Evening Star Newspaper, December 6, 1930, Page 20

WOMAN’S PAGE. Black as an Evening Selection BY MARY So long as France rules or predomi- nates the world of fashion, so long will hand work continue to play an import- ant role in our wardrobes. If for no other reason than this we may all hope that her rule in the realm will be a long one. Left to our own devices we might forget the subtle charm of hand tucks, of fine smocking, shirring, fagot- ing mal: tion. The black net dress shown in the ketch is simple yet cleverly draped, re- vealing, not overemphasizing, the slenderness of the waist. Its only adornment consists of a festoon of black silk _embroidery sweeping down from th> left shoulder and up from the right ard embroidery that French dress- atly bring to our atten- come women for whom decidedly thez best possible evening selection that they should always include in their wardrobe a good looking dress of this description. And MARSHALL. it is rather to their advantage that this Winter black is not quite so much worn as it has been recently. All white eve- ning dresses have come into unprece- dented importance and bright red is so often chosen that one need no longer feel overconspicuous in this brilliant hue. By all means wear black in the eve- ning if it is distinctly your most be- coming tone, but remember that this season black is almost always worn with some touch of color or white. This may be introduced by way of artificlal flow- ers on the shoulder, by way of colored slippers or more often by means of jew- |Els which should be striking enough to catch the eye. SUB ROSA BY VIRGINIA VANE. Friendship. Dear Miss Vane: My boy friend has | a friend whom I dislike intensely, but he is my friend’s best pel. I have asked my friend to give up this man—to choose between us. He promised not | [to see his friend again and kept his| {promise for a few days, then drifted | back into friengship with him again. | Please advise me how to make him | understand that this is serious—A. G. You need advice but mot the kind | you're expecting. It is hopeless for you | %o try to break up this friendship and |it is wicked of you to force the poor | man into any such promise. Why should you try to come between these two friends? Does the chum in- | terfere in any real way with your hap- Or is it just that you're jeal- of him and h's influence with the you love? Aren't you being both | petty and selfish in demanding that | | this close relationship be broken cff for | your sake? !" Actually you can't ever break it off, | you know. It will spring up time and | again, no matter what you do to stamp |it out. When two men are really de voted to cach other, i s more than | | the caprice of a girl to ak up their | | friendship. Have the brains to understand that | you can't possibly like every one your | man likes—and that you can't expect him to be devoted to all your friends. You two must have some friendships | separate from each other. You can | | meet certain gi:ls for lunch. He can g0 out with those friends who don't | please you. on such evenings as you're | busy. “You meed not see too much of | the pals you don't like. | D. G.: When the world is so full of tragedy and trouble why worry about |a thing like being a golf widow once |in a while. Your husband's vice is | | the most harmless in the world, and the most healthy. at of it, if he's |apt to be obsessed with the matter. Men must have their hobbies and the more keen they get about their special | ame, the less. apt they are to get | into mischief. Be glad he’s having a |good time, and find something to do to keep you occupied and happy. A WASHINGTON DAYBOOK BY HERBERT PLUMMER. rtment has its own| peace soldiers who Not much is heard of them. The Toll of honor extends back a century end & half. The story of their heroism lies buried in records yellowed the men of the diplo- matic or consular service of the coun- try who died duty. The first entry in these old rec- ords is dated 1780. In that year Col. William Palfrey of Massachusetts, ap- pointed “consul to reside in‘ France, €t sail for his post on the U. 8. S. Bhillala. e ship was lost at sea and with her Palfre One of the latest entries was made in 1924—Robert W. Imbrie of Wash- NANCY PAGE Girls in Early Teens Interested in Clothes. BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. Mrs. Lacey spoke truly when she said that Claire’s interest was in clothes. She found that the child not only wanted to have plenty of things for herself, but also thought her mother sshould pay more attention to the clothes fcr her two younger sisters. “Soon she will be wanting to dress me and do me over,” she wsiled to her husband. And in this she was more correct than she knew—but that's another story. Claire loved her lapin coat lined with green flannel. It had a green skirt to_match. Her younger sisters wore taffy-colcred