Evening Star Newspaper, January 10, 1928, Page 26

28 - Popularity is not a “gift of the ®ods” any more thah is success. Each is attained by striving along the right yaths. So a person who would attain he coveted reputation of being pop- * should know the ways hy which ined and follow the direction of | | | | | NO MATTER HOW STRIKINGLY POPULAR GIRL NEVER APPEARS | CIOUS. i ince to be popular | is one of the desired | WOMAN'S PAGE. | the avenues followed. a | popularity by the fascinating way in | Often | Eirl di A Achieve Popularity BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER, one is older and has perhaps met with failure, the same way is open and the same end may be sighted. For instance, one should lack self- consciousness. To do this it is neces- sary to lose one's self in the subjects that are absorbing the mind of the one person you are with or to be able to interest that person in a matter or subject about which you are con- versant. The hng mother always finds listening ear when another young mother talks about children in general, the other person’s children in a kindly w nd, inciderlfally, of her own, but she fails to hold the attention when she discourses at length on the superiority of her offspring, Those interested in the same pursuit or hobby also find themselves popular when a new idea can be contributed, and thereby become popular in the of the listener. Therefore follow 1d of congenial conversation and shun controver and heated ments as you would polson. There i nothing that dispels popularity more than the reputation of getting into heated discussions, unless it is taking " Y::Al affront when none is in- tended. 2 Study the people vou know who arve ‘popular and discover what are One may be remarkable raconteur, and gain which the simplest stories and jokes are told and the pat way in which they are brought into a conversation. such a_ person is sought be- by such means, conversation night be too profound or heated festive gathering is happily turned into other channels. More than one very popular person has attained his reputation by just such means, but it is not enough just to tell a story. It must fit easily into the conversation. Success in this re- quires a certain amount of practice, but popularity is not gained in a Try always to look your best. By this is meant be suitably dressed for the place and the occasion, whether it be in a simple house frock for the home, or a handsome evening gown t function. But having never let the person with whom vou are feel for an instant that you are think about it. 1 was hav- ing tea recently at one of the hotel where the teas are almost social func- tions, and saw a young man so dis- comfited by the young girl he had invited that his embarrassment was evident. The girl, entirely disregard- ing him, was “making up” in a rather elaborate way. You may be sure the not look good to him even after all her efforts. Her popularity for him wa$ dispelied. One v popular young woman always tries to bring smiles to the face of the cne she is with. “For,” she said to me once, “evry one has a heartache underne: and to lighten ause, that at a | moment. I as being “hail th friends and and soothe that is my joy.” She is | & great wit and others would not for | chuckle to a lower, qu a le of lfe; a moment suspect her olject, but pertinent t | they count her among the favored It matters not whether « roune | “popular” people in whose company and has had no experience or whether ' it is a delight to be. BEDTIME STORIE Whitefoot Turns Tables. has a mea Yes, He does delight to tor- their homes. d hé seems the way of @ hole X Speckles wasn't satisfied with having. given Whitefoot the Wood JMouse om T=EvErY tnee in a while, when he hadn't anything else 10 do, he would fiy over to the little vren hous:,4n which, you know, White- Tuot the Wood Mouse was living, and wak sie¢p and frighten him half to death T pretending to try to get into that use. All he could get in was hls but that bill is long and sharp, although Whitefoot could keep L of the way of §t, he couldn’t help It got to be a gular thing for Speckles the Star- o go there and torment Whitefoot. For a long time Whitefoot notuing about it. The fact is he «idn’t think there wos anything he d do about i d turn the tubles on next time e came over HERE HE Wi A1) FLAPPING 1K " 120ién on x #i B little house. Then grabied 