Evening Star Newspaper, February 11, 1926, Page 39

WOMA Art of Borrowing g and Returning BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. Returning articles in the condition in which they were borrowed is something that every child should be taught. It is not enough that the same goud | It would be bar back for a full cake of rowed. but the same bar returned would be absurd, for there would be | little, it any, lefc after a wash was| throtugh. Return Full Value. | wcing full | it essen- | for old in of the all right to This _same vulue for full value | tiul to return new instunces, that the articles ure per This is not sufticiently ted. It holds true of other For instance, if the rowed has been damaged or lost & new thing of. the same Kind and of equal value should be given the owner. It is this fact that should stand in the w borrowing things which tly for them to replace or pus_because of associations for any substitutes to be possible. thing: because Responsibility. : sibility in borrow- ing that can be impressed on a child by his mother. An adage comes to mind which says: “To borrow without any intention of returning is stealing.” It is true that few persons borrow without the intention of returning, but, omitting to return the article promptly, through forgetfulness or procrastination, deprives the owner from getting the benefit of it for a period, if not, indeed, forever. MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST ved Prunes with Lemon Cereal with Cream 8 Poached, mato Suuce Marmalade Coffee, CHILDREN SHOULD ¥ TAUGHT > SPONSIBILITY IN BOR- THE R ROWING THIL things should be returned, but that they be right. This makes a distinc- tlon immediately in what kind of article it is permissible to borrow and to return. In this connection I am reminded of the child who went to @ neighbor’s in the country to borrow a bar of soap for her mother on wash | day. Instead of saying, as her mother had bidden her, that she would send another cake back as soon as she could get it from the store, the child sald: Please, can I borrow s0ap? My mother turn it as soon as sh a cake of vs she will re- is donme with Baked Corn Ci Whole Wheat Bread. Gingerbread. Whipped Cream, Tea. DINNER. Cream of Potato Soup. Broiled Halibut. Tartar Sauce. Baked Potatoes. Stewed Tomatoes. Cubbage Salad. Suet Pudding. Lemon Sauce. Coffee. POACHED. tabl 1 Blend one espoon but- ter and one tak on flour, add three-quarters cup boiling water, then add one cup t season with salt and ci Drop In six eges and b sauce until whites are set skimmer carefully transfer them to circles of thin buttered toast on hot platter, pour sauce around them and sprinkle with chopped parsley. BAKED CORN CUSTARD. Put one can corn through meat chopper, mix with one cup milk and yolks two eggs, beaten well, and ‘salt and pepper. Put in baking dish, dot with bits butter and bake brown. SUET PUDDING. es, cup butter, ter or milk, one tea: spoon soda, one-half teaspoon salt, one-haif saltspoon nutmeg and cinnamon, one cup chopped raisins, two and one-half cups flour. Steam three hours. e BEDTIME STORIES Why He Remained. When things are done There almost always is | Nothing that Peter Rabbit could sy would induce Mocker the Mocking Bird to tell him where he slept nights. hat is my se ' said Mocker, “and I mean to keep it v secret just as long as I can. You know very well, Peter Rabbit, that it i not any of your busin 1t isn’t the busi. s of any one, so there is no use sing me. If you can find out, ¥ won't have a word to say.” Peter knew that Mocker was quite | “WHAT KIND OF AN ACCIDENT DID YOU MEET WITH?" HE ASKED. He knew that it of the little people of the srest and the Green Meadows p their sleeping places se- he ve up teasing. Anyway,” said he. “you can tell me ow it happens thut you remained, in- z South with the rest of g is it? right. very foolish for any sreen F not to ke th long ears. Peter pricked - he demanded. hy did you have to “‘Becau: replied Mocker, “I met with an accident. 1 met with an acci- dent to one of my wings and it wasn’t strong enough for me to make the long lourney to the Sunny South when the time came.” 3 This was news to Peter and he sald 50. “What kind of an accident did you meet with?"" he asked. BY THORNTON W. BURGESS Mocker chuckled. “I don't like to tell you,” said he. “Why not?” demanded Peter. “Ac- cidents are nothing to be ashamed of.” ““That depends,” replied Mocker. That depends on the kind of accident. Now, this accident that happened to me I am ashamed of." This puzzled Pete an accident w “It was a replied Mocke: “I didn't watch out and Sharp-Shin the Hawk almost caught me. As it was, he pulled two feathers | out of one wing and they were two most important feathers. I couldn't make that long journey for the Sunny South without those feathers. In fact, 1 had hard work getting around here, though nobody knew it. So there was nothing to do but to stay. By the time I had grown a couple of new flight feathers it was too late to go. 8o here I am. I'm not sorry, either. I am having a perfectly good time. If the weather gets no worse than it has been, I think I shall get through nicely. I do hope that the supply of berries will hold out. But if they don't, I guess Farmer Brown's Boy will take care of me. Do you know what he has been feeding me? Of course Peter shook his head. “I haven't the least idea,” said he. ‘'What has he been feeding you?” “Raisins and currants,” replied r‘lo ‘Raisins and currants, and replied Mocker. 