Evening Star Newspaper, February 26, 1932, Page 40

MAGAZINE PAGE. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1932. Intangible Power in Friendship BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. RIENDSHIPS are among the choicest and dearest ties a per- son can have. Long acquaint- ance does not necessarily mean long friendships. There are hundreds of persons each of us know mone of whom come under the cate- @ory of friends. They are and always THE ARRIVAL OF A FRIEND FROM A LONG DISTANCE IS HEARTEN- will be acquaintances. There are other persons whom we may meet but once and yet they are potential friends. Like ships that pass in the night, these persons are sighted, and lost because | their course in life and ours are differ- ent, and may not bring us together again. It is the remembrance of these fitting friends, the recognition of con- | whom one is separated by such long distances that meetings must, of neces- | sity, be infrequent. To have them visit us in our home, or to go for a visit | with one of them never loses its thrill | of happiness. The far-reaching psychic | rays of congeniality do not dim in the interims between whiles, but like the light from & ship'selantern they shine forth to brighten the pathway | | that leads to the doorway of the heart. (Copyright, 1932.) NATURE’S CHILDREN BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. Illustrations by Mary Foley. RED OAK. “Three centuries he grows, and there he | stays Supreme 'in state, and in three more AK trees have been held scared | by Greeks, Romans, Teutons | and Celts. To them the living Its Jumber defended them from their enemies. When the Normans built their ships they had “Hearts of Oak" not wrench a ship apart | Bridges, great vessels, columns and aqueducts were built of them, and for centuries. Treaties were signed un-| der them, and the Druids held their| most sacred rites beneath their spread- There are about 50 species of oak which are truly American. The acorn distinguishes the oak from all other istic of the family. A tree must be 20 years old before it bears acorns. The red oak is one of the most and grows to the height of 150 feet. It has & columnlike trunk which is round and a very symmetrical head ‘The bark is grayish brown, the fur- rows are wide and the twigs are red- dish. The wood is coarse grained and Quersus rubra Linn. decays." tree meant food and shelter. built into them, so that storms could houses with this wood in them stood ing branches, trees, It is the outstanding character- beautiful trees we have. It is stately formed of spreading branches, has well marked rings and medullary rays. The wood is very strong, and the bark is used for tanning. In May the flowers appear when the leaves are half grown. The staminate catkins are yellow and hairy, from |4 to 7 inches long, and the pistillates |are on short, flowered stems. The stigma is long and bright green. The | | buds are reddish, pointed and'about | one-fourth of an inch long. The leaves | are alternate and from 7 to 9 inches | in length and from 5 to 7 lobed. When the leaves turn they are a bril- liant red and cling to the twigs until late in the Fall. They are leathery, | while the lobes are irregularly toothed | and pointed, The acorns are about 11, inches long closed, scaled, shallow saucers. They | are large and grow in pairs on ex- short stalks. The nut is in the | { shallow saucer; its meat is very bitter. The red oak is so common that we | take it as a matter of course. It is & | wonderful shade tree. It grows faster than any other oak, and does not ob- | ject to being transplanted. It grows |m | Was it because folks had become vita- genality, and the pleasure in the all-t00 | ghou; a foot a year and increases in short period of time spent together that is enduring. That intangible bond | known as friendship already exists. Sometimes one sees a face in a train or street car, in a station or street, and the face is that of a friend though | no words or possible signs of recogni- tion can be exchanged. Strange as if may seem, the fleeting glimpse gives pleasure, and often one reverts in| thought to wish a meeting were forth- coming. Probably it never is, but a po- | tential friend has been sighted. | ‘Then there are many friends from | BEDTIME STORIE Happiness in Hard Work. | Por those you love and who love you. | No work is e'er too hard to do —Monkey-Face. HEW, how tired I am!” ex- claimed Monkey - face the Barn Owl as he passed a Shrew to Mrs. Monkey-face, who in turn gave it to the| clamoring half-grown Owlets in the top of Farmer Brown's barn. “My wings feel as if they would drop off. | “Don’t let them just yet,” retorted Mrs. Monkey-face. “There are still LV\O; youngsters to be fed and nothing to give them. We have just time if we| hurry to get something before broad | daylight. I guess you are no more tired than I am, but we can't let the children go hungry. Come on!” She led the way out of