Evening Star Newspaper, January 5, 1923, Page 30

50 WOMAN’S PAGE. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C: S—— 5 (0KS IN HOME LIBRARY GIVE | Pins were once sold only on the Ist and 2nd of January That was five hundred years ago when pins were so expensive none but the wealthy could afford to buy them, so it became the custom to give brides! money to buy pins — and ever since women have valued Pin Money ~—the money they spend for | various little luxuries. Hundreds of women — “good managers”—have found that by fiucoa ‘The Healthful Spread for Bread they not only have the most delicatelyand deliciouslyflavored of all the spreads but that they save enough to add handsomely to their Pin Money. Nucoa costs {;m about half as much as the ighest priced of the animal fats. On old Pin Money Days—the | 1st and 2nd of January—be sure to try Nucoa. It will delight you and your family as a Spread for bread, will make everything pre- pared with it better, and you'll start the New Year with extra Pin Money. N. B. Nucoa is guaranteed. Your ocer will refund your money if you don’t find Nucoa the perfect THE NUCOA BUTTER CO. SOLD EVERY WHERE YZON BAKING POWDER You use.{ess INDIGESTION 1! STOMAGH UPSET, ATE T00 MUGH Instantly! Stop Gas, Sourness, Heartburn, Stomach Misery Chew a few pleasant, harmless tab- lets of “Pape’ssDiapepsin” and your distressed stomach will feel fine at once. Correct your digestion and ease | your stomach for a few cents. Don’s letgyour stomach keep you miser able! Druggists recommend it. Good to the last drop fihe fate of t}xe luncheon may be predestined by the hostess who will only take the pains to see that Maxwell House is served. Hair Often Ruined By Careless Washing Soap should be used very carefully, if you want keep your hair looklng its best. Many soaps and prepared shampoos contain 100 much free alkali. This dries the scalp, to makes the hair brittle, and ruins it. The best thing for steady use is Mulsified eocoanut ol shampoo (which s pure and greaseless), and is better than anything else Jou can use. Two or three teaspoonfuls of Mulsified in * cup or glas with a little warm water is suficient to cloanse the hair and scalp thor- oughly. Eimply moisten the hair with water a0d rub the Mulsified in. Tt makes an abun- dauce of rich, creamy lather. which rinses out canily, removing every paricle of dust, dirt, dandrull apd excess ol Tie hair drics quickly and evenly, and it leaves the scalp soft, avd the hair fine and wilky. bright, fus- trous, fluffly and easy to manage You can get Mulsified cocosnut oil shampoo . at any pharmacy, it is vers cheap, and a few , ounces will supply every member of the fam- ily for months. Bo sure your druggist gives Fou Mulsified.—Advertisement. | | i | { ORM the reading habit, no mat- ter how busy you are. There is no one too busy, except in rare cases, to give to general reading at least half an hour each jday. To have a definite system for reading is very important in order to get the most for one's time. There is a vast amount of good reading ma- terial, but it would take more than jone lifetime fo read it all. so that, no matter how rapld a reader a person may be, he must choose carefully to get the best from his reading: The accumulation of books for the family library should be slow and careful. Cheap reprints, with poor type and binding, should be avoided unless economy forces you to them or nothing. No list of “bes {books” can be more than an expres- sion of individual opinion. The books, however good, will not be the bes for every family. The natural and family, their education and al caliber all help to determine what their library should contain. It |should” fit them ‘as their home fits them Every | tami miliar the f ume hi book on the shelves of the ought to suggest fa- and pleasant association of an old friend. New should be chosen h literary standards and should mise special benefits and pleasure Complete_sets standard novels {by Scott, Dickens or Thackeray, for {instance, are by no means ne | Their greatest novels would serve th actual needs of most homes. P in fiction, so in his needs of the family should n vol- ry, the be the inexpensive text book of Roman history. for in: stance, may be more valuable in tk brary than the many volumes sbons' history. The same thing {is true in regard to Dickens' “Child" of > library than the same tained " in of on of Di England nd ¢ also a valuable addi | tollow the ing For the boy of the fami biography {Is inspiring reading if it selecte { With his tastes in view and consists {of lives of men of action. To him ialso popular science is often more | fascinating than fiction. i How to Read. 1 The person