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Evening star., 1939-02-24
Dorothy Dix Says
Difference in Ages After Sixty
Proves Fatal to Marriage

DEAR MISS DIX: Do you think
a man of SO years is too old to
marry a woman of 35? I am already
married. but I am trying to get a
divorce from my wife. We have been
married 80 years and have grown
children, but am just tired of her
and want change. And since there
is no love or affection between us
I think it is best for us to part. !
am not as rich as people think, but
am fairly we'll fixed. My wife won't
give me up unless make a settle
ment on her. so I am asking your
advice A TIRED HUSBAND.
Answer think that if you marry
woman 80 years younger than
yourself you will get all the variety
and change in wives that you crave.
And then some.
There is no mono:ony in matri-
mony for the old husband of a
young wife. because he has to be
on the jump to keep up with her
or else he is left solitary and alone
at home while she is off enjoying
herself. And his thoughts keep him
lively company as he speculates
about who she is out joy-riding
with or jazzing around with.
Perhaps the disparity of age
doesn't seem so great when you are 68
and the woman is 35, but how about
it when you are 78-an old man
and she is 45-still young woman?
Believe me, Mr.. Man, that age
is an unbridgeable gulf between the
old and young, and it was never
so hard to cross as it is now, when
every custom and fashion and point
or view has changed so radically
as it has in the last 10 years. Why
even parents and children can't get
along together now because they look
at things from such different angles.
How, then, can you expect to find
any congeniality in wife who be-
Evening star., 1939-02-24
1nterrupting
Class Work
Is UnWise
Trust Teachers
ToGive Proper
Care to Child
BY ANGELO PATRI.

What did she change your seat
for?"
She said she wanted Charlie to sit
there"
20, she did! Well, We'll see about
that. I'll 60 right over and see
that you get your own seat"
Tap, tap, tap on the classroom
door, right in the middle of dicta-
ton lesson. The teacher looked dis
tressed. Reading phrase to the
class over her shoulder, she went
| toward the door.
Tap, tap, tap, more sharply. The
teacher opened the door, still reading
to the the class. There stood Mrs.
FURRY. mouth set grimly, eyes cold
and accusing.
I've come to see why you changed
my child's seat this morning. He is
as much entitled to his seat as any
other child is and I want you to
know that his father pays just as
much taxes as any other child's
father in this town and won't have
my child pushed aside to make room
for another child you happen to like.
Such partiality shouldn't be al
lowed in any public school. I'll see
the board about it,"
All the while the teacher was try
ing to close out the noise and keep
the class at work With one last
strenuous effort she checked the
flow of talk please go to the Office
and tell your story to the principal.
cannot listen now because the class
it waiting. We are busy"
Between every two phrases the
angry lady put in a word or two
about impartiality, taxes, good as
anybody. report to board, nice do
ings-and still the teacher struggled
to keep the class at work. Luckily
the principal appeared at the end
Of the hall and went to the rescue.
Yes, I know. Just come to the
Office and we will talk this over. You
see the children are working and
ought not to be interrupted. After
all, they have nothing to do with this
and ought not to lose their lesson.
Lessons are important, aren't they?
I'm sure you would not want your
child to lose his work because the
teacher had to stop to talk to Wis
itor. You know we have visiting
days and visiting hours, and I am
always at the service of parents who
have to come to school at unusual
times"
BY this time Mrs. Furry was
calmer. She told the principal about
changing her boys seat. Why didn't
she change somebody else's seat?
1--WE test eyes and ears for defects
Of vision or hearing at the end of the
first month in every term. We put
children who do not see we'll, or who
cannot hear perfectly, where they
have the best chance to get help
from the teacher, and to see and
hear as much as possible. We
changed your boys seat to let child
who could not see we'll be nearer the
blackboard and the teacher. That's
ALL"
"Why didn't she say SOP"
I'VE do not want to tell those
things in public. Might make the
child feel bad, and he has trouble
enough. And we expect people to
trust us to do what is right by the
children In our care"
That's not too much to expect, now
is it?
Mr.. Patri will give personal at
tention to inquiries from parents and
school teachers on the care and de-
velopment Of children. Write him
In care Of this paper, inclosing q
3-cent stamped, self addressed en-
velope for reply.
(Copyright, 1939)
Evening star., 1939-02-24
BY BARBARA BELL.

