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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-24
EVERYDAY QUESTIONS
Anscered BY DIR. S. PARKES C4DN4N

- Questions from readers are answered by
Or: Dr., s. Parks Parks Csdman n president Of the Fed
America. Or. Cadman seeks to answer in.
9airies . that sppear 70 be representative OF
which he receives.
NEW YORK CITY.
I am the father of boy of IS.
! occupy a position in the business
world carrying great responsibility,
financial and otherwise. and the duties
of which require my close attention,
not only during business hours, but
also for at least three evenings in
each week, the remaining evenings
being required for the fulfillment of
social obligations. some of which arise
out of my business.
Due to the pressure upon me for
the last Is years l have had prac-
tically no time to- he a companion
to my son or to supervise his training
and care, the burden of which has
been carried by his mother. and by
private schools and tutors.
] am greatly blessed with this
worlds goods, due to my unremitting
efforts in the business world, but I
have been seriously troubled of late
by the thought that / do not know
my son and that he has drifted so far
from me that do not have his con-
fidence.
I come to YOU as man deeply versed
in the vital experience of life with this
problem and ask you to tell me how
/ may build up or regain my boy
confidence ana make up. if possible.
the injury which / feel / have done
him by not being more closely asso-
ciated with him during his boyhood
years.
Answer.-The gulf between YOU and
your son may seem wider to you than
1t really Is. IF he is normal lad,
capable of approaching the toll you
have endured for his sake and the
sake of your family. you will probably
find that his remoteness is due to
youths reserve or else to the CON
stitutional reticence which often char
acterizes f1lial relationships.
1T is easy for me to say that in ac-
cumulating a financial competency
you should have cultivated the boys
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-24

The First Robin.

l got there first. I have heard him.
At least / heard him before any of
my friends did and told me about it.
This year have the pleasure of being
the one to tell my friends. that Merula
migratoria. Robin -goodfellow, and just
plain robin, has begun his court
ing lay.
Truly. in the dreary last days of
Winter, does a robins fancy lightly
turn to thoughts of love. And it may
be wondered why he does not wait
until windfiowers shiver and the un-
chained river laughs. 1t Is because
he has that unquenchable faith and
rapture that Is the last inner mystery
at the heart of nature. Its name?
Like the key word OF some secret
order, it has no name that may be
spoken. 1t may merely be thought
and felt.
The minds that are votaries of sci
ence are always of two sorts-the sure
and the doubtful. The sure ones are
perhaps the common, garden variety
of everyday scientist. They are sure
only of what they can see or measure;
of this and their own rightness they
are very sure, and they permit no
skepticism except their own skep-
ticism of others. They are scientists
They may be good scientists, but they
are little ones.
Then there are the doubtful They
doubt all things: they doubt no one
so much as themselves; they have
learned to doubt even their own
doubts, so that by a sort Of paradox.
they have an almost religious faith
| in their great mistress. To these
men the song of the first robin on a
| day heavy with unborn Spring. is
| music spilled down from the high
| court Of that mistress.
The sure ones are sure that back
OF that song Is no mystic rapture: one
of them dismissed the singing of birds
as lust muscular contractions." But
the doubtful are not so sure of that.
The singing of Pedestrians music by
the Sistine Choir is muscular contrac-
tions, too: but 1t is not just muscular
contractions. The doubtful, though
they are always ridiculed by the sure
as impractical dreamers, or just poets,
have this advantage over the sure
that they understand all that the sure
understand about a robins song, and
something mOre-but the sure never
know what the others are talking
about, and merely look blank and
hurry back to their laboratories and
close the windows, lest the robin s
song might drift in ands<listurb their
calculations, with it's strange, ques-
tioning note. or upset their expert
ments with something unmechanical
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-24
'TNE SAVED THE GROUSE AND
I'VE SAVED THE FRUIT" SAID
HE

