Evening Star Newspaper, February 18, 1929, Page 26

Washington’s Birthday Games BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER The Improvised “Cherry Tree” May Be Felled at a Single Stroke. Games for Washington ’s birthday en- tertainments should introduce some of the special features that are associated with this day. This is not difficuls, for the cherry tree episode brings cherries, cherry blossoms, branches and tree * trunks, together with the hatchet. And then there is the cocked hat. It is true that cherry trees are mot @-bloom in February in many parts of the United States, but there are mock cherries—"Winter cherries” they might be called. These are in reality nothing more nor less than cranberries, but they make excellent substitutes. There are plenty of twigs and branches of trees that can be substituted for cherry tree limbs. Hatchets come in all sizes, from tiny miniature ones to big ones for chopping wood. Cocked hats can be mure from folded paper. In fact, al- most everything can be reproduced in paper of one kind or another. . ‘The “tree” is a branching twig of any kind of tree to which circles of tissue paper are pasted. e the cir- cles the size of a spool top. Use three shades of paper. Twist each circle at the center form and glue the twisted tip to the twigs. Make as realistic a miniature tree as possible. Thrust the end of the “tree trunk” into a tin container filled with earth, instead of into a flower pot. Place the cherry tree on a large pi of brown or green paper on a dining or ightly to give it blossom |in a library table. The paper will catch the soil if the pot is upset and represent ward or earth also. Cut a hatchet from heavy cardboard BY HERBERT and paint the head gray and the handle portion red. Make a number of these hatchets, as they will sometimes be damaged. Give a hatchet in turn to each player, who is then blindfolded and stood at some specified spot about 10 feet dis- tant from the “tree.” Turn the player three times, leaving him facing the tree. Allow him to take 10 steps, and then flourish the hatchet in an attempt to chop down the tree, which should be so lightly placed in the soil that it will totter over readily. The player suc- ceeding in doing this should be awarded a prize, If more than one player does it, ties should be played off for the winner. Thread a large darning needle with greeh string, knotted at the end. String two “Winter cherries” on it. Cut the string 6 inches long. Knot the end. Also knot each cranberry so that it will remain in position at an end of the string. Suspend these “cherries” here and there about a room, some in view and some not. Offer a prize to the thers the most “cherries” gi e, which is noted by the blowing of a whistle at start and finish. ‘The game may be played with part- ners secured as follows: cherry on brown and a single one on green string. To the other end of each string attach a bit of paper with the same number on each. Have as many of “cherries” as there are couples play. Matching numbers secures player who String a single |/ A Sermon for Today BY REV. JOHN R. GUNN. Face Ahead. ‘Text: “No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of God."—Luke ix.62. Nor is he fit for any other kingdom— this man, “having put his hand to the plough, and looking back.” Nor will he ever possess any kingdom. The men who win kingdoms are the men who know what they are after and keep after it till they get it. There may be times when one feels that he is at the end of his row, that he cannot go on any further. Most of us sometimes feel that way. We get into difficult places, everything seems to go badly with us and we begin to think that we might as well give up and turn back. But that is just the time to hold on. Remember, it is dark- est just before dawn. Just when vour way seems the darkest and most for- bidding, you may be within one step of victory. For those who are discouraged and disposed to give up. Harriet Beecher Stowe has this word: “When you get into a tight place and evervthing goes against you, till it scems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” Certainly it is no reason for one to give up and cuit simply because he eets into a tight place or because he finds his way hard and hazardous. Anybody can quit, any one give up, but strong and brave men never do. Any- body can resign, but real men are not the resigning kind. Anybody can go back, but back-tracking never got any one anywhere. Having put your hand tt;‘ bed plough, never look back. Face ahead. NANCY PAGE “Isolation Never Hurt a Baby,” Says Nancy. Nancy knew some folks thought that her 8-month-old son was not suffi- ciently shown off. To her he was the most wonderful child ever born. But Nancy felt that there were years