Evening Star Newspaper, April 19, 1929, Page 40

* 3 WOMAN’S PAGE.' THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. 9 Advantages of Good Will BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. In the seventeenth century there lived a physician whose fame reached down the centuries, and he is quoted now as well as in the past. Like many physicians of today, this man, Sir Thomas Browne, was an author as well § | i 4=19 PREPARING ONE'S THOUGHTS FOR THE NIGHT IS EVEN MORE IM- PORTANT ‘THAN PREPARING ONE'S BED FOR RESTFUL COM- FORT. as a healer of the body. Some of the things he said show that he had a keen appreciation of the undermining effects of revengeful thoughts and also of the happiness that results from kindliness and a forgiving spirit. A few words are so full of helpfulness to think upon that I am giving them just as he set To forgive our enemies is a charming form of revenge, leaving our foes our friends. To ruminate upon evils and to make critical notes upon injuries is to add to our own tortures, to feather the arrow of our enemies, to lash ourselves and to resolve to sleep no more, for injuries long dreamed upon at last take away all rest. So if one would have peaceful slum- bers it 1 esential from a physician’ viewpoint that the thoughts be free from unkindliness. As sleep is essen- tial to good health, the necessity is stressed for keeping one's thoughts free from petty angers and above the idea of revenge. Those who cannot help dwelling on their miseries and personal slights must pay the price in sleepless nights, unhappy days and finally in aching bodies. Fortunately the reverse of this phase of thought is equally true. A kindly, forgiving spirit promotes pleasant dreams and good health. According to the good old doctor, there is joy in forgiving that is a positive benefit. | Does he not say “To forgive our enemies is a charming form of revenge, leaving our foes our friends”? And he furtker says: “If thou must have thy revenge on thine enewy, heap coals of fire on his head, forgive him and enjoy it.” ‘These are not the. words cf an im- practical man, but of an eminent physi- cian whose skill in restoring health to the sick won him his knighthood and made him a successful and wealthy man. It is quite evident that he was a physician who took his own medicire. He followed his own advice. There is not one person who reads what he says who is not privileged to follow Sir Thomas’ advice. . To do so means bet- ter health, happier times and some measure of other success. (Copyright, 1929.) My Neighbor Says: ‘To remove apple stains from your hands wash them in clear water, then rub a little tartaric a cid (a powder) on them and every stain will vanish, leaving the hands white and clean. If a bodkin is not at hand, a safety-pin will do as well. * Put the pin through the end of the tape, and fasten the pin, when you will find it will slip through curtains, etc.,, quite easily. Hot water sets stains in linens. First soak linen in cold water, then put it into the wash. To glaze pastry, heat the yolk of one egg and add to it one-half cup evaporated milk; brush this over the surface of pastry or rolls just before putting them into the oven. This mixture will keep for a week on ice. them down. WORLD FAMOUS STORIES A WOMAN'S POCKET. BY JAMES M. Bailey, 1841-1894. founded the | (Conn.) News: e wrote for this ny Dumorous sketches: he was the | “Life in Danbury." paper author_of “The: News Man's Almanac, etc.) The most difficult thing to reach is a woman's pocket. This is especially the case if the dress is hung up in a closet | and the man is in a hurry. We think | we are safe in saying that he always is | in a hurry on such an occasion. | The owner of the dress-is in the sit- | ting room serenely engrossed in a book. | Having told him that the article which he is in quest of is in her dress pocket in the closet, she had discharged her whole duty in the matter and can afford 10 feel serene. He goes at the task. On opening the | closet door and finding himself con- fronted with a number of dresses, all turned inside out and presenting a most | formidable front, he hastens back to | ask: “Which dress?” Being told the brown one, and also asked if she has so many dresses that | there need be any great effort to find | the right one, he returns to the closet with alacrity, and scon has his hands on the brown dress. It is inside out like the rest—a fact he does not notice, however, until he has made several ineffectual attempts to get his hand into it. Then he turns it around very carefully, and passes over the pocket several times without knowing it. . A nervous movement of his hands, and an appearance of perspiration on his forehead, are perceptible.. He now drives one hand in at the, back, and feeling around, finds a place, and pro- ceeds