'All T know is that they are the nicest things.” “I wish I had some,” said Peter. “If you'll meet me over here tomor- row morning, perhaps I'll bring you some,"” said Mocker. g be right here,” said Peter. Tll be right here walting for you.| always right on hand when there | Aanything goog to eat. 1 (Copsricht, 1988.) o Steamed Codfish. The best piece of codfish for steam- ing is the tall end, and it should be taken from the steamer as soon as the flesh begins to draw away from the bones, which will be in about 40 minutes, aceording to thickness, After carefully removing the skin and ar. ranging on a hot platter a few spoon. fuls of the sauce should be used to mask the fish and a garnish of white parsley and cut lemon added. What remains may be flaked and served next day on toast with a cream sauc THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, Willie Willis BY ROBERT QUILLEN “1 don’t play with the Casey boy any more. He's the reason my hend is clipped like this.® (Copyright, 1920.) SUB ROSA BY MIML Loyalty Goes Too Far. Of course every girl must stick up for her family—her home—her dear friends. No one has any respect for the com placent malden who is perfectly will- ing to take u dig at her demrest friend the moment the latter's back is turn- ed But some young women overdo the thing. They're so bent on remaining true to their friends andZ relatives that they run around looking for trouble. They are on the defensive ready 1o flare into danger at the slightest sign of animosity toward those they love. Hazel is devoted to her famlly, par- ticularly her brother, Doug, who is in her eyes the most perfect person in the world. lle has no faults. He can do no wrong. As a matter of fact, everybody knows perfectly well that Doug is just BN even age young chap who smokes too much and takes himself much too seriously. His conceit is a byword with all his crowd. Even Hazel knows perfectly well that baby brother thinks himself the big cheese. But nobody else is allowed to say s0. At the slightest criticism of her angel brother, H. loses her tempe: makes a scene, and refuses to have anything more to do with the offender. Consequently she gets a big laugh from all who know her. And instead of helping her brother by her defense of him, she gives him a black eye too. People laugh when they mention his name; laugh and tell stories of Hazel's idiotic devotion. It ian't necessary to row and make scenes in order to prove your loyalty to a dear one. You can quietly teil those who are condemning your friends that the person under discus- sion means a lot to you, and that you don't care to hear him talked of slightingly. You can make just as big a dent on the offenders by a calm, sane manner as you can with a big storm of tears and accusations. When Ruth jumps to her feet with flashing eves and shouts, “It isn’t 50, just because some professional cat has inferred that friend sweetheart is given to telling white lies, she makes herself ridiculous. On the other hand, if she'd just turned to the trouble-maker, and re- marked, lightly: “Oh, has he been tell- ing you fibs, my dear? You musn't be- lHeve him. He's kidded lots of girls into thinking he ltked them.” Ruth would have administered a nice girlish whack, and suffered no loss of dignity in so doing. All our dearest ones have faults, and we must expect that others will notice these fauits. And we mustn't become excited and outraged when we hear their prominent flaws dis. cussed. Justifiable criticism shouldn't be re- sented too strongly. Our loyalty to our friends will ghow in the care we take to avold dragging their names into unpleasant scenes. (Copyright. 1926.) = S Without Divorce. A world without divorce will be re- vealed in “Blind Alley,” a new play by Dorothy Brandon which is soon to be produced in London by the authoress, who also wrote “The Outsider.” Miss Brandon says her play is not a propaganda effort and that she really is not in sympathy with the church's opposition to all divorees, but that she belleves marrying should be made more difficult before divorce is made easie: D. €, THURSDAY DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX Shouldn’t the Wife Have “Evenings Off,” Too? Twice Engaged, Should She Return First i Sweetheart’s Ring or Keep It? R MISS DIX: What do you think about wearing mourning? My rother has just died, after u long and expensive fllness. He had no v. 0 my sisters and I had to deny ourselyes many things we l'EIl”'}‘ eded to pay for his doctors, medicines and the funeral expenses. We unot afford to throw away all of our old clothes and buy new black ones, yet some of our friends criticize us for not_putting on mourning and think that we are lacking in respect to the dead. What do you think about it? HENRY. Answer: " 1 think, Henry, that the wearing of mourning is a wicked and a foolish custom that works great harm to the living and does the dead no honor. One of the few benefits of the war was that it ended the tyranny of crepe. When the Dark Angel was a visitor in so many homes. it was soon perceived that the universul wearing of black broke down the public morale by keeping the symbol of death continually before everybody’s eyes, so the putting on of mourning for the loss of @ member of one’s family was temporarily abolished and the custom will never be wholly revived again There is nothing to be said in favor of wearing