Evening Star Newspaper, March 14, 1930, Page 42

W OMAN’S PAGE. Cultivation of Sense of Humor BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. Cultivate a sense of humor. It is the valve requisite for and comfortable life. It smoothes KNOW HOW TO GET IT. ness into laughter. It diverts many of that otherwise ATe | and appear in their pretty dresses. { to think the worst of people, of events or even of misfortunes. There seldom is & cloud so dark that it cannot be plerced and the silver lining be glimpsed, provided one tries to send a dart through. A smile that is from the heart and not of facial muscular action only will send clouds scudding away. The ability to see incongruities on their amusing side will cause laughter, and such laughter cultivates humor by it recognition. To recognize it is make it y:m- ‘rlTlend. ?onu hum'zr .l: your friend it.will come to your a al friends do, when needed most. You will learn to rely upon its of - fices at first, and once thoroughly cul- tivated it will crop up without apparent seeking. Never mistake bad humor for good. If the merriment is at the expense of some one’s feelings, if it' brings any suggestion of unhappiness to another, be on guard against it. The real thing is the humor that helps Iift a frown form another's countenance, and that sends a thrill of joy through your own system. (Copyright, 1930.) OUR CHILDREN BY ANGELO PATRL Earth Whispers. If you can get hold of a bundle of flowering twigs now is the time to do it. | Ask the farmer friend to give you a | dozen twigs that are carrying some | healthy fruit buds from his apple trees, | pear trees, any other sort of fruit or | flowering trees he has. Put each bundle of twigs into a wide-mouthed jar and | give them enough water to reach the top of the jar. Place them in a warm | corner, sunny if you can furnish that | kind, and watch with the children, to see the buds swell and open. ‘Tell them that some of the buds are leaves and some are fruit and see if they can pick out the different kinds. The leaf and the flower must be the answer. Have the children keep watch on the water supply. It must be kept clean and sweet. Allow no growth be- low the water line, as it is likely to be- come offensive. If you can get some willow twigs and so have the pussy willow babies born in the room where the children can see them arrive in their gray fur coats and gradually take en their party dresses embroidered in gold and green, don't fail to have them. There is more joy in seeing.a bud unfold than in many a ™5 vom: are” usky ‘spaush to 1 you are lucky enough to live in the country watch for the first Spring day, rding the ul;ndnr. and dig disrega; up a mmuor hepatica. ful of If there are a couple of white violets in that moss all the T, Place the hepatica in a deep saucer and set the moss about it. D;Dmpeh it with cool water and keep it damp, not wet. Set it in a sunny window and watch, with the children, the little pat- :l“u come -out, li:“; a look .:d the world, up ur-trimmed garments. Watch them push off their warm coats You never can tell whether pattie is to dress in white or lavender or e‘IIIL Guessing which will be very ex- A preliminary taste of Spring like this will prepare the children for what is to come. If they see the flower buds if they feel them to be sacred, , they will go out of school and toward home with an idea of protection lovely 1 & A you dig one up you are T obligation to replace it\carefully the woods where it may take hold live again. The willow twigs can not take life too ser g ly. 5" En? Jacket Suit. ‘The model illustrated is decidedly chic to wearer with tuck-in blouse and becoming jabot collar. The jacket and skirt with tight hip band buttoned at side are of feather- weight tweed in orangey-red tones. The tuck-in blouse of eggshell silk crepe printed in red polka-dots uses plain red crepe for bow tie -and for ¢ pil;llnl of Vionnet neckline. of the bodice are decorative. This jaunty outfit style No. 389 is designed in sizes 16, 18, 20 years, 36, 38, 40 and 42 inches bust. You'll find it extremely easy to make. ‘The straight jacket is at sides and shoulders. 20 Teckiine, " Onlywo, malor DA 0 at neckline. Only two'ma. blouse! The skirt is seamed and for general wear. For a pattern of this style, send 15 eents in stamps or coin directly to The tar's New York Fashion Fifth avenue ‘Twenty- e when you lor ttern inclose 10 cents additional r a'copy of our new Fashion Magazine, just off the press. riousl; first requisite. Life is not made |Somewhere. The than it tal tucks across center front | ited and make a delightful hedge o have the pussies srow: OF S0 AN ve les grow- e wl such lovely 8t this time of the year that it e Diamatn et S o8 3 learken an €] idren hear. g (Copyright, 1930.) SPRINGTIME BY D. C. PEATTIE. | Spring, and yet I was too tired ; it was Spring, because some- sald so, or because Nature wound up a robin and he was in a mechanical cheerio, like of those people who think they buck you up when you are down by | saying, “Buck up, buck up!” It was| Spring, because a fat lilac crocus was coming up in mv lawn, looking for all the world like the pictures in the seed ' catalogues. Therefore, it was Spring, be- | cause the nurseryman, fulfilling - his | money-back rantee, had made it so.