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Of gas clerks In the world to that
woman; she didn't care what any one
thought-Junior was not going TO be
allowed to fall out of the car. If the
| gas man had been a trifie more care
, full and If Junior hadn't opened the
door. nothing unusual would have oc-
CURED.
WOMEN so continually have to do
w three things at once that concen-
| tration comes hard to them. Even the
simplest dinner means simultaneous
attention to the stove, sink. telephone,
dining table ice box Everything has
| to 90 on at once, and smoothly. Add
| to these two lively small children and
a baby, and you begin to understand
why many of them have a permanently
harassed and fluttered air.
Mother" says a 5-year-old, from the
| back seat, tom is trying to get the
pussy out of the baskets"
Tommy. stop thatl" Mother says,
| from the wheel And being human,
she tries an oblique glance at the child
| the car veers slightly, all the cars be-
hind it touch their horns, and all the
men who see her calculate: "Wouldn'
YOU know 1t was a woman!"
OF course there are women too ner-
yolls to drive cars But then, I know at
least one man too nervous ever to use
an elevator. The homes Of such friends
as live in apartments are unknown to
him. unless they live on lower floors, to
which he can walk. He Is a manly
man, too, and most successful man
but he will not ride in elevators. An
other man, also a writer and success
will not use taxicabs. He Is afraid OF
them. He prefers the subway, prefers
walking.
Men respect both these men. But II
any woman suddenly developed the
same peculiarities they would be hard
! on her
You mean to say you aren't going
to the Peterkin dinner Just because
they're on the tenth f1oor?"
st can't, Jim. Or I could walk
! IN = ."
She would never hear the end OF
that.
MO, the truth is that while we flatter
coddle, pamper the other sex. we
don't get a fair break from them. They
will continue to despise and belittle ouI
intellects and capabilities to the end OF
the chapter. They will pass blandly
over the descriptions and fights among
mems organizations. to chuckle over the
account of a quarrel in an obscure little
woman's club. They will jeer at wom-
an for her hope of world peace one
day, ''there'l always be wars" and
laugh, on the next, because you women
are always going for each other" They
will consider her historical and unbal-
anced, when the care Of house and
babies proves too much for her nerves
and If, on some holiday morning. they
have to assume the same responsibilities
for few hours they will turn into
maniacs who tear telephones out OF
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-25
Minnesota State Folk
To Meet at TUESDAY Dance

Z The first entertainment and dance
Of the 1892 social season of the
Minnesota State Society will be held
&C the Washington Club, Seventeenth
and K streets. northwest. Tuesday eve
ring. Dancing will start promptly at
Z O'clock.
Arrangements for the various fes-
lures of this entertainment, which is
to be in the nature Of a Halloween
dance. have been made by the chair
man, MT. Rutland d. Beard, and his
Committees. Wearing of costumes will
be optional but prizes will be awarded
IOr'tlle most original and CCmICaI COS.
fumes
= few of the old-faShioned dances.
such as the QuadriIle. Virginia reel and
iancers, will be featured during the
evening. Fortunes will be told
A special invitation is extended to
I'll Minnesotans to bring their families
and friends. Plenty Of cider and other
refreshments will be served.
Nineteen thirty-one and nineteen thir-
ky-two membership cards may be OBJ
tanned from Mr.. A. F. White. financial
secretary 1903 Twenty seventh street
southeast, or at the door Guest cards
may also be secured at the door.
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trembling, hesitating lady, who doesn't
give whoop for stop signs, takes the
middle of the road, skins about you
on bridge or q crossing, and generally
messes up the whole traffic problem"
Thus the other sex, having a good
time discussing us, as usual, and as
usual coming to a lot Of conclusions
completely wrong, and very gratifying
to themselves
Several million women are driving
cars in these days and 1t would be a
bold person indeed who dared general
lie about them at all. There are timid,
hesitating woman drivers and there
are trembling, heSitating men. Stub
born old men delight in getting the
inner lane of a busy thoroughfare and
ambling along at 20 an hour, regard
less of the uproar of whistles and horns
behind them. Men have more acct
dents per capita than women do, but
this is explained by the fact that
speedcars tearing about at night, after
party cars, cars on their way to ball
games or ferries or trains, are usually
driven by men; delivery cars for flo
rists and laundries and bakeries are
driven by men, omnibuses and taXis
are driven by men, and these are the
dangerous cars. Women, generally
speaking, drive at quieter hours and
with more leisure
X X
IN those terrible accidents that spill
= young flesh and blood over our
roadways, almost always a man is driv-
ing He may be an excellent driver,
but he may have had too many cock
tails. And the chuckling men who de-
eide that women are all bad drivers
would absolve him because of that;
poor kid, he could drive all right but
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November Bride Given
A Party by Friends