This button-front variation on
the popular shirtwaist theme is
really much too good looking to
spend all its time working round
the house. 1t Is, of course, very
comfortable and practical for that.
The slight blouse at the waistline,
and the deep armholes, provide
plenty of freedom for action. The
skirt Is comfortably ample at the
hem. But you'll enjoy wearing this
dress also for shopping and market
Ing. 1t looks tailored and finished,
thanks to the roll collar and braid
Evening star., 1939-02-24

DEAR think longs generation
a man of 68 is too old to another?
Evening star., 1939-02-24
Scotch Rudder

PARIS R.-Rudders of ribbon
tell which way a Glengarry bonnet
is heading. One is white grosgrain,
the other black. and they dangle
together at the back of a white straw
hat on Scotch cap lines. Schiapareln
designed It.
Evening star., 1939-02-24

with the bath. If so, it might be
wise to repeat some of that color
scheme and tie the two rooms to-
gether.
DEAR MISS NOVEL;:
I would appreciate your advice
concerning a little problem.
I should like to use figurines on
the shelves of my secretary, but
have no place to put the books at
the present time However, the
shelves of this particular secretary
are very deep, and I have been Won
dering whether it would be permis-
sible to put the books on the back
part of the shelves and the flgurines
and ornaments to the front just
back of the glass The books would
be somewhat visible.
Answer-It would be perfectly
permissible for you to do this
as ones own desire is always
the last word in the home.
But from decorating stand
point it is a bad move, as we try
not to use either furnishings or
decoration in manner that is not
practical. Books are a part of the
decoration of your room because
you like to read, and it is not FEAST
BILE to have to reach for your books
in back of delicate, breakable por-
celains. I would suggest that you
leave the books where they are and
purchase one of the delicate little
open shelves for your figurine COL
lection. Or you might remove one
shelf of books and use the fgurines
on that self. like them much bet
ter when you may inspect them
minutely without the interference
of glass.
DEAR MISS NOVEL;:
Is it possible to hang a heavy shelf
on the plastered wall and not have it
pull out? What sort of hook should
be used?
MR.. F. G. R.
Answer-It is possible to get a
PooIl-Pill W pc VI Ilooh dt dlly Ildlu-
ware store that is made to hold up
as high as 300 pounds. Just ask for
the size that corresponds to the
weight of your shelf I have used
them for very large and heavy mir
rors with success.
Questions on household fur
nishings, interior decoration, ETC.,
should be addressed to Margaret
NOVEL;, in care of the Woman's
Page of The Evening Star. The
answers will appear in this COL
umn as quickly as space permits.
For personal replies or trade
names a stamped, self addressed
envelope should be inclosed.
Evening star., 1939-02-24

grapes designs
articles This design that will proud hand down to
grandchildren
scarf 10 by inches and designed match Luncheon Set
1185 Centerpiece 118
patterns envelope complete
space diagrams you
material
obtain this pattern No. lo76 nclose Is cents
and Send is
pattern No. 1855 s Address orders to Nedwok
Editor Of Evening Star.
Evening star., 1939-02-24
Built>ln Cupboards Will
Take Care Of Materials
Needed in Work or Play
China Figurines Should Not Be
Placed in Front of Books
On Secretary Shelves
By MARGARET NOVEL;

., DsA MISS NOVEL;: have small at the head Of the
as on the second floor house 1t bit
as has window
storage 1t faces light
what could you suggest useful plan
D.F r.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-11-03
Love In SpotIisht

