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woM AN’S PAGE. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, 29 22, JULY 1931, FEATU RES, 'The Woman Who Makes Good B0 WOMANS PAGE. . R R e i et WHO REMEMBERS? l DOROTHY DIX’S - LETTER BOX NANCY PAGE l Moths in Clothes Put Away Late BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. If a Winter garment has been over- looked at the time when others of its kind were sent to storag: or put away in. mothproof packages, or for &any reason delayed in precautions for its care during the Summer months, the form of steam from a flat iron. This is practical with materials that can be pressed, but not with such things as fur or feathers. Place a damp cloth over the garment and apply a hot iron, After drying, put away in pepper, tar paper, etc. Combing fur vigorously with a small | stecl fur comb is helpful in dislodging and destroying moth eggs. This is bast done after garments are well aired and sunned. While-it is more risky to em- ploy home storage for furs than cloth goods delayed in their putting away, it can b> done often with success if all the corners of pockets are turned inside | out and the cloth steam pressed, as well as the fur combed. Pepper liberally | sprinkled, or moth balls well distrib- uted ars very important. Newspaper is |the recommended wrapping, as this | paper contains ink, which, in itself, is | unzongenial to the insect. It is of the utmost importance that a garment should be put away in »s clean condition as possible. | does cleaning in itself r:move moth | traces, but the foreign substance con- | tained in spots is what first attracts a {moth to make inroads. When the gar- ments celayed { ventive ag>nts eppiled ar: put away there is an added precaution to insure their resuming their usefulness in the best condition possible. (Copyright, 1931.) Striking Desi BY BETSY CALLISTER. A band had found that in this hard Summer hs must stick close to busi- ness decided to stay at home with him and her children, rather than go away without him. They would both be hap- pler and she could make things just as pleasant for-the children. Some of the money she saved she put into play equipment for the chil- dren—a swing and a paddle pool and a slide and a sand box. And some of it she put into new cretonne for her bed room. She chose a lovely color combination |and design. “And,” she said, “I feel | just as if I'd been away. No hotel Not only | in having moth pre- | clean instead of even slightly soiled, | CLEVER young woman whose hus- | BY DICK MANSFIELD. Registered U. 8. Patent Office. When we played the game of “fi ing roosters” with long stems f:om weeds? gn and Color it must be lined. If you don’t want to g0 to the expense and trouble of lining then you must choose a cretonne that shows its color 2nd design even when the light is shining through it as out- door light shines through curtains as they hang at the window.” Sateen in plain color—one of the shades of the cretonne—is usually chosen for the lining. In a rather dark room a lining of soft yellow is excel- lent. It augments what sunlight there | room could be as lovely as my own | | Toom. And it is different and gives me | | & new thrill every time I come into 1t. | | I shan't get used to it for weeks.” | The new cretonnes are most at- tractive. They may be had in small | patterns—of the conventional English | | chintz' sort—or in most modernistic geo- | metric designs or in big figured of the | French, English or American sort. The | | big French figures often show architec- | | tural and garden motifs—vou know | | those designs with trees and fallen pil- | | lars, archways and little lakes. These | | big designs are beautiful in the large, | rather formal room. The small English |1s, and if there isn't sunlight, sug- | gests it. |~ However, 1t is often possible to find | just what you want in a cretonne that | is_opaque. ~ Some of them, in fact, are | both opaque and double faced, so that | they need no lining and look as well | from outside as inside the room. The lining, besides harmonizing with the colors in the cretonne, must, of course, work into the general color scheme of the room. THE STAR’S DAILY PATTERN SERVICE New spectator sports types are en- | | | | | ; 2 0 ey 30 WRAP THE GARMENTS IN PAPER,} PREFERABLY NEWSPAPER. | | chintz designs are especially good in | gaging our attention—new snappy mod- small rooms, and make lovely cottage hangings. ‘The big modern designs, worked out in this country in beautiful | colors, are somehow especially in keep- ing with our present-day