Miss liberia Borden and Miss Kath-
crime Doyle entertained On October %
at a miscellaneous shower in honor of
Miss Harriet Dey. whose marriage 70
Mr. Emory Shanks will take place No
vember Z. Among the invited guests
were Mrs. Winfield Dey Mrs. Goldsmith
5hanks, Mrs. Robert E. Doyle, Miss Ruth
Doyle, Mrs. A. d. Jones. Miss Virginia
Dey Mrs. Maurice Talley, Mrs. AL Ko-
neck. Miss Mary Riley Mrs. William
Shoemaker, Miss Louise Dixon, Miss
Katheryn Pyles, Miss Doris Eibel, Miss
Rosemary Plaskett. Mrs. William Fling,
Miss Helen Won Lang, Miss Anne Clarke,
Mrs. j. r. Pendley. Miss Margaret Par
sons. Miss Clara Benedict, Miss Gladys
Raynor, Mrs. j. Milton Walker, Miss
Grace Kirk. Miss Effie Reynolds, Miss
Ruth Kelly and Miss Peggy Gift.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-25

me; driving has been quite another
thing since then. My advice TO any
4 woman who feels herself wavering in
mind and spirit, when driving, is TO
get some man from the nearest garage
to talk to her about the whole thing.
X X
MO matter how We drive, men will
always feel that to control high
| powered machines is their distinct
| sphere. and will continue to regard us
as irresponsible when at the wheel.
When q woman sees man trying TO
give q small baby a bath. or getting
| supper, she has much the same feeling.
He is very generous and very good
and most amusing-but somehow he
doesn't fit.
An affectionate. contemptuous pity
| for women is dear to men. Nothing
upsets a mans equilibrium like the first
creeping suspicion that the gray horse
| is the better mare. In our town there
| is a certain rich young man whose driv-
ing license has been taken away from
him after third accident A few years
ago his open yellow car was familiar
| sight, tearing along at so an hour, with
wife and baby clinging like monkeys
| to the front seat.
Now the wife. controlled, intelligent
person, drives. Mary has never had an
accident. But Howard is always nerv-
GUS with her, always sharply directing
her. warning her of approaching trucks,
scolding her about changing gears.
Let me alone!" she walls, made
really nervous and incompetent by his
steady criticisms. It is the old man
and-woman situation, not the fact that
she is bad driver and he good one,
that is to blame.
THE other day, in a gas station, the
Il clerk directed a woman in small
car to back nearer to the gas hose.
Obeying his waving hand, she backed
into pole. When she started away, a
few minutes later. still nervous, still
conscious Of watching bystanderS, she
jerked herself into second gear, the car
gave a convulsed leap, and a door
swung open. Having small child be-
side her on the front seat, she flung
herself and her right arm across the
childs body. to slam the door, and the
wheel, guided only by her left hand,
! brought the car dangerously close to
another car. MudguardS locked, horns
roared, men were running and shouting
in every direction, and five Hurried
and apologize minutes passed before
the red-faced little lady and the bad
baby who had opened the door were
safely on their way. Then all the men
laughed.
Women oughtn't to drive!" said the
young gas clerk seriously to me, who
have driven for Is years without bump
ing a fender, and have enjoyed hun
dreds of picnics, beaches, movies, trips,
parties, conveniences thereby. If they
can't pay a driver, leave 'em stay
homel"
And the whole thing had been caused
primarily as I had seen bv that care
lessly commanding hand of his, direct
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Autumn Visitors From
Washington at Southern Spa

: The brilliant Autumn season in Vir-
ginia Hot Springs continues at its
height with each day in late october
bringing scores Of new arrivals to join
the Homestead colony.
E Mr.. Alanson B. Houghton, former
Omitted States Ambassador to the Court
Of st. James, with Mrs. Houghton and
their daughter, Miss Elizabeth Hough-
ton, has arrived from Washington for
the season.
: Mr. Ferry K. Heath, Assistant Secre-
tary Of the Treasury, came from Wash
hgton with Viscount j. Henri de Sibour
Tor an extended Fall visit.
z Mrs. John r. Williams and Mr.. and
Mrs. Montgomery Blair are others who
have recently Joined the large Wash
Ington colony in the Homestead, while
Miss Francesca McKenney has returned
With Miss Frances Marion Miller of
New York City for another season.
: Others In the Washington group in
dude Mrs. Francis Emory Warren. the
Misses Mary F. and Matilda Mellon,
Mr.. Arthur Bradley Campbell and Mr..
p. A. Andrews.
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Trinity College Women
: To Give Gard Party

