Evening Star Newspaper, November 3, 1927, Page 39

WOMAN'S PAGE. When the Woman Comes to Clean BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. The woman who does her own housework is apt to have some assist. ance at least one day in the week. Then the strenuous tasks are gotten dry work, it may be the cleaning. out of the way. It may be the laus dry work; it may be the cleaning. *MAKER WHO DOES WORK EXCEPT FOR (O LONG IT TAKES TO SWEEP AND CLEAN AND CAN PLAN A DAY'S WORK SATISFACTORILY. Some housewives prefer the laundry work done, others the cleaning. But the day is seldom looked forward to ‘with any sense of pleasure. Instead of its being a time when some other person is expected to do the bulk of the tasks it is more like a period of pressure. This does not seem quite right, for the very pressure of work to be accomplished is wearisome to contemplate. And when the day is Pleasant Surprise. istakes & all Rt W e Little bears are very;like small boys at times; their attention is easily dis- tracted. You will remember-that the two cubs up in the Old Pasture were quarreling over the pers are short and 'they get into a good many quarréls during; the day. But these quarrels-do not last long. Now they cuffed each other and tried ta bite and scratch, but really did no harm at all. When they got they stopped. They had tumbled and rolled their way from the hole in which little Mrs. Peter had disap) - thing else drew their attention and they wandered off. - & past and the work actually done, the home-maker frequently finds herself “tired to death.” For this there should be some rem- edy. But, betore considering a pleas- ant way out, let us realize the amount of work that it is possible for a person to get done in eight hours. The work- er is not “put upon” by being expect- ed to do more than is humanly possi- ble. Fortunately, it is the woman who does her own work who is able to judge of this. It is the woman who does not do the work who has little idea of time and energy required for accomplishment. It is she who is apt to expect too much. Good Planning. And now let us see the pleasant side of the day when the helper comes. The tasks should be systematically planned, and enough time allowed for each. For this it takes some insight into the worker's ability. A slow worker must be given more time than a quick one, but remember that the extra quick worker is hot apt to b(’ very thorough. It is when a slow worker is also a poor one that she is of no value in the capacity of house- worker. After having a woman work two or three different days for you, her speed limit can be gauged, also her reliability and her trustworthiness. Given a good worker of average quickness who Is reliable and trust worthy, the home-maker can actually enjoy the day when she comes. And it behooves the housewife to set about to find such a person, for there are many to be found. Felicitous Arrangement. During the morning the housewife may gnd it best to help or to be within calling distance so that she can be consulted if necessary, though this eventually may be eliminated. But in the afternoon she can plan “to take her pleasure.” One family known to me does this most successfully. They go out just before noon (the mother and daughter), get their lunch at some inexpensive but excellent restaurant, and then attend a concert, for they live in a city where there are excellent ones. They enjoy a feast of music at small cost and when they return the house is spic and span and such work as has been planned has been done. The worker likes this arrangement, for it leaves her an uninterrupted-time for accomplishing her tasks. Enjoying Good Times. And another.family which has Wed- nesday as helper’s day always goes to a matinee, buying the seats in the second balcony, to be sure, but en- joying themselves immensely and see- ing the best things in town in this in- teresting way. Another family takes the day to visit museums, art galleries, make calls, etc. It will be seen that while making the day one to look forward to with pleasure rather than apprehension, these women are also putting the time to good use, for to know the best music, to see the best plays, to revel in the wonders of art and history are all commendable pleasure, broadening to the mind, and to see the friends one loves is one of the jeys of life. 8o workers’ days can be pleasant ones, it one plans rightly. BY THORNTON W. BURGESS Peter saw that It was another rab. ked like Peter, looked very much like Peter, but was a stranger, “Oh,” said little Mrs. Peter, “I madeé ke! . Do you live here in the a , [Old Pasture? 1Is this your bramble- tangle?” p : “The stranger hopped toward her so that ghe got a better look at him. He was-a handsome ng rabbit. Yes, . ho was & handsome youns rabbir "‘thm answering little Mrs. Peter's he.asked her a question “Who are you?” he demanded. “l am Mrs. Peter Rabbit, and my home is in the dear Old Briar-patch,” Peter, proudly. stared at her very 1 was. little,” said he, dear Old Briar-patch and they called me Little Pete.” ‘Then Mrs. Peter knew that this was children, one who had the Great World and a lopg time gone. They ‘There was no doubt ‘Wasn't that a happy Dr. M. Gibbs, of Lancashire, Eng- land, recently waded waist deep nearly a mile through a flooded district to reach a patient who was suffering THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D 0, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3,198 The Daily Cross-Word Puzzle (Copyright. 