1hat bill you ehould He likes to put other | little round doorw: He is!fuss about?” he asked in the most o think | innocent way litle Whitefoot out of a sound | IW0 are a pair. then one day be had a happy | 1 cooked diced potatoes, jadd one | coursely chopped peanuts, reserving a BY THORNTON W. BURGE! | He fell clear to the ground before he {could get his balance. | screech as he let out! Then such a You see, he Jidn’t even vet know what had hap- pened to him. He just got away from | there as fust as bis wings couid take he has a mean | him. head ou: the ‘What's all that ‘Whitefoot poked ! ha! " laughed Tommy Tit the Chickadee, dancing up and {Iown in his _excitement. “If you don't know, I guess no one can tell you, Whitefoot, That fellow needed a les- |son. He's got the meanest disposition | of znybody around here, unless it is Bully the English Sparrow., When it | comes o a matter of disposition, those . 1 guess you gave him the scare of his iife and it served him right. I wouldn't have belleved 1: of you, Whitefoot. No, sir, I wouldn't have believed it of you. Ha! ha! ha! To think of timid little Whitefoot giv. ing that speckied rascal such a tng;nt?' course, the newe of what had happencd soon spread all through the 4:)M Orchard, and everywhers that Speckles the Starling went he was Meat Substitute. or substituts in o saucepan, add two minced onfons and one minced green Depper, and when softened stir in two tablespoonfuls of flour, one and one- half teaspoonfuls of salt fourth teaspoonful of pew-e?? :n& one and one-half pints of mil k sl and when boiling stir in one qua:l'tl:’l Reheat and " one-half cuptul.":: “w to sprinkle over 128 been Soe top after it placed in a serving dish, MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKYFA Eliced Fineapple Oatmeal with Crean: Baked Eggs. Bacon Curls, Created Beef on Canned Peachek ocha P DINNE) Cream of Celery Noup Baked Pork Chops, Farsley Potatoes Creamed Onions, . Csbbage Halad, Chocolute ker Puddiug PANCAKES One exk, ono teaspoon euch of walt, buter, sugar, one pint flour, 1wo heaping tesspoons Vaking powder, one cup ik or or waspoon soda wnd one cup pbse s wille, Instead of gressing W thit t, put in lerge wpoonful o a $hen I When pipiug hot put on A/hen cold the rorth { wind blusters I never yewn for teees much — coken, und they will splitter und spread and erinkle untl a dellghttul brown, Iat WIth butler und sugar sirup. MOCHA ¥I12. One ey, hulter size of egg, fourthe cup wugar, thy fourths cup wilk, one-Lalf t Kpuon woda o the milk, TeaEpoun Cream of tartar, tug: One cup sugar, 1 Loaspoots corou, Lo Lablespoons hot coffee, Lo Epoun vanllle, Lutter size of g CHOCOLATY, PULDING, Grate one wnd one-lLalf #yuarer chocolate and add one ©up Nue cracker crumbs, one- fourth cup melled bLutter, one cup hot milk, one-balt cup BUKGE 6nd LWo teanpoonhs ya- wills. Mix thoroughly, fola in ey beaten whites four egy turn tute buttered mold, cover whitly, place 1n kettls hotling CHACKER viater and boll one hour. Berve With frull creais sauce, pre- pared ue follows. Cream une half cup butter with one cup puwdered sugar, then add slowly unetourth cup each fruit Julve and cream; beat thoroughl Y Viace over bolling water and Etir until creainy. Melt two tablespoonfuls of Lutter| THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY, Fashiona cJulia SUB ROSA, BY MIMI Business of Laughing. | ‘Take it from me, a laugh is no {laughing matter. It can be as seri- ous a drawback to a girl as a mis- placed mole, or an extra long nose. Have you ever gazed in admiration at an exquisite young thing whose ash-blond halr and china-blue eyes, slim white Lands and slender waist made her look like a nice little angel made of frosting? And have you then observed, witb horror, her lips slowly widen into a large, fat smile, and heard a bellow as from a great fur- nace issuing from those exquisite red lips? Of course you have. Teople are always disappointing us with their laughs. y The big, manly fellow with the deep voice attracts us terribly. We get quite sentimental about him, gazing at that straight, strong profile. Tt must be so nice to he loved by a big heman like that, we reflect. . But cven as we gaze entranced the spell is broken, He laughs. The joke is too much for him. He rocks with merriment. That rich, low voice cracks and shoots up to high E. Your idol is gigglin foolishly, like a hysterical