Evening Star Newspaper, August 7, 1937, Page 20

B—8 WOMEN’S FEATURES. Wise to { THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ¢ S;\'I‘('RHAY,‘Al'('il'S'l‘ 1981 Use the Questionnaire Offered by Safety Group To Help Eliminate Them 11] Private Session With Pencil and Paper Wi Do Much Toward the Removal of ’ Unnecessary Risks. of a questionnaare issued by by parents of school children posed to take the sheet home list, answering fhe question wi would be signell bypboth the paren teacher the next day. In this way in- formation was obtained as to the safe guards surroundirme the child’s home life, and if his health or school prog- ress was in dan- ger of being ham~- * pered by thought. Jess, unnecessa risks. Of course, all such informa- tion was strictiy¥ confidential, ancl. known only to fhe right authorities. It occurred ti me that it might not be a bad ide: to have a “pri- vate and person~ al” check of such & list, just for our own satisfactiors There are so many little things that we forget, or igmore, that m cause & serious injury’ to some one witt our walls! At s very small expen ture, some of these may be done away with; with many of them it is only a question of retognizing the dar and guarding arainst its consequences by heightened ‘rigilance and care 1. Are all stairs provided with rails? Yes: No- . Are stairs adequately Yes No- Abe there any loose rungs at foot of stairs or at places where sharp turns are frequently made? Betsy Caswell lighted? Are steps cluttered with loose ma- terial or articles? Yes—— No- . Are porches provided with railings? No-—o RBY BETSY CASWELL. NTERESTING ntaterial which came to my desk the other day was a copy he National n various localiti have his mother and father check over the ar other unsafe substi- d In place of Yes—— Nio—— . Is tne bathiub provided with a handhold? {Yes—— No— 1s spilled grease mopped up “now,” not “later?” Yes—- No—— . Is there a fire extinguisher in the home? Y No—— What type of matches are used? “Strike-any\Wwhere?” Yes— No— . Are children\permitted to play with matches? Yes—— No—— . Do you strike matches in a direc- tion away &rom you? Yes—— No— . Do you close a safety book of matches befarce striking? Yes—— No— Are all pot lwandles turned away from the frosit and edges of the stove? Yes— No—- . Are all doors: of the oven opened to ventilate it before lighting it? Yes— No- . Is a stand privided for the elec- tric iron? Ygqs—— No—- . Are incombus ible ash travs pro- Yyided for smokers? Yes— o ladders? . 1s kerosene eve T used to light fires? | Yes—— No— —— I The OId Gardener Says: Japanese irises are the last members of the iris family to bloom, but they are not the least in importance. Indeed, there are few flowers of any kind which make a more gorgeous display. They may be set out now. The mistake should not be made of thinking that the Japanese irises demand a wel location. All too often are killed by being planted in wet spots where the drainage is poor. The fact is that they abhor wet feet as greatly as any plant, aithough they do love to dabble their toes in %he water, 50 to speak. If planted near a stream or a pond, the crowns of the plants should be set on a little mound of sand and high enough so that the water will drain away from them. | | When used in the garden border, | | no special attention is required | | except keeping them well sup- plied with water by means of the hose. ety Council, to be answered | A student was sup- no”: the questionnaire | e child, and returned to the school Is gasoline used the Yes— No- Are combustible materials kept away from stoves and out of con- tact with stove pipes? Yes n home? (Copyright, 1937.) | ere a screen for the open fire- Yes- No—— Is rubbish allowed tn accumulate n attic, basement, or elsewhere? | Ves— No—— Are oiled rags ar proper container Courtesy In Europe Agfl-lere Visitor Complains of American Girls' Attitude. BY EMILY POST. EAR MRS. POST: I am not an American, but I am visiting rela- tives who are. I find the American | girls lovely, but some of their cus- toms, indeed, strange in contrast to ! those which are practiced by the girls | I know in Continental Europe. I am mops kept in a Yes— No—— Is gas piping or fixtures used to | | | | dle electrical fixtures | with wet hands? Y No- Are of the elect improperly fused? No frame of machine No- Are fraved electric cords discard- ed? Yes—— No-— Are there any pull-chains without nsulat links? Yes—— No—— the electrical | grounded? Are sll reach electrical connections out from the bath tub? No— Yes . Are portable electric heaters or| other portable appliances used in the bath room? Yes No— Is the r radio antenna equipped a lightning ar- Yes—- No—— sharp tools left dren may handle them? No— Is broken glass put into a box and | not thrown into the wastebasket loose? Yes— No— . Are poisonous drugs kept out of reach of children? Yes—— No— Are small bells put on all bottles of poison or are three or four pins put in the cork to warn the groper They | selves, are perhaps trivial in them- but I do not consider them flattering to a gentleman. The | of these is the habit American where chil- | girls have of making themselves ap- Yes: pear helpless, when actually tiey are the most vital and self-sufficient of any I have ever known. For example, when a