Evening Star Newspaper, November 1, 1928, Page 61

WOMAN’S PAGE. The Sidewalks of Washington BY THORNTON FISHER. He was half facetious and half sel lous when he said to us, “I've been in this city nearly a year and I haven't got a girl. In my home town I knew verybody, and that went both ways, but here I'm a total loss. What would you do in a case like this?" Why he should put the question to Ithis writer is beyond comprehension, especially when Miss Dix in her pene- trating fashion solves such questions Usually it is the young woman wh«? tays and stays until some knight errant flashes across her horizon to have and [to scold. It unfortu- nately true that there are hundreds of young people from other hanilets and tow living and working in Washington Wwho are suffering from that drend afflic- tion—lonesomeness. All large cities are filled with them. There should be fewer of them in the National Cap- ital, notable for its hospitality. Of course for a few dollars Lonesome Lou and Lonely Lilly may take a course in “How to be popular.” One may learn to play the * ukulele and hold a company spellbound. For the price of a carton of cigarettes any ambitious person may learn the gentle art of captivating those with whom cne comes in contact. Even possessed of parlor tricks, it is neces- sary to gain entree before they can be properly exhibited. All the books in the world on “How to make love” will not suffice if a fellow cannot meet a girl ‘to_make love to. This may sound like “baloney” to the serlous reader, and yet the tragedy of loneliness stalks in the city. Isn't this evident when a comely young fellow complains that he has been here a year and has not found a girl? * x X * Hundreds of persons employed in this city are desperately striving to ean “side money.” Some of them are youths working their way through college; others are older people trying to add a pittance to their small wages. Many different methods are used in the pur- suit of the elusive dollar. One of the most common methods is the door-to- door canvass ~with “special offers. Usually the visits are timed when the family is at dinner. There are two reasons for this—the canvasser works during the day and can devote only his evenings to his outside business; second, he is more likely to find some one at home when he calls. Most of them are not professional salesmen or saleswomen. This is easily determined by their approach. They exhibit a timidity not possessed by the hard-boiled canvasser, who attempts to sell the prospect something or die in the effort. Others work after hours in stores or on Saturday afternoons. Probably the most interesting of the Jafter-hour workers are those young ‘amateur musicians who engage to play for & small dance. These boys in the majority of instances know little about music, but meet the deficiency by their skill in syncopation. The amateur saxo- phone player contrives to extract enough elegant wails from his instrument to satisfv most discerners. What the young fiddler lacks in artistry he more than makes up in pep. The pianist in many cases plays by ear, and the drummer yhas enough sense of rhythm to set the feet in motion. One lad who works in the daytime serves behind a lunth counter at night. Not a few taxicab drivers devote their “leisure” to other jobs. There are fewer opbortunities for women than men in outside work, hut they nevertheless seek the chance to obtain it. * kK % ¢ “What brought you to ‘Washington?” ‘we inquired of a successful resident. “I came in on the tide of a conven- tion many years ago,” he replied, “and never went back home.” ting phase provides an interes of convention activities. It is said that we afe acquainted with in- numerable others who came to visit the Capital only to re- main and make homes in the city. Some of the most important events of life are the re- sults of trivial in- cidents. Eight years ago a friend of the writer's visited Paris. It was to be a short holiday, for he had little money. Two years 8go We ran across him in a famous French cafe. “What? Back again?” we asked in surprise “Back!" he exclaimed. “Why, haven't been home to the States for six years. I accidentally obtained a job with an American house over here, and so here I am. Tell me what is new at home.” He almost broke out in a flood of tears. “I married a French girl and have several young- sters. My wife speaks no English and I manage to speak a little French. The kids are learning both languages. But, boy, I certainly would like to get a glimpse of the old U. S. A. I've sev- ered all my business and social con- necticns at home, and now I'm a man without a country. A brief holiday in Paris has proved to be a permanent proposition—and it's no holiday, I as- sure you. Trivial incidents indeed do play a major role in our lives. Today in Washington History HE CAME (N WITHA COMVENTION-~ BY DONALD A. CRAIG. November 1, 1862—Mr, William Wood, superintendent of the Old Capitol Prison, who