Evening Star Newspaper, November 15, 1927, Page 42

‘WOMAN'’S PAGE. The Sidewalks BY THORNTON FISHER. The green, ticketed immigrant is ot a _common sight in Washington, and when he does appear he is likely to attract considerable attention, as ‘well as furnish smiles for the unthink- ing ones. Just the other day a be- ‘wildered little group disembarked from a New York train and entered the waiting room at Union Station, where the newcomers were met by friends. ‘The small foreign boy would soon adapt himself to his new environment; the parents were obviously beyond the age of adjustment to the strange, new world to which they had committed their destiny. Of such stock came Joseph Pulitzer and others whose names and achiev ments are the pride of this country. Dr. 8. Parkes Cadman struggled in the coal mines of Wales when a boy. Harry Wardman learned the carpen- ter's” trade before he shipped for America. Mr. Wardman was born and raised in the little village of Bradford, Yorkshire, England, about 200 miles north of London and a short distance mouth of Scotland. Thirty-seven years ago he set =ail for America. His achievements here are local history. * % ¥ X Those who envy a Congressman his Job should spend a day with one of ¢*em. The demands from constituents are almost inconceivable. is is true | when a Congress- man_ represents a district containing a considerable for- eign element. For illustration, an im- migrant friend is detained at Ellis Island for one or a dozen reasons. An appeal is sent to the representa- tiva to use his of: fices in procuring & vou OND 1T - PIOUND WIS NECK. This means that | he must visit the Department of Labor on behalf of the unforiunate. The papers are sent to Washington for a hearing be- fore the Board of Special Review and the Congressman appears personally to see that his constituent’s friend or relative gets in or he learns why he is to be deported. The writer, on one of his visits to Ellis Island, witnessed the desperation of several immigrants in their efforts to break through Uncle Sam's barrier. One was a pro- fessionai “strong man” from Russia. He was a powerful fellow, standing well over six feet. His great arms, bull neck and crushing fingers were convincing evidence of the tremendous strength of the man. He was weeping witen they lad him through the bar- red inclosure. He did not want to go back. He would prove his right to enter. Opening his cheap, cardboard suit case, he extracted a deck of cards. These cards were larger and thicker than American cards. There was something of the showman about the of Washington ightly in his strong hands, he raised ;(ihnim- high_above his head and gazed about. Suddenly with a stage flourish, he ripped the deck through the center. As he bo , the tears came once more. He was an actor as well. He would perform another feat. This time he drew an iron bar from his bag, and passed it around. There was no question about it. It was fron., This he wound about his neck with uncanny ease, just as a school- boy might twist a strand of wire. Another bow and more tears. We wrote a story about him. A theatrical manager saw it. The Russian strong man is now playing four a day on the “subway circuit.” * X % x Dan Garges, secretary of the board ‘ommissioners, is the only man we know who procured his marriage license and license to practice Jaw on the same day. To enumerate the jobs Mr. Garges per- forms during the 8 or 12 hours he is at the District Building would bhe to mention all but manual labor. School children all over the country write to Mr. Garges for the history of Washington and maps and pictures of the city. Save for the Police and Fire De- partments, the District Government employes are subjected to Civil Serv- vice examination: The result is that many of thos who flunk the Federal Civil g Service quizzes or do not care to take them apply to the secretary for jobs. He is mistaken for Sec- retary of State and Secretary of the Interior. Mr. Garges graduated from Central High School, and has been connected with the District Government since he was 16 years old. His _son, Philip R. Garges, graduated from Central High in 1920 at the head of his class, and in 1924 graduated from West Point, thirteenth in a class of 400. Lieut. Garges 1s a momber of the Engineering Corps and is at Fort Humphreys. Three appointments to the Military Academy will be made from the Dis- trict next year and the examination is in the hands of Mr. Garges, who is receiving an application a day. Be- sides ting in at board meetings, the secretary has nothing to do till tomorrow. * k% % Modern English as we have heard it “spoke” in some parts of Washing- ton. “The end of the physical year.” (Fiscal). “He fell