Evening Star Newspaper, August 19, 1931, Page 26

WwWOoM Social Graces AN’'S PAGE. Always Assets BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. Girls who go to “finishing schools” are taught the graces as well as the grammar of life. When they have com- pleted their semesters at such schools they have had the finishing touches requisite for social life drilled into them. They are supposedly prepared for their *“eoming out” into society, and they are Young persons who from choice or necessity do not attend “finishing schools” should learn the things per- taining to the etiquette of society if they can expect to hold their own with debu- tantes. It is true that more girls attend other schools than “finishing schools” when they are prepared for grades above grammar school or high ‘school. Some choose college, some specialized schools, {but social graces are always assets. Many of the things learned in “finishing | school=" may seem trivial, such as the | way to greet persons; the way to enter and leave a room in which there are others; how to courteously disengage one‘s self from a group of persons in | order to pay attention to some one else, |or in order to join another group for | purely personal reasons, etc. In society | these things are noted with pleasure or displeasure by those who are leaders of social sets, and mark one as good or PoOr assets to groups. The amenities of life are actually | worth cultivating. They smodth the running of social affairs, and, incidental- {1y, they are desirable even in business | relations. With business men it is called | & smooth manner, and the smooth per- | son has many things in his favor pro- | vided it comes from fine breeding and is not an artificial cover for sharp dealings. Parents should train their children |in the social graces. It gives them ®good start when attending “finishing schools,” and when they do not. it sup- | blies an actual need, if the girls are to be successes in life that is apart from business. They can be instructed never to turn their backs wher' leaving a | room in which there are others. It is | discourteous for a man or a woman to | do this, and an impertinence if the per- sons in the room are high dignitaries | The act must be graceful and not ap- | ir to be anything but natural. If the | is closed through which they would | they must slip the right hand back {of them, and turn the knob. open the | door and so leave the room, closing the | door after them. | "1t 15 sald that a good actress is known | by her exits. This is also true of persons in soclety. It is not a slight thing, al- | though it may seem a trivial thing to be |taught in “finishing schools.” One can- | mot walk rough-shod through life | expect to be a welcome companion or an addition to soclety. BAKED ALASKA. Brick ice cream, one quart; sponge cake, one oblong. egg whites, four; powdered sugar, four tablespoons. SERVES 8 PEOPLE. Make a meringue by beating the eggs whites stiff and adding the sugar, Cover a small bread- board (a tin or aluminum pan i } DAILY DIET RECIPE | . and | THE EVENING SUMMERTIME BY D. C. PEATTIE, 1 once met in the depths of the | mountains in Provence a village priest who had been to Washington. This, wemerkable in itself, astonished me less | than that he was most impressed by | | £ceing squirrels in the sireet trees right | iin the heait of the Amerigan city. Compared with any Eu n com- | | munity, the most thickly setited p‘.‘u‘ of the District are positive wild-life pre- | serves. I never saw so many ingenious | and brutal ways of destroying four- footed brothers end little singers as in | Mediterranean Europe—limed twigs by | | which birds are caught when they | alight, other birds used as decoys, guns | i like blunderbusses that fire about 50 | bullets. | Here in America the number of sportzmen is few. Still fewer are those who attempt to make any sort of live- lihood or keep the larder full by sj | tematic killing of birds and quadrupeds. | Our worst loose killer in that respect is the common cat. At this season of year cats make havo: with the yearling birds that are now venturing near houses, on lawns and in bushes in search of food, snd yet are unwary and gullible. Every day almost I read, on city streets, in the thickets near my home, or even on my own grass, the verdict, “Dead of a cat.” You will notice that bird lovers never keep cats. Now there is another fellow who is a great deal more ruthless and wholesale [than the cat as a killer and an anti- | wild life conservationist. And that is jthe rat. Few of us realize how much rats live out in the wilds and open. They are, though naturalized from the Old World, now part of our wild fauna, In Winter