went south not long ago with the Confederate citizens who had been prisoners in his charge, to ex- change them, returned this morning to Washington. He was expected to bring back with him the exchanged Union men held as prisoners by the Confed- erates, but did not do so. It is understood, however, that his mission was completely successful and that the Union men he went after will soon follow him to this city, the crder for their release having heen issued by the Confederate authorities befcre he left Richmond. The Evening Star to- day prints a list of the released Con- federates, who were seni back to ihe South. Brig. Gen. Wadsworth returned to Washington this morning from a visit to his home State of New York. He at once resumed his duties as military governor here, It became known here today that a wood train, which was sent out during the last 24 hours oy the Military Rail- road Department over the Orange & Alexandria Railroad, having on board a large force of woodcutters and la- borers to load the wood, was fired into by the Confederates, the rails torn up, the engine and cars thrown from the track and a large number of the work- men captured. The engineer of the train escaped. He made his way to Fairfax Station and telegraphed the result of the trip to the authorities in this city. Some mil- itary men say it is about time that this railroad was adequately guarded or abandoned. This affair took place 2 miles beyond the bridge over Bull Run ‘The “underground railroad” between the North and the South seems to be still in operation. It is understocd that Capt. Riley of the Confederate army came to ore recently, was mar- ried, and after accomplishing the ob- Ject of his journey, quietly returned to Richmond and resumed his duties in the Confederate army. If the military authorities are aware of the route he followed, they have not macde that fact public, 50 it cannot be stated at this time whether he passed through Wash- n. ‘might be | ingtor THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1928 WVillie Willis BY ROBERT QUILLEN. “That scratched place on my neck is where I showed Pug I wasn't scared {0 take one of his old cat’s kittens away from her.” NANCY PAGE Cotton Taffeta and Ging- ham for Hangings. BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. Curtains are a subject ever before the homemaker. No sooner does she think she has her house well curtained than the seasons change or the styles change or the curtains get soiled. Lois had thought she was all set in her new home, and here she was struggling with the curtains in the living room and dining room. She had planned on beautiful silk hangings for the living room, but just about that time the budget “went broke,” so she hunted for something else. She found a cotton taffeta in a sun- shiny yellow which was just what she needed for the gray Winter days. The material was sun-fast, inexpensive. It had enough body so that it hung well and it possessed the additional virtue of laundering easily. She made these curtains to hang straight with no val- ance or ruffiing. In the dining room there were two small high windows. They were on the wall against which she had placed her buffet. She tried various materials and styles of hanging and finally chose a tissue gingham in cheerful plaid. The curtains were hemmed top and bottom and run on rods. She lefl the material loose enough so that she could gather it together at the middle and tie it in place with a smart bow of self-material. The effect was pleasing. Her problem was solved. FEATURES. DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX EAR DOROTHY DIX: have a night off now and then, but how often? their companion one of their own sex or the opposite sex? o I agree with you that all married couples should And should they take as B. W. R. Answer: Of course, every question connected with the domestic problem | becomes an individual one for each particular husband and wife, and no hard | and fast rules can be laid down that will cover every situation. | 1 think the chief thing that is the matter with matrimony is monotony. | It gets to be a deadly dull grind because it's the same thing year in and year out, and that is why it gets on people’s nerves and makes them want to jump the bars. Therefore, I think that.the wise thing is to use preventive measures, to break the routine and to introduce as much novelty and change as is| consistent with the circumstances. | So I suggest the night off for husbands and wives. No human beings, no matter how much they love each other, can be together continuously without telling each other everything they know and think and feel until they run out | of conversation. For proof of this you have only to watch a husband and wife | in any place of amusement. At the restaurant they will be sitting up in silence with never a’'word to say to each other. At the theater they will be reading the | program from cover to cover, while