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The Washington times., 1932-11-07

Dear Miss Fairfax:
Sometimes I'm almost tempt
ed to believe you're man, you
seem so partial to that once
stronger sex, and are always
telling women how to keep
their husbands. We must look
our best, not scold or nag, and
if Friend Husband has a row
ing eye we must be blind. And
always, we must bow to that
ancient law: Feed the brute.
The Eternal Question
But how about us? What are
our rights and privileges? May
not our eyes rove, if they're not
admired at home?
Take my own case. We mar
ried young; at least, I was not
yet 20, and my twenty-fifth
birthday is not due for six
weeks yet. I have produced
two beautiful children and they
seem to love their father better
than they do me, although I'm
the one who answers their mil
lion questions, see that their
little noses are clean, likewise
, hands and faces, and that they
don't bother Daddy too much
when he comes home.
I am still good-looking, in
spite Of baby tending, cooking
three meals a day and caring
for a four-room flat. How do
I know this? Because two Of
my husbands dear friends and
one old leftover from my girl
hood days have all made love
to me, told me I was getting
raw matrimonial deal, and
have wanted to lead me down
the primrose path, one with
benefit of clergy, two without.
I've said to all three: "Oh,
don't be an IDIOT" But some
times I've wondered if it were
not I who am the idiot. My
husband is utterly selfish and,
I've every reason to believe,
unfaithful. I realize I'm just
a very capable and unpaid SER
want, darner, rnender and pro-
fessional sunbeam to a fire.
quently grouchy man.
Are Not Cutters
haven't quit, because quit
ting is not a characteristic of
my family. We are of a
pioneer stock. My great-grand-
mother went across the plains
in a covered wagon, paying
equal attention to her baby
and a gun. My great-grand-
father was killed by Indians
on that expedition, and my
great-grandmother went on
alone. Some of her grit has
stuck, and that I suppose
makes me carry one, when
I'd loved to be loved, have
pretty clothes, nice things said
to me, and-good heavens!-
escape all this fearful drudg-
cry! But you tell me to keep
on.
Why? So that, when I'm so,
very likely I shall be thrust
aside for a young flapper by a
man who doesn't appreciate me
now, when I'm young, love to
dance, am hungry for life?
Why shouldn't he do his
share to hold ME? I'm asking
you.
WiStful Wife
The reason you stick, my dear
child, is because you come of a
race which doesn't quit when
things aren't creased with fancy
cold cream. Think of that old
grandmother cuddling her baby
with one arm, the gun beside
her on the wagon seat, travel
ing all those weary miles to a
raw country beset with dangers
at every mile. Think of the
The Washington times., 1932-11-07
How Do Women
in the Movies
Manage?

Filming a picture
means weeks Of
work without .
pause. The star
can't stop because
S he is 81 n d is
posed!" The Time
of Month" does
not excuse her. II
you know some
woman who is in
pictures. she will
tell you how Hol-
lywood W o m e n
manage. Try to
find even an "ex-
ira" pirl W ho
The Washington times., 1932-11-07
How to Stay Wed
NOTED LOVE AUTHORITY
GIVES ADVICE TO-
NEWLYWEDS
BY Beatrice Fairfax
Rule No. AMake character the Corner Stone

Rule No 4Make Character the Corner Stone
While character important in every relation of life where
else is it quite important marriage? So have
leced Have Character my fourth rule in this SERIES
Have character, and plenty of it. Character is the
of married life Without it become drifters-fra
craft the of wind Marriage is not filtration
under the auspices of the church It's association produc
tive of great happiness-if put best into it.
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doesn't carry Midol with her!
Midol was a marvellous diScov-
cry. It isn't harmful. 1t isn't
narcotic. But it acts in seven
minutes-ends all pain or discon1-
fort for hours at stretch! Just
ask for Midol at any drug storas
The Washington times., 1932-11-07

