Evening Star Newspaper, December 24, 1925, Page 16

e WOMA N°’S PAGE. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1925. FEATURES. Time for Opening Christmas Gifts | BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. The question of just when is the t time for children to look at their istmas presents is one that puzzles many a mother. It is difficult to A _CHRISTMAS STOCKING MAY HOLD FEW R BUT | IT DELIGHTS A CHILD TO | EMPTY IT. | curb a chi 1petuosity to see what | Santa Claus has brought, but if see- the gifts before breakfast pre- until afte id from eating his break- wise to let him have | his toys until he has had his porridge and milk at least. Some mothers have found that after breakfast has proved the best time for emptying stockings, seeing the tree and undoing gifts. Playing with toys can be prolonged until nap time or dinner time if the child is old enough not to aeed the sleep. The call to breakfast comes all too soon if the presents are seen before the meal. It is a “childish sorrow” to have to leave the things so quickly. To be without a good breakfast means a peevish or cross child, miserable him- self, and enough to make parents and family out of sorts before many hours. Some Early Gifts. A compromise is found by other mothers to do wonders, satistying the child and working out felicitously all around. For instance, hang ' the child’s stocking at the foot of his crib. Let him open the things it holds, and play with them to his heart’s content whenever he chooses or whenever he wakes. If his cham- ber Is a bit chilly for this, hang the stocking in some place that is'warm and let him go there and open his things. He can put on his little wrap- per or kimono and warm slippers and be happy until time to dress and eat. Then after the breakfast, comes more pleasure in the opening of the chief gifts and in seeing the tree, if he s one. Tempting Privilege. Since this Is the tirae when parents open their presents, tne child may soon be made to appreciate that it is the great occasion of the day, and privilege to share in it, if he does as and daddy do, mamm; name! ing his gifts. Let the breakf: early enough for the child’s patience not to be too sorely tried. Do not expect him to eat quite as heartily as on ordinary days. Appear not to notice that he eats rather lightly, but tempt his appetite with his favorite cereal and fruit, by an egg done just to his fancy, or by a morsel of meat which may be a rare treat. _ Christmas Eve. Opening presents on Christmas eve when there is a tree is rather hard on little children. They get so excited that they cannot sleep, and they have not the pleasure ahead of them in the morning. It is over. It is more difficult to lure them to sleep when this is true than when a mother can ure them that sleep hurries up the morning by making it seem to come quickly during dreams. Since Christ- mas is so much a child’s day, it is not strange that mothers should be de- sirous of solving the problem of the right psychological time to let them have their Jjo surprise in the opening of gifts. BEDTIME STORIES BY THORNTON W. BURGESS Ready Just in Time. Who for t Do Yowler ti b Cat kept away from the dam of Paddy the Beaver. He kept | 1y because he didn’t dare to go over e again. Something or some one hiad struck him from behind as he| c hed on @ big, gray rock near the | niddle of that dam watching for a chance to catch an unsuspecting| Beaver. Yowler had been both hurt d frightened, so frightened that on the instant he had jumped and landed in the water. he scrambled out on . and slept, slept, ate and worked day after day, and wasted no time at all. The trees were cut on the shore of the big new pond, towed down to the dam, dragged across this, and towed down to the food plle in the old pond. Young trees, small enough to be handled, were taken down there whole. Big trees were trimmed of their branches and cut into logs. Then and the big branches were taken Once or twice the young Beavers complained because they had to work so steadily. They thought they ought to have some time for rest and play. But Paddy kept them on the job. “You will have all Winter in which COLOR CUT-OUT COSETTE’S CHRISTMAS. Happiness Short-Lived. sister immediately ran up to her mother, and pulling at her apron, “Cesette has taken our doll from It was enough. The woman looked then and saw Cosette with the doll in her armi As quickly as she could reach her, she snatcheéd the plaything and began to vent her rage on Cosette. “Wretched orphan! Is it not enough that I give you food and lodging, that you must rob my daughters Her tone was so angry and her look so fierce that Cosette began to cry. Then the woman gave her a cuff on the