Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING FEBRUARY 21 -- 1 ANNIE HURST- id 1 In regional Should Marriage Mark the End of a Woman’s Interest in Her Own Appearance? Thera sr hundred Ilk her out of graduating classes young crowds social sets The girl who had such a good head on her pretty as ‘ “ ' 4 ’ - W Polly’s Idea no two way about It r the frowsy but Lord what a old darling was making hlmput It into slave-drive- action That’s thetroubla living with a woman like Polly! Won’t give a fellow time to grdw old So filled with Ideas for the other fellow’s success that she keeps the household filled wkh curi osity for what new thrill each new day will yield The children rebel about it a lot and hurl unrespectful pillows at their mother as she lifts her eyes from over the coffee urn with that deadly e and - to — It Isn’t only what the family needs either Polly Is almost as concerned for the welfare of Mr Mifflin who has been I’ve-com- Permanently Unwaved clerking !n the postoffice longer than Is good for him and about her neighbor Mrs Wattles’ sciatica as she is In making It possible for Harold’s brother’s son to study law or for her own daughter Camilla to win literary honors In college It must be admitted that socially Polly isn't above carrying a mess of stockings over to her grocerV wife and sitting an entire morning over the joint occupation of darning to be sure on of the outcomes of this friendship was the grocer's final surrender to his son’s plea to be allowed to study sculpture Instead of stepping Into his father’s buiness but Polly Insists that Mrs Grocer reached this conclusion '‘almost’’ of her own free the more intimate of the old crowd darei to suggest ‘‘Darling sure as fate you’re tinkering with fate Harold with all hi ” grandness Is only human This throws a streak of scare Into Polly One must— one simply must pull oneself together Do the things that keep women young and alluring and perpetually Interesting to their men Great heavens I am a sight! Look at that hair — those nails —I simply must stop laundering Camilla’s French underwear for her— tomorrow I’m going to get me will The fact remains however that when Polly convenes with the old crowd It is painfully apparent that she has not "kept up” "You owe it to yourself” Ada on of of those foundations Ada was wearing the other day which made her figure so divlne--Aof a sudden though talking that night to Harold about the scheme to get their son Jeptha into the office of the most distinguished civil engineer in the country the comic aspect of saddling herself up in one of those foundations for Harold stixick her midships ss it were What could be funnier than strapping into one of those things for Harold who could never tell you what a woman wore or what was the color of her eyes Nevertheless —Ada was right on owed it to oneself But that was tha week tho entire Gross family went flat on It back cf measles and Lester Waller’s bankruptcy had to be averted and Camilla was begging so for a raccoon coat Just everything in the world that cost money avalanching down the very week she had planned to go in for all those de luxe repairs Including dripping Rink fingernails like Ada’s vermilion claws and a platinum blonding process if she could keep her face straight enough She didn’t get around to any of it of ’ course She is shoddier now five yearj later hats simply and really those bird-nes- t are not done any more She is five years shoddier now and the fingernails have remained broken from doing Cam- ilia’s French lingerie and from helping whoever needs her with everything from babies to housework and dishes She Is five years shoddier and five years grayer and five years more behind the times of her crowd but meanwhile within the crowd have taken place divorce and disillusionment and much in the way of heartbreak and breaking up of families Polly and Harold and Ada and all the old crowd still agree that she Is a "sight and something should be done about it and Polly still promises herself the r of that equivalent foundation She has not got around to it yet but meanwhile somehow Harold and the youngsters to say nothing of what the family calls her army of "outcasts" continue to think she is pretty grand on could be Jolly popular with the boys and then somehow marriage after1 other It is hard to be Interested in this plat- inum blonde business even though he perfectly agrees that Polly should take more pride In her appearance when there 1 so much else to think of in the old shebang of 1 household he calls home Polly is the very dickens for plan A man no more than thinks ho ha reached a place In life where he can ett back and reet on a laurel than along comes a wife insisting that what be seeds is new worlds to conquer and helps concoct for him that ripping idea 4 rm ninety-five-doll- ninety-five-doll- dowdy-lookin- tf i ll doesn’t get on "My dear" her old chum are apt to say twenty years later "no us my going to see Polly W simply haven’t Fannie Burst Our anything to say to each other interests are too different” Her old chums have gone on you see Women