Evening Star Newspaper, March 8, 1933, Page 19

A WASHINGTON DAYBOOK BY HERBER' THE new Chinese Minister to Wash- ington, Dr. Alfred Sgze, feels at home here, but admits that he is at a loss to understand just why he is back in this Capital. ‘The tall. slender Minister, who acts and talks as much like an Occidental 85 an Oriental, was on his way home to China from London, intent upon quifting the diplomatic service and meading his <onal forture. A breakdown followed ex- ive work at on the 0-Japanese con- before the of Nations ed him to to get out of public lie. He was in Washington to visit old friends, with his passage to China al- ready booked, when Nanking requested that he act as unofficial Minister ‘There was nothing to do but accept. That was the end of his plans for T PLUMMER. retiring, persuaded to accept the envoy extraordinary and Minister plenipotentiary. Now he's back for an indefinite period of service. If it had to b, this is fortunate for both Dr. Sze and Nanking. For to Szz Washirgton is_ almost as much home as China. He went to high school in the Capital when his father ;:u an attache cf the Chinese legation Shortly afterward he was re. He likes to recall those days now. He numbers as close friends men high in official pcsitions now who were schoolmates thon, degrec. Dr. Sze should prove to be especially valuable to his government in Wash- ington at this particular time. He knows Americans and American cus- tome. His English is excellent and his acquaintance wide. waliers ow him and call him by name. Frinds made in his younger days at high school and later when he was student interpreter at the Chinese legation still remember him. As chief delegate to the Washington Arm Con- ference in 1921, for China, also, he | became well known. ODES OF THE MOMENT N % h N “March Winds.” me tells us: 3 April showers | ¢ y flowers, W must have bzen put together to cheer us when we feel the power of March winds. If | we do not like the winds, we may look forward to the May flowers! ONE KIND OF INSTRUMENT WHICH MEASURES SPEED OF THE WINDS. ‘Winds have little to do with flowers, except that they dry up the soil in places where it is extremely wet. There used to be a common saying, “As fast as the wind,” but that saying 1s not heard so much these days. Alr- | planes travel faster than the winds, so | we might us2 the words, “As fast as an ss the greatest < of. we might say. “As fast a 1 186,000 miles per secend, and nothing else that we know of travels faster. ‘We mey be glad tha: winds do not blow so swiftly as light travels. If they did, we might find ourselves in the ocean “in no time.” ‘When wind blows three or four miles per hour, it is a gentle breeze; but when it blows 60 or 70 miles per hour, we must watch out to keep our feet on the ground. Studies made of winds at different heights seem to prove that the strong- est winds blow about rve miles above the level of the sea. If wind is blow- ing 10 yards per second where you and | I walk around, it is likely to be blowing 40 yards per second four or five miles above our heads. | To test the speed of the wind, an in- strument called the “anemometer” is used. This instrument has “cups” which are whi 2round as the wind blows. So many turns per minute meens that the wind is blowing a cer- tain number of miles per hour. When the wind blows 55 miles per hour, sailors say there is a “gale.” At 90 miles per hour, they call it a hurri- cane. “Tornadoes move over the land as fast as 100 miles per hour, knocking down houses, barns or other buildings which may be in the way. No one knows exactly how fast the air moves inside the funnel of a tor- nado; but it is believed that it some- times whirls around 500 miles per hour. (For “science” section of your scrap- ‘book.) UNCLE RAY. YOUR BABY AND MINE BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED. bedtime-story rite is observed consclentiously in_most house- | holds. This lest half hour be- fore bedtime is eminently suited to the quiet reading of the old favorites. For most children want the same stories over and over again an‘d hang breathlessly over the ‘mother's shoulder, awaiting the familiar words and greeting them each time with the same delight. ?hls l‘egpenlhu tends to bore the parent who can't understand what fun it is for the child to hear the same story or the same nurscry rhyme so many times, but it is by means of this Tepetition that children learn and, hav- ing learned, they get a constant de- light in being assured that the words in their own heads and the words in the rhyme match exactly. Lacking this repetition, at the child’s own insistence, children do not readily memorize the stories and verses they hear. When the mother sits down with a child and says, “Now you repeat this after me,” she gets no results whatever. Memorizing takes place only when the child’s interest is real and unforced. Mrs. A