Evening Star Newspaper, August 13, 1930, Page 26

Letters From Children to Adults BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. ‘The spontaneous letters of chlldl’rn]folk can write anything they feel like are delightful. Those in which the Saying and at&p ‘(hen the desire ceases, | which may be after one or two sen- direction, dictation or suggestion of | junces have been composed. dults can be detected lose their flavor. | The mother should see that the letter The child feels little o no interest | is ended. if oniy with the two words. - “Lovingly, ,” or “Johnny," o in writing such missives. The person | wiaiever the child's name is. The let- Tecelving the letter has somewhat the |ter will never be finished otherwise feeling of being cajoled or pacified, as | Then she can direct the envelope and i, were a letter received, the adult |get the child to stick on the stamp and Would be flattered, or if no letter from | mail it, which he will be sure to enjoy IT IS WITH SATISFACTION THAT THE CHILD STICKS THE STAMP ON THE ENVELOPE CONTAINING ‘THE LETTER. the child came, the person would feel neglected or at least slighted. It is true that a letter from a child fs and should be received with appre- . 1t is, indeed, a labor g{ Jove for the youngster to compose and com- plete one. If possible let the idea of writing the letter spring from the child. Tt never will, however, unless the little doing. The mother may not actually say to her child that it would be nice if grandma got & letter, or that Aunt Kate would feel badly if she didn't get a letter. There are ways, however, | of making a child think of the person | | and of what this adult would enjoy | knowing. It takes tact. but then tact | is needed in the bringing up of chil- dren. and mothers who enjoy the com- | ip of their children must use it. | a child’s mind has been turned toward the adult and a wish created to see and talk with him or her it is the most natural time for the young- | ster to think of sending a little letter | to grandma, Aunt May, Uncle John or | some favorite relative. The mother can stimulate interest by providing the child with ornamental letter paper. The more space the decorative heading takes up the better. | On such paper a short letter will ap- pear sufficiently jong. A few sentences | will_cover two pages or more. If a | child faces ordinary letter paper he is | appalled by the seemingly vast amount of paper to be covered with the few things he has to say. Make the letter | | writing as easy as you can f you would tempt a child to write. | It may be added that in later years, | whenever an adult discovers one of his etters, he is delighted when it reflects | his own childish ideas. It matters not if he says, “I must stop now, for I haven't anything else to say.” Most children’s letters have this self-same expression. Then there are the com- ments so_frankly given that show in- | sight, and references that recall things cherished in one’s youth. Such letters help one to understand one's self in childhood days. They are illumnating. % (Copyright, 1930 FOOD PROBLEMS SALLY MONROE. | | | BY Ice Cubes’ A most attractive way to serve lemon- | ade—which you can do only if you have an electric refrigerator—is to freeze special ice cubes for it and in each freeze & candied or maraschino cherry and a leaf of mint. The result is most delightful—you | have a tinkling cube of ice in your glass and in the cube is a lovely red cherry and a lovely green leaf making the ice as pretty to look at as it is refreshing to hear in its clinking. You can put strawberries in these jce cubes—or indeed anything you might wish. Lacking anything else, you could put & couple of cubes of orange pulp or & quarter slice of lemon. Of course, EVIENING NANCY PAGE Back Socials Come With Charades BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. Box The guests at the week end beach house party attended the amall vil- lage church. They listoned to the ser- mon, joined in With the singing and filled the contribution basket gener- ously But they were fascinated with an announcemenit: “A box social will be held on the church grounds on Wed- nesday of next week. The proceeds will be used to meet the deficit in the current expenses.” After the services were over they asked what under the sun a box social might be. ‘Well, you see, it's like this. Each girl packs & lunch’ box for two, herself and her partner. She does her box up in some ingenious fashion and piles it with all the others near the auctioneer. He auctions the Naturally an ardent swain attempts to guess which box his lady love has packed and bids high to get that box, e 7] = s because with it he purchases the right to share the lunch with the lady who packed the box. “Sometimes the