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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-21
IF YOUTH BUT KNEW
BY JAMES J. WALKER,
Mayor Of Neit York city.

Success, as everybody knows. is
composed of perfectly we'll recognized
qualities. you might ever say stereo-
typed qualities; they have TO be stereo-
typed-industry integrity, character,
perseverance, honesty, etc.
But each indiv' 1ual must use an in
I'dividual set of ralities and precepts,
according to his business and personal
traits. A public man has no stock on
his shelves, can give out no samples,
no catalogues. He has only himself
to sell to the people.
Therefore, I should say the first
quality he must possess is love for
people. for his fellows. No public man
who does not enjoy all sorts of per
conal contacts can get far. Human
needs must appeal to him-human
emotions, human failings, human
problems generally.
The successful public man must
have tolerance-heaps of it. He must
be willing and eager to see the other
chaps side of a question and consider
it. After all, the most important
things in any community are people,
not handsome public buildings. not the
design of traffic towers or subway en-
trances-people. The most successful
public servant is the man or woman
who can find out what the people
want and give it to them.
A successful executive must not
take himself too Importantly. He
must keep in mind that he is hired
mana temporary hired man, at that
He must keep in mind the other fell
lows needs and not his own ambitions.
Any man who hopes for success
must start out with confidence in him
self and sell it to others He must
| believe he can do things and make the
rest believe it. too.
If l were writing Rules for Sue
cess" land Heaven preserve me from
tryingD, | would say, BE yourself.
Do things in your own way; don't try
to do them in some other mans way"
For example, / cannot write a
sueech. have to catch fire from the
people I'm talking to and get right at
them personally and spontaneously
ff tried any other way, I'd be fail
ure before | began. Perhaps this is
Temperament in my case, Celtic
temperament. Anyhow. I've got to
work that way.
Enthusiasm is a big factor in any
mans success. Enthusiasm makes
personality--a highly important thing.
But here we get back again to the
first principle-love for people. If you
have that, you have enthusiasm.
Another vital precept for success
don't fear criticism. You may go to
your work in the morning knowing
there are a lot of headaches on your
desk. Go at the head breaking tasks
with good will and. earnestness. Con-
suit the best people to help you solve
the knotty problems. Consider well
| their advice See If it clicks" with
your own opinion. Make up your
| mind what action to take-and take it.
If YOU stop to wonder what the news
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-21
The Apple.

Way back in the Garden of Eden.
the apple played a prominent part.
A tempting apple is supposed to be
responsible for humanity'S exile.
Today a luscious red apple is still
alluring But today an apple will not
get you into trouble. On the contrary
it's good for you.
The adage. IAN apple a day keeps
the doctor away" speaks truth. Apples
supply protein, some carbohydrate,
lime, iron and vitamins A, B. c. They
can be eaten raw. peeling and all. or
with the peeling discarded for tender
digestions. They can appear raw in
numerous salad combinations. Or
they can be cooked in many ways.
appearing as dessert or as an &C
compartment to meat. DR.. Wiley am
plified the saying. IAN apple day
keeps the doctor away" by remarking
two apples a day keep the dentist
away A bite into firm apple gives
tooth exercise. The juice and chew
ing of the fruit cleanses the teeth.
The acid in apples is malic. They
are listed as a mild fruit. Of course
the percentage of acid differs with the
variety. There are said TO be over
1900 kinds of apples, but only about
so of commercial value.
Apples also contain great deal of
pectin which is the element that
makes fruit jell. That's why apple
jelly always come out fine. 1t is
also the reason that apples are used
as filters in various other fruit jellies
Pure, unfermented apple juice is ex-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-21
LITTLE BENNY
BY LEE PAPE.

