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WOMA Color in Interior Decoration BY LYDIA LE B, NUS"PAGE. TENING STAR, WASHINGTOY, D. C, SATURDAY, JUNE 3 1999 ARON WALKER. | CORRECT HANDLING OF COLOR IN INTERIOR DECORATION INDICATES ARTIS' Color has become so pronounced & | vogue In interior decoration that it is often used without discrimination be cause the function of color is not ap: preciated by the home decorator. To the skilled professional decorator each color has its significance in home fur- nishings, and it is employed to gain specific results, Colors that are luminous in them- selves are used to suggest the bright- ness of sunshine and to lend cheer to rooms. These hues may be important | to simulate sunshine in rooms of north- | ern exposure. This is their material purpose. Or these same colors may be used to aid health,by raising the spirits of the person occupying & room because the tones produce a happy reaction. This is their psychological | value. | Dark colors are needed to give bal- | ance to gay tones lest they become | too stimulating to the average person, or to prevent too garish a color scheme. | Dark tones are essential in rooms flooded by sunlight. They draw the walls of & room closer, apparently, de- creasing any tendency for a room to | seem over-large for its use. Or if rich furnishings are full of color themselves, a dark background of floor and walls may set the pleces off to best adva tage. Neutral colors are “safe” in that they | | BEAUTY CHATS Vitamins, There are certain foods which you must have, and the sooner you find out | about them the better. You must, (or; instance, know which foods contain the | greatest proportion of vitamins, which | means that you must know the vari- | eties of this mysterious food element. | First of all it’s difficult to_tell when | vitamins are present in food, but it's | easy enough to tell when they're not. | Sailors who lived chiefly on tinned | meat and bread in the old days before refrigeration made fresh foods possible on long sea voyages, developed an ugly | skin disease called scurvy. Bablies | in ignorant familles brought up on | skimmed milk develop rickets. A very | small amount of certain fresh foods | supply enough vitamins (the word | means life-giving) to avoid this, ‘We know three types of vitamins, and | are finding out about more. Vitamin A exists in rieh milk, cream, butter, cheese, eggs, liver, Kidney, pineapple, tomatoes, peas, carrots, string beans, lettuce and greens. Lack of this par- ticular element undermines resistance to infectious diseases, checks growth | and even causes ap -eye disease. An even slight deficiency in it causes hard- | ness and dryness of the skin. Vitamin B is present in most of the Definition of I BY MARY MARSHALL. There are lounging pajamas which | may be worn on the beach. There are one-plece negliges with | flowing lines that ave suitable for in- | formal afternoon and evening wear at home. Hostess gowns—that one may wear TRY. never offend the eye. They are restful being neither stimulating nor depress- ing. They harmonize with anything in furnishings or make furnishings har- monize with any color scheme, merely by their insignificance or lack of defi- niteness. While neutral shades are of | immense value in interior decoration. even these must be handled with or a “drab” effect results. This char- acteristic jmmediately Teacts unpleas- antly on the eye and the nerves. At no time within the last score of ears has a knowledge of correct use of color in decoration been more impera- tive than it is today if & homemaker | would gain artistry in her house. A riot of color can be employed only with | great Teserve if it is gratifying to the | senses or of psychological worth. On | the other hand color must be employed 4p interiors. today, if the element of | “Ismartness” is atiained or if the rooms are up-to-date in decoration. The home decorator must study her rooms, realize whether color is needed | in quantity, whether brightness should | be held in abeyance and appreciate to what extent neutral shades are essen- tial. There must be balance to produce harmony, restraint to offset any chadtic tendency, and & dash of daring in the | introduction of color to wrest from the decoration any hint of drabness. (Copyright, 1929.) BY EDNA KENT FORBES whole wheat, barley, oatmeal Its absence from _the diet of appetite and beri-beri. is present particularly in oranges, lem- ons, raspberries, and most of the garden | vegetables. It is lack of this which causes scurvy. Cod liver oil is so rich in vflamlns‘ that it has almost the effect on grow- ing children of a life-giving