Evening Star Newspaper, June 8, 1935, Page 7

WOMEN’S FEATURES. Pertinent Discuss President to Mrs. J. A. Decorate Dougherty With Cross of Honor "Award, With Title of Lady of Flag, to Be Made Flag Day as Result of Her Work With Children. BY BETSY CASWELL, N_FLAG DAY, June 14, the President of the United States will personally pre- sent to Mrs. John Allen Dougherty of Washington the Cross of Honor, the award of which invests the recipient with the title of Lady of the Flag, and carries life membership in the Order of the Flag, headed by Col. Clarles Au- gustus Lindbergh, as the first to re: ceive the Cross of § Honor, and be- come A member of the crder. & Thirs great award has been made to Mrs. Dougherty be- cause of the splendid and un- tiring services she has rendered during the year to the United States Flag Association, in its efforts to com- bat crime and other national cankers, and to further American patriotism at every turn. In this latter cause, Mrs. Dougherty has gone directly to the fundamental roots of the matter, and has been building patriotism from the “ground up.” so to speak, by her great work with the children and adolescent citi- ens. Betsy Caswell. Several years ago she created here | in Washington, against much unbelief, the now tremendously successful Thrift Shop, so ably kept functioning at top speed by the indefatigable Mrs. John R. Willilams and her Junior League assistants. The proceeds from the fund obtained by the Thrift Shop and its various enterprises, are dedicated to charities dealing with child care and education. To be sure that the organ- ization would be perfect in every de- tail, Mrs. Dougherty spent months in New York and other large cities, studying the systems used by similar shops, their general arrangement, and the scope of activity. Armed with all this first-hand knowledge, she returned to Washington, sure that the shop would prove a success, and promptly established it according to the best standards culled from the | many which she had observed. * % X % Smcx then, Mrs. Dougherty has done wonderful work along child welfare, and philanthropic lines in China, and other places, but her great- est achievement here recently has been her work with the boys of Washington, in co-operation with the Metropolitan Police. Horrifled by the number of boys allowed to roam the streets at will, forming juvenile gangs that tormented their neighbarhoods, she cast about for some way in which to turn these lives from dross into gold. She tells me that it was Maj. Ernest Brown who originated the idea of forming Boys’ Clubs, to teach the boys that the po- lice were their friends. She promptly went to work to raise money for the project, as the plan appealed to her extremely. This was accomplished through her usual indomitable will and efficiency, and on February 22, Washington's Birthday, 1934, the first Boys' Club of the Metropolitan Police in the Dis- trict of Columbia was formally opened. Purposely, this first club was located in the precinct noted for the amount of juvenile delinquency within its con- fines, and close observation was main- tained to see just what effect the jormation of the club had on this sparticular problem. « Mrs. Dougherty says that reports 'show that in that precinct juvenile sdelinquency has now practically dis- peared, and the results of the club ihave proven so excellent that two imore clubs have since been opened 4n other precincts, with a total mem- bership of about 3,000 boys! . * % % % L DUR!:NG the past year the boys 3 have benefited in countless Zways—mental, moral and physical. “They have foot ball and base ball jteams, which play rival organiza- ftions and thus inculcate a sporting @spirit. There are basket ball teams, 3too, and wrestling and boxing under scompetent instructors to teach them fthe lesson of self-defense and the iproper attitude of “give and take.” “Patriotism is “externally” applied by #trips to Mount Vernon, Arlington and “other points of historic interest, where “they are told of the place those who Jdwelt there held in the Nation's -buflding, and of great lives dedicated ito the protection and maintenance wof the American Republic. . Certainly the atmosphere of such iplaces and the spirit of those dead * Theroes must have great effect upon children fed upon such mental food instead of street offal have a far bet- ter chance of growing up an asset, rather than a liability, to our country. Last Summer members of the clubs went to a camp for eight days, and gained much in health and pleasure. Well-ordered routine and carefully planned diet did wonders for bodies and nerves, and the boys thoroughly enjoyed the semblance of military life during their short stay. * ok ¥ ¥ N INTERESTING item which Mrs. Dougherty brought to my attention is the fact that the boys are allowed to join the clubs in thelr own groups, or “gangs.” This makes membership look more attractive to them in the beginning. Later, one «r two boys develop a yearning to wear | one of the badges given for leadership, | good conduct, etc., and is told he | must work to own it. Proudly, he sets about winning the coveted award. This automatically breaks up the gang association, and any bad ele- ments therein naturally “go: by the board.” Mrs. Dougherty visions, before so very long, more and more boys’ clubs, in the various sections of the city, and the formation of the first girls’ club along the same lines. Untiring in her efforts to build the new generations into splendid citizens and patriots, she has taken for her creed certain paragraphs of the dec- laration of Geneva, signed by the General Committee of the Save the Children International Union and ap- proved by the League of Nations: “The child must be given the means requisite for its normal development, both materially and spiritually.” “The child that is hungry must be fed; the child that is sick must be nursed: the child that is backward | must be helped; the delinquent child must be reclaimed, and the orphan and the waif must be sheltered and succored.” “The child must be put in a posi- tion to earn a livelihood and must be protected against every form of exploitation.” 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. Style Trends. Alix, one of the most famous of Paris designers, uses huge bunches |of flowers to weight the trains of silk evening gowns. Cook’s Corner BY MRS~ ALEXANDER GEORGE. STRETCHING THE DOLLAR. DINNER SERVING FIVE. Beef Goulash Buttered Turnips Bread Grape Jam Cabbage Pineapple Salad Cream Rice Pudding Coffee BEEF GOULASH. 3 tablespoons fat 1 pound round 4 tablespoons steal + ixbiespoons " chopoed green Melt fat in frying pan. Add and brown onions, peppers and meat. Add tomatoes and cook five minutes. Add rest of ingredients, mix well and serve immediately. CABBAGE PINEAPPLE SALAD. 3 cups shredded % cup chopped bbi celery 1 feaspoon salt , pineapple s teaspoon papriks % cup diced % cup salad dressing marshmallows Chiil ingredients. Combine and serve on crisp cabbage leaves. CREAM RICE PUDDING, (Made in Double Boiler.) % cup rice 3 ess volks 3 cups milk % teaspoon lemon s cup water extract teaspoon vanilla Y. teaspoon salé cup sugar Thoroughly wash rice. Add half milk and water and cook one hour in double boiler. Add rest of milk and cook 15 minutes. Add rest of ingredi- ents, cook four minutss. GCool and chill. ANOTHER ECONOMY DINNER. Bread Rhubarb Conserve Sliced Tomatoes Gingerbread Tea ‘The appetites of growing children increase with active outdoor exercise. Frequently between meal “snacks” are required and these can consist of fruit, bread and jelly or simple cake or mpressionable boyisk minds—and | cookies, THE EVENING STAR; WASHINGTON, Deficient in True Charm Life Made Miserable for Others When Courtesy Fails. BY ANGELO PATRI. "YOU be the baby. You be the | nurse. Il be the mother and tell you what to do.” | “It isn't fair. You always take the best for yourself. No. I won't play | if you're going to be the mother.” | “What's the good of your being| { mother, Louise. You know you haven't | any ideas.” “Is that so? Why don’t you call | me dumb and get through? I'm going home. Come along, Leona. We can play our own way. I'm just sick of | your bossing, Mary Jane Carroll.” “All right. Go on home. See if I care. I'm going to dress up and play Lady of the Lake or Queen of Sheba, 1 haven't made up my mind which yet. It's according to which dress looks best on me. I'm going to take one with a long train out of my grandmother’s trunk. It's too bad for you that you haven't any grand- mother’s trunk or any imagination, Louise. That's one reason you can't play with me. I have imagination.” “You have cheek, you mean. All you want is to be boss. If you let me be something once in & while I'll stay. But I won't be bossed by you no matter what. So there.” The charge is just. Mary Jane Carroll is bossy toward those who are her inferiors. She is leader by right | of superior endowments, and posses- sions such as trunks, an old attic and | a barn. However, her attitude lacks persuasive charm and the followers, however compliant, must rise on occa- sion to protest against complete sub- mersion. Hers 15 a precarious lead- ership, interrupted often by strikes and feuds and periods of isolation. Such a child’s leadership is valuable to her own development and that of other children. How can it be used to better advantage? Keep her busy. Give her a bit of work that requires organization, that demands the co- operation of others for its success. If she is asked to give a play and devote the proceeds to some good cause in which she is interested, a wheel chair for the children’s ward, a week in camp for a city child, she will become 80 eager for the success of the under- taking thai she will of necessity con- sider the rights and feelings of her helpers. Don't take over the. respon- leading man, the burden of reconcilia- tion is her own. Teach her that lead- ership has its price. ! When & bossy child threstens to dominate s household and make life miserable for everybody, look about _D. C, ‘SATURDAY, Smart Sports Frock Is Buttoned Down \ N\ N N \ sports clothes as well as prints, the only difference being the height of the heel. Gloves should be very, very short; hats simple and wide brimmed. Wear your skirt at least 12 inches from the floor, and remember to carry Yourself well! ‘This frock is very easy to make and you'll find yourself wearing it often in Ppreference to more important dresses. Barbara Bell pattern No. 1674-B is designed in sizes 14, 186, 18, 20, 40 and 2 bust measurements 42, Corresponding . | 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42." Size 16 (34) requires about ¢ yards of 36-inch material. Every Barbara Bell pattern includes an {llustrated instruction guide which is easy to understand. (Copyrizht. 