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Evening star., 1936-10-31

the scales when I found q pound had
bit the dust. That is. felt better
until saw that breakfast. That little
meal Is guaranteed to take the starch
out Of even q newly laundered stiff
boSomed shirt quicker than a wink.
Another thing that hurt was when
I had to plan all the household meals
again. My diet schedule sat right up
and looked at me, and 1t was awful,
trying to keep my mind on my work.
I ended up by ordering all the things
yearned for. Wonder why the cook
laughed and said she'd attend to or
dering what they needed? Goodness
knows, I didn't plan much for them,
according to the way feel myself!
My clothes aren't any looser, I'm
afraid, but. anyhow, feel awfully
delicate and fragile. I'm sure 1 really
have lost more than the scales showed.
Fifteen pounds and eighteen days to
go sounds like lot, though, to &C
complish.
The whole trouble is, this business
of having to run a food column and
be in such close contact with things
to eat all the time. 1t really is cruelty
to animals! Look at that picture of
deep apple pie that is sitting on my
desk this morning! 1t would tempt
the most satisfied eater-let alone a
poor, starved wretch like me. I feel
sorry for myself.
TAKE that article and picture on
chocolate cake away. I can't
bear it! What on earth can write
about? Something I don't like much
would be the solution. But-that's S
the trouble, right now there isn't a
blessed thing to eat that I'm not just
crazy about!
No, can't talk to the man about
going through that hotel kitchen-I
can't! I've done it so often, I know
just what will happen-especially
when they take me to the ice box
where the cooked lobster is kept. No
I'd disgrace myself. You 60 and have
good time. dear. Eat everything
you can lay your hands on for me.
But don't you dare come back here
and tell me about it! It's a good
thing I've got good substitute tasters
and testers around here.
What have I got in the box for
lunch today? Hope it's better than
yesterday. Hunh! One hard-boiled
egg and what's this? Three leaves of
lettuce? Well-that tears it. I may
like rabbits, but not necessarily want
to eat like one.
Before this great and lengthy repast
III just take this copy upstairs. My.
I really do feel sylphhke and slender.
Hope somebody notices. All, a pal
Hi. Betsy. how are you? Looking
great. this morning. Put on a few
pounds. haven't you? Getting ready
for the cold weather, I expect! Ha!
Hap
Ha! Ha! My foot! That's the pay
off I'm going out to lunch and eat
the place down!
Evening star., 1936-10-31
BY MARY ALLEN HOOD.

~ HENOMENA of nature fright
- ened the ancient inhabitant
of this old earth. He thought
L that they we're caused by
angry gods and neglected spirits. To
keep them in good humor he gath
cred with the rest of the tribe to
make them feel at home and vel
come. The party was held once a
year, after the crops were in. Weird
incantations. ceremonies of the moon,
movements with fire and the strange
things one sees in smoke, all made
up the feast At its conclusion the
ancient villager thought he had done
all that was necessary to appease
the supernatural for another year.
He probably looked under the bed
before he turned in for the night,
Just the samel
From this sprang our Halloween.
Christianity did away with the old
gods and substituted devils, witches
and demons. With the substitution
came the fear of the cat. Kitty's
lived q dogs life ever since. She
got mixed up In the affair at the
beginning and has stayed to the bitter
end.
Her presence was known to the
early Celts and Romans. The Egyp-
tions made q goddess of the feline.
Fable has 1t that Noah was upset
at the way the mice were increasing
and eating up the cargo. He asked
for help. Kitty was the answer. When
the ark docked shefwas impatient to
Evening star., 1936-10-31
Thank-YOu
Cards and
Stationery
BY EMILY POST.

nEAR MRS. POST: My employer
is a young professional man who
has recently. been divorced. He re-
ceives many formally worded invita-
tions to debutantes' dances and other
general parties, and has asked me to
write acceptances and regrets on the
typewriter. I don't believe this Is
proper, but before saying anything to
him I would like to know just how
such invitations should be answered
by me.
Answer: Nothing could be more i'm
proper than replying to such invita-
tions on the typewriter. If he hasn't
any personal writing paper, order
some for him-double sheets of paper
with his house address or merely his
initials die-stamped at the top. White
paper probably, as this is most con-
servative, stamped In either black or
grey or dark blue or red. And then
write his acceptances or regrets by
hand.
nEAR MRS. POST: Is 1t necessary
for me to thank people for send
ing me birthday cards? Mother thinks
it Is, but I feel sure that people are
allowed to enjoy these thoughts Of
their friends without writing thank
you notes for them. It seems to me
such q requirement Of etiquette would
take the fun out of birthdays.
Answer: It Is not really necessary
to acknowledge cards unless some
times perhaps with q return card. This
is, by the way, one occasion when
thank-you cards are suitable. Nat
urally If you receive q card from
some one who lives at q distance,
whom you have not heard from for a
long time, and which carries per-
sonal message to you, you would either
send i1ote or message on a return
card telling her how glad you were
to hear from her. But to those whom
you see often you would say thank
you verbally when you happen to meet
them.
Evening star., 1936-10-31
in
Much Used
Superlative
Generally Defines
"the Tops" in
Everything.
BY ELSIE PIERCE,

