Evening Star Newspaper, April 21, 1930, Page 26

WOMAN'’S PAGE. Greens for Almost Every Type BY MARY Choosing colors, like seasoning soup, s something that may be simplified by following rules, but that depends for perfection on experiment. You cannot tell certainly whether the soup has enough salt without tasting it, and you MOST BECOMING TO THE BLUE- EYED BLOND LITTLE GIRL IS ‘THIS PASTEL GREEN SHANTUNG DRESS. cannot tell certainly whether sky blue or dusty pink is becoming to your lit- tle daughter without trying on a dress of the color or holding up a length of the material before her. That pink is for brunettes and blue BEDTIME STORIE So Near and Yet So Far. It sounds absurd. yet it is clear, We may be far and yet be near. Irs. Quack. M. Mrs. Quack had fooled Unc' Billy Possum very nicely that night when he had_discovered her in the Smiling Pool. She had slipped away into_the blackest of the Black Shadows, where the Laughing Brook leaves the Smiling Pool, and had hidden between two tus- socks of grass. She had guessed that Unc' Billy would take it for granted that her nest was in that direction. You know, that is just what Unc’ Billy | WHILE HE WAS THERE HE WENT POKING ABOUT, THIS WAY AND THAT WAY. had done and had gone down the Laughing Brook, looking for Mrs. Quack and her nest. Meanwhile Mrs. Quack had crossed the Smiling Pool and gone to her nest in the little swvamp on the other side. Mrs Quack chuckied as she settled herself on those beautiful eggs. When she had left them to go get something 1o eat, she had carefully covered them with the soft feathers with which her nest was lined—feathers she had pulled from her own breast. Now she had carefully uncovered them before set- tling herself on them. Though she was chuckling, Mrs. Quack was somewhat worried. Yes, sir, she was somewhat worried. “As if there were not_enough enemies around here without Unc’ Billy Possum_taking it into his head to come down here,” said she. “That old rascal loves eggs and now that he has seen me, he won't be able to get eges out of his head. He'll think eggs and dream eggs and spend a good part of his time hunting for eggs. ‘That is what he is doing right now. I know it just as well as if I were down there watching him. Well, I just fooled him once and I guess I can fool him again when he comes around, for come around he will. He'll come up this way on his way back to the Green Forest.” . | Mrs. Quack was quite right. It was along about dusk of the next evening | that Unc' Billy reached that little | swamp. It had been too light for him | to wait over there on the bank of the Smiling Pool for Mrs. Quack to ccme and get her dinner, so he had decided MARSHALL. for blonds is a time-honored rule that usually applies, but there are some lit- tle girls with fair hair and blue eyes who are never loveller than in pink, and some clear-eyed brunettes who are most charming in soft tones of blue. Generally speaking, little girls can wear almost any of the light flower petal tones, and white is almost universally becoming to them. Green is important this season for children as well as women, and there are greens for almost every type of blond or brunette. Usually the slight- Iy bluish light green is more becoming to the brunette than the yellower greens, while the yellower greens are a good selection for the girl with golden tints in her hair. For the perfectly clear-skinned blond of the English type there is a light shade of pure green in which neither yellow nor blue predominate that is best of all. This week's Help for the Home Dress- maker shows how to make a very sim- ple nightgown from two and a half yards 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 for- warded to you. My Neighbor Says: New shoes are sometimes dif- ficult to polish. To make them shine easily, brush off all dirt and rub them with lemon juice. Let this dry in, then blacken and polish them in the usual way, and they will shine beautifully. To keep bath enamel in good condition, always run in a little cold water first. Exceedingly hot water is likely to make it crack and peel off. If overdrapes darken your rooms have the poles extend far enough outside of the window casing to hang the draperies on. When windows are small the draperies hung in this way make the windows look much larger, and at the same time permit more light to_enter the rooms. Use eggshells to wash bottles or vinegar cruets. Crush them fine, put them into the cruets with warm, soapy water and shake