coats of the rumble zeat s her hat which pleased S| had made it in the cooking never missed a class he girls made these hats for a nominal sum. First there was a shallow fitted cap of flannel. Then two bands were made, one of the same color and material as the cap and the other of a contrasting color. These bands were hemmed and joined so he scorned but she othing that they were large enou over the head and stay “put. Elch'g.rl tried on her cap and ad- Justed e bands at the most be- muuwk and then fastened them in place. The cost of this “rag of a hat, Claire called it in affectionate de. rision, was small, but the effect was “immense. " At :m that xsjwhn, the thought, an y were just copy- g'm opinion of the boys. Ang that, to them, was the most important thing iu their lives, just now, ' ington, D. C., murdered by a mob of | fanatics at his post as vice-contul in Teheran, Persia. Between those two names runs a lorg record. There are tragedies at sea, in earthquakes or other great dis- asters in far countries, and of Ameri- cans shot down while going about their peaceful duties. There is, for instance, Joel Bar- | low of Connecticut, Minister to France |in 1811. He was ordered to find Na- poleon in Russia and discuss with the on | French emperor terms of a new treaty with the United States. But the Min- ister was caught in the famous re- treat from Moscow to die of privation and exposure at Zarnowice. Many were lost at sea either when going to or coming from their posts. Alfred L. M. Gottschalk of New York, consul general at Rio de Janeiro, went ito the port of misiing ships with the | collier Cyclops in 1918, that queer mod- ern sea mystery. | . Robert N. McNeely of North Caro- lina was lost when the steamship Per- sia was torpedoed in the Mediterranean. James A. Holden of Massachusetts, consular agent in Santa Domingo, sailed howeward In 1827 aboard a ship which | never was heard of again. John S. Meircken went down with the Lafayette in West Indian waters in 1832. Edward W. Gardner of Massachusetts was lost en route from Samoa. Rounseville Wildman of California with his entire family was lost with tha trance to the Golden Gate in 1901. And there are many others—the st is a long one. It has taken almost a century and a half for some of them to be rec- ognized formally. But their names are nevertheless on the records of the State Department— Unsung heroes. Wives are expected to work forever without pay and often without grati- tude. Their husbands would not work an instant without pay. Somehow here lies a discrepancy which time, reason and initiative may straighten out. It is unfair to deny the wife some reward for her toil. It is even more unfair to subject her to the possibility of penury in old age, because she is not only without funds of her own, but also lacks the power to dispose provi- dently of the family's carnings. Many feminists have pointed out the injustice worked to many women who stint and save throughout a lifetime, and find at the husband's death tha scant consideration was given. Wives should demand and receive a fair reward. Call it salary, wages, providence, or what you will There should be some compensation for the long hours put in on mental, arduous tasks at which most of their husbands would rebel. |~ Wives are called by some the * | paid servants in their husbands’ homes | That is a feirly accurste description of | their plight. It is neither flattering to their husbands nor to the age in which we live. Many wives prefer to keep their jobs after marriage, not because a job holds more allurements, but because that is My Neighbor Says: It is essential that a gas stove be kept clean both inside and out. Wash with a brush and warm water, then rub over with olive ofl. Keep a jar of silver polish near the sink. - When washing dishes it is a simple matter to rub over any silver that requires it. Corn brooms may be washed in hot soap suds, but care must be taken not to let the water rust the wires which hold the straws to the handle. Flannel should never be used for needle books, as it is often prepared with sulphur, which will Tust the needles. A piece of fine slinen or chamois is better. ‘The marks of matches on white paint may be removed by rubbing frst with cut lemon, then with a damp cloth dipped in powered whiting. Rinse with cold water and wipe dry with soft cloths. Copyright. 