I DO believe you hear it more than
any other word during your wax
ing day and it's the word you dream
about, if you remember dreaming
at all, when you are sound asleep.
Beauty, or beautiful, or beauteous;
but always the root is beauty"
It's used everywhere. by every one
and applied to everything from the
infinite charm of a lovely woman
down to an inconsequential toy. The
other day presented a delightful
4-year-old with tricycle.. The young
tear ducts almost overflowed as he
said, Thank you, thank you; why,
why" and he groped for a word,
its beauty!"
A hair dresser creates a very special
coiffure for very special customer
and an equally special hat, and when
it is finished he gazes with frank
pleasure at his own handiwork. And
he says. See how that emphasizes
this line OF hat, how it brings out the
shape of your head, madame, and
your, If I may say so, your lovely
features. It is individual and it is,
well, it is a beauty!"
A dentist filling q space between
two teeth-a delicate job. Or fitting
q gold inlay over q half-gone tooth.
Or matching precisely the shade in
a false tooth. And what does he say?
A study in dental ceramics? Per-
hapS. But more than likely he will
say Fine, isn't it? And it's only in the
raw. When the jobs done it'll be a
beauty"
The optician or optometrist fits a
pair of glasses perfectly; the glass
itself to the individuals vision; the
shape Of the glass to the individuals
face and features. And again the
word beauty" is bound to enter as
he mods in approval at the addition
of the glass to the picture. and I mean
addition for glasses have way of
adding to ones looks nowadays rather
than taking away.
And so on and on. I could cite
you hundreds of examples. To an
artist beauty" Is q by-word. To the
vast beauty industry the word Is the
very life work and inspiration for
more and more creations that enhance
and glorify.
We say woman is beautiful, her
gown Is beautiful. her home Is beau-
tiful. Oh, yes, we say charming and
interesting" Occasionally there's
glamour" But always when we
mean "tops" we say beauty" And
realizing this I wonder the whole
world Of women doesn't strive to be
every inch q beauty!
Copyright, 1850
Evening star., 1936-10-31

desk. 1t was almost too much.
And dinner-(a misnomer if there
ever was one) that was offered to me
with f1ourishes and due formality last
night. The table all properly set with
lots Of lace and silver, and candles.
and service plates, and glasses-then
what did I get, I ask you? Just
what?!! Why, two eggs-no more
in neat and infinitesimal little ON
elette, with one lone sprig of parsley
which I wasn't allowed to eat-and
one raw tomato. daintily sliced, with
no dressing. Water in the glasses
not even tomato juice or pineapple
juice! Ducky, hunh? A great meal
for a working woman!
THE problem was to make it last
out the never-ending period
through which my daughter sat across
from me and consumed thick and
aromatic vegetable soup. two chops,
lima beans a baked potato-how that
baked potato did scent the air-I al
most foamed at the mouth over that!
can't bear to think of the dessert
she had, even now. That half of
grapefruit they presented to me with
great formality certainly lost appeal in
the face of the gingerbread and
whipped cream she was working on!
When planning the meals hereafter
during this session Of torture. must
remember that aromatic foods are
OUT. Definitely. can close my eyes
to what the rest of the family are
toying with, but I can't very we'll put
a clothespin on my nose at every meal
Funny though, when I am on a diet
everything smells delicious. Oh. dear!
Last night was horrible. I couldn't
sleep much, and when I did those
dreams of beefsteak and fried potatoes
almost killed me. I'm going to put
padlocks on the icebox and pantry
doors and give the keys to the cook.
might take to walking in my sleep,
and if did, know exactly what ter
ritory I'd explore.
y X X u
THIS morning was better. though,
and really felt encouraged by
Evening star., 1936-10-31
Parent Who
Would Be
"HOnOred''
Must First Win Child's
Respect and
Love.
BY ANGELO PATRI.