| And yet, in that moment nothing | made it so, for, after all, is not the first robin or the first crocus rather an arti- | ficial sort of Spring, the kind of Spring | used to adorn a moral in an Easter | sermion, the kind of Spring you see in| advertisements which intimate that you | should eat more sweets or wear some | sort of hoslery or buy a new car? | And then, looking down in the dun| weeds of the grass, I saw the speedwell bloom, its bright and pale blue corollas looking up at me like the eyes of a| child, ‘and ‘where the proud crocus bloomed I had walked past indifferent, | but beside this bit of ral and ir-| resistible Springtide, this little three-| cornered chip from the sky, I could | have knelt down to pray, as legend | says the great Linnaeus knelt to pray| beside the English gorse. A common weed, and old-time, Old World, long- loved tiny blossom. so humble in its etensions, so trusting and early in its jooming, that it was that irare thing, purely beautiful. and In Pounds THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, NANCY PAGE Junior Shows Stre‘nh of Stubbornnes BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. There was no question about it— Peter Page, Jr, had a mind of his own.' His mother was puzzled and at her wit's end as to the best way to deal with him. Her little niece Joan had always been a tractable child, doing as she was told, keeping good-natured and friendly. But_her own son ted a prob- lem. Sometimes she decided he was as stubborn as a mule. When told.to do a thing he flatly refused to do it. That was occasionally, then again he would obey as easily and cheerfully as if he ‘were a young cherub. Nancy began to study the times when he was stubborn. They came when she broke in on his play with a command, such as: “Come, Peter. It's time to go to bed. He was more apt to refuse to obey when he was tired than when fresh and bright. She learned to avold direct com- mands. Instead of saying, “Come Pet it’s time for bed,” she would say, “I'm looking for a little boy who wants to go to bed. Where do you suppose he i€ hid- ing?” In the mood of play he quite for- got to become stubborn. She found, too, that it helped a great deal if she gave him a choice of actions. Instead of saying, “Here Peter, let me put on your rubbers,” it wi “Shall mother put on your rubbers, or do you want to do it yourself?” She gave him alternatives of action, but the action was always there. He was so interested in the choice he could make that he forgot to balk at the action itself. Today in Washington History BY DONALD A. CRAIG. March 14, 1857—“T think it the dury of every one to try to abolish the pres- ent manner of dressing and wall 3 even more than the hoop fashion, whic! all the men seem to be down on” writss Miss Lucy B—n in a letter pub- lished in The Evening Star today. “Now, no doubt you think from my style that I am some antiquated miss, whose envy prompts her to condemn that in others which, were she to prac- tice, would only expose Ber to ridicule, But you are very much out in your supposition, my dear Mr. Editor, for let me tell you I am a young and very good-looking girl, with a figure ac- knowledged by all to be perfectly beau- tiful.” % Miss Lucy inclosed with, this lettor to the editor another communication giving her “impressions on the manner of dressing and waltzing as seen at the inaugural ball in 1857"-the ball on the evening of President Buchanan’s inauguration on the 4th day of this month. She asked the editor to print the communication, and he with her request. my last ball,” “My first and I hope Miss Lucy. “I never was so dis- appointed in my life. I expected two see beautiful, modest women and gal- lant men joining in the ‘fairy mazcs of the dance,’ joyous and happy. But, ah, how different—discontent was visi- ble on every countenance, whilst women wanted their chief attraction (modesty) which makes even homely features charming. “The manner of dressing and waltz- ing is really indecent, and I blush for my sex whenever I think of my ‘first ball’ I have heard gentlemen say that nothing could induce them to marry a lady of Washington City, and my surprise was great, for I thought them more desirable as companions then the majority of the men, who spend their time in drinking, smoking and lounging, and I secretly d never to marry a city n. “But now I think the women even more culpable than the men; for let man be ever so high-toned, the tempt tions of a city are hard to resist—an: a man is exposed to many. But a woman, whose sphere is amidst the purifying influences of the home, where can she have learned to forget the deli- cacy which is indispensable in a true and virtuous female? “Woman was sent to refine aud purify the mihds of men, but I-rather think they reverse their ‘mission Washington City. Oh! I feel degraded to think that so many of my sex should be the objects of deep, and not always silent, contempt of men.” Wilkins Coffee maintains its posi- tion as the favored Coffee of Washing- ton, only because the quality stand- ard is always main- tained. None but quality