Evening Star Newspaper, April 22, 1933, Page 6

MAGAZINE PAGE. Conquering Contract By P. HAL SIM 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 championships since 1924. Four-Card Suit Responses to One ¥o Trump. HAVE expiatied that the distri- | bution of your hand is the first | point to 'consider in deciding whether to bid a four-card suit or raise in no trumps. With the useless 4-3-3-3 distribution, there is no | point whatever in bidding the suit (except with 100 honors in match point_scoring). . With 4-4-3-2 Distwibution. The_presence of & doubleton, espe- clally if it does not include a face card, offers some induce- ment to consider a suit declaration because, if the opener can support the suit, the hand may play better— or more securely— to the major suits. It is extremely un- likely that without ve-card suii to work with, you will find it as easy to take 11 tricks in the suit as 9 in no! trumps. Never bid minor suits with | this distribution, but raise in no trumps If your hand warrants a raise in accord- | ance with the requirements explained in the last few articl: Biddable Four-Card Major Suits. For response purposes, I consider a four-card mejor suit biddable if headed | by pot less than ace-jack, king-queen cr king-jack. I disapprove of bidding K 10 9 x. I feel that K J x x is neces- sary so that there will be a two-way finesse against the queen assuming the | openers holding to include the ace and | the 10, as is almost sure to be the case ! P. Hal Sims. UNCLE RAY’S CORNER A Little Saturday Talk. [ READER who lives in a village | called Athens has sent me a letter asking for Corner clip- | but at the end of the instead of a name, I find the wo! h much love from one of your s | 1 should guess that this letter is from | & girl about 10 years of age. If I knew her name, I would send her a leaflet; but not knowing how to address her, I | must set her letter aside. | When I receive a letter which lacks name or address, it makes me think of the care which the great majority of reacers take about such things whea they write to me. Many readers send letiers without a single mistake in spelling. i Here is a “tip” sbout learning to spell. When you read a book, look with care at the words you read. That will| help you master the art of spelling. | It you see a word which seems to have the wrong spelling, look it up in a good dicticnary. Sometimes there | are two correct spellings for the same word. On the other hand, there are | such things as “printer’s errors,” and | a mistake in spelling may be due to a mistake in setting the type. | Before me is a well written letter | from a reader who recently returned from wide travels: | “Deer Uncle Ray—I just got back | about a month ago from a trip around the world. I am making a scrapbook of all the countries in the world. | ~Some of the history classes in my | school are seeing who can have the' BY LOIS Facial Exercise Needed. EAR MISS LEEDS—I am re- a specialist who treated me for | the same thing before. On previous occasions my face has two months. How can I avoid this beauty problem this time? J. C. Answer — Reducing with drugs or effect you describe. I would suggest facial exercises such as the following: (1) Throw your head back and stretch thrust your lower jaw out, keeping lips closed, and then draw it back. Repeat this movement four or five times a day. closed go through vigorous chewing movements. (3) Close your mouth and blow out your cheeks. ercises twice a day after you have be- come accustomed to them. But start by doing them for two minutes at a dally. Your problem is nct only to lose fat, but to build up firm, healthy muscles. Ask your doctor what exer- S LEEDS. College_ Girls' Complexion. Dear Miss Leeds—(1) I go to college ducing under the direction of looked haggard and worn for about diets without exercise usually has the your chin up as high as ycu can; (2) Throw head back and with lips Spend five minutes doing these ex- time. Be outdoors an hour or more cises would suit your condition. and have been worried about my skin MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Grapefruit. Oatmeal with Cream, Minced Beef on Toast. Popovers. Coffee. DINNER. Clear Soup. Roast Beef. Yorkshire Pudding. Browned Potatoes, Creamed Onions, Romain Salad. French Dressing. Orange Pudding. SUPPER. Escalloped Oysters. Stuffed Celery. Olives. Icebox Rolls. Preserved Pears. Sand Cookies. Tea. POPOVERS. ‘Two cupfuls flour, one tea- spoonful salt, one-half teaspoonful soda, one