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Evening star., 1935-07-13
on Matters of Varied Interest to Washington Women
Dorothy Dix Says
Children Should Not Be Considered
Debtors to Their Parents.

~ EAR MISS DIX-Should chill
dren pay back their parents
for their raising and their
- education? / am a girl 10
years old and ever since I got my
first Job my father and mother have
taken possession Of my pay envelope
on the ground that owed 1t to them
for the money they spent on bringing
me up. When I have protested at
getting only 81 or SO week out of
the money I earn the reply has been
that had better pay my debts before
I begin to spend. 1t makes me feel
as If had been sold into peonage,
and the worst of it Is / don't know
how much they have charged up
against me, nor how long I'll have to
slave to buy my freedom. Do you
think they are giving me a square
deal? NINA.
Answer: Considering that men and
women bring children into the world
entirely for their own pleasure and
without any regard whatever for the
child's wish to be born, 1t Is most un-
lust for them to force children to re-
imburse them for their upbringing
1t Is like being made to pay for a
present that you don't want and that
Is a burden that some one thrusts
upon you.
It is a curious thing that parents
think that their children owe then
an inestimable debt of gratitude for
! bringing them into the world, no mat
ter what sort of world they are thrust
ino, though what the children who
are born with hereditary diseases and
mental DEFICIENCIES and who are
doomed to poverty in their cradles
have to thank their progenitors for, it
Is hard to say. Indeed, most parents,
looking upon the little red, sQuirming
mite of humanity upon which they
have thrust the gift of life, might we'll
say with old Omar: My forgiveness
give and take"
THERE are still other parents who
regard their children as nothing
hut slaves sent by a beneficent Provi-
dence to save them from the necessity
of laboring. They put their offspring
to work just as soon as the little
hands are capable Of performing any
task; they collect their meager wages
and by the time the youngsters reach
adolescence they knock off work for
good and spend the remainder OF
their lives living on their children
There are thousands upon thousands
Of big. husky, middle-aged men who
are being supported by anemic, un-
derfed, overworked boys and girls.
The parents excuse for this always
is that they took care Of their children
when they were little and now it is the
children's turn to take care of them,
though even at this Father and Mother
Evening star., 1935-07-13
Petite Type Fortunate
Is Often Envied by Taller and
Heavier Sisters.

for your tiny feet in the shoe stores.
The trouble is the heavy-weight can
not wear the style and type that the
small person can wear, and I think
that too many of the shoe stores cater
to the smaller types. and the heavier
person tries to cram her feet in shoes
which are much too small for her foot,
weight and build. This is a big mis-
take, and the result Is corns, bunions
and other foot troubles. (5) The soft
fingernails may be due to lack Of cer-
tain foods in your diet. Include milk.
cheese, eggs, green vegetables and fruits
as well as the proteins and carbohy-
drates in your daily menus. For q
local treatment, soak the fingernails in
oil for several minutes at bedtime. Use
the well-known brands Of nail polish
and cuticle creams. There are avail
able on the market cream enamels,
oily cuticle creams and oily removers.
Ask at any of the cosmetic counters.
tcopyrisht. 1881
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Visit Proper
After First
Invitation
RY EMILY POST.

