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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-27

M r nau SOne jam VIC AnVe jos.
IS and cream cheese, If we had
some cream cheese" observed
Young bachelor girl friend of
mine after we had been chatting
with her in her wee apartment Tor
an hour or so the other evening. Then
she added. with well assumed air OF
regret. "Only unfortunately we are
ali out of crackers-and you simply
can't eat jam and cream cheese With
out the crackers" >.
The idea was good one even II
1t wasn't particularly satisfying at the
time Jam and cream cheese and
crisp crackers-with a cup OF tea or
coffee-provide informal refreshments
that almost every one enjoys.
When friends drop IN unexpectedly
in the afternoon or IN the evening ano
linger for a few rounds Of bridge or an
hour or two of conversation you Will
find that they usually enjoy this simple
spread quite as much as they would
elaborate cakes and ice cream. So
it is a good plan to have on hand a
few jars of choice jam and some UNI
opened packages, Of crackerS-of the
Saline or butter-thin sort. Then II
YOU are fortunate enough to have some
cream cheese in the refrigerator your
refreshments are ready.
There are ever so many sorts OF jam
to be bought nowadays and 1t Is
| good plan to have more than one sort
| to offer. Apricot jam is enjoying quite
| a vogue this Winter. It Is often served
/ with waters or thin slices of buttered
| toast for afternoon tea when the cream
cheese really is not necessary. Black
cherry jam imported from Switzerland
| is also delicious. Gooseberry jam is
| liked by many persons and strawberry
and raspberry jam are old favorites.
| For the very, very informal spread
you may be content to serve the jams
| in the jars or glasses in which they
are sold, but it is a matter OF con-
venience as we'll as daintineSS to have
two or three specially attractive jam
lars in which to serve 1t. Some of
these are made with covers provided
with a little niche at the side for the
handle of the spoon.
Many persons like to have butter with
cheese and waters. It is, you know,
the English custom always to serve
butter-usually of the unsalted sort
with cheese and crackers, or biscuits,
as our English friends would call them.
It is always attractive to serve the
butter in the form Of balls or crisp
eurls, made with French butter-shav-
ing device A butter spike or fork
should be laid on the side Of the dish
in which the butter is served and a
fiat cheese knife with the cheese. Bread
and butter knives should be placed on
the individual plates TO be used in
spreading the cheese, or butter and
cheese, on the crackers. The jam taken
from the jam jar on the plate Is also
spread with the butter knife.
tCopyright, 1921
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-27
BY ALLENE SUMNER.

Something must be done about wom-
ems handbags-Some system devised
whereby one mere female prowling
around in her reticule for a street-car
ticket, theater ticket, stamp or some
loose change can be prevented from
holding up line and making people of
importance miss trains, mails, the
chance to get into the show on time
and all sorts of greater and lesser mis-
hapS.
Women have been riled for some time
at the male idea that they are SLOW
pokeS" They have audibly resented
the wisecracis about their inefficiency
regarding the aforementioned things.
Woman defender though I am, I am
convinced that the wisecracks are justi-
fed, and that something must be done
to speed up the routine of everyday
living. Right now woman and her
handbag is q block to the wheels of
progress.
just do little personal research the
next time, for instance, you 60 to the
post Office for some Stampsl II the ma
iority of persons preceding you in the
line are men, you may get home in
time for ST. Swithin's day. If, how
ever. beige hose bedeck the legs ahead.
you're doomed not to be out Of the
trenches before Christmas!
The woman ahead of me in the post
Office line yesterday had one simple
little letter to mail. She asked the
clerk If he could read the address plain
ly. Then she ordered a stamp. AS he
gave her that, she changed her mind
and decided to take five. Then she be-
accessories, the handbag, to find her
money. And the process was long.
She brought forth a vanity case, a
lipstick, her check book, time table,
some rubber bands, some safety pins,
some clips. lead pencil. a handker-
chief, a perfume flask, q key ring, box
Of aspirin. In frenzy she laid these on
Che window ledge and they rolled on.
A few chivalrous men scrambled 70 pick
up the loot 1t was 10 minutes before
that simple little matter of buying a
2-cent stamp was attended to.
I think that woman was careless and
awkward. but do know that the bags
We carry are fiendishly complicated.
We open an outer clasp; We open two
or three inner ones and finally, much
in the manner of an Arabian Nights"
genie, peeling off outer husks till the
real pearl Is found In the golden casket
within the golden trunk within the
kUOIl WltAllll kOluCIl HdldCCs
We may. If lucky. find that which we
seek.
Everywhere you go you see women
holding up the parade" because of
their habitual and modish method of
carrying an amazing collection Of "es-
Sentjal" impedimenta around with them.
Men, with their clothes equipped with
many pockets in convenient places, do
not impede business nearly so much as
Milady, with her one bullying pocket
carried In her hand.
Does it mean we should have pockets
in our skirts just as men have them In
their trousers? Something must be done
pronto, and don't mean maybe! For ]
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-27
Feats Your Child
Should Perform

