Evening Star Newspaper, April 15, 1933, Page 11

MAGAZINE PAGE. SCREEN ODDITIES BY CAPT. ROSCOE FAWCETT. _— LIONEL BARRYMORE | ONCE_MYSTERIOUSLY OISAPPEARED FOR THREE YEARS. WHERE HE WENT S UNKKNOWN BUT IT IS BELIEVED HE SPENT THE TIME STUDYING ART CAN | Ac IN PARIS. | 1S A TALENTED WOOD CARVER - STUART ERWIN ROLL , WITH ONE HAND, IGARETTE WHILE HE PLAYS A MOUTH ORG. Conquering Contract By P. HAL SIMS Mr. Sims is universally acclaimed the | eatest living contract and auction yer. He was captain of the re- nowned “Four Horsemen” team and has wom 24 national championships since 1924, Responding to One No Trump. ONTINUING yesterday's sug- g®tion concerning the mini- mum strength with which it is advisable to raise an open: ing no-trump bid to two when the xv:‘slfondlng hand contains no bid- able t, here are some examples of the weakest hands which would decide me to bid and not to pass: W AR MMM MM M e Mo MM MM MM Eld 4 ve three queen-jack combi- nations, be optdmistic, as your partner must have a fie array of aces and | kings to make up his opening bid. Three such combinations or two with 8 king justify a raise, especially if the fourth suit is of four cards or include | a jack or ten. With strength con- centrated in only two suits, I would need about two tricks to ralse: £ RAS D x x x g K00 xor CLxxx Ixx as this hand gives the hope of work- ing with both major suits, while offer- | ing strong probability that a mtnm’ suit will be the opening lead right into a tenace in declarer's hand. If neither suit is of four cards. I would require a trifie more in the hand: Q.3 10 x x xor 9xx Di. . as now the major suits furnish re- entries for finessing the diamonds or clearing the clubs. Beware of Doubletons. The presence of a worthless double- x XK TEXS ton is a weak point in a responding hand, and®should be compensated by extra protection elsewhere. Even if the doubleton is Q x, make some allow- ance for it as a holding likely to be the object of early attack, and of low protective merit opposite a one no- trump bid; though, incidentally, in re- sponding to & two no-trump bid the queen and one is a pretty sure stopper and very likely trick. A worthless doubleton is a real dan- ger, just as much so as the holding of two completely unprotected suits as discussed above. I think you need two clear tricks to raise on hands afflicted with these blemishes. Here are ex- amples of the weakest hands of this kind on which to raise to two no- trumps: . Qx His. K Q x %0 xx s 5K x Sp. x x Di Hts. X x X X K Q If you have five worthless cards in two suits, the other eight cards are likely to include a biddable suit if the hand as a whole contains a raise; responses with four card suits will be discussed very soon. I Want You to Feel Safe and Relaxed. I am intentionally favoring the con- sideration of safety in setting these minimum normal requirements _for reaching games in no-trumps when neither partner holds a five-card suit. These hands require careful play 1if there is a weak spot and the enemy attacks it early. 1 prefer that you should miss an occasional game if I thereby protect you securely from serious penalties. ~ First-class players, especially those who play no-trump hands very skillfully, may be given somewhat lighter raises—and vice versa. You have ample justification for pass- ing when you conclude that game prospects would appear feasible, from your hand, only if your partner had been able to open the bidding with two no-trump. (Copyrisht, 1933.) Mr. Sims will contract paper with nswer all inquiries on addressed to this news- dressed stamped envelope. BEDTIME STORIES % "5 Johnny An Intruder. eighbor to intrude RP%esd" s nathlag “thort of rude. —Old Mother Nature. OHNNY CHUCK usually is sessed of the wandering foot in the early Spring, but this year he seemed to have it to a greater | degree than usual. Some people | might call it Spring fever. Anyway, it kept Johnny on the move. He in- lmfll the Old Orchard. He poked about along the edge of the Green Porest. He wandered this way and that all over the Green Meadows. He spent one night in the dear Old Briar Patch. He even ventured up to the ©Old Pasture, wnere he knew that Reddy Fox and Mrs. Reddy were living. Hmdliy he climbed over an old stone wall into a field he never had visited before in all his life. Johnny had spent all his life on Farmer Brown's farm. This field belonged to another farm. 2 Now, the instant Johnny climbed over that wall he became an intruder. An intruder is, you know, one who goes on the land or enters the presence of some one else uninvited. Now, Johnny and Polly Chuck had lived ever since they were young on Farmer Brown's farm and they allowed no other Chucks to live very near them. They were jealous of their home range and Johnny was ever ready to drive off any Chuck outside his own family who| dared intrude. Now matters were just | the opposite. It was Johnny who was | intruding. | He didn't have the excuse of not knowing that he was intruding. No,| sir, he didn't have that excuse. He knew that he was intruding. He knew that another Chuck was in that field. He knew it, for he had heard the Ln'.