Evening Star Newspaper, February 21, 1931, Page 21

WOMAN'’S PAGE. THE EVE " Supply of Simple Cotton Dresses BY MARY This is the best time of the year that you could choose to renew your supply of simple cotton dresses. The yard goods departments in the stores are showing the season's new cotton materials and, if you haven't seen them, you surely have something to look for- ward to. These materials are unusually good to see, with a freshness and youthfulness all their own. ‘There is no longer any question of how the cotton dress should be made. Skirt lengths, waistlines and silhou- ettes generally have been determined, so that if you choose a pattern that com bines smartness and wearability n you may be sure that the dress will Temein in good style throughout the Summer. 3 By way of adding trimming to the simple cotton frack, why not arrange & little machine-done hemstitching of BEDTIME STORIES Run, Peter, Run! g5 of fear in times of need feet lend superspeed. —Jumper the Hare. The w: To fal The truth of this saying was proven #0 Jumper right before his eyes. It was Peter Rabbit who did it. You see, as Jumper and Peter were passing a certain dark green tree, a cedar tree with thick low-growing branches, they had been given a most startling sur- prise. Jumper had become suspicious thet all was not well, and with a call Hlaey PETER, RUN!" SHRIEKED BLACKY. 0 Peter o run for big brush pile some distance away, had taken to his long heels. Peter had heeded the warning instantly, not waiting to find out what the danger might be, and had started off, lipperty-lipperty-lip, head- ing straight for the big brush pile. Now, the instant Peter started, out from under that cedar tree leaped Yowler the Bobcat. Jumper was scared. Oh, yes, Jumper was scared. H: always is scared when he knows that Yowler is about. But Jumper wasn't as badly scared as was Peter Rabbit. In truth, MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Sliced Oranges. Cereal with Cream Broiled Bacon. Scrambled Eggs. Corn Pone. Coffee. Southern Style Roast Ham. Baked Sweet Potatoes. Buttered Asparagus. Cucumber Salad Fudding. be. SUPPER. Russian Sandwiches. Stuffed Olives Pear and Cheese Salad. Brown Sugar Cookies. Tea CORN PONE. Three-fourths cup corn meal, one and one-fourth cups flour, one-fourth cup sugar, fiv tea- spoons by powder, pinch of salt, one cup milk, one egg, two teaspoons melted butter. Mix and sift dry ingredients, add milk, egg (well beaten) and but- ter. Bake in shallow buttered pan in rather hot oven 20 min- utes. CUP PUDDING Pour one cup hot two cups dry whole-whe; crumbs. When cold, beaten yolks of two eg: Tourth teaspoon salt and the juice and grated rind of one orange. Mix thoroughly and fold in the stiffly peaten whites. Butter bak- ing cups and put a tablespoon of orange marmalade in each, fill two-thirds full with the pudding mixture and steam one-half hour. Turn from the oups and serve with hard sauce SANDWICHES. Slice cold brown bread very thin, cut out with fancy cutter and spread with butter. For fill- ing flake cod, halibut or salmon; season with pepper and add lemon juice. Cover the fish with mayonnaise, then a layer of shredded lettuce. (Copyright. 1931.) MARSHALL. | the sort shown in the dress in today's | sketch? You can use it in joining two pieces of the dress together, or you can ar- | range it as a border trimming between the dress and a band of material to give the effect of a hemstitched hem. The two pleces of material between which you want the hemstitching to | appear should be placed together as for a seam. Then between the two pleces slip a plece of thick blotting pa- per or, rather, soft cardboard. Be sure that your machine needle is strong and sharp and thread it with strong cot- ton—No. 50 or 60. Now stitch the two pieces of material. A and C. together, as indicated in the diagram, working through both pieces and the blotter or cardboard. B. When the seam has been completed, pull out the paper, open up the seam. turning back the material so that the stitching shows up like a row of nar- tow hemstitching. | Before starting with the work on the ,dress you should experiment on a few ! seraps of material to see that the ten- sion and stitch of your machine are , properly adjusted. Household Methods BY BETSY CALLISTER. A Good Broom. A good broom is always worth good care. If vou treat your brooms any old way then any old broom will do, but if you use care with them, then |1t is worth while buying a broom of | superior quality. | " Attention should be given both when you use it and when you put |it away. Take care not to use the | broom always on one side, and it { will not become one sided and bent iFreqllenU)’ change it about so that pressure comes first on one side and then on the other. Do not use a good broom to sweep heavy dirt and dust. Have an older broom for this and use the new broom only for the finer work. Remember that a broom should never | be left standing on the broom corns. It should always be hung up so that the pressure is relieved from the broom end. Usuallv a broom has perfora- tions in the handle end so that a| cord may be put through by which to hang it. If your broom lacks this| make a loop of cord and attach it to| | the end of the broom by