Evening Star Newspaper, May 12, 1930, Page 27

. 4 round pieces of felt in place for eyes. o MAN’S PAG Ways to Use Duck Patterns BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. ‘TRACE THE DUCK. MAKING THE VARIOUS ARTICLES (3) TEAPOT-HANDLE HOLDER. (4) EGG COZY. (1) AND USE THE TRACING FOR A PATTERN IN DESCRIBED. (2) DUCK POCKETS. (5) DUCK PINCUSHION. « NOTE THE OUTLINE OF PINS IN THE SEAM. ‘The duck shown today is in correct size to be traced off and used as a ttern for the attractive carriage robe | b P pictured and described last Monday. As full directions for making this robe were given then, it is necessary merely to mention it when giving this motif &8 promised. There are various other uses to which this duck can be put, and as these also were promised, they will be given in detail. A pinafore trimmed with duck pock- ets will delight little tots. A green, brown, cedar or blue play suit or sun suit would look equally as attractive with these duck pockets. Cut the ducks from yellow material and bind with the same color. Position on the pinafore or suit and stitch around sides and lower end, leaving the top open. Or the edges can be blanket stitched or finished with plain crochet with the stitches taken through the textile, and then the pock- ets can be appliqued in position, If blanket stitches are used, they can be rather close and be taken through the apron_or sult along all edges except top, which must be embroidered séparately. By this method the stitch- ery immediately secures the pocket in position. A smart trimming for a wee frock or pinafore is made with a row of ducks cut half size or less and appliqued as & border around the top of the hem. Use the full size duck pockets. Little cuddle-toys can be made by en- larging the duck. Cut two ducks from the textile, seam together except for a short distance along the lower edge. Stuff with cotton batting or any soft filling. Seam the opening. Sew small Extra large ducks made in this same way can be used for combination toys and nursery pillows or cushions. Or small ducks can be used to ornament uare, round or oblong cushian tops. [ake French knots for eyes, Ltitle ducks can be stuffed with wool or hair and be made into kitchen pin- cushions or nursery pincushions. Out- line the seams with pins, if these are to be used as gifts or sold at fairs, and #0 have them ready immediately for use. Individual egg cories can be made by lining the inside portions with flannel and leaving the lower part of the two wadded and lined duck portions open. Buch a “stuffed duck,” with eyes of beads or French knots, is just the thing to use as a hot-teapot handle holder. ‘The opening must be long enough to slip about the handle readily. ck bean bags will delight young- sters. Cut two portions from yellow denim or some other stout textile. Partly seam and fill loosely with beans. Complete the seam and the bean bag A girl who looks sweet enough to eat 4 usually lookin' for some one to eat with. FHAT’s theway Rice Krispies sound when you pour on milk or cream. The crispiest cereal ever made! Rice Krispies are toasted rice grains. Golden-brown. Delicious for breakfast, lunch or supper. Add fruits or honey. Oven-fresh in the yed-and-green package. At all grocers. Made by Kellogg in Battle Creek. RICE KRISPIES is done. A set of different colored ducks should be made for the game of bean will be seen that this one pattern can be put to very many uses. Those who would like to send novelties, quickly made, to church or club fairs cannot do better than to make some of these ‘duck articles. A Sermon for Today BY REV, JOHN R. GUNN. Where God Meets Us. “I being in the way, the Lord led me to the house of my master’s breth- ren.”—Gen. xxiv.27. “I being in the way.” What way is that? Not the way of our own choos- ing, but the way God has chosen for us, It is only as we walk in His way that we have any right tc expect His guidance and help. “I being in the way, the Lord met me and led me to my_destination.” The man who has self-willingly taken the bit between his teeth, and is choos- ing his own road in the world, is not the man to whom God comes to direct his footsteps and lead him to his de- sired end. God may meet us on paths of our own choosing, but it will be with a sword in His hand to turn us back. It we desire His friendly presence and blessing, we must confine ourselves to “the paths in which He has before or- dained that we should walk in them.” Heaven's guardian angels accompany us only as we walk in God's appointed way. They do not haunt the roads that we make for ourselves. I have no ground upon which to expect any assistance