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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-07
Our Children By Angelo Patri

have no rags stand. Here, Mary, tear
this into little bits and give each one
standing a rag. Where is Thomas
with the water? Never mind. Wait
until Mary reaches you. Now, class
while you are waiting for the rest of
the material, pay attention here and
I'll show you how to make a radish.
Miss Grimm will be in tomorrow to
see your work, SO you must be care
full.
See, work round mass like this;
now wet that with clear water
Miss Gray, we have no water"
Never mind. You'll get it soon.
Then dip your brush in the red"
Miss Gray, amt got any red.
Jackie WON'T"
Never mind You'll get some.
Then dip your brush in the red and
shake it into the round mass like this.
BE careful to leave this little white
spot at the end Then brush In the
leaves with water
Teacher. Thomas hasn't come back
yet with the water. Can / go?"
II told you to never mind. Betty.
put that brush down. l haven't told
you to begin. You'll get this all
wrong and then you'll be sorry. Now
pay attention everybody and I'll show
you just what to do. Now the leaves,
green and yellow, not too blue: brush
1t in swiftly, float 1t in like this.
Now lay your paper so. Take your
brush, dip it in water. do so and so.
Michael, don't you begin those leaves
until l say so. Now the leaves
Goodness. don't use so much yellow
nor so much green. There. Brushes
down. Times up. No, you can't try
again; there isn't any time. No, you
can't clean up. You have to do your
reading next. The monitor will col
lect and clean up. Glass, take read.
erS"
Anyway. the monitors were lucky.
But the teacher ought to be given n
cEance. Public opinion is ever against
bricks without straw.
copyright 1927
MT. Patri will give personal attention to
INQUIRIES from parents and school teachers
on the care and development of children
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Winter Hats.

Though we are well into Winter
and shops are already displaying
Spring frocks and light hats and
delicately colored clothes for Southern
resorts, | think a talk on Winter hats
might not be out of place This in
between fashion season is a bad time.
It's really silly to wear Spring clothes
or straw trimmed hats on the street,
and Winter clothes, hats especially,
have lost their freshness. What a
good idea to introduce a midseason,
with midseason materials and styles
and even colors!
We dress well in America: no coun-
try dresses half as well as we do,
which is natural, as we are in pros
porous period, and as the American
woman has a gift of style But-we
all dress alike. Fashion varies only
in detail. If you don't believe this,
look critically at the women in the
restaurants and on the streets, after
you've been away for a few months.
The longer the absence, the more
you'll see how we all go about dressed
to one type. It's q good type, but it
might be more varied. After a long
season of Winter clothes, lasting from
late September until April, we get
bored with our own things and with
looking at other peoples.
Why not a midseaaon-a complete
change four times a year instead of
twice? 1t would be more interesting
to have half as many clothes and
change them twice as often, and
would come out the same way as to
price. At least, why not a midseason
for hats and such accessories? About
this time of the year. / wish all the
blonde-haired women would go out
and buy violet-colored felt hats to
wear with their blue suits and all
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Your Baby and Mine
BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED.

If you have written recently for
a feeding leaf1et and have had
no answer it Is because your let
ter is being held until we can in
clude the new feeding leaf1et
which is now in the printing. Don't
think we have overlooked you. This
new leaflet is going to be SO helpful
to you that / am sure you will find
1T has been worth waiting for.
Mrs. NJ. j. NJ. writes: MY baby is
months old and has been walking
since he was months old Every
one thinks this is remarkable. Can
you tell me the record of the young
est baby who ever walked?
My baby gets his cereal when /
have my breakfast at o'clock and
his bottle a little after s. He sleeps
then for a couple of hours AT noon
he gets soup and a bottle again, and
another nap after o'clock. At dinner
time he has some fish, or egg, or
Whatever l have. AT 9 o'clock he
has bottle and is in bed for the
night. I give him another bottle at
o'clock. He is so busy walking and
playing that he does not eat enough
In the daytime so that l can do away
with this bottle. How old should a
pdpy ue DeIOTe ne can eat anything
he wants at the table?''
Answer-The baby walked remark
ably young, it is true. / couldn't
say how old the youngest baby who
ever walked was y. but you can
hang up your own record and there
won't be many babies to equal it,
though just recently another mother
said her baby walked at this age and
insists on walking on the streets, re-
fusing to ride in his carriage. These
modern kiddies,
can't say that I approve very
highly of your feeding schedule. The
baby should have four meals daily, at
z, II, and o'clock, and then no
feeding at all at night, or one at IL
if he is underweight. Also the pm.
feeding should consist of cereal and
milk and not of fish or anything you
have"
When a child is years old he can
come to the family table and if the
family is being fed wisely and well
can have almost everything. of which
the adults partake. 1 know this sounds
silly to lot of persons whose children
eat everything from the time they are
able to sit up. But we don't feed our
three Riddles that way, and never
have
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Christmas Club of Health.

