Evening Star Newspaper, April 24, 1930, Page 38

WOMAN'S PAGE. Housecleaning and Spring Fever BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. Springtime is the season when home- makers want to put their houses in fresh condition, and the orgy of house- cleaning is begun. It is also the season when the body feels more utterly relaxed than at any other. The name, Spring fever, is given to this CLEANING MIRRORS IS ONE OF ‘THE INDEPENDENT TASKS THAT CAN BE FITTED INTO ODD TIMES. Jet-down physical condition. It seems unfortunate that the cleaning and the fever come during the same period, but recognizing it helps to bring relief by preventive measures. ‘There are ways of adapting one’s self to the work so that it does not become a menace to good health. For one thing be careful not to do everything in too short a period. It is the rush of work that is noticeably wearing. Take respites between doses of cleaning. ‘There is always another day coming. Let it share the labors without forcing too much into one day. Remember that health is of paramount impor- tance. Without it the work will have to remain undone or money paid out for the part you planned to do yourself. Another thing that is helpful is to avoid hard and strenuous tasks on the hot days. The heat that comes prema- turely relaxes the body, and brings on the inertia of Spring fever. Comply with the suggestions of Dame Nature that you take it easy on such days. You MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN. China Doll Cake. One mother says: ‘When Lucile’s birthday anniversary arrived, it taxed my ingenuity to bake her a “different” kind of cake. I final- ly stirred up my favorite white cake recipe and baked it in gem pans. On the top of each cake I put a two-inch china doll, leaving over half the bedy above the cake. I inserted the doll when the dough was firm enough to hold it erect. I arranged the cakes on a platter in pyramid form and this made the centerpiece on the table. I used pink icing on the cakes, which gave the dolls the effect of being dressed in pink hoopskirts. (Copyright. 1930.) will find yourself better equipped for another work-day by allowing yourself the relaxation. Another help is to use stormy weather for looking over closets, etc. On these days there is not the lure of the out-of-doors to contend with. You do not feel the same desire to be out in the rain that you do to be out in the sunshine during the marvelous beauty of clear Spring weather. Refuse chagrined if callers come in the midst of a cleaning period when the home looks its worst. Every homemaker has to undergo in her own home _these very periods of disorder and should be lenient in judgments of those who are deep in the necessary whirl. If in the disarray you make a caller welcome without lavish ex- cuses you have acquired one of the fine social graces. ‘The homemaker who during Spring housecleaning will relax at the right time, will push forward when strength and weather conspire to give energy, and who refuses to worry, will find her tasks lightened and her work is accomplished without her breaking down. (Copyright, 1930.) Your Baby and Mine BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED. A baby in the family makes the mother acutely conscious of every other baby. She notes the behavior and each mother’s response to it and mentally promises herself to profit by it in the future. One mother who signs herself flatteringly, “An Admirer of Your Work,” says: “Since I have a baby of my own I have been observing mothers and children with a view to determin- ing the causes of certain acts. Lately I have noted three things which seem wrong to me and I hope you have the space to comment on them. “The first is the discussion in lowered tones and veiled language of the details and mysteries of child-birth, while 4- year-old stands by quietly with eyes and ears wide open. “The second is discussing a child’s conduct whether good or bad, in the presence of the subject. “The third is ignoring a child's questions. Recently I called upon a mother whose 2-year-old was upstairs taking & nap. During the visit she went to his room to get something she wanted to show me. I heard him ask, ‘Mamma, who down there?’ She paid no attention, thinking, I suppose, that it was no concern of his. He repeated the question and she murmured vaguely, ‘You'd be surprised.’ Not at all satis- fied with this meaningless reply, the child kept on repeating the question and the mother, finding what she was hunting for, left the room without an- swering . ) t a miserable, unsatisfied state in which to leave a child! She could have said, ‘Mrs. So and So,’ or ‘A lady to see Mamma,’ and the child would have been satisfied. As it is, some day she will ask him a question which he won't answer and she’ll be angry and probably punish him. “I think even if a child interrupts he should be answered, and later told of his breach of etiquette. It seems to give some adults a satisfying sense of importance to ignore a child.” ‘You have suggested three big ques- tions which we have dealt with in the past at various times, but they can well bear repetition. Medical conversation is a subject out of place in a child’s presence, whether it is talk about cancer or boils or birth-control or what- not. Obviously hushed tones are point- ed barbs to arouse curiosity, and the parent, guilty of talking in hushed tones on a subject about which she probably wouldn't talk freely to the child, is acting in a most childish man- ner. “I have a secret you don't know and I won't tell you,” is pretty much an expression of her attitude. ‘We have frequently offered leaflets on handling sex questions of children and one contains a direct suggestion to forego this hushed and mysterious at- itude. Children, not being inanimate, should not be discussed before any one. That would be poor taste in dealing with an adult, and is just as poor taste in deal- ing with children. Your last suggestion you have discussed so wisely that I am letting it speak for itself. e Tapioca Pudding. Soak two tablespoonfuls of tapioca in water enough to cover, for two hours, | then place over the fire in one pint of milk. When boiling, stir in the yolks of two eggs beaten with one cupful of white sugar. Bolil for two or three min- utes. Add vanilla to taste. Have ready in a dish the whites of the eggs beaten to lnlmth. Pour the hot pudding over it. Veal Stuffing. ‘Mix one cupful of diced potatoes with half a cupful of diced celery, one green pepper chopped fine, one tablespoonful of parsley, one carrot sliced fine, one tablespoonful of bacon drippings, one- fourth cupful of cracker crumbs, salt and pepper