Pop was smoking to himself and ma
was lissening to her rist watch not GO
ing, and / sed. Hay pop, hay ma.
Hay Yourself and that1l make 1T
unanimous. pop sed, and ma sed, Ware
that boy ever Termed to hay his par
ents is. beyond me.
Well do you wunt to Subscribe lords
"A subscription to buy Sundey dinnlr
for poor boys? I sed.
Whose getting up this fund? pop
sed ~
Me and cuzzin Artie | sed, and ma
sed Well if those~2 boys have started
thinking of somebody eltses sturhm1ck
besides their own. miracles haven't
stopped ceesingssess
Don't throw bttckit of ice water on
a tender young bud. perhaps he's RELY
lerning the~dneeniiig of charity. pop
sed. Who are these poor boys? he sed.
Do you neen You wunt to know
their names? | sed.
meen Id like to know who they are
in genrel way. pop sed. VINO are
they? pop sed.
Me and Artie. sed
Well for goodniss sakes. | mite of
known. dident / say so? ma sed, and
pop sed. You and Artie may or may
not be poor boys. that's relative ques-
ton. but at leest you haven't felt eny
shortage in Sundey dinnirs, have you?
Well you see we had ideer to try
living one Sunday on nuthing but ice
GREEN and candy. / sed.
Yee gods, / withdraw my sibscrip-
ton, pop sed and ma sed, So do /, and
I sed. Well G wiZZickers holey smokes
you dident give eny yet.
Wich they dident.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-21
THE DAILY
HOROSCOPE
Tuesday. February 20.


Although there is one benefic as
pect strong tomorrow, it is a time to
be cautious. according to astrology.
There should be good luck for mer-
chants and manufacturers, who will
profit greatly through foreign mar
kets.
Much money will be made by means
of new corporations which float big
enterprises in the new year, 1t is in
Dictated.
Labor benefits at this time, es-
pecially in England, which will have
an influence over industrial condi-
tions in distant lands.
New mines are to be discovered and
old ones are to be worked with good
results, for there will be unprecendent-
ed demands for metals of various
sorts.
1t is read as an exceptionally for
tunate day for all who are accus-
toned to be before the public.
This is read as an unfayorable
direction of the stars for marriages,
for there is sign indicating too much
desire to rule on the part of women.
New stars of the stage are to be
acclaimed in the coming year, and
one young woman will gain great
popularity, it is prophesied.
History and narrative are subject
to influences of the stars which tend
toward exaggeration. it is forecast.
Persons whose birth date it is prob
ably will have prosperous year.
Employees are likely TO be promoted
Children born on that day prob.
ably will be versatile and able to win
many friends. Statesmen and diplo-
ksr. -
Pisces.
downright 1927
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-21
BEAUTY CHATS BY Edna KENT FORBES

That's the whole secret of making
the hair fluffy and glossy after a dry
powder shampoo. Obviously you can
not brush the hair clean with q dirty
brush. Keep your brush clean! Wipe
it free of powder and dirt, ard brush
the hair vigorously. Wipe the brush
again, you can see by the towel how
much dirt comes off. In short time
your hair will look as fresh and pretty
as you could wish.
There are other dry shampoo meth
DDS. You can take coarse corn meal.
just the cheap yellow meal you buy
at the grocer's-the cheaper and
coarser the better for your purpose.
This can be sprinkled through the
hair and brushed out: il brushes off
easily because it is SO coarse and there
is very little fine powder to get rid OF.
If your hair is very dark. you may
be able to get dark powder. There
are such things. but they are hard to
find in this country.
Sylvia.-Household ammonia will do
to mix with the peroxide to discour-
age the growth of the hair.
Mrs. F. De F.-The hair tonic will
help your sons scalp. no matter what
is causing the trouble. since il has
everything in it to build up and tone
the scalp, also to act as an antiseptic.
If he does not get enough help from
the tonic, it shows there is some spe-
cial trouble that needs a scalp special
list to diagnose and treat accordingly
If he is getting bald through the con-
dition. he should not spend much more
time in experimenting, but had bet
ter go to specialist as soon as he can.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-21
FOOD AND HEALTH
BY WINIFRED STUART GIBBS.
Food Specialist