and sprained the legitimates poor fellow, for he passed the deck o me to examine. Then gripping it OUR CHILDREN By Angelo Patri Adopted Children. If you are going to adopt a child Make sure that you are in sympathy with that child’s antecedents. If in your heart you despise them, if this child was born under conditions that make you scornful. don't. Please don't. For everv child born into the world there is a place, although that place be an institution. Some institutions are better homes for children than some of the adopted children have. At least In the institution there is no family tradition to live up to—just a set of rules. The rules may be stern enough, but the traditions may be eruel. If the family, to a man, in the Rouse where the child is to be reared @oes not want him there, don’t take him. Even if one member of the family dislikes him, pass him along to & home where he can be welcomed by the whole family. It is difficult to bring up one’s own child in a home Where there is a dissenting voice, but when you take in the stranger child that difficulty becomes a big difficulty. Be most careful that the child is healthy. This child must win his way in the strange family and a sick child has not the same chance of doing tirt as a healthy child. A sick child cannot smile and pat your cheek. Nor 'AUNT HET BY ROBERT QUILLEN. *“Pa didn’t enjoy our trip to the city He says a steam radiator may be more comfortable than a fireplace, but he can't see how the tobacco chewers get along.” Sermon for Today BY REV. JOHN R. GUNN. The Unbeatable Man. Text ould not overcome him.” =II Kings, vi. Here we have the story of an an- eient king besieged in his city by a mighty enemy, could not ov ome. That is the only part of the storv that concerns the | Purpose of this message. % Georges Clemenceau, “Tiger” of France, has his Summer home at St. Vincent-Sur-Jard. It stands close to the water's edge. and he has had con- structed an ecarthen wall to keep off the sea at high tide. Every year, when he goes there in July for his a nual three-month visit, h the wild Winter winds and the en- eroaching sea have broken holes in his wall. And every year he has the wall rebuilt. When asked #0 persistent, this was his reply “The ocean will get tired of trying to beat me. Through his long career the old *“Tiger” of Fru has tired out many forces that have conspired to beat him. Now 86 vears of age, in spite of his years he still retuses to be beaten. ‘When bhe is gone, a fitting epitaph for his tomb would be “The Unbeat- able Man.” His name synonymous arl teracity and gurgle at you. child needs that gift. but whom this enemy | | proverb was the moral of another one, tiger” qualities have made his with pugnacity He has furnished an| in his legs.” “What is that insigma he wears?” One wouldn't believe it. can he hold up chubby, dimpled arms Only a healthy, happy child does that. “An adopted Life is going to be harder for him than for the child of the home. He needs all the power he can muster. Only an intelligent child should ever be adopted. The backward child has too much of a handicap to be a success in a stranger family; Examine the chiid, have an expert psycholo- gist, a stranger to you and the child, it possible, examine him and report upon his intelligence. More adoptions have been failures because this pre- caution has not been observed than vou'd care to hear about. Little children, even deficient ones, are so appealing. Be carefu] that the smile is not a vacant one and that the ges- ture is not an idle one. Sorrow lies that way. And once you have adopted the child there is no turning back for you, if you are honorable. Whatever you drew in the lottery is yours while you live znd often it is going to live after you. Think of that when you adopt a child. The meanest person in this world is the one who adopts a child and then says to him, “You're not my child. Out you go. Back to the asylum for you.” Do your thinking first. LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. Today in skool Miss Kitty started to tawk about proverbs, saying, A pro- verb is a well known ixpression with a moral attached to it, some ixpression that everybody knows and says to il- lustrate a certain point, now who can give me an ixample of a proverb? Nobody ansering for a wile and finely Shorty Judge raising his hand and saying, How dry 1 am, nobody knows how dry I am. Everybody knows how silly you are, thats no proverb, its a low ixpression and if theres eny moral attatched to it T cant imagine wat it is, Miss Kitty sed. Il give you an illistration of a proverb, Its an ill wind that blows nobody good, thats a proverb, now who knows wat it meens? Puds Simkins waving his hand to prove he