Evening Star Newspaper, January 3, 1930, Page 33

WOMAN’S PAGE. Simple Handbags in Best Taste BY MARY MARSHALL. A woman never looks any smarter than her handbag, and a badly chosen, ©bviously cheap handbag will make the most expensive ensemble look common- place, It may be unfair, but when I want to make & quick judgment con- [ D& NEW HANDBAG, CALLED THE WEEK END BAG. IT IS OF BROWN LEATHER, PATENT SLIDE FASTENER. %. fellow passenger in train, bus or 'y I let my eyes rest for a second simple. haDdNags are alwags in th an are 'ways e taste, and this season it is espe- clally true that those of the best quality sary to carry a good many papers, you will be delighted with the smartness of extra sized bags than to crowd a smaller bag or to carry papers and small acces- sories in a separate package. If you want to keep your handbags in good condition, make a habit of emptying them when your day’s activi- ties are done; just as a man empties his pockets if he wants to keep his suits in good condition. And don’t carry the same bag day after day until its term of usefulness is over. Hand- bags, like shoes, give much better serv: ice if they are allowed an occasional day or so of rest. ‘This week’s help for the home dress- maker consists of a diagram pattern for a scarf collar made of velvet or fur fabric that may be worn with a suit or street dress in place of a fur scarf. you would like a copy, please send your stamped, self-addressed envelope and it will be forwarded t> you. . (Copyright, 1930.) Prunes With Dumplings. Boil the prunes in plenty of water and when they are done add some dumplings made with two cupfuls of sifted flour, half a teaspoonful of salt, three teaspoonfuls of baking powder, one level tablespoontul of lard, one egg and one cupful of milk. Rub the lard into the flour, salt and baking powder, beat the egg, then pour in the milk and add the flour to the mixture. Drop into the prune broth and boil for about 15 minutes. OUR CHILDREN BY ANGELO PATRI1 The Warrior. Jim and Bobby live on the same block. ‘They are about the same age, but after that one can find little hold in common. Jim is husky. His stride was swift and sure and so was his fist. Woe be- tide anybody who_challenged Jim's au- thority; “When I say, Git, you git or T'll git you,” was his ultimatum. Few questioned it and those to their sor- rohw. Jim was a proud and happy war- rior. His mother was not so proud, not so happy. Seldom a day passed without a call on the telephone. Jim had punched this one, chased another one, pounded another one “Why don't you teach iv::r son to behave like a human be- ?” was the burden of the song that poured into her ears day after day. The teacher kept Jim after school. ‘When he got out he hunted up those who had told on him and licked them ‘well. His mother made him stay in for the week end and he made a punching bag out of old clothes and practiced his unches. Father gave him a thrashing or picking on little Bobby and the very next day he chased Bobby out of the schoolyard down to the creek and ducke‘li him and clouted him to a fare- ye-wel “I can't thrash him daily,” said Father to Bobby's wrathful parents. * e a hand yourself. Teach Bobby to hold his own and he will leave him alone.” “Bobby isn't that kind. He simply cannot stand up to Jimmie. You will have to do something with your boy. He W] hborhood. What think things over. He was light we! he hated to hurt anything, he, see any sense fighting. couldn't He ducked tht, 't g0 on forever. He couldn't be and clouted and hooted about the . Something had to be done with that brute and he would do it. But he wouldn't and couldn't fight. Anyway, not with fists. No use Ah, that was & thought! Mike would . Mike and he had gone before. (A school janitor ds a friendly hand to the Bobbies.) Nu:hgly at recess Jim was lording it ’;‘1' ht; - wrmch- Jim ht, ughty warrior. rge as he evu!d not pass the lv.rnm4m¥h¢ mob lined up well out of the way and loaned all the strength of their last lungs to the valiant Bobbie. ‘Soak him, Bob, soak him. Atta boy soak him.” Even a warrior can stand only just so much soaking and Jim surrendered. “Promise, cross your heart that you will Jeave me alone. You promise to leave me alone for good? Hold up your right hand and_repeat after me, ‘I promise to leave Bobby Merritt severely alone in the future’ Now go home and tell your mother I drowned you.” What else could the warrior do? has had considerably more Cold Facts. “Samuel shall be brought up on facts cold facts; no Santa Claus ‘business; no fairies. He shall know God as a person, fact. We shall teach him the truth first, last