DEAR MISS POST: I met q young
woman several times at the house
of mutual friends, and one day I
telephoned meaning to ask her to 60
out with me for dinner. Her mother
answered the telephone and after I
had introduced myself to her she in
vited me to surprise birthday party
for that same evening in honor of the
daughter. I took box of flowers to
the daughter and when leaving the
party thanked the mother very sim
cerely for having asked me. was
much surprised today when the daugh-
ter let me know that her mother was
disappointed because I had not called
up after the party to again express
my appreciation. Was such a tele-
phone message necessary? Frankly, I
think 1t would be making a good
deal Of fuss to telephone and say thank
you all over again.
Answer-I don't believe that the
mother meant that you should call her
on the telephone. but that you should
have paid a party call. A long es-
tablished rule of courtesy requires that
one leave q card on ones hostess after
her first invitation, and although
younger moderns take all the formal
tiles of card-leaving very lightly, old
fashioned people think it very rude to
omit this visit of digestion" There
fore, if I were you ! would go and
leave a card on the mother the first
moment could.
Dear Mrs. Post: We are three we'd
ding attendants, giving q party for
the bride-to-be, and we wonder
whether we should all stand with her
In the receiving line.
Answer-Unless you are having the
most formal type of party possible to
give, receiving line Of four persons
is really too long. II 1t Is going to be
a very formal party, then that will be
all right. Otherwise, it would be better
to stand in an informal group not at,
but near, the door and each 60 forward
to welcome her own friends and then
return with them to the bride and
present them.
r
Dear Mrs. Post: My parents are
divorced and I am having q big we'd
ding at my fathers brothers house.
I live with mother, but my father is
to be at my wedding. Who should I
ask to give me away-my brother, who
Is of age, or my uncle?
Answer-You ought to be given away
by your father-in fact, it will publicly
repudiate him even II you choose your
brother. To choose your uncle would
mean that his place in your affection
is higher than either your fathers or
your brothers.
(Copyrieht 1887
Evening star., 1935-07-13
Cook S Corner
By MRS. ALEXANDER GEORGE,
A PORTABLE MEAL.
MENU FOR SIX.
Br0Uned Pork Tenderl0inS.

Stuffed Tomato Salads.
Boston Brown Bread Sandwiches.
Diced Melon.
Iced Tea or Coffee.
DROWNED PORK TENDERLoINs.
2 pounds pork y teaspoon pepper
tenderloins 4 tablespoons fat
"a cup flour Il cup water
"a teaspoon salt
Select as large tenderloins as pos
sible; have butcher fiatten them with
cleaver. Cut into serving pieces
Sprinkle with -four, salt and pepper
Heat fat in frying pan. Add and
quickly brown pork. Lower fire. add
water and lid. Cook Is minutes over
low fire. Turn frequently to allow
even cooking.
BOSTON BROWN BREAD.
2 cups -four 2 teaspoons soda
i cup corn meal - cup molaSSes
"a cup sugar y cups sour milk
! teaspoon salt
Mix ingredients. Half fill pound
coffee cans, cover tightly and steam
three hours. Serve warm or cold.
DICED MELON.
cups diced VI cup lemon Juice
watermelon tablespoons sugar
. cups diced
cantaloupe
Mix and chill ingredients. Pour into
vacuum jar, cover tightly and food
will remain chilled for some time.
Serve In paper cups.
Evening star., 1935-07-13

get the best of the bargain, since gem
orally the child has to pay of for the
10 or is years of infancy in which they
cared for him by supporting them for
80 or 40 years. At this rate, bringing
up children pays q bigger percentage
in profit than rearing any other kind
Of live stock.
But it is q sordid thing for parents
to put price-tag on the baby's milk
bottle and charge up against 1t every
bowl Of cereal and mess Of spinach,
with overtime for the hours when it
was sick and Mother walked 1t with
the collie. We like to think that some
thing better than greed warns the
hearts Of fathers and mothers for the
helpless little creature in their arms.
We like to think that love and q sense
or responsibility make them glad to
toll for it and sacrifice for 1t without
thought that they are making a good
investment for the long pull.
A ND we like to think that the rela-
= tionship Of children to their par
ents Is not that of q debtor to a hard
creditor who is trying to screw the last
penny out Of them, but that love, not
duty nor necessity, makes them succor
the old people in their need and take
upon their backs the burden under
which aged shoulders are saggirg.
We like TO think that daughters buy
Mother pretty clothes and jimcracks
because they remember how often she
went shabby to buy them party frocks.
We like TO think that sons get more
of kick out Of making Father a good
allowance than they do out of any
other money they spend, because they
know now that Father must often have
done without the shoes or the hat he
needed to give them money for the
circus or new pair Of skates.
So the question of what children
owe their parents depends very much
on what the parents have done for the
children. If the parents have given
their children love and tenderness and
understanding; If they have done
everything they could do to make them
happy, then the children owe them
the same debt Of affection and they
are in honor bound to pay it back In
the same coin.
But II the parents have given their
children nothing but their board and
keep and kept running account of
that and charged them usurious in
terest, then don't blame the children
for reneging at paying a debt they
did not voluntarily contract.
DOROTHY DIX.
(Copyright l935)
Evening star., 1935-07-13
Seed FlavOrs
Add Zest to
ManyDishes
Caraway, Cardamon
and Poppy Uses Are
Recommended.
BY EDITH M. BARBER.

