Evening Star Newspaper, August 10, 1928, Page 18

WOMAN'’S ‘PAGE THE EVEN ING STAR, WASHINGTON, Overcoming Mental Blind pots BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER, l ! |WHO REM EMBERS? BY DICK MANSFIELD. Rozistered U. 8. Patent Office. it is impossible for persons to ) a likelihood that the experiences of life , points of view, they are said | will open the mental eyesight Such per- to have mental blind sp gans are not aw of any who disability are colo IT IS FUTILE TO ARGUE WITH A PERSON WHO IS MENTALLY IND TO WHAT YOU ARE SAYING are aware of the beauty of varied s or differences in colors that they The fortunate that there is and let the light of understanding penetrate the darkened wastes It is foolish to argue with a person | when you discover he or she is actually unable to grasp your meaning. It is | equally absurd to get angry or even be ruffied, for it is a genuine inability, not obstinacy nor an unreasoning desire to take the opposite side. These are will- ful determinations, not mental incom- petency. For the latter leniency is needed and an appreciation that some- some time, understanding will te, not necessarily of the thing just then in the balance, but of problems in general. It is “the understanding per- |son" who is free from mental blind spots. | " Instead of being annoyed by | blind spots in others, the reaction to | discovering them should be to turn the | | spotlight of understanding self. Remember that every | some of them, perhaps alway only until life disel self. One of the wa sight is to realize th Immediately that one becomes aware that she does not always see situations from another's viewpoint, the enligh! ening process has begun. This not signify that one must agree w another’s point of view, but mere able to grasp it. Another sidelight thrown on one's own mental view of problem or situation. This may mod one’s own opinion, or it may m serve to strengthen it. In it does make one find out mental processes, and how lead up to the conclusions, It is only w person h a grasp of others’ minds that h | can guide opinion, help others, s come master of a situation t who cannot see things through the e of their children can never guide them right, though they may command obe- dience. Children who cannot be helped to see parents’ viewpoints never rightly understand rules and regulations laid down for them to follow. and w! age | gives them a power to act on their {own judgment | ways, which may be exactly opposite from the desires of the parents. | Husbands and wives who are men- on one one’s has of gaining in- any tally blind to the thoughts and reasons | for actions on the part of each other finally become estranged. The greatest | influence in opening one's eyes is love. It ascribes “the kindliest motives to others' actions, and kindness is, in itself, also a beneficlent quality that helps t clearer understanding. A loving, kindl: and gracious perscnality has few mental | blind spots. DIET AND HEALTH BY LULU HU Answers to Mothers. Mrs. L—The food needs for the un- dernourished child must be sufficient pot only to sup) his growth and energy needs but enough more to make him gain the weight he shoutd have; so he has to eat more than the normal child, and that means some eating! He may have to have two and perhaps three ‘times the amount of food that the nor- mal child needs. I will give you an outline of the best foundation diet for any child (or adult) as 1 have it in my book on diet for children Part 1—Protective Foods. pints of milk, at least. 1 full cupful of vegetables (especially the green-leaf vegetables). Part of them raw. 1 full cupful of fruit, part fresh if possible. 1 to 2 ounces high protein food (flesh foods, eggs, cheese). Part 2—Energy Foods. Cereals, including whole-grain breads; rice, potatoes, macaroni and simi- lar foods: simple desserts. Fats in the form of butter, cream, egg yolks and nuts. You will, of course, give your child other foods besides these I have listed, but if he has part 1 as the minimum basis for every day his needs for pro- tein, mineral elements and vitamins will largely be taken care of; and if the energy foods (part 2) are properly chosen we can be sure there will be a preponderance of the alkaline-ash foods in the diet. The amount of the energy foods the child needs will depend upon his age, activities, etc. Remember that he is goitg to need a lot of good energy foods. However, a large share should T PETERS, M. D. | come from the ones I have