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Evening star., 1945-05-16
Dorothy Dix Says
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Dear Miss Dix: 1t is lunch time
again and I am alone as usual
Although I work in an Office where
many nice girls are employed, I am
always alone because I feel that
am not wanted in their company.
When two or three of them are
talking together they just go silent
if join their group. Being pri-
vate secretary and clever at my work
and liking it very much, I even had
to insist on a transfer to another
Office because of another girl 1t
wasn't that she did anything to me.
but I just felt that she didn't like
me.
1 am quite serious and self
conscious and take things seriously.
How can I make myself popular and
have that pleasant look from every
one and have the girls cling to me?
HELEN.
Answer-The only way you can
ever make yourself one of the group
of girls with whom you work is for
you to climb down off your high
horse and put yourself on their level.
AS you are, you are SO filled with
self-conceit that you think yourself
superior to Mamie and Katie and
Sallie and all the rest of them, and
they naturally resent it. Nobody
likes to be patroniZed.
Evidently you account 1t unto
yourself for Righteousness that you
take yourself seriously You think
everything you do and say and
think is so important that every
one should stop, look and listen,
and when they don't, you read
something significant into it. That
makes you see insults and snubs
where they are not intended.
You will never be popular as long
as you have to be handled with
gloves. Other people are too busy
with their own affairs to take the
time and trouble to walk high, wide
and handsome around your little
Decllliari and yanjfies The peo-
Evening star., 1945-05-16

Contributions and requests
must be accompanied by the
sender's full name and address.
We will withhold both and use
only initials. Please address
mail to the Readers Clearing
House, Woman's Page, The
Evening Star, Washington 4.
Views expressed in the Clear
ing House are not necessarily
those of The Star, and as it is
obviously impossible for us to
test all recipes submitted, we
cannot assume responsibility for
them.
Betsy Cas,0eH.
Evening star., 1945-05-16

pie we like are the ones who are
easy to get along with and who ad-
just themselves to any situation.
What you lack is a sense of humor.
When we can see ourselves as hu-
man joke and can laugh things off
instead of making issues of them, we
belong to the gang. Not otherwise
Evening star., 1945-05-16
Bv Barbara Bell

Dp DUTOUTQ DeH
When the temperature scars, this
becoming house frock will keep you
cool and comfortable. Especially
nice for the larger woman.
Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1855 is
designed for sizes &c., 38, 40, AZ, A,
46, 48, so and So. Size 38 requires
AZ yards of 35-inch material; 21a.
yards lace to trim sleeves and
pocket.
For this pattern, send 20 cents, in
coins, your name, address, pattern
number and size wanted to Barbara
Bell, The Washington Star, P. o.
Box 80, Station G, New York 19,
NY.
Thirty-two pages of inspiration
that's what you'll find in the Spring
and Summer Fashion Book. Smart
styles for clever fingers. Send to-
day for your copyir10 cents.
Evening star., 1945-05-16
| WOMEN ST.
are you embarrassed BY
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feei- weak nervous hlghstrung
= DIT blue at times-due 70 the func-
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women-try this great medicine-Lydia
Pinkham Vegetable Compound TO
relieve such symptoms Pinkham s
Compound HELPS NATURE It's one OF
the best known medicines for this
purpose Follow label directions
Evening star., 1945-05-16
STICKY WAFFLE IRON.
QUERIES?

From Mrs. V. o. D., Takoma Park
have a prewar chrome breakfast
set. The legs on the table (the
hairpin style) and runners on chairs
are beginning to scratch the limo
leum. Can some one tell me what
to do?
Can somebody give me directions
for making a child's shoe bag, for
children clio, for about four pairs
of shoes? I have several pieces of
prewar print, suitable for just such
a purpose. to be made for childrens
birthday gifts.
Evening star., 1945-05-16
WOOL FOR AFGHANS?

