Evening Star Newspaper, August 1, 1928, Page 36

WOMAN'S PAGE] Hints on Vacation Correspondence BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. Summer time it & season of letter| Business letters have to be written writing. Vacations take people Away | to make inquiries about accommoda- from home, and it is by correspondence | tions, to secure reservations, ete. And that they know of the whereabouts of | these are but a few of the many kinds members of the famjly, what they are | of letters that Uncle Sam takes care | of through the post offices. | Each Kind of letter belongs to some group, such As social, family or business correspondence, letters of inquiry, etc. and each requires its special sort of handling. All correspondence that per- ains to business should be as short as possible and clearly put, so that mis- understanding is avolded. Yet such let~ ters should never be curt nor abrupt | There is a wide difference between being coneise and abrupt. Business people dis- | like to wade through a verbose letter to | find out just what is wanted, but this ™efIVIE T ArQ. 1L AT OFF. is preferable to having any suggestion | of incivility. It takes but a few words 0 express graciousness, and these should not be omitted. Think of how you | would like the letter if it came to you, and then you can realize somewhat how | it wiil appear to the recipient. This is | a good method to follow when in doubt. | Social correspondence may be formal | or informal. It depends upon the inti- macy of the two peoples and the sub- stance of the letter. It makes no dif- ference how well you know a person for instance, when replving to & formal invitation the reply should be of lik acter. On the other hand, when informal invitation is received, it s bad form to answer formall Bread and butter letters” is a termap- plied whimsically to notes sent by guests to a hostess after she has entertained them. The imperative matter in these it that the notes be sent almost imme- diately on the guests' return home. These letters should speak of the pleas- | amt time that has been enjoved and especially mention such happy inci- | dents as occur on the return journey. | { The letters may be so short that they | | are the merest notes or they can be | long and full of intimate references and | graphic descriptions. It iz customary | to have these letters short. followed up | { & little later with longer pfrmnlli letters The letters that are mere itineraries of travel are welcome to a family when ohe of its members it off on a short trip, but such & missive never keeps the family in touch with anything but the | route. No letters are much easier to | pen. They Are mere statements, and it | it amazinfi that any one should feel that | | they give glimpses of the life one is lead- ing. It is the events of life during Such | an itinerary that are of interest and sig- nificance to those who love the traveler Every item can be enjoyed by thoee at home if the writer will occasionally take | the trouble to send letters that give real glimpses of occurences as they re- late to him or her. Such letters are a jov to & family, Letters to friends should give such | | glimpses, though perhaps not so fully nor so freely expressed. It is only when REFORE MAILING A LETTER THINK HOW YOU WOULD LIKE IT IF STYLE POST is the marker on the road to being smart, Linen. Cool for those hot August days, yet dark enough to seem almost Autumnal, | this Schiaparelli sports frock partakes of the pest of the two seasons. It | chooses black linen, made with flared skirt and an interesting use of white " linen for the upper part of the blouse and sleeves. This is a combination | that is seen wherever smart women gather. and ils very smartest version is found in this frock from a designer noted for her sports attire. (Copyright. 1928 RY CAPINL VEQUIN. IT CAME TO YOU. doing and-thé good times that are being enjoved. Friends visit one an- other, and after leaving there are bread-and-butter letters to send to hostesses when visitors have safely Teached their other destinations. | friends are very intimate that the trav- | eler takes the time to send more than shert notes or brief letters to those out- side the family, for time is an asset and it certainly it consumed when long letters are written (Gopyrizht. Is Your Paim: | | 1. More highly developed near the | fingers than at the lower part? | 2. More developed at the lower part | than at the tap? 3. More déveloped at the outer edge 1 | | 1928 The Sidewalks “There are more different kinds of architecture in America than in the whole of Europe” said a local architect yesterday to this writer. “This may be accounted for by the fact that the American has a penchant — or wenkness-—-for Spanish houses or English houses. Even homes of def- inite