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Evening star., 1940-01-11

Dear Miss Dix-Who, in your
opinion, is right In the following
discussion between a mother and
her daughter? Mother says: Even
though an engaged couple are earn
ing about the same wages 1t is the
mans responsibility to buy all Of
the furniture for their future home +"
Daughter says: This arrangement
was perfectly all right when girls
were not in business. or, if they
were, they received only a fraction
of the amount of their f1ance's
salary. But at present when men
and women are earning an equal
amount it doesn't seem fair for the
man to buy all the furniture and
the girl only provide the linens
and few inexpensive articles. She
thinks it would be fairer if they
both saved an equal amount each
week and when they had enough
to buy all the things they needed
for their home out of this savings
account. Daughter says also that
any money each may have saved
prior to their engagement should
be kept as his or her private ac-
count after marriage" Which of us
is right? CONSTANT READER.
Answer think you are. Your
mothers contention that the bride
groom should buy all of the furni-
ture for the new home rests on the
theory that the girl has nothing
to contribute to it but the mono
grammed towels and embroidered
dish towels in her hope chest. Also,
it assumes that the man will
shoulder all of the responsibility for
the support of the establishment.
That was the old way in which
a young couple set up housekeeping,
and maybe 1t was a good way for
the man to bring home the bacon
and the wife to stay in the kitchen
and fry it. But those ways have
gone with the wind, and there is no
use in trying to apply them to
modern conditions
Today when a girl earns just as
much money as her f1ance does it is
only fair and just that they should
go $3.50 on the expense Of going
to housekeeping.
Evening star., 1940-01-11

charge Is cents to clean and grease
a bicycle and 10 cents to fix a nat"
A 16-year-old Georgia girl built
up a business washing stockings and
underwear for her older girl friends
who worked.
In Kansas a 14-year-old boy sold
three small merchants with ada
cent stores the idea of sweeping
their sidewalks and washing their
windows regularly. The job pays
him So week.
Faced with the loss of their pony
because they couldn't afford to buy
feed for him, two sisters started giv-
ing pony rides and riding lessons.
They not only are able to feed the
pony now, but they have plenty Of
spending money.
Girls Have
Good Ideas
Dozens of girls earn money by tax
ing care of children when their
mothers wish to go out.
A 13-year-old miss in New York
State raises and sells pedigreed
cocker spaniel puppies.
Two Alabama girls financed va
cation trip to Washington by making
and selling old-fashioned tea cookies
every Saturday.
A Florida boy bought clothespins.
enameled them in fancy colors, and
resold them at a handsome profit.
A 12-year-old girl in South Dakota
makes as much as $235 per week,
making and selling hot pan holders.
In Massachusetts town which has
no mail delivery service, a 14-year-
old boy collects all the mail for his
neighbors at the post Office.
Other girls earned money by max
ing hats for dolls, tutoring younger
school children, giving music les
sons, taking children to Sunday
school, and filling in on a village
telephone switchboard. Boys have
acted as handy men, furnace tenders,
house boys, errand boys, gardeners,
lawn cutters, etc.
So, if you need money. get busy.
The youngsters have shown the way!
Evening star., 1940-01-11

little girls. You can make 1894-B
with crisp, detachable collar and
cuffs and buttons down the front.
Or you can make it collarless, with
lacings that end in a bow. Both
ways it's just as cute as it can be,
with a flaring skirt and puff sleeves,
and both ways it's extremely easy
to make! Really, you can create a
pretty complete everyday wardrobe
for your small daughter, using the
pattern both ways, in different ma
terials.
A bright little challis or wool crepe
dress like this will be nice to finish
the wintry season, as well as sew
eral in gingham, percale or calico
Barbara Bell pattern No. 1894-B
is designed for sizes 2, I, 6, 8 and
Evening star., 1940-01-11

