Evening Star Newspaper, August 10, 1929, Page 7

WOMA N’'S PAGE. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €. SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1699, FEATURES. Repainting Furniture in Home BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. AMATEUR CAN 'BEOO;WE SO PROFICIENT THAT PAINTED FURNI- ¥'URE COMPARES FAVORABLY WITH THAT FROM EXPERT. ‘There is no reason why the home | decorator should let her work bear the marks of the amateur when she wields a paint brush. She can be as crafts- manlike as she will permit herself by taking certain pieces of easily followed advice. This Is not to imply that the most difficult pieces of furniture dec- orating will be within her scope at once, with no practice, but merely to affirm that. if her scheme is not too | spots. The process, though strenuous, 18 easy. it i= done is largely responsible for the good finish to be desired. Sandpaper | 1s also used after the paint is applied, and in the latter instance only the fin- est, grade should be employed. While the first use of sandpaper was to remove paint, the second is to remove signs of the jnevitable brush strokes ‘The painting itself. which would seem ambitious at the outset, and :he is to be the major operation, is a compara- willing to adhere to the processes that | tive simple nmel:r"fs the professional would nol think of | doing without, she can make her own energy take the place of .dollars and have her work look as well as if they were spent and not saved. No skilled painter would let the cid paint stand but would get to the wood | before applying the new coat. An (ld | but sharp knife and plenty of elbow | grease are essential. There are paint | Temovers which have fuil direct:ons for using, if one cares to employ them, znd they speed the process, although scrap- ing is usually the favored method wlen a fine old piece is to be under tne bruch. | The preliminary treatment with either | paint or varnish removing is the same. | If the picce bears a design which is to be recopied. scrape paint from half, and copy remaining half on the exposed | wood. Scrape the other half. and fol- | low copled half to complete the pattern. | This is done with a lead pencil, and | merely in outline. A record of colors as they existed can be made and te- | ferred to later if desired. In redoing | an old authentic piece, it is well to ad- | here to the original scheme. | Sandpaper, oremery board is essary to use in ridding the wood the paint which the knife left, as well | as to eradicate any stains as from hot dishes or things spilled on unvarnished | The Sidewalks nec- See that your brush does not.shed bristles. ‘Varnishes come in various finishes and the one called “egg shell’ is rec- ommended, as it does not have the un- desirable, over-brilliant sheen. :This varnish, sandpapered, gives a beauti- ful luster. Sandpapering either paint or varnish should not be commenced until the last coat is dry, nor should any decoration ever be started until the Lining or striping should be practiced on newspaper spread over an edge be- fore attempting the process on the fur- niture. It requires a knack, but is not beyosd the amateur. Support the tips of last two fingers of hand against the edge itself, slip from position when brush is rightly placed. Draw hand lightly and steadily down the length of edge. If an error is made on the furniture, it can be eradicated with turpentine, pro- vided under paint is thoroughly dry. Sometimes the novice is wise to avoid striping, and resort to other colorful touches, such as brilliant tips to chair 5t | knobs and a colorful piece of grill work | Such work should be done » however. (Copyright, 1929.) midway. sparing of Washington BY THORNTON FISHER. Now it can be told. do 1t over again, we would not choose ' the place we did to spend a vacation. ~ ok ox ¥ “The Man Who Came Back.” The chap who left a package in a down-| town restaurant and remembered it just ' as he was about to take a bus home. ‘The bus jogged along. Two men were seated together. “I'm just one of those unfortunate fellows,” said one, “to whom nothing ever happens. I have never been in any man’s war, never been out of the city, except on a vacation; never had any woman say I was a dangerous man | in fact, never have done anything that | would get my name in the paper. - The | only time I ever was in print was when | I was married. Others go to Europe or have something to talk about. TI've never been in an accident, never served on a jury, never received a police ticket or been recognized as a bad actor. “Sometimes 1 think I have missed something in life. When T go to the movies or read tales of adventure I yearn for an experience that will set me apart from the Tun of men. As A boy I was eager 1o be a pirate or & highway robber. I became neither.