Evening Star Newspaper, September 10, 1929, Page 30

PARIS—One of the most attractive dresses in the Madeleine collection is a crepe de chine model characterized by tucking and drapery which defines & normal waistline—RITA. KEEPING MENTALLY FIT BY JOSEPH JASTROW, A letter from a correspondent which she doesn't want me to print (and a lady's word is law) incidentally raises the question, “Why the expression, ‘a mere man,’ when that creature regards himself as the lord of creation and ‘the cock of the walk'?” £ Well! I suppose it is because in his saner moments he recognizes his limi- tations. There certainly has been a lot of nonsense written about the dif- ference between a man's mind and 8, woman's and if you took a hop, skip and jump through history or around | the world and observed how differently, at different periods and in different lands, men treated women and women regarded men, you wouldn't get any clear or correct notion of just what their differences were. For much of this depends more upon what men think themselves to be and what they think women are, upon what they actually are, and agaim it is explained, sadly enough, by the power that men had to impose their ways on women. But because older views of these dif- ferences between men and women were false, and there was always a tendency, a very strong one, for the weaker sex to conform to the views held of them by the stronger, the actual differences were distorted by all these traditions. But that doesn’t mean that these dif- ferences do not exist; only that this story doesn't correctly reveal what they really are. It would make a long and strange chapter in the history of the human mind to put together all the different notions of the differences between men and women as evidenced by the treat- ment of women by men who had the power to enforce their views. It's a chapter of contradictions, She was a saint and a devil, a Madonna and a temptress, a fount of wisdom and a &illy child, a refuge in times of stress and ‘a weaker vessel. And she was one thing at one time and another at an- other. You couldn't predict her moods or rely upon her word, she would fly at you one moment and pet you the next; the one thing that was hopeless was to understand her ways, for after all you were‘a mere man. ‘When psychology came along and tried to find out by more rational methods just how the feminine mind differs from the masculine, there was an improvement, but it wasn't an easy story to decipher by any means. For- tunately, by that time the modern. world had fully recovered from .older notions and gave women a fairer chance to show what they were, and the result was a little disconcerting to mere men. It appeared that women could go through college just as easily as men if you gave them a chance, and that many kinds of work considered to be man's work could be done just as well by women, and some of it better. The World War completed the evi- dence, and yet it made the differences all the more marked. What it all came back to was that the work test and the study test were not, after all, the decisive ones. Women still did the same things in different ways, and, still MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Plums. Oatmeal with Cream, Broiled Bacon, Rice Cakes, Maple Sirup. Coffee. LUNCHEON. Honeycomb Tripe. Beet Salad. Spiced Apple SBauce. Ginger Snaps. Tea. of salt and two teaspoons of baking powder, Add one well beaten and sufficlent milk to make a batter, beat well and bake on & hot greased griddle. GINGER BNAPS. One large cup of lard, one cup. gugar, one cup molasses, - one- f cyp of coldmw;ler'. \llenmt 8] n of ger, pinch of clove, a G s o o v solved in a lit t_water and more significantly, they had different interests, different outlooks, different emotional lives. Trying to make women live like men or giving them the chance to do so didn't work any better than depriving them of the chance to live as much like the same human beings that they really are. ‘To say that men live more by reason and are more interested in things and processes and adventure and control and women more by feelings and in- sight into human relations tells -but part of the story. The complete range of incidental sex-differences extends to every phase of thought -and feeling, every shade of insight and outlook. Men and women see and feel the same things, but they don't measure them by the same scale, The woman's scale is a bit more subtle and can't so easily be reduced ‘to words. It is still true that in some things the male is a mere man not as adept in sensing the human ways as & woman. But what we may take comfort in is the thought that we have provided a world in which what men really are and what women really are has a better chance to come out than in days when all sorts of re- strictions stood in the way of that possibility. ‘That step is in the line of mental fitness. The ideal is a world in which men and women have an equal chance to show what they can do and be happy in doing it. (Copyright, 1929.) Home in Good Taste BY SARA HILAND. ‘This may be a so-called “tailored” age, but now and then we find & much- beruffied and belaced piece which is so dainty and yet practical that we forget all about straight lines, square corners and plain colors and are not a bit hard to _convert to the charm of the piece. In the accompanying illustration is & boudoir table of this type, and that it is unusually beautiful cannot be de- nied. There are several materials which may be used for a table like this, but that which is shown is flowered chintz. AT i fi%flwgmwa[g T g} T TN The design is so printed that it may be cut and have a bordered effect, the es being picoted. he table is fitted with a plate-glass top, beneath which is plain chintz to matech the predominating shade in the design of the flowered material, and the triple mirror has a daintily etched frame of crystal to match the top of the table. Lace, flowered ribbon or organdie may be fashioned into a tiered effect for the skirt of a dressing table like this and for the sheerer materials. Sateen in a harmonizing color should be used be- neath. (Copyright, 1920.) — ‘hrurther 'nrutkmn have begun on Roman fortress near Sandwich, England. OFF TO SCHOOL WITH A JUMP READY FOR STUDY OR PLAY E Washington Higory BY DONALD A. CRAIG. September 10, 1871.—The extensive street improvements in progress in the ‘West End of the city under J, V. W. Vanderbutg and Henry Himber, cons tractors, are being rapidly pushed for- ward. A small army of laborers is em- ployed in the work. The work on the streets south of Pennsylvania svenue and west of.Seven- SUB ROSA BY MIMIL T i ey s, n 3 oug! as good as 8 feast, or is it a picnic. A feast means more than mere food, for it has the compan ip of genial souls and the appointments of banquet. It is as good teenth street is in accordance with plans | the) embracing entire changes of and an exwmlonm‘ of the system mun, Seventeenth street is to be ed on & straight slope from Pennlg vania ave- nue to the canal, the depth of the cut in front of the War Department bulld- ings avi ing about five feet. The por- tion of ti street between New York avenue and C street will be filled up to make an easy grade up to the rising ground at those points. The sidewalk in front of Winder's building is to be extended into the street ht feet and up on both sides, and the filli tends from the fence of the to the house on the opposite side. ‘The grade is not be altered at Pennsylvania avenue, but an open view of the river will be given by the changes now in progress. G su&t. from Beventeenth street to . is bein, , to be drained by the Seventeenth street sewer. This is being done under the Board of Public works, The cut is six feet at the highest point. S street from Seventeenth to Twenty- also Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets, are being ded Mr, Vanderburg. The cut ugh street is deeper than on G street. The water and gas mains are now being sunk lower down, and it is proj d to construct a sewer to the canal from the terminus of the one under Eighteenth street at G street. ‘The deepest cut on F street is about six or seven feet. On Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets the grade is to be a straight slo] toward the river, the former all the way from Pennsylvania avenue and opening at that point a fine view of the river, and Ninteenth street from H street to the canal. All the excavated earth is being carted to the low grounds south of E street. The Government reservation on E street between Eighteenth and Nine- teenth streets is to be graded and in- closed with shrubbery and trees, planted to make it an attractive park. second _street, BY MOLLIE HOLLYWOOD, Calif., September 10 (N.AN.A).