tastes and are | chosen by many women for living room as well as bed room. A salesman the other day gave this | advice to the buyer of cretonne: | “Never buy cretonne as it lies on the | counter or hangs in the store if you're | going to use it for window curtains. | Ask to have it held up to the light. matter of its being laid away requires | special attention, if it is to emerge for future use in no worse condition. Even if moths have been in contact with the material the damage may not yet be serious. If the moth eggs have nct vet developed and the larvae started to eat the fabric, the eggs them- selves can be destroyed by heat in the Some cretonne is beautiful with the | light shining against it—as it is against | window curtains at night, when it is | dark outside and lights are lighted in | the room—but it is flat and colorless ‘when it is hung up for the ljght to | shine through. “Such cretonne may be quite satis- factorily used for window curtains, but Straight Talks to Women About Money BY MARY ELIZABETH ALLEN. . Without Interest. “Pleas> tell me where I can get a loan of just a few hundred dollars at a low rate of interest.” | This {5 the most common of all ap-| which come in the correspondence | cople who are known to have a so- | ciel interest in money matters. Most often it is from young people, | and some others not so young, who feel | the need of more education, yet have | been unable to finance it. Parents who | have been handicapped by sickness | or unemployment are very frequent writers. People whose savings and con- | fidence have been swept away by a dit astrous investment, or business failure, | want some help to get on their feet without having to struggle against the cumulating cost of usurious interest. Then there are widows, a sprinkling of d beats” and a few who seem to| ~ a chronic incapacity for making | h both ends meet. Some of these people, 1t is true, are financial wrecks who couidnt be “floated” successfully with any amount of money. But the other kind, who, after all, are in the great majority, | yeally deserve an opportunity. They | don't want charity, yet they haven't what is known as “commercial credit,” so are absolutely unable to borrow funds at a reasonable rate of interest. In olden times when all borrowing e< for consumption purposes and not for business, Interest-charzing was pro- hibited by law as unfair to people who OUR BABY AND MINE BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED. The use of too much milk in the child’s diet often destroys his desire for solid feods. This symptom is observed fraquently in the child over one year of age who is still 2n addict to bottles. He g ts quantities of milk but refuses to eat other foods. Quite as undesirable a result may come about if the child is given too large quantities of sclid food, so that at the end of a meal of satisfying solids he is averse to drinking b ormula_or his cup of milk. In both cases tho diet needs better balancing of the essential elements, Mothers having this trouble may have one of my feeding leafi°ts to check the amounts of the various foods the chil- 1 are getting against a balanced diet 2t a better adjustment of amounts and liquids is achieved. A self- d, stamped envelope should ac- company each request for a leaflet and the child’s age must be mentioned in hat the correct feeding schedule may b: sent. Mrs. H. W.'s baby is only gix and one- half months old and she is getting more than the maximum amount of milk advised for a child of any age, one quart. The result has been a‘loss of appetitie. lows “Do_you think I am doing rightly? My baby is six and one-half months old and gets whole milk now with one tal spoon of malt sugar daily. She weighs 18 pounds, but does not want to drink all her milk after she has eaten her solid foods. I give her eight ounces of milk at 6 a.m.; cereal and seven ounces of milk at 10 a.m. Sieved vegetables and seven ounces of mik at 2 pm. | Cereal and seven ounces of milk at 6 p.m. and eight ounces of milk at 10 pm. She alco gets orang: juice and cod liver ofl. Shall I continue the oil | in warm weather? | | Usually when a baby this young still gets five feedings in the 24 hours, as| yeur baby does, then 30 ounces of milk Plus 10 ounces of wat:r and soma sugar, | usually about one ounce, is used in the} formula and this divided into five bottles. If only four bottles are used, | then whol¢ milk is in order, as this| ;nnukes up the 32 ounces or one quart| aily. I would suggest that since child E ll‘ldy on whole milk that you use The mother’s letter fol- | were trying