-i ter whistle. In fact, it was that whistle that had brought him over there. It was a clear, lusty whistle, the kind of | & whistle that sounded as if the whis tler must be big, strong and very sure | of himself. In fact, there was a chal- | lenge and a_ warning in that whistle. It challenged any Chuck who might | be within hearing to come over in the field if he dared and warned him not to | try it. Johnny had whistled in reply, | and there was fight in the very sound of that whistle. “That fellow is uppi muttered Johnny. “Thinks he owns that field Thinks that no one dares go over there. Trying to make folks think that he owns the world. Just for that I am golng over there. Ill show him. No Chuck can tell me where I can and cannot .!ol'\nngyo quite forgot or overlooked the fact that his own whistle had sounded just as bold and challenging He headed straight for the old wall climbed over it and, once on the other side, sat up yery straight for a look around. At first he saw no one. He whistled shrilly. Almosi at once he was answered, and there was anger in that reply. Then he saw on the far SiGe what at first had looked like a short stake, but which he now recog- nized for another Chuck sitting up Sust as he was. Johnny at once headed ¥n_that direction. Prom time to time he sat up for a look around. At first the stranger had remained sitting up straight. Pres- ently, however, when Johnny sat up he saw the stranger was coming to meet him half way. The truth is the stranger had had hard work to be- lieve that another actually had dared to enter that fleld of his. But as Johnny continued to advance he had to believe it, and right away he started to_meet the intruder, for he was no eoward. ” he muttered as he went to meet Johnny. “This is my field and I don't want any neighbors. If that fellow is looking for a fight he has come to just the right place for it. He is a big fel- low. Well, all the better. I'll make him turn his tail, as big as he is. ‘The idea of coming to my fleld just as if he owned it! He needs a lesson, that fellow does.” Meanwhile Johnny Cluck was doing some muttering as he advanced. “That fellow is nearly all black. He is a he 1s, “I WONDER WHO THAT FFLLOW THINKS HE 1S,” HE MUTTERED AS HE WENT TO MEET JOHNNY. big fellow. too. I'm glad of that. I like to fight with some one near my own size. Il show him that he can't drive me out of this field. I may want to move over here. I feel just like a fight. Yes, sir, I do so. I hope he won't run away. If he does Tl chase him clear out of this field.” The black Chuck wasn't showing any | indications of running. He was com- ing straight on, and the nearer he got the bigger and blacker he looked. If Johnny really wanted a fight it looked | as if he would get it (Gopyright, 1933.) SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. Go in an’ ob you now! win| Come on, Tommy! Yer doin’ great! (puff! puff!)—only one feller in front THE EVENING SPRINGTIME BY D. C. PEATTIE. Azalea. ITH dogwood and mountain laurel, the azalea is one of the most admired Spring flowers in Eastern United States. In Europe there is no azalea, except on the high Alps, with some rhododendron in Lapland. They have no real dogwood, but only the little bunchberry on the ground in Scandinavia, and no mountain laurel of any sort. These three beauties make up a little for the fact that among our Spring wild flowers we lack such little beauties as daffodil and squill, snowflake, snowdrop, jonquil, poet’s narcissus, celandine, sweet violet and scarlet anemones. Azalea, dog- wood and mountain laurel are ours. They give our Spring its enchanting quality of wilderness-in-flower, and they fit with our own peculiar bird life, the white-throats and warblers. the mockingbirds and cardinals—part of the sweet Appalachian Spring. Our