Evening Star Newspaper, January 17, 1930, Page 36

WOMAN’S PAGE. Through the Eyes of Childhood BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. FEATURES. D. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1930. SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. JOLLY POLLY MILADY BEAUTIFUL . Modern wite Doro t hy_D ix ’ m:af’;n:'imny Surpass the Old Fashioned? he Same A Lesson in English BY JOSEPH J. FRISCH. BY LOIS LEEDS. Looking at things from a child’s point |any more than the juvenile friends have of view and quite forgetting one is a|to “talk up” to their elders. Either is grown-up is an indulgence which |a truly painful process to be assiduously parents should not deny themselves | avoided. entirely. Certain books of children's| Although children may tire out older poetry have found great sale among | people who are not used to them, I adults, and not always is it because of | know of many an older person who has had real inspiration from going from an entirely adult home into one where there are youthful members. The fatigue to the ears, which it must be admitted is sometimes great, is more than balanced by the refreshment to the spirit of an entirely unspoiled point of view, Even if some of the change proves to be a strain, there are unlooked for advantages. The trials of stock market, of club management, of a hundred other things, are temporarily rested when one seriously considers the ter- ribly important griefs and joys of those say from five to twelve. It gives one a sense of proportion to see how much a matter of moment is the winning of | & juvenile competition of mm’e fil:;‘b‘, a basket ball game or a game of ey. Those who have children in their | Whoo hoo! Muvver! Kin us turn & know how it keeps them |button on the radio so to shut her off? Blotchy Skin. bath or a brisk rub with a coarse A much-worried reader_writes: “As | 0%y, ey mOrRng will “also tone WITH A STENTORIAN Seaaon’is here and’ we. are. all'Dat: | i Socition o the bulding, up_of VOICE SAY, ticularly anxious to look our best. But | exercise, the skin itself needs especial "SUME PEOPLE ARE gé\ I happen to be one of those unfor-|care, Ointments containing boric acid If Any Difference Mother of Today Is Able to Give Children Scientific Care and Fit Them for World. 1 HEARD A GENTLEMAN SATISFIED WITH A tunate women who really looks her|gare very beneficial to a blotchy com- FIFTY-FIFTY BREAK, worst when she should be at her best. | plexion. After cleansing the face at , No matter how carefully I groom my- | bedtime rinse in cold water, to which a Self for & party, my face is almost sure | fow crops of spirits of camphor have to break out in ugly red spots before e the affair ia over. This is particuarly | P°c® 8dded. Dry and apply the fol true if I dance, but also troubles me at other times. Do you think this is caused by cold weather? And is there anything in the world I can do to remedy ‘it, because it certainly makes me unhappy and very self-conscious?” ‘This is only one of the many letters complaining of the same anroying con- dition. ~Yes, the cold weather has something to do with it, as the skin is usually more sensitive after heing ex- posed to the cold. However, that is only an indirect cause, and those with complexions of this type are never sure “gentleman.” of being free from red spots and Stentorian (sten-TO-ri-an) means in | plotches at any time of the year. In 80 to confrast the mother of the past with the mother of today is as profit- [an extremely loud voice, as the dance | the first place, any one with this | young to have an entirely fresh point |She hollerin’ ‘atic till 1t curgles our | less as contrasting fine gold with fine gold; but if we must compare them, 1 think | was accompanied with stentorian song.| amiction must pay more than usual of view brought to bear in every day |yo0q. that the modern mother is a better mother than the old-fashioned mother. | “Halt!” exclaimed the sentry in a sten- | attention to diet. It would be wise to life. Many a child sees straighter in ‘This is not because she surpasses the old-fashioned mother in ‘devotion or self- | torian tone. A stentor is a person with | eat no desserts or rich foods of eny ok 1a be lef the early years of his life than later abnegation, but simply because she is more intelligent, more sclentific, more |a very powerful voice; as he bawled | kind; instead of the usual dessert take | lOWing lotion, which shoul dl ke eft axa when conventions and hand-me-down efficient and with a better knowledge of how to fit her children for the world |out “Murder!” in a voice of a stentor.