Evening Star Newspaper, January 23, 1929, Page 29

' Changing Use of Calling Cards BY LYDIA LE ‘The function of calling cards in {America is changing, or it may be said %o have changed, so differently are the ards now used from formerly. They played so important a part in the last eneration that to be without them vas one of the misfortunes to be | AN ESPECIAL SIGNIFICANCE AT- TACHES TO A CARD WITH A CORNER TURNED DOWN. guarded against. One supply must al- ways overlap. the next to avoid such &n occurence. Today one would regret Peing withou calling cards, but it would mot be a social calamity. There can be little doubt but the bveruse of cards was largely respon- sible for their losing their prestige. A woman had at times to leave as many s three of her own and an equal number of her husband’s and her «daughter’s and her son’s at some houses where the families were large. The _WOMAN'S PACER | | | | | | \ | BARON WALKER. |task of keeping each fluctuation of | card etiquette in mind became too | much of a bother. While there still | remains what is known' as “card eti- | quette,” those who disregard all its| whims are as numerous as those who | follow its dictates. H Travelers should always have a good | supply of cards with them. These will | | be” found very useful. They should | contain the person’s home address, | beneath or above which may be written | that of any special place where one | is stopping at the time when the card | is used. Its chief function is to help | new acquaintances to become better | friends either during one’s stay in a locality or after arriving home again. | It must be remembered that in man countries abroad cards are much more | commonly used than in America. a recent reception to the American Ambassador in London, many cards had the corners turned, thereby indi- cating that the person actually at- tended the reception. When the corners were not turned the card might’ have been left by some one of the. family even though the person was unable to be present. Or it might have been mailed. Cards having corners turned indicate, over there, that they are left personally. ‘Turning corners or bending cards should never be done unless the person knows exactly what such form signifies. A woman should keep in her bag a calling card on which is her address, with the words “owner’s card” clearly written across the top. If by any mis- fortune a bag so identified is lost it is easy for the finder to get in com- munication with the owner. Such a card is invaluable should the owner suffer any accident, as it is an identifi- cation, and the family can be gotten in touch with immediately. (Copyright, 1929.) BRAIN TESTS ‘These intelligent tests are being given at most of the leading universities. Study them, try to answer them, and if you can't or are doubtful refer to the correct answers. This will give you a slant on your mental rating. ‘This is a test of your ability to visual- ize. You will find listed below a num- ber of pairs of compass directions. If the difference between these directions is the same as the difference between North _and Northeast, mark that pair (1). If the difference equals’that be- tween North and East, mark the pair (2). If the difference equals that be- tween North and Southeast, mark the | pair (3). And if the difference equals that between North and South, mark the pair (4). Allow three minutes, . Northwest and West ( ). . Southeast and Northwest ( . South and Northeast ( . North and Southwest ( . Northeast and Southeast ( . East and West ( ). . South and Southeast ( . West and South ( ). . Northeast and Southwest ( . Southwest and Northwest ( . (3). 6. . . 3). €3). ). ) 5 )% ). The Daily Cross Word Puzzle (Copyright, 1929.) . Eastern ruler. . Earth. . Inactive. . Harmonize. . Uncommon. . Song. . Lethargic sleep. . Recover. . Snuggle. . Item of property. . Certain. . Severe lecture, . Congregated. . Cut igto three equal parts. . Suffer. . One who aims; Scotch. . Ponderous. . Due. . Disordered. 5. Story. . Out of fashion. . Wrestle. . Break continuity. Dolts. - . Sufficient; poet. . Salute. . Look favorably. . Ancient symbol. . Eagle. . Concise. . Snow vehicle. . Affirmative votes. . Scoff, Down, . Express contempt. . Preposition. . Harvest. . Wrong. Cubic unit of metric measure . Began. . Inns. . Metrical foot. . Warrior idol . Boorish. . Household gods. . Get up. . Leavening agent. . Soundness of mind. . Part of coat. . Check. ANSWER TO YESTERDAY'S PUZZI.E ; was a failure. . Roman weight. . Wands. . Wood nymphs. . Elementary reader. . Political leaders. . Italian isle. . Small chamber, Woody plant. . Narrow passage. . Pounding implements. . Lying on the back. . Wharves. . Declare void. Gem. . Stitched. . Endures. . Large bird. . Father. . Otherwise, . Prophet. A Sermon for Today BY REV. JOHN R. GUNN. When a Man's a Failure. Text—“And Nabal said, Who is David?"