Suppose you were faced by the
knowledge that your food was, and
continued TO be, inadequate How far
could you carry your present knowl-
edge of sensible diet over into such
conditions?
If you had Just so much" money to
spend for food, which foodstuffs would
you neglect and which would you re-
tain?
Such a self discrimination may be pro-
ductive of considerable practical good,
not only to yourself. but to those with
whom you come in contact If there
is one subject more than another that
requires the occasional injection Of
human interest, it is that of dietetics.
Say those who cavil. I'VE are making
the children self-conscious by insist
ing on their thinking about diet. =
Very well, then. let us show the chill
dren that they have a responsibility
for passing on their knowledge as
we'll as for keeping themselves well.
To go back to our informal ques-
lions. These questions were not
formulated from theory: they grew out
of actual experience When the food
allowance was reduced because of cur
tailment of the family income here is
a list of the dietary sins most fire.
quently committed by the housekeep-
ers in charge of these deprived homes.
There was insufficient cereal insult
ficent fruits and vegetables; too many
sweets; not enough milk: too little
water; too many eggs; too much meal
and too much fat. although not of the
best type. SO it is reasonable to
suppose that, left TO our own devices,
we might do just what these house
keepers did and allow our own die
taries to become unbalanced along
these very lines.
The one who can read between the
lines will know that it was not chance
that made these families eat too many
sweets and too much fat and meat.
1t was the natural craving for needed
energy. energy that was required
more than ever under these condi-
tions of deprivation.
This is point number one then. at
which we must guard ourselves and
our associates. We must remember
that while energy must sometimes be
increased. we must not increase en-
ergy without providing sufficient body
regulating material. The engineer
that keeps piling coal in his engine
knows that he must exercise care In
keeping the engine in good order, else
the coal will do very little good.
Theferore. if. for any reason. the
dietary is likely to be unbalanced, let
us cling for all we are worth TO fruits
and vegetables. We may buy mex
pensive varieties, such as dried peas,
beans, lentils and onions and other
Winter vegetables: we may spend our
food allowance for the plebeian prune
and other dried fruits, but we shall
buy them.
We shall if we are wise, cut out
some of our meat. SO as to get enough
milk and butter for both children and
adults.
In this matter of dietary sins. let
us look we'll to the mote in our own
eye. then we shall be so much better
equipped to help our neighbOr get
rid of the beam in his.
Copyright 1927
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-21
EAT AND BE HEALTHY
Dmah Days Daily Talks on Diet

BY BRIGGS.

ceedingly wholesome. One authority
sanctions the use of the fresh, pure
apple juice in so-called billiouSness, in
joundice. constipation; in cases where
the kidneys and liver are disordered:
in emaciation, loss of appetite and
general malnutrition Apple juice is
laxative. 1t is valuable to offset any
tendency TO acidosiS. Persons subject
to disorders due to uric acid poisoning
may freely use apple juice with advan-
tage.
Mrs. Avoidupois may eat apples.
Should she get terribly hungry be-
tween lunch and dinner and feel as
though she were going to cave in, she
may eat an apple. This is healthful.
1t will satisfy her hunger and is not
fattening.
The fact that apples are also good
for the undernourished is because
they contain lime, iron and vitamins.
Recent experiments have also seemed
to indicate that it's protein. though
small in amount, is of fine quality.
One of the first solid fruits the baby
has is the pulp of a baked apple or
some strained applesauce.
For young and old, fat and thin.
the apple is healthful. 1t adapts itself
for use as dessert, jelly, juice, au
naturel. 1t can grace the table at any
meal and Jimmy can have an apple
after school. Apples are good in a
laxative diet. One eaten at bedtime
is often beneficial.
Readers desiring personal answers to
their questions should send self-addressed:
stamped envelope to Dnah Day. care OF
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-21
WHEN WE co SHOPPING
By MRS. HARLAND HI. ALLEN.


When your husbands stiff evening
shirt must be studded, and you dis
cover that his only studs have been
mislaid, lost in the laundry, or bor-
rowed, what do you do? Or what
would you do in the emergency?
Would 1t make any difference to you
If he were going to wear full dress
or dinner clothes? Buying studs for
dress wear gets to be complicated the
moment you step into the store and
are forced to make a selection.
In the first place, notice how many
places for studs there are in your hus-
bands shirt. There may be any num-
Der from one to three. While you
may buy large sized stud for the
buy only smaller ones for the two
or three stud shirt.
Pearls. either real or imitation, are
always correct and suitable for dress
studs are made and worn, but many
for full-dreSs studs, and smoked or
black pearls are used for dinner
clothes studs. Remember the point
about size. OF course. the stature Of
your husband also influences you in
making your choice, too. A large
stud is in proportion on tall, broad
man. while it might look entirely out
of place on a smaller fellow.
Diamond studs and colored stone
stude are made and worn, but many
men will not wear them. They are
ostentatious and snowy, and often
tend to make their wearer self
conscious and I'll at ease. Don't buy
either of them unless you have your
husbands approval.
Onyx, real or imitation, makes an
ideal dinner-clothes stud. 1t har-
monies well with tie and suit, and is
dignified. 1t may be bought plain or
as the background for pearl. Often
onyx is combined with silver, gold Or
platinum for a shirt stud. Black
enameled studs will answer the same
purpose for the modest purse. When
buying the limitations be sure that
the front is guaranteed not to part
company with the base.
Engraved and filigreed silver is
used for dinner-clothes studs, while
gold, or gold filled. studs are used for
formal dress wear. These studs are
usually made like collar-buttons, and
must be forced through the stud
holes. Many of the better studs are
made with spring catches. SO that
one may not lose them easily
Sets of cuff buttons, studs and vest
buttons may also be purchased. They
range In price from a few dollars up
into the hundreds. They are good
buys il your husband dresses a
great deal, because they solve three
problems at once for all times.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-21
Clues to Character
BY J. O. ABERNETHY.
Love Pirates.

