Evening Star Newspaper, March 10, 1931, Page 28

% A WASHINGTON DAYBOOK BY HERBERT PLUMMER. § nmrs something & bit sportsman- like in this change of positions be- ween those two Panamanians—Dr. icardo Alfaro and Dr. Harmodio Arias. Or so it would seem on the sur- _ face, at any rate. Alfaro is now President of Pana- ma. Until a few weeks ago he pre- A’ sided over his country’s legation in Washington. - Arias has just been appointed “minister T e ) Un es. 74 Until Alfaro took ’(,\ over the presi- A, dency, Arias served /V as provisional head /77 / of his government — - following the revolt i of January 2. Arias was credited in some quarters with engineering the revolt which re- | sulted in the change of their two po- sitions. He has denied this, however, declaring: | “My participation was limited to an attempt to satisfy the aspirations of | the citizens who gave me their confl- | dence . . . until Dr. Alfaro assumed | the presidency.” i A comparatively young man, about the age of Alfaro, who is his friend of long standing, Arias comes to Wash- ington late in March with a brilliant | record behind him. He was only 26 years old and just | out of the University of London with a | degree in law, when he was made un- | dersecretary of foreign affairs, his first | ublic office. He held this post only & few months when he resigned to enter | the private practice of law. | He has gone far in the legal profes- sion, His degree was confirmed by a thesis, “The ~ Contributions of Latin | America to the Development of Inter- national Law.” Since then he has come to be regarded, with Dr. Alfaro, as an outstanding student in this field. | He has served as member of the | THE STAR’S SERVICE ‘The jacket dress again proves itself fndispensable in the Spring daytime| ‘wardrobe. ‘This one is charming in a “guards- man” blue and white thin woolen plaid. And incidentally plaids are tremendous- 1y chic. The upper part of the bodice, Jacket facing and trim are in plain ‘woolen in matching blue shade. | ‘The plaited skirt with its curved out- line that starts at either side of the , gives that flat slimness over the hips so modish. | Style No. 2068 may be had in sizes. ;l.l'lll' years, 36, 38, 40 and 42 inches Plain and printed flat crepe silk, wool Jersey and the dress of flat crepe with Welveteen jacket are smart. For a pattern of this style send 15 ‘eents in stamps or coin directly to The ‘Washington Star's New York Fashiod ‘Bureau, Fifth avenue and Twenty-ninth street, New York. ‘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 series of dressmaking articles. It is a bodk that ‘will save you money. Price of ‘book, 10 cents. The FAMOUS flavor of Deerfoot farm Sausage 7s not matched by any other sausage IF YOU could see what per- fect cuts of tender fresh pork are chosen for Deerfoot Farm Sausage—see the way this meat is chopped to a uniform fineness instead of ground— see how skilfully the secret blend of rare spices is mixed in, you would say that Deer- footFarm Sausage should taste better than any other brand. And it does! For proof try some right away. Sold every- where—linked sausage in pound and half-pound car- tons; Sausage Patties in half- pound cartons; sausage meat in one and two pound bags. Deerfoot Farms Cos | He 1s getting bad marks in school. | way and it does no good. National Codifying Commission. 1920 he was his country’s delegate lol t{:e first assembly of the League of Na- tions, His honorary offices includes mem- | bership in the Society of the American | Institute of International Law, mem- bership in the Panamanian Society of International Law and membership in the Academy of History of both Vene- zuala and Argentina. He has ventured into diplomacy be- | fore, serving as his country’s minister ; to Argentina in 1921. Nor will he be| a siranger to Washington when he ar- | rives to take charge of the Panama legation, housed in a fine old stone mansion on New Hampshire avenue. He has been sent on several occasions to the United States on official mis- sions. \ Dr. Arias is married and the father of five children. His friends describe him as a great lawyer and a great patriot, a man whose | opinion has been sought often by his country in gatters of supreme national interest. Your Baby and Mine BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED. | As children grow, new problems arise which the parents may be unwilling' to face. Regular, weekly allowances, in amounts relative to the child’s needs, grow in importance with the years. ‘When perents refuse this need, because they dislike seeing their money used ! for what they may call non-essentials, | they may confrent some such problem as the fcllowing: “I want your help with my nine-year- old boy,” begins the letter. “It seems he is getting worse daily. He does not care how he looks, nor what he do:ls. e has gene to neighbors and borrowed as much as a dollar from them, telling them I wanted it, and takes it and goes to shows, buys candy and ice! cream. I have punished him in every | I have) given him a chance to do better, and now he is on his honor not to steal, but just today he took 50 cents from my pocket. What causes him to be dishonest? His father and I are very honest. Please help me.” 1 should like to help you, but it is! probable that the soluticn I