who jis able to enjoy jthe best books of all kinds comes | the nearest to being a perfect reader. ;Thf-rr is no reason why our admi- ration for creditable cotemporary { work should be allowed to displace our enjoyment of the masterpieces which have been bequeathed the centuries. The gr ng new boo ad old ones. What s uot the judgme label of “classic” a is the unaffected delight that iues to give to the hearts of nt ¢ it eom peo A common excuse given who read little is that time for reading. However, it is good will, concentration and quick- ness, not leisure or unlimited oppor- tunity, which have always performed |the greatest wonders in this useful 'pursuit. As a rule, the widely read- & person is not an indolent person. To be well read one should read |little of everything and a great deal jon some subjects. If you do not hav pid reading by nature you should acquire it by practice. There are some readers who do not see to be able to acquire the art, but there are others who can take in the impr. sion of paragraphs or pages almost at a glance, the eye running along {the line with great rapidity and leap- ing to the more important phrases {as if by instinct. The eye soon gains the power of taking in words in {groups instead of separately. How {large a group one's glance can man- age varles the subject. o of the main distinc- tions of a clever reader is that with- lout varying as to intensity he vari Imost indefinitely as to pace. B: gulating the pace one may cov. 1 astonishing amount of ground in Skimming and rapid read- by those the faculty of is also some- hok, maga atter that you want | to remember, you should follow Macau- 1 la, the English historfan’s, method. i which was to read a page and then turn away from matter on that page. This takes time, but it fixes it in the mind more thor- oughly than any other way will do. 1t is also a good plan to jot down in the back of every book that you read {your own private index of what the |book has of special interest for you. [ This may seem mechanical, but the per ¢ Tastes, Education and Capacity as - Readers—Literary Test. ake | acquired tastes of the members of a their like | cording to us by they have no | ith the serlousness of especially | MUCH PLEASURE AND BENEFIT, |Selections Should Be Based on Family 1 of a hook. Any volume fresh from the | bindery has a natural tendency to stay closed. The usual to overcome it is by jerking the book open in_ the middle " until there comes a creaking break somewhere in the binding. After book s open, but before any months the leayes begin to loosen | om the thr The right way to! in” a book is to lay it on its| on a table and then open only leaves at a time alternately at the front and at the back, until vou reach the middle of the volume. Do not keep your place by opening a book until the ‘covers meet and then lay it down still open. Limp leather. volumes may stand such treatment. those bound in stiff covers will not. Almost as bad is the practice of | keeping your place by putting be- | tween the leaves some bulky obje such as a ball of yarn or a jack- knife. “A paper bookmark is best Hasty cutting of the leaves of | ! 1 but | a book has left many a_damuged edge: for instance, when a boy uses a pen- | ¢ll or a girl the handy hairpin. | Turning down the corner of a page | to mark a certain p: ge leaves its | trail of dog-eared unsightliness. As' for reading with hands that leave { thumb prints. that is inexcusable, | Paper covers are useful in presery- |ing the fresh appearance of boolks, persons object to the ap- ind_feeling of covered However, for those who have | 1o objection to them, covers are | reat protection, especially on books sed by children. Nothing 18 better ary brown paper. 1f the 4 tendeney to slip off from se gummed labels to hold it | A ook hook should be covered sileloth, Rooms in which books Kept |should not be subjected to extremes either of heat and cold or dampness and dryness. If a book is left ve long near artificlal heat and consequent loosening place just as surely of furniture. Leaving a book con- antly in sunshine will have the ame effect and, in addition. will fade vers. Damp places should also | ided on a of mildew. injuric xtreme moisture be is all to well known by per- who have tried to keep a li- | 800d condition on & fogg Tobacco smoke and K 1 are injurious to books The man who has retired to his 1i- brary and gazed at the backs of h favorite valuable books clouds of tobacco smoke may hav. been building castles in the air. but he has also been injuring the bind- ings of his books. Placing of Shel hould never be put up! wall. nor the books There should al- the air to of the bo. yokcas rould 