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Household Hints
WOMAN'S REALM
Latest Styles
Caroline
Chatfield
Says Today
for Bright Lights and Giddy Girls That Looked
Turing at a Distance Give Him the Blind
Staggers When He Gets Up too Close.
DEAR MISS CHATFIELD:
I am a woman fifty years old, rather food lookins and attractive
and have a food mind, thoufh I have no special talent and no hifh
er education. I am another middle-aged woman who loves a husband
that has become cold toward her. He wants a younger partner for
dances, night-clubs and entertainments. But he doesn’t want me to
leave him. I have given up my life to him. We have no children. I
haven’t fostered friendships on the outside because I found him all
[sufficient. I want to die and end it all, so bitter is this change to me.
But I am afraid if I do he will take to drink and go to pieces. Then
it would be I who was a coward. He says he hopes some day we will
be to one another as we have been before. What a hope! Is anything
left me? 8. J. F.
ANSWER:
Yes, dear lady, a lot is left and if you don't make the natural mis
take of comparing of what is lost with what is left, you will discover
several causes for comfort. Among them are the deathless quality of
your love for your husband, your self-control that enables you to think
about his future before you consider yourself, his affection for you that
prompts him to confide in you: describe to you the symptoms of his
disease and express a hope that it is curable. These are causes for
comfort and there are others, no doubt.
Surely a man is cowardly to satisfy his whims at the expense
of his wife’s heartache. Surely he has marked out a course that will
in time be equal.'/ expensive to him. For he is going to discover that
the diversions he grasps at will slip through his fingers like split sand.
When the birdies have bled him and the dances have left him winded,
when the pleasures that looked so alluring at a distance have palled
on him he will come to himself, crawl back to the fireside to sit in
the easy chair, put his aching feet in the bedroom slippers, smoke
his pipe and read his papers in peace.
A woman can settle down, spend the remainder of her days in con
tentment with her husband and him alone. The dear, familiar face,
form, habits of speech and behavior are quite enough to fill her cup of
happiness to the brim. The cut of his eye, the movement of his hand,
the tone of his voice are symbols that give her the cue to his frame of
mind. She has heard all he has to say. She knows how he will react to
every set of circumstances. He is the axis about which her life revolves
and so long as he is at the center all is well with her. But sometimes
it happens that when he approaches age fifty he begins to yearn a
little for the spice of variety and to argue with himself that if he is
ev*r going to have it, he must hurry. There is no chance to get it with a
wife who has gone through the same routine for twenty-five years.
There is no possible way of making his wife understand his yearnings,
so he ducks and runs, in a sort of desperate effort to make hay while
the sun shines. But his wind is shorter than he imagined. The bright
lights and the giddy girls that at long-distance look so alluring to his
middle-aged eyes give him the blind staggers when he gets close to
them. And if that wife can bide her time, he will be back.
CAROLINE CHATFIELD.
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DEAR MISS CHATFIELD:
Can a girl expect to be happy married to a boy who never has
anything to do with other girls, never goes around with boys, dislikes
parties except when they give him a chance to be with one girl he
loves? L- M
ANSWER:
That depends on whether or not these lermit habits are offensive
to-her. If she is willing to share his hermit existence, see her friends
when he is away at business and devote evenings and holidays to
nursing him, give up all thought of entertaining, or being entertained
by friends and acquaintances and resign herself to a placid unexcit
ing life, she can be contented with her bargain. But—if she is socially
inclined, dependent upon people, eager to be on the go, marriage to
one of these solitary souls must surely be a blight However, there is
one saving grace: a woman has such enormous capacity for adjust
ment to the man she loves that she can not only conform to his
ideas of life but forget that hers were once entirely different She
may not get bubbling happiness out of the conformity but she gets
a certain sort of satisfaction that is mighty close kin to happiness.
Perhaps a girl can’t expect to be happily married to a solitary soul
if she loves people—but she can’t expect to be happy if she says good
by to the man she loves. So what?
CAROLINE CHATFIELD.
Problems of geuernl Interest submitted by will be dis
cussed In this coin in n. Letters unsuitnlile f«r publication will be
answered personally provided they contain stnmped, seU-nddressed
S“7lope All names are beld in confidence. Write His. Chatlleld.
la care of this newspaper.