the gable window and with a sigh Monkey-face | followed. His wings might have been | ready to drop off, but you wouldn't have | known it could you have watched him quartering this way and that way over the Green Meadows. Big as they were they made no sounds, and in the dim light at the beginning of dawn he was difficult to see. But he could see and he missed no smallest movement in the grass below, his wonderful ears caught ever: d there had been no one but hims think of, he always had enjoyed hunt- ing. but now it was work and hard work. From the moment the dusk had been deep enough the night before, he had been constantly on the wing, and so had Mrs, Monkey-face. Eight growing children required a lot of food, and as every particle of that food had to be € hunted for, there was no time to rest.| When he got back to the nest, Mrs. Monkey-face was already there and snatched the Mouse he brought to give to the last of the Owlets. I wonder if I ate as much when I was little as those youngsters do.” grumbled Monkey-face. “By the time we get the last one fed the first one is begging for more. It seems as if they must be hollow all the way through Big families are all right to talk about but when it comes to feeding such a lot of always hungry youngsters, it is a different matter. My dear, I think our family is too big.” “I don’t!” replied Mrs. Monkey-face promptly. “What is more you don’t either and you know it. You wouldn’t have one less if you could. Just look at them. Aren’t you proud of them?” “Y-e-s. I suppose I am,” confessed Monkey-face. “But I do wish didn't have such appetites.” “What can you expect when they are growing so fast?” demanded their mother, fondly gazing at them. “It does take a lot of work to feed them, but you know perfectly well that you never were happier in your life. There \ it any greater happiness than in working for those we love. Now, i there?” Monkey-face yawned sleepily. “No, my dear, there isn't” he confessed. “Just the same I wish their appetites were just a little smaller. The trouble is they grow too fast. Yes, sir, they grow too fast. fast, they wouldn't eat so much, and §f they didn’t eat so much, we wouldn't have to work so hard.” “And if they didn’t grow so fast, you they would be worrying and thinking some- | thing was wrong with them. " declared | ‘Mrs. Monkey-face. “The firsi thigeg we know they will be out huntingjjheir | 1f they didn't grow so| girth about 1 inch of wood in_five years. It may be found from Nova Scotia to Minnesota; south to Georgia, Tennesee and Kansas. 1t is the symbol of strength and in- tegrity. It is seen in its true grandeur when it has shed its leaves and the massive trunk, the broad branches and wide spreading limbs are seen. It then that we can see why the tree has a great round head, and the shape of | the tree is so changed when it is cov-| ered with its Summer garment of leaves. | (Copyright, 1932 By Thornton W. Burgess. own food, and then you will be sitting around wishing you had something is | = NANCY PAGE Lois’ Tomato Juice Cocktail Hao_F]avor. BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. Lois wondered why tomato juice cock- tail was so popular. Was it because it could be prepared and chilled ahead of time? Was it because of its gay color? min conscious? Was it because any- thing by the name of cocktail achieved popularity? She wondered because so many to- mato juice cocktails are so unpalatable that something besides flavor must be the answer. Guests always commented upon the palatability of her concoction. She had | learned a long time ago the way to | make the juice really good. In the first place she found she | could use either canned tomatoes or canned tomato juice. She strained the canned tomatces, usually without heat- | ing them first. Every extra exposure to Finds They Have Potent Effect for Good or Evil Do Women Influence Men? |DorothyDix 1d days of the Mauve Decade we used to hear s great deal Na%ha:g?:m%n's e ed influence. 1t was the favorite theme of novelists and poets and preachers, and beautiful girls were always being depicted as working miracles with it, and young women were forever being warned of their terrible responsibility and the awful things that would happen to them in the hereafter if they falled to use it to uplift men. Girls then thought about woman's sacred influence. It was part of the technique of cfi“mmn Every girl was reforming every youth she met, and using her influence to make him give up smoking and drinking, and the boys played up to the girls and led them to believe that bui for woman's influence they would be desperate and dangerous characters. IT has been a long time now since anybody has made any mention of woman's sacred influence. Probably the younger generation has never even heard of it at all, yet woman's influence over man exists just as much as it ever did. Nothing can do away With it. It is one of the inde- structible forces of nature, like