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Evening star., 1939-06-06
Family Keeps
Step With
Children
Youngsters S Desire
ToLeave Home Is
Very Natural
BY ANGELO PATRI.

A distressed mOLner writes TO ask
why she hac failed in making a
happy home Off her daughter, Is,
who asks to be sent to boarding
school. "She says she wants to get
away from home and see other peo-
pie, make new friends and 60 on her
own. What can I do to keep her
home?"
Healthy, intelligent children in
their teens want to leave home and
go on their own. Their personalities
have developed to where they feel
themselves people in their own right.
The family usually thinks of them
as children, and treat them so. The
growth of the children, the passing
of the years, the changes in the
home and in the children have been
so gradual that they were unnoticed.
But the children felt themselves to
be grownup-felt their parents re-
sistance to that grownupness and
longed to get away.
Some children, by nature, do bet
ter in boarding school than at
home. They need the stimulus of
strangers, new associations, new sit
uations. They need to feel them
selves standing alone as individuals,
strong in their own right. It is bet
ter for such children to leave home
for the school term. They do better
and the family gets on more har-
moniously. But all children are not
that way. Most of them do we'll at
home, going to day schools, provided
the family keeps step with their
growth.
BY keeping step with the children's
growth mean the ability to change
attitudes, discipline and family
habits to conform with the changes
in the children. A girl of Is is no
longer a helpless infant. In many
ways she is as mature as she ever
will be, and it is these aspects of her
growth that one must note and ad-
just oneself to.
Such a girl usually has a decided
notion about her clothes and she
should be allowed voice in their
selection. And she usually has about
made up her mind concerning her
future work and education for it.
This decision should be respected,
but if it cannot, for good reasons,
be accepted, the reasons should be
made plain and her cooperation
enlisted. In short she must be treat
ed as a mature person in the fields
where her maturity is manifest.
This is not always easy for par
ents, especially mothers, to accept.
1t is more difficult in the case of
the youngest child, the "baby" of
the family. Hes my baby. I can
not think of him as grown up"
Well, you'd better because he and
she feel themselves as grown up
and their inner nature rebels against
enforced infancy. And rightly so.
We might just as we'll accept the
facts at the beginning. The day
child is born that day he starts
leaving home and mother. Already
his face is turned from his infancy
toward his maturity, his independ-
ence, his freedom from family do
minion.
BY accepting this and helping him
to achieve his growth early and ef-
fectively we do what is best for the
child and for ourselves. No child
resents the parents and the home
that helped him free himself from
dependency upon them, but no nor
NAL, healthy child can help resisting
those who tried, for any reason, to
keep him a child in bondage.
Evening star., 1939-06-06

you can spot" your own in case
the children or the neighbors bor-
row and forget to return them.
General Equipment
Needs Listed.
In the way of equipment you will
need:
SpadeS-TWo sizes.
Hoes-Stralght and scuff1e.
Forks-TWo-tin tined and four tined.
Three -pronged cultivators-Long
and short handled.
Trowels-Wide and narrow.
Rakes-Iron teeth and broom rake.
Watering pots-Large and smaller
Hose-Including washers, nozZles
and sprinklers.
WheelbarroW or weed basket on
wheels
Kneeling pad.
Stakes-Wooden, wire and bam-
boo.
Raffia or tying tape.
Scissors.
Pruning shears-Heavy and light.
Sprayers-One large, one small.
Gloves-Two pairs.
Rubbers and galoshes.
Soap flakes-For sprays and hand
soap.
Labels Wooden and metal.
Notebook, pencil and pen.
Flower pots-Various sizes.
Peat moss and loan.
Hammer.
Edging tool.
Baskets for picking and cutting.
Tamper.
Sieve
Panes of glass.
Seed flats.
Stool
Comfortable chair.
Lawn mower.
Funnel
In addition to these should be
soil-conditioners and plant foods,
the choice depending on the type
of soil in your garden and the type
of plants you are raising. Also the
sprays, dusts and powders useful in
keeping off blight and disease. These
are too varied to list here, as there
seems to be one for every bug in
the world! Information on these
is contained in garden books or
your nurseryman will be glad to
furnish advice on the subject.
Evening star., 1939-06-06

