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DOROTHY DIX'S LETTER BOX
Family Members Who Are Obliged to Bear the
misunderstanding Prospects of Widow
With Children.

DEAR
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but had to quit early in order make money for the fsmn %
have home of but desires continually blocked By present
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all and
girls who have been martyrs TO their families
incompetent and houseu Of
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brothers
had all thoughts
The family How young have known who ever since they
pns and desires ambitions that their younger Brothers and sisters might
have a better opportunity in Life than they had
people
taking all that their children do for them more than their due and the
matter Of course they would father and mother were paying the bills they
think Just peTSona that old John went to college and
takes Of mother In the evenings thinks
having pleasure herself
there dumping
ghtened the victims refusing bear the whole load and dividing
der put brothers through college have known who kept the girls
bodied sisters ens and have thought how much better would
a CRATER Of a 60
and the martyr girl little Of their
is profit being the family DOROTHY
DEAR
going with who wonderful
Thought giving babys
would advise me to doP PUZZLED
you upon marriage purely ticket for
and baby should certainly advise to
you wasting your trying "1 'u HN'O anu
wake want to marry
with children and this being the why not work and
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-12

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-12
PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE
BIZ WILLIAM BRADY, M. D.

be an excessive smoker Maybe some
of you scrawny folk viii recall what we
said here some time ago about the Gig
aret hogs duodenal ulcer complex. II
you don't remember but do play hog
with your smoking, let me repeat that
In not few instances tobacco excess
causes q very imposing group Of symp-
toms, all the typical symptoms Of duo
denal ulcer, and If you're not careful
some ever-ready operator may realize
the truth of this only after he has
opened you by mistake. Far be 1t from
me to take the joy out of anybcdy's
life, but I do earnestly advise thin folk
particularly to be temperate In their
smoking.
Somach ulcer is almost o familiar
condition at least to Valetudinarians.
Sometimes 1t Is better known as peptic
or as gastric ulcer. Duodenal ulcer Is
less familiar yet more frequent. The
causes, symptoms and treatment Of ul-
Ger are much the same, whether It Is In
the upper or the lower stomach.
If you have the makings Of an ulcer,
In either stomach or just in your mind,
watch this corner for further and,
hope, helpful inside information on the
subject II people will have these tricky
little erosions In their midstS they may
as well understand precisely what
Copyright. isso.)
The United States uses mora ttan
one-half Of Brazil's coffee production.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-12
Today in
Washington History
BY DONALD A. CRAIG.

March IL, 1793.-Maj Andrew ELL
colt. who has been head Of the survey
ing department of the Federal City,
was discharged from that position today
by the Commissioners of the District of
! Columbia. With him go Isaac Briggs,
BENJAMIN Ellicott and George Fenwick,
composing his corps of assistants.
This action is the result of serious diff
ferences of opinion which have existed
for some time between Maj. Ellicott and
the Commissioners over the surveying
work
It is hardly year since Maj Ellicott
was placed at the head of the surveying
department His relations with the
Commissioners became so strained about
the first of this year that on January 8
he notified them that he would leave
the service of the city on the frst OF
next May. This was in response to a
letter from the official heads Of the city,
expressing their disappointment because
of the slow progress that Maj Ellicott
and his corps Of assistants were making
in the surveying work. They also
charged him with having made errors
In the surveys.
President Washington is expected to
come here in the course OF a week or
so, and it is probable that he will give
personal consideration to the contro-
versy that has arisen between the Com
missioners and Maj Ellicott. Some per-
sons believe that Gen. Washington will
be able to smooth the matter over and
that Maj. Ellicott will soon return to
his position as head Of the surveying
department.
It is rumored that one of the rea-
sons for the Commissioners decision
to discharge him from his post was that
they considered him to have been lack
ing in respect to his superiors. II the
differences are mainly personal, as this
would indicate, 1t is considered likely
that Gen. Washington, with his well
known abilities in that sphere, will be
able to straighten them out and restore
peaceful and friendly relations between
the surveyor and the city heads.
Maj. Ellicott himself insists that he
can give a satisfactory explanation of
everything that has been done since he
has been in charge of the surveying,
and furthermore that he has never in
tended to act in a diSrespectful manner
toward the Commissioners.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-12
Household Methods
BY BETSY CALLTsTER.

