Evening Star Newspaper, March 23, 1933, Page 34

MAGAZINE PAGE Sending Coins ' pyrromizse O long as the Government* does ::gtn mp.rwldo l:‘e-n. of sel sums money through the mail with assured protec- = tlon, those who inclose dimes, “ickels and quarters in letters have to “aafeguard themselves carefully. There Was a time many years ago when paper . THREE OF THE GOOD WAYS OF SENDING COINS IN LETTERS THROUGH THE MAIL. money in these low denominations was in common circulation. Then there was 8 much more reasonable assurance of the money passing undetected through the post than when the amounts were | ‘Through Mail ARON WALKER. in nickel or silver. But these “shin nding | plasters,” as this pape: derisively termed, circulation a long time. them there was no Government guar- antee of security. There was, however, the flatness of per and the small size of the currency which made it difficult to detect in letters. Today many ways are used for pro- tection in sending small coins through the mail. It is imperative to observe three things. One is flatness. Another is close sealing of envelopes so that no crevices anywhere remain through which a coin could work its way out. The third is to secure the coins so that they are not loose. The ingenuity which readers of this paper use when seding me coins is worthy of mention. Let me tell you of some of them. First of all I shall speak of the method the postal authorities es!' the safest, while, please remember, they uo not stand back of it. This is the use of coln cards in which there are cir- cular holes into which to fit the coins of different denominations under 50 cents. Across the back of each card a paper is pasted, and there is a flap over the front of the card to be pasted down after the coin is inserted and is to be mailed. In this way the coin cannot slip out or work its way through an envelove or be detected as a wee lump in the sealed envelope. Any person can make these circular perforated cards. Remember to have a card approximately the size of the envelope and have paper pasted across front and finally across the back. Another good way, and one which causes but slight unevenness of contents of an envelope is to paste narrow sur- geon's plaster in two directions over the coin and to the letter paper thus fastening it down firmly. Transparent mending paper is just as good as sur- geon’s plaster for this purpose, or any narrow strips of strong paper pasted firmly over the coin and to the sta- tionery. This is a favorite method of readers. Another way is to put the coin in an inclosed envelope. The flap is folded over the envelope carefully, but not stuck down, of course. The folded envelope is inclosed in the letter in its outer envelope. Still another way to prevent a coin slipping about in let- ters is to cut two slits in cardboard and run the coin under them. If the coin fits tightly it will not work its way out, otherwise it will. (Copyright, 1033.) JOLLY POLLY A Lesson in English. BY JOS. J. FRISCH. JUNIOR GETS ZERO IN HIS STUDIES, HE DOES, BECAUSE HIS TEACHER CANT GIVE HIM ANYTHING| LOWER, SHE CANT, T. B—Omit “he does” and “she can't.” We still hear an_ occasional speaker, usually a child, who has de- veloped the bad habit of ending eve clause or sentence with “he did,” “it does,” etc. UNCLE RAY’S CORNER Everyday Life in China. RELIGIOUS IDEAS. | N SOME Chinese homes & room is| set aside for worship of ancestors. | To give honor to the father or| grandfather who has passed away is a secred duty. The son must make offerings of food and drink to| his father. | A Chinamam seldom, if ever, shows | ss over the birth of a daughter; t when a son is born_his joy is great. | That is because he believes his son is the proper person to pay him honor after he dies. It is right for a person to honor his parents, to be kind and helpful toward them; but it seems to me that the Chinese carry the matter too far. They thin> ton much of the old, and not “s HOLY CLIFF NEAR LUNG-MEN. enough of the new. This is one rea- gon China_has been slow in making rogress during the past 2,000 years. %.e people have looked backward. The ancient Chinese thinker, Con- fucius, taught much about duty to| parents. He was a great man, and it ‘was his hope that he should help his gountry; but he laid down too many Tules, and the Chinese have followed “the rules too well. They have been but not good enough. For the most part, the country has held to its old ways without trying to find new and better ways. We must not forget, however, that during the past 25 years the half- sleeping people have been stirring themselves to some extent. Since the Emperor was driven from his throne, there have been efforts by earnest young Chinese men and women to make their country better. These efforts have met with a little success, and in time to come there may be a new and greater China. ‘The religion known as “Buddhism” was started in India, where the Buddha lived