Evening Star Newspaper, March 4, 1930, Page 33

WOMAN'S PAGE HISTORIC FEASTS AND MEALS Marbois’ Last Dinner to La BY J. P. GLASS. *It IS 50 YEARS AGO AND WE ARE AT WASHINGTON'S HEADQUARTERS ON THE HUDSON!” It was just preceding the degth of | the Marquis de Lafayette that Marbo's, The Ambassador from the United | States and several other distinguished | Americans in Paris would be present, | the old general was told. It would be, | as it were, a reunion. Lafayette was delighted to accept. Francois de Barbe Marbois, statesman | and writer, knew America as well as | Lafayette. He had been the French secretary of legation at Washingt during the Revolution. Napoleon Bon: parte had left in his hands the French side of the negotiations for the sale of | Louisiana to the United States in 1803. | He was now 89 years of age—a beam- | ing, witty old gentleman whose life had three more years to run. He seemed scarcely older than Lafayette, who was 77. At the supper hour a great surprise awaited the company. When they leit the drawing room, furnished with Pari- slan elegance, they were escorted into a chamber contrasting oddly with it, | It seemed to resemble the kitchen, or | largest room, of a Dutch or Belgian farm house. The low ceiling was boarded and PERSONAL HEALTH HE ALMOST SHOUTED. painted. Large beams supported it. Only one small, uncurtained window | invited him to be his guest at dinner.] broke the walls, but there were numer- | ous small doors. A long, rough table was set in the middle of the room. The repast that decorated it was far from the sort that tickled the palates of the Parisians of that day. It consisted of a large dish of meat and some rough though whole- some-looking pastry. Wine in decanters and bottles was ready to be served in glasses and silver mugs. When the whole company was Marbois spoke. “Do you know where we are?” he asked. Lafayette and the other guests paused a few minutes in surprise. Where had they viewed this picture before? Lafayette looked about, with pleasure beginning to dawn in ‘his expressiv | ace “Ah." he exclaimed, “the seven doors and one window! The silver camp gob- lets such as the marshals of France used in my youth!" He surveyed Marbois delightedly. It is 50 years ago and we are at| Washington's headquarters on the Hud- son!" he almost shouted. (Copyright, 1930.) SERVICE in BY WILLIAM BRADY, M. D. Vanishing Tonsils. | Despite a great deal of boasting, the best modern surgical practice leaves considerable to be desired, in the dis- | posal of enlarged or infected tonsils. | The surgeons make strong pleas for | radical and complete removal of every | bit of tonsil tissue, but in practice this | is not so readily accomplished. I shall | not estimate, but only mention that in not a few tonsil operations by compe- tent surgeons or specialists, more or | less tonsil tissue remains in the throat, and as a rule this never again troubles the patient. I mention it here merely to offset the rather gratuitous cautions against modern and, in my. judgment, better methods of sing of the ton- sils. I do not mean the modern method is better in every instance, but I do know it is preferable, from every point of view, in many cases, and that I should want the more modern treat- ment if it were available and my tonsils Tequired removal. The modern method to which I refer is diathermy. I can't explain the tech- nical side of it. Some doctors call it endothermy; others call it electro- different types of diathermy treatment. It requires not only a costly and ex- tremely delicate kind of apparatus (somebody noticed resemblance to a ra- dio receiver and told the world the doc- | tors now have a “radio knife” which | cuts through everything painlessly). My own reaction as an ordinary phy- | sician, when I first heard about this new method, was “There is no such animile.” | B~ and by I watched a physician using | the new treatment if a series of tonsil cases, and I believe what I see. I don't understand it yet, but I saw tonsil tissue destroyed and obliterated blood- lessly and painlessly without even a Jocal anesthetic (except for very timid or_“narvous” patients). ‘The treatment apparently sears, | shrivels, cooks small portions of tonsil. Following a seance the patient may or may not feel slight soreness for a day or two. He may or may not notice oc- casional bits of shriveled tissue coming NANCY PAGE How Does One Answer Invitations? BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. In the morning mail came an invi- tation for Lois and Roger. Marjorie Jane Mellett was being married later in the month and they were invited to both the ceremony and