Evening Star Newspaper, September 20, 1928, Page 40

WOMAN’S PAGE. W———W—#fl_——_——*———- Choosing Books to Be Read Aloud BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. When a book is to be read aloud it is important that the subject be of interest to every one in the family or the club or group of persons assembled. It is not enough that the book interests the CHOOSING A BOOK TO BE READ ! ALOUD HAS TO BE DONE WITH \'A KNOWLEDGE OF WHAT THE + LISTENERS WILL LIKE. geader, who is in hopes that it will even- $ually find favor with the others. It is frue that it frequently cannot be de- eided until after a volume is begun just how it will appeal to the various minds, but if it fails to hold the atten- tion of the listeners, whether they are ghildren or adults, they will be rest- less and uneasy. In the case of adults they will fail to join the group even- thaily, or patiently be bored or pretend to be interested through courtesy. .'The mother who reads aloud to her ehildren soon learns their tastes and books to suit them. If the read- is in a family of adults, they do gt hesitate to speak their minds. Then &.book that interests one and not the others can be finished by that person gBd some other subject be chosen for reading aloud. This solves the problem i such instances. .dn such a group subjects of mutual rest will soon be discovered. His- is absorbing to some groups, biog- sons are soon to start on a journey, or when some member of the family has returned from a trip and has talked about the very places until enthusiasm has been aroused to know more. Much traveled persons almost always delight in books of travel, for they either have visited the spots or want to. Novels when chosen should move with a certain rapidity; that is, the plot must thicken as the pages follow one after another, or few persons find them pleasing to hear read aloud. The discur- sive novel, the one filled with descrip- tion, or in which there is profuse analysis of character is seldom a successful book to read aloud. This does not mean that, such books are not quite as worth while as the one with an involved plot. Indeed, they frequently are more so, but the mind is not so closely held. There should be an enthusiasm created about the book or it drags. Men and women who are intensely absorbed in business are apt to want detective stories, for in them the mind is so held at attention that the worries and cares of their occupations are for the time being lost. It is well for a wife to remember this when selecting a story for her husband to read aloud, or for her to read aloud to him, as the case may be. Reading aloud in clubs has come to take a turn toward the reading of plays, for in them several and perhaps all the persons share in the reading, each tak- ing some character. There is no oppor- tunity to have attention lapse then, for at any time their parts may come. Plays that are of the season are often chosen, while Shakespeare and the old dramatists are as often selected. THE DAILY HOROSCOPE Friday, September 21. Early tomorrow morning the plan- etary government is comparatively beneficent, but astrologers read that gdversc aspects gain power later in the ay. ‘Women are subject to a sway making for much activity. Under this direc- tion of the stars they should gain through courageous initiative. It is a time for woman writers and actresses to profit through well laid Autumn plans. Publicity for women should be pecu- liarly beneficial while this configuration prevails. Candidates for political office should push their campaigns. There is a forbidding sign for men who carry heavy responsibilities. They should combat that tired feeling which may be felt even after vacation time. Under this direction of the stars both men and women may be less confident than usual. It is a time to brace up mentally. Dissensions and - bickerings within organizations again are strongly indi- cated. Lack of harmony may be seri- ous for many ambitious associations. Both men and women are likely to be exceedingly self-conscious and indi- vidualistic while this rule continues. Autumn events are to illustrate to many persons that pride goeth before a fall. Domestic peace may be easily shattered. For a long time the seers have prophe- sied that at this period many surprising events will take place. The unexpected is likely to happen. Craving for new experiences and novel experiences will bring many heavy debts to the young, it is foretold. They will pay with health as well as with money. Persons whose birth date is tomorrow should avoid the temptation to gamble or to speculate. Risks of every sort may be peculiarly perilous and even marriage may be attended by strange disappointments. Children born on tomorrow probably will be exceedingly gifted and talented along unusual lines. These subjects of Virgo may be too fond of taking risks mey to others.. Travel is sure to absorbing when some of the per- [ for their own peace of mind or success. ‘The Daily Cross-Word Puzzle (Copyright, 1928.) Flat rock (plural). -Make amends. JRiver in Livonia. 