Evening Star Newspaper, January 2, 1930, Page 38

VNG STAR, WASHINGTO Concerning Thank-You Letters BY LYDIA LE BaRCN WALKER. Remember to thank persons for Christmas and New Year gifts be- fore you put them away. Then you will have the right enthusiasm to speed the good work, and make it reem a pleasurable task. You will be glad CORRESPONDENCE CARDS ARE A FAVORITE KIND OF STATION- ERY FOR THANK-YOU NOTES, all the rest of the year if you follow this timely hint. Probably you received among your holiday gifts. If so there can be no better use to put it to than in_sending notes of gratitude. Do not wait until you have time to write long newsy letters. Many post. poned notes of thanks are unpardo Aably in reaching their destin: tion. It is better to be brief than stationery respondence cards serve ‘he purpose very well. Be gracious in the short note and most_appreciative. Add a line or two on the subject most dear to the one written to and let the note be posted before the New Year grows old. Don't forget when buying stationery to buy stamps. It is most discouraging to.write a letter and be eager to post it only to find there are no stamps to be found. If you are “all set,” as the slang expression tersely puts it, the writing of the thank-yon letters will not prove the arduous task it other- wise would. Friday—How to make your old Christmas cards bring cheer to others. (Copyright, 1930.) MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Oatmeal, stewed figs With cream, creamed on toast, pancakes, maple sirup, coffee. LUNCHEON. Corn fritters, potato cakes, rolls, coffee, Bavarian cream, plain cream, cookies, tea. DINNER. Cream of tomato soup, fried filets of halibut, French fried po- tatoes, string beans, tomato salad, French dressing, apple pie, cheese, coffee. CREAMED EGGS. Melt 1 tablespoonful butter in saucepan, blend in 1 tablespoonful flour, add, by degrees, stirring constantly, 1 pint hot milk. Add 1 teaspoonful chopped parsley and season to taste with salt and pepper; then stir in 6 hard-cooked eggs, cut in slices, Pour mixture over buttered toast and serve hot. COFFEE BAVARIAN CREAM. Soften 1 box of gelatin tw 15 cupful of cold water; add 2 cup- fuls of boiling strong black coffee, a dash of salt and 34 cupful of sugar and stir until dissolved. Strain, cool, stir over cracked ice until the mixture begins to thick- en, fold in 2 cupfuls of whipped cream and turn into a wet mold. Unmold when firm and serve with sponge or delicate cake. FILETS OF HALIBUT. Have bone removed from the halibut and cut the fish in strips. Sprinkle each piece with flour, pepper and salt, roll, fasten with wooden skewers and fry in deep, delinquent. A thank-you letter is not up.ggd to be long. Therefore cor- hot fat. DIET AND HEALTH BY LULU HUNT PETERS, M. D. Artificial Respiration. Today I will give the treatment for acute cases: cial respiration. I run the directions for this twice a year —during the swimming and “gassing” seasons. Every one, including children. should know how to administer artificial respiration. Do it now! After vou finish read- ing this article, practice it: then save the article £o0 you can practice it again, and be sure you can do it. Arti- ficial respiration is used to resuscitate victims of drowning, electric shock and ;e.lher sccidents that suspend the 1. Quickly examine the mouth and remove anything that is removable— false teeth, tobacco, chewing gum, etc. 2. Lay the patient on his stomach with both his arms extended over his head. Turn his face to one side so that his nose and mouth are free for breathin . Kne astride the patient over % . 4. the palms of your hands en the small of his back so that the tips of your fingers are just out of sight around his side, with the little finger Just touching the last rib. 5. Swing the weight of your body forward on the patient, keeping your arms stiff while you count one, two— about the time of a second a count. 6. While counting threes, return to the upright position, removing your weight and pressure from the patient, but do not remove your hands. Rest enough to couni—four, five. t the procedure, the swinging back and forward, 12 to 15 times a minute, making a complete cycle in four to five seconds. You can time this by your own breathing, while you are going forward, counting one, two, breathe in; while you are coming bacl count three, four, five, and breathe out. (In any form of artificial respiration & point to remember is to make the ts to restore the breathing no more rapidly than the normal breath- ing, which is from 12 to 15 times a minute. In the zeal to revive, there | may be the lmrulu to make the move- ments too rapidly. As soon as you begin artificial respi- ration, if others are present have them ny tight clothing about the patient’s neck, chest or waist, and kee] him rm by covering his limbs witi blankets or by rubbi them. Keep up the artificial respiration without interruption until the patient begins to breathe or until the physician states that rigor mortis (stiffening of the body) has set in, which will denote death. Do not give up hope until this stiffening does take place. People have been resuscitated after being worked on for eight or nine hours, or even longer. The patient should be watched very carefully after breathing begins, and if it .umfign. the resuscitation should be Te, peated. Your assistant, if you have one, may do as follows: 1. Place a cloth saturated with am- monia or smelling salts near the pa- tient’s nose, first trying it out on him- self to determine the distance at which 1t will not strangle. 