Evening Star Newspaper, September 7, 1921, Page 17

WOMAN’S PAGE. EMPIRE GOWNS FOR GIRLS - BY ANNE RITTENHOUSE. The house of Madeleine et Madeleine has made a striking success with cer- tain types of gowns that lengthen the figure and bring the waist line well below the hips. This year as a diver- sion they have created frocks that are more Grecian in line, or rather they gone, to persuade women that any | “C{ters o dinary Person the other day. The 3 v 3 n for poi i \ kind' of girdle will be worn except | ¢rom an mbestdeny aace must differ | wonderful Woman has just issued|You like it that way. . . . | ~ from _the ancient east, or that any|DNas no background upon which to|her first book. It has ten poems— QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS, ._Wash knltted th I b e Il consentito wear a frock thal l‘:g;:‘fons’rhelslacen in;}:glenro’;;‘eus:td db-- ten breathless, blazing, beeyoutiful Ah, Sweet Sixteen! Say ”lgS 1” e EMPIRE FROCK OF BLACK VEL VET FOR YOUNG GIRL. IT IS FINISHED AT THE NECK AND SLEEVES WITH SILVER LACE. may belong to the sweeping drapery of the Italian fourteenth century. Still another attempt to make a decided change from what they have done is shown in a gown for a de- butante, which is of thin black vel- vet trimmed with silver lace, the silhouette belng exactly that of the first empire. with the round neck- line, the puffed sleeves, and the high vaistline drawn under the bust. The skirt reaches the ankles. This alone would be a novelty in another season, but after seeing four thousand gowns Dinner.—Baked potatoes. String (R beans. Spinach. Bran muffins. Wal- S, 2 i Ve wo cups of finely mashed po- ; be at wi 1 £ milk. .S.A. tatoes, add ‘and beat in ‘one table- |art. IUs bound in Persian silk and | &N ou Mell me why e shoula LoD L Us P spoon of butter, a little salt, pepper | the decorations were by the most ex-|fee] undernourished? (Mrs. R. A.) . Requested Recipes. A Subscriber.—The recipe for cold- pack pears appeared in this column on August 11. (Get a back copy of the paper of that date.) Here is the wild cherry jelly: Take one quart of wild cherries and mash them, then Efficient. in three weeks of this season one re- alizes that the novelty is the short ltlr:. ‘The accepted thing is the long skirt. The young girl of the season has quite made up her mind that she likes black, and there are -none so powerful as to deny her the privi- lege of wearing it. The youth wor- ship which is going on in this gen- qration appears to be as powerful as the age worship in China. That is another question, however—one for Mr. Sedgwick of the Atlantic Monthly. The movement is too great to be treated by a fashion writer, but there is no gainsaying the fact that youth worship is definitely worked out through the clothes of this generatien. It has become ap- palling, not that age is often young, but that age attempts to be young in an_impossible manner. But back to this velvet gown of Madeleine et Madeleine. It is a good news item, for it has potentialities. It may create a change in the type of thing that every young woman wears. She has clothed her figure—clothed is a strong word—with a chemise| frock girdled at the hips, or a slim| slip that dripped handkerchief points from every inch of its surface. Such gowns have been s0 universal that they have lost interest. They fail to attract attention. They are consid- ered old and commonplace. This new type of gown does create attention. It is a disturbing factor among all the pretty little fluffy things and the low-walsted things that fall thickly from the eyes of the observer this season. Its suc- HOME ECONOMICS. BY MRS. ELIZABETH KENT. Point Lace Designs. As early as 1528 and 1530 there ap- peared in Italy pattern buoks. for lacemaking in which a great variety of stitches are described and in par- ticular that called “punto in aere” or “point in the air,” which is truly the beginning of point lace. The motifs of this lace were oleander blossoms, elegant wreaths and scrolls, conven- tional foliage of the acanthus type, even figures of people, musical in- The Old Gardener Say: If ants are disfiguring your lawn, try the hot water method to get rid of them. You can do much by making a hole in each ant hill with a crowbar and pouring in hot water, but a simpler way is to scatter small pieces of hard candy around each openin, They will soon be covered With ants, when the hot water should be applied. ‘This program can be repeated until all the ants have feasted upon the candy and met a speedy end. The Idle Housewife. Did it ever occur to you that it re- quires quite a bit of savoir faire and will power for a housewife really to enjoy leisure in her own -home—that is. if 'she has to keep house ina muid- less fashion or with only one maid of all works? It difficult to take