Evening Star Newspaper, February 25, 1921, Page 28

WOMAN’S PAGE ‘THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON,. D. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25 1921. WOMAN'S PAGE. TIME HAS ARRIVED TO START . PLANNING i The Star's Household Ex pert Writes of a Way to ,Prevent General Upheaval of the Home—Hints on for Moving. © 1f you see a man wandering aint- lessly in the gloaming in the neigh- Sorhood of his home it is entirely safe to assume that an old-fashioned house- cleaning has been going on in that domicile, a housecleaning that, be ginning in the cellar and ending in the attic, has resulted in everything movable being ¢ rried into the open and every carpet being dra ed from the floor, while a trail of Soapsuds has extended from garret to vault and the entire surrounding atmosphere is filled with dust, microbes, moths and germs. 1f not as bad : Fo be sure, housecleaning is not lik 1y to be a pleasure even under the most highly favored conditions. but the drudgery can be greatly ‘rmlvl by proper planning ahead, of time by the exercise of good judsment. To avoid a general upheaval ing time at certain s f‘]‘eefll’f‘ .: the rotary method of h\)V‘J cleaning the ¥ ound is liked by some housewives. By this m they take one room each thoroughly clean it, even to the windows, and when the ished with the whole hous gin over again, one room only e: In case of company or illness they can let the cleaning go until it is convenient to begin again, and if ihe guest room is used very scldom, it can be skipped occasionally in the regular routine. In this way a housewi worked, and clean. not over- for the cl of the rota ¢ system is o take day to attend to all the lighting fix- tures, mirrors and pictures all over the house, another day or two for all the windows, one day for the walls, picture molding, and so on. The do- ing of the work in this way makes it unnecessary "to have things in dis order. g To drive out rats and mice, sprinkle quick-lime on the cellar walls and around the edges of the floor. The lime will burn their feet and they will not return. To drive away ants, put in one-fourth of a cup of water, one teaspoonful each of sugar and tartar emetic and place this in the haunts of the ants. The remedy also drives away roaches. ~ Bugs are the worst pest of all. A . sulphur candle is very effective in de- Stroying eggs as well as bugs. pro- wided the isolation is complete and the burning thorough. Extreme clean mess, vigilant searching and the liber- al use of benzine, carbolic acid and turpentine mixed, and the use of metal ®eds, and walls pajnted instead of papered, all help toward freedom. The activity in searching must not relax _ after one treatment, but must be con- tinuous until all apparent appearances of ‘the plague have subsided. How to Prepare for Moving Day. Before the real preparations for moving are under way, sit down and write some post cards, giving your new address to all firms where you have charge accounts, such as the dry goods frms, ice company, milkman, butcher, grocer, newsdeaicr, laundry,} bakery, druggist and others. Notify your bank and the life, accident, fire and burglar insurance companies; also the post office and the pubiishers of the magazines to which you sub- scribe. Have new calling cards en- graved and mail them to all friends. This will interruptions, telephone me , un- timely calls and misunderstandings, Whercver you send your address, send your new telephone number also. Do not begin to tear up a month ore moving ,d leave the work until the fast day. In the case ©of the former method every person in the house is discommoded so long Deforchand, and in the case of the latter method the hurried packing i8 a detriment to the cofdition of the household oods, much damage beini done. Besin the small, out-of-sight tasks that will not render the houss untidy and uncomfortable long be- fore you leave i 3 When cleaning a house just cated for your use make use of a good amount of carbolic acid. If &ny of the drains from sinks and Washbasins seem to be clogged the can be clganed with washing sod A lot of it should be crumbied into ‘ Hats On and Off. = e Some forty or fifty years ago it was regarded the smart thing—for it was a newly established custom— for women to remove their hats and shawls when they called upon any one with whom they were at all well acquainted. It was customary for the mistress of the house t0 a callers to remove their wrap speaking of this custom, an oid et quette book of the period says armchair or piece of furniture at dis part of the room should receive these articles.” Nowadays, of does not remov save possibly a when making a call. For a woman does not remove her hat