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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-04-01

If any youth or maiden should
ask my advice in picking out a
mate, I should unhesitatingly reply:
Son, or daughter, as the case may
be, choose one who is interesting.
Be blind to looks. Pass up the viz
tues. Curb your fancies. Don't
even listen to your heart throbs.
All of these are transitory. In
time beauty will fade. The fairest
face will lose its bloom and grow old
and wrinkled. The most willowy
figure will turn into a stringbean or
a featherbed. No husbands and
wives are so hard to live with as
the good ones who always act noble.
Our romantic fancies wear out be-
fore our wedding clothes do. And
our pulses inevitably slow down with
work and worry and age But the
thing that lasts IS our desire for
entertaining and amusing compan-
ionship. We never get fed up with
those who have always a new view
point to give us, funny story to
make us laugh, a bit of spicy gossip
to pique our interest. And that is
why it is so important that before
you commit yourself to the society
of a girl or boy for a lifetime that
you try to find out what sort of a
conversational range he or she pos
SesSes.
Don't be misled by the blather of
courtship into thinking that you
could listen to John or Mary for
ever. Any man is a spellbinder to
a girl as long as he tells her how
beautiful and wonderful and how
different from all other girls she
is AS long as girl chants hymn
of praise to a man he will lend his
ears and marvel at her fascinating
line.
But with marriage all the gooey
stuff is out. Husbands and wives
can't go on perpetually asking each
other: loose duckie' is 90? And
do you really, truly love me? And
would you commit suicide on my
grave if I should die?" And when
this happens only too many couples
find out that they are stricken
dumb. They have nothing to say
to each other.
1t is cynical truth that you do
not have to be Sherlock Holmes
to pick out the husbands and wives
in any public place. They are the
men and women who are sitting up
side by side without making any
effort to entertain each other, who
spend the time between the acts
of a play at the theater in reading
the program from cover to cover,
and who at restaurant are as
conversational as the clans they
devour.
1t is also true that the average
evening at home with the average
family is about as depressing a
function as one could go through.
If the husband is too tired to step
out, or his feet hurt him, he spends
the evening barricaded behind his
newspaper and only grunts when
he is spoken to. The wife reads a
novel or knits, while she reflects
that she never thought marriage
would be like this. And both beam
with JOY and welcome with ELUSIVE
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-04-01

without being greasy. Best OF all,
1t stays on for hours and hours, in
many cases coming through the
sandwich-eating ordeal with flying
colors. You can buy it any time you
like, of course, but if you want good
advice straight from headquarters,
you might drop into a local store to
see the firms representative who's
In town this week. She'll show you
the hpStick and any Of the other
products you want to see, and be
happy to do it, too.
And, finally, if the gentlemen in
the audience are not interested in
fleeing from the ladies this spring,
then let them look at a new line of
beauty products" for men. Re-
Gently launched in a local store,
there are a number of grooming
products destined to make the
stronger sex look trim and clean
and polished to the nth degree.
Says the originator, In England
grooming is not regarded as a fem
mine monopoly, nor should it be.
But not until now have American
men been sufficiently conscious of
their looks" It's believed that the
uniform is directly responsible for
making the American man take
more interest in his appearance be-
cause it focuses attention on his
face and physique.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-04-01

softens all the sharp angles of the
openings but conceals none of the
window light. The charming love
seat with a covering which matches
the draperies, thereby giving con-
tinuity to the whole, is comfortable
and conveniently placed. Slender
legged tables and chairs before the
window are too fragile to impede the
view but offer all the convenience OF
table and lamp for leisure hours.
A few hours study, sketch plan
to indicate the proper placing OF
furniture and an appreciative under
standing of the architectural char
acter of the room will bring sur
priSing results.
If your room background is of the
simple, early American pine-paneled
type, try to make your furniture as
informal as possible so that it will
belong" If you have mahogany
that is bit elegant, play it down"
with quaint old-faShioned calico
print upholstery and slipcovers. Use
simply framed prints rather than
gold-framed pictures on the walls
and replace gilt and crystal Access
series and lamps with others of pot
terry, pewter or tole. Sheer mar
quisette, ruft1ed curtains tied back
will give the cottage effect" and
ruffled valance of chintz or calico
will be in keeping with the rest of
the interior.
In the opposite direction, if you
have the simplest pine and early
American furniture, both antique
and reproduction, which you must
use in formal or modern interior,
it will be necessary to bridge the
gap" with wise choice of materials
and details so that the furniture and
interior will fuse harmoniouSly. The
points which modern and early
American have in common are
simple lines and color. You will be
able to use stark, brilliant color for
draperies and upholstery fabric, neat
lamps and small pieces of wood and
metal which are so simple in out
line that they will go we'll with early
American things. If your rooms
have the elegance of Sheraton or
Adam Brothers, you will have to
build up to them with lovely chintzes
to make the early American furni-
ture "feel at home" This can be
done cleverly without any loss of
face" to either furniture or interior.
This is the careful, thoughtful
blending of furnishing to back
ground which, combined with bal
ance and good composition, are the
only necessary ingredients of the
perfect room.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-04-01

