Evening Star Newspaper, April 8, 1926, Page 40

Some Things to Avoid in the Home BY LYDIA L) A good housekeeper in uot a fu: one. There are few things that are more grating on the nerves of a family than to have the home-maker overpar- WOF ticular. It is another thing to be tidy Every one respects tidiness. But there is some difference between being fussy about one’s work and tidy about it. Tidiness impiles carefulness on the part of the worker rather than cen- sure for others in what they do. F ness is directed even more toward others than shown in the punctilious ness of the worker herself he fussy housewife is seldom the mother of a good-size family when there are several member: family that the mother quires a lenient attitude toward trivial neglects in non-essential matters. If Tommy does forget once in a while to hang his hat on its particular peg. or if Sally leaves a book out that she been reading, and which she proi Intends to resume readir seems to fail to notice the ove Occasional Lapses. Of course, she does not expect such things to be usual. This would indi- cate a lack in training of the children to be orderly. It i the occasional for- getfulness that can readily be allowed to zo unmentioned. It does not inter- fere with the spirit of tidiness, for in is I have = hurdy-gurdy mind That gr;nds out verse on this and that. Come r2in or shine [ never stop— Vs 14 like = penny in bat. | the corres| BARON WALKER. such isolated instances it is apt to mean that something absorbing has happened to interrupt the accustomed good routine Fussing and Nagging. A fussy housewife isapt to be a nag. She is always reminding some member | of the household of matters that have | been done wrong; of negleot of duties; of forgetfulness of things that ave real- 1y of minor importance, etc. It is true, nd should be said to her credit, that a | fussy housewife is one who is scrupu- lously neat and immaculate in cleanli- She has a place for everything verything in its place—even if she has continually to remind her house. hold to put things where they belong! | It may seem odd that fussy home-mak- ers are sometimes lacking in the ex- | cellence of their table. When this is the case, it leads one to infer that it kes all their time to keep the house clean and orderly and so too little is left to devote to the culinary art. Happy Home-Making. It is a mistake to confuse competence with this sort of fussiness. A compe- tent housewife budgets her time. Per- haps she does not think of it in this light, but when she divides her time well between duties without over- sthessing any one, but giving each its due proportion, it amounts to budget- ing. To be a good housewife, therefore, means to attend to each day’s duties ind pleasures without worrying others, without fretti sing and espe- 4 It is really a eing a home- <o do not make a_fuss about that spoils all the joy. SPRINGTIM BY D. C. PEATTIE. Elm Flowers. The elm has flowered. No great event in that. It does it every vear, and nobody notices it. for truth to | tell its flower is but a little thing, cut- | ting_no such figure as gay dogwood {or entrancing cherry blossom. You | might ask many a person if elms ever flower and receive negative answers. Yet now it has flowered and that | brings the promise of leaves soon to follow, and what, in all this world, is so cool and green as the shade of an elm? | To many people the word tree means elms, especially to those born New England towns, where line the streets. For a reet tree the elm is in some ways incomparable. for it spreads far and wide. but its branches never trail low s0 as to interfere with traffic. The umbrella shape is only characteristic of our American elm, however: the English elm. which you may see on the Capitol grounds, and which poets have gone into rhapsodies over, has no such beautiful form. The poor elm, howev zone many vicissitudes and borers, and gypsy moths have done our elms great harm. The elms that made the “yard" of Harvard Col lege a green. cootl bower have largely died. due partly to drainage and tun- neling, for elms like low swampy soil and undisturbed possession of the soil. s Cambridge elm beneath ington took command of | the Continental Army, and which was later reduced to a mere stump, has since fallen and, it is said, was at once literally rent to pieces by trophy hun- ters, in elms has under- Jim beetles “Puzzlicks” Puzzle-Limericks. There was a young lady named — Who was such a queer little — She pulled down the —3— While changing her —4 Lest some passerby should —5— 1. A