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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-28
DEAR ABBY
~ ABIGAIL VAN BUREN,
Sy ABIGAIL VAN sUREN

dentist. the doctor. the insure
ance man and the tan people
doesn't need ME 10 remind
him that the cost Of living
has zone up.
$50
DEAR ABBY: MY problem
is q young women who works
for my husband. She Is 26
years old and has already had
two husbands. She drives her
own car 10 work all right. but
my husband has 10 follow her
home In HIS car after work 10
be sure she gets home safely.
She invites him IN for q cup Of
tea Che has ulcers so ! don't
have 10 worry about him drink
ing anything else) afterwards.
Some times II Is 7:so before he
gets home for dinner. Do !
have 10 put up with this7
ch PATIENT WIFE.
You don't have TO. So why
do your
$50
DEAR ABBY: I came across
an old Japanese magazine and
it says that you should take
some salt (about one table
spoon) wet it q little and rub
IL where you want to reduce.
Some people might think 1t is
a joke, but my stomach was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-28

The high point Of last nights
IS eason-en ding concert at
American University came at
the very beginning Of the eve
ming with the performance Of
Robert Kurka's impressive
String Quartet No. 5, an Inn
pasSioned and darkly eloquent,
one movement work. =.
The occasion was made par
ticularly poignant because
Kurka's promising career as q
composer was snuffed out last
year when he died at the age
Of IS, Just as he was beginning
to make an impression in the
world Of music.
The Kurka Quartet, which
had been submitted to the Az
group in routine fashion for
possible performance, was ac-
cepted by Mr.. Steiner and his
colleagues and was scheduled
for the annual May concert,
some months ago. but by that
time, the composer was no
longer alive.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-28
NEWS OF MUSIC
Kurko Work Shines
In AU Concert

1t is too bad indeed that 81
excellent q talent had so short
q time to develop. The nth
Quartet shows Kurka as an
original creator. not especially
radical in idiom, but with
definite ideas Of his own and q
strong lyric bent.
After the Kurka, pianist
Evelyn Swarthout Joined the
ensemble with Donald Rad
ding sitting this one out) in q
sensitive reading Of the
Brahms c minor piano quart
ct. Miss Swarthout was In fine
fettle. and except for some
occasionally shaky information,
particularly in the andante,
the Messrs. Steiner, Parnas
and Kirshbaum played up to
the high standard she set.
The second half Of the pro-
gram began with Darius Nil
haud's witty and brief String
Quartet No. 8, q work dating
from 1922. This concisely con-
structed piece offered more II
the way Of dissonance and
modern" sound, by the way,
than that Of Kurka, who was
at one time Milhaud's pupil.
The concert ended with the
Dvorak American" Quartet,
familiar to virtually every
chamber music fancier and be-
loved for its relaxed melli-
fiuouSness.
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FAMOUS FABLES

HEREDITY: Steel Magnate

HEREDITY: Steel Magnate
John W. Bet-a-Million) Gates
was sorely disappointed in his
son. who possessed neither the
drive nor the daring Of his
successful father.
A friend once chided Gates
for refusing to permit his or
spring to shoulder RESPONSE
bility.
Hes your son, after al"
said the friend. Give him q
chance and he'll show his
mettle. Heredity will tel, you
know"
IT know" said Gates, '"but
unfortunately, he inherited his
business instinct from his
mother"
READING: Scientist Charles
Darwin was q sickly man. whose
body was racked with aches and
pains.
Even q sedentary pastime
like reading was, for him, q
trying ordeal. His feet had to
repose at just the proper height.
his body had to recline at ex-
actly the correct angle, the
pillows had to be propped with
scientific precision.
But even after this perfect
balance had been achieved, an
overweight book could upset 1t
all, and bring a groan to his
lips. And his reading consisted
mainly Of heavy scientific
tones.
Darwin's remedy for this was
to tear the books into sections
and read q section at q time.
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dress and behavior. But If she
wants to avoid too much lone
illness and depression. she must
make an active effort to 1ind
friends Of either or both sexes
who share her inclinations.
Most women In Cora's situa-
ton comfort themselves with
the company Of children and
grandchildren. It is easy to
slip into this as an almost
exclusive preoccupation be-
cause it is q repetition. al
though often an unsatisfactory
one, Of their earlier lives.
We believe that q healthy
woman in her SOS can and
should enjoy an adventurous
new youth BY exploring the
world outside the home. In
most communities today wom-
en- win finds schools and relig-
ious and civic organizations
that offer courses, lectures and
opportunities for volunteer
work galore.
We have q notion that the
women who finds happiness
and friends in an active world
has at least as good . chance
Of making q second marriage rs
the woman who makes hus-
handwriting her only occu-
patton.
Copyright, 1858. General Features Corr.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-28