teaspoonful cream of tartar, sifted together. Beat sep- arately whiter and yolks of two eggs. To two cupfuls sweet milk add yolk, then slowly sift in flour so as to make smooth batter. Just before putting into pans fold in lightly-beaten whites. Bake in hot oven 30 minutes. Serve im- mediately. ORANGE PUDDING. One and one-half cupfuls stale, unfermented bread, one cupful finely-chopped suet, one cupful sugar, two eggs, juice of one orange or one tablespoonful ex- one-half cupful Coffee. gethe: greased; boil 30 minutes. Turn out on dish, serve with hard sauce flavored with one tea- spoonful extract af orange. SAND COOKIES. Cream together one cupful but- ter and one and one-half cupfuls brown sugar. Add the beaten yolks of two eggs and the white of one. Sift together three and one-half cupfuls flour, one tea- spoonful soda and two teaspoon- fuls cream of tartar and add. Roll thin, cut out and spread the top | Sp.KJxx His. Q x | your topics and what they tell about | skin is very sensitive and unless I use | soap, in an opening no trumper. If your doubleton includes the queen, there is no need to bid a four-card major suit. If the doubleton is worthless, I like to bid a major suit which qualifies under the above conditions when the whole hand is rather weak. I do this with the hope that the opening bidder may have four of the suit, resulting in a major suit contract for four-odd rather than for three no trumps. This is a safety consideration. When the responding hand is strong there is no reason to fear | no trumps; the more you have in the other suits, the more your partner is sure to have in your doubleton suit. There will be no danger in no trumps and there is no need to scare the enemy from leading your best suit. They are unlikely to have any obvious damaging lead to make and are prone to select an unbid major suit before they have seen the dummy. To illustrate these points, my respcnse would be two spades on DL AXXx AT CLJ xx or Sp. AJx DIKxxx His x x clLxx x but I would raise to two no trumps on x DL Kx XX CLJ10x or DiEKJxx RS eaxx Under no circumstances mention & biddable minor suit with this distribution, | except with 100 honors in match play. ! If the opener raises your two-spade bid | to three spades, bic three no trumps so that he will know that yours Is a four- card suit. It will be up to him to rebid to four spades or pass the three no trumps. If he bids two no trumps, bid three no trumps. Never rebid a four- card suit when your partner has opened the bidding with a no trump, never mention a four-card minor suit, even A K x x, with this distribution. Deli- | cacy and precision of inference are nec- eszary in this difficult bidding situation in crder that the opening bidder may | not be misinformed. (Copyright. 1933.) Mr. Sims will answer all inguiries on con- tract that sre addressed to this newspaper with self-addressed stamped envelope, best screpbook o@ historical things. In| our class a girl spoke about your Cor- ner in the paper. I am interested in Yours tru “DOROTHEA MOSER." During the school year I make it custom to write about history on the average of about one week each month. Now that Spring is coming, I am going to have a series of stories about In-| dians, and that series may fit in with| history work. I also p! ive vou, before long, another serie: D Into Naiure. UNCLE RAY. history. Use this coupon to join the Uncle Ray Scrapbock 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 m: self. Please send me a Membe ship Certificate, a leaflet telling how to make a Corner scrapbook of my own, and a prigted design to paste on the cover of my scrapbook. & State or Province.............. . (Copyright, 1933.) EAUTIFUL LEEDS, for a long time. It used to be rather nice. I never had blackheads, white- heads or enlarged pores before. My cold cream all the time it becomes dry. How can I get back the fresh, clear color and good texture? At night I cleanse my skin with cold cream, wipe that off, wash with warm water and rinse in cool water and dry. Then I rub on more cold cream and leave it overnight. In the morning I wash my face with cold water and use a creamy lotion as powder base before applying make-up. I renew the powder during the day. I am in perfect phys- ical health. Some friends say I have babied my face so that it cannot stand normal treatment. (2) What shade of powder should I use? I have a light skin, not very colorful, and me- dium brown hair and eyes. The pink- ish powder I have been ‘using shows too much. How