Evening Star Newspaper, December 20, 1932, Page 33

MAGAZINE PAGE. THE EVENING OUR CHILDREN BY ANGELO PATRL So 01d? So 01d? | ACH generation is certain that it | has found a new wisdom. Youth | discovers what old age has ac- hope for the best. ccpted and f and jumps asiride the new-found glory known. be patient with youth when pens. It m patient. More Youth its dis-oz and rush f21l speed ahead. Each girl who ma! :f gets her curls and_dons her gay rai- ment think: unique. She wili think so until experience teaches her that she is one of a graat sisterhood that stretches down the years since ng in a garden. who feels a warm surge of . a new fine thrill eping cver him when ke sees a girl a5 a givl for the first time in his life thinks h'm p_her fac>, is e and he realizes he is the son of that Adam who talked and walked at eve- ning in the garden. We who have traveled the old road s ancient landmarks. We know the serpent's guile, we know the steep places along the way, the brambles that scratch and tear as we pass. We know, too, the ecstasy and the triumphs. and we know the sveet peace at the end of the road. But can we tell one word cf all this to thece children? We cannot. This is a scaled secret that comes down WHO REMEMBERS? BY DICK MANSFIELD. Rezistered U. S. Pa When President Grover Cleveland | hunted ducks on_ the Potomac River | not far from the Capital? 0ld Hermit's Christmas. | HE Southworth home was a- flutter with preparations for the Christmas holiday. Christ- mas cards were being mailed. and Christmas cakes were being t day you will go to school before your long vacation,’ marked Mr. Southworth at breakfast way to the school she wondered why her mother was telephoning to Winnipeg. re- | the ages as it was in the beginning. To | gach a unique experience. We can help a little by showing our ! understanding. We can stand by and We can do little more than that, once the children have entered the garcen. All our doing must be done well in advance of the adventure. We know that this expe- rience is coming and lik> ceasoned vet- | crans we prepare for it by teaching tke | children the meaning of the symbols they meet along the vay. g Mothers and fathers are anxious| about the girls and boys their children marry. They would like to select them, one for the otier. That, too, is an an- cient noticn. It works only when the | children sgree to the choice. It fails | when they do not. That hasn't changed since the earliest days when “he turned from her because he loved her not.” ‘We cannot live again 4n the lives of | our children save in their affection. | The love they bear their parents is dif- | ferent from that they bear their chosen partners. These loves do not conflict unless we make them do so. Mothers | and fathers have no cause for jealousy ! when their _children select their mates The two relationships are widely apar and one need not affect the other in the least, if the parents are wise. Sometimes they are not wise and that again is old, so old. They cherish grudges, they cling to the belief that if it were not for that boy, or that girl, the child of their hearts would have been a brighter light, a higher pillar in society. That simply is not so. What he was trained to be from the start,! that he is in large measure when he se- lects his partner and it is fair to sup- rose that like attracted like. Experi- ence points that way. (Copsright. 1932) My Neighbor Says: Use sharp scissors to cut off the rind of bacon. Don't ever let a sick person feel that he causes trouble or is making extra work in the home. ©One needs not be idiotic to be cheerful. Keep in your work-basket sev- eral large-sized safety pins, and use them to string loose buttons, hooks, eyes, etc. Keep those of the same size on the same pin, black hooks on black. pins, white eyes on white pins, etc. By do- ing so you will never have an untidy work-basket or be delay- ed by not being able to find at once what you are looking for. Fasten the safety pins to one side of the Mning of your basket, and your method of securing neatness will be complete. To_preserve lemons for any length of time bury them in a box of sawdus They will keep fresh for several months. Dry or tcugh meats can often be made tender and_of good flavor by braising. They are shut in a closely-covered pot with salt pork, stock and chop- ped vegetables, and cooked slowly in_the confined steam. When making buttonholes, first overcast the edges, then work closely in the usual way. ’A buttonhole worked so will never ray. (Copyright. 