Evening Star Newspaper, October 5, 1928, Page 46

OMAN'’S PAGE. When No household i free at all times from ) perlod of stress. This emphasis shifts o problem for all in the Perhaps the wife has been under an additional strain in con- | nection with monetary or other matters. has had unusual | unpleasant tension, and how best regard it is a family to solve. Possibly the husband things to irk him. ‘Such situations are 10~ i N [y U M m T ) ! ) oy il — | i IT IS DIFFICULT FOR THE OB- SERVER TO STAND BY SILENT- LY DURING A NERVOUS SITUA- ‘TION. reflected in & nervous condition, though often the results they produce are far removed from the cause, and a crisis may seem to be impending. 1t is very difficult to watch the gath- ering clouds of a domestic storm and sit calmly by doing nothing, yet often this is the very wisest thing one can To some this attitude may appear weak, but those who have tried it will testify that it requires real strength of character to maintain a feeling of neu- trality and tolerance and add nothing do. to the disturbance. The object in taking this stand is to things & chance to clear. To pre- cipitate a domestic crisis is one of the easiest things imaginable, and it is to invite the most destructive elements to get to work. One should give the storm a chance to “go around.” It may prove to be nothing but a little shower, which leaves the air fresher if it is not taken oo seriously. Or it may not even break - Some of the most threatening storms have been known to do this. If all keep their heads, even the signs of 8 storm may pass, but if some one acts as if the lightning had already struck at sight of the first distant flash, there is much more likelihood of a real mportumty and e workings of many homes will see & kind of rhythm to their affairs. Usually some one member of it is in better spirits than the rest, just as some one or several other members—not always the same give at all. cataclysm. Those who have the the ‘insight to perceive ones, of course—are going through Domestic Crisis Is Feared BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. constantly. The point in mentioning it here is to suggest that those who are in better spirits than the others lend them a little of their strength, and in what may inactive way—merely by “standing by” in a spirit of calm cheer- fulness. This means that they will not | respond in kind to the moods of nerv- ousness, but will seek to understand the causes and tolerate them, in full trust that they will pass, The laws of life, in homes as elsewhere, is changed | Give it a chance to show itself as being | petter rather than assuming before- hand that it will be worse. Today in Washington History BY DONALD A. CRAIG. October 5, 1862.—President Lincoln was back in the White House this | morning after his visit to Gen. Mc-| Clellan on the battlefield of Antietam. He returned last night. Four days ago the President left| Washington on a special train. He was accompanied by Maj. Gen. McClernand and that officers’ staff; Mr. Lamon, marshal of the District of Columbia, |and Mr, Garrett, president of the Bal- x Ohio Railroad Co. idential party stopped first |at Harpers Ferry, where the members | visited Gen.” Sumner in his headquar- ters. The next day, which was Thurs- day, they recrossed the Potomac River into Maryland and called upon Gen. McClellan at his field headquarters. Most of Thursday was spent in going over the region where the great battle was fought between the Union Army, under Gen. McClellan, and the Con- federate Army, under Gen. Lee, along Antietam Creek and at Sharpsburg, Md., last month. President Lincoln devoted a long time to private_conversation with Gen. Mc- Clellan. It is understood from those close to the President that he urged Gen, McClellan to make every possible effort to pursue Gen, Lee's army across the Potomac River into Virginia, in order to bring on another and more decisive battle and possibly end the war quickly. 1t is no secret that Mr. Lincoln is disturbed by the inaction of McClellan since the battle of Antietam. It is be- lieved by some military authorities here that Lee is already too far away to be forced into battle, unless McClellan is willing to fight on a battlefleld of Lee's own choosing. Starting back to Washington on his special train yesterday (Saturday) morn- ing, President Lincoln passed through Frederick, Md, and saw the region where some of the early skirmishes leading up to the battle of Antietam occurred. On his return to this city the President was declared to be “highly gratified with his trip.” The gunboat Yankee arrived here at 10 o'clock _this morning from the lower Potomac River and tied up at the Navy Yard. She brought a small Confeder- ate sloop, captured below the Yeo- comico River, which is a Virginia trib- ultary of the Potomac River near the river's mouth. The sloop was laden with a full assortment of contraband articles much needed in the South. Five Confederate prisomers were brought up by the Yankee, including Capt. Edward Tayloe of the 9th Vir- ginia Cavalry, who was captured in full uniform in" his house, near Budd's Point. 