can I keep lipstick from becoming too dry or too oily? ‘What shade of rouge would suit? LOUISE. Answer—(1) Yes, I think you have been babying your skin. Try the fol- lowing treatments and stick to them even if your complexion seems to be getting drier: At bedtime, cleanse with cold cream and wipe it off. Do a few facial exercises like those suggested above to “J. C.” Wash your face with warm water and soap, using a camel’s hair complexion brush to work up a lather. You may find that this irri- tates your sensitive skin, but it will get used to tle stimulation; that's what it needs to keep it young. Rinse off all the soap. Now rinse in warmer water and finish with a cold rinse. Do not use ice, but use the cold water as it comes from the faucet. Dry thor- oughly. Omit cream so that your skin can breathe normally all night. In the morning wash your face with cold wa- ter, dry well and apply powder base and make-up. I suggest an oily base, just enough to hold the powder. Always cleanse your skin before making a fresh application of make-up. Failure to do this results in enlarged pores and black- heads. Once a week have a facial mas- sage at a beauty shop or give yourself one. I shall be glad to send you direc- tions for such treatments if you will write for them and inclose a stamped, self- addressed envelope with your request. (2) Try a light brunette powder and medium rose lipstick and rouge. Use cold cream on your lips before appiy- ing lipstick. LOIS. LEEDS. (Copyright. 1933.) Pointed Paragraphs If there's nothing in a name, it's queer what becomes of the things a man sometimes puts in his wife’s name. If responsibility doesn't weigh any- thing it isn't responsibility. The “law’s delay” seldom applies to the presentation of the lawyer’s bills. ‘Throwing mud at a good man soils your own hands. If some men go as they pay it will take them a long time to get there. Why would the average man rather be charged with malice than with mak- ing a blunder? ~ THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, WHO REMEMBERS? BY DICK MANSFIELD. Registered U. 8. Patent Office. ‘When the two famous trotters, Happy Tie and Anne Russell, were matched for the District of Columbia champion- ship at the old Brightwood track? You Should Be as Proud as a Yankee With This Quilt BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. “Heigh ho for a difficult quilt. No inexperienced quilt piecer should try to make this old fashioned quilt. It is called Yankee Pride.” Nancy was pref- acing the showing of this quilt block to her Nancy Page Quilt Club with these words. But when the members looked at the quilt they decided that most of them could make it. ‘There are several ways of working it out. First, of course, it is necessary to write for the life size pattern. This may be procurred by following the di- rections given below. Once the leaflet is in your hands study it. The corner pieces may be cut in one piece or as suggested in the pattern et the odd corners, designated in that leaflet by dotted lines may be cut arately and pieced onto the main lite square. The lczenge shaped pieces, there are eight of them meaking up, the center star 'xf“l“l‘ arrangement, ere pieced and then join- ed to white squares and white diamonds. The four star arrangements at corners call for only six of these lozenges since the white diamond fits into the space left by the cmission of two of the lozenges. | This pattern may be made up of odds | and ends, or it may use plain or small | figured black and white for background, | and then two shades of plain or figured for the stars. Or each block as shown here, may be developed in one range of colors, say pinks, or greens, or yellows. No seams are allowed in the pattern | as given so one quarter inch must be | allowed on all sides when cutting the | pieces. I The actual pattern for the Yankee Pride Quill Design may be obained by sending 3 cents and a self-addressed. stamped | envelope to Nancy Page in care of this paper. Back patierns may be secured by | sending _an adaitional 3 cents for each patiern requested. (Copyright. 1933.) The Old Gardener Says: Probably more vegetables will be planted in home gardens this season than in many years. This is an_important economy meas- ure. If preperly managed, a plot 50 by 100 feet should provide fresh vegztables for a family of five, with a surplus of tomatoes, corn, beans and other kinds to can. There also will be parsnips, carrots, beets, squashes and tur- nips to store for Winters It will be impossible to get good crops without the use of fertilizers, and nothing is better than barnyard manure if it can be obtained. ‘When manure is used, however, an application of 100 pounds of phosphate should be added be- cause manure is not a balanced fertilizer. Only good seeds should be purchased, and care should be taken to avoid the common mistake of planting too deeply. (Copyright. 