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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-04
Can Grown-Ups Learn

That you can't teach an old dog
new tricks Is one Of those near-truths
Of which the part that isn't true Is
more important than what Is: espe-
cially If 1t isn't a dog but q human
that YOU are considering. The right
way to find out is not to assume. but
to try 1t out That Is what Prof. Z. l..
Thorndike has done. For many kinds
of learning he found the most favor
able age Is 20 to "a. Assigning that
group the rank Of 100 for their learning
ability the next most favorable age is
the group IS to 20 years old, with q
group II to 10 years old has rank
Of IS.
The two conclusions run somewhat
counter to common impression. The
first disproves the idea that the younger
ages have the highest learning ability.
for those of age IA to Is rank only SO
on the same scale. The Tearing power
increases at just the age when so many
must convert their learning power into
earning power-a welcome conclusion
for the industrial world; and those who
60 on to college and professional study
continue to grow in mental vigor just
when they most need it.
The next conclusion deserves para
graph to itself. From 30 on to almost
any age your learning power remains
high. The actual rating Is 81. Adults
80 years Of age can learn more readily
than in their high school period. Con-
tinuation schools and night schools for
adult learners are wise investments.
If you are of the right makeup you
can learn anything that you are At for
up TO age Of As at least. and even later
for those with flexible minds. You can
teach a wise old dog many new tricks,
If the dog is man with a good mind
A few sidelights confirm these find
ings. OF 500 persons studying for high
er degrees at Teachers College, Column
bia University, many are adult and are
earning their living as they continue
to study. OF the age-groups 20 to 20,
80 to 80 and 40 to 40, the first two
groups make about the same score on
study ability, but the oldest group actu-
ally makes a slightly better score. You
can study as we'll from 20 to so, with a
chance Of improvement as you grow.
Undoubtedly there are some kinds Of
learning with good deal of memory
work in them In which you do better
1t younger. In learning the artificial
language. Esperanto. the age-group
1884 scored 1858 points; the age-group
1857 scored PAT points. But the young
people Of Is in a good private school
did only half as we'll as these adults.
The largest application Of It all Is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-04
Accessories to Winter Outfits
BY MARY MARSHALL.

started and have recently heard that
one of our own clever young tennis
players has taken 1t up.
Another recent fad Of tennis players.
I hear, is to take live mascots to the
courts with them. One young enthusiast
arrives at the courts with a tiny chat
tering monkey sitting on her tennis
racket. At word from his young mis-
tress he jumps down and squatting
rather forlornly beside the end OF the
net watches-with an occasional lrrele-
want soueal-the antics Of the young
girl to whom he belongs.
Baby's first OUTFIT is often OF the
simplest nowadays-and the more elaoo.
rate, hand-embroidered, lace-trimmeo
little garments are reserved until baby Is
old enough to sit up and look about.
And the simpler the little garments the
better suited they are to the wee baby s
needs. This weeks circular gives a
diagram pattern Of little gown ana
a shirt-from which you can easily
make night and day gown, kimono. snort
Jackets and shirts. If you would ike
a COPY OF this. please send me your
stamped. elf-addressed envelope ana l
will gladly send it to you.
tCopyright. 1920
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-04
Your Baby and Mine
BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED.

Mrs. C. w. writes: please give me
some advice on the following: My
baby Is almost a year old and weighs
81 pounds. ! still put food with her
milk formula and have tried 1t with
out. but 1t doesn't seem to agree with
her. She won't drink more than four
ounces every four hours. At noon I
give her mashed potatoes and peas
carrots or spinach. Otherwise she has
nothing but her bottle. She loves to
eat. but doesn't like the bottle. She
does have orange juice and cod liver
oil. She has no teeth. She walks by
holding onto things"
AnSwer-Here Is a great big husky
girl Of good weight and you are trying
to keep her on a bottle formula at one
year. She is sensible baby when she
refuses 1t. She should be having plain
milk now, entirely by cup and three
meals a day, and If she won't take q
two or three cups Of milk daily and in
corporate the rest of the milk In her
food. One quart Of milk . day 10 all
child needs. Some mothers give this
much to drink and then use milk in
lots Of other ways, and wonder why the
child has no enthusiasm for his milk
feelings.
There seems to be q pretty general
agreement among feeding experts these
days that the quart OF milk rule. can
be overdone.. Many children will not
eat enough solid foods il they are
forced to drink quart Of milk either
by bottle or cup. III that case the
wisest thing to do Is to offer the solid
food and give less milk to drink; il
possible, use more milk in the diet. In
your case, the child should have cereal
in the morning and the four ounces of
plain milk that she will accept. Vege-
tables and perhaps egg or some Scraped
meat and Zweiback at noon and again
her four ounces Of milk by cup. At
3 or 4 o'clock cracker and her four
ounces of milk. At or $50 at night,
cereal and milk again. The orange
juice can be given with breakfast or
between meals, and the cod liver oil
one-h half hour or SO after any meal
Three small doses day are better than
one large dose and not SO upsetting to
the child.
You are fortunate that the baby is
willing to eat and likes to eat Don't
make the mistake Of holding onto that
bottle, thinking 1t has some magic
property to prevent Ill nourishment
After baby is one year old bottle days
are past, and 1t is essential that other
foods be added to the milk diet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-04

