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Evening star., 1937-02-06
EAR MISS DIX: Why do
not parents realize the harm
they do a child BY bringing


and self-centered? I am one OF
those cursed by a loving mother who
reared me to believe that I was the
most important thing in the world
and that the whole universe revolved
around me. I had to have what I
wanted regardless of anybody else's
rights. All my life I have been en-
couraged to talk Of myself, my plans.
my clothes, my thoughts, my books,
my everything, and now that am
grown I find that I cannot adjust
myself to a world in which I am not
only not the whole thing but am
nothing, and where nobody cares to
hear me monologue about myself. I
know what's the matter with me and
I am trying my darndest to undo my
mothers 20 years work Of initiating
my ego, but it is a hard job and I
doubt I will ever be really successful.
ALICE.
Answer-You are right, Alice, In
thinking that the greatest misfortune
that can possibly befall a child is to
have mother who brings it up to be
selfish and self-centered. No other
one thing she could possibly do could
so unfit it for life, and if she hated
her child instead of loved it she could
do it no greater wrong.
X X 4
TO BEGIN WITH, she dooms her
child to certain unhappiness. for
no selfish person is ever satisfied or
content. He never gets all he wants.
He is always grasping for more, al
ways filled with envy of some one
who Is richer than he is, more highly
placed socially, who has a finer car
or a better house. There Is no peace
in self1shness. No enjoyment in what
one has. There is nothing but greedi-
ness that is never appeased.
Then the selfish and self-centered
are always lonely. They have no
friends They are shut up within them
selves and nobody takes the trouble to
try to break through their she'll They
leave them alone. They have never
rejoiced with those who rejoiced nor
wept with those who wept. They
have never denied themselves anything
they wanted to give to others. They
have never sat up with the sick or
visited the aged. They have lived for
themselves alone and so when their
time comes to be old or poor or heart
broken they are left alone in their
sorrow.
The selfish and self-centered never
know how to take the miSfortunes of
lifey They have been taught to feel that
thsy are immune to troubles that are
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two hitherto separate kingdoms into
Great Britain.
That Fastern's Zen is still marked
by special observances in parts of
Scotland is therefore an interesting
legacy from the long-gone days when
the country was mainly Catholic.
Lent itself comes from the poetic
Saxon term-lengthen-t tide-the COM
ing of longer days, the promise of
Spring. To explain that Lent is the
period representing the 40 days Of
Christs fasting before His Crucifxion
is perhaps superfluous in these in
formed times, but it is something Of a
shock to learn how strict were the
laws governing the observance of this
period in the Middle Ages. The early
church required the faithful to abb
stain not only from all meat, but
eggs as we'll, and r. food could be
eaten till evening.
Penitence was stressed even more
than fasting, so it was small wonder
that the people looked forward to the
ante-Easter season with feeling
almost of dread. Shrove Tuesday.
the day on which they we're shrived
or shrove for confessed sins, was
their last chance, in six hard weeks
for a bang-up meal and an orgy of
merrymaking.
IT IS on this last count that Scot
land still celebrates Fastern's Zen,
the eve before the long Lenten fast.
In place of the masques and cock
fights to which the day was given
over in ruder ages, game known
as Fastern's Zen ba' is still played
in some parts-particularly in the
storied city Of Scone, ancient capital
of the early kings. Belonging to the
foot ball family, this game is gov
erned by very special rules. For ex-
ample, instead of being confined to
field it is played in the streets OF the
town, but in some selected spot at
or near the town boundary, beyond
which point it is the aim of each
side to carry the ball.
With regard to the composition of
the teams, one end of the town may
oppose the other, or perhaps the mar
ried men play against the single
fellows. When this FaStern's Fen ba'
is in progress the town gets half
holiday and turns out en- masse to
encourage the players.
To come south from canny Scot
land to merry England is to see how
Westminster School, dating from pre-
Tudor times, still celebrates Shrove
Tuesday by tossing the pancake" +"
Pancakes have always been a favor
ite item OF food on this day.
The verger of the abbey, carrying
his silver baton and accompanied by
the cook, plus pancakes and pan,
enters the great school room (really a
large paneled halD at IL am. The
cook twirls and tosSeS the pancake, the
boys make a mad scramble and the
first one to reach the deanery with
it may ask the "honorarium of a
guinea" Pancake Greaze," the pay
ment is still called.
X
CURELY the most amusing of all
- Lenten legends must be that told
concerning the second of the German
Georges. 1t seems that in the early
eighteenth century there was an Off
Ger of the crown named the King IS
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the part of the victor. This went on
interminably. New champions" were
always being discovered, and as they
got smaller and smaller began to feel
very much like Alice in Wonderland
did when her head struck her foot
and she could go no farther.
AS you may imagine, by this time
the mantelpiece had had to be aban-
doned. BY the time the collection
numbered 167, we were on the verge
of moving out and leaving the place
to the bottles. They now stood, in
serted ranks on the shelves of hang
ing bookcases on either side of the
living-room fireplace. Every one said
they spoiled the looks of the room.
(They did,
I moved them downstairs to my
daughters little living room, but they
had short shift there-they threatened
to fall off the shelves when she and
her pals were dancing, and she
couldn't stand them, anyway. They
went out into the hall, where they
looked worse than ever, and prompted
many people to inquire if had taken
up running an antique shop now?
A IL this time the collection con-
tinued to grow. 1t got to be like
the mill that kept on grinding out salt
at the bottom of the sea in the fairy
tale. I timidly suggested the nursery,
and received such severe answer from
my son that I practically crawled
downstairs in shame. One look at
the cook convinced me that the pam
try would never frame my little bot
ties. And, of course, every one kept
telling me to give the whole thing up,
and tried to discourage the indomitable
champion hunters.
Finally 1 turned on the pack. !
said I wanted no more bottles. that
the S. R. o. sign had been out for
some time now, but that was going
to keep the ones had, willy nilly.
1t looked more nilly than willy for a
while-then, finally, the chance word
of a clever and compassionate soul
started me on the right track.
I bought an d-fashioned glass
fronted china closet-the biggest I
could find. I took it home, and had
the carpenter take of all the Vic
torian gingerbread and make little
steps" at the back of each shelf. The
painter painted it an old lacquer red,
rubbed with dull gold, and put dull
gold at the back inside An electrician
came around and wired it for indirect
lighting. The bottles were placed in
carefully selected rows within-the
lights were it-and my collection
really looked too important for words!
The china closet stands in the din
ing room, and the lighting looks very
pretty while we dine by candlelight.
Every one says it is great success,
and at last my little bottles are ap-
preciated.
But here's the rub (tiiere goes Ham
let again)-the china closet has cost
plenty more than the whole collec-
ton ever did! And that is why I say
to you who would gather them in" as
hobby-decide on your container
before you get the contents!
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Manners.
of the
Moment

