Evening Star Newspaper, October 11, 1930, Page 12

WOMAN'S PAGE. Scarfs as Parts of Costumes BY MARY MARSHALL. Scarfs are as much in the picture as ever. But they are different from the scarfs that have gone before. They #re not. just scarfs, but an integral part of the costume with which they are worn. One does not wear a scarf just for the sake of wearing one or merely as & matter of course, but because the costume with which it is worn would be_incomplete without. o.e. ‘With many of the new sports dresses and suits there are oblong scarfs of the material—lightweight tweed or wool | Jjersey usually—that are worn closely | drawn around the neck and crossed | the squares, but our copy has bands | of ribbon stitched neatly down by ma- chine, as you see. The two squares | are overlapped at the undecorated cor- | ners _for four or five inches. They are | firmly stitched by machine at these corners. When the scarf is worn these crossed corners arc placed at the back of the neck, the deccrated ends falling like a Jabot at the front. over ascot fashion at the front. Some- times the scarf is of material to match the beret. The scarf ghown in the sketch today comes from Paris, seem to go out of favor, and similar scarfs are to be seen in many of the smart shops in this country. But it would be a simple matter to make one yourself to accompany some dress in | seems to need | your wardrobe that some such accessory. It is made from #™n squares of silk. The original had ends of contrasting color painted on BEDTIME STORIES . News Is Spread.- ‘ou'll always find that common fright ‘Ends anger and desire to fight. —Old Mother Nature. News travels fast through the Green Forest and over the Green Meadows. It wasn't long before all the little people of the Smiling Pool, the Old Orchard and the Old Pasturs, as well as the Green Forest and the Green Meadowss knew that Lightfoot the Deer was in dreadful trouble. First, the news of the great fight between Lightfoot and an- i Vo A o » : '.\\h ! LALI “DON'T BE SILLY. PETER.” SAID HIS COUSIN, JUMPER THE HARE. other Deer had spread. Then, when Sammy Jay discovered that the two fighters could not be separated, but were locked together head to head by their antlers, the news traveled even faster. Every one who could do so went over there to sce it. Even Johnny Chuck started, then decided that it was too far for his short legs. But, of course, Peter Rabbit was there. Somehow, Peter had missed the fight; but he didn’t mind this so much as long as he didn’t miss this stranger sight of the two Deer locked together. MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Grapefruit. Wheat Cereal with Cream. Vegetable Hash. Popovers. Coffee, DINNER. Vegetable Soup. Roast Lamb, Brown Gravy. Delmonico Potatoes. Baked Squash. Fruit Salad Crackers. Cheese, Coffee. SUPPER. Salmon Salad. Potato Chips. Rolls. Washington Pie. VEGETABLE HASH. Melt two tablespoons of fat in a dripping pan, add one chopped onion and cook slowly until yel- lowed: then add two cups diced cooked potatoes, one cup diced cooked carrots, one cup diced cooked beets, one-half cup ground nut meats and pepper and salt to taste. Moisten with milk or gravy and cook until a rich orown crust has formed on the bottom. Olives. Tea FRUIT SALAD. Mix together equal quantitics of peeled and shredded pineapple, celery cut in small pieces and skinned and seeded white grapes: add one-half cup blanched and shredded almonds, moisten with cream salad dressing, place on crisp lettuce leaves and garnish with cherries. Canned pineapple may be used. WASHINGTON PIE. Cake—Two cups flour after being sifted, one cup sugar, one teaspoon soda, WO teaspoons cream tartar, little salt. Sift all together. Break one egg in meas- uring cup, fill with milk, stir well into your mixture. Now add three tablespoons melted butter. Bake about 20 minutes. Pilling—Two cups cold coffee, heat and add two-thirds cup sugar, two teaspoons cornstarch, two teaspoons cocoa, two tea- spoons butter, all well blended with a little cold coffee. Cook in hot coff e until it thickens. This m kes just enough for a good filling and jusi thick enough so it will not run off when turned over | the top of the cake. where scarfs never The night invites a man to s sink in slumber calm and decp, dream such dreams as may arise from a sufficiency of pies. Night was vented as & boon for every labor-wern gossoon, it is the remedy for those op- | | pressed by wearir d woes, it is a balm that beat rugs 3 | were put up in jugs. When nig | rives the wise men < gei a_whi s, the temp- s v go to roost and in the dawn they liave the cots they slumbered on. their uth restored. their pep renewvd, they do not mope or wail or brood, but face-the labors of the day like 3-year-clds, all blithe and gay But there are people not so wise, and when the day of sunshin> dies, they ard tesolved to turn the night inio a | stretch of false delight. They laugh at | the old-fashioned ways of ancient and | ancestral jays; the night is full of noise | and glar th gaudy doings every- where: it is a time for