Evening Star Newspaper, October 14, 1928, Page 73

THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTONX, D. C, OCTOBER 14, 1928— PART 3. Your_vBaby and Mine BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED. The four players threw their cards on the table and Mrs. Moore rose and closed the window through which came sounds of decorous revelry. A fat man ran up to the window, retrieved a ball which had eluded him and ran back into the street agais “Poor Mr. Tingley,” said Mrs. Moore, as she pulled the shade. “hell drop dead of apoplexy trying to be a pal to Tilden.” “The poor man means so well," said | Mrs. Wilson, “but his lone chick came too late in life. He hasn't lzarned that one can be a companionable parent without being a Siamese twin,” “Why call_him ‘poor man' all the time?" said her husband. “‘He's ing the time of his life, renewing his youth.” And what is he doing to Tilden? I P the child. If he starts out for a walk his father is right beside him. puffing cheerfully. If he plays ball with ihe Foley boys, his father runs out of the house and Insists on being vitcher. | If Tilden goes to a movie, father goes right along. You don’t call that any thing but parasitism. His mother and father both think they are being un- selfish because their first thought is for ‘Tilden, the real truth is that they haven't any other interest; they aren’t really sacrificing anything to be with him, because that is what they most want t¢ do. I call it thoroughly selfish.” “So you don’t think a parent should try to be a pal?> T thought that was‘ quite the modern idea” twinkled Mr. Wilson, who liked to bait argumentative Mrs. Moore. ~“Don’t laugh,” said- Mrs. Moore, “it is so popular that it is pathetic. In| their zeal at being pals parents have over-stepped themselves. That is nl-‘ ways what happens to rather new ideas, | they run to ridiculous lengths beiore | they settle back to sanity. Parents lovet playing with their children, and they {fear, poor conscientious things, that| if they are enioying it perhaps they | (aren’t doing enough. Thev actually want to suffer in order to be pals. The | one who really suffers is the child, in more than one way. If the parent en- ters his each and every activity from the time he is small it becomes so nat- ural a situation that the child doesn’t know what he is missing of the com- | panionship of other children. He is | 1ife is ideal, if it is or go marketng with his mother. And just think what such a situation does to | & child, either daughter or son (b use | tlere are equally as exclusive mother and daughter relationship): it develops no initiative in him, for it is father who | thinks up the games and probably in | mistaken kindness makes himselt a | pleasant loser. Another child would never do that. He would demand to do what he wanted to do and he'd fight to win. Every child needs that sort of competition and friction. He get it when his father, or mother, is exclusive comipanion.” “You feel very deeply about this.” said Mr. Wilson.” “I suppose our deas are more or less influenced by our pe sonal experisnces. We children always wantd to be home nights because mother and dad played with us—cards, authors, checkers, dominoes, sang sonas with us, read to us. All the neighbors’ children wanted to stay away from home because their fathers couldn't be bothered giving any time to the chil- dren. They used to go and sit through reel after reel of a movie so that it would be time to go to bed when they | 8ot_home. Nothing interesting thore” | “You see,” said Mrs. Moore, “how | difficult it is to talk about being a pal to a child. I have one idea and you | have another. You aren't describing | palship (which means to my notion be- ing everything to your child to the ex- | clusion of any interests but you), but companionship, which means entering into the child’s life in a healthy and | natutal manner. Your kind of home 't so perfect that it weakens the child’s courage to live in other_ surroundngs when the tme comes. Parents dare not overlook the educational value of reading to chil- dren and the obportunity to get closer to them, and the playing together you described is a desirable and memorable privilege for parent and child, but pal- ship boils down to this: If a parent sacrifices his own normal interests to be with his child constantly he is bound to overdo it: if he has no other interest but the child he arrives at the same voint. The perfcct parent (if there is such) has so excellent an idea of what is for the child’s best interests that he intuitively knows when it is expedi~nt to be svmpathetically present in spirit and absent in the flesh, or when to be | 1t Jul BY BETSY CALLISTER. | ON'T. if there is a bottle of | sour milk, half a bottle of | sour creamr and a bowl of stale bread, feel that you have wasted money. To be sure, it would be rather foolish to buy fresh| cream just to let it sour, or to buy bread just to let it get stale If you need sour milk or stale bread | you can buy it cheaper than fresh. | But—if the cream turns sour and the | bread gets stale, don't just mope about it and throw it all away. It can be used to advantage in the making of many delicious things. For one thing, stale bread can be cut into thin slices, if it is not too stale, and browned evenly to a golden color in a cool oven. This is served, either slight- ly warm or_cold, with butter instead of ordinary bread. Stale bread can be cut into cubes and browned evenly for croutons or fried in hot fat if you wish—cubes of about a half-inch measure. 