Evening Star Newspaper, October 30, 1925, Page 50

WOMAN’S : Discussion of Household Accounts BY LYDIA LE BARON WA In no one particular matter is délay | money than in keeping | Mislaic It seems almost | more unsatisfactor household accounts. impossible to recall small sums spent after the lapse of a day. Without these | x IS A WOMAN MAY HAVE TO USE A "PARATE PURSE_FOR THE DAILY ““MINOR EXPENSES, a AS A MAN.VERY OFTE) USES A SPECIAL POCKET FOR THIR PURPOSE ftems set down, the counts is out of the quéstion. Sums will not come out correctly. To resort to “incidental’ expenses is necessary for in them all money may be included. not otherwise accounted for, and by them the debit and credit columns can he adjusted to a cent. However, there lingers in the mind of the conscien- tious housewife traces of dissatisfac tion Just balancing of ac how did that unaccounted for Peter Says Good-Bye. It von muis: at another emite. Be e To turn sour head the while Pator Rabhit Slowpoke the Box Turtle never hur rles. “There is no use in hurrying.” savs Slowpoke. “Takg vour time and Jive long.”" Slowpoke quite lives up to his sayingk. He does take his time about whatever he is doing, and he lives long. He never hoasts about his age and few people know that he is the oldest person in the Green Forest But such is the case Slowpoke had just told Peter Rabbit PETER RARRIT WATCHED HIM, that he must pre e for the Winter nd straightaway he hegan to do it All the time he had been talking with Peter he had been slowly looking over a certain place where the ground was soft. At last he gave a little sigh of satisfaction. It sounded lke a hiss but thal was as near to sighing a Slowpoke could come. Then very slo v he hegan to diz. Peter Rabbit watched him Peter had to smile, al- though he didn’t let Slowpoke see him <miling sidered that he was working fast, but he, Peter, could have thrown out in two minntes the sand that it teok Slowpoke many minutes to dig out. But Peter said nothing and Slowpoke said nothing. After a while Slowpoke stopped rest a hit. He crawled out of =hallow little hole he had duz. Aeep do you propose to dig that? quired Peter. ‘Deep enough make sure that ack Frost won't be able to harm me?” replied Slowpoke. . “Will you fill up the open vou after_vou get the hole all dug?" incuired Peter, “No," replied Slowpoke, beady little eyes twinkled. “Then T should think you would he afraid that Jack Frost would come right down that open hole and fraeze yom." said Peter. 2 n.”" replied not_afraid he'll kind. You open hole. Rut vou just elose it ohjected Peter. Slowpoke chuckled. “1 said that won't_come hack and fill up the hole after it is dug.” said Slawpoke. ou see there won't be any hole to fill up. Tt will be filled as fast as I dig it.” A vision of Old Mr. Toad slipping down into the ground with the earth falling in over him cAme to Peter. “Do you mean.” he cried, “that you won't throw the dirt out, hut will let it fall back over vou a dig_your way in? 3 Slowpoke nodded. “You've said fit, Peter.” said he. *That is just what 1 pronose to do._If you will 8it around to the How to and hi Slowpoke. ‘o, I'm do anything of the see. there won't he any said you wouldn't He knew that Slowpoke con- | in- | ing behind | 1 1 fast as vou | PAGE. KER. go? Was gome money lost, or > If the latter, it may turn up unexpectedly, and while this will cer- tainly be agreeable financially, it will | upset other calculaticns and throw out exact halantes another week. There is no way of estimating found monev as there is of setting down expenditures under “incidentals,” as mentionad a moment ago. Thers is a way of man- aging, however, which is the next best thing, and that is to credit unac- counted sums on whichever side they occur to “profit and loss.” Efficient Manager. In household accounts there are so many trifling sums to set down that ng them is literally quite a task. is no wonder. therefore. that sys: tems vary. Some housewives keep minute and perfect accounts, carefully balancing them each nizht. Thes Know to a penny just how the money they handle zoes. A paper of needles ix just as seriously credited as a joint of ‘meat or a bag of flour. Usually these women have mathematical minds and take actual pleasure in this side of home-making. They are effi | cient financial managers. When this |ability is coupled with the art of home.making, vou have remarkable capability. A Dreaded Task. Another group of housewives find keeping accounts a difficult matter, one that they would gladly dispense with—and many do! They may excel in cooking. be skillful with the needle and delight in making the home at- tractive, cozy and homelike, vet hefore an account book they shri inadequate. They realize the impor- tance of knowing how money goes, hut the keeping of the accounts seems like the last straw in home-making that while it may not break their bac literally, certaln does produce actual physical and mental weariness One Way to Some method of lightening their task has to be evolved if home-making | is to continue (0 be a joy. Discontin uing the keeping of accounts alto gether is not a solution, it ix