Evening Star Newspaper, March 18, 1930, Page 34

WOMAN’'S PAGE. Length of New Spring Coats BY MARY MARSHALL. With regard to coats, fashion has gone all round Robin Hood's barn and come back just where she started—in | favor of the coat with even hemlln!.! long enough to cover the dress over which it is worn. A year ago the long, straight-hemmed coat looked out of place. We were not used to its added BPRING COAT SHOWS EVEN, LONG- ER HEMLINE, TRIM BELT AND COLLAR OF GALYAK FUR. inches and all too often it had to be worn over & dress with uneven hem- lines—we called them “dripping hem- lines” in those days, didn't we? | Anyway, the coat that was long | enough just to show the unrelated ends of the skirt drapery was not to our | liking, so we welcomed with something | like enthusiasm the shorter coat lnd‘ thought that it had come definitely to | supplant the coat that covered the But nothing of the sort really hap- At present many women want Spring coats long enough to cover their longer dresses, and they are having no difficulty in finding them. This Spring many women are faced with the ques- tion of buying a suit or a coat—and hose who have decided in favor of the uit are already plotting with their dress budget to see how they can pos- sibly buy a full-length coat as well. Last Spring's coat—that you hoped would do for another season—has turned out to be outrageously short. You have either had to pass it on to the rummage sale or have put it in the downstairs coat closet to use as an emergency wrap for motoring and pic- nicking. It may do for that, but for street wear when you want to look well dressed you would, I dare say, rather shiver along without a coat than to wear one that looks so out of date as most last Spring coats do at present. ‘The new silk scarfs are long oblongs that can be wrapped about the neck and knotted or worn Ascot fashion. This week'’s circular shows how to make one of these new long scarfs from a square scarf or a square of material. If you would like a copy, please send your stamped, self-addressed envelope to Mary Marshall, care of this paper, and it will be forwarded to you. (Copyright, 1930.) PRISON RIOTS In the prisons men are brooding, kr\'lns 5 to 50 years; making projects most _deluding, they arise as mutineers. Heedless of official orders they have | smuggled in some gats, and they shoot | some startled warder, shoot some turn- keys through the hats. Broken is the | Sabbath quiet of that penitential place, there are scenes of blood and riot, and it's all a big disgrace. Then we wonder what's the matter, as we read the ghastly news; and we talk the same old patter while we don our overshoes. “All | the jails are overcrowded, which the | prisoners resent; and they are by gloom | enshrouded, while upon their labors bent. Andthe eats they have to swi low don't include a decent roast, and there is no pie to follow, and they have no quail on toast. And the cells are dark and gloomy where the convicts have to sleep, and their joints grow stiff and rheumy, it's no wonder that they weep.” But the convicts’ evil humors are not based on bills of fare; they are always hearing rumors of the crime boom everywhere. Into prison there come creeping stories of the gangsters' reign, -of the bandits wWho are keeping coin enough to load & wain. Stories of the law_defeated, of the victories of sin, of officials scorned, unseated, in the war to conquer gin. Grim-eyed convicts hear such stories by their grape-vine telegraph; while ‘outsiders harvest glories, they're in jail to stand the gaff. When they lie on springless couches they can dream of out of doors, and their hearts are full of grouches, and their souls are full of sores. They are thinking of hi-jackers who are free to ply their trade, garnering all kinds of smackers, eating pie and marmalade, ‘WALT MASON. (Copyright, 1930.) PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE BY WILLIAM BRADY, M. D. Carbolic Acid as Was. One day a chemist caught me nap- ping. I hope few if any readers will remember it, but my chemist friend came at me through the eri business. Sald he, if you insist on calling the common cold “crl,” a term which you admit you invented, then, if you are consistent you will call carbolic acid by its correct name, phenol. The common ABE MARTIN SAY “Oh, he’s jest gone to nothin’ He t to speakin’ at luncheons, let his iness git away from him, tried sellin’ | auto polish an’ failed, his wife an’ chil- dren left him, an’ the last time I saw he wuz usin’ perfume,” said Lafe Bud, speakin’ o' Burly Sap. 4 What's become o' the merry farmer who used to butter his pie? “Oh, I expect she makes a purty good salary fer she’s married,” said Mrs. Em Pash_today, speakin’ o' Pony Mopps’ daughter. MANY FINE WAYS T0 EAT ALL-BRAN All Relieve Constipation and | Add Food Iron ‘There are literally scores of ways that Kellogg’s ALL-BRAN can eaten and enjoyed. Whatever way you eat it, ALL-BRAN is positively guaranteed to relieve both tempo- rary and recurring constipation or | your money will be refunded! | ) Many eat Kellogg’s ALL-BRAN | as a cereal. It is delicious with milk or cream. Another way is to use it £ 'in soups and salads. The practice L!of soaking it in fruit juice has | grown very popular. Its addition to 3 | all cooked food is an appetizing and { healthful one, f When you eat Kellogg’s ALL- BRAN regularly, you have the satis- faction of knowing that you are en= joying one of the most_ healthful abits on earth. It not only relieves ! constipation, but adds iron to the iblood. In combination with milk or | In general that it doesn't have, the car- cold, you argue, has nothing to do with exposure to cold. Well, carbolic acid is not an acid, it is an alcohol or some- thing like that. So you must never again refer to phenol as “carbolic acid,” if you want people to adopt and use your term “cri.” I haven't presented the chemist's ar- gument very well, but that was the gist of it, and I squirmed around for