Evening Star Newspaper, July 24, 1937, Page 22

B—8 THE EVENING Red Pepper Again Proves Ef Masculine Housekeeper Reports on the Results | Of L_a_g_est Experiments‘ STAR, WASHINGTON, T . SATURDAY, 193 JULY fective Against Whole 24, sale Rat Invasion Pneumatic Hammer Used By Only Woman Sculptor On Greenbelt Project Found That Apartment Was Too Quiet at L - . b ) . ] E | “Tomboy” Girl, Now Distinguished Artist, ' Night Without Sound of Rodent 3 : ’ 9 ¢ 4 e Creating Beauty From Rough Ston Activity. BY BETSY OU may remember that seve letter from a masculine reade Non-Sit Down, Though Male." ments, particularly in the matte premises of rats and roaches. You had discovered that ordinary pepper sneezing—success. And, being ful and generous soul. he wished t pass on the information for the bene- fit of other housekeepers, I was delighted, the other day, to find on my desk another letter from this same gentleman. The story it contain- ed was a most amusing - sequel to his former episties He savs that, like all mur- derers, he had a passion “to re- turn to the scene of the crime” where the wholesale demo- lition had taken place. He savs, a that the nights grew too quiet with the barber shop harmony of the rats orchestra sawing aw flat. And he says—but here I'll let h speak for himself: B Betsy Caswell in '} * A NOTHER thing, T was curious. I “\ wondered if 1 could do 1t again. Bo the first thing was to entice a rat back, that I might try my recipe on him. Just outside my back door was 8 sewer trap where the rats, only a year and a month back, used to con- gregate in a C. I. O. convention under the leadership of a beetle-browed and long-eared trombone player. So I left there enough cheese parings, and meat scraps, to catch any communistic hobo of the rodent persuasion who might be peeking into a basement window. “For two days there was no result— not the sound of a rat. Finally T noticed one good-sized piece of stale cheese missing. Ho, ho! Then I made a lttle trail of other scraps, left my back screen door open for four hours and ended the trail at the garbage pail by the Kitchen sink I placed a paper can of meited lard— that had a good, strong aroma— on the narrow window sill just above the garbage pail, and in the pail I threw a lot of loose paper that| would rattle if the lard can fell off the window sill. So, I went to bed baving switched off the lights, and waited, waited till I fell asleep. “I must have slept about half hour. Suddenly I leaped to feet. What crash was that? Some one breaking through my kitchen window, maybe! Then I remembered I walked into the kitchen, barefoot, noiselessly, switched on the light. The lard can was missing from the window sill! Lively rustling among the loose | paper in the garbage pail. So far, all | an m: was a help- .- | back CASWELL. . eeks azo I included in this column a who signed himself “Housekeeper, It had to do with his domestic experi= of peeling potatoes and ridding the v recall that for the latter problem he howling—pardon me, I mean a to the good. 1 reached for the can of red pepper—the condiment of South America—and sprinkled industrious! I sprinkled a red trail from the gar- | b pail to the nearest deserted hole. Finally T emptied the re- | of the red dust into the | rat piie of loose Mr. Rat was wrestling, | -can, with that greasy | Then I switched off n back to bed. and awaited paper where catch-as-catce e to wait long es the loose ! om of the pail rustied | and rattled as vigorously as before. | Then there was a sudden silence| for perhaps 20 seconds. Maybe an | unpleasant discovery had been made— | that required deep thinking. Choking sounds—some sniffs—a sort of cough For pap L at wild scattering of flving paper— once there was a crash—a 2 seemed to have dashed | —and there was the sound of scampering little feet | . about four pitty-pats . . . silence! | “I leaped out of bed and switched on the light. Everything was now quiet as death in the kitchen. Pieces | of loose paper scattered everywhere. In the pail, the lard can was sitting there alone with one corner gnawed off in the red dust leading from the pail to the nearest rat hole 12 feet away. there. at intervals of about 1 yard apart, was the trail of little feet —jumping in a bee-line for the rat- hole. “In the puddle of red pepper poured around the rat-hole there were the tracks of one rat going down ... no tracks returning. From the smallness | of the feet, it was plain that Mr. Rat was young—probably was not born at the time of the great rat emigration one year and a month ago. He, prob- ably, had never heard of that terrible haunted house where the food and | even the atmosphere caused the in- and somethir out of the pail to the | sides of a decent rodent to become | | as hot as the seventh place described | by Dante. | “He went away. He never came | No return party call. Not a| sound—not a track. That swift de- | parture happened two weeks ago, this | writing. Fourteen silent nights have | | followed when the most striking sound | | around 3 a.m. is the tap-tap, tap-tap, of the old milk-wagon horse down the | asphalted