Evening Star Newspaper, September 27, 1929, Page 46

WOMAN'’S PAGE Returning From the Vacation BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. Vacations have their pleasant after-|new merit. The home atmosphere is maths as well as their happy experi- |cleared of petty frictions that come from ences. Not only do they leave memo- |too continual consideration of daily de- ries of places one loves to think about, | tails and the weariness that prolonged and of new acquaintances formed that | strain of work causes. The vigor of renewed vitality makes tasks that before vacation seemed moun- | tainous sink to the level of easy accom- plishment. ‘The routine of housework is no ionger monotonous. The home| | maker finds herself cager to do the very | | things that seemed beyond her abilitie: | before the relaxing and invigorating | | holidays, She enters with a will into | | the work. 1t is when will and desire |unite with a refreshed mind and | strengthened body that tasks seem | | “like nothing at all.” There is magic in the way they slip through one's fin- | gers and are done almost before one is ! | aware of accomplishment. | " "This aspect of post-vacation days | should be appreciated. Often the home | maker is inclined to mull over the ex- | pense of a vacation after taking it and ! worry unduly. Of course, it is expected | that one has counted the cost carefully | when means are limited. A vacation is | worth its weight in gold when it puts | new life into a family and gives the members a happy outlook as well as pleasant memories. One aftermath of a vacation is the | widening of interests in things not as- | sociated with one’s home, the town in | which one lives and the usual round of familiar thoughts. The glimpse the vacationist gets into things hitherto) foreign to an accustomed environment or range of experience broadens the | point of view, helps to make a person | lenient in judgments and kindly in criticisms. These things add something fine to one’s personality. The good results from a vacation are not alone a refreshed mind and body, but enlarged contacts and the ability | to cope with life and to undestand it better. These are invaluable assets that | do not pass when a vacation is ended. Saturday: Requisites for comfort and beauty in the living room. (Copyright, 1929.) My Neighbor Says: Sirup will not crystallize if a pm‘ch of baking soda is added to it. It white clothes are to be stored in a linen closet for any length of time, paint the shelves in the closet blue. Clothes will not then turn yellow. Rubber gloves will slip on more easily if sprinkled on the inside with cornstarch or powder. Cover all vegetables that grow underground when boiling; do not cover those that grow above the ground. A VACATION BACKGROUND WITH HOME COMFORTS IN THE FORE- GROUND PROMOTES A CORRECT PERSPECTIVE. may develop into frisndships, but (hey\ makes the returns to regular and accus- tomed living seem good. A vacation | background sets home comforts in the foreground and promotes a correct perspective. Familiar things assume | KEEPING MENTALLY FIT BY JOSEPH JASTROW. Bombast. Politicians are by no means the only . ones subject to this curious trait of The new psychology is an instrument | fuman nature, only they happen to be that may be applied to interpret older | conspicuous and get into print. The ways of behavior. The books tell US yrge to be as big and important as we that bombast was a flowery and grandi- | can s pretty generally distributed. The ose way of speaking which was rather | yise among us hold it down, and those ambitious and should not be employed too freely. They add that the term was derived from Theophratus Bom- bastus von Hohenheim. known as Para- celsus (1490-1541), who was something of an irregular physician who excited ( the enmity of his colleagues. So they | saddled this name on him to mean in | extravagant language something that | might be placed-on circus posters and | displayed to rural audiences. | ‘When bombast is affected for a pur- | pose it loses its inner psychology; when | it is resorted to sincerely as an expres- sion of character of the bombaster it suggests one variety of inflated ego, or the superiority complex. The social sanction always enters. Unless it makes an effect and is more or less accepted, it is not likely to be indulged in. The oratorical tradition of these big United States