Evening Star Newspaper, December 25, 1929, Page 26

WOMA cotton over wool is better '.h:n ‘wool over couton for a schoolgirl until after lh_en‘l:' 8 or 9. th season there are practical cotton dresses for the yo! schoolgir] that are as substantial lnflnl‘llfle“kfl those of wool. There are printed sateenlike ma- terials that in their blending of color DRESS FOR SCHOOLGIRL, MADE OF A NEW COTTON MATERIAL IN TWEED DESIGN, WITH STITCH- ED-IN BELTS, WHITE PIQUE COL- LAR CUFFS AND BLUE TIE. suggest the lighter and more colorful tweeds. One such dress made of mate- rial of several shades of green was fin- ished with fine pique collar and cuffs piped with and a double row of green buttons at the front of the bodice MILADY BEAUTIFUL BY LOIS LEEDS. Chin Line. The average woman who is in good health has no serious beauty problems until she reaches the thirties. Perhaps even then she goes happily on, never Tealizing that it is high time to take very definite steps to preserve the beauty with which she is endowed. For 30 might well be called the dangerous age; it is at this time that tiny wrinkles are apt to appear about eyes and mouth. But today we're concerned with the chin line instead of wrinkles, for one might well change the old adage and say that & woman is as old as her chin line. If the woman in her thirties will make up her mind to keep a youthful chin line she can do much: toward off that day when her chin becomes sagging, crepey and- aged in appearance. Those who give it thought realize that beauty is much more than skin deep and that any beauty program, to be successful, does not really begin with the Ikl;l’l"‘hl‘ll- It has been defi- chin muscles; circulation must be stimulated and the muscles not allowed to age. Excrcises for keeping the neck line " graceful include neck bendin, back and front and to well as rotation of the 3 movements will help to reduce a fleshy neck and are equally effective for a thin neck, as stimulation of the circu- mn helps the too thin neck to put on ‘The neck should be given the same attention as the face when it comes to cleansing. First wash well with ':rm water and a pure soap lather. ter rinsing in clear, warm water a final in cold water should be given. After this rinsing it is a good :g:n iou:ug the ne:l:od thn;‘glece of ', &S a very ast] nt. Nearly every woman who has reached her thirties would be wise to give her neck a daily massage with food cream. ‘The neck should first be steamed with hot towels, then the cream applied and the neck massaged with a slapping mo- tion. After the massage wipe off the excess cream and pat on an astringent lotion to tone and tighten the skin. Re- member to give the massage with a slapping or patting motion or the skin may be stretched, and more harm than good done. Fat necks need a heavier slapping and kneading massage in ad- dition to a long, upward stroking from the center of the throat to the ears. Greaseless cream may be used in this massage or the fingers dipped in butter- milk or a bleaching lof if desired, SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. What's th' use In talkin’ breakfast to a feller ‘at aren’t down to the apple an’ ora t? T8 Y Coprrisnt, 1029 ), N’S PAGE. and a little tie of green velvet ribbon, which may be easily removed when the dress is washed. The fullness of the skirt is introduced by means of wide side pleats at the sides and there is a narrow green leather belt held at a slightly lower than normal waistline by means of small straps of the material. ‘There are firm cotton materials remi- niscent of old-time calicoes in numerous small, fine-printed designs—and the al- ways acceptable ginghams in checked or plaid effects introducing warm tones of red, brown and orange or trim blues and the greens that are so generally be- coming to fair-haired children. Jacket suits are stressed among the new things for Winter resort wear. They are worn with jabots or ruffied blouses or vestees. This week's help for the home dressmaker shows how to make the new ruffie. Just send your stamped, self-addressed envelope to Mary Marshall and a copy will be for- warded to you. (Copyright, .1929.) LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. Today before suppir I took Puds Sim- kins in to show him how big our Criss- mas tree is, being a wopper, and Puds T WINTERTIME BY D. C. PEATTIE. Every evening now, a little earlier each night, a great gold star climbs up the sky in the east. Astronomers will tell you that it is of the minor second magnitude, which is their humorous little way, I suppose, of letting us know that it is the largest planet in the solar system, and the brightest star in the heavens (if we make an exception of the sun, which if seen from Ve let us say, is merely a small, twinkling, dia~ mond-chip on the black