schoolgirl. < He has a silly feminine cackle in- stead of a rich, hearty chuckle. What a guy. What a disappointment. What a good thing you found out before it was too late. That, my dears, shows you how easy it is to blight a beautiful ro- mance with a laugh in the wrong ow you know you must laugh. If vou're going to feed the boy friend with the grand idea that vou think he's a perfect riot, you've got to be right there with the convincing, rich, laugh. It's hard, I'll admit, to do anything about that laugh of yours, but it must be done. Don't let any one tell you that you can’t train a natural laugh. It will show the effects of training just as much as your voice or vour mind. At first you'll sound awfully affected rsel? when you try to keep the shriek, the cackle, the bellow out of your voic It will irk you to have to discipline yourself when you just wamt to let yourself go and enjoy a real guffaw. But just pass up a few real laughs and give your voice a chance to be more attractive, Men, in particular, fuss about noisy laughs. They : I ean’t stand that woman. She gets on my nerves. That cackle of hers. T ming laugh is a great gift of those little personality h sound so trivial and play one | tricks wh isuch a big part in this thing we call popularity. I'm not saying that by tralning your more attractive | note you're going to walk off with the sheik of tha town. But I say that everything should be done to make one's self attractive to both men and women. No detail should ba passed up just because it’s not usu- ally considered important. Subdue the noisy cackle and you will subdue one of your own worst enemies, (Copyright. 1028.) Mimi wilt he glad to answer any inouiries directed to this Daper. 4 4 stamped, pra addressed covelop 1s fnicios SONNYSAYINGS i BY FANNY ¥, CORY. | ‘Wonder what Tommy’s bustin’ home 80 tast fer? Bet he finked of somfin more to put on hi 1 thought ob grandpa’ (Covyright. Willie Wills BY ROBERT QUILLEN, “Thut new boy Is the sissy kind that likes to have a party so he ean- not invite somebody de don’t lke. (Copyris 1028 _Coiea Nut Pie. Heald two cupfuls of rich milk In a double boiler, pour it over half & cup- spoonfuls of cornstarch and one- fourth teaspoontul of salt, Add one cupful of wirong coffee {nfusion, turn to the double boller, and cook until thickened, or for about 20 min- utew, ‘Then ad one cgg beaten slight Iy with one-fourth cupful of sugar. Cook for 6 minutes longer, udd one- half @ cupful of ehopped nut meats, and one teaspoonful of vanilla, Cool, and pour the mixture into previously Lwked ple uhells, about vight'of them, and scatter a fow hut meats over wncl Throat Sore? Be Careful? Results in 2 Hours A sore throat is dangerous. A new discovery, GERM-ORAL, will clear ronr sore throat quick- 1y and kill the disease germs. Sore throat is often the start toward tonsilitis, laryngitis and there is always the danger of it { going down into the lungs. Be Prepered. Oot o Bottle Today 56 18 PAN OFF l.o'rlon‘nmt coplos Drug Bluige and :l.l ul | d fume Lo ful of sugar mixed with three table- |~ A THRILLING (Bill . whose real name was Edcar Wilson Nye. 1850-1506. was an Ameri- can bLumorist of the early school. One | ©f his volumes of prose was charac 1stically entitied “Baled Hay. ") | I bad a very thrilling experience | the other evening. I had just flled an engagement in a strange city and retired to my cozy room at the hotel. The thunders of applause had died locked up to await the arrival of an Uncle Tom’s Cabin” company. The | last loiterer had returned to his home nd the lights in the palace of the | pork packer were extinguished. No sound was heard, save the low, | tremulous swash of the sleet outside, | or the death-rattle in the throat of the bathtub. Then all was still as the bosom of a fried chicken when the spirit has departed. The swallow-tail coat hung lmp and weary in the wardrobe, and the gross recelpts of the evening were under my pillow. I needed sleep, for 1 was worn out with travel and anxlety, but the fear of being robbed kept me from repose. I know how desperate a man becomes when he yearns for another's gold. 1 know how cupidity drives a wicked man to mangle his victim that he may win precarious posperity, and how he will often take a short cut to wealth | by means of murder, when, if he would enter politics, he might accom- plish his purpose as surcly and much more safely. Anen, however, tired nature suc- cumbed. 