your ease with complete relaxation in the living- room which is down on your working schedule for complete cleaning on the morrow. Your eyes do not look at the well-chosen pictures to enjoy the line and color they afford, but with the housewifely wish that yoy won't forget to dust them thoroughly on the morrow. You do not gaze on the books in your bookcase with pleasant memories of the hours you have spent reading, but with a calculating eye to figure out what will be the most satisfactory way of dusting them without scattering the dust. 1t is hard, too, to enjoy to the full dishes of your own cooking, tea of your own brewings And some house- ‘wives, too, always sleep better away from home, on beds that they have not made and sheets that they have not ironed and mended. What you really have to learn to do is to play a double role, to be a auite harmless Dr. Jakyll and Mr. TR (8igned' letters pertajning to personal health and hygl treatment whi be anagered by Dr. Brady if a stamped. el edna written in Ink. Owing to the large number of lefters recelved. only be angwered here. No reply can be made to queries not conforming o instructions. . in care of The Star.) Letters should be brie a few c Address Dr. William Brad. ‘With and Without Cream. The gffect of the drug caffeine, an average: dose of which is contained in eacl ‘cupful of good coffee, is to increase the rate and force of the heart action for two or three hours, to increase the depth and speed of thought for the same length of time, and to increase the elimiantion from the kidneys for about the same length of time. This is a stimulation. But it is an extraordinary stimulation, unlike any other stimulation of which 1 am cognizant, at least, in that there seems to be no appreciable after- depression attached to it. As a rule when we apply stimulants, medicinal of otherwise, with mensurable effect, there is inevitably also an after-de: Dression or slowing down of the or- gen_or function which has ‘been riven by the stimulus. In the case f coffee, and in less degree of tea 1so, the period of stimulation is clearly marked, but ev&n with instru- ments of precision it is difficult to note any compensatory after-depres- sion. This s peculiar to coffee and tea, so far as I know, and these bless- ings to mankind are therefore fully entitled to the esteem in which they are held throughout civilization. When coffee is permitted to boil, even for a few seconds, the boiling extracts from the coffee grains con- cess is Indetermined. Velvet may ap- | struments, and lana: 3 siderable tannin (tannic acid), which pear to be too serious a fabric for | ot SHG AndsEapes. artexithe) Hyds icombination. JDuring working | is an abomination to the stomach and youth, but one thing seems to be p lacemaking _they |Pours you ] 21| which also destroys the delicate flavor proved by the collections. which is that the fabric Js not making much|for old laces, “point:de Venise,” or |Wwork You have done and act and feel [ p2% BrOUERL O¥C B, & 008! or tet | ohildren find that out they surely| YeRice point, and the many “points |the part of the idler. it stand a little while before heating, will adopt it for themselves. They de France,” which covers point and remember that a pot that have,, as it is, a consciousness of their | d’'Alencon, de Bri . shouldn’t boil must be watched. (Va- uxelles, d’Argentan, own importance in putting certain dominant fashions into power. Black {velvet will appeal to youth without fail, for it represents to them the | kind of thing they have been forbid- den. Enough said. 1t is difficult, so far as affairs have is not snugly held in at the hipline, vet here comes this black velvet model with its utter reversal of what is accepted. The mannequin who wore it came in for much praise, for there has been an undue amount of uni- formity among this_seakon's frocks, and one lifts an eyebrow at the con- stant assertion that each designer over here works in secret, evolving a silhouette from the fervency of her | imagination. It is odd that one does not see more velvet. There is so much crepe that the eye wearies of it. Some of it is embossed, some of it is plain, in order to give a neutral background to the gorgeous girdle and the huge bril- liant sleeves. In the iatter depart- ment of dress the designers have gone to the Elizabethan era. Red and purple and green chiffon, with jeweled embroideries, silver galloons and nov- elties of peltr® have contributed to arm coverings in so lavish a manner that the onlooker almost forgets to observe the skirt, the bodice, the belt. top milk or cream. Mix and sift one and one-half cups of flour, one cup granulated sugar and two teaspoons baking powder. Put both liquid and dry mixtures into a bowl'and beat all together hard for five minutes. Then bake in buttered cup-cake pans for ten minutes in a hot oven. Mrs. P. K.