The highest wind speed ever
registered in the British Isles
was in January. 1920, when 110
miles an hour was recorded at
GUILTY, County Clare, Ireland;
cyclones and other tropical
winds, travel much faster than
this at times.
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Three Women
"SKYSCRAPER" AUTHORS
NEW NOVEL OF
YOUNG REVOLT
by Faith Baldwin
BY Faith Baldwin
CHAPTER IA

Lennox and Elizabeth not consulted to their
plans They to be married Louisa decided in the late
spring. in early June at church, and home to
receive at Washington Square Then they would away
for little trip On their return they would make their
home with Louisa This plan passed without comment
Lennox Sheldon drew nominal salary from the business
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VIII en- Manners
Are Correct
BY MRS. BEECKMAN
Acknowledgements

Dear Mrs. Beeckman:
/. Is it proper to have
"please reply' on a wedding in
vitation?
2. If this is on an invitation,
how should it be worded?
3. To whom should the reply
be sent, the bride-to-be, or her
parents? A.
/. If the invitation is to the
church ceremony only, no re-
quest for an answer is engraved
on the invitation, since this
invitation does not require an
acknowledgment. (This is, when
the second line reads, ire
quests the honor Of your pres
ence," as in the wording of the
formal invitation to the church
ceremony
But when an invitation is
sent for a home wedding, or
for a wedding reception or
other festivity after the cere-
mony, it Is quite correct to have
engraved on the invitation,
either:
The favor Of an answer is
requested, or, Kindly send re-
sponse to Two Home Place.
2. The acknowledgment IS
sent to the parents of the bride
to-be, who are the hosts OF the
occasion. The invitation is
sent in their names, and there
fore they are the ones to whom
the reply is sent.
Greetings
Dear Mrs. Beeckman:
/. When an acquaintance
says, How do you do," upon
meeting, what is the proper
thing to say?
2, When one says that, is
he asking you how you are, or
is that just a greeting. H. :.
l. How do you do" is the
usual, conventional, correct
thing to say as acknowledgment
of an introduction. Each per
son says it. If we say this
when we are introduced, we
will be right. If we try to i'm
prove on it, we may not be
right. So, obviously, it's better
to "stick by the convention"
2. This pharse is just a
form of greeting. I'll admit it
isn't very logical, for we really
at that point aren't particularly
concerned with how the other
person docs" But up to date,
no other form Of acknowledge
ment has been accepted for this
occasion, and so we must, per
force, abide by the tradition.
The Washington times., 1932-10-26
Advice to the LoveIorn
By Beatrice Fairfax

could T possibly get to know
him? P. V. T.
If he is the type that in
sists on introductions, don't
you think it would be a mis-
take, on your part, to try and
force an acquaintance without
one? There really isn't any
other way for mice" people
to meet. You might try to
get the manager, or someone
connected with the place, to
introduce you; but the man
really ought to do this If he is
interested.
If a Cat May Look at King
Dear Miss Fairfax:
If a cat may look at a king,
how about a humble clerk
looking at his employers
daughter? Sounds like an old
time romance, doesn't it?
Well, it isn't, for the girl is
plenty modern. I have been
sent to the boss house with
papers a number of times, and
the girl has flirted with me
furiously. One time, while I
was waiting for the return of
some papers and was sitting in
the hall, my charmer flew
down the stairs and put her
arms around me. Then she
staged a fright scene, and said
she thought it was her brother.
I said, "Oh, yeah" and let
It go at that. Of course, I'm
crazy about her, but I'll be
darned if I'm going to let her
amuse herself at the expense
of her papa's poor hireling.
I'm not in her country club set,
and not likely to be. You know
more about girls than I do.
What do you think?
THE MELANCHOLY
APPRENTICE.
OF course, if you really were
melancholy you wouldn't have
written in just the key. And
I'm mighty glad you had the
presence of mind to say, "Oh,
yeah" when she pulled that one
about her brother. Who knows
what might happen if you
don't lose your head and let
yourself become miserable? I
could name scores of cases
where the apprentice" has
married the boss daughter.
The Washington times., 1932-10-26
Your Health
And Diet
By LOGA--- CLENDENING, MD.

