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Hat Trees May Be Made at Home
BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER.
The hat rests lightly on the dainty hat tree.
A Spring hat will 60on look out of
shape If it is put away in a haphazard
fashion. To preserve its shape and
keep it splc and span, either lay it
away in its hat box or stand it on a
hat tree* As these trees can be had at
no cost and with the smallest amount
of work, every woman can possess as
many as she requires.
To make one of these hat trees use
a round box such as cereals now come
in. These are of paper. Round tin
coffee or cooky containers are equally
good. These are tail enough to rest a
hat on without the brim coming in
contact with the shelf.
Transform the commercial pasteboard
boxes into smart hat trees by gluing or
pasting fancy paper around them. Wall
paper is excellent to use, and there are
sure to be left-overs of such paper in
the store closet. Textiles can be used
instead (ft paper if one prefers. Fancy
cretonnes, sateens, linens or pieces of
silk, etc., can be utilized.
Glue the material on the top and
bottom of the box as well as about the
sides. If the cover is tom or unshapely,
cast it aside and invert the box so that
the upper part presents an unbroken
surfaee that will be decorative when the
box is covered.
PSYCHIC ADVENTURES OF
GREAT MEN AND WOMEN
William De Morgan’s Dream Which Preceded the
Death of His Relatives.
BY 1. P. GLASS.
Psychic annals do not record a great
many instances among the great where
a certain dream repeated itself before
important events, but obtainable rec
ords are highly interesting.
Already in this series we have de
scribed Abraham Lincoln’s dream of
voyaging on a phantom ship, which pre
ceded several great battles of the Civil
War and also his assassination. Fully
as remarkable were the sleeping experi
ences of William De Morgan, the Brit
ish novelist, who gained a legion of
' friends in this country by his novels,
including "Joseph Vance," "Alice-for-
Short” and several others.
De Morgan is one of the most re
markable persons in literature, since
almost all his life was spent in the
making of pottery, at which he' was an
artist, and he did not begin authorship
until he was 67. He was of unusual
parentage, for his father, Augustus De
Morgan, was one of the most eminent
mathematicians and logicians of his
day.
Augustus De Morgan was deeply In
terested in psychic matters and record
ed some incidents w’hich came to his
notice which have been given an impor
tant place in phenomena of this sort.
It is significant that during the last two
days of his life, William De Morgan,
watching at his side, noted that he ap
peared to recognize the members of his
family who had preceded him to the
grave. These included his mother, his
sister and his three children. He greet
ed each of them by name in the reverse
BEAUTY CHATS BY EDNA KENT FORBES |
A Diet for Early Spring.
For some tlnje, I feel certain, you
have been thinking of Spring clothes,
buying Spring clothes, and perhaps, if
you live in a wartn part or the country,
even ■wearing Spring clothes. But have
you thought of springtime foods
Evciy once In a while, around this
time of the year, I talk about the old
fashioned grandmother’s Spring tonic of
sulphur and molasses to thin the blood
and clear the complexion. There Is a
dandelion tea, also, a bitter concoction
brewed at this season, or perhaps a little
later if the Spring Is long in coming,
from the roots of the otherwise agree
able dandelion. It tastes so horrible
• that I hate to think or write about It.
But dandelion aalad is quite different!
You should eat a big dish of dandelion
fninrt every day, made of the tender,
light gseen inside leaves of the dande
lion covered thickly with boiled dress
ing, which for this tastes better than
mayonnaise. This is a pungent, deli
cious dish which will thin and purify
the blood and clear your skin at the
same time. , . . ,•
There are also other foods you should
be eating now. or very soon—tender
little onions with the outside part re
moved and only the heart boiled and
served in cream sauce. These have
little or no odor; fried onions are as
beneficial, but much stronger. Aspar
agus will be coming into the market
soon, delicious and very good for you,
spinach or some of the numerous
varieties of greens we have with us all
the year round. Some form of such
vegetables should be eaten frequently.
Thanks to greenhouses, plain or eurled
lettuce, or endive, can be obtained quite
cheaply at any time. Some leaves
should be eaten every day either with
fruit or with some of the season's
vegetables. '
Last year’s beets pickled with vinegar
can be chopped in cubes and mixed
with green vegetables or even chopped
lettuce for a good-looking salad.