means of a small tack. | | Some housewives seem to forget that | brooms ever need cleaning. They should always be inspected after being | used, to see that they are free from dust and an accumulation of strings or hairs. And remember that brooms can be washed. To do this make a good hot soapsuds in a pail and put your broom in, lifting it up two or three times, without actually soaking it. Now let the broom hang in the open air until perfectly dry. You will| find that it is crisp and fresh as when new. Soft brooms need even more careful attention than broom corn brooms, and | never should they be left resting on their brush ends, but should be hung| where they swing free from pressure. | By Thornton W. Burgess. Jumper's real fear was more for his small cousin than for himself. —He knew that those long hindlegs of his could keep him out of reach of Yowler's claws even though Yowler is himself some jumper for a short distance. But Peter cannot cover hall the distance in a single jump that Jumper can, and Jumper knew this. So did Yowler. He would much rather have Jumper, for the latter was 50 much bigger that he would make a far better meal, but Peter would do very well and would be, or should be, much easier to catch. So Yowler didn't |so much as look in the direction of Jumper. He fixed his eyes on that lit- tle bobbing gray-brown form which was Petor Rabbit, and bounded after him. “Run, Peter, run!” Jumper kept re- peating over and over to hims:lf, for you know he hasn’t much of a_ voice. “Run, Peter, run!” screamed Blacky the Crow, who happened along just in t'me to see Yowler leap out from under | that tree. “Run, Peter, run!” screamed Mrs. Blacky, hurrying up to see what was going on. Peter didn’t need to be told to run. No, indeed! Never had he run faster and never had he had greater need of running his fastest. Had Peter been only a very little nearer that cedar tree when Yowler leaped out, he would | have had no chance at all. Yowler's first leap was a mighty bound that car- ried him a long way. and his second | bound was almost equal to it. If he could have kept up those long leaps Peter wouldn't have had a chance, but he couldn't. As it was he was near enough to Peter to fill the latter with such fear as he had known but once or twice before in his life. And that fear was lending wings to Peter's feet, which made it seem as if he fairly flew over the snow. What that really means is that Peter was so frightened that he was running faster than he had sup- posed he could. There was no place of safety short of the big brush pile toward which he was running. He must reach that | brush pile first or furnish a dinner for Yowler the Bobcat. That great pile of | brush was his only possible hope for life, and it didn't look like very much of a hope. “Run, Peter, run!” shricked Blacky. “Run, Peter, run!” screamed Mrs. Blacky. Peter didn't hear either of them. He | heard nothing. His whole attention was centered on reaching that brush pile before Yowler reached him, and he was beginning to doubt if he could | do it. It seemed as if that brush didn't | get one bit nearer. It seemed as if it were going away from him faster than he went toward it. Of course, this | wasn't so at all. Every jump was tak- ing Peter nearer to that big pile of | brush. It didn't seem so. simply be- cause he was so terribly frightened and so_very, very anxious to get there. “Go it, Peter! Go it! Run, Peter, runi” (Copyright, SONNYSAYINGS 1931) Baby finks her is doin’ so good I hates to tell her Daddy say fer her to put on the brakes— (Copyright, 1931.) {tomb is no joke.” LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. This afternoon there was nuthing to do on account of none of the fellows being around, and I went down our celler for no special reason, and the wood bin looked even fearser than usual on account of the wood being split around every wich way except strate, me thinking, G, wouldent ma be serprised if I piled it all up neet as If it was in a store window or some place? Wich I started to do, being harder than I thawt on account of a lot of the wood having nales and & lot having splinters and a lot acting as if it did- ent wunt to be pulled out and put back neet, and I got hot as anything and every once in a while a lot of the wood would fall down agen just when I got it piled up rite, and ‘I stayed down there about 2 hours on account of having made up my mind and feeling stubbern about it, and when I got through the wood bin looked as if it would of took a prize if anybody gave prizes to wood bins. and ma called down the celler steps, Is that you, Benny, what on erth are you doing downj there? If you wunt to see something swell come on_down. I sed. Wich ma did, saying. Well I think thats perfeckly marvellis, thats just grand. that wood bin looked like ‘the last days of Pompay, I was absilutely ashamed of it. It just goes to show that_you can do a thing just as thor- roughly as anybody elts if you make up your mind, and now that youre alred- dy all nice and derty you mite as well kill 2 berds with one stone and pile up those dusty newspapers there in the corner, their a_disgrace, she sed. Aw 'good nite, ma, G, I dont feel like it now, ma. aw heck Im all wore out, G roozlem