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The Washington times., 1929-03-08

Simple questions come in my
mail, but they open I'D the whole
field OF human relationship.
What would you do with
had boy Of 14?" asks one irate
father. What form of punish
ment would you suggest for such
q boy? He il too big TO whip
any more. but l can't seem TO
control him by any other method.
/ wouldn't suggest any form OF
punishment for that boy, but |
would suggest a very radical
change in attitude for that father.
II that boy were my boy /
would try to stop thinking of him
as my property, as an offender
against my authority. would
make myself realize that he is
another self--an individual with
an individuals rights to expert.
ment and rebel and make a
mind of his own.
would stop belittling him
and start respecting him.
would respect him because I
believe that every human being
is entitled to respect. regardless
Oh WHdL ne mas QOnG.
/ also believe that the respect
}of others and pride In oneself is
as essential to every human be.
lng's physical. mental and moral
health, as food or water or air.
would respect that boy. Then
] would try to think intelligently
about his badness.
would read some good books
about human behavior.
Dorsey's ''HoWs and Why's OF
Human Behavior" is a good book.
Watson's small hook. ''Psycho.
logical Care of the Infant and
Child" should be used as a hand.
hook by every father and mother
of small children.
David Seabury's Growing Into
Life" is splend9d.l
I would read these books and
as read them ! would scrap
my old ideas that people are
born bad" would open nv
mind to the new knowledge that.
while some of us may be born
sick or weak, no one is born bad.
You may be born with SIX toes
or a hare lip, but you cannot be
born with a bad spirit. Badness
Is always thrust upon us" by
unwise training or wrong environ.
meflt.
When got that through my
head would try TO discover
what was thrusting badness upon
my boy.
Was he, perhaps, a sick boy,
The Washington times., 1929-03-08
LISTEN WORLD!
IFIHAD A BAD BOY OF FOURTEEN
By Elsie Robinson

suffering from some hidden phys
ical handicap which ], in my !g-
norance did not recognize?
would consult a good doctor ami
il possible, psychiatrist.
Or was J., myself, tarusting
badness in my boy ny my own
unfairness? Was insisting on
living his life for him? Was !
trying to force him into my pet
pattern? Was his "baldnass sln
ply the struggle OF a free spirit
to escape the trap Of my dcmi-
nance?
Was he bad because HE home
was an unhappy place for boy
TO live in?
IL | was a father would ask
myself what sort OF compa MON
the mother was to the boy. Sne
might have annpatad II me As
a sweetheart is years ago, but
was she appe 4ling to the boy as
a friend now? Was ,.he jolly
understanding. Intelligent, tair
human being, or was she q
whining, whimpering nagger?
Did the home Itself have enough
sunshine and laughter? Was il
open to boy friends? Did someone
raise Cain IL they spotted tl,a
carpet or scratched the piano. or
could the boy feel that II was
really his home? Did it have a
ward where fellow could play,
q place where a fellow coIld tin
ker?
Did he. have enough outlet for
his growing energy? Would he
perhaps change from had boy
to good boy II let him build
an automobile or radio or set
up a gymnasium in the base
ment?
would think Of these things
deeply and humbly. Then would
talk to the boy himself.
/ would talk to him In a new
way. / would not talk to him
any longer as a criminal; would
talk to him as a person with
rights of his own. ] would speak
with respect as to an equal and
appeal to his pride.
j would probably be snubbed
the first time ] made such an
appeal II have been whipping
that hoy for ID years / would de.
serve to be snubbed and distrust-
ed. But | would keep on and ]
know that il I kept on | would
win cut.
THERE NEVER YET WAS A
HEALTHY I4-YEAR r OH "alV
WHO WOULDN'T Make GOOD
IF GIVEN AN EVEN BREAK.
The Washington times., 1929-03-08
SECRETS OF
HEALTH
BY DR.. LOuis E. Bisch--

