Evening Star Newspaper, September 18, 1930, Page 47

EVENING STAR WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, SE PTEMBER 18, 1930. FEATURES. D:§_ Exercise for Fall School Days BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. Adults who return from a Summer's, Wacation at toe seashore, mountains or | they may be obliged to go to some civic ecuntry find themselves relwsheflclnd playgrounds or be taken to the nearest hil- dren come back with vigorous energy and find it irksome to settle down to the sedentary school life that is their por- It requires planning on the part| means always convenient. However, for| ©f parents to see that the children get|the continued good health of her off-| ready for the tasks of Winter. tion. IN THE CITY HAVE TO ACCOMPANY A CHILD TO SOME PARK PLAYGROUND. enough active play to balance their school and study hours of quiet sitting. And it also requires patience of adults to cope with the natural restlessness of the youngsters. Too abrupt cessation from the former continual out-of-doors sports will not only make children irritable because of pent-up energy, but the sudden reaction ay result in actual physical illness. Uniess this appreciated the children suffer both nervously and physically. The little folk enjoy systematic or suburbs. It is the city child needs the most looking after. ball and all sorts of active games. gelf, etc., tempt them outdoors. My Neighbor Says: ‘When frying doughnuts have a dish of boiling water on the stove beside your kettle of fat, and as you take the doughnuts out of the fat immerse them quickly in the water. They will not be greasy. Do not use darning stitches when the heels of your stockings become thin. Use a spool of silk and make parallel lines of chain stitches. This matches the mesh so well it can scarcely be de- tected. When making marmalade, grease the preserving pans well with butter and the marmalade will never burn; also skim well. This makes the preserve beauti- fully clear. GOOD MORNING, MRS. GREEN. GOING SHOPPING? NEXT WASHDAY I'M GLAD YOU STOPPED IN. JUST LOOK AT THIS SNOWY WASH. YOU WERE RIGHT ABOUT RINSO LAST WEEK Millions use Rin WHO REMEMBERS? BY DICK MANSFIELD. Registered U. 8. Patent Office. In a large city, if children are ll‘nlll.’ {park or green to run and jump and vent their stored-up energy. Often this means_that the mother has to accom- pany her little ones, which is by no YU RINT GoT. " RED SPIDER spring she has to plan to be free to| @ it, not occasionally but regularly. | It is worth noting right here that a physician once told me that it was the out-of-docrs hours that mothers had | fo take when trundling their infants in | baby carriages or when accompanying them of necessity in the open air that| kept the mothers in good health. So| when it seems a great bother to take | | the enforced exercise mothers should | remember this, and know they, too, l-\’ti reaping benefits. | T*When stormy weather prevents the| children from playing outdoors it must | I 'be expected that notsy games and some | romping will cause a sort of bedlam at home for & little while after school is | | over, unless there is a gymnasium to | which the young folk can go. If they | | must remain at home, then is the time | | when mothers have to be patient and| | to co-operate with the chiléren in their | | games Tather than to object to the| imperative need for some sort of indoor| games that will take the place of out-| | door exercise. { When we fished tobacco tags, with the aid of a magnet, from the sidewalk (Copyright, gratings? NATURE IN AUTUMN BY D. C. PEATTIE 1930 though I have seen fields of it in the | Middle West. Very frequent is the striped gentian, which is greenish white | striped with purple, a flower more pe- | culiar than pretty. | To the American mind. gentians mean | Autumn days and fine Autumn weather. | t was a shock to me when I saw gen-| ians in July on the Alps. I found | elght varieties in as many minutes. | My books showed me pages of pictures of the Alpine gentians, a great host of | them. There is another center of gentian | population on the H'malayas, another | |in the Rockics, another in the Andes, and still another in Japan. At first I was humbled by the boasts of distant Ants and Crickets. §PERHAP5 it is the merest fancy, but it always seems to me that the | ancient and industrious order of ants | works itself into a fury of activity in Autumn. Perhaps they really do lay up treasure for themselves as ‘Wint comes upon them. ‘Perhaps, in fact, they make righteous remarks to the crickets that spent their time in danc- | |ing. But I have always felt that there | | was something untrue and mean in the | table of the cricket and the