soon you have on your hands . nervous
wreck. II nervous dogs are ever so de-
scribed.
Sit at q desk or stand at q counter
or bench or kitchen table all day, do all
your chasing by proxy or all your adj
yenturing in the movies or in books, all
your exercise holding down the cush-
ions OF q car, never run a step, never
play an active game. be a great sport,
fan but not participant yourself,
blow off trifiing quantities of steam YELL
ing and cheering at the ball game or
the foot ball game. while you just sit
there like an automaton, never climb
any trees or cut any grass or work in
the garden. never go fishing always
keep your heels well below your head,
yet try to pretend you're Just as good
a man as the chap who knows how to
live and lives right. and when your pre-
tense about this fails to seem convinc-
ing to your true self go and drown the
thought in booze, or becloud it with to-
bacco or blot it out with your favorite
nostrum or drug, and 1t would be o
queer thing indeed If you remained
quite normal and q remarkable excep-
ton II you didn't plead as an excuse
poor nerves."
(Copyright. 1927
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-04
Lessons in English

Words often misused: There are no
such words as sass" and sassy" Say
"impertinence," impairment" "sauci-
ness" "saucy"
often mispronounced Anthony
tChristian name). Pronounce an-to-ni,
not an-tho-ni.
Often misspelled: Ivory: or not er.
synonyms: Imaginary, dreamy, fam
cied, visionary, Elusive.
Word study: Use a word three
times and it Is yours" Let US increase
our vocabulary by mastering one word
each day. Today's word Plausible;
seeming likely to be true. 1T sounds
plausible to me-"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-04
Waffle Cakes.

Cream one cupful OF sugar with one
fourth cupful Of butter and one table
spoonful of boiling water. Add two
beaten eggs. Add alternately one and
one-fourth cupfuls OF flour, one and
powder and half a cupful Of milk. Add
vanilla flayoring. Cook in waffle irons
as YOU would waffles. These can be
cooked at the table and eaten at after
noon tea. or as dessert with fruit or
Jelly. For variation, after half Of the
batter has been cooked, add two table
spoonfuls of COCOA to the remaining
batter and ice with chocolate icing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-04
Shrimp Outlets.

Mince two cupfuls of shrimps very
fine, melt one-fourth cupful of butter
and add -four enough to make smooth
paste Add one cupful Of cream and
cook until thick and smooth. Add the
shrimps. three egg yolks, half tea
spoonful of salt. a pinch of pepper and
nutmeg, and mix we'll. When cold
shape into outlets. Add two tablespoon
fuls of water to one egg white slightly
beaten. Dip the outlets in -four, then
in egg white and then in -four again
Fry in deep fat Serve hot in a bed
of lettuce leaves with Hollandaise sauce
The sauce-Beat the yolks of two
eggs. add the Juice of lemon and
half cupful Of chicken broth or con-
somme. Then cook together until thick
like custard. Beat in one-fourth cup
full Of butter and add salt and cayenne
pepper to taste.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-04
KEEPING MENTALLY FIT


to changing occupation when adult.
Prof. Thorndike shows that adults can
learn new operations remarkably well.
It seems unnecessary, and even foolish,
for grown-ups to drift along in an
occupation they dislike for fear that
they would fail If they tried new one.
In fact, the progress Of the times brings
1t about that many must change the
real nature of their occupation.
With the change from steam to cleo
tricity on railroads, it was found that
the older locomotive engineers learned
the new form Of driving (all very differ
ent) with surprising ease. It was not
necessary to take on and train younger
men.
All OF which expresses the welcome
conclusion that adults can learn II they
want to. and wanting to Is the sign of
an alert mind.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-04
Chicken a Ia King.

