Evening Star Newspaper, May 13, 1929, Page 29

WOMAN’S PAGE. Patterned Spre ads for Summer BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. whose homes remain in the) thing as colorful envelope lining or #ame place the year round feel the need of some change in decoration and the iggestion of “Summery” touches. The bedroom lends itself most easily to such treatment, and the dressing up of the bed itself, in garments suited to the sea- son, will make the whole atmosphere of the room more refreshing, more con- ducive to relaxation. ‘The smart bedspread is not neces- sarily an expensive one, although an almost indefinite amount can be spent thereupon. But it is assumed that econ- omy is desirable under the circum- stances suggested. If time as well as money is at a premium, the home- maker must find something at small cost which requires little time to make. A very effective bedspread which ap- pears to advantage on either an old- fashioned bed or one of the new models 1s of sateen in plain colors on which are appliqued flowers, very quickly made out of sateen in contrasting colors. If the style of bed is modernistic, these flowers will be conventionalized, and bizarre 1f of the more conservative type they can tend toward the realistic in graceful and flo design. A wallpaper sam- 1 paper book cover may supply the in- spiration for the design to be carried out. Such a spread need be nothing more complicated than lengths of sateens stitched together and adorned with discs | of bright colors in varying sizes, or all alike, distributed alost at random upon the surface. Some can overlap. The whole gives the festive effect of toy balloons let loose upon a holiday. If hangings of the same are placed at the window and an occasional cush- fon carries the color into other parts of the room, something very smart is achieved. If an even more modernistic feeling is desired, squares can supplant | the circles, or both be employed in bizarre manner. For those who have little money, and an artistic sense, a tie-dyed bedspread of unbleached cotton cloth, dipped in a colorful bath gives a result which sug- gests luxury and smartness. An article upon tie-dying will appear later in this department, the principle being that at intervals sections of the cloth are “tied"” to prevent absorption of color, leaving a regular, but indefinite pattern, when the part is released after dying. Pple, piece of fabric, or even such a slight MILADY B BY LOIS Beauty From Foods. want & smooth, clear skin you to choose the right diet. It makes s great difference to beauty as health how you select your deed, each meal may be a treatment or, if poorly plan- the cause of your complex- and sallowness. Doctors that foods can build heaith or are interested in physical culture or beauty culture must also recognize the importance of correct eating. It may be a little difficult for the layman in such matters to follow the arguments of professional dietitians in regard to the proper balancing of the diet. We have been told of the neces- sity for including balanced rations of proteins, carbohydrates and fats. Then vitamins were discovered and their im- portance was demonstrated. Mineral salts also must find a place in the daily diet. Menus planned solely by calories have had their day of popularity. Still another approach to the problem of ulecfing_‘ the right foods is base upon combinations of foods in the light of their acid or alkaline forming prop- g wer of the blood to epends_upon its degree says Dr. Sheridan C.| ‘Waite, and he advocates the use of four parts of alkaline-forming foods to one part of acld-forming foods in the dally | diet of the average person. ‘The alkaline-forming foods include acid and subacid fruits, like oranges, -rplel, pears, etc.; non-starchy vegeta- bles like asparagus, carrots, spli ete., ripe bananas, dates, figs, raisins and po: tatoes when eaten with their skins. e acid-forming foods are proteins (meats, cheese, white of eggs, fish, game, nuts, etc.); starchy vegetables and cereals, 1 d |and your figure trim. (Copyright, 1929.) EAUTIFUL LEEDS. plums, prunes, cranberries, rhubarb and | the slightly acid-forming sweets, includ- ing brown sugar, honey and maple syrup. Milk and fats are classed as neutral. Instead of mixing the different classes of foods in each meal, Dr. Waite sug- f"" fruit, starch or proteins at dif- ferent meals. For example, we might have a starch breakfast, consisting of whole wheat cereal with cream, two scrambled egg yolks (which are classed as animal fats) and clear coffee. Luncheon might be a fruit-vegetable meal, consisting of a vegetable platter and a fruit salad with apples, grapes and oranges diced. e third meal should be a protein dinner, including tomato soup, raw salad of carrots, celery and ripe olives, chicken