Evening Star Newspaper, March 14, 1928, Page 40

40 E Ways for The game of “Button, button, who's buttons. got the button?” is not always ended | panions. with childhood, although the playing [ among them so long that time and of it ceases to be a pleasure when one | patience are both exhausted by the is adult and eager to find a button to ONLY THE BUTTONS TAT MATCH SHOULD BE STRUNG TOGETHER. sew on in a h to “Where is the know to a ce button is cont: cefinitely relegated then changed 22" One may at the special ned in a certain drawer to the holding of Maybe, Perhaps. Years and years ago, before people ever began talking about heredity, I heard my grandmother and grand- father talking about a little boy who lived in the valley beyond the ridge where the olive trees grew. “Well. he might not be like his fam- {ly. He might likely be different,” pleaded grandmother, evidently in favor of the miscreant’s pardon for some offense against the order of the village. “Let be, let be. Little apples fall close to the tree. You cannot gather grapes from thistles. The old cock crows, the young one follows. You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. Doesn't a fish swim?” “Apples. cocks, sows. fish, what have they to do with a child? I say take him out of that place and send him 15 the good priests and he will be as good as any.” “Perhaps. maybe,” said grandfather, “but not likely. Now, when everybody discusses the problems of heredity and environment, when there is no mystery about the science of the mind that is not can- | vassed far and wide—although never really penetrated—the old discussion still goes on. Cocks and grapes, on one hand; good homes and schools on the other hand. child®” “Can't this boy be made to study the violin “Why does my daughter run away?" With one child born to us we would have him made over into a pattern more suitable to our ideas. Can't it be done? Maybe. Perhaps. I think it can be done if our ideas and the child's hered- ity are in harmony. If the lad has music in him, then we can set the environment t%o bring it out. Across Tieuire 5. ALnaants Declare vy be \rie ¥ree f1om Wiiriwind off the Faroe lils . river sical Instrument ern 1ngisn Misterer God of Bebylon Those Wi Chother ¥rclsmation Bley French resort, Ferstan et Voung gomte Three-ynd el ). Bing Engiieh king Enowy 0. fae eegles oih Down Cleaned Aveniie (sb ) 3 Lowest e Chirscteristios Kind of spe New Englend tate (ah ) Frogrance b Inhentient , Peiceives, of M ) Children to Be Helpful LE BARON WALKER. Shall 1 adopt this | But if he adiresse! stamped envelope for reply The Daily Cross-Word Puzzle 1Conyrizhy. 1928.) WOMAN'S PAGE? It may have so many com- and play hide and seck time it is actually brought to light. If the button drawer is not to be the | most disorganized spot in the house- hold, it must be made to yield to cer- | tain rules of order lald down in its | behalf. In the working out of these ! the children may find A pastime for a rainy day. If you yourself despair of having to sort and string the buttons that are present in number, perhaps there are some small members of the houschold whose wee hands will go eagerly to X. if it is presented to them in Possibly the mother game” in_itself sufficient. Or she may have a collection of color- | | ful barley sugar, or gelatin candies. one of which is earned by every 10 or 20 buttons strung. Th sort of contest between dren. if there is a large enough *: ply” of buttons to warrant it. ‘ There is a great temptation to pick up the buttons and sift them through the fingers. But this is not wise when | thers are among them delicate pearl | buttons, or buttons with patterns in | color on them. These are damaged by | | such treatment. And the fact that th are is one of the reasons why the but- | tons should be sorted so as to be ac- | cessible Otherwise in rummaging | through the lot of them. some of the | | finish, as_well as the color, is easily | rubbed off. Very fine buttons can be | ruined in this wa; | If there are ‘any cut steel buttons among these in the drawer they should be kept from contact with the others, and wrapped mn tissue paper. preferably | black, for two reasons. In ths first | place. they have edges which wili | scratch other buttons. and in the sec- | ond place, they are likely to rust, and should be protected from moisture. Scotch Cookies. | Cream one cupful of shortening and add one cupful of brown sugar. Mix | well. Add two well beaten eggs and another cupful of brown sugar. Sift | four cupfuls of flour and add one cup- | ful at a time, mixing well. With the | | last cupful of flour sift one-half a tea- | isponnlul of baking soda and one tea- spoonful of cream of tartar. Add one | teaspoonful of vanilla and one cupful of nut meats cut fine. This mixturc will be very hard to mix, but it must | be kneaded into two loaves about 10 inches long and 1% inches thick.