Evening Star Newspaper, September 20, 1929, Page 42

42 wWOoM Dignity of Past May Be Restored BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. The informal accent which has been $hat of modes and manners for the last geveral years, indeed for as many as pome of the younger generation can THE NEW ELEGANCE OF COS- 'TUME NECESSITATES DIGNITY OF MANNER. count, now bids fair to become a thing of the past. Elegance and dignity are the predictions of those who have an eye to the future, and the authority to dictate. Since women are more or less chame- The Sidewalks | the_ more dignifi leon-like in their M«;fl_fiu of social graces, according to their surroundings, it is probable that the return to ele- gance will require no prolonged period | of transition. rs should wel- ‘Women of mature come the change and g.!hd u‘v:fi ut::ér thiul extremely their youthful ap) i tre gain is lly on their eide if they can but realize it. If there is any sacrifice, it is ?n the part of the decadent “fiapper” ype. 15 A new standard of poise is likely to be demanded, the kind of coyeted dignity that reigned in the days of our youth, if we are under 20, and of our coming of age if we are over 40. The dl(nn.; of home life should be a part of it. restoration of this is a thing which should be welcomed by every head of a household. Home life, having suffered througtr the decade of jazz, should reap some of its portion of calm and poise, if elegance, dignity and the other at- tributes of maturity again come into their own as they are purported to be doing. (Copyright. 1920.) e — Contrariness. | We're nearly always joyous in our small bungalow; no hurricanes annoy us; there is no ice or snow. There is no heat outrageous; there is no bitter cold. Beneath our ‘umbrageous we're gently growing old. The Winter and the Summer are just the same as Spring, the Autumn is & comer to which no tempests cling. The flowers are always blooming, the birds are al- ways here, their brilliant plumage grooming in crystal atmosphere. And so we are contented; our days are days'| of bliss; no land has been invented that will compare with this. And yet I often wonder why I at times grow sore be- cause I hear the thunder and rushing storms no more, Sometimes I'd be pi- rooting in regions deep in snow, where Arctic winds are hooting and freezing as they blow. Half dozing in the shadow of my green banyan tree, I dream of tornado kerwhooping o'er the lea. I dream of it with rapture; I do not shrink or quall, but .wish that I might capture a sample of its tail. When quiet is unbroken as seasons come and go, we long to see some token of ele- mental woe. We tire of gentle zephyrs and long to see a breeze that would take mules and heifers and hoist them over trees. We long to see a blizzard cavort- ing here and there while every weather wizard ‘sits down to rend his hair. Me thinks & human being enshrined in Paradise would soon get weary seeing the peace that around him lies. The nature of the critter is_to desire a change; though he may find it bitter, he yearns for something strange. WALT MASON, (Copyright. 1929.) of Washington BY THORNTON FISHER. A vacant house, whose halls and TOOMS once rang with joy and laughter, . comparable to the mortal body of a man, from whom the spirit has been removed. A little more than a year ago, a large though unpainted house, situated on a corner in a sub- urban town, was a magnet for all and sundry who cared to drop in. Its owner was a_man in his sixties (though he didn't admit it). Even stray dogs found a welcome and a delicious bone in the yard. Small children—and large gathered daily to participate in most informal, though .. rich, companion- gf ‘The host was especially fond of ildren. He was also a man of the world and the possessor of wealth, both 4n dollars and in his perspective of life. ill'm' many years he drew one of e most delightful children’s comic jes. He was known as the father of “iBuster Brown.” Many are parents ay who sat and chuckled at the itics of the mischievous boy who, with 'flge, engaged in harmless exploits and dhcluded with resolutions that savored m;)r; of the mature than of the child mind. » Dick Outcault ‘is dead. He passed dway a year ago. The old house on dhe corner is closed, and weeds are choking the once velvet green lawn, ‘The shutters, too, are closed. The genial spirit and play-boy of the home on the shaded corner has left the place to &o]rllr"ecktcl:s. b“'i‘l‘gln eve‘munlly will s} e’ bu r & m amodern structure. ke i ‘We stood recently on the corner and gazed silently and brooding at . the transformation. Somehow, through the mists of the years, we saw again the Jaughing, teasing, ay-haired, im- maculate friend of children frolicking about on a June day. His achievements z‘:t?r been :e;znrdtre% with a well-deserved ement devof to those liked best. S ‘We should like to repeat some of the resolutions he Iscribegem Buster, al- though he himself was the author. “Resolved, That the trouble with this Wworld is all in the mind of the one who d:em'z like it. The world is beautiful angd it is full of sweet people. The lark doesn’t complain, the roses don't kick at anything and the ‘sunshine fairly dances on ihe beautiful grass, The