Evening Star Newspaper, December 20, 1929, Page 56

WOM Inopportune Telephone Calls BY LYDIA LE BaARCN WALKER. ‘There is nothing much more annoy- ing to a busy person than an inoppor- tune telephone call. Recently I heard @ woman remark of a friend: “She always calls me up at the wrong time. Usually just as I am racing off to THE THOUGHTLESS PERSON CON- SIDERS HER OWN CONVENIENCE WHEN USING THE TELEPHONE ‘WITHOUT REGARD FOR THE TIME OF THE ONE CALLED UP. business. I have to stop and answer the phone, for there may be a message of importance. I have to be agreeable for she is really so nice, but I have to ask her to call me back some time during the day or evening.” ‘The friend referred to should begin The Sidewalks AN’S PAGE. to understand when to refrain from summoning this busy woman to answer An]msim cant, if pleasant, telephone call. This is but one instance of the inop- portune telephone call. So regardless are gersom of another’s time that s few ints on when to avoid calling persons to the rhnna may be worth mentioning. Don't call a business person to the hone at a time when he or she would leaving home. To be late to business is a serious matter. g Don't call a person at a place of busi- importance that the message or ques- tion must be delivered or answered im- mediately. s Don't call a woman of leisure too early in the morning. It is most annoying to be summoned to the phone when you are in the midst of the late morning sleep and are not really awake. There are business persons who work late at night, writers, especially, and to them the morning sleep is imperative. Friends who retire early should not be called to the phone late in the eve- ning. If you are among those who re= tire late, it may seem absurd not to talk with a friend, or consult about business over the phone after 9 o'clock. There are many persons, however, who belong to the group of “morning workers,” that | 1s those who find their minds are fresh- est and best early in the morning. These persons are wise when they retire very early. This should be respected. Don't call any one to the phone just at a meal hour, or if you fear you may not reach them except at that time, sug- gest that they call you back when they are through the meal or at some mu- tually convenient time. Don’t call & person to the phone just for conversation on the day when she is entertaining. There are so many abso- iutely necessary details to attend to at such a day that interruptions, unless of a business nature, are not welcome. Learn to be considerate about when you make telephone calls, and how long you talk, for thus only will your calls be truly agreeable and welcome. (Copyright, 1929.) —_— Sliced Orange Pie. Peel six oranges with a sharp knife 50 as to remove all the white mem- brane. Cut the orange pulp out of the sections, being careful not to get any of the membrane; measure and allow three tablespoonfuls of flour to each cupful of pulp and juice. Mix the flour thoroughly with one-third cupful of sugar and a pinch of salt. Stir this mixture into the orange pulp. Fill a pastry-lined ple pan with the orange mixture, put on a top crust and crimp the edge. Bake in a hot oven. of Washington BY THORNTON FISHER. ‘There is an almost amusing competi- tlon among American cities, Boston and Washington vie with each other for stellar honors in history. Each is proud of its tradi- tions and historic shrines and asso- ciations. In this case there is actu- ally no competi- tion. There could not possibly be any. No more than there could be competition be- tween Princeton, Camden and even rooklyn, ~ where the Battle of Long Island was fought, is no tail-ender in the history racket. Elevated trains rush madly past the spot where ded his Gen. Washington comman troops on that fateful occasion. Nearly every American town or vil- lage has monuments or tablets com- memorating something or other. The man from the West points with pride to the city from which he halls and the band of pioneers who risked un- known trails that his section might be made safe for their progeny. Lonely shafts and monuments mutely sing of valorous deeds. spot. The road to Richmond is flanked ‘with tablets for the edification of those who will read as they ride. Once in & while a hotldog stand may interfere with one’s vision, but that is beside the point. Niagara Falls has greater claims to fame than the majestic water-drop and the honeymooners’ paradise. Its place in history is secure. Cities have long since learned that it takes more than factory sites to stir interest. Tourists prefer sightseeing to site-seeing. ‘There is scarcely a day that research- ers do not discover something of his- torical importance or spot worthy of |t commemorating after the passage of years. Viewed from this standpoint, there ought to be no dearth of business in the sculpturing trade. A good letter