Moroccan de- sign are popular with many home seekers, even though they may never have seen one on its native sofl. On the other hand, the European has no yearning to imitate the Amer- { ican style of home. He is perfectly sat- | tsfied with his own. What if it does | lack the conveniences to which we over here are accustomed? We are the most progressive people in the world while at the same time we are the world’s | prize coypists. Through this habit of | imitating we have become more stand- ardized than perhaps any other nation | We seck something like some one else has. One wealthy Washington man is | trying to find a duplicate of a fireplace | he saw abroad last Spring and he won't be happy until he gets it. Model Eng- | lish villages are becoming extraordi- i narily popular over here and soon we will be living in an English home at- mosphere. In many of our large cities telephone exchanges are being named after English places. One of my pro- fessional brothers, traveling through Europe with an American artist, was 0 impressed with a certain type house that he begged the artist to allow him | to build a duplicate on this side. The artist agreed, provided the money, and | now lives in one of the most unique | structures I have ever seen, though it is a place that few save an artist would | erect or buy. “The foreigner, as I have said, does ! not have any resistless yearning to | steal our stuff’ in the matier of arehi tecture, for economic and other reasons. As every nation in the world I8 repre- sented here, so in time will the houses | of all nations be found. Spanish archi- | tecture 18, of course, commonly used, {but T refer to the designs to be found | M«m}dm the most remote - parts of the world."” THE ARTISTS UNIQUE | HOME * oK ok ¥ Statistics are drab, colorless things | for most of us unless they 88 A peculiar interest. A local Biblical | |stholar has furnished us with infor- | mation coneerning the significance of | the numeral 7. He says “Noah had 7 days’ warning of the flood; the ark touched ground on the 7th month; and BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. WORLD FAMOUS STORIES | (little finger to wrist) than the inner edfe (first finger to wrist)? . More developed® at the inner edge OLD BY ANTON CHEKHOV was & Russian nE pis best R Work {Anton Chekhov. 1880-1908, ry writer and dramatist Bown stories are “The Kiss. ic. Uzelkov, the architect. was on his way to inspect a church which was to be remodeled. The church was in his native town, where he had grown up, wes married mwm dlmd.dlx&r.; thing, however, changed, an« ing 80 much as the people. Nothing, no one. was a¢ he had known them in his { than the outer? | 5. With the mounts evenly developed L around? 8. Extremely dry, parched-like? Answers: 1. Ambitious, practical, clever, ag- | gressive, with marked business ability and an eagerness to make money, you re not apt to be among the laggards n the race for material success. You are determined to be wealthy. 2. Coarseness, ufter lack of refine- { ment, the greatest selfishness, over- sophistication—these characterize you. You have no mental qualities worth | mentioning: uncontrolled passions, very poor taste. You are very conceited. 3. While you are not aggréssive, you {a AGE ’ “yes," Shapkin a , “and it's too bad that thitves will steal the grave- | stones, There, if youll look, behind | that cast-iron memorial, is the grave of your wife—the one you divorced. Shal 1 we Tfi over?” y turned to the right, stepping into deep snow as they approached the { marker's down here.” said Shapkin, pointing to a little stone | monument. “Some young Officer put.| Femininity. It is generally supposed that any derivative of the word feminine m apply to the “fair sex” only. But this concept has changed a lot with the coming of psychoanalysis, a little used and much abused psychological theory. Freud shows that femininity is a gen- eral trait—something as likely to ot- cur in men as in women. This chang- ing conception has gone far toward throwing light upon the nature of hu- méan nature. Perhaps the best symptom for trml“ For | ninity is a display of dependence. this reason the term childish is often used to mean the same thing. But that deseription, while correct, i really su- perfieial and sometimes misleading. To ret down to the real meaning of femininif youth. 