1932) Betty would have liked to hear more about this, but she did not want to be late for school, so she called “Good-by, mother!” and left the house. On her Was it possible that she was trying to reach the man who had the same name as the Old Hermit's son? Despite all the fun and frolic in school, Betty's thoughts drifted several SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. How's this fer a store, Baby? Don't you want to look 'round in here, deary? That Body of Yours BY JAMES W. BARTON, M. D. Helping to Live Longer. O anxious have physicians been to preserve the lives of babies and young children that it would seem that they have forgotten that a grown man or woman who has reached middle age is probably worth more to his family and to the community than the small child. Ho: ever, this matter of preserving the lives of the middle aged is now receiving a great deal of at-| tention. ‘Why do so many middle aged per- sons die just at the height “of their physical and men- tal perfection? Be- cause a chain fis only as strong as its weakest link, and a weakness in any one of the/ vital organs—heart, lungs, blood ves- sels, kidneys or brain—may " cause collapse and death. Can the middle- e~ aged individual, by giving thought to his physical condition, do anything to preserve his health? Your doctor will tell you that care and thought at this time will be the best investment in | life, and that care and thought do not | mean hard and fast rules to take the joy out of life. Naturally. the first thought is about | food, and where a person is overweight | or there is a tendency toward over- weight. cutting down on the entire focd intake is the first precaution that must be taken. Overweight puts a strain on heart, blood vessels and Kkidneys. If there is no tendency to overweight, where underweight is well marked, and blood thin, real nourishing meals should be eaten to keep up the strength of the body. Cream, butter, and leafy | Barton. STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C., | vegetables, added to the ordinary diet, are absolutely necessary. All physicians are agreed that meat, | salt and condiments help to “age” the TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1932. DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX l Can Marriage Without Children Be Happy? Marriage by Mail Foolhardy From Every Angle. EAR MISS DIX: Are love and happiness to be derived from a childless marriage? E. J. Answer: This depends altogether upon the individual. There are men and women who have the paternal and maternal instincts so strongly developed in them that they are utterly miserable without children. Life to them has no meaning without, little arms around thelr necks, baby heads snuggled up on their breasts. No love from their mates, no tenderness, no kindness atones to them for the lack of children. Their houses are empty and lonely if there is no patter of little feet on the floor. There is nothing to strive for or work for if there are no sons and daughters on whom to lavish the fruits. of their success. T is because children are such a necessity to the happiness of so many people that the baby problem should be frankly and honestly discussed before marriage and settled as far as possible. No man or woman has the right to marry if he or she knows that he or she is unwilling to Have children or cannot have children if the other one desires a family. ‘There are many men and women who have no especial affection for children and do not desire to be bothered with them. In other cases there are hereditary taints that they feel they have no right to pass on to their offspring. Still others are so poor that they feel it would be an injustice to bring children into the world to whom they could give nothing but starvation and hardships. These cases automatically settle themselves, but they should be threshed out before marriage instead of afterward, so that neither party may feel aggrieved or defrauded. IP a couple only discover after marriage that their home must be childless, certainly the only thing for them to do is either to reconcile themselves to the situation or else to adopt the baby fate has denied them. Many persons do this and seem to feel an affection for the child, as warm and satisfying as if it were their own. Unless either the man or the woman has an actual obsession about children, tnere is no reason for them to be unhappy. Nor, as a matter of fact, are they as a general thing. The old theory that children draw a' husband and wife closer together does not always work out in real life. In most cases it has the opposite effect. Particularly are women so apt to become absorbed in their children that they lose interest in their husbands and cease to try to make themselves attractive to them. J¥ many and many a case the first baby puts the father's nose permanently out of joint and sends him roaming in search of persons who are not so much taken up with listening to the baby coo. The childless woman, having nothing to mother but her husband, devotes herself to spoiling him and making a fuss over him, and the childless father babies his wife, and so all goes well. You will find that most childless couples are devoted to each other and that they play together and chum together much more than do the couples who have children. DOROTHY DIX. e 0. JDEAR DOROTHY DIX: What do you think of joining the matrimonial bureaus or clubs looking for friendship or matrimony? Also, what is your opinion of answering blind ads of individuals who want to marry? Do you think it is a proper way to get acquainted with one of the opposite sex? Do you think that is a reliable way of coming in contact with individuals of good standing and character? « A B Answer: Don’t you ever read the newspapers, T. W. T.2 If you do, you must recall that every now and then there is a story about a woman wht"» represents herself as a good-looking