girls play practical jokes on the men and get them to bid high for a box which is not the one really wanted. And sometimes the girls give the boys tips as to which boxes belong to them.” ‘The group was enchanted with the idea and filled boxes for the social. One girl used a white box, covering the lower part of the sides with silver paper cut into points, tying it with silver ribbons to which were attached silver stars. Another box was made using a hat box (purchased at a local store). The sides were cut down somewhat, the top of the lid was covered with a lace paper doily to hide the store name and the red of the cherry adds much to the appearance. Straight Talks to Women About Money| BY MARY ELIZABETH ALLEN Debts Come First® ‘Which comes first, the family debt or the family vacation? That's the stickler put up to this department by & reader. She is the mother of three children. For several vears the family has been wrestling with the problem, and now we must referee the struggle. ¥ The debt is one of Jong standing. It is a small loan on which the family has been paying 2', per cent interest monthly for over two years. In other words, the family is paying 30 per cent yearly on its debt. The debt amounts to some $250. The cost of the projected vacation is just about that sum, and the amount is at hand. The money has been accumulated after several months of sacrifice and saving. Every one has looked forward MILADY B BY LOIS Bleaches for Dark Necks. An annoying beauty problem is pro- wided by a neck which is & shade or $wo darker than the skin of the face. Unfortunately this is a common prob- lem, and it is & real beauty blemish, those %o afflicted will be glad to know of different methods of keeping the neck white, or bleaching it if it is already darker than the face. One good plan is to use a bleaching pack once or twice a week. I should sdvise using it twice, at least for the first few weeks of the treatment, if the neck is noticeably dark. There are, many good bleaching packs which may | be used for this purpose. The follow- ing recipe makes a good one: Two tablespoonfuls fullers’ earth, one ounce carbonate magnesia, one tablespoonful pefoxide, one tablespoonful lemon Jjuice, thin with witch-hazel or rose Water to & smooth, workable paste. First scrub the neck well with soap and warm water. The soap should be worked to & lather and. then rubbed well into the skin and then massage with a good cream. Wipe Off the excess cream and apply the bleaching cream. Apply it evenly and gently over the entire neck, allowing it to dry thor-| oughly. Leave on for 20 or 30 minutes. | Then wash off with warm water and | apply a little soothing massage cream or cold cream to the neck. Remove with tissue squares, pat on a skin tonic &nd powder the neck as usual. | Another very simple but effective | bleach for the neck is a paste of butter- | milk and common baking soda. If | referred, the buttermilk may be com- | ined with fine cornmeal, oatmeal or | almond meal to form a pack. It should be used in the same manner as out- | lined for the pack described. When one’s neck is inclined to be dark. it is a good plan to use a bleach- | ing lotion regularly in addition to the | ack applied once or twice a week. | ere are various lemon and cucumber | creams on_the .market which make | good bleaches. or one may use the ! following: Boric acid. one dram; witch- | hazel, two ounces: glycerin, on ounce; | peroxide, one tablespoonful: orange | flower water, (wo ounces. Dissolve the | boric acid in the orange flower water, | My Neighbor Says: Al boiled vegetables should be drained as s00n as they are ten- come soggy. The water drained off may be used for soup stock. ‘When lighting a birthday cake use a taper. Light the candles in the middle first and those on the outside later. If furniture is rubbed the same way as the grain, it will polish much more brightly and quickly When your jelly will not jell, do not turn it back into the pan to cook n. Take a large dripping pan and half fill it with water. Set your undisturbed glasses of jelly in it, not ciose enough to touch. put the pan in a hot oven, and let them bake until sufficiently jellied. This usually takes about three-quar- ters of an hour. (Copyrisht, 1930.) to a change of scene and a few deep breaths of fresh air. But this debt has been a& thorn in the family side. Shall the family seek green pastures or shall the thorn be removed? Our suggestion is intended to be as considerate and sehsible as possible. Instead of giving up the idea of the vacation, why not pay at least-part of the debt and curtail the vacation a bit. If the family’s determination and for- titude is of the highest grade, it might be best to postpone the vacation for a few months, pay the debt, and