Evening Star Newspaper, August 16, 1930, Page 17

WOMAN'S PAGE. Color Predictions for Autumn Very dark, as well s bright tones of green for the street with jade, pastel tones and olive green are chosen for dresses. Browns for Gtreet wear are all of a rich rusty tone MARSHALL. evening. Patou pink, light blue and white; yellow, green and pink on a white background; rose, white and green; rose, gray and cream; rose and green on black; peach, green and red are all seen in the new dresses. Capucine, which is a nasturtium | orange, has been revived at least for | combinations. For instance, we have | seen capucine with jade green and beige, and capucine, brown and egg | red and gray is a new combination and | black, egg shell and gold is very smart | for evening, the shell and black | combined for the dress with a touch of gold for trimming. Light green, yel- low and orange is & good combination |for sports, while the combination of | black, gray and white is seen in some of the smartest prints for evening and is used in & number or smart daytime | ensembles. BEAUTY CHATS | | butter or rich sauces THE SMART COMBINATION OF PINK, BROWN AND ROSE IS | SHOWN IN THIS SPORTS DRESS OF PINK JERSEY WITH BROWN AND ROSE JERSEY APPLIQUES. | | while for evening there is a new cinna- | mon tone that has already come into | importance. | Black and white, navy and white, | navy blue with a lighter tone called | linen blue, brown and yellow, brown and white, black and gray, olive green | and beige, red and white, wine red with cream, introduced by way of lace; n and white—these are among two- color combinations that are especially important and will continue to next Autumn. Pink enters into a number of the three-color. combinations chosen for BY EDNA KENT FORBES. Easy Reduction. There are a dozen easy and pleasant ways of reducing the figure without putting yourself on too strict a diet. For instance, people in Europe reduced during the war because they couldn't eat so much meat, because potatoes were often impossible to get, tecause there was very little butter and sugar. 1t was impossible to have rich sweets ®ccause the materials were not avail- able. Suppose you go on that theory in cooking your meals for the next couple of menths. You will deliberately have several meatless days, two or three a week, in fact. Instead of meat you can have fish or chicken. You will have several po- tatoless meals, and you will substitute saccharine tablets for sugar in drinking tea or coffee. You will go on the theory that butter and fat are difficult to get and that cream is almost price- less. This means that your meats will be cooked simply and not served with This means that your potatoes will be boiled and served plain, or boiled and pressed through one of those machines that make them | look lightly mashed without the aid of | milk_and butter. None of your foods will be fried, but only boiled or steamed. You will rely to a large extent on | the green vegetables which are plenti- ful and cheap, and on salads. You | must learn to make salad dressing with all sorts of nice flavors. but mostly with vinegar and very little oil. You will almost completely cut out cake and pudding. since these rely so much on sugar, butter and cream. Fortunately, there is plenty of fruit to take the place of puddings, with apples, oranges and grapefruit to carry you through the Winter should you need to diet as long as_this. This sort of dieting should become a game with you and be interesting on that account. All that you do really is to cut out foods which are concen- trated fat for those which are less fat- tening, and yet bulky. OUR CHILDREN BY. ANGELO PATRL Jokes. Children need to laugh. Jokes are a part of their daily bread. It is a great treat for them when you tell a funny That story is going to be stored up for future reference. It is going to color their thinking and their action. Jokes, then, are worth while thinking about. What is truly funny must be- come a matter for consideration. It is not funny to hurt anybody or | anything. I'know it is next to impos-| sible not to laugh at the sight of a fat man slipping on a banana skin, but it isn't funny. We ought not to laugh. ‘We should control the impulse because it is a nervous reaction close to tears of fright. . Going to the aid of the injured person quells all quivers of laughter. Pictures are powerful forces for im- pressing an idea. I would not let a child think that a picture showing children hurting an old man or an ani- mal was funny. Oruelty is never funny. Disrespect to old age is a matter for tears of grief. The sorrows of age are always too near the surface to permit of taking any liberties there. | Jokes that are indelicate are not funny for children. They cannot un- derstand them and they begin search- ing for a solution. , As that is difficult to find, it can rarely be put into words, and they get a wrong notion. They will repeat such a story sometime to an | ill-chosen audience and be penalized | for doing so. That is hardly fair. ‘There are many funny things in the ecomic strips. I know there are some that .are not good for children, but there are enough that are to make the strips_weicome. It is easy enough to say “I don't care for that one. It isn't kind enough in its fun. Or—I don’t care much for that one. Rather bag mannered, I think.” e funnies have many a good MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Honeydew Melons. Oatmeal with Cream. Baked Beans, Sausage. Way-Down-South Cornbread. 