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MAGA ZINE PAGE. Informal Shirtwaist Frock i it BY BARBARA BELL. OR everyday wearability new fashions are more satisfac- tory than simple, straight-line sports frocks, made of linen, cotton crepe, tub silk or shan- tung, as preferred. This season’s smartest ones show high necks, short sleeves, normal waistlines and skirts with just enough fullness somewhere to make them comfortable for all-day sessions at sports, town, office, class room, etc. The one sketched has an especially captivating yoke which goes in a smart, “breadth-giving sweep” across the back and front, and includes a sleeve pleat, fore and aft, where the waist sections are joined to it. String ties are a modish neckline finish and newer than other types. All of us like variety in our sports togs. Let each collar line be differen Have reversible revers on one frock, a Peter Pan collar on another and sev- eral without collars, in order to worl smart color schemes out with scarfs, | belts and kerchiefs. Every imaginable material with tailoring possibilities is seen in shirt- waist frocks this season—dark silks, light satins, plain and solid crepes, linen, seersucker, poplin, broadcloth, synthetic crepe, pique and shantung. i Surface interest continues important. | Matelasses, crinkles, ribs, basket weaves and shaggy shantungs are strongly featured in cottons, silks, wools and synthetics. Colors for town include much navy, a great deal of natural, some brown; all shades of natural and beige, and |ever so many grays. Combining | colors are pink, coral, tangerine, cer- | tain blues, Kelly green and hyacinth purple. Summer shades are pastel editions of this same list. | Barbara Bell pattern No. 1607-B is | designed in sizes 14, 16, 18, 20, 40 and 42. Corresponding bust measure- ments, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42. Size 34 (16) requires about 3% yards of | 36-inch material. | Every Barbara Bell pattern includes an illustrated instruction guide which |is easy to follow. BARBARA BELL, ‘Washington Star Inclose 25 cents in coin for Pattern No. 1607-B Size.csees Name Address (Wrap coin securely in paper.) (Copyright. 1935.) Conquering Contract BY P. HAL SIMS. Unfortunate 4-4 Trump Suit. HAVE recommended playing a game or slam in the 4-4 trump suit dozens of times. Today's hand features the hundredth oc- casion, when the 4-4 trump suit means bitter defeat for the declarer. #K-10-9 AQ-X ¥Q-10-x-X-X €6-5 #A-Q-J-2 MJ-x V¥None €Q-X-X-X-X #8-7-6-5- “-3 AA-K-6-5-4-2 WA-J-8-x ‘The bidding: Bouth West 1 Sp. Pass 3 Sp. Pass € Sp. (1) Pass 1. Just gambling, that's all. Since no one had said anything about hearts, West opened the suit. When his partner ruffed, West's jaw dropped. Then he took a firm grip on the ‘ace of clubs, and waited for South to go down. Unfortunately for the defense, South had other plans. He laid down his two top spades, and when the queen and jack dropped together, retorted to - West’s exclamation of “Lucky!” with “Something ought to hyeak after that rotten division in hearts.” In case a question is raised here The Debunker BY JOHN HARVEY FURBAY, Ph.D. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE ARE NO MORE dbums THAN HOMELY ONES Bay. 'HE popular phrase, “Beautiful but dumb,” implies that beauty and brains do not reside in the same per- son. The truth is, however, that studies of genius (such as Havelock Ellis carried out in England) reveal that beauty more often than not ac- companies & brilliant mind. Dr. A. E. Wiggam found the same true In America and states that intelligent people are usually above the average in beauty. N {Copyright, 1935.) \ as to how South got the lead, East returned a spade. | Since the diamond finesse was es- | sential for the success of the con- tract, South entered the dummy with the 10 of spades, and took it. East refused to cover the jack, so South let the trick ride. You can easily enough see what was bound to happen to West. After three more rounds of trumps had been laid down, the following situation de- veloped: ‘When South laid down the king of diamonds, West parted with the queen of clubs. But when South played the ace of diamonds, West had to throw his cards in. A club discard would set up the king in the dummy. A heart discard would permit South to win three heart tricks. “Finis” was written to the hand. TOMORROW’S HAND. AA-J-9-8-X-X-X ¥None 4K-10-8 #A-Q-J Ax-x ¥x-X-X ®x-x-X SK-X-X-X-X AK VK-Q-10-X-X-X-X *x-x $10-x-x 4Q-10-x VA-J-x $A-Q-J-x-x #9-2 : N W+E s An end play usually develops on the tenth trick, after the declarer has laboriously stripped his hand and the dummy’'s. Here we have the un- usual situation of a constant end play | from the very start of the hand. (Copyright. 