|some raw fruit, such as an apple, [ OVernight: freclvlmed St | beliefs have taken hold. True, they than her mother had. 1t is taken from the Greek herald, Sten- | orange or grapefruit. Drink a great amphorated alcohol, one ounée; do not see nearly all there is to see, but tor, in the Trojan War. deal of water between meals—iour to 1, eight ounces. Shake well. the directness and distinterestedness six glasses, if possible, and occasionally y, try not to Worry too much of the vision they posses is very often add the juice of a lemon to the water; blotchy skin. Nervousness and far from being ridiculous in the con- do not ‘sweeten this, however. For |WOITy always accentuate the condition || clusions it essays. those who wish to drink with their |and that may be one of the reasons ! (Copyright, 1930.) meals also I would advise milk rather | Why most of my readers say that they than tea or coffee. Be sure that the |find their complexions more blotchy at meals contain a plentiful supply of such | parties and times when they should be vegetables as greens, cabbage, lomaioes |at ther best than otherwise. Further- This and carrots. Eat at least two of these [ more, such worry detrac e 8 | e overys day: one’s poise and self-confidence and Poor circulation as well as unwise |lack of these is a greater enemy to true A CORRESPONDENT asks, “Which is the better mother, the old-fashioned mother or the modern mother?” In all time and in all ages the great majority of mothers have been good | mothers. From the cavewoman who took the skin from about her own cold shoulders to m‘? her baby more snugly to the woman of today who goes shabby 8o that her children be decked out in real lace and hand embroidery, mothers have always put their children before themselves and loved them better g mhfld they did themselves. Always mothers have sacrificed themselves to their children, Always and everywhere mothers’ arms have formed themselves into cradles | into which to rock bables to sleep. Always mother’s breast has been a temple | of refuge to which troubled little souls could flee and weep out their childish | ,rlz{s. Always mothers have watched by sick beds and guided tottering little fib':!‘:-yn mother’s wmmh:xfie:tm :ge ll?dgr ondwhltclh boys and girls| M, R. N, Norwood, Ohio. el success. What el , mother’s love and patience and under- to sex, say “man,” not standing and forgiveness have never falled. " e o . own home (Copyright, 1930.) NANCY PAGE JU—— ‘This is, of course, the result of the age we live in, which has produced an improved brand of motherhood, just as it has an improved automobile and Hostess Gowns for Teas improved way of lighting and'heating our houses. Look, as an illustration, andiiome M Dinners at what the modern mother does to give her children sound and healthy bodies iy i and to secure them vigorous health. BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. N HE old-fashioned mother adored her children and it broke her heart when she lost them, and che was torn with anxiety when they grew up weak and Nancy could dimly remember seeing| sickly or deformed, but she never felt that she had any responsibility in the a tea gown hanging in the attic at| matter. She simply passed the buck up to Providence and wept because the | and Leroy Shooster stopped taking a home. It was of velvet, had trailing | Lord laid upon her the heavy hand of affliction. wawk to watch some man trying to| diet is often an underlying cause of a [beauty and charm than a complexion kirt and sl f drl ke his automobeel being & | blotchy lexion. “Daily " exercise | which has a_tendency to redden skirt and sleeves of dripping lace. Her ke oA Bac e ikowe That T ‘childent bi in | make his automobeel go agen, being a | blotchy _complexion. 2 mother told her that she used to Wear | ner Keoplng, and.that i her babies die, GTtener than not. i I pesmuse she i | lttle brown automobeel and a medium | Wil improve the circulation, and a cold AP it at home on a Sunday evening when kc? their milk bottles clean and sterilized, and that if little Johnny is weedy | size man with his hat on the back of “ A WASHINGTON DAYBOOK no callers were expected. puny and May is always sniffiing with a cold it is because she is not giving | pig hed, proberly just being that way BY HERBERT PLUMMER. LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. My Neighbor Says: To clean artificial fruit and flowers dip them in and out of white soap-suds several times. Rinse them by dipping in clear water containing a few drops of ammonia. s A piece of felt or velvet glued to the bottom of vases will cover the rough surface which often scratches tables, mantels, etc., on which vases are put. ‘When the lining under the arms of a coat becomes worn, cover the dress shields with the material lining coat and use them But Nancy's idea of tea time tlothes | tHe™ the right sort of food. when he was trying to fix something was decidedly different. She had spe- ‘The old-fashioned mother never thought of doing anything for a child who | and not all a time, and he did things cial ones to wear when guests were ex-| had any sort of physical blemish. If little Johnny was knock-kneed or bow- | to the front of the car and the side of legged or