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Social Correspondence Features
BY LYDIA LK BARON WALKER.
Acknowledgment letters are short
notes that serve the purpose of letting
friends know that you have received
their letters, nothing more. They are
courtesies, requiring almost no time
sit aJI to write, and yet they are grati
fying to receive. If any matter of im
portance is brought uu in the missive
I
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THESE NOTES SHOULD BE BRIEF
AND MAILED PROMPTLY.
to be answered, it should be ntoed, at
lea-st, so that when the friend gets ,
the acknowledgment letter she realizes I
that the subject has not been over- .
looked. If the matter is of immediate !
importance, this one thing should be !
the subject of the reply.
There should be no attempt really to ,
answer tlie letter with the acknowl- !
fdgment. It is accurately described 1
b.v the name given it. However, It is
satisfying to realize that you have!
sent the note and that you may be :
permitted a little leisure in which to)
v rite a longer letter later, on. So we '
find acknowledgment letters a genuine i
boon in the realm of sociul correspond !
ence.
Business Requirements.
In the business world the acknowl- j
element letter is an accepted feature
of a day's mail. If a letter conies to a j
hrtn and the person to whom it is j
directed is away, the secretary writes
an answer in which lie says some
thing of this sort, after the usual form
of address:
“This is to acknowledge the receipt
of your favor (naming the date). Mr.
Blank is out of town (or away on his
vacation), but immediately upon his
return the matter will be brought to
his attention.” Signed by the secre
tary.
This prevents any question coming
up concerning the receipt of the letter,
even though the full reply is delayed
beyond an otherwise reasonable period.
The writer of the first letter knows
that another reply will eventually be
forthcoming.
Social Courtesy.
There is no such cold formality in
social acknowledgment letters. They
.should be as informal and as gracious
as if a long reply to the missive re
ceived were sent. Some such form as
the one given below is pleasing, after
the salutation of “My dear Mrs.
Blank” (for a somewhat formal note).
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Without x reason now
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I that will resist wear—garments sash- ]
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WOMAN'S PAGE.
or "Dear Mary” for an intihiate one.
You will see that “My” constitutes the
more formal beginning.
“It was delightful to get your let
ter. Just as soon as I have an oppor
tunity I shall give myself the pleasure
of answering it as It deserves. Mean
while, you will know by this brief note
that I have read with interest what
you wrote inc, and that lack of time is
my only reason for delay in respond
ing more fully. I am happy in the
knowledge that all goes well with you
(or grieved to hear of your ill health,
or misfortune, as the case may be).
Your loving friend (or yours cordially).
(Signature.)
- Correct Stationer}'.
The important thing in an acknowl
edgment letter is to get It off prompt
ly. The next thing is to have suitable
stationery on which to write it. Cor
respondence cards or very small note
paper, either in white or one of the
smart kinds, is correct. The size of the
stationery is in accord with the brevity
of the note. Such stationery should
be kept always for Just such occasions.
What Tomorrow Means to You
BY MARY BLAKE.
Tomorrow's planetary aspects are
distinctly adverse, and especially un
favorable for travel or change. They
improve somewhat in the evening, but
at no time become exceptionally pro
pitious. The emotions that will be en
gendered are not of the best, and there
will be sensed an almost irresistible
urge to become dissatisfied, morose
and grouchy. Even the most opti
mistic character will have trouble in
maintaining an air of equannimity.
Nothing out of the ordinary humdrum
of daily duty should be attempted, and
your whole attention, as captain of
your ship, should be concentrated on
maintaining a straight course. Re
member that there is much truth in
the hackneyed saying that “there is
a silver lining to every cloud.” and
although the elements may he against
you today, there is always a “tomor-
I row."
j Children born tomorrow are, if the
signs be read aright, destined to go
i through their eaerly years with few,
lif any, physical ailments. In their
' "teens,” however, they are liable to
i be subject to at least one serious ill
j ness, which will tax patience and care
,to the utmost. In disposition the boy
1 will.be studious and painstaking, more
addicted to reading than to sports and
j pastimes. The girl will be winsome.
