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Evening star., 1946-12-05
SUPPOSE.
BY Phoebe Cary.

BY Phoebe Cary.
Suppose, my little lady, r n..a
Could you make It whole hole Dy aye crsd9s Tsda
And wouldn't it be pieasanter
To treat it as a Joke,
AND Ss say gos soggs gGsr ssa head tHas a bpose
Suppose you're dressed for walking.
And the rain comes pouring DOWN.
viii it clear off any sooner
Because you scold and froWn9
And wouldn't 1t be nicer
For you to smile than pout.
And SO make sunshine in the house
/. When there is none without?
Suppose your task, my little man,
Is very hard to get.
Will it make it any easier
For you to SIT and fret?
And wouldn't it be wiser
Than waiting, like Ounce
To go to work in earnest
And learn the thing at once7
Suppose that some boys have horse.
And some coach and pair
Will 1t tire you less while waking
To say, "It isn't fair?
And wouldn't it be nobler
To keep your temper sweet
And in your heart be thankful
You can walk upon your feet?
And suppose the world don't please you.
Nor the way some people DO.
Do you think the. whole creation
viii be altered Just for you?
And isn't it. my boy or girl.
The wisest, bravest, plan,
Whatever comes or doesn't come,
To do the best you can?
THE LOST DOLL.
BY Charles Kingsley.
I once had a sweet little doll. dears.
The prettiest doll In the world;
Her cheeks are SO red and white, dears,
And her hair was 50 So charming ld,, & cnried'
As I, played on the heath one dag;
And i cried for her more than week,
But never could find where she lay.
I found my poor little doll, dears,
AS played on the heath one day;
Folks say she Is terribly changed, dears.
For her paint is all washed away,
And her arms trodden of by the cows,
Yet TO for old sake's sake, she is still, dears,
the prettiest doll in the world.
Reference: Volume I, Young Folks
Treasury "Childhood's Favorite and
Fairy Stories
POACHING EGGS.
From Mrs. S. F. S., Falls Church,
I know just the helpless feeling OF
the 'poached egg fisherman. And
had tried all the various compli-
Gated and often messy procedures
suggested plus some others,
with unpredictable results. Then !
read in a magazine, the name of
which I don't recall, an utterly sim
pie and foolproof method. So, for
the original inquiry and any others
who may have other things to do at
breakfast time besides poach eggs,
this is how poach eggs every morn
ing of the week: I have an electric
range, so heat control would vary
somewhat with gas. Using a sauce
pan whose bottom surface is large
enough to accommodate the number
of eggs to be cooked and whose
depth is sufficient to allow for at
least two inches of water above top
of eggs, bring water to full boil.
Turn off heat but leave saucepan on
unit. When only small bubbles cling
to pan and float gently up about
the time necessary to get eggs from
cooler. drop eggs one at time into
water. After white film forms on
yolk, set pan onto cool burner away
Evening star., 1946-12-05
TWO POEMS.

From Mrs. P. r. w., Washington J
For Mrs. B. I. W., here are the two
poems you wished to find, as ex-
pressed in a recent issue OF RCH.
Evening star., 1946-12-05

from any heat. In five minutes or so
the whites are firm but not tough.
generally have eggs set aside
when we start our fruit juice. When
we have finished cereal the eggs are
ready to serve. However, they will
not become too hard if left until the
water cools, which happened once in
an emergency. Il didn't know how
to warm without cooking too much,
so turned that batch into hard
cooked eggs. remove them from
water with large spoon or pancake
turneI.
There is one thing about poaching
eggs which has not hitherto been
mentioped and is really the founda-
ton of success no matter what
method is employed. Only strictly
fresh egg whites will set without
rags and ribbons" in the water. So
if you have picture book" success
you may be certain your eggs were
fresh. 1t is an infallible test!
Evening star., 1946-12-05
WAFFLE IRON?

