Evening Star Newspaper, March 16, 1929, Page 21

WOMAN'S PAGE. THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. €, SATURDAY, Uses for Antique Music Stand BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. THE MUSIC RACK OF THIS TYPE IS EXCELLENTLY ADAPTED TO THE SERVING OF AFTERNOON TEA. Antique music racks are new among| The lower shelves are used for extra the many old pieces of furniture that cups and saucers and for the plates are being put to use for other purposes | holding sandwiches, cakes, and what- than that for which they were origi. nally intended. There are legitimate v adaptations that make them more than | hat it acts as a “curate's as- mere ornaments, curios or impractical |sistant” as well as a tea table. articles of interest to collectors alone. | Music stands of this type make excel- | It is true that they could be employed | lent end tables and occasional tables for their first use, but today sheets of | ready to be put to any use cesirable music are not left uncovered and piled |at the time to the person occupying | on shelves or held in open upright cases. | the davenport or easy chair. ‘The music is kept in music cabinets| The music holder that is more of a | behind closed doors where the pages are | rack than a stand cannot be put to| free from dust and equally available | quite so many uses. Its best modern- | when wanted. Since the old-time music | ized use is for a magazine rack of the So adequate is the music | OUR CHILDREN A Child's World. There are stars in this world, dim, | mysterious, softly beckoning to roads that are without beginniug and without end, Stars that shine so softly, show- ering light that falls as gently on the knowing face of infancy as snowtakes | come 1o kiss the sea. Wondering stars | that hint of wise men's journeyings. ! Steady stars like beacon lights of home. ! And the world is set Avith hands. Hands that come out of the blue spaces and caress the little child as soft wind lingering over Howers at evening time. hands that come to serve, strong a sure and steady like the everlasting jarms that are roand about and under- | neath, cradiing the universe; hands that lift, sensilive, quiveriug, prayl hands, like unto the hills that rise toward heaven, the hills from Wwhich strength cometh. Broken sounds drift to the ears of | childhood. Soft melodies that soothe | as lullabies: lilting songs that stir the | wakening spirit; sirong, deep voices | that hint of hidden powers of dangers | lenshed and bound; stirring voices com- | earer, nearer, yet ever far away. 5 ength from God the child is still harkening to the angel voices, the harps of the wind, the organ roll of the sea, the whispering of the stars as they sang together. Not too soon fs| that tuned to the voices of earth, | Visions drift before the eyes of child- hood. Fairies clad in mist and draped with sea foam, faivies shod in dew and | crowned with sparkling Hower’s eyes: | fairies gay and glad and beariug sweels | of dreamland. | Gallant soldiers ride in brave arra bold crusaders dash across the main- land; sailors sing on white-winged ships a-roaminug; kings and princes bow and bring their ofterings. Brave and gay and gallant are (he dreams of child- hood. Slowly, softly, wings scarce unfolding. | comes & spirit with a_word that stirs o taction, “Here your place and here your Follow " me. Gather all your s and broken thoughts and hid- | den visions. Weld them into your un- ! tarnished soul, Step across the thresh- old of your dreaming. I am life for hat you gath- ¢ scrap of melody you heard: | r that wet your cheeks cooled the fever of your yearning: 3 thought you gleaned in your quee world; weld them into one strong shin- ing weapon and go on to find your | world.” Childhood's world is locked to our entreaties. Once the door has closed | behind your questing feet there is no nswer to vour calling. You go for- | used to. 'DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX When It Is Mother-in-LLaw's Duty to Interfere. How Can Mother Win Son's Confidence Refuses to Keep Dates. I)EAR MISS DIX: My son is a fine, intelligent man of refined tastes and habits. He is successful in business and provides a nice home with all the modern luxuries and comtorts for his wife. She s a good woman, but she has no regard for the niceties of hte. Although she I8 young she is permitting herself to get fat and sloppy looking. She goes about the house in slovenly clothes and doesn't even bother to dress up much when she goes out. Her house is always untidy and when my son conles home in the evening he finds any kind of an ill-prepared, scraped up meal that is as often as not served from the kitchen stove to his plate. The inevitable result is happening. My son is disgusted with his wife and ceasing to care for her. He is getting to stay away from home #s much as he can, and I fear is falling in love with a neighbor woman who is trim and tidy and snappy, and & good cook and