Evening Star Newspaper, January 16, 1937, Page 24

B—8 PEDESTRIANS MUST CO-OPERATE WITH THO Teach Traffic Laws Should Be Explained to Children With Greatest of Care Observance of Certain Fundamental Regu- lations Would Make Things Safer All Around. HE record of traffic d‘efnglziymf\fi'lsm iose throughout the United States does not present a very pretty picture. The man hehind the wheel, as a general rule, is the individual upon whom blame falls. This is obviously, true in the cases of accidents resulting from head-on collisions, skidding and overturned cars, blow-outs while speeding, driving wnen intoxicated, and so or. In this type of smash-up, a driver is without doubt entirely culpable. Though some one in another car may be an innocent vic- tim, the driver of the offending vehicle 4s distinctly re- sponsible for the disaster. But there are many instances of accident and injury to pedes- trians, which are all too hastily blamed on the man at the wheel. No driver is deliberately out to knock people down and run over them. No pedestrian in his senses placeshim- self knowingly in the path of an on- coming car. It stands to reason that the accident is not premeditated by either party. Therefore it immedi- ately becomes obvious that careless- ness and possibly stupidity are at the bottom of the majority of such cases. I have watched, as I go about the town, the narrow squeaks and long chances experienced by many pedes- trians. There is the “leaping gar.gue" type—the young man who springs from the curb, sprinting in and out between vehicles, and arrives on the opposite sidewalk after having been missed by a hair’s breadth a dozen times. There is the woman with the “hen complex”"—she invariably wants to get to the other side just when the lights have changed, and scuttles across against the red signal as the Wheels begin to turn. ® ok ok X THEN there are the “bulldogs”—the | men or women who are sure they have a better right to the street than the cars do, and who stand at least two or three feet out from the curb while waiting for a vehicle to make & right turn in front of them. By standing their ground in this unyield- ing manner, they force cars to move out of line into the middle of the street, thereby causing trouble for the whole intersection. They think they are pretty invinicible and su- perior—as a matter of fact, they are Just plain nuisances. The man with the “minnow” spirit darts suddenly from between two parked cars in the middle of the block, and continues to dart at con- fusing angles to the far curb. This 1s very upsetting to the cautious driver end may, as a matter of fact, result in the darter’s being struck, for it is e Betsy Caswell. impossible to avoid him by antici- pating his next move. The “sparrows” are the women— and sometimes the men—who stand lost in animated conversation at the corner, while the light changes from red to green and back to red again. At this point the talkers decide to step off the curb, still gossiping, and are most indignant when a car fender scrapes by them, and the squeal | of brakes behind them rises to the | heavens in furious protest. Usually they don't even stop talking, and be- cause of the patience and alertness | of the various drivers, they are saved to commit the same offense another day. * ok X X AND then there are the children. Poor little things, for the most part they only ape their elders, and grow up thinking it is smart to try and outwit traffic. If they were taught the fundamentals of safeguarding themselves on the streets the hideous toll of traffic accidents involving youngsters would be lessened to a remarkable degree. It is up to the parents and the pe- destrians to actively help in the cru- sade against traffic deaths and inju- ries. Don't sit back and say, with a shudder—"Those dreadful drivers! They are ruthless in the way they treat people on foot!” They're not ruthless. But they can't always out- guess the pedestrian—and that is when tragedy enters the picture. Co- operation frcm those on foot is essen- tial; training of children to obey sig- nal lights and to keep their wits about them is also necessary. And moth- ers should not let their youngsters make playgrounds of the streets un- der any circumstances. This is one instance where a little wholesome fear, properly injected into the child- ish mind, is for the little one’s ulti- mate good. Familiarity has always been reckoned the breeder of con- tempt—any child will forget to b2 watchful and on his toes in a place which he has come to regard as his own front porch or nursery. No, it is up to the pedestrians and the parents to stop blaming the drivers and do a little checking up on them- selves. If we who walk would exer- cise the same care that we expect of those who drive, things would im- prove mightily. Let us observe the laws of the streets with the same meticulous care that is required of the man behind the wheel. We'd make things lots pleasanter for him, and a good deal safer for us! New House Frock Smart Model Is Built on Popular Shirtwaist Lines. BY BARBARA BELL. ERE'S a simplified shirtwaister that promises to stand by through thick and thin for H house or daytime wear. It dispenses with yokes, but uses the flattering open-throat collar and lapels, ending in pleats, but plain in back. A large pocket at one side BARBARA BELL, ‘Washington Star. Inclose 25 cents in coins for Pattern No. 1207-B Name ... AQGresS aceeeecacaaaacaccnaaae (Wrap coins securely in paper.) will probably come in very handy as well as adding a finished look to the frock. Make it in percale for the house, and in dimity, printed linen or shantung for the daytime. Barbara Bell pattern No. 1207-B is available for sizes 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48 and 50. Size 36 requires 4%, yards 35-inch material. Every Barbara Bell patttern ine cludes an {llustrated instruction guide ‘which is easy to understand. Send 15 cents for the Barbara Bell Pattern Book. Make yourself attrac- tive, practical and becoming clotties, selecting designs from the Barbara Bell well-planned, easy-to-make pat- terns. 