has favored bombast, or tolerated it. Political halls abound in it. There is a speech on one of the follow- ing topics, and it doesn’t mater which: Farm relief, the submerged tenth, old- age pensions, child labor. It Begins with Greece and Athens, mentions the | Spartan custom of exposing infants on Mount Olympus, then it jumps to the | barons of Runnymede demanding the Magna Charta from King John in 1215; | another hop of 650 vears and Lincoln signs the Proclamation of Emancipa- | tion; then the nineteenth century, with its cotton gin, steamboat, locomotive, | ether, telegraph and telephone; next| the electric lamp and wireless, and,| finally, the airplane. Comes the twen- | tieth century and the aggressive Roose- velt and the scholarly Wilson, and then | the subject of the bill with a mass of | statistics. An hour’s time of the con-| clave of the representatives of a mighty Nation has been spent amid the inter- ruptions of applause when a_particu- larly grandiose sentiment or historical figure was mentioned. Such is a polit- ical, bombastic spree. Why bombast? Well, why does a drum major wear | that absurd headgear and flourish that great silver-plated stick? To appear bigger than he is and more important. So this speech on a subject that has no more to do with Greece and King John and Lincoln and modern inventions and your favorite Presidents than an adver- tisement of a remedy for stiff joints| must be shot off with this preliminary | skyrocket, with its bursting balls, before the orator gets down to what we call| brass tacks. i \Thus he and his subject feel properly | important, and the constituency that gets the speech in the mails has a re- flected glory from the grandiloquence | of their representative. It may be that the political purpose of legisiatures is to pass laws; its psychological purpose is to confer a sense of importance upon its members. Of course, this doesn’t apply in general; it is just the habit of 8 few—or is it a few? Few or many, it is an interesting bit of psychology. It may be quite inno- cent or merely foolish, but there it is. It’s the old story—a mountain in labor and there issues a mouse. You aim at the sublime and you accomplish the ridiculous, ~All because human nature demands that sense of bigness of an inflated who have either a sense of proportion or a sense of humor have a check on this human frailty. Mental fitness de- mands a proper sense of the fitness of time and place and circumstance and relevance. To indulge in bombast is certainly not a deadly sin: it may be an innocent diversion. It certainly has an interesting psychology. Paracelsus will have his followers so long as the su- periority complex has its hold on human nature. For some humans every day is Paracelsus day. (Copyright. 1929.) Everyday Psychology BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS, Infant Intelligence. ‘Those who consider adopting children are always puzzled and often restrained by a curious, not to say serious, psy- <chological problem. We may state that problem as follows: Should the foster parents be influenced more by the his- tory of the child’s family than by its present behavior? Any anatomist who knows his busi- ness can predict fairly accurately how tall the child will be when fully grown, how much it will weigh, etc. Can an expert psychologist tell anything for certain about its adult temperament, its uture mental abilities, its probable suc~ cess in school and in some vocation? Modern psychologists make the claim that they can predict the psychological development of an infant quite as accu- rately as the anatomist can foretell its physical development. Simple psychological tests have been given infants before they were 6 months | old, and the results have been carefully | studied as the tested infants gref up through the childhood periods. These child psychologists find that any given individual maintains within close limits a relative standing. If he is an intelligent infant, as infants go, he will be an intelligent child at 4, 6 or any other age level. Since now any individual tends to maintain a relative mental status from birth on, one may say that intelligence may be predicted by the aid of psy- chological tests, even in infancy. In adopting a child one would nat- urally be influenced by its heredity. At the same time infant behavior seems to go a long way in predicting adult accomplishments, regardless of heredity. (Copyright. 