Evening Star Newspaper, September 26, 1929, Page 43

'WOMAN’S PAGE. When to Save Personal Letters SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. ‘The woman who does not learn early n her youth to avoid accumulating worthless letters, finds later in life, that she is burdened with a mass of letters which she dares not destroy without going over lest some important missives Letters should be kept until acknowl- edged. Unless this is done, questions may be left unanswered, for which re- plies are expected, and contents cannot be referred to with assurance. There are exceptions to this rule, | but these do not alter the general appli- | cation of the rule. One exception may | be noted and that is a request of the writer that any certain letter be de-| stroyed immediately after it has been | read by the person to whom it is ldA‘I dressed. Another is when the recipient | belleves the contents of a letter should | be known only to herself. Some perscns always keep the last letter received from a friend until an- | other comes. This is a good idea when {riendships are intimate. Letters of business significance should be kept until the transaction is closed, anyway. If the business is important, it is wise to preserve them indefinitely. Letters from notable personages should be kept, Autographs are valu- able in ratio to fame, and a letter if in the person's own handwriting adds | worth, even though the letter in itself is not significant. | ‘The letters that clutter up desks and | take up valuable shelf room in closets | Muvver dest cut my nails an’ I'm are those kept without discrimination, | playin’ in the dirt to get the new feelin’ | | such as ordinary correspondence, bread- | off my fin'ers. and-butter notes, thoughtlessly kept | letters of regret and acceptance and their kind Al these have to be re- | read, or at last glanced through when | NANCY PAGE weeding out a correspondence. The time put into such work is thrown away. Better throw away the letters /S s00n as their purpose is done. Friday—How best to appreciate the return from vacation. (Copyright, 1929.) AUTUMN | | BY D. C. PEATTIE. An old-fashioned Maryland garden | charmed me once at this season of the year, and I have been telling myself a resolute lie ever since—that I would go | back to see it again. | Except in the most general sort of way I cannot now remember where it was. It had a wealth of gigantic old ailanthus trees—a species that I care | nothing for until it is aged—and bitter- sweet in a profusion. Add to this an artificial but delicious old dowager of | a Fall garden plant, the celosia, globe |amaranths, prince - feather, spider- | flower, double balsam, bleeding heart | and snow on the mountain and you | | have the picture of Topsy’s bouquet, all | fuss and feathers and incongruous col- | ors, such as great-grandmother thought | beautiful. | But the secret charm of the garden, to which the owners seemed to pay scarcely any attention, was found in | two little lawn flowers, coming up in the uncombed grass around a severe, handsomely ugly, old_Georgian manor house. There were saffron crocus, hang- ing out its three golden stigmas from a big cup of deepest, truest purple, and the meadow saffron or Autumn crocus, of daintiest lilac-purple veined with white and gold, which is, of course, no \; RESZSeyy wy ONE SHOULD CONSIDER WHETHER THE VALUE OF A LETTER LIES IN IMMEDIATE OR PERMANENT INTEREST. be lost. This is a time-consuming task, one that gets put off continually for that “more convenient season,” which |the iris family, but is one of the lily sometimes never comes. It may be that | tribe, called by botanist and druggist some person who survives her has this | colchicum. thankless job to do. One hesitates to| read a correspondence not her own, but | glected, dainty flowers, to the Old in such an instance it may become a ' World Autumn, an Autumn on the hills duty, for, in settling up an estate valu- of Liguria, when the half-wild sheep able papers may be discovered thus. |began to come down the mountains, In speaking of worthless letters, the | fearing the first Autumn storms, and term does not mean that the letters| the slow-spoken shepherds stop at every crocus at all, as it does not belong to | They carried me back, these two ne- | had no purpose. but that it was of | temporary significance. Just because | the recipient was fond of the person | who penned the missive, does not war- rant every scrap of correspondence be- ing kept. Even those who write won- derfully interesting letters cannot be expected to send them always. and he | or she would be the first to wish those | Wwithout merit to be thrown away. MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Melons Oatmeal with Cream French Toast Coffee LUNCHEON. Escalloped Oysters Clover Rolls Chocolate Blancmango Tea DINNER. Cream of Spinach Soup Salmon Loaf, Hollandaise Sauce Potato Balls_ Buttered Beets Tomato and String Bean Salad Peach Taploca Pudding Coffee FRENCH TOAST. One-half cup flour, one tea- spoon baking powder, one-fourth teaspoon salt, one-half cup milk, one egg, sliced bread. Sift to- gether flour, baking powder and salt, add milk and beaten egg. Beat well. Into this dip bread, fry in hot fat, drain and serve hot with powdered sugar. ESCALLOPED OYSTERS. One quart oysters, one pint milk heated, a scant cup butter before it is melted, two eggs, pep- per and salt to suit your taste and 20 common