side of the head and left her, alone again, with only the lead sword. But Cosette did not play with it now, for her loss only seemed the greater since she had held a real doll. This is the landlady’'s Christmas It has a lavender skirt with 2 bodice and white collar and ruffies. The cap is lavender, with yel- low roses. What Tomorrow Means to You BY MARY BLAKE. Tomorrow’s planetary aspects are| favorable until sunset. They then| ange and become variable and un atisfactory. During the day the sentiments engendered will be, as is suitable for such an ccoasion, more emotional than practical, and the signs that pea and harmony, ed by festivity, will prevail. Let inspirational feelings have full <o that not only will you bel| it vou will give happiness to | ! Although the signs indicate | !a change in conditions during the evening, the spirit that has buoyed you up during the day should be re-| tained, and you will thus be able to| drive away the unkind thoughts that will be awakened in your mind. A boy born tomorrow will never be very strong or robust. He will, how- DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX Has a Son the Right to Marry, or Must He Support His Parents?>—Facing the Eternal Triangle After 30 Years of Married Happiness? IDEAR MISS DIX: What is the duty of a son to his father and mother after ~ the other members of the family have established homes of their own? Has he any right to think of marriage or to have anything for himself? My parents think that I should devote my life to taking care of them, now that the other children are gone, They take all of my sacrifices for granted, and my mother even gives what I make to the married ones. INTERESTED READER. Answer: There is no greater mystery on earth than the process by which one child gets elected to be the family goat, but it happens in nearly every household. Without rhyme or reason, and certainly without the victim's consent, the parents place the martyr crown on one particular head, and thereafter the Poor creature is doomed to bear all the burdens and make all the sacrifices, and get no reward or thanks for It. It has always been the prodigal sons and daughters who get the fatted calves slain for them, while father and mother never hand out even a veal chop to the good sons and daughters who stay at home and support them and put up with all of their crankiness. Personally, T am in favor of all family goats balking at the sacrificial knife, and I thinkn a case such as yours that you should assert your right to your own individual life and pursuit of happiness. - You should serve notice on your brothers and sisters that they will have to chip in and help support mother and father, who are just as much their mother and father as they are yours, and that you are going to get married and set up a home of your own and expect to need most of your money for yourself. Of course, there will be a terrible howl at this and your parents will think you are unnatural and ungrateful and cruel and heartless. They think of You only as a means to their ®omfort and as a stay and prop to the balance of the family. But that is mere selfishness on their part. The terrible thing about sacrifice is that it so seldom does any real good. You lay waste your own life to help people who would, in the end, have been better off if they had been forced to help themselves instead of g you. You deny yourself the things you need to pamper those who are by having things given to them instead of having to work for them. It is, of course, children's duty to help take c parents, but the burden of it should not all fall on one. If it is divided among several it does not crush the life and happiness of any one. Yet in most families most of the sons and daughters who can duck this responsibility and let George do it, but George is very foolish if he does. He has just as much right to his life and a wife and children and a home of his own as they have. DOROTHY DIX. re of their dependent $i00r % s DE‘\ R MISS DIX: I have been married for 30 years. Two than my husband and I never lived until about seven appier persons ars ago, when my husband fell in love with another woman. She lives in a distant city, vet he goes to see her regularly every month and remains four and five days at a time. I have fought like a demon to stop this, but to no avail. He is kind voman and I know now He and good to me, but all of his love is given to this that he will never give her up. What shall 1 do? We have no children. is 60 years old and I am 58. A BROKEN-HEARTED WIFE. Answer: Do the way that you will be least miserable. Perhaps your love for your husband is of such a kind that you will be happier keeping his house, having