M. C. A.: The nail that has continued
to split for years must be very ridgy and
brittle. If you could change the char
acter of it the split would heal. Try
rubbing plenty of oil or cream into It
, and keep the skin from growing over
the root of the nail, so the circulatlor
will be free. Trim the nail very clos<
just as,you have always done and pro
tect it by wearing a finger stall all th<
***» until there is complete recoven
from the split.
(WOMAN'S PAGE *
When selecting material to cover these
hat trees be careful to aee that colors
do not rub oft. If they do, marks may
be left on hat linings. Also if paper is
the material it should be smooth.
Crepe paper or crepe weaves of cloth
are not satisfactory.
Tin boxes lend themselves better to
paint than to paper decoration. While
it takes a little longer to paint the
boxes and allow for the drying than to
cover with material, the advantage is
that such surfaces can be washed when
soiled. This is not a matter of much
moment, for new pasteboard boxes can
be made at short notice to replace old
ones, but it is worth mentioning.
Fine hats that are kkept in a closet
that is in constant use may be kept
immaculate if light-weight textile cov
ers are made to throw over them when
they stand on their hat trees. A square
of cheesecloth, silk muslin or a soft old
silk handkerchief or muffler is just the
thing. The shape of specially made
hat covers can be round. By feather
stitching hems, a dAinty touch is given
even to the most prosaic of covers.
When not in use the covers can be
slipped inside the hat trees. If such
use is intended, the tops of the boxes
should be covered separately, so that
they can be taken off or on at will.
1 (Copyright, 1939.)
t order to that in which they had de
s parted life.
It was in connection witß death that
■ William De Morgan had ’the dream
which we are about to (frscribe. It
. came to him with unfailing regularity
' before a death took place in his family.
There was nothing remarkable about
[ the dream. It dealt merely with his
, boyhood home and apparently had no
, unhappy features in itself. But, as it
. invariably was the forerunner of -a be
r reavement, he learned to dread its ap
pearance.
Most remarkable of these premonitory
dreams was that preceding the death of
his brother Edward, who was then in
South Africa.
De Morgan dreamed of his former
home with the utmost vividness. Not
hearing ill tidings immediately, he eon
-1 eluded that the dream had no signifi
cance and let It drop from his mind.
Weeks later a letter came from South
Africa. It told that Edward De Morgan
1 had been killed by a fall from his horse.
The accident had come on the same
date on which Williafn De Morgan had
had his dream.
On another occasion the dream was
not so distinct. But it is to be assumed
that this time Mr. De Morgan did not
forget and that it remained to haunt
him.
After a length of time similar to that
which had hrought news of the death
of Edward. De Morgan again received
sad news from South Africa.
The infant son of Edward had died.
(Copyright, 1929.)
the proper appetite, your weight of
j lOB’/jj pounds need give you no con
cern. You have grown tall and have
1 used up a great deal of nervous energy
1 to have attained the height of five feet
six inches before you were 16 years of
e age, but you will likely begin now to
take on weight and fill out all over
for the next three or four years.
5 E. H. N.: Shake the tonic each time
- before pouring. This is a sensible thing
t to do with any liquid preparation where
* there are several ingredients. You can |
1 buy small saucers that are very nice to ;
i pour a small amount of the tonic into, |
. and then dip a small stiff brush into it
and brush the tonic into the scalp albng
e separated sections between the hair.
>, This prevents waste of the tonic, as
. you get it into the scalp without spread
. ing it around over the hair. The brush
ing also helps the circulation. Follow
■ it up with a vigorous massaging of the
‘ scalp. Massage this way every day, but
. apply the tonic about three times a
The marks left from the trouble with
‘ your gall bladder should be cared for by
1 your dqctor.
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THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, 'APRIL T, 1929.’
OUR CHILDREN
BY ANGELO FATAL
Excusing Him.
Often we excuse a child’s fault and
•o establish the reason for It.
“Phillip has always disliked meeting
people. He can’t help it."
“Mary Agnes never liked soup. I hate
it myself.” „
“Well. Tommie always did like sweets.
He shouldn’t have eaten the icing off
the cake, but he has always liked that
part of the dessert best.”
“Freda has always had a loud voice.
Takes after her father.”
“Oh, she’s always been delicate. I’ve
always had to baby her, so now she is
a little selfish. You must excuse it.”
“Yes, Sam is always late. I’ll aee him
late for his own funeral, I know.”
When such speeches, sincere or
otherwise, are made before children,
their little foible is strengthened into
a habit and the fault is fastened upon
the child for his lifetime. Some habit
that is a hindrance to him is to clog
him throughout the years.
