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partnership. home affection. Since
you feel happy anda natural when
you are with your friend, and
know he is a man of good charac-
ter, I do not think you need
worry about your marriage. dear.
provided his kisses and caresses
are also sweet to you. Since
you both have stability Of char
acter, you will each do your part
to make your marriage success.
Problems will arise-there may
be moments of doubt and pessi.
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ural to feel this way? I hate this
awful doubting--it makes me so
unhappy. Sometimes / think I
don't even love him.
There are lots of young men /
could go with. But / never really
wanted to go with anyone steadily
before. In fact, Jim and never
discussed giving up our friends.
We just naturally kept on going
together and gave up others.
Sometimes I miss the other
young men / know something
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waltzes, and have the child clap
on certain beats, or chime in with
a drum beat on certain measures.
This method as a musical begin
ming has been most interestingly
worked out by DR.. Frank Dam
rosch in his work with Elizabeth
Fontaine Harris, in organizing q
TOY Orchestra" as it is called
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pleasing sounds he may return
to the piano.
If you play the piano, you can
make the understanding of time
and rhythm easy for your young.
ster, by playing simple selections
in which the beat is very pro-
nounced, such as the Old-fashioned
The Washington times., 1928-07-11

DEAR MRS. BEEGKHAN:
I have sent flowers to q girl
friend Of mine who Is Ia the hos
pitaI. With the flowers I sent b
small conyaIescent card. Was
this correct? IA READER.
This kind Of card cannot be
at All enthusiastic about. Such
q card Is q lazy mans card.
The message that we send on
such an occasion should be writ
ten by us. not the message that
is canned" as the one already
would be. one written by someone
else. We should write our meg
sage that we send to q friend )
who Is Commissioning just as we.
would the message that we send
to friend who has Just lost q
dear one, or the letter 70 thanks
that we send for gift or for
some other attention Of courtesy.
1t Is extremely bad taste TO send
printed or engraved cards TO carry
the message that should be writ
ten.
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cord into the home Of your father
and mother?
If you are old enough to under
take the work and responsible
OF home-maI1ing, and If you are
sure most Of the time that you
love your fiance and also like him
as a pal and comrade, feel
sure that you and he, win realize
the best, because the most unset
fish joy OF which you are capable.
through the affection and service
Of marriage. All happiness to
Won botlt
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in 2, fascinating account in cur.
rent magazine. The children in
this infant orchestra are given
time instruments such as tri-
angles, tambourines, cymbals and
drums. and learn to hit them on
the proper beat. This seems to
me to be a perfect plan for In
stilling a sense of time, and a
The Washington times., 1928-07-11

Therefore, the sunburn bathing suits, cut
almost to the waist in back and not much
higher in front. First to the left you can
see an example in light blue bound in navy.
Next is tWo-piece knit suit with polka
dotted top and plain trunks, worn with a
short flannel jacket. The coolie coat and
hat cover two-piece silk bathing suit.
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which moment he should be re-
moved without further ado. Give
him in this instance drum,
and tell him that IL it is loud
noise he desires, the drum is
the far better instrument of the
two. but that when he really
wants to make beautiful, soft,
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dreadful. I don't know what is
wrong. Do you? Maybe need
good shaking. Anyway, I will
just love it If you will give me a
little OF your time and tell me
what is what. / love you and
your column, too"
Dear Blue Eyes. you make me
very happy when you tell me you
love me and my column. only
hope that in return / may really
help you with your problem.
Do not be discouraged by the
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walk Ike goddesses. And they
can do this If they will but take
the trouble to learn how.
Walk with your back and neck
straight, your chest erect, with
the smooth. swinging step which
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ONCE UPON A TIME, my children, one
used to show the line Of the top of ones
bathing suit when wearing an evening
gown at the end of the summer. It
wasn't pretty and something has now
been done about it. The bathing suits are
lower. Sunburn is exceedingly modish
and the aim of every truly fashionable
female is to get as much of it as possible.
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MORE is new material for bathing suits
this season didn't they used to call it
watered silk, anyway?) and the suit in
the background has MORE shorts joined to
a silk jersey top. This suit, too, shows
the popularity of sunburn. The parti-
colored suit with the pleated skirt is made
of two colors of jersey-red and white for
choice
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Hikinq Is q WOnderfuIAid to Beauty

results when the leg advances
from the upper socket. not from
the knee alone, and the press
of the body carries 1t onward with
easy. free grace and spirited
charm.
The Washington times., 1928-07-11

woodleaf, n. CT was nervous
and suffered most of the time and
sometimes | would have to go to
red. My sister told me she was In
tha same condition and how Lydia
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Queer DOings

