Evening Star Newspaper, September 20, 1929, Page 43

WOMAN'’S PAGE. Combinations of Black and White BY MARY MARSHALL. ‘The girl with very nicely tanned skin may wear either black or white evening dresses with good effect. To be sure, either hue accentuates the dark color BINED FOR EVENING WEAR. HANDKERCHIEF OF WHITE CHIF- FON WITH FINE BLACK LACE EDGE _ SLIPPERS OF BLACK AND SILVER BROCADE. NECKLACE SHOWS A COMBINATION OF ONYX AND WHITE CRYSTAL. of the skin, but that nowadays is pre- cisely what ev up-to-date girl wants to do. The combination of black and white is cspecially smart for evening wear this Autumn—or perhaps we should say white and black, since the effect is most attractive for evening when there is more white than black. Pure white is charmingly combined with fine black lace for evening wear, while for after- noon black velvet may be combined wl:;\“whlle lace touches at neck and wrists, “I have quite a number of light beige stockings t have turned a pinkish color in the wash. Would you suggest having them dyed, or would the dye rot the silk?"—P. L, If the stockings are of good quality, you should have no difficulty in dyeing them—providing, of course, you follow directions faithfully for the particular sort of dye that you use. I would sug- gest dyeing one pair first, using only & little dye, so as to get an idea of how much dye vou should use to get the desired results, From 12 circles of ¢loth, leather or felt you can make three attractive flow- ers for a buttonhole arnament. It is as simple as can be, but most effective. If you would like a copy of this week's circular, giving pattern and directions for making this smart little ornament for your new dress or suit, please send your stamped, self-addressed envelope to Mary Marshall, care of this paper, and it will be forwarded to you. (Copyright. 1929.) T My Neighbor Says: Boll a clean oyster shell in the teakettle when the inside has be- come discolored or rusted. ‘To remove rust from the oven and broiler of a gas stove, rub with sandpaper, then go over with a cloth dipped in olive ofl. Always soak caulifiower, head down, for an hour in a quart of cold water to which a teaspoon of salt and one of vinegar have been added. A little baking powder added to the flour in which oysters are rolled before frying will make the oysters light and fluffy. WORLD FAMOUS STORIES SAWYER SAWBONES. BY CHARLE (Charles Dickens, 1812-1870. was & British hor “Plckwick 8l novelist. _author 2D “David Copperfield,” “Dombey & Son,” Mr. Winkle entered a place marked “Surgery” to inquire his way. He knocked on the counter to attract at- tention. A studious-looking gentleman in green spectacles, with a very large book in his hand, glided quietly into the shop. and, stepping behind the counter, requested to know the visitor's pleas- ure, etc) “I am sorry to trouble you, sir,” said | Mr. Winkle, “but will you have the goodness to direct me to—" ‘Ha, ha, ha" roared the studious young gentleman, throwing the large book up into the air, and catching it with great dexterity at the very mo- ment when it threatened to smash to atoms all the bottles on the counter. “Here's a start.” z ‘There was, without doubt; for Mr. Winkle was so very much astonished at the extraordinary behavior of tie medi- cal gentleman that he involuntarily retreated toward the door and looked very much disturbed at his strange re- ception. “Why, den't you know me?” said the medical gentleman, Mr. Winkle murmured in reply that he had not that pleasure. “Why, then,” said the medical gen- tleman, “there are hopes for me yet; I may attend half the old women in Bristol if I've decent luck. Get out, you moldy old villain, get out.” With this adjw ‘which was addressed to the large book, the medical gentle- man kicked the volume with remarkable agility to the further end of the shop and, pulling off his green spectacles, grinned the identical grin of Robert Sawyer, Esq., formerly of Guy's Hos- pital, whom Mr. Winkle had known when he was studying to become a doctor. i “I wonder you didn't see the name™ said Bob Sawyer, the “Sawbones,” call- ing his friend's attention to the outer door where it said, “Sawyer late Nock- emorf.” “It never caught my eye,” sald Mr, ‘Winkle. S DICKENS. “Lord, if I had known who you were I should have rushed out and caught you in my arms,” said Bob Sawyer, “but upon my life, I thought you were the king's taxes—the collector. But come in.” Bob Swayer led his friend to his private back room and there recounted some of the difficulties of getting started in practice