the beneficent sunshine that blesses and the sinister storm that wrecks. The world will have come to an end when & mother does not mold the character of her boy babe in his cradle; when & youth is not clay in the hands of the girl he is crazy about and when Wives do not manage their husbands and color their every opinion or point of view. rue, and woman's influence being 8s potent tod:ynuh); was yesterday, why have we come to ignore it as a power of righteous- ness) - Why have we deleted the word “sacred” as applied to Woman's influence? = Why do women themselves ignore their responsibllity for what men do? Certainly nobody will deny that women have passed up the job of being the keepers of the consciences of men. They leave a man's sins on his own head, and yet, to & very large extent, the crimes that men commit they do for the sake of some woman before whom they wish to shine, or for some woman whose lust for luxury they wish to gratify. NOT long ago the warden of Sing Sing Prison pald & dark and terrible tribute to woman's influence when he asserted that most of the men in the condemned cells were there because of the encouragement given them to crime by their woman associates. Perhaps these girls did not deliberately set out to make thieves and stick-up men and murderers out of their boy friends, but they demanded the things that money buys as the price of their favor, and the boys went out and got it however they could. THIS being t: v v ight Many and many a boy who becomes & crook would have gone stra! except for the influence of some irl with whom he was in 1km and who asked of him the things he could not afford. She cajoled him and jollied alr and heat renders the vitamin O less potent; she had learned this from a | lecture by a dietitian. | ‘To the strained juice she added, salt, | pepper, a tiny bit of sugar. This was | put in to smooth, rather than to sweet- | en the mixture. A few drops of table | sauce went in next ‘Then she added about one table- spoonful of grated horseradish with its spicy liquid and two tablespoonfuls fresh lemon juice; and, lastly a few | drops of onion juice went in. | By slicing an onion crosswise and then scoring it in closely parallel and right angled lines she cut the surface into such tiny pieces that the result was practically onion jutce with an in- finitesimal piece of onion fiber. The seasoned mixture was well chilled and served in footed glasses or in thin small tumblers, which were nested in cracked ice or which rested in the spe- cially selected grapefriut servers. These are new and inexpensive and serve any food which neds to rest in a bed of | finely cracked ice. | Your Home and You I BY BETSY CALLISTER. One of our readers writes that she likes to serve vegetable dinners now and then, but she seems to miss the meat_taste. It takes a skillful cook to plan vege- table meals so that they tempt eye and appetite and satisfy all the food needs of the body. For we are used to complicated food, and most of us would rebel at simple. plainly cooked food set before us without any trim- mings. Boiled potatoes, boiled cab- bage, boiled carrots, boiled navy beans we'd think that very uninteresting. Yet it would be a fairly sa#isfactory meal from a dietetic point of view. One way to give the tang of flavor to the vegetable meal is to vary the styles of cooking the different vege- tables, and to be sure to have some- thing crusty or fried, as well as some- thing baked and something with some | sort of sauce on it. Another way is to serve a very little | A dish of baked macaroni and | meat. meat, for instance—just enough meat to give zest to the flavor. Or tiny sausage balls to garnish a dish of boiled rice. Or two strips of bacon to do.” “I would like to try sitting around | for awhile just to see how it feels,”| grumbled Monkey-face. Then he yawned “] WONDER IF 1 ATE AS MUCH AS LITTLE AS THOSE GRUMBLED again, settled himself o in a minute was fast a the perch and cep a last look at the children, all of whom were now asleep, and with a sigh of contentment | and happiness settled herself for the | rest she 5o much needed | | Copy 32.) | | To make an uncooked fondant the finest grade of confect sifting it into the liqu equals four cupfuls of pound will absorb two e pound will &k other liquid 1 use ar, | One pound sugar. One whites. One | espoonfuls of ed in place of egg whites. taste of 1g water or | ing, or set | put in a| uncocked other hot lig into a pan of hot water or warm place. Let Tipen for a while be- fore using, at least for an hour. Corn | sirup used in the making helps to take | away the uncooked flavor. Uncooked fondant is likely to form a sugary crust on top. It may be put into a tight jar or covered with 2 damp cloth, or coated with chocolate. It keeps well if not al- | lowed to dry out. Fruit juice, coffee, egg white or yolk, cream, butter, milk | or water may be used in making it. Any flavor and color may be worked in just as with a cooked fondant. | | My Neighbor Says: Wash out chamois skins on a | | windy day. Hang up to dry on clothesline and the wind will | blow the skins so they will be | | very soft when dry. Mushrooms added to brown | | sravy served with a roast give it | | a delicious flavor. Silver will be as bright as new if it is covered with sour milk, | | allowed to stand for half an hour and then washed and rinsed, [ To open a glass jar of fruit | without cutting the rubber, Jet the top stand in hot water sev- eral minutes. «: . 