common azalea, if I remember rightly, is under the protecting cloak of the Wildflower Preservation Society, morally if not legally. They tell a tale out in the Yosemite of a woman who was fined the maxi- mum of $200 for picking a bunch of azaleas. It sounds severe, and per- haps the tale isn't true, but severe or false. it points a lesson—that public opinion is solidly behind the law in the | Yosemite for protecting the frailer | beauties of the place. One severe pun- ishment of that sort acts in a salutary way and prevents hundreds of other cases of laxity. It isn't practical to try to protect azalea here that way. and, furthermore, the situation is complicated by the fact { that many poor farmers sell azalea oft their own land. They have a right to exploit their resources as they like, and undoubtedly they need the money, for wherever azalea grows be sure the soil is poor. All that. the conscientious flower lover and conservationist can do frain from picking and refrain ng. I never cared much for azaleas when picked. ‘They soon droop, the whole corolla hanging limply forward on the stamens. They reveal the weakness of all the heath family, which has failed to solder its flower parts firmly together. Azalea, like most wild flowers, is at its loveliest where it belongs, in the wild. STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY, DOROTHY DIX’§ LETTER BOX How Can a Wife Steer a Fair Course Between Overcomplaisance and 11l Temper >—Shy, Sensitive Man Is Really an Egotist. D the most logical way of making it one. I hear of divorces because the wife is too good, too kind, making too great an effort to please her husband so that it gets monotonous. I hear of divorces because the wife is unreasonable. so ill-tempered that it gets unbearable. Isn't there some middle way that a woman can take? ANNABELLE. EAR MISS DIX—I am a girl of 24, desperately in love with a young man who loves me even more, and we are soon to be married. I want our marriage to be a success. Please tell me Answer: T think that very few marriages would be failures if the husbands and wives made an honest effort to make them successes. But they don't. They trust the most important thing in their whole lives to chance and then expect some miracle to be wrought that will make them happy in spite of their own shiftlessness and laziness. ET these same people who do nothing to make their marriage a success wouldn't plant a garden and expect it to produce flowers unless they worked it and watered it and tended it. They wouldn't expect a business to prosper if they neglected it and used no intelligence and judgment in its management. But they expect a marriage to prosper and bring them a million per cent dividends in happiness by simply chucking it into the Iap of Lady Luck. So if you and your husband want to make your marriage a success you can do it if you are willing to work together and put your hearts and backs in it and if you are willing to put one-tenth of the thought in it you would to make a success in any other line. But you have to work together. Neither one can do it alone. No business can prosper if one partner is a slacker and a quitter. But if one partner has to be more on the job than the other, it is the wife. Possibly this isn't fair, but it is the why things are, and. as Mr. Cleveland observed, it is a condition and not & theory that confronts us, and we have to deal with it on that basis. ON the wisdom, the sportsmanship, the common sense, the self-control and the tact of every woman hangs the success of her marriage, unless the man is a brute, and not many men are villains. The average man is in love with the woman when he marries and honestly means to make her happy. And he is good husband material if his wife knows how to work him and has patience to turn out a good job. 8o if 1 were giving any general rule to a woman for making mar- riage a success I would say: First, study your man. Find out how to handle him and then, instead of bumping into all the angles of his dis- position, gumshoe around them. If your husband is vain and egotistical, jolly him along. Every man desires above everything else on earth to have his wife admire him, for her to think he is the wisest, handsomest, strongest, bravest man in the world, and as long as she does this his interest in her and his affection for her never wane. IF your husband has the head-of-the-house complex, let him have the empty honor. Don’t dispute with him. As long as