ma, what the dooce, T sed, and ma sed, 1 dident ask you if felt, like it. the idecr telling me dont feel like it when I delibritly ou to do someihing, now you get And she went up again and I piled up_the newspapers agenst my will. Proving the dangerous thing about proving youre a good werker is that | youre libel to haff to keep on proving it. NANCY PAGE Naney Page Club Has Washington Dinner. BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. The Nancy Page Club was entertain- ing for George Washington's birthday. It had become customary for the wives to entertain the husbands with a din- ner, fcllowed by a talk, given by a visiting lecturer. One year the speaker told about early Colonial days, another time a group of dancers gave the min- uet and other old-time steps. the speaker was a man who had made a study of Colonial doorways. He had taken many photographs which he, using to lilustrate his talk, had made into_slides. The dinner was at Nancy'’s home and the speaker was being entertained by her during his stay. Nancy planned a menu with only one or two reminiscent Colonial touches She did have hot rolls, quince pre- serves and the Washington pie. But the rest of the meal was modern She used red and white carnations for a centerpiece. The cloth was of snowy white damask, but in place of the matching napkins she used squares of blue and white polka dot cotton and folded them over with one corner opened like the flap of an opened en- velope. On the napkin was lald the place card which was of white paper bordered with red. She used the ad- dress stickers sold in stationery stores. She started the dinner with tomato Jjuice cocktail, followed that with baked ham with & brown sugar and clove crust, mashed potatoes, caulifiower broken into flowerets and placed in center of serving dish and surrounded by cooked carrot cubes. There were pickled peaches as well as the “raised” hot rolls and quince preserves. Her | dessert was Washington pie. With this was served black coffee. A Sermon for Today BY REV. JOHN R. GUNN, “Therefore, let xii.1 No loitering, but running, as in a race. That is life. The idea is in- tensity—life in earnest. bseph Cook, the famous lecturer, said in one of his lectures: “Gentle- men, this life up to the edge of the Some people may make a joke of life, but before they are through with it life will make a joke of them. Life is a serious business. |1t is a race in which we cannot afford to_loiter. “Therefore, let us run.” Without earnestness no man is ever : nor does he ever do really great He may be the most gifted 1; he may be brilliant and ac- complished; he may be smart and clever; he may be entertaining and popular; but he will want force and effectiveness A wavering, vacillating, dead-and- alive man, no matter how talented he may be, will never amount to much. This world reserves its prizes for the men in earnest. Only the man with a flaming, passionate soul ever plays a | big part in the world's life and work. As another says: “He who would do | some great thing in this short life must apply himself to the work with such a concentration of his forces as, to the idle spectators, who live only to amuse | themselves, looks like insanity.” The man who is dead in earnest is | not the man to be baffled or discouraged when he gets into a tangled and hard situation. Earnestness strengthens pur- pose, inspires determination, gives en- durance, braves dangers, sustains hope, makes light of difficulties, and leads on to conquest and victory. All things else being equal, you can depend on the earnest man fo put across any job or enterprise to which he sets his hand. Lack of earnestness, not lack of ability or opportunity, is the cause of most failures. If you wish to master any accomplishment, give yourself to it with your whole heart, and it lies beneath your feet. Go at it in a half-hearted way, and you might as well not go at 1t at all. Earnestness is the secret of all noble life and great attainments. We can never realize our possibilities until we lapproach life and its work in earnest. us run."—Hebrews, STAR, WASHINGTON, This year | She fringed t'.e edges of the napkins | B, C SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1931 FEATURES MODES OF THE MOMENT DOROTHY DIX® ‘DARIS MNUL-seasor. streel Bl of beize woolk e S LETTER BOX wife is a good mother and a good men in the neighborhood. cheer for me. Nothing but nagging. but for their mother to belittle me is peevish, bossy, nagging woman of her | to raise such ructions and keep her so bu a chance to commence on yours. explaining her you might make her behave herself. bully her out of her life. That is the easiest way. encased in self-righteousness. She is three sons. husband beyond making him physically and darning his socks isn't enough. have any spiritual needs. She thinks enough to satisfy any man. who will make a fuss over you cheerful. for her to disparage you before your their eyes. And nobody can teach her, or th things, because she is so certain she housekeeper. welcome than hot soup; better to save | more soft soap on him and less on the than mince pie. extravagant, somehow made them happy. | | ‘The latest thing in interior decora- tion does not necessarily make the finest decoration. There