Evening Star Newspaper, August 16, 1929, Page 22

WOMA N’S PAGE. Learn to Time Household Tasks BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. One of the chief reasons for tardiness is lack of calculation of the time needed to do_definite tasks. As every one dis- likes “to be known as “the late Mrs. Smith” or “the late Mr. Smith” as the leisure hours and the latter means a hectic rush. Poor packing results with Emihtd and mussed garments to un- pack. 1t is not impossible to calculate about how long the packing will require. It can be systematized by having articles laid out in readiness previously col- lected, or conveniently at hand if not actually assembled. Time yourself when packing to go on the trip and then allow & little extra when packing to re- turn as there are tare to be more things to take home than to take away. By planning thus one can enjoy to the full the last hours before packing without having the working hang like the sword of Damocles over one's head. ‘The home tasks can be quite accu- rately estimated in their relation to time. For example how long does it take you to dress? Unless you know | this you either get up too early or stay in bed too late, thereby serving a tardy breakfast with its possibility of making the man of the house and other wage earners late to business or school. The time required to dress for a party or an entertainment should also be known. If not, tardiness is quite sure to follow and the appelations mentioned previ- %usly will then be accurately descrip- ive. Every housewife must know pretty nearly how long it takes to get a dinner, or a late meal result with all that it means to the tempers of the family. There are meals that must be started early in the day if the cooking takes several hours or if it is done on a fire- | less cooker and there are others that | can be managed in preparation at short | notice as was discussed Tuesday. | Learn to consider the clock when ! working and know how much time | tasks require. Then housework will run | more smoothly, friends will be able to | rely upon you as always on time, and J | the family will be happler, for punctu- | ality is conducive to good nature. 1 (Copyright, 1929.) Lessons in English BY W. L. GORDON. | Words often misused: Do not say, THE WOMAN WHO HAS TIMED HER | “The whole bunch of children went SSING, DISH WASHING, ETC,, | down to the beach.” PLAN HER DAY WITH SOME | group.” ACCURACY. | Often mispronounced: Goliath; o as 2 |in “go,” 1 as in “ice,” last syllable ath, stimate time | not Go-li-a. i is true that| Often misspelled: cannot always be|and el, not le. ness, but in a surpris-| Synonyms: Adroit, “Use a word three ing number of tasks, it is possible to|clever, deft. imate time correctly. Word study: For example when vacationing one | times and it is yours.” Let us increase cannot be late for a train, yet the lug- [our vocabulary by mastering one word gage must be packed and one does not | each day. Today’s word: Dispassion- be, it is well to e ion to ta Chisel; s, not z, skillful, want to give too much nor too little |ately; free from passion: unprejudiced. | The first shortens the I ask you calmly and dispassionately.” | time [} to it The Sidewalks of Washington BY THORNTON FISHER. ill seem to be|put that thing over my face again. I or uninspired to | felt as though I was ‘deading.’" | * ¥ * * Scme day somebody will write a book |on “The Art of Being 'rhol:%mrux,; | This quality is an asset, socially an teenth sireet the | commercially. ~There is' an_insurance e Y oad. with | man in the city who never fails to call O e o0a1d boy | his_customers on _their birthdays to and watched the | wish them many happy returns. Thus o rame hags. A |he has stabilized friendships and has number of males nearby failed to raise their hats at sight of the colors, For this breath of | Fourteenth respect they re- | avenue, %] ceived a justtified | dently suffering from the heat. ¢| panning. quick to their elders, the 10-year-old boy probably formed | some ideas of his | own. | contact with a_successful el PR .| never sold papers as a kid or supported v, familiar faces are again | a fatherless family. We are usually appearing as, one by one, Washington | disappointed,, be- vacationists return to routine of work. cause we have been Some are tanned by the ocean sun. faught tos belfeve Others bring tales of golf and fishing— and how elastic the varns are. Scores are always better and fish always bigger when one is not present to observe. *i . After a {wo-week absence there is a renewed thrill in entering the house and seeing all the old familiar things. Quiet and peace and a mute, though ai0ne the less royal, welcome. The old furniture never 1ooks so goods No elabo- yately appointed hotel room can com- pare with the comfort of the ancient chair in the corner. A vacation is an excellent thing if it provides nothing | more than an appreciation of home. Unfortunately, there some who are too lazy remove their hats when the flag goes | by. During the parade of the American Legion on Four- tAki"oF'r | himself. * k *x *x Two men stood on the corner of street and Pennsylvania “Let's imitate | hot it is” said one. They went over, and | 1doked at the indicator and left twice as warm. * ok Kk ok Day by d ONLY THE COLLAR- has made the grade background. ‘The other day there came to the city the son of a dis- tinguished man. Until he - was 2. the son led the life of Riley. His father provided the