Evening Star Newspaper, December 26, 1928, Page 28

28 Giving Pleasure WOMAN’S PAGE.' With the Cards BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. Save your Christmas cards. Let them do another pleasant task, now that they have carried their messages of good cheer to you and those in your household. Do not throw them away, nor cast them into the open fire, for only part of the happiness that is in their power has been given already. They can brighten the lives of others less fortunate than yourselves. There are little sick children in hospitals who cannot handle heavy articles, | . . b 12-2 GATHER THE CARDS CAREFULLY, FOR THEY CAN GIVE MUCH PLEASURE. whose frail wee hands will eagérly gras) the light cards, and whose faces wi lose something of the lines of pain and sorrow, just by looking at thg pictures. There are children and aduits in re- mote regions of Southern and Western mountain_ranges, in isolated hamlets | put the cards in. | and tie up the open end securely. ‘Then see the vast array of cards that surfeit those who live in big cities. Cards are treasured by them. It is easy to imag- ine the pleasure to be had from a pack- age, though not feceived on a holiday. In far distant countries, where mis- | slonaries work and where teachers, doctors and nurses spend their lives in helping the uneniightened and the ill, | cards are a luxury. They are treasures. |We can have no conception of the | eagerness with which even one card is weicome by some little child who has never seen’ such gorgeous pictures, or by the weary woman who has little of brightness in her life. ; To all who would lend a helping hand Christmas and other holiday cards, let me suggest ways and means. Find out from the nearest hospital, especially a | children’s hospital, if it would like your erray of cards. This is local work, and | others may already have assured the staff of plenty. If so, turn to some other avenue. Get in touch with the missionary so- cieties, both home and ‘oreign, that ! belong to your church and get addresses from them. It will be strange, indeed, if they do not welcome your kindly | offer with a list of many places. Other avenues through which you can get in touch with persons wanting just the very things you have to give are { the Salvation Army, the Volunteers of America and the Associated Charities. All can enter into this work without any cost except postage and without any labor except that of doing up the parcels. If the cards, picture postals, | discarded baoks, etc., are not delivered | in person, they must Yave secure wrap- pings and be marked “old cards,” if that is what they are. One end of the package must be left unsealed for postal inspection of the contents, if it chooses to make such inspection. Cards, etc., sent to foreign ports or to far-distant home towns should be wrapped in cloth. An old salt bag is just the thing to Wash it well first wrap in stout brown paper and tie up as any parcel to be mailed. Some persons keep their carlls until another holiday is nearing before send- ing them out on their friendly journey. It may be mentioned that writing when sent to foreign countries is almost as interesting to the recipients as the pic- tures themselves. Here we find interest in Japanese, Chinese script, etc. What the messages are is unimportant; it is the writing that is intriguing. (Copyright, 1928.) DAILY DIET RECIPE LETTUCE SOUP. Shredded outer leaves of lettuce, 3 cups Milk, 3 cups Butter melted, 2 tablespoons Flour, 2 tablespoons ’ Grated onion, 1 teaspoon Salt, 12 teaspoon. SERVES 4 PORTIONS. Cook lettuce leaves and milk oin top of a double boiler for 20 minutes. Then press through a sieve, forcing through as much lettuce pulp as possible. To melted butter add flour, grated onion and salt. Blend this well and add to lettuce-milk mixture. Stir and cook 6 to 10 minutes and serve soup hot, DIET NOE. Recipe furnishes protein, lime, iron and vitamins A and B. Can be given to children of 4 and over. Can be eaten by normal scattered here and there over our plains and outlying sections of country, and these people cannot get to stores, to The Daily Cros adults of average, over or under weight. s Word Puzzle (Copyright, 1928.) . dEEEER Across. . Drink of water taken after liquor. . Ancient Persian governor. . Exist. . Shrimplike crustaceans. . Famous essayist’s pen name. . Japanese cry of triumph. . Cooks. . Exist. . Conditional bond. Sea ducks. Variety of whale. Close up. . Regarding. 30, Nuzzling { . Pertaining to South American | mountains, 1 . Tropical fruit. Refuge. Landed. Confer. . Yoke oxen; South Africa. 