1d amp the - t a book firm { with 1 are shrinkage will take | as with a piece may sons . Booksh close against floor. T from Libra ieft open at 1 but war ventilation the kcases are made without curtain will keep out tonishing amount of dust Delicately bound books, or those with paper backs, may be easily| cleaned when dusty or finger-marked, | 1by rubbing gently with pulverized | pumice stone. Occasionally every book should be taken from the shel or bookcase and dusted, and before| putting the books back the shelves! should be washed with warm water| and turpentine, and when they dry a littie cedar oil should be ap n days. not be weathe ht or in weath \ bl Ao, put some an dd weight araffin {and the wax will melt. Put a little of this preparation on a piece of flannel | and work it well into the binding of | book. Do mnot leave books for | long in a slanting position on It or they will become “lop- To make an Inexpensive bookcase, get from your grocer four empty fruit crates, each about twentv-four inches long. Nail these one above the | other and remove the slats from the | front of each crate. Coat with ddr'\" brown paint, or any other color vou wish. This will make a good four sectional bookcase. Hang a silk o cretonne curtain in front of the for protection An oblong pack deep. would also b aice a good ben Remove the cover and stund box on the small end. Have ives placed at intervals in the box | to hold the books. Paint the box and place a curtain on rods in front of the | from the book and write memory the substance of the process will justify itself by the far from mechanical mastery to which it leads Gare of Your Books. Many persons give little or no atten- ition to the proper treatment of book: | You should show the same consideration for your own books that you would { expect _of any one to whom you might {lend them. If the contents of a book jare valueless, the book ought not to be in your library, but if it is a work of real value its body, no less than its soul. deserves your affectionate con- sideration. . A _common habit is breaking the ba l { ! { 1é07 So completely has the definition of the term house dress been changed that even buyers in the House-dress department of the big stores find themselves wondering “When is a house dress a house dress.” So pretty have they become that many women feel a bit extravagant wearing them about the house. But if you are handy you can make just as pretty ones as vou see in the i stores for very little cost of money and time. . Very pretty, vet simple and eas; to make. is the house-dress shown. The surplice collar of a cone trasting material such as white lawn always will be found flattering to the face. Madé. of a cretonne or Japanese crepe at 25 cents per vard and lawn for collar at the same price per yard, the garment would cost about $1.30. Ju think of it! You coyld make { ' — i Mr. Butts, returning from the marts at 6:10, being gsked by Mrs. Butts if he mailed that jetter she gave | him the last thing as he left this morning. Your Home and BY HELEN KENDALL. Label It. the most important safe- guards that every homemaier should t that of putting an accurate laby ery bottle. jar. oth ner in the house. It is the easiest thing in the world ot to do thu We empty the corn starch from the paper box into a sealed glass jar, and let it go at that. We know that the fine white powder is cornstarch, but no one else knows it; and if we should be suddenly taken ill and a relative or neighbor enters our kitchen to render One of r conta kindly help, slie does not know whether the powder is baking soda, powdered sugar, cornstarch or plaster of paris! If she tastes it to find out, and it should be the Iast named, be to her. Many of the awful tragedies result- ing from taking poison by mistake are due to unlabeled or carelessly labeled bottles or boxes. And even when there is no danger attaching to uncertainty as to the contents of a container, there is inconvenlence and loss of time. A brown quart bottle with an old vinegar label on it may hold turpentine, or gasoline, or denatured alcohol. It must be sniffed and the sniff analyzed cau- iously, before it can be accurately identifled. Recently an abandoned maple sirup can was found to contaln lue, which the man of the house had been using in his carpenter tinkering. woe | The glue was all but poured on the s buckwheat cakes! The label tor maple sirup and said nothing whatever about glue. mmed labels are to be had in the t convenient of boxcs nowadays at very slight expense, and one of the very first tasks of the mew year yn the part of the housewife, should he to see that every unlabeled con- accurately marked. From the medicine chest in the bathroom to the kitchen closet, and from ‘the prescrve shelves in the cellar to the llection of paint cans in the wood- ed, every powder, liquld and solid should be correctly named in plain letters that no one can mistake. Put labels, too, on boxes of summer curtains; on hat boxes with father’ last summer straw and daughter’ spring sport hat; on bags contalning various kinds of laces, ribbons, mend- ing scraps and so on, 50 that the one thing wanted in a hurry can be pulled out without opening half a dozen other things first. 