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When the Alimony Is Late

A grass widows never green but now and then you run across one who is blue.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-12-24

another widow is likely to succeed her bus ,.'a' oanu III congress this one from Arkansas It's quite fad-(Cincinnati Enquirer)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-12-24

It's the Up that Spells the Down Alackl Down payments get
 To be a bitter cup" When those that follow they
 Demand you keep paid up!
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Hamlet Not So Good Without The
 Dane

There ought to be some prov :s- ion in the Volstead law that would permit it to be legally broken at this time "a year just long enough to allow mince meat to be made properly.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-12-24

National Apple Week has come and gone AS TOT Appiesauce Week, that goes on forever. -tDetrot Free Press
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-12-24

Maybe She Would Sit It Out Cline from a Cold Cure Ad) Wont dance with a sneezer."
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-12-24
Musinos of a Married Man

No husband can fill the bill if he can't make enough to pay 'em
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-12-24
Matrimonial

A neglected fire goes out So does
 A neglected husband.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-23
Happy Dreams

Hosts of girls are fondly dreaming of
the time when they will land, with kind
fortune on them beaning, as big hits In
movie land Sarah Jinks, our tall do
nestle, has her visions, fair and good,
of future most majestic, in the films
at Hollywood. Susan Grips, who's
selling carriers in the Blue Front store
all day. will be seen with early starters
for film town far away. Julia DobbS,
who earns her living washing up the
chophouse pans, dreams of when she
will be giving raptures to the movie
FANS There are takers advertising
that they'll teach the dreaming maids
how to gain success surprising so they
hate their humble trades. They are
blowing all their wages for instructions
in the Art, and they'll elevate our stages
when they have the rules by heart.
Takers promise them by letter that
they'll all be movie queens; they were
born for something better than to dish
up pork and beans. They are all
sublimely gifted, by the takers they are
told; to the heights they will be lifted
when they've spent what coin they
hold. They will rise as though by
magic, all the dreaming dainsels think:
but the outcome will be tragic. and
their dreams be on the blink Where
a thousand go careering to the gates
of Hollywood, only one will get hear
ing, only one is half way good. There
should be some way of wedding from
the land the vicious snare of the takers
who are leading dreaming damsels to
despair. WALT MASON.
(Copyricht. 1921
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-23
Trait Which Should Be Corrected
BY LYDIA LIE BARON WALKER.

OF view is that of the parents, and not
the child. And it must be admitted
that 1t is the parents themselves who
get the happiness from such solicitouS
thoughtfulness. To the child 1t is OPP
pressive.
Parents and students of children find
1t easy to recognize the only child
type" SelfShness is so seldom left out
of the child's makeup, that 1t may be
said 10 be a dominant characteristic.
One mother of an only" daughter ex-
pressed to me the great difficulty she
has in making her little one generous.
She was SO accustomed to having all
the playthings. and to managing them
according to her will, that, when play
mates came to see her, she scarcely let
these other children use her things. 1t
was continually You mustn't do that,
it's my doll" or other toy. She
naturally selected the incest cooky,
taking it first, too. since, when alone,
this was her right. However, the
mothers attitude and ideas brought the
sort of reacation desirable, and even
tually the daughter developed into
fine, wholesome and generous indi-
vidual
only" children resent being con-
Stantly looked after They long to think
their own thoughts, and act as they
wish. Too much attention may result
in d child throwing off parental guild
ance completely when he reaches man
hood. The sudden change from all
care to none is q sorrow to parents,
who are apt to feel that they are
neglected. as indeed they may be. But
who is to blame, the parents who seek
70 force the child by kindness into the
mold Of mind they like, or the child
who ms SITS on being something other
than the echo of father or of mother?
(Copyright. 1927
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-23

