Evening Star Newspaper, April 16, 1931, Page 52

WOMAN’S PAGE. Petty Cash and Extravagances BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. Every person who keeps track at of his expenses knows that money frit- ters away in smail sums until a goodly TURN OFF THE ELECTRIC LAMP ‘WHEN ITS LIGHT IS NOT WANTED. amount disappears without anything of value to show for it. Homemakers have numerous avenues for such trifling expenditures. This being s0 means THE STAR’S DAILY PATTERN SERVICE Smart sophistication ever delights the heart of youth with awakening style consclousness. Who wouldn't at the early age of 8, 10, 12 and 14 years adore this new | peplum model. It has a capelet, too, It ends in rather an interesting abrupt manner in flared sleeves, with a pret- tily yoked front bodice. The skirt is circular. Style No. 3071 is so fresh and young in skipper biue and white bastiste print. 1t's very nice, too, in & printed crepe de chine for “best” in ecoral-red and white. 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There need be_no inconvenience. i In considering gas, remember that m;u:hu are cheaper gas. Turn | of ‘ stove burners when they are not in sctual use even though they | may be wanted shortly. Have mnu:hu‘» Overdue fines on library hooks are | trifles. But they can mount up in the | course of & year, if one is careless. One | day overdue fines are scarcely worth considering. but even they, if frequent, | will count in the !on’ run. Also unless | one gets the habit of prompt returning of books, the time when they are over- | due grows from one day to many. | _One woman gasped over the fact that | | she had 56 cents to pay at & lending | library. She realized that she had | | Ainished reading the volume several | days before she took it back. Bhe not | only & good part of this sum, When the old Van Ness mansion was used for dressing and locker rooms by athletes at Van Ness Field? OUR CHILDREN BY ANGELO PATRL wasted | but she also kept the k out of circu- lation. As she had passed the library several times during these days, would have been no inconvenience to | have taken back the book and saved her pennies. (Gopyright. 1931.) Everyday Psychology BY DR. JESSE SPROWLS. A Secret of Success. | Success has many secrets, That's be- | cause the depth of the human mind has | never been fathomed. And since success | depends upon knowing how to handle people, you are always dealing with the unknown. One secret of success is to learn to keep from telling secrets. You can never gain the confidence of one man b{wwlin. him something confidential about another. | Your story may be interesting. But | it will be more likely to throw the spot- light upon yourself than upon apother. | Men who are worth trying to get along with are turned against you the moment | they find in you a propensity to tell | | secrets. The ‘prospect of having you | around is, to say the least, embarrass- | | ing. | What is the make-up of the man who tells secrets and then pretends that he knows still others? e times out of ten he is a weakling. He is trying to inflate his deflated ego. He is thinking about himself instead of about the suc- ok e oioee We 6 Tibg 18 cones) on the g is not what he knows but how he feels Mysterious things have always bee: fearful things. That's why children are | afraid of the dark. That's why people the possessor of mysterious infor- If you just can’t keep from throwing light on dark things, you can't help throwing light on yourself. | (Copyright, 1931.) DAILY DIET RECIPE CREAM CHEESE CAKE, Zweiback, one package. Salt, one-fourth teaspoon. Vanilla, one Eggs, four. Fresh cream, one cup. SERVES SIX TO EIGHT POR- ‘TIONS. Roll zweiback into crumbs and add the butter and two table- poons sugar, which have been creamed together. Rub this mix- ture until the ingrediaents are thoroughly blended, put in the bottom of a baking pan (pref- erably a spring mold. Cream the cup of sugar with the eream cheese until well blended, add beaten lks. Mix well and add cream. Fold in the beaten egg :Vhl'.!liu. Pour this Illl'.ur:f into with & finger. Cut and serve like cake, Very rich, but delicious, DIET NOTE. Recipe furnishes protein, fat, guger In large amount—a’ very little starch present, Rich in lime, firon, vitamins A and B. Should be eaten in moderation by normal adults of average or under weight. The Blame. We are a queer lot. No sooner does | something untoward happen than at | once we must fix the blame. Somebody is to blame. Somebody is to be pil- loried punished, made o suffer for the ill that has befallen. We spend a lot of time and energy in fixing the blame, make somebody very unhappy and then go our way briskly, as befits a duty-doer. Now blaming somebody for some- crimination, a_nicer judgment, than | most people will acquire here on earth | Indeed it requires an infinite wisdom. |Only he who understands the human | heart, knows its weakness and its great | strength, its trials and its courageous