| Place the loaves in a cold place and let | stand overnight. Slice down very thin. | The secret of success with this recipe | is in slicing the cookies very thin. They should bake fast in a medium oven This amount makes about 150 cookles. By Angelo Patri hasn't any, how can all the talk and all the punishment and rewarding im- aginable produce it?> The miracle of the loaves and fishes had at least five loaves and three small fishes to begin on and the Son of God to work on | them. He could have accomplished the miracle without them? He could, but | He didn't. He never broke a law. | 1 have lived with children many years, and if I could speak authorita- tively about anything concerning them —and I cannot—I would be inclined to say that tne very best way to rear a healthy, happy. successful child was to give him that sort of grandparents and parents and aunts and uncles and all that goes to rooting a fine old fam- ily tree. And then give him the best education and home training intelli- gence and skill and money will pro- cure. . Education can bring out only what is in the child It cannot add one quality that is absent—as far as my observation and experience carry me. If he was born tone-deaf, don't try to teach him music: if he was born an artisan, don't force him into a college professor's gown. But there is this for our comfort. | All normal-minded children have | strengths, fine qualities, character qual- ities that can be trained and educated and brought to full power for the suc- cess of the child. Almost all children are born with the prospect of success. There is no reason why we cannot search for the good that the child has within him. But it cannot be imposed from the outside. It comes from the inside out. (Copyright. 1928.) 1L give personal attention to barents o shos! teachers o J develapment of children W care of this paper. inclomng | | | Mr. Patri inauiries fr ( it Ciippers Mighway Mobismmedan ruler Crafts Folemian river, Indefinite article Answer 10 Yesterday's Puzele, TEATURES ] _THE_EVENTNG STAR, WASHINGTON 1R SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y CORY I kin blow toast furder 'an Baby, but her kin crunch the loudest. NANCY PAGE “Here Are Bath Mats. Take Your Choice,” Says Lois | | | | Time was when bathroom rugs were bits of carpet discarded from the other | parts of the house, or were braided or crocheted affairs. But fashion and di- versity have stepped into the bathroom, or gone In there to be stepped upon! When Lois was looking for furnish- ings for her new home she hesitated between the various types of rugs. | likewise, | “Maybe people think that, not being married, she has no troubles of her Depicts Sacrifices Erpected of Her Why Is Unmarried Woman Family Goat DorothyDix \Subject Is Discussed by Middle-Aged Bachelor Woman, Who Is Fleeing From Her v Family and Friends. II‘VILL you tell me," sald a middie-aged bachelor woman to me the other day, “why, merely because a woman doesn't marry, she is considered | to have no right to the money she earns, no right to indulge her individual tastes |and desires, and is the predestined and forecordained goat for her family and friends? “It is always the old-maid daughter who has to stay at home and take care of father and mother, and put up with their whims and crotchets, while the | married children go about their own affairs. It is always the maiden aunt who is expected to dig down into her lean pocketbook and help put Johnny through | eollege and buy Maud pretty frocks. It is always Miss Fanny who is asked to | stay with the neighbor's children at night while they go to the movies and | who is delegated to cut the cake and serve the coffee at the church supper and who is expeeted to entertain all the deaf, stupid old people that every one else flces from as from a plague. own and so she should help bear the troubles of others. I don't know, but I do know that whenever there is a sacrificial animal needed the old maid is | unanimously eclected to be it. “Take my own case as an fllustration of this. Because my father only earned a small salary and because I had a dissipated brother whom my mother | idolized and who had to be supported and supplied with drink money, I was put to work when I was only 14 years old. For years every cent I earned not only went for the upkeep of