from God if I choose to own willful way without regard His purpose and plan for my life. But let me make sure that I am in the path of His choosing, then I can be sure that He will come to me, walk with me, and direct my every step, so that in the consciousness of the suffi- ciency of His presence and help, I will be able to say, “I being in the way, the Lord met me.” In His way—there is where God meets us. ‘The Province of Quebec, Canada, is to have a new $2,000,000 tunnel and a $1,700,000 bridge. THE EVENING STAR. Your Baby and Mine BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED. Much of the tiredness and /‘weakness” from which nursing mothers feel them- selves suffering is purely a mental con- dition. Of course, when mothers first begin to do housework after the baby is born they become tired and nervous because of their physical condition and because the baby is a big care. Nursing does tend to make one have a back- ache, as most young mothers discover, but it isn't a weakening process—the mother isn’t “losing” any strength that she would otherwise have if she didn't nurse the baby, for at this time the milk is a natural secretion, As so many mothers seem to imagine, nursing doesn’t take something away from them, because something is added to what they already have. A good wholesome diet which keeps the mother in good health will likewise provide the baby with sufficient milk, if the breasts are stimulated regularly. ‘The mother doesn't need to deny her- self foods that she enjoys. Anything which agrees with her will agree with baby, One has to view this period as a natural one. The mother can pity her- self until she feels all dragged down and weak. or she can eat heartily, keep the baby to regular hours, get out, enjoy herself and forget she is nursing a baby. A reader says some more pertinent things on this subject. She writes: “My sister-in-law put her baby on & bottle, though she had enough milk for it. It makes my heart ache to see this baby deprived of breast milkk. The doctor advised her to nurse it, too. But she thinks she needs her strength. Isn't she taking a terrible chance? Don'’t bottle bables develop iliness more easily than breast-fed babies? How can a mother risk an innocent baby's life because she is selfish enough to want to eat everything? Even if nursing does take mother’s strength, isn't she better able to stand this than the baby? I think an article by you would help many mothers.” We do try to say very, very frequently the same things that have been said over and over for years. The percentage of bottle-fed babies who die the first year is far in advance of the number of breast-fed ones. There is no artificial food equal to mother's milk. There can't be. Nor is there any way of feed- ing a baby by bottle that can equal the natural exercise he gets when nursing Statistics have been gathered which tend to prove that & nursing baby, be- cause of the natural manner in which he obtains food, develops more quickly mentally than the bottie-fed child. All of these things we know. What mothers do not seem to know is that they need not deny themselves food. They need not even deny themselves recreation if they manage to regularize the baby's day. You are quite right that artificial food for the young baby is a real risk, and especially in the Summer. It is too bad the mother is so ready to take things in her own hands against the advice of the doctor, who has the baby's and her best interests at heart. American managers and engineers are being employed at a number of mines in Northern Rhodesia. SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. T still don't see nufin’ funny—Miss Bay ast us could anybody tell what the moon was made from, an’ I sald “cheese.” My daddy tol'’ me so. (Copyright. 1930.) WASHINGTO \DorothyDix| Should Take as Much Time, Cost as Much Money and Require as Much Red Tape to Get Into Marriage as to Get Out. How Would to Stop Divorce A JUDGE who for a quarter of a century has been adjudicating the differ- ences of mismated couples says that it is the short-acquaintance mar- riages that keep the divorce mill running overtime and that the way to stop quick divorces is to prevent hasty marriages. In this opinion I most heartily concur. I have long held that if it took as much time and cost as much money and required as much red tape to get into marriage as it does to get out of it, it would practically do away with divorce. Because the only way to prevent divorces is to keep men and women from wanting them. You must stop divorces before they start, so to speak, It is a curious and inexplicable thing that