II READ in the papers that college
professor says that it is out of
date for children to honor their
parents. Now. how are parents to ex-
pect to get obedience and respect from
their children when such things are
said by professors and when children
read them out of the papers to their
parents?"
There is a lot more of this in the
letter that a troubled parent wrote.
Obedience without question, respect
that is shown in silence in the pres
ence of the father, seems to be the
ideal relationship in the family circle
here.
Parents who still cling to the notion
that they own their children body and
soul, that they have but to command
to be instantly obeyed no matter what
the feelings or the status of the child
may be, should realize that that sort
of thing is dead and gone forever.
Children do not belong to anybody in
a property sense. They are free as
spirits, which, indeed, they are.
Force and fear never bred respect
in the minds or hearts of children.
It was possible, and in the past COM
mon, for parents to hold their children
In subsection by the power of their
will and authority. But 1t was never
possible to gain the love and respect
and devotion Of their children that
way. The children suffered and were
silent until they could get free. Then
they left, never to return as children
to their parents.
What parents want is not authority
over the bodies Of their children, but
influence over their minds, communion
with their souls. The big stick will
never bring this to pass. Only
parental affection and the under
standing that this brings to parents
will do that. Saying eyes, sir" and
mo, ma'am" may sound respectful in
the ears of authority, but they are
merely the gesture of helplessness in
the face of tyranny for most children.
What respect do parents want?
Not this surface thing, not the auto
matte bowling and backing. They
want the overflowing love Of their
children that is expressed in spon-
taneous service. Anything else Is
useless because 1t cannot serve. Serv-
ice is born of love or it is no more
than the labor Of slaves.
The time to teach obedience Is in
the infancy Of children. Then we
insure it for their safety. But 1t is
not set by force and fear. It is set
by the cooperation Of parent and
child. The first step is the winning
Of the child's understanding of the
parents good will. He asks the child,
directs or commands him to do this
thing for the child's dear sake. That
feeling is communicated to the child
as rapidly as is the fear that Is born
Of its opposite. And that feeling Of
affection and cooperation, even In
times Of struggle, holds and yields re-
spect and obedience.
Children who have been experienced
In obedience, In the affectionate care
Of their parents, follow suggestions.
take orders, without rebelling because
they know the underlying love that
prompts them. When they grow be-
yond the need Of parental control the
love still holds. There Is no question
Of respect or of honor In relation to
their parents. They love them and
serve them gladly. And that Is what
read into the professors message.
(Copyright, 1885,
Evening star., 1936-10-31

OF their river bath. In his Short
History Of the Egyptian People" the
historian, Wallis Bulge, explains that
"the heat and the scorching winds
from the south made careful attention
to the skin absolutely necessary, for
health of body and content of mind
depended on it."
Castor oil was the body rub Of the
poorer classes, but the upper ten"
used the finer oils, fragrantly per-
fumed. And the ceremony of the bath,
with all that followed it, was handed
on in due time to the Greeks. In
the 400 years between the founding
Of Athens in 1900 BIC. and the sub
lection of the Greek states to Rome
in 146 Be, Greece was gaining some
thing besides world leadership. She
earned eternal renown for the beauty
of her women. The Greek figure,
which still holds the palm for perfec-
tion, was not altogether a matter of
chance. Arnold j. Cooley, writing in
"The Toilet and Cosmetic Arts" some
10 years ago, advances the interesting
theory that "the imaginary food and
drink Of the gods {. . were figurative
illusions to the benign influence which
diet and drink may be said to exercise
on the human frame" Nectar and
ambrosia mysterious beyond measure
in our textbook days. were maybe just
poetic terms for roughage and fruit
juice.
In complexion care, face masks were
highly popular among our gorgeous
Greek sisters. A paste made of crumbs
of bread soaked in milk formed the
ordinary type, which was spread on
linen mad left on overnight. Yet in
a nation whose standing in poetry is
supreme. we look for something more
ethereal-and find it-in narcisSuS
bulbs and honey. This was the finer
version OF face softener.
Xxx ~
THE kohl which the dark beauties
Of Egypt had depended on for
several thousand years remained the
favorite eye darkener of the Greeks,
despite the dangers said to have at
tended its use. and chalk or lead per-
sisted as face powder. Superfiuous
hair was a problem then as now, but
they went after it with homemade
depilatories and rude tweezers. CAL
cined pumice stone retained its popu-
larity for smoothing the skin and also
as dentifrice.
The Roman chapter in the long
romance of cosmetics is even more
interesting than those that have pre-
ceded. All the celebrated writer's
Ovid. Martial. Juvenal. Catullus, even
Horace and Cicero-have made in
valuable contributions to social his
tory in the comments they have left
us on the cosmetic practices.
To us these men are the immortals
OF literature, but to their own. age
they were writer's of best Sellers"
using poetry and epigram as channels
of expression. for the novel was un-
known until little more than two CEN
turies ago.
BY the time her country's legions
had conquered the known world the
wealthy Roman matron devoted a
shocking amount of her day to making
up. A French writer, Dr. Constantin
James. las placed us under an ever
lasting debt of gratitude for the data
he has included on this score in his
Toilette dune Romaine." Published
in Paris in 1865, this volume is
happy combination of scholarship and
reliability. He tells, for instance,
how Martial, "enfant terrible" of the
Titans of Roman literature, pokes fun
Evening star., 1936-10-31

