Evening Star Newspaper, August 28, 1925, Page 17

WOMAN’S PAGE, Use and Care of Brushes BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER, ROOM mus: though supplied and and be the brushes homes, even 1\ s are well vaculim clean there | care to make them Ia materials from which they are made can withstand ordi wear and | tear. It s easy to see at a glance ther brooms and brushes v :en well cared for. Bristles broom corns show which t as long as the ers reducing out-of | though worn, in the brushes, | have been used right and cared for id a broom or brush on or corns. This bends and and they will not sweep as when straight If the | broom corns do have a slant and the | hair In brushes gets matted, soak them in lukewarm water. While plia- | ble push them back into shape and pull them straight. Stand handles up- | right on the floor t the corns and hair dry while in correct shape. v be necessary to give them oc- al treatment while drying to in them remaining In position THE EVENING STAR, DorothyDix Let’s Try to Make Things Pleasanter at Home by Refraining From Nagging and Giving Unasked Advice and Prying Into the Privacy of Those With Whom We Live. Urges Improv- ing Family Life by Con- scious Effort . As Polite to Family as to Strangers I 1 Do vou ever consclously try to make yourself more agreeable to those about you? I mean to your own family, to those of your own household, the people who cannot escape you and who have to endure your society 355 days u year through innumerable years? 3 - We are compelled (o be pleasant to strangers. Otherwise we would be ostracized in soclety and go bankrupt in busine So in public we wear the smile that won't come off and use tact and diplomacy in dealing with those whom we wish to placate But in the family circle we feel that we can slump and do as we please, and that If we are moral and upright, and don't get drunk or swear and break up the furniture we have done all that any one has a right to expect of us. If we go a step beyond that and actually display good manners and are polite and considerate, and do our duty as husbands and wives, and parents, and children, and sisters, and brothers, we hurl bouquets at ourselves ¥ I ¥ W h t A Binder For Broom. i Bind the corns of the broom to- | gether and hold them so with the top | { of an old stocking cut a little shorter | than the broom corns and drawn down | over them. This is a genuine help, | and it could be wished that something | of this sort could be dome with | brushes. But the bristles or hairs usu: a little in brushes, which | prev treatment the | hair is short Ways of Hanging Brooms. Brushes and brooms may be up in closets instead of being and on their handles. There three ways of doing this. One is to put a screweye in the top of a handle ind hang the broom on i peg or on a cup hook screwed beneath a T L »nd, which is recom mended, 1s to bore a hole with a brad awl In a broom handle about two s from the top. Run a strong rd throug this hole nd tie in a b d knot spend the broom by this loop. third wa we all ind the ckknife run the the co Ic hung ie 1o ™ ar. and ™ i the roove. Then tie the her and suspend the broom | 1 by the loop. brushes and brooms in such a way that they hold their shape. Turn d in | them while sweeping or brushing and essen- | ends will wear more evenly, as well as best of | keeping comparatively straight WHEN WE GO SHOPPING BY MRS. HARLAND H. ALLEN. WHILE THE BROOM CORNS ARE DAMP DRAW THE COVER DOWN OVER THEM | brishe: price within tial to the very ter than he could th larger sizes 1t to have a plate or tray that can't slip around when he is pursuing an elusive morsel of food. Even though “napkin rings” are out of date for adults, a small silver | marker with his own monogram will be a pleasure to the child and a con venlence to you. Clasps to hold the napkin in place during the meal are an obvious advantage, and should ac company the marker. In selecting silver and bowls for children, the main thing is to be sure that these are heavy and strong enough to endure the inevitable knocks and bumps they are sure to get without denting, marring, or breaking. Test a bowl for firmness and solidity, and beware of the rolled 1 which makes, or attempts to in plece look thick. A ents many pitfalls—it should be one that is easy to grasp with childish_hands, and with a nce to preclude its tipping over when filled with milk or water