3. Preposition. e . Store in a silo. . Semi-circular church projection. . Sheen. . Soft drinks, . Preposition. . Establish. War horse. . Sun-dried brick. Envoy. . Three-toed sloth. . Marks the same. . Made of aromatic wood. 66. Widgeon. Chant. Part of the body. Supzose. ¥ . Turned up and sewed the edge. ANSWER TO YESTERDAY'S PUZZLE . Hamper. . Fowl. . Convulsions. . Man’s name. . Sun god. . Precipitates ice flakes. . Man’s name. . Twice narrated. . Too. . Mixed type. . Degraded. . Injuries. 5. Agrecment. . Ciphers. | Restricts supply of. 22. Makes again. . Educates. . Comes into. . Merited. . Smoothed. . Pass. . Teem. . Lubricating. . Ring for reins on harness pad. . Severed. . Devices for fishing lines, . Coldest. . Finale. 9. Ale mugs. . Deem. . Solitary. Having auricular appendages. Poems. . Skin affliction. . Man’s nickname, 5. Beverage. . Mother. .. Exclamation. Baked Liver Delicious. Use a thick piece of beef liver weigh- ing one and one-half pounds, soak for several hours or overnight in one cupful of sour milk or cream or buttermilk, cut the liver on the thick side to make a pocket, and in this pocket put two apples sliced, half a cupful of raisins, three tablespoonfuls of butter arranged | in dots and some salt. Sew the liver to- gether, make cuts on the top surface and fill the cavities this makes with pieces of bacon held in place by tooth- picks. Dredge the cavities with flour before adding the bacon. Place in a baking dish and add half a cupful of water. about two hours. Baste frequently. When cooked, place the liver on a pla ter, thicken the drippings in the pan, add the cream or milk and salt and Dpepper and urvl with the meat, in this pleasant work of distributing | Bake in a moderate oven for | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, CHANGING SHIFTS. (o) jfi& | LITTLE BOY NEW VE The Sidewalks Something for nothing! Secretly, we .|may subscribe to the idea, but it sel- dom works out. Even the gambler does not win unless he is willing to hazard a loss. We know a real estate man who ran a shoestring into a fabulous for- tune. In the accomplishment he lost sleep and money before the dawn of at- tainment. There is, unfortunately. in this country a craft of designing folks who seek their pound of gold without exchanging a gram of honest effort. Washington, like all large municipali- ties has its fair share of poor people deserving of the charity of citizens. It also has its beggars who prey upon the sympathy of the susceptible. During the week prior to Christmas they were in evidence at front and back doors and in the downtown streets. It was a mat- ter of fine discrimination to decide whether the supplicant was worthy or not. The ancient bromide about “it's the principle of the thing” has its mod- ern application. Few persons wish to be regarded as “‘suckers.” Today we are famillar with the professional vagrant, the man or woman who ‘“gyps” the public by one means or another. Some- times it is not the professional who engages in the ne- farious business. Once in a while it is the opportunist who tries to cash in. A traveling man told us reently of the activities of one of the latter class, A train thronged | with passengers P4 was wrecked and many of them in- Jjured and killed, Just as the acci- dent occurred a man was driving along & road paralleling the track. Leaping from his car he hastened to the scene, picked up a piece of window glass with which he cut his face and ripped his clothing. After having dis- figured himself to his satisfaction he found a place on the ground where he waited $he resc squad. When the doctors and nurseS arrived on the scene they liftéd him tenderly and placed him in an ambulance and he was removed to a hospital. Through his “clever- ness” he conirived to gouge the rail- road company for something like $4,000. As is usual with his ilk he couldn't keep his secret and started to boast about how he had trimmed the company. It reached official ears and he found him- self in, the meshes of the law. Boast: ing has sent many crooks to the cooler. * kK K A gentleman of our acquaintance was sitting in the rear car of a train. Go- ing around a curve the last two cars were derailed and plunged over the track. There were minor injuries to many, and one man was Killed. A few HE WAITED THE RESCUE | SQuAD- Don’t Be Afraid to Go Into Debt. It has been truthfully said that noth- ing stimulates our ambition to save more than going into deb:. This para- doxical statement is easily explained. When a woman spenGs as she earns, and needs nothing, she may begin to think that her course is satisfactory. ‘When the time comes that sources are not enough and she must borrow on the future, saving is seen in a more fa- vorable light. Every business i8 in debt, but it is honest debt. Women may go into the same kind of debt. For example, one young business woman has