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WOMAN’S PAGE, THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1930. The Sidewalks of Washington BY THORNTON FISHER, “Some men are born with the gift|ment or vigorous service in benalf of |2 worthy cause. for attaining publicity, notoriety, fame Py aum, oA | prefer to have their benefactions garb- or what you care to call it,” said a man whose sole business it is to seize headlines and tail- lines for his cli- ents. “I remember,” he continued, “a poor fellow who all his life lived in obscurity. Induced by domestic and financial worries, he went insane and was sent to an asylum. Most of the time he was under the scrutiny ©of the officials, but one day he made an eager and suc- cesstul break from the institution. “While never rec- ognized as a particularly dangerous man, it was feared that he might in- flict damage on an innocent person. An alarm was sent out for his appre- hension. The neighboring villages were frightened. Up to the moment of his escape the man was utterly unknown to any save his friends. Over- night his name became well known to everybody in the surrounding com- Munities. “Of course, he was unconscious of the fact that he was receiving publicity. A posse started after him and eventual- ly he was recaptured and returned to the asylum. “There are people with a flair for making themselves known. Not that they themselves seek the public prints. It may be due to some special achieve- ‘There are many blicity and ed in anonymity. The reason for this must be obvious. There are thousands of others who attempt every subterfuge to attract atiention to themselves. This takes all sorts of forms. “I have been guilty, in my youthful days, of trylag a few tricks myself, but my business today is distinctly legiti- mate. I mean that I provide honest news about my clients. We no longer attempt to kid the public about the theft of a million dollars’ worth of Jjewels. It doesn’t work any longer.” * ok ok % About the hardest thing for a man to do is to ask for a raise in salary. The boss might be perfectly willing to listen to his argument, but pride and the fear of failure frequently deter the aspiring fellow from entering the lion’s den. One day & certain chap of our a quaintance who had been postponing the ordeal finally developed sufficient nerve to approach “the old man.” The chief was noted for his particular abil- ity to growl. Therefore, when the self- appointed candidate for higher wages entered he was received with a growl, with several additional barks. This completely unnerved the applicant, and he began to stutter: “Go-0-0-0-d- morning, Mr. Blank. It's a very nice day, don't you think? I simply wished to_bid you good-morning.” With that he backed from the office. ‘The boss looked up in amazement. He may have known what the young chap wanted. Otherwise he probably con- sidered him queer under the hat. His employes were not given to entering his office merely to wish him good-morn- ing. OUR CHILDREN BY ANGELO PATRL Housing Children. ‘When there is evidence of ill health 1t is better by far to look for the cause than to try curing the patient with one’s favorite remedy. When one finds that a great many children from one section of the town are going wrong it would be intelligent to search for the cause, would it not? Instead of saying that these children come from a bad neighborhood and all of them ought to be sent to the reform school and taught a trade would it not be better to clean up the neighborhood and give the chil- dren the right kind of education in the public school? ‘We have found by careful investiga- tion that poor housi citizens. Poor in health, poor 1 ice, poor in life relationships in ‘whatever field they try to function. Once the houses have been cleaned up and light and air, sanitary living con- ditions secured, a bit of beauty allowed to have its way, the people respond and the children improve. It seems to me that there ought not “Tain't surprisin’ that Bozo acts so -ornery, ‘cause you sorta expect to find & chip on any blockhead’s shoulder.” (Copyright, 1930.) to be a slum district anywhere in Amer- ica. We are the most prosperous- peo- ple in the world. We are enlightened, we understand the requirements of healthy citizenship. We have the means and the power to use them. Why then should any child live in an undesirable neighborhood? Again I beg to bring this matter of housing to the attention of the women's clubs of the country. Women are in control of the housing situation. It is women who set the standards for the home. It is they who protect the home. It is they who set on foot every reform for the home. Will they not undertake this one and dwell with it until through- out the length and breadth of this land there is not a le child forced to live in a neighbor that pulls him down to the level of the prison reform school. Already this reform is on the way. A. M. Bing of New York is fathering the garden town. Out at