Evening Star Newspaper, September 13, 1927, Page 31

.. 'WOMAN’S PAGEX MILADY BEAUTIFUL BY LOIS LEEDS. Reducing Aids. Dear Miss Leeds: ©old, § feet 3 iInches tall, and I weigh 130 pounds. Am I too heavy? My measurements are: Neck, 12% 33; waist, 26; hips, 34; thigh, 19 13; ankle, 8%. (2) My legs seem a little too plump; how may 1 reduce them? (3) What is your opinion of the reducing preparations on the market? (4) I am thinking of buying rubber reducing anklets. Would you advise it, (5) I have naturally curly hair, green ecyes and a fair skin. ‘What colors may I wear? IRISH Answer—(1) You are about eight pounds over the average weight for your age and height. Your measure- ments are excellent, however. The ankle is a bit thick. Perhaps the #cales you used to weigh yourself are not accurate. (2) I think that exer- cise would be likely to develop rather than reduce your calves are already correctly formed leaflet on “Care of the Feet and Legs” gives special exercises for reducing heavy ankles and I shall be glad to mail it to you on receipt of a stamped, self-addressed envelope. (3) I do not approve of reducing drugs. The only safe and sensible way for the average overwelght person to reduce is by diet and exercise. (4) No; try the exercises. 1t is likely that the size of your ankle is due to the bones being large as well as to accumulations of fat. (5) You may wear pastel pinks in sheer fab- rics, copper red, henna, very delicate orchid, gray, taupe, almond green, reseda, pale yellowish green, dark blue, turquoise, greenish yellow for Nan Hartley. an artists’ model, mar- Pies Towm Elliott. a poor artist. having first had a chance to marry Martin Lee. & rich' lgicyer. Tom and Nan are very happy. but they haven't been married very long when Tom develops pneumonia and dies. He leaves Nan about o have @ baby. Martin Lee comes back into her life and she marries him without love for the sake of her child. 0Of course, 4f is an_ impossible situation, for Nan Jeels wedlocked. and Martin is 100 proud 10 force his attentions on her. At this #tage of the game Alicia Rumsey enters The story. She Aas known Martin in the rur and she feels that mow there may @& chance for her with Martin. Nan ces one desperate attempt 1o leav but the baby, Muriel, makes it impossi ble. On a drive one afternoon Alicia, very rl(l'trl’. tells Martin that Nan is unhappy. He makes up his mind to relinguish her. CHAPTER LVI Freedom. With the doof closed on the last guest, Nan drew a long breath. ‘When there were people about she didn’t have that closed-in feeling. It actually seemed easier to breathe. She was getting fanciful; she must not left herself thing such thoughts, and yet how could she help it? The situation between herself and Martin was wearing down her nervous energy. It was almost impossible for her to get to sleep at night. She had had a feeling of late that she must fight sleep. That was bad for her. But there was a certain dream that kept recurring each night just as she was about to doze off. It was a terrifying dream and she always waked out of it weak and trembling. It seemed as if the walls of her bedroom were grad- ually closing in on her, and that she must escape before it was too late. Nan wasn’t morbid, but she couldn’t help wondering it this dream had any- thing to do with the feeling she had about her life. She wished there were some one she could talk to about it. She was about to say good night to Martin in the formal fashion that had grown to be their custom, when he spoke. They had returned to the liv- ing room and he stood by one of the card tables, riffling a deck of cards over and over again. He was won- dering how he could speak the words that would take her out of his life forever. le was not looking at her, but it wasn't necessary. All through the evening he had found it impossible to keep his eyes from straying in her direction. Already that little face of hers was etched on his brain, but to- night there was a quality about her that was somehow heart-breaking. He had reached a point where he couldn’t define his own thoughts—that was as near as he could come to’it. He heard his own voice speaking; | calm, practical words that he had | made up his mind to A Nan, seated in a big armchair oppo site, heard these words and felt the sense of oppression that had settled down upon her lift. She felt suddenly light and gay and animated. She felt as if that horrible dream would never again recur. i Martin was goin to give her her free- dom. She wondered what it would be like to be free. And she was to have Muriel, of course. And Martin was making all this possible because he was settling a certain sum of money on her. Money What a difference n made. But it oughtn't to make difference at all. She and Tom never given it a thought. But it had made a difference in her re Martin. She had, after him for that. It was all very well to tell herself that she had been press to the 1 by the coming of Muriel. But she accepted Martin because he had been ready to take care of her. Now he was offering to go on taking care of she was ready to accept it seemed fair, The lovely sense of elation that she had expe; She could not accept her f m on such terms. And yet Martin w either Not oniy I (1) T am 21 years tions with | evening, bronze, dark brown, deep cream, black. LOIS LEEDS. Developing