Evening Star Newspaper, November 8, 1929, Page 51

WOM AN’S PAGE. Playing Favorites With Colors BY MARY Fashion has a way of playing favor- dtes with purples. In a season like the present browns in general are in favor— wood brown, nut brown, golden brown, dark brown and light wn. Last Summer greens were especially promi- MARSHALL. 7 maker shows how to make over a last season’s felt hat to conform to the new 1 . The pircular gives a sketch of one of the new off-the-forehead hats that fits closely at the back, with dia- gram showing how the old hat should be cut, pressed and fitted into shape. If you would-like a copy, please send a stamped, self-addressed envelope to Mary Marshall, care of this paper, and it will be forwarded to you. 3 (Copyright. 1920.) / BRAIN TESTS In the following table the names | of inhabitants of various countries are | spac2. Insert the name of the correct | place in each space. | | Example: NORWEGIAN ......... | The answer is NORWAY. | Time limit, 4 minutes, | PORTUGUESE . AFGHAN HINDU MOOR = MALTESE HIBERNIAN . (1) CYPRIOTE (8) DANE (9) §INGHALESE (10)- CALEDONIAN (11) MALAGASY (12) BULGAR Simply supply the name of a coun try or district in eacy empty svace. Complete as much of the list as ) @) | @ | “4) (5) (6) | | [ i AN INTERESTING COLOR SCHEME | IS DEVELOPED IN THIS COAT OF WOOD VIOLET TWEED WITH A BLUE LYNX COLLAR. Tent—not one or two greens, but greens generally. But purple tones are seldun in favor in a general way. Fashion never gives a_blanket order for purples. But almost always there is some one or possibly two tones from the top of the rainbow that carry with them the cachet of smart fashion. ‘This season there are two such tones, dahlia and wood violet. Of the two, the former is especially favored by French dressmakers. It is a tone that is best reserved for the more formal type of afternoon dress. Wood violet. with less red in its make-up than dahlia, has been appropriated for more general wear and appears In jersey as well as tweed, side by side with sturdy browns, wearable greens and prac black-and-gray combinations. “I am planning to wear black pull-on gloves and black shoes with an oxford gray suit. Should the gloves be worn over or under the cuffs? What sort of gloves would you suggest to wear with a golden brown crepe afternoon dress?" The gloves may be worn either way. With the brown dress I would suggest ‘washable suede pull-on gloyes of a light beige wn.e‘ ‘This week’s help for the home dress- Everyday Psychology BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. Man as a Machine. If you take a superficial look at a man as he goes about the day’s work you can’t help comparing him with a machine. As an object in motion, he excites about the same interest as a steam shovel at work in an excavation Sometimes it would seem that the steam shovel has more versatility n some men. In fact, any man placed in a strange situation will blunder about and make a lot of useless movements be< fore he gets the proper cnmbinations of wheels and levers going, so as to achieve what is called a perfect ad- Justment. \ If you study man more carefully your superficial observation is likely to be confirmed, rather than reconstructed, not to say refuted. At least, that's what the extreme behaviorists say, and I :xm here only stating”their general po- tion, The “selenium dog” experiment s a good example of how outside influences make things work. Some think that man is a similar robot (machine). also influenced entirely by outside influ- ences. A certain physicist, taking ad- vantage of the extreme sensitivity of selenfum to light, constructed a se- lenium dog. By merely manipulating the lights, he caused this dog to fol- Jow him all around the room. ‘This machine idea is no new, obser- vation by any means. Some. of the most careful observers of the past have contended that man was a machine and nothing more, even in the matter of thinking. John Locke (1632-1704) it ‘was, who declared that two honest men’ faced by the same facts could 1ot help but arrive at the same conclusion about the facts in question, Of course, you must go still further with your analysis in order to arrive fully at the conclusion that man is a machine. Locke modified his statement to the effect that you must first rid the two honest men of their prejudices and cause them to give their full attention to the facts from which the identical conclusion was supposed to come. This means only that man is a complex ma- chine, and any one who would study him as such must find some way to ac- cqunt for all his complexities. AUNT HET BY ROBERT QUILLEN. “Folks used to excuse a man's mean- ness if he supported his family, but now they think he’s ornery or stingy if