sunbath, and it is a nourishing food as well. Even grown-ups if they are sick should take it, but a doctor should be con- | sulted as to which non-nauseating form | is best. Aunt Hetty: Usually when a person has hollow places in the neck, there is need of & general building up all over. If this is your case you should have the right sort of treatment for it and get into first-class condition. You can do some filling out through massage with a nourishing cream, but the best | way_is to build from within. Remove | cleansing cream as soon as you have fully lubricated the skin with it, as by | that time you have reached as much | of the soil in the pores and is possible | at that time. If the olive oil is of a | very fine grade, it is all right to use | on the skin. A cream made from it | would be better than the oil by itself, Vitamin C | the Neglige or jackets that give them just & bit) more substance and warmth. Lace, printed and plain chiffon, flat crepe, georgette are the favorite mate- rials for negliges this season. Dotted | net was chosen for the light green neglige shown in the sketch. It is increasingly difficult to give a | ! and who was with it from the time it |in and about that neighborhood were | posal later. | it certainly was delicious. Today in ‘Washington History BY DONALD A. CRAIG. June 1, 1862—A train of cars arrived today from Rectortown and Manassas Va., bringing several hundred sick wolinded soldiers for the hospitals of Alexandria and Washington. From a gentleman who came on the same train left three days ago, it was learned that the sick of several Union Army divisions collected at Rectortown pose of being sent ba Three days ago the sick men were loaced on the cars. Some were simply platform cars with no shelter of any kind and the men suffered greatly. night and the ne it rained and the sick men on the platform cars had nothing whatever to cover them except their blankets. At Manassas, where the train lay nine hours, a number of men procured such necessaries as they could and distrib- uted them among the suffering soldiers. There appeared to be no efforts what- ever on the part of the military authori- ties to make the men more comfortable. Eyewitnesses said that at Rectortown and other places on bread and other nutritious and neces- sary foods could have been easily pro- cured, but those in charge did not try to get them. Some persons on board the train are threatening to report the matter to Army headquarters her Lieut. W. G. Raymond of the 86th New York Volunteers and his assistants have been working very eflectively in Washington during the last few days breaking up various disreputable re- sorts have .been congregating. During past week they searched a great numbe: of suspected places and recovered over $1,500 worth of Government property, such as uniforms, blankets, shoes, etc., pawned by the soldiers for whisky They also destroyed a large quantity of this poisonous beverage. Most of the crimes and misdemeanors of the soldiers may be traced to these unlicensed holes, where bad whisky, or something that goes by the name of whisky, is dispensed. Some petty gambling places have also been broken up and descents have been made on several more prominent gambling houses. About $1,300 has been captured and placed in a local bank to await dis- for the pur- NANCY PAGE Lois Achicvne Cross-Barred Pie That | the route milk, | where soldiers and bad characters | the | anglefoot. | | DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX . & c : = . [An Inspiring Example of the Highest Type of, Womanhood I have been married 15 years ‘ | | | | [DEAR MISS DIX: T am a woman 31 vears old. | and have 12 children. Twin sons 14, twin daughters 12, a boy of 11, | twin sons 9, tripiel daughters 7, & girl 5 and one 4—five boys and seven girl When I was married my father gave me & nice, well-furnished home in my ow: name, but for years on end my husband grumbled and grouched because I wouldn’t work outside of the home. He never considered that I worked. although T cooked, washed, scrubbed. jroned. washed dishes, made beds. kept | house, nursed, sewed, raised a garden and chickens, milked two cows, to say | nothing of bearing and rearing 12 children and seeing to their needs. | My husband himself has never.made any more than a poor pitiful little salary that barely fed us after he had bought his own clothes, his whisky and fobacco. Well, T got tired of being so poor and one Monday morning four years ago | I took my 3-month-old baby and the other little ones under school age and left | them with a kind old neighbor who loves children and agreed to care for them. I got a job behind a counter for $15 a week and. as I developed a real talent for selling fhings, my salary is now four times what my husband makes. | Besides that I carry on my former work at home with the help of the | children, whom I have drilled into most efficient assistants. 