Evening Star Newspaper, February 10, 1931, Page 26

WOMAN'’S PAGE, ‘Idea for St. Valentine’s Party BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. Next Saturday is St. Valentine's day, ‘of the merry times to give a party. Joyousness about this festival that lends itself to happy celebration. A Valentine costume party is just the thing! Ask girl to come d as a valentine. es should be quaint and attrac- .“ A lavish use of lace, which can 3 coarse, or of lace paper, 3 m‘:nfln‘ is advisable as it sug- fancy ' lace-paper valentines ges £ company on L. know when they take their entines that a name is on it. They told to ook goes, s 8§ inside and see that the e by their own special delivery, to the person named on it. Refreshments are served in boxes. Paste fancy perforated candy box paper around. the entire edge of each box. In each arrange sandwiches, olives, nuts, a little cake and an apple tart and cheese. A section of Gruere cheese is nicest. Cover the contents with wax paper. Make paper flowers with wire stems and thrust the stems down through the paper so that the flowers up in a dainty arrangement. The boxes should resemble valentines as much as possible. Hot or cold bever- can be served from a side table. Give one of the girls. ', in | todi | stocking” | the boy whose tongue grew long when | he ever told you. | tions in these lea the boys Cupid's bows and darts. | each dart there should be the name | lar - climbing rose, The boy finds | the girl, and pins the dart on her, thus securing a partner. ‘The hostess should have hidden quan- tities of colored paper ‘darts around the rooms. The couple finding the most of them in a given time is awarded a prize of a valentine box of candy, or each one may be given some one of the many candy valentine favors popular ay. Answer to quiz in Lincoln’s birthday party, given vesterday: 1, Arab; 32, corn; 3, brain; 4, Cora, Clara; 5, T 6. cobra; 7, climb; 8, ram; 9. clam; 11, ‘crab; 12, car; coin;” 15,” Allah; 16, no; broil; 19, I; 20, col.; 21, icon. Your Baby and Mine BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED. Children are so- poky - that their | mothers are always incensed. “He takes a hour to put on one ; “I can’t get her to come in when I call; she takes so long even after she starts.” Both of these atti- tudes are typically childish, but the adult ones are just as typical. After all, what makes any of us hurry? Work to be finished. Some Ellce to go after it is done. Other work to be attacked. The adult who pokes has nothing in- teresting to do after his work is com- pleted. We can understand, then, why chil- dren are slow. There is seldom any reason for them to hurry. What they are doing at the moment is just as important as what will,come after they have finished. Mrs. M. J. R. has an independent, bright, impulsive boy of 6! who lags on the way home from school. Because he has to pass many stores he stops to price a toy, helps & woman with her baby, carries a package; in fact, is a little handy man. His mother is half frantic by the time he reaches home. In addition, he embroiders all his stories. His mother told him about he told lies. Now when she questions his stories he sticks out his tongue and says, “You can see for yourself, has it grown any?” She is anxious to handle these situations rightly and | does not know what to do. Commend the child for wanting to | be helpful, but tell him that his first | duty is to get home right after school. At the moment he is being helpful at your expense, for while he is winning praise for doing kind deeds you are worrying about his safety. ‘Tell him that unless he gets home after school within a reasonable time you have no recourse except to 80| after him, since he seems unable to manage this for himself, Stick to it: call for him day after day until he finds that he prefers independence and speediness of being escorted home. Find other opportunities for him to be helpful. As for the lying, he was a bright boy to discover that your tale was just as untfue and just as fanciful as any How can you im- press a child with a value of truthful- ness if you use lies yourself? I sug- gest that you send me a self-addressed, stamped enve] and let me send you leafiets on “Helping the Child to Tell the Truth” and “Why Children Lie.” Put into practice n:l::le of the sugges- Show the child that while imaginary embellishments for stories make them more interesting, he must differentiate between the actually true and the fanciful story. Encourage