:. This time It's AL Jolson and Ruby Keller.
: For years now while Hollywood wives and husbands
Rave been switching gay from mate the Joson-
Keller marriage has been held the ideal in Holly
wood
Only yesterday 1t Mary Pickford and Doug Fair
banks sr. were held up the ideal in Hollywood Remem-
Der Piclrfar their dream house?
Then Doug and Mary split up each to find younger
mate
AL and Ruby then took the throne TO be praised by the
press agents ~ Hollywoods IDEAL
OF course there stars, like Lionel Barrymore
who have found lifelong love and constanc To the day of
her DEATH Mrs. Barrymore and her husband happy in
each Others company.
But In general the glitter and glamor Of Hollywood
oeems to demand price from those whom 1t showers its
blessngs-and that price is REAL married e Love
70 wither in the spotlight.
Ruby and al have rches but Wen venture they'd trade
em all for the solid enduring happiness to be found in
prosac American home, where father and mother and
children live in mutual love and happiness working together
for the common good.
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sWsr On Disease

The battle against disease goes slowly reentessly
In the end usually productive of developments to lessen
the annual toll Of lives.
Once in while, scientists aiming for result stumble
accidentally upon another totally different from but sig
-ncant the they sought Something like that hap
pened when Washington physician used the drug
1ulfapyrdine to combat pneumonia germs The doctors
patient also infected with influenza germs and the drug
destroyed not only the pneumonia bacteria but the influenza
GERMS well.
: Subsequent experiments by the u s. Public Health
service have borne out the theory that sulfapyrdne
he used effectively against influenza But scientists
willing to accept the findings definite until exhaustive
research has been completed.
At all events there is to believe that inn
ant has been made The drug must be used with
considerable care and it viii probably be time be-
fore II is generally accepted But the discovery be the
beginning of fresh battle on influenza.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-11-03
HOROSCOPE
FRIDAY, NOV. s

Benefic aspects rule strongly
today. The morning is espe-
cially promising to sviators and
naval officers. II is a date to
launch carefully planned bust
ness enterprises. Merchants are
well directed and should have
satisfactory relations with bank
ers under this configuration.
Heart and Home: Women
come under stimulating and
helpful planetary influences to-
day. There is a sign indicating
that their foresight IL to be
trusted and their ambitious
plans aided. Peace organiza-
tons and women's clubs are
subject to strong guidance. Col
lege girls may expect romantic
friendships. Social festivities
viii be successful under this con-
figuration.
Business Affairs: Merchants
and manufacturers continue I'M
der the most favorable planetary
government. Builders OF air
planes and intricate machinery
win profit greatly after over
coming serious obstacles. Bank
ers win meet extraordinary con-
tons In the world OF finance.
Labor continues under threaten
ing aspects.
National issues: An untoward
incident will arouse public senti-
ment regarding the continued
existence OF subversive organiza-
tons. Propaganda will circu-
late through foreign language
syndicates as well as through
secret channels independent OF
the press. Radio viii come I'M
der more severe restrictions than
have governed It In the past.
International Affairs: Russia
may play a treacherous game in
the war. for Stain Is under a
planetary guidance that encour-
ages secrecy and double-dealing.
Some sort Of q hangover from
Spain Is to be responsible for
sudden changes OF policy. The
seers have warned persistently
that the Soviet government
could not be trusted. a fact that
Hitler may discover.
Persons whose birthdate II Is
have the augury OF a year OF
fairly good fortune. Courtship
and marriage are indicated for
the young and middie-aged. but
there may be deception and dis
appointment for some.
Children born on this day
probably viii be affectionaie and
retiring IN nature. These Seer
pio subjects are temperSmentai
and susceptible TO moods sad
ana SaSs - -----------,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-11-03
Brutal Facts

