Evening Star Newspaper, November 11, 1927, Page 42

WOMAN'S PAGRE" Kindly Talk About Absent Friends BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. ‘There is a vast difference between gossip and talking about one’s friends. One carries with it a suggestion of tattling that may even degenerate into scandal, while the other indicates as much a kind and friendly interest in WHEN FRIENDS GOSSIP PLEAS- ANTLY ABOUT THOSE THEY KNOW, IT SIGNIFIES A KINDLY INTEREST. the life of those we know, especially intimate friends, as it does anything else. It is a mistake to confuse the two. It i1s also a pity that the old mean- ing of gossip, which was to prate, to chat, to be merry, should have be- come impregnated with the ulterior THE EVENING EMBER 11, WHO REMEMBERS? BY DICK MANSFIELD. Registered. U. 8 Patent Office word gossip continues to carry with it an original significance, for one of | the quaint old dictionaries defines the | AW!MA, 1T DONT | verb gossip as “to be a pot compan-| HuRT Muck Now, ion,” and since the word “pot” meant a mug holding a pint of liquid, and also a vessel in which meat is boiled | on the fire, evidently the prating and | chatting were merrily done while eat- ing and drinking. A “dish of tea” and talk. And so when we sip our after- noon tea or enjoy a meal with a boon companion, what more natural than that we should converse about our friends. But why allow the talk to i | be tinged with cynical or unkindly criticism? Why not instead continue to have it a merry chatter that would make our friends wish they could | overhoar it and rather envy the eav | dropping propensities that the pro | verbial mouse in the wall is reputed | to indulze in. | Welcome Remembrance. There is a delightful sense of se- curity and good fellowship in the | thought that some of our friends when they get together let us become a part of the conversation, by being talked about, since we cannot be con- versed with. We know that they will good things of us, how: tailed the chatter may be. We real- ize that it is because we are all such intimates we occupy any of their time and attention. ‘We appreciate that whatever one does or whatever befalls another and is a source of pleasure or sorrow is of concern to them, and that they rejoice or mourn with each other even though sepa- rated. The “Gossipy Letter.” The word gossip is sometimes used with a certain degree of its primitive meaning when a friend asks us to write her a ‘‘gossi etter.” The idea of unfriendli: i r from her thoughts, and as for ndal about them or any one it 11 more re- mote from her mind. Rather does she mean that while she is y her in- terest in the events of the s of her friends continues actively to concern her. In other words she wants to “keep 1n touch” with those she loves and those she knows as acquaintances as well, and this is the means of do- ing so. - There are many nice things that are to be known of people, and these can be spoken or written of without any but the nicest of “gossip.’ even when there are adverse situa- tions and complications in the lives of those we know, a friendly aspect can be given them rather than one of censure. A Universal Wish” It would be a sorry state of affairs it we were to think that no one cared enough about us to talk of us some- times when we are absent, that out of sight meant out of mind. But we do trust that the conversation will be one of friendly interest, the sort of gossip that is implied in the first sense of the word, without any trace of its present motive. The final syllable of the BEDTIME STORIE Peter Is Sorely Puzzled. Peter Rabbit was back in the Old Pasture. He had wasted no time in getting there. Just as soon as he heard the rumor that little Mrs. Peter ‘was up in the Old Pasture he started. But he didn’t go about looking for her boldly. No, sir, he didn’t go about openly. I might say he sneaked about. He started to search through that Old Pasture, trying all the time to see, but not be seen. “I'll surprise them together,” Peter muttered to himself. “I'll surprise reprehensible meaning. BY THORNTON W. BURGESS little muddy spot and looked at one of those footprints closely. “It certainly looks like Mrs. Peter’s,” said he to himself. “It certainly looks like Mrs. Peter's footprint. But the scent in it isn’t the scent of Mrs. Peter. Now, what am I to make of that? % There being no one to answer that question, Peter finally moved on. He ‘would try to find the maker of those footprints. After & time. he came to a bramble-tangle. He took care to ap- proach it very cautiously. He didn’t want to be heard and he didn’t want to be seen. He didn't want to be smelled. So, he took care that none of the Merry Little Breezes would have a chance to carry his scent into that bramble-tangle. Peering between the brambles, Peter at length made out some one sitting in a form. It looked like little Mrs. Peter. It looked -so much like little ver de- | Mrs. Peter that he was on the point of speaking to her. Then she lifted her head and Peter saw that it wasn’t could wait to find out who this stranger was. The thing to do now was to find Mrs. Peter and the hand- some stranger. (Covyright. 