a Thin Figure, Dear Miss Leeds: (1) I am very much underweight and should like to in about 28 pounds. I am 16 years old, 5 feet 615 inches tall and weigh 103 pounds. My legs are very thin in proportion to the rest of my figure. My shoulders are slightly rounded, so that my neck is not erect and my ck is swayed in. Is this due to a kened condition fi 1 being unde: Would exercise correct it My fingers are crooked and knuckles quite large; would mas » them? (2) ch for freckle; (3) Is the thing I can do for a looks scaly when I powder auburn hair, greenish br a fair complexiou. What come me What shade of should I use? TITIAN. Answer-—(1) You have heen owing up fast and that has key 1 thin t from now on you sh fill out, so that by the ab vears old yvou period a g s plenty of nouri ing food extra quart milk each . Sleep nine or ten| hour Have plenty of fresh air ar but do not | overexe you J et on | How to Ga Weight” gives fatten- | ing diets other helpful sugges. tions for ur 1 please send a stamped, ddressed envelop for it. As you gain weight yvo legs will be- | come fatter. You must n to stand | land sit straight. Hold your'figure as }!'1” as yo can, with chest (‘h‘\‘n‘l.; | neck s ht and chin level. Yes, | Yol posture defects are due largely to | our Jack of normal mus velop: nent. Th will be reme as you become vier and learn to vourself correctly, A good exercise for the weak bac to lie face down on the floor and slowly raise and low er the head and shoulders, The ) knuckles ‘seem large hecause your hand is too thin: massage it gently every d: to stimulate the circulation (2) Here is a recipe: Two drams erin, 30 grains zinc sulphocarbo- ate. three drams alcohol, one and one-half ounce orange flower water. (3) Please send for my leaflet on |of Dry Complexions.” (4) You wear the same colors that I listed for “Irish” above. se an ivory ywfl‘\\vhl" or a mixture of ivory and flesh. LOIS L ow of | DLOCKED BY HAZEL DEYO BATCHELOR. Martin would probably marry and they would be happy together. But would they? She remembered the cold look in Alicia’s blue e; and shivered. Alicia couldn't make any man really happy. She was too bus concentrating on herself. Martin's even voice, carefully controlled, broke in on her thoughts. “There is just one thing that I want you to believe. I thought I could make you happy. It's the only thing I can say to justify the course I have taken. You didn’t have a chance when you made your decision. I realize that now Nan's thoughts went hurtling back into the past. She remembered the sense of terror she had experienced when she hadn’t known which way to turn. And Martin had been so kind. She would never forget it. Now he was going to be kinder still. He was going to give her her freedom! | Once more elation surged up in her. She knew she hadn't a right to feel this way, but, after all—they weren’t happy together. She stood up suddenly, very straight and slim in her white beaded frock. The thought of Alicia that had flashed across her mind was gone now. She knew that she must hurt Martin, be- cause she did feel that he cared for her. He must have cared to do what he had done. But to be free again, and to have Muriel! The thought was ecstasy. “Martin.” He had given up shuffling the cards to stride up and down the living room. Now he wheeled about and they stood facing each other. “I'm sorry,” Nan said unsteadily. “I wish things could be different.” How futile her words sounded, and how insincere. She didn’t want things to be different. She wanted only the chance to escape. He must know that. Almost despairingly he faced her. Didn’t she know how much he cared for her? Didn’t she realize it at all? Perhaps there had heen lingering in the back of Martin's brain the hope that she would not accept her free- dom, but those simple words of hers killed his hope for all time. He wished he didn’t have to look at her. She stabbed him with that white, white face, and her eyes so dark beneath the stretch of white forehead. "1 blame myself for everything,” he heard himself ying. “I expected the impossible to happen, and it just didn’t. And then, because he much, he went on talking. “I never used to believe in such a thing as a chemical feeling between people, but T do now. That's why I want to make up to you for the time I have taken out of your life. It's impossible to force love, and, as I said before, I expected the impossible to happen. I want you to be free and happy.” Free and happy! Free and happy! It sounded marvelous! Just to be able to go into some other bedroom where the walls didn’t cave in at night would be a relief. But Martin's mone s for her freedo (Conyr Alicia | cared so would be pay- She hated that! ) Markets Inst during the coal strike last year have lowered coul produc- tion in the & sea district, Wales, {more than 80,000 tons a mon Guaranteed pure imported POMPEIAN OLIVE OIL Sold Everywhere Practical women © are changing the color of their dresses or hose with RIT FAST DYES OR TINTS THE EVENING STAR,” WASHINGTON, ¥.” U." TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 7135, TRR' NANCY PAGE New Coats Show an Abun- dance of Fur. BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. Nancy had been shopping with some friends of her mother's. The daughter was going to college and | Nancy’s aid had heen enlisted. Nancy told Peter