the reception afterward. Lois was not going out very much at this time, so she knew the invitation ‘would have to be declined. In talking it over she and Roger de- cided to send a present anyway. While the giving of gifts is never obligatory the recipient of invitation to ceremony is expected tg send a present. And so- cial custom Wecrees that 1t would be rude indeed to omit sending one when guest is invited to both wedding and re- ception. The card for the reception did not have an R. S. V. P. and Lois wondered Whether an answer was needed. She decided, and correctly, too, that any invitation which requests the honor of one’s presence requires an answer re- gardless of nresence or absence of the letters R. S. V. P. These letters, as Lois knew, stood for the French words, Respondez S'il Vous Plait. Answer if you please, being the translation. Lois knew also that these letters are usually omitted at present, since it is assumed | that guests will be courteous without a Teminder. Accordingly, Lois took her best letter paper and answered the in- vitation, using the same phraseology and the same spacing as employed in the invitation. Mr, and Mrs. Roger B. Miller (first line) regret their inability to accept the kind invitation of (second line) Mr. and Mrs. John Anthony Mel- lett (third line) to the wedding of their daughter (fourth line) on Saturday aft- ernoon, the twenty-ninth of March (Afth line) at 4 o'clock (fifth line). Write to Nancy Page. care of this paper, away when he gargles. A series of 10 or 12 treatments will suffice in the average case. And when the new treat- ment is finished it is finished. There is no reasonable doubt that it does ob- literate the tonsil as thoroughly as any surgeon or specialist can remove it by older methods. It spares the patient the definite risk of anesthesia; it spares the patient the definite risk of aspira- tion pneumonia (from bits of infected tonsil being inhaled while the sensibili- ties are benumbed by anesthesia), and in cases where there i sa hemorrhagic tendency diathermy is a Godsend, for it is absolutely bloodless. I have watched some of the best sur- geons and throat specialists operatin, Their procedure and technique is crude indeed compared with that of the man whe is skilled and experienced in the use of diathermy. Under this modern treatment tonsils vanish as surely as do varicose veins under the chemical obliteration treat- ment. Fashions of Today BY MARIE SHALMAR Pitfalls in Mode. Every mode has its pitfalls for the unwary and the present mode of more picturesque dresses, romantic hats and feminine accessories is no exception to this rule. The fact is that this new mode that has been launched for Spring and has already been indorsed by enough women to assure it of success is as full of such pitfalls as Swiss cheese is of holes. ‘The difference is, of course, that we expect the holes in the cheese and we don’t expect the pitfalls in the new mode, and some women don't even know when they have fallen into them. So much has been said of the re- turn of more feminine fashions and greater romance in dress that women who naturally like fussy clothes may feel that now is an opportunity to in- dulge this taste. The simple, straight- line, one-piece dress gave far less op- portunity for overelaboration than the more elaborate dress of today with its separate belts and girdles, scarfs, capes, collars and cuffs. ST gl ‘The Radio Manufacturers' Association of England has voted to present 1,000 complete radio sets to the Wireless for the Blind Fund. THE EVENING SUB ROSA BY MIML Riddles of Sphinx. The cross-word puzzle went over big at the start, some years ago, and still hangs on as a curlosity teaser. Almost every day you'll see somebody with a pencil stub trying to fill in the spaces with the things out of which you make alphabet, soup. Most of these puzzlers e tackle these tricks just to see how smart we are. We like to play hide and seek with words and are pretty sure the puzzle maker can't conceal the word he hides under some strange definition. It's not only a fad, but a standard trait of the human mind. It won't be long now before some psychologist states that we turn to these alphabetical puzzles in order to get our minds away from the real problems of life. As long as we are thinking about ABC and XYZ we shan't be worrying about our job or how we are going to make our money buy what we want. | Maybe one of these mental detectives | has already found out why we work the | cross-word puzzle. | " Life itself is a riddle, especially for a | woman. Men manage to solve the prob- | lem practically by doing things, like | building cities and running all sorts of plants within them. Women work, too, | but when it's only housework they are bound to brood over the mystery of | things in general and what it's all | about. ¥ | " The prize puzzle of woman's life was | put by the Sphinx down in Cleopatra’s | home™ town. The answer to it was “Man.” That was the only problem woman had in little old Egypt centuries ago. That comes pretty close to being the big question mark now. Man, what sort, when will he heave in sight and what are his intentions, if any? Life itself is a riddle, solved by. hun- ger and love, curiosity and fear. They tell us that our food comes from the sun in the form of solar energy, but we can't feed on red sunshine when we want our breakfast. We have to get the food by grubbing around after it. That's a daily puzzle for many of us. Love is another word which fits into the magic square in the grand puzzle of life. The heart has to be fed, too. It likes its moonlight, but has to have something more substantial than moon- beams. It needs some other heart to satisfy its hunger for love. We want to know what life and love are like, hence we are moved by curios- ity and held back by fear. If we can balance these motives we are in a posi- tion to solve the life puzzle in the big square, Cheese Patties. Mix into a soft dough four cupfuls of flour, one cupful of butter, two tea- spoonfuls of g powder, pinch of salt and a half a cupful of warm water. Spread out with a rolling pin one-fourth | inch thick. Cut into round pieces with | a glass and fill with following filling: Mix half a cupful of cottage cheese with one egg and a plece of butter the size of a walnut. - Fold the dough over the filling and close the edges by pinch- ing the dough together tightly with the fingers. Rub over each patty a little beaten egg and bake in a slow oven, “I'd say you're in purty fair shape. yanked out an’ cut down a little on your buckwheat, but you'll prob’ly be held up an’ murdered long before that heart of yours gives you any trouble,” sald Dr. Mopps today, after examinin’ ‘Tell Binkley. You might have them two front teeth | (Copyright, 1930.) Young-Lines Jor Ol TO wear the fitted gowns of 1930 you must have, first, 2 1930 figure You can buy & 11 ARIS from $6.95 up. The garment illwitrated coits $9.50. The Abdominal Bels wwpporss and fatiens the abdomen without Pressure. It s adyust- bl in tension and pesition, from the out- side,afur the garment bas boen fastened. In- duces corvect pesture—~ tafeanards bealih. tnelosing a s dressed envelope, Asking for her leaf ble Etiquette. (Copyrisht, 1830.) ase- v sarom. OF WASHINGTON 1319 F Street N.W. 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Hear Dorothy Chase and The CHARIS Players Over. WMAL, Wednesday, 11:00 A.M. RLS STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. Mary Watkins and Emmly Star are still mad at each other, and this after- noon they was each sitting on their frunt steps not even looking at each other, and I sed to Puds Simkins, Lets see if we can make them make up. Sure, lets be plecemakers, Puds sed. And we went over to Mary Watkinses frunt_steps, me saying, Why dont_you and Emmly Star make up? and Puds saying, Sure, whats a use of being, mad at peeple? 1l make up with her if she apologizes to_me, Mary Watkins sed. Well we'll tell her, I sed. Wich we did, going down to Emmly Stars frunt steps, me saying, Whats you think, Mary Watkins wunts to make up with you. Ony she says you haff to apologize to her, Puds sed, and Emmly Star sed, O she dont say so, well izzent that nice of her. Well if she apologizes to me ferst Til apologize to her, and thats {he ony way I will, she sed. We'll go back and tell her, I sed. Wich we did, Mary Watkins saying, The very ideer, il do nuthing of the ind. Well then why dont you both apolo- gize together at the same time? Puds sed, and she sed, Well that would be all. rite, T wouldent mind doing that. Ony my goodness I cant remember what we got mad about any more, so how can I apologize for it? she sed. We'll go down and ask her what it was, T sed. Wich de-did, and Emmly Star sed, Well izzent that funny, Ive forgotten it Aw heck, I sed, and Puds sed, Good nite, holey smokes, whats a use? And we went around to the fire house to watch the firemen shine the engine. Home in Good Taste BY SARA HILAND. The: problem of furnishing the one- room apartment, is fast being solved, for manufacturers have seemed to realize just what are practical and attractive in the way of day beds. To have a day bed without a back stamps it distinctly as a bed, but to have one with a back gives it the ap- pearance of a