bottld goods in strange and jazzy neighborhoods, and all the hectic brands of fun until the rising of the sun. And who can how tough they feel, as from the j; they reel, to go to bed when should rise, with throbbing heads and bloodshot « He is, indeed, a floolish wight who desecrates the balmy night, who does his lurid revels keep, when he should be curled up asleep. He is unfitted for his work, diseases in his system lurk, he dics nine years be- fore his time, his thoughts upon those nights of erime. The night's a blessing, rich and rare, #8 Yet us to our beds re- | pair and dream long dreams of divers | joys we knew when we were girls and | boys. WALT MASON. | 1930.) | ! ter's sna (Copyright. MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN. Teaching Baby Rhythm. |1t is interesting to note how early in | life babies will notice and smile at sim- | ple tunes. I puf Nancy on my lap and | gently keep time to “Trot, Trot to Bes- | | ton,”” “Pease Porridge Hot” and other | familiar tunes and her little face will | | light up with a smile of recognitien | after a few trials. I am sure she will | have no trouble with rhythm when she | starts to school after having had this simple home training. By Thornton W. Burgess. | Lightfoot and the other eer paid no | attention to the little people looking | on. They had no thought for anything | but their own misery. Much of the | tim= they spent down on their knees, for [ they had used up their strength in | fighting and in struggling. It was a | pitiful sight and there was pity in the eyes of all the onlookers. There seemed | to be nothing that any one could do. Even great, big Buster Bear was help- less in the matter, Strange to say, he | was a little bit afraid. This was also true of Yowler the Bobcat. There was something mysterious about this trouble, and mystery usually awakens fear. | “It's” dreadful!” #aid Peter Rabbit. | t's the most dreadful thing I've ever heard of! Theyll both die! Theyll both starve to death! They cannot eat and they cannot drink. Can’t some- body do something?” “Don’t be silly, Peter!” said his | cousin, Jumper the Hare. “Of course, | nobcdy can do anything. 1 guess it is | one of those things that has to be. I'm sorry for Mrs. Lightfoot, too. See how sorrowful she looks. We certainly will | miss Lightfoot. Without him the Green | Forest will not be the same.” | “Just the same, something ought to be | done about it sald Peter, and sat| | down to scratch a long ear with a long | | hind foot. When that failed to bring him an idea he scratched the other long | | ear with the other long hindfoot. | | “Something’s got to be done about it.” | | he repeated. Then he brightened sud- denly and hopped to his feet. “I've thought of something,” said he. | “What!" demanded Jumper. “I've thought of some one who can help,” replied Peter. “I just know he can help.” Jumper looked at him doubtful “Who do you know who can possibly be of any help at a time like this?” he demanded. “Farmer Brown's Boy,” replied Peter. “If he were here I know he could do something. Yes, sir, I know he could do something.” “Well, he isn't here,” said Jumper. “We've got to get him here,” replied Peter. ‘“Yes, sir, we've got to get him over here. If he once comes over here he'll do something; I know he will. I don't know why I didn't think of Farmer Brown's Boy b2fore. Now, let's sit down and think and think until we can find some way to get Farmer | Brown’s Boy over here.” | | THE . EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, 1); LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. The Weakly News, Weathar: e, SISSIETY PAGE. s Magee broke his glasses y and_had to go around without them for 2 days, looking less intelligent but proberly more naturel, Miss Mary Watkins and Miss @mmly Star are ot speeking to each other | again this week, but they hope to make u before Miss Maud Jonsons berthday party next weck on account of Miss | Jonson having sed she wouldent invite cither of them if they was still mad. POME BY SKINNY MARTIN, Herray for Human Beans. zep, to to But_he ncver Though we're both just 10 years old. INTRISTING FACKS ABOUT INTRISTING PEEPLE. | Reddy Merfy is aloud to drink cawf- | fee for brekfist, saying its not so grate Artie Alixander ‘says he would be a ODES OF THE MOMENT SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1930 Today in Washington History BY DONALD A. CRAIG. . | PETER GOELET GERRY—that tall, October 11, 1814.