Evening Star Newspaper, August 9, 1928, Page 34

1 THE EVENT STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY. AU GUST 9, 1928 34 WOMAN'SSPAGE.’ Enjoy But Protect the Wild Flowers BY LYDIA LE BARON. WADRER, ™ Y REG. U8 PAT OFF fIVIE Ry else snap the stems so that they break mes. It is possible to get all sorts without injury’ to the plants them- flml'm-“,d flowers fmn‘g'“'“.: \;‘YQ n‘:‘srlm. Many varieties of plants are| T e e | dctunlly becoraing exkinct becaiise tmec | ~ é who pick the INossoms uproot the plants from venders on city streets. but the | jiicfeaq of ninping the stems. The | strength of the ' Iiitle stems is not ap- | preciated and ‘uggg at them does not snap the sie.ader stems, but brings up plant, roots and all Many of these | fants would not grow elsewhere, even carefully tended. though few indeed ave given any fur- ther attention after the stems are brok- en. These plants, thep, are wasted, soon dead, and never wil\ propagate again. In New England the \exquisite trailing arbutus, commonly known as the May- | flower, will soon be Itown by name | only, if careless persons eantinue to pull | | the plants up by the roots. And this is | but_one variety that is suTering from | | such thoughtlessness. ‘ It is said that a word o the wise is | suffieient, so besides sayinX \the above, |leta further hint be dropped—when go {ing into the country take' a pocket | knife or scissors and guarc( the wild | flowers by gathering the flowers and | foltage only. not the roots Wild flowers are at a premium in city Fur Scallops. fur coats this Fall are given a strict! the addition of a little feminine de- | tail—the scallop is to help nature to scatter the .\pad In some communities groups n(g‘\\'om- vell as clubs§ hav ken up this idea, and whenever| the! g0 ocut into the country highways, yhe take along seeds of native wild flowcvs and scatter them on the soil by ihe roadsides. Some of these will sink f1} 0 the ground and be washed down rains, take root and grow just as if \ n | usually scalloped. In the case of seal- e collar is usually of a contr: |ing fur, such as badge (Copyright NANCY PAGE Fruit Punch for Fifty Is A Welcome Recipe 1928.) wind had blown them from their owr seed pods. There need not be the expense ev of buying seeds if they are gathere when ripe. Small quantities only shal be gathered, and these taken to parts of the road where the seeds left on the | plants would not be likely to fall. Those | BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. . TH e neighborhood parish was having left will propagate near the plants. | The other method of keeping\the wild | Mink, ermine and sealskin coats are foumes blossoming along the Hghways | the ones which adapt themselves espe- | cially well to the scalloped edge. Both sleeves and bottom of the coat are | BY JOSEPH Puzzling Failures Again. | E I rvead with interest vour reply fo| “puzaling_Failires ' erand re- | ply. giving a sympathetic understanding of b Geculiar and hard case. T often wonder fe 5"m in ' (hat “type Writing abo | may ‘ive vou an fidea that one re B Ay be of that type. but Jjust e has looked iward he ncts bac Anyway, You can size up the who A | dabbled in the a dldn't_build mo to ro conventional way b | ihe campus “and whose - fianc Some of is way irit. but nature | b in A n these peop buckle doy they Inck Initiative. or use the | apportunity precluded them | ture ways. 1 am writing hurried | met these men who were not Jobs. responsibility or marriage, mature in training and capacity. {imes these misits (?) tinker on, postage stamps, keeping house and writi fotters to the paper while bills are wunpai cte. Some are in_the game, but with only Dlay attached. There is 'the man who Won't ‘play the one-or-two-talent part be- Cause he feels he can do the four-or-five- if he had the talent game. can do it chance. | "The opportunity is against him fie can't change the environment. There- re “Heads evervthing, fore, {or tries to write a logien | like this. Excuse ramb | there anything mn it? he “chews the rag. I | Repiy. | Yes, there is something in it, though | it may prove something of a puzzle to | | t- | make it out of this letter, which has 2| yhich would defy analysis by an ordi- o spread out that | Iit is a broad one. It makes no differ- | | ence how good an instrument you have | you can't do anything with | bring it to an edge. That's the mind as an_instrument {even more than of one of steel. The | | “puzzling failures” are people with | good mind. or a good