well. ‘This will clean the finest glass without scratching it. BY THORNTON W. BURGESS poking about this way and that way. It is a habit with Unc’ Billy Possum to poke about this way and that way. He finds many things to eat just poking about. You see, Unc' Billy isn’t very particular about what he puts in his stomach. Anything that is not too large and that can walk, hop, fly, swim, jump, crawl or wiggle suits Unc' Billy Possum. Unc' Billy had caught and eaten a young water snake on the bank of the Laughing Brook and was looking for another when he heard light footsteps approaching. He guessed that Reddy Fox was not far away and Unc’ Billy promptly took to the nearest tree. Now it just happened that that tree was very near another tree, a branch of which was above the very place where Mrs, Quack and her nest were hidden under the broad leaf of a skunk cab- bage plant. Having climbed the tree, Unc’ Billy remained there for a while. Then, instead of going down the trunk of that tree, he crossed over squirrel fashion to the next tree, using branches of the two trees as a bridge. In the same way he crossed a third tree, and in doing this he passed right above Mrs. Quack. How surprised Unc’ Billy would haye been could he have known that he was so near to Mrs. Quack and those eggs he so desired. But not knowing it he might just as well have been a long, long distance away. He was so near and yet, for lack of knowledge, so far. Mrs. Quack saw him when he crossed. Perhaps you can guess how she felt. (Copyright, 1930.) WHO REMEMBERS? BY DICK MANSFIELD. Registered U. S. Patent Office. When we used to delight in buying to hide in that little swamp until it got darker. While he was there he went MODEST 1490 T2 A P Grent Briaia Rights Raserved “What! those long licorice sticks and make be- lieve we were chewing tobacco. With all these horses an? you've never played polo?” THE EVENT SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. T wish T could tell 'at Easter Bunny what I finks ob him. He left a black- an’-white baby rabbit fer Tommy, an’ two white baby chickens fer Billy, an’ only some red an’ dreen an’ perkle hard-boiled eggs fer us. (Copyright, 1930.) LITTLE SISTER BY RUBY HOLLAND, “I know it's naughty to tell stories ‘bout things what happen so sometimes I dest tid my mother a little bit 'til she finds out the real truf.’ (Copyright, 1930.) . Fricasseed Eggs. Four hard-cooked eggs, four pleces toast, three tablespoons fat, two table- spoons finely chopped onions, two table- spoons chopped parsley, one-fourth tea- spoon salt and one-fourth teaspoon paprika. Heat fat and add eggs and brown them by cooking slowly. Add onions and parsley and cook slowly un- til onions have browned a little. Sprin- kle with salt and paprika. Serve on toast and surround with cheese sauce. Rhubarb Custard Pie. Cut into half-inch pieces enough rhu- barb to make two and one-half cupfuls. Beat two egg yolks to a thick froth, then gradually add one cupful of sugar, two tablespoonfuls of flour and one tablespoonful of melted butter. Fill into an uncooked pastry shell and bake for 10 minutes in a hot oven and 30 minutes in a medium oven. Meringue may be made by beating the whites of two eggs until stiff and adding two tablespoonfuls of sugar. MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Grapefruit _Juice. Dry Cereal with Cream. French Toast, Maple Sirup. Coftee. LUNCHEON. Cheese Souffle. Stewed Tomatoes. Cinnamon Buns, Tea. DINNER. Clear Soup. SHINGTON, D. A | DorothyDix| “WRY do two people who really and truly love each other make each other miserable?” asks a bewildered mother. “My daughter and 1" she goes on to say, “are devoted to each other-and in any time of stress we could depend upon each other for help. I have sacrificed everything to care for her, to educate her, to give her pretty clothes and a good time and when I have been sick she has nursed me faithfully. But we simply cannot get along together. “We cannot live in peace and harmony. We rub each other the wrong way somehow. We wrangle over trifiles. We say things that stab each other to the heart and when a scene is over we actually don’t know what it was that we quarreled about. Why is it that I don’t understand my own child and she doesn't understand me and we simply can't adjust ourselves to each other? What is the matter with us?” MONDAY, Finds Antagonistic Temperaments| at Fault Why We Offend Those We Love Nothing, except nature. It is just that you are two antagonistic