1 have taught them | to cook, sew and clean, so the house is as well kept as ever and my money buys | clothes, good times and luxuries for them. Besides. I feel that my work i< good | for me. It gives me a new interest in life and it gives my children responsibility. | A few hours' separation of mother and babies each day is good for us all and | how glad we are to get together at night! | Now, here is my trouble. Now that T am working my husband is furious with me because I won't give him the money that I earn, and because I have succeeded better than he has. He insists on my giving up my job and taking the boys out of school and putting them to work. He savs parents do not owe their children anything after they are 12 years old. I think that parents owe | their children the very best education that they can give them. My l14-year-old | boys are so clever that they will graduate from high school in two years. They | lead their classes and I mean to keep them in high school until they finish. Of course we are poor, dog poor. It is no joke to feed, clothe. rear and | educate 12 children, but to take a little boy and put him to work at 14, when | you could give him an education, is criminal. So am I mot right to hold on to my good job and rear and train and, educate my children and make good men and women out of them? I am young, | | healthy and strong and I can work for them and we do have such adorable | I feel that T am right, yet I was raised old-fashioned to “mind” 1 was only a silly young idiot when I married. but I have to be MOTHER OF A ROUND DOZEN. | vears together. my husband. wise now for myself and 1% others. Answer: T think that is the ffhest, bravest. most philosophical letter that has ever come to the Letter Box, and I commend it. to the careful consideration of all the neurotic ladies who weep upon my breast because their husbands don't Kiss them when they go away in the morning, or take them out to the movies in the evenings, or because they can’t go o Europe, or because their husbands were polite to some woman at a dinner party and they are jealous. " Here is a woman who is married to & man who not only can't support his family, but who is fault-finding and little and mean and jealous and nagging besides, Here is a woman who has not one or two children to take care of, | but 12, and she has to do every bit of her housework and baby-tending. And | besides that she has to go out into the world and make the money to support them. If ever a woman was up agaimsh it, it is she. If ever a woman had work | and worry a-plenty, it is she. But fstead of howling and complaining over her | lot, she thinks it is all perfectly grand, and is having a bully time and getting more fun out of working all dav in a store and half the night doing housework than most women get out of going to bridge parties and dinners and Juncheons and riding around in an automobile. And what a job she is turning out! Twelve splendid youngsters, who have developed strength of character and efficiency in their very babyhood: who | have been taught to play the game and pull their weight in the boat; who have | been taught how to do #ll sorts of work and to do it cheerfully and get fun out | : 1A GANKE. “I saw some deep Ted cherries i market yesterday Lois. Wouldn't they | make good cherry pie? | “Sof my ple eater Roger, they | wouldn't. You need sour, d cher- | ries to make the best pie. Those you saw were a sweet eating cherry with | Jots of body and flavor. When I used to live in the country we used to pit those cherries and sweeten them | i n the | and serve them with real cream and sugar cookies, That dish calorfes than I care to count, but The sour cherries will be in soon, however, and ! T'll make you a pie in a day or two.” And Lois did, for soon the sour cherries with their thin, almost trans- | parent skin and their bright red color, were being displayed on the markel stalls. Lois bought & quart and made them into cross-barred cherry ple. Roger chanted, “Can she bake a cherry ple, Billy boy?” and answered with “T'll say she can and does, my Billy boy. First, Lois made the pie crust, using one and one-half cupfuls pastry flour, one-quarter teaspoonful salt, four table- | spoonfuls shortening and approximately one-quarter cupful cold water. She lined the plate with this and built up a rim. Then she mixed one cupful sugar