make a suit of it and, for another
change, tie the skirt about your
waist, with the frock showing in a
flash of color in the front.
Isn't that happy (and thrifty
idea? You can make it so easily,
even if you haven't had much sew
ing experience. Your pattern in
clues a helpful, step-by-step sew
chart. Silk print, fiat crepe, linen
or gingham are smart materials for
it.
Barbara Bell pattern No. 1858 is
designed for sizes IA, 16, 18, 20 and
40. Corresponding bust measure
ments 80, "a, 36, 38 and 40. Size
16 (34) requires 3ss yards of 39-
inch material for bolero and apron
skirt; 31s yards for dress.
Send Is cents for Barbara Bells
Spring and Summer Pattern Book!
Make your own smart, new frocks
for street, daytime and afternoon
with these simple, carefully planned
designs! It's chic, it's easy, it's eco
nomical to sew your own. Each
pattern includes q step-by-step sew
chart to guide beginners.
Evening star., 1939-06-06

OF course, Sammy will scott. Tell
him to pick a card and place it
under the telephone. Then give
him the number to call and the
name of the person to ask for.
Sammy calls, inquiries what card he
has chosen-and gets the right an
SWer!
This sure-fire puzzler requires the
help of friend who is spending the
evening at home. In advance, you
have arranged a code so that the
name OF the person for whom
Sammy asks tells your confederate
what card he has chosen. The code
consists of different first name for
each card-Mary for the ace, Helen
for the king, etc.-and different
last name for each suit. You and
your confederate both have copies
of the code.
Thus, if Sammy chooses the 10 OF
hearts, you go to your desk to look
up the mind readers name, glance
at the code and find that Mabel
Harris stands for that particular
card. Your confederate gets the
Call, quickly looks up the name on
her code and Immediately an
nounces the card chosen.
Evening star., 1939-06-06
Dorothy Dix Says
A Philandering Wife Is Worse
Than Husband Who Strays

cause the mother has the training
of the children in her hands. Her
influence and example with them are
much more potent than the fathers
in forming their character. Social
workers tell us that nothing so de-
moralizes children as to lose respect
for their mothers. When they cease
to idealize their mothers and look
up to them, they go all to pieces. And
certainly nothing could be a greater
handicap to girls in every way than
to have a loose-living mother. No
matter how decent they are them
selves. they will always be branded
with her shame.
But what is man to do when he
finds that he has a philandering
wife? Shall he treat her as millions
of women treat philandering hus-
bands? Shut their eyes to what they
do not want to see and keep on with
a marriage with a man whom they
cannot trust, who keeps their hearts
TORN WIN Jealousy, Dut VINO PROVIDES
a home for them and their children.
Does the good outweigh the bad?
Are the children better off with a
mother whose skirts are not quite
clean than with no mother at all?
Is the philanderer worth waiting for?
In the end he or she nearly always
comes back home when old and tired
and the wands of enchantment are
broken? Each man must answer
that for himself, as every woman
answers it for herself. But the pity
of the thing is that the philanderers
are willing to give the solid happiness
of whole family for a few stolen
kisses. DOROTHY DIX.
Evening star., 1939-06-06

shed in the yard, part of the barn
almost any place will do. 1t may be
very much larger than these dimen-
sions if you like to bring in the
wheel barrow and similar large
equipment, or it may be very much
smaller; just a corner with a few
well-planned shelves, a work table
and some bins In the sketch here we
have planned one that is ideal-one
you would ask a fairy godmother
to provide-and from it you may
take what you like and leave the
rest!
All the work area is built close to
the window in this sketch, for good
light by day, and with overhead elec-
trio light for twilight tasks. The
door takes up most of the next wall,
as it should be large enough to get
equipment in and out of comfort
ably. The third wall is clear for
the large pieces that must rest on
their own feet" such as the lawn
mower, watering pots. hose on
wheels, large baskets and similar
things.
Wooden Cleats
Holds Tools.
The fourth wall has wooden cleats
across 1t on which are set wooden
pegs and iron hooks to hold all the
small equipment, including your
garden hat and apron and your IA
vorite rose shears, hoe, cultivator
trowel, grass rake and pruning
shears.
On the window wall, the space on
either side is built in with shelves;
one side for vases and the garden
library, and the other for the oil
can, the ball of twine, the shaker
tins for busting insecticides and all
the other small paraphernalia that
goes with the joy of gardening.
Built under the window along the
whole wall is wide work table. At
spray hose. At the other end is
small desk with seed catalogue and
garden accounts close at hand. Deep
shelves under the counter hold cut
ting baskets, flower pots and starting
flats. Under the sink are two deep
bins for peat moss and loan for the
flower pots.
Here are some of the things that
are useful or necessary in your gar
den. From these you may select a
few if your garden is small and add
your own preference to the list.
Every gardener works out her own
set of favorite tools, and becomes
such a slave to them that it is al
most impossible for her to do good
job with any others. Paint the
handles your favorite color so that
Evening star., 1939-06-06
Beauty Culture