1930.) S. S. Rio de Janeiro at the en-| T OUR CHILDREN BY ANGELO PATRI. Co-operation, One of the difficulties in bringing up children is the fact that the neighbors have children, t00. The neighbors® | children make things very complicated. They have different ideas about things; they use language that has a tinge of variety perhaps; they have more liberal training in some branches of social living; they go to different churches; they are very different from our own. Yet there they are. You cannot get away from them. You cannot alter their training. The best thing to do is to accept their presence as inevitabl and adjust yourself and your children training to the situation. Mothers can help each other a great deal. Suppose there are five little chil- dren all-on the same block or so, all at- tsndlnst hthe "‘ksnxm:"h school. (:oulclb not one mother ¢ the group and bring them back daily for a week, and then the next mother, in turn, and so save time for all of them? Why not? Asso- ciation with the other mother’s children would broaden the outlook of all, and the children, too, would gather knowl- g}ge and experience very useful to em. Then, too, where a group of children work and play together there ought to be some sort of mutual understanding about the routine of their days. All school children should observe bedtime and Tising hours religiously. If one family allows irregularity, it immedi- ately disturbs the whole group. “Why do I have to go to bed at 87 Helen doesn't.” A mutual agreement on this will help everybody. An associated group of mothers can do much to help the children in school. A neighborhood opinion will modify the | school’s attitude when individual opin- fon will not count. Homework is some- thing that ought to be carefully super- vised by parents and teachers. If the teacher is thoughtless about assigning it. one of two things happens—the chil- dren get meaningless work or they are overloaded. A group of associated mothers can help the school to function for their children’s good. Of course, this sort of co-operation is possible only where the mothers are intelligent and thoughtful. That sort of mother will reason: What is done for the good of one child in the neigh- borhood will help my child, for no child can live uninfluenced by what happens to another. This will help my own child far more than it will help my neigh- bor’ And I would like to help my neighbor’s child, because that again wiil nielp me. And I would rather help my neighbor and live in harmony with her than otherwise. Co-cperation, service to each other in the best sort of selfishness. When we do our best for all, we serve our- selves best. The time when each mother could bring up her child in isolation has gone by, for we are conscious now of the interlocking of the interests of the group. Neighbors, communities, State and Nation cen have no separate interests. Each is best served when all finely served. Mothers can help each other a great deal and so forward the growth of the children of the world. (Copyright. 1930 Home in Good Taste BY SARA HILAND. 1t is always a problem to decide upon the window treatments when the house is new or about to be refurnished, and whether all windows should have glass curtains and cverdraperies or just one kind of curtain is a question that nearly | every housefurnisher meets. | In the accompanying iliustration is shown a window dressed with draperies only, and because the view from the window was a pleasing landscape, this is justifiable. In the city, where brick walls are the only views for the dwellers |of the small and crowded apartments, the usz of glass curtains is a popular |idea and also gives a pleasing effect. The window shown is in a bed room and the material from which the hang- ings are made is plain glazed chintz. The walls and woodwork are a pale shade of lime green, the floor is covered with a fawn Wilton carpet and the hangings are of lgrlcot glazed chintz trimmed with ruffles of lime green chintz, the tie-backs being of the same combination of colors and materials. Straight Talks to Women About Money BY MARY ELIZABETH ALLEN, their sole p on independence, their only cmn;flw be paid for their work. A man who wants a servant, a house- keeper, should hire one. A man who wants a wife to love, honor and respect should marry one and treat her | as such., It is an irony of our times that the workmen’s compensation law protects every laborer but the housewife who forms the backbone of society. Veal Loaf. Boil & veal soup bone in a small | amount of water until the meat is ten- der. Shred the meat to make one cup- ful and season with salt and pepper. | Add one cupful of the veal liquor to which has been added one tablespoonful of gelatin dissolved in one-fourth cup- ful of cold water. Slice two hard- cooked eggs. Pack the veal and e in alternate layers in & mold. Ci then serve on lettuce leaves and g: nish. SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. that all may be served, has its basis . HE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1930. FEATURES. MODES OF THE MOMENT PaRIS ribborn.on the /mtram DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX DEAR DOROTHY DIX: Your article about old age and its tragedies interested me very much, but although you told the appalling truth about old-age dependency you offered no solution of the problem, and I would like