Evening Star Newspaper, February 19, 1925, Page 38

38 WOMAN’'S PAGE. Keep Young' by Reading to Children BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. Children delight in being read to, end reading out loud to them is one of the pleasantest ways for a mother to entertain the little folk From the time that child is old enough to turn th ges of a book when he sits on mother's knee and hear: her read “‘D’ is for dog. who'— and he interrupts with “bow-wow, up to the time he listens with sus- pense to the adventures in Treasure Island or is thrilled by the stories of King Arthur and the Round Table, MOTHER OF RE-ENTERING THE L YOUTH WHEN THE 2 ALOUD TO THEIR CHILDRE. HAYV he is an enthusiastic auc It is not only the childr enjoy the reading peric books well chosen ay enter into the spirit the casion also. She has the privilege of re-entering the land of youth with her children uides, while she reads the words that are the open e of one. 1 who can for if mother the of oc- | the literature of all ages. doors to this enchanted country. She steps through the looking-glass with Alice—and her own little ones; she Is still in the ballroom with the fairy prince and the gay throng and feels the panic of fear when the clock strikes 12; she takes the Jjourney through life with “Pilgrim,” and battles and wins in the progress to- ward the joyous end; she is expect- antly happy with Cedric in his mar- velous experlences in the big castle with his grouchy uncle, the earl, and the sweet “dearest”—until all out just as the children wish she knows will happen adventures with the young- s have a quickened reaction on the, mother's mind and the spirit of youth becomes again vibrant. Those who are mothers know the truth of these things and realize their happy privilegé. Those who are not so for- tunate as to have children are barred, for motherhood is a youth- renewing experience that has no equal, and the books lose their potent magic even though they may be found interesting. Happy Reading Time. When children are but little babies, it is enough happiness for mothers to cuddle them; when they turn the pages of the pictorial books, to hear their exultant words of “baa-sheep,” “moo-cow,” etc. as they recognize the unimals. But to this may be added to the older person a certain appreciation of well drawn and cleverly colored illustrations. So much ability is put into good books for children nowadays that they well worth consideration. Uncon- sciously these books help train the eve ld_into n appreciation autiful, yvhich never lost. of the wholly st Literature.” It is when the children become cld enough to grasp consecutive ideas that parents can bring them in touch with the best in books. Even in children’s stories there is decldedly a “best literature” which appeals older readers as well as to little ones. This is because the simple tales are couched in graphic, well chosen words, conveying correct meanings and usually giving pen pictures of merit Felieltous Results. 1t is surprising how soon children who have had the opportunity to hear the best things that were sulted to their grasp will be able to enjoy They will get the thrcad of the stories if not all the intricacies. Their imagina tions_will be fired, thelr mastery of the English language will be fur- thered, and last, but by no means least, the companionship of parents and children will be strengthened im- measurably. Reading out loud to children deed a happy way to bring about these many felicitous result WHEN WE GO SHOPPING BY MRS. HARLAND H. ALLEN. Window Shades. It is fatal to try to economize on window shades A poor shade can't #tand the straip of everyday use. In the first place, it is apt to be made of a loosely woven cloth that has 10 be heavily filled with chalk or some clay substance to give it weight and smoot and then when the wind sucks and snaps it, the brittle filling crumbl, fails out, and it a sight _all criss- crack® @@ pinholes. of a flin ags and hangs in terial which soon wrinkles uality in a window shade depends n the fineness and closeness of the weave in the material, its smoothness, freedom from cracks and small pinholes, its evenness of calor, the opacity of degree to which the light is excluded and the quality of the light that comes through—all these things make the difference be- tween a beautiful window and one that looks shabby and ugl A good shade will hang straight and true, wili keen its color, and will not cra Instead of being stff, it ts_soft and supple Many women make the mistake of thinking that a thick cloth which keeps out all of the light will wear better. This is not necessarily true and often a translucent shade will give better service, cannot be seen