his wife ain't got a_coupe.” Its “soft-spun” cleansing surface is ideal for children posgible. Answer. The courgries are: (1) Portugal, (2) Afghanistan, (3) India, (4) Morocco, (5) Malta, (6) Ireland, (7) Cyprus, (8) Denmark, (9) Ceylon, (10) Scotland, (11) Madagascar, (12) Bulgaria. Quick Pie Crust. Use any good pie crust rectpe, but in- stead of cutting in the shortening as you usually do, first pour enough boil- ing water over it to melt it, then beat it slowly into the flour. This is an licious crust. Goofy Doings of Coffee for BY J. P. BLUFF.” Catherine the Great of Russia arose at 6 o'clock each morning and started off the day neatly by drinking five cups of coffee. A whole pound of the berry was consumed in their making. In the Little Hermitage, where she received her intimates, she was likely to ;nd the day playing at blind-man’s- buff. She would laugh until her sides ached and tears rolled down her cheeks when one of her long line of favorifes, Gregory Potiomkin, performed ventril- oquist tricks. In her prime she doted on conversa- tion and she would talk to Grimm, the German philosopher, and Diderot, the French savant, for seven hours at & stretch. In her old age, although she was fat, couldn’t use her legs, and had lost all of her teeth and half of her eyesight, she tried to brazen an appearance of youth with young lovers on her arm. She spoiled them incessantly for fear she would lose them. She had to be taken about in a wheel chair, but her love of society was so strong that she acted as though she had no infirmities. In this period, it was generally de- clared that her relationship with young and handsome Plato Zubob was purely platonic. This nettled Catherine. She wished to be thought as young as ever and did her best to make people think she was scandalous in her conduct. All her life she wrote a great deal. The hours for literary labor began with her 6 o'clock rising. She stopped at 9. In addition to drinking the five cups of bathing her face and.cars with ice. Utterly’ immoral herself, Catherine sought so strenuously to protect the in- nocence of her grandchildren that she stopped their study of botany for prud- ish reasons. But it pleased her to think that history would consider her a feminine Don Juan. An gmpress, she allowed her servants to sleep late while she waited on her- self and built her own fire. She loved laughter and mourned Voltaire aftes his death, not for. his wisdom, but for his wit. She used vast quantities of snuff and her clothes reeked of it. She rouged a lot, and wore fine clothes, but ceared nothing for good food. Her cooks were terrible. When they burned her food, she only laughed. She left an inscription for her grave- stone which said in part: “When she ascended the throne of Russia, she wished to do good and | given; after each one appears a blank | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, P. €, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1929. LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. Pop was smoking and thinking and ma sed, Willyum, I been thinking it over. \ Whats that, the trubble between Russia and China? pnk:_l sed, and ma sed, No, but I been thinking over the whole question in a genrel way, and Ive come to the conclusion that Id be just as sattisfied if you dident get me anything for Chrissmas this year. Am I dreeming or is it you thats tawking in your sleep? pop sed, and ma ced, Its neither 6 of one or half a n of the other, because I axually | mean it and Im in sound possession of all my highest faculties. - recding an article in the paper by P, | Willis Hinkle, and he says the real Crissmas izzent jest a lot of gift giv- ing and genrel expense, he say its a spirrit and a_kind of happy feeling in the air, and I bleeva he's rite, ma sed. But vee gods, wont you just let me u a little package of chewing or something to show you my in the rite place? pop sed, and ma sed, Now Willyum, I dont wunt a thing. I know you would get me any thing I wunted and that very feeling is cnough for me. My goodness, the whole year is a long Crissmas for mie, as far as that is concerned, sp why should I insist on a grand expensive climax just because it happens to be the 25th of December according to the callender? Your logic is most convincing and I confess Im starting to weaken, al= though I am still in somewhat of a daze, pop sed, and ma sed, P. Willis Hinkle has ¢he rite ideer and personly Il be just as happy to let Crissmas come .and go without any exter de- mands on your pocketbook. I was just thinking that if you got me a nice fur coat this week not for ahything special ing I could defy the elements all the time up to Crissmas and during Criss- mas and after Crissmas and you needent