Evening Star Newspaper, March 25, 1933, Page 19

MAGAZINE PAGE. Conquering Contract By P. HAL SIMS. Mr. Sims is universally acclaimed the greatest living contract and auction player. He was captain of the renowned “Four Horsemen” team and has won 24 national champion- ships since 1924. Responding to Two No Trumps With a Major-Minor Two-Suiter. ITH a weak har.d of this type, endeavor to play the hand | for 10 tricks in the major | rather than 11 in the| minor. 8p. x x H.QXxXxXxX Your first response is, of course, three hearts. Then, over three no trumps, bid four diamonds. It your partner bids four hearts, pass. If four no trumps, pass. This is probably the best chance for game. You have made an attempt to play the hand at four hearts, your partner has declined it. Assume that he has good reasons for insist- ing on being de- clarer in no trumps. He must be very strong in m; two other suits; of your two sults, one win T- Al Sims. ] provide him with protection—presum- | ably the hearts—and the other may | give him four if not five tricks in play; | enough to deliver four no trumps, but perhaps not enough for five diamonds. | If he should bid five clubs over your | four diamonds, bid five diamonds, ask- | ing him to choose between diamonds | and hearts or possibly to bid five no | trumps if his hand requires it. With a Minor Suit Two-Suiter, With a weak minor suit two-suiter, | bid the higher ranking one first if they | are of equal length. If he now bids | another suit, bid four in the qther| minor to show 10 cards in the two| suits; if he bids three no trumps, pass | ‘without showing your second suit. Only if your distribution is six-five should | DLKxxxX ClL x you again take out of no trumps and | insist on playing the hand in a minor | suit game contract. This procedure | applies to all minor suit two-suiters' BEDTIME STORIES Jumper Has Second Shock. Whichever way you chance to turn There's always something there to learn. —Jumper the Hare. UMPER the Hare had had a shock, a real shock that had made him tremble all over. He’ had seen Unc’ Billy Possum, with | whom he had been gossiping only | a moment or two before, seized, shaken, thrown to one side, pounced on and finally picked up as if to be carried | away, by Yowler the Bobcat. It was a g)xu(ul sight. Unc’ Billy hung limp and lifeless as Yowler held him by the skin of his back. er had known Unc’ | Billy to speak to for a long time, but | really knew little about him. It often | is that way with neigibors, even close | neighbor They are acquainted with | each other, but reelly do not know | cach other at all. You see there is a | very great difference between being ac- quainted with and actually knowing £ome one. | Yowler, after shaking and playing | with poor Unc' Billy much as Black Pussy the Cat would play with a Mouse, i N N SN\ Ng “\ 2 = UNC' BILLY HUNG LIMP AND LIFE- LESS AS YOWLER HELD HIM BY THE SKIN OF HIS BACK. had picked him up and started off with | him and it chanced that he had started stralght toward where Jumper was hid- ing. Jumper sat still as long as he dared. Then, in a panic of fear, he| leaped out almost in front of Yowler and took to his long heels. Now Yowl- er isn't in the habit of chasing those whom he seeks, for he knows that he | is no match for most of them when it | comes to & race. He catches them by | sneaking up on them and suddenly | springing on them before they are aware that he is near. That is the way he had caught Unc’ Billy Possum. And sometimes he lies in wait for them to walk into his clutches. But Yowler | can move as quickly as any one when it is necessary, and for the matter of @& few bounds he can travel fast. Jumper had leaped out right in front MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Honey Dew Melon. Cereal with Cream. Queen Griddle Cakes. Maple Sirup, Coffee. DINNER. Fruit Cup. Baked Smoked Shoulder. Boiled Potatoes, Spinach. Celery. Olives, Cucumber Salad. Prune Float, Coffee. SUPPER. English Monkey. Toasted Crackers, Sliced Peach’;s. Crecle Cake. ‘ea. GRIDDLE CAKES. One pint flour, one-half tea- spoonful salt, 1 teaspoonful soda, 1 scant pint of cour milk, 2 eggs, well beaten. Sift the soda and salt into the flour. Add the milk and the well beaten yolks, then add the whites beaten stiff. Bake in a hot griddle, well greased. PRUNE FLOAT. Two egg yolks, 1 pint milk, pinch of salt, scant cupful sugar, 1 tablespoonful cornstarch. Make a custard of the above ingredi- ents. Add vanilla (1 teaspoon- ful). Whip up whites of eggs, add 1 cupful stoned and chopped prunes, and one-half cupful sugar. Pour custard in cups about half full; fill rest of cup with mixture made of whites. Chill. When ready to serve pour over juice left from prunes. ENGLISH MONKEY. One cupful stale bread crumbs, 1 cupful milk, 1 tablespoonful butter, one-half cup mild cheese, 1 egg, one-half teaspoonful salt. Soak crumbs in milk. Melt but- ter and cheese; add crumbs, egg slightly beaten and seasoning. Cook 3 minutes. Pour over toasted crackers which have been spread with butter. (Copyrizht. 