Evening Star Newspaper, August 2, 1928, Page 38

WOMA The Sidewalks MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN. of Washington BY THORNTON FISHER. We were intrigued by a register book in one of our public buildings a few days ago. In it were the names of people we never shall sce—at least not on this terrestial sphere. The first name, written in hing seript, was one Mr. Amos Briggs, Saint Paul, followed by an | humbler., less heroic inseription, *“Har- riet Briggs.” doubtedly Mrs Briggs was the wife of the original signer. Mrs. Brig: ("WHY DIDNT ) YOU MARRY | f children the tiny s. Ever King John the Magna arta we have been addicted to t signing things, including books, photographs of promise letters, autograph al- pledges and_contracts. v the other day the name of the al Hoover, was an album_owned who when he was nd signed himself “Bert.” It is \ceivable that any one should Republican Al autog: knew him friends mention him as however), but can't ous reflection how e: tograph might rise to stril We once wrote in sweetheart's album, ‘Wi ou see, please think of me,” a v many times the Particularly in Even though it | n act of ¢hildhood. is easy to e husband—who is probably of the earth-—exclaiming. ust too bad you didn’t marry The most heroic signers were men who attached their o the Declaration of Inde- , who “if they did not hang her might hang separately.” ago a friend whose heart hed his judgment, in- a for an acquaintance. il paying the bill. Every man honest with himself will admit that at least once in his life he signed & pledge. Have most of them kept it? Oh. be yourself! Custodians of hotel registers are keen students of hand- writing. No groom can fool an expe- rienced room clerk when he leads his bride before the desk and sets down, *Claude P. Glurk and Mrs. Glurk.” These thoughts resulted from our perusal of a register in a historic place. 8 sa “We have so many weeks devoted to this and that” said a man to the He The Daily Cross-Word Puzzle | (Copyrizht. 1028.) . Perch. . Railroad (ab.). Made obedient. Italian river. . ‘Those in office. Spigot. . Card game. . Expires, . Body of water. . Form of address. . Writing fluid. . Wing of a house, Arrogance. Brother of Odin. Cry of a cow. Speak Belonging to him. FPabulous monster, Kind of fuel Cavalry seldier, German city. . Eagerness. Down. Grating, Avifauna Btreet (ab.). Devour Corded fabric. Hypothetical forcs. . ‘Table utensil. Implement Refuse from wine making . Observes. . Glance, Slide . Evergreen. Makes a mistake. Neat Distant. 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When the out of their hidings Hot-Weather Play. | writer. “Why don't we have an ‘Old Photograph week’ when every one might | see himself or herself as others saw them 15 years ago.” This unique su gestion was offered when the wife of | the gentleman suddenly snatched a photograph album from his- hands as we were locking over pictures of the | vintage of 1913. He had made the mis- take of laughing at a snapshot of the | lady taken in the fashion of that day. | ¢ with the book. “Didn’t you think ou were the cat’s whiskers in that re- galin? Of course you did. I must have thought so, too, or I would still be sending m Fifteen years from now shall we not have occasion to smile if not laugh at the fashions of today? We do not recall any one bursting out hilariously ! at the sight of a lady’s hat perched perilously on the crest of her hair. woman refused to be scen in the old | s with her “boy friend” because he wore peg_trousers and pointed shoes that would have sliced a piece of paper. | Perhaps a future generation will chuckle at as following ones will aw One mother says My baby girl used to get up from her afternoon naps cross and fretful on hot Summer days and I only added to her discomfort by dressing her up in freshly starched clothes. The rest of |the afternoon she made both herself {and me miserable by her continuous whining. One day I decided to try {new tactics, so as soon as she had awakened, I got her a little pan of cool water and a clean cloth and turned |her loose with it in the bathroom, | where the floor was easy to mop up, and allowed her to play for an hour. | By that time she was cool and in good humor to be dressed in her pretty | frocks. A friend of early s days drifted into town. Have you never dwelt “in Bohemia” Then you have missed youth's rarest experience. How- ever, our old friend ald, “Looking ack, w t it a lot of bunk?” We didn't regard it as “bunk” when we sat around a ba table in To drab and normal i dirty cavern down near a row of | stables that in- | genious hands had | fashioned into al- leged studios led Bohemian (Copyright, 1928.) 