Stuffing
Lemon juice may be mixed with
cream cheese that is used as a
stuffing for green peppers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-04-01
Collecting Sap Crop
From Maple Trees
Was Always Fun

There is nothing in the world so
beautiful as a sugar maple bush.
In summer there is a carpet of moss
under the huge trees and one of my
pleasantest memories is spending
long hours with book under the
cool shade of the sugar naples.
Sometimes I caught a ride on a
hay wagon on my way back to the
farmhouse where we spent the
summers. Just as lovely and more
exciting was the sleigh ride from
town in March, when the spring
sun started the sap flowing. Cold
nights and warm days are necessary
for a good maple sirup crop.
We rode on a fiat sledge through
the winding paths to the wooden
shack which served as a SugarhouSe
and warmed our frozen fingers over
the fire in the wood stove where
kettles of sap were boiling. Then
we would go to the woods to help
collect the sap from the buckets
which hung from the wooden spOuts
inserted in the trees. 1t was work
for winter evenings to white these
spouts the proper size. Today metal
SpoutS are used and if the sugar.
house is on a lower level than the
grove the sap may be piped to it.
Most Of the sap, however, is COL
lected by hand in buckets, as it has
been for centuries.
In a large modern sugarbush,
large evaporation is now used but
I am sure that the sirup which
comes to me from Western Penn
sylvania is still boiled in a huge
iron kettle which I remember. 1t
should still be possible to beg some
of the boiling strip to pour on a
snow bank for maple wax:
E. M B.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-04-01

1Cill4iAlC. IL "OilQCl4Q1 4O1 Viz
morale of everybody concerned.
Perfect for sentimental Easter
giving is an appealing package Of
fered by one Of our best-known
firms. They call it plantation
box" and have given it a convenient
hinged lid as well as a delightful
decorative theme of flowers and the
like. Inside there's a quaint little
hob-nailed bottle of toilet water and
box of busting powder, both coyly
nestled in pink cut paper. Mod
erately priced, it's among the most
appealing springtime packages and
as useful as it is pretty. -.
Also designed to say Happy Eas-
ter" to your favorite lady is little
package containing four flacons of
perfume in as many old-fashioned
fragrances. Included are the aromas
Of honeySuckle, petunia, white lilac
and mignonette and each little bottle
is securely capped so that you can
carry it right along in your new
spring purse if you're a "gad-
about"
Even if you don't care for the con-
tents-which seems so unlikely that
we can't even imagine it-you1l be
entranced with a new packaging
that one of our "old standbys" has
gotten up for spring Using a
fresh rain" motif, they've inclosed
floral bath oil, foaming bath oil and
busting powder or tale in the most
captivating containers of sparkling
turquoise and pale yellow with
frosty white raindrops splashing on
the gold posies Sound good?
The products are excellent and not
little luxurious and they come
close to being a perfect remem-
brance for Easter. 80.
Straying away from this gift-giv-
ing performance, we'd like to men
ton a hpstick that is causing some
thing close to a furry around
Washington these days. Although
it's not new, it seems that many
women are just discovering it, and
their enthusiasm certainly is con-
tagious. The colors are lovely and
the texture is just right-smooth
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-04-01
|WhyGrow
Old?
By Josephine Lowman

y " WV Ps''S @~O ~ f''"'
In the week I wrote for men not
long ago I didn't mention baldhead-
edness because I though It would
raise false hopes among my mascu-
line readers Now word comes that
badness may be avoidable in many
men If steps are taken in time.
One widely known house has
opened shops for men exclusively
and the results in hair health have
been most encouraging. Here are
some of the danger signals for men
along the road to badness. Extreme
dryneSS or oiliness, receding hair
line, dandruff and premature gray
ing.
At the mems shops, scalp mas
sage, hair brushing and application
of a special pomade (which can be
used as treatment and dresSing)
are included in the procedure. The
men are then taught how to care
for their hair at home.
Here are some of the things which
men shouldn't do If they wish to
keep their hair.
j. Don't shampoo your hair too
often. Use daily brushing and g
cleansing lotion.
2. Don't take your morning shower
minus protecting cap-it'S one of
the worst habits you can have-and
forerunner to badness. ;
3. Don't wear hats with tight hat
bands-it's suicidal to hair, as it in
terferes with the circulation over
the top of the head.
4. Don't expose your hair to the
hot sun or drying wind for long pc
RODS without protective covering.
5. Don't neglect your eight
hours are recommended for health.
Eat balanced meals with plenty of
fresh fruits, milk and leafy vege-
tables.
6. Don't drink too much.
7. Don't worry and stew too much.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-04-01

