Evening Star Newspaper, January 25, 1928, Page 32

‘'WOMAN'S PAGE.” "The Sidewalks THF FEVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. D. T, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY' 25, 29, 1928. FEATURES, of Washington BY THORNTON FISHER. To remark thiat we know a man per- sonally is to imply that we have more than a passing acquaintance with him. Certainly not in the fashion of the man who went home one evening and told | his wife that a particularly famous per- sonage had spoken to him that morning. “What did e say?” inquired the wife. “Get out of the way before you get run over!” was the distressing reply. It is a weakness or perhaps fust ordi- | nary vanity that causes one to refer to | a celebrity ny friend, Senator Blip," | when. as a matter of truth. one has met | Senator Blip only once, and then among | a crowd. | For example. a few months after Cor- bett defeated John L. Sullivan a voluble dividual tried to break into the pres- | ence of the new champion. Having, by | dint of perseverance, succeeded, he| rushed toward Corbett and shook his hand enthusiastically. “You remember me, Jim. don't you?” he asked. | Corbett studied the stranger for 8 mo- ment and then replied. “No, I don't thi . Where did we ever meet>"” cclaimed the stranger, “the | N Sullivan at New Orleans. 1 was the guy in the brown derby.” So many have “personal friends” of this species. We have seen important executives harassed to distraction by these busybodies who persist in intro- ducing friends to them simply for the “kick” they (the introducers) receive from it. To know person- ally or intimately a Senator, Repre- sentative. judge. actor, base ball plaver or movie star is quite enough sometimes to make a pest of nown member of Con- Fress told * recently “You'd think that I was one of the ‘strange people’ in a circus.” said the Congressman. ‘But I can't throw the fellow out.” Aciors, 100, suffer from this tendency on the part of hero-worshipers. Seldom, if ever. do we boast of intimacy with a “second-story” man or a porch climber. Most at whom no finger an be leveled. men whose characters are above reproach. We have often wishad we knew a Jesse James or a “Dead Shot Dick.” However. the other day we received a long-waited thrill sonally acquainte Thrift. Children must learn to save money 80 that when they are responsibie adults they will use moucy intelligently. Oui ance they must set aside Bu! that saving must have a purpose, an immediate purpose. if the child is under the age of adolescence. Saving for a far-off good is not possible for the younger children. To them the immediate pleasure is all they can understand. If we can stretch that beyond a day and then to three and then to a week, a month, we are doing well. But you can't honestly ask the usual 9 to 12-year-old child overcoat. coat are purely adult conceptions. They must be provided for by the adults in an adult fashion What little money the younger children get is to be used. It is the material provided for an edu- cation in thrift. Thrift is as much concerned with spending as it is with saving. Saving without a definite and well pointed pur- pose is about as useless as collecting oid envelopes—an activity of an old woman in our district. 1f thrift is to help chiidren. to make their lives more successful, make them happier and has been arrested for manufacturing | spirits frumentt. We understand that he is going to spend six months in se- clusion at the expense of the Common- wealth. Yes, he used to be & friend | of ours. We admit it. | ® % % K Radio broadcasters and announcers ; are the recipients of & vast amount of mail. Some of the letters are com-| mendatory, others are from folks who oifer sugpestions or have complaints 1o | ake. { The story is told of a well-known an- nouncer who received a long-winded | epistle criticizing a fellow announcer, a | colleague of the studio. The victim of | the complaints stood by embarrassed as | the first page was read to him by the famous one. Each paragraph was worse than the preceding one. The writer insisted | that the second announcer was terrible, | awful, lmz:i)l!;.‘ m\pfir\si:ob‘lc. Tli\\" third page accused him of being vain, con- | ceited and high-hat. The fourth page | A Formal One. flamed. The fifth page said that he| Handkerchiefs, as well as more sig- ought to quit broadcasting and go to hificant articles of apparel, may be work. formal or informal. And the large, al- In the meantime, the famous one most man-size handkerchief which has was chuckiing to himself at the dis- lately dangled from the pockets of comfiture of his friend. Gleefully he sports dresses is now an evening one. continued on to the end. Reaching the | With this difference, however—it is of bottom of the page he observed a post- | soft pastel shades Instead of vivid plaids, script. It said. “You, too.” and it usually has a decoration of lace, W cither in one corner or entirely around A group of local clubmen was dis- | the edge. Mostly carried with a dance of our acguaintances are cir-| We are now per- | d with a man who' 3 to save for a | college education or for