Evening Star Newspaper, February 17, 1927, Page 40

NING D. (., THURSDAY, 1927. FEATURES. WINTER BY D. C. PEATTIE. WOMAN’S PAGE. THE EVE STAR, WASHINGTON, 17, FEBRUARY The Daily Cross-Word Puzzle ||| ™™ =" Marriage Valid Where Per- formed; Is It Valid All States? Answers to Children’s Questions BY LYDIA LE BARON W. DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX ALKER (Copyright, 1927.) Long Engagements—Advice to Middle-Aged Chickadees. If we could rey BY THE COUNSELOE tion mark. walking interrogation others are less insistent mands to know why dren are fairly uestions, chiefly habit of such contin tivesome and terribly puzzling times, it is a natural one that every ints, in their But all norma bristling Why? While older person should sympathize with |selves to the extent of endeavoring to give The elous correct and reasonable replies. world is all so strange and mar to_the little folk. Let us put ourselves in their places QUESTIONS, THOUGH EMBAR- SSING TO ASK BY THE CHILD AND HARD TO EXPLAIN BY PARENTS, INDICATE MENTAL GROWTH ND SHOULD BE WISELY ANSWERED. et Imagine for a few moments that we are transported to this world without ever having seen anything like it or experienced any of the sensations of such an existence. Would not each one of us be just as full of questions? BEDTIME STORIE The Family Entrance. Yhat children sce their parents do, They re sure to try and do it too id Mother Nature. Jimmy Skunk, having made himself at home in Farmer Brown's kitchen and having won the friendship of Mother Brown, he in his usual inde- pendent way formed the habit of com- ing up to Farmer Brown's house whenever he was hungry. Of course, 1t wasn't long before Mrs. Jimmy and the six children discovered that Jimmy was not satisfled to walt out in the shed, but was going right straight into ‘the house, where those big two- legged creatures lived. Then they dis- covered that Jimmy was getting some extra nice tidbits in there. They found THERE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE __FLOOR WAS A PLATE. it out because Jimmy would bring them out to cat. This was quite enough for Mrs. Jimwy. If it was safe for Jimmy to g0 in there, it was entirely safe for her. So one night when the door was left open and Jimmy walked in, Mrs. Jimmy walked in right behind him. The six young skunks hesitated. One after another they would go to the door and look in. Presently out backed Jimmy. He was alw very careful to back out. He chicken. Then mother, and she had a choice chicken. That was enough for the boldest of the young Skunks, the one who was all black excepting the tip of his tail. It it was safe for Father and Mother to go in there and get chicken, it was safe for him. o, calmly, quiet out backed while | in machinery? de- with a Al questioning s at ad a_choice bit of their bit of esent children by a | Wouldn't we want to know what this symbol, probably it would be a ques- Some children seem to be was for or what that was intended to do? What makes the wheels go round Tor what reason peo | ple did this or that? We should be 1| just as persistent interrogation points |as any child. Nor do we have even | to suppose such an odd event, for is | not each one of us questioning. either out loud or to himself, why things are v |as they are? Could we picture our- being content with solutions that quite apparently were false? Children As Critics. Are we not apt, however, to think a - | child can be put off with doubtful re- | plies to questions? Do we not fool | ourselves in such cases with the be- | lief that the child is satisfled? Are | we mot more aware than we like to | confess that the child is sizing up the | situation correctly and knows in his own mind either that we do not know | the answer ourselves or are deliber- ately withholding the information | ed? Difficult Problems. There is little danger of parents los- ing their places of wiseacres in the minds of their children if they truth- fully say they do not know replies to | difficult "questions. They should add, however, that they will iry to find out and tell them—and then do it. When & question is asked that has been baf- fiing world thinkers for ages—and many times such a question is asked— | tell them that persons have heen t {ing to find out that very thing vears. At present no one really knows, though there are persons who have theories about it. It is better to say ideas than theories, for if not you may be called upon to explain What theories are. Child’s Viewpoint. A good way to answer for a child a | question that is one of genuine | thoughtfulness on his part is to ask | him what he thinks about the matter | himself. Then vou get some clue as to how the child's mind is working and how to gather up the ends of his thoughts and give them either further direction, if correct, or