Evening Star Newspaper, June 27, 1929, Page 40

AQU. " 2 "WOMAN'S PAGE. “How to Keep an Aquarium aguarium fs large and with water from the o(mmunbt‘: ernment sewing a coarse woven net or & of cheesecloth to a small embroidery ring. The material should be cut larger than the ring so that it will ' | cup like a fish net. Scoop the fish out of the bowl and put them into an ordinary one or a wash basin filled with pure water. Re- fill the aquarium and transfer the fish back to it with the net. should be washed and polished dry. Use warm water and soap and a soft wash cloth. Rinse well so that no | trace of soap remains. Then polish until the glass shines. As aquariums are decorative accessories in a home, it is only when they are absolutely spick and span, and filled with clear pure water that they fulfill this function. It is not necessary to wash the aqu: rium every time the water is changed, but as often as will keep the glass bright and shining. BRIDGE TALKS BY MRS. JOHN MUNCE, JR. ‘This talk is on the business double. ‘The second general type of double is the business double, and it is made for the | added penalty it inflicts on the losing declarer. | In a business double you say to your partner, “I feel sure we can defeat this bid, and I want to make 100 for each | extra trick we can take instead of 50, and I do not want you to take me out unless you think the double will not be profitable and that we are certain to go game in your declaration.” This :l:lslne&lydnuble u?mm be used in e early stages of ng. Any double of a one, two or three bid of a suit, after your partner has bid or doubled, is business. ‘The double of a one no trump, if partner has bid or doubled, is business, and the double of & two no trump bid, of whether partner has bid or not, is always considered business, as well as the double of a four or five bid of any suit. The double of a bid, which if made ‘would give the bidders game, whether or not it be doubled, such as a double (at love score) of three no trump, four hearts or five diamonds, or the double of two hearts or two diamonds, when the adversaries have 16 on their trick score, is called a free double. It has been fig- ured out that the odds are almost two to one against a free double. A doubtful double should never be when your partner may have & game hand. If your partner has been doubled for business and you have a strong hand, it will help him win. For example, dealer holds: Spades—King and queen. Hearts—_Noi king, jack, 8-spot, 6-spot nd 3-spot. Clubs—8-spot, 8-spot, 3-spot, d4-spot and ipot. i Dealer bids one diamond initially, second hand bids one spade, third hand two_hearts, fourth hand three spades. Dealer passes, second hand passes and third hand (dealer’s partner), bids four hearts, and fourth hand doubles. It is possible, but hardly probable, that five diamonds could be made, but partner bid four hearts without assistance other than your jnitial diamond bid. ‘Therefore, as d contains three quick tricks, with a sound bidder for a partner it is better not to take your partner out. If your hand is weak and you take him out, the chances are you will make matters worse. For example, dealer bids one no trump, second hand two hearts, third hand , fourth hand two spades; dealer n bids three dia- monds and second hand doubles. Third hand, dealer’s partner, holds the fol- JARTUMS A VALUE ONLY WHEN THEY ARE KEPT IMMACULATELY CLEAN, it must be kept fresh and pure as to water and tely clean as to the glass. The word “fresh” is used not in contrast to salt 'Mfl’.nwt untainted snd recent changed. is true that squariums in homes are seldom filled ‘Wal ress Salad. Apple Cobbler, Coffee. Fee—s-wBot. 8-spot, 4-spot. and 2-spot. 5 —8-apot. 6-spot., 4-spot. an: 2 famondsd-spot. 7-spot and ‘3-5p0 Clibs—Jack, 10-spot, §-1pot, 4-spot and 3- ‘When the glass aquarium is empty it |° oughly, add to and add eggs last; let stand few hours before serving. APPLE COBBLER. oy appics. Bics nto shallow juicy apples. w Lkinc dflh. Sprinkle one-fourth cup sugar over and little cinna- mon. Make batter of one beaten egg, one-fourth cup sugar, one- half cup milk, one and one-fourth Shon baking mewaer nd. pinch spoon powder and pincl salt. Lastly, add two tabl melted butter, beat well, and pour over apples. one-half hour in lerate oven. Serve hot with favorite sauce. setes | Moths won't eat upholiters| 1Yy Of these... not'if you treat them with moth-proofing Coats Rugs Blanhets The idea of genuine mothproofing is a new and revolutionary idea. The mod- ern woman knows that moth-balls, cedar-chests, tar-bags and insect-killers can’t stop moth-worms from eating. On the other hand, you can stop them with Larves, because Larvex really does mothproof. Larvex is odorless, non-in- flammableand guaranteed asadvertised in Good Housekeeping Magazine. SPRAYING LARVEX, for upholstered fur- niture, coats, suits, etc. One spraying lasts a whole year. $1 for a pint or, with atomizer which lasts for years, $1.50. RINSING LARVEX for such washable wool - ens as blankets, sweaters, etc. This is in powder form (50¢ 2 package) and you just dissolve it in water, then soak and dry—that’s all! SPRAYING "I LARVEX LA ‘With this holding, it would be unwise to take your partner out of a business double, as this hand will probably l::‘ls your partner by the ability to spades. You must realize it is seldom sound bidding to take your partner ou of a business double, p}rticullrly if he is a sound bidder himself. Unless a player really learns the rules of doubling, he cannot gl:y as advan- tageously as the player who knows when and how to use them. A half-way un- derstanding of them is often very dis- astrous. ‘When doubling for information or bulnneu. always remember these simple rules: Be sure you know what you wish to tell your partner. Also, that you will by your bid, double or pass. Convey the | right messages to him. Be sure your partner understands the rules of doubling, so you may under- stand any message he may send you by his bid or you send him. Be sure that you and your partner know the difference between informa- tory and business doubles. ™ RINSING % | pale green equally well. SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. If yer hangs down yer legs, Baby, yer can touch the kitchen roof. Brother can't hold yer much longer.— I ain’t in no shape ter have Drandpa come up behind me. (Copyright, 1929.) NANCY PAGE Glassware for Summer Should Be Inexpensive. BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. For one of her dearest friends who was to be married in August, Nancy asked to be allowed to select the glass- ware. She made three entire sets. The first set was of really good glass. It was fine enough to use for dinner parties and distinctive luncheons. S8he loved the deep blue, the ruby red and rich amethyst shades. But she felt it was unwise to purchase any of these for Cynthia. In the first place the colors are intense and one is apt to tire of them, and then, too, they definitely set a color scheme. One can’t use apricot snapdragons yith ruby red glass. Nancy did not choose that pale pink which has been so popular. That was her reason, it had been too popular and was now brought out in the cheap- est glass. She chose crystal for the finest goblets and sherbets, For luncheon tables she chose some of the footed glassware which intro- duces color in the stem and foot. For the third best she chose glass which is a replica of good old patterns but which is made in such quantities that it sells for a trifile. She chose an amber in this, although she liked a But she had discovered that many beverages looked queer when viewed through a green glass which was not bubble thin, Because this glass was cheap she felt that Cynthia could use it for the Summer and then give it away at the end of the season. She felt that there were too many attractive novelties on the market continually to make it wise to tie up all the capital in really costly and valuable things. When one has paid much money for a thing it seems a crime to discard Both kinds sold by drug and department stores everywhese. | for not buying closer. STAR, WASHINGTON,Y D. (C. THURSDAY, DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX How to Tell Whether a Man Will Make a Generous or a Tight-Fisted Husband—Folly of Letting Superstitions Interfere With Happiness. JEAR MISS DIX: I am engaged to be married to a man with whom I have been going four or five years and I have never known a more generous person than he is. He is always giving me beautiful presents and also gives nice things to the members of my family. He takes me to the best restaurants for dinner and to the best places of amusement, yet some people have told me he is stingy. He says himself that he has a very conservative nature; in fact, so much so that he knows he is “close.” Now I would certainly hate to marry a man like that. Am I to judge him by the way I know him or are all men lavish before marriage and stingy afterward? I have not a conservative nature, but I am not a spendthrift either. I am not so much in love that I cannot back out. ‘What is your advice? THE NUT. Answer: Certainly there is no other husband in the world who is harder for his wife to endure than the one who is a tightwad. Nothing can compensate a woman for the humiliation she undergoes in having to pry every nickel out of | a man and tell what she did with the quarter he gave her week before last. I have known men so stingy that they begrudged their wives and children the very clothes on their backs and the food they ate and who made the first of the month, when the bills came in, such a day of wrath and terror that their families dreaded it as they did the judgment day. I have known rich men whose wives never had a penny of their own that they could spend as they pleased. I have known men who loved their pocketbooks 50 much better than they did their own flesh and blood that they denied their children education and decent clothes and all the pleasures of youth, ‘Therefore, if & girl even suspects a man of being miserly she does well to consider long and thoughtfully before she marries him, because she will have small joy in a marriage in which everything will be subordinated to dime- nursing and where the husband's chief concern will be not what he can do for his wife and children, but what he can make them do without. Love soon withers and dies in that sort of atmosphere and the wife comes to feel contempt for the man who can see nothing in the world but a dollar. But while the miser is despicable, the spendthrift is a weakling who is equaily unworthy of admiration, and between the two, if there is any choice, think it goes to the tightwad. For he at least does not bring his wife and children to beggary as the spendthrift does. Nor does he injure other people 8s the spendthrift does, for in the end somebody always has to support the waster after he has spent his money on riotous living. So, while the stingy man is to be avoided as a husband, it is no disadvantage | to a man as a husband for him to be what the Scotch call “canny” about money and for him to have the good sense and judgment and courage to keep his expenditures well within his means. That sort of man is the one who is sitting pretty on Easy street by the time he is middle-aged and who is a director in banks and & man of standing in his community. And he makes the sort of husband and father who gives his family a nice home and a good car and educates his boys and girls and gives them a start in the world. 8o I should advise any girl to pick out for a husband the nj gives her the sort of good times and presents that he can lflol’;o‘llng :‘l:: l:fi up the dinner check and counts his change, rather than the youth who sends her orchids that he has to go in debt for and blows her off to parties that he has to borrow the money to pay for. From your account of your young man, I see no evidences of parsimony. Rather, he seems to be a sane and sensible spender and one who, perhaps realizing that he has a tendency toward loving money too well, is guarding himself against it. And that kind of man, who is just as well as generous, is one to tie to. Of course, you can't always judge by the way a man spends money on a girl before marriage how much he will be willing to spend on her after marriage. There are some men who make that one splash of generosity in their courtship last for the balance of their wives’ lives. They never repeat it. And there are other men whose wives have to pay by scrimping economies after marriage for the extravagant presents their husbands sent them before marriage. But if you are in any doubt as to how r fiance will react question, why not settle it before marriage? yq!l‘ound him out as mmhfi‘ep:?mx on the allowance question and get his views as to what proportion of a man's income he thinks a wife should receive with which to run the house and for her own personal behoof and benefit. If he talks vaguely about everything he has being yours and ref: come down to brass tacks, pass him up. He will make o:-yur the husban‘t‘irflwh': will not even give you carfare without a row and who will make you buy every- thing on a bill that he will go over with a microscope and he will lambast you Also, ascertain if he thinks that a wife should work for her board and clothes or whether she is entitled to an individual allowance as some return for her labor. Any girl who marries without settling the money question beforehand is lacking in natural gumption. 5 DOROTHY DIX. « . !zAhR MIS’: DldX: 1{ llr; a young ®de of a year, married to the best man in e world and perfectly happy. The only thing that disturbs my complete contentment is that the other day I went to a fortune-teller and il:'e taldpme that within four years I would be a widow, and the thought 1 heart. Would you let that trouble you? \ R :;inig'-my Answer: No, I wouldn't be such an idiot. No one can forsee the future. If fortune-tellers knew what was going to happen they wouldn't be fortune-tellers. They would corner the stock market and be millionaires. DOROTHY DIX. SUMMERTIME BY D. C. PEATTIE. our gentlewomen doe call them Jone Silver-pin.” I can explain his quaint spelling easier than the fanciful name that English ladies called it, but all old-fashioned names are worth remem- bering. They carry down the ages to us some dim aroma of long-dead flow- ers, of hands that plucked, of men and | women who enjoyed the cool of the | evening in vanished gardens. Says the charming American nature writer, Harriet Keeler, “The blood of Queen of the slumbrous Summer air, bright prima donua of the garder galaxy, the poppy now is in her prime, and while she endures all other flowers are out of tune, and made to look inspid things. One can hardly write of a poppy without using the weary adjective “flaunting.” Yet for all the ppy’s lordly grace and fiagrant color. it always seems to me a fragile thing, really, delicate of petal, swift to fade when picked, brief of glory. Leaving aside the plume poppy, which | is not a real poppy, where are chiefly in our gardens the great Oriental poppy, the dainty shimmering Iceland poppy, and the jaunty, common little scarlet popples of which the Shirley popples are a race, and last of all the gorgeous opium popy, which we have so often in double forms. Of these last said Gerard the great herbalist of the Middle Ages, “Being of many variable colours and of ! great beautie, although of evil smell, all the Poppies runs rich and red; all Break any poppy stem, and a ruddy | orange juice will stain your fingers. So | plants, like the poppy-flowered anem- ones, that mimic it. For Salads POMPEIAN PURE VIRGIN IMPORTED OLIVE OIL At All Good Stores —that’s your safeguard— Use it for all your cooking—and you’ll never have a baking failure. made expressly for you. The Flour When you want to make biscuits, waffles, etc., in a hurry, use SELF- RISING WASHINGTON FLOUR—one of the “Pantry Pals”—ready prepared with the exactly correct proportion of purest leavening phosphates — saving cost of baking powder and time of mixing. For sale by grocers and delicatessens in all sizes from 2-lb, sacks up. The 12-1b. and 24-1b. sizes are more economical—for all Washington Flour is good until used. Wilkins-Rogers Milling Co. Washington b.C. in the sunshine are incarnate color.” | you may know the poppy from the “Knowin’ your place needn't keep you from lookin’ for a better one.” Home in Good Taste BY SARA HILAND. No one can deny the charm of Eewur; its soft gray satiny finish lends hat feeling of old silver, rare china and Hnens of fine quality. In the illustrations are three pewter pleces, the candelabra being unusually interesting, for they are a bit more modern in design than those made in I)0ld time of this material. The little dish in the center is a bit too small to be used in combina- | tion with the candelabra, but, being of 627 the same metal, might grace a small table in the room in which these are placed. ‘The arrangement of the candles is a bit more interesting than the conven- tional “three-of-the-same-size” idea. And the sizes are not the only differ- ence, for the colors vary. The tallest ones might be jade green, the middle ones lavender and the smallest ones yellow or apricot. Another color treatment has three shades of one color—purple, lavender, ochid; orange, medium yellow and pale yellow; dark blue, medium blue or light bhixe.l Try this the next time you enter. tain’ Pineapple and Strawberry Jam. Crush to a pulp about one quart of ripe strawberries. Put a pineapple, | fresh or canned, through a food chop- per or chop very fine. Measure two level cupfuls of each fruit into a large kettle. In case of slight shortage of one fruit use enough of the other fruit to make four cupfuis all together. Add three pounds of sugar and mix well. Use a hot fire and stir constantly before and while bolling: to a full roll- ing boil and boi for one minute. Remove from the in half a cupful of liquid pectin. 8kim, pour quickly and seal with hot pevaffin. PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE® BY WILLIAM BRADY, M. D. Goiter in Tennessee. A sample of drinking water from Nashville contained 22 parts of jodin per 100,000,000,000 parts of water, which is & very low proportion. A Nashville citizen would have to drink, if my arithmetic is approximately accurate, seven barrels of water with each of his four meals and a couple of pailsful on retiring each night, in order to get enough fodin from the water to keep his ‘metabolism going. Western Tennessee is a low coastal plain some 350 feet above sea level, bor- dered by alluvial bottom lands along | the Mississippi. Middle Tennessee, from the Tennessee River to the Cumberland Plateau is first a limestone valley rang- ing from 700 to 1,000 feet altitudes, and then an elevated highland verging into the Appalachian Range in the eastern part, some of the higher mountains rising t0-3,000 feet. The prevalence of goiter among men examined for war service was compara- tively low in the Tennessee draft, 25 other States offering material having a higher goiter incidence than the Ten- nessee candidates showed. Recent examinations of school chil- dren gave these data: 9,073 white boys, 11,120 white girls, 1,739 colored boys and 3,196 colored girls, attending senior and junior high schools and upper grades of grammar schools in 40 differ- ent localities, presented a total of 4,876 goiters, approximately one-fifth of the 25,000 children examined. Approxi- mately one-tenth of the white boys and one-fourth of the white girls had goiter. Approximately one-eighth of the colored boys and one-third of the colored girls had goter. was simple goiter and in most of them it would scarcely be noticed except by medical examination. There seemed to be more goiter in the eastern mountain- ;ausdmtlun than in the western low- and. No relationship was indicated between the prevalence of goiter and the water supply. In Tennessee there is slightly more goiter among people who drink chlorinated water