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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-11
CLEYELAND YOUTH BANQUET.

CLEVELAND, May 10-The Young
workers (Communist) League.
Branch 1, of this city will hold ban
quet and entertainment Saturday, 3
p. M, at the Carpenters Auditorium,
1869 Kinsman Road. The proceeds
of the affair will 90 to the Conneaut
School fund.
Evening star., 1928-12-30
THE DAILY
HOROSCOPE

Benef1c aspects will rule tomorrow.
according to astrology, which reads in
the closing of 1928 many fair promises
for 1929
The planetary government. is fortu-
nate for all persons in authority and
seems to preSage increase of efficiency
on the part OF governors, mayors, heads
of big business, bankers and educators.
Under this rule of the stars it is lucky
to bestow gifts or favorS. Promotions
and rewards bless giverS as we'll as
beneficiarieS.
Women tomorrow should benefit eS-
pecially, for the sway is believed to en-
dow them with foresight, prudence and
wisdom.
This is read as an extraordinarily
lucky wedding day, making for long
life partnership and steady advance
ment.
1t is a lucky day to deal with pub
fishers or editors. so authors should
benefit as they begin the new year.
\ Surgeons and physicians come under
q direction making for access of knowl-
edge and increase of ability to cure hu-
man ills.
Young folks are especially well guild
ed, by the stars. 1t is foretold that they
will demonstrate their advantage over
those who have criticized them In the
past for they are to reveal many talents
and to do credit to modern education.
Advertising should be fortunate while
this configuration prevails. and 1t Is
probable that publicity will benefit
much in the new year.
1t is read as an especially auspicious
day for entertaining since 1t encour-
ages new friendships and cements old
ones.
Astrologers foretell for 1929 startling
events that will add to the fame of the
United States as a world power and
test the wisdom of our diplomats.
While wars will break out in certain
parts Of the globe, the American Nation
Is to be protected from dire conflicts.
Persons whose birth date it is have
the augury Of year of prosperity.
= Children born on that day have the
possibility of supreme success in life.
These subjects of Capricorn usually
nave brilliant minds and great energy.
They combine love of intellectual, spir-
itual and material things and an art OF
living.
Evening star., 1928-12-30

ing; he looks fat to me-" when a weekly
weighing would have shown her that
her eyes deceived her. He really hadn't
gained an ounce.
The baby is immunized against
diphtheria and vaccinated against
smallpox, and the mother accepts this
protection against these dreadful dis
eases as if it had always been GUS
tOmary.
She reads placidly of the remarkable
decrease in the infant death rate. 1t
does not occur to her that it is the
campaign for better and cleaner milk,
her own knowledge of how to take care
of that milk, and how to sterilize bottles
and nipples, and her understanding OF
formulas and her care to feed the baby
what is good for him, and not small
amounts of adult food. which are re-
sponSible for this reduction in infant
mortality.
Perhaps if we have even the slightest
quarrel with the universal knowledge
of artificial feeding it is that it en-
courageS mother to bottle-feed q
baby too soon-Sooner than she would
if she were more afraid of artificial
feelings. We want to make it FASH
ionable again for mothers to nurse their
babies instead of smarter to have bottle
babies. There is still work to be done
in re-educating the mother to reali-
zation that with all the science at our
command breast feeding is still more
satisfactory to the normal development
of the baby than any bottle formula.
Not only has science replaced guess
work In feeding methods but the rule
of reason has been installed where the
parental emotions once dominated the
management of the child. Some un-
derstanding of human nature makes the
parents aware of what they may conf
IDENTIFY expect from young son when they
whack him with a stick, and it is their
own fault if results are bad when they
make use of disciplinary weapons that
are as backwoodsy as feeding the infant
mashed potatoes and gravy. ALI the
everyday problems from being sassy"
to filching coins from dads trousers
are viewed from both sides of the pic
ture and the blame put where it be-
longs, not infrequently on a much sur
priSed parent.
1t has been a great year, and there
is no indication that interest in baby
care, either feeding or discipline or
management, has waned, or that there
aren't more surprises and benefits in
store. A year to look forward to!
Evening star., 1928-12-30