0 Sour Cream Cookies. Beat two eggs until light, add one cupful of sugar gradually, then one cup- ful of sour cream, half a cupful of shredded coconut, and two cupfuls of flour sifted with one teaspoonful of salt and one teaspoonful of baking soda. Chill thoroughly, toss onto a floured board and pat and roll to half an inch in thickness. Sprinkle with coconut, roll to one-fourth inch in thickness, and shape with a small cutter. Bake in a sheet in a moderate oven for about ten minutes. THE EVENING STAR. WHO REMEMBERS? BY DICK MANSFIELD. Rexistered U. S. Patent Office. W 0"y v e When Mades® Hotel was a popular eat- ing place with Congressmen and the food was about the best to be had? THE DAILY HOROSCOPE Saturday, October 6. Astrologers read tomorrow as an un- favorable day in planetary direction, and for that reason advise caution in all important decisions or activities. It is a day to rest and to catch up the loose ends of the week’s work, not a time for any sort of initiative. Those who seek employment will benefit by postponing any active effort to obtain a position until there is a more favorable rule of the stars. The sway makes for bad judgment of opportunities and for poor salesman- ship where personal talents are con- cerned. Under this direction of the stars in- trigue and double-dealing are supposed to be encouraged. Warning again is given that there will be many severe storms at sea. Saturn now is held responsible for sinister forces that will affect the Brit- ish government. ~Statesmen who are not unlike dictators will achieve new fame, it is prophesied, Education in America will continue to receive immense benefactions, it is foretold, and the universities will per- form important public service. Soclety in the United States is to undergo & crystallizing process that will establish new standards, in which cul- ture will dominate, astrologers predict. The coming Winter season is to be marked by entertainments of great bril- liance, but they will be conducted on the most conservative lines, it is fore- cast. The late Autumn is to bring to Eng- land and France heavy rains an floods, which will affect foreign travel, it is prognosticated. There will be heavy losses of human life before the holidays, if the stars are rightly read. Persons whose birth date it is should resist the temptation to change busi- ness or domestic associations. Promo- tion that is unexpected will come for many, it is augured. These subjects of Virgo usually succeed in material am- bitious, and when spiritually minded are remarkable for their understanding. Children born on this day probably will be ambitious to found es and to center their interests in domestic affairs. The Virgo women are generally fine housekeepers. Dr. Mathilde Theyssen, who is sald to be Europe's first and oldest woman doctor, and who was twice wounded while atten the wounded on the battlefields d the Franco-Prussian War, recently celebrated her birthday near Freiburg, Germany. JC KE, Madam, BY ALICE ADAMS PROCTOR cake?” That’s 'WHAT.’ You bought this Y the comment you hear time after time in homes where this Hostess Pineapple Layer Cake is served. Housewives by the thousand pronounce it equal to the finest cake they can bake at home. Even the 'most discriminating marvel at the flavor . . . the freshness . the dainty appearance. So, Madarn, with ‘pecect con- fidence I urge you to give this cake a thorough trial. You see, I know the sunny, immaculate kitchens where it made. I know the talented pastry cooks who bake it. 1 know, too, the ingredients that are used. Carefully selected eggs. Fresh sweet shortening. Specially selected flour. Pure refined sugar. $1,000.00 IN CASH! Hostess Cake Prize Contest Every woman should enter. V(Z:k your grocer for a copy of the rules and detailed information. :))ou obtain it at your favorite grocer’s ve . always delicate and fresh # . u bought this ¥ Z:i::' l:l’r:.’;hpimi & Please try the other Hostess Cakes, too. Chocolate Layer. Silvet Bar. ‘The Hostess Cup Cakes. Just this one word of warning. Be careful not to confuse these cakes with any ordinary brand your grocer may offer. Genuine Hostess Cakes are al- waysfresh. Demandthembyname, Cates Warns Parents Against Destructive Criticism. DorothyDix! Jagging and Harping on Faults Creates Risk of Handicapping Them for Life by Shattering Their Faith in Themselves. parents so seldom realize the importance of early impressions on a child? We all know from our own personal experience that our early {mpressions were the lasting ones. ‘We remember trivial things that happened to us in our babyhood long after we have forgotten important things that occurred in our later years. We all have prejudices and beliefs and superstitions