a part in his life, seeing him continually than you would bée if you were entirely separated from him. It may be that you can steel yourself into a philosophical acceptance of the situation, and inasmuch as your husband is good and kind to you, you ma ctually come % enjoy him as a friend and not think of him as a husband. I know this is a difficult thing to do. The other alternative s to leave vour husband altogether, to have done | uild a new This and it is not eas; DOROTHY DI with doubts and fears and hopes and anxieties und t may bring peace, but it will also bring great lonelin start all over again at your age. EAR DOROTHY DIX: T have been engaged f doesn't feel as i he is earning enough to support two. don't you think that two can live as cheaply as one? some time, but my fiance Dear Miss Dix, RIS NP, certainly s foolish question No. 8%5. Of course two A married couple can't live even as cheaply Answer: That cannot live as cheaply as one. as four unmarried men can. Nor it is a question of how cheaply two can live, but what it support four or five, for you have to consider the probability of having a | family to take care of. And it is really the children that count. Grown.ups can do without things and stand hardships, but the Labies must have proper nourishment and medical care and cleanliness and sunshine and air or else they Furthermore, none have a right to bring children into the world to whom they cannot give decent living conditions and a fair chance at an education and a start in life. Don't delude yourself for a minute with the idea that two can live as cheaply as one, because @ man can live'in places to which he cannot take his wife to live. He can knock around in places to ca which she cannot A wornan's clothes cost more than a ma Women have more sickness and little comforts are more necessary to their well-being. It is not necessary for a young couple to have riches on of marriage, for them to have enough money to support them in a fair degree of comfort. afting on | spoiled | to| costs to | die. | makes ! which to | marry, but it is absolutely imperative, if they are to have any happiness out D leshand. fun and, m mart §) cts the McNaught Syndicate, Inc., WINTER BY D. C. PEATTIE. Bayberry. On Christmas eve, when candles are lit, will your candle be the time- honored bayberry? A bit dearly do hey come, indeed, but how spicily int. and redolent of Yuletide ayeties zo! Perhaps 1 o wrong, but it always seems to me th the bayberry | sparkles maore brightly than other I confess, 100, to a prejudice of candle light. It is con sidered utterly old-fashioned now, and one good clectric bulb supplies the light of many candl But the candle’s if not swaved by a ealthy light, is not provided that books close enough to the source t. And how glowing and ndle light on Christmas eve the expectant faces of the ing on the ey be held 1 appy ¢ children look! The candlemaker’s guild is no more, before Christm, s would come to your childhood. It brings the true stor s0 near. If you are lucky enough to have an attic with trunks and | family nnity chests of old costumes, what a | heen gettin world of joy is open to the children. | and to you! How much fun It would | qemees be to play a story of grandmother's polre' day and wear her gown Grand | . () father's coat and hat would lend | apie to iar thrills enough for a lifetime 1f the | fatner small boy could don them and fight|dar This i the famous battle over again, from | him. dons 1 the charge to the medal old home. but think of what it would mean to |the children to get the old things | though it was once famous, and just| 9ut and polish them up for the oc-|them’long in Our Children—By Angelo Patri Dressing Up. Dressing up is one of the delights of | ;" worid | Family festivals ouzht to be dr s r more. The charm of old-time cu Children 5 is in the old clothes and the old furni- { thuy olq pec o ture. Grandmother would enjoy her |gax jx o e birthday feast immensely it the €OS-|code. are AL Clots | tumes worn were those of her girl- A O ot hood and the table setting that of her e it would be a lot of trouble, that they were eve “Did the the but we have le past. Back nun We must hur: worth a thoug could, poor bers. to do nothing,” sald he. *“But if Win-|ever, possess a large degree of wiriness : hs e o : & It you live in @ modern flat or a 1t is wall oo ho ST ter catel s wi 4 g % Any young couple can acquire this much if willing to work and save for | iome and make candles to your order. | o).