Evening Star Newspaper, August 24, 1928, Page 18

111 Humor and Tact m the Home BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. There is one way in which & wife nanage a husband without his resent- 1ny in the least. This is by using tact when he is in a bad humor. Tt st be remembered that taet at ite hest 1s not apparent as such. though ngs about the desired results. No e objerts aving his ruffied spirits smoothed Y are many times 4 WIFE IS AGHAST AT WHAT SHE OR THE CHILDREN MAY HAVE SAID TO CALL PORTH ANGER| WHICH SEEMS TO BE OF THEIR INSTIGATION. a wife can do it to perfecti 1. A ful wife either has this ability as of “second nature” or she ac- it by thoughtful study and care. of the essentials for her to re- member is that the cause for a hus- band’s irritability is often far from the | place where he vents his feelings. Por ! busy_day's work can | eXample. A man comes home after a in which his temper | has had to be held in check, since it i bad business t v ar S 0 be angry with a client A head of a firm realizes | this and enjoine his salespersons never to appear annoyed. It often happens. however. that a cus- tomer or client has been unreasoning and | exur;:erl:uu( almost beyond endurance & pent-up surge of E | andwhen p 'ge_of emotions. almost nothing to break down the | equable exterior. The wife is aghast | At what she or the children have said to call forth anger which seems to be of thelr instigation. A quarrel is in the making. Now is the time for the wife to real- ie that it is not toward her or the ome is reached it takes children that the emotional outburst is | really aimed, but at circumstances over which none of them has control ex- cept with tact quietly and almost denunciation. realising that it is by way of “letting off steam.” By and by the pressure will Iet up and peace will be restored. tut only if the wife is tactful. If she isn't, actual hard feel- ing between the wife and husband may | tesult, and utterly without Neither is angry with the other. A family break has just such lack of brooding cause One way to get into such a state where she can look withcut undue dis- turbance on an outburst of temper is for her to put herself in his place. She. too, has sometimes been unreasoning with her husband after a day in which things went at the proverbial sixes and sevens in the household. He may come home in his usual good humor to find her as impossidle as he sometimes is. She knows how eager she is for him to understand her perplexities, to over- Jook her hasty speech and to soothe her nervous state. If he is quick to do these things, how welcome is his return! It is for her to make his return when he is out of sorts just as eagerly looked rward to. He knows she will under- nd. When such mutual understand- ing prevails in a home high words and hasty speech are but surface deep, soon to be quieted down by loving tact reavon. Many the insight into My Neighbor Says: Always expel the air from a hot water bottle after you pour th~ water into it by gently pressing the bottle upward toward the stopper. Never fill the bottle more than two-thirds full When there is fllness in the home. particularly illness of a contagious nature, it is one’s duty to protect the members of the family who are not sick from possible infection. Carelessness in the matter of thrusting a pile of soiled clothes into the wash has caused epidemics Vinegar added to the water in which vegetables are soaked will ive them. beat fudge as soon as it is taken from the fire. Pour first into a cold bowl and then beat You will find that it is much creamier if treated in this way. The Daily Cross-Word Puzzle (Copyrigh . American naturalist. Planter. Southern State (ab.). Poem. Openings. Negative King of Bashan. Doctrines. Act Footlike organ dave power. Minceé oath. Am abie Brother of Cain Make 2 mistake Brother of Odin. Chunese building Metric unit w: 1928) . Wooden spike. - Slamese coin. Behold . Manuscript (ab.). . River in Livonia, In case that Today in Washington History RY DONALD A. CRAIG. August 24, 1814.—~After defeating the American force in a battle at Bladens- burg this afternoon, the British troops under Gen. Ross are in possession of the City of Washington tonight. They have set fire to the Capitol and the White House President Madison, the members of the cabinet, most Govern- ment officials and the American forces under Gen. Winder have fled from the city While it is difficult to ascertain ex- actly what happened, it ars from various reports that the British took the road to Bladensburg this morning and about 3 o'clock this afterncon the redeoats passed through that village and across the Eastern Branch toward | the diers lines. The enemy sol- veterans of the Peninsular War n Europe. advanced steadily and by the use of rockets threw the line of defense into confusion Gen had brought up his force from the eity and this formed the second line of de- . fense. Capt. Barney