and the clever methods used to overcome them. “I have my boy leave medicine at the wrong houses,” Sawyer explained. “Don’t you see? He goes up to a house, rings the bell, pokes a packet of medicine | without a direction into the servant’s hand and walks off. Servant takes it into the dining parlor, master opens it, and reads the label raft to be taken at bedtime—pills as before—Ilotion as usual—the powder. From Sawyer's, late Nockemorf's, Physicians’ Freacrlntlom carefully prepared,’ apd all the rest of it. Shows it to his wife—she reads the label; it goes down to the servants— they read the label. Next day boy calls: “Very sorrv—his mistake—immense bus- iness—great many parcels to deliver— Mr. Sawyer's compiiments, late Nock- emorf. The name gets known, and that's the thing, my boy, in the medical way. Bless your heart, old fellow, it's better than all the advertising in the world. We have got one four-ounce bottle that’s been to half the houses in Bris- tol, and hasn't done yet.” “Dear me, I see,” observed Mr. Winkle. “What an excellent plan.” “Oh, that's not all,” replied Bob Sawyer, with great glee. “The lamp- lighter gets 18 pence a week to pull the night bell for 10 minutes every time he comes around; and my boy always rushes into church, just before the psalms, when the people have got nothing to do but look about 'em, and calls me out, with horror and dismay depicted on his countenance. ‘Bless my soul, everybody says, ‘somebody taken suddenly ill. Sawyer, late Nockemorf, sent for What a business that young man has, At the termination of this disclos- ure of some of the mysteries of medi- cline, Mr. Bob Sawyer, the Sawbones, threw himself back in his chair and laughed boisterously. DIET AND HEALTH BY LULU HUNT PETERS, M. D. Eczema Curable. “I hate to see a baby with eczema come to my clinic. It's the most onery thing we have to treat! Some cases will seem to respond to changes in the diet, others to external medication and | others fail to be relieved in any case. If the eczema does clear up, we don't know whether the treatment we used had any bearing or not, for it seems to clear up at times of itself.” This is iwhat a New York children’s specialist said to me recently. So don’t be surprised, Mrs. K, that the doctors you have seen failed you. However, you mustn't be discouraged, either, for not all doctors are so pessi- mistic as_the ones you have seen and the one I quoted. In fact, Dr. Moses Scholtz says that eczema can be cured, and that the reason more of the doc- tors do not cure it is that they do not realize that the causes may be both ex- | ternal and internal and the treatment | must take this into consideration. Causes. Internal—The internal causes may be a sensitization to some protein or a de- rangement due to an excess of the starches and sugars, and sometimes to the fat. These over-eaters are usually fat and the eczema is of the oozing type. External—In bables, some irritant, such as soaps, unclean diapers, hot or cold air and winds. In adults, different materials with which they work. The sensitization to some protein of the food may be thmu{l:e its faulty di- gestion or else it is in itself an irritant. S’l:m‘ semltlnli‘m is also uuedaf:g;l lergy, or anaphylaxis or idiosyn s It may cause bronchitis, asthma, hay fever—the swelling affects the bronchial and nasal membranes—hives, migraine, ided headache, and other thing In case of eczema in breast-fed babies, the irritant comes through the moth- | er's milk, so her diet must be investi- gated. There are protein skin tests which will disclose the offending ones. ‘The foods that most often offend are egg whites, wheat, tomatoes and milk. (There is a case reported of a baby, 5 months old, who suffered from eczema, who was not having anything to eat except her milk formula, but the skin tests showed a sensitization to wheat protein. It was found the milk came from a cow which a large portion of wheat bran in its feed. When milk from cows which were in pastunre was used, the eczema cleared up.) You tell me your baby is undernour- ished, Mrs. K., so evidently she is not having an excess of the starches, sugars and fats, so perhaps she is sensitive to some protein. If this is the case, the only way to tell which one is the of- fender—unless she can be .given the tests—is to take y one food at a time to see if it makes any difference, It may be possible she is sensitized to milk, as one doctor has told you, and if that is so you may have to cut 1t down to a pint a day, or even cut it out entirely. (Somef it is the ex- cess