The evening world. Newspaper, March 7, 1922, Page 21

“Self-Improvement Is a Woman’s Own Self-Ex- * pression —Without This No Woman on Earth Can Be Happy.” By Fay Stevenson. Copyright, 1022 (New York Evening World) eoeee by Pres Publishing 0. HERE is a key, a much used and most appreciated key to happ!- 3 ~ ness, which the modern woman AD 1008 daity—tt és the key to Self-Im- Provement. “The MASTER KBY to a woman's happines de- clares Sally James Farnham, the famed woman sculptor, who is at present making a ‘bust of President Harding and whose studio.is lined with busts of many of the world's 8 Greatest statesmen. « Mrs. Farnham was perched upon @ table in her studio at No. 67 West Sith Street, clad. in a khaki coat and knickerbockers, when she an- Mouricéd most positively that self- Improvement is woman's master key to happiness. She made a very de- lightful picture sitting there amid her own creative work with a sparke ling, crackling woodfire sending out cheer.’ A strikingly handsome daush- ter, clad in riding habit, burst into . the studio and announced: she had ! Fi just had ‘a bully canter through Central Park; a small’ son frolicked @ out with two white wolf-dogs; a luxurious black and white cat re- Posed on a cushion near the open fire, while a green and oringe parrot chirped uway about “Polly wanting & cracker.” ‘Then this studio stage Setting shifted, the girl in the riding habit disappeared, the boy became involved In a book, the dogs curled up for a siesta and Mrs. Farnham and I con- tinued our conversation. “Of all the keys to a waman happiness, self - improvement probably the most satisfying on: said Mrs. Farnham. may tire of th “A woman other keys, but the study of some one special subject, grows Mmore fascinating and interesting each year. “Parsonally, 1 self-improvement, believe a woman may be very happy by. using all of the five keyg to.happiness which you have mentioned. Adornment 1s a key to happiness which every femmtine wom- an uses. I haven't a woman ac- quaintanee who hasn't derived great Jeasure through clothes and cos- meétics, Domestic interests appeal to every womanly woman, and even though a woman does not run her By Mrs. Christine Frederick, Household Bfficiency Expert, Author “Household Engincering.”’ yright, 1922 (New York Eveni Cony ent Preea Publishing World) F I came to you something like the Fairy Godmother of old und teld you that there was one tool and only one which I would allow you to keep in your kitchen, which would you choose? A pot, # skillet, a potato- masher? No, you would surely wish to keep a knife, even if you had to forego every other article, * It may surprise you to have me say that knives are the most used World) 1 work tool in any kitch- ws been en or in the he dis- household. "We uve can/live without inst a tart, we can live without books,” but & force we can't live without cooks—and lona do knives, I recently conducted an ex- such @ periment showing how many steps ms that land exactly what utensils and af yh articles w woman would use in pre- Is have paring three meals a day, And I found that no matter what other STERY, pot or bow! or pan she needed she 6.—The We0 required a knife at every meal, abov ither to slice bread, to cut meat, or which Oo pare vegetables. Out of these Bad tai pinety mealy of the entire month she orpha:i- oulén't prepare a single one with- clared to ut the aid of some type or size of fe! the average housekeeper c her knives as she does her jusband and her watch—she neglects Are You a Stenographer ? Doris Doscher Tells You How to Keep Your Good Health and Good Looks On This Page To-Morrow T No. 5—Self-Improvement DISCUSSED BY Mrs. Sally James Farnham own home she likes to get her fingers on @ spoon and a chafing dish every so often, Love? Of course that isa key to 4 woman's happiness and a most important one. Society too claims her attention and gives her many hours of pleasure; but self-im- provement, that study of the ‘cults’ or ‘isms’ or her own life work, is her master key. ‘Self-improvement is the deve! opment of her own ego,"’ contin- ued Mrs. Farnham. ‘'t her own self-expression. And without thi development, without this. som thing within herself, no woman on earth can be truly happy.” “But does the uverage housewife have time for self-improvement?" 