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Evening star., 1938-03-04
The Interior
Decoration
Problem
Paint Inside of Hat
Box for Testing
Color Effect.
BY EMILY POST.

DEAR MRS. POST: We are redec-
Grating our house, and some one
has suggested that we make some rad.
ical changes in the color arrangements
In particular I'm thinking Of the sug-
gestion Of a friend who wants us to
paint our ceilings dark and the walls
Of the same room light. I've never
seen this and feel that it is toosrevo-
lutionary an idea to take seriously.
However. my husband asked me to
write you for an opinion and any in
formation you are willing to give us
about it,,
Answer-If your ceilings are very
high, painting them a darker hue
than the side wall will make the
ceiling look lower. Painting the CELL
ing strong color and the walls very
light is rather unusual, but on the
other hand many old rooms, of course,
have had dark wooden ceilings and
white walls and dark woodwork. If
you paint your ceiling darker color,
therefore. I think you will also have
to repeat that same darker color in
the trim Of the door and even in the
doors themselves.
My advice to you is to take hat
box and imagine it is q model of the
room. Cut windows in the sides
wherever the windows Of the room
actually come. paint the bottom of the
box the color of your floor, paint the
sides of the box the color OF your
walls. and then paint the inside of the
lid the color that you're thinking Of
for the ceiling. Cut q mask-shaped
opening in one of the walls at the
height of midway between the floor
and ceiling, and then look into it and
see how you like the effect. You can
Use this same devise-pasting on COL
ored pieces of paper-to see how 1t
would look were the doors painted or
left light, and in fact. try out any
other effect of color. This idea Is an
invention of my own, but 1t has proved
extremely practical on the many oc-
casions when have used it for my
self and for others.
Evening star., 1938-03-04
Unexpected
Variety in
Children
Healthy Youngster
Is Lifetine's Joy
If Appreciated.
By ANGELO PATRI.

PARENTS dream of the child that
is to come. They plan for it, lay
ing out its course for years ahead.
When the child arrives it is not the
child OF their dreams, but another, and
quite different. Maybe they dreamed
OF a girl and it was a boy, or as
oftener the case, of boy and it came
girl. This is the first hard Jolt.
There are many more.
The most one can be fairly GER
tain of in child is his physical
outfit OF legs and arms and complete
set of senses. On that basis there are
varieties without number. So many
and so complicated that no man has
ever been able to chart and record
them, or guide. or develop them to
full capacity. Each child is like no
other and cannot be the dream child.
But any healthy child is a life.
times joy if he is appreciated. His
unexpected varieties are constant
delight. They may wear you down,
but they will thrill you just the same.
His constant growth and change en-
frances you even while it vexes your
soul The lights and shades of his
character fill you with awe, for cer-
tainly some of his strengths come not
from anybody or any power on this
earth. His ignorance is beguiling, but
his wisdom calls for reverence. He
comes directly from the source of life
and bears its mark upon him through
the years of his infancy. Any healthy
child is gift. a challenging mys-
terry. and a lifetime of study and care
is all too short for the solution.
Any man or woman who has lived
long enough to have a child should
have understanding enough of life's
ways with humanity to know that
they can know nothing about this
child; that they can do nothing that
counts very much to make him into
their own imagine. He came into the
world bearing another image, and un-
der 1t he will live and grow and fulfill
his destiny. What he is can be made
powerful, but what he is MT cannot
be created by teaching or discipline.
We must take the child that comes,
and, as he discloses his endowment,
help him to develop 1t. The most we
can do will be all too little. for we
can give him nothing: we can add
nothing to him. We can only offer
him the best we have and hope he
can use it.
sorrowing because a girl is not a
boy, complaining because a child has
no great creative gift to make him
famous, weeping because child's fea-
lures are not those of the standard
beauty. wishing for child born in a
dream world, is about. as futile and
unworthy parental attitude as may
be. Your child Is the direct product
of his ancestors. very closely related
to you. You are complaining about.
yourself, your progenitors. when you.
complain about the characteristics Of,
. child Of your family.
Children know when their people
Evening star., 1938-03-04