nomenal. We remember 20 years ago
when our own new" ideas were being
timidly tried out, how freakish we were
considered because our babies were fed
on regular schedules, were never up
after 6 o'clock at night, or shown to
curious visitors, wore short dresses
from birth and no pinning blankets
On cold days when we paraded the
streets wheeling a heavy buggy we were
more than once stopped and asked if
we didn't think we ought to have that
baby home in q warm room. Well, We
didn't, and we were bolder about say
ing so then than we have ever been
about anything since. We were ,abso-
lutely sold on our methods of baby
care.
Now regularity of bathing, sleeping.
feeding and airing Is commonplace.
Every mother knows it, and If she
doesn't 1t Is because she deliberately
makes a weekly or bi-weekly visit to
her nearest clinic or takes her baby to
the doctor, whether there is anything
wrong with him or not. She is guided
through each month of his life. She
expects him to get along on four meals
q day from birth; she expects him to
sleep all night after the fourth month.
and she talked glibly of formulas, both
Tactic acid and sweet milk; of sieved
orange juice, cod liver oil
and vitamlns. So do we advance.
The mother of today. is the recipient
of SO much help. with her baby that
she often isn't even appreciative of 1t.
She doesn't know how little general
there was of baby care even
20 years ago. Nor does she realize the
perils her infant is spared because she
Is able to keep in touch with the best
modern methods of infant feeding and
general care. She doesn't know what
it means to walk the floor night after
night for months with a baby who is
being starved on breast milk because
the mother has no idea how to improve
her own supply or what else to feed the
baby.
She has handy scale and uses it,
and by so doing ends the guessing
that said I'm sure the baby is gain
Evening star., 1928-12-30

five Winters ago, one cannot but be
struck with the fact that dressfnakers
then were trying to do very much what
they are trying to do at present-only
they were trying TO do it in different
way. There was then, as now, the same
reticence on the part of we'll dressed
women to abandon the eaSy-to-Wear
Straightline frock for the uncertainties
of a more elaborate silhouette
DreSsmakerS were persistently, but
cautiously, trying to induce them to
accept a more elaborate type of cos
tune and milliners then, as now, were
working overtime to devise sort of hat
that would finally overthrow the regime
of the simple little untrimmed hat of
felt. And all the time there was the
feeling on the part of manT women that
it was high time for something new
only when dressmakers essayed anything
drastically different they showed con-
servatism, stubbornness, or merely
amusement.
In an effort to end the era of the
heightened bodice, which had already
outworn its welcome, dreSsmakers then
tried many tricks as they are trying
them today. There was an effort to
introduce revival of the above-normal
directoire contour, with the idea that
women might be more willing to go
direct from one extreme to another-but.
this directoire movement never amount
ed to anything more than a flash in the
pan, and now, wisely one would think
the French couturiers are trying more
gradual methods.
And SO, as the old year wanes. we
hesitate to speak with confidence of the
fashions that may eventually be asso-
ciated with the year 1929 To us it
seems much more likely that the waist
line will achieve normal position than
that skirts will become permanently long
even using the word permanently" in
the relative sense that one must always
In speaking of fashions
Drastic changes there may be-and
still not SO drastic as some women might
hope for. The past six months have
witnessed very definite changes in mil
linery fashions, but the lavishly trimmed
hat is no nearer now than it was one
or two or five years ago.
One thing seems certain-and that is
that whatever fashion DEVELOPMENTS
may be, the essential Slenderness of
silhouette will continue It is this in
creasing suppleness. this breaking away
from the stiff formalness of figure that
Evening star., 1928-12-30
Resolve to Get ''BreakS'

she lived in such lovely apartment,
made from what was once the spacious
third-floor ballroom of one of the city's
most beautiful old mansions.
The rest of the guests confided their
wonder, too. But this wonder did not
mar the delight of any of us in Edith's
dinner
The big walnut-paneled room glowed
with the warmth and light from the
fireplace Black bowls filled with yellow
flowers were mirrored in the polished
surface of the refectory table laid with
Venetian lace
The food was perfect, and Edith the
hostess exquisite. We marveled the
more because she made no attempt to
conceal the fact that she had done
everything quite without help.
I made some comment about the din
ner and my wonder at Edith suddenly
starting to work for the social life to
mutual friend not long after.
Its all part of Edith'S suddenly ac-
quired philosophy that you have to go
out in life for what you want out of
it," the friend explained. Edith told
me not SO long ago that most of her
mature life she had been hungry for
what she called the sort of life that
other people have
"She related how she'd always stayed
in her corner waiting for life to offer
her on a silver platter the things she
wanted. Now she's realizing that even
though it's hard work and sometimes
per Sc seems to offer nothing, it's up to
her to go out and sue life for things
she wants"
Well, I happen to know that work
or no work, the energetic joy-seeking
Edith of today is an infinitely more
radiant person than the take e-it-easy-
and-weep Edith of few months ago.
More constructive hard work pro-
grams for things we want or think we
want are the New Year resolutions that
could mean much to most of us who
wait for life to offer the breaks" in
stead of marking a few of our own.
Evening star., 1928-12-30