1 know 1 had succumbed. i the bell boy afterward testified that he heard me do so. The gentle warmth of the steam- heated room, and the comforting as- surance of duty well done and the ap- at last lulled me into a gentle repose. Any one who might have looked upon me, as I lay there in that {nno- cent slumber, with the winsome mouth slightly ajar and the playful limbs cast wildly about, while a merry smile now and then flitted across the regu- lar features, would have said that no heart could be so hard as to harbor il for one so gulieless and so simple. 1 do not know what it was that sed me to wake, Some slight sound other, no doubt, broke my slumber d 1 opened my eyes wildly, The room was in semi-darkness. i Hark! A slight movement in the corner, and the low, regular breathing of a human being, I was now wide awak Possibly 1 could have opened my 5 wider, but not without spllling them out of their ac : Regularly that breathing. Each time it se ed ko a woft, low away and the opera house had been | b le Folk Bo ' yd WORLD FAMOUS STORIES EXPERIENCE BY BILL NYE fell, while my pale lambrequin of hair rose and fell fitfully with it, I know that people who read this { will laugh at it, but there was nothing to laugh at. At first, I feared that the s:igh might be that of a woman who had entered the room through a tran- | som inorder to see me, as I lay wrapped in slumber, and then carr§ | the picture away to gladden her whole life. But no. That was handly possible. It was cupidity that had driven some cruel villain to enter my apartments and to crouch in the gloom till the proper moment should come in which to spring upon me, throttle me, crowd a_hotel pillow Into each- lung., and was suffocated by her jealous husband, Othello, you will remember—rob me of | my hard-earned wealth. Regularly still rose the soft breath- g. as though the rubber might be |trying to suppress it. 1 reached gently under my pillow, and securing the money I put it in the pocket of my “robo de nuit"—which s to say, my night robe. Then, with great care, I pulled out a copy of Smith & Wesso! great work on “How to Ventilate the Human Form.” Smith & Wesson, you will also remember, sell ammunition and manufacture guns in which to use the powder and shot. I said to myself, indeed, that I would sell my life as dearly le, 50 that whoever bought it would always regret tho trade. Then 1 opened the volume at the first chapter and addressed a $8-caliber remark in the direction of the breath |in_the corner. When the echoes had dled away a sigh of relief welled up from the dark corner. Also another sigh of relief later on. I then dectded to light the gas and fight it out. You have no doubt seen n man scratch a match on the leg of his pantaloons. Perhaps you have also had the good fortune to see an absent-minded man undertake to scratch a match on the leg of his pan- taloons, meanwhile forgetting that his the other side of the room. However, I lit the gas with my left hand and kept my revolver pointed toward the dark corner where the breath was still rfsing and talling. People who had heard my lecture came rushing in, hoping to find that I nad sulcided, but they found out, that instead of humoring the public in that the steam radiator. It is really humiliating to have to write the foregoing myself, but 1 would rather do so than have the affair gar bled by careloss and unsympathetic hands, —_— relfef, bhut it did not relieve me, ty it was not done for that purpose. It sounded like a sigh of Dlessed rellef, such as a woman might heave, after she has returned from church and transferred herself from embrace of her new Russian fron, k silk dress into a friendly wrap- sl Eviden t blacl per Regularly, like the rise and fall of a wave on_a_Bummer sea, It_rowe a };g(;'{: :)t‘; d I ! The (R} wlldren in Bradford, England, have 1 prohibited from aitting close to the screen in moving picture theaters because of the bellef that this Is a causo of eye strain and nearsighted. JVANUARY‘. 