through from the outside and sheds a pleasant glow over the whole room. On the other hand, some women do not like the translucent shade on the ground that it does not sufficiently protect the rugs and hangings from the sun, and also because at night tt shows shado The quality of the shades you use, the color of these des—both in relation to the indiviGual room and the exterior of the house—have much to do with the charm of the That shades are prosulc necessities, like the kitchen pots and pans, es mot mean that they can be treated in @ contemptu- ous or indifferent manner. They can make or mar the entire decorative effect. If your shades do not har- monize with the tone of your walls— if they are not smobth—If they do not hang straight—you will destroy the artistic effect of th® most care- tully planned room. In choosing your shades avoid violent contrasts between them and yousr walls. Think of them as part of the wall space and see that they tone in with the wall covering. By use of a duplex or two-tone shade, having one color on the inside to harmonize with the interior fur- nishings, and possibly a darker tone on the outside to harmonize with the exterior of the house, the purchase of two sets of shades can be avoided. Your windows are an essential part of your decoration plan. The most beautiful effects can be secured only by using the right shades, for a pin- holed, faded shade can destroy half the beauty of the most lovely hang- ings. just as a smooth even-toned shade can add to their charm. house as a whole. Sweet Potato Pudding. Pare two large sweet potatoes, grate them, then add one-half a cupful of butter, one cupful of sugar, four eggs beaten separately, and two cupfuls of sweet milk. Cream the butter and sugar and add the egg yolks, one table- spoonful of cinnamon, one teaspoonful of nutmeg, and the juice and rind of one lemon. Beat the potatoes in by de- grees until all is light, then add the milk, and lastly stir in the whites of the eggs. Bake in a deep baking dish well greased with fresh lard or butter, without pastry, and serve with the a ditlon of a glass of rich milk for each person at the table. Cross-Word Fun for Children Perhaps you - will find what you had. below . E S0 THEY HAD TO [y SHOOT YOUR ©oG, g P\U THEY ? — WAS HE MAD 7 / WELL, HE PION'T SEEM ANY TOO 1 WELL PLEASED ! HORIZONTAL Z "ANGRY. 3 -LARGE AUSTRALIAN BiRY. 6 -MAKE OF AUTOMOBILE. 7 -TO VRWNK IN SMALL QUANTITIES. & -AN OBJECT OF WORSHIP 9 -WIRELESS MISTRESS SIGHAL | 11 -BOY'S NAME. 13 -MYSELF. 14 -MORE SORRY. . VERTICAL 1 -CONTASIOUS DISEASE with ERUPTION ¥ RE7 SPOTS Z - CONTAGIOUS PISEASE Z - vath SWELLING *f GANPS 3 - SUBSTANCES from wich MEDICINE IS MARE. arel to ] THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, HIGH LIGHTS OF HISTORY N 1664 WHEN THE DI | GRANTED-NEW NETHERLAND BY THE KING, HE (GAVE THE PARTT NOW KNOWN ASNEW JER- TERSEY IN 1665 AND FOUNDED ELIZABETHTOWN , CARTERET AT ONCE ORGANIZED A GO! g SPITE OF THE PROTESTS OF ANDROS, THE DUKES AGENT, THAT THE TITLE WAS ONLY FOR THE LAND « ~—— © DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX ' Will He Be Happy N gaged to Two Women, Which Shall He Marry? — Robbing Mother of Son. arried to an Invalid?— EAR MISS DIX: 1am a young man rears old, am poor, and have my way to make in the world. I am in love with a young woman who is overything that is lovely in womanhood, but she has never been well from her birth. She is weak and sickly. I don’t belleve that any one else would makeé the wife for me that she would, nor would I ever care as much for any other woman. But I do not want to marry trouble. What shall I do? N. J. K. Answer: 1 should certainly advise you to wait a while, and let naturce take its course, as old-fashioned doctors used to say. Very often people who are sickly ‘In their early youth gain strength as they grow older, and are healthy at middle age. Also, many diseases that used to be considered incurable fly away before the magic of modern science. Perhaps the young lady needs only some slight operation, or a course of treatment from'some good doctor to be cured. Take the girl to the yery best dlagnostician you can find, and let him find out what is the seat of her malady. Any one is foolish to submit to being a chronic invalid in these days when doctors and surgeons work so many miracles. It vour diagnostician glves an adverse verdict, and tells you that the girl will always be a semi-invalld, there are many things for you to consider before you marry her. . First is the money proposition, because sickness is the most expensive luxury on earth. Doctors and nurses and medicines are all bankrupting, and they are all things that we must have at any cost when one we love