explained how she bor- rows money to buy gilt-edge securities. ‘When one loan is paid up, she borrows again to buy more. Thus she is always in debt, but it is sensible debt, because of its beneficial effect. Others put themselves in debt to an insurance policy, so to speak, and find themselves forced to save to meet their obligations. This is a form of com- pulsory saving, so called, and a right good means of going into debt. It is now possible for the small bor- rower to go to her bank to borrow modest sums to meet emergency needs such as doctor bills. She is no longer fair prey for the loan shark. These loans are highly commendable, making possible health and comfort otherwise denied one. Debts contracted in the cause of health, comfort or happiness may soon BY THORNTON FISHER. BY MARY ELIZABETH ALLEN. of Washington days later a representative of the rail- road company called on our -friend seeking a release. He explained that a number of the passengers had been injured worse than our friend. BSald friend began to pat himself on the back. He wasn't a gold-digger. The result was he accepted $25 and signed the company's release. He was too honest to take what he might have demanded. 0 Legitimate accidents happen frequent- ly, but occasionally they are manu- factured. Some time ago a person in this city began the practice of “Iall- ing” from the steps of a moving trolley. The first time he collected, if we are reliably informed, but in the second instance he wasn't so successful. He overlooked the simpe fact that records are kept of just such incidents. & XK There used to be a chap who was a professional tear-jerker. He waxed fat and prosperous on the change tossed to him by gullible witnesses of his act. He was known as a ‘‘crust-snatcher,” He changed his territory often enough to avoid pla; m%nberore the same spec- tators. His business consisted of carry- ing a stage property about with him in the shape of a dried crust of bread which he would in some mysterious fashion throw on the sidewalk. When he was sure that enough people were observing he hobbled to the crust and began knawing it with avidity. The pathetic sight of a man so hungry that he was reduced to picking food from the pavement usually moved most of the passer-by to drop a coin in his hand. An alert plain clothes man saw him perform the trick once too often and he was taker:( in custody. * K ok ok Novelists and playwrights have por- trayed detectives as wearing derby hats, slung on‘the port or starboard side of the head, and nursing a dry cigar. Moreover, they are supposed to be “tough” 100k ing birds, inclined to corpulent dimen- slons. Not to shat- ter the illusion, let us remark that most of this is “baloney.” Walking down G street the other day we pass- ed one of Wash- ington’s best known aun un- popular sleuths, so | far as crooks are concerned. He wore a snappy turned-down gray soft hat, a suit and overcoat of recent, fashionable design and spats protected his shoes. He might have been a member of any pro- fesslon other than sleuthing. We will not mention his name, but to give you a tip he is one of the officials of the homicide bureau. be paid off by the ambitions woman. Debt that increases our desire to save, to accumulate or to add to our earnings is “good business.” It is a fine stimu- lus and an excellent means of keeping our nose to the grindstone and of ac- quiring for us tangible rewards. It is never wise, economical or justi- flable to go into debt for extravagance, or to go into debt beyond our depth. Debts, like anything else, may be over- done. But don’t be afraid to go into debt if the cause is just and honest. @] DEUIVERED OVEN-FResy TWiCE - DAILY T0 YOUR DEALER: BY DICK MANSFIELD. Registered U. 8. Patent Office, When waterleeches were applied to black eyes, and almost every young blood of the city was treated by the family physician? SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. I been actin’ sg ladylike lately, on account ob Christmas comin’, I don't know can I take a‘bellywhacker or not? (Copyright, 1928.) PORE CREAM —a greaseless, delicately scented cream thatnormalizes enlarged pores and refines the coarsest skin. Apply to affected pacts aftes sent Lotion. $2.50 a jar. And for every skin, M-R-Basic Treatment. Booklet free. |l Marjorie Rambeau Products £03 Filth Ave NCW YORK Philedaphie Obtaineble at Peoples Drug Store, Royal, 8. Kann Sons i C d r selected drug and de- cai partment stores. D. C, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1928 MOVIES AND MOVIE PEOPLE BY MOLLIE MERRICK. HOLLYWOOD, Calif., December 26. Some former stage directors are begin- ning to learn what a tyrant habit can be. Talkies have revealed to them that they have been accustomed to