with two tablespoonfuls flour and put half this mixture on the pastry. She put the pitted cherries on top of this and added the remainder of the flour and sugar mixture. She never put any soda with her cherries, even though they were sour. CLULRRY DIL, . She felt that soda spoiled the flavor ! keep them with you and that, above all, enables you to give them the education | depend upon your husband and when your chiidren are gone you will need your has more | of it. What splendid men and women they will make and what a crown of glory they will be to their mother. My hat is off to this woman and if I had the awarding of Carnegie hero | medals I would pin one as large as a dinner plate over her brave heart. But as for your problem, dear lady, there is just one answer to that. Stick by your worth while children and let your worthless husband go. Don't give tip your good job that makes it possible for you to provide for your children and that will mean so much to them as long as they live. The first question that every boy and girl are asked in applying for a job | is whether they have had & high school education or not, and on the answer depends very generally the sort of a situation they get. So it is worth making every sacrifice to keep your boys in school until they graduate. And don't give up your job because of youreself. Evidently you cannot work to supply you with an interest in life, as well as money o that you will not become dependent upon them. You have shown that you have more enterprise and intelligence than your husband, so the idea of obeying him is ridiculous. Perhaps when the biblical advice was given, “Wives, obey your husbands,” husbands were of a different caliber from what they are now in some cases. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1929.) Unusual 'Parents of Celebrated Men Sir William Herschel's Ambitious Father and His Mother, Who Couldn’t Write, Long Battled Over Educating Children. BY J. P. GLASS, | ACH, THAT BOOK, | WILL NOT | | | | Never would Anna Herschel admit band of the royal guards. It was a that there might be good in books. | position that took him from home tvo Though books helped to bring fame often. to her family and immortalized her| When he was away she had to send second son, William, she still opposed him letters dictated by some one else. them. She blamed them for taking her She could not write. children to foreign shores and breaking | On his return things were never sat- up the home. | isfactory. He was forever trying to It mattered not that William became | corrupt their six children with his one of the world’s greatest astronomers | “learning.” Not content with teach- and that his brother, Alexander, and |ing them music, he must go on to art, sister, Caroline, also achieved splendidly | literature, philosophy. Anna was able to share his glory. to rescue only her older daughter, Even when Willlam was smuggled out | Sophia, to mold according to her own of the royal guard at Hanover to go| inclinations. and seek his fortune in England, Anna | Caroline, the younger daughter, had to take a final fiing at books. Two ' showed signs of being intellectual, years before, when Willlam had gone to| “She should have an education,” said England with his father, Isanc, and his | Isaac. | brother, Jacob, as members of the royal| Anna replied: “Two or three months guard, he had brought home with him | with a steamstress to lear how to make | Locke's "Essay Concerning Human Un- | household linens—that is all the educa- | derstanding.” " It was his dearest treas- | tion she needs.” ure. Anna had time to pack it in the| Poor Anna! Hers was a losing battle. | an expression of Ibundle he was taking now to England, | but she did not. | “Ach, that book!" she said to herself All the children but Sophia made names for themselves. Jacob, Diedrich and Alexander became fine musicians, and OUR CHILDREN BY ANGELO PATRI. The Teaser. Every playground knows the bor or girl who loves to tease. They will make faces at the child who is afraid of such grimaces until the child cries andTuns home for shelter. They will call names to children who are sensitive to such treatment. “Billy, illy tilly, silly, Silly Billy,” is the delightful chant one sends hurtling against the ears of a sensitive little boy_whose name happens to be William. It hurts William to be called that name, to have such words thrown after him as he goes about his busi- ness. But the teaser laughs heartily, It is such fun to tease William There is the big boy who looks over the head of the little one and then | grabs him by the leg so that he falls well, | down hard on his nose and cries