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Household Methods
By BETSY CALLISTER.
A Good Broom.

A good broom is always worth good
care If you treat your brooms any
old way then any old broom will do,
but if you use care with them, then
it is worth while buying a broom Of
superior quality.
Attention should be given both
when you use it and when you put
broom always on one side, and 1t
will not become one sided and bent,
Frequently change it about so that
pressure comes first on one side and
then on the other.
Do not use a good broom to sweep
heavy dirt and dust. Have an older
broom for this and use the new broom
only for the finer work.
Remember that a broom should never
be left standing on the broom corns.
1t should always be hung up so that the
pressure is relieved from the broom
end. Usually a broom has perfora-
tons in the handle end so that a
cord may be put through by which
to hang it. If your broom lacks this
make a loop of cord and attach it to
the end of the broom by means of a
small tack.
Some housewives seem to forget that
brooms ever need cleaning. They
should always be inspected after being
used. to see that they are free from
dust and an accumulation of strings
or hairs. And remember that brooms
can be washed. To do this make a
good hot soapsuds in pail and put
your broom in, lifting it up two or
three times, without actually soaking
it. Now let the broom hang in the
open air until perfectly dry. You will
find that it is crisp and fresh as when
new.
Soft brooms need even more careful
attention than broom corn brooms, and
never should they be left resting on
their brush ends, but should be hung
where they swing free from pressure.
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begin you bring into play certain I'M
used and soft muscles, and until these
are hardened you feel pretty uncom-
Portable. When you learn something
new with your mind it's mental mus
cles. so to speak, that you have to train:
The nurses probation is hardest of
all because here both body and mind
are called to new action. Most nurses
sink into despair during their training.
Probably every nurse at some time
during her training was ready to give
I'D. No wonder student nurses feel
like H. L. B., who writes me this wor-
ried letter
Perhaps you think it's queer to be
feeling so down and out on holiday.
but 1 do, all on account of my work.
I am % years old and in training at
hospital"
H. L. B. ought to make sure just
what it is that she dislikes.. II she Is
untitled by temperament to be nurse,
she ought to stop right now. If she
does not like taking care of sick peo-
pie, If she hasn't the patience to bear
with their foolish notions, If certain
rough aspects of the job repel her, she
will not make a good nurse. She is
wasting her time. If she hasn't the
basic physical vitality, this is no work
for her.
If she Is bothered only by the long
hours, or Is weary of the monotony and
dizziness of certain parts OF her studies,
she had better be a little patient When
she is a full-hedged nurse her hours
will be shorter and her work more in
teresting And then she may be much
happier. Fortunately, II she is untitled
for nursing she is young enough to try
something else.
There is one huge advantage for the
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it may be modern, or in periods be-
tween these two extremes. Whenever
beauty and good workmanship are
combined, the pieces are always worth
while. They can stand the test of time
and never fail to hold their own.
Many homes have an assortment of
periods combined in interiors, yet so
choice are the articles that good deco
ration is present. 1t is true that care
full treatment must be accorded rooms
in which periods not always congenial
are combined. The expert decorator
who does rooms in modernistic style
completely in specific periods, or allied
periods, has no such puzzling problems
confront him as when he assimilates
various styles.
But 1t is seldom that purely period
rooms have the glow of comfortable
beauty that settles down on we'll dec
Grated rooms in which are we'll ar
ranged the choice furniture assembled
during various generations.
(Copyright. 1891
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Your Baby and Mine
BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED.

