Evening Star Newspaper, June 10, 1929, Page 27

WOMA? SEPAGE, I . _EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY JUNE 10, 1999. FEATURES. ey 4 Basque Berets fo BY MARY MARS For a thousand years or so the Basque peasents in France and Spain have been wearing the simple, wear- mble little bonnet of the sort that we | call a beret. Other peasant folk have worn hats of a similar sort. The Scotch tam o'shanter is not ver The French milliners different. might have INEW TYPE BASQUE BERET OF LIGHT-WEIGHT WOOL JERSEY NEW BOW AT TOP. IS WORN AF BACK OF HEAD TO SHOW WIDE EXPANSE OF FOREHEAD. gone to one of several other sources for & hat of this description. But Cannes and other altractive French southern ir ts brought fashionable women down into the Basque section and this has done much to keep this type of hat in favor Boina is the name given by the {the headgear of the American r Informal Wear ' Basques themselves to this their native headdress, and at Cannes last Winter young men as well as women chose it for sportswear generally. The men wore it in true Basque fashion. straight across the head, tilted down slightly over the left eye, while the young wom- en wore it at all sorts of angles choosing the mode that most suited the style of their coiffure. Now the American shops are showing Basque bereis for informal and sports- wear here this Summer—berets that are rather different from any that we hate worn before. Many of these new berets | are made of light-weight wool jersey | and almost always there is an amusing little bow at the top. Meantime the gob’s hat, inspired by tlor gained popularity at American resorts and has been taken in | | boy. Southern up with considerable enthusiasm France. Two charming French scarfs have been taken for the models of this week's | Home Dressmaker's Help. They can very easily be made at home from crepe de “chine or other light silk. 1f vou would like a copy of the descriptive circular, please send me your stamped self-addressed envelope so that I may send it 1o you at once. (Copyright, 1920.) H Flaked Scallops. Large scallops, parboiled and broken into bits, can be prepared like crab flakes and are equally delicious. 1f 10" be served cold, the scallops should be allowed ta cool in the water in which they are parboiled, as this brings out the flavor of the finished dish. Mixed with mayonnaise or tartar sauce, flaked | parboiled scallops make an appetizing canape for the opening course of meal, the foundation being of toast cut in fancy shape and decorated with pimento or green peppers and a bit of lemon. Understanding Your Skin. | Every girl and woman wants a clea smooth complexion, and the tremendo |gales of cosmetics in recent years shows | |that she is willing to pay for it. It is not always possible to buy beauty with money, however; one must pay for |4t with time and thoughtful analysis of the cause of beauty blemishes. One must know, in the first place, Isomething of the nature of the skin. Eome girls think of it merely as a 'covering for protection, Tike the vencer on a table or the cover of a chalr. As a consequence, they give it only super- |ficial care locally. They use the best ‘cosmetics that money can buy and are surprised when they cannot get rid of their pimples, sallowness and wrinkles. The trouble lies in not understanding the skin and its functions. The skin is not only a covering for the under- 3ying tissues, but it is one of the organs for elimination. It also helps to regu- Jate body temperature through the evaporation of sweat. People who BY JOSEPH Good Taste. ;. T take 1t you put first = good emotional est and poise—second, good sense and & v in using it i your job and in iife gen- leraily: third. you throw out a hint or twe | about go0d taste. When does that come in? | [AS that happens to be the main thing in | jmy job as a designer, 1 am (interested. Please explain. DESIGNER. Reply. | | saost gladly, and I welcome the ques- | ltion. Good cheer! Good sense! Good taste! Not a bad trio. Most persons funderstand the first two better than | he third. In fact, the moment you ention “art” in home circles, you are nder suspicion; and if you say hetic” you are damned. ~ 1t shouldn't t”" so. Td like to make “artistic” and “esthetic” household words with which verybody is to feel at home. They en- r into your daily life at every turn You can't avold matters of taste, you | on't want to; there are lots of de- | leisions, points’ of behavior, in which | () nd good humor. You must have taste he only question is whether it is good | r bad or somewhere in between. The | that with which we started, the entire | They (oiled along throughout the urther trouble is that when we differ | n these matters, as we often do, we ay: “‘Well, that's a matter of taste”| nd dismiss it. But that's no more in | int than to say thaj something else | r- matter of sense, of good sense or | r sense, and this applies no less to Rood taste and poor taste. " Good taste is an essential part of ental fitness. It's as much worth | ultivation as good humor or good ( ense. T don't say it is as easily done | { r that we have developed the art of N Enwhmg it as well as the comrnlon' rts—and we haven't done too well with ither—but 1t's equally desirable. = Tn act, 1 have no_objection to defining hese worthy ends as the true aims of | ucation, more imposlant than the | three R's: good will, good sense, good {taste; ‘all requiring as well the desire .} Abe Martin ot Says | | | *“Show me a heroin pill an’ I'll show ipou the makin's of a potential crim- nal,” said Constable Plum todav, in discussin’ the “brains” o' the Skunk When we do see a nice, well kept, rosperous-looking farm we find that | due to wrong diet. 1it | You may have good taste in m L | perspire less freely than normal suffer from heat much more than others. The beauty of the skin reflects the health and soundness of the body as a whole. This is why diet and pegsonal hygiene | must be included in the modern girl's | beauly program. 1 have no doubt th: in future years manufacturers of co: metics will' include in their packages & | few hints as well as directions for ap- plying their creams and lotions. Those | who sell obesity cures already do s0; they sell a reducing application or | cream and then suggest that diet and exercise would also help. The beauty creams of the future will probably be sold in conjunction with advice on diet Laxatives and health foods are now, being featured as aids to beauty. i Excessive oiliness of the skin is often Excessive dryness | may be due in part to lack of sufficient fats in the diets. A deficiency in vita- min A, which is found in milk, egg: cream, butter, cheese, calves’ livers spinach, carrots, etc., makes the skin dry and harsh. These points must be | consideged as well as the choice of cos- metic preparations. Of course, the local care of the skin should not be neglected. Harsh ness and biotches of the skin. Lack of | thoroughness in cleansing results in blackheads and pimples. ~Begin each day’s beauty program with setting-up exercises vigorous enmough to cau sweating _and bring a glow to th cheeks. Take a quick shower and rub- down. Cleanse the face with cold cream. | wipe it off and bathe the face in cold | water. Dry and apply powder base and make-up. At bedtime clean the face with cold cream before washing it with soap and water. Apply an astringent lotion afterward if the skin Is ofly: use a food cream if the skin is too dry. JASTROW. and determination to practice them. | Good taste, like good sense, divides at once according to what you apply | to. You may have good sense in business matters and the practical af- | fairs of life, and pretty poor sense in | managing people or in handling campli- | cated sets of ideas such as enter into | mathematics or physics or chemistry. c and pretty poor in color, and you may have better taste in dress than in furnishing | the article. your house. On the other hand you may go fairly far in concealing your limitations of intellect: you are bound to show your taste. For it shows in your dress, in your surroundings, in your language, in your behavior. When we get together and talk and exchange ideas, as we say, we are really getting together on the basis of taste. If we like the same things we have & basis of understanding. And then come forward those large human interests hat we all share and which determine our standards of behavior generally. Birds of a feather flock together, and 00d taste is as important as good sense | the “feather” depends as much on tasle |yhresh their nutmegs, oats and flax: as on anything else. ‘The big place in life includes first fleld of art and esthetics and then all the refinements of life, that make it worth living. The level on which you live is fundamentally determined by your taste. Shop, office, street, go where you will, eat where and what you will, and the product