Evening Star Newspaper, March 16, 1931, Page 26

§ Prepare for Shamrock Festival ; BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. A festival of Shamrocks is just the thing to have for a St. Patrick’s day party. As this saint’s birthday anni- versary comes tdmorrow, it is important that the preparations require little or no time to make. Without sacrificing anything to this necessity, the follow- ing party has been originated for read- ors of this paper. ‘The hostess provides many sheets of f@reen paper, crepe paper, wrapping pa- per or tissue. The first is best. She also has scissors for each person, or asks each to bring his or her own pair. This will be important if the company is large. At a given signal each person starts to cut shamrocks from folded paper. At another signal all stop. The person who has cut the most is given & prize. Players form in a line and walk in a circle, supposedly along a garden | ath. As they walk they shower the eaves toward the center. When all have been scattered, each player is given a small green container. A bas- ket made by covering a paper cup with green paper is just the thing. Add a green-covered wire handle. The wire can be a bent hairpin wound with pa- a:r. At a given signal each player tries fill his or her basket with the sham- rocks picked from the “garde: 'rhel one gathering the most is given a prize. Supply each person with a good-1i sized white shamrock cut from stiff glper to which a green tally pencil as been attached. Ask each player to write the one word “shamrocks” on the tally card. At a given signal each player is to find 25 words made from the letters of the word. There are many more than this number. Each player exceeding this number is given a prize. | The player who finds the fewest of these secrets is given a consolation prize. Another prize can be awarded the player who, in a given time, forms the best sentence, exclamation or a phrase from the words that have been discov- ered secreted in “shamrocks.” The fol- lowing sentences are examples: Cora has a smock. Ma roams across rocks. Mark has a scar., Ask Rosa. Any word in which a letter not found in the word “shamrocks” appears can cels the sentence, as does also | etition of any letter except * |1s twice used in shamrocks. In the en- tire sentence letters can be repeated, but not in any single word. s F— T L Sy % PAARCH e 1e™ ~— 1931 THE LARGE SHAMROCK FRAMING THE ILLUSTRATION IS A PATTERN FOR THE TALLY CARDS. PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE BY WILLIAM Victim of Buzz Saw. “For eight years,” reports a reader, *I have had stomach trouble and re- cently I had X-rays taken and the X-ray expert told me that my stomach had dropped 20 centimeters. This doc- tor advised ray treatments that would draw the stomach up and the treat- ments would cost me considerable money. I am not in a position to spend this money unless I am sure it will—" ‘Why, my goodness, some folks are 80 low in their stomach that they have to lean far backwards in order to give breakfast a chance to begin digesting before lunch time arrives. Notice, healthy readers, that this reader's X-ray expert didn't tell the victim his stomach was a hand's breadth or two lower than the one in the old anatomical .ehart of 1895. He thinks in cent ters, as befits a man of science. * What the mysterious ray treatments may be, which are to draw up or pucker the hanging bread basket, is a b le. But we do not blame the victim for wanting to be sure of some- thing before he lets go of his roll in a case like this. One thing I think he can be sure of is that if he does once let go of it he will have as good THE STAR’S DAILY PATTERN SERVICE BRADY, M. D. a chance to get it back as he has to get his stomach lifted by the mysterious rays. 1 have often tried to make readers understand how foolish it is for any layman to go and have his X-ray pic- ture taken, on his own responsibility. No such picture is worth the price, as a means of diagnosis, unless it is | made at the special request of your | pphysician and interpreted in relation | we have been devoting so much atten- with his opinion or the result of his examination. Even the expert X-ray technician who makes such a picture is not com- petent to offer an opinion as to what ails the subject of the portrait. When such a diagnosis is attempted it is more than likely to lead the victim seriously astray. I believe that is precisely what has occurred in this instance. Our cor- respondent has been taken in. A lot of us enjoying excellent health, if we only knew it, are just as badly off as this poor gullible reader is.. 