No subject should possess more
interest to us than the foods We
eat. For food contains the very
elements of life itself. 1t is by
food that we continue TO live.
Yet the average individual Is no
toriousIy careless about his food.
He pays too little attention to its
quality, its preparation, its amount
and its variety.
Whereas the Kitchen should be
the very heart OF the home nova
days it has become the proyerbial
stepchild.
Few people seem to realize, for
instance, that the diet should con
tain proteins. fats. starches, sug-
ars as we'll as salt and mineral
substances. plus water.
Few foods contain only one of
the above and nothing else. Most
foods predominant iii one or the
other.
Milk is the most perfect of oil
foods. 1t contains most every
thing that the body needs.
Butter, which is derived from
milk, il valuable because butter
fat Is 50 readily dIgested by the
human, organism.
Cheese is anothsr highly nutri-
tfous food, but it should not be
eaten In large quantities at time.
As far as meats go, there are
many varieties -over 50-which
are suitable for mans consump.
tion. Meat yields the most pro-
teins.
are wholesome. OF invertebrates,
like oysters, over SO varieties. All
are rich in proteins.
Eggs also contain q lot of pro-
tein, and 1t is interesting to note
that they may be eaten, in many
different styles OF cooking, all
digestible.
Bread is the outstanding staple
food containing Garh3hydraces-
that Is, the starches and sugars.
For bread-making wheat, rice,
bucl1wheat, barley and Indian
corn are used.
In refining the flour much of
it's protein content Is lost. This.
ho.eyer. is retained in bran
flour and Graham flour. since
de- HI
tein.
Bran flour Is also useful to
promote bowel elimination. and
for the purpose the coarser the
flour the better. The bran irri.
tates the intestinal tract, as it
were by pricking it, and this
makes the tiny muscles in the
intestinal wall contract, thus fore.
ing the digested material forward.
Fruits as well as nuts contain
large amounts Of fats and sugars
Nuts should be eaten sparing-
ly, as they are, likely to cause
Indigestion IL not chewed thor.
oughly. But of fruits few per-
sons eat enough.
AS to green vegetablas-wh!ch
should invariably be included in
every meal excepting breakfast
there are many to choose from.
Fresh vegetables are to be
preferred.
Salts are absolute essentials In
the diet. Most foods contain it.
Nearly all organs OF the body Ie'
quire salt.
Soda, magnesia. potash and
phosphate of lime are the i'm.
p0rtant salts to be found in va.
rious foods.
II would be we'll for everybody
A. study foods n little At least.
To know something shout them
certainly makes one more care.
ful about what 10 s9
The Washington times., 1929-03-08
Exit Mushroom Colleges

ENACTMENT by Congress Of the bill to regulate degree
= comforting educational institutions in the District marked
the elimination efforts started two years ago by the
washington Chamber of Commerce through the committee Of
which Col William o. Tufts is chairman
Under the BILL signed by the President regulations applying
to degrees will made by the Board of Education and these
should make possible the cleaning of situation which has
been blot upon Washngtons educational reputation and
which retarded development of this city great center
for research and higher education.
The end of mushroom institutions and of fake degrees has
apparently been reached the satisfaction Of public private
and civic agencies which gave support TO the
efforts of Colonel Tufts and his committee
The Washington times., 1929-03-08
WORDS FROM LIPS OF WISE MEN

Blessings star forth forever, but
curse
Is like cloud--it passes.
Bailey.
One enemy can do more hurt
than 10 friends can do good
SWIFT.
III you hear with. the faults of
a friend, YOU make them your
own. <--SYRUS.
Few men have virtue 10 with
stand the highest bidder.-Wssh.
ington.
We hear zach cne cur own des-
tins Virgil
The Washington times., 1929-03-08
yONCE-OVERS

You look at of the holding important posi-
ons and you wondered how they them and how they hold
sL<@#
To you these very ordinary.
Your criticize their table dresstheir
conversation.
They polish which society and Of
which have made study,
In consider yourself technique of
gentleman. .r.
In other words you surfaceperfect, f}t f3El
You good mtato clothes personal habits society
tricks and and you "whO is who"
But these things not the fundamental things of l
If you consider them surprising you wonder
how certain men have advanced to their positions
IL matter of these thinking important sub
ecs than how to dress and how act in polite society
Is well to have pleasant address, hut better to have
thorough knowledge underlying principles in s business where
hops fCF important position
The Washington times., 1929-03-08

The opinion of the great body
of the reading public is very ma.
terially influenced even by the
unsupported assertions OF those
who assume right to criticize.
--MACAULAY. j
Bed is "a bundle OF paradoxes;
We go to it with reluctance, yet
we quit it with regret; we make
up our. minds every night to leave
II early. hut we make up our
bodies every morning tn keep ii
late COTTON.
Men of most renowned virtue
have FnnnetinRes. hy tr7nsSressinE
ware triily kept the law
MILTON.
The Washington times., 1929-03-08
MEDITATlONS
OF A WIFE
BY Helen Rowland
DOLLARS AND LOVE