3. Hit the patient’s shoe heels a few times with a stick, and repeat this operation every five minutes until breathing commences. Do not move the patient until breathing normally without assistance. If absolutely necessary to remove him, he should be placed on a hard surface, such as a door or a floor of a convey- ance. But you must not stop or inter- rupt the resuscitation for an instant. ‘This prone pressure method is much superior to the one called the Sylvester method, in which the patient is placed upon his back and his arms swung alternately above his head and down across his chest, because this method quickly tires the person -pPlyln‘ it, and is also unsuccessful in filling the pa- tient's lungs with air. If you can, practice this now. Your knowledge may sometime save a life, Straight Talks to Women About Money BY MARY ELIZABETH ALLEN. “Salary No Object.” Earnest young people sometimes ask me whether it is considered good busi- ness sense to advertise in the want ads that “salary is no object.” The best answer to that question is, “It all de- pends.” Young, untrained or semi-skilled workers who need jobs urgently may find it to their advantage to indicate ~ that any fair salary will be considered. Often “taking them on” is a gamble, and employers are not willing to gam- ble much. On the other hand they may not have any definite idea of their value, any way. Experience at work only can give that to them. It is not good business sense to indi- cate to any employer that “salary is no object” indefinitely. No matter what our pleasure in achievement may be, we are vitally interested in earning our respective wherewithals. There is no advan to be gained by hiding finan- cial ives from one’s employer. In fact, he should know of one’s ambitions. ABE MARTIN SAYS Those who work without an interest in advancing their salaries generally indifferent workers. Few are 5o in love with their work that “salary is no ob- ject.” Even those who find inspiration in their work like to find rich rewards repaying their efforts. We are usually paid what we are worth, and we have every reason in the world to be worth a great deal. In Jthl.l world salary is one of the few | things that make few false distinctions. When one earns a higher salary than one’s working mates it is an indication of superior ability, talent or industry. | If salary were no object, we would still | demand salary “distinctions.” Getting down to brass tacks. Talk- ing about salary will not frighten an employer out of employing any one. If he has a job worth taking he will be glad to “talk business” with an em- ploye anxious for increased earning ca- pacity. Salary becomes more than an object—it becomes a live incentive. That is why “salary no object” is often a poor phrase to use in one’s ad. It suggests inability, lack of independ- ence, lack of bition and a willing- ness “to take anything, do anything” at any price named. That type of em- ploye may be suitable for some jobs, but not for really worth-while jobs. Sooner or later salary will be an object on the job. Why not be frank about it from the outset? Why not set a fair price on one’s labor and stand by it. Often we are accepted on our own valuation. and if we sell our labor too cheaply the blame lies at our own door. For Preserve Closet. ‘When the preserve closet is empty and fresh fruit expensive, pick over and wash four pounds of prunes, soak for 24 hours, then steam for 20 min- utes. Boll together for 10 minutes two pounds of sugar, one pint of vinegar, one ounce each of whole cloves and stick cinnamon, and one-fourth ounce of ginger. Add the prunes and simmer gently until tender, then can. Or pick over, wash and soak a good grade of dried apricots. Next day weigh the fruit, and for each pound add three- fourths of a pound of sugar. To four pounds of fruit add one cupful of water and the sugar, and cook slowly, with frequent until reduced Oyster Stuffing. To each three cupfuls of rolled soda erackers allow one pint of oyster liquor, two dozen large oysters cut into SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. Muvyr wanted me an' Baby t' make a good resolute’ fer New Year. Baby say her is goin’' t' be a good girl. I aren’t goin’ quite 'at fer—but I am goin’ to repent quick—ever'body love a repentin’ sinne: (Copyright, 1 THE STAR’S DAILY PATTERN SERVICE. Smart Bolero. There isn't any fashion