Our advance is slow in the matter OF
! correcting Misunderstanding. Mothers are
determined. despite advice to the con-
trary, to do the very things which make
it literally impossible for the child to
forget the habit. The following letter
is illustrative of all the things one
should not do to correct thumb-suck-
ing. None of them has proved sue
cessful.
MY daughter sucks her second
finger" begins Mrs M. A. E. IT would
like to know how to correct this bad
habit. So far I have put on it bitter
aloes. tobacco. iodine, adhesive plaster
gloves, linament and white paint:
have tied her hands behind her. Her
teacher tried to help her (this Is the
first inkling of how old the daughter
isl and now would you like your sugges-
ton"
Most Of your methods have been all
of kind. If one bad taste does not
curb the desire for the thumb, why
should any other bad taste? Some of
these substances are dangerous and
might have made the child actually i'll.
All such methods are valueless with the
cider child. The tiny baby under one
year who begins to suck a thumb
might be deferred by having it wrapped
in such a way that he couldn't put it
in his mouth. In most cases all that
needs to be done, even then, is TO pa
tiently take it out of his mouth when
ever he puts it in and divert his atten-
ton. In time he loses the desire to
suck 1t, If everything else in his daily
routine and diet Is satisfactory.
AS we have said repeatedly, restraint
and punishment simply antagonize the
older child and make him determined
to suck that finger at any cost. In
fact. the habit is solidified and kept
active by the mothers efforts to stop it
Why not face this situation and cease
flying in the face of constant failure?
Take 1t for granted that, of course, the
child do2s want to stop this habit. She
understands that it is baby habit; that
it spoils the shape of her mouth and
deforms it, as we'll as prevents her TAX
ing active part in her playmates' sports.
Now the question is how to help her
stop 1t.
Suppose you ask your daughter in
what way you can help her forget the
habit. Let her suggest ways that she
thinks will be helpful. If she is doing
it when she is idle and can't think of
anything else to do. try to think OF
something interesting and active that
will engage her attention.
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OUR CHILDREN
BY ANGELO PATRI.
A Clean Mouth.

It would astonish you to know how
few clean mouths there are among the
hosts of children who are in our schools
A clean mouth is a rare occurrence.
When I say a clean mouth 1 mean
clean inside as we'll as out. The little
children have rotting teeth in their
mouths. They suffer from toothache.
They cannot chew their food properly
The teacher shows the childs mouth TO
the nurse and the nurse visits the home
and tells the mother to take the child
to a good dentist and have his teeth
cleaned and filled.
Some go promptly. Some never go.
OF those who go promptly to the den
list many return with the news that
the dentist said he did not do work for
little children. Then we begin search
for one who does. Sometimes we find
one, sometimes we do not. Usually by
dint of patient searching we find a
dentist and clinic and get the worst
of the mouths cleaned up bit.
"These are his first teeth. The den
fist said it does not matter about them. "
Did you ask the dentist about these
molars here? The two big ones? These
are not baby teeth and they have bad
holes in them. If the child loses them
he loses them for all time. He needs
them to keep his jaws in shape and,
most of all, he needs them to chew his
food. Did you ask the dentist about
them?"
We'll you see it's like this. When the
dentist put him in the chair, he's such
a nervous child, you understand, he ran
out of the Office hollering and the dem
fist got mad and said, Take him out
of here OF course, can't blame the
man. But what can do?"
What indeed? Dentists dread the
appearance of little children in their
offices. Even the men who have been
trained to care for the teeth of little
children. and they are increasing in
numbers every year now. tell us that
few children have been trained to &C
cept the attentions of the dentist. The
mothers reply by saying that few Of the
dentists have been trained to care for
little children. Both are right. We can
do better on both sides Of the dentists
chair
It will help If we begin to teach little
children to keep their mouths clean in
the early years. Accustom the children
to having their teeth examined and
cleaned by doing the work yourself.
That will teach them to hold their
mouths open while you poke about them
with an orange stick wrapped in gauZe
or a tooth brush filled with good paste.
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CLASSIC STYLES OF FURNITURE ARE

Victorian period to realize that beauty
is not always present in style. Some
of the furniture was little short of
atrocious, but so sweeping was the
vogue that choice furniture, exquisite
in line and rare in woods, was rele-
gated to attic and barn, if not actually
cast out in order to furnish rooms with
the latest things There were some
handsome Victorian pieces in fine
woods often buried. These remain
beautiful always, but they are scarce
It is this element of beauty that
should guide the home decorator ir
choice of furniture. 1t may be antique
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-21