crackers rolled fine. Stir milk, eggs, butter and crackers, also oysters liquor to- gether, and then stir in the oys- ters lightly. Butter your dish, turn in the mixture and bake a little brown. It will take about three-fourths hour. There will be no dry places. BUTTERED BEETS. Fill a pail as large as will hold as many beets as you want to cook. Don’t cut them, as that makes them bleed. Cover with cold water, cover up tight. Put in hot oven and let bake. When done, cut in dice and place one tablespoon butter on top. THAT'stheway Rice Krispies sound when you pour on milk or cream. The crispiest cereal ever made! Rice Krispies are toasted rice grains. Golden-brown. Delicious for breakfast, lunch or supper. Add fruits or honey for an extra treat. Your grocer has Rice Krispies. Oven-fresh in the red-and-green package. Made by Kellogg in Battle Creek. | sought. windy little shrine to pray. It is an odd thought that men and | women should ever have died for the saffron crocus. But several men and women and some girls were burned alive at Nuremberg in the Middle Ages for adulterating the saffron they sold to a dyer's guild—so highly did the guild prize its good name. | It is a European legend found in every country that a pilgrim to the Holy Land brought crocus home, hidden in his palmer’s staff, for the Turks re- tained it as & monopoly. There is no inkling of truth in this, I think. The Romans had spread it long before that, but there was a distant date when the Island of Cyprus had a world monopoly on saffron, the dye distilled from the brilliant stigmas of the flower—a mo- nopoly which Egypt, Tyre and Sidon And there, unnoticed and silent, the little flower bloomed in the weedy pasture of the old Colonial estate. Even the gentler colchicum has had its tragedies, for in London 50 years ago a monstrous woman polsoned many people whom she nursed with drops squeezed from its deadly root. And yet a more childlike innocence does not ex- ist than that of the fragile cups of colchicum uplifted to the mild Autumn sunlight! ADVERTISEMENT. Why Do Children Make Grammatical Errors? BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. Peter's sister taught English in a high | school. ~For that reason she was par- ticularly sensitive to mistakes in spaken and written English. She really shud- dered at some of the errors she heard on every siie, errors which could so | easily have beer’qvoided. In a letter from TRe of her puplils she read: “It does not seem like I can gel | | down to studying at all” When she came to that sentence she felt as if all her work had been in vain. Later she told Nancy and Peter about it. “That child has been told a dozen times that she should not use ‘“like” in place of “as if,” but apparently she has no sense of correct speech. “If I am not careful I make them so self-conscious that ibey do even worse. I had one girl i2ll me rhe resided at such and such a place, and that she retired at 10 o'clock every night. Everyday folks like ycu and | me live; they don't reside. They go to bed; they don't retire. The chances are that that same girl will say, ‘How do you get that way?’ and will end a sentence with ‘see?’ or ‘if you get mc.'! These phrases, which represent her | thinking, are quite foreign to her stilted ‘reside’ and ‘retire.” “And then over and over again I hear intelligent people say, ‘he don't,’ or ‘she don’t’ or ‘it don’t’ They do not seem | to realize that ‘don’t’ is & contraclion | of ‘do not.' They surely would not say, ‘He do not want to come.’” Nancy asked her what remedy she had to sug- gest. Quick as a flash came ihe an- swer: “A child should be exposed o ccr- rect speech from earliest childhood. He should hear words and phrases cor- rectly used by his parents and elders. That’s where your son Peter is having real advantages.” And Peter and Nancy All Honor to the Self-Sacrificing. Brother and Sister—Shall a Man Risk Marriage With an Untidy Woman? EAR DOROTHY DIX: We have Mother’s and Father's day. Why don't we have a Brother's and Sistet’s day also? Don't you think some thought should be given to the many brothers and sisters who go along unselfishly | sacrificing themselves for their familles? L. H. W. Answer: We are getting so many days when we are called upon to celebrate | the virtues of this person or thal person, or to remember some particular cause, : | that we will soon have to put an annex on the year to get them ail in, but if anybody wants to set apart any icular Saturday or Sunday or Monday or | ‘Tuesday or Wednesday or Thursday or y for public glorification of brothers and sisters 1 am with them, and ready to march at the head of the procession and tote the banner. For if there are any heroes in the world they are those men and women who lay their own dreams and hopes and ambitions as a sacrifice on the fra- | ternal altar and who literally give their lives to their sisters and brothers. I know many such. I know old bachelors, who, through the death or the incompetence of their fathers, had the burden of a whole family's support laid upon their shoulders when they were nothing but little boys. They had to leave school and go to work in order that the younger children might be clothed and fed, and for years and years they tolled, giving to their brothers and sisters the education and the advantages that they never had. ‘The money they made went to others. They could never spend it upon | the pleasures