Evening Star Newspaper, March 17, 1933, Page 35

MAGAZINE PAGE. Home as Oasis of Good Cheer BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. 3 HERE has never been a time in the history of tfe United States i ‘when home cheer was more im- portant. The business world is - still in the throes of post-war financial readjustments. The disturb- ances of the world outside the four ~walls of a home are disquieting to men- tal peace. Business acumen has to be AS A HEARTH FIRE SUPPLIES ARMTH AND COMFORT TO THE BODY, SO DOES GOOD CHEER IM- “PART A GLOWING RADIANCE TO . THE SPIRIT. “keen to meet extraordinary monetary Zsituations and successfully cope with them. Men and women who are in any Zway involved or associated with com- -mercial or professional transactions are "seeking to find or to keep firm foot- holds in the shifting sands of these ~ financial times. There is turmoil. There 1s mental distraction. There is unrest Conquerin BY P. H Mr. Sims is universally acclaimed ~the greatest living contract and auction ~player. He was captcin of the re- =nowned “Four Horsemen” team and has Zwon 24 national championships since 1924, ;Ihe Two-No-Trump Opening Bid. ~Y N_concluding my explanation of - this important bid, I wish to re- - mark that it is the only opening bid in my system which is to some extent a “scale bid” or “quantita- tive bid"—by which I mean a bid ~which announces approximately both | =the maximum and the minimum 7jng strength of the hand, anc Zthe partner also to lay- on able -make a slam-forc- g jump suit re- ~sponse). Some- “imes you may ~need this bid for = hands very differ- Zent from the ex- Zamples given; it is “your resource - whenever you are =afraid to bid one Tbecause a pass ~would probably ~cause the loss of s game, while a “forcing opening bid ~would mislead the z er and so risk an impossible slam contract being arrived at should your ~-partner be strong enough to eliminate =from your hand the few losers which - a forcing opening bid by you would - apparently enable him to count im- =-mediately. Never use this bid with a Tcompletely unprotected suit in _the ~~hand; but with unusual hands such as “8p. Ax DL AXX _?r".xn CLAKXXXX DL K x =3 CLAKQxxxx =~ 1 would bid two no-trumps in spite of their freakish composition. If my part- ner is weak, I am taking the best achance for game. If he is strong, I arcan make a jump takeout in my long < suit in response to any other than min- imum reply to my original bid. Even if hands of this type contain nine lay- ~down tricks in themselves, do not bid «-three no-trumps because this opening “ bid is, as you will shortly learn, re- “served for a different purpose, and you ~ would not be able to correct the misin- formation you would thereby be giving your partner. ~[WHO REMEMBERS? BY DICK MANSFIELD. Registered U. 8. Patent Office. CpesyrENg (S TR P L R AT TY R TR ST TR in the psychological atmosphere, dis- turbing to peace and the cheer and comfort attendant upon it. ‘With such an existing state of affairs in the outer world, there is needed some oasis for each person in which mentally and physically to recuperate. For this there is no place like home, a spot which should be sanctnary. It fails in its province and its privilege if it s less. Without cheer it loses its high place. It must have a certain pleasant atmosphere to revive the spirits, as a glowing hearth fire, by its gay blaze, restores warmth to the body. The term cheer leader, so well recog- nized in the field of sports, may well be applied to the person in a family who is able to arouse good cheer in ite members. This family cheer, while it differs in its form of expression from one of merely shouting to raise the morale of players, is even more needed in its smaller fleld of the home. Its quieter method is as successful in ele- vating the family spirits as the vocifer- ous noise of many voices under the | direction of a good cheer leader is effec- tive over a sport group. It takes tact, not tactics, to imbue a home with cheer. The home cheer leader cannot relax | her own enthusiasm for happiness, but |1t has to be tempered with a sympa- thetic appreciation of outside contacts with turmoil. The one who is best fitted, usually, in a family to bz the cheerful inspira- tion is the wife and mother. She may | be spared the actual touch with busi- | ness complexities, but enough of the tentacles of trouble reach out toward the home for her to sense the disturbing force and to realize the necessity of counteracting its depressing influence if improvement would be quickened. Good cheer is inspiring, and a home where it is felt is worth working for. (Copyright. 