Evening Star Newspaper, May 7, 1930, Page 33

WOMAN'’S PAGE. BEDTIME STORIES Killy Hunts and Plays. Who wi ‘ D e S Y et i —Killy the Sparrow Hi Mrs. Killy the Sparrow Hawk had | been gossiping with Peter Rabbit, much | to Peter's delight. But presently she shook out her feathers and prepared to leave. “I've gossiped long enough,” said she. "“Td better go get a meal and then et back to those precious eggs of mine. illy will be wondering what has be- come of me.” She spread her wings and Peter then watched her fly up and presently begin to circle about over the Green Meadows. Now and then he saw her plunge down and he was pretty certain t each time she caught something. Just what she caught he couldn't be sure. She wasn't gone a great while when she returned axd flew straight to her nest, which as you know was in a hole high up in the tree near where Peter was 7 “HELLO, PETER,” SAID HE, “HAVE | YOU SEEN ANY FAT MEADOW | MICE AROUND HERE?” sitting. Out came Killy and in went Mrs. Killy. Killy flew to the top of the dead branch in which his home was and looked this way and looked that way with those keen eyes of his—so keen that from 'way up in the air they could see a cricket in the grass. He saw fmr at once and flew over to the enct ting. “Hello, Peter!” said he. “Have ou seen any fat Meadow Mice around ere? “No,’ 'said Peter, “not around here.” “I ‘thought you might have seen Danny Meadow Mouse,” said Killy. “It is a long time since I've seen either Danny Meadow Mouse or Nanny Meadow Mouse. The last time I saw them they were so fat that they made my mouth epost near which Peter was sit- |all BY THORNTON W. BURGESS a bird since last Winter. Pretty soon g rs will be plentiful and then Mrs. Killy and I will live high. Now end then we catch a frog or a small snake or a big spider. Chickets are good. So are beetles. All of which re- minds me that I must go hunting again, for already I am hungry.” He launched into the air and for some time Peter saw him out over the Green Meadows. Every now and then he saw Killy shoot downward and he knew that Killy was hunting. What he was getting Peter couldn't tell, until at last he saw Killy coming his way with something in his claws. Killy alighted on the fence post once more and Peter saw that he had a small snake. “There,” said Killy, “I feel better now,” when the snake had disappeared. “There is nothing like a good meal to make one feel good. Now I'll get a little exercise.” Up went Killy and then he began to cut up all sorts of antics in the air. He did a lot of plain and fancy flying, He was playing. He was playing and getting his eXxercise. Perhaps he was showing off a bit for Peter'’s benefit. However, he is in the habit of doing this, for he dearly loves to use his wings, and both he and Mrs. Killy play together in the air. They know that lay is as necessary as work to make life what it should be. (Copyright, 1930). A NEW PLANET A large new planet has been found, and press and pulpit now resound with praises of the. four-eyed men who brought that sphere within our ken. For countless ages it has flown upon its course, unseen, unknown, its orbit bear- ing to the east, of little use to man or beast. Some able savants, in their lair, remarked, “A planet must be there,” and pointed to a stretch of sky about a billion furlongs high. I can't imagine how they knew, how they could make a guess so true. There was no sign to in- dicate that their prediction could be straight; and yet they pointed through the mist, and said, “We wot and also wist that there’s a planet large and fine just north of section thirty-nine.” Then the boys aimed telescopes upon the distant ether slopes, and kept their watch year after year until they spotted that old sphere. It's said to be of mighty girth; it fairly dwarfs this poor old earth; we feel, when of its size we read, that Earth is small and cheap, in- deed, a tawdry thing, of pocket size, in which no true distinction lies. But still the earth, however small, has Sum- mer, Winter, Spring and Fall; in Winter water. So I hoped you could tell me ‘where I could find one of them.” “I wouldn’t tell you if I could,” re- lied Peter. “They are friends of mine. should feel very bad to have Danny Mouse caught.” Killy chuckled. “Well,” said he, “any fother Meadow Mouse would do as well. ‘They all look alike to me, for they all taste alike.” Peter looked up suddenly. “Wouldn't you rather have a bird?” he asked. Killy shook his head. 0, said he. “I wouldn’t. When I catch a bird it is because I have to. It is because I am very hungry and can get nothing else. Give me my choice between a bird and & mouse and I will take the mouse every time. Why, I haven't had BEAUTY CHATS Everybody works these days—at least, everybody worth while. Even rich women run