Cold and hard, like chemical analyses. the COM
muniques issued by begerens activity along the west
ern front.
From French communique No. 3d. 'There were numer-
patrols during the day. both Sides especially
In the region east Of Mosee Our artillery particularly
active in the same district"
No mention here of the lives lost the blood spilled moth
ing the groans that haunt battlefield of the
full shells that level whole buildings in CHASTITY blast
There is hint of going mad, dying with disease
weakened by the fever of death.
War communicates are impersonal q report of a
chess game Only by occasional implications do they
1--WE even faint hint Of what is really happening
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-11-03
PULSE OF THE PUBLIC

rich do not want war. Oh, no,
they do not! Let not your envy
Of the rich deceive you. The
poor do not want war. With all
our virility, our ambitions, our
wealth and our power we just
naturally have no relish for war.
We are not an aggressive, grasp
ing, tyrannical people.
We Americans are all desir-
Gus of following such a course
as will be least likely to involve
us in any martial tragedy. There
are honest differences of opinion
as to what is the better course
to pursue TO maintain our neu-
trality. Let it stop there. Again
we say. no one wants war.
1t would seem that the better
plan would be to lift the present
embargo. and place foreign COM
merce upon a cash-and"carry
basis. No arbitrary classified
tons Of shipments can safely be
made by US because any foreign
power may declare anything con-
traband and proceed to engage
in trouble-making seizures.
While we are clinging to the
determination TO be peaceful and
TO mind our own business. it is
well to remember, however, that
aggressively disposed nations,
most Of whom do not really like
us, are doing the war-making all
on their own account. Nothing
Is more clearly and certainly our
own business than to safeguard
ourselves against aggression and
to recognize a sympathetic obi
cation toward Christian democ-
racies. wherever these may be,
as against unchristian tyranny.
There is an increasing belief
in the world that might is no
longer right, but rather that
right Is might, and this thought
Is entitled to commentator and
encouragement.
ROBERT S. DOUBLEDAY.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-11-03

Editor, The Times: The revela-
lions Of ordinary low-brow steal
ing In the state departments In
Olympia shows what we should
have known all the time, name
ly, that only good men should be
elected or appointed to office.
Senators. representatives, gov
errors. county officers and
others appoint thousands Of
helpers in the various offices.
and 1t is by no means true that
they emphasize honesty in these
appointments.
Let a man be a good mixer
and useful TO the party, he gets
the appointment, while his hon.
est, truthful, old-fashioned COM
petitor Is kept at home.
To judge from the wholesale
stealing going on, one reasons
that head officers in state and
In business concerns do not
properly value honesty. It is,
of course. true that party work.
ers expect to be rewarded for
their services to the party, but
when such ones are thieves, it
seems as though it would be
well to leave them at home.
Coming also from Olympia is
a degrading story. smelling like
ancient garbage cans, and four
men are sent to the penitentiary.
The hog-wallow way of living
seems to be spreading. It leads
TO moral weakness and then
physical decrepitude, weakness
and death. When ancient Rome
got that way. the barbarians
swept the Roman forces from
the face of the earth.
There come those searching
words OF Scripture, Whatsoever
q man soweth, that shall he also
reap"
JAMES p. RAWSON,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-11-03

Editor. The Times: From Mrs.
James Hansen. formerly Of Ia
coma, recently received a let
ter relating her experience dur
ing the heat wave in southern
California. These are excerpts:
Terrible weather; never will
forget how hot that sun was. I
was afraid to go out in it. II
It had lasted longer I believe
half the people in southern Cali
fornia would have died. Just
cannot understand what caused
this terrific heat.
Some nights at midnight II
would be IS degrees in the house.
If one would sit down in a chair
you thought 1t had been in the
oven. What little breeze we got
came from the desert and it was
hot.
"oh, 90 many people died Of
the heat; do not see how sick
people ever lived through that
awful week. You just could not
breathe that ART was sitting.
The little rain at first-stll
lo2 degrees-just seemed TO
make q hot steam. I Just cried.
I thought II would be all day
like that. Ny sister in the In
Perial valley said she never In
her life saw anything like that.
I do not want to be here another
summer"
BERTHA BARBARA sCIURUs.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-11-03
QUESTIONS TO TEST
YOUR KNOWLEDGE

