Evening Star Newspaper, June 21, 1933, Page 24

MAGAZINE PAGE. Conquering Contract By P. HAL SIM: Mr. Sims is universally acclaimed the , ter in hearts than in any other declara- greatest living contract and auction | tion because the responding hand is player. He is captain of the renowned | unlikely to have any way of getting the “Four Horsemen” team of four, and has | lead unless hearts are trumps; espe- | won 20 national championships since | cially if he lacks the ace, as his weak 1924. These articles are based on the | bidding appears to show. This lack of THE EVENING | NATURE’S CHILDREN ! Shellbark Hickory. Carya Ovata. BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. CCORDING to geological rec- ords about 100,000 years ago ancient forests of hickories were found in Europe and those of America extended as far North as Greenland. These forests were wiped out by the great shets of ice that came down frcm the North and since that time no hickories have been found in Europe. As the ice sheets did not cover the entire range of the hickories, Eastern North America has all but one of the known hickories of the world. The shellbark also known as the shagbark, resembles the oak in gen- eral outline. The lower branches are | large and, although rising as they leave the trunk, their tips are spread and | for their entire length they are Bfllrle? o ‘The larger |and knotted, giving an _effect Sims system, which includcs the one- | entries might be fatal in no trumps or over-one principle which the Sims | clubs in case it were necessary to lead group of players was the first to employ | diamonds twice from the weaker hand. el o | With & Concealed Minor Sait and Poor PR ; | Support for Partner's Major Suit. Bidding a Concealed Suit. | I£ T held ESTERDAY we exar‘ved two| &p K J x Di. AJx 3/ hands which had the same| Hts K'x CUAKQxx major suit holdings, A K QX X | and my partner bid two hearts over in'spades and K J x in hearis, | it SRR RNCT (o™ would nat- but in one the minor :uits Were | yray bid two no trumps, hoping to were A J x and K X, in the Other | pear’him rajse me to three. If, how- A J 10 and K Q 1In each case the qyor his bid were three hearts, 1 would original bid was one no trump and the | 10T 13 Yhree mo trumps. With no partner took out in two hearts. danger from the heart suit, this must From this point be the best bid. There is no point in on the opening showing clubs. If my partner’s hand bidder bid ~ these has absolutely no values outside hearts, | two hands quite and the hearts are six in number, or differently. Now Jet me give the | same high cards, but with the con- cealed suit a minor. Again, trump is the right opening bid. Part- ner takes out with two hearts. From now on I would bid both these hands in exactly the same way. I would never mention my club suit. Over two hearts I bid two no trumps, hoping my partner can now say three no trumps or three spades, the latter bid enabling me to bid three no trumps. The Factor of Re-Entry to the Weak Hand. If, however, my partner could only "5 08 bidding three hearts, I would in each case bid four hearts. ‘With the first hand my reasoning would be that if my partner lacks the ace of bearts, three no triump would be a calamity, while four hearts might be made if the ace of spades were right and my partner held the king or queen | of diamonds and found the other high diamond in the hand on his left. If he has only the ace of hearts, even if they immediately knock cut the ace of diamonds, the clubs should give him discards in time to get rid of enough losers. With the second responding hand, my argument would be that once my pertner has bid hearts there is no urgent need for me to be declarer, and that the hand is likely to play far bet- Waiting Time BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. NE thing that every one has to do at times is to wait. It may be that the waiting is for a rson who is late, or it may E: for things such as a train. ‘Whatever it is, waiting is a common experience. The time may be wasted or it may be used to advantage. This depends somewhat on conditions, but even more on being prepared for such times. When one waits for a trolley or & bus there is little one can do about %, since the moments are not consecu- tive, but taken in small doses, hours apart, perhaps. These ted mo- segregal ‘ments are wasted, although necessarily | waitin, is fair and the 0, except whe waiting place it and not on some. o be breathing n the day is iy W N/ N JUNE bl A9 SHE ALWAYS TOOK A BOOK WITH HER WHEN MOTORING enly can vari which otherwise s five to the ace, queen, he would be showing sound judgment in bidding four hearts. He knows I have at least K x or Q 10 x for him, since I orig- inally bid a no trump. Rectifying a Deception. | strength and sturdiness. | branches have scaly