Armenians usually kabob squares of
mutton. however"
In preparing the dish Nancy chose
as many metal skewers as she had
guests. She chose large plump oysters
and picked them over to remove bits
of she'll She bought bacon and cut
it into small pieces about the size of
an oyster. She ran square of bacon
on the skewer, followed this with an
oyster and repeated the performance
until she had six oysters and six pieces
of bacon on each skewer. She laid
them on a rack in the oven under the
broiler flame They stayed there for
minutes. Each skewer with its bur-
den was then laid on a finger of toast.
Liquid, which had gathered in the bot
tom of the pan, was Spoonsd over the
servings, busting of paprika came
next. The dish was garnished with
slice of lemon.
oysters will do for the first course. But
what shall we have for salad2 Write to
Nancy Page. care Of this paper: incloslng
for her salad leafiet No. 2.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-23
OUR CHILDREN By Angelo patri

she makes the happier she seems to be.
That sort of thing is bullying just as
much as fighting people with the fists,
and to my notion, far worse sort.
When the young miss has temper
tantrum 1t will help immensely if she is
hustled off to the bathroom and there
treated to thorough good dousing with
cold water. There Is nothing as efficient
as copiouS doses of cold water thrown
In the face, to cure tantrum. 1t quite
takes all the domineering quality out
of the affair.
1t is unwise to permit a child to do
any domineering in the home or the
school or the playground. 1t is bad
for the growth of the child and very
bad for the other people about him. 1t
is a form of selfishness SO crude that
it is plainly observable, easily met.
Hold your ground against it, calmly,
sure in your strength, and keep holding
1t until the child knows there is no use
in trying to demonstrate his ego any
further.
Look steadily ct the child who is try
ing to force any situation. Catch his
eye. Know within yourself that you
are not going to permit the child to
have his selfish, destructive way. Show
no anger and no excitement. Meet
temper and storms with cold water.
Meet angry words with silence. Let the
child know that you will stand in his
way until this thing passes. You have
no fear of him-or her. No exhibition
either within the house or without it,
will move you. You stand on what you
believe to be right and drive straight
ahead.
1t is surprising how soon bullying
child will discover that there are
stronger forces in the world than his,
and will yield.
(Copyright, 1927
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-23
Bullying.


Children about the age of 9 years
sometimes display tendency towarc
bullying. They discover that by TAX
ing on certain attitudes of body or mino
they can force other children and some
grown folk to obey their slightest
whim. Boys terrorize other little boys
girls keep other little girls, and some
times boys, in fear and trembling OF
their tongues and their tears. They
use either as the need arises.
This tendency is more marked In
some children than in others. There
are some who seem to be born bullies
but they are not usually normal, healthy
children. They are in need of the
services of the child expert. The usual
healthy youngster is in need of nothing
more than some good, common-sense
training, such as has been meted out to
bullies since time was.
When a small, sturdy lad struts about
bossing everybody, punching the sub
missive ones on the nose, showing little
girls of the walk and, when they protest
half tearfully staggering more thar
ever, nothing serves so we'll as a good
punch on the nose administered by an
other lad of his own class. 1t won't dc
for a grown-up to thrash a boy fol-
bullying another. That only adds fue
to the flame. bullying to bullying. Let
the other boy do the job and it viii
lastingly cure the bullying idea.
Girls are different. They bully other
children and grown-ups, too by taking
on moods. Cross one of them anc
Immediately there is trouble. The
offended one slumps into a cornor anc
sulks; or she throws herself on the
couch and weeps, loudly weeps; or sh:
says the nastiest things she can lay
her tongue to; the deeper the wounc
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-23
Heredity and Environment.

