Evening Star Newspaper, January 8, 1923, Page 20

"WOMAN’S . PAGE." Curious Trifles in Venetian Design BY ANNE RITTENHOUSE. Now and then the world goes quite smad over trifles. Accessories be- come more important than funda- gnentals. luxuriousness is expressed #n the details of a costume, in the Fmall things women wear and carry Mvithout relation to the gown. Such & time is upon us. We lave dipped deep into medie- A _VANITY X OF GREEN AND 7ITITE _1VORY WITH GREEN CORD AND TAS: THE ROUG TICK 1S \ROUND NF CORD WITH LANDSCAPE RN IN DIAMONDS AND PLAT- v WATCH OF THE valism, women court in of exquisite and most of our fashionable of the Doges’ all thin, workmans] uch Menu for a Day. BREAKFAST. Stewed Apricots Boiled Rice With Cream Lamb’s Liver Broiled French Fried Potatoes Graham Muffins Coffee LU H: . Creamy Oatmeal Soup Leuntil Omelet Orange and Lettu Gingerbread DINNER Onion and Potato Soup Baked Meat and Vegetable Pie alloped Potatoes and Cheese" Stewed Tomatoes Banana and Nut Salad Celery French Apple Plum Pudding Coftee Your Home and You BY HELEN KENDALL. The Family Archives. The bride who was making a visit 10 the paternal roof sat on the floor of the family attic. She had gone up to hunt out some old coverlets that her mother had promised her for the new suburban cottage now nearing . com- pletion. In her search through the old trunks that had stood there for many years she came across some of the childish letters that she had written she was a very little girl. oodness, did T ever write like that!” exclaimed, as she examined a miniature sheet of note paper, with a colored picture at the top and scrawled on in a round, laborious hand. “How could T ever have heen 80 young? ‘T saw a patterpillar today,'” she quoted from one little letter. ' ‘Johnny's sis- ter has the chickenpops,’ * from another. Then the bride began to look dreamy. “I'm going to take all these little old Jetters of mine, and the handmade val- entines T concocted, and the funny Christmas and Easter cards I used to make by hand, and keep them for my own little daughter, if I have one. Isn't it fun to have these documents of my childhood? ~And won't my children Jaugh over them some day? I'm so glad mother, or somebody, saved them. A few years later, when the sub- urban house rang with the voices of three sturdy youngsters, the bride that had become their mother starte what she called “the family archives. On a series of stout, decoratively covered pasteboard *boxes she wrote and one little evidences of childish of her husband, and of herself. Into these boxes were put the hundred and one little evidence of childish days which so often lie around the house until they reach the fireplace of the wastebasket. School re- ports, droll little noies and poems, written by the unconscious little folks. kindergarten masterpieces in the way of colored papers cut 'in- genfously, sketches in crayon or water . color. One small boy wrote his will, to the family’s amusement, and this was preserved in his own box. Many children keep diaries, or write stories, which might in later ears become famous. At any rate, these. papers would enormously en- tertain the authors and their poster- ity, if carefully put away in a perma- _nent place. Snapshots of the child amight be preserved in the same boXx, %0 that the container would becoms in time m complete record of the aewagsier's childhood. | vanity cases, mirrors, lip sticki bracelets, small watches, shoe buckle: If we take the trouble to g0 to the | museums we can gaze upon such trifles centuries old, which w car- |ried by women of the renaissance. You remember Browning said of them: “What of soul was left I won. der when the music had to stop. | We know that the supreme artists | of that day were willing to work for women of wealth and power, that Leonardo de Vincl was not above fashioning a bit of jewelry for & magnificent Italian beauty, that Cel- lini did not hesitate to xqaku a set- ting for a mirror. Today, the men awho make these trifles may not have famous names, but it is amazing to watch the artis. tic workmanship on trifies reach a jlevel with the best Italian work, copied, of course, but marvelously lovely. Through the influence of such beauty women have ceased to carry any kind of purse. They refuse to put powder and lip stick into a shabby receptacle. They ask artists to invent a dozen ways for them to carry watches. Of course, such women are the delight of craftsmen. Therefore, the shops are filled