Evening Star Newspaper, October 22, 1926, Page 46

WOMAN'S PAGE, Some Evils of Habitual Tardiness BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. The habit of being ready for things 1s one that can be acquired. It is easy for some people to be on time and it iz diffict for others to be, but no one would be willing to acknowledge that the habit of being prompt was an im- possible thing to acquire. And it is A strange and contradictory feature of tarfiness that time seems to have little to do with the matter! For insiance, when one is habitually late it m=®es no difference if a meet- ing assembles a half hour later dur- SOME PERSONS ARE STILL GET- ADY TO GO TO A PLACE T 1S NEARLY TIME FOR TO ARRIVE. ing one season than another—the tardy person will he just as late when the hour is set later. It is the habit of incorrect caleula- ting that is at fauit. If a meal hour is later in Winter than in Summer, there is no more likelihood of the habitually late person being on time in cold weather than in warm. The allowance of time fn which zet ready for things is not regulated. One way to overcome the habit that is S0 annoying to others as well as ourselves is to plan to he ready to do the thing or to go to the place at an earlier hour than actually necessar: Suppose, for example, that the time was 4:30. Plan to be ready at 4, and you then stand a good chance of heing prompt. Same persons are habitually half an hour late; others are 10 min- utes behind time. It is when the, try to overcome the tardy habit the: utes they are behind time. This helps, for it forms a gauge of the number of minutes that should be planned in the beforehand allowance of time to insure promptness. Impatience and Tardiness. Tardy persons are apt to be impa- tient ones. They hate to wait for a train, but prefer to arrive just in time to catch it. They consider it a waste of time to get into their seats much before the train starts. It is true that a prompt person often does wanste time by being in readiness too early. But there is a tranquillity about this waiting period that is ne known to the tardy person whe is al- ways in a rush. However, it is mis- | ealeulation of time, only in the other | direction, that makes persons waste time heing ton early. RBetween ex- tremes is correct calculation of time. Causes and Effects. Being in a rush comes from one of twQ things—either a tardy trait or the attempt to do more than can he accomplished in a definite time. Both reasons cause people ta he late, hut there is an excuse in the latter in- stance that is entirely lacking in the former. It is a poor notion, however, 10 excuse one's self when late with the thought that pressure of work was at fault. It simply means that the stepping-stones for the habit of tardine@ are heing laid. these stones are on a sure foundation, then being late gets to be an almos unbreakable habit. The tardy per- son makes hiz family and friends un- eany a®d himself full of excuses My Neighbor Says Pastry will be lighter if mixed with a broad knife instead of the hand, and rolled with a glass bottle instead of a rolling pin. It is essential to keep it cool in_the making. If a strong golution of salt and water is thrown over the coals less soot will collect in the flues and chimneys. The fire. too, will burn clear and bright. Hot lemonade is one of the best remedias in the world for a_cold. It acts prompily and effectively and has no unpleas- ant after effects. .The easiest way to wash a beanpot is to drop a pinch of soda into it, fill it with hot water and put it in the oveén a couple of hours. When emptied, the bottom and sides of the pot will be as amooth as glass. When a ple dish or anything that is used in the oven hecomes discolored or burned a piace of emery paper, bath brick or even cinders will clean it. Befora haking an apple, prevent it from bursting. run your knife around the rind about an inch from the top. to 150 YEARS AGO TODAY » Story of the U. S. A, Col. Putnam Turns Spy. VALENTINES HILL, N. Y., Octe- 1776.—Col. Rufus Putnam, chief engineer of the American Army, has established a reputation as a spy will not be surpassed for a time. He is safe in camp after experience as perilous as that which recently cest Capt. Nathan Hale his life. Two days ago, Gen. Washington re- auested Col. Putnam and Col. Reed to Jearn the enemy’s position hetween Lone Tsiand Sound ‘and Valentines il Bridge. They set out 1ard of_20 men. Refore they had arned anything of importance, Cal. Reed had to return hecause of his du- ties as adjutant general Col. Puinam ordered the foot guard 1o return with Col. Reed, concealed his rank as an officer hy removing his cockade from his hat and hiding his sword and pistols under his lanse coat, and went forward alone. He wanted to reach Whita Plains, but knew Jots From Geography The Mount of the Holy Cross. in Col- pradn. is one of the most picturesque of American ks. In the strata of the rack the elements have ernded a | crevice resembling a croks. Snow adds fre handiwork, making an imposing | Glos&y Hair Ever Wavy By Edna Wallace Hopper Jow in my hair. that Aufl, that T e ot e (oA hairdresser. 