suggest will | seem to you no solution at all. The fact remains that one of the causes of dishonesty, and the lying which natur- ally accompanies it, is a lack of spend- ing money. If you went to school in these modern days, you would find all the children of this age provided with an allowance of 25 to 50 cents a week. This buys pencils and those thousand and one objects which are non-essen- tials to adults, but heart’s desire to children. Your boy has no allowance, as is evi- dent, so his desire to be like the rest of the children, his necessity, to elevate himself in their eyes, has driven him to the extremity of getting money somewhere, somehow. This necessity exists and will continue to spur hin to petty thefts, until you, recognize his needs and furnish him the money he is now driven to steal. If children from five years on re- ceive their five pennies weekly and are allowed to manage as best they can, they soon get over the desire just to| spend. They find out from experience that it is wise to save money from one week to the next. They find that othexs are saving, and they, too, want to save. They make their mistakes with pen- nies, and as they grow to appreciate money and what it will do, their allow- ance can safely be. increased in size. ‘Then there would result no such wild spending " as your son now exhibits, simply because money is something without real meaning and is only good for what he can get out of it at the moment. He is compelled to spend it, in_order not to have it in his pocket. If you cannot afford this, then help him to find an opportunity to earn it, for he needs it in his sphere, fully as badly as you do in yours. SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. arn how to spell ‘ese words if you keeps on ticklin' me wif a straw? LEARN FROM MY EXPERIENCE “f HAVE found that using Kel- logg’s ALL-BRAN regularly is the surest way to keep the members of my family from being con- stipated.” Millions of users have found that Kellogg’s ALL-BRAN guarantees sure relief from both temporary and recurring con- stipation, Pills and drugs, as a rule, have to be taken in mounting doses— or they become useless. Kellogg’s ALL-BRAN offers you natural, safe relief from th2 headaches, the dizziness, the loss of energy that accompany constipation. And it also fur- nishes iron, which helps put color in cheeks and lips. Try it with milk or cream, fruits or honey added. Use it in ing too. At all Te"’ in the red-and- ! n . Mad Eals'cron e b Ralloss Southborough, Mass, NATIONAL § DAY BY LEE PAPE. After supper pop felt in his vest pockit Inland then looked in his humidor, say- ing, Yee gods 1o cigars, O well, theres stili hope as lorig us we have cigar stores and children. Benny, run around to the cigar store and get me a half a duzzen Queen Billies, he sed. . Yes sir, rite away? I sed. Any time before the store closes, just 80 iou start within 5 seconds and get back within 4 minnts, pop sed. Meening rite then, and I went down- stairs, and pop called me to see if I had started yet, wich I hadent, and about the 5th time he called me was to tell me to go back up stairs. Wich I did, pop saying, Do you real- ize youre sippose to be back from an errand that you havent even started on? Now this is serious. Have I got -dson or a slow motion picture? he sed. Well G wizzickers, pop, I was look- mg for my cap when you called me I sed. You meen the ferst time I called you? pop sed, and I sed, Yes sir. Did you find it? pop sed. Yes sir, I sed, and pop sed, And what were you doing the 2nd time I called you? I was straightening. the rug down in the hall where the corner was bent un- der, I sed. Somebody mite of been libel to trip over it, I sed, and pop sed, | Perhaps you saved my life, who knows? And the 3rd time I called you? he sed. I was straightening the other corner of the rug where I kicked it_crooked kicking the ferst corner strate, I sed. And th: 4th time? pop sed, and I| sed, I was looking for my cap again. I put it down somewheres tut I could- ent remember where, I sed. Quite so, you seem to have the sit- uaticn well in hand, pop sed. And he gave me 3 good size slaps with his slip- per and promised me a lot more if he dident have his Queen Billles in 5 minnits or less. Wich he did, proberly being less. . Muskroom and Macaroni. Serving 6—Two cups fresh or canned mushrooms, 4 tablespoons butter, 6 tablespoons flour, 3 cups milk, 1 tea- spoon salt, ¥ teaspoon paprika, ¥ cup diced celery, cooked; 2 tablespoons chopped green pepper, cooked; 2 cups macaroni, cooked, and % cup cheese, cut fine. Melt butter and add flour. ‘When blended add milk and cook until creamy sauce forms. Add rest of in- gredients and pour into buttered baking dish. Bake 25 minutes in moderate oven. If canned mushrocms are used they will not need to be cooked before they are added to the creamed mix- ture, If fresh mushrooms are used, scrub them with stiff brush. If large cut into dice, and if small leave whole. Place in upper part of double boiler and cook 10 minutes, then add to the creamed mixture. My Neighbor Says: The Spring’s colors are yellow and green, and they may cleverly introduced into foods such as frozen salads and des- serts, made in your electric re- frigerator. When cutting marshmallows, dip the kmife into hot water and they