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Evening star., 1931-12-17
N A + u r E S
CHI IL D r E N
By LILLIAN COX ArHEY.
Illustrations BY Mary Foley.
SUGAR MAPLE.


m 4 ArLE srRup and hot cake"
M Now, who has not responded
v to this call? But how many
1 i really know the beautiful
tree whose delectable sap Is
made into the sirupe For hundreds of
yeArs the sugar naples have been a
source Of revenue to their owners. Be.
aides the sugar, the wood Ia used for
many purposes. It is hard ana fine
trained, with 4 creamy color, and the
heart wood Is lovely brown. II takes a
fine polish and ID In demand for furni-
ture, ships. piano action, woodcarving
and many other uses.
When growing In forest the tree
will reach up d hundred feet in order
to Get the sunshine. Standing alone
n Will spread out and have = very large
trunk: The many branches are set
close together and 1t sharp right angles
to the trunk, These branches divide
into sprays. when looking at the bare
maple. tree In the Winter you can easily
see why the shade 30 completely bars
out the sunshine to other plants The
base OF the TREE ID covered with deep,
furfowed bark. This gradually becomes
smooth and gray toward the tips.
Early IN February the scale Of the
sharp pointed bu3s, with their purplish
tint begins to turn a golden yellow.
They stretch and swell into leaves and
pear to droop, as II to avoid the strong
winds and driving rains Of Spring. The
flowers are greenish yellow, and those
which bear the pollen and those which
bear the seed may be on the same tree.
they. are always In separate clusters.
Should the seed-bearing tassels be on
the 8aine tree with those bearing pollen,
they will be on the tips Of the twigs.
Each slender, dropping thread of the
tASsel has . five-lobed calyx at its tip.
II may hold seven or eight long stamens
the two-celled seed box there seem to
be two seeds. In reality there Is but
one. II has thin wings. and is fitted
Tor nying on the wings Of the wind.
The leaves are = deep glossy green.
The curved e9ges between the lobes
have large teeth. There are Ave lobes,
and the two nearest the stem are small
The main vein runs from the stalk stem
to the tips Of the lobes, and the stalk is
lone and slender.
The leaves grow opposite each other.
Tney are the most brilliant in october,
and are bright yellow, scarlet, orange
feet Of their parent and make mulch
carpet. The leaves become part of
the humus ana nourish the tree that
bore them.
The tree depends upon its leaves for
its bountiful fiow Ct sap. It must be
abe to store enough starch in its sap
wood and in the outer ray cells of its
small branches. During the Winter
the stored starch Is converted into tree
food in the sap II the caterpillars
have been numerous, the sugar return
will be small.
When the sap begins to iow it Is to-
ward the ground. Later it flows from
the base upward. The tapping of the
sugar bush" is made when the days are
warm and nights freezing. The tree Is
tapped on the south side The old sumac
spike ID replaced by a galvanized spike
and the STAYED bucket with a tightly
covered tin one. The sap Is taken to
D sugar house. where it Is poured into
great evAporating vat
(CopyriGht, 1917
Evening star., 1931-12-17
Too Many Talents.

Here's a girl who's just too absent
minded, I'm afraid. to make a success Of
most of the things that she has in mind,
She sent this letter with stamp FOR
4 personal reply, but forgot to sign her
name. So I have to answer her In the
paper. It's an interesting letter.
Dear Miss Woodward: am Just as
years Of age, single, q college graduate.
Love books, plays and outdoor sports,
but am inclined to be pAssimistic when
things 10 WRONG, which, have found, Is
q great drawback in attaining success.
Il have just recently taken up col
umnist writing, short stories and nara
tives, and find 1t most interesting. I
have a natural ability for pen and ink
sketching, also pencil portraits. paste.s.
charcoal, etc, but have never had tech
nical training along that line.
IT am unemployed at present and
have been for the past six months. I
have been a stenographer-typist for
three years but have never been able to
advance myself. find I am unable to
grasp instructions quickly and become
frightfully nervous when being watched.
II love personnel work, the handling
Of women-I find character work inter-
esting-but it is SO difhcult to find work
Of that nature. I am quite successful
in the selling game, such as art gift
shop work. book stores, etc. but there
are very few openings in a place Of this
size.
II fear New York City. have al.
ways underrated myself, believing my
self able to do this or that, but not dar-
ing to try I have a grooming voice for
singing. have thought of the radio, but
the same fear holds me back Q
ANNE g."
You love to do too many things. You
are boiling with scattered energy and
you will not do anything until you take
all the energy ana turn 1t into one
channel.
Evening star., 1931-12-17
LITTLE BENNY
By LEE fAPE.