velvet cloth of night). B ‘We also hear that Jupiter appears to be moving backward, owing to the fact that, in“its immense circuit around the sun, in contrast to our little one, our earth, just as a runner on a 10-foot-cir- cumference track seems to be passing or leaving behind the big runner on the mile-circumference track. It follows that Jupiter has a long season—his year is 12 years long, in fact. Winter lasts three years. Some other miscellaneous facts are that you could see much farther, owing to the gradual curvature, on the surface— hundreds of times father if the air were like ours. Also you would not be able to jump more than a foot if you were an athlete, owing to the force of gravity and the weight of the atmosphere, if any. Probably, however, the big father of our planet family is still in a molten state. He hangs out there in utter sed, Aw, do you call that big, ours is twice that big. Him hardly even having had time to see it yet, and I sed, Like heck it is, ur full of prooens. yo‘l'h!n your full of mush, Puds sed, and I sed, Why am I, just look at that tree, G wizzickers it pritty near almost touches the ceeling you poor mutt. Well ours touches the ceeling and bends over, thats how much bigger it is, you dum sap, Puds sed, and I sed, Weil thats because G wizz, no wonder, your ceeling is so much lower. nite, 2 of your ceelings wouldent hardly make one of our floors, you ignorant sardeen, I sed. ‘Wich just then pop looked in saying, Pardon me, gentlemen, but I couldent help overheering your animated discus- sion and perhaps I mite suggest that the genrel tone of it is hardly in the Crissmas spirrit. You should reely be insisting to_each other that your own tree is smaller, not bigger, he sed. ‘Wich I started to, saying to Puds, Well, I gess my tree may be a little smaller than yours, maybe. Like' heck it is, you fish face scram- ble egg, mine is much shorter, Puds sed, and I sed, Thats what you say, you nock knee pidgin toe, but if you wunt to know the truth, mine is twice as short as yours. o Lovely, lovely, pop sed. Thats the genrel ideer, with variations. Now go on out in the open air where a cupple of pirates belong, he sed. Wich we did. to lubricate the manipulation. An alco- hol or ice rub should follow the mas- e. u‘u a dry skin wrinkles much more readily than an oily one, the woman with this type of skin would be wise to substitute the cold cream cleansing for soap and water. In later life if the skin becomes riss-crossed with wrinkles it may improved with overnight treatments. Cleanse the skin with cold cream; after the cleansing apply a gen- erous amount of food cream, then lightly bandage the neck with a soft, clean strip of cloth. In the morning off excess cream and apply a skin tonic. To aid in preserving a youthful chin line the use of an astringent should not be neglected. Witch hazel is a good astringent, and it may be patted on with absorbent cotton after the nightly cleansing of the neck. Pat it on gently and allow it to dry on the skin. (Copyright, 1929.) OUR CHILDREN BY ANGELO PATRL Give Father a Chance. Father and mother are partners in the household. Usually father works outside and mother manages the home and children. That seems to be the practical way of rearing the family. But father has to have some share in the children. His share ought not to be overshadowed by the leftover difficulties mother encounters. It is no easy matter to live all day with little children and do the work that a household entails. It leaves = woman pretty well fagged out by nigh- fall. But father has had his own trou- bles. He was not about when the chil- dren failed to obey, or when they brcke= the window with the hairbrush, or when they burnt a hole in the rug with the matches. He has no association in the minds of the children with any of their naughty deeds. To ask father to listen to a recital®f all the bad things s children did during the day is unfair w him and to the children. Give the youngsters a fresh chance w make good with father. Let them @o their own telling or let it go untold. Let father's association with the children be purely personal. If he needs to correct the children, well and good. Both pai- ents agree to unite upon all questions of discipline and management. If there is any doubt mother’s word has the greater weight. It is not good to have children build up their idea of father entirely out of his efforts to maintain discipline for mother. If he has to administer pun- ishment every evening he becomes juss a headman to his children. They will ¢ never learn to love him unreservedly as {they might have done had he not to play so unfortunate a role. ‘The time to correct a child is the in- emptiness, a ball of molten metal weigh- ing countless millions of tons. And his history is