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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-02-04

self at loss where friendships
with men are concerned.
The happiest wives are not the
beauties, the successful marri-
ages are not those of exquisite
two-and-twenty. who carries off
the son Of the village million
aire. And beauty--how many of
the charms of the teens are gone
In the twenties, Low few. women
carry beauty into the forties!
MIDDLE LIES BEAUTY.
Yet the forties are well worth
thinking about, and the fifties,
too. And to take clear skin, a
pleasant expression, a welI-brush-
ed hair and soft voice into the
forties is to take the best sort of
beauty that there is into middle
life.
Hundreds of women, in these
days OF good grooming and good
health. are beauties today at forty
as they never were at eighteen.
And hundreds of girls who were
as pretty as roses when the cen.
fury was new are simpering, fad
ed. uninteIligent women today,
still chnging to the old conviction
that looks are everything and that
they have them.
To make men--and everybody
else-find you attractive, you
have only to forget the rest of
the world and make yourself
charming-to yourself.
II you want a clear skin, a
pleasant voice. an interest in life,
simply take them-any one can
have them.
Act as IL the other girls didn't
exist, be busy, absorbed, amused
now don't merely pretend to be.
And IL you are sighted at
party find some one even more
sighted. II you are not selected
by the popular boys at a dance,
cultivate the unpopular ones. The
unpopular ones, by the way, are
the ones the world may be talk
ing about in 1910. Big men were
usually clumsy, silent, unappre-
ciated boys.
Social success is a. very shallow
growth. after all. The girls who
achieve it don't know how they
do it. Leave them the field and
take the distribution Of the lunch
in charge, or busy yourself over
a picture puzzle on an obscure
table. or drop into chair with
a book.
II Browning or Emerson were
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effect, and these should be placed
80 they will balance.
For the hall a console table and
mirror with one or two straight
chairs, according to the size Of
the hall, will help give the visitor
O good, hospitable impression of
the homo. A. small rug will help
bring the necessary tone and
warmth. the proper keynote, to
this important part Of the home.
The living room should be the
most important room in the
house-comfortabi furnished, the
furnishings tastefuily arranged
and everything that is not really
necessary for comfort or deeoRa-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-02-04
Famous Woman Novelist Believes That Ir1sncere Att
tude Toward Life Part of Women Who Consider
Themselves Sighted Stands More Than Anything
Else i'm the Way of Their Happiness

mis- and bridge and chatters-
with everything else in the
world-about modern plays and
books.
And all men loathe her and
avoid her when they can.
The reason, / decided, is that
she is never for a moment her
self. Her laugh is loud, her
words are careless and incessant,
she affects boredom, affects sur
prise, affects one emotion after
another that she does not feel.
One hears her asserting loudly:
''Of course, I'm a regular pro-
fessional old maid! Man wanted
to marry me in Florida last year
everyone crazy about him--I
said Nix I said my friends
wouldn't have any one to kid
IL I got married.
''I was telling one of the finest
men in this city the other day
why / wouldn't get married
lovely fellow. I said, I like you.
Like you q lot! But sit opposite
you every morning for the rest
of my life? 1t can't be did .
'Mama's crazy at me. There's
a man she just thinks the world
of-but I can't see it that way.
I guess I'm just picky-and-choosy
that's It. / don't see how girls
can take the men they do. never
will understand it.
81 always tell men that If
there's any forebearing tc be
done when I get married-my
husband viii do 1t! A woman's
a fool IL she doesn't just put her
foot down In the very beginning.
1--WE never been married, but
I'll bet that when I~said a thing
was going to be q certain way,
it'd be that way.
TYPE MEN FEAR.
"'More fool you,' I say to my
sister-sitting home there TAX
ing care Of babies, with a little
runt Of a husband like Billy
Davisv
This would be tragic enough il
she meant 1t. But it il even
more tragic since she does not.
She has not the slightest sense
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-02-04
Danish Scientist
Declares Greenland
is Moving Westward
LONDON, Feb. 8

LOIN1ON, FeD. 3.
THE earth's spin is webbing.
Lieut.-Col. p. Jensen, a Danish
scientist, who returned recently
from a degree.measuring expedi-
ton in Greenland, reports that
Greenland is moving westward at
the rate of twenty yards year.