"ooL To0 AF1I1ANos
| From Mrs. L. T., Washington
On May % it will be one year since
I made my first request for knitting
worSted to make afghans for the
boys at Walter Reed and I want to
thank every one for sending me
enough for IA afghans, size 65"x70".
II any one can send me more wool
I will continue to make them. Call
WO. 1902 for any information. Also
If Mrs. L. w. F. of Chevy Chase
will call me I can help her in her
request. Thank you again.
x = : x
HARDY VINE?
From Mrs. T. N. B.,
Chevy Chase, Md.)
Can some one tell me what to
plant in rock garden which is hard
dry clay soil. Some sort of hardy
vine which would run over the rocks
and hard soil Thanks.
POTATOES FOR BABY.
From Mrs. E. NJ. L.,
SilUer Spring. Md
For Mrs. L. S., Bethesda, Md, on
cohlIlS POIdGOSS 4Ot OoOlCS OIl wy
of the stove. Why not ask your
pediatrician if it is necessary to
bake the babys potato? My pedia-
trician's office nurse assured me that
the potato could be baked, boiled, or
mashed 1t is very easy to boil po-
tatoes in their jackets, preparing
enough potatoes for 48-hour
period. Anyway, when the baby can
have potatoes, rice and hominy grits
are also permitted. So don't light
the oven in your apartment every
day just for a potato!
have always wanted to thank the
reader Gnitials unknown who sent
in the recipe for Virginia Spoon
bread" After all the other spoon
bread recipes, this one is so simple
and produces super spoonbread.
sTORK SHOWER.
| mrs. r. L. c., Falls Church. Va)
Although a newcomer to The Star
and to Washington I've read your
page with interest since our news
boy left the first issue At last I
can contribute something in return
| for all the good suggestions your
readers offer
! To Mrs. B. F. K. Washington
I once gave Stork shower and
used as a novelty for the table some
paper napkins folded as diapers and
pinned with small safety pin. They
were folded the three e-cornered way
and pinned in the middle. . My
guests seemed to like them.
Another idea-lately I went to a
shower where the gifts were ar
ranged in clever way.
| Across the room where the guests
were gathered was strung strong
clothes line. To it were pinned
regular sized diapers in such a way
that the gifts could be suspended
Then as each guest arrived she in
serted her gift into one of the
diapers. Naturally all were assem-
bled before the guest of honor ar
rived. When the time came to open
the gifts the guest of honor took
down the diapers one by one and
laid aside both diapers and clothes
pins for her own future use. I
hope this suggestion can be used to
advantage.
DOG TRAINING.
| From Mrs. B. L. j., HydttsUille, Md.
I knew that the RICH was an
institution but I did not know 1t
Evening star., 1945-05-16

All persons to be hired in this
area must be referred by the local
United States Employment Service
Office. unless the specific adrer-
tiSement indicates otherwise.
Evening star., 1945-05-16
CAKE, FOR. 40?

From Mrs. M. w. P, Arlington.)
I would like very much to have
a recipe for a cake that would serve
40 people, so am writing to see If
any of your readers could help me
out. I am not particular what kind
of cake dough it is, just so 1 can
bake it in sheets and cut in squares.
Evening star., 1945-05-16
BURNED PANS:
COOKIE CRUMBS

(From Mrs. J. F. A., Chevy Chase J
haven't seen a reply to the re-
quest for removing burned grease
from pans without scraping bot
toms. Soaking overnight in lye So
luton is the surest way, but boiling
10 minutes or more in a strong So
luton of washing soda will usually
be sufficient.
There have been lots of answers
to what to do with stale sweet
cracker crumbs. My use of them
might appeal to some as it is SIM
pie and very good.
Crumble fine l cup vanilla wafer
or similar sweet cookie, add u cup
sugar. y teaspoon cinnamon and
sprinkle over applesauce in creased
pie plate. Bake, 375 degrees, about
20 minutes, until crumbs are brown.
X 4 X
STICKY WAFFLE IRON.
(From Mrs. A. Fl. S., Washington J
In regard to the query about the
waffle iron sticking, had that hap
pen to mine and I retreated it, but
it did not work, so I let it heat up
and justAput piece OF waxed paper
between the gridS. I did this twice
and now it works perfectly.
Evening star., 1945-05-16
PIE PROBLEM
POT POURRI?


From Mrs. B. w. NJ, Washington
In reply to L. L. H, Arlington
custard pie filling should be mixed
with scalded milk and not put in
pie shell until mixture is cool. Be
sure there are no cracks in pastry
Bake, 450 degrees, for 10 minutes
only. Then at 325 degrees until
custard is golden brown on top.
Her too hot oven causes pie to rise
in center.
Will some one please tell me how
to make pot pOurri? I have many
beautiful roses in my garden and
would like to save their fragrance
for winter. Thank you.
From Mrs. A. C. p. ColeSDille.)
If Mrs. l.. L. H, Arlington, will
take a table fork and stick the pie
crust after she puts it in the pan,
before she puts the filling in, it
will not rise in the middle. Just
stick it all over the bottom. My
soldier son who cooked in the Army
told me this and it worked for me.
[ r FOUG w ,. W. ~ W. - AILLNSLOftI
My experience has been, if there
is the tiniest crack in the crust
where the mix can seep through
this gets under the crust and cooks
and bubbles and naturally pushes
the crust up. This might be the
trouble. One other thing, roll crust
a little thicker. A custard pie needs
slow even heat, so although the 45C
for IL minutes is all right, 325 de-
grees for remaining time is best
instead of 400.
Why put meringue on custard
pie? The golden color of custard
pie with the f1ecks of nutmeg on
top is picture.
AFGHANS.
From S. G. G., Alexandria,
For Mrs. L. w. F., Chevy Chase
The size of the afghans is 48x65
inches, and they can be left at the
Red Cross Headquarters at Walter
Reed to be distributed to the SOL
diers who need them most. You
may put your name and address on
them as the boys like to write a
note of thanks
X X X
ARGYLE SWEATER.
from Mrs. E. M. c., SilUer Spring J
Mrs. L. G.. w, of Arlington, Va.
requested instructions for a girls
Evening star., 1945-05-16
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ARGYLE SWEATER