—I Sam., xxv.10. It was with sneering contempt that Nabal spoke. David? a fleeing fugitive, upon whose head King Saul had set a price? He was dis- graced. Nabal was rich and appar- ently a great success. Apparently David Yet within a span of years he was King of all Israel. ! It did seem at the time, as Nabal { thought, that David was a failure. But it is a mistake to judge one a failure simply because, for the time being, he is down and out. Most successful men have passed through a period, many of them several such periods, when they were down and out. A down-and- out man is not a failure—not as long as he has in him the stuff to come back again. “I have not failed; I have only been checked!” cried the captive Garibaldi. “I am goxrlx; to get free,” he said, “and some day I am coming back to free my country.” And he did. Look at Oliver Cromwell, Patrick Henry, Ulysses S. Grant, Stonewall Jackson, Bulwer, Shakespeare, Robert Louis Stevenson and Thomas A. Edi- son. There was a time in the lives of these great men when they were deemed egregious failures. But who thinks of | them as failures today? Not all who seem to fail have failed. | You may not achieve fortune or fame, i but success in even the smallest matter ;15 success. Besides, you may yet suc- {ceed in any matter Wherein you have | failed if you have the sense, faith and coutage to do it. A man’s a failure only when through his own cowardly consent he admits ?flure. True and brave men never hJ ‘Who was he but | 'THE weffYIE RS REG. U. S, PAT. OFF. EVENING At | It may be that women think they will sleep more deeply or dream more delightfully if they are charmingly gowned for bed. But whether they are psychologically inclined or not, they love beauty in the dark as well as in daylight. This nightgown is of flesh crepe de chine, trimmed in coffee-colored lace, inserted in symmetrical lines. The hem line is uneven and the pattern of its border matches the neck line. Home in Good Taste BY SARA HILA! It’s just a small, low table which is s0 convenient to place near the sofa or a grouping of large chairs, but it is compact, and may be put to more uses than one can imagine at first glimpse. It seems like nothing more than an ordinary table, but here is the real truth—it is a table with a removable prass 2t tray top, and by giving a gentle pull to the side it will be found that this table contains a very convenient drawer. For the living room it might be used for such small linens as are required for the tea hour, or it might be used for cards, tallies, etc. How delightful this table is for tea, when the top may be removed, sent to the kitchen.and brought back with all those dainty dishes, linens and silver which make tea time so enchanting. The finish of this table may be wal- nut, mahogany or any rich shade of lacquer, with a touch of dull gold brought out in the carvings. Everyday Psychology BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS, The Supernatural World. There are two worlds: A real world and a supernatural world. There are two kinds of knowledge. Verifiable or scientific knowledge, and unverifiable or speculative knowledge. Scientific knowledge is continually ine creasing. This means that speculative kn'gwledge is decreasing at the same rate. ‘Those who know the least about science and its methods speculate most. It is relatively easy for them to as- sume that there cxists somewhere a world governed by supernatural laws. Now and then a scientist grows into senility. Then he also speculates wildly. Now and then scientists and their interpreters are made dizzy by the achievements of science. They start thinking that nothing is impossible. Wild speculation gets going. When- ever science leaves off, speculation sets in. That's how philosophy of every sort gets its start. The supernatural world is the psy- cholcgical complement of the real world. It's a fiction of the imagination. ‘The psychology of the unconscious offers an explanation for the perennial idea of a supernatural realm, governed by laws entirely different from those of the world of reality. The essential thing about the uncon- scious is its capacity to wish. These wishes expand into hopes, and finally into convictions. Even when the wishes do not evolve into convictions, they are often indulged in for their own sake. Like day-dreams, they possess a pecuMar pleasure-giving quality. It is hard for even the most realis- tic of thinkers to understand why the laws of this natural world do not operate to produce an equality in all good things for all persons. ‘The psychical researchers, who repre- sent the professional wish-makers, are looking for some way to even up what appears to them to be uneven breaks in the laws of nature. The whole object of such speculation is to find a way to soothe the