1929.) e e Squash Custard Pie. Mix together with a stout egg-beater. three cupfuls of squash or pumpkin pulp, one and one-half cupfuls of rich milk, three eggs, one cupful of sugar, one teaspoonful each of ginger, cinn: mon, nutmeg and salt and one table- spoonful of flour. Pour between two ple shells, Bake in a moderate oven until firm in the centes SCHOOL-DAYS ARE JOY-DAYS FOR PROPERLY NOURISHED CHILDREN With all the bran of the whole wheat After a warm, nourishing breal hot milk, the youngsters dre energy and mental alertness. kfast of Shredded Wheat and off to school with bounding They like the crisp,’ crunchy shreds of baked whole wheat and it's so for them. It’s ready-cooked. Today in Washington History BY DONALD A. CRAIG. September 27, 1865.—Another crowd of amnesty pardon scekers was in at- tendance at the White House today. Among them was the Confederate Gen. Peck of Mississippi. The issuihg of pardoas by President Johnson has been 50 systematized that nothink can be done by these applicants exzept to walt for their turn. The lady visitors, as usual, were quite numerous at the Ex- ecutive Mansiop today. Tw» colored men and a colored woman were among those at the White House secking an interview with Presi- dent Johnson. They desired to ask for a pardon for their former master, a man named Willlams, who at the out- break of the war was a wealthy citizen of Virginia and owned a number of slaves. It appears from the state- ments of these colored persons that ‘Willlams made application for a pardon some time ago. The application has not yet been acted upon, and these three former slaves are here to intercede in behalf of their old master. The health of President Johnson and the members of his family continues to be good. With the approach of the cooler season, the hope is entertained that the occupants of the White House will hereafter be spared the visitations of illness from which they have so fre- quently suffered during the Summer. As usual before the opening of Con- gress, politicians from all parts of the country have begun to flock to Wash- ington. Several prominent New York politicians arrived this morning, among them being Dean Richmond, who suc- ceeded in obtaining an interview with President Johnson soon after he got here. The conductors and drivers of the Washington & Georgetown Railroad Co. had an enjoyable picnic this afternoon at Washington Park. The railroad company, through its president, George S. Gideon, furnished a handsome team | for the use of the band. It consisted | of a coach and six black horses, which, with handsome trappings, flags, etc., at- tracted much attention on its way | through the streets to the park. The| band wes Lillle’s, composed of excellent musicians from the Seventh Street Bar- racks, who voluntecred for the occasion. NANCY PAGE Recreation Rooms for Men | | | | -and Boys Peter came home one evening after a rainy day with a serious question to | propound. “What are we going to d"i on rainy days, Nancy, when our son is | older and plays with all the boys in | the neighborhood? We won't want that | horde of grubby boys in the nursery. and anyway Peter will be too big for < ‘0". Q B E I J&4 ’0&4«"‘ gy, X the nursery. -Can’t we find some place in our new house for that emergency?" “I don't see what we can do. We don't want them running up to the third floor and there is nothing on the first or second. And the sun porch wiil | be too cold. We should have thought | of that before. Oh, dear, why can't! houses be built and unbuilt in stone and mortar as quickly as they can on | paper?” | Nancy sat there in the library pon- | dering. All of a sudden Peter gave a whoop. “I have it. Nancy, I have an idea, and, by Jove, I think it will work. | “You know that small room down in the basement. Well, instead of using it for a fruit cellar why can't we find an- other place for the fruit and make that room into a recreation room? “We can have a cobblestone fireplace with benches around the wall. We can have a refectory table, a blackboard for the children and a small serving counter with an opening through which we can pass food. We will use that ourselves when I have the men downstairs. Oh, I can see all sorts of possibilities for the room. A table for billiards or ping- pong, trophies on the wall—why, every- thing a man or boy wants can be right down there.” “Just whom did you say you were planning this room for?” asked Nancy, softly, and Peter had the grace to grin. en like sandwiches. Write to Nancy care of this paper, inclosing a stamped. self-addressed envelope, asking for her leaflet on sandwiches. (Copyright, 1929.) WILKING COFFET) L& {wiking i THE NEW OUR GROCERS SHELF I’s easy to see—this n with caracul and signed by Lucien Lelong. The fur band at the hlpflc PARIS.