Evening Star Newspaper, February 14, 1921, Page 21

BY WOMAN’S PAGE. FINERY FOR THE LITTLE GIRL. ANNE RITTENHOUS Many American mothers of little girls have worked themselves into an invulnerable prejudice against silks and satin, laces and ruffles, finery in general, for little girls' clothes. The simple frocks of pique or handker- chief linen, with untrimmed hats of straw or felt and coats of serge and tweed, seem iike a bulwark of their social position. To dress their little girls in silks and velvets and laces and frills and furbelows would be to jeopardize themselves. That seems to be the attitude of some of these mothers. Whatever thuir orig- inal taste in the matter, whatever the cravings of the little girl herself, the mother of this type passes by the shop windows made gay with little girls' finery, with an “I am bet- ter than thou” tinge in her egotism. She continués to feel that way. Her | prejudice is undaunted until some fine day when she sees the daught of the woman whose taste and p tion she regards as perfect launch- ing forth at dancing school or a juvenile tea party clad in silks and laces, puffs and rufties. The English Way. It's something we caught from the French, and we are forgetting our prejudice in favor of the nur bred English child when we suc French mothers have alwa. more willing to dress their 1 e girls in finery. They are rather zmused at the plainly clad English girls and feel convinced that one reason why English women always do wear finery rather badly is because they have never learned how in childhood There are mothers, of course, who will continue to look at more ornate than embroidercd hand- kerchief linen and lawn for their lit- Ue girls’ party clothes. But the fact remains that the shcps that special- ize in children's clothes are turning over guantities of these other things —frocks of velvet and satin. silks and even chiffons, and they are not bought entirely by. parvenues either. However, the woman of good taste and sound 'sense keeps a strong key on the clothespress where this silk and satin finery is kept. It is worn only for ocdasions—for a few brief hours on some festive occasion. The Ban on Lace. The lines must be simple and the details must be meager, however. Otherwise the little girl who wears the finery is grotesque. Moreover, thoiigh the styles of childhood and maturity have been running a pretty close parallel of late years, there must. be something distinctively childish in the design of the frock. It must never be & miniature replica of the finery of the debutante or the matron. Lace, save Irish or valencienne: flicienf ouse, Laura. A.Kirkmen ‘Wholesome and Inexpensive Meals for One Week. A reader of this column has writ- ten to ask me to build good but in- expensive dinner and supper menus for an entire week. I take pleasure in complying with this request in the following menu-schedule: Sunday noon dinner—Hot leg of lamb, mashed potatoes, canned peas, lemon meringue pie, coffee. Sunday night tea—Canned tuna fish, cocoa,” apple sauce or jelly. M - moon_dinner—Cold leg of %‘u “of bolled. po- tat L - 'W’s hash), nothing | | ) | | l i ! lA LITTLE FROCK OF PALE BLUE | TAFFETA EDGED WITH FRILLS | OF FOOTING AND QUILTED WITH YELLOW. | it is used discreetly on the lingerie | frock, ‘has gained no foothold with the ‘discriminating for children's | clothes. ~ Footing, however, has stepped in and recommends itself be- cause of its simplicity, It is cleverly combined .in the frock shown in the sketch with pale blue taffeta. An- other trimming that recommends it- Self to the designer of little girls' clothes is quilting, which is added in yellow silk to give the color contrast in the little frock sk. ed potatoes (half for hash). spinach, apple pie. tomorrow's Friday night supper—Fried corn- meal or rice served with homemade sirup, cocoa. Saturday noon dinner—Hash, steam- ed-up spinach, bread puddin; or z sacup pudding or epple Saturday night supper — Baked beans or macaroni and cheese, cocoa. To use this menu-schedule success- fully, the housekeeper must order from her grocer on Tuesday and Fri- | day; and order from her butcher on | Thursday and, Saturday. = She must | on nesday g y and Saturday n Wednesday moraing she will ¢ bake four loaves of bread. efther tani pies or one pie and the one-egg cake for boiled turnip, choc ple. with in it, cocoa or tea. y. -noon dinner—H. . cauli- flower or onions, steamed chocolate | ringu. pudding