7 Coffee. DINNER. . Pruit Cup. Roast Chicken, Brown Gravy. Pickled Watermelon Rind. Mashed Potatoes. Green Peas. Lettuce, Russian Dressing. | Nut Caramel, Vanilla Ice Cream. | | Coffee. SUPPER. Toasted Cheese Sandwiches. | Pickles, Olives, Sliced Peaches. | Macaroons. Tea. | CORN BREAD. | Four cups milk, one cup yel- | | low or white cornmeal, one- | half teaspoon salt, two tablespoons | butter, one egg beaten light, one ' rounding teaspoon baking powder. Scald three cups of the milk, stir | | the cornmea] and salt with the | other cup of milk, then gradually | | stir into the hot milk. Continue | | to stir until the mixture thickens. | | Add the butter in bits, sift over | | the baking powder. add the egg | | and beat all together very thor- | | oughly. Turn into a buttered baking dish and bake in a quick oven about 25 minutes. Serve with a spoon from the baking dish as the bread for any meal. 1t is also served as a dessert with grated maple sugar or white sugar and cream, NUT ICE CREAM. Caramelize one-half cup of sugar add one-half cup of chop- ped filberts and one-eighth tea- spoon salt. Turn into a slightly buttered pan and cool; ~then pound in 2 mortar and put through a puree strainer. Beat the yolks of four eggs until thick and add gradually three-fourths cup of hot caramel sirup. Cook [ in double boiler until mixture thickens; then beat until cold, Fold in one and one-half cups of heavy cream beaten until stiff and add one-half tablespoon of vanilla and prepared nut meats. BACON AND CHEESE. Toast slices of bread on one side only. On the untoasted side of each slice place a thin slice of cheese, & thick slice of tomato, sprinkle with salt and pepper, a little sugar and finely minced green pepf?r Next add a slice of bacon and place in oven or under brofling flame until bacon i crisped and cheese melted. chuckle for the youngsters, and, instead of forbidding them, welcome them and | discuss them with the children. You will find there a scheme of character education as fine as any you can con- jure. ‘Then there are.funny bits in story books. Pick them out and make the children familiar with them. And the movies have lots and lots of laughs in | them. The child that does not go to the movies is rare, as we would better share with them whatever they offer nndfl try to utilize it for the children’s good. Make certain that there is plenty of fun in the ration of reading. Plenty of fun in the table talk. Plenty.of fun in the recreation time. Fun is the food of the child’s soul. Don't stint him of it. Life is chock full of it and only the doddering in spirit pass it by. * (Copyright. 1930, NANCY PAGE Wedding Pageants Are Formal Affairs. BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. No matter how many times s girl has seen a_wedding there are always questions which bob up when she is getting ready for her own. Take the mater of entering the church, the dis- | position of the party at the altar and | the order in which the party files out, | for_example. Nancy had answered questions re- garding these points so many times that she finally had a diagram made| which showed the positions plainly. Suppose we look at it. Entering the church is done in this | fashion—the groom, best man and clergyman step out to chancel rail from | vestry. They wait the coming of the | bride. i First come the ushers, two by two, | then the bridesmaids, also two by two. | Then comes the maid of honor, the flower girls paired, the ring bearer walking alone and lastly the bride on | the arm of her father. At the altar the clergyman stands at | the altar. Facing him are bride and groom with ring bearer at left of bride. ! Back of bride and a little to left stands | the maid of honor. At right and back | of groom is best ma; | The father stands slightly back of bride until he has given her away, when | he steps back into pew with his wife. The ushers and bridesméaids form a semi-circle about the bridal pair. The flower girls are nearest to pews. After the ceremony the bride and | groom walk out fogether. The ushers walk by themselves and the bridesmaids | by themselves. They do not pair, only the bridal couple does that If you have a_question on a wedding write to Nancy Page, care of tAis paper, inclose a stamped self-addressed enve- ‘| lope asking for her leafiet on weddings. (Copyright. 