1933.) MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Stewed Apricots, Dry Cereal With Cream, Creamed Bacon on Toast, Doughnuts, Coffee. LUNCHEON. Chicken Soup With Rice, Lettuce Salad, Russian Dressing. Prune Whip, Cookies, Tea. DINNER. ‘Tomato Bisque, Baked Slice of Ham, Boiled Spinach, Delmonico Potatoes, Waldorf Salad, French Dressing. Squash Meringue Pie, Coffee. DOUGHNUTS. One egg, one-and-a-half cups sugar, one cup scur milk, one cup sweet milk, one large table- spoon cream, two teaspoons cream of tartar, one teaspoon soda, & pinch of salt and a dash of cin- namon and nutmeg. enough to handle. PRUNE WHIP. Wash, cook and stone and chop fine one pound prunes; add the | | whites of four eggs, well beaten, and one cup sugar and beat 15 minutes; bake in moderate oven half hour; serve with whipped cream and a little sugar beaten together. (Copyright. 1933.) g Contract AL SIMS 1 like to feel that this bid allows wide scope for initiative and imagination when unusual hands with the stipu- lated all-round protection have to be steered between the Scylla of a lost | game as the result of a pass by the partner if the opening bid is only a one bid, and the Charybdis of a hopeless slam contract reached in consequence | of an unsound opening forcing bid. My System Gives Scope for the Brilliant Exceptional Bid. Little Johnny Rau, winner of a na- | tional contract championship with Bjlly Barrett when their combined ages | 40, does not miss many opportunities to depart from the strict letter of the sys- tem when he foresees an advantage likely to be obtained from an excep- tional bid, and can subsequently guide the bidding back to the normal channel should the developments appear un- favorable. ‘With this hand: $p. Q J 10 DL-QJ HU A CLAQIxxxx he opened the bidding third hend in the South position with one no-trump. not with the natural one-club bid. Had North bid two hearts Johnny would have bid and rebid his clubs, but the partner’s response was two no-trumps. He held 8p. x x X DLE10xx H. K xx CKxx Feeling sure that his clubs would be established (if the king had to make against him) before the weak spot could be stripped of protection, South bid three no-trumps. Now West dou- bled eagerly, being on the lead with Sp. AKxx- Di. A 10 H.QJ10xxx Clx and not suspecting a seven-card solid club suit. The North hand redoubled, having three kings—strong support for & rebid Sims no-trumper. The heart was opened; declarer immediately forced out the ace of diamonds. West continued with the hearts instead of cashing the ace king of spades. So Johnny made his contract redoubled with three overtricks. There is no game in clubs. (Copyright. 1933.) wil answer all inquiries on con- Mr. Sh e addressed to this newspaper with_self-addressed, stamped_envelope, NOW TRY THESE PRUNES New! Different! POR 2 new fruit surprise, try these SUN- SWEET Tenderized Prunes. Finest Rrunes. you'se ever tasted. Double.pasteurized. Safely sealed in cartons. erized o 4 SUNSWEET Calfornia PRUNES | SHE WONDERED WHAT LUCK HE HAD HAD. % | had_been Bedtime Stories Mrs. Hooty Thinks Twice. OOTY the Owl had lost hie ap- 1 petite yet he had been very 1 hungry indeed. That was be- fore he had met Jimfy Skunk. Now that they had met and parted he was no longer hungry. As i a matter of fact, he wasn’t thinking of his stomach at all. He coyld think of nothing but his eyes, his great round eyes which were so necessary to him Ihis hunting. They ached. He could no long £ ! For a little time he had been wholly I blind and had flopped and tumbled about on the ground helplessly. Now he could see enough to make his way home in a somewhat uncertain manner. In a nest of sticks high up in a tall tree in the Green Forest, & lonely part where few visitors were likely to come, Mrs. Hooty sat on two eggs and waited impatiently for Hooty to return. He had been gone longer than usual. She was hungry. She wondered what luck he had. Had he caught enough to bring some for her? Why didn't he