The child of ought to be able to
dress himself. At least he should be
made to take the initiative in the mat
ter, getting help with difficult buttons,
lacing of shoes and other more difficult
feats. But don't expect that any child
of 4 or 5 is going to be made to dress
himself unless he has been gradually
given certain responsibilities in dress
ing.
The child of 7 or 9 ought, of
course, to be able to dress himself en-
tirely, even to brushing his own hair,
and the child of 8 or 9 ought GER
tainly to be able to assume response
bilities for his bath and to put himself
to bed without much assistance. Usual
ly, of course. some sort Of parental as
sistance or supervision is necessary and
may be necessary until a child reaches
his teens. Children older than that
sometimes need a little cooperation
when it comes to such apparently
trivial matters as washing ears and
wrists.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-27

call them boomers at all. They look
more like the puffs that gentlemen Of
the reign of Queen Elizabeth wore at
the top of their skin-tight breeches.
Knee-length nightgowns are still
not generally accepted-and 1t may
be that by the time we have come
to regard the normal hemline for a
nightgown somewhere about the knees.
the generally accepted longer skirt for
frocks will make it seem trifle out OF
date.
The objection to the generally ac-
cepted longer nightgown is that it does
look a trifle awkward under a negligee
or bath robe of the shorter sort.
However, women have grown ac-
customed this Winter to the evening
wrap Of knee length with the longer
evening skirt. Only evening gowns
had dropping or uneven hemlines which
seemed to go better with the shorter
wrap than the even, long hem. And
now the lingerie makers are offering
the dropping nightgown, knee length
at the front, nearly full length at the
back.
(Copyright, 1927
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-27

gradually her expression changed from
one of hopeless perplexity to unhappi-
ness and from that to sort of sharp
sullenness, which was not pretty.
She was not ugly; quite the reverse.
Her gray eyes were fine, her complexion
good, and her features finely cut. But
she was one of those girls who must
depend on expression and personality
for their charm.
She could have been given that with
proper sympathy and correct handling
on the part of her parents at the plastic
age of 10. But they failed her grossly.
She will always be plain Madge."
They helped Viola, who needed no
help, and neglected Madge, who needed
1t desperately.
Had the ages of the girls been re-
versed, the moral effect would not have
been so shattering. for most younger
sisters expect to look up to older ones.
But when an older sister is relegated
to the background by the good looks
and the greater brilliance of a younger
sister, the older girl has most en-
barrassing and unhappy time of 1t.
1t is not only great mistake, but 1t
takes the blue ribbon for refined
cruelty to lavish praise and attention
ON the child who is interesting and
neglect the one who Is not.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-27
An Inferiority Complex

a "6s" in grammar carried their own
news.
Failed again, didn't you? Well,
Viola is skipping your grade. She'll be
ahead of you now"
Viola had the center of the stage and
kept It, And Madge. stunned with fall
ure and trying to bear up under dis
grace, watched her pretty sister grow
prettier.
At the January mark-down sales,
their mother took them foraging for
dresses. 1t was treat to get things
for Viola, she said, but when it came to
Madge, I'D rather do a days wash
ing!" Something very plain and dark, ="
she would tell the clerks. mo. can't
tell you the size. Just so it's long
enough to cover her legs"
Viola made friends fast She began
to have girls in to spend the night.
Rightly they should have been Madge's
friends. They were her age, but they
were in Viola's room at school. Another
reminder of Madge's failure.
Madge never analysed anything, but
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-27