thousands who are going to school,
and who manage somehow to earn
their spending money at the same
time.
The only answer to that one is
that certain young moderns seem
to have knack of landing on their
feet financially, no matter how diff
ficult conditions are: while others
never see an opportunity for earn
ing an honest dollar unless a job
is dropped right into their laps.
We hope you aren't in the latter
class, but if you are, we think we
have something for you today that
may help you snap out of 1t. A
friend of ours conducts a depart
ment called Money Makers" which
appears on the juvenile page Of
newspapers throughout the coun-
try. Boys and girls win prizes by
writing letters to this department,
telling in detail how they have
earned their own spending money.
Youngsters Show
Ingenuity.
Many of these letters show amaz-
ing ingenuity on the part Of
youngsters, some of whom are not
yet in their teens. We've gone over
a lot of this correspondence, and
we're going to pass on to you some
Of the best stunts which have
brought in spending money for
these younger boys and girls.
Surely if they can do it, you can
either by borrowing their ideas or
by studying the situation in your
own town or neighborhood and
figuring out some scheme of your
own. So here we go-the ways
and means by which ambitious
sprouts, aged 8 to IS, have been
earning money:
A fourth h-grader who lives on the
shore of lake in Iowa digs angle
worms and sells them to the pro-
prietor of a boathouse at cents a
dozen. He made $50 during his
vacation last summer. Two boys in
Florida use the same idea, but sell
their worms directly to fishermen at
Is cents pint. Sometimes they dig
gallon of worms-s2 worth-in
one hour!
A California girl set up an orange
juice stand in front of her home and
made SITS the first day she was
in business
Two Indiana boys collect old
boards from vacant lots, crates and
boxes from stores, small trees which
have been cut down where houses
are being built and any other scrap
wood they can get. They cut it into
convenient sizes and sell it for
kindling wood at 10 cents q wheel
barrow load.
Bird Houses and
Luncheon Sets.
Another Indiana boy builds bird
houses and sells them for from IS
cents to 81 each.
A Tennessee girl crochets lunch
con sets for neighbors and friends.
She gets 81 for a set, the thread for
which costs her IS cents.
Dozens of boys and girls in viii
lagos. small towns and suburban
areas are making money from flocks
of chickens. And a Virginia youth
has garden in which he raises old
fashioned kitchen herbs Many of
these herbs are now hard to get
and this young man hasn't been able
to supply the demand in his city.
Two brothers in a Philadelphia
suburb have bicycle repair shop
in a shed behind their home. They
Evening star., 1940-01-11
Driving Car
A Serious
Matter
Only Responsible
Boy Should Hold
This Privilege
BY ANGELO PATRI.

IL Is tne ambition OF every Amer
lean boy to drive a car Of his own.
When boys reach adolescence, and
their every tendency is to be all
man can be, the urge is mighty and
hard to subdue. Parents are caught
IN a difficulty never easy to over
come. The boy must learn to drive
That is the first step and easily
taken. Now he wants to 70 out on
his own. That is never easy to de-
eide.
If the boy were the only one driv-
ing car on the road there would be
no question. Unfortunately he
would be one of hundreds and care
full driving must always include
watching every other driver in sight.
Even then, accidents happen.
Those accidents worry parents
when the boys begin driving cars
People are hurt, often terribly hurt.
Some are killed outright. far too
many for our comfort. Damage suits
come thick and fast in the wake of
an accident, endangering the eco
nomic structure of the home itself.
Parents are never at peace when
their children are out in cars at
night.
Then there is the matter of girls
and boys going places at night.
There is such casual notion about
sex association these days among
certain young people. many of them
of high school age, that fathers and
mothers cannot help dreading these
long rides to secluded roads, stops
at roadhouses, dances and drinks to
add Joy to the occasion. These are
the conditions of today. Like them
or not we must meet them. And we
must train the boys and girls to
meet them in healthy fashion.
It seems to me that the main
question to be decided is the respon-
sibility of the boy and girl under
consideration. Some adolescents are
mentally mature and spiritually
strong enough to take care Of them
selves under almost any circum-
stances. Others are childish, un-
stable, irresponsible under all cir
cunstances. It Is this matter Of
maturity that should decide the
use Of the car. Those of proven re-
sponsibility can safely be trusted
with it; those of proven instability
cannot have 1t, though they be
brothers.
Owning a car brings another set
of problems. Boys delight In buying
a secondhand car, polishing 1t up,
tinkering with 1t, and using 1t as
their very own. 1t gives them feel
ing Of power and Importance second
to no other experience Of their age.
How practical, how safe is this own
ership?
If the boy is a responsible sort
he drives car and he can drive his
own. Then comes the question of
costs. The boy cannot earn much
money. Some Of what he earns
should be saved for necessities, edu-
cation, and the like. A car would
eat it all, and more. Extras fall on
the family, and any accident is
charged to the parents. Under such
conditions 1t seems impractical to
let boy take his savings out Of the
bank and buy car that must in the
end be an added expense to the fam
lily.
It would seem better that owner
ship of a car be deferred until the
young man is no longer dependent
upon his family for financial sup
port, no longer in need Of the sup
port of home and family. Mortgag-
ing his future and straining the
family finances so that he may own
and drive his own car Is not good
sense however you look at 1t.
Evening star., 1940-01-11