Here Is a charming day model for
immediate Spring wear.
1t has the fascinating lingerie collar
and cuffs that mark the newest imports.
It's a bright purple-blue fiat crepe
with the fascinating trim in white crepe
de chine.
It's youthfully becoming to miss or
the woman of average full figure.
Style No. 1886 may be had in sizes
H. IA, 16, 10, 20 years, SO and SO inches
bust.
1t makes up equally well in wooden
fabrics. For instance, In a tweed mix
ture or in wool jersey. The trim is in
teresting in pique. In a CREEPY patterned
wooden, use plain blending shade of
self-fabric.
In fiat crepe printed silk, it's delight
full with plain crepe contrast.
You will see one attractive style after
another as you turn over the pages of
our new Spring Fashion Book.
Styles for children or the miss, the
matron, the stout-and series Of
dressmaking articles. 1t is book that
will save you money.
For pattern of this style, send Is
cents in stampe or coin directly to The
Washington Stars New York Fashion
Bureau, Fifth avenue and Twenty
ninth street, New York.
Be sure to fill in the size Of the pat
tern. Send stamps or coin (coin
IpreferredH Price Of book. 10 cents.
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the speaker was man who had made
a study of Colonial doorways. He had
taken many photographs which he.
using to illustrate his talk. had made
into slides.
The dinner was at Nancy's home and
the speaker was being entertained by
her during his stay.
Nancy planned a menu with only one
or two reminiscent Colonial touches.
She did have hot rolls, ounce pre-
serves and the Washington pie But
the rest of the meal was modern.
She used red and white carnations
for centerpiece. The cloth was of
snowy white damask. but in place of
the matching napkins she used squares
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My Neighbor Says:

Fresh rhubarb sauce with
sponge or angel food cake makes
good Spring dessert.
Don't neglect little scratches
and cuts because they are not
important looking. A pin prick
has caused death through infec-
ton. If you keep a wound clean,
you are doing all that is humanity
possible to guard against blood
poisoning.
The use of too much sugar will
prevent ice cream from freezing
quickly.
To remove scorch marks from
linen cut an onion in halves, rub
scorched part Of linen with half
of the onion, then soak linen in
cold water. If linen is not badly
scorched, the marks will soon dis
appear.
Rice and other milk buildings
must be cooked very slowly to be
good. Is is only in this way that
the starch grains have time to
swell and thicken the milk thor
oughly.
(Copyrisht, 1919
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of blue and white polka dot cotton.
She fringed tie edges of the napkins
and folded them over with one corner
opened like the flap Of an opened en-
velope. On the napkin was laid the
place card which was of white paper
bordered with red. She used the ad-
dress stickers sold in stationery stores.
She started the dinner with tomato
juice cocktail, followed that with baked
ham with q brown sugar and Glove
crust, mashed potatoes. caulihower
broken into flowerets and placed In
center of serving dish and surrounded
by cooked carrot cubes. There were
picked peaches as well as the raised"
hot rolls and ounce preserves. Her
dessert was Washington pie. With this
was served black coffee.
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The latest thing in interior decora-
ton does not necessarily make the
finest decoration. There are in each
generation fashions in furniture and
furnishings, and because these sway
popular opinion homemakers are eager
to do their rooms over in the style of
the moment. For those who cannot af-
ford to have their dwellings continually
done over, it Is fortunate that style is
not synonymous with good taste Beauty
and appropriateness are standards.
When styles stress these features. they
are at their best.
We have but to consider the mid
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20 Peter to run for big brush pile some
distance away, had taken to his long
heels. Peter had needed the warning
instantly, not waiting TO find out
what the danger might be, and had
started off, y-lipperty-lip. head
ing straight for the big brush pile.
Now, the instant Peter started, out
from under that cedar tree leaped
Yowler the Bobcat. Jumper was scared.
Oh, yes. Jumper was scared. He always
is scared when he knows that Yowler
Is about. But Jumper wasn't as badly
scared as was Peter Rabbit. In truth,
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good to see, with a freshness and
youtlIfulness all their own.
There is no longer any question of
how the cotton dress should be made.
Skirt lengths, waistlines and silhou-
cites generally have been determined so
that if you choose a pattern that COM
hines smartness and variability now
you may be sure that the dress will
remain in good style throughout the
Summer.
BY way Of adding trimming to the
simple cotton frock. why not arrange
q little machine-done hemstitching of
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NANCY PAGE
Nancy Page Club Has
v Arlington Dinner.
BY FLORENCE LA GANKE.

