Evening Star Newspaper, October 31, 1928, Page 38

WOMA 0 Home Repairing of Fur Coats RS Many a voman has demurred at the expeasc of upkesp of a fur coat with- u >u makiog the effort to discover how much of it can be done by herself at home. To be sure, repairing and remode] of fur differs from that of othcr materials, but that does not necessarily mean that it is more diffi- cult. Ingeed. there is no material in which MARY AL KE R THE UPKEEP OF A FUR COAT MAY BE LESS EXPENSIVE THAN ONE WOULD SUPPOSE_IF DONE AT HOME AS DESCRIBED. petching nor piecing can be more com- pletely concealed. Many a scarf which appears to be a single skin reveals on the under side the story of a quantity of tiny pieces cleverly made to look like one. The woman whose fur coat has holes or worn places in it should therefore comfort herself with the knowledge that - patching in fur will show much less than in cloth. BEDTIME STORIE Chatterer's Storehouse. Put your treasure safe away "Til there comes a needful day. —Chatterer the Red Squirrel. Chatterer the Red Squirrel was a very busy small person. He was cutting pine co1es and spruce cones and fir cones. They kept falling, falling, falling to the ground . The best part of it all was that Chatterer knew that it was perfectly safe to cut them and let them fall to the ground that way, for there was no on: elss with tho experiness and pa- tience to open them. So all he had to do was to cut them before they opened IT TOOK A LOT OF SEARCHING FOR CHATTERER TO FIND JUST WHAT HE WANTED. on the trees and then let them lie on th: ground until such time as he got " said Chatterer, as e thought things over, “that food is going to be scarce with many folks this Winter. That being the case, I shall have t5 store these pine seeds and fir d and spruce seeds with extra care. I must get a storehouse that no one elsz will be likely to discover. So. leaving th> cones where they had fallen on the ground, Chatterer spent a great deal of time during the next tws or three days looking for a store- hous>. He still had his old storehouses, he wanted a new one. He knew when snow and ice came and Happy Jack the Gray Squirrel and Rusty the Fox Squirrel felt the pinch o¢ hunger they would be quite likely o search long and hard for his store- houses. He suspected that they had an iaea where a couple of these store- houses were, so he wanted a new one, SONNYSAYINGS Atavver neber goin' to ‘spicion us. BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. N'S PAGE) " <THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1998 If the coat has cuffs or collar from which the required amount of fur can be replenished, or if the coat will bear shortening and thus furnish the skins, no expense is attached to the proce- dure other than the purchase of a package of needles for fur work. These needles are not round like ordinary ones, but triangular, having sharp edges which pierce the skin rather than tearing it, as the others are certain of doing. Do not think for a moment to gain success without the right needle. The work, besides being difficult to manage, will not be done correctly. In piecing a fur garment one of the first essentials s to have the pile of the fur in the patch coincide with that 2 the original. Cut the worn portion from the coat, having first gained access to the under side by removing the lin- ing. All cutting of fur is done with a sharp knife on the skin side of the fur. By marking the area with fur needle and basting cotton inserted from the right side, the portion is readily desig- nated on the wrong. A sharp penknife is excellent for cutting the skin. Rather than risk any difference be- tween the size of the two pieces by hav- ing the pattern piece slip, make a cut- ting from paper of the exact size and secure it to the new skin and cut around it. This is essential when a hole is to be filled with new fur. The exact contour of the hole must be duplicated in a paper pattern, neither larger nor smaller, as no overlapping is permitted in fur, unlike cloth, and fur will pucker if the inserted piece is smaller. In sewing fur lay the two pile sides together, edge to edfe. first seeing to it that the fur is laid back as far as ronvenient from the edge. If any hairs protrude, they can be displaced by blowing on, the while holding edges slightly apart. A heavy cotton or linen thread is employed. Silk is undesir- able, as it cuts the fur. Proceed in cewing as iIn overcasting, each stitch going directly through the two pieces and the thread being at a slant in progressing to the next. After reaching the far edge it is customary to turn the work and go in the opposite direc- tion, using the same holes and having the threads cross those of the previous line of sewing. (Copsright, 1028.) DAILY DIET RECIPE Boiled Mayonnaise. Raw egg, 1. Raw egg yolk, 1. Drv mustard, 1 teaspoonful. Salt, 115 teaspoonfuls. Cayenne pepoer. 