2 the stone up.” 4 “Don’t you rémember . Uselkov> he{ Ustlkov Temoved nis hat slowly and | inquired of the . “Uselkov, the | expoged a bald pate. Notieing him, | sarchitect, who divorced his ‘“"‘mlm‘“ did likewiss and exposed a | Jived in Sviribév street—surely, you re- | r pate. The silence shrouded member him.” | them like a tomb. ‘The friends were “No, 1 don't remember any one of | silent, too, perhaps thmkln{. that name.” | “She sleeps” said Sh:a in at last, “Why, of course you do—you must. “and she cares very lit! The divcrce was an exciting case. Even | the past may have been. the cabmen talked of it. It was in the | peace. You'll have to admit, though. hands of the lawyér, Shapkin, the swind- g Uzelkov—" | jer—the sharper who was thrashed n[ “Admit what?” | the club for his underhand deal-| “That however bad the past mny’ Ings— “Oh. Shapkin. Yes. have been, however bad we were in our And his honor's | youth, it was bettér than this old age still here, alive and well. He's a notary | that is upon us now." now, with an Well off—two| “Well, _yes” admitted Uszelkov. houses—lately married his daughter | “Then I did not even think of death. o | Had I met her then, I'd have avolded Being bored. Uzelkov decided to call| her. But now.” Sadness seized him, on Shapkin. No sooner thought of than | and he feit disposed to shed tears. But | done. But Shapkin, too, had cthanged. | he restrained himself before a witness. Uzelkov remembered him as a well built | Together they went back toward the cunning young attorney, with an alert | church. Urelkov attended to his busi- ming and a quick tipsy-like expression. | 3 | ness, But a little later he took a Now he was & gray-haired, modestly at- tired. shrunken little old man. “Uzelkov?” queried Shapkin. “Whick on=? Oh, yes, I remember. Never ex- pected—never thought—well, what will you have? Champagne? My dear man. what 2 lot of money I did get out of you years agoné—so much, indeed, that I ought to give you anything you want| pow.” “Don't trouble” sald Uszelkov. “I've r)v 0 go 10 the church. I'm to remode! ine.” said Shapkin, “We'll eat and g0 together. Il introduce you, fix up everything you. 1 haye influence here. I'm respected—I didn't use to be, you know, but times have changed. Once T was pretty sharp, shrewd, and all that—but old quiets one, and I'm humble now. dren—{family—things change. IU's gétting time to die.” On their way they talked of old times “Remember how you divorced your wife?” asked Shapkin. “Twenty years 2g0. I remember it all well. How rot- ten I was! I was smart and clever, and @eceitful, 1 was a scoundrel then. all right. You paid me to get your wife to take the blame on herself. I had to bribe her—it was not easy—she wouldn't see me, ¢ of the house, Well 10 take ten thousand 1f 1 remember rightly,” put in Uzel- it was fifteen thousand she got 1 me instead of ten thousand Yes, of course—fifteen thousend paid Shapkin hastily. “Anyway. that's 2l pest and done with now, Why shouldn't I be frank with you? 1 gave her ten thousand—you paid me ffteen thousand and 1 kept the extrs five thousand s part of my fes, or profit 1 decelved you both—1 was sharp in tiose Gays. Byt whers was I to get my start if not from some one like you? You were rich. Uztlkov. and respected 1 waz poor and despised. I taxed you, that's a1l “You married in a notion of the mo- ment and got divorced the same way. You paid me to get you out of it and Jet the blame fall on the woman, All 1. Tgave you your money's got what you wanted and what ] wanted It’s past and finally she agreed id my wife Ko her badly. Bhe took 1t hard Pride or conscience or Whatever, she fecame--well wild and irresponsible Perhaps she loved you. I don't know- she went to parties, drank—took it hard." Bhe 15 dead? without feeling A Dead? Oh, yes. Years. Bhe's buried S the cemetery of the church %ere going. L1l ghow you her gri ‘The sledge sto) at the flu of the churchysrd. Ui nd Shapkin got eut, went through the gate together end walked along the broad avenue "Pie cherry trees were bare. They and the ments sparkied with hoar frost. The pright sunsnine of Winter was réflected sach flake of snow. All about one i@ smell the incense and freshness sarth that always goes with rceme. 18 It 18 & beautiful cemetery you have pere said Uzelkev, “In fact, it's ale 9&“ an orchard,” esked Uz Oh, rat queried Uzelkov, n almost had me thrown out | iive after that?” yay crosses and the stone monu- chance to get away alone and went | back to that lonely grave Again Uzelkov stood uncovered be- fore the grave with its loné white stone staring at him so sadly and so inno- | cently. It might have been the grave | {of a young girl. instead of that of a| wanton divorcee. “If 1 could weep.” though Uzelkoy But the inclination to weep had | | passed. He stood there some minutes, | ut not a tear could he shed. Finally Iwnh a wave of the hand, Uzelkov went | | back to rejoin Shapkin. ‘ THE DAILY HOROSCOPE Thursday, August 2. Adverse signs predominate tomorrow, according to astrology, which reads for the day many conflicting influences. | | ‘Women should be exceedingly careful | in all fmportant matters while this rule | { prevails. . ’ ‘Tomorrow is not & lucky day for en- tering into an engagement to marry