Evening Star Newspaper, March 7, 1930, Page 36

WOM AN’S PAGE. Shifting Debt of Kindness BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. Many debts of kindness are incurred which one sees no way of repaying. Perhaps the person who was generous that such debts cannot and should not be repaid. An obligation of the most inspiring sort has been placed upon the | one benefited, and its means of being discharged may be to help other persons in the same manner. A very well known illustrator, now dead, used to take only those pupils whom he believed to be talented. Oth- ers came to him offering money, and he refused. The ones chosen he gave his | instruction gratis. The way in which | they were to repay him was, at some future time, to offer the same kind of | encouragement to those whem they found deserving. An ever-widening cir- | cle of the most stimulating kind of co- | operation was started by his method, | which is today carried on by many of | hi~ pupils. One woman repaid a debt | of kindness by giving letters of intro- | duction. | 8o it is that, within the home. many ways can be found to pay old debts of kindness, not always to the one from whom bounty was received, but passing | it on to some one else in the same spirit as that of the giver. Hospitality of the sort enjoyed when one was in less for- | tunate circumstances can be passcd on to those whose position is similar. Or it may be outside of the home it- self that the debt is to be paid. Re- membering the friend who stepped in at the auspicious moment when aid of some sort was needed, perhaps to spend a few days caring for an ill friend who cannot afford a nurse, perhaps to lengthen the purse strings with an un- expected loan or tactfully made gift, when such is the emergency—these are some of the ways in which the debt of ONE WOMAN REPAID A DEBT OF 2 INDNESS BY GIVING LETTERS OF INTRODUCTION. has no need of anything within the| power of the recipient to give at the former kindness can be repaid. One way of meeting the gratitude of these who hesitate to accept such help | is to say that they would do the same themselves, and that you know they | would gladiy help out some one else, if ever the chance arose. To pass along | such kindnesses is like conceling a debt. (Copyright, 1930.) My Neighbor Says: To mend broken china, buy a small tube of artist's flake white ofl-paint. Put a little on the edges of the china, press them to- gether and set aside for a few weeks until the paint is well hardened. To prevent cheese becoming stringly when making welsh rab- bit do not use a high tempera- ture when melting it. Just enough heat to melt the cheese is best. Rub a clove of garlic once or twice around the bowl when mix- ing a salad. But garlic must be used sparingly. The flavor must not be too strong. The flavor of gravies made from roasted, broiled or fried meats is greatly improved by add- ing milk instead of water. time. This does not mean, however, MOVIES AND MOVIE PEOPLE BY MOLLIE Bpecizl Dispatch to The Star. | HOLLYWOOD, March 7 (NAN.A).— Greta Garbe will have a new leading man. Gavin Gordon, a young gentie who did nothing of much consequence about here, has been given the role. | ‘This is what is termed a “break” in the colony. If a ledding man for Garbo aequits himself at all well. he is made in cinema circles. The role of the young minister in “Romance” isn't the most desirable in the world. The character is hung somewhere between a prig and a sentimentalist—and both seem to have passed out of fashion. ‘The play was written by Sheldon 18 years ago. A glance at the script re- veals the difficulties Clarence Brown and his associates will have in making it into a vehicle acceptable to modern audiences. The big difficulty will be to keep spectators from laughing at the love scenes. Cavallini is physically a far different from Garbo. The big question is the Swedish lady allow her lean, :zrdl?c figure to be Italianized for the ry! And now, little children, Clara Bow | will sing and dance in the forthcoming | r:vue. And this isn't a bedtime story, 8ince the rest of the cinema group are tripping the light fantastic and emitting hoi;“teh gutlerlul.; into mthe mierephone e name of song, there is no reason La Bow cannot contribute her share of the horrors. ‘The following qualifications for an art director were recently tabulated by ene who should know: ““The motion picture technician,” says he, “should have very great ingenuity. He must be a cartoonist, a costumer, a marine painter. a designer of ships, an interior decorator, a landscape painter, a dramatist, an inventor, a historian, an acoustical expert and a photographic ust also be an expert bootlicker, but the gentie forgot to mention that. Matt Moore, one of the fascinating trio of celluloiders who are to the screen what the Barrymores are to the stage, | has turned director. ‘This longing to get behind the cam- eras instead of before them manifests itself sooner or later in every cinema setor's career. It is born of being in- cessantly thwarted in their concept of the characterizations they are making. Some director, supervisor, producer or assistant director always has ideas about things. They seldom fit in with the actor’s idea. The Moores take life easy. They have not brought the same terrible will to progress into their professional lives as other members of the professional Ermp have been known to do. In fact. 