walk noisily up and down, rap the floor with their canes, jingle coin, whistle softly through their teeth and perform any number of like tricks while rehearsals were in progress. It you've been used to tapping with your cane, as Bob Milton has, imagine your embarrassment when you try to direct without said cane. If you tap it, the villainous mike will pick up the tap and drop the voices, so the result will sound like a brisk dialogue over ma- chine-gun fire. In a recent all-talkie film the tech- nical staff tried lovely new sound ef- fects. When the lady in a fiery emo- tional moment dashed to her desk and began to scribble off a note some tech- niclan got the idea it would be clever to slip a microphone in the drawer of the desk so the audience would get the sound of the pen tearing across the paper and the state of the lady's emo- tion thus be deftly defined. The night of the premiere, as one of the head executives came out of the theater he was greeted by the chief of a rival firm. “That’s a great talkie you have there, old chap,” he said. “Say, where do you buy those steam pens, anyway?” Emil Jannings will be seen next in an Alpine story, it seems. Jack Bar- rymore has just finished making one. The sun, it seems, never was hotter than on these December days, and the fieids about Hollywood as heavy with the salt and marble dust of the Alpine villages. Hollywood does its stage setting on a large scale. If it has a scene which calls for a winding road heavy with DIET AND HEALTH BY LULU HUNT PETERS, M. D. Free Clinics. I am a girl of 23. When I go out on chilly, demp days my fingers become withered at the tips. The fourth finger on each hand becomes lifeless, white and stiff. As I am unable to pay for professional services I would greztly ap- preciate it if you will help me on th}{:. Dear M., there is no need of going without professional services nowadays, simply because you cannot pay for them. If you don’t know any physi- cian who will treat you and let you pay when you can, then you should go o a free clinic. From your description, you may have what is known as Raynaud's disease. While this disease is rare, I have had several requests to write on it, so I will give you a little data. Raynaud's disease is defined as an instability of the vaso-motor nervas (vas: vessel; motor: movement), char- acterized by lccal anemia, then venus blood stagnation. If this is very severe and of long enough duration, gangrene may appear. These phenomena may come in different portions of the body — fingers, toes, ears, nose. Sometimes they appear apparently without any cb- vious cause and at other times they come in response to a degree of col that would never cause such_disturb- ance in a normal person. Raynaud, THE DAILY HOROSCOPE Thursday, December 27. Although two adverse aspects are seen in the day's horoscope, the dominant aspects are benefic, according to astrology. Under this sway it is important to exercise tact, especially where social engagements are concerned, for women may be easily offended. This is not an auspicious rule for business transactions of importance. It is better for closing what belongs to the t. p"‘i’he sway should be invigorating and should be auspicious for routine work in the home as well as the shop or office. Newspapers should benefit, for there will be extraordinary interest in them at this time and advertising will be heavy, despite the post-holiday condi- tions. Small deceptions may be prevalent under this direction of the stars, which inclines both men and women to crave approbation, It is not a favorable day for entering into engagements to marry, for the con- tract may be easily broken while this configuration has influence. Women are warned to beware of .| speculation at this time when they will have many temptations to invest Christ- mas money. The rule also is supposed to incite small social rivalries and enmities that are unfortunate in small communities. Business and professional women have the augury of a year of real progress. Among them many will gain fame and several will rise as able financiers. ‘Travel will continue to be more com- mon among all classes of persons than ever before and in favorable climates there will be a gain in the number of airplane passengers, astrologers predict. Persons whose birth date it is probably will gain much in the coming year, which seems to promise much prosper- ity and many benefits. Children born on that day probably will have very definite talents. Mathe- maticians are born under this sign, which makes for material success. The subjects of Capricorn are efficient in serving humanity and adapted to the carrying out of ambitious projects. (Copyright. 