If you are a busy housewife, don't go
on a long shopping tour without max
ing plans for it at least a day in adj
vance. When you decide at the last
minute to go shopping you leave your
house without having made proper ar
rangements for dinner. Often you need
to buy something for which you should
take measurements or carry samples.
If you go at the last minute you cannot
attend to these things. You should so
arrange things, If you keep no maid,
that dinner will need scarcely any
preparation when you come home tired
late in the afternoon. Much Of this
can be attended to the day before.
Don't think there Is economy IN get
ting along on very light lunch. Some
women think they can stand more II
they eat very lightly. This Is often
because when they eat enough they eat
the wrong things. Your shopping lunch
should be hearty but simple. Remem-
Der, you are using up a good deal o.
energy when you shop and you neec
substantial food to keep you going.
If you are inclined to make .pur-
chases that you regret later. make
rule never to buy anything that Is moi
down on your shopping list when YOU
don't go home without getting the arti.
cles on your list. You made that lis
out when you had time to think senstbly
and wisely. You were better able tc
decide what you needed then than you
are to decide what you do not neec
now.
(CopyrtRht, 1901
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-12
Are You Buying "Home"G

Buying ones "home" Is as responsible
a task as ever befalls one. Generally
one cannot exchange" . home or re-
turn it. once bought 1t must be re-
tanned and resided in. No possible
caution and deliberation is superhuous
In selecting and purchasing that home.
Six necessary factors in buying 9
home are: A reliable rea1tor, good
architect, o good lending or financing
institution, a good builder, q good deco
rator and good gardener. It Is under
stood, Of course, that some OF these
may be disregarded by the buyer look
ing for q home already built.
While the home itself Is what we
eo;,al attention, If the home is in
the suburbs, consult the time tables, In
Quire about building restrictions and
don't be afraid to display curiosity
about your future neighbors.
When one Is considering the .pur..
chase of home in recently developed
section It is well to investigate both
the developer and the permanence OF
his Improvements" Look into the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-12
SPRINGTIME.
By D. O. PEATTM.

Records kept over the course Of years
Of residence near Washington have
never brought me any nearer to an
answer as to which flower blooms first
Of all in Spring. This may be due to
the lack of methods in my records, but,
try as I can, I cannot say whether the
silver maple or the hazel is the first to
break the bonds of Winter. In any case,
they are hard to find around my neigh
borhood, and have always lodged the
issue by passing on to the red maple
and the alder.
Once again the race is between repre-
sentativeS of the maple and birch
families, but my records quarrel with
each other. year by year.
If turn to the little lawn weeds I
find that the blue eyes of speedwell and
the white ones of chickweed open in the
same week, followed by the little henbit
with roseate flowers and tiny white
cabbage is undoubtedly the earliest
wildfower that is at all common, but
in certain high, rocky woods above the
Potomac there blooms already a plant
as rare as skunk cabbage is common.
as beautiful as it is ridiculous. The
ground or moss pink, priced in rock
gardens, with flowers very like to a
maiden pink, though really a sort OF
creeping, almost shrubby phlox, is the
fairest, rarest sprite of all our very
earliest flowers.
Preachers in Easter sermons, poets
in nature lovers magazine verse-f1ller
chant of bluets and bloodroot as If they
were our earliest flowers. But preachers
and poets are only sometimes good OBJ
servers. The moss pink, like the wood
cock. is an early, early harbinger to
which no odes are addressed. Like the
woodcock. it passes unrecognized by the
shipping, snatching Sunday picnic hordes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-12
LITTLE BENNY
By LEE PAPR.