cross-eyed or had protuberant teeth or went about with his mouth | it and then got back into it agen, and open and his jaw ha g down, he was simply doomed to go through life a | it still wouldent go, Puds Simkins say- figure of fun, a target for the jeers of the cruel and unthinking. THERE IS NOTHING KEEPS ADULTS YOUNGER THAN HAVING CHIL- DREN IN THE FAMILY. the youngsters who are supposed to be the audience to which they are dedi- cated. Almost all men or women with any claim to greatness have kept alive the childhood side of their natures so that young folk in meeting them feel an instead of patches. They look much neater. Dip the stopper of a mucilage bottle in parafin before putting it ediate kinship. They do not have to “talk down” to their “youngers” BEAUTY CHATS into the bottle and it will not s BY EDNA KENT FORBES Choosing Colors. Choose three colors in contrast to one another, but in friendly contrast, 80 that if necessary all three can be ‘worn at once. Make these colors your own; wear no colors except these, one of them should be a serviceable color to be used as a ground work. Gray if you've gray eyes, which means either & bluey gray or the brownish stone gray, dark blue, dark enough to be serviceable but not so dark as to be dull, brown, any shade of beige. I am not pu black in the list, since black is a contrast to practically every color. Besides, you should k¢ black for dinner gowns and afternoon dresses, and otherwise reserye it for the last year's coats and dresses that you are dyeing for another season. Your new clothes should be purchased in brighter colors. For your contrasting colors, you have an unlimited choice. If you should choose jade green and rose pink, for , you could wear both together or each separately as excellent con- trast with a chocolate-brown suit. If you have a hat and handbag in either color and a dress in each color, it does Bins Wil Wos ‘v Br ‘against lue, green either beige. gray or dark blue. merely suggest you your chosen colors for at least one whole season, keeping your hats, your handbags, scarfs and all your dresses and coats to these shades. Your coat should be the shade of your dress, or a darker contrast. As a black coat is essential with & black dress, it means you must have at least two coats, Buy your new one in color and dye your last year's one black, and it will look like new. ‘The blessed part of this color arrange- ment is that your clothes and acces- can never clash. Result, you will always look well dressed, and having once hased your outfit you can for- get all about your clothes, Helen E. H—8ulphur and sage to- gether were used for many years to give & tan shade to gray hairs, and Today in Washington History BY DONALD A. CRAIG. January 17, 1856—~Washington is al- ready a beautiful city and will some day be the most beautiful capital in the world, in the opinion of the editor of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. An issue of this paper, containing a fine editorial appreciation of this city, was received here today and sttracted much attention. After alluding to the fact that this country is without a great national city—a city representing the Nation as Paris represents France, or London England—and that the prejudices of the people are happily against all claims to supremacy on the part of any one city, it proceeds to say that in the ab- sence of any great and dominating metropolis, whose commerce or manu- factures or wealth can give it the power to represent the whole Nation, we can turn with some pleasure to Washington since the tonic has some sulphur in it, it is just possible that the white hairs of your friend were given a tan or light yellow tint from this ingredient in the tonic. She can have the tonic put up the next time and omit the sulphur. Dorothy L. H—I do not wonder you are confused by the number of creams offered when you have never thought of them before this time. You can get along with only one cream for every purpose if it is made of the finest qual- ity almond or olive oil. This will be healing and nourishing and it will keep your skin smooth also. A cleansing cream should be cheaper as it is not made from fine oils, 50 you see you may reduce the number offered to two or even to just one. Miss R. G.—General good care of the skin will contract the pores that have become enlarged on your face, but it will take time to make any lasting im- pression on them. Keep the skin active and stimulated by daily scrubs all over followed by cold showers, or cold show- ers alone if you react well to them, and close the pores of the face after every cleansing by dashing very cold ‘water over the skin. Dab a little witch hazel over the places where pores are conspicious every few days unless your skin is inclined to be very dry, and in that case make the -g:muem twice a week and on days w) you also use & good cream. Mrs. R. P.