Evening Star Newspaper, July 10, 1930, Page 38

WOMAN’S PAGE. I 1 New Style Beach and Water Sports SONNYSAYINGS DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX AUNT HET BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. Every boy or girl who has been at seashore or on the banks of any Jorge body of water has enjoyed skip- ping stones, yet few realize that this very pastime was a favorite with the GAMES THAT CAN BE PLAYED ON THE BEACH AND IN THE WATER TEMPT CHILD AND GROWN-UP IN SUMMERTIME. people of ancient Greece. Then the sport was called “Ducks and Drakes.” It was played with smooth, flat shells, not stones. The one whose shells re- bounded or “skipped” the greatest num- ber of times was proclaimed conqueror, while he whose shells sank with fewest Tebounds was derided. Ducks and Drakes. He was said to have lost or squan- €ered his ducks and drakes, for such the shells were called in And so we find that even Water Wicket. The nucleus for this game is found in the quaint sport of ‘“stool ball,” | played many centuries ago in England. Milk maids’ stools were used in place of wickets. The object was not so | much to send the ball under the stool |as for the person sitting on the stool | to strike it away. Scores were kept in | many different ways. From this sport | sprang our own lawn croquet, and now we are seeing it in a new guise. Water | wickets is distinctly a water sport, and |1s fun for the onlookers as well as the | swimmers who participate, Playing the Game. Any number of players from three up can play. Two stand in water up to their arm-pits. They take hold of hands, lifted high, and so form an arch or wicket over the water. A third player takes a stand about 8 feet away and facing the wicket. He is either | blindfolded or shuts his eyes, and at a given signal starts to swim in the di- rection of the wicket. If he swims through the wicket he scores 10 points, Further Directions. After all the players, including the “wickets,” have had their turns, a new round is begun. Two of the players must form a wicket for those making | the original arch to swim through when their turns come. With each round the contestants move back 3 feet |until the distance between them and the wicket measures approximately 20 feet. Any contestant who succeeds in swimming through this final wicket | makes 20 points, or a double score. | The player whose score is highest wins. | (Copyright, 1930.) DAILY DIET RECIPE GRAPEFRUIT—ALLIGATOR PEAR Large grapefruit, two; lettuce leaves, eight; alligator pear, me- dium size, one; French dressing, three-quarter cup. SERVES 8 PORTIONS. Peel grapefruit. Separate into sections removing all membrane. Peel alligator pear. Cut in thin strips. Mix with grapefruit sec- tions and thoroughly chill. At time of serving arrange on lettuce leaf on individual salad plates and dress with French dressing. DIET NOTE Recipe furnishes fiber, a little easily digested fat in the alligator well seasoned of average or under weight and by children 8 years and over. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, | _ Why, Baby! You're doin® awful good! | T hadn’t no idear you could run under! (Copyright, 1930.) NANCY PAGE Even Summer Cottages Are Complete & Play Dual Parts BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. ‘When Nancy spent the week end with the Tracys she found exactly the kind of furnishings in their Sum- mer cottage that she had thought of for the one she hoped to have some day. There were two large bed rooms in s N £ the house. Each one was equipped with an in-a-door bed so that these rooms became available by day for dressing rooms for groups from the city. The men's dressing room had a sturdy easy chair, upholstered in a mannish checked material. A small table, smoking materials and a pic- ture with a black mat made a good- looking lounging corner. The hang- ings were of cretonne in strong shades of red, tawny yellow and black. In the ladies’ room there which seemed just made for Summer cottages. The same material was used for the long draperies which hung | Moths 7 they won' eat your clothes not if you really moth-proof the wool Think of the old days when you hunted after moths and moth - worms. Now you don’t go after them; you get there before them. You mothproof the cloth itself. That's the new idea; that’s the Larvex idea. For Larvex really mothproofs, really stops moth-worms from ea: ting your clothes. You can’t accomplish that with moth-balls, insect-killers, tar-bags and the like. And you just hang the clothes away, handy any time. Larvex is odorless, non-inflammable and guaran- teed as advertised in Magazine. Good Housekeeping SPRAYING LARVEX, for upholstered furniture, coats, suits, etc. One spraying lasts a whole year. $1 for a pint or, with atomizer which lasts years, $1.50. 