Evening Star Newspaper, March 5, 1925, Page 40

WoM AN’S PAGE. Card Etiquette for Formal Calls BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. s During the Lenten when the ®ayer social festivities, if not eatirely suspended, are at Jeast relaxed, there Is a good ,opportunity to make those 111s which are always being put off because of the pressure of other thiy Upon the list of every ma- tron or maid, who goes about there will be a few calls quire the use of visiting cards. correct use of these is as easy to ob- serve as the incorrect, but it is ne sary to know to which of the IT 1 TO L) AYING IMPORTAN ) ECT NUMBER LEAVE AT EACH FORMAL CALI KNOW THE OF CARDS HOUSE IN the stamp of a cards themselves, the seasons. At that which looks handwritin letter type Any proval, styles present most to gives the with seript as given vogue v toman,” of these ar smart and in excellent ldress, if included, ap- \ the lower right hand cor- prefix of “Mr.” “Mrs.” or should never he omitted on a ng card. If a person is too young the weight of a “Mr.” of before the name, that person young to have a calling card at all. Individual cards are, gener- speaking, for the use of those 17 years of age. A voung girl's bl sh ed taste pears u ner. The “Ass “Old con- et The is ally over riously | name may be engraved, however, be- low that of her mothers upon the same card for their joint use, and this is very often done. Even so, ‘Miss” should precede the name. For children tc have calling cards of their own is very bad form. A man's card | 1s smaller than a lady's. A “Mr. and |Mrs” card is larger, however, than | either. G Rules. There are general rules for calling and the use of cards which are ac- cepted in all circles, the diplomatic circle being an exception. i A humorous skit was written some vears ago about a woman who wished to do the correct thing so- cially, and left 48 cards at one house happened to be guests y of 14. She left two her husband’s cards and a number of her own, so that no need feel slighted. Calling cards deed be a considerable item expense account if dis- tributed in this wholesale manner. Besides being extravagant it would be absurd. The well intentioned but unin- formed caller made about as many errors as was possible to do in one little afternoon call. In the first place, cards are never left for chil- dren. In the second place, she should have left only half as many cards | of her own as of her husband's. Calls and Cards. A gentleman calls upon both the men and women of a household, whereas a lady calls upon the women only. Mrs. Jones calls upon Mrs. Smith. leaves one of her own cards for Mrs. Smith and two of her | husband’s, whose call would be upon both Mr. and Mrs, Smith. If there is @ sister in the household, Mr. Jones leaves two of her own cards and three of her husband's when the courtesy of calling is to be extended to the sister. If there was no sister, but a brother in the household, Mrs. Jones would leave only one of her own cards, but three of her hus- band’s. This, which sounds compli- cated in the telling, is very simple, reduced to the principle already men- tioned, which governs the leaving of ladies’ cards for ladies only, gentle- men’s for those of both sexes. For Family Call. there are severa branches same family under one roof, ance, the senor “Smiths, ‘Smiths” and some laws," all of the adults who are to consider that the call was partly | upon them must have cards left them | in correct number to signify the fac | In calling upon a family where | there is a guest, cards for the guest may or may not be left. If the guest and the caller have been entertained jointly, or with the purpose of bring- ing them together, it is the part of courtesy to include a card, or cards, for the guest. If the guest is the ob- | ject of the call, and the host or hostess are little Dbetter than strangers to the caller, cards may or | may not be left for ‘them. If the squaintance Wwith the hosts is one that would seem to offer congenial- |ity, cards may be left, whether the | acquaintance is to be pursued in the | absence of the guest or not. | In paying a family call | ture not too formal, it for the caller, who is the daughter of Mr. Smith, to leave merely a “Mr. and Mrs” card to represent her father and mother and one of her own. Cards are not used except When calls are formal unless persons are out. Then they are left to Indicate that the call has been made. neral like on would i in_one's | | | ca When of the say, for ins the junior of a na- is sufficient and Mrs. PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE BY WILLIAM Ethmoid Headache. (sieve-like) bone little bone in the floor of the skull between the eye SOC ts. The eth- moid cells (or sinuses) are a series of little air spaces in the ethmoid bone which communicate, as do the other nasal sinuses, with the nasal eavity and are lined with the same mucous membrane Acute and chronic inflammations of the ethmoid cells are much more frequent than even the merly supposed, and in chronic ethmoiditi; the cells, no diagnosis diabonisis is still made, with futile treatment, for amination. Among which chronic pur- suppurating ethmoiditis is bronchial