housekeeper, everything his wife is not I tremble for my sow’s happiness and the stability of 'his home. What can I do? ANXIOUS MOTHER. Answer: Your son’s wife needs a™Yolt that will jar her wisdom toeth loose, and it seems to me that you are the one who will have lo adininister it, which Is a pity, as mothers-in-law are not so popular that they can afford to be the bearer of unpleasant news. However, it is not so much being persona grata with your son's wife as | saving him and his home that concerns you, and while it may offend your daugiiter-in-law o be told a few plain and unpalatable truths, the time will come when she will (hank you and realize that you have been her best friend. Or else, if she fails to take your advice, she will spend many bitter hours reflecting what a fool she was 1ot 1o heed your warning. Tell her that if there ever was a time when all that 8 woman needed to hold her husband was a framed marriage certificate hanging over the bureau, those haleyon days belong to the pre-historic ages. They don't exist now, and the modern wite, if she liclds hier husband and keeps out of the divorce court, hias (o be up und doing, and on her job every minute, Maybe our grandmothers could sit down and flop after they had caught their man and safely landed him. had on, or whether she was clean or untidy. she combed her halr, or wore it frows put on her complexion or not. Maybe he never observed whether ¥, or whether she powdered her nose and Maybe grandpa wasn't interested in grandma's conversation and so he | never found out whether she was a Dumb Dora who never read anything but the, births and deaths and society notes in the newspapers, or whether she carried & peppy line of conversation, Maybe grandpa didn't care whether the house was orderly, or looked as if & cyclone had just passed through it. Maybe grandpa wasn't finicky about his eating and didn't care how his tood was served. Also. and that's not maybe, times have changed and the points of view of men and women have altered, and men expect & lot more of their wives than they _ They demand more of marriage. They won't stand for the things that their grandparents did. Certainly no modern woman can call it a day she gets married. AS n matter of fact, her labors million times more difficult to keep s husband inter an admiring attitude, than it was a sweetheart. man who only sees her when she is all dolled u fascinated for two or three hours a we and knock off work when just begin, because it is a ested and satisfied, and in Any woman can look good to a p. Any woman can keep a man ek, but it is some job when it has to be Maybe grandpa never noticed what grandma | done all day, and every day. MYRTLE MEVER ELDRED. Bables' ears give mothers a lot of trouble. ‘They are distressed first of all with their well known propensity for doubling right over and lying flat. When babies turn their heads, as babies Wwill, the ears ar crushed and it is a constant wonder to them that the bables seem w suffer not the slightest discomfort because of it. Which should | be enough to make them aware that it lisn't such & tremendously harmful habit | as it seems. | ! Ears in this soft, raglike state do fold | over easily. Later they will become | Istiffer and stay in place without so | 1 much watching. Obviously they should | be stralghtened out when mother finds | them crumpled, but no very drastic | | measures need be used to hold them | | that way. 1In fact, at this age (the first | | month or so of life), even If a cap is | | worn, the ears will turn over under it | and are more often held in place that way than straight, Meanwhile, when baby is older the {mother faces the problem of outstand- ing ears. She may be gazing at a whole family whose ears characteristi- cally stand straight out from their heads, but she feels that if baby wears # cap his ears will be different. Per- haps so. It is possible that if a mother whose | baby hus ears that incline to be out- standing would put on a snug-fitting net and tape cap the second or third month jof the child’s life and keep this on for ‘several months the ears might be | trained to lie flat against the head. At least their position would be improved. To do this for only a short time or to use & cap that did not fit snugly seems Lo me o be rather hopeless. 1f the ears have already assumed their shape, #s | they do when the child is over a year old, I doubt if much can be done with | caps.. My contention is based on the fact that it takes long months of violent | thumb-sucking to change the shape of @ child’s mouth: it takes months of con- stant pulling st an ear to drag it out of shape. 