1933.) which do not justify a jump bid for your first response. If Opening Bidder Makes a Jump Response in No Trumps. Should your first minimum bid be met by a jump response from your partner, continue to reply with mini- mum responses unless your hand is definitely more than a minimum, not far short of a jump take-out. A mini- mum example of this would be: Sp.Qx DLAXXXX Ht x CLEKxxxx If the bidding went two no trumps, three diamonds, four no trumps—then you should bid five clubs to show a second five-card suit to work with, and not far short of two tricks in the hand. With less than the above face cards, pass the four no trumps. And, of course, if partner's first rebid is only three 'no trumps, pass it. A hand such as Sp. Q x DL AQx HU x R is not attractive for slam purposes even over a slam-try by the opening bidder, as if the bidding goes—two no trumps, three diamonds, four no trumps—you must reason that the slam try may be based on a solidifying fit in diamonds, which represents a kind of duplication. I would decline the slam-try and pass four no trumps. To bid five clubs | would be enccuraging the slam with- out any justification; to bid five dia- monds would be duplicating the content of your first response, and might be | read by your partner as showing a six- card suit with a singleton. Your club suit is a feeble weapon, far from easy to clear. Unless your partner can slam immediately over your minimum | response, it appears best to play the | hax:.d for game only, and not gamble on a slam, | The Importance of a King. | On the other hand, when your long suits are headed by ace and Kking, respectively, there is much more to| work with in view of the partner’s jump | response of four no trumps—one of | your suits is presumably solid and the | other will take at least four tricks—and you are right to accept the slam in- Vvitation by showing the second suit. | You can deduce that a jump response of four no trumps is almost surely based} | on three aces (plus a formidable array | rocic of secondary values); in supplying two suits to work with immediately, you are bearing rich gifts. A wretched J | X X X X suit, however, is a stopper— | not a worker. (Copyright. 1933.) By Thornton W. Burgess. of him. He had taken Yowler com- | pletely by surprise, but you would not have suspected this had you been there. He dropped poor old Unc’ Billy and bounded after Jumper with a mighty jump that all but landed his big paws on Jumper. In a panic of fright Jump- er dodged. Yowler was almost as quick | in turning and bounded after him, but‘ only for a jump or two. He krew that | having missed with that first jump it | was useless to follow Jumper. So with a snarl of disappointment and rage he turned back to get poor old lifeless | Unc' Billy Possum. He would have preferred Jumper to Unc' Billy. It| gogl% hfl\eldbecn knl(‘(;1 to have both. | ut he would make the best 2 he did have. &% “MI‘ So. growling his disappointment in failing to catch Jumper, he went back to where he had dropped Unc' Billy. Unc’ Billy wasn't there. At least, he wasn't where Yowler thought he had drugped him. “I must have tossed him to one side farther than I thought” muttered Yowler, as he began to look around. But look as he would there was no Unc' Billy to be seen. He searched under the bushes thinking he might have tossed Unc’ Billy under one in such a way that he was hidden. No Possum wa.sHt.o be round.h “He was dead: he has tq be here” growled Yowler. “I was ggne only a m\xtfi :,lx:‘dt n‘q one could have taken at time. bephe;;" He simply has to erhaps he did have to be there, but whether he did or not Yowler couldn't find him. No, sir, he couldn't find him. As he realized this he flew into a rage, for Yowler's temper is short. He tore around this way and that, but this didn’t bring poor old Unc' Billy Possum to light. Finally he quieted down enough to use his nose and try to find the scent of any ene who might have stolen that Possum dinner he had been sure of. He didn't find the scent of any one but Unc' Billy him- self, and this led to the foot of a tree very near where Unc’ Billy had been dropped. Yowler looked up. Then he dug his claws into the bark and up he | went. A few minutes later he came down and trotted off. THE EVENING WHO REMEMBERS? BY DICK MANSFIELD. Registered U. 8 Patent Office. When the Washington Light Infan- try's big ball was held in the armory of the old Globe Building, on lower Pennsylvania avenue? NATURE’S CHILDREN BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. Brown