Evening Star Newspaper, November 1, 1931, Page 47

WASHINGTON, D. C. NOVEMBER 1, 1931—PART THREE. 7 how hard Tom was trying to im- | the old command; “Come unto Me, ye Prove and had been astonished at his | that are weary laden.” efforts to be kind to his brother and sister. The next day she told him a sto sbout a boy who was brave and good and heipful, and said the boy reminded | Mayflower Halloween Ball her of Tom. And that afternoon | Grandma came in, and being in the | A debutante dinner dance was held at plot, asked mother what on earth had | the Shoreham last night when the happented to Tom? Why, he was so sponsors of the dinner were Mrs. W.| gentle with Joan, and so sweet with | Wayne Wirgman, chairman; Mrs. e Bruce! Thomas T. Craven, vice chairman. ‘Watch him when I give them their | Other members of the committee were supper, and see how generous he is,” | Mrs. Adam T. Wyant. Mrs. Edward H. said the mother, in an undertone. Schultz, Mrs. Lutz Wahl, Mrs. Beale THE SUNDAY Tight Places: Is Everyone in One? BY KATHLEEN NORRIS. STAR, 80 high, dear child. With Junior, you'd have to have a servant. Allen would be ! Grace Episcopal Church i To Benefit by Games | Additional patronesses for the bridge and mah jongg party to be held for benefit of Grace Episcopal Church at | the Ma Hotel, evening, | November 10, include: Mrs. Wiliam | Turner, Mrs. J. Thompson Wailes, Mrs. | Charles J. Williamson, Mrs. John Wue\ ) Major Thomas Chapter Of D. A.R. Celebrates Ds Dance Preced Its Sixteenth Year | Vanner nce Frecedes | plenty whij Cream and tomato’ aspic, to straghten everything out. Allen, husband, thinks his moth er a miracle of patience and tender- ness, and is a lttle grieved and hurt at the persistent petulance and unrespo siveness of his wife. It's an old story— it 18 being repeated all over the world. everywhere. The oid woman has a 25- year start on the younger, and makes the most of it. Morse, Mrs. Joseph Wall, Mrs. Hemry Parsons Erwin, Mrs. Charles Bateson, Mrs. Hobart Hawkins, Mrs. James W. McAndrews, Mrs. Edward Kirby Webster, Horace olds Shares, Mrs. don Hosts at Dinner in| Leonardtown. We begin it in the nursery, and we frequently find Bloomer, Mrs. W. LEONARDTOWN, Md., October 31— Ome of the most important events in St. Mary's was the sixteenth birthday anniversary celebration of the Maj William Thomas Chapter, D. A. R., of | Bt. Mary's County Saturday, October | 24, in the St. Mary's Female Seminary, | st Bt. Marys City. It was attended by 62 members and their guests and $he business meeting was preceded by | 8 luncheon. The members of the senior | class of the seminary served the Junch- eon. An interest ceremony ook place later as a small elm tree known | s a grandchild of the famous Wash- | ington elm at Cambridge, Mass., was| y CI Enmd on the campus adjoining Trin- | hurch at St. Mary's City, in com- | of ‘Washington. Mrs. James Dorsey of Baltimore, State chairman of the Conservation and Thrift Com- -‘:(l:.‘lrd Mrs. A. Dana Hodgdon of enertained at dinner at ‘Tudor Inn, in Leonardtown, Sun- day, in honor of Mr. Christian N. Rau- wyenal of the Department of State in 'Ilhlngon and Mrs. Rauvenal. Mrs. W. P, K. Wilson and her daugh- fter, Miss Nannie Wilson of Petersburg, Vi re the guests ull, Mr.h;nd l((:rl. 0" Morgan Knight in their home, Carrol Cottage, onuflnwk‘k and Washington streets, Leonardtown. Mr, and Mrs. Philip H. Dorsey, ir. and their young son, Walter Dorse: ‘who have spent several weeks as guests of Mrs. Dorsey’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Rule, at St. Louls, Mo., have re- mqm their home in the North End. Mrs” George H. Harris of Belvedere plantation on the Lower Potomac is this week with Mr. and Mrs, jce T, Otterback at Anacostia. . Harris will remain until the first wuek. “n!