you meet or choose is a matter of taste. We spend millions and millions on taste; the bil for beauty (whether we achieve it or | not) is comparable to the bill for use. Certainly both for material value and for its psychological value as contrib- uting to the enjoyment of life, good taste is & big thing. The possession of it gives you a surer and more respon- sible participation in what is so vital to living that it becomes flesh and bone and spirit of mental fitness. (Copyright, 1929.) DAILY DIET RECIPE JELLIED POT-POURL Pinely shredded cabbage, one- and one-half cups. Minced radishes, one-fourth cup. Minced radishes, one-fourth cup. Minced green pepper, one- fourth cup. Grated onion, one tablespoon. Salt, one teaspoon. Vinegar, one-fourth cup. Boiling water, three-fourths cup. Cold water, three-fourths cup. Hard-boiled eggs, two. Tomato slices, eight. Lemon gelatin, ong, package. SERVES EIGHT PORTIONS. Dissolve gelatin in boiling water. Add cold water, vinegar and all scasonsings except the eggs and tomato. Let cool. When slightly thickened place a round slice of hard-botled egg in the bottom of a little fancy mold. Have vegetables well mixed in the gelatin and fill mold. Chill slice "of tomato on top. Chill molds thoroughly. Unmold by quickly dipping each in hot water and_turning out on salad plate on lettuce leaf if desired. ~The egg slice will be on top, the to- mato slice at the bottom. DIET NOTE. Recipe furnishes fiber, protein, much lime, iron and vitamins A, B and C. Could be given to children over 10. Could be eaten by normal adults of average, Ridge Bank robbery. t s (he plaything o' some town pluto- rat, [ (Copyright, 1vav.) R over or under weight. bas Well aw G, pop, holey smokes. T seo and he sed, I admit the force of that observation’ but at the same fime 1| must_announce that you have fust 3 | mipnits to take yvour choice between | i soapy wavelets breaking gently agzen | & boys berthday suit or | soaps | and inferior make-up may cause dry- ' | asked for its return, and promised to LITTLE BENNY BY Lt to take Sattiday a bath and all of a sudden I got sleepy nite 1 was sippose anything and kepp on getting | sleepier, and the slecpler I got the less I feit like interrupting myself with a bath, and 1 sed, G, Im sleepy, I gess 1il g0 to bed After you take your bath you will. ma sed, and 1 sed. Well G, ma, how about tomorrow morning? Sunday morning is the bizziest time in the life of the bathroom and you know it, ma sed Meening her or pop would probably wunt to go in there just when I wanted | 1o go in, and pop sed, You better ge bizzy and werk up a lather of Soap in- stead of a lather of argewment Well, gosh, pop, if 1 take my bath now it mite wake me ali up agen so I, wont be able to g0 to sleep, I sed | On the other hand it mite make you so sleepy youw'il fall asleep while your drying your ack, in wich case I garan- | tee to put yoh to bed and the whole operation will be as paneless as if you had taken ether, pop sed Ony G wizzikers, pop, last week 11 had 2 baths, 1 sed. and pop sed. T hera of & man who bathed every day for vears and he lived on his interest he was 93 letting me hear the soothing sounds ¢ allowing rumbie of yourself to hear the ominous of a slipper Me choosing the bath but enjoving 1t much more than if I hadnt argewed at all, WHO REMEMBERS? BY DICK MANSFIELD. Registered U. 8. Patent PARIS. collection: begins very are enjoving a final flare. close to the hemline [N @ small, unpretentious office at the far end of the Munitions Building pleasant bespectacled Army officer is about ready to close his desk and retire. He is Maj. Gen. Edgar Jadwin, chief ! of Army engineers, and for more than a quarter of a century one of the world's greatest authorities on flood control and, waterwa He is only 63 years old and doesn’t | look his age. Mild and unassuming, he {may be fcund at almost any time in ! his small office smoking his favorite briar and studying | the vast_array of maps sod charls ———— —— 'that clutters his [ 'T FELL ON THE | desk pORRCE When President Harrison signed our On August 7 he first prohibition law, prohibiting the: leaves it all With sale of intoxicants within one mile of | the rank of lieu- tenant general and a reputation that world-wide, he looks forward to spend- ing the remaining vears of his life in | comparative seclu- ston. a the Soldiers’ Home, making nearly third of the District dry? Everyday Law Cases Is Reward Oflered For