1935.) MENU FOR A DAY. - BREAKFAST. Sliced Hominy with Cream. Baked Eggs. - Bacon. Brand and Raisin Muffins, Coffee. LUNCHEON. Egg Croquettes on Boiled Spinach Raisin Biscuits. Cherry Tarts. | DINNER. Consomme. Pork Chops. Baked Stuffed Potatoes. Creamed Onions. Hearts of Lettuce, French Dressing. Prune and Apricot Pie. Coffee. ‘Tea. NG _STAR, Uncle Ray Moons of the Planets. YATURE has not treated the planets alike. Some are large and some are small. Some have much sunlight and others have littlé. Some have moons and others have none. It is about the moons that I want to speak today. Before the time of Galileo people did not knoy that any planet except the earth had a moon; but Galileo found four moons going around a single planet, Jupiter. During the last three centuries, with larger and better telescopes, men have located other moons. We now know that Jupiter has at least nine moons, while Saturn is blessed with 9 or 10! (There has been some doubt about the “tenth moon” of Saturn.) Mars has two moons and Uranus has four. Neptune and the earth have one apiece. So far as we have learned, there are no moons going around Mercury, Venus or Pluto. Most of the moons in the solar sys- tem are smaller than that which shines on our earth, but two moons of Jupiter and one of Saturn are larger than ours. Most of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn travel eastward, but Jupiter has one which moves westward and Saturn has two. How interesting it would be to live on a planet with nine moons! ‘The moons of Mars are small and speed about very swiftly. We call them Phobos and Deimos. It is be- lieved that each of them is less than 10 miles in diameter. ‘The coming Spring and Summer will be a fine period to study the moons of Jupiter, and the best time will come in May. If you could use the 100-inch Mount Wilson telescope you might find all nine of the moons, with camera if not by sight; but this cannot be done with a small telescope. It is possible, however, to see four of Jupiter'’s moons with a small tele- scope or with a pair of good fleld glasses. When you once see this sight I think you will not forget it. (For science section of your scrap- book.) The “Surprise Leaflet” will be mailed without charge to readers who send me a 3-cent stamped, return en- velope. This leaflet .contains riddles and tells how to perform magic tricks. UNCLE RAY. - AEersity BY ARTHUR DEAN, Sc. D. HAVE a friend who was told by his physican, after a very careful and elaborate analysis, that he had cancer and that an operation would afford only temporary re- lief. He was sentenced to death within 12 .months—not less than 9 or more than 12 months of life were before him. The man did not inform his family. He so0ld all his doubtful securities, strengthened his stronger ones, gave a general house-cleaning to his finan- cial affairs and made a new will. He went back to his work as though nothing had happened. In fact, he carried his work beyond the 12-month maximum period that he was to live. It so happened that he died just 12 months after his visit to the doctor. I often wonder what I would do if I had to face disaster lke this. How much of a_quitter would I be? How well could I stand up under it? Perhaps I am thinking this today because I have received a very in- teresting letter from a young woman who has told me a no-quitter story. Here it is: “Dear Arthur Dean: “F have to smile when I read in your column about the love affairs of youth. I smile because I think of problems of tremendously greater importance which do not seem to occur to these kids. “I graduated from college with a diploma and a wrist watch, and walked into the world with head high and eyes bright. No job came to me, because I had no experience. Two years slipped away. I became one of those relief people. At 3 o'clock in the morning I would tuck my feet into stockings that could not be patched any more, put on a coat that felt like cheesecloth against the howling winds and snapping cold, and would walk my weary way to ‘the court house there to wait three hours outside and, after being admit- ted, to wait five or six more hours standing in line with hundreds of other unfortunates. “Still another year wasted. Home busted. Mother on charity. Ia hobo. Then, by miraculous good luck, I found a job, chauffeuring. “My education was worth while and I still have courage and hope, which have been tempered with pa- tience and long suffering. Today, in my early twenties, I am old and learned and experienced. And out of it all I have gotten this little philosophy. I quote Hilaire Belloc: “‘From quiet things and first be- ginning Out of the undiscovered ends, There's nothing worth the wear of winnin g, Save laughter and the love of friends.’ “UNDAUNTED.” I like the person who tells his story and shows he is not a quitter. I like even more the person who does not even tell his story and still does not quit. I have constantly before me on my desk these words: “What greater thing that I have done than all the worthies did. A greater thing? Yes! To keep that greater thing hid.” L Pointed Paragraphs. An architect says that the largest room in the world is the room for improvement. If you do some men a favor they act as though they were doing you & favor by letting you do it. e Sonnysayings BY FANNY Y. CORY. comes”—I don't know should I run or stay—it’s plobably some mean piece ob work, but it might mean somethin® . Veat, A WASHINGTON, D. C. Dorothy Dix Says How to Avoid Three Common Ills of Old Age, Dependence, Loneliness and Bore- dom, Is Something to Ponder. HAT are you laying up for your old age? All of us above the grade of morons recognize the importance of laying up some money, 80 that when we are old and feeble and no longer able to work, we may not know how steep are another man's stairs and how