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(Copyright, 1030.) | little, mean things to them and criticizing them to others are invariably cowards ) 3 e, o EAR MISS DIX—I married a whiner. Somebody is always doing something to her. When she can't pick on me she picks on my family or some mem- ber of her own family, but I am the goat. Before we were married I didn't have an enemy in the world. Now I connot number them and my wife has made them for me. When I pass people on the street I think I can hear them saying: years because T stood pelorg God and promised o sick unti death does o pert. | or an % hechuse § i UNJUSTLY ACCUSED, Well, brother, I am not going to lay wreaths at your feet, because I think that there is no virtue in unnecessary martydom and that any man who lets a neurotic, whining, complaining woman spoil his life with her nagging has only himself to blame for his misery. If he had the strength and courage to stand up and have one good fight with her he could probably make her afraid ever to utter another moan. And if that didn't work there must be at least 40 trains a day that leave his city, any one of which would bear him forth to peace and | freedom. ‘The kind of women who are always picking on their husbands and saying who are taking advantage of the fact that their husbands are tied to them and have to stand any sort of treatment. Or 5o they think. And a coward can always be bluffed and all that the husband would have to do to secure decent treat- ment would be to stage a rebellion with plenty of fireworks. They would become as mum as clams if they thought their good living was going to be taken away from them. “Treat 'em rough” is the cure for that sort of mean-souled women. Noth- ing but brute force appeals to them and the more a man bangs them around and the louder he swears at them the more they adore him. They are the wo- men who stick to husbands who are wife-beaters and who lie to the neighbors about the way they got their black eyes. But, alas, they are also the type of woman with whom no gentleman is fit- ted to deal and the more high-minded, the more tender and chivalrous he is the! more helpless a victim he becomes to such a wife, and so she amuses herself byi torturing him to death with her tongue. But inasmuch as selfishness is the predominant characteristic of this type of woman, it is curious that her greed and egotism do not make her “lay off” her husband, as the phrase goes, because by her perpetual fault-finding with him she litterally kills the goose that lays the golden egg. ‘To begin with, she slows him down. She paralyzes his energies and atro- phies his ambition for what man could think it worth while to work himself to death for a wife who was never satisfled with anything he did an; ? What man could keep up his morale in the face of a wife’s complaints that she couldn’t have as fine things as rich women have or her reproaches to her husband that he wasn’t a go-getter like some other man? ” For a man to succeed it is essential for him to have not only a compelling motive, but a belief in his own abilities, and these the whining wife slays by her reproaches. The men who achieve have wives who back them up by their faith in them, wives who cheer them on and back them up and put fresh heart and courage into them and who are always like a flag of victory waving just before them. Then a wife writes her husband’s price tag. Unconsciously we take our opinion of a man from his wife and if she is always singing his praises and telling how wonderful he is, we think he is great and wonderful, too, and if she is always finding fault with him and telling about his little tempers and how she has to make him get up of a morning and that, somehow, he doesn't seem to know how to get along, why, we set him down as brutal or lazy or no account. Many a woman who wonders why her husband doesn’t succeed could find the answer in the prejudice she has built up against him by her criticisms of him. And often enough these complaints have no justification in fact. ‘The wife has a morbid craving for sympathy and so she exaggerates every fault into a crime, every foible into a fatal defect of character. It is Mrs. A.’s harping on the time Mr. A. went to the lodge and didn’t get home until 2 o’clock that gets him the reputation in the neighborhood of being a rounder. It is Mrs, B.s complaints over some money Mr. B. lost that makes people afraid to trust his judgment in business. And it is the enemies or friends that a man’s wife makes for him that are a big factor in his success or failure. Half of the business of the world is done on personal liking and a man can have no more valuable press agent than a wife nor any more fatal handicap. And these are ti that the whining wife might well consider, because whether she loves her husband or not she certainly loves the money he brings in. el DOROTHY DIX. EAR MISS DIX—I am a boy of 14 in the eighth grade in school and I am an adopted child. At the time my mother took me she wanted a gifl, but she couldn’t get one, 50 she took me because I had golden curls. She has never let my hair be cut and I have long, golden curls to my waist and I always have to wear ribbons in it and she makes me wear dresses after school and on Sundays and I help with the housework like a girl. My mother says if I ever cut one curl she will send me back to the orphan asylum. ~She tells everybody