and years ahead of Peter Page Junior in which he could get acquainted with folks. She had made it a rule that the baby was not to be handled by strang- ers, friends or relatives, He was not brought downstairs to be shown off. Folks were not taken upstairs to bend over his little bed and wake him with their admiration. When this rule was (Copyright, 1929.) @ A WASHINGTON DAYBOOK WASHINGTON is discovering and discovering fast that despite the fact that Herbert Hoover has been w resident of this city for many years precious little is known about the man. ‘The Hoover of war and relief days, the Hoover of Secretary of Commerce, and the Hoover who will move into the ‘White House on March 4 seem different personali- ties. In fact, the next President of With almost every day a new name is mentioned and at night- fall a name is withdrawn. Now it is announced that the cabinet personnel will not be made known until the list 1s sent the Senate for confirmation. About all that is known is that those admitted into the executive presence will be of Hoover's own choosing and that after all it doesn't seem to make much difference to the President-elect Just what the politicians think of him. It is necessary to go back over the list of Presidents to Roosevelt to find characteristics of Hoover. ‘had his famous “kitchen cabinet” tha moved up in times of emergency. Hoo- ver, too, has his intimates, most of ‘whom are not politicians. Dean Wilbur, of Leland Stanford, Vernon Kellogg and Julius Barnes enjoy his co nce and from time to time are called in for discussions. But here the parallel ends. Roosevelt rejoiced in his friendships—even in his Roosevelt | has been t A little girl of 7 came down from Massachusetts the other day to visit He met her at the As the two emerged from the Union Station the little girl glim) the dome of the National Capitol in the distance and with a cry of delight turned to the old man. » I know what that place looked at her with interest. ‘That’s your Capitol,” the little one our Capitol.” And “grandpa”—Capt. B. J. Cady, chief of guides for more than 50 years at the Capltol—admits that he regards the building in pretty much the same way. Rutherford B. Hayes was President of the United States when Capt. Cady tookurhhpm“nthnmund:o(the Capitol sufldln.. ‘That was 50 years ago. S that time Capt. Cady bas ml:“t’he untold '{,’,‘.",""‘,?;, of people many interesting corridors ':mmben of this structure. To sit and talk with C: broken Nancy saw the baby's eyes wid- en in fright. She knew that grown- ups did not realize how large, and giantlike they must seem to wee tots. What was a gentle squeeze or love g’zb to a grownup was a_vigorous hug Peter Page Junior. The grimaces and face contortions of an adult meant nothing but a series of frights to the little baby. Nancy found that few of the little dresses and jues which she had received were needed. Even at 8 months old he was seldom dressed. ‘Why should he be maneuvered into lit- tle sleeves and tight necks when he re- ceived no callers? When some of the family came down with colds the baby's But it is his experiences that he delights most to tal called upon to answer as many foolish questions as any other man in the United States. And just how fool- ish some of these questions pro- pounded by tourists can be no one knows better than Capt. C pt. Cady. Until the other Capitol Building, but one visitor popped a brand-new one. He was asked: “How much does this building weigh?” Not to be daunted, the captain, as grave as he could be, answered: “Approximately 999,783,210 pounds.” The chap walked away, says Capt. Cady, perfectly satisfied. He is uently asked, after a party wn both the House and Senate chambers, to point out the place where Congress meets. More than once a visitor has requested an introduction to a Senator or Representative from his home district when that Senator or Representative is not a member of Con- gress, but the State Legislature. Couples on their honeymoon flock to ‘Washington and Capt. Cady entertains them. He has become an expert in pick- enmities. But not Hoover. He prefers to play the solitary role. A@vlrenfly he can be the center of @ circle, but not of it. ing out the bride and bridegroom from among those in the party, although he :llg;u that he has been fooled several es. PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE BY WILLIAM Every individual who professes to be philanthropic ought to insert in his will, if necessary, a specific clause asking that an autopsy be made if the physi- cian deems it desirable, What the doc- tors may learn from such investigation cannot do the decedent any good, but then ple do not make wills for their own benefit. Here it will occur to the shallow that doctors generally buri' their