and his men from | the naval fiotilla brought their artillery into action and made the most effective resistance that was offered, but before the second line, which was mainly com- posed of District militia, got into the fight Gen. Winder ordered a retreat Exhausted by the extreme heat and discouraged by the result of the en- counter can the country, some going through Georgetown and out the Rockville road five miles north of Ten- leytown and others going toward the same vielnity by way of *he Bladens- burg and gk Creek roads The Briusn rested for a couple of hours and then marched to the eity | Which they reached about dusk tonight | A detachment under Ross, accompanied by Admi Cockburn Capitol about 8 o'clock, About 1) o'clock & detachment passed up Penn- American srattered over been caused by | Winder | the force of some 6,000 Ameri- | set fire to the | [ LU 8-24 It may be wise to listen | sympathetically to “Something’s got to be done about the way all the girls are counting their calories. The thinner they get the quicker they snap.” BEAUTY CHATS Simplified Calories. The more most women read about reduction the more confusing the whole subject becomes. until, in the end, many of them give it all up with a sigh and the conclusion that of course they must not eat so much if they want to grow slim. That much they | knew in the beginning. so reading | about how to dlet scientifically hasn't | done them much good Yet diet they must. or go on grow- | | ing fatter and older looking. And the foods that reduce one woman won't ! | reduce another, the human body being a complicated organism. The body has | been taking in too much fat, too much carbohydrates—yet in a smaller way. it must go on taking these food elements to stay healthy. The system to reduce calorie system, for that gives you all| jsorts of foods. and at the same time | the guide as to which foods make you fattest and which. therefore. you are to eliminate. Begin by keeping a table | of the caloric values of the most com mon foods, and study your ordinary, | everyday diet and add up roughly the amount you eat now. Then cut the ration down to 1,200 a On that you must reduce slowly, u should. As a preliminary hint average woman weighing around | must between 1,700 | . unless she | works very hard physicaliy, to keep up | | that weigat. This is a sort of minimum | |and maximum—a high-strung woman | can worry 500 calories a day off her weight-making total of food! When 'thxt woman goes over her ideal 125 | pounds she’s eating more calories than | | she needs, storing up a bank account | of them, but a vemy vicious bank ac- | count. ~ As soon as she cuts her food | down to 1200 a day, which is likely | {to be 1000 less than maintenance | weight. then she’ll reduce two pounds A week, as she should. on is the as | the' | 123 | Miss C. W.—You may have the cal- | orie chart mailed to you if you send a self-addressed. stamped envelope. You | can lose 15 pounds easily if you omit | some of the starchy foods from your | diet for a short time. Potatoes, white | bread, or anything else made from | white flour, will be found the most | fattening of all. | Doris L.—Any exercise requiring much movement about the thighs and abdomen will help to reduce them. Swimming. tennis or any convenient | sport will be more advisable for this as there is the added exhilaration from the sport | THE DAILY HOROSCOPE Saturday, August 25. Neptune, in benefic aspect, will strongly dominate tomorrow, accordin to astrology. This is a sway that seems to indi- cate access of interest in all that Nep- tune symbolizes, and apparently pre- sages new discoveries. More thrones are to be endangered, it is prognosticated, and there will be threats of new revolutions The radio is to play an important | part in an international incident, the | seers predict, and through it the world is to be more closely united. The planctary government is sup-| | posed to be a most auspicious one for ' stud es of the occult and to presage the { near appearance of a soothsaver who will be much quoted. The reign of colors in costumes is read by the symbolists as most signifi- | cant. and is said to presage added | buoyance among the people. | It should be an auspicious day for feats of swimming. diving and racing. | Athletics are well directed | | ably will benefit through secret friends. | Unexpected money may come in, and it should be wisely used. Those who are on the cusp often are tempera- | mental and foolish in practical matters. | Children born on that day probably { will desire solitude. which will be & boon | as they mature, for poets and musicians |are subject to this rule of the planets They always strive for what and often succeed in realizing their am- bitions. | (Covyright 1928) New Silk Neckties for 10¢ a Dozen! “Look at these ties you were going They are just as good as new now. 1 cleaned them with Solvite dry cleaning soap and saved the cost of « dozen