Evening Star Newspaper, March 26, 1929, Page 41

WOMAN'S PAGE.” e MILADY BEAUTIFUL BY LOI Complexion Care. Dear Miss Lecds—Please tell me how to take care of my in both night and morning. My face has a reddish tinge due to little red blotches and freckles, and it is oily. with a lot of blackheads and whiteheads. There are wrinkles and puffiness under my eyes. Some one ad- vised me to use cleansing cream instead of soap cn my face, but since doing so my skin feels rough and sore. A READER. Answer—Your wisest plan is to ask your doctor whether the “red blotches” are some form of skin disease or mere- 1y due to wrong local treatment. If the latter is the case you should wash your face with warm water and pure castile soap every night at bedtime. PRinse in clean warm water. Remove the black- heads with a comedo expressor and open the Jarger whiteheads with a sterilized needie. Gently press out tha contents and ap- ply an antiseptic lotion. Peroxide will do. Rinse your face in clean cold water, dry carefully and spread on an acne cream, or zinc ointment. Leave this on overnight. Next morning wash your face in cold water and dry carefully. Pat on an astringent such as witch h: In addition to thcse simpie local treatments be careful to keep your gen- eral health at par. Avoid constipation Exercise daily. Walk four or five miles & day outdoors. Take a warm cleansing bath every night and give your body a good, hard rubdown with a coarse, dry towel eyery morning. Consult an eye specialist. Eye strain may be causing the wrinkles. Puffiness under the eyes often results from internal derange- ments; ask your doctor to examine you and prescribe. LOIS LEEDS. A Peroxide Blonde, Dear Miss Leeds—I bleached my hair with peroxide, but it keeps growing in dark at the roots and in the under lay- ers. How can I overcome this streaked effect? Please don't tell me to let my hair become its natural color, which is light brown. I wanta perma;ent wsve. Answer—I see that you know the cor- rect solution to your problem, but you do not want to accept it. There is no ‘way under the sun by which you can prevent your hair growing in dark at the roots. If you are determined to re- main a peroxide blonde you must have your hair retouched with peroxide at the roots and underneath at regular in- tervals. Do not use the bleach over the ends of hair that have already been robbed of their natural color, but con- fine the retouching to the new growth S LEEDS. One application of peroxide will not ordinarily harm your hair, but repeated applications resilt in the dull, straw- like appearance that is associated with the peroxide blonde’s hair. It Is scarcely possible for vou to make a good job of retouching_your own head: g0 to an experienced benuty operator for the treatments, Bleached hair will take a steam permanent vave, provided it is not overmatched. The permanent will of course make the hair drier and more brittle than it already is. LOIS LEEDS. Exercises. V. G.—I chall bo very glad to send you description of the exercises you de- sire if you will write again for them and remember to inclose a stamped, self- addressed envelope with your request. Your hips woll no- doubt grow larger as you mature. LOIS LEEDS. Delores Marie—You are a little un- derweight. Try to gain a few pounds. Do not use curling irons, but encourage the natural wave in your hair with wa- ter waving combs or have your hair fin- ger waved. You are not a pure blonde so that it is natural for your hair to turn darker gradually. If you begin to bleach it, it will keep growing in dark at the roots and wiil have to be retouched regularly. The effect of the sun on the hair is usually to bleach it and make it streaky if you go without a hat. Your friend should weigh between 109 and 113 pounds to conform to the average standard. Her hips and calf are small; | her ankle is large. Good colors for her to wear include pastel pinks, pale and medium blues, blue-greens, almond green, greenish-yellow, pale yellow, Bur- gundy, tan, gray, cream, Davy Jones lue with red trimming, old rose, beige, of dark hair. KEEPING MENTALLY FIT BY JOSEPH Behaviorism. Now and again, by letter and directly, I am asked whether I am a behaviorist. The answer is, “Yes.” Few modern psychologists are not. But the test question is, What kind of a behaviorist? Psychology is the study of mental be- havior. On that the agreement is fairly complete. But Dr. John B. Watson and ; few of his followers claim the term psychology to commit suicide. It came about in this way: An inter- tions it offers. It is that extreme doc- trine, comforting as it may be to believe it, that has aroused strong protest. It shuts out heredity almost entirely. Along with the great majority of my Zfellow psychologists, I am not that kind ©f a behaviorist. The extreme behaviorist holds that all we know of a dog’s mental life is what we infer from the dog’s behavior. And that's all you need to know of a man. It's all in the muscles and what the muscles have learned to do. Talk- another kind of behavior of what you think you mind has as little to do as your so-called con- your images, all