all around them strangers will be gayiy | chatting. And at home in the evening there is a silence so dense you could cut it with a knife until some guest drops in and starts the conversational ball rolling. This is not because husbands and wives are not fond of each other. It's just | because they are fed up on each other's society. But let either one of them go | away for a few days and when they are reunited they talk their heads off. So T think that the main virtue in the husband and wife taking a night off separately would be that it would give each something fresh to talk about and make each qne & more entertaining companion to the other. But I certainly think that it would be a highly dangerous proceeding for either husband or wife to have a date with one of the opposite sex. Nor is this necessary. If you will eliminate the sex ajpeal, you will find that men prefer the society of men and women that of women. No man really likes to play games with a woman, because he feels it | ungallant to beat her and humiliating to be beaten by her. No man really wants to discuss sports or business or the stock market with women. And it's the same | way with women. The topics that women have a real heart interest in bore men to tears, and so in every mixed crowd you will see the two sexes drawing into their own separate camps, unless they are flirtatiously minded. The danger to the husband and wife with a member of the opposite sex would be that their “date” would come to mean something more than a casual companion And the “date” would offer the inevitable comparison of one who was always pleasant and agreeable and dressed up and powdered and puffed and | looking his or her best, with the companion of one’s bosom who must show the toil and strain of the workaday wa.rld. DOROTHY DIX. . ! DEAR MISS DIX: If a man and woman do not love each other don't you | think it is better for the parents to part, and that the children are better off with the mother, even though she has to leave them during the day to make a living for them, than for them to be reared in a home where the father and | mother do not love each other? | I am a young woman, not quite in my 30's, and have two children. | T worked when I was living with their father and I work now and can give them every comfort. It is I who suffer in this case, becduse it is my nature to . | be home-loving. I crave to love and be loved in return, but I cannot make up | my mind that it would be right for me to marry again. Doesn't it take a rea! | | mother to smile when she is with her children when she could weep her | eyes out? A DESPERATE WIDOW. | Answer: T do not think that a couple have the right to break up a marriage | and half-orphan children merely because they have ceased to be sentimentally in love with each other. It's not a case of feeling, but of duty. We can't control our emotions, but we can our actions. - | No power of the will can force a woman to thrill at the touch of a man after she becomes disillusioned with him, nor to see the fairy prince of her girlish dreams in a husband who proves to be a dull and commonplace individual but she can still stand at her post and keep her home fires burning if he is good and honest and faithful and a loving father to his children. But if the man fails as husband and father, and if after doing her best | the woman finds it impossible to get along with him, and if the home atmosphere is one of cirife, then certainly it is better for the children for her to take them and go where they can live in peace. | Certainly the life of the woman who has two little children dependent on | her for support is hard enough, but you are wise not to marry again. For there | are even fewer men who are good stepfathers than there are women who are good stepmothers, and the woman who is torn between her husband and her children, who has to see them mistreated by a man who resents having to suppor: them, qrinks the last drop of gall in the bitterest cup that is ever pressed to a woman's lips. % e DOROTHY DIX. | | )EAR MISS DIX: I have been married a little more than a year and find that when my husband and I have a spat I have to do all the making up | and apologize all over the place even when he is in fault. - Otherwise he pouts | and sulks. I am sick of always being the goat. What shall I do? MRS. T. J. Answer: Well, the easiest way out is to keep on being the goat. It will save time and wear and tear on your temper and nerves just to kiss and make | it up instead of fighting it out. | . After all, what does it matter? Every woman has to keep the peace, if it' kept, in the home, and let her husband blame his faults on phcr agd ()‘lpr;ld( ;l'!i responsible for his mistakes. The wise wife is she who lets him save his face | and who isn't too proud to say, “I'm sorry, let's make.up and | DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1928) Toy Autos Help Judge. KANSAS CITY (#).