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Evening star., 1929-12-18
Graceful Silhouette.

The new vogue for the nodded sill
houette and more feminine clothes and
longer skirts will stimulate interest In
building well rounded curves that are
indicative c6 a graceful, supple figure.
While there is happy medium between
and a vast difference between being
slender and being skinny, there is a
point which marks perfect development.
This ideal state is desirable; the others
are not, because every girl wants the
marks of health and beauty.
Some women have to work harder
than others to achieve this graceful
silhouette on account of underweight or
overweight. Although one inherits gen.
eral build and bony structure with the
result that one is tall or short, massive
or delicate, it is possible to have trim,
shapely figure and to develop a physical
fitness that will keep the body youthful
and the muscles firm and supple.
Physical grace and symmetry cannot
be expected from the girl or woman who
neglects physical activity. Suppleness
and symmetry of the large muscles
make for youthful figure, just as the
same qualities in facial muscles will
keep the face young. Flabby back and
shoulder muscles will cause the face,
neck, throat and chest muscles to sag
and lose their elasticity. A woman is
as youthful as her figure. Excess ac-
cumulations of fat about the upper
arms, shoulders, hips and thighs give
her middle-aged look, but in many
cases it Is not her age, but habits of
living that give them to her. Exercise
and massage are dependable for this
type. A 10 to 20 minute period should
be given to exercise and massage every
night and morning.
The following set of exercises is de-
signed for the average girl or woman
who wants to keep physically fit and
develop graceful silhouette.
Exercise %. Lie on your back on
the floor, raise both legs to a vertical
position. Now rotate your legs forward
alternately as though you were walking
upstairs rapidly. Repeat 20 to 80 times
Exercise (2). Stand erect with feet
apart and hands on hips Slowly twist
the trunk as far to the right as possible,
keeping the body stationary from the
waist down. Twist to the left and right
alternately 10 to 20 times. Vary this
exercise by bending backward and for
ward as far as possible without bending
the knees.
Exercise t3). Lie face downward on
the floor, arms folded at the waist be-
hind. Slowly raise head and trunk up-
Evening star., 1929-12-18
DOROTHY DIX's LETTER BOX
Is Marriage Likely to Be Successful Between Those
Who Are Not Convinced They Experience I'm
dying Love? Scholarship and Professions.

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view to take OF the subject
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all that their husbands could OF the
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friendship with
chatting daily the budget gossip
broken hearts they don't each other When older have
lived through and dappontmn that that
and 81 we aren as
marriage earthly Paradise and into angels
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MISS DIX Do think the fact that hardly high
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Evening star., 1929-12-18
Pleasure in Wrapping Packages
BY LYDIA LIE BARON WALKER

or they can come from the store-closet
If the paper is rumpled 1t can be press
ed with a moderately hot f1atiron to
look like new. If the twine is of OF
previously received bundles see that II
is wound In a ball with ends tied to-
gether or in separate lengths, each Sc
curely fastened of. This is rather a
good way, for then piece of twine
or string in length suited to each parcel
can be selected.
There should be plenty of white
wrapping paper or of tissue, white, red
green or any preferred tone. This may
have seen saved by thrifty homemakers
from parcels received last Christmas
1t should now be ironed smooth and
such ribbon or tape as has been put
away and which may be rumpled
should also be pressed. There should
be new Christmas ribbon lest you run
short and the Red Cross stamps or
Christmas seals should be handy.
If you do not have a letter moiStener
get small sponge or have wad Of
absorbent cotton in a sauce dish. The
sponge or cotton should be wet. When
it is time to put on the stamps touch
them lightly to moiStener and press
onto the parcel. Letter scales are a
delight to have at such a time, for
then the work can be Speeded up. Long
waits in line at the post Office or sub
station can be avoided and every one
knows how tedious this is.
Don't forget to have a Sprig of holly
or a bit of evergreen to tuck under the
ribbon, tape or string after the parcel
has been done up in its dainty wrap
ping. A small branch of holly or ever
green will serve for a great many par
GELS as only few leaves or a tiny Sprig
is needed on each.
Copyright, 1921
Evening star., 1929-12-18
Your Baby and Mine
BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED.
Personal Responsibility.

