Evening Star Newspaper, August 25, 1927, Page 34

WOMAN'S PAGE.’ Stories Suitable for Bedtime BY LYDIA LE B. 1t is importgnt to have bedtime stories soothing and interesting. They should not be sb fascinating that the child gets excited, and his eves grow wider open than ever, and sleep farther and farther' away And so because there has come to be a recog- HOUR 1S MOTHER JOY. BEDTIME STORY T BOTH THE S CHILD EN, THE ONE TI __AND TF nized quality to the tales told to the restless child just before he goes off | ated amusement. | be created in ARON WALKER. interest in brave deeds, to pique the curlosity with the wonders of other Jands that he may be able to see when he gets older and can travel—to en- courage interest in inventions and all the many fascinating things that are spurs to mental activitie: The aim of stories told little folk just prior to their going to dreamland is just the reverse of these things. There should be a quality that lulls. But above all they should help the child to feel perfectly secure and safe. What to Avoid.and Stress. Tales that suggest a thought of fear, or give an idea that uncanny things may happen, are no help as mental sleeping draughts. There may be very strange events told, but the slant must always be one of easy suc- ss, of whimsical outcomes, of Good Fairies and their power (which really typifies the power of good over evil), and dimly hint at the latent ability of each person to make things turn out right. Such ideas.install peace and are really decided aids to pleasant dreams. Unreal Texture of Dreams. I¢ such a story as that of Little Red Riding Hood is_ told, and every child delights in hearing this tale when well [ related, there should be no stressing of the fright of the child when the wolf puts in an appearance. The ac cent must be on the miraculous way in which the child so easily escapes and flees back. In the story of the three bears the interest should center about tho different of the vavious bears. The s comes when the bears get back should be iven a delightful touch of uNag An atmosphere which the unlikely to be expected. Such I8 the texture of dream Courting Sleep With St . It is this texture that is in all of the most successful bedtime storles. Anything might happen, and it would all be most natural. Animals may talk, people may be about, yet | not be visible to those who are mot meant to see them. Dangers can be turned aside as if they were mere trifles to be overcome without reason, but by ingenuity. Every one who knows of Alice’s Adventures in Won. derland will appreciate this qualit. The book is ssic in wonder tale: and so restful to read that many grown up whose brain refuses to calm to dreamland, the name of bedtime stories has been given them. | e other times to tell stories | spire a child with a desive to| e the most of himself, to foster down after a of exciting events, wherher pleasant or unpleasant, per plexing or stimulating, finds r ing of her adventures gives jus the needed restfulness to court slumber, 7l‘.he Daily Cross-Word Puzzle (Copyright. 1927.) . Animal. . Made of oak. . Sun god. . Giving assistance to. . State (abbr.. . Wildg revelry, . Notice. ™ Paragraph. Bone. . Proposed language. . Hawaiian bird. Knowledge. . Fur. . Nothing. Alkali. Pronoun. fetric unit of area, . Concerning, ke. ate (abbr.). Right (abbr.). . Southern State (abbr.). Province (abbr.). . Woman in authority. . Platform. 2 _ Ttalian river. . Goddess of discord. | Western Indians. F4. And (French). 55, Bolsheviki, Down. . City of New York. . Appendage. Declares. Note of the scale. The captivating, subtile touch for evening use. Ren- ders a delicate, soft appear- ance to the complexion, arms, neck and shoulders. Gouraups ¥ . Upon. Exchange premium. . Feminine name. Anonymous. Has courage. . Statues. Departed. . Quality. Looked closely at. Harbors. Shield. 27. Persia. Gets up. . Movable feast. Mud. . Narrow flexible strip. Disorder. . Painful. Black, in Celtic names. Small island. Released. 49. S-shaped object. “Fair” Marriage Record. All Cupid’s records for fair time at Glasglow, Scotland, were broken this year. Twenty-nine couples were wed- ded before the sheriff on Fair Friday, the popular day for nuptials. The number is one more than a year ago. Nineteen couples were married the previous day. Flavored to the very heart in that old-fashioned way ESH, green cucumbers packed DIARY OF A NEW FATHER BY BOB DICKSON, Letter from the father to Joan: . Wednesday Night “Well, last night was bridge club night, and of course 1 thought 1 would not be going, on account of you beln® away, but Adelaide called up and made me go, on account of a girl friend of hers is in town and she wanted me to bring her. “Well, at first I thought, now I'm |not going out and enjov myself while my wife is away, that is not any way to do, and besides I don't | want to anyway; but Adelaide said it | would sure be a big favor to her, and | so I thought, well, gee, Adelaide is a good friend of Joan's; I'll do it for Joan's sake. “Well, come to find out, this girl is | a bathing beauty. Wasn't that funny? “Well, nice girl, she was a real | | | | surprised to find nd witty she was, on account of brains and beauty not usually mixing, only I always did say you were an exception “Well, she is a sort of Spanish type, and I id, ‘Do you happen to be Spanish?’ and she said, ‘Who, me? v, I'm so Spanish 1 use castile soap ivel | | yand by golly T out how clever thought would die . she was witty like that all g. 1T said, ‘Talk some Spanish.’ Fand she said, ‘Sure. Chili con carne. Toreador El Paso cuspidor.’ “Well, T ne: died. “Well, T sure wish you had been there, on account of I heard some of the girls talking, and they were look- ing at her, and 1 thought, it Joan was here she would not let them he so catty about a nice kid like this, and a stranger, too, and 1 guess they were jealous, that's all. “Well, love and Kisses. “BOB.” THE DAILY HOROSCOPE Astrologers find tomorrow an un- certain day in planetary direction and they counsel caution in all important matters while this configuration pre- vails. There is a rather threatening sign affecting farmers and all who till the lands. Dissatisfaction with govern- ment restrictions as well as with un- favorable weather is indicated. Under this direction of the stars there may be strikes and labor troubles of various sorts, although there is an aspect read as of special advantage to workers of every voca- tion. The old continue. under rather a| sinister sway, making for the end of many noteworthy careers in art as well as in public life. Although it may seem that few super-men and super-women are de- veloping to take the place of those who are passing out of life, the seers declare that many brillant minds are prepared for big service. Great ‘events are to demonstrate that the 'United States has citizens equal to supreme emergencies, astrol- ogers announce This is a fairly favorable sway for wooers, if they permit the mind to rule the heart. ‘Weddings tomorrow should be for- tunate, especially in a worldly way, for the stars presage prosperity, even though it is Friday. Contracts signed tomorrow should be lucky and actors may be assured that agreements made tomerrow will bring success. It is an auspacious planetary gov- ernment for all sorts of publicity and adcertising. Newspapers and mag- azines will benefit. Neptune is in a place which is be- lieved to foreshadow many dubious schemes for obtaining money. Spec- ulation should be avoided. Much agitation regarding public enterprises for the building of bridges, hospitals and even fortifications may be expected. Persons whose birth date is tomor- row have the augury of gain through friends who will open doors to. won- derful opportunity. Children born tomorrow are likely to be endowed with great charm of personality, strong character and power to attain sensational success. o Inside of Eye Now Seen. By use of a new method of lighting that sends powerful beams into the side of the eye, one may look Intp the organ of sight through a microscop The method was perfected by Dr Basil Graves, of London, who says that the beams do not have any serious effect on the eye. | mony through the wiles of women and regret it ever after? | terribly high illusions, but they have flopped. | atter marriage is because th s THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, THURSDAY, DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX The Disillusioned Girl Who Is Airaid to Marry. Why This Self-Supporting Business Girl Should Leave Home. EAR DOROTHY DIN: Don't you think that women come out at the short end of the horn? Don't you belleve that there are many wome some of those apparently hard-boiled—who are aching for: love and companion- ship and who hope against hope that matrimony will give it to them? And then, when they are married, niné times out of ten the husband grows tired of them and is sov he married them’ anvhow. Do you believe that any man is glad he married® Do you believe that men are inveigled into matri- I once had GENEVIEVE. rour illusions have, flopped, if you have arrived » Answey: I should say husband is tired of his wife and that there are at the conclusion that eve no happy, married men Belleve me, my dear, that is far from the truth. On the cont might infer from the fict that far more wives apply for divorce than husbands that men generally are more comtent in the holy estate than women are. ou think that most men tire of their wives are the cases that we hear about. It is the not the happy homes. It is the philanderers who are chasing around with girls young enough to be their daughters that we notice, not the domestic men who go home as regular as clockwork and who think there are no women in the world that equal their Marias. Perhaps the reason why divorces that get in the papers Tividently the great majority of men do not have the aversion to their wives, either by death or divorce, they almast invariably try it again. There are many widows in every community, but very few widowers. Of tourse, every woman wants to.marry. Most wowen do marry, and I do not see how they take any greater risk in mairimony than men do or where they get the worst of the bargain ; For if there are disillusioned wives, there ave also disillusioned husbands. plenty of husbands who fiud that they have cold and neglecttul wives. And if there are men who tire of their wives, there are also wives who tire of their husbands. It there a lazy and trifling wives who make no homes for