all to be written, Obviously, when the sizzling, great thing cools down, there will be no speck of life on Jupiter. Whether or not life will spring up, there is not quite the vain and airy metaphysical question that it sounds as though it were. It is 10 to 1 that Jupiter eventually will have rock and water and air, that it will contain the magic formula CHON, the chemical abbreviations for carpon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen, that are found in every living thing. Ir you put these four together and dis- tribute them in a gaseous envelope, a liquid envelope, and a sphere of rock |° and soil, will you, spontaneously, get life, as on earth? Will aboebae begin to wriggle, and algae spread the first vege- table, primordial green seum upon the rock pools? And if so, what is an es- sential difference between insensate rock and barely sensate blobs of pro- toplasm? If you don't like to have life explained in terms of chemistry (though it may be a fact, whether we like it or not), science is eager for other sugges- tions capable of proof or at least ap- pealing to the reason. “Santa Claus is one of the few fellas Whove made a siuccess by startin’ in at (Copyright, 1929.) AUNT HET BY ROBERT QUILLEN. “It’s been right dull this season. We ain’t had nothin’ at all to go to except the baptizin’ at Cedar Grove an’' Cousin Egbert’s funeral.” (Copyright, 1929.) JOLLY POLLY BY JOS. J. FRISCH. stant the offense is committed. It is ment until father comes home. The idea of wrongdoing is lost in the fear | of what is to happen when father comes home. Very few things happen that mother cannot handle herself, cially when she knows that every little ! misdemeanor is not to be followed by { punishment. If anything is to be told to father let it be some pleasant thing. And let the | children do the telling themselves witn a word of encouragement from mother. That sets father up. It is very en- } couraging to hear that Peter got a wora | of praise from the teacher, that Toodles iate his own lunch without any help, jthat Mary Jane didn't cry<when the dentist. looked at her teeth, althougu I she did squirm a bit when he filled one of them. Encourage the children to tell happy | things. That will entice father to bring him his best stories and make the | youngsters laugh. A good laugh au around the table does so set up a family | and sort of knits them together as nothing else can do. If the h&n and girls are old enougu to have little private chats with father, to go with him now and then on a trip, there is nothing finer for both sides. Children are great fun, Tlell joy, as every mother knows. Give father a chance. (Copyright, 1929 e e Orange B“ld: Grind the }mlmm from three oranges through a food chopper. Boil until tender in salt water. Rinse and drain, then boil in a sirup made of one-third cupful of water and one cupful of sugar until very thick. Add three cupfuls of flour, three teaspoonfuls of baking pow- der and a pinch of salt. Beat one egg and add one cupful of milk to it. Add this to the first mixture. in a greased pan or baking wder cans for 15 minutes. Bake for one hour in a moderate oven, Allow to rise | be unwise to threaten, to put off punish- ! Dad is busy playing with Junior's train; mother is trying on her new fur coat; Dora is elated because there was a reading lamp in her stocking (now she can read that book she received last Christmas); Junior is crying because dad won't stop playing with his elec- tric train, and Polly is too busy wishing every one “a merry Christmas” to think about a lesson in English. Therefore, class is dimissed for the day. Pigeon or Rabbit Pie. Place the young pigeons, thoroughly cleaned, in a saucepan, covering with boiling water. Add one small onion and a level teaspoonful of salt. Cover the pan and cook until the birds are ten- der. Remove and drain them. Brush lightly with butter, season with salt, white pepper and thyme, and put a| sliced hard-boiled egg inside each bird. When thus dressed place them in a baking dish, strain, and pour the liquid over them, adding a cupful of cream, two tablespoonfuls of bread crumbs, one tablespoonful of butter, half tablespoonful of thyme, half a table- spoonful of chopped parsley, and, if necessary, a little salt. Cover with a pastry crust and bake. Rabbits for pie should first be cut in joints and then washed thoroughly in cold water, in which a teaspoonful of baking soda has been dissolved. The rabbit should then be cut into smaller pleces, the bones removed, and it is put into a baking dish with five or six slices of bacon cut into narrow strips. ‘The yolks of a few hard-boiled eggs are also put into the dish and the whole is sprinkled with finely minced parsley and | I yme and seasoned with salt and pep- per. Enough stock or beef broth should poured over the mixture to moisten it well, after which the top crust is put into place and the ple is baked in & moderate ovems | rd many a woman will not get an “even PARIS.