Evening Star Newspaper, August 6, 1930, Page 23

W OMAN’S PAGE. Calling Upon Persons Who Are Il BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. Visiting the sick is often.a doubtful com| it to the who is ill. It has to be done with discretion. The time when the person is first taken with a malady is the period when rest and quiet are imperative. It is also the time when friends, surprised at the THE NURSE CAN GIVE THE WORD | OF THE PATIENT'S CONDITION TO SOME ONE OF A GROUP OF FRIENDS TO IMPART TO OTHERS. calamity that has befallen a household in the iliness of one of its members, hurry to see the friend and offer aid. Perhaps they have been fearful that the person was over-oing, Was Carry- ing a heavy mental strain or knew she might have to undergo an operation. As soon as they learn of the illness, it | seems the kindly and correct thing for them to go to see the person. For-| tunately, this form of attention is be- | less and less in favor, but| physicians say it is still in vogue to a certain extent. Instead of calling on the sick, a more grateful attention is to send al Dote saying how sorry you are to hear | the | Instead, for the good of the patient, | this is just the time when visiting the of the illness, and as soon as the friend is able and would enjoy seeing her friends, you will be delighted to call. In the interim before that time comes, you can keep informed about the condition of the friend through the family, and through those who are in close touch with them. When a per- son is very {ll, it is wise for some one of & group of friends to phone or call and make inquiry at the house, and then give the information to others. A different one of the group can inquire each day, and then phone to the rest. In this way it is known at the house that all the friends are eagerly inter- ested, and the family will appreciate, ‘more they can express, how g it was not to be continually disturbed by repeated phone calls, which they really have no time to answer. It is possible also to show the sick person attention 1n various ways. Flowers can be sent to cheer the sick room, delicacies to tempt a poor appe- tite, greeting cards with happy and comforting messages, little gifts to sur- prise and give pleasure, books and magazines to occupy weary hours. The state of the patient should determine the sort of remembrance to send. I a person is desperately ill, there is messages, Wwith occasional Later when the patient has passed a | they are most welcome. There comes a time, when a patient is getting better, that cheery calls, short, unhurried, and yet full of an outside atmosphere to change the | trend of thoughts, are desirable. They help the patient to get well. It is & pity that often, at such times, when anxiety has given place to knowledge of the gradual and sure convalescence, interest of* friends slackens. sick is most welcorffe.* It is then that friends can be like a tonic in the sick room. AUNT HET BY ROBERT QUILLEN. “Maybe it ain't stylish, but when I fix a big dinner for company I want to see the men lean back an’ let their | belts out & notch when dessert comes.” DAILY DIET RECIPE RICE AND APRICOT REGINA. Canned apricot juice, one and three-quarters cup. Uncooked rice, one-quarter cup. Salt, one-eighth teaspoonful. Sugar, one tablespoonful. Whipping cream, one cup. Vanilla, one-third teaspoonful. Apricot halves, eighteen. SERVES SIX PORTIONS. Wash rice well. Put juice and rice, ~salt and sugar in top of double boiler and cook covered about one hour and a quarter until rice is very tender and juice is all absorbed. Cool. Then fold in cream whipped stiff and flavored with vanilla. Arrange apricot halves in sherbet dishes and top with rice-cream mixture. Chill thoroughly. DIET NOTE. Recipe furnishes starch, fat, some suggr. Lime, iron, vitamins A and B present. Can be eaten by children over 10. Can. be eaten by normal adults of average or under weight. Useful in diet to gain weight. 5 PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE BY WILLIAM BRADY, M. D. Tired Working Man. “Dear Doctor: We used to hear a lot about the ‘tired business man,’ but this | 1s about the tired working man. Imagine | being shut up in a factory or workshop | for a half day at a time, toiling at manual labor, and the seducive soda fountain or lunch counter might as well | be in Mars or the moon as far as the T. W. M. is concerned. “Many of us have a craving for food between meals, and some of us have deliberately acquired the habit of chew- ing tobacco for the relief of that crav- ing. * * * Last Summer I tried a few sun baths on the roof, fixing up a screen | on the flat part of the roof and thus getting 30-minute exposures without giving the neighbors an eyeful. While T was taking the sun baths I found that | the craving for food between meals left | me, but it returned shortly after I dis- | continued taking the sun. I believe you would confer a benefit on thousands of working people if you can suggest how to deal with that crav- ing between meals. It is a sad thing when we can no