BY LOGA-- CLENDENING, M. D.
Experiments at Colgate Uni
versity in sleep indicate that
adult human beings need eight
hours of -leep in thc "a. In two
stretches Of four hours each,
preferably.
When the question comes up,
'How does this one get along
with six hours?" the answer is,
"He doesn't" Either some time
or other he makes it up in maps
or by an extra long sleep, or
it can be shown by his bodily
condition that he actually needs
sleep.
However, one is inclined to
believe that these studies which
were made on young people in
comparatively uniform health.
are not quite as accurate as
they seem.
MY own observations would
incline me to believe that peo'
pie vary enormously in their
sleep requirements. Some can
get along on six or seven hours
and others require nine or ten.
It is too bad to worry a person
who does get along on six by
telling him that he must have
eight, and equally too bad TO
make the one who requires ten
get alone on eight.
Those who say to one person.
"You ought to get up earlier in
the morning and get more
work DONE" are just as wrong
as when they say to someone
else, "You don't get enough
Sleep"
Thomas Edison, as IS well
known, rarely had more than
an average of four hours
sleep in a day. woodrow Will
son, on the other hand, always
required nine hours and pre-
ferred 10. Both of them did
good work in the world.
Both of them were right, I
believe, in insisting on having
the amount of sleep each had
found was best for him.
DR.. William Osler said there
were two kinds Of students
larks and owls.
One of my friends, a sur
geon, gets up at 6 every morn
ing and studies until time to go
to work. Personally, I could do
no more work between and 9
a. m. regularly than an owl.
But I can study alertly from
II to l at night, while my
friend probably is hitting the
hay"
The Washington times., 1932-10-26
Fashion Fads and
ancies

A separation between collar
and coat is common this year.
An autumn coat of fine long
haired tweed has a separate,
rounded bib collar. There is
a wide belt of tweed fastened
with a flat silver buckle.
SURE OF ITSELF is the
plain dinner dress of black crepe
roma. A most useful model has
the new high-front neckline,
dull white satin flowers as
trimming and graceful capelike
sleeves.
SIMPLE THEREFORE
SMART is a dinner dress of
dull black crepe. It has a
square neckline, cape sleeves
that reach to the elbow and
a girdle made Of round lined
rhinestones.
The Washington times., 1932-10-26

WASH H4INOTON FASHIONS

If you read fashion maya
zines, you've probably noticed
cire satin pictured in evening
gowns. It's called "the ShinieSt
black satin on earth," and it
has that slick, seductive look
that sophisticates like for eve
ming clothes. And you may
have wondered when you could
get it in Washington. One cire
satin gown appeared in several
stores. satin combined with net,
but it just didn't seem to have
the chic of the gowns you'd
noticed in fashion magazines.
The brilliance of the satin is
so dazzling that it needs no
trimming, and should be made
as simply as possible, for it's a
shining garment of glory for
the woman who wears it well.
Princess Lines
Now we've found a smart
dress made just of cire satin,
simple as it can be, and thor
oughly modern looking. The
lines are ripping in princess
effect. and give a good play
to the highlightS on the gown.
The square neckline is held by
clips that rival the brilliance
of the material, and the back
is cut high. Wide double
ruffles make the sleevelets
that cover the shoulders, so
that the gown can be worn
for any informal evening occa-
sion. It is priced $25, and
comes in black, brown or
green, in misses sizes.
In Good COlOrs
ColorS look just as well as
black in this cleaning material,
if they are dark. The brown
has the Importance that the
beige and brown family has
taken on this fall for evening
cloCheS, and the green looks re-
freShingly new. The dress
probably isn't a wise choice if
you can have only one gown
and wear it to everything, but
it cannot be rivaled for smart
ness if you can have more than
one supper dress, and inter
change them.
For further fashion infOrma-
tiOn, or for the name of the
store where you can find this
gown. write Miss LaviIle, incIOs-
closing a Self-addressed, stamped
envelope, or call District $3.50,
Extension 199.
The Washington times., 1932-10-26
The Rhymin8
Optinnist
BY ALINE MICHAELIS
The New Day


