Evening Star Newspaper, May 18, 1935, Page 11

WOMEN’ S FEATURES. Helpful Suggestio Washington New Furni That Really Delight Eye Examples of Beauty P Who Is Making Ch for Home. BY BETSY CASWELL. ORE and more the good type | of modern furniture seems | M to be invading the shops of ‘Washington. In place of the old angular horrors commit- ted in the name of Modernism, we have placed before us, for our choice, piece after piece of household equip- ment that is truly a delight to the eye. The very simplicity of line and color tone is restful and charming—I was really surprised ggeoon and immensely y\ pleased to see the ~ & many evidences of beauty and good taste en- compassed by the new chairs and sofas, tables and ornaments, just being unpacked and set out for display here and there. Certainly the 1935 bride has many things to help her in mak- ing her choice of lovely objects for the furnishing of her new home. Brown and fawn seem to be the most preferred for living room arrangements | at the moment. These harmonizing | tones combine so smoothly with the | copper-banded furniture, and copper | accessories, as well as with the many | delightful knick-knacks made of cop- per-colored mirror glass, that a room done in this manner is easy to as-| semble to suit the individual taste. For instance, in the living room | llustrated, where the furniture and general decor is distinctly modern in feeling, the sofa is in brown and fawn striped chenille. The arms | are completely covered in brown, and | the welting is in brown. The chair | repeats the color scheme, and the | glass-topped table, with a copper base, harmonizes perfectly with the general | ensemble. All the accessories about Betsy Caswell. | fles, which I saw in one model bed | out unnecessary ornaments. Even if | in Acquires ture Types rovide Well for Bride, oice of Equipment White-carved cornices conceal the poles supporting ethereal white, chin- kled organdy curtains, lush with ruf- room. They were as dainty and airy as a moonbeam, and would be charm- ing in a young girl's room. The wall paper here was also on the pastel, delicate tone, carrying out the fresh, youthful effect. Another point which I have noticed recently is that accessories are being chosen more and more with care and thought to their position as an in- tegral part of the room in which they are to be. The old haphazard idea of “anything goes,” as far as a vase or lamp is concerned, is rapidly disap- pearing. Clever brides and housekeep- ers are becoming ruthless in weeding they cannot afford at the moment to replace them with some more appro- priate piece they do without either, rather than spoil the effect of a lovely room by one jarring note. In this they show wisdom, for a room rarely suffers from what it lacks in the way of or- namentation—but oh, how some of them do suffer from an overabundance of it! You know how, if you see a hat that does not go with anything else in your wardrobe, and temptation triumphs over commonsense, you either never wear the hat, because there is nothing to go with it—or you spend & lot of money to purchase a dress and accessories just on purpose to set it off. Unfortunately, a whole room is not such a simple matter to settle—but the offense is just as great introducing the discordant note. And, most of us, when we have made such a mistake, have to stick by it, | until the furniture wears out, the | article breaks and the paint peels off | the walls! So do choose wisely and well, down to the littlest ash tray, that your four walls may hold nothing within their confines that you in- stinctively rebel against. In a modern room beware of too much metal tubing and sharp angles. the room are of copper, or in coppery tones, and the effect is warm and gra- cious to a degree. Such a room would always be in good taste, for neither the coloring nor the pieces themselves are so exagger- ated as to be “faddy” in any way. | Silvery white, combined with either | palest green or heavenly blue, is muen | favored for bedrooms just now. White f slatted blinds, with either white or contrasting bands, give a charmingly diffused light, which is restful to the eyes and yet do not give the room such a pall of gloom as do the darker, solid type of blind. White rugs—very im- practical, of course, but oh, so pretty! are much in evidence. One way of solving the white rug problem and combining utility with beauty, may be found in the white goat-hair rugs, which are thickly embroidered with pastel-hued tropical flowers and birds. These do not soil so easily, are small enough to be taken up and shaken | well and wear surprisingly long. On & dark, polished floor, in a white-toned bed room, they produce a delightfully | silvery and delicate effect. ! Ice Is an Ai Young Girl With N A little is good, when handled with | judgment and restraint—too much | looks like a so-called futuristic play | room of the roaring 20s. Leather | coverings are beautiful and practical, | unless chosen in too light a shade. They are expensive, in the initial pur- chase, of course, but give splendid