Dear Mrs. STREET.: Many thanks
for sending the layette list and now
I am going to trouble you again.
think I have all the necessary clothes
for my expected baby, but can you
advise me also as to what nursery
furniture I shall require? Thank
you again. Mrs. S. r.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-04-01
Enhance Architectural LONELINESS of Room True Indvdua
Use Fabric Design in Clever
Ways to Achieve Balance
And Good Composition
This Blending of Furnishings
And Background Is Most
Important Requirement
By Margaret N0sOeH

The perennial
hits all
that necessary
several
Most well rooms have certain amount of balance arch
eay
and the weight of design in fabric with fireplace
wall
balanced Planning
ceVely worked out in the Illustrated
Knoy pine walls for example have certain amount of pattern in
their natural grain This off best plain
coed the floor Bookcases with all their coor contents
will whole
Upholstery this
nataiped ticking both the comfortable
finished desk chair fits ideally into this background
long wall with windows the outside be handled
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-04-01

IItVtIIy 10 dIIIItNU 1IIIpOI UdIIOC' IIIC
lovely view must be framed in such
a way that the outside makes a pic
ture, but the room wall cannot be
broken up with "Spotty accent; it
must give the effect of barrier be-
tween you and the world, or you will
find that it will not invite rest and
repose and the furniture placed on
this wall will be practically unused.
This problem also is expertly treated
in the pictured room.
The whole wall has been draped
with brilliantly emphatic" fabric,
deep enough in color TO give weight
to the whole side of the room. II
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-04-01
Springtime Sees Renewed
Interest in Very Dainty
Feminine Cosmetics
Light Colognes and Perfumes
Among the Easter Offerings;
Men Get Break at Last
By Helen Voef

Better for the shelters boys repeating the bachelors
it's sprngme beginning
fiaous
frohy Of sophisticated
pungmg necklnes And this cngi
character begins to be all bachelors who'd like
status had better leave for unknown destination.
There's still another bit of evidence spring
again That the interest dainty"
ranging from fowscented coognes lighter pck
morning using
suddenly
sudden to buy perfumes with gardena
the
take interest in their sales reports,
particular,
interest spirit lifting" toiees
feminine members your family gift sort bestow such an
offering friend that matter yourself
Don't forget that throughout the fashion
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-04-01
Dorothy Dix Says 80
Companionship Is Greatest Asset
Of Happy Marriage Insurance

delight any stranger who will drop
in and start a conversation and
save them from each other.
The great tragedy of marriage is
boredom. for it is the inability of
husbands and wives to interest each
other and make their enforced COM
panionship pleasant and agreeable
that is at the bottom of nine-tenths
OF the domestic misery that ends
so often in divorce. 1t is boredom
that causes husbands and wives to
get on each others nerves until
they fight just to break the awful
monotony Of living with one with
whom they have nothing in COM
mon.
1t is boredom that makes wives
peevlSh and fretful and dissatisfied
and makes them nag the husbands
who can only give them money in
stead OF the society they crave. 1t
Is boredom, oftener than anything
else, that sends the husband, who
can no longer endure the dull
woman to whom he is married, out
in search of some other woman
who is bright and vivacious and
stimulating and has something more
interesting to talk about than the
baby's milk and the price of butch
ers' meat.
And so I would say to the boys
and girls who are thinking of COM
hitting matrimony: Before you pick
out a husband or a wife find out
whether he or she can entertain
and amuse you by talking about
matters of current interest. Is he
or she the kind of a conversational
ist you will be willing to listen to for
the next 80 or 40 years? 1t is the
most vital decision you will ever
be called upon to make, and if you
begin to yawn when he or she gets
off the topic of you, watch your
step and don't let it lead you to
the altar.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-04-01
Bv Barbara Bell