—It's not a suit, but it looks like one, this dark brown coat trimmed intensifying the suit effect. The Modern The Old-Fash- ion>d Girl Versus 2 \DorothyDix)| is loose, ITA. Discovers Good Points in Each Modein Girl Differs FFrom Her Old Fashioned Sister in Just About Every Way Possible. \ CORRESPONDENT, z of the past?” asks: “How does the modern girl differ from the girl Well, the modern girl differs from the girl of the past as a chignon differs from bobbed hair, as a knee-length scanty differs from a hoop skirt, as holding on to Mamma's hand differs from telling mother where she gets off. Underneath, of course, there is still the same female girl person, but that is about all of her resemblance to the maiden of yesterday. The modern girl no more thinks and acts like the girl of the past, or has the same ideals and aspirations than she dresses like her. You can begin with her body. if you like. ‘The old-fashioned girl was a | soft creature with curves and dimples. ‘The modern girl is angular and hard as | married, but she even goes about that differently. The girl of the pi | nails, and she would not be guilty of having an ounce of fat on her bones. The old-fashioned girl seldom took any exercise and spent most of her time lolling around on sofas. The modern girl goes in for athletics and thinks nothing of taking a 10-mile hike and then coming home and dancing three-quarters of the night. .« o0 'THE old-fashioned girl thought it elegant and refined to be frail and delicate. In our great-grandmother's time semi-invalidism was a cult, and perfect | ladies swooned at the sight of a mouse, and pined away and died if their lovers proved unfaithful. The modern girl considers it a di-zrace to be sickly, and 1f. any of them ever have an ache or a pain they never mention it. It is the women of the older generation who are always discussing their symptoms, and telling all about their major operations. Never the younger generation. ‘The girl of the past was abysmally ignorant of the world. The modern girl is cynical and wise beyond her years, and she is brutally frank, ‘The old-fashioned girl was helpless. She was taught no trade or profession and had no way by which she could earn a dollar. She knew nothing about business, nothing about how to take care of herself. Mother and father treated her as a child until she got married and her husband held her in tutelage the balance of her life. R Practically every modern girl ig self-supporting and knows her way about just as well as a boy does. She is free and independent, as are only those who have their own money in their awn pocketbooks. She takes care of herself | among the men with whom she works all day, and so she sees no reason why | she should be chaperoned in the evenings. .. THE old-fashioned girl had a traditional reverence for her parents and a sentimental affection for her home. The modern girl has no reverence for anything under the sun. She looks her mother and father over with as dispassionate an eye as she would any stranger, and judges them mercilessly. Mostly she thinks that their ideals are obsolete and should be scrapped, and their | opinions filed away in a museum of antiquity. The modern girl, like the old-fashioned girl, falls in love and wants to get t affect indifference. She prctended never to have thought of love until the man Doe;p:g (l,l;m q“"‘(;otnh ntndhth?