Evening Star Newspaper, September 17, 1932, Page 21

Disposing of Current Magazines BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. A MAGAZINE STAND WITH SH-EI:%‘XCES AND A PORTFOLIO MAGAZINE X. ‘The problem of what to do with cur- rent magazines and newspapers is one to puzzle the homemaker whose family | enjoy of these interesting sheets of news and literature. It is she who has to pick | ap the pages which are scattered about | by the careless reader, or return to the | table the magazines tossed one side after | the chosen article has been perused. But this is not all. It remains for her to | decide how and where these open or | bound shects will be stowed away so | that there will be no repeated inquiries as to their whereabouts. It is she who has to see that the rooms look well with thete printed pages conveniently at hand. ‘ A good way to arrange current maga- zines is in a spread-out row along one | side of a table. Let each periodical over- | lap the one under it enough for the | name of the under magazine to be vis- ible. Space all magazines evenly so| any one can see at a glance just which | one to take out and can withdraw it | without disturbing the others. In this way the magazines prove a decorative | element on a library or living room table, inviting one to read while sitting in a nearby easy chair. | The return of the Victorlan style of decoration brings with it the wall pocket. One of these can lend decora- | upper one, for it in turn becomes the under one when the current day’s news- paper is put in. Newspaper and magazine racks can prove ornamental as well as useful, but only decorative when the contents are in neat piles. The whole appearance is spoiled if newspapers are carelessly thrust onto shelves or into the pockets so that ends protrude in uneven lines. A magazine rack with several shelves provides & place for many different pub- lications each having its own shelf. It is wise to leave the top of the table rack bare, for the use of whoever may con- sult the files below. A book trough can be used for maga- zines of the smaller size as well as vol- umes as they are compact enough to be stacked like books. Large periodicals require flat surfaces as found in racks with shelves or the portfolio type of rack between the sides of which the magazines are held upright in much the same manner as newspapers. ‘Those who have neither wall pockets nor magazine stands for their period- icals and papers, should have some closet shelf on which to stack recent ones which may be wanted. But cur- rent magazines and the day’'s paper should be in evidence until the new ones come out. tion to a wall and prove a suitable con- ‘ tainer for the daily paper. Frequently | the papers for two days are allowed to | remain in the pocket, in case some one | may wish to refer to an item in the | 8hd a cozy atmosphere to rooms, which paper of the day before. In taking | Stripped of this reading matter, would pavers out, the under one should be | Seem far less inviting and pleasant. eliminated from the pocket, not thel (Copyright, 1932.) There is something attractive in the very look of recent publications which imparts a certain decorative element BEDTIME STORIES Peter Admits His Mistake. Who doth acknowledge a mistake In time to knowledge will awake. —Old Mother Nature. ETER RABBIT sat at the edge of the Smiling Pool, where grasses and rushes grew out of the water,"and his eyes looked as if they would pop right out | of his head. He had been watching | some ugly brown water insects crawl- ing about on the bottom and slowly climbing the grass stems and rushes. He discovered one that was clinging to a grass stem just above the water. How long it had been there he didn't know. It hadn't moved and so he hadn’t no- ticed it until by chance his eyes hap- pened to Test on it. Perhaps he wouldn’t have noticed it then but for the fact that just at that instant it slowly split. It split right open and out came some one as wholly different as could well be imagined. “Oh!" exclaimed Peter. | “Did you say something?” inquired Spotty the Turtle, who was sitting on the end of a log just beyond Peter made no reply. He was too busy watching this new arrival whe seemed to have come out of that ugly- looking fellow on the grass stem. The new arrival was spreading to the sun four lacy wings. He had a very large MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Stewed Figs. Wheat Cereal With Cream. Soft Boiled Eggs, Bacon. Buttered Toast. Doughnuts, Coffee. DINNER. Bouillon. Boiled Spinach. Tomato Salad, French Dressing. Queens Puddén%. Lemon Sauce. offee. SUPPER. Chicken Salad. Parker House Rolls. Preserved Cherries. Spice Layer Cake. Tea. STEWED