1 Today in ‘ Washington History “Be honest,” he implored, as she rushed i own things to the tailors.” | | No | STAR, WASHINGTON D C, THUREDAY, THE AC( | | | | (A T. Averchenko. aged 41, died not ago at Prague. He was that rare | among Russian writers—a humorist. Al | | though he wrote many volumes of excellent | work, he has been but littie transiated and is 80 far not nearly so well known in | | America as he deserves to be.) | FIRST EPISODE. “Men are funny creatures!” she sald | | smiling. She had an abstracted dreamy | | air, 1 did not know whether this remark | | was meant for favorable or adverse | critfcism of the masculine sex, so I risked a seeming agreement: “‘Indeed, | | they are.” | “Yes. My husband, you know, is a | regular Othello in his passionate jeal- | | ousies. Sometimes I feel a little sorry for having marrled him. And I'm sure I he still has bandages wrapped around his Head.” | “Oh, your hushand” I responded. “But he—" She gave me a pitying glance. “No, my friend, I am not referring to the head of my husband. It was he who | broke it. you see.’ I could do nothing but stare at her | helplessly. “You will have to explain,” |1 said “Pardon me. haven't been told. this “Something like three weeks ago, my husband and I were walking home through the square, and he was sitting on a seat as we passed under one of | | the electric lights. Face rather white; | very dark hair. You know how fool- | hardy that kind can be; now and then. And I had my big black hat on, the | {one that becomes me so well, and sets | off the color of my cheeks, which just | then were more than usually rosy from the exercise of walking. “Well, that silly youth sitting there looked up at me as we passed. Quite without warning he got up and grasped my husband boldly by the coat sleeve ‘Have you a light?' he asked. long | thing I did forget that you Well, it was like They were not ali | BY DONALD A. CRAIG. embryo artists and | writers who gath- | " e ered informally at | August 2, 1819.—The controversy over | 0 keeping the public markets open on | an g clock of DIEHLS | Sindays was settled today by the pass- | Wy * | ing of an ordinance prohibiting Sunday | atmosphere of an ill-ventilated back | In€ of an ordinance prohibiing Sunda oom, panning the world and shaking | Markets at any sessor, of the yeor. A% | s at conventionality. The young houses Saturday evenings. | women were not all bob-haired, and | hOjscs Saturday evenings. L | skirts covered their knees. Most of | It is umored that opponents of His | | them have long Shnce marHled o on; | diction of the City Councll, where they | leading prosaic lives 2 t ety suburbs. Two of the girls of whom least | €30 enioy the freedom of marketing on | Sunday. They propose to establish a | was expected have attained fame and 4 | not a little fortune as painters. An- new market at the'south end of the [ other was to write books. Of the men, | NOIY Yard Bridge. = oo | one was to rise high in the councils of | local markets on Sunday has been his Sm!(‘.dm)fllhfl‘ dabbled in mfi' going on for several years. The first { writing and now possesses an imposing | . ,record of successes. Others went into ‘m:fl(p(f:&:a:b %;:L:“:{y"z&h E“"&d‘;{‘ {the law and our ex-Bohemian visitor | .4 by the ordinance of 1802. The ad- | in the city is an engineer of exceptional . | talents.” Romance flourished in Tony's | place and perhaps that little group are better men and women for it. | vocates of the change charged that| | Sunday markets have been the occa-| sion of disorder. One reason assigne for opening markets on Sundays is that it has afforded the only opportunity for | | slaves in the adjoining States of Mary- land and Virginia to bring the products of their industry to market here. In addition to the charge of disorder | arising from Sunday marketing, there have also been objections from those | who look upon Sunday markets as in- | terfering with a proper religlous ob-| servance of that day. | A compromise was suggested in a | message of Mayor James H. Blake to | the City Council several years ago. He | recommended the Sunday closing of all | markets in the city from October 1 to April 1 of each year. He pointed out | that in the cold season food can be | kept over the week end and marketing for Sunday can be done on Saturday. | He also pointed out that this plan had been adopted in Georgetown and Alex- jandria. He added that is this way | | means would be provided for excluding | disorderly characters who have made | | marketing an excuse for coming to the city on Sundays. “I trust we shall not be wanting in | piety and devotion sufficient at any rate | to enforce a strict observance of the | day, ‘more espeeinlly when we camnot be put to any inconvenience by it | said the mayor. A bill to carry out this plan was | passed by the City Council but rejected by the Board of Aldermen four years ago. The subject has been much dis- cussed since then, with the result, as | stated, that