or | {for making a decisfon in which the | heart is involved | Weddings under this sway are likely | to bring more or less disappointment | and even strife. Ideals may be shat- teyrd sarly by the stern realities of life The planstary government is not | promizing for theaters and presages | changes in management or policy that will he difficult for players Mntion pietures are subject to numer- | ous influences that will work hardships to actors and actresses. Producers will | make severe demands. | There is an aspect read as empha- | sizining the importance of pure spe 1and faultless diction. Persons in pi | vate life as well as thoss in the theaters will be forced to tmprove in the use of | the voice Under this direction of the stars | there may be an unusual sensitiveness | | and trritability, Self control should be | practiced | The late hours tomorrow should be i!l\’nrlbk tn persone who seek public |approval. Politicians should benefit Again astrologers forstell for the national election amazing surprises after | a bitter campaign Bubjects of this sign of Leo make suc- cessful managers or leaders, for they ean strongly influence public opinion ‘The evéning may be eonducive of | sharp words and forceful denuncistion of enemies or opponents. It is well to | watch one's words Persons whose birth date 18 tomorrow probably will have a yéar of much ex- sitement and pleasure. They may suffer through disputes. The subjects of Leo are inclined (o overvalue what is their own and to he stubborn ahout taking advice Children horn on tomorrow probably will be intelligent, witty and endowed with talents. Many sctors Are born under this sign, Which gives strong emotions. Love plays & super-important part in meny people. (Cof Jant 10300 oM ] | I not for the street sprinkling aré extremely couragéous. You have an agile brain, a facile tongue, anc an overdeveloped imagination. You love to exaggerate and are not above dis- honesty. 4. Tremendous ambition, pride in your ability, and a fighting spirit are apt to carry you to success. You. et no obstacle deter you from getting what you want. Yet you could never do any- thing dishonorable. 5. You are a delightful person in- deed. In your finely balanced make-up you have ambition, pride, wisdom, tal- ent, refinement, commercial and scien- tific ability, imagination, vision, gen- erosity, sympathy—in fact, almost every admirable trait. 6. There is a good deal of pose about you. Your emotions are largely arti- ficial, but they often deceive evén you, causing you to have imaginary {lls. You are extremely fond of talking about | yourself. Today Washington History BY DONALD A. CRAIG. August 1, 1864.—President Lincoln, Mrs. Lincoln, Assistant Secretary Fox and a few others returned to Washing- ton this morning (Monday) on steamer Baltimore. The presidenti party disembarked at the Navy Yard. ‘The party left here nd was joined at Fort Monroe yesterday ing by Gen. Grant and some members of his stafl. It then proceeded to the Virginia capes, and thence to Norfolk, whers some time was spent at the navy yard. Particulars of the severe fighting at Petersburg, Va., Saturday have begun to reach the city, Gen. Grant carried two lines of the Confederate entrench- men's and advanced to the third line, but, owing to a blunder on somebody's part, the Confederates had time to rally their forces, and they forced the Union troops back to their original line. The Confederates appear to have been in- formed of the direction in which Grant's mining operations were run- ning, as shown by the fact that they removed 12 of the 16 guns of their fort, which wns blown up hy the Union mine Reports here say that the earth was thrown 500 feet into the air by the foree of the exploding powder and the terrific noise “awakened Richmond.” The 9th Corps of the Union Army after a walt of 20 minutes dashed for- ward and was met by a _murderous enfilading fire from the Confederate batteries. The 10th Corps joined in the attack, but after the second line had been carried the Unlon troops were per- mitted to stand still for two and one- halt hours, during which time the Con- federates rallied and were able to re- their lost ground The hospital steamer Connecticut rived in Washington this morning, ha ing on board 432 wounded and sic men from the hospital at City Poeint, Va, and 37 officers, the majority of whom were wounded at Petersburg Bat- urday. These officers claim that the explosion of the Unlon mine was & complete success and that the fallure to accomplish the object in view-~the carrying of the Confederate works and capfure of Richmond—was owing to the bad conduct of some of the troops. ‘The hospital steamer Harder arrived this morning with 340 more sick and wounded from City Point. Dust on the streets of Washington wollld have been