she was glad they did not have any daughter who had to be outfitted for school. “It's dreadful, T \i 3 \\\ ‘]fl\/},‘/ I fitll [0 AT LN the things they have to think they have to have, ney that it takes." went on to descrihe—as could understand-—the two ts they had selected that day. st one was of soft tan wool. It was s made with no trim ming but that of collar and cuffs of tan lynx. But stunning—oh my! The second coat was for campus wear. It would not show the soil 1s the plain wool of the tan dress have, and tl Then if Pet new cos The fi aply serviceable coat was of Tweed on the coat. The two-faced material, outside and plaid on the inside. It had one pocket, patch style. There was a huge skunk collar which came up in the most flattering way about the face. With a closeitting hat one couldn't ask for anything better for an Autumn foot ball day. ( ht. 102 Your Baby and Mine BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED, Tiny babies, for their own safety, must be kept out of danger. This should not be made a matter for which the child is responsible. Don't tell the two-year-old that he mustn't run into the street and then punish him because, hé does. Simply keep him off the street by pens, or fences, or even a long rope to a tree, and tell him the reason for this is because it is dangerous. He will learn caution in that manner much more quickly than by letting him run into the street and then punishing him, for if he finds that nothing happened to him he won't know why you are punishing him. When you take him on the street, take care to stop at each cor- ner and look both ways before cros: ing the street. He'll learn to imitate vour example and caution will be- come second nature to him. With older children if the mother will make questions of discipline as few as possible and enforce those necessary ones which are for the good of the child she will win respect for her opinion and the child will be obedient to it. A child must be taught that as a member of soclety there are certain things he can and cannot do. Chil- dren have the idea that they are merq ly slaves of the whims of their p: rents, while if the parents would e: plain that they, too, have to be obedi- ent to the laws of society and that what they are teaching the children is simply submission to these higher la they would not find them so re- sentful. Mothers are rather inclined to en- force every trivial matter which arises in a household, fearing that otherwise authority will be under- mined. The way to really guide children for their own future good is with kindness and love all the time. To be an under- standing parent far outshines the glory of being a successful slave driv- er, for then one is helping to develop the child and still keeping him ri spectful to the voice of authority, which in your case he has learned is one of justic Tt isn’t your position, but your dis- position that makes you happy or un- happy. Solutions of Today’s Word Golf Problems. MIST, MAS MAIL, MAIN GIRL, GIF DARE, DAT! . MART, MARL, RAIN-—six steps. DIRT, DART, | | WORD GOLF—Everybody’s Playing It Go from MIST to RAIN. her hair waved. Go from OARS to BOAT. PRINT your BY JOHN KNOX, ‘This happens when yvou have no umbrella, the nearest car line is six blocks away, there are no taxis and she has just had Change GIRL to DATE. This is nice—if you get the right girl. It's easy, though a bit long. “‘steps’ here: Fashionable Tints in Antiseptics. People will have their placebos. Show me an ‘“antiseptic” that is without impressive odor or startling color find I'll show you one that would never achieve any great degree of pop- ularity. Such popularity as corrosive sub- limate (bichloride of mercury) had in 3 t was largely due to the gen- eral practice of coloring the tablets hine with sufficient inert dye to give otherwise colorless solutions in water a blue color. Of course this was in- tended to prevent mistakes and poison- ing, hut the blue color ftself carried a suggestion of strength, and therefore many laymen, as well as physicians, entertained an unwarranted fancy that corrosive sublimate was a “‘powerful antiseptic,” when in fact it was an in- ferior antiseptic, in actual practice, and only a powerful and dangerous Doison. 1 myself left the hospital and en- tered upon private practice with some ich fool notion about this then in- dispensable antiseptic. And T had my lesson. 1 gave some corroive sub- limate tablets to a patient to prepare a solution for bathing a wound. The patient went from my office to the nearest bar and asked for a glass of water—such a strange order that the bartender was curious to see what he wished to do with it. The man dropped tablet in the water, making a beau- tiful blue liquid, and was actually about to drink the poison when the bartender stopped him. But plenty of real fatalities, horrible tragedies, have occurred from just such mistakes as that, enough, It seems to me, to war- vant rigid legal restrictions upon the sale or possession of this poison by the laity. Some people keep bichloride of mercury in the house, and now and again we read of dreadful mistakes, such as mistaking such a deadly tab- let for a headache tablet. Boric acid, as I now know, will ac- complish every good purpose that bi- chloride of mercury (corrosive subli- mate) can serve, and boric acid is a hard