Every bank urges the people to start
q. Christmas club. Put by little each
week so that when next Christmas
rolls around there will be nice lump
sum all ready TO draw against. No
need TO be broke at Christmas time is
the big idea.
The same plan can be used for
health. Eat proper food. Build up a
health fund. Instead of just putting
away three meals "A day. give some
thought to supplying the body with
the various food elements required for
proper nourishment
Do not have an orgy of eating all
starchy foods at meal or all protein
foods. For instance, do not serve
sliced bananas, corn flakes and buck
wheat cakes for breakfast. Serve
sliced bananas. a whole-grain cereal
and an egg. Or serve an orange, oat-
meal and an egg-or grapefruit, an
egg and buckwheat cakes
Be sure that the most necessary
mineral salts Gime. iron. etc. and the
priceless vitamins appear at every
meal.
The protein foods--meat, eggs. fish
a.ld milk-are needed to make new
body cells and to repair old ones. Since
fhe adult has reached full growth, pro-
:ein is needed chiefly for repair and
not for new growth. A man building
a new house needs far more building
material than a man who is keeping
h,s house in condition.
The carbohydrates. that is, the
~sen1ch and sugar foods. and also the
Vat foods like butter. cream, oil, etc,
are energy foods. They FAKE the
steam to keep the body engine work
ing.
Taere must be fiber or cellulose in
foods 10 provide for waste elimination.
The whole grains and the flesh veg
etables and fruits will supply this
necessary bulk.
water is q necessity also. Besides
that normally present in food. every
one should drink six or eight glasses
O. day.
ne you have health. keep your fund.
GO nrt er!ttm 70 aseag ~ oass,1s
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MlLADY BEAUTIFUL
BY LOIS LEEDS

and proper treatments given to the
scalp besides.
The shampoo for white or gray hair
should be given special attention to
prevent the hair from becoming brit
tie or streaked. Here is a particularly
good recipe for the purpose. Crate
two ounces of pure CASTLE soap and
mix it with One-half an ounce Of po-
tassium carbonate and three ounces
of water. Melt in a double boiler
until soft. Mix one ounce glycerin.
five drops of oil of lavender and 10
drops oil of bergamot and add the
resulting lotion to the other ingredi-
ents. Blend thoroughly. The mixture
may be thinned with more water if
desired. Use a little of this prepare
ton for each shampoo. Rinse out
the soap very thoroughly in clear
water. then give the hair a final rinse
in a basin of water to which few
drops of indigo have been added. In
drying the hair avoid strong heat;
gently rub the hair and scalp with
Turkish towels to absorb the moisture.
When the scalp Is too dry, as Is
often the case with white hair a white
salve may be rubbed In carefully. To
make it, melt one-half an ounce white
wax, two ounces benzoated lard and
two ounces white petrolatum in a
double boiler. Beat in one-half a
dram of oil of bergamot, 10 minims
oil of lavender and 10 drops oil of
cinnamon. Pour the mixture into jars
to cool. This salve may be used twice
a week. The hair should be parted
into numerous small strands and the
ointment applied to the scalp along
the partings. A thorough scalp mas
sage should follow the application.
1t must be remembered that too fire.
quent curling with hot irons will en-
courage that unbecoming yellowish
tinge in white hair. Sometimes.
though not always. permanent wave
has a similar effect.
Downright. 1927
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EAT AND BE HEALTHY
Dis,Gh Days Daily Talks on Diet
he Right Food Is the Best Medicine

living. II your health account is
small, build 1t up by pouring into
your body fresh air. sufficient water
and proper food. Vitality and nour.
ishment, stored away every day, will
soon swell the health asset
Have such a fund of bodily resist
ance in the bank Of health that a
run of extra hard work will not com
pletely eat up all your energy. Ii
you go financially broke, and the bills
keep piling up, 1t is very hard to
get solvent. If you go broke in
health, 1t will take great watchful.
ness and economy in expending
health energy to build up the health
fund again. The banks Christmas
club is to provide ready money at
Christmas time. when there is an
extra demand on the cash supply
Also start Christmas club Of health.
Readers desiring personal answers 10
their questions should send self addressed
stamped envelope TO Dinah Day. csre OF
The Star.
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Doing Things.