Somebody ought to write book
on How TO Hold a Woman
Love"
In a world overflowing with
advice on how to capture and
hold the elusive male, it would oe
so refreshing. And If Gertrude
Atherton is right, there is 8 cry
ing need for such work.
'"The modern woman" says Mrs.
Atherton. sis finding the modern
man duh and quite bore"
Wouldn't that flatten your marcel
wave!
Yet her statement is backed mp
by the fact that in Washington
a group of debutantes have
formed Bachelor Girls Club.
with the avoWed purpose of dis
couraging marriage and promot-
ing single blessedness.
or course. TO The conuuering
male all this looks like "just g
new gesture just IAN aiibi'' in
case they fail to make the grade
in matrimopy.
Well, let's be perfectly frank
and honest about it. Economic
Independence and modern freedom
have made women lot more
fastidious and "choicy' in the
matter of male companionship.
To a girl with a perfectly good
job and plenty of spending money
marriage looks more like a beau
tiful luxury than like a dire
necessity.
Yet. glorious and thrilling as
economic independence may be, it
will never take the place of
romance. love and marriage in
any normal girls existence. A
career is dazzling and exciting;
but you can't tie ribbons on your
brNin-children nor sing them hula.
bies.
Fame and money and success
are wonderful. But the average
woman Is just that weak"
that she would rather be pinning
laurels on "her man" than win
ming them for herself. And
there is a thrill about having
the man you love buy things for
you that exceeds any thrill you
ever got out of weekly paw
envelope.
No, dear heart! II women are
looking little dubiously at mar
riage. and a little speculativeIy
at men. there is more to 1t than
a mere gesture.
Men have lost their glamorous
charm in the eyes of women be.
cause they have almost forgot
ten how to talk to women or how
to be companionable.
After concentrating his whole
mind of the pursuit of the al
mighty dollar for or 10 hours
a day, about all that man can
think Of to entertain a woman
in the evening is to offer her a
kiss. dinner or diamond
bracelet.
BY the time night comes, the
American business mars isils,.i-
nation has "gone dead his
mind is a total blank and even
his heart has slowed down to
low gear. There isn't sparkle
left anywhere in his tired brain.
and his conversation sounds like
one long yawn.
He can dance. pet and Dlsv
bridge IN \ mechanica sort nf
fashion hut Won sort Of get the
ivuDreSwion thai b 80
inst iH oVder 10 prove that he's
akin conscious.
The Washington times., 1929-03-08
The knowledge Test for
Readers Of The Times

Match correctly:
L Abandon Loathe
q Detest Reside
Dwell Desert
Despotic Industrious
g. Dligent Arbitrary
Do you know:
g. What was first great American novel;
T. Who the head Of the Department of Justice?
s. the god of wine
g. Who was Food Administrator during
World War?
city captured by the aid of wooden horse?
IL What lis amenuenss? til
IA Who said '"The but the guineas stamp?
Complete these quotations:
Is "Ten the truth and shame the - - Shakespeare
IA ITO the Vctors belong the ---.f-Jackson.
Is 80 wind if Winter comes ---- be far behind"
Shelly.
CAnswers Magazine Psge)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-27
|DorothyDix|
Discovers
Good
Points
In Each
The Modern
Versus
The Oid-FdSh-
ion I'd Girl
Modern Girl Differs From Her Old Fashioned
Sister in Just About Every Way Possible.

CORRESPONDENT
4 u of past?
telling mother she off,
still the female girl
maiden yesterday modern
ideals
aspirations than dresses like her
if old-fahoned
with girl
odashoned
ong athletics nothing
taking omne hike and then
the night
THE
seminvalidtm
pinned
unfaihu The girl considers sik
OF td e r hss ps @ saG the T F
all
past abysmay modern girl
cynical and wise beyond her and she brutaly frank
The girl helpless She profession
balance of her ife ~ ~
a independent as are only those who
R whom she works @ ns She ass % Of nT
she should be chaperoned in the evenings
THE for her parents and
anything looks her mother and father over WITH S
that idss :R Ro d Ss a% h
opinions filed away in museum of antiquity.
The modem girl like the get
indifference She to have thought popped
passion Se sutton on0 And s she Rsd
for the man to do the pursuing " ~ ~ ~
s s. and m9n on w s S, nR
herself and
afford wife, she offers to keep on with her job. - ~ ~
differences between the girl and tho modern
girl Each had good points the produced her
tcu.,. 1000, DOROTHY
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-27
SUB ROSA
In Season and Out.
BIZ MIMI.

