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Evening star., 1929-12-05
SUB ROSA
Button! Button!!

I have no idea what they are doing
in childrens parties to amuse the young
of this jazz age. but 7 don't believe
they are still playing the good old game
of Button, button, who's got the but
toni"
In that pastime Of the nursery the
game was to get the button as it was
passed around without letting the 9TH
ers in the ring know that you had 1t.
Then the great question was, Who has
the button?
Buttons are out Of style in the mod
ern girls wardrobe, for why should we
harness up in 3fock when we can
slip into it? The n1odernneSs If wom-
en- is shown in all sorts of ways, but
in nothing better than the new type
of toggery. This is significant for the
tons, for we can't be bothered.
But the button game, what of that?
It seems that nowadays it is played in
such way that a man goes the rounds
of his girl friends pretending to give
each one the button like the person
who was sit" in the @ldd sport. But
in this case the butoGn is the mans
heart.
No doubt you're in that old game in
its new form, and just as likely the
question in your mind is who gets the
button from the man who pretendS to
be giving it here, there and everywhere.
Only one girl can get it at best, and
what girl will that be?
Assuming that marriage is your goal
and you prefer a home to a studio and
comfort to career, how are you 10 get
that button when it is in play? Don't
expect me TO tell you about the wiles
of winning man or the best recipe
for vamping.
No, for that would be unworthy on
my part and unwiSe on yours, If gave
and you took such advice. At the same
time it Is safe and sane to tell girl
that men still admire modesty and are
most likely to drop the magic button
OF the heart into meek hands.
A man may enjoy the society of o
bold and talkative girl for a while, but
that isn't the same as desiring to sit
opposite her at table for a lifetime.
A giddy girl may make fine dance
partner, but when it comes to sitting
out the long dance of life the meeker
maid is more likely to be in demand.
Men are really domestic animals when
you come to know them, SO that it is
the girl with the instincts of home max
ing who will make the grand appeal.
She Is the one who is most likely to
get that all-desired button.
The bachelor button is certainly q
swell flower as it blooms out in the
fields alongside the buttercups and
daisies. The bachelor man waits a
long time before he makes up his mind,
but all the better.
He's pretty likely to stick around
once he's settled in the home. The
bachelor button will stay on if its sewed
tight enough.
(Copy-iKht, 1929
Evening star., 1929-12-05

Pop had q fearse head AXE before
suppir, laying back in his private chair
saying, Yee gods If anybody thinks this
Is any fun their welcome to it with my
1t back.
q, pop, what does 1t feel likep I sed.
Me never having had one, and pop sed,
It's not SO bad, considering. It's ony like
combination of 4 thousand riVetters
rtvetting, 2 thousand rail splitters split
ting rails and 900 clumsy children fall
ing upstairs, he sed.
Me thinking, G, IL must be fearse.
And Isthawt, Gosh, wonder Ii I could
cure It by hipmotizrn, wonder.
Wich started to try getting in back
OF pops chair and starting to wave my
hands over the top Of his he'd, saving
to myself, Flip fiop bibbitty bon. BENNY
the CRATE hopmotizer commands your
he'd axe to go away. respecting it over
agen 3 times and then saying to pop,
How does it feel now, pop, do you still
feel It any?
For Peet sake don't start to ask me
foolish questions nov of all times, pop
sed.
Proving It wasent cured vet, and I
started 10 give him another treatment,
waving my hands in back of him, say
ing 10 myself, Hay hay zippitty gay,
Benny the Crate says go away. And i
started to wave my hands SO strong one
OF them axsfdently sYnacked pop pritty
good of a smack on the top Of the he'd
where he is just he'd and no hair, pop
saying, Yee gods, that's the crowning
touch, that's all need OF fill my cup to
overflowing.
Wen @, pop, wait and III explain, I
sed.
Action comes before werds, pop sed.
Wich it did being a lot of cracks with
his slipper, pop saying, well, I axually
bleeve feel little better, I bleeve ali
needed was a little exercize.
No sir, G wizZ, pop, 1t was hipmotizm
sed. And told him how and he ad-
n1itted 1t and gave me dime to i'm
prove my feelings.
Wich it did.
Evening star., 1929-12-05
Today in
Washington History
By DONALD 4. CRAIG.