the family but when I came home at night, no matter how tired and worn I was, I had to help mother with the housework and the sewing and taking care of the other children. “So long as my parents lived I was a slave to them. When they died I thought I would be free and have my money for myself and be able to indulge myself In some of the luxuries I had always craved. But not so. Whenever my married sisters and brothers need a little money they come to me for it, and I am always helping to pay the rent or the doctors’ bills or an installment on | the furniture or an automobile. “They never go to cach other for money, because they say Sam or Susan is married and needs all the money he or she has, but it never occurs to them that I also need what I make and would like to spend it on a pretty frock or taking a trip, instead of on Janr_v': fi‘d(‘l:nlds or Freddy's tonsils. “I AM also the victim of my friends. Not long ago I had a breakdown and | my doctor prescribed a rest cure. As soon as my friends found out that I was to have a tion they got busy planning how I was to spend it. | “One of my nds had just moved into her new home and she thought it would be perfectly lovely for me to come and stay with her and help make | the curtains for it. It would be such a change from office work. | | “So for one solid month I made curtains. Thirty-one pairs of them, the kind with miles and miles of ruffles. And I dressed all of her doll lamps, silk and French flowers and gold lace and fine needlework. Every one who sees them goes Into ccstasies and is anxious for me to come and visit and do s | “After that visit another friend asked me to lunch to meet a friend of | hers. During the luncheon she said that dear Sally was having such trouble with her brother, who was coexecutor with her in settling up her father’s estate. For 10 years he had run things and got them all muddied up, and as I was an expert accountant would I look over her books and papers and help her to | | straighten out things? There was the soft chenille one in pastel colors with a flower spray at one end. She was told these improved a each washing. She saw the small terry cloth or bath towel like rug with r versible pattern. On one =ide of it was blue with white border and the other had white center with blue | border. Terry cloth was fashioned into a tile pattern to match the color scheme | of the bath floor tiling. | Then she saw the porous, honey- combed rubber ones which squash like “Well, I put in about a month's hard work on that and after I got every- | thing in shipshape she turned it over to a certified public accountant, to whom | she will have to pay a heavy fee for winding the matter up. | “But she never even dreamed of offering me a cent for my services. She probably thinks I really enjoyed answering her fool questions and putting in | my idle time on checking up 10 years of bad bookkeeping. | “Several of my friends have old, cantankerous female relatives, and one | old lady has been wished on me for two nights each week. I made the mistake of saying that I liked the movies. So did Aunt Ella. And how nlce it is for me to take auntie with me when I go! Auntie is one of the women who can | never be ready on time. She is so late that all good seats are always taken, and If she misses just one of the pictures in a reel we have to wait and see the entire reel through again. g . “ANOTHER friend of mine has an aunt who is a perfect frump. She is enormously stout and wears a coat 10 years out of style and a merry- widow hat with a bunch of red roses pinned on the back of it, and when you go out with her you are as conspicuous as if you were riding on a fire engine. Her niece says auntie enjoys my soclety so much and just loves to go to places with me, so she drives auntie down to my house and I have to take her out where we are the observed of all observers. “1 had planned to take a little trip, but as soon as it was known I had | to give it up, because I was deluged with requests from friends to take along | all of their disagreeable, bad-tempered, sclfish, rheumatic relatives. They feel that I will be so lonely going by myself and mother-in-law or Aunt Catherine would be %0 much company for me. “And I have another friend who is always inviting me to_dinner. Just |a nice family dinner—pot luck, you know—because she knows I must get so a rubber sponge. These come in all colors and patterns. Lots decided to get fairly small bath mats so she could hang them over the edge of the tub when not in use. Then her bathroom rugs could stay permanently in place. i Polishing furniture—what