| Usually nmong a| group of men are one or iwo who can relate interest- ing yarns or il who have had he-| man's _experiences, while I sit speech-| less. | “Some of us, 1 reckon, are elected | to be a part of the mob in the scene of life, just as| others more fortu- nate are chosen to play the leads. The wife and 1 saved up enough money to take & trip abroad a few years ago, but we decided to send one of the boys to| eollege instead. Then we pianried on a trip to Cali- fornia, One of the youngsters was taken ill and the money went to the physicians. Now I've got two boys in college and expect to send one of the girls to normal school. I'm one of those guys people forget.” “How many children have you?” asked the man at his side. “Six,” was the reply. “Boy,” said the other, “you've had plenty of adventure in life. mMngl and educating a family of six these days is the most heroic and exciting & proposition I know of.” * ok ok ‘The man was spending his vacation at a .small resort hotel—one of those Willie Willis RY ROBERT QUI { | | “I didn’t mean no harm by slappin’ Cousin Ethel. 1 was just learnin’ her good manners, an’ she wouldn't g6 in first when I opened the door for her. L (COPYTIERt, 3N [ If we had to) places where within 24 hours after one’s | he and his entire family history known. The cast of characters arrival bacom2 | remains unchanged vear after year.| There are the flappers and the Summer boy friends, the elderly couple read- ing on the veranda and describing their physical ailments in minutest details, the maiden lady who gazes with envious eyes on the young people, still hoping— never mind what; the hotel cut-up and | the ukulele strummer. They are all a part of that great annual exodus from the cities—folks on vacation. At any'rate, the man had scarcely rvegistered when he began to receive long-distance telephone calls. “Tell Smith to run over to Louisville and tie that contract up,” he said. “And wire Brown to get those cl- fications we need. By the way, call up Harrison and ask him when we can expect a remittance.” Throughout the day the man re- ceived & dozen telegrams. Special de- livery letters arrived dail And so it went. What slaves we are, ok ok % The motorist went out and found that his ignition switch had broken. He immediately sought the policeman on the beat and informed him of the trouble, and asked that he be lenient when he found the car parked all night without lights. “O. K.” said the cop. ‘The owner had trouble enough without finding a police calling card. * ok % % ‘The “honor system” of purchasing newspapers has a strange effect on some people. Personally, we always like to have a witness who will note mlt b:e have dropped the change into e box. * ok x % Applauding an actor in a talking! movie may seem absurd, and yet why not? “Though it is true the performer himself eannot hear it, it seems per- fectly reasonable to acknowledge ex- cellent work. ok x % A reader sends this one: “A paper out West printed the following & num- ber of years ago: ‘The storm was so terrific that it shattered mountains, tore up trees, dismantled churches, laid whole villages waste and overturned a hog pen.’ " * ok Xk An old soldier tells us this one: “Among the excuses offered for ex. emption in the drafting in G—, in enrolling him- self wrote opposite | thinking it pretty good, thought he ‘would make his ex- cuse even stronger, legs too short.’"” DAILY DIET RECIPE SEA FOAM CREAM CHEESE. Cream cheese, 1 pound; mayon- naise, 2 tablespoons: green vege- table coloring, few drops. YIELD SUFFICIENT “ICING” cheese—can sliced stuffed olives. Sunday supper or a bridge lunck- eon. i DIET NOTE. Recipe as given furnishes pro- tein and fat. be eaten by weight. Could be m‘g:n to enfldnn‘ ‘The thoroughness with which ' so that the hand cannot | some were exceed- ! BY LEE PAPE. After suppir I was gitting on our s feeling grate, and Glasses gee came up and sat down alongside of me, saying, G, maybe you dont think | T wasent lucky today. Well G wizzickers maybe you dont think I wasent, I sed. We had rice | pudding for suppir and our cook told me she