of the offending protein that causes the allergy.) Then you should make it up by giving the baby some milk made of an almond or ut butter. A level tabl ful of but five ounces of water would of 100 calories. It would 15 to 20 calories of protein, which would be about the same as would get in five ounces of skim . Nut protein is a very good protein. The almond has an even higher percentage of lime than does milk, and the peanut has about half as much as the milk. The chief thing that would be lacking in the nut milks would be vitamin A, so she should have some cod-liver oil every day. EASY TO DO YOURSELEF-- Use Farbo on every room in the house. One coat over the old wall- paper makes a new room. o o You can quickly and easily do the job yourself. Today in Washington History BY DONALD ‘A. CRAIG. September 20, 1876.—This centennial Summer, when the Nation is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, has brought dtg' ‘Wash- ington “somewhat unexpectedly ~great nmueml‘:e“l:1 ,:t visitors to v‘l:w the ’:11&1.{( m'g h“udl“‘!. any Vi s the Centennial tion at Philadel- flun‘ are including Washington in their erary. love ‘of ‘country." ays he Eventag Btar e untry,” e Evel today, “and it is an encouraging sign of prosperity and good !eeuni to find persons from every State visiting the Capital of the Nation.. The time was when most of the public offices in Washington were filled by clerks, chiefly from the States adjacent to the District of Columbia. The changed condition of the population and society in Washing- ton has brought here to reside many persons of note from every State, so that visitors from the remotest parts of the Republic now find here friends and ington is becoming in fact, as it is in theory, the National City—a city in which the whole country has—and of right ought to have—an interest and pride. This feeling is now, we belleve, manifesting itself in the great influx of visitors who come to spent a day or two in Washington and in visiting Mount Vernon. “Congress of late takes this view, and is more liberal and national in her treatment of the District and in the assistance she gives for developing and improving the Capital of the country. Every American citizen should feel at home in Washington, and every one has & claim upon all officers and dignitaries who reside here. It is the duty of the press of the city also to welcome visitors cordially and in all ways possible make their stay agreeable and interesting, so that they will carry away with them pleasant recollections of our city and iapeople. o e e “It would have been a ‘considerate thing for our citizens and city officials to have appointed a committee to wel- come the stream of visitors from the States which every day pours into Washington and to give them all need- ful information of how to reach the Capitol and the different public build- ings, and how most conveniently to visit the various places of interest in and around Washington. It is not too late to remedy in part this omission, and we would suggest that the officers in charge of the Capitol detall 2 num- ber of persons, wearing appropriate badges. to show visitors how to reach the different halls and places of in- terest in the building.” Lessons in English BY W. L. GORDON. ‘Words often misuses Do not _say “This coln is no goos Say “This coin is worthless.” Often mispronounced: Patronize; a as in “at” is preferred. Often misspelled: Glamour; authorities give glamor. Synonyms: Fanciful, fantastic, whim- sical, imaginative, visionary. ‘Word study: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: Depreciate; to lessen in price or esiimated value. “The building has depreciated since that time.” Abe Martin Says: some “I've allus aimed to have five or six children around, fer very few juries 'll hang you if you've got a full set, an’ besides at least one out of the bunch is almost certain to grow up an’ sup- port you,” said Mrs. Lide Hanger today. ‘Ther comes a time in ever'budy’s life when they'd like to be a policeman fer about an hour. Some wives are perfectly happy ap’ others have handsome husbands. Fo , D. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 192, PARIS—A new kind of decolletage is introduced by Patou. The black taffeia dress called “Black Iris” is open to the waistline at the sides, although the front and back are unusually high.