These well designed and well made sets are within the reach of any par- | ents, and, given to a child, are more effective in Inducing good manners han many admonishments about “be- ing good at the table”—and are prac. Child Likes Own at Table. It you've ever noticed a mother neglecting her own dinner to feed a | child well past babyhood, you probably agree that both of them would have been better off if the | child had been encouraged in more in- | dependent hab This spirit of in- | dependence at table, of wanting to | eat “by {itself,” the child will usually develop if it has its own “things.” The regular child’s service is best to provide for children, whether they are yvour own, or whether they are visitors in vour home You can find in the shops s and forks, spoons and which no other word but describe. They are made the child and will deal tow developing neatness a degree in his table . too, to h v which the edge of th ‘This should large enough to hold the food he vill want during the meal Every child enjoys having the pro- « per “tools” for the business of eating. He likes his own porringer mug and the small pitcher to contain his milk, | tical aids to the mother in heélping as well as the flat sflver. Naturally | forward the progress of what other- he can “manage” them all much bet- | wise is often a patience-trying meal The Daily Cross-Word Puzzle 1925.) “Things" will little ‘push ut espe 1y do a sreat (Copyright | own pe nice bal-| and hope that our relatives appreciate how Providence has blessed them in bestowing us upon them. b % I But, alas, the cold fact remair at one may be a model of all the| virtues, and yet be a most disagreeable individual with whom to live. Some of the best men in the world the worst husbands. Many of the most nscientious. unselfish and self-sacrificing wives and mothers drive thelr husbands to send their children to the r to get away from them. Few brothers ind sisters ever quit fighting and on friendly terms until they separate and go their different ways in life. ¥ i The truth is, it isn’t their good qqualities that make people pleasant to live with, but their little ways. And so it behooves us all to take stock of our onal peculiarities in order that we may correct such of them as dally and hourly afflict those with whom we live. stop nagging—even the children. Let's say a thing once d of harping upon it until we wear everybody's nerves D Let us, then, t and let it go, inste to a frazzle, Let's refrain from telling Johnny every time he comes in the house to take off his cap and not to bang the doer, and not to sit on the back of his neck, and not to leave his in his cup. Let's not greet our husbands when they come home of an evening with the usual monologue about the old automobile, with its many defects, and how much we need a w car, nor demand to know why we can’t have a limousine like Mrs, Million Bucks. Let's not ask our wives for the milllonth time why it is that there never can be a decent ¢ coffee in the house; cannot think of somethi have for b how came the gas bill t ) big 1 why home of nights and read improving books instead of fool jelly-beans to pa she doesn’t n - Let’s suppress our curiosity. Let's refrain from prying into the letters of other members of the family. Let’s can the questionnaire, and not ask every one who leaves the house where he or she is going; what they are going to do. whom they expect to see, what they said to the other people, what the other people said to them and why they are going to do what they are going to do, anyway. Let's refrain from giving unsolicited advice. Let's permit other members of the famlly to eat what they want to eat in peace, without telling them how bad everything they like is for their digestion Let's let other members of the family exercise their own taste in buying their clothes, and their furniture, and their automobiles without our trying to force our selections upon them 1l Mary how she should run her ho t his business. n here to zet off in every n | trutis. Let's not tell Mar: too vouns | ut she looks like old sheep n querading as Spring lamb with Let's not tell Emma that she Is getting fat, and Jane that she ving skeleton, and Tom that we have heard his funny story a interrupt those who try to tell us some incident that 1 Interjecting remarks that show tha sald at all | and raise her children ‘[ Susie where | ot tell home | Let's not nor John