—For a debutante, preferabl; gests moire lame shading from Joined in small cartridge pleats. Can a Family be Sufficient pale yellow to faded rose pink. Then sk a blonde bud, Louiseboulanger sug- irt is ITA. Finds Friends Necessary DorothyDix Some Forget That Children. Inevitably Grow Up and Leave Them Desolate, Without Friends or Outside Interest. Unto Itself? to Well-Being A MAN and a woman who are very happily married, and who find their great- est pleasure in each other’s society, and who have three adorable bables to ‘whom they are devoted, ask me if they should let their home life absorb them or if they should keep up some outside social connections. The man never wants to stir away from his own fireside of an evening unless it is to take his wife. to somedpubllc place of amusement where they will be virtually isolated from the crowd. He feels the presence of any third party an intrusion, and neither likes to visit or to be visited. But, on the other hand, while the wife finds her chief joy in her husband and her children and her home, she feels that it is not wise for them to narrow the world down to the four walis of their own house. I think that the wife is right in her view of the situation, and that a young married couple can make no greater mistake than to let the family life entirely absorb them. Too much domesticity is just as bad as no domesticity at all, and between the husbands and wives who are gadabouts and those who are hermit crabs the gadabouts probably choose the better part. At any rate they are broader-minded, gayer and less likely to have marriage go flat and stale on them, and not so liable to get on each other's nerves, ‘There are about a million good reasons why & young couple should not with- draw from society and drop all of their old friends and acquaintances as soon as they get married. The main one is that if they do they have taken the surest way to bore each other, and boredor:n w_m :lAy love quicker than anything else. INJ© two human beings, no matter how congenlal they are, nd matter how fond they are of each other, can stand each other’s exclusive companionship long. They talk out. Each has heard every one of the other’s stories and jokes and reminiscences a thousand times and knows what the other is going to say before he or she opens his or her mouth. They have to have some outside stimu- lus, new people, fresh faces, fresh topics to keep the conversational mill going. Drop in any homé where the husband afid wife live to themselves alone and you will find them sitting up in a dull, coid silence in which you can hear a pin | al\-:% and watch how they brighten up and become chatty at the advent of a party. * Of course, a man gets his assoclation with his fellow creatures and his variety in life every day in his business, so the effect upon him of withdrawing from the world when he is married is not so devastating as it is upon the woman | who does so. No women are so dull, no women so tiresome, no women so na; none so neurotic and peevish as those who boast that they gave up all of their | old social connections when they were married, and that they have no interests outside of their homes. Among our acquaintances it is significant that it is the overly domestic women whose husbands stray off after gayer companions. There is nothing truer than the old saying that home-keeping youths have ever homely wit, whether they be male or female, and it makes for domestic felicity for a woman to go to E:rueu and belong to clubs so that she may, have someth{n( amusing and enter- ining to regale her husband with of an evening instead of having to feed him on sterilized baby talk. Married people should keep up their soclal connections because it is good business for the husband. There is no better ladder to climb to success on than the social ladder. Many a front door is the door of opportunity that never opens | to the man who refuses all invitations. Many a connection that leads to fortune is made across a dinner table. Many a big deal is put through during a golf or bridge game. The world is run on personal likes and dislikes, and people will do things.for us because they are fond of us that they would not do for us because 1t is our right to save our lives. A MAN might have all the ability in the world, but it would get him nowhere if no one knew about it. As Mr. Shakespeare said, “We are advertised by our loving friends.” They become our press agents, and boast of our skill as doc- tors or lawyers or tell what wonderful goods we handle, and so we. are kept in the limelight and ride into prosperity, but