Mrs. Grouse budding" in one of
their apple trees, would at once have
wanted TO kill them. It wouldn't
have occurred to them to try TO
find out how much real harm, III
any, Mr.. and Mrs. Grouse We're doing.
All they would have seen would have
been the buds which Mr.. and Mrs.
Grouse We're picking.
But Farmer Browns Boy isn't like
that, Farmer Browns Boy has real
sense. OF course, he didn't want
next years fruit destroyed by the
picking of the buds by Mr.. and Mrs.
Grouse: but neither did he want
Mr.. and Mrs. Grouse destroyed. He
wanted the fruit, but he wanted Mr..
and Mrs. Grouse alive. too. He was
smart enough 10 know that IL MIR.
and Mrs. Grouse picked off a few
buds here and ii few buds there. it
would probably tie IA good thing.
There would not be AZ many apples
ON TiEF tree next year, but they
>youn DC bigger and better ,1pples.
80 he really didn't mind seeing them
budding" as taking those buds is
called. But when the next morning
he discovered that most OF the
children of Mr.. and Mrs. Grouse.
children who We're now full-grown,
were also budding" in the Old
had to be done about IT, There
were too many of them in one tree.
If they were allowed to eat their fill
of buds on that one tree. there would
be few apples next year. ~.
so Farmer Browns Boy promptly
went out and drove them away. How
he did like TO hear the whirr of their
stout wings as they few straight
back TO the Green Forest. Then he
went back 10 the barn and got a
shovel With this he broke the crust
and shoveled away the snow for
quite a way around that tree. What
remained he tramped down. Then
he brought buckwheat and spread i,
all around OH the place where he
had cleared away the snow and
trodden it down. He knew that those
Grouse would come back soon and
he knew that when they saw that
l,uckwheat they would forget al
about buds for the time being.
They'll have a feast" said Farmer
Browns Roy. THAT huckwheat viii
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Various Cakes.

This is good foundation for va
rious kinds of cakes. 1t makes one
loaf. All measures are level. Mix one
half cupful of butter with one cup
full of sugar, two eggs, one-half a cup.
full Of sweet milk. one-half a teaspoon.
full of salt, one-haf teaspoonful of
fiayoring, two teaspoonfuls of baking
powder and one and one-half cupfuls
of flour. For nut cake add one-haH a
cupful of chopped nuts to the mixture.
For spice cake, one-half a teaspoonful
each Of cinnamon. cloves and nutmeg.
For fruit cake, one-han a cupful each
of raisins. .currants and chopped nuts
For chocolate cake, one square of melt
ed chocolate and one teaspoonful of va
nilla.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-24
MILADY BEAUTIFUL
BY LOIS LEEDS

ticed that the larger warts began to
dry up, so ] continued rubbing tur-
pentine on them until they all dis
appeared. The skin of my hands YEAS
not injured. / would like you to pass
on this discovery
Answer--Thank you for telling us
your experience. If other readers wish
to try it, would suggest just touch
ing the warts with the turpentine, be-
cause 1t is likely to burn sensitive
skins. Another reader has suggested
pumice stone or fine sandpaper for
removing warts. but / would consider
this q, very risky treatment, since irri-
tation of these MAY lead to serious
infection. LOIS LEEDS.
(Copyright 1927
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-24
Lessons in English
By W. L. GORDON.

Words often misused-Don't say
please look and see if he is coming. -
Omit look and
Often mispronounced Obeisance
Pronounce -o-ba-sans. o. as in mo, .
ID = as in day" or. as. "e'' in "he, y
"a in AN" accent second syllable.
Often misspelled - Satellite: two
rs
Synonyms-Auster stern, harsh
naughty. rigid. exacting, severe, rig
orous.
Word study-"Use a. word three
times and it is yours" Let US in
crease our vocabulary by mastering
one word leach day. Today's word
Amicable; friendly, peaceable. 1.-THE
matter was brought to an anaicable
close"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-24