civilization erects only the flimsiest pretense of a guard rail around the most dangerous pitfall along the whole pathway of life. More effort is made to protect us from catching the measles, or skidding off a highway, or having counterfeit money passed on us, or speculating in wildcat stocks, or doing any other of a thousand things that endanger our persons or pockets, than there is to prevent us from making fatal marriages. T IN fact, there is no other folly that is so easy to commit as matrimony. None whose first price is so cheap and within the reach of every fool. For $1.50 you can get a marriage license dooms two individuals to misery as long as they stay together; that breaks the hearts of a man and a woman and blights the lives of the unfortunate children they bring into the world. Girls and boys who are not considered to have enough intelligence and judg- ment even to pick out a flivver or a new dress for themselves are permitted to select their life partners. Minors and drunkards and imbeciles, who could not make any binding trade in business, can make a holding contract in marriage. We know of wild parties where youngsters have been married when they were so drunk that they did not know what they had done until they came to the next day. We know of boys and girls who have married on a dare to show what ’ood sports they were, and I know of one couple of babes who got married “just for company” because another couple they were with had eloped, and they thought it would be so cute if all four of them were married at the same time by some justice of the peace. No sane person could expect such marriages as these, entered into without thought, without consideration, without sense of respensibility, to stand the strain that everyday living together imposes upon a man &nd a woman. Nobody even thinks that such ill-advised unions should stand, because it is a cruel and in- human punishment to make a man and woman pay with a lifetime of misery for & folly committed in the silliness of youth. Divorce does not settle the problem of these marriages that should never have taken place. It does not wipe the slate clean and make everything as it was before. There are memories and experiences that can never be obliterated. Every divorce leaves behind it & disillusioned and embittered soul and a warped character, And under the debris of the wrecked home, which a man and woman pull down over their heads, are the innocént victims of their folly—the crushed ambition of their parents for them, the broken lives of their own little children. * X X X I i trasical to think how mariy ill-advised marriages entered into on the im- pulse of the moment could be prevented and how much unnecessary suffering saved if we only made marriage so difficult that no one could enter it until he or she had had time to consider it coldly and dispassionately, and if only those were permitted to marry who were physically, morally and financially fit to do so. 1If we even enforced the law against child marriages, we would do away with about half of the matrimonial woe in the world, for not only do boy-and-girl marriages furnish the biggest percentage of the divorces but a ghastly perc nt- age of the remainder are just endurance contests. Husbands and wives who have outgrown each other and developed along different lines and who have not one idea or thought in common; husbands and wives who have actually come to hate each other, but who, for the sake of their children, or to keep up appearances, or from a sense of duty, go on living together in a daily strife that poisons ex- istence for them and brings out everything that is worst in their natures are to be found. ap judgment is just as disastrous in marriage as it is in business. Im- pulseslx: o %035 a guide in icking out a husband or wife as & hunch is in playing the stock market. The |er who looks 80 ravishing under the shaded lights of a ball room and seems o desirable with the music throbbing in a man's veins may not look so much like a soulmate when she isn't dressed up and it is 1 o'clock in the day instead of 1 o'clock at night. The youth who captured & girl by his line of love-making and his assur- ance thyt nothing mattered but their belng together may not look like a good Droposition 10 the girl when she sits down and tries to figure out how they will Sat'and where she will get some more chiffon stockings after her trousseau Wears out. 1t is the marrying in haste and repenting at leisure that is the mother of divorce, and if there were only some way to keep men and women from mar- rying until they had time to think it over, there would be