bark toward their bases, but the tips are smooth. The sprays are angular and extend in every direction. Shellbarks are father-mother trees. They have staminate and pistillate flowers on the same tree. Those bear- | The only conditions which would |ing the pol he base of o o Bt e ore e | B8 oo, Potes, e 8L, the nse cf hearts would be if I had for some rea- | green catkins, three in & group swing- | son cheated on my original bid and|ing from a common stem. | wished to rectify that error now and|tillate flowers grow at the tips of the | tell my partner that I really ought tc | season’s shoots, singly or in_two or have bid a club originally instead of & | three on a common stem. Like all | no trump, so that the duty of deciding | hickory leaves, the shellbarks are com- between three no trumps and a sign- | pound and arranged alternately along off at three in clubs or hearts now de- Volves on him. Such deception would be the result | of a bid in which my no-trump values were very much of a minimum and also my concealed suit was shaded as re- gards the top cards at its head. & K 10 x Di | At K x would be an instance of this | hand has two weak spots and the only ' excuse for opening with a no trump would be the gamble that partner could | raise to two no trumps, or, if he first took out in a suit, had enough distrib- uted values to bid three no trumps over my panic rebid of three clubs. The temptation to bid a no trump is that a club bid is likely to throw the no-trump bid into the partner’s hand, and the above hand has much to gain from being declarer if no trumps is the eventual bid. Not only should the opening lead come up to its kings in- stead of through them, but this hand needs to be concealed as declarer, not | exposed as dummy. (Copyright, 1923.) Mr. Sims will answer all inquiries on con- | tract that are addressed to this newspaper | and inclose a self-addressed stamped en- velope. | the twigs. In the Autumn they are a clear, beautiful yellow. In the Fall the fruit or nut has a | thick, smooth outer husk, which is channeled at the seams and opens readily when the nut is ripe. The sweet white kernel is covered by a sharply angled shell. ‘The shellbark is an untidy tree, be- cause it has a habit of shedding its raiment in shreds and strewing its cast- off garments about. In spite of this habit, it is a handsome tree and of great value fo mankind. The hickory trees were among the first trees the early American setilers BM | found. ‘These trees grew chiefly in the | rich, fertile bottom lands and the early settlers cut them down by the | thousands to make way for their crops. The wood was found to be very valua- ble because of its strength, lightness | and elasticity. It was used to make | carriages, buggy wheels, handles and | she goes out. It takes up such a weeMany necessary implements needed Bit of room, and is Teady at a moment's | about the home and farm. The nuts notice to pleasantly fill what would | Were valuable as food for man and ded to ention lose otherwise be wasted time. Knitting and crocheting, while slightly more bulky. can be carried easily about, and fulfill this same cbject. ‘The much traveled woman is the one who has learned to use spare time, waiting moments, thus advantagecusly. Train connections may be poor. Then is her opportunity to make the most of them. e motorist who goes prepared with book or work finds herself equally well equipped to make the most of her g moments, many or few. BONERS Selected from school papers. whether they be | _ The broad arrow is one that alwa hits the mark. | It pays to be honest, specially in our young life, for maybe we will continue to be honest. ‘When the Panama Canal was to be built, it was a deathly place full of | | diseases, so the United States sent | many brave doctors’ who drained the swamps and screened the houses. Paul was an unobstrusive boy. He was not athletically inclined but re- ceived good grades in less important subjects. ‘ Reading a good book and understand- | ing 1t helos to make us sagacious, eru- | dite, adroit end unscrupulous. | Music is interesting even if the weather is bad, and so are jigsaw puzzles. Julius Caesar was King of Rome, and a soothsayer told him to “beware the | eves of March.” - b | | What is meant by the “spoils sys- | tem?” | | The “spoils system” is when some- thing which is canned in a tin can is |left standing in it after it has been opened. g, bt are the dangerous parts of the | fiy? ly? His forefathers. What 1s a polygon? A polygon 1s & baby frog (Copyright, 19 MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Stewed Dried Apricots Oatmeal with Cream Cheese Omelet Wheat Muffins Coffee. LUNCHEON, Creamed Dried Beef Waldorf Salad Cinnamon Buns Tea. DINNER. cam of Asparagus Soup es' Liver and Bacon Mashed Potatoes, Carrots and Onions Cabbege