ant; untrue | because the cricket, as & species, seems {to be just as numerous and chipper next year as the ants; mean, because it A MOTHER MAY |and clever tribe of the Hymenop'era parents have to see that their outdoor activities. These are easy to have when | families live in small towns, in villages who | In the semi-country of small places groups of ehildren naturally get together after|law is not behind it. school hours and play various gnme}ol or older children sports, such as tenn's, 4 hes a bad lesson — that when we have money and goods we should sneer those who have not. | As between an ant and a cricket, give me a cricket any day. The cricket is |a singer, & poet, an artist, and he | brings good luck. Nobody ever drew | much delight from an ant, that I have |ever heard of, and ants are clever housebreakers and thieves. Even the bees fear him. When ants decide to steal honey they send an | army to raid the hives. The bees fight | back ferociously, and, if the first ant army is defeated, another and larger is | | dispatched. If the ants have suf- | Aicient, reserves, so bee men claim, they | will always win in the end. | These are arraignments of that fierce lands. Eastern United States cannot | match anything like that. Few regions | have more than six kinds. But, after | a little reflection, I saw nothing to ashamed of Though our species are few in number, they are exceeding fair, and I love them for their guiet, mys- | terious way of blooming in the Autumn | of the year. Arrival for Winter. You will awake one of these Autumn | mornings to the sound of a long, sweet, nostalgic whistle blowing from the fields where the sunburnt grass lies mellow- ing and yellowing and sweet-smelling. I heard it because I was listening, in the early morning, for a bird of quite | another sort—the first morning call- | notes of my newest son, who is now at | the babbling stage that begins at 5 in | the morning. On this particular morn- | ing he slept later, and so I heard the | white-throat sing, and there same flooding back to my mind the sweetness of Spring rains and all the vanished flowers. The white throat seems with his call to be saying farewell, a long farewell | to all of Summer. But, in sober truth, he is not on the point of winging his way Southward to tropic climes as I once supposed in the brave days when | I was 21 and wrote bad poetry and melancholy odes. He has just come down here from Canada, is preparing to settle in for the Winter and pass the time as merrily as may be, as one of our Winter resident birds. I might almost say that he intends to pass himself off as an Arctic bird. He has the same quick, gray little body, the same meager habits of eating and resting, and he is often seen in com- pany with chicadees, juncoes, horned larks and Lapland longspurs. You will know him by the white throat band and the yellow line above each eye. known as ants. In spite of the damage I have just done to their reputation, I | secretly ‘admire them. | While the butterfiies have received | attention’ from amateur naturalists, the ants have had more eminent profes- | sional scientists devoted to_chronicling | their ways than all the other families |of insects. No one can watch ants in procession without becoming philosoph- |ical about them. Arisiotle, and many | biblical figures, noticed their clever |ways. Modern writers have shown | that the organization of ant soclety is | elaborate beyond all dreams. Protection of Gentians. The Wild Flower Protection Society | extends, 1 am happy to say, its benevo- | lent mantle over the Autumn queens, the gentians, It is, so far as I know, nothing but ‘a moral protection. { Experience will lconv\nce some of us, at least, that a | moral protection is the best protection. | The man who does not steal because | he thinks it is wrong inspires more con- | fidence than the man who does not | steal because a policeman is, watching | him. Policemen do not stand guard and Americans who have lived so long | in Paris that they really know the life there—not the boulevard and cafe exist- ence which is supported by out-of-town ally, almost always, this is in black; for | in Prance the best dressed women wear black. smart, and is extremely practical. she takes the dress to some clever and| cheap little sewing woman and has it| It is astonishing what a melodious voice is bottled up in such'an incon- | spicuous bird. His piercing sweetness | of song is the equal, for the minute it | lasts, of the nightingale’s most emotional | and transcendent notes. Like tht‘ nightingale, which I have often heard | in May in Provence, he seems to take | a long breath and then spin out his | notes in an effort to stab through the | very heart of the listener. But the | nightingale's note, in just the same register and with the same tim- | ber, as singers would say, goes up white throat's song descends, also in | | over gentians. Only in & few spots, like | the Yosemite National Park, Smugglers’ | Notch _in Vermont and Royal Palm State Park in Florida, is there an eye |on rare wildfiowers, and -lawbreakers have been prosecuted in those places. The necessity for protecting gentians is not thelr rarity, for really there is | nothing glrflcuhr)y rare about most | of them, but the fact that their beauty ‘ invites persecution. There are no fring- ed gentians in the neighborhood of Washington, which seems surprising, and I have often wondered if they were | ‘oncz present and have been'picked to death. | “We nave the bottie gentians, which |is a deep and vivid blue, and the even | | darker, closed gentian, one of ‘the most | | secretive and mysterious flowers in the | the anclent Greeks more world, With us it is extremely rare, ' years ago. Lanolin, made from the wool ‘of sheep, was the favorite ofntment of | than 2,000 | bkl o S —am——————————— NO, I'M GOING TO SEE THE MAN WHO SOLD ME MY WASHER, IT WORKS FINE...BUT ! CAN'T GET THE CLOTHES WHITE ENOUGH | KNOW WHAT HE'LL TELL YOU. CHANGE TO RINSO, THE GRANULATED SOAP YES...THOSE WASHING MACHINE DEALERS KNOW WHAT THEY'RE DOING WHEN THEY RECOMMEND RINSO American Hpex Deanty Automatic arton gf""" ackston Boss " s Coffield gon!nn rystal Decker Dexter Marvelol,, for t dirt—gaye, Millio, THE GRANULATED SOAP & Thurs. 10:30 |and gloves. Select-A . One Minute Prima *ub washing, too s scrubbing., a)ase Ri':.'o ‘oClorhe: last IN on Rz-.m Talkies,“What Hq M.. (Standard Time) Station WR( in tub, washer and dishPa" DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX Innate Love for Children Necessary in Step- mother. [DEAR MISS DIX—I am engaged to a widower with three small children, but ‘my friend is tiving to discourage me from marrying him. What qualities must & woman have to be a good stepmother?. Can she be happy herself? s it an impossible undertaking? I love this man dearly. PERPLEXED. Answer.—No men are more attractive or make better husbands than widow- ers, and one without children is a capital prize in the matrimonial Jottery. But 2 widower with children is quite somethig else, and to marry one With three small olive branches is nothing short of gambling with fate. Still, while it is a hazardous adventure, it ic not necessarily bound to end in disaster, and it has a sporting chance of turning out a great success. For sometimes & woman gets not only the love of her husband, but an affection and a gratitude from her stepchildren that makes her rich, indeed. Only today a letter came from another correspondent, who signs hersell “Happy Stepmother” and who tells about marrying a man with three small sons who had been neglected and untrained until they were regular hellions, For & year or two these boys made their stepmother’s life a Jove and patience and wisdom in dealing with them she won their hearts and they camo to feel that she was a real mother to them. Now they are grown, prosperous and successful men, and they are mever weary of recounting how much they owe to her and lavishing upon her tokens of their appreciation of all she did for them. “No real sons of my blood could be nearer to me than they are,” she says. So you see stepmotherhood, like everything else, gives you back what you put into it, and if you marry this man with the three little children and treat them as though they were your own children, I have no doubt that they will love you just as much as your own children would, and that you and your husband and they will all be happy. Look about you at the people who have adopted children. than real mothers are of their own children? Nor can you see any difference in the attitude of adopted children toward their foster parents other than chil- | dren show to their real fathers and mothers. You ask what qualities go to the making of a good stepmother. I should say first a_maternal instinct. If you do not love children, if you do not under- stand children and sympathize with them, for your own sake and the poor little children’s sake, don't marry a widower with a readymade family. When God sends a woman children of her own almost always the baby bears in his hand the mysterious gift of mother love that makes the mother see ineffable beauty in the little red, wrinkled face on her breast and that trans- forms ell of its faults into virtues so that she hears music in its squalls and sees indications of genius in its mischief. But the stepmother has no such instinctive love for her stepchildren, and unless she has a