December S, 1S64.-S. Harding, for
Ynerly of the United States Navy, who
married the famous Confederate woman
spy, Belle Boyd, has been brought to
this city as a prisoner from Martins
burg, Va, where he was captured by
the Federal authorities few days ago.
Harding's difficulties began when he
was placed on board the prize steamer
Greyhound, on which Belle Boyd was
q passenger. He was instructed to take
the vessel to one of the ports of the
Northern States. On the trip he per-
mitted the captain of the Greyhound
to escape, for which he is understood
to have been dismissed from the naval
service.
After Belle Boyd had been restored
to liberty she went to Europe. Hard
ing joined her and they were married
there.
Harding now says that since his mar
riage his wife has been discarded by
the Confederate sympathizer in Eu-
rope, but that she continues to circu-
late In the best of society. He says
he has instructed her to have nothing
more to do with the Confederate cause.
The military authorities here are TAX
ing his assertions with grain OF salt.
Harding's relatives reside in Brook
lyn, N. Y, and he alleges that they are
displeased with him on account of his
marriage to n Confederate agent. He
asserts that his wife is still in Europe,
and says he Is writing a history OF her
life and adventures, and also that he
is engaged in writing novel, the title
of which is 1.-THE Wreck"
AS reason for going to Martinsburg,
Harding says he wished to bring his
sister in-law. Mamie Boyd, whom he
desired to take North for the purpose
of educating her, The military au-
thorities do not accept this explanation
as the truth. They suspect that his
wife is in this country and that she
was somewhere in the vicinity of Mar
tinsburg at the time OF his capture.
Harding claims to be wealthy, but
only S14 was found on his person
when he was taken into custody. He
is a mediums -sized man, with dark hair,
dark hazel eyes and a thin. smooth
face.
While he was being conducted to the
old Capitol Prison here, he talked
freely, referring several times to his
wealth and education.
Evening star., 1929-12-05
Guessing Contest

A stranger climbs my garden stile,
and joins me meath my rhubarb tree,
and says, with wide and balmy smile,
"I'll bet you don't remember mel"
meet all sorts and brands of bores, they
throng my garden and my hail. they in
terrupt me in my chores-and this one
is the worst of all. I surely don't re-
member him. I cannot put his name
across; it may be he is Sunny Jim, it
may be he is Charlie Ross. may have
known him long ago, that much I'm
willing to allow; thousand men used
to know, whose names are all forgotten
now The smiling stranger seems to
think I ought to welcome him with
glee, as he exclaims, well, strike me
pink! I see you don't remember mel"
He seems to think ought to Sprain my
poor old jaded intellect, and try again
and yet again, to get his moniker cor
rect. But who he is do not care,
would not give a cent to know; do not
offer him a chair, and I'll be glad to
see him go. say, ''I do not know your
name, nor if we ever met before: do
not like this guessing game, for 7 am
old and tired and sore. I wish to think
Of noble odes ana epics grand, and
lit roads, a-chanting songs that melt
the heart. I wish to think of sunsets
fine that color all the Western sea, and
you come shopping up and whine, I'll
bet you don't remember met I may
have known you in the past, I may
have known you for a day; but such
do not last, like morning
mists they float away. If you would
promptly speak your name, and tell me
who you are and why, I'd welcome you
and my good dame would offer you a
pumpkin pie" WALT MASON.
Copyright, 1920
Evening star., 1929-12-05
BEAUTY CHATS
Two Kinds of Acne.

There are two varieties of acne that
I want to talk about, for have had
lot of mail recently describing this dis
case in one form or another.
Acne vulgaris, or pimples, is the most
common trouble. like it's descriptive
nameI 1t is bacterial disease of the
fat glands. Often it is caused by black
heads, in any case, germs get under
the skin and infect it. Result, ugly
splotches and marks, and eruptions.
Faulty diet, constipation, general
fanemia-and many other causes result
in acne. Anything which tends to close
up the pores and prevent their func-
tioning results in acne dirt, or too many
coc=netics, for Carbohydrate foods should
be cut down-the sugars and starches.
Sugar, candy, cake, pies. ice cream, jam,
jelly, potatoes, rich fried foods and
such. Instead, milk, fermented milk,
eggs, vegetables, little bread, clear
soups, meat and cheese once a day,
should be taken. x-ray treatments are
wonderful in clearing up a skin that Is
troubled with acne, and many doctors
prescribe it.
The skin should be cleansed with
warm water and soap, and rinsed with
cold water to tone it up, or warm water
should be used, then almond meal should
be moistened and rubbed into the skin
and then rinsed out with fairly hot
water and then the face should be
rinsed with cold water. Avoid cold
creams and all makeup as much as pos
sible. You must dry up the overoily
condition of the skin. Use only CASTLE
soap, or the almond meal. Don't ever
use tar soap. though tincture of green
soap can be used, sparingly Drink
plenty of water each day, several glasses
full
Evening star., 1929-12-05
The Tired 60 Business Man.