A sparkling day, a singing day,
A day all gold and blue,
When not one gift you truly need
Can be withheld from you.
Put every doubt behind you now,
Put every fear aside,
And rise to greet this dawning
day
AS a lover greets his bride!
Oh, marvel of all marvels
That this can still be true,
That every heart in every land
With morn finds earth made
new!
New hope, new cheer, new cour-
age
Come with the shining sun,
AS into times pied fabric
An urgent thread is spun.
Oh, wonder of all wonders.
A day all blue and gold
In which life's lifting flower
New petals will unfold!
The Washington times., 1932-10-26
When YOurCOugh
Hangs On, Mix
This at Home
Saves 81. So Easy! No COOkingl

The best cough remedy that money
could buy can easily be mixed at home.
1t costs very little, yet it's the most re-
liable, quick-acting medicine you ever
used. The way it takes hold of stub
born coughs, giving immediate relief,
is astonishing.
Any druggist can supply you with
212 ounces of Pinex. Pour this into a
pint bottle, and add granulated sugar
syrup to make a full pint. To make
syrup, use 2 cups of sugar and one cup
of water, and stir few moments until
dissolved. No cooking needed. It's no
trouble at all. and saves two-thirds of
the money a family usually spends on
cough medicine. Keeps perfectly and
tastes fine.
1t is surprising how quickly this
loosens the germ-laden phlegm, soothes
and heals the infamed membranes,
clears the air passages, and thus ends
severe cough in hurry.
Pinex is compound of Norway
Pine, in concentrated form, the most
reliable healing agent for severe coughs.
1t is guaranteed to give prompt relief
or money refunded.
The Washington times., 1932-10-26
Try These
Recipes
Lobster SOuffIe

INGREDIENTS: Two cups of
canned lobster, 2 eggs, l cup
milk, l tablespoon cooking fat,
tablespoon flour, 1 teaspoon
lemon juice, salt, pepper, mace,
a few grains cayenne.
METHOD: Pick the lobster
to pieces, discard bits of bone
or shell. Make a white sauce,
remove from the fire. Add the
lemon juice to the lobster, and
put this into the white sauce.
Add the egg yolks whipped to a
yellow foam, season the mix
ture with salt, pepper, paprika
and a few grains of cayenne;
then fold in the stiffly beaten
egg white. Pour into creased
ramekinS, or in a larger baking
dish, and bake 20 minutes.
Serve at once.
Tutti Frutti Salad
INGREDIENTS: 2 slices
canned pineapple, small bottle
cherries, 2 tablespoons chopped
Walnuts, 2 canned peaches, 6
marshmallows, fruit salad dress
ing and lettuce.
METHOD: Cut the pineapple
into shreds, also the peaches,
nuts, marshmallowS and cher
rieS, reserVing a few of the lat
ter for garnish. Arrange the
fruit on lettuce leaves with a
generous spoonful of fruit salad
dressing on each serving. Dec.
crate with whole cherries.
The Washington times., 1932-10-26
An Office Triangle


Dear Miss Fairfax:
I am 81 years old and am &C
quainted with a young man
whom I've learned to care for.
He tells me I am wonderful and
he enjoys my society. He was
engaged to be married, but it
was broken off about three
months ago. We are all work
ing at the same place of busi-
ness-the man, his former fian-
Gee and $50 he sees his old
sweetheart frequently. He has
told me he wouldn't go through
again what he did in the last
three and one-half years for any,
thing.
We are both hungry readers
and enjoy talking about books;
also, we talk over business. I'd
like to have him return my af-
fection. DOLLY.
Give him time. Don't try to
rush things too quickly. Haste
has spoiled many a savory dish,
as well as many a love affair.
Time is the greatest of soothing
syrups if you'll only let it work
out it's magic. Why worry over
old chapters in a mans life?
That comes pretty close to be-
ing unreasonable jealousy, don't
you think?
He Insists on IntrOductions
Dear Miss Fairfax:
I admire a man immensely
whom I see at public dance halls.
He has never asked me for a
dance.
I think he is the type who
never talks to a girl unless
he is introduced to her. How
The Washington times., 1932-10-26
The Beauty
Box