wasent going to put any raisins in it, and you know what rice pudding with raisins is like, G wizz its fearse, and I was ‘“lmi punk all during suppir bhla‘lkl.nl about it, it in an and she brawt i G wizz it was so chuck full of raisins you couldent hardly see any- thing elts because they took up all the room, and bleeve me boy that was some relief to see that site, and I ate 3 big, helpings and bleeve me thats my ide:r of being lucky. Why, how was you lucky? I sed. How was 1? Il tell you how I was, Glasses sed. My mother was going to give my old brown pants with the tare in the seet to a lady at the door that sed she had a Jot of children that need- ed pants, and T had a sudden ideer and T quick felt in the pockits and good nite there was a cent in one, he sed. How's that for lucky? he sed. Well holey smokes I wouldent swap 3 heloings of rice pudding chuck full of raisins for any cent. I sed. Wich I wouldent, proving I was luckier than what he was, and just then who started to come up but Lucky Leroy Shooster, me saying, G look whos> coming, he always thinks he's so darn lucky, I gess he wont think so when he hears about us, heh? And when Leroy came up we both told him how lucky we was to make him feel bad, and he sed, Aw, whats that, I'll tell 'you what just happened to me rite around the corner just now. {back 1nto the payment and a dime And he showed us the dime to prove it. being still muddy, and I dident feel like saving 1 wouldent swap 3 helpings raisin rice pudding for a dime | of even me. SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. (Copyright, 1929.) Washington History BY DONALD A. CRAIG. August 10, 1863.—The board of en- roliment for the District of Columbia. composed of Provost Marshal Sheetz. Commissioner Blackford and Surgeon .. assembled at the council chamber this morning for the purpose of hearing and deciding upon the petitions of such per- claim exemption from the draft. At an early hour a crowd of 200 or 300 men, white and colored, had as- sembled in the lobby, each anxious to get' to the “mourners’ bench” and make known his grievances. When the board was ready for business there was a rush to the door, but the guards of soldiers stationed there kept the crowd back, allowing only one person to enter at a time. The waiting outsiders carried on a: very animated conversation about their several chances of getting off from serv- ice in the Union Army. A company of the 153d New York | Regiment was present doing guard duty. | Anotner company was present, to take | | charge of such substitutes as might be | accepted. A detachment from the 2nd | District Colored Volunteers was also oa the ground for a similar purpose in be- half of colored conScripts. Although there were many colored men waiting when the doors opened early this morn- ing, none of them had succeeded in get- ting into the board's presence at a late hour in the day. Each lprllunt for exemption was ex- amined alone. If he claimed to be exempt from physical causes he was taken into & committee room and ecx- | amined by the surgeon, who pronounced him fit or unfit for service. When some of the would-be exempts learned that they would be subjected to a thorough 1 physical examination, they were inclined |0 leave in disgust, but thought better of it and remained. It will take two or three weeks to complete the examination of all the ap- plicants for exemption in the District. ‘The majority of those who were ex- amined today were exempted for dis- ability. This was explained by the fact. that persons belonging to the class of physically or otherwise -incompetent rushed to the office of the board first to establish the fact. { i 'MOTHERS | AND THEIR CRILDREN. Calling the Children. One mother says: ‘The woman next door is forever thrusting her head out of an up- stalrs window and shriliy calling her “John-e-e-b!” He hates to be yelled at that way when he is with his play- mates, too. The woman across the street and her son have a fine system. She has & special little whistle, all for him, and when he hears it, he is ready with & two-note answer which says “All LITTLE BENNY ‘ ]u;nped rite out of the crack of it, he | se because nobody would of beleeved i, | ‘Whoo-hoo! Tommy, T won't be ober— | B. Keasby, assisted by a corps of clerks, | sons as might come before them to ID! i | | | | i (HDSYSS_ T A (111170 | Etimm — 2 H PARIS.