come? When at length she saw him coming she looked eagerly to see if he was carrying anything and was disappointed when she saw that he was not. That meant that she would have to hunt for her dinner herself and probably that the hunting was not good. Then she noticed that Hooty was flying in a queer, uncertain manner. It was a blundering sort of flight as if he were hurt or didn’t see clearly where he was going. He landed on his usual perch near the nest and a sorry appearance he made. His feathers were badly mussed. Indeed, he had a bedraggled appearance. But it was when she looked at his eyes that she realized something serious had hap- pened to him. Those eyes, usually so big and round, were kept closed now or opened only a little. “My eyes! Oh my eyes!” moaned ooty. “What is the matter with your eyes!” d‘elmmded Mrs. Hooty, not too pleas- | atly. | “They smart and burn and I can hardly see,” moaned Hooty. “What have you done to them?” de- smanded Mrs. Hooty. “Notfing. Jimmy skunk did it” whimpered Hooty. “Well replied Mrs. Hooty, “what did you do with him? Where is he? Didn't | you bring me a share of him?" | “I—I didn't catch him.” confessed | jHooty. “He blinded me before I could | strike. | Mrs. Hooty got' off the nest. “Here.” said che, “let me see if ycu can take any | better care of these eggs than you can | of yourself. enough to know better than to try take him wholly by surprise.” doing. He happened to turn in time to | see me just before I could strike” ex- plained Hooty. had him but that scme of his scent got in my eyes and blinded me. At that I guess I was lucky.” “‘How 50?” demanded Mrs. Hooty, and added: “You don’t look very lucky to| me.” ! “Well, you see, my dear, only a very | little of that scent got in my eyes. If I| just a little nearer to him I might have received the full charge in | the eyes and that might have made me | blind forever. I have heard cf such a thing happening,” explained Hooty. Mrs. Hooty shook out her feathers, | snapped her bill and silently, like a drifting shadow, disappeared among the trees. She was too hungry to waste time listening to Hocty. It was too bad he had gotten into such trouble, but that was his hard luck. Meanwhile she must eat. It was just chance that led Mrs. Hooty ) stralght over to where Jimmy Skunk | was still hunting for beetles. Her great eyes glowed fiercely. How big he was! | What good eating he would make. He | appeared to have forgotten all about his recent encounter with Hooty. She knew just how to strike him to render him helpless. A swift, silent swoop and she would have him! ~And then she thought of Hooty and his blindeq eyes. Y, MARCH 17, 1933.’ Can_ Parents Be All in Al To Their Children? | DorothyDix) BY THORNTON W. BURGEss, | | Youngsters Who Play With Grown-ups Handi- capped Because They Never Learn to Work With Others. RE parents fit companions for their children? Sometimes. Not always. But they are never fit to be the sole companions of their children. Of course, there are parents who are everything that is fine and noble and broad and tolerant and whose companion- ship would be found to have an uplifting influence on their children. But, no matter what the parents are, they are not fit to be the sole companions of their children. Yet the obsessing desire of nine mothers out of ten is to monopolize their children’s society and keep them from having any other associates. Proud is the woman who can boast that she is her children’s most intimate friend and that they go everywhere and do everything together. She even accounts it unto herself for righteousness when she stands between them and their making any close contacts with other children, and she never suspects that in so doing she has done them a deadly wrong from which they will never recover. NOT long ago I asked an 18-year-old lad who were his chums, and before he could answer his mother replied: “He hasn't any friends. Iam his chum. I am his best girl. We play together and have the most beautiful times. Every afternoon when he comes home from school I am waiting for him, ready to do whatever he wants to do, and we walk or aut . He is really so much more mature than they are that they are not congenial to him.” i Then I knew why the boys and girls called this boy a sissy and why he was awkward and ill at ease and