Evening Star Newspaper, April 6, 1933, Page 36

-MAGA Doll’s Party for Lttle -Folks BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. tle folk will delight fa is or the Babes in the Wpods.” g very #mall, for they must be hidden for the ZINE PAGE. hides these dressed’ dolls around the room, being sure no doll is out of reach of the children. When all the guests have arrived, the hostess tells in graphic' manner about the babes in the woods, winding up the story by saying that little dolls, as babes, are hidden about the room and every child must hunt until she finds one. When she has rescued just one doil she is to stop hunting. When every one succeeds in | rescuing just one doll, the game is over, and every one must sit down and | some food for the hungry dolls will be | ‘The hostess has a plate of plain crackers rexdy and each child has one | to eat for her dolly. | The hostess now brings out a large | | covered basket, and each child is in-| vited, in turn, to put in her hand and help herself to one package. Each par- cel contains a dressed paper doll, made by the hostess, or a paper-doll-set of a simple sort bought from some shop. The packages should be so wrapped and tied or secured by fancy seals that they can be opened without tearing doll or dress. Dolls should be featured the re- freshment. Around a central cake | lollypops dressed as dolls stand as sen- | tinels. The dresses of paper can be| stiff enough to make the dolls stand | erect. Eyes, nose and a mouth can be painted or penciled on the lollypop | wrapper, and a piece of tissue or crepe | paper be fastened as a bonnet over the back of the head so fashioned. Crepe paper can be tied about the stick of the lollypop to make a frock, or the costuming can be more elaborate | Each child gets one of these dolls, giv- | THE EVENING STAR, DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX Ouverstrict Parents Should Beware Lest They Drive Their Children to Under- hand Methods. EAR MISS DIX—I am 17. My parents are very strict. They don’t allow me to have boy friends or go to danccs. Everywhere I go I have to take my younger sister, who spies on me and hurries home to tell my mother if a boy spoke to me. I am a normal girl, just ke the rest of the girls who have dates night after night, but when I even take 2 walk with a boy I have to do it on the sly and lie to my parents about where I have been. I hate to do this, but what clse can I do? I am not thinking about running out every night with every Tom, Dick and Harry, but I would like to go out once a week to a show or to the dance at the parish house or have a friend at my home. When I am 18 can I leave home and get away from tyranny? SALLY. ANSWER—I wonder if this overstrict mother, and many other mothers like her, have ever thought that their daughters look upon their homes as prisons, against whose bars and bolts they have beaten them- selves in vain until they are desperate? I wonder if this overstrict mother, and many other mothers like her, realize that nobody ever yet loved the jaller or appreciated being kept locked up? Of course, these martinet mothers and fathers, who keep their daughters under lock and key and deny them the freedom and the pleas- ures that all of the other girls about them have, say that they are trying to protect them and save them from committing the follies of youth. T has been a long time since they were boys and girls and, with that curious amnesia that comes to parents, they have forgotten how they wanted to do things when they were young, how their feet ached to dance. how they used to enjoy going buggy riding, how they used to giggle and carry on endless conversations about nothing. They remind Sally that she is oniy 17, and that she is too young to have dates. Nothing but a baby. It is absurd. They will not think of such a thing, but all the other girls of 17 are having dates and stepping out with boy friends, and Sally suffers as only 17 can suffer when it is demexd a pleasure and is left out of things and sits at home with mother and father. |ing the candy portion of the refresh- ments. Gingerbread men, or other cooky | dough, cut with the doll cooky cutter, | are just the thing for the cake, apart | from the central cake, if it is a birth- | day party. Sandwiches with hot, weak | coco, and milk, for beverage, and ice | | cream with the cookies and cake form | enough of a menu. But be sure to| have sufficient to satisfy children’s appetites, and enough variety in kinds | of sandwiches to suit varying tastes. | (Copyright, 1933.) OUR CHILDREN BY ANGELO PATEL Playtime. F I had so little money for