Bear. HIS great bear has the distinc- tion of being the largest flesh- eating animal in America, if not in the world. He is a massive creature with powerful limbs, standing much higher for his length than other bears. On his shoulder ridge is a huge rosette of long hair which adds to his height. The head is broad, the glittering eyes appear fe- us, but he is not by any means so bad as his eyes would indicate. The coat is extremely handsome, a glossy golden brown. Roaming along the coast of the southeastern part of Alaska and the many adjoining islands, these bears have few enemies except man, with his clever traps and guns. During the Alaskan Winters the bears hibernate, usually in dens in the moun- tains, where vegetation refuses to grow compared with the weight of their parents—a little ball | of fur so small that it can be held in your hand and not weighing over 1%z pounds! From June until September it is day- light. The valleys below are rich in brush, food and water. The mother bears’ bring their frisky little babies | down from their cold retreat and let | them play in the sunshine. The moth- er spends her time regaining her weight, dozing away in the dry grass and taking short naps in between meals. Little bears must learn lessons, too, | and one of them is how to catch sal- | mon as they come up the rivers to | spawn. ‘The mother stands in the wa- ter and coaxes junicr to join her. He refuses, and she deftly lifts him by the neck and ducks him under once or | twice to overcome his fear. One ex- | perience of fishing, and from then on | he is an ardent angler. | Mice, chicks, ground squirrels and marmots have their own way of trying to evade these expert hunters. Every day is full of interesting experiences to the young bears, and scon it is time to | return_to the mountains for the Win- ter. They stay with their mother the first Winter, but are soon too large to squeeze into her den. | The brown bear is more clumsy than | some of his relatives. It may be that he does not have to learn the lesson of evading enemies, and so has learned to travel at a slower gait. at a comfortable pace, and when he | wishes to see what is going on about | him, he stancs on his hind feet and takes a good view of everything. ‘This habit of bears has caused many of them |to lose their lives. Hunters, not know- He ambles along | STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 1933. DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX gation to its parents end? I I have assisted parents D EAR DOROTHY DIX—When, if ever, does a child’s financial obli- am 25 and the oldest of six children. since high school days, and when I gave up a perfectly good clerk’s job to go to school on money which I borrowed and repaid independently of them I was given a great deal of abuse on wasting money on education and robbing them of board money which they rightfully deserved, etc, etc. They even threatened to put me out of the house, but I got my diploma and have a fine position, and now they are bleeding me for the fruits of the educa- tion which they refused me. They even expect me to turn over my pay envelope untouched. I haven't the heart to walk out on them this Winter, ‘when times are so hard, but next Spring I'm getting out. SPIRIT OF '76. Answer: I'd say you are the Spirit of '33, but whatever vintage the spirit may be, it is the spirit of rebellion against tyranny, and that's a good spirit. If parents are old or sick and in need, it is the child’s duty to help them as far as he or she can. That is a sacred obligation, but it is not the duty of any child to let THAT is what only too many parents do. its parents enslave it. ‘There are plenty of men, able-bodied and healthy and still in the prime of life, who knock off work and never do another lick of labor as soon as their children get their first jobs. There are plenty of women who are perfectly capable of sup- porting themselves who inflict themselves as parasites on their children instead of earning their own livings. ‘There are plenty of mothers who work their poor young sons and daughters to death because they demand extravagant style. The grafting parent is one of the most common and despicable figures in our midst, and so 1t is a_good thing when children have the courage to refuse to be exploited by them. Any girl who has sense enough to earn the money in her pay envelope has intelligence enough to handle it, and her mother has no right to take it away from her. Out of it she should pay her board, but the balance is hers to spend on herself, or give to her family, as her generosity dictates. family is expected of & boy. Mother glve her his pay envelope unopened. for theirs, for girls are easy mnrki * ¥ And this is all that in the average