and inhibitions that our mature reason respects but of which we cannot rid ourselves because they were ineradicably stamped on our infant minds. lsN‘T it queer that In spite of this, however, and the knowledge that we are all pretty much what our early environment made us, we go on treating our own children as if they were insensate clods instead of being, as they are, sensitive plates making indelible records of all they see and hear. 1t is the custom in many families, for instance, to discuss a child’s defects fully and freely in its presence and to keep its weakness ever before it. This is supposed to be & chutenmg experfence that is good for the youngster's soul and that will discourage in it the vices of arrogance and self-conceit. 1t does all of that, and it generally does more. It wishes on the child the curse of an inferiority complex that dooms him to failure because it fixes in his mind the settled belief that there is no use for him to struggle, because his limitations foredoom him to Inuun; % THUB we have the curlous spectacle of fathers and mothers, who would be horrified at the mere thought of breaking their children’s legs and arms them out crippled into the world, carelessly doing a far more cruel thing by shattering their faith in themselves and sending them out mentally maimed to fight the battle of life. And between the two it is a far worse handicap to have a weak belief in your own ability than it is to have a weak arm, and to have a limping self-confidence than it is to have a limping leg. and sending When we are little children our parents represent incarnate wisdom to us. ‘We think they are infallible and we take their verdict without question. Therefore, they write our price tags for us, and we value ourselves according to the estimate they put upon us. Afterward we may know that they were narrow-visioned and made a fatal mistake, that they were incapable of understanding us, but by then it is too late. The“mischief has been done. So when the average child is told continually, at home, that he is dull and stupld and can never learn to do the things that brighter children do, it kills all ambition in his breast. He teels that there is no use in making an effort, and he gives up and slumps down into the class of the nitwits. Nag a child about being awkward and clumsy and it will grow more awkward and stumbling and blundering day by day. Discuss a child’s queerness and its odd ways and it will grow up into one of the eccentrics that are tragic misfits everywhere in creation. Fix in a child’s mind the idea that it is shy and sensitive and you will develop & miserable, morbid man or woman, utterly unable to cope with life. forever reminding a child that it has a nervous temperament or a that it mustn’t overexert itself because it is not strong, and you Likewise, half of the bad boys and girls in the trying ‘to live up to the reputation they have Keep poor digestion or will make an invalid out of it. world are tough because they are at home. It is these early impressions of ourselves that we gain from our parents that do so much to make or mar our lives. For all that many a man who is a failure Iacked of being & success was & belief in his own ability, but he never got over the idea, implanted in his mind in his early childhood, that he wasn't clever and would never amount to much, and th-:. made him a coward. . . ALL that keeps many & woman from being & raving beauty is carrying herself 60 per cent off her looks instead of 40 per cent over them, but she can’t do it, because her mother killed her self-confidence by forever twitting her about what big hands or feet she had or how she stooped. Of course, children have Eumy of faults, and it is the duty of their parents to help them overcome them, but in doing this it is not necessary to break down » child’s morale. Parental criticism should be constructive instead of destructive. And, after all, who knows what talents lie hidden in any little frowsy head, what skill in any little grubby, clumsy hands? So many dull children have developed into geniuses; so many sickly babies have become strong and healthy men and women; so many wild lads have become the pillars of soclety; so many commonplace boys and girls that nobody expected anything of have achieved fame and fortune, many young souls the fire has been put out upon the every ambition killed, all hopes slain by the child to lack faith in itself, to believe that it But, oh, in so many, altar, every effort paralyzed, being taught at home to distrust itself, had no ability to achieve success! So I would urge parents not to nag their children about their defects and not to shake their confidence in their own ability, for, while we may not accomplish all that we think we can, it 1s a certainty that we can onl% do as much as we think we can. Cisiicht 1988) DOROTHY DIX. pyright, ——————————————————————————————————————————— Schindler’s