Evening Star Newspaper, November 8, 1928, Page 38

P 0o WOMAN'S PAGE.’ Small Articles and Moth Problem BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. ‘The most punctilious home-maker occasionally has the discouragement of finding a treasured bit of fur, a box of 118 THE TRIMMING MUST BE RID ‘WELL OF MOTH EGGS AS AS THE MOTHS THEMSELVES. trimmings or other small articles, easily overlooked, have not been given the moth proteetion bestowed upon a ward- | fants’ wear. | the wee bootees should be put over robe or household appointments, and that the damage so carefully guarded against elsewhere has been done here. fortune, large or small, and this minor tragedy is no exception. The very first | consideration is to prevent the de- | struction from increasing where it is, ling to other articles or garments now intact. To insure this it is necessary to destroy moth eggs and larvae. For this there is no better agent than tive method of rendering the eggs sterile and of killing the insects already developed, and has the advantage of beiirng within the reach of any house- wife. Today the emphasis laild upon the { extinction of moths in articles of no great size and an ingenious method has | been devised for doing it. This is by | means of a colander piaced over a | kettle of boiling water. Wool baby | things, cashmere trimmings, garni- tures, etc., are among the pieces of a size to be given a steam bath in such a receptacle. It is important to be sure that the colander is free from rust and is made | as clean as if new, so that no discol- oration will come from it. The heat under the kettle of water should be turned low after the water has reached the boiling point, so that there is no danger of its boiling away and expos- ing the materials to dry heat. It is |steam that destroys, while dry heat helps propagation. | When the articles are taken from the |steam bath, which should last until | every part of each article being proc- | essed is thoroughly permeated with the steam, they may need to be pressed. Trimmings should be ironed on a soft pad, the right side laid next to it so that the ironing is done on the wrong side. Place a piece of cloth over the article, for wool scorches quickly and should be so protected. Knit and crocheted articles, such as infants’ sacques, socks, etc., should be carefully spread out on pieces of white cloth, so that they dry in correct shape. Some of the articles dry best on the tiny hangers made expressly for in- If one has sock stretchers, them. Do not dry these articles too | rapidly nor in a cold draught, lest they shrink. ‘When the articles have been thus steam processed and dried they should be put away carefully, wrapped in pa- per, so that no moths can get at them. Various agents are used to drive away moths. Pepper is excellent is sprinkled over the articles, and especially put in the folds and creases. It is important to keep moths away once the destruc- tive creatures have been successfully eliminated. (Copyright, 1928.) The Daily Cross-Word Puzzle (Copyright, 1928.) 7 * Across, 1. Divide. L. 5. Lord. 10. Concealed. 11, Unit of germ plasm. 12. Openings. 13. Exist. 14. Parrot. 16. Hypothetical force. 18. Printer’s measure. 19. Tableland, Bone. . Rubs out. . Wear away. . Thus. . Irritable. 8. Seize. . Toward the top. . Weapon. . Of. . Manuscripts (abbr.), . Nickname. . At present. 47. Negative, 49. l"‘leglh . Accosts. Localities. Down. . Window blinds. . Pronoun. . Printed notice. . Toothed irregularity. . Note of the scale, . Worships. Toward. . Foot-like organ. . Endures. . International language. Ex;g]lsh racing town. . Obtain, . South African Assembly. . Intense, . Note of Guido's scale. Hymns. . Bite. Action helps in any matter of mis- | | and—equally important—from spread- | steam. It is an inexpensive and effec- | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, WHO REMEMBERS? BY DICK MANSFIELD. Registered U. S. Patent Office. { | | ‘When pound parties were popular with the youngsters and all those in- vited brought a pound of something or other? . Today in Washington History BY DONALD A. CRAIG. | November 8, 1864.—There is more | than usual interest in this city and throughout the Nation in the presi- | dential election being held today, be- | cause of the great importance of the | issues at stake. The Evening Star ex- | plains the main issue from the Repub- lican viewpoint, as follows: “Disguise the fact as politiclans may , for their own purposes, there is no| | denying that the fate of the Union| | depends upon today's vote. Shall our | | leaders in the cabinet and the field, | | whose sole purpose is the suppression { of the rebellion and who have so nearly completed the good work, be indorsed and sustained, or shall the reins of Government be given virtaully to those who are plotting not only a dishonor- able abandonment of the contest but who are scheming the disruption of the North into petty confederacies on the Jeff Davis plan? “That is the plain issue. Not that there are not patriotic men arrayed on the side of the opposition, but that in the event of the defeat of Mr. Lincoln and the election of Gen. McClellan the men of the Wood and Vallandigham stripe would be the ruling spirits and would dictate the policy of the admin- istration.” | It is declared by the adherents of President Lincoln that the effort to defeat him for re-election “is the last throw of the dice” with the Southern; Confederacy, and that “the imperative | necessity to the Confederacy of his defeat is shown by the desperate ef- forts” being made by friends of the| Confederacy in the North to elect Gen. | McClellan as President and turn out Abraham Lincoln. Although the residents of the Dis-| trict of Columbia have no vote in