lday season were not quite UP to
par. This, I have learned, was be-
cause OF frost last spring and a dry
summer. Normally, the secondary
crop reaches us about the first part
OF March, with the pears" matur-
ing few thousand at a time. This
year, however, according to my in
formant, something spurred the av-
ocados to bigger and better efforts,
with the result that within the next
three or four weeks We should be
on the receiving end of one of the
biggest avocado crops seen in some
time. This will naturally lower the
price of the fruit, which should be
tops in quality. So-keep your eyes
open for the start of the avocado
rush!
SUNDAY DINNER MENU.
Shrimp-Corn ChoWder
CroutonS Ripe Olipes
Roast Loin OF Pork
AppleSauce
CduHfoUer Buttered Beets
Pufed Potatoes Hot Biscuits
Endire- -WdtercreSs Salad
Strawberry Shortcake
Coffee
SHRIMP-CORNC CHOWDER.
Buy the canned corn chowder and
season it well with salt, pepper and
a little worcestershire sauce. While
the soup is heating, drop into it one
half cup whole cooked shrimps to
one can soup. Let soup and shrimps
become very hot and serve immedi-
ately.
ROAST LOIN OF PORK.
Remember that the flavor of pork
lies in its fat, and it is important
not to cook the meat at such high
temperature that the fat cooks
away. Pork requires long, slow and
thorough cooking. Have the butcher
cut nice roast containing the
backbone and upper portion of the
ribs. The center section of the loin
is considered the most choice. The
roast is easily carved, especially
when the backbone is separated
from the ribs. Wipe the roast with
a cloth, and season it with salt and
pepper. Place fat side up in an open
roasting pan. Do not add water or
cover the pan. If you use a meat
thermometer, insert it so that the
bulb reaches the center of the
thickest muscle. Place in slow
oven 600 to $50 degrees) and roast
until the thermometer registers l80
degrees. Or roast 30 to IS minutes
to the pound until done. If you are
tired of applesauce. try a good
barbecue sauce with the pork.
PUFFED POTATOES.
Peel good firm potatoes. Slice
them thinly, but a little thicker
than is customary for potato chips.
Put them at once into warm fat
and let the fat come to a boil.
Shake the potatoes continually
while cooking. When they are
puffed up to a light brown they will
be done. Drain on brown paper and
serve Immediately.
Evening star., 1940-01-11


in types of meat is easily obtain
able. Local butchers are offering
practically everything of the pig
but its squeal for your delectation-
and you will probably supply that
last item yourself when you squeal
with joy over the way the family
finances are blooming at the end of
the month.
OF course, all joking aside, you
don't have to stick to pork to keep
your meat budget down. Prices
are really remarkably low in almost
all items, and lamb and beef are
especially inviting just now. Lamb
shoulders, beef pot roasts-all are
economical and tasty ways to feed
the family these wfntry days.
Eggs, as we mentioned the other
day, are also at ebb tide in cost
and should be made much of while
this condition lasts. Eking out the
menu with egg or cheese main
dishes occasionally will do wonders
towards offering variety and saving
cash. Fish, usually a real standby,
has been bit upset by the stormy
weather, but this should have ad-
justed itself by the end of the week,
and fish day" should show its nor
NAL activity.
Also hit bv the storms were the
shipments of Strawberries from
Florida. Rain and cold wrecked the
ripe fruit, and the first stragglers
Into local markets we're sorry speci-
mems indeed. Again this NAV be
corrected by the week end, and if
so, I advise you to invest in a box
OF these succulent berries-they are
not expensive, and there is some
thing mighty luxurious about hav-
ing strawberry shortcake in jan
uary! Hothouse rhubarb is still
good; there are fine Florida
oranges coming In steadily now.
Apples are plentiful and pears are
particularly fine.
MANY markets are "specialing"
potatoes this week end: it is a pity
that more people do not realize that
the so-called baking potatoes" are
equally good when cooked in other
ways-it just happens they are
especially fine for the baking proc
ess! Little new potatoes are reg
ulars," now, too. There is spinach
from Texas that is very good and
inexpensive; cucumberS and egg
plant from Florida in new ship
ments are better than they have
been recently. Enormous, fat Cali
fornia peas, retailing at summer
time prices, and slightly cheaper
ones from Florida are a welcome
sight. White squash is plentiful
and low priced, although there
seems to be slight scarcity of the
yellow squash, and acorn squash is
non-existent. String beans and
beets are offered at especially
tempting price and quality.
incidentally, for those of YOU who
consider avocados an essential part
of a dinner, here is good news. You
may remember that the shipments
of these choice fruits over the hol-
Evening star., 1940-01-11