1n fact, don't leave the contents of any container in the house subject to guess work. Label it! Lemon Mince Meat. Take four lemons, pare them thin and boll rind until tender in a small quantity of water. Squeese the juice on two cupfuls of sugar, add one pound of ocurrants, one pound of chopped raisins, one pound of apples baked and lhra-fnllr;hl Wundfloal ho suet. op the lemon rin P Pive use the waSer It 1 bolled n Add two nutmegs and other spices if preferred. Candied peel should be added when the pies are made. this pretty house frock in about an afternoon. The pattern No. 1607 cuts in sizes 36, 88, 40, 42 and 44 inches bust meas- ure. 'Sise 36 requires 3% yards 36- inch material with 1% yards $2-inch stamps Orders should tern 22 East 18th etrect, Frice of puttern 15 cents tn somtaze o ad- dressed to Wi Star Pat. New York . Plense write name and address clegriy. «Coprright. 1828.) Ornamental Patches at Elbows BY ANNE RITTENHOUSE. Certain sets of dressmakers spend 2 ' on They the are vital amount of ingenuit formation of new sleeves. doing it now. In fashlon, as in physical there is usually tranquillity | stor The black crepe de {chemise frock with a bathing- | sleeve satisfled women for three vears and the choosing of a frock became a matter of slight anxiety. Suddenly clothes began to be pic- turesque, covered with ornaments, gorgeous, fantastic and of infinite va- riety. 1t ‘is to be expected that sleeves i1d share in the general restless- No one wants the bathing-suit sleeve ‘when a dosen othérs are to Ibe had for the asking. The dress- {makers are no longer content with :\ hat has existed. They go on cre- |ating new arm coverings in order to {increase v ety and strengthen the elling power gowns. The long medieval siceve fitted to the arm, flaring over the hand, re- peasant sleeve gathered to a. low arm- hole at the top and to a tight cuff at hand. There are Venetian sleeves, which fit the arm the whole length, then suddenly burst into ruffies at the elbow, some standing up., others down.” Medi sleeves there are which open at the elbow in a wide jtriangle. Others are slashed from shoulder to wrist. fastened with link buttons or tiny ribbon bows at regu- lar intervals, which is another ancient {fashion. There is alfo-an effort to reinstate the long sleeve that but i tons down the back from shoulder to ,hand, but'so far it has had little suc- ! ce: ‘ ceves do not exist in the evening {Only the artistic individualist covers the arms, and even then she uses gigantic $quares of transparent tissue or silver embroidered tulle. The reason for the entirely exposed arm in the evening is the continued fashion for bracelets. Although our Tomen do not follow ~the French lon of slipping a n- of more colored_bracelets on i‘g:'m they a the anclent and ortental fash- twisting a string of 13 be- lom he, Jibow. Sometimes ~ the drapery of the skirt is caught to the wrist with a tight bracelet of pearis. If one adopts the second empire evening gowns of stiff taffeta, the top of the arms are covered by a deep silver lace bertha. If one pre- fers the Louis XVI bodice, pointed in front, its elbow sleeves are finished with deep lace ruffies caught.with a bow of biue ribbon at back, - The sketch shows a curfous sleeve, PAM'S PARIS POSTALS PARIS, December 23.—Dear Ursula: This perfume is called “Pierrot” and the bottle. with its stopper and white frill round its neck, looks just like its namesake at a distance. PAMELA. Orange or Lemon Punch. Dissolve one and one-fourth pounds of sugar in one quart of bofling water and add the grated rind of one lemon and one oran Grate only the vel- low rind, as the least bit of the white will make it bitter. Stir in two ta- blespoonfuls of _gelatin that has soaked for one hour in one-half a cupful of water, Simmer for five min- utes until the gelatin is thoroughly dissolved, then take from the fire. When cold, put into the freeser, but do not turn rapidly. Serve in punch glasses. Nut and Fruit Salad. Take equal quantities of diced can- ned pineapple and@giwhite seeded grapes, one-half quantity of pecan: nut meats andef marshmal- lows and some may#nnaise