girl and man are together leaving a building the girl will not even make & move of opening the door for herself. In a motor car being driven by the man at her side she will wait until he walks around to her side and opens the door. In in the dark? Yes—— No—— other words, their attitudes are not Are all bottles containing drugs | f1attering to their men friends, who labeled? Y No—— | are not given the choice of following Is there a gun in the house ac-| What their good breeding will induce cessible to children? Yes—— | them to do, but are compelled to per- No—— form a courtesy in the same light as Do you put pins in your mouth? | one paid to give such service. To my Yes—— No— | way of thinking they might at least Are Gas cocks adjusted to turn| attempt to open a door and to get smoothly, but not too easily?|out of a car. And then there is the Yes—— No— | custom girls have here of obviously - Is a gas heater used in the bath| expecting a man to carry coats, um- room for any purpose? Yes | brellas, books, packages and anything No- | else she might collect while they are - Is the automobile engine ever run | out together. It is mainly the ar- In the closed garage? Yes—! ticies of feminine apparel that I ob- No—— | ject to having to carry, but I never Are first-aid mate: s | $aw 50 many bundle-carrying girls in ELinis WO " my life, outside of the peasants, as (Ii'nf;r;?fl‘;“'“';‘;{‘;n‘":‘:r"‘:‘ ffl“l’:":’e I have since I've been here. It is concerning safety precautionsg | QMCUlt for me to understand how S ey the American girls can impose this way upon their American men, who ou with e first are always considered to be such he- | men. Since you are the authority on American behavior, I wish you would | explain all this | Answer—I must say that I cannot | | quite understand how any European could find it surprising to be ex- pected to show the courtesies which every gentleman shows to every lady— and particularly on the Continent. Personally I have never known a Eu- ropean (and I have known a great | many) who did not spring to do things | you seem to think ladies should hurry to do for themselves. It is true that my knowledge of Europeans is limited to pre-centralization of government | days and later to those who have been brought up to follow the manners of the old regime. As for your picture of American girls and bundles, that also 15 to me a completely unfamiliar one. But at least I do agree that a man should not be expected to be substitute for either a clothes hanger or an express cart * oxox ok ]DEAR MRS. POST: Could you drive one effective protest pub- licly against the chattering habits of women who go together to see moy- | Ing pictures? Women a4, plays seldom chatter. Women at concerts behave | almost too decorously. But women | will enter a movie at its touching or | & little puzzled as to whether some | of these customs are really American. | household and a garden. EAR MISS DIX: This Is a} man’s world all right, but the | parents are to blame for it. | My brother and I both work in a store, but when our long houis are over does he have to help with the | chores at home? No, a thousand | times no. He gets the paper and finds | a cool place in which to read. I have to help get supper and after that I have the dishes to wash while he dresses and steps out, taking the family | car along. Do I ever get the car to take any of my friends for rides? It is simply unheard of. My earnings go | for furniture and the butcher and the | grocer, while_his are spent on Janes | and good times. Each morning he| finds his clothes pressed and clean | | socks and shirts laid out for him, | while I have to spend half my leisure | time the night before washing his | things. Nobody presses anything for | me. This is a man's world, but I still ! say it is the parents’ fault | DISGUSTED GIRL. | Answer—Right you are, my dear. | Parents do pamper their sons and pre- |fer them to their daughters. Why | they do this, nobody knows, since girls { invariably do immeasurably more for | | their mothers’ and fathers’ comfort | | and well-being than the boys do. | *® ok X ¥ | INEVERTHELESS, the world over, | when a son is born there is feast- ! ing and rejoicing and congratulations | Men pat the father on the back, and | the mother swells out her chest with | pride and beams with complacency | |for having done something that she | | considers wonderful. Whereas, when |a girl is born nobody cooks even a | veal chop in her honor. The father | gets the handshake of sympathy from | | his fellows and the mother feels hum- | ble and apologetic. | And it goes along that wav. Little | girls are made to help with the house- work, while little boys are excused | from doing any chores. When they | get old enough to be given allowances | | brother gets twice as much as sister L‘f they belong to a poor family and | have to go to work mother takes the | girl's pay envelope away from her as | matter of course. but she never | one of the mysteries of nature. | for whatever reason. | "She doesn't take advantage of the | BY MARY ALLEN HOOD WEET, tweet is needed by a bird s ak, Who 1sn't singing. Sometimes he has 2" a word meaning loss of ned on catching t afier a molt. A suet or bacon for eful. Bird ination at d and dust 15t be A definite reason 1 to fill the air €« - Wt My thiry? $he front “That noie?