Two famous doctors, authors of
books for professional beauty spe-
cialists and individual beauty
seekers, put their emphasis upon the
same phase of beauty culture
cleanliness. Soap and water are the
basis of beauty, they say, whether
beauty is sought under the hands of
a professional operator or through
the home treatment Of the woman
herselh
Evening star., 1939-06-06
BY BARBARA BELL.

Here's pattern that will delight
smart vacationists because it's really
. three-in-one design and has va
ried personality that cuts down on
packing. With this pretty thing in
your suit case you really have three
changes. You can wear the kimono-
sleeved dress alone and rejoice in the
high, fitted waistline and bodice
gathers that flatter your figure Slip
on the bolero when you want to
Evening star., 1939-06-06

BARONESS PIANTONI
During the months prefer making small things
that they pcncs vacations
the beaches These mats will add atractve set table, Their
by 13 while the round
measures inches in diameter.
The pattern understand dc
ion what material and how much
To obtain pattern nclose Is cents
stamps coin postage Address orders the
Needlework Editor Of Evening
Evening star., 1939-06-06

It is far worse for a wife to phi
lander than it is for a husband, be-
Evening star., 1939-06-06
DoubIe-Decker Ham Slices
With Fruits

Place s4-inch-thick center slice
of ham in baking dish. Cover with
drained, canned fruit cocktail and
sprinkle with brown sugar Top
with a second slice of ham and more
fruit and sugar. Bake in mod
crate $3.50 degrees F. oven until
ham is done, about IL hours.
Evening star., 1939-06-06
Ny Neiehbor Soys:

Plants should be set in a hole
sufficiently large to accommo-
date the root system and filled
around firmly by tramping the
soil in place.
When making canapes, it is
advisable to toast the small bits
of bread first and then spread
with butter to give flavor as
well as to prevent the topping
from soaking into the bread.
Often canapes can be spread
just before serving. Sometimes
they are spread in advance,
then popped into a moderate
oven for a minute to freshen
and brown.
Evening star., 1939-06-06

Dear Miss Dix: My wife has
been having an affair with a man
and I am heartbroken over it. She
says she was only seeking some inno-
cent fun and romance That she
was driven to it because I took her
for granted and had grown some
what Indifferent toward her, and
that she still loves me just as much
as she ever did. We have two sweet
children and she is a good mother
and a good housekeeper and I love
her more than life itself. and she
has promised never to trif1e again.
Can I believe her? Can I put the
trust in her that I always have
done, and forget the incident? Can
she love another man and still love
me? r. F.
Answer-The philandering wife is
not so common figure in our midst
as the philandering husband, but still
there are quite number of her And
the tribe is increasing in these days
of lax morality when only too many
of both sexes regard the Ten Com
mandments as an outmoded docu-
ment.
OF course, from an ethical stand
point it is no worse for a wife to be
unfaithful to her marriage VOWS
than it is for a man to break his.
But, in reality, the matter is not so
cjror1o q thic vr-tothor I,1, ~
ture or by long habit and practice,
men sin much more lightly than
women do.
A married man, for instance, may
be Woman-chaser who cannot resist
getting up and following every pretty
skirt that fits his way. But he really
puts nothing into the pursuit except
his love of adventure and the kick
he gets out of his satisfied vanity in
thinking he is still a devil among
the ladies. He can kiss and ride away
and forget even what the kisses
looked like. He can have a dozen
Lady Loves, yet in his heart still
give whatever affection of which he
is capable to his wife.
But the woman, with centuries OF
virtue behind her and with her name
and position in society to lose, rarely
philanders unless she has fallen in
love with man. She virtually never
does unless she has lost all affection
for her husband. The matter goes
far deeper with her than it does with
a man.
It is far worse for a wife to phi
lander than it is for a husband. be-
Evening star., 1939-06-06