of the world European travelers modern mothers permanently waved with red fingernails snd subscriptions to morning musicals Polly with all her girlhood popularity and promise married and committed of settling down all her tha suicide-ac- t arstwhile prettiness gone for naught because after marriage she took down her back hair so to speak and let it remain there Simply ridiculous! Let herself go altogether Wonder she can hold a nlca fellow Ilka Harold Woman owes it to herself to keep herself attractive as long as possible Shame for her children mother Ilk to have a that Not as if she couldn’t afford anything she wants snd they say Harold just urges her to spend on herself She'll wake up some day with a Joltl Polly agrees It Is unpardonable the way her hair has gone streaky and on of these days she Is going to do something about it and dawn upon Harold in the role of one of those platinum blondes the papers are full Harold Is for it although he does not seem vastly Interested one way or ans parking which put him of the city's corps of right to the for architects - 1932 N She never did get around to that promised rejuvenation What with those others who needed help Even daughter’s "Mother why don’t petulant is without not you fix up?" love for despite her shoddi-s- L ‘ and the youngsters think she is k 4 ninety-five-dolla- pretty grand Min Hurst in the accompanying article answers a question which is of paramount im- port a net to women today King Features cate Inc) 1032 (Copyright Syndi- Little Stomachs First: Little Minds Second Nine Tenths of Crimes Committed Are Actuated by Fear Ull If there Is one simple and obvious fact that thes hard time hsv developed it is that the chief fear of human Is that they be-lo- won't get enough to eat It seems to me w X ought to end that a aa e' ' America is cont enc cerned and for alL What a wonder-- 1 V ful thing that would be—to take away humanity's CHIEF Then after fcarl w had all that fixed we would go for the next basio and see trouble Kathleen Norris what could be don about it whatever it was But not to have ont single person fat the nation afraid of hunger would mean that w atruck a new note In the progress of th world For foar Is of th nine tenth vary sxpcnslve crimes that are committed r actuated by fear and Heaven alone know how much other wretchedness — pitiful enxiety In human heart apprehensions of old age of destitution children woi ried parents overburdened is Just Simple fear sr a commonMoney worries place evtn the comparatively rich worry about money And that worry has hunger at Its very base ar always hay Not shelter— ther burn and cheap lodgings On family of nine that I know well is living in a one room shed that rent for $3 a month-e- nd they don’t have to pay that until they’re ready! Not clothing clothes last a long time ail dimity bureaus give way clothes Not even shoes for there are few baik doorways through which pair of old shoes can’t be passed two or three times year Hut food There's th rub W must have food twice a day and children must have It oftencr Th quantity and the quality of It can be reduced but Dot for long especially for bardwoik ing folk lather ami mothers look at their riia'l f unities anxiously They are hungry the children end how much oatmeal snd toast and mlLk end fruit ttu-- needl And "suppose sm-lug ha pened— " Jut mitqr years my brother snd I ' tear in late teens snd early twenties were cruelly concerned upon this on point We could keep the younger children housed but how the food prices scared And all the while a generous government was offering us schooling all sorts of schooling special schooling night schooling business schooling technical And the schoolSchooling for nothing ing cost three tlmei what the food would have don It is one of the ironies of poverty NORRIS By It KATHLEEN our free doesn't It Is not schooling pauperize us all mentally why should free food pauperize us physically? A sandwich Is very much less Important than a lesson yet who wouldn’t take thslesson without question and feel that he Jeopardized his dignity by taking the sandwich? And alnce the professor was kind enough to ask the question I’ll answer schools W don't use In schools much There they are magnificent buildings with gyms and pools recreation halls and auditoriums and we us them five hours a day for five days a week Food especially when the government buys It at less than wholesale prices is cheap Everything else is expensive But food service rent organization far :si X m 4 than th books in th Many children especially crowded cities and factory towns start into school entirely unfit for any real learning Some of them graduate from grammar school without having learned very much Some of them waste thetr time all the way through yawning Idling Indifferent uninterested Thou- sands of them In New York City alone never will rise above work There are special schools for them I had a long talk this year with woman who had taught in one of these schools for the deficient for seventeen years "Lots of them are chronic malnutrl- tlon cases” she said "and many