eve may ask whether that person so
gympathetically regarded by the Ameri-
can public-the Tired Business Man
IS really tired. May it not be that the
initials should be changed from the
familiar T. B. M. to B. B. NJ, the
Bored Business Man?"
On my own account might hesitate
TO raise so unpopular suspicion. But
find it in cold print as the deliberate
question Of British psychologist, Sir
John Adams. agree with him that the
distinction is mportant-very impor-
tant, and not altogether complimentary.
You are supposed to be tired because
yoH have worked pretty hard; you may
be bored because you have been unfor-
tunate enough to have been button
holed by one Of these dull people who
compete for the record by saying least
in most time.
If your business really and deeply
interests you, you won't be bored by
it, and IL you are not bored, you won't
tire easily. 1t is very true that lots of
business men are on constant strain
for long hours and need to relax, but
relaxation doesn't mean to stop all
thinking. It should mean change of
the subject, but to worthwhile SUBJ
ject no less. Perhaps a lot of business
isn't as firing as it is tiresone. Drudg-
cry we cannot avoid, but we can more
eagerly look for relief in something
interesting, and what you find interest
ing depends on your interests. And If
your stock of interests is meager and a
poor assortment, you are going to be
readily bored.
The type Of show that seems to be
specially arranged for the recreation
of the T. B. M. suggests that it is less
adapted to a tired brain than to a
brainleSs creature. From stupid wise
cracks to pairs of acrobatic legs -four
ished in unison across the stage in a
centipede chorus, and from meaning
less songs sung in a cracked voice whose
only virtue is that you can't under
stand the words, to slap-stick comedy
that was probably the reason why Cain
slew Abel and dates from the same
epoch, the entertainment (?) goes on.
70 the tired man who really has
brains enough to manage his business
well, this array of talent (?) is an
insult to his intelligence. The T. g.
n. is not supposed to park his brains
wnen he checks his hat or puts it under
his seat. It's that sarke brain that is
seeking recreation and will find it by
way of an appeal to the many interests
outside Of business that a busy brain
accunlulates in the course of a busy
life.
All this seems more suited to the
Evening star., 1929-12-05
Dieting Down.

If the cold air of the Winter days
gives YOU keener appetite than usual,
content yourself with remembering that
cold days also take up more energy,
and that If you eat more, you also use
up more of the energy you have con-
sumed in the way of food.
Yet even in Winter, a diet of 1900
calories a day is a good one for the
overweight woman to reduce on, though
If she is very big indeed and If she
leads strenuous life, she can go as
high as $500 calorieS. Reducing is
simple, but only those who have gone
through a course of it successfully will
believe that.
advocate a lot of hot foods in the
Winter, for reduction diet. Salads
and uncooked green things and butter
milk are all right for Summer, but in
the Winter, the body must be heated.
A reduction diet is deficient in heat.
That IS, If you ate a plateful of hot
SauSages, with pancakes and mashed
potatoes, and ended up with a cup of
hot chocolate, you'd have fed enough
heat calories into you to keep you
warm for some time. The weight you'd
put on would be terrible, too!
AS you can't gain heat by fattening
foods on diet, make it up by having
all your foods hot. Drink two glasses
of hot water first thing in the morning.
Evening star., 1929-12-05
KEEPING MENTALLY FIT
BY JOSEPH JAsTROW.

B. B. NJ. who would be bored by any
thing more brain-taxing because he
lacks any sustaining interests outside
his business, which might serve for
recreation, that is freshening for the
next days work. The same B. B. M,
in order to get away from shop, con-
tinues to talk shop in his free hours.
Nobdy objects to good rollicking fun,
for that really recreates, and a good
laugh is as much an aid to mental fit
ness as to digestion. But to appeal to
q sense of humor or to a sense Of the
dramatic or to any other phase OF
worthy human interest assumes an in
terested human. If business men will
cultivate wider interests, they will not
be so easily bored when Office hours are
over, and those who provide for their
entertainment will find that the ma
ligned T. B. M. is really tired because
he is bored by what he has seen SO
often that it's monotony which makes
him tired. Recreation is stimulating
unused interests.
Copyright, 1929
Evening star., 1929-12-05
Lessons in English
By W. L. GORDON.

Words often misused: "Do not con-
fuse later" comparative of 'late'D,
with "latter" (second in order).
Often mispronounced: Boudoir. Pro
nounce boo-dwar, 90 as in "bot," as
in "arm,' accent first syllable.
Often misspelled: Adhere; here, not
hear.
Synonyms: Rare, scarce, unusual,
uncommon.
Word study: "Use a word three
times and it is yours" Let us in
crease our vocabulary by mastering one
word each day. Today's word: Incl
dentally; casually; without design.
"T have incidentally dwelt on these
subjects"
Evening star., 1929-12-05
Special Baked Potatoes.