FIGS. Put the figs into a pan with enough cold water to cover them and stew slowly until soft. Then cut them up, add a little sugar, and set away to cool. Serve with whipped cream HAM A LA KING. Four tablespoonfuls butter, six tablespoonfuls flour, three cupfuls milk, half teaspoonful salt, one- quarter teaspoonful paprika, one cupful chopped cooked ham, half cupful chopped cooked celery, three tablespoonfuls chopped cooked green peppers, two table- spoonfuls chopped pimentoes, two eggs beaten. Melt butter and add flour, add milk, cook until creamy sauce forms. Stir constantly. Add seasonings and ham and cook two minutes. Add eggs. cook one minute and stir constantly. Serve 3t once, poured over Wne potatoes, Which have becen arranged on serving platter. CHICKEN SALAD. Four cupfuls diced cooked I:Inckchx;. m":l cupfuls l:flr;d 1‘:;; ery, three tablespoonfuls chop) pimentos, two teaspoonfuls salt, half teaspoonful paprika,. one cupful stiff mayonnaise, half cupful whipped cream. Mix the mayonnaise and cream. Chill. Mix and chill rest of ingredients. ‘When ready to serve mix half the mayonnaise with the chicken mixture. Arrange on crisp let- tuce aad top with remaining mayonnaise. Garnish with slices °‘m ;iimenmtufled olives, Serves Ive, By Thornton W. Burgess. head and an extremely long bedy, which for most of its length was very slender. “Why, it's Darner the Dragon Fly!” exclaimed Peter in a tone of astonish- ment. * Just then Darner darted away over the Smiling Pool, darting up, down, this way and that way. Peter stared after him. Then he looked at that queer brown form on_the grass stem. He rubbed his eyes. It looked just as —— A X TN NN bl SV XY JUST THEN DARNER DARTED AWAY OVER THE SMILING POOL. it had looked when he first saw it, save for that little slit on the back, and that he wouldn't have noticed had he not seen what had happened a few minutes before. “Where did Darner come from?” he asked rather stupidly, for he didn't understand quite what had happened. “From the bottom of the Smiling Pool,” replied Spotty, his little eyes twinkling. “But he seemed to come right out of that fellow there,” protested Peter. “That fellow there, as you call it, isn’t anything but a skin now,” replied . " “It is Darner the Dragon Fly's old skin and, I guess he is glad to be out of it.” I would be were I in his place.” Another of those ugly-looking brown insects was just crawling out of the water on a stem of grass. Peter looked at it unbelievingly. How could he be- lieve that such a looking creature was in reality the same kind as that lacy- winged master of the air he hac watched dart away as If he always had lived in the air? He couldn’t. He looked down in the water and saw more of those queer, ugly insects, and even as he watched one of them seized a tiny fish and began to eat it. “I don’t believe it,” said Peter. “How can any one who has always lived in the water suddenly take to living in the_air?” | " “Don’t ask me,” replied Spotty. “You saw it. Can't you believe what you see? If you'll wait a while and be patient and keep your eyes on that fel- low who has just crawled out of the water you will see it again. I've seen it a thousand times.” Peter waited. Nothing short of a fright could have driven him away. He was too interested to think of any: thing else. warded. Out of that ugly thing came another boeutiful Dragon Fly, which, after a while, darted away just as the first one had. Peter drew a long breath. “It is too wonderful for words,” said he. time ago I heard some one say that there is nothing interesting to see here at the Smiling Pool,” said Spotty the Turtle, softly. (Copyright, 1932.) Savory String Beans. Wash and string one quart of beans, lengths. Boil for 30 minutes, then saute in a saucepan with two table- spoonfuls of butter, one teaspoonful of pinch of pspper. ter is absorbed, then add one-fourth cupful of stock and half a teaspoonful (Copyright, 1932.) of lemon juice and let simmer until tender. And presentiy he was Te-| “It seems to me that only a short then cut them lengthwise in 2-inch; sugar, half a teaspoonful of salt and a | Cook until the but- | NATURE’S CHILDREN HE painted lady and her family lack decision. They dart back and forth, then go back to the starting point, poise there as if to count 10, then are off again. The men folks are more erratic than their wives and go farther afield. They are easily startled, flap their wings con- tinuously, flying low and gradually soar- ing high. When dining they are a trifle |more poised and sip the nectar from the thistles, joe-pye-weed, ironweed, pearly everlasting and the aster. If dis- turbed, they drop to the ground at your feet, just as the admirals do, later they fiy