doesn't think of demanding that son 1t is only the girls who are held up DOROTHY DIX. * % EAR MISS DIX—I am a man, 26, with a little son, who is a year and half old. Unfortunately, I have had to obtain a divorce from my wife, between whom and myself there is great bitterness. Although I have made adequate financial arrangements, I still feel very keen moral obliga- tions to my child and wish to have in his upbringing and plans. his mother’s influence and unfriendliness? every possible chance to participate How can I remain close to my son despite DI ESPAIRED. Answer: Unless the court gave you the custody of the child half the time I do not see how you can remain in touch with him. You would have to be able to take him away from his mother and put him in an environment in which you would be brought in close contact with him in order to have any influence over him whatever. The tragedy of divorce for a man is that he loses his children as much as if they had died, because they grow up strangers to him, dominated by their mother’s influence and taking her point of view of the separation. And it is devastating to a child to be torn between two parents. It is better for the children to be given entirely to one parent and have one * X settled home. * * DOROTHY DIX. \EAR DOROTHY DIX—What makes married women have that insuf- ferable smugness—that silly look of the cat that has swallowed the canary—that so many assume as soon as they get a “Mrs.” tacked on to their name? I was once complimented by being told that I did not seem like a married woman at all in that I had none of that obnoxious appear- ance of self-satisfaction that marks at sight the average married woman. Answer: Well, considering that practically every woman's life, don't an air of triumph when she has succeeded? marriage is the chief objective of you think she has a right to wear Don't you think that if you had just been elected She-Who-Must Be-Obeyed and Grand Exalted Ruler of the Universe, you would feel a little chesty about it? "THATS what has happened to the “married woman. As long as she is single, no matter how clever and highly educated and successful she may be, she is still a person of no importance in the grand conclave of wives, and nobody is 50 poor as to do her reverence or respect her opinion. But let her get married and her status is immediately changed, no matter what sort of human she got as a husband. She is given the high sign and pass word and admitted into the innermost secret circle of the matron. She is free to go and come as she pleases without criticism, for marriage seems to put some sort of an aura of protection about a woman. And immediately she becomes an oracle whose words are wisdom, to which even her own mother listens 1X. (Copyright. 1933 SCREEN ODDITIES BY CAPT. ROSCOE FAWCETT. LUKAS WAS AN AVIATOR IN THE HUNGARIAN AIR FORCES DURING THE ARTIST. To 1S AN ACCOMPLISHED JACKIE COOPER'S CONTRACT SPECIFIES THAT WE MAY WEAR A SPECIAL BADGE WHICH PERM SHE STUDIED AT THE CHICAGD 4/ | | | | HIM ENTER THE STUDIO WATHOUT BEING Jumper had not fun far. He knew|IDE Why they stand up, have fired at when Yowler trotted away a .J{at‘g;:ec:‘ them, thinking they were going to hurried back to sce if there was any- | Charge. A bear has poor eyesight. and STOPPED BY GATE MEN. 525 o 1 e 5t 1 thing left of poor Unc' Billy. Of course, there wasn't. | Jumper~ shook his head sadly. “Poor Unc' Billy,” thought he. o he. Tt was just then he re- ceived his second shock. “‘Pears like Brer Yowler done lose | his temper.” said a voice, and the volce was very familiar. So was the chuckle that followed. (Copyright, 1933.) in order really to see what is going on, must stand up to find out what is mak- ing the noises he hears. Rarely does a hear attack any one. He is far more anxious to get away from ycu. Of course, if provoked, he will cefend himself* He dislikes to be disturbed when he is comfortable, and will do a lot of growling in hope this will frighten the annoyer away. GOOD TASTE TODAY BY EMILY POST. Famous Authority on Etiquette. From Young People. EAR MRS. POST: I have | been invited to an affair at Annapolis for the week end. What are my obligations? My visit will necessitate an overnight stay and will, of course, mean train fare and meals.” Answer: According to best usage, “affair” means a love intrigue. Of course, I know that you mean a party of some sort. This much advice I can give: You do pay your own fare. You don’t let a man pay your hotel bill. You don’t pay for meals when stay- ing with friends. “My dear Mrs. p Post: Iam an ex- flance — recently having been turned down by the girl in question. But she never gave back the engagement Emily Post. ring. This ring was a very valuable one, and since she has changed her mind about