endurance is worthy to take the seat of judgment. A boy makes & terrible mistake. Im- mediately the cry goes up: Who is to blame? “The school; the parents; the boy; the church; the victim of the | mistake. Anybody will do so long as | we can fix the blame and forget the | matter promptly. But that will not do. The blame cannot be fixed, the problem cannot be solved, so easily. When a hoy or girl goes wrong so that society is forced to heed and “take steps,” blaming anybody helps not in | the least. What we need to do is to search for the cause of the child’s mis- take, and proceed to make such an error impossible for the next child, if that is humanly possible. Forget about blaming people. Nobody makes such & mistake if he can help it. When he commits a crime against soclety it is hecause he has gotten to the place where it was inevitable. We must prevent his arriving there. How? Know all about the children. Reg- ister every one of them and see them safely on their way to self-control, to self-help. That means that our supervision of children will be main- tained from the time they enter school until they are self-sustaining members !of society. It means that we establish schools that will care for every child as long as he needs care or tralning, or education. For some this means but a few years the period of their lives. We cannot allow children o be tossed out on the world before they are able to sustain themselves there creditably. We can- not throw the incorrigible child out and let him take care of himself as best he may until the courts take him in cl e. We cannot blame him for m and forget him. We are always tempted to say, “Put him out,” forgetting that when we do %0 we have to leave another door open s0 that he may come back. He does not cease to exist as & problem because we have tossed him out of our im- mediate consideration. He is going to return—and be blamed. Now instead of all this—the throwing out, the failure, the court sessions, the commitment. let us provide schools that will take care of every child, of every condition, as long or as short & time as is necessary for the safety of the child. This means & readjust- ment of some of our views, of some of our social and legal machinery, but :uu.l have to come. Better soon than (Copyright, 1081.) Cork to Oust Street Cars. Pollowing the success of luxurious busses running on highways out of Cork, Irish Pree State, eity has de- elded to serap all its street cars and substitute motor busses entirely. The Dail is expected to shortly pass a bill providing for the ehange. Although Cork has a population of 80,000 and its suburbs have 20,000 people, the municipal car lines have been pperat- ing at a loss for some time. There al- ing in the eit; | more than Decessary to maintain satistacfory serv- ce. i YOU MAKE SUCH HARD WORK | OF DISHWASHING, MOTHER. WHY DON'T YOU DO IT THE RINSO WAY—SOAK, RINSE | AND DRAIN. NO WASHING OR WIPING How these thrifty Bz modern! Use the soap that saves work! Rinso makes dishwashing s0 easy, you'll hardly believe your eyes, All you do is soak the dishes in Ringo. These rich suds cut grease like magic. A hot rinse=—and your dishes dry shining-bright! Wash pots and pans this easy way, too. Cup’ for cup, Rinso gives twice as much suds as light, pul up soaps. Lively, lasting suds . s even in hardest water. Wor ful suds for all clean- use Rinso on washdey v I'LL GET SOME RINSO TODAY Dishesclean...in a jiffy! suds loosen grease! because it gets clothes whiter than ever—without scrubbing or boiling, Gets colored clothes brighter. Millions use Rinso. Get the BIG handy houschold package. in The lated soap for week's . dishes and al cloaning thing requires a nicer sense of dis- | For others it means for | ready are a number of busses operat- | and it is estimated that | additional ones will be | STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX EAR DOROTHY DIX—My parents are always quarreling with one another. Mother accuses father of going with other women, though I don't think this is true. She doesn't know the value of money and is always wanting more than Dad can afford to give her. She says things before the children and my two young brothers are getting so they don't respect father, and stay away from home as much as they can, because no one likes to come home to a mother and father who are always fighting. I have tried everything to bring them to their senses, but have failed, and it has got on my merves so that I feel that I cannot stay at home any longer. Both of them love me dearly. Do you think if I went away it would help any? I have a buginess education and a good job. ) BABE. Answer—I think if you told them hat you could not any longer endure such a place of discord as they make your home it might possibly bring them to their senses. It is worth trying and at any rate there is no use in your having your young life wrecked and your nerves shattered by continuing to live in @ house that is nothing