1-16 teaspoonful. { Vinegar, 3 tablespoonfuls. Oil. 3 cuoful. Cornstarch, 4 tablespoonfuls. Cold water, 1 cupful. Break ecgg into mixinz bowl Add egg yolk, mustard, salt, cayenne, vinegar and oil, but do not stir these ingredients. Mix cornstarch slowly with cold water until it is perfectly smooth. Then start to cook it over a low fire until it reaches boiling point, stir- ring constantly. The cornstarch will seem rather thickc but keep stirring until it boils and becomes somewhat clear. This will take about 6 minutes. Remove from fire, add cornstrch mixture to ingredients in bowl and beat with egg beater until the two mix- tures have combined into perfect smoothness. DIET NOTE. Recipe furnishes some protein, some fat, vitamins A. B, and C. as well as lime and iron. Can be eaten by normal adults of aver- age or under weight. BY THORNTON W. BURGESS a better one than any of the others. It took a lot of searching for Chat- terer to find just what we wanted, but he ¢i¢ find it at last. It wasn't in a tree. It was in the ground. Yes, sir, it was in the ground. It was a hollow in the ground under the roots of a big stump. There was no entrance to it by way of a hole in the ground. It was reached through a knothole sev- eral feet above the ground. That knot- hole was just hig enough for Chatterer to use. Happy Jack the Gray Squirrel or Rusty the Fox Squirrel would have besn unable to even push their heads through. Inside there was a small hollow passage extendinf all the way down the trunk to the roots. There Chatterer had done a little work and had made an opening that led into this nice, dry cavity underneath the stump. It was a wonderful place for a store- house. Having found his storehouse, Chat- terer set to work to lay in his Winter's supply of seeds. With those sharp little teecn of his he snipped off the scales of the pine cones and the fir cones and the spruce cones and pulled out the little seeds between. These he car- rizd to that new storehouse. My, m: what a busy fellow Chatterer was! was astonishing how fast he could snip those little scales from the cones. They made a carpet, did those little brown scales. And Chatterer was happy. He was so happy that he didn't have time to scold anybody. Several time Happy Jack Squirrel and Rusty the Fox Squirrel came along and watched Chatterer at work. They did their best to find out where he was storing away those,seeds. Happy Jack even sat right on top of that big stump. But though they spied and did their best to find out Chatterer’s secret, they never did. So gradually the storehouse was filled. When it would hold no more Chatterer began filling some of his other storehouses. He was going to take no chances of going hungry in the Winter. Happy Jack and Rusty, on the other hand, were having hard work. They were not finding much more than enough to eat day by day. The out- look for the Winter was not at all good. They were worried. Yes, sir, they were worried. No stores meant starvation and suffering from cold. So both of them roamed far and wide, hoping that thay might find a hickory tree or an oak tree bearing a heavy crop. While Chatterer was happy they were worried. Everyday Law Cases Is Divorce Necessarily Granted in Uncontested Case? BY THE COUNSELLOR. Henry Ernest instituted suit for di- vorce, alleging that he had been sepa- rated from his wife for the required statutory period and that he had left her because she had inflicted indignities to his person. Satisfied to let her hus- band get a divorce, Mrs. Ernest ignored hlls suit, filing no answer to his allega- tions. In accordance with the general prac- tice of the court, a master in chancery was appointed to take testimony in the WHO REMEMBERS? BY DICK MANSFIELD. Resistered U. S. Patent Office. | ‘When Luna Park, across the river in Virginia, was opened and “Sensational Rector,” a Washington boy, rode a bi- cycle down the chute-the-chute? NANCY PAGE Nancy Serves Her Club at Tureen Buffet Supper. BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. The Nancy Page Club was back at | Nancy's for its meeting. This was the time when the members came late in the afternoon, stayed for dinner or sup- per, at which they were joined by their husbands. Then the evening was de- | voted to sociability. For this occasion Nancy had chosen a tureen or buffet meal. The general plan was as fol- lows: A large table and the buffet in ths dining room