1927.) et of Nane n e 0 her, dats: ot 'this n;‘re a stamped. self addr o her leaflet on child ca was a big dose of sulphur in your throat, administered with a goose quill by mother? And the remedy was used every time there was a symptom of “neck trouble”? Simpler the Little Party. *Smarter and Saner It Is BY FLORENCE LA GANK — Of one thing Aunt Nancy was ce tain—her nicce Joan was mnot goins to be taught that birthday parties were nothing but an occasion fop gifts. She did wish that mothers would omit parties for little children altogether. But failing that, she hoped against hope that children would not put undue emphasis on presents. That was why she emphasized sim- plicity for little Joan. She had this invitation and Aunt Nancy felt she must let her go to the party. But from her dressing—even her under- garments—to her present which she took the keynote was sintplicity. She wore little French drawers of fine batiste with simple lace edging. The legs were tight fitting and a draw string held them snugly at the back. The under waist was sheer and plai Her dress was of pale pink voile with hand-run tucks as its only trim- ming. The tucks at the yoke gave little Mrs. Peter at all. It was a good- | fullness to the abbreviated sleeves. lookifig young rabbit, who was a total | Her present was a box of plain, white stranger to him. He opened his mouth | handkerchiefs. Even the gift Box was to speak and then closed it again. He | simply tied, (Copyright. 1927.) Bringing up children properly 1 Nancy Page's leaflet on child £ . inclosing envelope, and get | been what you see ‘When the worst thing in the world | TAR, WASHINGTON, D. 6., FRIDAY. NOV Are You Locking the Stabdle in Time? Gives Timely DorothyDix %=+ Almost Impossible to Regain When Once Lost? Marital Love, the Answer. ng woman. Slender, well-groomed, well-read, and interesting in conversation. Yet her iother woman and forced her to divorce him arry this other woman. = ives if a man can’t he satisfied with one such as friend who had introduced us. “What do Angels? Or what have you? I should GQHE was a_stunning-lool ) gracious in manner husband had_dese so that he might Heaven help all” wi she I said later to the mutu men want, anyway? Goddess | think that any hushand who F “Pe her, bu s is the case of locking the rage door after husband I & the broad highway. as an awfully pretty and t made every woman who and full of fun and a pleasure-loving lad, k that matrimony gives foucnt think “You see when Jimmy married attractive young girl, and dolled up in cloth w her she got them. And ready for everything, Jimmy, who it with a roving eye for every good fell for her. “But Sally was one of the girls who thi woman carte blanche to slump, and leave off he around the house. So she let herself get fat and frow it worth while to dress up for Jimmy. There wer he quit going out anywhere, or reading anything, hecause hildren took up all of her time, although she had a good nu that she w: tually glad when Jimmy would go away of leave her free to eat chocolates, and practice her infant-wors . v e e . She got so n evening and iping act. “ NDERSTAND, I am not justifying Jimmy. Far from it. I am just explaining how it happened, and how Sally lost out. e let herself get stout and homely and dull, and she didn't make the slightest effort to be attractive either in mind or body to Jimm: And I say that if he is to blame for wandering off e was guilty, at le of contributory negligence, in not looking after her fences. “Well, of course, the usual thing happened. Gentlemen prefer blonds with hoyish figures, who are always willing to step out with them, to fat home-staying wives who have nothing to talk about but the haby's colic and the price of butcher's meat. who specialize in disgruntled married men nailed hat he was tired of her and had learned to ‘Well, the shock “One of the vamps Jimmy and he told poor Sally love another, etc., and would she kindly give him a divorce. of it waked her