listed. If he has those in sufficient amounts as a | basis they will help supply the vitamins, minerals and proteins as well as furnish | energy. | _ Analyze vour child's diet and see if | he is getting sufficient of the protective limds. If not, increase these as well as his energy foods. However, this in- creasing must be done very gradually. , Do not try to do it all at once. Egg | yolk can be increased two or three a | day. They can be beaten in cream | sauces for the vegetables or taken in eggnogs, custards, etc. | rich in the vitamins, phosphorous, iron {and fat, and they seldom disagree Cod liver ofl acts wonderfully in some cases. | If he is an excess candy and ice {cream and rich pastry eater, these, instead of being increased, must be | decreased and never allowed between meals. You can increase his milk, un- less he is taking so much that he does not have sufficient appetite for the solid foods. Remember that he should have at least three glasses a day, so give him | that amount in some form. Cook his | cereals in milk if necessary. | Give him a midmorning and mid- | afternoon lunch—of orange juice prefer- ably—so that he won't have to over- distend his stomach at meal times. No tea or coffee. No growing child should ! have them. | We have a list of modern books on the care and feeding of children which | you should have. The column rules for obtaining material we offer are to in- close 2 cents in coin and a self- | addressed, stamped envelope for al | articles, except the reducing and ga |ing pamphlet, for which 10 cents in | | coin in addition to the self-addressed, | stamped envelope are necessary. The Daily Cross-Word Puzzle (Copyright 1928.) Across. Vehicle God of war Chart ceount (ab Indefinite article Bnake-like fish Card game Myself Give a name Pruit made famous by William 'Tel) Period of time In the Christian era Southern State (ab.) Color Japanese coin ntinent (ab.) Wing of a house. Affirmative ab ) Down. A twenty-fourth part Inhabitant of part of Asia Corded fabric koo Pole Wriggly fish Cunning Deface. Bomething to be done Turkish general Passage money Female sheep, Protuberance Vessel #wedish coln Flat surface at base of a wall Entrances Bows Mad dash Mother of Castor and Pollux Wash Precious stone, Anger A color Peer into American gener these | , perhaps | them to one’s | event | another’s | they will go their own | Egg yolks are | | | hothe on ve wore aps, turtle-nec and p cation Toc Washington History BY DONALD A. CRAIG engine hot | to welcome tk | tion of men: |erty Hose | who ing and some fire company of men Brown, Smith { several reporters wer | party Upon the rett the oad depot | ning after the c with & pistol i that he inten | gers. The { bers, fearing fo | guests, got a uble The number of the uers of the coach had time increased. soon as the mi he coach a | pistol was fired—aimed a Curtis, the vice president of the Northern Lib- erties Fire Company, who had quickly | jumped behind o which | the ball entered | | A general | eral persons were | | encounter, usly | wounded. | A number to the| Northern Lib House and | | got a swivel ich had been used | {in firing salu ed it to the | | scene of the r But Vice President | | Curtis, anxious to pre bloodshed., | upset the swivel and turned it to | Te- | nd a delega- med | cated passen- men thetr Sev- the s hot of lengthy dura- sufficient to make an- otch upon the reput i { persons who have ays been leg in_this sort of rioting and to add | other injury to the many y flicted by the “vagabonds” upon the city. The assau pon quiet and in- | offensive citizens was declared to have been_entirel oked. It is und stood that arrests will soon be made by the police | _The scene at the Northern Lib: Engine He afternoon duj ing the presenta the g Philadelphia was g ence of many lodies | vited guests, and | pronounced a g | the gifts was a painti the peaceful re | Northern Libe Washington and the company delphia, 1 portraits of members | | of the Philadelphia c v, a pair silver goblets, a silver pite ete | tion, by other & an- | in- A Sermon for Today BY REV. JOHN R. GUNN | whit The Lessons of the Stork. “The stork in the hea r appointed time: In the tork are son characteristics of the several important les- peculi sson of vital importance to Storks are noted for their and watchful care over their They feed upon lizards and in- but it is singular that they | not eat toads, and they are very c | {ful to teach their young not to | them. They will lay toads down