a tu Lut they can be kept beautiful, in spite of such work RE your hands the tired cating at restaurants. But the minute I get there she asks me if I would mind sitting with Sister Sue, who is a bedridden invalid, while she steps around | to the Thompsons for a little game of bridge. | “Now none of these women would dream of asking any married friend of theirs to do the things that they ask me to do, but why do they think that because I am unmarried I am less tired, less easily bored, more willing to | sacrifice myself and my own inclinations and pleasures than if I were married? That is the puzzle to which I can find no answer. “But I am done. I am through. Never again. Henceforth my motto is: ‘Look out for No. 1.' I decline all invitations, fearing a trap, and from now on I do not intend to have anything but acquaintances, people who do not know me well enough to put anything over on me." | DOROTHY DIX. (Copsright, 1078 sk to soil delicate hands! kind that men admire? Adorable at the piano, Dainty at the tea table, Sc i .. expressive hands? of housework. 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Astrologers read tomorrow as an un- | important day in planetary govern- ment, but neyertheless a time to be cautious. | ‘There may be a tendency toward pes- simistic or despondent thoughts and for | that reason all ideas that are not hope- | ful should be dispelled. | The mind should be flexible at this | period of the world's progress, so that it may bend to new ideas. While many changes have taken place in the last decade, the seers | prophesy even greater progress in the | next few years. ‘The pendulum of thought is swing- ing backward far enough to mark what was good in past customs of social and business life. This year is to be marked by more | general travel than any year of the | past, for much air transportation will | be sought, it is forecast. | Gardens and gardening are to occupy much attention in the United States this year, when public lands will be devoted to experiments and private landholders will attain fame by The Sidewalks of Washington BY THORNTON FISHER. “Not long ago,” sald my congressional | that one has bee friend, “a small urban community in|another realm. pel;/ ’2;&“&‘3"&!"3’:’2 nmf my district elected a new outfit of ad-|embarrassing to an honest person as ministrators. For many years, one clique | having a conductor or tradesman say, controlled the town, and finally the | “I'm sorry, but this coin is no good. citizens decided to try another brand | There are, unfortunately, many un of olflll\(clnls from the mayor to mc.-ficzun;:lou:h lnflpxle who, having bes poundkeeper. “stuck” themselves, pass the ‘“buc “Well, the new executives had scarce- | 8l0ng to some other msusyctmg l: 1y learned where to hang their lats|10%. when one of them, with a positive| A 1ocal merchant says that he . _, genlus for research, began to look up|Made it & practice never 1o niz33 long-since-forgotten laws and town or- | fOrciZn coin from a customer. The po dinances enacted by the original set- | 555ion of the patron's good will, a tlers. His quest was successful, and a | C0TdIng to this man, is more valuab month later the common council voted | 10 him. Even though the customer m an appropriation for six additional cops | P®_Innocent of passing such a coin, ha and engaged a sign painter. | resents what he often conziders an im- “Several weeks later ihe citizens| Dlication that he has done so d awakened to find the town adorned | nee iy, amier than imperil his patron. with warnings and threats of Drosecii-| ang when me man oo li, e mo tion for violation of ordinances of whose | fnanzes 11 for Taied o0t sum - existence no one was conscious. More- | T¢ fa never massed soren o CUTTE over, there were half a dozen new of- | again, . Lo oo ACTOSS DS co ficers visible to enforce their observance. ; “Most. of these ancient ordinances ' were 50 absurd that, within 24 hours, | every resident would have been a vio- lator, whether or not. One of them e & The National Zoo is now entertain- ing a new guest. It i5 a hen impor from Chile, and lays gresn sgge” Nag provided for the % know where colored Easter eggs prohibition of any | come from. and all public en- | [ b it tertainments after | Some light-sleeping residents of Con- 9 p.m. This alone necticut avenue are gossiptng about meant the ulti- | the midnight rides of our police Paul mate closing of A Reveres, who patrol the avenue on mo- two flourishing | 1or cycles. They can be heard pursu- movie houses, not|INg cars as early as 3 and 4 am. We to mention the end | KNOW a victim of insomnia who pro- of dancing and |tested that fire apparatus should be other harmless Stilled when the streets are deserted, pastimes. | his argument being that with so few “Naturally, this Cars on the road in the small hours the aroused a storm of | chances of accident are negligible. protest. Indigna- | For that matter, we recall a certain tion meetings were | Atlantic crossing. 