Evening Star Newspaper, November 3, 1927, Page 41

WOMAN'S P The Sidewalks B8Y THORNTON FISH.ER. uction Sale of Dead Parcel Post” greets the Post Office patrons as they enter or leave the General Post Ofice Building or the structure on Pennsyl- Vvania Avenue. ' To the aver- age observer| this may have no significance, but to| him or to her who digs below the top soll . of human things. the cold paipted letters of] the sign reveal a drama. The dead letter}’ division, too, might tell stories far be- vond the stretch f the imagina- tion.. For example, .let us suggest the Jetter or parcel that was sent to i mother—and never' reached home; the . parcel of clothing that never reached its destination; the tender hands which ‘wrapped a pair, it you ple of hosiery for a loved one: a box of homemade candy. These to be knocked down for a price. Codfish, one might say, to calico. Letters of forgiveness, of love, of proposals which went astra; Blasted hopes, disappointed lives, dead parcel post, dead letters. * ok kK ‘Those deaxr children. Just across Key Bridge, on Hal- loweern, two young lads set fire to the hayricks of a citizen. The damage amounted to about $40. The Fire Department was called out to adjoining hou: The parents pr tested -that as prank. Inasmuch as the fi naced the property. of your correspondent, it is hoped that saluta measures were administered to prevent a repetition of the :prank. We remember that, when a high school boy, we set out to upset a shed of a neighbor who, we suspected, was once @ lad. _Six or seven of us pushed over a building of more or less value to the owner, and for our trouble received a round of shots which sent us on our heels. One of the bullets happened to become embedded in the leg of a companion. His parents. incensed at the outrage, threatened suit for damages, but the action was thrown: out of court. * % ¥ x The writer recently had breakfast with a young man who had a business engagement in New York. In itself 1hat isn’t remarkable, until we add that we also had lunch together here. Need we suggest that he flew to YOUR BY PROF. JOSEPH JASTROW. Intelfigence and Good Sense. Is the ability to learn in school any test of good judgment in the ordinary affairs of Kfe? Does learning go with common sense? There's a common hellef that plain practical sense and hook learming are at odds. It would he hard to prove it one way or the other. The truth may be that they are fairly independent, that learning neither helps nor hinders good judg- ment. So much depends upon whse wou put your mind to. A goad business man is supposed to exercise good judg- ment in practical affairs. But outside of his own field he may invest in beliefs that would be gold bricks as a financial ven He may fall’-Tor, notions that Ja professional® mén, trained in handliiig idess, would dis- miss as nomsense. A Spanish proverb says that the wisest man is at a dis- advantage in a strange house. Here is a little test: One hundred boys and 100 girls in a high school, about 17 years old, check off their opinions, as true or false, of 40 state- ments like these: A child is born with a knowledge of good and evil; the lines in your hand tell your fortune; women are not as intelligent as men; people sometimes grow feeble-minded from overstudy; Friday is an unlucky day; some animals are as intelligent as the average man. Do you believe any of these notions or would you call them all false? One might get up a new kind of “‘ask-me- another” on this plan, to test your good sense rather than your stock of information. Some of these statements are quite absurd; others are more wrong than right; and others could be argued either way. To believe some of them ‘would count heavily against your good sense, others moderately, others light- ly if at all. But so far as rough or average results go, it appeared that except for three boys, no one had & really creditable score on the side of ; | awake until 2:30 this morning And How to Keep It Fit AGE, of Washington There are ghosts in Washington. Your correspondent has been taken through at least a half-dozen houses in which restless spirits move about for apparently no other reason than to annoy andfif frighten the in- habitants. night we were ledp) upstairs to the at-f' tic of a_historical place and asked to l1isten. The| owner of place was proud of ghosts as a voung| father of his firs born. “Now you will said he, “you w hear them. The always come | this time of night and tramp around { the house.” ; {Well, we listened, but couldn’t hear {a thing. Our host led us up a webby | flight of stairs and stopped on the {1anding a few steps from the attic |*“There it is. Hear it?” said he. We were ashamed to say that we didn't hear a sound. We would have re. fused to sleep in the attic, however. * ¥ %k ¥ There is a house in the city, though, which has a couple of very fine ghosts, The place is now owned and occupied by a nationally known society. Only a few days ago we heard chains rattle on the third floor and saw a door close without the aid of a human |hand. We discovered, in the first in- | stance. that the janitor was removing {2 chain chandel and in the second {instance, a brisk wind had slammed the door. * % oK One is likely to see and hear curious | things in a hotel lobby. We were kept sten- ing to the tale of a traveling man | whose daughter had had her tonsils removed. Now, a tonsil among friends | is nothing to wax eloguent about, but