-BEAUTY
Glorifying Yourself
By ALICIA HART
nitA ocrvitc o»u
Blonde Rosemary Andree, the
who won the $50,000 prize in
d’s physical perfection con
lnsists that scientific exercise
the first requisite of a perfect
woman may starve herself
but diet alone never
for a flat, hard stomach,
chest and graceful neck,"
Andree went on. “Nor does
(fencing and walking. I have been
all my life, but not until
X started to do regular exercise
at home did I develop the
and lines that I now have,
thin, but my dimensions
lecause my flesh is hard
corset. My stomach
provide a natural one.”
little dancer who eats
she likes whenever she
fraction of an inch
five feet two, weighs 94
Inches around
the waist and
Her hands and
the days
a slender,
htle body.
a chance for a job with
partner, but he
let me sign a contract un
I lost several pounds,” she said.
special exerciser for
t for fifteen
With it, 1
adequately
Komhht Andree—she attributes
Vr fine (litre to exercise.
Religious Note Is Effective On Christmas Table
HOLLY AND MISTLETOE ARRANGEMENTS FOLLOW OLD YULE TRADITIONS
By Mary Margaret McBride
NEA Service Staff Correspondent
New York.—The Christmas table
that sets off your 1935 turkey may
either be faithfully traditional or
startling modern.
One of the most modern, strange
ly enough, illustrates best the re
ligious singlficance of Christmas. It
has for a center piece a crystal Ma
donna modelled by Stef Uiterwael,
Dutch Sculptor. O na blue linen
cloth are set plates and clear crys
tal. The glasses repeat in frosted
ste.n and deep red base the design
of the roses which, mixed with
white bouvardia, fill crystal vases
at each end of the table. The vases
and the Madonna stand on blue
mirror placques.
Holly Give Festive Air
A contrasting table laid in the
traditional English manner has hol
ly twined around an old candelabra
■PARENTS
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and laid in squares on the table.
The embroidered Maderia cloth is
edged in filet lace and inset with
cluny. The deep-blue and rose
china is rare Crown Derby. The
glasses are old English crystal and
the centerpiece is a pierced silver
basket fashioned by the silver
smiths of King George Ill’s reign
and filled with pink roses and holly.
Lew silver salt dishes and tall an
tique pepper shakers complete the
picture.
Many states were represented in
a Christmas table decoration con
test sponsored by the Gardens of
the Nations at Rockefeller Center
and each table was set in a man
ner characteristic of that state.
Massachusetts had a centerpiece of
red apples surrounded by a wreath
of silver leaves and red holly ber
jries. Elack and white china and
red glasses were arranged upon an
openwork linen cloth which was
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Your Children
By OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON
Mary was given a little plant In
a blue pot. Her mother explained
that it would grow and in time
bear flowers, but that the plant
would not do this for nothing. It
asked very little for what It gave,
but without attention it would give
nothing. S
For a week Mary saw that it
was placed in sunny windows and
had just the right amount of wa
ter. She loosened the earth around
its roots gently, and behold—she
spied a new leaf unfolding.
But after that life’s importuni
ties distracted her attention. The
plant could wait. It usually did.
In a short time a leaf began to
turn brown. Then another. One
night it was left on a cold window
sill to freeze. Mary was disappoint
ed and conscious stricken. All her
mother said was, “Neglect pays my
dear. This withered stalk is pay
ment for carelessness.”
Leading a Dog a Dog’s Life.
Dick was given a dog. His par
ents said about the same thing
that Mary’s parents had told her.
The dog would live and thrive and
have a good disposition if well
looked after. But Dick took all the
love of his pet without earning it,
in a selfish way. It is always sel
fish to be pals with an animal and
not give it what it needs.
Clean water, regular food, baths
and warmth are left for the rest
of the family to worry about. His
parents were away for a week and
when they come home Flop was
dead. locked out one night, he took
"dog-flu,” and because he had been
sketchily fed and watered, that fin
ished him.
"It wasn’t my fault,” Dick wept.
"I was good to him.”
“Dick,” said his mother, “you
feel so badly I hate to say this.
But, child, if you learn a certain
little lesson now it may save you
many a heart-break later.” And
she used almost the same words
that Mary’s mother had spoken.
“There is nothing in the world that
continues to furnish us pleasure
without our giving back to it some
of its needs.”
Inanimate Things Need Attention.