marrying me, I don’t think she is entitled to it. What should I do —or better, what can I do?” Answer: She ought to return it with- out being told to do so, but since she seems to be lacking in sensibility, you will have to write and ask her to return your ring. “Dear Mrs. Post: When I take a girl to a dance and also tell friends who are going to the same dance that I will call for them, because they have no car, is there any etiquette about whom I call for first—{riends or my girl?” Answer: I should think this would depend upon where they live. If your friends live near you, and the girl lives near the place where the dance is given, you would stop for your friends first. But if not too out of the way, you would naturally go for the girl first. “My dear Mrs. Post: My mother was entertaining a few friends one night, and I came home from the movies with my, boy, friend, o going into these people, but after we said a few words, we went into the library, where we_could talk in peace. My mother scolded me later, saying that I should have stayed in' the room with her {riends. Is mother right?” Answer: This depends upon how you left the room. Your mother was right if you made it too apparent that you were eager to get away by your- self—otherwise I see no reason why you should not have gone into the library. (Copyright, 1933.) Everyday Psychology BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. Changing Personality. Personalities are not made overnight. Neither can they be changed on short notice. You are what you are because of your habits and your interests. These tWwo items rank first in the creation of those traits which combine in the for- mation of an adequate personality. There are those who hold the telling parts of personality are established during the first few years of life. I this is true, one would have to go back to the very beginning and reconstruct oneself all along the line. Obviously this takes time and patience. More time and patience than most of us can easily afford. ‘The best way to change your person- ality is first to analyze your traits, good and bad. Make a list of the traits that seem to work to your disadvantage. It would do no harm to tabulate these deficits in & form so that you could read them over each morning before you started out on the day's work. It is really surprising how many of our great men and women of the past have done this very thing. I mention Frank- lin, Washington and Lincoln. ‘The secret of the formula is this: If you keep your shortcomings in mind, you set up 1:‘ safeguard against their action. (Copyright, 1089 .. sabiv: UNCLE RAY’S CORNER A Little Saturday Talk. HE other day, just before I was | to give a talk in the assembly | room of a school, the principal | showed me two scrapbooks which | were lying on her desk. “You will be interested in these,” she | said. In large, well-formed letters on each of the books was the word *“Europe,” and when I turned the leaves I found in each of them eight or 10 articles about Europe which appeared in the Corner and were clipped by the pupils for the project. I am pleased when I see new ex- amples of school projects. One class in another school displayed a Greek temple which had been made from pa- per, and in still acother school I found a cave made of sand and pebbles with Stone Age people (doll-like figures clad in fur) around it. In stories which I write during the | school year, I try to tell about things | which Wfllxbe useludl to limpflil s!udxjéln_g history, science an aphy. is hflrdryw be sure wmfimeries will be most popular. Stories about “masters of music” seem to have found a wide use in school, and requests for the lives of other musicans have come to me. At a future time—I cannot say just JOLLY POLLY A Lesson in Etiquette. BY JOS. J. FRISCH. MOTHER TREATS DAD LIKE A GRECIAN GOD - SHE PLACES A BURNT OFFERIN BEFORE HIM AT EVERY MEAL. 3 7/ R. T. O.—When foods are soft enough to be cut or broken with the fork, the knife is not used, but is laid on the plate, and the fork used in the right hand. All vegetables (except baked po- tatoes when the skin is eaten), white when—T intend to provide another ses ries of that kind. I like to have our stories fit in with school work, but of course the main thing is to make them interesting to people in general. I think that almost any topic in the world—a piece of chalk, ‘xlmnb?cul of snznde.s&n‘sheet of paper—will ome intert it we know enough about it. In telling about her scrapbook, a young reader writes: “My scrapbook is purple with Dutch boys and girls playing in the foreground. In the background there is a small windmill. Now let's take & peep in- side. It contains 24 pages. It is di- vided into five, parts: the Scenes of the World, Poetry, Nature, Sports and