bees hum a pretty tune as they swing from posey to posey. We mortals are each a ray of divine light. Let us try shine, not through the green glass of envy and malice—not through the h!le glass of despair—but shine pure ‘\WHO REMEMBERS? BY DICK MANSFIELD. Registered U. 8. Patent Office. could eat if you had 5 cents and :l_yur!olm with nothing between us and the source of our light.” * ok ok ok “Resolved, That music hath charms. The psychological secret of religious ferver is music. There ought to be good money in music (that’s Ameri- can). With money we can be generous and good. The richer we are, the more generous we can be; the happier, because to be good and generous is the only way to be happy. Tt is awful to see people with nothing but money.” L “Resolved, That water will always find its own level. So will everybody else. You are just where you belong. If you don’t think so, get busy and get out of it. Every one is doing just what he wants to do. That's true. If not, why not? You are as free as water or air. Push and persevere. Nothing can stop you. The world is not against any one. The world is too busy- looking out for itself. Cultivate a happy dis- position and ke‘ep.huzy."‘ * “Resolved, That prayer answers it- .self. Naturally; because honest prayer is desire and desire for a thing makes us hustle out and get it. As a phil- osopher has wisely said, ‘work is the only prayer that is ever answered.’ Does not our common sense tell us that? God wouldn’t spade your gar- den for you if you prayed for a year. But he'll make it grow, which is the nmw;; to thfilpnyer you offered when e ek |- “Resolved, That if you want to cul- tivate a sweet and kind ~ disposition commence tomor- row morning at breakfast when the coffee is awful, and nothing is fit to eat, the car won’t stop for you and f you have picked out a handker- chief that is full of holes. What's the use of getting mad? You are not the only thing on earth. Every- body has had it worse than you have. Laugh about it and make people love you.” * K k% “Resolved, That I°have named my boat “Advice,” so no one would take it. There have been so many boats missing around here lately. But no- body will take advice. The only man who will take advice is the man who doesn't need it. You can get tons of advice wheri you don't need it, but di- rectly you need it, you’ must pay well for it.” “Resolved, Solomon zld ‘there’s nothing new under the sun.’ But I think he’s wrong. Isn't Spring just as new each year as it ever was? Each morn- ing is as new as ever. The circus is always, new. Does love ever grow old? Pshaw! Each bride and groom are the first people who were ever married. Each first born is the first and bright- est and cutest little angel that ever lived. No, Solomon, you were old when you said that. The sweet truth is ‘there’s nothing old under the sun ex- cept clothes.” * ok ok . A man with the spirit of a child penned those lines. Daily Diet Recipe CREAMED STRING BEANS. Young string beans, 1 pound. Salt, teaspoon. SERVES 4 OR 6 PORTIONS." Remove strings from ‘Wash well and steam until ] RO THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY, SE?TE\{BER 20, - 1929, SONNYSAYINGS .. BY FANNY X. CORY. I put this seat up in the appletree mysel{—TI calls it my “Tiddle-dum-due” —an’ nobody knows where I is. (Copyright, 1929.) .NANCY PAGE Orderliness Easy When One Has Incentive BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. A gift_for wee Peter which had been delayed in transit arrived bright and early one September morning. It came in a large crate and Nancy struggled with hammer and hatchet in. the usual ineffectual feminine manner. Finally, after getting splinters in her fingers and smashing her thumb, she had the crate opened. And there was a combination bookcase, plaything cupboard, cushioned seat and, as Peter said. “What have you?” The baby was stili too young for it, but Joan sat her little self down on the seat and arranged all her cousin’s playthings within one hour after it was in_the house. The plece of furniture was intended for a nursery, of course, with its ivory enamel finish. It was modern in the ex- treme, with its straight lines, absence of superfiuous mmnu&‘ Roger, who was quite a carpenter, de- clded as soon as he saw it that he must make one like it. He sald that any person who knew how to measure, saw and_hammer d make one. - And doubtless he was right. Joan's playmate had a tuck box which leased her. Aunt Nancy told her that he name came from the English school- boy's habit of calling the box in which he put his things when he went away and, of course, |- to school & “tuck box.” She supposed it was so because he tucked s an_be of the simplest ese_boxes can be of st construction, with~ wooden surfaces beautifully thed and rubbed down, but with no paint or enamel finish. Some of are- brass bound, like a sea captain’s chest, but that is not at all necessary. Joan insisted on trof ting Roger over to see this “tuck box, for she wanted him to make her one Just like it. A box like this might be given for a Siseer el o, MRS Bt St i 5 -addre envelope, asking for her leaflet on showers. (Copyright, 1929.) MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN. One