to explore it, when he discovers that he is following up the inside of 8 lining. The nervousness increases, also the perspiration. He twitches the dress on the hcok, and suddenly the pocket, white, plump and exasperating, comes to view. Then he sighs the relief he feels and is mentally grateful he did not allow himself to use any offensive erpressions, It is all right now. There is the pocket in plain view— not the inside but the outside—and all he has to do is to put his hand right around in the inside and take out the article. That is all. He can’t help but smile to think how near he was'to get- ting mad. Then he puts his hand around to the other side. He does not feel the opening. He pushes a little further—now he has got it; he shoves the hand down, and is very much sur- prised to see it appear opposite his knees. He has made a mistake. He tries again; again he feels the entrance and glides down it only to appear -again as before. This makes him open his. eyes and straighten his face. He feels of the outside of the pocket, pinches it curi- ously, lifts it up. shakes it. and, after peering closely about the roots of it. he says, “How funny!” and com- mences again. He does it calmly this time, because huryying only makes matters worse. He holds up breadth .after breadth, goes over them again carefully, gets his hand first into a lining, then into the air| again (where it always surprises him when it appears) and finally into cket, and is about to cry out with triumph, when he discovers that it is the pocket to another dress. He is mad Abe Martin Says: - It don't look like the detectives workin’ on the St. Valentine day mas- sacre in Chicago 'l git any vacation this Summer. T guess Lafe Bud is havin’ some papor hangin', or plasterin’ or some Kind o' work done, fer T saw a big, fine car parked in front of his house. ’ (Copyrisht, 1029.) [, M. BAILEY. now; the closet air almost stifles him; he is so nervous he can hardly contain himself, and the pocket looks at him so exasperatingly that he cannot help but “plug” it with his clenched fist, and | immediately does it. Being somewhat relieved by this per- formance he has a chance to look about him, and sees that he has put his foot through a bandbox and into the crown of his wife’s bonnet; has broken tl brim of his Panama hat which was hanging in the same closet; and torn about a yard of bugle trimming from a new cloak. All this trouble is due di- rectly to his wife’s infatuation in hang- ing up her dresses inside out, so he im- mediately starts after her, and impetu- ously urging her to the closet, excitedly and almost profanely intimates his doubts of there being a pocket in the dress, anyway. The cause of the unhappy disaster quietly inserts her hand inside the robe and directly brings it forth with the sought-for article in its clasp. He doesn’t know why, but this makes him madder than anything else. BRAIN TESTS Allow about two minutes for this test. In that space of time answer the following questions by underlining the proper word_ that follows each one. (1) Edmund Halley gained his great- est fame because of a planet, continent. ocean, comét, island. (2) The name of Christopher Co- lumbus is associated with that of a famous king of Italy, France, Portugal, Spain, England. (3) The discovery of the North Pole has been conceded to Byrd, Amundsen, Cook, Peary, Nobile. (4) Gen. Scott became famous in the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Mex- jcan War, Civil War, Spanish-American War. (5) Thomas A. Edison is famous chiefly because of his inventions in con- nection with the steam engine, phono- graph, automobile, airplane, cotton gin. (6) The primary struggle for inde- pendence during the Spanish-American ‘War concerned Hawaii, Cuba, Porto Rico, the Philippine Islands, Panama. Do not refer to the answers until you have completed the test. Answers. (1) comt (2) Spain; (3) Peary; (4) Mexican War; (5) phonograp) (6) Cuba. 2 Sure enjoyment in every cup when you use a percolator and —Seal Brand Percolator Coffee | ONE POUN'D NET wglGHT_ "It’s easy enough to get the last word, if you're willing to take it from the other fellow.” (Copyright, 1929.) NANCY PAGE Lois Plans an Effective Spring Table. BY FLORENCE LA GANKE, When Dorothy told Lois that she had just received a ring from Arthur Lois asked for the fun and pleasure of giving Dorothy an announcement party. “Nancy gave one for me not so long ago, and I know how. thrilled and pleased I was. I vowed then that I would pass on that happiness to some one else and there is no one for whom I would rather entertain.” So the date was set and Lois made her plans. She decided on tulips for the cen- terplece. She rather thought they were appropriate for an engagement lunch- | eon, and any way they were at their most gorgeous best. With flowers iike