they are driven into our | houses more, but at present they sub- sist in great part upon birds and eggs. | They can run along trees soundlessly, | their habits are nocturnal, they are | probably much more intelligent, and | wickedly intelligent, than any ordinary cat or dog. If all this is so, you may say; why not keep the household cat | just as & rat catcher? Alas, the truth is that most cats are much too slow | to catch & rat, and probably only a huge Tom, veteran of many encounters, | would take on a rat. NANCY PAGE Do As You Would Be Done By, Nancy's Creed. BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. | _The problem of making children obey vas one which bothered Nancy con- siderably. Joan was fairly tractable, | but there were times wien she obeved at her own sweet will. How should | Nancy control it? | STAR. WASHINGTON, D. (.. WEDNESDAY, MODES OF THE MOMENT P, s & Qrdanse E:-Z coat’ fi \1} myl&w and brown. \ Comportable ,-n_l:_’m. rhoul- | ders, small collar, ard wride brown lealfier Why Not a Community Matrimonial Thinks Few Would Patronize It DorothyDix Bureau? A FAMOUS social-service worker thinks that a marriage bureau should be established in every community to which young people could go for assistance in selecting their mates, and for expert advice about how to make their marriages successful. Tt is a great idea but, alas, impractical, for lovers never listen to the voice of wisdom and experience. Millions of friends and relatives have invoked all of the high ‘gods of precedent and reason and logic in a fruit- less effort to convince young couples that it was folly to rush into matri- AUGUST 19, 1931. NATURE’S CHILDREN BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. LXXXVIL THE HORSE FLY. Stomoxys Caleitrans. Tilustrations by Mary Foley. OBBIN gets very little pleasure in the pasture if his enemy the stable fly cr stock fly. thete too. Constant swi cf his tail, to “eep the pes | from one-half of his body, and shaking | his head, to dislodge him from the other | half, leaves precious little time for nib- bling of tender grass. | ""Afier a great number of these blood suckers have fed upon him, he gets dis- | courdged and bitter, often feeling that | he has ncthing to live for. From the healthy looking animal to a most de- jected one, with tail between legs and a woebegone expression in his eyes, is not a very long step when these pests are numerous. Diseases are transmitted to man by these little beasts, too. It is believed that infantile paralysis is spread by them. It favors the house fly and gets - by in this way. Its body ls broader, and while the house fly stings, the stable fly stabs.. In moist, fermenting straw the moth- er fly lays a mass of about 600 eggs.. In warm weather tiny maggots slit the long white eggs and crawl out. Each grws very rapidly, and. if things are favorable, the growth will be completed | o\ in 11 to 30 days. The hind body is large and the head tapering. They shun the light. Then they begin to shorten and harden; the skin begins to form the cass in which they go through the next. stage in their growth.. Here they lie dormant fcr 6 to 20 days.. | The fly then butts his way out of this case. He has a bulging head, his beak | does not show and he is a pale, weak- looking creature. However, the wing sacs scon develop into strips sppear on his back. There are dots of black on his stomach also. The larg>, compcund eyes help him to find his food, while his keen serise of smell is another asset. | The world is his domain. In warmer climates his tribe causes much dam- age. The cows cannot produce the broad wings. | The body darkens and the long, black ing t | dny | FEATU RES, MILADY BEAUTIFUL BY LOIS LEEDS, Daint§ Under Difficulties. A Canadign reader has taken me (and all other beputy editors and health ad- visers) to t§sk for putting so much em- phasis on afily bathing. She points out the practicdl difficulties that many busi- ness girls ehcounter in trying to follow such advie s deal of hot water. one has a of taking a hot bath every Since T am to make this beauty col- not a grea fat h're Indeed, téo much bathing in hot wat may be enervating. It is possil keep cleAn with warm or even water, provided one uses a bath and rough towel vigorously enough. best way to make the body really is to sweat freely, then sponge off perspiration and Sweat cleanses the pores as nothing else can. Some sort of daily cleansing of the whole body, especiaily of the armpits and feet, is necessary to keeping one's person free from body odors. For the business girl in a roomi house a nightly sponge bath offers the most | oractical solution to the problem, a large tin basin or dishpan, & or large