un- less she has been asked to recel with the host and is_especially asked to w no hat. Young girls who are asked —that is, to mingle with the g nd see that they are pro freshments —almost _ al bareheaded course, a bat or woman anythin; + do so. iests do invited they ought At a formal lunche not remove their hats to take ,lunch on friend in her own 10 remove the h 1 dining in a private house or er wears a hat, por is th at part of the extremely formal evening women when di when - th. and the women go in do not usually wear In France hats bu! inform hou us worn in pub- lothes, but he cus ho did disturp in e theater she us ter with over her he may go in t} tired. but is o bareheaded any one or were she w takin e theater in day and, of course, that is how neo- gl' do go to the the Wear: er hat to her seat A there re- moves it. When staying at a hotel a woman may do as she chooses about wearing & hat for breakfast or luncheon. Usu- ally if she after the meal or has she would wear her ha pecially the hotel restaurant is frequented by other women with hats on. For dinner she may also do as she chooses unless she elaborate evening dress, e would go hatl is dress2d and then = f the pipe and then bubblihg hot water Cleaning—Preparations| i tea aj with « | al | siz THE SPRING CLEANING | should be slowly poured over it. If {doors and windows and drawers stick, rub their edges with sc hinges of blinds or doors anoint them with oil. Much unnecessary confusion and { weariness may be avoided by a little planning beforehand as to where the furniture is to be placed. In leisure noments prepare a large card for ach room, to be tacked to the out- side of the door frame on moving cay. Assign a number anc mark t card for each bedroom. Letter the other cards with the names of the other rooms. Now prepare a num- ber of small tags. Mark enough to put on all furniture, trunks or boxes. with the name of the room into which each is to be put. Show the movers the arrangement and there will be little or no error in placing, while no valuable time and strength will be lost in directing. One should pack for storage much the same as one packs for any other removal, with this difference, that the goods may not be unpacked for many months, and that it is desirable {to =ct them into as small a compass D squy as possible. With W to reduc storage space, stu. ay all the interior of furn turngd upside down. Make su complying with the regulations of the insurance companies. Have your | thinzs thoroughly cleaned before ste them. Pack as closely as po: sible, and do not store rubbish. Hints on Doing the Work. As a preliminary to a thorough housecleaning, closets, boxes, bureau drawers and various receptacles for odds and ends should be careful y zone over and the useless things. of which there -will be many, given away or burned, bits of patches saved from garments that have long since gone to the rag baz. two or three pairs of old shocs that will never be worn again, paper patterns of styles long since gone out and a hundred other dust catehers that come under the name of trash. If there a ny old rags. wash the ones that are need- ed and discard all others. Burn use- less papers and remove every bit of trash. Boxes of lime should be placed in the cellar and lime should be sprinkled over the floor. For several days there should remain in the cellar cans of chloride of lime in water. This Peter Rabbit Makes Startling Discovery. BY THORNTON W. BURGE! The longer that I live and grow The less my pride in what I know. —Peter Rabbit. Peter Rabbit dived under that old windfall in the Green Forest just in the very nick of time. If he had waited two seconds longer Terror the | Geshawk would have had him. You or 1 in Peter's place would have con- sidered it a narrow_escape, a very | narrow escape, and probably we ! would have thought and talked of | little else for the rest of that day. Peter hardly gave the matter a s | ond thought once he was safe. He is | S0 used to escapes like that he dorsn't | consider them worth thinking about. Peter peeped out to veatch Terror the Goshawk. He saw Terror alight | and settle himself as if he intended to | stay awhile. Peter chuckled. “If you { are goimg to wait for me to come out ! ou'll wait a long time. Yes, sir, yow'll it a long time.,” said Peter, but he said it to himself. Then he chuckled again as he continued to falk to him- P “Well,” said he, “here I am. I don't | know as I would have dared com Ihere if Terror hadn't driven m H ttle the matter for me. | the question is, Is Buster Bear asleep vomewhere in here? Now that I'm | |here T am going to find out. I know he had his den here last winter, but, lof course, that doesn’t mcan that he +has it here