Coffees are blended into this l/z'POllllds perfect drink. complied | | against even that = |DorothyDix| . Girl Who Succeeds at Business, Marriage and Motherhood Has Learned to Look Every Situation in Face. AN English bishop recently made an address at a girls’ school in which he young ladies to cultivate gumption. “It is not people with brains, urged the but people with gumption who get on in the world,” he said. Right-o. And if gumption is an asset to a man, it is God's best gift to a womsn, for it is that compound of common'sense and proportion and clear vision that enables. s woman to see things as they are, and estimate them at their true worth and make the best of every situation. rl with gumption. succeeds in business because she does not overrate her o?n’l.h‘flldes ln’luunp:trula some career for which nature has not fitted hers She might like to be a movie star or an opera s 3 she has gumption enough to know that fate has called the young woman to typewriter and the eounter and not to the stage or the pen if she has a face that is merely an.assemblage of useful features, or if she is one of those who cannot turn a tune or even think of anything to write on a postal card. the 4 ‘Therefore, she learns how to spell and perfects herself in salesmanship, !ventulllye becomes “our invaluable Miss Smith” in some big « a high-priced buyer who makes yearly trips to Paris. It is the girl with gumption who maintains friendly relations with all but entangling -alliances with none of the men for .whom she works. uemypercmmm:‘mumnx‘ln'hve or te a best seller, but and business firm, or She doesn’t with her employer. * % Tnmmmflmmpummuommflmmmmunnn as it is and makes the most of it, instead of fact that it ed of if b.ln‘bu;;l.emln‘ "h‘thtll 1d isn't the Elysium that she had dreamed of its 3 nows tha woul be fine if m’:mu! ‘was-all lovey-dovey, -and. billing- and- cooing, and blue-eyed cherubs with golden curls who never had the eolic or got sick, or rumpled their clothes, or got their faces dirty, and it tives, or other trials and tribulations. there were no bills, or interfering rela- Only marriage doesn't happen to be that way. It is full of sacrifices and giving up your own personal tastes and habits and adapting yourselves to other le’s ways, and getting dinners and washing little faces, and doing a million msl you don’t want to do and leaving undone 10,000,000 things you are dying to do, and the woman of gump tion accepts all of this as it is as the price of marriage and pays her bill cheerfully without whines or complaints. And the woman of gumption holds her husband because she doesn't take him too seriously, nor expect too much of him. Du the days of courtship she may have thought him her fairy prince, but somewhere during the honey- moon h’er little tin god falls off the pedestal on which she placed it, and gets 30 dented and crumpled up that she sweeps it out into the ash can, and réflects that, after all, it would have been terribly trying to have to live up to a perfect husband. She-doesn’t weep her eyes out over So she settles down with what she has. her husband's shortcomings; she laughs at them. She doesn't have hysterics every time he stays downtown of nights and plays poker with the boys. She makes a good story about it and the alibi he tried to put over. She doesn't get ‘women and hires a blond stenographer. S| ed because he admires ey pretty kids him about being g sheik amonj the ladies. And that keeps him from taking himself too seriously, for it turmns sentiment into a joke. ‘The woman with gumption never She walks around it. disputes. beats herself up against a stone wall. She doesn't trample roughshod over her husband's pet prejudices. She gumshoes gingerly about them. She never argues. She lets him hold his 6pinions even as she holds hers, and she avoids She never all controversial subjects as she would the plague. She doesn't try to make her husband over according to her ideas, nor to interfere with his personal ways. She doesn't fight with him, as many wives do, from the altar to the grave over smoking, or think it worth while to drive her husband away from home to keep him from dropping ashes on a rug. The woman with gumption makes a good mother because she is not so besotted with motherhood that she thinks her children perfect. She sees their faults and tries to correct them, but she doesn't nag them. She loves them, but she does-not try to keep ghem perpetual babies, because she knows they have to go out into the world, and they are bound to fall down if they have not been taught to stand alone. She drives with a light r‘eht: and gives her keeping- cohitrol over.them. code and, remembering how silly she was when she was young, she is not too | §uS hard on the follies of her-own girls and boys. The woman of gumption may not be beautiful nor brilliant, but she is the 3 DOROTEY DI woman who keeps the world going. (Copyright, 1930.) PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE BY WILLIAM Table Psychology. Etiquette is .the code of rules pre- scribed by authority to govern the con- duct of persons of good breeding. Who is an “authority?” 