any smarter for class room than the bolero costume for the young miss of 8, 10, 12 and 14 years. Style No. 310 is especially -becoming with its all-around box-plaited skirt, which allows freedom for sports ac- tivitles and sways so gracefully when its wearer moves. It is attached to a sleeveless long-waisted bodice that closes at center back. The separate bolero has an attached Peter Pan collar and long sleeves with turn-back cuffs. It is very effective in navy blue wool crepe dotted in red, with vivid red crepe dotted in blue used for bodice. Size 8 requires 2'3 yards of 40-inch material for bolero and skirt, with 21 yards of binding and 1'3 yards of 40- inch material for waist with collar and cuffs. Feather-weight tweed in popular beige and brown tones with bodice, collar and cuffs of beige wool jersey is especially practical and smart. Bottle green wool jersey with yel- low-beige jersey worn with wide match- ing gresn ‘suede belt is fetching. Covert cloth in cocoa brown shade in self-checked pattern with match- ing shade wool crepe is very smart. Orange-red sports-weight linen, with white linen, tweed-like cotton print in red and white tones with white pique are smart tubbable combinations. For a pattern of this style, send 15 cents in stamps or coin directly to The Washington Star's New York Fashion Bureau, Fifth avenue and Twenty-ninth street, New York. ‘We suggest that when you send for pattern you inclose 10 cents additional for a copy of our new Fashion Maga- | zine. Today in Washington History BY DONALD A. CRAIG. January 2, 1856.—The action of Presi- dent Plerce in sending his annual mes. sage to Congress on the last day of the old year, 1855, without waiting ionger for the House to organize for the trans- action of business, seems to have met with the general approval of the people. “We have heard hundreds of persons of all parties, not in public life,” says The Evening Star today, “speak of the act of the President in sending in the message without longer waiting for the House to do that which it should have done a month ago, if really competent to the proper transaction of the pub- lic business, and without exception every one of them has approved his course. “Judging from this remarkable una- nimity of sentiment, we feel assured that the country at e will approve the act with well-nigh as much una- nimity. “After having done our best to find a single individual who knew before its announcement in the House hall that the President designed sending in the annual message * * * we can find no such person. The secret was, there- fore, capitally guarded. Certainly no member of Congress, and probably not a soul but the President, his cabi- lnfl and private secretary, had the least idea of it. It was kept with fidelity ! and managed with adroftness.” ‘The National Intelligencer says the receipt of the message in the House “gave an _exciting _scene.” Strong objections were made by vari- ous members to the course adopted by Mr. Plerce in this instance. They aimed the House, in its unorganized te, had no power to receive it offi- clally. The Union today reviews and ap- plauds the message and defends the position assumed by the House Demc- crats in favor of the official reading of the e message. Referring to the contents of the mes- sage, The Star says it is “the most im- portant state paper that has yet seen the light, because it is the first one that has boldly approached and fear- lessly handled the subject which threat- ens the permanency of the Americ:.) Nation., “The President clearly comprehends,” ped parsley, of melted butter, and one teaspoonful of . Pack loosely into a turkey or that the s 50 be light when the meat adds The Star, “the fact that the South will not lubu;l:fw be tobhted 'l:tflh her eyes open under any new-fang! - text osglhver of the rights of p::' equality under the Federal Government, Toent o8 her States originally.” Fiance’s Method of Enforcing His Ideas Becomes Subject of Controversy—Husband Is Able to Read and Converse at Same Time. JDEAR MISS DIX—I am engaged to a man whom I adore. The date for the ‘wedding is set, but I am beginning to wonder about this: My fiance is of a very domineering disposition, and when I fail to obey him he strikes me. long ago he punished me because I displeased him. Not Then he brought me some flowers and I instantly kissed him and forgave him. Now it thrills me to be afraid of him, but will I always feel the same? Will T always get a kick out of his commands when he says: “Do that, and don't forget I will permit nothing else.” ELSIE M. Answer—Well, Elsie. not being a worm of the dust myself, I feel that I cannot judge what would bring happiness to a poor, weak, spineless female who crawls at the feet of a bully and enjoys being trodden upon. But if you have one spark of independence in your soul, I am here to tell you that you will get mighty sick and tired of being tyrannized over, and of being treated like a brainless imbecile without enough