with these things. The jewelers offer them instead of silver and gold pleces, and | shops imitate them for the women | who want luxury at a small price. There is a new mirror, for instance, | which a smart woman invented with | the aid of an enthusiastic jeweler, | made of old satinwood cut In two circular discs to close over each other |and hang from the wrist or finger | by a sillken cord. The satinwood is exquisitely polished and grooved, one | mirror in magnifying glass, the other | is normal gla Another variety of box is circular, lof green and white ivory held by a | green cord and finished with a thick | tassel, also of green cord. In the <el the rouge is hidden, The sketch shows this especial kind | o vanity box. also a novel ornament worn on a fine black silk cord, the surface showing a landscape in dia- ! monds and platinum. The two brace- | lets also sketched show wrist watches colored to match the beads. One is | black and red, the other blue and | pearl. Another interesting trick of fashion is to carry an ornate case for dice. It is now the fashion to throw “craps.” This game came into sos ciety when the colored troops initiated the French into the mysteries of “come seven, come 'leven.” Women often prefer it to cards, and it is not unknown in high circles to produce exquisite crystals carved into dice after dinner and play a variety of games more intricate than “craps” Women have their special crystals. The case for these dice is of carved silver with one’s monogram, or plati- num, If one is luxurious. They are put into the vanity box or they are carried in the purs (Copyright, 1923.) “Just Hats” By, Vyvyan Early Model for Spring. \ The boatload of spring models that arrived a few days ago from Paris shows all of the straw hats to be in the smaller shapes, the majority along the tailored lines rather than the lingerie lines. This is rather an un- usual note, as the spring and sum- mer hats of the past few seasons have bean, in the main, of medium and large proportions and flappy of brim. Here is a new model in blue milan, trimmed in two rows of matching os- trich fringe. Dignity supplants the flapper mode in many of the new dresses eyen for the very young girl. This frock of graceful lines exploits the becoming bertha collar and smart side panels that hang below the hem line. Made of charmeuse at $1.50 per yard, with lace at 85 cents per yard for the \;;{tzhsl. this frock would cost about The pattern No. 1610 cuts in sizes sixteen years, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 44 inches bust measure. ‘Size 36 requires 4% yards 44-inch material. Price of pattern, 15 cents, in post- age stamps only. Orders should be addressed to The Washington Star Pattern Bureau, 22 East 1Sth Street, New York eity. Please write name and address clearly. Lemon Pick-Me-Up. This is excellent for any one who is shivering, limp or depressed. Put the juice of one lemon into a slass, nearly fill it up with boiling water, and add eight drops of ginger extract. Stir well and drink while hot. —_— \ Tibet, heretofore regarded as one of the most isolated countries in the ‘world, has now been connected by tele- graph with Indla, It’s Bound to Happen Sooner or Later, But the First Time Is the Worst. ' Sept. What Happens To Clothes Modern Laundry Is a Marvel of Efficiency and Thoroughness. When the laundry man departs from your door does it ever occur to you to wonder just what happens to those personal belongings which you | until he' could eat no more of the | Forest. cram into a bag at the beginning of the week and take fresh and clean from a carefully wrapped parcel sev- eral days later? Probably not one woman in a hun- dred knows the processes through which her clothing and linen are put each time they are sent to that more or less indefinite place called “the laundry.” She knows that the clothing is washed and ironed and that by some miraculous feat her belongings are separated from the belongings of dozens of familles and returned to her with rarely any article missing. This is the modern way of doing things, and behind it is & system re- markable in its completeness and a system which has been worked out 80 that the labor of a busy house- wife is lightened and Monday is no longer the most dreaded day of the week. Curlosity caussd a woman not long ago to visit the laundry to which for months she had been sending her entire family wash. She found a big concrete bullding, two stories high, with wide windows