Why should a child dislike soup?
Some grown-up person said he dis
liked it and the child followed the flag.
A discussion of soup or no soup fol
lowed, and that always interests a
child. “No soup” was his slogan from
then on. He really knew nothing about
soup.
What child was born without a lik
ing for sweets? Is his liking to be
permitted to grow into a phase of glut
tony that will undermine his health?
Instead of condoning his greediness
one should have informed him he was
behaving like a greedy little animal,
without reason, without control, and
should take heed to himself.
A great many of the unhappy traits
of children have been trained into
them in just this way. Some grown
up found the refusal to conform, the
declaration of independence, very funny,
or Interesting, and made much of it.
Then the child continued what might
have been ended at the start by a
word of reproof or correction.
Parents often come to school to ask
the teacher to excuse the child for this
or that little habit. “I wish you
wouldn’t ask her to read aloud. She
has never been able to read aloud, not
even in the home.”
Many a child can do in school what
he cannot do in the home, because of
the new associations formed in the
school. That is one strong reason for
sending him to school, and when the
parent goes to the school and asks that
the child be excused from doing his
work he is attempting to bind the child
still more firmly with the cords of his
bad habit.
Make as few excuses for the children
as possible. Let them speak for them
selves more and let us speak less. Often
our fear for them leads us into making
laws for- them that they would never
dream of making for themselves. Let
them try to free themselves if they
can; let them strike out for themselves
and form new habits, new associations,
new powers.
When we say "Please excuse him and
let him go” we are letting our fear
speak. Give courage a chance and say
“Lft him go free. Let him shoulder
the consequences of his own deeds.”
Then will the child grow in power and
happiness.
(Oopyritht. ltM.)
I NANCY PAGE I
Could a Hat Be an
April Fool?
BY FLORENCE LA GANKE.
Lois was looking for a new hat.
One which she liked was of visca. She
saw it also in tricot. The material was
finely woven until It seemed almost like
a texture. It fitted the head closely and
seemed intricately woven and inter
i woven. The salesperson told her that
j these hats were popular at Southern
resorts. They were made of colored
straws and of white shades to wear with
light Summer dresses. That hat was
her first choice. For her second she
looked longingly at one which cost so
much that she could Just picture
Roger’s face should she come home and
announce she had purchased it. But it
was good looking. It was made of felt
and strips of closely interwoven leather.
It was a tricorne and most becoming,
but after sighing she passed it by.
When she took the tricot-crinol hat
from her head she was horrified to see
the salesperson crush it out of shape.
“I did it purposely, madame, to show
you how durable and satisfactory It is
for traveling and packing. Off the head
it looks like nothing, on the head—ah,
madame, you see for yourself,” and once
more she deftly set it on Lois’ fair hair.
The other hat which interested her
was made of Poiret woolen material
fashioned Into & crown with a brifn of
felt. Worn with a Poiret scarf of same
material and pattern the set is effective
and good looking. Lois said she would
speak to her husband and call the sales
woman the next day. She knew she
would have to have that hat, too. And
she soon had it, and that’s no April
fool, either.
The trim turban calls for slim lines. Write
to Nancy Pate. care of this paper, inclosing
a stamped, self-addressed envelope, asking
for her leaflet on reducing.
(Copyright, 1929.)
Prices realised on Bwift A Company
sales or carcass beef in Washington, D. C.,
for week ending Saturday. Mareh SO, 1929.
on Shipments sold out. ranged from 19.10
cent* to 23.80 cents per pound and averaged
21.11 cents per pound.—Advertisement.
J£y Neighbor Says:
TV> remove paint from window
glass mix powdered pumices tone
Into a paste with equal parte of
turpentine and oil. Rub the
paint stains until they disappear.
Dissolve soap chips in warm
water or beat thetn into the water
with an egg beater to get a good
soapsuds.
To remove grease stains from
wallpaper, cover the stains thickly
with powdered French chalk,
which can be obtained at any
drug store. After 24 hours re
move the chalk with a soft cloth.
If the stains prove obstinate, re
peat the process.
When washing painted walls,
moisten the lower part of each
section; then if any water runs
down, it will ndt streak, as it
would If allowed to run down on
the dry wall.
* 1 ". • 1 mo i aLigg,^jui!ar , " >v -
I it, \DorothyDix\
Girl Prefers Career to Humdrum Marriage
Where, Husband Has All Advantages,
But No Menace to Home Appears.