girls. are normally developed. healthy
individuals, Il would recommend fa) a
four.mile walk each day; (b) gymna-
SUM twice a week. (c) as much out
door life as possible during vacations
and week. ends, including hiking.
skating, swimming. tennis: td) correc-
tive exercises. when needed, for round
shoulders. crooked spines, etc. 1t is
just as great q, mistake for girls of
this. age to overdo exercise as it is
to neglect it. Very strenuous exer.
cises.. such as pole vaulting.. running
more than 100 yards and weight
throwing, are to be avoided. Basket
ball and field hockey are OF doubtful
value for, immature girls. Dancing
climbing. jumping and running in
moderation are suitable; also archery
ball throwing, golf, padding, rowing
soccer. t3) A we'll balanced diet con-
sists Of 10 to Is per cent protein from
eggs, milk, Iegumes, meat, cheese.
fowl, fish, nuts, gluten of wheat; %
to 80 per cent fat from cream, butter.
lard, almonds, pea nuts, walnuts. choco-
late, etc: so TO SIS per cent carbo-
hydrates from breads, cereals. pota-
toes. corn, nuts. sugars. honey strip,
Every day eat some raw fruit, a salad
and=aA==least two kinds Of succulent
vegetables, like spinach. cabbage,
string beans, etc. besides meat and
stimulating and should be taken in
the morning by those who getsa~g good,
warm reaction from them. x warm,
cleansing bath should be taken at bed.
time to remove dirt and soothe the
body preparatory to Sleep. Frequent
hot baths are enervating.
LOIS LEEDS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-24

We hear a great deal about COM
mon sense. but sense-real true sense
isn't. SO common after all. IL Redtail
the Hawk happens to yield to
temptation and catches a chicken IN
some farmers barnyard the chances
are that that farmer runs for his
gun and wants to kill all Hawks. He
never stops to think and consider
that Redtail has paid for that chicken
and paid very high price at that
by destruction Of great numbers oil
mice which were destroying tina,
farmers crops. He never stops to
consider that other hawks he shoots
at may never have touched a chicken
He just doesn't use common sense
He doesn't use any sense at all.
Now there are plenty of farmers
who, had they discovered Mr.. and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-24
Emphasizing the Well Made Bed
BY LYDIA LIE BARON WALKER

Every woman, whether she is a
housewife or not, should know how to
make bed In the right way. Not
only does the good appearance of the
bed depend upon how il is made, but
the comfort also. TO sleep in a bed
where the covers do not come up high
enough to supply sufficient warmth
about the shoulders is annoying. To
sleep in one where the covers are con.
tinually pulling out at the foot is no
whit more enjoyable. If the sheet or
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-24
Date-Nut Blancmange.

Mix three.eighths cupful of corn
starch with three-eighths quart OF
brown sugar and one-eighth table
spoonful of salt, and add to one pint
of boiling water stirring constantly.
Add this mixture to the we'll beaten
whites of three eggs and one-third
tablespoonful of vanilla and beat I'M
til smooth. Add three eighths cupfuI
each of nut meats and dates.
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B.. -.-. s., tr-
THE DAILY
HOROSCOPE
Friday, February Is.

Astrologers read tomorrow as a
most unfavorable day for most i'm
portant business matters, and es-
pecially for financial deals of any
sort.
Again the planetary government
appears to menace whatever is con-
nected with the past, so far as Gus
toms, points of view and codes OF
business are concerned.
1t is we'll to postpone any sort OF
initiative in business, for the rule
Of the stars appears to indicate many
unexpected difficulties.
All the indications appear to point
to great profits. in America through
thrift and the elimination of waste
There is a sign read as presagine
national movements toward the con
seryation of resources and the wise
administration of income.
Persons whose birthdate it is
should be very careful regarding the
investments they make.
Children born on that day may be
too sensitive to public opinion, but
able to win success through their tall
ents. They may lack proper self-con-
fidence, however.
= fCopyrighs 1927
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-24
Girls Club Questions.

Dear Miss Leeds: The following
questions We're asked in receiving a
rank in our Girls Club. viii you
please publish. the answers? The
questions are for 16-year-old girls
% Number, of, hours sleep needed?
(2) Amount and. kinds of exercise
~ Proper kinds OF food and what
constitutes a balanced diet? az Uses
Of hot and cold baths?
AN INTERESTED READER.
Answer-l1) From az to 10 hours
each night. .t2) Assuming that the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-24

the blankets are not wide enough to
tuck about you snugly. or il they are
so wide that they drag over the sides
of the bed, discomfort results. And
SO, apart entirely from whether the
springs are good and the mattress lux
uriously soft; there are other elements
that combine to make bed either
comfortable or uncomfortable to sleep
III. =
Choose the bedding to suit the bed,
as well as the spread. to conform to
the decorative scheme Of the room.
unless you always use white coverlids
Nowadays beds vary in size from the
very narorwest of cot beds and small
est of day beds to the widest Of double
beds that vie with those huge four
posters or sleigh beds of olden times.
Sheets and Blankets.
Sheeting by the yard comes in diff
ferent widths, and many of the widths
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-24
Readers Cure for Warts.

