh Scotsman. “Charley, did you hear that j about the Egyptian guide who showed some tourists two skulls of Cleopatra ne as a girl and one as a woman? No, let’s hear it.” Answer to Yesterday’s Puzzle. V[Tl sTeINTOTETR DOE B A PluingRr]Y(olT en[T VIElT NIE[WlE [L BlE(C STulE RIA wWillC oN[s llw[E[E EIVIEIR]T e/nND[ERINY O[E BRTE A [M! ) N OE B O DIE|S|1]6] “For Distinguished Service” The Harvard University Advertising Award for “Distin- guished contemporary servicestoadvertising” in 1924 hasbeen awarded to the truth in Advertisement movement carried on through the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World and its affiliated Better Business Bureaus. Merchants, newspapers and other leading business and financial institutions of Washington who have taken part in the work done in the Nation’s capital have contributed to the achievements which brought this coveted honor. This recognition is an honorto the public of Washington, in whose interests the Better Business Bureau operates, guard- ing them against sharp practices and deception. The Better Business Bureau patrols the highways of adver- tising with the sole purpose of making them safe for the pub- lic to believe. .The Better Business Bureau of Washington