—Louiseboulanger used several new tricke to design the crepe de chine model which shows skirt panel, jabot and scarf collar all in one. plus shirred foresieeves and ruched hipline. . RITA. DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX A Wife Defends Her Right to Be Jealous of Her Husband—Can a Man Be Judged by His Looks? | DEAR MISS DIX—My husband and T are separited and he has asked me tfo | divorce him. We have been married 24 vears and have three grown chil- | dren. He says there is no other woman and I know he is telling the truth, be- | cause T have had him watched. e says my jealousy killed his love long ago ' and my accusations have made hate me. My friends advise me to fight | him and not give him a divorce. They tell me to ruin his business and turn my | children against him. If there was another woman, I wouldn't hesitate a min- | ute to do it, but my children say they will Jeave me and have nothing more to do with me if I don't give their father a divorce quietly. My son even had the audacity to tell me that jealousy was a greater sin than infidelity. He sald jealousy was based on selfishness and suspicion and that I could control my jealousy just as well as T could control my desire to steal. He said that if I had any self-respect I would keep from showing that I was Jealous. T think every wife has a right to be jealous and T don't blame myself a bit. | Years ago nobody made such a fuss over jealousy. Everybody took it as a sizn of love, but now all the young folks say jealousy is the curse of love and kills love more quickly than anything else. They laugh at a poor jealous wife and make fun of her. I love my hu: d and T don’t want to divorce him. If T fight him, my children will turn against me. If I don't fight him, my friends will quit me. 'What shall I do? UNHAPPY WIFE. Answer: ‘Take the advice of your children and not these false friends ,'ho, are urging you on to s suicidal course. Belleve me. they would be the first to fall away from you when they found you estranged from both husband and |} children, a lonely old woman with nothing but & tale of woe with which to bore | | every acquaintance. . It might satisfy your revenge to ruin your husband. but you would find | cold comfort in that when ihe price of it was giving up everybody you lo\'!d‘i on earth. You can make your husband miserable by keeping him tied to you. You can make him hate you worse and worse eveyy day by the way you are badgering | and tormenting him, but nothing @n earth will bring him back to you. Nothing | will ever make him care for you again. You have killed his love and you can no | more bring it back again than you could blow the breath of life into a corpse. 8o why not do the one decent fl_fln‘ that is left to you to do and give your husband the divorce he wants, and that even your children think he is justified in having : They are right in saying that you have brought your misfortunes on your{ own head and that you killed your husband’s affection for you by your jealousy. How could you expect & man 1o go on loving you when you were always watch. ing him, always spying on him, always accusing him of crimes he had not com- | mitted, when you never trusted him or had any faith in him? | | You say that in your day jealousy was considered a proof of love. Well, thank heaven, we have come to a saner understanding of it now and we know that jealousy is the deadliest insult that can be offered love. It shows that the jealous one believes the worst of one of whom he or she is 3 i * The jealous wife believes her husband such a roue that he cannot even speak to another woman without sensual thoughts. She believes that he is ! without honor and that he continually betrays her. She holds him as a liar ‘whose words she cannot believe. ! The husband who is jealous of his wife believes that she is a wanton at| heart and that he cannot trust her out of his sight. | Jealousy is the misbegotten child of a foul mind. It attributes to others its own low impulses and desires, its own base standards of conduct. No really | clean and honest-minded man and woman are jealous, because they believe others to be as fair-dealing and honorable as themselves. i “The only excuse for jealousy is that it is & form of insanity, and it is a pity there is not some sort of an asylum in which the jealous can be locked up in padded cells, instead of being permitted at large to ruin the lives of the un- fortunate victims to whom they are mnrrud; DOROTHY DIX. AR MISS DIX—Does personal appearance have any great bearing on