18, Pronoun. 1 Behold. = le (ab.) 'or example (ab.), lg_go_val Navy (ab.). 16 Collegiate degree (ab.). 187 Ourselves. 19 Acknowledgment. , Unusual. 2b. New England State (ab.). t. ilroad (ab.). is 362 38: Plural pronoun. 39: Sends forth. 40. Coast. 3 Down. . Less dangerous. . Exclamation. . Prefix: two. . Bite. . Means of defense. Toward. ANSWER TO YESTERDAY'S PUZZLE . Greek letter. . Prussian city. . Goddess of earth. .- International language. . Engaged in. . Sorrow. . Rub out. . Greek letter. . Man’s nickname. Assumes an attitude. 5. Chains. . Either. . Hebrew month. . Rent. . Printer's measure. . Mount (ab.). . Exclamation. Chaldean city. ILLIONS. of 4 housewives have found that spraying Black Flag Liquid is the deadliest method of killing flies, mos- N quitoes, and other flying pests. 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(Copyright. 1928.) Today in Washington History BY DONALD A. CRAIG. September 20, 1862—Up to a late hour today nothing had been heard from Gen. McClellan later than the news that he was pursuing the Confed- erate army, which is recrossing the Po- tomac River, following the great battle’ of Antietam Creek September 17. It was learned today that the Confederate force which recently captured Harpers Ferry has evacuated that place after burning all Government property. Many sick and wounded Confederate soldiers were left behind. According to reports reaching here, the Confederates made five distinct at- tempts to blow up the piers of the rail- road bridge across tie Potomac River at Harpers Ferry and all failed. They did, however, succeed in doing consid- erable damage to the superstructure. A man who arrived here today from the vicinity of Sharpsburg, Md., says that among the dead left on the battle- field by the retreating Confederates are many officers, including one major gen- eral. The remains of Col. Kingsbury of the Union Army, killed in the battle, have reached this city and are lying today in the home of his father-in- law, Col. Taylor, commissary general of the United States Army. Gen. Halleck has issued from the War Department a request that all newspapers refrain for the remainder of the war from publishing any news concerning the positions or prospective movements of Federal troops. He says papers with news of this character often reach the Confederate lines a day or two after publication and defeat the purposes of the Union commanders. Travel to and from Washington by railroad is greater now than at any time since the war began. All regular trains are crowded every day with pas- sengers, and crowded troop trains are met constantly at various points on the line. Apparently all the trains are moving with the utmost safety. No ac- cidents nor anything detrimental to in- divdual travelers has been reported. A large force of soldiers now guard the railtoad tracks and bridges be- tween Washington and Baltimore. Four or five of the more recently arrived regiments have been stationed along the line between the two cities, and they throw out pickets along the railroad. Moses Sweetser of this city, who has just arrived from the seat of war in Maryland, says the Union troops are in excellent spirits as a Tesult of the week’s fighting. He says the latest estimate of the Union killed and wound- ed is 13,000, and the Confederate losses must_have o e SQUIBBS Sodium Bicarbonate BECAUSE ‘Squibb’s Bi- carbonate of Soda has been highly refined, it will not irritate the stomach. Itis free from the impurities which give ordinary bicarbo- nate of soda its bitter taste. . The next time you go to your druggist’s for bicarbonate of soda, ask for “Squibb’s.” Always uniform and palatable. At all drug stores purified- freefrom bitterness DifferentMethodsNeededto Kill Different Kinds of Bugs P! 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Some time ago I had an ezamination and was informed that I had mo physical ailments or defects, but was hiohly sensitive and nervous. 