will not stick to the blade or to the fingers. Remember always that “variety is charming,” and when a room has been cleaned, change the position of the furniture and pic- tures. Often, by this means, a picture is noticed and admired afresh, when otherwise it would probably escape attention from the very fact that it is always in the same place. ' A little charcoal mixed with clear water and thrown déwn.a sink will purify it. ‘When broiling or baking with gas, put saucepan of water on top of gas oven or broiling oven and you will have nice hot water for your dishes. PARIS O new slll broadcloth called peaw d anges (shin o/ euz;els) mabes this white summer suit by Philippe et Gaston- Collar and belt o/fglfi& Md;rsefl_ e NANCY PAGE || Let a Child Help and He Is Happy. BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. Peter Page, Jr., was about 2!; years |old. His third birthday came July 5. | As Nancy watched her young hopeful | she felt that life had been kind to her. He was sturdy, well built and good natured. She never had had the | struggle that Lois still had occasionally | with Baby Ann. Peter's temper was equable. His appetite was not capri- cious. Other women envied Nancy her | son, and bemoaned the fact that their children were not so good natured. But nature. She had been wise in' the up- bringing of Peter. Having been denied the pleasure of learning self-reliance when she was a child, Nancy knew that her son should have every opportunity in the world to learn how to be helpful and how to fit into the scheme of family living. She had too many servants to wait upon her, but fortunately Peter was spared that spoiling. Peter had learned to help care for his dog. He refilled the bowl of water daily. Occasionally he forgot it, but one look at the thirsty little dog sent him scurrying to the sink. He liked to get out the slippers for Daddy. And his daddy, who was a most unselfish man, taught him to get out his mother’s mules or bedroom slip- pers at the same time. So every night out the pair of big and little slippers. He had learned to do most of his own | dressing. But best of all, he was will- ing to run errands for both his mother and his cousin Joan. On Sunday nights when the family ate in front of the fireplace he carried spoons, a cake plate, even sauce dishes and was happy |as a lark in knowing he was helping. Nancy concluded that most children adored doing the things grown-ups did and were definitely cheated if they were told to “run and play and not to bother.” They did not want to be told they were too young to help. Apple Fritters. Choose sour apples. Pare, core, and cut them into small slices. Stir into fritter batter and fry in boiling hot Nancy knew deep down in her heart that it was not all inherited good fat. Drain on paper. Sprinkle with powdered sugar and serve. XPENSIVE PACKAGES DONT ington. MAKE COFF Its What: 1931 SPRINGTIME P S BY D. C. PEATTIE. Before a single tree puts out a leaf the woods are full of the first lush greenery, and very good it looks to our hungry eyes, if you can find a child to lead you to the spot where the onion grass is sending frail green spears into the pale green twilights of earliest Spring evenings. Now, wild onions are not romantical; we laugh when we hear the very words, but the first green leaves are the first green leaves, and very glad we can be to see them, too. | Similarily, the skunk cabbage is a cause for Rabelaisian mirth, but there is something bold and buccaneering about its green, thick leaves, expand- | ing under the leafless alders where the golden tassels hang, and the ill-smell-, ing flower does not last long. The little | wood-leek, too, is blooming now in the rich, sweet loams of the steeps above the Potomac. Unlike almost all our fifteen hundred or so wild plants in the neighborhood of Washington, its leaves appear and die before its flowering stem shoots up. Many plants bear their flowers first and their leaves after- ward, but I think of no other Wash- ington plants that drop their leaves be- fore they flower, except the witchhazel. Several times this Spring I have seen women and children (all, I think, im- migrants) cutting the big lush rosettes of leaves of the Winter cress, itself an immigrant waif from Europe. These folks from the Old World, where every rustic plant is known for its uses and properties, know well that Winter cress makes fine “greens.” The average American countryman prefers a starchy, greasy diet of potatoes, corn, pork and pie, but the most ignorant European peasant makes the most of all the wholesome green vegetables that grow. So carefully does he glean from the woods and fields that the amateur plant lover has hard work to find much to expend that love upon in & thickly settled European countryside. But do not, if you go hunting for the first Spring “greens,” mistake either the Winter-cress or the early dock leaves for the beautiful false hellebore, whose sulphurous green, great leaves, rather like those of a lady's slipper, but much bigger, are found at Laurel, Hollywood. Swamp, Lincolnton, Magno- lia Run and Suitland Bog, for in this ‘weird plant of the lily family lurks a deadly poison. FOOD PROBLEMS BY SALLY MONROE. Luncheon Foundation. The clever cook can prepare the luncheon menu in such'a way that one