dressing. Seed and_slice the. es and slice the marshmallow. add the nut meats and pineappls. Two hours be. fore serving mix the ingredients e ‘that & apoon Ca :n portion as it erved. rve on lettuce leaves.' Use lemon jufee in the dressing instead of vine- ‘J | | | tains its prestige. but its rival is the | | | THIS NEW SLEEVE SHOWS AN IN- | TERESTING TRICK IN° DECORA- TION. AN EMBROIDERED PATCH 18 TIED OVER THE ELBOW WITH NARROW RIBBON. THE BLOUSE HAS AN EMBROIDERED PATCH ON ONE HIP TO SHOW THE PATCHING WAS PURPOSEFUL. which_ began as. a jest, one would hink, but remains an accepted fash- on. "It is tight from shoulder to wrist and decorated with an embroid- ered patch. which is tied over the elbow with narrow ribbon. There is a similar patch at the hip to show that the dressmaker was following out a scheme—that the patched elbow | was really intended. Any woman can make such a patch and tie it on. The fear is that too many will do it. TBistory of Pour Name. BY PHILTP FRANCIS NOWLAN. | AUSTIN. | VARIATIONS—Austen, Auston. RACIAL ORIGIN—English. SQURCE—A given name. Superficially there would secm (o be g00d reason for assuming that the family names in this group are what are known.as. “place’ names; that is to say, that their derivation has ‘been geographical, that the “ton” in" Auston ts' simply the word “town,” as in the names of Huntington or Littleton, and that Austin and Austort are but varied spellings of it . But one very good evidence that thi at least in the great majority iS the fact that the form which is overwhélmingly more frequent than the others is Austin.. But this evidence is mot really needed, for the many records, fragmentary and other- wise, preserved from medieval times in England, show beyond a doubt thé true origin, which, barring the exceptional cases which always crop up now and then, lies in the given name of Austin, or, as it is spelled in the famous “Hu dred Rolls,” a document which hi been tremendously important in settiin he homenclature of medieval England, As a given name it was brought into England by the Norman-French. became a family name first by such methods 2s the addition of “son” or the prefixing of “fits,” which was the Norman-French equivalent of the -An- glo-8axon “son,” the Scandinavian (m he or_ “ua” ‘ap.” or the “son’ combina. in the. middle of thé name made it 4 little clumsy of pro- 'nuncination, as the English trend of the tongue developed (try it voursalf), and 5o T was senerally snortened again for ease’of pronunciation, a natural tend- enc: At:the time of Qu .n‘ Elizabeth th tion, Redfield Proctor, the.new Governer-of Vermont, is the third member of his family to be honored with the torial chair, his father, the late Senator Proctor, his brother, - Fletcher D. Proctor, heving held the office. FEATURES. B W"elcome Robin Causes Much Excitement. - “Have charity in times of stress ¥or those Who mothing may powsess. —TYarmer Brown's Bor. Peter Rabbit was right about Farm-| er Brown's Boy. The very first thing | he did on the morning after the ice! storm was to see that the food shelves| he had placed in the Ol Orchard were | well supplied with fdod for his feath- | ered friends and for Happy Jack the Gray Squirrel and Chatterer the Re: Squirrel. Fresh suet was put up in| the trees and on the food shelves were | bread crumbs, cracked corn, sunflow er ‘seeds, nut meats and small. sceds | of various kinds. He was wise enough to have several dod shelves, 8o that there mught not! be any quarreling over-the food. Ail| that morning there was a happy gath- ering in the Old Orchard. Tommy Tit the Chickadee, Yank Yank the Nut-| hatch, Seep Seep the Brown Crecper. Dotty the Tree Sparrow and Sammvy | Jay “were there.. Even Blacky - the ‘row paid the Old Orchard & i when he had made quite sure that it} s safe to do so. Happy Jack and | Chatterer were three. Over in the barnyard Bob White and his family | feasted on grain Farmer Brown's Boy | had put out for them. i It was nearly noon when Welcome | Robin arrived. My, such excitement | as there was among all the little peo- | ple when he was discovered. ¥ou | see, none of them knew that he had not gone to the Bunny South as usual | that winter. So when he first ap- | peared it was hard for them (o be-| eve that they saw what they did see How their tongues did fiy! Of course, they wanted to know all about it | They wanted to know why Welcom had remained, where he had Geen | keeping himeelf, what he had been | living on and ever € many other things. But for a while Welcome couldn't angwer questions. He was (oo bi eating. My, how good it Jid scem to have a change of food anl ull be wanted of it! He ate and ate until he couldn’t hold