hurts which natural laws inexorably apply. ~So a belief in a supernatural world has its values. It helps many struggling individuals to endure reality, even though it's nothing but a flight from reality. BASIC TREATMENT hasbeen evolved to restore and pres serve youthful bloom, sparkle- and firm contour. Cleanse, ton¥ and nourish according to MeReMu your skin-will grow younger. There lso Specific Creams for each pare are al ticular skin condifion. Booklet free. OBTAINABLE AT Drug Stores, Inc.. 8. Kann Sons C n carefully’ selccted drug and ment stores. i Marjorie Rambeau Pr | OB T e Paria. NEW YORM Palais d other depart- oducts Prisdeiphie | | TAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, WEDNESDAY, i DorothyDix { The Different Members of a Family Would Find Happiness at Home if They Would Treat FEach Other as Intelligent Human Beings Instead of Pieces of Machinery. Recipe for a Contented Household Recommends Sympathy ond Understanding ID you ever think that the problem of how to make a happy home, one in‘ which the husband and the wife and the children would all be happy and contented, could be solved by the simple expedient of the different members of the family treating cach other as if they were ordinary flesh-and-blood human beings instead of machines, or puppets, or slaves? Suppose, for instance, the wife and children treated the husband and father as if he were a man and not a cash register. If they regarded him as a man they wouldn't consider him as merely something that supplied them with food, and clothes, and a place to live, and party frocks, and sports cars, | and that you grumbled and sulked at when it didn’t deliver the goods in the ! quantities and qualities you desired, and that you never dreamed of thanking | when it came across. For you felt that that was what it was made for. | It is a curious thing, but after the first child is born many a woman never sees her husband again as a man. He is merely the children’s father, | whose sole purpose in life is to supply her children’s needs and desires. So the | children never visualize their father as a human being. He is merely some- thing that coughs up the cash when they or mother punch him hard enough. | If they thought of him as an individual, they would see something very heroic in the man who lays his whole life on the altar of his family; who toils in Summer heat and Winter cold that his wife and children may be kept soft and comfortable; who gives to his children advantages that he never had; who goes shabby that they may have fine clothes, and who is almost in- variably the least considered member of the household. It takes all that the average man can make to support his family. He gets nothing out of his life work but what he eats and wears and the place he sleeps. He is the one who wears his overcoat three seasons, and gets the drum sticks and the back of the chicken, and has one hook in a closet for{ his clothes, and is pushed around in the house from pillar to post when the | children want to jazz. He is the fore-ordained family goat, but it would | cheer him up a lot if the wife and children would hang garlands about his neck and tell him how wonderful and brave they thought he was, and how much they loved and admired him. Suppose, too, that husband quit looking upon wife as a useful household convenience and regarded her as a woman. Suppose he ceased to think of her as an automatic, self-starting combined gas stove and vacuum cleaner, that | didn't even require to be oiled up now and then to keep it functioning per- | fectly, and contemplated her as a human being with feelings, and complexes, and reactions pretty much like his own. . If he thought of his wife as a woman, or even as a human being, he | would know that she must get awfully tired doing the same grind of me- chanical tasks day after day, and year after year, and that she must long for some change, something to pep her up, and so he would take her to places of amusement now and then. If he thought of her as a woman he would know that she hungered for love and tenderness, and longed to be flattered and told that she was beautiful | in his eyes, and that he blessed the day he married her, and he would give | her once a day, at least, a kiss that didn't taste and feel like a cold buck- | wheat cake flapped in her face. i If he thought of his wife as a human being, he would know that it galled her pride to have to panhandle him for every penny that she got, and that it outraged her sense of justice to have to wheedle out of him the money she had earned by the labor of her hands, and he would give her an allowance. It is because men treat their wives as if they were kitchen cabinets instead of lady loves that divorce is so common. Suppose parents treated their children as intelligent human beings in-.