were set with serving dishes of food, plates, napkins and sil- ver. In the living room and library small tables with lunch cloth cuverlngs were distributed. The guests went to the dining room, helped themselves to food from the serving dishes and then carried their plunder in to the small tables. Here they found candlesticks of early Sandwich glass. This was in honor of the study material of the club. Nancy had seen this idea worked out with simple substantial fare like baked beans and scalloped potatoes. But here she chose more elaborate dishes. She had two casseroles of escalloped chicken, corn and green peppers. There was a_ platter holding a hot baked ham already sliced. She had two noodle rings with a filling of spinach au gratin. There was a delicious chicken pie with a crust made of baking powder bis- cuirs nestling side by side. Her salads were ring molds and looked almost too pretty to cut into. Plates of small sugared doughnuts, iced eclairs and coconut rolled cake balls were an- other temptation. Did they eat? Oh me, oh my. And did they ask for recipes? Nancy's throat ached from answering questions. Perhaps the kind of salad you would like to serve may be found in Nancy Page’s salad jo. 2. Write to her, care of this paper, enclosing a stamped ' self-addressed envelope, asking for it. (Copyright. 1928.) A Sermon for Today BY REV. JOHN R. GUNN. A Requested Exposition. Text: “Bear ye one another’s bur- dens.”—Gal. 6.2. “For every man shall bear his own burden.”—Gal. 6.5. A reader of these sermons requests an exposition of these two verses. = The context points the way. Read the whole passage, verses one to five, and you will see that the subject ynder discussion relates to the weaknesses and faults of Christian believers, in regard to which Paul urges that we be charitable and considerate toward one another, When a brother is overtaken in a fault we are not to deal harshly with him, but gent- ly, having in mind helping and restor- ing him rather than critizing and condemning him. And ‘we are to go about this in the spirit of meekness, not forgetting our own weaknesses and the liabilities to which they subject us. In we_are not to think so highly of our- selves as to assume a superior atti- tude toward him. The verses in question are interwoven into this discussion. Evidently the pri- mary reference in the words “burdens” and burden, “as used here,” is to moral infirmities and errors, and the sorrow and shame and remorse which they awaken in the offender. And what Paul means is that no one can have occasion to claim moral superiority to his neighbor, for each man’s self-exam- ination will reveal infirmities enough of his own, even though they may not be the same as those of his neighbor. His own burdens will absorb his atten- tion and will leave him no time to compare himself with others. Naturall having such a regard toward the ' den of his own infirmities, he will be charitable toward the like burdens that bear upon his neighbors and will be ready to share these burdens with them as occasion requireth. suit, Although the evidence produced bv Ernest as to the indignities he alleged was legally insufficient to entitle him to a divorce, the master recom- mended that the court grant the divorce because the parties had been separated the statutory period and the wife, by failing to enter her appearance. showed | that she did not intend to deny the allegations. But the court refused to accept the master’s recommendation and denied | the divorce, stating: “There is no presumption that be- rause parties have gotten into the di- vorce court they are entitled to the re- | 1iet which they seek. In addition to the statutory period of separation, the complainant must prove to the court’s Taby. but her may fink her has seed ‘ese cheats and pillercases before, (Sopyright. 1928 satisfaction. even in an uncontes case, that he has grounds legally suffi- clent to entitle him to a divorce.” ted | and one-half cupfuls of chopped celery (Copyright, 1928.) e A With Oysters. Oyster Fritters.—Make a batter with one cupful of flour, half a teaspoonful of baking powder, one-fourth teaspoon- ful of salt and a pinch of pepper, all sifted together, one-third cupful of milk and one egg well beaten. Beat well, and stir in one pint of oysters cut in small pieces and half a tablespoonful of finely chopped parsley. Drop by spoonfuls into deep fat and fry until brown. Oyster Salad.