bother to get me any present at all, e sed. Yee gods, Ive been awake and in my rite senses all the time, you cant im- agine -how relieved I feel, pop sed. And he took out his handkerchief and per- tended he had to wipe his forehead, ma easy, quick method and makes a de- | Willyum, but I just know youll do it. Catherine the Great Drank Essence of Pound of “IN THE LITTLE HERMITAGE, WHERE SHE RECEIVED HER INTIMATES, mSHE 'WAS LIKELY TO END THE DAY PLAYING AT BLIND-MAN'S coffee, she helped to clear her head by | saying, O, your too silly for anything, Which he proberly will. Historic Persons Breakfast. GLASS. “She was good-natured, easy-going; was of a cheerful temperament, re- publican sentiments, and a kind heart. “She had friends. “Work came easy to her; she loved sociability and the .” * The inscription was never carved. She had been-an able sovereign, but Russia was filled with stories of her im- but just because I need it, I was think-+ | of brown and plum colored mixture, back. The collar is astrakan. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. HOLLYWOOD, Calif., November 8 (N.AN.A.).—Jesse Lasky, one of the fathers of motion pictures, feels that the “text reel” will play gn important part in the educational iifp of America with- in the next five years. Among other prognostications, he in- cluggs all-color, full size pictures; that | 1s, the entire width and height of the proscenium arch made on a flexible screen that will permit the side seats to have the same visibility as the center of the theater. He should know: He was the first to show the magnascope—when “Wings” became a furore. And he has already shown full size reels, or 77-millimeter reels, as the big celluloid is called, in New York. “I see a day,” says Mr. Lasky, “when talking g‘kc!ule! will play such a vital part in the curricula of progressive edu- cational institutions. that they will sup- plant to a degree the lectures of pro- fessors and become one of the most p&wer!ul factors in organized educa- tion.” Mr. Lasky believes “high lights in the conquest of America” can best be shown with talking pictures. moralities. People were more willing to remember her bad than her good alities. by (Copyright, 1929.) MOTHERS AND" THEIR CHILDREN. ‘When Company Comes. One mother says: Often an otherwise good child will, when company comes, embarrass his mnu and annoy the guests simply use he has been ignored by them. Children crave attention, as do adults, and it is only fair that they should be shown some consideration by both par- ents and visitors. When we have guests, I have the children appear for a few minutes to greet them and then suggest that they run along and play until I call them in to help me. At serving time, each one helps in some little wa: which puts them at ease before guests. After they have gone, I always have some little word of praise for the way in which they helped me, and they feel that they have really been a part of things, without having been in the least tried to bring happiness, freedom and prosperity to her subjects. “She forgave easily and hated no one. Winkins Coffee is richer because of %he quality of the coffees in the blend. It is fresher be- cause it is roasted in Washington and delivered ln:medl- ately. HE ERESHER/ - MORE FLAvoRsoME obnoxious with their presence, (Copyright, 1929.) ! Villie Willis BY ROBERT QUILLEN. /1 “Papa called me ‘Old Scout' an’ I don’t know whether to ask him for a dime this time or show him my report rub off. WILKINS COFFEE With all ¢ i Visualization 'CLEAN WALLS.. Easy to have if you use Farbo, the Water Paint that won’t Just one coat over the old wall- paper makes a beautiful job. Apply it yourself. Comes in thirteel; colors and Sold by All Good Paint and Hardware Stores IT HAS A TEMPTING FLAVOR— AND HIGH FOOD VALUE SHREDDED WHEAT: bran of the whole wheat The crisp, crunchy shreds of whole wheat have a delicious flavor when heated in the oven and covered with hot milk. Here are vitamins afid mineral salts and everything the body needs for perfect nourishment. Delicious for any meal. MOVIES AND MOVIE PEOPLE BY MOLLIE MERRICK. brings the thing home so much more forcefully than mere talk can ever do, he points out. “Such eminent scholars as Edison, Millikan, Einstein, Bryd and Andrews, by use of the audible screen, could pro- vide entire courses that could be pre- sented in scores of schools,” suggests Mr. Lasky. “If organ music were provided with these courses, I am sure the pupils could sleep as Lg:wehuly in the new lecture room as 'y do in the theaters.” ‘The smart shops here are doing their best to drive the populace fur-minded, but the wax figures sporting the latest pelts ran in the November sunshine a day or so ago until