that for centerpiece she knew she would have to key her color scheme rather high. She could not have baby blue or shell pink. Lois had been at engagement lunch- eons where the table was so tricked out in _announcement trimmings that it looked silly end overdone. She decided | to keep hers simple. Since the lunch- | eon was given in the day time she ruled | against candles. They should never be on a table unless they are lighted and who needs candle illumination on a | Spring day at noon or 1 o'clock? She | hated to give them up because she had | some lovely candlesticks which went | well with one of her pottery jugs. That, too, was discarded, however, since it crowded the flowers too clos: Each tulip with its leaves lost its indi- viduality. Instead of.a centerpiece of tulips she had a bouquet. She preferred to use a shallow glass dish with a glass flower holder. A few tulips arranged gracefully were stunning and kept their individuality. And incidentally such a small number of flowers is cheaper o1 | asier to get from one's own garden. | Engagements mean showers. 1t you are | interested write to Nancy Page, care of this | paper. inclosing a stamped. self-addressed envelope, asking for her leaflet on showers. (Copyright, 1920.) Apricot Charlotte Makes Good Dessert Rub stewed dried apricots through a coarse strainer to make one and one- half cupfuls of pulp. Add to it the juice of one orange and one teaspoonful of grated orange rind. Soak two table- spoonfuls of plain gelatin in one-third cupful of cold water for 10 minutes, then dissolve in one cupful of boiling water. Cool and add to the apricot mixture. If not sweet enough, add sugar as necessary. Cool the mixture until it begins to thicken and then fold in the stifly beaten whites of two eggs 2nd one cupful of whipped cream. Pour into small molds, chill, turn out and serve plain or garnished with small tri- angles of sponge cake or with lady fingers. RS SerlBral Tea isof the sanie Ligh guali ‘ Do Women Think_as Men Do? DorothyDix}..i5.. Nearly All of Mistakes Men Make in Dealing With Women Are Based On False -Assump- tions About Women. A LEARNED psychologist has written a brilliant article in a current magazine in which he shows that women are people and that trey are cut off the same bolt of goods as men and have just about the same coloring and the same wearing qualitics and come out about the seme in the wash of lite. All of which we women have known all along, and we have been shouting the information to our fathers and our husbands and our brothers and our sons for thousands of years, but they have shut their ears and wouldn't listen because it was so much more comfortable and agreeable to them to think we were the little sawdust dolls they had invented than real women with brains and hearts FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1929. SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. and feelings and reactions just like their own. No, men don’t notice us when we tell them we are human beings, even as they are, and that our greatest yearning is to be treated on that platform. They are willing to worship us as plaster saints or to make use of us as household conveniences or to play with us as toys as long as our paint doesn't rub off, but when it comes to treating us as they would treat another man who had about the same point of view as they had, that is something different yet again, Mawruss, and they simply can't bring themselves to do it. Why, nearly all of the mistakes that men make in dealing with women are based on this false assumption that women are different from men and don’t think and feel about things as men do. Take the matter of personal liberty, for instance. They were men who originated the theory that women love to be dependent. It was a man who devised the simile of the clinging vine and who depicted woman as having the time of her life hanging limp and helpless onto the sturdy oak. s 0 TINE men out of ten honestly believe that women have no desire for any individual liberty. They think women want to be in perpetual tutelage from the cradle to the grave; that they want somebody to hand them ready-made opinions and make up their minds for them and they never dream that a woman ever wants to fly the coop and go off by herself or to do things just because she wants to do them. They know that they would rather be dead than have to be bossed all of their lives, but they are sure that women enjoy it. This belief isn't shaken by the fact that most of the happy, cheerful women one sees are the independent women who are earning their own livings and who have their own latchkeys and who are free just in the same way that men are free. The real reason that so many husbands treat their wives unjustly in money matters is because men labor under the superstition