chiseler in marble should never starve. * ok ok X It is serlously sald that the sale of orchids decreased woefully since the crash of the stock market. kox » It is strange what a difference a small tax makes. A man speaks proud- 1y of the value of his possessions until the tax assessor drops in. Automobiles which the owners regard as having a gelling or turn-in value running into flattering figures will perhaps suddenly decide that an old boiler is a pile of junk when asked to pay a tax on it. * ok Kk * 1t is surprising how many folks hoard ‘worthless green certificates. The world’s supreme optimists are those who have been holding stocks for 20 years in the thetic hope that a Phoenix will spring rr.wm their ashes, bearing a fortune. We know one old man in Washington in whose eyes there beams the light of hope. He was a “sucker” when he had it and his friends are reluctant to dis- fllusion & person whose days are num- bered. He is constantly counting his certificates, which are worth nothing more than paper with which to kindle a fire. * ok ok % Maybe we are wrong, but the tallest gnll:emnn in the city is attached to 0. 8 precinct. He is so tall that the average wf accompanying him looks like 2 small boy with a toy uniform on. o About the most embarrassing Christ- mas experience is to send out a flock “Laddie says he'll sue that bull dos for damages as soon as he finds one ol flune, free-trial signs in a lawyer's win- (Copyright, 1929.) \] of greeting cards and recejve 25 per cent more than one mailed. ' Of course, one can always resort to New Year cards, but it's so obvious. * K K ¥ Last year a well mean] uaint- ance sent a card to a wo‘;‘nn?‘vthlnl that she remembered the lady’s hus- band had been dead but two weeks. * ok ok X How easy it is for one unthinking to offend is proved by the following: A man met a friend on a downtown street. “Well,” said the {riend, “you're look- ing great. Even with your gray hairs you still seem to be hitting on all six. I suppose you'll never grow up and quit the pace. “No, indeed,” re- plied the second T oiog o keep 'm going P fotni until or un- less I am crippled.” Suddenly he looked al friend, who had been afflicte: for many years . Wwith an incurable ieg‘ injury. frequently occupied three weeks in writ- ing a song. What & chance he would have had in the talkies these days if set to the task of writing a theme song? e Prune Gingerbread. Bift together two cupfuls of flour, half a uuroon!ul of salt, three-fourths teaspoonful of baking soda, one tea- spoonful of cinnamon, two teaspoonfuls of ginger and a pinch of cloves. Beat one egg in a mixing bowl. Add one cup- of molasses and half a cupful of sugar. Melt four tablespoonfuls o? fat and add to the molasses mixture, then add the dry ingredients. Add half a cupful of cooked chopped prunes to the batter and turn into an ofled shallow® pan. B:e-ke ,{“Vh. mo‘:fi" om for 30 min- utes. en making gingerbread, if the batter is too thin, add a little more flour. Today in Washington History BY DONALD A. CRAIG. December 20, 1855.—The grand re- sult of the protracted struggle in the effort to elect a Speaker of the House of Representatives, according to an ar- ticle in The Evening Star today, has been to prove the fact that, with the exception of the 17 professed members of the Democratic party and half a dozen Know Nothings, the whole North, as represented in the House, has buried its former differences on every other question and formed an ultra anti- slavery league on the platform which Representative Giddings of Ohlo has lon%v gci:pletdhllnne. “Whether they were previously Whigs or Democrats, "conuguu Th’s Star, “they now stand united simply as anti- slavery men, bent on organizing the House according to the views of the duty of Congress with reference to the future of slavery in the United States which Mr. Giddings has so long preached and Mr. Greeley so long pub- lished. We need not repeat them fim, as every newspaper reader in the United States, of course, knows them. “Three-fourths of these gentlemen, very nearly, were elected as Know Nothings, o their seats in Congress to their profession of devotion to Know Nothingism. They now profess unmit- t for it, and it is due that we should “But for the protracted struggle we believe that it would have been many | months before the unanimity of abo- | lition sentiments, existing among them, would have been so completely made manifest . . . “So _far nothing has occurred in the hall of the House npfrlrenny expediting the solution of their difficult ‘The exronunn of views, future political intentions members, now being to render wider and the isolation of the p"s}r‘fln Wwho are contending againsf other. “We have abandoned all of seeing an organization effected shortly, except through the . occurrence of something as yet undreamed of that will be little short of s miracle. The