up. “You see she was under the common delusion that once you have caught a man and dr: ed him to the altar and put your brand upon him, he is yours for keeps, and that there is no possibie danger of his getting lost, strayed or stolen. Also, he fondiy imagined that other women would respect her property rights. She didn’t know that it isn’t enough to catch a man once. You have to do it over again every day of your life. “Well, anyway, as I sald, when Jimmy told her that she was no longer it, she shed barrels of tears, and then she had a secret session with her mirror. And perhaps what she saw in it made her feel that she didn't blame Jimmy ]v(-‘.dr,\’lmuch, for she certainly did look like a wife and mother instead.of a lady-love. “Thereupon she got busy. She went on a diet; and lost about 50 pounds, and the beauty parlors and the milliners and the dressmakers got enough to, declare a dividend on her. Then she took a few dancing lessons, and haunted’ lectures and theaters, and emerged the attractive creature you see before you. “But it was too late. The harm was done. Jimmy was in the clutches of another woman. Besides, you can't recreate an illusion. You can't summbn babck ndr:\!lr‘lnmklm that has been dispelled. You can't blow ashes at have burned themselves out into a flame again. A v deadest of all dead things. o ehiaaalh “Now, my point is this: That Sally couldn’t win Jimmy's love after she had once lost it, but that she never would have lost his love if she had made the same effort to keep it that she did to get it back. “If she had kept herself easy on the eyes; if she had played around with him gnd used the arts and wiles upon him to hold him that she did to get him, the chances are 99 in 100 that she never would have lost her charm for him, and that there never would have been any other woman in his life. JROR love 15 one of the cases in which an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, and a ton of repentance. It is easy to keep love, but it_is impossible to get ® back once we have lost it. “Every day I see wives killing their husbands’ love by their nagging, by their fretting, by their peevish complaints, by making their homes so uncomfortable for them that they flee from them as they would from purgatory. « .o “And I know that before long these women are going to come and weep on my breast and ask me how they can get back the men they have driven away from them, and nobody could tell them that. “And every day I see husbands starving their wives' love to death by their neglect, or killing it by their brutality and stinginess, and 1 know that in a little while they will be complaining that their wives care nothing for them and regard them merely as meal tickets. “If husbands and wives devoted half jas much time and trouble and thought to keeping their matrimonial partners in love with them as they do to win back the affections they have lost, there would be very few unhappy marriages. For marriage is never a failure as long as there is love in it.” DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1027.) E\\'hat Is It That’s Hard to Get, Easy to Keep zmd1 1927. MILADY B BY LOIS Menus by Calories. | I have promised one of the writers Lo this column that 1 would give her the caloihc values of the food she eats. | 1 like her would spend the balance of | lly, “if Sally had always | baby is quite an average weight con- Rice and Nut Loaf. ‘Three cups cooked rice, one and one- quarter teaspoons salt, three table- spoons _ finely minced ~onlon, three large tomatoes, two cups white sauce, threg-quarters cup chopped nut meats, two tablespoons margarin, three table- spoons chopped green pepper, one and one-quarter cups cooked peas. Cook the onion seasoned with the and serve this vegetable combination with a sauce for the rice'mold. Pour the white sauce, combined with part of the tomato pulp, over the whole dish. This recipe gives opportunity for con- siderable variation. For example, if the canned tomatoes are used, it is en- tirely a matter of judgment as to whether white sauce is merely flavored with tomato juice or whether the mix- ture is made into what is practically IN SOFT, DAMP PLACES HE FOUND FOOTPRINTS. them together. Then we'll see what Mrs. Peter will have to say.” He no longer called her “Fuzzy” even to himself. By “them” Peter meant Mrs. Peter and the handsome young rabbit he had heard about. He was abso- lutely sure that Mrs. Peter had gone off with that handsome young rabbit. Now he wanted to find them tgether. My, but he was in a bad temper! ‘Almost right away he found signs