well. _Stub your toes didn’t you, son- ny? Too bad.” and then as the Juck- less child tries to escape. throws him | down again. Then the teaser laughs. Whenever a bigger child, or a teacher, or a parent happens along and inte feres the merry teaser says. “T wasn't hurting him. As though teasing a child was not cruelty. Bullying a child is a cleaner term for the mean-spirited action. Grown people are not faultless in the matter. Many a grownup man has brought tears to the cheeks of little children by teasing them. The child does not understand how one can smile and smile and be a villain still—and that makes the situation the worse. Teasing is another form of bullying and the sooner the screen of playful- ness is taken away from the downright cruelty of the whole matter, the sooner it will be corrected. People who would hate to be accused of cruelty to chil- dren, will gaily tell you what fun they had ‘teasing. Teasing souls stop. rather it ought never to begin, If the person that throw his tormentor into the waste basket the teasing would cease. Why not take a good look at such a situation and correct it? Mothers should put a stop to any form of teasing in the household. There are plenty of games for the children to play without making game of each other’s weaknesses and so strengthening them into the bad habits or nervous ailments. And grown people ought to have sufficient mental resources to find subjects for conversation, or thought, or action, apart from the helplessness of children. Teasing s bullying. It is cruelty. It is inferiority in the teaser. It holds good for nobody and the sooner it disappears from the civil- ized world the better for everybody. (Copyright, 1929.) Home in Good Taste BY SARA HILAND. An unusual idea which has been worked out with the new sectional book- cases of such modern design is that of creating a window seat against a wall where there is no recessed window, such as is usually required for this type of bench. Six sections, which might otherwise be used as a pair of end tables to be used in combination, may be put to- gether in the formation shown in the | illustration. Using the window as the central point of the setting, these are built in such a manner as 10 leave surfaces on which lamps or pots of flowers might be placed. In this room the woodwork has been finished in a light shade of green. with the bookshelves made to match, so that they seem a permanent part of the architecture. The wall resemble parch- ment. The floor covering is of plain green Witlon and the curtains of yellow jaspe striped sunfast material. No glass cur- tains are used. The seat cushion is covered with lilac rep piped with green. this third color lending the interesting note of contrast so necessary to the success of a room. AUNT HET BY ROBERT QUILLEN. 1 was just teasing him.” | i | being tormented were strong enough to | | | | | | | consciousness. The Sidewalks These are warm days in the local | courtrooms. A never-ending grist goes | through the law mills. Judges and | attorneys are unusually patient. Petty | offenses and major crimes move with | dispatch. They would be more quickly | disposed of if some of the witnesses did not delay the wheels of justice. Most of them are obviously fright- ened. Some of them have never been in court be- fore and the pres- ence of the judge, attorneys, wit- nesses and spec- tators excites con- fusion and bewil- derment. Even the most honest and truth- ful person, who normally could re- late certain cir- cumstances con - nected with a case, is utterly lost even when simple | questions are propounded. It might appear to the onlooker to | be the easiest thing in the world to | answer an attorney’s question, but the | environment, the awe and the lack of knowledge of court procedure is terror- izing to many. : A man says he saw the defendant cross the street at 7 o'clock, Was it | really 7 o'clock? How does he know it was 7 o'clock? Oh, he looked at a | street clock! How did he know the street clock was correct? What made him look at the street clock? Was he | in the habit of doing so? Then there is the “staller,” who tries the patience of an examining lawyer. His memory is conveniently vague as to certain important points. Here is an_example: Q. Did you communicate with the defendant just prior to the affair? A. I don't understand you. Q. I say, did you talk to the de- ndant before the affair happened? A. Well, T think— Q. Never mind what you think. An- swer the question, yes or no. A. Well, all I know is that him and me_was—— Q. Answer yes or no. A. No, sir. Q. But you said a few minutes ago that you and he had arranged to meet | and