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We have never had so many reform | associations and societies as we have today. And we never had so many laws. It is said that, during the year 1930, more than 20,000 laws were | passed by the legislative bodies of the | Federal Government, the States and the municipalities of the country. If reform movements and legislative en- | actments would save a nation, America | ought to be a paradise. Yet, with all our multiplied reforms | and civil statutes, evils have increased | and we never had so much moral dis- | order and confusion. It is evident, therefore, that our salvation does not lie in that direction. Our most im- | perative need is not more laws and | reform, but a revival of religion. What- | ever may be said in favor of civil | enactments and reform efforts, these | will be impotent until the vital forces | of religion become more effective in the lives of our people. Many years ago an English states- | man made a visit to the principality of Wales, and he was surprised to find a town in which there was not a saloon | or a disorgerly house. He records the | answer made him when he inquired | of a citizen of the place why such con- | ditions existed. The man to whom he addressed his inquiry answered: “A man named John Wesley preached here more than 100 years ago and the town has been clean ever since.” Perhaps | Wesley said nothing about saloons or | disorderly houses, but he called th: | people to repentance and led them to | D. C, MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1931 Urges Them to Face Facts =" {DorothyDix Census Report, Which Shows Twice as Many Hus- bands Die as Wives, Should Warn Women to Protect Themselves. (F the deaths of the married in this country 69 per cent are husbands and 31 per cent are wives. These figures are official from the United States Gov- ernment census. This means that the odds are worse than two to one that every married woman will become a widow. It means that there are more than two chances to one that she will not only be deprived of her mate, but that the strong arm that she has leaned upon will be taken from her, and that she will have to face the world alone and fight her own battle, with probably little hands clinging to her skirts. ‘Women have a constitutional aversion to looking facts in the face. Like the traditional ostrich, they prefer to bury their heads in the sands when confronted with any unpleasantness and befool themselves into believing that they are hid- den from the shafts of fate and that no misfortune can befall them. ‘They know that other women's husbands die. They know that more than half of their woman friends and acquaintances are widows. They have seen a | hundred_tragedies in which a strong, healthy, young or middle-aged man has | been sudder y smitten down by death, and they have seen his broken-hearted, frightened, bewildered wife wringing helpless hands and asking futilely what she was to do, how she was to live, how she was to support herself and the children. | They have seen wemen who were used to every luxury reduced to abject poverty by the death of the bread-winner of the family. They know the pitiful women, trained to no trade, with no business experi- ence whatever, who, after a husband’s death, try to go to work and vainly at- tempt. to compete with keen young girls. And they know the forlorn and shabby sisterhood, who have seen better days, who eke out a miserable existence paint- ing dauby pictures and crocheting things and selling things to friends. They know that under heaven there is no other creature so pathetic and so helpless as the middle-aged, domestic woman in her 40s or 50s who has had a kind and tender and loving husband who was a good provider, as the phrase goes, but who is widowed and faced with the necessity of earning her own and her children’s bread. All women know these things, but they never take the lesson home to them- selves. They are sure their husbands will live on forever, and that no such g rophe can befall them. Insurance agents, incredible though it seems, as- B that women actually stand in the way of their husbands taking out in- surance, “Oh, what's the use? You'll outlive me years and years,” they say. | “¥cu will have two or three more wives after I am gone.” Surely all this must die on the lips of the woman who reads these cold, appalling Government statistics. Sixty-nine per cent of the deaths of the mar- ried are husbands, 31 per cent are wives. Two chances to one that she will be a widow. Surely this is an imminent enough danger to make the most reckless and improvident woman feel that she must take some steps to prepare herself to meet a calamity that is'so apt to befall her. Surely this knowledge should make every married woman urge her husband to take out as much insurance as he can afford, and should produce willingness to make sacrifices to help pay the premiums, so that she and the children might | not be left destitute if he should die. Surely this should make every extravagant woman, who is living up to every cent of her husband’s income, pause and consider what would become of her and her children if ‘there was no one to bring in any more money, no one to pay the bills, nothing with which to buy even clothes and food and shelter. Only the poor house for her and her children, or the horror of dependence. 