There Is undoubtedly a sentiment at
Cacheo to being slave to ones chill
dren, but We are not one of those who
subscribe to it. Even "a tiny baby must
learn that there are other adults who
can very well attend to some of his
needs and that mother cannot al
ways be an inevitable adjunct to every
situation surrounding him.
1t is taken for granted that mothers
do need recreation. 1t sounds beau
tiful for mother to say: "Oh, I'd
much rather stay at home and take
care of my baby" but it isn't good
sense. Just getting away for two or
three hours will make a mother over.
She returns to her tasks with renewed
yigor and she has an added apprecia-
ton of her baby. He looks Sweeter
and better to her than he did only two
hours before. When she finds that he
has been happy and contented in her
absence she goes away the next time
without that oppressive emotion of i'm
pending calamity that is bound to at
tack the mother who goes away too
little. In fact, the more one stays in
ones four walls the more terrifying
anything outside of those walls becomes
There is nothing SO insidious and yet
SO tangible as the tyranny of four
walls.
For the nursing mother the relief
bottle is both a graceful means of exit
from regular nursing periods and q
method of apprising his highness that
there are ''others" beside his mother.
From the baby's standpoint relief
bottles are doubly valuable. Not only
Is his small stomach introduced to a
new food that it will have to grapple
with in the not far distant future, but
the links of his absolute dependence
upon his mother are looSened. Both
situations arc inevitable in the future
How much better to plan for and look
forward to emergencies Should an &C.
casion arise when mother would OF
necessity be separated from the baby
and his food supply stopped, he woulc
not be inconvenience by the transition
to all bottles nor would those who were
put in charge of him.
Relief bottles should not be too regu'
lar in their occurrence. 1t isn't strictly
a relief bottle If mother gives it to bah!
every afternoon at 2. q bottle O
that regularly is rightfuiiy the begin
ming of the yeAning period, for /
mother consistently refuses to nurs
the baby at one period in the day TN
milk supply is bound to diminish ant
first one, then two and inevitably al
bottles will be the result
The relief bottle is to be used occa
sionally and at any period Thus
becomes useful when mother runs owe
to see Aunt Nell, or father and mothe
go to the theater or play bridge or g
to Wednesday night prayer meeting.
It is wise to begin by giving thi
bottle several times when mother Is a
home. If in addition she let's som
one else offer it she has very excellen
opportunity to see how much bedlar
young son is going TO raise when
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-27
BY OLIVER ROBERTS BARTON.
Madge had shot up like bad weed.
At ID she was as stringy as bean

Madge had shot up like bad weed.
At 13 she was as stringy as bean
--unbeautiful, awkward, pathetic.
Viola was exactly II, and as beauti-
fully perfect as bisque figure.
Midyear tests were over. Report
cards were out.
In rushed Viola excitedly: Mother,
I'm class leader again, and tomorrow
when we're promoted Miss Heron
thinks I'm to skip room Is and go on
to Is. What do you know about that!'
why I know you're the smartest,
best girl in the world, that's what!
Just wait till tell Daddy"
"I'll tell him myself" And Viola
pirouetted to the telephone.
In came Madge with the twin to
Viola's brown envelope.
"Report?" asked her mother.
She held 1t out and her mother took
it and scanned it quickly. No magic
red ink on the margin testified that one
Madge Murray had been promoted to
the next grade. A "65" in history, and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-27
Stars Are Retained
In Vogue of Today
The vogue for stars remains.

The vogue Tor stars remains.
A striking and beautiful evening
gown is made of deep blue velvet en-
broidered with silver stars. Silver and
blue-midnight sky. Frock, trimming
and color are all in lovely harmony.
Lampshades find in stars most eff
fective decoration. Stars of white or
silver on blue ceilings are used in an
occasional unconventionally modernis-
tic room. And screens of heavy paper,
in silver or gilt or blue, arc decorated
with stars-silver on the blue, gold on
the silver, white on the gold, perhaps.
A cocktail coat of black net or
georgette embroidered with silver stars
is a most becoming addition to the
sleeveless black evening frock.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-27
Ientils and Mushrooms.