of rabbits in the Old Pasture which had not been there when he had left it. He found where more new paths had been cut through bramble-tangles. In soft, damp places he found footprints. The first of these he found were Mrs. Peter’s. There wasn’t any doubt about about it. The scent of Mrs. Peter was in them. They were smaller foot- prints than his own; smaller than those of the strange rabbit or of Old Jed Thumper. Peter started to fol- low them. Pretty soon he came ot a place where there were tracks every- where and he couldn’t seem to follow them. But after a little while he found a single line of tracks leading away from that place. They were just the size of Mrs. Peter's. Peter hur- ried along, following them. But pres- ently he became aware that there vas something wrong about those tracks. He smelled of them. He didn't get the scent of little Mrs. Peter at all. No, sir, he didn’t. The scent he got was a new one. Certainly it was the scent of a rabbit, but a strange rabbit. Peter was puzzied. He went back to a Everyday Law Cases Is Insenity @ Defense in @& Civil Action? BY THE COUNSELLOR. Suddenly becoming insane, Samuel Thomas ran amuck: in his house and then escaped to the outside where he hid in the granary in a barn on the premises. Samuel’s brother discovered his hid- ing place and tried to capture him, but was halted by a pistol shot. Presently flames were seen breaking out at the barn. At this time Sarah Bush went from the house toward the barn, when the lunatic appeared and called upon her to halt. She turned back to the house when Thomas fired and killed her. The administrator of Mrs. Bush sued the administrator of Thomas' es- tate, Thomas having perished in the flames, to recover damages for her death, At the trial, Thomas’ administrator declared that the estate should not be liable in damages for the wrong committed, as Thomas was insane when the act was committed. But the court allowed a verdict for damages to be brought in by the jury trying the case, stating: “It is well settled that though a lunatic -8 not punishable criminally, he is liable in a civil action for any tort he may commit, except in those cases where intent to do the wrong is necessary.” (Copyright. 1927.) 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Go from WIRE to KALE in five shots. the money back to you? Go from CAME to WENT in four shots. moves even faster than t PRINT your “stroke: CAKE Isn't it a relief when he shoets Alas, the dough we have met WIRE CENT Washington History BY DONALD A. CRAIG. November 11, 1800.—President Ad- ams, Federalist, was defeated for re- election today. He received only 65 electoral votes. Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr, Republicans, each re- ceived 73 electoral votes. There being no choice, the House of Representa- tives will choose the next President. Voting in the city of Washington and Georgetown was very close. The Fed- eralists carried Georgetown by the narrow margin of 14 votes, while the Republicans, voting for Jefferson and Burr, won out at Bladensburg by 10 votes, The election districts of Maryland were changed last Spring, Georgetown being made the polling place for the fifth election district, including all that part of Montgomery County, Md., Iying within the Territory of Colum- bia. Bladensburg was made the poll- ing place for Prince Georges County, Md., which includes the city of Wash- ington. At the election of members of the Maryland Legislature, in which citi- zens of Georgetown and Washington took part, on the 6th of last month, the Federalists were in the majority at both polling places. The contest this year between the Federalists and Jeffersonian Republicans has been very bitter, Great indignation was caused at the October election in Georgetown when a flle of United States Marines appeared at the polling place. The Federalist organ has since explained that they were present merely to watch for deserters from the local barracks. i November 11, 1919.—The Prince of Wales arrived in Washington on a visit today. . November 11, 1921.—The Unknown Soldier was buried today at Arlington. 