Last mite I came home late for supper
agen, thinking, Heck. I wish had a
good excuse, wish Id been asleep or
something instead of our playing.
Being a 1deer, and I thawt. @, I
know, ~ go up and lay down In my
bed little while and then I can saw
dident hear the bell ring for supper.
and 1t VIII be the truth too, because
neither did I, because wasent home.
And opened the frunt door easy
and snuck upstairs to my room and
layed down on my bed, and the next
thing knew I woke UP on account
OF hearing pops voice downstairs, and
my room was dark as anything, and
pop was saying, But tell you he cant
be up in his room, I happened to be
up there and looked in Just before I
went down to supper. I don't think
ANYTHING could Of happened to him,
but its darn queer, can't think Of any
other place to fone to, he Sed,
We've Toned everywhere except to the
pleece station, and I have a morbid
horrer OF foning there, ma sed. o deer
this is awful, she sed.
Me thinking, Good mite went to
sleep and supper is all over and every
thing.
And got up and leened over the
bannisters, saying, What times it, pop,
what time is it, ma?
o thank heaven, ma sed, and pop
sed, Well for blazes sake, Where the
dooce have you been? he sed.
Sir? I layed down in my bed for a
little, rest and I must of went to sleep
without knowing it. sed. Is supper
reddy? I sed, and pop sed, Ask me
tomorrow about hours erlier. When
did you go up in that room? he sed.
Sir? Just after I got home, sed,
and pop sed, And when did you get
home? and sed. Sir2 Just before I
came up here.
Come down here, pop sed. WITCH I
did slow, and pop sed, Now Ill give
you the consolation of telling you that
what's going to happen to you has very
little to do with you personally but is
merely an outlet for the pent up feel
ings of myself and your mother.
Not making 1t feel any better.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-12

story's inception are being gently re-
leased.
Meanwhile Gloria is making story
called What a Widow" and that is
that. Harry D'Arrast, a famous direc-
tor of the silent regime, will direct her.
He has been at work on the Ronald
Colman version of "Raffles," but mys-
teriously walked out when the picture
was half completed-and try to get
the real reason in Hollywood!
It is not the first picture to be made
by more than one director, nor will 1t
be the last. There was John Barry
more picture, 1.-THE Tempest" If re-
member correctly, on which four direc-
tors worked inside of a months time,
Camilla Horn made her Hollywood de-
but in this story, and it lived up to its
title all the way through.
Speaking Of svelte ladies, Virginia
Valli is 1.-the enough to suit Hollywood
and that is a strict standard. Charlie
Farrell is her best beau. They are sell
dom seen at public functions in other
company. Virginia Valli is q retiring
type. One of the smartest women in
the colony in matters of chic, she Is
seldom mentioned as such. for the rea-
son that her clothes are simple and
unostentatiously worn. She is a men
tai type. Her comments on current lit
erature have decided point.
Walter Huston Is wearing shoes cal
culated to make him appear four inches
taller to play the Lincoln role. am
further informed by the genties in
charge Of this epic that the problem of
screen credit is assuming alarming pro-
portions. Eighty prominent speaking
roles are included In the scope of this
celluloid. It will take six minutes of
audience time If they are all listed.
And 500 feet of film.
can understand the producers reti-
cence about the 500 feet Of film. Celia
tin costs money. But there Is a catch
somewhere in that sudden concern over
wasting six minutes of the audiences
valuable time. Having sat in my time
through many an hour Of Christmas
greetings highly ornamented with birds
and bells and endless other twaddle,
I'm skeptical at this sudden attention.
tCopyrisht, 1900
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-12
Day and Evening Powders.