1f the bread is very stale, perhaps the best thing to do with it is to dry it in the oven long enough to make it cris for stale bread can be very tough—and then run it through the grinder to make bread crumbs for coating croquettes and meat loafs, eggplant and fried toma- | toes and for sprinkling on dishes cooked | au gratin, | THE ECONOMICAT OF STALE TOUSEWIFE USES UP EVERY Sour Milk and Stale Bread DROP AND CRUMB way she dresses to accentuate or de- crease her apparent height. There are always smart shoes to be had with heels not too high. A wide- brimmed hat makes the taller woman shorter. Rather voluminous clothes, too, help With this trick Not. of course, clothes that are bulkily unfashionable. But a full fur collar on the coat makes a tall woman look much shorter than she looks with a collar of flat fur—fox against lamb, for instance ‘The short woman, of course, can do as much to make herself appear taller. By the flatter heels and the lower hat i the tall woman really makes her height |less. So buy a hat as high as fashion allows, and as one finds becoming, a woman may add actually a little to her height, and high heels add more frac- tions of inches. too. And the short woman who is dressed with great trimness also looks taller. Not, of course, if you measure her off against her tall escort’s shoulder or arm or car. But still she gives the ap- pearance of being taller than the short woman fussily dressed. Did you ever notice how often we speak admiringly of the “girl who is not tall but appears to be s0?” The French novelist Balzac frequently describes his heroines as belonging t0 this class—and it would not be hard to seem | other well known authors, of heroines of this sort. It is usual and natural for a man to admire a woman shorter than himself. A man who is actually short himself feels that a taller woman draws atten- tion to his own diminutive stature. A man's sentiments regarding the height | of women are usually a subjective matter and as a usual thing tall men give the subject far less thought than do the short men. A short man likes to be seen with a shorter woman—but if the shorter wom- an actually appears tall so much the better. Casual observers judge by the »ffect, not by actual measurement, and if John Smith, who is but 5 feet 5, is seen walking with Mary Jones, who is find many instances, in the writing of | Styles Governed by Height. most people will conclude that John ‘Smllh is above the average in height. |Glass Flowers on | Evening Slippers Cinderella made lasting fame for herself by wearing a glass slipper— though perhaps her fairy godmother ought to be given the credit The modern girl doesn't wear glass ! slippers, but she wears glass flowers |on her slippers for evening. Lovely | white crystal flowers on black velvet | | slippers fof wear with a black velvet | {gown. And the gown perhaps untrim- | med save for a big. soft white flower | posed at the hip where the drapery | of the skirt begins. Sometimes the flowers are colored (and a silver slipper will boast flow- ers of faint rose, blue and mauve com- | bined. Sometimes the glass flowers are iof black on silver slippers. Always, of | course, they carry out or emphasize the color of the trimming of the frock. | Curiosities of Cutlery. | UCH improvement has been made 1 in the manufacture of knives since the days when it was the ambition of every boy to possess a “two-bladed ! knife.” Nowadays the humblest small boy's jackknife has at least two blades, {and many boys have knives with three —a big blade at one end, with a small one for fine whittling beside it and a ‘nall blade at the other end. Now and then one sees some curious objects of manufacture—knives with a great number of blades, files. cork- screws, scissors, forks, pincers, and so on. Sheffield, England, is the great source of these curiosities in cutlery. A knife known as the “Norfolk knife." made at Sheffield and containing 95 blades and instryments, no two alike, | has long been shown at various expo- sitions. This knife cost £900. On its |large mother-of-pearl handles are | carved representations of a bear hunt |and a stag hunt. The blades are all etched with pictures. Chinese Schoolboys. ‘Hmm schoolboys present a curious contrast to the schoolboys of the The clever woman does much in the but 5 feet 3 and still seems tall—why Occident. At least the observation holds | with reference to the Oriental school- i boys of Queen's College, Hongkeng, | Where. it is sald. a sight to be seen any day is that of more than a thousand pupils, not one of them indulging in any boisterous conduct, or, indeed, even letting off his superfluous spirits