Can you answer seven of these
test questions? Turn to the
Women's page for the answers.
1. What became of the Balkan
kingdom Of Montenegro?
2. What does pro and con"
mean?
8. Has the moon an atmos-
phere?
4. Name the last Gar Of
Russia.
5. How many time zones are
in the U. S. proper?
6. On which continent Is the
republic of Liberia?
Z. What is the correct pro-
nunciation of the word detonate?
8. For which Major League
baseball club is Paul Derringer
a pitcher?
9. Name the capital Of Me-
vada.
10. Which woman made the
first solo flight from Hawaii to
California
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Continued From Page One)

national pressure politics, as
well as natural resentment, lies
behind Cordell Hull's abrupt
handling Of the City Of Flint In
cident.
For a while the British strove
10 break off the Hitler-Stalin
alliance by wooing the latter.
But they soon discovered that 1t
was a closer working agreement
than they had thought, even
though II may eventually react
TO Der Fuehrer's disadvantage.
Moreover. England's real finan-
cial stakes lie In the Far East
not Central Europe-and they
were seriously menaced by the
Japanese aggression. Tokyo's
Indignation at the Hitler-Stalin
pslsy-walsying finally furnished
the inspiration for the about
face.
President Roosevelt, though
never trusting the Wet.
thought that Russia might join
the pro-democracy bloc of ma
tions. But the kremlin's per-
sistent and deliberate disregard
Of our requests and diplomatic
representatives Stain never
lets them come near him -
proved a disbursement. Now
comes what amounts to a ma
tional insult in the Flint episode.
So Hull cracks down with sur
prising csndor, and there is talk
of relieving tension with Japan
by shifting vessels from the Pa
cific fleet 10 the Atlantic to
form a European squadron.
The allies still bank heavily
on German revolution to topple
Hitler and terminate the war be-
fore it wakes up and hurts some
body besides the poor Poles.
Here is the kind of story now
emanating from British sources.
A storm trooper living in a Ber-
lin pension asked maid TO laun-
der his uniform. He warned her
not to remove the swastika bras
sard from the sleeve. When she
explained that she could not do
a good job otherwise, he grew
violent and insisted that she fol-
low instructions. She peeked,
however, and beneath the S. A.
insignia was sewed an armband
bearing the hammer and sickle
OF the Soviet. Their relation
ship was so friendly that she
dared to question him about the
hidden device of revolution.
"ohl" he is reported to have
answered. "All OF US want to be
ready when the day OF reckon
ing comes. Then we will swap
the swastika for the hammer
and sickle. and prove TO the peo-
pie that We are one OF theml" As
this suggests. present-day prop
uganda is assuming an indirect,
suggestive. anecdotal form rath-
er than the direct and sweeping
broadsides Of the World war
period.
Elliott Roosevelt is becoming
radios unruly child In more
ways than one. Besides defying
the NAB's code prohibiting
discussion Of controversial sub
jeets on commercial programs,
he allows more time for sdver-
Using announcements than the
rules permit. The period is pa
minutes. and rivals charge that
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part Of the job has been pretty
wen attended to. The next ae-
tivity viii be placing markers at
three points on the road
The report OF the Fern Hill
publicity committee which pre-
pared and circulated the facts
concerning the project. signed by
Nels Bjarke. chairman, con-
cludes with this paragraph:
Now, as to the rest OF the
great system Of roads our
forefathers planned and built
Shall It be forgotten? IL
should not, but we leave that
In the hands of interested peo-
pie In Puyallup and Stella
COON. We trust that they
will act before IL Is too ate.
We win try to do our part
here, remembering that in IL
short years the road will be
100 years old.
Smile dlChile:
A tourist stopped In a Cali
fornia novelty bazaar seeking a
small, inexpensive plaster bust
of Mozart or Beethoven.
NO, man," replied the clerk.
1--WE haven't any, but we've just
gotten in some of Ferdinand the
Bull that are honeys."
An eastern paper printed the
story under the caption, "I'll bs
Bach In a Moment"
Tommy - Mother, II baby
swallowed q tadpole would II
kill him.
Mother-I think 1t might
dear.
Tommy-But 1t didn't-not
yet.
Mother-Jane how did that
parlor chair happen to be
brokent
janet don't know, mother.
1t just seemed to collapse all OF
a sudden, but neither one of us
was hurt.