save meanwhile for a vacation that will not be overladen with money worries. The nioney saved in interest alone will pay for a third of a year's vacation That alone should be a great incentive. Somehow we have a feeling that paying off that debt will be a vacation in spirit and mind for all concerned. EAUTIFUL LEEDS. add the glycerin, shake well, add the witch-hazel and lastly the peroxide. | This is & very mild bleaching lotion which may be used every day to keep the neck white, (Copyright, 1930.) Preserved Watermelon. Cut the rind of the watermelon in strips and boil it in salt water until | tender. Drain, dash cold water over | them, then drain until quite dry. Make a thick sirup of nine cupfuls of sugar, | one and one-half cupfuls of water, two finely sliced lemons, and & small plece | of ginger root. Put the rind in the sirup and let simmer until clear. with this Pure Grape Juice No fuss, no muss. 1t’s ready instantly. In each pint, six liberal por. tions<-more if diluted, and it 80 . most deliciously tempting breakfast fruit juice in Amer- ica. Less than Sc a glass! For"WaystoServe Welcive,” i w:u«:‘-' Dept M, GRAPE JUICE | lighter, then a nosegay of real flowers was put in_the center. ‘The name of the girl who packed the box was always slipped inside just under the lid. That told the pur- chaser when he opened the box who his partner for the evening would be. Write to Nancy Page, care of this paper, if you want a leaflet on cakes. Send ‘stamped, self-addressed enveiope with request. LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. Pop still says he wont go to the auto show, and after supper he was trying to make his new cigar lighter werk, and ma sed, Heres a wonderful article in the paper amung the automobeel show news. Its all about how economi- cal it has become nowadays to own an automobeel, and in fact how it axually saves you money. You mite almost say you make money by owning a car, ac- cording to this article, she sed. ‘Who wrote it, the generel manager of the Wishwash Amalgamated Con- centrated Automobeel Company? pop sed, and mas sed, Its not signed, but whoever wrote it has a good generel ideer of what he's tawking about, I assure you, with facks and figures galore. For instants, take trane and trolley fares alone. This article says the average person rides an average of 36 thousand miles a year, on an aver- age, in tranes and trolley cars and busses. Now if they had their own car they would use it instead, thus avoiding not ony the hussle and bussle of in- discriminate pushing and -crowding, but also saving an average of & hun- dred dollers a year after 36 thousand miles werth of gasoleen is payed for, ma sed. Im sure a hundred dollers & yer izzent to be sneezed at with im- punity, she sed. I dont even sneeze at a doller any more, pop sed. But Ive got & better scheme than that, wait till I get a pen- cil and paper, he sed. Wich he did, saying My ideer is to wawk every place you want to go and use all your gasoleen for your cigar This new lighter of mine for example, goes 10 days on about 340 drops of gas, and a man can wawk 200 miles in 10 days easily, wich would make an average for the year of 7 thousand 200 miles on 12 thousand 240 drops of gas, wich is less than one quart, or about 18 cents werth, while train, trolley and buss fares for that distants would total about 400 dollers, and 400 rhinus 18 cents leeves 399 dollers and 82 cents cleer saving. So there you are, he sed. And there you are, a crazy thing as usual, ma sed. Whats a good of prov- ing anything to you? she sed. Meening none. Just sprinkle in some Kellogg’s Rice Krispies next time you have soup. Adds the flavor of toasted rice. Delicious! Rice Krispies are the new and different cereal. So crisp they crackle in milk or cream.Wonderful for break- fi lunch or supper. Try a ackage. At grocers. Made y Kellogg in Battle Creek. \ R T crf""a:ov Helloygs RICE KRISPIES boxes. | WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, \DorothyDix| O YOU ever stop to think, Mr. Man, that your wife never in the world would have married you if you had employed the same technique as a lover that you do as a husband? When you were courting her you did everything that you could to make yourself attractive to her. When you went to call upon her, you were shorn ' and shaven and manicured and pressed, and looked as spic and ‘span as if you had just come out of a bandbox. STAR. Deplores Unnecessary Disillusionment of Marriage How Dn You Treat Your Wife? But you don’t care how you appear to your wife. All intelligent wives doll jup to try to look good to their husbands, but not one husband in a thousand | ever gives a single thought to whether he is balm to his wife's eyes or not. Believe me, there are plenty of married women who would still be writing | | Miss before their names if they had had an inkling of the kind of scarecrow | | they were getting. Before marriage you were assiduous in promoting your wife's hlpp]nr&l.