‘j"l.fld Mrs. Russell Lord of New York City are staying at Tudor Hall in Leonardtown, for a few weeks. Mr. Lord is on the staff of Country Home; Mrs. Lord is a landscape painter. Mrs. William SIIXV{';D of Leonardtown it Thursday in N wlllu l'lll'm'lz Youmvh’glnh d Mr. and Mrs. Walter daughter expect to remain until Than uv.lnc, before returning to their @t Grand Rapids, Mich. Mrs. has given her second scholar- ship ugh the Maj. William Thomas Chapter, D. A. R., to the St. Mary's w Seminary, in memory of her ', James Walter Carpenter. Mrs. Nettie Morgan and Mrs. Louis Abell of Leongrdtown are spending few days this week with Mrs. Mor- Roach_Abell, in Washington. Mr. and Mrs. Hervey S. Knight, who were married October 10 in Madi- son, Wis., visited their home, Rosebank, Sunday. They will remain in Washing- ton for the Winter. Announcement is made of the mar- rlage of Mr. Charles E. Tucker, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Tucker of , Md., to Miss Margaret A. allace, daughter of Mrs. Clyde Wal: 1ace of Baltimore, which took place Oc- tober 11, at the Hollywood Chapel. Rev. 3 pastor of the Church ‘h:n Capitol Heights, ., performing ‘ceremony. Miss Mary Magrogan of Rosebank, and Mrs. g day to her home in Baltimore. Mr. and Mrs. James S. Carr, who have been on an extended visit to their relatives in Pittsburgh, Pa. returned to their home, Pine Shadows, Within a fortnight Robinson of ™ George Horgan Kaight, town and Mrs. J. Raley anza, were the guests . C. Wilson, in Wash- ahd Mrs. Macon M. Coleman family reunion shore dinner Sunday for Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Long, and Mrs. Paul B. Long and Mr. Richard Long of Clements, Md.; Mr. Mrs. Richard B. Tippett and Long of Baltimore, Mr. and Mrs. of Hillsvill Mr. Long Long of Lynchbui Long of Washington, Mr. and Vase Strickler of Warrenton, Va., Mr. and Mrs. Kwy of Loveville, Harry Scott erritt of Pitts- at her home, SBunset . Marys River at St. will remain here for a of M ay of Mrs. 5 S ] i ¥ the of Prof. J. chold d Mrs. mchulmu Hall, Md,, Sun- %.me,fi.'fllmfi Raurel Grove have as their guests this week for & few days their son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. ,_ir., of 'Wash! Mrs. Z. M. Frazier of Washington ‘was the guest Sunday of her parents, . and Mrs. Charles S. Myers, at eys End, on Breton Bay. ber 12, in their home in the presence of the immediate families and close Miss Anne Woodall and Mrs. M. J. @chindler of the faculty of the St Mary's Female Seminary were the Saturday and Sunday of Mr. and . J. Brooke Bryan at Potomac View, on the lower Potomac. Mrs. George Harrison of Baltimore nt this week with Mrs. J. P. Bell at harlotte Hall Mr. and Mrs. Neal Miles of Baltimore were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. S.| George Miles | Hicks Arncld Weatherbee of | New York, who hss been the guest of | Mrs. Wilmer Matthews of the South | End. hi ed tb_her_home. “Mr Last Year’s Hats of Felt or Soleil Moulded to the head, in the mew styles—all sizes HATS of every description CLEANED and REBLOCKED A Complete Selection of FEATHER FANCIES s | Gifferent—or, and the whole show over, before we have extricated last mistake. ourselves dying. ourselves from the If just onme thing were straightened out, if just one person were out of the way, then now simple most of us would find life! No mother has a right in her son's life until she and his wife are friends, independently of the family tie n the two women under- stand each other, like each other, and depend upon each other as inde- pendent human beings, then only can wife and mother exist in the same group. And, incidentally, it is establish this relationship. She h clams for a hat. Elegantly expressed, it's rictly the older woman's business to to forget that Allen never could eat and that $40 is an outrageous no Allen's wife would rather make any mistake in tl gently set right by Allen's mother. us, being called a peacemaker, Praise and happi did for that small contrary soul just what they urs and Which one_of aker, doesn’t find hi ‘making peace? Which one of us, being beloved and more admirable? Love is the cure, of course, for al admired. doesn’l fairly burst his buttons off trying to be more lovable, our troubles. Love fulfills the law. Love cures the naughty child; sottens the relationship of the two women —his mother and his wife—who love one man, love setties the divorce suit out of court. 