this winter. Any 1 ;klvl»m t where to look.” ! So Peter began to creep toward the very middle of that big windfall. Be- | ing’ small. it was easy for him to jerawl under and between the tangled branches of those fallen trees. Pres- cntly he came to a sort of a path or . a big one. At least, it was big to Peter. It straight to the Imiddle of that windfall. Peter paused n the edge of it. For some time he there trying to gain courage nough to foliow that path. He knew S. H Now | out what he wanted to know. He would find out whether or not a cer- {tain big bed was empty. i After a long time, during which he sat istening with all his might and hearing nothing, he crept out into the path. Just being in a path that great Buster Bear had made gave him a queer feeling. Of course, he was safe {enough. Hé knew that. Even were {Buster Bear awake there was really {nothing to fear, for he could run {along that path much faster than iBuster Bear possibly could. Yet the very fact that that was Buster's path scared hin But e ity gradually overcame It almost always does. Step by step he crept along that path. All the time his wabbly little nose was working and presently it told him that beyond a doubt there was some one ahead of him. He could smell Bear. There was no doubt about it He moved more slowly than ever now. Two or three times he imagined he heard slight sounds ahead of him. Sach time he turned and ran back in But each time nothing hap- f d he crept back. f=s t Peter reached the end of - path. It ended in the very middle at windfall. It ended in a good isized, comfortable room with = the |fallen trecs for walls and roof. The |snow had packed all over those fallen | Don’t Risk Your Material in a Poor Dye Buy “Diamond Dyes”—no other kind! Perfect results are guaranteed, no_matter what material you dye. You can not make a mistake. Sim- f),:. directions are in each package. uggist has color card, 1t’s really fun to diamond-dye— Woolens Skirts Stockings Sweaters Curtains Cottons Silks Blouses Linens | Coats Dresses Coverings | Draperies Mixed Goods Everythingl Diamon yves that at one end of it he would find | will purify the air. Provide dry boxes for fruit and vegetables, which should be raised from the fioor by bricks. One brick may be placed un- der cach corner of a box. Even bar- rels should rest on bricks. A swing- ing shelf placed on iron hooks away |irom the wall is exccllent for hold- ng Dbaskets of onion: S tomatoes and other things tha wanis within casy reach. When side_walls. ceiling and floor of a lar have, been swept and the s carefully cleaned apply a good coat of whitewasit and the cellar will at once &mell sweet and wholesome. Looking at the back of from a neighbor's windo will be beneficial to you. To see y as others sce you may be a sur- prise. Window curtains may need traightening, back windows to be washed, brooms and mops put in place and the yard cleared up. Never ‘throw away tissue paper; sligh'ly moistencd. it removes dust and dry, it is exccllent for brass. silver and g i It leaves no lint. Cigar | ashes applied with a damp cloth s cles such ises, mateh will polish bras ink acets. Dip your broom for a minute or two 1in boiling suds once a week and_th {broom will last a long time. TI |makes it touzh and pliable. and ¢ ipets and rugs will wear longer when ! |swept with a broom cared for in th anner. Save used (e tand: ined first put the le. jcolander and let water from the {cet run through them. Saueeze almost dry before using. A paint brush wi -t aust out of cracks better than duster will for a cloth cannot ri all the cor ners. Use this when y re cleanin basehoards and window | To keep a hardwood rnished | floor . in good condition, take equal| parts of linseed oil and . he: it. then rub the floor. ( e w clean painted woodwork wains- coting better than soapsuds and gives it a bright finish. For remo ing fly specks from woodwork. pic- ture frames and furniture there is nothing better than vi : Washing Glassware. For washing windows, mirrors : the glass of pictures there is not that will remove ¢ nd fly s and produce a brilliant finish with so | littlé labor as a few drops of kerosene | in a basin of real hot water. Do not dry the glass when first wet, nor let | it become too dry before finishing i with a_dry linen cloth of chamois | . Clean the sink with kerosene. | 11 rubbed in. | | i i i ! HIS WABBLY LITTLE NOSE TOL HIM THERE WAS A BEAR IN THERE. trees and it was snug and .warm in there. Holding his breath and ready | to run at the first hint of danger, Peter peeped in. On a bed of leaves s a great fur-coated sleeper! A little faint ray of light had found its way down there and Peter could see that big form on its bed of leave He rubbed