merely | shirking a duty The very idea of ! this is far from pleasing. so different methods are theught out Some of Manage. | 1 k and feel | | g0 back THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., ——— COLOR CUT-OUT JOAN OF ARC. Imprisoned. Joan now asked home, saving that fulfilled. But she was not allowed to to her peaceful valley. All France wished to honor the voung &irl who had been the savior of the conntry Then came the tragedy. She betraved into the hands of the F lish, Who deemed her u sorceress and rast her into a dungeon, hound by dou ble chains. so she could nat escape After suffering all sorts of cruelties she was hrought to trial. The wicked leave to return her mission was was them would prove immensely amusing 1o an expert in household economics but. nevertheless. they “work.” One way that simplifies hookkeeping is to definitely set aside a certain sum eac day or week for minor expenses, and in this inelude car fares, postage. paid | telephone calls and sums that go out in driblets. At the end of the day or the week count the change left and include the actual expenditure in the debit column. The woman who fol lows this course will be relieved of much tedium, and she will he follow ing the methods of many successful | business men. They are fortunate in having A special pocket in which te | put such change. A woman may hav to resort to a special change | This always amusas men, but they never know the privation of lack of pockets which women endure, and !without which these very men prob. ably would be at a loss to find a bet- ter method. BY THORNTON W. BURGESS | (long enough vou'll see me disappear.” | | “Will_vou come out again hefore! | Winter?"” Peter asked anxfously | * replied Slowpoke. [T ance dig in T don't come ont again. T'll keep right on digging until I'm down deep enough. then I'll close my doors and go to sleep and wait until gentle Mistress Spring comes to wak- | en me. Now, T must get to work | again. ‘Good-hye, Peter Rabbit. Good | bye till next Spring. “But vou haven't | Peter. “But, people don’t say good-bye aft thev've gone.” retorted Slowpoke “I'm zoing right now. Good-hye.” He | poked his head down into the little | hole he had already dug and once more began digging. | “Good-bye,” said Pete: | very foolish. The idea of saving good | bye to some one who was in plain sight all the time right under his very nnse! Peter stayed there until Slowpoke After | gone yel,” cried and then felt | | But had wholly disappeared. He conld still aee the sand moving where Siow- | | poke was at work, but nothing of | | Blowpoke was to he seen. It gave him a very queer feeling. He knew that that good-hye really had heen gond !hye. He knew that Slowpoke really was preparing for Winter, and that nothing more of him would he seen until the coming of Mistress Spring. | Then Slowpoke would open his doors |And come ‘out again. “Tt’s a funny | world.” said Peter as he hopped away. | “It's 'a funny world and there thany funny peopls in it.” 19950 a (Conyright Lessons in English BY GORDON. | Words often misused—Don't say 1| have not gone hut once.” “Not” and | but” form 2 double negative. Omit | Often mispronounced— Dessert, Ac- | eent last syllahle. Often misspelled—Analyze. | Synonyms—Impulse, motive, incen- tive, stimulus, impetus, force, feeling. Word study Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us in- crease our voeabulary by mastering one word each day. 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Wen a habys mother sings it to sleep It lays their lissening all intense, wen its father goes and tries it, The haby £0es to sieep in self defents. sing Men. sing in the When problems eome ‘and worry me I nearly abways fina The muddle isnt the Facte Ten Kitchens Ten Heinz throughout the country where soil and climate combine to of baskets of carefully selected, sun-ripened to- matoes are converted, while still garden-fresh, into delicious Heinz Tomato Ketchup. Every bottle has the natural color and flavor of the tomato. Every taste calls fo- another. Never be without it. . HEINZ TOMATO KETCHUP When in Pistsburgh visis Tipa to Modern Matds Gives Valu- able Hinia on Husband Catching DorothyDix Try This on Your Boy Friend: Stay Home One Night, Wear a Flufty Apron, Cook a Chafing- Dish Supper and Talk P ersonalities. HI AM greatly diverted by customs I find to be a Young as if they the vounger generation, whose manners and : s different from those that prevailed when I wa i partigar are A foreign people.” sald a man of 60 the other da In alwavs an (haar am [ interested in the fact that the younger generation o lmayn © WIng. 5o to speak. It never stops. It never rests. It never V& put, and it seems {0 have no domestic instincts whatever. It regards home merely as a conver pnvenience for changing its clothes and as a place to go to when every other place is shut up. ; g . Of course, men have always heen more or less footloose, but in my day & home was supposed to he A necessary adfunct to a woman. It was at her home that we called upon a girl We spent our evenings in her parlor | and |l was there that she spun the weh that eventually led us to the altar. i,h ‘Rul rr!