character? A young man in whom I am interested seems to be the kindest, most_considerate and unselfish person, but while he is scrupulously clean, he always looks lhm . My husband, who lies in Fianders Field, was as straight as an arrow and looked like a young god in his clothes and his dealings were always as straight as his beautiful body. Do you think there is anything in judging & man by his looks? I have a little girl who needs a home and I am tired of ess. I don't expect ever to love any one in, but what shall I do? PERPLEXED. Answer: 't marry any man that you don’t love, no matter whether he looks like & ragbag or a ready-made clothing advertisement. And loneliness isn't 50 hard to bear as having to endure“the presence of & man in the closeness of matrimony for whom you do not care. Loneliness may be drear, but enforced companionship is purgatory. Furthermore, it isn’t fair for a woman to marry s man just for the sake of getting a home. It is cheating him. It is taking icable advantage of him. You are taking his sffection, the work of his hands, his whole life and giving nothing for it but cold duty. Such a marriage would bring no happiness to en:u; ?’:e olflm.k 4 n n't despair of loving again yourself. The human heart is the most resilient thing in the world. It always comes back. Time will work its miracle. The old wounds will heal you will find that you will be able to love again, ‘;g: r“mm:l':;'““y perhaps as the first time, but with the deep, true affection of penelaSon, BRI 21 U, s, Denery e, s =, b er) es, ink tha ive ability aléng many lines. mhlagiial m%wm%pgfx? = BY EDNA KENT FORBES BEAUTY CHATS ‘The fingernails and the toenails should be given a thorough going over once a week. The preparation for botia treatments is soaking in water, there- fore the best time is immediately after the bath. The toenails should be cleaned ‘Well kept toenails mean comfort, well kept fingernails mean good lookr:f No woman should neglect either if she values her appearance. The daily carc of the nails is simply reshaping and using an orangewood stick. under, cut t across with spe- cial cuticle scissors, odd bits of skih around the edges should be cut off and the edges of the nails run over with an emery board so the toenails won't catch and tear your stockings. If you have and tendency toward corns. use a corn knife to” shave the hard bits of skin off. These will be softened and raised by_the long soaking in the warm bath. I need not repeat directions for a home manicure, but you may be inter- ested in a short cut to good-looking nalls. After the soaking the edges should be run over very quickly with cuticle bleach and remover; there are dozens of varieties on the market. A cuticle knife or the end of a file can be run once each nail to re- move dead skin. The nails should then be scrubbed ‘warm water and soap and cleaned again. If the edges of the then rubbed with cold cream cuticle pushed back with an ‘wood nothing further need done. 5 If the cuticle is unusually tough, you may have to use scissors. Perwnfllf. I've never found that cuticle scissors did any harm to nails. | They should be used only to remove loose bits of skin or places where the right” just as plain as can be. It is a | edges are so thick as to be ugly. But leasure to hear her him, and apurposes cuticle re- ' he doesn’t mind being s bit. cream will T g Mrs. P—Massage a fine cream into the lines every day and it will help fill out these places. If you are run down or below normal weight, these lines will appear, but they disappear when you have built yourself up again. An- other very beneficial thing for the skin that will keep it firm is the ice rub I =0 often allude to. Lines will not come if you keep your skin firm, and the blood circulating healthfully in the tissues, and the ice rub does mucn Jo_effect this. Billy—Drink several quarts of milk a day and note what effect this may have on your weight. If you can increase your appetite through exercise you will | gain without taxing your digestion, but do not force yourself to eat anything unless you can assimilate it. A suitable tonic will mm ‘:‘ helptul in this Everyday Psychology BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. Minderwertigkeit. According to Dr. Alfred Adler, fa- mous Austrian psychologist, every per- son is lacking in something, is inferior in some respect. Accordingly he suffers more or less from a feeling of Minder- wertigkeit—a feeling of