1938.) JUNE s, 1085, Last Summer the ‘members of the Boys" Clubs of the Metropolitan Police enjoyed organized camsp life at Camp Calvert, on Breton Bay. Water sports and all cam$ activities gave them exercise and pleasure. This year the camp will be in the Blue R;Jge Mountains, near Charles Town, W.Va. Bossy Child || Becoming to Any Age DiningHour Gains From Full Shelves {Business Girl May Be Able to Expedite Her Cooking. BY EDITH M. BARBER. night?” muses the business woman on her way home late from the office. “I won't have time to stop at the market. Now what have I in If she is the kind of woman who keeps her shelves well stocked with cans and packages of ready-to-use food it will not take her long to w- cide what she will put together for & quick, appetizing meal. ‘The “makings” may come in can- nisters, cans or cartons, and the pur- chaser will be sure that the contents are absolutely clean and sapitary. Package goods have won a pi in the minds of housekeepers because of their high standard of quality. The label tells what is inside,.and the con- tents must be up to specifications. From a carton or glass jar she will take the dried beef for frizzled beef. From a carton or sealed oil paper bag will come the potato chips. From 2 can will come the baby beets, which she will serve as a vegetable. From & bottle or jar will come the ready- mixed French or mayonnaise dressing, which she will use for the saiad. The lettuce and other salad vegetables she will have on hand in the refrigerator, but she will garnish it with a pimento She will serve crackers to chill until the last moment. For & cold drink she will mix a smali bottle of grape juice with a large bottle of ginger ale, and flavor this refreshing drink with bottled orange juice. If she serves after-dinner coffee it will probably be taken from a can. When her supper it ready to serve she will have in little or no time a well balanced, well combined and enjoyable meal. Fruit Salad, Lemon Tee. Prepare and chill seasonable fruits. Orange, peach and melon with a few raspberries are delicious just now. Pour over the fruit a French dressing and let stand half an hour in ice box. Arrange Lke a nest in lettuce cup and WOMEN’S FEATURES, ‘A7 Dorothy ion Along Lines of Interest in th¢ Woman’'s Sphere Dix Says “Qld-Fashioned Soft Soap” to Tell Girl 2 to Help Husband. EAR MISS DIX: You tell young wives to help their D husbands on their way up, | to keep themselves attrac- tive, to do their part, to be always cheerful and pleasant; in short, to be true helpmates. This ad- vice is bosh and you know it. It is wrong counsel to give young girls planning marriage., For every wife who has given her man a hand up and helped him to be a success I can match you with a woman who has been sloppy and lazy and yet has got | hers. I know plenty of wives who have spent their lives helping their husbands, then when they were mid- dle-aged were deserted for young and better-looking women. So I teach my girls to be selfish, to take and take and take and never give. Why don't you give straight advice and not plas- ter things with the old-fashioned soft soap? A WIFE., and take as much from men without giving an; It is the wives who give and gi give who are happiest and who help their husbands to success. love, which should have the greater love in order that the marriage should be a success? OFFICE FORCE. Answer—Of course, the ideal mar- riage is one in which both the man and the woman are deeply in love with each other. Perhaps it seldom NSWER—Well, the old-fashioned | P2PPens that & married couple loves | equally. The French have a proverk soft soap s applied to husbands | tor this which says that in marriage o HAT shall I have for dinner to- | seems to have been mighty efficacious | in lubricating the domestic machinery | in the past, and the women who used it didn’t get into the divorce courts so often as the modern ones do who | scorn it, as you do. Also, it seems to | have greased the road for many a | man who was on the up-and-up and hotimuwd his getting where he was going. If you will read the biographies of so-called self-made men, you will be struck with the fact of how often the | wife had the biggest hand in the job. | Almost every man who started out | poor and humble and who became rich and famous pays tribute to the wife who toiled and scrimped and saved in order to help him get a start; who