| stead of puppets. Suppose they conceded to their children the right to their | individual tastes and inclinations, and to make their own decisions about the big things that affect their lives, instead of feeling that they were entitled to boss them as long as they lived. The average parent’s idea of a dutiful child is a marionette on a string that they can make dance to their own tune. If mother likes spinach, all the children have to eat it. like the movies, the children can’t go to one without a row. If father doesn't | Mother feels she has a right to pick out Mary's husband for her, and | father decides on John's profession, and if Mary insists on marrying the kind | of man that she wants instead of the one that mother likes, and John refuses to go into the green grocery, or the bank, or study law, or be a doctor as father has elected, why, father and mother wring their hands and talk about ungrateful children. It is because father and mother regard their children as puppets and not as human beings that children leave home in order to get a little personal berty. Suppose children regarded their parents as human beings instead of something that Providence has provided for their convenience and well-being. | If girls ever thought of their mothers as being women they wouldn't be selfish | enough to take all of the good clothes and let mother wear the cast-offs. It | is because they think of her as a sexless creature without feminine vanity, that doesn’t care how it looks, that they monopolize all of the frills. H If boys thought of their mother as a human being they would know that she got tired, and they would pick up after themselves and not make extra work for her to do. It would surprise most children to death to find out that their mother was human, and that she wants things just as much as they do, and longs for amusement just as much, and that she doesn’t enjoy staying a;, home and getting up a special meal when everybody else has gone off on a picnic. Suppose our families regarded us as intelligent human beings instead of morons. Suppose they paid us the compliment of considering that an adult man and woman had enough sense to know what kind of food agreed with them and when to go to bed and were capable of picking out their own clothes and friends, and didn't have to be warned every time they started out of the door to be careful of the automobiles and not to get their feet wet. ‘What a lot of nagging it would save, and what peace and happiness it | would bring about if only our families would treat us as if we had ordinary | sense instead of as if we were fools! DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright. 1920.) A telephone in the living room, library, or den.. Another beside the bed and one in the kitchen. Extension telephones are so handy. So convenient. And so low in cost. Just a few cents a day—about the price of.your daily newspaper. Haven’t you often thought you needed one? Give us a call to- day! Tell us to put one in Now'! THE TELEPHONE WAY is THE WAY OF TODAY THE CHESAPEAKE & POTOMAC TELEPHONE COMPANY JANUARY ! {he brim. This trimming matched the | | other at hip on left, THE WAY OF TODAY 23, 1929. “It's about time wimmin were ad- mitting that there's nothin' about war they don't understand.” NANCY PAGE Nancy and Peter Plan Southern Trip. BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. Nancy went around the house sing- ing like a lark. She and Peter were to take a trip South in the near fu- ture. It meant leaving the baby and Joan, but they were going to be moved over to her mother’s home, where there was plenty of room and to spare. More- over, Nancy’s old nurse was coming back to be in charge. Nancy had earned a vacation, since this was her first visit | away from home since the baby . Her clothes were a fascinating study. She learned that off-white was accepted every time. in place of dead white. It was less hard on the eyes in the glare of the sun. There were many colors worn, queer yellow, greens, pastel pinks and blues. Rather unusual color com- binations were evolved. Nancy soon ! saw it was dangerous to try to work | these out unless one had an artist's | trained color sense. ! She chose a number of printed cotton piques with white collars and cuffs irimmed with fagoting. These skirts had patch pockets and pleats laid at the sides under the bottom of the pockets. Her pet hat was of off-white straw with an effective ribbon trimming on was P b kb predominating color in the printed silk | Jacket which was so popular. ‘This | jacket was unlined, had wide sleeve | pockets. Two large velvet bows trim- | med the coat. One was placed at end | of turnover collar on right and the Nancy said the pockets would come in handy to carry her handkerchiefs with which she could | wipe away her tears of lonesomeness | for Peter Page Junior and for Joan. ishe has lost 12 pounds more, making a /FEATURES DIET AND HEALTH BY LULU HUNT PETERS, M. D. Eating Bread. glycerin solution—one-fourth glycerin and three-fourths water. Two months ago I read a letter from | "See that your elimination is good. Mrs. A, who had reduced 14 pounds.