Evening Star Newspaper, January 1, 1929, Page 32

wWoM Success for the Coming Year BY LYDIA LE “Happy N'w Year that greet the ear ti express a genuine and "The spirit of hay each person wanis hopes with all thos tact with Even when lightly t have back of tF FHAPPY NEW YEAR.” WORDS THE _HOSTESS EX- | { CLAIMS ON GREETING GUESTS | TODAY. Tt would be difficult pleasing phrase for ing In order to foster the idea of hapj ness voiced in the greeting and pressed in diverse ways on Ne cards it is a good plan to consii tical aspects of it. For i can a_home-maker run that finances will not come herself and happiness and mar the hap of the man of the house and t to find a New ting a busir which is something that every goes into once a year at least. of the house will verify this. h | the thought of happi to inspire, | look ahead and see if some adjustments can be made to resi piness. Some women find making a budget the one satisfactory ‘Bw there are thousands of other home- makers who are opposed to minute budgeting, believing that this puts t mechanical an aspect on home-making. Apart from yept or interest on su vested in a house (plus some ad sum in the last instance to pairs and upkeep), and those major | amounts thai are fixed elements in household managment, these women | choose to estimate in proportion of in- comes rather than in specific terms of | BARON WALKER. as in the detailed et system. ce the happiness of a home ‘must e more or less involved to clear the way e scheme of adjust ent. The rei New Y premotes e n of a happy d r any home to put It is one facto: BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. The New Year. dred and t oday—the iry! the standpoint of {ch on the s such it Nineteen hu in order— th t alone, con= , persistent, dncflv‘d‘ conduct. ¥ notherhood of the mind ns are made, in the first od out. Therefore, household gods to them daly: slightest ten- foeal point of if th v ip out of th ve had vour silent com- our resolutions tell your A publ virtue th about them. makes a For who is not W thers think and say of him? Get your resolutions before your fellows if you would m: vear's scrapheap of exploded T ns smaller than out of If you can't give your resolutions a rominent place in your mind. and if t tell them to your neighbors, olve not to resolve, for any sort | of defeat strengthens the habit of be- | ing defcated. Cherry Gelatin. re the gelatin as directed on the package. Turn into a melon shape or round mold, and when it begins to con- add a cupful of canned green cherrics w thoir syrup, being careful to distribute them through the entire mixture. When | ready to serve, dip th2 mold in warm or and turn the jelly out onto a Place around the molded jelly r of whipped cream and garnish with red and green canned cherries. Pineapple Mint Sauce. Drain one cupful of crushed pineapple and put through a food chopper unless it is in very small pieces. Pack into a cup, adding enough of the sirup to fill the cup. Put one cupful of sugar with it in a saucepan and color a brilliant green. Add three-fourths cupful of water and simmer for 10 minutes.and cool, then add six drops of oil of pep- permint and chill. This makes almost one pint and it may be kept for some time in a cool place. Serve on ice cream or use to fiavor ginger ale or lemonade. The Daily Cross Word Puzzle (Copyright, 1929.) . Stuff. . Soften. . Remains. Pits . Profit. . Active, . Devote. . Crude person. . Limited Dance step. Studies Small surface. Damage, . Sheep. Meastred. Ins . Wearied From here. 5. Craz ERDAY'S PU FCAMER TAI PI NG CETATE S HY WNSWER TO YE SCARAB ALVAGE PER S . Inclined. . Annoy. Fat Cast a spell over, Twisted cord. Mountair lendc:, ead. ance for wel Strong wind, Harmonize, Irish, Label. of | | is fur-| cation | afraid of | rich have been drained from | TH% EVENING call this youngster he doesn’t know what | | ‘Happy' | he's up against Sopyright, 1029.) 8 ning Feature i d s nsation Act? | al Co duties were to ta located on a platform | md floor of the breaker in connection with ! tional Co re ch one day the picker boss | signal for the machinery to Immediately afterward he heard and on running to the bottom . he found Watson's body caught in of the pony rolls. His feet sed through the gears | and he sustained serious injuries. A claim for workmen's compensation was applied for and when it was ar- | gued in court, it was disallowed. It was the judge's contention that Watson had no right to be near the pony rolls as he had been employed only to at- tend the spiral picker. Therefore, the court argued, the injury did not arise out of Watson's individual emvloyment. But the Pennsylvania appellate court d the lower tribunal's decision wed Watson's claim for com- pensation, stating: “The Supreme