1t is hard to love a person one simply—doesn’t love. It is hard te love a person one firmiy believes to be at the root of all one’s unhappi- ness. But many of our lives can be li ed only on those terms—only be solved by accepting the completely unacceptable, by enduring the unen- durable, by achieving the impossible. HAT an extraordinary talent we human beings have for getting ourselves into trou- ble! We begin it in the nursery and we frequently find ourselves dying and the whole show over before we have extricated ourselves from the last mistake. ‘Women write me their problems from ell the four corners of the Union and the variations and contrasts between the stories are simply unbelievable Every one in trouble, every one wishing that various things in her life were | rather, that just one thing could be changed. If just one thing were straightened out, if just one | person were out of the way, then how | simple most of us would find life! A Texas woman, the wife of a drug | store manager, complains that her hus- band simply doesn’t like her. She has a nice cottage at the back of the store, two nice boys in grammar school, her health, her car, her friends—but no husband. He wants his dinner alone, at 8 o'clock—doesn't . even want her in the room, although she has cooked | the meal and serves it. He goes away alone, on all holidays; has moved him- self into the spare room; he puts her housekeeping allowance in the bank to her account on the first of every month, and sometimes, she says, four Matthews has as her guests hen aunt. Miss Etta Barnhart of Pittsburgh, and Miss Catherine Matthews of Baltimore. Mrs. Joseph I. Gough of Leonard- town is spending this week in Balti- more with Mr. and Mrs. Marian Gough, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Shugars of Washington spent Sunday with Mrs. Shugars’ parents, Mr. &nd Mrs. George | L. Raley, at Morganza, Mrs. Bernard Long of Clements vis- ited her son, Mr. Aubrey Long, in Lynchburg, Va., last week. or five weeks will go by without & word from him, even to say “Good morning.” *x % ¥ AT first she suspected another woman in this, but theirs is a small town. The other woman would be known, and there is no other woman. Once she told him in anger that she would leave him, and be assured her she was quite at liberty to do so. But she doesn't really want to be divorced. Another woman, this one & New Yorker, has a cross husband. He to work at 3 o'clock every 3 comes home exhausted at noon, sleeps until 7 o'clock, wants a good dinner, and then goes out—alon business is bad, and they have no maid, . He comes in at 11 goes to bed, and the alarm rings at 2:50 o'clock again. That is her life. She is alone at breakfast, alone at lunch, and says that he is dinner. He has on holiday a month, for she is with only one assistant. Trying to comfort her, I that cooks are usually under a horrid strain. Cooks’ lives are very hard, and their nerves usually bad. If she Is sensible, she will wait until times are better and the children older for leisure Massa- ‘These o’clock, woman in chusetts with & mother-in-law. mothers-in-law, learn! This one is especially trying be- cause she has a lovely home and an independent income. son, an only child, loves her, and turns to her for everything. He and his wife live with her, she ma the house and the servant, they discuss meals, they plan hospitalities, and the so much as send & suit to the cleaners without ecmult‘iu‘ ":he‘du " 'VERY little while the younger wom- Mr. and Mrs. Macon Coleman, who g were in Warrenton and Danville, Va., for several weeks, have returned to their home on the Patuxent. itaining own This pains_and sur- prises the mother-in-law. “Rents are His Photograph— A priceless treasure in the years to come. A precious reminder O{ hil childhood days. 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Velvets, satins, chiffons women, litde and larger BROOKS DRESSES, THIRD FLOOR wife can’t [ ing him in “The tragedy is that often, nowadays the young wife and.the baby yield the fleld—they get out, and there is an. other broken home, with a lonely wom- an raising a lonely little boy somewhere, s ted man living along year after year after year with an aging mother, and three lives at least—and pehaps four, robbed of what might ve been nappiness. No mother a right in her son’s life until she and his wife are friends, independently of the family tie. When the two women understand each other, like each other, and depend upon each other as independent human beings, then only can wife and mother exist in the same group And, incidentally, it