the hands were unrecognizable lumps of wax, in which the reddened nails stood out like seeds in a pomegranate. A treacherous old mercury slipped above 90, and the wags of the village met one with “Chayming Summer we're having this Winter” A man sweeping up a load of rock- salt drew quite a crowd. “Makes me feel cool just to look at " said a woman spectator. % “Come an’ stand in it, if y'like, lady,” said the laborer. “But I ain't kiddin’ myself.” And he drew a wet shirt sleeve across his brow. ‘The theaters put out their “Cool In- side” signs once more. Movie ladies who have dressed like little girls are in a dary with the mode's sudden reversion to adult type. Maturity of line*is characteristic of even the debutante frocks, and the new hats can't be stuck on the back of a head of shoulder-length hair. Even a movie has a sense of humor. Some of the “itty-kiddy” types aren't being recognized in their street clothes. (Copyright, 1929, by North American News- paper nce.) Delicious Coffee Cake. Cream one cupful of butter with one | cupful of sugar, one egg, and one cup- | ful of molasses. Sift one grated nutmeg | and one teaspoonful of cinnamon wigh four cupfuls of flour. Dissolve one tea- spoonful of baking soda in one cupful of strong coffee, and add the coffe and flour alternately to the sugar and mo- lasses. Add at last one cupful of seed- less raisins, one-fourth cupful of chop- ped citron, and* half a cupful of well cleaned dried currants. Bake in a slow oven. . PARIS.—Nicole Groult’s version of the cape is elbow length on a fitted coat | Plant, Inverted godets form pleats rr«;&gr and Today in Washington History BY DONALD A. CRAIG. November 8, 1864.— Rain, fog and mud have not kept from the streets of this city tonight great throngs of peo- ple who have come out to get the latest yz)lums from today’s presidential elec- tion. ‘The Republicans and Democrats were ecqually enthusiastic early in the eve- ning. When it became apparent that President Lincoln had been re-elected the Democratic supporters of McClel- lan lost most of their ardor, while the Republicans, or “Union men,” began to parade through the streets. Almost_betore the gas was lit people with umbrellas and rolled-up trousers began to hurry through the downtown section of the city in quest of election news. About 8 o'clock the early returns began to come in, and the bobbing about of umbrellas here and there be- tween clubrooms and hotels became furious. It is probable that the rain and umbrellas averted many a row, for no man can fight well while holding a spread umbre] and by the time he has shut and looped it up his angry passions have had time to simmer down. ‘The main rallying points are the Un- ion League Clubrooms on Ninth street and the rooms of the Democratic Asso- ciation at Parker's Hall. At the Union League Club there is throng. The chair is occupied by Lewis Clephane, president of the Lincoln and Johnson Club. At a quarter past 7 o'clock Mr. Cle- phane announced the opening gun—a dispatch from New York City, as fol- lows: “State all right for Lincoln.” Tremendous applause greeted the read- ing of this news. R Various fragmentary returns from soldiers in the hospitals and camps in and around Washington were received and showed Lincoln leading McClellan. A little later returns from Philadelphia and Boston increased the enthusiasm of the audience. The chair announced that a vote taken on the boat from Fortresss Mon- roe today among officers stood only 36 for Lincoln and 7 for McClellan. G. H. returning _from _Baltimore, brought word that Lincoln has carried that city by at least 10,000 majority. A vote at the Navy Yard among Penn- sylvania marines and sailors was as fol- lows: Lincoln, 35; McClellan, 19. As the returns continued to indicate the re-election of Lincoln the erowd began to sing the Hallelujah song, ‘The Democratic headquarters were crowded early. The McClellan men were cheered by some of the early frag- mentary reports, but as later returns pointed to the re-election of President Lincoln, the audience began to disperse. At midnight only about 300 remained in the hope that news more encourag- ing to the McClellan cause would be received before morning. SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. Miss Bay been tellin’ us "bout Wars we n in. Won't I dest to the enemy when I grows up? HE ACTUAL RECIPE of our Chocolate Lay < FEATURES. KEEPING MENTALLY FIT BY JOSEPH JASTROW. Qualities and Defects. That's a French saying that & man has the drawbacks,or weak points that represent the cost’ of his strong ones. 1It's universally true and important. As it bears on mental fitness, it means that the same factors that when well composed make for the highest type of