enough mind, but | | who lack the supporting qualities needed | to give that mind a culting edge and | set it to work. A puzzling “point,” thougt i s yO! | true of fallure may be of the va- | riety mainly aimed at in this “desul- | | tory” letter. He is not practical, and When children are taught how to a Jawn fete and Lois and all her fam- | he 'has several other handicaps that go | Be- pluck flowers and encouraged to scatter | jly ware being active participants. with that lack and explain it. He| isn't mature; he hasn't quite acquired | the seeds. a love of nature and plant | cause\ Mrs. Aston lived so close to the life and an appreciation of the beauty of blossoms and the pleasure to be had grown-up ways; he doesn’'t meet and ac- cept responsibility. He can work only | from them is strengthened. under direction, when attached to (Copyrizht. 1928 | | Your Baby and Mine BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED. ! Too Rich Milk. Following out the quite natural| | policy that babies deserve the best of | | everything, mothers take some pride | | in asserting that they are giving their | children Jersey milk. Now we have| | nothing in the world against Jersey or | | Guernsey milk, but they have their dis- | | advantages. and clearly the chief: one, from the baby’s standpeint, is that they «contain far more cream than the ordi- | nary grade cows’ milk. j disrepute into which “top” milk | parish house she wast asked to prepare the fruit punch. She \had it ready and cooled so that the woung girls who came to get it and @ serve it had nothing to do but dish At out and look cool and attractive Mgs. Aston used a aecipe which serves 50 people. She mm'ltiplied this by five, since they expected 250. It is ‘The has fallen in recent years is due chief- 1y to the discovery that even though cream is easier to digest than scarcity of the latter makes. them espat desirable. This is not all their attraction by any means, for thereis a delicate beauty to some wild an easy matter to increase the in- gredients, once you know how much is required for 50: One pint grated | le, 2 pounds sugar, 4| ter,#2 cups hot tea, 2/ Juice, 9 6 oranges, 5 quarts cold water, 2 quarts ginger ale. Make a pint strong black tea. Cook sugar and boiling water for 10 minutes. | Add pineapples. Cook five more min- | utes. Add tea. Strain. Cool. Add| strained citrus .ruit juices and logan- | berry or grape juice. At serving time add cold water. Put in punch bowl with large piece ice. Add ginger ale just before serving. With beyerages one likes to pags cookies asking for her Inclose stamped. seif-addressed envelope. (Copyright. 1038:) 'E il Orange Ice. Make a sirup by boiling together two cupfuls of sugar, four cupfuls of water, and the grated rind of one Hkj; i } them to practical matters. else. He dabbles, tinker: a’side dish of occu- | pation for the main course. He won't | | settle down to one thing. He tends to| ;d('clailn against fate and finds the | | source of his failure in the kind of a| world that he was born into—and all the while his mind is turned inward { when it should be turned outward There are some things that may be | safd of these “failures” as a c First, whatever your talents or what- | ever kind of a mind you have, you must have the supporting qual Sup- porting qualities are such homely mat- {ters as patience, aftention to_detail finish, no rough edges, no dropped stitches, clean-cut jobs. Do what you | do in a workmanlike manner, and for | that you must get an interest in the work in hand. All that is far from | easy, especiaily the underlying patience | A craftsman. an artisan, a man who | |can do one thing well, is not likely to | | a puzzling failure. They | abound among students who get the notion that studies and ideas are more |important than jobs. They are not.| | A “student should accept the job of | studying in a workmanlike spirit. | That’s the complaint against the col- | 2 that they invite loafing on the |job. The supporting qualities for stu- | | dents and job workers are the same. | Second is a less evident and less en- couraging factor. Many puzeling fail- | jures are by nature peculiar in mind. | ! They belong almost without exception | | to the ingrowing minds, called the in- | troverts. Their minds turn in and not out. Hence the greater need when this trait is recognized early to turn There's lots of chance in every home | i\ keeping matters straight and mak- | imy small repairs, cleaning up, keeping | thigs shipshape. All that makes for responsibility, grown-up ways of doing | things, higher standards, and keeps the | mind’ bent on L ‘Whether craft, . or sport, or business, it's & job | for a iime, and getting job-minded is | an excellent preventive of failure. But | the fact yemains that this diffioulty in ' KEEPING MENTALLY FIT % | 4 JASTROW. the inborn; turned-in’ mind doesn’t naturally face getting job-minded is that way. It takes a good deal of effort and training to make it do so. It will never come easy. Third is the most puzzling factor, bed as a lack of common something lacking, like the ement that holds the wall in pl or, if present, it doesn't set.