bitter the bread of dependence. Old age is drab enough at best, but it is a thousand times more dreary for those who have no home of their own to shelter them, no table of their own to sit at, and who are forced to take the grudging * charity, even of their own children. For between father and mother or Uncle John and Aunt Susan with money in their pockets, and pen- niless father and mother and Uncle John and Aunt Susan, is the dif- ference between welcome and unwelcomed guests. So we must be able to pay our own way. HENC!: we must lay up money, if we wish to be well treated in our old age, but money alone is not enough. Most of the things that really make for happiness are not sold over the counter, and so it happens that many a men and Woman, who count their wealth by milifons, are spiritual paupers when they are old, because they neglected to lay up any love. They are as hungry for affection as any beggar is for bread, but they didn't store up any for their rainy day, and so they are left to starve for the tenderness they crave, when they are old. Love isn’t something that you can order in when you need it, as you do a sack of sugar. It is something that you have to accumulate, precious grain by precious grain, in the hearts of those about you, through half a lifetime. So if you want to be one of those blessed old couples, who have grown together so that they are really one, and who walk hand-in-hand down the last lap of the journey of life, you must have begun storing up comradeship and devotion when you were young. A HUSBAND can't have gone his way obsessed by his business, & wife can't have gone her way absorbed in her children, for 40 or 50 years, and then have anything in common when they are old. No other people are sadder than the old people who, with their fortunes made, their children gone, find that they bore each other, because they have not laid up any companionship with each other for their old age. 1f, when you are old, you want your children to love and honor you and to enjoy being with you, you have to begin in the cradle, to bind them to you with a thousand silken cords of kindness and sympathy and understanding and palship. You must be part of all the happy recollections of childhood and adolescence, You can't be harsh and Tyrannical or indifferent and neglectful to them when they are young and expect them to love you when you are old. If you want to draw money out of a bank, you must first put money into it. WE SHOULD lay up friendships for our old age.. They are the con= solation for the lean years in which our activities are curtailed and our interests narrowed. Then we care little for strangers. We want those about us who have the same background that we have, and to whom we can say, “Don't you remember?” But if we are to have the joy of friendship when we are old, we must have begun cultivating it long before. We must have done little kindnesses to people. We must have held out a helping hand to those in need. We must have wept with those who mourned and rejoiced with those who were giad. So many old people complain that they are lonely, that nobody comes to sea them or pays them any attention, and invariably you will find that these have been self-centered, selfish individuals, who never invested a single thought or sacrifice in any one else. So it is no wonder that they do not draw dividends on friendship in their age. WE MUST lay up interests for our old age. The man who never thinks of anything except his business and the woman who never has & thought for anything except her children, are bound to be bank- rupt in age, when the man can no longer spend his days in his office or store and the woman'’s children have married and left her. Then they must have something to fall back upon. Some vital interest that they have cultivated for years, some hobby, some sport, some occupation that will fill in their time. The best of these is read- ing, and if there were no other argument for learning a love of reading when you are young, it would be enough that it is a never-failing solace to the old and carries the glamour of life for them to the grave. WE NEED to store up memories for our old age. Happy those who sit in the twilight and look back upon a life well spent and whose hearts are warmed by the recollection of kindly deeds. Miserable those who see in retrospect a wasted life, devastated by their passions, and who have laid up for themselves only a harvest of regrets. And we should lay up for ourselves a philosophy that will be a staff to lean on in our old age and that will enable us to go cheer- 3 tly, companionably to the journey's end. tully, bravely, tolerantly, compal y SR (Copyright. 