tempera- ments that can no more blend than oil and water. The old theory that mothers and daughters are invariably cut off the same bolt of human cloth and are of the same texture and pattern and width and weave and that they inevitably have the same tastes and desires and aspirations has no foundation in fact. R SOMETIMES the girl is a repiica of her mother, and is worldly or pious, high- browed or light-heeled, a club woman or bridge fiend, as mother is, and then we see the sympathy, the understanding, the harmony that makes the ideal relationship between mother and daughter about which poets and romancers rave. But just as often the mother and daughter are exact opposites in character and disposition. The girl is serious-minded. while the mother is frivolous. The girl yearns for a career, while her mother is determined she shall get married. The girl longs for freedom and independence, while her mother is set on keeping her in leading strings. In such a case, no matter how much the mother and daughter love each other, they are bound to clash continually because fhey see everything in the world from different angles. They have different scales of values. They have not a taste or a desire in common. And just because the relationship is so close, just because they are both women and because the mother has always looked forward to having a daughter who was a rubber stamp of herself and who would think as she thought and want to do the things she wanted to do, the clash of these opposing temperaments is not only inevitable but incessant. For at every turn some question is coming up about which mother and daughter disagree, and while mother is willing to grant her son a right to his own opinion, she does not extend the same privilege to her daughter. She is sure mother knows best when it comes to the girls. Besides the uncongeniality which frequently exists between mothers and daughters and for which they are in nowise responsible, there is often that intangible quality that we can neither explain nor define that makes them get upon each other’s nerves. We all have that feeling about certain people. We may know them to be admirable individuals, models of all the virtues. We may respect their integrity and honor them for their avhievements, but all the same everything they do irritates us. If they express an opinion on any subject we find ourselves hotly combating their view, no matter whether we have ever thought of it before or not; if they want us to do a certain thing, we will do the opposite or die in the attempt. e e NOW. although we refuse te recognize a very patent truth, parents and children often have this attitude toward cach other and, without intending it, rile each other beyond endurance. It is this latent antagonism, or sympathy, as the case may be, that causes one child always to be the storm center at home, always picked on by the parents, while the other is the fair-haired boy or girl. Perhaps no other one thing has ever caused more misery than the old superstition that parents and children should go on living together, no matter how uncongenial they were, no matter how much they quarreled, no matter how wretched they made each other. Fortunately, we are becoming more enlightened now and we perceive that often the only way to save the family circle is to break it and that frequently parents and children love each other better at long distance than they do at close range. So, when parents and children find themselves in continued conflict, the common-sense remedy for their trouble is simply to separate. Nothing is truer than that absence makes the heart grow fonder of our families. Distance gives us a perspective on their virtues, and from a hundred miles away we can appreciate the love that prompted the nagging, the anxiety that was back of the tyranny and even see the humor in the petty fault-finding which we could not perceive when we were right up against it day by day. We can't help the uncongeniality of our relatives, but, thank heaven, we can get away from it if we have sense enough to buy a railroad ticket. DOROTHY DIX. Copyright. 