All day you are held to as natural q
looking powder as possible: powder 70
make the skin look smooth and silky,
without any gloss. however. 50 you
match your complexion with powder.
But In the evening you have more
| latitude.
For evening, use a lighter powder for
nose and neck and the natural shade of
| the day for the rest Of the face. Unless
you have a large nose, in which case
you do not want to make 1t more prom
inent with lighter powder. Use dark
powder, the shade Of your eyes, but
darker, very lightly over your eyelids.
| Use q rosy rouge, and powder again on
top of it. use liquid powder on your
shoulders and your arms. If you want.
| But it must be a fine-grade liquid pow
| der and 1t must be washed of carefully,
for any such powder is drying to the
skin.
On the whole, choose powder dark
err than you think you need. An olive
skin, for instance, looks gray and dead
| awful with white. ALI powders, even for
blondes, should have little yellow In
them and all powder should have the
| faintest trace of pink. The skin has
both these colorS.
Always try out powders before you
buy them-the back Of your hand is a
good place. Try them In daylight for
| daytime use, in electric light for eve
| ming use. And do not 90 in for the
greens and lavenders unless you are an
expert.
THE EIGHTEEN-DAY DIET.
The usual breakfast.
Lunch-One lamb chop, lettuce
grapefruit.
Dinner-Broiled steak, tomato, celery,
| olives.
Remember, you can have q piece of
toast with each meal, though the diet
does not say so. And II you want to
| substitute cooked green vegetables for
the grapefruit at lunch, do so. You can
have vegetable salad that way.
Doris G.-The roughened red skin
sometimes called "goosefesh" may be
helped somewhat by hot baths or by
any other means of relaxing the skin
The condition comes from nervous ten
sion under the skin, and while it is not
serious matter as far as your health
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-12

There Is no beauty blemish more
nearly universal nor one which Is more
annoying than enlarged pores. One Of
the disturlASg things about this dis
figurement is that though it may come
rather quickly, the process Of refining
enlarged pores is a slow and tedious
one.
But though enlarged pores are an
noying, they need not cause undue dis
couragement, for by proper treatment
fine a skin which has become coarsened
in this way. The first step is to get the
skin absolutely clean, for If any dirt Is
allowed to remain in the pores 1t Is
pretty sure to result in blackheads and
pores which are still larger and uglier.
In the cleaning process flrst bind a
towel firmly about the head so that the
hair will be protected. Then apply q
very generous amount of cleansing
cream. rub it in gently, but thoroughly
Remove the cream. The next step is
steaming with hot towels to open the
pores, thus making it possible really to
get at the embedded dirt and CRIME.
Wiring a small Turkish towel out in hot
water and cover the face with 1t, re-
place another hot towel as soon as the
first one begins to cool.
Repeat these hot applications several
times and when the pores have been
thoroughly opened massage with a
tissue cream again. Those who have
followed these beauty talks regularly
will remember that the massage move
ments are of three general types: First,
the long upward and outward stroking,
then the upward rotary movement, and
finally the light tapping or patting
movements executed with the balls OF
the fingers.
After the massage Of all the facial
muscles wipe off the excess cream and
then apply the witch-hazel pack, which
will close the pores. To make this pack
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-12
Your Second Stomach,