Return of Lost Article Payable on, Delivery? Few people know | the extent of B | Jadwin's experience with large engineer- rojects. “One hundred dollars reward. Lost|”'He \ent to Panama with Goethals in business section of city, 'a diamond | and for four years directed the digging ring. Whoever shall return it to this | of the canal on the Atlantic side of the office shall reccie the above reward.” | waierwa In answer (o the above advertisement, | After the greal storm at Galveston it Thomas Wilson called upon the adver- | was Jadwin, then a captain, who super- - tiser. Jacob Day, and informed him that | intended reconstruction of the sea walls, he had found the lost article. Day |jetties and fortifications. During the Woild War he organized and took to France the 15th Engineers and became directing head of the great construetion force of 160,000 officers and men—the force that constiucted more BY THE COUNSELLOR. pay the reward in a month's time. Wil- | son demurred to the arrangement claiming that he was entitled to the reward at once, and he refused to re- | turn the jewel until the reward was|than 1,000 miles of railroad. thousands paid of buildings and countless miles of high- Day instituted replevin proceedings | ways tn record time And it is the Jadwin plan that will be followed in the Government's effort to curb the mighty Mississippi River. Waterways have been Gen. Jadwin's hobby during most of his military career. Snortly after graduation from West Point in 1890 he was assigned lo his first harbor improvement project. He was told to triple the size of Ellis Island for immigration purposes. He started to work, and within a short while completed the job. He dredged a channel to the island, but it a crib around three sides of it. filled the interior and created an island three times its original size He so impressed his superiors that he was sent to the engineering school at Willetts Point, at New York harbor, where he was graduated in both civil and military engineering. Gen. Judwin has a deep-rooted and sincere faith in his profession. In 1927 he was on an inspection tour of the flood-ravaged Mississippi Valley. The water was still high. A resident approached him and asked if he thought the Army engineers could solve the problem of the mighty Mississippl. He reolied in five words “They built the Panama Canal.” And it was with this sort of deter- mination that he plunged into trying to find & solution of what has been de- scribed as, the world's greatest engi- neering problem. for the ring, contending that the finder | was not entitled to hold the article, but could sue for the reward in the event it was not paid. The court held that the finder was not compelled to return the lost article | until the reward was paid, stating: “The implication of the advertisement was that the finder would receive the reward immediately upon the return of The loser could have pro- | posed any other terms he desired. He | might have promised to pay the reward | at a given time after the ring should | have been restored, in which case the | person returning it could look only to | the personal responsibility of the ad- vertiser. As the advertisement read, the finder acquired a llen on the ring until the reward was pald.” ° — i i T | ° —o| A million farmers swung the flail, to "though they were stalwart men and hale, the labor nearly broke their backs. | ay, | for ‘men must work and also weep, {and when at night they hit the hay they were so tired they couldn't sleep. A million farmers dourly wrought and | plied the awkward, noisy fiail; there was no hope for them, they thought that method always would prevail. But | there was one, “forgotten now, who hought that method was a shame, and asqhe mopped his streaming brow he planned a better threshing game. In dreams he saw a big machine with clashing gears and teeth of steel, all painted brilliant red and green. that took a wheat stack at a meal. A mil- lion men will travel on the paths their | fathers used to tread, and have no vision of the dawn that may be breaking just “This special session of Congress upset plans that Representative George H Tinkham of Massachusetts had for something like two years. He was prepared to go tiger hunting again this Summer. It has been almost two years now since he came back from the Orlent emply handed, so far as tigers are concerned. Ever since he has been ahead. A million farmers swung the | making plans to try