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A QUESTIONNAIRE has recently been submitted to college and university
girls in an effort to find out their purpose and ambition In life. Out
of 1,700 replies that were received only seven girts said they wanted to be home
makers. All of the others aspired to enter the professions and to become
actresses, moving-picture queens, lawyers, doctors, artists, writers or
business women.
Many of the girls said that they wanted homes of their own, but the
majority of these preferred to have the sole management.
At first blush the returns from this questionnaire may seem discouraging as
to the outlook for the future of the race and the home. Those who are
pessimistic about the modern girl anyway might well view with alarm what looks
like a wholesale stampede of highly educated young women away from their
sacred sphere and a repudiation of wifehood and motherhood, which is the
ancient and honorable calling of their sex.
But let us calm ourselves. There is no real cause for panic. These
schoolgirls who are going to devote their lives to art or uplifting the world or
what not, Instead of cooking breakfasts and walking squalling babies with the
colic, have failed to take into account the most potent force in the world, and
that Is Mother Nature, who will presently come along and knock all of their
pretty little plans Into so many cocked hats.
It Is all very well for Alicia, with her high brow, to sit in her college (
dormitory and dream of being a Portia who will argue great cases before the i
Supreme Court and for her to shudder as she thinks of being one of the wives |
who live in 2-by-4 flats and have to budget the market money and think twice ]
before they go to the movies. It is all very well for Matilda to decide that she
will become a successful business woman with her own tea or specialty shop or a
high-priced buyer who goes to Paris twice a year Instead of being merely one of
the wives who wear hand-me-downs and have to wheedle every cent they get
out of a husband.
It is all very well for Jane, who is an Individualist and who has scrapped
all of her life with her mother over what she shall wear and where she shall go
and what time she shall get back, to make up her mind firmly that as soon as
she gets on her feet she will have her own little apartment with her o wn ]
latch key and that she will never be fool enough to put herself in a position t
where any man can boss her. , , , , *
A LICIA and Matilda and Jane and Mary and Busan and Sally are perfectly i
sincere when they say that they are going to espouse careers Instead of 1
men and that they are going to keep themselves free to live their own lives and 1
that they don’t see much cakes and ale in matrimony for women any way you <
look at It. j
Then, just about the time Alicia and Matilda and Jane and Susan and j
Sally get started and are in away to realixe their ambitions along come Tom 1
and Dick and Harry and they forget all about their plans and aspirations. <
A bungalow with open plumbing and stationary washtubs, with a perambulator <
in the front hall and a man coming home to dinner, suddenly looks better to 1
them than Anything else on earth and becomes th* object of their supreme desire, j
Why, any little, freckled-faced, carroty-haired man can make a girl change ]
her mind about the desirability of marriage and substitute himself for her 1
ambitions. We see it done every day. Look at tbe women who spend years of
hard study and thousands of dollars fitting themselves to follow some career ]
and then scrap the careers at the invitation of some man to come into his
kitchen. A girl may never have cared for cooking, but the cook stove becomes 1
her weakness when it is cooking the food for her man and kiddies. (
Bo nobody need lose any sleep worrying because a lot of schoolgirls have 1
announced their intention to turn their backs upon matrimony and home- ‘
making. They will fall in love and get married and have babies Just as their 1
mothers and their grandmothers did before them, and the only difference will ]
he that they will be a little bit more efficient as wives and mothers and house- '
keepers because they will be better educated, more progressive and open- .
minded and will bring a more businesslike technique to their Job.
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'T'HE thing that I find disquieting in the replies to this questionnaire is that j
1 marriage has been made so unattractive that few girls in their sober senses
want to let themselves In for a lifetime of it. Out of the 1,700 girls who were j
asked what they Intended to do only seven were optimistic enough to think that ,
they might get good husbands and be happy though manled.
The balance did not see anything alluring in the fates of their mothers and 1
their sisters and their aunts. They saw wifehood as a life sentence to hard ,
labor, with no pay envelope on Saturday night and with no thanks or apprecia- ,
tlon, and it seemed to them that standing behind a counter or pounding a j
typewriter was the softer snap of the two. ,
They saw their fathers glum and grouchy around the house, knocking j
everything their mothers did, and it seemed to them that the only way to keep
a man polite and courteous and agreeable was not to accept him. They saw (
sweethearts flattering, attentive, generous, anxious to give girls a good time, and ,
husbands whose wives had to pry every nickel out of them with a jimmy, who ,
never took their wives to any place of amusement or paid them a compliment,
and it seemed to them that marriage was a total loss.