and all the time. Any school that allows mention of fairfes and myths and such rubbish ought to be closed.” Well, well! I should hate to have my school closed. Worse than that, I should hate having all the fairy stories and all the myths shut out of my school. And I could never pretend to teach the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, because I do not know what the truth is most of the time. Do you, my little dealer in hard, cold facts? Santa Claus is a symbol of love and service—a symbol of good will to men. Because a child is too much a child to shoulder an adult world’s conception of life and its relationships, nature en- dowed him with imagination and the understanding of symbols. When he WHO REMEMBERS? BY DICK MANSFIELD. Registered U. 8. Patent Office, puts away childish things, perhaps he will put Santa away, too, but let's hope he holds to all that the good saint sym- As a good friend of mine recently pointed out, cold facts are to little chil- dren about what cold potatoes are to a hungry boy when his mouth is set for Dekea" acusdly. opped ol wion e, squa ppe ple, nuts and whatever else is handy. Children do not thrive on cold ra- tions. They need the bit of life they receive daily warmed up with love and touched with the color of beauty. chnn';nlna n;:cnt ‘have eflnlh- for im- agination, ause thought comes through experience, and children lack that essential quality. Imagination must take "t‘i:e place of cold facts, calm e . is impossible for anybody to put a cold fact in tale, a negation in the Take him and what he stands for away and there is an empty place. Apart from this very serious side of the matter, who said a fact was cold? Facts are mysteries which if traced a brief moment are lost in Electricity is a fact. Good enough! is light, it is sound, it is power, it is just what? Could any fairy tale farther than the story of electricity Stars are facts, and so are A Do y':: know what they are ? y 89| pertinaciously refuses THE EVENING After su| rmlledw?op.wmh P. Hinkle a very intristing article in the paper this evening. . Willis Hinkle says the most important thing in a childs life is the questions it asks, and he says that a parents ferst duty is to anser each and every question matter how much they seemingly” aj to be difficult or even meening- ‘Thats what P. Willis Hinkle says, ma sed. ‘Then there must be a flaw in it somewhere, pop sed, and ma sed, Now Willyum your prejudiced against that man. Not at all, pop sed. I meerly think that if a bonfire was made of all his up to date, they would bern bewtifully because all the hot air in them would make a perfeck draft, he sed. Me thinking, G, I bet I can think of questions she cant anser. And after a while I sed, Hay ma, do cannibills reely eat each other? Yes Im afraid so, ma sed. Well why do they? I sed, and shc sed, Because thats,their nature, thats what makes them cannibills. Well what do they do when theres no other canniblills around for them to ;n::dl sed. What do they eat then? ‘The questions are flying, pop sed, and ma sed, Hush, Willyum, do you wunt to keep the childs mind from ixpand- ing? 'Why then I sippose they eat whatever they can find such as nuts and froot and perhaps a root or 2, she sed, and I sed, Well then do they stop being cannibills? Certeny not, why should they, I meen of corse they should but unfortunately they dont, ma sed, and I sed, But G Wizz, ma, they must, because you sed eating each other is what makes them cannibills so if they stop eating each other they must stop being cannibilis, mussent they, ma? Well yes, I meen no, not axually, I mee:é:nrw what was that last question? ma sed. Hawhaw, pop sed laffiing, and ma Well Im sure even P. Willis m:fié himsel? wouldent expect any mother to carry out his commandments with her own husband carrying on in a derisive attitude like a house divided nst itself. Benny, do your homework, she sed. ‘Wich I did. Today in Washington History BY DONALD A. CRAIG. January 3, 1856.