from Mrs. E. M. c., SilUer Spring.
Mrs. L. G. w, of Arlington, Va,
requested instructions for a girls
Argyle sweater size 36-38. I found
these in a copy of knitted Classics
by Botany" purchased in the art
department of a local department
Evening star., 1945-05-16
HARDY VINE?

From Mrs. T. N. B.,
Chevy Chase, Md.)
Can some one tell me what to
plant in rock garden which is hard
dry clay soil. Some sort of hardy
vine which would run over the rocks
and hard soil. Thanks.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-02-08
NEWS OUR FATHERS READ
FROM ISSUE OF JULY 27, 1916

the Michigan lakes.
Ross Bogart is attending the state
convention at Ohio mail carriers con-
vention at Springfield.
C. B. Kaufman has purchased the
Blork Cigar store at the north end of
the business section.
Andrew and Sidney Hauenstein and
S. p. Herr attended the dedication of
the Masonic Temple at Urbana.
Three cows were instantly killed
when lightning struck tree under
which they were standing at the Roy
Marshall home in Orange township.
The annual hunters reunion to be
held at. the Curt Moffit home has
been postponed due to the death of
Mr.. Moffit.
Milton Benroth, Lem Black, John
Johnson and son Melvin are Mr..
Welty's helpers on the big barn which
is being erected by Eli Diller on the
Ebay farm.
Bluffton's summer chautauqua will
open with a six day program next
Tuesday on the grade school grounds.
Clyde Bucher, son of Gid Bucher
was kicked above the eye by horse.
The stuccoing and plastering at the
Memo Bixel home on Grove street is
nearly finished.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. E. Hampson and
Mr.. and Mrs. d. C. Miller from Can
ada were guests at the w. B. Murray
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-02-08

Oats grow feet 9 inches on the
Chris Balmer farm west of town
proving his farm is within the dis
trict where the rainbow comes down.
Melvin Steiner and Edward Worth
ington two of Buttons young boys
who joined Co. G. of the National
Guard, returned home. Both were re-
jected for Steiner was under age and
Worthington failed to pass his phys
ical. "One more good breakfast at
home MAJ said young Steiner as he
showed his feet under pas table.
Hitching racks on Main Street
from Church street to the alley inter-
secting Main at the Thompson and
Barnes Grocery and Western Ohio Sta
tion are to be torn out, the council
said Monday night.
Albert Reichenbach had his purse
lifted while on the Cedar Point Ex-
cursion. The crook kept SIT in cash
contained in the pocketbook and then
mailed the empty purse to Albert
with note enclosed saying Thanks,
come again"
Francis Marshall, ]. A. Stoner,
Frank Huttinger and William Burden
left Sunday morning for Indian Riv,
er on a fishing and camping trip.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney Hauensteir
accompanied by Mr.. and Mrs. Ault OF
Ottawa motored to Norval, Michigan
where they are spending a week al
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-02-08
South American Movies May Make
Postwar Competition For Hollywood

war world.
While Argentina pioneered in the
field of motion picture production,
Mexico has been, of late, a close and
very successful follower. Long gear
ed to low-cost easy production
standard, with poor scripts, inexper-
fenced technicians, and a repetition
of the same actors, the Mexican film
industry has grown up in the last
few years and seems to be conciliat-
ing its enlargement with its artistic
value.
In Mexico, war has not disturbed
vitality the production of motion pic
lures but has rather stimulated it
by causing boom in the country
and therefore a demand for enter
tainment-while lowering the output
of American films.
Here good neighborliness has once
more been put into action, the Unit
ed States agreeing to help the Mex
lean motion picture industry by sup
plying it-within wartime limita-
tions, of course-with material. film
and instructors until it can go on
completely on its own.
The growth of the Latin American
film industry far from being dan
gerous to Hollywood's production is
beneficial to it. There is still a
large percentage of the Spanish
speaking population of the hemis-
phere not interested in going to the
movies simply because they do not
understand English and either can
not read or do not follow the often
insufficient explanatory subtitles.
A well-known American motion
picture company realizing the neces-
sity for 'talkies" in Spanish is
planning to produce a series of
films in South America with both
English and Spanish sound tracks.
American and Latin American
concerns are uniting in an effort to
make available motion pictures
which will be understandable to all.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-02-08
News Our Grandfathers Read
From Issue Of December 2, 1909