new direction if incorrect. It is fascinating to find {out what a child is thinking, how he | 1s reasoning, what made him ask the | question, etc. Often children think | with rare clarity and we can get ideas | along right paths by listening to them. When Ideas Are Amusing. Sometimes their ideas are so strange | that it is with difficulty we can refrain from Jaughing at them. But to do this is dangerous. The child who believes we take his serious thoughts humor- ously, or who thinks we laugh at him, will not come to us with questions. He will go elsewhere. It is one thing to laugh at a child and another to laugh with him. If we do laugh we must let the child realize that his ideas were so different from anything we had considered that it was the strangeness of them rather than their absurdity that we found amusing. He will then be likely to Jaugh with you. Sincerity Essential. But whatever the question, let us answer the “why” with sincerity and to the best of our ability. If not, later on the child will find out our error or pretense and doubt our knowledge and be disgusted — or amused—at our attempt to withhold information or to deceive. BY THORNTON W. BURGESS he walked into the kitchen. There in the middle of the floor was a plate. He walked over to it. Yes, it was chicken. He daintily selected a plece and then, and he had seen his father and mother do, he backed to the kitchen door before turning around. Of course, his brothers and sisters were waiting to see what happened. When they saw and smelled that little plece of chicken he brought out they promptly decided that they were going to have their share. So in they all went. It was a funny sight. They all backed out, each with a mouthful of meat. They backed out in just the way that they had seen thelr father and mother do. By the time the last ounk Skunk had obtained a bite and was backing out, Jimmy was on his way in again. So there was a proces- sion coming in and a procession back- ing out. How Farmer Brown's Boy did laugh! And how Mother Brown and Father Brown laughed! “This will never do,” said Farmer Brown's Boy. ‘“We must have more than one plate, So presently there were three plates. This did nicely, for you see they all backed out to eat their food, 50 while some were eating outside, the others were inside getting their share. Mother Brown was delighted. “I didn’t know,” sald she, “that Skunks would eat such a variety of food. Why, they eat almost everything 1 give them. Tt's the best way of get- ting rid of table scraps that I'know of. there. They've licked it until it polished. If any one had ever told me that 1 would ever entertain a Skunk family in my own kitchen I would have thought that person simply craz: And here I am enjoy- ing it. I wonder what some of our neighbors would say?” kS Farmer Brown chuckled. “In the first place, they wouldn’t belleve it if they were told. If they saw it they would say you were crazy. Why, I've tried to tell Neighbor Jones that he ought to protect Skunks on his place, and he can't see it at all. He simply doesn’t know them. Any farm that has & family of Skunks living on it is going to be a better farm than it would be without them. I don’t know what I should have done down in the south mowing lot if it hadn’t been for those Skunks. The white grubs were killing the grass roots at a great rate until the Skunks got busy and dug them out. Look at the fellow over there; he's getting so fat that he's a regular alderman.” And do_see how neat and clean | they are! Look at that plate over | is | Widower—Could Grammar School Mechanic Be Happily Married to College Graduate: II)I:A\I’ MISS DIX: You are opposed to long engagements. If love can't stand a long engagement, how can it endure after marriage? 1 say that a real, true love will stand the acid test of separation; one year or six years are nothing to it, . Be. W i Answer: ageless. 1 know an old woman past 90 whose husband has been dead for more than 50 years, and vet she is as romantically in love with him now as she was when he led her as a bride to the altar. Nor have the years dulled her grief for his loss. She mourns him just as disconsolately now as she did when she buried in his grave all that made life worth living for her. You are right in this, G. L. V., that the grand passion is But, my dear sir, when I say that I think long engagements are disastrous for both the man and the woman who commit themselves to that particular form of speculating in futures, I am speaking of the common, or garden, { variety of love, which is the only kind of love that most of us are capable of periencing. The great majority of us have no more the ability to love atly than we have the ability to sing in grand opera or make a million dollar | We fed on d and living. re pikers in sentiment, so to speak, and