ITS A REAL BARGAIN this new type tsa.
pot, with removable Bru-o-lator. Puts n end
to tea straining and assures perfectly brewed
tea every time. Turquoise green pot, Soup size
Sl,25 retail value. You can get one bv sending
only 75t and four tin tops from McC~mick
lea cans to: Mccormick Sales Co., Baltimore,
Md Mccormick Tea is like o other tea. 1t has
such different favor, so smooth. rich and mel
low. that many prefer it without sweetening Tor
with much less than usuaN. Ask your grocer for
Mccormick Tea or Tea Bags-in fayor-tight
orange metal cans.
Evening star., 1939-06-06
Construction of Garden Work Room Home Easily
Large or Small Space May
Be Converted Into Useful
And Efficient Quarters
Careful Planning Will Insure
"A Place for Everything and
Everything in Its Place
BY MARGARET NOVEL;.

garden woroom would be the most important the house
us these days
too late work it while
and full of with place
them
approximately by 10 feet
Evening star., 1939-06-06
Stunts, Puzzles and Games
May Be Used to Enliven
A 'ParlOr Date Evening
Resurrect Some Old Favorites
To Provide Amusement for
Times When Funds Are Low

clever mss who knows how to keep happily amused
on paror date has head
tnke nights
the CALL She'll be
And the boys won't forget her
Successful dates happen"
Evening star., 1939-09-01
Organized Reserves
0pen School in
Tactics, Technique
Conferences Scheduled
For First and Third
Fridays in Each Month

AS part of the annual Organized
Reserve training program, the local
Reserve headquarters today formally
opened a school in tactics and tech
nique for all captains and field off,
GERS in the Reserve arms and
branches in the District of Colum-
bia.
Conferences will be held on the
first and third Friday nights of each
month in the regular Reserve con-
ference room in the Munitions
Building under direction of 1t. Col.
Joseph L. Philips.
Army Extension School courses
will be the basis of instruction, the
school opening tonight with the sub
branches, on the organization of the
infantry division. Three periods of
two hours each will be devoted to
this subcourse. They will be fol-
lowed by two conferences on general
principles of combat and four on
combat orders and solutions of prob
lens, also based on a common sub
course.
The course, extending through a
period of three years, will close with
an exercise in the command of the
infantry division, similar to one con-
Quoted last winter by Col. Philips,
and with a general terrain exercise,
covering the simulated operations of
an infantry division in the vicinity
of Washington.
Local officers now are being en-
rolled for the annual extension
courses and the regular series of
monthly evening conferences for
officers of the various arms and
branches will begin during this
month.
Evening star., 1939-09-01
The entrance salary is $1,s6O an

The entrance salary is $1,S6O an
nually for both men and women, and
applications will be received by the
commission until September 10 from
States east of Colorado and Sep
tember 81 from Colorado and west
ward. Age limits are 25-45, and
there are certain educational and
| physical requirements.
A statement by Attorney General
Murphy said that the examination
! offers young men and women inter-
Evening star., 1939-09-01
Tests Are Announced
For CustodiaI Officer

With more than 400 appointments
In prospect when eligibility lists are
established, the Civil Service Com
mission today announced an exami-
nation for junior custodial officer in
the Federal prison system admins
tered by the Department of Justice
Evening star., 1939-09-01
Rubber Countries

Three regions of the world, all in
the tropical zone, produce CONNER
cial crude rubber. These are trop-
1cal South America including the
West Indies, tropical Africa includ-
ing Madagascar and the Indo-
Malay region including Ceylon.
Evening star., 1939-09-01
ested In social and penal problems

ested In social and penal problems
ar opportunity to make correctional
work a career in the prison service" !"
There are six Federal penal insti-
tutions under construction which
must be fully stated by next Spring,
and vacancies exist in the older
institutions also.
Examinations also are announced
for chief budget examiner at $500
and principal budget examiner at
| $500 for appointment in the budget
Evening star., 1939-09-01
Ross Wins Navy Contract

The Navy Department today an
nounced the award to the Ross En-
gineering Co., 1908 Fourteenth street
NV. of a contract for construction
foundations for a central Office and
drafting building at the Washington
Navy Yard. The amount of the
contract is $53,477. The work is to
be completed within 120 calendar
days.
Evening star., 1939-09-01
Service Orders
ARMY.