service in the long run. However, here in Washington, thought must | also be given to Summer weather, and if you buy leather chairs and sofas plan to get straw matting seats and backs for them for the dog days. Otherwise, both your friends and your furniture will suffer! And, by the way, did you ever try the tropical trick of putting thin straw matting on your bed for the hot nights? It is so much cooler to lie on than sheets, and will thus insure you more hours of relatively comfortable slumber when Summer really decides to descend upon us. If you wish advice on your indi- vidual household problems, write to Betsy Caswell, in care of The Star, inclosing stamped, self-addressed en- velope for reply. d to Beauty ormal or Oily Skin Benefits Most. BY LOIS LEEDS. HERE is a difference of opinion in beauty circles about the ad- visability of using ice as a facial astringent. But different viewpoints among experts are fot unusual. You have to use your own common sense in the debatable matters or else follow the advice of | the specialist in whom you have most confidence. I myself, am a believer in cold water for the complexion and ice, too, under certain conditions, but I do not advise everybody to use them. The young girl with a normal or oily skin benefits most from this sort of treatment. She should be | In good health, too. I don't recom- | mend ice or too much cold water for women with dry skins and deli- cate health. The woman who is not | healthy enough to get a good, warm reaction from the use of cold ap- lications should avoid them until | er circulation and general physical tone are improved. Ice, when used, should never be | rubbed directly on the skin. A film | of facial cream will afford a cer- tain amount of protection from the | cold, but the fce should also be wrapped in a handkerchief. A bet- | | tinuous hours of exposure to the ele- ter way to use ice for refreshing and refining the skin is to rub it over a cotton mask. This treatment is for oily, tired skins with en- larged pores. are first thoroughly cleansed, mas- saged and wiped with a skin tonic. Clean absorbent cotton is moistened in witch hazel or other astringent lotion and molded over the face and throat like a mask. The ice rub fol- lows for several minutes. The mask is then removed and the skin thor- oughly dried. The treatment may be given once a week. One objection to the use of ice on the face, according to one writer on the subject, is that there may be a tendency to encourage red veins on the wings of the nose and cheeks, | such as are seen on faces of out- | door workers and sportsmen. This does not seem to me a valid objec- tion, however. The use of ice and ice water on the face for, say, three minutes a day or less frequently, is not at all comparable to the con- ments for days and months that produce that weather-beaten look. Of course, if you already have these red veins in your face, it would be foolish to expose them to unnecessary ex- tremes of temperature. PATTERN 516 Here are some cutwork motifs that will be just the thing to use on those small linens that make such nice pick-up work in warm weather. Pillow- ‘ rases, towels, tray cloths, scarfs are a few of the things you can make. You #an do the motifs in one or varied colors as you wish. In pattern 5161 you will find a transfer pattern of a motif 5x11 inches, two motifs, 5%4x9% inches, two and tw o reverse motifs each of two 4lx5% inch corners; detail instructions for cutwork with illustrated stitches; material requirements and suggestions for To obtain this pattern send [pditor of The Evening Star. the use of the motifs. 10 cents in stamps or coin to the Woman's A The face and neck | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, MAY 18 1935 Fawn, Brown and Copper Tones Stand High in Favor Brown and fawn strl'fietl chenille, welted in brown, cover the sofa entirely covers the arms of the modern sofa. The glass-topped table, with its copper base, repeats the metallic note af the andfrons, and the sln’fi on the end table of Oriental wood. ‘Mother 111, Work Done By Children Patient Teaching by | Parent Results in Practical Good. BY ANGELO PATRIL ACHEL got home from school and found the house darkened and | | still. Mother was in bed, suffering from a severe headache. “Im 50| sorry, Mother. I'll put the ice cap on | it and make you a cup of tea. Don't| think about anything. I will take| care of the children and get tea for | Daddy and them. Do try now to get to sleep.” | The two younger children, David | | and Mollie, came racing up the walk to be suddenly hushed by the sight of | Rachel standing at the side door with her finger on her lips. Softly the two tiptoed to her. “What is it, Rachel? Anything the matter with | | Mother?” | “She has a headache. We must be as still as we can. I have your milk | and cookies on the back porch. Go | up the back way to change your | clothes, and try not to make a sound.” | | So said, so done. | When father came home the house | was in cheerful good order. Three | trim, cheerful children met him at | the door, and, to