Cook half pound of lentils thorough
ly and season with pepper and salt.
Skin half a pound of mushrooms. or
use canned ones. then put layer in a
buttered dish with butter dotted over
of seasoned ientilS, moistening each
layer with milk. Cover with fine
bread crumbs. bits of butter. and bake
until the mushrooms are tender. Cream
sauce may be used in place Of milk.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-27
BY MARY MARSHALL.

T INTEREST in lingerie certainly Is not
to be measured by its bulk.
Never before have women worn
4 so few underthings-Save possibly
in France shortly after the Revo-
luton. 1t was in those days that
women of fashion sometimes amused
themselves by laying wagers on the
total weight of their apparel, and the
woman whose entire ensemble weighed
the least was counted the victor-no
matter who won the wager.
Certainly undertakings have never
been SO light of weight nor so brief.
Once a woman of means carried sew
eral large trunks of underclothes when
she went on an extended visit Now
fashionable woman can tuck away a
daily change of lingerie for two-week
visit in the crevices of her hat box.
A nightgown and days change might,
suppose, be carried in jewel case
Frock skirts are certainly longer but
NOT so boomers and step-ins. It is
only as an act of courtesy that one can
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-27
Here's Easy Way to
Make ButtonhOles

The easiest way to make buttonholes
is to mark them first lightly with a
pencil, using a ruler and measuring
them precisely the right length. Be-
fore you cut them stitch around with
the sewing machine-and then cut
them. After that the actual work OF
doing the buttonholing is quite simple.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-27
A Plea for Pockets

shall wiring the neck of any damsel
who holds me up at any window the
next time! To be sure. like my own
privileges in this respect.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-27
Crackers and Jam Hold Tea Vogue
BY BETSY CALLISTER.

<<YFI had some jam we'd have jam
IS and cream cheese, II we had
some cream cheese" observed
Young bachelor girl friend of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-18
SHIELDS VICTOR
IN FIGHT over
COLLEGE POLICY
Re- Elected Chairman of
Des Moines University
Trustees Board.

BIZ JHifed Press
BUFFALO, N. Y, May 18,--Dr. j.
T. Shields stood victorious today
in "the battle Of Des Moiues uni
versity,' which began with an egg
and vegetable bombardnlent in
Iowa, went through the law courts
and apparently came to an end
here in the convention of the Bap-
fist Bible union.
Besides being reelected chairman
of the board of trustees of the
school, Shields received the unani-
nous support of the delegates at
the meeting of the Bible Union.
which controls Des Moines univer-
sity.
Two Opponents Give Up
His two chief opponents, Dean E..
c. Galloway of the university and
the Rev Minor Stephens, a MEM
Der of the board of trustees, gave
up the fight as early as Friday
morning and left for Des Moines.
They had failed in their attempt
to convince the delegates that
Shields was in the wrong when he
dismissed the faculty, including DR..
Harry Wayman, president of the
university. for alleged leaningS to-
ward modernism and for asserting
failure to maintain discipline.
Students, who had hurled vege-
tables and bad eggs at the admin
istration building as q, protest
against Shields action, have OBJ
tanned an injunction requiring the
university to hold classes and fac
ulty members returned to their
posts temporarily.
Meet Next in Indiana
What the future holds for Des
Moines university has not been de-
cided, but it was obvious today that
Shields will have much to do with
making the decision when the time
comes.
He planned to leave for his home
i'll Toronto today for a visit.
After that he will go to Dies
Moines, where, in about two weeks,
he is expected to call a meeting of
the executive committee of the
board of trustees to make plans for
the fall session of the school.
The union delegates selected
MishaWaka, Ind, &C the place for
the 1886 convention.
Miss Edith Rebman. secretary of
the university, who supported
Shields throughout the controversy,
was reelected.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-18
Special for Air Show