by a run or a leap. The Chinese boys of Queen’s College do not hurry, but walk sedately along with their books under their arms. The utmost exhibition of youthful feeling is a reserved smile lighting up the face of a boy here and there as he listens to the conversation of his companions. Boisterous behavior would be consi ered by these Chinese lads as undig- nified and quite contrary to all ideas of schoolboy good form. The more se- date a Chinese boy is in his behavior the more he conducts himself like a little old man, the more aristocratic he is considered by his school fellcws, and the more praise he receives from his’ schoolmasters and his parents. In this country and in England par- ents and sons do not invariably agree as to what virtues are to be admired in a schoolboy. In China they always do. Strange as it may seem, Chinese youths go to school with the sole idea of acquiring knowledge. Hence the stoild. determined faces of the puplls of Queen’s College in the Eastern city. There is little variety in the or and cut of their dresz. They wear mo hats. Some brush all ir hair | straight back; others have a fringe of |stiffl bristles dividing the shaven from the unshaven territory of their heads. All carry fans. In age the boys vary from 9 to 23, and many of them have family cares |in the shape of a wife and children at | home. Every year, however, sees a decrease in the proportions of married | schoolboys, and the average age be- | comes less every year. early | history of the school boys of all ages | were to be found In it, and it was not | an unheard-of thing for father and son to‘b: running a close race for the first prize. In its plan to reduce its overcrowded population, Java recently sent 700 con- iract leborers to Dutch Guiana. t/Je two most Versatile Musical Instruments and the Price is only $395, Complete And sour milk can be used instead of | sweet milk in many cakes if you addy just enough soda to counteract the [substantial, and are as nearly imper- acidity of the milk. From a half to|vious to heat and moisture as a Lray a whole teaspoon is needed. according | can well be to the degree of sourness. When the | Other trays wi AD AND SOUR MILK TO AVOID WASTE. quite content to play with his father, ' s=en and not heard.” Colors of New Season attractive prints pasted on the under side. And then there are modernistic trays. of painted wood with odd designs of angles and lines and circles on them. h glass bottoms have Stress Shades of Blue € The importance of blue would be a fitting chapter head in a book dealing] with this season's fashions. Never be- fore has blue been such an important cool-weather color. There are many shades of blue to be séen, but as a mat- | ter of convenience they may be classified under just three headings. ‘The slate blues, silvery blues that look not so much dull as that they had | been overcast with a mist. These blues came into importance at the laté Sum- mier collections in Paris, and have met | gundy. suggest the coat of the red fox. Vanilla that ranges from brown to beige is also important, and so is the newest beige which is well described as caramel. Reds are either very bright, true scar- lets or else wine-colored, like old Bur- Greens for street wear are either de- cidedly grayish or else of a bluish cast, suggesting Nattier of other seasons. Yellow is important for evening, and is used with distinction as a trimming for navy blue. There is not as much cogbination of different colors, perhaps, as usual. Pink and black are still smart for evening. Recently a black velvet evening gown with & sort of modesty piece of pink satin was worn bty a smartly dressed with great favor in this country. Bright blues, the sort of blue we as- eociate with kings and Yale University. ‘This was also favored by the Prench dressmakers for Autumn, and bears a decided tone of smartness here, but has not met with the popular favor c:- corded to the slate-blue range. woman. | Bright navy blue, or, more correctly. | In some of the wool sport or strect | just navy blue, because the darker .suits the jersey blouses are made of a blues that we had come to accept as!combination of colors. With a black ¢ were not the original blue of the | suit the blause is of gray, black. yellow | | and white. With a brown suit the jer- Browns rank next to biues in impor- | sey blouse is of brown, beige, whit» and | tance, and these are usually of a warm, | orange. | rich tone, the dull, muddy browns be. Color emphasis is often gained by ing out of favor. Many of the new|using pailettes of iridescent fones, | browns have been chosen to match These give life and sparkle to the color natural - fur fones, hence the impor-|of the frock and also add an interesting | tance of beaver and reddish tones that ! trimming note. The Sixth Sense. ‘ 'HE sluggish motions of common land ESPITE the progress of physiology '™ tortoises, or turtles, lead many per- the study of the human body is full sons to underrate their intelligence. |of mysteries. Some of its well known The “ridiculous slowness” of the tor- organs have never revealed either their tolse, however, arises from the animal’s | uses or the reason of their creation. ,peculiar structure, and is no proof of | The part played by the spleen in human dullness. |life was discovered but recently. It is | now regarded as one of the chief agents The legs of a turtle look more mu-.