'The liner was south held, and within a |0f the Grand Banks when it en. few days the city | countered an enveloping fog. All night solons _ discovered | the fog hormn's that their ener- doleful warning getic application of obsolete ordinances | continued at brief was meeting with unanimous opposi- | intervals. The next tion. A committee of citizens waited | day two indignant upon the mayor and prevailed on him | passengers sought to recommend that 90 per cent of these | the skipper and ‘must nots” b erescinded pronto. Other- | complained that wise the jail would not be large enough | they had been to house offenders. 1 kept awake all “The committee's efforts were re- | night. They re- warded, the signs were removed and | quested that the the extra police dismissed. If the | of the mayor had not agreed he would have | on- been voted out of office along with his tinued. ‘The cap- subordinates by those, at least, who | tain listened at- were not languishing in the town ! tentively, and then ‘hoosegow.’ | courteously said, “Like that town, the Nation is suf-| “It is about six fering from an epidemic of laws. This days from here to reminds me.,” continued our con- Havre and about gressional friend, “of a man named 5iX minutes to the floor of the ocean. Richards, who was constantly running This ship is amply provided with ti afoul of the law in business. He was most modern of life-saving apparatus. taken before a magistrate, who said, but that fog horn is the best life-saver ‘What! Here dgain2’ ‘Yes, sir, your On the craft and may spell the differ- honor.” replied Richards. ‘T took my |€nce between six minutes down and six collies out for a walk and Garry Kelly, | d8¥3 across. the cop. taps me on the shoulder and | The passengers apologized for pro- says, “That's agin the law.” I says, testing. It is obvious that officers must floriculture. g New York comes under a sway at this | time which may cause great expendi- | tures of public money. | Persons whose birth date it is may | expect travel and unusual changes that should be fortunate. Children born on that day may be | ambitious, but inclined to many changes in plans or inclinations. They probably will be talented. { (Copsright. 1928.) ! Deviled Oysters. Make a cream sauce by melting one tablespoonful of butter and blending with it one tablespoonful of flour. When is bubbles well add slowly one cupful of cream and stir constantly | until the sauce is thick. Have ready one quart of oysters that have been | drained and coarsely chopped. add them to the white sauce with one tea- spoonful each of onion juice, table sauce, chopped celery leaves and par- | sley and a chopped hard-boiled egg. Beat in one-half a cupful of dry crumbs | and fill buttered ramekins with the mixture, lay small lumps of butter on top of the mounds, and bake until they are a delicate brown. Serve hot. | w/y Hands that men adwire Its formula was originated Idest soap makers—creators Yo your delicate skin, Wash sk that leaves them tired or r skin will be cleansed as A G A LS 0 S T I SRR s L S SN St L “What 17" He says, “Havin' them d ride through the night, sirens shriek on the street, without muzzles. " So 1 | ¥hen the world is asieep and fog horns was arrested. I sold the dogs for §30 | emit their mournful alarm. and bought a sow and five pigs. I took | e ‘em home and built a pen in the back | Cured Ham Steak. vard. The next day Officer O'Toole | drops in and says, * P Cut one slice of cured ham one-half b T Cepin’ Dogs fn | inch thick into four servings and the back yard is agin_the law.” So I was arrested again. I sold the pigs, Dlace in a skillet over a medium fire. and bought a horse and truck for gen- | Pour over it three-fourths cupful of hot eral hauling. On my way to the very K Water and let boil slowly, turning once, first job, Larry Burns stopped me and until the water has boiled away. Brown said that hauling without a license was | slightly on both sides, being careful not agin the law and once more I was, to have the fire too hot. Remove the pinched. So I sold the outfit and en- | ham to a platter and keep in a warm gaged in peddling. “Have you got a | Place until the gravy is made. 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