8o he rather mild effect of a snug-fitling hocd would likewise take | months of wearing to show any appre- | Clable effect, When the small boy begins to wear { caps the mother should pa e atten- | tion to their fit, for if the ear has an | inclination to stand out the constant pressure of a cap or hat riding on the | Up 1sn’t goiug to discourage this tend- | ency. Caps should fit about one inch above the ear. If placed lower, with | une side pressing the ear out, the effect |18 ludicrous and this constant pressure { will undoubiedly accentuate the tend- ency to stand out. We heartily applaud the mother who | uses every means of correcting some of | | | | | + sized silk tle with it. FEATURES.” PARIS.—Turn-over collars and important bow ties under them are booming, it seems o me. One Jane Regny suil of beige and brown jersey has a medium buttons, “You can't change human nature.” | The cardigan jacket, au contraire, has no collar nor any the original set of raw traits remains This is one of those popular half-truths. | from generation to generation for a racks, or music stands as they were | type. so much in evidence today, in interchangeably called, are of hte open- | which the magazines are held upright shelf variety, other uses are made of |2nd not flal. It was so that the sheet them. | or book musie was intended to be kept. Low music stands with shelves make | The shape of the rack immediately | delightful afternoon tea tables. One | indicates this. in the writer's possession has been so| Artists find this style of music rack used for years. It once belonged to|just the thing to hold portfolios of | “Old Mother Goose.” The stand has | Water colors, etchings, prints, etc., or | four shelves. Beneath the lowest one |for sheets of plain charcoal or water is a good sized drawer, rather shallow, | color paper, intended for future use. but quite sufficient to hold the flat Much-traveled people who have hosts silver, and some freshly laundered tea |of photographs delight in such racks, napkins. The stand is low and large | for in them photographs can be gone enough to hoid the tea service on the |over conveniently and the ones desired top and all the needed accessory dishes, | at the moment selected without dis- such as the lemon plate and some of | turbing others. the cups. I . (Copyright, 1920.) The Sidewalks of Washington A man doesn’t mean what he says milllon ycars, their growth and de- when he says that human nature | velopment in each person are so mark- doesn’t change, What he really means ealy allered by training and education, is that the inborn traits and capacities by social customs and institutions, that out of which the human animal emerges | for all intents and purposes you have into a human being remain substan- | a new individual. tially the same from age to age. Another way of saying In this sense the statement is true. | thing is that in A thousand or even & milllon years bature is & biological product it produce little or no change so far as | changes very slowly, if at all. In so the native endowment is concerned. | far as human nature is the result of The man of the Lwentleth century is!social pressure and social inheritance no different in his inborn set of re- it changes fajrly rapidly, depending action patterns, such as instincts and | upon the progress of the race. emotions, from the ancient Greek who | To change the raw stuff out of which lived before the Christian era or lllt‘h“ma“ nature develops is a slow and still more ancient Babylonian and the | tedious process. Perhaps the most Egyptian, A‘rflem‘l\'e means is through proper This original nature, however, never | breeding. But to change human na- acts in the raw. From the day of his | lure as the product of social forees in | birth every person is brought under the | the environment is a relatively swift | soctal pressure of the peculiar customs | Process. This type of change is going | and traditions of the society in which | 98 &ll the time, otherwise we are worse And these influences pro- then foolish to spend so much time ward and memory's dim scroll is all that you retain. Hold that and it may | be one day you can be child enough to | enter there again. Copyright, 1929.) nature’s errors, but it takes time and | patience. It can't be done in u day. JABBY The point is, it has to be done, Every fo work with women who are neatly dressed: ) learned to control their tempers and tongues. ho are eflicient, and who are cheerful about what they have to do, not whiners, and if the wife holds hey o | i [ 1 man nowadays goes from his wife who are alert mentally; who have she has to offer good compelition. She also Las to be easy on the eyes, and bleasant to get along with, and turn out & workman-like job of her housekeeping, ihe e - s0 far as human The lazy, slouchy, naggy wife, who is too indolent to keep herself clean, or give her husband good food, or to try to entertain and amuse him, is just as sure to go bankrupt now and lose her husband as any business man would be certain | to fail who kept & dirty store with & lot of shopworn goods on the shelves, that | he was too trifling even to try to sell. Tell your daughter-in-law that she is about to lose out to a better woman. i Maybe that will wake her up and make her get busy. DOROTHY DIX. il | l)EAH. DOROTHY DIX: I am a mother of one son 14 years old and I wonder if you can tell me why he does not tell me that he smokes? 