pictures. her faVor1te is a black crepe,
heavy. clinsing and smartly sophisti-
cated-cut with a high-waisted skirt,
crlnkled at the waist, and adorned
with a cascading border of gold beads
as shown above. The high decol-
lete is interesting and so are the bell
sleeves
Alice Faye is another star who
adores a black ensemble for formal
wear. She was seen recently In a
black satin gown, with sleek princess
lines, the bodice cut very low at the
back and covered with black Sc
quln bolero jacket and matching Juliet
cap. For her accessories she chose
black satin slippers, a black seuuin
bag and black suede gauntlet gloves
trimmed with sequins to simulate
bracelets.
Carole Lands and Beverly Roberts
are equally fond of open roadsters
and wells. They solve a difficult STU
alton by tying down their hats with
huge chiffon scarfs after Ahe man.
ner of the Gay 90s." Chrole uses a
powder blue chiffon scarf over a big
brimmed black felt. while her COM
panion chooses a yellow chiffon scarf
to anchor little black pillbox on her
pretty head.
X X X
SOMETHING new under the sun is
a coat of bleached wolf, which
is very striking as worn by Carole
Lombard on the screen. The fur has
a backing of black duvetyn which is
revealed IN front, where the coat is
fastened from neck to hem with large
self-covered buttons.
At the Santa Anita race track
Gloria Swanson attracted much at
tentlon in black suit, leopard skin
hat with a sand-colored straw per
COLA" on top, triangular leopard
muff and black slippers with 3-inch
cork soles.
Evening star., 1938-03-04

cultivated by the Andean Indians
hundreds Of years before the ex-
lsence OF America was known to
Europe. These plants had reached
Central America and Mexico, where
they formed staple article of the
food of the Mayas and Aztecs. Be-
cause their pungent taste was highly
suggestive of Oriental pepper the
Spanish dons dubbed them either
pimenta, which is the Spanish for
pepper-or chill, the Aztec name.
| A MEXICAN peppers are the source
OF red or cayenne pepper and pap
rika, while the black and white kitchen
condiments are made from the berries
OF the true pepper plant.
Ordinary red pepper Is the powdered
ripe pod-flesh and seeds-of any va
riety Of capsicums, giving edible fresh
pepper. In warm countries it Is used
to season practically every dish, for
strangely enough it seems TO be an
| axiom that the hotter the country
the hotter the food.
Cayenne pepper on the other hand
differs in being obtained only from the
small fruited capsicums, reduced to
a fne powder. 1t is noted for its
STIMULATING qualities and as an aid to
digestion.
Paprika, favored for its decorative
Value, Is only the Hungarian name
1or RED pepper, used to designate a
specially prepared form, made from
the larger varieties Of capsicum.
linen there is a liquid pepper
sauce known as Tobasco and USED
mostly in Louisiana. 1t is made from
the pulp of the ripe fruit of the small
1ooasco variety, extracted in such a
manner as to retain all the flavor
strength and color Of the fruit.
All these particular peppers ara
gifts OF the New World to the Old, and
as every housekeeper knows the,
have a multitude of uses-from nick.
les to salad trimmings and mea
or vegetable cases.
Inc other pepper. the sprinkly kind
that sent explorers looking for new
sea routes and caused them 10 STUN.
bic on new continents, grows In win,
fashion, climbing like ivy up tn,
trunks OF trees. Contrary to genera
belief, white and black pepper are
made from the same vine, the differ.
ence being that in the one case the
berries are picked green and In the
other ripe
The method of drying is to spread
the berries out on mats to dry in the
sun or to suspend them in a vesse,
over slow fire. In the process they
shrivel and change in color from
green and red to brown and black
White pepper, preferred on occa-
sion for its greater delicacy Of flavor.
Is merely the ripe berry with the quite.
coat of skin and pulp removed.
India, Sumatra, Java. Ceylon, Siam.
Borneo and other romantically name
countries are still the habitat of tie
pepper vine, so rich in historical IL
terest as one Of the first spices to
| desired Of all peoples.
Copyright, 1881
Evening star., 1938-03-04
Dorothy Dix Says
Even a Statistician Is Unable to
Determine Pay of a Mother.