‘:l E\le ;nld‘:’ “glh. this is 50 sudden,” and to her surprise scovere at she cherished a deathless passion for 3 for the man to do the pursuing. % e Aulstwalied Not so with the modern girl. When she sees a young man she fanci goes after him and runs him down. She keeps the te]ephgne wires bunr;'cl;tkm; dates. Not infrequently she does the proposing herself, and if he says he can't afford a wife, she offers to keep on with her ch. Such are the differences between the old- fashioned Each had good points and each fitted the ey age that produced her. DOROTHY DIX. girl, (Copyright, 1029.) SUB ROSA BY MIML In Season and Out. One thing above all others that is calculated to get my goat is the trick some people have of twisting the calen- dar. As soon as Summer comes they go North, where it’s cold; but when the cold of Winter sets in they go South. where it's warm. If they'd only sit still the weather would come around to them, all right. Summer is the time to be warm. Why wear a straw hat and an overcoat? But Summer i= not necessarily the time to sweat, 50 W #y o2ar furs in the good old Summertim ® "Why hie yourself off to the North when other people are swinging in their hammocks at home? Or when Winter comes why turn your face toward the Tropics as ii you pre- ferred Summer sands to Winter snows and swimming to eleighing? If people want to reverse the calendar like that, they ought to go to Uruguay or Pata. gonia, where the seasons are the oppo- site of ours. These people who want to alter the almanac are just as anxious to change into land. Their demands are such that ships don't have portholes, hatch- ways and berths the way they used to, but windows, elevators and beds. When you take a voyage on a modern steamer you aren’'t on a ship any more, but a floating hotel. At Summer resorts these folks who like to monkey with the seasons are just as likely to turn country into city. They sweat in the dance more than they sport in the waves. Mountain trails are ignored for the golf course and the beauty of the scenery is lost behind the bridge tables. The feet and hands which might tread the trails and clutch at the crags are used to swing the golf clubs and shuffie a deck of cards . When these twisters are once abroad they look up other Americans and start talking about home affairs. They pass up the tricky dishes of a foreign hotel and try to get a mess of wheat cakes with the usual varnish on them. The; are just as energetic in shifting the p of Europe and America as they are in changing the calendar when they are home. I'd just hate to tell you how goofy 1 | think such people are. My word! Why can't these gumps take things as they come, Summer in Summertime and | Winter in Winter, home when you're | home and abroad when you're abroad? That's only common sense, but these mixed nuts want something different. How provincial, how perverse some people can be! There's a certain ar- rangement of things in this old world just as there is in the natural course of human events. When people are genu- ine and clear-headed, they follow the schedule. But these people who want to make | other arrangements! Well, fortunately | there arent many of them, but th | are pretty much in evidence when they {are around. They are just poor fish out of water or clams out of their shells. (Copyright, 1929.) MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN. Five-Minute Margin, | One Mother Say: Bedtimes and such times as my littie | boy had to leave his games to perform | a task or run an errand used too often | | to result in tears, scolding and delays | | | i | | | | One day I said: “Sonny boy, would you | like to come now, or would you like to have five minutes longer? If you want | those five minutes you must earn them by coming promptly and willingly when | | your time is up.” "Of course he wants the five minutes, and is quite willing to | | live up to his part of the bargain in | order to possess them. (Copyright, 1929.) Cabbage and Tomatoes. Butter a baking dish, put in a layer; | of well seasoned sweet tomatoes, then | | a layer of botled cabbage. Sprinkie with cheese and then with bread crumbs. | Continue this way until gl has been used, making the last layer bread | crumbs. Dot the top with bits of but- ter and bake in a slow oven for about | 30 minutes. Scalloped Oysters. Prepare one pint of oysters and their | liquor for cooking. Season three cup- | fuls of soft bread crumbs with four tablespoonfuls of butter, one teaspoonful | of salt, one teaspoonful of lemon juice and & dash of pepper. Line a baking dish with one-third of the crumbs. Put half the oyesters on the crumbs, then another layer of crumbs and the re- mainder of the oysters. Pour the juice through them and place the last of the crumbs on top. Bake for half an hour in a moderate oven. e likes Dorsch’s fwiLmang)= cause it snaps u her family and i to serve, e e e now. SISTER parties and says, 80 you stands aid the firs! Sliced Bread. ewer, prettier