was wAwking home from school
with Mary watkins tawking to her
about diffrent subjecks. and she said,
puds simkins said he was going to get
me q box Of candy for Christmas, H.
cent that nice Of hirns
Proberly trying to make me feel telliss.
Witch 1t did. and I said, Well G. that's
nothing compared TO what I'm going to
get you, @.
o, what, what, Mary watkins said,
and said, Its going to be q serprise.
Not wunting to say for sure ON ac-
count Of not knowing II would have
enough money for anything special, and
she said, o izzent that lovely. I love
serprises I'm going to try to CESS what
1t is. is 1t square2
Its kind Of square. said, and she
It mite, said and she said, o its
just seems impossible for me to have
too much candy, you Just thawt Of the
very thing I needed the most, o think
that perfeckly wonderful.
Making me feel CRATE, and she went
in her house and kepp on going and
Puds Simkins was putting on his skates
on his frunt steps, me saying, Hay Puds,
I hear you're going to give Mary Wat
kins box of candy for Christmas.
I CESS I got to now, she told me you
was going to get her one SO the ferst
thing knew I told her Id get her one,
Puds said, and said, Good mite, tAwk
about nerve, why just told her that
about 2 ninnits ago because she said
you was going to get her one.
@ wistickers, tAwk about nerve, Puds
said. Just for that I mite ony get her
q little BIT Of box. he said, and I said,
mite ony get her some loose hard
candy cheep and put 1t In . empty box.
And me and him put together and
bawt chocklit soda and drank 1t at
the same time with strAws to drownd
our sorrows. s.
Evening star., 1931-12-17


have sounded Of in one way or another.
Three OF the group may be bit slow
in starting. But the IA others-all Of
whom are lawyers-may be expected to
get under way.
Barbour Of New Jersey, a thread
manufacturer; Coolidge Of Massa-
chusetts, who makes machinery, and
Mrs. Hattie Caraway of Arkansas, who
succeeds her husband, are the three
expected to be among the least loqua-
cious.
j. Hamilton Lewis, the colorful SEN
ator from Illinois, doubtless will be
in action. His deep, resonant voice is
capable Of charming nearly any audi
ence.
Jim Ham" months ago requested
that he be given the space on the Sen.
ate floor he had when he served before
His reason was that he wanted to feel
at home from the start.
Dickinson Of Iowa Is another. Al
ready he has matched wits with one
of the Senate'S best orators and de-
in an open debate on the tariff and
probably feels that he has been bap-
tized sufficiently.
Then, too, his years Of service in the
House probably make him feel con-
hdent to speak his mind at any time
Hull of Tennessee, White Of Maine
both veterans of the House-doubtles
feel the same way.
Bulow of South Dakota, who comes
to Washington widely-heralded for his
dry humor and ability to wisecrAck, ia
another of the incoming group.
Costigan of Colorado has given evi-
dence that he is fond Of speaking up
when something annoys him. True,
the evidence thus far has been con-
the Washington ZOO made 70 much
noise that he couldn't sleep, but that
may give an insight to the man.
Evening star., 1931-12-17

| You will never make good as a ste.
nographer. You make too many mis-
takes and you can't keep your mind OF
the details. That is partly because you
really don't like the work. But If you
were an artist or q saleswoman you
would enjoy the work so much that you
would never forget any detail connected
with it.
Don't waste your time trying to be a
columnist. There are only few people
in the United States who can do that
job well, and there are plenty Of good
candidates for their jobs.
Why do you fear New York City?
After all, you don't come from q small
country town. The suburb in which
you live is large place, full Of factories,
trolleys. busses and automobiles. Thou
sands OF people come every day from
there to New York to work.
If you'll concentrate on one source Of
activity, you will gain confidence. It's
amazing how fears vanish when We
are doing Job we like and doing It
well.
fCopyright, 1872
Evening star., 1931-12-17
The Woman Who Makes Good