means that made it possible for his graduate from a fashionable college. Say, “The whole | expert, | | built a sound business structure for | ‘They were coatless and evi-| Boys are | go over to the kiosk and see how | Every now and then we come in| boy to attend and | * % A sick child is at once the object of pity. Frequently children are ~better patients than their elders. The tiny | victims of illness at the Children’s Hos pital in this city are game little folk: The other day a small girl of 5 was operated on. It was a serious trouble and the young mother stood in a cor- ner and wept as her baby was_ rolled 1o the operating room, where she re- mained for 50 minutes. Ether, of course, was administered. After the crisis the child looked up and said to those sur- rounding her bedside, “Don’t let them Willie Willis BY ROBERT QU “I come mighty near losin’ the dead mouse I was bringin’ home to our cat. Pug’s crippled hawk grabbed it an’ swallered it, but I had a string tied to it’s tail.” (Copyright. 1929.) 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PR ‘The son of a famous woman writer, still remembered and beloved by an older generation, raised a son. He was sent to college and later was given a trip around the world. His youth was pretty soft and the shelter of the family home might have been his for many years. When he returned from his world pilgrimage he sought and obtained a newspaper job. His hours were long and wages short in those days. Every evening he left his desk at’5 o'clock. After dinner in the eve- ning he wrote pieces. He wrote them 50 superbly that he was soon receiving checks from magazines. For 20 years he served his D'P" daily and at night wrote short stories. Today he is one of the best known authors in the coun- Silver spoons are not always handicaps. —— One of the oldest arts known to man is wood carving. The ancient Egyptians made extensive use of this material for interior decorations of carving and of paintings to commemorate important events. The wood panel is believed to have been created by the early Romans. ,4 ’, ” car during his four years of student | man_who that no man who| lacked this | | scemed to frighten the girl and she Don’t baby look ca’'m an’ plakid in her sleep? . Yer'd neber know her had a tantern dest before her dropped off. (Copyright, 1920.) NANCY PAGE When Should Children Take Music Lessons? Mrs. Lacey was having her troubles | with her two older daughters and music:| lessons. Both Claire and Judith were | taking plano lessons. Judith seemed to | have a touch of genius, but Claire! droned away in a fashion which was| painful to listen to. Every day there was the fuss over| practicing. Mrs. Lacey wanted the girls to have enough musical technique so that they could play in & sociable way. She never expected that her daughters would be outstanding pianists. She knew that fingers needed to be | trained while they were young and supple. Hence she kept on scolding and nagging Claire. Finally she reached the end of her patience. She told Claire that music lessons were over for the Summer if she heard another complaint. That begged to go on with music. “Very well, you may. But the first time I} hear you complaining about practicing | again, the lessons stop.” For three weeks all went well. Then the fussing began end straightway the lessons stopped. Mrs. Tacey decided that life was not worth the bickering. Had her child been & genius she would have seen to it that she continued with the lessons. But for a purely soclal accomplishment the attainment was too costly in frayed nerves. She decided, too, that Claire was thin because she was growing fast and carrying too many activities. And when she was honest with. herself she knew she had started them in lessons so that she could preen herself and sit back when her daughter played in re- citals. The gamé was not worth the candle and the lessons stopped for Claire, but Judith went ahead as fast as her teacher would allow. 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St %z it 4 That Wrecks Marriage DorothyDix Urges Need for Common Vense Lacking in Intelligence When They Blunder Through Lifetime Without Learning to | themselves with ecah other, who refuse to be diplomatic with each other. | Asinine, isn't it? | has ever made and yawn in the midst of his best story and tell him that she | 18 would seem that even an imbecile should realize that the only way that a Avoid Dangerous Subjects. HAVE married people human intelligence? Sometimes it seems not. Often 1t looks as if when a man and woman got married they parked their brains at the altar and never made use of them again in dealing with each other or with any of the complications that arise in domestic life. For it is stupidity oftener than wickedness that wrecks a marriage. Not many men and women set out deliberately to be bad husbands and wives and to make each other miserable. They blunder into doing it and the true co- respondemt that should be named in nine divorce cases out of ten is not some other villain or vamp, but just sheer dumbness. £ Practically no marriage would be a faflure if men and women would give the same amount of thought toward makifg it a success that they do any other undertaking in life. But they don't. They appear to be under the delusion that it isn’t necessary to devote a single minute to studying the peculiarities and eccentricities of the complex creatures to whom they are married, or even to try