you talked to him over the phone. | A.'Oh, did I? T meant to say— | Q. Never mind what you meant to say. Then you did communicate with him? A. Yes, sir. | Q. Did the defendant ever say to you that he was going to sock some one? A. I don't understand you. Q. Did he ever say in your presence | that he was going to_strike some one, | or that he had it in for a certain | person? A. Well, last Tuesday him and me was in an automobile and—— Q. Answer the question. A. What question. Q. Just what I have asked you. Did he ever threaten anybody in your pres- ence? A. Well. about two years HOST GF THEM AR | | | | | fer PARIS —Tucks zeem tn have forced themselves back on dressmaking Jenny designs a red silk coat with five deep tucks at the bottom. It has ties of red and white and deep white cuffs. RITA. of Washington BY THORNTON FISHER. ‘THis will give some i examining lawyer confronts at times. A local attorney says that few people see a crime or an accident from a like viewpoint. “I have found that they differ mate- rially,” said he, “when it comes to describing the simplest things. It is strange how color blind they become, and they may be honest in.their statements. People who have no in- terest in a case either way prove to be r observers. “One will de- scribe a car as blue, while another will insist that it was yellow. This is not to be won- dered at, for, dur- ing excitement, the mind and vision are confused. and the most phleg- matic and cool persons are apt to overlook some im« portant bit which would provide excel- lent testimony. The height and even color of a person may not be observed. This is what makes it difficult at times to asceriain the truth. “Most _witnesses want to tell the ‘Under severe examination they v appear to be lying on the stand, when actually they are doing their best to give correct answers. “Women are frequently better wit- nesses than men. Certainly they are no more nervous than men on the stand. “Children are often good witnesses. A child will almost invariably tell the truth, if he or she is handled careful- ly and gently. They seem to recognize the importance of what they say. uch a minor thing as obtaining the number of an auto license escapes | the average person, unless he is di- rectly involved in the affair. “These are just a few reasons why lawyers feel tiie heat.” Sweet Potato Croquettes. Mix together one pint of mashed sweet potatoes, two tablespoonfuls of butter, half a teaspoonful of salt end a pinch of pepper. Beat until light, then add the volk of one egg and mix well. Rub through a sieve and add one teaspoonful of chopped parsiey. Shape into smooth balls, then into cylinders, or shape to resemble pears or apples. Dip in breadcrumbs, then in beaten egg, then in crumbs again. Fry in deep, hot fat. Drain on paper and serve on a hot dish. Kidney Rissoles. Cut three-fourths of & pound of ox kidney in slices and fry gently in butter; When cool. mince. fine. Also mince hali a pound of cooked ham, mix with th d kidney, adding two- tablespoonfuls bread crumbs, one tablespoonful chopped parsley, one tablespoonful of chopped mushrooms, a finely chopped shallot and pepper and salt. Mix with & little brown sauce and spread on a plate to cool. Shape into balls, brush over with egg. roll in fine bread erumbs Q. Answer me. Did he or did he not? and fry brown. real definition of the sort of coStUme | and was mot worth the slight saving that we may correctly speak of as a |, gugar which its use made possible. neglige, since they appear in the form | " she rolled out Some pastry into & of pajamas, of jacket ensembles, of | ong piece and cut narrow strips with | short-skirted ~ one-piece frocks, of | the pastry jagger. Wetting the ends of draped gowns, of long coats. The two | each one of these, she laid them crl essentials seem to be that the garment | cross fashion on the pie. The mois whatever it is should be comfortable and | tened ends helped the pirces to adhere as she turned away from it. “No, I | when William, forsaking music, rose to will not send it. Plenty of good line: ! be one of she world's greatest astrono- |and clothing—that is what he needs. | mers, Alexander gave him skilled as- ! “From the very start she and her | sistance in building apparatus that | husband had been at loggerheads over | helped in the recognition of the planet | this matter of education. It was true, | Uranus and other important discoveries. | she admitted, that it had been nice to ‘William_rescued Caroline from h | hear the youthful Isaac play the oboe | mother. She joined him in England, MILADY BEAUTIFUI BY LOIS LEEDS. trimming is good. Dark or mediun{ Coiffure for