inferfority, This is Adler's main proposition. ‘To this theory of Minderwertigkeit he adds another: Every person tries to overcome this feeling. In other words, he looks around for ways and means for compensating for every inferiority big and little which he consciously rec- ognizes or unconsciously feels. The sum total of the efforts to ‘“make g amounts to a life-plan or goal. If the individual is unable to make good, he creates an imaginary goal, and in the case of insanity lives in an imaginary pursuit of the goal. Minderwertigkeit and compensation for it are the sum and substance of Adlerian psychology. ‘The followers of Adler have taken this theory to be an adequate explana- tion for the arrival of a genius. There is & lot to be said for this theory. Among the great men who have suffered from some definite feeling of Inferiority I mention the following, chosen at random: Handel, Gluck, John Stuart Mill, Dickens, Milton, Ibsen, Coleridge, Washington Irving, Oliver ‘Wendell Holmes, Edgar Allan Poe, Abra- ham Lincoln, Joseph Rodman Drake, Charles Lamb, Rousseau, Beethoven, Byron, Keats, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Thomes Carlyle, Robert Burns, Emerson, Dostoyefsky, Harriet Martineau, Hawthorne, Emanuel Kan, Kepler, Newton, Dr. Johnson, Gold- smith, Mendel, Bacon, Tasso, Herbert Spe! Fleld, Oscar Wilde, Julius Caesar, Jonathan Edwards, Des- cartes, Homer, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, John Ruskin, Shelley, Sam- uel Butler, Spinoza. The list might be extended with ease. Is Minderwertigkeit a universal fact? And is it the cause of activities that may properly be ‘Will the Adlerias JABBY “I guess most everybody gets their | start in life by oeing pushed for money."” (Copyright, 1929.) NANCY PAGE Slowly Acquired Tan Is Not Painful. BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. Fanny Lawrence was Lois’ who had traveled ‘round the world three times in two years. After Lois had visited her in New York she in- vited her to come to her home for a stay. Fanny accepted with such alac- rity that Lois felt sorry for her. It was sall right to have money and to fravel, but suppose you never had a home of your own nor a nice husband like Roger—well, the more Lois thought about it, the more satisfied she was with her own lot. Fanny loved the seashore, but her vagrant life had kept her from indulging that fondness for some time. She brought bathing suits with her and lay in the sun getting herself well tanned. Later she planned to play tennis in the modern stockingless mode and she knew she would be better to look upon if she were tanned and uni- formly brown. ‘When she did wear tennis dresses she: saw to it that her sleeveless frock was cut with the same backless line that she had on her bathing suits. This she knew would make it easier for her to wear evening clothes next Winter. she would not have dations of tan al different zones of. back. Her tennis dresses were made of pique. Some were in white and some in color. The pigue was not the wide- waled material which most of us knew when we were small, but the fine-ribbed material which is sweeping the country this year. With these dresses she wore quilted cotton coats or unlined jackets of the pique. She said she was having the time of her life and Lois believed she told the truth. % tly and served ulbiheiained tospenty it e tips may be removed ‘Add a level teaspoon of salt to every pint of water when boiling vegetables. Should pickles turn black in the process of preserving, per- haps it is because there was too much iron in the water. Soft Wi should always be used when making the brine for P . Mozarte friend | ‘The problem of clothes for school would be solved in a way that many | mothers would like, if all schools adopted uniforms, as so many schools | already have done. Then all the busy mother would have to do when the, time for reopening of schools drew mear | would be to buy a uniform readymade of the right size, make necessary alter- ations and let it go at that. But there are disadvantages in uni- forms, not the least of which is that many school girls would very much rather not dress precisely like all the other girls with whom they associate. For warmer days throughout the Au- | tumn Summer dresses are best for school wear, but it is well to have ready | t the outset one or two dresses that | will do for cooler days when they come. | You may choose a pleated skirt mount- | ed on a washable top, to