to find out the best method of gumshoeing around these said peculiarities and eccentricities. The average husband and wife act toward each other as if they were per- fect strangers who had only been introduced 10 minutes before and had not had time to take each other's measure or establish any platform of mutual under- standing. We all know couples who have lived together for 40 years without ever finding out how to work each other. e v ITHOUT the wife ever finding out the psychological moment to present her husband with the bill for her new dress and tell him that mother was coming to pay a nice long visit. Without the husband ever finding out how to put it to his wife so that she would urge him to go, instead of raising a ruction about it, when he wanted to get off with his pals on a fishing party. Without the wife ever understanding that when her husband grumbled before company at her extravagance he wasn't really begrudging her a single diamond. He was just bragging and showing off how well he provided for his family. Without the husband ever finding out the difference between a woman’s temper and nerves and when she is crying for joy and when for rage and that when she nags it is generally the expression of her affection. Nothing can explain this except the fact that for some inexplicable reason people do not use their minds in matrimony as they do elsewhere. Every woman in business gets her boss’ number and learns to read his mood from his face as if it were an open book. Otherwise she wouldn't hold her job long. Every man in business studies the approach to his customers and the best method of selling himself to them. It.is only married people who do not try to understand each other, who retuse to see the importance of ingratiating And consider the lack of intelligence that makes husbands and wives think that they can safely insult each other and say to each other the things that they | would say to no other human being on earth. A man will tell his wife that she | is a fool when she expresses an opinion; that she looks like a figure of fun in her new dress, that she is getting old and fat, and has lost all of her good looks. A woman will wonder, to her husband’s face, why he isn't as clever and successful as some other man is. She will remind him of all the mistakes he has heard his pet jokes a thousand times, And then thev can't understand why they are not companionable and each goes off to seek the soclety of some one who will apply a healing poultice of flattery to his or her wounded vanity. And consider the daily spat in which so many married couples indulge. If any moron saw two people continually hewing on a tree he would know that it would not be long before they cut it down, yet every day you see husbands and wives industriously hacking at the foundations of theit home as if they did not know they were bound to bring 1t‘lur'nbling down upon their heads. FOR no love will long stand perpgtual fault finding and argument and bicker- ing and criminations and recriminations. Every quarrel leaves a bruise that never quite heals. Every knock takes away some of the gilt on the gingerbread of matrimony. We can endure to be criticized by outsiders, but we cannot bear that t,hou who are near and dear to us should see us as nothing but poor, weak failures. We all crave admiration and praise. We want the glad hand, not a sock og the jaw. The associates we seek out are those who jolly us along, and so husband and wife can retain each other's affection is by avoiding conflicts and by showing each other appreciation. 1 And consider the lack of human intelligence a woman shows when she throws away the bait with which she caught her husband. He was attracted to her because she was pretty and daintily dressed, and she listened with bated breath to his conversation and was so soft-spoken that butter wouldn't melt in her mouth. How can she expect him to continue to live with her if she slumps down into a slovenly virago? Wouldn't she know better than even to risk it, | if she used only one lobe of her brain in trying to hold her husband? And every husband knows that every wife goes hungering and thirsting for a little flattery, a little soft talk. She wants to be told that he still loves her and thinks her more beautiful than she was as a debuntante, and yet men with- hold these few kind words, although it would be peace in their homes and money in their pockets to say them. Can anything but lack of human intelligence explain that? As a matter of fact, there is hardly a problem in married life that can't | be solved by common sense, Try it. DQROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1929.) Straight Talks to Women About Money BY MARY ELIZABETH ALLEN. obvious small rooms cannot be used as classrooms, _clubrooms or serve like purposes. If there are several small rooms or medium-sized rooms they will lend themselves to hotel or sanitarium purposes best. Many women have discovered that their homes were well located for doc- tors’ offices, while homes located in business sections may easily be made over into office floors. Often a woman is without means her- self or has a limited amount of money upon which she may draw. In that case she may find a partner who will supply the money for operating ex- Unwanted House. Once in a while a reader writes to ask us what she might do with an gn- wanted house. Usually she is' unable to find a tenant or a buyer. It becomes a “merchandising” problem in that she must devise a_way whereby some one else may use her house. Before suggesting ways to realize means we should like to urge women to accept a fair price on a house, even though it fall short of one's anticipated price, if a buyer is available. One| never knows when a buyer can be found again, and when one tries to find a buyer again her need of cash may | be so urgent as to compel her to sell at a real sacrifice. Before renting a house that is heavily | mortgaged, be .certain that the rental will ‘meet all of the carrying charges. These should include amortization charges and taxes as well. If one be- comes a party to a lease under any other conditions foreclosure may be- come unavoidable. To return to the question, what can one do with a house? It will depend on the house itself, its location and its facilities. A large house, for example, may be made over into a small hotel, a club- penses in return for the use of the dwelling. It is best to find a partner with experience and a following the enterprise decided upon. One should provide in the lease to get. back possession of the house in the event that a buyer for it appears. This may be done by compensating the tenant for expenses incurred in tak- ing possession of the house. Extensive local advertising may bring to your door persons who have notions of their own about what may be done with your home. At times, too, the holder of a second or third mortgage will co-operate with you in finding a tenant for the house in order to avoid | foreclosure with its consequent expense. | house, a sanitarium, a school or a studio. The size of the rooms will figure into the possibilities. because it is The pride of the hostess. The delight of her By all means place your house with all | of the brokers in town before even try- | ing to do anything with it on your | own part. ONEPOUND NET WEIGHT . ISESANBIR S Seal Brand Tea is of the same high gquality “Wonder if these two know the eti- quette book says it ain’t right to pick bones in public?” SUB ROSA BY MIMI, The Way Things Are. We think we are all mater-of-fact folks, but the fact of the matter is that we live on fancy. The way things arc is often a revelation to us. Then, too, the actual world of earth and heaven, sea and sky, river and mountain is more wonderful than any creation which fancy can concoct. ‘The way things are is not the way things used to be, as our parents can tell us. Things have changed their names, if nothing else. The beau has become the boy friend. The dude is now a cake eater. Lollygagging is neck- ing and a swell time is whoopee. Of course, these are changes of terms, but there have been changes of things, too. Women have the ballot and bob. They dress for speed and comfort more than for style. They get up and get to business in the morning instead of merely getting the men folks off. They read books instead of lolling over novels. That's the way things are with us. The great change in the ways of things has to do chiefly with women and their status in the world. It's hard to put this change into one word like “Relativity,” but “Freedom” comes as near to it as one term you can think of. The very appearance of the modern girl, who is all set for an activity of some sort, is a sign of this new liberty. The way things are is not the way things ought to be, not by a long shot. ‘To read the papers is to see that many people have taken this idea of liberty and applied it on a large scale until it has become lawlessness. That gives us the crime wave as it rolls up on the shores of time. President Hoover has appointed a crime commission to find out why peo- ple don't obey the laws of the land, hence we can’t be expected to do the work of the Federal authorities. But we can ourselves indulge in a certain amount of obedience to lesser authori- ty. like that of the home. Then we can cultivate a kind of self- restraint which will help brace up this old world which is wobbling in its orbit, so the astronomers say. It's no fun to be bossed by anybody after we are grown up, but it isn't s0 bad to obey when ycu do your own bossing. ‘The way things are now, it is neces- sary for the girl who doesn't want to turn her ankle or get her stockings spattered by mud to boss herself. Gov- ernment of the girl, for the girl and by the girl herself isn't such a poor deal after all. Walnntb Cake. Beat together one cupful of sugar and half a cupful of butter. Add half a cupful of milk and two cupfuls of flour which have been sifted with one teaspoonful of baking powder. Add two ¢ggs, beating the yolks and whites sep- arately. Add one cupful of raisins, seeded and floured, and one cupful of broken walnuts, preferably English wal- nuts. This is good made with hickory nuts. FEATUR ES.