asthma, neu- trouble, and chronic head- The ethmoid is a many cases suppuration or a of within wrong want of the ulent m ache The headache of ethmoiditis is often ribed to constipation, eyestrain, work and other hypothetical tors and the sufferer ignores the or throat t ble, perhaps con- it “catarrh”—another hypothet- explanation—and attributes it to climate or the weather, both which are always unsatisfac- ere home. I merely assert there no such a disease —no reputable physician will to define such a I do not mean to imply that there nothing the matter with any one who assumes his trouble is “catarrh.” Now if you've got the catarrh” please don’'t get mad at me—ask the man you bought it from. Some individuals with chronic eth- moiditis go through their lives with chronic headache, for which they take all manner of remedies and treatments. The headache or staken | eve fa nose siders ical of tory that tarrh’ attempt at of ethmoiditi doctors for- | disease. | BRADY, M. D. likely to be worsey like many other kinds of headache, when the victim happens to be costive and that leads to a lot of unwise dosing with physic. Overuse of the eyes will bring it on or inerease it. | The headache is aggravated by stooping down, or by jarring. The pain is felt right between the eves, where the ethmoid cells are. | Often there is a sense of weight or | pressure over the top of the head. |In some cases there are dizziness and vertigo with the headache. Ethmoiditis of this chronic type usually begins in chli@hood, in & series of acute attacks,. which are not recognized because so many people and so many doctors dismis such attacks in children as “com- mon colds. | Not every case of chronic ethmoid- | itis is accompanied with headache, \d not every chronic headache is caused by disease of these cells. The physician diagnoses ethmoid- itis by (1) speculum examination and inspection of the drainage open- ing of the sinus, (2) corroborative evidence in the X-ray.picture in many cases. Ethmoiditis is not rarely the under- lying cause and source of chronic middle ear suppuration, | " Ethmoid headache is surgical head- | ache, although many cases of acute ethmoiditis proceed to complete re- covery without surgical intervention. (Copyright.) To prove the practicability of traveling between Cairo and Cape Town in a small automobile, an of- ficial of the East African Automobile Association recently made the trip in a light car during the dry season, part of the tour being through little- explored country. we will assume | [ the evening the vibrations are stimu- G _STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 5 Cross-Word Fun for Children Anyoene who fasrt had the things in Pop and ma was up in the setting room walting for Mr. and Mrs. Hews, pop saying, Ye gods, I hope they g0 at a reasonable hour for once in their lives, 1 can stand certain people for jest 5o long, and after that 1 start to wonder how I =ven stood them that long. Now Willyum dont be redickuliss, Mr. and Mrs. Hews are lovely peeple and they know wen to go jest as well as enybody elts, ma sed. Then wy dont they take advantage of the nollege? pop sed. Well if they dont make a move by 11 o clock 1 think 111 stick a lighted newspaper under her chair, she's one of the most nerviss, scarey wimmen 1 ever-met and that awt to get her started, he ed O go on, enybody to heer yvou tawk would think you were dangerous, ma sed, and pop sed, So I am, bow wow, meow, moo moo, baa. ‘Wich jest then the Hewes came, and “ma sed I could go out for about a hour, and I went out for about 2, on account of being a bad judge of time, and wen I opened the frunt door 1 herd Mrs. Hews tawking upstairs and I had a ideer, and I went In the set- ting room say, wizz I bet its going to pore like cats and dogs in a few minutes, O boy I wouldent be ser- prized if it would even thunder and lightning. O my goodniss Im going this se ond, O deer I wouldent be cawt out in & storm for a million doll o mersy, this is dredful, Mrs. Hews sed And she jumped up and quick started to put her things on, saving, 11l never forget the Jast time T in a storm, and Mr. Hews sed, Neither will I,-1 dident heer the last of it for weeks, 111 get vou home before it rains or break something in the attempt. And they hurry up went home, and ma. looked out the back window say- ing, Well of all things for goodness sakes, the stars are shining and it duzzent look eny more like rain than I do, wy the moon is out like the sun, There must of bin a cloud in frunt of it,*I sed, and ma sed, O hush up, I must call the Hewses up as soon as they get home and tell them you must be color blind, and dont you dare ask me for eny recess money tomorrow. Wich 1 didnt, but pop gave me a dime and a wink without me even asking him. What Tomorrow Means to You BY MARY BLAKE. Pisces. Tomorrow's planetary aspects are adverse and remain so until sundown An unsettled condition will prevail and there will be nothing to inspire either courage or optimism. contrary, there will perienced a general feeling of inertia and dissatifaction and a proneness to find fault and to quarrel. Only gteat self-control and poise will causg you to pass the day without regrets. In lating and will