Slouchy posture is a disgrace,
especially in young pretties. It
is due to laziness and the harm
full notion that a slumping
shuttle suggests the sophisti-
Gated state Of mind. There
should be public back
Slappers to thump round-shoul-
dered girls as they pass by.
Erect carriage permits normal
breathing, and so improves the
complexion in color and tex
ture. 1t tightens up abdominal
muscles, produces the flat fig
ure that carries the lovely
gown Splendidly and beauti-
fully.
my hair is turning grey.
What can I do to stop it?" is
a common beauty plant. The
genius who discovers a remedy
for that trouble will rake in
his millions. Dye doesn't retard
the whitening process. The
best one can do is to give the
hair and scalp good care which
includes the thorough shampoo
once a week with melted soap,
friction of the scalp every
night, a rousing brushing when
the depleted finger wave will
permit that disturbing treat
ment.
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any case, but George might
have proven difficult. Georges
death was untimely, Of course,
but certainly, as regarded the
upbringing Of the boy, clearly
providential. Being a good
woman, she never admitted this,
even to herself.
College? Four years away
from her? And not alone the
physical absence, but the loos-
ening of the spiritual ties, the
fraying of the threads, to wound
Continued on I'd Comic PaRe)
The Washington times., 1932-10-26

CHAPTER FOUR
/; Lennox liked Sally.
She had a way of tossing her
small head, of flirting back her
long, golden curls, a way OF
looking at you from under
dropped lashes. She shared ap-
pies and cookies with him at
recess. His first fight-he was
terribly beaten but persisted
was because of Sally. Some one
called her LENS girl" He
hadn't minded the insinuation,
he'd liked it, but the code was
to fight. The genteel ladies had
been filled with horror. Mrs.
Sheldon was informed. Lennox
had been done up in witch
hazel after reaching home and
had submitted to a lecture, last
ing for over an hour. Gentle
men didn't brawl. He was bat
tered and bruised and quietly
triumphant that his mother was
unable to learn the cause of the
battle. The other boy hadn't
told, either; that was part Of the
code, too. But the other was
never asked to Lennox'S parties
again. Mrs. Sheldon saw to that.
Birthday Party
:. He had party every year, on
his birthday. Sally came, of
course. On his eleventh birth
day tremendously thrilling
thing happened-it might mean
that he'd have to fight again.
They played that game where
you bow to the wittiest, kneel to
the prettiest and kiss the one
you love best. LernoX, red flags,
flying in his cheeks, his slim
body tricked out in the black
velvet, the wide sash and lace
collar of Mrs. Burnett's ubiqui-
tous hero, bent his dark head
and his knee to Sally Morgan
and, advancing timidly, kissed
her dryly, briefly, a little
smackingly, upon her smooth.
unblushing cheek. Louisa Shell
don who had been lowering just
beyond the circle of children
with a look of waiting in her
eyes, dropped her arms to her
sides and turned away. That
was the last time that they
played at kissing games at Len
nox' parties.
The Larger School
When Lennox had outgrown
the small private school, he
entered larger one. Mrs. Shell
don did not send him away to
boarding school, as Fred Van
Alstyne and the Lambert twins
were sent. She said that she
preferred to have him with her
at the age in which a growing
boy most needs home influ-
ence. Of course, people said
wisely, it was not to be expected
that she would part from the
boy so soon after his fathers
death.
Sheldon had settled that Len
noX was to go through Har-
ward. Louisa had said nothing
at the time-it was shortly after
the child's birth-but she had
always had other plans. She
would have carried them out in
The Washington times., 1932-10-26
The California Treatment
conquers SIussishness