Os course, In olden times women had to marry because a husband was J
their only meal ticket and their only rain check into social life, but now every
intelligent, able-bodied young woman can make her ow'n living and go where ,
she pleases. So from being a necessity a husband has merely become a luxury. -
So if this questionnaire teaches anything, it teaches that If we want the '
girls of the future to regard marriage as the greatest of all professions we will
have to make it more attractive to them. DOROTHY DIX.
(Copyrisht. 1929.) ‘
MOVIES AND MOVIE PEOPLE j
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BY MOLLIE MERRICK. <
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HOLLYWOOD, Calif., April I.—The
movie gang la horrified, honestly horri
fied. It has come to the conclusion
Hollywood has been cheapened by the
aong-and-dance crowd which has hit
Movieland via Tinpan alley. New York.
“Say,” we was bad enough,” said one
celluloid* gent who carries his clothes
like a British aristocrat and his Eng
lish like a what’s-wrong-with-this-pic
ture ad. “We was bod enough, but
even in the old days before the movie
racket calmed down we didn't pull any
of the cheap stuff these guys have
brought out. Yessir, moving pitchers
certainly has deteriorated.”
The Tinpan alleyers who have come
to the village to put the music into
screen musical comedy are “being
themselves” in a great big way. And
how!
Are they impressed by cinema stars’
They are not. They have chucked
great stage stars under the chin and
those stage stars have been glad to let
them. A good song means more on
Broadway than a chuck under the chin
any time.
Neither are the alleyers afraid of pro
ducers. A song is a song, and if you’ve
got the stuff you can sell it. There’s
no chance of favoritism. Straight from
the shoulder stuff, and may the best
man win.
Lionel Barrymore directing a mys
tery story with six handsome Hollywood
stars —men —in the cast. Roland
Young, John Roach and John Loder
are three of them. It’s going to be a
great picture for the debutante fans.
With Holand Young’s irresistible Brit
ish accent, John Roach’s 6 feet plus
and John Loder** waist line, broad
shoulders and air of romance, the story
should be a knockout—as I said before,
for the feminine persuasion at least.
Lionel Barrymore never looked so
happy. The years seem to have slipped
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April Fools
0 o
The humorists prevail this day, they
surely have the right of way. They send
me off on errands vain, with messages
that are insane; they deal in stratagem
and trick until I’m looking pretty sick.
My memory is poor, I know; the tricks
they sprung a year ago have been for
gotten in the stress of dodging autos, I
confess. And so I fall for ancient
games that bothered long-dead men and
riajw«, who sat on chairs that weren’t'
there, and cursed the Jokers in despair.
On this one day the jester’s free to
make a mock of you and me; our dig
nity is tom to rags, our self-respect too
often sags when we are razzed, and
people drool, "Here is another April
fool.” Along the street I proudly swing
and think I'm looking like a king, and
I imagine men admire by bearing and
my braw attire; I feel I’m cutting lots
of grass—but they are grinning as I pass.
And lovely damsels who should deem
my smile a blessing writhe and scream;
and children on their way to school are
loudly crying, “April fool!” Some, joker’s
pinned upon my back a placard with
the legend black, “Please kick me once,
or kick me twice if one swift kick will
not suffice.” Now wrath is sizzling in
my brains, the blood is boiling in my
veins, X feel that I should run amuck
and put some Jokers out of luck. But
custom makes its stem demand!, and I
unclench my warlike hands, and Strive
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from his shoulders. He goes about the '
set with a contented smile, his orders '
given in a low tone that wakes imme- '
diate response in his cast.
He sits very close to the set. His j
orders at rehearsal take but a few (
seconds, but those seconds count. Bar- ;
rymore brings to his work the best tra
ditions of the legitimate and many
years of work before the cameras. He
is combining this experience in a talkie ;
that should have quality.
The anti-blonde war Is on. There is
a great move among the younger and
cleverer actresses to let their hair be
itself; that is, if you were born Joan
Crawford, with brown locks, you go
back to brown and stay there. Which
is precisely what that astute young
star has done.
Producers have a habit of saying “I
want you blonde for this role,” or "This
girl has Titian hair. Os course, that
is a matter of half an hour or so.
Have your hair made the requisite
shade.” And stars have been in the
habit of playing chameleon.