Salad. Mayonnaise Dressing Apple Pie, Cheese Coffee. CHEESE OMELET. To 1 cup of grated cheese add 1 cup bread crumbs, add 2 cups milk, 2 tablespoons melted butter, 2 eggs boaten, 1 teaspoon salf and a sprinkle of paprika. Soak crumbs in milk, add the rest, lastly the cheese. Mix well, bake in buttered dish one-half hour and serve hot. WALDORF SALAD. Two_cups diced apples, 1 cup cut celery, 4 tablespoons finely- chopped nuts, 4 cups shredded lettuce. Cranberry mayonnaise or salad dressing of choice. Put on Toast { | of Indian origin and the early rec- be even 2 ovent| | the diced apples and celery into their tediot £ bowl, add half the salad dressing actua way; varied pref ample. T to read Fr edition o advancement. The French litcrature was mand. Another person, a woman of wide quaintance, always carri of writing paper and stamped cnvelopes in i two or her ds at a distance, an e writes, ofte ‘with c glimpses and she takes has a choice er inclinations. ‘The woman who doecs tatting is one remembers to of occupations to of those who generally a few sheets three handbag ‘Waiting is her chance to keep in touch and mix lightly. Line individual plates or large bowl with lettuce; mixture in center ith the other half nd sprinkle with the Cut 1 large bunch of asparagus into inch pi separating the woody pieces from the green tops. Boil the weody pieces in 3 pints of soun stock until they are soft enough to rub through colander. Return to fire and season well with szlt and pepper, add the re- mainder of the asparagus, cook until tender. In another dish heat 1 cup milk and when hot thicken with 1 tablespoon butter and flour rubbed together. Add to soup and serve. (Copyright, 1933.) d n elip her work into her bag whenever ast. The name hickory is believed to be ords show that the name was spelled no less than 17 ways. It is also claimed that John Smith, who was prominent in the affairs of Virginia |and New England, when speaking the | the hickory in his writings, was the first to mention them, and he called them by their Indian name, “Pow- | cohiscora.” Later the name dwindled | down to “hickory.” A WASHINGTON DAYBOOK BY HERBERT PLUMMER. T wasn't until the end was in sight and members of the House had op- portunity to pause for breath, while the Senate was tied in a knot over payment to veterans, that they were able to realize just what a pace President Roosevelt put them through in the special session. It was apparent to most Washington observers shortly after the special session was con- vened that the President intended using the House of Representatives as the dynamo to fur- nish the power for pushing ~ through his emergency legislative program. ‘The set-up in the House was ideal for his plans. The Democratic major- ity was overwhelm- ing. The rules of the bedy were strict, and. once invoked, capable of being applied ruthlessly. Not so with the Senate. There de- liberation on legislation is a cherished prerogative. Every President finds that |out sooner or later. Roosevelt knew it |in advance. i | = | So the presidential guns were trained on the House. Literally a bar- rage of legislative proposals was laid down. At times they came so fast that it left the Congressmen bewildered. Take the month of March, for ex- ample. The session was convened on March 9. Here's the rapidity with which the presidential guns ralned messages “on the hill”: On the opening day came the emer- gency banking bill. (This measure was passed by both houses and signed by the President before the day was over.) On the next day, March 10, the econ- omy measure, calling for drastic re- ductions in governmental expenditures, landed in the lap of the House. Then a week end intervened, but three days later, on the morning of | March 14, came that most surprising of all measures, the beer bill. The echo of the President’s demand for beer hardly had subsided before the far-reaching farm bill reached the House on March 16. He waited five days until March 21 before sending up a message recom- | mending the creation of the civilian | conservation corps—the legislation that |put the unemployed into the national | forests. | And then, to round out the month, on March 29 the bill regulating the sale of securities was dispatched. Twenty days—six high legislative proposals. | That's an example of the speed shown | during the special session. And the House, although a bit groggy, acted on cach one with haste and hurried it along to the Senate. significant Watch Is Lightning-Proof. Lightning was unable to feaze the watch of R. J. Gorrie during a recent storm in Gulgong, Australia. While eat- | | ing his lunch under a tree, Gorrie hung the time piece on a twig. To escape the storm he ran to & hut, and soon after- ward lightning struck the tree, the limb on which the watch was hanging van- ishing. Several hours afterward Gorrie found the watch on & tuft of grass 150 | feet from the tree. It still was ticking. 