we need to have our love ¢ association and mutual interests and common habits of thinking Therefore, when there is a long separation between 1wo people it is almost inevitable that they should grow apart and lose interest in each other, and that when they come together they are disappointed and disillusioned. For In their separation each has unconsciously developed an ideal that is called Mary or John, but which is in reality a little, manufactured tin god, totally unlike the one it is supposed to represent And. on the other hand, if a man and a woman are engaged for several years and see each other continually, they are sure to wear off the bloom of romance, simply because romance is an airy, fairy thing made | that will not endure being hacked about. | Also, two who are engaged st They are neither bond nor free. i duties and obl | peculiarly fu nd to each oth They cannot ev ations 1o ench other. and so they of jealousies and m anding: 1 anomalous position e to themselves their in a situation that is and bickerings, And, furthermore, we Just naturally get tired of waiting for a ®hing too {long. So love awd romance peter out, and when the long-engaged couple finally do get marrled it is only too often just because they have become a habit to each other and because everybody expects it of them, rather than because they desire it themselves. You ask how love can stand marriage if it cannot stand a loug engage- ment. Easily enough. Because the husband and wife go into marriage with their full capital of love unwasted through long, weary years of waiting. Because everything in marriage tends to draw a couple together. The very fact of the finality of marriage is an important factor. They have made their choice and they exclude other men and women from their scheme of things, so that there is less cause for jealousy than in an engagement when either party is free t3 make new ties. Marriage settles things. It's the end, so the average couple try to make the best of it Again, the interests of married couples are identical, and powerful bond of union. No husband and wife can work togethet to shoulder, without coming to feel a nearness that they have for no other human being. Even animals learn to love their yokemates. And, finally, there are the children that keep love alive by feeding the flame on the altar with their little hand Contrary to most theories, matrimony promotes love just as surely as long engagement kills it. DOROTHY DIX. this shoulder JDFAR MISS DIX:I am a widower just past middle life. Have a good home, but T am completely alone and have come to the point that 1 really cannot endure living by myself any longer. My brother, who is married, advises me to sell m) house and come and with him. What shall T do? live LONELY MAN. Answer: I should think the best thing for vou to do would be to hunt around and find a nice wife. But marry in your own age class. Don't marry a flapper young enough to be vour daughter. Marry some middle. aged woman who is good-natured and intelligent and who has not too many fads and ways. K People of middle age do not fall romantically in love, but it is possible for them to feel a very warm friendship for one of the opposite sex, and on that basis to make very satisfactory marriages. But in selecting friend wife be sure to let your choice fall on a woman who interests you, and whosa society you feel that vou will enjoy. Don't look at her face or her figure so much as vou do the line of conversation she carries and whether she is a good housckeeper. To a middle-aged man and one who Is looking forward to a long road stretching down hill, it means everything to have his own home, his own belangings, and to be able to be master in his own house. I do not belleve that you will be happy | because when we go to live with our relatives we suffer under disability, We are neither a member of the family nor are we poardas ¢ We are expected to pay our way as if we were strangers, and yet have none of the attentions thas would be paid strangers. Also, our in-aws feel free to quarrel with us and criticize us and boss us, and the minute we resent that there is trouble. If you do not wish to marry hotel to live. There you will T companionship. ng in your brother's house, my earnest advice to you is to go to some e free to do as you please and yet have DOROTHY DIX “ e e . of cobwebs | IDEAR DOROTHY DIX: 1 have fallen madly in love with « girl who is a | college graduate, while T am only a grammar school graduate and a mechanic. She has refused to marry because she claims that the gap. in education s too big to bridge. However. she continues to see me two nights a week. I make a fine salary and could take good care of hes Please help me. TACK g Answer: If the only bar between you and the girl is lack of education why don't you