THE question Of whether or not one
should make factllal corrections
in other peoples stories Is q moot one.
But we lean toward the nays.
A correction from another person
will always annoy the narrator just
enough so that he either starts gar
bling facts on purpose, or he gives up
the whole story with the remark, "Oh,
all right. You tell it." When it gets
to that point the listener wishes he
were in the Congo. It's no fun to have
to sit around while story is turned
into family fight.
OF course, it's very natural desire
to say; "No, Elmer, it wasn't Friday
afternoon. 1t was Saturday morning"
But they say that civilized people have
to learn to control some Of their nat
ural desires. And that we think, y
orr Of them.
JEAN.
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cock-crower." whose duty it was. dur
ing Lent, to crow the hour each night
within the palace precincts, rather
than announce it n booming tones, as
the watchman was wont to do.
Well, the new Hanoverian Prince
OF Wales, who even as George II did
not speak English well, had just sat
down to supper one Spring evening
when this official entered the room.
and in a first-class imitation OF
rooster shrilled that it was past 10
o'clock"
The German princeling, suppoSing
that he was being made fun of, at
once rose to resent the insult, but the
interpreter explained that the ANA
teur cock-crower was just carrying out
an established custom.
However, to avoid the recurrence of
such embarrassment, "the initiative
powers of this important officer" were
dispensed with from that occasion
To this remarkable story, which is
told in Chambers Book of Days, this
interesting foot note is appended: "In
Debrett's Imperial Calendar for the
year 1922, in the list of persons hold
ing appointments in the lord stewards
department of the r,yal household,
occurs the cock and cryer at Scot
land Yard"
Surely Scotland Yard appearing in
such a connection requires an ex-
PLANTATION. Today the term is world
known as the headquarters of Lon
don's metropolitan police force. The
celebrated name Is one they took
with them when they moved" in 1890
to their present situation on the
Thames embankment. THE original
Scotland Yard" according to Brewers
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, "was
a short street near Trafalgar Square,
so called from palace on the spot,
given by King Edgar (about 970) to
Kenneth II of Scotland when he
came to pay homage and subsequently
used by the Scottish Kings when
visiting England" 1t was on this
historic site that the famous police
had their first headquarters.
IT ENT CROCKING" was another
observance peculiar to Dorset
shire and Wiltshire that has died out
in a less boisterous age. On Shrove
Tuesday groups of local lads used to
go the rounds of the houses armed
with all the pieces of broken crockery
and pieces of tin, etc. that they had
been able to collect. When the house
wife opened in response to the ring
leaders knock he would confront her
with:
"A-shrovin', a-shrovin',
I be come a-Shrovin'
A piece of bread. a piece Of cheese,
Or bit of your fat bacon,
Or dish Of doughnuts,
All of your own maxim"
If he got neither cheese, bacon nor
doughnuts he gave the signal to his
followers, who at once hurled their
supply of missiles against the unof-
Tending door
An echo of this custom comes from
parts Of Central Europe, and it was
practiced at marriage celebrationsl
An instance was recorded by Lord
Malmesbury. who acted as proxy for
the Duke of York in his marriage to
! a Prussian princess in 1871.
Evening star., 1937-02-06
PerS O n a |
Belongings
Mean Much
Youngsters Like Hav-
ing Their Own Pos
sessions Respected.
BY ANGELO PATRI.