\ sons look upon calling on a girl as a quaint, medieval rite at is now obsolete. and when I tell them about how we would spend pleasant evenings in the voung ladw's drawing room in conversation and music, they throw up their hands in horror and declare they are no fireside companions. e “When one has a date with a girl, he drives up to her deorway in a car, honks the horn, and she comes ont and jumps into the seat heside him and Away they gzo. Or else, when he coes to see a girl, she comes down with her hat on to receive him, and the first question is, ‘Where shall we go?| What shall we do? { “Now 1o each age its own way of life. Far be it from me to interfere With the tastes and habits of the youngsters of today. ar to want to nail two young creatures down on either sidé of a radiator and have them yvawn with | boredom in cach other’s faces. If they want to spend their time in crowds | instead of alone. and use their feet instead of their heads, it is their privilege | to do so. | “But these voungsteérs who play around so gayly together do not seem to ®et married so often as we voung folks did in my day. Every vear, so the | statisticians tell the number of zirl hachelors inereases by leaps and | | bounds. and it makes me wonder if the clever modern girl who knows so | | much about o many things doesn’'t miss being acquainted with a few tricks | that her mother had up her sleeve 1 ns “'l‘(l begin with, in demanding to be continually taken to places of amuse ment a girl kills the matrimonial goose that layvs the golden egg, for she makes the cost of loving so high that she leaves a fellow nothing with | which to pay for the high cost of Hving for two. When vou could ry on | rourtship on cider and apples and cookies, which the girl donated to the | good cause, and on # sofa built for two. which papa also furnished. a voung man could save up enough money on which to start housekeeping. But when a girl keeps a fellow strapped taking her about to cabarets and restaurant | suppers and shows, he never gets ahead enough to buy a wedding ring. “Then. it seems to me that when a girl throws away the hackground of a home she has discardea her trump card. A woman in a dazzling evening Zown in A ballioom is a vamp that men want to tread a measure with and | then escape from. A woman in a sport sult on the links is a chum men want to play with. “But a woman in her own home in a fluffy house zown and a apron makes a man think of home and mother and settling down “There is nothing like the power of suggestion. vou know. and many a man who never had the remotest idea of marrying a woman has had it horne In on him for the first time how nice it would he to see her alwavs across the table from him when he first =aw her in her own home doing deft little things 10 the cups and saucers at a tahle set for two - ' “Relieve me. the girle who used to cook savory things for us in chafing dishes. under pink-shaded lamps. while we toasted bread at an open fire, knew things atiout the masculine psychology that their daughters don't even guess Many s creamed chicken ended in a proposal of marriage. but 1 doubt if any h ever popped the question in a cafeteria or in a restaurant with a waiter hovering in the background.with a bankrupting bill in his itching palm. VY sons are vasily amused when 1 tell them that in my day instead of listening-in on the radio the girls used to play the piano and we used ! 1o sing the popular songs and hymns on Sunday night. They think that was A poor substitute for jazz. But I bet that a million of us fellows who used to stand up by some pretty vounz girl and warble 'Blest Be the Tie That Rinds and ‘'Oh. Promise Me,' while she plaved the accompaniment. have sald the words that hound us forever and made us make the promises we are siill keeping. ruffied “Rut you ean't Imagine anv voung chap getting all romantically stirred over any ditty about ‘hoi mamas’ and ‘sugar papas’ that he shouts to the jangle of cowbells and the bellowing of a saxophone You have to have the rizht atmosphere for sentiment to flourish in, and the man who wants to play safe and preserve his bachelorhood is wise to stick to crowded places, instead of getting corraled in the safety and privacy of a dimly it parlor And the voung people of today, who never stay at home. have no chance to get really acquainted with each other and necessary to each other. They are merely dancing partners. and one will do as well a& anather. Also, they are saved from those long and intimate discussions of perzonalities that are pretty sure to end in love-making. for when men and women start to talk About their hearts and their souls to each other everythinz is over except sending out the wedding cards “Perhaps all of this is part of the new outlook on life of the voun generation, and they don’t really want to marry and have homes. Anyway that is the way it is bound to work out. But if I were a girl and wanted 1o catch a_hushand I would sav to the voung man I desired. ‘Oh, let's stay wl home this evening’ instead of ‘Where do we step out? DOROTHY DIX. (Capsright. 