school activities that I had to enlarge the classes and overwork the teachers and all that, I would cut down the class room work and extend the play activities. You see, children un- derstand about play. They don't need 50 much supervision nor so much in- struction when they are playing in the open air as when they are studying in the class room. Nobody has to remind them to finish a game of ball. a child !wgplng before the final mo- ment! Not he. He begins another game as fast as he can for fear you might MOTHER and father haven't sense enough to see that even age ha been speeded up, and that a girl of 17 is as sophisticated and knows as much about life and is as capable of taking care of hersclf as her mother was at 21. And so there is no reason on that score to try to keep Sally locked up in the nursery. And, in the second place, it doesn't make sense to try to keep a girl from playing around with the boys she goes to school with or works with. And, in the third place, to keep young people apart is scmething that can’t be done. Nor can you keep girls from doing what all the other girls do, and it is a waste of effort and temper and time to attempt it. All the results that the overstrict parents achieve are that they make their children lie to them and force them to do in an underhand way the things they would be glad to do frankly and openly. and honestly. And it breaks the parents’ hold on the children and makes them regard their father and mother as tyrants instead of their best friends. DOROTHY DIX. * % ok % DEARMISSDIX—Whathn a woman do when she is married to a man she can’t live with, yet can’t leave? For years I have been married to a man who boasts that he can be as mean to me as he wishes because I have no place to go and no way to make a living if I left him. He insults me in every way he can. He treats me like a slave. .He does not permit me to have any woman friends or to talk to any one except his mother and himself, and he has fits of rage that resemble nothing so much as insanity, but I have two little children, no me , and am trained to no profession. I am young, good looking and fairly intelligent. Must the remainder of my life be spent like this? DISTRACTED. Answer—I should say not. No woman in these days need be enslaved unless she is so poor-spirited and cowardly that she hasn't the courage to fight her way to freedom. Do you remember Barric’s play, “The Twelve- Pound Look”? It told the story of a woman who was married to a fat, fatuous, conceited, overbearing man who regarded a mere wife as a door- mat to be trampled on. Well, this woman bought a typewriter and she practiced on it until she got skillful enough to earn £12 a month. which she could live on, and then she simply walked out to freedom. There is & tip in that story for you. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1933.) notice he has finished and give him something to do—something improving, as it were. Play is the business of childhood. And & serious business it is. Nature or- dained that play should be the method of a child’s growth. His muscles and nerves must bs co-ordinated before they can serve him, and play is the answer to that problem.* He must learn to give and take, to help a job forward, to give all he has in an effort to get what he wants in co-operation with his fellows, and play i3 the answer to that. He must learn to find his place in the group and main- of the air that rides in the chariots of clouds driven by the winds and warmed by _the sun. Play is a good use of a child’s time. I believe that children learn better and retain more if they have plenty of free play in the open air than when they sit. for long periods in the class rooms under the strain of questioning, tests, sv.lfdy and recitations to recording an- gels. ‘There is a distinct relation between play and work. A child carries his play habits into his work, because his work is but the continuance of his play. It is adolescent years. will work. By all means, then, if money is scarce that we cannot have WASHINGTON, D. C, interesting to watch the play idea be- gin in the kindergarten, expand in the upper ones and merge into work in the As a child plays he teachers, shorten the recitation time, reduce the number of children before a SONNYSAYINGS | BY FANNY Y. CORY. Rufinin’ to an’ from school will help to.keep us in shape, the coach say. I'kin run faster from than to. b (Copyright. 