with parsley and Brussels sprouts and an apple frappe for dessert made of whipped cream with grated apples (with skin) and crushed pineapple flavored with lemon juice. The alkaline-forming fruits and vegetables combine well with proteins and with each other. Bee—You are giving your skin the correct treatment, but at bedtime, after ‘washing your face with soap and water, you may apply a little cold cream, night cream or almond ofl and leave on over- night to counteract the dryness. In the morning remove with your cleansing cream, wi with tepid water, rinse in cold water and dry the skin thoroughly. Apply a skin tonic before you apply your foundation cream, and powder lightly. You should not need rouge, but if you use it the cold cream rouge is better for your type of skin. Apply | a little glycerin and rosewater to your lips to keep them soft and smooth. Daughter of Virginia—The _ideal weight for a girl of your age and height is between 116 and 122 pounds. Yoir measurements are good. Do not try to reduce, !:I‘lt] yo': krlll}’ take Ictlv,! ea:': cise regular} eep your musc 4 n ‘Take 10 to 20 minutes every morning for setting-up exercises before breakfast and a brisk walk in the fresh air and sunshine every day. I shall be pleased to mail you a set of beauty exercises that you ma take regularly if you will write and inclose a self-addressed envelope for them. (2) You will find the following colors becoming for your type: Galden browns, warm tan, mustard, amber, ca- nary yellow and ivory, bronze green. re- seda and bottle green, greenish yellow, chartreuse and blue green, dark reds such as garnet, burgundy and ruby. Orchid is good, and pale pink, medium and dark blues, delft blue, queen blue, n;ldnl(m blue and turquoise for eve- ning. PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE BY WILLIAM BRADY, M. D. Breathing and Blood Pressure. When s reader notices something about high blood pressure here and writes to ask what's good for it, I can't tell him the remedy, because I don’t know of any. ‘When a reader tells me he has high blood pressure or that his physician says 50, I have some general advice for him if he wants it, though, of course, I ceannot surmise from this distance what ails the reader. Sometimes I fear readers who have high blood pressure or, worse, who im- agine they have it, will suffer some dire complication by reason of a sudden in- crease of the pressure on receipt of my answer to a request for a remedy. ‘They take it so ill that I hold myself out as a real doctor and all, yet can’t tell & person a remedy for such a sim- ple trouble. As a_matter of fact, it is precisely because I am that I can't— ask any real doctor if that is not so. Now, friends with high blood pressure or even just an obscession thereof, come up closer and listen carefully, for I have & brand new remedy for you today, and like all my remedies this one will do_you no harm if it does you no good. 1 am glad to say that this new remedy for high blood pressure cannot be bought in any drug store nor can it be administered by a doctor or a nurse. You have to take it yourself if you want to try it, and it doesn't T do not say it is ab- safe enough to merit the widest publi-! cation. Of course, I might name the remedy in a single line and be done with it but if I did so, I am certain, a lot of people who ought to know this remedy and use it would never learn of it at all. I have had a lesson about this way of prescribing ideas, and I know how it works. For years I have tried to drive home to readers the physi- ological truth, that almost anybody, if he has & mind to, may get along quite comfortably and enjoy the best of health without the help of physic in any way, shape or manner. No one, apparently, ever took that seriously, until I happened to present the simple truth in another way, with a lot of argumen@ and explanation; then, to my surprise, 1t began to take, and people began to assure me that they had found I was right about it. ‘This remedy for high blood pressure is a simple physiological truth that might be expressed in less than a dozen | words, but I'm not going to Kill it that | way, for I believe it is a valuable remedy and’ I want to persuade as many per- sons as possible to use it. I offer you just one thought to turn over in your mind: Patients with uncomplicated hypertension (high blood pressure with- out associated organic disease) are usually low breathers; that is, their breathing habit is both slow and shallow. (Copyright, 1929.) PERRo ‘The Duke and Duchess of Montrose have lum:‘d the deaf and dum‘\; fltnh"i; solutely foolproof, as are some of my but I belleve. it is sinple and| THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, Today in Washington History BY DONALD A. CRAIG. May 13, 1869.