—The House of ReD~ | © genger quiet and shy man from S s jopted a joint resolu- | , Ry tae e ?f:fi“;',f,‘vvfim"."’m‘r‘:fie purc’xasc of the :Rhode Island—is out for the Uulied library of Thomas Jefferson. This will | States Senate again. form the nucleus of a new Federal library, since the former Library of | Congress was destroyed when the British set fire during the past Summer to the Capitol. ‘When the Federal Government moved to thiseity from Philadelphia in 1800 Congress brought along a number of books, including those which had accu- The Democrats have named him to oppose Senator Jesse H. Metcalf, the Senate’s expert yachtsman, in the November elections. News that Gerry is to run for the PARIS 79 Rouffs ZZ‘ZM&@ coal | doctor like his father if the site of blud | dident malke him nervigs. | Lew Davis cither gets quicker than anybody elts or elts he | goes the longest without washing them, the genrel effect being the same wich- ever it is. LOST AND FOUND. Lost—About 4 munths_ago. a cent with a slite nick in it. Valuable reward if reterned to Shorty Judge. NANCY PAGE Not too Early to Think of Christmas Gifts. BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. The Lacey girls were having a w terful time making Christmas presents, They had a large circle of friends to whom they gave presents. This year the financial situation in the Lacey family was such that the mother told he girls they would have to find some inexpensive gifts if they wanted to re- member all their friends. The girls, especially Claire, the old- est, looked so crestfallen that her mother suggested they try making some presents. “You can sew nicely, Claire. Why don't you try your hand at a guest towel or two? I saw some in*a smart New York shop the other day. They vere about 6 inches by 9 or 10 and called ‘fingertip’ towels. Let’s make some of those” The plan worked, for on Saturday mornings Claire sewed industriously. Mrs. Lacey was amazed, because she thought the | modern girl had no knowledge—and | wanted none—of needle and thread. But Claire’s Saturday mornings became 50 popular that other girls came regu- larly and formed a club—the C. C. C.— Claire’s Christmas Club. Some of the tiny towels were hem- stitched and marked in running stitch with the name of the owner-to-be. Others had the initials in monogram fashion. Appliqued hems cut into scallops at the upper end were used with good effect. Lace set in and used as edging made a more pretentious towel. A dotted linen towel was pro- nounced “too smart for words.” For her mother Claire planned a set of lunch napkins, with plate doilies and runner. These were made of checked toweling, with feather-stitched hems and an intial worked in fine chain stitch In one corner. The toweling comes in a variety of colors and is, of course, washable. ~ Claire was careful to use fast-color embroidery cotton in all her work. Southern Pone. Scald one cupful of milk, add one tablespoonful of shortening, half a tea- spoonful of salt and half a_cupful of granulated Indian meal a little at a tme. Cool slightly, add one beaten egg and half a teaspoonful of baking powder. Turn into a greased pie tin and bake in a moderate over 35 min- utes. Cut into pie-shaped pieces. LEARN BACKGAMMON in 5 minutes a day BY J. VAN CLEFT COOPER. Tacti Backgammon is & race for the home table. The natural thing to do is to rush men along as rapidly as possible This “running game” is attempted when you have escaped quickly from opponent’s inner table and gained the advantage through good throws. Avoid picking up blots. Bring each man home with as few throws as pos- sible Unless your favorable, tr§ to pin opponent’s two | | men in you inner table by a blockade e ————— | SONNYSAYINGS first throws are ver: BY FANNY ¥. CORY. | and progress to your home table My Juvver say sigars is ngl fe boys -#0 smoke—an’ don’s Eben when I s growed up I to smoke ‘em! (Copyright. 1930.) r little w i on't want I | consequently cannot | of six consecutive points, known as a| “side prime.” game.” Considerable risk creating the blockade is justifiable, since once es- tablished he cannot escape until you are forced to break it. Use discretion in hitting biots. More than three en- emies on the bar may prove trouble- some. If you establish this blockade in your inner table your opponent cannot enter, play, while you may play as vou like. This is the “shut-out game” and is very powerful. These three methods of play are known as “forward games” and one of them is usually adopted when the open- ing_tnrows are favorable. The “back game” offers a means of utilizing poor throws to good advan- tage sgainst favorable casts by your opponent Its object is to take up as many hos- lile men as you can and hamper op- ponent’s progress. To do this, keep your men in front of his line of march. Retard your men and expose them to every possible danger, hoping they will be sent home to re-enter. The farther past the enemy they go, the less useful they are, U Keep men on as many different points as possible to increase your chances of catching opponent’s blots and establish and retain the low points in his inner table to pick off unpro- tected homecomers. Gradually shift into a forward game With this game it is difficult, if not impos- sible, for an opponent fo bring a lone | an’ home, even though he may have thrown off every other man. To combat the back game, do noth- | ing that your opponent wishes. Re- fuse to take up his blots. Istablish the points just beyond your bar poirt| and by pinning his men in your ‘inner | table force him to advance his other men to the point where they are pew- erless, You may even adopt a back gamc! ourself and beat him