Peanut Butter builds them strong for the | game of life P.S. Added richness of blend makes Schindler’s @ favorite with kiddies. Ask for i by name. e e #]I¢ is a matter of record in the history of the coffee trade that Seal Brand was the first coffee ever packed in sealed tins. SEALM, BRAND’ CHASE & SANBORNS SEAL BRAND COFFEE | Seal Brand Tea COFFEE St FRIDAY, OCTOBER Your Baby and Mine BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED. Walking and Talking. Mrs. F. H. E. writes: “I wish you would give me your opinion of my boy. It worries me because he is so slow in talking. He is nearly 20 months old, and only says a few words, though he understands perfectly. I try to get him to talk, but he won't try. When he wants anything he points to it and whines. 1If he doesn't get it he cries. He is a heavy baby, and did not walk until past 16 months of age. He doesn't walk very well yet, and I put stiff- soled shoes on him to help support his ankles.” Answer—The late walking, whatever its cause, is the outstanding reason probably for the equally late talking. The two go hand in hand. Walking is one of the “coarse” body movements, and during the time the baby is per- fecting this, which is usually between the twelfth and sixteenth month, he is s0 busy that talking is allowed to lapse. Mothers often notice that the baby chatters more before he begins to walk than directly afterward, which is quite natural. Your baby did not begin to walk until 16 months, for some reason, and now you are making it even more difficult than it should be by the use of stiff-soled shoes. Instead of sup- porting him, they are actualiy impeding his free movements, and anything which does this is a handicap to his speech. The child should never wear restrain- ing colthes or shoes, or have on bed clothes, or be harnessed into any ar- rangement that restrains him. He should learn to walk with soft-soled, wide shoes, and fall, if he must, until he learns balance. Children with speech difficulties are given training in all rhythmical movements—walking and hopping and skipping in time to music, so that their motions become co-ordinated and timed. Difficult speech is likely to be jerky, and in its worst stages, as in stammering, it is decidedly 0. Perhaps a little indifference to the baby’s wants will lead him to find some use for speech. So long as he gets what he wants with no more effort than pointing and yelling, he won't make very much progress toward the more difficult use of language. Do take off those stiff-soled shoes. Make walking easy. Keep the child unhampered, so that he can walk, or run, or bend, or kneel, and thus learn a free use of his body. When he finds that words and not actions will bring him things he wants his use of words will quickly develop. AR Wonlen recently com t;‘l‘ in an aero- Of course, you'll want to make sure there's 2 bottle of Heinz Tomato Ketchup on your pantry shelf. Several bottles in fact. 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If hiccoughs come only after eating they are probably caused by eating too fast or not properly chewing the food which, of course, can be corrected by a little care, For years I have had a form of eczema that breaks out in various parts of my body, mostly on my arms and legs. I have tried all kinds of oint- ments and salves, etc., but with only temporary success, Lately I have been told that this can be corrected by diet so I am writing to ask what you would advise—R. L. Eczema is a stubborn disease and one that is generally best controlled by diet. Lotions salves that will give rellef from the itching and in- flammation are good for local applica- tions, but real relief must come from within. Most authorities agree that the dietary treatment of eczema should be in general as follows: Meat should be discontinued, milk should be used very sparingly if at all, and vegetables such as peas, beans and lentils should be depended upon for protein. Cereals should also be used for their protein value, Often there is some special food that causes the ‘trouble. This is most often some form of protein. Those most frequently causing trouble are the proteins of eggs, meat, milk and wheat. When you find out what the (‘)i{ft"ndml food is eliminate it from your et. Strict intestinal cleanliness must be maintained at all times, and when a diet that gives best results has been found stick to it rigorously until the eruption or acute symptoms have dis- appeared. If your eczema is of long standing and you have found that your own methods do you little or no good it is often best to find out by experi- mental tests what type or kinds of foods do not agree with you. Consult a good skin specialist and get his ad- vice as to this procedure. The Breakfast to Conquer the Morning Its rich flavor is the —steak, chops, some now—for fall—at your grocer’s. HEINZ Tomato Ketchup RICH . 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