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Evening star., 1937-09-25
Conpulsion
Is Waste
OF Time
Lesson Learned
Under DureSS
Not Helpful.
BY ANGELO PATRI.

NOV, Marie. it is time for your
sewing"
"Oh, I don't want to sew. I can't
sew
"Yes, you can. You may just as
we'll make up your mind that you are
going to learn because I mean you
shall. Every girls needs to sew"
Katherine doesn't sew. Her mother
! never makes her sew. I don't see why
/ have to sew. What's the good of it?
I'll buy my clothes in the stores,
won't -"
Maybe. Just the same you have
to know how to make your own, so
if you have to you can. Come. l have
the goods all ready Now pin on the
pattern. No. Not that way. You know
better than that. Put those holes along
the straight of the goods"
Il don't know what you mean"
eyes, you do. You're not so stupid.
See that fold? Isn't it straight? Well,
lay the goods along that line"
oh. goodness! I can't do this. 1t
slips all the time. This goods isn't any
good, anyhow. hate to sew slippery
things. There. The pins won't
stay in"
TN pin it. Nothing could be easier.
So. Now cut it. Can't you cut on
line?"
Il don't see any line. The edge Of
the paper is too thin Can help it if
it tears? It's too thin, 1 told you"
you're just trying to get out of it."
"I am not 1t gives me headache.
I've got such a headache now can't
see, all on account of this sewing
mess. 1 told you 1 couldn't sew"
Just the same, you're going to. Now
thread your needle and baste these two
together along that line. The sooner
you get it done the better"
Can 1 go then? Is my time up
now?"
I've never known teaching that goes
against the will Of the child like that
to do any good. The mother did what
ever sewing was done, not the child,
for what one does under the power of
another bears no relation to the per-
son under governance. The child did
not sew although she did hold the
needle and make the motions. Mother
sewed because mothers will was
sewing.
Some compulsion may be needed at
times. Few children grow up without
its exercise upon them at one time or
another. But compulsion dbes not
teach. Teaching involves two minds,
and one of those minds has to be re-
ceptive, wide open and active to re-
ceive or nothing is learned. 1t is time
wasted to force teaching upon any
| child. Learning is an individual and
spontaneous matter. When a child
wants to learn, when his will to learn
has been awakened, he learns fast and
surely. Otherwise, no.
Evening star., 1937-09-25

~ SOME people a parrot is a
bunch of feathers surrounded
by language. Those. who know
4 better glance at the uninitiate
with scorn. Either one doesn't know
parrots or one does. No two ways
about it. Polly looks upon things in
the same light.
Now, Pups know a doggy person
when he smells one. Cats feel out
humanity in short order. An intro
duction is necessary for Polly. She
promptly imposes period of proba-
ton. If the new acquaintance makes
good, entry into the realm of the
privileged is possible. Polly is loyal
friend.
A question was asked Of parrot
owner, Does your bird molt?"
Eyes, drat it, all the time, all over
the housed"
r But that isn't the way .canaries do"
"Ill have you know my parrots
no canary"
Very true. Parrots have no rule
for molting in captivity. Polly can
make it sort of a daily occurrence or
just forget all about 1t for a year or
two. When she does get around to it
the tail and wing feathers may give
her trouble. They begin to think
they're permanent part of the bird.
Under such conditions Polly needs
outside help, especially If the feathers
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Photo by F. c. wilkinson. Star san.