fewer weddings, but more lasting ones. DOROTHY DIX. with a design in peacock blue, Or a red lacquer-color with black and gold design. Household Methods After an exceptionally severe Spring blizsard this year, the obs n tower on Mount Etna, the Sicilian 0, as- sumed the form of a gigantic s3w man. BY BETSY CALLISTER. Black Bread Box. S0 many people keep house in one or two rooms nowadays that all sorts of odds and ends of house furnishings are made to fit in with this scheme. One is a sort of sophisticated bread box, at once useful and ornamental. Quite useful it is. A metal box, big unough to hold & couple of loaves of bread and the rolls for breakfast. And it is fitted with the usual little holes at one end or both for ventilation, to keep the contents from becoming damp and moldy. But quite ornamental, too. It is made of heavy metal, well enameled and decorated with most interesting de- signs. For instance, it may be a box of black Kleinert's Lace Trimmed Sanitary Step-in Potato Salad Heidelberg Dice, when cool, boiled new potatoes, then marinate in French dressing. Add to taste, choppedonion, celery, rsley, salt, pepper. Then mix thoroughly with Gelfand’s Mayonnaise, Arrange on crisp lettuce. Top with Gelfand’s Mayonnaise, chopped parsley. Serve with cold meats and cfun salad with a new “kick” It has the men’s vote —this new version of an old menu favorite. A year 'round “stand-by”, made newly good with Gelfand’s Mayonnaise! Your grocer has it. Order a jar today. Kleinert's Mode Dress Shields inall colors FULL half pim, pint, quart, gallon sizes. GELFAND’S =™ Mayonnaise - Thousand Island Dressing - Sandwich Spread The Carpel Co., Inc., 2155 Queens Chapel Road, Washington, D. C. MONDAY, MAY 12, 1930. SUB ROSA Change the Bite. The dentist may find it necessary to change the bite of the jaws when the front teeth tend to wear each other down. He throws the grinding back on the large double teeth where it be- longs and the central teeth are saved. ln;xckn's up to the dentist to work that rick. For ourselves, we have to make changes in other things than teeth, in other operations than that of mastica- tion. Our bite, our style, our attitude may be such that we are wearing our- selves out and spoiling all sorts of chances because of faulty technique. A gir] who thinks the office or store is & sort of gum-chewing parlor ought to understand that she is working her jaws the wrong way, so that a change of bite will do her good. If she imagines that all the vitamins are to be found in fudge and pastry, her teeth, to say nothing of her stom- ach, are going to call out for a change of diet, so that her dental and digestive apparatus can have a chance to do some real work. A shift is often a good thing with & girl who has tied herseif down to cer- tain persons who cramp her style and keep her away from self-improvement. ‘When friends are too intimate for cot fort and encroach upon us, a change of some sort is the best thing. ‘When it's a case of boy friend and you've chewed away on one little line of conversation and narrowed your young life down to just one man, & cll:lh!;la of molars is the best thing in sight. Of course, there will come a time in the life of & girl when she knows that she has experienced love. Then a change of bite is out of the question. It is easy to get into habits, fall into ruts and engage in a narrow way of chewing at life. When the dentist finds that there has been too much grinding in one place, he'll have to do a lot of fancy work to readjust your b Nature fits us out with a set of small teeth when we are children, and then equips us with 32 larger ones when we grow up. It's our business to make the most complete use of the ivory outfit. In the same way, nature gives us a variety of tastes and talents, so that we are foolish to limit ourselves to just & few of our natural resources. When we change the bite, we do no more than try to get the best out of what we have, (Copyright, 1930.) FOOD PROBLEMS BY SALLIE MONROE. Grapefruit Sauoce, Toast in the oven, until hard and nicely browned, enough sliced stale bread to make a cup of crumbs when rolled and sifted. Mix these thoroughly with one-fourth cup of melted butter, seasoning of salt and pepper, two table- spoons of tomato catsup, one cup of grapefruit, and one well-beaten egg. Cook, stirring carefully, until egg is set sufficiently to make the mixture slightly creamy. Before serving stir in one-half cup of any tart jelly—the wild grape jelly is best—first pressed through a potato ricer. This is & good sauce for game, the fatter kinds of fish, or any red meats. Shrimp Salad. Serving eight—Two cups