The Nancy Page Club was entertain
ing for George Washington's birthday
1t had become customary for the wives
to entertain the husbands with a din
ner, followed by talk. given by a
visiting lecturer. One year the speaker
told about early Colonial days, another
time a group of dancers gave the min
uet and other old-time steps. This year
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Run, Peter, Run!
The wings of fear in times of need
To fal;ering feet lend superspeed.
Jumper the Hare.

The truth of this saying was proven
10 Jumper right before his eyes. 1t
was Peter Rabbit who did it, You see,
as Jumper and Peter were passing a
certain dark green tree, cedar tree
with thick low-growing branches. they
had been given most startling sur
prise. Jumper had become suspicious
that all was not well, and with a call
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600 for an Amer
lean embassy in
Berlin.
That was the
price paid for the
Bluecher Palace,
located at the
head of Inter den
Linden in the CEN
ter of the city, and
over which AM
bassador Sackett is
to preside.
Lot of money to
pay for an Ambas-
sador's residence,
you may have
thought.
AS a matter of
fact, only a small
mart of the RlI1e-
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Washington and Lincoln.

Washington is not woman's hero.
You seldom find woman reading about
Washington-you rarely find a woman
! writing about him. But women love
Lincoln. They write books about Lin
coln-they read about Lincoln.
Why is this? Why is it that men like
Washington, while women are indif-
ferent to him? Why do women love
Lincoln and merely have an impersonal
esteem for Washington?
Perhaps it's because Washington was
such an excessively masculine man. He
was man in whose life women we're
not important. Lincoln, on the other
hand, was much influenced by women.
He understood them.
II you had been seated next to
Washington at dinner you wouldn't
have known what to talk about You
would have had in your mind all the
time this thought; This is a very great
man. What can I say of enough i'm
portance to interest him? But If you
| had been sitting next to Lincoln you
would be thinking: What dear per-
son this is. 1 can talk to him about
anything.
If you had been Washington's secre-
tary-you never could have been, be-
cause he had only men secretaries-but
il you had been he would have treated
an inferior. He would never have been
unkind. He would probably have given
you fair treatment. But Washington
saw events and facts. He thought al
ways Of events and facts. He did not
think Of people as individuals. He
thought Of them as masses and nations
as parts of events. So he would have
thought of you as a competent part of
some event. He would have respected
you and you would have admired him
But Lincoln always thought more of
individuals than Of events. He would
have thought you-as an individual-of
first Importance.
You would have been afraid of WASH
ington, but you never would have been
afraid of Lincoln If you had been
Lincolns secretary he would have
treated you as an equal and a friend.
You could have taken your troubles to
him and he would have been interested.
Now, women have not reasoned all
this out. Most of them don't know it
IN these terms, but instinctively they
feel it. InstinctiVely they know that
they would have understood Lincoln
and that he would have understood
them And that's why they love Lin
coin and esteem Washington.
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the study of STE
biography is drudg-
cry. Learning to
operate a telephone
switchboard is hard
on the nerv es:
learning to sell
goods is hard on
the feet: learning
to be a telegrapher
is hard on the
memory.
It's like learning
to swim or play
tennis When Won
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This is the best time of the year
that you could choose to renew your
supply of simple cotton dresses. The
yard goods departments in the stores
are showing the seasons new cotton
materials and, if you haven't seen them
you surely have something to look for
ward to. These materials are unusually
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Hard Training.

The apprenticeship for all professions
Is grinding The study of law is likely
to be pretty dull; the study OF med
icine is a strain to sensitive feelings:
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MENU FOR A DAY.
BREAKFAST.