This is also true of inanimate
things. Polly has a fine new dress,
for example. She expects it to con
tinue in its beauty and freshness
forever. It won’t, however, unless
she treats it with consideration and
care. The bicycle won’t give ser
Style Chats
Paris — (U.P.) — Good cut and
simplicity of styles are far ahead
of the naked decolletage of a year
ago. It is rather discouraging to
have invested money in a low
backed evening gown of last year
and to find that it has been out
dated by the new midnight tailored
suits in velvet or lame. It is by rev
olutionizing styles, however, that
fashion designers, cutters, fitters,
mannikins and couturieres make
their living.
Although many bright colors
were shown for evening wear
earlier in the season, and still
are seen in smart Parisian gath
erings, the latest trend is toward a
dull black. There is, for example,
the sleeveless gown of black crepe
whose skirt is cut in one with a
graceful tram. The gown fastens
on one shoulder with a flower in
dull silver. The tight skirt is slit in
front where it reveals a slip of dark
silver lame and silver sandals to
match. A long velvet cape, lined
with dull silver lame and trimmed
at the neck with an ermine collar
and stock scarf, is worn with the
black and silver gown, while a all
vice indefinitely or reflect credit
on its owner unless it is oiled and
polished. The book won’t be a real
keepsake; the music-box, abused,
won’t charm.
And as for friendships, nothing
in the world more needs giving as
well as taking. We get nothing for
nothing, and certainly this in
cludes friends, too.
(Copyright, 1935, NEA Service, Inc.)
spread over red satin. The table was
lighted by red candles in Colonial
silver candlesticks.
The Vermont table was laid ac
cording to an early American tra
dition with an old linen cloth made
of flax spun and woven by the
groat-grandmother of the exhibitor.
Red geraniums in a low bowl in the
center oif the table and the china
was eighteen century Wedgewood
with green and lavender flowers.
The glasses were early American
three-mold.
Carolina Table Picturesque
The North Carolina table was
done in orange and brown with a
centerpiece of apples, bananas, pe
cans and walnuts from North Car
olina, surrounded by holly, smilax
and swamp berries, also grown in
the southern state. Squares of wide
meshed cream-colored lace were
used instead of a table cloth. The
china was white with a border of
brown and green wildflowers and
the glass was clear crystal. The
orange candles in glass candlesticks
picked up the color motif of the
centerpiece.
A Japanese table used a beige
linen cloth and was centered by a
large Japanese plate arranged with
a maiden-hair fern and spikes of
red alder berries.
Among the newer notes for
Christmas tables are metal trees in
graduated tiers with spaces for
candles on the lowest tier. Anoth
er use of the Yule tree is a set in
painted wood, a big tree for a cen
terpiece with smaller matching
trees for place cards.
Body Gets Energy By Carbohydrates,
Sources Of Sugars And Starches
BV DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor, Journal of the American
Medical Association, and of
Hygeia, the Health Magazine
Along with the proteins go the
carbohydrates in your daily food.
One is Just as important as the
other, in the maintenance of a
healthy body. But while the pro
teins provide the tissue-building
material, the carbohydrates fur
nish the necessary energy, in the
form of sugars and starches.
Carbohydrates are really sugars
and starches. The sugars are the
chief source of energy for the hu
man body.
A person requires a daily intake
of from 350 to 500 grams of
sugar a day. No one has found
out the minimum amount of
sugar he can take and still live,
but in general it is believed to be
wise not to reduce the amount
of sugar below 100 grams, or
about a .quarter of a pound, daily
for any length of time.
• • *
Certain minimum diets taken by
people contain very small amounts
of carbohydrates, some as little as
35 grams of sugar daily. Anybody
on such a diet should be under the
constant care of a physician.
When we eat carbohydrates,
digestion of the starches is be
gun by the saliva and digestion of
the sugars is completed in the
Intestines.
There are certain sugars which
apparently are not used by the
body. But they may have some
value in giving bulk to the diet or
in promoting action to the bowel.
* * *
Sometimes sugars are necessary
to provide materials for organisms
or bacteria which live in the bowel
and which are useful to mankind.
There has been some argument
as to whether we should eat re
fined sugars or raw sugars, the
claim being that the raw sugars
have more food value because
they contain some minerals. But
since these mineral substances
are also available in other ways,
mdbt authorities no not favor the
view that the eating of refined
sugar is in any way harmful.