to make a few constructive suggestions. There are many ways of saving and many more or less painless schemes for doing so. Most of the banks get out pam- phlets of good advice about saving. The Government savings bank should be better known and every reliable local savings bank should be better patronized, while the buying of insurance, and especially of annuities, should be stressed. The goddess of economics, like the goddess of justice, holds scales. In one pan are the wages of work, in the other the costs of living. The biography of every man, woman and child is largely told by these swinging scales and the balance struck betw income and expenses. We must begin systematic saving while we are young to guard against a penniless old age. For the rainy day comes to us if we live long enough. . B. B. Answer.—These are words of wisdom written by a woman whose whole life is spent in trying to alleviate the miseries of the poor and before whose eyes passes daily a pitiful procession of old men and women who have laid up noth ing for their old age and who are doomed by their own improvidence to spend their last days eating the bitter bread of charity. Of course, there are those who always live on the very edge of want, who merely exist from day to day and who could not sfill‘e a crumb of their crust of today to lay up for tomorrow. For these we can have only compassion. They have done the best they could. But there are millions and millions of youngsters who could save themselves from such a fate and who will not do it. ‘They are so weak, so self-indulgent that they will not deny themsslves a present pleasure in order to save themselves from a future woe. They are blind and shut their eyes to the things they do not wish to see, and think that some miracle is going to happen to save them from the common human fate. They are besotted fools who cry out: “Let us eat and drink and be merry, for tomor- row we die.” But they do not die. They live on, poor, miserable, fependent parasites, who suck the life blood out of their children or are public charges, Many of these people never save anything because they have to do it by pinching pennies and nursing dimes, and that does not seem worth while to | them. They forget that, as the old Scotch proverb has it, “Many a mickie | makes a muckle” and that every dollar is made of nickels. More foriunes have | been founded on pennies than ever were on thousand-dollar bills. And they | forget that compound interest is a two-edged sword that cuts both ‘ways, and that it carves our way to fortune just exactly the same way as it does to bank- ruptcy. We remember how quickly interest comes due on a note we owe, and forget that it comes due just as quickly on a note that is owed to us. Thrift and spending are just habits. We can learn to save just as easily as we can to waste. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1930.) Changes in Plumbing Systems BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. S LT T AN e N e e e An interesting reaction has set in against having every plumbing con- trivance exposed in & home. This open- alr idea was the result of the necessary of needed pots, pans and kettles. To be sure, these have been manufactured to be as attractive as possible in shining aluminum and gay enamels, but this at- sanitary change in regard to plumbing. Pipes and traps and every sort of plumb- ing necessity were first concealed as un- sightly. Then, because of the difficulty in mending leaks, worn-out pipes, etc., and the introduction of a new type of bath room toilet, there arose the need of having plumbing immediately acces- sible. The boxed plumbing gave way to the open plumbing, sometimes very unsightly, but endured because of better sanitation. Now there is evident a tend- ency toward partial concealment when- ever this can be done without interfer- ing with sanitation. Workmen have been having it all to their advantage however bad the decorative effect was on the rooms. Now, while they are not prevented from having suitable access to pipes, they are not the only ones considered. Occupants of a house are permitted to have a certain degree of boxed plumbing. This is immediately noticeable in kitchens. The sink and tub pipes, whenever, the tubs are in the kitchen, are often’ boxed in. That is, the space underneath sinks, etc., is not left open, exposing the pipes to plain view, but they are inclosed in what was once called a sink closet. A wide door opens into the low closet, permitting perfect access to the pipes and trap beneath the sink. The unsightly pipes, elbows and traps no longer- have to confront More important than this to the homemaker is that this previously waste space can now be put to its old-time use as a closet for pots and kettles. It has been difficult to know just what to do with the awkward and large cook- um , such as the preserving