1930. A WASHINGTON DAYBOOK BY HERBERT PLUMMER. JT'S a pretty safe bet that in the fu- them to starting all the wars and at ture Senators and Representatives| the same time exempting them from will think twice—yea thrice—before | military service.” they agree to take part in another spelling bee. ‘That aiair at the National Press Club the other night, when statesmen and newspaper men lined up on oppo- site sides of the club auditorium to outspell each other over a Nation-wide radio_hook-up, left the former in a plight highly amus- Senator Fess has come in for a lot of praise on his ability as a schoolmaster One radio fan who heard him wrote that should he ever elect to retire from politics & hundred thousand places are open to him as & teacher. Another suggested that his only criti- cism was that he did not flog some of the boys who had not evidently studied their lessons, “in keeping with the cus- tom of the blue-back school days.” And the idea of such a spelling bee came in for & lot of praise. Hope was expressed that it would be an annual feature, for: “Those taking part in it give dignity and force to the movement for correct spelling, and in doing so serve thei country in a capacity ranking in im- portance with that of enacting laws.” Ing. As one of them put it “we are hearing from home.” More than one now wonders why he did not eexrcise the care that many of his colleagues did and refuse to par- ticipate. As it is they are trying to find alibis for not being able to spell the word given them by “Prof.” Simeon Fess. And at the same time “clear their skirts” in the eyes of their constituents. it One Representative, who took his seat after spelling “liquefaction” with an ,” attempted to get himself out of the idiculous situation” by taking his case to the floor of the Hou: Amid laughter from his colleagues he said that he had tried in vain to find an alibi for misspelling the word. He, 100, had “heard from home.” The only ex- cuse he could give was that he repre- sented a dry district in Congress, and since “liquefaction” is a pre-Volstead word it is no longer of any important general use to him. ‘Taunting were some of the statements in these letters from home. “We of the third —— district felt honored that you were chosen one of the team of contestants, but we must confess to some disappointment in your failure to stay longer than you did ¥ “You went out like one of Primo Car- nera's several adversaries, who never lasted beyond the second round . . .” “. . . However, you fell in action, if it was almost at the beginning of the engagement.” “You should get a military funeral, which is a privilege denied Congressmen other than those who fall in spelling bees, under the rules which restrict Hamburg Steak, Brown Gravy. Mashed Potatoes. Creamed Carrots. Beet and Onion Salad. Taploca Cream Pudding. Coffee. FRENCH TOAST. Beat two eggs and add one cup milk, one tablespoon melted but- ter, ‘one-half saltspoon salt and grating of orange rind; cut slices of stale bread into rounds with biscuit _cutter, dip them in egg mixture and fry ont both sides in butter. CHEESE SOUFFLE. One pound cheese, one teaspoon salt, two eggs, butter size of wal- nut, one-half pint milk. Grate cheese very fine, beat eggs, add other ingredients, mix thoroughly, grease bowl and bake oven one-half hour. Serve very hot. BEET-ONION SALAD. Cut into slices, then into strips, two cooked beets. Slice a medium sized onion, separate the sections, add as much celery as you have onion, one tablespoon capers or chopped sweet pickle, one-half teaspoon salt, one-quarter tea- spoon white pepper; mix and serve with your favorite dressing. Summer Colds Quick Relief from any Cold, Sore Throat, Headache or Other Pain ON'T treat a “slight cold” lightly! The discomfort of a summer cold can easily develop into dangerous illness if neglected. A tablet or two of Bayer Aspirin will check a cold as quickly as it came. And you will get immediate relief from the headache that goes with it. If there’s a sore throat, too, crush 2 tablets in 4 tablespoons of water, and gargle. Those who have learned the true value of Bayer As never without it in any season of the year. It's always ready to relieve headaches, neuritis, neuralgia, and a long list of aches and pains: see proven directions in each package. Genuine Bayer Aspirin does not depress the heart. Every drugstore has the genuine. BAYER@ASPIRIN ABE MARTIN SAYS When thieves fall out honest men git ther cars back. Mr. Lemmie Peters, whose gradua- tion essay, “We've Left the Bay an’' the Ocean Lies Before Us,” electrified our | citizens some 13 years ago, is bein’ PRIL 21, 19 Today in ‘Washington History BY DONALD A. CRAIG. April 21, 1809.