Evening Star Newspaper, July 15, 1932, Page 24

MAGAZ INE PAGE: THE EVENING WOMEN'S " B8 HE slogan “Do the next thing” had a great following at one time. Today we do not hear so much about it, for there is fashion in slogans as well as in g1l other man-devised things, estimable gs they may be. In this instance, the | selection of Doing Things of Importance BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. have naturally orderly minds. These have little difficulty in selecting the correct mnext thing to do. It is the woman who finds herself pressed with cpnflicting duties, each of which seems important or of imperative need to be performed at the next moment, that duties or of things to be done next assumes genuine significance. In this day and generation, when recreation and pleasures have come to the fore as they were not in past times, the home maker does not “keep her nose to the grindstone” without looking up to catch glimpses of good times. It is part of a home maker's privileges so to do her work that she can, without compunctions, have her share of so- cial good times. There are occasions when a pleasure should be given the rightful place of the next thing to be done. These times come to the woman who has not failed to do the things of next_importance in the usual rounds of her_housekeeping. The woman who wisely selects the matters which are most pressing, to follow one another in sequence, is the woman who will find she actually has good opportunities for pleasure with no qualms of conscience lest she has neg- lected urgent duties. (Copyright, 1932.) BEDTIME STORIE ONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. Common Sense: Greatest Modern Virtue |DorothyDix| Happiness HATEVER other criticism may be brought against this pres- ent era, it must be given credit for its good, hard horse sense and the practical way in which it faces life. 1 think it will go down in history as the beginning of the age of reason,” said a woman to me the other day. half so important a contribution to reduce the sum of human misery by “ps It is from a girl of 18, who is any attention to my diatribes. and of whom we became very fond. That tamed nurse we been habin’ to take care ob the twins is leavin'—Baby is sobbin’ 'bout it, but me an’ Nippy is just lookin’ perlite. i (Copyright, 1932) By Thornton W. Burgess. Yowler Becomes Heedless. ‘The wise to caution will give heed And ne'er be blindlv led by greed. Ola Mother Nature. OWLER the Bobcat was travel ing through the Green Fo in_ his usual silent, sneaking manner. He was hunting. So far he had had no luck at all Not so much as a_half-grown Mouse had he ca With every passing minute he ry and more s long heels. deed, Yowler had sprung for him and landed exactly where Jumper had been sitting less than a second before. Had | Yowler seen him just a wee, wee bit | One of tk i | IT IS PERPLEXING WHEN CON- FLICTING DUTIES CLAIM AT- TENTION. dnterim between periods of its vogue al- lows opport to alter the wording enough to strengthen its value. If the commanding phrase becomes “Do the thing of next importance, T re- sults will be ga In a home, always so ma that a home maker she decided to do without considering rtan for instance, there are gs to be done 1ld be unwise if most obvious rether or not it nt thing to have is better to do cne than not to| tion of the less pi g th do anything is point that the unmodified slogan stresses. Do W comes to hand at the moment T than remain idle. Matters get under way, at least, and the habit of procras- tination is not formed. | In fact. there is so much good in the | #logan in its original form that it is not surprising it had its pronounced vogue. It is when a good thing can be s planted by a better one that it should give way to the latter. There are some home makers who sooner than he did, it would have been just too bad for Jumper. As it was, it was just too bad for Yowler. So Jumper had a great fright and Yowler had a reat disappointment. It was after this Yowler turned toward the pond of addy the Beaver. “There almost alwavs is some one around the pond.” thought Yowler, hopefully. *“One never knows who one may see there. Almost any time now those spotted babies of Lightfoot the Deer are likely to visit that pond with their mother. I certainly woyld like to catch one of them. If only could find them away from their mother it would be no trouble at all to catch one. se nights I will “Hell Wh is this? Unless my nose deceives me, and I never have known it to do that, a Possum has IN A MINUTE OR TWO HE CAME OUT ON THE SHORE OF PADDY'S POND. been along here and not very long ago at that, It was a young Possum. Yes, sir, it was a yo Possum and_all alone. My nose can't be fooled on that. It must be that one of Unc' Billy Pos- 's children has strayed away and GOOD TASTE TODAY BY EMILY POST, Famous Authority on Etiguette. Miscellaneous Questions. | your im- s 1t mean famil include | —meaning children —as well as children. But first cousins ate” N other, unless they all live under the same roof. Broth for so long as are not I and for so lo their lives - ly connected But as each broth- er or sister marries and moves into a separate home the narrows down to husb: Sentimentall immediate as Emily Post mmediate circle