their husbands. Probably the average man I8 more in love when he marries than the woman is. because, while the woman may marry the man for the sake of getting a home and somebody to support her, there is no reason for the man o marry except for love. And @ man must have a very strong feeling for a woman to make him take upon himself the hurden of providing for her so long as he dives. has not taken the trouble to try to keep herself attractive to him and hold his love. Untidiness, nagging. temper, fretful whining and complaints have been responsible for allenating more men's affections from their wives than has fickleness. R d to get married. You have at least a 5030 chance of your husband bein: good a husband as vou are a wife. And if you will male any real, intelligent effort to keep him interested in matrimony he is not likely to tire of it. Marviage 1s like into it lon't be afr: out of it what we put everything clse, we get DOROTHY DIX. . . EAR DOROTHY DIX: 1 am 24 years old and have been supporting my mother for seven years. 1 am making a splendid salary, but I have no liberty of my own. I cannot even take a walk without asking my mother's permission. and very often she refuses. I have several brothers and sisters who are all married, and they back my mother up in her tyranny, thus making matters worse for me. 1 am thinking seriously of leaving home. Would I be doing wrong? ANXIOUS. . s Answer: You would be doing exactly right to leave home. Any self- supporting business woman of 24 lacks courage and independence of spirit and intelligence and hackbone if she permits herself to be treated as you are. Make .. strike for freedom. Declare a little Fourth of July on your own aceount. ; The next time you wans to g0 anywhere put on your hat and go without asking mother’s permission, and when she raises a ruction tell her that you are free, white and 24, and you have cut her apron strings, and that you are golng to leave home if she doesn't recognize your right to your own personal liberty. One good fight will settle the whole matter, (Copyright, 1027.) DOROTHY DIX. the potatoes until soft throughout. Test by taking a potato in the hands and pressing it. When soft, remove from the ashes, peel and serve. They should be eaten hot with butter. This method is especially adapted to the open fireplace or to camp cookery and is frequently used on a wood stove, -utilizing the hot ashes in the ash pen as a bed for the potatoes and covering them with a layer of glowing coals. Camp Potato Roast. This old-fashioned method of cook- ng sweet potatoes develops thelr finest flavor and one unapproached through any other method. Select and wash smooth uniform potatoes of medium size. Make a bed for them in the hot ashes of a burning fire. Cover well with the ashes and over this bank glowing coals. Roast we | matrimony that you seem to think, because, if you will notice, when they lose | 1 there are wives who have cold’ and neglectful husbands, there are | husbands who fail to support their wives, theie are | FUST NANCY PAGE What Ie Better Than a Roasted Ear of Corn? BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. 25, 1927 | “What do'you say, Nance, that we | give a corn roast? There are a cou- {vle of fellows in the office who never | have had one, and their | i | i | needs: attention.” *Finu, Peter; how |about tomorrow might if the wedther {is right?” The weaiher was right, a fine, clear Summer cvening with touch of Autumn in tho air. They | started for the beach. In the back of the machine Nancy had packed skin- ned whole tomatoes, mayonnaise, but- | | | ! i | ter, cream, a thermos pot of coffee |and two apple pies. Arrived at the beach, Peter built a fire. When the embers were glowing | he put cars of corn which had been |left in the husks and quickly dipped into water down in the embers, Over another part of the fire ‘where the heat was intense he broiled a large, thick steak. Meanwhile Nancy fixed the tomatoes and mayonnaise. The table was set, the coffee poured and everybody fell to with zest. The roast- ed ears of corn were made appetizing with butter and salt. The big wedges of apple pie were just the right finish. Willie Willis BY ROBERT QUILLEN. “Skinny ain't a very with his air rifle. He was down at the raflroad all afternoon an’ only busted seven of them glass ln-uh-‘ tors on telegraph pales.” POST TOASTIES —corn flakes that stay crisp in milk orcream Add this cool crispness education | good shot | ORIENTAL Made in White - Flesh - Rachel send 10o. for Trial Size Fard. T. Hopking reet Pickles . between fronds of spicy dill— then covered with a distilled Liquor of vinegar, spices and salt! Libby brought this ial recipe from the “old country” and Libby’s Pickles give you the old-fashioned flavor yeu love. Libby, M¢Neill & Libby Chicago Sour Pickles “wect Mixed Pickles Sour Mixed Pickles | scet Dill Pickles Dill Pickles vaet Relish Chow Chow Pickles | .