~ KEEPING MENTALLY FIT BY JOSEPH Adjustment. ‘There is no word in the vocabulary of mental hygiene so significant as “ad- ustment.” That's what we are all do- from early childhood, when we pass from lving by impuise to living by feel- ing and reflection, to old age and its acceptance of human fate. The core of adjustment is emotional; we call it a state of mind, but it is far more in- timately a state of feeling. These two great streams of psychic energy—rea- son and emotion — though closely merged, are, of different source and when successfully fused life flows on happily; there is good adjustment. But of the two, emotion is the decisive fac- tor. Whatever the situation that you are now facing, however strongly you say to yourself or assent when others tell you, “Yes! that's the most reason-| able thing to do,” there is no real ac- | ceptance until your feelings say “yes.” With reason pulling one way and emo- tion another there is no adjustment; you are in rebellion, poorly adjusted, disturbed, restless, unhappy. There are all degrees and varieties and causes of sources of maladjust- ment. The organic_factor comes first; if you are out of health, your powers of adjustment are weakened; you can’t think straight when you feel cruukedil’ illness, fatigue, pain, even hunger or| unsatisfled desire generally is an or-| ganic state that makes directly for the emotional balance and upsets it. The earlier types of adjustment, such as those of children, operate closely on the emotional level and more simply. ‘The playing child is & soothing pic- ture of happy adjustment, of complete content, With the markedly increas-| ing range of emotlons at adolescence the problem of adjustment complicates: it is a critical period. Each age, each environment sets a new problem in ad- justment. Going away to college, en- tering a business, promotions, marry- ing, parentage, involve a proper emo-| tional relation as well as a reflective di-| rection of the enterprise. Where rea- | son and desire, what you should do and | - what you want to do, come into con-| flict, that conflict until resolved pre- | cipitates a state of maladjustment; and | Freud makes such conflict, often vague- | Everyday Psychology | | | BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. | | Laziness. “Work makes life sweeter.” “Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.” How did such old sayings originate? Certainly ‘not from the original nature of man. Primitive men are lazy. So are civilized men deep down in their real selves. If you take a passing glance at man and his labors you get the notion that he works because he wants to. The | fact is he works because he has to. And he works for himself. The old proverbs about work must have been invented for the sake of social preservation and self- | conceit. | Laziness is a law of life. Those who | suppress laziness soon lose the capacity | to work. Suppress the inclination to rest and you will soon be taking treatment | for your nerves. You then say that you | have overworked. What you really did was underrest. | But there are also the lazy nervous. | They are the hardest cases to cure. A least, that's what the nerve specialists say. When a person once tastes the | sweets of such an illness, he longs to | stay in his sick condition because it re- lieves him of the necessity of working. Since labor has acquired the right to | recover damages for accidental injuries, accidents have increased enormously. Insurance companies can scarcely meet the claims made upon them. All the so-called joy in labor for the sake of labor has undergone a severe shock, | because of the unconscious prospect of | laziness with pay. ‘While laziness is a law of life, it is not the only one. There is a law of change. Most people tire of work be- cause they long for a change in occu- pation. The idle man is continually | concocting schemes for employment. | The_ day-dreams of the idle man far| outshadow in pretension the actual achievements of the man of industry. | | | | JASTROW. or repressed desire that is cai trouble, tae source of neurotic ailments. In general terms, recognizes the personal ad- Jus‘l_mem: and in this the family sit- uation is normally the dominant one. Since the child, the son or daughter, plays the subordinate part in the house~ ausment nd Uhe acgiot SRMBRAREE ent, has argest s ance. ‘Why boys and girls lenr\?e hm:n{l)l:c make trouble when at home offers material for a cyclopedia of maladjustment. The marital relation is a different and a comprehensive source of maladjust- ment; a happy marriage is a fine con- summation. Juvenile Court records and those of the Courts of Domestic Rela- tions tell but a minute part of .the story. ‘Tke other major adjustment is to oc- cupation; the satisfactiomBeaf employ- ment. The work life and the love life. ‘With these well adjusted success is se- cure, for it composes into joy of liv- ing, ever supported by a sound mind in a sound body. The third great domain of adjust- ment is to the social life. We can- not live to ourselves, and must ever find the highest satisfaction in the social notice we receive. We must be on good terms with ourselves primarily; otherwise there is no peace of mind, and without that no joy in work or its compensations. We must be on good terms with those we meet most inti- mately, or again we fail. We must be on good terms with the world gen- erally, with that part of it that we share. The well adjusted man or wom- an must stand well in all relations. Yet no life is completely adequate, no life without its serious problems in one field or the other. Mental hygiene proposes to each human being that he view his problems in terms of adjustment. How- ever absorbed in the day’s occupation and the immediate duties and tasks, there should be time for reflection upon the supports by which we live. (Copvyright. 1929.) SOMETHING ly realized, because of the submerged using the BETTER “BRAN FLAKES EVERYBODY who has tried Kellogg’s Pep Bran Flakes is delighted with that wone derfully improved flavor and unusual crispness of PEP. Don’t put off trying them. 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