—Boil four dozen small oysters in their own liquor, strain, then season with salt, pepper and e little i happily ever afterward.” dealing with the faults of our brother | Describes == | DorothyDix| <" The Ideal Marriage Is the Fifty-fifty Marriage, in Which the Husband and Wife Bear an Equal Load of Responsibility in a Partnership Founded on Justice and Fair Play. “What s a fifty-fifty marriage?” g A fifty-fifty marriage is the ideal of which every woman dreams and of which men—but men don't think about it at all. 1t is the custom to describe matrimony as an equal partnership into which a man and woman enter, but this is a mere figure of speech. Nine marriages out of 10 are not partnerships. They are grafts in which one or the other of the high contracting parties has got a rotten deal. Sometimes it is the man who gets the hot end of the bargain; sometimes it is the woman. There are just as many trifling, no-account wives who lie down on their jobs and let George do it all as there are lazy, loafing hus- bands who dump all of the domestic burdens on their wives’ shoulders. There are just as many grasping, greedy husbands who take all and give nothing in return as there are gold-digger wives. Neither sex has a monopoly on meanness. When it comes to rock-bottom selfishness and the desire to get the best for one's self, male and female are both in the running. And few there be, either husbands or wives, who can resist the' temptation to trample on a human doormat if he or she happens to acquire one by marriage. Such being the case and to meet a long-felt want, the idea of the fifty-fifty marriage is being put _forth, and its design is to give both the husband and the wife a square deal. It is intended to abolish alike the parasitic wife and the serf husband and the slave wife and the Simon Legree husband. As it is now many a man spends his life toiling to support a wife who makes absolutely no return for what she receives. He makes the money, she spends it. He can never afford to take a holiday, she takes nothing else. He is nailed to his desk the year round, she spends her Summers in the mountains and her Winters in Florida. He laps her in luxury, she never even gives a thought to his comfort. e N a fifty-fifty marriage the woman whose husband is able to support her so that she does not need to follow any gainful occupation after marriage feels that she is only being honest when she gives him a fair run for his money. He supplies the house and the raw materials, and it is up to her to take them and make them into a comfortable home. She feels that she would be as much de- faulting on her part of the contract to be a poor housekeeper as he would be if he were a poor provider. She considers that it would be more shameful for her husband to neglect his business and let it go into bankruptcy while he played golf than it would be for her to devote so much time to her clubs that she had none to make the beds and sweep the floors or to feed him on delicatessen messes and out of paper bags because she stayed so late at the bridge game or the matinee that she couldn't get him up a decent dinner. In a word, she goes fifty-fifty with him. He brings home the bacon and she fries it to his taste. In these days it is necessary for many young wives to continue to be money-earners after they are married. Very often these marriages are called 50-50 marriages because the wife contributes her share of money to the upkeep of the home, but in reality they are nearly always 75 to 25 marriages, with the woman putting in the most. . ¥ For almost always she contributes not only her part of the money for running the home but does the work as well. She buys the food and cooks it, while husband lies on the couch and reads the paper and tells her to hurry up. She spends her evenings scrubbing and cleaning while he puts on his hat and steps out to the movies to get out of the confusion. In a real 50-50 marriage, where the wife coniributes half the money for the support of the home, the husband does half the housework. There is no mystery about performing on a gas range that any man who can tune in on a radio can't fathom. There is no esoteric rite about tidying a house that a man can’t perform. As a matter of fact, the best chefs and cleaners are of the masculine persuasion, and it is up to husbands to strut their domestic stuff in the cases where their wives are also Tired Business Men. If the wife helps make the money, the husband should help with the housework. In the 50-50 marriages the husbands will feel that the marriage contract is 2s binding on them as it is on their wives and that they are just as much married as their wives are, and that it is just as much their duty to make their homes happy as it is their wives'. ERETOFORE men have felt that if they support their families in reasonable comfort they have done all that could