Born SO or made so? That is the
question, as puzzling as it is ancient,
and even more so since we know more
about how heredity operates. Inquiries
from readers bear constantly on some
of the many phases of this vital sub
ject. So let this be heredity week.
shall not attempt to make the dis
cussion strictly scientific, but shall
touch upon a few of the practical and
popular sides of the question, especially
how we should look upon those differ
enceS between Tom, Dick and Harry
and no less between Mary, Jane and
Harriet, which we observe so easily in
the young and old alike, between one
family and another, and within the
same family, and how we shall best
take account of those differences in
training our children and dealing with
our fellow beings.
Except in a few respects, 1t will be
possible to separate only roughly what
you are by nature-your special hered-
ity-and what by nature the total in
fluence of the special environment of
your bringing up. We shall do well to
get the general drift and bearing of the
element that dominates to make us
what we are in one respect and an
other.
1t is idle to hope that We can pre-
dict, if Tom InarrieS Mary, and Di-.;
Jane, and Harry Harriet, what kind of
children. tall or short, handsome or
plain, bright or dull, musical or me-
chanical, enterpriSing or lazy, bad
tempered or good-natured, frivolous or
serious, practical or dreamy, either
couple will have and where to look for
future leaders in human affairs. Yet
thu rNrncVnrfc nf frV- rniCfy1n
successes" or failures" are not quite
the same as those of another.
The hope of reducing heredity to
rules was revived when the Importance
of the experiment of an Austrian
monk, Gregor Mendel. in raising sweet
peas was recognized years after he was
forgotten. He mated variety of tall
peas with another variety of short peas,
and found that the result was not a
medium-sized plant, not a cross or
blend between the two, but some tall
plants and some short ones. The dwarf
peas produced only dwarfs, but the
tall plants were of two kinds-those
that bred tall descendants only and
those that carried along something in
the heredity that would give rise to
DART peas.
The tallness is dominant trait, so
that presently there will be three tall
members to one short member in each
generation. Tallness is unit of char
acter, which means that it is all there
or all absent, so that if the germ of the
pea plant had the right element it grew
tall, and if it lacked it, 1t was a dwarf
However. it is long step from sweet
peas to human beings.
The idea of applying this to human
hered1ty was fascinating and in some
few respects human beings behave like
sweetpeas. Eye color follows the
scheme. Blue eyes are like dwarf peas.
Two dwarf peas mated never produced
any tall peas. Two blue-eyed parents
never have any brown-eyed children
But two brown-eyed parents may have
blue-eyed child, because, though their
eyes are brown, they carry in their
heredity something that may in a flu
ture generation give rise to blue eyes
The tendency viii be toward a ratio of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-23
BRIDGE TALKS
BY MRS. JOHN MUNCE. JR.

This is the second of series of talks,
and as we covered the question of how
one selected a partner, we now come
to the shuttle.
The play is started by the player to
the left of the dealer, who shuftles the
pack selected by the dealer (the one
who drew the highest card). All play
ers have the right to shuttle, the dealer
having the right to shuttle last If he
chooses.
The next thing is the cut. After the
shuttle the dealer places the pack he is
about to deal before the opponent who
is sitting on his right. That player
lifts off the top portion and places 1t by
the bottom portion, toward the dealer.
Remember this Always cut toward the
dealer. The dealer then places the bot
tom portion on top of what had been
the top portion, and this constitutes the
cut. Four cards or more must be lett
in each portion. If fewer than four
cards are left, or If any card be faced
or displaced during the cut, there must
be new cut.
After the cut is completed the dealer
distributes the So cards, one at time,
face down, giving the first card to his
opponent on the left, second to dealers
partner, third to his right-hand OPP
ponent, last to himsNf, and so on un-
til the entire pack is dealt, the last card
going to the dealer If the cards be not
properly dealt to the four players, in
four distinct packets of 13 cards each,
or If during the deal any card be found
face up in the pack, and if the pack be
held below the table during any part of
the deal; if any card is exposed, no
matter how small, there should never
be any question as to what to do-al-
ways new deal-beginning with a
shuttle and cut, just as If the cards
had not been dealt previously.
While the deal is in progress the part
ner of the dealer shuffles the other pack
and no one else at the table is supposed
to touch this deck at this time. The
person shutting places the deck face
down on his right, which is on the left
of the adversary who is to deal next
where it is left undisturbed until the
next dealer picks it up to be cut.
After the deal has been completed
each player gathers up his cards. and a
very good way for a beginner to do is
to arrange the cards as follows: All OF
one suit together, and according to
their respective values. This makes ii
easier for you in bidding your hand.
After arranging the cards, the next
movement in the game is to bid for the
privilege of naming the trump or nc
trump. and of playing the dummy hand
(Which is the hand of the partner of
the person winning the bid. This bid
ding is called the auction, and the win
ming bid is called the contract and the
successful bidder is called the declarer.
Before describing the way in which the
auction is conducted it is important to
understand what is meant by bids, and
also the values of the different suits.
This will be discussed in the next talk.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-23