1935.) MARCH 6, 1935. Nature's Children BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. Fowler’s Toad. Bufo fowleri. HEN the warm days of April come Fowler’s toad creeps from his place of hiberna- tion. He is slower to an- swer the call than the Americap toad. So it is later that we hear the chorus of these fellows from the pond. You learn to know it perfectly in July, when it is the only chorus coming to us, and it has wonderful carrying qualities. It is a metalic, doleful sound, and heard in the middle of woods, close by the brook or pond, it is rather creepy. Go to the marshy edge of the pond or to the brook, where you can sit comfortably on a log or stone, and watch the males singing. The small, black-throated performers sit for hours in the shallow water, and when they inflate their throat pouches you think they will surely blow up. If you wish to pay them a visit at night, and it is lots of fun to do so, you can discover the ardent choir by their throats. With a flashlight to “shine them” their “drums” look like great light-colored, transparent balls or white bubbles in a black pool. Some members of the family have found that city life appeals to them, and you find them in parks, where little lagoons and moist spots offer a home. The country is the place to hunt them, and when they are radio- ing you think there is a conference of Fowler's toads in the shallow pond nearby. There are many more males than females at the meeting. Why it is so is one of the mysteries waiting to be cleared up. The loud squawkers sound like Indians on a war dance, and surely no frog maiden can fail to hear the call to wed. The eggs are laid in long, tangled ropes and have been mistaken for those of American toads. But they are somewhat smaller, and you can see some of them have been laid in even rows. The eggs develop very rapidly. You cannot afford to stay away from the pond too long after you have discovered them. All through the late Summer you can find these toads and see how well fitted they are by nature for taking flying leaps. They are difficult to catch and make a strong protest at being held prisoner. You may see the toads in parks, gardens, along the dusty roads. in pastures and fields. They are har- pooning insects by the hundreds, and getting fatter every da; The adult toad is yellowish or greenish gray, and all members have spots and stripes, while the under parts are never spotted. This is a field mark to look for. The skin is not so rough as is its neighbor's, the bufo, and the warts not so large. The expression is rather benign, and hav- ing once looked into the eyes of the Americanus and Fowleri you do not confuse the two again. (Copyright. 1935.) Caviar Canape. WOMEN’S FEA Who A The Romance TURES. re You? of Your Name BY RUBY HASKINS ELLIS, 'HIS surname is a derivative of ‘There were several branches of the Waring family to settle in America during the early days of colonization, The New England branch was repre- sented by Christopher Waring; the Virginia and Mgy-yland Warings were founded in 1643 by Sampson Waring, who came from England o Lower | Norfolk County, but later moved to Calvert County, Md., where he estab- lished his estate at the Clifts. He was a prominent lawyer and member of the Council of the colony. The Carolina and Georgia Warings were founded by Benjamin, who came from Lea, near Wolverhampton, Staf- fordshire, England. He arrived on the ship Loyal Jamaica and settled at Pine Hill, S. C. He became a dis- tinguished colonist, serving as & mem- ber of the Assembly, major of militia and in other official capacities, He married Elizabeth Beamer. Their son, Richard, in 1730 was a member of his majeSty’s Council from Charleston, the Latin word “verus” meaning|S. C true. The Anglo-Saxon word “waer,” meaning a covenant, or an oath, was undoubtedly the first form used by English-speaking peoples. Descendants of these early settlers |are living today in practically every | section of the United States. : (Copyright. 1935.) Bedtime Stories BY THORNTON W. BURGESS. The Disappearing Hens. Mercy. you will find. is slow Judging. when it does mot know. —Old Mother Nature. that there had been but one squawk of fright and this had alarmed the other hens hardly at all. He had disappeared around a corner of a shed so quickly that none had seen him and after a few minutes of aimless wandering about and clucking they had forgot- ten the matter. Keeping the shed between him and the house Gray Fox carried that hen to the woods, only a short distance, and there in a sheltered hollow he ate until there was nothing left but feathers and a few bones. It was the i first full meal he had had since he 1\\'3! caught in a trap and lost three | toes, and that was many days ago. “I feel like a new Fox,” said he as he lay down for a nap. When he awoke he acted like a new Fox. That RAY FOX had caught a fat ‘ hen and done it so quickly | fat hen had given him strength and | | courage and chased away despair. For |a time he lay there in pleasant con- | tent. There was no sound of pursuing | Dogs. It was very different from last hen before this one. Then he had killed a dozen, but eaten only one. Dogs and hunters on his trail and then traps had been the result. “I don't believe that hen has beerr missed,” thought he. “Perhaps an- other wouldn’t be missed. I believe I could eat another right now.” But Gray Fox was growing in wis- dom. Yes, sir, he was growing in wis- dom. He didn't try for another hen that day nor the next day. It wasn't until the third day that he stole down behind that shed and peeped around the corner. Again he waited patiently | until a hen strayed near his hiding | place and he could catch her without frightening the others. It wasn't until after he had taken the third hen a few days later that those hens were missed. Two sisters lived alone in the little farm house, | was