expectation of the supporters of Mr. the end to force cquiesce indi- rectly that ’wflmm‘l election through the wan! elmv‘v::erewmul w0 ness unless there is a matter of so much | d | paper and It is said that Thomas Moore was |child ful of thick sour. milk, half & cupful | o THE SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. | | The time is gettin’ pitty short, Baby, when I kin count the days dest on the bingers.ob my wrong hand. (Copyright, 1920.) NANCY PAGE Christmas Wrappings Are Variegated. BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. Heretofore the Page presents had been distinctively wrapped in some special color. One year everything was white and silver. Another year it was blue and silver. A light blue, with a deeper dull blue, had been another gift wrap- ping. For some years Nancy had avoid- ed white and red, white and green, red and green. Not that she disliked them, but they seemed so obvious. One year she had visited in a home where all the packages were done in silk or gold, with tiny sprigs of real evergreen as the only trimming. This year she and Peter decided to have all the colors and all varieties of wrappings. She did keep away from red or green and white, but every other color in and out of the rainbow was in her wra) 3 One x was dome up in paper. Another was in & poli paper. A figured paj in white and gold was tied with white. A small pack- age was done up in pkin tied with strands of arn, slate blue, orange and mahogany rown. When it came to the packages that Joan gave, however, Nancy allowed the to choose her own colors. Joan wanted white with red or white with gold. Nancy helped her little fingers make an ’;ave}:pe of :'nvy wat:r-colur paper. was slipped small Jorpe red poinsein. A similariy snaped envelope held three handkerchiefs. It was fastened with a large gold star. Joan liked her pacl 80 much she almost hated to give them away. (Copyright, 1029.) Write to Nancy Page.. nclos stamped, ng for her lea: Cake Recelpts.” Then yo in gay papers for & sift. ¥ b care of his paper. “addressod enver et on ' St u'can wrap Fish in Potato Nest. Fish may be combined with mashed potato to ‘produce a very appetizing dish. Line a baking dish wil hot mashed potato, leaving a good-sized hollow in_the center. Into this pour creamed fish, made by mixing equal proportions of left-over cold fish and white sauce. Season well with salt and pepper, sprinkle with crumbs and dot the top with butter. Bake until the crumbs are brown. Marvels at Masculine Obtuseness Wi ~& | DorothyDix| of Women? Men May Profess to Consider Women as Human Beings, But Actually They Think of Some- thing That Never Was. Iommdumtmmmuymmofwm. I don’t mean what they say about women, for in speech they lloflf; us and erect beautiful oratorical pedestals upon which they perch us, all dolled up in chiffons of every Teal and imaginary virtue. Nor do I mean how men rate women as they consider us abstractly as human beings. What I mean is just the subconscious feeling that men have about women that is apart from any reasoning about us, and that makes them treat us as they do. Of course, when men have portrayed their ideal of womanhood, they have always represented woman as an angel with wings, just ready to ascend to hn\m_i. but in reality if you could get a composite picture of women that is in men's minds T think it would show something that never was on land or sea—a fantastic creature that is a combination of a jell clean slate, 8 porous plaster, a dilated heart and a perpetual-motion machine. Of course, men will deny this assertion, but listen: What does a man like most in & woman? Complaisance. He wants a woman to agree with him, not one who will e with him. He wants a woman who will accept his opinions, not one who thrust her views on him. He wants a woman who will rub his fur the right way and jolly him along, not one that he has to exert himself to please. It { is the yes-yes girls who get mepn every time, A man seldom thinks of & woman as having any individuality whatever. Nor any desire for independence. Nor any yearning for a life of her own. That is why he can't understand why, when he marries a girl who has spent years fitting herself to follow some profession or occupation for which she has a talent and in which she is making a brilliant success, she isn't willing to give it up and just be s wife and mother. He would hate like blazes to give up his life work and be nothing but & husbdnd and father, but he feels, somehow, that it is abnormal for his wife to regard her career in the same light he does his. AN'D 1t is why & man can’t understand why his wife insists on having an allow- ance instead of coming to him for every cent she spends. He would feel humilated to have to panhandle his father for his carfare, especially when he knew he had earned it a hundred times over, but he can't