Evening star. [volume], April 05, 1938, Page B-14, Image 34

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Modern Equipment and Labor Savers Revolutionize House Cleaning
Ownership of Live Pets
Brings Responsibilities
That Must Be Faced
Youngsters Should Be Taught
How to Insure Happiness
And Health of Animal.
By BETSY CASWELL.
THIS article today is dedicated to you mothers and fathers, grandparents,
aunts and uncles and other loving relatives who may have it in mind
to give little Willie or Mary Jane a live pet for Easter.
Please, unless you are sure that the little animal will be properly
cared for, don’t do it!
There is nothing nicer in the world for a child to have than a live pet.
I’m all for it. I think a child thatt
has to grow up without knowing the
Joy of a warm, active, affection
ate little bird or
animal to call his ,
missed one of the
sweetest things
of c h i 1 d h ood.
But the picture
has another side
—and that side
Is the pet’s.
Baby animals
and birds cannot
stand rough
treatment. Like
all infantile
things, they need
gentleness, regu
lar care, plenty of
Betsy Caswell
rest ana proper reeding. They can
not stand too much handling, too much
excitement and any old food. If they
are to live and to thrive they must
be cared for like any other small living
thing, and that, usually, is a duty
which devolves upon mother, or a
nurse, for children, unless bullied into
it. will not keep up a routine task for
any great length of time.
The problem, then, is whether or
not the gift will lead a happy, healthy
life, or will die too soon from too
much petting and ignorance on the
part of its owner. Every little animal
has a right to a good start in life; it
seems a sad paradox that the ones
who find themselves ‘ pampered pets”
so often succumb far more quickly
than do their less beloved brethren.
* * * *
'J'HEREFORE, it is up to the poten
tial donors to find out just what
conditions their gift is going to have
to face. They should discuss its ac
ceptability with the parents of the
child; if indications are that the baby
animal is going to be left entirely to
the tender (?) mercies of the young
ster, then serious thought should be
given the question before a final de
cision is reached.
If the pet is to be presented, any
tvay, then the giver should make a
point of finding out from the dealer
exactly what food and treatment will
be needed to insure its health and
happiness. This information should
be written down, and delivered, along
with an immediate supply of food,
with the pet when it is given to the
child. If possible, the donor should
aecompanay the gift, and impress
upon the delighted youngster the es
sential points about its care.
The average child wants to know
how to care for his pet—and he wants
to undertake entire charge of it him
self. That is—for the first ecstatic
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days. Later, unfortunately, this in
terest is apt to pall, and unless some
adult member of the family has a
tender heart and a stern conscience,
the little animal will have a thin time
of it. It is good for the child’s char
acter to keep him at the job of car
ing for his pet—but it requires infinite
patience and thought on the part of
the grown-up. It should be done,
both for the good of the child and the
good of the animal.
* * * *
'T'OO many pets are mauled and
A frightened to death. Too much
affection proves fatal. They are ex
hausted, nerve-shattered, and actually
smothered by the tight clutching of
hot little hands and the perpetual
caresses. Think what would happen
to a human baby in the hands of an
overaffectionate giant—it wouldn’t
last very long!
The child should be impressed with
the fact that a baby animal is not
an inanimate toy. It has feelings
and emotions like any other living
thing. It is easily frightened. It
must breathe to exist. And it can
only eat the things that Nature has
decreed for it, in the quantities for
which it has capacity.
Explain all this to the youngster
before entrusting the little animal to
his care. Make him realize that too
much handling is bad, that the pet
will only learn to love and trust him
by being let alone, treated gently and
spoken to softly and kindly. An ani
mal that comes and sits in one’s lap
of its own accord is vastly more to
its owner’s credit than one that is
caught and held there by sheer force.
The child will understand this if you
tell him. And his pride will be to
win the pet’s confidence and affec
tion, rather than to overcome its re
sistance by strength and bullying.
Make some youngster happy this
Easter with a living pet—but don't
bring death and misery on the baby
animal by doing so!
A Delicious Dish.
