Evening Star Newspaper, November 2, 1927, Page 34

FTEATURES. SDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1927. SUB ROSA THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON. D. €. T 34 WOMAN'S PAGE." The Sidewaiks of | BY THORNTON TrISHER | | Washington 'LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. Valuable Use of ;ostal Cards | | BY MIMI BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. The thoughtful woman who tries to spread happiness does well to follow a1 idea that one such noble woman of my acquaintance has instituted for { This afternoon Puds Simkins was | sityng un Mavy Watkinses frunt steps |tawking to her and i started to won | der if ehe was still mad at me or mak: | spondence. On the card there may be inm a single line. or_there may be an entire paragraph. But whatever it is |1t always carries some happiness along Washington does not have to seek beyond its own District boundaries for its “up and at ’em” successful young The cther day a little lad accom- panied his mother to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The boy scrutinized the warble sar- at Arlington. | | Concentrate? I Wouldn't. | A few years ago concentration was the great vogue among serious think- | At Breakfast - n . 4 - ; ing her 1ff and sh ving the place |men. They are right here among us.|cophagus carefully. L lers. ‘ 1 adel lflfill . eema e RIIIL e e ot WA HRERIEOY v vl In a world of mis-| “What did you say that was” he | pegiia wrote essays on the value of | r delr gown: .rted to wawk over slow trying to fits, chronic “kick- | asked. | concentrating, learned professors de- | Cl ange in the Y aw the little tot of yours wear- |look unconscious, and wat did Mary ers” and those| ~That Buddie is the Timb of the) (TCT s P Froot of all ignorance i i Ing the rompers you were making for | Watkins do but quick get up and go who “never got a|Unknown Soldier.” answered the | clared that the root of &l [EHOTNIE| mommg drink | e en [ was At your home recent- |in the house, me thinking. G. she is. | break,” it fs re- | mother. | e el et | : K a rite, LITTLE MESSAGES OF CHEER MAY GRACE A POSTAL CARD. a package of postcards. Whenever she sits down_ to write a letter, in ad- dition to the letter she always man- ages to put a line on at least one of these cards, which she addresses and sends when she mails her other corre- YOUR It is the Lusiness of a scientist to inquire into what any one else would take for granted. When the apple fell from the tree, Newton asked: “What made it fall?” and discovercd the law of gravitation. Franklin asked: “What makes the flakh of lightning?” and discovered electricity. The psychologist asks: “Why do we laugh, why do we swear?” There's a reason. When you are under the stress of an emotion, energy accumulates, and it must find a_way out if peace is to be restored. You can't sit still and hold it in. That's why you cry, why vou laugh. why you swear. It is a relief, a safety valve, and you feel better when it is over. You've got something out of your system. When women don't feel quite right, or things have gone quite wrong, they have a good cry. Tears and sobs are & relief for grief. When the dentist hurts you you want to vell; you wriggle all you can. If you're hilariously amused, vou laugh till it hurts, and hold your sides and roll in your chair. If you have emotion, you must show it. You drain it off through the muscles. The most violent emotion is anger. If you can, you strike and scratch and bite. As these crude expressions are repressed, you lash out with your tongue; you do it with words. ‘And in these polite days we are under so many repressions, that we have to use all the substitutes we can. We BEDTIME STORIES And How 1o Keep It Fit " BY PROF. JOSEPH JASTROW. iy. They fitted 80 nicely and he looked | %0 well in them 1 thought you ought (0 know of your success.” It seems that the woman had never | made rompers before and was not find- |ing the task easy for her —a young land inexperienced little wite. ~The | woman told her how delighted she | was to get the word. It made the {energy put into them seem doubly | {worth while. A Message of Cheer. “To another woman she wrote: “[ noticed how charming vou looked |in vour new dress that you wore at tne fair. As I knew you made it and the natty hat your also wore, I wanted to tell you how smart and becomin |they were. I heard many comments {on them that expressed these same opinions. It seems a pity for you not to know of them.” rhe letter that came back was enough to tug at your heartstrings. The woman wrote: “Your letter was the first cheerful and enlivening word that has come to me for many lonx wonths. Both my parents are ill, and while they love me dearly, they are |bit “difficult’ 1 have had too much | sorrow and sadness. I cannot begin | |to express to you what it meant to | me to get your note, nor what it has | done to raise my spirits.” | To another she wrote: “I heard your | {son In the debate last evening and he | |“d1a himselt proud.’ 