shops, dressmaking busi- nesses, private hospitals and go in for any number of activities. It increases employment, does some good and does nobody any harm. But the great thing about working is never to let the hands show the amount of work they've done. This is possible whether you're a scrubwoman, a saleswoman, a factory hand, a private secretary, a housewife THE STAR’S DAILY PATTERN SERVICE. ‘we may freeze our thumbs, and thaw again when Summer comes, and all the seasons, as they slide, some pleasant moments will provide. Here there is from day to day, and outworn things must pass away. But in that lE:ure they just have found there is no change the whole year round. It is a dark and frozen place, no flowers are growing on its face, ‘there is no sun- shine anywhere to break the aspect of ir, so I won't move there for a while, however much its boosters smile and try to sell me corner lots or acreage for garden plots. This small, cheap globe on which I dwell has always pleased me passing well. T MASON. - WAL (Copyrisht, 1930.) BY EDNA KENT FORBES or g so-called lady of fashion. Let me tell you today how to keep your hands from showing the amount of work they've done. Buy lr‘eourull some new gloves and put aside all your old, shabby ones in a bunch to be used as working gloves. It you do gardening or painting—and this time of the year lots of things about the house need repainting—use your old leather gloves. Use them for Polishing silver or for polishing the metal work on your motor car. I never do any work of this sort without gloves. Buy yourself also a new pair of white cotton gloves, quite loose and very cheap. There will be times when you use oil on the hands and must protect them, and for this cotton gloves are ideal. Buy yourself two pairs of rubber THE EVENING SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. Here's one feller which has took off his half-heavies an’ aren’t got on nuf- fin’ but what you kin see! (Copyright, 1930). LITTLE SISTER BY RUBY HOLLAND “Willle sure yelled las’ night when he stepped with his bare feet on the iron horses I put ’side bed when 1 heard him comin’ (Copyright, 1930). SPRINGTIME BY D. C. PEATTIE. Just as the great stars of an opera company, assembling for the season, frequently arrive last of all, so some of the greatest virtuosos in the opera of birds are the last to arrive in the woods and the meadows. Some of those which have but recently lifted their voices are the wood thrush, the wood pewee, the four vireos, red-eyed, warbling, yellow- throated, and white-eyed, and the black- throated green warbler. Bright birds of passage that come ever late are the rose-breasted grosbeak (which some years I do not see at all), the indigo bunting, the crested fly- catcher, which is rather common, and the least flycatcher, which is least so. In this same category come the veery | and the catbird and the chat. ‘The very last of all are the Baltimore oriole, the orchard oriole, the yellow- billed cuckoo, the black-billed cuckoo, the bobolink and the scarlet and Sum- mer tanagers. I know not how to ac- count for the lateness of these birds, since only the orioles and tanagers come from as far away as Northern South America. The others are found in the Southern States in Winter, or in Cuba, and nothing prevents them from coming as early as a phoecbe or a swallow, The migrations of birds are singularly punctual; even snow and head winds scarcely interrupt their schedules. Who- ever has studied the migration dates of birds must have been struck by the im- | pression (whether real or false, I can- r STAR. WASHINGTON. | DorothyDix Sun May Still Rise in the East and Set in the West, But No One Can Deny That the World Itself Has Changed. DO Notes Earmarks of Progress Has the World Changed? MAN WRITES: “You say that the world has changed. What has changed? I say nothing has changed. The sun still rises in the East and sets in the West. Water runs down hill and smoke goes up just as it always has done. Men attract women and women attract men, just as Adam and Eve were attracted in the Garden of Eden. Boys and girls fall in love now just as they did hundreds of years ago. Children are born in the same old way. So I ask you, “What has ghanged?” Of course, when I said that the world had cianged I meant it only in a manner of speaking, and writing now in a calm frame of mind I'll take off a few miHion changes. Still, even the physical world has changed. Even in recent times nature has blown off a few volcanoes and changed the courses of rivers and earthquakes have shaken down mountains and man has cut continents in twain and made lakes were none were before, and constructed new islands and made the desert blossom like the rose. Also climates have changed, and if some of our prehistoric