M. Pomiankowski, a Polish en-
gineer. after five years Of study
has developed nine new alloys
which may be used in any kind OF
metallurgical production and may
bs pressed, rolled or drawn.
Bicycles are becoming increas-
ingly popular with both natives
and Europeans In French Morocco.
The Washington times., 1928-07-11
This Day IL Our History

The British government protested TO the United Stat
ment Of State on July IL 1912 against the provision
for American ships in the pending Panama Canal bill
The Washington times., 1928-07-11
Household Hints.

For Frightening and cleaning
carpet use potato water. Scrapa
finely two or three potatoes In .
quart of warm water and let them
and use the water to rub over the
carpet.
To prevent sausages from burst
ing, dip them IN boiling water be-
fore frying.
The Washington times., 1928-07-11

ADvEsrIsEMERr
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-25
DOROTHY DIX'S LETTER BOX
Straight Talk to Woman Who Wants to Monopolize
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WHY WE DO WHAT WE Do
BY MEHRAN X. THOMSON

We often laugh when we feel more
like crying. The outward laugh not
infrequently stiles an inward groan.
We do this to keep up our courage.
Quite unconsciously we feel that we
cannot afford to give in to our emo
tons. BY pretending that we do not
feel bad we put ourselves in better
frame of mind to withstand shock and
disappointment.
Laughing when the joke is on our
selves is form of sour grapes psychol-
ogy, in which We try to convince our
selves that we are not so badly off,
after all. 1t is an effort to make the
best Of bad situation.
We put up a bold front not merely
for ourselves but also for our friends.
We don't want others to feel bad on
our account, and hence we pretend that
we are not hurt, and smile to prove
that all Is we'll when all the while our
heart is breaking.
To smile when we should cry Is a
brave thing to do. We all admire grit
and courage in ourselves as we'll as in
others.
Another motive for laughing at our
misfortune is to hide our feeling from
our enemy. We hate to give him the
satisfaction of knowing that he is hurt
ing us. 1t is hard to take licking,
but it is much harder to admit being
licked.
The slang phrase, Laugh that one
off," shows it is the expected thing to
do when one is up against it. 1t also
intimates that there are some blows
that are mighty hard to laugh at.
We laugh when We should cry because
we want to be strong, to hide our fear
and injury from friend and foe and
to bolster up our morale.
The human desire for entertainment
is strong one. 1t is evidenced by the
enormous number of people who flock
to the movies and other places OF
amusement. Rare and unnatural In
deed is the person who doesn't seek
some form of entertainment at fairly
regular intervals.
The obvious motives for this uni.
versal human desire are diversion
recreation, change, etc. However. there
are at least two other important mo-
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tives for wanting to be entertained
which are not so obvious.
One of these Is that in being enter
tanned we are relieved of the necessity
of thinking for ourselves. We place
the responsibility in the hands of
others and sit back to be worked upon.
1t Is real diversion, because 1t saves
us wear and tear.
The people, therefore. who have the
least energy and mental resources are
the ones who seek entertainment most.
Left alone, they are lost for want of
knowledge and thoughts and ideas with
which to occupy their minds. 1t is
much easier to let some one else do
your thinking. It takes energy and wit
to entertain ones self as well as to
entertain others.
The easiest way to entertain guests
is to hire professional entertainers or
to take your guests to the theater,
where the professional entertainers are
to be found This is proper at times.
but is not the highest type of hospi-
tally. The true host and hostess are
people of imagination and mental re-
sources sufficient to furnish the guests
with homemade entertainment.
Another important reason why We
like to be entertained Is that 1t appeals
to our pride and self-esteem to sit back
and secure some talented person to do
his best to please us. We applaud to
show our good Judgment. and the artist
bows in humble acknowledgment Of our
valued patronage and sound critical
ability.
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The Great Bards

