Evening Star Newspaper, February 10, 1930, Page 24

wOoM AN’S PAGE. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D O MONDAY, FEBRUARY" 10, 1930. The Sidewalks of Washington BY THORNTON FISHER. NE of the most interesting eve- nings this correspondent has ever enjoyed was “held” the other night—the sort, you know, when folks just natural- 1y unveil their souls. Among those in the group was a man %6 years old. He said: “In the twilight of life I know of no age when I en- Joyed life more. I would not be a year ;ounger if T had the power to turn the ands of time back. I have learned that Worry is the most useless thing in the world. Most of my younger days I was disturbed over matters which I chuckle at now. I had my disappointments, it is true. Many of my ambitions were never realized, but the pleasure I had at the time contemplating them was ccmpensation. “Fortunately I saved enough as I went along to take care of my neces- sities today. I am not dependent upom any one, and that seems to me to be fine a reward as & man can have after years of labor. I owe no man any- thing except my esteem. Looking backward I can see ‘where I might have improved myself, have been more helpful and accom- plished more, but most men could do the same. I have seen my sons and daughter grow to manhood and wom- anhood and real families of their own. I am living my youth again in the spirit of my grandchildren.” The next speaker was a man 40| years old. He said: “I have arrived at the finest age of a man's life. II have just begun to learn what the ‘world is all about. Still having illusions, I have learned how to separate the genuine from the unreal. I have learned something about my fellow beings I didn't know 10 years ago. Although not having arrived at the ‘slipper’ age, I am more content to re- main home with the family than I was a few years ago. I still have years ahead of me in which to accomplish things. “Just a few years ago when the phone rang I was afraid that it wasn't a party. Now when it rings I'm afraid that it is. I have learned, too, what friendship means. It means more than merely spending money on a good time, to be a good fellow. I dare say I have no more than a half dozen friends in the true sense—friends who tell me the truth about myself. And what a thing that is. Yes, I would rather be 40 than any other age.” BEAUTY CHATS Elbow Lotions. Uglyglbows are such a disfigurement that no woman ought to allow this most easily cured trouble for one mo- ment. Here are some suggestions for the treatment of thin, awkward or dark- looking elbows. The first thing, always, is to scrub the elbows hard for several minutes with a hand scrubbing brush, castile scap and hot water. And at once, after Tinsing and drying, to rub on a fatten- ing cold cream, preferably something the facial or scalp treatments, or even while you are doing housework, if you've a short-gleeve dress on. The longer the the cream on the better, for the skin will take up a lot” This should be done every day until the hard skin is smooth, the dark shadows gone and the sharp points covered with smooth, firm flesh. Always, however, every time you cold cream your face rub a little on the it will keep the elbows I Hngmweé!l it elbows ool af all times, ly after a few weeks ©of the other treatment suggested. When you wash and dress for the evening, if you are wearing a sleeveless frock, cover the elbows with vanishing cream, after you have scrubbed them. Coat them with powder last thing when you have dressed. This makes them look as smooth and nice as the rest of your arms and is a temporary way of mak- ing ugly elbows look well, though of no His son then spoke. He said: “I Wwould rather be 20 than any other age. I have all of life ahead of me. I am gulnl to take a course in engineering. am going to be married to one of the Sweetest girls in the world.” And there you have a portrait of three different persons. * ok % Here's one. An old woman who lived near the frontier during the war with England ssessed & marvelous pro- pensity to iearn the news and frequently made inquiries of the soldiers. On one occasion she called to one of the de- fenders of our rights and said, “What's th n;l's? ‘Why, my good lady,” said a soldier, “the Indians have fixed a crow-bar under Lake Erie and are going to turn it over and drown the world.” “Oh, mercy, what shall I do!” and away she ran to tell her neighbors of the danger and inquire of the minister how such a calamity could be averted. “Why,” sald he, “you need not be alarmed—we have our Maker's promise that He will not again destroy this earth by water.” I