Either canned boned chicken or the
fresh cooked chicken may be used for
this. in either case cut enough of the
meat in pieces to make two cups.
Melt three tablespoons of butter, add
one tablespoon of shredded green pep
per, and one-fourth teaspoon of minced
onion. Cover and cook very slowly for
five minutes without letting the mix
ture brown. Stir in one cup of chicken
stock and one-half cup of milk Stir
the mixture constantly over a slow fire
until thickened and smooth. Season
with salt and pepper, add the chicken,
four large mushrooms cut In slices. and
one-half pimento cut in strips. Sim
mer for five minutes, stir in two table
spoons of thick cream and one table
spoon OF sherry flavor. Serve very hot
garnished with toast points.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-04
Amelia's Cake.

MErIA CROSS. passing Mrs
n Groves house, heard the tap Of
II a thimole On the pane :: looked S,s ;s 4
yitation to enter.
81 wanted to show you what I've
been doing for Mrs. Powell" Mrs. Grove
said, She took up pillow that she
had just finished-the softest, cozest
pillow In the world. covered with gay
lowered silk and smelling Of balsam
"Tnere, don't you think she'll ike
that?"
"she will. indeed" Amelia answered
She eyed the pillow wistfully, touched
Il. bent her face to 1t and tried to
smile. Its lovely" :,
"It will come in handy on the train,
Mrs. Grove said. What are you going
to give her, Amelia?"
Amelia flushed.
81 don't know. I've been trying to
think. What would be nice?"
why not give her book? One OF
the late novels. They've got lot OF
them at Pritchard's. You are on your
way downtown now, aren't you?"
YES" Amelia said.
She got to the door and out OF it as
gracefully as she could. Her face
At Pritchard's window. gay with new
stationery and gloriously CARRIED fic-
ton. she paused to gaze. She gulped as
she fingered her lean little purse. 1t
lacked so cents of containing the price
of the cheapest book.
II can't" she thought. II can't. I
haven't got the money" Tears came to
her gentle, faded eyes.
Nobody knew how poor Amelia Cross
was. She lived In her own house-that
Is, she lived in two rooms OF her house ;
the rest she rented to young married
couple. The rent paid taxes and other
expenses and left her IS q week to live
on. Pray, what can a woman do on IS
O week?
Amelia had not been trained to earn
money, and even II she had her delicate
health. would have prevented her hav-
ing any great economic value. So she
lived quietly, kept her troubles out OF
sight, smiled down her adversely and
let people believe that she was fairly
well-to-do.
For the first time in years she faced
exposure of all her little ways and
means to keep on living. Mrs. Powell
was going to California for the Winter
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-04
Chocolate Roll.

Beat the yolks OF three eggs we'll.
then beat in one cupful OF sugar. Silt
twice One-fourth teaspoonful Of salt
with one teaspoonful Of baking powder
and one cupful OF flour. Add six table
spoonfuls Of boiling water, half a tea
spoonful of vanilla and the -four mix
ture to the egg mixture. Beat well and
fold in the stifhy beaten egg whites.
Spread very thin on two shallow tins.
Bake in a moderate oven. Turn out
onto damp napkin and trim of the
crisp edges. Spread quickly with the
following filling and roll up:
Melt two squares Of chocolate. add
half a cupful Of sugar, half cupful
Of water, one teaspoonful of butter and
blend to smooth paste. Mix one
tablespoonful of cornstarch with three
fourths cupful of milk, add to the
chocolate and stir until well blended.
Let cook for 10 minutes In a double
boiler Add one egg slightly beaten and
cook for three minutes longer. Add
one teaspoonful of butter, some vanilla,
and spread on the cake while still hot.
Hungary has practically no unem.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-04
NV Neighbor Says:

Cook tapioca in a double boiler
to prevent burning and have the
water In the lower part boiling
hard while the tapioca is cooking.
1t Is not wise to soak clothes IN
hot water and leave them In II
until the water is cold. as cloth
fiber expands in warm water ana
contracts in cold and will IN this
way hold the dirt. Make suos
of cold water If you want them TO
soak for a length Of time.
Do not wash japanese trays.
Rub them over with damp clotn.
Occasionally rub them with q
little olive Oil and flannel cloth
to keep them in good condition:
when putting clothes on which
there are buttons through a
Wringer. fold the buttons inside
of the garment and hold 1t nat
as YOU turn the wringer, thus pre-
venting the breaking or pulling
off Of buttons.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-04
Eagles Nest Weighed Two Tons.