to catch up with their financial needs. Now, of course, prac- tically all loans are interest loans, and we seem to have gone to the other ex- treme. Because most borrowing is for | profit-making purposes, we require even | the neediest of people to pay back in interest as well as principal. And tpe needier they are the higher the terest! Perhaps competitive business can’t be operated any other way. But philan- | thropy could easily be broadened to in- clude deserving loans as well as pau- perizing ' gifts. There certainly is an unwarranted gap in our social financial arrangements when the poor must choose between paying usurious interest at the pawn shop and accepting out- right gifts from charity. 1t is refreshing to know that at least | one organization has stepped in and succeeded with a system of free loans to the deserving poor. This is the He- | brew Free Loan Soclety in New York City. Although sponsored by the Jews, | these funds are available to all, and | every type of ncedy person has bene- | fited by the plan. Practically the only | cost_of this philanthropy is its “over- head,” because experience has proved that 98 per cent of the loans are repaid | scrupulously. A person may borrow from $5 to $500 “without interest and without price”; and this free bank has | succeeded so well along these lines that |two branches have already been estab- |lished. The idea is worh considering in other places. | five bottles containing six ounces each. | which will, no doubt, be acceptable and | will not exceed the amount ttat is ad- | visable to give. Milk used in custards or cer:al, and over the cereal, should be | counted out of this amount. | “'You may also be giving too large | quantities of solid foods so that the | child’s appetite is satisfied on that. Two | teblespoons of cereal twice daily, and two tablespoons of vegetables at 2 p.m. |are usually suficint for a child this age. Two ounces of orange juice is a desirable quantity. The cod liver oil is unnecescary during the season when exposure to the diret sunlight is possi- bl: daily. The vitamin D element of cod Jiver cil is a substitute for sunlight ion the bare skin. When the child has |an abundance of real sunlight, then | there is no necessity for a substitute. Mint Jelly. { Wash the mint and chop fine. To each cupful of chopped mint add one- fou:th cupful of sugar and one-fourth cupful of water, and let stand for sev- eral hours, or overnight. Bring to the boiling point. Combine sugar and ap- ple juice, using two-thirds cupful of suger to one cupful of apple juice. Cook | and test for jelly, and when the jellying point is reached, add some green yeg- | etable coloring and one or two table- spoonfuls of mint for each quart of app'e juice. This is fine with roast lamb. A camera capab'e of taking 2,000 photographs a second has been dem- | onstrated before the Academy of Ecionces at Paris. it o Mosquitoes, ‘most House- g 8 els are equally chic for town. Exceedingly attractive is today's dress of crepy shantung print in dusty pink. It offers something quite unusual in capelet, opened on either shoulder part way, its double-breasted closing effect, and fitted peplum hipline. It's a dress that will give excellent service. Style No. 3179 may be had in sizes 16, 18 years, 36, 38, 40 and 42 inches bust. Size 36 requires 4 yards 35-inch. In a printed crepe silk, this model is also very lovely for town or resort. Cotton mesh, plain, printed or eye- let linen and men’s shirting silk are interesting suggestions. For a pattern of this style, send 15 cents in stamps or coin directly to The Wastingion Star’s New York Fashion Bureau, Fifth evenue and Twenty-ninth street, New York. Our largs Summer fashion book offers a wide choice for your Summer wardrobe in darling styles for the chil- dren as well as the adults. Price of book, 10 ts. After a Swim. It is often rather difficult after a swim to get powder to adhere to the face and throat owing to the effect of the salt water on the skin, If a little olive oil, just a few drops, is rubbed over the face and throat and then wiped off with a soft towel or a piece of cotton wool, the powder will remain on the skin quite smoothly. The use of the oil will also improve the skin, as it prevents the drying effect which | the salt water always has on the com- plexion. i Whisk _them Annette’s magi cn. rub in, brusi Blots out ' food ruit stains, grease, even pe: ion; For every arment, tatlored or Irilled ...housefurnishings, light o- dark. As advertised in_and 'GUARANTEED BY imparts ‘no GOOD HO! odor and Cannot Leat