Evening Star Newspaper, August 27, 1931, Page 36

Merry-Go-Round of Housework BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. FHousekeeping is a merry-go-round of | overtaxes her physical endurance, and Wwork. It can be as upsef to the|iliness is unavoidable. But this same ‘hémemaker as a ride on one of the gay | wonderful Nature will aid and abet any Jooking little horses, if she is not in the mood for the circular trip.|mental aversion to the disliked tasks, so .l!'., if she gets into the spirit of the |that finally the enjoyable aspects of the pleasant ones will overshadow the aver- ks sion to others. A homemaker does not always ap- preciate that in every kind of work there are parts that are not to the worker’s taste. For example a stenog- rapher may delight in taking down shorthand notes, but dislike to decipher and write them out. {the reverse. An | tremely irksome. And so it goes. Every | job has its “off-side.” A homemaker is fortunate in having so much variety in her tasks that the merry-go-round of ! work brings many pleasant tasks. (Copyright. 1931.) Mushroom Soup. ,meat on it. To each quart of broth | add one cupful of chopped mushrooms | and cook for 5 minutes. Serve hot. MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Halves of Cantaloupe. Wheat Cereal With Cream. Creamed Codfish on Toast. Graham Muffins. Coffee. LUNCHEON. Creamed Salmon. Green Peas Tcebox Rolls. Sugared Blackberries ermits. Tea. DINNER. ‘Tomato Soup. Broiled Swordfish, Hollandaise Sauce. Creamed Potatoes. String Beans. Cabbage Salad. Prench Dressing. Baked Indian Pudding. Coffee. GREAMED CODFISH. Put fish in dripping pan. Cool with water, place on back of range, where it will heat slowly. Let stand 25 minutes. Drain fish and pick into small pieces. Make white sauce with 1 table- spoonful flour, 1 tablespoonful person who determines to master her | developing plots often finds the actual | typewriting or longhand .writing ex- | Prepare a well seasoned beef broth | by cooking a soup bone with a little | THE EVENING STAR, What It May Reveal. BY mufiocnul. XAMINATION of individual let- ters is very important in read- ing character from hand-writ- ing. Much can be learned, how- ever, from the general appear- nce of a written page. First determine the general slant of | the writing. If it slants decidedly to | the right or left you may be sure the | writer has strong Hflk‘:s and dislikes. i veloped. As other hand- writings come closer to the ver- tical, there is more restraint shown. Straight up and down writing is that of an essen- tially practical, un- imaginative person. When the writ- ing seems to have no special trend and gives a con- fused and ragged sppewrance, the e M ., writer shows poor MiuMeerame. - control He 8 either in very poor health or an irre- | sponsible, undependable type. Look at the next’ letter you write and see into which class you fall. You may determine the state of mind | of the writer from the manner in which | his lines travel across the page. If | they have an upward trend, he is cheer- | ful and optimistic. On the contrary, if | the lines fall downward he is feeling | blue, tired or depressed. This_indica- | tion may be only temporary and can be told if other specimens of writing are |examined. If the lines are always up- ward you may be sure of a happy, sunny | disposition. If this is a temporary char- | acteristic there has been some event of | pleasure and happiness recently in his |life. The same thing holds true for | the other writer. He may be a normal | person suffering from some unexpected disappointment or SOTTOW. Some people maintain no regular line, but write up and down, giving a wavy, uneven appearance to the page. Such a person is unstable, easily influenced and swayed. He clutches at anything and has no stability of mind or in- dependence of thought. Learn your |friends so that you may judge less harshly'-and understand more easily. Note—Analysis of handwriting {3 mot workaday self is very little other than | DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX Dmmumx; What do you think of matrimonial bureaus? I have a friend who married a man who advertised through one of them for a wife and they have been very happy. I know other people who have known each other for a time who married and live like cats and dogs. I am a man not yet ma but I had just as soon pick out my wife on the grab-bag principle as any other way. What do you hhuil!kA?c . Answer. It is true that all signs fall in dry weather and in matrimony, and there is no absolutely sure way of guaranteeing a marriage being a success. It is also true that you cannot tell beforehand what kind of husband or wife a man or & woman will make. A couple may have gone to kindergarten and made mud pies together and have been associated every day of their lives for 20 years and still find after they get married that they are perfect strangers to each other. Nornnnc is more common than for a boy who has been a sort of human doormat for a girl to walk over to turn into a grinding tyrant as soon as he marries her., We have all known plenty of young men who lavished presents on girls and never wearied of giving them good times, but turned ‘into tightwad husbands. And we have known men who simply camped in girls’ parlors until they were thrown out at night who were never willing to spend a single evening home after they were married? ‘We know frivolous girls who have turned jnto the most domestic of wives, and domestic girls who after marriage couldn't be dragged into the kitchen. We have known extravagant girls who wasted their fathers’ money but kept & death grip on their husbands’ pocketbooks. We have known girls who were so mild that butter wouldn't melt in their mouths turn into naggers, and prim little Puritan wives take to night clubs and ‘whoopee parties. UT all of this doesn't prove that it is safe to marry sight unseen or that happiness in marriage is merely a matter of luck. On the con- trary, it me;&v shows that, since the odds are against you, you should use more care and discrimination in selecting your husband or wife. It may be that you cannot knoW everything about them, but if you use average intelligence you can ascertain enough to enable you to make a mighty good guess. You can find out what sort of family a girl and boy belong to, and you won't be far wrong if you conclude that John and Mary will make pretty much the same sort of men and women and husbands and wives that their parents are. It is as safe to go by the name of the maker in selecting a husband and wife as it is in selecting an automobile, SURELY with this information we could take mafriage out of the gambling class and put it in the sure-thing category. The trouble is that we don't do it. Nine people out of ten use their hearts instead of their heads in picking out their mates. A girl marries a man because che likes the way he dances, or a man selects a girl for a wife because she has blond hair instead of blaek, and they don't make any effort to find out anything at all about each other’s characters, or even Whether they are congenial or not. They marry perfect strangers, and when they get acquainted they find that they haven't a thought nor a desire in common. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1931.) EVERYDAY PSYCHOLOGY BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. A Vice. | paThere is only one thing to do it you | ave somehow acquired the habit of | Whether or not you know it, your | seif pity, Instead of looking at every WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 27 “BONERS” Humorous Tid-Bits From School Papers. Quartz is the name for two pints. Queen Elizabeth swore like a trooper and painted herself and other things. One mineral found in Canada is conundrum. Medieval were supported 1t you are very kind indeed to your dog it may follow you to your grave. A problem is a figure which you do things with, which are absurd, and then you prove it. (Copyright. 1931 My Neighbor Says: When making jams be careful _that only dry fruit is used. If it is wet there will be difficulty in keeping the jam and it will be- come moldy very quickly. Boil the fruit as soon as possible after gathering. If new enameled saucepans are they will last much longer with- out cracking.or burning than if they are used immediately. ettes are chops or patties. Discarded flatirons with iron handles, if painted with a ht- colored l:rmml. make excellent (Copyright, 1931.) an ezact science, according to world in- vestigators, but all_agreg it is interesting and lots of fun. The these habits, some are good, some not misadventure in terms of external ch FEATURES.' The Woman Who Makes Good BY HELEN WOODWARD Who started her career as a jrightened typist and who became ome of the highest paid business women im America. Selling Short Stories. Everybody in the world who has made a failure in e write a short story. Yet the stories. . If any- writing short to pay to ha gmu i #‘.h‘l’d a Fyi !:I.I’M b‘em :m. Mri’h: chance. 50 leal universal that there rts Yav e must be a real rea- son for it. It can't be as foolish as it story reads so easily that the untrained girl thinks i must be easy to write. But the more easy it is to read the harder it is to write. Al most_every writer will tell you that the first time he writes down a story it reads awkwardly. It's full of nog Prance and later a brigade in Mesopota~ phrases. Oddly, it sounds as had worked hard over it. Then he re- | i during the World War. ____ writes the story about five times. Each time he writes it, it reads more easily, | until, when it is finished, it seems you that he has dashed it off. good story think that if they down they'd have something good. And that’s all wrong.. When you take a story from real life and put it down just as it happened, somehow or other it doesn't sound right. It sounds improbable. | And the stories you make up are likely to_sound like the truth. Try it for yourself. Just pick out the queerest real life story vou know and tell it to a stranger. The stranger will believe you've made up half of it. So you see you must work very hard, | you must practice for months or years | before you can write a good short story. Many writers of articles, many suc- cessful writers of long novels, cannot write a good short story. If you have a #ry in your system that you want to | t out. put it vn paper. I will relieve you. Bu ing ERFECT POWDER CLEANSER A New Discovery Cleans Sheerest Silks and Heaviest Wools SO¢ Light or Dark As Advertised in and GUA) it don’t think of making a liv- on it unless you intend to spend two or three years in hard training. Most of the letters don’t ask me how to learn to write short stories. ask how to sell them. They have the notion that it's harder to sell a short story than it is to write it. the habits you have acquired. or‘cmmm VHL S 10 B Caime s T . against you, begin to ascribe some of above feature in that spirit. to have your writing butter and 1 cup milk. Season | | "y you wish to " Miss Mocka- with salt and pepper and stir in analysed send o sample fish. Cook until thoroughly 30 good. You refer to the good ones as | your virtues: your neighbors Tefer 10 | momt casile remscten mabiL. b, Do At S the others as vices. with. Correct that and proceed with ated. ve on butter e | T Of all the vices one may acquire. the | others. For example, a mere straight- toast. R i T il At R babit of feeling sorty for oneself is by | ening of the ehoulders will help some. HERMITS. study. far the most devastating. You find it | When you really take a thorough mental Six tablespoonfuls shortening, ST £ T TR among those who may have reason and | inventory of your habits, you will find 1; cupful sugar, 1 egg, % cupful Salad Dressing. among those who have no reason to lots of ways to help yourself out of the | feel sorry for themselves. At times it | difficulties that tend to aggravate the Add one well beaten egg, & dash each 'seems to exist independently of cir- | vice of self-pity, of pepper and paprika, half a tea- cumstances. In that case it's day- | (Copyriznt spoonful of salt and a pinch of mus- ' dreaming directed toward the self, in- | s oot i tard to one-third cupful of condensed troversion carried to extremes. Salad Plat ad Plate. | milk. Beat well and add lemon juice | a5 desired. Macaroni salad, half a stuffed egg. ickled beets, a slice of cold corned Select one of your work, she is sure to find some pleasures attendant. Then she makes the work fly almost as fast as th> miniature horses spin. She does not have.to lash herself to perform the routine duties. A happy heart coupled with genuine in- terest in her home, are incentives as 1931) chinery revolve as is the steam or elec- tric current forceful in propelling the merry-go-round. Every homemaker realizes there must be a certain established round of duties, although each task does not have to be talks in subdued voice, walks with slow | tread and shoulders, turns his beef, a jellied shrimp salad in a small | done in definite hourly or stated times. mazing. wi not !: the fact that Drop from spoon on greased /and bake in moderate oven about 11 minutes. INDIAN PUDDING. Put 3 skimmed milk pudding and set it in oven. hfl?nlfld 2_cupfuls cold skimmed milk. Do not stir Bake 3 hours. 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