1 m Sheen That seeming al t that n ly- TRE that dress twice a weel from api k woman will Teatity Fou wil 1 think evers girl_and he glad to know it Your hair, Wil be doubled in an hour. » Marcel waves counters new suppls Edna and Sheen . BY JONATHAN A. RAW a short distance north of Kings | with a foot- | RO nothing of the roads, and took the one to “New Rochells, now in British hands, and came within view of a house occupied by a British guard. Turning back without being discov- ered, he found the White Plains road and came upon a house with a num- her of men about it. He could see that they but they might he Torles, which would be just as bad for him. However, he jolned them. called for oats for his found that Ameriea. From them he learned that the main British force was at New Ro- chelle, while at White Plains, only nine ‘miles from New Rochelle by g0od roads. was a large quantity of American stores guarded by only 300 militia. While returning with this in- formation, he happened upon Lord Stirling's American division, gave them his news, and went ahead by a road he had never traveled, among Tory inhabitants and in the night. “I dare not inquire the way,” he rays, “but Providence conducted ma." Reaching headquarters, he was sent back te conduct Stirling’s division to White Plains. “When I parted with C‘ol. Reed,” he says, “I shave thought that I was moved to So hazardous an undertak- ing by divine influence.” Divine In- spiration may have Indeed taken him on this perilous mission. 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You ask for it at any drug or department store, without hesitancy, simply by sayving “KOTEX.” Do as millions are doing. End old, insecure ways. Enjoy life every day. Package of twelve costs only a few cents. KOTEX Neo laundry—discard like tissue diacover the average number of min- | And once | were not British- soldiers, | horse, heard them chat, and luckily | | | | danger very small. THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1926. DIARY OF A 'NEW FATHER BY R. E. DICKSON. | Friday Night. | I had got benind in my work, so |after going out to see Joan and the |baby at dinner time 1 trotted back {to the office to catch up. There was |8 lot of letters and of course the stenographers had all left, so I die- tated Into the recording machine. Somehow 1 was thinking about Joan | | and Junior and didn’t have my mind on my work, exactly, and after I had dictated a dozen pr so letters I began 0 be afraid that | hadn't said what /T wanted to in all of them. So I had to stick the cvlinders in the re- producing machine and listen to my- self for about an hour. Swell pas- time! { Joan says she ls caming home in | another five days. Of all the fool ideas—and that doctor supports her in it, ton. He savs she is gettin |along s well that we neednt be | |afraid. What does he mean, ‘‘we | T haven't got over being afraid the !last time yet. I told Joan I thought |1t was all a lot of foolishness, hur- | rying away from the hospital and | perhaps_regretting it later, and she sald: “Well, would you really rather vour wife and son weren't at home with you?" She began to look weepy- |like and I had to do some fancy !talking te explain. Joan says we can get & girl for a while to help out and everything will be fine. | T don't intend to give in, but at the same time perhaps I had better hegin cleaning the house up before she and the baby come home. Where all that dirt came from is a mystery | to me, with the doors and windows closed tight all day long. Nut:'ition Nuggets. In planning shortening 10 nused in cooking or a “spread for bread" remember that some margarin is jve- pared entiraly from vegetable of This fact will take care of any preju- dices which may exist on the part | of those who prefer not to eat any |animal fat except butter. On the other hand. there are good brands of margarin on the market that do have beef suat as one important ingredient. This fat is perfectly wholesome and when combined with butter makes a palatadle “spread.” From the standpoint of satisfactory food value, fish and poultry are us. | ually looked upon as adequate substi- tutes for meat. They are in the same class, namely, that of body-building | material. In fact, some individuals [who are for any reason forbidden meat_mav often eat fish or poultry. Remember that the volk of the egg [ i« veally more important frem the standpoint of nutrition than the [ white. ‘The albumen or body-building material contained in the white may be obtained from the varlous sources —meat, milk, and so en. On the other hand, the yolk of the egg Iz so rich in varfous mineral salts and in vita- mins that it makes a specially desira- ble food. It is more digestible than the white and when first making the | addition of eggs to the diet of chil- dren it Is well to serve only the yolk. The effect of this, as well as of a small quantity of a whole egg. should ha watched and additions made ac- cordingly. Honey is composed of a combination of different forms of sugar. The form of sugar which is present in largest quantity in honey is one that is most easily digested. Honeyv is. therefore, a desirable sweet for making attrac- tive the dietary of either the child or. the invalid. A werd of caution is in order. Because of a certain condi- |tion which prevails while the bees are manufacturing honey, the product has a trace of element that is tech- nically poisonous and {s sometimes an irritant. This element is present in sich minute quantities as to make the Anotherwritssthatherold furniture looks practically new since she has been using O-Cedar polish. Thousands write of similar experiences. Nothing like O-Cedar because it cleans ~then polishes, beautifies, and preserves. 