name which is a land measure equal to a quarter acre. One who is extremely prim. ade The conscious intelligence Come in without invitation (Note—It's quite all right to be proper, but when you've completed this limerick by placing the right words, indicated by the numbers, in honding spaces, you'll agree that the young lady went much too The answer and another “Puz- will appear tomorrow.) Yesterday's “Puzzlick.” The shadow of old Fujiyama f zlick ! Is an idea] place for love's drama, d to relate, ach night after eight, h girl is dragged home mamma. to her LL the good coffee flavor that Nature stored in the coffee bean —delicious, fragrant, preserved for your cup. Always insist on White House Coffee. Dwinell-Wright Co. Boston Chicago COF Portsmouth, Va. FEE The Flavor is Roasted In! | na THE EVENING SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY “They're treatin’ dat baby pitty !rough, I fink! Her never 'lowed to { play or nuffin, and I'm just goin' to tend to it!” What TomorrowMeans to You BY MARY BLAKE. Aries. Tomorrow’s planetary aspects are distinctively adverse and continue so until the evening. They then brighten up and are accompanied by vibrations of an inspiring and stim- ulating nature. While your ordi- ¢ routine work will not suffer as a t of the unfavorable influences predominate, it is likely that disposition will be adversely Pessimism, dissatisfa will assail yc e a great effort of superior to such r that vour affected. and churlishness and it will req willpower to rise tendencies. In the evening. the mental clouds will have passed away, and it would be well to par- ticipate actively in some pleasant form of relaxation or recreation. Children born tomorrow are des- tined to suffer much in infancy. All thelr illnesses will be very much alle- viated by proper attention being given to alimentation and fresh air. Not until they reach their “teens” will they show those signs of robust- ness which will thereafter remain with them. In disposition, a boy will be wayward and erratic. At all times trying, affectionate. impatient of restraint, but unwilling inten- tionally to hurt, more indolent than industrious, but original and re- sourceful. A girl, by the same signs, promises to be very affectionate, im- pulsive, and at times effusive, always anxious to please, full of vicaclous- ness and a great comforter in time of trouble. 1t tomorrow is your birthday, you are more fitted for the outdoor than the cramped indoor life. If circum- stances have been such as to render ssary for you to pursue some ion " entailing the latter con- | dition, you should change it as soon | as vou can for some work of the| former category. If a woman, you re not fitted for the drudgery of household work. If a man, you are| not adapted for the routine work of an_office, store or factory. You possess exceptional natural ability, but your talents will only reap their merited reward if put to use in some task that is unconfined and unrestricted. z Your home life, especially if your mate were born in August or Oc- tober, promises to be ideally happy. (Copyrizht, 1926.) | Through installment selling. borrowed five billion dollars’ of business from 1926, it is said 1925 worth Only c At all candy counters eatPO BRAN CHOCOIATE health confection STAR, ON, D. C, THURSDAY, DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX How Can a Pretty School Teacher Attract Men? The Tired Mother Whose Neighbors Park Their Children With Her. EAR DOROTHY DIX: I have taught school for eight long years. Now I feel that I should like to marry and have a home of my own, but men are not attracted to me. This is inconiprehensible to me, as I am very good- looking. Perhaps I am too intelligent. JIsn't it true that men pre!er to tower “mentally over the girls on whom they lavish their affection? Or, p " 2 th e shudder. perhaps, T am too reserved. Petting parties make me shidfer: \xy and the consensus of | Answer: 1 get thousands of letters from girls, “ opinion among them seems to be no petting parties, no beaux. So l)f.