> Oh the clutch—.—! piloting theicar The younit:lady in the back s wp. “That reminds get some ‘fond She turned 10 a guest *Do you like, birds 1 do.” replied that w friend of igrine has or dead bird, and 1 “What dises it “Well she she aavs. ‘Dead on 1tx back g fta head over her head om or her arms in der Iant thmt asked the passen replied me, Tl for id have two sets of 1 one needs laundering removed and the other put place. Dickey won't have to stand on a dampish underfooting. It keeps him from getting cold feet and bles. Metal perches in its d nding tro aren't q take %0 satisfactory runs from the latter igh August and some- later A self-respecting more than a box of bird ich of lettuce at ghat ) clothe as well as feed m have some egg bis- Watch for drafis doctor'ng a b Y A bud habit Me UNg seasor part of July t bird even needs und a t s me. He ha any tricks gt himselt Lt He lan 1w v I ove him Does hegneed " d on One A the hont e sunbury » applicable the same x . righ haan t and we They chill too | most gripping climax, push blandly | Into their seats with words like these: | opportunities she has.” (The hero is | struggling through underbrush, a | | wounded heroine in his arms, and my | heart and your heart are in our| | throats!) “She throws her money | away. Why, that yellow hat cost her | 7 doilars and a half. I know!" A | polite “Sh-h” has absolutely no effect on these people. They stare at you | cruelly as though you were a cheap, cheeky masher, and continue, “Her maid told me that .. .” Please, won't you write something before 1 stand Up screaming in the center of a the- ater and lecture these women on the beauty of silence with the ringing cry, “Shut up!” | Answer.—T don't think T can make | @ more effective protest than by print- Ing this young man's letter. But I | can add my own complaint against Jmn stick-up trimmings on women's | hats, which not only cut pieces out | of the picture, but keep constantly | darting about and causing quite actual eye torture to the one behind and | unable to move into another seat. At | the movies, happily, moving els | where often ia possible. But in the theater women who wear view-ob- | structing hats ought to be taxed— | heavily! * v o# [)EAR MRS. POST: I know that A& WOmAan is not supposed Lo have | to feel self-conscious about having on # street glove when meeting some one with whom she shakes hands. but What 15 the rule when she knows she is 10 g0 Gown & receiving line shak- ing hands with several people? Answer — A woman never takes off her or her evening gloves ex- cept before ewling. Por that matter wentleman does ot take off his evening gloves nor does he apologise for ahaking hand them, Covrrianl. 1997 * she entertains her friends at bridge. matter the effect is truly amazing on a ready-made cloth or on your own The pattern envelope contains ger street to-understand jllustrated directions need eoin Vice and postage | Bditor of The Evening Star k) " obtain 1o cover a thia pattern send for N to proclaim you an excellent needlewoman wuine hot As shown on cloth and your single designs for napkins also material SEnprriore Cherry Ford W hite has gone far in her chosen field, but still finds time for her clubs, teaching and friends—not to mention taking care of a delightful ~Leet Brothers Photo. Dorothy Dix Says It's a Man's World Mostly Because Parents Have Made It So. dreams of taking the boy's, and she brags about it if he condescends to pay a little board. Almost every girl who works has | to help when she comes home by | getting the supper. washing the dishes | and doing the family sewing, or taking | care of the younger children while mother steps out. And she has to do her own mending and laundering. | But mother never thinks of asking son to help with the housework, though | he is 10 times as able to do as is the daughter. Worse still, many mothers require their fragile and delicate daughters to support their lazy. loafing brothers and take from the girls their hard- earned money to give to the boys to spend it in pool rooms and on drink. Why mothers make this difference in the way they treat their sons and daughters no one can explain. It is| But, most mothers treat their sons with a tenderness and consideration they rarely show their daughters. L EAR DOROTHY DIX: I am en- gaged to a girl, but have not fin- ished my course in college. She has advised me to complete my course and says she will wait for me. Do you think we can wait two or three years | | and still retain the same love? PUZZLED G. Answer—Why not? It is a weak love that cannot stand that long a strain Marrying before you are ready and before you have enough on which to support a wife will be much more likely | to kill love than a little waiting will. | DOROTHY DIX. Old Toothbrushes Are Handy. | Small brushes—such as discarded toothbrushes—are handy for polishing and cleaning shoes and for applying silver polish or cleaning powders to brass and other metal ornaments The bristles on a small brush will penetrate grooves and corners which are nearly impossible to reach in any other wav. Any woman likes to fecl that she's & perfect hostess, especially when If youre no exception, and are ever in doubt about the appearance of your linens, now is the time to