Viewing movies of the effects of va
rious medicines on digestion, was
struck with the fact that every guy has
two stomacts, though he may not be
aware Of 1t, especially If he has two
chins. They are, to wit, the upper,
larger and more familiar bread basket,
and the lower, smaller and stranger 12-
finger section Of the alimentary tube
known to doctors and particularly sur
geons as the duodenum. Here in the
lower stomach the more essential part
of digestion goes on. A man may get
along fairly well without any stomach
at all If his food Is properly prepared,
but one just can't do without a duo
denum. Into the duodenum the bile
empties and through the same orif1ce
the pancreatic fluid from the abdominal
'sweatbread" reaches the duodenuIn.
The pancreatic fluid digests fats, pro-
teins and carbohydrates. The bile
well, that Is still somewhat obscure,
though, of course, we know that every
body has to have bile in his duodenum,
oh, yes, indeed. The bile aids in the
absorption of fats. We know that much
intimated that q chap with two
chins probably Is not aware he has two
stomacts. Comparatively early In his
career he doesn't even know he has
one, except from hearsay. It Is the
lean and hungTy-and howi-geek that
is likely to be all too conscious of his
duodenum. Especially II he happens to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-12
MOVIES AND MOVIE PEOPLE
BY MoLLIE MERRICK.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
HOLLYWOOD, March IL (N.AN.A).
The same old hiring and firing goes
on in the studios. There is romance,
and it is a banner season for marriages.
But underneath it all the colony is rest
less.
Charles Chaplin's persistent adher-
ence to the silent picture theory. backed
by his rEmored plans to build large
studio of his own in the San Fernando
Valley, to which will be invited some of
the leading failures in "talkies," has too
much vitality to be only talk.
Any number of the famous of yester-
day are slumping into the limbo of the
forgotten today. Charles Chaplin could
probably get Wilma Banky for one of
his cooperative artists in silent films.
Talkies have proved the Waterloo OF
the beautiful Hungarian, who was the
most envied woman in Hollywood two
years ago. She had the cream of con-
tracts, the homage of the world, the
most carefully planned pictures, Ronald
Colman for leading nan-and what
more could any girl wish?-and the
most enthusiastic public in the world.
Nils Asther is out, so far as big plans
Of his studio are concerned. True, he
was cast in a part Of sorts since the
6tuQloS VerQlcG not 10 renew MS OPP
ton. But that doesn't mean much. He
will not go on along the old lines. And
Nils Asther was a son Of the gods in
cinemaland.
Lillian Gish has made a talkie and
viii make another. 1.-THE White Sister,
Is being rumored. But she most posi-
sibly is silent-picture type, If nothing
more than for the reason that many
years Of pantomime have identified her
with silence in the minds Of her audi
ences.
Lon CLANCY would be another asset
for the Chaplin Eilents, Inc, or what
ever they cared to name it. And back
from across the seas might be brought
some Of those magnificent acting men,
like Conrad Veidt. who were killed by
talkies.
Evidently plans for queen Kelly"
have been shelved for the nonee.
Cinema actors signed for parts In it
have been released. Although Franz
Lehar is supposed to be furiously put
ting little notes onto lined paper some
where in Vienna or Berlin, the artists
who have been held on salary since the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-12
Straig hit Talks to Women About Money
By MARY ELIZABETH ALLEN.

future. which means think about your
family and about your means. Choose
only home satisfactory in every way.
A few Of the other considerations are
facilities for recreation, schooling and
entertainment. Home owners are in
terested in fire-flghting apparatus,
water supply, electric light and power
rates and so forth.
In buying the home itself one must
choose between a frame and q brick
house. Factors in selection are rate of
depreciation, upkeep, insurance and
taxes. Initial cost may or may not be
a vital factor. The competent home
shopper looks out, Of course. for faulty
pipes, plumbing, plastering or floors.
Every bit Of material that goes into
the construction of a home may be of
good, bad or Indifferent quality. This
is true of the boarding, mortar, paint,
ceilings, radiators, pipes and every
thing else. Most homeseekerS are not
in position to judge these things, and
one must either bring along an expert
or rely on the realtor or agent. The
latter Is preferable when it is at all
possible.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-12
BEAUTY CHATS BY EDNA KENT FORBES

is concerned, it Is not very attractive
and no woman should ignore it. You
cannot help it yourself unless the re-
laxing baths viii do 1t, and after that
you will need doctor to get your skin
acting normally again.
Ruth F. K.-Anything that improved
the appearance of the skin might be
styled Skin tonic" but that IS really
very vague. A cream softenS the akin,
relieving dryness. and an astringent
tightens a loose skin for q certain time.
Really cold water may be termed
Skin tonic" with its reaction Of bring
ing blood to the skin.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-12
Home in Good Taste

For those who are in sympathy with
the modern type Of furnishings, here
requires very little wall space, is prac-
tical because it is roomy and also very
simple to make.
This is installed IN a small room
used for q dressing room-which Is
always such an item on party daysl
The table should be placed low enough
to allow any one sitting on the stool
to be at a comfortable height to use
the mirror. And the mirror Is an
other interesting part Of the ensemble.
No fame-just a beveled edge-has
been used for the finish Of this very
modern" piece, which is really an old
piece Of mirror glass cut from an ugly
old frame.
Even though this little stelf-table