1930.) shell interestingly combined. Orange. { TAF EVENING Pop hasent let ma argew him into going to the automobeel show yet, and yestidday after supper she sed, Wil- yum, I have the most excii news. The Hewses can get all the tickits they wunt to for the automobeel show, I n:;en they can get them quite free, she That nice, if they get about 4000 and make a little bonfire on their din- ing room table I wouldent mind being present at the ceremony, pop 3 Now Willyum, when people have something valuble to give away its no time to make silly side remarks, ma sed, and pop sed, Well let them give them to charity. Charity begins at home and this is our home and I think the least we can do_is except the invitation, ma sed. But yee gods, we dont wunt to buy a car, 'do we? pop sed, and ma sed, Not in so many cold werds, perhaps, and yet in this changeable life people can never tell when their minds will alter without any apparent reason. Mine wont, pop sed. Nuthing doing, I think the people who go to automo- beel shows with no desire to buy a car |are in the same class with the people who stand gawking' into joolry store windows with their faces as empty as their pockits, he sed. But Willyum, the long and the short of it is that Ive made a definite engage- ment with Mr. and Mrs. Hews to go to the automobeel show with them Sat- urday afternoon, ma sed. All rite, I hope you have a nice time, pop sed, and ma sed, O no, I made ihe ingagement for you too. Well I decline with thanks, thanks, pop sed. ‘Wich he'll proberly haff to go any- ways. Home in Good Taste BY SARA HILAND. Slip covers are now year-around propositions and because they are made of such fascinating materials they have not the ghostly appearance that plain white, gray and tan mate- rials give. Dii you ever step into a dimly lighted room and feel just a litile bit uneasy when you saw all these white objects scattered about? If so, you will appreciate the many colored and patterned chintzes used today for this purpose. In the illustration is & slip-covered sofa which appears to be very plain, STAR, but which is not “spooky” because it is made of apricot chintz, and who- ever could pe frightened when this warm and cheerful color predominates! The walls and woodwork in this room are in a pale shade of green, the floor is covered with an apple green rug and the curtains are of pale gold uze. ‘With this background it is not diffi- cult to imagine how delightful an apricot slip cover piped in lavender would be for the sofa, with, perhaps, pillows of yellow piped with green. Your Baby and Mine BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED. Has any one ever seen a baby who|’ did not roll his head from side to side and flatten out his tiny, rag-like ears in so doing? I am sure every mother will utter a very loud negative, for this is one of those infantile habits common to almost every baby. You see, I con- servatively say “almost.” When we look about us at the various types of ears we realize that this ten- dency has little or nothing to do with the future size or shape or outstand- ingness of adult ears. We have only to look at the distinctive type of ear which runs through families to know that we have to blame its shape on heredity and not on trivial incidents or manners of sleeping. (This goes for shapes of heads, t00.) ‘There are certain bad habits which small bables acquire which may spoil the ear’s shape, for if a baby les in his crib and pulls at his ear as per- sistently as some bables thumb-suck, he is certain to acquire a noticeably flaring ear. Other than this habit, or the habit of mothers of putting hats on small boys which hold the top of their ears forward constantly I sincerely doubt whether the tiny baby's ears, soft and impressionable as they are re per- manently affected by this really uni- versal habit of rolling the ears forward when the head is turned. Mrs. B. 8. has been worrying about the above question and also about thumb-sucking. She says: “Baby will stop nursing to suck his thumb and it is getting so white and flat in com- parison to the other. I tried taping his ears back. but when I remove the tape the halr comes, too, and this makes him cry. What can I do?” The small net and tape caps called ear-conformer caps can be bought in most large department stores. Also they are quite easy to make at home, for they are just stout, white cotton net, taped around the edge and re- inforced with cross-bars of cotton tape over the ears. The net is cut in hood | shape and well fitted to baby's head so that it holds the ears in place snugly. A loose cap is worse than none at ail, for if the ears do turn forward they are held in that position. Seams should be Frenched and all T- fectly smooth so that baby's -delicate skin is not irritated. ‘This-is much more effective and less painful than strips of adhesive. Re- member, I am making no promises that these or other caps will really revolu- tionize the shape of the ears. Nature and her plans are stronger than net and tape caps. 1 shall be happy to send you a leaflet on thumb-sucking and "the usual methods of discouraging it, also one on feeding which seems to me, in yous