tinction. 1t has charming slender lines
and a snug waist achieved by means of
tie belt. Braid trimming adds to its
nautical character This dress made
up in serge or denim is grand choice
for school wear all through the Win
ter.
Eoth patterns include a step-by-
step sew chart that takes all guess
work cut of sewing.
Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1301-B is
designed for sizes 6, 8. 10, IL and IA
years. Size years requires 15s yards
of 54-inch material and 5 yards of
braid to trim.
Barbara Bell Pattern No. .1368-B is
designed for sizes 8. 10, IL, IA and l6
years. Size 10 years requires ga
yards of 39-inch material or 2N yards
of 54-inch material 1s yard of 39-inch
material required for trimming plus
~ yards OF ribbon for lacine.
Evening star., 1937-09-25

cradle with them because you would
be burden on them and they would
have to be more than human not to
resent the imposition. Besides, nobody
really fits into anybody elses family.
Keep your home together and keep
your little family together. With what
the four of you can earn you can live
comfortably and the responsibility
that it will throw on all of you wilI4
develop you into fine men and women.
Being the head of the family will
steady the boys and make them 20
straight, as they might not do If they
were living around without the COM
forts of their own home and without
any one to love them and understand
them.
You needn't be afraid Of gossip.
People will admire you for the brave
stand you are making and there won't 1
be woman in the neighborhood who
won't try to mother you.
DEAR DOROTHY DIX: NY broth
er is married to a fine girl who
makes him the best sort of wife, but
for two years he has been in love with
her best friend. who, 1 suppose, loves
him as she accepts his attentions and
encourages him in being untrue to his
wife just feel that l can't stand it
any longer to have them act that way
right under my sister-in-law's nose
and in her own house Shall 1 tell
her? I don't know if she is blind or
just dumb. ALICE. 4
Answer-Perhaps she is neither and
she just pretends not to know in order
to save her face and in the hope that
the affair will wear itself out and
that she can save her home if she does
not make an issue of her husbands
unfaithfulness. There are women that
are wise and brave. At any rate,
don't tell her. If she doesn't know.
let her live in her fools paradise as
long as she can. DOROTHY DIX.
X
NEAR MISS DIX: I am girl Of
16 Have gone steady for more
than year with one boy. Do you
think I am too young to be going
steady? c. o. D.
Answer don't think girl at any
age, whether she is is or 116. should
go steady" with boy until the en-
gagement is announced and the day
set for the wedding.
There are two good reasons for
this: One is that no ciyl should marry
until she has known a lot of boys
and gone around with them so that
she can be sure that the one she is
going with is the one she really likes
best. Give EN- the once-over before
you make your pick.
The second reason is that If girl
"goes steady" with one boy and has
no other friends among the bows she
is left fiat if he gets tired of her
and leaves her for another girl.
DOROTHY DIX.
tCopyright, 1887
Evening star., 1937-09-25
Gloves Match Erocks.

PARIS (Pl-Some Of the smartest
evening frocks in the Mainbocher COL
lection are shown with gloves made
of the same material. Two gold-shot
MORE dresses-one pink, one blue
are worn with gloves which match.
Long black MORE gloves accompany
an evening dress having a black
MORE tunic worn over black crepe
skirt.
Evening star., 1937-09-25
A Novel Container

Green pepper cases make a novel
container for crab or other kinds of
fish, meat or fowl salads. Cut large,
well-shaped peppers in halves length
wise. Discard the seeds and pulp. Chill
the cases until serving time and then
roughly fill them with the salad.
Evening star., 1937-09-25

in their own homes than they do out
side in the great world. So the pic
ture is not quite so distressing as it
appears as first glance.
In any event home accidents are
usually far more easily prevented than
those which occur abroad. A little
Evening star., 1937-09-25
Delicious Dessert.

Hickory nut ice cream makes a
pleasant dessert for Fall serving. Add
one cup Of shelled nuts to each quart
Of cream or custard mixture. Do not
add the nuts, however. until the mix
ture Is half frozen.
Evening star., 1937-09-25