the home of David Riser in Pandora
over the week end.
Robert Wilson entertained a num-
Der of young ladies in honor of Miss
Evelyn Shondell of Ottawa, who is
visiting at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Luke Myers.
Mrs. Jack Parrish, Mrs. John Gar
linger, Mrs. Ed Long and Alfred
Landis visited Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
Clymer at Deshler over Thanksgiving.
Ray Hauenstein spent several days
with Wilbur Althaus at Lewisburg
last week.
Elgar O. Eaton of Michigan Uni
versity at Ann Arbor, spent several
days with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
w. w. Eaton.
Miss Fanny and Bertha Steiner are
visiting relatives in Wood county for
several days.
Daniel Reichenbach was quietly
married to Miss Cahill on Thanksgiv-
ing day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Matter re-
siding south of town had as their
Thanksgiving guests, Messrs Aldine,
Bert and Cal Amstutz, Amos Bucher,
Will and Gid Luginbuhl, Ed Reichen-
bach, and Amos Gerber, Misses Bes-
sic Burkholder, Fanny and Bertha
Steiner, Clara Gerber, Fanny and
Lydia Luginbuhl, Emma Keiner and
Dora Reichenbach.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-02-08

The Bluffton Progressive Assn
held its first meeting in the Bluffton
reading room, last Wednesday even
ing, with about 10 citizens present.
Nearly all the business firms were
represented. DR.. S. K. Mosiman was
chosen temporary president and B. F.
Biery temporary secretary. The
Assn was formed to formulate plans
for the organization of commercial
Assn for the general advancement
and improvement of the village.
A very unexpected surprise was
given Mrs. o. A. Ludwig at her home
on South Jackson street by a number
of friends and neighbors. The oc-
casion was her 47th birthday anni-
versary.
Miss Halle Thutt entertained a jol-
ly crowd of young people at the
country home of her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Amos Thutt. One of the prin-
cipal attractions of the entertainment
was funny paper read by Miss Ag-
nes Amstutz. Those present were
the Misses Halle Althaus, Alice San
tschi, Agnes Amstutz, Dorthea Bixel,
Lillian Gratz, Flora Gottshall, Hulda
Moser, Mildred Bixel and Betty Geig-
er of Pandora, and Messrs Clarence
Steiner, Walter and Harvey Gratz,
Homer Moser, Edmunk Hawk, Ray
mond Stauffer, Harry Hall, Hiram AL
thaus, and Monroe Geiger of Pandora.
Miss Louise Ruhl was a guest at
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-02-08

general, after his recovery he served
in the Valley of Mexico as COM
mander of brigade, only to be
wounded severely again at the
storming of Chapultepec.
Mustered out of the service on
July 20, l848, he was Immediately
appointed territorial governor of Or
egon, but resigned this office when
he was elected senator from Illinois
He served in the senate from 1849,
TO 1855, then moved to Minnesota.
When the state government was
organized there he was again sent
to the United States senate where
he remained until 1859. He next
moved to California, and at the out
break of the Civil war he was COM
missioned a brigadier general of
volunteers in August, 1861. At the
Battle of Kernstown, Shields was
wounded, receiving broken arm
from fragment of shell.
On March %, 1868, weakened by
the wounds which he had suffered
in two wars, Shields resigned from
the army. Going to California he
found that the lands granted to him
for his military services had been
lost by his trusted agent and he
bought farm near Carroilton, Mo.
Although he had decided to retire
from public life, he was soon back
into politics. In 1868 he was Demo
cratic candidate for congress, and
although his friends declared that he
had been elected, he was not seated
Six years later they elected him to
the legislatures and upon the expira-
ton of his term, the general, aged,
weakened and impoverished, sought
the humble position of door-keeper
of the United States senate.
But this was denied him and he
returned to Missouri. That state
promptly honored him by electing
him to the senate He held this posi-
ton until his death, which took place
on June l, 1879, at Ottumwa. Iowa.
One of the most famous incidents
in Shields career was his duel"
with Abraham Lincoln while he was
state auditor, Lincoln wrote an
anonymous letter to the Illinois State
Journal, ridiculing the financial pol
icies of Shields who challenged him
to duel. Lincoln accepted but chose
as weapons cavalry broadswords
and specified that the fighting be
done over plank set in the ground
with the duellists standing on op-
posite sides "at the distance of the
whole length of the sword and three
feet additional" They didn't fight!
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the Rivers of America" series,
published by Farrar and Rinehart,
sums it up more adequately. 1t
says: with a thoroughness charac-
teristic of his executive tempera-
ment, James E. Shields seems to
have done everything in triplicate.
He fought in three wars and repre-
sented three different states as Unit
ed States senator" No other Ameri-
can, it might be added, holds such
record.
Born in Dungannon, County Ty-
rome, Ireland, in 1910, Shields came
to this country at the age of l6. He
enlisted in the army, served in the
Seminole Indian war, then went to
Illinois, where he was elected to
the legislature in 1886, made state
auditor in 1889 and appointed judge
of the State Supreme court in l843.
Two years later he was appointed
commissioner of the general land
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-02-08

IHe DtUUtOH Ne3CS presents
another an the series of inter
esting and unusual features Of
South America. EDITOR
Not all ambassadors wear top hats
and carnations in their button-holes.
We know of one in his shirt sleeves
with trousers that have slipped down
to decidedly "low tide" limit, a
rag draped elegantly over one should
er and another knotted about his
neck.
This little man has done more for
"humorspheric solidarity than many
high-ranking official, and you may
have seen him if you like Mexican
movies. His name is Cantinfas and
he is Mexico's greatest film come
dian.
Still unknown to the vast majority
of movie-goers of the United States,
the rising popularity Of Latin Amer
lean films in this country and his
success as, an actor are sure omens
of his great popularity throughout
the Americas in the very near fu-
ture.
Together with Liberated Lamarque,
Arturo de Cordova, Mini Marshall
and several others, he is getting
ready to-so to speak-'.return the
call" paid to Latin America during
the last quarter of century by
motion pictures and motion picture
artists of the United States.
Most of the Latin American coun-
tries are, particularly in the upper
classes, as acutely movie conscious"
as the United States. Gossip, news,
pictures of American movie stars ap-
pear in magazines and papers and
are followed with the same fascin-
ated interest as in this country.
The motion picture industry has a
profound effect on the culture, the
life and the pocketbooks of the peo-
ple-who, by the way, believe firmly
that what they see ON the screen is
an exact portrayal of the American
way of life.
For well over a decade, however,
Argentina. Mexico and in a very
minor scale Cuba, have been trying
their hands at motion picture MAX
ing.
Argentina pioneered in the field
and was the first country south of
the border to have full-fedged mo-
ton picture industry, hence Buenos
Aires one time appellation of Holly
wood of Latin America.
Today the Argentine accent has
become the one which most Latin
American movie-goers are accustom-
ed to hear on the screen, an obstacle
that has to be overcome by other
movie-making countries.
The first Argentine talkie was
produced in 1888 and only six years
later that country was already put
ting out seventy-fve or more feature
films yearly.
Most productions were very much
below United States standards until
producers realized the Importance of
using their own backgrounds. their
own local flavor and of creating out
of their own lives.
When in 1942-43 number of
truly good pictures were turned out,
many of these,-"la Guerra Gaucha'
(the Gaucho War;, for instance
were the result of this new trend.
However, in Argentina itself, as
well as in most other Latin Ameri-
can countries, the public still prefers
American films. In Argentina eighty
per cent of those shown are Holly
wood productions and only ten pei
cent Argentine ones.
War has hampered Argentine
movie production greatly by causing
among other things, an acute short
age of American raw film. With an
excellent record behind it, the in.
dustry is confident, however, that a
brighter future awaits it in the post.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-02-08

The enormous size of modern
fighting aircraft is emphasized by a
computation that 453 gallons of pro-
tective coatings are required to in
sulate a single mighty Mars against
the salt air and salt water which
are prime causes of corrosion in
naval aircraft, which have to oper-
ate under exceptionally severe eli
matte conditions and often with long
intervals between suitable facilities
for refnishing. Coatings on such
aircraft have to be as durable as
the skill of expert paint, varnish
and lacquer chemists can make
them. They actually form part of the
armor of the navy's great sky fleets.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-02-08

home last week.
Mrs A. T. Worthington and baby
Eleanor are visiting friends in Col
umbus and Newark.
The Bluffton band has been making
tours to neighboring towns promoting
the ehautaqua to he held here.