7,500 Sheep in Long Trek. After passing through country gener- |ally considered impassable, Drover Jack Brady and eight helpers have just com- pleted a drive of 7,500 sheep for 1,300 miles from Mackinlay to Snowtown, Australia. To water the animals in desert spots a pumping_plant and troughing were carried. The trip re- | quired 20 weeks, and at night a guard | against_raids by wild dogs was neces- {sary. Only 300 sheep died on the trip. HINGTON, D. C. WEDN ISDAY 1933. \'S FE ATURES. STAR, WA /V\OF THE MOMENT 5 Hails Timely Show of Backbone it \DorothyDix| Revol of Parents Has Begun! N ONE city, at least, the Parents and Teachers’ Association has taken a bold, strange, revolutionary step. It is attempting to regulate the activities of school children, and to set a time limit on their parties. In a word, this herioc band of fathers and mothers has decided to defy the lightning of their adolescent boys’ and girls’ wrath and scorn and henceforth to have all invitations rcad from 8 to 12 o'clock, instead of from 11 to God knows when. This is as startling a bit of news as it would be to hear that the worm had turned at last or that a doormat had suddenly arisen and struck in the face those who trampled upon it, and one can imagine the mingled mirth and derision with which the youngsters will receive the pronuncia- mento—“Gee, mom, but that going to bed with the chickens is pre-war stuff. It simply isn't done now. if you get what I mean.” *“Gosh, dad, you'll be telling me bedtime stories and singing me bye-bye lullabies next.” And one wonders still more if the parents, even when backed up by an organization with miliions of members, will have the nerve really to put up their backs and fight their children to a finish and make them do what they should do instead of what they want to do. JFOR of il the cowed, craven, spineless, broken-spirited, tyrannized over people in the world, American parents are the most abject. Long ago they abdicted their last bit of authority and they are to afraid of their children and have been so run over by them, and are so down-trodden that every spark of spunk has been crushed out of their systems and it does not_occur to them that they could enforce obedience or use the car when Johnny wanted it or stop Mamie from painting her face up like a barn door or keep Sally from going out on wild all-night parties. Perhaps no individual parent could. For all young people must run with the pack and follow the habits and customs of the pack, and it is useless folly to wear oneself out trying to combat this instinct. Half of the sins of youngsters are sins of imitation. John drinks synthetic gin that gags him, because the other boys do. It makes Mary's very flesh creep to be pawed over by boys, but she pets because the other girls do. Ii is only when we get older that we achieve the courage of our opinions-and learn to value individuality. All youngsters would rather be dead than not to be exactly like the other youngsters, wear the same clothes, say the same things, do exactly as the others do. 'O FATHER and mother can segregate their own children and enforce their own code of behavior on them. They can’t make their children come home from parties at 11 o'clock if the parties don’t start until 11. Mother can't sit in the parlor when Mary has a date because no other girl’s mother does it, and it makes Mary furious and drives away the boy. Mother can't make Mary wear flat-] rfld shoes and high-backed dresses without making her look like a frump when all the other girls have on jay-bird-heel pumps and frocks that are cut V in front and C over their backbone. So the individual parent is actually helpless. but in union there is strength. The reforms that no one father or mother can accomplish the united parents of any community can bring about, and it is a curious thing that fathers and mothers who have worried themselves into nervous pros- tration over their children’s cor.duct have not realized this and started a get-together movement long ago. ND suppose all the mothers would combine and refuse to buy the trans- parent leaves that are now sold for clothes. Suppose they wouldn't let their daughters go to see indecent films or plays. Suppose they wouldn't let their daughters go to restaurants and roadhouses where drunken orgies were permitted and indecent performances given. What & reformation there would be, my countrymen and women! For in mother’s little black bag is the money that supports specialty shops and department stores and millinery parlors, and if all mothers wanted decent clothes for their daughters and would buy, nothing else the shopkeepers would fall over themselves to provide them. Most of the money that goes for amusements men spend on taking girls out and giving them a good time, and if mother put her good flat foot down on every- thing that wasn't clean fun, that is the kind of amusements that would be offered us. Oh, the parents can make it a better world for their children if they will, but they've got to stick together to do it. So here's wishing the new parents and teachers’ movement success and more power to it. DOROTHY DIX (Copyright. 