that an ldom- ed boy always turns out badly, so she has brought me up as a girl. Otherwise, she is good and kind to me, but I feel that I cannot stand these curls. send me back to the orphan school if I cut off my curs? FR. Can she ANKIE. Answer—If I were you, Frankie, I would cut off those curls, even though the penalty for doing so was being sent back to the orphan asylum. Even that would be far better for you than being brought up in the unnatural way in which you are. The orphan asylum would, at least, give you the chance of growing up into a man instead of & sissy. Your adopted mother surely cannot realize what a cruel thing she is doing in forcing a boy 14 to wear long, golden curls down to his waist. It is a cruel and inhuman punishment, for it makes you a laughing stock among all the boys and that you have endured it this long shows that you are of the stuff of which heroes are made. Also, that you have a most extraordinary appreciative and grateful disposition or else you would have rebelled long ago. As for your adopted mother’s theory that adopted boys always turn out bad- ly, that is utter and sheer nonsense. They turn out quite as well as any other boys if they are given the right sort of environment and intelligent rearing. But, anyway, how does she expect to circumvent nature by putting you in glirls’ clothes and letting your hair grow? That doesn’t change your sex nor your character. All that it can do is to make you a poor little misfit in the world. Perhaps you ‘can make your mother realize the injustice she is doing you trying to make you an imitation girl. Anyway, beat it to a barber. Even the girls have short hair in these dln.‘ e DOROTHY DIX. DI:AR DOROTHY DIX—I am & young man of 24, well, educated, popular and making good money. I play around a lot and save nothing. In fact, I can't. There are two girls I am simply crazy about and I believe either one of them would be a nice little wife for me. One is a business girl, always too busy when I call. The other is just the opposite and I believe I prefer her to the business girl. I would like to get steady and go into business, but at the present rate I am living I will never be anything but & regular guy. What is your advice? N.O. V. Answer—My advice is for you to settle down and make something of your- self before you ask either girl to marry you. It doesn't seem to me that you are & very attractive proposition as you stand. If you can't save money when you !é::va o‘l;lll y;aur;eu to support, how do you expect to save when you have a family provide for: It always seems to me that a man has a lot of nerve who asks a woman to make a man of him when he hasn’t been able to do the job himself. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1930.) THUKSDAY, IRTY DIRT USE GOLD DU No nice WOMAN wants DIRTY WOODWORK --- GOLD DUST cleans it quickly, safely without the use of harmful grit! UNSIGHTLY finger marks or smudges on doors and woodwork look awful. Yet you seetheminmany, many homes. WHY? Because lots of women DON’T KNOW the RIGHT way to clean. Expensive CHIPS and FLAKES won’t move that dirty dirt. GRITTY CLEANSERS scratch and mar. There’s one thing that’s really MEANT for that kind of cleaning. It’s Gold Dust, thesoapforall HEAVY- DUTY work. A tablespoonful in a pail of water is enough. GOLD P ¥ There’s more REAL SOAP in Gold Dust. That’s why it cleans so fast. Thousands of women KNOW this to be TRUE, and they wouldn’t be without it when there’s dirty dirt to clean. These women have found that =~ Weodwerk, Gold Dust works faster and Sy safer. If you'll try Gold Dust quite clean, you'll know it, too. Your grocer carries Gold Dust in two handy sizes. Get a package from him today. Use it for all heavy-duty cleaning. It will save you time and money too. DUST , JULY 10, 1930. BY ROBERT QUILLEN. “I reckon the photographer thought I was cranky not to try different poses, but there was only one way I could set 50 my best ankle would show.” (Copyright, 1930.) Everyday Psychology BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. Emotion and Intellect. Enthusiasm may be a virtue. In most ventures it's a necessity. But it can't stand & hard examination. Being an emotion, it fades away, when you stop to take a look at it. Among real estate salesmen enthus- iasm is said to be the life of the trade. The very moment a salesman begins to think that he is really taking money from the customer that might better be invested in other ways, his enthusiasm suffers a slump. What was once the life of the trade, now turns out to be the death of the trader. Why? Be- cause emotion has flirted with the “pale cast of thought.” This “pale cast of thought” is the parent of consciousness. That's another virtue, a virtue born of that abstract parentage, ethics. But it wont stand a very rigorous examination either, for after all ethics is a relative thing. All this is just another way of say- ing that the emotions and the intel- lect are friendly enemies. They have to live in the same psychological camp. Both have something to do with the “ym';; understand things, and why we o i The