mourning. * On the face| of it, there is something indelicate in advertising our grief and calling upon every pusserby to notice thut we have suffered a bereavement. The heart that is really bowed down in sorrow does not need to be swathed in funeral g ts to indicate its woe. And when this is not the case, when death bris lief and is a cause of joy instead of regret. what a mockery then to dress it up in the hablliments of grief! Furthermore, it takes no psychologist to teach us how great au effect our surroundings have upon us and how inevitably we react to them, and this is @ clinching argument against the wearing of mourning. Jor at the very time when we need most to be cheered and have our thoughts most taken away from our grief, we have them centered upon our bitter misfortune if every member of the household is garbed in black. Every glance at our own garments, sight of mother or sister or wife stabs us with the memory of the loved one who has gone from us and thrills us with | the fear that we may also lose these other dear ones And when we go upon the street we carry with us our depressing iaura and bring to every p; by a futile pang, as our mourning garments recall old sorrows back to them. This tearing open of old wounds, this keeping of our own wounds fresh and bleeding does no good. It cannot bring the dead back to us. Also there is this further objection to the putting on of mourning, that it imposes a heavy expense on those who often can ill afford it. Many a family, having spent all its savings on taking care of an invalid and his funeral expenses, I¢ plunged hopelessly into debt by having to buy new, expensive clothes. They know that they cannot afford it, but they cannot bear that any one should think them wanting in respect to their dead, and they are too cowardly to defy thelr little world and wear their mourning in their hearts instead of on their backs. But, as I said in the beginning, no one need fear criticism any longer because they do not put on black. The war has chunged all of that, and now whether one wears crepe or not it doesn’t matter; it is just a matter of one's preference. DOROTHY DIX. DE;\I( Ml DIX: 1 bhave a husband whom I love dearly and want to he with every minute when he is not at work, but he insists that he should have at least one evening a week just for himself with his men friends. But he is not willing when he goes out that I should go out with my girl friends. He wants me to stay at home alone or else go to my mother's, and it worrles me that he doesn’t give me the liberty that he takes. How should I dispose of my off evenings under these conditions? PERPLEXED WIFE. Answer: [ think your husband {s very unfair to you. What is sauce for the gander is also sauce for the goose, and if he wants to spend one evening a4 week with his men friends, he should be fair enough not to raise any objection to your spending that evening with your girl friends. Certainly the soclety of your girl friends will do you no more harm than the society of his men friends will harm him, and you are quite as likely to pass an innocent and blameless evening with your companions as he with his, I think that both husband and wiife who take an evening off every week will find it a most admirable arrangement, and one that is calculated to keep the home fires burning instead of putting them out. For the bane of most marriages is boredom. Husbands and wives talk out when they see too much of each other and too little of other people, and that is why they are reduced to quarreling to put some pep into the conversation. But if they go their different ways to a certain extent they come back with fresh ideas and & new budget of gossip to talk over and with which to amuse each other. 1f your husband knew what was good for him, he would urge you to go out with your girl friends instead of sitting up alone at home waliting for him, thinking up curtain lectures to deliver to him upon his return. Tell him that if he {en’'t willing for you to amuse yourself by visiting your friends, the least he can do is to stay at home and entertain you himself. That should fetch him! < DOROTHY 'DIX. I was engaged to & young man who gave me a diamond ring. We broke up, but I did not return his ring. I am now engaged to another man and he has given me another diamond ring. Now my mother thinks I should return the first ring, but I want to keep both. What should I do? ALICE. JEAR DOROTHY DIX: Answer: If you are an honest girl, you will return the first young man his ring. It was given to you on the understanding that you were to marry him, and when you refused to do this you lost all right to the ring, and every consideration of honor and honesty require you to give it back. I shouldn't think that your present young rhan would particularly enjoy your wearing another man's love token, anyway. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1928.) keep hot at the side of the fire. Brolt & sirloin steak, arrange it on a hot platter and pour the sauce round fit. Steak Bordelaise. Brown two tablespoontuls of but- ter, add two tablespoonfuls of flour, FEBRUARY 11, 1926, HOME NOTES BY JENNY WREN. This window draping suggests elo- gance and femininity and offers a sug- gestion for the woman who plans to redecorate her boudoir or bedrsom this season. The .overdrapes are sunfast silk, soft and luxurious, in a warm shade of pinkish mauve. They are finished with a pleated®ruffie of pale green taffeta. The valance is darker green taffeta, with a rose design painted on in delicate colors. The undercurtains are creamy sunfast net with just a thread of gold running through the fabric, The little French sidechair is pale walnut, upholstered in dark green affetic and decorated with painted flowers. This idea of painting designs on taffets is a clever one and formal designs can bs worked out very suc- cessfully with the aid of stencils. Lessons in English BY W. L. GORDON. Words often misused—Don't say “neither Smith nor Brown were there.” Say “was there.” Often mispronounced—Consomme, Pronounce kon-so-may, the first o as “of,” second o as in “so,” a as in “may,” accent last syllable. Often misspelled—Credible. Synonms—Modesty, bashfulness, shy- nees, timidity, humility, diffidence, decorum. Word stud Use a word three times and it {s yours.” Let us in- crease our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: Lingo; language, dialect. “I think in terms of the lingo of the people.” e b o Natfonal automobile manufacturing has been decreed by the government of Spain. FEATURES. . PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE BY WILLIAM Food and Bright's Disease. Dr. L. il. Newburgh of the Univer- sity of Michigan medical school found ihe could produce a condition akin to Bright's disease by feeding rabbits | with a high proportion of protein— he used coagulated egg white. With- in a few weeks the rabbits so fed de- veloped nephritis. But rabbits are naturally herbivo- rous and animal protein muy produce an {njury which vegetubls protein would not produce in rabbits. So Dr. Newburgh and his coworkers con- ducted another series of faeding e periments, thin time feeding rabbits an exceas of soy beans (which contain 38 per cent of proteln) over a perod of meveral months. These rabbits likewise developed moderate nephritis (kidney inflammation). Rats are omnivorous. Man s omnivorous. White rats fed on a high protein diet develop signs of nephritis in @ year. Why pick on protein, material? Why not assume that an exceas of carbohydrate (starch or 5ugar) or an excess of fat in the diet will injure the kidneys? Well, the resson why protein Is taken as the scapegoat is that the normal end products of the metabolism of protein are excreted almost entirely by the kidneys, whereas the end products of carbohydrate and fat metabolism are excreted chiefly through the lungs and liver. On this fact is based the medical theory that an excess of pro- tein in the diet pluces a strain upon the kidn forces the kidneys to overwork elfminating the nitrogenous end products. This 1% onl And it app! nitrogenous a theory, however. to protein of any kind or quality, not just animal proteins. “vhere is no apparent reason why the BRADY, M. D. subject: “Uric acid figures throw no light on the nephritis problem, in my experfence. Creatinin determinations do not add much of value and may be misleading.” (Uric acid is one of the end products of protein nitrogan metabolism or oxidatio creatinin is another. Hoth are normally present in_the blood.) moral of this story is that vy acknowledge we know far alout the relation of diet to dis you wisenheimers think you know. (Copyright, 1926.) Russian Styles. Owing to Russia’s isolation frou foreign countries styles in ladies’ gowns, footwear and halrdress are king a long time to reach the Mos cow stores. So the Russian women and girls, who heretofore depended for the latest fashions upon Paris and London, now are creating their own styles These styles usually follow the sim plest lnes. Silks and satins are rarely seen, and picture hats, sill stockings, afternoon frocks and eve- ning dressesare luxuries. Dresses ars 50 plain and devold of trimmings that there is almost & note of masculipity in them. ‘Wonderful for THE very N y moment kidneys can't eliminate the end prod- ucts of the metabolism of lean beef or egg white or red or dark meat as readily as the end products of the metabolism of the proteins of vege- tables, nuts, light meat, or milk. ‘These experiments are all very well, but the opinion of the family physician about & question such ‘as this has greater weight, at least, in my judgment. Especially the physician who has considerable experience in making periodic health examinations, and among these there i8 a growing bellef that an excess of carbohydrate (the usual excess is overeating) is more likely to injure the kidneys than an excess of protein is. A physician In charge of a large clinic for cardiovascular cases reports that they have given red meats and other proteins liberally to patients with hypertension and arterio-sclerosis and In six years this policy has been satisfactory, although they restrict the protein allowance in the diet wh examination of the patient (with Bright's disease) shows an impalred nitrogen excretion. Another ph: cian of extensive experience in this fleld remarks in a symposium on the ou spread a it of this de- lightfully cool and soothing vanishing ands, and burnis stops. Then uwm ndnf‘."‘ dryness, all van- as exquisitely soft and as achild’s, delicately white mdmlmdy. Use Noxzema Skin Cream all winter give instant relief.” Daintier to a ordinary creams, liquids or oin non-greasy, non-soiling, snowy white. Al wonde e{m"? for clearing ‘and bn;?Fn the skin. 1f not eatisfied—money refunded. 2 full size “ar today at any good drug store. 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