befo! { | their and then toss them away Human parents should 1l of the mao ring and te would be loving voung sects will | are atever jurious to them for children. | emembers and ction of th repay the d | arents by aching | m through life ring for them In old & migratory flights your orks have been ing aged and feeble parents by upporting them on their backs. This characteristic so impressed the mind of the Hebrews that they embodied it in | the name 3 the stork C dah gratitude and fillal love. What a fine thing it would be if human children pos- ed thi characteristic are their usefuls to men. Destroying mice, vermin and snakes and taking up refuse which wou'd otherwise breed disease they are | protectors of human life, a_ fact | ) has made them always beloved ! and welcomed by the people of every clime they inhabit. And so another | rmon the stork preaches to us Is that, | efulnes It you ould be be ed slcomed in the world, make your useful which implie all noble Newlon-on land, for 63 v pi for ricuttural Show Samt who ha tinuously long 'OINTMENT Atried and trusty friend for 50 years. 'GETS 'EM ALL | No Riddunc;g-Ng Pay | 2 "7"’r%~ f ‘ > | | mahogany | held three | the | cloudy | at_the day of jus | silver-hatred | gentieman | incidents 'in a proje WORLD FANCY'S SHOW BOX NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. BY Hawthorne, 1004-1864, was ar ”lni he S Thles." and Told Manse A venerable one Smith, who had long been regarded pattern of moral excellence, v ing his aged blood with a glass or two of generous wine. His childron being gone and his grandchildren ot school, he sat lone in a deep lu s ormchair, with his feet beneath y ed table through the brilliant me- of old Madeira, he be- entering the room Fancy, who had assumed pect of an itinerant man, with a box of pictures on her Dack, and Memory, in the clerk with a pen behind her ear, and an inkhorn at her button-hole, and s ige ma volume beneath he arm, and behind the other two. person shrouded in a dusky mantle, which concealed both face and form 3ut Mr. Smith hrewd idea that as Conscienc How kind of nscienee to visit as he Suddenly. dium of his gla figu e were femory and to ima; o brigl ntle, took her to be next his hea i down her picture box on th the megnif glass conve at some of the pictures of copled the living in the and in yet background front, partls glanced K: She was » at his foet, evidently sinking under a weight of shame and h, which hardly allowed her to lift her clasped hands in supplication Her eyes she could not lift. But neither her agony, nor the lovely fes n which it was dep! nor the ce of the fo red to sof > young man. I on of triumphant s trange to say, as old Mr through the magnifying imph in ownward at I almost prostr eling girl Smith peeped glass. | ¥hich made the objects start out from | the as with magical deception, he began to recognize the farmhouse, the tree and both the figur The young man. in times long past, h: often met his gaze within the looking- glass; the girl was the very image of his first love—his cottage-love—his Martha Burroughs! Mr. Smith was scandalized “Oh, vile and slanderous picture!” h exclaimed. “When have I triumphed over ruined innocence? Was not Martha wedded in her tecns to David Tomkins who won her girlis long enjoyed her afiection as a wife? And ever since his death she has iived a reputable widow! Meantime, Memoray was turning over the leaves of her volume, rustling them to and fro with uncertain fingers, until among the earlier pages, she found onc which had reference (o this She read it close to the old ge car; it is a record ¢ of sintul hought, which never was embodied in an_act, but while Memory is onscience unveils her face, and strikes a_dagger to the heart of Mr. Smith Though not a death-blow, the torture was extreme The exhibition proc another Fancy display zll of which appcared to have been painted by some malicious artist on jur- pose to vex Mr. Smith. Not a shadow { of proof could have been adduced, in | any earthly court, that he was guilty of the slightest of these sins, which were thus made to stare him in the face Why should we follow Fancy through | of those awful pictures? | the whole serie Painted by an artist of wondrous power and terrible acquaintance with the ret soul, they embodied the ghosts of all never perpetrated sins that had glided through the lifetime of Ar Smith. And could such beings fantasy, so near akin to noth- ingness, give valid evidance against him ment Be that the case