his eyes. Something was Yes, sir, somethin His wabbly little nose wrong him t Lut his eves must be pla trick. That fur coat 2 Anyway, that is how it looked where | that little ray of light fell on it. it ] was brown, and Buster Bear always had worn a black coat! (Copyright, 1921, by T. W. —_— | Rows of shirrings on each hip adjust | the fullness of skirts of soft material, | A coral-colored sweater has collar and pockets bordered with black braid, e ES R O ol Burgess.) l 7 \ A to the last I o drop.” {and In Sldd HOME NURSING AND HEALTH HINTS BY M. JESSIE LEITCH. A Convalescence That Was Fun. Mrs. Englesea clutched at the stair railing when the doctor said feasles,” Tor her three small boys were ill and her husband had just gone east on a long business ‘rip, which meant that she and her three sick children were alone in the big house on the edge of the village. And the snow had been falling for a ek In fact, it to drift. Th ¥ blizzard might even th It was not a happy other person we three-d in th offing. in her littie white ch 1d while it was fun fo small boys to tumble through the and feed the chickens twice a as entirely different for their the snow | mothe There was, too, the furnace. A man a desperate situa- A after th don’t think I'11 there is sickne afr hou in the To which the nur “I don't, really anticipation rgenci common B to imagine t u get the small bo s it were, and it nd 3 never happen; and nd trying ill yourself. that There is no gloom or depression in the house at all. In fact, more than once peals of laughter from the rooms upstairs made Mrs. Eng mile she made gruel, or broth, or m milk into three gl s for the A Well Preserved Skin. One of the greatest compliment that can be given a woman beyond middle age is that she is well pre For this implies much more It shows that she has looks all her served. than beauty. valued her good and taken the means them. If you are young and feel that you are quite good looking enough, please remember this—youth must vanish with the years, and the care that vou take of your com plexion and your body must i evitably show up when you have passed middle age. Therefore, you must be careful of your diet and your health, so that your skin will look its best. There- i fore, you must study your complexion its needs. If your skin is too dry now, it is going to wrinkle later on unless you feed it with nourish- ing cream.” If your skin is too oily ad started that| . until the doctor | life | to preserve | nously hungry. e “There's no -danger about their ey she hazarded one morning as ime nurse started upstairs with a tr: i v of nourishment. Tm taking care of their eyes. They have them bathed often. when they have their gargles mouth wash. And the windows so nicely shaded with those dark | reen shades, and, of course. w | the beds so there is no possibilit { light hurting their e And they |are not like grown-ups. always wanting to read or to ‘glance over' the morning paper. Laughter in Sickroom. And ‘through the busine: of the { morning sponge baths upstairs Mrs. i A, sitting on the stairs below and hoping the nurse would want_something so she would have an excuse to help take care of her boys, would hear gurgles of laugh- ter over the stories that went with —the bear stories and the small_boys who were nd all the rest of it Boy Scout “And th: windows shut onc coming to call and talk things over when the hoys were better and the iurse had departed. the “Indeed, she had not. Except for {the little while the children were having their baths each day.” And i a_ smiled across her nd the three small heads bout her knee. 1, if that dom’t beat all! It's a miracle they didn’'t have a chill. Such new-fangled goings on,” began . Hope, but something in the way zlesen looked at her cut the ort. approved, absolutely. And I { rned a great deal about ring for | the sick. In fact, I think it is we who are old-fashioned, always worrying about draughts and things that never happen the moment a per- son becomes ill. And as for the boys. | they had a simply wonderful time when they were iil. I believe they actually ¢ S £ And it M id it under her breath. now, you can use plenty of as- tringents on it to guard against course pores in later life. More than nything else, you must keep the I skin perfectly clean during these | vounger years, for a healthy com- | Plexion must always be a clean onc. here are two sorts of cold creams. | The kind you purchase ordinarily is made of white mineral oil with wax | and permacetti, to give it the creamy | consistency. This is cleansing, since | the oil softens the dirt in the pores, ! but it is not nourishing. The other | sort contains a vegetable oil, and is almost as cleansing as the other, but | because it is absorbed by the skin, it is nourishing as well. Choose the sort of cold cream you prefer. Choose an oil soap, becausSe it is least dry- ing, and never be afraid of hot water | to begin the cleaning treatment and | very cold water to end it. | With these simple directions kept | in mind, there is no reason why you should not have a well preserved | skin. LISTEN, WORLD! l BY ELSIE ROBINSON. | Did you ever stop to think how much more comfortable family life would be if we had to treat our rela- tions as politely as if they were strangers? Sounds sorta chilling, but stop and consider the facts. What do the loving home ties usual- |1y signity? Interference—large, gloomy gobs 7 you like = ey Ifs Maxwell H.()uSe. of interference—criticism, nagging, bossing, bothering, butting in—that's the line of action we think blood rela- tionship gives us the right to put over. Think of some family conversations you've heard. Not crabby families— ibut the truly affectionate gangs who would go to the stake for each other. | Take it from me, world, they'll do and say things in the name of fam- ily love that would result in a hurry call_for the ambulance if any one j tried it down at the office. ! Theyll spill secrets and bust up plans with no more regard for each other’s feelings than a cannibal would have if he were borrowing your hind leg for his evening meal. However, if you suggest that they stop their | vivisecting they're highly indignant They inform you that they're doing it “for the other's best interests.” Believe it not. We interfere be- cause we like to interfere—and be- cause we can get by with it in the family. If we tried it any place els: we'd get a poke in the eye. It isn't love. It's just plain meddling and bad manners. We handle the pianc player with more caution and con- cern that we do our blood kin. It would be, a long sight jollier to be treated as paying guests, Carolina Grits Bread. { Beat one egg with a large cup of cold hominy. Stir one tablespoonful of butter into this and a little salt, then add one pint of fine, washed, raw’ grits, from which the water has been thor- oughly drained and one and one-half cups of water. Mix well and bake in a greased pan for half an hour. Also Maxwell House Tea CHEEK-NEAL COFFEE CO., Nestviitr. DUSTON JACKSCNVILLE RiCKMD Needlework to Do. | The day when every liked to do needlework had a sheaf of colored silks in her work stand is Colored embroidery of some gone. sorts is, of course, still done. ever, there are other kinds of needle- work that are more in vogue. It is intere the ‘length of time that filet lace has been in high fashion, both for the adornment of woman and the . adornment fashion does not dwindle, rather in- “One i: contem s filet lace. plate creases. Just now there is a particular vogue in deep room table. me: of sort of Old English eyelet work is also in The kind that one does with a It should be done on linen, sheer and soft. ckwear especially. Then there are the various fine cro- cheted edges that are used on so many of the luncheon and tea napkins. 2 scallop or a lace, but a little picot vogue. stilleto, fine used for 1 cream Done lace. of her home. thread, with a long knotted fringe at the ends, a s this lace is effective on the living- in white thread or a light cream it forms a beaut| covering for the luncheon table. nber, though, to have the thread very heavy quality, for therein lies the distinction of edge, worked on fine, ini crumbs, chopped ing and the grated rind of half a lemon. Melt one-half ounce of but- toapped o quit afer and ter substitute and add sufficient milk With this contingal e to make the mixture of the right | always w t consistency; season well. Spread | feeling of satisfac ng om an some of the mixture on each slice of roll up and tie Put these olives in a frying. pan with bacon, a_little dripping and cook slowly for 5 ‘minutes. Hope did snort, she|gquares of fried bread and garnish | about with p: Straight line dresses are still very smart and will be worn in the spring. A combination of crepe de chine and sik tricot is favored for separate | ‘AERRLIIEE Bacon Olives. Mix three tablespoonfuls of bread poonful one-fourth oonful of mixed powdered season- one e parsiey. thirty arsley. —_— blouses. t See how the spiral woman who this particular strong linen. Embroidered bath towels, with big Is worked in a diamond frame, are still considered quite smart, and their working is a pleasure, be- cause of their softness. with string. Delicious in the Cup and pure to a leaf "SALAI How- ting to The Ifor the heavy Italian filet lace. This v very easi be imitated, simply lace forms scarfs for the table. 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