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Evening Star. (Washington, D.C.). 1934-03-13 [P B-11] Air of Youth Suggested by Long, Slim Lines DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX NATURE’S WHO ARE YOU? --4 C ILDREN The Romance of Your Name Removable Lingerie Touche* Happy Couple Trying to Make Each Other BY RUBY HASKINS ELIJS. Miserable to Please Best BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. Continue to Make Their Friends—Flight Plan for Man in Love. American Golden Plover. known m East and West Flegg. This Unfailing Appeal. Young district was once called Flegg Hun- Pluvlalis domlnlca. dred. famous MISS DIX—We are a married couple In our 30s. Have a golden plover la a Algar de Flegg was the first known aviator, who flies over 2,000 ancestor. Mention Is made of him In Lines Provide little home and farm which we have worked together and paid Smooth Top miles wltliout In of Norfolk the lor. We are much devoted to each other and very happy. But refueling. tlie history during fact, he makes about 8.000 of II (1154-1189). in Sleeves DEARwe have no children and our friends and acquaintances con- THE reign Henry Particular Interest miles as tinually tell us that our home can never be a real home and each year he goes Thomas Flagg (or Flegg) was the He that we can never be happy without children. Now we like children, but from one country to another. ancestor of most of the Flaggs In the as in Paris. Is one of our most shore we do not miss thesi. and as God has not seen fit to send us any. we are beautiful United States. He was the second birds, and In the when he la four sons of Bartholomew content and thought we were happy until people stirred us all up. Do Spring, of Flegg think It true that childless cannot be brilliantly arrayed In Ills wedding of County Norfolk. Thomas settled BY BARBARA BELL. you people happy? WORRIED. finery, be cannot escape being ad- tn Watertown, Mass., where he be- blark frock continues to be mired. came a proprietor and was appointed have the leading favorite of the Answer—What’s the matter with your common sense that you At one t'me these handsome birds surveyor of the town. He wu also to let on the outside tell are not when average woman, especially somebody you that you happy you were so numerous over both Ameri- a selectman of the town. are? It Is the ever Instead of when softening touches of silliest thing I heard of. letting your can continents that flocks of them The descendants of Thomas were THE sense aid white enliven it at the neck. neighbors’ meddling depress you, call your of humor to your were seen in crowded ranks of 3,000 very active tn Colonial and Revolu- and It oft. Taste is individual and the that one or even more. So of them were Erom among a series of smart, sim- laugh absolutely thing many tionary struggles of the Colonies. person enjoys bores another to tears and what one person yearns after shot that were In bar- Some of his descendants to ple frocks, the one sketched was cho- they shipped migrated most the other wouldn't have on a bet. rels to be sold at the markets. Grad- the South and the southern line was sen for its air of youth, exemplified in numbers have slim lines, the ually the of the plover established by Joslah Flagg. In Jef- the long, three-quar- should let other run life for should YifHY you people your you? Why diminished and now have ferson now a of ter sleeves and the removable ” they County, Va., part push-up you let them stick their fingers in your pie? WTiat business Is it low touches that continue to make reached a ebb. Protection, how- West Virginia. lingerie of theirs whether you have no children at all or a litter of them? And to the woman ever, Is being given, and gradually Flagg Mills, an old seat of the fam- their unfailing appeal other? why do you let what they say affect you, one way or the the number Is In near Mar- Who takes care of her wardrobe. Increasing. ily, was West Virginia, From their Winter home on the Instead of fullness. acquired It always seems to me that one of the most pitiful things in the tlnsburg. pampas of Argentina and Uruguay, are the descendants of these through released plaits, the skirt of world is the extent to which women are slaves to the chatter of other Many South America, the begin 'T'HIS surname la derived from the now In various the dress is made with slightly flared women whose opinions aren't worth two cents a dozen anyway. I know plovers early pioneers living their tow aid the North. of the gores which give the dress the desir- delicate, frail women who work themselves to death because they are so long flight English local name of Flegg—a | parts country. It Is believed these clever birds fol- which Is (Copyright. 1934.) able virtue of requiring only an occa- afraid that their neighbors will say that they don't sweep under the beds. section of County Norfolk, low a route between their Winter sional pressing. I know women who live beyond their means because they can't bear to | and Summer home that is the The smooth top lines of the sleeves have people say they don’t give as fine parties as somebody else or they i shortest one possible. travel are of particular interest, following, haven't a new car. They I overland a treeless route until as they do. a detail that was looked by T HAVE known women who were driven Into divorce other they reach the coast of Texas, then upon as important in the recent show- actually by BEDTIME STORIES fcEET over the ings in Paris women always telling them that they didn't know how they could slowly Mississippi Valley The side sections of the waist con- stand husbands who drank or philandered or who were grouchy. Be- prairies, teeming with Insects and other food that and tinue into pointed extensions that are lieve me. my dear lady, you will never be happy until you make up your they like, grad- Peter Ha* to Go. stayed home so Ion* that 111 fo crazy faced and button back, thus secur- mind that you are not going to let what people say inBuence you one ually from there to the plains of Sas- If I have to stay much longer. What in Is so stront katchewan From here proceed Sometimes Impulse was that?” ing Ihe shirred squares of crisp lin- hair’s breadth. they We do Uie thin* we know Is wiunf. •gerie-t rimming to the dress. to the Arctic coast. — frier Ribbll. He stopped abruptly and sat up He a or not the lack of with blark in is Whether married couple Is made unhappy by The golden plover Is almost un- sat slUl and listened. He was about Sharing popularity Black Shadows were ! children depends entirely upon the individuals. There are some men and known west of the Mountains creep- to when he heard that navy. Touched up with white, both Rocky ready give up women who have the and maternal instinct so lng out Ironi the Purple Hills worn with ac- paternal highly developed in the Spring By June he has sound again. It was a distant bark of these colors, when Meadows. The in them that are miserable without little arms around their necks, across the Green cessories that in they reached the Arctic and his very and It came from the Old Pasture. match, conspire pre- were not now. but there are of other who can take children or leave ’em, latter green but; “Reddv Pox!” exclaimed Peter un- an of ultimate plenty people lovely call note of “tud'ling" may be THE senting appearance and who chil- brown with the dead grass of chic. so to speak, be equally happy, and not a few couples regard heard as he circles about before der his breath. He waited and pres- last year, spotted where the snow had Barbara Bell No 1268-B is dren as nuisances. descending. ently heard another bark. “Mrs. pattern not yet melted. The air had been On the barren grounds of the Reddy,” said he with satisfaction. designed in sizes 34. 36, 3*. 40, 42. IS true that are childless than warm all that TT there more divorces among couples soft and dav. hinting I know those two are Size ?4 of 39-lnch Arctic the plovers build their nests. “Now that that requires 4'2 yards there are those who have but this does not sweet Mistress Spring could not be far among children, prove These are mere hollows in the still up hi the Old Pasture there Is material. yard of white contrast swamp Rabbit that the husband and wife who have children love each other better or away. For several days Peter to about from them. two small handkerchiefa. lands and just a skimpy quilt of nothing worry or. dainty their had been uneasy and restless, but to- that marriage Is happier. leaves Is them. The nests Now If I could know where Hooty the Every Barbara Bell pattern has an placed In ever. On the contrary, many of the very happiest marriages are childless. day he had been more so than Owl is I would be all right.” illustrated Instruction guide that is He couldn't sit still for If a man and woman love each other, they are drawn closer together by ■Qc 60cDCs Plover Just any As if In reply he heard Hooty's easy to follow.
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