mistakes as quickly as possible. If there is any truth in that, the general custom of providing in the will for the autopsy would discourage the practice. Indeed, T believe it would bring to light a deal of crime that now is hidden by that solemn and sometimes questionable instrument, the death certificate. Even an alert and competent physician must have pretty tangible evidence before he will venture to raise a question where there is any doubt in his mind about the alleged cause of death. If there were a routine, disinterested examination by a properly constituted authority in every instance, this natural reluctance ef the physician to raise a question “would not matter, good | evidence of disease. Two hundred BRADY, M. D. Dr. Albert S. Welsh examined a thou- sand tonsils after the tonsils had been removed from patients in a city dispen- sary. He made such dissection as was necessary to determine the condition of each tonsil, just as a pathologist might conduct an ordinary autopsy (necropsy is the more modern term for the post- mortem dissection). Among the thousand tonsils there were three that showed tuberculous le- sions, one had cancer and one a non- malignant kind of tumor. Of the thou- sand tonsils examined, 430 revealed n: an eighty of the tonsils showed only cheesy masses in the crypts. Good authorities assure us min Am o show n“l‘nm cheesy masses e crypts or openings now and then. Only 70 of the tonsils examined were ulcerated or contained true abscesses—focl of infection. Two hundred and twenty of the thousand isolation was more complete. The sick folks were not allowed near Re-peter. A baby’s neck is so fat and cuddly that guide | it is a great temptation to kiss it and breathe upon it. And what surer way is there of passing on a cold? “No,” sald Nancy, “the baby stays alone, alone and has his bottle undis- turbed by admiring friends and rela- tives.” But that did not mean that he wanted for affection, for Nancy and Peter adored their young son. 1 3 infereieas wries o8 Rohey Bave, chre's T, losing & ~stampe: -4 Eivelope, asking for her “Layeite" lon SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. are this essed All right fer you, Tommy Truman! Runnin’ home wif yer old baby, dest because my sister wanted to give him a ride on her sled; I'll get her a better one than yours ter play wif, I bet. Sure Way to Get vou want plenty of thick, beautiful, glossy, silky hair, do by all means get nd of dandruff, for it will starve your hair and ruin it if you don't. It doesn’t do much good to try to comb or wash it cut, The only sure way to get rid of dandruff is to dissolve it; then you destroy it en- tirely. To do this, get about four ounces of ordinary liquid arvon; Suggests the Qualities That Charm. To the Girl Who Would Be Popular. DorothyDix Attributes That Set a Woman Above Her Sisters in Eyes of Those About Her Are Beauty, Gentleness and Intelligence. THESE are the 10 commandments for girls: 1. Be pretty. If you have been blessed with a peaches-and-cream complexion, naturally wavy hair and a classic profile, thank heaven for its mercies, and preserve them. If you were passéd over when good loeks were handed out, get busy circumventing nature. Camouflage your defects, and turn the spotlight on your good points. Learn how to dress, which is nine-tenths of being easy on the eyes. Find out what lines and colors flatter you and stick to them. Acquire the art of make-up. It is a virtue to suggest the bloom of roses on sallow cheeks and to give a warm glow to pale, thin lips, but it is a crime to daub your face up with color like a circus wagon, and to slap on lipstick until your mouth looks like a cut of raw beef in a butcher shop. Above all, be neat and well groomed. More attractive is a spick-and-span homely girl than a slovenly beauty who looks as if she‘needed to be run through the laundry. 2. Be feminine. When God made both men and women He knew what He was about, and He implanted in our breasts some instinct that makes either one of them repulsive to us when he or she apes the characteristics of the other. Every one feels a contempt for the effeminate man and disgust for the mannish woman. The prettiest girl in the world turns herself into a scarecrow when she puts on breeches, because the feminine figure is not designed for them. If she is fat she looks the shape of a turnip. If she is thin enough not to have any hips she appears to be an undernournished street gamin with tuberculosis. At best the girl who copycats men in clothes and manners is but a poor imitation of the real thing that has neither allure nor worth, When a girl casts aside her femininity, she has thrown away her one best bet, especially where men are concerned, for her sex is the thing with which a woman conjures. Every womdn who has ever been a great vamp has had femininity raised to the nth power. She dressed like a woman, talked like a Wwoman, and acted like a woman. Probably no man ever asked anything in .. trousers to marry him. . 