ID = DUT OUT q DtIE
All summer long you'll wear this
picturesque frock rejoicing in the
graceful, young silhouette it gives
you and the dramatic way it en-
hances your femininity! In this
quaint design is all the colorful
gayety of the gypsy costume pro-
viding you with the most drastic
change possible from regulation uni
form costumes and drab working
clothes.
Barbara Bell pattern No. 1898 is
designed for sizes II, IS, Is, II and
10. Corresponding bust measure
ments 20, 81, 80, IS and 81. Size
13 (3D short sleeve blouse requires
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-04-01
A Cone-on

To encourage youngsters to eat
all their soup, try topping the bowls
with toast cut in animal shapes. Cut
the bread with cooky cutters, toast
it, butter and then slip on top the
soup just as served.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-04-01

IL yards 35-inch material (plus Y
yard eyelet embroidery if yoke Of
this is desired and 31a yards
machine-made ruff1ing. Skirt, 25s
yards, 9 yards velvet ribbon. Girdle
IA yard 36-inch velvet.
The Fashion Book is our complete
review of pattern styles. Send Is
cents for your copy today, to study
at home at your leisure. 1t is help
full for all home dreSSmakers!
Evening star., 1942-11-26

Cards so beautifully done
enough for framing. Color
full winter and Christmas
scenes, with appropriate SEN
timents. With envelopes.
Evening star., 1942-11-26
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

Choice Of styles in richly designed
leather Space for bills, license.
etc. Fine for men in the service
or at home.
Evening star., 1942-11-26
SWIvEL-HEAD
FLASHLIGHTS

Head turns like anti-air-
craft searchlight. Pro-
jects powerful light for
ward or at any angle.
Unbreakable plastic lens.
Extra feature: Usa BILE
fuse and bulb tester.
Evening star., 1942-11-26

PEGGY SAGE NORFOLK SET.
Superb manicure kit of genuine
saddle leather! Outfitted with
a complete line Of splendid
Peggy Sage manicure items.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-12-29
Radio Service
For New Year

For two million McthodiStS in min,
he uShvicd III by Il program OF
lymnS singing. prayer and Il radio
address by Bishop Arthur J. Moore
Of Atlanta. Ga
Announcement of the iorihcomin.
Watch Night services, 10 be broad
faSi over approximately 100 stations
shortly before midnight, December
81. IS made by the REV. Di. Hubert
/. Quillian. president of La Grange
College QLa Grange, Ga.) and chair
man of the commission ON cvangc-
ism for the southeastern Jurisdiction
al the Meth dis, cnurcn.
In addition 10 Bishop Moorc'S talk.
the Watch Night program will in
cludc hymns. sung by the Emory
University quartet under the d!rrc-
ton of d. Maloda Dewey. and
prayer for The New Year by the Rev.
DIR. Manning Potts. pastor of the
Greene Memorial church OF Roa-
Iokc. Va.
DR.. Qu...an suggests that person.
desiring tu hear Bishop Mourc'S me,
sage tune III on Their local stations
a few minutes before midnight. Dec
rmbrr RI. when the program will he
GIN. Bishop NJ orc. who is lsp pyrsi-
dent of ihc board nf mission. and
church extension of The Mr;nld>.
church, is general superintendent, of
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-12-29
kiwanis Club Meets
On Thursday Nigh,

Tho kiwanis club will hold its
meeting for this week ut $50 O'Clock
Thursday night instead Of convcn-
ing 81 Friday night as is usual. II
was announced today by w. e. Gates.
secretary Of the club. a full attend
nncc IS desired at the meeting. Mr..
Gates said. as this will be the final
session Of the year.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-12-29
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1919

HiethodISt conferences in ,bo
Georgia and Florida Pro, ,'e states o.
t tr h',"n %a;! nc had official ADMIN T"na
' .'"aa.m Tor a number OF ycor" ' IL,
countries OF Europe nnd "S IN tn
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-12-29
PRODUCTION STopp,,r

n, rM ,,, ior urgent military nco,
an production OF steel r,,rn.' need
d'rrc'liircd air heating svst",,' Ion
DC nailed January /. the Wpp VIII
ADVISED The Henderson Ch'mh i" nag
Commerce. ''"'pcr oi
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-12-29
CAMERA FILM

Production of camera film for
amatwc use has been been cut BY
WpB 10 half Of the l9il output. the
Henderson Chamber Of Commerce
mas learned. Film for professional
Use has been cut 81 percent.
Evening star., 1942-02-18