washed his shirt at night and pressed | his one suit of clothes so that he | next day; who encouraged him when he was down-hearted and lost faith in himself and who literally made of her shoulders the ladder by which he climbed to success. BUT I don't recali of ever hearing that the Daughters of the Horse- leech were of any help to their hus- bands in getting on in the world. Nor have I observed that the wives who take and take and take from their husbands and give nothing in return, as you recommend their doing, are any great inspiration or incentive to ! the mien to whom they are married ! that leads them to great achieve- ments, On the contrary, they are a distinct handicap. First, for the very practical reason that it takes a superman to make any headway against an extrav- agant wife who must have everything | | save the little nest-egg out of which | | every fortune must be hatched. Also, | | because it saps a man’s courage to | have a slacker for a wife instead of one who is fighting shoulder to shoul- | der with him. He has not the will to fight for her as he does' for the wife | whom he knows will struggle to the | death to push him on to victory. F COURSE, there are occasional | men who have the strength and | ability to achieve success without the help of any woman, but most of the | men who do things have had ambi- tious wives who were the driving | force behind them. ‘They have had wives who loved | them, who were willing to sacrifice themselves for them. They have had | wives who made them happy. And 80, if for no other reason, it pays a | woman to be & helpmate instead of a parasite because her husband is more likely to make good and she shares in his fortune. OP COURSE, there are cases where a wife slaves and sacrifices and pinches pennies to help her husband get a start. And when he has be- come rich, largely through her efforts, he turns her out of the home like an old workhorse whose days of useful- ness are over, and puts in the palace, | whose very foundation stones she has | laid, a pretty young wife. But where that happens once there are a hun- dred thousand cases of men who feel & never-dying gratitude to the women who have been comrades as well as wives and to whom they feel they owe their success. Every day we see fat old women blazing with diamonds and hung with could make a decent appearance the | him. she wants and who will not help him | T pearls, & grotesque spectacle until you one loves and the other permits him- self or herself to be loved. SOME contend that in such a ease the man should love more because all the circumstances of his life, his ambitions, his career, his absorption in other interests tend to draw him away from his wife and make senti- ment a secondary consideration. But I think (Elt the wife should love more, because love means more to a woman than it ever does to & man, and it is more important to her to be deeply enamored of her. The woman who is very much in love with her husband is a happy woman. She has her heart's desire. She finds mar- riage worth while because she is al- ways on her tiptoes trying to please DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright. 1935.) LaccTyCTrls List Camp Life Needs Nancy Page Reports Preparations for Annual Outing. BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. 'HE Lacey girls were studying camp booklets. All of them wanted to go. Camping was an old story to Claire. She had reached the stage where she was a junior counselor in the camp to which she had gone for the past five' years. Judith had camped last year for the first time and now it was Pam that was teasing to go. Mrs. Lacey decided to send the two younger girls to one camp and to let Claire go to the old one she knew so well. She felt that it would do the girls no harm to be separated for a few weeks. They saw each other day in and day out. She was almost tempted to send Judith to one camp and Pam to another but since Mr. Lacey felt he could afford only three weeks for the two younger girls they begged to be allowed to go to the same place. Mrs. Lacey assented and such howls of joy arose that their father declared the neighbors would all be in to see who was being killed. No sooner was permission given than the girls began to study a list camp requirements. The girls had take three cotton or flannel bed sheets, three cotton sheets, two pillow slips, one woolen blanket, a rubber blanket or poncho, bath robe, flannelette sport shirt, and a Windsor tie of hiue. ‘There had to be a bathing suit, slip- pers and cap, shorts, rubbers, tennis shoes, socks, oxfords, rubbers and one flashlight, tennis balls, needles, thread, thimble, hot-water bag, um- brella, pencils, paper, camera, musical instruments were allowed. Everything was required to be marked with the girl's name. Such making of lists and checking of things on hand and discussions with Claire as ensued. WELL, WHAT ON EARTHS HAPPENED! IVE MADE A PERFECT MERINGUE AT LAST ! SURE! THIS TIME YOU USED JACK FROST SUGAR. IT DISSOLVES TO THE LAST FINE GRAIN « »+ QuICK AS A WINK !