From Mrs. v. r. B., Arlington.)
This is a delayed acknowledge
ment to Mrs. r. G. D., Of HyattS-
vile, who furnished me with the
words to the poem I wanted. Raid
ing the Treasury" was certainly
pleased to have the words and have
added the poem to my collection.
Now, 7 have problem with which
some good and wise reader may be
able to assist me.
/ need q good formula for clean
ing my waffle iron, I have tried sew
eral unsuccessful ways and have de-
cided there must be a right way of
which I am ignorant. Can any one
help me? tOf course, refer to the
inside of the waffle iron)
y
TWO REQUESTS
(From Mrs. G.. C. K, Alexandria, J
Can some one OF, the Readers of
the Clearing House tell me how to
find a small frame tadjustable) for
making Waffle Weave Mats?
Can some one give me the ad-
dress of the MaySville Co., makers
of crochet cotton and rug materialsP
RAINCOAT?
From Mrs. w. A. B. Washington J
Your readers have been SO very
helpful in solving such variety of
problems, that / wonder If any one
has anything to offer in solving
mine. I have a boys raincoat which
has stiffened up so much that the
child cannot wear it. Is there any,
thing that I can do to soften it?
r Il 4
CARE OF BOSTON TERRIER.
(From M. r. w., BetheSda.)
You had a recent inquiry from
Mrs. L. H., Takoma Park, in regard
to advice about the care of A.
year -old Boston terrier. The writer
said she did not know much about
caring for her dog nor what made
his eyes water. AS the owner of
five dogs, I would like to suggest
that Mrs. L. H. consult veterina-
rian in regard to the care Of her
dog, whose symptoms may indicate
physical disorders.
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ICE CREEPERS.
(From, Mrs. P. M. c., Arlington.)
Last year I purchased ice creepers
by mail from a nationally known
Evening star., 1946-12-05
NuMDAH RUG?

From. Mrs. T. A., Washington
have an Indian Numdah rug
that is made of very fuzzy fiber.
probably goat hairs. These hairs
constantly pull out Of the rug and
drift all over my house, making it
impossible to present a clean house
at any time, regardless Of how dill
gently I work at 1t. The simplest
solution would be to do away with
the rug; however, my floors are bad
ly scratched in addition to being
very cold in the winter, and hard
ly feel that can afford to buy an
other at this time. Perhaps some
of the readers may have had this
experience with the same or SINH
lar type of rugs and might be able
to suggest method or treatment
to the rug so that the hairs would
not be constantly coming out with
every step that is taken over it.
i i
LEAVING ELECTRIC
REFRIGERATOR.
From M. e. r., Potomac Electric
PoUer Coz
In reply to Mrs. N. G. concerning
the best method Of caring for an
electric refrigerator while away for
a period of month or more" it is
felt advisable to disconnect the box,
remove the ice trays, thoroughly
wash and dry the interior and leave
the door partially open. For shorter
periods Of time it Is not necessary to
disconnect the box. Merely remove
ice trays, set control at a warmer
than normal" position and leave
dnor closed
Evening star., 1946-12-05
the first floor OF the home is a
most logical place for this type of
equipment.
SILVERFISH?
LAMPSHADES?
LILIES OF THE VALLEY?

LILIES OF THE VALLEY?
From E. A., Takon1a Park. Md
What does one do to get rid OF
silverfish? What do they look like?
We captured two small dark gray
bugs with silver marks across their
backs. Could they be the CRITTERS"
who are making cuts in our cotton
clothes?
would like to use regular shades
on my table lamps instead Of the
"tilt-top" kind, but don't know where
to purchase the necessary "harps.' y
I would be very grateful to find out.
Do you set out lilies Of the valley
In the spring or in the fall? I
haven't been able to find any bulbs,
but am saving place in my flower
bed for them.
Evening star., 1946-12-05
ICE CREEPERS.

ICE CFIEEFEft0.
(From, Mrs. P. M. c., Arlington.)
Last year I purchased ice creepers
by mail from nationally known
Evening star., 1946-12-05

Here and There: Try cereal
topped with some of your own jellies
to brighten up the breakfast
menu, saves sugar, too. !.
Another change for the morning
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Detroit evening times., 1946-01-18
One Word Led to Another
BY ARTHUR BUGS BAER'

