Evening Star Newspaper, September 12, 1930, Page 39

WOMAN'’S PAGE. Character and Belief in Signs BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. A belief in signs is in itself an indi- eation that a person has a tendency that should be thrust from one’s | People who repeat to others | bled | memory. toward superstition. This belief comes | signs that will form recurrent ideas of with years. It is lacking in children. “Therefore, parents should beware of in- | misfortune do actual harm. They in- | something evil or some misfortune that 18 foretold by an occurrence that in | |itself is nothing at all unusual nor | foreboding. In speaking of superstitions that are { precautionary, the one about not walk- | ing under A ledder is excellent. It is built upon & sound foundation. A per- son walking underneath & ladder may carelessly jar it and make the person | |standing on it fall. Also there is the possibility that the one on the ladder may drop some article or tool which, of | necessity, according to the laws of | gravitation, would fall in a straight line {to_strike the ground. { If some one were walking beneath the ladder he would get hit. In both of these instances the misfortune would happen and it would happen immedi- ately. Unless the one on the ladder | was knocked down or some tool fell on | & person beneath, no ill could result, | Nevertheless, because of a possibility of such trouble is is wise to avold walk- ing beneath a ladder. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, NANCY PAGE Cucumbers Make Many Varieties of Pickles. BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. spiced pickles of all sorts. Nnnn{ to hunt up alf the recipes she could try them to get something new especially She used this sandwich pickle. It was equally Peter Page was English. That meant stil] into another’s mind the thought of : he was extremely fond of relishes and recipe for a cucumber H”TM. ope for the Uply Girl? Doro used and and good DESPAIRING young woman asks: “Can a girl make herself over? girl who is plain of face, who is too fat, who lacks personality, who has no accomplishments, who has no tact and who always says and does the wrong thing, submit to her fate, or can she do something to take the curse off herself?” | Cease to mourn as one without hope, daughter, for no woman in this day need remain as homely as nature made her. unless she lacks the brains and energy and determination to circumvent the stingy old jade who held out on her when pulchritude was being passed around. Finds Charm Can Be Acquired thyDix| “No Woman in This Day Need Remain as Homely | As Nature Made Her Unless She ILacks Brains, Energy and Determination.” g Of course, it is great luck to be born with a peaches-and-¢ream ¢omplexion and golden tresses that curl in ringlets about your alabaster brow and with a slim and lissome figure, but if you did not get that kind of & break it s a comfort to know that you haven't lost out entirely and that you don’t have to go | through life with a saleratus-biscuit complexion and stringy locks and looking as Jumpy as & bundle that mother tied up. If you are an ugly duckling, daughter, first acquire the art of make-up. | Learn to use cosmetics so that they will camoufls Must a your defects instead of | D. C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1930. SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. calling attention to them. Apply rouge with discretion so that it will simulate | the bloom of roses on your cheeks and not look as if you had been painting a may take liberties with freak bobs, | barn door., Learn how to comb your hair, and remember that while the beauty Oh, Baby, please come out. Brother | bad to you no more! | FEATURES, Impy Runs Away. Qccasions come when there can be No stigma on the ones who fiee —Impy the Ohipmunk. “I guess I'm the unhappiest chip- munk that ever lived,” moaned Impy as he lay in his bed and nursed his| wounds and thought of his first fight | and how he had lost it. “I feel as if I never want to see any one that I| know,” he continued. “I want to go 'way off where nobody knows me and I don't know anybody. Oh, dear! Oh, dear!” The next day Impy felt a little beg- ter. Still, he was very far from happy. For a long time he sat very close to his doorway. He had no appetite. The sun was shining brightly, and usually Impy rejoices in bright sunlight. It warmed him, but it didn't make him happy. After quite a while he ventured | to go look for something to eat. He | was very stiff and lame; also he was very nervous. Every unexpected little sound made him start. Constantly he was looking over first one shoulder, then the other. As a matter of fact, | Impy really was afraid. He was afraid that that stranger with whom he had fought might appear again. He wanted to see little Miss Frisky: BEDTIME