DEAR ABBY: Ihad q coffee
table IN my house and my sis
ter-in-law admired II and adj
mired Il and admired II. I
finally took the hint and gave II
10 her. Then she turned around
and SOLD II 10 her sister. I
don't care about the few dollars.
but I think this was q cheap
trick. ] want 10 buy Il back
from her sister. but my husband
says 10 forget the whole thing.
Should ~
BOILING OVER.
Your sister-ln-law used en-
tremely poor Judgment. II /
were you l would forget II
and charge Il 10 experience.
49,
DEAR ABBY: The man who
thinks he gives his teen-age son
an allowance that Is more than
plenty" sounds Just like my
father. Some fellows forget that
times have changed since they
were teen-agers. II q boy wants
to take q girl 10 the movie and
buy her q hamburger and n
malt afterwards. he can't do 1t
on 80 cents like his old man did.
win you please remind MY
father and the fathers Of other
teen-age boys that the cost Of
living has gone up.
LIVING MODERN.
The father who Is paying
the grocer, the butcher, the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-28

coming out for a long time and
now II Is getting smaller.
X. +. J,
1 don't see how this could
possibly work. Unless, Of
course. you rub the salt on
your stomach INSTEAD Of
eating desserts.
80
DEAR ABBY: Ny husband
has had four children by his
first wife and three by me. He
Is a good man and was fully
divorced before ! met him. ]
raised his children and they
are as dear 10 me as our own.
The problem is that I get along
fine with his ex-wife. She
comes here and we have meals
together and visit like old
friends. Ny neighbors say !
am completely insane for al
lowing her In my home. They
said II I were normal / would
call her names and pitch her
out my front door. Are they
crazy or am /? FRIENDLY
You are certainly normal In
my book. There should be
more people like you and
fewer like your neighbors.
For a personal reply, iDrite
to ABBY In care OF the EUe-
ming Star. IHcIose a self
addressed, stamped envelope.
Distributed By McNaughton
6yndleates, Incl
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Low Blood Pressure

Dear DIR. SteincrOhn: I
have just been told that I
have low blood pressure. Is
il anything to worry about?
Do / need to take tonlcs and
other treatment for II? I feel
perfectly fine. IL was dis
covered during an Insurance.
examination. The doctor said
that although It was low, Il
was not bad enough to pre-
vent me from passing the
physical for the policy. X. r.
s.
Low blood pressure itself 10
not q disease. Some Of the
healthiest people I have known
have had systolic pressures no
higher than 30 or 100 for most
Of their long lifetimes.
I suggest that you forget
your blood pressure. Go along
without tones or shots and be
thankful that it is on the low
side rather than high. When
you have your yearly physical
checkup, the doctor win eval-
uate your blood pressure In re-
lation to other examinations he
may make. My guess is that
he viii also tell you low blood
pressure is q harmless DOGGY
man.
Released by the Bel syndieats. Inc.
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g...kl.a.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-28
NEWS or MUSIC
BY IRVING LOwENs
Contributing Critic

The American University Quar-
g. 1 2iS s s:isSs F RSnsla y E5s
Morris Klrshbaum, eellol. Assisting
artist: Evelyn swaFthout, piano.
n clendensn Hall, ProErsm; String
Piano Quartet in c minor. OPUS
So. Brahms: string Quartet No. 9.
Milhaud: String Quartet No. 9 In
r, Opus 06, DVorRk.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-28