of which much rubbish that must be the discard if psychology is 1o be a real science like physics. haviorism sounds psychology had so long set up false differences and been on the wrong trail and because the right trail lies pre- cisely where all behaviorists are tracing it—in the clues of bodily behavior to begin with—it doesn’t follow, by many miles, that that is where all ends and that by discarding ancient errors you discover new truths. As a matter of fact, the conditioned response explains very little and the truth is that men behave like human beings because they are not slaves of such responses. The vastly important truth is that we are quite different enough to begin with to make those differences count heavily in all we do WHO REMEMBERS? BY DICK MANSFIELD. Registered U. 8. Patent Office. ‘When the famous temper: “Ten Nights in a Bar Room,” gave » real thrill at your neighborhood or opera house, 5 bronze, golden brown, orchid and violet. JASTROW. and become. Whether I sg:lk English or Choctaw is wholly a result of my up- | bringing, but what I say in any lan- guage depends on my ability to do something that we still do well to call thinking. Extreme behaviorism adds more confusion than enlightenment to the psychologist's task and to the lay- man’s comprehension. (Coprright. 1929 Home in Good Taste BY SARA HILAND. A very convenient article for the ever-busy hostess is a handle which may be clamped to any plate and make of it a basket on which to carry viands to_un d guests. In accompanying illustration such a handle is shown attached to & plate. It is springy enough to accom- modate itself to various sizes of plates, s0 you have the pleasure of having a variety of sandwich or cake plates. One day a china plate may come . THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX The One Thing Worse Than Being Talked to Death—Chasing the Bugaboo Concerning the Adopted Child. i] EAR MISS DIX: My trouble is that I am being talked to death. My i osteopath talks incessantly while giving me a treatment, my hairdresser likewise. My dentist wastes about half of the precious and expensive hour in | gossip. T stand on my aching feet to be fitted while my dressmaker sits on the foor at my feet and talks and talks and talks. When I dance the boy friend talks right into my face. I have several intimate friends who ring me up and monologue over the telephone, and when I meet them they fix me, like the Ancient Mariner, with their glittering eye while they babble and bebble and { babble. How miich more restful this world would be if people didn't talk so much. Don't you agree with me? MARGUERITE. Answer: !’ndnubudly it would be more restful, but a little dull, don't you think? Have you ever lived in the house with one of those silent, self-contained persons, who never start a conversation or make an observation or a comment or say a word that you don't have to drag out of them with a corkscrew? They are just about as companionable as a stone image would be, and they got on Wym' rmj‘ves because you never know what they are thinking or what they ! want to do or whether they are pleased or displeased, and you get to the point where you can hardly restrain yourself from sticking pins and needles in them | to see if you can get any human reaction out of them. Of course. you do get tired of the brook that babbles on and on forever | without ever stopping. but better the one who talks too much than the one who | doesn't talk at all. Personally, I like to hear people talk and I shouldn't in the | least mind your loquacious doctor and dentist and dressmaker and boy friend, | because each of them would have touched life at a dozen angles I have not | experienced and they would have things to tell me that would be strange and | interesting to me. Perhaps it is because we are so used to talking that it makes those who don’t talk scem glum. Especially women. Nobody likes a silent woman. A girl who has nothing to say is avoided by boys as if she had some meslcnl deformity. The flapper who is a riot with the cake-eaters is the little chatterbox that | nobody can shut up. Women feel the same way. We all groan inwardly when we have to ask some cumb woman to our parties, for well we know she will wet-blanket the occasion, and especially do we know that the man with her at dinner will hate us for the weary hour he will have in trying to entertain her. For American men are spoiled. They exgect women to keep the conversation running, and when they don't they feel themselves grievously ill used and put upon and they flee from the tongue-tied lady as from a pest. Of course, husbands make a standing joke of their wives talking too much. Apparently they agree with Rip Van Winkle, who, when the dwarf in the mountains conveyed to him the information that he had nine sisters and they were all dumb, exclaimed: “My, what wives they would make!” But in reality no man wants that kind of a wife. The happy homes are not those presided over by silent women, but by those cheery little bodies who chirp like a canary in a cage, the sort of women who know everything that is happening