did. saving, It meens wen a wind gets sick it dont blow enything but germs. For goodniss sake, wats the moral to that? Miss Kitty sed, and Puds sed, The moral is, Keep your helth. Its a good moral but it duzzent fit the proverb, Im afraid you were con- fused by the werd ill, it duzzent meen sick in this case, it meens bad, its a had wind that blows nobody good, now who can tell me the meening and the moral, 11l ask Benny Potts to tell me, Miss Kitty sed. Me getting up and thinking a while, and then saying, It meens wen a wind is bad theres no use argewing with it, and the moral is, Berds of a feather flock together. Its the ferst time I ever herd one now everybody Jissen and Il tell you, It reely meens that no matter how bad a state of things seems to be, some- body is sure to get some good from it, now all who understand that raise their hands, Miss Kitty sed. Wich nobody did, and Miss Kitty sed, Sutch a class, we will go on to Joggriffy. Wich we did. | Willie Willis BY ROBERT QUILLEN. . THE ‘EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, TUESDAY, DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX Is It Better to Have Married Unhappily Than Never to Have Married at All>—Unpopular 3 Miss Polly Pry. : EAT MISS DIX: Do you believe that women really care for freedom and independence? It they do, why do widows marry again so soon? I have yet failed to see a wife who wished she was an old maid. I have in mind a woman whose life has been a tragedy through a worthless husband, but I know that if she had her life to live over again she would choose matrimony in preference to single blessedness. 1 know another woman who has a brute of a husband who abuses her, neglects her, and doesn't provide her with the common comforts of life, yet this same woman will sit for hours and talk of he: wedding, her trousseau, her honeymoon, and a hundred other little incidents that give her untold happiness even after 20 years. So I say let all women take a chance at marriage. Let them have a memory to carry through life of a man’s life, even if it was short-lived. These lines are written by a woman who has the dearest, kindest, most thoughtful husband in the world. MRS. T. Answer: You wouldn't be such an ardent advocate of matrimony, Mrs. T., if you had known the heart break and disillusion that conie to the woman who makes an unfortunate marriage. You have not known abuse and cruelty from the man you trusted. You have not known what it was to be betrayed and flouted by the man into whose hands you had put your life and who broke it and threw it away as carelessly as he would have done a toy of which | he had tired. If you had personally gone through the hell that so many husbands drag their wives through, you would feel that it was a wise woman who played safe and who looked a man over very carefully before she riskedq her happiness by taking a wild chance on marrying, on the principle that any sort of a husband is better than no husband at all. X I will not argue with you on the proposition that the happily married woman is the happiest woman in the world, and that a good husband is better than any career. But the opposite of this is also true, and the unhappily married woman is the most miserable woman in the world. It is a million times better not to have any husband at all than not to have a good one. On the other hand, while the lot of the old maid may lack some of the thrills and excitement of the married woman, it likewise lacks many of its drawbacks. The spinster may not have the memories of her wedding day and her honeymoon to gloat over, but neither does she have her recollections of a‘drunken brute who came home and heat her, or of the agony of | jealousy she went through when she found out about some other woman, Certainly any woman must be morbidly sentimental who can live upon the crumbs of her moldering wedding cake after her husband has failed to supply her with fresh bread and butter. I should think that to any normal woman every recollection of her lost love would be a separate torment. You remember the poet said that “a sorrow’s crown of sorrow is remembering happier things." & You say you never knew a wife, however unhappily married, who wished she had remained an old maid. Probably not, for there is still a stigma thet attaches among the unthinking and the old-fashioned to spinsterhood. But I have known many married women who wished they were widows. And it, as you say, widows nearly always remarry, it is because hope springs eternal in the human breast, and they always hope they will have better luck next time. Undoubtedly marriage is good for a woman’s spiritual whether she gets a good hushand or a bad one. It broadens her outlook, it