1t should make every woman who has a profession or a trade keep it up so that she could turr her hand to her old job if she needed to do s0. And it should cause the domestic woman to make a profession, instead of a job, of housewifery and the care of children so that she could earn a living by them. She should Jearn to cook and to market so scientifically that she could feed people profitably | and make @ success of it, or she should develop her talent for sewing into a fine t, he should make herself an expert in child culture, or she should learn :; dommsxyenne of the things by which¥a woman can make a living because they minister to the practical, every-day needs of humanity. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1931.) Straight Talks to Women About Money BY MARY ELIZABETH ALLEN. being used to educate children, and 79 women had remarried and used their money to set up a home. Insurance Money. You will be interested in the figures accept Christ as their Savior and Lord. | gathered by a large insurance company | ‘Thereby their lives w:re renewed and | as to the way the insurance money was their morals purified. By consequence, | spent by widows. It is an inexpensive their town was purged of all sorts of | and instructive way to learn by the ex- evils and made a clean place. | perience of others. If we want to make America a clean | Ope thousand widows were selected, Nation, we must get back to God and | ang three-quarters of them were traced. ‘The 750 women so investigated had re- religion. It is a sad fact that while tion and energy to promoting reforms \ $9,500,000 In every case had the widow and passing laws, religion has besn on |held on to the money after six years. the decline. The only thing that will | Contrary to popular opinion, which redeem us and make us a rigrteous and | ymagines all widows lose their substance law-abiding people is a spiritual revival | through wild or speculative investment, that will Tenew in our lives the vital | only 32 of the total of 739 had lost their poers of Godliness. trate upon | ™OTEY 1n that way. % urches concentrate upon Vi v prayer and effort. in this direction. It | FIENty widows used the money 1o bay is not their business to manage the | giether they had anything to live on, | Government. Let them lead the people nisbe 4 back to religion, and our laws and | AT _the mortgages were paid One - | hundred and fifteen used the money to governmental agencies Will be MOre | ;¢ either homes or businesses. effective. Four hundred and sixty-six women e invested their money and it is still Australia, almost as large as the | yielding income. The total invested United States, has a population of only | amounts to almost 80 per cent of the a little more than six and a haif | total amount reccived. million. In 105 cases the money received Was You to Get Sound, Restful Slee ceived at their husband’s death over | This Harmless Effervescent Drink Relaxes Tense “NERVES" and Helps It will be seen from the figures on | this representative group that the wom- an and her money are not soon parted. The modern woman is educated to look after her money affairs, and she is no longer the naive creature of the hoop- skirt era. The very fact that women bave the sagacity to invest, to pay off interest- bearing debts, to establish business en- terprises, buy homes, and employ their money in productive ways is proof that insurance money is finding its way less and less into the hands of unscrupulous charlatans. 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LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. Pop was looking at the Sunday paper and tHYowing parts of it on the floor when he didn’t know what elts to do with them, and ma started to pick them up and pile them neet on the table, saying, My gocdness if we wimmin weren‘t any more orderly than you men the werld would soon sink back into its original state of primitive kayos. But on the other hand if we men didn’t go to the trubble to make a little disorder once in a while, you wimmin, would be forced to make it yourselves in order to have something to put in order, not that I expect any gratitude, pop sed. ‘And he kepp on looking at the paper and ma started to write in her diary, saying, O shaw, such a scratchy pen. Willyum, will you hand me my little silver fountain pen out of my bag, there it is rite at your elbow, she sed. Any moment now, pop sed. And he opened ma’s bag and looked in it, say- ing, Yee gods such a buntch of junk, was anybody around here tawking about being orderly? Everything in that bag has a neces- serry perpose, so kindly hand me my silver fountain pen, ma sed. Il have to locate it ferst and then Il haff to excavate it, pop sed. What are you saving this buntch of old lot- tery tickits for? That thing expired munths ago, dident it? he sed, and ma sed, Yes, you can take those out if you wunt to. Thanks, I'd just love to, pop sed. And he took them out and threw them in the waist baskit, saying, Here's 2 re- ceipts for Tegistered letters, are they any good to you? No, their things