intolerable today f carts of Messrs. Northedge and Haszleton, which have bheen kept on the move all day long Why tolevate Pimples Blackheads and Dandrum! Cutlicura Soap and Cuticura Ointment - ey ey ity, we need to consider dual nature of the human personality, We are all made up of two sets of Your Baby and Mine BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED. Boiling the Milk. During the hot weather it makes no difference what type of milk one is using, there is always the danger thai no ice, or not enough ice, or standin| too long on A hot porch after delivery, 18 going to heat the milk sufficently so crease to dangerous proportions. As this is one.of the foremost causes of Summer complaint, one can't be too careful, There is another reason why bofling the milk is preferable in feeding babies the | that harmful bacteria in it may in- | of Washington BY THORNTON FISHER. in 7 days, and again 7 days after. The 7 years of plenty and 7 years of famine were foretold in Pharaoh's dreams by the 7 lean and 7 fat beasts. In the destruction of Jericho 7 priests bore 7 trumpets 7 days: on the 7th day sur- rounded the walls 7 times, and after the 7th time the wall fell. Job's friends | sat with_him 7 days and 7 nights and offered 7 bullocks and 7 rams as an atonement for their wickedness. Solo- mon was 7 years building the temple at the dedication of which he feasted 7 days. Seven devils were cast out of Mary Magdalen; the apostles choss 7 deacons; Christ spoke 7 times from the cross on which He remained 7 hours | In the Lord's Prayer are 7 petitions ex- | pressed in 7 times 7 words, omitting those of mere grammatical connection “Within this same number also are | contained all the mysteries of the Apoc- | | alypse, revealed %o the churches of | Asia: there appeared 7 golden candle- | sticks and 7 stars that were in the | hand of him that were in the midst: 7 lamps being the 7 spirits of God | The book with 7 seals, 7 kings, 7 | thunders, 7 thousand men slain, the | dragon with 7 heads and the angels bearing 7 vials of wrath.” To this he | adds, “There are also numbered 7° heavens, 7 planets, 7 wise men, 7 stars, | 7 notes in musie, 7 primary colors and 7 deadly sins.” Unfortunately we have | not_spacé enough to print the many hundreds more. Our friend's inex- | haustible patience and research is as | romarkable as the number of 7's he | located. *h | _Here is a story being told now on | the sidewalks. A simple minded man, | from an Inland village, visited the sea- | shore for the first time. He had con- | trived to save | rr-nrvuzh vnhspond a 7 ew days there and RS LFOR OCEAN | on’ s initial trip to the beach he ob- served that a life guard was on duty. Not wishing to risk himself in the salt water until he had tried it privately he inquired, “‘How much for a bucket of water?” “Twen- ty-five cents.” was the facetious reply. “All right” said the inlander, “give me a bucket of it to take to the hotel.” ‘The man paid the quarter and received a bucket of ele- gant salt water. The next morning he appeared on the beach with the bucket and noticed that the tide was out about 500 feet. He gazed in astonishment and said. “Strangér, you must do a | wonderful business down here.” | tendéncies and mental mechanisms. On | | the one hand, we are emotional; on the | other, intellectual. It takes both as-| | pect to make a rounded individual. To | normal, these parts should develop harmoniously. { Some people take on uneven growth. 1 On the emotional side théy are retard- ed. So they remain childish emotkm-l | ally. On the intellectual side théy may | wax strong and reach normal, or even | supernomal levels. Such an unbalanced | development of the mental make-up causes the trait known as femininity. Pemininity is back of a lot 6f domes- tic infelicity. not to say trouble. “Hen- pecked” husbands Aré those who have fallen victims of the rétarded émotional make-up of their wives. Nervous, irri- table wives are often the byproducts of attempts to live peacefully with hus- bands who have never mmgmuy freed t:n;:mlves from their mothers' apron- strings, A Sermon for Toda . JORN R. GUNN, Forgetting Kindnesses, | Text: “Yet did not the chiet butier | remember Joseph, but forgat him."— Gen,, x1.28. It will be recalled Joseph had been imprisoned by Potiphar on a false accu- | sation brought against him by Poti- phar's wife. Later, for some fault, the chief butler from Pharaoh’s household was cast into the same prison with Joseph. The butler had a dream that and that s because of its east of di- troubled him. Interpreting his dream, gestion. Boiling breaks down the tough | Joseph told him that he would shortly rurdil r;:kc:wr milk and_makes more | O ',;,","‘;’Igl'.;’ ',“gu?"a;{ D ;';1;;‘}":,"‘:: carly b ; sehold, b ov ?¢a|<' the 'cu;us"ljk::: 2:‘,’:;“?)::! 