if we shut ourselves up in our own houses and go nowhere we simply sink out of sight and nobody remefhbers that we are alive. Think about it and you will recall more than one promising young man who dropped out of sight as soon as he got married and ended a rank failure. ‘There are two other reasons why young married couples should keep up their social connections, and both are warnings of catastrophes that are bound to happen to every husband and wife. One is that if you have given every one up for your children your life is left empty to you when they leave the home nest. From the time Johnny and Sally were born you have never had a thought or a desire or an amusement that hasn't centered around them. Then all of a sudden, it seems to you, they are married and have gone about the business of life. You have dropped all of your old friends long ago and you are too old to make new ones. Nobody invites you anywhere. You bejong to no pleasant circle of elderly people. Nobody comes in of an evening, and you eat your heart out in loneliness or else become a dreaded parasite on your children. ... ‘Worse still, death takes from you the wife or husband or children with whom you have absorbed yourself, and then, indeed, are you left without com- fort if you have no friends, no amusements, nothing to which you can turn in your hour of need. No man lives to himself alone. We need other people to broaden us, to humanize us, to give zest and interest to life. We need to make all the friends we can for ourselves and for our children. So I think that young married couples are most unwise when they let their homes monopolize them. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1920.) Straight Talks to Women About Money BY MARY ELIZABETH ALLEN. HE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1929. l CLOTTED CREAM | My friend came home from Britain's isle, where he had been for quite a while, and much I yearned to hear him tell about the strange things that be- fell. I longed to hear of ancient things. of relics of long vanished kings, I wished to hear of Kenilworth, whose fame en- compasses the earth, and of that castle grim and dread where Scotland’s Mary lost her head; and so I settled in my chair to hear him tell me legends rare. “The thing t T remember best,” ex- lained by greatly gifted guest, “is Eng- d's wondrous clotted cream—it is a triumph and a dream! There’s no such cream in this fair land, a fact I do not understand. We have the cows, we have the hay, our pasture lands are here to stay. yet the dairies sell us cream as thin as water in the stream; it has no kick, it has no’rgunch. it spoils a din- ner or a lunch. e clotted cream that England knows——" “Oh, quit it, or we’ll come to blows,” I cried in wrath: “talk kings and queens, and tell of old historic scenes; say, have you seen those lonely fens where good King Alfred raised his hens, and have you gazed on Runnymede where liberty ‘was guaran- teed, and did you visit London's tower, the symbol of old kingly power? And did you see the fateful spot where Charles put down his dome of thought?" “I don't remember trifling things like crowns and thrones of long dead kings, but every night I lie and dream of Eng- land’s famous clotted cream, and all day long I sigh and snort because I cannot buy a quart. Why don’t our dairymen get wise and sell us cream that charms the eyes, invigorates the run-down frame, and puts the present cream to shame?” WALT MASON. (Copyright, 1929.) Home in Good Taste BY SARA HILAND. A lamp which is a bit out of the ordinary is shown in the illustration, and for a decorative as well as a prac: :'ljc-ll note in a bed room it is really leal. ‘The base is of clear crystal, with foot of black glass, and is in a very pleasing modern design. ‘The shade is especlally interesting, being made of two shades of narrow ribbon. These are placed alternately raround the bottom of the shade and crossed at the top. ‘There are many color combinations ;:lchunmfl&':“e':melor sug‘h a sha&*. e peach and, the ribbon of orchid and pale green. 4 Gold and silver ribbons might be used over any color lining, this com- | bination being especially attractive if o‘lud ;Ilahu to carry out the modesn idea o Ign. ‘Two shades of any one color may be used over a contrasting lining; and, if any black is desired on the shade, it should be applied as a binding to the top and bottom rather than in one of the ribbons forming the sides. (Copyright, 1929.) WHO REMZMBERS? BY DICK MANSFIELD. Registered U. 8. Patent Office. FEATUR The Sidewajks ES. of Washington BY THORNTON FISHER. Merry Christmas! Bk ko | Washington today with the rest of the Christian world is celebrating the most | significant hours of the year. A day when animosities, real or imagined, are relegated to the limbo