him to ob- serve correctly; show him that it is ‘more difficult to tell exactly what hap- gened and to repeat exactly what he ears than to make it up to suit him- self. Then if he wishes to enhance story you can say, “I know this is | the truth; the other is just your imag- indtion.” If he understands that you see the difference when he observes correctly and when he does his em- broidering consciously, then neither truth nor imagination is sacrificed. bt Bacon Sendwiches. Bacon makes delicious sandwiches. Crisp and hot, it may be placed on a bed of watercress, with a little mayon- naise, between two slices' of hot, but- | tered toast. Or it may be used in com- | bination with sliced tomato between slices of whole-wheat bread and but- ter, with a little mayonnaise for flavor. If you wish, it may be used with | heated-over vegetables — the bacon cooked just crisp and then cut in small pieces, mixed with warmed-up’ string beans, diced beets, peas, lima beans, and put between slices of hot, buttered toast. This makes a delicious and | hearty sandwich for the Iluncheon | mainstay, and other vegetable combina- tions of leftovers may be used quite as appetizingly as the one suggested. Arthur Turner, who with his brother, the late H. Turher, introduced to the public the Crimson Rambler, the popu- | died _recently st Slough, England. SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY ¥. CORY. My! the feller 'at first invented home- work had mean idears! (Capyright, 1931.) PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE BY WILLIAM BRADY, M. D. Poultices and Typewriters. An Ohio reader says his friend argues that a poultice “draws a sore to & head,” and that some salves do the same thing; and peach leaves made into a pulp with flour and hot water {are the best material for a poultice. The reader argues that the only value of a poultice is in applying heat and moisture, and that therefore poultices should be applied as hot as may be endurable; and, further, they may be made of any material, such as rags, paper, bread. meal, etc., soaked in hot water, Finaily, the reader suspects I will ll]‘ldlcule the idea of using poultices at all. Well, that depends on whose neck is sore. If it is mine, I'd rather like a nice big flaxseed meal poultice on it, I think, about bedtime. I don’t know about peach leaves, but I believe the material for a poultice is immaterial. The purpose is to apply moist heat, and anything that will -e- tain heat and moisture is a good mate- rial, provided it be clean. Now, flaxseed meal or other such poultice material is in itself a good pabulum or culture medium for germs, and the common pus germs will grow in it. So it is well to add to a poultice some germicide for the purpose of dis- infecting the poultice when or if any of the germs get into it. For this pur- pose boric acid may be used. Perhaps flaxseed meal or other meals will hold the beat longer, but nowadays we have a preference for large com- presses; that is, many folds of cheese- cloth (gauze), kept moistened with hot water, or, better, hot salt solution, with boric_acid in the solution, as a more cleanly means of providing the effects of a poultice. This is commonly called “wet dressing.” The whole dressing may be covered with waxed paper or olled silk or rubber to keep the cloth- ing or bed clothing dry. The whole dressing may be plunged in hot solu- tion at intervals if a change of dress- g is not necessary. Salt solution somewhat stronger than the salt strength of the blood serum is advisable, for the so-called “drawing” effect. We usually use salt solution of about the salt strength of sea water. This tends to favor drainage (drainage is the modern term for “drawing”). ‘The stronger salt solution attracts water from the tissues, and in .that water or serum much septic or harmful mate- rial is drained from the infected tissues. Suppose you had a “run-around” or a young boll or the reddening swelling or throbbing that suggests infection of some trifing wound. Pirst give the hand or arm a prolonged soaking in a large basin or tank of water as hot as bearable, and in the water dissolve for each pint used two heaping teaspoon- fuls of common salt and one of sodium citrate and one of boric acid. After soaking for an. hour or more, make some fresh hot solution of the same ingredients and apply a large wet dress- ing. Change this, or at least keep it constantly moistened with the hot so- lution many times through the day and night.