know that,” replied the old lady. “He's nothing to do with it. It's them plaguey Indians.” * K Kk Laugh this off. Mohamet at 20 mar- ried a wife of 40; Shakespeare’s An: Hathaway was 7 years his senior; Dr. and Mrs. Rowe, the authoress, was 15 years the senior of her husband. Mar- garet Fuller mar- ried the Count D'Ossili, 10 years younger than her- self, and the im- mortal Jenny Lind is said to have been 8 or 10 years older than her husband. And these are what are called in com- mon parlance “hap- oy marviages; A good deal of the consolation of- fered in the world is about as solacing as the assurance of the man to his wife when she fell in the. river—“You'll find ground at the bottom, my dear.” * k% x again,” said a small boy. “Why not?” was asked with surprise. “Because,” said he, “I've lost one father and I don’t want the trouble of becoming acquainted with another.” BY EDNA KENT FORBES ly be larger than the average all over when fully grown up. Mary Lee S—There should be no difficulty in having your sister’s teeth straightened, even though she is 18 years of age. She will probably need to wear specially made bracing of laced gold wires which will not be uncom- fortable after a short time, Such braces are easily adjusted and removed whenever neccessary, when eating, or overnight if there is the least feeling or evex‘}e n.ed. yu‘r“ bet«:;:n tl:el- teeth h:n“ straighf pen: upon w badly she needs to have the work done. It would be a great loss to have any of her teeth dentist and have sufficient Perfect Boiled Icing. ‘When your boiled icing is ready to spread onto a cake, add a small amount of butter to the icing and allow it to melt through by a light stirring. This will keep “'the icing fll,'gm hardening and flaking off, no matter how old it gets. Special Days permanent value to them. Use hand lotions on the elbows, too. These whiten and smooth the skin. M. E. S—When it is not possible to purchase a face patter, you may easily manage to make one from a light- weight shoe form. Roll something soft about the broad side of the end used for the toes and pat with this portion, taking care to give yourself gentle . Anne T.—As your brown hair is in- clined to reddish glints, you may easily enrich these if you add a little henna to the lather when you shampoo. Let the lather stay on the hair for 10 min- utes before you proceed to shampooing. Henna, by ftself, s in no way harmful to the hair, as it is not a dye in the Consolations. Be consoled if you are the owner of 2 pug nose! The women with small noses can look young to the point of being ingenue so long as they like; a £mall nose makes a young profile. you've a large nose, you've just got to have a grand manner and the dignity and the height to go with it, but if You've & small nose you can just &imple and young. It's much easier. Wear your hair bobbed, don’t wave 1t if it shows no desire to wave, don't be afraid of hair parted down the middle, of demureness in hair dress- ing, in clothes, in colors. Wear low heel shoes, wear simple straight up and down tailored suits, wear sports tweed coats and big fur collars that roll up around your face and little hats made on plain lines. Wear knitted Jumpers with skirts, and blouses under them that show tailored stiff cuffs and collars, and ties, mannish fashion. Afm for a youthful, rather than a smart, effect. If your face is full, your hair a little | wavy, or if & wave is becoming to you, | your figure round, then affect a more feminine style, but still keep youth rather than smartness as your object. ‘The simple tweeds and sports coats of the daytime are good for you, too, but you have more latitude in afternoon and evening dresses. The frills, the floating panels, the chiffons and laces that the thinner, straight-haired girl looks badly in, are yours—yours is the | girlish, not the boyish type. But even | favorable to parties for young folk| you, having a small nose, cannot wear | the sophisticated gowns, nor the period gowns, that the taller, dignified woman | can carry. | You'll be glad of your small nose, | the small ears that go with such a nose, | and your small features in later life, for you will always look young. M. K.—Bleach the hair on your legs with xide, and wherever there is one mll too dark after the others are bleached, use & safety razor on it, 80 you may clip it off and not leave a Sour sheer stk stockings: © T your T R. W.