are in each generation fashions in furniture and furnishings. and because these sway popular_opinion homemakers are eager to do their rooms over in the style of the moment. For those who cannot af- ford to have their dwellings continually done over, it is fortunate that style is not synonomous with good taste. Beauty and appropriateness are standards. When styles stress these features, they are at their best. We have but to consider the mid- and I give her my entire pay envelope every week. as being a good manager is concerned, but she is not companionable. fault with everything that I do and compares me unfavorably with the other When I get home from work there is never any there anything that I can do about it? It v in which you raved and arraigned her for everything she did, and didn't do, For that kind of 2 woman needs a master, and she really never has any affection or respect for any man who doesn't She keeps a clean house. She sets well cooked food before you. In her own mind she is a model wife, and she feels that you should be thanking Heaven for having bestowed her as an undeserved blessing upon you. | a good housekeeper spiritually than it is materially husband happy than to make him comfortable; better to give \ i/w‘“:\“‘ \ 4 ‘DEAR MISS DIX-—I am married and have three boys in their teens. My housekeeper, 1 am & hard-working man She is a good wife as far She finds This makes me not only very unhappy, destroying my boys' respect for me. Is 8.'s. Answer: T am afraid not. for if any one has ever found a way to cure a faults he has kept the secret to himself instead of broadcasting it for the benefit of his suffering fellow men. ‘The only way to deal with a fault-finding wife is to beat her to it, and ver everything she does that you put her on the defensive shortcomings that you do not give her ou had the nerve fo put on a big fight A meek man who turns over all his carnings t» his wife hasn't the spirit | to stage a domestic rebellion and so he is lost end of the chapter, and about all he can do is just to submit and quit kicking. | There is no use in trying to awaken the conscience of a waman like your | wife and make her see what & raw deal she is giving you, because she is so thrifty and doesn’t waste your money. She has borne Tt has never even occurred to her that a wife has any duty toward her comfortable, and that just feeding him | It has never dawned on her that you | a boiled dinner and a clean hearth are SBhe doesn't understand that you are starving just as much for a little love and appreriation as you could be for bread. She doesn’t understand that when vou come home tired and worn out vou want a wife who is glad to see you, | and who will laugh and make jokes and She doesn't understand that it humiliates you into the very earth children and make you look small in usands of other women like her, these is a mode]l wife because she is a good | What a pity she can’t see that it is better for a woman to be | better for her to make her him a warm his pride than his money; better to use kitchen sink; better to feed him on love Many a time the best wives are the worst wives, and the worst wives are | the best wives. We have all seen widowers who were perfectly reconciled when | | they lost wives who were models of all the virtues and notable housekeepers. and we have known husbands who broke their hearts over the death of little | fluffy-ruffie wives whose housekeeping was a_scandal, but who | DOROTHY DIX. Elements of Good Decoration BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. \ CLASSIC STYLES OF FURNITURE ARE ALWAYS IN GOOD TASTE. Victorian period to realize that beauty is not always present in style. Some of the furniture was little short of atrocious, but so sweeping was the vogue that choice furniture, exquisite in line and rare in woods, was rele- gated to attic and barn, if not actually cast out in order to furnish rooms with the latest things. There were some handsome mid-Victorian pieces in fine woods often burled. These remain beautiful always, but they are scarce. It is this element of beauty that should guide the home decorator in choice of furniture, It may be antique, He will be henpecked to the | Your Baby and Mine BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED. Our advance is slow in the matter of ! correcting thumb-sucking. Mothers are determined, despite advice to the con- trary, to do the very things which make it literally impossible for the child to forget the habit. The following letter is fllustrative of all the things one should not do to correct thumb-suck- ing. None of them has proved suc- cessful. “My daughter sucks her second finger,” begins Mrs. M. A. E. “I would like to know how to correct this bad ihabit. So far I have put on it bitter aloes, tobacco, iodine, adhesive plaster, gloves, linament and white paint: I have tied her hands behind her. Her teacher tried to help her (this is the first inkling of how old the daughter is) and now would you like your sugges- tion.” Most of your methods have been all of a kind. curb the desire for the thumb, why should any other bad taste? Some of these substances are dangerous and might have made the child actually ill. All such methods are valueless with