Evening Star Newspaper, April 17, 1930, Page 54

WOMAN’S PAGE. Convenience and Ease in Rooms BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. A MODERN GROUPING OF FURNITURE IN WHICH CONVENIENCE AND EASE COMBINE TO MAKE GOOD DECORATION, The home decorator who is planning , fo buy some new pieces of furniture for different rooms in the house will find it helpful to study the rooms in re- lation to comfort, for a place that is comfortably arranged is seldom poorly decorated. It should be remembered that con- venience plus ease are at the very foundation of interior decoration. Each Diece of furniture was originated for convenience, and was placed in a room so that it was conductive to it and to ease. There was no preconceived idea of decoration at the start. This developed later, until, today, it would sometimes | seem as if decoration was the object, and convenience and ease were quite secondary notions. Such an idea must be banished from the thoughts of ex- pert and home decorator, alike. ‘To place furniture for pictorial ef- fects is like setting & stage. To disar- range any piece is to spoil the effect, for it involves an entire redistribution of articles, to recapture the picturesque quality. Such decoration is stilted and | unadaptable. | In the room that is decorated first for convenience.and ease, and then. with an eye to pleasing effects, it will be found that a chair can be moved, an occasional table shunted around, etc., wvided this is done for comfort, and room retain its pleasing ap- ce. A homelike atmosphere is one most desirable, and not a show- foom or a museum arrangement. These Bave their special functions, apart from dwelling-house decoration. Beware of set arrangements. They admirable and look well in ictures and dl&}!l‘yl. If they suit convenience of the family, well and but if not there must a redis- tion to suit the rooms, peculiarities and the comfort of the special family the articles are to serve. ‘With these ideas in mind the home @ecorator should give her rooms a keen and apprehensive study. It may be that the furniture at first considered desirable will prove less needed. Often the knowledge that some friend or neighbor is getting certain new things creates the geslre to have the identical pleces for one's own home. Refuse to be caught in such a net. The articles may be greatly needed for the comfort of her family or the convenience of her work, but her family’s needs are not yours. Be individual. .Choose the articles that will meet needs long felt, or re- cently developed. Place these things where they will conserve convenience and supply ease. It will be found that pleasing decoration will result, for con- | venience implies an orderly arrange- i ment and ease suggests luxury. My Neighbor Says: To color Easter eggs boil a dozen or more eggs until hard and set them aside to cool. Cut strips of crepe paper in the shades of green, blue, red, purple and orange gnd place each shade in a separate can. Pour enough boiling water into each can_to cover three or four eggs. Put the eggs in the cans and let them stand until they become the de- sired shades. Commercial dyes ‘may also be used to color eggs. Fowl may be found in the market throughout the year, but 1t is best from March until June. Turkeys are best during the cold ‘Winter months. If boiling water is poured over shrimps & half-hour before they they will be greatly improved. A stick of rhubarb cut up in pleces and boiled in a discolored aluminum pan will remove all THE EVENING STAR, Your Baby and Mine The child's first lessons in generosity are learned froi . It he sees them offe e carrying over a pla a neighbor the cgnd is eager to do the S ——— and proper, and & we want to cultivate. But Mrs. V. 5. has a little boy with such a blunted sense of property values that he insists on giving his toys to a small girl play- mate and is angry when his mother won't allow him to. Mrs. V. 8. is fearful that if she prevents it she will make him selfish, yet she is naturally averse to having him give all his toys away. Bince the boy's generosity should be encouraged, we might handle this prob- lem in two ways until he is old enough (he is now only 3) to better under- stand the intrinsic value of some pos- sessions, and have greater regard for them and for what may have 'n the m"“ sacrifices in procuring them for First, when he is going to play with this little girl let him make some gift for her. He may cut out pictures from | a magazine and put them together with colored yarn. He may stuff a sack of bright cotton full of cut-up papers which his mother may sew together and make & harmless bag for