na- tional elections, they have been show- ing great interest in the present vital| campaign. Meetings have been held by the Republicans, who have formed themselves into Lincoln and Johnson | clubs, and by the Democrats, who have organized McClellan - for - President clubs. There have been torchlight pro- cessions and many public speeches. Lincoln and Johnson if they had the opportunity, for the Republican meet- ings and processions have been much more largely attended than those of the opposition. r_‘filacingi'he Blame | e A cow emerges from the weeds that grow along the right of way, and in her dippy style proceeds to cross the road before my dray. She shows no light, she honks no horn, she is inviting death and wreck; the traffic laws she laughs to scorn, and so she gets it in the neck. I hit her with my limousine, I smite her with my tin sedan, and she will never more, I ween, pursue her reck- less, foolish plan. The spotted cow was all to blame, but vainly do I tell my tale; the people cry at me “For shame! You ought to spend 12 years in jail. You reckless drivers carry doom, you fill the land with. maimed and halt, you send fair creatures to the tomb, and then insist you're not at fault. Oh, prithee look at this dead cow that lies | all mangled in her gore, then make a stern and solemn vow that vou will| drive a car no more.” “Oh, prithee look at my poor bus,” I say to them in an- guished tones. “It’s up to me to raise | a fuss, for I am out a hundred bones. The radiator’s rent in twain, the fen- ders smashed beyond repair; that cow has ‘ruined my old wain, and she is dead and doesn’t care.” But not a sym- | pathetic sigh is wasted on me in my woe; there drips no tear from any eye, <o of his “‘becauses | the process of hi D. C., THURSDAY, KEEPING MENTALLY FIT BY JOSEPH JASTROW. The “Why” Stage. T have a typical “why" boy, now nearly 0 years old—and. b he way. why are oys so decidedly more ' children than girls? He has been a boy _f or five vears, and he has a ‘o every statement of his know why?” Now, my not to the th|'| ebllfie to and I think I trace is mind by the improvement n his ‘“becauses”—in his own, he answers his own T’Jeltlnnl. ine that satisty the many more that don't. u 1 BBkt GEN Mot beeh nvessigatedr T'm stuck. as s MOTHER. y own, “Do_you question relates it the Reply. It has long been noted by child-psy- chologists that a keen test of a chi d‘l mind is his skill in handling “whys” and “becauses.” What reasons satisfy indicate the kind of reasoning of which you are clp:!:)‘lie. Jt':fljus'. .il tn;: of the adult mind. Until recently, how- ever, there was no special investiga- tion of children's “becauses;” now there's a whole book about it and an institute in Geneva, Switzerland, for the special study of the child’s mind. One of their methods of collecting specimens of children’s reasoning is to have a stenographer follow a child for several hours each day and take down everything the child says, both in play- ing and talking to itself and other children and in reply to questions asked by its elders. That’s not an easy job; and only by patient examination of these shorthand notebooks can one get a motion picture of a child's growing mind. Intelligent mothers with a flair for psychology are really interested in the details of how the child grows; others are content to say, “Johnny is getting smarter and smarter every day.” I hope you can get up a special interest long enough to be interested in the answer to this rather special question, becaus it may help you to a little in- | sight into your own mind. Prof. Plaget, who made these in- vestigations, found that little children are interested only in themselves. Each has a little circle of interest. and he stands in the center of it. in the company of another. age on they begin to play one with the other, and converse; for what one says the other now replies to. Yet still one mostly tells the other what he himself is doing. Do you recognize that trait in their elders? ‘Do you know | to talk more than ople who want &eg want to listen? The first type of “because” comes out | of that personal relation. It's a per- sonal ‘“because”—a motive; it tells why you do things. “Why did you come home?” “Because I was angry at Johnny” “Why?” “Because he wouldn’t let me play with his kitten.” The early stage of reasoning rates almost wholly in this field of per- sonal interest. And so when it thun- ders, “God is angry!” Al is precisely what occurs ni the childhood of the race. Primitive ples’ ex- planation of the wind and weather is all personal, and they invent gods and demons who act from motives like their own. Myth and fairy-tale pro- ceed on this plan. This shows a little of the second stage of “why” and “because,” which marks the really active “why” stage, when the boy becomes a walking and talking question-mark and tires out his elders because every “because” leads to a new “why.” He is now no longer so self-centered. He is interested in many other things, mainly things that he still plays with and controls, but many that represent his broadening world. So when he asks, “Why do boats float on the water?” he may be prompted to this “why” by his own experience with things that float and things that sink. He doesn't just accept the fact that in his bath the soap floats but the soap-dish sinks; he wants to know why. He knows that soap doesn’t do that because it feels gay. there’s a reason. The child has discovered a real cause, Villie Willis BY ROBERT QUILLEN. “I didn’t mean to hurt the old pillow. Me an’ Pug an’ Blotter-foot was playin’ policeman, an’ Pug needed it for a stomach.” (Copyrisht, 1928.) some little charity to show. The driver always is to blame, he evermore is in the wropg, when his old tumbril