STORIES By Thornton W. Burgess. enough. It was thé stranger with whom he had fought the day before. The stranger didn't see Impy, and Impy was glad. Very quietly, carefully, 80 as to make no sound whatever, Impy began to steal away. Presently he be- gan to run. Nervously he looked be- hind him. The stranger wasn't com- ing. Impy ran and ran and ran. He didn’t pay any attention to where he was going. He had but one thought— and that was to get away from the neighborhood of that big, strong, fierce chipmunk. All the time he was running away Impy was feeling more and more ashamed. He didn't want to run away. | He wasn’t running because he was & coward; he was running because he knew that to stay would be worse than useless. He knew that in another fight he might be killed. So he didn't want to fight. All he wanted now was to live in peace. Never had he ached so in all his life; never had he been so stiff and lame and sore. But all this was nothing to the soreness of his heart. He wanted little Miss Frisky, | the prettiest little chipmunk in all the | great world. At least that is what Impy thought. And he had lost her because he had lost that fight. & homely gir] can't afford to take any WOD't neber be It 18 well for a person to analyze | | superstitions and realize the cause for | their development before swayed to a | belief in them. Then avoidance of trouble by heeding the warnings that {they give is sound good sense. Faith {in the superstition is then replaced by | knowledge that danger may result by risk with the bizarre. Berry well, then, they aren't nuffin’ | left fer me to do but go away an’ let ‘Then buy yourself the best clothes you can possibly afford, for fine feathers the grigley bears eat me up. Good-by, Baby! (Oopyright, with cold meats. First she sliced and measured two quarts cucumbers. She did not peel them, but cut off ends. She sliced two onions, dissolved one-half | make fine birds. Study your style and get the things that flatter you, and if you cup salt in four quarts water and let | have the slightest doubt about your taste, go to some good dressmaker or to the | the cucumbers and onions stand in this | head saleswoman in & style shop and throw yourself on her mercy and let her for three hours. She measured one|dress you. Nobody ever thinks of a well dressed woman &8 ugly. They never quart cider vinegar, added two cupfuls | distinguish between her and her chiffons. yet he didn't want to see her. He felt that in her eyes he was disgraced. He tried not to think of her, but he couldn’t help thinking of her. “She v even look at me now,” thought “Probably she's gone off with that stranger. Oh, dear! Whatever did he come around here for? Some day, when After a while Impy found that he 1930.) RNSE CGOVERNS TTHE SUFER: | STITION ABOUT WALKING UN: DER & LADDER. uflcltl.:' superstitious ideas into the theads mu:e folk, unless the supersti- tions are helpful. It should be remem- bered that there are numerous sign notions that have developed to e the mind react to a proper balance, to gudmeflm caution and to prevent fool- Not superstitions are false no- tions. It is the belief in those that | make a person apprehensive and trou- | Everyday Psychology BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. The Criminal Mind. ‘When things go wrong society begins to take an interest in “whys” Just now the Government is trying to find out why crime and eriminals are mul- ) . pm‘experts are set to work and, of truth abouf ) some= where in the domain of psychology. hiefly there. as they are able to ideas. ‘That's the story that psychology eventually will tell. It is conceivable that the most law- abiding citizen can have the same ideas as the man who commits crime. No one has a monopoly on ideas as such, No one knows who thinks what. At the same time, one’s mind is known only in terms of what one does. And what one does is surely nothing mon’dor less than one's ideas trans- formed into aéts. The thing that makes a criminal mind out of a non-criminal mind 1 a loss Most. _criminals, while serving {helr time, are planning another ~crime. Modern penitentiaries seem not to be able to teach men to control their ideas. 80 the so-called criminal mind lives on. MOTHERS!