And even this long list of things
belonging to and appertaining to the
wife's job does not include such chores
as getting along with a cantankerous
man and sidestepping his peculiarities
and rubbing his fur the right way.
That alone takes time, thought and
effort that is worth any diplomats
salary. Nor does it take account of
the police duties she performs in STOP
ping fights among the children and
keeping peace in the home. It SAYS
nothing of the fact that she never gets
a good nights rest because she is al
ways sleeping with one ear cooked
to hear the baby's cry for water, or
the restlessness that will indicate that
little Johnny has kicked off the covers
and is cold, yet all of these things are
merely routine duty in the everyday
life Of the wife and mother.
NO AMOUNT of money could pay
for the work that woman does
for her family. but fortunately she
doesn't expect nor desire to collect
her bill against it. Hers is a labor of
love. Her reward is in knowing that
she is a real helpmate to her husband
and in seeing het children well and
happy. in realizing that it is her work
that holds the home together and
that makes 1t haven of safety to
which her family can fee from the
storms and turmoil Of the world. that
1t is her hands that are moldine her
sons and daughters into fine men and
women. that it is her thrift and man.
agement that are helping her hus-
band to build up his fortune and
realize his ambitions.
The work that we love to do isn't
work. It is the most potent source
OF Joy that we can possess. That is
why the woman who loves her husband
finds pleasure in doing little personal
services for him with her own hands,
why she likes to cook for her children
the goodies they fancy and why she
gets a kick that nothing else in the
world can give her out of bathing her
baby herself.
There can be no wages for wives.
No, cash consideration could pay the
wife and mother for all she does for
her family. The only thing that Is
legal tender for that debt Is love and
appreciation and gratitude. The pity
Of it Is that so many husbands and
children default On tiaeir obiigation.
Evening star., 1938-03-04
sTATISTICIAN has been trv.

~ uls W IlguTe OuC WndC wife
~ and mother who does her
4 "A own houseWork, baby-tending
and child-rearing really earns by her
labor for her family, and how much
she should be paid for It.
That is sum in higher mathe-
matics that would stump even Prof.
Einsteln. For in addition to the
actual services she performs, the wife
and mother throws in so many in
tangible but invaluable things-such
as devotion, loyalty. sacrifices, inces-
SAINT Watchfulness and putting her
family's interest before her own-that
have no price tag upon them. You
can compute the earnings of a man
who works 40 hours a week, but
what would be fair pay for the woman
who is on her job "a hours day?
OF course. you can say that
cook Is worth so much, a laundress
SO much, housemaid so much, a
nurse so much. a tutor so much, a
nursery governesS so much. seam
stress so much, trained nurse, in
time Of sickness, so much, and if you
added all of these items together you
would have grand total that would
call for more than the average mans
earnings.
X X
IN ADDITION, the wife and mother
might lut in her bill for services
rendered: (a) being hostess for hus-
band and children, making and main
tanning a social position for them,
entertaining husbands relatives when
they come to visit him; (b) shopping
agent, tearing all over town to cut
rate stores and bargain sales; (c)
correspondent, writing husbands let
ters to his mother. notes of congratu-
lation, sending kilograms of SYM
pathy; I'D social secretary, making
all of husbands dates for dinner and
bridge parties, sending flowers. buy
ing his Christmas presents; (e) press
agent, telling the world how wonderful
he is and what grand lawyer, doc
tor or merchant, thereby building up
his reputation in the community:
% wear and tear on conscience In
telling white lies to get husband out
Of going to dull parties, expls sining to
the children that the reason Father
acted 80 funny last night was because
he had broken his glasses and couldn't
ses straight
Evening star., 1938-03-04

Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1453-B
is designed for sizes IL. IA, 16. 18
and 20. Corresponding bus. measure
ments 30, 80. "a, 36 and as. Size
IA 1922 requires yards of 39-inch
material. with y Of . yard for collar
and CUTS and AZ yards Tor edgins.
tcoDyright. 1881
Evening star., 1938-03-04
BY BARBARA BELL.


~ dress will be lovely for summer
4 \ afternoons, and it's not too
early to be planning and sewing your
summer wardrobe. It is especially
made for slim and youthful figures
'of Whatever age, with q little round
collar ending in wide lapels. pun
sleeves and simple, frill-edged cuffs.
The scalloped closing on the basque
waist makes it Just that much more
attractive. This design would be es-
pecially pretty made up in voile. dot
ted Swiss or dimity In some flowerlike
color like forget-me-not blue, shell
pink or clear sunshiny yellow. with
sheer white collar and cuffs. It's easy
to make. Your pattern brings you
also new chart explaining every
detail explicitly.
Evening star., 1938-03-04
Closet Space.