kettle, large and the many. red roast and Vatied sasorioiont tractiveness can be enjoyed to the full when the cooking utensils are in use on the stove without having them con- tinually in evidence. The woman who keeps house in a small apartment finds this conserva- tion of floor space particularly helpful. To be sure she was obliged to utilize it for this same purpose without the closet, but it doubled her work of caring for the kitchenette. Whenever the floor has to be washed, all these exposed pots and kettles have to be moved. They get dusty quickly also and so require extra care. When they are stowed away in the closet, they aré protected from dust, require the least possible handling and are equally convenient. From the viewpoint of household convenience the boxed-in styling as now carried out is an asset. (Copyright, 1930 — St Savory Toast. Mince very fine some cold ham or tongue and moisten with some rich gravy or a few spoonfuls of stock. Fla- vor with a little made mustard, a few drops of table sauce and then put into a saucepan to heat, stirring constantly. Meanwhile, have ready two slices of Aoast not too hard, pare off the crust (if necessary butter a little), place on a hot dish and quickly pour over the toast the bolling mince from the sauce- pan and send to the table. After the meat Is mm it takes %nl‘i'nlo mlnuf.;‘: to prepare . Poultry can in the’same way, in this case using pepper, salt and chopped parsley in- stead of the above dressing. If you siead & 10w tead of thin cream st a few of thin cream in a little flour. | or raw milk and Your Baby and Mine BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED. Crying 1s the baby's one means of expressing discontent, hunger, discom- fort and a desire for attention. Just to say, “Baby cries,” is a poor index of what may be wrong with him. quires a close survey of everything that could possibly be at fault to determine just what the crying indicates. “My baby weighed 6 pounds and 8 ounces at birth,” writes Mrs. E. B. V., “and now at nine weeks he weighs § pounds agd 11 ounces. (Bless you for | those accitate figures) He is breas fed on the four-hour schedule, beginning | at 5 am. and ending at 9 pm. He has | two teaspoonfuls of orange juice mixed | with water right after his bath, which | is just before his 9 o'clock feeding. He | nurses from eight to ten minutes. | ‘Here is my trouble. He cries a great | deal. He was a good baby for three and one-half weeks; then he started to | cry about 4 pm. and kept it up for | several hours. From 11 pm. on he slept until wakened at 5 for his feed. ing. Now he starts right in to cry after his 9 am. feeding and sometimes be- fore. He kicks when he cries, “He has had a cold for four weeks The doctor treated him, but it has don- | no good. He sweats when he cries, wears a silk and ings, diaper, band, slip’ and dress. €hould I put him out for an airing when he has a cold?” | This baby has made an average gain | of 6 ounces weekly for the last six| weeks which knocks the idea of und fecding smartly in the head. The only stray bit of evidence that leads to any conclusion is that he cries after the orange juice feeding. Suppose you halve the amount of orange juice and give it immeditacly after, instead of right before the feeding. Give two feedings of it, at 9 and 5, instead of just | at 9. His late afternoon crying might be caused by fort, or it 1S possi- plendid gain to find less satisfied after the afternoon gs than earlier in the_da; Our leaflet on “Why Babies Cry After 6 P.M.," in your case 5 p.m., might clear up th> mystery. I would try a small complementary feeding, just in case hunger is the cause. Enclose a | salf-addressed, stamped envelope, with your request for the above leaflet, please, One thing is certain, baby is wrapped as if he were ready to embark on a trip to the North Pole. Vest, band, shirt, hose, diaper, petticoat and dress! And most of them woolen. No wonder he sweats and has a constant cold. Take off the band, for after the navel is healed it has no furiher usefulness, I would suggest, too, that you replace the knitted band with an all-cotton one and let the single bit of wool be in the shirt or vice versa. The petticoat, especially if it is flannel, could be dis- | pensed witl Keep the room temperature no higher | than 0 degrees and take baby out dail if the sky Is clear and he has no tem- perature. AUNT HET BY ROBERT QUILLEN. “I didn't know we was out o’ iodine, I knew we did have scme, an’ pa hadn't told me about settin’ down on the cat | last week.” The Cripple. Success is seldom won by luck: "Tis chiefly the reward —0ld Mother The young Muskrat who had twisted Off & foot and left it in a cruel steel | trap was at first so happy in being free that he didn't give much thought to that lost foot. He followed his father, Jerry Muskrat, straight home to the hig house in the Smiling