13{',‘,(,’ | this foyful prediction, the butler prom- the most (rouble. Pesding boiled mik |4 10 remember s prison {riend has no real disadvantages, for while Ph;mm?"" more he stood before some of the vitamins are destroyed, we | "8 ¢ the moment the butier was out | e 6l etas fiin. ;{"m;‘.,‘f}mg{ of jail he forgot All about his fellow 50 that the child is really robbed of no | K"",’;‘r"'m In Lhe g of hik awn rélbess joseph and left him linger- l‘;‘rtn‘»}eg.lmm and bis dighetion 1 im- | ing 1 a1, WBin he Might have spokén Milk may be bolled in two ways, The | &S00 Word for him and secured his milk may be put in a Jarge sized double | " {mp ireteht” | mflnr with cold water in the outer con- | yat ‘,’,‘,‘.';;",,',‘“.,.‘:fi“}.;,m‘."’,,f{ 3 :,m . 'l‘;l Put on the stove and when |sort of ingratitude toward our friends. WAter in outer containér comes to a We have had friends to 46 us many | I;lml let 1t boil for eight to ten minutes, | favors and kindnesses which we have "‘ol’ml’ milk covered. long since forgotten. How ne we r the milk may be boiled in an all are to forget kindnesses, ry day | open pan directly over the flame. | many gracious and kindly things are | done to us, and yet how soon some of | us forget them and those who did them | as_well. Later the chief butler remembered his fault and redeemed himself, He | remembered Joseph and told Pharaoh | | about him, with the result that Joseph | was released from prison and sum- | moned to the palace. Never mind the | detafls of the story. Being reminded |of our ingratitudes and forgetfulness toward our friends, syrely we should be no less disposed than this pagan | butler to find some way of redeeming ourselves. We may nof repay all the kindnesses done us, but we can repay some of them. (Copyright “As a nation, we are awfully afraid of being happy. We have ténded to re- ress our emotional side. In England it s not rnnrocuble to be happy," said Dr Dorls Odlum, a prominént womAn, at a | recent meeting in London. ! Bring 1o a boil slowly and let bofl for three minutes over a slow fire. Longer botling in no way harms the milk, as it makes the curd even finer, but milk scorches and burns ensily, and it also boils away, so that it is wisest to stand over it and atir constantly to prevent any of these calamities. The thin scum may be removed, or else heaten into the milk. All milk should be cooled rapldly, so that the hot milk is immediately poured into the sterilized hottles (for it Is pre- sumed that whatever sugar and water is necessary has been nxt.\nl to it be- fore bolling) and the bottles are put in a pan of cold water under the cold water faucet. Cold water is run over them until they, too, are cold, and then they are placed in the lee box next to | the ice, | It 15 obvious that it wouldn't do to place five or six bottles of boiling hot milk into the ice box without this pre- liminary eoolin, Don’t laugh syat this woman because she paid 50 cents for only a Ralf-pint can of liguid insect-killer. She didn’t know she could get a half-pint of Black Flag—the dead- liest insect-killer made—7for only 95 cents. + + + Biack Flag comes in two formia, Some prefer Black Fiag Liquid to kill fiying pests such as files, mosquitoes, ete,, Binck Flag Powder to kill erawling pests, such as roaches, bed.bugs, flens, anth, ete. Powder, 15 cents and up. [Meney back if not sntitfiod. MOTHERS AND THEIR OWILDREN. One mother says: One mother who had trouble keep- ing her small son at home finds that | a tricycle has put an end to this worry, ! though one would suppose that such a thing would take him away faster than ever. On the contrary, with the tricycle he 18 perfectiy contented to stay in the block, where before he had never hes tated at crossing streets and would soon be blocks away. The mother placed a bell on the trieyele and the child takes great de- light in ringing it for his mother to hear every time he goes past the house. In this way she knows where her son is without even going to the window - to look. (Copyright. 1928.) Home in Good Taste BY SARA RILAND. As the old saying goes, “there is more than one way to skin a cal and, if you can't paint or draw or don't like to use decaleomania transfer designs, there is the possibility of using wallpaper borders for the decoration of lamp shades. The shade as shown in the illustra- tion is four-sided, and the foundation is | of parchment paper. The top part is decorated with two bands of blue-green, and the lower édgeé has a floral band which i8 really wallpaper border A&p- plied with the straight edge even with the bottom of the shade. 