Boft1enecNnG Is Still Popular
HAVE been gandering the botenecks converting from
TO peace There the lefthanded guy who pushes
the revolving door against the grain
The big problem in wartime was, How we do away
with the botteneck without doing with the bottle
We solUed that by pouring it into teacups. But
Dhot you going to do Uith the pedcetine bottle
necker whose feet fill the noUe aisle like a fat hog
croUding its skin?
We are hep to the crossown bus bottlenecer holds
up the line like clothespole on Monday morning
CHE old curiosity shop she calls purse for
- dime that isn't there. Finally, she finds S5 bill and
the gives her look that would bleach Gargantua
Which doesn't feaze her any than -four bakers
grease in the kitchen pipes
Then there is the parking bottienecker who
couldn't steer a roWbodt into Chesapeake Bay Uhh-
out knocking the point of Cape HatteroS. He LDW
that old jaiIopy back and forth until he has
bumped the in front, bumped the car in back,
climbed the curb, and got pldsters his Oind
shield than a bargain OindoU
WAR peace nothing to him. If he
w vers, he will be ape again. But the turnip who
blocks traffic than sxaarm fire is the Don Juan who
gets the works the barbershop Saturday night When
you think he is through with hairchop he gets shave
shampoo henna musache cured nails mancured shoes
shned eyebrows tweezed reamed bobbd and II
different kinds of wrinkle tonic rubbed into his jowls He
tops it off with facial and ncture of sweet
stuff that could trade whs with tupentne camp and wn
Some people think that Wonien stall like
jar,med Ueather But the duke of botteneckers
is usually a buying a yard of railroad ticket and
back again, telling his Wife he tOH be home for
supper and permitting his business partner pick
up a bar check. That's When you stolling and
botttenecking of the finest texture and IS delicate
colors
The only difference between boenecking in war and in
peace of 1t usually about IL the
dozen and depends whom does what who If annoys
you is fault Anybody should be fast enough
escape from tidal wave of thick muciage
Copyright ie4e BY King Features
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-18
The Middle Course
Often Misleading

10 do with the law but is an act
OF personal fiat.
l heard a theologian talk 50
fluently on the middle course
that I asked him TO find a mid
die course between God and the
devil. He did not like my in
truSion in his private domain;
yet, the middle course is often
the very worst of all roads be-
cause IL leads nowhere and its
goal is only good intentions no
matter how bad the ultimate
results. Its name is nihilism.
nUR current labor troubles
" arise, as do our failures in
international relations, from the
curious and frightening inability
OF the Truman administration TO
formulate a policy.
They live by the boos and
applause OF so-called public
opinion.
Their fears are the 1916 and
194S elections, They dare not
take too bold a stand on any
thing
There'can be no middle course
between a free and a slave So
ciety Nobody can be half-free
and half-slave.
The Truman administration is
Casper Milquetoast trying 10
make peace between Maggie and
Jiggs.
Apparently. Mr.. Truman lacks
the understanding of the prob
lens he faces to assume leader
ship.
His last speech was a tragedy
in middle course sophistries-
II was followed by a flow of
strikes; il did not give direction
to government policy; il repre-
sented the collapse Of authority:
Mr.. Truman, TO save his ad-
ministration from collapse. must
now depend upon Congress for
action; IL is obvious that Con-
gress will not take instructions
from him.
copyriEht. ists. By King Features
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-18
Truman to Shine
Via TeIeVisiOn

ernment leased the premises
from them and turned il over
TO the MIA. The MIA was
very happy there. paying its
rent regularly and being in
every way a model tenant.
The other day, however. IL
received summary notice to get
out because the property had
been sold and the new owners
wished il for themselves. When
Mr.. Blandford ran screaming TO
the Library of Congress and
the Smithsonian TO ask why
they had sold the roof from
over his head they replied
curtly that it was because they
had gotten a good offer.
But the about-to-be- homeless
Mr.. Blandford became even
more anguished when he dis
covered the identity of the
heartless new owner who was
having him thrown out in the
dead of winter.
The new owner is Eric Johns
ton and his Motion Picture
Association of America!
DEPRESENTATIVE DEWEY
IL SHORT of Missouri. who
has suggested that the nation
ought TO have a be kind TO
your congressman week." re-
ports that his office is so clut-
tered with complaining mail
that he almost has 10 fight his
way in with a pitchfork.
Its no fun being In Congress
these days" he said. II have
done some research and dis
covered that the average con-
gressman nowadays receives
more mail I'm a single day than
Henry Clay or Daniel Webster
did In an sntire session"
Mr.. Short said II is going 70
be difficult TO make a decision
in the matter of unified army
navy command.
IL owe allegiance 10 both
branches of the service" he
said. 81 WAS named after both
an admiral and q general. My
full name Is Dewey Jackson
Short"
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-18
There Was Glamour
I'm Old TeIegraPhers