be expected of them. They felt that they had the right to bring home all of their temper and nerves and dump them on the hearthstone, and if wife didn’t like it she could lump it. If they were bored they considered it their privilege to sally forth in the evening in search of livelier and gayer' company than that found at home. But the fifty-fitty husband realizes that he must be a little ray of sunshine in the home also if there is to be cheer and brightness there; that he must con- sider his wife’s tastes and whims and peculiarities as much as he expects her to adapt herself to him; that it is just as necessary for him to remain the lover as it is for her to continue to be a vamp, and that she gets fed up on domesticity and needs her night off just as much as he does. Purthermove, in the fifty-fifty marriages the husband is a 50 per cent father instead of being a total loss, except as a bill payer, in the way of most American men. He doesn’t turn over the entire rearing of the children to their mother. He doesn't deliberately half-orphan his children because between his business and his golf he has no time for them. He helps his wife take care of them when they are little. He plays with them when they are adolescent. He molds their characters when they are plastic, and when they are grown they are an honor to him instead of a disgrace. That s what the fifty-fifty marriage is going to be. And it is going to make the old fairy tale come true: “And when they were married they lived Because the ideal marriage is founded on justice and fair play, and that always works out successfully. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1028.) The Daily Cross-Word Puzzle (Copyright. 1923.) . ...u/— .»r .:—4 Across. 1. Exist, . 601 (Roman). e 15. Moslem caliphs. iy 16. Initials of a President. | & Neawitw 19. Wooden cylinder. Gty 20. Metric unit. 10. West Indian witcheraft. 21, Drink slowly. 12. Nickname. et 14, Remembers. 24, Hawalian bird. 17, Tnpograrhxul Engineer (ab.). 25 Printed notice, 18 Dresaiul, 26. Hindu water jar. ;g gtng&w frame. 30. Proceed. 3 ip] ong. e o 25 Ortoat 32. Hypothetical force. 27. Father. 28. Artificial language. 29. King of Bashan. 31. Plant. 33. Pleces of wood. 34. Poetic name of Edinburgh. These intelligence tests are being Down. given at most of the leading uniyersities. R e Study them, try to answer them, and, e i if you can't or are doubtful, refer to the = ca e g correct answers. This will give you a A e el slant on your mental rating. B aedd il In this test a list of words appears. e Each word is followed by another, which 5 b e as either a similar or an opposite J U . meaning. Mark each pair similar or opposite as the case may be. ...COLD (opposite) APID (similar) ANSWER TO YESTERDAY'S PUZZLE AINJA[RIMTIEIRIO| AIDIOJAIAIR] ISIS[EINIG[EIRIS] . Infraction = . Mercenary Shed ... Loquacious . Tedious . . Thick . . Excuse . Sample . .. .specimen . Diffuse .. .restrict Allow yourself 2 minutes to classify vinegar. When they are cold add one and one cupful of mayonnaise, Serve with sliced lemon. th» words in the list above. Similar pairs: 1, 4, 5, 7, 11, 12, 14. Opposites: 2, 3, 6, 8,9, 10, 13, 15, MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Orange Juice. Oatmeal with Cream. Scrambled Eggs. Bacon Curls. Bran Muffins. Cofee. LUNCHEON. Shrimps with Rice. Rolls. Banbury Tarts. Tea. DINNER. Celery Soup. Broiled Pork Chops. Brussels Sprouts. Creamed Potatoes. Pear and Cheese Salad. Crackers, Cheese, Coffee. BRAN MUFFINS. One cup wheat flour, one cup bran, one-fourth cup sugar, four teaspoons baking powder, one- half teaspoon salt, one egg, one cup milk, two tablespoons fat. Makes 12 muffins. SHRIMPS WITH RICE. Brown one-half minced onion or garlic (as preferred) in one- fourth cup oil or butter. Then add one cup shrimp, one-half can tomatoes, one-half bay leaf, little salt and cayenne pepper. Cook 20 minutes, stirring fre- quently. Thicken with one table- spoon cornstarch moistened with water and cook 15 minutes long- er. Cook one cup rice until very dry. Then mold it in center of large serving dish. When ready to serve, pour shrimp mixture over and around rice and gar- nish with parsley. BARTLET PEAR AND CHEESE SALAD. Cream together one tablespoon butter and one large cream cheese: add one-fourth cup chop- ped nut meats and mold into balls. Pare Bartlett pears, cut them in halves, remove cores, put cheese balls in each half, place on lettuce leaves, garnish with teaspoon bright-colored jelly and dress with French dressing. Home in Good Taste BY SARA HILAND. Just what you have been looking for! Do you know what it is? Well, noth- ing more than a