—A slice of white bread 4 by 4 inches, contains 70 calories, and a sixth of an ounce of butter, which is I ::xl average spread, would be another 40 o ries. The margarines contain very little fattening qualities, Miss L. M.—After you have used very warm water on your hands, run cold water over them for a few minutes, which will prevent your hands from looking so red after you have bathed them. The warm bath brings the blood into them and the chill sends the blood a from the skin, Mrs. H. C. R—If you merely applied henna to your hair with the lather when shampooing, it would not aiter its shade to any extent, not to a red- dish tint at all, but just a slight glow toward the red. You could not wash it off if you did not care for it, as it would have to wear off. Mrs. K. G. F.—Massage with & nour- ishing oil cream for about 10 minutes every day following the bath when you have used warm water or soap and water, as the skin will be relaxed then and be more receptive to treatment. Remove the surface cream and close pores with cold water. Begin the move- ments at base of throat and work up over chin and cheeks to strengthen the loose muscles under the chin. as a city in which the people take an in- terest and i whose embellishment and improvement eve State can take a certain degree of delight and pride. The plan of Washington has been ridiculed for its vastness, and it may have seemed ridiculous to have a few thousand le scattered over a space that would lodge a million and call it a city. But, as has been often pointed out, the designers of Washington cal- culated for futurity. Already it is ginning to show that it will be large enough for its plan, 11 ‘Within the past 15 years its popula- tion has more than doubled and many of the present generation will doubt- less live to see it a compact and ele- gant city of several hundred thousand inhabitants. The plan, besides being vast, is perhaps the finest ever con- ceived for a great metropolis. Paris, in spite of its boulevards, its Rue de Rivoli and its Champs Elysees, can never be made as superb a city as Washington must become in the course of centuries, declares the Bulletin. The universally wide, straight streets and the grand avenues radiating from the Capitol and the President’s House, give it an advantage in variety and in circulation that no European capital possesses, and, adds the Bulletin—"of which even we in rectangular but beau- tiful Philadelphia must forever be de- prived.” ‘There is no grander urban prospect in the world, the editorial continues, than that presented to the spectator from the Capitol, even at the present time. The city lles at his feet and Pennsylvania avenue stretches out before him, even its mean-looking houses acquiring a sort of beauty as being comPonent parts of a vista, Vistas are always beautiful and this one, terminating with the e Gitanoe, Wi ‘a5 some future 8y tan at some future be ot“u most besutiful in the is collared with beaver.. pected. Her favorite was of taffeta, The trousers were long and s ht. The jacket was of deep blue eta lined with chartreuse chiffon. The same shade of chartreuse was in the taffeta trousers. She would put this on for informal dinners in her own home, If more guests drofped in during the evening she still felt correctly dressed. She was invited over to Agnes Burn- ham’s home one evening. There were four couples seated at dinner. It was a jolly informal affair with bridge and anagrams afterward. Her hostess wore a sult of soft challis. The trous- ers were plain from waist to knee, then a vol nous pleated plece reached 3 SN 31 va Al from knee almost to floor. This gave & feminine softness to the hostess dress. The blouse was a tuck in, sleeveless. With it was worn a rather short jacket with long sleeves hanging wide and free at wrists. Nancy ought this would be attractively made of figured silk for blouse and trousers and of corduroy for jacket. Sardines Tartare. Skin the sardines and remove the backbones. Cut the strips of bread the same size and shape of the sardines and fry them a golden brown. When cool, arrange the fish on these croutons, coat them with tartare sauce and gar- nish with capers and bits‘of pimento. Make the sauce tartare just like a cream sauce, using the water in which meat or fish has been boiled, in place of milk. When it has cooked for five minutes after thickening, take the pan from the fire and beat in the yolk of an egg. Put the pan back again and stir briskly with a wooden spoon while you count 50. The fire must be a 3 clear one. Now let the sauce cool for five minutes, then stir in two or three tablespoonfuls of vinegar. ARIS — ~in blouse of this belge and brown tweed ensemble un-fmagnw%m.mm-ymmmm*uu-femhmmz But the modern mother realizes w! the dren. Of course, grandmother was not to blame for letting her children grow up as ugly as God made them, for surgery was not then the miracle-working thing it is now. But all the same it is the