h to get on and people b for he: bobbed hair. looks like dozen times be Let’s not least, interesting to themselves by haven't been listening to what they nd Let’s try not to bore those with whom we live any more than we can help. Let's not make ourselves a perpetual subject of conversation, and let's keep tab on our stories and reminiscences so that we shall not repeat the same things until our families feel like screaming when they hear us start on the old familiar repertoire. Let's have a little respect for the privacy of others, and remember that we get as much on the nerves of those with whom we live as they do on ours and that they would like a little rest from our society now and then. Let's respect the helongings of others and reflect that the tles of blood give us no right to sponge on them. is improving as family life. Let's]| e things pleasanter for those with DOROTHY DIX. There is nothing that so much ne help along the good work by trying to whom we live (Copyright. 19: BEDTIME STORIES |*“Well, some bad things have happened | up in'the O1d Orchard this Spring and Summer, and it is rumored that Jenny | and Mr. Wren know more about these g di | things than they will admit.” Peter Rabbit ha n spending €0 : 4 mech time in the Green Forest .na!..‘fig‘:{ i‘l,"d"‘o"“b;’;,fi‘g{‘:fl:‘;fi‘gg’"hg‘;; at the Smiling Pool that he had rather | .on 3%, S0 fhe Old Orchard?” he de- neglected the Old Orchard. He was | PoNee o reminded of this one day when Carol | T2RC€C 5 i the Meadow Lark happened to stop | “Well" replied Carol, “some eggs hear where Peter was peeping out | have been thrown out of nests and from the dear old Briar Patch. As|Some others have had holes made i BY THORNTON W. BURGESS Peter Hears a Rumor. You'll find that rumor ne’er will fail To make the worst of any tale —O1d Mother Nature. usual, Peter was curiou th v lay In the nests.” = “What's the news, Carol *s work!" cried Peter. Eaiaeanes OO 1 shook his head. “No,” said he, vt the work of Sammy Ja. In the first place, Sammy eats eggs | he takes them. In the second some of these eggs were in | ay couldn’t pos- | y get at them. Tommy Tit the | Chickadee and Mrs. Tommy were among those whose eggs wers thrown out, and if you know anything at all | about the nesting of Tommy Tit and | his pretty little wife, you know that that nest is always in a hole in & tree with a very small openyng, or_elss in one of those houses Farmer Brown's [ Boy puts up. Sammy Jay couldn't posstbly get his head through one of those openings. In fact, nobody larg- er than Tommy Tit himself could get inside. Now, who is there around the Old Orchard as small as or smaller than Tommy Tit," | "Peter looked startled. He couldn't | think of anybody but Jenny Wren and | Mr. Wren. Carol eaw the sv.nrned| | look on Peter's face and understood | {it. “You are thinking,” said he, * ISN'T ANY NEWS,” PLMED CAROL. “THERE RE: Across. 1. Nobles Speaks. “There isn't any mnews’ replied t everybody else has. been think- | arol. “That is, there isn't any news No one knows that Jenny Wren | unless it is news to vou that some of r. Wren threw out those eggs of | he people up in the Old Orchard are Tit and Mrs. Chickadee, but | alking about Jenny Wre and Mr. ybody thinks that one or the other | { Wren.” of them did it, because there was no | | “Huh!" crled Peter. “If you had |one else who could have done it. Be- | sald that Jenny Wren was talking |sides, those Wrens have been any- about other people it wouldn't have | thing but good nelghbors. They have surprised me an Did you ever in|done their best to drive others away your life hear a tongue go as her |from that part of the Old Orchard tongue can? But what are the neigh- | where they are living.” ng about Jenny and Mr. T don't believe it,” declared Peter. “I just won't believe anything like that of Jenny Wren. She's a great talker and she dearly loves to boss, but I won't belleve that she would do n “They are not really saying any- { thing,” replied Carol. “They are just | hinting at things. It is a rumor that . Malt liqu - Hair cutter. According to. . 