There is a general and widespread
impression that there is something un-
desirable in being left-nanded. No mat
ter how dexterously the left-handed in
diVidual manages to cut his meat, or
pilot food TO his mouth, hammer nails
or beat up cake, the effect on the OBJ
server is always awkward. "Oh, you're
left-handed," is uttered as If it de-
manded some kind of explanation.
The majority of us seem to be right
handed, for what reason no one has
ever been able to explain (though lots
Of explanations has been offered)
But babies, up to 8 or 4 months of age,
do not seem to have preferential hand.
They accept anything offered in
either hand At a later age, to 8
months, perhaps, they begin to change
the toy to the right hand. There are a
few babies who never reach this stage,
or do just the opposite. When the toy
is put into the right hand baby changes
TO his left.
It is we'll when babies are small to
offer objects to the right hand; but
when the baby shows marked prefer
ence for his left hand, it is a matter for
serious consideration whether this tend
ency should be thwarted or upset.
Tests made upon thousands of chill
dren force one to the conclusion that in
most cases efforts to make left-hand-
ed child use his right hand exclusively
are wasted efforts. They upset the
child, and they seldom result in his
using his right hand, as right-handed
people do. He may learn to write, be-
cause he is forced to do it, but writing
will usually be hard. difficult task for
him. In fact using the right hand for
these fine movements is more nervouSly
upsetting to the left-handed child than
some of the other right-handed habits
we force on him.
There seems to be according to some
| scientific observations) a very real con-
nection between stammering and forced
right-handedness. The child who is
congenitally left-handed is as handi-
capped by being made to use the right
hand, as we would be If the case were
reversed and we were compelled to write
or eat or sew with our left hands. We
might learn to do it, but we would never
be as handy as we were with our
| preferential hands.
Even if parents do not resort to whip
! ping or burning the child'S left hand as
one cruel father exultantly reported
| doing, they are not above trying to per-
Suade the child to use his right hand
Now just try TO use your right hand,
because every one else does, and you'll
look so queer il you don't" No wonder
the impreSsionable child makes a real
effort and If he doesn't succeed goes on
believing that in some way he is queer
So long as the majority of us are
right-handed, the left-handed individ-
ual is naturally going to stand out, but
why not feel that this is desirable dis
tinction instead Of habit which marks
him as awkward and queer and diner
ent? It remains for the parent to make
the child either unconscious Of his habit
or miserable because of it.
Evening star., 1929-12-18

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Feather-weight tweed, covert cloth,
v ool crepe, plain wool jersey, velveteen
tweed printed silk crepe, wool challis
prints and tweed-like printed cottons
are smart.
Feather-weight Spanish red tweed
used for Killed plated skirt which is
stitched to bodice with long sleeves Of
matching shade wool jersey, with jacket
of the tweed, is decidedly fashionable.
Make scarf tie ends of the tweed. Trim
jacket with the plain jersey.
Navy blue wool crepe with jacket Of
matching shade velveteen, trimmed with
crepe, is economical choice for class
room.
Covert cloth in cocoa brown with
bodice and scarf tie Of beige silk crepe
is fetching.
Bottle green wool jersey used for dress
and jacket is newest idea of Paris, with
scarf tie of matching shade faille silk
crepe printed in yellowish-green dots.
For a pattern of this style, send is
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We suggest that when you send for
pattern, you incloSe 10 cents additional
for a copy of our new Fall and Winter
Fashion Magazine.
Evening star., 1929-12-18

Lamartine called Charlotte Corday
the beautiful golden-haired girl who
slew Jean Paul Marat, 1.-The Angel of
To most persons today the phrase
seems fantastic. Marat may have been
monster. But we do not believe in
murder, even of monsters. We sanction
only the process OF law:
Marat, associate of Danton and
Robespierre in the French Revolution,
was virulent journalist and PAM
phleteer, who clamored constantly for
blood, blood, blood. It was the blood
of any and all who felt the slightest
sympathy for the fallen monarchy that
he desired.
Tortured by an agonizing skin dis
ease, his only relief was to lie in a
"Slipper- bath" with his whole body, ex-
cepting his head and shoulders and
arms, immersed in water. A plank lay
across the bath He used 1t for a desk
upon which to indite his vitriolic PAM
phlets.
In a provincial section Of France
young Charlotte Corday, intensely pa
triotic, adjudged Marat the chief in
strument of the country's sorrows; She,
| too, was a republican, but she did not
approve the beheading OF Louis XVI
and Marie Antoinette. She determined
to kill the monster.
This resolution had its inception in
nature wholly virtuous. She was one
of several children Of Norman knight
and seigneur. Jacques Francois de Cor
day. Carefully brought up, she had
been extremely well educated. Perhaps
this was why, in a family devotedly
royalist. she had sympathized with the
Revolution.
In young womanhood, having some
| fortune Of her own. she went to live
with an aged relative. Nine. De Brette-
vile, in Caen. 1t happened to be the
center where the moderate republicans.
banished from Paris by the radicals,
were plotting a fresh onslaught upon
Marat and his ilk. Charlotte became
one of them. In her naive innocence
she thought that she could supplant
political action by destroying Marat.
In July, 1893. fully conscious that her
mission meant her own death. she went
to Paris and wrote Marat q note offer
ling to bring him news Of his enemies
activities at Caen.
At o'clock on the evening Of July
Evening star., 1929-12-18
SUB ROSA
By MIMI.
A Girl in Gotham.