you ask his advice about everything he will never notice whether you take it or not. If your husband is of a gay and pleasure-loving disposition, grab your hat and go whenever he wants to step out. A man who loves to play has to have a playfellow. Drive with a light rein if you want to keep your husband from bolting. Don't make your home a jail if you expect your There is some confusion in many people’s minds about the name for azalea. Country people call it “honey- suckle” because of its honey odor and its slightly two-lipped flower. Books call it “pinxter flower,” a name I never heard used out of doors. Scientifically speaking, some books put it under azalea and call it azalea nudiflora, while others call it rhododendron. The fact remains that no very good common name exists for it, azalea being the Latin name, and “honeysuckle” entirely misleading. A Sermon for Today BY REV. JOHN R. GUNN, Things Not Seen. “The things which are seen are tem- poral, but the things which are not seen are eternal."—II Corinthians, iv.18. We live in the midst of and by | means of “things which are not seen.” | Light, which makes all things clear, is to us invisible. We cannot see the | atmosphere, but we can see objects through it, and in the atmosphere we live, The unseen is the real. Behind all visible objects, and giving them their reality, is the invisible ‘God. Divine truth, goodness, love and mercy, though they have neither material form nor visible color, are all about us and are as real as life itself. However, it is only by the exercise of a vigorous faith that we are able to realize this fact. Because of our placement in relation to material things and their preten- sions, we are prone to believe that the poor, shabby illusions of the temporal are the precious things. ‘The man who rises above the ma- terial and lights his candle at the altar of the invisible gains a clear vision and wider prospect; sublimity inspires his thought, royalty impels and crowns his actions, moral and spiritual grandeur invests his life. “And now, O Blessed Spirit, teach me the way of holy meditation! Then shall L have the open vision. I seem now so often to have to feel my way in the dark. Give me the undimmed eye of faith. “I ask no dream. no prophet ecstas No sudden rending of this veil of cla; No angel visitant, no opening skies, But take the dimness of my soul away. “Too often spiritual things appear as mere shadows. May I begin to see that they are the great realities of life. Show me, O Lord, how to open the door of heavenly contemplation and then, in the ‘secret of His presence’ I shall come to know better the reality and authority of the spiritual. Make {me a mystic in the highest and best sense of that much-misunderstood word. May I come to know the hidden things of God. Thou hast said that | ‘the secret of the Lord is with them that fear Him.’ Thou knowest, O Lord, that I fear Thee and love Thee. But I want to know Thee better and love Thee more. Therefore, I wait at Thy feet and plead for Thy mercy. Be gracjous, Lord, even unto me, and ‘let the words of my mouth and the medi- tation of my heart be acceptable in Thy sight, O Lord, my strength and my re- deemer.’ "—(Mahood.) “Give ear to my words, O Lord; con- sider my meditation. In the morning | | will T direct my prayer unto Thee, and will look up, and in Thy fear will I | worship toward the holy temple.” i MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. | Stewed Figs | Cornmeal Mush with Cream. | Poached Eggs. Bacon | Graham Gems. | Coffee. { DINNER. ! Cream of Potato Soup. | Roast Chicken. | Brown Gravy. | Celery. Cranberry Sauce. Asparagus on Toast. Potato Croquettes. Lettuce and Tomato Salad French Dressing’ Steamed Chocolate Pudding. Coffee. $UPPER. Shrimp Wiggle. Toasted Crackers, Strawberry Bavarian Cream. Cookies. ‘Tea GRAHAM GEMS, ‘Three cups sifted graham flour, two teaspoons baking powder, one egg. one cup milk, one-half cup water, one-half teaspoon salt. Beat thoroughly and pour into eated gem pans. Bake 15 to 20 inutes. POTATO CROQUETTES. Two cups hot riced potatoes, two tablespoons butter, one-half teaspoon salt, one-half teaspoon pepper, one-guarter teaspoon celery ‘salt, few grains cayenne, few drops onion juice, yolk one egg, one teaspoon finely chopped parsley. Mix ingredients in order given and beat thoroughly. Shape, dip in crumbs, egg and crumbs again; fry one minute in deep fat and drain on brown paper. Shape any way that pleases you. (Copyright, 