Sunday marketing will | henceforth cease for the entire year. 5 | ANSWER TO YESTERDAY'S PUZZLE [STH]A[D] [G[o[u]T] A Tlo] . Before, . Through the agency of. Upon. Bran Muffins. ‘To one cupful of whole wheat flour add two cupfuls of bran and enough sour milk and baking soda to make a rather stiff dough, using half a tea- spoonful of soda to each cupful of sour milk. Add a little salt and a table- spoonful of melted vegetable shorten- ng or bacon, frying. Drop from & spoon onto an olled baking sheet, and bake in a hot oven for about 30 minutes. Serve hot or cold. i The Seductive Touch of the Orient —this alluring, fascinate ing attractive beauty with its subtile, mystic appeal can be yours. | « “Why, how queer.” I said. | sudder ed | UP; {of the story now. “My husband roughly pulled his sleeve away, stooped quickly down, and sooner than you could speak banged the foolish boy on the head with a He dropped instantly. It was terrible!” “Why the n: fit of jealousy?” I told you men were funny crea- tures,” she replied. SECOND EPISODE. After leaving her I met her husbgnd “I'm told you've been cracking people on the head,” I said. He laughed. “So you've been listen- ing to my wife. I tell you it was real luck that that stone was so near my hand. For if it hadn't been—well, I | had a large sum of money in my pocket, and my wife had on her diamond neck- lace. ‘The square was absolutely empty at the moment—we were quite de- | serted in case of attack.” “You thought he wanted to hold you ,” 1 concluded. “No, you idiot!" he retorted with fine sarcasm. “The fellow belonged in the French embassy! Why, when a chap addresses you in a lonely spot and gets hold of your arm—well, what more do you want?” He looked very much hurt. “So you cracked him on the head,” I said. “Yes, and he dropped without a sound. I know how to take care of my- self in a scrape like that.” | As I walked on I was frankly per- | plexed. THIRD EPISODE. A voice hailed me from behind. It ! was a friend whom I hadn't seen for at least three weeks. | “What in the world happened to | you?” I demanded. | “I just left the hospital,” he replied. | “Do you know whether any crazy men have escaped from an asylum recently?” “No. Why?" | “I was attacked by a lunatic about three weeks ago.” I was suddenly very much interested. “Is that so? Tell me all about it!" “You see, I was sitting in the square. Possibly you read about it in the paper. It was really the most preposterous oc- currence. I sat there, alone, and I was dying for a cigarette—but I didn't have a match on me anywhere. Then, after 10 minutes or so, a guy came along with some female—no doubt his wife— hanging on his arm. He was smoking, so I naturally stepped up to ask him for a light. Now I give you my word— I approached the gentleman with my most dignified and polite manner. I meant to give no offense. 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Black Flag, in both powder and liquid form, is the deadliest insect- killer made. (Money back if it doesn't prove s0.) The Liquid costs only 25 cents for half a pint—just one-half of the price of other liquid insect-killers. The powder, packed in glass to prevent spoil- ing, costs 15 cents, and up. Both liquid end powder are the surest known death to all household insect pests. Some people pre- fer Black Flag Ligquid to kill fly- ingpests—Powder to kill crawling pests, including ents. i | | WORLD FAMOUS STORIES JIDENT. BY A. T. AVERCHENKO. idea,” T replied, as though the suspense irked me. “Do go on.” “You would never guess” he sald “The whole thing was so absurd. I never in my life heard anything like it | You understand that I merely touched > Z, AUGUST 1928. Home in Good Taste BY SARA RILAND. him gently on the arm, to attract his attention, you know, and all I said wa: ‘Could you oblige me with a light? ‘That was every word, every gesture Not a picious remark. threatening motion or a sus- | “Well, that lunatic stooped down as | quick a5 a_wink and picked something up from the ground. You can guess that I never thought to protect myself. Who would? It was preposterous. Well, he next moment I was lying on the ground with a split head—completely unconscious. I awoke in the hospital” I gave my friend a sincere look of penefration. “You are convinced,” I said, “that a_madman attacked you?" “Convinced? Iam sure of it as I was of my broken head. - FOURTH EPISODE. It oceurred to me that possibly T had not got to the bottom of the story after all. My friend had mentioned the pos- sibility of my reading about his acci- dent in the paper. I immediately went to the library and searched eagerly through the back issues of the local newspaper. At last I found the item for which I was in search. It was the shortest pos- sible notice in the accident column, headed with these significant words “Under the