ancestors who used to disport themelves in the tropical jungles in Alaska and thereabouts should return they would find that the Winters were a deal colder than they used to be. Certainly we have the same old sun and moon, running on the same old schedule, but they don't light up the same scenes that they used to, by any manner of means They glint now on buildings piled high as Jack’s fabled beanstalk grew, on airplanes flashing through the upper air, on floating palaces that cross the ocean in four days, on radio sets and telephones and telegraph instruments and automobiles and on moving and talking pictures, on a thousand miracles of modern science and 1:1ve.nngn‘. WH'Y.iHlumatulurdm-mhnflhwmtmvmldmmevmln 5 our grandfather’s time as it is for us to picture what it was before the Why, only the other day a little flapper asked me what girls did when I|of was young, and when I told her that our “dates,” only we called beaux then, came and took us to church on Sunday night and that when they called we spent the evening in talk and singing songs and making fudge or popping corn and that it was a great event when we were invited to a ball, and that we felt very adventurous when we went buggy riding with a boy and that girls stayed at home and helped mother instead of going into business, she almost wept with sympathy. “What!" she cried, “no night clubs, no going out anywhere to dinner and to_dance, no automobiles, no moving pictures, just having to sit up and talk to a boy all evening, what a terrible time you must have had! How thankful I am that everything has changed!” Of course, men are men and women are women, just as they were in the beginning, but while the modern woman may take after her great-grandmother Eve in looks and figure, that's about all. The inner woman is totally different, and it is folly to deny that the emancipated lady of today, with her vote in one hand and her pocketbook in the other and her abllity to stand on her own feet and hold down & good job, has changed from the meek, downtrodden, helpless clinging vine female of the past. Certainly men and women are attracted to each other just as they always have been. And they still marry, as they have done the thousands of years since civilization was established, but the relationship between men and women and marriage has changed. Perhaps human nature is not different from what it has always been. Perhaps grandfather was no more faithful to his wife than grandson s, Doubtless there have always been men who were philanderers and grouches and drunkards and tightwads. And women who were shrews and naggers and shiftless housekeepers and wasters and spenders. And, doubtless, husbands and weltv;'el bored each other and got on each other's nerves and grew weary of each other. c o0 BUT in the old days when people got married they stayed married because divorce was a scandal and a disgrace and that simply wasn't done in our best families. So grandma turned a blind eye on grandfather's wanderings and grandfather put up with grandmother’s shortcomings and homes remained intact on the outside, no matter what sort of civil strife went on inside. But now most young couples get married with the thought in their minds that if they don't like it they won't stick to it and to get a divorce is no more A stigma than to have the measles, and every moZzrn husband and wife know that the real work of courtship begins when they get married and that if they :(ne&p e:Iclh other and their home together they have to make matrimony resting. If you think children haven’t changed you simply don't know. Why, babies used to be so common that even the poor could afford them by the dozen. Now they are in the luxury class and the upkeep of a small infant costs as much as a yacht. They could then be born anywhere, Now they have to be born in a hospital. They used to just tumble up. Now any child of 3 who hasn't had a couple of major operations couldn't hold up its head in a prep school. And when they are older it is not children who mind their parents, it's parents who obey their children. Mother may have worn wool stock! Father may have walked five miles to the daughter has to have silk. , but little red school house, son has to have an automobile to go two blocks, and as for spanking i turning a bad child over your knee and to try it. t, nobody would even. ©Oh, yes, things have changed & lot when you come i%gflnk of t! ROTHY DIX. —_—nmm not say) that something more than weather or food will have to account for the strange groove-habit of bird- ways. What impresses me on the purely pleasurable score is that the latest comers, the oriole and cuckoos, the tanagers and bobolinks, seven birds in all, are all of them such pecullarly enchanting creatures. For a combina- tion