* Where plain poultices are used there is always the risk of transferring pus germs to a fresh point of culturing a fresh boll. Therefore, I think it is a good rule never to pouitice a boil. If it is a boll, it shouli be drained, either surgically or naturally, and always with antiseptic or germicidal precautions. (Copyright, 1931.) DI!AR DOROTHY DIX: I am a young business women just started in my thirties, have a good position as private secretary and keep a car. 1 am { the least attractive of my family. My sisters are large and handsome and perfectly form my misfortune. ed, while I am little and lame, and they have always ridiculed me for Two _years ago my mother died and after she passed away I tried to live with my two sisters, but they were cruel to me and mocked me for being an old maid. A few months ago I among strangers, who are much kinder starving for affection. What shall I do? decided to leave them and am boarding to m& than my own people, but I am BLACK SHEEP. Answer—Why not try counting your blessings awhile instead of spending your time brooding over your sorrows? Believe me, any young woman who has her health and her freedom and who has intelligence enough to hold down a good job ought to be making whoopee in place of shedding barrels of tears. Of course, it is a misfortune that you are lame, but think how much worse but thank your heavenly stars that you independent of them. You don't have life. Of course, the loss of your mother our grief turns to a gentle regret. fate has given you. & clean break with your sisters. Don't mhprevent their hurting you. Then go where .. insult that any one can offer of lack of faith. The jealous honor or good faith. She believes him imagination is easily understood, and, tortured husband wishes tnat his wife SINA'IOR MORROW of New Jersey is rapidly convincing Washington, es- pecially those observers on Capitol Hill, that he is really a very modest and re- tiring sort of per- son. On the day he first entered the Senate newspaper men swarmed around him only to be met with the quiet statement that he would lis- ten "to whatever they had to say but he would say nothing. His utterances on the floor have been limited. He sits at his desk when in the Senate cham- ber, bit bewildered, now and then engaging a Senator near him in_conversation. The biography which he supplied the Congressional Directory will convince even the most confirmed skeptic that Morrow really likes to keep himself | in the background. His is the shortest biography submit- ted by the nmew crop of Senators who came in for the short session. He is content to make only seven statements about his past: No. 1 is that he is a Republican. born in Huntingdon, W. Va., in 1873. 3. In 1895 he got an A. B. from Am- herst. 4. In 1899 he got an LL. B. from Columbia. 5. He married Elizabeth Reeve Cutter of Cleveland in 1903. 6. He lives in Englewood, N. J. And 7.| He was elected to the United States| Senate in 1930 to fill the unexpired | term of Walter E. Edge and to the (ufli term of six years, ending March 3, 1937. That's all. There’s no mention of the fact that he was formerly American Ambassador to Mexico. He passes over | the fact that he was a delegate to the | London Naval Arms Conference. And it would be if you were a mental cripple instead of a physical one. it is hard that your sisters are cruel and unloving and unsympathetic to you, DEAE MISS DIX: If a wife is jealous of her husband, 2. He was| peas. one wishing to verify that is the | Of course, don’t have to live with them. You are to listen to their gibes and have your heart hurt continually by their unkindness, so it is silly to let that embitter your will be a sorrow to you as long as you live, but in time our wounds heal over and cease to ache and the bitterness of ‘What you need to do is to get a brace on yourself and to fight your morbid inclination to self-pity and determine to be happy in spite of the knocks that Make out a definite plan of life. In the first place, make g0 near them. Keep far enough away to some pleasant, cheerful place to live fou will be thrown with a lot of other young women. In every city there are girls’ clubs and the Y. W. C. A., where lots of bright, snappy young women live and where there is always a lot going on to interest and amuse you. Don’t live with an old couple or in any frowsy, dull boarding house, and don't hide yourself in a rented room, but seek the companionship of other young women among whom you will find friends to pep you up. good clothes, for there is