Mother Says: Carrots were disliked by my children until I hit upon a new_way of prepar- ing . A sunflowé? was made by cutting the carrot in thin strips and g in the proper fashion on a lettuce leaf. I usually add a few chop- ped nuts to the center for it adds to the illusion as well as the taste. Either cooked or Taw may be used. 4 (Copyright, 1929.) Formal séssions of the Pan-American Road Congress, recently held in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, are sald to have hcen Bleachtex ' and Other Fort Howard Products 813 13th Strest N.W. Husbands "i‘DorothyDix] Point of View “When It Comes to Dealing With the Problems of Married Life Few Men Use Even One Lobe of Brain.” . On‘l of the things that have always been a profound mystery to me is why husbands do not use a little of the acumen they show in dealing with their business affairs in handling their wives. _As & matter of fact the most important thing in the world to a man is of the home can atone for failure within it. of him who is tled to a fretful, the husband as well as the wife must find real happiness ashes in the teeth he finds it at all. Every ma or make the slightest to change a poor wife stoicism and truxs it all t wife who is amiable and cheerful been unkind he has a jealous, hyste! nothing he can do about it. Not so would he meet any grocery trade or the dry study analyaing them and ways of evercoming them. to get along with he woul out just how to work him. f use He would never think of going into bankruj which he had invested all of his capital e and pay a dividend the first year. to himself, that it was a failure un 1t & success and until he had used every bit of to make a go of it. BUT when it comes to deal Not one man in & try to find out what makes her disgruntled and - does one man in & million attempt to.cure home as mt u wel ay from them and stays grumpy silence as protective armor e to himse 1 his domestic relationship. No achievement outside Wealth, power, fame are dust and h, n: g woman, for on the hearthstone if husband does not lift a finger the kind of home he craves or meets the sltunlm:a with a strange have been good to him he has a reasonable lxnd domestic. If the gods have ismet. It is fate and there is . If conditions were bad in the md days and nights of intensive caused the trouble and devising er who was irritable and difficult smoothing him down and finding because the entes in 't realize all of his optimistic hopes .contrary, he would never amit, even ible way to make it he had in trying of married life few men use nce or & grain of diplomacy. even to study his wife and ble to live with, Nor faults. He just accepts ch as possible and wraps himself in a as he can when he is &t home. Now take nagging, for instance, which is the thing that most husbands dread more than they do any other ill of matrimony. Undoubted! d to be borne, but men meekly bow their he: a grievous affliction, har wife is ly & ni to the curse without even wondering why their wives nag and if there isn’t some way to stop. them. 80 narrow Vet if they would consider the matter they would know that the reason a woman h: forever on the same subject is because her range of interests is t little things loom out of all proportion in her mind. She magni- fl!u h-l?u into vital matters of principle -na conduct, She makes mountains out of mole hills. 1t is the woman who has no diversions, no amusements, no change whose thoughts go round and round in & dreary tread mill as they perform automatieally their monotonous duties of cooking and sweeping and cleaning who get to be jers. ‘They can brood over the fact that their husbands won't wipe their feet-on the doormat before they come in until it becomes &n unforgettable grievance. Ha! nothing gay and stimulating to think of, they let their minds dwell on their husband' its and shortcomings until they can find nothing good in them. Having nothing to look forward to, they spend their time Jooking backward and remembering every unpleasant thi that has ever happened in their whole married life, and having nothing 1nuruunruw talk about they thresh ovér and over for the millionth time all of the topics that rasp their husbands’ nerves until they want to scream out.in agony. Yelto how many men does it occur that the cure for the nagger is to give he: No money is so well in- wfluflfln{ to_think about except her grievances? vurted as that which a husband spends in sending his wife off to travel, filling her mind with the ‘memories of strange places and people and giving her new interests. oA . im) not or whether John Barrymore on it, instead of mulling over the because Clare Devare was really the lost heiress or makes love as well off the stage as he does time her husband came home stewed from the lodge seven years ago, nothing exciting has happened in her little world since then. And you can say precisely the same thing about most of the other short- ings of wives. Erery men e well kept ‘and a good dinner to e to and he is horribly disappointed when he doesn't get it. But it doesn’t occur to him that the reason that most women are sloppy housewives is because their husbands never give them a word of praise or encouragement and 