and indulgences of youth. They had to put all thought of love and marriage away from them, all thoughts of having their own homes an& wives and chilaren of their own. They had even to forego the call of ambition when opportunity knocked at their doors because the boys had to be put through college and the girls have their chances in society. And so the time of romance and of doing things went by, and they settled down into being just “Brother John” and “Uncle Jack,” who could always be relied upon to htlg the others out of trouble and whom nobody ever suspected of ever having a blighted romance folded away in lavender, or of having had an aspiration. And I know so many old malds who were once young and pretty girls and who might have been happy wives and mothers, or prosperous business or pro- fessional women, but who gave up every krrolpecz just to be sister. Mother died, perhaps, and they took her place, cooking, washing, sewing, cleaning, scrub- bing for the little brothers and sisters. Love came their way, but they could not leave the helpless children to fend for themselves. Or perhaps there was grim poverty in the home and they went to work early. Years and years of teaching, of standing behind a counter, of pounding a typewriter, of running a machine went into hungry little stomachs, or on ragged little backs, or to buying finery for pretty littie sisters to dance in at ! balls to which older sister was never invited. No chance to save any money with the family demands on her pocketbook. No chance for rest, for change, for any personal indulgences when Johnny and Susie and Carrie and Jim needed clothes and dentist bills and special lessons to develop some talent that would give them a show in the world. ‘The gratitude of the sisters and brothers to those other sisters and brothers who have sacrificed so much for them should be greater even than that they ! feel toward their parents, for the parents’ obligation to their children is a duty, whereas what the brothers and sisters give is a free-will offering, but, strangely enough, the recipients of this uncalled-for bounty seldom appreciate it. In many a household the old bachelor brother or the old maid sister who has given his or her all to the making of that home, and on whose shoulders the prosperous sister or brother has climbed to success, is an unwelcome guest and the family members feel that they are martyrs because they have to put up with the idiosyncrasies of the real family martyr. 8o I am with you, Mr. L. H. W., in laying my tribute at the feet of the self-sacrificing brothers and sisters. They are the whitest of the saints of God. riaerte DOROTHY DIX. DEAR MISS DIX: I love a girl dearly, who, though very kind, is very homely and untidy in her personal s rance. Do you think because of my love I will be able to overlook these shortcomings, or after a while will I become ashamed of her? w. Answer: T consider a sloven & very poor matrimonial bet and I would cer- | tainly be afraid to risk it if I were a man. | Consider that you will have to look at the woman that you marry 365 days a year for an indefinite number of years and you will realize that it is of | prime importance that she be easy on the eyes. turally every woman can't | be a Lillian Russell and it would be unreasonable fok a man to expect to acquire | a living picture for his very own, but every woman can be neat and tidy and a | pleasing object of observation. | ‘There is something particularly disgusting in a sloppy woman, not only because she is a blot on nature, but because it shows that she is lazy and too inert to make an effort to be attractive. Moreover, a dirty woman will keep a | dl)::yl }'l'm‘l.u and if anything will kill Jove more quickly than that, I don't know | w] E a lazy, slovenly woman can never be reformed. DO Y My advice to you is to leave the untidy woman to her untidy ways, because | ROTHY DIX. (Coprright, 1929.) - Every year stock imposters devise new schemes to relieve the unwary of their money. Women must particularly be on the alert, because they as a rule are more credulous than men. This is not due to any lack of intelligence on their part, but simply to & lack of familiarity with business customs usages. If you are on the malling list of tipster sheet, make it & practice to d stroy it before you even open the wrap- per. Turn it in at the nearest post office for the attention of the postal tors. If it is put out in an in- criminating form, you will soon find it absent from your mail. Most_tipster sheets boom good stocks while they make subtle mention of their own worthless ones. The idea is to gain your confidence in order to make a killing. The woman who invests occasional sums of money is advised to disregard any sheet or pamphlet that comes unsolicited and which originates from unknown or doubtful sources. ‘Women sometimes cannot see how money may be lost in buying some of the leading stocks. The way in which swept their sister-in-law a profound bow. ADVERTISEMENT. NO SECRET—THE SOAP | USE SOAKS CLOTHES WHITER WITHOUT THE SCRUBBING WHICH TIRES YOU SO NURSE, WHAT IS THE SECRET OF YOUR SNOWY WHITE UNIFORM? 