noting that raises a woman's spirit like a new hat, unless it is & new dress. We have to make our happiness, you know, for ourselves, and we have to work for it. It never comes to us on a silver platter. And get you some DOROTHY DIX, does she love him? UNHAPPY, Answer—Probably she does, but jealousy is no indication of love, though many misguided people seem to think it is. In reality jealousy is the greatest nother, because it is the outward and visible proof fe has no confidence in her husband’s truth or capable of betraying her and of being guilty of all the crimes that her imagination attributes to him. ‘That decent men resent their wives attributing to them acts of which they are wholly guiltless and which they have conjured up out of their own if this is love, many & poor jealously hated him. Jealousy is also a mani- testation of the inferiority complex, because when a wife is jealous it is because she thinks that other women are more attractive then she is. Perhaps jealouy kills love oftener than any other one thing. Also, it drives many & man into philandering and causes him to justify his wife's suspicions. DORO’ THY DIX. BY HERBERT PLUMMER. father-in-law of the famous Lindy must look elsewhere. Of the biographies submitted by the Senators who came in with the short session last December, that of James John Davis is the longest. The Senator from Pennsylvania takes up more than four inches of space in the directory. “Puddler Jim” has chronicled there every milestone in his career to date. It starts with his birth in Tredegar, South Wales, in 1873. He mentions that he was once a puddler in the iron and steel mills of Pennsylvania. His many fraternal assoclations are named, ,|as well as “many other fraternal or- ’| ders” in which he holds membership. His cabinet days are recalled, and he concludes with that in which He takes great pride—"resigned as Secretary of Labor and on the same day took the oath of office as Senator.” One-Piece Dinner. Season a pound of Hamburg steak with a teaspoonful of salt, half a tea- spoonful of black pepper, a tablespoon- ful of scraped onion and half a cupful of dried apricots, measured after soak- ing in cold water and sifting. Bake in an agate pie plate until brown on top and bottom, then leave in the warming oven for five minutes before slipping out onto a hot piatter. Surround mashed potatoes and make an outside border with a pint of canned green With a green salad and fresh fruit as desert, this makes a good Sift together twice one cupful of | whole wheat flour, half a teaspoonful of salt, four tablespoonfuls of sugar and four teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Add one cupful of bran, one egg beaten light with one and one-fourth cupfuls of milk, and two tablespoonfuls of melted shortening. Beat thoroughly and turn into hot, buttered bread stick pans. Bake in a hot oven for about 25 minutes. . To eurb They stand upon the Ohinese shore, with Chinese all about— The Bunny who is tallish and our hero who is stout. “Why don't you say ‘Good-by’”? asks Puff. “I should,” says Bunm, “I know, But I was there just long enough to learn to say ‘Hello.'” A Sermon for Today BY REV. JOHN R. GUNN. Just Before Dawn. “1/ prevented (came before) the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in Thy word. Mine eyes prevent (g0 before) the night watches.” Ps, cxix.147-148. The reference here is plainly to some period in David’s life which had been like a dark night to him, and when peering through the darkness he had waited and watched for the break of the morning. Doubtless he refers to the time when he was a fugitive exile, fleeing from Saul and hiding in dismal caves, while he waited for the fulfillment of the dream that had been beckoning to him since that day in his boyhood when the prophet Samuel anointed him to be the future King of Israel. It was a long, dreary night through which he waited. Yet he kept his eyes strained toward the eastern horizon looking for the dawn to come. Those who are familiar with the story of David's life know that it was not in vain that he waited and watched. At last, and at the end of an hour which seemed the darkest of all, sud- denly the day broke. With a burst of enthusiasm the nation rallied to his standard and proclaimed him King. And when, in later years, David wrote “I came before the dawning of the morning . . . My eyes go before the night watches,” T am sure he must have been thinking of this dark exile period in his life, and particularly of the denser darkness that came just be- for the dawn of his coronation day. ‘This experience through which the psalmist passed is one common to men who have achieved success and renown. T have followed the life-stories of many such men. I have watched them grope their way through the darkest kind of night. 