would you write a column
w some time on the uses Of the
various kinds of seeds, as caraway,
cardamon and poppy? So many
times in your menus you have had
buttered noodles with poppy seeds,
until I tried it, and found 1t most
delicious. 1t has become a favorite
with my guests. I have been wonder
ing how many other delicious dishes
could be made with other types Of
seeds we have?"
The dish mentioned by the writer
was discovered in Vienna and Is
merely noodles dressed with Drowned
almonds, butter and poppy seeds.
Pecans and Brazil nuts are also good
in this dish.
Poppy seeds are used great deal In
Germany and Austria. especially for
filings Of rich breads and pastries, as
well as for sprinkling unsweetened
rolls. 7.hey are also delicious with our
American baking powder biscuits
made with an extra amount of short
ening and rolled very thin before they
are cut. They may be sweetened or
not as you like.
Caraway seeds are very popular with
sauerkraut or they may be used with
buttered cabbage or caulifiower. We
know them best perhaps in this coun-
try used with salt on rolls or in rye
bread.
Iwonder II you have ever used them
with potatoes? They may be sprinkled
over buttered boiled potatoes or used
in the German fashion according to
the recipe given below. They are also
used in cookies to which they give
An individual flavor.
Cardamom seeds, have found, are
best used only as flavoring for cakes.
cookies and desserts Of the custard
type. Perhaps you have discovered
that you usually must seek the drug
store when you want to renew your
supply.
POTATOES WITH CARAWAY.
Select potatoes Of even size, boil in
salted water until tender. Drain,
sprinkle literally with salt and cara
way seeds. Cover, shake over fire
minute and serve.
POPPY SEED BISCUITS.
Two cups -four.
Three tablespoonfuls baking powder.
Half teaspoonful salt.
Five tablespoonfuls shortening.
Two-thirds cupful milk.
Poppy seeds.
Sift dry ingredients together. Cut
in shortening with a stiff knife or
pastry blender. Stir in milk. Work
lightly into smooth dough and roll
out on Toured board. Cut into rounds,
spread half Of them with softened but
ter, sprinkle with poppy seeds and
cover with remaining round. Sprinkle
poppy seeds on top and bake 10 to IL
minutes in q 450-degree oven.
CARDAMON COOKIES.
One cupful butter.
One cupfu1 sugar.
Two eggs.
Four cups flour.
One ounce cardamon seed.
Rind of one lemon, grated.
Cream, butter and sugar together
and add the other ingredients, the
cardamon seed crushed. Roll, cut and
bake in q 375-degree oven until light
brown.
tcopyright. 1935J
Evening star., 1935-07-13
The Old Gardener Says: :

In addition to water lilies,
which naturally have a place in
q pool, there should be others,
such as are naturally associated
with water, around the sides.
The nag irises look particularly
well, but for that matter, all irises,
seem to be well fitted for planting
in such o location, although the
Siberian irises, with their tall
straight leaves are q little more
appropriate perhaps than the So
called German irises. When the
pool Is fairly large a few Japanese
irises may be grown at the side.
They look particularly handsome
in such o situation. There are
certain grasses and various other
plants which give an attractive
touch to the water garden and
which will be found listed In the
catalogues of the dealers in water
plants
Copyright. 1889
Evening star., 1935-07-13
My Neiighbor Says:
II you wish to avoid bean rust,
do not pick beans when the dew
is on them or after rain.

II you wish to avoid bean rust,
do not pick beans when the dew
is on them or after rain.
Glass shoppers may be easily
removed from bottles II q towel
is dipped into boiling water and
wrapped around the neck Of the
bottle for q few minutes.
When making cake. always be-
gin and end with dry ingredients
II you wish to have fine-textured
cake.
Bacon fat may be clarified by
slicing q raw potato into it while
fat Is hot and adding a pinch Of
baking soda. Strain through q
piece Of cheesecloth.
Wash lettuce and place in re-
frigerator to get very cold before
using in making salads. Crisp
lettuce makes the best salad.
Copyright. 1880
Evening star., 1935-07-13
.K07-R