—What many news- papers are calling the ‘“child’s play” of the House continued at its session to- day and the day ended with the elec- tion of a Speaker and organization for the transaction of public business ap- parently no nearer. A|_“The majority who came hither to accomplish so many wonder- tive achievements,” says The Evening Star's Capitol reporter,” went ‘bobbi around, as it were, nearly throughout the whole day’s evidently in search of ‘any port in a storm’—of some expedient, it did not know what, through which it could ex- tricate itself from its vexations and ugly dilemma. Just now it is lustily © on Hercules for help. “But Hercules is evidently determined to leave it in the slough of popular contempt, into which it has ‘flum- mucked’ with its eyes open. That is to say, chance, on which it has been relying for weeks past to compass an organization according to its wishes, to ald and abet it.” The telegraphic feat accomplished in sending President Plerce’s annual mes- Are cold, hard, unbudgable facts? They are mysteries that have their share in eternity, in the infinite. Trace & fact as far as you can and it van- ishes in a twinkling of an eye and be- comes a vision, a myth, a fairy tale. No, my friend, you cannot teach facts d, hard facts—to children; and co But this | know any. nsequently his thou makes no use of cold, hard facts. other reasons do not matter. dust off Hans Christian Andersen and recall Mother Goose and teach the child the substance of things unseen. You and he will succeed the sooner in mas- tering the first stage of living. (Copyright, 1929.) Lessons in English BY W. L. GORDON. ‘Words often misused: Do not say “The whereabouts of the children have remained s mystery.” Say “has re- mained.” Often mispronounced: Matronly. Pronounce ma-trun-li, & as in “may,” u as in “run,” 1 as in 3 accent first syllable. Often misspelled: Might (power), mite (a very small object). Word study: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us increase our sage out of Washington in full on New Year eve is attracting the attention of the press. The whole of the t's message was telegraphed to Boston that night and appeared in the papers of that city next morning. A trifle over two-thirds of the mes- hsage was sent over the Morse Union wires, commencing at 9:15 p.m. and ending about 5 am. The other third was transmitted over the House wires, beginning about 10:30 p.m. and ending at_midnight. ‘The Union, using two wires a of the time, was over eight hours in sending its portion, while the House line, with one wire, took up but one and a half hours in sending ga portion. This clearly demonstrated the capacity of the House system to be more than twice as rapid as the Morse Union system. Many of the ladies of Washington, determined to exercise the privilege of Leap Year, are planning dances to which they intend to invite gentlemen. “May I have the next waltz, Mr. Black?” will be heard often during the year, according to present indications. Peppers With Cheese. Cut a thin slice from the stem end of each of seven green peppers and remove the pith and seeds. Parboil the peppers for two minutes, drain, then fill with two cupfuls of Kraft American cheese grated and thoroughly mixed with two cupfuls of bread crumbs, one teaspoonful of chopped onion, three tablespoonfuls of butter and seasoning to taste. Stand the peppers upright in vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today’s word: Environment; thal which surrounds. “He was reared in an environment of poverty.” What Do Children Owe Their Parents? dren. If they did, most of them would ting any dividends is concerned, is a into it of their own love for the child. She has never known a awake listening for the return of roam! Bobble craves. She has sat up nights making frills for the girls. have pink satin dancing slippers, She answer the call of “M-o-t-h-e-r.” devotion? Nine practically always utter indifference. of 50 much as sa; their parents an set of hen's teeth, upper and lower. land where the at_home. or brighten up life for them. TFather may have tion, but does she ever sit down and ~ever. John's high-priced edu things they wanted in order to pay for ‘When the first house to be erected at (then Uniontown) street ‘1889 by Weigle's Bakery? was on and was occupied in | DorothyDix| HlszN has mercifully ordained that the average father and mother never sit down and calmly and dispassionately audit ‘their books with their chil- miles after toddling feet than any champion pedestrian has She has watched endless hours by sick beds. She has fried herself to a frizzle over the cook stove making the kind of cakes that Janie loves and the crullers spent thousands of dollars play for him cation has made him a cultured man of the world and aproad he has the reputation of being an entertaining talker and the life of the party, but do father and mother derive any benefit from it? Nay verily. Mary and John don't feel that they have to waste their accomplishments on mere parents, even if father and mother did pinch and economize and do without the a baking dish, sprinkle the tops gen- erously with grated cheese and bake for 20 minutes in a moderate oven. Asks for Better Division ©of Benefits STAR, WASHINGTON, D. the last whisper. original torm. C., FRIDAY, PARIS.