1 suffer from a taut sensa- fion across the back of my head Dbetween the ears. also a creepy and dopey feeling all. over my head, preventing me giving m attention to business or things in general, To remedy, thig condition | took treatment jor ‘an _ostepath, and while sation has left me, an ache mow appears 20 have concentrated in one spot about the base of the brain. 1 am writing 1o ask whether you can recommend a phrenologist who could per- haps tell me whether those treatmenis are benefiting ‘or_mot, as I'canmot satisfy my own mind that they are, as so many differ- ent symptoms and aches follow edch treat- ment. W, 8. Do you Delieve that a mervous siomdch’ is imaginary? As I have been throuch a h eramination, there is mothing or- y trong with me whatsoever, but 1 ry much troudled with this constant Guivering feeling in the stomach which has brought me into a mervous state of mind as well, "1 fear being alone but feel auite Gatm when in company of another person, but I am certain that this mervousness of the stomach has brought on this fear. 1 am a young lady 27 years of age. ' I nad “on mhappy Childhood. as my Darents were too Dusy earning a living to oive me Ihe attention and are temperamentally un- it to raise a child. ujtel % oraduated from high school, with through eriod. I'm a unhappy and didn’t make the [riendsi needed. 1 had_an_attack of influenza at this time and coupled with the eflects of a fall off a street car a few years before (these are the canses 1 believe)} I became quite merpous and mentally il All this happened about nine vears ago and since then I have gone from doctor to doctor. AL the present time implantations of bacteria sup- ieve intestinal tozic disorders. ‘nysteria_and although’ 1 was psychoanalyzed it has not helped me much. I have a muscle defect in my eves coupied with a hioh degree of myopic astigs matism. 1 believe this is causing some of my trouble. I have been advised to have this muscle operated on, but as I have also been advised against this course, I dom’t know what to do. I feel my home environ- ‘ment. is a primary cause, as I have @ some- what erratic father. B. 4. ‘What is common to these tliree cases, selected from many times three, is the combination of physical and mental ills, and the troubling questions as to which _produces or induces which. There is no doubt that a bodily diffi- culty, whether a weak stomach, or eye- sight, or the after effects of illness or accident, all fower the mental resist- ance to physical ills in those thus dis- posed. How much iliness can you stand without getting illness on your mind? And if you are {ll, how quickly can you recover and get back to a normal atti- tude toward your health-self? That really is the decisive question. The difficulty in the many varieties of these very different situations and personalities is that the patients have a very poor mental resistance against disease of any kind. They get illness on the mind, perhaps have always had it, and so do all sorts of things, some 1 am takin posed to rel 1 suffer from The taut sen- | tate. wise and some foolish, in seeking re- llef. They diagnose themselves con- stantly and wrongly. They have been wise in going through a thorough ex- oA+, there 1 mothing organically report tl ere is nof g organic: wrong, or if there is it is of a minor order that need not worry or incapaci- But the symptoms keep on and make a troubled state of mind. “I am certain this nervousness of the stomach has brought on this fe: “Is a nervous stomach imaginary?” ‘The answer is that if you have iliness on the mind it's going to settle on the weak spots of your make-up. If you have diges- tive weakness, it will assume that form. If you have general neuraigic tenden- cles, you'll get taut sensations, and if an osteopath chases it out (or you think he does) from one spot, it settles in another, and then you ask about & phrenologist, although “so many differ- ent symptoms and aches follow each treatment.” All this is foolish, for it fixes illness on the mind, and so long as people have these wrong attitudes toward their fllness the tribe of practitioners who live on these weaknesses will reap & rich crop of victims The third case introduces a newer variety of illness on the mind. Since it.has become known that mental situa- tions, such as family conflicts, infe- riority complexes, shocks, disappoint- ments, play a part in disease, these are brought in along with one's share of bodily ills, influenza, “fall from a street car,” intestinal trouble, astigmastism, to compose the tale of woe. All these misfortunes contribute no doubt; but the primary source is not any of