1928.) d|on a deficlent diet which may have FEATURES." snow it sends a corps of studio men up to the hills, chooses its site and goes to work making the boughs of the | i:lne trees heavy with a snow mixture. | t 1s nothing to lay movie snow on a | three or four acre tract. One man,| walking through such a set, said he| actually got chilblains. When they're not making movies their minds are wandering in a_movie groove most of the time. Buddy Rogers has a cellulold album of famous movie- ites. He has a small movie camera and | at various times has snapped many of | the village folk in their hours of ease. Clara Bow is another amateur movie fan, operating her own small camera. Bebe Daniels has had a longing to direct pictures for some time now, and has stus this end of the business closely. John Gilbert wants to direct, but the chances are against him while his S. A. is so popular with the box office. Dick Barthelmess is another would- be director who is tired of the haunting eye of the camera and would like to turn it on some other victim. Lionel Barrymore is directing, and successfully, too. He has managed to make the best talkies, the best silents, the best directed talkles (one hears), and when he was on the legitimate stage there were some magnificent per- formances to his credit. There must | be something in this thing called talent, after all. e | Local beauty parlors thrive. The con- | tagion of good grooming and the pres- ence of much youth and beauty are| responsible. But when middle-aged | ladies emulate the great Garbo by cut- | ting the hair in a long, lanky bob and | then thrusting it negligently behind one ear, it's just too much. (Copyright, 1928, by North American ‘Newspaper Alliance.) who first described the disease, believed that in these patients there was an ab- | normal, excitability of the nerves con-| trolli the small blood vessels and this | caused them to contract in spasms, so cutting off the blood supply. It is not known what causes this abnormal ex- | citability, but evidently it is something | that has disturbed the nerves pro-| foundly. ‘The local treatment in the beginning is massage, electric treatments, baking and in general measures to improve the circulation. All of the measures to maintain normal health, particularly a balanced diet, and some vigorous ex- ercises every day are important. Now, Miss M., don't neglect yourself. Find some physician or friend who will take you in hand. You are young and no doubt can be cured. T.—Constant gas in the intestines and stomach, to the uncomfortable de- gree, is not always due to wrong diet, but it may bz due to some diseased condition of the intestines, or it may be reflex from some diseased conditivn | elsewhere. Yes, have an examination by a com- petent physician to find out the canse of your trouble, T. You say you belong to the T. T, T. (Too-Too-Thins), so it may be possible that you have long been caused the diseased condition in the in- testinal tract or elsewhere. Everyday Psychology BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. Masculinity vs. Femininity. According to some recent psycholo-i gists, all individual differences go baci: | ultimately to sex differences—male and | female. Bome think that these two Home in Good Taste BY SARA HILAND. There is something so dainty and charming about a small dressing table in front of a window it seems as if the draped setting were made especially for it. In the uiustration is shown a dress- ing table which would appear very ordi- nary if just placed against the wall, but placed in the position showa & takes on an air of elaborateness. This may be accomplished with very inexpensive and simple furnishings. The dressing table may be just an ordi- nary rectangular table and the mirror a scparate one made for this purpose. Old picture frames are often fitted with mirror glass and used in this way. For the window treatment no glass curtains are necessary, for the treat- ment is one which has the appearance of glass curtains and overdraj '§—Oor at least takes the place of both. The woodwork is ivory, the walls treated with an ivory ground paper, with conventional design in light rose, and the curtains are of white voile, with a rose crossbar trimmed with frills of rose organdy and hung from beneath a rose-shaped valance of paint- ed board outlined in ivory. The dressing table is finished in ivory trimmed with rose and the candle- sticks are light green, with rose candles. The chair and bench are finished in light green. (Copyright, 1928.) Today in Washington History BY DONALD A. CRAIG. December 26, 1864.