next Winter's | An eduration and an over- | cussing & recent trial. held in Wash- ington, in which nationaily known, persons participated. One of the mem- | bers then told a | story. nce upon a time.” said he, “a certain man was arrested and in- dictad for murder. By some means the accused man contrived to slip | one of the jurors £100 and told him to hang out for manslaughter. After the judge’s charge, the jury | retired to consider the case. Hour after hour passed. Apparently there was a deadlock Finally, after an all-night session, the jury filed in and rendered a verdict of manslaughter. The jubiliant convicted one rushed to the ‘fixed’ juror, and whispered, ‘Thanks. old man. Did you haye a hard time>' ‘Il say I did,’ “The other 11 wanted WANG OUT L | FoR tansLAUGHTER] Ml The other day a certain man rushed up to a friend and said. “Where have . you been keeping vourseif? I haven't seen you for a long time.” | “Just getting tack from a New Year was the reply. but New Year was three weeks d the friend. replied the other, frock. These intelligence tests arc being given at most of the leading universi- ties. Study them, try to answer them, and, if you can't or are doubtful. refer to the correct answers. This will give you a slant on your mental rating. See how quickly you can solve these problems of relationship. Questions of this type are used as intelligence tests | in examination of mental proficiency, | and if you can solve them readily you | will rate above normal. 1. 1 have no brothers nor sister: yet the father of that man is my fat er's son. What relation is he to me? 2. A big Indian and a little Indian were walking down the road. The I tle Indian was the son of the big In- dian. Yet the big Indian was not the father of the little Indian. Why? 3. A man and his sister were to- gether. The man pointed across the street to a and said. “That boy my nephew The woman replied® “He is not my nephew.” Can you ex- plain this. @, “That girl” said a certain man, “is my half-stepniece.” Can you trace this peculiar relationship? Answers to Curious Relationships. 1. That man is my son—I am his father. 2. The big Indian was the mother of thie little Indian. 3. The nephew of the man was the son of the man's sister. . 4. The man had a half-brother (or ! half-sister) who married a widow (or Angelo Patri beloved daddy or Grannie or chum a gift. But do not force this. Suggest { and set the example, but do no forcing. His saving and spending must be wit] | out too close a supervision if it is to bacome a fine characteristic. Saving for college, or insurance, or | other adult forms of conservation must | wait until well toward adoiescence. But training should begin when the child ! asks for his first spending money. | When a child earns money he should be able to call upon stored experiences of getting and spending. If he has to take a grownup's word for it his financial intelligence, his successful use of money. will be strained to the break- ing point. H Why not just give children money as | they ask for it or need it? Because asking for money makes a normal- minded person feel like a beggar and because such getting and spending teach the child nothing about the meaning and the use and the value of money. Thrift is knowing how to use | money to advantage: when to save and when to spend. That takes experience. | (Copyright, 19281 Pagri will give per rite him i care of The Star stamped, addressed envelope for better. then the saving must be con- cerned with spending. Youth is the time for spending. not | for hoarding. To youth ife iz endless, | fortune kind, strength unfailing. The idea of weakness, failure, poverty, is foreign to young folk, as it ought to be. The idea that will help them discover the meaning and the use of money is the one of spending. Therefore, direct your thrift hing to saving for spending purposes. The kindergarten child spends his penny for candy. or a bit of gum, or a little balloon. The 6-year-old child begins to say. “How many of those do I get for a cent?” Just as soon as he reaches that stage, when he begins measuring what he gets for his money, it 15 time to add 2 few cents to his | sliowance and point out to him the fine big ball that cos® a quarter. Take him w0 the shop window and Jet him admire its beay and plan for the game he is o have when he has the 25 cents saved for its purchase. When he is sumewhere along about 8 or 9, sug- gestthe saving of a little fund to buy his THE CHEERFUL CHERUD [ grant that trouble has its place, A certain grandeuvr stern 23 well, And still 1 wish to warn the Fates in the Everyday Law Cases May Writing Necessary for Enforce- able Contract Be on Sep- arate Papers? BY THE COUNSELLOR. Edgar Park. a traveling salesman. | called upon the New Silk Corporation | and obtained an order. Park wrote the | order down, but neglected to have n‘ signed by the purchaser. Subsequently Park’s firm sent notification of accept- | ance of the order. | Before the order was shipped, how- ever, the corporation requested the | seller to cancel all goods above $3.50 & | yard. The latter replied that it would | be unable to do 