A steel tower was built near Vermil-
lion. Ohio for the purpose Of observing
the habits of some eagles which made
nest In q tree. During storm the
tower and the tree were both thrown
over and the nest was found to weigh
about two tons. The explanation of this
is that the eagle uses the same nest
over and over again, adding something
each year in the way Of structure and
debris, and the nest under observation
was said to have been so years old.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-04
Stuffed Meat Loaf.

Beat one egg and add it to one and
one-half pounds of hamburger steak.
Season with salt and pepper to taste.
Add one small chopped onion, mixing
well. Turn the meat onto bread board
and roll until it is one inch in thickness.
On this spread one diced and sailed
white potato. Bring the sides of the
rolled meat together and press the edges
firmly. After the loaf has been pressed
into shape, sprinkle it thoroughly with
flour and place it in hot skillet in
which two tableSpoonfuls of fat have
been melted. Scar over a moderate
fire and when brown remove from the
skillet. Lower the fire and sift two
tablespoonfuls Of -four and half . tea
spoonful of salt into the hot grease.
Brown, then add hot water to make
thick gravy. Add more hot water and
place the loaf back into the skillet to
simmer. Add water as needed to pre-
vent the gravy from being too thick.
When done turn onto a platter and
pour the gravy over the loaf.
Britain expects an economic adjust
n1ent in fta cotton industry
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-04
Whole Meal Sandwiches.

Spread the bottom slice of three
tier toast sandwich with apricot pre-
serves mixed with finely cut dates.
Cover with a lettuce leaf Place the
second slice Of toast. covering it with q
thinly sliced cucumber previously mari
mated in French dressing. Place the
third slice of toast, covering it with q
mixture of finely minced boiled ham
mixed with mayonnaise and chopped
pickles, leaving the top slice as an open
face sandwich.
Using plain white bread, cover the
bottom slice with thin slice of pressed
chicken. Adjust the second slice, cover
ing 1t first with lettuce. then with
slice of tomato. little mayonnaise.
then another lettuce leaf. Then place
the third slice, preferably Of nut bread
covering 1t with chopped candied cher.
ries and pineapple mixed with sweet.
ened whipped cream.
Cover the first slice Of toast with
sardines and thin strips of pimento
Adjust the second slice of toast, cover
ing it with chopped crisp white lettuce
and chopped cucumber mixed with
little French dressing. Cover with a
lettuce leaf. Adjust the third slice OF
bread, spreading for an openface sand
wich with orange marmalade mixed
with chopped almonds.
A.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-04

One Mother Says:
find that by sewing little loops Of
tape at the back of the childrens
boomers and slipping them over the
hanger with the dress to which they
belong I eliminate musSed-up drawers
and also save my time in hunting up
the pair that is needed for each dress
AS the dress and boomers are laundered
they are hung Oh hangers and the
children are quite willing to put them
away in the closets themselves. I have
the rods low enough for them to reach
easily.
(Copyright, 1921
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-04

To decorate your sports hat or to
Use as lapel ornament for your new
sports suit there are charming little
dogs-of the wire-haired terrier sort
made, am told, OF pipe cleaners.
overheard one woman tell another the
other day that she knew the man who
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-04

made them and that they really were
made from pipe cleaners, but my own
efforts to twist and bend pipe cleaner
into anything that even vaguely resem-
bles one OF these charming little hounds
have been entirely futile.
Some daring young sportSwoman at
st. MauritZ this Winter acquired con-
siderable notoriety by wearing monoc!e
In one eve as an accessory of her ski
ing and skating outfit. It was decidedly
snart-but 1t did seem bit foolhardy
And vet no real danger was involved, for
the eyeglass was attached to a cord
around her neck. and would quite quick
" slip from her eye in case OF spill
or a collision. It was really not half
so dangerous as wearing an ordinary
pair of eyeglasses.
So the fashion for monocles was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-04