than among those who drink unchlorinated water. In Ore- gon, however, there is slightly more goiter among people who do not drink chlorinated water than among those who drink chlorinated water. This surely proves that chlorination of public water supplies has nothing to do with goiter. Anyway, there is nothing but fancy or conjecture to support the notion that chiorination of the water is responsible for goiter. The use of iodized salt in place of ordinary salt is quite general in Tennes- see. In Michigan fodized salt has ap- arently greatly decreased the preva- lence of goiter in localities where goiter had prevailed heavily before the intro- duction of iodized salt. Kimbell in this country and Silberschmidt in Switzer- land, the very foremost authorities on the subject, are both convinced that the general use of iodized salt in place of ordinary salt for cooking and table purposes, is advisable, and will not cause or aggravate trouble even in cases of exophthalmic golter or hyperthyroidism. My Neighbor Says: To soften water for toilet use, keep a lump of rough fullers’ earth in your pitcher, empty it out once a week, and put in fresh fullers’ earth. . A few drops of oil of lavender in & cup of boiling water is a very efficlent deodorizer, Put a small bag of talcum pow- der in a box with a cover and keep it in your workbox to rub on your fingers when they grow hot and damp. For brittle finger nails anoint the nails at the root every night with petroleum ointment, or dip them in warm sweet-oil. ‘This will cause them to better, and they will not split. I am no chemist nor even s goiter expert, but I believe the mere adoption of fodized sale in place of ordinary salt is scarcely sufficient to insure an ade- q:lu jodin ration for everybody. I be« lieve it is well for every child d adult in Tennessee, or other inland region, to take a drop of tincture of fodin in a glass of water every week or nearly every week, whether jodized salt is used or not. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. Scarlet Fever. As the mother of & girl and boy aged 6 and 8, T am worried about a scarlet fever outbreak in the schools. Several doctors here favor the use of serum to immunize children against scarlet fever; others are opposed to it, as they think it affects the glandular system. We should value your opinion on the use of serums for immunization against diphtheria and scarlet fever and typhoid | fever—Mrs. H. M. W. Answer—Every child at 2 years of age ought to have the benefit of the Schick test for susceptibility to diph- | theria and if the test shows the child is susceptible, then the toxin-antitoxin immunization. Surely it is the parent’s duty to make sure the child is protected against-diphtheria before the child en- ters uhwr The scarlet fever immuni- zation is not yet on such a soundly established footing, though there is no good reason to imagine it does any harm to the glandular system, even if it fails to render the child immune to scarlet fever. I should give it to my children if my doctor advised it. Im- munization against typhoid is almost absolutely effective and is always ad- | visable where there is possible exposure. Of course in nearly all cases the goiter | How to Breathe. What is the proper method of breath- ing? Particularly, is it correct to exhale through the mouth or nose?—R. B. Answer—Normally inhale and exhale through the nose. During sustained effort, open the mouth and _breathe through both the nose and the mouth. (Copyright, 1920.) Fish With Golden Sauce. Surround some nice boiled halibut or any neat fillets of broiled fish on a hot serving dish with a yellow sauce made by stirring into a hot cream sauce at the last minute one or two well beaten egg yolks to which are added a few big, peeled white grapes. This is a delicious combination. . Complexion has captivated all. Give your skin this seductive, healthy ap- pealing beauty thru the new “Oriental Sun - Tan” shade. Natural in appearance, with- stands water and will not rub off or streak. Ideal for stock- ingless limbs. Also made. in ‘White, Flesh and Rachel. IENTA ORReai something Good for breakfast! Down the stairs they come in an eager scramble—anxions for this king of Breakfasts—Heinz Rice Flakes! Gone are the days when breakfast was a duty. Now it’s the time for rejoicing. The time for crunching crispy, - golden-brown flakes of nut-like goodness. How can any- thing taste so good! And bow can these fairy-like flakes do you good? Why, because Heinz Rice Flakes are made by a special, patented Heinz process entirely new to cereal-making! A process which transforms the natural roughage of the rice into a pure cellulose that acts as a gentle, natural laxative. This is the first time that this particular health quality has been present in a ready-to-eat cereal food. Good for young—good for old—good for everyone! Good for breakfast. Good for health. Good to be alive! HEINZ Rice FLAKES OTHERS OF THE 57 HEINZ TOMATO KETCHUP, HEINZ CREAM OF TOMATO SOUP, HEINZ SPAGHETTI