In this day of love pirates, maybe
YOU wives would like to know how
to avoid being the victim of this
calamity. And by the same token,
perhaps you husbands would appre-
ciate a tip on this subject.
Remember this: hazel or light
brown eyes have a characteristic of
their own. differing from the true
brown eyes. We would glorify hazel
eyes as constant, inspiring. lovable
and thoroughly dependable. Watch
the eyes of your intended husband or
wife. You need have no hesitancy in
marrying person with hazel eyes.
for he will never leave you he does
not talk too much nor too little and
generally is an intellectual and agree
able companion.
Faithful and true to her husband.
a haZel-eyed woman does not revel in
scandal, prefers his comfort to her
own and is kind and lovable crea-
ture. There are eyes, of course, of
other colors that may be trusted, yet
none surpass hazel eyes in the
virtues.
fCopyright 1927
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-21
Shampoo Powders.

The best shampoo powder for a dry
shampoo is powdered orris root. This
has one great virtue-it does not
cling to the scalp, as a talcum would,
nor to the hair. 1t can be brushed
on the hair and quite easily brushed
out again. If your brush has long.
thick and fairly stiff bristles, the
whole operation of cleaning the hair
and making it bright and glossy and
fluffy again, need take no more than
minutes.
Buy an ounce or two of powdered
orris from the drugstore. Save an old
sifter-top talcum powder can-you
can get them with cheap powder in
them at the 10-cent stores, then throw
away the powder and use the can.
Or punch lot of holes in the card
board box top with a small. sharp nail
and make a sitter top that way.
Sprinkle a little on the hair, run it
through or shake it through with the
fingers. sift on some more and repeat
until you have quite a bit of powder
over the head. Then brush the hair.
Brush in every direction, and about
every minute wipe the brush with an
old towel to remove the dirty powder.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-21
MY Neighbor Says.

Chops can be baked IN an
oven on ironing day when IL Is
desired to keep the top Oh 'iie
stove clean. 80,
silver will be as bright as
new If it is covered with sour
milk. allowed to stand for nan
an hour and then washed anu
rinsed.
TO give a fine polish to hhei.
noe lnkewarm water instead OF
cold to break down the starch
When it has been reduced 10
the REQUIRED consistency pE
hoiling water, add a plncn Oh
fine salt and stir several times
with wax candle. This VIII
make the iron run smoothly
and give a polish to the lllieIi
that nothing else can impart'
When the blankets are to be
washed for the first time they
should be soaked overnight III
cold water and then rlnsed'
This is to remove the sulphur
used in bleaching. After TINS
thew should be soused untll
clean in a 1ukewarm lather
made with boiled soap ana
water, and then rinsed well In
clear water.
When tablecloths wear thin
in the center cut up the OUTSIDE
into IL or Is inch squares ana
hemstitch. These make nap
kins that will wear for some
time.
Always wash fresh spinach
thoroughly first in hot water
then in cold.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-21
Planning Before Buying.