never fitted in when he was thrown with other young people, and I pitied with all my heart the poor, lonesome child who had never had any real companionship, nothing but the enforced society of a grown-up. TH.!RI can be no real comradeship between a child and a parent. Too many years lie between, too many experiences. The points of view are too different. The things that entertain and amuse one bore the other. You never see a child giggling at nothing and whispering " and having deep, dark, absorbing secrets with mother or father as it does with another child. OR can grown-ups and children play together, no matter how much mother talks about how she and little Johnny or little Mamie always disport themselves together. Mother may enjoy it, but not little Johnny or Mamie. They go through the emotions perfunctorily, but they get no kick out of it. ey don’t yell and whoop and get excited as they do when they are playing with other children. NOT only do parents who insist upon being their children’s sole com- panions deprive their youngsters of much of the joy of childhood, they make them “queer.” The boys are nearly always “Miss Nancies,” who take to stamp collecting or catching butterflies, and who drift into some lady-like occupation in life because they cannot hold their own with rude, rough men. The girls are nearly always prim littie prudes who are fright- ened to death when they let go mamma’'s hand, who never know what to say to a boy, and who paper the walls at parties. ‘This is natural enough. Indeed, inevitable, because mother has been their only friend, and they really belong to mother’s generation instead of their own. Mother has isolated them from the boys and girls of their own age, and they have nothing whatever in common with them. They don’t ever speak the same language. JMOTHER justifies herself in monopolizing her children by saying she is trying to keep them from evil influences. She is afraid her own carefully brought up youngsters will be corrupted by the bad manners and the bad grammar of the children across the street. She doesn’t want her precious angels to be contaminated by companionship with hard-boiled, gum-chewing children, who know more of the sordid realities of life than she thinks they should. She forgets that whether she likes it or not, these same youngsters are bound to be her children's companions in life. They must do busi- ness with them, meet them socially, marry them. They must learn how to adjust themselves to them, how to resist what is evil in them, and make the best of what is good. And this can be learned at 4, but it can- not be learned at 40. MOREDV‘!,'R. children can teach each other some of the important lessons of life that their parents can never teach them. They teach each other how to be good sports, how to play fair, how not to boast and not to think too highly of themselves. Mother fosters egotism and self- conceit in her child. It takes other children to knock it out of him. And so for these and many other reasons parents should see to it that their children ascociate with other children. Even a bad child is a better chum for them than the best of mothers. DOROTHY DIX. (Covyright. 1933.) I thought you were old | She thought of thzse precious eggs and | to catch Jimmy Skunk unless you could | ‘D€ need of some one to keep them cov- | | ered and warm for days to come. “I thought that was just what I was | was set to strike but she thought twice and decided the risk was too great. She “At that T would have | Would look e.sewhere for a dinner. She (Copyright. 1033.) My Neighbor Says: To frost a cake so that frost- ing will remain only on top of cake, double a plece of stiff paper and pin closely about the cake, extending one inch above top of cake. Don’t remove paper until icing is set. To fry , cut long strips in halves, place in frying pan while cold, set over fire and turn con- stantly until crisp. Four or five whole cloves and a teaspoontful of sugar, added to a quart of prunes while soaking, gives them a deliclous flavor. Cook prunes in same water as they are soaked in. Fat in which fish is fried will not retain the fish flavor if fish is well egged and crumbed before putting into fat to fry. Leftover vegetables can be mixed with eggs and seasonings and scrambled, and used as the main dish