A delicious way to prepare breast
of lamb is to have it spread with
sausage meat, then rolled and tied
into a compact shape. Brown the
meat on all sides in hot lard and sea
son with salt and pepper. Add V2 cup
of hot water, place on a rack, cover
tightly and let simmer either on top
of the stove or in a moderate oven
(350 degrees F.) until done—about
1(2 hours.
Tomato juice used as the liquid
adds a distinctive flavor to this dish.
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Popular Dirndl Model
This Dress Especially Good for
Girls With Youthful Figures.
14-80-B
By BARBARA BELL.
VERY girl who has a slim and
youthful figure should make her
self at least one dirndl frock. Be
cause the dirndl is one of the most
popular fashions to bloom this spring
(and bloom is the right word, too, for
it has the gay charm of a flower gar
den). And because nothing in the
world is more becoming to slim figures
than the puff sleeves, the square neck
line, the fitted waist, the swirl of
rippling skirt.
Use this pattern to make yourself
a dirndl quickly and easily. A detailed
and complete sew chart comes with it.
Printed linen, percale or broadcloth,
very lively and decided in design and
color, are the best materials for
dirndls, and you really should have
it in challis, too.
For other popular models consult
the Barbara Bell Spring and Summer
Fashion Pattern Book.
Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1480-B
is designed for sizes 12, 14, 16, 18 and
20. Corresponding bust measurements
BARBARA BELL
The Washington Star.
Inclose 25 cents in coins for
Pattern No. 1480-B. Size_
Name ____
Address __
(Wrap coins securely in paper.)
30. 32, 34, 36 and 38. Size 14 (32) re
quires 3% yards of 35-inch material,
3’,4 yards braid or ribbon for trim
ming, 114 yards ribbon for belt
Send 15 cents for the Barbara Bell
Spring and Summer Fashion Pattern
Book. Make yourself attractive, prac
tical and becoming clothes, selecting
designs from the Barbara Bell well
planned, easy-to-make patterns.
(Coprrisht. 1888.)
To Keep the Home Hearths Shining—
Zippers that help to make slip-covers fit “like the paper on the wall”; brushes and brooms for every
conceivable spot in the house are available; mops that wear gloves, and rug cleaner in bags, are just a few
of the items that will turn your house out as clean as a new pin.
My Neighbor Soys:
Do not mound up earth around
fruit trees just planted. It is
better to leave a little depression
around each tree to catch rain
when it falls.
When making a white sauce
sprinkle the amount of flour
needed on top of the heated milk
and beat with a rotary egg
beater. It will come out smooth
and creamy.
Tumblers that have been used
with milk should always be
washed in cold water before they
are washed in hot. When this is
done the milk will not stick to the
glass and they will not have a
cloudy appearance.
i
Instill Love
Of Reading
In Child
By ANGELO PATRI.
AN 11-year-old boy dislikes reading
so much that he will not touch
a book save those he is obliged to
use for study. He does not read
for pleasure. That means that he is
missing one of the joys of life. There
is no other pleasure quite so restful,
so relieving, as that one gets in read
ing the book of his choice. And it
is always so close at hand.
One has to dress to go to the
movies, and sit there, hat on lap,
neighbors pressing right and left, in
the darkened theater, tied to the
chair for a couple of hours, until
the picture ends. One cannot choose
the show or the picture. One takes
what is offered. And pays, maybe to
be bored, perhaps to be pleased, and
then gets home and to bed.
But a book waits on the table,
beside the chair and the lamp. One
sits down, in the easy chair, in the
peace of home, opens his book and
steps out of this world into the chosen
one, for as long as one wishes. Nothing
easier. Good books are read and re
read. Other entertainments are en
joyed once. The book costs about
the price of one good show and lasts
a lifetime.
Reading for pleasure is something
one can do night after night without
weariness. Any free hour of the day
can be used in reading to the ad
vantage of the mind and spirit. If
sorrow presses, if anxiety besets one,
if idleness is enforced upon one, the
book is waiting to bring joy and
relief and healing. A child who does
not learn to read for pleasure is surely
going to miss a new world, his glimpse
of heaven on earth.