| Viewed close by it is a baffled, confused | of difficulty, making a problem of what should be an easy task. It's that helpless feeling of not know- | ing where to begin, because it's all a umble and no perspective, and it may have a touch of inertia in it because it Y the joy of work and accomplish- you'll know it if you know any puzzling _failures, and if you don't ou'll call it stupidity, which it isn't, 1t in helplessness it's worse. To de- test puzzling failures early and edu- cate them in heavy doses of plain, practical occupation s the most prom- ising method. ment BEAUTY CHATS AUNT HET BY ROBERT QUILLEN. “Ella is the kind o' woman that would think it sinful to drink coffee if she didn't like coffee.” (Copyright. 1928.) BY EDNA KENT FORBES Making Food Fattening. I know a woman who keeps a table | nary expert in food values and calories. | She lives on a farm, at least her home % in a charming village and the farm lies outside, but butter. milk, cream and | eggs are brought her in such quantitics | t her foods are always rich with . deliclous but very fattening in- nts. Potatoes—the biggest the | farm garden grows—are hashed in thick cream, or mashed with cream and great chunks of butter. Her cakes are golden | vellow; eggs go in by the dozen. Steaks | are broiled and a sauce of butter and | chopped parsley adds to their appeal and their richness Pop-overs appear for supper, & lump of butter melting in the middle of each Half her green vegetables have a cream sauce with them and the rest have but- ter added. Her puddings—well, every- | thing good goes into them. wonders how her husband gets so stout! She hates it. He's out in the flelds, his work gives him a big appetite, he eats and eats and enjoys the delicious | foods she serves. He goes back to the | fields and hard work helps him to di- | gest his meal. She herself suffers from s due to indigestion, 5o these she hasn't eaten much and she keeps thin. Good health would be fatal to her figure! So if you want to stay thin, do watch | the things that go into your plain foods. A baked tomato is 40 calories—scoop out its middle, fill it up with bread crumbs, cheese and butter, and it may PROUTS fresh-pick- ed from a nearby Chinese vegetable farm ... tender chicken cook- ed to a juicy turn . . . crisp, crunchy noodles . . s all the flavorful taste- tantalizers that 1ake good chop suey so good! be 150 calories. Six big fat stalks of asparagus, barely 40, pour Hollandaise sauce on them and every tablespoonful of it adds more than 100 calories to the dish. Every small slice of bread is 100, every tablespoonful of butter another 100. little ex very lump of sugar 25. These as count if you are reducing. R. H. O—A fine cold cream may be used for all purposes, including that of a lai base for powder. Winifred B.—For the tendency to rge pores, rub with a small plece of fce each time after you cleanse your skin either by bathing or with a cream. Y. C. H—If you take a tablespoonful of olive oil three times a day you will gain the eight pounds in a few months. | he oil may be taken in an equal amount of any fruit juce, preferably grape juice. Anxious Sister—The little girl is tall for her age so it is to be expected that ‘Then she | she would be slender. There is no average weight for this age. Try flour of sulphur dusted over the pimples to heal them and stop further skin infec- it jo S on Consult a good chiropodist about the | bunions: they may be cured if the rints have not been badly injured. hort shoes sometimes cause bunions or other pressure on the joints may do it. Miss Anxious—Buttermilk that has the butter skimmed from it is not fat- tening. gluten flour is somewhat fattening be- cause of the starch In it; therefore wi hite bread is the most fattening of all. 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About chewing | which goes into the subject more in gum: Is it harmful? 