1 asked this clever woman sculptor who has found time to rear her family and go in for a career too. “The average housewife and busi- ness woman has as much time for self-improvement and to make that her key to happiness as she has for self-adornment, domestic interests or any of the other four keys you have mentioned,” rejoined Mrs. Farnham with a vivacious snap of her fingers. Then becoming more serious she ddded: “But it takes courage and per- sistency. Many women find this key to happiness through some cult or some mew thought, but they do not cling to it, It makes them happy for ‘a short time, it lifts them from thei” everyday Mfe and opens a new world to them. Then something else comes along; hubby is home with the in- fluenza, baby gets the whooping cough and, bang! that is the end of self- improvement, When things get nor- maj again they rave forgotten about that magic key to their happiness and the work or splendid thoughts which might have given them mental food for a lifetime. "On the other hand, the woman who plods along with this key to self-im- provement, who enters into her ait, her music, her new thought, current events or whatever che may select us ‘her key to self-improvement, will tind untold happiness. She will have in terruptions and distractions, of course, but by waiting patiently until she may again continue this work, by being most courageous, she will win. “And the woman who goes in for self-improvement will find that life is #0 much bigger and more beautiful,” pointed out Mrs. Farnham. “She will find that the petty things of life do not touch her. Those things are not her job. Her master key, her own pression does not give to fumble with smaller, insignifi- cant keys to life which lead no- where. “Self-improvement seems to be a How Do You Run Your Home? KNIVES—THE TOOLS YOU USE MOST OFTEN. them and fails to give them the best of care! Where does she usually keep these most important of all cooking tools?) Why, in the kitchen table drawers, probably where their edges are banged upon by the can- opener, the apple-corer or the grater. What man would treat his razor 80 unfairly if he expected it to provide him a daily keen edge for his pur- se? What workman would dump his chisels or bits into a crowded drawer or what woodsman allow his precious hunting knives out of thelr sheaths? The only way to keep a knife in condition is to provide some sort of leather strip or wall rack, so that each knife may be slipped into parate groove, and the blade kept untouched. It is very easy to tack a strap one inch wide across the door in such a way that each knife will have a spe cial compartment for lf—see how the cobbler do or the machinist. Do not let the hand! soak in water, this loosens them; nor forget to clean the blade instantly ‘so that it will not become stained, as well as to keep the knives thus protectingly racked. Bach kitchen knife should be dis- criminatingly chosen, The blade of a Knife for slicing cold meats should be long, flexible, with a diagonal point which will “draw” back through the food and permit the thinnest slicing. A blade for carving hot roasts which ure more tough and difficult needs to be heavier, with a pointed Up which will allow more purchase or weight from the hand to force it through the tissues. The knife blade for general utility should be stocky, not over six inches, and with @ polnt which will enable key to happiness, which most strict!y modern women Hold,” continued the sculptor. ‘More and more we sce this vmong our circle of acquaintances and through the news columns. Women have found that this is a key which must be on their ring, and the ciever woman has learned to make it her key of keys. No matter what family ties a woman may have, no matter what business connections she may have, she should endeavor to de- vote one or two hours each day to some line of thought or work which lends to her own. self-improvement. The average woman is well posted on eurrent events, upon the fiction of | Between You and Me | Knnccstscceeuees > By Sophie Copyright, 1922, (New York Evening World) by Press Publishing Co. THE HOME OF ALL WORK AND NO PLAY Hl; was tired and cross and dis- gruntied—the little wife who quarreled with her husband the Jast time. Me came home for the evening mes He made a casual remark yabout a meaningléss some- thing and = she almost snapped his head off In an- swer. He returned her words in like man- ner, and pretty soon the mountain came out of the mole hill, To-day they are hopelessly —separ- ated And their lawyers are busy settling disputes as to who shall have the children and when. It looks as though it will be a Jong drawn-out sqaabble, that may or may not “ever be adjusted. But this is what the woman told me, which gives some hope of reconciliation: “I think I know what was thé mat- ter with it all,’ she said. ‘Our mar- ried Hfe was all work and no play. I xot into a rut somehow or other, and 1 guess John did too. I thought we ought to make our pile and then spend it. And now look at us! He is miserable and [ am miserable. And the children are worse off than before. They haven't their father— which they ought to have. And he is a good man ut that. But now that 1 am