1933.) DIFFICULT DECISIONS. It is not until he reaches the age of | ‘30 that a man begins to wrap thes small bills on the outside of the roll. There is one good thing about the man with troul on his mind. He never breaks into your office humming selections from a musical comedy. Every game of chance is a sure thing, but a man usually bets the wrong way. If truth and morality are on in- crease, it isn’t very creditable to our ancestors. It's always a great bore for the bur- with a mixture of cinnamon and (Copyright, 1933.) glar if the safe is locked. Wise men get a lot of free instruc- tion from fools. If a man has common sense, he sel- «dom makes use of it in a love affair. D. C., SATURDAY, MODES== OF THE MOMENT ot DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX | EAR MISS DIX—Is an onlooker fustified in trying to break up an engagement in which the girl is headed straight for disaster? The girl is attractive, & good cook, thrifty, sweet-tempered. Her fiance is a petted, well-to-do son of a wealthy family who has never worked a day in his life and calmly admits that he doesn’t intend to until it is forced upon him. He never has money to take her anywhere or make her & gift. If she does anything that doesn’t suit him he calls her all kinds of names which she excuses on the ground that she likes masterful men. His one interest in life is gambling, for which he con- stantly tries to get her to give him some of her small salary to use in betting on horses or numbers. Yet this girl confidently believes that on their wedding day he will change into a loving husband who will be her heart’s desire. Her mother is dead. She has no one to advise her. Should I take that office on myself? A WOMAN FRIEND. NSWER: It would be no use. A girl that is infatuated has taken leave of her senses and is blind to every fault the man posse no matter how clearly you point them out to her, and deaf to ali reason, no matter how logically you try to convince her that marriage works no miracle in a man's character and that what he was before marriage he will be afterward. 4 Nobedy on earth can explain why an otherwise intelligent woman can delude herself into believing that a man who is a lazy loafer, who has never earned a penny before marriage, will become a hustler and a go- getter as soon as the preacher says a few words over him. Or how one can befool herself into thinking that marriage will change a sot into a sober man or a roue into a domestic one, or make a gambier abhor games of chance, or turn an abusive sweetheart into a tender and con- siderate husband, but thousands upon thousands of women do marry on this platform. IT is very, very seldom that a man has either the subtlety or takes the trouble to deceive a girl about the kind of men he is. He docsn’t bother to conceal his faults ard his weaknesses from he Not oice in a hundred times does a girl marry a man who drinks too much, without knowing it. Nearly always she has scen him drunk dozens of times. Nor coes a girl often marry a philanderer without knowing he is a woman-chaser. She Las had her heart torn to ribbons with jealousy time and again and has known she could not hold him even m the days of courtship. Rarely, il ever, does a gir] marry a man who is brutal or grouchy or stingy without knowing it. He has given her a taste of his quality by saying insulting things to her or being niggardly to her and by making her crawl in the dust before him and apologize to him for the things he has done himself. ‘HE poor, deluded creatures, knowing the men for what they are, go on and marry them, believing, with childlike faith that marriage throws some sort of conjure over a man that changes him from what he is into what he ought to be. And against this superstition all argument is in vain. That is why people are so loath to interfere in a love affair, even when they feel it their duty, at least, to light a red lantern of warning that might apprise a girl or boy of the danger ahead. I knew, for instance, of a splendid young man who moved in‘o a community in which he knew no one and who promptly fell in love and married