is strictly the older woma#f's business to establish this relationship. She has to forget that Allen never could eat clams, and that in her day bables wore | bands of flannel around their blessed little tums, and that $40 is an out- rageous price for & young woman to pay for a hat. Elegantly expressed, it's | none of her business. * x oxx UT until she learns it's none of her | business she and Allen’s wife can't be friends. No matter how lovingly, how delicately, how tactfully her hints are given, they jar—they cause trouble. Allen's wife would rather make any mistake in the world than be gently set right by Allen’s mother. Mothers will not learn this. One woman'’s trouble was a contrary | small boy of 8. He was disobedient, | stubborn, a runaway, saucy; “and the more his father and I whip him,” she | wrote me, “the worse he acts. I tell| him what a bad boy he is, but it doesn't make the slightest impression.” Being quite old enough to be this ‘woman's mother, and this little boy's grandmother, I took the liberty of writing her not one but several letters about him; we corresponded for more than a My advice was to let him alone for about a fortnight. feed him, kindly to him. but give him no | orders whatsoever, which would remove | all danger of disobedience, and tell him | cheerfully that he could play about as | te as he liked, stay away from school. | and be his own master. Having had | experience with this type of small boy | before, I warned her that he would be | reckless in his new found freedom— and s0 he was. | { * K kK | SH‘I followed instructions faithfully; indeed the poor girl was in a com- | plete state of nervous exhaustion by | that time, and willing to try anything. | She prepared no food that he could | Dot eat, and so could give him what L he made the two smaller children cry, she ignored him, not coldly, but with an the party. That night, in his presence, she reported the incident to_his her, adding that she could UPHOLSTERIN Onbinet Making, ishing, Chair E! FREE JOHN WEISMULLER 1735 14th St. N:W. By this time Tom was demanding & | dish-towel, to help her with her old | dishes. And, with swaggering shoul- | Wi ders and averted eyes, he picked up | the baby's bottle, and put it into the | crib, remarking casually ere, Brucie, you're too little t> get It was actually as quick as that. Praise and happiness did for that small contrary soul just what they do for | yours and mine. Which one of us, being called a peacemaker, doesn't find | himself making peace? Which one of us, being beloved and admired, doesn't fairly burst his buttons off trying to | be more loveable, more admirable? L RY praise and happiness for naughty children: they are more devastating than armies with banners. Love is the cure, of course, for all our troubles. Love fulfills the law. Love cures the naughty child; softens | the relationship of the two women—his mother and his wife--who love one man; love settles the divorce suit out | of court, and the man and woman who have been making each other | pervous and unhappy find & base for new happiness in love for children, home, family, traditions, love of char- acter and code and self-control. It is hard to love a person one | stmply—doesn't love. It is hard to love | a person one firmly believes to be at the root of all one’s unhappiness. But many of our lives can be lived only on those terms—only be solved by accept- | ing the completely unacceptable, by en- during the unendurable, by achieving the impessible. Our happiness has to be in spite of, and above, and apart from the elements that might spell wreckage. We may live to be glad of them. They drive us to the only source of happiness; they teach us the truth of SPECIAL 2 DRESSES $1.50 MEN’S SUITS 2 HEAvYcoats $1.50 H. Holloway, Mrs. | Arthur MacArthur and Mrs. y:umef ‘oodson. The table wWas gayly decorated with pumpkins and black cats and the de- butantes in their festive white and| black plerrot Halloween costumes made | & most delightful picture. The de- butantes who attended were Miss Anne | Wyant, Miss Olga Craven, Miss | Berri Miss | Miss Marbury Beall, Pansy Bloomer,"Miss Fanella Castanedo, Miss Polly Cooke, Miss Patsy Douglas, Miss Marion Dunlop. 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