1 congratulated | {him. but you had gone before I could find you. How happy our sons can make us, can't they | Welcome Club No | This kindly woman has ests and is sought in executive capaci- ties in various clubs. When she was secretary to the woman's club of her village she always_added some line of personal greeting to the notices she sent out, and many were those who looked forward to getting the notices just for the appreciative and happy | thoughts inscribed on them. | Necdless to say, this woman always finds the good in every one. Yet it is| because of her discriminating vision that her words are doubly valued. Isn't the idea one to treasure and | to follow? None of us is busier than she, for she did her own work at that | time, and had endless civic activities | to attend to. Capable? Yes, but so are hundreds and thousands of other women. What she did shows that it does not mean one has to spend money to give happiness. Often the joys of life are found in things money cannot buy, but in the expressed kindness of those about us. MIND really need outlets for big emotions that life does not supply. We seek thrills and if we can't get them in full we use substitutes. And some- times they are safer. We can't all have great tragedies or romance hap pen to us, can't be heroes, and our {love affairs run conventionally if not smoothly. So we go to the theater and the movies and have all these | emotions by proxy, and get the herofcs and the sympathies expressed. We go there for a good laugh, or a s00d cry, or a good thrill, and we applaud to relieve our tension. Swearing is most directly concerned with anger. When you can’t fight or strike back or there is nothing to fight you express your anger or the milder forms of irritation by swearing. Now, part of that is emphas You show that you are in earnest, well as up- set. That's the second-class use for swearing—just for emphasis—though, again, primarily for the emphasis of anger. ‘When people are in real distress they don't swear; they pray. So per- haps the United States Senator who defended himself when he used unpar- liamentary language by defining swearing as the unnecessary use of profane language wasn’t far wrong in his psychology. Swearing, like many another expression, has its psychology, but also its conventions. Copyrizht, 1927.) 8Y THORNTON W. BURGESS Little Mrs. Peter Has a Fright. That which is fun for you may be The it o, me cause of dreadful f; o ter Rabbit. Poor, timid little Mrs. Peter! Her meeting with her father, Old Jed Thumper, wasn't at all pleasant. This was bad enough. but what was worse was the fact that she failed to find . Old Jed Thump- ply worked himself into a rage. what he did, worried himself into a rage. Finally, little Mrs. Peter left him. She just wouldn't listen to him any longer. She went on up one of the old cow- paths. Presently she heard, up ahead of her, some strange noises. They frightened her, vet at the same time they aroused her curiosity. Little by THEY STOOD UP AND STRUCK AT EACH OTHER. little she stole nearer. Presently, from behind a Lig biueberry bush she peep- ~d out and saw two strange creatures fighting. Anyway, she thought they were fightinz. They were black and they were ever 30 mach bigger than she. what surprised her and But startled her most was the fact that every once in a while they stood up just like those two.legged creatures called men. They stood up and struck at each other. Then they threw their arms around each other and down they went and rolled over and over, kicking and squealing. That is what made littie Mrs. Peter surprised. You see, she thought they were really fighting. Now, those two cubs, for. of sourre, they were Buster Bear's children, were not fighting at all; they were playing. They were having a great romp. Little bears are very rough when they play. This is what made little Mrs DPeter think they were fighting. Suddenly one of those cubs just happened to spy little Mrs. Peter. In Aym instant he was after her. She fumped and ran. The other cub saw Bw and both started for her. Pogr little Mrs. Peter! She was so fright- ened that she almost forgot how to run. At first she did forget how to dodge. She never had seen iX:l bears before, and these two mis- chievous scamps seemed to her the most terrible creatures that ever lived. She saw a hole between the roots of an old dead stump and she | darted into it. “Now TI'll be safe,” she panted, {“they ecan't get in here. “They'll | probably go away now.” But she didn't know Here w great sport. One of them began to dig. The other began to pull on the old stump. Poor little Mrs. Peter heard the old stump crack and groan and she was more frightened | than ever. She crept just as far down as shz could. She was looking for a back door, but there was no back door. Whoever had dug that hole under the old stump long ago | had failed to make a back door. Little | Mre. Peter was trapped! “Snap!” .Down in that hole the | noise sounded very loud. One of the {old dead roots | There was anot grinding and a tear presently with a crash the old stump went over. You see, it was a very rotten old stump and the two little bears, working together, had managed to pull it over. Then each in turn sniffed at the hole left by the old bear cubs. fat_vou too it you And I sed to Puds, Hell Puds, and h> sed, She says she's mad at you, ishe