| We have an article on "(.:'onsnpfllon" Her dictetic sin was bread and butter. | 24 ane o -Balanced Diet" and one on She used to have three or four slices at | “*Fo. are not. overneight, B Tn fact, a meal. She cut this down to one a | you are somewhat underweight. For meal, and from this practice alone she |Your hips you have to do some spe- 8 cial exercises—high kicking, brisk walk- cut out enough calories so that she lost | fhal SXCTelses-—hIBE kicking, beisk walk- 14 pounds. I have a letter from her |one side to the other, lying mn| your today saying that since she wrote last |side and raising the legs and swinging ATk e sice ahe g them beck and forth in the air, ete. Remember that it takes several months before you will see results. loss of 26 pounds. As I predicted, many friends said she | was not looking well, while others said | «what makes my feet swell? I am she looked better, but she had a great | apparently well, but about 25 pounds deal of pleasure in telling them all she | felt 100 per cent better, for she had lost her shortness of breath and a lot s. A I want to speak of bread. It has been called to my attention that I am talk so much about bread as a cause of overweight. I am going to show you why I am not guilty. Bread, especially the whole-gral bread made with milk, is a good, whole- some food. It is the most universally liked food of all, and for this reason may be taken in excess. When taken in excess, as it is by so many, it un- balances the diet and sooner or later results -in overweight. Overweight re- sults in many serious disorders, notably diabetes, where bread is not permitted at all, and it shortens many Therefore, excess bread eating does not cause an increase in the consumption of wheat, for none at all, and an excess would average a moderate amount. And certainly it is much better to eat mod- erately of wheat products and keep in health than it is to eat immoderately and then not to be able to eat any at all. This reasoning, of course, can be. ap- glledd to many other foods as well as read. “For some time I have had something on my legs and thighs which looks like goose flesh and makes my skin look rough. What is this, and how can I get rid of it? I am 19 years old, 5 feef 6 inches tall and weigh 125 poun My hips are very large. How can I get rid of the excess fat there? Am I ov weight much? E. Your skin is a little dryer than nor- mal. Do you drink sufficient water, and is your diet balanced? daily bath use a fairly stiff body brush with lots of soap and water and scrub the skin vigoro a little After exposur full strength. Thus you immediat that cause sore throat, coming serious. injuring the wheat industry because I| lives. | Local treatment—When you have your | overweight. Mrs. J." You should have a physical examina- tion, including an urinalysis, Mrs. J. It may be possible that your unbalanced diet, which is bringing on your over- weight, is affecting your kidneys. Some- |times the feet will swell, especially in |the Summer, from the sunlight, even through the hose. There are other things that cause swelling of the feet. Anything that causes a damming back of the blood will cause the legs to swell. I imagine if you reduce your over- weight you will find you will be better and your symptoms will disappear. But better have the physical check-up. | We have a pamphlet on losing and | gaining weight which you may have, AUNT HET BY ROBERT QUILLEN. “Half of the married women never would of done it except to show other women they could.” ‘opyright. ) ¢, look out for SORE THROAT Gargle with Listerine Eills germs in 15 seconds HEN your feet are wet, and after exposure to germs in crowded cars and stuffy offices, gargle with Listerine ely attack the géma and its usual sequel, a cold, and often prevent either from be. Listerine, full strength, kills even the B. Typhosus (typhoid) germ in 15 seconds as shown by repeated tests. This is the germ the Governme nt uses to test the power of antiseptics. Though powerful, Listerine is safe to use in any body cavity. Keep Listerine handy and for your health’s sake, use it systematically in bad weather. Write for our great free book, “Personal, Hygiene”—a help to anyone. Address Dept. S. 61, Lambert Pharmacal Company, St. Louis, Mo., U. S. A. Do this and escape colds Countless colds start when germs are carried to the mouth on food. By using Lis (e terine on the hands before every meal, you attack such germs and lessen the risk of cold. Remember this, mothers, when handling baby’s foed. LISTERINE THE SAFE ANSISEPTIC