HELEN WOODWARD.
UNIQUELY both prpute lite
NTH authority '
Evening star., 1931-12-17
New Lease of Life Given to Dress
BY MARY MARSHALL.
ers securely in place - shown In the

ers securely in place - shown In the
sketch.
For q black dress you might choose
ribbon OF q yellowish pink color with
roses shading from light pink to yellow.
A more daring color scheme could be
achieved with cherry.colored or light
red ribbon on q black dress. Red rib
Jon and roses would also be appropri-
ate on a white dress-or some soft
pastel shade Of blue, pink, yellow or
green.
BY way Of variety you might cross
the ribbons to give a slightly higher
line at the back.
Speaking Of evening dresses. 1t is
interesting-isn't TITO see how very
generally women have selected the
slim, sophisticated sort Of dress in
place of a fussier, more picturesque
sort of thing. And that all goes 10
show that despite efforts to revive
fashions Of the past the world wAfs
on and the majority of women wp0h
rather look slenderly modern than
quantity picturesque.
Evening star., 1931-12-17
Cherry Pudding.

Beat one egg until light Add one
iul of rich milk alternately with one
cupful Of flour, q pinch OF salt and one
teaspoonful of baking powder that have
beta afted together. Lastly, add one
tablespoonful of melted butter. Grease
individual rnolds, put in q tablespoonful
OF batter, then large tablespoonful uf
canned red cherries, then another
spoonful OF batter. Steam for 20 min
utes In a steamer. Serve with the fol-
lowing sauce:
Melt one tablespoonful Of butter, add
half a tablespoonful of -four and cook
fer one minute. Add the cherry juice
with one cupful Of water and half 4
cupful Of sugar. Cook until done, stir
ring constantly. Flavor with one-fcurth
teaspoonful OF grated nutnnek.
Evening star., 1931-12-17

aSsAAA-
CACY WRAPPED IN A CORN HuSk.
Everybody should not try 10 DO every
thing, but should do one thing well.
For instance, cows can always give
milk, but hens cannot do this. They
prefer to lay eggs.
A sphere is ball such that no
straight line can feeline upon it with
out being bent.
Aesophagus was the author Of Aesop's
Fables.
Most Of the beautiful buildings in
Boston are of the reminiscent period Of
Architecture.
1t is important to study history In
order that we may learn all about our
descendants.
Lorenzo de Medici was the greatest
prime minister England ever had be-
cause ne got on 50 well with Queen
Victoria.
tCopsrisht. 19:i.)
Evening star., 1931-12-17
A WASHINGTON DAYBOOK
BY HERBERT PLUMMER.

There'll be worse things than cranes
TO disturb the Senator's peace of mind
in the days ahead
Od.timers In the Senate like Gore
Of Oklahoma and Nicely Of West vir-
ginia, back again after an enforced
absence, may also be expected to get
of to an early vocal start.
Evening star., 1931-12-17

AN" SANP Va oSAA
ators who are now
making their debut
on the hill.
M row didn't
speak in the SEN
ate except to vote
and ans wer pres
ent the whole time
he served. Several
times 1t was ru-
rnored he might
make a speech, but
he never did.
There are II in
the fire s h m 4 n
class" OF the pres
ent Congress. It's
. pretty safe bet
that before long
$40 A~A >T Al IN
Evening star., 1931-12-17
Popcorn Balls.

Popcorn balls for the Christmas tree
should be wrapped In red transparent
paper and TIED with silver ribbon. They
make nice gifts to take from the tree
for little visitors who come in to see
the tfSe,
Evening star., 1931-12-17

THE example set by the late Dwight
Morrow of New Jersey when he en-
tered the United States Senate prob
ably will be followed very little by the
Evening star., 1931-12-17
TWO yards and half Of ribbon,
six or seven inches in width, and
bouquet of artificial flowers.