—In the professional colony the most valuable asset is considered the “sense of nonsense.” Have it for the screen and you are made; have it for private life and your circle of friends is made. But a serious- minded type who cannot lift his sense of humor above work loses out. A hostess is giving a party for a prominent man. On the morning of the affair a huge box of flowers arrives. On opening it a card is found with the en- graved message, “In deepest sympathy,” sent by her guest of honor. A new boulevard theater opens and the friendly rival a few blocks away sends a hearse to stand before the door. |All in fun, A Hollywoodite wanted to play a trick on Doug Fairbanks when he went on one of his last Eastern trips. A live goose was found in the drawing room after the train got on its way. Some two hours later a frantic telegram came from the jokester, “Be careful of that goose—highly trained bird and very valuable.” To which the terse reply, “Too late! ‘The cook wrung his neck an hour ago.” Dan_Totheroh, a playwright of no mean degree of brilliance, is one of the spontaneous ones in a village famed for A sense of nonsense. James Gleason and Lucille Webster nonsense with the best of them. But now and again a professional nonsenser forgets his main asset when faced by some of the problems of the studios. Bob Benchley submitted- one-act sketches to use for talkies. The titles, if T remember correctly, ran something like “Mending the Furnace,” “Learning to Play Bridge” and “The Next Door Neighbors.” The studio told Benchley to take all three and put them together, linking them with a thread of sex. Benchley, who laughs successfully at every one and everything in' the world, got seriously wrought up over the order. Of course, his friends in the village gave him the ha-ha. after a bit he learned to join in. But for a moment the well known nonsense-sense deserted one B. Benchley. ‘Why not? I get serious myself some- times around the first of the month. ‘The majority of sound film enthusi- asts base their enthusiasm on the fact that such artists as the four Marx brothers, whom they have read about in the magazines and newspapers, wotild be out of their reach were it not for sound 3 From smaller cities comes the de- lighted cry, “Why, we are to see and hear Irene Bordoni, Marilynn -Miller, George .Arliss, Lawrence Tibbett, Tito (!’tr:xgg’ and a score of other famous But often from the same throats comes the request, “Can't they try to lmgmve the mechanism so that voices will have an individuality and identity as they do in life or on the sf L peo- . In comparing the to the stage play they forget, perhaps, that they see and hear the stage play in a small theater for a .lr\;m a‘:m. usually 312,50 and up if the a & person of any consequen whatever. . o The talkie is given for 65 cents or less in a huge auditorium built expressly for silent film projection, and the tone is amplified outside the bounds of real- ism to fill that auditorium. Yet, following a little expirement of DDED HEAT With all the bran of the whole wheat . o AL in such need, nfc a ve children a e food elements their . delicious, a lot of work and worry. warm, nourishing break- form. Saves ness. lot | The three “I s %o [ but if we are wise we' my own, I drop evening and sat far back, near the door. | More than half the play was not un- derstandable from where I sat, and I am not troubled with bad hearing. to it. ne bee! responsible for making civilized people larger than primitive folks, who were usually dwarfs, Plenty of food and air and exercise has given us a genera- tion of tall girls who tower above the bunch like Statues of Liberty. But the feast, which means for thoufiht as well as fodder for the body, develops the brain and ‘makes us think and speak like real people. The cattle get enough, but we human beings want enoughness plus & feast. Those who lack ambition or are satisfled with themselves aren’t tie humd! of the community. They are ‘full of. enough- " were enough in an earlier peripd of education, but the world has grown since grandad was a boy and we have to learn more than three letters of the alphabet. ugpocefi to get some education school, which will .“Wllly the enou!h. "Il continue thy nmun of self-education after school out and we are out of school. Yes, we will do this if we believe that it takes a feast of wit and wisdom to make enough for the brain, Nawldl’yl there are all sorts of schemes for self-improvement but I'm not going to advertise them. I will say that there is probably a library in your vicinity and its books can supply you with a feast of thought, ‘here are clever le you could know and mingle with if you found your present crowd too ordinary. Then there are ideas in your own brain you could cultivate if you would cut out the ones that are just good enough to make the grade. Insist on more than enough. A liv- ing wage is not the same as a culture wage. A job isn't like a position. A pal isn't equal to a friend. A pleasure trip is different from a joy ride. The low