arest to our hearts, no together or far apart upon the family tree. estion: “What requirements are neces. in orde hot one’'s name be ded in the Social Register? Wealth tial, is it not?” Membership in a family ial position has been long es- is The entrance for new per- sons would be through club membership lubs of marked social stand- ing. Money is not in the least essential, except in the sense that a certain those who are n m; | amount of money for many generations has naturally given opportunities for cultivating the refinements of life and tradition. Question: “Would it be proper to use | the parents’ visiting card inclosed in an envelope and just writing on the card the name of a_new baby, instead of the little engraved birth announcements?” Answer: Perfectly proper, if worded e who receive it will know ge means? On July 10, h, (or Mary Smith. jr.) to be plain to any cne—and so 1t Susan Arthur Smith. (Copyright, 1932.) like a leaflet on ‘“The Great news”and “The Little Amer- \ ness. cend a stamped, self-ad- sed envelope. with your request. to Mrs. care of this paper SCREEN ODDITIES BY CAPT. ROSCOE FAWCETT. N JouN GILBERT MADE HIS MOVIE DEBUT [WITH THE SEAT OF HIS TROUSERS ON FIRE The Beil yndicats 1nc) JOAN DBLONDELL, AT 17, WAS STRANDED IN PEKING , CHINA, WHEN ILLNESS FORCED HER TO LEAVE A TOURING THEATRICAL TROUPE \ L MARX <\ ATTENDED A SMART &.. HOLLYWOOD PARTY IN COWBOY CHAPS AND HIGH SILK HAT 5 Marle Smith or James | become lost or was headstrong and ran away to see the Great World. Well, it doesn't make any difference which it is; in either case it will taste just as good. Tender young Possum is a treat 1 haven't enjoyed for a long time, This fellow has headed for Paddy's pond. I ought to find him playing about on the shore there.” ‘With his nose to the ground, Yowler moved forward swiftly, but cautiously. Not a leaf rustled or twig snapped under his feet. He slipped under bushes and ferns without a sound, like a shadow. The scent of young Possum was strong in his nose and his mouth watered. The eagerness of the chase filled him and he forgot everything else. “That silly little fellow Lasn't even tried to hide his trail,”” thought he. “I am glad I happened to run across it before Reddy Fox or Old Man Coyote came along. If either of theme are in my place that Possum still might es- cape by taking to a tree, but that won't help him any now. There are no hol- low logs or holes in the ground for him to get into over in this direction and I can climb as well as he can. That little Possum is as good as mine this very minute. I'm glad I thought of coming over here to Paddy's pond to- night. T'll be in sight of it in a minute or two now.” He was right. In a minute or two he came out on the shore of Paddy's pond There it lay as smooth as a mirror in tne moonlight and like a mirror re- flecting the image of sweet Mistress Moon looking down from high above | Not a single Little Night Breeze was astir. Yowler had no eyes for ‘beauty of that peaceful scene. He paused only long enough for a hasty look along the shore. He saw no one, so with his nose to the ground again he began to follow all the windings of Grunty's trail along the shore. The | scent grew stronger. His mouth watered | more than ever. He must be very near that young Possum now. The hunt | was almost at an end. He paused for another look ahead | and caught sight of something moving, | just beneath the lowest branch of a | young tree just a little ahead of him At first he couldn’t think what it was. Then he saw that it was the young Possum hanging by his tail from that branch. Yowler grinned. It was the | end of the chase. That little Possum . was within easy jumping distance from the ground for such a good jumper as he was. With his eyes fast on that young Possum up in the tree, Yowler began to steal forward rapidly and heedlessly. Never once did he look on the ground beneath that tree, and so | he failed to see a little fellow in a black coat with a bushy tail tipped | with white who suddenly turned to face him. (Copsright, 1932) Your Baby and Mine BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED. Left-Handed Children. ARENTS are increasingly being urged to consider left-handed- ness not a: bad habit or an evidence of “stubbornness,” but as & perfectly natural mani- festation of the person whose motor centers are the opposite of the right- handed individual Be of the greater number of right-handed persons, the poor infant whose tendencies were all in the op- posite direction has heretofore led a harried existence. He was shamed and | scolded and even whipped for insisting upon making use of what his mother | considered to be such an awkward hand. One cruel father related with great glee that he tied up his son’s | left hand until eventually he succeeded | in_making him right-handed. ‘These parents have usually been blind to the after effects of such a | forcing process. Adults who are now |aware of the more striking effects of | the forced use of the right hand have been able to trace some of their own nervousness, lack of nimbleness and perhaps inclination toward stammering to this apparently simple change. | Authorities are constantly urging par- ents not to make any effort to upset | left-handedness. Up to a certain