11Iu0 t11J nc UzS J00 z10e0 "
give a new lease of life to an
evening dress Of which you have be-
come little tired.
Cut the ribbon in two pieces, one a
few inches longer than the other. Ar
tange one end of each piece in soft
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-06
Theater Not Worried,
But Are the changers
And ShubertS Friendly?
Guns Are Being Charged on Both Sides in Annual
Production War-News of the Theater Guild
and What Its Changes Mean.
Bv w. H. Landvoigt.

talk theater, pray let it be theater
in Washington and not theater as
presented exclusively elsewhere.
4 *
WASHINGTON is peculiarly in
w terested in anything that
affects the New York Theater
Guild, because to that institution
it is indebted for some of the
finest drama it has enjoyed in re-
cent years. Reports of the reSig-
nation from executive positions
in the Guild of Theresa Helburn.
long famous as it's executive direc-
tor: of Philip Moeller, its accom-
pliShed production director, and
of Maurice Wertheim and Law
renee Langner, directors of organ
ization, have given rise to Specula-
ton as to their cause and effect.
1t appears that, hereafter, a COM
mittee of two from the Guild
board, changing with each new
production, will do the production
supervising. For instance, Miss
Helburn and Mr.. Wertheim will
supervise James O'Neill'S new
trilogy, Mourning Becomes Elec-
ira" while the Robert E. Sher
wood new play. Reunion at
Vienna" will have Miss Helburr
and Mr.. Langner for it's super
viSors. 1t has been the general
policy of the Guild not to permit
the exploitation of any of its
players above the others, even
though Alfred Lunt and Lynn
Fontaine have apparently eluded
the restriction. Perhaps the new
arrangements in organization
have been devised to appease
personal ambitions, or to keep
them within proper bounds. The
zeal and devotion of the Guild to
the best interests of the legitimate
theater have seemed beyond ques-
ton. It's we'll wisherS therefore
will comfort themselves with the
thought and belief that any
changes made in it's management
are the result of we'll considered
desires for improvement that will
in nowise interrupt splendid
course of achievement.
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possibly examine the newspapers to
find something suitable. BY doing so
he would discover that Earl Carroll S
"Vanities" is no place for a cleanly
man and his family; and he would
therefore save himself and them from
a disagreeable embarrassment. The
Band Wagon" he would be informed,
Is humorously concerned with the in
timacies of bath room plumbing and
some comic indelicacies representing
a ribald development in the art of
f1ngerprinting. The reviewers warn,
but they do not admonlsh.
1 am not che of those who wish to
tar and feather Mr.. Carroll and to
ride him out of town upon a rail. His
exhibitions disgust but do not anger
me. and 1 suspect that his shows are
no worse than his audiences. l would
not lift a finger to prevent the per-
Torrance of the "Vanities,' because l
know that it exhilarates many
bored and hardened persons to whom
abnormal excitements are necessary.
When Will Mahoney and William
Demarest present their little idyll OF
Sodom and Gomorrah, they inspire the
So sophiStocateS present TO expressions
"Vanities" is an emetic rather than
an entertainment.
THE season starts on note OF dis
appointment. Among the stout
standbys Of Broadway drama are
George Cohan, John Golden and
Brock Pemberton. Within the past
fortnight these usually dependable
friends have innocently betrayed us in
three entertainments, good at heart,
but bad in habits All of them tell
interesting stories awkwardly. forget
ting that in the drama rs well as in
other artistic rackets manner is more
important than matter. Mr.. Golden's
AFTER Tomorrow" Mr.. Pemberton's
Three Within the Hour" and Mr..
Cohan's Friendship" are good stories,
well acted, but ineficiently told. Still
advise my chaster drama Loving
readers to attend them in preference
to Mr.. CAROLS ugly though sometimes
beautiful debauch. The "Vanities" Is
made for those of evil or complacent
minds. All others should stay away.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-06

METROPOL1TAN-"An American Tragedy" This afternoon
and evening.
RIALTO-"Waterloo Bridge" This afternoon evening
KEITHS-"Rebound." This afternoon and evening.
FOX-"Huckeberry Finn" This afternoon evening
EARLE-The Star Witness"-Joe E. This afternoon
and evening
COLUMBIA-This Age" This afternoon evening
Secretary This afternoon and evening
GAYETY-Buresque) Raynors Gang" This afternoon
and evening
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-06