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Evening star., 1940-01-11

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them get the transfer patterns in your hand
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Evening star., 1940-01-11
Result Seen in Low Prices
Placed on Cuts of Pork;
Beef and Lamb Down
Bad Weather Had Its Effect
On Some Produce Shipments
Earlier Part of the Week
BY BETSY CASWELL,
Woman's Editor.

You may be mighty tired of hearing recommend pork
lnebut
through! this told
than there pork cheap pent
ful-and profit
fact, so many
Evening star., 1940-01-11
BY BARBARA BELL.

Busy mothers will certainly re-
1oice to behold design that offers
two decidedly different fashions for
Evening star., 1940-01-11
Indicate Supply of Thirteen Million More Hogs Than
Ambitious Young Moderns
Have Found Many a Way
To Earn Spending Money
Initiative and the Ability to
Recognize an Opportunity
Are Major Requirements

What's financial condition? Is ocaed banko invariably
collapse orcefu
able when it's needed?
realize that these and that there
actually hundreds thousands this
neither going school working But strangely enough at the
Evening star., 1940-03-10
Loss Of Is Vessels
OF Six Countries
Reported in Week
England Is Chief Loser
With 6 TotoIing
1882 Tons
. By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
In the war at sea the past week
brought reports of the destruction
OF 16 ships Of six nations.
England was the chief loser with
8 vessels Of 16,8s9 tons, and 121
lives.
One British vessel, the 12,842-ton
tanker San Florentino, was lost and
then saved during the week. On
Wednesday, a London report quot
ing an Amsterdam shipping paper
said she had been torpedoed; high
British authority yesterday as
serted the ship was perfectly safe"
Neutral Holland lost four ships
and had more than a dozen at
tackled by planes. Germany lost
3 vessels Of 15,416 tons via the now
familier scuttling method. Sweden,
Italy and France each lost one ship.
Totals for the war to date rose
to at least 454 ships of l,547,O96
tons and 3,726 lives. More than
1875 other persons have been listed
as missing.
The week also brought the second
British air attack on German Ship
ping, planes bombing four Nazi
ships near Borkum and the Island
OF Sylt. The results were unknown.
Germany claimed her planes
damaged or sunk II ships during
air raids on the nights of March
81 and 7-8, but the allies did not
acknowledge corresponding losses.
Evening star., 1940-03-10
War Effects May Force Japan
To Abandon Parts of China
Fewer Men, High Taxes and Disrupted
Economy May Force Retrenchment
"A. P. Wirephoto.

getting far less coal, iron and cot
ton than they had hoped.
Despite Japanese control of all
major Chinese ports and many
highway outlets the Chinese still
are able to import gasoline, trucks,
explosives and airplane parts; and
to export wood oil. tin, tungsten,
tea and other products through
French Indo-C China, British Burma
and Russian Siberia.
Meanwhile, a new Chinese air
force is being assembled and trained
in the far interior. Artillery, tanks
and all materials needed for air.
plane construction still must be
imported, but numerous hinterland
arsenals are turning out rifles, am.
munition and usable machine guns
and grenades.
Chang Kai-shek, however, is
using little of his war material,
which is being accumulated in the
far interior for what he calls "the
final, decisive stage Of the war"
Evening star., 1940-03-10
Seutruin Launched
At Chester (Pu.) Yards
BY the Associated Press.

