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WOMAN’S PAGE. The Sidewalks of Washington BY THORNTON FISHER. ' ‘The other afternoon a car bearing & Hoover tag and one to which was attached a Smith insignia tried to beat each other to a single vacant parking space. The result was interesting if you believe in omens. Who won must Temain a mystery. * X X % ‘Tuesday night thousands of our read- ers sat by their loud speakers and lis- tened to the magnificent voice of a gifted singer. She is a grandmother. Being invisible, the impression per- sisted that the purveyor of the golden tones was a young woman. Another grandmother, sitting near the radio, was younger in years and had been com- plaining that her days of activity were over. When the singer concluded the listener confessed that she had been inspired not so much by the music as by the fact that, after all, accomplish- ment is not so much a matter of years as it is of the spirit to do. * koK X A few vears ago a man in his late thirties found himself at the head (and owner) of a business in which he had begun his career as an office boy. His ascendancy to power was the re- sult of a deter- mined will to mas- ter the intricacies of the business. Of course there was a bit of romance connected with his rise. He employed young 'men like himself and when they proved their ability he appoint- ed them to execu- tive positions in the organization. He had been so successful in de- veloping promising human material that his faith in his fellows became boundless. More and more he trusted his young lieutenants until he was able to leave his office in charge of others and play golf two or three times a week. An occasional trip abroad fol- Jowed. One day a smooth gentleman impressed our friend and the latter's faith in folks impelled him to employ him. Little by little the smooth gentle-; man won a secure place in his young employer's confidence and eventually he became a trusted aide. He was given carte blanche to buy on the open market and sign checks. Let it be said he was not reluctant to do either. In one year he contrived so far to wreck the business that it reposed in the hands of a receiver. The erstwhile young mil- lionaire was in Washington recently and told us the story. “Perhaps I will never come back in & big business way,” he said. “My debls are so numerous and heavy that it will be years before I can expect freedom, but I intend to pay every cent. I had too much faith. The last I heard of the man who wrecked me was that he was in somebody’s jail. My wife who married me when I was able to give her every luxury is doing her own house- work now and the youngsters are grow- or a tutor is, but it probably will not hurt them. I am not ashamed.” And he left us smiling. * x %k % Which reminds us of a friend, a well known writer, who enlisted at the out- break of the war. He donned a dough- boy's uniform and in the course of a few months was elevated to the cap- taincy of a company. Before he joined up he placed sccurities to the tidy amount of $100,000 in the hands of a friend to be held until his return from France (if ever). Arriving home in 1919 he sought his friend and was greet- ed with the information that said friend had absconded with all his savings and later shot himself. “What are you go- ing to do about it?” the victim was asked. “Do?” he responded, “What! is there to do? It’s like playing the ponies. Forget the last race and see what look; good in the next one.” An excellent example of sportsmanshipy * % % %l Another man engaged in the leather industry was compelled to leave his bus- iness for an exterded search for health. When he returned he found a “For Rent” sign on the door of his office and his former as- soclates gone. It looked like what the boys call “a tough break.” One day he called on a friend and grimly told him what had happened during his absence. The listener was a man known for his thriftiness. He de- nied himself many things in order that he might laugh at ill fortune in the event he van afoul of it. He had al- ways worked for a salary and there was 1o promise that he might ever possess a windfall. As for taking a chance in- vesting in an unfamiliar business—well, such a thing was unthinkable. He lis- tened to his friend. “All I have left in the world,” said the leather man, “is this.” And he flipped a 50-cent piece in the air. Strangely enough he laugh- ed when he did it. He was not a beefer. The listener pondered a moment and then slowly said, “I have $3,000.in the bank. It's just about all I have, too, but it's yours for the asking if it will put you on your feet again.” The “down- and-not-outer” refused it. *“No, Bob,” he said, “If that's all you have you'd better hold on to it. It's safe where it is, but—well, you just keep cn nursing it.” That seemed to be final. Several wesks later, however, the leather man returned and said, “I'll take that $3,000 if the offer is still open.” It was. A year later both men had made a fortune. It is a fifty-fifty proposition. Not iong ago the man who had provided the $3,000 wrote to his partner com- plaining that he believed it to be unjust that he for merely furnishing the money should receive as much as the one who had furnished the brains and experi- ence. His partner replied that he (the financial backer) should not annoy him with such trivial matters. Sportsman- ing up and going to school. They have long since forgotten what a governess ship again. Straight Talks to Women About Money| BY MARY ELIZABETH ALLEN. Stinginess Pays. Stinginess pays, but it does not pay the stingy one, Those taking short cuts to ecogomy sometimes find out that the shortest th lmxly be