It's natural for boy or girl who has
been playing in the side show OF small
town to want to perform in the big tent
of the city. These youngsters don't al
ways realize that the larger the town
the smaller the kind Of life you have TO
live. -, ,,,,,,,,,
in a small burg and find the city limits
too narrow, Just consider how much
vo,,Ii gain by going into the big town,
how much you'll lose by leaving the little
one You may find that your life In the
citv is only a repetition Of small-town
existence, since you'll become memper
of very small community IN clVy
made I'D of numerous towns.
The matter of money is an important
item, At home you can walk to WORK
~ make a call on foot. In the CITY IL 5
eIwavs car fare and taxi fare. 1neLl,
even when you dine at drug store you
begin to realize that food prices are not
going down any too fast. AN
C;otham is the child of Mammon: All
- its onerations are on a money basis.
pbiIanthropic folks in the cities know
this and talk about it. They know tnat
IN New York, for example, there are wen
over one hundred thousand working
Girls between the ages OF 10 ana 70
yhose combined wages would Just apouU
equal the incomes Of half dozen MIL
Somebody has figured out that the
average wage is SIS week ana ule
average cost Of room and ooaro Is JusU
III cents less, which is likely TO MAKE
the girl feel like the well known 'o
The good folks in Gotham want to DO
sonething about this, but about all they
nave done thus has been to aSsaA the
EMPLOYERS who pay girls such Small
wages for their work. They are trying
to provide cheap housing in girls CLUBS,
but it will be long time before the girls
of Gotham are ushered into their new
boudoirs.
While we are waiting for responsible
ueople to clear UP this mess, We can re-
Acct upon the advantages of not being
in a big burg. We can realize that the
home towns supposedly ordinary people
are of greater value than lot OF fancy
strangers. We can see that good nome
under a humble roof Is nicer than
cheap lodging in big town.
If you're in Gotham and are having
YOUR fight with expenses I might tell
YOU to save what you can, but it's likely
YOU economic from necessity. Maybe
it's better to think OF improving your
position.
While you're working at the cheap
lob, try to flt yourself for a bigger and
better one. If you're typist, become q
stenograhper; II you're Stenographer,
become o private secretary. Gotham Is
a challenge to your will and wits.
(copyright, 1920
Evening star., 1929-12-18
Everyday Psychology
By DIR. JESSE W. sPRowLs.
The Only Child.

In recent years there has been a lot
of talk about the 'only child" in fam
lily. Some psychologists go so far as to
say that it is a question of extreme
importance" These are the psychoan-
, alyStS They have constructed COM
plicated theory which undertakes to pro-
vide an account of the why's" Of char
acter and temperament on the basis OF
ones place in the family constellation.
There can be no doubt that part of what
they say belongs in the domain Of hu-
man nonsense. Sense or nonsense, here
is what they have to say about the only
child
The only child receives too much at
tention. He does not usually have the
opportunity to solve his life problems
for himself. Consequently, he ap-
proaches maturity with a lack of self
esteem, and is hampered all his life with
sense of inferiority.
The only child never really grows up.
At the age of 40 he still clingS to his
mothers apron strings, still displays the
characteristics of IAN infant crying in
the night"
The only child harbors the notion that
he is unique somebody in the world
of somebodies. He demands a recogni-
ton he does not deserve. Denied this
recognition his original feelings of in
feriority are enlarged. Then it is that
he goes in for program of blufing his
way through the world. His bluff is, of
course, sooner or later called" and
he gradually hits upon a new mechan-
ism. He goes about the world with the
air of a detected monarch who has lost
his throne through the ravenous designs
of society of rebels.
The whole problem of the only child,
if there is one, centers around the idea
of hfe-goals. For the average child
these life-goalS are not very clearly de-
fined even under the best of direction
and training. In the case of the excep-
tional only child, the lIfe-goals are en-
tirely lacking. So say the psychoan-
alystS.
Is there an only child problem? No,
not exactly. The only child problem
parent problem.
(CopyriRht. 1921
Evening star., 1929-12-18
Winter Itch.