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 par- ticular young women and matrons, and other patterns for occa= sions are all to be found in the Bar- bars Bell Pattern Book. THE EVENING + STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1937. Youngsters to Heed Signals L n’"m R T . The children of today are the citizens of tomor row—and one of the first lessons they should learn isto obey traffic rules promptly and cheerfully. It should be impressed upon them that streets are for crossing and for “going places”—they are not play grounds, ever! Star Staff Photo Beauty of Starting the Day Right Spiritual Repose in Morning Always Helpful. BY ANGELO PATRL THE end of any undertaking is set in its beginning. A healthy seed, a careful plan, a rounded thought will give the beginning such a sturdy impetus that the end cannot but be worth while. A kindly Providence so arranged the schedule of our living that we have a beginning every 24 hours. We do not make enough of the privilege of a fresh start. More often than not we forget we are mak- ing a start and hurry stupidly along into unother messy and unworthy day. ‘Whatever work one does is done by the grace and the strength of the spirit. It is spiritual courage, spir- itual power, spiritual will that calls out physical strength and endurance. Not the other way round. Even the most heedless give some thought to their physical preparation for the day, bathing and dressing and eating be- fore starting, but even the most thoughtful and careful forget about the all-important preparation of the spirit. Mothers and fathers and teachers stand in special need of this preparation. The tension that growing children create in the adults who are close to them is something that has to be con- sidered gravely if there is to be har- mony and health in the family. The children cannot help being noisy, out of time and tune with the adults, but the adults can do something to main- tain their poise, their good sense and calm judgment, all of which they must guard for the good of the group. They can nourish and adorn their spirits before they give thought to their bodies when beginning the day. The two can go forward together to some extent. A few minutes can be devoted to the cultivation of the spirit while the body rests, There is always 2 way. Each must decide for himself what will best nourish his spirit for the day. The handbooks that offer a daily thought help some; the prayer book and the Bible are for others; some grain of religlous philosophy helps others, Singing a hymn, quot- ing a fine bit of prose or poetry serves for others. Some bit of buoyant beauty is what is needed and for each, his own. It will not cost too much time. The few minutes necessary in the quiet of one’s spirit will not hinder the work of the morning, but will further it because on the power gained in those few quiet minutes the best of the day’s work is going to be done, This is not a matter of willing to do right. .No will beyond the will to be still and know that the spirit will speak is needed. This is only a re- sponse to a great need; easily given by yielding to the stillness of mind and body that is waiting to take over. It 15 not necessary to say, “Now, Il be quiet and read my lesson for the day and make myself peace-filled and calm.” Forget about making yourself anything and be still. Let your spirit grow and wax strong within you. Al- low it, don't try to make it. Spiritual life cannot abide with force. It is a pervading force in itself and so none other is needed. Try starting the day with your spirit in tune and you will find that your body goes along with it, that your work goes along with it, too, and that your day will be happier, richer and truly worthy. Mr. Patri will give personal atten- tion to inquiries from parents and school teachers on the care and de- velopment of children. Write him in care of this paper, inclosing a 3-cent stamped, self-addressed envelope for reply. (Copyright, 1937.) My Neighbor Says: Having more than one measur- ing cup handy is a great asset and time-saver in cooking. Bind the edges of oflcloth used for table coverings with bias tape. This will keep the edges from tearing or becoming ragged. Fowl may be found in the mar- ket throughout the year, but it is best from March until June. To remove mustard stains from linens, rub well with hot water and soap. Rinse in warm water. (Copyright, 1037.) Dor;(@y Dix S__ays Finances Should Be Seriously Consid- ered When Thinking of Matrimony. in love with a chap living in a small town. He works at a filling station and makes about $35 a month. He