a girl who went insane within a year. Every one knew, but nobody told him that for generations the girl’s family had been filled with Junatics and epileptics. I have known highly bred and cultured girls whose lives were embittered when they had to live among their husbands’ relatives and found out that they were coarse and vulgar and illiterate, with no social position whatever. Yet a friend knew this and kept silence. And the excuse of these people is that it would have done no good and only made them enemies. DOROTHY DIX. Y . DEAR MISS DIX—My wife had an argument with our daughter the other day about marriage and among several things the girl told her was this—that it was her life and she had a right to live it as she pleased, and what was more that she did not ask to be brought into_the world. ‘What would you have answered her? PERPLEXED FATHER. Answer: T should have told my daughter that the fact I had thrust the gift of life upon her was the reason why I felt morally bound to do everything within my power to help her make it worth while and to prevent her from making a mistake that would bring misery upon her. HEN I think I should call the girl's bluff and ask her if she regretted being born; if she wanted to be done with this interesting old world and all it has of pleasure and amusement. Children reproach their par- ents with having committed the crime against them of giving them life, but I have never seen one yet who wasn't having a sufficiently good time to want to keep on with it. None of them really wish they had never been born. Of course, it is the most arrant nonsense for youngsters to declare, as they are in the habit of doing, that their lives are their own and that they have a right to lead, them as they please. Nobody lives to himself alone. All our lives interlock and every one about us has to pay the penalty for what we do. ESP’ECIALLY are boys and girls fond of asserting their right to marry when they please and whom they please, because, as they boastfully put it, they have to endure the consequence of their marrizge. But in reality it is father and mother who have to pay for their willful children’s unwise marriages. S If John marries before he can support a family, it is father and mother who have to work harder and scrimp more to feed John's wife and children. If Mary marries the handsome drunkard or the good- looking roue, it is to father and mother she runs back to be supported when she gets her divorcg. DOROTHY DIX. —By GLUYAS WILLIAMS AFTER 6FTTING OUT OF A DULL DATE WITH' THE WIMPLES BY PLEADING A FEVERISH 01D, YoU DROP OVER TO THE DIMMICKS FOR A LITTLE BRIDGE, AND DISCOVER, AFTER RINGING THE BELL, HeD THE 'WIMPLES HAVE HAD THE SAME IDEA APRIL 22, 1933. SONNYSAYINGS | [ | They is somefin’ 'bout Spring that makes a feller know ever'fing is all right— (Copyright. 1933.) | My Neighbor Says: | After removing any stains and spots on linen, wash it in warm | | suds. Do not starch, but treat as follows: Hang out very straight on line, with warm threads across line. While still slightly damp, take from line, fold carefully and evenly and iron dry. Begin iron- ing on wrong side, finishing on right. Use only a moderately hot_iren. J To exterminate worms in flower-pots, water the earth with a strong solution of soap suds cr | | use a teaspoonful of ammonia in a quart of water. The worms that it does not kill will come to the surface for air and you can de- stroy them. Water the earth the same is if you were using plain water. Do not get it on the plant. Use it several times. (Copyright. 1933.) JOLLY POLLY A Lesson in English | BY JOE. J. FRISCH. A GOLF CADDY HAS AN INFINITE AMOW{ | | | OF PATIENCE. HE CAN SMILE WHEN EVERY- | [ { THING AROUND HIM i 2 GOES WRONG_ | | 7 A ) i =5 | enough, the I's in have entirely dif- Infinite is pro- | nounced IN-fin-it, sl finite is | | pronounced FYE-nyie. Infinite means so great as to be immeasurable and | unbounded; inexhaustible. Finite means having bounds, ends, or limits, as op- | posed to that which is infinite. {RE'S CHILD Alm% *E.E By Liuian Cox Atwen_ Magnolia. M. glauca. | HE one thing to remember about the magnolia is that it produces the largest flowers of any trees n cultivation. It is strange that so lovely a tree, that is happy in a range from Gloucester, Mass. |to Florida, westward to Lower Arka |sas and the Trinity River in Texas, |is not planted more than it is. Here is tropical looking tree, with ex- quisite flowers and great leathery leaves that would make any city