modern mother who sees to it that her children’s legs and teeth are straightened and their adenoids removed. It is the modern mother who is turning out the healthiest, handsomest race the world has ever seen, ‘The old-fashioned mother did little about fitting her children for life because she was ignorant of life herself. She taught them to say their prayers and made them go to church and taught them as best she could the moralities and then trusted to luck as to how they would turn out. child as a problem or tried to understand its individual psychology or attempted to find out what particular talents and aptitudes it had. But it is a very stupld modern mother who doesn't try with all the intelli- gence she possesses to solve the little enigma she has brought into the world and to find out how to control and stimulate it, how to develop the right habits in it, how to educate it and help it find the work in the world that God intended it to do. * % % % F!NALLY. the modern mother is a better mother than the old-fashioned mother because she is less » mother, if you get what I mean. The old- fashioned mother mothered her children to death. She mothered them with her ki them tied to her apron string and deprive them of all liberty and take away from them all initiative. was that she had never left her children for a single day since they were born, couldn't do & thing without mother, and that she had no interest affection. Her one ides was to and that they outside of her family. ‘The modern mother knows that she cannot always hold her children by the hand and guide their feet, 50 she teaches them to stand alone and watch their step. She does not demand slavish obedience of them. She reasons with them and when possible recognizes the justice of their point of view. She knows that ignorance is not innocence and she makes them wise to the temptations they must meet. And she fills her own life with interests outside of her children 50 that she will not be a parasite upon them, who has to suck her every joy and interest out of them. ‘The old-fashioned mother's children loved and honored her. woman's children love and honor her and are friends with her. They pal with her and discuss with her things that the old-fashioned mother's children never to her, and that gives the modern mother the chance to dreamed of ment! guide and help her 8o, judged by every standard, the modern Even the flappers are, who are bringing up the! (Copyright, 1990.) Everyday Psychology BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. Ruralites and urbanites have long suspected that they didn't think alike. But no one knew just why until the farmers began to go to the city. All this has come in the last 20 years with the multiplicity of ‘:)od roads and automobiles. One might never suspect it, but the automobile has blazed the way to a lot of knowledge about group psychology. In what respects does the rural mind differ from the urban mind? In the first place the ruralite is an individual. The urbanite is a member of & group. While the city man says “we do this,” the ruralite says “I do this.” There is no real public opinion in the country. So farmers can't co- operate. That may be the season why they are now crying for “relief.” In the second place, the ruralite thinks In terms of magic. He knows all about the weather signs, what it means to plant crops by the moon, why the squirrels some years have an es- pecially heavy coat of fur. Close to nature, he thinks the language of na- ture, which in the long run is myst In the third place, the ruralite noted for his suggestibility. That's why revivals, camp meetings and excite- ments over epidemics have always had a good chance to flourish in the country. Being suggestible, the ruralite has often fallen a prey to all sorts of smooth-talking swindlers. Some of lessons, however, were taken to heart and passed on from generation to generation, creating another tralt known as rural suspiciousness. Suspiciousness in turn has tended to drive the rural mind back to its shib- boleths, its formulas, its “laws of na- ture,” its belief in magic. L (PYRI AUSA an important part looks cut in the or the marring of the success of & man or woman, and so she calls in istance of the surgeon and the dentist and the oculist and has the rations performed that remove the handicaps that nature has placed on her She never thought of a Her proudest has ever had. ‘woman is a success as & mother. ir bables by the baby book. DOROTHY D! dren that no other mother ing, Maybe your carburetor is twisted, SENATOR MORRIS SHEPPARD of would analyze and classify resources of mister. Pudses father having a car and him wunting to show how much he knows, and Leroy Shooster sed, Maybe one of your spark "EI\IB! is off. Leroys father having & car too, and I sed, Maybe your engine is nocking, mister. My father not having any car and me wunting to prove that dident make any diffrents