lrenO VINO lell very mucn
In love with young man
~ who gave her a whirlwind
courtship. He even got the marriage
license and they we're going to Ber-
muda on their honeymoon. Then
former girl friend of his, who is mar
ried and 10 years his senior, started
trouble by telling him that my friend
had tuberculosis. Then she told my
friend that the man wouldn't marry
her because he didn't love her. He
doesn't deny or affirm this statement,
but seems to be ruled by this jealous
woman. He refuses to see my friend
any more, which is breaking her heart,
as she still loves him, has faith in him
and believes Fate will bring him back
to her. This girl has fine profession
and l think she is a fool to believe
he will come back. What do you
think? LES.
AnsWer-You've said it. Any girl is
fool to waste a second thought on
such cad as is this man, or to shed
a tear at losing him. Instead of be-
moaning losing him she should be
thankful that she found out in time
how untrustworthy he is. 1t is bad
enough to be Tilted, but it is nothing
to being an abandoned wife.
OF course, this man is still in love
with his former sweetheart and evil
IDENTIFY still carrying on an affair with
her, otherwise he would not have
ditched your friend without even TAX
ing the trouble to investigate the
charges that his jealous friend made
against her. When man really loves
a woman he turns deaf ear to all
criticisms of her.
But the most wonderful thing in
the world is why woman can go on
loving a man after he has proved him.
self unworthy and hoping that he will
come back to her, when he was never
worth having and has proved him
self unfit for her to wipe her feet on
Funny creatures, women. as not only
this letter, but hundreds of others.
show. As exhibits of how women's
hearts work they deserve place in
museum Of freaks.
?.
nEAR MISS DIX: We are two
sisters and two brothers. 1 am the
oldest, 90 years old. My brothers are
18 and Is and my sister is IA Our
mother died four years ago and last
week father died. One of my uncles
wants us to go to Arizona and live with
him, but he has a wife and son and
has only small place and no other
support than what he earns. My other
uncle wants the boys to stay here.
sleeping at one home, eating at another
and working, and for us girls to go to
Arizona. But 1 know that the boys
would be miserable living that way.
What We children want to do is to take
small apartment near one of our
relatives and earn our own living.
The boys have jobs if they stay here
and I have good prospects of work.
That and the small insurance our
father left us would enable us to be
independent. have taken care of the
house and the kids without any help
ever since our mother died. so why
couldn't just keep on doing it? Our
relatives don't like the idea of us living
alone, but We wouldn't really be alone
living next door to them. What do
you think? SEREPHINE.
Answer-I advise you by all means
to establish your own home and be
independent Don't go TO live with any
of your relatives. You would be mis-
Evening star., 1937-09-25

- ~
Ing longer.
AS a matter of
fact, in spite of
all this hue and
cry, S tatis S tics
show that more
people are in
Jured in their
own homes than
on the streets. in
" a t e + S o r
throughout in
oustry. OF course,
one must realize
that people spend
far more time.
on an dVPrd oP
Evening star., 1937-09-25
Halls and Stairways
Are Scene Of Many
Needless Falls
Economizins on Electricity
In This Part of House
May Prove Costly.
BY BETSY CASWELL.

TITH the mounting toll of traffic accidents and deaths minds
the
There is still that the careful
Evening star., 1937-09-25
My Neighbor Says:

Squashes and pumpkins keen
best when stored in boxes with
Slated sides. Place near the fur
mace in the cellar during the
Winter months.
When two glasses become
wedged together, place cold water
In the upper one and set lower
one in warm water. They will
then separate with little effort.
Sprinkle a cake with corn
starch before icing to prevent
icing running off.
Evening star., 1937-09-25

be lovely
broidered The
in with
sort Of 1t measures 8 by 25 inches when finished
The pattern envelope contains hot
material and how
this pattern cents in stamps
Evening
Evening star., 1937-09-25
I3OI-b
ny nAnnAnA DELL

BY BARBARA BELL.
ERE are two smart dresses for
two smart girls. Little sis
ter's dress is designed on
L i Princess lines with a conven-
tional MILDLY collar to add to its dis
Evening star., 1937-09-25

UIu IIEIIl IUI IIIP IIEIlI OF Way CONTINUES
and officials rack their brains to
make the roads and streets safe for
everybody And the list of accidents
Eeenc IN orow
Evening star., 1937-09-25
Potential Hazards Home Easily Eliminated by Intelligent Eor
Dorothy Dix Says
Girl Is a Fool to Waste Time
Grieving Over Being Tilted.