3 Be dswlel:ttl B;l lfinue in Kyour judgments. Be tender and pitiful to old people . an e children. eep your faith in everything that is hol, beautiful. Hold on with both hands to your enthusiasms. Keep on bellev’;n; x;g love and'mmnnce, and that some day a fairy prince will come your way. Don’t get bitter because you have to stand behind the counter instead of buying chiffons over it. Don't let yourself get hard-boiled and cynical. Don't make the mistake of thinking it is clever to be sophisticated and like Lady Kew's daughter, who was 40 years old and had heard all there was to tell, Nobody admires that type of girl. The girl that we want abo t that we go out of our way to do nice things for, is the sweet girl wh‘; lsmn'e:{lli and tender and loving, and whose sta: il g, ITy eyes are still filled with the illusions 4. Be amiable. There is no other virtue in the world that pays such heavy dividends as amiability. If you are beautiful, your rivals will envy you and backbite you. If you are witty, people will laugh at your wisecracks, but they will avold you because they are afraid of you, but good nature makes no enemies, It rouses no jealousies. It inspires no = fears. Nobody ever tires of a good- natured girl. Everybody likes to have her around because she is so pleasant and agreeable, and every one plugs her game. ‘The high-tempered girl who is always going into hysterical rages, the catty girl who is always scratching at other girls, the ill-natured girl who is always saying mean things that hurt like dagger thrusts, the irritable girl whose fur has always to be smoothed the right way gets nowhere. It is the girl who wears the smile that won't come off, the girl who can laugh at misadventures, the girl who jollies us along and says the pleasant thing to us that we long to hear, who has hosts of friends and dates to burn, who can marry whom she pleases and who never figures in the divorce court. e e 5 Be intelligent. Don’t make the mistake of thinking that good looks are all « the capital a woman needs to do business on in life. True, beauty may get her a husband, but it won't keep him. She needs brains for that. No man can spend 40 or 50 years gazing rapturously at a living picture. He is bound to grow tired of it in time. Besides which, living pictures deteriorate with time. Their colors fade, their outlines blur, so that what was once one of nature’ masterpieces only too often turns into a chromo. i i ‘The woman who is beautiful but dumb is bound to lose out in a few years, but the woman who has intelligence grows more and more fascinating beeatiss she adds continually to her charms. She reads, she studles, she thinks, and so she becomes a companion of whom we ne S50 oo Ipi e never weary because she keeps us always ‘Therefore, if you want after when she is 50 as she learn something books. to be a woman who will be just as much sought is at 20, cultivate' your mind. Make it a rule to every day. Read the daily papers. Read magazines. Read That will teach you how to talk and how to listen intelligently. It will do more to insure your popularity than dancing the Ch: 1t will save you from becoming that pest of society. the female Dose s onn Ton nothing but simper. It will be money in your pay envelope if you are in fi::fi:“y‘nu:to:}:lflakf your b:msband vamp-proof if you get one. And it will ppiness, because no woma: bt kingdom is” is ever helpless or lonely. BN A mmmd B (Copyright, 1920.) 2 INAUGURAL PAGEANT )fi P Washington to Hoover BY ALEXANDER R. GEORGE, Rutherford B. Hayes. Associated Press Feature. Sm‘mo BULL was on the .warpath, Ole Bull was winning America with the magic of his violin and Jay Gould was the terror of Wall Street when Rutherford B. Hayes of Ohio suc- ceeded Grant as President of the United States, ‘The inauguration of Hayes followed the most famous election contest in the Nation’s his~ tory. The electoral Sierras, says Washington is the hand- somest city he ever saw, and that he is 8o pleased with it that he intends to take up a permanent residence here.” The serving of liquor at state din- ners was abolished during the Hayes occupancy of the White House. At the conclusion of his administration Hayes made the following statement: “When I became President I was fully convinced that whatever might be the case in other countries and with other people, in our climate and with the ex- citable, nervous temperament of our people, the habitual use of intoxicating drinks was not safe. “It seemed to me that to exclude liquors from the White House