them, but the tendency to have illness on the mind. To bear illness rationally is one of the severest tests of mental fitness. We used to call this hypochondria, which is too formidable a name, and the French call it imaginary illness, which it isn’t. It's a type of wrong health attitude, and mental hygiene is directed to giving people right health attitudes of mind. The “quivering feel- ing on the stomach,” “the creepy and dopey feeling in the head,” the “muscle defect in the eye” and the “inferiority feelings” and “erratic father” must be dismissed. It can’t be done completely, but these symptoms or “causes” may be reduced to their proper places, and a right mental attitude toward health replace them. Sound medical treatment will help; running from one “ologist” to another won't, The wise practitioner, it doesn't matter what he calls himself, will direct all efforts toward bringing the patient into a right attitude to his condition. He will get illness off the mind. (Copyright. 1928.) D.- 0 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER. 20, 1928, WHO REMEMBERS? BY DICK MANSFIELD. Rexistered U, S. Patent Qffice. When the Fairview Hotel stood at Florida avenue and Eckington plac> northeast — a whitewashed structure with queer drawings and signs? DAILY DIET RECIPE CABBAGE. Cabbage. 1 1b. Flour, 1 tablespoonful. Butter, 1 tablespoonful. Milk, 1 cupful. Salt, 1, teaspoonful. Fine breadcrumbs, Y4 cupful SERVES 4 PORTIONS. Steam a small head of cabbage or boil it quickly in small amount of water. Place cabbage either whole or cut in half in a buttered casserole. Make a white sauce by blending the milk into the flour, cooking over direct heat until thick, adding the butter and salt. Pour sauce over cabbage. Cover with breadcrumbs and bake in hot oven 10 or 15 minutes until crumbs brown. DIET NOTE. Recipe furnishes much fiber, some protein, a very little fat and starch. Lime, iron, vitamins A and B present. Could be given to children over 8. Can be eaten by adults of average or under weight. FEATURES. DIET AND HEALTH BY LULU HUNT PETERS, M. D. Stooped Shoulders. “My husband has a very curved back at the shoulders. Is there not some ex- ercise which will correct this? Is a child of 5 too young to take the Tummy Ten exercises outlined in your | article on the atonic abdominal wall? They have cured me of constipatioa and corrected my posture. . J.” If your husband's stooped shoulders are due to careless habits of sitting and standing and lack of exercise they can be corrected by proper exercise. The Tummy Ten, which have so benefited you, will be good for him and also for the child. Your husband should also take spe- cial exercises for the shoulder muscles. Good ones are: 1. Swinging the arms in wide circles and back and forth. 2. Standing two feet away from a wall, feet together, with arms out- stretched and palms flat against the wall, throw body forward and touch chest to wall; then' push back by straightening the elbows. = (Do not move the feet.) I have given this ex- ercise before and advised standing be- fore an open door, throwing the body through it, but I think that touching the wall is better. This should be donc 50 to 100 times a day, in relays per- haps. 3. Dumb-bell and Indian club exercises are good, and swimming and rowing are superfine. The exercises have to be kept up every day, so the muscles and ligaments will become strong, and then they should be kept up to keep them strong. Children should be taught to do set- ting-up exercises, even though they do get a lot of exercise in play. They won't continue to play, but if they are taught the habit of daily setting-up exercises they will continue those. Some active physical exercise every day is a very necessary part of the. health program. I fear I haven't given enough attention to it in my writings. The article on_the atonic abdominal wall gives “The Tummy Ten.” We can't recommend it too highly. See direc- tions for obtaining it. A man is found profoundly uncon- scious. Is he in an alcoholic stupor or has he had a stroke? It used to be difficult to differentiate at times. A motor accident happens. The driver at fault gives no evidence of drinking. But some men under stress can control themselves and mask such evidence. Has he been drinking? 3 In both cases and in others it soon can be determined whether"alcohol en- ters into the question by a test which has recently been worked out. It is the finding the content of alcohol in the blood or urine. Normally there is none. 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