—A practice of tale- bearing, petty complaints and charges of copperheadism, inefficiency, etc., on the part of some of the clerks in the Government service against their fellow employes has recently come into vogue and is arousing considerable criticism, especially ameng officials to whose this practice, which is not only objec- great injustice to deserving persons, has become so annoying to the heads of several departments that effectual measures will be taken to stop it. In some Government offices, employes have already been given to understand by their superiors that unless this tale- bearing, etc., stops, the persons re- sponsible will be adequately punished. If these petty complaints are not dis- continued, it is intended first to repri- | mand the offenders, and, if that does no good, to remove them from their positions. All back-biters in the Gov- A;‘n;;\mmt service are warned to be care- A correspondent at Mount Pleasant, D. C., writes to The Star that while the inhabitants of that village are enjoying “the sweet ficlds arrayed in living green,” the borders of that settlement are_expanding rapidly this Spring. Mr. S. P. Brown, the original proprietor of the town, is reported to have sold & half acre tract to John B. Bloss, and other real estate transactions are recorded. President Grant, this afternoon re- ceived a delegation from the national cxecutive committee of colored men, ap- pointed by the recent colored conven- tion. The delegation laid before the President various questions pertaining to the interests of the recently free colored peaple in this country. A long address was submiited to the President, calling his attention to re- ports that colored men would not be appointed to Federal office and asking him to consider seriously this question before making appointments, 5o that colored men might be given their rights as American citizens, especially in the matter of holding public office. The delegation was headed by George T. Downing of Rhode Island, as president. President Grans promised to give due weight to the representations of the delegation. Everyday Psycholo, BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. Base Ball and Politics. Base ball and politics are cut out of the same psychological cloth. They exist and flourish because of identical mind-stuff. The mental processes which operate in the one are comparable with those that operate in the other. Base ball managers and politicians share the same rsonality traits, cherish the same philosophy of life. The fans and the voters also compare favorably on these points. You can make these com- parisons step by step from the sandlot to the Yankee Stadium, from the ward caucus to a national convention. Base ball and politics are power generators. That's why both are so often called machines. When the sea- son in either case is on, these machines extract from the fans or the voters, as the case may be, the necessary energy to keep them headed toward their respective goals. In base ball, this energy is called “support of the public”; in politics, “loyalty.” Take this energy away, and both machines begin to rattle and finally go to pleces. Base ball machines and political ma- chines flourish only when they succeed in setting themselves up as symbols of power combined with winning tactics. Their respective followers are not con- cerned about the ethics of the pro- cedure. The one big idea is to win. When the home team wins, the rooter feels the glow of an expanding ego. ‘When the candidate is successful, the voter feels that he has demonstrated a personal strength in which he takes a pardonable pride. If the candidate is defeated, he feels that he has “wasted his vote.” Politics is as much a matter of sport as is base ball. Nothing appeals to the gambling instinct so much as these two pastimes. ' Men have been known to go unshaved for three months in payment for their bad judgment on a political race. Others have been known to roll a peanut six blocks with a tooth- pick in payment of a base ball wager. Base ball and politics are comparable on these scores: the expression of per- sonal power, the thrill of taking tl’;:‘nc!, the exaltation of the desire to win. (Copyright, o Dried sea grass of a common variety has become one of the most valued in- sulators used by builders against sound, heat and cold. 1929.) D. C,- MONDAY, Famous Wits of History Retorts of Diogenes, Tub-Dweller of Ancient Greece, Sound Like Modern “Wise-Cracks.” BY J. P. GLASS notice it has come. It is declared that | tionable in itself, but often leads to | | Diogenes, the cynic, who lived in a | tub for a time to accustom himself to all sorts of weather, was one of the witties of the early Greeks. Sold to Xeniades, a Corinthian, as a slave, he tutored his master’s sons, but had plenty of time left to teach the multitude that avoldance of physical pleasure is a vir- tue and to make clever remarks. Alex- ander the Great said, “If I _were not Alexander I would be Diogenes.” glmngely, the two died on the same ay. Many of Diogenes’ verbal shots sound amazingly like modern wisecracks. This, for instance, is very twentieth century: When some one accidentally gave the philosopher a knock with a beam and then called out, “Take care,” he asked, “‘Are you going to hit me again?" ‘To a friend who was having his shoes put on him by a servant, Diogenes said: “You'll want help next in blowing your nose.” Alexander the Great came to see him and found himebasking contentedly in the sunshine “Ask me, you please.’ “Just stand out of the light,” retorted Diogenes. Listening to a man delivering a lec- ture on the heavenly bodies, he observed, aid Alexander, “any favor HOW LONG IS 1T SINCE YOU CAME DOWN FROM THE He was once & member of an audience which was listening to a reader who had been going on at great length. The reader finally accidentally gave a glimpse of a blank page.at the end of the book. “‘Courage, my lads,” called out Dioge nes to the audience, “I see land ahea Some one asked him the proper time to breakfast. He replied: “If you are rich, whenever you choose; if you are poor, whenever you have any- thing to breakfast upon.” Once he begged that a beautiful statue be made & gift to him. “Why do you make such an unreason- able request?” he was asked. “Because I am practicing disappoint- ment.” Coming out of a bath, Diogenes was asked, “Are there many men inside?"” To which he replied, “No, but there are a lot of people there.” Seeing the officials taking to prison a steward who had stolen a cup, he re- marked, “Here are the big thieves car- rying off the little thief.” Being asked if he could explain the pale color of gold, he rejoined that it was because so many were always plot- ting against it. Seeing some women who had been hanged on the boughs of an olive tree, he exclaimed, “I wish all trees bore that “How long is it since you came doyn from the sky?” Explaining the Margin. One of the mysteries of the financial | world to a great many women is the margin. When friends tell them they have bought stocks on margin they nod with simulated understanding and go on wondering what it means, if any- thing. There is another class of women who cannot for the life of them under- stand why money is sometimes called to maintain their margins, Well, let's see what it is all about. 4 When one buys stock on margin it means she is not paying the full price of the stock. She buys, for example, 100 shares of stock selling at $10 a share, but only pays $500. The other $500 is actually being borrowed from Rer broker, who is said to be “carrying er.” He carries her, so to speak, by bor- rowing in turn the money necessary to make up the difference between what she pays him to buy the stock and the price of the stock. He charges her whatever “call money” costs him. This varies from 4 to 20 per cent, but last year it averaged some 4!; per cent. If the stock pays a dividend it is probable the dividena will defray the expenses of carrying the stock. 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This point needs explaining to a great many women. First, brokers deposit the stocks they buy for margin buyers for security against the money they bor- row to carry them. For example, if you buy a stock as above, the board or committee of the exchange that controls the loans made to members may decide on your particular stock they will lend up to 50 stock, an by that they mean market value, When the price goes down, your broker must get more money to secure the loan on your stock. On a stock selling at $10 he borrows | $5. When the stock declines in price to $7 he can only borrow $3.50 on each share. In other words, to hold the 100 shares. for you he must get $1.50 more per share, or $150 in all. It is hoped this will explain two of the most com- mon mysteries in the financial world. It is true some brokerage houses may carry their own margin accounts, but they perforce have certain limits too, and ask for additional margin money | when their what they con- sider a reasos t. ble limi er cent of the value of the | MAY 13, 1929.° LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. Sunday morning pop was reeding parts of the Sunday paper and throw- ing parts of it back on the floor, and ma was looking out the living room window, saying, What a lovely morning, Willyum, its Spring, Spring is the ony werd that describes it. All rite, lets call it Spring, pop sed keeping on yeeding the Sunday paper, and ma sed, I feel I awt to do some- thing to celebrate such a perfeck day, and I know just what Im going to do, too, Im going to take your picture, Will- yum, I remember theres a film in the | camera with 3 more exposures on it, &0 | come rite down in the back yard, Will- yum. Who, me? Yee gods, pop sed, and ma sed, Now Willyum, your not going to deny the call of Spring just from laziness, so the sooner you go down the sooner it will be over. Ill go and get the camera, she sed. Wich she did, and pop went down in the yard and ma came down with the camera and aimed it at him, say- ing, Now smile, Willyum, try to look a little more like Spring. All rite, 11 think of liver and onions, pop sed. And he smiled a big smile and ma sed, Are you reddy? Yee gods, now Ive waisted a good smile, of corsc I was reddy., did you think I was rehearsing? pop sed. Step on the gas, I wunt to get back to my paper, he sed. All rite, have a little patience, Rome ‘wasent made in a minnit, ma sed. Are you reddy? she sed. For Peet sake Ive never been any- thing elts but reddy, pop sed, and ma sed, All rite, then smile agen. I cant, my face wont werk any more, it may never werk again, your ruining it out here, pop sed, and Ma sed, Dont be_rediculiss, smile. Wich pop did, and ma sed, Are you reddy? No, and Ill never be reddy agen, Im through, pop sed, and ma sed, Well as a matter of fact so am I, because I Just notice that there s no film in here after all, I must of been thinking of the time before this. O well, we've bo;n out in the Spring air anyway, she sed. I hope we've both cawt a cold, thats a way I feel, pop sed. And he went in and got behind the Sunday paper agen and stayed there. | | @y v/ “When you eat, drink and be merry, it ain't always tomorrow you die. g;\metimes you only wish you could | sales of carcass beef in W for week ending Sa‘urd: shipments sold _out, rai FEATURES.” chiffon and tulle. WHY WE DO BY MEHRAN “Riding the goat” is the expression we use for initiating new members into the club. Every organization has some form of hazing or rough initiation. ‘This practice dates back to the sav- a No people have been found with- out their initiation ceremonies, no mat- ter how low in the scale of civilization they might be. As a matter of fact, the lower they are in this respect the greater place they are likely to give their ceremonials. ‘We make new members ride the goat to teach them their place, which, least momentarily, is a few notches be: low that occupied by ourselves. This is one of the much-prized opportunities to dominate, and none of us is likely to pass it up lightly. Another motive for riding the goat is the satisfaction in paying up back debts. We had to go through the same rigmarole and are not going to let in new members free. Historically and theoretically, the horseplay attendant on joining a club is a test of fitness. Among the Indians nd other savage peoples, young men are initiated into the so- clety of their elders the{ have to go through a rigorous physical ordeal to test their courage and strength and skill, for these qualities were in gre: demand. The safety of the tribe de- now bcforehand just how far each man could be relied uj in an emergency. The rough initiation, like the appen- dix, is a survival from the past and serves no useful purpose, except to sat- 10 35.00 cents per pou cents per pound. 1 | isfy the egoistic impulse of the old mem- bers. Wi ith us the qualifications of the PARIS.—Worth is very partial w.strngm'pluu and uses them of gowns. Sketched, a navy satin model with a godet let into the pleated skirt. Much dark blue in this collection, including evening when the | nded upon them. The elders must | on all kinds front of the md WHAT WE DO K. THOMSON. candidate have been attested to before- hand and the ceremony is merely & formality. The real value and true justification of all initiation ceremonies is to be found in the fact that they create a fellow feeling. There is no better way to solidify the group. The secret part is especially useful. Having a common | secret is a bond of unity. It is exclu- sive. It narrows the fleld. One cannot be loyal to all mankind as effectively as he can to the members of his family |and his club, with whom he has secrets and confidences. | (Copyright, 1999.) | Pk smns il A six-mile walk is required to | all the stands of the British m-:: | | | NOTICE No matter how small s, it is un- small quantities from grocers who dispense it out of broken Wilkins cartons, as this al- lows unserupulous deal and half-pounds. Buy the full sealed cartons. You Naturally‘ Wish to Appear At Your Best As a Hostess VERY woman is alert to anything that will make her appear to the best advantage as a hostess. It is for this reason that we take pride in pointing out that in Washington, the Nation’s Capi- tal, and naturally the heart of the Nation socially as well as polit- ically, over one-third of all the women use Wilkins Coffee ex- exclusively. WILKINS #~*COFFEE