or not, there is rea- son to believe that one truly repentant would have washed away each ful picture and left the canvas as snow. Mr. Smith, at a prick e too keen to be endured, ud with impatient agon discovered that i were gone. ‘There | and highly v man in the rich gloom of curtained room, with no box of pictures on the table, but only a decanter most excellent Made Yet his heart still seemed to fester with the venom of the dagger Neverthel Yare the crimson- the “unfortunate old ht have argued the mat- ter with Conscience, and alleged many reasons wherefore she should not smite him so pitilessly, Were we to take up his cause, it should be somewhat in the following fashion, A scheme of guilt, till it be execution, greatly resembles a t ted tale. The lat ter, in order to produce a sense of reality in the reader’s mind, must b conceived with such proportionate strength by the author as to seem, in the glow of fancy, more like truth, past, present or to come, than purely The prospective sinner, on the other hand, weaves his plot of crime, but sel- dom or never feels a perfect certainty put in ain of forth about their vorldly business, | ness of a | o'G Mr. | the steps which 1 es of the picture, | | closing a | fiction, | of la | sel FAMOUS STORIES There is a | | | that it will be executed | dreaminess diffused s thought | in a dream, as it were, he strikes the | deathblow into his victim's heart, and | starts to find an indelible bloodstain on | | his hand Thus a novelwriter, or a dr in creating a villain ‘of romanc fitting him with evil deeds villain of actual life, in projectin will be perpetrated, may almost meet each other halfway between real- ity and fancy. It is not until the crime Is” accomplished that guilt clenches it grip upon the guilty heart, and claims it for his own. Then, and not before, sin is ally felt and acknowledged, and, if unaccompanied by repentance, thousandfold more virulent onseiousness. De is considered, ¢ overestimate thefr nce, while if stances do not pre nd its results ar matist and | wd the crime by its | Iso, that men often | city for evil. At attendant circum- s upon their notice dimly seen, they can ar to contemplate it hey may take | ad to crime, impelled | by the same sort of mental action a in _working out a mathematical problem, yet be powerless with com- punction at the final moment. They w not what deed it was that they | deemed themselves resolved to do. In truth, there is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve, | either for good or evil, except at | very moment of exccution. Let us therefore, that all the dreadful conse quences of sin will not be incurred v less the act have set its seal upon thought Man must hood, even since, thou heart I flitting phantoms of inis feel that when he shall kn gate of heaven, no semblan potted life can entit there. Penitents must kne come from the footstool of or that golden gate will neve ANCY PAGE Modern Underwear Simple, Sensible and Attractive not disclaim his brother- ith the guiltiest, howeve his hand be clean, hi been polluted by the e mu! sh surely to ent nd Me BY FLORENCE LA GANKE the and full da hen nd who isn't gl on a new t purchased choice of flowered dimity adcloth and cho: broad- The firmness of it although she considered the sheer for wear on the hottest days. siere has TTOW ulder | ade with fitted can be considered the new tuck-in blouses petticcat ad? striped br cloth her yoke. They when wear e shirts. 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Have you ever watched a blind person | dots and so write as well | reading "raised letters with the finger |the tests fit in with a use You surely have observed a blind man finding his way by tapping a cane | T on the sidewalk as he goes. marvelous performances to you because | you are so dependent on your eyes fo | guide all that you do from morning to eating | walking and playing and reading and | advantage writing and pra You from dressing and performing at would be helpless in to see by. So the notion was natural that the senses which their f have that er | tially like those of the seeing | doesn’t make up for lost eyes by bette { finger tips and ears. but art does a question of a finer use { | organs is one | new | » incorporated hitherto appes tailored in broad- flatteri either | which have | THE DAILY HOROSCOPE Saturday, August 11. nd hon ould be nd direct action and pro his Tule uld_br Pla the mind d receptive d conditions in ven more aston- | n have been