back home withsmy people and don't have to work so hard, as the work is all divided, I am beginning to think that most of our trouble was TOO MUCH WORK. I wanted my house too nice—too clean, 1 prided myself too much on being a fine housekeeper. “I wasted too much trouble for infling details, and John wasn't quite built that way. Me rather resented my scolding him when he left his Wat on the parlor grand, Various times in a joking way he would won- der why we had to be so tidy, and at such times I was always exasperated one to get meat off the bone, or into round places, &c The paring knife’s blade should never be over four inches long and should be curved or hook-shaped at the end to fit the rounded surface of the vegetables or fruits it is intended to peel. The bread and cake longest, most flexible as not to crush the delicate food it cuts. Yet have you not seen people take a heavy, blunt knife and expect to be able to cut thin, delicate slices of cake or meat with slicer need the de of all, so Study what is called “balance” in Akuife, Extend the tip of your fore- imges; take a knife and lay the place Where the blade joins the handle on the @p of your extended forefinger, balancing it as you would a butterfly. If the knife is well made, properly welghted, it will ‘“balance’’ evenly back and forth Every good knife should do this, A 1 designed knife will weigh uneven An over- weighted handle will cause clumsy cutting. Do not cho nives where the handle is of two pieces of wood and the + Je fastened between with rivets. Select one with a smooth, comfortably rounded ubber one- plece handl: Don't buy too many knives, but be willing to pay steel. Three, one for bre meat, one for vegetables eral and of the right design, will be better than twice the number of knives Le uxe a shurpening stone daily newest, most practical sharpener is a re et emery about the width and length of a pencil. This is fastened by 5 i} brackets to a window 1 or table. One or two passes of your blude across this sharp- ener and presto! —your best tool is in perfect condition, When you are through using don't forget to always place it in own special rack You couldn't keep house or cook a single meal with®ut knife—don't mistreat these good servants, HE EVENING WORLD, “The Petty Things of Life Do Not Touch _This Woman — She Has No Time to Fumble With Them.” the da: she has a cult or a belief which keeps her soul satisfied and she has some definite work which means the expression of herself, her dally development. . “And if she hasn't found that self- improvement is a big key. to her happiness"—Mrs, Farnham jumped cown from the table, the dogs were on their feet, the cat stretehed and Polly screeched “very good"—"If she haen't found this key to happiness through self-improvement," repeated tne sculptor, with a warning shake of her finger, ‘‘won to har—she is missing the biggest thing in her life!" Irene Loeb und a quarrel would follow. “I believe I should have been more lenient. It's true I had a lovely home and kept It immaculate and it gave ine a great source of cornfort. But T lad to work and slave all the time in order to da it. “Many a time I was too tired to sit cown at the dinner table and enjoy my dinner. And I know it did not piease John that T acted in this way. He would often say, ‘I would be satis- Sed with much less cooking and not 9 much fuss if you will let down bit.’ But T thought he was trying to be kind and would have missed all the little things that I did which took so much labor and constant attention “Why, as T reéall it, [ don’t belte I went toa theatre once a month dur- ins my whofe married life. ‘The chil- dren woul go to the movies with their father occasionally, but T would ricy at home to do sewing or atten! to some things that were left undone. “Af first John would suggest that [ ict the work go and come along, but I guess he realized after a while thot this was useless und gave it up for a bad job trying to get me away from household cares. T honestly belie that this was most of our trouble.’ And this is the fault of many, many e a home—all work and no play. Tt stands to reason that the cure of a household and cooking and eblidven entails endless effort and ¢ on the part of every woman But to the woman who is, | might jomesticated it is liable to rious, as in the ei above I know of another case where a man made frends outside his home and got into a habit of leaving h home hearly every evening, just he- cause his home was too nice, He went on the theory that while there is no place like home it was a good thing there isn't. Home to him was too fine to be used. He did not dare do this, that or the other thing in It. He seemed to be run by rules and regulations. He didn't d smoke for fear the curtains would get black. On returning from wor! he was not allowed to walk into any room except the kitchen, for fear would soil the carpets He was not permitted to read in the sitting room for fear of mussing it up. This room was for company only, as many a living room is. ,.In a word, there was no freedom. His home was his castle but not his men comfort. A place for everybody but the man who made it, So he chose the line of least resistance and quietly got all he could of recreation away from his home. Almost since the honeymoon days his wife never cared to participate | any of \his pleasures outside of his home, and gradually they got into poms Bescuan the way of living apart and yet to gether. And there is the tragedy found in many a household—the tragedy everlasting order, Order is all very well, but an over supply of it is bound to work havoc in any home. What difference does it make if t curtains are soiled or if things disarranged a bit?—while it mig mean extra work, it will save wo in the end, Besides, there is such A the TUESDAY, Why Not Look Your Best? eyebrows ntly rubbed into your eyebrows and uched to the eyelashes helps thet growth. to encourage to the roots bef tr MAROH 7, 1923, GAIN CHICA Beat It !. *MR BACHELOR: IS CALLING on AISS SPINSTER | HATE BRIGHT , LIGHTS IN ee A DIM LIGHT MAKES A ROOM LOOK SO MUCH _PRETTIER |) BM IM SCH HN ORT 2 y In Neal O'Hara's If Your Hair Isn’t Red You'll Be Interested Just the Same On This Page To-Morrow EVERY WOMAN Does AT YOUR AGE MY DEAR Humorous Article am UCM RRGORIE By Doris Doscher Copyright, 1922, .New York & World) ly Press Publishing Co EAR MISS DOSCHER: seem to be getting stouter all the Will you please tell me time. Can you suggest a way of SORE |VEaWILSe ta MMR KOUT reducing the hips? The upper part of my body is not at all in and eyelashes grow? proportion to the lower part. | And also. tell have hardly any bust. | am 5 feet me how to fix 6 i stall and weigh 145 haint 0 had pounds, Is that too much for my AML Ca) height? BIRDIE it bobbed last You are a little overweight for your summer and it \eicht and [ strongly advise you to did not look se the log and leq circling evercise, good, so | am the squat and touching the floor without bending the knee: he hip ifter-bath rub and extending the leg ‘| right angle to the body for as long trying to put it up, so can you some give me 18 you possibly can both forward, advice? | have backward and sideward. These are ‘a rather thin ‘ery excellent for removing the flesh jround the hips. Do not neglect to face and am 4 tevelop the upwer part of the body blond. M. M through proper breathing exercises, little Nquid vaseline or olive oi! “tm swinging gnd chest expansion, Dear Miss Doscher: | am greatly troubled with ec zema at the top of my forehead and in back of my ears tried most every advertised salve : ind still it does not disappear It is very annoying and so | thought 1 would write and ask you if you could possibly help me Be careful not to get it in Now that your hair 1s shor ime to massage scalp and its growth by apr sionally a little liquid vi sham pooing to do more have the } be t is long enough y puffing it out at the bottom WRG e rae omceree de { volling it under a hair net to cor Fis Many a woman gets no fun in in place and pin tightly un Avoid as much as possible allow by conbiant diemine tor gist in 1 4h, This will ive your face « Water oF soap to touch the afflicted Hane i pote ce uae Week fic effect and not hurt the ha ‘ and cleanse instead with a zine done and interferes ae bit Pavaculne £61 tes serena veil er E leaaure a Bet cen ae dd plenty of milk to your dict te most important point to consider TRAMs: oF \resroatians 1st & tn at ndcget plenty of freati air; and't rin u 6 cure of eqzema, as it is dix Sie were ga. They iH ame DEY hat you will find your whole ap! tly « condition of the bi Ba All work and no play will make HATE AR RTOGNEROHNE AMOR wRsd ae Geanetcon tact any home the last place one wants Dear Miss Dosche mada hy nici a heuping to be, ‘am very large in the hips and yy) HAs ah Gteum Ge RiP (iA pint of boiling water Allow it to ret cold and settle and then strain off the top and drink F you are making a new Easter bs you will find a varied and exten I sive assortment of frames in thir shops. At one dollar you can those disk-shaped frames in metal shell or composition, among which t new suit shades ure represented, als black and white Those at $ i come in the same colors but have a lnk chain to mateh att top and a mirror inside the co AU $3 there are handsome silver | plated disks with a silver chain « at centre top, as is the style now, ! nd inside of cover is a vanity case, 1 Dear Miss Doscher 1am pix Id, five feet weil nowadays is 4 1 m sixteen years