away. ‘When sipping their food they close their wings showing the exquisite lin- ing of pink, but, they open and close them much as a lady does her fan. When taking a sunbath the wings are spread open showing the lovely tan and, gray margins, dark brown spots and light brown crosslines. There are dots of soft yellow and orange on the sur- face of the wings. The body is brown above covered with fur beneath. In late May and early June, bedrag- gled members of the family appear. They have hibernated through the long Winter and look most forlorn. They are soon joined by dapper looking males which have just emerged. The mothers are seeking the plants on which to lay their eggs. After this rite has been performed they will pass to their re- ward. The males grow larger and more handsome daily and by the latter part of June many painted ladies will be seen. Of course the gentlemen are called “ladies,” too. ‘When the babies appear, they are as black as midnight, with yellow stripes on their sides and wee warts decorated with golden hairs, They attack the food supply which is ready for them and outgrow clothes rapidly. The tubercles are like glowing jewels of Tubles, pearls and garnets fastened on a ribbon of gold against the black velvet of the y. It is soon time for the youngsters to prepare their cocoon in order that they may rest and transform into the gay butterfly. They weave exquisite, light brownish violet garments, with glints of gold <here and there and fasten them to the under surface@? the leaves. Here you may find thes... They look like old-fashioned “ear bobs,” and, if taken indoors, you will witness a wonderful sight as the occupants of the casket_steps forth in his new form. In Florida they arc to be found the year round. As far south as ‘Trinidad, they are well known in nearly every warm country. They love the sea, and may be seen along the shores and near the bogs and bays. Of course, they are familiar sights along the roadsides and in the woods. Great numbers of them have been seen migrating in swarms, in groups of hundreds, and from four to six hundred miles from land. The bright butterfiles, which are seen early in June, are, most likely, the first children of the mother who has hibernated through the long Winter. (Copyright, 1932.) Baked Curried Lamb. Cut two pounds of lean lamb flank into small pieces. Mix one teaspoonful of curry powder with three tablespoon- fuls of flour and one teaspoonful of salt, and sprinkle over the meat. Heat four tablespoonfuls of fat, add two small sliced onions, the meat, and cook until the meat is browned. Cover with boiling water and add one teaspoonful of vinegar. Cover, and bake in a mod- erate oven for about an hour, or until the meat is tender. Star Patterns Cape Sleeve Frock. Simplified illustrated instructions for cutting and sewing are included with each pattern. They give complete di- rections for making these dresses. Every woman knows the charm and | practicality of a dark print. It's always | Smart—always well-groomed and ready to slip on and go. This style is an excellent choice for the dark-ground print of sheer or heavy crepe. Seaming lends decorative interest and empha- sizes the youthful lines of the style. It is No. 913. Sizes 14, 16, 36, 38, 40, 42. Size 36 requires 3% yards of 36-inch material or 33 yards of 39-inch material and % yard of contrast. To get a pattern of this model send 15 cents in coins. Please write very plainly your name and address, style number ‘and size of each pattern or- dered and mail to The Evening Star Pattern Department, Washington, D. C. Lol r Several days are required to fill orders and patterns will be mailed as quickly as possible. THE EVENING STAR PATTERN DEPARTMENT. i Pattern No. 913. Size.... | Name (Please Print) | it or a teaspoonful D. C, EAR DOROTHY DIX—My husband is attending the university and I am earning my own living. He has set his mind and heart on being a doctor. As he has no outside financial help, except what he can earn in the Summer and from a job he has at school, he thinks he must stay out of college a year to make enough money to go on with his studies. A year means much to me, because it means just another year before we can have a home together. Do you believe that it would ruin him if I helped financially? I want to do so, but I hear about 50 many cases in which the wife helped the husband through school and then, after her years of work, he forsook her for some other woman. Of course, I don’t think that my husband could treat me that way, but prob- ably the other women trusted their husbands, too. What shall I do? L. 8. Aflsm—mck your husband with every dollar you can spare and turn a deaf ear to the croakers. Now is the time