throwing. He may even color a picture for her with his crayons. ‘Thus his joy in giving is not | destroyed and his toys are reserved for his use. Second, perhaps the child could un- derstand that he may share his toys with his playmate by lending them to her, She may use his toy wagon for a | | week and then her mother will return | [it; in the meantime he will be using | the other child's set of blocks. The fact that these exchanged toys must be treated with extra care, because they | | belong to the other child, will be L wholesom lesson for both to learn. Possessions mean very little to most ,childnn. chiefly because their first toys are of small value and the parents treat them as such. The spirit of “Oh, don’t | bother about that old ball; I'll get him another,” belittles objects so that the child puts all he possesses in the same | category. The masses of toys which children see in the 10-cent store and the ease with which they assemble | whole boxes full of toys are not con- ducive to a real appreciation of them. The parents can help this by their attitude toward the child's property, by their respect for his bits of string and old tin cans and battered spoons | which are so dear to him. If we treat| all his Fosae&slons as if they had value, | the child copies our attitude and cher- | ishes his things. If we can at the same time show him the joy to be ob- | | tained from sharing them with others son of appreciation for possessions and | | unselfishness in their use. AUNT HET BY ROBERT QUILLEN. “I wouldn't want a girl o’ mine to be as popular with the boys as Mary is if I had to lle like that when somebody asked what kind o’ boys they was.” (Copright. 1930.) WASHINGTON, D. O, THURSDAY, APRIL 17, Historic Failures at Assassination Iron Frame on Broken Jaw Helped Save Seward from Aseailant. 1930. MOTHERS THE For Easter Party. One Mother Says: FEA1URES. BY J. P. GLASS, we have brought home the double les- | RO “POWELL DREW A REVOLVER, BUT, UNABLE TO FIRE IT, BEAT YOUNG SEWARD UNCONBCIOUS.” As early as June, 1862, Willlam H. Seward, Secretary of State under Abra- ham Lincoln, had recelved warning of a plot to assassinate the President and certain members of his cabinet, Seward included. Strangely, this warning had come from Europe, from John Bigelow, our diplomatic representative in Paris. To him Seward had replied: “Assassina- tion s not an American practice or habit, and one so viclous and desperate cannot be engrafted into our political system.” History might have been changed had Seward not held to the fallacious be- lief expressed in this optimistic state- ment. On the same evening that John Wilkes Booth was shooting Abraham | Lincoln in Ford’s Theater in Washing- | ton, Louis Payne Powell, a Florida man, | appeared at Seward's house, rang the doorbell and told the answering ser-| vant that he brought a message to the Secretary of State from his physician. Nine days before, on April 5, Seward had gone for a drive with his son, Fred- | erick; his daughter and one of her friends. The horses had become fright- ened. Trying to get out of the carriage, the Secretary was thrown to the ground and knocked unconscious. His jaw was broken in two places, his right shoulder | dislocated and his whole body bruised. He was taken home and put to bed.| Surgeons set his broken jaw in an iron frame. On April 14 he was st'll con- valescing, & weak and broken man. | In the interim between the 5th and | the 14th only one event of importance | had taken place. President Lincoln, returning from a visit to Gen. Grant. had dropped in to tell him about the| journey. There was nothing suspicious in Powell's appearance on the night of 14. The servant admitted him,| and he passed upstairs, but at Seward's door he was stopped by the son, Fred- | erick. It was then 10 o'clock at night,| and his father wss sleeping. | Powell drew a revolver, but, unable to| fire it, beat young Seward unconscious with it. Then he burst into the sick/| room, drew a knife and attacked the helpless Secretary, striking blows at his head and throat. The iron frame about his jaw and his own quick wit saved Seward. He had the sense to roll off the bed on the opposite side. Meantime help arrived. A male at- tendant, named Robinson, and Augustus Seward sprang on the assassin. Miss Seward rushed to a window. threw it up and screamed into the street, “Murder, murder!” Powell broke away, wounding Robin- son and Augustus Seward. As he passed out of the house he stabbed a fifth man who tried to stop him. But he was soon arrested. His punishment was hanging. A P S S, Spring Salad. 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