the clder child. The tiny baby under one year wko begins to suck a thumb might be deterred by having it wrapped in such a way that he couldn't put it in his mouth. In most cases all that needs to be done, even then, is to pa- tiently take it out of his mouth when- ever he puts it in and divert his atten- tion. JIn time he loses the desirs to suck it, if everything else in his dally routine and diet is satisfactory. older child and make him determined to suck that finger at any cost. In fact. the habit is solidified and kept active by the mother’s efforts to stop it. ‘Why not face this situation and ccase flying in the face of constant failure? Take it for granted that, of course, the child do's want to stop this habit. She understands that it is a baby habit; that it spoils the shape of her mouth and deforms it, as well as prevents her tak- ing active part in her playmates’ sports. Now the question is how to help her stop fit. Suppose you ask your daughter in habit. TLet her suggest ways that she thinks will be helpful. If she is doing it when she is idle and can't think of anyvthing else to do, try to think of som°thing interesting and active that will engage her attention. PERHAPS you thought your Uncle Sam was a bit extravagant for | these depress>d times when you read the other day that he had spent $1.80 000 for an Amer- ican embassy in Berlin. That wi the price patd for the Bluecher Palace, located at the head of Unter den Linden in the cen. ter of the city, and over which Am- bassador Sackett i to_preside. Lot of money t pay for an Ambas- sador's residence, you may thought. As a matter of fact, only a small part of the Blue- cher Palace will be allotted to the American Ambassador for living quar- “My hat is off,” says Bunny, “to the Bantam of Japan: ‘Though small, in fighting he forms as only bantams can.” “It's good,” the Bantam says, “you took your derby off to me— For if you hadn't done so I would knock it right off! See?” Everyday Psychology BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. If you may believe what the mental hyglenists say, everybody suffers now and then an attack of the “blues.” This mental malady is just as common as the “common cold.” Who can say that he has not at some time had his “down” spells? Do you know how to cure the blues? Better etill, do you know how to pre- vent them? These are not exactly two different questions. From about every way you look at mental hygiene, pre- vention is cure and cure is prevention. In other words, when the blues are on you, simply take some steps toward keeping them from going on. Some find a cure in Abraham Lin- coln’s prescription. Just think to your- self, “This also shall pass.” There's virtue in this psychological medicine. It helps you take your mind off your troubles, even if you don’t know what your troubles are. There's virtue also in the fact that Lincoln’s prescription is administered by no one but yourself. You are the doctor. Macbeth: “Can’st thou not minister to a mind diseas'd?” Doctor: “Therein the patient must minister to himself.” Another good way to cure the blues is to go to work on some useful proj- ect. As soon as you begin to find out that you can create something, you have lifted yourself out of your self. it may be modern, or in periods be- tween these two extremes. Whenever beauty and good workmanship are combined, the pieces are always worth while. They can stand the test of time and never fail to hold their own. Many homes have an assortment of periods combined in interiors, yet so choice are the articles that good deco- ration is present. It is true that care- ful treatment must be accorded rooms in which periods not always congenial are combined. The e: decorator who does rooms in modernistic style completely in specific periods, or allled periods, has no such puzzling problems confront him as when he assimilates various styles. But it is seldom that purely period rooms have the glow of comfortable beauty that settles down on well dec- orated rool in which are well ar- ranged the choice furniture assembled during varlous generations. (Copyright. 1931.) If one bad taste does not | As we have said repeatedly, restraint | and punishment simply antagonize the | what wav you can help her forget the | A WASHINGTON DAYBOOK BY HERBERT PLUMMER. have | The Woman Wi Hard Training. | The apprenticeship for all professions | iu grinding. The study of law is likely | | to ‘be pretty dull: the study of med |icine is a strain to sensitive feeling | the study of ste- | nography is drudg- ery. Learning to operate a telephone | switchboard is hard on the nerves:| learning to sell goods is hard on| the feet: learning | to be a telegrapher | is bard on the memory. | t's like learning | to swim or play tennis. When you | begin you bring into play certain un- | | used and soft muscles, and until these | are hardened you feel pretty uncom- fortable. When you learn something | new with your mind it's mental mus- cles. 0 to speak, that you have to train. | The nurse’s probation is hardest of | all because here both body and mind | are called to new action. Most nurses | | sink into despair during their training. | | Probably every nurse at some time | during {\er training was ready to give |up. No wonder student nurses feel | like H. L. B, who writes me this wor- | ried letter “Perhaps_you think it's queer to be feeling so down and out on a holida: but I do, all on account of my Wor I am 23 years old and in training at a hospital.” H. L. B. ought to make sure just what it is that she dislikes. If she is unfitted by temperament to be a nurse, she ought to stop right now. If she does not, like taking care of sick peo- | ple, if she hasn't the patience to bear with_their foolish notions, if certain rough aspects of the job repel her, she will not make a good nurse. She is wasting her time. If she hasn't the basic physical vitality, this is no work for her. | Helen Woodward. | | hours, or is weary of the monotony and duliness of certain parts of her studies, | she had better be a little patient. When | she is a_full-fledged nurse her hours will be shorter and her work more in- teresting. _And then she may be much happier. Fortunately, if she is unfitted for nursing she is young enough to try something else. There is one huge advantage for the | ters. An embassy—certainly this one | ‘l.n Berlin—is more than a place where ‘brfllhn& social functions are ven. Probably it more closely resembles & | | small office building. For in the American embassy office space must be provided for a person- nel of 135. | There are offices for the entire Amer- | you fair treatment. If she is bothered only by the long | W ho 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. nurse. In most professions the be= ginner, after she has learned her trade g to g0 through a second hard period rial and small pay. The nurse, on the contrary, once graduated, immedi= ately becomes full-fledged and gets regular nurse’s pay The mechanism for getting & fob s definite and clear. She does not have the puzzling uncertainty in looking for ? ];\\) that girls in all other lines have o face. ‘Washington and Lincoln. Washington is not a woman's hero, You seldom find a woman reading about Washington—you rarely find a w:man writing about him. But women love Lincoln. They write books about Lin- coln—they read about Lincoln. Why is this? Why is it that men like Washington, while women are indif- ferent to him? Why do women love Lincoln and merely have an impersonal esteem for Washington? Perhaps it's because Washington was such an excessively masculine man. Hi was a_man in whose life women were not important. Lincoln, on_the other hand, was much influenced by womcen. He understood them. If you had been seated next to Washington at dinner you wouldn't have known what to talk about. You would have had in_your mind all the time this thought: This is a very great man. What can T say of enough im- portance to interest him? But if you had been sitting next to Lincoln you | would be thinking: What a_dear per- son this is. anything. If you had been Washington's secre- tary—you never could have been, be- I can talk to him about | cause he had only men secretaries—but if you had been he would have treated you impersonally, like a machine and an inferior. He would never have been unkind. He would probably have given But Washington w events and facts. He thought al- vs of events and fact: He did not think of people as individuals. He thought of them as masses and nations —as parts of events. So he would have thought of you as a competent part of some event. He would have respected you and you would have admired him. But Lincoln always thought more of individuals than of events. He would have thought you—as an individual—of first importance. You would have been afraid of Wash- ington, but you never would have been afraid of Lincoln. If you had been Lincoln's secretary he would have treated you as an equal and a friend. You could have taken your troubles to him and he would have been interested. Now, women have not reasoned all this out. Most of them don't know it mn these terms, but instinctively they feel it. Instinctively they know that they would have understood Lincoln and that he would have understood them. And that's why they love Lin- coln and esteem Washington. My Neighbor Says: | ican diplomatic staff, numbering 3 the entire consular staff, numbering 53: | the members of the American military attache’s staff, 12; naval attache's staff, | 7. commercial attache's staff, 2i | Treasury Department representatives, a | | public health surgeon and bor De- | | partment adviser. | | * Ambassador Sackett now rents a | residence in Berlin for which he per- sonally pays $12,000, and toward this | he is given a rent allowance of $3,000. | The State Department estimates that the Government is now paying a total | | of $32,409 in rent annually for embassy | offices in Berlin. A conservative value of the building alone on the Blucher property is placed at $700,000. The net cost of the land works out at $1640 a square foot. A square foot of similar property in Wash- ington, a city of considerably smaller | size than Berlin, would cost $50, it is | estimated. For the location of the new embassy is regarded as the center of Berlin. It has two frontages; one looks out on | the Central Park, the other faces Pariser | Platz, across which is located the French | embassy. The British embassy and | the German foreign office