—Old-Time Chow Chow: gave the names which we still use and d’Angleterne, and many others, for lacemakers from Itaiy, England and Flanders brought designs from their countries to France and taught them to the French lacemakers in the villages that later became famous centers of various point laces. planned from the beginning. Har- monious unity, balance of the open and close portions of the cobwebby fabric, graceful and coherent curves along the edges, and lightness and flexibility must all be remembered as basic principles in designs for point lace. The unit of design may, of course, be repeated as often as de- sired, but each unit should be a com- plete bit of lace, and it is this unity which gives point lace its peculiar distinction. Point lace has almost always been made with white thread. The needle seems to despise fantastic threads of color or gold or silver. Its work is fine and crisp, and white thread suits it as white marble suits the sculp- tor’s tool. (Copyright, 1921.) Chicken Jambolaya. Disjoint and prepare a fowl for fricassee; cover it in a stew pan with one quart of boiling water -and let simmer an hour. Sprinkle a cupful of washed rice over the top of the chicken. Add half a cup of minced ham, a teaspoonful of salt and a little pepper. Cover and cook slowly until the rice has absorbed all the water and is tender, with each grain sepa- rate. and celery salt, two teaspoons of chopped parsley and one-half tea- spoon of onion juice. Whem-gheae are well mixed, stir in a well-be&ten egg, or as much of it as is required to make the potato just firm enough to handle easily. Form into croquettes of any desired shape, dip in beaten egg and bread crumbsand cook a golden brown in hot fat. worker, and when relaxation hours come you must forget all about the LISTEN, WORLD! BY ELSIE ROBINSON. The Wonderful Woman met the Or- poems, mostly about hearts squirm- ishing around in the moonlight or manly spirits in the grip of various kinds of spiritual cramps. You can't understand a good deal of it, and the part you can understand makes you pensive paint spreader procurable. So naturally the Wonderful Woman has taken to clinging draperies and a new pale green make-up, and is only to be seen in rooms scented with a certain kind of incense. She would never have met the Or- dinary Person at all had not the Ordinary Person been her washer- woman.” The Ordinary Person has just had her fifth baby—five bawl- ing, babbling, buxum babies, each one full of an : o ¥ A z infinite number of POSSi 2dd three medium-sized apples cut | me ol BecK B O lavge Things You'll Like to bilities that may cause the whole small and turn this mixture into the | onions, one cup salt, one ounce cel- Make. Torld to sit up and take notice. J preserving kettle, adding no. water Let it simmer until the apples are soft, then strain through jelly bag, and to one cup of this juice add one cup of sugar. Boil sugar and juice until the jelly stage is reached, then turn into hot, sterilized glasses and cover, when cold, with melted paraffin. 3 F. H—Here is the recipe for rich sponge cake which you wished, and also a_simpler recipe: Rich Sponge : Cake—Beat the yolks of six eggs till thick and lemon-colored, then add » gradually (beating constantly) one cup granulated sugar, one tablespoon lemon juice, rind of one-half lemon. stifly whipped whites of six eggs and one cup flour sifted with one- fourth teaspoon salt. (The flour should be sifted in lightly when the whites ‘are partly mixed with the yolk mix- ture, and the folding motion should be gentle.) Turn into an angel cake pan or a deep, narrow pan, and bake sixty minutes in a slow oven. This is a genuine sponge cake; by “genuine” I mean that it contains no rising prop- erties but is made light by the amount of air beaten into the egg yolks and Whites and by the expansion of that air in baking. The following recipe is mot a “genuine” sponge cake, be- cause it contains baking powder, but it is a reasonable, simple cake, not too rich for a child to eat Children's Sponge Cake.—Break two eggs into a cup and fill the cup with Expressive Eyes. A little incident that happened the other day impressed me so much that 1 think it quite worth passing on to some of my readers. I stopped| in at the home of an old friend whose daughter had just returned from a summer vacation and who was about to go to another city to 2take up some social work. She had been in college four years, and, 1 believe, graduated last June. 1 last saw her a couple of years ago she was a complete nonentity, the sort of girl that you meet again and again and forget as soon as you are away from her. She has nice enpugh features, but a perfectly blank face ‘When | ery seed. four ounces white mustard seed, one gill grated horseradish, three quarts cider vinegar, two pounds brown sugar and two tablespoons ground pepper. Chop the tomatoes, cabbage and onions and mix them with the cup of salt; let stand in this way over night. In the morning drain and add the spices, mixing them in well. Now boil the vinegar and i sugar together for five minutes and pour it, boiling hot, over the spiced vegetables. Fill hot, sterilized glass jars with this mixture at once, let stand till cold. then seal. Here is the other recipe you want: Tomato Catsup.