says she's never going to speek {to you agen, why is she mad at you or ! " Zie thinking, G, he dont know about [ her tooth. Proving she had bin tawk- inz small so Puds wouldnt see the empty space, and 1 sed, She’ll be mad int carefill { Why, wat? Puds sed. and I sed, G 1avent you noticed enything diff- |rent about her, | No, why, wat? Puds sed, and 1 sed, | Th I thawt, good nite she's h out rite in frunt and hol e's 80 proud of it G wizz you mite think it was a diamond in- sted of jest a empty hole, and 1 did- lent even notice it und thats why she {zot mad at me, well %o long. I aint | going to hang around heer where 1 | aint wunted. | And I wawked away looking Inde- i pendent and wen 1 got around the cor- {ner I pecked back with one eye and { Mary Watkins sitting there with {Puds agen, and all of a suddin_ she ! jumped up looking mad as enything and made a fearse face at Puds and ran in the house agen, and Puds got up with a ixpression as if he was go- ing to look for somebody proberly be- ing me, and 1 went home the back way and I felt a kind of a glity con- scients, and after suppir I sed to pop, Hay pop. is everything fair In love and war So they say, why, do eny details g0 with that question, pop sed. and Lixplained wat I had did to Puds and pop culdent stop laffing for a wile and then he advised me not to do it agen.. Wich I wont enyways on account of certain things wont werk twice, WHO REMEMBERS? BY DICK MANSFIELD. Rexistered U. 8 Patent Offie. When the phonograph slot machine first came out and you got a real thrill when you dropped in a nickel and heard your favorite tune? Savory Tomato Sauce. In four tablespoonfuls of butter cook for two minutes two cupfuls of canned tomatoes, one-half a cupful of grated carrot. two tablespoonfuls of minced onion, onc-half a bay leaf and one-fourth teaspoonful each of mustard and Summer savory. Be careful not to brown tha vegetables. Add four tablespoonfuls of flour after one minute of cooking so that it will mix in with the fat. Add the tomato juice, three-fourths teaspoonful of salt, one-fourth teaspoonful of pep- per. one cupful of water, and heat until it thickens, Place over water for 10 minutes. Strain and serve. freshing to find a tew who have as- cended the crest of achievement. Inspira tional magazines tell of those who have “sky - rocketed” themselves to suc- cess, of those who. through sheer force of personal- ity or power, have struggled to vie- tol in the arts, science end busi- ness. A facetious friend of your corre- spondent, a musical-comedy star, says that he knew of a farmer who, upon teading one of those uplifting maga- zines, went out in the barnyard after reading of the success of a poultry breeder and kicked his hens all about the pen, hecause they failed to pro- duce the number of eggs recorded by the man in the magazin However, when a man 33 years old is elevated to presidency of the Riggs National Bank, there is something more than “breaks” which have to do with the achievement. Today Robert V. Fleming 1s 37. Most men at such an age are just searching for the trail that leads to heights. ““‘Tlen't all sitting behind a polished desk.” says this youth of 37. What is the dynamic force that had to do with the man who made that statetient? The avorage young fellow says “pret soft” and lets it go at that. But the force back of the result was unceas- ing effort, endless industry. In 1907 Mr. Fleming did net “ac- cept” a job with the bank of which he is president. He went after it, and was assigned to the position of mes- senger. This was a trifle over 20 years ago. A yvear befors he had been cap- :aln of Western High School's track eam, There was a promotion to the de- partment of transit. About that time the Federal income tax law went into effect, and this young boy began to study the intricacies of the tax law. He absorbed it so thoroughly that a special job was created for him. In the meantime, he attended George Washington University, where he studfed political economy and kindred subjects. In 1916, at the age of 25, he was made assistant cashier. In 1920 he became cash In 1924 he elevated to first vice president, and in 1928 was promoted to president. He has no favorite story, because he hasn’t had any time to learn one. His weakness is goif. “Whatever success I have had,” he says, “can be attributed to the men above and below me—and to a sturdy constitution.” We offer this brief biography to the young man and woman readers with- out embellishment or elaboration. There is much of romance—and labor is a basic ingredient of romance—in the career of a 37-year fellow who has made the grade. BY WILLIAM The Muscle of Circulation. Not only is the heart a hollow muscle, but all the arteries leading from it and some of the veins lead- ing toward it are largely a continua- tion of the same muscle. Every artery has a distinct layer of muscie fibers in its wall, down to the very small- est arterioles visible to the naked eye. When this muscle layer finally dis- appears from the vessel wall, the ves. sel is no longer an artery, but a capil- lary, and that's just a space between the cells of the tissue. If you will gently squeeze vour fin- 2en nail you