and died; but at the - present time there are far more Bud- dhists in China than in India. Like 30 many other prophets, the Buddha has not had much honor in his own country; but the Chinese have turned to him by the millions. Love and kindness were the great things which the Buddha taught; but modern Buddhists have things to tell My Neighbor Says: The Spring’s colors are yellow and green, and they may be cleverly introduced into foods such as frozen salads and des- in your electric re- tflgnwr. hen cutting marshmallows dip the knife into hot water and they will not stick to the blade or to the fingers. Remember always that “variety is charming,” and when a room has been cleaned change the posi- tion of the furniture and pictures. Often by this means a picture is noticed and admired afresh, when otherwise it would probably es- cape attention from the very fact that it s always in the same us which were not even dream® of by the founder of the religion. They de- scribe 136 places of punishment for souls of the wicked. The torture is not supposed to last forever: but the period is long enough—10,000,000 years. Bud- dhists also declare that souls of the dead are born again in other forms. (For “Travel” section of your scrap- book). If you want the free leaflet, “Ques- tions and Answers About Europe,” send me a stamped, return envelope in care of this newspaper. UNCLE RAY. (Copyright, 1933.) -~ THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., Will Girl Who Has Always Had Everything Repent of Marriage for Love Alone? mmflsnm—lmdm\yinlmm:mmgtmm affection. I would like very much to marry her, but not in & position to give her nearly as much as been to having with her family. She claims ter to her, but I am wondering if she would repent her sacrifice and hal \ Answer.—You pay the [ her love for you may not be as af ‘would not stand the strain of a she has been accustomed. in it, and the fact that a gir! manner is no sign whatever that she lacks the an and grit to meet real life and its responsibilities. There are just as many rich girls with hearts and brains as there are poor girls. There are just as many junifr leaguers who are ready to roll up their sleeves and go to work for the men they love, and who would stand by them pov- er*~ and struggle and stress and count it a joy instead of a ), &8 thooy sre shop girls. No particular rank in soclety has a monopoly on Teal womanhood. A Of course, it is easy to understand how & poor boy hesitates to marry & rich girl because he can't give her all the things to which she has been used, but it isn’t the material things that a husband gives his wife that make her happy. It is the things that money doesn't buy that she craves. Love and understanding and tenderness. If he gives her those, she is rich. Lacking them, she is poor. Some of the loneliest women in the world live in palaces that husbands have given them, but in which they do not them company. Many a wife would excl e her s of pearls for one indication that her husband still cared for her. MON!Y doesn't buy happiness in marriage. Many a young couple marrying on a shoestring and living in & little two-by-four flat or a cheap cottage with a few sticks of furniture bought on the installment plan has the happiest days when working shoulder to shoulder and plan- ning together. For they are united as no rich couple can be when torn apart by the very conditions of their lives, when the man must give most of his time and thoughts and interest to the big blems of business that press upon him, and when the woman is swallowed up by socisl en- gagements. You are afraid to ask this girl to marry you because you think that she will be dissatisfled because she cannot have Paris finery and a fine car and spend her days going to parties. Has it ever occurred to you, , that the things that have the greatest glamour about them the things that we have never had, and that there is a certain satiely about the things we have had? T}m girl who has always had all the pretty frocks she wants is not so keen about clothes as the girl who has never had any. The girl who has been in soclety ever since she could walk is sick and tired of gadding about. It is the girl who is starved for amusements who goes mad over parties and night clubs. Time and again I have seen this proved. I have seen a rich girl marry & poor man and settle down into doing her own housework and making her own frocks and pushing her own baby carriage ‘?