Evening Star Newspaper, August 5, 1930, Page 25

WOoM Homemade Shorts for Litile Boy BY MARY It i the time-honored convention of comic strip artists to show the diminu- tive hero wearing father's or big brother's trousers lopped off and wrap- ped around, and perhaps some little SHORT PANTS OF BLUE LINEN AEE‘ WORN WITH A BLUE AND WHITE DOTTED SWISS SHIRT. boys somewhere actually do dress this way. But it is an easy enough matter to make a pair of little trousers or play shorts at home from a half yard of al- most any sort of substantial material. ‘The sketch shows a pair of home- made shorts that any little boy would PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE BY WILLIAM Running Ear and Mastoiditis. A woman 32 years old had had running ear since an attack of scarlet fever in childhood. In the last few years she had had earaches at times when the gdischarge was suppressed. ‘The discharge had a foul odor and was m profuse. She kept the ear plugged cotton to protect her clothing and bed clothing from being soiled by the discharge. It is always bad to wear a plug eotton in a running ear. The mis chievous and dangerous germs are en- couraged by such coddling; whereas free ventilation of the ear always dis- courages the harmful germs. 1 cannot impress this fact too firmly upon readers who have running ear; or upon readers who have children with such trouble. How often we see & mis- guided victim of some chronic ear trouble wearing a plug of cotton, even | when there is no external discharge, | but merely with a vague idea that it protects the ear against “taking cold!™ Besides the offensive ear discharge, which restricted the woman's social life, and the earaches, she had been troubled with buzzing noise in the af- fected ear for 15 years. Examination of the ear showed a large polyp occluding the canal. The doctor removed this with snare. Then he was able to see that the drum membrane and part of the bones of the middle ear were missing—had been destroyed by the vears of suppuration. After this the ear remained dry for several weeks, then disch: pro- fusely again for a time, and the pa- tient complained of a new symptom, dizziness. Now the doctor advised oper- ation, but the patient preferrsd to con- tinue iative treatment a while, as she felt sure she had improved after removal of the polyp and the medici- nal applications the doctor made. So eventually the was cured—that is, the ear ceased and she had no further trouble, Another woman aged 44 had acute THE STAR’S DAILY PATTERN SERVICE New and Smart. An interesting printed crepe silk in refreshing cool lime green coloring ex- presses smart personality of its wearer through its clever simple styling. The brief sleeves have bow-tied cuffs of plain blending crepe. It appears in the belt with pert bow at the center-front that nips the natural waistline. Its straight slim line from the shoul- 0 the skirt flounce is extremely youthful and modish. The scalloped outline of the skirt flounce emphasizes the through the hips. It's go easlly made. Try it and be vinced. ‘eon' 3 Style No. 731 can be had in sizes 14, Ml, 20 years, 36, 38 and 40 inches It adapts itself delightfully to the new printed sheer linens, batiste tub sk prints, shantung, voile and pastel fat crepe silks. For a pattern of this style, send 15 cents in stamps or coin directly to The Washington Star's New York Fashion Fifth Avenue and Twenty- winth n.reet,! ':f:': Yohrek. ‘We sugges at when this s.nern, you inclose 1 for & copy of our large Aeagzzine. snugness ou send for cents addi- Fyen ot | AN’S PAGE. THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON. D. C, MARSHALL. | be willing to wear. and if you follow the diagram ttern given here you | ought to be able to cut and make them | 1 in the leisure minutes of a single after- noon. | You will need to cut two pieces of the garment shown in the diagram, which is designed for a boy of three or four. For an older boy it is simple to_increase the proportions as needed. Here are the proportions for the| small size: AB and CD—17'; inches. AC and BD—i43 inches. AE—315 inches. GM— | 212 inches. FB—1 inch, FH—3 inch. | | IC—33, inches. CK—11; inches. 315 inches. LD—2 inches. | _ The patiern is outlined by the letters | | EHJLKIE. Cut two pieces like this. | | Then join the edges JL with tne edges | |IK in a French seam. Finish edges| | LK with a hem. You will now have | | the two sides of the shorts. Join them | so that the two edges EI and the two| | edges HJ come together and finish with | a Prench seam. Cut a slash from G | to M and finish with a binding of the | | material. Pinish the back and front| ‘.t EG and GH with an inch wide | underfacing. Finish with buttons and | buttonholes at either side of the slash | G and put buttonholes at front and back to hold to the little shirt. | (Copyright, 1930.1 BRADY, M. D. | tonsilitis in March, and developed ear- | ache after two days of sore throat, and n ear discharge the third day. Then | her doctor incised the eardrum to en- ! courage proper drainage. This is a standard practice, though, speaking as | & mere general practitioner, not an ear specialist, I am skeptical about its value. Two days later the patient was sick and no mistage—fever, profuse muco-purulent discharge from