—Rita. HISTORIC LIARS Frenchman, Collet, Actually Took Fake Command of an Army. BY J. P. GLASS. “HE ACCEPTED A CURRACY AT MONESTIER. THERE HE WON THE LOVE OF ALL HIS PARISHIONERS.” Prince of liars, so imaginative and deft that he has won a place in French history, was Anthelme Collet. His father was a cabinet maker, his mother a seamstress. His mother was widowed when he was 9. Already devoted to idleness and thiev- ery, Anthelme went to live with his grandfather, but got into so much troublé he was transferred to an uncle who later took the boy in charge and put him in a military school. He finally entered the army as a lieutenant. His first army experience brought him a wound. This di ted him with the army. He decided to get out of it and to enter the church—but only to use it for his own ends. While he lay in the hospital a brother officer died after turning over to him all his money to be given to his wife. Anthelme kept the money, de- serted from the army and entered a church institution. In two years he received the tonsure. Given the task of making collections, he kept 1,000 crowns belonging to the church. Adding this to the 4,000 francs he had stolen from the dead officer, he forged a port, went to Naples, and set himself up as the Marquis Dada. He proceeded to Rome, where he forged papers gained him admittance to the best society. A merchant dis- counted for him a bill of exchange for 60,000 francs. A banker advanced him 10,000 crowns. Then, after getting 60,000 francs’ worth of jewels from a dealer he decamped. His system now called for obscurity. He went to Switzerland and became ap- rentice to a printer. But he secretly ad made for him the uniforms of a general and a commissary of war and also a complete bishop's dress. A He first embarked on a new adven- ture as an abbe. Then he accepted a curacy at Monestier. There he won the love of all his parishioners and got them to subscribe to rebuild the church. Theiy did, liberally, and never saw him again. After acting for a time the part of | general of brigade, Anthelme disguised himself as a bishop and set himself up at Nice as Mgr. Pasqualini. He so im- With Hot Cakes Haths, Pure Pork Sausage Links Incomparable for Quality and Flavor—Made Under U. S. Government Supervision 9, Pure Pork Sausage In Sanitary Pound Parchment Packages —at Your Grocer’s eat i, FOR U.§. INSPECTION NUMBER 336 | pressed the local bishop that that dig- nitary asked him to celebrate mass an even had him ordain 60 young aspi- rants to various orders in the church. At 26, Anthelme went to Paris. money running low, he obtained new funds by making collections as a monk ot _the order of St. Augustine. It was 1812, Napoleon was fighting in Russia. Anthelme made himself an inspector general and went with a false commission to reorganize the army -‘of Catalona in Southern France, with full power over the public treasury. He was discovered, convicted and sen- tenced, but escaped. However, the real estate swindles on which he now em- barked finally obtained him a sentence of 20 years’ imprisonment. He died just before his sentence was to expire. ‘As a convict he always had had plenty of money, though whence it came no one could discover. LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. Pop was Yeading the paper, saying, By gollies, this fellow hits the nale on the hed, he understands the subjeck and he knows how to express himself, ‘Whats it about? ma sed, and pop sed, Its a darn well written article on this disarmament bizns nf ess. O, you mean about the diffrent coun- tries, ma sed. Im very intristed in that, I often reed the hedlines. Reed it to me, she sed. You awt to reed it vourself, pop sed. You awt to get in the habit of reely these articles of werld intrist. Just the hedlines wont get you any- where. Thats all rite for anybody get- ting their eyes examined, but if your in- tristed in exercising your mind youve got to go a little demer. he sed. Your quite rite, Willyum, and in fact P. Willis Hinkle had an article in the paper the other day saying exactly the same thing, ma sed, and pop sed, Then I must be rite. g Give me the article, IIl reed it rite away, ma sed, and pop sed, Thats the spirrit. And he handed ma the paper, saying, Give it back when your through, theres a tariff article I wunt to reed. And ma’started to reed and after about 10 minnits she sed, I agree per- fekly, I must say. Of corse, anybody of any sents is in favor of disarmament, pop sed, and ma sed, Well I dont exactly mean disarma- ment but its something very close to it, its cally the same principal, I was reeding an article here about the lead- ing lady tennis players of the werld in- sisting on their right not to wear stock- ings on the courts if they dont wunt to. Yee gods whats that got to do with disarmament? pop sed, and ma sed, It concerns what to take off and what to leave on, duzzent that remind you of disarmament? Help aid sucker, give me that tariff article, pop sed. And he took the paper back and got behind it and stayed there. A Sermon for Today BY REV. JOHN R. GUNN. That Dull Boy. ‘Text—"And Samuel said unto Jessie, Are these all thy children? And he said, There remaineth yet the youngest, and, behold! he keepeth the sheep."