to me, and the man sed, It you kids injoy tawking to yourselfs, 80 ahed and have a good time. And he started to get underneeth of the car, with a munkey rentch, getting under everywhere except his feet, and Puds sed, Maybe your battery is run- ning over, mister. Maybe your degenerator has got into your feed, sed. Not leeving much left for me to say, and I sed, Maybe your steering wheel is discon- nected with your exhaust pipe. Sounding like the best one yet, and the man came out from underneeth of the car and gave us a fearse look as if he dident like us and wouldent of liked us even if he had knew us, and he got back in the car agen and pushed things and pulled things, and what did the car do but go. Proving one of the things we sed was proberly rite, and Puds sed, G wizz whats you know about that, tawk about a ungrateful guy, and Leroy sed, Bleeve me thats the last information I ever give to anybody I dont know, and I sed, That just shows the thanks you get for giving away free advice. And we kept on going and we came to another man trying to fix his car u;:d We never even pertended to notice im, s i Oldest Road Electrified. Electrification of the Swansea & Mumbles Railway, the oldest line in the world, has been completed, and the new-old road is re wbeofi - ing successfully. e Swansea & = bles was opened in 1807, and for the first 70 years was 1 s‘t;-m locomotives to run in 1877, ‘Texas is not devoting all of his energy these days to securing passage of his bill which would make the man who purchased a drink of liquor as guilty as the one who sold it to him. The co-author of the eighteenth amendment has interested himself in another piece of legislation, just as novel if not as interesting, as his far-reachi booze proposal. In a word, he wants to see Amer- icans add to their existing political freedom; failure to do so will, in his opinion, eventu- ally make the former meaningless and 2hmlerlcl nothing more than an “empty ell.” Or still more simply, for every rural community, town, city and State to look about and see what commodities they may manufacture within their own boundaries, always on the small- est practical scale, to the end that ownership might be as widespread as possible. ‘The Texan first advanced his theory three years ago in a Fourth of July speech in the Senate. He introduced a resolution to that end. As a result, the Department of Com- merce instituted a study to determine whether such a proposition was prac- | tical. Senator Sheppard was told that the Government had a vast amount of information along this line that it could pass out—that it had done so. ‘The idea has worked successfully in some places. In New York and Brook- lyn, for example, the manufacture of clinical thermometers is still largely a home industry. The thing to do it of all, Shep was told, is to have Congress authorize surveys of various areas throughout the country which such areas. So he has set out to have this done. In a resolution offered the other day, he asks that the Secretary of Com- merce be authorized to analyze the re- sources of an area where an individual or association is interested in opening a small factory. He would have the Secretary of Ag- riculture do the same thing for those washing to start a factory on a farm, in a farm community or village. Sheppard makes it plain that he does not mean to underrate or decry quan- tity production. On the contrary, he belleves that quantity production is es- sential in many respects to a progres- sive civilization. “But,” he points out, “centralization of industry inevitably means central- ibation of government. . . . Our fun- damental problem is to reopen the channels of opportunity in such way that tenants and employes might again become owners. “Both quantity and small-scale pro- duction must be studied and devel- oped if individuals are to realize their best possibilities and if our country is to register the highest type of prog- ress.” Sheppard believes that it ml{ube practicable to combine the two ideas in certain instances by marketing the output of many small factories through a central agency operated on the co- um‘flve plan or by individual enter- prise. Eggs and Green Peppers. ‘Wash and remove the seeds from six green peppers. Cover the peppers with befiing water and allow to stand for 15 minutes. Pour off the water and chop the peppers fine. Saute them in four tablespoonfuls of butter until tender, adding three-fourths teaspoonful of salt and a pinch of pe&per for seasoning. Meanwhile, poach s and arrange them on rows of -hot, buttered toast. Sprinkle the eggs with salt and mw, ' and cover the top of each poac! g% with & layer of the cooked green pep- Rers. Serve at once. WILKINS COFFEE is down to the price usually charged by Coffees which lack its smooth deliciousness of blend. The v quality is unchanged. It has the same flavor that has made it the most popular Coffee in Washington.