somehow, when one or one's own is deprived of such parts, the cleaving of a tonsil assumes proportions rather inconsistent with their utility. fik | It is rather interesting, in this com- mercial age, to discover a man who has the courage of his convictions. There is a news dealer in Washington who sells only those magazines which he himself reads. His choice of peri- odicals is not really “high-brow,” but they do represent editing of a su- perior sort. MIND good judgment. Girls don’t do as well as boys. Boys and girls don’t differ much in what they are inclined to be- lieye. Few have any faith in the “Fri- day” notion; boys were more inclined to take stock in the “blonde” notion than the girls. When a similar test was made upon grown-up men and women, it appeared that at age 17 your head contains more false notions than later on. Experience does some- thing after you leave school. Women remain more credulous than men. But the chief result is this: If you rate those boys and girls by their tested in- THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO! THE DAILY HOROSCOPE Friday, November 4. Contending planetary influences will mark tomorrow, according to astrol- ogy. which finds the early hours much more fortunate than the evening. All who seek employment should make good use .of the morning hous when there will be a chance for care- ful consideration of personal repre- sentations. 1t is a fairly Jucky day for all who ngaged in work that is produc- or constructive. Kngineers are especially well directed while this positing of the stars continues. Journeys are supposed to be fortu- nate, it begun in‘the mornin prognostication is that tr exteasive all through the Winter. The evening should be an auspicious time for association with persons of power and influence. After sundown, the sway favors con- terences and discussions; lucky for politicians and promoters. Prices for food and clothing will ad- vance sharply until the end of De- cember, it is forecast. Italy now will come much to the front in newspaper accounts, it is foretold. Egypt, also, will furnish ma- terial for sensational headlines, if the stars are rightly read. Editors and magazine contributors may expect unfair criticism in the coming months. Unusual _strain on the postal serv- ice is indicated for the next few months, Persons whose birth date it is have the augury of profit in the coming year, which should be generally pros- perous. NANCY PAGE Peter and Nancy Celebrate First Wedding Anniversary BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. Nancy wondered whether Peter would remember that their first wed- was approaching. need to wonder. Peter had a good memory. He adored Nancy and she considered him quite the ideal husband. “The first wedding anniversary is cotton,” said Peter. “Very well, that's easy. We will have snowy white re- freshments.” Which they did. The crowd played bridge first. Refresh- meng were served early, for there were two parts to the evening's en- tertainment. - It was a cold night so they had piping hot clam broth with whipped cream as a garnish. Then came balls of creamy cottage cheese, served with apple butter and corn meal Parker house rolls. The ice cream was in telligence, you find no difference in 8ood sense as thus indicated and good Intelligence. ~That doesn’t settle the matter. It's just a feeler. A good mind must be strong in both qualities. Your good judgment about what to believe seems to depend upon the gen- eral factors in your make-up and your surroundings, your reactions to ex- perience rather than to book learning. Much of it you take on, like your views on politics, from the opinions about you. But even here you select; you become critical. What we need is a way to test how critical you are before you make mistakes by poor Judgment. The wise man learns by others’ mistakes. The conclusion is rather a sad comment upon our edu- cation. ‘We should be able to educate for good sense as well as sound infor- mation. Removing ignorance is only @ step in training the mind. (Copyright, 1027.) —_— Apricot or Prune Pie. Cook the following until slightly thickened: One cupful of fruit pulp one cupful of water or juice, three tablespoonfuls of flour, one-half a cup- ful of grated coconut, one-half a cup- ful of sugar, two tablespoonfuls of butter and one lemon, grated rind and Juice, if prunes are used. Pour into an uncooked pie shell, cover with a top crust, and bake until brown in a hot oven. shape of balls nested in pale green spun sugar. After the refreshments each guest was given a small patch work box filled with cotton patches. From these each one was to fashion a flower, an animal or a human being. Scissors and paste pot were aids. The crea- tions were pasted on to squares of black cardboard. (Copyright. 