of gorgeous plumage and rapturous song give me the orioles before all the birds in the bush. The tanagers are a trifle thore gorgeous in plumage, a trifie less marvelous in song. The bobo- link is a trifie more gorgeous in trifle less so in plumage. cuckoos are rather sultry-voiced and g:tmnag e]xtrwrdlnlry as to ho‘:l, they ve at least a strange and unting romanticism about them. Their voices are ‘boding: their bodies, so shyly w.:culdmnm,hlnnmund uty. WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1930. WHO REMEMBERS ? BY DICK MANSFIELD. Resistered U. 8. Patent Office. — Mugs - %‘nfi":;n.. When you could make the round trip to Norfolk on the steamer Lady the Lake for $150 and every ed Mount Vernon her bell. steamer that would always tol Fashions of Today BY MARIE SHALMAR Vanities Essential. The fashion of displaying mirrors, powder cases and similar paraphernalia of the tollet seems to go in waves. In the seventeenth century the small I WS as NECESSAry an Accessory as it is today. Even men carried them, and made no bones about using them, either. In the Middle Ages, when it was the fashion for women to have ex- tremely high foreheads, a pair of orna- mental tweezers hung at the girdle with the little mirror and women of fashion mcked out growing hairs from their ws as nonchalantly as they powder their noses today. No handbag of today is com%l.m without its small mirror and many bags are fitted with powder case and lip- stick as well. But many well dressed women never have made use of these helps to beauty in public and there seems to be a little more reticence about using these things now than there was a year or more ago. ——— Efforts to uce talkies in prod Ja have so far met with failure. e FEATURES, MILADY BEAUTIFUL BY LOIS LEEDS., Sage Tea Rinse. ‘While there is nothing lovelier than a head of snow-white hair there are few ‘women who welcome the appearance of gray haid on their own heads. Some- how the sight seems to strike terror into the heart of a woman. She has always connected gray hair with old age and when she discovers her own locks turn- to that disconcerting thought, “I am growing old!"” It is useless to try to tell her that supple muscles and a youthful spirit have much more to do with age than the color of hair. In cases of prema- ture graying we agree that it is, indeed, unfortunate and we sympathize with the young woman who immediately rushes out to have her hair dyed. But though there are many reliable hair dyes on the market, the use of them is a step which milady should take advis- edly. She should know that hairdyeing is by no means something which should be undertaken by an amateur, and be- fore deciding to have her graying locks made dark again she must make sure that she has a competent operator who joWill use a dye which is not injurious, Even then milady must face the fact that it is not going to be an easy matter to keep her hair dyed evenly. As the hair continues to grow in gray near the scalp, the dye must be used regu- larly, yet any overlapping on the old tint is apt to make the hair streaky as well as dry, brittle and lusterless. Some- times milady makes .the mistake of changing dyes. Tirind of one she de- cides to try a new kind. Now both of these dyes may be perfectly all right, DAILY DIET RECIPE MAPLED HAM. Ham slice, one pound; canned tomatoes, two cups; onions, sliced, one cup; diced celery, one cup; bread crumbs, one-half cup; maple sirup, one-half cup; butter, one- half cup, SERVES FOUR PORTIONS. Lay the ham on the bottom of & large gluu baking dish and cover it with the tomatoes, celery and onions mixed. Cover this with the bread crumbs and maple sirup mixed. Dot with butter. Bake in a moderate oven about an hour or 80 that the sirup has time to cook down and become thick. DIET. NOTE. Recipe furnishes fat, some pro- tein, as well as fiber, lime, iron, vitamins ‘A, B and C. Can be eaten by adults of normal diges- tion who are of average or under weight. ing to gray her mind immediately leaps | but the application of a new one over the old is often disastrous. A case in point is that of a young woman who consuited me in great distress. ‘Miss Leeds, what shall I do”” she wrote. “My hair has turned purple!” And sure enough it had—a deep pur- ple! It seems that she had applied a new kind of hair dye over the old and the result of combining the two differ- ent chemicals used in the respective dyes was this gorgeous purple! There was nothing for the poor young woman to do but cut her hair as short as she could and wear a transformation while it was growing out. This was some years ago—she now has a beautiful crown of white hair and it has added distinction and softness to her face. But it is true that the stage when hair is turning from its natural shade