Dear Miss Leeds: I once had 2S
warts on the fingers OF both hands.
] had a doctor remove them. hut they
appeared again. One week 1t was
necessary for me to have my hands
in turpentine great deal and I no.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-24
The Party
BY SHIRLEY RoDMAN WILLIAMS.

Joan
though she thought silly and bggy Why
it's fan You play march and Everybody who's
that's what FIJI" and Ice Cream We. chdn
bo planned and carefully Don't
that really drens all but fashioned gwn-up
When child simple
practical
children
JULIA ANNABETH McCORKLE had her seventh birthday party
With invitations pink From
But couldn't play clothes for mothers invited
With aunties and unes and perhaps dozen
So we had it in the parlor with butler the door.
The dining trimmed with fril and flowers
There birthday and great candles lit with
But had politely and couldn't hardly gigge
For the unces and the aunes and the moteok there.
With serving maid asnoopinE round about behind
We and Of but kept exclaiing
Notke that" Here show mo
And couldn't tussle cause do that parties
called Were going your
sav,"
Guess I'D just playing than parties day.
:, g. IN III ID ~
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size apple and cook whole in a strip
made of one cup sugar and one-ha.f
cup water with handful of CHINA.
mon drops added. Cook slowly until
the apple Is tender IN an uncovered
pan. Let cool in the liquid and serve
with bit of whipped cream. A salad
may be made by stuffing with Phila.
delphia. cheese.
fcouvr;oh+ fcort
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-24
TAKE COD LIVEROlL
and SMILE!
How Any Man Can Stage
A Quick Comeback in
Few Weeks Time.

Everyone knows what cod liver oil
will do for anyone who will take
it! But did you know there's a
pure cod liver oil that's actually
dekghtfuI to take2
Folks--old and young-smack their
lips over coco cod. And it real cod
liver oil! Nothing missing but the taste
you used to dread-instead, rich and
mellow chocolaty favor that everybody
likes! So don't deny your system the
marvellous benefits which follow taking
cod liver oiI-Nature' Most remarkable
blood-reddener and body-builder.
Coco cod gives you the pure cod
liver oil, with many vitalizing vita
MINIS which all physicians are agreed
are essential to virile, vibrant health.
Adults are fairly rejuvenated by coco
cod. Children thrive on it-and love
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-24

The Waldensian Church. estab-
lished in the twelfth century. is the
oldest Protestant Church in the
world.
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MOTHERS
AND THEIR CHILDREN.


One Mother Says:
A dessert which will delight any
child Is red apple, which looks like
a tomato. Pare and core a medium
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-24
An Important Result.

You will admit. IL you are fair.
That common sense is really rare. =
Old Mother West Wind.
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Minni viii be glad to answ err any inquiries
directed to this paper; provided q stamped
addressed envelope 10 Enclosed. @e
<-trf fCopyrfght, 1927 'v
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-07-26

(ContuaGed From Page Cne)
of its supreme court are not binding
upon the executive and legislative
branches of it.
If the oil companies surrender
their titles in exchange for 50-year
government concessions, as the gov
ernment demands, they must con
cede the principles, of government
ownership, although the companies
original titles to the land have never
been questioned, Mr.. Stevens said.
The idea that the law provides for
a further extension of 80 years he
declared to be erroneous, and said
that the 50-year period was to be be-
gun from the times when actual
petroleum operations were under
taken, which in all cases under dis
pute were at least ten years ago
and in some cases 25 years ago, SO
the concessions would run but from
40 to 25 years, rather than 80 years.
as seemed to be the general impress
sion.
Mr. Stevens pointed out that a
pamphlet published by "a group
winch made a ten-day visit to Mex
leo in January" quoted President
Gales as stating the concessions
would run $50 years from now,'' and
expressed alnazement that this group
should attempt to "tell their fellow
citizens the facts regarding the oil
controversy on the basis merely OF
what Mexican officials said to them. !"
In the midst of the Oil contro-
versy, Mr.. Stevens continued, the
Mexican government persistently ap-
pealS to American sentiment 'by as
serting that it is undertaking to free
its people from 400 years of oppres-
Sior.
What may be termed political
oppression has never in this ren-
Grafton been more apparent in Mex
leo than it is today" he asserted.
1.-The long arm OF the government
reaches into every hamlet and norns
of the republic, and the ruthless and
unexpected stroke of it's hand dur
ing the past several months has
scarcely less than terrorized the
people,
Declaring the present government
has brought Mexico on the verge
of economic ruin he said no possi-
bic good could come to the Mexican
people through the confiscation of
foreign-owned properties.
The only attempt he had seen
made to answer the question OF what
motive the government can nave for
confiscating the oil properties, Mr.
Stevens said, was by district Judge
who was forced to resign after hand
ing down decision favoring the Oil
companies, whom he quoted as say
ing the government was acting only
in the interests of certain individ.
uals.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-07-26
Devils AXE Yanks
In Hard Battle AT
Playground Field