1927.) Your Baby and Mine BY MYKTLE MEYER ELDRED. " Birthmarks. he disfigurement of baby's perfect sk’irn with l“;wrrld red mark is always a matter of intense sorrow to the mother. The old-time mother felt her- self responsible. She tried her best to remember some frightening moment which had caused her to “touch” her- self, and she thought that was the cause of the mark. Sometimes her hest efforts at remembrance could not disentangle any event which might be responsible, but she believed, none the less, that in some way her thoughts had gotten the better of her constant vigilance and she had ‘“marked” her child. o We know now that this is mere su- perstition, a relic of those dimmer ages when the lack of understanding of the processes of the body made evil spirits, or the possession of the body by evil spirits, responsible for them. What more natural that when a baby came into the world with strange markings that the mother’s thoughts, evil in themselves or induced by the sight of evil, should be held account- able for them? It is hard to live down superstitions. We understand mnow that these marks are caused by malformation of the tiny veins in the process of the upbuilding of the body. These form a solid red surface instead of staying separate and inconspicuous. The mother's thoughts have nothing to do with it. Nature is not always perfect, neither in plants nor in animals, and sometimes things go wrong, we do not know just why, though undombtedly lack of proper nutrition seems the most logical answer to it. If the marks are on arms, nothing should be done about them; if on the face, as they most often are, they should be removed 8o as not to cause the child embarrass- ment or give him a sense of inferi- ority. Now that halr is practically disap- pearing from the back of our heads, it is noticeable that almost every one has @ birthmark at the base of the skull. This should make it evident to those who persist in being skep- tical about a mother's inability to mark her child, that mothers are not going to have identical experiences the legs or that would make all these identical 3 marks, and yet there they are, for all the world to see. This should at least shake a person’s confidence in such erroneous bellefs, if they still want to cling to them, Birthmarks fall into well classifications — liver .marks, fire marks, moles, hairs—and their re- semblance to any frightening event in a mother's life {8 due purely to super- knowh Little Mrs. Peter, who was fran. tically trying to dig a back door, stopped when she discovered that those little bears were no longer try- ing to get her. As msoon as she dared, she left that hole and scampered away fast as her legs would take her. Never was there a more frightened rabbit than timid little Mrs. Peter, 8he ran untll she came to a fine big bramble-tangle, just the kind of a bramble-tangle that all rabbits love, ‘The minute she saw it she decided that that was the place for her. If there ‘was no little entrance already cut, she ‘would cut one with those sharp teeth of hers. But there was an entrance. There was a nice little path of just the right size, leading right into the heart of that bramble-tangle. Only a Tabbit could cut such a little path as FADED UNDERWEAR Lace-trimmed or That meant that somebody else used, or at least had used, thiy bramble-tang] But little Mrs. Peter didn't care. Bhe darted in and then she drew a long breath and slowly made her way toward the heart of the bramble- tungle. A sudden loud thump made her jump. It was a rabbit thump. There was no mistaking it. She looked In the direction from which it Tailored-useTintex «1e BY far the greater dlvm‘lwfi*hm of or lace-trimmed silks in the I shades. No wonder then is necessity in mil uunlh-u?‘d" - had come and fully expected to see her father, Old Jed Thumper, the gray old rabbit who had lived so long in the Old Pasture. Instead, she saw another rabbit. She couldn't ses him clearly because there were some brambles between. But in that first glimpse she thought it was Peter. 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PEATTIE. ‘We notice the heraldic splendor of the Autumn trees, and even the fire d glory of the bushes, the sumac and azalea, the blueberry and black- berry. How seldom do people notice ‘Autumn colors in more humble plants, in the russet of beardgrass, the gold of the stoneroot, the scarlet of the flowering spurge, the deep crimson of the pinweed and the orange of the evening primrose. ‘For many of the little plants, not 3 inches high, have their own colors, though the mind must adjust itself to behold it; must wee with the eye of an ant lumbering among the grass blades. One little plant there is, though, the three-seeded mercury, which I see everywhere around the District now, that glows in Autumn colors of the most brilliant crimson, and even the unobservant ask me what it is that makes so brave a show. In Summer one would hardly notice this little plant, for its flowers are insignificant, its foliage characterless and monoto- nous. Now it blazes forth in the grass in splendor. As it chances, the little three-seeded mercury belongs to the great botani- cal tribe called acalypha, which in the tropics includes some resplendent shrub Indeed, many people grow acalyphas and their relatives, crotons, in pots on their porches, or have them bedded into formal gardens as annuals by nurserymen. These they call foli- age plants, a loose term, including many unrelated plants, but usually referring to acalypha and croton, Whose leaves are often permanently bronze, or purple, or, scarlet, or vari- ously mottled. In the tropics, where such plants are native, there is seldom any Autumn in our sense of the word, and the ever- green habit is predominant. One misses Autumn color there, but finds Its counterpart, or rather a poor sub- stitute for it, in the formal and som- ber colorings of the crotons and acaly- phas. T prefer the healthier color of our little wild mercury plant, brief as is its hour of glory. Almond Horseshoes. 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He IS|vou suddenly realize that you are in likely to be run over by an automobile | the path of an express train. a speed- or injured in some other way. ing automobile or a wild beast. you A certain amount of fear is whole- | may lose every ounce of strength nnd soma. It is the best danger signal |, bly swoon. In such a case vour you can have. It keeps you alert and | resources ave too meager to war | off increases your chances of living out danger. Hence nature mercifully your allotted span of years. provides for an easy quietus Fear, then, is nature's gift to help| Fear, then, Is a useful gift of na- us. It is useful not only in getting |ture. It enables us to evade or ov away from danger, but also in re-|come danger. Fear is moving the source of fear by attack- | friend instead of an enemy ing it. Under the emotional excite- . ment of fear we are able to perform unusual feats of physical strength. 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