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The Washington times., 1929-10-04
SECRETS OF
HEALTH
BY DR.. Louis e. Bisch-

ALL persons are suggestible-
"A more or less. It is a primitive
trait handed down by our savage
ancestors.
Children are markedly sugges-
tihle.
This Is a point to be remem-
bered in rearing them. The child's
mind Is plastic and it can be
moulded readily. Such moulding
is brought about more effectively
when they are very young II the
parent or teacher does not try
to reason with the child so
much, but rather behaves him.
self or herself in such a way
that the child will initiate de-
sirable qualities OF conduct.
Women are more suggestible
than men.
This is due to their emotional
makeup. Conscious. logical think
ing is not as characteristic Of the
female gender as is intuitive be-
havior motivated by the emotions.
A woman's nervous system has
what might be termed more
feeling" to 1t than O mans.
sympathy. tenderness, self-sacri-
flee and especially love are Its
dominant controls. A person who
is in need at once suggests help
to a woman. And she responds
to 1t readily without first analys-
ing the case on its merits.
Men. however, are suggestible,
too. despite the fact that they
tend first of all to think things
out, and therefore, through intel
lectual processes, to resist sug-
gestion.
Stock market speculation on
flimsv margins is a form Of sug-
gestion even when-or one might
say, especially when-the pocket
book does not warrant such risks.
All sorts of promotion schemes
use suggestion to the utmost.
The letters about possible oil wells
yet to be dug cite examples OF
cases where fortunes were made
and so the seed of suggestibility Is
sown.
All crowds are markedly sug-
gestible.
That is why a panic can start
without there being any actual
and sufficient reason for fear.
Suggestibility, however, may
have beneficial results.
Reforms have been started and
carried through in this way. Hard
and narrow social. political and
even religious beliefs have often
given way, despite their age-long
persistence, to a fiery wave of
crowd suggestibility.
Nowadays the world, by far and
large, is ruled and regulated by
the collective minds of the masses
rather than by the will of the
few.
The principles of suggestion are
highly important to each individ'
ual and his degree of suggest
bility and his control Of 1t should
be studied.
The Washington times., 1929-10-04
LISTEN WORLD!
Beware of Push Buttons!
By Elsie Robinson

coming OF the rain, all these
became VITAL EXPERIENCES.
There was drama in the breath
less waiting for the smoke from
the "shot" to clear. There was
adventure in the stuffing Of an
Italian squash with eggs and
olive oil, Parmesan cheese, spin.
ach. basalico and crumbs. The
few people whom I knew became
as significant as charters in a
Greek tragedy. Life was good!
Then the thing called Lady Luck
happened to me and I came to the
city to write. came to the city
and rented stuffy apartment and
the only thing that LIVED about
me was my tapping hand. All OF
the quickening. fundamental
things which I had once done for
myself were now done for me. for
nv Job took all my time. be-
came a set Of weaving fingers
scuttling brain. I stopped sweat.
ing. l achieved cunI.- ....I
again. 1 also achieved more
money in a week than l had in
two months in the mountains.
RIJT 7 LOST EVERYTHING
THAT WOULD HAVE GIVEN
THAT MONEY VALUE.
The appetite went out Of me,
the flavor went out Of life. l for
got natural occasions, I forgot
natural moods. became as artifi-
cial as a glass grape. AND MY
DEHYDRATED SOUL RATIFIED
AROUND INSIDE MY BODY
LIKE A PEA IN A WITHERED
POD. .- :.
"Well, I've gotten wise to myself
At last. I'm writing this under q
huge. old bull pine, in the middle
of a hundred miles Of wilderness,
with a 1f5.degree sun doing its
stuff overhead. I've been out irri.
eating beans and breaking a trail
under that sun and I'm sweating
like a steer. For five months I
haven't had a comfort that I
haven't fought for as wildcat
fights for food-by sheer brute will
and force. I'm tired and burnt and
scanned and Scared, BUT OMI-
GOSH, I'M ALIVE AGAIN!
This is the life! You can have
YOUR push buttons II you want
them. stranger. but not for me!
THEY COME TOO HIGH!
The Washington times., 1929-10-04
Macdonald Welcome to Heart
of This Great Nation
WASHINGTON, heart Of the worlds creates
w cordially welcomes Prime Minister Macdonald