fitness, in_their failure may involve mental unfitness. It isn’t merely that the tightly stretched bow is the one that sends the arrow farthest, but also the one most likely to snap under the strain, but that the finer mechanism is neces- sary for the finer product, and when it doesn’t work just right, works quite dis- turbingly wrong. Here is a statement of it by Dr. Austen Riggs, who has a lifetime expe- rience with nervously and mentally dis- turbed patients: “It is a curious fact that the very characteristics which are obviously the most precious assets of the greatest lives we know constitute in themselves the liability to neurotic mal- adaptation. We could hardly imagine a Christ or a Lincoln without exquisi- tive sensitiveness as well as a high order of intelligence. Yet these very quali- ties wiic wrongly valued, misunder- stood, badly managed or wrongly com- bined are to blame for the vast ma- Jority of failures in adaptation to civi- an immense lized 1if My only comment is that it is less curious natural. The simpler mechanisms, whether of nature’s or of man’s devising, are less likely to get out of order, and if they do they keep going fairly well despite slight damage. Dr. Riggs continues: The common form of breakdown is “the typical response of a very normial person, of one, fur- thermore, who possesses to a high de- gree those very qualities of sensitive- ness and intelligence which are in themselves so valuable when rightly used in the difficult problems and de- mands of civilization. The peoplé of this worJd who are. most apt to mal- adapt are potentially and often actually its most valuable citizens. They are really the checked and obstructed fel- lows of the great and heroic.” . Now, that doesn’t mean that there are not many varieties of mental unfit- ness of very different type, nor. that every one who becomes a nervous wreck can take comfort in the reflection that he is an unusually fine fellow who has gone wrong. It simply expresses the fact that a tendency to break down is in some cases the defect of the quali- ties of superiority. When the sensitive- ness isn’t balanced by intelligence, and even when it is, it runs a higher risk, for it plays f% a higher stake. Balance remains the ideal; but highly sensitive; overstrung nerves do break down out f the ordinary work and out ot the ordinary risks. __The other side is the quality of one's defects or, better, limitations. I asked the question in two cases, the one that of a successful college president, the other of a prominent statesman, as to how they came to go so far in their | careers, and received the same answer from close and admiring friends—it's because of their limitations. They had great singleness of purpose, were not troubled by doubts and hesitations that would have disturbed a more sensitive personality. They used their intelli gence to the utmost. ‘Many things were beyond them, but what they attempted and to the limit of their understanding, they did well. Rare qualities cost and have to be paid for. Doubtless the world needs more men of the intelligent type not too much troubled by sensitiveness. We often call them practical men, and sometimes even hard-boiled (that's the limitation), but they drive ahead and get there. But the point of their arrival isn’t quite as high in achievemenl as in the case of the rarer mind with genu‘r powers to cultivate intelligence offset sensitiveness, That's the wis- dom of balance, and the same wisdom recognizes one’s capacities and one's limitations. Every one of us in small measure or in greater degree has the defects of his qualities and the qualities of his defects. If we manage to make the best of our qualities and minimize the defects, we succeed. The more sen= sitive run the greater risk of failure. (Copyright, 1929.) Lessons in English BY W. L. GORDON. Often mispronounced: Bleat, nounce the ea as in ‘“meat.” Often misspelled: Throw (to hurl), throe (extreme pain). Synonyms: Dishonorable, worthless, ignoble, infamous, base, degraded, vile, mean, 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: Profound; marked by intensity: deenly felt, “I have a profound pity for him.” Pro~ Tune in every Monday night on the White House Coffee Radio Concert at 8:30 on WIZ A flavor triumph ...the finer fiavor ! To GeT THis CAKE exactly as you see it here You Ask for “Hostess Chocolate Layer” It’s baked to a remarkable old Colonial recipe, and delivered fresh to leading grocers. Note details below By ALICE ADAMS PROCTOR luscious-lookingcake Ty coming a real lehnution ; ostesses here,” "NWomm who try it say o more baking for me!” More than ten thousand housewives have written in to praise it. 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