1 have reason | to know that he does smoke and feel hurt that he does not tell me, because I ! have never been strict with him, and have even talked over the smoking business with him. Nor do I particularly object as long as” he does it in moderation. But why doesn't he tell me? ‘T BY THORNTON Some time ago a lively discussion among readers was printed in this column concerning the friendliness or unfriendiiness of Washington folks. It | was impossible to publish more than a | £mall number of the many letters re- ceived. It all hngponed because some one de- | clared to the writer that he was lonely in our town. A host of persons agreed with the lonelv one that we are un- friendly to the stranger. As many more sprang to the defense of our tradi- | tional hospitality. As a fitting con- | clusion, we received the following letter two deys ago. We believe it is worthy of publication. “Dear sfr: A number of weeks ago there appeared in your column sever: letters from various Washingtonians and others discussing with great heat whether or not the inhabitants of this city were hospitable. There were, as I recall it, many instances gquoted on | each side in support of their beliefs, and also, if my memory serves me rightly, after the- lengthy discussion on each side, the expense of the writing materials, much heavy artillery, a lot of smoke, and a bunch of choice epi- thets, the discussion ended right where 1t started. “At that time I did not enter the fray, as the smoke and dust made the | position of the contestants obscure, and besides, at that time, I had no am- munition worth talking about. _Cir- cumstances have changed and I beg leave to enter (without fanfare of trumpet) the battle-royal, have my fling and retire hastily before some itinerant i‘?‘u;‘mm blows my contentions sky- igh. “During the past 10 days, ending | Monday, the 1ith, there were in| ‘Washington 160 Australians who were on an educational tour in this country. | ‘They stayed for five days at the navy vard, that is, until Wednesday, the 6th, at which time they were to go into the hemes of citizens of this city. “Two organizations, the Rotary Club | and the Boy Scouts of America, had | promised to make arrangements for | the housing of these boys. There was some doubt if there would be sufficient | SOME ASKED FOR applicants to take | NINE BOYS- | care of all the | | | boys and some anxiety was ex- * pressed by some of \ the officials, As 4 | the time arrived, = | however, t h e y [(yel | found that while there were 150 boys to be accom- modated there were 210 people who desired to house the Aus- traifans, some of {4 ’ om || “The above is the ammunition T men- | tioned and while it may be contested on | the ground that this was a verv un- | usual case, I think it shows that Wash- | ingtonians are, for the most part, will- ing to help in matters of this kind. “I don't give a hang if this is pub- ( | | Law Cases | ! When May Damages Be Recov- ered_jor Injuries Resulting From Mental Shock? BY THE COUNSELLOR. FISHER. lished or not, but if you wish to start the argument again’ and arouse the heavy artillery and anger some of the readers—why—let her rip, Sincerely, A Constant Reader.” Without further comment we should like to add that apparently these offers were made at a time when many house- holders could have rented rooms with- out difficulty. e The Washington telephone directory I'sts 43 schools of dancing. Some of the patrons are elderly folks who were more familiar with the square dance than ~with the modern terpsicho- rean intricacies. Many of the young people visit danc- ing academies with partner who her on- Dancing and bridge are tite two outstanding social graces with- out which one may as well retire to the obscurity of four walls, The two Gov- ernment service academies have long since recog- nized the neces- sity for instructicn in dancing and mas- ters ‘are engaged to teach the cadets the latest steps. Visiting the local dancing schools, the tendency is to smother a chuckle at those who are striving desperately to fathom the depths of fancy steps. It is not long before the onlooker is impressed with the seriousness with which the students regard the work— if it may be called work. “The Blue DANCING WITH A PARTNER WHO'I(NOW! HER ONIONS! | Danube” is played and an elderly cou- ple “show up the young folks us they waltz gracefully abomt the floor. The genuine dyed-in-the-wool waltz i doubtless the most charming of all when it comes to hopping around in what is known as the “hip flin Forty-three dancing schools is not an excessive number for a city such as| social Washington. R The conductor didn’t see the young lady who attempted to get on the cw. He slammed the door and in doing so she was struck on the head. He was a young conductor and hastened to certain the