new ties.” o o . Women find it easy Lo save five a t | by dry clea things areund the home whick would be { ordinary soap and water. | Satvite s mazing new dry cleaning soap. Ihssolve cleans hats, slippe frevars, meCktice: suith, couts, and many other | things and makes them just fike new. Nothing | fades, shrinks, or wrinkles, Gort Solvi y | drug siore now—invest & few cents and - dollars Persons whose birth date it is prob- | 7. is best, | The Sidewalks BY THORNTON F) In the presence of this writer, & father bitterly denounced his son for | abandoning the political party of his forbears. Being a respectful offspring, | ot args it e | not. argue wit] & — '{nlhr:.'uflnwevpr‘ it | THEY wourLD was & nice party [ FIGHT OVER while it lasted POLTICS. “Your grandfa- | ther was a Demo- | publican, your fa- | ther is 'a Demo- | publican and you | should support the | family tradition: | insisted the fathe | As in all political | arguments, no one | “zot anywhere | "When the father {left, the son said: | | “Dad has an ald- | tashioned idea that I and my children <hould vote as he and his father voted It is impossibie to convince him that the men of today, while not lacking in | Datriotism or the desire to avafl them- | Selves of their franchise, are not Re- | | publicans or Democrats as they are Methodists or Baptists “When I was a youngster. I remem- ber the campaigns in which father took |a prominent part There were the !torch parades, red fire demonstrations |and the usual hokum. If several men | did not_engage in a fist fight over their political favorites it was just another day wasted away. “I have voted the Democratic and | the Republican ticket without regard to party affiliation. I want my sons to do |the same thing. I do not believe that any party or candidate is perfect, and I would rather have my boys vote as their | conscience dictates than to be rubber | stamps because their father was a Re- publican or Democrat.” o The most tactful man we know is a friend who carries a Hoover and a Smith botton. When he is with a group of Hoover enthusiasts he wears a Hoov- * jer button and when with Smith fans | he pins a Smith button on the lapel of {his coat. Even his most intimate triends do not have the slightest idea {tor whom he is going to vote. | * % Circumstantial evidence may not send |2 man te the electric chair, but it may | cause as much uneasiness of mind. A bachelor invited a Summer widower to have dinner with accepted. When he 4 met his friend he discovered that he (the friend) was accompanied by an exquisite young creature in pink Following the in- troduction, the trio entered the dining room. Shortly after being seated. the friend excused himself to make a telephone call. This left the “widower” and the young woman alone During the absence of A woman acquainted with at the table the host | the “widower's" wife passed the table and gave him a look. Of course, she uspected that her friend's husband was stepping out. The lady had scarcely left the restaurant when the host re- turned. Now the Summer widower is wondering what will happen when his wife come home. ko A literary friend says that many phrases and quotations with which we re familiar are misquoted and the origiri in many cases is unknown. He pointed out that the phrase “Escaped BRAIN TESTS Today’s test is based upon an English test devised by the Columbia Research Bureau for use in high schools and colleges. In each group of words listed below there is but one correct spelling | of the word. Allow yourself two Min- utes in which to underscore the correct ipelling in each up. 1. Derition, dirision, derision, dirition, 2. Explaind, explaned, exsplained, explained. 3. Ukelele, ukulele, ukalaly, ukalale. Sufficient, suffishient, suficlent. 5. Cantelope, cantalupe, | eantaloupe. 6. Cynically, cynickily, eynicaly, eyni- | eilly. 7. Camofiage, camelfiage, camouflage, cammafiague 8. Paralel, parrallel, paralell, parallel. | 9. Gynasion, gymnasion, gimnastum, gymnasium. 10. Geneology, genialogy. 3 11. Legarthy, lethergy, lethargy, le- gerthy. 12, Molecule, mollacuel, genealogy, genialagy. mollecule, moliacule, Answers, 1. Derision; 2, explained: 3, ukulels | 4, suffielent; 5, cantaloupe: 6, cynicall camoufiage; 8, nasful 0, 5000 '} TEACUP GOOD POSITIONS AND FINE INCOMES Restaurants. Cafeterias Candy. Gift and Food need tramed Earn $2.500 to $5.000 year Classes now LEWIS HOT SCHOOL Pen; d St Absorb Freckles and Blemishes If your akin becomes freckled. tan- ned. over-red or pimpled from sun . vou will appre- t relief and benefl- sing pure mercolized d o he unaer sutiful od petal. with the irresistible lovelines: of youth Mercolized wax brings out the he: T ringent 1 ounce pawde 1Rt pint witeh hasel & stores Advertisement ol o =for only 235 cents. sufficient, | forming | of money lo\pny 30 cents for half a pint of any liquid insect-killer—when you can get Black Flag—the deadliest made of Washington with the skin of my teeth” is found in | | Job, xix.20; “A man after his own| | heart,” T Samuel. xili.14; “The apple [of his eye Deut. xxxii.10; “A still, | small voice.” 