wants me to marry him, but I keep putting him off because I know that he will never leave the little town, where there is no oppor- tunity for him to better himself, be- cause his mother lives there. I want him to strike out and get a job with a future to it so we can have some- thing when we get married. Do you think I am doing wrong by not giving up my job and marrying him? E. M S, EAR MISS DIX: Iam a bus- D iness girl with a good job, Answer: No, I think you are showing a little | sanity, for you certainly would be crazy if you gave up a good job to marry & man who made only $35 a month, with no chance of ever doing | better. Possibly the two of you could exist on that amount of money if you pinched every penny, ate the cheapest food and denied yourselves every pleasure and comfort, and so long as there were no complications of babies or sickness. But life is full of complications of bables and sickness and, believe me, there is mighty little love that is strong enough to survive that. * x * x IT ISN'T necessary for a young cou- ple to have riches on which to marry, but it is necessary for them to have enough to live on in reasonable comfort. No marriage can be a suc- cess in which the husband and wife live in shuddering terror of the land- lord and lie awake at night wondering where the next meal is coming from and where the advent of & baby is a tragedy instead of a joy. Nobody thinks much of the state of the heart when the stomach is empty. Nobody feels sentimental when cold and uncomfortable and when all the yearnings of the being are for a good steak and a few of the creature com- forts to which accustomed. Perhaps love should be strong enough to sur- mount shabbiness and the lack of & haircut and shave and doing without amusements and going to parties, etc., but, alas, this is a hard and prosaic world in which we are all more body than soul, and mighty few marriages survive that don’t have a little pie to go with the bread and cheese and kisses. Evidently your boy friend has very little ambition if he is willing to settle down in a small town in which there is no chance of advancement just to be near his mother. You are quite right to demand that he show some spirit of enterprise before you marry him, and if he still persists in stick- ing to his pittance of a salary in order to be close to mother you will be wise to leave him to his choice. Those who are content with little always have little. Legal Status of Dogs p@yment‘_ of' /icense fee gives 2 dog profection as /legel property. BY MARY ALLEN HOOD. ISTRICT dogs have been pro- moted of recent years. A pup used to have about as much protection as a mosquito. Since dog tags came into fashion times have changed. A canine Dis- trict citizen, when properly garbed, has property value. He may walk the streets and absorb the beauty of nature. As long as he behaves like a gentleman and obeys city maxims all is well. Once he slips he becomes entangled in a series of legal phrases which, however, are & relief after years of shotgun rule! It might be a good plan for every ing the postman isn't worth the steam it stirs up. Besides, the actual law isn't as lenient about that “warm-up” snap as one might think. A dog is liable to find himself placed under section 9 of the “Police Regulations” with & lot “circumstances involved” thrown in. If Pups will turn to that page of the book he’ll see that the regulation states that no dog known to be vicious should be permitted to go at large. Of course, & pup has to prove himself of that temperament to some one. That's where the “one bite” comes in. After a canine is known to be of a cross disposition any damage he does is charged up to his owner as negligence. Retribution leads from & fine to fine and imprison- ment for the owner and sudden demise for the dog. Again the situation is full of “circumstances involved.” On the sunny side of the legal prop- erty angle is the foct that no one has & right to take a shot at a dog as the whim directs. Any damsage he may do is subject for court actions against his owner. Only in extreme cases is the dog's life involved. Pups must re- member that criminals exist in his species just as in any other. Flavored Potatoes. A little orange juice and grated crange rind sprinkled over the top of mashed sweet potatoes gives them a different and pleasing fiavor. Young Girl Is Usually Cha_&oned Dining Out in Eve- ning; Going Home From "Parties. BY EMILY POST. EAR MRS. POST: How should a girl answer a man when he asks whether he might send her home alone in a cab instead of going home with her? This happened to me when I spent the evening recently with a friend and his family at their house. Answer—I think the only answer you could make is, “Don’t think of coming.” Of course, if the hour were late, then some one should have gone home with you. * ok k% EAR MRS. POST: I was much interested in your article in which you said that women should not go to a night club unaccompanied by a man. Won't you please tell me whether this also applies to the early dinner hour? I sometimes go to New York accompanied by my mother, or other older woman relative, and, in- stead of having dinner in a quiet restaurant, we like to go to one that has Broadway atmosphere, with music and show. Answer—A young woman dining, no matter where, and staying for a while with her mother or