of forgotten things. A day in which the spirit of good will is abroad, ermeating the Eenm of men and nations. From the | White House to the | most barren of | third - floor - backs | there is something /) stirring the soul of i - the tenants. | Birthdays of our | illustrious sons and anniversaries com- memorating epoch- al events in his- tory vanish into obscurity when compared with this day. All save those engaged in essential tasks are spending Joyous hours at home. Christmas out- side the home is unthinkable. This is the season of the year when it is tough to be a bachelor or bachelor maid. A sprig of holly or a room adorned with wreaths provides only sardonic laughter by the gods, if there is none to care, to give to or to participate in the festiv- | ities of the occasion. ‘The actor on the road and parked in a hotel room has been known to send for his family and set up a tree that something of an old-time Yuletide might | be observed and preserved. Members | of stag clubs where only men are wont to gather and where Christmas is mere- ly the 25th of December erect a tree and gaze at it reminiscently. Reflected in its innumerable glittering ornaments are scenes that transport them to other | | days when .leek-footed servants and | stewards were not their portion. At every Army post where men prac- tice the science of war there are Christ- mas trees and a rough-neck top ser- geant is eagerly opening his box from home. This is the day he will slap a buck private in the back and say. “Hello, Buddy." He may even divide the fruit cake just received from his mother. Mr. Scrooge has long since passed away and in his place thousands of Tiny Tims have found generous, benev- olent spirits seeking to contribute to the joy and merriment of the day. The sidewalks of Washington are deserted except for those on errands of kindness. It is Christmas! 'EEE N He had been bedridden for many months. They said that he might re- main in a horizontal position much ylonger. Several weeks ago his doctor said he would be able to sit up. “When?" eagerly inquired the invalid. “On Christmas day,” said the doctcr. And so today he received his gift. He is sitting up. Of course he believes in Santa Claus. * K ok ok One snowy Christmas eve a dejected young fellow in his early twenties | walked through a dark city street. He was on his way home. Tomorrow there would be joy for every one but him. | fle stepped aboard a street car and | dreaded to walk across the threshold | of home. There was a wife waiting for ! him. He would be expected to set up HOLLYWOOD, Calif., December 25 (N.AAN.A)—Merry Christmas, every s one! | Hollywood is celebrating the most un- |usual holiday it has experienced since j the day of its foundation. It is celebrating in Christmas the one-year anniversary of the actual ar- rival of talking films as a factor to deal with in daily living. - To many it is a victory with the; record of a profitable year behind them | and the promise of interesting and profitable years ahead. ‘To some it is the falling of a shadow that means lessening engagements, thei necessity to save where once there was glorious and profligate spending. It seems silly to say that one brief year ago such movie magnates as Joseph Schenck were giving out statements about talkies in which they expressed grave doubts regarding the final outcome of this form of entertainment. This particular producer held out against sinking big money in the venture, and only gave over after it had been fairly well established. ‘To those of us who have been watch- | ing talking pictures now for what seems to be a lifetime (so fast does American life move) it is a_decided surprise to consider that last New Year’s program held more silent pictures in view than talkies. ‘Within 60 days from the ‘commence- BY MOLLIE MERRICK. | six _hours. the tree, which, fortunately, had been purchased. An employer had fired him the day before Christmas. True, he had been given two wecks’ wages, but they would not last long. An excellent way indeed to start the new year. As his key entered the lock and he turned the latch, he was greeted by his young wife. A quick appraisal of his features told her that something was wrong. He didn't want to tell her. He preferred to save the bad news until the day after Christmas. Why spoil the day for her? But she was a partner in the domestic enterprise and persisted until he told her the bitter truth. He had been fired. “It is the best Christmas gift you ever received, dear,” said the wife, +He blinked and looked at her incred- ulously. “Why, what do you mean?” he asked. “This has been done to awaken You o your possibilities, Now you can write those stories you have been talking about since we were married. The cay after tomorrow you will start your career.” ‘The