Radburne, N. he and his group are building & lovely place where every child may live in a pleasant home surrounded by gardens, safely protected from motor traffic, while on the way to school or while at lay. % In Italy the city government of Rome taken over the idea of building homes for its workers. Here we find the teachers’ settlement, here the news- paper men’s home, here the professional ' settlement. The children are A R A with the t—the rig] a good start. In England the garden villages are well known and in in x{eumber But America began long ago when A. T. Stewart settled Garden City and made it & village for workers. We know what to do and how to do it. We have great leaders already in the field. Why are we 50 slow? Take the children out of the slums and we will need no re- form schools. We will not have & juve- nile crime problem. (Copyright, 1930.) Scallops and Oysters. Steam one pint of scallops and one pint of oysters. Blend one tablespoon- ful of butter with two fuls of flour, add half a pint of cream, and season with salt, cayenne and the juice of half a lemon. Add at the very last the well beaten yolks of two eggs. Mix the sauce with the scallops and oysters and serve on thin slices of toast. THE STAR’S DAILY PATTERN SERVICE. Utility Type. A charming sports type for utility wear employs flecked tweed in Spanish red tones with vestee in beige accented by grosgrain ribbon bows in the red shade. The flattering cascadirg jabot revers break the width through ‘the bodice, which makes style No. 111 so suitable for the larger woman. The belt rests at normal waistline. Hips are extremely snug, with slightly flared fullness at.| hem, with skirt given a wrapped move- ‘(mn: through curved seaming at side- ront, It is designed in sizes 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46 inches bust. It is ultra-modish in black suede broadcloth with vestee in eggshell shade of dull side of crepe satin with bows of the shiny surface. Knitted wool jersey weave in dark dahlia purple tones is effective. Black lustrous crepe satin with vestee | of reverse of crepe, which is also used | for turn-back cuffs and applied bands of sleeves, is excellent choice for service. Bottle green wool crepe, black canton crepe, midnight blue flat silk crepe and e v 5 v~ Jjecquard silk crepe in dark maroon red tones are chic 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 ylltzm you inclose 10 cents additional for & copy of our new fashion e. Kidney Stew. Skin and clean six pairs of veal kid- neys, cut in one-inch pieces, and soak in salt and water for three hours. Wipe dry, put back in a bowl, and squeeze over them the juice of three lemons. Let stand for two hours. Seed three green peppers, put them in a bowi with two Spanish onions and chop fine. Put three tablespoonfuls of olive oil in a kettle, and when hot add the kidneys. Cover and cook slowly for half an hour, add Eefrr. salt and onions, then cook for alf an hour longer. 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KOTE X ‘The New Sanitary Pad which deodorizes Humiliations of Great Americans John Paul Jones Suffered Because of Jest at Expense of Commander of Serapis Fradulently Attributed to Him. BY J. P. GLASS, “Among the first persons he m:‘fid in London was Capt. Ralph Willett e 3 ‘To & man so gallant and chivalrous as Commodore John Paul Jones nothing could have beeri more humiliating than th: story which he read in American papers. ‘This story related that after Jones, in the Bonhomme Richard, had conquered Capt, Richard Pearson, in the Serapis, Pearson was court-martialed, but ac- quitted, following which King George III knighted him for his bravery in de- fending his ship. It added that when Jones heard of the honor shown his late adversary he remarked: “If I ever catch him at sea again I will make & lord of him.” Commodore Jones reddened with em- barrassment when this morsel came to his attention. He heatedly denied it. However, it lived to humiliate him. A few years later, when he went to Eng- land, it arose like a specter to im- pugn his gentility. Among the first persons he encoun- tered in London was Capt. Ralph Willet Miller, a native of New York, who had espoused the cause of the King against the colonists, As they had many mu- tual acquaintance in America, Jones found his company pleasing. “Do you know,” said Miller one day, “that on my last cruise to America I read in the papers that vou had said that if you ever caught Sir Richard Pearson at sea again you would make & lord of him.” “Oh,” replied Jones, “I have always denounced that tale. It exhibits me in the character of a buffoon. The facts which gave rise to it are these: “A long time after the battle of the Bonhomme Richard and the Serapis, I was at Versailles. One day I was a guest luncheon of the Duchess de Chartres. There was a large company present. Before all these people, her royal high- ness informed me that his Britannic majesty had just knighted “Capt. Rich- ard Pearson