—Toy automobiles are used by Judge Ira S. Gardner in Police Court for re-enacting motor ac- cident scenes involved in cases he tries. “Can be sliced thinner than any bread I ever tried =’ N HUNDREDS of letters, Washington housewives have told us that they are as particular about the brand of their bread as theyareabout the make of their watches, their vacuum cleaners, or their washing machines. And all these Washington housewives say that they prefer Rice’s because it com- bines all the qualities they regard as most important. You can get Rice’s—fresh twice daily— at your grocer’s. MRS. ARTHUR BRYDE “Has the flavor of MRs. ‘ 2 SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. 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Too much work | and no play makes her as dull as Jack It also undermines her health, and makes her unattractive as a wife, and | deficient as a mother. The modest sum per week which a | matd would cost her might constitute an economy. It would afford her a chance to market and shop economi- cally Tt would enable her to develop herself so that she could make the home a happier and healthier place to lve. ] A wife that canno! mix socially is a liability to her husband and family. | Often his business success depends di- | abilities, and makes her profession her | make. | work. rather than her household. That | cial career or broaden his contacts | quite a large household to care for, | domestic responsibilities. A cup of brow al. = k layer of sugar-cured pof who finds a market for her talents or | rectly on the social contacts he can None can further a man’s so- woman's place we have contended is| more wisely and skilifully than his not necessarily in the home at all, and | wife. A wife chained to a house or an arbitrary position on the guestion | kitchen all day can do none of these is unfair to her. things. There is also the woman who has| Employ your time and your money where it will be most productive. If many mouths to feed, and a host of | saving money means sacrifici hings Such a wo-| of greater material value, obviously it man may find that a maid can actually | is pointless to “save” in that way. The save her dollars and cents. | woman who_discharges her maid may If she is burdened with a home which | be dismissing opportunity in the same would occupy all of her time durlng\brum. Think over the practical equiv- the day, when will she market, and |alents of money. Better Than Soap Do Your Week’s Wash With Annite NNITE washes your clothes ®ean and makes your task easier. Dissolve a level cupful in a tub of water—put your clothes to soak. Apply Annite directly on bad stains and spots. After sangmg a few minutes, with no rubbing on your part, the grease in your clothes is dissolved—the dirt is loosened and rolls off. Annite is more economical and better than soap. Annite will not injure fine fabrics. Use Annite to Wash Pots and Pans It’s the grease caking on pots and pans that makes them difficult to wash. And since Annite dissolves grease—it's the best wash- ing powder you can usc Even when your water get- cold Annite still dissolver orease. A teaspoonful i all you need. Use Annite sparingly— a little goes a long way At Department, Drug, and Grocery Stores See what goes into the bean pot / molasses su g’d E a layer of beans < - 1 dyer of SUg(ll'—C‘Jer po layer of beans “When I first cut into a loaf of Rice's Bread, I noticed how easy it was to slice without breaking, and also the fine, even, white texture. It is always baked thoroughly. ‘When toasted, it does not curl up; it retains its delicious flavor when several days old. Also Rice is the only baking company in this town grandmother’s bread” “Rice’s Bread is King of the Table. Its flavor and texture are the finest. After keeping three days it is still fresh. It can be sliced thinner, without falling to pieces, than any bread I ever sliced, making it ideal for toast The very same ingredients are used in BEAN HOLE BEANS and sandwiches. By slicing a loaf, buttering each slice, put- ting together, wrapping in origi- nal waxed paper and heating in oven I have delicious hot bread. It has the same flavor as the bread our mothers and grand- mothers made.” Mrs. Arthur Bryde 217ESt., S. E. that advertises the ingredients in its bread. “No ot her bread can equal it. I use no other kind. It's good.” Mrs. Harry H. Wilhelm 3821 Buscher St,, N. W. Now you can have beans just like those famous beans baked in the Maine woods lumber camps. Bean Hole Beans! They have that same“baked- in-the-ground” flavor. The very same ingredients that make the original Maine woods beans so delicious are used in Bean Hole Beans. One taste of Bean Hole Beans—and you’ll know that something new has been achieved in bringing to every- one this rare flavor which heretofore only a few have had a chance to enjoy! Give your family a surprise tonight for dinner. Give them Bean Hole Beans—they’ll love them! Your grocer has ‘them in two sizes, medium and large.