1 have seen them stand long at the east window looking out through the shadows, waiting, hoping, watching for some sign of morning, and all the while the darkness seeming to grow | denser and blacker. And then, suddenly the night would be gone as the sun of a triumphant day rose upon them. Be not discouraged, ye that are tofl- ing and struggling ‘through the dark- ness toward some life-goal. The night that has already surrounded you for so long may seem to be growing darker. But never mind. Keep your eyes toward the east. It may be only the denser darkness that comes just before dawn. V(finzered Apples. €hoose six rather small apples and core, pare and cut them in quarters. Cook two pounds of sugar in half a pint of water until it threads, add an ounce of ground ginger, then add the | pleces of apple and cook until trans- parent. Litt out the apple sections with a skimmer, arrange them in a glass serving dish, boid down the sirup until quite thick, then pour it over the ap- ples. When cool serve with plain, thick cream and a garnish of any bright- colored jelly or preserve. FEATURES., Peter Rabbit's Grumbling. 4 listle grumbling now and then lieves the minds of mice and —Old Mother Ni men. ature. Peter Rabbit isn’t given to grumbling often. No, sir, Peter isn't what you would call a grumbler. Once in & while, however, he does do a little grumbling.. He was grumbling now as he panted for breath inside a hollow log just within the Green Forest. He had won a race for life by just one jump from Hooty the Owl and he knew that somewhere outside Hooty was even then watching and waiting. “I hate trees,” grumbled Peter. “Why?” demanded a squeaky voice that startled Peter by its unexpected- ness. “So you are in here, too!” exclaimed Peter. ~ “Did Hooty chase you here, ‘Whitefoot?' “No one chased me here, but I judge by the way you are panting that some one chased you here,” replied Whitefoot the Wood Mouse from & point farther in the hollow log. “Hooty the Owl, and he almost caught me this time,” replied Peter. “It s lucky I remembered this hollow X It is all that saved me. I hate he added rather bitterly. ‘What have trees got to do with 1t?” demanded Whitefoot, and his voice sounded even more squeaky than usual. “Why, if there were no trees Hooty and his family and the members of the Hawk family would have no high to sit and watch,” replied Peter. “It isn’t fair. No, sir, it isn’t fair. Here Old Mother Nature has given them the most wonderful eyes and then she fur- nishes them trees to sit in and watch for you and me. I wish there were no trees, nothing but bushes and bram- bles. I haven't any use for trees.” “I wouldn't say that, squeaked Whitefoot. “You seem to like to come over here to the Green Forest well enough.” “I would like it better if it were brambles and bushes instead of trees,” retorted Peter. “When I left the dear Old Briar-patch I took care to look and look for possible danger. Hooty must have been in the top of a tree over here on the edge of the Green Forest where I couldn’t see him, but where he could see me. So I almost ran straight into his claws, and all because he had a tree to sit in. Trees may be good for some people, but not for me. No, sir, I haven’t any use for a tree, never have had and never will have. What are you chuckling about?"” “I was just thinking,” replied White- | foot, still ‘chuckling in a squeaky way. “What _were you thinking?” de- | manded Peter, suspecting that he was| being laughed at. “How often trees have saved your life, yet how ungrateful you are,” re- plied Whitefoot. “When did a tree ever save my life?” demanded Peter indignantly. . DAILY DIET RECIPE CHOCOLATE OMELET. Eggs, six; salt, one-quarter teaspoon; powdered sugar, two tablespoens; chocolate, one square; hot water, two tablespoons; but- ter, two tablespoons. SERVES 4 OR 5 PORTIONS. Separate eggs. Beat yolks with suger and salt. Gradually add melted chocolate and hot water. Beat egg whites stiff and fold into yolk mixture, Melt enough butter in a heavy frying pan to cover bottom and sides and pcur omelet in. ~Cook over moderate flame until nicely browned on bottom, then place omelet in moderate oven for three minutes to dry top. Be careful