1In the past there have been too - many individuals of doubtful breeding posing as authorities and sometimes even imposing their own rules on followers who accepted them as authorities. Today this artificial and really ridiculous kind of etiquette is passe. If you wish, you may carve your lettuce with your knife now. There is a very good reason for this, too. Thirty years ago you just looked at the lettuce and then at the fork, and you '&A::mded you didn't care for lettuce. y you need the vitamins, so you cut the lettuce with your knife and you have it served over on the right where you can get at it conveniently. that does mot Any rule of etiquette conform with good me is simply not valid in modern life. No “authority” is good enough to impose intelli gent people a rule of eti that in- volves any sacrifice of Ith -or one !hltisll.ke&b be an obstacle n the way of health. Some ministers and un- dertakers in Iowa actually published a paid advertisement recently, urg that men cease baring their heads dur- ing ceremonies in the cemetery- in cold weather, - You see, ‘the ministers and undertakers, imagining that the doffing of the hat involved some risk to health, did not hesitate to butt their heads tradition. * Of course, no risk is involved, but these brave lads believed differently and had the coung to say 80 in the paid announcement the local paper. Here are some rules of table etiquette The Southern Flavor that Won children their head, while still that each generation has its own BRADY, M. D. which are especially commendable to parents: 1. No one may come to table without first washing his hands, so he can handle his own food. 2. No one shall pay attention to or make any about table manners at table. A child forms table manners by example, not by precept. 3. Having provided proper food, the parent’s duty- is done. In no case should there be any coaxing, urging or ai concerning the child’s dis- posal of the food, either at table or at any time in the child's presence. 4. A child must remain a definite time at table, say 20 minutes, never less in any circumstance. If the child prefers not to eat, very well, no comment or criticsim is permissible, but the 20-min- ute rule is inflexible. That's all. 5. It is unwisefi unnecessary and some- times actually harmful to insist that the child drink an arbitrary _quantity of milk at any meal or in the day. If the child dislikes milk, he should not be compelled to drink it. | 6. All food should be served at table | without one word being esent must be about l:cu othe‘:l :&nn t:::im S courl:..uure no prol ion a spontaneous ~This is great, mother, may I please have some more.” And this reminds me of the Im yourselves, I'm not going to tell it any | more, though it was a grand old story in its day and it illustrates perfectly | the attitude that parents and children . should maintain toward the victuals at | table, especially where children- have | poor appetite. e A Ml"flflhmmm. ; Of Southern Recipes sent on request OLDEN ROWN TABLE SYRUP America F YOU want to serve hotcakes with glorious Southern flavor, serve them with Golden Crown. For this True Southern Flavor is re- created for you in Golden Crown Table Syrup. Makes a tempting and nourishing spread for all breads and toast. Mighty economical and healthful. True Golden Crown is always identified by the name and the Crown on the package. All good grocers recommend olden Crown STEUART, SON & CO., IN Baliimore, Md,” 1O With the True Southern Fla N > D. C, FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1930. SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. ‘cided to be friends wif puppy, -n!nmpl’rypy willin’ to be friends wif ever'- (Copyright, 1930.) LITTLE SISTER BY RUBY HOLLAND. “I have to be tareful to bite 'round the edge ob my slice ob bread or else I will be bumping into the butter.” (Copyright, 1930.) Spring Guest Meals At this time of the year there are several treats that may be served at guest meals—among them asparagus, strawberries, rhubarb and radishes. ‘They needn't be very expensive, either, for you can make a little go a long way with any of them. One bunch of radishes, for instance, if expensive, can be made into little radish roses to garnish a salad. One bunch of aspara- may be served, creamed on toast, with only three stalks to a est. ‘There are other ways of making as- paragus go far. You can serve three stalks for each guest on the plate with lamb chops and potatoes. Thus, it seems to go farther than when served on a plate alone. Or you can make cream asparagus soup of the tough parts of a bunch Andp&u: the little, tender tips in the wugem tes. Strawberries may be served with ice cream or as part of a shortcake to make a few go far. The cake and whip, cream add to their bulk and deilcious- ness. Rhubarb, if it is expensive, may be served in small portions. Cut in short and carefully oooked, with a e it water, well sweetened and served chilled in glass 8! dessert dishes, sponge cake passed with it, rhubarb is delicious. Firmly Textured, Vitally FEATURES. MILADY BEAUTIFUL BY LOIS LEEDS. Milk as a Beauty Aid. Since the days of Cleopatra, tradi- tion tells us how famous beauties have hel, retain their loveliness by taking milk baths. Perhaps