with inserts of lace or may be quite
plain and unadorned.
Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1918 is
designed in sizes 8, 8, 10, u and a.
Size & requires 3h yards Of 3e-inch
material, with az yards of 5-inch-
wide ribbon for the sash.
Every Barbara Bell Pattern includes
an illustrated instruction guide which
Is easy to understand.
Evening star., 1935-07-13

cenJly, Wnen l nao
occasion to talk,
casually, to a prom
inent child psy-
chiatrist. I had,
of course, like all
mothers, endured
the tinfoil craze,
the matoh-cover
hobby that threat
ened to burn my
house from spon-
taneouS cornbus-
tion; the mania for
.solr. 80. &,y.ry
Evening star., 1935-07-13

Here's pinwheel from the Fourth July! It will
a
joined the
line that easy this named Ptnvhee
find the block chart illustration for cutting
quilt
double bed and diagram Of block
guide the patches contrasting
materials.
to the Wonans
Editor of Evening Star,
Evening star., 1935-07-13
BY BETSY CASWELL.

T T AS it ever occurred to you
- that collecting something as
/ hobby is really q help in
Il Il child,s develoDmento
Evening star., 1935-07-13

Patent Leather Clogs Seen.
LONDON [P).-Patent leather clogs
are seen at ultra-modern cocktail
parties.
Evening star., 1935-07-13

Frankly. this aspect Of the case had
not presented itself to me until re-
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Your Health
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN.

NOV that the children are back in school, par
IS should that the youngsters eyes are
examined ana that they equal to the greater
strain thrown upon them.
To be sure. the time for such examination
during the vacation period. when the necessary
dllation of the pupils of the eyes could be made
without interfering with the chidren's work. But
it isn't too late even now.
The United States Public Health Service studied
the eyes 1000 school children ranging in age from
6 to 16. and found that one-third had subnormal
vision and that one-Sixth had sufficient amount of
eyestrain to require glasses.
NNE OF the chief reasons for eyeStrain is lack of
~ suitable light. Light usually is measured by
what are called loot candles. A foot candle is the
amount of light given by a standard candle at the
distance to one foot
To reaG small type easily at 20 inches distance
five foot candles are required Nevertheless careful
investigation of the amount of light used by most
persons in Their homes for reading purposes indi-
Gates that they try to get along with two foot
candles
Many persons suffer from insufficient illunlina
ton than from too much illumination.
4 SURVEY made by Illuminating engineers re-
suited in a recommendation of from 10 to 20
foot candles for ordinary type and from 20 to so
Light is seldom annoying because there is too
much. 1t is annoying because il shines directly
into the eyes because is improperly distributed
1t is much easier on the eyes when using read
lamp, If the rest Of the is moderately illu
minated. Yet great numbers of persons sit under
a bright reading lamp with the rest of the room in
darkness
To avoid glare the principal source of light for
a right-handed person should be behind and to the
left.
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inst Who Is "URft"?

THERE seems to be a very clear implication in the
speech of DR.. Cutten that the kindly Colgate
president regards the unemployed as definitely
among the unfit. I deny that there is scientific
sanction for such point of view. will 60 further
and say that it seems to me not Only an ignorant
attitude, but an impudent one as well.
Surely nobody has right to toss aside with the
utmost casualneSs the extremely likely theory that
1t is the economic system itself which is unfit and
not the persons who happen to be its victims.
As far as the elimination of the unfit" is
cerned. I have never been able to any argument
against preventing mbeciles from reproducing them
selves. Beyond that there must be clash all along
the line. In principle believe in the sterilization
of the insane but loath to leave the definition
OF that word in the hands of any group which might
use 1t unsCrupulOusly
The word insane be stretched to include
almost anybody with whom the ruling group is out
of sympathy. I've heard prominent Americans in
public life called insane because they wished to raise
the income tax rate in the higher brackets.
And even if a sterilization scheme were to be adj
minisered by tie worlds leading scientists would
still Re suspicious of it. doubt that science is as
vet sufficiently scientific to take such grave re-
sponsibilities.
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Horses and Other Runners