at his own (The End.) & This is the “blocking in is hands derty | dress with black barndshin collar and bands on oversbeeves Shawl collar notched on ny/uf sude an&f Riter DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX EAR DOROTHY DIX—I am 19 years of age and have a position as manager of a shop, but it has not proved successful. Do you think this is due to my poor salesmanship? Is it true that if people do nmot want to buy a thing you cannot force it upon them? Can you give me a few points that will help me to become a successful saleswoman? A DUB SALESWOMAN. b i anymllbrnry or at any book store, and without doubt you can study that with profit. | I know nothing about it except from the buyer’s standpoint, but I can tell | you the sort of salesmanship that makes a hit with me. In the first place, I | think that this high-powered salesmanship of which we hear so much is a boomerang that annihilates the seller. I know that nothing puts my sales | resistance to such an adamantine point as having a salesman try to force me | to buy something that I do not want and probably cannot afford. It is the sellers who dog us to death trying to force their wares upon us that make us feel we wouldn’t buy from them to save their lives and that send | us to other salespeople who give us credit for having enough human intelligence im know what we want. Another mistake in salesmanship is to throw some richer and more socially important person in the buyer’s teeth. It is an insult that makes even a worm of a customer turn to be told that Mrs. Millionbucks bought this or Mr. Croesus | has ordered one of that. Avoid these pitfalls and also refrain from calling your customer “dearie” and thousands of women will rise up and bless your name. For the balance we all like a saleswoman who is businesslike, who waits on us as if that was what she was there for instead of assuming the airs of a languid duchess who really doesn't know how she happened to be behind a counter. Take an interest in your customer. Try to find her what she wants. Try to get her point of view, and if you haven't what she wants try to find something that will be a good substitute. | | And don’t scorn her because she wants to buy something cheap. | are quite & lot of us who can’t wear $10 stockings, you know. ‘There I should say the secret of all salesmanship is putting yourself in the customer’s place and treating her as you would like to be treated. DOROTHY DIX. * K K x D= AR MISS DIX—Should & widow continue to wear her wedding ring? she guided by convention or her own heart in the matter? LONESOME. ’ Answer—It is a matter entirely of personal inclination, but a widow gen- ‘ erally wears her wedding ring as a sort of a badge of achievement, something that indicates that she has been attractive enough to a man for him to admire | her and marry her. Very often flirtatious married women park their wedding rings at home in order to make men think they are voung girls, but even young widows feel that widowhood makes a romantic and alluring background, and so they like to flaunt the ring that proclaims their estate. DOROTHY DIX. ‘Decoration of Narrow Halls | BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. / | AN ATTRACTIVE GLIMPSE FROM AN OPEN' FRONT DOOR INTO A i NARROW HALL., | Decoration of front halls which are the mirror to reflect an uninterrupted long and narrow is something of a|view of the out-of-doors when the problem to many homemakers. In most door is open, immediately creating an of these halls there is no opportunity | impression of space. When the door to ‘treat the length as a vista down |is closed, the high lights on the polish- which to view some fine arrangement [ed brass iend cheer to what might at the end, for a door, probably lcading | otherwise be a dark part of the hall. into the kitchen or a back hall, ter-| A high vase of beautiful color may minates the hallway. | stand before the mirro; The width of the corridor prevents ness be duplicated by its reflection, and decorative settings or furnishings from | continue to brighten the space, even aopearing fo best advantage from any | when the door is shut. If a tall object angle in the hall itself. The staircase |is in the center of the table, low ones takes from the width except for a com- | should be on either side. paratively small area about the front| If a doorway is opposite the entrance, door. Answer—There is a whole literature of salesmanship that you can get ll\ and its bright- | | s excellent Having given the difficulties that are present for the home decorator to cope with, the possibilities for an attrac- tive hall must now be calculated. The first thing to consider is the space about the front door. The immediate glimpse that meets the eye on entering the house should be pleasing. 