1t is tremendously difficult to let
children do things in school. In the
first place, there are too many chill
dren in one spot. If one works, if
one does things, one must have room
for his elbows, his legs and his groo-
ing mind. The usual classroom or the
usual public school has no such room.
Now and then do children do things.
Usually they don't.
[ saw Il painting lesson. The
teacher had AZ children in the group
and she had just 40 minutes to give
the lesson and clear it away. The
supervisor of drawing would be in
tomorrow and ask for these radishes
that were to be made right now.
First, the paint boxes had to be dis
tributed. Then the tins for holding
water. There was no water in the
room, SO a child went out for a
pitcherful. A child in each row gave
out the pans and then this little lad
came along with the water He
wanted to pour it into the little pans
himself, but the monitors of each row
demanded their rights. Doing things
is at a premium, you see. Each moni-
tor had to assert himself in order to
get the pitcher away from the one
just before him. Now and then there
would be q sharp tuSSie, one pulled
against the other, the water splashed
on each and on the floor, and then
somebody had to go down and get
more. OF course, the teacher was
very angry.
Miss Gray, there isn't any red on
my tray"
mo red? Why, thought 1 put red
in every one this noontime. Well, use
half of Jacks"
Jack scoWls and shakes his head to
indicate that any use of his red will
take place over his dead body. The
teacher IS getting out a box of pencils.
Already four points have been broken.
Each one means chance to go to the
pencil sharpener and stay quite a
while grinding. Miss Gray thinks
another pencil saves time. 1t does.
Did you bring your rags? All who
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DEAU L Of1AlS BY EDNA KENT FORBES

the brunettes appear in rose red with
their brown or black coats-or that
they'd try any other color combina-
ton, as long as they appeared in
something new as to line and color
We go on wearing felt shapes; that's
all right as long as we drape the hats
becomingly and rub our scalps afteg
hours In one to get the blood circu-
lating properly.
Nothing will freshen a slightly worn
costume as much as a new hat.
John F. J.-Auything that tends to
stimulate the functions of. the skin.
helps TO do away with imperfections
such as freckles, pimples and the like,
Consequently massage, or a fun bath
all over every day followed by a cold
shower. will clear the complexion of
almost all blemishes. Special exer-
clses that cause the skin to act very
freely followed by the bath and shower
VIII change the appearance of sicIxlv
skin in IA few days.
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/ n
America DR. Cadrnan seeks 10 answer in
9nries that appear to he % qI
which he receives.
Princeton. n. J.
Don't you think that st. Paul
was very much of a Changeling? lie
began as a Jew, boosted his Roman
citizenship, became a Pharisee. was
converted to Christianity, deserted
the East for the West, and boxed
his compass to nearly every quarter
of the wind.
Answer-True enough. these were
a few of his varied phases, and those
of his heart and mind We're more
numerous still. He entered into them
all with characteristic intensity. An
Israelite of the ISraelites, he kept an
open mind for IIellenistic ideas; a pas
sionate Jew, he was equally proud of
| his Roman citizenship.
| He relied on rabbinical logic while
Confessing that his life had been trans
formed by q vision of his crucificd
Lord. The churches he established in
| Asia Minor fell into decay. But he
built the church at large as no other
| apostle built it.
Accused in his lifetime of not be-
| longing to the inner circle of our
| Lords followers, he is now hailed as
| the actual founder of Western
Christianity. For centuries after his
! death his theology was more or less
| in allegiance until st. Augustine re-
vived it, after which 1t subsidized again
until Thomas Bradinardine renewed
1t in the early fourteenth century.
Once more Paulinism WAS neglected
| by the medievalists only to rise to
| tidal heights of power in the reforma-
l ion, r,f .Txyta
/ this event it has been interpreted by
master spirits in every succeeding age.
Any man who loves infinite variety
| can find 1t in st. Paul. There is
nothing static, prosaic, dull or con-
| ventional about him. Nor IS he al
ways consistent except in his devotion
| to his Lord and to the whole human
| race. AS / have said before, he was
| the greatest and most manysided and
gifted man who followed Christ and
| advanced His cross from Jerusalem to
Rome and the regions beyond.
| New York City
What practical advice would you
| give to the newly arrived alien whose
intention it is to make this country
! his home?
Answer should advise him to re-
| frain from eXpatiating on the glories
! of the nation he left behind him o-d
to make himself thoroughly familiar
with the rise, progress and ru. p,s :
of the United States of America. He
should observe the land of his adop-
| ton accurately, compare justly. and
remember that many matters which
seem strange to the uninitiated are
| native to the soil and suited to it's
| inhabitants.
| Since this country is to be his home,
/ he will be wise to fit in with it's life
/ and people as quickly and efficiently
| as possible. In doing this he does not
! have to disparage his native land any
more than a man has to hate his
mother because he loves his wife. On
/ the contrary, if anything in the cul-
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Orange Blanc-Mange.