ila month Of guessing when.
Ginny, for example, was ex-
Ipected August is, 1887, and
was born July 10. We had the
right year.
"Ginny, the older sister. has
been Gayle's tower Of strength.
The two leap to compliment
each other, each saying in
unison: She's so good. I don't
know what I'd have done with
out her.
Could I write q book They
have always love deach other.
Mrs. Reynolds, but they have
fought through some Of the
best years Of my life. Ginny's
attitude was that Of the cool
disdainful older sister; Gayle's
was that Of the poor prosecuted
everybody -trying-to-boss-me
child. Suddenly, for some rea-
son which does not escape me,
they go around kissing each
other and doing little extra
services for each other and
Ginny has bought a house in
Lincroft, N. j., to be nearer
to Gayle.
Regretful Goodbye
Gayle, who has to be in the
act somewhere, has figured out
q way Of making the expected
infant q part of her life.
Whenever the subject is men,
toned, she says In a struggling,
ofhand way: I'm the god
mother" You can bet that,
by the time the christening is
due, Gayle will be starring in
the production and the baby
will be only a prop.
'"The time was drawing near
for them to leave. I said good
bye regretfully, for I would
like to have become better &C
quainted with these girls"
You are right, Mrs. Reynolds.
They are good kids. I wouldn't
trade the girls for the best
brace Of boys ever turned out.
There is more than the custo-
mary sickening paternal pride
in this. Ginny and Gayle are
the finest.
Elinor and I never had to
worry about them spiritually.
mentally or physically. They
were sound. At times, like all
good children, they drove us
out Of our minds, but that is
part Of the game.
They were tomboys to the
teeth. Elinor used to battle
them nightly in the kitchen
sink and she always shook her
head and said: Look at the
amount Of dirt. These are not
girls"
In time, Ginny grew to be
the most feminine of women.
Gayle is Just starting to make
the change now. They love the
old man end they spoil him
with the widest kisses. This is
the gentle sabotage.
/ kid about them, Mrs. Rey-
nolds. But that's only because
I'm afraid that my pride is
showing.
(copyright, 1858,
King Features Syndicate, Ine)
Friday: A reader comes TO coll.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-28

The Fomih Council consists Of q
Judge. a psYehiotrisi. three clergy
men, q newspaper editor. 9 vomsn's
editor ond two writer's. Eoeh article
Is q summary Of on setuol eoss
history. The council reports on
problems ihot hove been dealt with
BY responsible sssneies and eoun-
selon.
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again. She admits she Is very
lonely but refuses TO do any
thing TO attract men. She is
@ good-looking woman for her
age. but she dresses like a slob
and she doesn't go TO swank
places where q woman Of her
age can meet interesting men.
I think q woman owes it to
herself to provide q better life
for her late years, and I don't
see Cora doing anything.
Cora Al guess I'm Just
not the aggressive type. I can't
go after men the way Charlotte
tells me. She made me 20
with her to a resort hotel q few
years ago and I thought I'd die
when ] saw the way the women
act and dress, all trying to nab
a man. It's not for me.
Charlotte says / dress like q
slob because I like to wear
Stacks around the house and
plain sports clothes outside. ]
can't stand fussy things, and
II men won't like me as I am,
well, I don't want them. My
husband never objected to my
way Of dressing.
The truth is I would really
like to marry again, but I
guess I'm Just not willing to
do the kind Of things women
do to achieve that goal. Yet /
ind I'm often lonely and very
depressed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-28
THE COUNCILS VIEW

The widow who sets her
sights on q second marriage at
all costs must be prepared for
some very rough competition
in a world in which women In
their later years far outnumber
men.
Yet we do not believe It Is
necessary for q woman to be
lonely and unhappy or even
TO remain single If she shuns
this kind Of battle.
Women who have worked or
who have had strong personal
interests Of some sort in their
younger years find widowhood
much easier to take than
women who have depended ex-
clusively upon their husbands
and families for their happi-
ness.
Cora shows some Of this In
dependent spirit in her insist
ence upon her own style Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-28

The other day, small friend of ours asked
if we kept man in the mailbox on her corner to
take her daddy's money to Interstate. Pressed
for an explanation, she replied, when Daddy
puts his money in Interstate, be just drops it
in the letter box"
Observant child. And smart father He does his
saving the easy way saves by mail at Inter
state. The postman who's going that way anyhow
does his legwork while dad sits back and watches
the total in his passbook grow.
Grows fast, too. Interstate pays an extra Liberal
dividend . compounds it four times year and
savings received by the 10th earn dividends for the
entire month. Visit any Interstate Office and ask us
about starting your savings plan We'd like to put
a man in your mailbox too!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-28
jim BISHOP:
REPORTER