of them have low vitality What can you expect when perhaps there are six or sqven of them living all winter long In two and three-rooapartments that are never really aired? They seize upon any stray food like wolves They aren’t interested in the greatest common di- seven-year-ol- Which one of us Isn't you don’t wsnt and can’t use and th little that would keep FEAR away Is that wealth and power offer the things denied "Is your Idea” a college professor wrote me sternly after an srtlcl on this subject years ago all America?” t "to pauper L My idea would be to have refectories tn every town and In every city district where eny man woman or child could go and have a free plain hot filling meal And If that be treason make th moat It t It Some of these eating places might be And when food is served Is cheep cafeteria fashion th overhead Is reduced enormously It would be cheaper to give a child two good hot filling meals a day than to put him Into s free kindergarten class And with sll due respect to education In most cases think the food would do him more good old age pensions s xcltlng meals In Simpson's and Clro’s and the little Roman restaurants near the Fora Not to know whence your next meal is coming or to be dissatisfied about your last meal la to be wretched And wretchedness breeds revolt and crime It costs the nation much more thsn meal would cost In th end We can't afford as a nation to feed all our people Millions of course would never have occasion to eat In the public dining rooms Just as more than a million children go to expensive private schools with free public ones Just as good around th comer so millions of persons would not eat free meals But from the parents of growing families who or doing th nation as great a service as soldi! do and getting no pay this would lift a tremendous burden Of course they would still havt supper snd breakfast at home occaBut th sionally or even customarily good hot heerty lunch would be Uncle Sam's sffslr and IF w really begin to save money on battleships and submarines Unci Sam Is going to be able to afford 1c cream end chicken sandwiches now end then No hunger In Ameural Wouldn’t that mean that cur people were the hap char- being shunted into institutions Boys and girls would develop physically and clinics and tuberculosis warcls would have less to do Professional beggary with its long train of Impositions upon the kind hearted would be reduced to An itinerant somehow minimum loses his chief appeal when one knows that he can have a meal free twice a 1 day Hundreds of men would turn bums? I don't believe It My own experience lis that nothing makes bums faster than hunger does and nothing puts heart and ambition Into a man like hot coffee fried eggs and a stack of wheat cakes And If we DID have to sacrifice some of our military preparedness or even some of our high schools to build lip a stronger and happier nation to fill stomachs Instead of minds wouldn't It be worthwhile if thereby we struck a blow at the very source of world fear? (Copyright 1932 Bell Syndicate) FASHION FLASHES being hungry and weak and tired at the prospect of good meal? Why half the fun of traveling Is In the meals fascinating Mothers look at their small families anxiously' They are always hungry the children and how much oatmeal and toast and milk and fruit they need! Poor-house- ities would all profit Instantly by this new order Hundreds of old folk whose sons and daughters are more than willing to give them room and clothes would feel themselves no longer in danger of eight-year-ol- d visor they're hungry “One of our teachers" she said "took child home with her a for a few weeks to build her Up Th change In the child’s whole nature was startling It was pltifuL She grew pretty and gay she loved her lessons she was a different person" Mi piest the least afraid in the world? BY ALICE ALDEN SHE WORE A SINGLE FLOWER and so emphasized it newness After having shown hat with masses of flowers Agnes Is now concentrating on models trimmed with but one bloom She shows such a model In a modified Tyrolean hat with a peaked crown The hat is oi blink cellophane and is trimmed with a large pink gardenia to accent the drape of the crown In her hat TWO IN ONE marks the color scheme of the newest frocks A good afternoon froi k Is done In navy blue sheer crepe with an inset white crepe yoke that marks the shoulders and the hlpline collar and th There Is a turtle-necwhile Inset is marked by all-ov- IT IS IMPOSSIBLE lheie day to find a frock made for spring wear without its own brief little jacket or bolero A new model in rouglv white crepe with a surplice bodice and l skirt wlih Inlets has a brief bolero In red whli and blue In alternating broad stilpes completed with a red sotiL A BUFF FOR TUFFS Is lndlcaled In the disi rlptions of the new spring Irocks many of which favor puffed sleevrs A sinai t model of black crepe has a shoulder treatment marked by doubt puff Ollier not-- i Include a very shallow slop ing neckline In V shape with sloping Tic hctklire Is boldest slu iilders with fine line ol s'lvcr thread v J I |