News. I am keeping up with your column.” I am glad to receive a description of any scrapbook. In this case. I think the book is rather small if it is to be used for saving the Corner. Do you have the direction sheet telling how to make a loose-leaf scrapbook? If mnot, you may write to me for one, inclosing a stamped return envolpe, Please write your name and address very plainly. UNCLE RA Use this coupon to join our new 1933 Scrapbook Club! TO UNCLE RAY, Care of The Evening Star, ‘Washington, D: C. Dear Uncle Ray: I want to join the 1933 Uncle Ray Scrapbook Club, and I inclose a stamped en- velope carefully addressed to my- self. Please send me a Member- ship Certificate, a leaflet telling how to make a Corner scrapbock of my own, and a printed design to paste on the cover of my scrapbook. Name Street or R.F.D. City . State or Province. Onion Soup. Three slices bread, 6 medium-sized onions, 3 tablespoons butter, 1 quart soup stock, or 5 bouillon cubes and 1 quart water, 12 cup grated‘or strained cheese. Slice bread 3z inch thick, cut in halves and toast lightly. Slice onions and brown in butter. Add soup stock and bring to boil. Put in casserole. Float toasted bread on top of soup and SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY, I den't know what ails him; I was splashin’ water on him, like you said, an’ sll ob a sudden he 'gins to foam at the mouf— (Copyright, 1933.) Milady Beautiful BY LOIS LEEDS. Wrinkles and Dry Skin. EAR Miss Leeds—I am 45 years | old and there seems to | everything wrong with my skin, including dryness and | wrinkles. Have you any inex- | pensive formulas for cleansing cream, tissue cream, muscle oil or anything that will help me? Is witchhazel harm- ful to a dry skin? What can be done for eye wrinkles? L. D. Answer—A cleansing oil is suitable for a dry skin. Use the following: Two and a half ounces olive oil, two drams cologne water and five drops of simple tincture of benzoin. Muscle oil is made of three ounces oil of sweet almonds, two ounces sweet oil, one and a quarter ounces cologne water, one-half dram ofl of neroli and one-half dram simple tincture of benzoin. Other recipes and treatments that will help you are con- tained in my leaflet on facial wrinkles which I shall be glad to send you if you will write for it and inclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope with your re- quest. Ask also for “Facial Packs” and “Daily Care of the Skin.” Witchhazel is an astringent. I do not think it will harm your skin if you use it merely for wiping off your massage cream. Ask for my leaflet, “Beautiful Features,” when you write again, as it contains treat- ments for eye wrinkles. Muscle oil, lanolin or a tissue cream should be left on the wrinkles over night. Be care- ful not to stretch the tissues by mas- sage; just pat on the cream or oil. At your age good health is your best aid toward keeping youthful. Be careful of your diet and be sure to take some outdoor exercise daily. LOIS LEEDS. Dark Circles Under Eyes. Dear Miss Leeds—I am 25 years old and have dark circles under my eyes. I am a typist and wear glasses during working hours. Do you think that the | strain of using my eyes continuously for close work would be the cause of the circles? ADER. Answer—Long hours of close work { will, of course, put a strain on the eyes |and cause wrinkles and shadows around them. Usually, however, there are other contributing causes for the dark cir- cles, such as lack of sufficient fresh air and outdoor exercise, not enough sleep, underweight, constipation and other dis- orders. Besides building up your gen- eral health by hygienic living, you should take time to rest your eyes for short periods at least every hour. Close and relax the eyes, roll them gently under closed lids; now open your eyes and look out the window, focusing on a distant point. Close them again for a moment before continuing your work. It will refresh them if you bathe them with boric acid solution (one teaspoon- ful to a pint of water) several times a day. Just put three drops in each eye with a clean medicine dropper: this is better than using an eyecup. Have your eyes tested at regular intervals so that your glasses may be changed as needed. Every night after cleaning your face pat a little bleaching cream on the dark circles. You may make such a cream easily by mixing four drops of hydrogen peroxide with a teaspoonful of lanolin or coco butter. LOIS LEEDS. Your Baby and Mine BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED. Underweight Child. EIGHT and weight charts always seem more arbitrary to the poor mother whose child does not measure up to them. She wants so badly to have her child weigh exactly what the chart says he should weigh that she forgets all charts mirror only average and