'om Moore was once offered $40,000 if he would forfeit a vacation he had planned with Owen and Matt and begin work on a picture. But the trip meant more to Tom Moore than $40,000. Lionel Barrymore is still on the direc- tor's side of the einema, and liking it very much, if you please. That seems to go for two—the studio is satisfied Barrymore has years of stage experi- ence of the best, a long gelatin record, and he has also a thorough knowledge of music, which means much in a director’s work. S8he was a little song-and-dance gfl, doing four a day, and liking it. he got a bit in a picture, and found herself with a contract, house and servants. a town car, a purse full of meney and a new wardrobe. She Bought some amber beads. A friend teld her they were imitations. She hustled back to the shap. “You sold me imitations, wear anything that wasn't real. must take these back. You sold them sald the to me as the real thing. “We'll take them baeck,” saleswoman, “but it was plainly printed on the tag they were imitations.” ‘The little blond produced the tag with a flourish. “It was not!” she cried. “It says ‘Hand-carved, simulated Chinese am- ber’ Not a word about their being imitations.” Jack Gilbert is another of Mme. jlyn's finds. He has found himself under the spell of the old silent regime, he hs into the dif-| d, it is qu to fal in love Ina Cl g of fans, this Ronald has the most intelligent olllkadnywp:rwnl mf ‘:ll!l Jny. e ople o “ud sexes. His enzhfiu‘:u follow work avidly, and are content to at- marr And g-u He e true | MERRICK. cause Colman trained them that way. Other stars succumbed to precedent and made themselves the slaves of their audiences. Colman and Greta Garbc understand the value of mystery. a story with a foreign locale is securing automobiles fo} the street scenes. One hundred thousand dollars’ worth of for- eign-made cars were assembled for the “Raffles” set. The story is l.id London. Here's a beauty parade for a wedding party: Bridesmaids—Corinne Griffith, Carmel Myers, Marion Davies, Mae Mc- Avoy, Bessie Love and Catherine Ben- tt. Edith Mayer, daughter of one of e big production chiefs of Hollywood, will be the bride. The wedding party will be without doubt the most famous group of established stars to grace a ceremony. Carmel Myers recently was maid of honor at Bessie Love's wedding. ‘The two girls have been friends since their debut before the cameras. They have weathered all the changes in movie technique, and today are as at- tractive as when they first came before the public. ‘Then there's the director who refused two Englishmen sent in by the casting office to play the part of Scotland Yard detectives—“This is Scotland Yard.” (Copyright, 1930.) JOLLY POLLY A Lesson in English. BY JOSEPH J. FRISCH. IN A SPIRIT OF LEVITY DAD SAID, “WHY HAVE APARTMENT BUILDINGS GOT FIRE ESCAPES 2 Got is omitted when the present tense of have denotes possession. “Dogs have talls,” not “Dogs have got talls.” “Have you a pencil?” not “Have you got & pencil>” Levity (lev-e-te) means lightness of disposition, trifling gayety, as is treated with too much lev It also means lightness of weight, as “Hydrogen rises in the air because of its tend his without knowing the 1 timate detatls of his 1re. This 16 be- One of the big difficulties of making | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO. OUR CHILDREN BY ANGELO PATRI. Timid Children. Every dentist and doctor knows the timid child. His mether drags him to the office to see the doctor. The moment the doctor lifts a spatula and says, “Open your month, sonny,” sonny opens his mouth but the outcome is not precisely what the doctor desires. Sonny screams murder. The doctor coaxes, the mother pleads and threatens, but sonny screams and |screams again, wakenwg the echoes with hoarse cries. No physician can stand that long. His office is full of | nervous people. They are upset by such |2 noise ‘and begin fidgeting. Time is | precious. The doctor throws his spatula into the basket under his desk and says, “Better take him home and bring him {back when he is better. I cannot do |anything for him when he behaves this way.” The dentist even fares worse. A | suffering child is brought to him. The |moment the dentist sets him in_the |chair he stiffens up and yells. It is | Impossible to get near his mouth. Strik- | Ing, kicking, yelling, the child struggles to_get down, “You will have to take him home. I | cannot help him when he acts like that. |He has a tooth that ought to be re- | moved at once. It is abscessed. It's going to give him a whole lot of pain | if it isn't taken out. If he would let me |brush