there are some who can remember hearing grand- mother tell of how the young ladies of her day felt that th's luxury was quite essential in milady's beauty pro- gram. This old beauty secret is one which is not to be regarded lightly even today, for there is nothing better for Jm) g & harsh, flabby complexion than a milk or massage with a lotion whoee chief ingredient is milk. A very good lotion is made as follows: One pint sweet milk, one-half ounce borax, one-half ounce boric acid, one dram benzoate of soda, one teaspoonful tartaric acid and one ounce glycerin. The borax, boric acid and soda are heated to a boiling point in the milk. It is best to use a double boiler for this purpose to make sure that the milk does not ecorch. Remove from fire and stir in the tartaric acid. Allow the mixture to stand for 24 hours, then strain through a clean piece of fine muslin and add the {lycerln drop by drop. Blend thoroughly and put in & few drops of floral essence to perfume the cream. Any of the following- odors j‘::mlnm:fl w;uu rose, o!.} g: nerolé, e, oll of rose, oil of rgamot. About six or eight drops are enough to_perfume the milk lotion. In using the milk lotion first cleanse the face thoroughly at night with cleansing cream. Wipe off the cream, then pat on the milk lotion and leave on overnight. This treatment is not harsh d will be found especially soothing to complexions which have become harsh-through exposure to out- door winds and weather. It also has & slightly bleaching effect and its reg- ular use will help the complexion to remain white as well as soft in tex- ture. Those who use it regularly will soon find that this simple milk lotion Fashions of Today BY MARIE SHALMAR. Softer Tones. You cannot see the new dresses and fabrics as they are shown in the shops this- Spring without feeling that colors are softer, lovelier and more becoming than they have been for many years, and this, I think, htflmrt of the re- turn to favor of the distinctly feminine element in dress. We no lon hold up before us any arbitrarily ideal of smart- ness or chic that stands apart from thoughts of charm and beauty. One hears murmurs of discontent with the new clothes—a little less here and & little. more there than is usually the case. From the older woman there is the wail that all the new dresses and hats and. wraps seem to be designed exclusively for the young, and from the too stout the protest that these new dresses with their closely defined lines through the body are even less favor- able to them ti the straight-line clothes that have gone before. The woman who feels that her type demands clothes that are ultra smart laments the fact that the new dresses and hats are all of the pretty-pretty, turesque sort. Women who like to uy their clothes in a hurry and wear them without waiting for alterations or adjustment are out of patience because these new things demand attention to such tediou: preparations. But after all, these objections and complaints are no more numerous, no more significant than those that always ped | arise when a real fashion change occurs and most women are at heart glad that the break with the past has definitely been made. compares favorably with what the beauties of the E-t claimed were the virtues of the milk bath. Distressed—The above article an- swers your question in regard to your complexion, which, you say, has become harsh and rough through exposure. In addition, I think you will find that it to send a stamped, self-addressed en I shall be glad to mail you some special information in regard to your ':ht and treatment necessary in ler to take on a few extra 1S LEEDS. Mrs. D. Y. 8.—A sallow have various causes, but in is a symptom of wnuu'ue’nc - Complexions effect of the sunshine Keep your body in good condition regular daily exercise and a brisk walk out of doors in the fresh air every day. A few minutes daily facial mas- sage and & semi-weekly steaming, to- gether with the milk facial lotion, may be used to advantage on your type of skin, The lotion will refine the tex- ture, remove the dead particles of skin on the surface and expose the fresher cells, thus revitalizing the tissues of the-skin. It will also tone up the facial muscles and stimulate the circulation. The astringent properties - will tem- porarily remove small wrinkles and re- duce the larger ones. It will be both refreshing and restful and remove that tired, sallow look from your face. Lo1s 3 (Copyright, 1930.) Potato Soup. Cook three potatoes in boiling salted water until soft, then rub them through a seive. Scald four cupfuls of milk with two slices of onion until well seasoned, then remove the onion and mix the milk with the potatoes. Blend the mixture with two tablespoonfuls of but- ter and one tablespoonful of flour which have been cooked together. Add one and one-half teaspoonfuls of salt, one-fourth teaspoonful of celery salt, a pinch of white pepper, a few grains of cayenne, and one tablespoo: of chopped prasley. "Chocolate Animals. Melt some sweet-dipping chocolate in the top of a double boiler. Dip animal crackers in it, coat well and place 1ight side up on waxed paper. 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