— I Sam., xvill. And vet it was that youngest, David, the keeper of the sheep, who, when he appeared before the Prophet Samuel, was chosen to be the King of Israel. Seven of Jesse's older sons had already passed before the prophet and had been rejected. Why had not Jesse presented David to the prophet along with these older sons? Was it because he consid- ered him too dull and unpromising? Evidently so. David had never done anything but atfend the sheep, and evi- dently Jesse did not consider him in the race. Yet he turned out to be the great surprise among the sons of this patriarchal father. ‘The world has been given a good many great surprises by dull boys. What a surprise Napoleon was to his school- masters. In school he was stupid. But d | he found something that interested him —the science of war—and he studied that until he became a military genius His | without a peer in all history. =Darwin was never enthusiastic about his school studies. But he knew what he was in- terested in, and he specialized in that thing until he became recognized as an authority in his line. Isaac Newton was down near the bottom of his class. How he must have astonished his parents and teachers by his scientific achieve- ments! Goldsmith hated school, but he learned to write by writing, both good poetry and good prose. And he proved an amazement to his more brilliant fel- low students. Do not worry too much because your boy is not making,the highest marks in school. He may geem slow and stupid. but give him time. You may yet surprised by that dull boy. ’ FEATURES. MILADY BEAUTIFUL BY LOIS LEEDS. Hands and Nails. Cleanliness is the first essential in the care of hands, for nothing is more unlovely than grimy knuckles and fin- gernalls, The skin must be thoroughly scrubbed with soap at least once a day. ‘The second essential is the liberal use of lotions or creams to counteract the dryh? effect of the water. Most le find it necessary to wash their nds several times a day. By so doing they wash away more and more of the nat- ural ofl from the skin, and this is why hands so often age prematurely. When the hands are much soiled, it is a good plan to rub them with lemon Juice before using the nail brush and soap. Dilute the lemon with equal parts of water or else dip the hands in water and apply the juice while the skin is wet. Rub the inside of the lemon on the grimy spots, rinse well and then use soap and water. Do-not use very hot water for wash- ing the hands. Rinse off every of soap and dry the hands thoroughly. Now rub in a hand lotion. For use in the daytime a non-greasy one is more convenient to use, but every night in addition the hands should be massaged with an olly preparation. Here is a recipe for a greaseless lo- tion: Two drams white gum trage- canth melted 1i four ounces rose water; add one-half dram of powdered borax melted in one ounce of glycerin; one- half dram white rose extract, one-half dram tincture benzoin. This lotion may be thinned by adding cologne water if it becomes too thick. A good hand cream may be made of tHe following: Three and a half ounces be into the skin after it has wm. Hold your forearm up vertically and massage downward toward the elbow. Leave on overnight. When the fingernails are brittle and tend to bend away from the nail bed, daily olly. applications should not be neglected. In the case of housewives these conditions are often caused by the use of strong washing preparations and water. When there does not seem to be any external cause for the brittle- ness and bending, one’s diet or general health may be at fault and a doctor should be consulted. The nails should be filed short and protected with a good liquid nail polish. (Copyright, 1929.) KEEPING MENTALLY FIT BY JOSEPH JASTROW. Teacher as Group Leader. ‘Those who are enthusiastic about the new psychology (and among them is Mr. H. G. Wells, who compares this “reconstruction of our methods of us- ing our minds and of education” to what has occurred in transportation or metallurgy in the last hundred years as the result of steel, steam and