longer get a ‘kick’ out of our meals. T.E. J.” Half a day is four hours. ' Normally & man or woman should feel satisfied for five hours after a meal. If the meal is inadequate in certain respects (not merely in nutritive value as ordinarily understood), the sense of hunger is likely to come back too soon. Smoking or chewing tobacco does tend to blunt that sense somewhat. At the same time it tends to produce’an abnormal secretion of gastric juice (when the tobacco habit has the victim) and that effect often manifests itself as such “hunger pain” when the stomach is nearly empty. So you see the to- bacco treatment merely gets you into a viclous circle; the more treatment the worse the trouble. ) The two important respects in which the working man’s food is likely to be inadequate are, first, the matter of bulk or indigestible residue; and sec- ond. the matter of vitamins. The working man today is tired, but MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Blueberries. Dry Cereal with Cream. Egg Vermicelli. Hoasted Gl’:{hnm Bread. e LUNCHEON. Club Sandwiches, Pickles. Olives. Floating Island. Iced Tea. DINNER. Clear Soup. Meat Pie. Biscuit Top. Butter Cabbage. Hashed Browned Potatoes. Vegetable Salad Mayonnaise Dressing. Peach Custard. CofTee. EGG VERMICELLI. Make white sauce with one cup milk, flour to thicken, add salt, pepper and lump butter. Boll 3 eggs till hard, chop whites fine, add to sauce. Drop on nicely toasted crackers and put yolks on top. CLUB SANDWICHES. On a slice of bread put a let- tuce leaf, next slices of thin bacon (crisp), next slices of chicken and mayonnaise, cover with slice of bread and toast lightly on either side. PEACH CUSTARD. Eight good-sized peaches cut up, pour over cup sugar and let it stand while making a custard. One pint milk, yolks of two eggs, not nearly as dumb as the tired busi- ness man, about matters of hygiene or health. He is too easily persuaded to take his food “purified” ‘“refined,” doctored by “patent process” ‘“steri- lized” and all that hokum. He is also too readily convinced doing hard work must meat, and that a hot dinner or lunch is better for one than a cold meak Both of these traditions are unfounded. Some food may be more attractive to taste hot, but some food is more at- tractive cold. Certainly a cool or un- heated lunch or dinner digests as well, or in many cases better, than a hot one. So this hot meals tradition is merely a shrewd bear movement on the dinner pail. By the way, I'd like to see a working man with the courage to carry his midday meal or meals in a dinner pail instead of a vanity case; so many working men nowadays strive to look like $16 office boys and seem a little ashamed that they're drawing $30 a week and upward. T've served my time in the workshop, not on any little eight-hour shift, but stood up to his machine 10 hours every day and 12 to 1¢ hours many days, and with only base rates of pay no matter now much overtime work he put in. I carried mine in a nice shiny dinner pail three stories high with turrent on top. That good old dinner pail was my remedy for the between-meals craving. It never failed to_ cure craving. It had room for a little roughage (I didn't say rough house), and by a fortu- nate chance the roughage carried the vitamins which were necessary, though we knew them not. Carry an apple, or any other fresh fruit, and eat it when the between- meals craving comes on. = First the ensemble « s« NOW the “Symphonie” “SymMPHONIE” is the newest word in the fashion-wotld! It denotes harmony between clothes and conuplexions. To- day’s more natural, feminine styles demand a realistic rather than an artificial beauty. Have you been “col- oring” your complexion with face-powder? See how much more flattering the effect when you use “Symphonie” .. . the newest Armand Face Powder. It’s blended to the underlying flesh-tones . . . gives new glory to every skin. ARMAND ““SYMPHONIE"’ POWDER one tablespoon cornstarch, a little salt. Turn over peaches while hot. Do not put in fruit until custard is removed from Its fineness of texture will truly entrance you! $1 boz. little one can do except to send kindly | flowers. | | erisis and can realize attentions, than | T'HE EVENING STAR, Baby says if us takes our lunch an’ eats it down under the apple tree her thinks the fairies will change it inter f | ice-cream an’ cake—I is willin’ to try | it out. (Copyright. 1930.) Your Baby and Mine BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED. At 5 years the child should be able to dress with comparative ease. Ob- viously he can’t reach that stage with- out constant practice, and unless the child is allowed to fumble with sleeves and panty legs, putting the wrong arm or leg in until he works out the puzzle, he can't possibly become competent in his task. Taking shoes on_and off is a de- lightful game to children when they in the days of real slavery, when a boy | first learn it. They should be allowed to play it as often as they like until they are sufficiently adept to lose in- terest in pursuing it as a game. Bent on manufacturing disobedience where none exists, Mrs. E. W. writes: “My little girl is 21 years old and has a great habit of taking her shoes off. I have scolded and punished her for it, *but she takes them off again and again and brings them to me to show me that she has done it. If I say, ‘Now you have to sit in the chair for doing that,” she says, ‘I'll sit there now.’ What would you do with her?” First of all, be very, very sure that the child’s shoes are comfortable. They may be too short or too narrow and really distress her, so that relief comes only when she removes them. The insides may be rough from nails or stiff bits of canvas or puckers which can't be felt without investigation. This is’ such a perfectly harmless g:ocedurz that I see no reason for mak- g such a fuss. Why call it a mis- demeanor? Let her put on and take off her shbes to her heart's content until she is satisfied to keep them on (provided you know they are comfort- able). You are making dressing and undressing a_misdemeanor, when you yourself do this for her a half dozen times a day. How can you make her understand the necessity for obedience when something serious or dangerous is involved? Taking off and putting on her shoes is, at the moment, a pleasant pastime for the child and an education in future usefulness. In this case you have sald “no” (for no good reason except that it annoys you), and you must uphold your contention, even if it is' & silly one. No wonder the child is confused by such petty tyranny! If you exhaust your ammunition on trifies, you will have none left when she uses scissors on your best tablecloth or dumps the contents of your choicest perfume bottle in the sink. Scolding and punishing for no good reason wears out discipline before it has any real use. SUB ROSA | BY MIML Minerva's Mirror. The objection to the objectionable among the realistic novels and auto- biographies of today rests simply on the bad manners of their authors. Intel- lectually brave and honest people usually are gracious also. Such authors are under no compulsion to effect a com- promise between truth, or realism, and their art. It is the others, whose Pretentious art and sincerity, who may properly be viewed with suspicion. And their bad manners are the sign by which they may be justly classified, branded and convicted. ‘Women who spend most of their time talking obviously hate little time left for thinking and the nature and quality of their chattering makes the point so much clearer. A pair of mosquitoes can in less than {three weeks produce progeny to the number of more than 10,000,000: Can't Prof. Einstein do something about that? Said Schopenhauer (and let any one improve on this observation if he can): WASHINGTON, D. C, DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX EAR MISS DIX—I wonder where you get the idea that husbands do not spank their wives in this day and age? I have had more spankings than I can count. And I deserve them, every one. I am extravagant, gossiping, bad- tempered and willful. My husband supports me in luxury, is loving and kind, and all that he asks is that I do not spend money recklessly and that I do not gossip, and when I do he purishes me. I was spanked yesterday for spending half of the housekeeping money for an evening dress when I have two in the closet that I have never worn and the worst spanking that I ever got was for telling the inside of a divorce case for which my husband had been the attorney. Now I suppose that you will say that my husband should correct my faults by long talks, tenderness and so forth. He tried that and it did not work, so one day when outrageous bills came in, he turned me across his knee and gave me an awful spanking, Well, I have never spent as recklessly since. I have lapses now and then, but I have improved so that I am unrecognizable and no one knows the reason but me and my husbande And I.love a husband who has the courage to make me beh: myself. If he had permitted me to ride rough- shod over him, we would have been divorced long ago. SPOILED GIRL. Answer: Personally, I have always been an earnest and an ardent advocate of spanking. I have seen too many peevish, fretful, whining, disgruntled children Who were public nuisances turned into beamirg little angels by being turned across some reformer’s knee and given a good spanking. To talk about moral suasion and appealing to a child’s higher nature s all tommyrot, The only way to reach the finer feelings of any self-willed and howling brat is with the business end of a hairbrush or a similar instrument of grace, and if you don’t believe it just try it on your Susie or Johnnie the next time she or he gets into a tantrum or refuses to obey, and note results. The thing that is the matter with the present generation is that it is the offspring of weak-armed mothers who had not the grit to enforce their authority when it was necessary, but who tried to persuade their children into walking the straight and narrow way instead of batting them into it. For children are not amenable to