way. “HOUSEKEEPER NON*S]T-DO“'N,I THOUGH MALE.” Smart Matron’s Frock BY BARBARA BELL. ANT to look slimmer? Taller and This ur choice. more slender? is then detall le ¢ frock e for The d every achieves this effect pointed, g nches off t " . it ar. clever . AKe 1e boso VAT s con the Ra ngnec B0 yARR of 35k noate W eontrast Por the bow nbbon & needed “. ard yard of | veterans, | father and mother. | habits as smoking. | 1t ought to be 50 now. Sharing |Children Must Learn| Miss Lenora Thomas, only woman on the Government resettlement project at Greenbelt, uses a pneu- matic hammer in carving the stone reliefs which she has designed for the school building. She believes thoroughly in the importance of teaching children to know and understand the Constitution and follows out this idea in her symbolic figures. Essential In Home! Not to Abuse Their Privileges. BY ANGELO PATRI BY THE time_fathers and mothers | have reared children to the age | of self-support, or close to it, they | are a bit weary of the stress and | strain of social life. They like to be quiet, especially father. They don't want the noise and upsetness that young folks' gatherings bring with them. Sitting in another room, | in another chair, using another lamp, | because the young people want mi dance in the living room is a nuisance. But home is a place where the family live and home has to be shared by all its members. Otherwise it is not home, and the children go out to find one to take its place. Sometimes there is a play room where the young people can gather and make all the noise they like with- out disturbing anybody. That is an ideal solution. Sometimes father and mother have an upstairs sitting room sacred to themselves. That is an- other ideal arrangement. But failing these the home must be shared, some inconvenience must be suffered, and the young people welcomed. There are certain standards of | the day that fathers and mothers find | rather difficult to accept. Young | girls their teens, smoking like trouble the old-fashioned They find it hard to believe that a girl can be quite all she ought to be and have such | And the gowns | are so daring. And the lipstick so raw. And the free and easy way of the young men. It was not so in the | old days, and they are not certain that | Nobody s, but | what are we to do about it? My notion of the thing is that home should be shared with the children in | and that they ought ‘o be free to en- BARBARA BELL, The Washington Star. Inclose 25 cents in coins for 353-B Name Address AP COINA sacurely In paper ) | tertain thei | 2 o'clock | them. { home. riends there at reason- able times in fairly reasonable fash- | fon. I mean by that, it is reasonable for young people to dance, but they ought not to dance in a house until in the morning unless the household has been prepared for that. A late party ought to be rare in the lives of young people who are just be- RiNning to get out in the world. The refreshments ought to have the ap- | proval of the family, father and moth- er. If they disapprove of serving in- toxicants to young people who have to drive each other home, the children of the house should loyally support The father and mother must carry the responsibility of any situa- | tion that may arise out of their hos- | pitality We have to come down once more to the fundamental idea. Home is A& group idea. No single member of it can demand his way. There must be a sharing, a co-operation, alway 1f, from the beginning, the children have been trained to that idea, if | they have grown up, sharing what- ever comes to them with the parents, if they have grown up and remained | on friendly terms with their fathers and mothers, sharing will be the only notion they will have. If not, then there will be trouble, and there is very little to be done about it | Listen to what the young people say, and how they say it. “Come over tonight. Dad and mother will be glad to see you" That means the relationship is set and holding well “M-m-n. Well, I'll see. Maybe. If I can get out. They're going to be ' That doesn’t sound so well. Could you straighten it out? 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, enclosing & 3-cent stamped, self-addressed envelope for reply. (Copyrisht. 1937.) Try Pink and Black. PARIS (# —Pink and black is one of the smartest color combinations of the season Annabelia. French film ACtreas, is among chic continenta who have adopted |t Bhe wears a | alim black evening dress with & wide erushed mirdie of pink satin » with stiver It 18 topped by & pink satin Bolere covered with reses Dorothy Dix Says Do Not Force Daughter to Be a Musician if She Has No Talent. EAR MISS DIX: T am a girl | of 16, and for eight years I | have been taking piano les- | sons, and I hate them. When | my mother was a little girl she Jonged | to play the piano but could not afford | to be taught, so she determined that | I should be a musician. I have no ! talent, but I have been made to| grind at it and to practice all these | years. When other little girls were playing and going out in the after-| noon I had to stay in and thump on| the piano. Don’t