when he needs you to stand by him and prove the sort of wife that by lifting the financial burden from hi ou are, and if you can best do shoulders and enabling him to give his entire mind to his studies, why that's the thing for you to do. All this talk about a wife ruining her jusband by giving him money is nonsense. Why should it break down a man’s morale any more for his wife to help him with money than it would be if she helped him by ing and washing and ironing and scrubbing for him? Nobody thinks it hurts a man for his wife to slave for him so long as she does it in her own house. C!:RTAINLY, in these days, when we have so many competent and highly trained business women who keep on with their jobs after they are married, we have to get over the antiquated idea that there is some- thing in a wife's money that is poison to her husband. In fact, we will have to recognize that marriage is really a partnership, financially as well as sentimentally. e Of course, there may be men who are ruined by their wives helping them and who, when their wives go to work, knock off werk themselves and live upon their wives' earnings, but there are not many of these male parasites and when a woman finds out that che has been unlucky enough to get one of these grafters, the only the creature, IP a man has anything worth while thing she can do is to rid herself of in him, the knowledge that his wife is working shoulder to shoulder with him makes that bond of comrade- ship between them that is one of the strongest ties on earth. Her pluck and courage fill him with pride and admiration for her and the way she is proving her devotion and loyalty to him calls out all the chivalry of his nature. 80, if your husband is the kind of man that you think you married, ou needn't be afraid that helping him to realize his ambition is going to urt him. On the contrary, every dollar that you give him will make him that much more éager to succeed so that he may Justify vour faith in him. Y DIX. (Copyright, 1932.) MODE o e——— How to Guard Against Acidosis and Still Eat Nutritious Food BY EDITH M. BARBER. GAIN the old question of “too| much acid” has come to this| column. “I have dcidosis,” | writes a reader. “Will you help me plan a diet which contains no acid fruit and which yet will be nu- tritious?™ If the writer actually has acidosis, | then he needs a diet high in fruits and | vegetables, which, | although acid dur- ing digestion, sup- plies alkaline salts, which neutralize acids that may be formed in the blocd after food has been digested and ab- sorbed. Meat, fisi eggs and cereals, which are not acid during _ digestion, form acids after absorption. ‘These acids are usually harmless, because they are neutral- ized by the prod- ucts of digestion of gaith M. Barber. fruits and vege- . Most of us who are living on 2 normal, adcquate diet will not have to worry about acidosis. What the writer probably intended to | tell me was that he had an overly- liberal supply of hydrochloric acid in the stomach, and that for this reason he must avoid acid fruits. Of course, we must have a certain amount of hydrochloric acid to take care of the digestion of protein foods and to stimu- late the passage of food out of the stomach and into the intestines. Drinl ing water or meat soup stimulates the action of this acid and makes the stomach ready to take care of the food as it passes into the lower part of the | stomach. The odor and sight of foods | which we like also stimulate the action | of the stomach juices. Sometimes the flow of the juices is| overstimulated by too highly concentrat- ed seasoning and also by nervous excite- ment. Overwork or overplay may cause a condition of this sort. Sometimes | constipation will cause a regurgitation of the food from the intestines back into the stomach. The alkakline juice of the intestines will keep the stomach | contents from passing out, and this makes a high concentration of acids in the stomach which will be very irri- tating to the tender mucous membrane that lines the walls of the stomach. | Any acid food, concentrated sweets and coarse food are all jrritating to a con- k- condition are pears, cherries, prunes and cooked sweet apples. Vegetables must, in severe cases, be put through a strainer. Al coarse and bread cereais must be avoid- ed. Boiled meat is sometimes allowed; fish and oysters and white meat of fowl are usually well taken. and cream cheese, is A an and_either a tablespoonful ommended before going to bed. e:uwhn suffer from a condition |said, Il take a nibbie ji Mrs. Summe take m“ this cons should drunk with a few usually ‘Water S OF THE MOMENT but may be taken in between. Often a little” bicarbonate of soda is added to