inspire as much con- fidence as lack of it was engendered earlier in the day. The signs denote that a proposal will be received with favor and possibly enthusiasm. A marriage solemnized under such be- nign influences will be eminently suc- cesstul A child born tomorrow will be more or less free from the vicissitudes of infancy, but, according to the signs, will probably suffer a physical “set- back” during the period of adoles- cence. This, however, need not cause any worry, as proper care and vigi- lance will avert any untoward resuits. Its disposition will be a very agree- able one, and its character founded on truth and candor. It will at all times be regdily amenable to refined surrounding4 and cultured environ- ment. More than likely it will de- velop literary or artistic jendencies, and these “slumberings” should not be belittled, but should be encour- aged, and it should be assisted in the realization of what may appear to others as only dreams. It will poss sess an extremely attractive person- ality and will enjoy a great amount of well deserved popularity. It tomorrow is vour birthday you are very active, persevering and am- bitious. You have very studious habits and are very fond of good reading. Unless you have already achieved that materlal success of which you have dreamed, or feel that you are on the right road to do so, you are “a square person in a round hole” and should, as soon as condi- tions permit it, seek “fresh fields and pastures new,” where, by proper sowing, you can attain a harvest com- mensurate with your desire and predi- lections. “Faint heart never won fair lady” and lack of courage—the nerve to create your own fate—never at- tained a worth-while goal. In your home life you are quite happy as a result of the congeniality of your disposition and your willing- ness to shrug your shoulders at or make little of trifies that would cause worry to those who, excluding the ‘muckles” of life, think only of its ‘mickles.” Well known persons born- on this date are: Phillip H. Sheridan, sol- dier; Isaac H. Bromley, journalist and author; Arthur Plerson, author and lecturer; Stillman W. Robinson, in- ventor and engineer; Albert S. Cook, editor and educator; Ring Lardner, author. (Copyright, 1925.) was cawt out | | ne On the | probably be ex- | DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX Will He Be Happy With a Girl Who Wants to Separate Him From His Mother?—Shall the Boy of Twenty Marry His “Last Chance”? EAR MISS DIX: I am engaged to ayoung lady whom I love very rauch, but at times our relationship becomes strained because she cbjects to evervthing I do for my mother. My mother is a widow, and I am her only child, and I like to remain at home with her certain nights in the week. My flancee is very bitttr about this and calls me “mama’s baby” and other similar names. When it comes to doing anyvthing my flancee desires, I make sure she gets what she wants; but she ignores what I do for her and picks on the little T do for my mother. And she will not listen when I tell her that a man who is not considerate of his mother will not be considerate of his wife. What do you think about this? NORMAN Answer: I think you are exactly right, and that your sweetheart is entirely wrong. * Also I think that If you marry a girl who is that narrow and selfish and jealous, you' will have a very unhappy lie. Any woman who s not big enough to honor and respect a man for his devotion to his mother, and who Is cruel enough to want to rob a widowed mother of her son’s affection and attention has very little that is good and admirable in her character. And if she is jealous of a man's mother she will be green-eyed every time he looks at any other woman. Straws show which way the wind blows, Norman, and the wise man is the one who trims his sails accordingly. This girl is showing you before marriage just the sort of temper and disposition she has, and giving you a dead-straight tip on the kind of married life she would lead you. It you marry her you will be one of those unfortunate men whose womenkind fight over them like dogs over a bone. You will be torn between your love and duty to your mother and your love and duty to your wife, and you will never know a moment's peace or happiness. Every time you go to see your mother you will have to have a fight over it that will leave vou bruised and wounded, or else you will have to sneak around to see her as stealthily as If you were keeping a scandalous rendezvous. Every time you give your mother a dollar you will have a scene with your wife, in which she will storm and cry, and reproach you with robbing her of what she'considers her- just due. ~You will not even pe able to have your mother come to your own house. because vour wife will make it so unpleasant for her that you cannot bear to have her Insulted for | vour sake. Unless you are a very strong man, you would give in to your wife for the sake of peace, and neglect and forsake your mother. And if you do you will be a dastard in your own sight and your consclence will torture you. Think it over long and carefully before you marry a woman who shows you in the s of courtship that she is determined to separate you