11 a wall faces the door, a console table, with mirror above, The table should be grace- ful in shape. A card receiver or some low object nnder the mirror and two brass candlesticks on either side are a conservalive ariangement. This leaves l i or so close to it that the wall arrange- ment is not practical, the view into the room supplies the impression of a wider hall than exists. This vista should be carefully studied by the home dec- orator, the best effect attained. The arrangement of the furnishings of the room cannot be manipulated en- tirely with this in view, but only so far as it does not interfere with the attractiveness and convenlence of the room, as living room, library or dining room. One of these three rooms often has an entrance nearly opposite a front door. When the frent deor fazes the length mulated in the form of official archives and others that were purchased in accordance with an act of April 24, 1800. All of these books were placed in a room in the Capitol that was originally designed for the use of the clerk of the Senate and was partly occupled by that official. In this same room also were held the sessions of the Supreme Court of the United States and of the Circuit Court of the District. The books brought from Philadelphia were put in this room, so that it became, in addition to many other things, the Library of Congress. These books re- mained there until the year 1802, when, by direction of the law of January 26 of that year. the room on the west front of the north wing, just vacated by the House of Representatives, was taken over for the use of the Library of Con- gress. The Library of Congress was by that law given its first official status as_an organization. The clerk of the House, John Beckley, was appointed librarian by President Jefferson. More specifically, the library at that time consisted of such books as had been purchased by Congress during the 10 years of its existence up to that time and also 740 books purchased in England in 1801. When a library room, as assigned by the law of 1802, it was directed that “the books or libraries which have hitherto been kept separately by each house shall be removed and set up with those lately purchased.” The first catalogue was published in 1802, Mr. Jefferson was very fond of his books and it almost broke his heart to part with them, even to the Govern- ment. But he was financially pressed in the latter years of his life and the money which ‘the Federal Government paid him for his lifelong collection of books was a great relief to him. Home in Good Tastn BY SARA HILAND, Just what to do with books is also a puzzle to the homefurnisher; and how to make the shelves ‘“elastic” without having them appear bare is not easy either. - ‘The k lover does not buy a suppl: of books and let it go at maypna.pfn{ deed, he is always buying them and also always on the lookout for some attrac- tive way to house them. Of course, built-in bookshelves always have been and probably always will be the most satisfactory method of taking care of a large supply of books; but it sometimes seems that we ought to vary | | | | our style of shelves and make them an important part of the architectural scheme rather than incidental factors. In the {llustration is shown a book- pears with its pilastered sides broken pediment top. The lower por- tion has cupboard doors behind which can be kept magazines or other papers which have especially interesting arti- cles, and the entire exterior is finished the room, the interior being finished in a contrasting shade. (Copyright. Straight Talksto W 1930 Fact to Remember. When times are prosperous most women are buying common stocks for investment purposes. They seem to be | oblivious to the fact that stocks always sell at their peaks at such times. When adverse conditions are being :experlenced most woman | conversely invest only in securities. Again they are ignoring, if they are | not ignorant of, the fact that securities bring their highest prices in such periods. It takes judgment to buy securities when_there is little market for them. It takes courage to buy stocks when time being. We are not suggesting here that one decide arbitrarily to do either one or the other of these two things at all times or particular times. It is sug gested, however, that when formulating an investment policy one would do well to_consider these circumstances. Women in the past have been prone to follow the crowd. They have begun to question the motives, knowledge and judgment of the crowd. They are be- ginning to understand that when there is speculative activity a vast sum of money is withdrawn from high-grade securities for lending purposes. Those securities then become “buys.” For sooner or later speculative activity will either cease of suffer a lull. Punds again will be directed back to the securities. It is then that one may take profit or hold, as she decides. On the other hand, depressed busi- ness conditions slow up and depress the market for stocks. The latter come within a buying range again for the investor. If she is willing and able to wait she can feel reasonably sure of ‘should receive especial attention. Sec- tions of the hall visible from rooms | should be decorative. A picture, a wall | hanging, or a mirror can catch the eve with its beauty or reflection of beauty. and