is suffering and calling to us for help. An invalid wife is not only not a helpmeet to her husband, but she is a perpetual drain upon his pocketbook. It takes all he makes to pay her sick bills, and he has little chance to rise in the world. Then look into your heart and see if your love is great enough to hear with patience the demands that an invalid {s bound to make upon you. Sick peoffle are not pleasant people to live with. It is only in novels that beautiful invalide, in lacy negliges, recline gracefully on couches, and bear their sufferings with & gentle, sweet smile. In real life they are nerve-wracked and cross and querulous and unreasonable, and only a sublime love can stand the exactions they make upon it. Ask yourself if you will be willing to stay at home of evenings holding the hand of a sick wife, instead of going out with a jolly bunch; whether you can put up with slack housekeeping; whether you will enjoy tiptoeing in when you come home from work and find the house dark and wife in bed with her poor nerves; whether under such conditions vou are sure you will never regret the bargain you made. And then act accordingly. For it is undoubtedly true that the man or woman who marries an invalld marries trouble. DOROTHY DIX. e s e e AR MISS DIX: I am a man 35 years old, and have never been married and until recently had no intentlon of marrying. I am now deeply in love with two women, and am engaged to both, but am unable to decide which one of the two I think most of. Both are splendid women, and either would make me a good wife. One of them is a girl of 19, the other is a widow. It hurts me to think of giving either of the two up, but I realize that T must do so an@ an immedlate decision is necessary. What shall I do? L E P Answer: Turkey. or North Africa, or some one of the other Oriental countries in which they have liberal matrimonial ideas, is the proper place for you, Mr. L. E. P., and I should certainly advise you to emigrate to a land where they drive their wives abreast, instead of tandem. 1¢, however, you do not care to leave the more or less monogamous United States of America, why do you not pitch a coln to determine which one of the fair ladles to throw the handkerchief to? Personally, I do not think that any man Is really in love who does not know which of two women he fancies most. When you are hard hit for keeps, there won’t be any doubt in your mind about the woman. There will just be one woman in all the world for vou, and she will seem to comprise in her person all charms and virtues and attractions. However, as you say you could be happy with efther dear charmer were ‘tother dear charmer away, I should say the preferred risk would be the widow. A girl of 19 is really too young for a man of 35. She hasn't had her playtime, and she will want to be running around with other youngsters, enjoying the natural pleasures of her time of life, while you have had your fling and are ready to settle down. The widow is also ready to ‘settle down, and by marrying her you will escape the bitter quarrels that arise between the husband that wants to sit by the fire of an evening and the young wife whose feet are aching to dance. Also you will escape having a young girl learn how to keep house and cook at your expense, and this will save much wear and tear on your pocketbook and your digestion. Furthermore, widows, having learned about men from their first husbands, make far less exacting wives, and demand much less of their husbands than girl wives do. What a girl bride will have hysterics over a widow bride will laugh at. And this means peace and happiness for all concerned. DOROTHY DIX. e s e EAR MISS DIX: I do not like the attitude of the mother of the yvoung man to whom T am engaged. She treats me nicely, but I am sure she does not like me. Shall T tell my fiance before we are married, or afterward, that he will have to give up either his mother or me? ANNA. Answer: Tell him beforehand, Anna, because that will probably save you the expense of a divorce. He would be a very poor-spirited man who wouldn't choose his mother when a woman put such an ultimatum as that up to him, for such a miserable, contemptible reason. You admit that his mother treats you courteously, yet because you imagine she does not like you, you cold-bloodedly and selfishly propose to rob her.of her son, and separate your sweetheart from the mother who bore him, who sacrificed years of her life to him, and to whom he owes a debt of love and gratitude that he can never pa: Do you think a mother gives up her son easily, or that a man is parted from his mother without anguish? I tell you that it tears the hearts out of their bosoms, and wrings their