™ | no_allowances are given. going against a warning put in terse form. A blind belief in superstitions is not only unwise, but unreasonable, and therefore tends to lesson the power and force of a person's character. Your Baby and Mine BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED. Indisputable evidence of authorities that allowances prevent dishonesty, teach the child thrift and economy and give him a necessary education in in- | dependence outweighs whatever con- vinelng ‘arguments parents may mar- shal for failure to give thelr children & money allowance. ‘That demands proof, does it not? The proof lies largely in what happens when ere 15 a type of parent who says, “Wait until the child can earn his own money,” while thrusting him daily into an environment (not like that of his own childhood) where money s an absolute necessity. There is another type who hands out coins in niggardly or generous amounts s the whim strikes him, thus engender- ing no respeet for money, and then wonders why the child filches small coins from the family purse at any op- portunity. If the child spends his money as if the supply were endless, or steals coins from his parents, certainly he has, by their methods, built up an erroneous conception of money. This will change when he is given regularly a definite amount of money, which he must learn to manage in order to enjoy. The time for such an allowance ar- rives with school days. Then once, ot better twice, weekly the child should have & stated number of pennies for his own small pocketbook. At first, as is to be exfiefl!d, it will be spent foolishly, but when it is all gone and mother takes care that her own pocketbook can offer no temptation to the small child he will learn to hang on t6 his money so that he may spend it when the desire is strongest, not just because he has it. The size of the allowance grows with the child and is relative to his needs at the monient. Never provide such a small allowance that it assumes an ex- ‘aggerated importance becausé of its in- adequacy, nor 80 large that the child does nhot realize its importance. One is as bad as the other. Children learn by doing, a fact which arents can, with benefit, always keep mind. To spend money wisely they must learn by the usual method of mak- ing their own mistakes and profiting by them. If the parent hands out 25 cents and says: “Ten goes to the Sunda; school, ten to your echool nvm%s an five to your home bank,” the child is given only the experience of seeking his money forever divided up without his approval. He hasn't learned one thing about the management of money. 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She could have made dill pickles at home, but why should she bother, said she, When | they were so good and so inexpensive in_the shops? She took eight dill pickles and drained | them well and cut them in halves into slices crosswise, Then she measured one pound of | sugar, three-quarters cupful vinegar and | two tablespoonsful mixed spices. She tied spices in bag, bolled sugar and vinegar with spices, added pickies, boiled for two minutes. ‘Then she took out spice bag and packed slices in clean jars. The jars were sealed and kept | against the day of need. Nancy page h Write to he & stamped, sel for her leaflet o1 Co) LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. | Us fellows was around in the alley | and all of a sudden Skinny Martin started to jump around fancy like & boxer, saying, I can lick anybody here. Nobody there saying he couldent. Wich he could, and he kepp on jump- ing around making fists, saying, Come on and prove it, any guy that dont bleeve it, I can liek anybody here. < Wich just then somebody sed, Im ere. Being a tuff looking guy in a big red swetter standing there with a little kid in & little red swetter looking like his brother, and Skinny Martin looked at him without saying anything and | the tuff looking kid sed, Well, Im here. Well what of it? Skinny sed trying | to sound tuff himself, and the guy sed, Lick me. ‘Why should I? Skinny sed, and the guy sed, Hay Spuds, did this guy say }}:e could lick anybody here, or dident e? Sure he did, the little kid sed, and Skinny Martin sed, I was ony refer- ring to my friends. * Well Im your frend, the tuff guy sed, | and SKinny sed, No you aint, I dont even knhow you. Interduce him to me, Spuds, the guy sed, and the little kid sed to Skinny, | I interduce you to PFreckles Gallager, how are you? Now you know me and Im your frend, lick me, the guy sed. And he started to make fists himself, and Skinny sed, No sir, nuthing doing, 1 know who I| lengthwise, Sometimes she cut them |! ‘Then start out with as much determination to acquire a nifty line of accomplishments as and tennis. Especln“y acquire almost bridge player. Tact also is a virtue that can be acquired. one-half teaspoonful turmeric, stirred | before you speak or act and consider whether you would like to have that par- | Belleve me, the golden tule holds in conversa- ticular thing said or done to you. tion as well a8 it does in ethics. You can make yourself interesting. conversationalist, for the ou would a college education Learn to play games, golf professional skill as & dancer and a It is only necessary to think Perhaps you can never be a brilliant &ift of gab i8 bestowed only by the high gods, but you make because she bought dill pickles can become an intelligent listener, and nothing will make you I:orexwuqht after in society than that, for talkers are many and listeners are few and hard to come_upon. Finally, you can add repertoire of charms, and when you do face of any iled, self-centered beauty. And remember for €00d nature and an interest in other people to your that you can snap your fingers in the your comfort that a fascinating homely woman is the most fascinating woman on earth. DOROTHY DIX. A Sermon for Today BY REV. JOHN R. G’U “Then the king made Daniel a great man."