old, five five inches in height and weigh 125 lusk—there is such a pounds. Could you tell me how in aneahan uniitho col much | should weigh, how wil | dots Phe Tamalk aol ancmn should be and also if it is possible sit ala ere to ain another inch on two I tween mesh and dot Wola dh Grenid, toll average height of a girl ‘ valet SEB is lve feet three imehes and a mith pak SC aRNE Tt u are five fect five Inches, you see x Aet\ Yat It ts not necessary f to fr ive for more height oO andiete ak the ful to keen your 1 h ona nowoltevunlingn 2 18 Of exercise and proper posture, the spilt fict, hexagon und round shoulders will make sou look mesh, which are really the "ery much shorter, You weigh about meshes, right for your age. Copyright, 1922, «New Yor UT Mudridge-Smith’s husband says he won't have anything to do with It, so you Will have to come with us,” remarked Mrs, Jarr, firmly. “I thought you said he'd put up the money, and now you tell me he won't have anything to do with it. If her husband won't have anything to do with it, why should I be called into the matter?" asked Mr. Jarr, queru- lously, Clara 6é ‘Oh, he'll put up the money,” said Mrs. Jari “she has badgered him so that he has agreed to finance her venture Into the making of artistic and yet moral moving pictures. And as Mr, Smith is your boss and he has told Clara you could take a few days off and look over the matter, you are lo come along with us to meet Mr Guller, President of the Mastodon Motion Pictures Corporation, [ am just crazy to see how moving pictures ure made.” You mean you are just crazy after you have seen them after they have been mad Mr. Jarr replied, mo- rosely. "But L knew I would be the goat. In the first place, after the boss has pat up hie money to make a reen star of his wife, he'll blame me when his money ts lost, because I'm 1» look after the thing That's the way you always talk ind spoil my enjoyment,” whimpered Mrs. Jarr. "I suppose you told old man Smith he'd lose his money?” You bet I did!" said Mr. Jarr Safety firet!”” Well, you may be mistaken,” re { Mrs. Jarr, the optimist. "Clara idge-Smith is very handsome on ser the test pictures that cost er a hundred dollars prove that; and used to play in amateur theatri ind you suid yourself she was @ ood act “YT nald she was a bad actor; all the fas she'y been making was just to r yanity,” replied Mr. Jarr. there's no escape for wtisty 1 suppose th if that's the way ke it 1 Mra, Jarr. ‘And the Clara waiting for us in her town car downstairs So Mr, Jarr got his hat and accom Jarr to where the new so for the movies awaited them. The dear thing was all in a flutter and adi as her chant M oP e Corporation. Irv y small and shabby office ig, old building tn the business district. But the glass office door was crowded with names, Fy Roy L. ly McCardell Evening World) by Pres Publishing Co. y evidently, according to the signs, the headquarters of ‘The Internation! Allied Super-Features of the Universe Corporation,"’ also of “The Sup Muperfect Pictures Corporation. Branches All Over the World,” and Tt “Mastodon Moving Pictures Corpora». tion of New York." There were othpiny corporations and other names on. tin door, but Mr. Jarr only had time a read those mentioned and also -note the name “Vilas Canby Guller, Pt 4 dent and Executive Chairman, and the two ladies passed within, ” Mr. Guller, a large, florid, aver- dressed man, wus struggling with two husky, beetle-browed, sullen fellows who were endeavoring to drag hitr from his chair as Mr. Jarr, his’ wife and Mrs, Mudridge-Smith entered. © _ ‘That will do, boys!*' said My Guller genially, “I can’t accept your proposition, even though you. tey-te force me. Here is the star of our new $5,000,000 picture corporation.’* ‘The husky men let go and stood’ by silently. The ladies were much in-_ pressed, but if these silent ones wer not deputy sheriffs, Mr, Jarr did jiv}+ know the species. “Well, we'll give you till to-mar« row," remarked one of these. ‘Conve on, Hogan!'’ and they departed. = Going Down! * EAR Reader: If you hap- ~ pen to be one of these. unhappy persons who lie awake, permit me to ask you thi: What do you think about? Is it not your thoughts that keep you awake? Why not stop those thoughts? If you have read these talks you have learned that it is best to think of ONE thing at a time—that thing being the matter in hand. * Therefore, when you cannot sleep, meditate upon the bed, What kind of wood or metal is it?) Where do the springs. come from covers—the blankets—the com- fortabl These thoughts will take you a long time and before you have finished the list you will be fast asleep. Train your mind to stick to. the subject in hand and not to wand Sinoerely, ALFALFA SMITH, It was ( TURNERS 2 ee ee Sie eee 1