would be wise and useful as an example and would be approved by good people gen- erally. The suggestion was particularly agreeable to Mrs. Hayes. She has been a total abstinence woman from child- ‘There were five Hayes children, and it was a family “simple in its tastes and cordially united in its members.” A cotemporary describes the President ha did not report un-, til March 2. apply it at night when retiring; use enough to moisten the scalp and rub it in gently with the finger tips. By morning, most, if not all, of your dandruff will be gone, and two or three more applications will com- scars, evidences of pre- vious infection, such as the familiar acute follicular tonsillitis or attacks of :I‘;.lm’ or inflammation around the ton- pletely dissolve and entirely destroy every single sign and trace of it. You will find, too, that all itching being privately sworn in at the White House on Saturday, and took the oath of office publicly at the formal inaugu- ration Monday. The President-elect rode with Gen. Grant in the latter’s four-in-hand from the Executive Mansion to the Capitol, the Marine Band playing “Darling, I Am Growing Old,” while Donch’s Band was sending forth the “sweet strains” of “Little Sweetheart, Come and Kiss Me.” Mr. Hayes wore dark clothes, a light Spring coat and dark gloves. Mrs. Hayes, who had a seat in the Senate gallery, wore a black velvet bonnet trim- med with white silk, with a white rose in front and pink roses at the back. Completing the adornment of her head was a black lace veil and around her neck was a white lace scarf. A camel's hair shawl reposed in her lap. ‘When the President and Mrs. Hayes took up their residence at the White House they found it profusely deco- rated with flowers. One gift to the President was & huge eagle made en- tirely of flowers. The head was formed of violets, the body of 1,500 pinks and the wings, tail and stand of flowers of many kinds and colors, ‘The Hayes and Wheeler Club of Bal- timore, composed of 30 colored men uni- formed in caps, red shirts and black trousers, arrived too late to enter th» inaugural procession and staged a small parade of their own. Blaine's speeches were drawing crowds to the Senate gallaries and an item in a Washington paper said: “Joaquin Miller, the poet of the and digging of the scalp will stop, and your hair will look and feel a hundred times better. You can get liquid arvon at any drug store. Four ounces is all you will need, no mat- ter how much dandruff you may have, This simple remedy never fails, as “a most affectionate father, and a day seldom passes that he not devote some time to games with the younger children. “He is an exceedingly busy man, ris- ing early and working late. He fre- ?uently walks in the morning and rides for a time before dinned, and thus by much exercise in the open air main- tains his strength for the long siege of elcl":ldn.y's listening to countless appli- _ Scalloped Herring, Take four or five salt hrrings or equivalent amount of other salt fish, divide down the back, remove all skin and bone, and cut into squares. Have ready a dozen good sized potatoes cold boiled. Slice them and put them in alternate layers of fish and potatoes with butter and pepper between each layer of fish. Begin and end with a layer of potatoes, and have a generous layer of fish. Cover with a custard made of three cupsful of milk and three well beaten eggs. Last of all add half a cupful of fine bread crumbs mixed with a little softened butter. Bake for 40 minutes. Serve from the same dish with a folded napkin around the outside. —— e Woman Thrilled by New Powder| “Every day MELLO-GLO Face Pow~ der thrills me,” says Berna Deane, beautiful prima donna, 243 West End Ave, N. Y. City. “It effaces ugly shine and produces a youthful bloom im- to achieve with other pow- ‘The purest powder known, -GLO spreads more smoothly ders.” and stays on longer. Its new French process prevents large pores, pasti- ness, flekiness and irritation. Re- member the name—MELLO-GLO. Buy a.box today.—Advertisement, “Love’s Old Sweet Song on sharp notes in A flat.” Your Baby and Mine BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED. ‘There is no accurate way in which a mother can recognize a real iliness or a temporary indisposition except by the height and constancy of the child’s temperature: It is impossible for mothers to know if a child has a temperature even as high as 104 by merely feeling his forehead; the one safe index of his condition is to “take his temperature.” Every household should possess a clinical thermometer and every mother be able to read it. Taking temperatures can be over- done. To take a child’s temperature every day is silly and useless. The jumps of temperature for insignificant causes would keep