1933.) Pointed Paragraphs When s man is sure his friénds never say unkind things. of him.he is sure that all his friends are dead. ‘What a sociable world this would be if 2 man’s neighbors were half as glad to see him on his return from a mh‘l trip as he thinks they ought 1;he hinges of true friendship never rust. Don’t spare the rod if you want fish. A fish diet may not strengthen the brain, but a little fishing trip often téends to invigorate the.imagination. There may be reasons why a man should try to deceive others, but why should be try to deceive himself? Orange-Tomato Cocktail. Combine one and one-eighth cup- fuls of tomato juice with two table- spoonfuls of orange juice, one and one- half teaspoonfuls of lemon juice, haif a teaspoonful of sugar, one tesspoonful | of finely minced onion, and salt and pepper to taste. Thofoughly. chill. Strain. Serve at once. THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1933. The HUB E_ This Universal Hand FR Cleaner With Everyistan'da\r'd Size Universal Furniture Co. 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An old friend that's won- derful for sandwiches and regular table use. Whole- some, full-bodied—and a v~ flavor not found in other ' breads. and the costuming is complete. Before the party begins the hostess UNCLE RAY’S CORNER “pictures” to be seen at different times. On one part of the moon, the outline of a young girl with long, flowing hair has been made out. The “Lady in the Moon” is another picture which many persons have seen. That is not hard to see if we let | She might be described as “perhaps 30 our eyes dwell on the full moon for | yea:s of age, with dark hair and stately a little while. | bearing.” Whatever age we may give to The “picture” is a great face—with |this “lady,” we know that her figure \eyes, nose and mouth which seem to be | has been on the moon for thousands of in the proper places, ‘Wonders of the Heavens. Pictures in the Moon. NEED hardly ask you whether you have seen the Man in the Moon. R~ PN I feel sure that no bright-minded child in our land above the age of 8 or | 9 supposes that there is really a per- | son in the moon, and modern parents are not in the custom of telling such a tale even to tiny tots. If that were a real being, he would have a head 2,170 miles wide! Hi arms. legs and trunk would be miss- is | scope, it has seemel to me that the Shadows above the Lady in the Moon have made it possible for some observ- ers to see a Rabbit in the Moon. When we look at the moon through a telescope, those pictures go away, but we see other sights much more interest- ing. At first glance through a tele- moon looked like a peeled orange. ing. We know that the markings on the | moon are caused by mountains and val- | Jeys which exist there, ‘and against | which the sun shines. Shado cast | by the mountains and “craters” m: dark markings. | ‘The shadows on the moon change in | length and form; and there are several Closer study reealed the famous “craters.” These may be the remains of extinct volcanoes, but that is not known as a certain ' thing. The leafiet called *“Marvels of the | Sky” may be obtained without charge | if you will mail me a stamped, self-ad- | dressed envelope. UNCLE RAY. A WASHINGTON DAYBOOK BY HERBERT PLUMMER. RING the years that Senator difficult task of assigning office space “Doc” Copeland of New York has| to Senators is also his. been on Capitol Hill, he has volun- tarily taken upon himself the task of The doctor's job is one which car- ries with it, sometimes, a lot of grief. years. Pl Sl .‘_‘.}‘\‘\\\ N SR CHAS, SCHNEIDER The lowest priced fine tea you SALADA BROWN LABEL Makes FIVE cups for ONE CENT SALADA RED LABEL % 15° BAKING CO. can buy For the SAKE of your family’s HEALTH, be sure the refrigerator you buy is SAFE. Only in the Grunow will you find the amaz- ing refrigerant CARRENE, which is safe in prétecting‘ foods and health because it'is . . . Some Senators are temperamental, Am¢'ia" FiflC’tTC. highly so. “Doc” Copeland knows this of Congress. In and already is on guard. The other l 2 g /4 Lb. the days before the week end it became necessary to adjust GEY Senate installed [ 7| the electric_power facilities in the Sen- | apparatus for puri- ate Office Building. He took the floor | , fying the air in the 314 of the Senate to warn: | chamber where X=C_7) | _“Therel be no elevator service on sessions are held, | Sunday. Senators I just wanted to the doctor was ; |tell you so that there'll be no misun- | constantly warring ~1)//_% | derstanding on the part of those of | against atmos- you who are in the habit of Wurklflgi pheric | conditions '\ |23 |t e == w Way to Dye Curtains Can’t Streak or Fade ' tors were com- pelled to work. He deplored the Jask of sunlight in the chamber. 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