oysters are one of our Winter bless
ingS, so far as the table goes They are
always tempting, excepting to the COM
paratively few who do not like them.
And there are so many ways of prepar-
ing them that they need never seem mo-
notonouS.
Here are few recipes that have
been tried and found especially de-
licious:
Oysters baked-Cut some very thin
slices of fat pork into pieces about the
size of your oysters; lay them on the
bottom of sheet-iron dripping pan;
previously drained; dust with white
pepper, cover with bit of the thin pork
and bake in hot oven until the pork
is crisp and of light brown color; the
oysters will then be sufficiently we'll
done. Remove to a hot dish and serve
at once Pass sliced lemon with oysters
cooked in this way. Bacon instead of
pork may be used.
Coddled oySterS-Turn one quart of
oysters into wire sieve and stand over
saucepan to drain. Pour slowly over
the oysters If needed, about one cup Of
cold water Clean oysters free from bits
of shell. To the liquor in the saucepan,
which should be about one pint, add
OIIG-Ildll lCdoDOOll otlt, WlllIc pcppCI, VI
paprika to taste, two 10 three cloves,
blade of mace, piece of bay leaf; cover
and let simmer few minutes while pre-
pairing the toast. Toast six slices of
bread to a delicate brown. Butter both
sides. Lay slice on each of six small
dishes. On each slice of toast lay six
or eight oysters Strain the oyster
liquid add one tablespoon of butter and,
when melted, put five or six tablespoons
of liquor on each slice of toast. Put
into hot over or under moderate flame
of gas range and let bake five or six
minutes. Serve aC once.
Deviled oysters-Drain the oysters,
butter individual dishes, lay in each
three or four oysters, dust with salt,
pepper and paprika, sprinkle with lemon
juice and dot with bits of butter. Bake
in hot oven until the gills begin to rutfie.
Fried oySters-One pint large oysters,
three eggs we'll beaten, to which add
salt and pepper to taste, about one-half
pound crackers rolled very fine tabout
like sugar.. Wash oysters and lay on
towel and pat out till moisture has
disappeared, then dip in cracker crumbs,
then in egg, then in cracker crumbs
! again. If you have a wire basket place
ir a few at time and din down in
hot lard. Or else fry theme9 y heap
Evening star., 1928-12-30
Family Fight-In Two Acts

They crashed to their places at the
table and settled themselves noisily.
Where's MON and dad? Dinners
ready! Come on!'
Presently their parents came in
quarreling! you deserved all you got,
Emma" their father was saying loudly
If you said that to me I'd knock your
block Off"
He was perfectly serious.
''You!" came back his wife scornfully
as she jerked her chair out and banged
herself down at the table "Humpll!
Don't you dare talk to me like that
I'm lady. What's more, you can't
talk that way before these children"
She was perfectly serious, too, and re-
suming her remarks she mentioned
something not complimentary to his
veracity or his honesty.
The children sat petrified.
The wrangle continued, to no par
ncular end. 1t seemed to be a draw
BY this time they had had time to
perceive that their mothers hair was
frowSy and there was smudge across
her chin; she had on an old spotted
dress she had painted in last Summer.
Dads hair was standing up, his col
lar was very much soiled and his hands,
when he unfolded his napkin, left large
black marks. He took out discourag-
ing wad of handkerchief and blew his
nose noisily.
Mother took out chunk of chewing
gum in full sight of the thunder-struck
!, audience and stuck it under her chair.
Both mother and father scraped their
plates between TRADES and gulped theil
food noisily
Janet began to cry.
Jimmy and Thomas looked red and
very guilty.
Please, mother d-don't," sobbed
| Janet. We're sorry"
| Her mother looked aStonished.
"Sorry?"
Eyes. You're only doing it for us
| / know!"
And you think we should stop be-
cause you ask us? No, we're going Oil
and on until you ask us every day fol-
about five years and maybe after that
too. Talking won't do us any good. We
like being dirty and rude and not hav-
| ing any manners. The more you speal
about it the worse we're going to be
aren't we, Dad?"
Tom jumped up, so did Jimmy. "We'rf
awfully sorry. Honest! You--you looR
oh, nom, you look just-horrible!"
Suddenly the whole family laughed
| The little act was over. But its lessor
remained.
Occasionally parents have to be 9
bit clever in handling children. If this
appears to be a rather dramatic gesture
well, know one case where 1t actually
worked out
Evening star., 1928-12-30