ethical arguments, but they respect force. You may talk your tongue off to a youngster trying to convince it of the beauty of righteousness and it will do no good, but if it knows that it will get a good spanking if it doesn’t behave itself, it will be a model of all the infantile virtues. Understand, I am not advocating the beating of children. No one is more opposed to harshness toward children than I am, but I think the greatest cruelty that parents can show to their childrer is to let them grow up undisciplined and WEDNESDAY, 'AUGUST and bloated egos are spurious claims to | uncontrolled. “Train up & child in the way he should grow and when he is old at the forbearance of husbands who kept he will not depart from it,” said the wisest man that ever lived. And he also gave, as the recipe for this, the use of the rod. Whether it is desirable that a husband should spank his wife when she acts like & spoiled child, I shall notspresume to say, but I will say that I have seen many cases where I have thought it was needed and where I have wondered their hands off. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1930.) “First one must live, philosophize.” | - Where there is smoke there some- | times is merely a harmless short circuit. | A cheap politician is a man who talks | | in a deep bass voice, but thinks in a | high, weak soprano. { | ‘then one may | ] | A woman who is worth her weight in gold does nof, of course, lose any of her value even when she is on a diet. Are you troubled and do you.need advice? The author will reply per- sonally to any reader sending stamped, self-addressed envelope. i (Copyright, 1930.) ‘The largest barracuda ever known to be caught on a nine-thread line and six- ounce tip was recently landed at Palm Beach. Its length was 64!; inches, Three’s a Crowd! Our young friend just can’t keep his cause a mosquito has put a bump on his ankle. No need to have young happiness spoiled this way. Is it possible that MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN. Soothing Wash Rag. Whenever my tiny children have a | slight irritation on their tender skin I do not use soap. Instead I make & bag of cheesecloth or some other thin soft material and fill it loosely with bran. Then I soak the in the warm water until thoroughly soft and squeeze it until the water becomes milky. This has a very soothing effect upon tender or inflamed skin and is also cleansing. (Copyright, 1930.) Flit is sold only in this yellow can with the Father has hidden the Flit? Maybe he wants the young man’s style cramped! Skeets will do it—for anyone! Be comfortable and safe. Keep your home insect-free. Spray Flit, which is guaranteed (or money back) to'be quick-death to flies, mosquitoes, moths, roaches, bed bugs and other house- hold insects. Yet itsclean-smelling vapor is harmless to humans. Flit kills quicker if you use the spe: Sprayer. Insist on Flit and don’t-accept a su today! The World's cial inexpensive Flit bstitute. Get yours Moaquit o :‘a‘"h' e Roagh, Ao = Largest Sejling Tpsect K 6, 1930. Today in Washington History v BY DONALD A. CRAIG. August 6, 1865.—Steps are being taken this Summer, it was annou at the Interior Department today, to provide a Summer residence at once near Washington City for President Johnson. A letter from James Harlan, Secre- tary of the Interior, to B. B. French, commissioner of public buildings, bear- ing upon this subject, was made public y. “It” has been represented to me.” writes Secretary Harlan, “that the Executive Mansion 1s in an unhealthy location for a Summer residence, as has been attestéd by the experience of every family occupying it for a long series of years, each of them experi- encing severe and some of them fatal sickness. “It has come to my knowledge that nearly every member of the family of the present Chief Executive (President Johnson), during the brief period they have been occupying the Executive Mansion, has been visited with serious illness, including the President in per- son, to such an extent as to interrupt public business for many days together. “You_ are, therefore, requested and directed, after. consultation with the President, and _ascertaining that it would be agrecable to him, to procure a suitable residence for his occupancy during the Summer and Autumnal months of the current fiscal year, on Georgetown Heights, or such other con- venient and healthy location as he may indicate, and to fit up the same for his convenience and comfort, being careful to avoid all unnecessary expense.” The principal reason for the alleged unhealthy location of the White House in Summer is declared to be its prox- imity to the City Canal and the large swamps that are adjacent to the south- ern side of the White House grounds. Army engineers say that so long as this condition remains it is likely that the Jocation of the Executive Mansion will be unhealthy. Already there is before Congress a plan to fill in this swamp land. The proposed improvement of the Washing- ton Channel, it is declared will also be a great benefit in this connection. Escalloped Potatoes, Serving 12. 