another bit. He felt| like 2 new bird. No longer did he! mind Jack Frost. You see, with pler ty of food in his stomach, he no long- | er _feit the cold. Now, of course, ! the exciteme, } I i 1 l BY JOSEP! jthis happiness 1n such impassioned words the| Gomtesse de Nicoleon addressed the | soldier of fortune, John Paul Jones. | John Paul Jones and “Delia. ! “Command your mistress; give me | PR The comtesse was beautiful, the wife {of a highly placed emiesary to France | trom Holland, rich and surrounded b embcrs of the most navy. John Paul first American fighters. ya remarkable man in that, aside fro his adventurous inst which !placed him on the sca he age of itwelve, he was educated. polished. | possessed a charming manner, a good | | conversationalist_and made Jatr verse {when properly inspired by beauty. After Jones had served brilllantly in' the new Continenta! Navy, he put | himself In the service of Catherine of | Russia. The Intrigues of Catherine’s court disgusted him and he went tol Paris, his favorite city, and died there of_dropsy. { " Two women loved Tones | recordea as loving onl de Telion. But love I among his effects show to tent existed the attachment between him and the Comtesse de Nicolson, | whom he called “Delia,” after a sen- timental poem of the time. “Pardon me, oh, my beloved,” wrote | the comtesse while tears stained the | sheet, “if I am Indiscreet, but I am | tortured with fears on your account, fears which I felt at L'Orlent, but which, observing your reticence . on EDTIME STORIES By Thornton 'W. Burgess. among the other birds was soon 1o ticed by Farmer Brown's Boy. and of couree he went over to the Old Or chard to_sce what it was about At once he saw Welcome he was quite as surprised as any one taere. “Well, well, well!” “Wherever did you come from, come Robin? You are the last 1 expected to see here on a da this. 1t must be that you hav:: down in the cedar swamp all nd exci he exclaimed. We time. That of where 1 suppose that it was h any berries there aft and that is what drove vou 1 am glad vou had senke «n come. Yes, siree. 1 am glad sense enough to come. just stay around here 1 have to go hungry that there is alw. tood vou like best Of “course, Welcome understand this, but he d. stand that Farmer Brown's a friend. And his eyes grew with pleasure as he looked down Farmer Brown's Boy. He bexan chirp, but those chirps were no lo mournful. They were cherry. were almost joyous (Copyright, 1023, by T. W. Burgess.) Love Letters That Made Historv H KAYE. all such matters, I never dared to ex- press. I am told that neither your- self nor your people aro paid. In the name of the love which is consuming me, command me if I can be of anv service to vou, I have diamondsand possessiors of all sorts and could easily realize the amount. Commar vour mistress: give me this happ ness—to me who would fly to your assista Twenty times, while your arme. 1 pined to propose it, bus feared to displ . ing to separate soul, which to me. that I E gain. Heaven Jones will forget me! He may cea: to love me! No, his noble heart incapable of such cruelty and I trust him as I would in heaven itself. “Pardon. dear love, the confusio: of my words. My distress absorbs al my thoughts * ¢ e, The time for parting came anc Jories wrote the message that a nounced the day of his leaving. And s tear-stained as he had been, ae her reply shows Tuesday s . t and augments my the grief of a deso- T kissed the dear marks of <, while those that fell from my eyes were the cruelist, the bitter est of my lif The most fervid fires, however, burn themselves out in time. Neither died from grief at the separation, and when the lovers met again it was on the basis of disinterested friendship. (Copyright, 1923.) 11 never see your tea Cranberry Sauce with beef—hot or cold Cranberries are themselves and good make other foods taste good. Economical —no waste—ecasy to prepare. A recipe felder, containi; Dpreserve cranberries, wi many ways to use and be sent free on request. AMERICAN CRANBERRY EXCHANGE, 90 West Breadway, New York. 'The Pleasure o f Appreciation You, as the homemaker, know what a pleasure it is when ciates the food that your family appre- is set before them; when they eat everything with enthusi- asm, and smile over their coffee. Well—that is the way we feel as coffee merchants to the American people. It is a real pleasure to provide discerning homes with good coffee. It is gratifying to have them appre ciate our efforts to give them the very best. Chase & Sanborn Seal Brand Coffee can be obtained £rom reliable merchants most everywhere. It is sold in one, three and five pound sealed tins only. But in{. Chase :G”Sanb‘orn‘.g _BRAN