—Today the festivi- ties usual to Christmas, which fell this year on Sunday, were celebrated with due effectiveness everywhere in the city, notwithstanding the streets and avenues were merged in mud and the day was kept moist by drizzling rain. None seemed to enter more into the spirit of the occasion than the many soldier patients at the Army hospitals in and around the city. In nearly every hospital extensive arrangements were made for feasts, musical entertain- ments, fireworks and theatrical exhibi- | tions, while in most of them impressive | devotiona] exercises were held yesterday | and today. Soven hundred patients at Campbell Hospital sat down at 2 o'clock this afterncon to a table laden with turkeys, vegetables, sauces, preserves, jellies and multitudes of other eatables, to which they did ample justice. Similar exten- | sive feasts were held today or yesterday | in Stanton, Pinley, Mount Pleasant, Douglass, Stone, Emory and Lincoln Hospitals. More than 200 men were treated to a Christmas feast this after- noon at the Marine Barracks on Eighth street southeast. To the usual cheerfulness of the holi- day season was added the good news, made public by the War Depariment to- day, that official confirmation has been re! ed of the reported capcure of Sa- vannah, Ga., by the Union Army under irreducible principles and their manv | seeondary characteristics are inherited. | Others say they are acquired. But these sex differences do exist regardless of opinions about their origin. Some men are more feminine than others; some women, more mascu- line than others. The line of demarca- tion between femininity and mascu- linity is not so closely drawn as it was once supposed to be. Moreover, the traits are not as easily recognized as some people imagine. i ‘The outstanding masculine traits are: A tendency to spend money freely, to | go! gamble, to be aggressive, impaticnt, self- centered. The male can't stand much pain, devotes a lot of time to thinking, breaks easily under misfortune, tells his troubles freely, wants everything he sees, loves to be a party to conquest d boasts about his adventures and achievements, is noted for his vanity. Picture, if you can, these same traits in terms of femininity. A woman is not a spendthrift, takes no chances, does not gamble, is non-aggressive, always patient, never self-centered. A woman can stand a lot of pain, does little or no thinking, can stand. a lot of misfortune, keeps her troubles to herself, does not want “everything she sees,” doesn’t care to be a party to a conquest, is reticent about her conquests and achievements, is not given to vanity. Of course, these are pure traits be- longing to the male and female re- spectively as such. Whenever you find exceptions, you find an overlapping of masculinity and femininity. Rate yourself on these 13 points, al- lowing a value of 10 units for each as a perfect score. If your total is less than 100 points, your may conclude that either by nature or by nurture you are 80 much less a male or a female. (Copyright, 1928.) Gen. Sherman. In a telegram to Presi- dent Lincoln, Gen. Sherman presented the city of Savannah and a large | amount of captured war material to the | Government “a2s a Christmas gift.” | The good news was transmitted here | through Gen. Grant’s headquarters near Richmond, Sherman entered Savannah on the morning of December 21. About 15,000 Confederates, under Gen. Hardee, es- caped from the city the afternoon and night before, after blowing up the iron- clads in the navy yard. The Confeder- ates who escaped comprised tihe main body of their infantry and light artil- lery located at that point. No word has been received as to where Hardee has ne. Lizht hundred Confederate prisoners were captured by Sherman, and alco 150 guns, 13 locomotives in good order, 190 railroad cars, with a large supply of amm n and war material. Three steamers and 33,000 bales of cotton were also taken. W TR Rice-Shrimp Sauce. Boil one cupful of rice until tender and flaky. Mix lightly, while still hot, with three tablespoonfuls of butter, half a cupful of cream and the slightly beat- en yolks of two eggs. Pour into an oiled mold and bake in a pan of boiling water in a moderate oven, or for about 20 minutes until firm. Meanwhile, cook three tablespoonfuls of butter with three tablespoonfuls of flour and half a tea- spoonful of salt vntil frothy. Add two cupfuls of rich milk slowly and stir until thick. -Mix with two cupfuls of cooked shrimps and one cupful of grated Parmesan cheese and let stand over boiling water until well heated. When ready to serve, pour over the rice turned out on a platter. PORSROTEY A new style of Deauville sandal being produced in Czechoslovakia is an oxford, laced in front and having a flat leather sole. Those Who Know don’t waste time experimenting. They use Rumford Baking Powder for all baking. 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