but a battleground. You have a rigat to peace even if you have to leave your father and mother to find it. ‘There is nothing else in the world so curious as the fact that married couples seem to think they have a perfect right to fight as much as they like and that what they say to each other is nobody's business. Not even their children's. They also feei that they have a perfect right to make for their children a home that is hell on earth. Apparently they never consider what the effect of the way that they treat each other is upon their children. They never stop to think that for a child to be brought up in a house of strife, to be compelled to assist in parents' quirrels, and to be buffeted by their passions, wrecks the nerves and makes one subject to all sorts of neuroses that may blight an entire life. They never think that when they hurl insults at each other and accuse each cther of all sorts of conduct, they are destroying the children’s respect for them and are killing every particle of influence they might have over their boys and girls, Z They never think that a child would be better off with no parents than with quarreling ones, and that any asylum would be a better home than one in which hate dwells. Surely, if parents could realize how miserable they make their children by their quarrels, they would deny themselves the pleasure of their daily spat. EAR DOROTHY the age of 15 a R DOROTHY DIX. 1 DIX—1I have a son who married at darling little girl only a little older than he. They have a beautiful home and everything to make them happy, but now after three vears they have fallen completely out with each other and want to part. They don't even seem to care for their child, a dear little baby boy that they don't even keep at home, but who lives with the girl's mother. I am very fond of my little daughter-in-law and haye done everything in the world I could to heal the breach between her and my son and have struggled to keep them together, but it seems as if they can't be reconciled. 1Is there any- thing I can do? A M. 8. Answer—I think the only thing you ean do is to advise them to separate for a while, but not to get a divorce at least until they find out that their love is dead. The trouble with them is that they were children playing at love, playing at setting up a home, playing at being parents, and now, like children, they have tired of the game and want some new toys with Which to amuse themselves. Children of 16 and 17 are incapable of the love that lasts, and it is a crime against civilization that we permit them to wreck their lives by marrying and undertaking responsibilities for which they are not fitted. When a boy and girl marry it is sheer luck if they develop along together and if they do not lose their taste for each other” Apparently this good fortune has not befallen your son and his wife. They are growing up and they do not. like the kind of man and woman they have become. They have nothing in common. They are antagonistic instead of congenial. It is & great pity, but I do not see how it can be helped, nor what morality can be served by forcing them to live together when they dislike each other, and when they make a home of strife into which other unfortunate children may be born. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyrisht, 1931.) The Woman Who Makes Good BY HELEN WOODWARD Who started her career as a frightened typist and who became one of the highest paid business women in America. X I didn't say & word. T just got u ; In Hot.Watar and ‘walked to the door and then I Miss Kennedy, the stenographer, sat| turned and said: “Why don't you pay with her feet in a large pail of Dot | enough to a girl to live on away from water, a pad on her lap. With a sense | home?” You should have seen his face. of weil-being, she wrote & letter to her & The prize came yesterday. Everything friend, Bettina Norman. Bettina was | was swell and I thought I had landed still away, recovering from an attack of | the job when all of a sudden the guy influenza, said: “Do you wear corsets?” I thought Dear Bettina: Yours received, saying | he was being fresh. But no. His face that I'm cuckoo to leave my job. Don't | was solemn as a dry judge. “No,” I date yourself like|gaid. “Why?” “Well, we manufacture that. Cuckco i8|corsets and we can't hire girls who old stuff; it's hay- | don't wear them.” wire now. ~Well,' “Oh, is that all>” I said. 11 begin that's settled. Sure | tomorrow. Il buy one today.” I said Iam. I'm haywire. | it fast, too. And don’t I know | ~He shook his head sad like. “No, no. it_now? _ | You wouldn't have the proper enthusi- Sometimes I think | asm, I'm afrail.” these people that| o yesterday I went by the office to advertise are just|see the girls, and put on my best rags, ribbing me. The | just to show Pinky how fine I was get- things they want! | ting along. Helen Woodwar One hoss wants to| Well, here T am now, all comfy, with know, Do I know | my rosy little