'his is pasted firmly In position, And the éntire shade, inside and out, is given a coat of yellow | shel The base of this lamp is blue-green, and the colors in the border are biue- green, copper, yellow. purple and touch of black, so you can see how well everything harmonizes. If you would like to have a floral shade for a bedroom, you might use the same kind of a foundation; trim the top with light blue bands, and give the entire surface a coat of pale rosewater color tint; apply the border, which should be in I yellow, lavender and green, and then give the outside and inside a coat of | white shellac. SOCIAL SINNERS BY GELETT BURGESS. Morbid Music. Brother, have you the Slightest Yearn- Faint within you Burning, A Longing (Known to you Alone), To Bleat upon a Saxophone? Oh, ere you Mai your Life so Vapidly, our few Brains Out, Brother 1 . FEATURESA KEEPING MENTALLY FIT BY JOSEPH JASTROW. Thrift of Mind. How do you spend your time, your | energy and your money? By which spending would you prefer to be judged? | Ot these money is the most artificial standard of value and comes into play | only because it represents something in time; yet time is money only when use- fully’ employed; the energy and skill spent in what is done is the real value, tm basis of pay. Your cash account is readily kept: you know what you spend in money. 1t you have a job you spend so many | hours & day at a definite employment to get the money to spend. But there is a margin—Ilet us hops a fair one—of time and energy to spend. and in many | directions and for much that money cannot buy. | Your thrift of mind is a vital matter, not easy to put down in an account | book or a diary. In the end what you do with the spare energy of your mind becomes the best test of the sort of person you are, whether you are a lsnvrr or a waster, thrifty or spend- | thrifty, | It all starts from and leads to a | sense of value. spending. | your money, your time, your energy? | Nothing 18 cheap if it lacks value. But, | again, there is material value and use | value and beauty value and pleasure | value and education value and experi- ence value in general and, above all, moral and spiritual value. If you use mental thrift, you accumulate some- hing worth while. You really are worth more. And that's another test and a rather disturbing one for the same old reason that we use the money standard as the casiest. You ask: “How much is he That's the test in all | Do you get real value for | or anybody else could answer that, he would go a long way to solving those Ipsunull human values which mental fitness as well as social service cherishes. Oe man is worth as much as a dozen others because of the way and the spirit in which he spends his time and his energy, his thoughts and his feelings— and his money only incidentally. Yet we are all rated and rate our- selves by our thrift, what we save money for, what we spend money for, what kind of persons we become in the pro- cess of getting and spending—whether we practice thrift or lay waste our powers Wealthy is the man who is rich in energy. with good health and a fine zest for doing things. Wealthy in an- other sense is the man rich in time, with enough lefsure to do the things that give him most pleasure, that help him to grow and get the most out of life. No man can afford to be a slave to his job, certainly not to money- making alone, and remain thrifty in mind. The rush and crush and hustle may be exciting for a time, but is wearing in the end and long before the end. An item in the thrift of mind that's well worth buying is leisure. To be so busy that you can't give any time to the | business of living is bad thrift It's such 2 pity that so many who could do so much worth while if they had time can't find the time because of | the pressure of earning a living or the pressure they put on themselves in | competition with others. The idle rich are to be pitied if they buy idleness with | their wealth, but not if they buy well- | spent leisure. Leisure put to good use | is mental thrift. Leisure put to poor | use is waste. There should be given in every col- lege, perhaps in every high school, a course on worth?” and they will tell you: “So “Values,” teaching how to many thousand or hundred thousand |spend time, encrgy. money to get the | dollars.” In human value he may be | best values for mental growth. The so far from being worth anything to | “professor of values” would have to be his community that he is actually a | a wise man, worthy in himself to set loss or a menace. | forth what is of true worth, to teach How much are you worth? If you | thrift of mind. || BEAUTY CHATS BY EDNA KENT FORBES Blond or Brunette. |to bow never wear extremely high- | heeled shoes. The other day we were talking about | = Mary K—.J. M—Rub & honey al- | choosing colors in face powder to ac-|mond cream into your hands each time centuate the complexion, or rather to|after you have immersed them for any | accentuate the type to which you m.