to taste, and one well beaten egg. This is especially good for veal. Never mind the moths themselves it’s the cloth IVENING SHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY ¥. CORY. ‘Well, here is I! I can’t play marbles fer keeps, er say “darn” wifout puttin’ “my s'ockins” right after, an’ I aren’t lowed to fight—might as well been borned a girl— (Copyright, 1930.) LITTLE SISTER BY RUBY HOLLAND. “I would have used the nice 'broid- ered towel on the rack, but I heard muvver tell daddy not to ’'fore the tomp'ny came.” | (Copyright, 1930.) To Clean Varnished Paint. It is a great mistake to attempt to clean varnished paint or enamel with soap or with soda and water. This makes the varnish dull and it may even cause it to peel away from the wood. A far better plan is to use a solution prepared with tea leaves. Collect the them in a pan. Pour hot water over them and allow them to soak for 10 minutes. Use the liquid cold for wash- ing over the varnished surface. Final- ly dry and polish with a soft cloth. | children has seen them | :lflre a nurse to neglect her grandchil- | dren. | TWO-TO-ONE TWi leaves for several days and then put The woman who used to neglect her grow up and Have YOU got that DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX Can a Man Be Really in Love With His Third Wife?—Children’s Welfare Paramount. DEAR MISS DIX.—A man who has lost two wives by death wants to marry me. Can a man have the same love for his third wife that he déd for hls‘ first wife? L. J. Answer—How often a man can love depends upon the individual man. There are one-woman men who love only once and who give all the affection of which they are capable to one woman, but the great majority of men seem capable of loving as often as the occasion demands. Certainly I think a man can love a third wife as well as he did his first. Perhaps he can love her even better, but he loves her in a different way. You cannot carry the misty pink of the dawn into the prosaic light of midday, and | S0 no man can ever bring to his second or third marriage the romance and the illusions that he did to his first. No other woman can ever be to him such a | figure of mystery as his first bride. He can never go into any other marriage with such impossible hopes and ideals as he did into his first. His subsequent | marriagess are soberer, more practical affairs, in which the head plays as great a | part as the heart, and by that token they are generally happier than the first. | | In considering how many times a man may love it must be borne in mind that he can love different women equally well for different reasons. He may have fallen in love with his first wife because she was pretty and sentimental and artless and ignorant. She may have been a cherished child-wife whose | strongest appeal was to his gallantry and sense of protection and he may have | felt a peculiar tenderness for her just because she was so helpless and incapable of taking care of herself. He may love a second wife equally well because she is strong and wise and capable and efficient and is a real helpmate who shoulders her half of the burden. He may fi®d an unending delight in her companionship and like to pal with her because she is his mental equal. And he may have a third wife as well as either of the others because she is tender and affectionate and gives a warmth and softness to his life that he has never known. So you needn't be afraid to be Mrs. Number Three. It is the last love that always counts with a man. PESIR DOROTHY DIX. EAR DOROTHY DIX.—I have a son who has been living with me all his life. He has five children, whose mother deserted them when they were hables. I have cared for them for five years. The oldest boy I raised from infancy. He is now 12 and I am devoted to him. Now my son has married again and he and his wife are planning to move into a home of their own and take the children with them, but I am unwilling to give up this oldest boy. His father says that he loves this child as much as he does the others and that he does not want to separate the family and_that the boy would never regard him as his father if he gave him up. I say I have done enough for my son for him to let this boy stay with me, as I am getting old. Which one should have the boy? . MRS. S. W. M. Answer—The thing to be considered in deciding this question is solely what is best for the child. Search your conscience, Mrs. S. W. M., and deal honestly with the subject. Do you think that a doting grandmother is fitted to bring up a boy? Can you discipline him, or will you spoil him? Don’t you think that the difference between the age of a grandparent and a young child is too great for them to meet on a common plane, and for that reason aren’t grandparents either likely to be too lax or too severe? Don’t you think that a boy entering his teens needs a father's strong hand over him and the contact with other children that he would miss if he were brought up alone? Consider the question from the boy's side alone and I think that you will see that he will be better off with the family group than he will if he is brought up just by himself. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1930.) Strawberry-Raisin Frappe. Make a puree with two cupfuls of strawberries, juice and pulp, add two tablespoonfuls of lemon juice, half a cupful of sugar, one cupful of raisins, then add to two cupfuls of milk. First let the raisins stand in hot water until A Sermon for Today BY REV. JOHN R. GUNN. Men of the Spirit. “And they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit."— Acts vi.5. It was a high service for which Stephen was chosen. And he was chosen not on the ground that he was a man of wealth or of great learning or of eminent position, but because he was full of faith and ‘of- the Holy Spirit. - Men filled with the Spirit, and in whose lives appear the fruitage of the Spirit— love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentle- ness, goodness, faith, meekness, tem- perance—are the only men qualified for the highest services. ‘The men who render the best service |to the world are not the men mighty |in the matters and affairs of time, but | the men mighty in the Sp‘glt—'.he holy | men, the men of faith and prayer, the | men_of love, the saints, the meek, the | gentle, the magnanimous—men whose lives reveal the beauty of the ideal and | the power of spiritual forces. It is to such men that we owe the greatest debt of gratitude. And in the long run it is to such mer that we pay fore adding. k the mixture and salt to freeze, or place in the tray of a mechanical refrigerator. 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