~ EAR MISS DIX: Girls are
always asking you how to
pick out a man who will
- make the kind of a husband
they want. I give them a rule that
never fails. Judge a man by his
family. Every girl who is thinking of
marrying should spend a week with
the boy friends people before she
makes her final decision. If she can
give them the o. K. it's all right, and
she can go ahead without fear. But
If their manners and their customs
and the way they treat each other
gets on her nerves. she will save her.
self lot of grief by calling their
affair off and giving him the air.
You never find canary in a crows
nest and while girl may be so
blinded by love that she cannot see
handsome youths faults, she is not
in love with his family and can plain
ly see their shortcomings. What they
are, he will be. So say to girls, get
line on Algernon's family and take
the tip they hand you. EDNA.
Answer-There is much good hard
horse sense in this advice. We are
all what heredity and environment
have made us. Any cautious and in
quiring youth or maiden can get a
very fair picture of what sort of a
wife or husband any girl or boy will
make by getting a closeup on hers
or his family picture. !
The old saying, "like mother, like
daughter, like father, like son." holds
true in a great majority of cases.
What mother is at middle age Mario
rie is mighty like to be also. If
mother has let herself get fat and
slovenly in appearance; if she Is a
sloppy housekeeper and poor cook:
if she Is wasteful and extravagant,
don't marry Marjorie unless you are
willing to look at trump the re-
mainder Of your life and risk your
digestion, and see half of your salary
going to the garbage can. For
Marjorie has not only probably in
herited mothers lack of energy, but
also she has been brought up in the
ways of untidiness and doesn't know
what good cooking and thrift are.
k* \ X
IF, ON the other hand, Marjorie's
mother Is notable housekeeper
and manager; If at 40 she is still good
looking and takes an interest in comb
ing her hair and fixing herself up, and
particularly If she is tolerant, broad
minded, interesting and well informed,
then you will be safe in marrying
Marjorie and the chances are a thou
sand to one that she will make you
not only a real helpmate, but also a
companion of whom you will never
tire.
Boys are likely also to make the
same kind of husbands that their
fathers are, because a son takes his
cue from the way he has always seen
his father treat his mother. If John
has always seen his father put his
mother on q pedestal and treat her
like q ladylove that's the attitude John
Evening star., 1936-10-31
New Gloves.

PARIS CR.-Colored gloves in Au-
tumn leaf tones came to town with
the fashion displays shown in the
salons Of leading Paris designers.
Molyneux showed brand new'
glace kid designs made for him by
Chanut with his new Autumn town
clothes. They were slip-on styles with
turn-down CUTS, their only trimming
being a kid-covered button. Not even
on the backs, where triple stitchings
usually play around. was there q sim
gle note of decoration.
A number of colored suedes we're
also shown. Those, too, had plain
backs, but were often made without
cuffs. the top merely rolled and over-
stitched by hand the way handker-
chief hens are done.
Evening star., 1936-10-31