feet in a tub of hot water. Spanish? And the next one, Do I do | My feet are getting bigger and my head baokkeeping? “No, I don't know Span- | smaller every day. But, baby, I counted ish,” say I, “and I'm not a bookkeeper.” | my money today, and I have enough for You should have heard that bird try 0 | another month, and, big feet and small high-hat me! head and everything, I'm glad I quit “Why don’t you stenographers learn | that old prune. bookkeeping? You'd make more money.” | Aren’t you ever coming back, you “Oh,” I said, very cold and distant. | slacker? KENNEDY, like 2 lady, “would 1?7 And may I ask | (Copyright, 1991, how much your job pays here?" | s “'Well,” he says, “twenty—just to start | with.” “Well,” T sald, “I slways get thirty for stenography slone.” . Here's & query for lay: “Why does a girl who does bookkeep- Glazed Carrots. ing and shorthand get less than if she| Cook six large carrots for 15 min- rndtgun shorthand alone?” Ask me | utes in bolling salted water, remove the another. Was T married? asked in the | SKINS, cut into slices, and place in & next place. “No? W ‘want mar- | Pan, Make a sirup with half & eupful ried women enly.” of brown sugar, ene-fourth eupful of ‘“No,” 1 said. | butter and one-fourth cupful of hot ‘we want girls that live at home,” .. Girls having problems in connection with their work may write to Miss Woodward, in care of this paper, for her personal advice. Did I live at home? water. Pour over the carrots and bake “well, said h until brown. Baste occasionally. i ) “And don’t forget two packages of | Shredded Wheat” “There’ll be a fuss in our family if you do! The children love it; my hus- band insists on it because he says it’sthe perfect food for health and strength. And I like it too. So don’t forget to send it, please.” NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY “Uneeda Bakers™ <= SHREDDED WHEAT WITH ALL THE BRAN OF THE WHOLE WHEAT APRIL 16, 1931. NNYSAYIN BY, FANNY Y. CORY. It it wasn't fer the looks ob it I'd| change back to my heavies. (Copyright, 1931.) A WASHINGTON DAYBOOK BY HERBERT PLUMMER. ANDOM notes in A Washington Day Book | Ambassador Dawes’ recent remark in London that he longed for the day| when after-dinner speeches would be | a thing of the gur' expressed only half | of his actual feel-| ings about this| matter of public | dining, in the opin- | fon of those in| ‘Wasnington who know “Hell an’ Maria.” They say that ~unless he has| /" changed greatly | since his vice| i presidential days | / “he would like to | 8 _JU- see both dinner | & 7= and speeches abol- ished, He once admitted that the waiters gave him his biggest “kick” at Wash- ington dinner parties. Washington | hostesses hire additional waiters when they give & big dinner party. Night after night Dawes would encounter the same waiters at different places, each time in different livery. A silent friendship grew up between them and the Vice President. Dawes would frequently look for a familiar face among the waiters at a dinner party and reward him with a sly wink. Recently there appeared in this column an account of how that “great leatherneck”—Maj. Gen. John J. Le- jeune—got his nickname of “Gabe.” It was furnished by a lifelong friend of the general, a classmate of his at Annapolis and one of his greatest ad- mirers. His explanation for the origin of “Gabe” was that the general as a midshipman was so fond of sleep that his classmates were wont to remark that unless one of them ejected him bodily from bed in the morning he would sleep until Gabriel sounded his trumpet. The other night Gen. Lejeune, now, retired, came up to Washington from Lexington, Va., where he is superin- tendent of the Virginia Military Academy, Over coffee and cigars the writer se- minded him of this story of his nick- name and asked if it were true. “All wrong,” replied the general, “all wrong. And I have reason to know.’ A little coaxing drew from him the authentic story. “You see,” sald the general, “I went to Annapolis from a parish in Louisiana by the name of Point Coupee. Gabriel. the hero of Longfellow’s ‘Evangeline, wandered around in that part of Louisi- ana after leaving Acadia. . » and | tracted the flu miyself. FEATUR ES. PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE BY WILLIAM BRADY, M. D. Diathermy in Flu or Grip. | Early in February I received the fol- | lowing note from a physician who has| had wide experience and gratitying suc- | cess (according to what his patients | tell me) with the diathermy extirpation | of the tonsils: | “I have just read your editorial . . .