r. says scratching time has arrived
for him. Every Winter he sufferes from
intolerable itching, especially at night
Sometimes he feels as though he would
have to dig the very skin of to get
relief.
1t may be possible you have, In a
severe form, what is known as Winter
itch, r., but you should have a physical
check-up, including an analysis of the
blood, to be sure you are not suffering
from a pre-diabetic condition or other
disability, which may be reflected In a
condition of the skin.
The technical name for Winter itch
Is pruritiS hiemalis. PruritiS means
itching without apparent cause. How
ever, we know there is cause for any
diSagreeable sensation in the body.
Winter itch is usually noticed in cli-
mates where there are wide changes in
temperature, and in those whose skins
are dry. Woolen underwear seems to
be most irritating to some skins, and
If you have to wear it, wear cotton or
silk next to the skin and the woolen
over this (Silk also irritates some
skins) Have a balanced diet and lib
eral amounts of water.
For some, the addition OF baking
soda, about 10 ounces to the ordinary
tubful Of water, is helpful, and to others,
an acidulated bath-one ounce OF hy-
drochloric acid to the bathtubful of
! water, or a sponge bath with lemon
Juice or vinegar in it. If you have an
exhilarating reaction, daily cold bath
with good scrubbing with liberal
amounts Of soap on a scrub brush, or a
| tepid bath followed by cold shower
and brisk rundown with a turkish
towel, and then an air bath while you
wash your teeth, shave, ETC., should
keep your skin in good order and so
make 1t less liable to irritation. II
| your skin is rough, rub some softentng
solution on it after the bath-glyceriu
solution (one-fourth glycerin to three
fourths water) is the most universally
soothing.
Don't scratch with your nails; If you
must scratch, use a flesh brush.
Chilblain or Frost Bite.
Any one will get chilblain or FROST
| bite if exposed to severe cold long
/ enough but the chief sufferers from
this trouble seem to get 1t in even
moderately cool weather and damp
Evening star., 1929-12-18
BRAIN TESTS

Underscore' the proper word at the
end of each line. You have choice oi
several words in each case. Pick the
right one.
Time limit, four minutes.
Cd Aquarius is the name of a: Con-
stellation, fish tanks, steamship, precious
stone, water conduit.
90 The word "dilettante" means:
A society girl. a superficial amateur, u
careful person, horse-drawn vehicle,
a predicament:
81 The word calendar" means: A
systematic arrangement of dates, q
Roman date, Persian dervish, boiler,
a carriage.
(4) Cathay signifies: A kind OF
seed, a poetic name for China, a girls
name, a roadway, a hiding place.
go The ids Is: An Egyptian biro
a mountain goat, a Hawaiian bird, part
of the eye, short poem.
(6) The mantis is: A soothSayer, a
Hindou invocation, a fraction Of a
logarythm, a coarse cotton cloth, y
kind of insect.
(D The mandrill is: A baboon, a
spindle, a dance, the jawbone, \
poisonous plant.
(2) Moro is a name applied to: A
Spanish hill. a roman deity, member
of Philippines tribe, the day following
this. one, a small fish.
Answers.
The correct definitions are: (1) A
constellation, (2) a superficial amateur
(3) a Persian dervish, a. a poetic
name for China, (5) an Egyptian
bird co. a kind of insect, % baboon,
90 a member of Philippine tribe.
(Copyright, 1929
Evening star., 1929-12-18
LITTLE BENNY
BY LEE PAPE.