|rhnp|: VYou are right in attributing your lack of popularity to your reserve. but such is the case, you should be glad you are lonesome instead of repining at it. For, believe me, dear Nanny, the girl who sacrifices her modenly‘(um the sake of belng taken to a movie makes a sorry bargain Better far to be an old maid than to be married to a man who has no respect for womanhood and no reverence for the fine things of life. As for vour suggestion that the reason you are not popular is that vou are too inteilectual, that depends on how highbrowed you are. If you begin e mversation with every young man you meet by asking him his opinion of the Einstein theory of relativity, or if you try to discuss the modern realists with your jazz partners, I don't wonder that they flee you, The fear of a blue stocking is as much hereditary fear with men as the fear of snakes is with women. Why this is so nobody knows, but even highly cultivated and intellectual men seldom care for learned ladies. Furthermore, it is a curious fact In natural history that highly cultivated men very often pick out as wives hen-brained women who never have an idea above the baby's bottle. nd file of American men go to work very h high school, and the boys are so busy g beyond the daily Also it is true that the rank an early. More girls than boys go throug! with work and play that few of them ever read anythin PP his narrows their conversational range down to small talk about radio and automobiles and their jobs and the best places to dance, and the gossip of their little circle. Therefore, if a girl attempts to talk to them about books or art, they are awkward and ill at ease. But not all knowledge comes put up in books. and many of these men have so little schooling have graduated from the University of Hard Knocks, and have real wisdom. Some men like intelligent women, but they don’t want a woman to <t her education upon them, and show them how much more she knows they do. They don’t wani her to make them feel small. and perhaps that is what you have been doing. A clever woman, Nanny, is one who is smart enough never to let a man find out how much she knows. DOROTHY DIX. thr EAR MISS DIX: Iam a woman with several small children of my own to take care of, and 1 have a neighbor, who, whenever she wants evervthing quiet at her house or wants to go shopping or to the matinee, sends her children over to stay at my house. What shall 1 do about this? A TIRED MOTHER. Answer: Bundle them right back rome, and tell their mother that you can’t take care of them. Or, better still, write her a little note and tell her that vou have decided to open a neighborhood playground and take care of children for 50 cents apiece an afternoon. That will stop her, for when it comes to paying for having her children nursed and cared for she will prefer to do it herself. In every neighborhood there is always the neighborhood goat—some | good, kind, unselfish soul whom all the grafters work to a fare-the-well. There is always some one woman on whom all the gadding mothers dump their children when they want to go out. There is always some hard-worked woman who has to trim all the hats and bake all the cakes and do all the odd jobs. And everybody imposes on her and has a contempt for her for being an easy mark. Don't do it. Get out of the goat class. DOROTHY DIX. Py AR MISS DIX: .. D¢ Is a woman friend worth a row with your husband? 1 have a girl friend who rooms in our house, and my husband says that she must go. He dislikes her and says she has a bad influence on me, but 1 love her and enjoy her. 1 love my husband dearly, but he isn't companionable. He goes to sleep in his chair of nights, and T wouldn't have any companionship except for this girl. My husband is good to me and a good provider. What would you do? MARY. Answ Let the girl go by all means. She can't mean as much to you as your husband does, and in a little while she will marry and leave you, anyway. On the material side, vour husband is the best bet because he gives vou a good living and a home. Your girl friend would not be able to do this. Besides, there is a vast difference between friendship and love, and vou would soon find that the feeling you had for the girl was a very weak sentiment compared to the love you have for your husband. More than that, when you married your husband you assumed definite obligations to him, and these are not to be lightly thrown into the discard because of a whim, and the fact that a man doesn't like your girl friend is no excuse for breaking up a home. Personally, I think that the intimate friend in the household, whether said friend be a man or & woman, is about as dangerous as a charge of dynamite under the hearthstone, Nearly always intimate friends are the cause of jealousy and bickering and misunderstanding. And so I think the sooner you get rid of your friend the better. One good husband is worth a bunch of intimate friends, to whom yvou tell too much. 