Evening Star Newspaper, May 14, 1925, Page 47

, them to scatter WON N’S. PAGE. ' Saving Plants Among Wildflowers BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. When one lives where the ground with blossoms are atiful, familiarity with them may go part if not all the way toward bringing about a little of that contempt which is prover’ may be responsible for a_great lovi of ‘beautiful blossbms. Flower the usual thing in many localiti One need only live in a city to re not merely their beautiful vaiue: also the intrinstc worth of flowers and share the feeling of that man who wrote If thou of fortune be bereft And find thou hast but two loaves left, Sell one and with the dole Buy hyacinths to feed th in the fiterall, ommon as country as the: L soul. Think how doubly the man would be were there ths to be bought. In other words, con sider the loss to our lands there would be If flowers were altogether uprooted from the soil. To some it may seem | amazing that such a thing is so near becoming a possibility that the Gov ernment has asked that something be done to preserve and increase the quantity of our wild flow which are threatening to become extinct. All Flower Lovers The reason of such a possible c dition one which concerns every one who loves and who picks wild flowers, This would seem to touch most of us who have leisure in the country. It may be our misfortune rather than our fault that many of us do not know how to pick wild flow be ers. Most of us, to ure, who have the inclination can succeed severing blossoms from their connec tion with mother earth. The trouble is that we are likely 1o sever it too completely. What you do is not gather flowers merely, but to uproot entire plants as well. Very often it requires a certain amount of care to pick flowers with out pulling up the roots. Frequently, also, one is not aware of doing it But so much has this been practiced that certain of our fairest plants can not leng survive the death rate which such careless picking causes. One specific instance is in the case of that beautiful and delicate plant, called the Mayflower, of trailing arbutus, which, unless one is careful, vields plant to the eager hands t seek and find it se of scissors or a knife in picking would have meant that this plant would not be fast dis- appearing, as now it In the Home. in the home are considered housewives an artistic es. nd there is no need nor cause Flower by many sential, to diminish the use of wild flowers in | our homes for decoration. But it would be a selfish age that cared so little for the next generation that it let its carelessness deprive others of something . beautiful. Perhaps you are wondering if there is not some way to retrieve the damage already done. To wish to do so is showing a most generous impulse. It is certain that many readers of this department are large-hearted enough to put into practice the ways of helping that have | one that | been found effective. Here the Government sponsor tering of seeds. A Way to Help. Those who scatter seeds of flower when walking or riding along our rural highways are doing a real serv ice. It also is one way of keeping the children amused and of tezching them the right way of caring for flowers Give them as large or small a quan tity of seeds as is convenient. Tell them, several at a time, or a handful, when they come —the scat- to a place that doesn't seein to have many flowers. To pick flowers that have any ten Joy in Smiling Pool. Prithee tell me Tis happincss without ~—0ld Mothc what is joy Nature For a while after his arrival in the Smiling Pool Old Mr. Toad sang just for the joy of singing. He had to sing Yes sir, he hand to sing. e just couldn’t’ help it. His cousins, the Hylas and Tree were singing. Redwing the Blackbird, perched in the | a brown and e of the Smil- top of an alder or on fluffy cat-tail on the ed ing Pool, =ang all long. Little Friend the Song Spar poured out his happiness in a little tinkling song MY DEAR. HAVE YOU ED OLD MR. TOAD. that everybody loves. So Ol Mr.