Evening Star Newspaper, August 20, 1925, Page 35

WOMAN’S PAGE. Importance of Learning to Relax BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. Relaxation to good health. an and he will tell you this is the truth. It is one of the gravest mistakes a housewife can make, therefore, not to rest for a little while' some time during the d It matters not how pressing duties are, constant work will make her pay the price of enforced idleness and prob-. ably of suffering if this law of inter- miftent labor and rest is broke The old adage that a man works from sun to sun »ut a woman’s work 1s never done is, indeed, true, for there is always something that a housewife can do which seems important She is always in the midst of her en vironment of duties, and she it is who is the head of the work. Probably she does it herself, especially in these ¢ of servantless houses. b doubt if man were in his environment of work &l the time, he, too, wouid come under the same class of those having no set hours for laboring, and so never be free from the pressure rasks. Nature expects work be done as efficiently and with as little waste en- ergy as possible. ut she is not a hard taskmast If she were she i} mot let us return to work after a needed period of relaxation with a store of health nd vig so0 that we can do more work in less time than without, thus enabling persons who obey her Jaws actually to accomplish more in given time than those who think they cannot stop, and who insist | they must “keep all the time. going Methods of Relaxing. It is often necessary to acquire a habit of relaxation. Reading some | book sufficiently interesting to hold the attention. but not exciting, is one method. Doing fancy w k leisurely is another. Playing solitaire another, Lying under the tre listening to the birds carol or sit: on the beach is another way to gain the ability There is an art in knowing how to rel; It is one that can be learned. Sit quietly an receptively Drive from the mind all unpleasant thoughts, Do this by insistently thinkin of happy experiences and memories, Think of every rve as resting, of | every part of t 1y being sup- ported comfortably e the ru- diments of getting into a relaxed con- dition. It take: four to ten min utes th stomed to relax to ge its power. So do not be | discouraged if at first you d ceed again, and then Remember, it will pay well acc Strong Power. Time spent well deserved, When under are in the that is bei oothin is difficult axation, wasted fluence you elous power stilled into you in so reshing a way that it w realize you are being benefited. After such a period you BEDTIME STORIES Spooky Returns. | Who e'er wou Must proper ho get enough of sl O1d Mother Nat Spooky the Screech Owl doesn’t like to have a fuss made about him. That is one reason why he keeps out of ight in daylight. Of course, another | reason is that the daytime is his time for sleeping. But Spooky got very little sleep after giving that young woodpecker who happened to look in at his doorway zuch a fright. | You see, after the other birds had de- | rted Drummer the Woodpecker | came to that tree and began drum-| ming on the back side of it close to where Spooky was trying to get a| nap. { There was no sleeping with that rat- | at-tat going. It was as if Drummer | was pounding right on his ears. He | THE CHIDREN, ASKED SPOOKY. “HOW climbed up to his doorway and pokec his head out. He was hissing angrily. ‘When Spooky is angry he hisses. Al- most at once Sammy Jay spied him, | ling to everybody within hear- ammy flew over to torment | | . Spooky is a little fellow. He really couldn’t fight back, so once more he disapp from view, which | was the wisest thing to do. He went down inside that hollow in the tree. But now he was no bette n he | had been in the first place, because | Drummer 1t Woodpecker was still hammering away | After a while of drummin,; came quiet But he hadn’t been before Mrs. Drumr head to drum on that So it went all the rest of Perhaps vou 1 gu Spooky. was when the Black Shadows | ame creep through the Green Forest. Spooky didn’'t waste any time. He flew_straight over to the Old Or- chard. When he got there he went straight to his old home. Mrs. Spooky was sitting in the doorway. “How are the children, my asked Spooky. “Well- T hope,” replied Mrs. Spooky, “but I don’t know much about them “What do you mein?” demanded Spook Mrs. Spooky sighed. sure whether it was fulness or a sigh of have st: ed out in the Gr she You Drumme flew a Spooky went to sleep. isleep very long | took it into her tree. tired grew It be- and the day. how glad dear?’ Spooky wasn't | a sigh of thank-| ow. “Th at World,' mean they ked Spooky. Mrs. Spooky nodded she. You know I them about for some little time have left home?” “Yes," said ave been showing Now An{nng my pet aversions expand 3 In = luxury of pity As they lend 2 helping hand. e | a wee bit, - AR T walwe w | IN ORDER TO RELAX IT MAY BE NECESSARY TO SIT QUIET- LY WITH BOOK OR FANCY- WORK AT FIRST. will think better and come to good decisions more quickly, as well as ac complish much in a given time. Va- cations should include periods of re- laxation, and sometimes they should be made up chiefly of relaxation under the pleasantest circumstances possi- ble. BY THORNTON W. BURGESS they have decided that they want to be by themselves and so they have left the Old Orchard.” SUPpPOSse said Spooky, hesitating that now therell be room for me in there.” “Plenty of room,” Spooky. “I certainly miss those chil dren, but they were a great care. It really is a relief not to have to think of any meals but my own.” “I know,” said Spooky, look wise. “Huh!" sniffed Mrs. Spooky, “much vou know about it! It's the mother | that has to do the work, and don't | you forget it. I'm as thin as a shadow. Make yourself at home if you want to while I go out hunting for a dinner. It is a long time since I have had all I could eat.” And so it was that Spooky returned to the Old Orchard, while over in the | apartment tree in the Green Forest | little Mrs. Whitefoot and her family | and little Mrs. Timmy the Flying Squirrel and her family continued to live in peace. (Copyright, 1925.) replied Mrs. trying to “Puzzlicks” Puzzle-Limericks, As a beauty T'm far from a —1—, There are others more handsome, by But my face—I don’t — For I am —4—; It's the people in front get the —5—. 1. An actor who plays the leading part. 2. Distant. 3. Object to; personal pronoun, third person, singular; neuter (two_words). | In back of; last word of line above (two words). 5. Shock. (NOTE: Put the right words, indi- cated by the figures, into the corre- sponding- spaces and you'll have President Wilson’s favorite limerick The answer and another “Puzzlick” will appear tomorrow.) Yesterday's “Puzzlick.” There was a young man from Ostend Who vowed he'd hold out to the end. | But when halfway over From Calais to Dover. He did what he didn't intend. (Copyright. 1925.) Coffee produced in Colombia this | might change after w VING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX Can the Girl With a Bad Reputation “Come Back”?—The Woman Who Broadcasts Her Husband’s Troubles. EAR MISS DIX—Can 4 girl who has had a bad reputation ever come back? Can a girl who is what the boys call “a good sport” become a good wife and mother? Do men marry that kind of a woman? A GOOD-SPORT. Answes: Of course, a girl who has had a bad reputation can *“come back.” Many girls who have set. their feet on the downward road do have the grit-and courage to turn around and climb back to respectability. There is a current proverb to the effect that a bad woman never reforms, but this is not true, Many women who go through evil influences, through love, through weakhess, through longing for good times, and inability to count the cost, do repent of their sins and turn from them in horror and loathing. 3 Such women are purified as by fire. They wash the stains off their gar- ments with their tears, and they often live thereafter the lives of saints. And if they marry they become the truest and the most loyal and virtuous of wives and mothers. The.woman herself can come back, but the trouble is that the woman who has once smirched her reputation can never clean that in the eyes of the world. As long as she lives 1t will be remembered against her. Go where she will, it will always be whispered about her. Her husband may condone her past, but it will rankle in his mind, and if she has children she will live in dread of somebody telling them what their mother was. That is why it is so important for a girl to live a life that is without reproach. Of course, men do marry wild, wild women. But as a general thing the men who marry the girls who go on drinking parties and petting partiés are the same sort as the girls are, and that is why divorce is so common. Neither one has any high ideals, or moral convictions, or sense of duty, and so when they find that marriage means something more than a drunken orgy they quarrel and quit. Certainly a girl ever have gone away from the clean things and the pure a fearful price she will have to pay for being “a good spor DOROTHY