THERE was the long. rangy
L Texas telegrapher who was
handling my copy at the tragic
New London high school explo-
sion some years ago. Early one
morning. after two sleepless
nights. l was doing feature
story on how stunned the little
town was over the tragedy that
had touched nearly every home
/ gave him the first page 10
send. He read II very carefully
and then threw il hack That's
lousy" he said. You can do
better" So / wrote il again. and
the story won a journalistic
prize that year
I'll never forget the Scotch
telegrapher who handled my
copy at st. Andrews when 1
was covering the Walker Cup
golf matches. He could even get
a burr in a telegraphic message.
The match that decided the cup
finished at 4 in the afternoon
or thereabouts. / rushed from
the course 10 the pup tent the
British had thoughtfully pro-
vided for the use of the press,
10 fash the result by urgent
cable. My Scotsman WASH +.
there. but there was a note by
my typewriter which read:
Gone 10 tea, laddie. Be back
at 5, Alex" II was as read
this note that the all-time
frothing al the mouth record
was set by an American on st.
Andrews holy grounds.
There are hundreds of other
telegraphers who colored my
life. Maybe I'll write a book
about them. But will they
picket me while I'm writing il?
Diftrieuted by MeSSught Syndicate. Inc
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-18
LET'S EXPLORE
YOUR MIND
-Bv ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM, D. Sc
Answer to Question No. l

Answer to Question No. l
Yes. Women admit more
feelings of inferiority than men
and they are also judged by
their associates as having in
feriority complexes more often
than men. Psychologist Edna
F. Heidbreder, of Minnesota L.,
found both these facts true in
study of The Normal Inferi-
ority Complex" OF men and
women.
Answer To Question No. 2
2-Yes. a boy of ID writes
that at age II some girls hap
pened momentarily TO see him
taking a bath. The next day in
passing him they laughed at
him. These three years he has
lived in agony of self-conscious-
ness. Another self-conScious
youth finds putting his hands in
hiS-packets- -qtIiets him, but his
parents laugh at that and tell
him it makes him look awk-
ward He thinks everybody is
watching him. Self = conscious
people always think that, al
though 90 times out of 100 no
one even knows they are pres
ent.
3-Far from il. In n early
every large public school there
is at least one. sometimes two
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-18
.By WALTER WINCHELI

public yet, but it's banned from
all networks. The tag is: "All
She Does Is Shake Her MaracaS
All Night Long
Broadway hears that the
Snowman who discovered Ger
trude Lawrence, Jessie Math-
ews, B. Lille, Jack Buchanan,
ct al. is broke in Hwood.
DOLLI FRIEDLAND merges
~ with l.. Landers, director
of Enchanted Forest" in a few
months.
Danny Bankers lovely widow
will marry Carl LeSerman of
Glammerville's United Artists.
The Jerry Coopers martha
Goldthwaite) are rehearsing lul-
labies.
Las Vegas reporters were un-
happy about Hank Greenberg's
reluctance TO cooperate.
Ed Gardner's coast mansion
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-18
WASHINGTON
SCENE