Court of this State hes pointed out a number of times that vorkmen's compensation act dif- s from those of most other States in { that the injury to be compensable does inot have to arise out of the embloy- ment. It includes all injuries by an ccident if merely in the course of the rorker’s employment.” MOTBERS AND TREIR CHILDREN. Framing Handwork. | | | | | | One mother says: | “Competition is the spice of life” is | one of my mottoes which I used in| | raizing my three children. In order that | there may be more incentive for better handwork at school I purchased three cheap but neat picture frames, the size of school drawing paper. These we hung in the nursery. On Saturday we select the best piece of work from each child’s weekly collsction. and that re- mains in the frame until the following Saturday. This has proven a source of inspiration for better work. (Copyright. 1928.) SUB ROSA BY MIML Music at the Movies. The flattest thing in the world would be the “silent drama” if there were no musical accompaniment to the unrolling of the film. The music saves the screen from death. Here's the idea, folks. The human brain is so organized that the “see” part of it works better when the “hear” part is in operation at the same time. You can see a sign better and read what it says when the band is playing. Now you can begin to realize the importance of music at the movies and the saxophone at the screen. It's all for the sake of the eyes. If you want to draw a little lesson from this business of the brain, you can see that co-operation is one of the great things in human life! You are supposed | to co-operate with other people, but you ought to co-operate with yourself, eye with, ear, hand with foot, and one part of the bean with the other. 3 There are lots of people who don't got along well with themselves because they don't realize that they have to make one part of their selves link up with another. Even a sausage Xnows how to do that, for they come in links. Tr ihl, se.saze plan of linking part “s pary tnat makes for success. Take the great artist who paints, and you'll find that he does something with poetry ton. ‘Take the successful man of s, and youw'll see that he has other lines of activity besides the main one. If Uncle Henry Ford did nothing but make that 1i'l car, he'd not be the wow of a success that he is now. Mercy! He must have a 12-cylinder brain with all the cylinders going at the same time, How about you? You are doing your stunt daily in the store, bank, office, factory, kitchen. You ere not geiting thore with both feet maybe. Well, that may b2 because you're not using both fect. You are hopping on one when you ought to be running on two. Think of yourself as a centipede and you'll get along better. ;i You have a vocation—try to hitch up with an avocation. You are working one part of your brain, but thore are Sthers—other parts that are just itching to co-operate. Try a home-study course. You may not went to change your voca- tion, but the study will help you to pep up in the line of work you are doing. Get into some sort of social activity, for the very fact that you are working more than one line will be a help to vour main interest. Why do we always go to a busy person when we want somebody to act on a committee or do some special work? We don't go to people who have nothing else to do. It's just this principle of co-opera- tion, for the man or woman who is y busy can just as easily get cr. And so I say, “Co-operate!” I assume that you're already busy at comething, You must operate before u can co-operate. (Copyright. 1928 { you want to tell her your troubles. STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY, J. DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX What Constitutes Feminine Charm?—Shall Young Man Marry the Girl He Loves ar the Girl Who Loves Him? DIX: All my life T have heard about girls possessing “feminine What is feminine charm? In what docs it consist? Can it be ANXIOUS GIRL. IDEAR MIss charm.” acquired? Answer: Feminine charm is something that is almost as Intangible and difficult to describe as the bloom of a rose, or the perfume of a lily. In its essanze it is, perhaps, fomininity raised to its nth power, and it is the outward | and visible sign of every grace of heart and mind and person. It is hard to enumerats just the qualities that go to make up feminine | charm. Tooks are one of the ingredients. Not beauty necessarily, nor hard, cold, bold handsomeness, but the women who has feminine charm must be easy on the eyes and pleasant to look at. She must be exquisitely neat and dainty, and her clothes must be soft and lovely and womanly. A woman throws away all of her feminine charm when she puts on breeches and gets herself up in imitation