Evening Star Newspaper, October 8, 1929, Page 38

WOMAN'’S PAGE. The Sidewalks of Washington . BY THORNTON FISHER. A few nights ago after a boxing bout for a class title the announcer called the winner to the microphone. A young fellow, breathing heavily, said, “I'm all right, mamma. I'm not hurt. Here's a kiss.” Until then we never knew the emotional proc- esses of prizefight- ers, even though we had associated with them for many years for the pur- pose of obtaining news. That remark 4 should indicate that the world is 7] setting better all | the time. Imagine | John L. Sullivan throwing a kiss to any one. Of course, there is no doubt that prizefighters kiss. They have been heard to say, “I'll sock that guy on the kisser,” so it is evident that they are familiar with the location of the lips. The pugnacious Sullivan was in the habit of entering a strange *“joint” and announcing to all and sundry, “I can lick any blankety-blank blank in the place.” Those at whom the ter- rifying challenge was hurled unani- mously agreed that Mr. Sullivan might pick up the marbles, as he won. Personally, we know of no reason why prizefighters should not kiss; and we have seen them do it. The world is not as tough as it used to be. The pioneer and his covered wagon no longer penetrate the vast wilderness of the West. i Knute Rockne, the famous coach of Notre Dame, once complained, or maybe a half dozen times, that the| foot ball players are a decadent outfit. Mr. Rockne ought to know. He went so far, if we remember corrcctly, as to recommend that some of them wear ribbons in their hair and train on fudge and caramel creams. Knute was probably spoofing, for any one with the price of admission can witness startling scenes of near- carnage any Saturday afternoon on American gridirons. * e Foot ball players frequently weep in sincere fashion when withdrawn from a hard-fought game, even though they may have sustained lacerations, a broken collarbone and a fractured wrist during a scrimmage. It has often been observed that boxers who are about ready to fall from weakness or punches weep when a sagacious refree parts the gladiators to save the victim from useless punishment. loser who bawls. The passing of the tough guy is im- minent, if not already accomplished. Even Army top sergeants are softening Usually it is the ( dead attitude is diminishing wherever sergeants get together. 1 * ok K K The other day an intrepid gentleman entered the North woods, unattired and with a bow and arrow as his weapon. He intends to demonstrate that a man 1s still capable of providing his own food and raiment ‘without resorting to the corner grocery or his favorite tailor. It is a noble experiment, but we do not believe there are many who would care to emulate his example. * ok ok Ok It was 1 o'clock in the morning. The cop was speaking. “Eight fellows have just moved on my beat,” he said, “and I don't like their looks. I'm goin’ to watch those guys. Every moving scason we have to keep our eyes open for certain un- desirables. “Ordinarily, this beat of mine is re- garded as a_quiet one, but when things do happen here they happen in a big way. -+ “Some little time ago there was an epidemic of sneak thievery around. The victims were partly to blame for their losses, One apartment house in particular was, chosen as a field for operations. Across the street is a small park. The thief made a practice of sizing up the intended victims from his vantage point in the park. He would carefully watch them. It was his cus- tom to follow them home after they had visited the stores. He usually found that the minute the woman ar- rived at her apartment she would lay her purse on the first table she came to and then carry her purchases to the Kkitchen. The door to the hall was fre quently left open, if her arms were fill ed with packages, and it was but & matter of seconds to sneak in, grab the purse from & table and escape. “Of course, the astonished house- wife wondered how it had all happened so rapidly. The thief usually ~carried a package so that in the event he was seen by the vic- tim-to-be he could give a reasonable excuse for being at the door. He would ask if Mr. Smith Il was in. “'No, he didn't ‘Well, HE WOULD ASK IF MR- SMITH WAS (N- live there. that was just too bad, -for he had a| This | pair of shoes he was delivering.’ line erased any suspicions the lady might have had, and the crook was able to pursue his nefarious job.” - * %% “What is your nationality?” inquired girl friend. “Oh, half Scotch,” replied the boy. friend. “What's the other half,” she asked. toward their charges., The knock-'em- “Ginger ale,” said he. DIET AND HEALTH' BY LULU HUNT Value of Olive Oil. “Does olive ol have any food or medi- cinal value? How can’ its purity be tested in the home? " Olive oil has no medicinal value. It will not dissolve gallstones; nor will any other oil, for that matter. Recently I had a letter asking me to give my olive oil treatment for gallstones that the | writer cut out and lost! If it was my article she was referring to, she hadn't read it carefully. The “stones” pro- duced after consuming any food oil in Jarge amounts are nothing but soapy | concretions made from the excess oil and the alkali bile in the intestines and can be demonstrated as such, for they will melt. Olive oil is liked for its characteristic flavor, but as far as its food value is concerned, it has no advantages over other vegetable oils. All edible oils add richness and high energy to the food, | for they average 100 calories to the | tablespoonful. For instance. your salad | dressing may have 200 to 300 calories, vhile your salad—say, of lettuce—can be composed of as much as one-quarter pound of the leaves—this makes a good sized salad—and only amount to 20 C.! This point is to be thought of by those who are overweight and have to limit their calories. The testing of any oils are very com- plicated chemical and physical methods, which can be done only in a chemical laboratory, H. As for home testing of oiive oil, the only thing you can depend on is its characteristic flavor. The adulterants of olive oil are usu- ally cheaper vegetable oils, but these would not alter the food value of the mixture in any way. “In one of my breasts there seems to be a lump which is not painful at all Am afraid to see a doctor for fear he might say I need to be operai~d on. Is | there anything you could advise me to | % " Certainly, every doctor thinks of an operation for a lump in the breast that | isn't due to an acute inflammation, Mrs. G. If you could only realize how unin- telligent it is not to go to a doctor because you fear he might advise an operation! You don't have to submit to an operation if you don't want to, even if you need if; you can let the Jump go on until, perhaps, it develops into a cancer and reaches the inoper- able stage, if you prefer! Lessons in English BY W. L. GORDON. ‘Words often misused: Do not confuse “absolute” (positive or complete) with “obsolete” (no longer in use). Often misspelled: Secrete; ete, not eet. S};nonymlz Babble, chatter, prattle, gossip. 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, Figment; some- thing imagined; a fiction. t was a mere figment of a poet’s fancy. 9 PETERS, M. D. Any lump in the breast had best be | removed (unless it is due to an acute inflammatory condition when other treatments are remedial). It there is no cancerous change now, the operation will be very slight and leave practically no scar. If you wait until later, when there is a cancerous change. then your whole breast will have to be rcmoved, with some of the chest-muscles, and all the glands under the arm. A very | mutilating_operation. Not all lumps in the breast are can- cerous, by any means, but the con- sensus is that all non-inflammatory lumps should be removed on account of cancer possibilities. Not having any pain does not mean there are no can- cer possibilities. It is really unfor- tunate that these potentially cancerous lumps are not more often associated with pain. (They are associated with a good deal of pain later on.) If you are interested in literature on the subject, write to the American Society for the Control of Cancer, 25 West 43rd St., New York City. MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN. One mother say ‘When I retire I always put my flash- light on the bedside table. It is of im- mense aid when I am aroused by some emergency, such as the crying of baby. Iv is quick and efficient, far more so than to have to fumble for the electric llght switch, and I don’t arouse the rest of the sleeping family by flaShing a strong light in their eyes or stumbling over furniture in my search for the light. Often I sit up in bed and flash the light over to the corner of the room where the crib is and I can see if the little one is properly covered without getting out of bed. I also use my flash- light for examining the children's throats when they have colds. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1929. KEEPING MENTALLY FIT . BY JOSEPH JASTROW: LITTLE BENNY BY-LEE PAPE. Lucky Thirteen. A Play Scene, the inside of a train. Fred Feernot, Who are these 2 guys with black masks on their faces? Good nite I bleeve their going to hold up the train. Yes that’s just what their doing, my ferst impressions are always correck. Ferst train robber. Up with your hands, everybody that dont wunt a bullet hole where they. leest expect it. Fred Feernot. Hay fellows, what kind of a way is this to be making a honest living? ~ Why don’t you be sports and leave me toss up this dime, and if you gess weather its heds or tales you can go rite ahed and rcb the train, but if you don't gess rite why that means you haff to reform. ‘The train robbers. Sure, toss her up, nobody cant say we aint sports. All rite, heds. Fred Feernot. Its heds, all rite, you gessed it. 2nd