his hasty inquiry, | “Where is Mother?” Rachel said, | Mother is lying down with a head- | ache, but she is better now. She has been sleeping. I have dinner ready.” | Seated about the table, the children | told father how they had managed. | Rachel prepared the vegetables and | broiled the chops. Mollie had set the | table, David had guarded the tele- | phone bells and the door bell, and watched to see that nobody made any | noise, himself included. As a last | duty, he had prepared mother’s tray against the time when she would waken and perhaps want something | to eat. “You've done well,” said father, “very well. Mother will be pleased | to know how nicely things went along | without her. It will pay her for all the bother she had teaching you to do things. Remember your first dinner, Rachel?” “Yes. I boiled the potatoes all to squash, and I forgot to serve the dessert, and I didn't put any salt in the spinach, and David cried, and it was pretty awful. It was mighty good of you not to throw me into the ash can that night, Daddy.” “Lucky Mother had something In the ice box, you mean. We would have starved. I can do pretty well, can't I, Rachel?” put in Mollie. “Oh, splendidly, Molly. She did the salad all alone, Daddy.” “You're three mighty good children, that’s all I have to say. And Mother will be as proud of you as I am. Let's wash up now and be all ready when Mother wakes up,” said Father, pre- paring to do his bit. “Oh, no, no. That wouldn't do at said Rachel. “You just go sit in your big chair—David has the paper ready for you, and your slip- peis—and watch us clear these things away. And we won't make a sound. You see.” 5 Years of patient teaching had gone into this job. Many a day Mother had been tempted to say, “Run along,’ all of you, and leave me in peace and quiet to get this work done,” but she had restrained herself, taken a long breath, and once more cheerfully di- rected Rachel and Molly and David to carry on the household. Not so much that the household might go on for a time without her presence, but that the children might go on when occa- sion demanded. (Copyright, 1935.) —_——— Croustades. Cut crusts from day-old bread and slice about 1'% inches thick. Shape into circles, diamonds, hearts or tri- anglss, using cooky cutters and a sharp knife. With the point of a small knife, cut around the top Y inch inside the edge, then carefully dig down with a fork and remove the center to within 1, inch of the bot- tom. Toast these bread shells a golden brown, turning frequently so that they will brown evenly. Or they may be brushed with melted butter and browned in a moderate oven. To serve, dip the edges in melted butter, then iIn finely chopped parsley and fill the centers with any creamed or s ia king mixhme, ‘ l Smart Women’s Choice Tailored Shirtmaker Frock Has Innumerable Uses. BY BARBARA BELL MART women the world over love the shirtmaker frock. They wear it all day long, in linen or cotton for active sports, and in plain or small-patterned silks for lunch at the country club, or those hours of shopping when they must be comfortable, but very smart. It has innumerable uses and infinite possibilities as to color and material. The dress illustrated is one which gives all the nice details of perfect tailoring. Inverted pleats in front and back of the skirt insure perfect freedom in walking and give a sug- gestion of flare, which is new this season. The blouse has a back pleat, too, and a very becoming notched collar. Included in the pattern are big, roomy pockets which you will want if you are to use the dress for sports. Barbara Bell pattern No. 1584-B comes in sizes 14, 16, 18 and 20, 40 and 42. Corresponding bust measure- ments 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42. Size 16 (34) requires 3% yards 36-inch or 39-inch material for dress as fllus- trated; % yards of contrasting ma- terial for vestee. BARBARA BELL, WASHINGTON STAR. Inclose 25 cents in coins for Pattern No: 1584-B. Size....... Name Address (Wrap goins securely in paper.) 1584-8 Send for the Barbara Bell Pattern Book. Make yourself attractive, prac- tical and becoming clothes. selecting designs from the 104 Barbara Bell well planned, easy-to-make patterns. Interesting and exclusive fashions for little children and the difficult junior age; slenderizing, well cut patterns for the mature figure; afternoon dresses for the most particular young women and matrons and other pat- terns for special occasions are all to| be found in the Barbara Bell Pattern | Book, The Old Gardener Says: Some garden makers complain that it is impossible to grow has- turtiums because of the black and chair above. Brown material also —Courtesy of the Hecht Co. WOMEN'’S FEATURES. Dorothy EAR MISS DIX: I will prove D to you beyond a doubt that women are spiritually, men- tally, morally and physically inferior to men. No one will deny that woman has less physical strength than man, so I will pass on to the question of her mental in- feriority. This is easily proved by listening to a group of women talking. ‘They are gossiping about