street beauti- | ful, being overlooked as an ornamental tree worth while. H ‘The flowers are very fragrant and |many trees bear them before the new leaves appear. All of them have very large, tough, evergreen leaves that shed -MAGNOLIA: 3 i { the dust, and when bathed by a shower, are very glossy. The curious, conelike fruit makes the trees attractive in the Summer and Autumn. As they ripen, they become very rosy, and later they| open in a very unusual manner. They | hang their seeds on a dangling silk| elastic thread, and the birds gather in great numbers to pick off the scarlet fruit. Magnolias are not hard to grow. There are so many varieties that you can select the kind that wiil grow well in your locality, feeling pretty sure of its growing. As they are, first and last, | ornamental trees, care should be taken to place them correctly. On an estate, | a hedge of them is a sight never to, be forgotten. The wood is pale reddish-brown and | soft. The bark is gray, smooth, and sometimes brown. The trees attain a height of 75 feet under favorable con- ditions. This tree goes by many names, It| is called the beaver tree, because the beavers were partial to the soft wood and made their lodges of it; sweet bay, because it is so much like the bay tree of the Old World, which is grown in tubs by florists and used in this coun- try for porch decoration. The English- man calls it the laurel tree. The trees were named for Pierre Magnol, a famous botanist of France. There are about 20 species, and from ' them many showy varieties and hybrids are developed. . At present, the range of the magnolia | is fairly restricted. There was a time, however, that this tree flourished in | Europe. Geological research reveals that at one time the magolia lived in the regions of the Arctic Circle. Long ago the trees were growing naturally in the forests of Canada and Siberia. They are aristocrats of ancient lineage, | many virtues and few ults. The wood has little commercial portance lies eir | 1y under 3 WOMEN'’S FEATURES. Thornton BEDTIME STORIES % Fome Black Chuck’s Castle. ‘wise ide nst T e pans" D satery "ot —Johnny Chuck. "l “\HE black Chuck’s home had been ‘The And Tuined. He knew now that never | 0, again would he enter it. An at- tempt to kill him had been made* with poisonous gas. He didn’t understand it at all, but he di undarstand that something was very wrong and his home was no longer a safe place. . “Well,” saild Johnny Chuck, “what are you going to do now?” “I don't know,” replied the black Chuck mournfully. “I no longer have a home.” “What of it?” demanded Johnny | Chuck. “Neither have 1.” “Do you mean that you haVen't any home at all?” demanded the black is what it amounts to” re- plied Johnny. some old houses I could make use of if I wanted to, but I don't want to.” “What about the house you spent the Winter in?” demanded the black Chuck. Johnny chuckled. “Some one else has it,” he replied. “Did some one drive you out?” asked the black Chuck. Johnny scratched his nose. “There wasn’t room for me any longer,” said he. “Polly Chuck wanted it.” “Oh,” ‘said the black ChucK. “Anyway, I always feel like wander- ing about at this season of th> year. When I get ready I'll dig a new home,” said _Johnny. “I suppese that now you have lost your home you will get | out and see a little of the Great World.” | “Perhaps,” said the black Chuck. |“But if I do I think I'll come back here. There is going to be good eating here, and what Chuck could be happy without eating?” By this time they had reached the old stone wall. In places the stones had fallen. Bushes grew along both sides of it. The black Chuck stopped. So did Johnny. “This is a good wall,” said he. “I do like a good stone wall in time of danger. Do you know what I would do if I were in your place?” “What?” asked the black Chuck. “I would dig me a house under this wall. That is what I would do,” re- plied Johnny. “I've already begun one,” confessed the other. “Where?” demanded Johnny. The black Chuck led the way along the old wall. He disappeared between some large stones. Johnny followed. ‘There was just ‘room for him to get through in comfort. Below was a hole that led under one of the biggest stones in the whole wall. “I will dig this deeper and longer,” sald the black uck. Jobnny nodded approval. “You will have nothing to worry about here,” he | declared. “I don't know how you | could be safer so long as you don’t let | that hunter with a terrible gun see you. Nn cme emn dig you out Lesy. I wouldn’t