thing to poison anybody with or even to do any injury with. Tincture of iodin (iodin is the right way to spell it) is still a first rate general first aid disinfectant for ap- plication to fresh wounds. True it smarts or even pains some at first, But it is fairly safe (it is not so easy to “end it all’ with tincture of iodin as some people seem to think), reason- bly cheap, ahd should be in every first aid cabinet or medicine cupboard. Of late years a newer antiseptic, mercurochrome, has been introduced, and with some good doctors this poi- MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN! Rainy Day Peace. One mother_ says: When my children become quarrel- some after being shut in the house for a while, I mark off their room, which is not large, with chalk par- titions, giving each one his corner to play in, calling it his workshop, and making it a rule that no one who is not invited may enter. I find that this seems to make the room large enough for all. (Covyright, 1927.) Did yvou have a rea of coffee y good cup for break- fast,this morning? To Users of Percolators Seal Brand is offered especially prepared for use in percolators. It brings out the finer, fuller flavor of the coffee. Ask for Seal Brand Percolator Coffee. 'Y WILLIAM BRADY, Solutions on this page in today's Star. (Copyright. 19: PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE M. D. sonous dye has displaced iodin. Like- wise some first aid cabinets now con- tain mercurochrome instead of fodin. The disadvanages of mercurochrome, over lodin as a general emergency dis- infectant seems to be that it smar or pains less when applied to a fresh wound, and this is a real advantage in the case of a large wound, though not for ordinary minor cuts and abrasions. The_disadvantage of mercurochrome, as I see the question, are, first, its outrageous cost; sbcond, the unpleas- ant pink color the dyp imparts to everything it touches, and finally the | poisonous character of any mercury compound. i So I prefer the simple old tincture of jodin for first aid treatment, and if any antiseptic i3 necessary in the sub- sequent care of the wound I prefer boric acid. The dull brown color fodin imparts to the skin or clothing looks just as good to me as the brilliant shade of mercurochrome stain. (Covyright, 19" Everyday Law Cases Is Verbal Contract to Convey Land_Upon Marriage Enforceable? BY THE COUNSELLOR. Anxious for his daughter, Jane, to marry, John Sadler offered Henry Thomas, one of her suitors, a deed to a business property if he proposed. Thomas accepted the offer. After Jane and Thomas were mar- ried a short time it was apparent to John Sadler that it was not a suc- cessful marriage, and he refused to convey the property to Thomas, in aecord with his promise. Thomas made repeated demands for the prop- erty and finally brought suit against Sadler to compel him to give him g deed. Sadler objected to Thomas' suit, contending that as the contract in- volved land it had to be in writing, and a verbal agreement was not en- forceable. Thomas' attorneys. admitting that | contracts involving land had to be in writing, called the attention of the court to the rule that if there is part performance of the contract by either party, the contract will be enforced, although verbal. As Thomas had per- formed his part, namely, his marriage to Jane, the contract was enforceable. The court, howevel held th Thomas could not recover, statin, “While part performance does away with the necessity of reducing to writing a contract to convey land, nevertheless, marriage is not such part performance as will make a verbal agreement to convey land, based on consideration of marriage, enforceable.” vright, 102 HOME NOTES BY JENNY WREN. In furnishing the bedroom the com- fort which the smaller and legs im- portant pleces of furniture \vou?d add is often overlooked. Here are four which would be a welcome addition to any bedroom. Their cost is compara- tively small, and they occupy little space, yet they distinguish the bed- room that is truly comfortable and livable from the old-style bed-and- dresser sort The small stand with tripod base has a drawer which may be used for sewing materials and can serve as a bedside stand if desired. The rocker is low and comfortable and makes a good dressing chair. It is also nice for sewir are no arms to hinder The use of the trim little writing desk and the straight chair are obvious, (Copvright. 1927.) HEADACHES ARE A WARNINE SIEN Kellogg’s ALL-BRAN will relieve constipation safely, permanently} Headaches, pimples, spots before the eyes, insomnia—are all symp- toms of constipation. They are seri- ous enough in themselves—yet they are often forerunners of worse to follow. Constipation is the cause of more than forty diseases. It spares neither young nor old. Yet it can be relieved—more, pre- vented! Kellogg’s ALL-BRAN is guaranteed to bring relief. Kellogg’s is 1007 bran. It produces results no part-bran product cam equal. That is why doctors recom- mend it. Serve ALL-BRAN often. Eat two tablespoonfuls daily — in_chronic cases, with every meal. Delicious with milk or cream—and add fruits or honey for an extra treat. Useitincooking. Insoups. Sprin- kled over other cereals. Delightful recipes on the package. Made by Kellogg in Battle Creek. 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