• magnetic and attractive, and much
j more disposed to play than to work.
• They will be honest, candid and truth- '
| ful, and will possess a considerable i
! amount of both physical and mental :
| courage. Loyalty to their ideals and '
: to their friends will be their outstand
j ing virtue, than which none is of
I greater value.
I If tomorrow is your birthday, you
have a very practical mind, and are
never imaginative or enthusiastic. You .
are extremely cautious and ultra-con- j
servative. You may not be very sue- j
cessful in increasing what you have,
but, on the other hand, there is very j
little probability of you ever decreas
ing it. You possess good executive j
ability, and this is manifested in either I
the office or the home.
Y'ou do not waste your time, but I
are economical of the moments. You j
read good books and seek the asso
ciation of cultured people.
Your friends are many, and they all
respect you. None, however, “gushes" j
over you. Your matter-of-fact disposi- |
tion precludes such a possibility,
j You are capable of deep and great 1
love, but will always remain unde- I
• monstrative. which may prove of ex- :
eeeding concern to your mate. A little
more enthusiasm, even though simu
lated, might contribute, in no small
degree, to your happiness.
Well known persons born on this
date are: Denman Thompson, actor:
Herbert W. Ladd, merchant and gov
ernor; Samuel Bowles, 3d, journalist;
Frank V. Van Der Struc.ken, musician;
j Ernest Peixoto, artist; William S.
■ Sims, admiral. United States Navy.
(Copyright. 1926.)
| In a churchyard in Worcester. Eng
land. is a slab over the grave of a de
parted auctioneer bearing the single
i word "none "
Comet Rice code'
Light
white and fiak)/
THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON. 1), C, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1925.
COLOR CUT-OUT
THE GOLDEN FLEECE.
Princess Medea Helps.
As Jason left the court of the King
a beautiful young girl came up to
him. "I am Medea, the King's daugh
ter,” she said. “If you will only trust
me, I can Instruct you how to tame
the fiery hulls, sow the dragon's teeth
and win the Golden Fleece."
Jason learned that the beautiful j
princess was an enchantress.
“If you are as brave us I think you
are, you need have no fear," said she.
"I have u charmed ointment which
will prevent you from being burned
by the brazen bulls.”
With the aid of Medea's ointment
Jason was so anxious to meet the
brazen bulls that he did not wait till
daybreak.
Here is the enchantress. Princess
Medea. Her hair should be light
brown, and her dress a very pale blue.
(Copyright. 1925. >
MOTHERS
AND THEIR CHILDREN.
Pockets for Patches.
£v
W;' i
One mother says:
j When children's colored dresses are
i bought readymade, the-mother is at a
loss for a piece of goods with which
to make a repair. Buying dresses with
pockets sewed on is away out of this
difficulty. The pocket can be removed
when a patch is needed, and this bit
of material has the advantage of hav
ing been washed as often as the dress
and hence is a perfect "match.”
(Copyright. 1926.)
Stocks are apt to recover from a
fall quicker than the operator does, t
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*FURNIJTURE
Xerdnd — a W \ g J M \ • Describes
School for # §f\f*f\ffa\/*B Bj'Y Course In
Husbands i %/! JLf i/J\/ -Husbandry "
Should Be Taught That It Takes Two to Make
a Happy Home. That a Compliment a Day
Keeps the Divorce Lawyer Away.
JT has been announced that the University of Chicago is about to establish
a course to teach girls the art of making good wives. Praise be. that Is a
eo-edueaMoiial Institution of learning, so that doubtless a similar course in hus
bandry, so to speak, will be open to the mule students.
Heaven knows, they need it, for the average mAii'fi idea of being a good
husband is to put a wedding ring on a woman's finger, dump her down in a
house and leave her to thank God thnt she. has the privilege of cooking and
sewing, and scrubbing and cashing ior him, without wages, instead of work
ink in an office for a salary for some other man. Every man who feeds and
clothes his wife and doesn’t beat her pats himself on the back and pins model
husband medals on bis breast und feels that lie has done his full duty in the
holy estate.