\ v ho and is = s well to hurr: , but it i ter catches us without food enough to| that' will serve (o tide him over his|, your Jon tw, ARd if they have not enough intelligence and selt and | But the bayberry plant, at least, stili[ Yoty iew house and there is neither well, t00, to take u flecting glimp e e you Wil wish wou [physical gifficultles. T A gif], whilelen }iy, oy peneito| doithis, they. are notifit to mavry DOROTHY DIx. |fourishes. tumes could be m TNEECHIORRTII ST (o it bt et e e | had worked twice a hard as you have.” | joying a healthy infancy, will show (Copyright, 10 | At Silver Spring and eastward fn |08 | e T thairen | It s pleusant to rest on an emine __““Other people get along without stor- | signs of retrogression during her| | poor soil of Prince George's County, | ould learn o geat deal If they hadiang view nee traveled, and ing up a 10: of food, = !ddont see why | “‘teens,” and only watchful care and | | Md., it grows, though few nati ;'\‘,".hd:.f.'":-L.“Li:,;"”‘“’l".fl.“"‘} "f”“"‘ & e generation right we cannot,” grumbled one young|devoted attention will enable her to| 7 ever notice it. Still, its pretty gray | the 5 = e 0L cond view. The bra 3 s — o sl ¥|the clothes must be clean and| ot brash il s Sl et | WHEN WE GO SHOPPING | |5, B e g b S, b G| B B8 SHL SRR B “Peter Rabbit,” replied the youns |boy and gir be trathtal, loyal, and S lotves and s [ow lovers a0 thell tofibalznadaiiand some | trans with them. They need to know their Beaver. 3 oy and girl, be trutheul, loyal, and old fashioned Christmas ¥o to gather | in any case. But it would furnish Jih them: st b e B laughed rlght out. “True|Cutspoken. Deceit will, at all times, | @ sprig to twine with mistletoe. e easlon ot i ch thous S Hhne v, especially g ey, 1auBhed, TIEL ol ree sos| Do anathema to them, and, mo matter [ larder still to ting s the sweet|ing, et e e ough,” he said. ut Peter can|what wrong they may have done, they d ern, close relative of bayberry, with S nar S5 t travel about to hunt food. and it be i ey el okt aetibo (atannlito)| Doll Houses. .(;’(’)'\‘her to add ‘“mduw dlm,v*”““'u b feniiite leayis aurls Divor it n‘n.‘ {now and then would help a bit a can't fin o - EoGuchs P iesaita | 5 | flowers, green trees and shrubber: . S 5 | Cal th s hungry often enough. The same thing | they are des 2 - | housekeeping ye she hasr IU'8 | other accessories. She is sure to want | peap 2 it % TneTy ofien enoush, Ihelsaime they are destined to succeed. {about time. - A doll house {8 Teaily @ |t weave rope for mer Snee peant near the reform school. Were it | up food and who do not sleep through the | Winter. You never find any of them more plentiful it would make a beauti- ful Christmas decoration, If tomorrow is vour birthday, you are very methodical, and never slip- | shod, either in deed or in speech.| child’s household primer, besides be- | ing a source of never-ending delight ! | and make sheets, curts too. and towels, Christmas How lwzl\{ ; s 1 . and diversion. - A child started off with a miniature ok e i e ey | You have a keen sense of justice, and | "’y “goll house is usually bought|nome develops a housekeeping instinct . - boxes lock, e e o e Tl Clly | very severely resent anything that:empty, and the rooms must be fur-|which is reflected in her Clues to Character R Talbetes a “YOU WILL HAVE ALL WINTER | {ied only once in & while But last|savors of discrimination or arbitr " “Here's a splendid opportunity [in later vears. She lemens the no] | 3 y-trimmed and IN_ WHICH TO DO NOTHING,”| Winter th Whe? Bectuse ae hog | ness. You, too, are more than or-|to give your child a chance to “set|of neatness, and gets a_feeling for 1 ribbon-tied A delicious way to cook a ha SAID HE. been thrifty. Because we had worked| 2 narily discreet. 5 {up house” for herself. Let her fur-|arrangement and color. There's just BY J. 0. ABERNETHY. & . boil it in the ordinary wayv until it 1od | BArd at the proper time and stored| . YOUr tastes are more luxurlous than|nish one room at a time fo that she jone trouble with a doll It Its often quite 2 | nearly done, the dam 1 then rapidly sneaked | 1a00 &t TAg B ‘}M nme< ‘_‘ stored | practical. You love travel, and revel |ywon't be confused, and will enjoy her |makes you so envious that vou begin | 5 G 1 Lotk pot and tak ashore he ket looking over his should- | n0Ush food to 1ast untll Spring even | in the good things of this life, and you | problem. ~Of course, she will want | and live, too, in the toy world Creative Imagination. | shock to see | about an inch « But he neither heard saw any | s ey @ S0 are always willing to make sacrifices|to people her house with a papa,|of your daughter's making. i i 1 T}s = ” 2 sterious that Yow.| have to travel over snow ice to Ay e = . 