Some of the sugar we take into
our body is changed into fat and
stored in the body in that form.
ver lame evening bag and a dull
silver coronet complete the costume.
The tailored evening suit is
the most practical evening costime
that has been created In years. It
permits Innumerable different cos
tumes by the mere changing of a
blouse. For dinner wear the long
skirt and Jacket can be worn, while
for more formal occasions there is
the backless, sleeveless blouse in
matching or contrasting material, as
well as the long sleeved blouse with
a split bade.
Today’s Health Question
Q.—My boy, 5 1-2 years old,
left-handed become nervous
to train him to use his right
hand, but my husband would
prefer It. I have read that
this procedure Is fraught
with potential dangers. Will
you kindly advise me Just
what these dangers are?
A.—Some children who are
left-danded become nervous
and disturbed when strenu
ous efforts are made to com
pel the use of the right hand.
Stammering is one of the
signs. Some children, how
ever, learn to use the right
hand well and are able to use
both hands quite skillfully.
Much depends on the tact
fulness and patience with
which the effort Is made, as
well as on the temperament
of the child. If the effort to
bring about use of the right
hand Is followed by signs of
n e r v ous disturbance, you
should cease trying to compel
right-handedness.
Paris Styles
By MARY FENTRESS
Paris, (UP)—Molyneux has brought
out a new type tailored midnight
suit which consists of a tight instep
length skirt, a classically tailored
jacket and a feminine sleeveless
blouse with a draped fichu, or sur
plice neck. Particularly lovely is a
suit in deep sapphire blue velvet
with a blouse of powder blue crepe
which is fashioned so that the back
and front decollete form a fichu.
The costume is completed by a small
toque in sapphire blue velvet
trimmed with a cloudy veiling of
tulle which is attached at the top
of the crown.
Molyneux still shows some of the
pleated evening gowns which bear
Grecian influence. One in hyacinth
blue, cut with a deep blue back, has
cap sleeves formed of the same type
pleats which are stitched down as
far as the hips to maintain a slim
silhouette and then flow out loosely
to the floor.
Unusual color combinations make
Molyneux gowns particularly attrac
tive. One in pale blue satin is
trimmed with a bouquet of raspberry
colored flowers and is worn with a
long cape of rich raspberry colored
velvet and pale blue elbow-length
gloves.
House pajamas are made here
in fine crepe de chine in a rare
shade of mauve-pink which is com
bined with a Jacket of mulberry
color. The Jacket is patterned after
a Chinese Mandarin coat, being
split on each side from the waist to
the finger-tip hem. but it is de
void of the usual ornate embroidery.
A table strewing tbe religions import of Christmas (below) uses a crystal madonna modelled by nter
Ulterwael for centerpiece. The cloth Is of bine linen, the plates and glasses In moonstone and clear
crystal. Boms and white bonraidia All crystal rases at each end. Reeking of tradition is the English
table (left) with lines of holly laid on the Madeira cloth to form a checkered pattern and entwined in
the old candelabra. The china is rare Crown Derby, the glasses old crystal and the centerpiece a pierced
sterling silver basket from George IITs time, filled with pink roses and holly.
(Prom Garden of Nations, Rockefeller Center, New York.)
How To Keep Well
By DR. WILLIAM BRADY, M.D.
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HAVE YOU HAD YOUR HEAD
OF LETTUCE TODAY?
In the luncheon of the regenera
tion regime you will find you are
to have one-third of a head of let
tuce, representing, say, 16 calories,
with a tablespoonful of oil dressing
if you like, and that represents 80
calories.
Then again you will be delighted
to find in the dinner menu another
third of a head of lettuce, with an
other tablespoonful of oil or its
equivalent as a dressing.
I said delighted.
I offer no apology for the two
thirds of a head of lettuce. That’s a
moderate allowance. For most of
us it would probably be much better
if every individual ate a head of
lettuce every day.
What this country needs is more
salad and less pap.
What is salad without plenty of
crisp lettuce in it?
The reason for the lettuce in the
regeneration regime is the richness
of lettuce in mineral elements and
in vitamins.
Lettuce provides what too much
of our modern refined food lacks—
I minerals and vitamins.
What minerals and what vita
mins? Who cares? However, if you
must know, calcium, phospomsj
iron, copper, manganese, potassium,
sodium, chlorine, sulphur, 1.3%
protein, 2.0% fat, 2.9 carbohydrate,
vitamins A, B, C, O, and now and
a caterpillar or a chinch bug.