- EAR DOROTHY DIX: have
a friend who fell very much
In love with young man
~ ufhn x,kNi ri Il
Evening star., 1937-09-25

The second reason is that If a girl
"goes steady" with one boy and has
no other friends among the bows she
is left fiat if he gets tired Of her
and leaves her for another girl
DOROTHY DIX.
tCopyright. 1857
Evening star., 1937-09-25

Answer advise you by all means
to establish your own home and be
independent. Don't 60 to live with any
Of your relatives. You would be mis-
Evening star., 1937-04-17

"little way which made Therese so
beloved. There is quality about the
book which should make it appealing
to any reader.
A LONG WAY FROM HOME. BY
Claude Mckay. New York: Lee
Furman.
IT IS generally mistake for any
artist to foresake his medium, and
Claude Mckay, who is a good poet,
does himself no particular credit in
this work of prose. 1t purports to
tell of his wanderings about the world
after he had gained his first recogni-
ton as a poet of the American Negro.
It is a volume Of wide variability.
Sometimes it is shrewd, sometimes
amazingly naive; the sense OF values
by which the author judges the work
OF his contemporaries would seem to be
their attitude toward his own race;
the exposition Of Negro qualities in
himself is done, as it seems, self-con-
sciously and deliberately, instead of by
the natural process of implication,
and. on the whole, the book gives an
effect Of being undigested and super
fetal. One regrets the necessity of
saying this, for Mr.. McKay's verses
are often accomplished. However, he
has said 1t himself more plainly than
any one else.
It Is only fair to add, Of course,
Evening star., 1937-04-17

HAVE YOU ANYTHING TO DE-
CLARE? BY Maurice Barring. New
York: Alfred A. Knopf.
THIS is nothing more than Mr.. Bar
ing's notebook of favorite quota
tions-from the Greek Homer down
through the nineteenth century and
later. He records that he dreamed once
that he had died and, having crossed
a preliminary river, was confronted by
. customs official who had inscribed
in golden letters on his cap, 'Chemins
de fer de lEnfer'" This parsonage
said to him, "'Have you anything to
declare?'" And it turned out then
that the dutiable articles were the lit
srary baggage with which he had trav-
eled during his life, and that he
needed to declare only the things OF
which he had permanent record
either in memory or notebook. This
volume is what he declared.
AS Mr.. Barring is both poet and
scholar, his collection naturally has
been drawn from the whole field OF
European literature-ancient Greek
Evening star., 1937-04-17

merit Of having been written by
woman who has been for 20 years
resident of the country of the subject.
1t is the story Of little Mexican girl
who lived in the mountains close to
the silver mines. She has experiences
OF the colorful kind; they take in
bullfighting, bear hunting. boating
and. of course, fiestas. But there is
charm in the work, and the illustra-
tions. by Washington artist Incl
dentally, are very attractive Among
the great number of childs books on
the southern republic, this one de-
serves an honorable place.
THE QUIET SHORE. BY Walter
Havighurst. New York: The Mac
milan Co.
THE struggle between the city and
the farm is the theme of this
novel, 1t is not new idea, to be
sure, but Mr.. Havighurst gives it such
a passionately sincere treatment that
one can only admire his production.
After the Civil War Roger Bradley
established his domain high on a
cliff above Lake Erie. He had two
wives: The first, fine woman Of the
soil; the second, :. city woman. Each
bore him children. An unfortunate
accident severed relations between the
two branches Of the family and for
years there was hatred and jealousy.
1t all comes to climax in the Sum-
mer which the novel covers. Both
sides gain victories and suffer defeats,
but it was inevitable that it should
be that way.
One has no quarrel with the mar
rative which, in spite Of its familiarity,
is quietly absorbing; and there can
be only praise for the simple, firm
style; but, as is 50 often the case in
books of this type, the characters are
more types than people. The minor
haracters-Ansel, with his un.
quenchable levity; Tatum. the hired
man who counted automobile tags on
the highway, and even poor Ursula,
whose mind stopped when she was
child-are more moving than those
who carry the main burden of the
book
Mr.. Havighurst, it goes without
saying, stacks the cards in favor OF
Evening star., 1937-04-17