yéung woman's name. He visioned a law-suit and perhaps the s of his job. There was no doubt been injured. ht,” said she tly, in questioning. The pain would soon pass. And jobs are hard to get. The milk of human kindness still flows. WHO REMEMBERS? MANN Rexistered U. 8. Pa Rallroad Co. contracted | Mitchell to carry the body of her deceased husband over its line | ‘The Shore with Mrs to Gray City. She purchased a ti and boardered the train on which her husband’s body was carried. At one of the junctions, she made inquiry as to the security of the body and discovered that it was nol on board and that none of the officials | knew anything about its whereaboul On learning of the situation, she faiy ed and fell on the platform, as & re- sult of which she was severely injured. The company contested her suit for ) e ground that there can be no recovery for fear, shock or men- tal suffering when caused by mere negligence of another if there was no physical impact The court. ho Mitchell to obtai “Physical injury wever, permitted Mrs. a judgment, stating occurring contem- oraneo with or immediately fol- owing fright or other mental shock | i | | | When we used to do all kinds of stunts on the old iron awning poles that used to greom fhe sidewalks in mey be the basis on which recovery of damages s aliowed,” front of nearly every business house or store, Daddy say muvver habin’ & hen party. We's listenin’ to em cacklin’, Everyday Psychology BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. A Shrinking World. ‘The world in 1522 was 140 times as Iarge as it was in 1899, so far as means of transportation were concerned. By 1522 Magellan had circumnavigated the globe in three years. Nellie Bly, in 1899, made it in 72 days. 1In 1903, Frederick cut the world down to three-fourths of its 1899 size by get ting around it in b4 days. Then Me: in 1912, went around the world in 35 days, thereby making it shrink to two- | thirds of its 1903 . Finally, Mears tand Collins, in 1928, went around the { world in 23 days, cutting it down to| | three-fifths of the 1913 size. A non- | stop airplane flight, which is sures to | be made in & very few years, ought to | reduce the transportation size of the world to at least one-half of what it | is 1mow, | Rapid transportation amounts to a | | concentration of populations. And this | | concentration means that ideas, friend- | {1y and unfriendly, are also focused, popularized and quickly put into action If the group-mind theory in soclal psy chology has any significance, one may | speculate a little and say that the world populations will soon be one big population. Rapid transportation and communication make for democ: 3 A little more than a decade ago some | vrominent men supposed that a World | War, such s Look place between 1914 | and 1918, was an impossibility. But | twenty-odd nations, taking part in a gigantic struggle, only prove that a large community of nations was ale ready in existence. The world had grown too small for national isolation. ‘The conditions that made for a Wol War speak well for the future, World | peace is_entirely within the range of | possibility, because the nations are con- | stantly getting more and more in touch | with one another, both politically and | commercially. - 5 Chiffonade Dressing. Mix one-half cupful of salad oil with four tablespoonfuls of vinegar, one tea- spoonful of salt, one-eighth teaspoon- ful of pepper, one tablespoonful of minced parsley, one finely chopped, hard-boiled egg, two tablespoonfuls of | | chopped pimento, and one teaspoonful of minced olives. Chill the mixture, then beat with a fork until thickened |and ereamy. Serve with hearts of let- tuce. My Neighbor Says: When slipping geraniums, cut & britach three (o six inches long, carefully re the lower leaves and put the branch i water to cover it halfway up, Do not chunge the water, but udd just enough dafly to keep it ut the same level. "Roots will soon ap- pear and the sips may then be planted in eurth. Label each row of seeds &s you plant them in your indour boxes with small wooden lubels on which the name of the plant is printed. Seed envelopes placed over fade out when they come in contact with water used in sprinkling After slipping geranjums, insert a grain of rye or oats in the end of cach slip and plant it in earth, Keep the earth moist and the slips will grow rapidly, Put Easter lily bulbs in the ground after the plants are through blooming. They will blessom again during the Summer or early Fall. Answer: Because he is a They get a great kick out of hid and locked boxes, and secret societies curdling oaths. boy, and boys of that age are ing things. t lways secretive ‘That is why they with passwords, and signs, and blood Besides, it makes your son feel that he is grown-up, and a real man of the world to be doing something on his own initiative and without even consulting | sense of adventure in thinking that he is pulling | you. Also there is a