20 they get to the place where they say: “What's the use of working yourself to death for & man who never notices what you do anyway?” Yet a man has only to brag about his wife's cooking to make her frizzie herself over the gas range trying to live up to her reputation. And any man who doesn't know that you can work & woman through her affections is too stupid to live. A few kind words, a little soft talk, a judicious compliment, a kiss or two make the magic that keeps a wife happy and content; that makes the jndolent industrious, the extravagant thrifty, the high-tem d amiable. For as a5 & woman believes that her husband loves her she is wax in his hands and he can do with her what he chooses. And yet men, wise men, learned professors, men who can organize trusts and manage. thousands of employes, great inventors and discoverers and generals, men who can Tun all the balance of the world, make failures of their ‘marriages and ruin their happiness because they den't bring their inteliigence to. bear on the woman proposition and find out how to work their own wives. DOROTHY DIX. BEAUTY CHATS £ i i by the colors she wears and the style Few n-: h.e"l:l::y ‘:::ka e | O clothesislie putsioas The Wy [ate are ugly; or perhaps I should say few butsnaiednrd s O W: el need ge either. For the intelligent girl can turn her plainness into charm if she wants, and the ugly girl can d velop such a startling and pel sonality that her ugliness becomes at- tractive. ‘The one mistake that plain or uf.l’ women make is this, they try to play that are not according nal rules of beauty. A down the eyes will wear colors BY EDNA KENT FORBES forehead. It but attractively’ so, and once you see her, you nevef forget her. Had she combed her hair softly around her ' jondescript. She affects slightly masculine t very smart clothes; she looks un- usual and attractive without looking y mannish. I know a woman who dresses always in blues and greens and combinations of the two, in every shade of these colors, a curious style, which looks very well on her, for she is rather anemic and pale, and these colors set off her ash gold hair and her weak blue eyes and give them s and character: :fl the conven e to neumlm green and make them granted that she keeps her skin clear and fresh, her hair glossy and attractively cut, her hands and nails as ‘nice as possibic. She can achieve nearly all her effects porcelain and enamel GLEAMI - You will morvel at the magic of BAB-O. Noth- refrigerator, gas range, wells and floors ... to tubs, tiles, sinks and bowls. At its touch .., dirt, stubborn stains, dull film, water-lines ... . dissolve ond vanish. Refined gs-soft-as-talcum . . . BAB-O will not scrafch. It is odorless. Try it. £ B. T. BABBITT, Inc. Establ/shed 71896 New York 3 g 2 works Whe magfic all ovegthe house S... For clogged drain pipes. .. use Babbitt's L; WillieWillis e BY ROBERT QUILLEN. “It wasn't me’that started the fight. I was just walkin’ gn my hands an’ this new kid come by said he could chew 10 sticks of gum at once.” SUB ROSA - BY MIML Synchronizing. My word, what a word! But it means no more than timing. They synchro- nize the movie with the talkie, or film with film, when they give us the most modern picture show. The camera reg- isters and the phonograph records at the same rate and both are reproduced in the same nicks of time, ‘The silent drama has been a great success; the noisy one may be even more successful. The whole thing is this matter of ing. If the two con- traptions don’t shoot at exactly the same fraction of a second, our eyss and ears, when they compare notes in the brain, don't notice any discrep- ancies. It's an art to know when to say ‘There's no time like the pres- ent, no time but the present. You can't send congratulations or condo- lences long after the glad or sad affair, but immediately after in the wake of You have to synchronize your word with the event. We speak of some! , like an act or a speech, as being “well timed.” The same deed or word at another time would lose its meaning. It's the art cf tl.mlnT‘thn stroke in tennis, base ball or .golf that makes the great player— Helen Wills, Babe Ruth, Bobby Jones. There are times and times. . When your boy friend seems uneasy, as though he had something on his mind, the time has arrived. You are supposed to get set—that is, if you're interested. You don’t want to jump at the chance like & poor fish at poorer bait or dilly dally too long, but with appropria hesitation speak out like a woman who knows her mind. ‘The art of synchronizing, which the movies have worked out to mechanical perfection, is the art of suiting the action to the word. The full act dn- cludes what we do and what we say. If it's to be an artistic performance, the deed and word must be properly ‘This is easier for a woman than for a man, since woman's nature is more harmonious and more easlly lends itseif to expression and gesture. When what a woman says doesn't chime in with her acting, the result is destruction. You may say something nice about another girl's frock so that the actual words sound all right. But if you raise your eyebrows or lower the corners of r mouth, the result is a total loss the other girl's wardrobe. The