remedy the For this handsome set requires only a few hours of simple work, and An otherwise drab piece of linen biossoms out The designs may be appliqued material ron transfer for four motifs also complete. easy- | and how much you will 08 and Inclose Addreas orders ’ 5 renls in stAmps the Needlework B WOMEN'S FEATURES. My Neighbor Says: Rambler roses bloom on Iast year'’s wood, 3o bushes must not be eut back until they are through blooming. Always wash the hands after using & liniment containing chloroform or belladonna. You may accidentally touch your eyes and thus cause irritation. When shopping for furniture, you will save yourself no end of time and disappointments if you take along a drawing of your room It should be scaled—say one- fourth inch to the foot—and height of walls, location of win- dows and doors and irregulari- ties noted. Then you will know before you set your heart on a piece of furniture whether it will fit your room (Copyright, 1637) Remember Your Pets’ Vacation Don’t Leave Them to the Danger of 111 Treatment. BY ANGELO PATRI. l,{AVE you planned vacation time for Puss and Rover? Please don't g0 off on your own vacation without first insuring their care and safety. Imagine the cat and dog who have been members of a family, accustomed to friendly talk, regular meals, com- fortable beds, thrown out without a friend to look to or a roof to shelter them. Our cats and dogs learn to love those who care for them. Their af- fection is true and loyal, their depend- ence upon us complete. It is cruel and heartless. unworthy of people with souls, to close the house and leave these trusting family pets helpless, at the mercy of storm and hunger and ill treatment. When the pets cannot be taken along, and this is easi® than some folk think, arrange for their care. There is usually some friend or rela- tive who will undertake the care of the pets until you return. Failing that, there is always a humanitarian society to attend to them. There is no excuse for the heartless cruelty of abandonment. Puss travels well in a covered bas- ket. When we carried her to the country we dabbled her front paws in cream and set her in her well- padded basket. Lapping the cream off her paws kept her contented long enough to give us a good start on the trip. When we stopped for lunch and rest she was taken out, given a saucer of milk, allowed to stretch herself well, sniff the air of new surround- ings. Back then to her basket with a | comforting ball of catnip and there We were, puss-in-the-basket. The dog traveled in the car, usually on some long-suffering soul's lap, head out of the window, tail firmly clutched in his guardian's fist. The Krzalll'ol&‘]s make it easy to take Rover along. He travels in the baggage car and you can go out to visit him be- tween stops and assure him that he will s00n be “there.” 8o the whole family enjoys the Summer outing together. If for any reason Rover cannot be taken along, grandmother already has two dogs, or Aunt Kate is afraid of them, or there are too many strange children about, look up one of the goad boarding kennels and place him there. He will be well cared for, even loved in some of them. Best of all, he will be safe and you will meet him | At the end of the Summer and be | greeted with overwhelming affection. The pets who stay at home in the heat of Summer in the cities need a little special attention. The Scouts and the Camp Fire Girls might ar- range for a campaign for Summer care of horses and dogs and cats that 80 about the streets. Each owner ought to provide clean water, in a shady place, daily. As pets usually | live in homes with children, this ought | to be easy enough. Just call the chil- dren’s attention to it. Drinking foun- tains for horses have to be under the supervision of experts, lest contagion threaten in the common drinking place. Let the children and young people think of the little arimals and keep them quiet on hot days, supply them with cool drinking water. What service they give will be added to their own stature (Copyright, 1937.) Manners of the Moment SOME of the men are complaining | that their girl friend steps out | of character as soon as they step into the country. They say that the sweetest little dance partners in the world suddenly turn into Amazons | when faced with a wooded road and 80 cantering out at a pace that leaves them (the boy friends) completely winded. And they (the boy friends) don't like it. Don't ask us why. It's one of those masculine mysteries. Just because a girl hasn't had room enough in her apartment to chin herself doesn't mean that she can't. But apparently men don’t figure that way . . . at lesst, not about girls. They seem to work on the supposition that no girl can walk a step, or lift a paper weight, or whistle a tune until she has shown them she can. It's just crazy. But| still there it is. More than likely it's all because | the men don't like to be outdone in| things they consider their own do- main. And alnce taking a brisk bit of exercise in the country seems to be part of their domain, we Suggest | O | that the girls kot the men set the pace. | If your man doesn't go fast enough for you, you eould mg-sag, like a dog, and gel In A little extra cantering Bul do it behind his back Never get in front of him That's all