with hard sauce or lemon|pie: the hot puddin cornstarch dding. Tuesday night supper—Boiled horn- iny (double quantity, half for tomor- row might’s fried hominy) eaten with [ macaroni an milk and sugar, cocoa. ‘Wednesday noon dinner—Soup, enough sausages, ' ‘baked potatoes, canned beans lemon pudding. ‘Wednesday night of beef or corned beef, cabbage, baked potatoes, apple pie or cottage Ppudding. Thursday night supper—Boiled corn- meal mush or boiled rice (double quantity of either, half for tomorrow night) served with milk and sugar cocoa. Friday noon dinner—Cold rump roast of beef, double quantity of boi HOME ECONOMICS. BY MRS. ELIZABETH KENT. v early in his life his” experiences ievelops a of discrimination and taste tead both all his life Teach a child to shut his eyes and recognize flowers and fruits by their smell; play games of taste nd him in good #nd touch and sound with him. Re- spect, also, the fastidiousness you teach him. and do not expect him to | cat burned. tough or messy foods On the other hand, let him appre- ciate the value of roughness in the right place. the joy of cold water and a brisk rub with a bath towel, #00d feeling of firm, crusty food to chew, the biiss of being just tired und dirty enough with hard work It a child's senses are w the time will surely when, though he will not mind getting wholesomely dirty, he will hate to stay ®o. Anything rotten or unripe will repel him. equally. He will have healthy, acute ser and insist on giving them good satisfaction. A right morality trains us to the right, and therefore the happy use of our senses, not to their extinetion. A mother especially controls the education of the co-called lower senses. smell, taste and touch. It lies to have Rer c n lov and smells, to lik touch fresh, clean things, to like have fresh clean-smelling skins and mouths thit taste good. Children | naturally dislike spiced favored foods and exaggerated per- fumes; it is we who by example and teaching pervert their natural good taste in these matterse A child who has known good, pure things wit his senses will love them with mjnd and heart. (Copyright, 1921.) nd highly one | Tuesda slice of ham, or enough bacon or|dering or 'beets, hot Indian | pudding with hard sauce, or baked|of beef or co; supper—Fried | and beans dish hominy with homemade sirup, cocoa. ing. On Saturd Thursday noon dinner—Rump roast! the butcher le, tually and morally | the | i | Which, when served with sauce, makes cottage pudding, and the hot pedding On Saturday morning she will bak four loaves of bread, a lemon me. e pie and a chocolate meringue h & served for Sat- urday’s dinner; and the baked beans if they are desired for Supper that Svening—otherwise she will bake the cheese dish. (The yeast | cake from the grocer will comp )('la‘;':d) Friday, her grocer-or- On Thursday morning she will rom her bulchedr bci(her rump (;;‘::lt' TNe: eef and th of salt pork necessary for the pere baked Saturday morn- a3 she will order from & of lamb and the ham, bacon or Sausages to be lervedhm following “_ednesdly for dinner. She Will soak rice on Wednesday night and soak beans on Friday night. It will be noticed that the potatnes are baked whenever the oven must be used for other purposes; this is verv important on stoves whose ovens muxt be 1j th'f.‘.‘"“’d or turned on especially for Can You Make Sauces? _ Tomato Sauce.—There is no cook n the world who makes better to- Mato sauce than the Hindoo.. This is how he does it. He takes a dozen | tomatoes. opens them and e squeezes : :}'l‘:‘m kently to force out theq water gnd scedy pulp. Then he puts them I Baucepan with a capsicum ash of red pepper will do—a littl ot e fWenty-four cloves, two cloves of garlic. 1 surig of tarragon, a sprig hichervil and Fhree bay leaves. To this he adls four tablespoons of rich bect Bravy—dish gravy from a roast et OoF Deefsteak is “the best. He allows this all to simmer slowly for an hour. Then he puts it through @ sieve and adds a tablespoon of melted butter, mixes it thoroughly and the sauce is ready for the table. To any one w | 8piced food th could be { Onion 10 does not Ilike high- Lihe amounts of spice used Onion sauce gives a | { nice flavor to a mood oce T | a go ny othe Sorts of vegetables, and it is an addi- ozt : nd it is an i ubstitute diches made s, well as to dishes and bread and rice. onfons and put them r for f minutes to 1 and cut the onions into 11 pie Put them in a pan ‘with {one ounce of butter or clarified fat and stew till tender. Now add a cup 9L &ood white suice and let boil thor- {2MBRY. “irein before serving. A Clear Complexion i Ruddy Cheeks—Sparkling Eyes —Most Women Can Have Says Dr. Edwards, a Well-Known Ohio Physician. Dr. F. M. Edwards for 17 years l(re-tcd scores of women for liver {and bowel ailments. During these | years he gave to his patients a pre- scription made of a few well-known | vegetable ingredients mixed with | olive oil, naming them Dr. Edwards’ | Olive Tablets. You will know them | by their olive color. | These tablets are wonder-work- fers on the liver and bowels, which ::aute a normal action, carrying off | the waste and poisonous matter in one’s system. If you have a pale face, sallow ook, dull eyes, pimples, coated of nuts or be {made of me; Peel two large {in boiling wate { blanch the Chin Strapping. Within the last couple of weeks I have received quite a few from readers who wish to know about various appliances for reducing a dou- ble chin and for lifting sagging mus- cles of the face. A few weeks ago T gave a short talk on strapping the chin at night to preserve its youth- ful line. No woman under thirty- five should have to make use of such 1 treatment The chin—in fact, the whole face— can be strapped or bound at night to hold up sagging muscles. One of the :asiest methods is to use strips of zauze or white cheese cloth. These cost very little, if the material is bought and torn into strips at home. Spooky Gossips Some More. BY THORNTON W« BURGESS. Learn to live and live to learn; Useful knowledge never spurn. —Peter Rabbit. “It is hard to believe,” said Peter Rabbit to Spooky the Screech Owl, “that those seven grown children of Jimmy and Mrs. Skunk are still living at home with them. What is the mat- ter with them? Can't they take care of themselves?" “Nothing is the matter with them,” replied Spooky. “They are as fine a lot of young Skunks as ever 1 have seen. I suspect that the members of Jimmy's family are so fond of one an- other that they cannot bear to sepa- is near when they will. Early in the spring they'll go looking for homes of their own. They must keep each other nice and warm down there sleeping together that way “I should say so!" exclaimed Peter, don't very well see how they could possibly be cold. I was down in John- ny Chuck’s house and he was all alone in one bedroom and Polly Chuck was all alone in another. They were 80 still and cold I couldn't be sure whether they were just asleep or dead. 1 couldn't wake them up. But those Skunks down there were not like that. I wish I knew for sure about Johnny and Polly Chuck.” “Don’t worry about them,” replied Spooky. “They are asleep, not dead. I don’t know of any one but Nimble- heels the Jumping Mouse who sleeps as soundly as they do in winter. The unks sleep for several weeks, but not so soundly. A warm spell in the middle of winter will sometimes bring them out. I guess perhaps the reason they are easier awakened is because they are so warm. Perhaps if John ny Chuck's children remained with him all winter and they all slept to- gether and kept each other warm they wouldn’t be such sound sleepers.” “Did you say Nimbleheels the Jump- I dldn't know any member of th. you mention him, T am reminded that 1 haven't seen Nimbieheels since the middle of last autumn.” “Of course, you haven't and you are not ltkely to see him until warmer weather,” replied Spooky. “Nimble- heels is the only member of the mouse family T kniow who does sleep-through the cold weather, and I flatter myself | T know considerable about the mouse Monday - night supper—Baked corn|that is served for dinner that day. | family.” Spooky snapped his bill in a way that would have been rather un- pleasant for any mo i~ to hear. “You_ought to if auny one does,” re- plied Peter. “You hunt for micc enough to have learned something about them. Are you sure that Nim- bleheels sleeps right through from fall to spring, as Johnny Chuck does? “Well, I won't say that” replied Spooky. I have an idea that a few warm days in the middle of winter might bring him out. I nearly caugz} Hurry mother! A teaspoonful of “California” Syrup of Figs today may prevent a sick child tomorrow. If your child is constipated, bilious, feverish, fretful, has cold, colic, or if stomach is sour, tongue coated, breath bad, remember a good “physic-laxa- Immediately after a “Danderine” i tongue, headaches, a