lend its note of appeal without en- croaching in any way on the floor space. Handsome sconces do this also. A narrow table, with a chair each side having tall, handsomely carved backs, and rather narrow seats, is a dignified arrangement often possible. hall chair may have to suffice in the allotied space. Sometimes an old- shioned settee or quaint sofa fits weil into a narrow colonial halls ‘The window® in a narrow hall should be featured. For instance, a window at the end of a hall can be exquisite when crossed by glass shelves on which stand gay-colored glass articles that have been collected. stair landing can have wall brackets, with gay flower pots holding trailing vines, ivy or blooming plants. So also can a window in the lower hall itself. (Copyxizht, 1030.) Just a case in an eighteenth century English | room, and how dignified and rich it ap- | and | to match the rest of the woodwork in | investors | business conditions are poor for the | | realizing profits from issues of invest- | of a hall, the side wall first glimpsed ' A window on a | Senate has already served two terms—caused soclal Washington to perk up her| head a bit. Pirst, because Peter Goe- let Gerry is one of the Gercys. And second, because it means the possible return to the Capi- tal of Mrs. Gerry, one of the most colorful women in Washington prior to_her husband’s defeat in 1928. | That phrase, “one of the Gerrys” is | not without meaning. The Blue Book of . Congress—that _imposing volume wherein are listed all members of Con- gress from the beginning of the Re- public to the present—proves this, In the Blue Book, Peter Goelet Gerry writes that he is the great-grandson of Elbridge Gerry. The elder Gerry | was a power in American politics in his day. He was elected Vice President as a Democrat on the ticket with James Madison in 1812, was a signer ‘BY WILLIAM Psychology of Rest. Rest is the first essential for the cure of pulmonary tuberculosls, simple | coryza, broken leg, duodenal ulcer, laryngitis, writer’s cramp, valvular heart disease and many other things, and sufferers from these ailments resort to rest by compulsion, by chance, by in- stinct or by order of physician. Rest is seldom credited with the cures it ef- fects, because there is no incentive for either the healed or the healer to write testimontals for it. Rest is like water and wood pulp. Lots of people care nothing for the water they draw from the tap free of charge (virtually), in fact, refuse to drink it just because it is free. They prefer water that comes in a bettle and cost so much a case. Then there are many who wouldn't pay you a nickel a barrel for wood pulp, but when it comes in covers with a picture of a pretty girl they willingly pay 25 to 50 cents a pound for it. These same customers spend money like drunken sailors for brief fitful terms of rest in | sanitariums, week end lodges where rest, such as it is, commands the highest market price. A statistician reports that the people 000,000 & year on pleasure vehicles, and estimates that the cost of gasoline tires and accessories for these chariots brings the total up to nearly $5,000, 000,000. The people spend a little over $4,000,000,000 annually for homes and residences. What does it matter if you live in & hovel so long as you sport a classy bus? Home was once a placc to rest. Now folks are able to tear off to a tawdry shack or a glittering resort somewhere to do their resting, so what's the use of maintaining a real home? 1 should like to ask every adult male reader if he has ever tried helping his wife wash the dishes, and if he hasn't, then why doesn't he try it some time? Although my studio_windows overlook covered the fascination of the game, unless it is what you see on your round. But this dishwashing game is my notion of real sport; thers’s a lot ABE MARTIN SAYS With puttin’ up beer and puttin’ up catsup these are busy days fer th’ housewife. sald Tell Binkley this mornin’ when bandits riddled Poke Beasley, fillin’ | station attendant, an' escaped with $9. “Watchin’ for an airplane 'l the fold out of a doubls chin,” says Miss Fawn Lippincut, in a magazine article on beauty. (Copyright. 1930.) omen About Money BY MARY ELIZABETH ALLEN. |ment grade. There is a time for everything in the investment wurld.\ | Observe it. Stocks for Widow? “What stocks should a widow buy?” asks a woman who inferredly is a widow. Unfortunately no general answcr can be given fairly to such a question. The financial condition of some wid- ows may be such that stocks can be approved for investment purposes. Wom- | en left with considerable means may invest part of their funds in stocks of investment grade. }su[uhly for widows ip general if we | defined what we mean by “stocks of | investment grade.” Such stocks are always dividend-pay- ing stocks. An investment should al- ways yield a return. Stocks paying no dividend are bought for speculative rea- sons almast invariably. Investm=at issues should show | records ‘of toim:stent earnings over a | period of at legst five years. It is un- | wise to