away. . .instantly. .. with ic powder! Just sprinkie . It's rvel! ing. At Department and Drug Stores. Large Shaker Box, boc. Vanity Shakerette, Ze, SEND 10c For Trial Box and Guide, send T T Ay, 9 G nette's. Street, Boston, Massachuseiis l HNNETTE'S DEAR MISS DIX—I have been married seven years; have three adorable children and a fine hu!blnm eve , I m In fact, I do without ths things I really need in order me drive the family car. Miss car. ing we want. He will not let. le many sacr! to pay for this to meet the payments, but my husband will not let me use it, and it stands out in front of h's place of business all day, and on Saturday afternoons:in a parking yard while he is at a show, and I stay at home from cne end of the week 1o the other, as I am unable to afford help. And I think how nice it woult be if I could take the children out in myself. it and get a little rest and relaxation 1 have thought of leaving my husband, but I have the children to consider, and 1 am in a strang> town, almost a thousand miles away from my home and people. drivz the car a little? Answer—I certainly think that have some use of the car that you Do you think I am unreasonable in wanting to MRS. K. L. K. L N, you are in your rights in wanting to are helping to pay for, and I think your husband is most sclfish and unrsasonable in refusing to let you have it. Perhaps he has never really thought about how long and dull the days are to a woman who is shut within her own house all the time, or how im- possible it s for her to get out with three babies unless she has a car into which she can put them. That is the best way in the world to nurse children, and it gives the mother some rest and relaxation besides. I know of many men who have bought little cars just for this specific purpose of giving their wives a way them air and diversion. to take care of the children and give DOROTH IX. Y DI .. JDEAR MISS DIX—I have a devoted husband, whom I love more than anything on earth, and he loves me as much. We would be perfectly happy except for his mother, who lives with us and makes our lives miser- able, and she stays with us all the time, although she has other children with whom she could divide her time. ms get a room for myself and he can this. Do you think I am wrong? I have asked my husband to let stay with her, but h= will not agree to Should I sacrifice my life to let her have her way just to please my husband and his mother? What shall I do? Answer—Get the room, but put your mother-in-law in it. no reason why ycu should sacrifice your entire lifz to her. for her, that 1s all you are called upon to do. No man has a right to ask his wite to live with a disagreeable old woman. Y D ‘WORRIED COUPLE. There is 1f you provide DOROTH' EAR MISS DIX—What can anybody do about the neighborhood pest who parks her children on everybody in th: neighborhood? ‘We have one who is constantly on the go and who comes and dumps her baby on It We us about six days out of seven what we have planned to do. plenty t5 do, and we. would like to know how we can make this wom: MRS, care of her own children. doesn’t matt:r how busy we are have children of our own and has: an take 5. M. Answer—I don't see any difficulty about solving that problem. All you need is about half an inch of good stiff backbone. comes around with the baby tell her ‘The next time she that she can’t leave it with you, that you are busy, and taat it is up to her to look after her own offspring. (Cepyright, DOROTH' 19919 Y DIX. A WASHINGTON DAYBOOK BY HERBERT PLUMMER. FEW people realize what extraordi- " nary precautions are taken by the railroads when the President of th United States goes traveling. It may be merely a fishing ip to Florida, but the care taken is just the same as if the President were off on some important state mission. Scores of extra men are put on duty. Every foot of track is under the eye of a human being hours before and after the train asses along. gwlwhci are spiked down all along the line. No train is per- mitted to meet the President’s while running freight train is allowed on any siding adjacent to the tracks on which the presidential special will pass. Hitches in these carefully laid plans seldom occur. When they do, usually they are minor. But there was one, for example, recently when President Hoover was en route to North Carolina to visit his son at Asheville. A dining car was being attached to the special at some terminal point about 3 o'clock in the morning. At least a dozen of the highest railway officials of :he division were out that morning to see that the job was