Maybe his eyes are poor? I can
think of no other reason for a dis
taste for a story. All of us, of any
age, love stories. Maybe 1ft only
thinks he does not want to read.
Perhaps, if someone who loved a story
especially well read it to him, he would
want to read one as good for himself.
I would like to try that on him.
Then I would like to try him with
“Inch . High" stories. And O’Neil's
books, especially "Tonty. of the Iron
Hand,” delight boys. To any boy of
spirit “Tom Sawyer” must say some
thing. And “Captains Courageous”
is bound to make any boy’s heart
beat faster. Read a bit from one
of them, a bit you like especially,
and then offer to lend the book to
the boy so he can read it and see
what happens.
There is something the matter with
a boy who does not like such books.
I have never met him. I have met
the boy who disliked reading because
it hurt his eyes. Nobody knew.his
eyes were bad, not even he. But when
the other boys lined up to get first
chance at a story and he shrugged
and went the other way, we tested
his eyes and gave him a pair of
glasses, after which he headed the
library line for some time.
Love of good reading must be culti
vated, and the best way to begin is
to give the children books they like,
even if we do not care for them very
much. After all, our reading diet
ought to be different from the chil
dren’s list. Don’t try to push the
classics down. Be content with a good
story and leave the growth of the
child’s taste to experience and time.
That is what formed yours.
(CeprrisM. 1088.)
Dorothy Dix Says—
Relationship Between In-Laws
Can Be a Beautiful One.
DEAR MISS DIX: I love my |
mother-in-law. She is a
peach. It is fun being
with her to shop, en
tertain, drive and even live with her,
and I have done them all. I think
she feels the same way about me.
This is the way we have pulled it off:
When she is at our house the place
is her own. She cooks and putters
to her heart's content and when she
goes I put things to rights and all is
well. I praise her cooking and show
appreciation of her help. I make her
feel that she is an honored guest.
In return she opens her heart and
home to me, confides in me, encour
ages me and treats me as a daughter.
I only hope when I am a mother-in
law that I treat my daughter-in-law
as she treats me.
A DAUGHTER-IN-LAW WHO
LIKES IT.
Answer: Fine, Would that there
were more young wives who followed
your example, for when the mother
in-law and daughter-in-law don't get
along together it is usually a fifty
! fifty proposition in which the young
woman is as much to blame as the
older one.
Grant that there are too many pos
sessive mothers who can’t bear to
give their sons up to any other woman,
there are an equal number of girls
I who go into marriage with a chip on
! their shoulders for their husbands’
mother and are ready to fight at the
drop of a hat. They show no sym
pathy or understanding for the older
women. They flaunt their power over
their husbands in their faces. They
make no effort to get along with
them. And they regard every sug
gestion that they make as a deadly
insult.
Every mother knows that whether
she keeps her son or loses him when
he marries depends entirely upon his
wife’s attitude toward her. Men are
like putty in their wives’ hands and
so if the wife is antagonistic to her
husband’s mother he soon begins to
discover faults in mother that he
never perceived before. Besides, men
don't like feminine fights and scenes,
so if wife and mother quarrel and if
wife is never willing to go to mother’s
or to have her come on a visit, ft isn’t
long before mother virtually passes
out of the picture.
The young woman may think this
a triumph, but it is a hollow victory
and a costly one, because* while her
husband may be weak enough to give
in to her for the sake of peace, he
never fails to resent it in his secret
heart. His love for his mother is at
the very root of his being and a wife
tries to destroy this at her peril.
Nothing kills a man's love for his
wife so quickly as for her to treat
his mother badly, and nothing in
creases it more than for her to be
good to his mother.
The mother-in-law and daughter
in-law relationship can be a very
beautiful and helpful one to both and
it is a pity that more women have
not intelligence enough and good
feeling enough to cultivate it.
* * * *
r\EAR MISS DIX: We are two
high school girls of 16. Our home
life is unhappy and we long to get
away from it. We are both good looking
and have talent and our friends tell
ns we would be just wonderful on the
screen. We have met a man who
knows a bin? movie producer and can
get us a job in Hollywood. He has
offered to take us with him. Would
you advise us to take this opportunity?