you have to remember Your man probably likea o nold the lsad JEAN | » Wopovight 1987 ) | ceived the idea, Virginia HERRY FORD WHITE fully combine home duties. out still life, landscapes and flowers | entitled, “Come Unto Me and Rest,’ hangs in the Walker's Chapel Metho- | dist Church in nearby Virginia, a| mile from historic Chain Bridge, and is attracting considerable attention, | not. only in local art circles, but other | fields as_well. The Methodist Pro-| testant Recorder of Baltimore, the | Christian Sun of Richmond, and the Christian Advocate of Greensboro, N. C, have secured permission from | the artist to reproduce the painting on the cover sheet of their respective | publications. In epite of the fact that the artist turns out an amazing amount of cre- | ative work, she still finds time her family, church, clubs and other | outside activities, and she is never too busy to do a neighborly act Mrs. White also enjoys cultivating { flowers, and just now she is direct- | ing the work on a rock garden. She | loves to can vegetables, which she grows on her own place, * ok % /A SKED s to how she accomplishes “™ s0 much in so many different fields. and still keeps all in their proper proportion, she thought a mo- | ment, and then replied, “I think it all comes from keeping an open for sions, and heeding the call of spiration. “One of the finest pliments T ever had paid e she continued, “was when a friend told me I seemed to have the power to discriminate between the important and the unimportant.” The artist ex- plained that she has no set schedule, but she does have a fixed objec- | tive. To illustrate her point she compared herself to the master of a sailing vessel, who, in order in- of the shifting winds and currents of every-day living. Mrs. White feels ing of her husband, John Kearnes Whites, for her art, has helped her | over the rough places and made the sailing smoother. It was largely through her husband's co-operation, and that of other members of her family that the painting of the Christ | —=a long-cherished ambition—is an actuality. The history of that painting goes back a number of years when the artist was a student at the Maryland Institute of Art. Whileg here she experimented in oils, and at this time found she really had the g:ft to create a face in oils. “Then I con- she said, “of paint- ing the Christ.” The picture is a free gift to her church, and represents a labor of love. The mural was formal which she has exhibited cities of the country, she has produced a mural | early mind, by being sensitive to impres- | com- | to| reach his goal, has to take advantage ' | White that the sympathy and understand- | | White, Check Over the Hazards That May Endanger Your Household Numberless Activities Do Not Interfere With Creative Work of Artist Mrs. John Kearnes White Recently Com- pleted Mural to Beautify Nearby Churech. BY BLANCHE SYFRET McKNIGHT. the artist Hills, Va . is a convenient example that women past 40 can successe side Activities and a career In addition to painting numerous pictures of Ditmar road, Conntry C€hh icluding portraite, in all the large of the Christ. This mura sented and unveiled May 4 &L services marking the annivers: the founding of the chapel 65 yea: ago 1037, * (CHERRY FORD WHITE believes that art right own back ya she paint scenes around her studio. The studio, only dred yards from b the crest a hill, ¢ and overlooks s meadows and a w I am fond * % RrOWs in ones loves to home and few hun- stands on in pines, woods, a se sthed of ding brook she said of painte ing in early Spring and Autumn, a snow scene in Winter, the deep woods mountain laurel and other flowers which gro s0 la an interesting story with one of her painting sc n pictured the ly S T placed on exhibit of Washingtom of member. es shly pe, which she Club members criticized th color of the leaves, so the ar *d the group to her home, and had w0 admit the colors were true to r Mrs. White's father, Seth Leland Ford, Civil War veteran, played the banjo, sang by the campfires all rough the war, and made pencil sketches of the cannon and horses on the letters he wrote home. After the war the gold fever seized him, and he finally landed in Salt Lake C where he met and Married Seraph Y. Young, who was interested in ar- tistic pursuits. At the age of 35, Seth Ford suddenly went blind and re- mained so during his lifetime; he never saw the baby who was later to become the artist Cherry Ford She was his constant come panion, sang to him and read to him continuously. T however, did not interfere with her studies in music and art. When the family moved to Takoma Park, Md., Cherry becama a serious student of art. Recognize g her ability, Montgomery County, Md, awarded her a four-year scholar- ship to the Maryland Institute of Art. Following graduation she studied with Miss Martinet in Baltimors, and helped to found the Martinet School of Art. Here she studied the William M. Chase method of direct painting, which she considers far superior to any other. Eventually she met poet John Kearnes and writer, whom she married They established their present home in Arlington County. They called it their “Alabama,” mean- ing “Here we Find Rest.” Round-the-House Frock BY BARBARA BELL. 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