at the practice Of taking out false
teeth las one removes dress" The
Romans not only had false teeth, but
knew something about filling them
with lead and gold.
MARITAL also has left it on record
A that the women of this time
used hairpins. of wood for every day
and of gold fo- better. Their combs
were of ivory or wood and in addi-
ton to hand mirrors of FURNISHED
metal they carried pocket mirrors in
the folds Of their garments.
Women's hair, ever her crowning
glory. has come in for much discus
sion by the celebrated Ovid. He is
quite interesting on appropriate styles
in hair-dressing, advising one coiffure
for the oval-shaped face, quite an
other for the round face, etc. He knew
what he was talking about, tool
The Roman grande dame required
three slaves to do her hair. one for
the combing and curling. another to
do the perfuming and third to dress
it la derniere mode
Being dark beauties by nature, but
tickle, like other feminines, the Ro-
man women we're not satisfied until
they had bleached their hair. For
this purpose they used a soap brought
from Gaul, the country that is France
to u.s.
Ovid quotes recipe for a face
mask, comprising barley bean -four,
eggs. and narcissus bulbs. Save for
the last item, how modern it sounds.
He also advises mixture of roasted
lupins, beans, white lead, orris root
and some other ingredients for remov.
ing blotches and pimples Like the
poor, these seem to have always been
with us.
Even Cicero of the singing speeches
In the Roman Senate mentions that
"plucking of the eyebrows is be-
seeming" The women of his day
were even at that little dodge!
HORACE. the ace of the epigram-
makers, has contributed to the
subject of rouge. The Romans, he
tells us, used three kinds. "minium
tred leaO. carmin (carmine). and a
substance extracted from certain resi-.
due of crocodile"
The light vermilion which the blood
refused. it is art that gives it." ex-
plains Ovid. whose preference seems
to have been for a skin the pallor Of
exquisite marble"
But Martial and Juvenal are Bit
ingly sarcastic on this question Of
artificial color. You have a beau
tiful color" says the former. but not
a beautiful skin" We know. only too
well, that there's a difference.
Lest we forget the men. here is what
Is said by an interesting bulletin pub
liShed by the State of California De.
partment of Education in 1893: IN
the history of ancient Greeks and
Romans we first learn of beauty cul-
ture as trade. Barber surgeons
performed, for men. many of the serv-
ices of the present day beauty shop.
Manicuring, trimming of the boards,
and hair, shaving. removing super
fluous hair by use of depilatories, and
removing warts, were the most pop
ular operations" AS in countless
other instances, the wheel of custom
only turned half way when women
could frequent beauty shops. 1t has
turned full cycle, the last year or so,
now that beauty parlors have been
established for men.
Evening star., 1936-10-31

tIIlIlS \ was SO
busy all day that
I didn't have
time to listen to
my tummy COM
planning that it
t h o u 6 ht m y
throat was cut
and supplies were
being re-routed.
I must admit a
c o W al lily mo-
I'll { II I, IHOuSH,
when those new
pictures of roast
beef and rolled
mutton c h ops
Uere mt on nv
Evening star., 1936-10-31

knters here's model
of
dhicult
opportunity of working out color scheme
The pattern gives every stitch for each Of five 2 H. 49, IS
and 20 won't be puzzled by
pattern contains
also
will
pattern stamps
Evening star., 1936-10-31
My Neighbor Says:

II table silver Is placed in hot
soapsuds Immediately after being
used and dried with q soft, clean
cloth, much Of the work of polish
ing will be saved.
Brooms and all brushes for
sweeping should be hung up when
not in use. II they are left
standing the bristles become bent
and will not do their work prop
erly.
Powdered pumice stone moist
ened and rubbed over q bathtub
will remove stubborn stains with
out injuring the surface.
(Copyrisht. 1850
Evening star., 1936-10-31
Torture of Conducting
A Food Column While
Trying to Really Diet
Neither Office nor Home Is Happy Place
for the Determined and Miserable
Reducer.
BY BETSY CASWELL.

I 11OIUFE OF ~omans eoltor on a dlet:
- Eighteen days go-thats deary prospec
so bad only didn't have to write about food and smell
it, and look at all the beautiful ilh it.
stl-ives?
to pounced on for making
Evening star., 1936-10-31

That lunch yesterday-one hard
boiled egg and six slices of cucumber
after the poorest excuse for a break
fast I have ever seen perpetrated
upon the human race 1t was a good
Evening star., 1936-10-31

1HEN Phaoh beautiful daughter found the baby Moses among
w would turn but in 1851 the lovely Egyptian
the
disrupted the routine that hhbon
Evening star., 1936-10-31
FIFTEEN POUNDS AND EIGHTEEN DAYS TO CO.
Beauties of Ancient
Greece. and Rome Used
Cosmetics Generously
Tinting and Bleaching the Hair Very Much
in Favor, Together With Curling
It Elaborately.
It Elaborately.
BY GAEL RENFREW,

Editors No-Th Is the third in series Of articles the history
Of cosmetics The fourth will shortly this pageJ
Evening star., 1936-10-31

- EAR MISS DIX: Girls are
always asking you how to
pick out a man who will