the water to neutralize the acid which water stimulates. If you find that yeu have acquired a condition of hyperacidity, consult a physician at once. It may be caused by some organic disorder, gall bladder disease or a stomach ulcer. Do not attempt to dose yourself, be- cause sometimes the symptoms caused by too little acid are much like those of too much acid, and also because it is important to have an early is of the disease. A typical diet which is prescribed for hyperacidity is: Breakfast—Cream of wheat with' cream, toast and butter, weak coffee with hot milk or coffee substitute. Midmorning lunch—Milk with crack- ers. Luncheon—Cream of corn soup, crack- ers, roast chickekn or fish, mashed po- tato, baked squash, bread and butter, pear sauce or Tokay grapes. Midafternoon lunch—Milk and crack- ers. Supper — Soft boiled egg,. spinach puree, toast and butter, orange gelatin dessert with whipped cream. (Copyright, 1932.) LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. 3 ladies came to play bridge with ma this afternoon, all being pritty fat, and ma sent me around to Sniders for a quart of ice cream, saying, Now re- member I dont want you to ask for any till the ladies have finished, they're all dieting, as it happens, so I'm sure they wonteat very much because | there’s nothing that has so many fat- tening calories as ice, cream. And our cook Nora umpdumped the ice cream in a glass glish and brawt it in with spoons and saucers, ma say- ing, I'm going to let you help your- selfs, gerls, I know you're all watching the calories, just as I am, so you can have the honor of breaking your own| training. Well I'm going very sparingly, bleeve me, Mrs. Jardin said, and Mrs. Hews ust to be so- ers i SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. So it’s the turnin’ ob the year? I don’t seem to see nothin’, but I sort ob hears it creakin™ (Copyright, 1932 Your ngy and Mine BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED, Flavored Milk. HE use of various flavorings in milk to inspire the children to drink a suitzble amount is a perfectly legitimate weapon. Milk flavored with a Tubber nipple is quite different from milk out of a cup, and pasteurized, boiled, evapo- rated or dried milks have individual flavors which may or may not appeal to the child. ‘To make the flavor ap- pealing should be our objective. Neither cocoa nor chocolate is ad- visable for the child under 2 years of age. After that age a moderate fla- voring with these foods is not objec- tionable. But it is the milk that is important, and either cocoa or choco- late should be used in‘small amounts. Several times mothers have written me urging that I publish a recipe for a chocolate-flavored milk. The follow- ing one is submitted by a reader. Mrs. H. contributes: “So many readers have trouble in getting their children to drink suffi- &lent milk that I am hoping others will | be helped by my solution. “I have two girls, 2! and 3!, years old. They refused milk absoluteiy as soon as the hot weather arrived. I could not afford the advertised choco- late or cocoa products, and so I made my own cocoa sirup. Here is the recipe: “Stir together one cup of cold water and one-half cup of cocoa, then cook over direct heat until smoofh. Add two cups of sugar and a dash of salt and boil three minutes. Flavor with vanilla. Pour into a sterile glass jar and keep tightly covered in the ice box. “In making the chocolate milk. use one_tablespoonful to a glass of milk. “When I make the drink I put two cups of milk and two tablespoonfuls of the sirup into a glass jar, screw on the lid and the children shake it hard. They call this cocoa and just love it. I have no trouble at all getting them to_drink this milk.” It is better not to depend entirely upon a drink of this type for all of | the four cups of milk daily. This might be reserved for the afternoon glass of milk, and my leaflet, “Increas- ing the Child’s Cansumption of Milk," | suggests ways in which the three other | cups may be insinuated into the diet. Any reader may obtain the leaflet by sending a_self-addressed, stamped en- velope with each request.” Mothers who are interested in the recipe printed here should cut it out and save it. It is not included in any of my leaflets. NANCY PAGE Ik Glass Is Both New and Old but Popular M BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. A Born Beggar. When Nancy had been spending her Summer up in the country she discov- cred a small country store that had some dusty and dirty dishes piled up on a little-used shelf. She poked around there one day and found that among those dishes were some pieces of the much prized and now exceedingly popu- lar milk glass. She came back home