2 2 y g g The wings of the nose indicate e [unn cover with coa ono. Tt was so mysterious that Yow: | aYS 10, (RN 0%e spow ind ice toin order to indulge vour special likes. | mamma, sister and brother doll, re | chanitive ettt Wi e Y t}uf‘gs 1551, the: oven: or decided then und there that he| ST 1008 FOWICH the Bob Cat or Old| You are an omnivorous reader of good | spectively 5 iy ness above the root of the nose is there are | hour to an hour, and serve hot. didn't really want a Beaver dinner ; 4 ®| Jiterature, and are an intelligent and| As to the actual doll house itself, D Al el o aee 418 e Y Eoud) s en Both s ool all, and would keep away from | As for Mooty the Great Horned Owl, who had struck at Yowler's twitching, stubby tail, without knowing what he was striking at, well, Hooty just natu- rally flew away without so much as saying excuse me. He didn't want any o to know what a mistake he had 1de. So it was that Paddy the Beaver, . Paddy and the two nearly grown ildren were hunted no more, Old Coyote having long since decided | was a waste of time to go way | over there with t es all against ¢ worked, | Beaver dinner both are forever dream- ing about.” The young Beaver zrumbled a little to himself, but he kept right on work- | ing and did his full.share. Then came a day when after working a good part of the night Paddy insisted that they should work through the day. Several times that day he swam around that food pile looking it over with the greatest care. Then he would urge the others to work a little faster. As jolly, round, red Mr. Sun disappeared behind the tops of the trees on his v to bed behind the purple hills the stick was added to the pile and addy once more looked it over. I think it will do,” said he. ¢, it is time we w I should say it is!” ex | young Beaver, and started straight for the h fluent talker, as you readily assimi: more than keen observation, gather much useful information. You are a very loval friend, and are always ready to help others when they need your assistance. You are also devoted to the ones you love. you H stm}g_ of §l;t— Name BY PiliLIP FRANCIS NOWLAN, FRANCOMB. VARIATIONS—Francom, Frankham. RACIAL ORIGIN—Anglo-Norman. SOURCE—Descriptive. Here is a group of family names, the meaning and origin of which you Koo late what you read, and, by your tartling variety awaits you. It may a bungalow, & white colonial house, or a palace after a sumptuous Haps: burg model. Those * imported _from Germany are, as a rule, ornate but well made and designed. All doll houses are either made by hand or on lathes. The best workmanship is found in the hand-made houses, but they are quite expensive. The house should be opened from the top, although a.few have sides that swing out on hinges. The best material which you will find in houses is a.soft straight-grained wood that is free from knots and other im- perfections. Houses are painted in realistic fash- | ion so successfully that, unless you check your impulse, youll find your- | self ringing the door bell of your| daughter's doll house. It should have Willie Willis BY ROBERT QUILLEN | of shapes, contours designs and out- line: Could you, from a group of men, select one with creative imagination? By that we mean the natural ability to bulld a house, a bridge, or any- ! thing which first brings into play the imagination? This, with constructive lability, produces great architects, |architectural engineers, landscape | gardeners or construction engineers. A nose with a prominence just above | the root and with wide and bulging nostrils will be found on all success- | ful builders, architects and draughts- If the area just above the root of the nose seems broad and full, and the wings of the nose flaring, You are safe in saving that here is a man woman who would be successful of the vocations mentioned. men. Another good way to cook ham is to take a thick slice about one-half ar inch thick and mix together a tex spoonful of made mustard with tablespoonful of sugar. Rub this well into the ham and place it in a_cov- ered dish with a cupful of milk. Bake in a slow oven for one and one-fourt! hours, basting occasionally and add- ing more milk if necessary. The next morning, when that young | will find it difficult to guess, for in |many coats of paint, because the more . along with their creative imag- BY JENNY WK Beaver came out of the under-water |each one of the three cases the pres-|couts used the less chance there is ination, they have also the con- | doorway and started for the surface, | ent spelling of the ending is mis- |of the surface wood slivering. Bixnctive abilibywhick enabieal them | he bumped his head. The pond was |leading. The_interior of a doll house is a together. { o put thing Christmas Eve! Tonight the carol-| trozen over. Then he understood why| It is not an uncommon thing for |place for inventive magic. If it's well ! (om0 rs neath vour window. Tonight| hig father had kept them at work so.