1933.) husband to stay in it of his own accord. Don’t quarrel. Don't argue. Don't nag. Don't interfere with all of your husband's personal habits. He was a grown man with established tastes and ways before he married you, and you interfere with these at your peril. Make your husband a comfortable home. Feed him well. Respect his individuality and make him respect yours. Play the game fairly and squarely and you need not fear that your marriage will be a failure. DOROTHY DIX. e e EAR MISS DIX—What can you do with a man who is so shy and sensitive that unless he is sure you like him you can't get any rise out of him, and, on the other hand, so loves his freedom that he takes fright if you show any enthusiasm for him? Being impersonally friendly is the way to get along pleasantly with him, but that doesn't lead to any- thing. Looks to me as if this desire to eat his cake and have it, too, was going to be as successful in keeping him single as it has many another bachelor. Is there any way to beat this combination? I should certainly appreciate it, for I am ONE WHO WOULD LIKE TO. Answer: I don't think there is any way to beat the combination of selfishness and egotism, and there are two reasons why a woman is foolish to waste her time in trying to do it. One is that it can’t be done, and the second is that it isn't worth doing. because that kind of man is incapable of really loving a woman. His one grand passion is for himself and he sacrifices everybody and everything to it. OBSERVE how it works out in your own case. The and sensitive is because all of his thoughts are morbidly himself. He isn't happy unless somebody is burning incense beforz him in the way of trying to draw him out and flatter and please him. He makes you do all the kotowing and love-making, and then when he is afraid you might really inveigle him into matrimony he runs away. He wants to have & woman love him. He desires the pleasure of her society, but he dcesn't want to pay for it by assuming the burdens and responsibilities of marriage. He wants to get all and give nothing, and if that isn't a mean, picayunish spirit, I don’t know what is. HE doesn't care a rap about the rotten deal he is handing you. He doesn't feel that it is dishonorable to fill a girl's heart so full ot love for him that it will never have room in it for any other man, and he doesn’t mean to be anything but a transient guest in it. He doesn't think that it is beastly unfair to monopolize a girl through the Spring- time of her youth and beauty, when she would have her best chances of marrying, and then give her the air When she has become a little passe. No. All he thinks about is himself. Why you want to marry a selfish, self-centered man, goodness only knows, but if you do, remember that the only way that you can appeal to him is through his selfishness. Make yourself necessary to his comfort and happiness and entertzinment, and then leave him flat. If he misses you enough he will buy your companionship, even at the price of a wedding ring. DOROTHY DIX. « e JDEAR MISS DIX—My husband and I are always having trouble over the house and the furniture. He wants everything to please him and nothing to please me. If I move a table he fusses until it is moved back into the same old place. Iam a good housckeeper and take a lot of pride in my home, but I get co disgusted that I think I will never do another thing. What do you advise? WIFE. Answer: I advise your husband to keep his fingers out of your pie. A woman lives in the house all the time. A man is in it merely to eat and sleep. So it is far more important that she should have things in it to please her than it is for him to have things in it to please him. A woman's home is her castle, and in it she has a right to her own taste in furniture and to shift it about as muchcol! she likes. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright. 