package in which Wilkins Coffee comes to you. You'll soon learn to recognize it. recognize ecame flavor you have already learned to like—the same flavor And you'll still the flavor. It's the that has already won the favor of one-third of Washington. DAD says the slices are just right. He wouldn't think a break- fast complete without the golden brown toast mother serves him crank a car than slice bread, she Sonny is always on the go and always ready to raid the pantry :or bread and jam. “Pretty soft,” he Whole Family Sliced Bread. MOTHER thinks it's fine be- p the appetite of s so easy for her always planning She'd rather know how she t Eat almost an affliction wi Dorsch’s " SL/CED 1l of this diet which I am giving below. FEATURES., MILADY BEAUTIFUL BY LOIS Eighteen-Day Diet. From the cinema stronghold in Cali- fornia has cogpe the 18-day reducing | diet which has already found a place on the menus of certain restaurants in our | fryit. large cities. Some of the readers of his column have been asking for a copy It has been hinted that the partiality | shown to grapefruit and oranges in this | diet may have been inspired by the citrus fruit growers. Although these | fruit, one lamb chop, half head lettuce. fruits are wholesome and palatable they | Dinner: are used so freely in this diet that one | hall head iettuce, celery. 1s almost sure to them. Breakfast is the same every day, con- | sisting of half a grapefruit, one slice of | toast and coffee with a little milk and sugar. The menus for the rest of the day are as follows: | First day—lunch: Half a grapefruit, one egg (any way but fried), six slices cucumber, one slice of toast, tea or cof- | fee. Dinner: Two eggs, one tomato, half head of lettuce, half grapefruit. Second day—Ilunch: One orange, one egg, half head lettuce, one slice toast, | tea or coffee. Dinner: Broiled steak, ' half head lettuce, one tomato, half a grapefruit. Third day—Ilunch: Half grapefruit, | one egg, half head lettuce, six slices | cucumber, tea or coffee. Dinner: Half | grapefruit, one lamb chop, one egg, half \ head lettuce, two olives. Fourth day—Ilunch: Half grapefruit, pot cheese, one tomato, one slice toast, tea or coffee. Dinner: Broiled steak, watercress, half grapefruit. Fifth day—lunch: Gne orange, one | lamb chop. half head lettuce. Dinner: | Half grapefruit, half h:a lettuce, one | tomato, two eggs. | Sixth day—lun-M: ®ne @ange, tea. | Dinner: Two poached eggs, wue slice toast, one orange. { Seventh day—lunch: Wu!f grapefruit, | two eggs, half head lettuce. one tomato, two olives. Dinner: Half grapefruit, | two lamb chops, six slices cucumber, | become very tired or[ 'Y | two olives, one tomato, half head lettuce. H Eighth day—lunch: Half grapefruit, one broiled lamb_chop, half head let- | tuce, Dinner: Half grapefruit, two | cBES, asparagus, plain spinach, siice of | oast. | Ninth day—Ilunch: Half grapefruit, LEEDS. one egg, one tomato, meat salad. Din- ner: Same as lunch. Tenth day—lunch: Cinnamon toast, tea. Dinner: Broiled steak, celery, two olives, one tomato. Eleventh day—Ilunch: Half grape- one lamb chop, half head lettuce. Dinner: Sama2 as lunch. Twelfth day—lunch: Half grapefruit, half lobster, crackers. Dinner: One orange, two broiled chops, cold slaw, one tomato, two olives. Thirteenth day—lunch: Half grape- PxOlied steak, half grapefruit, Fourteenth day—lunch: Half grape- fruit, one egg, one slice toast. Dinne; ?rt;irlrd steak, one tomato, half grape- ruit. Fifteenth day—Lunch: Half grape- fruit, 1 tomato, 1 egg, 1 slice toast. Dinner: Half grapefruit, two lamb chops, one tomato, one slice toast. Sixteenth day—lunch: Half grape- frult, cne egg, one tomato. Dinnes One orange, broiled steak, plain spinach. Seventeenth day—Ilunch: Half grape- fruit, one lamb chop, half head lettuce. Dinner: Broiled steak, one tomato, celery, oli¥es. Eighteenth day—lunch: Half grape- fruit, .one egg. one tomato. Dinner: Half grapefruit, broiled fish, plain spinach. ‘These menus are monotonous and do E?Ltpro\‘lde enough calories for the daily et. (Copyright. 1929.) REDECORATE.-- With Farbo, the Water Paint that won’t rub off. o o It comesin thirteen softlovely colors and white. * o o Apply it yourself. Even cver the old wallpaper. The Dealer who recommends Puritan Malt could make more j on other brands but he could not give as much value. W RITA ALT —— —all quality because it's all barley