their neigh- bors, backbiting their friends, talking | scandal, clothes, bragging about their children. If women wish to be con- sidered intelligent, why don’t they show intelligence when they are together? ‘Women are certainly inferior spirit- ually to men. They have been the cause of all the evil and trouble since the world began. The Bible tells how the first woman forced the apple onto & trusting man, just as the modern bride forces her cast-iron biscuit, leather pancakes and other gastronomic atrocities onto her goofy victim. Men are superior to women in being fair and honest. When a woman gets married she expects her husband to be good-looking, & good worker and intelligent. three men in one, and that shows how unreasonable a woman is. But a man is fair. He well knows that no woman can be perfect and | he doesn’t expect perfection in his wife. He takes her makes the best of it. Don’t you think I have proved my point? A MAN. ANBWEE—W(“. no, Mr. Man, not conclusively. I agree with you as she is and speak, men are superior to women. No woman, for instance, is as strong as Jack Dempsey. There has been no woman Shakespeare, no woman Edison, no woman Raphael, no female Chopin. About the only really notable creative work woman has done has been to produce man and, taking men by and large, that's nothing for her to be chesty about. But when you get down to the com- No man can possibly be | that in the higher brackets, so to | A-1n ns in the Busy Lives of Modern Washington Women < Dix Says Are Women Spiritually, Mentally, Phys- ically Inferior to Men? woman divorcing her husband because he developed a bay window and had got bald-headed? Be fair, Mr. Man. Women have plenty of faults, but 50 have men. Both men and women were cut off the same bolt of cloth. DOROTHY DIX. * % % x DEAR MISS DIX: I have been mar- ried eight years. Have two ehil- dren, & girl of 6 and a boy of 2. My husband is sensible. Makes a fair living. Doesn’t drink, gamble or flirt. Is devoted to the children. We have a nice home and he stays home most of the time. So far so good. The trouble is I am careless by na- ture and my husband is very exact and punctual. He has tried to teach me to be careful, but no matter how hard I try I simply can't do it. At my first sign of carelessness my hus- band starts picking on me. He scolds me, insults me, calls me names and has got me so miserable that I am serfously thinking of leaving him. The only thing that keeps me with him is the children. If not for these argu- ments we would have been as happy | & couple as could be found, but when he begins insulting me I actually go | crazy. Would you advise me to leave him? THIRTY-ONE. Answer—I would advise you to meet the situation with intelligence instead of hysterics. Why don’t you use a little sense in solving your problem? | Why don't you say to yourself: “I have | a fault, a serious defect in my char- acter, one that is about to ruin not only my life but the lives of my hus- | band and children, and I am going to correct it. I am going to overcome |it. I am not going to let the peace and happiness of my home be wrecked | by my propensity for procastination | and my habit of strewing things about | and never doing anything accurately.” ‘Ycu say you have tried to cure yourself of your carelessness, but you haven't tried hard enough. You haven't put your whole determination |into it. You haven't brought every bit of will power you have to bear on it. You haven't used your brains mon or garden variety of human | beings, it seems to me that women | average up physically, mentally and | morally pretty well with their hus- | in figuring out ways to outwit your personal devil and get the better of him. DistOtder Gives Need For Healthf bands. True, we have no women prize fighters, but we have millions of women who have the strength to get away with 18-hour-a-day jobs, while their husbands and brothers consider themselves overworked if they labor for 6 hours a day. You are like the drunkard who | swears off drinking and then takes a | glass to celebrate his good resolution. Or you are like the drug addict who indulges in a few shots on the sly when he is trying to break himself of the morphia habit. The only way to reform is to reform. Just to shut your TRUE' NIl Woen sniner BaciDe® | testtana say to yourself you whll over their tea the conversation is pretty piffing and mostly runs to | overcome a fault or die in the attemps. personalities and diets and reducing | You will commit a crime against and what little Johnny did and little | your children if you deprive them Mary said. But over their highballs | of 4 good home and a good father be- don’t men discuss their golf 5COTeS | cause you resented his scolding you and the stock market and tell the |for your sloppiness. When they ask BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. stories they heard in the sleeper, | you: “Mother, why havem we any 5 . | rather than discourse about weighty - ) r LEANOR was not being t00 ener- | i i o state or the last trend in Ll;;ermgkevnzthl:‘t;m;::;:rw )?:mk:l‘;i getic these days. She had been, | itterature. | seem a mighty poor excuse bwhen you 50 her physician said, an almost ideal AT au for m;n—p-hying the matri- | have to tell them that it was because patient with but one exception. She | monial game fairer than women and | YOu Wouldn't have dinner on time or did not want to follow his dietary | being just enough to stand by their |sWeep under the beds or put the top orders. She said she did not like | bArgains, oh, brother, brother, how OR the toothpaste tube. can you? Isn't it the men who expect h - 1"""‘ 5"";"": ":‘d "”P‘;’i ":d their wives to be both parlor orna- tofifigp;:tm;mrzhfmzn'x: ryfx’;‘fl:"‘-; l;.