We have only known this man a very
short time. DOT AND MARG.
Answer: I advise you to call the
police instead of going off with this
stranger to Hollywood. A« the old
melodramas used to say, ‘‘He bodes
you no good.',’ He is just trying to
take advantage of your youth and un
sophistication and lack of knowledge of
the world. If you are idiotic enough
to listen to his persuasions you will:
spend the remainder of your life re
gretting it.
There isn't one chance in a million
that he ever saw a big movie producer,
or that he has the slightest influence
to get you inside of a single studio
gate in Hollywood. If he had any
way of opening the door to you he
would go to your parents and talk
the matter over with them. He
wouldn't steal you away from them.
And. anyway, girls, try to use a
few lobes of your brains, if you have
any. Don't you know that virtually
every 16-year-old girl in the United
States dreams about being a cinema
star and that thousands upon thou
sands of them, better equipped than
you are, trek to Hollywood every year
and are turned away from the studio
doors without ever have gotten a
chance to show themselves or what
they can do? Hollywood is a city of
blighted hopes. If you have a good
home where you have three square
meals a day, stay in it, even if you do
think that your parents try to keep too
tight a rein on you.
* * * *
J)EAR MISS DIX: I have been
going with a young man for
three years and we adore each other,
but his business future is not en
couraging and before he can consider
a wife he has to consider his mother.
I have met a very attractive young
man who wants me to marry him
and I feel that I could grow to love
him very much. If I can't have
the first man I’d like to have this
one. It would be hard to give up
the first, but if it is best I have
the will power to do it. Should I
marry the second and grow to love
him, or should I wait indefinitely for
the first? UNDECIDED.
Answer: It depends upon whether
you regard marriage as a business
proposition or a love idyl. If you
think of marriage as settling yourself
in life and providing for your future,
as having your own home, your own
man, your ■ own children—and cer
tainly this is a very necessary way
to look at marriage—I should say that
you would be very wise to transfer
your affections to No. 2.
Evidently No. 1 is a vague prospect.
It may be years upon years before
he is able to marry. He may never
be able to marry, and a long-drawn
out engagement with no end in sight
is full of the weary waiting that
makes the heart sick.
But you are fortunate to have your
heart so well under control that you
can make it behave*ltself.
DOROTHY DIX.
(Copyright, 1938.)
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The Old Gardener Says:
Every year the butterfly bush,
or buddleia, is becoming more
popular. Probably this is because
each year seems to bring at least
one new and improved variety.
In the North the tops of this
shrub die back to the ground in
the winter, but come up again
in the spring to produce spikes
of flowers in varying shades of
lavender in late summer. This
year’s new variety is named
Charming and is nearer pink than
any other buddleia. In fact, un
der artificial light the color is a
pronounced pink. In the day
light. however, it is a distinct
lavender. Last year's introduc
tion was buddleia hartwegi, which
has particularly heavy spikes ot
bright lavender flowers. Other
varieties, which have been on the
market two or more years and
have proved their worth, are For
tune and He de France. All the
buddleias are excellent for cut
ting.
(Copyright. 1938.)
Annual Spring Struggle
Shorn of Its Terrors
By Mechanical Aids
Housewife of Today Enjoys
Conveniences Undreamed
Of by Her Grandmother.
By MARGARET NOWELL.
THE first few weeks of spring, when all the world outside the window Is
so clean and new, inspires us all to a grand housecleaning. A trip
through the shops about the same time, where all the new gadgets and
implements, polishes and cleansers are temptingly displayed by *
beauteous damsels who look as though they never swept a floor or washed
a window in their lives, makes us all think that to pull a house anart and nut
u. nigei/ier again is more iun mail*
anything in the world.
In case you would like to win a
medal for the most sparkling windows
in the neighborhood you might try
a new preparation put up like your
best perfume in an atomizer. You j
press a little button, spray a bit of
the liquid on the window, wipe it off
with a soft cloth and it is as clean
as a whistle. Still another is guar
anteed to clean, polish apd dry all
with one operation. It is on a long
stick, so you may throw away the
pan of water, the wet cloth, the drv
cloth and the step ladder all at "one
fell swoop.”