young fellow thought it over and Christmas day was a happy one. He forgot about the blow that had fallen, The day after Christmas he began to write. His stories were human and humorous. Editors purchased them, He became a featured writer and soon saw his name on the covers of Amer- . ica's greatest periodicals. His yarns were published in book form. Then he went to Hollywood, where he continued to turn out his product. Producers sought his stories for picturization pure pose: In one year he netted over $100,000. He built a beautiful home and owned several cars. Santa Claus had visited him the nighc he was fired from his job. Of course his wife was Mrs. Santa Claus. * K K ok A lad scarcely old enough to cast a vote sat alone in the big “city room™ of a newspaper, He cussed his fore tune or misfortune that he was come pelled to work on Christmas day when others were home enjoying themselvas. There was no justice in the worla. He lit a cigarette and looked out over the city. He'd quit the game some day and J let some other un- lucky bird spend = Christmas this way. The telephone “rang on the city ceditor’s desk. you, what's-your-name,” city editor, peeved himself that he was on duty when the kids were enjoying their toys, “run up to, number So-and- so street.” ) ‘The young fellow, rather glad to leave his desk. hastened to the place to which he had been dispaiched. To his amaze- ment he ran into what newspaper men call “a big news story.” ‘That evéning he wrote one of the most graphic yarns ever turned out in his office. It was tacked on the bul- letin board, received a bonus and was elevated to stardom. Santa Claus had come to him in the city room that afternoon, and presented h% with the world’s greatest gift, it health— opportunity. . HE CUSSED WS MOVIES AND MOVIE PEOPLE pictures flmfl into civilian ranks withe out a fight. All these things since last Christmas, when Santa Claus brought talk to Hole Iywood in his Christmas pack. (Copyriaht, 1020, North American Newspaner Good Soup. Cut up some ncat’into small pieces, Break the bones, which allows the juica to escape easily. Put the meat, fat and bone in cold water. The cold water draws out the juices. Simmer for about Boiling toughens the al- bumen and does not permit the flow of juices. Clean and cut up some vege= tables for flavor and add them about the last hour for cooking. MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN. ment of 1929 those silents which had been started were having dialogue writ- | ten for them—at least the words ‘When Chelini’s general store and wine | Planned were optimistically called dia- house occupled the corner of Second |logue. They were tags, written by men and A streets southeast, now part of | trained as title wriers There was no # ] objective, no conflict, and less than no S R humor, save that furnished the audi- ence by the abortive attempts at spoken drama on the screen before them. These things were largely responsible for the cold reception afforded the talkies in many instances by thinking | audiences. Looking back on the year, I think of three girls as outstanding figures sur- rounded by what threatened to be the penumbra of defeat. Bessie Love, Carmel Myers and Bebe Daniels promised to pass into total eclipse with the rise of talking pictures. I was talking to Carmel Myers about it the other day.. She had just returned from a vaudeville tour, in which she sang the songs she had popularized in her initial talkie appearances. She had completed two radio concerts and was learning some new songs for a third. | And in between a few producers were | angling for her and she was signing up | these arrangements. Quite a full life ! for a lady whose professional career seemed doomed 12 months ago. She confided to me that the hardest ! experience of her entire career was the | Job of keeping herself studying singing | and diction when there didn’t seem to| be anything to do with it once it was acquired. Nobody sought her just at; first for a contract. These were the: Exchanging Gifts. “Oh, I don't mind giving Jane a present,” many a woman will say to an- other, “because it is like taking money out of one pocket and putting it in an- other. I know that she will give me something worth just as much. It's an more affluent one, and her finances suffer. Some women look quite mer- cenarily on the exchange, and they de- mand penny for penny. The value of such exchanges of gifts is dublous. Very often gift exchanging results in a perfect orgy of spending. Uncon- sclously one buys a gift for this and that one because “she always sends me How do you like the new long skirts that look ke a folded wet umbreller days of her hardest work, and they were ' unbrightened by a single ray of! promise. { Bessie Love was out on a vaudeville