souls with ageny, and any woman who deliberately does it is worse than a murderess. . _So if you are planning to separate your sweetheart from his mother, for pity’'s sake tell him so before you marry him, so that he will have & chance to save himself. DUYROT®Y DIX. (Copyright.) unadulterated power. And they kepp on tawking about different subjecks &nd my back started to hert from leening over so long and I quick jumped out saying, Hello everybody, I bin under there all the time. You dont say so, Gladdis sed. Well well, Id never of bleeved it, ma sed. A marvellls achievement for one so young, pop sed. All ‘being sour astic, and I went upstalrs to do my homework not feeling so grate. Proving there Is no use trying to serprize people if they aint intristed. YOUR BAKING comes ot RIGHT with AVI BAKING POWDER all Havanna will I was the ferst one through suppir yestidday, saying, Ixcuse me please. And I started-to get up and ma sed, Wy you havent had your dizzert yet. That aint dizzert, thats rice pud- ding, T sed. Showing wat I think of rice pudding, and ma sed, O very well, nobodys going to force it on you Im sure. theres plenty of poor familles would be ony too glad to get it. Well G wizz, this family aint so poor, I sed. Meening wy did we haft o have it, and I went out in the hall and jest then I had a {@eer, thinking, G, I know wat IIl do, 11l sneek back and get under the dinning room table and nobody wont know Im there. Wich I_did, crawling in on my hands and knees without enybody seelng me, and ma and pep and my sister Gladdis kepp on tawking, me thinking, O boy, wont they be ser- prized wen I come out. Willyum, will you have some more cawffee? ma sed. 2 No, not a drop, one cup is all thats good for me, well jest give me a half a cup for old times sake, pop sed. My goodness, father, havent you eny will power? Gladdis sed and pop , Yes indeed, the other half & cup représents pure will gower, gemuine FEBRUARY 19, 1925. bfla.’,o:ums BROUGHT CARTERET TC TRIAL FOR PRESUMING TO SET UP HIS OWN GOVERNMENT— THE COURT DECIDED IN CAR.~ TERETS FAVOR AND HE WAS RE-INSTATED AS RNOR OF NEW TERSEY BY THE DUKE - PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE BY WILLIAM BRADY, M. D. Noted Physician and Author Sour Stomach. Every healthy individual has an ex- ceedingly sour stomach when his stom- ach is busy, the normal gastric juice containing about 0.5 per cent of hrdro- chloric (muriatic) acld when secreted and about 0.2 per cent when mixed with the meal it is working on, and any healthy person who has ever accidentally regurgitated a little gastric juice or chyme into his esophagus (gullet) and up a8 far s the throat will testify that the gastric juice is sour, sufficiently sour to produce “‘waterbrash” under such cir- cumstances, or maybe just “heartburn” if it gets no higher than the esophagus. Well, then, how come 80 many folks complain of “sour stomach”—or be that as it may. what's good for it? “Acid dyspepeia,” “hyperacidity of the stomach” and sour stomach are different names for the same thing. Such a com- plaint is common in so many different conditions that it would be of question- able health value to attempt to enu- merate the diseases in wltich “acid dyspepsia” occurs, but it may be worth while to discuss a few of the conditions which give rise to sour stomach. Tobaceo poisoning -is a notorious cause of hyperacidity of the stomach. Tobacco poisoning occurs when anybody uses tobacco intemperately, immoderate- 1y, excesalvely. Very few persons can smoke more than twice daily without suffering some poisonous effects. The tobacco weakling who has to have his dope even before breakfast or at any other time when his stomach is empty fe especially subject to hyperacidity of the stomach. Tobacco geems to have a selec- tive affinity for the pneumogastric (tenth cranfal or vagus) nerve, which controls stomach, lungs and bronchi and heart. Through damage of this nerve the familiar toxic effects of tobacco manifest themselves—hyperacidity, cough, palpi- tation or more serious heart disturb- ances. Certain individuals, what skinny young adults, with large eyes, cold hane slow hearts, “nervous’ temperament, are subject to excessive acldity of the etomach. The affable old docs used to ascribe a good deal of “acid dyspepsia” to “over- work”—which certainly pleased the pa- tient's vanity, but didn’t correct the sins covered by that overworked alibi. The truth, which one can tell when no private patient is listening, is that the evil ef- fects attributed to “overwork” or “over- study” are really due to resort to vari- ous stimulants, ‘tobacco, alcohol, drugs. tea, coffee, even excess of food, to whip the fatigued body along or, quite .as often, to