see vh[ a woman has any feeling about rattling her tin like & beggar at the breakfast table every morning and having & few dimes doled out to her. ‘Then there is forgiveness. Men ulwnz'n think of women as having an abnor- mal power of forgiveness. They think that they can commit any offense against a woman and all that they have to do is to say they are sorry and the score is wiped out, and everything is just as it was before. A man will insult and abuse his wife and treat her worse than he would treat dog and never even suspect that she resents his conduct. A man will philander around for 30 years with other women and then, when he is old and tired and broken he will expect his wife to receive him back with open arms and tears of m ‘when he returns to the domestic fold. A man gets the shock and surprise of life when he finds out that his wife's memory doesn’t automatically blot out all recollections of his side-stepping and enable her to keep undiminished trus in him, no matter how unfaithful he has been. Then there is the childlike belief that men have that & woman can love any man, no matter how unattractive he is, and that once she loves a man nothing can destroy her affection for him. She is just bound to go on loving him to the end of the chapter because she is built that way and can't help it. No man is so homely, 5o stupid, so poverty-stricken that it keeps him from thinking that every girl he knows would jump at the chance to mi him, because he thinks the poor things are just 8o sloshing over with love that they are ready to expend it on the first man Who comes along. e ND it never crosses the mind of a husband, apparently, that his wife could get tired of him and cease to love him, and that he has to keep on his tip- toes and make himself interesting and attractive if he holds her affections. All the middle-aged women you know are scared to death about losing their hus- bands, and are reading up on things their husbands are interested in, and trying to keep themselves looking young and beautiful and vampy, but you don't see any husbands counting their calories, or putting themselves to any trouble try- ing to make a hit with their wives. Because they are just sold to the idea that women are all heart and no brain, and that they love a grouchy tightwad just as much as they do a fairy prince just because it is their nature to. Then there is work. A man knows his own job, that lasts from 9 to 5, is hard labor, and that he is tired when he comes home at night and wants rest and recreation. He slto knows that when he has to take care of the baby on Sunday he is reduced to & nervous wreck, and that when Mamie and Sadie and Tommy and Johnny are quarreling and fighting and playing horse with the dining room chairs it almost runs crazy. But he considers that his wife's job, although it lasts all the way around the clock, is mere child’s play. He doesn't understand why she complains of being tired when she has nothing to do but to cook and sew and wash and scrub and baby-tend all day, nor why she finds her task dull and monotonous, nor why she craves to g out in the evening“for & little amusement. And he often says to her, “Gosh, but you have it easy! I wish I didn't have anything to do but to stay at home all the time.” It is funny, isn't it, how men think of us as being so different from them- selves; yet we are all cut off the same bolt of human cloth. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1929.) 3 Brave Women and Girls of History Lady Jane Grey Went to Execution u.Though toa Wedding Banquet. BY J. P. GLASS. At 17 Lady Jane Grey was learned in Greek and Latin and fairly proficient in Hebrew, Arabic, Chaldaic, French and Italian. Her voice had been well trained and with sweetness and expres- She played on a number of truments. She knew a lot about medicine. She was an excellent seamstress and a cook. Finally, she was deeply versed in church doc- trine and a and as plous and vir- tuous as could be. Edward VI of England died in Mid- summer of 1553. Long before this Dud- ley, Duke of Northumberland, had fore- seen the demise and planned to take own son, Lord Guilford Dudley, should succeed Edward instead of the Princess Mary. . It was necessary that Guilford's wife should be of the blood royal. Dudley consequently picked Lady Jane Grey, who was of royal stock both on the side of her father, the Duke of Suffolk, and her mother, Frances Brandon. She was to lord Guilford Dudley in June, 1553. A few days later Edward VI died. On July 9 Lady Jane ascend- ed the throne. She reigned but 12 days. At the end of that period adherents of the Prin- cess Mary overthrew Northumberland and cast the Queen and her young hus- band in prisor. They were tried for high treason, though they had no share in the plotting which d upset the succession. Convicted, they were sen- tenced to be executed. And