Full Face. green with beige trimming would by Dear Miss Leeds: (1) I have a full | PALE GREEN DOTTED NET 1S USED FOR THIS WARM WEATHER NEGLIGE WORN WITH A GREEN SATIN BELT. at home for all but the most formal | the top. for Summer wear light and airy and that it should be made so that it may | be slipped on with utmost ease. For | this reason the sleeves when present | are usually of the flowing sort. A most_attractive little step-in can be made from a square for the skirt | portion and two oblong sections for The square is arranged to form a short circular skirt with points. | If you would like a copy, please send | me'a_stamped, self-addressed envelope | and I will gladly send it to you at once. / (Copyright, 1929.) R;)ut Stufl'e’d Heart. Soak one ox heart in cold-water, salt to draw out the blood, clean, rinse well, cut off the loose flaps and dry thor- | oughly. To make the stuffing, drain | |the water from one-fourth pound of {bread crumbs or bread that has been | soaked, beat with a fork, and chop fine lone and one-half ounces of fat and {one large cooked onion. Mix one-half a teaspoonful each of salt and pepper and herbs and bind together with two tablespoonfuls of milk. Stuff the heart with this mixture. Make the dripping smoking hot in & pan, brown the heart, turning it_occasionally, for about two hours. Lift onto & hot plate, pour off all the dripping except one tablespoon- ful. To this add one dessertspoonful of flour, ry until brown, gradually add a cupful of hot water, boil, add more pepper and salt and pour round the roast. Scones. Mix half & pound of flour with = scant half teaspoonful of baking sods, half a teaspoonful of cream of tariar, 1a teaspoonful of sugar and a pinch of occasions. Tea gowns with loose jackels of lace or chiffon that one can wear for lale afternoon and dinner at home There are sleeveless negliges of georgette or chifion for wear in the warmest weather with short capes q salt. Rub in an oun tto & soft dough with butter onto & floured board. Knead She set the pie . then de- it in 20 min- to the &m of the pie in & hot oven for 20 nf creased the heat and loft utes morel (Copyright, 1929.) For preventing a woman from being run over by a railway train, Willlam Henry Kirby, a railway porter of Dover, England, has been awarded $125 and & bronze medallion by the Carncgie Hero Fund trustees. SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. [and_the 'violin. However, would he | not have been better off if he had done as his father had done and been a simple gardener? But, no, he had to turn crazy over music and join thel | BY | | The late G. Stanley Hall, who was recognized as the dean of American psychologists, made & study of human fears, He found no less than 276 dif- ferent fears, He gathered his material | mostly from medical literature. These morbid fears are known as phobias, yhich simply means fears that are more or less unfounded end in the nature {of a disease. These morbid fears are | | met exaggerations of normal fears { that all of us are likely to experience. | ¥ear is the greatest enemy of man. | We spend our brief span of life under | tie shadow of scme fear. No sooner | do we get away from one fear than we | acquire enother or a whole swarm of them. No.one escapes entirely. We are afraid of poverty, of fallure, of losing our job, of meeting with some | accident, of losing the love of a friend | or our sweetheart, of not being able | to keep up with the Joneses, of being snubbed by those who stand above us| socially and a hundred and one other | fears that beset our common humanity to keep us on the qui vive and rob us of the full enjoyment of the good that is_our: The newspapers reported some time ago that a French bride shot her hu bend and then turned the gun on her- No, ma'am, ver kitty didn’t ‘er Y |roll out and cui in rounds or thre cornered shapes. Bale on a hot g.ild: or place in & floured pan and bake in & quick oven for about 15 minutes, all up ‘enuse I was bein' mean o i | T was dest showin' our dog to her, ACopyright, 1929.) self and took her own life, leaving | note which stated that she was too ¥ to live, that she was so happy | she was afraid of happiness, 1f! can be mfraid of happiuess there WHY WE DO WHAT WE DO MEHRAN K. THOMSON. ! teaspoonful of cinnamon, one teaspoon- became his admiring assistant, herself attained fame as an astronomer, and lived' to see her great brother knighted by King George III. (Copyright, 1929.) | the fear of death. We have infinitely more fears because we have many more things to be afraid of. A certain amount of fear makes for safety, to make us alert and watchful. The excessive