you think that after | eight years of lessons I should be able | to show some ability if I had any? | I hate to disappoint my mother, but | oh, how I'loathe the piano! ALICE. Answer—Same here, Alice My | childhood was also sacrificed to my | parents’ misplaced ambition that I should be a musician when I could easier have learned to be a steeple- jack. I, too, know what it is to have to come in from play or to be torn away from the most thrilling part of a fascinating story to have to prac- | tice for the longest hour in recorded | time. Canned music may have many sins to answer for, but all of them should be forgiven for the millions of unmusical and untalented girls who have been emancipated from taking piano lessons. There is something very pathetic in the desire of mothers to have their children fulfill their own ungratified ambitions, but they should be wise enough to accept the fact that nature does not always reproduce the child in the mother's moid nor give it the same talents and desires, and that mother cannot make a musician of her daughter unless God made her one first. * x * x DEAH DOROTHY DIX: We are al- ways hearing so much fice for their children that it makes my husband and me feel that we are very unworthy parents. We have not worked our fingers to the bones for hours, neither have we foregone all the pleasures we des particular sacrific Have we done crong? Have we neglected our son because we have not denied ourselves everything to heap luxuries on him, nor have we slaved to keep him in idle- ness? MRS. J. E. B. Answer—I think you nave been ideal parents because you have simply taken parenthood in your stride instead of making a chore of it, and you and your child have been the better and the happier for it. I have always contended that chil- dren should take a part in the family life and do their share of the work and bear their share of the burdens of making a home. It makes them under- stand and appreciate their parents and sympathize with them, and it makes them value their home because they have a responsibility in keeping it up. The sacrificial parents do nothing but make their children seifish and no-ac- count. DOROTHY DIX. For Cooler Canines 7 N 7 ‘ S GIRTEINEN BY MARY ALLEN HOOD. 2 STABLISHING a universal opinion upon the clipping | question is like getting into a dog fight. One never knows where the next bite is coming from. Authorities agree upon one point; a heavily-coated dog shouldn't wear his Winter underwear all Summer. It | isn't reasonable to expect Nobody else does. According to the "Ve("'i canines should don their lightest ap- parel for hot weather. That's where the question comes in By what method? The answer lies in the pup Handling a pure breds coat is all mixed up with vanity The exterior mustn't be spoiled. Neither should the dog roast for the sake of his beauty In the long-haired sich as the Bamoyade, the answer ix & thor- ough eombing The ohiect iy to re ' move the inner ecoat and eave W | Pupe bald Me hes some pride! - outer for future reference. If the job is repeated several times a week, Sam- my will be fairly comfortable. Take the heavily-clad one to a dog beau- tician for his first combing. Do the rest personally and regularly. Collies, etc, come under the same heading, if the subject is a canine Beau Brum- mel. Otherwise, a good clipping is in order. Terriers of the long-haired variety are separated from their outer coats by a process known as “s‘ripping and plucking * Here's re the coat makes the dog A well-plucked oa- nine can outdog a seedy-looking. coun- try da i the object m ¢ ) A profes cousin A I of considerat o nal stripper Watch hin ol line posse fon plate Dont ) euperier h h All the beauty ed by canine fash- the barber clip A about | parents who slave and serve and sacri- | ed nor made any | Various Problems 'Party Must Be Stag if out Their Wives. BY EMILY POST. EAR MRS. POST: I'd like to give a small dinner in honor of my husband's birthday and know that he would like me to invite his office asso- iates. I don't know their wives and | yet it would not do to invite the hus- | bands without them, would it? differs so completely with different types of people. Some men know their office associates very well and make their wives feel that they know them too. 1In this case, the wives would be very glad to meet the wives as well as the men their husbands talk about. If this 1s your situation it is likely to be | that of the wives too, and there could be no possible criticism of your invit- ing them, as well as the husbands. After all, it isn't necessary that they accept unless they want to, and cer- tainly it is more proper that a wife be invited with husband. If your hus- | band invited the men alone, his party | would have to be stag. * ok ok % EAR MRS. POST: When dessert happens to be ice cream and a rich cake, as it so generally does during the hot weather, in what manner are both eaten at one time? A fork and | spoon are served on a dessert plate and first the ice cream passed around for each one to help herself. So far so good. But then the cake is passed Usually there is just sufficient space at the side of the plate to stow away a slice, although never without the | embarrassment of having what hangs over the side fall on the tablecloth. Then comes the awkward moment of making a pretty thorough mess of getting rich icing all down the handle of the fork because there is so little place to put the fork down while going back for a spoon of ice cream. I suppose the answer to this is that it would be better to eat the ice cream and then, after putting down the | spoon for good, eat the cake. But for those who happen to like both at the same time, shouldn't a hostess pro- vide separate plates to put the cake | on?