for his conduct in the en- gagement that ended in surrender to me. “I at once said that the information was gratifying to me, particularly as I had told Capt. Pearson upon his sur- render that he had defended himself with credit and I hoped his sovereign would suitably reward him. “I told the duchess, also, that as re- wards were then going in the British navy, knighthood was too little for Capt. Pearson; that a dukedom would not have been extravagant. “To some of the ladies this seemed persifiage. I assured them of my entire candor. Capt. Pearson, I said, by his desperate resistance had enabled his lnrfe and valuable convoy to exfl%e, which would not have happened if he had surrendered sooner.” Commodore Jones assured Capt. Miller that it was this table talk which had given rise to the spurious anecdote he had read in America. And now Miller delighted the American hero immeas- urably. “Let me tell you” said he, “that Capt. Sir Richard Pearson also has seen that story in print. But he did not credit it. He said: “‘I do not believe that Mr. Jones ever made such an observation regarding me. I cannot think that any brave of- ficer would be capable of such a re- mark.’ " Commodore Jones stralghtened as if a load had rolled off his shoulders. “Permit me to thank you most sin- cerely, Capt. Miller,” he said, “for giv- ing me the opportunity to set this silly FEATUR AXES TO GRIND In all this world it's hard to find a man who has no ax to grind. A man beholds my garden fair, and all the roses blooming there, the cockleburs so tall and bright, and dandelions left and right; into an ecstasy he goes, en- thusiastic fits he throws. “Now here,” I mutter, “is a gent who is by love of beauty sent to gaze in rapture on the thi which might be praised . No sordid motives can inspire this man who comes here to admire.” A while he views the won- drous scene, then says: “You're using paris green to kill the worms and other pests, and slay the microbes in their nests. But paris green’s all out of date, not worth a dime a hundredweight. I represent Prof. Snide, who makes the new insecticide; a man of large and lofty_dome, he studied bugs in Greece and Rome; the scientists of every clime consider him & man sublime. One box of his insecticide .you use, and all the bugs have died, and you will have a garden then that will delight all pass- ing men” I bid him skip, I bid him fade, and roundly smite him with a s]ade. and chase him seven blocks or six, and pelt him with a lot of bricks. For it is grievous thus to find a caller has an ax to grind. I'm so obsessed I look for guile in every man who wears 8 smile. I used to think the smiling man was built upon a goodly plan; I thought he loved his fellow jays, the human race and all its ways, the milk of kindness filled his form, his heart was large and good and warm. But now I think some say, “He has an ax (Copyright, 1930.) My Neighbor Says: When cleaning cooking utensils with wire wool, if you wrap the wool around a stiff brush it will be much easier to handle. One teaspoonful of dissolved gelatin added to hal? pint of whipping cream will make the cream stiffer when whipped. Fresh air is as necessary in 2 bed room at night as in the daytime. If a bed is near a window, place a screen between it and the bed when the win- dows are open. To make beef juice add one pound of fresh’ raw, finely chopped, round steak 'without fat, to six ounces of cold water, Add a pinch of salt, put the beef and water in a glass jar and nd it on ice, overnight. ake and strain it through story at rest. 0.) coarse muslin, squeezing hard to bt the fulce, © Afternoon Dresses BY MARIE SHALMAR. The phrase afternoon dress has come to indicate just as distinct a type of dress in a woman’s wardrobe as the evening dress, yet the fact that a dress may be worn appropriately after 12 in the daytime does not mean that it is an afternoon dress, and there are, of course, many times when an afternoon by | dress would be most inappropriate for afternoon wear. One thing worth noting is that the real afternoon dress it not worn in the morning by the woman of good taste in matters of dress, and since the skirt for afternoon dresses is fairly long and frequently of uneven hemline, the ‘woman of good judgment does not wear a dress of this type for street wear at any time. Many of the new afternoon dresses are quite appropriate for infor- mal dinner wear at home or in res- ES new designs and colors is material for dresses of this description, which may be made with & cape == of matching or harmonizing maf 3 Decidedly smart, as well as practical, are the crepe de chines showing black or ‘navy blue background with printed figures in beige or brighter colors. Among the cotto nmaterials there are some that are appropriate for the less formal sort of afternoon dress, and printed cotton vofles lend themselves to treatment similar to that of printed crepe de chine. In Place of Eggs. 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