substantial dish is the foundation and, in addition, only easily prepared things are needed. This sort of luncheon is truly deli- clous—more delicious, often, than the meal containing several complicated before he went to bed young Peter laid | dish:s. And yet it is an easy kind of | meal to prepare. | You can use a well cooked dish of potatoes for the mainstay. With it you | may have canned sardines, a lettuce | salad, bread and butter, a beverage and | soms canned fruit. Here is a recipe for | a good foundation dish of potatoes. | Spanish potatoes—grate together or put through the food chopper 3 onions, 1 large green pepper. The pepper should first have seeds and core re- moveq and be parboiled. Cook in ¥ a cup of olive oil until the onions begin | | slightly to brown. Have ready 1 pint| of parboiled potato cubes, 2 an inch in diameter, and add to the onions and pepper, turning over with a fork until the potatoes are browned and soft. Sweet potatoes, parboiled and sliced, ; may be substituted for the white pota- toes, and so may rice, hominy or ma- caronl. Thre: or 4 tablespoonfuls of butter may be substituted for the ofl. An elaborate egg dish makes an in- teresting and substantial meal if ac- companied or followed by a good fruit salad, saltines and tea. GOOD EE S INSIDE ECONOMY is the order of the day. Why pay for an expensive metal package when no other Coffee can possibly be fresher than Wilkins —the gloriously good pedigreed Coffee that’s Fresh Roasted Daily Right Here in Wash- Remember—Coffee freshness is more than “tin deep”’—you ean’t drink a tin can, why pay for one? The perfected Wilkins triple-seal Carton keeps all the natural Coffee goodness in. a penny. You save the Difference. It costs less than The name Wilkins is a pledge of known Quality and known Freshness. Insist on Wilkins Coffee. WRC Every . Saturday Evening 7:30 Wilkins Coffee Orchestra Be thrifty. Be smart. It’s Just Won’derf ul! WILKINS COFFEE FLAME STEEL cur good + him well, took his ticket. OUR CHILDREN BY ANGELO PATRL Bribery and—1? There was a scuffle outside the class room door. Then we heard, “Come, Benny. That’s a good boy. Come. You go into school now and Il give you a penny. “No. Give me a nickel.” In a moment Benny entered the class room, a nickel clutched in his hand, smiles wreathing his face. That was byt yesterday. It ‘brought to my mind something that happened when I was a boy at- tending school in the lower grades. ‘There was a boy in our class who never got a good ticket. He always did some- thing that the teacher did not like and so forfeited his ticket. One afternoon as we marched out, all the good ones among us proudly dis- playing our certificates of merit, this bad little boy jumped upon one of the smallest boys and after punching We chased him and demanded the reason for this highway robbery. “Now you fellows leave me alone. I got a good reason for taking his ticket. My old man told me that if I brought home a good ticket today he would take me to the museum to see the freaks. If I didn’t bring home the ticket he would give me a good walloping. I had to have the ticket. Kitsy has lots of them.” We looked at each other and the thing seemed fair enough. He needed |, . that ticket. To such straits does bribery lead innocent little boys. Little boys are not all as innocent as our friend, of course, but bribery does not help any of them. It does them harm. It is right and wise to reward chil- dren for work well done. The laborer is worthy of his wage and a bonus along with it. But this bribery is another thing altogether. It hits at the char- acter of the child. It puts gain above duty and say what you like, that is Our hero’s nerves are taut and tense, his eyes peer all about; His valet tramps the Indian wilds to bring some beasts to rout. It isn't long until the latter rushes back pell-mell. “At beating ’'round the bush,” he bad as bad can be. So bad that it will not work. Little chilren need to be cheered along the hard roads of learning, that is true. They need a cheerful teacher, an appreciative audience, somebody to praise when praise is due. But no offer of a reward for doing what it is their plain duty to do. No “If yow do this, I'll do that.” Most of the joy of a reward lke that is in the mind of the bestower. He thinks the child is as pleased and as proud, feels the thrill of achieve- ment as he does in bestowing the 3 and he is usually wrong. The child does not value the reward at all. Try it out and see. A few words of praise for a good deed given immediately upon the heels of performance will gladden the child tremendously. The gift of & nickel, a new something or other, last for a minute—and then no more is thought of it. The good word given in season lasts. Sometimes parents say, “New you a good report card this month and Il buy you that wheel, or that new dress you want.” The child works better for a day or so and then forgets all about the prize. If the child were capable of making sustained effort like that there would be no need for the promise of a reward. It is mental and spiritual strength and physical health that a child needs. A word of appreciation, a bit of applause for a good deed is all that he asks, or can use. Bribery is (Copyright, 1931.) 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