The poets of the olden days tuned
up their harps and chanted lays Of
tabled beings, god and myth-and not
of Jones and Brown and Smith. I have a
cheap and common mind, and small
amusement do I find in reading tales Of
warlike ghosts that scrapped with other
phantom hosts. When was young my
teachers wrought to so improve my
dome of thought that I could see the
beauties high that in those masterpieces
lie. But I would rather read of Brown,
who circulates around the town. and
struggles, in a human way, to pay his
debts and bale some hay, then read
yarn of Hercules, whose labors badly
Sprained his knees. He never lived, and
so his toll conflicts with all the rules of
Hoyle the hero of poets dream, he
never peddled milk and cream, or nailed
the hinges on a gate, or put some
squashes in a crate. But Brown. he has
his little shack and quite garden at
the back: he trotS around on tireless
legs he raises hens and sells the eggs:
he pays his taxes on the dot, and is an
asset large. wot; and what he does
means vastly more than tabled deeds on
tabled shore. I wish that Homer had
SeG QOWIl LtIc III LOWu,
the daily life of gents and danes, and
how they played their humbled games:
the schemes the merchant princes
sprung to get the trade of old and
young; the wiles of ancient candidates
when rounding up the village skates;
the arguments, the noise and sweat,
what time the city council met. He
could have written of such themes, but
he must write his lurid dreams, tell
mighty tales in trumpet tones, and so
he passed up Brown and Jones. And
what such common critters do, as their
small errands they pursue, means more
to me than any wheeze concerning
ghosts like Hercules.
WALT MASON.
(Copyright.; 1922
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AUTUMN
BY d. C. PEATTIE.

To those who love butterflies, the first
days of Autumn are the last days of
delight. The ornithologist is practically
as busy and as interesting in Autumn
and Winter as in Spring and Summer,
To the really enthusiastic botanist, too,
the world does not 60 quite dead at
any time of year. But Indian Summer
will see the last of the bright dancers
in the sunlight. and I, for one, watch
them fitting about in the orchard
grass, where the waSps drone drunkenly
amid the rotting fruit, with a touch Of
melancholy.
In the everyday world it is considered
bit disgraceful- to be an entomologist-
a student of insects. One of the great
est entomologiStS we ever had was
named Smith, and to his neighbors in
New Jersey he was merely Bugs
Smith," though in London or Paris he
vas the eminent DR.. Smith, to be greet
ed respectfully. And so, within the cir
Giles of entomology, to be lover Of
butterflies, a lepidopterist, is also bit
disgfaceful. The other entomologists
will say-"Oh, one of those fellows"
Meaning that he Is gusher and a
crank, not serious-minded scientist.
Without myself being an entomolo-
gist. or lepidopterist for that matter,
I will confess myself a (quite ignorant)
lover of butterflies. 1t is no more than
natural that they should be every
body's favorite insectsAso devoid of the
monstrous instincts of other insects are
they. so enchanting, gay and evanescent
They are Autumn's ballet in its fare
we'll performance
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wonders of the world. This probably
will be somewhere in the West.
Again banks and banking come under
the rule, or rather stay under the rule,
that encourages development and ex-
pansion. Many new branches of busi-
ness or public service are indicated.
Education is well directed under this
confguration, which makes for renewed
earnestneses in pursuing knowledge.
Students will be more industrious than
formerly, it is prophesied.
Tomorrow Is held to be rarely lucky
wedding day, and they who marry under
these stars may expect marvellous pros
perity. It is also favorable sway for
those who plight their troths. Suitors
may expect favorable answer If they
risk their fates tomorrow.
Persons whose birth date Is tOmor-
row have an augury Of much happi-
ness in the coming year through rela-
tives and friends. These subjects of
Libra should do all possible to improve
the practical side of their characters.
Children born tomorrow probably will
be artistic in all their traits. The SUBJ
iects of this sign are often musicians
or painters. They are extremists, for
the scales are likely to tip definitely
either toward the material or the
spiritual side of life.
(Copyrisht, 1927
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KEEPING MENTALLY FIT
BY JOSEPH JASTROW.