| and I thought I would inform you abouf a novel experience with diathermiza- tion of the tonsils during our reeent epidemic of flu. “I have had the unusual opportunity | 5. of observing a number of incipient flu | cases and the effects of diathermiza- | tion in cases presenting tonsillitis at!' the onset. I foolishly did not wear any mask at the first sittings and con- | I know better now. I wear a mask now. “Strange to say all the cases cleared up after a treatment or two. Perhaps this doesn't prove anything, except that { such treatnient does not aggravate an existing acute infection. “As nearly every one here was suf- fering from some grippe condition I made it & point to get in touch with| patients who had had their tonsils| diathermized in the last few months, | and I found not one who had con- | tracted the present grippe or flu.” “His name was Gabriel Lejeuness. It was so similar to mine that at An- napolis the upper classmen got the idea when I was a plebe that I should mem- 1 think we published here recently the interesting case of cure of the “carrier” state another medieal friend reported. After the diphtheria earrier had persisted in harboring virulent diphtheria bacilli (as determined by animal test) in spite of all attempts to disinfect the tonsils, the doctor finally carried his diathermy apparatus to the patient’s home (the patient, of course. was mot ill, but quarantined) and there electro-coagulated the ton- That cleared up the focus of in- fection and the health department lifted the quarantine. One swallow doesn’t make a Summer. However, I should have a diathermy treatment or two, rather than the old Spanish custom, if I thought my tonsil harbored any kind of septic focus which might be responsible for my “rheuma- tiz” or anything like that. Good, scientific, conservutive, twen- tieth century, humane, skillful and satisfactory treatment, this diathermy extirpation or electro-coagulation of the tonsils, and the old-timers who are still hacking them out with guillotine, scissors, snare and other crude gadgets may as well become resigned to quiet times, for the general public is mostly like myself that way—we don't like to be hurt, we don't care to do any un- necessary bleeding. and we'd rather keep up and doing while our tonsils are being disposed of. Children under 10 years of age are | out of luck so far as this modern tre; ment is concerned, that is, as a rule. | Here and there a child is so tractable and well brought up, or a doetor is so patient and skillful in dealing with children, that even a five-year-old youngst'r may be successfully treated with " diathermy. Adullsh and particularly those han bl capped by any ailment or complicatior stine "Wvangsiiny’ and veqite & 84 Wein | Sl o ] T ks B wore pleasure. I did, and I recited it 80| gery, should submit to nothing less than often that I believe I could go through diathermy or electro-surgical tonsil the whole thing right now. | treatment, no matter what wiles or “So they called me ‘Gabe.’ But,”|arguments the throat surgeons may em- and he smiled significantly, “no one ploy to discourage them. There are but those in my class ever have nerve | good doctors in nearly every town now enough to so address me.” | who provide this boon for patients. FOR ANY CHILD baby has a fretful spell, is feverish and cross and can't sleep, let Castoria soothe and quiet him. Sometimes it's a touch of colic. Sometimes it is constipation. Just keep Castoria handy and give freely for any of the above conditions; relief will follow promptly. All through babyhood, Cas- toriais amother’s standby, and wise mothers do not change to stronger medicines as the child grows older. Just increase the dose of Castoria and keep the youngster's stomach sweet and the bowels in good order. To be sureof getting genuine Fletcher's Castoria you should look for this signature CHILDREN are happy and carefree by nature, so when they cry for no apparent reason any careful mother worries. No one can always guess just what is wrong but the remedy can always be the same. Good old Castoria! There's comfort in every drop of this pure vegetable prepara- tion and not the slightest harm in its frequent use. As often as then we changed to CHEVY CHASE “OF COURSE it had to happen that the very day we had no eream in the house, Dad wanted a cup of coffee. He took it black, but grumbled something about ‘a new milk bottle’ over at Ed’s that we ought to have. “Mother investigated, and found that Ed's family had always used Chevy Chase Milk. Lately they had received this milk in the new-shaped cream-top bottle. Mrs. Ed just swears by it. “At regular times it's just like an ordinary milk bottle that you shake up before pouring eut the whole milk. But, when there’s an emer- geney . .. when you need cream, and need it in a hurry . . . all you have to do is pour it off the top of the bottle — using the handy separator provided. It’s easy, simple, and saves a world of trouble and embarrassment. “, .. So the next day we changed to Chevy Chase.” Chevy Chase Milk, District of Columbia Health Department In- spected, comes te your table rich, wholesome, pure, and delicious. Hail the familiar wagon, and get the new cream-top bottle, and a separator! Or telephone West 0183. You'll like the courteous, efficient service as much as you enjoy the milk, > Wise Brothers HEVY CHASE & DARY Y