1 COULD NEVER SCRUB CLOTHES AS CLEAN AS YOURS! YOUR WASH LOOKS SO WHITE, MRS. NELSON... WHITER THAN | EVER SAW IT... Ri soaks clothes whiter | USED AWONDERFUL SOAP...RINSO...MY NURSE TQLD ME ABOUT IT WHEN | WAS SICK. IT'S GREAT FOR DISHES, TOO THE GRANULATED SOAP Y they mi money is simple. They ADVERTISEMENT. NEXT WASHDAY THAT NURSE WAS RIGHTI <+ WHAT THICK SUDS RINSO GIVES. | WOULDN'T HAVE HAD THE STRENGTH TO DO THIS THE OLD WAY Straight Talks to Women About Money BY MARY ELIZABETH ALLE! may buy good stocks on the installment plan, only to be informed after they have paid up that they will have to take another stock. If they decline to take the switch, they may have difficuity in fiyfim either stock or money. Before ing stocks it is up to every woman to know that the seller can and will make de- llv_;_rl’{e of her pur;:n:hn. names of the biggest corpor tions in the country are used to im- press women and lead them to think ! that they are swindle-proof. Sometimes a few shares are delivered, and then a few days later the woman investor is advised to get in on a new stock. Un-| | suspecting, she may yield and soon be[ holding worthless stock certificates. Women should especially ignore tele- |phone calls from so-called ‘“brokers.” {Many are long-distance calls from |swindlers who operate “boiler rooms.” A boiler room is a room containing battery of phories. At the instrument sit skilled crooks who are adept at| separating the unsuspecting from their money. Al RTISEMENT. (Thousands write us letters Jike this) says Mrs. C. 1339 Irving St. . Since T discove; mgl‘rfay. washday n Y, those thick suy dishes, floors, et 5 c. It some soaps I'yve tried .’! MRS. CHAS. L. TIPPETT 1339 Irving St. NE., Washington, p. c. rich safe suds in tub or washer red what wonder, €Ver worries me uds just soaj “Thick suds soak out all dir¢”’ L Tippett N.E. ful suds Ringo at all. e T oung married guys find vorce in their breakfast “A lot of grounds for coffee.” Lessons in English BY W. L. GORDON. Often mispronounced: Stupendous; u as in “unit,” not as in “rule”; last syl- lable dus, not jus. Often misspelled: Remuneration; mun, not num. Synonyms: Offense, resentment, in- dignity, affront, umbrage. 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: Relentless; moved by sympathy; unylelding. dark and relentless fate awaited them.’ o Baked Onions. Peel some onions. If the onions are | & very large, cut them across in the cen- ter. Arrange in a baking dish, cut side up, and spread with a sauce made of two tablespoonfuls of butter, salt and pepper and the juice of half a lemon. Cover with a buttered paper and bake for 35 minutes, basting occasionally. KEEPING MENTALLY FIT BY JOSEPH Doctor on Wall Street. ‘This headline introduces a surgeon whose father was a:banker, and who has reverted to t; He finds the calm and conservati of his medical training quite as valuable in financial as in surgical operations. He notes that as many financial ailments are aggra- vated by imaginary fears; that depres- sion of nerves is reflected in the mar- ket, and that the intense strain of | transactions in the street is transformed into high blood pressure. He prescribes frequent short holidays and recom- mends that the whole country take a financial rest from Friday to Monday to let the Wall Street fever abate. All of which suggests the prevalence in our midst of a Wall Street mind. Is it & menace to mental fitness? Do you take a Wall Street cocktail or an ap- petizer? What used to be the occupation of the few has become the preoccupation of the many. It happened last Winter that on three successive days 1 was sit- ting in the offices of a doctor, & pubr lisher and an editor, and in each case our rather brief conference was inter- rupted by a telephone call from & broker. Whatever their main occupa- tion, men, women and children are de- veloping & Wall Street mind. (I add children because in a school with which 1 am acquainted each pupil is given an imaginary $1,000 to invest on the basis of the real quotations, and his finan- cial I. Q. is calculated accordingly.) ‘The gambling instinct is so deeply set in human nature that the psychol- ogist (who gives daily thanks that he isn't & moralist) recognizes it as objec- tively as the appetite for food or for amusement. It's there, and the man- agement of it is a problem of its own by the same right as the others. To keep it down to proper proportions is all that you can expect of human na- | ture; it's bound to run away with those who have it strongly. Man is & sport- ing animal no less than he is a social animal, and what makes him so is a part of him with just that mixed pos- ibility of serving him or ruining him that applies to any other complex trait. The spirit of venture makes the ploneer; it makes the explorer; it makes the experimenter; it makes the pro- moter and the speculator; it all depends upon what it mates with. The forty- JASTROW. of fortune. Wall Street is only just around the corner from everywhere: the rush to it is intelligible. (Copyright, 1929.) Rice Spoon Bread. Sift half & cupful of corn meal with one and one-half teaspoonfuls of salt, one teaspoonful of sugar and two tea- spoonfuls of baking powder. Add two cupfuls of sweet milk, the yelks of two- eggs well beaten, one cupful of cooked rice and one tablespoonful of melted butter or fat. Fold in the two well beaten egg whites. Pour the mixture into s hot, well greased baking dish and bake for 40 minutes. Serve t spoon bread hot. This will make about 10_servings. Imparts an attractive, soft even appearance that leaves no chalky edges or filled in pores. with the skin without that “made up” look. 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