intelligence to know what to do, or how to do it. ‘The only “kick” you will get out of being bossed will be the one you will put up about having to ask your husband whether you can g0 downtown or buy a new hat or have your mother come to see you. And what is the matter with this man who is so self-complacent and self- conceited and thinks himself so superior to you, and who is going to make you do his way all the time? Are you to have no rights in marriage? Is your happi- ness of no concern? Better draw out while there is still time. That kind of a man doesn’t want a wife, he wants a slave. DOROTHY DIX. o W DEAR MISS DIX—My husband reads all the time he is at home and carries on a conversation with me at the same time. He has done this until he can answer any question intelligently without looking up from the page. He is a good man, but a little dull for a companion and I would like all of his attention when I talk to him. He seems to think that he is remarkable because he can do two things at the same time. MRS. 8. Answer—He certainly is remarkable, but I don't know that he is so different from most men, for the average husband never gives more than one lobe of his brain to what his wife is saying anyhow. That is the reason they can stand having wife tell them over again every night about the price of buichers' meat and the cute thing that little Johnnie said, and that the baby is about to cut a tooth. I think for a man to be able to read while carrying on an intelligent con- versation with his wife makes him an ideal fireside companion because he can do what he wants to do and entertain her at the same time. Anyway, you wives who complain about your husbands spending the evenings in reading are hunt- ing for trouble, You don't know how blest you are, DOROTHY DIX. * k% DEAR MISS DIX—I have been married less than ten years, have a small family, a working man's car—and a pile of rent receipts. All of my people are home owners and tell me that the time to bu 1s small and not later, and the great desire of my a house is when the family eart has always been to own my own home. But my wife’s people are all rent'.rryern and tell my wife that we are crazy to think and worry about a home. ey enumerate the repairs, the taxes, the insurance, neighbors selling to undesirables and a hundred and one other reasons why it is folly to own your own home. nothing to show for their years of effort. My wife is afraid of the ‘" s0s” of her family if we bought a house and fl?ped on the sake of some peace I shut up and give up the i ‘What is your advice in the matter, But they absolutely told-you- yment, and for the , but I still want my own home STILL HOPEFUL. hlv‘e Answer: My advice is to buy your home so that in a few years you may have somethi few worthless scra) ing tangible to show for your labor and economies instead of just a of paper. I regard the associations that make it possible to buy a home on the installment plan as nothing less than the guardian angels of poor young couples. Of course there are drawbacks to own! ing & home, as your in.laws suggest. So there are to everything else in the world. Of course you will have to pay the repairs and the insurance and the taxes and the upkeep on a house if you own it, but you pay all of these on a in on your rent. Somel house you rent, for the landlord figures tnem ‘body has to pay these bills and the landlord isn't in busi- ness for his health. He must get a profit out of owning and renting houses. So why not you? One of the finest things that any young couple can do is to go intelligently in debt because that gives them something concrete to save for, and the best thing practice t] y strength of mind than most they can go in debt for is a home. {‘lrlft by tting their money in the savin, ple possess to do wi Of course, theoretically, they can bank, but it takes more out the new car, the new radio, or the new dress, or taking a trip, or spending more than they should on running around, if they have the money lying idlesin the bank. But if indulging themselves in an extrava to lose their home, they will cheerfully do witl | the actual necessities to meet thir payments. Since the beginning of time men ice means that they are likely t all the frills and scrimp on have fought and died for their homes and they will still work their fingers to the bone to protect them. And there are just as many ethical reasons for owning your own home as there are financial ones. To that belongs to somebody else. with, you can’t make a real home in a house ‘To love & home so that it becomes a part of your life you have to do a lot of the wor of making it with your own hands. shelves and paint cans. You have to h them grow. You can't have any feel You have to putter around it with lant flowers and trees and shrubs g about a_house where you don't live long enough even to remember the street number or learn to find your way around in the dark. Women are always complaining that the; children