not to burn or cook too dry. Fold over and turn onto hot platter, sprinkle top with powdered sugar and serve with cream-egg sauce (see dress- ings and sauces). DIET NOTE. Chocolate dmelet furnishes por- tein, fat, a Ilittle sugar. Lime, iron, vitamins A and B present in large amount in the eggs and butter. Can be eaten by normal adults of average or under weight. BY THORNTON W. BURGESS “Right now,” replied Whitefoot, chuckling aloud. “What'do you mean by right now?” mrl\sud Peter. “This old log saved my . not a tree.” “Is that so? Well, what is this old log?” retorted Whitefoot. “Why it is—it is——" Peter “Well, what is it?” insisted itef “Why. it s just a log, taht's all” ished Peter rather lamely. “And where would you find a I’ safe hollow log if there were no trees oo “WHAT HAVE TREES TO DO WITH IT?” DEMANDED WHITEFOOT. continued Whitefoot. “It seems to me that I have seen you.rather.glad to pop down in that hole between the roots of the big pine tree near here because with those roots there no one can dig you out. And I wonder what you would have done that night when Old Man Coyote so nearly caught you had there not been a great pile of brush for you to hide under, and that brush was the branches of trees. If you ask me, you old grumbler, I think trees have done a great deal for you a great many times. They are a lot like the rest of us; some keep awake all Winter and some sleep all Winter.” 2 others,MixThis | at Home for a Bad Cough | You'll be pleasantly surp when you make up this simpl home mixture and try it for a distressing cough or chest cold. It takes but a moment to mix and costs little, but it can be nded to give quick and lasting 2 23 ounces of Pinex from any druggist. Pour this into a pil bott then fill it with pl ted sugar syrup or strained honey. The full pint thus made costs no more than a small bottle of ready-made medicine, yet it much more effective. It is pure, keeps perfectly and children love its pleasant taste. This simple remedy has a remark- able three-fold action. It goes right to the seat of trouble, loosens the germ-laden phlegm, and soothes away the inflammation. Part of the medicine is absorbed into the blood, where it acts directly upon the bronchial tubes and thus helps in- wardly to throw off the whole trou. ble with surprising ease. Pinex is a highly concentrated compound of gennine Norway Pine, ng the aétive agent of creo- sote, in a refined, palatable form. l-fl’d :::;n as one nf‘the great- t ing agents for severe coughs, chest colds and bron- chial troubles. Do not accept a substitute for Pinex. It is guaranteed to give prompt relief or HELP ME CARRY THIS HAMPER DOWNSTAIRS, JIM DON'T TELL ME YOU'RE GOING TO SCRUB ALL THIS WASHI Inthe spotlight this week HEINZ TomatoKetch ; | T e Grapefrui COLDS SILLY! NOBODY SCRUBS NQWADAYS. 1 JUST SOAK THE WASH IN RINSO $SUDS, AND IT COMES SNOWY WHITE. WASHDAY IS EASY WITH RINSO The week beginning February 9th, . you'll see extra displays of Heinz ‘7ou are subject to acidosis this time of year—a major reason for catching colds. For too much acid in the system means your resistance is lowered. Grapefruit, because its action is alkaline, corrects acidosis; supplies, in generous measure, needed mineral Tomato Ketchup at your grocer’s —to remind you that this is the week for you to get better ac- quainted with this unmatched To- mato Ketchup. Buy one of these big red bottles, full of rich, thick, tomato good- ness. Compare it with your own salts and essential vitamins. Don'’t regard grapefruit as a luxury but as a health necessity; eat it twice § or thrice a day; or drink the refresh- ing juice. ‘When grapefruit is stamped, " Seald- Sweet,” know that it is the juiciest and sweetest of the whole Florida' crop. 'Seald-Sweet Grapefruit FLO}I!I»IDA?S FINBST GRAPEFRUIT n get clothes Nov‘t’hmu;;bbing or boiling e esw;\a(d work — it saves the l’cbedout They :l.:n't get that threadbare, scru! mhlooh. Cup for cup» Rinso gives twice as n: o lightweight, puffed-up ;o:glt Greal ‘;s, too; the m kmd ot machines recomm = You don’t need to b o i m ?-“;;se and folbw the euyn . TUNE IN unkinw'!‘;lkiefl."v:;lc appened & Thurs. 5:30 P. M., Station gap for tub, washer and dishee? ideas of perfect ketchup—and see if its tangy, spicy flavor doesn’t give yofi a whole new set of ideas about what a ketchup should be. Heinz Tomato Ketchup Week is a mighty good time to start using Heinz Tomato Ketchup—for a lifetime of better tasting meals. owr o m S ewo kinds of sosp— dishes: fot e BIO LS S