30c to $3. OGix How to Pick wmmflbnfihy0b1 Drewing a Partner Before You Marry, Visit the Home and Observe Closely the Family Life, for Most People Return Eventually to Ways of Their Parents. HILE it is true that there 1s no way of finding out hefore marriage what sort of a prize one is going to draw in the matrimonial lotter a good many precautions that a wise man and woman can take v, there are before they invest their all In what the Southern colored people call a “glory ticket.” The first thing is to notice the kind of a family that the girl or voung man comes from. In family life we have the effect of beth heredity and environment, and 99 timea out of 100, no matter how different from their people they may _seem when they are very young, a man and woman go back when they are older to the source from which they sprang. If a girl's mother is a lady, who is gentle and refined and good and 4 kind, and if the girl has been reared in an orderly and well kept home, a man is pretty safe in shutting his eves and going it blind. The girl is aimost humanly manager. On the other hand, it the mother is coarse and frowsy if the girl has been brought up in a sure to make a good wife and mother, and a good, thrifty nd vulga home where things slipshod: where meals are never on time, the dishes cracked and broken, the bills unpaid and everything in a constant ‘state of turmoil—let a man avoid a daughter of that house as he would the plague. The girl may seem delicate and gentle and utterly out of place amidst such surroundings, but it is that she will keep exactly t manager that her mother was. Imost a certainty that age will coarsen her and same sort of house and be the same kind of a Loose waya of thinking and loqse waya of doing have not only been bred in her, but they have become a habit. The same tip ts equally valuahle to girls. never more the case than in a m . . “Like father, like son,” is dealing with women. . EFORE you marry a man, daughter, go and visit in his home and see how his father treats his mother. It the young man has been bred to a gentle chivalry for women: if since his babyhood he has seen his father treat is mother with the finest courtesy and tenderness and conaideration, grab that young man and marry him quickly before he can get away from you, bacause he is the best thing In the matrimonial grabbag. But if the voung man's father sneers t his mother when she ventures an opinion: if he rails at women's lack of gense and judgment: it he thinks that any old thing is good énough for a woman, and that ne woman ought to be intrusted with a pockethook, then turn down that youth, for he will make the kind of a husband who will make you think about divorce every day of your life, He may be prodigally generous to you in the davs of courtship; he ma be the very pink of chivalry. Armor, and as so0i A% you are saf to shut up. that Don't trust it, daughter. v tied to him he will doff it and tell you u don’'t knew what you are talking about whén you 1t ia his courting venture to differ with him, and ask you what veu did with that quarter he gave vou the week hefore last. when vou ask him for money—just as he has heard his father do all of his life to his mother. Then, it T look at the way she treats her father. ere a man courting a girl, I'd take a good, long, thoughtful If she is a girl in moderate circumstances, I'd look at her clothes and find out whether she was a seifish, heartles Httle creature, who was willing to work a poor old father to death in order to gratify her vanity or not. If her father was a hump-shouldered old man in a shiny coat. and with the look of a broke: jown dray horse, and she had on the latest importation from Paris, I'd flee from that girl so fast that I would only hit the high spots . |on the road away from her. For I would know that if I married her I'd be doomed to spend. the balance of my life slaving to pay millinery bills for a wife who looked on her husband as she did on her hthnrrll nothing but a money-making machine. LR T if T found a girl who was chummy with her father; who always saw tMat he got a good chair w! en he came in the room; w ho ran to feteh his slippers and paper for him of an evening: who was glad té sing and play the musie he liked. and who the family if necessary—w| rid of me. willing to roll up her sleaves and help support : . that girl weuld have to marry me just te get I'd know that the ane best het would be that she'd make the kind ¢ of a wife that would be a man's best friend and side partner as long as he lived. If 1T were a girl trving to decide whether I'd marry a man or not. TI'd take a few squints at how he treated his mother and sisters. the good clothes and they went shabby: walked; if he went to the theater and t If he wore all if he rode in automobiles and they v atayed at home, it would sort of suggest itself