“n e eistian ot e hied Be crutches than legs, and though the feet | there are in the marvelous human or- form a strong grappling apparatus for | ganism mysterious parts which it is| pulling along a heavy weight, who would | possible that no savant, however pro- expect swiftness from such toes? Some |{ yngd his learning, may ever under-| large tortoises, nevertheless, meke long | stand. For instance, in the skull, b ourneys with more rapidity than might | hind the cartilage of the nose, there is Ways of Tortoises. {ment is to be taken | mill: bubbles and becomes smooth there | is enough soda. ‘There are many good recipes’ for using sour milk and stale bread, and if you are interested in them and send a stamped, self-addressed envelope for them they will be forwarded to you at once. ROBABLY the smallest screws are | those turned out in a watch factory. They are cut from steel wire by a ma- chine, but as the chips fall from the knife one is tempted to observe that the operator is amusing himself, inas- | much as no screws can be seen. Yet at every third operation of the machine a screw is duly completed. ‘The fourth jewel-wheel screw is next | to invisible, and to the naked eye it resembles & speck of dust. With a glass it may be seen to be a small .crew, and some calculation reveals the fact | that it has 260 threads to the inch. It | takes a very powerful glass to observe these threads. ‘These screws are sald to be but four one-thousandths of an inch in diai - eter, and the heads are double in size It has been estimated that an ordin: | thimble could contain 100,000 of them. | Quite a number of new. jewel set-| tings have been added to the move-| ments of first-class watches during the | past 10 years. These new jewels have | created an added demand for expert| Jewel-setters. | ‘The term “jewel” in a watch move- literally. The mall precious stones are drilled to re- ceive the pinions or axles of the wheels, the object being to provide a bearing that will not corrode angd will not wear away easily. | ‘The garnet is the least valuable of | these jewel settings, but some of the minute sapphires and rubies employed in the bearings of a watch are quite good enough for the setting of a ring. | For the most part, however, these| fragments of precious stones are ofl \ odlways—a Perfect Wave By Edna Wallace Hopper OW you can have the thrill of a lovely, natural-looking wave that will soften your features. So much depends upon a soft ekpression. with HERE, at the lowest The Brunswick Panatrope Radiola price ever put upon such a combination, is the electrical-type Brunswick Panatrope and®the latest Radiola in one instrument! Just as the Brunswick Panatrope brings new musi- cal beauty to recorded music, so in this instrument radio is.transformed and given superlative tone . . . 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The cabinet is a product The captivating face is vivacious, In the Galapagos Islands turtles were | found by Darwin that were able iologists believe that at one time, sev-|insignificance, but at the same nm.n‘ 0/ eral thousand generations ago, it con- | harder and better for watch jew A a caressing wave. travel 4 miles a day, a rate of progress | “not - despicable in creatures provided ! with such legs; creatures, too, so heavy! that six men were often required to lift | one of them. Though the tortoise is slow of foot, | it is quick to make the best of all its| available modes of defense. The box, tortoise possesses a singuar defensive | apparatus. The plastron, or shell, cov- | | vestige of a sixth sense which was of because of this light color. Occasion- | {ally a ruby jewel burns red in one of | the neat litte envelopes in which they come from Switzerland, 500 or 1,000 ml a lot. great use to the antediluvian -ncenmnl Each stone is shaped to a circle and | of man. 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The upper and under shells | but it is doubtful whether man will ever | then meet in front. forming a kind of | acquire any real knowledge of the re: box, In_which the creature is unassail-| son for the existence of the delfa | able. - When the danger is passed the | trcica. | reptile relaxes a muscle, and the raised part of the plastron fails, allowing the head and forefeet to come foyth. This| movable plate is fastened to the plas-| tron by a strong hinge of elastic liga- ment. Few animals seem more impassive|in such attractive forms that there than the tortoise, but those who have ! little excuse for wet feet watched its movements know that the creature is really very sensitive A | be few drops of rain will send it home with all speed The bri Keep Feet Dry in Attractive Outfit High ones, that clasp about the ankles. of soft, flexible rubber. 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