Nearly $4,000, 900 worth of American
automobiles were received In British
South Africa u as2a. ........ M.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-04
WW@ avomen
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VOGUE Patterns are first in the
mode because women all over the world
have found that Vogue reports fashions
with greater speed, chooses them with
greater taste, presents them with greater
accuracy than has ever been done in the
history ofpublishing or fashion.
Vogue's whole organization is behind
Vogue Patterns.
Vogue makes no mistakes. Vogue relies
onno singlesource ofinfomaion.vo gue
depends onno single dressmaker. Its fash
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-04

Greece plans to speed up It's recon-
struction work.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-04

BOW CARDIGAN
Ne /1jAiss Is smHrss,, this 5brisx,
than tie jaekft esttams, combining
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-04

Britain expects an economic adjust
ment in its cotton industry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-04

Hungary has practically no unem.
ployeds & ,-.-........
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-01-17

duced . bill to amend the wolf and
coyote bounty law. He seeks to re.
store S. payments for mature wolves
and coyotes, 50 for pups: to provide
for q similar bounty on bobcats, and
SO and IS for mature Canadian lynx
and pups. A bill asking amendment
Of the regulation Of storage charge
on grain In elevators YVES introduced
by Ben Northridge. Barnes county.
and r. E. Hamilton. Mellon county.
Appropriation bills include $500 for
burial expenses Of inmates OF the
penitentiary and reform school, $4,000
for the state corn show at Bismarck.
$500 for enforcement Of the state
law relative to preservation and con.
troll Of artesian waters Of the state,
$500 to pay premiums on bonds OF
state officials. $500 for expenses OF
commissioners appointed in actions
to release insane patients and $500
for expenses Of burial Of soldiers.
sailors and marines.
John q. Halcrow. Pennbina county.
was named clerk Of the committee
on appropriations and william S.
Reko, Mandan. clerk Of the commit
tee on state affairs.
A short meeting of the committee
on game and fish with the state
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-01-17
HOUSE TO CONSIDER
FORT Yates Bridge
Bill for 100000 for Span
Across Missouri River
Is introduced

Ten bills we're introduced into the
house of representatives Wednesday.
Six Of these were appropriation bills,
al for minor purposes.
Passage Of bill relating to the
procedure Of county courts for the
sale Of real estate by executors. ad-
ministrators and guardians was rec
commended by the judiciary commit.
tee with q minor change. The bill
IS scheduled for consideration Thurs
day.
A bill for an appropriation Of
100000 to construct a bridge across
the Missouri river from Fort Yates.
Sioux county, to Emmons county,
was introduced by J. H. McCay.
Sioux county, and Anton Larson.
Emmons county. George Aljets,
Wells county. introduced q bill to
extend the penalties Of the hoard
jumping law to include those owing
hospitals for rooms and board.
9. 9. Turner, Stark county, intro
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-01-17
FORMER RESIDENT IS
4 en- !, =
,URGED.FOR Big JOB.
Senator Moses Asks Coolidge to
Name George Whitford a.
&. Governor Of Porto Rico


A former Bismarck man IL being
urged on President Coolidge for ap-
pointment to the governorship Of
Porto Rico. according to an elusive
little paragraph In . Chicago paper
which caught the eye Of John Peter
son, OF the Grand Pacific.
The man proposed Is George l.
Whitfovd. Of Warner, NJ. H.. who. II
not born here. ct least was partly
raised In Bismarck. He. and John
Peterson went to school together.
.Whitford Is the candidate. put for
ward by Senator George H. Moses.
Of New Hampshire.
The Whitford family resided in Bis
'marck years ago apd the head Of it.
e. L. Whitford. was cashier Of the
Capital National bank. George Is .
grandson OF Nehemiah Or6way. who
!wAs territorial govtrnoF Of Dakota In
early days. ordway was fronty New
H1mpSk14ES. ).
After the Whitfcrds left here.
George studied law and was active In
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-01-17
COLDS MAY DEVELOP
INTO PNEUMONIA

Coushs from colds may lead 10 -
Sious trouble. You can seep them
now with Cseomulsion, N emulsi6ed
cseosote that 10 pleasant TO take.
Creomulsion il Z medical discovery
with two.fold action; i soothes and
heals the in6amed membranes and -
hibits germ growth.
OF all known drugs cfeosote b rec.
ognised BY high medical authorities
% one Of the greatest healing agencies
for coughs from colds and bronchial
irritstions. Circumcision contains, in
addition to creosote, other healing
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rae NE COUGH ze0A