1932) with fried parsnips as the center of the plate. Another way Is to serve a bacon ap- petizer before the vegetable plate. | There are several good bacon appe- | tizers. They are served in the form of canapes—that is on toast. The real ‘F‘rr‘n(‘h canape is served on bread fried olden brown, but the easier way sub- titutes thin slices of crisp, buttered toast. One bacon canape is made by cut- ting bacon in small pieces and cooking till crisp but not brown, sprinkling over hot buttered toast, and garnish- ing with sliced stuffed olives, (Copyright, 1932.) When him into spending money that he did not have. me? Of course. But when was any boy in Jove ever strong enough to resist the wiles of the girl with whom he was infatuated? Silly? Of course. But when was youth ever wise enough to count the cost of what it did? When did it ever perceive the folly of Ji its future for the sake of a gold. 2 "When was there ever & boy who was not mndeh;;;mnmbyme according to the way she used her influence over him? fldnkitm,rfll,mfifllenrdndm the men in the condemned cells being there because to crime given them by women. (Copyright, 1989.) The Woman Who Makes Good BY HELEN WOODWARD. Whose uniquely successful career, both in business and private lfe, en- abies her to speak with authority on problems of the modern woman. says about most of of the encouragement DOROTHY DIX. An Advertisement. |to be done at home. Many girls wrote | and asked me where it could be se- I was talking the other day with & | cyred. You would think that such girls man who runs a small business suc- | would take pains to send me a neatly cessfully. He has about twenty em- | typed letter. Well, some of the letters ployes. To secure new help he adver- | showed dirty *4 and muddy “t's” tises in a news-| as though the type of the machine paper. And hel hadn't been cleaned in all of their always asks that| history. Do you suppose these same applicants reply in | girls applying for a typist's position their own hand-| would have a chance if they sent such writing. a letter? His last adver-| when you write in answer to an ad- tisement asked for | vertisement, don't try any fancy writ- a beginner as ste- | ing, After you've given your age and nographer and typ- | the salary you want (if that's being ist. He got oOVer |asked) then underneath your signature, 300 answers. | at the left, put a brief outline of your It is bad enough | experience, such as: to think of thest| Two years as stenographer with H. 300 girls looking | & H., lawyers. for work. It is even worse to learn how | One year with Blank & Blank, deal- many of them destroyed their OWn ers in silk. chances. And don't say “I am considered at- The man did not have time to open | tractive by my friends.” If & man is 300 envelopes or to read all the letters. | looking for a pretty girl he will not go First, he discarded all those that had | after her in this particular way. And, typewritten envelopes. He had asked anyway, he will not take your word Helen Woodw. for a reply in handwriting, and the girls who sent typed envelopes showed that they were not prepared to obey in- structions. Next, he threw out all un- tidy envelopes. About 100 were left, which clearly had been sent by neat girls with good handwriting. Then he read the letters inside. Those which went into vague generalities he threw out. Those which wept or pleaded or told him family af- fairs he also put aside. He explained to me that often he had kept incompetent people on his pay roll because he was s0 sorry for them, and “I don't want to hire any one who begins by playing on my sympathies.” The letters he chose were those which in the fewest words gave him exactly the information his advertisement had asked for. The letter written by the | girl who got the position read like this: | “Dear Mr. Blank: T am 19 years old. I have had no experience. I have just learned shorthand and typing. I am a graduate of high school and you ean judge my handwriting for yourself.” All good business schools teach girls how to answer advertisements. But in her eagerness to get the job many a girl forgets what she has learned, or tries to improve upon it. Remember that the man who puts the advertise- ment in the paper has no interest in your affairs or in your history. If you say that you are eager to make good, these are just wasted words. He ex- pects you to do that. Remember, also, that the appearance of your