1933.) Liver and Bacon. Divide one pound of calves’ liver into For Plants. oiled bars of a griller, greased bars of a grill. or on the | frequently. per and salt, finish_cooking, and serve | sun. Rarnjghed with grilled curls of bacon. | corner. ley to some butter and pour over. If water used on your plants. liked, this can also be garnished with | fried croutons of bread | SUBURBAN the extra trouble. HEIGHTS F7E8y = To increase the humidity of a room, thin slices, gash the slices here and | take a pottery bowl, put some slips of there with a sharp knife, brush with | wandering jew in it, and put this near | inferiority. melted butter, then place between the a steam radiator, renewing the water |to cover up his inferiority by assuming This vine will spread and | Superiority. Parading as a guardian of Grill slowly | grow beautifully in water, and has the until half done, then season With pep- |added advantage of not needing daily | It will do just as well in a dark | his face.” A person never becomes in- Three or four times a week | tolerant until he at least vaguely sur- ne tablespoonful of minced pars- |add a few drops of ammonia to the|mises that he is losing his grip on The result | things, that some one has partially re- secured will more than repay you for By Gluyas Williams APRIL 15, 1933. NATURE’S CHILDREN BY LILLIAN COX ATEEY. I During the entire Summer, its unusual leaves, four-lobed and from 4 to 6 inches long. and broad, and appearing to have their tips cut off at right angles to the mid-rib, make it an easy tree to identify, even from a con- siderable distance. The whole tree flut- ters with the slightest breeze. In the Spring the buds are unique, consisting of leaf-like scales, each hugging a baby leaf. This is a characteristic that no other American tree possesses. In early June the beautiful and in- teresting flowers appear. They look very much like the tulip blossom and this is why the tree is called the tulip poplar. Each blossom has three sepals and six petals. The sepals are green- ish and as a rule bent slightly back- ward. The petals are in the form of a cup and are decorated with splashes of brilliant orange to attract the atten- tion of the flying army of insects. Here | swarms of bees congregate and have | great” drinking feasts. Tulip honey is | strongly flavored, but delicious. ‘The cone-like fruit, which is so eas- | ily seen after the trees shed their leaves, | is made up of flat. overlapping blades. They are quite like the seed-wings of the maple and are found in the base of the blade. During the strong Winter winds the ales loosen and fall. The winds gather these flying seed babies and | carry them a long distance from home. Wherever a seed falls on good ground, | it begins at once to investigate and soon a wee tulip tree is seen. A mother tulip always has many, many children danc- ing at her feet or very near by. ‘The tulip is famous for its unusual symmetry and stateliness. The deep furrowed bark on the old specimens is smooth and bitter. On the younger trees, the ashy-gray bark has light spots on it. The large leaf scars, marked with scattered bundle scars, are also an aid for identification. A grove of young tulip poplars is very Tulip Tree. Lirodendron Tulipifera. HE tulip tree is one of our most beautiful native trees and can easily be told from any other. beautiful and is thought by many to be lovelier in Winter than in Summer, The Winter twigs, with their precious oblong terminal buds, are worth traveling far to see. Spring calls to the wrapped and tiny leaves. They respond almost with a shout. Two green leaves, with palms fastened tightly together, form a flat bag that incloses the baby shoot after the bud scales have fallen away. The bag rips along its edges, the petiole straightens up, lifting the leaf, whose halves are folded at the midrib. The pale little leaf turns a dark green color. There are tiny little bags holding leaves, | and it is a most interesting study to see | how each one does its duty until the tree stands clothed and dancing with the slightest breeze. Indiana has adopted the tulip blossom for the State flower and Pennsylvania has thought of adopting the tree for a similar reason. The heartwood of this tree is called whitewood, and ranks high for commer- cial purposes. It takes polish beauti- fully, warps and shrinks little, is odor- less and tasteless, and is in much de- mand for kegs, tobacco boxes and kitchen utensils. (Copyright, 1933.) Everyday Psychology BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. Intolerance is a name for a state of mind; it is a symptom of mental dis- ease. A great many of our mental ail- | ments are associated with some faulty organization of ideas. There are at least three kinds of in- tolerant persons. FPirst. there is the in- | tolerant person who has developed a | svstem of water-tight compartments for his ideas. He refuses to be influenced by the fact that most questions are open propositions. In the second sense, intolerance is lated to laziness which is a disease. afflicted, the