age babies use both right and left hands indiscriminately. After this time, the right-handed baby shows a_preference for that hand. and the left-handed baby persistently changes everything (from the right to the left hand. If | he prefers this hand, he should be al- [ lower to use it to spoon up his food, to rattle his toys and later to draw |and cut and write. | 'The left-handed person looks awk- | ward to us, but his awkwardness is as nothing compared to what it would be were he forced to use his right hand. One mother said that she urged her children to use both hands, letting | them choose the one which they pre- | ferred to use for finer, more intricate | work. The result is that her left- | handed boy uses his right hand for | holding his eating utensils, but makes | use of his left for painting and draw- | | ing. at which he is adept. Not only the parent, but_the teacher as well, should b: aware of the speech | difficulties and the nervous ailments with which she saddles the child when | she deprives him of the use of his | natural hand. The teacher who re- fuses the left-handed child the privilege of writing with his left hand puts an | insurmountable obstacle in' the way of | his writing and makes his life nervously complicated. We should first of all erase the idea | that there is anything queer or_inferior about the left-handed person. The dif- ficulties he encounters are all of our own making. If we allow left-handed | children to remain left-handed, we may |find in time that there are as many left-handed individuals as right-handed | ones. - Heretofore, we have put so many | snags in the way of the child remain- | ing left-handed that we are in no posi- | tion to say positively that the race is naturally predominantly right-handed. Melon Cocktail. Use equal parts of watermelon and cantaloupe. Cut the balls with French vegetable scoops, using varicus sizes, if avaflable. Place in glasses and serve plain or covered with canned grape- fruit juice. If you like lime flavor, add sm;ne lime juice to the canned fruit juice. covered the fishing grounds off Ireland, has died at Gromsby, England. the | ! Skipper John C. Leonard, who dis- ¢ RUT there were years of jealousy suffered, and made our mother widowed mother is about to marry again. the same age that very same thing happened to me, and I had hysterics all over the place, and just about broke my own and my mother’s heart. Indeed, “We talk about the marvelous discoveries that have been made in this age, of the wonders of the radio and the airplane and the phono- graph and sending pictures over a wire and so on. But they are not human happiness as the discovery that we can apply a little gumption to the solution of our problems and half. an example of this, take this letter which I have just received. at college, and who tells me that her Now when I was a girl about “Fortunately, my mother had enough sense and courage not to pay She went on and married a very fige gen- tleman who made her very happy and was a real father to her children and bitterness in which we children and our stepfather suffer, and that left behind rankling memories that will never be cbliterated. However, that was the attitude that half-grown children always took in those days toward the remarriage of a father or mother. They got all the misery they could out of the stepfather or stepmother situation. “Compare that with the commonsense way children look at the mat- ter today. This girl, who writes me express® her own and her sister's and brother’s delight. that her mother is going to marry, She says that her mo %er is still young and has many years of life before her and that in the past. might when all she could do was to off than herself. each other felt that they had to live It wasn't respectable for her to work and earn money and all she could do was to eat her heart out in bitterness or marry any- thing in the shape of a man that came along. “It used to be that people who stood in a certain relationship toward hated each other, but now they go their separate ways and discover that there is nothing like distance to promote family affection.” (Copyright, 1932.) she neccs companionship and her own home and her own interests in life, UCONSIDE‘R the difference between being poor now and being poor Think how we used to pity a poor girl, and well we sit at_home and envy those better together, no matter how much they DOROTHY DIX. - e—— favsw\ ’gw&% v with dutl eloth peles and enk comncd ook i umd }\nu{,‘d. Masters of Music. PADEREWSKIL T was the Czar of Russia speaking, the lord of one of the large em- pires of the earth; and he was talking to a noted pianist. “His Imperial Majesty.” said the | Czar, “is pleased that the world's great- est musiclan is a Russian.” j PADEREWSKI AT THE AGE OF 30. { | “His Imperial Majesty is mistaken,” replied the pianist. “I am a Pole.” | Thus did Ignace Paderewski answer | the powerful ruler. He had not forgot- ten that when he was three years old the Czar had sent his father to Siberia. Before the World War, Poland was under the power of Russia, Germany and Austria-Hungary. After the war it became a republic. When he was a very little boy, Pa- derewski began to finger the keys of a piano. At the age of six, he started to take