will notice a flushing and paling under the nail—caplillaries fill- ing and emptying of blood. If you can make out a distinct vessel, it must be either an arteriole or a venule (small- est vein), but it 18 not a capillary. Speaking precisely, no one has ever seen a capillary vessel because there is mo such thing: under the micro- {stump. And _each in turn smelled Mrs. Peter. Then what do you think those siily cubs did? They quarreled. They did so! They quarreled which one should dig little Mrs_ Peter | {out. You see, only one ecoull dig { There wasn't room for both to dig to. | gether. ch wanted to be that one 8o they lost their tempers und quar- reled. And while they wers doing this, little Mrs. Peter did some digging of her own. She dug fast and hard She kicked the sand behind her until it filled up the passage. She’ was ! aigging a back door. “Copyright as to 19271 Although 1 often hate to work I know Id hate it not to — And rmybe this is Just as well Becruse it seems Across. Spanish nobleman. Suiling vessel. Inhabitant of Japan Flat surface. Nickname. 7. Sharpen. S Twists. | 20. Pronoun 121 tic country. 6 11 11 Brother of Odin Poplar Chaldean clty Periods of tinie. . Uncommon. | Street (ab.). Primitive vessel. . Pitcher handle. Organ of hearing. Not well. ) st against Lade away. Down. Seize Uneommon Iind of a prayer . Tavern. 10. Conjectured. The Daily Cross-Word Puzzle (Copsright. 1927.) . Printed notice. . Locations. Sarcasm. Indefinite article. More than a few. Tiny. . Printer’s measure. . Indefinite article. Martian. . Assumed an attitude. . Constellation. . Epistle (ab.). . Dry. . Turn over and over. . Disposal of goods by selling. One (Scotch). Choice marble. 7. New England State (ab.). Answer to Yesterday’s Puzzle. PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE “Well,” said the tiny fellow, “what was his name?" * % % % A colored man visited a local print- ‘ng establishment and handed some “copy” to the elerk. The clerk looked it over carefully and then said: “What do you mean. all- around work in the National Capi- tal? That's rather ambiguous.” “It's what? say it's ambigu- ir it s, Vell, what 1 that's want.” The clerk then said that the col- ored wau skould explain_more fully what he meant all - around Such a statement was not informative, and & recipient of his card would have no ides of what his business was. “I suggest,” went on the helptul clerk, “that y 1 “That's what I mean, the colored customer. “I takes care of furnaces and cellars.” ‘But you say ‘allaround work. " suh, that's what I mean. 1 w all ‘around—ortheast, North- | west. Southeast and Southwest. All {around the town." | So the clerk took the man's order {for a hundred busiess cards. T A Washington resident bought a new home in_ the suburbs about a month ago, and left for a business trip over Halloween. His wife attended a party that night. and when she re- turned home found that the garage had been cleaned out of everything but the car. She herated her husband when he reached home. “Somebody,” she said, “broke into the garage and stole two old tires, that hrnk-'p bumper and the empty tool che: his rejoinder. *vou have been kicking because we carted that stuff out here, and now some- body takes it away for nothing. Why, that would have cost us a couple of { dollars to get rid of. You should give three cheers for Halloween.” * ok k% About a block from a radio station there 18 a store dealing in radio re- ceivers and supplies. Into the store Monday night ventured a skeptic and his wife, according to the oreprietor. After looking over a number of mod- els, the skeptic requested that the owner tune in on a station, Tins was done, and-the first station that came over was the nearby one. “Ha. ha! T thought so,” said the po- tential customer. “You kin get a station a block away, but I bet you can’t get Baltimor s BRADY, M. D. 1Scope one may readily see the blood corpuscles wending their way through the capillary spaces in the mesentery of a live frog, but there are no capil- lary vessels. The little reddish marks or lines often visible about the cheeks or the nose and sometimes called dilated capillaries, are of course dilat- ed venules. The function of muscle is to con- tract, and contraction of the muscle of circultation narrows the caliber of the vessel and compresses the blood with- in. So the chief purpose of the muscle of clrculation is to maintain the blood pressure at a height sufficient to over- come the resistance to the flow in the channel ahead. As the resistance to flow varies widely in different circum- stances. as when one does muscular work, eats, rests, encounters great cold. great heat, etc., it is necessary that the presure be quickly variable, and this is provided for by the auton- omie (self governing) nervous mechan- ism of the circulation muscle. Physicists tell us that it is possible to break a glass globe at some dis- tance by sounding a certain note on a musical instrument—the vibrations in the ether crack the glass. Emotion may cause contraction or relaxation of the muscle of circulation, raising or lowering the pressure on the blood. Within normal bounds this is physi- ological and necessary; in the