E. B. is upset because her child knows no: cf the familiar 3 view's ihlsl as ‘fin indication "thi 1d_is lacting some ebility cnjoyed by other children. After reading her letter one spects she hac gone about this in the wrong way, robbing the rhymes of their place as entertainment and making them seam like lessons. Mrs. A. E. B. wants to know: “Do you think a child of 2 learns much by memorizing? I try to teach my little girl nursery rhymes and she won't Tepeat a thing I tell her to. My friends have children of her age and they can all memorize stories. Those friends think my child is backward, but she is as smart in other ways as children of her own age. She talks, but wil never converse with strangers. She only talks when she thinks no one is listening. What would you advise me to do?” You have a warped view of the value and meaning of nursety rhymes. They are for the child’s enjoyment, not as s means of “showing off.” Your in- sistence on the child’s repeating the Thymes after you and your effort to thrust her forward in the company of have resulted in excessive and a dislike for nursery | Read to the child daily. Read the same stories and the same rhymes, pro- | vided she enjoys them. Never ask her to repeat a thing. Let her absorb these stories because she enjoys them and is interested in them. Children memorize very easily under those circumstances. | 1t is an ability which is yery often lost as the child grows older. But merely | reading a thing over and over, or hear- ing it read repeatedly, is quite sufficient to implant T in the child’s mind ‘with- out there being any conscious effort whatever. | MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Baked Apples Dry Cereal with Cream Baked Sausages Michigan Buckwheat Cakes Maple Syrup Coffee LUNCHEON. Cheese Souffie Glazad Sweet Potatoes Rye Bread Grapefruit Te: DINNER. Cear Scup Bojled Ham Delmonico Potatoes Grilled Pineapple Green Beans Beet and Lettuce Salad Prench Dressing Squash Meringue Pie Cheese Coffee BUCKWHEAT CAKES. Scald 1 scant cup Indian meal with boiling water, using juct enzugh to swell it. When codl add 2% cups buckwheat and 4 cups warm milk or water, and beat until we'l mixed. Add 2 table- spoons molasses, 1 teaspoon salt and ha!f a cake compressed yeast dissolved in 3 cup lukewarm water. Beat hard for 5 minutes and let rise in a warm place over- night. In the morning beat well again, let rise a second time, thep stir in 1 teaspoon soda dissclved in a little warm water, and bake on a hot gridde. Serverhot with maple :yrup. ortfollo of | He left high school | to go to Cornell, where he received his, Taxi drivers and ~ THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON. D. C., WEDNESDAY. MARCH 8. 1933. ‘ NATURE’S CHILDREN BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. CHIPMUNK. Tamias striatus, RIGHT, cheery and agile, the chipmunk has hbeen called & ground squirrel and a rock squirrel by those who were un- acquainted with this happy lit- | tle creature. Being oniy one-third the size of his cousin, the tree squirrel, and | spending most of his time om the iground, the frisky little talkative fel- ilow has escaped attention. Chipmunks are not fearful like: their cousins, elther, and it is very easy to tame them even when they are rather aged. They are sun worshipers. No dreary, dark, cool woods for them. From early dawn until sundown, the gay striped tribe are scampering about in the sun. Clever engineers, all of them. They are never so foolish as the prairie dog or the woodchuck, who leave great mounds of earthworks before their front door. It is one versed in the lore of nature who finds the gates to the chip- munk castle. Even after he finds an entrance, he is not at all sure it is not sealed up on the inside. Not one en- trance, but several, with winding hails several feet long and -the final deep entrance to the large room, is the scheme adopted by the chipmunks to outwit their enemies. How does the little excavator remove all the dirt that must accumulate from so much digging? If he carries it out in his mouth, where does he dump 1? Some have decided he carries much of it away in his front paws, but the pouch idea seems the only solution. During the months of August, Sep- tember ard October the harvester is busy storing grain, nuts and seeds. Meeting him on one of his trips, you are confident he has a double case of mumps. His cheeks are swollen three times the size of his head. His gait is a little slow and his speed on the return trip shows how heavy the load must have been. The sardine packer must have taken lessons from the chip- munk. Not a crevice in the cheek pouches is unfilled. The larger nuts are placed in first. With a paw he pulls his elastic-like pocket open and stows the nut as far back as he can reach. The smaller nuts and grains are tucked in with care, and even fresh meat, wee birds and mice are packed in