now Jane Grey had proved herself to be as brave as she was learned and virtuous. She and Guilford were executed in different, spots. He died at Tower Hill and she at White Tower. ‘otemporary accounts give it that Lady Jane went to the execution block “like one going to be united to her heart's best and longest beloved.” A brutal carelessness brought it about that on her way to the scaffold she should meet her husband's headless trunk being carried to its burial. “Oh, Guilford! Gullford!” she ex- claimed. “The bitterness that you have tasted and that I shall soon taste is nothing compared to the feast that you and I shall this day partake of in Heaven.” Undisturbed, she went to the scaffold a8 though she were proceeding to a wedding banquet. Her composure was not shaken by the sight of the fatal block, but after she had bound her eyes with a hand- kerchief and knelt she lost its location. Feeling vainly for it, she exclaimed, as easily as if she were %luymg a game of blin ;nnn'a buff: “Where is it? What ided her. Whereupon, down, she exclaimed in into Thy han ds I commend my spirit!” Poor girl—not yet 18! It is not as Lady Jane Dudley or as Jane Queen of England that we remember her. We only recall her astonishing youth. She remains always merely Lady Jane Grey. advantage of it. He intended that his A Complel’e Display WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES Excellent Gift Suggestions ¢ HUDDIMAN 911 G Street Nat’] 0140 EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1929. . WHO REMEMBERS? BY DICK MANSFIELD. Registered U. 8. Patent Office. When the Pennsylvania Avsnue Bridge was dedicated on August 25, 1890, one of the greatest civic and military cele- brations of the time, with John Philip Sousa leading the Marine Band? LITTLE BENNY Foiled Baffled A Crissmas Play. Act 1 Fred Feernot. Its the nite before Crissmas and all through the house not a creeeture is stirring not even a mouse. G wizs, that dont say anything about the roof, though, and if thats not t | somebody wawking around up there its & darn good imitation. Act 2 Pred Feernot. Hands up! Fred Feernot. Who are you and whats you doing on our roof at this mg:’ of tu?m o anger. ve you 3 gesses. Fred Feernot. Ill give you the side of one of these cartri reddy, aim—. Stranger. Dont fire, Im Sants Claws. I was just Ioeklnsxor your chiminny. Fred Feernot. O, thats diffrent. Par- don my revolver. Youll find my stock- u-umu up under the mantelpeece usual. Act 3 Stranger. Help help! Im cawt in a trap, there was a trap here in the bot- tom of the chiminny. Fred Feernot. Yes becauss I just put it there. Now IIl just telefone for the leece. I may look- dum but I can 1l a robber from Santa Claws. Stranger. Folled baffied! Act 4 Patrol wagon. Bong bong! Act 8 PFred Feernot. Alone at last. Its the nite before Crissmas and all through the house not a creeture was stirring not even a bergler on the roof. ‘The End. FEATU RES. OUR CHILDREN Little children can understand only | the tangible things, the things they can | touch and taste and use for their own | purposes. They scarcely understand our words. We have to go slowly in the beginning. Use simple words, the names | of things first of all, for things are what children deal with, not ideas. These things. don't know what is wrong with Susie. Her card came home with a poor conduct mark because she talks too much. I promised her a new dress if she got a better mark this month and it's just as bad.” A reward a month away is not a tangible tI to the child and he can- not get excited about it. He means well. He means to please you and get the reward as well, away—that does not touch him. The reward must be immediate, following close to the good deed. And it must be a tangible one if it is to work well. Praise accompanies the tangible evi- dence of well doing, of course. Children cherish kind words and smiles, but they value things that come with the smiles and kind words, too, and because they are very material things we try to see that they get all the experience with things in this stage of their growth. Children, you see, are thing-minded. Ideas are to grow fr the experiences with things and people and processes, IN ATTRACTIVE PRESENTATIONS, LEATHER CASES AND ENSEMBLES $3.50 10 $20.00 BY ANGELO PATRI It must be driven away contact— with comforting, physical contact with things. When you want a shy child to enter a room where your guests are seated, | give the child something to in his but a month |get hi tangible tray and his task him think away from himself, is the best cure for shyness you ever found. I have no fear that the child will grow material-minded because of his acquaintance with things. He is a spir- itual being, but his spirit must be born in truth, and the beginnings of truth for us lle ir. the things about us. 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