be worn with & pull-over sweater of thin wool, or you may choose a one-piece dress. In any event the wide-pleated skirt is the best selection: Narrow pleats are never advisable, since they must be taken to the professional picater to be reset. while pleats as wide as those s£hown in the sketch may be reset quite easily by pressing under a damp cloth. Skirts for little girls are as short as ever and even for the girl of 10 or 11 | look better when short enough to show the bend of the knee. Substantial bloomers of light wool or silk jersey | should be as dark as the dress with which they are worn. The model shown in the sketch was made from light-weight woolen plaid 1’2 brown and beige with a plain beige P. ‘This week’s circular gives diagram pattern and sketch for one of the new two-plece circular skirts. If you would like a copy. with sketch of the original and directions for making, please send your self-addressed, stamped envelope | to Mary Marshall, care of this paper, and it will be sent to you. i 1 lled compensation? | theory explain the arrival of great men? «Copyright, 1920)) Luscious Peaches. A dessert that i easily prepared and attractive to look at is made by putting Dalves of fresh peaches together with a filling of whipped cream and chopped .walnuts, each topped with a whole walnut. BY LOIS 0ily Skin. 5 Dear Miss Leeds—1). Please tell me | what to do for oiliness of the skin be- | tween the shoulder blades. and how to get rid of blackheads caused by this | | olliness? Sometimes the blackheads | fester. (2) How can I remove superfiu- ous hair from the legs and also red goose flesh? 1 have used a razor about | four times during the last year. but I am afraid that the hair will grow coarser. The goose pimples have be- | come more noticeable lately. also. SYLVIA. | Answer—(1) A case like yours would be much benefited by exposure to fresh air and sunshine. Wear the popular low-backed frocks. Every day bathe the blackheads in hot boric acid solu- tion and gently press out the blackheads and ripe pimples. If you cannot reach them, ask a friend to do it for you or g0 to & beauty shop for the treatment. It is important to remove these blem- ishes. Then bathe the skin again in fresh boric acid solution. When it is dry. dust it with boric acid powder. Give the skin a sun bath for a few minutes, at least. every day. Before | going to bed at night rub a little of the ‘ following salve on the skin: One tea- spoonful precipitated sulphur, two tea- spoonfuls powdered starch. two tea- spoonfuls powdered zine oxide, four | teaspoonfuls petrolatum. M A | smooth paste. In the morning wash ! | the skin with warm water and a mild | BRIDGE TALKS BY MRS. JOHN MUNCE. JR. Authorities disagree as to the minor suit bids by third hand, after a bid of one no trump by dealer. A common situation is one with a six-card minor, such as jack, 10-spot, 8-spot, 7-spot, 6- spot and 4-spot of diamonds, and only | a jack above average in the hand. | Some authorities say bid two diamonds as & weakness takeout. This is a diffi- cult bid and it takes an exceptional player to realize on it, if it secures the contract. ‘When the minor suit is so strong! that third hand believes he will make | game in the minor suit. he should bid three of the suit, thereby telling his| | partner that his minor suit is both long and strong. For example, dealer | holds the following and bids one no trump: Spades—Ace, queen and 5-spot. Hearts—Ace, king and 3-spot. i Diamonds—Ace, 7-spot, 6-spot and 4- | spot. | Clubs—Ten-spot, 8-spot and 5-spot.' Second hand passes and third hand! holds the following: Spades—King, 3-spot and 2-spot. nte:m—meen. 5-spot, 4-spot and 2- spot. Diamonds—King, queen, jack, 10- spot, 8-spot and 5-spot. Clubs—None. ‘With this holding, third hand would bid three diamonds, and result wunld’ be a grand slam. | The following is a little summary of the takeouts of an original no trump | bid, second hand having passed: | ‘Third hand bids two of a major suit as a takeout when he has a strong | hand. | Third hand bids two of a minor suit as a takeout to indicate weakness. | ‘Third hand bids three of major | suit as a takeout when it holds at least . five cards of that suit to four honors. | Third hand bids three of a minor | suit as a takeout to show length lnd; strength in that suit. ‘As third_hand, remember this: Do | not assist your partner’s bid when you! lack the required strength, nor fail wl assist when you have it. Coming