a while and could not think up & good retort, so I printed a reply, conceding | the logic and fairness of his position and acknowledging that phenol was the proper term and that we should not call it carbolic acid. Oh, when I'm wrong and caught in a bad corner I'm willing to make some concession in order to crawl out of it. But now that we're all clear I want to reconsider. I was just & mite hast in truckling to my chemist friend. I should have known better, but you must remember this chemist threw a mean argument and I suj he dazed me. Anyway carbolic acid is an acid and I do hope that ornery chemist will see this and grasp the fact Carbolic acid meets numerous tests of an acid—but wait & minute, now. Before we come to blows let me ask my chemist friend, or any reader who considers himself good at chemistry, just what is an acid? Whadayamean acid? Define an acid, so0 we'll know what we're talking about. I reckon that'll set the chemists quar- reling among themselves, It is the re- joinder I should have made to my chem- ist critic in the first place. Just found that out, in a casual talk with my chem- istry teacher and friend. He hinted that my handling of the chemist's crit- icism about phenol had pained him, but at the same time he laughed as though t say, “Of course, you can't know everything.” Then my teacher reeled off a lot of tests of an acid which car- bolic acid fulfills and he said there was Just one characteristic of organic acids boxyl group. This sounds terrible, I know, but I'm trying to give the gist of the professor’s remarks. 8o, even if we designate it phenol in sclentific literature, carbolic acid is an acld and hereafter I'm going to call it carbolic acid whenever I refer to it in this column, as I have nothing to con- ceal or fear and least of all the at- tempt of any blooming chemist to set me right about it. I may not know my chemistry, but I know my chemistry professor. (Copyright, 1930.) fruit juices, it brings important vitamins to the diet. » ., Every one should eat it to suppl. the bulk needed to balance the soft foods eaten today. Include ALL- \BRAN in al] reducing diets. It helps prevent constipation and anemia. .. Order a package of Kellogg’s ALL-BRAN. You will like the im- rovements in flavor and form. ‘our grocer has it. Made by Kellogg in Battle Creeck. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., TUESDAY, LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. Yestidday me and Puds Simkins and Shorty Judge and Sid Hunt made up a conspiracy to kidnapp Sids fox terrier ‘Teddy and hold him for a ransom, the ransom being 16 dollars reduced from a thousand, and the passwerd being Be- ware, and this morning Puds rang my doorbell for me to wawk to skool with him, me opening the frunt door and wispering, Beware, Beware, Puds wispered back, and who was up at the corner waiting for us but Sid and Shorty the other 2 conspir- ators, them saying, Beware, and me and Puds saying, Beware. And we started to make plans about the kidnapping while we was wawking to skool, Sid saying, You can put on your black masts after supper and come and wissle in the alley outside our back yard and Il be all reddy to un- lock the gate. But G youll haff to have a special secret wissle or elts somebody elts will wissle and Ill think its you and sIlluflpen the gate at the wrong time, he ed. G, thats rite, S8horty Judge sed, and Puds sed, All rite, 3 short (:lnls and then 2 long ones and then 4 more short. ones and then one more long one, hows that for a secret wissle. No- body would be libel to wissle that way axsidently, or anyways not 3 fellows at once, he sed. And me and Puds and Shorty started to practice it, getting partly mixed up but sounding pritty secret anyways, Sid saying, Well now the question is, whose going to keep Teddy in their yard while we're waiting for the ransom? Being a unexpected question because none of us would proberly be aloud to, and Puds sed, Well I would, ony the bolt on our back gate is so loose Teddy is libel to jump up and open it himself and run back home without any ran- som, and Shorty sed, Well I wouid, ony we got a cat that chases dogs, and Teddy would get so wore out he wouldent be worth a ransom. Well then Benny has to, Sid sed. g {W; ‘thhllnkkln 3 Heek.1 wh;' dident I uicl ink of somethin| they did? ShiAy bl Tang. and W ‘wi sed Bewere an 3 we a quick ran into skool. i osairs NANCY PAGE Pieces of Furniture Can Do Double Duty. BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. Lois was doing furniture shopping. After her return from the hospital she | 28 planned to have the nurse stay at the house for a month. That meant she needed to fit up some room for her. In the house there was the room which had not been used nor furnished. Lois hoped to use it as a nursery at a not so distant date. Furniture which would meet the nurse's needs ought to be the kind that she could use in other parts of the house, since it would have to be moved from the temporary bed room later. The room was small, for which Lois was truly thankful. She would not have to buy much. A bed which might later do duty as & day-bed, an easy chair, a dressing table, & small chair, an occasional table doing duty as a bedside stand, an open case for books and maga: a lamp seemed the essentials, |, There was no closet, which meant | gu that the nurse’s clothes would have to :euhun: in the spare closet down the all The dressing table was of mahogany. 