ear, in- tense stuffiness of nose, turbinates in nose found extremely boggy. After several days of this, with ir- 1ruulnr fever, X-ray pictures indicated | | involvement of the mastoid cells, and operation was performed. No pus found | on_operating into_the mastoid spaces | behind the ear. So the surgeon went | on, exposing the dura (brain cover- ing) and finding it normal. | "After a prolonged convaiescence the | patient made a good recovery. I think it is good conservative teach- ing for me to advise patients with chronic running ear to submit to mas- | told operation only after proper medi- | cal methods have failed. (Copyright, 1930.) Your Baby and Mine BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED. Hitting back when hit seems to be one of those natural responses which need not be taught, which develop of themselves when the opportune mo- ment arrives. ally one need not say to a child, “Take your own part, sonny, and hit him if he hits you,” because the child does this spon- taneously if he is struck. ‘The child who cannot take his own part may be cowed at home and dares not raise his hand in self-defense. We advocate, unalterably, no slapping on the part of the parent, but rather al- lowing the child to learn by expe- | rience how to take his own part when playing with other children. The adult is an unfair opponent, but few chil-| dren, even if uncoached by the parent, | will stand bzins hit by another child. | The child who flies to his mother, cry- | ing for protection, invites the slaps and bullying of the whole neighbor- hood. Give your child a feeling of courage and self-reliance by not tak- ing unfair advantage of his weakness, and he'll take care of himself outside | the home. Mrs. F. N. says her babies are Eldred- reared ones. She asks: “Am I intol- erant to say that no child should be the victim of chronic constipation? My 5-year-old and 20-months-old have never had a physic, though the baby was constipated when first put on a bottle, a matter which was regulated by changes in the formula. In one breath people say, ‘What do you feed such healthy children?’, and in the next, ‘Oh, it is just natural for them to be fat, for I give mine everything and see how thin he is’ You'd be as Hflufl of my babies as I am, Mrs, dred, for your column and leaflets helped me rear therg. ““The big problem now is to slap or not to slap! I have been recently con- firmed in the idea that if a child is| taught to slap back he forgets the ‘back’ and just sl . I have never been quarrelsome and do not regret it, while my friends who won't take anything seem to have to live up to their reputations and have something to resent all the time.” Just one word more about the quar- reling. Don’t you think you confuse the question by comparing adults and children? Children are in a primitive stage of development and quarrel to learn how to keep peace, By the time a person is grown, he should have learned how to keep peace without quarreling. 1If he hasn't, he is still 8 child. Special Salmon I;Af. Beat two eggs well, add four tabl spoonfuls of sweet milk, one tablespoo ful of melted butter, one-fourth tea- spoonful of sait, and a pinch of pepper. Mix together well and add to one can of salmon. Add three canned pimentos or one tablespoonful of chopped onion. Roll some corn flakes to a coarse powder and add enough to the salmon mixture so that it can be shaped into a loaf. It will be better to pack it into & pan just the size to hold it. Bake in a moderate oven for 40 minutes. Turn out onto a platter and serve hot with tomato sauce made with one can of to- mato soup, one tablespoonful of sugar, one-fourth teaspoonful of salt, one- fourth teaspoonful of ground cloves, and one-third cupful of vinegar. When bolling, add two tablespoonfuls of corn- slarch which has been moistened with water. Cook for two minutes. A railway station proposed for Tokio, Japan, will cost nearly $2,500,000. L. ibst- VARIETIES , IDEAL FOR PICNICS | of a wild beast in a cage, raging from | SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. When we has cookies an’' sugar in our bread an' milk we calls it MUM- MUMS! (Coryright, 1930.) | A Sermon for Today | | BY REV. JOHN R. GUNN. Apart From God. “Surely evéry man walketh in a vain show."—Psalms Xxxix.6. The psalmist is speaking here of man’s life when seen apart from God. “In a vain show” is more correctly | given in the margin, “in a shadow.” ‘Every man walketh in a shadow.” “Shadows in career,” as George Herbert has it. The word “walketh” is not merely a synonym for passing through life. Its Hebrew form represents the action as being repeated over and over. It might be used to describe the restless motion side to side, never still, and never getting any farther for all the racing back and forth. So here it implies hurry and bustle, continuous effort, habitual unrest. ‘What a picture this is of the kind of lives many people are living. From morning till noon, from moon till night, they fret and tofl, breaking their hearts and weal themselves out in “labori- ous days. And what comes of all their bustle and business? They are but weaving for themselves “garments like the spider's web.” They are but “laboring for the wind.” In the end, for all their agitation, they amount to no