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Dish up and garnish the top of each tomato with & round of hard-cooked white of {ege and a small pimento, fish, either sal- star-shaped slice ufl is golng around. You know what a rumor is, don’t you, Peter?" Peter rubbed his nose thoughtfully. ‘It—It is a_story about something or somebody that no one seems to know !'the truth about or just how it came | to start, isn’t it?" asked Peter. ol nodded. ‘“Thét's it, anything so dreadful.” No_one wants to believe it,” re. plied Carol, “but what else can you do under the circumstances? Anyway, as T told you before, it is just rumor." “Well, all T can say is it is a mighty | had rumor,” sala Peter. t (Copyritht. 1025. by T. W. Burgess.) Free From Mosquitoes 5 Free From Flies Black Flag Kills Everyr g?ngll.:nbne g Brack Fraastrangles and ieis th d iqui i ' surest derandliquid. Bothars flies, mosquitoes and ller of roaches dually deadly for all roaches, Not one es- kinds of bugs, with capes—for BLuOK Fuag ~ evermade. 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Liquid, 25¢ up, Sprayer, 45c. Introductory package containing can of liquid and sprayer for only 65c. At drug, WASHINGTON, i satchel full of mone you o were eny mony out of dreems, pop sed. And Hello, wats this W sed. check fc ma agen tonite, fun sints I saying, wen I tell you wat.its for. | on you D. C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 1925. FEATURES. BHistory of Dour .fiamr:’\; BY PHILE FRANGS Sowrax, | ERCKE. Gaeli VARIATIONS—Erck, Eark. i changin RACIAL ORIGIN—Irish. bz SOURCE—A given name. MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN. the 15 “Birc 0 ma d of inflecting its vowels inste i the Telling Twins Apart. or el in, enc strax formin mouse Hov | You might well im family name least Teutonic, origin. {in a great many cases. B not |w It happens that a great | many of the people you'll meet bear ing the name in one or other of the foregoing three forms, trace it back to the Irish clan name of “O’Eire The clan nam: ounded of the | In # chieftain SenUsual DIERX | e ibizd that of German And th gine is ckfist this morn- | so it nd ma sed to pop, Willyum, last T. dreemed you found a hole | nd thats sip- bosed to be Jucky, its sipposed to | ucen your going to have some left to | something, now N jest see | f there is enything in dr 1S, The anser is no. pop sed. If eny-| body ever left me eny money it would »e_counterfeft or somethin Now, Willyum dont be narro minded, whole long books have bin written about dreems, ma sed: Yes, and the peeple that rote them the only ones that ever made is - and The clan the O'Con nite s0 s Eskimos Catch Birds. auks wit Eskimo 1 Of course, in such compounds the possessive case of the g name ' sweep of the he started to look «ut his mail, saying | I thawt that’ Winter yours was puyed for long ago. . no, Willyum, vou must be hinking of something elts, ma sed. One mother says: My twin girls look so exactly alike that even those who know them best find it impossible to |tell them apart, until I found a plan | Im thinking of your Winter coat, |of letting them know at a glance. It Jleeve me, with this dubble jointed |saves the children from being bored bill in frunt of me ev hing “elts is [ with continual questioning. On their | rowded out of my mind, pop sed. ses 1 have embroidered their fir st did you say that dreem of yours —O for Olivia and B for ment? he sed. Well give it a chance, Willyum, ma And O, that reminds me, th man is going to deliver the new was| ng mact S The deadliest poison from a plant of the c: cup family of all mmon With plezzure Im sure, couldent you L { age to have the very same dreem | 1 havent had so' mutch | was down with the grip, | op sed. And he started to write her | he check and jest then my sister addis came down for her brekfist O father, hefore you go, vunt to remind you Remind somebody elts, how mutch s it? pop sed, and Gladdis sed, Its| )y 20 dollars and you'll say its cheep When skin hurts— No matter what causes your skin to hurt or itch, it can be quickly relieved by | Tl never suy 20 dollers is cheep for snything. so dont tell me, and if you | unt to steer cleer of trubble tell you ther not to dreem eny d Tuck pob sed Emh for Sore Skin And I he frunt and banged after him. a thrill for any break- fast table! The flavor of Kellogg’s Corn Flakes. It's grand! It’s gripping! Everybody’s thrilled about the happy Kellogg flavor. Crisp, golden-toasted Kellogg’s Corn Flakes are served from package to bowl. No cooking. Second helping ready. Just add milk or cream. Also great with or preserved fruit. For sale at grocers everywhere. Served by all res- taurants and hotels. 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