certain the wool over your eyes. Don't worry over all of this. and you will remember how you used to over secrets that you never told your mother, and how dates with boys for months before she ever found it out. Don't try to force your boy's confidence. tight as a clam. There is nothing the prying into all their little affairs. to talk things over with your counsel upon him. My advice to you is to meet this situation with humor. Don't reproach him with doing it. if he smokes. casually offer him one. That, and the You are wise and he will think you things to. It outrages their sense a confidence to be worth anything has to be spontaneous. twinkle in your eye, will let him s are a good sport that a fellow can tell | Try to think back to your own adolescence | whisper in corners with girls, and giggle young resent so much as their parents of privacy. Anyway, When your boy wants you he will listen to your counsel, but you can't force Don't ask Johnny But get a box of cigarettes, and that DOROTHY DIX. I)EAR MISS DIX: I have been engaged to & man for three years who has come to ste me every Saturday the week. Latel that it bores him to expect this of him? Answer: of the to let him come at all. regard his dates with you as privile to shirk, (Copyrixht, 1929.) ® Hats Inspired b lay and Sunday and one y he has been going off somewhere for his 1 to have to keep regular dates. You have the right, but to what end? engagement and wants to break it o That might stimul ges instead of obligations that he t or two nights during week ends and says Don't you think I have a right PERPLEXED, Evidently he has wearied fT. Better beat him to it, and refuse Rte his interest in you and make him ries DOROTHY DIX, Aviation BY MARY MARSHALL. The automobile 20 years or so ago brought the mushroom hat and eventu- ally the hat that would come far enough down over the head to stay in place without the help of pins and veils. And within the past few years the airplane has brought the more closely fitting ear-covering helmat. Let the ingenuity of man devise HELMET-SHAPED JERSEY SPORT HAT WITH TIE STRINGS UNDER THE CHIN. some one place to another and the milli- ners would doubtless respond with still another type of head covering. Undoubtedly these new helmet-shaped hats—with the variations in the form of skull caps—have bsen inspired b aviation—and yet some of them do 10ol amazingly lke swimming cap In fact the aviators helmet and the up-to-date | swimming cap are as like as Lwo pea: in a pod. Not precisely wlike, but then any woman who has ever shelled peas with her eyes open knows that no two peas in a pod are ’Jrerlsrly alike. ‘The Important fu as we remalned purely terrestrial we could go on wearing hats that were merely lald on the head-anchored more or less securely by a pin or two. But when we took o the other ele- ments—alr and water- we had to adopt a style of headgear that really covered our heads. g It is an Interesting thing that prac- tically every aviatrix who speaks of the subject of the choice of dress in flying insists that the duties of a pilot demand no special costume at all, aside from something warm and skirts short enough o keep out of the way. But if flying had come into fashion 50 years ago—then, forsooth, special eostumes would have been needed. As it s, fash- new method of getting from ! act is that so long | lon had already paved the way for it by providing women with clothes that were in every way as workable and convenient as those worn by men, i This week’s circular consists of a dia- | eram pattern for a back and front | apron that can also be used for a | ehild's pinafore. 1t fs very simple and !vet trim and smart in appearance, you would like a copy please send me & stamped, self-addressed envelope and I will gladly send it to you, Copyright, 1929.) MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST, Grapetru, Oatmeal Wiih Cream, Kidney Chops. Potato Cakes, Popove Brown Sweel Potatoes. Green Peas. Tomato Salad, French Dressing. Cottage Pudding, Chocolute Sauce. Coffee. SUPPER. ter a la Newberg, Toasted Crackers. Preserved Cherries. Light Fruit Cake. Tea. POPOVERS. Beat three eges i deep bowl, fdd three cups milk, three cups flour and pinch salt. Beat all thoroughly, m pans r. This Quantity makes three dozen. COTTAGE PUDDING, CHOCO- LATE SAUCE. Cream together (wo tablespoons butter and one cup powdered sugar, add beaten yolks Lwo eggs, beut well; add one cup milk alternately with three cups flour mixed and sifted with two te; spoons buking powder and or half teaspoon salt; fold in stiffly- beaten whites and bake, covered, in buttered mold until done. Berve with chocolate sauce. LIGHT FRUIT CAKE. One-half cup butter, one cup sugar, two eggs, one-half cup milk, one cup raisins, one cup currants, one-quarter pound citron or lemon peel cut fine, one-half teaspoon soda, one teaspoon cream of tartar, one teaspoon vanilla, one-haif teaspoon salt; flour enough to make medium Stiff