—N'est-ce pas c'est jolie? And new as well, for shirred chiffon is The model is Jane Regny's in emeraid green chiffon n its Straight Talks to Women About Money BY MARY ELIZABETH ALLEN. Inherited Money. ‘Though your rich uncle died poor, you might still have inherited money had he kept it in a bank. Years ago— not so many, however—your relatives used to use family cupboards, mattress springs and chinks in the walls and floors as savings banks. Most of the time they were safe, but they were never profitable. 5 If your rich uncle had a fortune of $50,000 in cash and hid it, spending $2,500 a year, at the end of 20 years he wouldn't have had a cent of his money left, and he would have died poor. On the other hand, if he had invested that money in 6 per cent gilt- ed bonds his yearly income would :ldlgve been $3,000 and he would have died rich. ‘You ask, “What has that to do with me; I haven't $50,000, nor even $5,000.” You may not, but you prob- ably have money in your purse that isn’t working. Put it in the bank, where it will work. Besides r watch, money is the only thing it will work 24 hours of the day. It never gets sick and asks for days off, nor does it offer excuses instead of results in the form of interest. ‘Talk to hubby, too. Many men have an impractical habit of carrying hrf sums of money around with them. If that sum averages a couple of hundred dollars in a year, hubby has spent $12 for a doubtful privilege and an unnec- essary risk. Every cent that he or Jfl“ have should be glo! something. Is it happening? Money doesn’t necessarily have to be ut into a savings account or bonds to ge earning a profit. It may be invested in a Summer vacation, a home, real estate, or in your own or hubby's busi- ness. An automobile that affords you pleasure and transportation, a vacuum cleaner that adds to the comfort of your room, schooling for your children, are all things which make money work to_your profit. ‘What is the use of money, if it isn’t put to work to your advantage? Every cent of money that is lying idle now is so much money wasted. Money you might have inherited dwindled away irr idleness. Will your own children have a heritage? Both earning and saving money are vital, but you are only two-thirds done then. Every day that goes by without adding something to your savings in the form of interest or other benefits means a tangible loss to your capital. Few wealthy men have much cash on hand; they've learned that the value of money is in its use. They put it to profitable use and they die rich. Will you? When You Take Stock. The time to take stock in what one is told about the stock market is when the talk turns from speculation to in- vestment. As a matter of fact, the true investor has longer profits and a great- er long-run income than the average speculator. It is said that not 2 per cent of all trading accounts in_ broker- ‘That ma fMces ever show a gain. y baas. meet that be 50, but one never seems to 2 per cent! Because of speculators’ conversation, some women can only think of stocks find out that parenthood, so far as get- investment of time and labor and poor. money, and that about all the profit they have got out of it is what they put For 20 or 25 years, maybe more, father has worked harder than any slave to support Bobble and Sadie and Mamie and Tommy and to give them luxuries he has never had. He has sweltered thirough hot Summers at his office that they might go to the mountains or the seashore. He has gone shabby that they might have sport clothes and cars and the things the other boys and girls had. "He has taken on extra work and grown more hump-shouldered to send them to college and give them a better chance in life than he had. Mother's life has been an endless sacrifice laid on the altar of her children. night's unbroken rest since her first baby was born, because after she quit getting up to cover little restless sleepers she began lying boys and girls. Bhe has walked more to his record. patching and darning and mending and She has gone without & new dress that Mamie might has never been too tired or too sick to And what do these parents get from their children in return for all of this times out of ten they get contempt, when it isn't patronage, and ‘The children take all of the sacrifices their parents have made for them as no more than their due, and never dream "lhl;rk“{w." ‘To find & boy and girl who really appreciate are gra to them is finding a5 Tare a8 a and complete Probably there are not & hundred homes in the length and breadth of the -up sons and daughters ever