Influence of Liquor.” ‘The paragraph read as follows: “Yesterday morning an officer in the square found lying unconscious the form of a young man whose papers told he was of good family. It appeared that he had fallen while intoxicated and cracked his head on a heavy stone | that lay close by. It hardly needs to be said that the distress of this wan- ton's parents at this disgraceful occur- rence is more than can be describes MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Baked Bananas. Cereal with Cream. Scrambled Eggs. Oatmeal Muffins. CofTee, LUNCHEON. Cottage Cheese Salad in Green Peppers. Parker House Rolls, Chilled Fruit Cup. Cookles. Tea. Jellled Bouillon. Baked Stuffed Haddock. Riced Potatoes. Green Peas. Celery Salad. Creole Ice Cream. Sponge Drops. Coffee. OATMEAL MUFFINS Pour one cup scalding milk over two-thirds cup raw rolled oats, let stand five minutes, add salt, two tablespoons sugar, one and two-thirds cups flour, two teaspoons baking powder, one tablespoon melted shortening (butter or lard) and one table- spoon milk. Makes 12 muffins. Bake 12 to 15 minutes. COTTAGE CHEESE SALAD IN GREEN PEPPERS One pound cottage cheese, two green peppers, one tablespoon onion juice, one-half tablespoon salt, dash paprika and pepper. Mix cottage cheese with onion, salt, pepper and paprika to taste; add finely chopped pepper (tops of peppers are chopped fine) and mix well; if dry, add little cold milk. Fill into pepper shells and press down firmly. Line salad plate with lettuce, pile remainder of cottage cheese on lettuce; then with sharp knife cut each pepper into rings about one inch thick and place on cottage cheesé mix- ture; sprinkle with fienly chopped parsley and little paprika. CREOLE ICE CREAM One quart thin cream, one cup sugar, two cups peach pulp, one cup maple sirup, one cup chopped pecan nuts, four fresh eggs, one teaspoon vanilla. Scald cream and sugar and add eggs, cooking until they coat spoon. Beat in maple sirup, peach pulp, nuts and flavoring. Freeze, using three parts ice to one part salt. Serves six to eight —and healthful besides./ You've never enjoyed a break- fast as you will when you taste Heinz Rice Flakes. The crisp, crunchyflakes with their delicate, nut-like flavor will delight you. And besides, they're good for you...because Heinz Rice Flakes are naturally “laxatized” by the use of the natural roughage of the riceitself—thanks in cereal-making to a new process discovered and developed by Heinz. Thus do Heinz Rice Flakes ac- quire thequalitics of agentle,natu- ral laxative and add to your “Joy of Living”’ by keeping you healthy, % | [ ‘Those of you who remember visiting | srandmother or aunt on a farm will | recognize the sugar “bucket” as shown {in the illustration. ‘Twas this part of |the making of those sugar cookies. | pumpkin and mince pies and jellies that were so famous We still preserve these containe: but with the coming of built-In cup- hoar | that it is useless for its old purpose. {Bu’ an old friend like this cannot be Ishoved aside just because it seems to have reached old age. So we glve it a coat of paint and decorate it with a | few conventional motifs in bright colors and offer it a place in the scheme of jour_informally furnished rooms. The interior may be given a coat of position, Such a rejuvenated sugar bucket has many | uses. One woman might find it very | handy for mending, another for mate- |rial for a hooked rug, and it would be n ideal place in which to keep maga- zines which are to be saved because of | choice bits of reading in them. (Copyright. 1928.) '| SUMMERTIM | pasted smoothly in BY D. C. PEATTIE. Hot weather always seems to me very much what you make of it. As Mark | Twain said, everybody talks about the | weather, but nobody does anything | about it. | about the long magnificence of Sum: mer when its tide is at the full that can best be described as resplendent. | The sizzling song of the cicadas, the | dancing of the heat waves down dusty roads, the heavy mantle of intense green foliage spread over the world, {the toppling dream-castle clouds, the roar of bees in the flaming corollas of the horse-mint flowers—surely, these are as beautiful in their way as the beauties of ice and snow, leafless trees and lifeless fields that the Winter- lovers do their best to make us love. Of all the manifestations of full Summer, to me the best is the thunder- storm. hunderstorms are dangerous, of course—in the way in which surf bathing is dangerous. You may be struck by lightning, just as the under- fow may drag you out to sea. But few people who stay indoors and do not stand 1 strong drafts have ever been struck by lightning. As a teacher of mine once said to those who a deathly afraid of lightning, if you live to see the flash you are all right. When 111ghln[ng strikes, it strikes with a