WASHINGTON heart Of the worlds greatest nstea,
w cordially welcomes Prime Minister Macdonald Of Greet
Britain.
Officially he will be heartily received and entertained bws
it may please him know that he only stands well With
Chief Executive of the United States but with
American people.
His visit here whatever its official outcome will materially
aid cementng the good relations that between the
English speaking peoples of the world will aid in stronger
feelings Of amity and accord.
Democratic in his private and official e advocate Of
better state for humanity MacDonads sincerity and
beyond question His craftsmanship looks improve
ment in life for and honesty decency and
fairness in international relations
The and know of the principles and faiths Of
Macdonald in this country the probable that of his
type will forward here to sensbly fight the political
of and strive better their economic
and social conditions,
The Washington times., 1929-10-04
Surrounded by conditions wet
And by much liquid fact beset,
The pleasantly illusioned Dry
Sees arid visions in the sky.
MEDITATIONS
OF A WIFE
BY Helen Rowland.
Little Grains of Truth

Little Grains of Truth
TNHE two longest intervals in a
i woman's life are when she IL
waiting for her first offer of mar
riage, and when she Is waiting
for her first decree OF divorce.
The rest comes easy.
The old flame may shoulder
along in a woman's heart; but
there is never enough of the old
spark left In mans. to make
1t flare up, again.
for his own selfish pleasure-but
just to give her a big moment"
in her poor, arid, little life.
What a man never seems to
think Of, beforehand, is that a
girl who "1ooks like a million
dollars" is going to keep right
on looking that way, after she
has him signed up to foot the
bills.
Lots of girls don't go to father
for advice, because they've seen
father acting as the village cut-up
or the life of the party at the
country club, and they can't
take him seriously. ~
A husband who bucks" may
In time be broken to harness and
tanned to domesticity; but WHAT
can woman do with a man who
just buckles and lops down, af-
ter marriage?
If men continue to be fed up"
on kisses as they have been in
the last few years. a girl will
soon have to furnish all the pet
ting as well as her own cigar
cites.
Heaven, for most Of us. will be
a place where nobody does
stunts" makes a wisecrack,
plays saxophone or tells an
after-dinner story.
Rising with alacrity" to offer
woman a seat in a street car.
these days, means not waiting
more than five minutes to see
if some other man won't beat
you to it.
A nagger Is usually Just an
"all'day.talkie" that doesn't syn
Chronize.
The Washington times., 1929-10-04
ONCE-OVERS

would you continue an intimacy
with certain ones you know II they
should meet with reverses and did
not have the money to entertain
you lavishly?
Not that you make your friends
for sordid reasons, but you accept.
And if you are more or less influ-
enced in this worldly way why do
you expect or desire more than
you stand ready to give?
Friends, the real kind, are
slowly developed and few can be
won in a lifetime, and then spring
to life where you least expect
them.
Don't worry over who II your
friend-but be . friend
Then you will have friends.
The Washington times., 1929-10-04

THERE are times when you
- wish you might be sought for
what you are in a personal way,
not because you represent a de.
sired something.
You may possess material or
social standing, or prominence of
some sort that appeals to certain
persons, and you feel that they
cultivate you for that reason,
In your case it may be that
money is the magnet.
You wonder just how long these
folk would stand by you if you
should lose all your earthly hold.
;ngs. You may he sure that many
would not continue that friend.
ship,
And foS that matter. how long
The Washington times., 1929-10-04
Hearst Papers Advocate:

l. An agreement of Enghsh-speaking peoples to pre-
serUe peace among themselves and to promote the
peace of the norld.
2. Proportional representation in the United States
Senate State to haze less than taUo Senator's
Legislation to enforce prompt constitutional reap
portionment in the House of Representatives.
8. A separate Department of the Army, of the Navy
and of the Air Forces, all united under Secretary
of National Defense.
A. Federal action to the limit of Federal poaUers to
abolish dteracy in the United States under Sccre-
tary of Education.
S. Election of Congress In November Installation on
the first Of January foloWing Inauguration of the
President first of January nert after November
election
The Washington times., 1929-10-04

DO DelleVe tnat the most IN.
l. sidious danger in modern life
Is THE PUSH BUTTON.
Push a button, turn a lever
there Is light. heat, water, trans
portstion - YOU may talk
to the world listen to the
chatter of the world without NOV.
ing from your seat sum-
mon the markets Of the world
to your door.
This ease, this freedom from
responsibility, we call PROG
RESS. But Is it? It makes life
infinitely more comfortable for
the consumer, indefinitely more
profitable for the producer. BUT
WHAT DOES IT DO TO THE
INDIVIDUAL? 1t does PLENTY
and most Of what 1t does ts
BAD.
Take me for instance. I'm q
horrible example of what push
buttons can do to healthy,
husky human.
Back in 1915 Fate stranded me
in a little mining camp in the
Sierra Nevada, with a sick boy
on my hands and not a nickel in
my pockets There was no way
of getting out, for the hoy
couldn't breathe elsewhere. We
had to eat. There was nothing to
eat on. But I was Young
strong-AND MAD, l vowed I'd
show 'em-and l did.
tackled life with my bare
fists. I worked in a mine, haul.
ing muck, picking ore. for there
was no other work to be found.
There wasn't a push button
within so miles. fought like
blazes for everything I got. NV
life was as simple, as hard and
as direct as timber VOLTS.
AS a consequence, my body
hardened into a fine machine.
my senses quickened, my imas-
ination grew. Life was no longer
ready made. I made it-I made
every particle of it-and I stung
with the thrill of creation and
disco very. My days were
crammed with color and flavor.
The passage of the seasons. the
turn of the winds the play Of
the light upon the desert hills.
moon rise, star dawn, the slow
The Washington times., 1929-10-04
Why a Protestant King?
A Dublin Clergyman Asks.

2 R1T1sH law says the British King must be Protestant
- Dublin Jesuit priest the Reverend r. r. Devane de-
State may equality with other parts of the Empire
Why" asks Father Devane, should we as a Catholic
people, be penaed reegaed to place of ineriorty merely
the ground of religion? It the written law of the
United States that Catholic must be President though
1t may be the unwrtten law
He demands that Great Brtain law be changed to allow
the King Ito God his conscience dictates
The Washington times., 1929-10-04
WISE SAYINGS

Fear always springs from ig-
noranCe Emerson.
Every one has his faults; but
we do not see the wallet on our
own backs. --Capullus.
Many things difficult to design
prove easy to performance.
johnson.
You will conquer more surely
by prudence than by passion.
-Syrus.
II anything is spoken in Jest,
It Is not fair to turn it to earnest
PlauEnA.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-21
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-21
Your Baby and Mine
By MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED.

"How can I make my little girl act
nice to strangers? She has no man.
ners. She runs and hides and refuses
to speak when spoken to. All of this
embarrasses me and makes me very I'M
happy"
Your child may not be this way. She
may have been taught little parrot
phrases which she utterS at the right
moment and fills her parents with
The average child finds manners, as
| taught by most parents, both absurd
and boreSome. Why does she have to
say, How do you do?" when spoken
to? It Is easier to stand and stare. Be-
sides, 1t makes her embarrassed to say
| this; adults look at her with such a
sweetly anticipatory expression that i:
is more fun to disappoint them. Just
because every one waits for her to make
certain speech, and it is all so stiff
and unnatural, there is real encour-
agement to say nothing. This always
seems upsetting to adults.
Being sociable and mannerly grow
out of real human need to be liked
and to have companionship. Social
graceS are the outcome of these needs,
and until children learn by their own
experience that they are better liked
and more popular when they treat
people courteouSly instead of rudely,
the manners which the parent paints
on them are just an easily destroyed
veneer.
1t is far easier to teach child by
suggestion than by command; in the
matter of manners, the last method is
almost barren Of results. To tell a
child he must do a certain thing
when brought into the presence of
strangers. that he must speak certain
words, are to court antagoniSm and re-
I fuSal. He sees no reason for them.
They are not echoes of his own emo
tionS and so seem useless to him. But
if he has always heard these phrases
spoken when visitors come to, the house,
if he is spoken to and then let clone
so that his conduct, whether good or
i'll, has no particular stress laid upon
it, when thank you" and please" are
unalterable parts of the situation of
wanting and getting, the child will con-
dust himself in the right way uncon-
SciouSly. Manners should never be
conscious. as they are certain to he
when drilled into person and brought
to his attention when forgotten. Why
should We have to remind a child that
he has forgotten to say, Thank you?
He should be so used to saying thank
you" when given anything that he does
1t entirely without embarrassment, al
most without thought Later he will
understand the reason for the thank
fulness.
If your child is timid and embar-
raised in the presence of strangers, it
is more than possible that your de-
mands upon her have been too great,
so she prefers solitude rather than
being made TO express the words and
phrases and act the part her mother
has forced upon her. She has come to
dislike strangers because too much is
expected Of her.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-21
LITTLE BENNY
BY LEE PAPE.

Pop came home exter er!y today and
serted to hang up his hat, ma saying,
My, G-,llyum, this is a plezzant SER
prise, your the original erly berd this
afternoon.
Yes, herd so much about that pic
ture at the NarcissiSs I thawt we mite
as well have suppir erly and go around
there in time so as not to haH to stand
in the bred line, pop sed, and ma sed,
o that will be lovely, Ronnel Ronnell Is
in that picture and that's enough for
me-.
It's usually enough for me, too, but /
ttawt Id take a chance and see this
picture in spite Of that fact, pop sed,
and Sed, o, G, pop, hay, ma, forgot
to tell you, who do you think called up
and sed they was coming around after
suppir tonight?
o deer, it must be the Hewses. what
a clamity tonite of all mites, ma Sed.
They never go to the movies and We'll
just half to sit and tawk to them and
think CT the wonderful picture we're
missing and this is the last mite for that
picture too, o shaw, she Sed.
Verse than that, they'll proberly in
sist on playing bridge and their the
worst bridge players this side of the
Feejee Islands, pop sed. For Peet sake,
once a month I feel like taking in a
picture and it has to rain Hewses Who
ever sed ever had any luck was mis-
representing the Jacks, he sed.
But gosh, pop, G WIZ, ma, 1t wasent
Mr.. and Mrs. Hews, you didn't CESS rite,
CESS agen, sed and ma sed Ill do nuth-
ing of the kind, you know how I hate
this unnecessary gessing. Whoever it
is they chose the wrong mite, she sed,
and pop sed, Well perhaps all izzent
lost, maybe its somebody We can take
to the movies:
G, sure you can. they'll be glad to go,
I sed, and ma said, How can you TELL
why, who is it?
Cuzzin Artie, and he sed Ant Izzabel
sed he could stay all mite, too, sed,
and ma sed, o goodness get out of my
sight before give your face g. good
push.
Only by that time she had gave It
one and pop gave me slap for good
measure.
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the fact from the other Office workers,
who, of course, didn't know the truth.
The faWSred worker was no less anxious
than his chief to keep their friendship
dark His fellow workers would have
characterized him as teachers pet, "
and the morale of the organization
would have been impaired.
Occasionally during the day, the boss,
seeking a brief respite from his desk,
would saunter through an aisle of the
general Office in the direction Of the
favored subordinates coop. He scowled
menacingly as he threw open the door
leading to the young mans desk:
The other clerks, not aware Of the
situation. felt sorry for the chap, be-
lieving that he was about to receive a
"panning." The minute the door was
closed, however, the chief relaxed and,
sitting on a corner of the desk, told a
couple of new stories he had heard at
the club In this way he relieved him.
self of tension which pressure of bus
mess imposed upon him.
The curious thing was that, as he
left the favorite's Office, he would stand
at the door and yell at him about some
thing the young man apparently was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-21
Massage for Knotty Calves.

Dear Miss Leeds: % What Is good
for knotty bunch Of muscle at the
calf? CD Is 1t harmful to go about in
Summer with just enough clothes on
and no more? I want to get good and
brown. am a blonde. Will look
funny II become much tanned? CD
have fair hair, blue eyes and pink
cheeks. live on farm and get plenty
of fresh air and outdoor exercise. What
colors are becoming to me?
Answer-Q) Knotting of the muscles
Is caused by construction from exercise.
The knots can be worked out by mas
sage and hot applications. One must
distinguish between this knotting and
mere overdevelopment of the calves !:
knotting may occur on thin legs. Wiring
out a Turkish towel in hot water and
wrap 1t around your legs. Have ready
some warmed olive oil and when the
towel has begun to cool remove it and
massage the calves from the knees
down with the oil. Massage each leg
for about five minutes, then wipe off
the oil. Next sit in a tub of hot water
for five minutes or immerse the legs in
deep pail of hot water for that length
OF time. Dry the skin and rub with ice,
or II that Is not available, battle in cold
water, dry and rub in a little more of
the oil. Wipe of the excess oil after q
few minutes. Do this every day. CD
Do not expose your skin so much as to
cause painful burning. Mild tanning is
good for the health, but very deep burn
ing Is not good for the skin. Suntan
skins were all the rage this Summer
and, Of course, the suntan makeup in
bronze shades was seen on blondes. 90
II your skin is tanned you may wear
the popular suntan shades, the citrus
fruit shades, bright and medium blues
and blue-greens, terra Gotta, dull brick,
rust, brownish reds. peach, cream, dull
orchid, brown, black and off-whites.
LOIS LEEDS,
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Movies and Movie People
BY MOLLIE MERRICK.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
HOLLYWOOD, Calf, September 81
(N.A.N.A.).-Thep prize friendship Of the
village is between Ronald Colman and
Bill Powell.
Both genties are different from the
ordinary run, which means they are
content to do their work and enjoy
their leisure hours in much the same
manner the non-famous do.
Tennis is Colman's favorite pastime.
Bill Powell, who is not athletlcally In
clined, Is one of the outstanding movie
personages, because his menacing exte-
rior hides a brain Of singularly f1ne
caliber. He also has wit, quality not
expected in those who succeed before
the camera.
Bill Powell began to be parsonage
before talkies had their way with US.
almost said their day, but, come to
think of 1t, their way" is more subtle.
Interference Was Thought Good.
With that first impressive monstros-
ity of talkie art, interference" Bill
Powell strobe into the limelight. He
survived the unnaturalneSS OF 1t. So
did Evelyn Brent, Give Brook and Doris
Kenyon, for that matter. And one may
as well be truthful about 1.-THE talEes
were in such a state at that time that
interference seemed pretty good
work. Tempus fugit! So does some OF
our enthusiasm for audible film work.
Oh, yes, we were on the subject OF
friendships in the colony. If we must
continue, there are Evelyn Brent and
Priscilla Dean, who have known each
other since the days of silent struggles
Evelyn Brent now is star, Priscilla
Dean Is a memory, but the friendship
endures. That happens now and then
even in movie circles.
Then there are George Bancroft and
Harry Green. don't know what car
say about them, save that I'm of on
this subject and can't seem to stop.
Jack Oakie and Skeets Gallagher
seem to crave each others company.
Blends and Victory.
Carlotta King and Catherine Dale
Owen celebrate victories and weep oveI
mutual defeats, although there hasn't
been much weeping in the vicinity OF
these blends. Both have landed or
their feet-Carlotta with the Desert
Song and Catherine Dale owen as
leading lady with Jack Gilbert in
Olympia" and now with Lawrence
Tibbett in "Rogue Song" or whatever
box-of1ce title they gave this picture.
Bessie Love and Carmel Myers have
been good friends for years. Carmel is
one of the silent film successes whose
voice came in handy when movies be-
gan to talk.
She really sings, does this girl, and
| that's an advantage, you know: More
| over, she's a beauty-that can't be de-
MED. She has that Carven precision
the camera loves.
Bessie Love is one Of the girls who
{,.fA ~ IN he
plum hour lust before the talkies came
along and crowned herself with laurels
| and filled her handbook with fat little
figures.
Anna @. and Alice Joyce.
There's the friendship of Alice Joyce
and Anna @. Nillson. This is one of
the loveliest of the entire colony. Both
women have had singularly successful
movie careers-Alice Joyce, beautiful,