action is not suited to the word at all. When you wish to be one hundred per cent friendly, you synchronize; you suit, act and word; you make thé mat- ter and manner of your words rhymc. ‘That makes you a perfect actress, even if you're miles from the footlights. —_— e Walnut Date Meringue. Beat two eggs well. Add one tea- spoonful of baking powder, two table- spoonfuls of flour, one cupful of chop- ped dates, one cupful of chopped wal- nuts, one heaping teaspoonful of sugar | and a pinch of salt. Bake for 30 min- utes in & slow oven. Serve with rich BETTER BRAN FEATURES. , Movies and Movie People BY MOLLIE MERRICK. Special Dispatch to The Star. HOLLYWOOD, Calif.,, September 20 (N.A.N.A) —T've been set-visiting. It's the thing most visitors to the colony long to do, and producers make it as difficult as possible. You go from one stage to another. You are halted by uniformed officials | end asked for your credentials, and| when you've convinced these cerberuses | you are qualified to enter the sacred precincts where sound films are made and you are grudgingly permitted in. You proceed into an airless barn lined with feit, packed with lights, teeming with huranity about tomake an ‘“im- ‘mortal epic” before your eyes. Just as you are ready to venture some pleas- antry about the whole proceeding the ominous shout, “Silence, pleasel” or “Quiet!” goes over thc roomy Thinks Coolidge Would Talk. Immediately you are seized with a desire to clear your throat, to cough, to sneeze, to do any number of noisy things. I have a feeling Calvin Coolidge would wax garrulous on a sound stage. T heard Ramon Nevarro singing in his charming fashion, und it occurred to me that here is one of the handsomest men in movieland, as well as' one of the most talented. The theater in his home, one of his diversions during the years of silent films, stood him in good stead. He would give concerts for his friends—the little group which includes the musical and literary professionals. His voice, product of years of train- ing with such specialists as Louis Gra- veure, is beautiful and excellently pre- pared for the work. And when he is cast in the role of a romantic Latin and not put before us in the guise of |, an American Navy officer or some such balderdash he is one of the most suc- cessful artists in the colony. Irving Thalberg Passes. The figure which interested me most was that of a young man.. . He is not more than 27 or 28, I should say, bus the bright blue flannel suit which is the collegiate fancy of the moment in the village made him seem even more juvenile. Irving Thalberg was crossing the lot, escorted by a group of men of varyl ages. Never was a prince of the realm succeeded in being surrounded by a more sycophantic grouping than that which escorted this young genius of the cinema. Like the Red Queen in “Alice in ‘Wonderland,” has the power of “Off with his head! He has likewise the power of “Up with his salary.” And don't these genties know this! Irving Thalberg began as errand boy to Carl Laemmle. He ran his errands well, evidently.” For now one finds himi one of the chief executives of perhaps | the largest lot in the entire industry. His salary is $6,000 a week. His wife, Norma Shearer, is one of the most beautiful and most distinctive young| women ‘in the film colony. Thalberg has the name of being one of the few | ‘men who rarcly make a mistake in/ | BRAIN TESTS |1 Choose the best answers for each of | the following questions. Several an- | swers appear to each one. | | Time limit, two minutes, 1. Lemonade will usually taste sour if: a. It is made with cold water. B. It does not contain sugar. c. It contains the juice of more than one lemon. 2. Railway cars are made of steel be- cause: a. Steel is cheaper than wood. b. They ride more easily. c. They are safer in%ase of accident. 3. A 2-cent postage stamp is accepted | in payment of &oauu because: | a. It bears the portrait of George ‘Washington. b. It is red in color. | c. It is issued by the United. States | Government. | 4. Silver is less valuable than gold | because: a. It is not so scarce. b. It is not as beautiful in appear- | ance. c. It ds a lighter metal. Answers. : 'l'he4 best answers are: 1, b; 2, ¢ | 5 | FLAKES IN EVERY WAY TRY Kellogg’s Pep Bran: Flakes. They have PEP which is so inviting. And they stay unusually crisp in milk or cream —to the last spoonfull But there’s more than flavor and extra crispness. You get.the food elements and mineral salts of the wheat. Plus just enough bran to be mildly laxative. A good food for old and young. _Let the children eat all they want. Ideal for their evening meal. Grocers everywhere sell these bet- *tér bran flakes in the red-and-green package.: Made by Kellogg in Battle Creek, 5 that delicious flavor of 9 recognizing drama when it is put before them. Prodict of a New Industry. ‘Thalberg is a product of a new indus- try. Few of the men under him are within 10 or 15 years of his age. He is accustomed to give orders to gray-heads. He seldom relaxes from a certain serious courtesy which is not without a definite shade of remoteness. And he is one of the dramatic figures in a bizarre industry. ~ (Copyniant, 1920, by Nortn Americen News- > ance.)