pres- ence of disease conditions it is some- times harmful or dangerous. Dr. John Hunter, a great medical teacher, subject to angina pectoris, used to say “My life is in the hands of any ragcal who chooses to annoy me.” ‘The heart muscle and the muscle of circulation are not only alike in struc- ture and in their nerve control, but in function and in the disturbances of tunction (diseases) they are subject to. When the arteries become thickened, say from tobaccoism, they offer greater resistance to blood flow and the heart must hypertrophy (enlarge) in order to drive the blood through. When the heart muscle weakens, say, from fatty degeneration or infiltration incident to overeating and neglect of exercise, then the arteries relax in order to di- minish the resistance to blood flow. Thus high blood pressure is a neces- sary feature of some diseases and low blood pressure is a necessary feature Of other diseases: and it is a silly error to imagine that high blood pressure or low blood pressure is a_condition inde- pendent of the disease that produces it. MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN, il il To Shorten a Walk. One Mother Says: s We enliven a long and tiresome walk to the car line by guessing which one of our conductors will | take us to town and remembering which one brought us back the last time. After recollecting the con- ductor we recall the passengers who .d our car. It is good memory in which small boys forget the discomforts of w (Conyright 19 e An automoblig manufactory is to he :-!T’l':llshed in Loda district of Po- ap oL e et e said | iand the idea became thoroughly and i solidly implanted in the minds of young Americans that if they would succeed they must concentrate. It seems to me that a lot of my fluffy-haired young damsels, though, her taken the slogan to heart. They've become so absorbed in con. centrating on one man or one ambi- tion in lite that they can't see any | farther than the tips of their aristo-| | cratic noses, and they're all missing | i lot of fun in life. | Take the girl with a great social | | ambition. = She's determined to et \head in that mysterious thing called | { Society—and _she plods on doggedly. refusing to know any but the B People, passing up all sorts of mice boys and girls because they aren't “in. | "It she concentrates long enough on her great ambition. she'll probably Achieve it some day and find the whole thing a wortaless, tiresome perform- | she's only one case. There's | the girl who concentrates on business {and shuts out all social activitles al-| | together. | | Obsessed by the idea that the only | worth-while thing in life is to become a business success, she cheats herself | {of gayeties and good times in order| to save all strength for tussles In the | | business world. | | Well, if she happens to become president of the company she's work- | ing in, she'll still Aind that she's missed | an awful lot in life which can’t’ be | given back to her after she's too old | to regain youth's pleasures, | To my mind, the worst case of all is the girl who firmly believes that by | concentrating ou the one man in the | world she will be able to hold him for always and always. That’s the situa- tion in which concentration seems most out of place. The girl who solemnly makes one man her chief interest in life is taking | a dangerous chance—particularly if| she lets him see it. | 1t may be true that by giving up| all other interests and pleasures she's | enabled to devote more time and thought to the business of attracting { him. But on the other hand by giv- fng up everything else, she's forcing herself to be utterly dependent on him | for every bit of pleasure she has in | the world. | And even the dumbest of us knows | the danger of becoming utterly de- | pendent on anything as fleeting and | uncertain as a man's love. i ‘There has never been a case on rec- ord where a girl made herself more attractive to a man by devoting her whole life to him. Look around you and pick out the | really successful wives or sweethearts | you see. You'll notice that most or jali of them are breezy young people busy with all sorts of things, loving their hushands awfully, but not at all wrapped up in them. Always the most popular girl is the one who's just the least bit elusive —hard to date up because she has so many interests and hobbies that she can’t find lots of time even for the one and only man in the world. Concentration on one he-man also narrows the mind. 1If you spend four years of your life concentrating on one type of man, and he doesn’t pan out—then you have a whole lot of rigid ideas about what a man ought to be llke—you've really only one standard to judge all men by, and you're more than apt to turn out a nice, discontented, sour, old spinster. How's that for a gloomy touch? Tdke my advice and don’t concen- trate too.much on any one thing. By all means stick to your ambition and try to achieve whatever it is you're working for in life, but in the mean- time keep your mind open to new lines of thought, new enterprises. Don't get hipped on any one thing to the exclusion of everything else. 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