1 Kings, xix.12; “No new thing under the sun.” Eccles. 1.9. “All | that glitters is not gold” is incorrectly | quoted. The phrase is “All is not gold | | that glitters.” and is from “The Mer- | chant of Venice. “It's an ill wind that turns none to good” was written by | Thomas Tasser in 1580. “Look ere | thou leap” was also written by Tasser. “Out of sight, out of mind" is usually misquoted. ‘The correct version is “Out of mind as soon as out of sight,” and it was cevised by Lord Brooke. “Through thick and thin" was written by Dryden. “When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war.” is incorrect. It should be “When Greek jolned Greeks, then was the tug of war.” This was written by Nathaniel Lee, 1692, “As clear as a whistle” was from the pen of Byron. “Ask me no | questions and T'll te't you no fibs” was by Goldsmith. A famous phrase, known to all school children. refers to George Washington as “Pirst in war, first in peace and first In the hearts of his| countrymen.” It is quoted incorrectly. | and should be “First in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his| fellow citizens.” This was taken from | | the resolutions presented to the House of Reoresentatives, December. 1799, | prepared by Gen. Richard H. Les. | Washington Irving first used the words | “The almighty dollar.” “A little bird | told me” is taken from Fecles. x.20.| for “A bird of the air shall carry the | voice. and that, which hath wings shall | tell the matter.” “He that fights and ! runs away may live to fight another day": the original couplet was pub- | |lished in 1542, while one of the frag- | ments of Meander. the Greek writer, | contains the same idea in a single line. The couplet _in “Hudibras” reads, “For | | those that fly may fight again, which | he can never do that's slain.” | And yet we moderns flatter ourselves | for our originality | SUMMERTIME BY D. C. PEATTIE. | against Mrs. Sage for the damages re- You may take your way across the open fields, down dusty Summer roads, or along the little cross-lot paths that | children love, but wherever you go there | melilot goes with you. Sweet clover | it iz also called, but by any name "twould | smell as sweet. There is no fragrance in the world quite like that of the melilot. It is not a cloyingly sweet perfume, like that of Japanese honey- suckle, or an elusive, magical odor like | that of an orchid. nor yet the heavy aroma of such a plant as rose geranium or mint. No, it is something indescrib- ably bonny and sunny, simple, innocent hardy and gay—a warm, pervasive smell born of the August days and the Au- gust sun, and the August countryside. ‘What 1 love sweet clover for, above | all things, is that it grows in the place: that without were unsightly—railroad tracks and vacant lots no less than meadows and ditches. Your finicky lily family will frequent none of such spots, while other plants that take to such unsavory habitats are apt to be coarse. weedy things, thistle and burdock, rag. | weed and pigweed. Not so the ever-flower- | Ing. endlessly billowing, brave, voung { . It puts up with any thing and Vi turns the same smiling face | upon the world. | It is pleasant to reflect that, wherever | sweet clover grows it enriches the soil | rather than robbing it. For on its roots | | dwell colonies of bacteria that take | nitrogen from the air and restore it to | | the soil. especially where melilot is not | cut down but is left to die and decay ' on the spot where it grew. For this | reason I always regret it when an over- | zealous community sets men to mowing | down the melilot along the hightvays. | It_does no harm. but much good. | | inteloupe, t SUPREME/ JACK FROST | FRUIT POWDERED SUGAR T has a fine, even tex- ture, runs smooth. ly, dissolvesimmediately. Jereals taste better when covered with it. Fruits have finer flavors. Ask for it—by name. It is casily identified by the attractive blue box. For Sale by All Stoves That Feature Quality Products. Refined by The National Sugar Re hining Ca. of N. J. | ligence on her part and establish lia- | bility, and asked that the jury be { tiff's instruction, stated: MOTHERS AND THEIR CRILDREN. Save Photographs. OUR CHILDREN By Angelo Patri “I Don't Like It.” Bert's mother had shopped all nmer-[ noon and had at last accepted a sweater | that she thought might do. It was nr\ll the kind Bert wanted, but the man| | didn’t have that kind and mother's feet | were weary with walking. Anyway it} | was a good sweater and it would “have to_do. | Bert looked at the new sweater and » shadow fell upon his joy. He laid it down and walked away without saying a word. “You don't like it? And I Wllk?d} my feet off to get it | “That's too bad, mother. If you had sent a postal card into the city you | | could have had the sweater 