intolerant man easily imagines that he has been intrusted with the guardianship of finalities. Un- able to defend his position against the onslaughts of the inquiring, he resorts to that curious mechanism called ra- tionalization. He flies into a mental tantrum and summarily dismisses all his questioners. In the third sense, intolerance means ‘The intolerant man tries | truth and finality, protesting that he is honest, he poses as a victim of or- ganized opposition in order to “save moved the mask he assumed for the protection of his opinions. £ o) OMEN’S FE ATURES., 'MODES OF THE MOMENT ' THAT BODY OF YOURS BY JAMES W. Treating Rheumatism. OTWITHSTANDING the fact that rheumatism is one of the oldest, if not the oldest, disease known to mankind, there is now just as much rheumatism in proporation to the population as at any previous time in history. ‘We know that most cases of rheuma- tism or arthritis may be prevented by removing infected - teeth and tonsils, and by keeping the liver and in- testine active, but unfortunately it is not until there is a twinge of rheu- matism that any thought is given to the cause. By the time the pain is felt, the infec- tion from the teeth, tonsils, or intestine has usu- ally been active for months and years, so that even after removing the cause of the infection, there are joints and muscles to be relieved. That an overuse of starchy foods, not meat, is a cause of rheumatism in some cases is now admitted. As rheumatism means much suffer- ing and time lost from work, very serious efforts are being made through- out the world to relieve this suffering, and enable the patient to resume his occupation. During a period of 16 still the painful | BARTON, M. D. months, 750 articles on rheumatism and arthritis were published in I:na- lish, French and German alone. i this number, almost 90 per cent had to do with treatment rather than with the cause. What were the forms of treatment? ‘There were different forms of heat, ry and moist; the use of mud baths, peat and parafin-wax baths; the use of diathermy whereby the electric current is applied to the interior of the joint ftself instead of to the sur- face of the skin. In anthritis of the hip joint it is found that “not a single method known gives such good results as diathermy.” Massage and medical gymnastics offer another form of treatment which in skilled hands gives excellent results in many cases. The use of light in various forms— sunlight, ultra-violet rays, and the use r of the X-ray—were found helpful. 5 ‘The diet treatment consists in cut- ting down on the starchy foods— potatoes, bread, pastry. * The medical treatment is still the , use of the salicylates, which relieve pain and aid- the circulation. Research workers are not sgreed as to the value of vaccines in rheumatism. Pinally, surgical treatment, relieving . pain by cutti certain nerves, is being, used in some forms of rheumatism. 4 With so many kinds of treatment you can see that curing rheumatism must be a difficult matter. The prevention of rheumatism—re- moving infection from the system— should be really our first thought. iz (Copyrisht, 1933.) Children’s Parties and Picnics BY EDITH PRING ires parties and per- haps early picnics—if the weather man is gracious. Most mothers prefer when possible that the party meal be at the lunch hour in order not to have the children’s schedule of early supper and quiet bedtime disturbed. The other day a mother told me that she had been forced to refuse all party invitations for her little girl of eight, who, with the combination of party food and ex- citement at sup: r time, ly had a sleepless night if not an up- set digestion after- ward. “It has been hard on FPr she said, “a was delighted to- day when she was asked to luncheon mforemn muréon- Eai K , ette ow and I 1h M. Barher. olq° conscienti- ously let her accept the invitation.” Even when the party meal is lunch- eon it should be simple. Children are much more interested in an attractive looking table and favors than they are in elal te food. In fact, most chil- dren prefer the food to which they are accustomed. The meal may begin with cream soup. The choice of favors will depend upon the vegetables you serve, but pea or spinach sou_Fhis usually liked by all the children. e main course may be lamb chops, roast chicken, or creamed chicken if the sauce is not too rich. Stuffed baked potatoes, sweet or white, will go with any meat. If you want to make this course more