‘vfle; o s - Lot T ments and kitchen utensils; who ex- that employers are not more tolerast | pect their wives to keep perpetually | of earelessness than your husband s 1¢ she were given her way she would | Young and beautiful: Who expect their | ona toes 1t will be Joot oo oy ' have lived on bread, jelly and other | wives to cook and baby-tend and pinch | par to spreads, meat, candy and nuts. pennies and still be able to dance the | fr gy s 0 metey = Of “I hate to be so insistant, Eleanor.” i’h“mba and look like & million dol- | eourse, nobody likes to be scolded, but This was her husband speaking. “But | lars and be gay and glamorous, while it yoy will try to correct your care- you must drink more milk and eat |8 Wife is satisfled if her husband is | jessness your husband will be so these green vegetables. I know I | Just @ good provider and reasonably | pleased he will meet you halfway and sound like a doctor, but I have read |domestic? Isnt it middle-aged men try to encourage you, and you will enough to know that you need extra WhoO get divorces from their wives be- | get pats on the back instead of the supplies of mineral salts, especially C3use they have got fat and grizzle- hammer, DOROTHY DIX. calcium, _ Just remember the way | headed, but did you ever hear of a! (Copyright, 1935 you have had to go to the dentist’s | — = = year in and year out and you won't ‘ 7- t bl T. k t R 1 even second teeth was settled largely before ever a child was born. The woody fiber in vegetables offers a splendid broom or cleaning device for Nancy Page Records Call for Milk and Vegetables. getting.” | Eleanor promised to do better. Her | own reading had proved to her that | the fate of first or baby teeth and | body which is having an extra amount | of waste material needs to pay espe- cial attention to a method of carry- . ing off that waste. The cellulose or Food Realm. Fiance. bugs which collect on the under part of the leaves. These bugs are really plant lice and are not at all difficult to control if taken in hand early. If neglected, however, they will multiply with exceeding rapidity and will do much damage. Sometimes, in fact, they cause the leaves to turn yellow and perhaps to fall before their presence is suspected, be- cause of the fact that they work out of sight under the leaves. ‘The one sure method of extermi- nating this pest is to spray the under side of the leaves fre- quently, using some nicotine preparation like Black Leaf 40, to which a little soap has been added. A tin spray pump, which costs less than $1, will do the work satisfactorily. Spraying should be continued at frequent intervals. . (Copyright. 19350 want to have any child of yours re- peat the performance. And I know | you need more roughage than you are . ~ ¢ And Flavor Bridal Gift diet of the mother-to-be was l.kr:m” _ — responsible for strong white teeth. . - e Kne. too, toat any numen| Dinner of That Type Problem of Meeting Gains Standing in Parents of One's the human body. So spinach, green peas, green beans, carrots, raw cabbage and lettuce were BY EDITH M. BARBER. | VEGETABLE dinner has come to have its place on almost every BY EMILY POST. MRS. POST: My mother in- that it is improper for a | “DEAR sists accepted and, when she forgét her restaurant menu in the last few years. girl to buy tickets and ask a boy to a prejudices, honestly liked and en- joyed. She would take a cup of cocoa It is popular either as a luncheon or & dinner main course. Its success de- dance given by a girls' school other than her own. She claims that the and cress sandwich in the middle of | pends upon the quality of the vege- | girl who is inviting me first ought to the afternoon as she rested on her |tables, upon their combination, upon | invite the boy I'd like to go with, and chaise longue with sunshine, flowers and book beside her, ‘she was a sen- sible person, at that. Cook’sCorner BY MRS ATFVANNE® AEORGE. SERVING SIX. Salad Bowl. Cheese Strips. Olives. Pickles. Radishes. Strawberry Sherbet. Gold Cake with Creamy Frosting. Iced Coffee. SALAD BOWL. slices tomatoss Y% cup chopped cup diced pimientos cucumbers 1 tablespoons 14 teaspoo: 2 cup French ped onie dressing Dped green peppers 8 crisp lettuce % cup diced celery leaves Mix all ingredients excepting lettuce. Cover and chill two hours, CHEESE STRIPS. 