—Twelve medium- size ripe tomatoes, two teaspoons mixed spices without cloves (the mixed spices come in small boxes at most grocery stores), one tea- spoon ground cloves, three teaspoons mustard, one pint vinegar. two pounds granulated sugar, nine medium-sized onio Core and slice the tomatoes (do not peel them) and boil them in two cups of water till soft. Then strain them through a‘wide-meshed sieve and add this strained part to the chopped onions, the sugar and the spices. Let all boil for one hour, then add the pint of vinegar and let boil one hour longer. Let cool. then bot- tle. (This is ome of my original pickling recipes and the houukeeperi | f who tries it will, I believe. use it each year. It is fine on baked beans, spaghetti and cold meats.) sunshine. This should be done easily by the girls who live suburban or in the country, as they always look well ‘going about without a hat in their informal way of living. One season of this treatment will beautify the shade of any hair, even though it is almost lifeless. HC—All the Persian shades will be the mo: becoming to you; in fact, you will be able to revel in rich coloring and be a most striking per- son. : ; —_— A frock of black velvet has its| skirt slashed in panels that the un.l | Gerpanels of black silk fringe and jet may appear to advantage. HICKORY Hand-Embreidered Socks ./ NS\ A Kaglo— Hand-embroidered socks are very sweet with little party frocks. can make these yourself. plain silk socks. At intervals over the socks embroider small rosebuds in pink, blue or yellow silk. It would be lovely to have a pair of hand-em- broidered socks to match each wee frock. FLORA. (Copyright, 1921.) —_— Queen Pudding. Rub one tablespoon of butter and one cup of sugar to a cream. Beat in the yolks of four eggs. Soak in one quart of milk two cups of very fine bread crumbs, after having been put through the food chopper. Beat them into the eggs and buttered sugar and when light pour the mixture into a buttered baking dish. Bake until the center is well set, draw to the oven door and sprinkle with any kind of berries covered with powdered sugar. Spread this over with a meringue made of the whites of the four eggs, stiffened with a little powdered sugar. Brown slightly and serve cold with cream. _ Creamed Parsnips. Wash and scrape half a dozen good- sized parsnips. Cut crosswise in half or quarter inch slices and cover in a saucepan with a pint and a half.of hot water to which has been added a heaping teaspoon of salt. Cook gent- 1y for about three-fourths of an hour, or until tender. Drain off the water, add a tablespoon of granulated sugar, a heaping tablespoon of butter and four tablespoons of sweet cream and place on the stove until the cream boils up. Mash fine with a potato masher, heap on a dish, place in the guen until a delicate brown and serve ot. = You | Take any | ations are not bound in Persian silk. They're just covered, somehow, with patched cotton, yellow soap, backyard cenery, sunshine and bread'n jam Naturally the Ordinary Person’s ef- forts are not getting much apprecia- tion from the world in general. Com- mon things, babies! Any one can have a baby. But a book—that's dffferent! So ‘when the Wonderful Woman met the Ordinary Person she sniffed and inquired .n a mournful, pale mauve voice why the washing wasn't home yet. Quite right! Quite right! Only I wonder what would happen if they ever turned an inspector of weights and measures loose among our souls! A tailored suit of fur? Do you know that entire tailored costumes are now being made of soft supple furs? of the coffee. The aroma of coffee rious percolators make fairly good coffee, 1 agree, but I can see no im provement on the old-fashioncd rot). I take mine with all the crean the time and place afford, and all th sugar I dare shovel in. However, it is just as beneficial, from the hygienic viewpoint, without cream or sugar, if I am sixteen years old and have heavy, long, curly hair. It is time for me to do my hair up now, as I am soon to enter college. But when I do my hair up it gives me a headache, it seems so heavy. Would it be wise to bob my hair? Do you think it would grow long again in a few years? (L. A) Answer.