> Answer: I don't understand why you hang the cake over the edge of the plate, or why you are putting your fork down. If you are eating your | ice cream with a fork, then eat the cake also with the fork, or if you are eating the ice cream with a spoon why do you insist with a fork? 1If it is too gooey to eat in the fingers it would quite as proper- ly be eaten with a spoon as with a fork. | * ok % x DEAR MRS. POST: I am in the habit of addressing both of my | | employers as well as other men with | | whom I work as “sit” To me this is merely a convenient form of ad- dr But a friend thinks that the [ word implies servility. She claims | that “sir” has grown obsolete in this country when equal rank | your opinion. Answer—If Mr. Employer is a young man of nearly your own age, | your friend is right. Otherwise her attitude against “sir” would to most | people suggest her own sense of inferiority, since those who have this We would like to have failing are always afraid that they | | may do something demeaning to | themselves. A person of greater worldly knowledge would say “sir.” | If, however, an employe prefers to say “Mr. Employer” instead of ‘“sir” it is but little more of a mouthful and scarcely less proper. Socially she would never call Mr. Employer “sir.” As I have written many times, office etiquette should follow that of the ,army and the navy and the more punctilious its exactions the more it contributes to the organization's prestige. (Copyright, 1937.) Paste On Oil Cloth. Paste oil cloth on your closet or pantry shelves Spread the cloth generously with paste and quickly press it on the shelves Then cover twith weights (Books make pract cal for the purpose ) When the atl eloth has drsd tharaughly the ahelves may he ahed and the cioth | will mever roll up weights Solved! Men Are Asked With-| Answer: It is impossible to make a | definite answer because the situation | upon eating the cake | addressing those of | on School ISS LENORE THOMAS, who is school building at Greenbelt sculptor on the project industrious lady can be seen carving symbolic designs on large biocks “We, The People States, furnishes the theme for the, motif over the entrance to the school building. With the Capitol dome in the center of the design, the different fig- ures of industry represented in this community pass in review—science, a farmer holding bag of grain and fo & miner with pick over his shoulder, a stenographer with note book and pen- cil and children playing on the Capitol steps, complete this first group. The five panels in sequence around the frieze are entitled o Form a More Perfect Union,” * ablish Jus- tice, "“Insure Domestic Tranquility “Provide for the Common Defens and “Promote the General Welfare Figures representing various types of Americans, some with books of learn- ing, others with mechanical tools and the laborer with his lunch box are carved in the latter group: the panel for “Common Defense” depicts Uncle Sam's Army protecting the Americaa home. In the early stages of construction Miss Thomas was called in consulta- tion to solve the problem as to what tvpe of sculpture and subject matter would be more appropriate for the school building Knowing that the first venture of Government housing was very near the Nation's Capital and realizing that Washington is now “Constitution- minded,” especially as this is the 150th anniversary of that august document, Miss Thomas decided on this design “I believe,” said the sculptor, “that the subject matter for culture should be very closely related to the people living in that community and archi- tectural surroundings. In this man- ner it forms an important element in the architectural design as a whole {and lends harmony when properly ! planned.” * ok ok % ’[0 FURTHER illustrate, Miss Thomas mentioned having carved a large limestone statue of a woman at her sewing machine—reflecting the spirit of that community—which will stand on the school campus at Hights- |town, N. J. The sculptor displayed an- | other carving inspired by life in a community, the figure of a mountain mountains. *“The subject is typical of the region around the resettlement project at the Cumberland home- stead.” she explained. “I chose this model, & familiar one to them, in an among the adults as well as the chil- dren.” Before coming to Washington, Le- nore Thomas lived on Princess Bay, Staten Island, in a “little shack” where she experimented in new sculptural media. “My recreational