—It is possible you have reach- ed your height as many pirls and boys grow that way, attaining all their height first, then beginning to develop all over. You will not appear to be so tall after you have had a few years of maturing, and this means that your cheeks will grow plump also. our ‘weight of 125 ds for your height of 5 feet 7 inches, is all right at your “I don't want mother to marry/ of discomfort. It may take six months | adjusted if you find the | BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. LITTLE BENNY | BY LEE PAPE. Me and Puds Simkins was standing outside the grocer store, and who went in with a little empty baskit but the bewty looking new girl that just moved into the corner house, me saying, G, | heers our chance to mect her. How? Puds sed. Easy, I sed, and he sed, Well how? and I sed, When she comes out with the baskit full of stuff, you pretend to trip over something and bump into her |and make some of the things spill out | of the baskit, and then IIl quick pick them up for her and then all we haff to do is wawk alongside of her and ln‘!’erduce each other. Its a cintch, I sed. | Maybe it is for you, picking things | up, but how about the one doing the ! | bumping? Puds sed. G wizz she wont even wunt to be interduced to me, he sed, and I sed, Sure she will. Every | gerl likes to be ipologized to, and youil ! | have a good. excuse to ipologize to her. | All rite, you can have it, Il do the | picking up, Puds sed, and I sed, No | sir, nuthing doing. we got it all nice | and arranged and whats the use of up- | setting everything now. ‘Thats just it, you wunt me to do all the upsetting, Puds sed. We'll toss up or it, thats what we'll do. Have you got a cent? he sed. . No, I sed, and Puds sed, Neither have |1, I had one this morning. I had 3 yestidday, what good's that | to ug? I sed. G wizzickers look at her, T sec Meening the bewty looking gerl away up the street, Puds saying, Heck, she must of came out while we was argew- | ing, and me saying, Well we cant run after her and then bump into her, it wouldent look axsidental enough. Maybe it wasent a good ideer any- | ways, Puds sed. Wich maybe it wasent. Home in Good Taste BY SARA HILAND. Are you a lover of things reminiscent of the hoop-shirted days? If so, you will be charmed with this delightful little reproduction of an early type | of Iamp. | The standard is of wrought fron and the bowl is of pewter, while the shade . is of parchment paper with a fasci- | nating silhouete of a very prim little lady making her very proper calls by medns of her victoria. She may appear very calm, but once | that tea starts brewing and the little ‘cnkes are brought forth, don't you think she will change a little bit and | not wish to miss her share of the choice news which always seems to | be in the air at these little tea parties? | ., A lamp such as this would be attrac- tive for the living room, perhaps on a butterfly table at the side of a chintz- covered wing chair. In the sun room it might be placed on a small table, or it would even be appropriate for the early American bed room. The shade could be used on a glass hand lamp or on a pewter and iron bridge lamp just as well as on the type as shown. (Copyright, 1930.) of the Month WHAT IS UNDER Lincoln’s birthday and Valentine day. During this week there are two holi- days—Lincoln's birthday and Valentine day—each of which presents opportuni- tles for specialty entertainments. Lincoln’s birthday parties should have a certain dignity, as befits the inspira- tion of the occasion, while the St. Val- entine party can be frivolous. For pure merriment the latter is se- lected, and since the date comes this year on Friday it will be particularly still in school. Cupids, arrows suggest decorations and favors, with valentines for prizes. Valentine charades are fun, and a table orna- mented like a valentine gives zest even to simple refreshments. A Lincoln’s birthday party naturally has a' historical trend. ‘There are chances for those well versed in events to prizes in com dates, battles, quotations from famous speeches, Often such 4 R e R make ready for such a party get out a recent book on Lincoln. Several enough to get lor & quiz. Pick out rather familiar events, so that every one can have sufficient knowledge to be keenly interested and so try to win an offered prize. Making the most ‘words in a given time from the name “Abraham Lincoln” suggests a game for which a prize should be awarded. cge of 16 years, for you must be making rapid changes and will like- A whimsical note can be instilled by having a motley assortment of small hearts and | over the [or flowers are inclu “LINCOLN'S HAT"? jarticles on a table. Allow the guests to study what is there for two or three | minutes. Then push all the articles | together to make a small