on all four sides. The sun streamed through these windows upon dozens of smiling faced men and women, who, without any hurry or bustle, but quietly and efficiently, were engaged in the nec- essary operations of laundering clothes for a goodly number of citizens. At one end of the room the bags were brought in and the clothing sorted, white garments in one pile, colored in another, silk in a separate pile from wool, and stockings in a pile by themseives. Each pile was then placed in bags made of coarse open-work mesh, with a number designating that particular wash stamped on a large piece of cotton which was pinned to the bag. By this method the custom of marking each garment with unsightly ink marks is_obviated. s The bags were placed in individual washing machines and the entire laundry of a single family was done at the same time and was never brought into contact with the clothing or linen of any other family. Only the finest of soap flakes were used, and the clothing put through so many waters that the last was as clear as crystal. The next process was that of drying, which was done by means of machines revolving so rapidly that every bit,of moisture was gently drawn from the garmeats without any squeezing or Wringing. The finer articles of apparel were froned by hand, and the bed and table linen put throligh a smoothly padded machine, which was carefully run so that there was no chance of even the slightest injury. After that the cloth- ing was sorted and the belongings of each individual family were arranged in large new paper bags placed in wooden boxes. The bags were closed and fastened down with pasters, and there was no string to make any marks on or to cut into the beau- tifully ironed and folded garments. By delivering each laundry in its separate box, there is no possibility of anything being crushed. The cost of a family wash, including everything for a family of four or five, is surprisingly low, but even less expensive is an arrangement by which only the table and flat linen is iromed and the wearing apparel starched and dried so that with little effort & woman may iron these her- selt. —_— PAM'S PARIS POSTALS PARIS, December 25.—Dear Ursuls On one's dinner table a basket of theseflovely trausparent flowers, with the weeniest of tiny electric bulbs In the cen! thrilling, ' D> (Copyright, 1028.) i} Harold, who was graduated from the high school last June and has been away at the university ember, comes back home all prepared to be gracious and debonair like the Prince of Wales, only to find that the town' remains quite calm over his arrival and that practically nobody knows he has been away. BEDTIME STORIES | | Welcome Robin Finds a New { Bedroom, Happy those who always know A refuge from the ice and snow. —Welcome Robin. After Welcome Robin had eaten | food Farmer Brown's Boy had spread for him on ,a feeding shel? in the Old Orchard, he felt like a new Robin. He did so. The Great World appeared a very different place. Life was very much more worth living. He even admired the sparkling of the ice-covered trees. cold. You see, heat in his bod 11 that food made and his feathers kept that heat there. So he felt quite like himself. Then, too, it was very pleasant to be with other birds. Ever since winter had started lived by himself down swamp. So when he had eaten all he could he didn’t fly back to the cedar swamp, as he had expected to do. in the cedar INSTEAD HE FLEW DOWN ON CLOTHES POST, AND FROM THAT STUDIED THAT SHED. dark and lonely down there that he couldn’t think of going bdck right away. Instead, he stayed around in the Old Orchard and around Farmer Brown’s house. He was still there when jolly, round, red Mr. Sun began to drop down toward the Purple Hills to go to bed, and the first of the Black Shadows began to steal out from the Purple Hills. “T can’t bear to go back there to the cedar swamp,” said Wel- come Robin to himself. “I just can’t bear to do it. If only I could find a place to spend the night up here 1 would feel ever so much better. Then 1 would be right on hand to fill my stomach the very first .thing in the morning. Those cellar berries | down in the swamp are still covered with ice. Up here there is plenty of food and no ice. I am almost sure Farmer Brown's Boy will put out more food. There is & cedar tree over back of the house, and perhaps I can spend the night in that. I am sure that will be better than going way back to that swamp. I believe T'll go over and see if