| Toad just had to sing with the others. He thought he was as s he could be. He moved al quite a bit. Some- times he was in one part of the Smil ing Pool and some; in another. Just why he wasn’t content to remain in one place he didn’t know. But he wasn't, and so he moving about But wh sar Then on: 100 swelled his music 1 it seemed if it must burst he heard splash behind him. H collapsed and he 1 , pair of wonderful golden eves looked into his and Old Mr. i hey most skipped a beat for | were the eyes of Mrs. ' “Where, my dear vou been? ried Old Mr. Toad. “I've looked every where for you.” T've just vived,” replied Mrs. Toad. “I went in rather deep last Fall and 1 didn't awake as early as you did. 1 knew I had ovetslept by the chorus coming from the Smiling Pool, so I hurried here as fast as I could Long before 1 got here I heard you singing. so I came straight here. Your voice is better than ever, my dear.” At this Old Mr 2d puffed out his music bag and began to sing again, and now his song wai than ever, for in it wi Jjoy. Mrs. Toad did not sing that one mily i to. So she neve 0ad sang enough cemed to him that he couldn’t sing eno He couldn't or wouldn't stop lons enough to ea He didn't even watch out for danger Tt was Mrs. Toad who saw Longleg: {he Heron just in time. I discovered Mr. Blacksnake gliding to- ward them as they sa¢ with only their singer in the prefers to he sun: sings. But Old Mr. for two. In fact fore feet in the water. Old Mr. Toad was too wrapped up in his singing. But for her he would have ended hi perhaps singing for all time. So it \was just as well that Mr Sing. So there was joy in and all 2 Smaing Pool. Iven Jerry Muskrat Seu\ked mope than usual, that being strewn | in | s entive | BEDTIME STORIES plenty and she | WHEN GATHERING WILD FLOW- ERS. AVOID MUTILATING PLANTS OR PULLING UP ROOTS. | demcy to become uprooted, use a knife or scissors when possible or else take pains to break them off rather than | pull them up. Try to make it a clean <, not a long jagged one, for like people, when severely * are capable of bleeding’ to uit_blossoms deserve pro- ially if they are of a choice variety, as the output of the tree suffers. unless their picking is directed by some one who knows how |to do it to improve the quality of | the remaining fruit. If you are on an all-day motor ride, it is foolish to pick flowers at the beginning of your ocuting, as they will besin no condi- tion even to be revived when you reach home. Rather, wait until your | return trip, in which you will perhaps | take pains to pass again beside the | piaces where the flowers were most tempting. BY THORNTON W. BURGESS {as near as he could come to singing. Jerry was happy. for he had a family |and as yet no one but he and Mrs. | Jerry knew anything about it. Teeter | the Sandpiper, bobbing in his funny way whenever he stopped on the edge | of the Smiling Pool, was happy, for he | and Mrs. Teeter had a secret all their fown. Can you guess what it was? Rat- | tles the Kingfisher was happy and his harsh rattle was heard more than ever, for that was as near as he could come to singing. He also had a secret in the bank just below the Smiling | Pool. So there was joy in the very It was no wonder that Old Mr. 'oad sang. (Copyright | | | 1925, by T. W. Burgess.) Molded Asparagus. Wash, scrape and cut into half-inch lengths bunch of green and cook for 15 minutes in one cupful | of water, salted with one teaspoonful [nr salt. When tender add two table- | | | | asparagus poonfuls of butter blended with one tablespoonful of flour and stir the mix carefully until thick. Add four ten eggs, and when cooked un- but not curdled, half fill. six tus | well-be | small molds with the mixture. When | {cold. unmold on lettuce leaves and | with bits of red pepper i | So Easy to Use! ! The ease with which Tintex is used is astonishing. Tintex will restore color to all your dainty ‘ i —orh give it a new color if you wish. Just “tint as you | rinse”. That's all! | Tintex for Lace-trimmed Silks (lace remains white) in the Blue Box - 15¢ Tintex for all materials—silk, cotton, wool, mixed in che Gray Box - 15¢ Tints & Dyes ANYTHING THE EVEN DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX Shall Bridegroom Buy Home or Continue to Live; With Parents and Put Money Into Business? Shall Middle-Aged Widow Remarry? EAR MISS DIX: I am a young man and am soon to be married. My parents have made the suggestion that we make our home with them after we are married, so that I may save my money-in order that I may go into business for myself. My sweetheart insists that we get a home of our aown right away. T would be glad to do so, but if I have to furnish a home now all my savings will be gone and I will have to wait until T can save up some more money on which to start business. What do you think? H. D. 8. Answer: If your sweetheart was a broad-minded, forward-seeing .girl, with a lot of common sense and philosophy. she would ‘gladly accept your parents’ generous offer to live with them while you are getting on your feet. She would realize that in that way she could best help you and push your fortunes, which are also her fortunes after she becomes your wife. But, my dear boy, broad-minded, common-sense, philosophical young girls are about as scarce as hen's teeth. . The average girl doesn’t see an inch beyond her nose; and she wants what she wants when she wants it. You