It's not the stomach, but the bowel
condition that keeps children from eat
ing. But the trouble is IN the lower bowel
the colon. California fig syrup is the
only medicine" needed to stimulate the
colon muscles. The very next day, your
child is eating better and feeling better.
Keep on with the fig syrup few days
and you will see amazing Improvement
in appetite, color, weight and spirits.
Any drugstore has the real California
fig syrup, all bottled, with directions.
Nature never made a nicer acting or
nicer tasting laxative. It is purely
vegetable) Remember California fig
syrup when sickness, a cold or any upset
has clogged a child's bowels.
The Washington times., 1932-10-26
When Manners
Are Correct
The Correct Gift

Dear Mrs. Beeckman:
A young man friend OF mine
whom 1 have known for about
a year has invited me to his
parents silver wedding ann1ver-
sary. He will accompany me
there.
Is it appropriate for me to
take a present, as I have never
had the pleasure Of meeting
his parents? A.
I think that it would be a
bit forced" for you to take a
present to this anniversary, but
/ do think that it would be
most gracious of you to send,
on the morning of the ami
versary, a box of flowers, ad-
dressed to the wife. On your
card, within, you might write,
Congratulations and best
wishes to you and Mr.. An
QgeWSs q
The Washington times., 1932-10-26
Do You Know
That---

An automatic bridge floor
layer that fords creeks and
swamps and is also able to
build a corduroy road has been
invented. In two minutes time
the apparatus will build a 100
foot bridge of wood planks
joined by hooks through a SIM
pie device of unrolling a
wooden belt on a cylinder
mounted on a motor truck.
More than 100000 persons
live in overcrowded dwellings
in cities in Germany.
The Washington times., 1932-10-26
Handy Hint

To remove fruit-juice stains
from mems flannels, dab light
ly with peroxide of hydrogen
on a piece of clean linen.
Egg shells tied in a muslin
bag and put in the boiler will
help to bleach and whiten
clothes.
To bruise ginger use a pair
Of nutcrackers in preference to
a hammer.
The Washington times., 1932-10-26
How a Modem Girl Broke
ShackIes Of Tradition
SYNOPSIS

New York in umpuOusy furnished home
Louisa LennOx Sheldon the first of
Ghree Women" aristOcatc aOOf towards
husband genial almost jealous of him their
gOd realizes that Georges first
sister, the latter had led him cOqueshy and
accepted George
hand ignoring his fIatous ten
years when leaving widow but inwardy
mould 9yearOld god"
her son attends at private school, has made
chum of little Astyne his first sweetheart
The Washington times., 1932-10-26
Modern Modes

1t won't change its spots and
that's why leopard is so smart.
A green walking dress is worn
with a leopard capelet and a
melon muff. The accompany
ing hat is one-haIf of green
crepe, the other of leopard.
The Washington times., 1932-10-26
This and That

Brazil's black diamonds,
known locally as carbonados,
exist plentifully in the state of
Bahia. They have been en-
ployed for drills for about so
years,
The Washington times., 1932-10-26
Contract
Bridge
BY E. v. SHEPARD

How Many Can z Win at Spades
An enthusiastic young woman
Just fulfilled a doubled con-
tract of Four Spades. A found
fault with the way her partner
played. The opening lead was
the King of Clubs. How many
is it possible for z to win
against any subsequent play
of ABB?
AAl07
2AKQl02
&l0S32
H5
4 None AN AKJee3
VJ43 II 1855
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The Washington times., 1932-10-26

Simply sumptuous is an eve
ming coat made of broad bands
of black Bagheera and black
sequins alternating. It has a
crescent-shaped capelet trimmed
with double bands of white fox.