other older woman relative is quite a different situation from that of two young women going late to & night club without a man! * x * % EAR MRS. POST: Is there a proper answer to make when some one expresses thanks for a birthday card or other slight remem- brance? If I say, “I'm glad you liked it,” then I feel that I am assuming they liked the card when all the person may have said was “Thank you.” I always find the situation awkward and wonder whether there is some suitable reply to be used at such times. Answer—If they admire the card, or think it amusing, then you say, “I'm glad you like it,” and if they merely thank you for having sent it, then you say, “You're very welcome.” * ok k¥ EAR MRS. POST: I have gone for years to a very expensive hairdressing establishment and have always left a tip for those who take care of me. In discussing the ques- tion with a friend, she believes that their prices are exorbitant enough, so that no tip is necessary. To sub- stantiate her side of the argument she gave me, for example, some of the better restaurants in which no tips are expected. Answer—Unless the restaurant or the hairdressers have signs plainly explaining that no tipping is permite ted, you would be expected to tip at the usual rates. And, unless your total bill is very high, your percentage ‘would, if anything, be slightly higher than in similar places having cheaper rates. (Copyright, 1937.) Manners of the Moment IT MUST have been from Elsie Dinsmore or from Pollyanna that most of us picked up our idea of how to make hospital calls. You go in, and you take out your sewing or your knitting, and then you settle down to cheer up the patlent for the entire morning or the entire afternoon. Well, Pollyanna, or Elsie, or who- ever it was, didn’t do right by us. We've heard now, from & number of hospital patients, that there's noth- ing more discouraging than to see some dear friend settle down for the afternoon. When you're sick, it seems, you live to have company. But you don’t have the stamina to bear up under & whole afternocon of it, no matter how well you're getting along. And what’s more, most good conva- lescents are usually pretty pleased with having & good chance to get their year's reading done, and too many interruptions annoy them. 8o if you are a cheerful sick bed visitor, you'd better put your ring on your other hand when you enter the patient’s room, and remember to leave as soon as the ring begins to feel funny. And you might try to persuade yeurself, too, that you're not an ex- ception to ¢he rule. But perhaps that too much to ask. JEAN. (Coprrisht, 19370 € SE WHO DRIVE At the Century’s Turn The Cosmetic Business Really Began to Boom Early Advertisements Far Different From the Artistic and Persuasive Me- dium of Today. BY GAEL RENFREW. 111 OMING events cast their shadows before’”—a proverbial way of pui- ting the truism that every age is blessed with its few seers. Out of the colorless crystal of the present theirs is the golden gift of read- ing glittering promises for the future. ‘The nineteenth century, in its closing years, had such s clairvoyant in Max Beerbohm. One of his essays, “The Pervasion of Rouge,” written jn 1894, earns for him the honor of prophet as«- - et o well as scholar. “We are ripe for & new epoch of artifice,” he anticipated. “No longer is a lady of fashion blamed, if, to escape the outrageous persecu- tion of time, she fly for sanctuary to the toilet table. Surely it is laudable, this wish to make fair the ugly and overtop fairness, and no wonder that within the last five years the trade of the makers of cosmetics has increased immoderately.” So, half a dozen years before the twentieth century dawned, the hand- writing of changing opinion was ap- | pearing on the wall of crumbling prejudice, and Beerbohm, in a little gem of literature, sought to pass on' the message to uncomprehending hoi pollol. “Fashion,” he wrote, “has made Jezebel surrender her monopoly of the rouge pot.” And he put the crux of the vital new question into this sen- tence: “Our thanks, too, should be given to science for ridding us of the old danger that was latent in the use of cosmetics. Nowadays, they cannot, being purged of any poisonous ele- ment, do harm to the skin they make beautiful.” *® ok k ok So MUCH for Beerbohm’s prescience in 1894, when the old century lay a-dying and progressives and reaction- | aries alike awaited its successor with bated breath. Thanks to him, we see | the way paved for the coming of a new social savior. The bright prom- ise of physical salvation and its countless fulfililments have as one of the major achievements of our age. Allowing that the daily newspaper ! is “the poor man’s university,” it is equally true that the most accurate guide books to the practices and cus- toms of other times are the then cur- rent magazines. Go back to Harper's Bazaar of 1868, for example. A search through page after page for mention of cos-| metics results in these few lines: ing full and complete directions for manufacturing all the requisites of the | tollet, including perfumes, pomatums, oils, tooth pastes, powders, etc., etc. Sent postpaid for 25 cents by W. Hep- burne, 102 Nassau street, New York.” The words, few as they are, seem to hide behind the smallness of their | print, and the “ad” is squeezed into the back page of the publication. Between 1868 and 1900, however, a change of revolutionary proportions has taken place. Open a fashion magazine of the period, say, at ran- dom. No need now to hunt for cos- metics advertising. In large, artisti- cally spaced type it confronts the reader from every other page. And it is fascinatingly different from the “copy” prepared today. One face wash is guaranteed to remove “Moth, tan, freckles pimples, blackheads. vents wrinkles, oiliness and aging of the skin. Makes it soft and beauti- ful. Agents wanted.” How weighted with signifieance are these last two words. By the first year of this mir- acle century this cosmetician and her ilk were out to make beauty a busi- ness! * %k X 1900!