This confirms the recent reports
Of surprising climatic changes ct
the North Pole.
1t is now estimated that there
is a periodic shifting OF the lati,
tude of the North Pole. The move.
ment is difficult to detect because
of the small area Of the Pole
about the size of a tennis court.
Potsdam Observatory reports o
slow march northward The OBJ
servatory Of Uliah, Cal, reports q
similar change. The coast of Lab
rador is rising from the sea.
Many authorities say that the
poles are gradually changing their
positions, and that this alteration
to the worlds axis will in time
mean that regions which are at
present icebound will become
warm, habitable countries.
It seems that the world has
broken loose from its moorinss.
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tive effect should be eliminated
Use but little bric-a-brack.
FOR LIVING ROOM.
This room might contain n
davenport, davenport table. end
tables, writing desk, reading lamp,
easy armohairs. wicker chairs,
clock. footstool. waste paper bas-
ket, screen for fireplace, picture
or tapestry above the mantel,
and a rug harmonizing with the
whole room scheme.
For the dining room, which
should be one of the most cheer
full and inspiring rooms of the
home, care should be exercised
In the selection Of the furnish
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in the room In the flesh, you
would prefer his company to q
hundred Bobby Whites and Jim.
my Wilson's. with their ukcleles
and their noise. And just that
little remembered line from Rabbi
Ben Ezra" or Friendship may
be the touch that wins you the
regard and the love Of q real
man, some day.
Little craft make for small
harbors. But build yourself into
real ship. that win be at home
in all the ports of the world,
and never fear but what you will
get your sailing orders.
Copyright, 1923, by the Republic
Syndicate.)
This Is one Of q series OF
Woman to Woman Talks ON pre-
sent day family and social prob
lens that Mrs. Norris, Anlerica's
best loved and most popular
woman writer, is writing especial
" for the nes-Herald. Another
talk will be printed next Sunday.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-02-04
KATHLEEN NORRIS GIVES ADVICE TO THE UNPOPULAR

One is the plain sister Of two ex-
tremely pretty and vivacious girls.
The other is an only child, really
handsome herself. well to do. and
now aged about twenty-seven.
The plain sister is a school
teacher, Of a somewhat solitary
type, jealous and reserved and SEN
sitive. She sees her two younger
sisters surrounded by men and
she resents it. They are vivacious,
lively. witty, f1uffy-headed little
chatter-boxes, and she alternates
between whitening contempt for
them and their ways and a sour
and painful imitation of them.
This imitation of the garrulous
and amusing girl by her less spon-
taneous sister Is always mistake.
And surely bitterness and con.
tempt are always a waste Of time,
too.
What this girl ought to do Is
build herself q life, independently
OF har sisters.
With her pretty hair brushed
and shining, and her pretty fig
ure displayed by one Of the SIM
pie gowns and the white cuffs
and collars she really loves. she
would make q charming back
ground for them.
She Is naturally silent, let her
be silent. Let her be the big
sister that is always reading, al
ways pleasantly absorbed in her
own books and concerts and
plans.
DEVELOPMENT OF CHARM.
She is unpopular not because
her sisters are pretty and nice
but because she isn't.
Let her develop her own charm.
in her own perfectly personal
way, and gradually the men who
like books and concerts, who like
companionship and conversation
A0]AACA kAA0h JOL1 GhU 0CAAR Will
gravitate toward her.
Such a girl ought to join a Ian
guage class or take up some work
apart from the drudgery of her
actual days work. Literature or
history, algebra, astronomy. nurs-
ing or library work will bring her
into contact with persons who
share her tastes and who can
appreciate her good points.
AS for the other girl, the rich
old maid. I was studying her at
close range the other day. She
has had travel, advantage, she
speaks three languages, plays an
instrument, COLTS, rides, plays ten
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ings. A good quality suite,
which includes chairs, can be pur.
chased at a moderate price. There
should also be a tea wagon, or a
nest of tables and decorative ac-
cessories to dress up the side
board. The window treatment
offers wide field and excellent
results may be obtained by care
full study of colors and effects
sought. The main thing is to
have uniformity in furniture OBJ
served as to period, color and ma
terial. The rug should conform
to the general color scheme.