to me that if I married him he'd be one of the kind of hushands that put on their g raga and go out and enjov themselves of an evening while their wives atay at home in wrappers and nurse sickly babies. But the man whe writes home to mother every week, and who himself good cigars to give his Aiaters Nitle treata com hare me for tha asking, because I would know that he would make the kind of a husband whe would make a woman knock wood for her luck every time she loaked. mt him. (Copyright 1958 DOROTHY DIX. B —— What Tomorrow Means to You BY MARY BLAKE. Tomorrow's planetary aspects are adverse until about 10 a.m. They then undergo a very radical ehange, and be- come full of promise, especially for the way in which they will affect the emations, rather than for the way in which they will encourage activitis It is not a day for the attempting of any great accomplishment along either artistic or commercial lines of work. It is, however, an exceptionally auspicioua occasion for marriage, and | Th of course, that love is the impelling force. It {s also a propitious opportu- nity for travel, sither by land or hy sea. Children bern temorrew will, during infancy, escape most of the aliments to which babies are generally subject. will, however, have more than their fair share of iliness in early childhood hetween the ages of 7 and 10 years. The signs denote that they will suecessfully “ride out ti it and safely reach the port of h adultheed. In disposition be rather boisterous—too much so to be either winsome or attractiv derneath their unruliness the. possess hearts of gold, bybblin with love, affection and menerosit. ‘They will not be very atudious, hut, they grow up, they will make up for what they missed at school by steady it is fairly safe to prophesy happi-(application and industry ness for all these who wed, provided, N 1858 Mrs. Alex- Z‘ ander Slidell reigned over Washingto social realm. . .. “Were she to wear a tunic and girdle, the ranks of fashion would swarm with Gre- cian costumes. Were she to discover an eighth deadlv sin in ro- bust health, chicken broth would become the rage” Mrs. Slidell's critique little thought her absurdities would ever become the accept- ed mode . . Power- ful, indeed, are the dic- tates of fashion ... and Elite L 2117-2119 Fourteenth Street o most moderate, (Coovright. 1928, e even more potent is the precept of immaculate- ness. ... 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She's so anxious for every one to admire and love Billy, but how can they when he acts so gtrangely—when he's always lightly treading on some one's toes without the hint of an apolog: She watches him constantly, of course, eager to make amends to those whom he might offend with his light, fiippant manner. Of course, she knows he has a won- derful character—that he's steady and endable and good—but still he wor- ries her. Now, recently, her vague worry has turned into a deep unhappiness. For Loulse has spoken frankly to her. Louise is a frank speaker, always. And she has told Jean quite bluntly that yhe considers Billy a very selfish young man. She has added that many others think as she does—that Jean ought to take steps to curb him while she can do so. Jean's miserable. She loves her Billy, yet she fears that Louise may be right. Her half-formed fears about him have taken shape. Because ghe is so anxious to pleasé avery one she knows, she is only teo ready to accept their epinien as the last word. Without thinking things v much, she goes to Billy and hesitatingly tries to set him right- with the result that there is a grand battle. For Billy is hurt at her ac- cusation that he is selfish-—he’d done everything in his power to seem ‘wise to her. He would be still angrier if he knew what prompted the accusation. And he'd have a right to Louise happens to he piqued bhe- cause Billy laughs at her poses and airs. She has chatted with the other girls about him, and they, girl-like, have half-heartedly agreed with her that he is probably selfish. Armed with this information, she's felt confident to approach Jean ‘with the depressing news that her boy friend is a selfish pig. Jean has no right to be so influ- enced by Loulse's spiteful words. Every girl who is too sensitive to pub- lic opinion is rather apt to he too easily influenced by chance ecriticisms of those she loves. It is one thing to pay attention to good sound advice—it is another to heed silly, idle gosaip, which may be founded on nething more than was Louise’'s assertion. Tt {8 un o let one friend's opin- ion change your faith in some one vou love. Mimi will he glad to answer any inquiries divected to this paper provided a stamped. Adreased anvelape 1o inclsed (Copyright. 1926.) e Egg Dressing for Clbfige Salad. Three egg volks, one-half eup vine- gar, three tablespoons sugar, one and one-quarter teaspoons mustard, one- half teaspoon butter, sait d pepper. Beat the egg yolks and add the but ter. Combine the other materials and add to the egg mixture. Cook double bofler until thick. Pour over the cabbage salad while the dressing is hot. Let cool and then chill on ice. in a| 1. 5. FEATURES, The Daily Cross-Word Puzzle (Copyright. 1926.) Simple. 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