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A delicious APRIL 8 Willie Willis BY ROBERT QUI “‘I don't ever wish I was dead except en my stomach hurts an’ mamma thinks it needs castor oil.” LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. I had a fearse argewment with Mary Watkins, being more her fault than wat it was mine on account of her being sutch a bum argewer, and she started to go in the house mad and slammed the frunt door still madder, and I started to go home and I passed Puds Simkinses house and he was setting on is frunt steps eating gum drops out of a bag, giving me a grate ideer, and I sed, Hay Puds, will you do me a private favy Wats that? Puds sed, and 1 sed, Mary Watkins is mad at me and I wunt to make her jellis, so if vou'll ony loan me those gum drops il pertend to eat them outside her house and make her sorry she got so darn fresh, will you Puds? How do 1 know you'll ony pertend to eat them? Puds sed. ~Meening how did he know I wouldent eat them for reel, and 1 sed, I cross my breth and sware it, and besides that 1ll owe you a cent jest for the loan of them. Well, all rite, Puds sed. And he gave me the bag and I went back te Mary Watkinses house and Puds fol- lowed me and hid in back of the steps next door to watch, and 1 gave a| fearse vell to see if it would make Mary Watkins come to her frunt window, wich it did, and 1 started to take gum drops out of the bag and pertend to eat them without axually doing it, and after about the 5th time she came out to the frunt door with a ixpression as if she hadent | came out for enything speshil. and 1 kepp on pertending to eat Pudses| gum drops with a ixpression as if I dident even know she was there, and jest then Puds came out from behind | the steps and took the hag away, say ing, Times up. | And wat did he do but set on Mary Katkinses steps rite alongside of her and leeve her take gum drops out of | the bag, and 1 wawked away feeling | werse insted of better, thinking, Darn | him, the darn strike breaker leeve him try to cullect that thats all. Wich jest leeve him. por If you need work, read the columns of The Star. | veturning from | southward FEATU RES 150 YEARS AGO TODAY Story of the U. BY JONATHAN Militia Salvages Powder. LEWESTOWN, Del., April 8, 1 small schooner, the property Nehemiah Field St. Eustatia, with some stores, and having infor tion of the Roebuck, man-of-war, being in the road, came to anchor a few miles of the Light-House, and messenger to Lewes, dexiring e to discharge the cargo s of M company of Continental Troops of | the Delaware Battalion, station was immediage the In the perceiving the bearmmg down upon to get into but not effecting it, sl near Henry Fisher's pi Our troops, having arriv o the her, en river tender deavoured hind the vessel on shore. and waited | tender; which, when within 200 yards distance, fired brooadside. A hot fire from both sides ensued, which lasted near two hours and the tender was finally obliged to sheer off, without having effected her purpose; but, on the contrary, with the loss of several men as many were seen to fall. The cargo was safely landed from the schooner, and se cured, without the loss of a either killed or wounded. The militia officers at Lewes behaved with that courage and magnanimity which does honour to their country. Lewestown is at this time made up and soldiers; and the people. seem determined to defend our little place. As for Tories. there are none such among us. That in famous name is quite done away since danger comes so near us The Roebuck still remains in our road all alone, and t her tender, a few d 70 some say they saw a her 1o the southward of for the Ie of Lewestown, | shore | £ A. RAWSON, JR. jour Cape. We have between fity and |a hundred men on guard night and : |day at the Light-House, Arnold's and Creek's mouth: and are determined to | watch the enemy closely. They made application to fish on our beach. We would not_let them hut desired them to go to Newfound | land for that purpose. If they should ish on the beach, we are to show them Yankee we did on Easter Sunday when we were unloading Capt. Field 1 do assure you that, if you were here hould be pleased with the spirit people. (Copyright 1926.) h Lessons in Eng BY W. L. GORDON. |, Words often misused: Dén't use “al- | ter: in referring to one of more than two things Often mispronounced: Naked. Pro- nounce the a as in “ate,” and not “neck-ed.” Often misspelled: Pumpkin ynonyms: Catch, capture, clutch, grasp, grip, secure, seize, snatch, en trap, ensnare. Word study: times and it is yours our vocabulary by mastering 1 each day. 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