Marie Doran said today : “The town's
full of blondes. I’m going brunette
again. I’m going to be natural and
see if I can’t get a break on the
strength of my merits. Some one wished
this blonde head on me and it’s taken
all my time to keep up. Anyway,
blondes are a drug on the market.”
If I mistake me not, there’s a line in
Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Gondoliers”
which applies to the situation. Said
they, "When every one is somebody,
then no one’s anybody.”
And that’s the Hollywood blonde situ
ation in a nutshell.
Four-year-old Douglas Fraser Scott
cut a few didoes on the set the other
day and his mother stepped forward,
led him to one side and proceeded to
turn him over her knee.
“Wait a minute, mamma,” he cried.
"Don’t hit hard, because you'll only
have to fix my mascara on all over
again!”
Hollywood children get all the breaks.
1 (Copyright, 1938, by North American News
paper Alliance.)
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Registered 17. S. Patent Ofiee.
When trains from Baltimore used to
cary excursionists to Shepherds Point
via Anacostla where they would board
the old excursion steamer for Colonial
Beach, Va.
Your Baby and Mine
BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED.
Among the chief questions which
harass the young mother are those upon
the subject of how far she may go In
allowing natural penalties of behavior
to punish a child. She knows that if
she can let the law, which the child Is
breaking, either social, moral or phy
sical, administer its own penalty, the
child will learn a valuable lesson.
Most children in conscientious house
holds are too strongly protected against
the results of their own misdoing. They
have to have bumps and bruises inci
dent to learning how to walk, and put
ting them in contrivances that support
them, or constantly holding their hands
and then making a great fuss and to-do
over them when they do fall, Is one
very good way of preventing their learn
ing how to walk.
That Is Just an incident, of course,
and not misbehavior. When the child
begins to pull at things on the table,
it might be well for the mother to pre
pare the table for Just such.pulling. If
she puts on it a cloth that will not be
harmed and a book that may tumble
against the baby as he pulls it toward
him, baby will learn that there Is a
real reason why he should not pull
things from the table.
He very shortly learns to get about
the natural obstacles In a room because
he has discovered that It hurts to run
into them. If he puts his hand on the
hot radiator, he discovers that his fin-,
ger is burnt. These are all natural
penalties involving the nature of phy-*
slcal things which the baby can learn
without real injury to himself. If the
mother, after these mishaps, says,
‘‘Pall” or “Bump” in the proper situa
tions, the baby fits a meaning to these
words that aceords with the experience
he has Just been through. Later, when
mother says, “No, baby fall,” or “Baby
burn himself,” the words aren’t just
meaningless sounds to him.
There is no intention of encouraging
a mother to let her child fall down
stairs in order to discover that he will,
just as mother said he w'ould. Instead,
going up and down stairs has to be
taught by protecting baby from them
until he has learned how to go up and
down safely on hands and knees, or by
sitting down and sliding from step to
stets.
One small lesson in burning a finger
on the hot radiator or on the red light
on father's cigar, or a fall due to pull
ing at a heavy chair, or the bump from
a misused book, will make mother’s fu
ture negations have meaning. It is
better if the mother sits back quietly
and lets some of these natural things
happen, so long as they are only mildly
and temporarily hurtful, than constant
ly to protect a baby from the conse
quences of misbehavior. We must pro
tect a child from real dangers and we
cannot put the responsibility on baby
and then blame him when he misbe
haves. “I told him he shouldn’t do it!”
never excuses the mother, but some
painful penalties can be learned best
by experience and mother should let
experience give the lesson.
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BY JOSEPH JASTBOW.
Fears and Dreads.
At * lecture delivered br you It «u
pointed out that while a peraon would
not in the least be hesitant to walk out
on a heave plank placed upon two low
supports, he would, it Inclined to be
timid, be averse to repeating the act it
the very small plank were placed upon
two supports iflrmly founded) In a place
between two roots. Do you believe that
fear of this sort and possibly in similar
circumstances is purposely Introduced by
nature to second her first law. that of
self-preservation, or la fear something
which la acquired, and which may be
relative to superstition?—J. O.
Beply.
This Inquiry offers a welcome oppor
tunity to straighten out a bit of fa
miliar psychology. Since we must all
use words In a loose conversational way,
they are bound to get worn at the
edges and won’t quite fit Into the com
partments that scholars provide for
them. Which means no more than that
we use the same word for a number of
related meanings which the more accu
rate needs of science differentiate. Such
a word is "fear.”