that the book contains some excellent
anecdotes and many character
sketches Of amusing people. Mr.. Nc
Kay, writing Of his casual acquaint-
ances here and there about the world.
does very well, particularly when these
acquaintance are not themselves
literary people. But when he writes
OF art and artists-and he writes of
art and artists a great dealt is
always in the circumscribed terms Of
race. That race should be a problem
to an educated and talented Negro
one can well understand But it is a
personal problem, not an artistic one.
The Negro poet functions in the world
exactly as any other poet does-in re-
lation to his poetry. There have been
enough personal documents" written
lately. There have, indeed, been al
together too many. One cannot but
feel. remembering their insistence,
that, unless mans private life is of
public Importance, he might as we'll
keep it to himself. This Is true of
any writer-be he OF whatever racial
persuasion.
LITTLE DAUGHTER OF MEXICO.
BY Catherine Ulmer Stoker. IL
lustrated by Theobold Holsopple.
Dallas: Dealey g. Lowe.
THIS attractive juvenile about Mex
leo has tho somewhat exceptional
Evening star., 1937-04-17
Brief Reviews of Books

present volume would make an effec-
tive. though not particularly orna-
mental, doorstep.
RETRACING GENGHIS KHAN. BY
John H. Hermann and Cecil
Robert Borg. New York: Lothrop
Lee & Shepard.
Two Americans go over the route of
the famous conqueror
ROAMING IN HAWAII. With Harry
A. Franck. New York Frederick A.
Stokes Co.
The professional traveller gets around
to the islands.
THE GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS.
BY Laura Thornborough. New York:
Thomas Y Crowell Co.
An informal guide for tourists.
Fiction.
THE PRODIGAL MOLL. Bv Sara
Christy. New York: John H. Hop
kins & Son.
Gangster and heiress and, of course.
love.
BEYOND THE BADLANDs. BY
Stephen Payne. New York: John
H. Hopkins & Son.
Western stuff.
THE TRAIL OF GOLD. BY Dane
Coolidge. New York: E. P. Dut-
ton Co.
Western stuff.
RIVER GEORGE. BY George w. Lee.
New York: The Macaulay Co.
Prosecuted Negro sharecropper fights
back. BY Negro author.
Mysteries.
THE LAUGHING BUDDHA. BY Carl
Click. New York: Lothrop Lee &
Shepard.
-Four citizens disappear and the case
is solved by the curious reporter.
THE CANDLE. BY Linton c. Hopkins
New York: Lee Furman
Mystery conducted through agony
columns of the daily papers.
DEAD RECKONING. BY Bruce
Hamilton.
Husband kills wife in the almost
perfect murder.
Juveniles.
WILDERNESS ROAD. BY Katherine
Clugston and Richard Stevenson.
New York: Blue Ribbon Books.
The Daniel Boone trail for young
folks
Evening star., 1937-04-17