How can a well known figure in a
community put to commercial use the
social contacts she has formed? Many
women ask that question when a need
arises for them to make a little money
or to make living
Every friendship and acquaintance
ship one has made does not constitute
an actual cash value, but each one does
offer possibilities, and Of them one
should be able to realize at least 9
measure of profit.
Before going further we should ex-
plain that capitalizing social contacts
does not mean taking advantage OF
folks in the name of friendship or fell
lowship. 1t does not mean using friend
ship as blind to deceive ones friends
or blk them.
1t means just this: Ordinarily a
business woman forms business con-
facts during her business career. She
depends on them for her business. The
woman who has not been employed or
engaged in business has neither a
clientele nor patronage.
Naturally she looks for customers
among those who know her best and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-23
Your Baby and Mine
Reprimanding the Child.
BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED.

RVpAAA A0A0AA6 VAN NAAAANA'
Mrs. r. A. M. writes: IT read your
column daily and get so much enjoy
ment out of It. Now here is my problem.
My baby of % months has begun to
pick her nose. SO many people say it
is due to worms. / have whipped her,
and tried to reason with her, but she
does it again.
ALSO at night when she goes to bed
she will cry for two hours. Some times
it is 10 o'clock before she gets to sleep.
She sleeps for two hours every day.
Lately she is getting very "saucy"-I
have to be after her with a stick all the
time. Can't you tell me any other
remedy but the stick? She weighs 40
pounds. Is this good weight?
Answer-There is no quicker way of
arousing the antagonism of the child
and making the eradication of any habit
almost impossible, than constantly to
remind the child of 1t, or punish him
for its doing. / have no faith in the
! trfte diagnosis of worms. The childs
| nose may be dry, crusty and therefore
| itchy. Clean 1t carefully each day and
rub little vaseline or olive oil in it,
to prevent crusts forming. Then sim
| ply ignore her, or offer her handker-
chief when she puts her fingers In her
nose. Don't let her get the idea that
she annoys you, for from her history OF
| crying at night, there would seem to
be some effort, conscious or otherwise,
on the part of the child to put herself
forcibly in the limelight, in the day
time by nose picking, and at night by
crying. Her weight is unusually large
The stick, Of course, is absolutely
dreadful. Imagine running around with
a stick after q child, threatening her
with 1t, like Veritable ogre!
II the child is really terrified that she
may be hit, then you have started ur
fears that will asSail her at night and
cause her to cry. If you appear in the
door and add more threats to the days
over-large supply, then you can't enc
the crying at all. You must renew the
ch1ld's faith in your love and reason
ableness, which you have destroyed BY
your nagging and stick hitting.
II you read this column daily, you
know / advocate mo whipping"
hand or a stick is the same thing
Forcible methods of discipline, of feed.
ing, of anything, are futile. The battle
is won by the tactful. loving, ingenuou;
mother, who gives the child as many
liberties as she can and says mo" only
when absolutely necessary. Then, wher
she says mo-. she enforces her mega.
ton by prevention rather than punish.
ment. You are still the strongest anc
the child knows this. It is the whipping
parent who shows her weakness.
II you are sweet to the child she
won't be "saucy." That is Just ar
attempt to prove her mastery over you
Everything is wrong in your manage
ment. That needs to be changed, anc
the child will change, too.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-23