To begin with. It refers to the sim
ple state of startle. A door bangs or a
tire explodes and you shudder. That’s
a built-in mechanism; In at the ear.
out at the muscles. Quite as ingrained
is the sense of uneasiness when you
are near to falling, Insecurely supported
1 —a posture fear. But since we begin
' to reflect pretty early, our primitive
fears soon acquire a tincture of thought
or Imagination—something more than
a bare sensation—and we should do
well to call them dreads. "The burnt
child dreads the Are”; It fears with the
memory of the former pain.
So In the case cited, it Is because
the plank looks unsafe (it Isn’t wobbly
nor does It feel unsafe) at the greater
height that that fear reaches the stage
i of dread. It Is still more obviously so
when a person becomes panic-stricken
at the edge of a precipice or an open
gallery or a high dome. Let there be
an Iron railing and the sensation goes;
that railing Is more a moral than an
iron support.
You get the same sympathetic dread
when looking at men working on the
girders of tall buildings In dangerous
positions. The danger emotion is built
up on complex fears and dreads. The
blinding flash of lightning and the
awful crash of thunder play havoc with
our total emotional timidity.
Still higher along on the psychologi
cal scale are the cares, worries, anxie
ties and other fear sentiments. Your
child is out late, or you haven’t had a
letter from a friend for weekg, and you
"fear” that something has happened
In fact, you go much farther afield
when you transfer fear to any sense
of loss, anything that on the whole you
prefer not to happen.
So you say: ”1 am afraid it’s going
to rain.” though there is but a little
discomfort at stake; and the depart
ing guest rises to say: "I am afraid
I must go now,” though, far from any
element of fear, there may actually
be a sense of relief on both sides. In
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BY ROBEBT QUILLEN.
"I sure was scared when that car of
folks hit my dog an’ turned over, but
it didn’t hurt nothin’ except make him
a little lame in one leg.”
) Copyright. 1929.)
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brief, "fear” becomes the standard
term of the avoidance vocabulary, as
hope becomes that of the sought and
desired. We live imaginatively and
sentimentally and reflectively in hopes
and fears.
Both fears and dreads are protec
tive; the shrinking and avoidance are
in the Interest of safety and comfort.
We must anticipate to be ready to
meet situations whether pleasant or
unpleasant; foresight and prudence ard
anchored in an imagined dread of that
rainy day. But when fears become
abnormal, they overflow their proper
bounds and make a reign of terror.
We doubtless have more fears than are
necessary for our protection.
(Copyright. 1939.)
Everyday Psychology
BY DR. JESSE W. BPEOWLS.
Psychology of Snob.
What is a snob? What psychological
traits should a person include in his
concept of a snob?
Before answering these questions it
may be well to take note of the fact
that what you think is what, and what
you think another person Is, depend
upon what you are. All psychological
appraisals, especially those referring to
personalities, are very likely to be col
ored by the appraiser’s own psycholog
ical traits. Many of these the appraiser
does not consciously realize, much less
admit, that he himself possesses.
The nouveaux riches are usually called
snobs. This Is because they have not
yet formed the social habits which go
along with their new monetary achieve
ments. They "cut” their old acquaint
ances because they are suffering from
the fear that they do not deserve the
status they have attained. It takes time
for a person to make himself at home
with sudden wealth. There is no other
psychological reason for the popularity
of the comic strip ’’Bringing Up
Father.” No one may reasonably be ex
pected to mingle on the old basis with
acquaintances who may remind him of
the status he would like to forget. The
snob, then, has a perfect psychological
alibi for his snobbishness.
There is still another psychological
justification for the snob. And that is
the feeling of inferiority which, accord
ing to Adler and his admirers, applies
in some respect to all human beings, re
gardless of wealth. Every one feels in
ferior in some respect.
Now in the case of the nouveaux
riches, the usual sort of snobs, there are
very few of them who cannot find somo
one who possesses a little more wealth
than they do. In other words, every
snob has his superior in his own field
of achievement. To this, common
courtesy demands homage and respect.
This servility demands payment in Its
own terms. If a anob must act in a
fawning way toward his superiors, he
must compensate for the feeling of in
feriority thus evoked by demanding a
certain amount of fawning from his
social inferiors.
Thus two mighty human traits make
up the snob: Fear and compensation for
inferiority. Who in the world is without
[these traits?
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