The bedrooms should appear
crisp and clean, the first requisite
in a well-furnished home. The
walls must be restfu1 in color,
simple in design. Painted or
decorated furniture is becoming
popular, but dull finished ma
hogany or walnut in Colonial or
four-poster design gives a very
pleasing effect and conforms well
with any color scheme. The
furniture should be distributed
around the room, and not ar
ranged all on one side. The bed
should be placed where the
sleeper will not be subject to
drafts or strong light.
Place the dressing table, vanity
or mirror and chest Of drawers
where the light is not reflected
from an opposite window. TO be
of the most service, these pieces
should be placed to secure a good
view, consequently the light
should be directed upon the per-
son to be reflected and not upon
the mirror.
ARRANGING KITCHEN.
The kitchen arrangement should
be in conformity with the wishes
Of the housewife, who will use
that room most. It should have
ample cupboard space, sufficient
lighting. both artificial and natur-
al, large window, and the room
should not contain more than
100 square feet of working space
for preparing food or washing
dishes. A large room is neces-
cary when the kitchen is used
for laundry purposes or has a
dining alcoVe. Floor covering
should be linoleum. slightly dark
or than the walls and harmonic
ing or contrasting oeior. on any
ether surface easy to keep clean,
Lace curtains heavily worked
with ornate scrolls and designs
are condemned as hopeiessly mid
Victorian, and that is a synonym
for all that is bad, in the opinion
of decorators of to-day.
The function of the curtain,
they declare. Is to be unobstEusive
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-02-04
)LEGE WOMEN HAVE THEIR SAY ABOUT "EIGHT HOUR WIZ

of sharing the labor Of the house
hold as Of employing the modi-
cum Of leisure which even the
busiest housewife may CLEAN after
the fulfillment Of her various
functions. She writes:
''Housework is supposed to be
tiresome. I clean, cook, iron,
wash, battle, mend, garden, nurse,
play games and at the holy hour
of seven-thirty, when they are
quiet, and dinner is on the Ia
bic, I am tired of housewora,
but / am not tired. I am spir-
itually shouting, now what shall
I do?'"
Little as the leisure may be in
which to employ this spiritual
energy, the writer has estimated
its value statistically.
II believe" she says, that
educated mothers in fair health,
who are also general housework-
ers, can average at least six
hours a week in the home de-
voted to steady, continuous re-
search, or the assembling of ma
terial Six hours a week
for twenty years. Eight hundred
and ninety-one working days Of
seven hours each. Over three
years Of work measured as a full
time job"
Work that is crying out to be
done, careful work, which only
the trained intellect can accom-
plish effectively, research work
on scientific or literary problems.
translations, could be done by
college trained wives and mothers
in these six hours Of weekly
leisure.
Mrs. Armstrong; suggestion for
getting these six hours a week
is one which perhaps few moth
ers, even among the most ener-
getic, will welcome with any de-
gree Of enthusiasm. mo moral
law demands that the first thing
mother does is to get breakfast"
she says. "And no one will dis
turb her at a. M"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-02-04
VERY woman, in her heart OF
hearts, wants to get mar
- ried.

hearts, wants to get mar
This particular generality admits
OF no debate. Some admit it, some
deny it, most unmarried women
qualify 1t, half laughing and half
Indignant.
Eyes, but, OF course, don't want
90 marry any one! But IL 1t was
the right sort OF man, and I loved
him, and we had friends and tastes
In common, then I certainly would
marryr'
Which ia, after all. only as II
enc said: eff he wasn't born blind,
and wasn't going to grow up and
break my heart, of course I'd ike
Q son. Or, eff the roof didn't
leak, and the glue factory wasn't
going to build next door. Of course
I'd like to own a house"
The proof that the girl who
boasts that she is fastidious and
not in a hurry to marry any one
a merely fighting for time, lies in
the fact that presently q nice,
small, eye-glassed clerk, whose In
come Is eighteen hundred a year, is
paying attention to her and she
Instantly forgets all her former
qualifications.
Her husband had to be tall. rich,
dark, professional man, and fond
OF home and books, did he?
Yes, but this man is short, poor,
fair. and a clerk. and so socially
s!nclined that he is chairman Of
the winter cotillions.