effaco the weariness of ennui. A dietary crime which is committed in too many homes, and which is re- sponsible for much stomach sour- ness, is the abuse of such condiments as vinegar, mustard, pepper, cinna- mon, peppermint and the like, all of which are irritants to the mucous membrane of the stomach, none of which has any food value. Children, partioularly, should be spared these insults as much as possible, wheter by the unrestricted use of the oon- diments as such or Indulgence in hot sauces, salad dressings, “hot dog” and other inventions of a jaded ap- petite. generally some- It s generally stated that water should be drunk freely between meals, but sparingly at meals, and never to wash down food. Can this mean that bread and milk, or crack- ers and milk, or s=oup ocontaining meat or vegetables, Is unhygienic?— Answer—No. In the first place, that teaching is no lghger in accord —_ i ¢ COLOR IT NEW WITH | “DIAMOND DYES" ; Beautiful home dyeing-and tinting is gugranteed with Dismond Dyew. 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Water may be taken as freely as one desires at or in the course of a meal Cold water immediately before meal increases the secretion of as- tric julce, by acting as a stimulus to the stomach. It therefore aids diges- tion, especlally when one is thirsty And water remains in the stomach but a few minutes, little or mnone of it being absorbed through the stomach, nearly all of it being passed on into the duodenum within a few minutes after one drinks the water. Therefore it doesn't “dilute the gastric juice” enough or for a sufficient time to interfere to any noticeable extent with digestion. Of course neither water nor any other beverage should be used for the pur- pose of washing down unmasticated morsels of food. MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN, Father’s Homecoming. One mother says: I never threaten my children that T will report their misbehavior to their father, as I want them to wel- come his homecoming; not fear him. We both share the job of disciplining our son and daughter. 1 do not think it fair for either one to have to shoulder that responsibili (Copyright, 1925.) o= A $150,000 community theater is being erecféed in St. Charles, IIl, by Mrs. Delora Angell Norrle, who in- herited the millions of the late John W. Gates. FEATURELES. —By J. CARROLL MANSFIELD 1 NEy, ¢ b %% !NEW JERSEY WAS NAMED FOR THE ISLAND OF JERSEY WHICH SIR GEORGE CARTERE) HAD DEFENDED IN THE PURITAN WARS , —* EMD ANy EMIGRANTS CAME To SETILE iN Niw JERSEY AND I'T BECAME A THRIVING COLONY - AFIER AFEW YEARS BOTH CARTERET AND BERKELEY SOLD THEIR GRANTS 10 QUAKERS. ToMoRROW - THE FOUNDING OF GEORGIA LOPYRIGHT 1925 BY THE MECLURE NEWSPAPER. SYNDICATS. Almond Charlotte. double boiler For this recipe you will need « and one-half tablespoonfuls of pow- dered gelatin, one-half a cupful of hot water, one and one-half cupfuls|until the of milk, three yolks of s, twelve | Add 1 tablespoonfuls of fine ¥, one cup- | te I ful of almonds, two cupfuls of whip- |cool ping cream, and one teas nfu {'wh almond extract. RBlunch and « the aimonds. Melt three tablespoon- | fuls of the sugar in a frying pan. Do | not add any water. Throw the al monds and etir until bLrosw cool and pound until qulte extract and into a we out onto JYs t tastes mighty good along about four o'clock. Orange Pekoe Tea Makes good tes & cortaints of pped fan HER!‘Sv.hcnodun'lvlo serve delicious fish cakes. None of the oldtime bother. Just shape Gorton's Ready-to-Fry into cakes and drop them in hot frying far. Famous Gortons “No Bones” Codfish, #0 rich 1n health-protect- ing vitamines, ready mixed with boiled potato—~the eriginal gre- pared fish cakes. Our new booklet “Deep Sea Recipes” free. i GORTON-PEW FISHERIES Gloucester, Mass. ood worth tr.avcling ‘a thousand miles for™ —wrofe OHENRY HE attention was full of exquisite southern cour- tesy, the food worth traveling a thousand miles for,” this is what O. Henry, the noted author, wrote of the old Maxwell House in Nashville, Tennessee. Years ago, O. Henry reveled in the delicious fare, and above all in the coffee, that had made this hotel famous throughout the old South. A special blend of finc coffees was served at the Maxwell ouse, wonderfully rich-bodied and mellow. In all parts of the country, family after family wanted this blend for their own tables. And today the same coffee, prepared and roasted in just the same way, is supplicd to them in sealed tins. For your own breakfast Iou_ can have the rare fragrance and flavor that first won ame in the old South years ago. Ask your grocer for onc of the bluc tins of Maxwell House Coffee. 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