50, as the merchandise to fill the order had been purchased | Displeased at the failure 1o comply | | with its request, the corporation sent | | another letter canceling the entire | order. | When this notification reached him, | he seller resold the order at a loss of | $1,700. Claiming this amount as damages resulting from the breach of the contract, the seller instituted suit against the corporation. For its de- fense the corporation contended that the contract was unenforceable because it had not signed the original order which being above a certain amount, | was required by law to be in writing But the court held the company lia- ble in the amount claimed, declaring: | | " “The writing required by law need | not be on one plece of paper nor need | it b2 a complete document, signed by | the party at one and the same tme It may be contained in two or more nieces of paper, but they must be s cmnected that you can read them to- | gether, 50 #s 0 form one memorandim of the coptract between the parties.” (c T - . “Glacial milk” 18 the name given to waters of glacial stremms which are so flled with powdered rock scraped from the mountainsides by the moving glaclers as 1o make them & grayish milky color avor ~ When they “just won't eat salads” tryatouc hofthis savory seasoning — Il ~ 4 10¢7.- Unique Calendar LRDURKEF 6 CO FLMHURST || Rec ipe Book +/ Sample Bottle” NIW YORK. widower) who already had a daughter. child was the man’s half-stepniece, ng the stepdaughter of his half- brother (or half-sister). Nut-Banana Pie. Beat together until stiff and frothy two ripe bananas mashed through a ricer, one cupful of sugar, two unbeaten egg whites, one-eighth teaspoonful of almond extract and one-eighth tea- spoonful of salt. Fill a previously baked pie shell with the ingredients and bake in a moderate oven for 20 minutes. Chill thoroughly and top with one-half a pint of whipped cream slightly sweetened. Dot with squares of currant jelly and sprinkle with nuts Rich in Flavor ; of the Jresh ripe grapes For real grape flavor turn to a Welch grape product. All are made from ripe fresh Concords. Welch's Grape Juice is pure juice of the fresh grapes— healthful and refreshing to drink . . . The Jelly is pure grape juice and sugar . . . And in Grapelade you have all the juice and fruity part of the whole delicious grape. Your grocer has Welch's grape products. WELCH’S Grape Juice - Grape Jelly Grapelade TY GRAPE PRO Over the Coffece Cup i+ ILKINS Coffee In of that kood kind that you are "y SOME FENRO to ge i, and are faced with the most unfortunnte prospect of having 10 drink s other kind. Your_l}aby and Mine BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED. A good many mothers have noticed that when cgg is first given to their children it makes them ill, They show a definite reaction to it either by vomit- ing, having some slight fever, develop- ing hives or eczema. 'This may be due to a congenital intolerance for egg white or to the manner in which the mother ¥irst, offers the egg. In introducing any new food into the diet the mother must always adhere to one rule—feed in very small arhounts The portion of egg which is most often disturbing to the child is con- tained in the white and not the yolk. Egg white contains mostly protein, and the child’s diet contains enough of this particular element if he is getting in his day's formula one and one-half ounces of milk for each pound of his body weight. Egg white would then merely be an excessive and unnecessary | i protein burden. Egg yolk contans iron and also vitamin A. one of the vita- mins in which cod liver oil is so rich. The baby's prenatal supply of fron is about exhausted at 6 or 7 months, and he really needs the egg yolk. In beginning the feeding of egg yolk heed the above rule. Begin with one teaspoon of strained raw egg yolk in one bottle feeding. If the child shows no reaction to this, the amount can be cautiously increased by teaspoonful amounts until between 6 and 9 months, depending upon when the feeding of ©gg was begun. The child can take the whole yolk of an egg in the whole day’s formula. At one year the child may have a coddled egg. This is prepared by put- ting an egg in a deep saucepan of bofl- water. Cover the pan and take from the fire. In 5 minutes the eg will be the consistency of thick jelly. Son children can take the grated yolk of a hard-cooked egg. These things depend largely on the individuai child. If the child is definitely sensi- tive to eggs, this condition may be rem- edied in some cases by hypodermic in- Jjections of the irritating element of the egg until it no longer causes any reac- tion. Feeding of the egg in very small amounts may gradually bring about a normal reaction to it. At present it is practically impossible to travel by automobile from Idaho or | Montana to Southwestern States with- |out crossing and recrossing the Sierra {Nevada or_Rocky Mountains, says the American Road Builders’ Association. | It's a wicked world, but it's aston- | shing how few of us want to get out Lessons in English BY W. L. GORDON. 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