letter is of the utmost importance. Recently I wrote a piece about typing CHILDREN —don't gain weight —don't grow strong —don't keep well The stomach is not to blame when a child is finicky about food. Nor is every sluggish girl or boy constipated. Instead of a lot of medicine, give a little pure fig syrup. You'll see a change in twenty-four hours! In a couple of weeks, your youngster will have the appetite of a young animal! It’s true, mothers, for it's Nature. California fig syrup is bottled health for the little ones. For Any Sluggish Child Pale, sickly children whose tongues are always coated, and who are never really hungry, are suffering from stasis. That means a sluggish colon; a colon clogged with waste. They need the ““California treatment.” You can give this treatment yourself, anytime, any- where; i’s simple. Every druggist has California_fig syrup_all bottled, with full directions for a babe of two years or child in his teens. Its delicious taste makes_it_delightful to use; no child ever tired of it. Start tonight, giving enough to cleanse the colon of every bit of poisonous waste. Then a spoonful or so, every other day, until the child’s appetite, color, weight, and general Bealth {ell ou all ‘sluggishness o constipation has been conquered. ‘When a bad cold or severe sickness has sapped a child’s strength and stamina, remember California fig syrup. IMPORTANT! | about your leoks. e Scientists in Africa say the gnu has the head of a Cape buffalo, the feet and legs of a deer and the tail and hindquarters of a pony. Handwriting What It May Reveal. BY MILDRED MOCKABEE. HE writer of these lines uses great haste and much vigor in the composition of her hand- writing. At times the indi- vidual letter forms are almost indistinguishable. She is probably a person of vitality who rushes through the task at hand with healthy zest and vim. Decldedly she is a very positive and likable character, 1t is probable that she would be happy and successful in doing work which permitted her much contact and association with others. She would | seemingly be able to meet the public. S:leslmanshlp, however, would not be the whiclf she is apparently suited. As ad- justment clerk in a metropolitan de- partment store she might be vocation- ally well placed. Should such a ition not appeal to her there is another and more adven- turous calling for which she seems qualified. Possessing & vigorous physi- que, apparently, and a love of the thrill- ing and unusual, she would possibly find the job of aviation hostess to her liking. This is the newest line of work open to women and girls. It consists of traveling on the giant air transports in the capacity of social secretary and hostess to the passengers. It is a fas- cinating and intriguing position. So- | cial amiability, resourcefulness in deal- ing with people, steady nerves and per- fect health are prerequisites. With these esentlals the writer is seemingly gifted. By applying at the executivi offices of the local airport she might find much information of interest about this work. Out-or-doors sports would quite likely spiration to develop and preserve her of public contact work for | WOMEN'S FEATURERS, are trimmed in one way oran- other, but in a conservative way. That is, the milliners do not add any sort of trim- ming in any way they happen to think of regardless of the prevailing tend- encies of the season. If you are think- | ing of doing a little millinery work at | home it is best to note definitely how | the various kinds of trimming are used. You will see that in many hats the | trimming is used to hold the folds of & | draped crown or to hold a turn-up brim in place. There are ornamental “pegs” of metal or composition that are thrust into the turned-up brim to hold it in place. Small quills and arrow- head ornaments are used in the same way and sometimes a flat bow or co- carde will be used where the brim is sewed back to the crown. In other cases you will notice that trimming is used to give added height to the hat. It may consist of & bow of ribbon or & bunch of flowers. Often & quill is used with the tip pointing up- ward, either at the back or at the r)gEt side of the hat. Notice that his is the new way to place quills, with the tips pointing skyward to give that ascendir line to the hat that is characteristic o? the new fashions in millinery. The quill may match the hat or be of contrasting color, to give a bright touch to & dark or neutral colored hat. Very often the quills are shellacked or otherwise treated to give them a high luster. Sometimes what appears at first glance to be a quill will turn out to be a quill-shaped plece of fabric wired to own physical fitness. She should, how- ever, guard against a tendency to over- exertion, Note—Analysis of handwriting is mot an_ezact science. according to world in- | vestigators, but all agree it is interesting | and lots of fun. 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