The story opens, Two nice
girls. Two utterly nice kids. The
Bishop girls"
The newspaper arrived in
this mornings mail. 1t is the
first interview with my daugh-
tiers and I was not present
when the questions were asked.
You can imagine the fine beads
Of perspiration on my forehead
as I began to read what my
two lovely idiots had to say.
I gulped and read. The re-
porter is Mrs. Marian Reynolds
and the paper is the Times
Herald of clean, N. Y. 81 knew, I"
she wrote, that Gayle was in
the graduating class of Sea
Bright Grammar Scholastic
has the class ring and is look
ing forward to commencement
In june"
True. True. But what Gayle
didn't tell you, Mrs. Reynolds,
is that her mother used to moan
that she had the only kid who
would be married out of the
eighth grade. When Gayle
came in with a D-plus on the
report card, we always tossed
a party in celebration. For a c,
we gave her an extra quarter in
spending money.
Doctor in the House?
GAS long as Gayle can re-
member, she has wanted to be
a doctor. Just a plain MD. too,
no specializing" Well, fine. It's
a relief to know that she
doesn't want to do something
like brain surgery. In the au-
tumn, Gayle will attend Star
of the Sea Academy in Long
Branch. With her enormous
love for school, which approx
mates my desire to preside over
an argument with six Mau
Maus in a telephone booth, we
shall see how much cutting up
she does in Star Of the Sea be-
fore she begins to do same in
surgery.
I'VE knew" Mrs. Reynolds
writes, that Ginny is Mrs.
Charles Frechette and that she
and her husband are expecting
their first baby the end of July.
What was nice news to this
reporter is that if the baby is
a boy he will be named James
Bishop Frechette."
My kids are born exaggera-
tors. The last I heard, the baby
was expected in August. 1t has
been moved up to July. When
I ask Ginny what month she
is in, she always adds one.
Should I try to correct her, she
says: THE period of CESSATION
is measured in four-week
months, dad"
The Year Was Right
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FAMILY COUNCIL
WidowToId
To Seek
Husband
THE PROBLEM

CHARLOTTE M. - Cora
should try 10 get married again.
CORA Aim not the ag-
gressive type.
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THE DETAILS

Charlotte M-My sister. a
woman In her mid-50's, was
widowed q few years ago. Her
children are all married and
she has been living In a small
apartmnt and supporting her
self.
I have been telling Cora she
really should do something
about getting herself married
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-28
FOUR CONVENIENT LOCATIONS

. 4031 S. Capitol Street
Atlantic Shopping Center
. S411 Connecticut Ave-, N. w.
Cleveland Park Shopping
Center
. S4SO Wisconsin Ave-, N. w.
Friendship Shopping Center
. Main Office, 18th Street and
New York Avenue, N. w.
The World Corner
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The Year Was Right

Maybe they've changed the
rules since her mother and I
were in the baby business.
Perhaps it is so scientific that
love and dreams are a minor
part Of it. When we had ours,
we did well to come within
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-28

Tomorrow: Girl, II, vents 10 have
dotss.
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TOmonsw; Rapid thswins fer
froStbits.
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1958-10-23

The other day the temporary
office of the special commission
planning next years celebration
of the 15Oth anniversary of Abra-
ham Lincoln's birthday sent COM
mission members copies of the
minutes of their last meeting.
The minutes recorded: discus
sions of offices for the commits
sion staff, possible commemora-
tive coins, the appointment OF
honorary commission members,
vote to increase its budget from
$4,000 to S750,0O0 and a verbal
tussle over staff appointees.
The minutes were classified, =
stamped confidential for
commissions members!
Why? aCurioas newsmen were
unable to find out.
Sen. John Sherman Cooper
chairman, said the commission
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1958-10-23