that women haven't the same feeling about financial independence that they have. The average man isn't a tightwad nor does he grudge his family anything he gives it. On the contrary, he is practically a slave to his houselmld. He labors unceasingly to provide for his wife and children and very little that he makes does he spend upon himself. Nevertheless, a great many men refuse to give their wives any definite allowance upon which to run the household or even a pittance for their own use. ‘They make their wives come to them like beggars for every cent and force them to wheedle and cajole to get out of them the price of a new dress or hat. Now the wife is the husband's partner. She has invested in the firm of Benedict & Co. all she has. She gives to it all of her time and work, and in justice she is entitled to her fair share of the profits, to be given her as her right and not as a benefaction. No man would dream of treating a man as he treats his wife about money. He would expect to hand over to his man partner the latter's share of what the firm made. Nor would he endure for a minute himself the treatment he accords his wife, He wouldn’t work for his board and clothes and then have to jollf them out of the senior memper.of the firm. He would loathe having to ask even the most indulgent and generous male relative for a quarter every time he went downtown and having to tell what he was going to do with it and what he did with the one that was given him week before last. WXTH a man, financial independence is the foundation stone of his self-respect. Without it he feels like a cringing slave. Not to be able to pay his way when he is out with other men puts him in the attitude of a dead beat, but he has no hesitation in placing his wife in that humiliating position because he thinks women don’t feel about money as men do. Very few men ever take the precaution to find out before marriage whether the girls they have selected as wives know anything about cooking and house- keeping because they are under the delusion that every woman is domestic by nature and thrills every time she sees a pot or a pan. Of course, a man may know that he himself has no turn for carpentering or plumbing or carpet ! laying or picture hanging and that he loathes doing chores around the house. But he is perfectly amazed and utterly horrified when he finds out that a woman who has spent her life studying medicine or law or who has worked up in a store to be a high-priced buyer or who is a superexcellent private secretary prefers a career to cooking and is bored to tears by a vacuum cleaner and a sewing machine, Funny, isn't it, that men think that women never get fed up on domesticity while they do; that women never get tired and bored with their husbands while husbands do with their wives; that women never pine for adventure while men do; that women never have to resist temptation as men do, and 50 on and on down the whole gamut of human emotion. Perhaps when men think of women as human beings like themselves we shall have less conflict between the sexes. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1929.) Here at last is sure death for moths and moth worms Just hang Expelle upin closets. That's all—moths diel, A DECISIVE victory over the persistent clothes moth is within your reach at last. No more worry about ex- pensive furs and woolens in your storage closets and chests! No further loss! Expello is waiting for you at drug and depart- ment stores. It is a vapor in crystal form. No liquids, no pump guns. No muss, fuss, stains or lingering odor. Yet we promise you that Expello, -used according to easy di- rections on every can, will not let one moth worm survive! Expello kills the § moth worms. These really do all the damage. Thousands of women have con- ‘clusively demon- strated the unusual efficacy of Expello in their own homes. Hundreds have written us in its praise. Two famous entomologists testing Expello in the lab- oratories of different uni- versities reported it 100% efficient in every test. Hang a can of Expello high in your clothes and storage closets today. It lasts for from three to four months. Requires no at- tention till crystals all evaporate. Also get the .container with 10 handy bags of Expello and place a few bags on top the clothing in each trunk or chest. Gives same protec- tion. Only $1 for either kind. Fully guaranteed. Get Expello now and set your mind at peace. If your dealer hasn’t it write The Expello Corpora- tion, Dover, New Hampshire. Expello makes closet moth-proof. Also 10 handy bags to cam, for chests, Get Expello at your drug or department store today I don't want ter hurt nobody's feelin's, but I don't know does I fink they is berry pitty.” (Copyright, 1929.) Grill Dishes. Mixed Grill.