voluntarily spend an evening any effort to entertain and amuse father and mother and ugon Mary's musical educa- e old tunes that he loves? them, in terms of speculation. It does not occur to them that the stock of a go- ing concern, with a good, consistent record of earnings, has real investment value. Let us think of the stock as some- thing nearer to home. Your husband's company offers shares in the business. ‘The company has been & good, steady money maker, and it has been steadily increasing its business. Its record for the past few years shows healthy prof- its. ~Its statement for this year indi cates that it will earn profits again. - Some men, let us suppose, are getting out of the business, or new interests or plants are being acquired, or the JOLLY POLLY A Lesson in English BY JOS. J. FRISCH. WHEN WE WERE THROUGH READ- “When we had finished reading.” is the correct form, not “when we were through reading” Profuse is pro- nounced m’oimbl (8 as HISS), not business is being incorporated and some of the shares are being put on the mar- ‘Why not purchase some shares in the company. Its increasing business means that one will own a stock paying increasing dividends, if the managa- ment is successful, and a stock that will therefore be worth increasingly more. ‘Your husband may not be employed by such a company, or you may be & woman with money to inyest with an eye for the future. Why not select, then, the stock of a substantial concern, choosing, of course, a stock that will pay a dividend? The fluctua- tions in its price on the exchange will not matter a bit. ’ That stock is put carefully away, dividends are collected and reinvested, and some time in the future, 5 or 10 years from now. one awakes to find one’s stock worth considerably more than it cost. That is the common ex- perience of many investors in stocks. The mistakes of speculators should not frighten investors away from a real in- vestment opportunity. My Neighbor Says: ‘To fry fish, clean and wipe it as dry as possible. Sprinkle it with salt, dip it in flour or egg and cracker crumbs and fry in deep fat until brown. ‘To clean tapestry furniture rub it with bran, which been heated in the oven. Chicken to be used for salads 1s much easier cut and diced if it has flrt!atr been chilled in the re- A pinch of salt added to coffee after it has reached the bolling point brings out the flavor. JANUARY 3, 1930. OUR CHILDREN BY ANGELO PATRL Crusading for Children. It is remarkable in this day and gen- eration to learn that there is still need for a crusade in behalf of the chil- dren. Even parents’ assoclations and children’s aids are not sufficient to the | need. ‘What would you do if you learned that certain unholy people were ex- ploiting children in the boxing ring? What would you do if you knew that a teacher was mentally unfit and occa- sionally beat children in his care? If an influential citizen employed under-age children? If there was & motion pic- ture shown that children ought not to see? In brief, what would you do if you knew that the laws for the protec- tion of children were being violated re- peatedly and to the great disadvantage, not to say suffering, of the children? Go right after the job, of course. That is what we ought to do. That is what children should expect of us. But sup- pose that the exploiters of children had it in their power to injure your own chilaren? What if the lawbreakers were very influential in your village and had it in their power to make things mighty unpleasant for you and yours? What then? That happens now and then in the best regulated town. Unless there is someone who does not care a rap about the influential gentlemen who break the law for their own profit, unless there is some one who wants nothing at their hands, who is free to crusade for the rights of the children they must suffer? Perhaps that is your mission and you have not seen it? "Perhaps you are one of the women whose families have grown up and gone out into the world and ‘whose time awaits such an opportunity? Or you are a lcne woman with time and power to spare? The fleld is ready. It s too much to ask a mother worn with care to crusade for her children. Society owes her that service. It is for those who are free of such cares, free of the pressure of earning a live- lihood, free of the fear of reprisals, so- cial or financial. There are many women and a few men who are free of such hampering care, and to such as they I make this plea. Go out and crusade for the chil- dren. Help raise the money for the schools. Get on the school board and be active there. Know the teachers and