If you have grandmother's hand
hooked rugs that you prize too highly I
to send out to be washed, or cannot!
afford to have done professionally,!
put a cushion under your knees and
prepare to do them yourself. There
is a powdered preparation put up in
small bags and packed in a box which j
will do the trick. I do not know what
it is made of —but it smells clean and
sweet like the yucca root Indian girls 1
use to shampoo their hair, and as I
have used it for a year I can recom
mend its cleansing quality and the
fact that it does not even chap the
hands. Following the directions, you
mix this with hot water, which makes
a sudsy liquid. With a small scrub
brush you work over a small area at
a time and wipe it with a clean sponge.
The colors come up In all their origi
nal glory; they do not run or fade,
and you may shampoo the rug right
in its usual place as long as you do
not walk on it until it is dry. Its
cleanliness, in case your back aches,
will give you great joy for six months,
and the gentleness of the treatment
will convince you that your grand
children will inherit your 9x12 hooked
rug because of your loving care of it!
You may also use this preparation
: for Oriental rugs and delicate up
i helstery.
'J'HE day is not far off when we shall
be turning in our vacuum cleaners
once a year for the newest streamlined
models as we do last year's car. The
new attachments alone make house
cleaning a sweet dream. The cleaners
are lighter in weight, easier to push
around and go under things and over
things with a light-hearted abandon
that is most satisfactory. Carpet
sweepers also are vastly improved, and
in spite of the remarks of most high
powered electric sweeper salesmen they
still have their place in the house
hold. Better than any other method
they remove surface threads and dust
quickly and are fine for cleaning
hooked rugs and other handmade floor
coverings.
For every cobweb there is a special
new dust brush! Radiator brushes,
Venetian blind brushes, hand mops
and wall mops. For floors the latest
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model is the glove mop. The shaggy
end of this fits over a wire frame
Just like a woolly glove on your hand,
it will hang by a strap on a hook when
not in use, and when soiled slips ofT
the frame and goes into the washing
machine as easily as a linen dish
cloth. The strings do not pull out, nor
do they get harsh and hard after .
washing. You may buy extra mops for
the same handle so that one may
always be in the laundry. As they
may be kept so clean they are equally
useful on the walls, ceiling and over
doors and windows.
In case you are one of those who
prefer to wash the linoleum kitchen
floor rather than wax it, there Is an
oil soap that comes in a bucket which
works very well on hardwood floors
and linoleum. It has wonderful
cleaning ability and leaves a slight
sheen of polish in its wake. The oil
in it is supposed to feed the wood
or linoleum surface so that It does
not dry out and deteriorate.
JN CASE your closets look dingy the '
new dressings will inspire you so
that you will probably bribe the chil
dren to leave the doors open. Delight
ful colors and designs for the walls
and shelves in a fabric is sold by the
yard, with frills to match for the
edges, and colored tacks to hold them
in place. To go wdth these are hat
and shoe boxes, zipper bags, trans
parent and dustproof, for your best
party dress and many other new
ideas for the well-dressed closet.
If you are putting away the winter
woolies you may be interested in the
perfumed moth preparations which •
will obviate that “just unpacked"
odor of moth balls the first time yot
step out next winter.
Several companies here in town
offer a very useful service for the
safe storage of winter clothes. They
will deliver to your house a large
wardrobe trunk into which you place
the coats, suits and furs on hangers
It is then pumped full of a guaran- »
teed fumigant, locked by you, in
sured and stored in fireproof storage
until you ask to have it delivered next
fall. The cost for all of this is not
much more than for the storage of
one good fur coat, and the posses
sions of the whole family are safely
cared for. Best of all, everything
comes out of the trunk ready to put
on. creaseless and odorless with no
extra expenditure necessary for press
ing.
Now’ is the time to plan having
your slip covers made. They are
tailored as skillfully as upholstery
these days—but be sure if you go to
the expense of having them made
that you get the new sunproof, shrink
proof materials that may be laundered
constantly.
9 minutes now- for
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6RATEO CHEESE
INCLUDED IN KRAFT
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MARVELOUS, BETH!
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