not jn- dividual children. Very often a child is nearer to the chart's averages than she suspects, for children of the same age vary greatly in height; and it is the relation of weight to height which should strike a true balance in the well fed child, and not weight to age. A well fed child, whose environment is good. whose physical condition is good, whose diet is good, should come within one or two pounds of being as heavy as the weight chart says. Con- sult the weight chart and if the child’s weight does not come within the level we call normal, he needs some atten- tion. For mothers who wish to check up on their children’s weight, I have prepared a leaflet, “Age, Height and Weight Tables.” Specify the age of your child and send a self-addressed stamped envelope with your request to me in care of this newspaper. ‘The underweight child may need a physical overhauling. Enlarged tonsils, infected adenoids, or anemia affect the WOMEN'S FE ATURES. MORE TRUTH BY JAMES J. Days of Literature. There are thousands of volumes worth reading ‘Which I probably never shall read. An unlettered wight, you'll agree that my plight Is sad and pathetic indeed. But I weary of man-woman problems; They leave me perplexed and non- ‘Plussed, And I long for the yarns that we read behind barns, In which proud, haughty chiefs bit the dust. They always were tattered and smudgy. Having pasced through full many a hand; It was n:nedful to squint to decipher the print, But, ah! Weren't they gory and | grand! The heroes drove great covered wagons. Inscribed “Californy or Bust!" be | And we knew in the end we could al- ways depend On the red rascals biting the dust. Our parents had never an inkling Of the volumes we hid in the hay: If they ever had guessed that such books we possessed, I think they’d have fainted away. Dime novels they looked cn as some- thing ‘Which nice people never discussed, So we learned at our ease, in the barn, or up trees, How the redskins had bitten the dust. Out of print are these stirring ro- mances, Huthridlmnk I have somewhere, well Some heart-stirring yarn which I read in the barn— An excited and deeply thrilled kid; ‘Which reminds me to hunt for it scme lay, For find it I feel that T must, And read once again of these brave, daring men, And the savages, biting the dust. It Ought to Be Easy. All President Roosevelt will have to do now is to please everybody. THAN MONTAGUE. POETRY How Do You Do It? It’s good to know that you have never quailed, However hard the struggle may have been; That you have never cowered when as- sailed, But always sought undauntedly to win, The knowledge that you don't know how to quit Wil later bring true happiness to you; As for myself, I cheerfully admit, I do. | It's good to know that when the day is done No gnawing conscience calls you by your name And tells you that a strong man would have won Instead of lost—like you—the grind- ing game. That he can never quaver in a fray Brings peace and consolation to & man, However, I regretfully must say I can. It heartens you, as on your couch you Belorl:'you sink ‘to placid dreams and . "hxrlee's‘ihe bitter, dreary hours went In c\')r'ry circumstance you did your But flzsn:ii put your back against the And faced whatever trouble there | might be, Without a single qualm, you're not at all Like me. If you have never quailed or turned aside, But met your tribulations with & smile, If you are driven, by unflinching pride, To beard rough fate, and never wince the while, If you on no occasion turn and run, Though nearly all your forces have been spent, I think that you must be too fond of punishment. A Trifle Late. It is unwise to invest first and in- | vestigate afterward. ¥ (Copyright, 1933.) A WASHINGTON DAYBOOK BY HERBERT PLUMMER. OP all the new crop of Representa- tives on Capitol Hill—and there are so many that it will require weeks to be able to recognize them off the floor—probably few are being watched more keenly than Marland of Okla- homa. Hey hasn’t done anything in the House as yet, but enough 1is” known of him and his history to attract the attention of those who fre- quent the galleries. The son of a Pennsylvania oil man, Marland de- cided to go it on his own after graduating in law, and struck out for Oklahoma about | 1907 just when ofl was opening up. He bought corduroys and a cow pony and rode his own pipe lines as they were laid into one of the first big pools. He grew to be one of the few out- standing millionaires in Oklahoma. He developed Ponca City, a millionaire’s town, and considered one of the most beautiful small towns in the country. A descendent of a feudal English family, he has a strong sense of noblesse oblige. He used this philosophy in building up his oil company. He built a model clubhouse for his men, where