simple shallow metal pan in which to place a row of flower pots. It is such a simple affair, yet it has taken such a long time to get it into the shops. The old-time method of placing flower pots on small pans or saucers was prac- tical, yet not very attractive; and who- ever thought of making a shallow pan just the size of the window sill is a good friend to the plant lover. The cold days are not far off, and those of us who must give up our friendly gardens wish to bring the plants into the house, but their arrange- ment and the protection which must be given to the wood finish on which t.l‘ley are set requires considerable plan- ning. The pan shown here is painted a dull dark green and each one of the pots is of a different shade, although it is very pleasing if only three shades are used. The center Bot may be rose, the next two (on each side of it) blue, and the end ones yellow. This pan allows for more generous watering of the plants than did former arrangements. (Copyrizht, 1928.) Your Baby and Mine BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED. ‘Waits for Commanding Tone. Mrs. T. writes: “I have a baby girl, 1 year old last June, and a boy of 4 years. The baby's hands are always cold. Others have also noticed this. I| do not believe the baby has poor circu- | lation, for her cheeks are red as roses. | It is true our house isn't warm, it seems | difficult to keep it so with fireplaces. | She sleeps and takes her nap on a screened porch. I keep a sweater on her most of the time, but when I try bun- dling her legs that is just one more thing to need changing. She seems very heavy. I have not weighed her lately. Would letting her be chilly retard her growth? “Just a question about the boy. He is a sweet, happy, enthusiastic little fellow and has ‘ideas of his own,’ and a determination to have his own way | which I find hard to combat. I don't want him to lose his sweetness, and yet | it is ‘like pulling teeth’ to get him to mind. He is obedient behind my back, but when I call him to come then he | has numerous objections. I try to an- swer reasonably, but it is difficult to argue with a 4-year-old. I speak quietly | and pleasantly to him, but he holds off until I use an ordering tone. I believe he thinks that is proper, as he uses it also when playing with other children. | I find your column so helpful.” Answer—I should find out how the baby 1s gaining, that is the best indica- tion of how she is progressing, and it doesn’t pay to guess. A once-a-month weighing is enough now, and a monthiy gain of one-half pound is average. If the baby is active and seems com- fortable the coolness of the fingers may not be significant of real discomfort. Perhaps some little wool in the shirts | and bands would do away with this condition and allow for an omission cf the sweater. You have diagnosed the case rightly. The boy now waits for the tone that you use when he knows he must obey. I should not allow the argument to reach that point. I would apprise him far enough in advance of what he is expected to do so that he can be pre- pared for it. Then when you call him go right out and take his hand and bring him in. No argument, no “order- ing,” just do it. He is very soon going to recognize this as inevitable and cease to “hold back” waiting until the final moment for obeying. The new habit will become automatic after the child has come to expect that when he is notified in advance that he must obey without argument. A mother only | weakens her own case by bluster and argument if her commands are sensible and must be carried out. Children at a Willesden (England) council school ave to be taught French, and music by mophone. ><‘ For Tender Skins g,\;! Cuticura Shaving Stick Freely Lathering Medicinal & Emollient THE WIVES OF THE PRESIDENTS Mary Todd, Who Predicted She Would Be the Wife of a President, and Went to the White House With Abraham Lincoln. BY J. P. GLASS, TRy FEATURES. “WELL—IT DOES MARY A GRE‘AIKRI;:‘QL OF GOOD AND DOES ME NO ‘When a telegram came to Springfield, IIL, in June, 1860, announcing to Abra- ham Lincoln that the Republican con- vention in Chicago had nominated him for the presidency he did not forget Mrs. Lincoln in the excitement. Stuffing the telegram in his pocket, he remarked that “there was a little woman in Eighth strest who had some interest in the matter,” and strode off home to tell her the news. And Mrs. Lincoin had the interest of a prophet as well as a wife in the event. Hadn't she always, even before she met Lincoln, prophesied that some day she would be the wife of a Presi- dent of the United States? Washington society, always acutely interested in the wife of the President, awaited the coming of Mrs. Lincoln to the White House with anxiety. What sort of woman would she be? - Fashion- able ladies anticipated the worst, for Lincoln himself was simple, homely and uncouth. 