Pool, which he entered by diving and swimming through the long under-water hall. Oh, how good it was to come up inside where he was safe from all enemies. On a comfortable bed of dry grass he first gave real attention to his injured leg. It achzd, did that stump of & leg. Yes, indeed, it ached. But the ache was not so great as it had been when the leg was held fast in that dreadful trap. He gently licked it to get it clean. Presently he went to sleep. You see, he had had no rest or sleep for so long that he was quite uscd up. Oh, how good it was when at last he awoke to find that he was safely at home in that big house in the Smiling Pool. At first he could not remember what was wrong. Then the ache in that stump of a l=ft front leg brought it all back. For two days he did not even try to go outside. Food was brought in. He didn’t need much, for he had quite lcst his appetite. All the time Old Mother Nature was at work healing the stump of a l:g. He was a healthy young Muskrat, and it was sur- prising how rapidly the healing went on. When at last the young Muskrat did venture out, he did not realize at first how crippled he was. He could swim without difficulty, for there was noth- ing the matter with his strong hind feet with their partly webbed toes and there was nothing the matter with his tail wherewith to scull. It was when he came to the first landing and started to ciimb out that he realized something of what life was to be for him there- after. Having but one forefoot and that stump, which was not yet fully healed, he could not get out on that little Jand- ing. He had to hunt another that was ower. Jerry Muskrat saw him. “Never mind,” said he. “Think how much worse it would have been to have lost your life.” The young Muskrat was almost ready to doubt this as he lost his balance and fell forward while climbing up on a log, but when he remembered the boy with the stick lifted to kill him he decided that after all it was better, much bet- ter, to be alive. He soon discovered that he was badly handicapped i he tried to fight with any of his compan- fons and so he took pains not to quar- rel with them. He discovered that he could not run, so he seldom went more than a jump from the water. He found that he could not dig as he had BEDTIME STORIE The Woman Who Makes Good BY HELEN WOODWARD, Who started her career as a_frightened typist and who became one of the highest paid business women in America. Making Beauty. Almost every woman thinks she would make a good decorator if she had the chance. So, when a woman of no training finds suddenly that she must s pport herself the first thing she thinks of doing is | to become a dec- | orator. The girl in an office or shop, sur- rounded by dull walls and ugly desks, thinks that life would be heavenl{ if only she could plan and fuml’s.:’l houses. & It is a very nat- o wadend | R’ B the desire to have a home plus the de- sire to create beauty which is one of the best things we human beings have. But it isn't a very wise instinct. Be- cause mighty few are the women who | can make a living at interior decorat- ing. It you have a circle of friends who will be your customers out of friend- ship you can be an interior decorator. Or if you have a special talent and are prepared to take a thorough course of training, you can also succeed. Other- wise not. The business is already crowd- ed with women who are well-to-do and who work for $10 a week or for nothing in_order to have a pastime. The same desire makes other women long to own a gift shop. Most (lrl: | think that if they have a taste and love of beautiful things they can make a living among them. But unfortunate- . to make a success of a gift shop re- quires nelther taste nor a love of fine things. What is needed is a thorough knowledge of the business and a talent for_counting pennies. You n skill in buying and an un- derstanding of your customers. Even though you may love a pretty vase you may not know how to buy it at the lo est price. Alas! In working for a liv- ing you are seldom surrounded by beauty. You would think that girls who work- ed among fine clothes would be very much excited by them. But it's like the girl in the candy shop. The first day the boss allows her to eat as much as she likes. Socon she wouldn't eat a piece of candy unless she were starving. So, often in shops where fine dresses are sold, the girls grow completely in- different to them. Still, furnishing beautiful rooms ana houses is a wonderful way to put on self to sleep at night. As you lie wak ful in bed, just furnish imaginary rooms in your mind. Furnish them to the last detail, and you will go easily to sleep, Girls having problems in connection with their work may writy to M ‘oodward, in care of this paper, i (Copyright, 1930.) MILADY BEAUTIFUL BY LOIS LEEDS. Dear Miss Leeds: (1) Can the egg- white treatment for flabby skin under the eyes be used also on the entire face once a week? (2) Will dried henna leaves make the hair darker? (3) What shade of power should a girl use if | ehe has very much color in her face? 6 Answer.