8 cups sliced raw potatoes. 11; teaspoons salt. 1, teaspoon pepper. i, teaspoon celery salt, 3 tablespoons chopped pimentos. 7 tablespoons flour. 4 cups milk. 3 tablespoons butter. Mix potatoes, salt, pepper, celery salt, pimentos and flour. Place in large sized buttered casserole. Add milk and dot with butter. Cover and bake one hour in moderate oven. Remove hot casserole from oven and wrap in layers of newspapers. The potatoes will re- main hot for an hour or they can be reheated over the camp fire while coffee is being made. Peach Marmalade. Pare, stone and mash 3 pounds of peaches, then weigh. Trim, core, peel and cut one large pineapple into thin strips. Chop fine one orange and one lemon rind. Mix together the peaches, pineapple and orange and lemon rinds and also add their juices. Weigh care- fully and add an equal amount of sugar. Put into a preserving kettle and add two cupfuls of water, one-fourth cupful of vinegar and half a teaspoonful each of grated nutmeg and ground ginger. Cook on a griddie over the fire, and, after it comes to a boil, cook for 40 minutes, stirring constantly. Seal while hot. FEATURES, - CELEBRATED GOLD-DIGGERS Agrippina Didn't Sto) Gain Her at Murder to “nds. BY J. P. GLASS. THIS WAS IN THE EVENING. HE IS SAID TO HAVE BECOME SPEECHLESS INSTANTLY, AND, AFTER A NIGHT OF FEARFUL PAIN, TO HAVE DIED AT DAYBREAK, If Agrippina did not surpass all other gold-diggers in unscrupulousness, none ever surpassed her. Though born in the purple, the daughter of the great and good Ger- manicus, she was destined to a minor role had not her ambition for wealth and power and gratification committed her to constant scheming. Her wickedness seems to have been inherited from her mother, Agrippina, granddaughter of Augustus. It throve through her marriage to Domitius. Domitius was unbelievably cruel. Once he killed a freedman for refusing to drink as much as he ordered him. a night of fearful pain, to have died at daybreak. Agrippina could have done her country and herself no worse service than in making Nero its ruler. At first she was able to control’ him. but soon ]r;; turned against her and sought her e. Events take strange turns. Locusto. a poisoner, is said to have been employed | by Agrippina in getting rid of Claudius. Nero planned to use the same woman to destroy his mother. However, poison wasn't sufficient. Three attempts failed because Agrippina had made herself immune by antidotes. It was finally necessary to have her killed violently. 1930.) Another time, on the Appian Way, he purposely drove his chariot over a poor boy, killing him. The terrible Nero was the son of Domitius and _Agrippina. Upon _the birth of Nero, Domitius is said to have remarked, cynically, in reply to the congratulations of friends, “Nothing but | what is detestable and pernicious to the public can be produced by Agrippina and me.” As the wife of Domitius, Agrippina was not important in affairs of state. But when her husband died, she was free to begin the machinations which were to make dreadful history in Rome. She cast a snare for her uncle, the Emperor_ Claudius, and succeeded in making him marry her. Then, having induced Claudius to adopt her son, she poisoned him and made Nero Emperor. One story is that she served Claudius poison in a dish of mushrooms. of which he was extremely fond. This was in the evening. He is said to have become speechless instantly, and, after | ABE MARTIN SAYS “An’ Gran’dad Morrow hain’t so bad either when it comes to lightin’ jest where he starts out fer.” said Tell| Binkley, in discussin’ Lindbergh's luck. If ther's any tired business man it must be on account o' too much golf. The meanest Democrat I know of is Uncle Ez Pash. He puts his flag up ever’ tims whaet drops. “Well, if ther’s anything in achin, I pity Rumania” said Tell Binkley, today, speakin’ o’ King Carol II ““Use your head, You're worsen’ Jack Sharkey,” said Mrs. Tilford Moots to :;r husban’, who wuz tryin’ to ring a . p Hon. Ex-Editur Cale Fluhart is groomin’ himself to run fer United States Senator, He understands the dial phone an’ is unalterably opposed to roller towels. (Copyright, (Copyright. Rie Krispres just crackle in milk or cream. They’re crisp rice. Bubbles of won- derful flavor. Nothing like them was ever made before! Have Rice. Krispies for bre,kfut. Try them with fruits and honey added. Make delicious macaroons. Sprinkle them into soups. Atgrocers. Made by Kellogg in Battle Creek. T\ RICE KRISPIES 1830.) THE AUGUST SALE of - LIFETIME FURNITURE T ,(\‘\..\\\" R » "" .‘\ T Only This Augu. ti; Could Bring Such a Value Remarkable, indeed, values now! a month before you are the It will be many can du- plicate a suite like this at the price. ing sale values now. One of the outstand- 10 pieces, $225 66-in. Buffet, China with drawer, Linen Chesty 6-ft. Ex- tension Table, 4 Side Chairs, 2 Armchairs, ten pieces, com- plete, $225. Walnut and gum- wood. Free Parking Service (Leave Car at Ott’s Garage, 621 D St.) MAYER & CO. Seventh Street Between D azid E