fear is due to our lively imagination which exaggerates the normal fear like a magnifying glass. Fear in the form of anxiety and the worries of day dreaming, is a stim- ulent, We crave it as a release from | the monotony of commonplace living. | Anxiety quickens the pulse and other- | wise quickens the pace of life and fur- | nishes a real pastime. We are afraid of things because there are things that might injure us. The fear reactions put us in readiness to defend ourselves. In the absence of real dangers we concoct a few in order o enjoy the thrill that accompanies the fear emotion. Fear is our friend as well as our enemy. It all depends on the occasion for the fear and the in- tensity of the fear. (Copyright, 1929.) Molasses C;ke. Use one cupful of white sugar, two tablespoonfuls of butter, two eggs, one ful of baking soda dissolved in one cupful of sour milk, one cupful of molasses, two and one-half cupfuls of flour and one teaspoonful of cloves Mix the flour and the spices, Cream the butter and sugar, add the eggs and s nothing that may not be & source £ worry and fear. Fear among animals is almost wholly confined to physical pain and possibly molasses and the flour and milk. St well together and bake In a moderai: oven, @ ‘ “I was goin’ to have a hen for dinner, but that piece in the paper about males bein' superior got me so riled I just wanted o wring a rooster’s neck WHO REMEMBERS? BY DICK MANSFIELD. Registered U. S. Patent Office. — 0 ek YOU THINK OF THAT ¢, e 1You HAVE \'\PERMITS SOON e i face. How should I wear my hair? I am 16 years old, 5 feet 4!; inches tall | and weigh 165 pounds. My measure- | ments are: Bust, 34; waist, 33: hips, 1 4015; calf, 14; ankle, 10. (2) What is |my correct weight and how can I re- duce? (3) I have dark circles under my eyes. How can they be removed? (4) I'have dark brown hair and a me- | dium complexion. What colors and | styles of clothes will make me look | slimmer? DISCOURAGED. | Answer—(1) Hair of about_shoulder | length would be becoming. Put in a| high side part with a few flat waves at the sides. Drawing it over the ears, arrange your hair in a small flat coll behind. Have a curl at the beginning' of the part on your forehead, and also curl your “scolding locks” (the small strands of hair that grow in front of the ears), combing them so that they form a thin wavy fringe on your cheeks Your bust measure is good: your calf is passable, but the other measurements are larger than the average. (2) You are about 30 or 40 pounds above the average weight for age and height. This excess may be due simply abits of overeating and lack of ex-| ercise or it may be caused by some in- ternal condition. When girls of your age ask me how to lose weight I always refer them to a doctor, who can ascer- tain the real cause of the condition and apply a suitable remedy. It is unsafe for a young person to adopt a drastic reducing diet without medical advice | and supervision. (3) The dark circles may be caused by constipation, loss of sleep or some internal condition that your physician can treat. Do not try to dose your- | | selt, but have medical advice. At bed- | | time, after cleasing your face, pat a “l&,ue bleaching cream on the darkened skin. (4) Navy blue is an excellent color for | you: choose s neatly tallored style of | ! i becoming also. Dark ecolors make you look slimmer. Avoid flares, flounces and ruffles. LOIS LEEDS. Water for Complexion. Dead Miss Leeds: (1) I take very good care of my skin, using plain wate on my face and no soap, since soa makes the skin blotchy. Is this al right? (2) T am 16 years old, 5 feel 1%, inches tall. What should I weighi (3) I am letting my hair grow, bul have to keep curling it with hot_irons As a resuit I have all short ends. Would you advise a permanent wave? ESTHER B. Answer—(1) Tt usually takes mon than plain water to keep the skin clean Perhaps the soaps you have tried haw been too harsh. Try pure castile soaj with warm -water, and be sure to ring off well. If this makes your skif blotchy, use uncooked oatmeal fa cleansing purposes. Tie a little in a piea of clean cotton cloth and rub it on you face, after having soaked it in you wash basin. Rinse well. (2) The aver age weight for your age and height | ‘When you could park &li day on F | dress with vertical lines and V-shaped | between 108 and 113 pounds. (3) Yet et without receiving an office! calling card, requiring you to deposit cuffs of dull pink or peach or ecru.|solve your probiem. the usual “two in one”? neckline. Have & narrow collar and Dsrk brown with tan or soft dull green I think & good permanent wave woul LOIS LEEDS. “rapyright, 1929.)