it will do.” So_ Welcome Robin started to fly from the Old Orchard over to the cedar tree back of Farmer Brown's house. It took him past a long, open woodshed at the back of the house. An_idea came to him which quite took his breath away. Perhaps he could stay in that shed! He suddenly changed his mind about flying over to that cedar tree. Instead he flew down on a clothes post, and from that he studied the shed. It was open on the side toward him, and he could see neat piles of wood in it. The more he looked the better he liked the idea. No one was about. He flew down on the snow just in front of the shed and took a hasty look inside. Then he flew back to the post. Again he flew down for another look. It certainly looked very cozy and com- fortable inside that shed. Back he flew to the post once more. He id ol. navh. u, mlfivfly He no longer felt | It was s0 | Al ince By Thornton W. Burgess. !cnuldn't quite make up§hls mind to fly inside that shed. He didn’t quite dare do fit. He looked over toward the Purple | Hills. Jolly, round red Mr. Sun was just disappearing behind them. The | Black Shadows were already half way across to the Old Orchard. | Already it was dark in the Green Hooty the Owl would be out hunting very soon. Welcome Robin knew then that he didn't dare go back to the swamp. He would have to spend thenight in that cedar tree | back of the house, or eise in the shed. “I'll do it!" said he at last. He flew down just within the shed. He | looked hastily this way and that way | to make Sure that no one saw him. Then he flew up to a rafter just under | the roof. It w; very comfortable in “ there. In five minutes Welcome Robin | was fast asleep with his head tucked | under his wing. | (Copyright, 1923, by T. W. Burgess.) Bistory of Bour Name. BY PHILIP FRANCIS NOWLAN. MORA VARIATIONS—O'Moran, Morrin, Mac- Morran. RACIAL ORIGIN—Irish and Scottish. SOURCE—GIven name: There are two sources to the family | names in this group, both of them Gaelic. Strictly speaking, the family name of MacMorran does not belong in he had | but as the spellings are so similar they are likely to become confused and undoubtedly have been many times in the past. The name MacMorran is Scottish and fs borne by a branch of the clan Mackinnon. The highland designa- tion of the sept is the “Chlann Mholirein,” distinguishing it as the descendants of a chieftain named literally means “slave of the seal.” The names Moran, O'Moran and | Morrin are Irish, and are of entirely different derivation. The rendering of all three of these names in the Irish language, so near as English letters can indicate it, is Ua-Morain,” or “O'Marain.” “Ua” or “O" signifies “descendants” and “Morain” is the possessive case of the given name “Moran,” a trans | lation of which would be “a multi- tude.” The thoughts embodied in the original meaning of many of these old Celtic given names are no more difficult of comprenhension than those which mark the ancient Teutonic or even the Hebrew names. It is no more strange that anclent Gothlc parents should have named a child “Multitude” than ancient Gothic par- ents should have named theirs “Reso- lute Helmet,” which is the meaning of the name Willlam. There was, of course, a poetic or romantic sig- nificance in_the origin of all given names, in that dawn of human his- tory when men, not having names ready made for them as today, had to invent them. Spiced Fruit and Nut Roll. Roll out some dough quite thin and let it rise for half an hour, brush with melted butter and make a flil ing as follows: Grate some ginger- bread, shred 'some citron, pound some nut meats, seed one cupful of ralsins and wash one cupful of currants. Strew theses all over the dough, to- gether with some brown sugar and a little sirup. _Spice with cinnamon, then roll. Spread with butter and let it rise for an hour. Bake a golden brown. —_— Prices reslized on Swift & Company sales of carcass beef in Washington, D. C., for ‘week ding Saturday, January 6, 1923, oh shipments sold out, ranged from 8.50 cents to 16.00 cents per pound and averaged 12.81 cents per pound.—Advertisement. ( n in the same group with the okhzru.: “Moghron,” a name which translated ; correct | The ! THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1923. FEATU RES. The Diary of a Professional Movie Fan BY GLADYS HALL. Dorothy um, Scenarioist, Keeps a Savi Account of Ideas. 