music lessons. His family was poor. While he was attending_school, he and one of his chums had just one good suit between them. When he was 12 years old, Ignace started to study at the Warsaw Con- servatory. There were days when he | The delightful soft... Ivory toned ! appearance rendered to your skin is irresistible. Your complexion in- stantly assumes a new commanding beauty that inspires admiration wherever you go. ldeal for even- ing use...will not rub off or streak. JENT. ORBEAM © N GourauD Rache! Shades White, Send 10¢ for TRIAL SIZE F.T. Hopkins & Son.New York o SO \O P oV 205 MODES OF THE MOMENT K pimted kenckiel 4o, Lrack, and. feach pandals l\A«n’nJ, enk jifl: P ndoals cnabe: -t& W Avana Merwin | in the conservatory while he was still | won a place among the masters or]‘ | United States—on an estate he had | through the United States | then 70 years old. pree———— gkt hene 14 placks, /Afiafu. had but a single meal: but his music, meant much to him, and helped him to forget his hunger. His ability to play' the piano won him a position as teacher in his teens. In 1888, when he was 28, he gave a concert in Paris. Those who heard him | called him a genius. “A new Chopin has arisen,” they declared, ref the Peclish-French composer mu Three years later, Paderewski made & tour of the United States, giving con- certs in many cities, and adding to his fame. Paderewskl composed a minuet for the piano, and it became famous; but his greatest honors came from his ability to play. He proved that he could make the plano do almost anything but talk. In 1919 Paderewski became premier of the newly formed reputlic of Poland. He held office for not quite one year, then crossed the Atlantic to live in the purchased in California. In 1930 he started on a concert tour He was In 1931 he returned to Poland. (This may be placed in “Biography” section of your scrapbook.) UNCLE RAY. “That Sugar’s.. ALIVE with ANTS” ) “The very thought of ants makes me sick! What ever can we do?”’ Order some Bee Brand In- sect Powder . . . and get rid of those ants. Use it in the kitchen. Kills flies, ants, roaches, mosquitoes. Doesn’t stain . . . odorless «..nON-poisonous. LIQUID SPRAY BRAND { ful of m lnsect Powder. McCORMICK & CO., Ine. Baltimore. M4.U.S-4- NATURE’S CHILDREN BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. Caddis Fly. HE caddis fly's children are clad in shining armor. They make their own garments with such skill and cleverness that they can move about in them with ease and are protected from their ene- mies. Some build log cabins, others stucco houses, and still others select exquisite shells. All homes are lined | Wwith soft silk and have front and back | doors. Unlike the snail, they can leave their homes when danger threat- ens and carry them about with them by means of two curved hooks, which are on the last segments. What at first appears to be a bit of wood moving about turns out to be a dark-headed caddis worm. He peeps out to see how things look for a little stroll. 1f it appears to be safe, he pulls his six legs out and the remain- | ing nine segments. There appear to| be tassels along these segments, but upon investigation you find they are gills. In order to swim, the house- holder jerks his legs rather vigorous: ‘and he moves along. Water flows in the front door through the gills and out the back door. You can see the rhythmic movement and understand why the water is kept moving. ‘The caddis worm is a vegetarian. He grows plump in his silk-lined castle and often a fish, seeing him, makes a dart toward this tender morsel. He gets the house, which is likely to mak him ill, but over in a corner. out of sight, the clever caddis worm is busily engaged spinning sik and making another caravan. After several months in the water the little boat is anchored securely to a plant stem. Silk mesh is woven be- fore the doors and the little occupant wrapped in pupal silk. rests. In a short time the caddis fly. still clothed in his waterproof garments. cuts his way through the silken drapery and climbs the stem. The skin splits and £ the liberated one flies away. He secks lights and is a fire wor- shiper. Many caddis flies lose their lives in this way. Their parchment- like wings are easily singed and, of course, the little creature dies They are dull brown or grav. Their wings fold over their back, forming & roof. Unlike the moths and butter- flies, whose wings are covered with scales, they have fine hairs instead The eves are black and beady and they move their antenna incessantly, in order to get impressions. They walk in such a fashion as to appear kneeling The mother caddis fly goes 10 a stream nearby and on the stem of a plant or on a stone in the water she fastens two masses of eggs. They are inclosed in a gelatinous green sub- stance that keeps them together. Sometimes the mother makes a diving bell of her wings and swims about the water looking for a suitable loca- tion for her children. As they have no economic impor- tence, little is known of their life his- tory. Scouts. here is your chance! «Cops 1932 Fish Salad. Mound remnants of flaked cold cooked bluefich on a serving plate round with a double row of thin slices of cucumber. Garnish the outer row of cucumber slices at inch intervals with