-ectMustard Pickles Homenade Style Pickles | ormep 4 CANNED BULE to summer’s luscious fruits Post Toasties are the corn flakes that have the true delicate flavor of the succulent hearts of corn, sealed in by the special toasting process of the Postum Company. For a new deliciousness, add the crunchy crispness of these corn flakes to summer fruits. Here is double-crispness that makes your favorite fruits seem cooler, with 01927, P. Coylac, flavor. that makes them taste even better than they are. Be .sure that you get the corn flakes that stay crisp’ in milk or cream. Ask your grocer for Post Toasties, the corn flakes that come in the red and yellow package, wax- . wrapped to keep them fresh and ready to POSTUM COMPANY, INCORPORATED, ‘BA'_A‘TL.!j CREEK, MICH. | lan instinct | herbs |called “love apples FEATUR LS. BEAUTY CHATS Simple Foods. Taste has a lot to do with the need of food and the effect of food. For instance, If you eat a food that is good for you physically but that you happen to dislike intensely, it not only may not do you good, it may eyen nauseate you to such an extent that you expel it from the system. Taste, or the visual or mental appeal of food, hes a lot to do with value. It almost seems as though we had about food. 1In the old days people went to plenty of trouble to gather wild berries and certain and greens — ignorant people, knowing nothing of chemistry. Now that we are applving science to food, we find that these things have certain very valuable elements, both dietary and medicinal. Tomatoes used to be and were consid- ered a poison—something instinctive made people in hot Summers eat this succulent. cooling and valuable vegeta- | ble and disprove the old idea. The Italians serve cheese with spa ghetti, also a sauce with chopped ves etabies. or often meat vy. Spa- ghetti is starch, but cheese and a little meat juice and some v ble will give protein. too, ‘which most® ey dish needs, Instinctive taste is right— here at least. Instinctive taste adds a little meat to a dish of beans—beans need protein added. Fruits cooked with . sugar are served with pudding or cream starch where there is A vegetable diet is pot complete with- out nuts—nuts are very fattenin having a high proportion of fat in themselves Salads of green thin@s are served with fat—that is, with ricl | mayonnais If you serve simple foods, your taste will guide you. When vou get into elaborate cookery, condiments and sauces, creams, lots of eggs, sugar, herbs to stimulate the appetite and such things come in, and the caloric value goes up rapidly. You ean easily overeat. Dimples.—You can sometimes dry out a wart so that it will drop off if you rub salt into it every day for a week or so. If the wart is on your face, you should not risk scarring yourself with experiments of your own. Dorothy C.— The exercises recom- mended in the *“Chats” for the eves are intended to strengthen the muscles _leut i - |slice and drain well on paper. BY EDNA KENT FORBES and improve any tendency to- near or far sightedness. In our daily routine we often limit our movements so many muscles never get a chance to be exercised to any extent. If you et as much distance vision as {necded to balance with near vision. you will be giving your eyes all the |exercise they require. The exercises jwill do this for you:when you need them. 1f vou send a stamped and ad | dressed envelope for mailing, .1 will {send vou a formula far an eyvelash tonie, —— S e etse | Pineapple Fritters. | To make the frying batter, sift tw. flour nto a dish with « pinch of salt, make & well in the c ter, add one-half & gill of tepid water, | one dessertspoonful of salad ofl, and mix and beat we yver and leave {for halt'an hour. Just before using | whip the white of an egg stiff and mix {lightly into the batter. Drain some slices of pineapple from the sirup and o moderate. sized pieces. Dip the pieces separately into the batter If many are put in at one time they {will thin it down. Drop the coated pieces into a pan of hot fat, i few at a time. The fat is sufficient 11y hot when a blue vapor is coming lightly from the surface. Remove the fritters with a frying spoon, o Place on a hot dish covered with a paper doily, dredge the fritters with sugar. and serve at once and very hot. Other feuit can be used ir place of pineapple ounces ¢ This fine old ginger ale is good these for you sultry summer days WHEN the summer sun beats down and you're feeling hot and tired and oh, so thirsty, there is no beverage that will bring such blessed relief as “Canada Dry.”- Its delicate, piquant flavor is due to the purity of its ingredients and the perfec- tion of its blend. It capsicum (red pepper contains none of the ) which is used in so many cheap ginger ales to convey a false “gingery” bite. Only the highest grade Jamaica ginger is used in “Capada Dry” and that ginger is mildly stimulating, benign, and friendly to the stomach. You will find it an especially welcome treat at luncheon and dinner on a hot day because of the zest and sparkle it adds to even the simplest meal. It will cool and refresh you in mid-afternoon as you step up to the soda fountain. Night after night you will be glad to discover it snuggling close to the ice as you start foraging in the refriger- ator for.a bedtime snack. Here, indeed, is one beverage that you can drink freely in summer without regrets. ‘CANADA DRY" ‘;T/;e Champagne of Ginger Ales” Extract imported from Canada and bottled in the U. S. 4. by ‘Canada D7§ Gingtr Alg; Incorporated, 25 West 43rd Street, New York, N. ¥, A ‘h Capada, J;.J. McLaughlin Limited. Bstablished 1890.