hours,” she sald with apparent pleasant recollec- the bay, which was great fun. now I spend a great deal canoeing on the Potomac near my home at Accokeek. My two Irish set- ters, now being trained to hunt birds, are as keen about the sport as 1.” As a child, Miss Thomas told of | spending the greater part of her life | | in the open and at times her parents | despaired of her ever being anything !but a “tom-boy!” “I had a strong am- bition to become a carpenter,” she said. “My dad could not keep a box or orange crate intact, for I was always | dismembering them to construct little huts. Then at the age of 18 I studied | sculpture and have been at it ever since.” Even * ok % X | ‘AS MISS THOMAS vigorously ap- plied the pneumatic hammer to | | her design, we asked her how she | keeps her complexion free from lime- | stone dust, which is devastating to the | | skin. “I don't,” she replied. “By one | | of these queer quirks of fate I am allergic to this dust, and at times it In cc the preamble of the Consti woman fashioned from black walnut | which is indigenous to the Tennessee | | effort to stimulate interest in carving | tions, “were spent sailing my boat on | of time | Engaged in Carving Symbolic Designs Building. BY LOUISE HARTUEY WASSELL. working on the stone frieza of the new Md., is at present the only woman overalls, large gloves and gozgles the during work hours, high on a ladder, of limestone from Indiana quarries. tution of the United very uncomfortable. overalls and work clothes only pare tially protect me, and it means an tion from head to foot, all day at my ‘life My At the Greenbeit resettlement work= shop where Miss Thomas and her co-workers model in clay designs to be used ¢ hool buildings on this and other projects many partially finished models can be seen. The phvsical fit- ness of the present-day vouth, such as boys and g tennis, foot ball and riding bicycles, is the predominate ing theme. Realizing the ignorance of the lay- man, “Before we have the finished design on stone,” Miss Thomas pae | tiently explained, “it has to g0 through a strenuous process. First there is an armature made of wood and wire, tha | modeling clay is then applied, and tha whole is cast in plaster. These pate terns are usually only one-fourth to one-half the size of the finished stons | relief.” | * ok ko }\IA.\'Y new experiments are being | ©'7 conducted in the work shop: | among them is a “tryout with wet, brick.” Pointing te the unfinished outlines of a huge hippopotamus, varie ous animals and birds, “These stons reliefs,”” she continued, “which will | illustrate stories and traditions dear | to the childish heart, will be placed |low in order that the school children can study them. They will be used |on school buildings on the various Government projects. After the de- | signs are finished each brick is nume | bered, glazed and is then ready for use. It requires about 1,000 bricks to construct a large animal pattern.” In another corner stood several models of her own design of the Pre- amble to the Constitution, now being used at Greenbelt. "My original idea in using this now generally publicized document,” she added, “was to famile larize the younger generation with its importance. On several occasions I have found that the American chil- dren as a rule are not as conversant with this great document as some of the foreign-born.” Laying aside pneumatic hammer, tools and gadgets used in making pat- terns and stone cutting, the distin- guished sculptor announced that “she | was off for that daily head-to-foot renovation” and then she said, “I'll have a romp with my dogs and a row on the Potomac. With this strenuous work,” she added, with a toss of her boyish head, “I spend most of my recreational time in outdoor sports to balance the scale.” My Neighbor Says: A lawn is likely to grow very slowly at this season of the year and it is not necessary to use the lawn mower as frequently as in the Spring. It is safe to keep the grass at a height of about 2 inches. | Thinly-cut slices of lemon, dusted with paprika and a dash of celery salt, are good garnishes for steaks, roasts or fish, Never add sauce to boiled cab- bage, onions or celery unttl time to serve or mixture will become too watery. Household ammonia will remove rust stains from copper. Salt should never be added to stews, soups and boiled meats until after they are cooked. If put in at first it toughens the fiber of the meat and takes out the juices. (Copyright, 1937.) | | | | You would have to look far and w than this, and yet so easy to make 1 and can be made all in one color, or in here. The lacy design consists of shells Tts light enough to be wearable now wooliness will make 1L useful ) T The patiern envelope ronts. Also Wi crochet . con . send tor N A4 dire need v ob ain 1 coer RrvIce AN postage foin | of The Bvening Btar \ ide to find a baby set more attractive t consists of bonnet sack and booties white with pink trimming we have in rows. with plair ntervening thou and yet the ind being heavy nied mplete wha as VALETIAL A 400 ann we 1A v o o Neediowork Beiloaw Coprright (Y