heap and | cover it with a silk hat. An old, even |a battered one, is most remjniscent of |Lincoln's hat. Guests should be sup- | plied with pencils and paper. Give them 10 minutes to answer the follow- | ing_questions: | What is under Lincoln's hat? | How many articles are there? How many colors did you see? How many materials or substances? | (textiless, glass, pottery, etc.). | To what kingdoms do they belong? (Animal, vegetable or mineral). | _How many things can you name? | Please answer by writing them down. Were there duplicates of any articles? And, if so, what were they? ‘The hostess should have mpued' the things so that there are some strik- | ing colors, various kinds of materials | and two or three duplicates. If leaves it is easy to have two alike. Two spoons or two handkerchiefs may be used. Wee silk-hat penwipers and needle- books make unique favors for men and ‘women, respectively. The hat can be! made of black silk or felt, with flannel | for the inside sheets. Log-cabin boxes | of candy are suggested for prizes, as well as books or pictures on Lincoln. There are also numerous articles brought out just for “occasions.” A handsome prize for a woman would be a bag having a log cabin embroidered in colors on it. (Coprright, 1930.) Psychic Adventures of Great Men and Women Trowbridge and the Suicide of Dr. Post BY J. P. GLASS. “OH,” HUMOROUSLY SAID TROWBRIDGE, “I QUESTION THE APPRO- PRIATENESS OF A HALO ABOUT MY il “Is there, then, a wisdom of the Spirit, ov are there invisible beings sur- rounding us and prompting us that ‘can look into the seeds of time and say what grain is good?’, Or is it all illusion?” This was the query of John Town- send Trowbridge, the noted writer of stories for boys, following his experi- ence with the mediumistic Mrs. Alonzo E. Newton. One day Trowbridge's friend, Benja- min P. Shillaber, the humorist—older folks will remember him as the creator of “Mrs. Partington"—spoke to him of Mrs. Newton. Mr. Newton, a magazine editor, was a friend of Shillaber’s. That was how he had learned of Mrs. New- ton’s powers. He offered to introduce Trowbridge, who was interested in this sort of thing, to the Newtons. The introduction followed. Trow- bridge found Mrs. Newton to be a small woman, of “a singularly sympathetic nature, generously impuisive and, like her husband, earnestly religious.” Dur- ing her manifestations she seemed to be in a semi-trance, with her eyes closed and her face wearing a rapt ex- pression. Her accomplishments were such as to make a deep impression upon Trowbridge. There was, for instance, the evening when, while under “the influence,” she saw around his head “something like the halo of a saint.” “Oh,” humorously said Trowbridge, “I question the appropriateness of a halo about my head.” She replied: “It is not a halo. It is more like a planetary ring—one of the rings thrown off from the sun in the formation of planets.” She paused a moment and then went on: “Now it is no longer a ring, but 1t all breaks up and comes together in SUB ROSA BY MmML Well Chosen Words. The other day I was in a large restaurant where it was so nolsy as to meke it almost impossible to eat. Some of the rumpus came from the heavy crockery, but more of it came from the cackle of human voices. All spoke at once, so that the conversation sounded like a pack of firecrackers in an old wash boiler. Just why do we talk when all other animals are dumb? I suppose it is with the desire to communicate by getting another person’s ear. But & Iot of talk is due to our desire to ex- press ourselves, or let off steam. The result is vociferous noise with a faint trace of conversation. It may seem strange, but in this age of talk, which makes magpies and par- rots of us all, there are so many people who think they can't converse. They write in for “Hints on Conversation.” They realize that talk is cheap but conversation precious. They feel that it’s the quality, not the quantity, of talk that makes conversation. To talk well you need a good outfit of words so that what you say will have range. If you live in a small com- munity you know how you are likely to fall into a jargon of colloquial terms. You use these the way the Indians used wampum as the medium of exchange. What you need for the exchange of ideas is something more valuable, for a word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver, as the Bible says. ‘You choose your word the way a miner of gold picks out the nugget. ‘The d of vocabulary you need doesn’t have to be a large one if it is fine. A word is like a shoe; it fits your idea the way the shoe fits the