The Speed Devils avenged their
defeat at the hands of the Yarks
last evening by taking the long end
of a 13-to-7 score and thus climbed
to within striking distance of the
league-leading Swastikas. A single
game separates the lead of these two
rival clubs.
A week ago the Yanks took a
gruelling thinning game from the
Speed Devils.
Herbert, twirling for the Yanks,
was effective until the final inning,
when two hits, coupled with several
errors and misplays gave the Speed
demons four runs. The Speed demons
were leading by single run until
this rally. Austin, who relieved Gary
in the sixth, held the hard-hitting
Yanks in check and was credited
with a victory. George Maza has
signed up with the Yanks and was
seen cavorting in the center garden.
Dundas and G. Cary joined the
Speed Demons, while Holdeman, a
second baseman, joined up with the
Yanks.
Gardner, pitcher for the Douglas
Blues, is expected to annex his sig
nature to a Yank contract within
the next few days and will be called
for mound duty as soon as he is in
condition
Manager Seeley of the Speed De-
mons is dickering for some new play
ers, as many Of his players are now
on a different shift and unable to
play after 5 p. m.
Ray Laux, Sigma Nu player, play
ed a strong game defensively at
Shortstop for the winners and lined
out fast single that started the
final rally, netting four runs. Laux
is spending a few days here on a va
cation before going to Tucson, where
he will be registered this fall as a
senior at the University of Arizona
Laux played ON the high school team
during his school career.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-07-26
Prince Charming Weds
Quebec WoodlandLa
Continued from Page one)

bishop of Three Rivers, for the
bridegroom is nom Catholic.
Tonight the wedding was the sole
topic of conversation in all the vii
lagos Of the district where beaux
and bellies were brushing up their
Sunday best in anticipation of the
festivities that are to follow the
ceremony.
The royal highlanders regiinental
band from Montreal will be on hand
and will furnish part of the wedding
music and add a touch of color to
the scene with their uniforms, but
the villagers dance with more zest
and abandon to the music of their
neighborhood players.
"Bud" and his bride are reported
to be planning honeymoon trip
abroad. Europe is the destination
as described by friends, but it is
reported that BUD. plans to taka
his young bride, who has lived all
her life in the Canadian backwoods,
to Paris and perhaps to Scotland.
the homeland OF her father.
The romance that will unite the
family of New York banker and
a Canadian Woodsman became known
q year ago when bud" Stillman an
nounced his engagement to the girl
who had been his playmate when as
a boy he spent his vacations at the
Stillman camp, near where she was
raised.
Lena Wilson made her first visit
to New York last year when she
came as the guest of bud" and his
mother, who announced her whole
hearted approval. Of her prospective
daughter.in-laW..
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-07-26
HUNT TENDERS
OLIVE BRANCH

Continued from Page One)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-07-26

of the injured woman, all of whom
are residents in this section, hurried
to the hospital, there to wait with
despair in their hearts and terror
gripping them so that they could
scarcely utter a cheerful word to COM
fort the two half orphaned children
who huddled about not understanding
everything that passed.
Ebert Cobb, brother of the dead
man, was summoned from Uvalde
Texas, and will take charge of the
arrangements for the funeral. The
mother and father of Mr.. Cobb, who
also live in Uvalde, will not come, it
being the decision of the other. mem
bers of the family that the shock would
be too great for them.