tour, singing and dancing and some- times gritting her teeth hard to keep the tears back. And in the studio wherc Bebe Daniels was making comedies that ' something.” By Christmas day such obligatory spending may put an ap- preciable dent in one’s bank account. Unless one has some way of controlling such spending, it is a serious financial menace. Resourceless women simply take refuge in the statement that there is no other way out. Of course, that is nonsense. An understanding may be reached whereby both will buy gifts with & view to their mutual means and the subsequent use of the gifts. The cus- tom may be restricted to an exchange of some homemade token of friend- | ship. If one or the other can not af- | ford to buy gifts one year, let her be : outspoken about it. Every one who exchanges a gift is in reality buying the gift that she receives loser. She 1s literally spending your ! in exchange for her own. For that rea- money and you are spending hers. son she should consider the purchase as Evils crop up in the ‘exchange of | carefully as if she were actually ‘making even exchange.” ‘While the money values of the two gifts so exchanged may be equivalent, exchange.” She may get something for her money, in the form of her friend’s gift, that is perfectly useless, unnecessary or superfluous. By taking her money out of one pocket she loses cg:,uldlnbl}' when she puts it in an- other. Unless your friend's gift does mnot duplicate some article that you already possess, and equals in usefulness your own gift, there has been no even ex- change. Your friend may spend as much money as you do, but if her money isn’t spent wisely you are the glfts. One woman does not like to|it. When she takes money out of one have her own gift exceeded in value by | pocket there may be many a slip before ! j her friend's. Gradually one tries to|it s put into another. Every “even" measure up to the means or ideas of the | exchange is not a fair exchange, weren't worth a good actress' time and attention a coolness that had existed for some months past was solidifying into the frigidity which characterized the last days of her stay there. She, left a lot where scarcely anybody both- ered to drop in and say good-by. There were 50 many worries, so many doubts, as to personal security. Nobody had any time for other people's misfortune. ee ladies who weren't afraid of hard work and who wouldn't accept de- feat, with bigger and better careers than ever before. Has it occurred to you that a year ago you often saw a beautiful girl in the movies? May McAvoy talked toc soon. She male one of the crud childish pictures which was, I believe the first talkie. Pitifully handicappec by insufficient preparation and inadc- quate material of every sort, the result paralyzed officials and robbed her ol courage to go on. She married and retired into private life. She's gotting too plump for screen work. One of the big lights of silent with two ribs broken? (Copyright. 1929.) Apricot Roll. Wash through several waters half a pound of dried apricots and soak them over night. Cook slowly until tender, adding a pinch of baking soda to coun- teract acidity. When swelled to full size, sweetén to taste and let simmer for about 15 minutes longer. Make a dough with two cupfuls of flour, three tablespoonfuls of butter and three tea- spoontuls of hkln‘ powder. Mix with milk or water. Roll into a sheet, spread with butter and cover with the drained apricots. Sprinkle with sugar and scat- ter thin shavings of lemon or orange cver the apricot. Roll up, pinch the ends and place in a buttered pan, rub- bing the roll with shortening. Baste once with hot frult juice containing some shortening. When done, remove to a platter and serve with the apricot uice cooked down somewhat, sweet- ened and thickened with a little corn- starch or flour et A Look at Lincoln. ©One mother says: * I had made much of the life of Lincoln by emphasizing his fine points, bought a good picture of him and hung it in the living room where the children could have it as a constant inspiration. When the children were inclined to whimper about trivial disappointments, some incident in his life was recalled illustrating his endurance. When their tempers flared up and they wanted to “get even with some one” they were sent to take a good look into his patient eyes—and, as one of the lads put it, “How could I get so cross about such a little thing when he was so patient with every one!” If one of the children was inclined to give up easily he was reminded how hard Lincoln worked for everything he wanted and how he stuck till he got it. It was surprising in how many ways the face and the life of Lincoln could be used with good ine spirational effect. (Copyright, 1929.) thing NEW CHOCOLATE Fa%;%{} Delightfu ly Different