listless, no- | good feeling, all out of sorts, in- ctive bowels, you take one of Dr. |Edwurds' Olive Tablets nightly for | a time and note the pleasing results. | Thousands of women and men take Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets— the successful substitute for calo- mel—now and then just to keep them fit, 15c and 30c. massage. your hair takes on mew life, luster and wondrous beauty, appearing twice as heavy and plen- tiful, because each hair seems to fluff and thicken. g Don’t let your hair stay lifeless, colorless, plain or scraggly. You, too, want lots of long, strong hair, = letters | mouse family slept all winter. Now | 1 rate until they have to. But the time| | ing Mouse sleeps like Johnny Chuck?| 1 ! massaged with a flesh skin should be building cream. will not do, b First of all, the Ordinary cold creams Cause. they contain only minerai oil which the skin does not absorb. The face should first be bathed in hot water, then massaged with the cream, a liberal amount of which is left on the skin. If only the chin is to be bound up, the gauze is wrapped around the head and under the chin, %0 as to hold firmly the lax muscles thicknesses of gauze will be necesdary and the bandage must be secure when you are finished, other- wise it will come off during the night. Chin strapping Is very good for old- er women, but youngor women who have been ill_and whose faces show the marks of fliness will find this helpful in improving their appearancs As a general thing, lasting youth is the result of good health. him once when we had had a long warm spell. 1 suspect he wakes up and eats a little when the weather isn't too cold, for 1 know he stored away a lot of seeds in the late sum- mer and early fall. Of course, he may have been putting them away for use gs - “THAT REMINDS ME, WHERE I8 HIS HOME?" ASKED PETER. when he wakes up in the spring and food is scarce. 1 don't know about that, because I never have seen him inside his home.” “That remincr ome?” asked Peter. Spooky shook .. head. “Don’t ask me,” said he. “If 1 knew I would watch it pretty closely In warm weather. All I know is that it is down in the ground somewhere. I presume it is deep cnough down to keep Jack Frost from reaching him. 1 hope 8o, for Jack Frost might freeze him to death and so cheat me out of a din- ner.” “That's a horrid thought,” declared Peter. “Isn’t it?” replied Spooky. “I should hate to lose a good dinner like that.” “I didn’t mean that at all, and you know it,” snapped Peter. “I meant that it is horrid of you to think of Nimbleheels only as a possible din- where is his hat depends on how you look at replied Spooky. *“To me it isn't a horrid thought at all. Not at all.” (Copyright, 1821, by T. W. Burgess.) e There are about twenty-elght spe- cies of pine trees in the United States, of which the white pine, Georgla pine, red pine, and tho great west coast sugar pine are among the most valu- able. Everything About Cuticura Soap “California Syrup of Figs” Delicious Laxative for Child’s Liver and Bowels Danderine is “Beauty-Tonic Suggests fic:g:g address: Cuticura) ) ive” is often all that is n 2 Children love the “fruity” taste of genuine “California” Syrup of Figs which has directions for babies and children printed on the bottle. Say “California” or you may get an fmd tation fig syrup. Beware! glistening with beauty. A 35-cent bottle of delightful “Danderine” freshens your scalp, checks dandruff and falling hair. This stimulating “beauty-tonic’ gives to thin, dull, fading hair that youthful brightness and abundant thickness. All drug counters sell “Danderine.” THE EVENING STAR, WASHING’:[‘ON D. C, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1921. A Mother’s Courage. T'm afraid I can't do it, doctor. I'm 80 nervous about doing things for the children. 