the longest one in actual vel. Near us a neighbor has a house to sell. She moved into the house be- cause she thought it was a realty bargain. She never liked the house, and only lived in it a year. Soon after she moved in she began to “knock” her house, the neighbor- hood she livew in and everything else. AUNT HET BY ROBERT QUILLEN. She had bought the house because it was cheap, mind you. Not long afier occupying the house she had to replace the entire plumbing, heating plant, refrigerator, and many other items. This’ constant series of expenses rather rattled her and she became de- termined to sell. There are many reliable and capable brokers in our community. They would have been the proper people to see about effecting a sale. Of course, these brokers do not labor for nothing. They charge a nominal fee—in fact, it is a fee set by their own association. ‘The woman with the house to sell could not bring herself to the point where- she could part with the sum of money that might constitute the fee. So she put a “For Sale” on her house and waited. She waited until she had to lay in a supply of coal. She waited until the “I got 2 sewin’ machine on trial once en’ just tried to find somethin’ wrong, ’ I reckon that’s the way a man is bout one of these companionate brides.” (Copyright. 1928) NEW METHOD RINSES RUST STAINS AWAY Spring rains had made roof repairs essential. She waited until Summer came around and she had to furnish her porch and supply awnings for her windows, not to mention screens. Finally a prospective buyer came along, and, after some haggling, she was glad to sell 2t a much lower price than she had paid. In this way, you see, she saved the brokerage fee, which was only a small part of her sacrifice. ‘There is no moral to this. It simply exemplifies an_extreme type that is stingy at her own expense. When a service or a commodity is worth the price asked for it, one rarely saves by attempting circumvention of the service or_substitution for the article. Wash-basins and Bathtubs Freed From Discoloration— Made Gleaming White in 10 Minutes’ Time Dripping water stains. Red Seal scours) them a Here’s how to do it. Just run the basin or tub partly full of hot water—enough to cover the stains, then shake in a little Red Seal Lye from the handy shaker can. The more water, the more Red Seal. Let it stand five minutcs. Then emgt_v and repeat the dose. Rinse with hot water and the stains are gone. Your basin or tub is spot- less white again. No back-tiring scouring necessary. For Red Seal Lye is 979 pure—the purest, quick- est, most economical lye made. 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It con- tains all the fashionable colors spon- ! i sored by Paris—onactual samplesof silk! | @——THE TINTEX GROUP— _THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. D. O. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER ‘20, 1978 e \‘1“ g S \ N v U hhb £ cerinla “Providing you don't go too far, there are times when it's easy to be brave in the face of danger.” NANCY PAGE Candle Wicking Bedspreads Are Both Old and Modern. BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. ‘The Nancy Page Club was resuming its Fall meetings. They had voted ‘o continue their study of early American homes, ways and customs. Conse- quently they were much interested in a demonstration held in one of the down town shops of candlewicking bed- spread making. They watched the girl plan a bedspread. She chose unbleached muslin of fair weight. This material always thickens on laundering. Therefore it is not wise to get too heavy a weight. When the size of bedspread is determined the pat- tern is put on with pencil. It consists of interlocking circles. These are at least 15 inches in diameter. Candlewicking cotton, or yarn, as it is sometimes called, may be procured in the fancywork departments of most shops. It comes in fast colors, rose, green, blue, yellow, orange and white. A large needie is threaded with this material. For most spieads the yarn is doubled. The outlirs> of pattern 1s followed in simple running stitch. The thread is not knotted. When the needleful of thread is used a scissors Is taken to clip in between the stitches. This leaves a series of short, loose tufts. ‘They are roughed up with the hand and the work is done. In laundering the cloth shrinks and holds the small tufts firmly in place. After watching the demonstrator the club went to the tearoom and had iced coffee and toasted brioche with fresh gooseberry jam. This was a decidedly modern refreshment, but it tasted de- licious. Would_vyou like other things to serve at tea%s Write to Nancy Page, care of this paper, inclosing & stamped’ self-addressed gnvelope, “asking for her lcaflet on sand- . | DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX Advice and Comfort for an Unhappy'-Girl—Does Wife or Mother Reign Supreme in a Man’s Heart? DEAR DOROTHY DIX: I am 22 and my heart is broken because of an unfortunate love affair. I can't eat or sleep. How in the world does one go about forgetting? Or do they? I have heard that some girls never get over it, and the idea of never being able to forget terrifies me. Do you think T will ever recover? TILLY. Answer: Of course you will get over it, Tilly. The human heart is the most_ indestructible thing in nature, and it will take more punishment than anything else in the world. 