of a man. Nor would you ever speak of any slovenly and sloppy weman as having feminine charm. Manners also go into the making of feminine charm. To have feminine charm a girl must be sweet and gentle and low-voiced and soft-spoken. - She | must be gracious and considerate of other people’s feelings. No woman who is rude, who says cutting and sarcastic things, who is loud-mouthed and quarrel- some, can ever be described as having feminine charm. The girl who has feminine charm must be sympathetic and understanding. She must be kind to all weak and helpless creatures. She must be kind to the old and tender to little children, and have that something about her that makes No hard-boiled girl who is cynical and disillusioned has any feminine charm No woman who can fight her weight in wildcats, and who is aggressive and trying to get the best for herself all the time, and who calls all babies brats, and thinks all old people should be sent to a home for the senile, has any feminine charm. The girl who has feminine charm is not necessarily better than her sister who lacks it. She is just different, and somehow more attractive, perhaps becausc. she is more resiful, and comes nearcr to our ideal of what a woman should be. Of course, feminine charm in its perfection is a gift, but an excellent synthetic brand may be made by any girl who will take the trouble to wear chiffons and fluffy ruffles, to cultivate a gentle and refined manner, and assume a helpless and clinging attitude toward men. DOROTHY DIX. LR I EAR MISS DIX: Tell me which a man should marry, the woman he loves or the woman who loves him? I have always wanted an exceptional girl and now I have tyo of them at once. One is exceedingly clever and desirable, and the other is exceedingly dumb. The first one admires my ambition, my wit and intelligence as well as my independence, but I have not the appeal for her that she has for me and at times she tramples upon e, while the one I cannot love grovels at my feet. One girl entertains me, the other bores me to sickness, but the way she fawns upon me, and the realness of her devotion soothe me. Iam 28 and feel the need of the steadying influence of a wife. I am going to marry one of these two girls soon. Which shall it be? H. E. W. Answer: T think you will be miserable with either girl, and I should certainly advise you to wait until you find the two-in-one young woman whom you will love and who will love you. Marriage is no place for half-portions or half-measures. NUARY 71, 1929.° 1 Willie Willis BY ROBERT QUILLEN. “I can’t never have nothin’. T traded the doctor’s boy nearly a whole all-day sucker for a tape worm in a bottle of | alcohol and mamma wouldn't let me | keep it.” (Copyright. 1929.) THE DAILY HOROSCOPE Wednesday, January 2. Astrologers read tomorrow as rather an uncertain day and for this reason there should be special caution in all | important matters. While there may be many opportu- nities for romance and couriship, the rule is one that is unlucky, and it is wise to avoid sentiment. sntertaining is subject to a sway making for formality and extravagance, The year will be marked by splendor in mode of living and hospitality More and more will social lines be drawn, the seers prophesy, with a stronger demarcation between classes. As the year begins. fertain discour- agements will be apparent for the intel- lectyals of the Nation, who will find small returns along many lines of ef- fort, but they are soon to be well re- warded. Aviation may have more or less of a setback, owing to interest of the Gov- ernment in the Navy and the Army, it is foretold, but a new leader is to as- sure great development of aerial navi- gation in 1929. Under this direction of the stars it may be especially easy to break many good resolutions, for the claim of self will be strong. 4 Both men and women may be irritable and difficult to deal with while this rule prevails. In the domestic circle friction should be avoided with peculiar determination. I FEATURES bbb bbb bbb bbb BY BARBARA WEBB dedebdob bl bbbk bbb bbb bbb MAN’S (Copyright, 1928, by Public Ledger.) o R L e R L S s o __(Continued from Yesterday's Star.) | ard laughed with her. But as he went B ~ | down the stairway he was smitten with lousy of these men who “made love her first acquaintanc A jeal- 1sy, too, which he had never felt with atter how madly she dirted. ing danrm'win»é‘l'(li. sweet, imple, beautiful. She needed protec- did not know she was (e, | {ion agamst the predatory male that She had no fear now that he would | hounded the fooisteps of attractive recognize her. She could not change | voung ladics of the theater. Richard her voice. or her features. She would | jelephoned her after ne reached his be careful to not speak