break that down by studying and reading? There are night schools and the libraries are full of books. There is no reason for any man to be lgnorant in lthc.we days unless he I8 too lazy to improve himself. " Some of ost brilliant men L know are self-educated. LOSRR the m e elt S DOROTHY DIX. MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN. IN SEASON CENTER MARKET For Soap Bubbles. The New Way To Cure Foot Odor 1,600 Physicians Proved it Chex is a superfine toilet soap— plus a purifying odorless deodorant. —And that_explains how it gets at the cause, purifies and refreshes tired, aching sweaty feet, while banishing and correcting the offensive odor. You dispense with troublesome foot- powders and lotions, which seal up the pores and just bathe the feet with a creamy, deodorizing lather of Chex. Instantly—all odor is GONE, and in a few weeks the discased pores become healthy and excessive perspiration, tenderness, itching and odor are no more. One mother says: My children enjoy soap bubble blow- ing quite as much when they use empty spools for the pipes as when they have the commercial blowers. This solves the problem when several playmates have joined them for the sport, and many happy and otherwise restless hours are passed seeing who can blow the biggest bubble. (Copyright. 1927.) American_astronomers will journey to Norway this Summer to observe the eclipse of the sun, lasting half a min- ‘sing Chex soap always ineures against such odors, . One Wsing will prove that Chex {3 the wonder woap of the age. Over 1,000,000 cakes sold the first year by druggists and at toilet counters. Costs no more than any fine soap. Chex is sold and Tecommended by all Peoples Drug Stores and All through the Winter wood: little gusty flocks, the chic | before vou. Their voices, like the wandering of a wind in the broken treble wires of an old piano, twang on the ears—tsick-a-dee-dee-dee-deee, the first syllable like the click of a seed in an old weather-beaten pod, the others high, shrill and plaintive. As one watches them, endlessly pecking and picking at nothing, appar- ently, it is hard to imagine what the little, chilly fellows find to eat. Grubs, | spider eggs, tiny tidbits of insect flesh left from a feast by some bigger hunter—all the hidden _hibernation | and offal of the world of little things— | these are what the chickadees eat, and most thorough and dainty and cleanly are they at their tables But for a long time I could not im- agine what they found to eat when. as I have so often seen them, they peck | at banks of pure deep snow. Surely there was no food there. And there is not. They are merely getting a drink to finish off a good dinner. A dozen Dbillfuls of snow quickly melt into a refreshing draft in the little feathery throats. These are the birds, these and the | juncoes, which make a gray Winter | day as lively and dainty as a Japanese print, when they wheel by in their little. unsymmetrical groups past your window panes 2 HOME NOTES Across. 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The hooked rug has a naive design_in_pink and vellow on a turquoise blue ground, and is banded with blac The lamp is an old ginger Jar and the shade is decorated with elephants cut from gay calicoe: The chairs and table may he pu chased_in mahogany, maple or gayly painted. Down. Comfort Air inhaled in respiration. A unit Part of the face. An equal. ow old. North American rail. ormerly. Deer of Europe. Pertaining to Slavs. Other. Instruments for ramming. Commotions. Lift up. Supple. Prefix: three. Part of a circle ushy plant of Japan Undermine. (Copyright. 19 Very little coal is mined south of the Equator. About 95 per cent of the | world's supply is mined north of the d of plant. Equatos ‘ondles. 39, “No hard rubbing,” N;rs. Hobart Walker 116 15th St. N.E 1 soap I never dreamed that“m\) <‘:|)\€cs um\il g lx(i do all the things, 1\m‘:~u :(‘d e m“'cd it myself. 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Pour off the sirup. | Soften a tablespoonful of gelatin in a | tablespoonful of cold water and stir into threefourths cupful of the hot sirup. Chop the figs fine and mix with one and one-half cupfuls of dried bread crumbs pulverized. Mix thor- oughly with the gelatin and rup. Pour into a buttered mold to harden. Serve cold with whipped cream | Marsi Happily Greenwooa 1 were betr they | their marriage ted B | cler first | two in on clerk i old law to marry trice, being first cousins, But lov next day the couple journe adjoining State. restriction steps neces go in | turned to thei | After several ing a large estate { He left surviving him his w und | the hom. beneficia | Tom | share in their brother's e petition in court marriage Beatrice were cousins and were by law forbidden to marry. 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