to bag at least one. scythe, vear afler year, their crops to| The King of Abyssinia had invited him win: they started in the morning|lo come over this Summer as his guest blithe, and in the gloaming were all in. | But the President called the law- They thought that farmers always must swing heavy scythes to get the grain, | their’ whiskers ‘full of burs and dust | their bodies full of grief and pain. But | one, whose name’s forgotten now, be- held the harvest. wide and green, and as he leaned agalnst a cow, he figured out a great machine, And now a reap- ler cuts the straw and binds it into | handsome sheaves, and feeds them to | the thresher's maw. as found and round the field it weaves. There always is some man of sense, inclined to think, in- clined to dream, inclined to sit upon a fence scheme. an epoch-making WALT MASON. AUNT HET and plan BY ROBERT QUILLEN, “It's a good thing I passed Ed's| store an’ seen his bald head shinin'l through the window or I would o' forgot all about that furniture polish.* here are plenty of signs (hai s HINGTON DAYBOOK BY HERBERT PLUMMER. | as shown in the latest siyle cut of a coat at Yteb's RITA. irts The circular makers to Washington, and'Mr. Tink- ham had to caficel all of his plans. His tiger hunt must wait at least until next year. Represenlative ‘Tinkham probably is the most widely traveled member of Congress. Only one other—Ernest R. Ackerman of New Jersey—can approach the Massachusetts man's mileage record. Already he has been more than 250000 miles outside the confines of the United | States. He started his globe circling hile a student at Harvard and has been at it ever since. He is a bachelor and wealthy. Also. he is & big-game hunter of the first water, and his quest of thrills along this line has carried him to the four corners of the globe. There is ample proof of his skill as & hunter. The walls of his office on Capi- tol Hill are decorated with the heads of animals he has shot. His apartment at one of the hotels in Washington literally is jammed with trophies of these hunt- ing expeditions The Smithsonian Institution has been the recipient of valuable African speci- mens brought down by Mr. Tinkham’s gun. When he travels he surrounds him- sell with all the conveniences, Once the king of Siam ordered out one of bear Mr. his own planes to Tinkham from Bangkok, Siam, to Ahgkor in Cambodia, [ThE Boviweoeo French Indo- | WS BURDEN China. Everywhere he goes he is en- tertained by the highest personages of the country he is visiting. He is an accom- plished horseman and every day around noon he may be seen riding through the Mall along the Polomac. Not s0 long Rgo & horse dropped dead under him in Potomac_Park. Mr. Tinkham is serving his eighth consecutive term in the House of Rep- resentatives. Last year when Massa- chuseets went Democratic he was re- elected without difficulty. 333 voles more than Al Smith in his aistrict. -l You probably saw the face of the most famous baby in the United States in_the newspapers recently. It was the first time in three years that Paulina Longworth, baby daughter of Alice Roosevelt and Nick Long- worth, has been photographed publicly. Paulina’s parents refuse to let her ap- pear too much in the public prints and guard her closely from photographers. Prices realized on Swift & Compan sales of earcass beef in Washinglon. for week ending Saturt June 8. Shipments 50l out. T 102500 cents per cents per’ pound LEI CLOROX DO THE JOBS YOU DREAD with Scum remaining on surface of tub,after any bath, contains grease, dirt and bacteria. To remove the visible dirt is not enough~doctors will tell you that the tub should also be sterilized. ‘The Clorox-way is the easy, sure and economical way to do this, for Clorox cleanses an Just wipe the tub with a cloth dampened with Clorox— the germs, rim of grease, and dirt will be quickly removed. Clorox is @ product o, clean odor indicates its AT ALL G He polled | that ugly rim CLOROX Historic Qui A Sermon for Today BY REV. JOHN R. GUNN. Beaumarchais. Fro Gain lts In Excusing Little Follies. ‘As if that were a very little thing."