The Halloween tea dance and card
party, for which the Auxiliary Board
Dc Regents of Trinity College is making
elaborate preparations, promises to be
8 highly successful affair II the demand
for tickets can be taken as q criterion.
The party will be given in the May
flower Hotel, which will be beautifully
decorated, cards beginning at 2 O'Clock
and the tea dance at 4.
A partial list of patrons and pat
fopesses includes: Mrs. Thomas H. Car
Eer Mrs. j. Leo Kolb Mrs. P. F. Han
nan, Mrs. Thomas e. Petty. Mrs. Nellie
e. Fealy, Mrs. Peter John McGovern,
Mrs. Raphael l.. Shanafelt, Mrs. Alice
Y. Murphy, Mrs. Thomas p. Brown,
Mrs. w. H. Donovan, DR. and Mrs. j. L.
y. Murray, Mrs. Virginia M O'Hare,
Mrs. John Cammack Miss Minnie Car
roll, Mrs. James j. Haskell, Mrs. Will
lam j. Mooney. Mrs. Margaret M. Do
IAN and Mrs. Joseph E. Gatti.
= Music will be furnished by one of
The best known orchestras in the city.
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D. A. R. Historian Hostess
At Luncheon on Steamer

s In the swirl of social festivities during
the Sesquicentennial at Yorktown, Va,
. number of receptions and banquets
Rere held aboard warships stationed on
York River. Immediately following
President Hoover's speech at the
@Field of Surrender" on Monday, Oc-
tOber 10, Miss Katherine L. Harvey,
D.. A. r. historian for the District of
Columbia, entertained at luncheon
aboard the u. S. S. Merblehead.. Invi-
tations were extended by Capt. w. r..
RuRl0ng, commander, to Mr.. and Mrs.
David D. Caldwell, Miss Helen Hartman,
NJ and Mrs. H. C.. Grove. Mrs. F. B.
Linton, Mrs H. c. McCrory, Miss Jane
BasSett and Mrs. T. M. Roberts, all of
Washington, d. @. Immediately after
luncheon the guests were taken ashore
ana transported to the field of military
activities, two miles back from the river,
b witness the surrender of Corn
wallis. the pageants, and the military
pafa6es.
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Annual Gard Party by
Republican Women League

The annual card party to be given by
the League of Republican Women OF
the District of Columbia at the Willard
Hotel on Thursday, october 20. at
o'clock promises to be q great success.
Among those already making reSer-
vattons are Mrs. Frank w. Mendell,
president: Mrs. Edward Everett Gam,
Mrs. Virginia White Speel, Mrs. Charles
2. adams, Miss Julia S. Strong, Mrs.
Gilbert H. Grosvenor, Mrs. David Reed,
Mrs. Henry Alyah Strong, Mrs S. j.
Prescott. Mrs. j. Thompson WALES,
Mrs Delos Blodgett, Mrs. Joshua A.
Van Orsdel. Mrs John L. Proctor, Mrs.
James s. Parker, Mrs. Seymour Low
man. Mrs l.. H. Reichelderfer, Mrs.
Victor Kaufman, Mrs. Jacob Leander
Loose, Mrs. James Wickersham. Mrs.
E. &. harrington. Mrs. Harry z. Hull,
Mrs Thomas c. Mcconnell. chairman of
Cakes; Mrs. Harry K. Daugherty, Mrs.
David Blair. Mrs. Bruce Baird, Mrs.
Frisbey G. Eiker. Mrs. Edward A..
Keys, Mrs E. Quincy Smith, Mrs. VIII
liam r. Guide, Mrs. r. T. S. Lowell, Mrs
Frederick w. Mills, Mrs. w. W. Hus-
band, Mrs. Josiah T. Newcomb. Mrs.
Henry Albers. Mrs. Howard j. Hodgkins,
Mrs. w. irving Glover, IT,; Mrs. Joshua
Crane, IT.: Mrs. Charles J. Williamson,
Mrs W. p. Dubois, Mrs. Gainse M.
Brumbaugh, Mrs. William G. Foster,
Mrs. Henry w. Fitch, Hughes Oil
nhart, Mrs Francis Battelle Mrs. H. e.
lowe, Mrs. Archibald Oracle, Mrs. w.
E. Humphrey, Mrs. Charles Demonet.
Mrs. Charles B. Riggs, Mrs. Paul NJ.
IAnebarger, Mrs Victor Evans. Mrs. F.
L. williams, Mrs. James M. Doran, Mrs
8. Fay Harper. Miss Irene Juno, chair
man publicity; Miss Rebecca L. Robin
s1A
Sophia P. Casey, Miss Margaret V.
Gage, Miss Natlie Desio Miss Lucy
Cash, Miss NJ. A. Cleveland, Miss Rosa
Eber1e, Miss Margaret C. Beer, Mrs.
g.. louis Weller. chairman Tickets;
Mrs. Frank r. Curtis, Candy Table;
Mrs. Sidney Ulfelder, Prizes; Mrs.
Frank T. Eddingfield, Arrangements,
and Miss Edna M. Patton, Entertain
ment.
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Are Woman Drivers
AS Good as Men?
BY KATHLEEN NORRIS.