climbs | the trnlfe of any beast that drifts along. ' However cautious he may be, he'll have ! ‘When clh"- | dren at the age of 3 or 4 are play- | ing in the same room, they don't play | together; each just plays by himsell | From that | not a personal because. How far you can go in ‘explaining why things float is clearly a matter of maturity. But the need of an explanation marks the growth of mind. ‘There are a lot of arbitrary relations in this world which the child just accepts; but he accepts them with a little more insight year by year. “Why do I have to go to bed?” “Because it is dark.” “Why doesn't Tommy go to bed?” “Because Tommy is older.” But it it is Summer time, the “dark” won't serve as a “because”; and certainly there is little insight into these rela- tions of age and season. “Why can't you buy it today?” “Because it is Sun- day, and the shops are closed.” “Why are they closed?” You have your choice of answers. It's a game of patience, but through it all you catch the growth of the child’s mind. Besides the personal causes and the cause-and-effect causes, and the arbi- trary customary relations and sequences, there are the true logical causes—the two and two make four—and all sorts of mixtures, so that the child is soon out of his depth and asks more “whys” than he can understand “becauses.” And when you think of it, so do you. You stop when your experience stops, also; only you have a little more of it and so can measure the child's progress of his growing ability to share your world. But it'’s not an easy matter to trace this route, familiar as we are with its course. It's interesting to watch your child’s “whys” and “becauses,” and your own, (Copyright, 1928 MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDR:N. Shoe Lace Tips. One mother says: When my children were first learning to lace their shoes they had great diffi- culty because the tips came off so often, eveh when the lace was still quite new. ‘When this happens I dip the end of the string in glue, then roll it into a small point. When the glue dries you have a good tip that stays as long as the shoe- string lasts. (Copyright, 1928.) . The Swedish match monopoly con- trols the match industry of more than 40 countries. N 8. 148 J=3. OVEMBER 8§, 1 mefIYIER, U. & PAT. OFY. \ D 7 il L 5 722 1) WY QL2 & The STYLE POST is the marekr on the road to being smart. Fabric Scarfs. A bright spot is a smart spot on the street costume of neutral color. Scarfs inaugurated by the couturiers are approved by chic women. This soft, many-colored woolen one of Rodier fabric, with its chevron weave and two vivid stripes, ties in ascot fashion around the neck to complere the chic of a street dress or a furless coat. It serves the purpose, too, of prolonging the life of the rather lightweight Fall or Winter coat. (Copyright, 1923.) AUTUMN BY D. C. PEATTIE. There are some people without the| remotest sense of direction. They never | see even the regions in which they| | of their lives which is Cnite and which | is the Mason and Dixon line, and that | | those to whom Autumn and the end have long lived as a map. They know where to go by experience, but they lack all intuition of a gaagraph\cal‘l cort. They are uncertain to the end| is Argentina, think that the Potomac | Denmark is near the Arctic Circle, I| wonder if they are not the same as| of all the season’s glory is an annual death, a blight descended upon the| e Personally I love to think of | Autumn_in its astronomical aspect, even if I really do not know anything about astronomy. ‘We learn in school, but often forget again, that Autumn is a leaning of the sphere of earth so that the North Pole tips away from the sun and our sector of the sphere revolves through a short| day and a long night. To this is due| § the color in the leaves, the sparkle in the air, the heap of nuts in the squir- rel's hollow tree, the flutter of flags, it you will, around the foot ball grandstands. Actually, if I mistake not, the earth is a little nearer to the sun than in Summer, for the ellipse of its path is not regular. But the tilting away of our Northern Hemisphere more than neutralizes this, and we go spin- ning on through space, with the ice- cap at the Pole broadening daily to the eyes that watch us through the tele- scopes on Mars. :/a small hand brush, FEATURES, Throat Treatments. At the first sign of crepey throat, a throat, that is, where the skin has puckered up into a series of criss-cross {lines, a treatment of nourishing cream |once a week should be made a habit. | Fortunately, the throat Is very easy to treat, so easy that there is never any | excuse for a middle-aged appearance. | Lanoline cold cream is the most nourishing type of massage cream. To | make it, take three ounces of lard, the pure white fresh lard which any fid |butcher sells, and one and one-half ounces of lanoline. These should be | melted until the lanoline has just | blended with the lard. Nine ounces of | rose water should be heated until tepid, |and a level teaspoonful of tincture of | benzoin added. Then the rose water is poured slowly into the melted fats, the | whole is stirred until it begins to cool, |and then it is poured off into a jar. | . This is very nourishing, since lano- line is quite exceptional as a flesh | builder. The benzoin is strongly astrin- | gent and I have put in quite a bit of it because I want this cream to draw up the lax muscles and at the sam | time to nourish the skin. ‘The best way to apply it is to scrub | the neck first with hot water, soap and rinse with hot | water and then take a generous amourt |of the cream and rub it all over the throat. Rub and rub, and never mind special massage motions. 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