shrimps, 2 cups diced celery, 3 hard cooked eggs, 14 cup chopped sweet pickles, 15 tea- spoon salt, % teaspoon paprika, 1 cup stiff mayonnaise and 12 pimento stuffed olives, sliced. Mix shrimps, celery, eggs, sweet pickles, salt, paprika and !4 of mayonnaise. Chill. Serve on crisp leaves of lettuce and 'fig with remaining mayonnaise and garnish with olives, Serve at once. FEATURE Psychic Adventures of Noted Men and Women Earl Balfour and the Visions in the Crystal Ball. BY J. P. GLASS. “Mr. Balfour, who was smoking, gazed into a glass bowl of water” That great English statesman, Earl Balfour, who has just died, was deeply interested in all ‘psychic phenomena. Of course, his interest had a strong ac- companiment of scientific curiosity. He had several strange experiences in crystal gazing. Once a crystal had been loaned to his sister, Miss Balfour, by Andrew Lang, the distinguished critic, essayist, historian and poet. On the particular occasion of its transfer, which took place at the Balfour home in St. Andrews, Miss Balfour gazed in it, but saw only a plece of old-fash- ioned furniture. Mr. Balfour at that period seems to have been a bit skeptical of such phe- nomena. At any rate, he chuckled in amusement over his sister’s failure to “see something marvelous.” However, he was interested. He took the ball into his study. In a little while he returned, looking puzzled and surprised. “What did you see?” his companions asked. *“Why, a person whom I know sit- ting under a lamp.” It was then 5 pm. of a Sunday. Noting this fact, Mr. Balfour said that he expected on the following Tuesday to see the person revealed¢ to him in the crystal. He would then ascertain if his “vision” had been correct. On Tuesday, at a dance in Edin- burgh, Mr. Balfour spoke to a friend, a Miss Grant. “On Sunday, at 5 o'clock,” he sald, “you were seated under a standard lamp making tea. A man in blue serge was beside you: his back was toward me. I saw the tip of his moustache. You wore a dress that I have never seen you wearing—a dress of’—and here he gave & mifute description of the gown. Miss Grant looked at him in aston- ishment. “Heaven!” she exclaimed. blinds up?” “I don't know,” rejoined Mr. Balfour. “I was at St. Andrews at the time.” He described the incident of the crystal ball. Miss Grant agreed that what he had seen had actually taken Pplace. On another occasion Mr. Balfour lunched with Andrew Lang after a session on the golf links. While they were on the links they had discussed, between plays, a certain lady, Miss Goodrich-Freer, who had been experi- menting along lines of interest to both Mr. Balfour and Mr. Lang. After lunch, while they were seated in Mr. unfi study, Mr. Balfour, who was smoking, gazed into a glass bowl of water. “Were the fitted “He saw in it,” wrote Mr. Lang aftere ward, “as much of a house as you ses from the hall. The arrangement as to flooring, doors, windows and staircase was of a kind unknown to us. A white Persian cat in the picture walked down the stairs. The picture lasted long, and I made several changes in the lighting of the room. When I drew down the blind the picture remained, but the window opposite the front door in crystal picture of the house disape peared.” Mr. Balfour had never seen Miss Goodrich-Freer. He never had seen her house. He had no idea she had & cat, or, if she did possess one, of what particular breed it was. Not long afterward Mr. Lang met Miss Goodrich-Freer and told her what his friend had seen in the erystal ball. “My house!” she exclaimed excitedly; “my Persian cat!” Mr. Lang, who never had seen the lady’s house, decided that he should make a further confirmation of the facts. He visited the place, and found Mr. Balfour's description fitted it in every particular. “The Persian cat was out,” concludes Mr. Lang rather anusingly, leaving us to infer that the animal had gone she ping, to the theater or to make a soc! call. “His existence, however, is amply attested.” (Copyright. 1930.) My Neighbor Says: So-called clear soup is often cloudy because every trace of fat has not been removed from the stock. Allow the stock to become cold and solid then remove all the grease. To remove a fresh grease spot on a rug, cover the spot with blotting paper, then press with a hot flutiron. Cover the spot with magnesia, let it remain for 24 hours, then brush off. When making marmalade or jam, eut rounds of tissue paper the size of the jars. Soak each separately in vinegar and lay close over the top of the pre- serve. Then cover the top in the usual way. This prevent its becoming mouldy. 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