more than “shadows in career.” Apart from God man's life passes as a fleeting shadow. His life is but “a vain show”—vain because soon over and when over he discovers that its delights were but a passing delusion. No matter how a man may get on in the world—though he may achieve wealth and power and the highest honors the world can give—he will cer- tainly find that without God for his friend, and heaven for his hope, life, with all its fullness and glory, is empty and vain. Nut Pie. Beat three eggs thoroughly, gradual- ly add half a cupful of white sirup, half a cupful of sugar, and four table- spoonfuls of butter, beating all the while. Add half a teaspoonful of almond flavoring and one cupful of blanched almonds coarsely ground, and pour into a pie pan lined with uncooked pastry. Bake in a moderate oven for forty-five minutes. Serve with either whipped cream or ice cream. This is excellent made with pecans or other nuts and is also good with the addition of some raisins or cocoanut. e Fruit Salad Oregon, Serving Eight. Two cups diced pineapple, one cup seeded white cherries, one cup seeded red cherries, one-half cup diced marsh- mallows. Mix and chill the ingredi- ents. Add the dressing. Dressing. One egg or two yolks, two tablespoons flour, five tablespoons sugar, one-fourth teaspoon sali, one-fourth teaspoon dry mustard, four tablespoons lemon juice, four tablespoons orange juice, four tablespoons water, one-half cup whipped cream. Beat the egg and add the dry in- gredients. Add the fruit juices and water. Cook slowly, stirring constant- ly until the dressing thickens. Beat for one minute. Cool and fold in the cream. Chill. When ready to serve, add the chilled fruit mixture and serve on lettuce. MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN. A “Wonder Ball.” One mother says: For the little girl who is just learn- ing the intricacies of managing knit- ting needles a “wonder ball” is a great delight. The German children call it a “wunderkaul,” but, irrespective of the name by which it is known, it is | | made by concealing in the variou layers of a huge ball of yarn suitabl trinkets and surprises. As the knitting or crocheting proceeds the trinkets are found. Needless to say they add great interest to the work. | A friend gave such a “wonder ball” | to my daughter when she was recuper- ating from a spell of illness. It pleased her so much and kept her so happily employed that I have since made a number of such balls for little tem- porary shut-ins, A crochet hook or a pair of knitting needles ought to ac- company the “wonder ball” which should be of rather large proportions. | c ht, 1 WakeUp! To ThisFact: Now! Quality Put in Goods Counts Value Your Money: Demand: Save!| INSECTINE We mail 1 pint can for 25¢ Or mail quart can for 45c 9., THE BEST = BY TEST STRENGTH IS IN “INSECTINE SPECIAL” We mail 1 pint can for 60c or"vr:aill 1 q'uart‘can ror $1.00 The VELVETTA MFG. CO.. Phila., Pa. DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX ] EAR MISS DIX—How can I get my wife to take an interest in learning housekeeping? Her mother brought her up to be a helpless kitten. She can do nothing except spend money and is terribly extravagant. I have no peaceful home and no money saved. What can I%do?>—A MAN WHO FELL FOR A PRETTY FACE. Answer—The only way that you can get your wife to take an interest in | learning to keep house is to serve notice on her that you are going to divorce her if she doesn't. Perhaps if she knows that she is going to lose her job as & wife, as she would lose any other job unless she made good on it, it will make her get busy with the cook book and the pots and the pans. Marriage is a partnership and it is just as much the wife's business to make a comfortable home for her husband as it is his to provide the raw mate- rial out of which the home is made and 1 think any man is foolish and weak who doesn't force his wife to keep up her end of the bargain. Not many women want to lose their homes. and if they knew that their husbands would bundle them up and send fhem back to mother unless they kept their houses clean and | orderly and provided good, well cooked meals, they would make themselves first- class housekeepers. It is because men put up with lazy and slouchy wives who never keep anything in order and who never set food on their table that' wouldn't poison an ostrich, that there are so many wives who spend their days lying on the bed reading trashy nov~ , or going to the movies or bridge parties, and whose idea of housekeeping is opening & can and stepping around to the delicatessen for a dab of potato salad and a transparent slice of ham. Nonsupport is a ground of divorce for women. Bad housekeeping should entitle any man to his freedom from a wéman. And she should get no alimony. But T haven't any tears to shed over a man who marries a girl just because she has a pretty face and without considering whether she had any other qualifications for making a good wife. He deserves all he gets. As a matter of fact, when you pick out the balance of your life dressing up, and that is what is happening to you, son. ‘When men choose wives for what is in their heads and their hearts instead of the kind of complexion they have, they don't have to complain about their being senseless and extravagant. AN DOROTHY DIX. EAR MISS DIX—I am the main support of my family and my parents think that I have no right to get married because they want the money that I make. My father says that if I have any idea of marrying I should abandon it, and tried to force me to return the ring to my sweetheart. I am willing to work after marriage and give the money to my people, but must I give Answer—Certainly not. Your family has no right to demand such a sacrifice from you. Argue no more with them. Just step out some fine day and marry your man. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyris PAP.IS ustabernards formal o s 15 s OUR CHILDREN BY ANGELO PATRI and hope for the best. do, don't try to own him. When adolescence comes, the child ought to grow up definitely. - It is no longer possible for you to tell him what to do, what to think, how to live. He must do that for himself. He is a pef- son. It may be that you do not like the person he is, but that cannot be helped by mandate. You have seen that person grow in your home for years and any- thing possible to do you have done, Let | suggestion and kind counsel do their work. But remember, no force. Responsibllity is the best incentive for growth. Begin early to allow the child to carry his own share of the load. He will grow up faster and he will grow | with less pain to himself and to you if he has the comfort of knowing he is helping himself. Growing Up.’ Whatever you We make ft hard for children to grow up. It is very pleasant to care for a baby. Even the fatigue of constant at- tendance cannot rob us of the joy of ministering to something so precious, so sweetly dependent upon us. We do like to have children dependent upon us. 1t is with a pang that we realize they can do without us. Mothers like to feed their children. Long after the child ought to be feeding himself mother hangs over him, watching each mouthful, her hands twitching to take the wobbly spoon in her hands. . Day by day the children grow farther and farther from us. Soon they can dress themselves, go to school alone, ex- press opinions of their own, choose their way in the world. That is as it ought to be—and isn't. We refuse to let the children grow as smoothly as that. We want to hold on to them because—well because we like the feeling of usefulness that gives us. They are an excuse for our living—if we are not very careful, they become our only excuse. But nature is stronger than any bond | we can forge and the children escape. 1 not one way, another. If we could gather wisdom sufficient to the evil day we would be happier when they definitely break with the home, for break they must if they are to grow up. And who wants a child who does not grow up? We cannot expect a child to grow up overnight. It isn't done. Self guidance is a matter of slow growth gained by first hand experience and fir<t hand experiences are precisely what we efuse children. We want them to take urs and when they don't we are rieved. When they do, they don't grow up. | Try to understand that children are lent to you for the period of their physical dependency. That your hold on them will be strengthened by loosen- ing it as early ag possible and making no effort to possess in any way, the spirit of the child. During the years of dependency, legitimate dependency, you do all the | teaching you can. Set the background for healthy mental attitudes, do what you can to lay the basis of health of body. hold the child in affection always, | Save the Scraps. If you have a good many odd pleces and scraps of bleached and unbleached domestic, outing cloth, checked nain- | sook and other material and can find no use for them, here is a way in which to use them: Get a package of dye and dye them your favorite color, then iron them while they are a little damp. You will then have some handsome quilt pieces to use with flowered scraps. Dye some of these red, some blue and then combine the two waters and make a lovely shade of lavender. The large pleces may be torn into strips to set the squares together with, and the smaller' ones may be used for piecing the squares together. They make lovely quilts, pure, delicious juice of Iuscioys Concords Contains moré non - fattening nourishment than any other fruit. Gives you the natural“sweet”you crave,with the minerals yourbody must have to keep up health and good looks—without ad ;mnoo to v{::l; weight! t ' , un- -fif LN o ‘s—puyre, un- et ong)p T W S h A variety WATER i Roe Quick ané to prepare in a va- risty of ways. TUESDAY. AUGUST 5. 1930. a doll all you have is the right to expect to spend | groadlspe qre up the man I love and who loves me and who is able to take care of me? | M. B. |she finally realized that NANCY PAGE Fire Fascinates Children as Naney Found Out BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. BY LOIS Wants to Grow Tall. Dear Miss Leeds—I am 15 years old (will be 16 soon) and am very small for | my age. Iam not yet 5 feet. I weigh) 97 pounds. At the rate T am growing I doubt very much if I will grow any more. 1| get plenty of sleep and rest. My par- | ents are both short; my mother is 5 feet 2 inches. | Can you please suggest something | that might make me grow? I am con- | sidered nice looking and would give | anything if I could just grow two or three inches more.