10, 1928, | [errriE BENNY) | KEEPING MENTALLY FIT ] way, T had merely shot the valve off t This morning I was hunting for my cap, looking in the same places sev- eral times and thinking about diffrent things, and ma_ called down, Benny, do you wunt to be late for skool agen' 0 mam, I med, and"ma sed, Theh stop langwishing around and start immeeditly. ‘Well gosh, mia G wizzicKers, T cant find my cap, I sed. Can I go without 1t? I-sed, and ma sed, My goodnise I should say not, are you looking for a erly funeral in this weather? No mam, JIm looking for my cap, 1 sed. Being sippose to be a joke, and ma. sed, Never mind trying to funny wen your almost late as it is. And she lifted up the lid of the hat- rack thing and felt under something and pulled.out my cap, saying,” For land sakes I wish you'd try to be a little less helpliss, I dont know wat you'd do if you daident haye me to call on, and that includes your fathe: men are all allke even wen thelr boy: apparently. H Giving me a ideer, and L quick hid my cap agen, saying, G, ma your bet- ter than a lot of regular 4 es, 1 bet you could find enything no matter ware it was, couldent vou, ma? ‘Well, I'dont know, I.cant-do the impossible, Im ony human, ma sed, and I sed, No you aint, 1a, I bet you can find enything, see if you can find my cap agen, ma, I jest hid it. ‘Well of all things, then youll fest unhide it and hussie yourself off-to skool, I know vou, your jest itching to be late 5o Ill haff to give you an! ixcuse note, ma sed . Proving she reély did know me, and I pulled my cap out from ware I had hid it, being in my back pockit, and got to skool so neerly late I was ix- actly on time. BY W. L. GORDON. Often mispronounced: Dual; uas in “unit,” not as 0o in “tool.” Often mispelled: Effervescence; the two f's and the sc. Synonyms: Abbreviation, - ebridge- ment, condensation, contraction, sum- Word study: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Teday’'s word:-Holocaust; a sacrifice wholly . consumeéd by fire. “The holocaust claitned over 50 lives.” NANCY PAGE note Nancy Starts a Layette and Enjoys It the Christma® _holidays | some relafives in & distant town. The Minimized. During Nancy had taken life as easily as sible. She-was doing - tor's orders. He did not want overtire herself, or undo all the that the previous lessons at natal clinic had enforced. Sh milk, ate green vegetables, had plenty while T did the Desdemona act—who |- of cod liver ofl dafly, He pronounced her a model patient. He suggested that she begin some o her layette purchasing. She chose tiny woolen vests that afforded pantaloons are hanging on a chalr at |* not tied into hard knots. For the three-month-oX baby & knit band of lisle or skk and wool is ree ommended. q early tn getting- iato To Wash Chamois Gloves. When washing chamols gloves, rinse thum well in a second water which should beo tepid or cold and soapy. Add about a tahlespoonful of ollve.oil to keep the chamois soft and pliabl For natural chamols gloves whic! have almost lost thelr color through continued waahing. use water in which orange pee! has been boiled, hen children push away their food...the delicious flavor of this whole wheat cereal will arouse their lagging appetites. @ - YOU KNOW OATMEAL —NOW TRY POST’S WHEAT MEAL THE QUICK-COOKING ‘WHOLE WHEBAT CERBAL of orange julce and water, and took a small dosage busli FEATUR I You Were a Criminal. .1¢-you-were a criminal, would you choose to operate in a State wh punishment was certain but light, or where punishment. was severe, but where very few are caught and con- victed? If caught, and you ecould choose the judge for your trial, would you select’ one that almost always sentenced, but gave light sentences, or one who sen few, but gave them severo sentences? Now that isn't an idle question, because laws are sup| to be made not only to punish offenders _but to keep yt?pla from violation. Shall we arrange light sentences and put all our efforts on letting few escape, or rely on heavy sentences for the major effect? Sever- ity or certainty of punishment which would do more to keep you from committing a crime, supposing that you were under strong temptation to do s0? 5 r A group of 25 men and a group o 25 women were put through this im- aginary situation. In the one case it was assumed that in 10 States the ounfshment for the crime graded down from- “life,” to sixteen, to eight, to four, to two, to one to onehalf. to one-third, to ohetwelfth year and to 10 days; but the 10 days were dead certain and the “life” sentence was given.only once in a hundred cases: while in between, as the severity of punishment went down, the certainty of punishment went uD. - The results show first, and it is the | same for men and women, that it de pends upon your sporting mature. 