elec- tricity, and who believes that the next hundred years will be “essentially a century of applied psychology”) think that it is going to make not only a new man and a new woman, but a new parent and a new child, and above all a new teacher. Of all I believe the last nearest to realization and most essential. I never liked the word teach- er; it puts the emphasis on the wrong function. I have at times sald to an audience of teachers that there are only two kinds of puplls—those that learn without teaching and those who don't learn with it. The new teacher knows very well that her main func- tion (I wish I could say his main function as easily) is not to impart knowledge, not even to help the pupils to learn for themselves (and the first isn't to be neglected and the second is very important), but to direct the growth of her charges so that they de- velop in the best possible manner. The real function of the teacher is to be a group leader. To this end he or she—for now it is essential for the sake of the boys and the girls as well to include both—must possess those qualities which the pupils have not yet had the opportunity to develop, not to the same extent, and not on the same scale. Ons of these qualities looks backward, and we call it experience; and the other looks for- ward and we may call it foresight. Children naturally live intensely in the present; their- view is to be extended by the other two visions. But he must not impose his experience nor his an- ticipation upon them; as a group leader he is to get them to profit by their own experience and anticipate their own next steps. And since in some respects the teacher’s outlook and insight is a bit too advanced for the puplls and his Mother counts Follow these few simple instructions 1. Open wrapper at one end. Do not tear 2. Remove as many 3. Fold wrapper ‘back over open end of loaf. ‘IT STAYS FRESH habits of mind too mature, he will as 4 group leader not do all the leading him- self, but will select the best leaders among the pupils to lead the rest. Fot his job is to make group leaders as well as to be one. s ‘The name for that leadership quality, which is of all human qualities the most precious, is prestige of personality. You can impose by authority, and it would be foolish to suppose that a teacher or a parent can get along without au- thority; but you can lead only by pe sonality. It is on account of his per- sonality that a wise group vests author- ity in its leaders. Personality impresses. The quality of the puplil is suggestibility; he can be led but not forced. Leaders need a follow- ing, but to be a follower must carry no idea of subserviency. Nature makes the compensation in that one may lead in one direction and follow in an- other. Give each a chance to lead as well as to follow. Setting patterns is part of the art of leadership; it must be_done personally. I happened to be present in a fifth- grade schoolroom when one of the pu- pils accidentally upset a bottle of ink on the teacher’s desk. She took it all calmly and avoided the worst dam- age, and a boy of 8 sald: “That's what I call self-control.” No preaching on that virtue could have half the effect o sar Pesestibil et s ity is the ves ualit; that the pl;gfll must grow aurtyo‘l‘. !n}-' creasingly they must act not through suggestion or even imitation, but by reason. That's what all this teaching in and by leadership leads to; acting and leading by reason. The leader makes the group conscious of why such action is best; why this is truth and that error, this wise and that not so wise. Co-operation is not merely 2 team or group habit, but a partiei- pation in the spirit and the reason for the joint enterprise. All that is in- volved in the psychology of group lead- ership. The teacher instructs and the }:lch:; (ehu & pattern, Ilml most of all e and she are group leaders. they teach is an ideal of mental flm (Copyright. 1929.) in this family HE fact is she counts in hundreds of just like this. They are the appreciative, happy families where every meal is looked forward to as ant occasion. There’s a lot of effort re- quired on Mother’s partdefore these “three times a day” fam- ily parties can be held. The families a pleas- preparation of foods, and the setting of the table. wards there are the dishes and the straightening up. In families where Mother really counts, you’ll find mod- After- ern conveniences \like Sliced « planning, the marketing, the DORSCH’S Bread. It saves a few of Mother’s precious minutes before each meal and . that’s worth a great deal.