‘}1"‘1‘1‘(‘ thex:'nost thtifty and economical of wives, and having the time of her life at it. I have seen poor girls marry men on small salaries, but that was so much more than they ever had before that they thought it wealth and rushed into reckless extravagance. I have seen poor girls literally come out of the kitchen when they got married and never cook another meal or do anything to make a comfortable home. So you never can tell. The rich girl is just as likely to make a happy and contented ?oor man's wife a8 the poor girl. So give her a chance. She will, if she loves you. DOROTHY DIX. ok ok D!AR DOROTHY DIX—I have lived with a nagging wife for 14 years. While I am at home she follows me about with a constant bombard- ment of advice, suggestions and complaints, which makes me feel as if I was being tapped on the back of the head every few seconds with a ham- mer. This is very annoying to me, but I know that it enables her to boast to her friends about how helpful she is to her husband and famMy. More- over, I must admit that I have received some benefit from her nagging. ‘Whenever I escape the sound of her voice my spirits rise as if a great load had been lifted from them, and the men and women I meet seem won- dreadfully interesting, because I am free from the fear that they will bom- bard me with advice and complaints. So I owe to my wife this spiritual uplift. Sometimes I fear the ill-effects of this constant nagging on our children, but I am consoled by knowing that because of what they endure now they will be very careful in marrying. J.D. Answer.—I trust that my correspondent will be a shining example to other henpicked husbands, and that those who suffer under the pin pricks of nagging wives will gain strength and comfort from his philosophy even if they are not able to emulate it. But few men, I fear, can rise to the heights attained by this great soul. The only individual capable of occu- pying that pinnacle with him is the small boy who claimed that he en- Joyed the toothache because it felt so good when it quit hurting. BUT out of evil good does come, and there is no doubt that the nagged man is scourged along the way he should go. He may not enjoy being reminded every time he comes into the house about fixing the leak in the bath room faucet or mending the broken chair, but at last he mends them. He may rebel at being put through the third degree and having to tell every single solitary thing that has happened at the cffice, but he dares not do any side-stepping. Moreover one of our leading medical authorities declares that a nag- ging wife is the greatest ald to longevity in a man, because it is her per- sistent and never-ending prodding him about getting his feet wet and muffting up his throat, and going to see the doctor, that makes him take care of his health and live longer. Or perhaps life only seems longer to the husband of the nagger. But, anyway, it is heartening to know that DOROTHY DIX. the nagger has her use. (Copyright, 1933.) DON°T clean fish DON°T pare potatoes 06 this LENTEN SPECIAL CODFISH CAKES Made from the original Gortow's Codfish 0 need to waste time cooking codfish cakes the long-drawn-out, old-fashioned way. Not when choice deep-sea cod, finest Maine potatoes, come seasoned and ready to fry into crisp, delicious cakes. Just open the Gorton can. Shape in small balls or flat cakes. And deep-fry ‘or pan-fry to crunchy per- fection. That’s the new way to serve codfish cakes. Time-saving, trouble-saving, money-saving! Do tell your grocer to keep you supplied with Gorton’s! FREE ~ Valuaple cookbook, *Deli- clous Fish Dishes:” MAIL COUPON? L L L L PP e P LR s | Gorton-Pew Fisheries Co., Ltd. Department 74, Gloucester, Mass. 1 want to treat my family to “Deli- cious Fish Dishes.” You may send me your cookbook, FREE, Name......... ceoe TR e ) e '[ THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1933. Your Baby and Mine T S — The nervous tension which _exists when & child is hounded and prodded of | artificial standards as marks is WOMEN’S FEATURES. and rewarded in order to h uphold suc) detrimertal to attainment. The child must feel at lease and must love study for its own sake, not as & means of making her parents proud. It is one thing to show interest and pathy in a child’s school work and lly | thus afford a natural incentive to her greater enjoyment in it, and another :oc‘.‘limld s t'!'h}ld ;&})1 some high level of levement for the parent's sake. more civilized days, it is to be he o Sohool Marks. Y little is so . e 0 s twitchy & bundle of nerves. We give her “Oh, school is hard for her?” “Indeed not.” The mother shows lonable dunbhlmhfihh . ives her & lor every ‘T’ rings e, and she has & good bank ac- Bhe's always mwm{mhmbfiutundm the limit of nervous strength to bring home mhuntl{mmuh1 It is to excel in the early grades and so inc ly difficult f reasing lor some children to keep up these records. Mind reflects body, and the growing child may have periods when relaxa- tion and mmuwl'ghysl.cll play are just the antidotes she needs to pre- vent physical exhaustion from too much mznul h-m "mm:huu ‘:ho 88 get “going all to pleces” over them will get them without urging. But the parent does real dam- T to the conscientious, sensitive child who knows how she can best please mother and father and drives herself to satisfy their inordinate pride. 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