well done. They were standing ~ around giving advice and issuing orders. From all appearances it looked as if that diner would be at- taached in perfect fashion. The locomotive was backing at a snails pace down the track, easing the diner to the drawhead by inches as the officials seemed to hold their breadth. Just when it seemed as if the coupling had been made, something slipped. The dinet literally lunged into the coupling. Dishes were heard dropping in the diner. Secret service men came boun ing out of the train to see what had happened. Newspaper men accompany- ing the President leaped to the door, sensing a big story. However, the meticulous care and attention given to such minor mishaps is evidence of the watchfulness the railroads exercise in handling presi- dential trains. Even the dining car steward feels a deep personal interest In these trains, and any one of the group on trains run- ning out of the Capital can tell you almost to the last detail President Hoover's likes and dislikes concerning food These stewards anticipate what the President would enjoy and provide it. Thus, on a recent trip a whole case of oranges was put aboard. Before the trip ended. the juice of 30 dozen oranges had been sent to the President’s car, and the steward had won_another bet that he knew what Mr. Hoover liked. My Neighbor Say: When laundering curtains for first time, soak them in four tablespoons of salt to each four cups of water. The curtains will wash easily, as the dressing will ‘wash out readily. Rubbing the screens of your doors and windows with kerosene will keep away flies, gs they will not come near as long as this odor lasts. After washing and drying woolen’ blankets, hang them cn a line in the open air and beat them well with a carpet beater. This raises the fluff and the blankets will look almost as good as new for years if they are treated in this way every time they are washed. erQuality. No foolish frills on the package, but finer quality in- side—that’s the real reason behind the tremendous pop- ularity of Plough’s Favorite Bouquet Face Powder. This marvelous powder blends perfectly with every com- plexion, clings persistently . for hours and has a perfume that adds lure fo every per- sonality. Ask for Plough’s Favorite Bouquet in the square-shaped red box, the largest selling face powder in the world for 25c. Slovgte's FAVORITE BOUQUET FACE POWDER If you prefer a heavier texture pow- der, choose Plough’s '‘Exquisl Face Powder, in the round red box, 30c. For olly = ‘hoose Plough’'s “Incense of o in the red oval boz, Toc. | NOT much has been heard of Eugene i Meyer, governor of the Federal Reserve Board, during these days when .80 much is being done to put Germany lon her financial. feet. It's not the | Meyer way to fig- ure prominently in | 3 things he is callcd | . on to do. | His position as governor of the | 5 |~~~ Federal Reserve Board is extreme- ly delicate when it ccmes to interna- Screen Doors Need Not Bang if Fixed Correctly BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. Nancy had always been annoyed by banging doors, honking norns, unneces- sary screeching. But this Summer she seemed to mind it more than ever. Over and over again she told Joan to be more careful in closing the screen door, hultu over and over again it closed with a bang. Nancy spoke to Peter about it. He found that there was a door catch which could be put on screen doors that kept them from banging. This cateh closed the door rather slowly, however, letting the flies in. He was glad to discover, therefore, another gadget which let the door swing to more quickly and yet muffied the sound. Then, after this was on, she had Peter do something else. Her 3-year- old son kept latching the door from the inside and shutting out the people who wanted to come in. She had Peter put the catch up high, beyond her young son's reach and that ended her ‘screen door troubles for awhile. She made a study of screen doors before she left the subject. She found they could be purchased with a wooden | part for the bottom pancl. This kept children from poking sharp things through the screen mesh. But this Kept out so much air. Then she found another type that rzinforced the lower tional finance, Part of the door with a heavy mesh, and no | Often answer of “yes” or “no” to a question asked of him might have disastrous effect. Thus Meyer adopts an attitude of “knowing nothing wbout an:thing.” There was, for example, the situation when the Reichs- bank had just about concluded ar- rangements for a $100,000,000 loan with the Bank of England, the Bank of Prance, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Bank for Interna- tional Settlements at Basel. Newspaper men assigned to the ‘Treasury, where the Reserve Board is | quartered, besleged Meyer with ques- |tions as to whether such credit had | been approved. They were met by a “A credit of $100,000,000, gentle- | refersto?” ‘That is as far as they could get with | him. He joked with them, appeared | surprised at their questions, told them | nothing. During all the negotiations |he kept silent. And even after an nouncement that the loan had been consummated he declined to talk. | __This dark-eyed, dark-haired man of |55 is serving in a place of great re- sponsibility under his fourth adminis- tration. Woodrow Wilson made him director of the War Finance Corpora- tion, Harding reappointed him, Oeol- idge gave him the third appointment to post and later selected him “to reorganize the Federal Farm Loan | Board. President Hoover named him to the post he now holds. He has a reputation for energy and force. He is indefatigable worker who spends many hours on the job. His methods do not always please every one. The Senate debated several days Dbefore his appointment to the Federal Reserve Board was finally ap- proved. But the Meyer personality makes friends easily. He has been able in the world to serve in his organization with- out compensation. He has traveled in all parts of the world. If he is not at his desk in the Treasury Department more than likely he will be found playing golf or riding horseback. Molasses Wafers. Boll two cufuls of molasses with one cupful of butter for haif an hour. Add half a cupful of flour, two-thirds cup- ful of desiccated coconut and one tea- spoonful of baking soda. Boil the mix- ture for 10 minutes, stirring ccnstantly. Drop it in small lumps cnto a buttered p2n and bake the lumps until they bub- ble. They should be well scparated from each other because they spread quite a little when baking. «To prevent the wafers from sticking to the pan remove them as-socn as you take them from he oven. Keep ina cool place. S In a recent month Japan imported nearly $1,000,000 worth of automobiles and parts. 'IHE words “just like Kotex” should be a danger signal to every purchaser of sanitary protec- tion! They cannot be true. & A pad, to be like Kotex, would have to be made in the Kotex fac- tory. Unique, patented machinery makes Kotex from start to finish. Hands never touch it. Rigid clean- - liness prevails. Materials used are superior, made especially for Kotex. The only way to make a pad like Kotex is to make Kotex. 3 Take no dnneflts pecify genu- | smiling, pleasant and affable governor. | | men?” he asked. “What credit do youl past to induce leaders in the financial | | rather large. At one doorway she could | 1ook out to get a marvelous Vvista of the garden. Here she wanted no reinforce- | ing mesh or wooden panel. She kept | that view unobstructec, so at this door | was a screen of fine mesh. -She might have purchased a screen door with only 12 inches of the lower part protected by a secondary. wiring. In fact, she found that there were screen doors 1o | meet all needs and pur: Would you like some recipes for “tinkling beverages” in tall glasses? e. carp The Washington Star, inclosing a ped. self-addressed envelope with your request. (Copyright, 1931) Everyday Psychology BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. Conflict. It's impossible to live a life of com- | plete mental ease and satisfaction. One has to fight more or less for a living. Every frustration means a mental hesi- | tancy. The co-or-not-do feeling is a | common _experience. One idea is set | over again another. The psychological term for the situation is called con- flict. There are two sorts of mental con- flicts—the ones we know all about and the ones we know nothing about. To put it in still other language—some of {our conflicts reside in the conscious, |others in the unconscious mind. | Conflicts usually start in the con- |scious mind. If we can't settle them lany other way, we make some effort to forget them. This willful scrt of for- getting is calied repression. By repress- ing our bafficments_we are able to get | temporary relief. But the relief through repression is only temporary. You can't actively thrust a set of antagonistic ideas out |of your mind without gefting them |mixed up with your emotions or feel- |ings. And when a conflict reaches the | emotional stage we begin to fight it out {on a losing battlefield. The emotional | dossn’'t know defeat. It will resort to_anything in order to have its way. | The best way to avoid emotional conflicts is to settle them while you are still conscious of what the trouble is. (Copyright, 1931). Alec the Great It isn't just what some folks say That makes me want to fight ‘em. It's what I know they're thinking ‘That makes me long to bite ‘em. <ust like Kotex” [PB " May look the same... i but how were they made? Where? By whom? ine Kotex. Accept no substitute of whose makers you know nothing. You know Kotex is safe. Hospitals used morethan 10,000,000 pads last year. Their choice should be yours. Kotex is adjustable. May be worn on either side. Sfays soft. KOTEX Sanitary Napkins Write to Nancy | BY HELEN WOODWARD. Who started her career as a frightened typist and who became one of the highest paid business women in America. He Drinks. . “Dear Miss Woodward: Two years ago I married a man who was a drun- kard. I had sense enough to make him romise to go to an alcoholic cure fore I married him. Our honeymoon was very unusual mind. “‘We both worked m&;fi and I in the ™ oW, T Radi8e Helen Woodward fore I was married a burning ambition to become a designer of frocks. I worked at it day and night. “Last Christmas my husband took a drink just to see if he had the will power to leave it or take it. Since then it has been one prolonged drunk after another, with him taking to his bed and only me to wait on him day and night. “He has a good job, but his drinking is ruining him. I couldn't add right a year ago, but today I have to do the bookkeeping for him and a great deal of his other work. I Nevef gei uny BY WILLIAM Boys Should Box. If I had my way every boy in gram- mar school would be required to show a reasonable proficlency in boxing as the art is taught in school, and every girl would be required to show reason- able proficiency in dancing as that art is taught in school as a requisite for graduation. I would have every boy prepared to settle his dispute or dif- ferences with other boys by an encoun- ter in the ring under proper super- vision. I would have every girl blessed with the gracefulness and the self- confidence which comes from the physi- cal training that goes with the study of dancing. Both boys and girls, I be- lieve, should be required to know how to swim and, of course, how to resusci- tate before they are allowed to pass on to high school. To narrow old pedagogues who had no such physical education and who cannot appreciate its importance or value, this will seem absurd. Whatever the old-timers may think about these newfangled fads and foibles, it is assur- ing to nc~ that our new school build- ings, bc\1 grammar schools and high school, zve splurging more and more child’s education, and even now in a few schools the physical education teachers are almost on a plane with the ‘teachers whe train ‘'em from the neck up. In the less progressive schools, however, the physical education depart- ment still takes the snubs and bides its day. Parents of the peasant class do not ungerstand what it is all about. To them—as to antiquated pedagogues— all this gymnasium, swimming and field activity is a crazy fad, and accordingly such parents readily conspire with chil- dren who seek to evade this part of school work. There are still too many doctors, too, who are quite ready to give a certificate or excus: to help some mis- guided boy or girl dodge gym class. I am sure doctors who do this are igno- rant of the harm they do; they do not realize they are helping ths dumb youngster dodge what is perhaps the | most valuable part of his education, a training which may make all the dif- {&rence batween success and failure in e. Mothers, fathers, uncles, aunts, grand- parents, I appeal to you in behalf of the children under your care. Let them skip unimportant classes now and then, but don't let them skip any of the physical education they are fortunate enough to b> exposed to while in school. Above all, beware of the “weak heart” dodge. If a child’s heart is really dis- eased, only the physician can advise wheth:r any exercise will do good. And mothers particularlv should beware of cultivating a “weakness” complex in the mind of a growing daughter. The girl well .nough to attend school on her own power is always well enough and strons- enough to attend her gym classes, and the mere fact that she is a young woman is no good reason for her to skip the class. The best schools today are the schools with the best provision for physical edu- cation, and the best people are favoring and insisting on such schools. (Copyright. 