of the passed, I dont even remember what letters they were, ma sed, and pop sed, Very orderly indeed, congradulations. How many lipsticks do you need to feel well dressed? Ive run across 3 or 4 so far, in various stages of decomposition, he sed, and ma sed, Are you going to hand me my silver fountain pen or are you ggk;g to keep chattering and chatter- g? Im still exploring for it, pop sed. Do you sippose it could be under this or- derly mass of loose postage stamps and visiting cards and small change? bhe sed, and ma sed, O give me that, if thats all the help you can be. And she quick got up and took her bag from him mad and pertended not to heer him laffing for about the next 5 minnits. PP BT NEN S TR0 Y Geole ts hold that South Africa and India were once connected by a common land ace. New Home Completed. Whate'er the task you have at hand, Give it the best ai your command. —Old Mother Nature. “This,” declared Mrs. Redshoulder | the Hawk, “Is going to be the best nest | | we ever have had.” She sat just above it looking down at ltflifl‘lde{ufly. Redshoulder nodd in agreement. “I believe you,” said he. “It ought to | be; you have been fussy enough nb(‘zut it “Not.fussy, my dear. Not fussy. Just particular,” replied Mrs. shoulder. “What's the difference?” demanded Redshoulder just a bit grumpily. He | | was thinking of the sticks he had brought for that nest only to have them thrown aside by Mrs. Red- | shoulder. “All the difference in the world,” re- torted Mrs. Redshoulder. “Pussy people make great ado over unimportant little things or nothing at all. Particular people simply insist on having the best they can get and in doing things the best they know how. I haven't been fussy about the building of this new home of ours, not the least bit fussy. I've just been particular.” “T'll say you have!” declared Red- shoulder, and chuckled. If the truth be known, he was quite as proud of that nest as she was. “Do you want me to bring any more twigs?” Mrs. Redshoulder looked at the new nest critically. “No,” she replied. “No, I don’t think so. If any more are needed, I'll get them myself. What are you chuckling about?” “Nothing,” replied Redshoulder. “Just chuckling because I feel like chuckling. I'm glad you are not fussy, my dear, but are particular. What are you going to line that nest with? The lining is something to be very particular about.” His eyes twinkled with mischief. Mrs. Redshoulder nodded. “It cer- tainly is,” said she. “I was particular about the big sticks for the foundation. Every one of them is sound. I was just as particular about those twigs. There isn't a bad one among them, and each BEDTIME STORIE has been placed just where it should go. | You won't see any of those falling out, | no matter how the wind blows. Just | one or two more and I will be ready | for the lining. I know just where I can get some nice strips of bark, and I am | going to use a few brown oak leaves. If | you happen to see any feathers, you | might bring a few. They do make a nest look nice.” “I'll go at once to look for some,” | sald Redshoulder, and was as good as | his word. Mrs. Redshoulder was particular about the lining of that nest. She would try | a strip of bark in half a dozen places | before she was satisfied. Redshoulder | brought half a dozen feathers, and each | of thess she placed as carefully as if | they were the most important things in the nest, whereas really they were more | ornamental than useful. At last the nest was lined to her satisfaction. Redshoulder looked the nest over . “Perfect,” he declared. quite, my dear,” replied Mrs. | Redshoulder, and flew away. | “Now what has she gone after?” mut- | tered Redshoulder. He looked the nest | over from top to bottom and bottom to top. “Perfect,” he repeated. “It doesn't | need another thing.” | In a few minutes Mrs. Redshoulder | returned with a twig from a pine tree. | On it were little clusters of pine needles. She tucked it in to the side of the nest. | By Thornton W. Burgess, “NOT FUSSY, MY DEAR, NOT FUSSY; JUST PARTICULAR,” RE- PLIED MRS. REDSHOULDER. was completed. 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If Hooty the Owl should see this | nest, I fear he would want to move right over here.” | “I'd like to see him do it, the rob- | ber!” snapped Mrs. Redshoulder. | A few more green twigs and the nest | She cried when told her fault was “B.0” —but that frank talk brought her happiness kindly way, warned me you know, body odor—I was so surprised, so humiliated, that I began to cry. “But she explained so nicely how any- one might offend and not know it. Our pores give off a whole quart of odor- causing waste daily, she told me. We become so used to this ever-present odor that we don’t notice it in ourselves. But we instantly notice ‘B.O.” and it is always offensive, So easy t0 be “How glad I am that I followed her advice and adopted Lifebuoy as my toilet soap. For now I have many more friends than formerly. Gi: and outside. 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