with some of the quaint and interesting pieces. In the city she found the most ex- clusive shops were featering this milk glass. It is called by that name because it | Mr. J1 has & milk whiteness. Not a creamy milk whiteness, either, but a skimmed milk white. The glass is not transparent, scarcely “D translucent. But effective as it can be. Of course, copies of it are being made now and sold for exceedingly nominal sums. Few of the pleces have a flat surface over their entirety. Usually there is a lacy edge, a lattice effect, simulated hob nails or some other raised pattern which gives interest to the piece. Nancy found some leaf-shaped dishes ;)fil;h she planned to use for jam or Tiny salt dishes were another find. The covered dish with the hen restjng comfortably on the top held the break- fast soft cooked eggs in the shells. 'Old-fashioned pound cake or flufly cocoanut cake seemed to belong on the lace-edged plates, Cream of Corn Soup. Two cupfuls canned corn, 2 cup fuls boiling water, 2 cupfuls milk, slice onion, 2 tabiespoonfuls butter, thblespoonfuls flour, salt and peper. Put corn, water, milk-and onion into double boiler. Cook 20 minutes. Melt butter and add flour, stirring until smooth. Add to soup mixture. Stir constantly until boiling point is reached. Season and serve with croutons. My Neighbor Says: The following are the abl tions used in cooking: ‘Table- spoon, thsp,; teaspoon, tsp.; salts spoon, ssp.; cup, C.; speck, spk.; minute, m.; hour, h.; quart, qt.; WOMEN’S FEATURES. UNCLE RAY’S CORNER nest almost against our beach. They raised four little ones, three of which they took away in db:;mfime; but one of them they left d. “We were about to go away from the cottage, and I did not want to leave the little bird there alone. So I put it in a box and took it 100 miles by auto to our home in the country. “I fed the bird bread and milk for s long time, and called it Bill Bill would eat from my and sang lovely songs. A year later we moved to an apartment in the city and I had to let Bill go. I surely felt badly.” ‘This reader’s desire to protect the little bird was kind; but I should rather have had the story end after a month or two of captivity for the cardinal, when it might have been set free and lived its wild life. Cardinals are not so well fitted for caged-in life as canaries; and even canarics may regret their lack of freedom. In ‘the following letter a boy tells how he obtained two pet rabbits: “Dear Uncle Ray: I have two pet rabbits and a dog. My father caught a little rabbit and brought{ him to the house. I fed him milk from a bottle. Now he is a big rabbit and bites your fingers. He bites mine. He bit me Monday. He is wild and strong. . “Sunday night our dog Mike brought home a little rabbit about two inches long. The dog brought it in his mouth from a nearby woods. He did not hurt it a bit. I have named the rabbits Bill and Peter. #“BILLIE GALLAGHER, age 11.” It I ever visit Billie's little rabbit farm I shall watch out for my fingers. Jean Rush, age 10, tells me of her own special way of saving the Corner stories. “I made a scrapbook of my own.” she writes, “out of a magazine. It is al- most full now.” UNCLE RAY. COUPON. UNCLE RAY, Care of The Evening Star, ‘Washington, D. C. I wish to join the Uncle Ray Scrapbook Club. Please send me the printed directions for making a scrapbook, design for scrapbook cover, rules of the club and the 1932 membership certificate, I am inclosing a self-addressed, stamped envelope. NAIME suvcesrssssssessssssassssssassessssssssssssssassssrssssssssnaee Street or R. F. D...... City and State.......cccuvennene (Copyright, Grade. 1932.) THAT BODY OF YOURS BY JAMES W. BARTON, M. D. Diabetics. TTH insulin it is possible to | raise diabetic children who formerly were doom- | +ed to die—to prepare them thoroughly for an| occupation and to make them worthy heads of families,” says Prof. Umber of | Berlin, where there are 8,000 cases of | betes. | He finds that se- vere fllness, tuber- culosis and surgical operations are with- stood by diabetic patients, properly treated with insu- lin, just as well as by healtby persons. If insulin can save the lives of children afflictéd | with diabetes, and can keep alive adults despite the damage already done to the pan- creatic gland, why is it that so many people still die of diabetes? The reason is that many are un- willing to follow the diet rules and also use insulin in the manner prescribed. Dr. Barton. Dr. Elliot P. Joslin, Boston, says there | are three to four times as many dia- betics now as there were 15 years ago, due to the newer knowledge of diet, of insulin, and the dependence of.these | | {two_on_exercise, greatly prolonging the life of the