1923, Unsurpassed for Flavor "SALADA" TE A is uniformly pure, fresh and delicious. Try it once and you willuse no other. Say ‘“Salada”. Ketchup Kitchens are located produce the best. Here millions Appetizing the Heinz Kitchens . K. J. HEINZ COMPANY 57 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, HOME NOTES These Ttalian ments for are very tremely smart as well. Here th gance in a stately paneled w jony. Th ask and o of Justrou buffet han, glass dating from 1790 and decorated gilded flower mo ed on a ceedingiy repeated i shields an Eaqual ¥ unfermented with a I with cream or milk: 1t into a bake unti GLOVES peacocks pottery mahogany pleces. FEATURES. PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE BRADY, M. D. 1925. BY JENNY WREN. BY WILLIA of cream-colored make graceful orna buffet or dining table. They aristocratic-looking and ex in place of glass when any form of | ultra violet light is to be controlled for remedial purposes. Of course, df rect sunlight or the light from naked arc lamp may he used without any special equipment. One general “indication” for ultra violet light, as doctors say, is this very calcium shortage 1 have just de scribed. The great value of ultra violet light in the prevention of rick |ets in voung animals and babies is | recognized. In rickets, as well as the maladies 1 have mentioned today there is a lime deficiency which must be corrected. Ultra violet light treatment, wheth er from exposure to direct sunlight without intervening glass, or from the light of a naked arc lamp, or from the light of a mercury vapor quartz apparatus, is now pretty well estah- lished as'a valuable remedy in_ag least cértain cases of asthma, hav fever, hyperesthetic rhinitis. 1 am not aware of any considerable testi. mony as to ite value in hives, though it_should prove useful in overcominz an abnormal tendency toward hives or obstinately recurring hives. Although the sunlight is the oriz- inal xource of all ultra violet 1 it_appears at present that there active commereial propaganda afoot to discourage the use of free sunlight and to popularize the very expsnmive artificlal equipment for producing ultra violet light for remedial use. This mercenary movement will proh ably prove successful, for folks are | generally credulous and obsessed with the fear of “exposure.” More Light on Asthma. n of asthma, hay !f”\bv‘. hyperesthetic rhinitis and hives, | there is a peculiar dificulty in the utilization of caleium (lime) in the body, shown by a caleium shortage | when the blood calcium content is measured Why certain individuals should hap- pen to have such a deficlency in lime metabolism, and why this deficiency | manifests jtself in one instance as |asthma and in another as hives or hay fever, it is not vet possible to explain. We shall know more about it a vear or two hence if the antis do not place too many or too trouble- | ome obstacles in the way of animal | experimentation and scientific prog ress. As present we know that the {utilization of lime in the body is con- {trolled by certain ductless gland funections: that the functional integ- rity of these ductless glands depends in a great degree upon the adequate supply of vitamins; that the ultimate source of the accessory factors which we eall vitamins is sunlight, spe- cifically the ultar violet or invisible ravs which are chemically and photo- | graphically active. It is necessary violet s outfits certain cases ey are a final touch of ele to repeat that ultra and so-called “violet ray have nothing in common. The ultra violet light has no color, is | quite invisible and will not pass through giass in any event: the pretty violet light which is given off by the | glass electrode of a high frequency machine has no remedial effect save that of amusing the gullible purchaser of the toy: at any rate it has no simi Jarity 1o ‘ultra violet ray and it | plain fraudulent business when these [tovs are sold the uninformed or misinformed layman who fatuously . ieves he is purchasing the means of 5 giving himself ultra violent treatment. Savory Lentils. | Ul'va violet rays are present in the parts of cooked lentils and | sunlight. in the light of an arc lamp, bread crumbs. Season|in the light from a mercury vapor ttle salt and sage: moisten [lamp. The ultra violet ravs are shut tir and then pat |out by glass, hut will pass through round earthern bhowl and quartz. Quartz crystals, lenses or 1 browned 1 quartz panes are therefore used ' dining room furnished with ‘w1e wall is ith buff and cream toile de e drapes are rosy red dam n the floor is A Chinese rug s midnight hiue. Over the g& & copy_of an old looking It is of wood, in caor. The tif in the top panel is paint gilded background with ex rich effect. The gold note is n the parchment d the chair seats (Copyright. 19" Chocolate Cake. Grate two squares of Bakers’ choco- late, eight tablespoons of sugar, two of butter and rub all to a cream. Add two cups of sifted flour contalning | two teaspoons of baking powder and a little salt. Add these to other in gredlents with a cup of milk. 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