train robber. All rite, lets go. Joolry and watches ferst. Fred Feernot. Well let me appeal to your honesty. Dont you realize that all these people had to werk hard for their money, and if you come in here and take it away from them its nuthing but plane steeling? Ferst train robber. G wiz, I never thawt of that. 2nd train robber. I bleeve the boy it rite. What do you say if we both reform, Al? Ferst train robber. Sure, Il reform with you. Herray, we're honest men. The conductor. Then show me your tickets or eltz get off the train. The train robbers. Just for that we wont reform. Up with your hands everybody. Fred Feernot. Well, T did the best I could. Its lucky I ony have 13 cents with me, ‘The end FAMOUS LADY Washington society has had its full number of witty ladies, but the Presi- dents’ wives, in the main, have been serious ladies. This is not true of Pres- idents’ sisters and daughters or of some cabinet officers’ wives. The sister of Grover Cleveland made Today in Washington History BY DONALD A. CRAIG. October 8, 1857.—Important street and building improvements have been made, or are under way, in various parts of Washington this season. ‘The tide of real estate speculation has turned recently toward the Island by improvements in this section, lying south of the City Canal. Persons witn capital are looking for quicker returns from investments in building lots in this part of the city than elsewhere at_this time. In the Northern Liberties also there have been improvements. Seventh | street northwest from H to L street has been cut down several feet and the gutters on either side of the street | have been taken up. The street has | been widened from 3 to 6 feet and repaved. M street northwest is being graded by E. G. Barnes, under the supervision of Commissioner Owen, from Sixth street to New York avenue. This work has been needed for a long time and will be a great convenience to the public, particularly to country people, who will find the street a direct route to the business portion of Seventh street. Building operations in this part of the city—the Northern Liberties—are active. At the corner of Seventh ana L streets J. H. Stone, drugzist, is erecting a brick house with a frontage of 20 feet and a depth of 66 feet, witn cast-iron window cases and other mod- ern improvements. and Seventh streets Jerome Degges is private residence. It is three stories high, with a basement. It a frontage of 20 feet and & depth of 331, feet, with a large yard in the rear, to which is attached a brick stable. It has the conveniences of water and gas. Such houses cost be- tween $5,000 and $6,000 and will rent readily for $400 a year. On Sixth street northwest between #M and N streets W. H. Parker is buila- ing two substantial brick houses, eacn with a 16-foot front and a depth ot 50 feet, three stories high. They be- long to H. P. Lewis and the estate or the late John McLeod, carpenter. Still higher up on Sixth street, av the corner of N street, stands a beau- tiful new Episcopal chapel in thec Gothic style, built under the mission- ary supervision of Trinity Church, of which Rey. Mr. Cummins is pastor. This little edifice is one of the most attractive features of this portion of the Northern Liberties. “How Do You Keep Your Floors so Lovely’ Several Washington Ladies Repartee. BY J. P. GLASS. On M street northwest between Sixth | erecting a house adjoining his own| Home in Good Taste BY SARA HILAND, ‘There are all shapes of skirted dress- ing tables, but here is one which seems just a bit different, being semi-circular, with a glass which appears to have been lifted up and placed against the wall ke a tilt-top table. ‘The skirt -is something out of the ordinary and should interest the home- maker who takes pleasure in sewing. It is of taffeta, quilted in lattice de- sign. The taffeta has beneath it a layer of sheet wadding and cheesecloth, the three pieces being basted firmly to- gether and quilted with fine running stitches, preferably by hand, although the machine may be used. The bottom and front edges (the skirt being sep- arated to allow for storage beneath tge top) are trimmed with bands of bro- caded ribbon, and the top is covered with plain taffeta and equfpped with a plate-glass top. The frame of the mirror is shirred taffeta to match the skirt, and the candles are in a color to match the predominating shade in the brocaded banding. (Copyright, WISECRACKERS Clever Wits and Effective in 1929.) at least two well remembered wise- cracks. The first came when she was leaving Buffalo for the White House. “I hope you will hail from Buffalo,” said a friend. “Oh,” she retorted, “I see you expect me to hail from Buffalo and reign in ‘Washington.” At a reception in Washington an ex- tremely martial-looking officer, whose sole service had been 17 years of guard duty in the Capital, said to her: ‘Tell me, what do ladies find to think about besides dress and parties?” She