timdh trembling
mel have accidents capita than do.
machinery particularly
drive for and not know anything about it. Women
careful drivers
No 20
distinct will
feeling
An S 10 moth
better
things
a
smoothly
hatter coddle
a
little ntelects and capabilities
Until the end time the who has just
will driver
just ahead him she enough street
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-25

walls, smash china and whip perfectly
normal children.
Until the end of time, the man who
has just paid big fine for an unneces-
sary Smash-up will mutter imprecations
upon the woman driver Just ahead of
him, II she pauses long enough to peer
at a street name, or puts out her hand
and then withdraws 1t at some unfa-
miliar crossing.
Isn't that Just like q woman for you'll"
he will say. And considering the whole
big problem. all we can say in return
is resigned, Isn't that just like o
mani"
(Copyright 1917
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Engagement Interests
Both Armv and Navv

Mrs William Frederick Martin Bur-
CESS of Norfolk, Va. has announced the
engagement of her daughter. Miss Anna
Council Burgess. to Lieut.. Valery
Hazard, jr., United States Navy. son
of Mrs. Valery Hazard of Fairfield,
Conn, and the late Surg. Gen. Ha-
ward, United States Army. The
wedding will take place the latter part
Of November Miss Burgess Is a grad
FarmvilIe, Va and made her debut
three years ago at the Norfolk German
Club She is q daughter of the late
Mr.. W. F. NJ. Burgess Of Norfolk
Lieut. Hazard is graduate Of
the United States Naval Academy, class
of 1926, and Is now stationed on the
u. s. s. Richmond.
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he was plastered. They would forgive
him and go on despising some anxious,
nervous little mother shakily steering
small car with almost everything she
loved in the world-three small chill
dren-inside it, through a small town
main street
Women and machinery never have
been particularly friendly. A woman
can drive car for years and not know
anything about it. or remember any
thing she is told about it, or know
what she is talking about when she
speaks of valves, cylinders and gears.
But in spite of all that, or rather be-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-25

cause of all that, she takes 1t very
seriously. Women are apt to be careful
drivers, for the very reason that they
are ignorant ones.
Fer three agreeable years I myself
had been driving small children all
over Long Island, before deliberately
hired an expert to explain to me a
few simple things about the control
Probably it would have been quite pos
sible to go on for another years,
or 80 years, without this elucidation,
but it was a valuable hours work for
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Family Air Rates Set.

CHICAGO, (R.-The trip to grand
fathers house may now be made by
airplane without such o strain on the
family purse. The century air lines
have announced that children under IL
years old will be carried for half fare.
The reduction Is made to encourage
family air travel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-25

HIdy DC SUIT II q WIFI
an driving!" man said the other day
Eyes. and when you see a car start
ing to turn, and wavering, and decid-
ing not to. and struggling on its way,
you may be sure it's another womanp
q second man said.
They never will learnt" third man
contributed, with resigned laugh. 1T
always gives me the shivers to find
myself driving behind some nice,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-25

been because that yellow-headed little
creature on the front seat was worth
all the motor cars and all the opinions
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-25

ing her to back toward the gas hose,
and because the baby had unattached
the door. The ensuing confusion had
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-25

Nv YHEN you see some one
~ n driving .serenely along at
wv 18 miles an hour in the
center of the trafflc. you
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-22