wash cloth, soap, bath brush, Turkish towels and the bath lotion given below will provide a cleansing, refreshing bath |at_small cost and trouble. Scrub the skin first with soap and brush, using half the water. Then ponge with the rest of the water after lddll:gel few drops of the bath lgtion. Dry body thoroughi: A morning “hand bath” is simple ani refreshing. Just dip the palms in cold water and slap the body with them. Go over one at a time in this way, rubbing it dry before proceeding another part. Add bath lotion to the water to give a dalnty fragrance to the in: or use lotion No. 2 given below, without water. A'Eply tollet water or a nonperspirant to the armpits. Dust the body with dusting powder. The feet, particularly the soles and between the WHO REMEMBERS? BY DICK MANSFIELD. Registered U. 8. Patent Offics. | | A Sermon for Today i BY REV. JOUN R. GUNN. | The Other Fellow. | “Let no man seek his own, but each other’s good.”—1 Cor. x. | It is not required that | ignore his own interest and own affairs. That would be folly. | you do not take care of yourself, but | depend on the world to take care of you, it will likely take care of you in one shall his %o | “the poor house.” Certainly Paul does not mean that | we shall be officlous concerning the other man's affairs. There is a sense in which we should mind our own busi- ness and let other people's business elone. The man who officicusly med- | dles in things that do not concern him, | Solomcn tells us, “is like one that tak- | eth & dog by the ears. ‘We always get our “foot in it” when we become too meddlesome in the | fairs of our neighbors. And yet we not made to live for ourselves alcme, We are made to live for one another, | and until we learn to live for one | other, we have not learned all. “The man who high-grade milk or so much of it. The | hey b w t & family. They went al d mony before they had any way 1o support a %y went slong.and. | Wigh-yrade miies s B o | o o o wchlld care, Mg~ | got married fust the same, in the fond bellef that they would be fed on 1 S e Beal | | sinee o DATent eddietin And went to with paper. Lay ‘WITH THE HAND BACK, TURN THE OPEN THE DOOR. expected to grace any even; where they thereafter. Those who have not BEDTIME STORIES %7 you 4 to do and do it ou setfom Wil have Caule o Fus 1 —Mrs. Forkhorn. These were wonderful and happy “he little Forkhorns and anxious days The twins were ¥E COULD SEE SOMETHING JUST OUTSIDE THE BUSH, BUT HE COULDN'T BEE CLEARLY WHAT IT WAS. approvingly. She knew out of her own experience that the ability to travel fast through rough, broken country where it is one jump after another would be the means of saving their lives often even when fully grown. So it was rarely that she them down to the level 1and of the valiey. There a Coyote or Howler the Wolf might run one of them down. but not on the rough hillsides. They had learned how to fresse when lying fiat on the ground. This was the wvery first lesson they had had. Preezing. you know, means keeping as still as if MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Orange Juice. Hominy with Cream led Egws. Coffee. LUNCHEON, Cheese Souffle Hot Bran Muffins Jellied Prunes with Oream. DINNER. for | Was too quickly) oblopg of cake on paper and | | place ice cream on cake, which should extend one-half inch be- yond cream. Cover immediately with the meringue spread on smoothly. Brown quickly in & very hot oven. Slip baked Alaska Recipe contains protein, starch, sugar, lime and vitamins A and B. Is of very high. fuel value. Should not be eaten by one wish- ing to reduce. Thornton stiff. Now they were to ha»iel i lesson in freezing when standirg. that ohe evening just after 3 the dusk made things just bit indistinet save to eyes made for } in the dark, Mother Forkhorn | twins down from the hills to- | | ward a certain open here the She the twins she the | tly she froze. She didn't dodge | back into the brush. She.simpiy. froze right there in the open. Had she been from stone she could have been otionless. Farmer Brown's saw her as she stepped out and he, | | muttered. “Anyway, I thought I| saw comething move.” | In the fast gathering dusk he strained | his eyes. He could see something just | outside the brush, but he couldn’t see clearly what it was. The longer he | lopked the less sure he was that he | had seen something move there. There was no movement now, not the slightest. | if keeping perfectly still, he aited and watched. The minutes| lipped past. The thing he was watch- | ing grew more indistinct as the dusk deepened, but he was certain that no part of it moved. | | . “Pshaw!” he exclalmed under his | breath. “It is nothing but an old stump. The poor