‘ You put her pleasure before your own. You consulted her inclinations. Nothing was too much trouble for you to do for her. You were never too tired or too busy to take her anywhere she wished to go. But now it is a different story. You should worry about whether she is | entertained or bored. You don’t notice whether she is happy or unhappy. You don't even take her to the movies until she badgers the life out of you about it, | and then you go with the expression of an early Christian martyr. You don't | work any harder than you did before you were married, but you are always too tired now to tak. your wife out of an evening to the theater, or to go to party with her. | Before you were married you fed your wife on flattery. You told her con- | tinually thai she was the most beautiful and wonderful woman in the world. You praised her eyes, and the way she did her hair, and you noticed every time she had on & new dress, and you thought all of her little mannerisms so_cute and cunning, and you led her to believe that you thought she was simply IT. THIRTY-THREE—NIGHT - -t BAUS But as soon as you were married you substituted the hammer for the salve [iprr‘nder and you never comment on anything she does except to give it a wullop.r and if you should voluntarily pay her a compliment she would fall down dead | with surprise. | When she calls your attenticn to the fact that she has on a new dress you | grunt and make some disparaging remark about its being too young for her and | ask what makes her fool enough to dress like a flapper. You eat the 999 good dinners she prepares for you in silence, but if the thousandth one has too much salt in the soup or the meat is overdone you howl to heaven over it. Do you ever think, Mr. Man, that it is a blighting disappointment to a woman who thinks she is marrying the perfect lover, who will feed her on angels’ food the balance of her life, to find out that she has an indifferent husband who lets her starve for even a kind word? Do you really think, Mr. Man, that if you had treated your wife before marriage as you treat her now she would have married you? DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright. 1930.) scriptive. | ! marocan gfternoon drers v the vicarnalion of present édym ffy(&r Cold Pudding. ‘cupfu] of milk, two tablespoonfuls of . | butter and one-fourth teaspoonful of To one and one-half cupfuls of cold |salt. Stir into the hot mixture and milk add one cupful of stale bread |cook, stirring constantly, for 10 min- crumbs, one and one-half squares of utes. Then add half a teaspoonful of unsweetened chocolate and three- | vanilla, turn into a buttered pudding fourths cupful of sugar. Put into a dish and bake in a woderate oven for double boller and let cook until a|20 minutes. Cool slightly, cover with smooth paste is formed. Beat the yolks | meringue and bake for 8 minutes. of three eggs until light, add half a|Serve cold. BRIGHTER BREAKFAST The better the breakfast, the brighter the day. Don’t fog the brain and clog the body by eating a heavy, indigest- ible breakfast. Brighten the day by eat- ing Shredded Wheat with milk and go to work with buoyant step and mental alertness. Shredded Wheat with milk makes a complete well-balanced meal containing everything the human body needs for growth and strength. Try it with berries and cream. It’s a rare treat. WITH ALL THE BRAN OF THE WHOLE WHEAT { AUGUST 13, 1930. SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. FEATURES. BY EDNA KENT FORBES. BEAUTY CHATS E; ha; X | have no effect upon a yellow spot in the g Alhaninoo white portion of your eveball. You The first necessary thing for & sUC- | should consult your doctor and have cessful home shampoo is soft water.|the proper treatment while it is still If you can't make your hair look nice s"slnu you very little trouble. - = lad to hear of your suc- then, it's probably carelessness OF Per-| com: by miaame sowrelt of 39 pounds haps lack of experience. In either | through following the diet directions case let me suggest an egg shampoo. | in_the charts, ; A good half-hour before you intend The pits in the skin following chicken- to wash your hair, beat up an egg in a' pox will not be noticeable after a short small bowl. If you want to set the hair “™M® | sfterward save out half the white and I bet you can't guess what? Daddy | had a feller dig us place fer a pond an’ we keeps the hose runnin’ in, an’ is 1t cool? (Copyright, 1930.) Everyday Psychology BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. Schizoids. I have been asked to describe