Concert, Marine Band Symphony
Orchestra, Marine Barracks Audi
torium, Eighth and I streets Sc,
8:15 o'clock tonight.
DANCE.
AL States Club, Washington Ho-
tel, $50 o'clock tonight.
DINNERS.
Beta Theta Pi Alumni Associa-
ton, Cosmos Club, 6 O'Clock tonight.
National Association Of Cost Ac-
countants, Hamilton Hotel, $50
o'clock tonight.
Washington Credit Mems Associa-
ton, Hamilton Hotel, $50 O'Clock
tonight.
CARD PARTY-DANCE.
Kallipolis Grotto, Wardman Park
Hotel, $3.50 O'Clock tonight.
BREAKFAST.
Credit Women of Washington,
Willard Hotel, 7:45 am. tomorrow.
LUNCHEONS.
Kiwanis Club, Mayflower Hotel,
1890 pm. tomorrow.
Evening star., 1942-02-18
penetrable machine-gun implace.

peueIrdple mdCulue.Guu uupldCes
ments.
Where but few weeks ago rife
and artillery companies had little
cover, there now are deeply hidden
dugouts with frame walls, lights and
hunks.
Work is progressing night and day
on one new flying field of which no
details can be given, but at which
every advantage obviously is being
taken for the concealment of planes
and shops.
All manner of gunnery practice is
under way along the coast. At one
point, crews of 33-millimeter guns
were firing at a rock mile out, and
their aim was comfortably accurate.
Terrain Is Different.
In response to many questions re-
garding evidences of unusual mill
tary strategism, one officer COM
mented:
You cannot arrange for the de-
fense Of Hawaii from books. This
is a unique terrain and a different
war;"
Pointing to the development of
troops as to depth and to the evi-
dence Of fire power far back from
the coast, another officer said
"An invader would have to sue
ceed by the first blow or not at all.
AS long as we have air superiority
and heavy bombers, any one trying
'e in now would invite dis
aSter,"
Evening star., 1942-02-18
Sons of Union Veterans
Plon Program Tonight

Haley G. Douglass, grandson of
Frederick Douglass. will speak on
the life of his noted ancestor as the
william H. Carney Camp, No. 81,
Sons of Union Veterans Of the Civil
War, celebrates Lincoln and Dou-
glass night at 8 O'Clock tonight at
the Holy Name Guild Hall, 1927
Thirteenth street NV.
Frederick Douglass was the former
slave who gained freedom to fight
for the abolitionist cause. During
the Civil War he urged on Lincoln
the employment of colored troops
and the issuance of the Emancipa-
ton Proclamation. Later he aided
In the recruiting OF the 54th and 55th
Massachusetts, Regiments of colored
soldiers.
Mrs. Julia West Hamilton also will
be a guest speaker at the camps
Lincoln Douglass celebration. The
program will include patriotic solos
by Mrs. Clarissa johnson and a
rendition of Lincoln's Gettysburg
address by Past Comdr. Noah W.
Mcgowan. Camp Comdr. William A.
Baltimore will preside.
Evening star., 1942-02-18
\Z&;;:ii !; s.
LECTURES.

Hawaii" by Delegate Samuel w.
King, with motion picture, "Ha-
waii, u. s. A." sponsored by the
National Park Service, Depart
mental Auditorium, Constitution
avenue between Twelfth and Four
teenth streets NV, 8 o'clock to-
night.
Defense Agencies Set-up," by
Robert Horton, Jewish Community
Center, Sixteenth and @ streets
NV, $3.50 o'clock tonight.
MUSIC.
Organ recital, by D. Sterling
Wheelwright, with George A. My
ers, tenor; Washington Chapel,
Church of Jesus Christ of the Lat
ter Day Saints, Sixteenth street and
Columbia road NV, 8 o'clock to-
night.
Organ recital, by Gene Stewart,
with David Manley, tenor; Waugh
Methodist Church, Third and A
streets NV, $3.50 o'clock tonight.
Evening star., 1942-02-18
Army Proudly Shows
Newsmen lis Latest
Safeguards on Oahu
Huge Flying Fields. More
Artillery Nests and Wire
EntoneIements Provided
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HONOLULU, Feb. 18.-The Army
permitted newsmen to see and judge
for themselves today the measures
taken to safeguard strategic points
of Oahu Island against the poten-
tial dangers of invasion.
While It is not possible to detail
what the officers unfolded, with
considerable pride, it can be said
there are huge new flying fields, far
more nests of artillery, many more
miles of heavier barbed-wire en-
tanglements and an increase in the
numbers of 3, and inch guns on
bluffs overlooking the sea.
Implacements Provided.
Huge eucalyptus logs have been
cut, trimmed and imbedded among
the sand dunes to form almost i'm