in the neighborhood and who can't go down the street without seeing something funny and interesting out of which they can make a good story to tell at dinner. ‘Why, the main thing that is the matter with domestic life is that there isn't enough conversation in it. Whenever you find a family in which the husband and wife can talk endlessly together you will find a happy one and one in which there is no danger of the husband getting tired of his Mary Jane and wanting to swap her off for a new human phonograph with fresh records. Perhaps your friends do talk too much, Marguerite. I'll admit that there are times when we all crave bursts of eloquent silence, but even so, better too much talk than no talk at all. Don't forget that solitary confinement is the most drastic punishment that can be inflicted on criminals. There are worse things than a talk fest. There is silence. e DO DIX. DEAR MISS DIX: My husband and I, being childless, have adopted a little boy to whom we are devoted. He was a poor, sick little thing, but with much care and trouble we have nursed him into health and now he is fine. Some of our best friends think we have done a very mad thing and they tell us that when our baby grows up and finds out that he is only an adopted child he will leave us or else turn against us and do everything bad to us that he can. Do you think our friends are right? We love this baby as if it were our own, perhaps more, just because he was a helpless, homeless orphan, and we shall give him every chance in life that it is in our power to give. JUST A MOTHER. Answer: Don't listen to any such idiotic talk from your friends. Use you own common sense in deciding this question. Does love beget hate? Does k'::dnesu inspire malice? Does tenderness beget bitterness? No. A thousand times, no. ‘Why should & child turn against you when it grows up, when it has nothing to remember except that you and your husband have given it a mother's and a father’s love and that you have surrounded it with care and tenderness all of its life? Such an idea is perfectly ridiculous, and I wonder that you should have lent an ear to it for a moment. If your little orphan boy feels anything when he learns that he is an adopted child and not your own, it will be an added sense of gratitude toward you for giving him a home and a name and a place in society instead of leaving him to the cold mercy of an institution. Of course, your boy leave when he grows up. So he would if he were your own son. ‘Thatls Itfe. t there is no more danger of his turning t you or malevolently working some wrong upon you than there would be if you had borne him instead of adopted him. adopting a child you take a chance on his heredity, but not forth with the dainty refreshments and another day a silver one will take its place. What a simple way to have completeness in your color scheme! ‘This handle is silver plated and its shiny surface lends an air of attractive- ness makes even the simplest luncheon seem like a carefully planned party. ‘The handle may also hold a plate fifled with fruit and placed in the cen- ter of the dining table or buffet. And how delighted a guest would be to find a variety of fruit so arranged on the small table or dresser in her bedroom! ‘Washington History BY DONALD A. CRAIG. ‘March 26, 1859.—Discouraging reports were brought to the city today by the Potomac River fishermen, who supply the local markets with early Spring fish. declare that the s! re rapidly falling off in quantit; Th supply has fallen off to such an extent, according to some reports, that those who fish with gill nets are catching practically nothing at all. Two_vessels which came up today from the lower river brought each only Of course, in the wisest person knows just how far that affects the indidivual nor how much it can be modified by environment. Anyway, there are mighty few of us who have not some strain of blood in us that we would hate to see come out in our offspring. So go along and be happy with your little boy. You have every chance of huturnmxwtmbouuedzymmmmwm. and you may be very sure that you are doing one of the noblest things in the world when you take a poor, little helpless baby and give it & mother’s and a father’s love and care. % DOROTHY DIX. D!h MISS DIX: I have a fine little wife and two children, but every Winter her brother parks himself on us and never offers to gly a cent for his living. I only make $20 a week, while he makes twice that and has nobody to look after but himself. What would you suggest? SAM. Answer: Send him a board bill. Refuse to let yourself be an easy mark for a deadbeat. Grafting relatives are the curse of the world. Nearly every family is afflicted with one of these human sponges, but it is their own fault. R One good, big bill would rid them of the pest forever. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1929.) Active mornings demand Quick UAKER OATS full-flavored—delicious « ° e about 200 shad. To catch even this small number five or six gill nets were |employed for a whole day. Whether this is only a temporary condition or is an indication that shad are being pe manently reduced in numbers in the Potomac River is a matter for muc speculation among fishermen and mar- ket dealers. ‘The City Council has at last taken notice of the unsightly condition of the present Center Market house. It now seems likely that the Council will soon take steps which will lead to the erec- tion of a new market house on the present site—one that will be more creditable to the city. The present Center Market, situated s0 prominently faciny iavenue at Seventh street, has long an eyesore to the people of the National Capital. Numerous efforts have been made in the past to improve it, but they have all come to naught. ‘The Center Market “question” is one which seems never to be settled. It is always turning up in some new form. One reason for this state of affairs is that eve time the question is raised opposing interests clash as to the loca- tion of a new market house, with the result that nothing whatever is accom- | plished. The several markets of Washington are mostly occupied by licensed deal- | ers, who reside within short distances of the market houses, and buy their stock from the farmers in nearby sec- tions of Maryland and Virginla.” The § _ YOU CANTDYE B with Good Intentions You can get results—after a fashion—with any old dye; but to do work you are proud of takes real anilines That's why we put them in Diamond Dyes. They ! contain from three to five times more than other dyes on the market! Cost more to make? Surely. But you get them for the same price as other dyes. Next time want to dye, try them. See how easy it is to use & ‘Then compare the results. Note the | absence of that re-dyed look; of streaking or smm See that they take none of the life out of the cl | Observe how the colors keep their brilliance through wear and inhin(. Your dealer will refund your money if you don’t agree Dyes are better dyes. + The white package of Diamond Dyes is the original “dl—purpon%ye‘?ur any and every kind of material. It will dye er tint silk, wool, cotton, linen, rayon or any mixture of materials. The blue package is a special dye, for silk or wool only. With it lYlell can dye your valuable articles of silk or wool with results equal to the finest professional work. Remember this when you buy. The blue package dyes silk or wool only. The white package will dye every kind of , in silk and wool. Your dealer has both packages. licensed dealers are allowed to sell in two markets, paying for that privilege §15 a year. In addition to the license fee they are required to rent a stall at ce play, leach market place for the display of g:fi their goods. ¢ country dealers, most of whom sell direct !& thelr :’um €0 not pay & license, . . mond D use AT ALL DRUG STORES Di a Easp to T S | ™ D. €. TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 1929. WHY WE DO WHAT WE DO BY MEHREN Every one is a crank on somcthing. | We pride ourselves on being liberal and open-minded so long as our pet theme is not involved. One man is a crank on religion, another on the single tax, another on’ base ball, another on smok- | ing or drinking. There is no end to the number and nature of the things that will attract a person strongly enough to make him a crank on the subject. This amounts to a hobby. What the hobby is to the recreational life, the object of our fanaticism is to the in- tellectual and emotional life. Most peo- ple have a single predominating inter- est, a certain project that they have seemingly married and no law of man or God can divorce them. Still another way of regarding the situation is to say that we are all born reformers. We enjoy the thrill of fathering a cause and seeing it grow to maturity. It appeals to our creative sense. The curious part is that while we de- light to reform others we hate to be re- formed by others. To be on the receiv- ing end of this reform proposition is no fun at all. This is humiliating, and no one wants to be humiliated. As some one has observed, “There is no person we more assiduously avoid than the one whose eye glitters with the unalterable intention to bring a little sunshine into | our lonely lives.” Prejudice and the sense of importance are the major motives back of fanatl- cism, Ignorance also plays a part. The worst. tyge of fanatic is the igncrant fellow who believes himself a crusader in a holy cause, one who mistakes his g:;s and his egotism for the voice of Some matters we accept so implicitly that we dare not argue about them. K. THOMSON. We take them for granted and defend them against all comers in season !ndl out. If you want to make sure Whethel’l you are a crank, watch yourself, to see how often you work an idea overtime. These ideas are usually tinged with emotional bias. Being a crank or a fanatic is the result of fear combined with prejudice and some strong association that is usu- ally a sentiment or a complex. (Copyright, 1929.) AUNT HET BY ROBERT QUILLEN. “I don’t want folks comin' to see me when I'm sick that don't think enough of me to come an’ see me when I'm well.” (Copyright, 1929.) DIET AND HEALTH BY LULU HUNT PETERS, M. D. Tweezing Hair. “Dear Doctor: A