1927,) Ernest McGroucher, who hadn’t missed the 7:43 in five years, spoils his record by insisting on two more Pillsbury’s pancakes. Any man would agree that catching a train is far less important than two more Pillsbury’s pancakes. You'll find that men like them even better than the old-fashioned kind—they’re light, tender, delicious, easy to digest. And they’re easier to make--gimply add water or milk to Pillsbury’s Pancake Flour and bake—in a few minutes you'll have the finest pancakes you've ever tasted! Pillsbu " PancakeFlour | rys t caade of the same pure, high-aualisy ingTedicass yow we i 20u7 QB isclgn ' | make you think c | | | | | | DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER _BOX Sane Advice to the Grieving Mother Who Has Lost Her Baby—The Discouraged Business Girl Who Seems in a Rut. EAR DOROTHY DIX: My baby died two yedrs ago and it has left me ‘crushed and bitter toward every one. Even my husband wonders at how I am changed. If it were not for my two other children ? would try to find work that might help me forget. What can 1 do. o gain back my old interest In everything? MRS. K. Answer: Is it not possible for you to o away from home, off on a trip or on a visit somewhere, for a couple of months? It would be worth your making -almost any sacrifice to do. because it would save your reason and save your home. cnes and new places. new faces, new foed, would bring back ¢ v adjustment. Tt would take you out of yemrself and 'r things besides your loss. “After we have brooded over any trouble for a long time we lose the ability to shake off the dark cloud that enfolds us. If you cannot leave home, I think it would be a good plan to get some- else to-take care of your children and for you to get work outside of your home for a time. The new difficulties that you would encounter and the extra effort you would have to make would not leave you time to dwell upon your sorrow. And you would have to force a cheerfulness with which to meet the outside world that would help to cure you. Also it would be a. good thing for you if you were separated from your other children for a while, because that would cause you to take a saner view of your loss and make you see how much you still had to be thankful for. 3 hod But in the end, dear lady, you alone must fight your own battle, alone can minister to your mind, and whether you rise above your sorrow ae are crushed by it depends upon your own courage. To lose & baby is a great and terrible grief. So long as you live your heart will ache for the little one but if all the mothers who have wept above little graves let their loss turg them hard and bitter, as you have done, what a terrible world this would het Most of them have let their sorrows sanctify them and make them more loving, more tender, more pitiful to all weak and helpless creatures. You Last Summer, on a ship coming home from Europe, I me mother us you are. She had lost her ouly son, a aplendid youns e Tt & promise, and she had grieved over him until, thinking she was going erazy, her husband took her to France to consult a famous neurologist. This phyaician took the woman in a car and they drove and drove and drove through villages that had borne the brunt and shock of the war, and at the last he said to hert “Madam, in every one of these houses is a woman who has lost a son. In | many ‘of them there are women who have lost three or four or five sons. How do you dare to compare your e courage to bear your sorrow nobl { with thei Go home and have the So T say to you. Be hrave enough to put your grief behind you and hl\‘e for (h?se \\'h‘n need you and depend upon you, Deny yourself the morbid pleasure of nursing your sorrows. Dry your tear i smile that won't come off. gk T Or else a worse fate will befall you, your other children as well as your baby. a gloomy house or with & weeping woman. her to some more cheerful place and perso: o e WY D R MISS DI for you will lose your husband and Men and children will not stay in In self-defense they will fly from n. DOROTHY DIX. 1 have been working in the same position for more than 10 vears and, so far as I can see, there does not seem to be of advancement. "The salary is not bad, but I am not learning anything. = Do vou think I should strike out and take a chance at something else or muke u my mind to stick to the same old position? MISS MICAWBER, Answer: 1f you are sure that you are in a blind alley I wi vise v by all means to get out of it. Do not stay in an ymsltiu’r} (hflgutllze?ldr‘ll!?olfl?:;‘ you a future. Nothing turns work into drudgery so quickly as the fee that one has reached the limit of what one can do in that particular line that every day's labor will be just going t e treadmill without ever getting anywhere. our work slumps and our morale breaks. our efforts. and round and round the same old Insensibly under such conditions It takes ambition to put pep into Women are very apt to get habit-bound, anyway, and so it is for them to_change their environment every now and fhen, luutn g;‘:o;‘le;helr:gl principles. Many & girl who never had a beau in her home town is given a rush and mekes a fine marriage if she moves to a different part of the countr any a woman who has endured a cranky hoss or stayed in a little job that she was afraid to leave gets fired and finds' i Job that she was afral nds’ that it has opened the 0 Of course, it 1sn't well to be always changing positions foolish to stick to a poor job too long. Find out what you what vou have a talent for doing. t you are thoroughly competent, and then hunt around until you eca position where good work will be appreciated and where the apporarne have no limit but the sky. DOROTHY DIX. but it is equally want to do and (Copyright, 19! Washington in a frame building on Judiciary Square. Later the city bought the square bounded by M, N, Sixth and Seventh streets northwest, where a new poorhouse was erected. November 3, 1842—It is announced in the newspapers today that Congress has appropriated money to erect lamp posts and provide oil for lighting Pennsylvania avenue between the Cap- itol and