for luncheon or suj per. . (Copyright, 1933.) ATWOOD GRAPEFRUIT aids digestion.lnd helps eliminate acids from the system Tree-Ripened and Delicious LOOK FOR THE NAME Wholesale Distributor: W. Chas. Heitmuller Co. 1310 5th St. NE. Sausage Links & Sausage Meat For supreme Quali fragrant, old- et > 5 :’-k Tor AUTH'S ru”n:ykoxx fashioned goodness, SAUSAGE LINKS. And look for the Auth name before you buy. If the Auth name is missing you are not getting the genuine, AUTH'’S ROYAL uihy PURE PORK SAUSAGE MEAT Look at the package before you buy and find the red lsbdh‘ with the n::‘:;dum !;.nu Auth nnu' uAmhth‘; you are what ly for. Auf mmmmuucuumm"l. Insist on Auth’s. Price Down—Quality Up, as Always. AUTH’S SPICED COOKED HAM Ask for These AUTH PRODUCTS In Your Neighborhood Store Auth’s Smoked Hams Auth’s Wafer Sliced Bacon Auth’s Braunschweiger Auth’s Head Cheese Auth’s Baked Ham Auth’s Cooked Corn Beef Loaf ! NATURE’S CHILDREN BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. YELLOW FRINGED ORCHID. Habenaria ciliaris, 3 means perfect flowers. ey have changed their form 80 that only the long-tongued moths and butterfiies can reach the nectar. Many people think that all orchids are air-plants. Of the three thousand known species many of them do get their sustenance from the air and the plant grows on a tree or other plant, but it is not parasitic. There are over fifty species in the Northeastern United States and all grcwn in the ground like other plants. Orchids have a botanical structure WOMEN’S FEATURES. which distinguishes them from all other flowers. ‘They are nearly aiways irreg- ular and six-parted. one-celled and becomes a pod which is packed tight with over a million minute, spore-like seeds. The pollen, too, is unlike that VELLOW. FRINGE-ORCHID flowers. It is held together in a waxy mass of varying consistency and is in several sizes. The masses are disposed |#bout in the blossom. The minute grains are connected by sheer threads ‘whAch are so elastic that you can | stretch the mass to five times its length |and when released it springs back | quickly to its original size, These tiny grains will free themselves SCREEN ODDITIES BY CAPT. ROSCOE FAWCETT. 22 o 2 RICHARD DIX GUARDS WIS OFF- SCREEN PRIVACY SO ZEALOUSLY THAT HIS STUDIO NEVER HAS BEEN ABLE TO LEARN THE LOCATION OF THE RANCH WHERE WE LIVES. CHATTERTON LIKES BRILLIANT CONVERSATIONS TMAT LAST UNTIL OAWN BUT SHE'S NEVER LATE FOR WORK AT THE- STUDIO. ——— ] Because men FIND T DIFFICULT TO CRY AT wilL, PROP MEN HAVE = PROVIDED A SPRAY’ OF MENTHOLATED AR TO INSPIRE WEEPING FOR $OB SCENES. found in other | On c-s {rom the threads and adhere to sticky stigma of another bl 3 long-tongued night guest will her tube-like sipper into the nectar cup, and in doing so will get the pollen grains on her tongue or face. her trip to the next flower she will“leave them with her. The le and stamens are in one organ ed the column. The you always have an orchid. The bright yellow or orange ool= ored flowers are set close together on an oblong spike three to six inches ll7nii The lip of each flower is beau- tifully fringed and the slender spur is from one to one and % half inches long. The older flowers are found at the lower part of the spike. The stem is two feet and sometimes more and y. From Vermont to Florids and On- tario to Texas this exquisite flower is | to be seen. She loves sandy bogs and | mcist meadows. Her guests are bidden to the feast by her perfume and bright color. The flower does not provide a ‘platform or landing for her guests. This, you know, is because her guests will sip before it and keep their wings vibrating so fast that you cannot see them move, just like the humming bird before the trumpet flower. The lady’s slipper belongs to this family, and she, oo, has a wonderful schems for perfecting her plans. Once you have become acquainted with one or two flowers, you will never be satisfled until you seek out others to find their secrets. What a wonderful experie ence awaits you! (Copyright. 1933.) Tomato Bouillon. Six boutllon cubes, six cups hot water, one cup tomato juice, salt to taste, two teaspoons sugar, one teaspoon onien juice, few grains cayenne pepper. Dis~ solve bouillon cubes in hot water. Add tomato juice and seasonings. 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