—Some idea of the ex- tent of the Indian fur trade in this part of the United States can be obtained from an advertisement printed today in the National Intelligencer. It is in part as follows: “Upward of 4,000 raccoon skins of- fered for sale at the Indian Trade Office, Georgetown.” Ever since the earliest days of the Virginia and Maryland colonies the fur trade in this section has been very profitable, although it has not been | nearly so profitable here as it has been in the States farther to the north. ‘The furs that are brought by the Indians for trading at the office in Georgetown for the most part come from the upper parts of the Potomac River and its tributaries. They have been collected, or traded for, by the local Indians, who get them from the Northern and Western tribes. In some cases the more Northern Indians make trips down the Potomac River with boatloads of furs, trapped along the river, and offe them first- hand in the Spring in this market in exchange for ammunition, guns, colored cloth, beads, whisky (if the traders will let them have it), sweetmeats, knives and various other things which the white men make and the Indians lack. The Indian trade was one of the benevolent devices of the Maryland co- lonial government and was designed to supply the Indians with such articles as they nced in exchange for furs of various animals. The above advertisement was inserted in the National Intelligencer today by Gen. John Mason, who is superintend- ent of the Indian trade under the new Government. Gen. Mason is also head of the local militia and his time is much taken up with these and his other dutles. The fur trade, of course, is not any- thing like what it used to be on the Potomac River. As compared with 50 years ago, the number of furs which the Indians offer in trade is very small, indeed. Many different fur animals are caught, but recently raccoons have been much more numerous and have brought the best prices. Many of the larger animals, such as | deer and bear, which formerly furnished many skins useful in the trade, have almost _disappeared from this section of the country, although they are found farther back in the mountains north and west of the District of Columbia. The backwoodsmen still sometimes dress in deerskin, and bear skins for robes are not infrequently seen in trap- pers’ cabins. Rice and Tomatoes. Two cupfuls cooked rice, two cupfuls tomatoes, one-half _teaspoonful salt, one-fourth teaspoonful pepper, two tablespoonfuls chopped onlons, two tablespoonfuls chopped green peppers, one cupful rolled cracker crumbs and four tablespoonfuls butter, melted. Mix crumbs and melted butter, Spread over rest of ingredients which have been mixed and poured into shallow baking dish. Bake 30 minutes in moderate oven. Salmon in Casserole. Mix one can of finely chopped red salmon with half a teaspoonful of salt, a little pepper, one-fourth teaspoonful of paprika, 12 olives, finely cut; half a cupful of chopped nuts, half a cupful of chopped green pepper and a half can of pimento. Put a layer of the salmon mixture in a casserole, then some cracker crumbs, then some white sauce. Repeat until all is used. You will need one cupful of cracker crumbs and one pint of white sauce. Sprinkle the top with paprika and butter. Bake slowly. favorably mentioned fer the honor o’ makin’ the principal address at the openin’ o' the new sody fountain at the | Elite druggery an’ barbecue. | (Copyright, 1930.) I Don't fool Some women sure take a lot of “credit” for marryin’ their husbands. Since halitosis mever announces itself to the victim, you simply cannot know when you have it. yourself | Men won't forgive this i How can you expect atten- tion from others—especially from the opposite sex—when you have halitosis (unpleas- ant breath)? Many a vacation and pleasure trip that otherwise would have been jolly and romantic has been a failure because of it. Don’t fool yourself that you never have halitosis. Because you simply cannot know when you are a victim. Halitosis does not announce itself. Unknowingly, you may offend. LISTERINE kills 200,000,000 germs in 15 seconds a girl Why take the chance at all? Simply use Listerine every day. Then, if you have halitosis, Listerine ends it. If you haven’t—your mouth has had the benefit that Listerine always gives. Being an active germicide capable of killing 200,000,000 germs in 15 seconds, full strength Listerine checks mouth fermentation and in- fection — both a cause of odors. Then it gets rid of the odors; it is an instant de- odorant. Lambert Pharmacal Co., St. Louis. Mo., U.S.A. (Fastest time science has accurately recorded) FEATURES Psychic Adventures