the White House. The city, however, is already looking forward to the early lighting of the evenue by the new method—illuminating gas. Congress is expected to authorize soon the organization of the Washington Gas Light Co. Today in Washington History BY DONALD A. CRAIG. November 3, 1810—The corporation of Georgetown today enacted an ordi- nance for the renting of a house to keep in custody and set to work va- grants arrested within the town limits —in other'words, a work house. An ordinance was also enacted today giv- ing permission to the levy court of ‘Washington to use the Georgetown Jall for prisoners arrested east of Rock Creek. The Female Benevolent Society of Georgetown is trying to relieve the condition of the poor of the town. Poor women are given spinning and weaving to do. Wheels, reels and cards are being lent by the society, which is also an agency for the sa of the manufactured articles, Cloth- ing is supplied to girls, 50 they can attend school, and provisions and cloth- ing are given to others who are unable to help themselves. A poorhouse the McCreary Chinese exclusion bill and the extra session came to an end. November 3, 1809—Peary’s polar records were approved by the Nation- al Geographic Society. -— Dark carmine has taken the place of scarlet for lipsticks in Paris, and observers say it shows that gentle- men there now prefer brunettes. the family asks for cheese. Phenix has raised it to such tempting perfection. Varieties: American, Swiss, Pimiento, Brick, Limburger Sizes: 1, %3, %4 Ib. packages. Or cuxitom the -lb. loaf any prospect: ling | Learn how to do that thing well, so that | was first maintained in the City of | November 3, 1893—Congress enacted | FPEATURES. MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN. Everyday Law Cases " May court Compel Physical Ezamination of Person Suing for Injuries? BY THE COUNSELLOR. I . | Jennie Richards was injured by a | Ny street car. She entered suit against | | the car company. stating that because of its negligence she “was rendered | unconscious, her left leg injured, her 1nervoun system disordered and that her injuries were permanent.” | Before the date of trial the company | filed a petition requesting the court to i | order that Jennie submit to an exami- | nation by ian whom they | named, in order that the extent of her i | injuries might be determined. i | Jennie was averse to having herself | examined, and requested her counsel |to combat the granting of the com-| | pany’s request. As a result of the| { hearing on the petition the court de-| | clared: | A Doll Wig. One mother says: My little girl was inclined to be very tearful when we decided it \\'an! best to have her long curls cut off, | until I told her I would have a curly wig made of them for her large doll. | This so pleased her*that she could | hardly wait to visit the barber—and | the wigmaker. (Copyright, 102 LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. ) ! i ONTHS ahead, r Mary Watkins was sitting on hel frunt steps on 2 cushions and I wawk; ed over slow wondering if she was still mad at me for making her laff and show the empty space ware her tooth was, and she dident get up and | go in the house wen she saw me, proving at leest she wasent as mad as | | she was, and I sed, Hello. Her not saying enything, and I sed, | T think its reel becoming. { Meening the empty space, and she sed, O go on, your jest saying that.| No I aint either, and if you wunt | proof heers a pome I wrote about it, | I sed. 1 And I took it out of my pockit and gave it to her, being wrote in ink with a lot of harts around it with ar- rows sticking through them, being two verses as follew Your teeth are pretty wen their in, Of that there is no doubt. And wats even more unusual, Thelr pritty wen their out. ‘There are spaces on the prairie, There are spaces on the sea, | But the space your tooth did occupy ! Is the fairest space to me. Her reeding it and saying, O, 1 i think thats perfeckly bewtiful. ‘Well, its the truth, I sed. And I sat alongside of her and we | | tawked ahout diffrent subjecks, hkr" tawking naturel and laffing wide ol spicesiswatched by Chicago Sweet Pickles Sour Pickles Sweet Relish the space eny more or not. Proving wat you cant help you awt | to be proud of. i ‘Washes out spots and stre: 2 Whitens Sterilizes Won’t harm Fabrics ‘Won't fade Fast Colors DUZ — Combines UBBLING Oxygea, the sow discooery in soap m . N washing in tho of homes. Washes out all spots and streaks of tea, coffee, fruit, blood, etc. Also whitens Won't harm ‘Won't fade fast colors. Soften and whiten the hands. The inDuz isthe same you breathe. Just as the blood comes to the lungs to be “washed” with oxygen — in the same gentle way.Duz Oxy, Suds clesase and parify clothes in mm washing machine. ; As Duz dissolves, it makes millions of 41 “The courts of this country are in hopeless conflict upeh the question be- . fore us. Many courts hold that they have autherity to order the examiina- tion requested; others hold to the cone trary. By statute or by decision, the power of the court to compel such ex- amination upheld in Alabama, Ar- kansas, Colorado. Georgla, Iowa, In- diana, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wash- ington and Wisconsin. Among the States In which it has been denied are Illinois, Massachusetts, Texas, Mon- tana, South Carolina, Oklahoma and Ctah.” (Covvrisht. 1027.) 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