2 At her first levee, March 9, 1861, she appeared in a rich pink moire- antique, with pearl ornaments, and with flowers in her hair and hands. She turned out to be “an elegant-looking lady, somewhat inclined to stoutness, but withal fine-looking and self- possessed.” She was abundantly able to grace the station in which she was placed. As a matter of fact she was a very superior woman. Her father, Robert | 8. Todd of Lexington, Ky., had been one of the leading citizens of his State. Mary Todd was well bred, well edu- cated, and had been a social leader. As a girl she had been pretty and vi- vacious, albeit a bit haughty. When, in 1837, she left Lexington to make her home with her married sister, Mrs. Ninian W. Edwards, in Springfield, 1., she became one of the belles of the Illinois community. She was very ambitious. Perhaps that, as much as anything else, in- fluenced her in marrying Abraham Lincoln. Undoubtedly she loved him, but, too, she perceived that he was destined for high places—the highest, she believed. It seems to be beyond dispute that she prophesied more than once that she would be the wife of the President of the United States. Friends have insisted, too, that she declared of Lincoln, “I mean to make him Presi- dent.” She was but 21 when she went to Springfield and met Abraham Lincola. He was 33 and already had made his mark locally. Her brother-in-law, Ninlan Edwards, was a political friend of Lincoln. It is reasonable to suppose that Mary Todd got her first ideas of Lincoln's future from opinions expressed by Edwards. She had many suitors, but she leaned toward Lincoln. Mr. and Mrs. Edwards protested. The young lawyer was of humble origin. He lacked polish and cared nothing for society. Could she, who had been brought up in a cultured home, be happy with him? In the developments that followed, Miss Todd seems always to have been of one mind. Lincoln's carelessness of social forms was strongly impressed upon her on more than one occasion. On the other hand, he found her jeal- ous, exacting and hot tempered. But while he was irked by their frequent disagreements and wished to break the engagement, she went steadily ahead with preparations for the wedding. It is hard to understand that when Lincoln finally severed their relations Mary Todd remained faithful to him. One would have expected a woman of her temper to have been permanently aggrieved. She was not. In the end they were reunited and married. Mrs. Lincoln loved power and show. “Honest Abe” was always for simplicity. It was inevitable that there should be domestic clashes. Once in their Springfield home, it is said that she angrily reproved her hus- band before a neighbor. “Why don't you jaw back, Abe?” Lin- Sl ‘Rl reply 15 reported to hs “Well,” reply is rej ve been, “it does Mary a great deal of good and does me no harm. In the White House she overruled her husband on many matters. Neverthe- less, they had a very happy family life. When ‘he died from an assassin's bullet after being shot as he sat with her in a box at Ford's Theater, she was so shattered that it was five weeks before she was able to leave the White House. But in her grief she remembered that when the President’s body was taken back to Springfield for burial, the body of her older boy, Willie, who had died in 1862, would be left alone in Wash- ;nfl,on, and arranged that it be removed, 00. (Copyright, 1928.) KEEPING MENTALLY FIT BY JOSEPH JASTROW. Gesture. Among the modern obligations of a presidential candidate is to pose for the “movies” in the act of delivering his speech of acceptance. It would seem dull and meaningless just to open his mouth and let the audience infer that he is saying a mouthful. So he must act his speech. He does so by gesture. Actions speak not only louder but more clearly than words. Action accompany- ing speech is called “‘gesture.” There is a good deal to the psychology of gesture. Gesture is earlier than speech. It's the only original form of conveying the state of your feelings, which is the more primitive side of the state of your mind. The infant brandishing his arms and legs is gesturing. It's a story with- out words. ‘When speech is acquired the words tell the message, what you want to say, but not how you feel as you say it. For that you depend on one phase of the gesture language that is capable of refined development. After the period of infancy we stop gesturing quite so