at home. Undoubtedly it is can't keep their husbands ana because they never get to feel at home in a Elm before they pack up and move somewhere else. A child who is.born in a ospital and migrates from apartment to apartment every year of its life couldn't ?o&!ibly have any local attachments. Home isn't even a sentiment to it. It is just a place to come to eat and sleep and change clothes on the way to some- where else. In one of Dickens’ stories he tells about a couple of gay young bachelors who set up a kitchen for the moral effect the pots them, and there is more than a little truth in this their own home gives every young married couple a and pans would have upon whimsy. Certainly owning sense of responsibility that they do not feel if they are mere transients flitting from rented house to rented house. They feel themselves to be part of the community in which they live, in- terested in its government, its improvements, its schools, its moral tone. they have a standing in the community that the renters never have. And So I earnestly advise you to buy your own home. The best proof that it is a good thing to do is to be found in the fact that young homes on the partial-payment plan nearly always have a couples who buy their home of their own in the course of & few years' time, whereas those who do not buy homes have DO! nothing. (Copyright, 1930. PARIS.—Here's something new! Louiseboulanger’s printed ra; dress with bertha collar forming shoulder capes cut in one with the blm’:: back. Colors are yellow and blue on a red ground. RITA. My Neighbor Says: If water does not flow freely through the pipe connected with the kitchen sink, pour a pint of kerosene down the pipe and al- low it to remain there all night. In the morning run cold water. You will find it will flow freely. A teaspoonful of lemon juice added to each quart of water in which rice is bolling keeps the grains separate. Overstirring and mixing is the gulnkut way to ruin muffins. ust & few minutes’ overbeating will make muffins rise to peaks. If silverware which is to be stored for some time is packed in white four, it will not tarnish. Squash Pie. ‘To one and a half cupfuls of cooked and mashed squash add an equal amount of scalded milk, half a cupful of sugar, flfl‘ll: mh:nm’nuhuy. it a teaspoon! O 3 a tes » ful each of cinnamon and ginger an ginger and a little grated orange peel. Mix all the ingredients ther and pour into a crust which been fitted into a rather deep ple pan. Bake in a mod- erate oven. MATTRESSES RENOVATED Best Service and Prices. coumm EDDING CO.," Inc., MW a National 5528, WHO REMEMBERS? BY DICK MANSFIELD. Registered U. 8. Patent Office. When your mother used to put an ap- | ple peel on the stove when company came to kill the odor of boiled cabbage? MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN, Specinl-lhyi Calendar, One mother says: When I receive a calendar for the coming year I spend a small amount of my time to look up historical and cur- rent events. These dates I mark on the calendar. The children on seeing the dates marked are curious, so they look up in their “Information Books™ the meaning and importance of these dates. The children gain a large amount of interesting news and topics in this way which is made pleasant by reading to mother and daddy the notes they have made. (Copyright, Your Baby and Mine BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED. 1930.) All young mothers, without exception, run into the usual snags and want help. We understand this inclination and ap- plaud it. The following letter sounds very, very young, as you older mothers will recognize. We've all been through the stage when we feared that the first hair would never come back and baby would be doomed to baldness for life. We can well remember when almost anything which deviated from the n mal set us to trembling. Mrs. C. R. y is just 3 months old, and she wants to know: “Is this formula all right for a baby of 3 months, weighing 12 pounds? Her food consists of 16 ounces of milk, 10 ounces of water and four tablespoons of sugar, and I give her 5 ounces seven times a day. “Her hair is coming out on the back of her head from constant rubbing. Will this come back soon? Can she wear loose rubber panties day and night? If not, what harm is there in it? “She still wakens for her 2 o'clock feeding and I give her 5 ounces. Is that all right? How can I break her of this habit? After each feeding, if 1 1ift her up to help the gas up, she spills some of her milk. How can I prevent this? How many hours should she sleep? “When does she have cereal? Now she has one and one-half teaspoons of orange juice, the same of water and 30 drops of plain cod-liver oil in three doses. 