can't make her realize the advantage of denying herself the little things she desires at the moment, in order that she may get the bigger things later on, so0 before you ever get marriod make up your mind that you are going to deal with your wife as she is, and not as she might, would, or should be. Your sweetheart has made up her mind to go to housekeeping at once. so you had as well submit gracefully. For if you take her against her will to live with ‘your parents, she will go into the door with a chip on her stioulder, and before you know it you will be in a fanilly quarrel that will embitter the balance of your days. So don’t run the risk. It is better for the business to wait than for you to be estranged from your parents and have your mother and wife endure each other instead of being friends. If_your bride would go to live with your parents gladly and whole- heartedly, determined to make the best of the situation, and thinking it mighty nice of them to help vou out, it would certainly be a wise thing for you fo accept their proposition. But if she is opposed: to it, don't do-it. It will end disastrously to you. —I try Of course, as a general thing, it is far better for a young couple to start housekeeping in their own home and alone. The first year of married life, | when a man and woman are adjusting themselves to each other, is a stormy one, and it doesn't throw ofl on the troubled waters to have either family | The Rio de Ja Plata is called the sitting around putting in advice on how to navigate their boat through the | River of Silver. Why, I cannot even tempestuous sea. Many a young couple land on the rocks who ‘would have | guess. There is nothing silvery about come through safely if they had been left alone. it ‘When they quarreled they would have kissed and made up, and the man would have called himself a brute, and the girl wept on his neck and no harm would have been done, if they had been alone. But they couldn't do that. They had to stand pat on their dignity when the man’s mother was urging him to be the master of his house, and the girl's mother was warning her not to let her husband make a doormat of her. Therefore, as the girl is right from her point of view, and you are right from your point of view, why not compromise, and put off the wedding until you have enough money to furnish the house, and go into business? | DOROTHY DIX. wh of of cal EAR MISS DIX: I am a middle-aged woman, a widow with grown sons, { who are still at home. I have a chance to marry & good man of my own age. Will it be best for me to m: , and have a husband and home of my own, or always live with my boy: SARAH. as tai Answer: Take the good man, Sarah. That will secure you your own home, your Independence. It will enable you to maintain your own identity and to have somebody of your own to love and care for, somebody to whom you are necessary. Your boys will soon be leaving you and establishing homes of their own. That is nature, and what you wish-them to do, but it leaves their mother at loose ends and with empty, idle hands. No matter how much your sons love you, nor how kind and good they are to you, when they marry they enter into a new life in which you have small part. Their wives and children will absorb their interest, thelr atten- tions and their pocketbooks, and you will feel yourself a burden upon them and know what it is to eat the bitter bread of dependence. No woman who has been at the head of her own house ever enjoys taking | second place in another woman's house. It gets on her nerves to see her | daughters-inlaw doing things the way she did not do them, perhaps wasting | her son’s money and poisoning him with bad cooking. And she either has to be hated as a nagging, interfering mother-in-law or else chew her tongue off to keep from giving utterance {6 the protests and advice with which she is| sloshing over. 3 i Save yourself from this fate if you can, Sarah. Marry the man who wants to marry you, who can give you your own home, and with whom You can jog contentedly and happily down the last lap of the journey of life. DOROTHY DIX. bit How would you propose to a girl who is a man-hater and ROGER. EAR MISS DI says she doesn't believe in love and never intends to marry? Answer: Why, T would use cave-man tactics in dealing with that kind of a girl. I would slug her with a club, metaphorically speaking, and drag her by her bobbed hair to the parson, where, believe me, she will be tickled to death to say ‘‘ves.” “Methinks the lady doth protest too much,” and that she just wants some man to make her marry him, whether she will or not. There are no genuine, bona-fide man-haters among girls, Roger. The man hater is like the Phoenix, a purely mythical bird. There never was yet a woman who didn't believe in love, who didn't want to love and pray to be loved, and \\h;; wasg't o u-ellnokrlolu;;l for a L n't take any stock in this man-hater business, It’s all blah! S L DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1925.) strawberries are added. Cook until Marmalade. the fruit is very soft, then measure. One pint pineapple, one pint straw- | Add three-fourths their bulk in sugar. berries, three-fourths pound sugar to | Cook very slowly until thick, about one quart. Shred the pineapple and | one hour. Recipe makes one and one- cook about five minutes before the | half pints. 