BREAKFAST.
Sliced Oranges.
Cereal with Cream.
Broiled Bacon. Scrambled Eggs.
Corn Pone.
Coffee.
DINNER.
Stuffed Celery.
Southern Style Roast Ham.
Baked Sweet Potatoes.
Buttered Asparagus.
Cucumber Salad.
Orange Cup Pudding.
Coffee.
SUPPER.
Russian Sandwiches.
Stuffed Olives.
Pear and Cheese Salad.
Brown Sugar Cookies.
Tea.
CORN PONE.
Three fourths cup corn meal,
one and one-fourth cups -four,
one-fourth cup sugar. fiv tea
spoons baking powder, pinch of
salt, one cup milk, one egg, two
teaspoons melted butter. Mix
and sift dry ingredients, add
milk, egg tWell beaten and but
ter. Bake in shallow buttered
pan in rather hot oven 20 min
uteS.
CUP PUDDING.
Pour one cup hot milk over
two cups dry whole wheat bread
crumbs When cold, add the
beaten yolks Of two eggs, one
fourth teaspoon salt and the Juice
and grated rind of one orange.
Mix thoroughly and fold in the
Stiffly beaten whites. Butter bak-
ing cups and put tablespoon of
orange marmalade in each. fill
two-thirds full with the pudding
mixture and steam one half hour.
Turn from the cups and serve
with hard sauce.
SANDWICHES.
Slice cold brown bread very
thin, cut out with fancy cutter
and spread with butter. For fill
ing fake cod, halibut or salmon;
season with pepper and add
lemon Juice. Cover the fish with
mayonnaise, then a layer of
shredded lettuce.
(Copyright. 1879
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PERHAPS you thought your Uncle
Sam was a bit extravagant for
these depressed times when you read
the other day that he had spent 81 .800,-
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Speculations on the origin of the world
are as old as man himself. Haeckel
claimed Moses as q forerunner Of Oar
win. s
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nurse. In most professions the be-
ginner after she has learned her trade.
has to go through a second hard period
or trial and small pay. The nurse. on
the contrary. once graduated immedi-
ately becomes full-hedged and gets
regular nurses pay.
The mechanism for getting a job Is
definite and clear. She does not have
the puzzling uncertainty in looking for
a job that girls in all other lines have
to face.
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cher Palace will be allotted to the
American Ambassador for living quar-
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The Woman Who Makes Good

WOODWARD.
a and iho became
the highest paid in Arlerc
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SONNYSAYINCS

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-20
VIKINGS SUBDUED
 BY PUTSIC FRIARS
Charley Leaders Team Captures First Game of Series for " Inter-C Club Title By z3-z1 Score

In one of the most thrilling bas- ketball games staged at the central "" this season, Charley Leaders Putsic Friars tagged Stanton Fowl er's Vikings with a 23-21 defeat last night in the opening game of the series for the Inter-Club champion ship of the Red Triangle institution.
 The Friars started early and rolled up a 15-8 lead at half time mainly through the keen eye of Frankie Cucolo who scored three field goals in rapid succession in the second period. The Friars held the edge in this half, but were completely out played in the last two periods.
 "Whiskers'' Whitaker an d Shorty" Petroccione kept the Vik- ings in the running in the second half while the Friars slowed up con- siderably. The Vikings failed to tie the score or take a commanding lead from the second quarter on, but were but one point behind in many stages of the contest. The result in full:
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-20
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN INDOOR TRACK GAMES
 RESEMBL LES OLY LYMPICS

New York, Feb 20.-(UP)-The A. A. U. indoor track and field February 25, to-day assumed an Olympic atmosphere with the release of the entry list including the lead- ing athletes of IS states, Frances, Canada and Switzerland.
 Competition between Bates and Pennsylvania in the 7-s mile relay looms as one of the high spots of the meet. Coach Ray Thompson ot Bates has declared that his team will run the race in 7:29 and cut 6 and 2-5 seconds from the world record.
 Lawrence Robertson, Penn coach, predicts that Carl Coan. star miller, will lead the Philadelphia team to victory in 7:2B--more than sec- onds better than world record time.