1Is that right?” Baby's weight is good, but it would take a magician to make five 7-ounce feedings out of a 26-ounce formula. Something is wrong somewhere. Baby needs 35 ounces for that many feed- ings, and this should all be prepared at one time, otherwise your formula would be all askew and not represent the proportions you say. Here are the correct proportions for this age and weight: 18 ounces of milk, 17 ounces of water, four tablespoonfuls of sugar. Put this into six bottles (if you want to omit the 2 o'clock feeding) and give Jjust water at 2 when baby wakens. This first fine hair is always lost. It will come back, don’t worry. Rubber panties used constantly are hot, nearly air tight and cause chafing and some- times real soreness. They encourage mother to be less particular about changing than she should be. Use them occasionally, but not all the time. Change baby’s position after feeding or let her sit up a moment, and the gas will be eructated without this spilling. It isn’t of much moment. Two naps a day and 12 hours at night mean that baby ought to be sleeping 14 hours or more. Cereal is begun (unless indicated earlier) about the fifth month. Every- thing else is fine. Our leaflets on feed- ings, vomiting and sleeping go into these subjects in greater detail. Any mother may have them for just the usual self-addressed, stamped envelope inclosed with each request. (Copyright, 1930.) smnfi Brown Bread. - Mix half a cupful of New Orleans molasses with half a cupful of brown you are going to s . teaspoonful of baking soda to one and & half cupfuls of boiling water. Add this to the first mixture and stir thor- oughly, then add enough whole wheat flour to make a soft dough as for muf- fins. Add seedless raisins if you wish. Put the cover on the can, place inside & larger utensil with boiling water and steam slowly for three hours. SCORES OF "WwIPPED CREME® UsES Here is the:y to wonderful new and different W':l!J)ped creme effects in cake, rt, salad, sauce and candy making, St C e ‘THE HIP.O.LITE COMPANY FEATURES. Appropriate Shopping Ensemble BY MARY MARSHALL. I you want to be well dressed make a rule never to go shopping when you are fagged out or irritable. If possible make your selections when your mind is fresh and when you will not be tempted to make a compromise with r better taste just to get through. ;;:u“r try to buy & new hat at the end of the day when your hair needs at- tention and your face looks tired. If you do you will find every hat you try on equally n‘x;lbe:emmlulnfl will make hoice lesperation. yoiltx l-cl well wonhpetho effort - to look your best when you start out to buy a new dress or wrap or anything in which you need the help and suggestions of the saleswoman. But don’t make the mistake of wearing a coat that is too warm and heavy. Unless the weather is very cold the best, nmp{:uu ensemble consists of a jacket suit. A heavy fur coat will tire you out before you are half through with your undertaking. If you are bent on buying a new evening dress you may find it well worth while to carry a small overnight bag with a pair of evening slippers. It is almost impos- sible to get the right effect in an eve- ning dress without the right sort of footwear. DAILY DIET RECIPE SCALLOPS EN BROCHETTE. Scallops, one pound. Bacon squares, thirty-six. Small mushrooms, six. Melted butter, one-fourth cup. Breadcrumbs, one-half cup, Parsley sprigs, six. SERVES SIX PORTIONS. Fill small skewers with alter- nate pieces of scallop and small pleces of bacon which have been partially broiled. When skewers are filled, place a small mush- room on the end. Dip each skewer in melted butter and roll in breadcrumbs. Broil under moderate flame until nicely browned. Baste occasionally with melted butter. Arrange skewers on a hot platter and gar- nish with parsley. DIET NOTE. Recipe furnishes protein, & lit- tle fat. Lime, iron, phosphorous, lodine present, as well as vitamins A and B. Can be eaten by nor- mal adults of average or under weight. 1f bacon were omitted and mushrooms substituted, could ge eaten by those wishing to re- uce. ‘This week's help for the home dress~ | maker gives diagram pattern for one of the smart new velvet neck frocks to be worn with suit or street dress instead of a fur scarf. If you would like a copy with directions for making, please send your stamped, self-addressed envelope to Mary Marshall, care of this paper, and it will be forwarded to you. ./ (Copyright, 1929.) THIS BROWN WITH TAN CREPE BLOUSE 1S BETTER PING THAN A FUR LONG CLOTH COAT. ENSEMBLE DE CHINE FOR SHOP- COAT OR KEEPING MENTALLY FIT BY JOSEPH JASTROW. Psychology of Hospitals. I would like some advice on a patient in our own home—my sister. She is suflering from a case of nerves. She cannot stand the hospital; we have had her in and out twice. It seems to get on her mind. - Doctors could not do a thing with her. Just a bad case of mental sickness, so they said. They told her her body was in perfect condi- tion. She is under constant strain and believes she is going to die. She has indigestion around her heart, and it ‘makes her feel like dying. Is there any hope for this case? SISTER. Reply. ‘This ery of distress comes from the remote Canadian North So far as a