THOROUGHBRED horses are bred scientifically
i and yet in 25 years no horse has come close to
Whiskbroom's record for a mile and quarter. On
the other hand. mankind which still lives helter-
skelter. has produced several runners who have
broken the dayghts out of all existing records Tor
me mile
There are things in heaven and earth
than have been dreamt of yet in the laboratories OF
the research men. That's why there is such ten
dency among scientists to freak with their test tubes
and suddenly 60 completely mystic.
Surely eugenicS is not to be a science dedicated
to preserving mere normality. 1t must be remem-
bered that evolution is highly experimental If you
wish to change the word it might be said that God
is a gambler And if any fundamentals feels that
the phrase is irreverent ask him to go back to his
Bible and note the fact that God chose not only
people but certain individuals from that group such
as Moses. Noah, Abraham, Lot and King David.
Moreover. some of the individual choices proved
Disappointing.
If there is such a thing as a margin of error in
Cosmc wisdom am inclined to believe that it might
not be a good idea to turn the elimination OF the
unfit over to Dr. Cutten. Even he might make
mistakes.
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: BY HARRY ELMER BARNES

ON the of what may prove to be another
~ devastating world war~it may prove illuminate
ing to draw some relevant comparisons between the
crisis today and that which preceded the outbreak
of hostities q years ago.
The outstanding contrast between the two crises
lies in the fact that the reading public today has
been thoroughly informed that hostilities are dan
gerousy likely. There has been recognition Of
possible disaster ahead.
IN 1914 the world had little expectation that
general might break out until day or so
before hostilites began There an element Of
surprise and suddenneSs, far the general public
was concerned, in 1914, which has been completely
absent in the present crisis.
Several factors may. in part account for this In
1914 nations had only to each others borders,
while today Italy must ship troops to distant base
of operations. IN 1914 the diplomatic leaders were
pretty certain to the probable lineup of powers,
while today Mussolini has had to feel his way and
to ascertain the probable response to his Ethiopian
venture And in 1914 there no League of Nations
to go through with even the formalities Of main
tanning peace.
0NE Of the most Illuminating contrasts in the
" two crises was the proof given in 1914 that
balance of power between alliances does not insure
peace and the comparable evidence in 1885 that
inequalities of strength operate at least to clay
if not &c prevent it.
In 1914 the two great alliances were 81 evenly
matched that neither greatly feared the possibilities
of European war. Today. Mussolini will need to be
more foohardy than even his most severe critics
imagine him to be if he makes war single handed
against England and France.
We may be pretty sure that if MuSSoini makes
war in the present crisis it will be because of secret
assurances which may have been given to him that
he will not stand alone if he proceeds to defy the
League and Great Britain.
We seem likely to have the same scrap Of paper"
hypocrisy in 1914 when England alleged that she
went to war TO maintain the Sanctity OF treaties.
Critics Of II Duce have had much TO say about his
ruthless violation of the Kellogg Pact and the
League covenant. But the very powers which now
pose as the pholders of these documents were very
complacent in the face of comparable japanese Vlo-
latons when their own interests were directly
at stake
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Times Books

FREDERICK WRIGHT, painter, has turned novel
l. list, and in South" (Farrar and Rinehart; so
he has given us richly colored narrative of life in
small Southern city
Whatever the books defects a a novel, it does
give a bright panorama of Southern life, presented
with all an artists eye for pictorial effect.
The story deals with two Northerners who visit
mill town in the Carolinas. The Northerners are
painter who paints portraits of the upper class folk
for the fees involved, and of the millhands and
Negroes for the pleasure of it, and his wife, who
drifts rather helplessly into two love affairs
This wife, indeed is the books least satisfactory
figure. She gets into love affair by following the
line of least resistance and into second by picking
out the she wants and going after him. and
to this reader, at least, she seems somewhat empty
headed.
ID UT the books pictorial effects outweigh this
ID drawback.
1t shows the mill town the individual workers,
the Loor whites and the Negroes, the descendants of
the great old families and the Immigrants"
from the North.
1t presents strike riot, a fundamentals revival
meeting and flood; it sketches deity picture of
generation which has not yet learned to look to the
future rather than to the past
All in ALL it is a very readable monument to the
spell which the Southland threw over a talented
visitor.
If as I say you forget the heroine. by Bruce
Catton0