Special cachet for air mail letters
dispatched from here during the In
dianapolis air show, May 27 to June
q, has been obtained by the Embry-
Riddle company, air mail operators,
it was announced today by Evans
Chatfeld, assistant to the general
manager.
A different color ink will be used
on the cachet each day of the show.
In addition, another cachet has been
provided for the Speedway race Me-
mortal day.
A special postoffice booth will be
placed at the air show by Postmaster
Robert H. Bryson, providing accom-
modations for mailing air mail let
tets.
More than HOO air mail letters to
be sent during the show have been
forwarded here by stamp collectors
from all over the country.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-18
BUSBY RITES SUNDAY
Cleveland Blast Victims Are
BROUGHT Here.

Funeral services will be held Sun
day afternoon at at the North
Park Christian church, Twenty
ninth street and Kenwood avenue,
for Mr.. and Mrs. w. w. Busby, 1923
East Thirty-fifth street. who lost
their lives in the Cleveland Clinic
disaster Wednesday. The bodies
were returned at p. m. Friday.
The Rev. J. A. Long. pastor Of
the North Park church, will officiate
After the services the bodies will be
at the Busby home from to p m.
Burial will be in LaWrenceburg,
Ind, Monday.
The Busbys were believed to have
been waiting in the clinic lobby for
an appointment with DR.. George w.
Grille. head of the institution, when
the disaster occurred.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-18
SLACK FAVORS 10-YEAR
CITY BUILDING SURVEY
Program Will Benefit indianapolis,
Says Mayor.

Mayor L. Ert Slack today ap-
proved the proposal for a ten-year
capital improvement program which
was advocated by william H. Book,
Chamber of Commerce civic d1rec-
tor.
II think it would be fine for In
dianaoplis to set up d ten-year
program. It would help us TO ham
die the various projects in the order
Of their Importance if we coould get
together with the school city and
the county organization" Slack said.
Nov on the airport project, the
county has a responsibility in help
ing the city provide good highways
in that vicinity. The county also
should have part in the acquisi-
ton of food lands along the streams
in the county"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-18
Daddy Browning to GiUe Millions
to Make Ne1U York Poor Kids Happy

and include apartment hotels and
elevator apartments the length
and breadth of Manhattan.
With part of the proceeds
Browning will establish his found
dation.
THE foundation will operate
l. and maintain Fairgrounds for
children in various parts Of the
city. preferably near hospitals,
and endow hospitals with expen-
sive permanent toys and play
things for child patients.
Large doll houses. mechanical
railways, model farms, race
courses and anything else that
Daddy can think of will be fur
nished to make sickness a pleasure.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-18
TRADE HELD Up
AS WAR THREAT
Chicago University Dean Is
institute Speaker.

International trades hindrance to
peace and the methods Of re-
making public opinion to ban war
was the theme Of Dean Smaller
Mathews of the University of Chi
cago at banquet Of the Midwest
Institute on International Relations
Friday night at the Lincoln.
You never can get people to-
gether by socializing them. The
driving force of all great move
ments that have made epochs in
history usually is hatred. When
you do things. you must have some
thing to dislike" he urged.
Following reports of leaders of
round-table discussion on Latin
America at Friday afternoons SEES
sion, DR.. Rudolph Broda Of the
science department of Antioch col
lege, introduced the following reso-
luton. adopted by the institute;
This conference appeals to the
United States senate to ratify the
Pan-American treaty for compulsory
arbitration signed in January by
the United States government"
The resolution adopted was the
first official action taken by the edu-
cational peace organization
DR. j. Fred Rippy Of Duke uni
versity climaxed the afternoons
session of the institute, when he told
the delegates that the greatest
need of the two Americas is CO.
operation in dealing with their re-
spective problems.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-18
Giant Parcel in Air Mail

The largest air mail package ever
dispatched by the Indianapolis
postofice was delivered to the
Emily Riddle Aviation Corporation
plane Thursday.
The package, sent by Norman c..
Hetrick. Bloomfield, to H. F. Ecker
& Co., Philadelphia. was two feet
square and one foot thick. contained
four sample hand-painted candy
boxes and cost S14.40 to mail.