ahhI.
INFANTRY.
Sacramento. to Michigan National
Keeley. CAPT, Harold j, retired from Fort
Evans lst It. Roy T, ir., from 2ath
Infantry. Fort Bennins, to Quarter
master Corps.
rs FIELD ARTILLERY; ,
Stanford universits, t' 9th 9th Corps Area. a0
/ Coverdale. Capt. Garrison B.. from 36th
Field ARTILLERY Fort Bragg to Cornell
Sweeney, End 1t Eugene J, from sth
Cavalry; Fort Bliss. to Quartermaster
Corps, Fort Wayne.
Reasoner, Col; Mathew A, retired from
/ 9Th Corps Area, Chicago.
AIR CORPS.
Wuest, Col. Jacob w. s.. from Niddletown
Air Depot to Langley Field.
NAVY.
BUREAU OF NAVIGATION.
Bertolet, 1t. q. g. Samuel, to U. .. 3.
MEDICAL CORPS.
Mcporell Capt. William N. from Bureau
rds medcs sad s. oesi th Nava ds
Murphy, Capt. John F., from 18th Naval
| District to continue treatment at Mare
Fish. Comdr Guy, from U. s. S. Astoria.
/ commander of cruisers. Scouting Force.
| Tierney, Comdr.. Francis E, from staff,
| commander OF cruisers. to Naval Air
/ Station, Pensacola.
MARINE CORPS.
! MiXson. 1t Col James A. from Shanghai
! to Department of Pacific.
! Cooper Capt. Harlan C., from Phila-
| delpha to Lowell Textile Institute.
Haas, LIST It. Ralph, from Naval Air Sta
! ton, Pensacola. to 1st Marine Aircraft
| Group, Quantico.
( Kinney, End 1t. John r, from Naval Air
Station: Pensacola, to Basic School.
Philadelphia.
Keene, ,nd 1t. James w, to Basic School,
Philadelphia.
Moore 1st 1t Thomas C., jr.. from 1st
Marine Brigade, Quantico, to Marine
Barracks, Paris Island.
Evening star., 1939-09-01

office which now is q part of the
executive Office.
Evening star., 1939-05-28
An intimate picture of the hospitality that
awaits the King and Queen of England first
foreign rulers to sleep at the White House
bv Marie NJ. MeloneY

care of the family and the official guests who
would have to be entertained. When we came
to the Lincoln study, President Hoover
stayed for long time looking around it.
Finally he walked over to the mantel and said
rather seriously, MANY years ago bought
lithograph of the signing of the Emancipa-
ton Proclamation 1t was signed in this room.
That has been my favorite picture and have
taken it around the world with me. am going
to hang it over this mantel' 1t stayed there
until he left the White House.
Mrs Hoover said, Il think, if we studied
that picture closely. we could find the furni-
ture that was in this room at the time - or
some of it.
Much of the furniture was found - some
in museums and some in the storehOuse, some
scattered around the White House. Mrs
Hoover also found most of the chairs used by
Lincolns cabinet When the Franklin ID.
Roosevelts moved in with their large family,
this room was again turned into bedroom
remember especially one visit to this room
in 1T RS" time. was still in school, but !
had begun to write feature articles. | was
curious to see what was stored in the attic Of
the White House. and when had the chance
for a little talk with the President in his
office, l suggested that there might be ma
tera for an article in the White House attic.
The President thought it was grand idea.
Leaving Office seekers and congressman wait
Evening star., 1939-05-28

special request to be allowed to see the
President. When he was taken up to the
Lincoln room, he was so shocked by the
change in the once vigorous President, whose
stroke had interfered with his speech and
whose greeting was hardly understandable,
that for the moment it nonplussed even that
resourceful prince. Finally, glancing at the
bed, he said, What remarkable bed, sir"
1t may be that the King equerry, Colonel
Sir Arthur Edward Erskine, who is the tallest
member of the Kings household, will be
given the Lincoln bed in which to stretch.
The room that may be occupied by the
Queen is identified with some of the most
precious traditions of the nation. 1t is now
considered the most important guest chamber
in the White House Abraham Lincoln used
it for his study and Cabinet room. Many OF
his darkest hours were spent in it. For short
time Theodore Roosevelt used it for his study.
He was the last to do 50 until Hoover became
President.
From time to time. after 'T. r. s" admins
tration the Lincoln study was pressed into
service as a bedroom but when Herbert
Hoover became President he restored it as
nearly as possible to its original state.
was among the small group who stayed
with the Hoovers the first night after the
Inauguration. Late that evening they made
tour of the second floor to plan comfortable
arrangements and arrangements to take