the gum with this solution it would ease his pain.” “No, no, ow-ow-ow,” yells the sufferer and the dentist tosses his little wad ef cotton into the basket, sighs and says. “Sorry, but I can't help him until he lets me.” | Now the fear of a doctor or a dentist, a nurse or a teacher is not born in the child. It is acquired. Some time er j other somebody has frightened the child yand that experience stops him on the | way to the doctor's or the dentist's | office. That fear must be removed before | the child can benefit by their services. How unwise it is to threaten a child with the doctor or the nurse or tl “The policeman will get you “‘Wait until you go to school. You'll see what the teacher will do to a bad child like you.” That sort of thing lays the basis of future trouble. The very people on whom the child is to depend for help have been rendered a source of terror. ‘Teach faith in people. Persuade the child that people are his friends ready to help him. Surely such folk as physi- clans and nurses and teachers and police are friends of children. Instruet the little children what to expect from each of these people so that they will know and not be afrald. It is the unknown that creates fear. When you wash a little child's mouth play you are the dentist. When you visit the dentist's take a child along with you so he becomes familiar with the instruments. They are likely to strike terror to a child's heart when first he sees them, or hears them. Make a friend of the doctor and of the policeman. Teach the child how to open his mouth, how to take his tem- perature, how to meet the doctor. Teach him his name, address, telephone num- ber, father’ name and the like so as to be ready to give them to the teacher and the policeman when the need arises. Practice these accomplishments and the youngsters will enjoy them. (Copyrisht, 1930.) BEAUTY CHATS By Edna Kent Forbes. Daily Skin Treatment. I think the following is the ideal daily treatment for a normal skin, ome, I mean, neithcr too oily nor too dry. In the morning, nothing but lats of cold water, lots and lots of it. And after the skin is dry, powder and a faint touch of rouge if you need it. After your day’'s work is over and you want to fresher up for the evening or for going out—try this. Wash the face with warm water and soap, rinse in warm water. As an astringent, use cold water or ice, or witch hazel. Before the skin is quite dry, apply a little very fine | grade vanishing cream. Powder over this, use what make-up you find most becoming. Thc powder over the van- ishing, or the foundation cream, gives | the skin a lovely transparently fine look. But this cream should not be used too mI.l)(;:l on the skin, it doe. clog the pores a bit. At night, before bedtime! This is the | most imporiant of all the treatments. | Oil first, olive, or almond, and a good grade. Work well into the skin, so it loosens powder dirt and the other cream. Wring a cloth from hot water, soapy or hot as you choose, and wash this oil off. Do this several times, so you get off all the oil. Then use wrinkle cream if you need it, or cold water if your skin is oily of itself and go te bed with the face refreshed and stimulated. 18-DAY DIET. Breakfast as usual, Lunch—One-half a lobster, erackers, grapefruit, coffee. Dinner—Two broiled chops, coleslaw, tomato, three olives, an orange. Lobster is hard to digest and fattening. I'd suggest steamed or boiled white , half a potato and some spinach, and lor‘let the grapefruit. Dinner is all right. though coleslaw is hard to d , 100; lettuce could be used instead, and then | you could make a salad. | 8. E. H—It is not necuurmuu a| vanishing cream as a powder . You | may use your oll cream—just a wee bit rubbed over the skin and then wiped off again. FOR HANDL YOUTH for THE HANDS DELICATELY SCENTED SHAKER TOP BOTTLE $1.00 B O Straight Talks to Women About Money BY MARY ELIZABETH ALLEN. At End of Your Salary. If you found in today's pay envelope that little “blue” slip informing you that your services were no longer re- quired, how would you manage finances vntu you had secured another situa- ion? Would you begin by spending your stere while “resting” or “waiting a while?” A great deal more than one might suppose depends upon how you finances. “resting” or “waiting” is to be deplored as unemployment &:ctics. Both of them cause one to ome “‘rusty,” inert, and rneruuy un- prepared and dispirited. 