naturally with our arms or legs—mainly with the legs— because we need them to stand on, and with the arms because we often engage them in other occupations. But you have occasionally noticed some one ges- turing with knife and fork in hand, so natural is it to supplement and suit the action to the word. Eloquent arms that emphasize, appeal, extend, threaten, embrace, pacify and convince add much | to the oratorical effect. We recognize much of their conven- tionality: certainly the presidential can- didate or any one else who is posing for the movies has to manufacture his ges- ture, for he isn’t at the time in the state of feeling that he is expressing through his words and which would diffuse or run over to his other un- engaged muscles through the emotion which accompanies his message. Far less conventional is the range of facial gesture that starts in the early months of life and continuss, though it also is taken up by the conventions. Children laugh and smile naturally. Adults do so more or less convention- ally. An engaging smile is aiso a polit- ical asset. But as we_ bocome expert both in making and in reading gestures we come to estimat> how much of the gestural action is worked up or assumed, how much genuine and natural. We may use words to conceal thought and count on gesture as an add~d cloak. Gesture offers about the best exam- ple of the way in which the natural and acquired fuse in much of our be- havior. The general formula is that behavior—the special form of your be- havior or mine—is acquired on a nat- ural basis. The natural basis may go far or may go a little way to det>rmine the_total, the finished product. We all smile by nature, but our socisty smile ; we have acquired. We all shake hands becaus> we have be>n taught to do so, but in the manner of our shaking hands we may put in a touch of real warm feeling or make it a cold, gesture. The variation of gesture among races and nations brings out its tempera- mental side. strong emotions and whose racial or national tradition it is to let such emo- tions have their way with the muscles. So_each le_develops its own brand formal ; For those people will use | gesture freely who are both subject to | of gesture with no need of any other school than the every-day school of imitation. That is, 90 per cent on a 10 per cent natural basis. Conse- quently what is natural is' the gestural haoit about as freely used as we see it in lilvely children, and what is ac- quired is first of all the general habit of letting it have its way or supg‘nnnt it. Once the habit of gestural habit is indulged in, hands and face are inces- santly active, adding a touch of emo- tionel expression to what the words but nerfectly convey. As we grow to think more intellec- tually we rely on the spoken word to carry the message and less on the emo- tional accompaniment. We use gesture sparingly, but we still rely on facial ex- pression and the voice gestures of em= phasis and tone to complete our mean- ing. Cold print is cold and the spoken word is warm, because the voice can carry the feeling tone and the eye can get it only from expression and gesture, not from the word alone. In a public appearance personality counts, and personality is conveyed by emotion. So the public arts of the staze and the platform and pulpit will keep alive the noble art of gesture. To be seen by the crowd, gestures, like facial make-up, must be exaggerated, but they must still be genuine to carry. conviction. When they are not, when there is a flourish, a word or an act lacking sincerity, we say “that’s a mere gesture”—the gesture that is acquired and on occasion assumed. (Coyright. 1928 MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN. Picture Stories for Children. One mother, says: I am collecting pictures of noted paintings for my little girl's scrapbook. In order that I may be familiar with cach one myself, so that I may explain it to her in simple words—after I have asked her what she sees in it—I have one pinned on the kitchen wall, and as I go about my work I study it at odd moments. Then when the day's work is done I read up about it and the painter. This is a delightful art review for a busy mother, as well as a pre| ition for the “picture story time,” at least twice a week. Moreover, it is implant- ing in my little one's eager and recep- tive mind a love for pictures that are worth while—pictures by old and mod- ern masters of every nationality. And this familiarity with great art will be a pleasure to her. (Copyright. 19 " Fall C leaning There are lots of ways we can help you with house cleaning. 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