case, to be at the root of the trouble. If the baby prefers the comforts of a barren thumb to the breast there must be very little nourishment there for him. Weaning is no doubt your next step. A self-addressed and stamped envelope is all that is needed to bring you these two leaflets. My Neighbor Says Keep the copper colls in a gas burner clean by using a brush or cloth once a week. Soot acts as an insulator and considerably less gas is required to get hot water when the colls are clean. To clean a stovepipe, place a plece of zinc on the coals of a ot stove. The vapors arising from this will carry off the soot by_chemical decomposition. When making & fruit tart, mix a little cornstarch with the sugar before adding it. This will make the juice thick and prevent its boiling over. In a custard recipe calling for several eggs, one or more may be left out if one-half tablespoonful cornstarch is added for each omitted. (Copyright, 1830.) PARLYS, :c/u//orL dance drewr are| adaplable to rlan color or the orgunal prnt of yellow and funk. onab&azqmuml k‘&—l DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX Dm MISS DIX—How long can a girl stay single these days and still have a chance fo marry? I was 22 this of a husband. I take ballet dancing, Summer, but I am not ready to think d I want to learn more than I know now. T would like to go with different boys and have a few more years of good times. What do you think? Answer—There is no time limit on matrimony in these days. FRIVOLOUS. In olden times a girl was called an old maid if she had not married by the time she was 23 or 24, Now she is considered a kid up to that age, a girl at 30, and she doesn’t get to be a bachelor girl until she is around the 40 mark. Recently a famous Brooklyn judge, ‘who presides over a Domestic Relations Court, e the opinion that no girl should marry before she was 26 or 27, and advised women to wait until they were 30 before they took the fatal step. ‘This Is good advice, for the older a girl is the more fitted she is for matrimony. the better choice she will make, and ‘The girl who marriés in her teens may regret it, because her taste changes, and the boy who appealed to her childish fancy does not satisfy her demand in a mate when she reaches maturity. Therefore, by the time she is 25 or 26 she is nearly always out of iove with her husband. ‘The very young girl has not had her playtime, and so she gets tired of the monotony of domestic life and wants to running around with other boys and girls. She is disgruntled because she has to stay at home and walk the baby with the colic instead of jazzing in a cabaret. 8o you are very wise to put off marrying until you have had your fling at runni around and want to settle down:; wait until a good husband and a home 't be afraid you won't have plenty of chances to mn&ewhm you are A woman is at her best when she is nearing Don’ a little older. attracts the men who are worth better to you than anything else, 30s and she marrying. ‘You show your good sense in not tying yourself down to one boy until are to marry. Go with as many as possible, and that will enable you you to make a wise selection when you get ready to pick out one for keeps.. Girlhood is the only carefree foolish when she cuts it short. Stretch time in a woman's life, and she is very 1t out as long as you can. DOROTHY DIX. Interest in Decoration of Kitchen BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. E_SANCTION TO THE MODERN VOGUE OF EATING IN THE KITCHEN. If there is any one room that can| be said to be the center of a home 4t is the kitchen. This was appreciated in olden times when, in thought and in reality, it was the main room of a house. In the early settler days of America the kitchen was the work room of the household, and the one place of cheery warmth that could be relied upon y in and day out in Wintry weather, and the place where cool and refreshing viands were to be found in Summertime. In those old kitchens the daily lives of the family were centered from bal hood to mature years, until they might be said to have something like a soul. There are few such kitchens today which are not only centers of the homes, but the hearts of the houses— rooms for which each member of the family has respect and actual fondness. Today the kitchens are again the centers of homes, but in a different way. Again the woman of the house has to spend more time in the kitchen, if she is anything of homemaker, than she did a few years ago when servants were the expected thing in homes of even those in moderate circumstances. Today pecsle wif good purses have “servantless houses They take pride in having every mod- ern contrivance and device for labor. saving and convenience. Special in- terest centers in this room, whose equipment may be the most costly of in the dwelling. ‘n‘{hnre 1s a revival of the old-time way of eating in the kitchen. To be sure, it is n. spoken of in any such Dl bian way. The family eats in break- fast nooks or diningettes, the