Two cups milk, four tablespoons
cornstarch, three eggs, four table
spoons sugar, juice of two oranges,
Juice of one lemon, few grains salt,
grated rind of one orange.
Scald milk. Have ready the corn
starch, which has been made smooth
with the remainder of the milk. Stir
this paste smooth into the hot milk.
Cook for one-Quarter of an hour.
Have ready the beaten eggs combined
with sugar, fiavoring, orange and
lemon juice Combine the whole and
cook for fifteen minutes longer. Strain
and set aside TO chill.
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a couture of abundant silvery white
or soft gray tresses adds distinction
to any face, but when the hair takes
on an unloveIy yellowish. dirty hue
and becomes too scanty to cover the
scalp completely milady despairs of
her beauty. Many women who suffer
from this condition have asked me
whether it is too late to improve the
color and quantity of their hair?
According to the old maxim it is
never too late to mend. So long as
there are hair follicles in the scalp
they may be stimulated and nourished
into a more luXuriant growth Of
course it will take time and patience
Worry, illness or a poorly balance
diet tend to reduce the vitality of the
hair. These things must be corrected
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Nature Reduces.
By j. o. ABERNETHY.

If a person have the faculties of
hunger, growth and appetite well de-
veloped, he will obtain a maximum
amount of nutrition from whatever he
eats. He will grow plump or fat
quickly and without effort. while a
person with these three faculties poor.
~ developed remains thin and lean
no matter how much he eats, because
his digestive organs are inactive.
You may be a hearty eater and still
remain lean. One must derive real
pleasure from eating to put on flesh.
If you stay lean it is because nature
intended you should be lean-you
were born that way. To become
plump or fat you must have SUI
preme sense of hunger when the body
needs nutrition. You must have .
strong appetite and be able TO digest
food We'll thoroughly supplying it to
the body, and make the most of little
food when plenty cannot be had.
The faculties of hunger, growth and
appetite are located just upward and
forward and backward of the ears
When the region is well filled out
you may be sure the subject finds joy
IN eating and that he is just inclined
70 be fat, or at least plump. If the
indicated region is narrow or com.
pressed, or both, >the three faculties
re small and the subject never will
he plump or fat no matter how much
he eats.
copyright, 1922
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HOME NOTES
By JENNY WREN.

We offer as a decorative New Year
resolution: Fewer and better wall
light fixtures" In our opinion two OF
three really fine and suitable wall light
fixtures are infinitely to be preferred
to a round dozen of mongrels with
nothing to recommend them but their
excessive cost.
We have been living In rooms where
not less than IA wall lights glared
into our eyes from all directions, and
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White or uniformly gray hair is be-
coming because it makes ones skin
tints appear roster by contrast This
is why it is usually unwise to dye
hair that has lost it's color by gradual.
natural processes. Dyed hair is UNI
fiattering to the mature woman's skin
unless she uses enough makeup to
counterfeit the schoolgirl complexion.
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EVERYDAY QUESTIONS
Answered by DR.. S. PARKES CADMAN