zine cover which she has seen in a
long time-and that is saying much.
1t shows Miss Jean Harlow and Mr..
Robert Taylor together The effect is
pretty ghastly. If this be beauty, then
let us look on the sideshoWs.
WITH the circus imminent, readers
might be amused by a story that
appears in the current Stage Here 1t
Is
AT the crossroads the man in the
car saw a signpost saying DALLAS
II MILES. Underneath a poster
advertising The Greatest Show On
Earth q colored boy trudged toward
town.
"Braking his car, the driver asked,
Like lift, SAM
How'd you know nah name, Boss?'
Sam, I'm taking you to the circus
this afternoon
Boss! OATS jes' wunnerful All
amt never seed no curcus.
What the google eyed Sam en-
joyed most at the circus was hard
to determine
1.-The cloWnsP Boss, dose clowns
sho' was de funnies' thing ah evan
seed But you knew it wasn't the
clowns he liked best
1.-The elephants?' The eyes showed
large areas Of white. 'Yeh, Boss.
dose elephants was sho' de smartes'
thing ah evah seed But it wasn't
the elephants
The trapeze performers? The
horses? The band?' Sam had en-
thusiasm for all but final acclaim for
none
"'Oh, come, Sam, tell me what you
liked best?'
"'Oh, All don't rightly know, Boss.
All liked it all But didn't them cam
els have the grandes' SMELLY"
In the current fiction parade there
are seven unusual poems" reprinted
from Ruth Pitter's "A Trophy of
Arms Of the seven, the reviewer
picks this one
Buried Treasure.
Truth I sought, and truth I found,
Wandering enchanted ground,
Where among the dusty rocks
Grows the twin-stemmed Paradox,
Throwing from the single root
Sable flower and golden fr1lit
There I watched till I could tell
Evening star., 1937-04-17
BY M. G.. r.
NEW magazine announces

4 NEW magazine announces its
n initial appearance for April
~ 10. It is to be called the
4 a One Act Play Magazine, and
will come out monthly. It's editors
say that 1t will contain four or five
original plays in each issue, together
with reviews by prominent contribu-
tors on the drama and regular arti-
Gle on the one-act play by Dr. Isaac
Goldberg"
They also make the interesting an
nouncement that plays accepted for
publication will not be selected be-
cause OF any bias in politics. "The
sole criterion" they say, "in publish
ing a play, whether by known or
an unknown playwright, will be that
Of dramatic and literary value With
this purpose in mind, since the One
Act Play Magazine has no political
ak to grind, 1t will include plays
left and 'right'-which will have
a definite appeal to adherents Of both
groups"
But II 1t has no political ak to
grind, why all this anticipation? And
what, by the way, Is play to the
right? One knows, of course, what
a play to the "left" is. The big scene
is riot between the strikers and
strike breakers, in which the heros
old mother is ridden down by brutal
policeman, and his little child, sick at
home, is killed by stray bullet fired
by the hand Of his own buddy-but
they forgive one another. All that
has been done. But what is play to
the right? The reviewer cannot
somehow remember.
The new magazine will be edited
by William Kozlenko, and 1t has
among Its contributors A. A. Milne,
Philip Freund, Paul Green, Stefan
Zweig, Ference Molnar and yet 9TH
ers. presumably both left and right.
IN THE May Ladies Home journal
Mrs. Roosevelt continues her
Story" The reviewer has already
informed readers how they may dis
tinguish between Mrs. Roosevelt's
STORY" and Mrs. Roosevelt's Day"
since 1t would be undesirable to get
the two confused The Story" is
running in the monthly and covers
the history of Mrs. Roosevelt's life
up to the time she became the First
Lady of America. The Day" ap-
pears daily, appropriately enough, in
newspapers and recounts in the first
person what Mrs. Roosevelt does every
"a hours of the present
The second installment OF the
Story" now tells us how Mrs. Roose-
welt put on flannel underwear each
Winter as young woman and wore
it until Spring AS far as the re-
viewer knows, Mrs. Roosevelt is the
only First Lady who has taken the
public into her confidence on this
point II there is personal rec
ord of when Martha Washington or
Mrs. Taft, for example, changed to
fannels from neck to ankles" the re-
viewer does not know where it is.
Perhaps research should be made into
the subject, now that such revela-
tions are approved
THE reviewer is probably lacking in
a proper appreciation Of the
beautiful. Anyway, without having
seen Master Robert Taylor in any of
his screen appearances, she protests
the cover Of the May Photoplay She
protests it as being the ugliest maga-