2 Besides, broken hearts went out of fashion with crinolines. You simply couldn't find one in the length and breadth of the land, not even if you hunted for it with a dark iantern and a search warrant. In our grandmothers' time it was considered the proper romantic and sentimental attitude never to get over a love affair that didn't pan out in a wedding, and it was quite the thing for a maiden to pine away in a green and yellow melancholy over a faithless swain. All of the old-fashioned novels and poems have heroines who languished away into their graves for sheiks Who gave them the air, or who spent years weeping over a packet of love letters and_a faded rose, all that was left of a blighted dream. ‘ But, my dear, the reason for this was because in those days there was nothing interesting for women to do except to have love affairs. The only thrill they ever got was out of counting their heart throbs. Their only interest was in some man. 3 Their only business was catching a husband, and so if their courtship went blooey, and if their sweethearts kissed and rode away, they were simply sunk. There wasn't anything left for them but to spend the balance of their lives vainly regretting and idealizing the poor miserable dub, and getting what kick they could out of nursing a secret SOrrow. But, land alive, child, in these strenuous days women haven't the time to coddle broken hearts and cultivate melancholy. There are too many interesting and exciting and fascinating things to do; there are too many amusements beckoning to them on every side. Too many absorbing occupations into which they can plunge. Besides, nobody now thinks a woman is interesting who spoils her life by grieving over something that she cannot help. They think she is a fool. Nobody admires the constancy of the woman who keeps on weeping over a faithless Jover, or the husband Who betrays her. They think she is feeble-minded, or else she would have spunk enough to brace up, and thank God she was well rid of a bad bargain. A So, Tilly, quit dwelling upon your broken heart. may have gotten a dent or two, it is not permanently injured, and that there is nothing the matter with it that time will not cure. Then have a real, honest session with yourself, and take your little tin god to pieces and see if it really is worth crying over. If its feet were clay and it was mostly made of mud, what have you lost in losing it? Realize that altbough it As a final cure, go to work. Fill your days so_ full of some constructive Jabor that you will not have the leisure to give anything else a thought, and you will be so tired at night that you will drop off into dreamless sleep. It is only idle people who are unhappy. The busy, the rushed, are always cheerful and contented. Time and work are the universal panaceas that will heal any crack in a hurt heart. DOROTHY DIX. s e DEAR MISS DIX: Which means more in a man's life, his mother or his wife? I am engaged to a young man loves me, but he never fails to let me who is always telling me how much he know that his mother comes first with him and always will, yet his mother is living at a great distance and he sees her only once in a long while. He says his mother is the only mother he can ever have, while there are plenty of women he could marry. Do you think this young man really loves me, or not? ‘WONDERING. Answer: Of course he does, and you really come first with him, or else he would not be preparing to spend the balance of his life with you instead of with his mother. Your fiance's attitude is a purely theoretic sentimental one, and means nothing, and you are foolish to worry yourself over it. greterred his mother to you, he would arrange to live in the er, and he would write to her every day, and he would show He wouldn't be content to pay If he really same house with her all the little attentions that he shows you. her an occasional visit. But the affection that a man gives his mother and that which he gives to his wife are so different that it is ridiculous to compare them. Certainly no wife can ever take a mother's place and no mother can ever fill a wife’s place. Probably no man ever feels the reverence for his wife that he feels for his mother, or regards her as quile as perfect, or thinks she knows quite as much, because he has the life-long habit of looking up to his mother as to a superior being. But no mother can be the comrade to a man that his wife is, if he has found his real mate, because his wife is of his generation, with the same point of view, the same desires, the same interests that he has. For these reasons a woman is foolish to resent her husband’s love of his mother. As long as she has no other rival than mother she is lucky. T DOROTHY DIX. DEAR DOROTHY DIX: Over a year ago I met the loveliest girl this side of heaven. We both immediately fell in love and are now waiting for me to finish coliege and secure a position that will support us. The girl lives 100 miles from me and 1 make frequent visits over the week end, but my father says these trips must stop, or else I will have to leave home. So here is my question: Should I leave home and work my own way through school, or give up the girl? I am in my latter teens. Am I too young to realize what I am doing? BERT. Answer: I would certainly stick to my dad and my three square meals a day and my chances of going through college if I were you, Bert, because a boy in his teens finds it mighty hard sledding when he tries to buck the world alone. 1 think that if you sacrificed your whole future for this girl you think you are in love with you would make a great-mistake, for you are both too young to know your own minds and the chances are that by the time you are old enough to get married you would be sick and tired of each other. 