2 cups pastry flour 2 cup milk 4 teaspodhs baking T cup erated cheese powder tablespoons soft 4 tablespoons fat butter Mix flour, baking powder and salt. Cut in fat with knife. Mixing with knife, add milk. When soft dough forms pat out until one-eighth inch thick. Mix tter and cheese and spread on half the dough. Fold other half of dough over and on top cheese. Press well. Using sharp knife cut into strips 2 by % inches. Bake seven min- utes on greased pan in moderate oven. GOLD CAKE. % cup fat 1 teaspoon almond cup sugar 4 esx yolks % 3 cup sul 1 cup m gar teaspoon, lemon 1 teaspoon baking extract vowder Cream fat and sugar. Add rest of ingredients and beat two minutes. Pour into greased shallow pan. Bake 20 minutes in moderate oven. CREAMY FROSTING. blespoons butter Y, teaspoon lemon blespoon bhot extract ream 14 teaspoon salt yolk 1% cups sifted con- poon vanilla fectioner’s sugar. x ingredients. Beat well. Let t I3 | the proper cooking and upon the ar- rangement upon the plate. For the home meal all of these points are just as_important. It is hardly necessary to say that fresh, crisp vegetables chosen. combine, vegetables of contrasting texture, flavor and color should be considered. While boiled vegetables, buttered and seasoned well, will form the mainstay of such a dinner, a mors attractive and savory platter or plats will have at least one broiled or sauted vegetable. In one of New York's best restaurants, the following combin tion is an appreciated dish. The veg- etables are served on large, individual plates. In the center is a poached egg, topped with Hollandaise sauce. It is surrounded by green peas, potato balls, rolled in minced parsley; but- tered string beans, glazed carrots, but- tered spinach and broiled caulifiower. The caulifiower is probably cooked as usual, split into flowers, buttered and slipped into the brofler a moment The result of this varied treatment of the vegetable is most appetizing. At another restaurant, a broiled vegetable dinner is famous. Mush- room caps, tomato halves, celery stalks and sweet potatoes are ar- ranged in individual oval casseroles. The sweet potatoes have undoubtedly been parboiled before being arranged in the dish. Butter is generously spread over the vegetables, and they are either bal in a hot oven or broiled under a low flame. Some- times stalks or canned asparagus are substituted for the celery. A good combination of «he inex- pensive vegetables and canned vege- tables can be made to advantage also. Place & mound or mold of rice in the center of the plate and garnish with a round of pimiento. Surround with glazed onions, sauted parsnips, but- tered oyster plant, buttered lima beans (canned) and spinach (canned or fresh). Glazed Onions. Peel onions and cook in a small amount of water with a dash of sugar and salt in & heavy, covered utensil until tender. When tender place in & saucepan with two tablespoons of sugar and two tablespoons of butter. Cook over a low fire until sugar is melted. Baste with.the sirup and 4 should be et me see. In selecting the kinds to|to X school and vou go to A school, | then he would buy the tickets and ask me. And, of course, I don't agree. What is your opinion?” Answer: I am afraid I am some- what bewildered by this question, but If your friend Mary goes can you then buy tickets for the X school dance? Or does Mary buy them and give them to you and your boy friend Tommy? Or can Tommy just buy them at the stationery store? After all, if the tickets are on sale, why couldn’'t your mother buy them and then let vou invite Tommy? That sounds all right to me. Or does your mother think that Mary ought to sell tickets to Tommy? This might not help vou very much unless you can | count on his inviting you, and not | some other girl, to go with him! As | I have already said, I see no impro- | priety in your “having tickets” (no | matter who gave them to you) and in- viting him to go with you, provided he is & boy who has given you similar in- vitations, or at least made his friend- ship for vou unmistakably evident. “Dear Mrs. Post: I can't find any | advice to help me meet my flance's | parents. Thev live in a dis‘ant town | and have written to me, but I am to meet them for the first time. Please help me to say the rizht thing.” Answer: Such greetings can only be friendly and warm if they are said spontaneously. But the m-aning would be: “I am so glad to sec you at last,” or “Jim has told me so much about you I feel as though I've known you all along,” or whatever is true and therefore natural for you to say. “Dear Mrs. Post: My brother, who is well established in life, is marrying a widow who also has no end of pos- sessions, and any wedding present of silver or linen or furniture would be useless to them. What could you suggest to send them?” Answer: I don't know what you can do except to ask them to tell you something they would like from you. If they have no ideas, then you will have to make the best choiee you can. (Copyright. 1935.) Pay While Learning to Fly. Yeadon, England, airport has started a pay-as-you-fly flying school for shop girls, stenographers, insurance clerks and garage workers.