light fooled me. If it was a deer it would have moved by this time. I'll wait a couple of min- utes more, and if it doesn’t move then I'll know it is a stump. It if getting ! dark fast, and Il bave to hurry 1o get back to camp, or Stumpy will think I am Jost.” Se he waited a couple of minutes. The thing across on the other side of the opening looked more and more like a stump. “It 1s a stump.” said he, and started on his way. Twice he looked back. The old stump remained there motionless Of course, stumps cannot move. At last he disappeared down the trail to the camp. Then, and not until then, the stump came to life and Mrs. Fork: horn called softly to the twins. At once they came to her. “Did you see that two-legged crea- ture?” she asked. The good. | remain hidden in the brush while | | ed. | twins nodded. “That is one of the enemies you must always watch for,” sald she. “Did you see how he stopped and stood perfectly still?" Again the twins nodded. “He was lookis at me, but he didn't see me, sald she complacently. “That is what comes of instantly freezing at the right time. He thought he saw me, and then he decided that he didn't. He de- cided that I wasn't a deer at all.” “What would you have done if he had come over here?” asked one of the replied Mrs. Porkhorn not you have been seen Never forget that.” The twins promised they wouldn't. lectures and parent-teacher meetings. | She came to the conclusion, which | many other wiser persons than she have reached—that it is foolish to in sist upon immediate obedienge. Sup- pose, for instance, that she should call | Joan to the table for lunch, and sup- | pose Joan was right in the midst of a story, or perhaps one last para- graph. She came glowly. What should Nancy do? Call her sharply and tell her to come at once? Suppose that Joan said, “Oh, wait & minute.” | And yet made a start, slow, it is true, but a start at least, toward coming. Should Nancy enforce her command? Or should she realize that the urge to obey was great even though the de- sire was rather sluggish? And suppose that Joan tucked the book under her arm as she walked to- ward the table. Bhould Nancy eompel her to lay it down and to leave it in the living room? Su she did carry the book to the le, was there any crime in that? Wasn't it foolish to insist in & compelling fashion that obedience be implicit and immediate? Would any grown-up, nay did any grown-up drop everything and come at the first call” Did she in fact, when oan asked her for something, drop vhatever she might be doing and run at once at her young nlece’s call? Nancy decided that. so Jong as the will to obey was there it was foolish to de- mand more from the child than she was willing to give to the child in return. And Nancy was a wise and understand- ing person. Don't you agree? Marcellus, Tlion, Rome, Carthage, Utica and Syracuse are some of the classical names drawn from classic names and places fathered upon New York cities. manna from heaven. M ILLIONS of parents have talked their tongues off trying to convince their sons that they would bring down certain misery on their heads if they married shrewish, seilfish, extravagant, leasure-mad girls, but their arguments never kept one youth from marching to the altar with his pretty little virago or waster and spender, Millions of fathers and mothers wreck their lives by marrying drunkards or 1oues or ne' the girls turned a deaf ear to their into their fate in white satin and tu e begged their dapghters not to T-do-wells, but fill’!nh' warning and blithely crashed e, "HE trouble s that when young people are in love they are the victims of a temporary insanity that makes them incapable of thinking straight, of seeing straight or of countin ably this is a good thing. for if people figured out the risks. the consequences of what they do. ere certainly would be very few marriages Prob- Every engaged couple believes that its marriage is going to be different from all other. marriages and that somehow the power to work miracles i going to be vouchsafed them on their wedding day. Tm: is no metamorphosis of personalities that suddenly makes the weak strong, the bad good, the extravagant thrifty, the vile-tempered amiable What John and Mary and Algernon and Gertrude were before marriage they are aftefward. Only more so. For marriage seems somehow to intensify our gualities and set them as a mordant does dyes, You couldn't convince any boy and girl in love of this, not though you spoke with the tongues of men and of angels and not though you whole house full of statistics to back you up. any proof because they have seen it happen that way to othe had & In fact, shey don't need T people & thousand times, but it