—Ez., xvi:47 h Watchmaker, Who Helped Ame ck-Thinkers depende ‘The text indicates a line of reasoning and action that many people pursue They ere careiul to refrain from what they regard as the grosser follies of life, blit what they regard as the lesser follies they are not so careful about Indulging in these folloles they re- gard the lesser, they excuse them, | selves on the ground that they are only | small matters and do not make much | AH differenc But this is a fallacious kind of rea- soning. Little indiscretions and faults do make a difference. They make & big | difference when we see them in others. | As Chesterfield wrole: “Examine your- | self, why you like such and sugh people and disiike such and such otfers; and vou will find that those different senti- Famous among “quick-thinkers.” ments proceed from very slight causes.’ | particularly interesting to Americans, If we are not willing to grant leniency | Pierre Augustin Caron de Beauma to others in these small matters, why ; chais. Beginning life in 1732 as Pierre <hould we grant any to ourselves? What ' Augustin Caron, son of & Paris watch- we see as ugly in others is no less ugly | maker, he achieved a dazzling career when seen by them in us. and is likely Taught ch-making by his father | to affect their sentiment toward us |he invented, al 20, an improvement in | just as it affects ours toward them. We | ¢s¢ apements which enabled him to ! do well to think about this before we [ make watches of extreme minuteness excuse in ourselves that which we con- | and accuracy. A powerful rival pirated sider only a little folly. | the inventicn, but the youth did ot Tet no one deceive himself, Our little | surrender. He published his crievance follies may make big fools of us. Even | ahd carried it to the Academy of {if they lead to no tragic results, they | Sciences, where he gained the verdict mav spoil our reputation and influence. | His thoughts were alw tive and | Milton speaks of “lhe gav motes thai he was ambitious. Hangome. too. and | people the sunbeams.” We have often | Jolly, he found means Yo profit from seen the brightest character qualities | the attention he had received. In marred and dimmed by the “gay mote” | Fapid order these events k place. | He made a wonderful watch and ob- { tained the privilege of personally pre- | senting it (o the King, who was de- | lighted. | He made the smallest watch then in | existence: put it on a finger ring. und | bre d i o Mme. Pompadour, the ing's mistress He won the heart of Mme. Franquel wile of & court official. who persuaded her aged husband (o relinguish his post to the watchmaker Mme. Franquets husband dving, } married her, added the “de Beauma of some little fault or sin. Surely no evil or folly is to be excused “as if & { very little thing.” MOTHERS AND THEIR € DREN, ! Let Sonny Cook. ! One Mother Says: | Just because he's a boy. don't shut nim out of the kitchen. Little brother | chais” (o his name. bought the office of enjoys helping mother to cook just s !secretary to ihe King and oblained much as his sister does. Teach him ! patents of nobility. that he must be immaculately clean of | He won the regard of Louis XV's nands, face and clothing. When you, re making cake or cornbread, give the daughters and, being-an experi Musi- cian, was made their teacher something was hanpening o chais. His first wife soon d ing. he married sgain. Shortly th: second wife passed on. There were ! BY MARY Above the Average. too satisfied with the | average is as close (o the lowest stand- Some of are us !beinz “average” to realize that { ard as it is to the highest. Every year we hear that the per capita wealth of { this country is set at a certain figure, | this year it was not much under $3,000. | This is the average wealth of the aver- | age person. But who is satisfied with boy an apron and start him out by let- | belug average? ting him sift flour or beat egzs. Then| In some figures before us we find the 1ot him sit nearby. Answer the g average savings account balance of ihe tions with which he will ply you as|average depositor in town. It seems (he cooking proceeds. Gradually give :to us inadequate for most women, and Lim ‘more and more to do. It won't | we should certainly like to think that a be Jong before he can stir up a simple | few pallry accounts brought down the cake or prepare a plain dish for din- | ner. Beside giving him an apprecia- | We are told the average life span of tion of his mother’s work and the dou- {a woman is about 57 years of age, but ble delight of learning and “crealing. | few of us are resigned just now to dy- he will be a happy and sell-reliant | g on our fity-seventh birthday anni- average. member when he goes to Summer camp. | versary. (Copyrieht, 1929.) | None of us like Lo be average