OWNING things does something to
children that is helpful. It gives
them a feeling of importance in the
world. Each thing that is added to
their possessions is added to them,
and they fell themselves bigger and
somehow better. There is nothing
sinful in this pride Of possession,
rather a healthy feeling of power is
born Of it.
A child has affection for his toys.
His ball is the best ball-anyway to
him. He can always play with better
spirit if he can use his own ball. To
be sure we have to contend with,
Mine Is better than yours" but we
can soon get by that. Lending and
sharing helps, and later comes CO.
operation that saves the day. But
always the child delights in owning
his toys and tools. and should have
that pleasure whenever possible.
Each child in the family needs q
place for his things. First shelf
for his own toys and along with 1t
the assurance that the shelf is sacred
to his possessions. Nobody else will
touch them save with his permission.
This possession begins to have re-
sponsibilities. Generous sharing is
one of them and must not be over
looked
Books are precious. AS soon as a
child can handle book he should
own a picture book and keep it in
its place religiously. As he gets more
books he should have space allotted
him for them. Toby's shelf and
Marys shelf, should be distinct, and
respected as personal belongings must
be.
As soon as boys begin to use tools
and girls begin to do things about
the house they should be helped In
collecting personally-owned tools and
equipment and bits Of useful house.
hold furnishings. The boy ought to
have q chest and bench for tools,
closet for any collection he makes.
The girl should have a chest or
closet to store her treasures in from
the start.
The girl who begins to collect china,
silver, glass, for her own home has
begun to build stabilizing influence
in her character. If some knowing
relative will start her collection of
china or Silverware, or linen, and pass
the word along, so that additions can
be made on special occasions like
birthdays and Christmas, the effect
on the child will be good. It will give
her a personal interest in home and
family. It will teach her to care for
lovely things and to want them in her
home. 1t will teach her to look for
ward to the time when she will have q
house of her own and use these things
in it. And it will give her associations
and background for the home she will
start some day.
Girls like to set the table for their
friends with their own things. They
glow with pride and gratitude and
affection as they say, '"These are my
own table fittings. My family began
giving them to me when I was little
girl. Aren't they lovely?" There is
more than the pride Of possession
in her attitude. There is the express
sion of rooted family ties that will
hold against the stormy days that are
bound to beset her in the years ahead.
A teacup can hold something other
than q tempest.
These possessions are to be used
to train the child u helpful ways SO
we have to bs CERTAIN that the child
Evening star., 1937-02-06