But 1t is all forgotten-they are
married. and have perhaps as good
O chance at happiness as most Of
"a.
A PATHETIC TYPE.
There is something extremely
pathetic about a certain sort Of
younger sometimes not so young
woman. The type that longs to
be popular with men, that longs
for the legitimate joy of flirting
and falling in love. and that is
somehow forbidden the natural
right OF womanhood
We all know this sort Of girl.
Every group has one or more than
one. They write me letters, hun
dreds of them. saying that they
want to be popular and admired,
but somehow they don't quite
know how it is managed.
I have in mind, as write, two
such girls-girls know well. They
are typical of their class.
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ings of chintz and cretonne. The
illustration shows how the bright.
ening touch may be given with
hangings which carry with them
a suggestion of grace and dignity
in the treatment of the windows.
Such setting as this makes an
ideal background for two COM
Portable chairs and a tea wagon.
The overdrapes are trimmed with
bands of green In the curtains.
The valance Is puffed with
French plated trumpets to mark
the points In the scallops.
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rather than to call attention to
itself, either from within or with
out the house. Plain net, or net
in small figured designs, serves
its purpose of allowing observa-
tions from the inside of the room.
while preventing view from
outside, and at the same time
affording an inconspicuous item In
the decorative plan of the room.
If the dweller within the house
must have figured curtains. and
any evidence of period appears
in the furniture. then some re-
lation between the period Of the
curtains and that of the furniture
should appear.
IF ROOM IS DEAD"
In rooms which have the appear
anoe of being dead" the neces-
sary Frightening touch of warmth
and color may be added without
auoh expense with bright hang
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-02-04
BY KATEI. EEN NORRIS:

Every woman, in her heart
Of hearts, wants to get mar
ried.
\ n X
There is something ex-
tremely pathetic about a
certain type Of young wom-
an. The type that longs to
be popular with men, that
longs for the legitimate joy
of flirting and falling in
love, and that is somehow
forbidden the natural right
Of womanhood.
X X X
Imitation Of the garrulous
and amusing girl by her less
spontaneous sister is al
ways a mistake. And surely
bitterness and contempt are
always a waste of time, too.
Let her develop her own
charm, in her own perfectly
personal way, and gradually
the mon who like h0nlxS and
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their children when growing up
and grown up, of a different sort
than the kind they would have If
they stayed at home
"They work because they think
that makes them better and more
intelligent companions for their
husbands.
They work because they like
the incidental contacts of pro-
fessional life better than those
Of ordinary social life"
Among the writer's there are
but two who dissent from the
general opinion that it is a col
lege woman's right, nay, her
duty, to carry on the intellectual
pursuits for which her college
education has equipped her, after
marriage, to discover some means
of Surviving motherhood" In
the happy phrase Of one of the
writers, in order that her mar
ried life may be freed from the
drudgery of domesticity and
stimulated by intellectual inter-
ests, so that, when her period of
liberty comes, after her children
have reached college age. she
may not be a mere waste product
Of maternity. incapable Of useful
mental labor.
ONLY TWO DISSENT.
To the two dissenters, the ques-
ton Of continuing or sacrificing
a career after marriage is de-
cided by necessity, rather than by
personal, individual choice.
You may depend on it," writes
Mrs. Frances Hart Burke, for
some time secretary to the presi-
dent of the United States Pub
fishers Association, ANY Job
worthy of the name Of career is
going to take some eleven-tenths
of your energy"
o.
after the death of her husband,
succeeded him as dramatic editor
Of the Pittsburgh Dispatch, and
has since become woman's editor
for the Detroit News, echoes the
word career" as applied to mar
riage in her warning:
1.-THE marvel to the woman who
has ever tried each career sep
arately is, how any woman could
ever accomplish them both at
the same time. The woman who
successfully makes a home for
even two people only has ample
opportunity for using her mental
and physical energy and all her
time. speak from experience"
Though the majority. opponents
Of Me Hutchinson'A thesis that
there's nae luck ABBOTT the hoose
when the guidwife's ava" admit
the significance of the time ele-
ment. they still do not allow
that the time spent in the care
OF husband and children. even
while the children are still young,
absorbs. or should absorb. all the
wife'a leisure. One rebel against
this view protests that sven tho
time problem can be solved Ca
some extent by the judieioua
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~ HOULD marriage be the ''be
90 all" of the college woman
~ who has become a wife
and the lend alP' of her profess
sional career? Such is the topic
discussed in a series of interest
Ing letters in the current issue
OF the Mount Holyoke Alumnae
Quarterly.