an insti- tute of geology. club rooms and living quarters were housed under the same roof. He opened up his private golf course to the entire city and built a beautiful Spanish style civic building. | his men could use at any time, and he | held the first large polo tournament | in the State on his private field. | His home is now closed, and when at Ponca City he lives in one of his own studios. He is a close personal friend of | Patrick Hurley, former Secretary of | War, and the two are such cronies that it is said last Fall prior to the elections Hurley canceled his speaking engage- ments within Marland’s district because he didn't wish to work against his friend, who was running on the Demo- cratic ticket. LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. The Weakly News. Weather: Werse. SISSIETY PAGE Mr. Puds Simkins met a bewty look- ing gerl when he was in the country last Summer and has receeved severel misterious picture postcards since then, but denies he is engaged or anything. Mr. Shorty Judge was alone in the house Thersday nite and didn’t feel like | doin his homewerk, so he called up | several of his frends on the telefone | to pass away the time without having anything special to tell them, having intristing conversations with Mr. Ben- ny Potts, Mr. Sam Cross, Mr. Leroy Shooster and Mr. Sid Hunt. INTRISTING FACKS ABOUT INTRISTING PEOPLE Maud Jonson’s grandmother has | promised to leave her a diamond ring im her will but Maud Jonson is not Then he started wondering what else | feeling very optimistic on the subjeck he could do, and finally determined to on account of her grandmother being build a home fine enough to be turned | the ony one in the family that's never appetite and thus the intake of food and the weight. Also, the diet may need improvement, for mothers are not all conversant with those foods which put on weight and those which are essential but are not inclined to in- crease the deposit of fat. Because a diet should be balanced with all of those foods, a good diet chart for the child should hang in every kitchen cupboard, where the mother may easily refer to it. ‘The underweight child probably needs more rest. last may seem im- possible to the mother, as underweight children are nervously energetic and often foil all efforts to get them to rest. But there are ways in which this may be accomplished. Perhaps the child will not take a nap, and cries and fusses so that the insistence upon it becomes a travesty. But most children can be brought in the house 15 to 30 minutes before lunch and offered some quiet amusement that will keep them off their feet until meal time arrives. That rest period puts them in a mood to enjoy their food, and, what is just as_important, eat more of it. Immediately after lunch it should be taken for granted that whether the child sleeps or not, the next hour is a rest period. It wouldn’t hurt the mother to take that opportunity to rest, and in her company the child may be more content to lie quietly and rest, even if sleep refuses to embrace him. Again, before dinner, there should be a half-hour of quiet play. Tired chil- dren, those who have mcst strenuously refused to nap, are just the ones who fall asleep over their evening meals or wear themselves out fretting. These rest periods seem like small matters, but hitched to dlet and cou- pled with an elimination of any phy- sical ailments which discourage a good sprinkle with ted cheese. Bake in meat of chicken, £tc, are eaten in ke, croqueties, hot oven, 500 F., 10 minutes or appetite, they result in just that ine crease in pounds which the child ouk Af the | S - T into an artists’ haven when he was through with it. He had both Hampton Court and Versailles Gardens copied, running at fan-wise angles from one side of his home. It was his idea to bring tradi- tional beauty to that spot with the hope of inculcating & love of beauty in all who came to see. Even the garages and servant quar- ters were in the same beautiful Spanish style, and could be turned into studios whenever some artist friend dropped in and wanted quiet and a place to work. Any of his employes who had the time and desire could leave their jobs any day at 4 o'clock to play golf or polo. He had a string of 40 polo ponies | even ben sick. | Artie Alixander never takes a book out of the public lyberry unless it has | pictures in it, although he often finds | out that the pictures are better than | the book. POME BY SKINNY MARTIN I Don't Blame Her !My mother has a wonderful disposition | wich keps her looking young, | In fact I've never saw her mad Except when she’s bitten her tongue. LOST AND FOUND Lost—A Sweedish match box con- taining 7 cancelled United States stamps. No reward if reterned to Ben- ny Potts. MODES OF THE MOMENT SN