1933.) UNCLE RAY’S CORNER people are some of the natives of the South Sea Islands. When flint is struck against & plece It is & quick change in matter; ] of steel 1t wil give forth sparks which |can be used to set fire to dry moss or and during the change there is light | oo substance. That is the method to be seen and heat to be felt. Usually of starting fires which was commonly a flame goes along with fire; but things | used by early settlers of this continent. e et Aais, Matches have been in widespread use only during the past century. Gas 1s needed for every fire. The (Copyrisht. 1933 gas called “oxygen” is present in the | air; and when a fire is made it uses up some of the oxygen. | A simple test will show the need for_oxygen when a candle burns. If a_short piece of candle is lighted and placed under a glass or tumbler, it will 20 out as soon as oxygen in the air inside the tumbler is used up. There must have been a time when people did not know the use of fire, but, remains of bonfires made during the Stone Age in Europe have been found, The Nature of Fire. WWHAT s fire? Use this coupon to join the Uncle Ray Scrapbook Club! TO UNCLE RAY, Care of The Evening Star, Washington, D. C. Dear Uncle Ray: I inclose a stamped envelope carefully ad- dressed to myself. Please send me a Membership Certificate and a leaflet telling how to make a Corner scrapbook. Sheep Dog Real Actor. | Sacha Guiltry, the French actor over which Paris sometimes raves, has found | what is considered a real dog actor. He | |15 2 bob-tailed English sheep dog named | Jack. Alt :ough Jack cannot understand | Prench, he was able to learn his part in “La Pelerine Ecossaise” in one re- hearsal. Jack previously had made his debut in a vaudeville sketch in_.hich Your Baby and Mine BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED. 0ld Man Coyote Is Discreet. Trouble goes half way to meet People who are indiscreet —old Coyote. O be discreet is to do nothing rashly, to take no chances. to Complementary Feedings. OMPLEMENTARY feedings are a boon and a blessing when the mother is able to supply baby with only part of his nourishment, but is unsuc- | cessful in keeping him wholly satisfied. consider carefully before acting The complementary bottle, which and then doing the thing least makes up or complements the deficient likely to bring trouble. For breast feeding, is given directly after|the most of the time Old Man Coyote each nursing. Sometimes a bottle is|is a very discreet person. There are | needed after every nursing. sometimes | times when, like everybody else, he after only one or two. At the early|does foolish and rash things, but it is morning hours, 6 and 10 a.m.,, there is|seldom. That is why he has managed apt to be ample nourishment and the|to keep out of serious trouble. He is baby will show himself indifferent 10| called smart, and he is smart. Being any extra feeding. At 2 and 6 p.m. discreet is part of that smartness. the situation is reversed. and baby will| “Taking chances seldom pays." says be ravenous for these additional ounces. | 0ld Man Coyote. “It often leads to It is better for the feedings to be of |more loss than gain. A sure thing equal size, as there is little waste in always is better than an uncertainty.” such small feedings, and then baby| so he was trotting along through the can take what he likes of each bottle.| Green Forest, eyes, ears and nose alert My leaflet, “How to Prepare Comple- What his eyes couldn't tell him his mentary Feedings,” is available to any | ears might. What his ears couldn't tell mother. Remember to send a self- | him his nose might. So he used all addressed, stamped envelope to this| of them all the time, and there was department With your request for the little around him that he missed. Pres- | BEDTIME STORIE | 01d Man Coyote. By Thornton W. Burgess. It was too dark in there for even his good eyes. But that didn't matter. His ears and his nose had told all that he needed to know. “Young and tender,” he murmured again, and licked lips. “Young and tender and helpless, and I need a good dinner. I never have had a dinner of that kind, and I should like to try it. I am sure it is good eating.” He hastily looked all about. He tested all the Merry Little Breezes. He listened, not for that faint whine, but for sounds outside that windfall. He was trying to find out if that baby's mother was near. “It seems safe enough.” muttered “Probably she is off Certainly she trusty nose would hunting somew isn't at home or leaflet. The milkk used for complemen- tary feedings must be clean and handled as carefully as for any feed- | ings. One may safely use pasteurized | grade A milk, evaporated or dried milk, lactic acid or buttermilk. Water and sugar make up the rest of the formula. We may be somewhat casual about | amounts, because baby gets only a| small part of each feeding by bottle, the largest portion being breast milk. | Often complementary feedings may be discarded for the young baby as the mother grows stronger. It is inadvisable to nurse a baby any longer than 20 minutes at the breast, and many babies are stisfactorily sup- plied after 5 to 10 minutes of nursing. | The fact that a baby still cries after | this longér period would indicate the need for complementary feedings rather than a lengthened breast feeding. SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. | cocked his ears ently he came to a great windfall. A windfall, you know, is a great tangle | of fallen ‘trees which have been up- | rooted by wind in some great storm. | For certain very good reasons of his own he wasn't interested in that wind- | fall. He knew all about it, or thought he did. He had visited it in the Win ter, and since then had kept away from it. So now as he trotted past, hurrying a little, he merely glanced at an opening under the great windfall. | |1t was big enough for him to enter | with ease. But he had no desire to| enter. Not at first, anyway. In fact, | he increased his pace ever so little, 50 as to get past quickly. | And then, just as he was almost past, his ears caught a sound that caused him to stop abruptly. It was a faint sound, a faint whine. OIld Man Coyote turned his head a trifle to one side, with his ears cocked, and listened. He heard it again. It was a plaintiff little | whine. | “Young and tender,” murmured Old Man Coyote. “Young and tender, and wants its mamma. That means she | isn't at home. Young, iender and alone!” Old Man Coyote licked his lips. Then he sat down facing that | ole under the windfall. He sat down, he better to listen, opened his nostrils wide, the better to| smell, and stared fixedly into the dark- | ness of the entrance beneath the wind- fall, the better to see. His ears told him that there was a baby of some kind in there. His nose But his eyes told him nothing at all' “YOUNG AND TENDER,” HE MUR~ MURED AGAIN AND LICKED HIS LIPS. tell me. Yes, sir, it seems safe enough. But it would bc bad business to be caught in there. The best dinner in the world wouldn't be worth that.” Again he heard that faint whine. © seemed to double his hunger. It would take but a moment or two to creep in there, seize that baby and get out again. Old Man Coyote took two steps forward, then stopped. He shook his head. “I might get a good dinner, and I might get in a heap of trouble,” he muttered. “I think I'll get away from here before I do something foolish.” He shook his head again, and then trotted away. Old Man Coyote was discreet. Just how discreet he was he never knew., Hardly was he out of sight when that baby’s mother re- | told him what kind of a baby it was. | turned, (Copyright. 1933.) MILADY BEAUTIFU BY LOIS LEEDS. Weak Fingernails. | THE artificial fingernails that have | received considerable publicity re- cently are in the same category as | artificial eyelashes. While both afford a short cut to beauty, they are not likely to_achieve a really wide popu- larity. Yet there are many women { who are really quite discouraged about | the poor appearance of fingernails that the nails should be decidedly tougher so that they may be filed to a graceful | oval without breaking. It is usually | better to use an emery board instead | of a steel file for shaping brittle fin- | gernails. One mistake in manicuring that is I'm doin’ it this way so the grass| an’ flowers will think it's NANCY PAGE Considers the | Famil Eleanor BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. Eleanor was deep in the plans for her wedding. There was just one flaw in all her happiness. The family simply could not afford to spend a great amount on her wedding. Of course, they wanted to do everything {in the nicest fashion. In fact, they longed to do things in the “grand manner,” but Eleanor felt it would be sheer selfishness to insist on elaborate arrangements. And she was decent enough, besides, never to let the family | suspect’that she had secret longings for a large and society wedding. Gallantly | | I | | she pretended she wanted everything | | simple. Frank, her fiance, knew how | she felt. He appreciated her self sac- | rifice, but he, in turn, was secretly | glad.” For where is the man who wants fuss and feathers at his wedding? Eleanor planned to have the wedding | announcements