Select large fine potatoes, scrub them
well with brush, brush with melted fat
and place in pan In the oven to bake.
When just done to turn, slit large
cross on the fiat side OF each, pull
slightly apart, sprinkle with salt and
paprika and insert in the middle Of the
cross a good sized lump Of butter or half
a crisp hot sausage. Serve at once, ac-
companied with green salad, coleslaw
or sliced tomatoes.
Evening star., 1929-12-05
Individual Sponge Cakes.

Beat the yolks of six eggs until thick
and lemon colored, then add one cupful
OF sugar gradually and continue beating,
using an egg beater. Add one table,
spoonful of lemon juice and the grated
rtnd Of half o lemon, then add the
whites of the eggs beaten stir. Fold in
one cupful of -four mixed and sifted
with one-fourth teaspoonful of salt. Pour
into individual pans or ramekins and
bake for 30 minutes Ia warm oven.
Evening star., 1929-12-05
Baked Bananas.

Remove the skins from six bananas.
Place them in a shallow pan. Mix
one-third cupful of brown sugar with
one tablespoonful of melted butter.
one tablespoonful each of lemon Juice
and orange juice, and two tablespoon
fuls of mixed grated orange rind and
lemon rind. Pour this mixture over
the bananas and bake for 20 minutes
in a slow oven, basting during the
baking. These are delicious served
with baked ham or roast beef.
Evening star., 1929-12-05
Acid in Your Blood.

Much "acid waste" has been elimi-
mated, figuratively speaking, since Gar
rod conceived the theory that gout was
caused by an excess of uric acid in the
blood and tissues. (Mind, casual reader,
say theory and the theory ascribed
the illness to an excess of uric acid.
not to the mere presence of uric acid,
which Is normal). That was nearly a
century ago. It is not so strange that
many layrAen should still cherish the
notion Of avoiding foods which pre-
slmably contain much material likely
to form uric acid. when we observe that
not q few physicians in practice today
are. prescribing funny diets or funnier
conditions that battle the doctors dag
Evening star., 1929-12-05
BY EDNA KENT FORBES

You may have orange Juice, which
won't be hot, of course; you can have
hot black coffee, urbuttered hot toast
or a boiled egg. Yo,i ca have as much
hot consomme r you ~ant for lunch or
dinner. You can have mountaineering
green vegetables hot. You can have q
little hot meat or hot chicken. You
can have quarts of weak hot tea and
lemon. Though you'd better stick to
raw or cooked fruit instead Of heavy
desserts, remember you can even have
hot cooked fruit dishes. You can
manage nicely dieting In Winter.
Evening star., 1929-12-05

The method of giving afternoon teas,
receptions and coming-out functions
held in afternoons has undergone rad
ical changes. There is less formality,
but no less delicious edibles. The
guests do more of the serving of them.
selves and are waited upon less.
One excellent change Is that those
who pour are not expected to devote
all their time to this task. While there
may not be as many assistants as for
Evening star., 1929-12-05
Spinach in Molds.

Line custard cups or muffin rings
with cooked and seasoned spinach
Break whole egg into each spinach
mold and bake in moderate oven
until the eggs are set. Turn out up
sauce made with one tablespoonful of
flour, one tablespoonful OF butter and
three-fourths cupful of sweet milk.
Evening star., 1929-12-05
NY Neighbor Says:

A griddle will not smoke when
you are frying pancakes, or the
cakes will not stick to the grid
die If it Is rubbed with a small
bag filled with salt before the
batter Is put in.
Always test the fat with a
piece of bread before putting in
croquets. When the bread burns,
the fat is sufficiently hot to fry
croquets.
Save a part of a roll of paper
after room has been papered.
When patching is needed, the
paper will be readily available.
To soften shoe polish that has.
hardened, pour little turpentine
over it.
Evening star., 1929-12-05

The word remit requires neither make
nor send in connection with it, for re-
NIT means to send or transmit money
in payment.
Apparent (ap-pare-ent) means clear
to the understanding; easily seen: evil
dent; as, man may be apparently
friendly, yet malicious at heart.
Evening star., 1929-12-05

One mother says:
When my children ask me to do them
some little favor, I do it without any
hesitation, even though the request may
seem simple or perhaps something they
might have done themselves. But, in re-
turn, they obey promptly when asked
to do an errand or some little task.
So / find they have learned the valua-
BILE lesson of "Give and Take"
ScopyTights 1a20.l .--.--,-.
Evening star., 1929-12-05