felled him with one blow. “They can think of the heroic deeds of our modern Army officers,” she said. This recalls the retort of Mrs. Edwin Stanton, wife of the Secretary of War under President Lincoln, to Horace Greeley. “What would you do in time of war g you had the suffrage?” Greeley asked er. “Just what you have done,” she came back; “stay at home and urge others to go_and fight.” Mrs. Greeley also got rough treatment once from Margaret Fuller. The wife of the man who aspired to be President, but never succeeded in his | ambition, disliked kid gloves. Once, on meeting Margaret, she shrank from her extended hand. “Ugh!" she shuddered, “Skin of a beast! Skin of a beast!" “Why,” asked Miss Fuller, “What | kind of 'a glove do you wear?” “Silk,” rejoined Mrs. Greeley, showing her hand with great satisfaction. Miss Fuller touched it and said, as | if disgusted: “Ugh! Entrails of a worm! | Entrails of a worm!” “The divorce courts seem to be doing their part to make this the land of the Are you a slave w your powder-puff? Lire today is too fall of fun and activity to waste Cults. One of the many good ways of defin- ing = cult is to say that it is carrying a good idea too far. There are or have been cults based on a cemplete errcs; but many of them ‘have a in or a core of truth. The tendency that mole hill into a mountain is re- sponsible for the cult habit of mind; and that is what makes cults. Another approach to a cult is by way of a fashion; it's a social product, It gathers headway because at the time everybody's doing it. Fashion is ef- fective by the attraction of being in the swim; the human herd is gre- garious; cults are an expression of that gregariousness. A third reason for the prevalence of cults is that people as a rule are not very critical; the thing seems or sounds more or less plausible and they go in for it. And agagn the individual is daz- zled by the support of the public, the authority of the many intimidating the few. Put all that together, and it’s easy to understand why at all times, and in every human interest there have been lhgse passing devotions that we call fads. More or less; people lose their heads a bit. They accept what in more thoughtful moments they would reject, or they pursue it more intensively, go in for it with greater force than they ordinarily would. These little departures from the usual measure of rationality may be serious or innocent; they occur in all human activities. There are cults in education, in politics, in religion, perhaps most of all in health. When they are over and past and we have recovered from the effect of their social prestige we can see them in their proper light, and they| look foolish. So it's best in order not to step on anybody’s .toes, to take ex- amples from other days. About fifty years ago there was a Blue Glass cult. A Mr. Hazleton thought he discovered that plants thrived better under blue glass; then he tried it on animals and then on men. He wrote a book about it printed in O blue ink and bound in blue cloth. He could see nothing but blue. People took out their transparent window glass and substituted blue, and lots of peaple got well by that means. ey ‘we know something more about the effect of different rays, and there may have been actual benefit. Why one set of ideas, or one prac- tice, should find a large following and another a small one or none at all, is & pretty large question to answer; it would take a book to do it; for the idea must somehow fall in with the spirit of the times. ' Fads and follies, hobbies and fashions come and go by virtue of the same shifting changes of human in- terest and belief. We recognize the ab- normal element in some of them by calling them, when they are past, “ere " People lose their heads just a little about them. The. interesting fact about cults is the cult habit of mind that starts them and supports them while they last. That habit of mind is not heipful to mental fitness. But there are cults of all degrees of in- nocence and menace. Human nature being what it is, we shall always be exposed to cults. (Copyright. 192! Flavor in Vegetables. ‘When you want the flavor to remain in vegetables or meats, put them on in hot water, and in foods that you want the substance of the vegetable to be absorbed in the water or sauce be sure to put on in cold water. Foods that are put on to cook in hot water retain their substance, while those that are put on to cook in cold water boil the substance out into the water. not crumble to pleces if put on to cook in boiling water. cream, as well as various other potato dishes. This also applies to okra, beets, carrots and other vegetables. A couple of teaspoonfuls of sugar added to the water in which green peas or corn is }‘0,"' cooked will greatly improve the avor. White potatoes will | This is espectally' helpful when preparing new potatoes in | FEATURES. 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