1931). l . expenses with Shredded Wheat” “I've found one way of get- ting better breakfasts for less money. I serve Shredded ‘Wheat. I don’t kn?w any- thing else that gives so much nourishment and costs so little. It’'s so easy to digest that every one likes it, too— especially when I cover it with fresh fruit. Shredded Wheat is whole wheat, and with milk it contains every food element we need for growth and good ‘health.” NATIONAL BiSCUIT COMPANY “Uneeds Bakers™ on the equipment for this side of the | :20rmal rest. On top of that my old love for designing clothes has come back to me and I have no way of bettering myself in this small town. “Would it be sporting of me to slip away out of his life and try to fight for a place in my line of work and take care of mother and father and my husband, too, if he ever needs it? For, in spite of the fact that he has willfully ruined himself by his weak- ness, I care for him. He has an in- come from his family. “I want to be square by everybody, but I cannot see being nurse for the rest of my useful days to a liquor fiend. I have kept his condition from his mother, for she is one of the finest and I don’t want to worry her. I know, however, that it is only a matter of time until my nerves will go to pieces. GENEVIEVE.” Drunkenness is not always a sign of weakness so much as it is an indica- tion of a deep maladjustment to life Your husband has some basic unhappi- ness that has nothing to do With you. You are probably not helping him much in your present state of mind. Thinking yourself a martyr has a bad effect on the person you are trying to help. It makes him rebellious. If you think that you can do better for him and for yourself by going away and doing your own kind of work, do it. You can always go back, if he really needs you. ' «Copyrignt, 31 PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE BRADY, M. D. Mastoiditis. | In most cases of “gathering in the |ear” in which the drum ruptures, per- | mitting discharge of matter from the | cavity within, or is lanced for that pur- | pose by the coctor, there is more or |less inflammation of the spaces inside the mastoid bone back of the outer ear | canal, and this inflammation is called mastoiditis. So, if the doctor begins muttering something about mastoiditis when one of the children has acute inflammation in the ear (otitis media, as it is called), don't get excited. Just keep the cotton and stuff out of the child’s ear, unless the doctor insists on cbstructing ven- tilation and drainage that way. Mind, I'm not advising you to neglect using any drops or other medicine the doctor prescribes; I merely offer the hint that cctton never did anything but harm in the presence of infection in the ear. Heat applied in or around the ear is an excellent remedy for any acute ear- ache where inflammation is presumably | the cause. Glycerin and other medi- | cines dropped in the ear canal or | applied to the drum by means of very | thin twisted cotton or gauze wick, will |often do good. But dcn’t stuff bales | of cotton in inflamed ears. I still believe, though I may be the only | doctor in North America who believes, that a hot mustard fost bath is the | best of all first-aid remedies for acute | earache—and if our Arkansas reader happens to see this he will kindly re- | frain from asking me if a hot mustard ear bath wouldn't be a relief for his |toe ache. I don't want to go into & | discussion of the length of the man's | ears again. It cost me a fine customer | 1ast time. | You see the inflammation easily spreads | from the lining of the ear cavity within | the drum to the lining of the air spaces | in the mastoid bone—the mastoid proc- | ess of the temporal bone, which you can feel as a hard rounded knob right | behind your ear. if you can reach that | far without getting dizzy. These air | spaces are in direct ccmmunication | with the air space of the ear cavity, and that in turn communicates with | the Eustachian tube, and that with the | nose and throat passage. So there you | have it all complete. At first its just a little cri some friend hands you gratis. Most _cases of mastoiditis progress | uneventfully to complete recovery if | not maltreated. You can't judge the severity of mas- toiditis by the tenderness of the mas- toid process to touch, nor by the swell- ing, for very grave mastoid infection may be present without either sign, and without any pain behind the ear. | Any acute earache followed by a very | profuse ear discharge rather indicates | mastoiditis. A discharge which pul- sates is certainly from mastoiditis. WITH ALL THE BRAN OF THE WHOLE WHEAT