One thing above all others that Is
calculated to get my goat Is the trick
some people have Of twisting the calen-
dar. AS soon as Summer comes they go
North, where it's cold; but when the
cold of Winter sets in they go South.
where it's warm. II they d only sit still
the weather would come around to
them, all right.
Summer Is the time to be warm. WHY
wear a straw hat and an overcoat?
But Summer is not necessarily the time
to sweat, so W. lear furs IN the good
old summertim . Why HE yourself off
to the North when other people are
swinging In their hammocks at home?
Or when Winter comes why turn your
face toward the Tropics as ii you pre-
ferred Summer sands to Winter SHOWS
and swimming to sleighing? If people
they ought to go to Uruguay or Pata-
gonia, where the seasons are the oppo-
site Of ours.
These people who want to alter the
almanac are just as anxious to change
sea into land. Their demands are such
that ships don't have portfolios, hatch
ways and berths the way they used to,
but windows, elevators and beds. When
you take a voyage on a modern steamer
you aren't on ship any more, but a
floating hotel.
At Summer resorts these folks who
like to monkey with the seasons are
lust as likely to turn country into city.
They sweat IN the dance more than
they sport In the waves. Mountain
trails are ignored for the golf course
and the beauty of the scenery is lost
behind the bridge tables The feet and
hands which might tread the trails and
clutch at the crags are used to swing
the golf clubs and shuttle deck OF
cards
When these twisters are once abroad
they look UP other Americans and start
talking about home affairs. They pass
up the tricky dishes of foreign hotel
and try to get mess of wheat cakes
with the usual varnish on them. They
are just as energetic In shifting the
map of Europe and America as they
are in changing the calendar when they
are home.
I'd just hate to tell you how goofy l
think such people are. My word! Why
can't these gumps take things as they
come. Summer in Summertime and
Winter in Winter, home when you're
home and abroad when you're abroad?
That's only common sense, but these
mixed nuts want something different.
How provincial, how perverse some
people can be! There's a certain ar
rangement of things in this old world
just as there is in the natural course of
human events. When people are GENT
Inc and clear-headed, they follow the
schedule.
But these people who want to make
other arrangements! Well, fortunately
there aren't many of them, but they
are pretty much in evidence when they
are around. They are just poor fish
out Of water or clans out of their shells.
Copyright. 1927
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-27
Everyday Psychology
By DIR. JESSE W. sPRoWLs.
Infant Intelligence.

Those who consider adopting children
are always puzzled and often restrained
by curious, not to say serious, psy-
Geological problem. We may state that
problem as follows: Should the foster
parents be influenced more by the his
tory of the childs family than by its
present behavior?
Any anatomist who knows his busi-
ness can predict fairly accurately how
tall the child will be when fully grown,
how much it will weigh, etc. Can an
expert psychologist tell anything for
certain about it's adult temperament, its
future mental abilities, it's probable sue
cess in school and in some vocation?
Modern psychologists make the claim
that they can predict the psychological
development of an infant quite as accu-
rately as the anatomiSt can foretell its
physical development.
Simple psychological tests have been
given infants before they were months
old, and the results have been carefully
studied as the tested infants grew up
through the childhood periods.
These child psychologists find that
any given individual maintains within
close limits a relative standing. If he
is an intelligent infant, as infants go,
he will be an intelligent child at 4, 6
or any other age level.
Since now any individual tends to
maintain a relative mcltal status from
birth on, one may say that intelligence
may be predicted by the aid of psy-
Geological tests, even in infancy.
In adopting child one would nat
urally be influenced by its heredity.
At the same time infant behavior seems
to go long way in predicting adult
accomplishments, regardless of heredity.
(Copyrisht. 1921
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Today in
Washington History
BIZ DONALD A. CRAIG.