latter bein;; & room in which the dining ele- ment is stressed above that of the kitchen. These nooks or “ettes” are made so dainty and attractive that they have little semblance to the old-fash- ioned kitchen-dining room. ‘While convenienceyplus lack of room, in many modern aj lents is respon- sfole for the present-day em) 1 there 15 “ummwm rative style. Sometimes the nooks are sections of the kitchen given a sepa- rateness by high settles each side of a narrow table. Sometimes the kitchen has a commodious alcove, making a dining room in miniature. ‘The modern homemaker takes as much or perhaps more pride in her kitchen than di° the housewife of by- gone days. At least she shows it in more spectacular ways. Comfort and coziness were the attributes of old kitchens, while multiplicity of ingenious devices for saving time and labor and smart, colorful decoration are the strik- ing elements of the new. (Copyright, 1930.) MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN. A Laundry Hint. When washing the children's little silk hose and silk underwear I always give the things a rinse in vinegar water, Just about a tablespoonful to & basin of water, before the final rinse. This keeps th | them soft and fluffy, just as it does the hair when vinegar or lemon is used in rinsing. I have also used the vinegar rinse in the Winter when I am was! ing out the baby's littie woolen gtl’- ments, and it has just as‘nice an effect on them as it does on the silk ments. (Copyright, 1930.) Tunafish Pie. Scrape and cut into pleces four ca rots, and boil until half done. Add six white potatoes cut into small cubes. Cream a can of tuna fish, using a pint of milk. Add a can of which have been drained. Mix together, season with salt and pepper, and. ir into a deep baking dish. ith a rich biscuit dough bake until brown. This is and tastes like chicken WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 1930. Today in Washington History BY DONALD A. CRAIG. 16, 1865.—An unusually large crowd of visitors was at the White House today, completely obstructing the passage between the apartments of and the office of the President Johnson executive clerks, So long as visitors to the President continue %o disregard the ordinary pro- prieties of society, as they have been doing at the Executive Mansion recently, care for the President’s health and his personal comfort require that such re- ceptions should not he too frequently given. pointed out a few days that while President Johnson has .l“E? covered from his recent iliness, he is wholly fatigued at the end of a day of receiving visitors. At this rate his health cannot be expected to remain in good condition much longer. An immense number of pardons under the President'’s amnesty proclamation have been received during the last 24 hours, including 150 from Virginia and about 300 from North Carolina. There were almost an equal number also from Alabama and Georgia. Three thousand such pardons to citi- zens of the former Confederate States have already been completed, with the exception of the President’s signature and the official seal of the Secretary of In consequence of the great labor at- tending the signing of all these pardons, the President has had made a stamp with which to affix a fac simile of his signature to all such papers. Among those just pardoned is Benjamin Fitz- patrick, formerly a United States Sena- e following also were pardoned to- day: John R. Children o?‘mchmond. R. D. McIlvane, A. J. Mcllvane, F. D. Mcllvane, D. B. Tennent, Reuben Rag- land, James M. Venable, Thomas Withers, R. A. Hamilton, Peter Mc~ Enry, Leroy Roper, W. R. Johnson and J. B. Dunn of Petersburg, Va. SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. When we was little we used to want to hurry en’ get old like Drandpa so we could don't ever'body— baby ? But just see how you does when you is old: You sits under a tree and smel- ters while kids wear sunsuits an? plays in ponds. BEDTIME STORIES BY THORNTON W. BURGESS. Black Pussy Is Too Late. “Tis hard to hunt and watch and wait And then discover you're too late. —Black Pussy. Black Pussy was out hunting. Black Pussy dearly loves to hunt. It isn't that she needs food. She doesn't. No cat was ever better fed than Black Pussy. She hunts for the sheer love of hunting. Every day she goes hunt- ing. Sometimes she hunts mice; some- times she hunts birds; sometimes she hunts - squirrels, This morning she was hunting Chipmunks. Yes, sir, she was hunting Chipmunks. She knew that Striped Chipmunk and Mrs. Chip- munk had raised a family. That meant that there were several Chip- munks living along the old stone w-?l. “It ought not to be difficult to catch one of _those young Chipmunks,” thought Black Pussy. “They haven't had time to become as wise as their father and mother. I suppose they can move just as quickly, but an old hunter like me ought to be able to surprise one or two of them.” So Elack Pussy stole along the top of the old stone wall. Every few steps she