&9y tuc ASSOCldtcu EIcoSs
CHESTER, Pa; March 9.-The
seatrain Texas, a 14200-ton, $780,
900 vessel for carrying loaded rail-
road freight cars between the Ma
tions four seatrain-equipped ma
rine terminals, was launched today
at the Sun Shipbuilding and Dry
dock Co. yards on the Delaware
River here.
The Texas was built for Seatrain
Lines, Inc, which now operates five
such vessels. A sixth, the seatrain
New Jersey, is being built here and
will be launched April 6.
Sponsored by Mrs. William p
spofford of Pensacola, Fla, wife
of Seatrain Lines naval architect
the Texas will begin trial runs In
about . month preparatory to serv-
Ice between Texas City, Tex, and
Eew York.
Evening star., 1940-03-10
Dr.. Pike to Lecture
On Federal Procedure

DR.. James Albert Pike Of the
George Washington University Law
School faculty will give the first Of
series of three lectures on the
new Federal rules of procedure to-
morrow at 8:15 pm. in Stockton
Hall at the university. These lee
lures are being sponsored by the
law school at the request Of mem
bers OF the bar and will be attended
by members of the District Bar As
sociation, Federal Bar Association
and the Women's Bar Association, it
was stated.
The second lecture will be Thurs.
day and the third week from to-
morrow.
Evening star., 1940-03-10
Coal Supply Remains
Question for Italy

ROME. March 9.-The apparent
settlement of Italy's sharp dispute
with Great Britain over shipments
of German coal left still unanswered
tonight the important question of
what italy would do now to get
coal supplies.
There was no immediate official
reaction, on the British decision to
rekase 13 italian colliers but in
formed sources said the coal supply
question was certain to be discussed
by German Foreign Minister
Joachim Won Ribbentrop in confer
ences starting tomorrow with Pre-
mier Mussolini and Italian Foreign
Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano.
1t was said there was the pos
sibility Of a suggestion that Ger
many divert her coal shipments by
rail to Italy to solve the problem.
1t was said authoritatively that
further Italian action in the dispute
was likely to be influenced largely
by the nature of Britain's formal
reply to Italy's protest against the
seizure of her coal ships. The reply
was expected here tomorrow.
Evening star., 1940-03-10
Non-BeII;gerent Policy
Is Predicted for Italy

ROME. March 9 (R.-Continua-
ton of Italy's acknowledgement pol
icy was predicted tonight by sources
close to the government as diplo-
matte circles weighed the signifi-
canoe of the visit beginning tomor-
row Of German Foreign Minister
Joachim Won Ribbentrop.
The impression prevailed among
diplomats that Adolf Hitler's aide
would sound Premier Mussolini on
Italy's place within the Rome-Ber-
lin alliance after six months of war
and seek joint front in view of re-
ports that the allies might attempt
to send troops to Finland's aid
through Sweden.
Vatican Visit Mystifying.
These observers believed that Won
Rlbbentrop, scheduled to arrive at
10 a m. tomorrow, would confer with
Mussolini on all aspects of the in
ternational situation, including the
Finnish-Russian peace maneuvers,
but they were mystified by the an
nouncement that the Nazi envoy
would have a private audience with
Pope Plus XII Monday.
Diplomats assumed that the pom
tiff would not fail to confront Won
Ribbentrop with reports of mistreat-
ment and execution of Catholics In
German occupied Poland.
The Polish Ambassador to the
Holy See recently issued q pamphlet
charging that German authorities
had tried to "exterminate Catholic
Poles by mass executions. Germany
denied the charge.
German sources indicated. that
Won Ribbentrop probably would at
tempt to smooth out relations be-
tween Germany and the Vatican,
which have been strained by these
reports. One purpose of the visit
to the Pope, they said, might be
to discuss the Vatican's war relief
work in former Poland.
To Stay Till Monday Night.
Although Won Ribbentrop was
scheduled to remain mere only until
Monday night, informed quarters
said he might require longer to COM
plete his business.
Government sources described
Won Ribbentrop's visit as "a normal
contact and exchange of views OH
the treaty of alliance" between
Rome and Berlin. Most observers
doubted Ribbentrop would try to
enlist II Duce's aid in arranging
peace between Finland and Russia.
The Italian press, like that of
Germany, continues to accuse the
British and French Of seeking q
battle-ground in Northern Europe
inasmuch as the apparent impreg-
inability of the Maginot and Sieg-
fried lines has imposed q stalemate
on the western front.
Authoritative Italians said Won
Ribbentrop and Mussohni probably
would discuss United States Under
secretary of State Sumner Welles'
fact-finding tour of European CAPT.
tails, but there was nothing to con.
firm rumors that Mr.. Welles might
be asked to help in efforts to me-
diate the Russian-Finnish war.