Every Barbara Bell pattern includes
an illustrated instruction guide which
Is easy to understand.
Send IS cents for the Barbara Bell
Spring and Summer pattern book.
Make yourself attractive, practical
and becoming clothes, selecting de-
signs from the Barbara Bell. we'll
planned, easy-to-make patterns. In
teresting and exclusive fashions for
little children and the difficult junior
age; slenderizing, well-cut patterns
for the mature figure, afternoon
dresses for the most particular young
women and matrons, and other pat
terms for special occasions are all to
be found in the Barbara Bell pattern
0OOk. faa
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llOO IuAtC
NAL while the passion has them in
its grasp. Listen to my sad tale, oh
We gatherers of various articles, and
learn what may be thy fate unless
my warning is needed! (There, knew
so much Hamlet" was going to throw
meD
X X
"a BOUT two years ago having OBJ
served my young absorbedly COL
lecting china pigs and match books,
I became fired with the desire to go
and do likewise. Not being among
those favored by fortune with plenty
of the pecuniary ability to select fine
porcelains, jades, paintings, tapestries,
etc, for my hobby, I had, naturally,
to find a cheaper and simpler medium
of self-expression. Again, could
not afford either the tim or the money
to travel, say to Pei, :, for rare ex-
amples of ancient art, nor could stop
writing this column long enough to
undertake trip to Africa in search
of mummified heads. So what I was
about to collect must be reasonable
in price, and just difficult enough to
find to lend zest to the chase, without
costing me much car fare.
After considering tea caddleS-
which discovered ran to money, and
had been a bit overdone, I descended
by easy stages through ivory animals,
china dogs, handleless teacups, sam
piers, souvenir spoons and wooden
elephants, to modern miniature bot
ties. This decision was hastened by
my having gloated over five tiny bot
ties displayed in a cabinet owned by
a friend, and having been presented
with one to start my own collection.
4 X X x
PROUDLY bore this nucleus home
and promptly became the big
gest nuisance in town. Every one I
knew was beseeched to keep an eye
out for a bottle for my collection"-I
haunted shops and strange markets
when I should have been home mind
ing my own business. One by one,
very slowly at first, the nucleus de-
veloped into a group of four-of six
OF ten-and finally of twelve!
This, I thought, was pretty good. I
placed the IL tenderly on the man
telpiece, and they looked very pretty
as we'll as being a wonderful starting
gun for conversation when guests ar
rived. I even had the champion
the very littlest of them all, which
was my especial pride and joy.
Here, however, the trouble began.
The champion" had been presented
to me, after much tracking down and
narrowing pursuit, by a breathless
and triumphant friend, who basked in
the warm glow of fame whenever some
one demanded, as they always did
"Where on earth did you find such
O darling?" This, unfortunately,
whipped other friends to fury, and
great were the strivings that now
arose in the attempt to present me
with smaller bottles than the cham
pion."
VOU may have thought this was a
- wonderful stroke of luck. You're
In from all over the world, practically,
as the call went out from pal to pal for
a new champion" We even had a
little inch rule to measure each new
conner alongside the champ" And
when the day came that the "cham-
pion" was dethroned, great was the
rejoicing and general celebration on
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is taking them to himself, caring for
them, adding to them, and enjoying
them. Imposed possessions are mean
ingless. The child's tastes and wants
must be considered and fostered. The
possessions must extend the person.
atty Of the child. Then they are
good.
tCspiright, 1e37)
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Wnere ana now
his finds are to
be housed when
they become the
great and Won-
derful number to
which he aSpires.
I have learned
this, of course,
too late. From
bitter experience
I am new passing
the suggestion on
to other poor un-
fortunates W h o
get bitten by the
collecting bug and
nro mt c,a1ita mr.
Evening star., 1937-02-06
To Mellow Brick,