—Yes, a facial pack made with egg makes a very effective mask for correcting wrinkles, and it also helps reduce enlarged pores. It is best not to use it, however, on a skin which is unusually wrinkled. Before applying the egg, cleanse the face first with cleansing cream, then with warm water and soap. Dry and massage with a good tissue cream. When the massage is completed, re- move excess cream, pat a little witch- azel on the skin and dry by patting itly with a towel. The face is now cady for the egg facial pack. Scparate the.yolks from the white, at whites slightly and apply to the entire face with a small camel's-hair brush. When the first coating has dried, paint over the face a second time. When the second coat is dry, paint on the beaten yolk of the egg and allow it to dry. Leave on for 20 minutes or more and then remove by washing the face with tepid water and a soft cloth. If the skin is sensi- tive, cold cream or oil may be used to softes e mask. After the pack has been removed, dry the skin and pat on * BY THORNTON W. BURGESS dug once upon & time, so he no longer tried to dig up roots for food, but hunted more for other food. Altogether, however, he got along surprisingly ‘well for one so crippled. Fortunately he was seen by Farmer Brown'’s boy. After that there was al- ways plenty to eat where he could easily get it. So he grew strong and big 'and more and more clever in get- ting about on three legs. But always he remembered the dreadful lesson of the trap, and never once did he forget to look carefully before putting a foot down anywhere. Even when there was no reason to think that there might be | i traps about, he was just so careful. Jerry Muskrat used to notice this and grin, but he took care that the young FORTUNATELY HE WAS SEEN BY FARMER BROWN'S BOY. Muskrat shouldn't see him do it. “Hell live to be old nns‘:lu." said Jerry to Mrs, Jerry. “It a dreadful lesson, but it has made a new Muskrat of him. Yes, sir, it has so. Notice how ready he is to listen to advice now. He was headstrong and heedless, but now he is cautious and watchful and suspicious. Never again will he be c: ‘:\t in a trap, nor is he likely to be caught by any of our enemies. He may be crippled so far as that leg is concerned, but there is ncthing crippled about his wits.” It was so. In time that crippled young Muskrat proved to be the smart- est of all the young Muskrats and was quite capable of taking care of himself. But he had paid a dreadful price. Don't you think s0? (Copyright, 1930.) Everyday Psychology BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. Laughter. Laughten is catalogued nowadays among those mental mechanisms that PUFFY [ 33 Says Puff: “The’ Emu (or so I've heard) Has come to be quite a business bird. The men who edit that cross-word game Now all pay royalty on its name.” N are always ready to go into action. That is to say, people are always ready to laugh. ‘The man whose business it is to make people laugh never goes into bank- ruptcy, providing he can provide more and better laughs than his competitors. While the propensity to laugh is in- born, it seems that we all must learn what to laugh at. An infant only smiles. It has its first laugh when it discovers that it is a somebody. That is the reason some psychologists say that we laugh only when we feel su- perior to the situation. We break into a laugh every time we have a sudden sense of greatness. We are amused at the things that seem inferior to us in terms of our own logic. Some laughs are deflant, others take on the air of mockery; still others have some maliclous purpose; the miser merely chuckles. All of which means that laughter! is a gesture, a form of language far older than grammars and dictionaries. There's some kind of laugh for every mood. The language of laughs has a large vocabulary. To read that language fully you must have done a lot of llving, a lot of striving, a lot of su ling. You can tell pretty well what a person thinks of himself by taking note of the things that amuse him. (Copyriwh, 195 Antidisestablishmentar! sol es used in Great Britain to refer to pnncl%l’el u«:r m{. %t hose who are o] e he Giureh of zall o be a mild astringent or skin tonie. This egzktrenmcm may be taken once a weel (29 The dried henna leaves or pow- der made into a rinse with water and used after the shampoo tend to bring out the reddish lights in auburn or chestnut brown hair. There are also so-called henna dyes that tint the hair any desired shade, but these are really metallic dyes and not pure henna, which always gives a reddish shade. (3) Use a shade which blends with your natural coloring. 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