Now Is the time to plan your ward
robe for the year. SO that you may
take advantage of the many sales that
are I'm progress at the various stores.
Later on you may want the very
things which are selling at bargain
prices now.
There seem to be many advocates OF
the fewer but better clothes" rule
as buying plan for the year. BY do
Ing so. these modern economists claim.
a woman rids herself Of many super
fuous froclxs. OF course, the oppor-
tunity for saving is obvious at once.
Many women have had fewer and not
better clothes in the past, and that
they have gotten along satisfactorily
Is reassuring.
BY planning to buy fewer clothes 1t
is probable that more skillful shopping
viii result. Each dress or gown
bought will be bought with its adapt
ability for wear in mind. Instead OF
an afternoon and evening dress, one
carefully selected gown may do nice
~ for both. 1t may cost. more than
a single dress of either type, but its
nonmical.
Clothes for every day are usually
difficult to buy. One may think of a
dozen different needs and uses, and be
unable to plan purchase to care for
them all. A modified sport type of
dress is q practical every day gar
ment. This is especially true for
women who live either in the suburbs
or country. Simple lines and re-
strained styling should predominant.
1t is suggested that women select
their main color scheme for the year
before making any purchases and
then throughout the year adhere to
their color harmony. The practical
advantage of SO doing is that all of
ones frocks match with one or more
of ones stock Of hats and coats.
One practical color scheme would be
blue and gray, though 1t is only one
remember, of many. If hats, wra ps
and shoes are within two-color limit
there VIII not be any risk of things
not going well together" Every
woman may safely plan on unusual
frockS with a total disregard Of her
color scheme, because it would be
deadening to adhere to two colors for
an entire year, aside from white in
Summer.
There are many reasons why one
should plan her buying In January
There are sales, and that alone would
be a good reason. Few women may
have to buy for Winter needs, and sc
every woman can think and deliberate
about the three seasons to follow,
Lastly. budgets are being made and
buying power defined.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-21
Trains, Frocks and Short Skirts
BY MARY MARSHALL.

used to think of them as wearing
trains longer than those of ordinary
mortals. The weight of these long
trains seemed to impart queenly Dig
nifty to their bearing. And we nave
recently heard that the Prince OF
Wales in England likes trains. NOT
the picturesque, old fashioned trains
that his queenly ancestors used to
wear. but the amusing little trains
that the French dreSsmakers are ADD
ing TO some of their dance frocks-
foolish little trains that make 1t posi-
BILE for the young woman OF TO-DAY 10
have her cake and eat it, too. She mas
all the satisfaction of wearing a tram
and of going in the shortest OF SklrtS.
The trailing length of material at the
side or back only seems to accentuate
their shortness.
The sketch shows little dance
frock with black satin skirt anq
train and bodice made of black, nauve
and gold brocade. The train 49, IN
fact as well as in effect. mere APP
perdage. And this is something OF an
advantage. 1t may very easily De
rtrped off and discarded entirely.
Some of the new frocks have a train
that NAV be fastened securely with
snanpers or other fasteners. You may
wear it part of the evening and then
take it off and leave it in the dressing
room or carry it about your shoulders
as Il scarf.
Copyright. 1927
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-21
Blood Pressure 0bsession.

Readers who have blood pressure,
high. low. lack or game, or who think
they have 1t because they teei a
pressure at the base of the oralh
M. a dizziness all over, or who are
lust thinking of trying 1t Tor Wnlie
and giving neuritis, autolntoxlcatioh
mr. neI,ra sthenia q rest. and therefore
in quest of details. particulars. lnfor-
nation, causes, symptoms, euects OF
cures of same" will henceforward
and forevermore find the Egyptian
sphinx voluble on this subject as com
pared with the avowedly sarcastic but
nevertheless benevolent conductor of
this column.
earnestly hope that everybody
who has 1t. thinks he has it or thinks
of having it will gather from these re-
marks the good healthy suggestion L
wish to convey, namely, that one
blood pressure is a thing which one
should never think of or worry about
or even consider. Thinking, talking
or stewing over ones blood pressure
! is about the most bootlesS and most
mischievous form of depravity an IN
diyidual. sick or we'll, can indulge in.
The type of doctor that casually or
frankly informs a client that his
blood pressure is a few points too
| high or too low or that he has high
blood pressure or low blood pressure
| is fortunately becoming unpopular
and obscure. He belongs on the shelf
along with the old fossil who used to
hedge and bubble over cases of
weak lungs" spots run down
condition and "overwork" while the
unfortunate patient drifted from bad
| to worse.
| Toward the end of his regime, for
which termination thank heaven, this
pretentious practitioner had a large
number of victims under his control,
victims who fondly cherished such
/ interesting terms as ''rales, "
Shadows" catarrhal condition in
right apex" in lieu of frank and
unreserved medical opinion as to
whether the patient had or had not
| tuberculosis.
This o1ithllrSt is nrnm nted by q let.