accept a return of less than 4!, again—he health resorts and even | of the United States spend over $3,000,- | a fine golf course I have never dis- | “What business ther is is all shot.,” | It might answer the question more | A WASHINGTON DAYBOOK BY HERBERT PLUMMER. | of the Declaration of Independence, | and was a member of the early Con- | gresses. Just above Peter's biography in this volume is another Gerry—the grandson | of Elbridge Gerry. This Gerry was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty- first Congress from the State of Maine. ‘The present Gerry has followed in the footsteps of his fathers. He has been a member of the House for one term, has served two terms as United States Senator, and is now out for his third. He has stood high in the councils of his party. During the presidential election of 1928, when he was defeated by Senator Hebert for the Senate, he served as chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee in the headquarters in New York. Gerry as & United States Senator was seen rather than heard. He spoke rarely, preferring to remain in the background. When he did speak it was in a quiet almost shy manner. He is a newspaper publisher, and correspondents fof his paper in Wash- ington often found it necessary to go to others to find Out what the “boss” was doing so reluctant was he to_talk. In Mrs. Gerry, the former Mrs. Edith vanderbilt, he has a comrade and champion in all things concerning his political career. While he was in the Senate, she took the keenest interest in public affairs. Her position as & leader of the feminine congressional contingent in the Capital was unques- tloned. Gerry was an_accomplished polo player in his younger days. Now b1, | he still is an enthusiastic huntsgpan. PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE BRADY, M. D. of joy in it, whether you wash ¢& wipe; much opportunity for working out technical improvements in the ayatem; plenty of gambling to determine ®hich shall wash and which wipe or whether either shall do both. Try it, me lads. That is, if you have a wife and she has any dishes. If you have one, and she has some, but a maid to do the work, oh, then get along with you. My mistake.” I assumed I was speaking to real folks. For years I have been advocating the rest cure at home for patients with incipient tuberculosis, All along I have | been conscious of a disinclination of readers to accept this advice. I have ascribed that to the misinformation of most laymen about far-away climate and that sort of thing. Now I must take into consideration the statistics quoted. Home under such ideals is not so restful, is it? (Copyright, JOLLY POLLY A LESSON IN ETIQUETTE | | | | | 1930 BY JOSEPH J. FRISCH. r RESTAURANTS HAVE HAD MINIATURE COUFBES | FOR YEARS. = | €. B—A large napkin (dinner nap- | kin) should not b spread out to its | full extent. To unfold it once and lay | it 2cross the knees is cnough. Have you sent for Jolly Polly’s mono- graph on “Manners at the Table”? A stamped return envelope will bring it. | { [ THE STAR’S DAILY PATTERN SERVICE | to 5 per cent on a stock investment be- | | cause securities of equal grade yield more and offer lower risks. A widow’s stock is one in a leader | in an expanding industry. No widow in ordinary circumstances is justified in buying stock of any but well established companies that have made steady progress under capable management. The stock should be sea- soned, which is to say, it should be on the market for at least three to five years and enjoy reasonable activity. In- active ~‘ocks are not investment grade issues in most instances. Stock bought on margin is not an in- | vestment. Nor should any widow vest_ir the stock of any one company more than a fraction of her means. AUNT HET BY ROBERT QUILLEN. “I didn’t know Dr. Jim wasn't gettin’ no practice until I heard him tellin’ 916 It's so el Sohoolginl Type. mlyet so entirely lice presents k1S ticularly i | ishe u%&qfin par. gquare effect, fin- . Buttons down the center froft are decorative. The skirt is given a graceful swing with wide panel effect at the front :m; kilted plaits at either aiss ane ack. It's so simple to make; the outlay unbelievably s.nali. Style No. 916 is designea for the im- portant age of 8, 10, 12 and 14 Veara. It is shown in dark green crepy @% terned woolen. The buttons are greem enamel to match the enameled belt buckle. Covert cloth in wine red jaunty. Dark blue wool jersey with vivid red buttons and completed with red leather belt is very smart and practical. Size 8 requires 23 yards 39-inch. For a pattern of this style send 15 cents in stamps or coin directly to The Washington Star's New York Bureau, Fifth-avenue and Twenty-ninth street, New York. We suggest that when you send for this pattern you inclose 10 cents addi- tional for a copy of our new Fall and Winter ~Fashion Magazine. A copy should be in’ every home, for, of course, every woman wants to look her best is very how he despised the narrow-minded tra;h in ihis town.” without great expense, and this book poluts the way. b