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Keeping A Schoolgirl Complexion By VILMA BANKY © 1927 Fanchon Beauty Features The only RIGHT soap for you is a complexion soap MANY soaps may be good for laundering or household use, but you'd hardly.expect them to ex- cel for personal uses as well. Hence those wise in beauty culture warn against touching the face with any but a true complexion soap. For today the important rule in keeping skin clean and pores open with soap and water lies in using a complexion soap. One made pri- marily for facial use. Soaps in- tended for other things are apt to be too harsh for the skin. Thus, largely on expert advice, millions use Palmolive Soap, made of cosmetic oils, for one purpose only —to protect and beautify the skin. Wash the face ;zently with Palmolive, Massage its balmy olive and palm oil lather into the skin, Rinse with er; then with cold. If your skin is inclined to be naturally dry, apply a little good cold cream. That is all—it's nature’s rule for keeping that schoolgirl complexion. Do that regularly, and particu- larly before bed. Never let powder, rouge or make-up remain on your skin over night. Note how much better your skin in even one week. Get Palmolive today. Costs but 10c a cake. Use no other on your face. But be sure you get GEN- UINE Palmolive. Crude imitations, represented to be of olive and palm oils, are not the same as Palmolive. Remember that and take care. The Palmolive-Pest Co., Chicago, U.S.As This young woman, who is 5 feet 3 uches tall, leads an active life and re Juires about 2,400 calories daily as her maintenance diet. The menus | | availabie for her at the restaurant | srange juice | wheat biscuil Smart Lightning. | One of the cleverest and most ef- c designs is that | en taken in almost per- | reproduction of lightning. 1t goes | particularly well on sweaters which | this Fall are taking to patterns of | bold splashiness. | Spectacular_color combinations are not tried, with such a sensational de- sign. Brown and tan and black and aray are the most usual combinatio The original lightning sweater wa designed by Worth. Your Baby and Mine BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED. Mrs. H. S. P.: “My 5-month-old baby is fed every four hours and has gainad from 7 pounds at bifth to 20 pounds. I have been giving him graham crack ers and-a little ice cream every day, but people tell me not to do, this would like your advice.” Answer—Your baby is already tre- mendously overweight, in spite of its | four-hour diet. You are making a great mistake to give ice cream and | graham crackers, not because there is anything harmful in either food, but because they do not belong in the diet list of the well fed child of 5 months. _ The baby is getting all the milk and cream he needs in your present for- a, which 1 imagine is already too much for him. The graham crackers | are sometimes very effective in com bating constipation, but in most cases | it is better to use as the starchy food of this period well cooked cereal. In addition to this, it is a bad policy to give babies tastes of food. Give them the things they need in their increasing menu, at regular periods. You are beginning bad feeding habits that later you will deplore. I would add cod liver oil to the pres- ent diet, which is fine, and give the baby playthings made of rubber or other materials which he can't bite off in chunks. He ought to forget the habit. < Mrs. E. P.: A baby of 3 months can take 5 ounces of food at a meal. You are nursing the baby and giving 6 ounces in addition. I often wonder how babies stand what they do. The sidering its birth weight and its whole formula (not counting breast feedings) would be 18 ounces of milk, 16 of water and 4 level tablespoonfuls of sugar. You can expect that the baby will get at least half his nourishment from you, so_ one-half this amount should” be sufficient for the comiple- mentary_feedings. Mrs. E. M. 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The same proportions may be used _for_making pineapple preserves. * % Flash keeps hats and neckties new | m where she is employed are as follows: | 7 am. meal—1 glassful pure | oranges) 200 C.; 2 muf- blespoonful butter, 350 0 . ns with 1 Total, 5 . 10:30 a.m., second meal—4 table <poonfuls grape nuts or 2.shredded C.; with J4-cup and 1 scant table- 25 C. on them; 1 egx | p slices of bacon, . 85 C.i 1 slice bread 5 (. 4 medium prunes poonsful juice, 200 C.| vhole milk, spoonful sug: fried with 4 cr las with 4 t Total, 785 third meal—2 slices roast | C., for 3 ounces boiled ham 230 C.): 3 heaping tablespoonfuls boiled cabbage, 10 C.; 1 cup carrots, 100 C slices bread and butter, 300 C. serving of pudding, 200 C.; glass of milk, 85 C. Total, 930 C. | The grand total amounts to about 265 calories, which is 135 short of maintenance diet. p 1 suggest a salad made of an aver- ge helping of lettuce, 1 teaspoonful yonnaise dressing, an apple and one large chopped date or raisins. 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