Though the occasion for the
discussion was QUESTIONABLE
sent out by the editor requesting
an opinion on the solution, IL
any. afforded by A. 8. NJ. Hutch
fnson's much talked Of novel,
'"This Freedom" most of the
writers give scant attention to
the bachelors theories and delve
into their own concrete expert
ences. Thence come the follow
ing conclusions. crystalIized into
aphorisms:
'The eight-hour wife usually
has q pleasanter, less hazried time
than the twenty. four-hour wife,"
Marriage should not be con-
sidered a profession for women
any more than it IL for men.
1t is state or condition, not q
Job"
"The big mistake was ever to
teach girls the alphabet. If you
educate people, even women, you
n1ust be prepared for anything"
cit is so much moro exciting to
have a person for your mother,
someone with line OF her own"
eff a woman's life Is to be in
teresting after fifty, it must have
been interesting the twenty-five
years before"
eff only single women can
safely have the privilege of lead
ership, marriage will become un-
attractive to many women"
'Sfen are artists, statesmen,
plumbers, gardeners, tailors, mu-
sicians; women are women.
As we have been unable to dis
cover the existence of such a
person as woman let us
start with a clean slate"
Each writer has qualified as
an expert upon the problem dis
cussed, having had experience
either of professional and of mar
ried life, renouncing the one for
the other, or of the dual career,
the continuance Of the business
or professional career after mar
rtage.
WHY WOMEN WORK.
Mrs. Elizabeth Porter Wyckoff,
fiction editor of the Delineator,
issues a challenge to those who
presuppose that the women who
carry on their careers after mar
riage do so from selfish motives.
and says
They work because they can
do more, not less, for their chill.
dren, both in the line Of mate
rial things, such as better clothes
and schools. and happier leisure.
free from small annoyances on
both sides.
"They work because they want
the respect and confidence I'd
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concerts who like companonshp and conversation rather
than jazz and rush, will gravitate toward her.
The happiest wives not the beauties the successful
marriages not those Of exquisite twenty who
twentes how few carry beauty into the fortes
To make men-and everybody else-find you attractive
you have only forget the rest Of the world and make
yourself charming to yourself
Social success is a very shallow growth after ALL The
girls who achieve it don't know how they do it. Leave
them field Little craft make for small harbors
But build yourself into real Ship that will be at home in
all ports Of the world and fear but what you will
get your sailing orders.
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Rulison. tutor OF French, grad
uate student at Columbia Uni
versity, contends that:
1.-THE making OF a home is as
the woman, the mere physical
presence of the woman in the
house all day avails nothing.
The inevitable drudgery
should, and can, be more or less
shared. Men maintain a deter
minedly detached attitude toward
house-running, as protective
measure. It bores them, just as
1t bores many Of us. The inter-
ests and responsibilities shared,
however, somehow become sig
nificant, but a man, too, would
soon deteriorate into a sock
knitting, recipe-exchanging, curl
papered hussy. chronological note:
hussy from housewife if he were
cooped up alone twenty four hours
a day with the highest form of
self-expression and connection with
the great headlong world a chooo-
late cake or a mended pillow
CASE ,..
Yet a third. Mrs. Dora Brad.
bury Pinkham, the first woman to
be elected to the Maine State leg
islature, protests that all the
responsibility for the training of
the infant mind should not rest
with one parent to the exclusion
of the other. She writes:
FROM A DOCTORS WIFE.
1T is time some author took
as his theme a family, or count
less numbers Of them. gone wrong
because the fathers forgot that
they were fathers and equally re.
sponsible for the training of the
children
To Mrs. Donald Budd Arm
strong, who aids with her pen
the labor Of her doctor husband,
having contributed many articles
on the problems of disease and
its remedy, hygiene. to modern
journals, and who Is at the same
time the mother of four children,
the problem Is not SO much one