curbs her selfishness. It teaches her patience and forbearance, for in marriage there has to be an adjustment of the two people, and it is generally the wife who has to do the adjusting. ¥ But don't pity the old maid. women 1 know are spinsters. development, Many of the happiest and best contented i DOROTHY DIX. EAR MISS DIX: What is your opinion of a woman who is so eurious about the ages of her friends and neighbors that she takes the trouble :‘o g0 down where the vital records are kept and look up their birth- lays? L. G. Answer: I think she is an unutterably vulgar Polly to interest and amuse her. But why do you care? and, besides, everybody old we are. Pry, with very little What difference does it make? Age is no disgrace, who knows us has a pretty good line upon how Of course, we kid ourselves into thinking that we look 10 years under gur age. and that everybody thinks we are mere flappers, and we tell every. y that we married very young, and that we are prematurel. . an 80 on. But the only one we fool is ourself. o S However, any woman who will take the trouble to look up the official record of her friends’ and neighbors’ ages certainly has a genius for making herself unpopular, (Copyright. 1927.) RO e WHY WE DO WHAT WE DO BY DR. MEHRAN K. THOMSON. “Man is a creature of habit, not of reason, nor yet of instinct,” says John Dewey of Columbia University. That gives habit the foremost place in the conduct of life. Human beings are controlled by habit more than the lower forms of. life. The animal is born with certain native impulses system. We all know from sad experi- ence how hard it is to break a bad habit. It Is easy to make resolutions but it is not easy to keep them, he- cause they run counter to some firm- ly established habit which has become a part of our very being. We form habits because habit is the inevitable result of living. This is no disgrace if our habits are proper and useful. which are quite sufficient for his re- stricted life. He does not need to learn very much and, in most cases, nothing at all. The relatively complicated life of a common bee is wholly a matter of mstinet. These instinctive reactions are so definite, complete, and final that the creature regulates his whole life by them. The same is true of other forms of life. The bird builds her nest ex- actly as all the birds of her species have built them for countless gen- erations and she does it correctly the first time. She does not have to serve an apprenticeship. She needs no in- struction or experience. In general the animal instincts are more specific than those of human beings. We are born with certain in- stinctive tendencies, which are very quickly modified by habit. It it were not for habit we could never rise ‘above the animal level. Habits make us more efficient by re- ducing to mechanical exactness the many details of everyday life. Take the matter of dressing, which is quite a task for a child. But we adults waste no time at it because all the details have become so mechanical that we do them without any con- scious effort on our part. The same is tru of many skilled acts, such as play- ing the piano or running a typewriter. By constant practice we develop a set of motor habits which become second nature. Of course we also have so-called bad habits. They follow the same law of making deep pathways in the nervous (Conyrizht. 1927.) & | ’ Solutions of Today’s Word Golf Problems. LACE, FACE, FARE, DARE, DAWN, DOWN, MEAD. MEND, MIND, MINE, LINE, LIVE. WISH, WISE, WINE, WAND, LAND. 1S FOR QUALITY efTy1E T Trapper Coat. One of the new Paquin coat models is so lavishly furred that it looks as if a trapper had donated the sum of the results of a successful Gay of trapping to be used to trim it. Both the light furs and the dark ones are indorsed for use on this coat (cloth of suede finish). Natural Iynx, badger, Dblue or red fox, minktail. Kolinsky, caracul, nutria and krimmer are the ones most often used. NANCY PAGE Easy to Plan Layette from List Like This LA GANKE. 