1f you are much of a gambler and in- Cclined to-take chances, you'll choose & State with severe laws laxly en- forced, and if your sporting blood is thin, you'll choose a State with light penalties rigidly -enforced. At least that's the way you'll vote on an imagined situation. The attempts to poll the votes of actual criminals has its difficuities, but it would be worth getting. The life and long-term sen- tences on tNe:whole are most dreaded. but the-short but certain- sentences form a close secomd; the least effec tive plan s in the*50-50 group of mild sentences with a fairchance to escape them. And quite the same is true in terms of the judges. On the whole, the severe judges are most feared: but the ones that let few off, even though the sentences are light, are almost as mueh avoided by these im- aginary crimlnals. But, to repeat, it i ture. There are two major partles, the gamblers and the mnofgamblers, ES. i one or the other party. Which i yours? . S0 nothing is settled, and the pois are still open. If these results app! to actual criminals, you ruight expec: to find that States relying more o severity of punishment would attract the desperate and chance-taking crim- inals, who are likely to commit mor serious offenses; and the States r ing more on certainty of punishm Iy to commit ligh can't test bec other circumstances enter. But it scems gafe to assume tha® the great majority of th of the crimlnal popul more to the cautious to the bold, ventureson light offenders and of punishment is t quite apart from t ant consideration ti and methods in ever are framed in love and haps official punishm It’s more important to punishment. fit the criminal crime. Our whole system of treatinz the criminal is crude, because only r- cently have we perm the mind of the crimin s is sclentific we also mane. (Coprr Date Pudding. o the whites of sugar, and ons dates. Put into 2 b the eggs are beatl terials should be ad folded or beaten Do not stir th custard_ for the pudding. quart of milk until h: ing. Add one cupful of this into the beaten yolks of f then return to the pan and it thickens. Do mnot cook Stirring occasionally while will prevent a scum gathering ¢ If thicker than desired, 3 e may be add Serve by putting 2 pudding in the custard instead of pu ting the custard over the puddirc It may be topped with whipped crea and most of us belong definitely to and garnished if desired. WHAT WE DO BY MEHRAN K. THOMSON, Ph. D. A woman leaves her family to visit husband and clhilldren keep the house looking spick-and-span, thinking she will be delighted to come home and find everything shi . On the contrary, she is rather disappointed to think -that the family can get along 80 well without her. We like to be missed. a great compliment to be told, *“We missed We flatter ourselves into b lieving that the world needs that we are necessury to the club, to the , to- every activity in_whidl ¢ part. Modesty .ahd Lorse sense preven most of us from guing to extremes But now and then you will find & per- son who feels that heis indispensab I am reminded of a-certain manager | for a large manufacturing concern) who was cocksure that the company | could- rot-spare his services. He { gan to make extravagant salary dt-t mands and to take unusual liberties. The preeident of the firm finally called | him into the office and said: “This| | tirely or co our ers see us. For the same reason we trequently underestimate ourselves. W be missed beca: shows that they are t ing of us in our absence, that we cu: some figure in the world. We t {be liked. This goes back o the ker mgd instinct and the parental imp e £ . elaf Guaranteed ure imperted PO MPEIAN OLIVE OIL Vhate us lkely to be ovenmfiu!ud. The good | points are unconsciously exaggerated and the weaker ocdes overiooked en-! In frying fish, roll in a flour'to which a pinch of sa added to give the fish seasoning. Fry in oll, which may be hea to a higher degree than butter or fats without burning amd oft disagreeatle sour milk or aking cookles or Joughnuts, miz them up the night before and set them on fee. ‘They will roll out with less flour, will be light and keep maist much longer than dy the usual method. Don't use soda for washin, chiva with gilt on it. If you do don't be surprised if the gt gradually disappears. of washing vour eves vou will realize why Iris, America’s Eve