Quilted of the charge of reducing your
mental powers. But she does make
your hand tremble; so does Lady
Caffeine, though coffee is at first a
stimulant.
The attempt has been made to show
that boys who smoke have poorer
grades. The two moderately 60 to.
gether, but it may be that boys inclined
to smoking and all that goes with 1t
may be slightly less able mentally than
those not SO attracted.
Much has been said in word and song
in praise Of tobacco. Hymns to Lady
woman. but good cigar is a smoke "
The pipe is a soothing comforter; the
| smoke incites charming castles, a pipe
dream. Much creative work has been
! done by those who use tobacco and
| by those who don't. Naturally, If you
are accustomed to tobacco, as you are
to your desk and your usual surround
ings, smoking enters into the total
picture of your most favorable mental
adjustment.
Men smoke for sociability as well as
relaxation. The after-dinner cigar is
the elimination of a good meal and
agreeable company; 1t goes with coffee
also a drug. Psychologically. the gentle
CUiIl1OTt, The puTr OF content, may be
that of relaxation and reflection rather
than the direct action of nicotine
There is no doubt that it creates a habit
and its absence makes a restless void
Some are readily prevented from smok-
ing too much, for their immunity from
the digestive upset of tobacco doesn't
go very far. Some are made uncom.
Portable by heavy cigar and MANY
cigarette smokers cannot smoke cigars
The cigarette habit comes nearer tc
a restless craving for a momentary
kick" and its American popularity ha:
grown enormously. The boy declares
his manhood by the ceremony of smok.
ing; but the virility of the emancipa
ton is now little dimmed, though the
companionship is increased, by the still
more amazing growth of smoking b,
women, limited to the cigarette more
delicate and esthetic object.
Men still in sense smoke the pine
of peace, an art which they learned
from the only authentic Americans, the
Indians; women puff the cigarette Of
agitation. They are relieving a differ.
ent type of tension. Indulgences follow
the psychology of sex, and men arr
more given to indulgence and crav,
the relief of letting themselves 20
There is legitimate psychology O
indulgence. Modern life is full of ten
sions and Lady Nicotine is looked t.
Tor relle1. ~
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In some quarters you won't find
much indulgence for the psychology
of indulgences Smoking and drink.
ing are physical indulgences. They
produce agreeable mental states by way
of a drug habit. Some regard all in
elulgences severely as viceS-Sonle worse
than others-but all bad. Mental vices,
like betting and gambling, are consid-
cred more serious as temptations to
pernicious ways of making money. But
so many persons indulge in this type
of sport that on this, also, opinions,
and certainly practices, differ. OF all
the habits looked upon most indul-
gently is moderate snoking-a libation
to Lady Nicotine.
Strictly speaking. smoking does no.
body any good; and write these words
between puffs of a cigar. But since
men generally cannot be held to do
everything solely for their health's sake,
1t seems reasonable to leave a place
In our scheme of living for the mildest
indulgences, yet take account of what
we get and what we pay for them
Certainly the economic bill of support
ing Lady Nicotine in huge one; but
the bill of Lady Saccharine for candy
and sweets and ice cream and sodas
is bigger still. Cost aside. and dis
regarding whether the price paid is
worth it. there is an interesting psy-
chology in the practice that goes up
In smoke.
First as to mental efficiency. There
has been considerable pressure placed
upon scientific investigation to show
up the harm of the baneful Lady
Nicotine. Of popular denunciation
from a moralist point of view there
was an abundance, but this is hardly
convincing Medical evidence was con-
elusive that smoking is harmful to
those not physically mature: and it
was also clear that excessive smok-
ing was especially harmful to those
with weak hearts.
Nicotine Is depressant, not a stimu-
liant: it quiets, docs not excite. But
so much depends upon the dose and
the manner of taking it and the in
dividual susceptibility that it takes
accurate studies to show any effect
This means that its effect on the
mental processes is very slight, so slight
that suggestion comes into play.
It your mental powers are tested be-
fore and after smoking. the very fact
that you know you have smoked may
change your effort enough to influence
the results. So Prof. Hull had the
ingenious idea of blindfolding his SUBJ
1ects and sometimes give them real
tobacco to smoke in a pipe; and some
times the subject had an electrically
heated pipe in his mouth while an as
sistant did the smoking and blew the
smoke in the direction of the subject
face. The subject knew nothing of the
trick and had the impression that he
was always smoking.
OF the five mental tests which he
used. it appeared that in crossing of
designated letters there was no differ.
ence; in speed of reading a slight in
crease under nicotine slight loss in
memory span, no effect on the accu-
racy OF adding and slight loss in
memorizing. The only marked effect
was an increase in the speed of adding
On the whole, Lady Nicotine is &C.
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could be included in the household.
To the hall 1t lends the dignity of the
eighteenth century, and in combination
with mirror above 1t and vase or sill
yer candelabra on 1t, creates a most at
tractive setting.
In the living room this table would be
effective If placed between two windows.
with long narrow clock above 1t. The
decorations for the top may consist of
pair of candlesticks or candelabra and
low flower bowl.
Another use for this table In the liv-
ing room is for cards. When desired for
this purpose, the leaf may be let down
fiat and the entire top shifted to posi-
ton at right angles to the base. The
base supports the leaves, and by lifting
these 1t will be found that there Is suffi-
Gent space beneath them for the keep
ing of cards and other game supplies.
These tables may be used singly or
In pairs in the dining room, mirrors or
floral pictures in soft tones being COM
bined with them.
tCopyright, 1927
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Fashions in Night Clothes
BY MARY MARSHALL.
en- ly as cold as a sleeping porch, ever