still three short. what had followed the stealing of the | Courtesy BY EMILY POST. “T)EAR MRS. POST: Is it correct for a man to remain behind his desk seated to shake hands with a man visitor? Does it matter if the man is a salesman or a customer?” Answer—A gentleman naturally rises and shakes hands with every visitor who enters his office—exactly as he rises to greet a visitor at home. But he would not be apt to rise to greet a salesman who is one of his own employes. “Dear Mrs. Post: A long time 3go we were entertained by my husband's employer and his family, for which we made no return. Last week they asked us to the house again, and now I feel that we should do something, but I hesitate to invite them since the difference in our social status is as wide apart as the opposite ends of our town. What should I do?” Answer—TIt is not expected that you do anything further than to be adapt- able and agreeable. If they ask you many times then you can return their kindness in whatever way your own good sense prompts. Perhaps you can make something to send Mrs. Em- ployer or send her a few flowers at Easter or on an anniversary or birth- day. “Dear Mrs. Post: Even though it is many months since the holidays, I must find out about something. My employer gave me a gift at Christmas and when I opened it his wife's name | also was on the card. I thanked him in the office, but I never saw her after that and I hesitated to write her because she is a very formal person and recognizes me only to the extent of ‘How do you do.’” Answer—Her formality is all the more reason why you should have written her a brief note to thank her for whatever it was, but it is too late now—for this time. “Dear Mrs. Post: I am employed in the personnel department of a large company and often have occasion to take a new employe to the head of énother department. I never know how to introduce one because this man becomes the girl's direct superior and I can’t very well mention her name first.” Answer—Say “Miss Blank, Mr. Im- portance,” with an accent on Mr. Your Family's With rich milk and cream from the HOOD SEALED Wakefield bottle. Buy from your Neighborhood Store TG - Importance. Or, since this is an op- posed situation from that of society, you could introduce her exactly as you would a new employe who is a man Miss Blank, who is taking Miss Kay's place.” (Copyright. 1935.) 1 the bread. WIFE YOUNG COUPLE has another scene about stocking bills! “How can I help it if stockings go into runs like nobody’s business!” cries Mrs. Elton Lord. “Don’t you say another word—I’m fed up!” ELTON LORD wonders if every wife is as extravagant as his—Ruth thinks her husband’s just 2 “brute.” A little quarrel becomes a big one, until . .. NEIG R brings help! “You can cut down on runs, save Elton’s money, if you wash stockings in Lux.” Lux saves the elasticity of the silk so it gives, instead of breaking into runs so often. Cake-soap rubbing— soaps with harmful alkali—weaken elasticity. Saute circular pieces of bread in olive oil and spread with caviar, sea- soned with cayenne pepper and lemon juice. Set a circle, or ring, of very and say “Mr. Importance, this is|thinly sliced Bermuda onion on the | outer edge, choosing a ring of onion which is the same circumference as|as big as usual. Then she counted | the hens too much. a hired man coming in now and then to do the heavy work. They were elderly women, those sisters. One of them had the care of the hens. One morning as she was feeding the hens it struck her that the flock didn't look them. The first time she was two ENDS QUARRELS BY CUTTING DOWN RIFT ENDED! Ruth and Elton | short of the number she knew should | be there. She counted again and this time she was three short. She began to be worried. On a third count she She called her sister and the latter counted the hens. | She counted them twice. | “There are three missing.” said she. | “That is what I make it,” replied | the first one. “Do you suppose they have wane | dered away or do | one has taken them? “We'll soon find out,” was the reply. So they went all around among the buildings calling “Biddy, biddy, biddy, bid!” And, of course, getting no re- sponse. Then they looked all through | the hen yard and the hen house for | signs of a thief and found none. “It is very mysterious,” said one. P B{aor | “Must be a hawk or an owl” said the other, “though I haven't seen one { around and I haven't heard the hens | make a fuss as they usually do when | either of those birds appears.” | “Anyway, we will keep the hens shut in their yard instead of allowing them | to wander about outside as we have | been doing,” replied the other. | So the next time Gray Fox paid | them g visit he was sadly disappoint- | ed. Those hens were shut in the hen yard. Once this would not have bothered him much, for he could have climbed that wire fence with ease. | Now it was different. With that | crippled paw he would have hard wark to do it. Besides, he would scare (Copyright. 1935.) RUN find Lux does cut down run troubles. “I bet we nearly paid for this week-end trip out of what I've saved on stockings,” Ruth boasts as they roll along the boardwalk at the shore. Elton’s as thrilled as she is. Every husband is—when thrifty wives stick to Lux! LUX SAVES STOCKING ELASTICITY: