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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-14
The Stagger System.

Are you running your home by the
stagger system? That Is, have you
bought enough in 1928 to keep you in
debt throughout 1929? According to
reliable statistics, the debt carried over
by installment buyers ran into the
billions. That alone Is no indication
that the majority of us have stepped
beyond our depth, but 1t Is warning
sign.
The stagger system Of buying is to
load all the burden you can get and
then try to stagger to freedom from
debt Many do not reach their goal
Some women in their anxiety to buy
conveniences or luxuries will buy re-
| CARELESS of cost. It will be remem-
bered that the terms of sale vary widely.
One may pay from per cent upward
for credit on an installment purchase.
When the ultimate or aggregate cost
| Is calculated, one may be paying great
deal more for the article than one
realizes. Our advice Is to get copy OF
the terms Of sales and payment and
consult with some capable business man.
Some bills of sales are comparatively
simple. They indicate at once the addi-
| tional charge for credit. They also state
If or when title to the article passes to
the buyer. This fact is important also,
because one may pay all but the last
installment, and, failing to meet pay
ment on that, lose all equity or right
to the thing purchased.
An important feature OF the stagger
system is that one may stagger to the
final payment, but at no small personal
or family sacrifice Capacity to meet
payments on one thing purchased does
not mean also capacity to buy all Of
the necessaries of life.
When calculating what one can afford
to pay on inStallmentS over regular
period, one should figure only on sur
plus amounts, not on gross income, or
the income before the expenses of liv-
ing have been deducted.
Keeping the family out of debt Is one
of the most vital jobs of the mother,
and when purchasing is done under the
stagger system it is she who bears most
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-14
DAILY DIET RECIPE
DELICATE CAKE.
Butter, one-half cupful.
Sugar one ciInftll

DELICATE CAKE.
Butter, one-half cupful.
Sugar, one cupful.
Milk, one-half cupfui.
Flour, one and one-half cup
fuls.
Cornstarch, one-half cupful.
Baking powder, four teaspoon
fuls.
Salt, one fourth teaspoonful.
Lemon rind, one-half tea
spoonful.
Orange rind, one-half teaspoon
full.
Almond extract, one teaspoon
full.
Egg whites, four.
FILLS TUBE CAKE PAN 8
INCHES IN DIAMETER.
Cream butter and beat in sug-
ar until foamy. Add milk. Mix
together carefully. Sift flour,
cornstarch and salt together and
add to butter mixture. Mix
thoroughly. Add almond extract
and grated rinds. Add stiffly
beaten egg whites. Sift baking
powder in last. Mix lightly and
quickly and make in moderate
oven Is minutes.
DIET NOTE.
Recipe furnishes starch, sugar,
fat, protein. Some lime present,
but the vitamins have been dam
aged by the action of the baking
powder. Can be eaten In moder-
alton by normal adult of average
or under weight.
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Oven Pudding.

Cook any roast in an iron pot or
Dutch oven. Remove the meat and
have the gravy in the pot or oven very
hot. Mix two eggs well beaten with
one cupful of milk, one cupful of -four,
one teaspoonful of baking powder and
one tablespoonful of shortening melted.
Beat well, pour into the hot gravy and
bake in a moderate oven until a golden
brown. Serve very hot. There should
be about one pint of liquid from the
roast.
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little imagination to see what would
happen to you before long. The same
is true of all social relations.
The man who plays off-horse always
pays the price. It may be desirable tc
be great leader, but the leader always
Is in danger. Uneasy rests the head
that wears a crown" said the great
Shakespeare. Socrates was individual.
istic and not sheep. He drank the
poison hemlock Savonarola did not
follow the crowd He died violent
death. Caesar, Napoleon and all the
rest have had to pay the price for being
different from others.
We act like sheep because the herd.
ing instinct is born in us as the re.
suit of centuries of experience that
proved it more practical to cooperate,
to act with the rest, than to go ones
sweet way. Those of our ancestors who
were too Independent and went their
own way never came back. We are
sprung from the timid souls who used
discretion, and followed the herd.
Copyright. 1921
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BRAN MUFFINS.
Two cupfuls bran. two cupfuls
milk, salt, one-half cupful mo-
lasses, one cupful -four, one scant
teaspoonful soda. No cream OF
tartar Is used. Bake In hot oven.
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My Neighbor Says:

Instead of lining the drawers
in a cupboard with newspaper,
give them a coat of good white
paint. This is much nicer than
paper, and when cleaning is nee
essary all that Is required Is to
wipe them with a damp cloth.
Never store away In a closet
cloths used for oiling and polish
ing. Keep them in covered tin
pail.
Add a little kerosene to the
water when washing linoleum.
This will loosen the dirt.
In making cold starch, mix the
starch with just enough cold wa
ter to dissolve it. Then take one
fourth cupful of cold water, fill
the cup with boiling water and
stir this into the dissolved starch.
It will be hot, but not cooked.
Dip collars, cuffs, ETC., In the
usual way, wiring and roll up for
about Is minutes. Also add a
small quantity of lard to keep
the iron from sticking.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-14

During the year traffic police have
placed tags on 10000 automobiles In
Philadelphia. Only $4,000 of these
summonses were answered by motor
lists and a penalty was paid In only
about one-fourth of these cases.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-14
MENU FOR A DAY.

MENU FOR A DAY.
BREAKFAST.
Orange Juice.
Oatmeal with Cream.
Parsley Omelet.
Bran Mullins.
Coffee.
LUNCHEON.
Dreamed Oysters on Toast.
Preserved Pears.
Sponge Squares, Chocolate sauce.
Tea.
DINNER.
Tomato Soup.
Baked Stuffed Haddock with
Egg Sauce.
Baked Potatoes.
Carrots and Peas.
Baked Indian Pudding.
Coffee.
BRAN MUFFINS.
Two cupfuls bran. two cupfuls
milk, salt, one-half cupful mo-
lasses, one cupful -four, one scant
teaspoonful soda. No cream OF
tartar is used. Bake In hot oven.
DREAMED OYSTERS ON
TOAST.
Melt one tablespoonful butter,
add two teaspoonfuls flour, and
when smooth add one cupful
cream, season with salt and pep
per. Toast four slices bread and
lay them on platter. Roast "a
oysters in shells in oven Till
shells open, take out oysters ana
pour liquor over toast, then add
oysters and pour the cream over
the whole, having cream hot.
BAKED STUFFED PADDOCK.
To make the dressing slice
small loaf stale bread. Heat
about one and one-fourth pints
water, add one small can evapo-
rated sweetened milk and piece
butter size of walnut. Pour this
over bread. Brown two large
onions in pork or bacon fat. Add
bread, teaspoonful salt and some
poultry seasoning. Stuff the fish,
half cover with water, sprinkle
with teaspoonful salt and cover
with several thin slices pork.
Basic several times.
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Straight Talks to Women About Money


Of the burden. Buy what you wish on
installments or for cash, but in either
case never lose sight Of your capacity
to pay.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-07
WORLD FAMOUS STORIES
THE SISTER YEARS.
BY NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE.

seem to welcome you, yet, do what you
may, and lavish on them what means
of happiness you please, they will still
be complaining, still craving what it is
not in your power to give them, and
looking forward to some other Year for
the accomplishment of projects which
ought never to have been formed, and
which, II successful, would only pro-
vide new occasions of discomfort. II
these ridiculous people ever see any
thing tolerable in you, 1t will be after
you are gone forever"
The clock in the tall steeple OF the
church struck IL, and while the strokes
were yet dropping into the air the Old
Year fitted or faded away-and not
the wisdom and might of angels, to say
nothing Of the remorSeful yearning OF
the millior!s VhO had used her Ill, could
have prevailed with that departed Year
to return one step. But she, in COM
pany of Time and all her kindred, must
hereafter hold a reckoning with man
kind. So shall it be, likewise, with the
maidenly New Year, who, as the clock
ceased to strike, rose from the steps Of
the city hall and set out rather timor-
ously on her earthly course.
Wherever there was a knot Of mid
night roisterers they quaffed her health;
40 Tie new i ear! OI1C Si6ucu, INV
ever, to perceive that the air was faint
ed-as the atmosphere of the world
must continually be-with the dying
breaths of mortals who had fingered
just long enough for her to bury them.
But there were millions left alive to re-
joice at her coming; and so she pursued
her way with confidence. strewing en-
blematic flowers on the doorstep of al
most every dwelling, which some per-
sons will gather up and wear in their
bosoms and others will trample under
| foot
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OUR CHILDREN
BY ANGELO PATRI.
Keep Close.

Keep Close.
"Peter, take your head in. Come
away from that window"
Peter, on the far side Of the ROOM
looked over his shoulder at his mother
and then looked out Of the window
again.
"Peterl Did you hear me? Come
in out of that window"
Peter backed q little, but his head
stayed far out beyond the window.
Mother went across the room, close
to Peter, and said: Come in out of
that" and Peter cheerfully came in
and began reciting his account Of what
he had seen as he leaned far out OF
the window.
Now Peter Is good child. He Is
not disobedient. He minds If you man
age to register the idea In his mind.
When he hung far out of the win
dow he was absorbed in the dog-and-
cat fight below. He had only mar
row fringe of his mind to spare for
his mothers order. It was not enough
to pull him away from the window.
But when his mother went close to
him she entered the center of his
took the foreground, and Peter obeyed.
You must stay close to children II
YOU want them to obey quickly and
with understanding. Rarely does an
order carry the length of the room, or
from the window to the street, or from
today to tomorrow. The idea must
get into the direct center OF the child S
mind, be attended to thoroughly. be-
fore he is truly conscious Of it and
follows 1t in action.
This lies at the root Of many child's
disobedience. The order was given to
him when his mind was filled with
other ideas. It hung on the fringe of
his thought for an instant and then
merged in the great stream of con-
seriousness, not to appear again until a
strong close call brought it up to the
center of things. Once there, once
ness, 1t will receive attention, be at
remembered.
Only children habituated to obedi-
ence will respond to an order given at
distance. That Is why little chill
dren do not obey when spoken to across
great distance-to them room is
a very big place. One has to keep
close to them to let them feel ones
thought, to claim ones place in their
thought.
And after the routine, rather ma
terial side Of obedience has been estab-
lished In little children by close con-
facts. we must still remember that
there Is the greater field to conquer
yet-the spiritual response of the child,
which must lie at the root of all &C
quiescence, lest it become slavish, &C
ceptance and the soul Of the child
ne stricken.
Keep close to the children in thought.
Love them, 60 with them wherever they
go in your thought, always upholding
the best that is in them and you, so
that there grows between you and them
strong bond Of spiritual understand
ing. Then, though years and space
and circumstance divide you, you will
always be close together.
True obedience merges into loving
cooperation. One earns that by close,
heart-to-heart, hand-to-hand contact.
(Copyright. 1927
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(3) Is there any way to make dimples?
"a Can eyebrows be shaped with the
electric needle? Will the hairs grow in
again? What would the treatment
cost? 90 How can reduce very large
cslves?-YVONNE AND MARIE.
Answer-O Personally, 1 do not
think there is anything pretty about a
high shingle bob for young woman OF
your type. The way to make the out
ward curve at the back of your head
less conspicuous is to wear coil of hair
below 1t, to fill in that hollow at the
base of your head where it joins the
neck. The return of long hair is real
boon to girls with wide faces, since 1t
permits the hair to be arranged be-
comingly. While you are letting yours
grow you might wear a coil OF extra
hair pinned across the back. Your front
hair should be parted on one side, waved
and drawn over your ears.
ca II you patronize a well-trained
cosmetician the treatments will not be
harmful. but quite the opposite. At
YOUR age, however, the best beauty
treatments are vigorous exercise that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-07
Chance and Luck.

EVERYBODY has some notion as to the
part chance or luck plays in his sue
cess or failure. To have right notion
will add to his score on the scale OF
mental fitness. A common enough
tendency is to regard your successes as
due to your brains, and your losses TO
just hard luck.
The primitive uneducated, and in so
far natural idea of the forces that con-
troll fortune is that they must be won
by proper ceremonies. Doing things
thus and so IS lucky; doing them other
wise Is unlucky. This. that and the
other event or sign betokens good luck,
and the list of bad luck omenS is much
longer. Thus an entire view of the
world In which we live and move and
have our being Is built upon a crude
and false idea of the forces that enter
into fate. AS we look back from our
enlightened point of view on such no.
tons we call them superstitious which
means no more than that they have
survived from an earlier, cruder way
of thinking into later stages. If you
believe that q black cat that crosses
your path brings bad luck and picking
up pins brings good luck, you may
suffer needless worry, since you can't
easily control the way of cats, and you
would be wasting lots Of time if you
took to looking for pins. We must be
living in unlucky times, since autos
have crowded out horses and we can't
depend on horseshoes for protection.
What the psychologist is interested
in, however, Is that any such habit of
mind interferes with right attitude
toward cause and effect and works
rel Of 1a
ural to Succumb to such beliefs, but it
isn't wholesome. If it suits your mood
to say that it always rains when YOU
go out without an umbrella or that it is
just your luck to have two invitations
for the same evening and none at all
for any day next week, and that you
got the wrong one first and accepted
it, that's well enough If you just joke
or swear about it, and don't really be-
lieve there's general conspiracy against
your comfort and pleasure.
The right view toward all this Is
that. like everybody else, you are taking
your chances. The more complicated
the world you live in, the more things
are going on, the more contacts you
make, the more play for chance. How
long 1t takes to reach the railroad sta
ton In taxi In the congested traffic
of New York City involves more chances
than a journey Of the same length in
the suburbs. It seems and 1t is a rare
chance for two friends from Oshkosh
to meet by chance in New York than
In Oshkosh, and that's not slam on
Oshkosh.
The fact is that a scientific view of
chance Is a late achievement; it is
formulated in the doctrine of prob
abilities. Nothing Is certain but death
and taxes. The rest isn't guesswork or
pure chance by any means-however,
it's mixture of good Judgment and
knowledge on the one hand and the
play of chance on the other. To win
at chess is matter of skill alone; to
win at whist combines skill and the
hands you happen to draw. AS for
poker. roll your own formula Life is
more like whist than chess; some think
il is more like pCkFr
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of afiiction, storms Of disaster, great
pillows Of trouble, sweep over our souls.
When these stormy times come many
are laid PROSTATE before the rude blast
and perish for want Of a sheltering
covert.
"a man shall be covert from the
tempest" What man. Why, you. II
have troubles of my own" do I hear
you say? A traveller, overtaken In a
snowstorm, struggled until his strength
failed, and then lay down and gave up.
Presently he felt something move be-
meath him, and he reused himself to
find another perishing man. This in
spired him to make an effort to save
his unfortunate fellow man, and In do
ing so he saved himself. Never mind
your troubles. It is a law Of life that
we save ourselves In saving others.
One of lifes highest privileges Is to
afford q covert for tempest-tosSed souls.
Count 1t an honor, when a brother.
caught in a tempest of sorrow or adj
versity, turns to you for shelter and
refuge.
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! induces sweating, right diet. avoidance
of constipation and daily cleansing OF
the skin with soap and water.
(3) There is really no practical way
TO make a natural-looking dimple.
"a Yes. The same hair roots that
are DESTROYED by the electric needle VIII
not produce hairs again, but adjacent
roots. not so treated, will continue to
grow hairs. The cost depends on the
time it takes to remove the hairs. II Is
not very expensive.
go To reduce fat calves do plenty OF
walking, stair-climbing, swimming and
running. Rotate the foot at the ankle.
Do squatting exercises with deep-knee
bending. LOIS LEEDS
Shoes for Miss Fourteen.
Dear Miss Leeds-O I am IA years
old and rather tall. What KIND OF
shoes should I wear? (2) have blue
ewes and straight black hair which I
wear parted on the right side. What
other way could I arrange my hair?
az What colors are becoming to me?
MISS D. B.
Answer-CD Make point OF buying
shoes with straight inner line that
will allow your great toe to point
straight forward. The average shoe
forces the great toe inward and does
not allow sufficient room for the toes.
Be fussy about your shoes, my dear,
and do not wear any that are not built
on scientific lines. The heels OF your
shoes should be about IA inches in
height. BY wearing the right kind OF
shoes now you will avoid the painful
and disfguring foot troubles that most
adults suffer from. such as fallen
arches. corns and bunions. An oxford
style is most suitable for school; wear
dainty slipper for dress occasions.
90 For change you might try a
center part, or. If bangs are becoming
brush your hair forward from the crown
in long bangs without any part in your
hair.
81 II your skin is fair you will find
bright blues very becoming. You may
also wear medium and gray-blues: me-
dunn and dark greens, dark blues:
browns, tan, orchid. flesh. peach. old
rose, gray, orange, bright yellow. bright
green, bright red, rust, cream and black.
LOIS LEEDS.
tCopyriaht. 1927
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-07
By ROBERT CULLEN.

More than $700 has been raised for
the servants of the Peking University
who struck because wages had not been
received
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-07
Everyday Psychology
BY DIR. JESSE W. sPRowLs.
PsychoanalYsis.

Writing as have for almost two
years for the papers, I find more in
the domain of psychoanalysis to write
about than in any other brand of psy-
| chology No other system, big or little,
touches SO closely the behavior OF peo-
| pie in everyday life.
And SO today I venture a word on
the meaning of psychoanalysis, the
psychological offspring of Sigmund
Freud.
When a worried man or woman we'll
| on in the forties goes to the family
physician for relief from nervousness,
the physician orders change in en-
vironment. The patients are told to go
to the mountains or to the sea and to
forget" their troubles. And they go.
They return no better off, really, SO far
as the fundamental trouble is con-
cerned. For, according to psychoanaly-
sis, nothing is ever forgotten.
Now why are they no better? Those
who suffer from nervous ills can't
change their mental makeup by merely
going to the mountains or to the sea.
They are suffering from memories.
matter when they sleeper, rather, try
to sleep. These same memories haunt
them at the desk, the lathe, the throttle,
or wherever they work.
Milton pictured Satan in Hell as one
who had brought with him mind not
to be changed by place or time.
So with those who suffer on account
of their memories. Place and time
avail nothing If they get better. some
Transformation must take place within.
Painful memories must be made less so,
must be thrown into the light of con-
seriousness and purged of their repress-
ing. tantalizing elements.
Psychoanalysis is mental purgation.
That's the central point about the
meaning of psychoanalysis. Psyche
analysis is method, mechanism for
getting rid of painful repressions and
fears. There is as yet very little known
about this method. But we may be
sure that the psychoanalysts are on the
right track.
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KEEPING MENTALLY FIT
BY JOSEPH JASTROW.

So We come back or come out to the
central psychology Of 1t all; how far
we are disposed to take chances and
enjoy it, or are cautious and at times
regret it, Gambling with the serious
values Of life is habit most detri-
mental to mental fitness as bad or
worse than the opposite habit of say
ing all Is chance or fate, and there's
nothing to be done about it. Between
the two is a large area, accommodating
the attitudes toward luck that are safe
and sane. morally and mentally.
(CopyriRht. 1927
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-07

Sponge cakes are made light
by the air that is beaten into
the eggs used in making them.
Beat the whites and yolks sepa-
rately and fold in the beaten
whites,
To clean blue serge. sponge 1t
with strong indigo blue water.
place it on a board after the
water has been allowed to evap-
crate and press with warm
iron.
When cooking an egg, if it is
accidentally cracked on one end,
crack the other end. The egg
can then be cooked without the
contents coming out Of the shell.
Sardine sandwiches are much
improved If a little Of your ia
vorite table sauce Is shaken over
the sardines.
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Home i'm Good Taste
BY SARA HILAND.

The skirted dressing table must have
a bench or stool, and there are as many
types of this important piece Of furni-
ture as there are dressing tables.
The first thing to consider Is appro-
priateness, and the stool shown in the
ACCOMPANYING illustration is one which
would be suitable for use with a table
which has a taffeta skirt.
The foundation of this stool Is the
simplest kind of wooden disc, with four
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-07
By REV. JOHN r. GUM.
Sheltering Unfortunates.

Text: "A man shall be as q
covert from the tempest. lisa, xxxii.2.
Men have been lost in the severe
storms that sometimes sweep over the
plains. They needed a covert from the
storm, and, not finding one, they per-
ished. Here and there in the deserts
are to be seen rude buildings Of stone.
erected to serve as a covert from the
storm, 50 that any one so unfortunate
as to be overtaken by one Of the desert
sandstorms may have a place of refuge.
The plains of human life are often
swept by fierce tempests. Not all of
Ife's days are mild, bright, Summer
days. There are days when the thun-
ders roll, the lightnings flash and wild
tempests beat around us: when tempests