1t had two drop leaves, one at each | end; a drawer which reached across the front, The legs were quite plain. There Wwas no mirror, naturally, since the ta- ble would later serve in a dining or liv- ing room. Lols bought a three-fold mir- l[’a;., which was placed on top of the able, ‘The dressing table stool was in reality & bench which might later function as a fireside bench, Because the room was small the drop leaves of the table were kept down. ‘The day-bed had metal frame with open tubular rounding head and foot “boards.” Lois made a slipcover of glazed chintz, which covered not onmly MODEST MAIDENS “HE SENT ME ORCHIDS ONE TIME AND VIOLETS THE NEXT. MEN ARE 80O INCONSISTENT.” A WASHINGTON DAYBOOK BY HERBERT PLUMMER. wm Lankford of Georgia first came to Congress, a decade or so , he was in his early 40s. His major legisiative occupation then was the effort to pro- mote & waterway project first au- thoriged for survey “when was months old.” he's still at it. What he wants is a canal across and it recites in newspaper cllnnlnfi a story of police happenings in the Na- tional Capital, unrelieved by any more leasing matter. It is part of the pro- longed warfare with local authorities the Senator has conducted. Since Washington is voteless, it is to no one’s political interest in Con- gress to find a way of presenting the silver-lining side of the cloud. That is a penalty Washington pays for its unique status as the only Federal City. But there is a reverse side. It has to do with the efforts of Washingtonians to get out of the voteless class. Never has 5o active a campaign to change that been waged. And perhaps the Blease contributions to the Record will help. They should arouse sympathy among the voting mass of Americans for the voteless folk here. AUNT HET BY ROBERT QUILLEN, new member of the Sixty-sixth Con- gress was introduc- tion of bills provid- ing for route sur- veys in that con- nection. “I am convinced this canal will be built in the near future,” Lankford now “I am not sure, though, just I want the best route to be I shall be for that route it least a hopeful outlook ‘Which s ©f 10 years' persistent on the effort. ‘The Congressional Record is used for many pu . Just now, with con- gressional elections in the offing, & third of the Senate membership and all Representatives scan its possibilities in getting material stored up for the com- ing campaigns. Any constant reader of the appendix of the Record could give a_ reasonable ess as to what sort of a plea of serv- ices rendered will be made to the voters of many districts by men who hope to succeed themselves. 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But there are many rules that fit the majority of hands, and these you will do well to remember. ‘When you are declarer and have to decide whether you will win your first trick in dummy or in the closed hand, your decision rests on two things—first, on where you want the lead for the second trick to come from. and, second, on whether you wfll need the trick- taking card as an entry card for that hand later on. For instance, if a suit has been led and you have the king and one small card in dummy and the ace and one small one in your hand, you can see that with this combination you | will have to decide what card to play by planning your hand. We will take | up the planning of the general play of | the hands later. You will have to de- cide the best lead to make for the second trick; also whether you will need | the high card in dummy as an entry card later, Another example: Dealer has bid one no trump, has secured the contract. and the t of hearts is led. Dummy contains only two nearts, the king and Jjack, and the bidder's hand contains only small hearts. Declarer can win this trick by putting on the king from dummy if the lead was from an ace- high suit. By playing the jack, declarer can stop the suit if the lead from the queen-high, which would mean that the ace was on the left of dummy. But should he play the king, knowing the to be In leader's partner’s hand, the opponents will be able to make many tricks in that suit. As declarer has had no opportunity to find out from the bidding or the lead where the ace lies, in this case he will have to do a little guessing, and it looks as if he should play the king. The king will not be the right play at all times, but it will win more times than it will lose, due to the fact that when a player opens his own suit against a no-trump declartion he is more likely to be stronger in that sult and have more | cards in that suit than his partner. Of course, the lead may have been from length and not strength, but if the leader had two suits of equal length he | would select the stronger to lead from. You will find that in the majority of cases the player leading does hold more | cards of the suit led than his partner. When we discuss the probability of any given card teing in the hand of the leader, we must, of course, except the leads which deny specific cards. | For instance, the lead of the queen,| jack, 10-spot and 9-spot would show that the hand of the leader did not contain the next highest card. For instance, the lead of the jack would deny the presence of the queen in the hand of the leader. So when dummy holds the king and one small one in the suit led, and the closed hand only small cards in that suit, there is no question as to what should be done— the king must be played to win the triek if you are to win with it at all. Because if the partner of leader holds the ace and you play the small one from dummy, he will finesse a small card in his hand, leading back the ace and catching your king. With the lead of a small heart, the king and one small one in dummy, the leader could not have held the queen, fack, 10-spot, be- cause in that case he would have led the queen; and you know by the lead of a small one that his partner must hold the ace and either the jack or the 10- | spot. This shows you how important | it is to remember this play; for if you| are just guessing or playing a hunch | every time you meet a doubtful situa- tion, you are playing the greater part of the time with the odds against you. From October to January last year there were 174 launches of lifeboats in England, 194 lives being saved. Let the free NEW milk food for children! De- lightful flavor of finest cheese in healthful, nutritious form. Kraft-Phenix now give you Velveeta — their crowning achieve- ment. 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