French, for| cjup Would she take supper with that might betray her. After all, wh er the performance. should she fear he would recogn 2 her. He had never scen her in any- | rst of a series of daily thing other than her peasant dress. He o weeks Richard mo- had no 1dea that she could speak every momenit of her: spire English. He belicved she was in|time Anne was in France with her grandparents, and|paq a note from her lastly, that she possessed any great| g replied, putting off his coming with talent was a thing that had never en- | some vague bout business. Anne tered his mind. | did ne v until the end of No, her path was clear now. She |the second en Richard had would make her own husband fall in|not appeared. This was not according love with her. And when the time|to schedule. She resolved to go into came for revealing the truth she could | town. do so without fearing his disapproval.| Not 4 at his_club—he There was, of course, some danger that | was he called Bob his affair with Anne had gone farther | West than she knew. But Yvonne's intuition | “Th told her that Richard was too fine ‘o | Bob. 1 be delibe: unfaithful to his absent | fellow, ta wife. She was sure, too, that he had | “Sure no deep overpowering love for | around. Anne. | At the Amb She looked through her dresses.|in the lobby, Bob caught None of them suited her. She spent the | Dick escorting Yv morning shopping and long before tea | He caught Anne's time she was dressed. She had chos Chere goes your ¢ a two-piece dress of pale silver green. | Anne.” Its brief skirt was cleverly pleated so| “What do you mea: There was as to be both slim and full. Its blouse | genuine surprise in_Anne's voice. had a youthful neckline and brief| Bob looked at her in smazement. sleeves which showed Yvonne's beauti- | “Didn't you honestiy kncw that Dick fully shaped white arms. Around her |has been rushing that little cancer, neck hung the platinum chain with its | Mademoisclle, right'and left ever gince wedding ring out of sight in her bosom. | your party?” Her shoes and stockings were cham-| Anne controlled her featur pagne colored. She brushed her curls | effort. “Oh, that's nothing, until they stood like a fluffy halo know what these women are: around her head. Her image, smiling don't make any ke, and happy, satisfied her when she saw | Dick's not that kind. k it in the mirror. Richard could not|though he had caught the real thing help admiring her. | this time. The girl's never played any Richard had wakened that nornina | favorites before, either with a feeling of compunction. ~Af! Anne bit her lip. “Let's go in,” she all he had been rather rude to Anne | suggested. the night before considering the v All during tea she watched Dick as he had monopolized her time for three | closely as she could. He did not see months. He found himself looking for- | her hidden by a pillar. She could see L cda ibdbdb bbb bbb bbb INSTALLMENT XXV, VONNE woke the next morning with her pulse bounding. To- day, Richard. her own hu was coming to see h poli finding R ith Yvonne the day, , be a good right s An t and If you marry the girl whom you love better than she loves you, you will have an interesting but not a peeceful life. Jjealousies. It will have moments of ecstasy and of heartbreaks. | you always on vour tiptoes trying to win her. excitement of the chase that never ends. It will b> full of thril's and It will keep You will have the perpetual There will be no danger of your growing tired of her, or of domestic life ever palling upon you. If you are ambitious and want to make a success, marry her, for she will be a perpetual goad in your side. is in you, because you will She will inspire you to do the very best that ant to be laying tributes at her feet. there is a woman behind the door of every man's success. They say/ If there is, she is always a woman who does noi love overmuch, zlways a woman that he isn't certain of, and that he is trying to please. I have often observed that the wive what they do for them, and that they of rich men seldom seem to appreciate e the pearls and limousines that their husbands have worked so hard to give them with fewer thanks than many a woman gives for a bag of gumdrops. And 1 have thotght that it was the indifference of these women that spurred their husbands on to success. If you marry the dull woman who lavishes all of her devotion on you, will be so tired of her in a week that you will be ready to commit xulclge? g"‘(’)‘:‘ will her Jove be the poultice you seem to think it is for your hurt vanity and wounded heart. Nothing clse on earth is more distasteful to us than the devotion of those for whom we do not care. It is as nauseating as being fed up on a too-sweet pudding for which we have no relish. Your Dumb