-—Dan,, 11.48. The text says the king made Daniel | & great man; but that is only stating effect for cause. Danlel was already | great; the high position to which the king exalted him was but & recognition of his greatness. Not all who occupy great stations can | be called great men. What, theh, makes | a man great? Here are & few answers | t are worth considering: “A solemin and religious regard to | spiritual and etérnal things is an indis. pensable element of all true grea ness.”-—Daniel Webster. “There whs never yet a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.'—Benjamin Franklin. “A contemplation of God's works, & generous concern for the good of man- kind and the unfeigned exercise of mility only dominate men great. ¢ | di ison. 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If we accept these answers, we cannot recognize as truly great any man whose claim to greatness rests merely on power, or wealth, or station. things are valuable only so far as they put it into the hands of men to be more exemplary and more useful than they could be in an obscure and private life. To be truly great, a man must be in- ired and permeated with the ideas of and the Christly spirit; he must have # great, heart, a heart alive with a great affection and generous sympathies; he must be too magnanimous for venge- ance, too unselfish to seek his own ends, too humble to magnify himself or Any height of honor to which he may attain. Nothing can make a man truly great but being truly and truly faithful to lhm responsibilities and opportu- nities. Don't These | SUB ROSA Word to the Wise. “Try to forget me. I'm not worth | |caring for. It would be better for you if you had never met me.” | newspaper quotes from a note | written by a confidence man to a woman who was in love with him. At the time those lines were written she did not know he a confidence man, and the little note did not accom- lish its purpose. She did not belleve e was not worth caring for, and wi probably tenderly touched by his self- depreciation. | If she had known more of human | nature or been wiser in her judgment, | of men the little note would have told her much. It would have warned her ' he was getting tired of her—that there was probably a great deal of truth in | his estimate of himself. “Better to forget me.” from man or | woman, means that love is on the | wane—if it 18 truthfully said. | | wasn't_fafr. No one_who loves wishes to be for- gotten. It is an easy and tattering | way of saying the affair has gone on | | long enough—the one who is tired | wishes to be free. It is sometimes true that a man deeply in love may feel he is not | | entirely worthy of the woman he cares | for. But if & man solemnly says— | when he is sober—that he is not worth | caring for, the chances are largely in | favor of the statement being correct. Normal, well balanced people are | quite sure they are worth caring for. Accept The “Just-As-Good” Insist On I'm a little older and bigger and stronger, I hope I'll meet him again. Then we'll see who'll run away! It No. sir: that fight wasn't fair. He was too big for me.” Just then Impy heard a rustle of leaves. It was very faint: #t was the rustle made by small feet. He looked hastily in the direction from which the sound came. He caught a glimpse of another chipmunk. One glance was | They would suggest otherwise only in the hope of being politely contra- dicted. The erratic, the self-centered, the unstable and the degenerate are fond of that plaint, They do not mind admitting it, because in some strange and subtle manner they are pleased with their own frresponsibility. It seems interesting and romantic to | them. are secretly proud of being, as The; they think, “dangerous.” They are not | sincere and do not wish to be taken serfously. It is the hall-mark of this type that sooner or later they will warn people against themselves. It would save much unhappiness if people would understand their admis- sions to be psychological eonfessions of simple and revealing truths. In the case of the confidence man and his lady love, it would have saved her a jall sentence. In the parlance of the day, you can “get a man’s number” if he tells you not to trust him! If you wish help with your problems, write to the author. (Copyright, 1930.) All sizes, all shades. 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