1 wanted| | the next day and for 50 cents less. Brown got one vesterday.” = “You never like anything. You are | never satisfied with anything. All ai | One mother says: When my first baby had its first pl(»“ ture taken, I put away twe, one for| myself and one for the baby when she | became a woman. I have carried this| practice out for a number of years and | each of my fpur children will have | photographs ol themselves at every in- teresting age when they are grown and have homes of their own. Think how | vou would cherish such a eollection and how interesting it would be to compare your ewn baby pictures with those of vour children taken at the same age. Everyday Law Cases Does Skidding Establish Negli= pence on Part of Driver? BY THE COUNSELLOR. —_— Approaching an intersection, while driving at 10 miles an hour, Mrs. Sage suddenly felt her ear skidding. She ap- plied the brakes and tried to turn into | the intersecting street, but the car skidded and struck an approaching car. The owner of the car entered suit sulting from the collision. In Wer de- fense, Mrs. Sage contended that she could not be held liable. as she had been driving earefully and the accident was unavoidable. The plaintiff. however, contended | that the mere fact that Mrs. Sage's car had skidded was sufficient to prove nej instructed. ‘The court, refusing to grant the plain- “Skidding may occur without any fault of the driver. It means partial or complete loss of control of the car un- der circumstances not necessarily Im- plying negligence. If the defendant was drmn% at a moderate rate of speed when her car began to skid, and by ex- ercise of ordinary care she was unable to control it until it struck the other car, the jury may well find that it was an unavoidable accident Maple Bavarian Cream. Boil one cupful of maple sirup and pour it gradually into the beaten whites of three eggs Beat thoroughly and cook over hot water until thick. Add one-fourth package of gelatin that has been dissolved in one-fourth cupful of cold water, and one cupful of chopped walnuts. Set on ice until the mixture | and get the one he wanted, as long as begins to thicken, .then fold in one and one-half cupfuls of heavy cream | whipped and let harden. body gets from you is ‘I don't like it'." “It 1 don't like it, then I don’t like it. Why should I say it is all right when I know it isn't. Why should I smile and say very sweetly ‘It's perfeetly lovely when' it's perfectly awful? At least I know what I wan The mind of youth is restless, in- quiring, dissatisfled. If it were not so there would be no growth in the young- er generation. 1If they accepted our| word, followed our trail, did as we did. | where would their joy in life lie? The greatest pleasure a human being | can know is that of making his presence on earth known and felt by his imme. diate circle. The ehild who questions. | insists. experiments, is the child who is growing mentally and physically. The child who smiles and declares all is per« fect is the stunted child in the end. | Bert had a definite sweater in mind. | Why not let him do his own shopping it was a good one and the price within reason? It is in doing such things for¢{ themselves that the children acquire power. AUNT HET BY RORERT QUILLEN. “Fanny talks about the babies bein’ such a burden an' keepin' things tore up, but it ain't children that makes her pantry smell like that.” PRSSS——o] 347 11T }| N — Cuticura Soap '-uw; ll:a normal action of the pores by its wonderfull: Sleamaing snd purifing suin Yeare Seap 38ec. Ointment 38e. “1 never let my children pick out their own things because I just love to buy, them myself. I've always wanted to dress children,” said a mother as she seanned her day's shopping. One.glance at the faces of the children ought. to have told her that they did not agree with her. They didn't Hke it." Instead of getting angry when the children say that, be glad. It is the sign of an active mind the price of which is beyond rubies. If tne young- ster follows up his declaration with an expression of preference or a sugges- tion of change. consider his words and discuss the matter with him and if hu- manly possible, let him select what he wants and abide by the results Instead of losing patience and feeling injured when the children find fault with the arrangement of the house, or the kind of car, or the style of living. listen calmly and talk the matter over with them as you would with intimate and well loved friends. Their love of changing things. their critical attitudes, are hopeful signs. Follow them. They may lead to a better understanding of vour children. (Copyrizht. patri_ will o 1928 personal atientisn ta from parents and schoel teachars on the care and devalopment of chi Write m in care of this paper. inelos stamped. addressed snvelope for repls Mr Now try these BETTER Bran Flakes MUCH more flavo;. 1p- ness. 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