, " as cold as a sleeping porch, ever
| IL It wasn't so we'll ventilated.
! Fashions in night clothes change as
much, though not quite SO frequently
as fashions in day clothes. High necks
come into favor and go out again
| Sleeveless nightgowns are the fashion
only to give way to long-slceved pa
| jamas.
AT present the idea seems to be
that If you intend to sleep on a Sleep
ing porch, then do the thing in q
thoroughgoing manner and wear the
garment that looks as If 1t were part
Of an Arctic explorers trousseau. II
you are going to pamper yourself and
sleep indoors-though, Of course. with
windows left open-then wear dainty
nightgown and try to arrange to have
the windows closed and the heat turned
on by the time you need to rise from
your we'll blanketed nest. Halfway
measures in the way of long-sleeved
outing flannel nightgowns make little
appeal to the girl who wants to be
Up to date.
In the meantime the trend toward
what the fashion writer's call increased
femininity brings a revival of the use
of much lace, ribbons and fine en-
broidery in many of the new night
gowns. The sketch shows one OF the
new two piece models made with a sep
arate skirt.
All you need to make the smart new
trimming for your sweater is a crochet
hook and some wooden yarn to match
the sweater or in desired contrast.
These new ornaments are attached to
the sweater at the shoulder, and II you
want to know how to make them. please
send me your stamped, self-addresseo
envelope and I will send this informa-
ton to you with sketch OF the mn
ished "bououet" as worn on the sweater.
Downright. 1921
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NY Neighbor Says:

Frosting will more easily adj
here to cake if a little flour is
busted over the top of the cake
before the frosting is put on.
Grease stains on leather may
be removed by applying benzine
or pure turpentine. Wash the
spots afterward with the well
beaten white of an egg or good
leather reviver.
When basting turkey, chicken
or roast do not swing the oven
door wide open while you haste.
Open the door only part way,
cover your hand with towel,
slip the hand in. haste the Toast
quickly and shut the door to
keep the heat and steam in.
When cake has been slowed
away in the larder for some time
and becomes dry and hard. try
the following plan: Soak it for a
minute in cold milk and rebake
it in rather cool oven. It will
taste almost like new again.
Stale bread may be treated in the
same way.