letter can do so it has been answered. It is hard for those deeply interested in nervous patients to realize that this fear of death is, likewise a symptom of the nervous state. Feelings of such extreme weakness and such alarming misery seem to the sufferer explicable only as the utmost expression of the worst calamity. It was that same ex- treme feeling and appearance and ex- pression that led to the needless jour- ney to the hospital and the hopeless return. The family should accept the verdict of “nerves” and be assured of recovery under patient and proper treatment. The discussable theme of the letter is: Hospitals. The dread of these in- stitutions dates from a period when only most serlous or surgical cases were sent to hospitals. That feeling has largely but not entirely passed away. But the psychology of the hospital re- mains. I confess myself a victim of it. 1 have no experience beyond four hours, An operation, minor by surgical stand- ards, not so minor in its after effects, and the surgeon's statement after I had recovered from the immediate shock, that I might go home; for I certainly should not be able to do so the next day. With some effort I went home; his prediction was correct. But I am quite sure, having spent so many hours in hospitals visiting others, that, JOLLY POLLY A Lesson in English, BY JOS. J. FRISCH. LOWS IN STOCKS AND SKIRTS! Say “very interesting” or “fairly in- teresting,” not ‘“pretty interesting.” Resume (ray-zu-may) means a sum- ming up; a brief statement; as, the report contalned a resume of .the evi- dence. Notable, when used to mean worthy of notice (as, a notable person, & notable event), is pronounced note-a- bl (o as in cold). “S’no” man at all! 4 Poor old fellow—the brilliant sun will melt his smile—but little men who eat Schindler’s Peanut Butter build for lifelong health. 8 “fresh roasted* ut Butter : 9 however irrationally o, hospital would be a g e lence, and I should recover in spite of it. The nurses, however, kindly and ate tractive, would get on my nerves, espe- clally if they patronize, 1 dislike to be waited uj when it implies a feel ing of helplessness; the entire routine of the hospital, with its trays and serve ice and able-| attendants, so capable and efficient, would only re= enforce my leeling of helplessness and make me resent it. We all have our ways of being irrational; and this ppens to be one with which I can sympathize. But I have friends who enjoy hos- pital life; they revel in the technique and feel rested and grateful and a important to be the object of so much concern. The visit from the doctor seems an eventful honor: to me it would be an occasion to wish, and not politely, that he were in my place. All of which is not im| t, but quite natural in tlew of the differences of temperament among all sorts and con- ditions of men and women. Some can be* good tients in hospitals; others only at home—another human com- plication for” which psychology is re- sponsible. ° So there is a psychology of illness— & vast one, not sufficiently expl including the psychological effect of lying in a hospital bed. And yet the rational view of the matter is all the other way and coincides with the etymological view. which makes hos- pitality and hospital one word. That's recisely what the humane modern ospital has become, a place where hospitality is offered to the sick. And more and more the mental state of the g:uenc. whatever his bodily ill, is taken to consideration. If not the home atmosphere, it is at least the club atmosphere that is approached—a lace at which through temporary, if voluntary, membership you are s rticipating guest, with rights accord= g:( to the rules and regulations neces- sary to the comfort of all. Hospitals mark the progress of civilie zation as clearly as any institution in the interests of human welfare; and our own erous country can take e excellence of its provie . you need expert medical attention, the hospital is the best place for you. Yet it will be the aim of & very large company, including myself, to stay away from them. It seems so much more rational to keep well. (Copyright, 1930.) Spaghetti Loaf. Break one and a half cupfuls of un< cooked spaghetti and cook in boiling salted water until done. Add some salt and pepper. Mix the spaghett! with one cupful of fresh bread crumbs, three eggs slightly beaten, one green pepper chopped or cut fine, one cupful of coarsely grated cheese and one diced onion. Place in a buttered baking dish and pour one cupful of milk over the entire mixture. Bake in a mod- erate oven until a silver knife when in- serted comes out clean. Remove from the oven and pour one can of hot to- mato soup round the lo: . Fishcakes Supreme OLLOWED nests of Gorton's Ready-to- Fry, brushed with beaten egg yolk, browned in the oven, then filled with hot buttered peas and served with cream sauce! From the new Gorton Recipe Book—Free Gorfon's | Co%fish : Cakes THE ORIGINAL GORTON-PEW FISHERIES Glowcestor, Mass,