decorative, you might serve creamed peas in little boats made of whole carrots. Large tender beets may be cooked, hollowed out, and filled with creamed spinach. invaria- | There should be tiny bread and butter sandwiches, both brown and white, These may be cut in fancy shapes i#f7 you like. Jelly and celery may be served in addif with this course. For dessert, orange jelly in or e skin cups with whipped cream is a tractive, although ice créam in a fancy's mold is always popular. It is usually’! wise to choose flavor for a chil< ' dren’s party. There may be smalt! cookies of attractive shapes, or little” sponge cakes decorated with brightly colored candies. There should not be~ heavy frostings, even on the birthday cake. For a beverage there may be’ cocoa, but there should always be milk' as well, as many children do not find™ a meal complete without a glass of _ For a s\y)per party, food for the little children should be even m simple. A hot soup or cocoa with | sandwiches which owe their attraction’ to their shape and with simple fillings; such as minced egg, peanut butter, and jelly, may make the first course. sert may be a plain ice cream or a Jovely mold of a gelatin type. Not km{ ago I dropped in on a party of sort and heard one of the children ask if she could have cereal instead of the dessert passed to her! She liked . what she usually had for her home’ supper! An attractive birthday cake may be made from an unirosted angel food ’c:ke with a procession of animal® | crackers which have been dipped in chocolate, marching around it. The candles in fancy holders decorate the top. A very thin frosting may, how=- ever, be used in the interest of decdra- tion and the contrast between it and | the colored candle holders is better. If the weather is warm and sunny you may like to plan a trip to the beach for an hour or two on the sand and then lunch in the car with cocos from vacuum bottles or milk, sand- wiches, cooxies and fruit (Copyright. 10 UNCLE RAY’S CORNER in my office thinking of what I A Little Saturday Talk. might write for you to read on this April day. Then my “eyes ! SHORT while ago I was sitting wandered to a large drawer THE DAY THE BANK HOLIDAY WAS DECLARED FRED PERLEY CANCELED SEVERAL VERY )MPORTANT BUSINESS ENSRGEMENTS AND STAVED HOME BECAUSE HE DISCOVERED THAT WHILE PUTTERING ROUND WIS PLACE THE DAY BEFORE HE HAD L0ST A DIME AND TWO NICRELS THROUGH A HOLE IN HIS POCK i & (Copyright, 1933, by The Bell Syndicate, Ine) ey containing hundreds upon hundreds of letters from readers. These letters have been handled by my helpers and leaf- lets have been sent to those who in- closed return envelopes, but they have been saved for me to look over again during my ‘“extra” time. Going to the drawer, I took out a large number and went over them one by one. Many of the letters say, “Please send me the Surprise Leaflet” or “I in-J close envelope for 40 Good Riddles Leaflet,” with only a few other words, bui others are long. Here is part of one in which a young reader describes herself: “I guess I seem strange to you. I will describe myself: I am 11 years old. have dark hair, dark eyes and dark complexion. I weigh 74l pounds. For pets I have a little white kitten called Eoodle-bux. a dog called Stubby and a cow called Jane.” A neatly written letter from a boy contains this paragraph: “I have two scrapbooks full of your articles. I often choose topics from them for school. My teacher likes to have me do this and had me tell the rest of the class about your Corner. I am 12 years old.” News about the use of the Corner in school coming to me and I am always to hear it. I like the idea of boys and girls telling others about the value they find in our part of the know that the “Ray” comes from my first name, not from my family name. ‘The next letter before me was writ= ten by a little girl. She does not tell her age, but I should guess that she is 8 years old. At the end she writes, “Love, Lois.” An assistant has marked the let-" ter to show that a Surprise Leaflet wag mailed to Lois in a return envelope which she seat, but I am sorry that Lois did not put her last name on the let- ter itself, Would you like to join our 1933. sure to give your full name and your full address on the sheet inside the en- vlelope.m-;d ;lsmo write your address on the outside of the envelope, in the upper left-hand corner. o~ . Would you liket to join our 1933 Scrapbook Club? 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