1f it was for an outsider, now" | —and poor Mrs. O'Flaherty, Whn! thought she really couldn’t do anyfl!i"ls for her own children on account of the | love she bore them, intimated by her unfinished sentence that she could do almost anything that would hurt a' neighbor. The doctor smiled in spite of himself, for the situation was grave. A blizzard raged across the prairies, he was in a little home far from the town, and his only ald was this woman, well meaning, but handicapped by her mistaken idea about the way she loved her children. “Mrs. O'Flaherty, you must do as I} tell you to, and do it quickly,” he said | firmly. “There is no doubt about it. Johnnie is on the verge of a convui- sion and a hot pack is the thing that will help him quickest. It won't burn | him even if the woman in the hos- pital you were in last winter told you that hot packs did burn. They most | assuredly do not. They are given simply to stimulate the kidneys and | to cause increased perspiration, which, | as you know, is desirable because Johnnie's skin has not been eliminat ing properly. And he is a very sick boy. - Surely his mother is not going to hesitate when there is a chance to help him with a hot pack—two or three if need be.” Very real fear clutched the woman's throat, dried her tears, brought her the doctor's side with an_eager, *“Oh, if it's that bad, doctor, I'll help you with anything. Anything! Only do be quick!" And the doctor, one of the country practitioner type that is used to make- shifts of every kind, looked about him as he rolled up his slceves. Follow Doctor's Directions. “Is there hot water?" he asked. “The boiler's full on the back of the! stove. It's bath night,” sald Mrs. O'Flaherty, simply. ¥Then get the baby's tin bath ana put this in it,” said the doctor, taking a small rubber sheet from his grip. “Without water?”’ the woman ques- tioned. ‘Yes. Line the tub with it. And it you have a couple of stone jars or quart sealers fill them with very hot water—warm them first so they won't break—and place them in the tub. This is an incubator for the pack, as it were,” explained the doctor, who was screwing the wringing machine onto the side of a tub he had brought in from the shed. “Now, an old blanket, please, or two small ones.” ““Tear this in two,” the mother said, steadily, using the scissors as she spoke. “Now, we simply dip the blanket Into the boiling water, which isn’t very good for the blanket, by the way,” =aid the doctor, but the woman made a little gesture. “What's a blanket—for my Johnnie?" she said. “And since my hands are tough and I have your clothes stick to he'p me. T'll run these hot, wet blankets through the wringer, said the doctor, “and cover them up with this dry rubber sheet, in this ‘incubator bath’ affair, to stairs. You bring the of Kitghen table.n ' o Ollcloth off the ‘There's a rubber sheet on Johnnie's bed.” ventured the mother. | “We need two,” said the doctor, brief- | v, starting upstairs. | Quickly he lifted the twitching small | boy in his strong arms, wrapped in a blanket as he was, and handed him to his mother. who held out arms from which all the trembling had gone. Sand- Wiching the rubber bed sheet between two dry blankets, which he spread on the bed, the doctor placed ons of the steaming, well-wrunz-out blankets on the Has no equal for Famous for bed. and placed Johnnie's inert little body, still covered with a dry bianket, upon it. Then the second hot blanket he quickly drew up under the dry top blanket, tucking it in well at the neck, and drawing the dry under blanket closely above the single dry blanket that | to covered the back. Then he spread the | | kitchen oilcloth on top of all. jthe bag. Cover it Little Johnnic Comes Around. ',:‘m“x‘{“”", as the bag. Buttonhole a “You change those cold towels on his | circie. At the miae or T ber e | head. Wring them out well. Keep them i a slit about eight incres Tono Sroot | cold. Tl watch his pulse. Where's that { the lower edge of the wliomEatiocn hot lemonade? ~ Here, Johnnie. my lad, | u deep flap to the upper cge. “Stion | try to swallow this for the old doctor! That's the boy! Another swallow, Johnnie, old chap. That's fine!" And through her tears Mrs. O'Flaherty saw the small boy try to swallow, suc- ceed, drink almost a cupful of hot lem- onade. And silently, praverfully, she wrung towels out of cold water and kept them on his head. When Johnnic's skin fin- ally burst forth into a wet, steaming surface and little rivers ran down his face, the doctor deftly swept out the wet blankets and the rubber sheets. He then rolled the dry blankets tigatly round the little chap and tucked at his On a =nap fastener to close the flap. Sew on a double loop of ribbon at each side of the top for the handles. When ready to knit put your ball of worsted into the bag by lifting the flap. Run the end of the worsted up through the hole in the top. Hang your worsted holder bag on the back of your chair and knit without the fear of your worsted dropping to the floor every few minutes. FLORA. (Copyright, 1921.) Two-Crust Lemon Pie. who