crouched and looked ahead; and all the time the tip of her tail was moving back and forth, back and forth. Once sne thought she saw a Chipmunk disappear between the stones of the old wall just ahead of her. She moved quickly to that place and there she crouched ready to spring should that Chipmunk come out where it went fh, But, though Black Pussy was very, vgry patient, it was all in vain. Now, as she crouched there, Black Pussy noticed a little black lump on a stone of the old wall only a little dis- tance from her. It looked like & lump of coal. That is, it was as black as a lump of coal. Black Pussy didn't pay any particular attention to it. She merely wondered where that black thing had come from and why she had never seen it before. tered her attention on the place where she thought she had seen a Chipmunk go in. Black Pussy's patience was wasted. No Chipmunk reappeared. Finally Black Pussy got to her feet and began to move along the top of the old wall. She moved stealthily, as is the way of a cat, but she saw nothing to interest her especially. Just ahead of her was the little black lum on one of the stones of the old Wllr. It was right where Black Pussy had first poticed it. She paid no particular attention to it. She was within easy jumping distance of it when that little black Jump suddenly came to life and something black disappeared down in the old wall. Just too late Black Pussy realized that something alive had feoled her; but what it was she didn't know. Now, Impy, the black Chipmunk—for, of course, it was Imp—had seen Black Pussy all the time. He had sat there perfectly still, pretending to be a black stone or a piece of coal. All the time he was learning. He was Atudy!.ns Black Pussy. Striped Chipmunk hax warned him about her, So he had known who she was as soon as he saw her. Now he knew how she hunted. “I've fooled her,” chuckled Impy. “She was hunting for a Chipmunk, all right, but she didn't know this one when she saw it. I've learned one thing anyway.” “What is that?". asked his father, Striped Chipmunk. Impy chuckled again. “I've ldarned,” said he, “that the most foolish thing a Chipmunk can do, when he knows an enemy has seen him, is to put his head out of the same hole that he goes into. 1 dare say that Black Pussy is watch- ing for me right now and, if I should poke my head out where I came in, she would catch me.” “Right!” sald Striped Chipmunk &p- provingly. “Quite right, my son. You are learning fast. Now we'll go see what; Black Pussy is doing.” Apple Turnovers. Cut some apples in slices. Place on one-half & round of pastry. Season with butter, cinnamon and sugar. Dampen one edge of the pastry antl bring the other edge over it. Press the two firmly, about half an inch deep, with a tommt the juice will not ooze out. the crust so that the steam can escape .and bake in a hot cven, Then she cen- | FEATUR ES. MILADY BEAUTIFUL BY LOIS LEEDS. Queries of a Sophomore. Dear Miss Leeds: This is my third letter to you, but the others must have hit the waste basket. (1) I am 5 feet 4 inches tall and weigh 107 pounds and will be 17 soon. My measurements are as follows: Neck, 12%; bust, 31; waist, 25 hips, 35%; thighs, 18; calf, 1215; ankle, 8. Are these ln{:here near correct? ~(2) I have grayish green eyes, light- brown hair and a fair complexion. ‘What colors suit my type? (3) I usually get quite tanned during the Summer, Does this grow hair? (4) Occasionally my forehead breaks out. After squeezing out the black- seem to help. cleansing cream? little, but I any more. I drink from six to eight glasses of milk each day. 'l'hinkln} you for any advice you may give me, I still remain, A SOPHOMORE. Answer—So sorry about those other letters. Perhaps you missed seeing your answer, or possibly some one else asked a similar query and I had to let one answer suffice for you both. I have to do that very, very often, you know, as there just isn't space for every letter. Everyday Psychology BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. You may have noticed that parents usually. find fewer faults with the con- duct of their own children than they do with the conduct of the children next door, especially when such questions become a matter of public inquiry. You may have noticed also that a parent can find good reasons why his or her child doesn’t do so well in school as _the child that lives next door. If you haven't noticed these attitudes, ask the school teacher. She will tell you the facts, although she may not tell y. “whys” of these indulgent parental attitudes are very natural. The explanation isn't far to seek. Parents regard their children " as miniatures of themselves. You it as well ask them to find fault with themselves as with their children. That's something you can hardly expect of any one. of which means that parental attitudes are subjective. The attitudes which non-parents (Le., the neighbors, teachers, etc.) have to- ward children are of a very different character. They are objective. Con- sequently