widow with a nice home, who :l}‘\:l’éises !gr a‘&:l;b?nd with a little money. Or you may read of men vho have adver or wives and who have sometimes married 30 girls whom they rob of their savings. i O, it seems to me that any man or woman who had a grain of : intelligence or a drop of caution would be very leery of answering any advertisement of an individual who was seeking a mate in that way. And, anyway, the thing doesn't make sense anyway vou look at it. Certainly in'any community in which you live there are just as many good-looking, intelligent, amiable, charming men and wor in any other community, = S Certainly you have a better chance of happi : y ppiness if you marry some gne you know instead of a stranger that you have to identify by his or er wearing & white carnation in his or her buttonhole. Marriage has enough risks in it without taking one on a total stranger. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1932 —— R |and exercise are absolutely essential, | but tennis, and badminton are too strenuous at this age, unless they have | been played regularly during the stage | from young manhood to middle age. Golf, swimming, and walking are ideai forms of exercise at this time. blood vessels and kidneys. so that these |is _essential—complete cut down. Fresh air | mind and work. self. Don't worry should or should not do. Rest relaxation of | gestions. Mental strain dmi‘fl (Copyright, 1932.) more damage than physical strain or So, if middle aged. take hold of your- about what you Let your physician and dentist examine you, and then try to observe these simple sug- JOLLY POLLY A Lesson in English. BY 30S. J. FRISCH. ACCORDING TO AN EXPERT, Y00 MANY BRIDGE PLAYERS DO NOT TAKE THEIR GAME SERIOUS ENOUGH. PERAAPS HE THINKS THAT THEY OUGHT YO ARM THEMSELVES WHILE PLAYING. | | | ‘Too many players do not | take their game seriously (not serious) enough,” is the correct form. Or we may say, “Too many bridge players are not serious enough about their game.” Notice that “seriously” is used in con nection with a verb, and “serious” wit a noun: eg. ke seriously” and * ious players.” LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. T- Pop was smoking to himself in the living room and ma’s handkerchiff was on the table, being a little blue lady handkerchiff, and I said, G, pop, I got a ideer. let's tie a knott in ma’s hand- kerchiff, she alwiys thinks she's forgot something 50 when she sees a knott in her handkerchiff she’ll think she put it there herself to remind herself of something. That's not a bad ideer, or on 2nd thawts perhaps it is a bad ideer to deceeve your mother, but on 3d and last thawts it may be just the thing to give her a good lesson on the value of not worrying o much, pop said. And he tied a small size knot in one corner of ma’s hankerchiff just in time, and ma came in saying, Did I leave my hankerchiff in_here? What, the blue one? pop said, and why did I put this knott in it, it seems to me I distinctly remember putting it in but that's the last distinct thing I seem to remember. Well, dont worry about it, it may come back to you in the corse of the week., pop said, and ma said, Yes, after it's too late and the occasion has ex- pired. dont be abeerd, I wonder if it could of had anything to do with the house. I wonder if it could of had anything to do with the back yard, pop said. tand ma said, I remember, I know, I put that knott in to remind me to tell you in plenty of time that we're going 1o play bridge at the Hewses Friday | evening, so you wont be able to cook | up a silly excuse at the last minnit. | Pop never playing bridge if he can | help it, and he said, Shucks, confound it, you did nothing of the kind. be- cause Benny and I put that knott in, didn't we, Benny? and I said, Sure, !and ma said. Hee hee dont make me laff, that's the thinnest story I ever heard, and anyway I've warned you | now, so the principal would be the | same anyway, hee hee. Bah and bubble bah, pop said. And | he got behind the sporting page and | blew mad smoke over, and I remem- | bered 1t was my ideer and quick started to do my homewerk with a imitation of intristed expressicn | climbed up. | do you do, Mrs. Otter?” | Mrs. Otter looked down at Jerry. ma said, Yes, here it is, my goodness | I he did env; WOMEN'S FEATURES.' BEDTIME STORIES Lively Times at the Pool. ’ Who never v himself doth cheat Nor can he to best pla: | | LEEK, smooth, rolling through | | the water in line, one behind an- | other, Mrs. Otter and her two| children, the family of Little Joe i Otter, swam into the smmnz‘ | Pool where the Laughing Brook leaves | it on it way to the Big River. Straight to the Big Rock on which Little Joe | | Otter himself was sitting as he talked | with Jerry Muskrat, they swam and| Jerry somewhat hastily dived and_then floated half-way be- tween the Big Rock and the bank. { “What is your hurry?” demanded Little Joe. “You aren't afraid, are you?” “No-0. Of course not,” replied Jerry, trying to make his voice sound bold | and convincing end failing utterly be- | cause, you knov, his voice is squeaky |at best. “It just struck me that the Big Rock would be a bit crowded. How “Mrs. Otter stopped to touch her nose | to the nose of Little Joe. Each of the young Otters did the same thing. Then 'm | very well, thank you. I hope you are the same.” said she. “You look as young as ever,” declared Jerry, trying to be gallant. “You don't look a day older than your children.” “I don't feel any olde! declared Mrs. Otter. “Why should I? I enjoy & 5ood romp and slide as much as they | do. | " “Do_you mean to say that you still go gliding?” demanded Jerry. “Of course. Why not? Little Joe slides with us. It is great fun. I tell you what, we'll stay around here for a hile and make a slippery slide. Then can join us,” replied Mrs. Otter. 