ture of the alien is of value for
America. and much is. he can set 1t
forth in quiet and unassuming ways
which seldom fall short of the mark.
l speak az an immigrant who
landed here many years ago when
say that. Notwithstanding it's admit.
ted drawbacks, the United States r.
the most generous and hospitable
nation existing today. This trait
should be reverenced by those who,
like myself. have been it's beneficiaries
to an extent which we can never
repay.
Detroit, Mich.
If the world is to be saved through
Christ how will the Jew, who rejects
Him, be saved?
Answer-Your question Is clarified
by shifting the emphasis from inatri-
dual salvation" to the broader scope
of our Lords aim i'm His mission. He
came, to quote His own words, that
men might have life and have il
more abundantly." This life consists
in the spirit of love, good will and
brotherhood Whoever shares it is
"a member Of the All-Father's com
monwealth, and to be member Of
that commonwealth is to be saved
In the vital meaning of q much abused
word
Certain claims are made by Chris
tians concerning the person of Jesus
Christ which our Jewish brethren do
not accept But l know many jews
who gladly recognize the authority
and benefit of the divine spirit Of
love and brotherhood in behalf of
which our Lord lived, died and rose
again.
Apart from theological differences,
whatsoever subserves that spirit and
interprets life by it's dictates is, In
the language of Scripture. being
saved" daily. God is the arbitrator
of this process, and what He requires
of Jew and gentle is that they shall
have q certain quality of life and
character. Above all else. He desires
in them that elevation and goodness
which Christ perfectly exemplif1ed.
Wherever these are cultivated, there
men and women are becoming what
| God requires them to be.
Sonic Christians worship under or
thodOx theological prescriptions and
, in splendid churches who are as alien
to the purpose of God as they are
to the spirit of Jesus. Countless
Jews also worship in their syna-
gogues who. without always realizing
it, are fulfilling that purpose and
causing that spirit to prevail more
and more. Which group do you sup
pose is being saved?
(CoDyrIght. 1879
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HOW 1T STARTED
BY JEAN NEWTON.
John Bull"

In the same way that Uncle Sam
personif1es the United States, John
Bull. the burly country squire. honest,
impetuous, but too credulous, Is SYM
bolic OF Great Britain.
John Bull made his bow in 1872 as
a character in the political satire of
that name by DIR. Arbuthnot, and was
popularized shortly afterward by the
famous wit, Dean Swift. This great
satirist was indignant at the ease with
which the court and the government
We're dipping the public, and he per-
sonified the easy going British people
with the broad -girthed and easily i'm.
posed upon type Of Englishman char
acterized as John Bull"
tCopyrisht. 1872
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|OD AND THRIFT IN THE HOME
MENU FOR A DAY.

BREAKFAST.
Baked Bananas
Hominy with Cream
Baked Sausages
Apple Rings
Mullins
Coffee.
LUNCHEON.
Mock Chicken Salad
Hot Rolls
Baked Rice, Maple Sirup
Tea.
DINNER.
Boiled Corned Shoulder
Boiled Potatoes
Boiled Spinach Buttered Beets
Hot Mince Pc with
Apple Meringue
Coffee.
BAKED BANANAS.
Peel and slit bananas and put
in buttered baking dish with
one half cup sugar. Sprinkle
with lemon juice and sugar and
bake until soft, basting frequent
1y with pan liquor. Nutmeg may
be used instead of lemon juice if
preferred.
BAKED RICE.
. Five tablespoons rice, washed
in three boiling waters, four
tablespoons sugar, salt and nut
meg, one quart milk. Bake y
hours.
MINCE PIE MERINGUE.
Cover pie plate with crust and
fill with mincemeat, making top
crust very thin. Bake and cover
with apple meringue, sprinkle
with chopped nuts and brown in
oven.
Apple Meringue.-Grate one
apple and beat 80 minutes with
one cup sugar and whites two
eggs.
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keeping the skin soft. declared
noted scientist recently.
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Questions from readers are answered daily
by Dr. $. Parkes Cadman, president OF the
Federal Council Of Churches of Christ In
America DR. Cadman seeks 10 answer in
qliiries that appear to he representative Of
the trends of thought in the many letters
which be receives
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Mr.. Patri will give personal attention to
inquiries from parents and school teachers
on the care and development of children
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Clues to Character

Copyright. 1927.