their work. Know the children of the neighborhood and help provide for their needs—phvysical, spiritual as well as mental. Befriend all children. ‘What provisions have been made for the testing and teaching of unfit chil- dren? For the mental health of all chilaren? How much do you know about the mental hygienc work that is so essential in the schools? There is so much to know and to do. So mapy places where a children's crusader is needed. Why mnot you? (Copyright, 1930.) JABBY “If I catch the architect who planned the new dog-pound, I'm gonna leave some blue prints en him." (Copyright, 1930.) FEATURES. Wise-Crackers of Courts and Royalty Mazarin Not Only Succeeded Richelieu as Minister of France but Also as First-class Wit, BY J. P. GLASS. “ON MAZARIN'S HEARTH BLAZED A HOT FIRE. LOOKING AT IT, THE MAN SAID: Cardinal Richelieu established France as a great power. Cardinal Mazarin, whom he bequeathed to Louis XIII as his successor, continued by obtaining the autocracy of the crown. But while Richclieu was a French- man, Mazarin was an Italian. It speaks | well for him that he was able to say, | with complete truth, “My heart is| French, though my language is not.” He might have allled his own family to the crown by marrying his niece to | Louis IV, but this did not fit into his | idea of statesmanship, and he thwarted | Louis, who was madly in love with| Marie Mancini and wished to marry | her. He rose by his wits and wisdom. Subtle and adroit, he was witty in the MENU FOR A DAY. LUNCHEON. Frankfurts, Potato Salad. Rye Bread. Preserved Cherries, Almond Cookles. Tea, DINNER. Cream of Onlon Soup. Baked Beef m&:rown Gravy. ‘Thousand Island Dressing. Brown Betty. Coffee. CRUMB BRAN MUFFINS. Mix together two cups bran, one cup bread flour, one cup fine dried bread crumbs, three-fourths cup sugar, one teaspoon salt and four teaspoons baking powder. Beat one egg until light and add two cups milk. Combine the two mixtures, turn into greased muf- fin pans and bake about 25 min- utes. ALMOND COOKIES. Cream one-half cup of butter with one-half cup of sugar, add one cup of blanched and chopped almonds, one teaspoon of cinna- mon, the beaten yolks of three eggs, one teaspoon of vanilla and one and one-half cups of flour mixed and sifted with two tea- spoons of baking powder. Chill, roll. cut into rounds, brush with white of egg, sprinkle with gran- ulated sugar and bake in a quick oven. BROWN BETTY. One cup bread crumbs, two cups chopped apples, one-half cup of sugar, one teaspoon cin- namon, two tablespoons butter cut in small pieces. Butter a deep pudding dish and alternate the above ingredients in the dish with the crumbs on top. Cover closely and steam three-fourths hour in moderate oven. Uncover and brown. Serve warm with “COLD, HUNGRY!" Chgmle even of a motto. It was “Time and I In his time it was the custom to de- ride public men in song. Nobody was quite so scornfully treated in this re- i!lpec! as Mazarin. But these songs did not annoy him. Once when he levied additional taxes there was an unusually big explosion of vitriolic songs. This bel reported to him, he said calmly: “They sing; He was just as laconic in another instance. He was constantly over- whelmed with petitions, and often had to refuse to sec the petitioners. The governor of the Bastile, therefore, in begging him to receive a relative of his, explained that this person ‘“only wished to say two words.” “But, ‘they will pay.” “Be it s0,” sald Mazarin. mind—two words only.” ‘The day on which the petitioner came happened to be very cold. On . rin’s hearth blazed a hot fire. Looking at it, the man said: “Cold, hungry!™ “Fire, bread!" laughed the cardinal, and ordered that he be pensioned. ‘When he lay at the point of death he was called upon by Anne of Austris. “I am very ill, madame,” he said. Then he humorously stretched out his legs, which disease had withered. , “See these legs?” he sald. “They Have lost all their stability in giving it to the state.” The cardinal was the founder of the French Acedemy. Filling for Prune Cake. Press one cupful of prune through a sieve. Mix two ubmpgg fuls of cornstarch and a little less than half a cupful of sugar together, add to the prune pulp and cook the mixture, stirring constantly until thick. Cook for 10 minutes longer over water, then cool. Add one tablespoonful of lemon juice and the grated rind of half a lemon. Spread the mixture between the layers of cake or use as a filling for a jelly roll. AUNT HET BY ROBERT QUILLEN. “I never realized until Cousin shaved his beard off that whiskers was sugar and cream. an effort o' Providence to cover up mistal