an- | foretold, and | a means of wide- | young men are | influences that mendous achieve- | foretell much judices and social nt, inter- nations hole globe °d to be patient | ir children who > under- | tions, the | their | selfish advanc come _all obstacles and are most important units dren born tomorrow prot will | vell as | ve fine, | sensitive nature: t be carefull; guarded WHITE HOUSE COFFEE TheFlavor is Roasted In! raperies Cost Me Oriy 35 mother told me of a wonderful dry clean soap called Sqlvite which, she said 1 just | me the cost of anot new to everyone who s only thi new and save They look m, but y y-five cents « e o There is no easier way saving five or ten dollarst an by dry cleaning those things around me which would be ruiied by ordinary 1 water, Solvite, the wonder-working dry cleani issclved in gasoline, clea and brightens things cleaned with it snd makes them lnok like new. Save many dollars by in. vesting a few cents in Solvite at any drug store, The Economisal Home Dry Cleaning Soap ON SALE AT ALL |coarse in one half raised print for the form of our letters but of arrangement letters inventor). imple device the blind can make these | guidance of the result by As to tests, the simplest into one? the inch) and fine in rabcut 16 to the inch) the separate teeth feel somewhat separate; tips perfectly so. Take tongue _th ar. Your tongu strument than your finger tips than the p: than the back of the har finger | arm Both seem and your the the seeing and perior power: blind people have It's of the same tell - | whether two points close together feel to the finger tips as two or do they Take an ordinary comb, | craft (about 9 teeth the other half place the coa half on your forearm and you can't feel on the palm_they on the the fine part and place it on the finger tips can barely feel the teeth as points, on the tip of the o you s read. So 1l perform ance. Pests have been made comparing the seeing in their power to of sounds and as the louder. | blind and the the direction which of the sounds and again they differ no mor occurs among the seeing, with to the blind, due pro to job. dark Whatever you do, you need light and ey those than the wholly) to b ted with better te those senses tha usicians become better ears. and no one s would choosc an occupa v Good ey nor good ears to the ma because hear _bettes argely (1ot their they we cult excel 50 nts ng either, however 4 sensory endowment, take to mu sation, bu rns them to t they retain. Blind p tuner. ir ears and their sense of t combining both. Simi blind man tapj with hi by indica hich we e trust to our ey ldn't see we wou l. The tongue 1 the dark and e i5 a finer feeling ir tips, m, your palm d or the fore- your imag most of plemen! , and that" »w, will the blind do better in these tests ?» Not appreciably, not more tha: is due to practice, and the preferred | ¢ dots ‘Braille’ to represent after the AUNT HET BY ROBERT QUILLEN. “This was my day to put on clean | vocabulary by sheets, but pa’s got a bad cold an’ is | day. scared to take a bath.” (Copvright. 1928.) for fi blind is not in the cue, guided by muscle feeli handle a tennis racket or a billiar d | to draw or to write, ail impl: aling of a proper stroke a ance the Your fingers know how to the | letters even with your eyes closed. The world of skill is open to the blind | and they develop a parallel skill in read- | ing raised letters or finding their way, | observing details which escape the see- | ing because they go by other signs. It | isn’t compensation, but cultivation that | explains the performance. Lessons in English BY W. L. GORDON. , Words often misused—Do not sa am scared of the consequences.” “afraid of.” Often mispronounced—Gibe. nounce jib, i as in “ice.” AR Often misspelled—Monkeys .(plural) ; | not fes. Synonyms—Female, feminine, inate, womanly. Word stu {and it is Pro- effem- 'se a word three times Let us increase our mastering one word each Today's word: Sedulously: per- | severingly; diligently. “These things are to be sedulously avoided.” tan qy aAvVOor on club sandwiches ALAD DRESSING A perfect mayonnaise NTIL you try it yourself, vou will never believe any mayonnaise could make such a del ious difference. Its tang flavor . . . its smooth, golden blend . . . is the answer, Use Premier Salad Dressing on a Club Sandwich, Premier Served with a cooling drink, this sandwich makes a complete luncheon . . simple . delicious and to prepare. 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