had stood by. | Things You'll Like to ) Make. Each package of “Diamond Dyes” contains directions so simple that it is fun for any woman to dia- mond-dye old, faded skirts, waists, dresses, coats, sweaters, stockings, draperies, coverings, everything. To prevent the annoyance of the| Beware! Poor dye streaks, spots, falling of my ball of worsted while | knitting, 1 have fashioned this “worsted holder bag.” To make it, cut the body part the same as for any other bag. Gather it in at the top with a small heading. Gather the bottom and finish with a bead and tassel. Cut a circle of card- keep them hot while we carry them uj Will the impression you made last night— board proportion to the size of 1 | WOMAN’S PAGE. "SALADA" TEA gualitv and fine flavor. 0 years, and ever growing in popularity Send a postal card and your grocer's mame a alada Tea Company, Bostom, Mass. | sugar. half cup of w address for a free samplé with the same |Line the pic pan or plate with the crust. The fillng consists of hai a lemon minced very fine. the julce of the remaining half, half cup er, one large tablespoonful of dark molasses and one teaspoonful of flour. The diss tinctive flavor of this pie can be ob: tained only by mixing the ingredients in the crust, but in stirring the in- gredients great care must be taken not to break the crust, which is usually short when made by this rule Cover the pie ith the top crust and bake in & quick oven Oatmeal Mush With Apples. Core some apples, leaving large cavities. Pare and cook until soft in sirup made by boiling sugar and covered wi -| This pie is not at all like the|water together, ailow one cup of fent a hot bottle, covered with drY Aa0 | ordinary” femon "pie."" To make the | sugar to-one and onc-haif cups of e e ¥ jt,+| dough for the crus. mix thoroughly | water. Fill the cavities w < iHe's all right, now 210 You did it | one cup of flour. & pinch of salt and | mesi mush: serve. with suxar and A Sepn L two heaping tablespoonfuls of lard.|cream. The sirup should be saved Add one tablespoonful of cold water. ! and used again. OMEN! [T'S FON Dye Shabby, Faded Skirts, Dresses, Sweaters, Draperies, Everything, Like New for Few Cents fades, and ruins your material by ng it a “dyed-look.” Buy Diamond Dyes"—no other kind —then perfect results are guar- anteed. Tell druggist whether your material is wool or silk, or if it is cotton, linen, or a mixture. DiamondDyes Endure the light of the sun today ? ComplexiOnS—Night Almost any woman can night, but only perfect, natural skins can face the glare of noon. A radiant skin, healthy and glowing, is the very foundation of charm—and every woman can have one. Aids to beauty are many, but the essential is a thoroughly clean skin. Good complexions call for soap Beautifying cleanliness requires not only a clean surface, but also pores. Such cleanliness calls for soap. Dirt, oil and perspiration clog the skin. So does powder—so does rouge. At least once daily this accumulation should be re- moved. The best time is at night. Then for hours of sleep the skin has a chance to breathe. and Noon A balmy lather needed ‘The study has been to produce a balmy, creamy lather. A lather thatsoothes while itcleanses. A latheywhich leaves the skin soft. look pretty at ‘To do that, modem science has gone back to methods of 3,800 years ago. It employs a blend of paln and olive oils. Not as Cleopatra used then, dut prepared in modern ways. reach. In Palmolive soap these matchiess oils are perfectly combined. As a facialcleans- er, the world has never found anything better. And it probably never will. soap-cleansed Palmolive cleans the skin with a gentle and soothing emollient. It leaves the skin in blooming, fresh condition. Its daily use is the foundation of skin beauty. Its every application penetrates the skin with the most beneficial oils of the ages. Without such cleansing, glands and poresbecome enlarged and functions are retarded. Skins become coarse. Blackheads and follow. Must be done with lather ‘This cleansing must be d There is no substitute. One must force lather into the pores, using a gentle mas- sage. When that is rinsed out, the dirt and oil come with it. irritated. Their If the skin is very dry, apply cold cream before and after washing. The soap will make a balmy lather. Rub it gently into the pores. Rinse out with warm water, then apply a dash of cold water as a tonic. 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