5 New Kind of Face Powder Tones and Protects Skin! At last an amazing New Face Powder has been discovered which stimulates, tones and beautifies the skin. This won- derful new powder soothes irritation, cleanses the skin of impurities, closes enlarged pores and corrects oily skin. Renews Skin Youth— Defects Vanish astating _enemies—sglaring sun, _hareh winds, and gritty dust. 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Even blackheads dis- ppear. This am a soft, v bl J0lne ledin & new tonic powder forms tatice ushion sver She sl S omuteston MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, March 18. Hotel, Pocitos, dream. Yesterday I Aires and I had been there so many days that any other city seems like a dream, particularly since I crossed the Rio de La Plata during the night. stream of water I have ever seen with the possible exception of the Hoogli the Bay of Bengal. call it the Rio de la Cobre—the River But what a river night wider than the Hudson River is long! Fact. were already There was the city piled up in front much of a hill. to,_be sure, but high | enough for some mar panied the explorer named it Montevideo. Buenos Aires was named same way. landed there in 1535 some sallor was heard to say to another: I ain’t never smelt so many good ai before, hev you?” (or something like that.) 1 am sor: am usually sorry to lea unless it happens to be Chicago. 1 thought my friends, who had done | s0 much to brighten up the days and |all. nights during the past week, were a glass together—'el trago del estribo™ the drink of the stirrup, was TAR, WASHINGTOX, D. C, THURSDAY, MAY Ramble Around BY RI PociTos- Fifty-Second Day. am writing this in the Parque I'am in a new coun- and a new city. It seems like a was in Buenos It is the dirtiest and muddiest ich oozes down from Calcutta into Why didn't_they Copper? It has taken all to cross it. The La Plata is I got up early enough but we tied up at the dock. us on an ordinary sort of hill- led the “citadel-crowned hill.” Not ner who accom- | olis, to exclaim 1 see a moun and so they he approached it n! 1 see a mountain in the ‘When old Mendoza first Hey! Miki v T had to leave B. A any place- wistful as we clinked our last and there 14, - 1925. South America PLEY. thought of the Bronx looked sad as they stood on the pier waving farewell; for I was going home 1 rhought they --to “God’s country,” &#s they who are marooned in foreign lands always call it—and they all wished that they were going home, too. “See you soon in New York,” they said. “I'll be up there in a month or so. They always say that—always hop- ing to take the next boat home. But they seldom do. Then sometimes when all too many boats have sailed away without them, and the days have grown into months and the months into years, as they say in the movles, then™—then comes a time when they have succumbed t> forelgn ways and manners and their {riends shake their heads as they pass by and say, “Poor fellow! He missed too many boats. But here I am in Uruguay, the youngest and smallest of all the South | American_republics. I would never know it. Evervthing is the same; the veople appear the same, they speak the same language, and give you dates | for answers just as they do in Ar- gentina “Where is the Munson Line office?’ U inquired. “On the 25th of August,” reply. | “And the La Plata newspaper of-| fice? Which street is it on?" | Just after the 18th of Jul they | said. I gave it up and went in bathing on the 18th of March. Pocitos, you know, of those places called City of South America." was the is another one “The Atlantic But first it was necessary for me to obtain a little Uruguayan money. 1 handed in a $20 bill. I was sur prised to receive but 19 pesos in re- turn. A mistake, I thought. “Not at The financial condition of Uru-| guay is of the best and the peso is| above par,” the teller said. { Can you beat that? Here is a little | country down here with money worth | a tear in Maggle's eve as she more than our ow FEATURES., SPRINGTIME BY D. C. PEATTIE. 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