DIX. n come back, but, oh, the pity of it that she should gs! And what R IDEAR MISS DIX—What do you think of a woman who habitually goes around among her friends and neighbors talking about her husband? I have a neighbor whose only subject of conversation is her husband’s fauits, yet he seems to be a kind and inoffensive man who works hard to support her and who lets her run their part of the universe. X307 5, Answer: I think that the only place where a wife is justified in ““panning” her husband is in the divorce court. As long as she lives with him, and eats his bread, common decency requires that she should keep quiet about his faults. T know that a great many wives will not agree with me, and that their favorite diversion consists in telling all who will listen what poor, miserable creatures they are married to, and what horrible lives they live with the brutes to whom they are tied. Mrs. A. sighs, and says darkly that nobody knows what she has to put up with in John, who has a temper that goes off like a train of fireworks if you so much as jostle one of his pet peculiarities. Mrs. B. groans and says that no- body knows what trouble is who hasn't got a husband who is that grouchy and glum that he sits up like a graven image in the house. Mrs. C. complains because her husband won't take her out at night, and Mrs. D. wails that her hisband won't stay in of evenings. Mrs. . laments that she has to corkscrew every penny out of her husband, and Mrs. F. suspects her husband of making eyes at every flapper he meets. And the women have a perfectly beautiful time posing of their husbands into a serious And so it goes. as martyrs, and exaggerating every weakn: fault, and making mountains out of molehilis. And the poor, foolish, silly women who really mean no harm, and merely want to be pitied a little, do not realize what an injury they are doing thefr husbands and how they are wrecking their own lives. For the world takes its opinion of & man largely from his wife, and it she regards him as a failure it accepts her verdict on the subject. Therefore the woman who complains that her husband isn’t a money- maker, and doesn’t know how to get along, kills his chances of success. She establishes his reputation as a poor business man, whereas the. wife who is al- ways bragging about how smart and clever her husband is boosts his stock among all who know her. Many a man’s reputation as a drunkard, or a gambler, or a petticoat chaser is utterly undeserved, and rests on no other foundation than his wife's Jealousy, or her being peeved about his taking a glass of beer, or going down town some night when she wanted him to stay at home. Wives will do well to remember that it is their province to cover up their husband’s faults, not to broadcast them to the world DOROTHY DIX. e renie [DEAR MISS DIX—For eight years T have been engaged to a young woman, but we do not get along well together. No matter how much I give her, I can never satisfy her. a diamond bracelet for her birthday that she struck me. Do you think she are marrfed? I have had to overcome many difficulties, and have received many hard knocks on my climb up in life, and as I am now 40 years old I feel I cannot take a chance with my happiness. Please tell me just what you think. J. MAC. Answer: I think that you will be utterly miserable if you marry that kind of a woman, and that at once. fhe does not love you. out of you. She is a greed fter, and she will keep your nose to the grind- stone as leng as you live. No matter what you give her, she will be continuaily crying “More, more, more.” As for marying a woman who struck you in her fury because she was balked in her desire for diamonds, I can’t imagine any man having little enough sense to tie himself for life to such a fury. Why, the woman hasn’t an instinct of delicacy or refinement in her! You have had your warning, and if you marry this woman you will de- serve every bit of the unhappiness you will get as your portion of matrimony. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1925.) Sugar Cookies. Cream one-half cupful of butter, add gradually one cupful of brown sugar and beat well, adding two beaten eggs, one-half teaspoonful of baking soda dissolved in two table- spoonfuls of water, a cupful of flour | sifted with a teaspoonful of baking powder, and one-fourth teaspoonful of salt and enough flour to make a soft dough. Chill the dough in the refrigerator over night, then roll and cut out in small cakes and bake in a quick oven on greased tins. 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