foot. Some words 50 small that they pinch the mind, while others make our talk loose and sloppy. We hear of a person who made a speech in a few well chosen words, and if your words are of the choice variety you can get along with comparatively few of them. Your vocabulary should be like a work basket with just the right needles and threads. Then you can talk as neatly as you sew. Listen in on a good talker and you will see that she converses as prettily as she crochets, because she has the right stuff and knows how to work it. You'd think the pattern was print- ed in blue for her to follow. You can do the same, if you'll only make a business of it. You can make your little vocabulary do a song and dance for you. That's what folks want to hear. MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Stewed prunes, oatmeal with cream, sausage cakes, corn muf- fins, coffee. LUNCHEON. Cream of potato soup, egg cro- quettes_on spanich, crisp rolls, pineapple sponge pie, tea. DINNER. ‘Tomato bisque, broiled ham- burg steak, brown gravy, mashed tatoes, baked stuffed peppers, aldorf salad, squash pie, cheese, coffee. CORN MUFFINS. Mix and sift together 1 cup of cornmeal, % cup of flour, 2 tea- spoons of baking powder and 1 teaspoon of salt. Add gradual- ly ¥, cup of molasses and 3, cup of milk and beat thoroughly, then add 1 well beaten egg and 1 table- spoon of melted butter. Bake in hot buttered gem pans 25 minutes. PINEAPPLE SPONGE PIE. Beat the yolks of 2 eggs and add 7% cup of sugar, a grating of lemon rind, 1 teaspoon of lemon juice and 1); cups of canned shredded pineapple. Fold in stiffly beaten egg whites, turn into a Eu plate lined with paste and bake until firm in the center. STUFFED PEPPERS. Wipe carefully and grate into small pieces fresh nflruhrooml and fry mflmy in a tablespoon of butter (there should be a cup- ful when cooked). Add !5 cup of cream, 2 tablespoons of soft bread crumbs, % cup of chopped clams, 1 beaten egg yolk and 1, tea- spoon of salt. Remove seeds and veins from 6 bell peppers, par- boil in a little salted water and fill with this dressing. Bake in an earthen serving dish 20 minutes and baste occasionally with butter and water, HEAD. a single mass; and there is another ring forming.” She described the successive forma- tion of four or five such rings, each of them condensing into & planet. When Trowbridge asked for an interpretation, she said: “Your mind is the sun and the rings are a series of books ycu are to write, all connected, belonging to one system. The first will be written very soon and the others will follow.” ‘Trowbridge, it happened, had no such series of books in mind. Not long after, however, he was unexpectedly called upon to write a serial story for a maga- zine. It went over so well that he re- introduced the same characters in a a;queL ‘This also met with a fine recep- tion, sequels. The five books constituted the famous “Jack Hazard” series. Trowbridge himself admitted that “the apparent verification” .of Mrs. Newton’s prophecy “may have been merely coincidental” However, the lady supplied a more startling mani- festation to which the same classifica- tion could not be applied. He had planned to take a Summer trip to the White Mountains with a Dr. Harris of Worcester, Mass. Hav- ing received from Dr. Harris a letter relating to their plan, he handed it to Mrs. Newton. Passing into her cus- tomary semi-trance, she said presentl, “You will not take that trip with Dr. Harris." “But all arrangements have been made—they cannot be changed,” re- plied Trowbridge. “You will not take the trip with him,” she insisted. “They (the spirits) They do not explain why. lady shuddered—-I ! A horrible thing! A man hanging by the neck!” Trowbridge couldn’t see how this vislon could relate to himself or Dr. Harris. Mrs. Newton insisted that it did. A few days later the author read in 8 Boston paper an item describing the sulcide of Dr. Post, a dentist of Wil- liamantic, Conn., who had hanged him- self to a bedpost. Still later he re- ceived a letter from Dr. Harris. “I find I shall not be able to take the White Mountain trip with you,” it said, “for the reason that my assistant, whem I expected to leave in charge of the office during my absence, has been called to Williamantic to take the place olxdm: Post, who lately committed sui- cide.” Perhaps this is another case of co- incidence, but it must be admitted in justice that the arguments against co- incidence are more convincing than the arguments for it—supposing, of course, that Trowbridge truthfully related the circumstances, which we are bound to Thereafter he wrote