women lin looks or appearance. We dislike o | be told we are types. o have common= place faces. We would protest if told our families arc average families. Average intelligence signifies o the riajority &n intelligence of a modest ort All of this. you may agree with by & single mumber, Thee minutes fox | Us, is true, but what does it lead up to? I the" consplete st the object of the | Just this. we should not be satisfied test being to ascertain your ability in | With conducting our financial affairs in X calculation, also in analysis of |AD Bverage way. If the worldly goods uestiotis: Y |of the average woman are insufficient BRAIN TEST Answer three minutes—each may be answered the following questions in U1V A btraln leaves city A every hour | fOF our future. let's strike a mark well on thie hiotir; RFTivEig: a0 eily. B i 2{|AbOVE +{hE" Avel It the average | hours and 15 minutes. ‘There 15 an | Woman falls for fake stock pro- | hourly ‘train from B 1o & cach (rain| motion scheme i some lime in her leaving on the hour and making the | life, let's be above the average, and be run in 2 hours and 15 minutes. tavulnerable to such schemes How many trains from A to B will be| I the average woman owes more than passed by a train running from B to A? | she can pay at once or in the near fu- (2) A man has three sisters, each of | ture, let’s avoid her example. Some- the sisters has three sons, and each of times we find the average woman m those three sons has three sisters. |using her credit, assuming too many How many people are there al-|obiigations, spending unwisely, or act- together? { (3) A man changes a $2 bill. He re- celves a certain number of half dollais. | twice as many quarters, twice s many | dimes as quarters, twice as many nick- | cls as dimes, and the balance in 1-cent | pieces. How many 1-cent pieces does he re- celve? | Answers. | . (1) Five trains will be passed. Ex ample, train leaves B at 12 o'clock. ar |riving at A at 2:15. It passed the 10, 11, | 12, 1 and 2 o'clock trains from A. 121 Twenty-two people. One man, three sisters, nine sons and nine daughters. Each son has three sisters, but each group of three sisters are sisters to| three brothers. (3) Twehty 1-cent! pleces—one haif dollar, two quarters | four dimes. eight nickels. d sterilizes in one operation. modern science. Its germicidal qualities, . ROCERS traight Talks to Women MONSIEUF | WARNED rumors of & polsoning, but they were apparently unfounded. His enemies couldn’t think as fast as he. A courtier seeking io sumble him by asking him to repair his watch, Beaumarchais replied he was no longer expert, but very awkward. Then, t Wig the watch as though to examinz it he dropped it on the foor. Ah. monsieur,” he said, “I warned you of my awkwardness.” bowed and walked away. leaving the chagrined courtier to pick up the pleces. He killed an adversary in a duel. Through the favor in which the royal princesses held him. he was able to assist Du Verney, the great banker. who made him rich by glving him a share in his speculations. Louis XV died. Louis XVI and Marie Antoinetle ascended the throne. Beau- marchais, carrying out a mission to de- stroy some documents attacking the Queen. shed his blood. The Queen gave nim her sffectionate grativude, and (hereafter he was powerful at court. He was on the side of the American colonies in their quarrel with England, and was largely responsible for turn- ing French assistance to the Ameri- cans. With all his other activities he be- came famous as a writer. But his memoirs and his plays, “The Barber of Seville” and “The Marriage of Figaro.” which have survived today in the operas baring those titles. innocently helped to bring on the French Revolution, as they zibed at soclety. Strangely. the revolutionists had no use for him. His wealth was respon- sible. His later years found him de- spolled of his former influence. (Copyright, 1920.) bout Money ASETH Al ing in other ways to make the average an_unfavorable goal. Unless vou_ are satisfied with hving an average life, and having avcrage happiness and good fortune, it would be better to ignore averages. They a only consolation to those who have lost the will to live well, to prosper and to 1be truly happy SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. My! but you gol mean idears, Babyv. Ain't I telled.yer to be kind to all numb creatures?>—let him down a little near- er, or they won't neber drab him. (Copyright. 1929.)