1f you really love the girl and she really loves you, you will wait for each other. And the period of waiting won't be nearly as long as “hgould be if you DO! had to work your way through school. . THY DIX. (Copyright, 1928.) SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. They ain’t no use tryin’ to ‘vince a woman ob nuffin, but it stands to rea- son, if the back ob yer neck was made ter be washed it'd be put on in front! (Copyright. 1928, Home in Good Taste BY SARA HILAI Bedspreads present a difficult prob- lem to the home-maker, for the choice of these important parts of the house- hold is somewhat puzzling. = Certain style spreads belong on cer- tain types of beds, and if combined with other kinds appear incongruous. For example, think how unattractive and out of place a patchwark’ quilt, reminiscent of the days of great-great- grandmother, would look on a delicately designed French bed! It would not be because the spread was hot a good one, for it might cost just as much, or per- haps a little more even, than a taffeta spread which would be appropriate, but we instinctively know that the FEATURES. BEAUTY CHATS Hair Hints. A hair specialist gives the following seven hints to men who want to avold baldness. The advice is equally good for a woman. One, wash and sterilize combs and brushes once a week. Two, avoid in- fections from other people. Principally this means use no comb or brush on your scalp but your own, let no one else use your own, and when in a barber shop be sure the implements used on you are antiseptically clean. ‘Three, shampoo the scalp once a week, and four, massage the scalp every day. This you can do by using the finger tips just hard enough so the scalp feels stim- ulated. Five, rub oil into the scalp be- fore shampooing. Six, use a good hair tonic now and then, and seven, if the hair is falling, hunt up a doctor at once and see about violet ray treatments. ‘Those who are fortunte enough to live where the sun is fairly warm through the Winter can have sun baths throughout the year. Otherwise enough sunlight has to be absorbed during the warm months to last. Drying hair in the sun after it has been washed is as good as a violet ray treatment; in fact is a violet ray treatment, since the ma- chine merely gives the health rays of the sun. The rays do not come through glass. though a special glass has been invented recently which claims to let these rays through. The machines are made so a current of electricity passes through mercury, which produces mercury vapor, which throws off the ultra violet rays. The patient taking treatments sits un- der one of these lamps, 10 to 20 inches away from it, and the time limit is minutes, when he is used to it. Mrs. A. J. B—As you have distended A Sermon for Today BY REV. JOHN R. GUNN. Personal Service. Text: “I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, ‘Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?’ Then sajd I, ‘Here am I; send me.’ "—Is. vi.8. What would you say in response to such a call for service? I do not know what you would say, but I do know what many are saying. ‘“Here is my patchwork quilt is “at home” on a spool, four-poster or spindle bed, and reserve it for such use. The bed and spread shown in the illustration are beautifully harmonious. ‘These would be very good for a boy's room, as it is attractive without being dainty—and how boys hate daintiness! The ‘walls might be finished in a light shade of sand and the woodwork paint- ed a few tones darker. For the floor covering, hand-woven rag rugs in dull shades of red, green, brown and a touch of black might be used. Against this background the old-type furniture would be attractive if the bed were mahogany and the spread red calico and unbleached muslin. (Copyright. 1 money; send my minister.” “Here is my check; let the Y. M. C. A secretary do it.” “Here is my financiel support; let some organization see to it, but don’t bother me with the matter.” Well, I am glad these people have some feeling of responsibility. The church, the Y. M. C. A. and other such benevolent organizations have their place and should be supported finan- cially. But it should be remembered that we cannot delegate our whole re- sponsibility to organizations and their leaders. There is much service that we ought to render personally, and for which we cannot hire a substitute. No matter to what good causes we may give our money, and no matter how much we give, we cannot buy ex- emption from personal duties. To meet the human needs around us, to relieve human ills and woes, to play our part in the onward march of the world to a higher life and a higher order of things, we must do more than give our money; we must give ourselves. In this holy and sacred work to which we are all called, nothing can take the place of personal consecration and personal service. In that high hour when Isaiah heard the Lord's call for a messenger to go on an errand for Him in some hol- service, he did not say, “Here is m" money and good will, send somebod else.” He said what we must all sa if we would be true to our full dut “Here am I; send me.” (Copyright. 19: dbout three minutes at first, up to 20| BY EDNA KENT FORBES your diaphragm from an abnormal me- thod of breathing, the easlest way to get rid of this fullness would be through correct breathing. Learn to do this and practice it until you do it unconsciously. While this is a slow way to get over the trouble, it will be the natural one and therefore permanent. Miss Rose D.—Dorothy R.—Try elim- inating all rich sweets and other heat- ing foods for a few weeks; in fact, live on diet of fresh vegetables and fruit, and drink plenty of water between meals. The blotches and oiliness of your skin come from poor elimination. This change of diet will help clear up the condition. S. I. 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