among the green vegetables and ripe berries. Inside his granaries, the har- vester places his food in separate piles. He never keeps perishable food with his Winter supply. Th2 expert mar- keter spreads the seeds which would mold if placed in a pile and the hard- shelled nuts are kept in the darkest place. Fully thres-fourths of a bushel of gathered food has been taken out of one chipmunk's storehouse. When the arduous task of storing the Winter’s supplies is over, the industri- ous little fellow goes into seclusion. ‘Whether he eats much of his food be- fore his long nap or upon awakening from it, we are not quite sure. He comes gaily out of his home as chipper as & May morning and is in his court- ing clotbes. His coat is bright and he looks particularly well and happy. The chipmunk maiden is as joyous as her suftor, so it would seem that they had {not fasted too long. ‘The bride returns to her own domi- cile or builds another apartment. Sae has some assistance with the exca tion and is aided in lining the nursery The babies arrive in June or July— {blind, naked and forlorn for the first few days! One month old, they are put | on a solid diet and grow rapidly. Chipmunks organize glee clubs! They hold concerts and can sing in unison for some minutes, a gay, rollick- ing song. (Copyright. 1033.) SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y CORY. i | | i How much longer does ya think I are goin' to l:ad ya 'round wif yer eyes shut, so the snow won't get in, an’ yer mouf open so it will— (Copyright, 1933. My Neighbor Says: A tasty soup can be made of left-over peas, beans or carrots, cooked slowly for 20 minutes and then mashed and added to a thin white :auce, highly seasoned. Rings left in clothing after it has been cleaned with gasoline may be avoided if a pad is put uncer the spot before gasoline is applied. Rub from the circum- ference of the circle toward the center. Rubbing arcund a spot is more neces:ary than rubbing an it. Always rub dry. To prevent casters on legs of tables, oil stoves, chairs, etc., marking up linoleum, put glass cups under them. (Copyright, 1933.)- JOLLY POLLY A Lesson in Etiquette. BY JCS. J. FRISCH. THE HONEYMOON 1S OVER WHEN THE POOR DELUDED HUSBAND DISCOVERS THAT A SCHOOL-GIRL COMPLEXION AND A DIVINE FORM _~DO NOT MAKE. B. K. S—If no tongs are su'gpued, taken “uwt: teaspoon may In serving another with loaf provided sugar, the fingers be the server first uf:’bo you mind my Ts?” Of course tions are g:‘v':r raiseds by - snaps the chest se- 'he Avenue"=Tth. Sth and D Sts Originally $1. Now These Cotton Rayon Damask DRAPES Y2 PRICE! $2.98 Drapes, now .......$1.49 $4.95 Drapes, now .......$2.49 $5.69 Drapes, now .$2.85 $8.89 Drapes, now .$4.45 —Pinch-pleated styles with sateen linings and tie-backs. Rose, blue, green, gold, red and rust. 36, 40 and 50 inch widths—in the combined assortment, though all colors and all widths are not in all grades. Kann's—Third Ploor. Alex, Smiths Seamless Axminster Rugs Irregulars 52745 Grades $18.95 —Fine rugs with a nice deep pile and only slightly imper- fect. Choice pat- terns and colors. 9x12 and 814x10%;- fe. sizes. Heavy Felt Base Floor Covering. ... 39C Sq. ydo —A nice assortment of colorful patterns. To be cut from full rolls. ! Kann's—Third Floor. Tarnish-Proof Silver Chests . . $|’ Holds 84 Pieces —Compact, handy chests, lined with a chemically treated fabric which keeps your silver bright and shining. Note the flap which ’;'ry \ curely shut and the attractive appear- ance. Kann's—Thizd Floor. 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A Little Organdy Jacket Changes the Whole Costume *1.95 —They're crisp and chic, and daintily feminine. Double ruffies form the sleeves and give that broad-shouldered appearance so in vogue. And a dainty organdy flower hides the fastening. Sizes :? to 40 in white, black, pink or ue. Neckwear—Kann's—Street Floor. .Sale ! 300 Fashionable Silk Blouses }.29 o The Pagliacci, with its quaint little halo of ruffles. o The Gibson Girl, with large puff sleeves, set in with several rows of shirring. @ Ascot Tie Blouses. o These Blouses are a little longer and especially desirabie for wear with new Spring suits. The materials are flat crepe and celanese taffeta, in white and eggehell. Sizes 34 to 40. Sports Shop—Kann's—Second Floor. We've Sold Hundreds of These Inexpensive Full-Length MIRRORS .59 Hang One on Your Bath Room or Closet Door! —It's a low price to pay for the pleasure and convenience one of these mirrors will afford. It will enable you to see yourself from top to toe. Frames in ivory, ma- hogany or walnut finish. Kann’s—Third Floor. This Full Size TABLE LAMP .79 —Our lowest price for this lovely little lamp. The base is in rust, green, ma- * roon, ivory or yellow. The archmentized shade is 8 inches wide and beau- tifully decorated in colors to match. Entire lamp is 19 inches high. Kann's—Thicd Floor.