mind living here mysel:.” At this the black Chuck lookec & bit worried. You see he already had been beaten in a fight with Johnny, and he knew that if Johnny wanted to take this for his home, he could. Johnny “Of course there are| “WELL” SAID JOHNNY CHUCK, “WHAT ARE I:IOOU GOING TO DO NOW?" saw the anxious look. “Don’t worry,” said he “This is a fine place, but I don’'t want it. I don't want to live where I must be on the watch for hunters with terrible guns, so I am going back where I came from. Keep your eyes open for the hunter with the gun. So long.” “So lonz,” replied the black Chuck, and he didn’t invite Johnny to come again. He watched Johnny out of sight. Then he returned to his new | home and went to work. Farther and | farther under the old wall he dug. | When at last he was satisfied, he had a | regular castle, for there was no chance | for any one to get at him down there. | He would have preferred to be out in |the open field where he could take sun baths on his doorstep, but there he was at least safe, and safety always counts moét. - (Copsrizht, 1933.) THAT BODY OF YOURS BY JAMES W. Health Society. BOUT, three vears ago, in Bel- ns discussing s decided to or- ganize a health society called the Sq of Preventive Medi- cine, the idea being that they would do whatever was possible to prevent illness in themseives and their fami- lies, and in others with whom they came in contact. Today that organi- zation has 873 branches and over 1,250,000 members. There are three different places where the mem- bers go for exam- ination, because it has been found that the examina- tion of persons who considered them- selves freg from disease often re- vealed the exist- ence of conditions, i the timely at- ment of which pre- vented serious later | developments. You can readily understand that con- | ditions such as early tuberculosis, per- | nicious anemia, diabetes, heart, blood | vessel and kidney disease, and others BARTON, M. D. ymay have no outward or inward sign such as pains, swellings, sores or other symptoms 1o warn the individual of their presence. Thus these ailments, usually fatal if not discovered and treated, may get such a start that treatment will be given too late. The big point about this organiza- tion is that it gives no treatment what- ever. If the examination reveals any condition that needs treatment, the in- | dividual is referred to his family physi- ian, or if in poor circumstances, to nsurance companies now |give their policy holders the privilege | of being examined every year by any |cne of a dozen cr more experienced | physicians. The findings are given to | the patient and not to the company, as the examination is considered confi- dential. | Notwithstanding the great value of this free examination, only a small per- centage of policy holders take advan- tage of it, and may be suffering from the early symptoms of ailments that could be prevented or controlled if taken in time. It may be some time before our peo- le become as wise about their health s these Belgians, but surely the ex- penditure of one hour and the small fee with your family physician once & year is the cheapest and best health and life insurance obtainable. | (Copyright, 1933.) OUR CHILDREN BY ANGELO PATRL No Improvement? ETER brought his report card home and father and mother one of those items to be maried by the teacher. Co-operation, cleanliness, good citizenship and the like. You know the list. “How’s this, Peter? You got a bad mark in citizenship last month and again this month, and the teacher says, ‘no improvement.' What's the trouble with your citizenship?” “I don't know. I don't know why she gives me that mark. She says I don’t pick up papers and I don't help other ~children. I didn't see any papers.” “Well, it seems to me that when you get a poor mark one month it ought to improve the next month. I don't |see any improvement on this card.| You got B last time and you got B this time. Can’t you improve a little?” Peter looked downcast. He didn't know what all this improvement was about. Most children don't know. Growing is an unconscious process, no matter in what direction it goes. It is only when somebody says: “You've done better this month,” that a child knows he is improfing. ‘This improvement that we so greatly desire does not come with machine-like response. Children do not grow improving evenly day by day. Th grow, we all grow, by spurts and rests. Children seem to incubate ideas over periods of time, the lengths of which i vary with the nature of the ideas and the characteristics of the child. Some children make no outward sign of their growing for a long time and then, “all of a sudden,” they improve mightily. Everydzy Psychology BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. According to Psychology. 