of Noted Men and Women Dead Alfonso, King of Spain, Communicates With Dying Marshal Serrano. BY J. P. “MY UNIFORM, MY SWORD,” HE SAID. Marshal Serrano, the Duke de la ‘Torre distinguished Spanish soldier and statesman, died at Madrid in his sev-| enty-fifth year, after a long illness which brought him, in his st 12 months, the most intense suffering. His pain was so great that he could not lie down, but rested all the time in his easy chair. His physician kept him continually drugged, so that his condition was almost akin to paralysis. ‘Weakened and emaciated, he could not move without the aid of servants. ‘The end was near. The family ex- pected it to come at any moment. So his nephew, Gen. Lopez Dominguez, sought permission from the prime min-. ister, Senor Canovas, that the distin- guished soldier might be buried in a church, like the other marshals of Spain. Senor Canovas took the matter to the King, Alfonso XII, at the Prado. The latter did not feel that he could grant the request. Serrano was a great man, but had he not at one time set up a republic in Spain, making himself re- gent at another? However, he did not wish to deprive the dying man of the military honors which were his just due, 50 he sent word to Gen. Dominguez that he would remain at the Prado and not come into Madrid until after the obse- quies should be concluded. ‘When a king of Spain is at his palace in Madrid, all honors are solely for him. It turned out that Alfonso was un- able to carry out his plans. He died before Marshal Serrano. His body was taken from the Prado into Madrid. And since procedure that ruled during his life still held sway after death as long as his ly was not buried, Serrano did not receive a military funeral. In the final hours of these two great personages, an incident of singularity took place. In the darkness just before dawn of November 26, 1885, the Marshal Ser- rano, who had been unable for weeks to make a move without assistance, sud- denly arose, vigorous and upright, and cried out in a loud, strong voice, “Let an orderly officer mount his horse and ride to the Prado; the king is dead!” At that hour not a person in Madrid knew that Alfonso had passed away. While he had been ill from phthisis, it had not been expected that he would die quite so soon. e end came sud- denly, indeed, and he did not receive the last sacrament. He was almost alone at the time. ‘The marshal’s sonorous announce- ment brought dozing attendants hur- riedly to his side and aroused his wife, the Duchess de la Torre. They saw him fall back exhausted into his chair. Thinking that he was delirious, they administered a calming draught. He dozed a short space. Then he once again awakened and stood erect. This time he spoke in a weak and hol- low_voice. “My uniform, my sword,” he said. “The king is dead!” Again he collapsed into his chair. It was apparent that he was dying. A waiting priest was hastily brought and he received the final sacraments and the Pope's benediction. consolations which had been denied the king. ‘These were no sooner administered than he died. That same morning all Madrid was GLASS. “THE KING IS DEAD!"” astounded by the news of the death of Alfonso. The passing of the Marshal Serrano was_considerably obscured. How was the news of Alfonso's death brought to the dying general? Did the last thoughts of the monarch. tinged with regret that he had denied his dis- tinguished subject burial in a church, turn to him? Did he, perhaps, himself come to Serrano and escort him into the invisible world? (Copyright, 1930.) Home in Good Taste BY SARA HILAND. It is a step forward—this selecting of furniture for the children's room with a view to its usefulness after they are grown up. Cribs with four-poster design and re- movable side rails added make a bed which is very practical for the growing child, and now we find a toy chest which is adapted to both nursery and adult room. It is 23 inches high, and the top measures 25'2 by 17!, inches. This makes it ideal to put on top of a tav- ern table, where it will give a chest effect and prove very useful in storing clothes or even writing materials. In the nursery it is commodious enough to hold a large supply of toys, and the front panel drops down and is substantial enough to be used as a play shelf. If a little girl had such a chest, it could be used for her “hope chest” later on. Just think what a nice sup- ply of linens this would hold! 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