0 thanks. I've something better to do with my time than to spend it in any such silly w . Little Joe Otter shook his “You're getting old, Jerry,” “If you had a slippery slide and used it every day just for fun you would | keep young.” I'hope you never grow too old to enjoy a romp and good time.” “I don't believe you ever will"” de- clared Mrs. Otter. “What do you say, |my dear, to starting a slippery slide | over on that bank where it 1s steepest? | It looks like a good place to me.” “It is, my dear. I had a slide there once long ago, before I met you,” re- plied Little Joe. “We'll go over and | have a look at the old place. Come on!” No second invitation was needed. It was a question of who was in the water first, and the two young Otters, who would soon be as big as their parents. were right at their tails. How they could shoot through the water! Jerry Muskrat wouldn't have admitted it, but them their ability to swim They scrambled out where the bank was low and hurried to the stec part. “Here is where my old slide used to be e Joe. “There are some sticks and a stone or two in the way. We'll have to get rid of those” said Mrs. Otter, and carefully working down the steep bank. picked up one of the sticks and car- ried it off to one side. In a jiffy the others were helping. “One would think they were doing something important and worth while.” muttered Jerry Muskrat as he vaich them. Truth to tell. Jerry was not & all pleased at the coming of Little Joe and his family. He foresaw U Smiling Pool would no longer be the quiet, peaceful placed he loved while the Otter family remained. “Here we go!" cried Little Joe, and pushing himself from the top of the bank with his hind feet, slid plop into the water. He didn't go very fast, for By Thornton W. Burgess, SLEEK, SMOOTH, ROLLING THROUGH THE WATER IN LINE, ONE BEHIND THE OTHER, MRS. OTTER AND HER TWO CHILDREN. there was too much grass, and the slide was not slippery. Mrs, Otter fol- lowed him and then the children, one right at the heels of the other. Plop, plop, g]np they went into the water. And that was the beginning of lively times at the Smiling Pool. (Copyright, 19 Only $490 was recovered from 317 road accident victims treated at the | Royal Hospital at Salford. England, in the last year and the institution there= fore is out $2,780 in unpaid costs. The new Spring Styles are glorious. See and read about them in the latest issue of the SIMPLICITY FASHION MAGAZINE 15¢ THE COPY On sale wherever SIM- PLICITY 15¢ Pattemns ore sold. Bey “todey! WHY SHOULD YOU ACCEPT table, looking With a smile toward John and Betty. . “Yes, daddy, this is the last day, and 0 we are geing to have a big program. Do you think you could leave your work and come with mother?” “T'll try, dear,” the father replied. “and, by the way, wouldn't it be a good idea to have Mr. Nichols have dinner with us on Christmas day?” | There was “hearty agreement to this plan, and John promised to go to the Old Hermit's cabin after school to de- liver the invitation. Betty had noticed that although Mrs Southworth was keeping very busy with Yuletide plans, there were moments when ghe scemed to have her mind far away. The girl wondered why this should ke, but did not ask. | “Perhaps,” thought Botty, “she is thinking of what presents she will get for me! That reminds me that I must buy a present for John tomorrow, and LI also for the Old Hermit.” She wondered what would please M Nichols, and at length decided to b him a pair of bedroom slippers, warm and “comfy” kind with sheep’s wool in- side. She would ask her mother’s ad- vice about the size. Just as Betty was leaving for school that day she noticed that her mother had gone to the telephone and overheard her say to the operator, “Please connect me with Winnipeg.” BS " “YESTERDAY'S CAKE™? Brazilian Caramel Nut Cake, or a luscious Igloo Cake; or an icing-covered Pound Cake. And the coffee cakes! Pecan Fruit Filled Butter Buns, Butterfly Buns and Pecan and Almond Fruit Filled Rings! And remember—You can’t get yesterday's cake, bread or cookies from Rice’s. ‘WINNIPEG,” SHE SAID. At unbelievably low prices. And he brings not only cakes—but fresh bread and fresh, crunchy cookies, too. A Different Variety Each Day Each day Rice's has fresh, delicious surprises. Oneday it’safluffy Plantation Cake, madefrom an old Virginia recipe; on another, a delicate times to the Old Hermit. What a sad end there was to his story about the avalanche! The little girl wished with all her heart that she could do some- thing for the poor cld man. (To be continued.) UNCLE RAY. 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