1t twenty years from now I should chance to thumb over the pages of this diary, I would probably believe that at the dates of writing the en- tire human race was composed of cinemaoctresses and cinemactors, with, sparingly, a director or two. As for posterity, it glves me the cinema- shudders to think what they may think. After all, give a poor, indigent writer a page Row and’ agalu, wilth s ‘eprinkling or 80 of cameramen and continuitists. They have their little places in the screen scheme of things entire, be the places ever so small. However, as a matter of fact, Dorothy Farnum’s place isn't small. She is an exceedingly up-and-doing and likewise beasuteous young woman, with a fashionably pale face, red hair and svelte oloth 3, and she is, at the present moment, engaged upon the momentous job of writing the scenario versions of “Tess of the d'Urbeville’s” for Marshall Nellan. To touch Thomas Hardy's morbid, mag- nificent Story in any way, even con- tinuity way, is an undertaking. Miss Farnum is one of the “modern women” and is making this same “modern woman” a type which will g0 on and on. worthwhile in every sense. When she was usked why she thought the girls of today arrive in a business sense S0 much younger than their sisters of ten or twenty years ago, she said ‘T honestly haven't given the mat- ter any previous consideration and am speaking, as it were, before I think, but I might offer the sugges- tion that the motion picture has béen very instrumental in maturing the young mind. “The opportunity to study the emo- tions, experiences and methods of isten,Wo WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRRATED I am about to commit an ode to the clinging vine. It isn't the first time an ode has been committed to that all | too familiar vegetable, but I'll betchu it's the first time this kind of an ode has been committed. I'm singing about isn't a she one. It's a he clinging vine, and I'm the 1il' pruning shears that's going to clip a few of its tendrils. It's needless to ask whether you | have met him. The CLINGING VINE. You have. I have. We all have. variety, although hitherto he escaped literary fame. That's because most of the people who build liter- ature or accept it for publication are hes, ‘and quite a bit inclined to be clinging vines themselves. Naturally they're going to shun any limelight it's only fair to| For the vine | For the he clinging | «{ vine is almost as common as the she has | DOROTHY = FARNUM MOVIES MAT GENERATION. SAYS THE other and varied people must |an efrect on th, try make my study first-hand. 1 have what I call my ‘savings account,” and | instead of being money it is com- | posed of ideas. I keep a savings box |of 1deas. When I hear some one tell a good story, a_ bright line, relate an unusual experience press unusual emotions, I jot notes for future reference. My s ings account is really a other folks' brains!” (Copyright, l d 1923.) By Elsie Tohinson complimentary their But right here and now they get lot of free | that isn't to | complexions. is * where publicity. The he clinging who's a regular tig {office, but begins to blind' kitten the minute home. He can't find his co d whatintime did you do wi slippers? Where's his isn’t any one going to ma ratted canary shut up? donewith his pipe, and Billy bring him the matche as ever a feminine clinging vine more tempera- mental or full of fusses and croche more helpless and hectoring, aintive and palpitating? ver. Neve Or perch ferent variety. great min, mmon th filing clerk managers and a boys before he stamp. _Or maybe he's a suffering soul who is never understood by his wife; or the porous plaster who her go her so- clean la who is in_a business wr Whatever the variety | to the order of the cling 80t to be draping himself over some | other personality and making 2 loud noise about himself. He never can stand on his own le ep his mouth shut, saw wood and deliver the goods | _ So that's that and as soon as this is printed I'm going to mail three- dozen copies of it to erstwhile gentle- {men friends of mine who made my life miserable in the past. Take from me, World; this job of mine ¥ | the Eyetalian black hand skinned | when it comes to revenge! | (Copyright, 1 a lad r do the meowl Whatuyyou- more Nope, ightly dif- Mayhap he is one of of history that h five depa hole fleet « can lick a posta ause he love will put out > bilious bleater lways being double-crossed he belongs g vine. He's The Largest Sale in America bec ause TEA Pleases the most exacting tastes. 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