from Your mother DOROTHY DIX. EAR DOROTHY DIX: I am a boy 20 vears old. Do you think it would be suitable for me to marry a girl of 18, or wait a while? I have had two or three chances to marry, and I thought that this might be the last one. Please advise me. 0. N. W. Answer: I earnestly advise you to wait a while; five or six years at the least. No boy of 20 is fit to marry. He doesy't know what he wants in a wife and his taste changes every day, so that the flapper he was crazy about in June he won't look at in December. If you marry at 20, son, you may either get a divorce or have to go through with a wife who isn't what our cclored friends call your “rather,” for you may see some other woman you would greatly prefer to the one to wnom you are tied. Also no boy of 20, unless he has inherited a fortune, has enough money on which to support a'family, and you don’t know what trouble is until you are harassed by bill collectors and are always head-over-heels in debt. The boy who marries at 20 sells himself into slavery to the butcher, and baker, and corner grocer. He never has a chance to get ahead. He can e up anything because it takes all he earns, and more, to support his wife and children. Don't marry at 20, because you haven't had your playtime. You haven't had your fling. You are not ready to settle down, and as soon as the novelty of being married is over you will want to go back and run with the boys and girls of your own age, and that means disaster for all concerned. And don't worry about the supply of wives holding out, son. The one crop that never fails is the girl crop There is always a bumper harvest of debutantes every year, and each new supply is just as pretty, and has just as cute ways, and is just as desirable as its predecessor. According to statistics, there are several million more unmarried women in the country than there are men, so you are in no danger of not being able tc get a wife whenever you are ready for one DOROTHY DIX. DFEAR Miss DIX: Iam a very young man very much in love with a girl who used to be in love with me, but who won't speak to me now. I am out of work, and I think that is the reason. Do you think she will care for me again if I get a job? A S.F. voung man who is a loafer doesn’t deserve to have anybody speak to him. Certainly he has no right to be surprised that any sensible girl has a contempt for him. Go to work and make a man of yourself. That is the best way to win a girl, and the only way to win your own self-respect, which is worth more than anything else on earth. Believe me, A. S. F., there is nothing in an idle, lazy, good-for-nothing man to make any girl want to tie herself to him. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright.) Answer: I think that any Flounders With Tomatoes. The standard proportions for bak-| Fillet two flounders, season them = sily | With salt and pepper and put over Ing powder biscuits that can be easily | With 281 SRd pepher Bnd PRC crer kebt in mind are two level teaspoons {them up, lay them on a. greased of baking powder, one-quarter tea- |baking tin, pour over one-half a cup- spoon of salt, one-third cup of water |ful of fish stock, cover with a well and one to two tablespoons of short- | buttered paper and bake in a hot ening to one cup of flour. oven for 10 minutes. Skin folr large Quick or baking powder biscuits |tomatoes, cut them in halves, press are not supposed to be so digestible out some of the pulp, season with as yeast breads because unless very |salt, red pepper and lemon juice, and well made they sometimes form a |when the flounders are cooked place pasty mass that is- hard to digest, [one on each half of tomato. Cover also because their softness is a temp- |the fillets carefully with one cupful tation to swallow them without thor- [of white sauce, so that it does not oughly masticating them. Moreover, run over the sides of the tomatoes. it is thought that the yeast in bread (Garnish the top of each fillet with a actually supplies food properties |steamed oyster. Return to the oven lacking in the quick breads. to get hot and serve Baking Powder Biscuits. The Fragrance of French Lilacs is in ED. PINAUD’ Lilac Vegetal 1925 this puzzle, has' missed a lot. FOR WHOM SHALL I SENP THIS OATS ANP CORN ¢ CorvmIGHT- 1928 FEATURES HORIZONTAL | -Woven Receptacies. - . 8 -Outdoor Excursion and Feast) 1Z-A Grain. i3-Exclamation of Pelight. 15-Upors. ¥: 5-Thi 16-You (o'd form) \1-Road (AB) VERTICAL 1-TO Exist. - Z-Street (AB) 3-Unit of measurermer.., token from fype. - For Car Owners. Several readers have asked me to repeat some advice I gave about keep- ing the hands neat when driving or caring for a car. That was several months ago; In fact, it was while the weather was still warm enough to make fussing over a motor car out- of-doors in the sunshine something pleasant, rather than disagreeabls. One woman sald she kept the Chats for reference in one of the pockets of the car. There is nothing very difficult to learn. The whole idea Is to fill the pores of the skin so full of thick clean grease before washing or cleaning that the black grease cannot pene- trate, or, If it does, it washes off at once with soap and water. I take care of my own little car in the sum- mer, and thousands of other women do the same these days. 1 made up my own equipment, which I suppose is what every one uses—a stiff round brush on a handle for wheels and under frame work, a collection of rags and a sponge and chamols for body, furniture cream for leather up- holstery, an old jack-knife for dig- ging najls and stone splinters out of tires. I have three sets of gloves, an 0ld| leather pair that fits, which I slip on for such comparatively clean jobs as dusting, cleaning and filling up slits in tires. I rub my hands with 4-Steamship (AB) 6°An angry growl 7-location of National Capitol § 8-To frolic® 9-Company (AB) 10-Pronoun. 