The first one Sammy Jay saw after
leaving Jimmy Skunk was Peter Rabbit.
You see, Sammy had flown directly over
to the dear Old Briar-patch. AS soon
as he saw Sammy, Peter knew that
Sammy had news.
What are you carrying on your mind
this time, Sammy Jay?" asked Peter.
How do you know I am carrying
anything on my mind at all?" snapped
Sammy Jay.
N.Y." said Peter. You can't fool me.
You've got some news. 1 can see it
in your eyes. What is it, Sammy"
What would you say" replied Sam
my. IF / should tell you that Jimmy
Skunk met with an accident?"
IT would say it is too bad" replied
Peter. II hope it isn't serious"
What would you say continued Sam
my, 'if 1 should say that that accident
is the result of an attack on Jimmy?''
II should say that somebody had been
very foolish" replied Peter promptly
who was it?"
THAT I don't know" replied Sammy,
"but Jimmy Skunk has a tear in his
coat and he is walking on three legs,
because one leg is lame. That tear in
his coat was made by a claw. Now,
who do you suppose would dare attack
Jimmy Skunk"
mo one with any sense at ALL" re-
piled Peter. "A silly dog who had never
seen him before and didn't know any
thing about him might do it. but /
cannot imagine any one who knows
anything about Jimmy Skunk trying
such thing"
Neither can l." said Sammy, land
I certainly would like to know who
it was
Sammy flew OFF to spread the news
through the Green Forest and the Old
Orchard. Peter sat for long time in
the dear Old Briar-patch, wondering
who it could be that had dared to
attack Jimmy Skunk. First he would
scratch one long ear with long hind
foot; then he would scratch the other
long ear with the other long hindfoot.
Peter seems to think it helps him to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-23
KEEPING MENTALLY FIT
BY JOSEPH JASTROW.

three children with brown eyes to one
with blue. Beyond this the subject
becomes far too complex for any simple
statement.
The main point is this-that while
some few traits, deeply rooted in the
structure of man (as of other animals),
are carried on after this unit-character
plan, most of the human traits in
which we have strong interest are not
certainly not in that simple fashion
You either have brown eyes or you
haven't and If you have brown you
can't have blue. But certainly intelli-
gence is not a unit character, so that
you either have it or lack it, There are
all sorts and degrees Of intelligence,
most of which we can't measure. For
those that We can we find a continu-
Gus series, with the great majority
massed heavily about the average.
Whatever the mechanism of heredity,
the result is that your traits and mine
are much alike, because we have so
much in common in our common hui
man and racial heredity and yet are
significantly and to our interests i'm
portantly different, since you are well
fitted to do some things at which I
would make a poor showing, and per-
haps you will be generous enough to
make similar concession in my case.
The goal we are making for is some
kind Of a platform, with its planks,
though based on scientific findings,
framed largely on the most likely
guess in a most complex situation,
something to guide us in voting for
heredity or for environment as the
major factor in interpreting what man.
ner of human being you and I are to
become.
1t is true that your traits and mine
have been carried on in our heredity,
but they are so many and so variable
and so much like similar traits carried
on in other peoples heredity that there
is no hope of tracing them in detail.
But through it all like breeds like,
though like may breed unlike also. MY
major interest is not to trace my mem
tai genealogy. but to reach a point
from which to gauge how far 1 must
accept myself as nature made me, how
far attempt to guide my powers. and.
more important, how to lock at the
same distinction in terms of all sorts
and conditions of man.
(Copyright. 1880
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-23
Straight Talks to Women About Money
By MARY ELIZABETH ALLEN.

most favorably, her friends and her
acquaintance.
In capitalizing ones social contacts a
woman should choose a profession,
trade or business in which she can
secure most business with people she
knows.
For example, a woman living out in
the suburbs might go In for real estate
She would be acquainted with real es-
tate values and properties in her COM
munity and be In a good position to
render real service to those who wished
new homes.
Women familiar with business men
! and women find it profitable to sell
things or services which their friends
use or buy. These may vary from stocks
and bonds to steamship accommoda-
tons.
No profession or business or trade
that is honest is too modest for the
woman with means to acquire. Many
women would be surprised by the posi-
bilities of occupations which they ig-
norantly scorn
Friends make good customers only if
they are given fair and busineSslike
treatment. This should never be for
gotten.