emotions in the long run com- pensate for intellect, and intellect re- turns the compliment. We all go through life trying to make the best of our wishes on the one hand and our better judgment on the other. About half the time we are puzzled with our own purposes. ‘The way to escape such conflicts be- tween emotions and intellect is to follow routine and custom. So red tape can become & salvation for lots of people. (Copy, Cheapest But the Best Auth’s 'SMOKED HAM for Hot-Weather Meals | | any new impressions. PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE BY WILLIAM BRADY, M. D. i )t Your Cri Hot or Cold? ad or exposure to eenl‘d’ does not pre pose tory 5 Cri, as at least one out of every ten 1 experiment million persons in this country calls it, | strengthens my belief, that overheat~ is in some ways like PorTidge. | ing and too much clothing are real Some like it hot and some like it cold. | predisposing factors But let's not rake up the old con-| "1 do mot believe, and this experl- troversy. It is all settled now, and ment confirms by unbelief, in spraying there is nothing more we can do about 1t until the other 9,999,999 persons Snap | veix e " ° 1OPE of preventing of out of it and quit calling it a colde id | (Copyright, 1930.) the head. | e Today it is my nefarious purpose to cite an interesting little scientific ex. periment, which has considerable sig nificance if you're not too old to receiv Ham Turnovers. Sift two cupfuls of flour with two © | teaspoonfuls of baking powder and one L. Amold, M. L. Ostrom and C. Sing- | teAspoonful of salt. Add two tables er procured 42 normal persons to act | spoonfuls of shortening and rub very as subjects—by the way, such volun- | lightly with the tips of the fingers. Add teers deserve a lot of credit and get | three-fourths cupful of milk and roll none whatsoever—and sprayed cultures |out about half an inch thick, Cut in of living germs into their noses. The |4-inch squares, brush with melted bute investigators wished to ascertain what | ter and put in a teaspoonful of deviled becomes of living germs which get into | ham in three corners of the square the breathing passages that way. They | shapes and turn over the other corner made in all 400 such tests on the 42 |of the pastry. Brush over with milk courageous volunteers, in‘roducing an and bake in a moderate oven. Good for average of 20,000,000 germs in each |lunch. test. | Now as some readers know I mever | > v brush h | bianwaier manc o ot ot BRAN FLAKES e same I'd trump up some kind of | THAT ARE excuse if such an investigator asked | permission to implant 20 million mi- | crobes upon my nasal mucosa, even if | they were of a tame variety. KELLOGG in Battle Creek makes them. With the rare flavor of PEP in every crisp Well, let's see now what became of the eight billion microbes thus sown spoonful. With the nourish- ing elements of the wheat. upon the Schneiderian membrane, as we_specialists sometimes call it. | With just enough bran to be mildly laxative. Within 5 to 10 minutes from 90 to 95 per cent of the seed was rendered nonviable, incapable of growing, harm- Try these better bran flakes—Kellogg’s Pep Bran Flakes. Sold in the red-and- less. The investigators made cultures from the back wall of the throat to see if any of the germs had passed into the throat from the nose. These cul- | tures were negative—evidently the | germs had not passed into the throat. In some cases they made as many | as eight successive seedings in the same | nose, and each time found theg the natural antiseptic power of the mucus or normal secretion of the mucous membrane remained unexhausted. Suc- cessive invasions of little bands of 20 million germs apparently taxed the automatic disinfecting mechanism little or not at all. Next, the investigators confined some of the volunteer subjects in a cold room (temperature 45 degrees F., humidity 30 per cent) and sprayed their nasal mucosa with the same kind of germ cultures, 20,000,000 lively microbes. The cold, chilly environment proved without influence upon the autosterilizing power of the mucous membrane. Finally they kept a few hardy sub- jects in a room with a temperature of 95 degrees and humidity 90 per cent. Pretty hot, that. When these subjects were seeded with the standard 20,000,- | 000 germs they were slow in disposing of them—took 45 minutes to an hour for the germs to disappear. Far be from me to say I told you 50, but you must admit I have always contended that just being or feeling At Your Grocer’s At Delicatessens At_Restaurants * At Roadside Bar-B-Qs Wherever and Whenever You Buy Frankfurter Sausage Auth's Ham and Eggs for breakfast—Auth's Cold Sliced Ham for Sandwiches and Salads at luncheon—Auth's Ham, hot or cold, with leaty vegetables and salads for dinner. name on every genuine Auth for the Auth Ham. Other Suggestions Look ot ‘o, ’ W for Hot Weather Pimento Loaf Liverwurst Braunschweiger Bologna Smoked Westphalias Smoked Shoulders Lamb and Veal Sliced Bacon Home Dressed Pork, Beef If the Auth Name Is Missing You're Not Getting Auth Quality N.AUTH PROVYISION C° 336 WASHINGTON ‘D.C.