—Impatient youth! Why do your hair up? No regulation about that to any college worth the name. If_you have the hair bobbed now it will be a discouraging burden for years. Vegetarian Diet. 1 tried.a vegetarian diet and bene- fited so much by it that I induced my husband to try'it for the summer months. He was eight pounds below average weight, but generally well In three weeks he has lost three pounds. He does quite heavy work. He says he does not seem to have the energy he had when he ate meat every day. but has no more intestin: trouble. "This is a sample of his daily regimen Breakfast—Orange. Pwo scrambled eggs. Corn muffins. Two cups of cocoa. s s Lunch.—Two whole wheat bread lettuce sandwiches. Three glasses of milk. Answer.—It is not a vegetarian diet. Eggs are meat. Milk is meat. I think it would be better for a man doing considerable work to eat some roast | | MODEL C WAS $37 50 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER Personal Héalth Service | /.. By WILLIAM BRADY, M: D- Noted Physician and Author - Here is the vacuum sweeper you’ve been hearing so much about — the marvelous Vacuette Non-Electric Suction Sweeper! And now offered at a remarkable wonderful success of the Vacugtte— the big increase in the sale, together 7, 1921.° Cire flowers at the girdle give the necessary touch of black on a dinner gown of white georgette crepe. A frock scalloped bands and a little scalloped jacket of “duck” blue linen. of white organd . That Brisk, Rich Flavour found in every cup of the genuine not to disease’diagnosis or idressed envelope is inclosed. beef, mutton or other meat every day or two. But eggs are meat from every point'of view. Your husband probably requires a more generous or substantial lunch, as to quantity. . / Not in the Air. :Is measles contracted through con- tact with the person having the dis- ease, or through the air? My child has been exposed, but the mother of the measles patient insists the dis- ease is not conveyed by contagion but only through the air—breathing the breath of the patient. (Mrs. S.EY Answer.—Not through the air, but from the virus present in the droplets of spray thrown off by coughing, sneezing, talking or laughing. H285 HISK two tablespoonfuls of Lux into thick lather in half a bowlful of very hot water. Add cold water until lukewarm. Dip garments up and down, pressing suds repeatedly through soiled spots. Do not rub. Rinse inthree I | lukewarm waters. Squeeze water out—do not wring. | Stretch garment to shape, and spread on an old towel to dry. Woolens should be dried in an even temperature. i | COLORED WOOLENS. Have suds and rinsing waters i ! barely lukewarm. Wash quickly to keep colors from run- ! ning. Lux won’t cause any color to run that water alone ‘ won’t cause to run. The makers of The Fleisher Yarns LLIX - ¢ Non-Electric Suction Sweeper price reduction! The sweeper, even with those Nothing Else Like It! Cleans Better! Easier fo Operate! Sensational Success—0ver 150,000 Enthusiastic Users from $28.65. only $29.85—reduced from $37.50. If it were not for the fact that the Vacuette is the su; it is, it would not low a price. New model “C” now -excellent sweeper that possible to sell it at so Just compare the Vacuette with any other costing twice as MODEL B WAS $2862 nl Guarantee on Both Models ‘We, the Scott & Fetzer Co., manufacturers, Cleveland, Ohio, send with every Vacuette a ke S B s our guarantee that it e e s Hareiyouiscenithe dever with lower cost of manufacture, makes much, aid you willsee that money could not | Sa beem thorongy hange in her, wondering exactly Lreepiececostumest 1ot possible this reduction. Look at the bUY you more in & vacuum sweeper, DoRt | testedandisfnperfect Where this new prettiness came from. achieve, with much fur and ices for the V: tte. Model & of buyin, eeper until || cond that The regular features were just the litele cloth, the effect of flefl prices for the Vacuette. el you have tried out the Vacuette. And this || within the period of a ame, the skin was just as pale and O Gty S0 GiEss & B’’ now onlycostsyou$21.50—reduced you can do wholly at our risk and expense. || yearany part becomes clear, but her face now was the face being entirely made of fur? \ detoctive due to fault Mtarward. ‘Then I discovered that the Do you know that many of e whole change was In her eyes, which, instead of being blank, had become animated and expressive. And this small but important change made her GIRLS F OR AND BOYS the smartest women will prefer these for daytime wear in place of the more d stamped aluminum ‘which makes for extra Ask for FREE Just phone us and we’ll send a Vacuette to Demonstration The very minute you see the Vacuette at it free of charge to the purchaser. ‘The Vacuette will give service for years— "SALADA" TE.A is the true flavour of the perfectly preserved leaf. 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