1t is obvious also that ene might miss valuable op- portunities for employment during a period of voluntary unemployment. Furthermore one’s finances may be limited in extent, and it is urgent that one become located elsewhere as quickly as possible. A financial program should then be arranged that will tide one over a reasonable period of unemploy- ment. This is best accomplished by budgeting that period. One'’s minimum living expenses should esf and provided for. In making the estimate and budget one should eliminate all new or anticipated MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN. “Rubber Bag.” OFF made-a Tubver bag, 1ik made a rubber , like a slipper bag, from a discarded rain coat, to )?.p:. in the back hall. In it the children keep their overshoes and galoshes, so that they always know where to lock for them. It keeps the house from be- ing tracked up, as I keep it hung just inside the door which they use in going to and from school. (Cop¥right, 1930.) SMOOTHNESS WHITENESS LOVELINESS OTION purchases, or unnecessary expenses. The final budget should be cleared of all but indispensable essentials. course, one will ask, how long a period must the budget be made? That depends upon the employment situation in town as regards one's par- ticular calling, trade, or profession. It also depends upon one's personal cir- cumstances. Six weeks is usually an average period of unemployment, and 10 weeks is an average maximum. It is advisable to budget one's expenses for at least the 6 weeks' period to allow for all contingencies, At the end of one's salary at one's place of employment, she should care fully conserve her cash reserve. Bills that may be paid the following menth, items of dress whose purchase may be postponed. and social expenditures that may be put off for a while should be given future dates for action. , The reason for this caution is that an unemployed woman, who is inde- pendent for the time being, can invar- iably secure the most advantageous e: ployment because of that fact. She is free to seek a job which is suitable and desirable, She is not in the least forced to accept any sort or type of | employment to meet her needs. At the end of your salary, always plan abead to your next pay envelope. of | FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1930 LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. Pop was smoking and thinking in his private chair and I sed, Hay pop do you wunt to hear a grate ideer how to_make a lot of money? 1d rather have the money, pop. sed, and I sed, Well its a invention, I got the ideer for it while I was brushing my teeth this morning. Im not serprised, pop sed. The gen- tleman who invented the steem engine | got the ideer while he was watching the tea kettle bolling, so I sippose | while you were cleening your teeth it sudderily ocoutred to you how to make artificial ivory, he sed. No sir, it occurred to me how to | make a mouthwash that would taist swell insted of fearse like most of them | do, I sed, and pop sed, I've herd much | werse ideers like that. Perhaps if you carry it around with you till your grown up and lern a little kemistry you mite put something together and a big mouthwash factory mite steel it from you, and youll always have the sattis- fact'on of knowing that the ideer was ‘originally yours, even if nobody elts bleeves it, he sed. Well G, pop, I dont haff to wait that long, Ive put something together al- reddy. I sed. Everybody likes the taist of lemminade, don't they? I sed, and pop sed, Well, I bleeve I once herd of a man that dident, but he was proberly a crank, so we wont count him. Go on, he sed, and I sed, Well, thats it, just make some nice sweet lemminade and add it to some erdnerry mouth- :lduh and it would taist like lemmin- e. Hahaha, so it would, I meen would it, perhlys it wouldent, m)p sed, and I sed, Well all you haff do is try it and find out. "Some is in there, I sed. Some of what is in where, for Peet sake? pop sed, and I sed, Some lem- minade is in our blue mouthwash. What, that new full bottle of Pep- pino? pop sed, and I sed, No sir, it was ony about 3 quarters full or elts there wouldent of been rcom for the lemminade. What a calamitty that would of been, I better empty it rite now before some- body_thinks their poisoned, pop sed, and I sed, Well G, pop, aint you even going to try the talst? and he sed, Ive thawt of it and thats plenty. Proving its no eintch being venter. in- Sliced Liver. Salt and pepper one pound of calf’s | liver to taste, then dredge with two | tablespoonfuls of flour. Heat two table- spoonfuls of bacon fat in a pan. Fry | the liver in this until brown on both | sides., Push the liver aside, add one large onion sliced, and let brown slight- 1y, then cover and let cook for about 15 minutes, then serve. | | This doc don’t look so inexperienced, but the dates on these magagines prove I he ain’t been practicin’ long. FEATURES. HISTORIC FEASTS AND MEALS Belshaszar’s Drunken Orgy and His Great Aot of Impiety. BY J. P. GLASS. “MENE—GOD HATH NUMBERED THY KINGDOM, AND FINISHED IT.” ‘The most celebrated of all meals is, of course, the Lord's Supper. In the matter of feasts, presumably that of Belshazzar, the last of the Babylonian rulers, is eertainly most famous. We have not had to depend on the written word for a proper conception of the scene as the doomed Belshazzar reveled in his great orgy. Almost every one is familiar with reproductions of the historic painting in which Roche. grosses, the great French painter of such subjects, has depicted with studied accuracy the minutest detail suggested by _the