friend of mine, bothered with a growth of hair on the upper lip, remedies the trouble by the use of tweezers. I have always under- stood that plucking the hairs from the upper lip was dangerous. If it isn't I should certainly like to follow her example. Please advise me. “By the way, Petersizing does work both ways. I was, several years ago, 25 pounds underweight., I was too list- less to count calories, but followed your general directions as to eating more than I wanted to each meal. I added more butter, raw eggs and milk between meals (plenty of fruits and vegetables, of course). Alas! it worked only too well! I had failed to keep exact tab of my weight and found in a year or s0 (I had dropped in-between-meal re- freshments long since) that I was more than 25 pounds overweight. So I had to Petersize to lose! That worked, too, and I'm about normal now. I weigh twice a week, always at the same time of the day and in the same weight clothes. I find it is much easier to gain or lose one or two pounds than it is to gain or lose 25 younds.—MISS M. The only permanent remedy for re- moving superfluous hair is the elec- tric needle, Miss M. However, when that cannot be used, then the tweez- ers or an eglhfins wax can be used to temporarily remove them. I have not heard of any danger from the use of these methods. What is dangerous is to squeeze a fl:m le or boil on the upper lip, for hese cases there is an infection and along the lymph through the nose passages. I am glad you had such good re- sults with Petersizing. That it is easier to lose than i Is s\ nalnf heeded !l\lllegolel is because it is only in re- cent years that the importance of nor- mal weight has been realized. “My teeth are in perfect condition, as I visit the dentist regularly. I am not troubled with constipation, yet I have a coated tongue. Why is this, ou sleep your mouth open, .2 Do you e, e as | appetizing to serve at luncheon or sup- your well as your teeth after each meal? The | warmth of the mouth and the small | F avors d"(l :Lat’es of”am: RICHLY BLENDED particles of food furnish good media for fungus growths, such as yeasts and bac- teria, and they multiply very rapidly, especially if the mouth is long open and the saliva, which is antiseptic to a greater or lesser degree, is lessened. A great deal more attention used to be paid to the simple coating of the tongue than is nowadays, although, of course, in intestinal and other disorders the tongue will more readily become coated; perhaps because the saliva has lost some of its antiseptic quality. The tongue should be cleaned when the teeth are brushed, especially in the morning and before retiring. This can be done with a little piece of whalebone or similar article. (You can buy tongue scrapers at the drug store.) Just be careful not to use it so roughly that it irritates. Cleaning the tongue with the tooth- | brush is difficult and may make you ! gag. Carrot Sandwiches. This novel dish is attractive and| per. Slice some cold boiled carrots and put the rounds together with a filling of minced corned beef seasoned with salt, pepper, a dash of mustard and moistened with mayonnaise. Garnish each sandwich with a stuffed olive, arrange on lettuce leaves and serve with mayonnaise. ATWOOD GRAPEFRUIT TREE-RIPENED WHOLESOME DELICIOUS Wholesale Distributor s . CHARLES HEITMULLER CO. 923 B Street N.W. 'AXWELL HOUSE is the coffee celebrated hostesses prefer both for their most dazzling social affairs and for their intimate breakfast trays. They like itsblended flavor. Many different coffee flavors were tried and dis- carded before that particular blend was perfected. From the days when it was first offered to guests of the famous old hotel at Nashville—the renowned old Maxwell House—Maxwell House Coffee has been accepted as the ultimate in coffee flavor. It is pleasing more people today than any other coffee ever offered for sale. When you taste it yourself you will see why. Your grocer has Maxwell House Coffee. AXWELL HousE COFFEE ©.1929, P. Co., Inos, o ‘Washington—D—2—P. FEATURES. “See the difference N. T. CHACONAS, 2806 14th St., N. W., is @ member of a family whose name is associated with many sue- cessful business firms of Washington. His three plmus, COLUMBIA 3548-3687-3688—stay busy with orders from customers. When I first put Bond Bread into my store, many customers admitted that its taste was more home-like than that of any other bread they ever bought, but they didn’t understand why the loaf was so firm to the touch. Their way of judging freshness was by the softness of the loaf. You can’t always stop to explain the dif- ference between bread that is “all stuff” and bread that is “all fluff.” {To answer any questions regarding firm- ness as opposed to size, I used to cut a loaf of Bond and place it alongside a cut of ordi- nary “puffed” bread. Then the customer saw the difference for herself. There being no big holes in Bond, it doesn’t crumble when you slice it. Therefore it’s more economical. Today in my section women judge bread by flavor, freshness, and taste. N. T. CHACONAS {Signed) - L no bread like . 9-773~No. 19-B