—-The Boer War was sputter- ing to a finish in far-off South Africa. The sand in the long hour glass of Victoria's reign had almost dramned. But for a few practical dreamers such big events were blot- ted out by a vision of gold in jars and bottles—containing complexion creams! It is not possible to identify the first female who tapped the vast vein of cosmetic wealth, but, as the Scots NecpLewoRi | sure marked | the longing for personal improvement | | for the complexion. “The Toilet Vade Mecum, contain- | Pre- | say, “Fact are chiels ye canna flee frae” (facts are children you can’t get away from) and certain it is that amateur dabbling in lotions and creams, indulged in at home since earliest times, now was done away with. A few far-sighted individuals had brought cosmetics and all that | they were to signify out of the se- clusion of the private still room into |the public domain of commerce. | Agents were required, in those first stages, to sell the public an idea that is now an accepted part of the general scheme of living. * ok K ADVERTXS!NG had not come into its kingdom of million dollar ac- counts, but some of the pioneers were already allying themselves with the literary big-wigs. “A skin of beauty is a joy forever,”—so one “cosmetician” freely paraphrased Keats. He assures the public of that time that his pro- duct has stood the test of 51 years, and “is so harmless we taste it to be it is properly made.” This beautifier was for sale at “all druggists and fancy goods dealers in the United States, the Canadas and Europe.” It was one of the few that did not have | to be sent for or gone after. ‘When cosmetics first began to make an impression in the open commercial market, buyers had to spend time and trouble to obtain any specialty. The next forward step, from a business point of view, was to make all products easily available—to put them into the purchasers’ hands, as it were. Hence, by 1902 we find the department stores in the van of the new crusade. Ad- vertisements for “Saunders’ Bloom of Ninon Face Powder,” evidently an imported product, added the welcome news that it could be bought at John ‘Wanamaker's New York store. By 1906, woman's chief end was openly admitted to be her own beauti- fication. The new creed was nobly set forth by one individual who manu- factured his own line of preparations “In our day,” ran his advertisement “women want to be young and beautiful. It is not as it used to be in our grandmothers’ time when the ‘old lady's cap’ was put on as soon as a girl was married. These dreadful days have gone, never to return—heureusement.” * ok ok x UT the palm for the publicity which these early cosmeticians | were putting out would seem to go to the Small Sisters. In 1906 they stated that they had been “caring for come plexions for 12 years.” That would place them in business around 1894, and in little more than a decade they had come far in their chosen field. If a pun is permitted, these celebrated sisters were Small in name, but not in price! They charged $5 for one treatment, and $50 fof “a course of instructions, treatments and articles.” Any one who doubts that “the lux- uries of one generation become the necessities of the next” need only read a few of the early cosmetic ad- vertisements. It is to society women that the appeal is confined. Of course, in the first decade of this century daughters in even middle-class fami- lies did not turn out to work in droves as they do now, and the wealthy would have sweoned at such an idea. The business world was still 95 per cent men. Women were usurpers ex- cept in shops and factories, where made-up employes would certainly | have been sent home. This is the eighth in a series of articles dealing with the his- tory of cosmetics. The mext will appear shortly on this page. AIRITS Some chair sets are made primarily to be useful (very heavy, to keep the chair clean). But others are entirely for decorative purposes, and we'd put this set in the latter category. However, you must not think it's hard to make, just because it's attractive to look at. For there's one simple motif that makes up the entire design, and the border is hardly worth mentioning, it’s so simple. So bring on the crochet hook, and the No. 20 mercerized crochet cotton, and prepare to surprise your living room. ‘The pattern envelope contains complete, easy-to-understand illustrated directions, - with diagrams to aid you; also what croche} hook and what material and how much you will need. To obtain this pattern, send for 417 and enclose 15 cents in stamps or coin to cover service and postage. Address orders to the Needlework Editor of ‘The Evening Star. L] [}