legend. Belshazzar probably decided on his feast in the spirit of one who says, * us eat, drink and make merry, for to- morrow we die.” At any rate, Babylon was threatened by Cyrus the Great, the conquering K!nf of the Persians, and his hopes of withstanding the invader were small indeed. He invited a thousand of his courtiers and their wives and concubines to his entertainment. An army of servants hrought on great quantities of food and drink, and “whoopee” on a scale never since surpassed began. At the peak of the feasting, when Belshazzar had become extremely drunk, a crazy diversion oecurred to him. He ordered that all the gold and silver vessels whieh Nebuchadneazar had removed from the Temple of God when he captured Jerusalem (in 606 B.C.) should be brought, so that he and his courtiers might drink from them to the Babylonian idols. It was while this implous act was in progress that Belshazzar suddenly emit- ted a horror-stricken scream. He had seen, as it were, a human finger wri ing upon the wall. “Mene, Mene, tekel, upharsin!” These were the words the finger traced, and Belshazzar did not know what they meant. He sent for his astrologers and diviners, but they could tell no more than he. ‘The whole assemblage was thrown intp a spasm of superstitious terror. But Belshazzar still had sufficient discern- ment to connect the handwriting with his improper use of the sacred Hebrew vessels. He recalled that ‘(hhere was a prisoner _in Babylol e Hebre prophet, Daniel, who had been brought back from the capture of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar. He ordered Daniel to be_brought. Daniel regarded the inseription but a moment and then began. interpreting in a thunderous voice: “Mene—Ged hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.” “Tekel—Thou are weighed in the bal- ance and found want “Peres (upharsin is from the verb peres)—Thy kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.” Daniel seems to have been a first- class interpreter and het. Bel- shazzar's life soon was taken and Baby- lon fell to Cyrus the Great. Like most legends, that of the feast of Belshazzar has eertain historical foundations. There actually was a Prophet Daniel and a_Babylonian Bel- shazzar. He was not King, but son of the last King of Babylon. The King was eaptured by the Persians before Babylon fell, and Belshazzar, a general, Better—Because Made of Better Ingredients \ }éré? % ‘. S CHNEII HNEIDE COMPANY 9 R Made in One of the World's Very Finest Bakeries—Strictly Locally Owned and Operated remained to defend the city. He was the uncrowned ruler. Presumably there was a feast of the sort described. (Copyright, 1030.) Everyday Psychology BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. Some Famous Dullards. ‘When Napoleon Bonaparte graduated from the military school in i classmates rated above him. t | been unable hi‘ find out who any of the 41 were, it hadn't been for Napoleon, the whole class would have been forgotten by now. ‘When Sir Isaac Newton was 12 years old, he displayed “neither ability nor industry.” Newton once admitted this himself. 8o I accept his own testimony on that subject, just as I accept his law of gravitation. Robert Fulton was so stupid that his teachers resorted almost daily to birch- rod persuasion, which was in his day the handmaid of pedagogy. Patrick Henry was lazy. It has been sald that “he was too idle to gain any solid advantage from the opportunities that were thrown in his way.” His truancy was notorious. So was his re- !&e]]llon against the authority of a certain ing. Wildam H. Seward, who negotiated for that “Russian ice-box” now called Alaska, as a school hoy carried home the poorest sort of report cards. His teachers told his father that “William) was too stupid to learn.” Alaska an. nually pays more than the original cos] of the “ice-box.” Oliver Goldsmith was a school boy sq dull that his teacher was “afrald thing could be done with him. These are facts. What do they teach? That school marks and teachers’ judg ments are not always reliable. Another thing. Intelligence is some. ting that matures slowly, often giving no evidence of its existence until th individual has become an adult. Still another thing. Intelligence can. W [ not be measured in terms of marks o a calendar. That is, your mental ag does not always correspond with you; chrenological age. But then, perhaps, we are here tal about that rare sort of intelligenc| which the average person, not bein eble to understand, calls stupidit Stupldity seems at times to be genius the making. Bread Sticks. Add one-fourth cupful of butter one and one-half tablespoonfuls o sugar, half a teaspoonful of salt an one cupful of scalded milk. W lukewarm, add one yeast cake, th white of an egg well beaten and thre] and three-fourths cupfuls of fi Knead, let rise, roll and shape like lead pencil. Place in a floured pay far apart, brush the tops with beat yolk of egg, and sprinkle with p seed, if red. Let rise and bake a hot oven until brown and crisp.