squares cut from canned pimento. Serve with sour cream dressing The dressing—Mix thoroughly one- fourth cupful of sugar with one table- spoonful of bread flour, two teaspoon- fuls of salt, half a teaspoonful of mustard and a pinch of cayenne. Add three eggs well beaten. one-fourth cup- ed butter and one cupful of Cook in a_ double boil sour m | stirring constantly until th thickens. Then add one-th: of vinegar very gradually while stirring constantly Collar Edged BY MARY LL along the line we see a re- vived interest in pleating. As the Summer advances we see skirt pleats usurping the place ©f skirts with fullness arranged in gores or diagonal insets. And re- cently frills of side-pleated material have appeared to trim collars, capelets, eeves and short jackets. The tketch ows a charming new dress wiin a flattering fichu collar, edged with pleat- ing of this sort. A simple way to get the pleating is to cut your material into strips, running crosswise of the goods, seam them to- gether at the selvedges, finish along one side with very narrow hem or machine picot and then take them to the professional pleater. But with a little patience you can do the pleating at home. First cut the strips of material, seam them up and finish one side with a very narrow flat hem. Then lay the strip before you and make marks with a colored crayon or chalk every inch along the unfinished edge. Now thread a needle with silk, lay the material in a tuck one-third of an inch wide, take a basting stifch through this, take an- cther pleat one#aird of an inch wide at e next mark, take another basting With Pleating 1 stitch through this and so on to the end l'of the strip. The basting should be taken near the edge of the material. When the pleats are basted. machine- | stitch to hold in place and take an- other row of basting stitches near the hem edge of the strips to hold the pleats in place. When this is done, lay a slightly dampened cloth over the basted material and press with a hot iron. The strip of material should be tiree times as long as the desired length of the finished pleating. (Copyright, 1932 A Sermon for Today BY REV. JOHN R. GUNN. R HODA" means “Rose.” And this rose has kept its bloom and beauty for more than nineteen hundred | years! Time has had no withering ef- | fect vpon it. It is still as sweet and | fragrant as ever. | "Rhoda was a slave. The word ren- | dered “damsel” means a female slave She served as & maid in the home of ‘Mary. the mother of John Mark and sister of Barnabas. Who would have thought that the name of this simple maid would survive through all these | centuries! | What will men not do to make their | names great and immortal? We have seen men toil and struggle through years and years. often risking life and fortune, in order to win a place in the world’s Hall of Fame. By one little act this servant girl made her name im- mortal. and never knew she had done it Little did she dream that “this that she had done would be spoken of as a me- morial to her throughout the whole world wherever the gospel was preached.” The incident with which her name is connected in the twelfth chapter of Acts |15 the only mention we have of her ‘On this occasion, as she must have on many others, she proved herself loyal and true to her post of duty. She merely answered the door bell. " But at the moment the great apostle Peter was at the door. He had just escaped from prison, and was no doubt being pursued by Herod's swordsmen. 1f Rhoda had not. been prompt in attending to her maid’s duty. Peter might have been dis- covered and captured before he found shelter in the home of Mary. A serv- ant in Mary’s house, s accepted Mary's Savior as h or. And by her faithfulness a servant she rendered a signal service to the Chris- tian cause Why has the name of this poor slave | girl been preserved and this act com- memorated in the ¥nmortal records of the Bible? I think God means to teach us_that things which we are wont to call great and those which we are wont to call small are regarded by Him. not according to their apparent magnitude. but accorcing to their mo- tive and reference to Him. Many deeds that attract no attention on earth at- tract the attention of au Heaven, while many that we loudly applaud pass un- noticed by Heaven's recording ange! A rose does not need to be planted in a golden jar in order to diffuse its fragrance. And here God has given us this rose planted in a lowly vessel. in order to teach us the sanctity and glory of the humblest life when devoted to Him. The rarest flowers of sainthood often grow in crude jars. Flyosan, the new double-strength spray, leaves and yet it kills flies and mosquit instantly. Thousan already using it. No stain. And absolutely none of that clinging, ker- ke smell. Sold only by your druggist. THE ONLY SPRAY THAT LEAVES NO ODOR She dreads the very thought of Mondays—they a!wqys bring Here’s a wonderiul new relief from this complaint ® Life is hard enough for women without put- ting up with washday back —that work-weary tiredness which comes from old-fashioned washing methods. No longer need you rub your youth away over a washtub— here’s a wonderfal new soap discovery that ends all that. Its name is Oxydol. 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