.DRESIDENT TRUMAN has
Il become convinced there's no
political future in being an ex-
ecutive Plain Jane and has de-
cided to go heavily after
glamour.
The President was talked
Dco IL by a number Of his ad-
visers, most OF whom got their
ideas of how TO be a winning
personality from observing
the late FDR. As n result. n
special glamour studio is be-
Ing set up In the east wing Of
the White House right now.
These ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
advisers pointed out that Roose-
velt's greatest charm was his
mellifluous voice; that it had
qualities which bewitched the
voters rig h I into the polling
booth and made them pull down
the Roosevelt lever.
They told Mr.. Truman that
he suffers in comparison because
-of his fiat Missouri monotones.
They told him his voice lacks
utterly in appeal; that it is 10
clipped and colorless his words
sound forced and unconvinclng
like some one who had learned
a recitation by heart.
iTHEY added, however, tn a (
l. this definitely does not apply
when his listeners can see him
90, because he has such an in
ectious smile that the dreary
Qualities of his voice are for
gotten. He accompanies his
words with a boyfsh grin that
warns the spectator and makes
him want 10 take the President
o his political bosom.
They convinced Mr.. Truman
hat, with the advent OF popular
elevision, he will become the
greatest attraction on the air;
greater than Franklin Roosevelt
ever dreamed of being. which is
,aying the ultimate. They as
';ured him he will literally be-
',ome the voice with a smile and
a pushover for reelection.
The upshot Il that the most
% TO the minute television
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-18

.THE telegraphers' strike set
L me 10 thinking about the
elcgraphers / have known in
hearty 20 years of being a news
paper man, and the part they
have played in my career. Some
elegrapherS nearly ended my
.,areer as journalist. and some
,aVcd IL
I'll never forget the telegra-
)her who handled my copy
When the Hambletonian Cthe
kentucky Derby OF the trot-
erS and pacersl first was held
at Goshen, ". Y. He was well
N his seventies. had a beard
ike Moses. and, as I later
earned. had been in retirement
until the sudden rush of re-
DorterS from New York 10
'over the race. necessitated his
Deing pressed into action.
n WAS working for the United
l Press then. and. OF course, II
VAS part Of my job TO get the
winner in 10 New York as
quickly as either the Asso-
lated Press or International
News Service. My telegrapher
vas az my right elbow. tapping
his bug" every now and then
o see if his connection with
he New York office was clear.
was young and eager. and de-
ermined not 10 get beaten by
Alan Gould, then sports editor
III the A. p. or David j.
Walsh, who held the same job
With the |. ~. s.
The winner tore across the
70 If you can truthfully say
- a trotter or PAGER ever
|t0re."
II I remember rightfully
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-18
BROADWAY
RHYTHM

JUDITH ALLEN and II. Wynn,
" the ice" man, have been
married since Oct. 30. 1t hap
pened at New Brunswick, N. j.
His merger gift was a 600-karat
topaz.
Robert Tydus Hoffman III,
the heir to fifty million, is be-
trothed 10 Isabella Leonard of
the Blue Angel courtroom staff.
Add reconciliations: James
Farley and Eleanor Roosevelt.
His intimates are convinced Mr..
Farley will fight TO be governor
of New York and Mrs. Roose-
welt will agree 10 run for L. S.
senator.
The state dept and the chiefs
OF 80 lecture bureaus held a
quiet confab in Washington 10
inform the latter that the war
for peace is on!
The reason for the shakeup
in the secret service is a corker.
On a recent junket their rooms
were tapped. What was over
heard about the Boss cannot
be mentioned in a family news
paper.
THE Rusty Hatches (she was
Il deb Hope Chipman of the
Vanderbilt clam expect a little
social registrite.
kathy Murray (the lovely
sister of Mrs. Alf Vanderbil)
and Roulnn. Nelson are prac-
ticing to be Heartners.
Stirling Hayden, estranged
from Madeleine Carroll, and
Conover doll Kyle Macdonald
are casting the same shadow.
A campaign is on TO human
ize Wall Street via public rela-
tions.
EX-Gov. of Penn. Earle's new
bride was reported 10 be in
her 20s. His chums hear she
Is not YET is.
1t. Gen'l L. II. Brereton and
Mrs. Zena Groves wed soon.
The Henry Hathaways the
directed House on 92nd
StreetO, eStranged since last
fall. have patched it up.
Virginia Forbes, the night
club Inspector, is preparing
book about Broadway. The tag
is: The Straits of Malarkey."
WHY does the wife of a re-
w nowned medico insist on
playing IN weekly bridge tour
namentS al a famed bridge spot
when she was blackballed for
membership there?
A newsmag's education editor
is named Jane Smart.
a Candy Jones peppermint
confection will be on the coun-
terS by spring.
Carl kent's song leeds Mu-
sic Col isn't released TO the