Dora will kill your ambition and be a millstone around your neck, because you will feel that there is no use in making an effort to please a wife Eha dofs;l,;t t“l:xant anything but you, anyway, ven af ere is no rush about marrying. So why not t you find the right one? 4% yD(‘J’Rg};‘H;’} (grl};‘.n‘“ EAR MISS DIX: I am a widower, 57 years old, very much in love with a widow whom I consider my ideal in every way, but she is 20 years younger than I am. Do you think that the difference in our respective ages would be a bar to our happiness if we married? Do you think that we would stand a better chance of getting along and being happy together if neither one of us had ever been married? A LONELY WIDOWER. ‘e oa e It is not a lucky day to seek employ- ment or even ask for an increase of salary. Digestive maladies are likely to be prevalent at this time when diet re- strictions will be difficult to remember, for the stars indicate much trouble with disorders. There is a sign supposed to induce a critical attitude ¢f mind. Christmas presents may be looked on with critical disdain while this configuration pre- vails. Bersons whose birth date it is have the augury of a year in which much pleasure may be expected. Journeys are indicated and so are love affairs. Discretion is counseled. Children born on that day may be unusually charming end attractive in personality. These subjects of Capri- corn are ofter artistic and able to ac- complish big things, but they must be taught financial wisdom. (Copyright. 1929.) AUNT HET BY ROBERT QUILLEN. Answer: At your respective ages the difference of 20 years between negligible and not to be considered. In fact, a woman of 37, who huy%‘;nx: through the experiences of wifehood and the sorrow all intents and purposes as old as a man of 57, It is madness for a woman to mnrr_v_n man 20 years younger than bs'.(*nuse women age so much more rapidly than men, but everything eh:ne;:f,l,l‘. suitable, there is no reason at all why a woman should not marry a man a score of years older than herself. In fact, it is a good choice, because then she is :L\;:oar}": hiié'n:!;g w[m'.[ nng shr-bdocs not have to martyrize herself counting her S Al eing tortured in beauty parlors trying to kee his eyes from straying to the fiappers. 2ol PITE A Tienat t(.‘/l'rta{)l‘ll(\' the fact that you have bot! you from being happy together. Of course, you will miss the romance and t| circling wings of young love, but, on the other hand, you will m.ped z:: quarrelings and misunderstandings and jealousies that torture the young. Widows and widowers have been through the school of matrimony and it h been married before will not keep of losing her husband, is to “It ain't very hard to alienate the affections of a wife that lets her hus- band get his own breakfast.” (Copyright, 1920.) ward with a calm delight to his call ¢n Mademoiselle Perreault. Strangely enough he could think of seeing her without the feeling that he was doing his wife an injustice, as though in their very resemblance he could admire Yvonne through the dancer. But Anne lay very heavily on his conscience this morning. He couldn’t know how much she had hoped for tie renewal of their former intimacy. He had been a fool, of course, for in the brief moment when Anne had clung to him he had known that he could never love her. He must make some kind of amends if possible. About noon he telephoned her. But that astute young lady had left for the country. She had no mind to let Rich- ard ease his conscience by apologizing to her or otherwise explaining his that he was decply absorbed in his | companion. She grew uneasy. It ap- parently was high time she called him back to her side. And she did not doubt her power to do so for an in- | stant. It was to this end she left a mes- | sage for him at the club. “In town for | the cvening and expecting you for din- | ner at the Ambassador, Anne.” | True to her expectations, he called her a little after 6. ick, you bad boy,” she scolded. vou've been neglecting me shamefully. 'Come over right away and you are po- | sitively going back to the farm with me tonight. Mother and father have been | looking for you for a week.” “Tll come for dinner, Anne,” Dick answered. “But I have an engagement | for supper tonight, after the theater. conduct. Her plan was to let him stew in his own juices for a time. A plan which would have worked fo perfz=iion had it not been for Yvonne. This, of | arrive for din He was polite and course, Anne did not know. noncommittal when he saw her. All Richard turned away from the tele- | through the meal Anne tried to pierce phone disappointed and uneasy, 2s|his armor. She flirted with him, she Anne had intended him to be. But|]ct him sce she cared for him, she ap- this uneasiness