The old-time idea of pouring per
fumery" out of a bottle on the clothes
or kerchief is out of style, thank
Heaven. Today Milady uses just a
delicate touch of one of the delightful
light flower odors-if ones mood calls
for the evanescent-or. If something
more seductive is needed to. complete
the charm of gown and mood, there
is an infinite variety of bouquet or
blended fragrances that are guaranteed
to sway the senses or steal them al
together
AS though the insidious scents
themselves were not enough to turn
ones head, the perfumers have called
to their service artists in design to
make the container as fascinating as
the fragrance itself and names lovely
in English, but much more so in the
soft cadences of the romance languages.
Many women like the idea of using
one distinctive perfume and making
1t part of their individuality.
This plan has merit, and soap. bath
salts, body powder, sachet and cold
cream of the same odor-used to the
exclusion Of all otheks-soon becomes
Evening star., 1928-12-30
There Is Code of
Motoring Manners

The place of honor when motoring
is the seat next the driver-that is.
of course, unless chauffeur is driving
If Mr.. and Mrs. Brown ask Mr..
and Mrs. Jones to go motoring with
them the complimentary thing to do
is to ask Mrs. Jones to sit beside
Mr.. Brownsville Mrs. Brown and
Mr.. Jones sit in the back seat. How
ever, it may be perfectly apparent
that a better time will be had By
ALL If the two women can sit ant.
talk together with the two supposctiss
less talkatiye members of the party
in front.
1t would not, however, be at all
considerate for Mr. and Mrs. Brown
to sit together in the front--save in
the course of very long trip, merely
for the sake of variety.
When there is an older woman in
the party it is always courteous to
offer her the place beside the driver,
because this seat is often more COM
Portable. If chauffeur is driving a
guest should not be asked to take this
seat, save possibly q younger man
guest.
Evening star., 1928-12-30
Your Mood and Perfume

associated with the users personality
Other women however, favor another
plan They prefer fragrances that serve
to emphasize the mood of the moment,
whatever that may happen to be.
Flower odors are for the afternoon.
The lilacs. heliotrope and violet per-
fumes are light and delicate. Select
them If you wish to convey the thought
of sweetness and loveliness,, or the
stimulating carnation if you feel es-
pecially energetic. These are good for
parties, teas or club affairs where the
guests are feminine.
But for evening. when languor, or
love, crave expression, the heavier and
sense-enthralling perfumes so wonder
fully blended in France, Austria and
the Orient are lie dernier cri.
A final word--the forceful. vivacious
woman should never select one of the
sweetly delicate perfumes. They do
not go with her personality Let her
choose vivid, stimulating odor which
emphasizes her glowing type. and leave
for her more dainty and clinging SIS
ters the perfumes that belong to their
less vivid personalities.
Evening star., 1928-12-30
BY OLIVER ROBERTS BARTON.

Jimmy! Where on earth did you get
that black handkerchief"
Jimmy stuffed it into his pocket and
reached hastily for another piece of
bread.
''Why-oh, MON, don't know why
my handkehchiefs get so dirty. I can't
help it. They just do
Il know, mother" piped up Janet
II saw him wiping Carlos foot when it
got hurt"
Jimmy! Go and get a clean hand
kerchief at once. Throw that dirty one
in the hamper before it touches another
thing"
And wash your hands before you
come back to the table, young man." his
father called after him. They're filthy"
Tattle tale!" Jimmy shouted back
at his sister
"Tattle tale? You should talk" it
was Toms turn to mock who told on
me this morning when borrowed one
OF Dads ties?"
"Thomas!"
well, don't care. Oh,~look at Janet
wiping up her gravy with her bread
just like you told us not to. And I'll say
her hands aren't lilies, either"
oh, shut up. You make me sick" :"
snapped Janet. "I'll bet I'm cleaner
than you. You've sneaked out of TAX
Ing bath every morning for two weeks
You splash some water on the tub and
then take towel and
Children! Children! Janet! Thomas
oh, where do you learn such language?
rio laa. fl
ners? Il can't understand it. I've tried
so hard to make you little lady, Janet.
And certainly with such a father.
Thomas, you and Jimmy should be
gentlemen. You haven't any decent
instincts at all, any of YOU
Something would have to be done, it
was plain.
The parents of Thomas, Janet and
James were truly distressed and with
reason. One might have suspected that
the three offSprings of the family had
been reared in camp of outlaw Gypsies
instead OF modern cultured twentieth
century home, where manners, baths
and clean linen were part of everyday
living.
Indeed It was we'll known fact that
they had dessert only every other day So
there might be fresh flowers for the
dinner table
Talking. it was evident, did no good
For the present. at least, home influence
seemed to be losing out against street
parlance and the too-evident object les
sons of school democracy. After dinner
their parents held conference.
The next evening at $50 when Sadie
called them to dinner. Tommy slid the
length of the hall. Jimmy shot down
h the bannister, and Janet banged in from
the kitchen. like three lion traj.Npys
Evening star., 1928-12-30
Period Card Tables Are Popular
BY BETSY CALLISTER.