TT IS said of Earl Carroll that he
has no sense of wrongdoing and
is. therefore, unable to distinguish
rectitude from iniquity. That his
habitual trespasseS as a Snowman
are due not to a passion for depravity,
but to an innocent belief that any
thing that is Is o. K. This inability to
discriminate between the foul and the
fair Is offered in defense of Mr.. Car
rolls latest "VanitieS." Some of his
friends tell me that he regards his
new spectacle as entirely unobjection-
able, and that he was amazed last
week to learn from the reviewers that
it was not.
There are evidences that this ex-
PLANTATION of Mr.. CAROLS deiinquencies
Is correct. His new show in his new
theater is so dumb in its dull in
decencies that it could not properly
have been the deliberate product of a
nasty mind. Here is a fellow of abb
normal vanity, ambitious to cut fine
figure in the amusement world. He
with which to finance his enterprises,
and 1t is his announced desire to lead
the theater out of it's wilderness. In
other days he has been "crucificated,
in Mr.. Curry's word and arrested.
prosecuted, Inundated, penalized and
digraced for his ofTense against pro-
priety. Yet he has learned nothing
from the agony of experience Among
his guests at the first performance of
the newest and vilest of the "VanitieS"
was that most austere of police COM
missioners, Police Commissioner Null
rooney, accompanied by his family The
invitation to Mr.. Mulrooney to join
the party could not have been
gesture of insolence. since Mr.. Carroll
has every reason to pacify the con-
stables. 1t must have been given
simply because he did not realize that
his play contained anything that
would affront chaste officer of the
law and his household.
A few of my subscribers complain,
as usual, that to denounce a play for
dirtiness is to advertise it into pros
perity. They suggest that in the mat
ter of the "Vanities" a pious secrecy
should be observed, lest naughty
drama lovers be 1ured to attendance.
Give show a bad name, they say,
and 1t will become popular, because
notoriety in the theater is synony-
nous with success So, they claim, the
critics err when, reporting an evil en-
tertainment, they proclaim it as such.
1t is possible to differ from that
opinion. The reviewer who "adver-
tises" a degrading spectacle by de-
nouncing it knows that theatergoers
who desire such amusement will not
be further harmed by it. Their taste
cannot be made lower. But he con-
ceives it to be his duty to inform the
less sophisticated Of what is happening
on the stages. can imagine that an
innocent suburbanite, planning to take
his wife and children to q show, might
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-06
Season Opens Without a Hit
New York's Theatrical Attractions Fail to Score
During the Past Two Weeks--"Creen Pastures
and Once in a Lifetime" Leave Broadway.

uscript will arrive in New York ready
for rehearsals in 80 days. There is a
possibility that Milne may come over
with the script.
Hopkins has a John GalSworthy play
in rehearsal now, and the Milne play
will come next Both will have half
British and half-American casts.
Jour years ago Chester Erskin was a
l. hungry young man who spent most
of his time trying to find vacant bench
in BRYANT Park on which to gather few
hours sleep. He walked into theater
by accident one day and Olga Petrova
gave him walk-on part in new play
she was doing.
That started the theater career of
young Erskine and he decided to be a
director. His staging of Harlem"
Subway Express" and The Last Mile"
elevated him in the short space of two
years to become one of the foremost
directors in the native theater
Late last season the Theater Guild
commissioned him to adapt and direct
Savoir's drama. He" Now Erskine be-
gins his fifth year in the theater as an
independent producer, although still as
ISOLATED with the Guild. He now has
Il Love an Actress a Hungarian COM
edy. in rehearsal. Later in the season
he win stage the Guilds production of
"Son of God" LABOR drama by Paul
and Claire Sifton.
JULIAN WYLIE has arrived from
- England to put on show which was
said to have been impossible to stage
This is the Good Companions" taken
from j. B. Priestly'S novel. 1t requires
a gigantic castle to disappear in thin
air before the audiences eyes. Wylie
specializes in illusions. so the task is
easy for him. He began his career as
a magician, even now he spends his
Christmas holidays touring through
small villages and giving magical shows.
He hasn't spent Christmas at home in
20 years. He has an exceptional men,
DRY for people and names, and he Is
noted for his keen sense of humor.
A RTHUR SINCLAIR and Marie
"A ONeill are due to arrive from their
sojourn in Ireland next week and will
Immediately revive "Old Man Murphy. u