are located | around the corner on Wilhelm strasse. The rear joins the government gardens | behind the President’s palace. | "The American Government regards | with favor such purchaces in the larger capitals of Western Europe. In Paris |8 site has been_acquired for an office | building in the Place de la Concorde. | These large capitals were selected be- | cause they are centers through which | most American travel passes and be- cause of our vast business commitments there. | "It has been variously estimated that | investments in Germany of American | capital now total as high as $12.000,- | 000.000. The convenience to an Amer- | ican traveler in finding all his officials centralized in one building instead of being scattered in various parts of the city is the Government's expressed goal. OUR CHILDREN BY ANGELO PATRL A Clean Mouth. It would astonish you to know how few clean mouths there are among the hosts of children who are in our schools. | A clean mouth is a rare occurrence. When I say a clean mouth I mean clean inside as well as out. The little children have rotting teeth in their mouths. They suffer from toothache. | They cannot chew their food properly. The “eacher shows the child’s mouth to the nurse and the nurse visits the home and tells the mother to take the child to a good dentist and have his teeth cleaned and filled. Some go promptly. Some never go. Of those who go promptly to the den- tist many return with the news that little children. Then we begin a search for one who does. Sometimes we find one, sometimes we do mot. Usually by dint of patient searching we find a dentist and a clinic and get the worst of the mouths cleaned up a bit. “These are his first teeth. The den- tist said it does not matter about them.” “Did you ask the dentist about these molars here? The two big ones? These are not baby teeth and they have bad holes in them. If the child loses them he loses them for all time. He needs them to keep his jaws in shape and, most of all, he needs them to chew his food. Did you ask the dentist about them! “Well, you see it's like this. When the dentist put him in the chair, he's such a nervous child, you understand, he ran out of the office hollering and the den- tist got mad and said, ‘Take him out of here’ Of course, I can't blame the man. But what can I do?” What indeed? ~Dentists dread the appearance of little children in their offices. Even the men who have been | trained to care for the teeth of little | children, and they are increasing in | numbers every year now, tell us that few children have been trained to ac- cept the attentions of the dentist., The mothers reply by saying that few of the dentists have been trained to care for little children. Both are right. We can do better on both sides of the dentist’s hair. It will help if we begin to teach little children to keep their mouths clean in the early years. Accustom the children to having their teeth examined and cleaned by doing the work yourself. That will teach them to hold their mouths open while you poke about them with an orange stick in gauze or a tooth brush filled w paste. the dentist said he did not do work for | Fresh rhubarb sauce with sponge or angel food cake makes a good Spring dessert. Don't neglect little scratches and cuts because they are mot important looking. A pin prick has caused death through infec- tion. If you keep a wound clean, you are doing all that is humanly possible to guard against blood poisoning. The use of too much sugar will prevent ice cream from freezing quickly. To remove scorch marks from linen cut an onion in halves, rub scorched part of linen with imlf of the onion, then soak linen in cold water. If linen is not badly scorched, the marks will soon dis- appear. Rice and other milk puddings must be cooked very slowly to be good. I is only in this way that the starch grains have time to swell and thicken the milk thor- oughly. (Copyrisht, 1931 THE STAR’S DAILY PATTERN SERVICE Here is a charming day model for immediate Spring wear. It has the fascinating lingerie collar and cuffs that mark the newest imports. It's a bright purple-blue flat creps with the fascinating trim in white crepe de_chine. It's youthfully becoming to miss or | the woman of average full figure. Style No. 2986 may be had in sizes 12, 14, 16, 18, 20 years, 36 and 38 inches bust. 1t makes up equally well in woolen fabrics. For instance, in a tweed mix- ture or in wool jersey. The trim is in- teresting in pique. In a crepy patterned woolen, use a plain blending shade of self-fabric. In flat crepe printed silk, it's delight- ful with plain crepe contrast. You will see one attractive style after another as you turn over the pages of our new Spring Fashion Book. Styles for children or the miss, the matron, the stout—and a serles of dressmaking articles. It is a book that will save you money. For a pattern of this style, send 15 cents in stampe or coin directly to The Washington Star's New York Fashion Bureau, Fifth avenue and Twenty- e N Speculations on the origin of the werld are as old as man himself. Haeckel claimed Moses as a forerunner of Dar. win, ninth street, New York. Be sure to fill in the size of the pat- tern. 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