engraved. She and Frank had many relatives around the | country. ‘They ought to be apprized | | of the wedding. So for them and her | less intimate acquaintances she plan- | ned the engraved announcement. | For her friends who were to attend | the wedding she wrote informal notes. | She talked to the caterer and the flor- ist, who agreed to box the wedding !cake in white boxes tied with white' | and decorated, not with entwined ini- | tials in gold, but with a small nose- | gay of white flowers. i Her bouquet was made in two parts. | One she planned to throw as she went upstairs to change into traveling clothes. The other parts she planned to keep. Insects Invade Bucharest. At least 200,000,000 flying insects invaded Bucharest, Rumania, accord- ing to experts who made their estimate to the accompaniment of swats. The flying pests swarmed down on pe- destrians during a wind storm and are thought to have been carried by an east wind from either lower Bessarabia or the delta of Danube. Pardon, Sir of | ! . . . but the back will not grow to a graceful length with- out breaking or splitting. Nails of this | sort give an unkempt look even to shapely and carefully manicured | fingers. Usually in cases like this there is a difference in the degree of brittleness of the nails. Half of them may be more fragile than the other five so that some are broken off short while some are fairly long. All, however, are weaker than the he drew a storm of applause when he | solved a problem by appearing at the | your coat collar is right moment with some compromising | PAPUAN MAKING FIRE BY TWIST- missing documents in his mouth. ING LONG STICK AGAINST WOOD. and we know that fire-making is one of the oldest of all arts practiced by human beings. Forest fires, caused by lightning, probably gave men their first knowl- edge of fire, but during a very early period they learned to make fire by means of “friction.” Rub your hands together, and you have friction which warms them. Rub two pleces of wood together, pressing hard, and you will make the wood warm. Unless you have been taught secrets of the process, it is not likely that you will be able to make fire by rubbing wood on wood, but in early times there were persons who learned the way to do that Even in modern times. explorers have found savage ple who could make fire only in t way, Among such| Largest selling cane sugar “Sweeten it with Domino” soiled . and trousers have lost their It will only you a minute to vour crease. take phone Decatur 1120 and ask the Dry Cleaning Department of the Manhattan Laundry to call for your suit in the morning. They'll return it cleaned and pressed like new for only 75¢. And they'll make all minor repairs free! average, There are several possible causes of excessive brittleness of the nails, in- ternal and external. Frequently this condition is due to a poorly balanced| diet which keeps the body in an un- dernourished state. This in turn often predisposes to nervousness and the nail- biting habit. Since nail varnishes and varnish removers have a very drying| effect on the fingernails, those who use | them too much are troubled with a growing fragility of the nails. Any other external agent that tends to make the rails excessively dry will cause brittleness if the nails are regu- larly exposed to its action. To remedy nail brittleness one must, of course, try to find and remove the cause. In addition, local treatments will help. No attempt should be made to wear long-pointed nails. On the contrary, the nails should be filed al- most straight for about four weeks, during which time they should receive often made is filing off too much at the sides of the nails. If the practice is continued regularly a deep groove will form in the cuticle and the nail will be more likely to turn over or break. In the case of brittle nails there should be_very little filed off at the corners. Housewives with brittle fingernails should protect them as much as pos- sible by wearing gloves when working. The fingertips may be coated with oil or cold cream before the gloves are drawn on, so that the nail may be en- joying a beauty treatment while house- hold tasks are being performed. a daily soaking in warm olive oil. To keep the oil warm, set it in a bowl of hot water. All the fingertips should be soaked for 10 minutes by the clock after | having been well buffed with a polish- | ing powder. The buffing should be Te- | peated after the hands have been re- moved from the ofl and dried. This treatment stimulates the circulation in the nail bed. Liquid nail polish should not be used during this course of sim- ple treatments. At the end of a month | 'l(y Neighbor Says: Slices of brick ice cream served on angel food cake make a de- liclous dessert for a Summer luncheon. 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