Europe. Most of the girls doing that
sort of work love 1t.
In all the travel bureaus and in all
the branches of American financial cor
porations in Europe and Asia there are
bright American girls and young
men working for little money 80 that
they can see the world. To do this
work you must know some other Ian
g1lage in addition to English. It's .
good idea also to learn Stenography or
bookkeeping.
As to being . buyer, your best way
is to begin as a saleswoman. II you sell
lot Of goods, IL you show an under
standing both Of your merchandise and
your customers, and II you have q per-
sonality that appeals to the manager
Of the store, you viii probably become
buyer. And then you win have an in
teresting and q very hard life. You will
have to make money for your depart
ment. You will have to buy the right
kind Of goods and you will have to hire
the right kind Of girls.
OF course you might be 30 fortunate
rs TO become secretary TO 0 man who
travels about great deal. That would
be perfect for you. but it's only by &C.
cident that girl gets such q job.
suppose chaudeurS see more OF the
world than anybody else. wonder why
q girl who knows how TO drive doesn't
try TO get q job driving q car for q
party Of women.
Girls having problems in connection With
their work may write to Miss Woodward, in
care Of this paper, for her personal advice.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-22
Debunking Hair Growers

was before and even where it was not
before. Newspapers are filled with the
advertisements Of various institutes
which promise to grow hair on scalps
shiny as billiard balls by series of
applications Of ultraviolet rays from
carbon arc or quartz mercury vapor
lamps.
The investigators have tried these
effects on the skin of human beings and
only the artificial ultraviolet rays but
also the actual sunlight.
The evidence indicates quite definitely
that the rays do not have the power
of increasing the growth of hair. Some
times the hair seems to grow out be-
cause of the use of the heat from the
lamp and sometimes the tanning brings
to light fuzzy down which was not
previously visible.
The hair Is a tissue of the human
body and when the body nutrition gen.
orally is improved the nutrition Of
the hair is improved also
It has been found that the chief
component of hair Is keratin. which
contains a chemical called cystin that
Is rich in sulphur. 1t occurred to Ger
man investigators to feed keratin to
sheep to see II it would make the hair
grow better.
The results indicate that the body
needs for sulphur are such that the
tissues generally get what they need,
but there is no specially selective action
by the blood TO take this material to
the hair and such feeding is not likely
to produce a finer growth either In
men or sheep.
SO far as we know, there Is nothing
that can be taken internally that will
have the specific power of increasing
the growth Of the hair upon the head.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-22
DOROTHY DIX'S LETTER BOX

YEAR DIx-My about six months
found that SIN are
that recently would esd n. fall
has am afraid to try it. What would you do' QUESTIONING
pocket and tell him that had
GO ssKE ms @ at Ws but that the
money So matte or 1 ne @ he st b yo
a Done what o savage
o snf and wives yno
the divorce in tWo that most
sssh sSs
until that them want them again
Just the John & his coffee makes o Mary wsn S scream 5t
another time
AGAIN n So they and Se
spite of their faults
they love each other.
divorces You have tried
and you cant live without your ana he misses you so 20 back
for him he WIN forgive DOROTHY DIX
YEAR have been
with without good times until get
sss
&C Work D"dgs and I'd. put aside certain
get @ on are nf Vntns wife H v ss
POUNDS all theories and urnsW iooishness.
bound to have
have bread 81. sS an m wife d dns G GG
your nagng at him about S spnds money On Joy % and
cottage but the chances that will not have
husband in it.
never does when Of husbands
s chance f GO along s0 Try
her husbands most
storrn.proO him to buy umbTsla
:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-22
Everyday Psychology
BY DIR. JESSE W. sPRowLs.
Sensitiveness.


Sensitiveness is a disposition pure and
simple. BY this mean a tendency to
be easily and fully disturbed by any
and every external influence. So in
fuenced, those who are sensitive begin
to get nervous. Later on they may
stampede and lose all orientation to
their surroundings. At such times,
sensitivenesS is to be condemned.
Go below this common understanding
Of the term. Sensitiveness is funda-
mentally sign Of intelligence. And by
intelligence I mean an ability to see
what's going on.
Nature carries out a plan whereby
those Of its creatures that are destined
to live most and to contribute most
must also sense most, must be highly
sensitive. Superiority Is not attainable
without sensitivity or irritability. That's
why geniuses as rule suffer from in
somnia, indigestion and sometimes In
sanity. In fact, the much talked Of Gin
sanity of genius" appears to be nothing
other than the Towering out of a
highly sensitive set Of nerves. The be-
havior Of a genius is bound to be cratic
at times.
The sensitive person Is always on the
alert. That's why great painters see
details in landscape which the in
sensitive cannot recognize even after
they are reproduced. A good art critic
must be an artist himself, so far as the
nervous system is concerned.
The same Is true Of the superior nnu-
stefan. He senses tone differences that
ordinary mortals never detect. And so
it goes for every human endeavor. The
great men and women are those who
are highly sensitive to their surround
ings.
copyright, 1879