It doesn't occur to him that beluga meal ticket and a cash register does
j not fill the measure of a woman’s desire in a husband, and that the reason
why there are so many peevish, soured, disgruntled wives in the world Is
that women are so generally fed on the husks of matrimony that they
have acquired a spiritual dyspepsia.
InasVnuoh as most men either will marry, or are married, and their hap
piness and prosperity depend upon their making a success of the venture, it
is just as important that they should he taught how to make good husbands
as it is that girls should be taught how to make good wives.
Now, the first three principles, the A, B, C of how to bo happy though
married, that should be drilled into the beads of these bright-eyed young stu
dents should be: Not to get married until they have tho price; not to marry
until they have arrived at man’s estate ami know what sort of wives they
want; and not to marry until they have sown their wild-oat crop and are ready
to settle down.
Most of the marriages that go to shipwreck flounder on one or the other
of these rocks. There is no happy home with a wolf perpetually howling out
side of the door. No man can see his wife and children want and be bounded
by debts and torn with anxiety without repenting liits marriage and blaming
the woman who*was a party to his folly.
Calf love seldom lasts. The girl a boy picks out at 18 or 19 he wouldn’t
marry at 25. llis tastes have changed and he loathes the wife he has out
grown.
Domesticity is an affair of the hearthstone. No man should undertake it
j until he is tired of playing, until his ow n fireside looks better to him than any
j cabaret and he feels that he would rather push a perambulator than joy-ride
i in uu automobile.
* * • •
TJAVIXG taken this kindergarten course in the essentials of making u good
A-*- husband, the young man should be taught:
First. That making a happy home is a two-handed job, and it
takes a man and a woman both to do it. No woman can do it alone,
though she cook like a chef, smile like a Cheshire cat and though she has
the disposition of an angel and the tact of a diplomat.
It is just as much the business of the husband to l»e a little ray of sun
shine in the home as it is the wife's. It is Just as much up to him to be
agreeable and entertaining as it is to her. It is just as important that he
should keep himself looking attractive and retain his boyish figure to keep
her love alive as 1t is for her to doll herself up and count her calorlest to keep
herself looking good to him.
.Second. Tho boys should be taught that you can jolly a woman, but you |
can't drive her. If they want their wives to be good cooks they must put I
away the hammer and get out the salve spreader. They must not knock |
the bread when It Is heavy and the pie when it is tough, but tell wifey that j
she has spoiled them by her perfect pastry, and she will break her neck
trving to live up to her reputation. J
The- should be taught never to refuse wife a new dress, but to tell :
• her how' beautiful she looks in the old one and how it is just her style.
! And she will wear it to a rag; whereas, to knock wife's new hat and to tell
; hpr it is Ht years too young for her, or that it makes her look sallow, merely
means that her husband will have to buy her another one.
\ Third. A young man should be taught that women count words more
than deeds, and that a wife must be kept continually assured of her bus
band's love if she is to be happy.
It isn't enough for her that he works his fingers to the bone to support
her and the children. She wants him to tell it to her in hot. sizzling words,
such as he used to use in the days of courtship. A respectable married
woman has nobody to make love to her but her husband, und if he fails to
do so, she starves for the admiration and affection that every woman craves.
Fourth. Young men should be taught that every wife yearns for a
little appreciation. She is willing to work like a 6lave and to make every
sort of sacrifice, but she gets sore and bitter if her husband takes it as no
more than his due.
No matter how poor she is nor how hard she toils, she feels blessed
among women If her husband will only notice what she does and sympathize
i with her a little and tell her how be w ishes she could dress like a fashion
: idate and wrap her in luxuries like a millionairess.
Fifth. Yeung men should be taught that they must do something to
make their wives victively happy; that they must give them some little
amusement.
Housework and Piking care of children is the most nerve-wracking and
monotonous work on earth, and the woman who has done that all day needs
a little diversion in the evening. There ought to be a taw compelling every
man to take his wife out to some place of amusement at least once a week.