now to the on as to' when third hand should raise or over- i bid dealer’s (his partner’s) bid of one no trump to two no trump, second hand having passed. this advancing of your er's bid from one to two is| called “jumping” or " your, rtner’'s bid. - This so-called jump- g often shuts out an_ informa- ! tory or lead directing bid. Such a bid, | if made, might cause you to lose the; game, due to second hand's lead of fourth hand’s bid. . ! ‘When third hand has three or four high cards, distributed over at least three suits, to help & no trump, and s partner has bid one no trump in-| itially, he should jump him to two no trump, provided, of course, he has no’ sound major takeout. For example, | dealer bids one no trump, second hand passes and third hand holds: | Spades—Eight-spot, 7-spot. and 4- 9-spot and 4-spot. ’ Dismonds—Queen, 7-spot and 5-spot.; Clubs—Ace, king, 10-5pot and 5-spot. | ‘With this holding, third hand should ; jump his partner’s bid from one noi trump to two no trump, as the hand contains the required high cards in three suits, and he could not pos- sibly bid & major sult. Compare the| above hand with the following: Spades—Ace, king, 10-spot spol Hearts—Ace, 9-spot and 4-spot. Diamonds—Queen, 7-spot and 5-spot. Clubs—Eight-spot, 7-spot and 4-spot: “and 5-| card holding. but there is a major suit bid. Third hand should bid the spades and dealer, knowing ‘the strength of his partner's hand. trump if he pre l Problem of Clothes for MILADY BEAUTIFUL | it upwards is also good for the hai | will make it fluffy. LOIS LEE! 1 In this hand there is an identical high | could &a.bu.k to no ferred that declaration | ing the "contract. BY MARY MARSHALL. SCHOOL FROCK FOR LITTLE GIRL, COMBINING WOOL OF PLAID AND SOLID COLOR, AND WORN WITH PATENT LEATHER BELT, 1§ TWO- PIECE ONLY IN EFFECT, FOR BODICE AND SKIRT ‘TENED TOGETHER. ARE FAS- LEEDS. soap. Dry and pat on some Witche hazel and dust with powder. (2) Use a cream depilatory at regu- lar intervals to remove the unwanted bairs from the legs. After vour eve- ning cleansing bath with warm water and soap. rinse, dry. and rub & little olive ofl on the goose pimples. In the morning wash the legs with warm water and soap. rinse. dry and massage with rubbing alcohol. Repeat ¢the treatment several times a week. LOIS LEEDS. Small Daughter's Hair. Dear Miss Leeds: My small daughter, aged 21 months. has light-brown hair that shows a slight tendency to curl. I am anxious to keep it curling. It is best when the weather is warm and damp, but I can induce it to curl on dry days by wetting it slightly and combing it the wrong way. Her hair is a little below her ears and is thin. MRS. FRANK Answer—It is unwise to wet the hair frequently to curl it, as to do so tends to remove the natural oil and cause streaky color. Wash her hair every two or three weeks with pure castile soap. ‘The night before, rub some castor or olive oil into her scalp. Use warm, but not hot, water for the shampoo and rinse in fairly cool or tepid water. Dry with warm towels, Of course, do not not | let the little girl play in the hot sun without a hat. Brush the hair with a clean baby brush every day. There is not much “ou can do toward en- couraging the natural curl besides keep- ing the child healthy, giving the right local care and brushing the hair into ringlets around your finger. Brushing ir and DS. Concealing Birthmark. Dear Miss Leeds: I have a large, dark birthmark on my leg. How can I hide it when I go swimming? I cannot afford to have it removed by a doctor. ‘TENNYSEE. Answer—You might try a dark liquid suntan powder that is waterproof. This would make the mark less conspicuous, although it would not conceal it en- tirely. Anything you might put on the scar would show. Perhaps a bandage of adhesive tape would look better than the dark mark, LOI8 LEEDS. (Copyrisht, 1929.) Cheese Pepper Salad. Crumble one large cupful of eottage cheese, then add four tablespoonfuls of cream and salt to taste. Cut a large sweet green pepper into rings and lay them on crisp lettuce leaves. Fill each ring with & mound of the cheese, sprinkle generously with ehogped pea- nuts, and garnish with a little finely shredded sweet red pepper. Serve with your favorite dressing. WHO REMEMBERS? BY DICK MANSFIELD. Registered U. 8. Patent Office. _ When Betts & Davey's Dancing School at Old Odd Fellows' Hall, on Eignin street. hetween E and G southeast, was a gathering place for lovers of ths “light fantaste.”