|names of Anglo-Norman origin to | finished with papered walls and wood- g | the ildren hurry off to bed that|\yinter had arrived and they were|change in this fashion, and the reason | work in either natural or white fin-| «p'm just waitin' until the next time 8 =) Christmas morning T come the | ready just in time. lies in the peculiar mixture of the old |ish, You have a setting for your wand. | Papa calls me Old Scout, an’ then I'm | Tt pays to read the want columns of home, matter no is some sort of of, homes tful, old- being pre- how humble, there Christmas. In millions there are millions of dell fashioned ~Christmases pared. b Stockings are being filled. Trees are being trimmed and presents piled Tiigh beneath them. The tinsel spar- Jiles and the camdles twinkle in the came merry old way. What does it matter who trims the Christmas tree Santa Claus, or the good falries, or just the human hands of those Who love us? It is trimmed, and it eautiful. “hristmas is for children,” we own-ups say, and smile because f'e kmow we are children, too, at (hristmas time. PYONRORRp TIET Y - HOW IT STARTED By Jean Newton “Bourgeois.” in English wri speech do we meet with this word hourgeois,” but in our own diction- ary! Tt is not a slang term, but an adaptation to more or less slangy use Not only of a good French word. And our con- notation of showy,” *“common,” “low is a corruption of its orig- In French term des ‘bourgeois” is & social riptive of a definite class or rank of French society. Derived from “bourg,” meaning ‘“town,” it signi- fies the townsman or shopkeeper, one of middle rank in soclety, below a “gentleman” and above a peasant in rank; in other words, of the “middle clas: In its original use the word is alto- gether devoid of the derogatory sense in which it is used in our language. 1t is a more or less technical classi- fication which those who come under it would net hesitate to apply to them- selves. And it is perhaps charac- teristic of the democratic American psychology that class distinction of that kind should, in our usage, bring onus upon the word. et Grape Catsup. Boil five pounds of grapes, strain out all seeds and skins by rubbing through a strainer, add two cupfuls of vinegar, two and a half pounds of brown sugar and one teaspoonful each of ground allspice, clove and cinna- mon. Cook slowly for two hours, bot- tle and seal. This makes a lively Lyelish fas meals and Lske Anglo-Saxon tongue and the French of the Normans and from which mod- ern English is the outgrowth. It must be remembered that the mixture oc- | curred in a peculiar way. The Nor- mans, for a couple of centuries after the conquest, spoke nothing but French and their tongue was but slightly changed by the influence of the the Anglo-Saxon. Then came a period when, as a result of political | separation from Normandy, the Nor- | mans began to adopt the inglish, which, in radically changed form, finally’ again became the dominating element of speech. It was natural that when this final stage was reached the meanings of the Norman names were quickly forgotten and there was a tendency to spell them as they were pronounced at the time. | In the middle ages the ‘“middle class,” lying between the nobility and | their vassals in the social and political | scale, were known as “freemen,’ reeman has come down to us as a family name. The Norman equivalent to this word was “franc-homme,” or as it was spelled at various times, franchome,” “fraunch-humme” and “fraunchome.” It came to be pro- | nounced, after it had become a sur- name, ‘“francom,” whence the spell- ings Francomb and Frankhom have developed. While single rooms already fur- nished may be purchased cheaply, most_children prefer to do their own furnishing. Complete fittings may be had for the living room, dining room, bedroom, kitchen and bath. If your child is decorative by nature, she'll {Blunersaf athermahes? trade quichlyfor Studebaker | {Pawer Durability finish goin’ to show him where my shoe is ‘wore through.” The Star. Hundreds of situations are obtained through them, on " delscious ¢ P The Velvet Kind “De Luxe Packaged Ice Cream. oo FOLD ONLY IN QUART PACKAOGES A REMEMBRANCE to Mother or Wite—a distinct surprise for daughter—a token of appreciation :’ofl a hostess—or a gift to HER who appreciates the t. This unusual box is being featured by the best drug and confectionery stores. We carry a complete line of Jacobs’ Candies, from 1 to 10 pounds—in plain and fancy packages—INCLUD- ING A LARGE VARIETY of Miniature CEDAR CHESTS and other NOVEL packages that make real GIFTS. THE CREOLE SHOP 1421 Penna. Ave. N.W. Opposite Poli’s