mother heart that is big enough to take in all poor, little, help- less, forlorn children, she will find the role of stepmother a trying one. The children’s noise will get upon her nerves. Their naughtiness will exasperate her. Their prattle will bore her. She will make mountains out of molehills of their faults and she will resent the time and attention that she has to give them, And no matter how much she tries to do her duty, she will be a cruel step- mother. because she will deprive the children of the love that is their due and she will make them timid little suppressed creatures who will grow up into | warped men and women. The next quality that a good stepmother should have is lack of jealousy. The most frequent sin of stepmothers is jealousy. They resent the children that are continual reminders to them that their husbands have loved other women and had lives in which they had no part, and most of all they resent their husbands loving these children of their first marriage, #Every mother is delighted when her husband is a good father and she likes nothing better than to see him pet and caress and make much of her children, but it takes an exceptionally broad-minded and generous woman not to grow g;;:xedn eyed when she sees her husband lavishing affection or money on his first children. So, after all, the test of whether you should marry this widower or not is simple. Examine your own heart and determine whether you have a maternal complex or not and whether you are of a jealous temperament or not. If you can't endure to think of your husband’s first wife, don't mari 1t is an awful responsibility to take the life and happiness of little children’s lives into your hands. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1930.) BEAUTY CHATS planned, so everything harmonizes, even Things You Can Do. | bty S s | jewelry. e end of the season she Here are some hints which you may | starts over again with everything fresh. find practical. I found them so some |That's her way of achieving variety. time ago. They have saved me a great deal of money, and yet made me look | Mrs: J. 8—If you send a self-ad- as though 1 spent more on myself than | dressed, stamped envelope with your re- ever before. | quest, you will always receive a mailed I learned them from French women |reply. Your formula appears to be & cleansing lotion for the skin that would |be a convenience to use on trains or | motors when regular bathing is not | always possible. In making one pint, make it half and half of the witch- hazel and the rose-water, and add & scant teaspoonful of the boracic actd powder. ~The _witchhazel ~makes the mixture somewhat astringent, while the rest‘of it is both cleansing and sooth- ing. Apply it to the skin by using small wads of absorbent cotton. SRR B e Lord Stonehaven, the retiring gover- nor general of Australia, whose salary has been $50,000 a year, said at a fare- well luncheon at Canberra that his first question when offered the office was “Can I afford it?" BY EDNA KENT FORBES visitors. ‘The really well dressed woman goes twice a year, Spring and Fall, to some really good dressmaker or dressmaking| establishment, and buys one complete outfit—a dress with a coat to wear over it usually and a hat to match. Usu- 1t looks well in Paris, is always Then | copled in another color—something to wear under her black coat—and buys & cheaper hat to match. She buys one| good evening dress, and has her little | sewing woman make her another in & black—something simple for family din- ners, plain enough to go under that use- ful black coat. At some shop or other she buys a simple country suit, of tweed | perhaps, and a couple of blouses. Prob-| ably her sewing woman can make a nice evening jacket from some left-over fur and a bit of lovely silk or velvet. That's all she needs, except shoes, stockings Of course, every woman has a sewing girl who makes her under- things cheaply and uses old evening frocks to make lovely negliges. Two _expensive outfits, two cheaper ones. No wardrobe hung full of dresses that are worn only a few times before the season ends! Each outfit carefully WELL, I'LL ASK HIM ANYWAY. | WANT TO BE SURE Princess NSIGHTLY finger gourex oto-V, Sty Speed Queen nnysuds riplex niversal 0ss Whitldry Whir] Woodm: o Zenith U Speed CLEANSERS scratch r safety, for ppened to Jane™, e burden to bear, but through | Is it not true that they are generally more foolishly fond of them | him. | smudges on doors and wood- work look awful. Yet you see them in many, many homes. WHY? Be- cause lots of women DON'T KNOW the RIGHT way to clean. Expensive CHIPS and FLAKES won’t move that dirty dirt. 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