Under the law of Moses the Pas
chal meal Included lettuce with
lamb and unleavened broad. The
ancient Romans believed that let
tuce in the evening meal promoted
sleep and their is still a popular
legend that lettuce has some apre
ciable sedative or soporific effect.
The outer green leaves contain
most of the vitamins; the inner
bleached leaves are comparatively
poor in vitamins. Probably most of
the iron in lettuce is contained in
the outer green leaves.
Noted physicians in England and
elsewhere have prescribed lettuce
empiricaly for “nervous heart” and
for other vague “nervous” condi
tions. Today we know that heart
muscle contains ten times more
vitamin B than skeletal muscle, and
dialation of the heart occurs long
before the multiple neuritis of beri
beri becomes evident. Beriberi is
the nutritional disease due to ex
treme deficiency of vitamin B. Some
physicians now believe that much of
the heart weakness of patients in
hospitals is due to partial vitamin
deficiency. Lettuce is rich in vita
min B.
An ordinary serving of lettuce fur
nishes perhaps SO units of vitamin
O. Calcium, of which lettuce is a
good source, and vitamin O are
among the chief factors which bet
ter an already normal condition of
nutrition, extending the prime of
life in both directions. Vitamin G
promotes the health of skin, hair,
and nails. Eat more lettuce and
keep young and beautiful.
QUESTIONS and ANSWERS.
Headaches.
Being subject to frequent head
aches, I took for relief- (an
acetanilide concoction) —- and now
I find I have to take a 25 cent
bottle of this every day.
(L. R. O.)
Answer—Yes, a good many vic
tims gecome addicted to the-' coaltar
derivatives in such pain killers.
Readers subject to headaches should
have the monograph on Headache,
obtainable by request if you inclose
a stamped envelope bearing your
address. Victims of the acetanilide
habit need medical care. If they
drift along with the habit sooner
or later they suffer physical or
mental breakdown.
X have had a lot of trouble with
cramping of the forefoot, which I
suppose is due to falling of the
transverse arch. I find your sug
gestion of an oval pad of soft
leather lengthwise under ball of
foot is a great comfort. Are there
any special exercises or other
measures which would be of any
help for this condition? (L. H. D.)
Answer—Spread a towel on
smooth floor, and sit with bare feet
on towel. Alternately grasp towel
and wrinkle it with the toes as
though to pick it up with the foot.
Or place pencils, marbles or small
blocks of wood on floor and pick
them up and put them down again
with the grasp of one foot, then
the other.
Sterile Petrolatum
When you speak of sterile petro
latum do you mean the ordinal
kind or some special kind? Would
carbolated petrolatum be all right?
(J. A. W.)
Answer—Petrolatum is otherwise
known as petroleum jelly. Sterile
means germ-free. Petrolatum heat
ed to boiling point or higher for
at least five minutes on three suc
cessive days is sterile. If dispensed
in collapsible tube, so sterilized, it
remains practically sterile until the
last drop Is used. This or any other
salve or ungent in jar or can or
box is likely to be contaminated
each time the container is opened
or some of the unguent is used. I
think carbolic acid should never be
used in any form in first aid or
home treatment—it is dangerous,
predisposes to gangrene, retards
natural healing process, has no vir
tue not available in less dangerous
remedies.
Abnormally sensitive to Cold
I am apparently a big, strong wo
man, maybe little too stout, and
when the house feels comfortable
to every one else it still feels chil
ly to me. Maybe my circulation. . .
(Mrs. P. K.)
Answer—Many who are unduly
sensitive to cold have hypothyroid
ism. Iodln ration might help. Send
three-cent-stamped addressed en
velope for it. Many who demand
ex :ssive heating of the house suf
fer from excessive dryness of the
heated air. They would find a low
er household temperature comfor
table some provision for evaporat
ing ten or twenty gallons of water
a day were made.
An Old Pharmaceutical Custom
Isl tincture of iodine poison? 1
put a drop on a kind of pimple or
canker in my mouth, and then no
ticed the label says poison. How
much would have to be absorbed
. . . ? Mrs. K. R.)
Answer—No. That’s just an old
custom. Ordinary dose of tincture
of iodine internally is five or ten
drops, when it is given medicinally.
(Copyright 1936. John F. Dille Co.)
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