batter. Bake in slow oven, ve robber caves, | you had been having | You will only shut him up nl If | “I hope the new immigration law includes drastic restrictions on cals from Persia.” i (Copyright, 1929 i SPRINGTIME | 1 No great lover of cities. there is' one city, our Washington, that I can' [say T lave, for this. if for mo other v s & country charm. | { I know no other city in all our wide United Stutes where Spring so quickly veaches in fingers and turns the highways green and gold. Gold is in the magn:ficent display | of forsythia or golden bells around the Monumedt. Geld 1s in the splendid | plantings of cornelian “cherry” in Washinglon Circle. Aund green is in the first onrush of leafage —sull only | buds for the most park, but present | if you will look for it—in the trees that arch acress the long wistful avenues | named for the States, the windings of | the Tidal Basin and ' the drives along | the Potomac. For it is & curious fact that Spring | comes first to the City of Washington. | It will not be nearly so noticeable in | the country for & week. , One reason may be that the heat from the fur- | naces, the shelter from the wind pro- vided by the buildings creates a little local climate warmer than in the coun- try’s fresher, sharper airs. But we must sllow, t0o, for the inieresting fact that the native wildflowers are not so swilt Lo bloom as many garden plants. Crocus and snowdrop and squill, these come to us from Persia and Palestine, Sicily and Africa, and for some strange | reason they retain, as it were, the mem- ory of Springs that begin in February, | And so it is that the rudest winds of | March cannot hold them back. BY D. C. PEATTIE. Home in Good Taste BY SARA HILAND. Homemakers are trying very hard to | 9el away from the regulation medjcine cabinets for bathrooms, and here is an arrangement which will take their place very charmingly. There are other advantages to this Dbesides its decorative efiect and fore- most js that of the attention which is sure to be given its order. There is | something aboyt the old-time medicin cabinet that defies good order. No mat- | ter how good our intentions may be about keepiug this just as it should be, there inevitably comes a time when we trust the door which looks like nothing ! (more than & mirror to keep the, | secret of our disorder. It Is not unti | we get rheumatism balm on our tooth | brush or tooth paste on our sunburned | nose that we realize the importance of | “& place for everything and everything |in its plac ‘The mirror shown is an ordinary type and the shelves are recessed to a depth of about four inches. With everything in plain sight, there is an incentive toward perfect order, and the dressin, table below is an accessory apvrechle! in any bathroom. (Copyright, 1020.) i he lives. foundly affect his whole being. They determine his personality. Thus while | I e g (ONE of the greatest collections of | Latin-American music extant has | Lezen gotten together in Washington | and is available at the Pan-American Union to all who are interested. Everything native to the new world is | here. From the drums of the Incas to thesyncopated| \ \ BY HERBERT melodies of the| moderns -—all are | included in the col- lection. ' This musie of the | new world is 10 be | ¢ ‘presented to the old within 8 few S months by an 'Y/ American bund. | {7 capt. William J. | -7 Staunard, leader of | | the United Siates | Army Baud, hus | | been working for weeks with Frank- lin Adams of the | Fan - American Union, evolving | musical programs for presentation at the Ibero-American exposition at Seville, Spain. The band Will be a part of this country’s exhibit | at the exposition. The show will be a | sort of a little world’s fair for the 21 American republics, Spaiy and Portugal. 1 L Capt. Stannard turned to the Pan- American Union for help after he had | hit & snag in preparing his programs of native North American music. When you have played & few Negro spirituals, half a dozen folk songs and the late: jazz hit, you're about through with the music of the United States, says the | captain. But now that he has access | to the Latin-American collection his troubles have largely disappeared. Incidentwlly this is the first time in | history the band has ever gone so far beyond the borders of this cuuntry on such a misston. Iis 90 members enlisted men o the Army - are eager o be off. There are three service bands—the Marine, the Army and the Navy- -in the Naiional Capital, and all are crack out- nts. Washingion takes them for| granted, listening to them in the parks two or three times a week in the Summer and twice a day on the radio | in the Winter. | | How their leaders got such musicians | is quite a mystery, for critics have said | there are no better bands in the world. | Pride of service and pride of uniform | may explain it. It could hardly be the ey, for remuneration runs frum $72 | $150 & month, with $1.95 & day for sub- | sistence. It