—GIGGLES. | Answer—Did you know that there | | are many girls of your age who are no | taller and weigh no more than you do> And many girls keep on growing until | | they are 20 vears old so do not give up | hope yet—those extra 2 or 3 inches may come. Of course, it is quite true that one does inherit physical tendencies and | perhaps nature never intended you to \8row very tall. But I rather think she !is planning to give you a little more | height. Here's a_questionnaire which | I want you to study. If you can an- | swer the questions ‘as they should be .| you are doing your paw, toward grow Nancy tried spanking him, reasoning | ing taller, % o with him, scoldimg him, praising him | 1. Do you eat plenty of simple, nour- when he left matches alone. But ishing food including plenty of raw nothing seemed to work. frult and vegetables, and do you drink Of course, the obvious thing to do a quart of milk every ? | 2. Do you get at least 9 hours sleep | every night in a well ventilated room? | 3. Do you take regular exercise out | of doors every day? Do you take part | in_strenuous “athletic contests? Regu- lar systematic exercise is necessary, but | sometimes young girls wear themselves | ‘out by taking part in athletics which | “What is there about fire that makes it so fascinating to children,” wailed Nancy. Her two-year-old had just burned himself with a match which he had found and lighted. This was the second time he had done it, so Nancy did not believe that the burned child are too strenuous. 4. Is your posture always ocorrect, | whether ' sitting or standing? Carry- | ing the body erect with chin up and | chest out gives height to any one. | Stand tall. |, If you feel sure you are not neglect- |ing_any of these things and as the | | years pass you remain just as short, | | the thing to do is to choose clothes | whirh will make you appear talle And remember, too, that few of us are satisflied with ourselves, My Iletters from readers show very plainly that the tall girls think it must be glorious to be tiny, the short girls want to be tall, the fat ones pine to be thin, and the' thin ones think how much nicer it would be to add a few pounds until they could be “pleasingly plump.” LOIS LEEDS. was to remove the matches from his reach. . Nancy had hoped that he would learn to leave danger alone. But she came to the conclusion that this was told him that he would get burned up the words meant nothing to him, since he never had seen anything burn and if he had he would not have sensed the total loss by burning. ‘With so young a child it is often nec- essary to take temptation ay rather than to attempt to reason, argue or ex- plain, So the matches went upon & high shelf. In so far as she could, Nancy lit the matches quietly and unostenta- tiously. She never told Peter to look | at the pretty fire. She suggested that Peter omit the little ceremony of ask- 1 his young son to blow out the h which had done its duty and | lighted the cigar or pipe or cigarette. She never spoke of the child’s fall- ing in front of him. In fact, she never | did discuss him before an audience when he was round about. And when- ever she could she changed the subject of conversation from him to something else. Children, even two-year-olds. know when they are being discussed and put in the limelight and they adore it. Write to enclosin; asking Questioning Sally—Please do noth- ABE MARTIN SAYS Constable Plum estimates that at least 83 per cent o' paroled convicts go straight, that is straight to the first parked car an’ innocent country bank they see. Sometime some one ‘Nl git a mes- sage through from the spirit world| sayin’ they're feelin’ rotten an’ that| the place is greatly overrated, an’ that'll| be news. “The third degree is torture personi- fled, but I believe I prefer it to & con- ference with relatives,” said Bandit Stew Nugent, this mornin’, as he start- ed back prison. (Copy. t, 1930, ncy Page care of this it addressed envi or on Child Care (Copyright, 1930.) My Neighbor Says: Dry mustard mixed with milk instead of water will not dry out but will keep moist until it has all been used. Pruit juices should always be saved. Combined with tapioca, which does not have to be soaked, or with gelatin, which is not flav- ored, they make delicious desserts. It"you want pastry to be light and flaky roll in one direction only. If rolled first in one direc- tion and then in the other it is sure to be tough. When it is necessary to iron a rough-dry garment at once, try this method: Dampen it roil | | tight, wrap it In a cloth and then in paper, and put into the oven while the irons are heating. Evaporation will cause it to be thoroughly dampened in a very few minutes, But care must be taken that the oven is not hot enough to scorch the garment. A safe, non-n daintiness. A real foe to germ life. | Ne&e:!‘ oo or & box of Key's from your druj Reep it handy. It has many uses in COO Keep cool with Post Toasties—the light, de- licious wake-up food. Oven-crisp, golden flakes afloat in ice-cold milk or cream. A world of freshness and quick new energy! Digests so easily. So quick to release its store of energy to the body! 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