was coming downstairs in a setting
position and smelt a swell smell COM
ing out of our kitchin, smelling like
the little round cakes our cook Nora
makes when she makes them, me think
ing, G. wonder if she'll give me one
in advants before supper?
Wich she generlly won't on account
Of her disposition, and I went and
looked IN the kitchin door and she was
pealing potatoes with a unsatisfled tx
preston, me saying, Hello Nora.
Go where you came from, Nora Sed.
Being pritty bum of start, and l
thwat, G, I better say something to
make her feel good. And I sed, 0 boy,
If smelt as good as those cakes Id hire
myself out for a bottle of perfume.
You'll get one when the time comes
and not before. so don't be limiting
around like snake in the Garden of
Eden, Nora sed.
Proving I dident make her feel good
enough, and sed, Hay Nora, you awt
to hear the swell complaint heard
some lady say about you, and she sed,
What was that, who Sed it, what was it?
Me starting to think hard on account
of anything ever heard about her not
being complimentary and Sed, Well,
some lady sed, she sed, o heck you
wouldent bleeve me If told you.
why WOuIucAI IL It's Tic CTuIu, you
pesky spalpeen, Nora sed. What was
1t now? she Sed, and sed, Well, don't
bleeve you'll bleeve it. You got to give
me cake ferst before tell you, sed.
will if you promise hope to die its
the truth your saying, Nora Sed.
Making it harder, and sed, All rite
promise, give me the cake.
Wich she did, and Sed, Some lady
Sed you had the funniest shape of all
the funny shapes she ever saw.
Being the truth, and / quick started
to run without even waiting to find out
If it was necessary.
Wich it was, Nora being a slow run
ner but dangerous if she catches you.
Evening star., 1929-12-18
MILADY BEAUTIFUL
BY LOIS LEEDS.

ward and arch the back slightly. Re-
peat to 10 times. -.
Exercise az. Stand erect with toe
pointed forward and outward, the heel
of one foot against the instep OF the
other. Extend arms at shoulder level
Slowly fiex the knees. keeping the back
straight. Straighten the knees and re-
peat 10 to 20 times.
Exercise (5) Stand erect with feet
together. Bend trunk forward and raise
left leg out behind so that the leg and
trunk are parallel with the floor. In
this movement execute the arm move
ments of the breast stroke in swimming.
Repeat 10 to 20 times.
Exercise (6). Stand erect with feet
slightly apart and parallel. Holding the
knees stiff. bend forward and touch
your toes Repeat 10 to so times during
the day.
Exercise, correct posture and deep
breathing will keep the chest and
bust muscles firm by bringing into play
the muscles that are not often used.
Exercise (0. Stand erect with head
thrown back, feet together, elbows
Evening star., 1929-12-18
Impudence.

"Such impudence," snorted the man.
ager. Such vicious impudence. A kid
like that coming in here and asking me
what We did to insure the cleanliness
OF our product. The colossal impu-
dence."
who is he? High school kid, isn't
hep"
so he said, The idea. Coming in
here-'We would like to know what
measures you take to insure the cleaull-
ness of your product says he, polite as
the Prince of Wales. threw him out
on his ear
"M-m. I don't know. These. boys
are going to head these business con-
Germs one of these days. They'll be
taking over these plants one of these
days. My boy was telling me last night
that the physics teacher had suggested
that they make. few surveys of the
thing useful at that
Let them stay in school where they
belong. What measures have you taken
to insure the cleanliness of your prod
uct.' The impudence. And l suppose
If he finds my measures haven't been
what he would like he will write them
up in the newspapers. Such impu-
dence"
NO guess they wouldn't do that
The teacher looks after their reports.
But imagine that if they found any
thing disturbing the teacher would
speak to us about it,"
Such impudence I never saw
What's it their business? A teacher
ought to keep to his own business.
What does he know about our labora-
tories? Impudence. Colossal impu-
dence. I told that kid what thought
of him. bet you he won't come back
here"
All of which is too bad. Industry is
everybody's business. 1t is especially
the business of the high school boy
and girl. The industry of the town
ought to furnish a field of lnvestiga-
uion for the pupils. They should be
welcomed, instructed, offered lectures
and conferences. They should receive
scholarships in the field in which they
showed ability. The plants and Struc-
lures of the town should be the labcra-
tories of the high schools and colleges
The day is coming when We will nc
longer build the great barracks we
call high schools and colleges. We will
have buildings where the life of the
community centers. Old and youEe
will come and go, all day long. There
will be experts to interpret knowledge
leaders to inspire search. There will
be laboratories and libraries and every
facility for advancing the growth anc
development of the community-youtk
and maturity meeting there.
The industries, occupations, arts, the