THE GUESTS ARE EXPECTED TO
HELP THEMSELVES FROM THE
FOODS DAINTILY SET UPON THE
TABLE.
merly. there are many more who pour.
This allows these intimate friends of
the hostess or the debutante to circu-
late about amcng their friends and to
dance, if that is part of the program.
Guests should not, therefore, occupy
the attention of friends while they are
helping.
Each person who pours is asked to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-03
eagle, ARMY STAR,
AGAIN IS PUNISHED
Gets q Hours of "Tours" for
0yerstaying Leave-Iust
Finished Sentence.
BY the Associated Press.

by the ASSoclEte6 Press.
Wv VEST POINT, N. Y, April s.
IA For the second time in
NV three months, Christian
v Keener (Red) eagle, star
halfback and captain Of the
1929 team, has fallen into the bad
graces Of officials at the United States
Military Academy.
He has drawn q sentence Of %
punishment tours" That means he
will devote approximately % hours Of
his spare time during the next month
or so to marching at attention along a
100-yard gravel stretch within the
quadrangle Of the Academy.
The charge was overstaying Of leave
of absence. For similar offense early
in January eagle, was sentenced to a
half-month of punishment tours. He
finished that punishment on January 20.
Last Saturday eagle accompanied a
group of cadets to New York on an
educational trip through the Metropoli-
tan Museum of Natural History. After
the. trip the cadets were given few
hours of, but were ordered to make
the HAS pm. Weehawken Ferry in Or
der to make connections with the mid
night train for West Point.
Just where eagle spent his free time
has not been revealed. According to his
friends he missed the ferry by minute
or SO because of tie-up In traffic. He
didn't appear in West Point until some
hours after the rest of the cadets.
Red will march two tours each We'd
nesday and three each Saturday until
his sentence is completed That will
take him little more than month.
Under Army regulations providing
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-03
FARMER BOYS FIVE
SEEKS U. S. HONORS

CHICAGO, April 3 (R.-Five farmer
lads from Joes, Colo, an inland hamlet
of As people, were to set forth in guest
Of the national high school basket ball
championship at the University Of Chi
cago. I'LL
Picked to emulate the sensational
Carr Greek, KY. five of the 1928
tournament, the Colorado boys were to
meet Laurel. Del, State title holders,
in their first taste Of big team COMPETE
ton.
Twelve games were to be played To-
day and by the time the gun banks the
end Of the final clash tonight the field
Of 40 starters will have been narrowed
to Is teams.
Today's Games.
Wheeling, w. va, VS.. snead High, Boaz,
Poeatello. idaho, vs.. Cumberland, Nd.
Joes: coio, vs.: Laurel. Del:
Naugatuck. Conn. VS.. Newport News Va.
:, Athens, Tex, VS.. Central. Oklahoma City,
Vienna, Ga. vs.. Johnston City. III.
Lakeland. Fla. VS.. Ashland. KY.
;. cIassen: Oklahoma City, Okla, VS.. Gran
fte' Salt Lake City, Utah.
Yesterdays Scores.
Ration. N. Mex, "a; Portsmouth, N H., 13.
Wheeler, Miss, 80; Winnemucca, New, 8.
Jena. La. 81; Wheatland, Wyc.. "a:
Newport News, va, 20; Miles City,
Mont, 49,
Heath, Ky. 40; white River Junction.
Athens. Tex. a: Cleveland, Tenn, a..
Central. Oklahoma City. Okla, Il; Nor
'0h Lakeland S Fla, 81; Valley City, NJ OAK "A.
Ashland, KY, IS; Independence, Mo-. Is.
Classen. Oklahoma City, Okla, al;
Granite. Salt Lake City. 20; Brockton,
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MORGAN FAvORlTE
TO BEAT GORILLA

By the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, April 3.-Tod Nor
gan will have an advantage In both
weight and reach when he defends his
junior lightweight championship here
tomorrow night for the second time
against Santiago Gorilla, San Bias In
dian.
The title holder will have almost three
inches In height and reach over his
bushy haired opponent, but other meas
urements lend support to the belief that
Zorilla is the more rugged Of the
two. Morgan's 71-inch reach Is equal to
that of the most full edged light
weights. He takes advantage of it, too.
Both principals practically completed
their training yesterday. Morgan plan
ned only light gymnasium work to taper
of, while Gorilla said he would gallop
over the hills near Culver City, Calf, to
maintain the physical edge.
Odds were generally 10 to Q In favor
Of Morgan.