to white is not always beautiful and is particularly discouraging when one is very young. During this stage many have found the sage and black tea lo- tion for darkening the hair a lifesaver. As this is a purely vegetable compound it is harmless. But milady must not ex- pect immediate results; it will take some weeks of constant application for her hair to change greatly in appearance, but from then on, if the tea is used regularly the day of gray hair may be warded off for a long time. To make the lotion brew two table- spoonfuls of black tea in one-half pint of bolling water. Allow it to cool; stir and strain through a fine cloth, Brew two tablespoonfuls of sage tea in the same way. Mix these two teas together and add two ounces of bayrum. Place in a large bottle and apply with a sponge or toothbrush after the shampoo and two or three times a week. Another simple compound to darken gray hair is made of sage and sulphur. It can be procured at any drug store and directions are given in detail with the bottle. These two, the sage and black tea or the sage and sulphur, are harmless, old-fashioned reme which may be safely used to darken hair which is beginning to fade and turn gray. / [ — ‘The first Turkish branch of the Wom- en's Christian Temperance Union has just been formed at Constantinople. gloves several sizes too large. If you do any scrubbing or paint washing, if you wash your motor car or do any routine engine repairs on it (women are get- ting to be very clever mechanics), in fact, if you do any work that keeps your hands in water for any length of time you must wear rubber gloves. You will simply have to get used to their feel, which you can So very easily. I pay about 65 cents a pair and find this is an economy, as they last so long. If you work outside the home and can't wear {lovu. bleach your hands at night with lemon, scrub them and then use a lotion to bleach and preserve them. Mrs. P. E. C.—If you even up all the ingredients in the cream formula so the g:oponluns are correct, the cream will req e 5 4 i = “I do all the work myself - - all right. After having doubled the uired amount of rose water and also the almond oil, you should have done the same thing with the wax, spermacet] an 'nzoin. Dissolve the cream in bowl placed in very warm water, dis- solve the waxes also and beat all of them together, adding the benzoin drop by drop as you beat. R. S.—If the cream you are using is made from fine oils it will not cause hair to grow on your skin, A, J—Excessive perspiration during the night indicates a lowered state of health, besides which such perspiring is vt;ry ‘weakening. Better consult the doc- T, ~Enap| my hands look as if I had maids” Mgrs. F. BranBury adds=“My secret is Lux in the dishpan” IKE so many wives, Mrs. Branbury prefers to do her own work. Maids are expensive—hard to get. “But I like to entertain and go out, too—"" she says. “Of course, I'd be EMBAR- RASSED by hands that looked rough and work-worn—"‘dishpan’ hands. “I’ve learned such an EASY way to keep my hands as nice as though I had maids. Simply by using Lux, not only for FINE THINGS and BABY THINGS but for DISHES, too—and many other soap and water tasks.” Women Everywhere Wives from every great city in the country —Boston to San Francisco—write us the same story of lovely white hands — thanks My Neighbor Says: Macaroni and rice are best ocooked in rapidly boiling water. Cooked in this way they will not stick to the pan. Chiffon is easily washed in warm, soapy water. Do not have the water hot, otherwise the color will wash out. Rinse it well in clear warm water, fold smoothly and put through the wringer. Avoid wringing with the hands. Open the chiffon out flat and press with a warm iron on the wrong side. To remove fat from hot soup pour the soup through a cloth that has been rinsed in cold water. The fat will remain in the cloth. When sugaring doughnuts and crullers put them in a bag with the sugar and shake well. This is a saving in sugar and covers the deughnuts or crullers evenly. to Lux. Wouldn’t you spend ONE CENT a day to make your hands lovelier? To banif redness and roughness forever? Then use Lux for your dishes! It actually costs LESS than 1¢ a day. The difference it makes in your hands will truly amaze you. Beauty experts in 305 famous beauty shops advise Lux to keep. the hands nice in spite of housework. Lux NEVER DRIES the natural oils of the skin—as ordinary soaps do. The pure, gentle Lux suds leave your hands 80 SOFT and WHITE and LOVELY! It sings a song of erispness! for breakfast, lunch or dinner. And the kiddies’ supper—so easy to digest. Good to munch right out of the package. Sprinkle into soups. Use in candies, macaroons, in place of nutmeats. 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