1. Mind is nothing but the unobserv- able, delicate movements of bodily parts. There are those who may dis- pute this fact to some extent. 2. Your day-dreams include your | ideals and your generosity, as well as your flights from reality. 3. You will find more prodigies in ul‘:e realm of music than anywhere el 4. Pythagoras inaugurated the super- stitution that uneven numbers are lucky numbers. Uneven things have always seemed more mysterious than even things. 5. You really have three vocabularies: One each for speaking, writi and reading. They increase in size in the order named. 6. The average male brain weighs 3!, pounds, the average female, slight- . _Perhaps_this is merely a physiological fact. The size of the brain is not always an indica- Ped, | tion of psychological abilities. 7. The dreams you remember are the ones you have just as you go to sleep, . waking. or just when you are ,8. Twins are more between the ages of they are jeen 12 5 vidual differences show up at adoles- cence. 9. Girls mature mentally earlier than 10. An as easlly alike men! tally | den & d ‘at the age of 45 learns u%mdfl. |We think this was caused by our in- spiration. More likely the growth was going on all the time and only showed above the surface at this time. The important point about this is that there are times, and there are children, in which improvement does not show. One must wait and teach and hope. During this waiting time feed the child lots of encouragement. Assure him that he is going to suc- ceed. Tell him that it takes a good bit of work to start an improvement and that this work must be done faith- fully day by day to lay a foundation for what is to come by and by. If we are impatient with children’s growth, we make them impatient with them- selves, and that is not a good state for the mind of any child. This may explain why children do not respond to the offers of prizes and | |to be a warning to you and you ought rewards. They want to win them. They long to succeed for their own sake, and for the joy it would give their parents. But they cannot hurry their growth. |In a few days they discover that they | have not improved much, become dis- | couraged and siop trying. Your Baby and Mine BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED. HE rare delight experienced by aduits in watching their gar-- dens grow should not be denied the children. The children's . garden should be separate and cistinct from the adults. In a little square, carcfully fenced off by twigs | and twine, they may spade and rake |and smooth down the earth that is | to be enriched with their own onion sprouts, their very own radish and a few quick-growing flowers. The children can use with ease and proficiency the small garden imple- ments that are suited to their size. A little tactful manipulation of the soil by the adults can be done when it will ieast detract from the children’s be- iicf that they are doing all the work themselves. Sample packages of sceds will pro- vide the small gardener with a choice selection and in amounis suitable to diminutive size of his garden plot. Let cach send for these samples under his jown name and increase his sense of | tmportance and responsibility when he receives the packages from the mailman. The pride with which children watch the plantings of their hands emerge from the derk soil and the care with which they tipto: ‘about other gardens, knowing full well the ease of injury, indicate how profitable is this method of preventing ruthless and ignorant de- struction of growing things. ‘The many busy hours spent wielding a hoe or rake, the absorbing pastime of squatting in the warwi soil and de- termining the difference between rusled weeds and the frail sprouts of their own planting have an interest value unmatched by the most elaborte pro- going is too rough, give the child just enough of = lift to over- come the obstacle and not so much as to deprive him of his own sense of re- 5] ility for the success of the gar- It may annoy the adult to see the child dreamily cruml the soll through childish fingers. ere may be no necessity, in adult eyes, for the eternal raking and m&ln‘ and pat- ting, but every moment the young ds hob-nobbing with il e