—Place in a broiler some tolled lamb kidney chops that have been marinated for one hour. Add some partly cooked sweet potatoes that have been sliced and basted ‘with brown sugar sirup. Add some pineapple rings and dress all with French dressing. Broil for ten minutes. Remove to add some bacon around each chop, some sliced tomatoes and some mushrooms. Broil for about ten minutes longer. Serve from the broiler to each plate with a parsley garnish. The tomatoes may be sprinkled with chopped peppers and sausages may be added if liked. Salmon Grill.—Cut one and one-half pounds of salmon steak into six serving pleces. Partly cook some sliced pota- toes and three parsnips. Place the sal- mon on a broiler and season with salt, pepper and lemon juice. Roll the sliced parsnips in flour with a little salt, pep- per and sugar. Broil for about twelve minutes. Remove from the oven, roll bacon around the fish, add one cupful | of oysters and broil for ten minutes longer. PEATURES.’ BY LOIS Build Beauty Early in Life. Sometimes I receive letters from girls of 12 or thereabouts who want to know whether they are too young to be thinking of improving their per- sonal appearance. Their elders try to discourage them from being interested in beauty problems for fear that the youngsters will become too vain. ‘There are some beauty problems, how- ever, that must be solved in childhood or early youth if solved at ell. Thought- ful parents can save their children un- told mental agony by having such de- fects as bow-legs, hare-lip and crooked teeth corrected before it is too- late. When the child herself begins to notice her deficiencies, the best time for cor- recting them may have passed. In recent years a growing emphasis has been put upon a correction of den- tal irregularities. Aside from the | esthetic aspects of the question, it is | being realized {hat badly formed sets of teeth are handicapped in their ac- tion and through their failure to func- tion properly may cause ill health. Dental science has developed ways | to correct teeth that protrude too much, are crooked or too crowded. A dentist told me recently that sometimes ir- regularities in the second or permanent teeth are due to their being crowded by the first teeth that have remained | in too long. For this reason it is im- | portant to, have a child's first teeth | examined by a dentist as they are be- | ing replaced by the second set. | What heart-aches are caused by bow- legs! If treated early enough this| beauty problem can be solved, but after | the bones become hardened only the | most drastic measures will straighten | the limbs. It was about a year ago, I MILADY BEAUTIFUL LEEDS. matter with the feet. Flat-foot is fairly common among ch n as well as adults and the sooner it is discovered and corrected, the better. A girl who has flat-foot is ungraceful in all her movements, because tne foundations upon which her weight rests (her feet) are faulty. She tends to neglect all athletic sports and may develop an in- ferfority complex on account of her awkwardness. Her mother should see to it that the condition is corrected by the use of suitable shoes and foot ex- ercises. Savory Hash. Form one and one-half pounds of ground beef into balls and brown in two tablespoonfuls of drippings. Soak one pint of dried lima beans in cold water over night. Drain, cover with fresh water and heat slowly. Add salt to taste, the meat and drippings, one | think, that the country was shocked | onion chopped fine and one sweet red to read of a girl who wanted straight | pepper chopped fine with seeds re- legs so much that she submitted to a | moved. Cook slowly until the meat and surgical operation. Then her legs be- | beans are tender, adding more water came infected and had to be cut off. | if necessary. When tender, thicken the How much better it would have been | sauce with one scant tablespoonful of if the girl's parents had had the limbs straightened without an operation while she was a child! Another beauty problem that should be solved early in life is hare-lip. flour mixed with a little cold water. . Tunafish in Shells. Melt two tablespoonfuls of butter, add | Thick, shapeless lips are sometimes | three tablespoonfuls of flour, then one {due to the habit of mouth-breathing. |and one-half cupfuls of milk. When which in turn may be caused by ob- |thick add half a cupful of mayonnaise | structions in the nasal passages. Minor [and then one and one-half cupfuls of operations can correct these troubles |tunafish. Place a spoonful in the cen- 50 that the beauty of the lips may not | ter of each baking shell or small sau- be_destroyed. cer. Border with mashed potato. Heat When a child walks awkwardly with |and brown in a hot oven for 10 min- its feet turned out, something is the utes. Garnish with parsiey or peas. 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