‘ggg"‘h;{s e ;3?“1,,:§”h,§.‘,‘,‘3,"',‘,’;'§?§,°: long: that is, you must be very blond | in hot water. If you rub some créam {or very brunette, or, if you are in be-|or ol into your hands before putting | tween and unable to emphasize your|©On the gloves, they will be having a 4mlorm|, then you must ch unzi""m treatment while you work. | thing and play this up to make it the | moat noticeable feature about you. For| | instance, if you cannot be strikingly | ht shades of rose, blue, | | blond or strikingly brunette, take some | | good feature—your eves perhaps—and | | bring these out, or your hair, or even | | your teeth if they are your best point. | | If you are anywhere near to being | either a decided blond or brunette, you can do a lot to emphasize your coloring | by the sort of clothes you wear. Sup- | pose, for instance, you have eyes that |are blue but not a very decided blue. and hair that is golden without being | strikingly so. Well, then, go out and buy or maké yoursélf a dress of real | golden yellow crepe de chine, and wear | | with # either a scarf or a fairly large | tie of rather vivid blue. At once you | | have established yourself as the real | | blue-eyed, golden-haired blond, since | these two colors in your dress bring out | | the two colors in yourself you want| | most to show. If your eyes have more | |green in them than blue, substitute | | jade or apple-green in the scarf and | tie and make your eyes an interesting sea-water shade. | | To emphasize your type, which means | | making blond hair moré golden and | | dark bair ruddier, wear not the color | | that your hair actually is. but the color | tences given here are reversible; they read the same from right to left as from left to right, letter by letter or figure by figure. directiops. punctuation Adam” “Do go do” is not. Some of the numbers, words and sen- that is. Go through the list in two minutes and cross out any which d6 not conform to this rule. A senténce is considered reversible if the letter formation is the same in Both regardless of spacing or Example: “Madame, I'm is & reversible sentence, but . 5555553555 . 61019 . ROTATOR . AROMA . 384567765483 . NOW NOON WON . 56389218198365 TOO HOT TO HOOT . GOOD DOG DO GO . A3080SQRSOBH5A . AM I MA I AM MA . OENONE O 38FL26726767262FL83 | you want it to be. T bl { ¥ For blonds Justrous | . WIN I WON NOW 1 | golden yellow silk in the daytime and | for évenings palé. glistening gold cloth, As an examplé. But for brunettes, not brown but a ruddy shade of brown, cop- | per colof; for instance, orange of brown }-nh a deal of gold in it. | brings out the lights in the hair as well |as the rich, dark tinge of the skin. | Experiment with color combinations. Mildred B.—Lay a tiny round stick, liké & I18ad pencil, over your lashes and brush the hairs back over it to train them té curl. Jeanette—There is some physical rea- |son for the dark circles about the eyes. {and the swollen vein also, so consult | the doctor about it. With legs inclined 1 | | WIN | . WAS IT A CAT I SAW | 16. ABRACADABRA | Remember that the lettérs or figures must be the same in -both directions, backward as well as forward. | The following aré reversible, acesrd- ing to the numbers given in the lst: 1.3. 5 6. 8 10, 12 and 15. Numbers 2. 4. 7, 9, 11, 13, 14 and 16 are not reversible. \ (Copyright. — | While fishing at Blonday Bay, Mull, Scotland. recently, a number o,"m_ | men were suddenly surrounded by | large school of basking sharks of grea size, And were forced to fleé to shore. 1928 When fresh vegetables call for something newer than mayonnaise CRISP lettuce, radishes, cucumbers, and ced tomatoes have such fresh tastes that u often want something different than just mayonnaise on thém. Try Butt-R- Naise. Itis a spicy new salad cream made of lemon juice and specially prépared freshegg-yolks, whipped with pure creamy butter, vegetable oils and spices. It makes salads more healthful for you, for it is full of vitamines. A welcome spread on sand- wiches, too, in place of butter. Always fresh. In 30c glass jars at your dealer’s. You will also like Gelfand’s Peppy-Nut Sandwich Spread. The Gelfand Mfg. | v Company, Baltimore. Distributors, ne Carpel Co. Washington, D. C. GELFAND’S BUTT-R-NAISE \Wmlmmmvmvw‘“" = for your old iron It’s just —any kind money. Bring or send us your old iron like findi rztion--and we will allow you one dollar or con on the purchase price of a wonderful, brand- for it to ApEy new, good-for-a-lifetime ‘American monikly Beauty clectric iron y the balance only 95c. down, then a dollar with your next six service bills, But this is only a temporary offer, so act at once. POTOMAC ELECTRIC APPLIANCE CO. Have EVERYTHING Electrical—Pay on Electric Bills 14th & C Sts. N.W. 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