wage, poor job, cheap companion and silly ride are enough yet not suf- ficient. You want the feast. well-being, the development of body, brain, character, taste. Only a feast is really enough. MOVIES AND MOVIE PEOPLE MERRICK. into a theater last 1 also labor under the hallucination that I understand the English language, al- though there are those perhaps who feel that I don't display it in my writing. I'm funny that way. There will be silent films in the future, made for the deaf and for those not acquainted with the English lan- guage, 50 enthusiasts of pure pantomime need not loose heart. Meanwhile more letters are arriving in every mail, each of them valuable documents for or against the talkie. Would I could pub- lish them all. They are interesting reading. I shall choose extracts from the most telling of them instead. (Copyright, 1929, by North American News- paper Alliance.) i s Perfect Boiled Icing. Beat in one tablespoonful of sugar with each e?hwhne before ring on the sirup. e icing will then cream perfectly and will pile up just right. fon, he had been com- e | pelled to leave Rachel and his children It means your | Great Triumphs of Masterly Account of Hurrican, From Clerkship at Fourteen, BY J. P. b LIKE TO GO TO NEW YORK TO COMPLETE M' B ‘I SHOYLD ANS ED HAMILTON, 'Y EDUCATION, Prom the wreckage of the love af- fair of Jemes ka‘nmilwn and Rachel Levine there emerged only the clous personality of their son der. James Hamilton had shed no luster on his well connected relatives in the West Indies. First he had fallen in love and effected & union with a lady of the island of St. Christopher, whom he could not marry because she was al- ready tled to another. Secondly, he had lost both his fortune dnd hers. Going to the island of 8t. Vincent to obtain a posit! d reco- exan- as dependents on her relatives in the island of Nevis. Her situation was like gall to Rachel. She did not live long. Perhaps it was fortunate that, of her several children, only Alexander survived her. The ohild’s brilliant mind made lit- tle impression on his relatives. They ut him to school in the town of Santa ruz, but, nmmuYh he performed astounding feats—learning, for in- stance, to repeat by note the Decalogue of Hebrew while he was little more than a baby—they had no visions of his future. When he had exhausted the island’s possibilities for schooling while he was still only 12, they were pleased, because it meant that he no longer need be an embarrassment—he, the poor relative born out of wedlock. They put him to work in the counting house of Nicholas Cruger. Alexander, at 12, had no desire to follow a business career. At this time he wrote to a friend with a dignity amusing in one so young: “I condemn the groveling ambition of a clerk, or the like, to which my for- tune condemns me, and would willingly risk my life, though not my character, to exalt my station. I am confident | that my youth excludes me from any ’ JABBY o 2] | “I guess the reason a fells sits on | the fence is so's he can see both sides of the situation. TO DAY.’S Children e Saved Alexander Hamilton GLASS. hope of immediate preferment, nor do I desire it; but I mea Wl{l for futurity,” e s lowever lofty his ambitions ht be, he was sunk in Mr. mul"l counting house and likely long to stay there, for that gentleman theught hl‘hl‘ of his abilities, even lea: him in charge of the business while he ;:lnt away onmmp. to the other is- ds—a _genuine respons} e “'l! ibility for a But 8 hurricane figurately blew Alex- ander from his “groveling” clerkship. A guz storm created widespread dama the islands. A newspaper on . Christopher’s published a vivid account of it which piqued the curiosity of the Governor of St. Croix. 2 “Who, in the islands, could have written this masterly account?” he asked. He made inquiries and found the author was Alexander Hamilton, a " ¥rhe ad s entt “The la entirely too promising to be wasted here,” said the governor. miem:hel‘ldeb::s brought to his at- | , Mr. er agreed un%"'m ] I with this “What would you like to do?” o ander was asked. e “I should like to go to New York to eomaleu my education,” he refoined. His triumph was complete. His rel- atives fell in with the plan. That same year the boy set off on a voyage which was to help to make him one of the g:l‘?g’i‘plll in founding a great, mew (Copyright, 1929.) COMPLEXION MUST BE OF THE “OUTDOOR" TYPE . . . COPPER-TONED, RADIANT, PETAL-SMOOTH . . . Now comes a new and different powder for the face,in Lido, the shade that started the vogue ... It clings! 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