1ge was s to the a source of much e heard about her own need for physical well-being. An- other time it was the need for outside interests during the coming months. A lecture on habit formation in babies was something she took to heart. And when the list of a well planned but simple layette was handed out she was all attention. She bought some fine white flannel and some sheer nainsook. She fash- ioned these into the daintiest of skirts. They hung from the shoulders. For eass in dressing they were made with shoulder straps which buttoned or tied. The flannel one was simply scalloped by hand around bottom, neck and arm holes. The tiny crochet buttons slip- ped into handmade buttonholes. The nainscok one had a hem held in place with fine feather stitching. Soft cotton crochet ties held the gar- ment in place on the shoulder: These are pgc[a/ NOVEMBER 1} WORD GOLF—Everybody’s Playing It BY JOHN KNOX. Rule 1 The object of this game is to change one word to another word s of “strokes.” Rule 2. Only one letter can be changed in each > Rule 3. Each “stroke” must result in a new word which can be found in a current dictionary or in another tense or the plural of a diction. | | ary word. | If you can beat “par” one stroke you score a “birdie.” If you are un- usually good and knock two strokes off Old Man Par. credit yourself with an “eagle.” Some wise word-goifer may some day crack out three strokes less than par. This is the word-golfer's heaven. and he hands himself a “pter: dactyl”—the rarest of all birds. A word golfer who can scor pterodactyl’ is entitled to start his mouth going and let it rave for days while the ::allér)' applauds. Get out your pencils, word-golfers, and assault Old Man Par. Go from LACE to GOWN in seven shots—and if you try to speed her up | take longer than that just to show who's boss. Go from DEAD to LIVE in six shots. A girl who can really dance ought | to be able to do this one. Go from FISH to LAND in six shots—and toss him into hot water the | | minute you get him off the hook! PRINT your “strokes’ LACE DEAD | | shel here: i FISH | | (Copsright, 1927.) MILADY BEAUTIFUL BY LOIS LEED Miss Fifteen's Beauty. Dear Miss Leeds: 1 wrote you| | berore but have not yet seen my answer in print, and so I am trying again. (1) I am 15 years old and fiv | feet tall. What is my correet weight (2) Am 1 too young to use cosmetic What is the right way to remove before going to bed? (4) too much walking make one thin? I take plenty of exercise ,includ- i Iking, swimming and playing ball. (3) Does sitting all day have a bad effect on one’s health? (6) I get headaches and a dizzy feeling from riding in street cars. Can I overcome this? (7) Is once a week too often to wash the hair? What does brushing do for the hair? (8) Every night before I go to bed I take my exercises. . Is it better to take them in the morning? I get dizzy when I do the bending exercise. 1 do this exercise five times and the leg raising exercise five times, stretch my arms forward three times, bend sideways twice and stretch up- ward on _tip-toes three times. Is this too much exercise? JUST HOMELY. Answer—I am sorry that I could not get your answer in before, but there are many who wish to be answered through this column and the space i limited, so that each must wait her turn. 1t you had sent a stamped, self- addressed envelope in your first letter I would have been glad to send you a personal reply promptly. (1) The aver- age weight for girls of your age and height is 100 poun 1t you are a healthy girl you do not need rouge, but it will do no_harm to use a little powder now and then to keep the shine off your nose. You must be very careful, however, to remove it all thoroughly at bedtime. For evening parties you may need a little rouge (3) Massage a generous amount of cold cream into your skin to absorb the dust and powder, wipe off the cream with a clean soft cloth or a tissue square, then wash your face with warm water and pure Castile soap. Lather it well. Rinse off the lather thoroughly in clean warm water, then bathe your face for several minutes in cold water to close the pores. Dry the skin carefully. (4) Every one in good health should walk four or five miles a day outdoors. When a person is underweight or ill. such long walks | gy 25100 Doubie” Sherts “ts" would be too much for her. Too much . 100 Envelopes exercise can pull one's weight down. Sl Pri Girls of your age should avoid 00| Remit Wi strenuous exercise; it is necessary to | CONGRESSIONAL ‘¥’ \ he moderate in this as in other things. | *37 dohn Marghall Fiace, ol The average girl of your age should Hammermitt Bont' oed |spend at least 2 hours a day playing | outdoors. (5) Yes. (6) These symptoms | may be due to eye or ear trouble. Have a physician examine you for he cause of the dizziness r may be wa | F 8 g makes th stimulates its growth by exercising the scalp. (8) Morning is preferable for setting-up exercises. Do not do the bending exercise until you have had the cause of the dizziness re- moved. These daily exercises should take about 10 or 15 minutes. I would like vou to have a copy of my leaflet on “Beauty Exercises” that gives many helpful suggestions. Please send A stamped, self-addressed envelope for it. LOIS LEEDS. Correct Weight. Mrs. D. L. H.—The average weight for girls 25 years old and 5 feet 1 inch tall is 119 pounds. 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