Sixth. Men should be given a course in bills—food bills, and doctors'
bills, and millinery bills, and all the other bills and ills that are the inevitable
concomitant of matrimony. Then they would not be so horrified when they
found out what it cost to support a family.
And, above all, and in this lies all the law and the prophets concerning
the art of being a good husband, young men should be taught to show the
women they marry that they love them and to make pretty speeches to them.
For a compliment a day keeps the divorce lawyer away.
DOROTHY DIN.
1 'Coprrtxtit. 1925.) ,
MENU FOR A DAY. |
BREAKFAST.
Siloed Oranges
Dry t'ereal with • Yearn
Bilked Sausages
Graham Gems
Coffee
LUNCHEON.
Creamed Lobster
Toast
Fruit Jelly
Cookies Tea
DINNER.
Tomato Bouillon
Broiled Slice ot' Ham
Grilled Sweet Potatoes
String Beans
Apple pie Cheese
Coffee
GRAHAM GEMS.
One and one-fourth cups gra
ham flour, one cup white flour,
one cup sour milk, half cup mo
lasses, three fourths teaspoon
soda, one teaspoon salt. De
licious.
CREAMED LOBSTER.
One cup chopped lobster meat,
one tablespoon butter, one table
spoon flour, one teaspoon salt,
one-eighth teaspoon paprika.,
few drops onion juice, two egg
yolks, one-third cup milk, one
third cup heavy cream, white
of one egg beaten stiff. Cook
lobster meat with butter five
minutes, udd flour, seasoning,
egg yolks, milk cream beaten
until stiff and white of egg. Fill
buttered timbale molds three
fourths full, set in pan of hot
water, cover with buttered pa
per and bake until firm. Serve
with sauce.
Sauce: Two tablespoons butter,
tablespoon flour, 1 cup cream,
one-half teaepoon salt and one
l’ourth teaspoon white pepper.
APPLE PIE
Line a deep pie plate with
rich pie crust. Pare und quar
ter small apples and place a
row around edge of the plate
and work toward the center
until crust is covered. Mix
one-half cup sugar, 1 rounding
tablespoon cinnamon and nut
meg, little salt anrl sprinkle
over the apples. Turn enough
sweet cream In to cover apples
Bake with one crust in moder
ate oven. Serve hot with
cheese.
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“Girls used to spend the first weeks
after vacation worrying about freckles
on their noses: this year it's sunburn
on their knees."
“Madeline says she doesn't care how
tall her escort Is at a dance providing
he isn't short at the cash register."
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York owned 50 slaves each In the
eighteenth century.
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Striped Chipmunk Talks.
Thrift i« alwiyn makinfr ha?tc
Lp.«t m>me trifle to to wadtp.
—Peter Kabbit.
peter Rabbit sat around by the Old
Stone Wall until Striped Chipmunk
came back. Ah usual, his cheeks were
stuffed ho that Peter wondered how he
could possibly get through his little
round doorway. He disappeared be.
tween two stones ami when he reap
peared, of course, he no longer had his
pockets full. "My," said Striped Chip
munk. “I'm tired! I’ve been working
"HAVE YOU ANY OTHER KINDS
OF FOOD?’’ ASKED PETER.
ever since sunup. Yes, sir, I've been
working ever since sunup. 1 hate to
think bow many times I have run be
tween those nut trees on the edge of
the Green Forest and this home of
mine. My storehouse Is getting pretty
well filled. It looks to me as if I shall
have to make another.”
“Why don't you stop and rest a
bit?’’ asked Peter. “And while you
are doing it you might tell me some
thing about that storehouse of yours.