three more | {h believe he did. (Copyright, 1930.) FEATURES.' Everyday Psychology BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. Why You Like Comic Strips. If you are an average human being, you like the comic strip. And also n" you are an average human being, you never stop to consider why. The vast majority of all human in- terests are centered around the univer- | sal search for pleasure and its universal ogzmlu. the avoiding of pain. Keep tl one psychological principle before you, and you have the reason for all the “funnies” or “comics” that ever found their way to the newspapers. The comic strip represents in exag- gerated terms something you want— something that the exacting laws of cause and consequence have generally denied. What you really want is to get rid of restraints and the necessity for suppressing your feelings. ‘The characters in the comies do all this for you with surprising ease. They set aside most of the ordinary laws of nature and social decorum. By way of the funnies you can get & black eye every day, and be ready for a fresh encounter tomorrow. You can tear the motor out of your car and keep on going. You can spend money as_extravagantly as you please. You can be ever so stupid and still be the hero of the situation. You can dis- regard all the laws of grammar and spelling. You can handle valuables without the slightest regard for their values. You can talk with dignitaries with saucy abandon. You can conjure up every conceivable magic in time of trouble. You can travel with incredi- ble speed, fight with entire immunity to arrest, eat without fear of after- maths, speak your mind on every occasion. Sum it all up. and you have one word that will explain the funnies: Escape. (Copyright, 1930.) MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN. Doll Buggy. One mother says: In Winter when the children are playing in the house so'many hours of the day, they scatter their toys all over e house, and it is quite a job to get them all gathered together before gets home in the evening. So dy Wwe have taken the doll buggy as a car- rier and load it up with the toys. When they are all collected, I wheel the buggy | into the nursery. I usually try to have the children do this themselves, and they have lots of fun doing it, for they play that they are junk dealers and when they get the things into the| nursery they hold an auction and the owner of each toy buys his own things and puts them away. Golden Corn Cake. Measure three-fourths cupful of corn- meal and sift it with one cupful of flour, one-third cupful of sugar, one teaspoonful of baking soda, two tea- spoonfuls of cream of tartar and one teaspoonful of salt. Add one cupful of sour milk or sour cream, one egg well beaten and two tablespoonfuls of melted shortening. Mix well, turn into greased pans and bake in a hot oven for 25 minutes. If baked in little pans shaped like ears of corn, yellow corn meal is good to use. MILADY BEAUTIF BY LOIS LEEDS. Grandmother’s Beauty Aids. The American Chemical Society has recently completed a survey of the cos- | metic industry in this country, gnd an- nounced that the cosmetic trade has increased 700 per cent since the war. That is to say, today we Americans use $241,488,000 worth of toilet preparations a year ourselves, besides supplying a great many other countries with their ;ienl.rm::es. powders, rouges, creams and otions. If great-great-grandmother could come back to earth today, perhaps she would not be more impressed by our radios, flying machines and electrical household appliances than by the great | number of little pots and boxes, jars and tubes, bottles and cakes of nice smell- ing things that the modern woman keeps in her medicine cabinet—not medicine, mind you, but dainty and individual | beauty aids. Cosmetics were few in great-grand- mother's day. If a girl had a very worldly heart, she sometimes snaked a little cornstarch from the pantry with which to powder her face. are neglected soon show it in rough, coarse skin, ugly nails and broken cuticle. If great-great-grandmother had an olly skin, she just accepted it as part of her fate. If the modern girl's skin is oily, she uses a good cleanser, followed by an astringent pack. If she has freckles or complexion blemishes, she knows half a dozen safe and reliable bleaches and efficient treatments that she can use. If she has unwanted hair on her arms or legs, she uses a mild depilatory cream once of twise a week and keeps the skin of her whole body as smooth, clean and dainty as a baby's. If her eyebrows and lashes are blond, she deftly darkens them. If she is