Build shelves all the way up to tie
closet ceirng-in households where
closet space is limited Then label
separate shelves for the sole use Of
different members Of the family.
Evening star., 1938-03-04

are disappointed In them and suffer
IN their souls. It isn't fair. Maybe,
II the children had Z voice In the
matter they would have chosen dif-
ferent parental Why nokf
Evening star., 1938-03-04
Pepper Placed in Same
Category as Jewels
In the Olden Days
For 200 Years Portugal
Held the Monopoly on
Trading This Spice.
ny GAEL RENFREW.

e you say me the pepper please don't be
Pepper Is the
was so costly to be considered present the very
wealthy could indulge its
hen h Poogu OF the late 18TH century adventured
Evening star., 1938-03-04
Fashions OF the Screen Stars Set the Followers
Black Seems to Lead
Color Parade for ::
Formal Wear
Be Smart on a Windy Day
And Tie Your Hat Down
With a Bright Scarf.
BY MARGARET WARNER.

M Us hha is fslr face BY way change will take
Gay to talk about the glamour
OF the clothes that they wearing location
Iheres Constance Bennett for She
tne women OF the taking
tesans Tor That honor in the
The Omaha guide., 1938-06-18

The entire fireworks display
and entertainment represent a cost
of nearly $4,000, but is offered to
the public at a low admission
charge, to make it available to
everyone. General admission will
be 40 cents for adults and 25
cents for children, with more
than 5000 general admission
seats available in the stadium.
Reserved seats will cost only 25
cents additioDal. Boxes, each
seating eight persons, are being
reserved at SO per box.
by keeping the admission
charge low, we are making it pos
sible for entire families to attend
this fine Fourth of July celebra-
ton at less cost than the AVERAGE
family formerly spent for fire
crackers" Robert A. Drum. ON
aha Post Commander explained
owe do hope fer = profit. how
ever, as all proceeds will be used
for the Posts welfare and rehab-
iitation work among needy World
War veterans and their families
throughout the wear. This is o
maha Posts only monev-raising
activity Of the year for this pur-
pose"
The Omaha guide., 1938-06-18
Let's Have The Fireworks Where
Creighton Stadium-When? The One Bis
Day Of The Year-July 4th-P. NJ.

oma.ha's feature attraction for
the Fourth of July will be the e.
Elaborate fireworks exposition and
entertainment in Creighton Uni
versity Stadium, sponsored by o.
maha Post No. /, American Lee
gion.
Encouraged by the success of
its first independence Day fire
works display last year, the Legion
post has planned this years en-
tertainment on a much larger
scale-all in keeping with Oma-
has desire for ?. gay, yet safe and
san holiday.
More than so varieties of set
pieces, in addition to scores of
BURSTING bombs and aerial dis
plays will be fired to thrill the
thousands expected to attend the
celebration Omaha Posts band
and drum corps and a swarm of
hilariouslY funny clowns will add
g9iety to the days program.
Climax of the fireworks exposi-
ton will be the final number, an
elaborate battle scene in bazing
e%olors, bursting bombs and the
erackle Of machine guns and riff
es.
The Omaha guide., 1938-06-18
Many Leaders Attend
I%nterracial Luncheon

New York, June Is (ANP)-
More than 1000 persons, includ-
ing many of the city's Negro
leaders, attended the interracial
luncheon at the Hotel Commodore
Saturday of the American Society
Race Tolerance and heard speak
ers plead for the preservation of
the rights of all racial and religi-
Gus minority groups in the nation.
Among the speakers of all races
and nationalities was Walter White
NAACP executive secretary, who
warned listeners that bigortry and
intolerance invariably start against
"the most defenseless groups in
q country and then spread until
the stage is set up to deny demo-
cratic and civil rights even to the
majority of people in a country"
"I make no special plea for my
Negro people" he said, "but if
Jews, Catholics, P~rotestants, labor
unions and all civil liberty loving
people now worried about their
own lot had concerned themselves
with the lynching and prescription
of the rights of Negro Americans
p few years ago, Fascism and ra-
eial intolerance would not be so
great a menace in the United
States as it is today.
The Omaha guide., 1938-06-18
$66, 612,548 For Stun
Clearance and Low
Rent Houses

Washington, ID. C.-Resolutions
aimed at preventing stoppa,ge of
work because of labor disputes or
reduction in wages during con-
struetion of slum clearance and
low rent housing projects built
with loans from the United States
housing Authority have been a.
dopted by % local Building
Trades Councils of she American
federation of Labor, according
to reports received today by Ma
than Straus, Administrators of the
United States Housing Authority
In 10 of the % cities, local
Housing Authorities have nego-
tiated loan contracts with the
USHA with which to construct
slum-cleararce and low rent hous-
ing projects at a total cost of APP
proximately $66 ,612,548. Local
Housing Authorities in many of
the other Ii cities have requests
for USHA loans now under con-
sideration.
Walter V. Price, Director of
Labor Relations of the USHA. as
serted that the ections of the To-
cal labor groups are the first in
the history of low rent housing
construction in this country in
which it has been agreed in adj
vance that men employed on the
projects would not resort to
continued on page q
The Omaha guide., 1938-06-18
Fight Move To Abolish Recorder
of Deeds Office