passed as he made | pealed to his chivalry to relieve her ready for his call on Mademoiselle Per- | Joneliness. But to it all he was im- reault. He considered telling her | pervious reminded him of his absent wife. At last Anne decided on a final and then she did not even kmow he was | gesperate play. married. No, he would wait. But he | “They tell me you're infatuated with could not explain the growing pleasure | the little French dancer,” she said at he felt in the prospect of see- |jast ing her. As he rang the bell to her | Richard made no answer, beyond a apartment and waited for the vord to|slight start. ‘‘Another little gold dig- come up he felt his heart pounding |ger I suppose,” Anne went on. I like a boy's. P | thought you were past that stage. Yvonne herself, standing in the small | pjcic» and perfect living room, dvew her wed- \ ding ring from her bosom and kissed it. Then she replaced it and forced herself to sit calmly in a chair. il ‘The door opened. Richard was stand- | with, Others have been trying to get ing before her. Her hand lay in his| por pumber for a long time. But she firm clasp. They were looking at each | waits until a handsome, rich, near other with eyes that spoke of that in-| wigower hoves in sight,-and then goes tangible thing known as “love at first| for him hammer and tongs.” sight.” “That's hardly fair, Anne. I'm do- It was Yvonne who moved first, re-|ing the pursuing, if you can call it leasing her hand, and pointing him 10 | thato” a nearby chair. | And I won't be able to come out to the | farm with you, I'm sorty to say.” Anne waited impatiently for him to Perreault is hardly a gold Richard answered. Then how explain her care- lection of yourself to play arourd | “And what about the little wife in “It is kind of you to come, Mr. Ross,” | the old country? Forgotten her?” she said formally. 3 | “No,” Richard s: soberly. “I “Not half so good of me as it IS of | naven't forgottcn her—but she hasn't you to permit me Richard answered There is no apparent ‘famine for America’s feathered caked songsters. A recent’ shipment frop- the Orient carried 55 tons of i on board. leaves them wise and disciplined, and this proverbially happy. (Copyright, 1928.) PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE By WILLIAM BRADY, M. D. When Food Is Poison. Taking the queries of readers as they come, sometimes I despair of ever hear- ing the last of that ridiculous notion propagated by the mail order ‘“food specialist,” namely, that one must be of foods lest some poison arise from the reaction between two uncongenial staples in one’s interior. Allowing for the abysmal ignorance of our educated class about human physiology, T am still at a loss to understand why folks should take such silly suggestions so serfously, when everybody knows from his own experience that no ill conse- puence before if the combination or mixture of food substances happens to appeal to one’s taste or appetite and, per contra, the indulgence doesn't have to include more than one item of food to bring unpleasant or painful conse- quences if the lone item happens to taste bad. Dismissing all that wiseacre bait of the fake “doctor” who holds forth in plenty of shady publications, have to consider the my. y ana- phylaxis or sensitizataion to this and for this state un- questionably render perfectly wholesome food poisonious to the un- fortunate individual who happens to be sensitized. Perhaps the condition we now call allergy is the same as or at least akin to that which we for- merly called idiosyncrasy. You will find idiosyncrasy in any dictionary, you must look in the Addenda for such new words as allergy and anaphylaxis, for even the latest cditions of the dic- tionary are 10 years behind the times. Briefly allergy or anaphylaxis means a peeuliar sensitivity or suscaptibility to certain substances, food substances in the present consideration and, as Inri as I can learn, only proteins. BEAUTY CHATS I'm always amazed at the number of stout women who dress to make them- selves appear larger than they are. On the whole, thoy do better than some years ago, for we've designers who spe- clalize in slenderizing clothes, and we've frequent fashion articles pointing out the right colors and trimmings (or lack thereof) for the stout woman, and we've a_far more intelligent class of sales- girls than we had up to the choose the best dress for her customer. Even so, stout women don’t always dress to make themselves look as slen- der as they might. It's a difficult thing this season, too, for our clothes are cut up out of three or four kinds of materials; pleats and godets and good- ness knows what else go into their mak=- ing and a lot of them might have-been careful to avoid certain combinations | o g his, Makes it unnecessary for us | more about it than we do about ordi- | But_this we do suspect nowadays, that is why second marriages are DOROTHY DIX. Angioneurotic edema is the fearsome name by which we doctors awe the vietim of giant hives into an unques- ticning mood. If he comes compiain- ing of whopping big hives, we sound cff about angioneurotic edema and as to tell the patient that we know no nary household or trial sizes of hives. angioneurotic edema is just one of the various manifestations of allergy and often it is food allergy that ails the patient. The mystery is, not only why a particular food substauce should pro- duce such a mean reaction in the sen- s:tlgeg individual, but which food can it be? This latter question is the one the physician has to answer in a great many cases nowadays. We are learn- ing more and more about food allergy and we are even learning how to de- tect it and thus finding a way of escape for the victim. One form of food allergy manifests itself in_bellyache or colic, gastric or intestinal disturbances, nausea, disten- sion, vomiting and probably has been fals2ly called “ptomaine” poisoning in many instances, thus putting the blame on the food, whereas it should be pul on the individual's gueer susoeptikil Bronchial asthma, migraine, obsti- nate or recurring dermatitis (skin in- flammation), more commonly known as eczema; spurious “hay fever” and even “sinus trouble,” are fairly famil- jar examples of food allergy. Physi- cians who have studiea the question find that food allergy is the real cause of certain cases of bladder irritation, of fever in children, of low blood pres- sure, and even of irregular and pain- ful menstruation. (Copyright, 1928.) ‘IH’ EDNA KENT FORBES assembled by a clever seamstress from everything in the patch bag. It's hard for the stout woman to keep to slim and simple lines, but it can be done. I'd suggest the stout woman keep two sorts of dresses always in her wardrobe. One a black satin, simple but rather dressy, something she can wear under a street coat, or to an afternoon tea or matinee or even a quiet dinner. The other, a tailored dark blue cloth dress. Coats and skirts, even when well tai- | lored, are not for the really stout wom- an; she looks best in a longish dress, with a full length coat over it, because the lines are unbroken. I've one good word for modern fash- WINTERTIME BY D. C. PEATTIE. Every Christmas season brings up anew the ethics of the purchasing of Christmas greens. I know of no such joy in all the year's minor adventures as that of going down to the market stalls of a frosty December twilight, where the country folk that have come to sell their wares huddle over im- promptu street, fires. I love the smell of the frosty alr and the odor of mar- ket greens and flowers mingling with the aromas of holly, pine, juniper, ground pine and spruce. I love to pick out the handsomest wreaths, the jolliest sprigs, the very finest Christmas tree. And at the same time I am always sad to count myself one of the army of those who consume Christmas greens for a week of pleasure. I cannot but think that every holly wreath means a tree denuded and every Christmas treea forest one tree poorer. I cannot but remember that at the present rate of destruction there will presently be no more holly or ground ine. : » The Wild Flower Preservation Society every year at this season draws atten- tion” to the fact that it is possible to keep your Christmas greens from year to year, just ag you save the colored balls for the trees by dipping them in a sort of shellac solution. There is everything to be said in favor of this plan, both as a scheme for plant con- servation and on the score of economy. But I am afraid that ret verv wany people follow this piece of asiics, per- haps because we are wasteful in Amer- ica, perhaps because shellac and the Christmas spirit do not go well to- gether—are somehow mutually ex- clusive. At present, perhaps, it would not pay any one to go into the business of ra’s ing holly, for instance: it is just be- ginning to be possible to raise Christ- mas trees. Yet I think this is what we are coming to in the end as a solution of the Christmas greens problem. When holly gets so scarce and Christmas trees find the demand exceeding the supply, it is going to pay people to raise these commodities, just as it pays to raise turkeys or chrysanthemums for the Thanksgiving tradeé. ATWOOD GRAPEFRUIT TREE-RIPENED WHOLESOME DELICIOUS ions. The gitlish jumper is going out and semi-fitted. beltless dresses are tak- ing its place. These are especially flat- tering to the figure with stout lines. Wholesale Distributor N. Charles Heitmuller 923 B Street N.W. 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