</YF we do play" said Thackeray,
- 'let us play with clean cards"
That quotation sticks in the
i memory, because clean cards are
such an important part of any
card game.
| Nowadays, because cards are not, ex-
penSive and because they are so very
attractive, we usually do play with
clean cards. So the pack of cards Is
usually the newest thing at any party
But the newest thing in the realm
of cards is the period card table.
! Modernistic and Jacobean, Sheraton
and Spanish, all the popular periods
are represented.
Sometimes it is only the turn OF
the legs that gives the period sug-
gestion, but in the case of the modern
iStic tables the decoration Of the top
likewise dates them.
We can't all of us have these new
tables, but we can sometimes play
on them at other peoples houses. And
we can at least do much to improve
the looks of our old card tables.
To begin with, coat of lacquer or
enamel paint is in order to cover up
the mars and scratches on our old card
tables. Then new cover of some sort.
You can buy material by the yard
for covering card-table tops that can
be neatly glued and tackled on to give
a new surface to the top. This ma
terial is something like oilcloth. At
least it can be washed off with a
damp cloth.
Many women always prefer to use a
removable cover over the table top when
they are playing cards, however, and
these can be made from many ma
terials. Black satin and sateen are still
used, decorated sometimes with en-
broidery or gold braid and tassels at the
corners, weighted, to keep the cover
smoothly in place.
And there are silk -and-cotton ma
terials specially adapted to this sort of
cover. They are smooth and allow the
cards to slip about very satisfactorily
Plain unbleached muslin, too, makes q
Evening star., 1928-12-30

~ ONSTDERING clothes that We
now are wearing, and clothes
that we have worn within the
~ past few years-what can we
say concerning the clothes that
We shall wear in the future?
Which way is the wind of fashion
really blowing? Who can say which
gusts and breezeS and which are part
of a steady wind blowing definitely to-
ward really new era in clothes?
The more one studies the Zigzag
course of fashion since the war, the
more difficult any sort of prophecy be-
comes. Any, of the predictions that
one would be inclined to make have
been made so often-and have usually
been made in vain. In other eras fash
ion seems to steer a direct course,
leading us from one extreme of fashion
10 another-from a slim silhouette to
the extremes of bouffancy, from skim
tight sleeves to sleeves that look like
inflated balloons. Then it seems as If
the destiny that shapes our ends also
had something to do with the shaping
of our silhouettes and the measuring of
our skirts. But no such plan is at first
apparent as one looks back over the
record of fashions for the past S or 10
years. Fashion has zigzagged, she has
Slde-Stepped, she has cavOrted, she has
slid back, she has very nearly staggered,
Gkidded and tacked-she has seemed to
DO anything but steer a straight course
Skirts became short during the war
era, then they were heightened, then
shortened and heightened again-and
now after few years, when they have
beaten all their own previous records
for shortness, they have become long
again. Who shall say whether this
present lengthening is just one more
bend of the zigzag or real curve in
the chart of fashion?
As skirt lengths have shifted, SO have
waistlines The return of the normal
belt line has been predicted so often
that the present announcement that low
waistlines are done for hardly seems
convincing.
1t would be quite bewildering to try
to count the number of times that word
has gone round that short hair was
really going out of fashion, or the num-
ber of times that dressmakers have
tried to launch a revival of the more
closely nodded bodice
In looking at fashions as they were