Washington, June 16, CAMP =
Declaring that the District of
Columbia Commissioners have,
through Senate Bill 1861, intro
duced a measure aimed to virtual
ly abolish the office CT recorder
of deeds, the Non.Partisan Lob
by for Economic and Democratic
Rights through w. P. Robinson,
its representative, announced a
fight had been launched against
this threatened move.
The bill is "disguised' as one
to reduce rates for the recording
of chattels. Mr.. Robinson said, al
though such is not its real pur-
pose.
"There has been for the past
six or seven years a consistent, re-
lentless and systematic program
to reduce the number of Negroes
employed in clerical and other
such jobs above those of janitor.
elevator boy or messenger" the
lobby spokesman said. "The drive
Row is to remove from the recor-
der of deeds office over 10 percent
of the work done there without
The Omaha guide., 1938-06-18
Workers Alliance
Opens 3 Day Meet

Washington, June rs (ANP) =
The executive board of the Work
ers.-' Alliance opened a three day
meeting at the Lee house, 18th
e.nd a. STREETS. N. w. The chief
themes of the meeting will be
the future relationship of the
Workers Alliance to the organic
ed labor movement and "plaps for
active participation IN the prim-
airy elections ard general Novem-
her election.
The board membership compris-
es %, and the board includes in
its program for consideration a
large scale drive to organize all
WPA projects: am increase in
WPA wage scales, and improve
ments of conditions on direct re-
lief and a drive against the $1,000
ceiling order of WPA which lin
its the man-year cost on all white
collar projects.
The Omaha guide., 1938-06-18
Stop Lorain Numbers
Racket
OTHER GAMES BEING LIE
CALLED

Lorain, o., June 16 (by Johnny
Willis for ANP)-Almost in the
same breath that the Ohio Leg
islature approved a bill to license
race horse bookmakers and to le-
galize and license bookmaking in
tho state, Chief of Police Theo-
dorc Walker ordered arrests of
several so-called "key figures" in
the numbers racket here on the
proxy that the game 'pfeys" upon
relief recipients in the ty.
The arrests appear to be part
of a series bsing made among col
ored pool rooms and parlors here
since only a few days Ego a raid
was made in another Dool "oom in
The city, and several youths were
taker down for petty" gambling.
In the raid only a very few nm
MES were found, since gambling
operates or a very much larger
scale among the whites then a.
mong the colored.
For the past decade, Loraln has
been known for more than her free
and quitable share of gambling
devices in the state. most of it
taking place under the regime of
the present chief of police. Though
the whites still have their "punch
boards, slot machines, and base
ball slips, the local chief takes
time out to war upon the small
est urit of them alI--numbers-
perhaps because it's played al
most exclusively among the color
ed.
The Omaha guide., 1938-06-18
Over One Thousand Young Men and
Women Enrolled On NYA : Bethune

Washington, d. Cone of the
most significant accomplishments
of the National Youth Administra-
ton in 1887 was the establishm mt
OF resident training projects for
Southern communities, Mrs. Mary
Mcleod Bethume, Director of the
Division of Negro Affairs, told
co-members of the NYA Advisory
Committee at a meeting held here
last Wednesday.
Mrs. Bethume later accompanied
other members of the committee
to the White House. The group
was entertained at tea by Mrs.
Roosevelt, and thep spent over an
hour with the President in p. dis
cussion of the future of the NYA.
In her report Mrs. Bethume said
that over LOO young colored men
and women are row enrolled in
the twenty-five resident centers,
located on or near the compnses
of Negro educational institutions
in thirteen states. These students,
drawn from nearby rurel commu-
mites. are taught farming techni-
cues and home management, arm
ing their tuition" by part-time
work on NYA projects.
Types of training provided all
students include soil conersva-
ton, care of plants and shrubbery,
repair of farm tools and equip
ment, dairying, poultry raising
and persou9l hygience. Girls are
~iven special curses in the care
of home. canning, sewing, laundry
work and the preparation and SER
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