1 have heard |detall. (The column rules for obtain- that it enlarges the lips. I chew a good ling material we offer are to inclose 2 deal of gum and I don't care to ruin cents in coin, with a fully self-ad- my system or enlarge my lips! Will|dressed, stamped envelope, for all ar- you also explain further regarding ) ticles except the redueing and gaining ozena? A friend of mine has halitosis | pamphlet. for which 10 cents in coin overy once in a while, and it doesn't |in addition to the self-addressed. come from his stomach or teeth, so it |stamped cnvelope, are necessary.) must come from his throat or nose.| About your friend’s halitosis: 1§ Every onee in a while a piece of cheesy | probably doesn’t come from the stom- looking, foul smelling matter is dis- ach. It undoubtedly comes from the lodged from his throat and comes into | cheesy bits. He has what is known as his mouth. If he rubs his Adam’s|cryptic tonsils. There are deep pits in apple, the same material is_dislodged. | them, in which food, germs and cast- This is very queer, isn't it? Is it ozena off epithelial cells of the tonsils pack or not? Or what? Could you help us? | down and decompose. These packings «T was not long ago just at the stage | are called cholesteatomatous masses. where I was enough overweight to be | (Spring this on him.) Such tonsils unsightly. I started counting my |may be sources of infection, and may calorfes. Now 1 have lost five pounds | become diseased themselves. 8o he and there is all the difference in the |should consult a throat specialist. Un- world. I now look respectable. What |til he does this he might massage them a difference five little pounds make! I|with the end of his toothbrush and try am 16, and am 5 feet 10 inches tall |to free the crypts of their contents. and weigh 145. Is that too much for a I hope I have helped you with your boy of my age and build? I think 1|problems, C. I'm glad you have a am about right. now. Am I? Please | Proper appreciation of looking fit, for answer. Your friend. C." | that means keeping fit, mentally, mor- Yes, C, you are just about all right. |ally and psysically The Baldwin-Wood tables gl\'e‘ 140 | —_——— inds for good average weight for a| ,;’:;‘ of your height, but it is generally Red Currant Jelly. belleved that it is better for growing| Take an equal quantity of fruit and boys and girls to be slightly over the | sugar. For every two pounds of fruit average weight. The five pounds you take a glass of water. Put the fruit reduced evidently were in excess of | and water in a saucepan and stew until oy the juice runs easily through a sieve Now about the gum: I don't believe | Put the sugar in “another saucepan it is harmful to chew it. I don't be-| with water. For each two pounds of leve it will enlarge the lips. It may|susar take a glass of water, place on help to make wrinkles when you are at the fire and leave until dissolved. Then N wrinkling age. 1 don't know | Dut the hot juice with the ot liquid hether any sclentific work has been | sugar. and while it is still quite Mot done to show whether it has any effect put out the fire and stir, always in the on the digestion, or not; probably it | same direction, until the jelly can be fosmt. Each stick of gum has about 5 | Seen forming on the edge of the sauce- valorics of sugar in It, which would | pan. Putthe jelly while still warm into have to be counted if you chew many | glasses. The fruit must be very fresh fresh sticks a day. Chewing gum is alt be used in this way, and there will 'acy i be much more jelly than when the et e in the privacy of your | U, " rought o a boil, which must D EO™is & form of dry catarthi in | be dome if the fruit is not very fresh which dry crusts form—much more | o ST than normal—which are very offensive | _ Airplanes are proving successful in in odor. This condition requires pro- | Peru in fighting insects which attack longed treatment by a specialist in the | the cotton plants. end of a hot and lazy summer day... As THE sun goes down and the shadows begin to creep across the veranda, a cool breeze stirs and you welcome the evening. And to accompany the promise of the coolness to come, pour yourself a glass of ice-cold “Canada Dry." It sparkles and cheers you from its bubbling crystal depths. Savor its bouquet as you sip it. Feel its tingle of goodness and refreshing taste on your tongue. And know that you are drinking a real ginger ale made from real Jamaica ginger. 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