non-parents submit very different appraisals of conduct or achievement. Parental attitudes, it has been found, are sometimes detrimental to children. Over-indulgence has ruined many a per- an;lexlzyl."mler parents, n:y least, would pi children by trying now and then to take an objective attitude. SNAKEBITE CURE In bygone docs would admit the safest cure was old booze, when rattlesnakes reared up and bit the voter just above his shoes. And so in countless homes there stood a bottle, to the muzzle filled with dark red bit- ters aged in wood, that no one need by snakes be killed. The dread of serpents dam's Jaiv: o people.sipped. the Old am’s fall; so people e Stone Fence, to guard against the beasts that crawl. Preventive measures were the rage, and people drank in divers ways until they woke up in cage, and then drew ten or twenty days. Red liquor's merit none denled, the serpents’ venom to abate, and now and then a voter died because he got the cure too late. So it was wise to keep on hand an eld brown jug, or maybe two; this was the doctrine of the land, and learned physicians held it true. No man could say when he might meet an anaconda in the and then his ruin was complete, unless he had a quart or so. And then some scientists cut loose, and tore this doctrine al apart, and took away the last excuse for buying bitters in the mart. A snake comes up and bites your limb while you are resung in the shade, and you rush off, with frantic vim, to where the old brown jug is laid. And every eager drink you take but brings you nearer to the tomb; it doesn’t help you or the snake, it merely serves to seal your doom. And now the last excuse is gone—the one tm“ ‘worked lnd GIE, h"x{ yore—you_can't e that stands behl.ndxpfil::n cellar door. WALT MASON. ABE MARTIN SAYS ‘The bi it real news item fer July wuz an tor dyin’ in bed. Wel n’t know of a finer place for a nice 14-year-old boy than up in a tree. (Copyright, 1930.) MODEST | tion and press out the ri But I do try hard to take up problem, and when & great many Teaders have the same one (which hap- pens often) I just have to let one -nng apply to all. Now for your ue questions: (1) You are 14 pounds under weight. Your measurements indicate that you are fairly well prommoned, but many of them indicate also that you are un- der weight. A normal bust measure for you would be about 34 inches and your thighs and calves could each stand at least another inch. Try to get yosr extra pounds through careful diet and plenty of sleep. Of course, there are many girls of your age who are not fully grown and quite likely you belong in this group and the needed weight will come gradually as you, develop. (2) You evidently belong to the ashen blond type and can wear reseda and peach color to especially good ad- vantage. Other becoming colors are dull brick, rust, dark green, bronze, tans and cream. As your complexion is fair you may also use purples, pink and palest yellow and dark blues or black with bright trimming, or black trimmed with cream or ecru. (4) Before squeezing out the black- oul ac heads with a baric acid_solu- ones. Bathe again in fresh boric acld, dry and pat on an acne lotion or cream. A simple cream for this pu may be made of one ounce lanolin, one ounce bensvi- nated lard, one-quarter ounce precipi- tated sulphur. Leave this salve on overnight. Cleansing cream will not grow hair, and if your skin in inclined to be dry it is a good plan to use it occasionslly. But do not neglect the soap and warm water clnnnng. ‘The milk should help you put on weight. But do not neglect other articles of food—plenty of vegetables, fresh fruits, etc. With your vegetables use butter or cream gravies. Taking some cookies or crackers with a glass- ful of milk in the middle of the after- noon or between breakfast and luncheon is a splendid way to capture a few extra 3 LOIS LEEDS. (Copyright, 1930.) THE STAR’S DAILY PATTERN Shirring and Wa: Here's. & most charming model for growing daughter. It is girlish and &r:‘ny and sophisticated at the same e. It adapts itself beautifully to all the lovely sheer cotton fabrics. " In the il of self-material appears at the center- front and at center-back and ties in bow. The dainty ruffied collar and cuffs are finished with picot edge. The fullness in the skirt and in the front bodice is concentrated at either side throu the shirring. If preferred, smocl may be used. Style No. 722 can be had in sizes 6, 8, 10, 12 and 14 years, Prench blue dimity with tiny whits dots with white organdie collar, cuffs and tie sash is very effective. Yellow and white batiste print, pale blue and white dotted swiss, orchid organdie and nilé green and white checked volle are darling suggestions. For a pattern of this style send 15 cents in lf.lmg or coin directly to The Washington Star's New York Fashion Bureau, Fifth avenue and Twenty- ninth street, New York. ‘We suggest that when you send for this pattern you inclose 10 cents addi- 1 for a copy of our large Fashion Magazine. MAIDENS