II you have brick around your fire.
place or hagstone hearth try rubbing it
with oil applied on q soft cloth. Brick
treated iQ such q manner will have
. more 4lssoned appearance.
Evening star., 1937-02-06
My Neighbor Says:

Do not break caulif1ower UP
too small when cooking. Keep
each flower whole, if possible.
A delicious dessert may be very
quickly prepared for the unex-
pected guest by adding any pre-
served fruit to sponge cake, which
has been cut in serving slices, and
topping with whipped cream.
Pieces Of a broken cement side
walk fitted into the garden path
make excellent stepping stones.
One-fourth cup of sugar beaten
into the stiffened whites Of eggs
used for meringue will give it a
finer texture. When sugar is
added to egg whites it gives all
extra body to the meringue.
Copyright. 1879
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of the CNo $780, buffet
complete
directions block diagrams aid what crochet
and what material and how much you will need.
postage is additional
want either matching Address the Needle
work Editor Of The Evening Star 4
Evening star., 1937-02-06

L version particularly well suited
for town wear, in Office or out. 1t
marshals q whole row of glittering
buttons, q neat Eton collar, nap pock-
cts and short tucked sleeves in an
imposing array of fashion notes of
the moment. Grosgrain ribbon could
be used on silk crepe for outlining, or
a wide bias binding on cotton or
percale. The princess lines make for
extremely easy sewing, the front Is
two-piece only, and the back has
three panels.
Barbara Bell pattern 1888 is de-
signed for sizes IA, 16, 18, 20, 40 and
AZ. Corresponding bust measure
ments 80, "a, So, SO, 40 and AZ. Size
16 (34) requires ~ yards. 80 inches
wide; 3h yards Of ribbon l inch
wide required for trimming.
Evening star., 1937-02-06
Growing Like a Rooster
Great Accomplishment
In Eighteenth Century
Appreciated by One of the
German Georges
BY GAEL RENFREW.

ZEN shove Tuesday to but Scots for e
ming before the fast the which the preceding
Ash Wednesday known in Scotland indeed
contradictions Presbyterian
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ACQUISITIVE INSTINCT MAY CAUSE DOMESTIC UPHE
Collecting as a Hobby
Should Be Undertaken
With Utmost Caution
We'll to Decide on the Container Before
Starting Out to "Gather in" the
Contents.
Contents.
BY BETSY CASWELL.

things un-bu impulse which should
curbed unless the prospective collector has which
his treasures collection kind astounding
~ proportions family eventually
the house a graceful surrender.
Therefore would caution with the gathering in
Evening star., 1937-02-06
Cranberries in Salad.

A tasteful salad may be made Of
diced celery, seeded grapes, pineapple
and apples blended with cranberry
Jelly cubes.
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EpeCIllle11S OF any Klllu 70 IUUK IllS'
residence squarely in the eye, so to
speak, and determine in advance just
Evening star., 1937-02-06

@HE Spring print will naturally
be a big item in your ward
robe, and this is a debonair
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-01-28
Birthday" Party
E'orPa ralysis Is
Set for Jan. 80
County to Join With NatioG In
Celebrating Birthday Of the
President at Jefferson

A birthday party for the President
will be held at the Jefferson school
building Saturday night, January 80
beginning at 7:3O o'clock. This party
is being held under the auspices OF
a local committee selected by the
national headquarters of the Presi-
dents birthday party.
This party will not be in the ma
sture of a public dance, but a pro-
gram committee has been selected
to. arrange desirable and attractive
forms of entertainment and it is ex-
pected to be an enjoyable social &C.
casion for those who attend, and to
give those who are interested an op-
portunity to help in the nationwide
campaign to aid the victims of in
fantile paralysis.
A small admission charge of so
cents will be made and all of the
money received will go to the fund
for the aid of crippled children. Sew
enty per cent of the amount remains
in the county to be spent for any af-
flicted child or children in the
county. Thirty per cent of the
amount goes to the Warm Springs
Foundation in which President
Roosevelt has taken so much inter-
est.
All those interested in the great
cause which is being promoted are
cordially invited to attend.