the | schizoids. In the first place the word schizoid means “split.” On that score a schizoid personality is & split personality. This means something, but not so much as some make it out to mean. One of the common errors in_psychological con- siderations is to assign our friends, ene- mies, acquaintances or whatever they | may be to a so-called type. The next big error is that of trying always to put the social acquaintance in his place and to keep him there. It won't do. Human nature is hard to pigenhole. Type psychology is al- ways interesting, sometimes helpful, never final. But speaking of types, the schizold is a real puzzle. You must know the life history of any schizold in order to know him. “And then you are never sure. By a sort of common consent schizoids are called “solitary” as chil- dren, sald to be “queer” as adolescents, denounced as “haughty” or “proud” as adults. These terms are only fairly de- One might best describe the schizoid as a person who won't let you like him. Another thing, he doesn’t care what you think of him. The schizoid has a sort of dual personality: one on the surface for the world to look at if it wishes, the other the hidden real self which no one sees. Schizolds have their own way of looking at the world. This tends to make them appear stubborn, conten- tious, suspicious and arrogant. They are the “hated” persons in every com- munity, chiefly because they cannot “mix.” They cannot mix because they don’t know how. (Copyright, 1930.) remove loose | soap and hot water. | or has been very dirty, rinse this out beat up the rest of it with the yolk.| Rub this all over your scalp, covering | the entire scalp and as iuch of the| hair as possible. Let it dry, using an electric fan or sitting outdoors, or, if it’s cold weather, before a fire. Most of your shampoo is already over, for the dried egg has taken up and bound into itself dirt, dandruff and excessive ofl. All these come away when the egg is rinsed from the scalp with warm water. A hose attachment is_invaluable here or a shower bath. After this the only necessary thing is one good lathering with liquid castile 1f the hair is thick AUNT HET BY ROBERT QUILLEN. and give a second lathering for Iuck. ‘Then rinse. If you have a hose at- tachment or a shower, rinsing is quick | and easy, since the force of the water drives every bit of soap from the hair. If you've only a basin youwll need to Tenew the water two or three times. If you keep scrubbing your hair with a brush, or squeezing a sponge over it, the rinsing will go twice as fast. Roll your head in a towel and squeeze the hair as dry as possible. If you wave it, dilute the remaining egg white with its ‘own amount of watér, set in the| "I hated to do it, but I'd been hair waves and dry under a net. The | chasin’ that fly for 10 minutes an’ no egg shampoo leaves the hair clean and | fly is goin’ to outwit me by lightin® on glossy even when youve bungled the | & man’s bald spot.” washing and rinsing. (Copyright. Miss G. M—Almond and olive ofls | =t =ar are the nourishing portions of most of | Rifle champlonship of the British the fine creams. They may be used | Army at home was won this year by on the skin for cleansing or massage. |J. E. Barlow, with an aggregate score M ishing skin cream could | of 408, FREE YOUR DOG FROM FLEAS —the quickest, easiest way 1930.) Use Black Flag Powder. Dust it on and the fleas drop like rain. It’s sure death to every last flea—yet safe touse. Can’t burt even a pup. Clean. Odor- less. Deadliest insect-killer known. Kills ants, roaches, bedbugs, flies, mosquitoes, too. Packed in glass to keep its strength. © 1930, B.F. Co. BLACK FLAG POWDER MADE BY THE MAKERS OF BLACK FLAG LIQUID AnewP leasant way to Dan\druff _ Listerine shampoo usually gets res in 3 days— and cools itching OW thousands ar wonderful results full strength Listerine used in connection with the shampoo. Ordinary loose dandruff is often re- moved in three days or less—sometimes Inflamed conditions of the scalp which cause itching and burn- in one treatment. ing are relieved almost i entire scalp is made cleaner, healthier, and more vigorous after only a few ap- We have hundreds of un- plications. solicited letters testifying success against dandruff. If you have lloose dandruff—if your scalp itches, feels uncomfor any evidence of inflammation, try Lis- terine and see how quickly you note improvement. Dandruff is drying sebum forced cut by over-active fat glands surrounding Listerine ults scalp e hailing the obtained by the hair roots. This over-activity, many dermatologists claim, is the result of infection. Listerine used full strength dissolves and removes the sebum, and if infection is present attacks it. 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