a mother in hot water all the time. But if a child is ill he will show it by other signs and symptoms and ‘then the height and duration of his fever will dictate the mother’s conduct. I have seen a child whose constant temperature was 98 bring it up to 983 after a month in the country and a gain of four pounds. So that did indicate the necessity for remedial conditions. Ninety-eight and three- fifths is normai mouth temperature. But how to read it. Take the ther- mometer in your hand. You'll find a silver line right between a row of fig- ures below and a scale of points above. Roll the thermometer back and forth until you can see this. Then notice near what long line the silver mercury has stopped and look directly below to find the large figure that represents the long line. All long lines are marked from 94 to 110 except 98, which is filled in with an angle marking 983, the normal temperature. The small lines are fifths, so that one reads the nearest large figure and adds the fifths up to the point at which the mercury has stopped. To take the temperature, first wash thermometer with cold water. Shake it down to below the point mark 97. Then insert the full mercury bulb. Hold it for at least two minutes. Then read it, wash it in cold water, shake it down again and put it away. If you can’t remember these instruc- tions, cut them out. They may come in handy some day. A temperature above 100% for any lengtH of time in- dicates a serious condition. MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILD! One mother says: ‘When Sonnie began taking his meals at the grown-ups' table a dining room chair was too low for him, so I thought of the old high chair which being much the worse for wear had been consigned to the attic. I looked it over and de- cided that the chair itself was still strong enough, so removed the arms and tray. Then I sawed a couple of inches off each leg to make it a com- fortable height for the dining room table, and dressed it up with a coat of yellow enamel. Sonnie was greatly delighted and when he is not using it I find it an excellent substitute for a kitchen stool, as it is the right height and the little back makes it more comfortable. FEATUR MILADY B EAUTIFUL BY LOIS LEEDS. Exercises for Weak Feet. It has been estimated that more than three-quarters of the population enter adult life with some sort of acquired foot trouble. Among girls this weak- ness is largely due to wearing the wrong type of shoes—shoes too high in the heel and too narrow and short in the toe. Such shoes deform and cramp the feet so that they cannot correctly perform their normal function of sup- porting the body and propelling it for- ward in walking. George T. Stafford offers a long list of useful exercises for strengthening side of your right ankle resting on your left knee. Grasp the right foot in your hand and bend it inward sideways to the left against resistance. This is called adducting the right foot. Relax and repeat with each foot. (2) Sit on a chair and stretch both legs out in front, knees straight and feet together. The toes are pointed strongly downward (plantar flexed) and the soles turned inward until they almost face each other. The feet are then bent upward at the ankle (dorsi~ flexed) and an attempt is made to keep the soles turned inward. Relax and repeat. (3) Sit on a chair with knees bent and feet flat on the floor and parallel. Curl the toes in strongly, attempting to raise the arches as high as possible but keeping the heels on the floor. Relax and repeat. After the feet have become accus< tomed to the exercises in this group, weak feet. While exercise alone can- not cure all types of weak feet, espe- cially those in advanced stages, it is a very valuable aid. Many of my readers have asked for such a list of exercises, s0 I am describing some of those ad- vised by Mr. Stafford. ‘Two types of foot exercises are rec- ognized, namely, nonweight-bearing and weight-bearing. In the former class the lollowibens “weight-bearing” exer- cises ma n: (a) st{nd erect with feet about four inches apart and parallel. Roll the weight of the body to the outer bor- ders of the feet, Curl the toes under and hold the position for 30 seconds. Relax and repeat. (b) Stand erect and place hands lightly on the back of a chair. Bend feet . upward (dorsi-flex), resting weight on heels only. Relax and re- eat. % (c) Stand erect with feet about 10 inches apart. The forepart of the right foot is adducted (turned inward) and rests on the end of a towel. Try to draw the towel toward you by clutching it with the toes of the right foot, using the heel as a pivot for the action, which occurs at and below the ankle only. The knee-cap is facing are the following: (1) Sit on a chair with the outer straight ahead. (Copyright. 