Not long ago a committee of
the United States Congress, prob
ably for the first time in history,
spent a day studying what's
wrong with Canadian-American
relations. This was an interesting
and historic event. So it looked
from this side of the border any,
way; and the evidence and COM
ments heard in Washington got
a lot of publicity here.
But the story attracted very
little notice from American edi-
tors.
The question that interests us
is this: Why (was) it so tremen-
dously, urgently, heart-rendingly
important to analyze why the
South Americans are mad at the
United States but not really i'm
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1958-10-23
Not Complimented

portant at all to know the situa-
ton in Canada?
Part of the reason, we are quite
sure, is that Americans do not
regard Canadians as foreigners.
They feel, no doubt quite sin
cerely, that they show friendli-
ness by accepting us as practical
ly fellow-citizens.
But we are not fellow citizens.
We are members Of a nation just
as distinct as Peru or Venezuela.
We have our own loyalties, ira
ditions, interests, ways of doing
business. When these are ignored
by Americans, or stuffed off with
palsy walsy protestations tn t
there can't possibly be any seri-
Gus trouble between US, we are
not complimented but irritated.
Financial Post (Toronto).
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1958-10-23

Recently when some Americans
were visiting school in Moscow
a Russian girl of high school age
arose and addressed the visitors
in English.
1t was rather broken English,
but it was ineligible. And one of
the American visitors, jenkins
Lloyd Jones of the Tulsa Tribune,
confessed to sadness that there
was not a public school in the
United States where single pupil
could welcome Russian visitors
in the Russian language.
While English is taught in most
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1958-10-23
Lincoln Confidential

had no authority to classify in
formation and didn't want any.
However, said Cooper, the Libra
ry of Congress had prepared the
minutes; maybe that office could
be helpful.
It couldn't The Library said
the national park service had
done the job. The park service
said, ask the commissions exec
utive assistant. The executive as
sistant said he hadn't even seen
the minutes.
The whole Wonderlandish dis
play of buck-passing puts in
proper silly perspective, the
Classify it," compulsion which
is as much a mark of identified
ton of a Washington bureaucrat
as is robins red breast or Napo-
Icons cooked hat and hand UNI
der coat.-Minneapolis Tribune.
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1958-10-23
Where America Is Last

of the leading schools of Russia
the Russian language is taught in
few public schools in the United
States. .ss,Tx .s.a
A few weeks ago a convoy OF
three Russian airplanes landed at
the capital city of one of the
countries of the southwestern Pa
cific. Every one of the 125 visiting
Russians was able to speak the
native language. They had been
trained in that language before
they undertook their mission. But
in the American embassy in that
Continued on Page q
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VIEWS FROM HERE AND THERE -
Pricing Ourselves Out

A reel of barbed wire. made in
Germany and shipped from Dus-
seldorf to New York, freighted
by rail to Cleveland, hauled from
the freight yards to the ware
house by truck, still costs the job
per $40 a ton less than an iden-
teal reel of wire sold by US.
Steel in Cleveland. -.
The big question is: Can we
continue to jack up wages and
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1958-10-23
Letters
Bluffton College
Button, Ohio

Dear P. D.:
| l became acquainted with your
paper last summer while working
in Mississippi and enjoyed it so
much that, on returning to school
here, / was able to convince the
library to buy subscription. It
is now being read and enjoyed
by great many students.
This summer l worked in Eu-
rope with a group of young Euro
peans about my age CID and
found that they were very inte-
rested and concerned about the
race problem in this country.
They wanted to know if the
South, or the whole country, felt
the same about segregation as did
Kasper, Faubus, and the rest of
the headline makers.
The general feeling was that
Americans treated the Negro like
the Nazis treated the Jews. I'm
fortunately, / couldn't deny the
fact that Negroes had been badly
mistreated and sometimes even
killed without much provocation.
But I could and did tell them that
in the South, as well as the North,
there were intelligent people who
felt that interrogation would come
and that the Negro would be
treated like any other citizen Of
the United States.
With my poor German about
all / could make out in the papers
were things like Little Rock"
and "Faubus", but / think I got
the general idea.
With my blond hair and my
normal blank look / was ap-
preached several times by G.I.'s
who thought l was German. /
usually did nothing to correct this
mistake just to see what they
would say. can honestly say that
there were many times ] was
ashamed to be an American. It's
too bad that we spend so much
money in foreign aid, fair ex-
hibits, goodwill tours, etc. only
to have countries overlook this
propaganda and see the mess in
our own back yard.
AS a young Dutch boy asked
me, "How can America try to
tell the rest of the world what to
do when they can't settle their
own problems?"
The answer seems to elude me
even now.
Sincerity,
Gerry Kleindinst