is not travel, for the bands | seldom leave Washington. Qccasioually | one makes a concert tour, but all of the earnings—-il any—go to charity. The bandsmen are not permitted to make | any personal profit from their concerts, Members of the bands are not rated | for pay as musicians, but as soldiers. One of the three highest paid men in the Navy Band. for example, s a drummer. One of the lowest is & crack violinist. | Almost every one is serving for a frac- | tion of what he could get i & coms | mercial band. The freedom and informality that has marked (he life of Mrs. Herbert Hoover Was never more aptly shown than in her anuouncement that she did uot desive the services of a Secret Service man when she goes in public aloue. i ‘The question of how Mrs. Hoover will adapt herself (o the formal restrictions of the life of & lady of the White House has caused quite & bit of discussion among her friends. It nuw appears that for her these restrictions wiil lavgely disappear, and that under her mum‘ the home of Presidents wili tuke on & new intimac: Mrs. Warren G. Harding was the first mistress of the White House 10 be ac- compunied by a Secrct Service man when she appeared i public. Mrs. ) Coolidge continued the practice for the six years she was First Lady. 1 To Mrs, Coolidge the fact that she was followed everywhere she went by a Secret Service man struck her as bor- dering on the absurd, but she neverthe- less put up with it. There are numer- ous reports of necaslons when she teok great delight in poking fun At Rer es- and money on schools and churches, (Copyright, 1929 A WASHINGTON DAYBQOK C. PLUMMER. cort. Her naturalness and manship were always in evidence.: ‘That was manifested on the occasion of her visit to an art exhibition in Washington shortly before she lefc the WAL one paint in. theloepectiyng one poin ction Mrs. Coolidge engaged in conversation with one of the artists. She found that they had mutual tastes, ideas and frien and she stayed and stayed and stayea, much to the anxiety of her Secret ferv- ice attendant, who knew she had an engagement elsewhere toward which he felt they should be wending their way. At any rate. Mrs. Coolidge looked ovi at him, smiled mischievously and sai “You needn't be jingling yonr qu ters. I am having a good tim: and I am going to stay just as long as I want to." A physician who formerly resided in Washinglon is authority ior another anecdote along this line. He says he was crossing & Washing- ton street one day when two automo- biles collided ut the Intersection, and he turned to leck at the wreck, meanwhile continuing across the street. He bumped into some- ) body and became vaguely aware that he had a'mest + tripped a woman. “Jg With one hand he reached for her arm and kept her from falling, continuing _ to look intently at the collision. He was not aware that he was sull eling- ing to her arm when & feminine voice sald: A “Don’t vou think you've held my arm long enough?®” He looked at her. W perceive, to his astonishmernt, that it was Mrs. Coolidge with whom hie had collided. She was smiling broadly, accepted his profuse apologles and explained that she, too, Liad ‘been absorbed with the suto’ mishap. ‘Then she turned to her Secret Service companion, who was standing stil. a few feel away, also guzing rapily at thi smash-up, und summoned him from his absorption i other things than her wellare with “Well, Mr. the detatls, along.” A ——, If you've observed all think we'll he getting 'rmon for Today BY REV. JONN R. GUNN. ‘Text: “If, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is ae- ceptable to God."~—1 Peter 1.0, No matter how well we do, there will always be some who will deal wrongful- ly with us. You may be straight and honest in your dealings, and strive to treat everybody fairly, but there will be some who will seek to take advantage of you and treat you unjustly. Be as thoughtful and courteous as you may, Iyou will find everywhere some | who will not be 50 considerate of you. 1Often you will be slighted, buffeted and | mistreated, though you be ever so kind, {3004 mannered und well behaved. Do ngt be surprised at this. We ars taught W return good for evil, but we are not assured thst our good will ai- ways be retur in kind. There was One concerning whom the testimony was, “I find no fault i him at all"; yet they called Him Beelzebub! 1f the anly faultless one was treated so, what may we expect? not allow ill treatment to make you cynical. Those who return evil for your good are the exceptions, net the general run. Most people are as good 1o you as you are to them—are they not? Do not lower your ideal! Go on with your well-doing. Do not whine or despair because you are misunderstood and ill treated by & few people. Do right for the sake of right, let others do as they may. Above all, never stoop to vengeance. It may be hard to suffer w at the hands of others and not reteligte. Yet, what 13 to be gained by rstalistient Worse than