hasn't shaken their faith in their being an exception to the general rule. H would accept its guidance. OWEVER, one likes to toy with the idea of how much good guch an institution as & matrimonial bureau could do. provided young people Fancy the number of unhappy marriages and divorces it would prevent if, instead of ping the question to a girl be- cause she was pretty or cute or was blonde, A young man lald his case before the bureau and had it analyzed and got scientific advice on the subject as to how harmoniously the girl prospect’s temperament would blend with his and whether she would make him the sort of wife he needed. Great ides, this of having & matrimonial bureau. But the trouble is we all want to pick out our husbands and Wives by our own hunches and to commit our own follies in matrimony. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyrisht. JBUSINESS executives these days are deep in & study of production meth- ods, hunting easier ways to get the same work done, innovations that will cut the amount of time neaessary to complete a certain job, new systems that will re- duce that industrial bugbear, the “over- head.” For the elimination of waste means money saved. In a sense each home is a factory, too, for there is so much work to be done, and time, whether it be that of the home maker or of hired assistants, is worth money. In most homes the “lady of the house” is general manager, foreman, purchasing agent and the entire staff (eaving friend husband to serve as treasurer), and perhaps it's about time for her to call a conference with her- selt to see if her own “overhead” is larger than it should be. Gadgets that reduce work pay for themselves—and probably the electrical industry has contributed most inven- tions of this kind. Many a task that once required real labor can now be accomplished by pushing a button. But the furniture industry, too, ha: evolved any number of es that by expertly filiing their roles save time and trouble For example, consider the combina- Other pads may look like Kotex but how are they made? . . . where ? by whom? You have a right to know. s used over ten mil- last year. It is made with and cleanliness. ays soft for hours. to fit. Adjustable. May be on ecither side with safety. of course. | tion serving, breakfast and reading tray. It is & sinle tray, with handles on each end, b which it can be easily carried. But cuppose there is need to serve a breakfrst in bed. Four legs snap down from beneath the tray and the whole thing rests conveniently on the bed, bringing the eggs and toast and coffee up to the right height. Then after breakfast perhaps the reading of & new book is next on the program. The top of the tray swings upward and can be adjusted at any angle. For reading in a chair the legs can be hidden out of sight and the tray will rest on the arms of the chair. A simple and inexpemsive creation— yet the amount of fussing about, trying to make an invalid comfortable, for ex- ample, that it saves. And there are dozens of other pleces equally as useful that would prove handy. 5 53 . Cherry Soup. Boll & peund of cherrles in five glasses full of water. Strain the liquid, then thicken it with potato flour. Serve with diced fried bread. Pepper to taste. Try it them sicken and die. | Their favorite place to incubate their | families is in wet straw. Burning their haunts and keeping the stables clean is most necessary. They are great flyers and scatter their families in many parts of the State in one season. All warm-blooded animals are hosts. Jabbing his stilleto into an unsuspect- ing animal, one frightens it sb that it often hurts itself trying to get away. After the first pain, the blood-sucker sits there for five minutes or longer, filling up unmolested. Usually they are clever enough to seek an exposed, ten- der spot on the animal’s anatomy which is difficult to reach. A sting cn the nose or flank will cause 2 mild-natured animal to turn on friend or foe. These flles are robust and de- termined. They cause many ds. of dollars to be lost. (Copyright. 1981) My Neighbor Says: Metal door hinges should be washed frequently in warm soap suds, and when wiped dry, the hinges should be rubbed with oil % prevent rusting. Use scissors to remove seeds and pulp from green peppers when they are being prepared for stuffing. To keep sponges in good con- ditlon, vou should occasionally wash them in warm water with a littls tartaric acid or soda, afterward rinsing in clear, warm water, (Copyright. 1931 SONNYSAYINGS BY PANNY ¥. CORY. —an’ I'll say, like the feller in the show, “Hab a care, woman, yer looking feller who won't stop at nuffin'! 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