You know. Striped Chipmunk, I don't j
want to know where it really is. Os j
course, It wouldn’t make any differ- i
ence If I did because I couldn’t get to
It If I wanted to, and I wouldn't want :
to If I could, for there Is nothing in it !
that interests me. But I would like i
to know what It’s like. And I would !
like to know, too. Striped Chipmunk, i
why you work so hard to lay up food ,
when you spend so much time sleep- |
ing. That doesn't seem reasonable to |
me: that doesn’t seem like good,
sense. Yet I always hear you spoken i
of as one of the most sensible of all
the little people in the Green Forest." j
‘‘l'm glad I have such a good repu
tation." replied Striped Chipmunk. "I J
don’t mind tilling you. Peter, what my j
storehouse is like, because you can’t j
get to it if you want to. In the first j
place I have a very crookc-d passage-1
way. Os course I have a perfectly I
comfortable bedroom. I often keep!
a little food in there. Tbit opening off
of my hall are several storerooms.
They are of very good size. It is in
these that I keep my food supply for
tho 'Winter. You say that you don't
see why I store up so much food and
work so hard to do it when I know
that 1 am going to sleep a good part
Rich in Fragrance
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Has a flavor unsurpassed.
Fresh, pure & satisfying. Try it*
Black, Green or Mixed Blende.
FEATURES.
of the Winter. T-et me tell you some
thing, Peter Rabbit. It Isn’t Just for
Winter that I lay in these supplies.
Os course, I use some of them *
in the Winter, for I wake up
often than you think, and when I .
wake up I eat a little. But these
supplies In my storehouse are quite
as much Spring supplies as Winter ,
supplies. For folks who live on nuts r
and seeds Spring is the hardest time
of tha whole year unless there is a
supply stored away. You can see how
that would be. There are not many
nuts or seeds left on the ground
by the time Spring gets around. But
I always have plenty in my store
house and so I never have to go hun
gry. I’ve seen the time when If I
hadn't had u storehouse to draw on
I probably Would have starved to
death, and when 1 die I don’t want to
starve to death. At this time of year
food is plentiful, and eo It is always
worth the work to fill my storehouses."
"I notice that you have been bring ’
I ing acorns today” said Peter. “The
other day when I saw you you had
! hickory nuts."
! Striped Chipmunk nodded. “Yes.”
i said he. "I’ve got a lot of fine hickory
nuts and I’ve got a lot of fine acorns
and a lot of fine beechnuts. I like
variety. If it weren't so far down to
Farmer Brown’s cornfield I’d like some
corn. However, probably Farmer
Brown's boy will put some out this
Winter where I can find It.*'
"Have you any other kinds of food?"
asked Peter.
Kttflped Chipmunk nodded again.
“Os course,” said he, “I’ve got a lot of
seeds down there. I’ve got a lot of
buttercup seeds for one thing. I like
them. And I’ve got a lot of other
seeds. The only trouble with storing
seeds is that it takes so long to store
enough to make it worth while. Now
If you’ll excuse me. Peter, I think IT.
go down and start work on a new
storehouse. When acorns are as
plentiful as they are this year I 6imply
can't allow them to go to waste. We
might have an extra hard Winter or
an extra late Spring. It won’t make
! any difference to rne if we do.”
Peter sighed. “It would to me,” said
he. "There’s Happy Jack over on the
I edge of the Green Forest. I think 111
j go over and call on him.”
(Copynrht. 1623.)
Baked Cauliflower.
I Boil a cauliflower, taking care thui
iit is rather under than over done,
j Trim the stalk so that the cauliflower
| will stand level. Do not remove the
! tender leaves. Place in a well but- •
i tered baking dish that may bo sen:
j to the table and dust with salt and
i black pepper. Have prepared a cup
1 fill of sauce ntade with chicken broth.
I Add two tablespoonfuls of thick cream *
! and one-fourth cupful of grated Amer
! iian or Parmesan cheese. Pour the
' sauce over the cauliflower to fill all
the crevices. Sprinkle a layer of
grated cheese over the whole and bake
in a rather quick over for about I<.
minutes. Substitute milk for chicken”
stock if desired. Buttered cracke. *
crumbs sprinkled over the layer of *
cheese would Improve the dish, which ’
would then be cauliflower au gratin.