11-Fine particiesTof Crushed rock. 14-Prongun rnearting a man. - 15-Used with either: BEAUTY CHATS rec-toed sloth of America. SOLUTION TO PUZZLE N0 52 RIAISTE[ [7]3] [T VIE T TN [B] & FITATHINA] [N oTx] INJUITTATGTe | A T [FlOIX e 1] . BY EDNA KENT FORBES. { lard and put on rubber gloves before | washing the car. I use the leather| ones for cleaning spark plugs and such work, and for really greasy work buy and, if necessary, throw away later (or boil out with soap) canvas gloves at 10 cents each. Some delicate jobs cannot be undertaken except with the bare fingers, but be- fore starting I soak my hands in| thick petroleum jelly, rubbing it un- der and around the nails. I always have managed to keep my hands nice in spite of tinkering, except during the weeks a mechanic taught me | how to tinker. Fear of his superior | comments was the only reason I| didn’t try then, and it was two weeks | before I had soaked out all the stains and dirt I acquired. Loulse J. S ou are fortunate in not having blackheads form, as there is | always the danger of enlarged pores. Be sure to -keep any impact from forming in these open pores while you are trying to contract them. Try ice rubs, or a simple astringent such as witch hazel, or a few drops of ben- zoin in a pint of water. Use any of these solutions after cleansing the skin either with cream or soap and warm water. It will take a long time to refine the skin's texture after the pores have become distended, but per- sistent effort will give you the results after a time. | ana The garden room is the English equivalent of the American sunroom and one wonders if perhaps their idea is not very much (he better of the two. If, when we built our homes, W thought of this room as almost more a part of the garden than the house it could be made doubly delightful Of course, it should open directly onto a pretty vista of the garden and simplicity is the correct keynote. A suggested treatment: White wood- work, sheer curtains of pale green voile; straight-line furniture painted black with touches of red on spindles feet, denim striped in light and dark green for upholsteries; wrought iron lighting fixtures, and a practica easily cleaned floor of moss gre tile. (Copyright.) THE NON-BOILING SUX DY A better siik dye When silk things fade— remember Glorient. The newest dye for real silk. It is a wonder dye, i .&a‘m Jace Whitz We absolutely guarantee this. Tint silk lingerie new in color, sheen and body. No boiling. No staining Hands or basin. 18 captivatin fadeless-to-light. At Drug and Department Stores GLORIENT, Inc. 30 Charch Se. New York colors, all For the beaux and belles of old Tennessee glacc of all the distin, Tt was the gathering and women of the Sout! ished men —this is how one elderly states- than, former governor of Tennessce, describes the old Maxwell House of Nashville. There the beaux and belles of old Dixie dined and danced. Throughout the whole South the Maxwell House was celebrated for its deli- cious food—and above all for its coffee. The fame of this coffee, 2 sfecial blend wonderfully rich and mellow, spread gradually to all parts of the country. Today, this same coffee, blended and roasted in just the same way, is supplied in sealed tins to all who most enjoy good living. Your own family can have the rare flavor and aroma that delighted the old South long ago. Ask your grocer today for onc of the blue tins of Maxwell House Coffee. Also Maxwell House Tea % This rare French toilet perfume has many delightful uses for both men and women where a highly concentrated extract is not desired. that’s QUICK QUAKER Cooks in 3 to 5 minutes. &Has thatwonderfulQuakerflaoor thhfimammm in quick cooking cats. Just for the joy of it, get Quick Quaker You'll find all that wonderful “Quaker” flaver there, You'll find quick cooking — 3 minutes; § minutes at the most. And you'll be able to have the “hot oats and milk” break- fasts doctors now are urging unnecessary cooking muss or bother. But be sure to get Quick Quaker—look for the mame on the label. Look for the picture of the Quaker. ’ ED. PINAUD Look for the Quaker on the label That means Quaker flavor. ED. PINAUD BLDG. NEW YORK ‘That means 3 to S-minute cooking. 8 ‘Thai means the superfine oats you want-the finest growsn, » the ml;'t deix.’:im:; in all the world, The red signature on the label is- your- protection, Standard full size and weight packages— Medium: 1% pounds; Large: 3 pounds, 7 oz. e g MaxwerLL House CoFrrEE Goodto To DAY—Americas layges? selling, St 5o o Quakesn