September ~, 1S65.-Another crowd
Of amnesty pardon seekers was in at
tendance at the White House today.
Among them was the Confederate Gen.
Peck of Mississippi. The issuing OF
pardoAs by President johnson has been
NO systematized that nothing can be
done by these applicants except to wait
for their turn The lady visitors, as
usual, were quite numerous at the EX-
ecutive Mansion today.
Two colored' men and a colored
woman were among those at the White
House seeking an interview with Presi-
dent johnson. They desired to ask for
pardon for their former master,
man named Williams, who at the out
break of the war was wealthy citizen
of Virginia and owned a number of
slaves. 1t appears from the state
ments Of these colored persons that
some time ago. The application has not
yet been acted upon, and these three
former slaves are here to intercede in
behalf of their old master.
The health of President Johnson and
the members of his family continues to
be good. With the approach of the
cooler season, the hope is entertained
that the occupants OF the White House
will hereafter be spared the Visitations
Of illness from which they have so fire.
quently suffered during the Summer.
AS usual before the opening of Con-
gross, politicians from all parts of the
country have begun to flock to Wash
ington. Several prominent New York
politicians arrived this morning, among
them being Dean Richmond, who sue
ceeded in obtaining an interview with
President johnson soon after he got
here.
The conductors and drivers of the
Washington e. Georgetown Railroad Co.
had an enjoyable picnic this afternoon
at Washington Park. The railroad
company, through its president, George
S. Gideon, furnished a handsome team
for the use of the band. 1t consisted
of a coach and six black horses, which,
with handsome trappings. flags, etc, at
tracted much attention on its way
through the streets to the park. The
band was Lilies. composed of excellent
musicians from the Seventh Street Bar
racks, who volunteered for the occasion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-27

"You know that small room down in
the basement. Well, instead of using it
for fruit cellar why can't we find an
other place for the fruit and make that
room into a recreation room?
I'VE can have a cobblestone fireplace
with benches around the wall. We can
have refectory table, a blackboard for
the children and a small serving counter
with an opening through which we can
pass food. We will use that ourselves
when I have the men downstairs. Oh,
I can see all sorts of possibilities for
the room. A table for billiards or ping
pong, trophies on the wall-why, every
thing man or boy wants can be right
down there"
"Just whom did you say you were
planning this room for?" asked Nancy,
softly, and Peter had the grace to grin.
Men like sandwiches Write to Nancy
Page, care Of this paper, inclosing a stamped.
sslf-addressed envelope asking for her leafiet
on sandwiches.
(COpyright, 1927
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Eighteen.D Day Diet.

From the cinema stronghold in Cali
fornia has come the 18-day reducing
diet which has already found place on
the menus of certain restaurants in our
large cities. Some Of the readers of
this column have been asking for copy
Of this diet Inlch I am giving below.
It has been limited that the partiality
shown to grapefruit and oranges in this
diet may have been inspired by the
citrus fruit growers. Although these
fruits are wholesome and palatable they
are used so freely in this diet that one
Is almost sure to become very tired Of
them.
Breakfast is the same every day. con-
sisting of half grapefruit, one slice of
toast and coffee with little milk and
sugar. The menus for the rest of the
day are as follows:
First day-lunch: Half a grapefruit,
one egg (any way but fried). six slices
cucumber, one slice of toast, tea or cof-
fee. Dinner: Two eggs, one tomato,
half head of lettuce, half grapefruit.
Second day-lunch: One orange, one
egg, half head lettuce, one slice toast.
tea or coffee. Dinner: Broiled steak,
half head lettuce, one tomato, half a
grapefruit.
Third day-lunch: Half grapefruit,
one egg, half head lettuce, six slices
cucumber, tea or coffee. Dinner: Half
grapefruit, one lamb chop, one egg, half
head lettuce, two olives.
Fourth day-lunch: Half grapefruit,
pot cheese. one tomato, one slice toast.
tea or coffee. Dinner: Broiled steak,
watercress, half grapefruit.
Fifth day-lunch: One orange. one
lamb chop. half head lettuce. Dinner:
Half grapefruit, half h>&a lettuce, one
tomato, two eggs.
Sixth day-lun-a: tine grange, tea.
Dinner: Two poathed eggA, aae slice
toast, one orange.
Seventh day--lunch: A6n GRAPEFRUIT.
two eggs, half head lettuce. one tomato,
two olives. Dinner: Half grapefruit,
two lamb chops, six slices cucumber,
two olives, one tomato. half head lettuce.
Eighth day-lunch: Half grapefruit,
one broiled lamb chop, half head let
tuce. Dinner: Half grapefruit. two
eggs, asparagus, plain spinach, slice of
toast.
Ninth day-lunch: Half grapefruit