speed that permits no man to say, “Behold!" ‘It is not true, however, that lightning never strikes twice in the same place. A lightning-scarred tree is the tree most likely to be hit again. Indeed, the safest place in a thunderstorm is in our house or out in the open field. s with metal-lined drawers, espe- | cially for the storage of sugar, we find | paint or lined with wallpaper or chintz, | To me there is something | It usually strikes in the same places. | For sizes, from § 12-pound or FEATURES. MILADY BEAUTIFUL BY LOIS LEEDS. Reducing the Upper Arms. Dear Miss Leeds: Please tell me how to reduce the upper parts of my arms and bust by exercise. G. M. Answer—Here are some exercises that may help you: (a) St with arms out at the shoulder I each side. Bend elbows quickly and touch shoulders with fingers. Straight- en arms again and repeat the bending about 20 times in rapid succession. (b) Stand erect with arms at sides, each hand grasping a book or other weight. Bend elbows out at the sides, raising hands to armpits. Relax and repeat briskly 10 to 20 times. (c) Clasp your hands before you, elbows bent. Tense your muscles and swing your clasped hands as far to the right as possible, then to the left. Repeat 10 times. LOIS LEEDS. Early Graying of the Hair. Dear Miss Leéds—(1) I am 14 years old, 4 feet 11'% inches tall and weigh 100 pounds. My hair is quite gray. The silver hairs have been increasing especially fast since this Spring. What | the larder that was so important in| can I do? (2) I have blue e brown hair and a_dark compiexion What colors may I wear? (3) My mother's face is quite wrinkled. Can vou advise her what to do? BETTY ROSS. Answer—(1) Your weight is correct. The premature graying in your case is quite likely due to heredity. Did your parents turn gray early? All you c: do about 1t is to build up good health and stimulate your scalp by daily e. Here is a scalp tonic you use twice a week if your hair is i clined to be dry: One ounce olive o: four drams cologne water, four ounce bay rum, one dram tincture of cinchona Shake well before applying. Do n curl your hair with hot irons. (2) You might choose a floral design in voile or | chiffon in golden browns and o browns or tans. Dark or medium b! in a printed cotton or silk would als be becoming. You may also wear duli pink, coral, apricot, bright red, r brick, bronze-green, ecru. deep brill yellow, mahogany, deep cream and black trimmed with contrasting color. | (3) 1 shall be glad to send your mother | some suggestion on the care of her skin if she will write me describing the wrinkles and telling me about her | health. Please ask her to send a stamped, self-addressed envelope when he writes. LOIS LEEDS. Two Underweights. Dear Miss Leeds: We are two girls| have eased your child w One of us is 15 years old, 5 feet 1% inches tall and weighs 101! pounds. She is large-boned and her measure- ments are: Bust, 32; waist, 26: hi 30; thigh, 18; calf, 13; ankle, 8%. | The other girl is 16 years old, 5 feet 2'2 inches tall and weighs only 95 pounds Her measurements are: Bus 31; walst, 24: hips, 31; thigh, |calf, 12, and ankle, 8. She has |bony neck and hands. Are measurements_correct? TWO SCHOOLGIRLS | _ Answer—You both ave far too thin The 15-year-old girl should gain 10 \pounds. Her bust, | measurements are good, but she can waist and ankie | |afford to gain weight elsewhere. The { other girl needs to gain about 20 | pounds.” All her measurements, except her ankle, are too small. If you will gain weight. my dear, your neck and hands will become plumper. If you will send me a stamped, self-addressed envelope I shall be glad to mail you my instructions on gaining weight, giv- ing diet and exercise suggestions. LOIS LEEDS. P Risotto. Cut up an onion very fine and fry it in good drippings. When brown, add a cupful of rice and stir for five minutes with the onion. Add four cupfuls of | good broth. If no broth is available, water in which vegetables have been cooked can be used. and let the whole cook gently for half an hour. Add grated cheese when serving, and, if necessary, a little beef extract. Use more rice according to the number of people to be served. See that when the { rice is cooked every grain is separate. | | | " Are 2fou When zour Children Cry Baby has 1 | All your care ¢ 7 But you cam be prepared. can do what any cxperienced nurse | would do—what most physicians | would tell yau to do—give a few | drops of plain Castoria. No sooner | done than Baby is soothed; relief is | iust a matter of moments. Yet you thout use | of a single doubtful g: Castoria is vegetable. So i safe to use as oiten as an infant has any little pain you cannot pat away. And it's al- wavs ready for the crueler pangs of g ation, or diarrhea, ef- for older children. 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