sofa and a permanent daytime piece. - One would never sus- ct that the day bed shown in the lustration was one of the most com- fortable beds to sleep on that could be imagined, yet that is just what it is. There is a large, luxuriously upholstered cushion on top of some unusually com- h;;’:bble springs, and all are covered alike. Any material may be used for the covering—from denim to damask or gatin. The wooden frame of this day bed is of such good design and excel- lent workmanship that it is worthy of a covering that will make it the center of interest in the color scheme of the room. " 'The extra pillows may be covered in a contrasting material and given a very tallored appearance. (Copyright, 1930.) Orange Omelet. Beat the yolk of an egg and add one tablespoonful of orange juice and the rind of one-third of an orange. Add two tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar. Fold in the beaten egg white and turn the omelet onto a heated buttered pan and cook until set. Serve with pow- dered sugar. Let hospitals guide you in choosing sanitary protection MILADY BEAUTIFUL BY LOIS LEEDS. Correct Weight and Colors. Dear Miss Leeds: Would you please answer these beauty questions for me? (1) T am 20 years old, 5 feet 3 inches tall. How much should I weigh? (2) I have medium brown hair, blue eyes | and a fair complexion. What colors are | becoming to my type? (3) My hips are | 34 inches wide. Is that too much? (4) I put cold cream on my face before re- tiring at bedtime. Is that too often and will it dry the skin in time? V.R.R. Answer—(1) You should weigh be- tween 120 and 130 pounds. (2) You may wear turquoise blue, peacock blue, wedgwood, delft blue, cadet and powder blue. Other becoming colors for your type are reseda, bottle green, mignonette, chartreuse and bronze green, dove gray, orchid, pale pink and rose, pure cream, ivory, canary yellow, mmustard, amber and nut browns, peach, warm tans, dark reds, ruby, garnet and Burgundy; black relieved with bright trimming. (3) Your hip measurement is good for your age and height. You evidently have a slender girlish figure and in such a fig- ure the bust and hip measure the same. (4) Cold cream will not dry the skin, but it will keep it smooth and well lu- bricated if you apply it after washing the face with soap and water thorough- ly. Very little is needed if it is applied evenly. The best method to adopt is to apply the cream with the tips of the finges, using a light, pattering, upward movement and massage the skin lightly for several minutes. The surplus cream should then be wiped off with a soft cloth, tissue square or absorbent cotton, leaving a thin film of cream on the skin overnight. This method is especially good for those whose skin has a tend- ency to be too dry and to chap. LOIS LEEDS. Bald Spot. Dear Miss Leeds: Would you please | tell me what I could do for a bald spot on the back of my head? I curled my { hair sometime ago and burnt it badly— | is that likely to cause the bareness? I | am quite worried about it. MRS. F. 8. Answer—If you burned both the | hair and your scalp badly in that par- | ticular spot, it might cause temporary | baldness, but it hardly seems possible | the.t you burned it severely enough to cause a permanent bald spot. Massage the scalp thoroughly every day and brush your hair every night and morn- ing. Apply the following stimulating tonic to the scalp three times a week: One-half ounce olive oil, 15 drops oil of bergamot, 1 ounce cologne water, 1 dram tincture of cantharides, 10 drops tinc- ture of capsicum, 1 dram tincture of cinchone, 6 ounces bay rum. Shake well. Divide the hair into strands and apply the tonic evenly all over the scalp, then massage with the finger- tips for several minutes. Before the shampoo, give your scalp and hair a hot ofl treatment, using equal parts of olive and mineral ofl, plus a few drops of oil of eucalyptus. Heat the oils and apply to.the scalp, allowing them to re- main on the hair for an hour or more. ‘Then wash the hair as usual. ‘The sudden falling of hair in patches leaving the patches bald and smooth is usually lopecia areata. Although some cases are due to bruises resulting from blows or falls, the condition is closely connected with nervous disorders. Such cases should be referred to a physician and electrical treatments given under his supervision. LOIS LEEDS. Lose Weight. Rosemary—Exercise and a wise diet should help you get rid of those extra pounds. Make sure, however, that your diet allows you sufficient foods for your health and strength, as a -rigid diet regime is dangerous. 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