nat- urally pale, she applies a bit of rogue 1If she had | a good deal of courage, she sometimes secretly moistened a bit of red paper or ribbon and rubbed it on her cheeks | to deepen their flush. But as for mak- ing up her lips, her eyes and lashes, no really nice girl would have considered such a thing. If a girl had freckles, it was consid- ered permissible for her to apply but- termilk to her skin as a bleach, but that was just about as far as she could go toward rectifying her complexion blemishes. Today the modern woman has dozens of safe and efficient beauty aids at her service, and, fortunately, because they are manufactured in enormous quan- tities for the masses, they are quite in- expensive, though many of the beauty aids were formerly expensive prepara- tions, used only by ladies of great wealth and by stage beauties. Mass produc- tion puts them within the reach of even the most modest purse. Beauty unadorned and unassisted is a delightful idea, but in real life the cold fact is that the more assistance a woman gives to her personal appear- ance the more attractive she is. Even very beautiful women need to have their best. features emphasized and the poor- est ones helped out. The most classic little nose is not pretty if it has an oily shine; the most perfect teeth in the world will not re- main perfect, nor will they shine with pearly luster, unless they are regularly and thoroughly cleansed with a good dentifrice and examined at regular in- tervals by a competent dentist, repaired, filled and very often corrected in early childhood to make them grow in prop- erly if they are too crowded. If the hair | is not regularly brushed and the scalp kept pliable and loose, one's tresses lose their healthy sheen and become A olly or prematurely gray. Hands that of the correct shade to harmonize with lhebrfl.km tints to her cheeks and ear o} But the uestion is, Does she spend & great deal of time fussing with her cleansing creams, her astringents, her manicuring, her deordorants and her make-up? ~Yet, but not more time than great-great-grandmother spent arrang- ing elaborate coiffures and getting her- self barricaded inside her whalel her henvu¥.l starched camisoles and chemises, her beruffied petticoats and hoopskirts. The modern girl or woman of today can slip into her two or three simple, straight-hung garments in two minutes, and when she emerges from her room she is not only dainty, sweet-smelling and lovely to behold but she is com- fortable, free and ready for any kind of activity and fun, able to breathe properly, stretch her arms without splitting a seam and jump a mud 'R‘:n dle or a fence without assistance. y the modern girl is healthier and better groomed, and she has more fun and freedom than great-great-grandmother ever dreamed of, with her ability to take part in the healthful outdoor sports that are within reach of every girl in this modem(gly nd X oDy, School children in Rowan County, N. C, have been organized to plant black walnut trees. It Takes Good Coffee to Make Good Coffee Elinor Glyn ks # WASHINGTON Women about clothes, marriage and romance “UNLOTHES, clothes, clothes! Clothes in courtship! Clothes after marriage! How steadily the note runs through all my correspondence with women,” says Elinor Glyn, “and how much of a mystery clothes still seem to be! “Yet it really shouldn’t be a problem . . . when you realize why clothes are so important. “You know that you look best in certain colors. There is the clue . . . for it is color that makes clothes charming, allur- ing, expressive of you. 4 “So if you would be success- ful in romance or in married life, let megiveyoutwo rules. . . “ONE: Wear the colors that suit you best; “TWO: Keep those colors fresh and new and vital, just as you keep your thingscleanand dainty. “The slightest loss in hue, the least deviation from the orig- inal tint, spoil the effect. .. and, of course, the charm that the gown or frock brings. “I have found that the allure that lies in color is protected by Lux. Repeated washings leave things color-fresh and color-vital . . . new-like in hue and power to charm. And let your surroundings reflect YOU - « “Not only in your frocks and accessories, such as gloves, scarfs and handkerchiefs, but equally important in your very surroundings, color is vital. The curtains, draperies and slip covers of yourliving room form part of the magic spell. And: here, too, Lux is invaluable.” (right) Washed 12 times with ordi- nary good soa; undeniably fa Not actually ru- ined, yet allure of doyous color lost. If its safe in water the dress was t.Itstill has of new,