diabetic. Unfortunately, the diabetic patient is still compelled to inject the insulin he requires. Insulin by the mouth has practically no effect. Most of these patients learn to use the hypodermic needle_properly and have no trouble from its use. It is now possible for those unable to pay for insulin to re- ceive it free from the province, State or city, so that no diabetic patient need die from lack of it. It is the starchy food—potatoes, breed and sugar-—that must be eaten in small quantities by the diabetic, and as Prof. Umber points out, this makes the in- creased need or use of vegctables, fat and meat somewhat expensive. The point to remember, then, is that there are more diabetics because lives have been prolonged and there are naturally more deaths because of this ‘ncreased number of cases. The num- ber of cases has increased about four- fold over the records of 15 years ago, and before the discovery of insulin. Deaths from diabetes can be prevented if treatment is begun within a reason- able time, and the patient carries out the treatment as to diet and the use | of insulin after he no longer visits his | physician. | Dr. Leonard F. C. Wendt and Frank- |lin B. Peck, in a series of 1073 cases, found insulin necessary for about one- | third, had to be used temporarily for another third, while the remainder get along without it. (Copyright, 1932.) GOOD TASTE TODAY BY EMILY POST. Famous Authority on Etiquette. Man and Girl. H BAR MRS. POST: My | mother has, through me, invited a young man—a particular friend of mine— | to spond a week at our | home during my vacation. I know that | he is in moderate circumstances, and for that matter, so are we, but while he is here as our guest I don't want him to pay for all the theater or movie | tickets, nor the bill if we go to 8 res- taurant for lunch or dinner. But as| no proper man wants the girl to pay,, will you tell me if there is any solu- | tion to this troublesome situation?” Answer: You can buy tickets for a theater before he comes. then tell him you have tickets. Or, if this is likely to lead to rather futile attempts at ex- planation, you might ask your father fo get tickets and give them to you in your visitor's presence. You can say, “How nice of you, father,” and then, handing them to your visitor, ask, “Shall we go to see ‘Anxious Wives' tonight? Or shall we go to see “Fight- ing Tigers' on Thursday?” There is no reason why your father may not do | this more than once. The only way to avoid restaurant checks is to insist o having meals with your family at | me. “My dear Mrs. Post: After s girl and a boy have been introduced, which is proper—for the girl to start corre- sponding first, or the boy?” Answer: This question is, to say the least, startling! As a rule, one writes letters only to friends of long standing or on an occasion which one has an especial message to send. But the suggestion that the introduction of -, Jimmy Jones to Miss Selina Smith should be the starting signal for a dash for paper and ink with which to o marathonic correspondence is &8 im- If the man who proper as it is fantastic. is taking me out to dinner does not SCREEN buy me flowers, 1s it correct to buy them myself?” Answer: I should not, if T were you, buy myself flowers when going out With a man. It might make him feel chagrinned, because he forgot to send you some. At other times, it is all right to buy flowers if you want to. (Copyright, 1932.) Everyday Psychology BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. Mental Exercise. According to the brain experts, your brain is a good deal like putty until your twentieth vear. After that it be- gins to stiffen—very gradually. By the time you are 50 your brain cells seem to harden. And they “stay put.” Assuming that this is the case, it is possible to offer an explanation for the general conservatism in ideas which beset the man or woman of middle age and upward. Assuming the same, it is possible to account for the vast mental differences which occur in older peopie. Some seem never to lose their interest in learning—a very few, of course. Most persons past 50 look too seriously to their latter days. From all accounts, it appears that the persons who do hard mental work unti| they are 30 are the ones who retain their original mental plasticity. They learn to drive sutomobiles at 75, still read novels and even become great statesmen. There is in all this an educational principle which all parents should ponder well. Send your sons and daughters to a school where the masters make them work hard. There is such a thing as mental exercise. (Copyright, 1932.) ODDITIES BY CAPT. ROSCOE FAWCETT. actor, now in pictures, can prove descent from Pocahontas.