1929.) MOVIES AND MOVIE PEOPLE BY MOLLIE MERRICK. HOLLYWOOD, Calif., February 18.— Movie colony is in throes of tremen- dous excitement over the tragic story of Alma Rubens, which parallels that of Wallace Reld and which has precipitat- ed a Federal investigation of the cir- cumstances surrounding the sale of morphia to the actress by a local doc- tor. Once the most beautiful brunette in cinemas, Alma Rubens is the wife of Ricardo Cortez. When she recently stabbed a doctor while being taken to a sanitarium the story of her drug ad- diction was suspected, but not con- firmed. The Federal Narcotic Bureau will investigate the charge that a prom- inent local physician sold Alma Rubens some $1,300 worth of morphia during the last five weeks. Last year Alma Rubens appeared in a large production which starred Jack Gilbert. At that time her beauty was still intact and her screen work excel- lent. Today she is a shadow of her former self. A belated Winter has settled on the village. Beauties whose athletics take the form of early morning strolls have been tramping through ice puddles with to. ‘u;ut coats have been brought out for daytime wear. And red noses worn by even the most disdainful and anemic stars. QGreat excitement among the Mary Pickford group. Twenty-five girls are here as her guests. And went disap- pointed to bed the first night because she couldn’t attend their dinner. When they have been in Hollywood a week they'll find that movieites propose and cinema exigencies dispose. Blue hair is the latest vagary. Paris tried it a year or so ago. A pale bluish tint in the rinsing water of white- haired ladles. But the village does nothing by halves. Behold then a lady in a boulevard shop in a gown of parma violet blue and with a head exactly the color and shaps of an overgrown parma violet. At the recent Hollywocd opening which launched Bessie Love, the little spinster of the colony into the glittering milky way of stellar success, I saw a number of pale lavender heads. Orchid. tinted tresses. Strange to say, when combined with dark glowing eyes and a reasonably young face, this is quitg enchanting. ¢ ‘Either that or I am losing my per- spective and going native like the rest of the colony. But don't lose hope for the colony. It/As not becoming as other places. No fear of that. The writers’ branch of the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences entertained those dialogue writers who have come westward to put_brillance into the pewter-colored product, which is the talkie. They had a more or less formal dinner. Then the evening was livened by playing “Going to Jerusalem.” If you went in for a social scheme at the tender age of 8 or 9 you probably called it “Musical Chairs.” I did. If nine are playing their are eight chairs, and when the music stops playing the fellow left out provides the humor. T'll spare you the grisly details. But it failed of its mark. A lively time was not had by all. There wasn't enough alcoholic spirit, for one thing. For an- other, it's hard to embarrass a dialogue writer who has been at the mercy of & movie picture supervisor. All of his blushes have been squandered. It has provided the low-brow gang of the village no end of laughs. Pastimes of the intelligentsia! If you sit down for a quiet moment in the lobby of a local hotel you will be approached by a chatty little woman. Quietly dressed. She’ll talk about vari- ous things. Including Shell draw one out of her pocket and show it to you. (Providing you're good- natured enough to stay this long.) And she'll gradually promise to take you studio-visiting. The hardest thing to effect in the movie village is getting in- side a studio inclosure and seeing a picture made. Listen on. The catch comes in later. After taking you to a small movie plant on Poverty Row she'll sell you a lot in a tract operated by the studio. The innocent tourist just has no chance in this vicinity. Extra girl at the automobile show— I don't give these buggies much. Too fancy. All them {emn is rotten taste, if you ask me. I like something plain and simple— Her escort—Sure, like our old flivver. Take another sniff, kid, and you'll want to walk back to Hollywood. (Copyright, 1929, by North American Newse paper Alliance.) _—_— Prices realized on Swift & Company sales of carcass beef in Washington, D. C., for week ending Saturday, February 16, 19360 on shipments sold out, ran cents to 23.00 cents per pound and averag 11" confs Der pound.—Advertisement. v CASSEROLE CARROTS AND ONION. Sliced raw carrots, three cups. Sliced naw onion, one cup. Butter, one tablespoon. Salt, one-half teaspoon. SERVES 5 OR 6 PORTIONS. Wash carrots well. Slice them and slice onions. serole. 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