Evening Star Newspaper, August 13, 1923, Page 16

| For the Boy Who Wants to Grow Up BY ANNE RITTENHOUSE. _You may satisfy your little’ girl's 1¥nging to be grown up by having Ter frocks made much like your own. M. I8 not that we dress our little g§ls like adults—but we ourselves have adopted a mode that is childlike in its comfort and simplicity. But your little boys can have no such comforting. They must endure the long, tiresome ordeal of being little without the consolation of wearing clothes like those of their fathers. For men's fashions have not been simplified, as women’s have. If men's clothes had gone through the same sort of metamorphosis that women's have within the last ten years, men would be going to business in knee breeches and socks, with smocks or shirts, short- sleaved, and sans the masculine badge of modern civilization known as a collar and tie. To be sure, on occasions men don Knickers and’sport shirts and forego the “usual constriction about the neck, but these are play clothes. And therein lies some means of cdbmforting the little boy who would be a man—the four-year-old who would be forty. The shirt worn by polo players has given inspiration for a suit that has become very much liked as a itttle boy's play suit by many mothers of good taste. Nothing is generally more ipappropriate for a little boy than a necktie, so this 1f¥tle suit has none, but by way of consolation _for this shortcoming there is @ belt with a steel buckle. Usually these suits are made in tan linen or white, but might be well reproduced in navy blue. Some mothers like nothing better than sailor suits, and for the be- tWeen-age little boy these are also a good choice. They are worn in Khaki and in linen, both natural tan, and in brown, blue or green. Sallor sults and middy suits in white linen of'some heavy cotton fabric are worn by the four-year-old and the five- vear-old at parties. And another style that is still good for the small boy who would be big is the little jdcket or waist, buttoned in the mid- dle front or double-breasted, with knee trousers buttoning over it—the waist in white, the trousers and the cuffs and round collar in color. This type of suit—call it Peter Pan what you will—may be made quite simply enough to satisfy the most The Diary of a Professional Movie Fan BY GLADYS HALL. How Do Pictures Influence You? There has been a great deal of talk lately as to the influence the movies are having upon the people—the peo- ple of America. There are some optimistic theorists and some pessi- mistic ones. To which class do you belong? “In other words. some folks say that the movies have a baleful influence DOES CHARLIF TO_ BE DISSATISFIED LIFE? WITH upon the lives of many thousands of people scattered throughout the small towns of the states, They clalm that the poor working girls in small towns £0 to_the movies, see Gloria Swanson and Norma Talmadge and Leatrice cd up and with all sorts and are not only dis- Swaddling Clothes. Many years ago the babies were freed from swaddling clothes. Until then they had to find the use of thelr 1imbs in spite of their careful guard- fans, and the odds were heavily against the baby. Still, he generally won out. But the mental swaddling clothes haven't been shaken off yet. They, being more or less invisible to those most concerned, the mother, stay on and on until the child is mentally crippled for life. That sounds hard, but it isn't as hard as it actually works out on the chil- dren. There isn't any expression for cramped soul “Dear me hed a kindly, self- sacrificing and sentimental. mother, “Polly is growing up and away from e used to come to me to thread MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN The Little Nurse. Dme Mother Says: or | child and the | i I | rocking dolefully. SMART PLAY SUIT OF TAN LINEN FOR LITTLE BOY OF FIVE. particular small boy. Yet it is es- sentlally childish and dainty in ap- pearance—and thereby wins the lik- ing of the mother who hates to see her children leave babyhood. 1ght, satisfied with their own lots as a consequence, but even go so far as to attempt to emulate these starry ladfes in their manner of dress and in thelr manner of action. I can i‘cn‘rrv!y belive this to be the truth— s 1t? They also tell me that these same young girls go to a film, say, with Valentino or Ramon Navarro or Dick Barthelmess as the ‘ero, and so im- |pressed and heart-smitten are they by the love antics of these stars that when they return home—to thefr vari- ous homes I should say—they turn out the light in the old parlor, refuse an ice cream soda at the corner drug store, and otherwise exhibit their dis- dain ‘of their more humble swains. It makes them unhappy because John or Jack or Peter, as the case may be, has not the “flair” of Valentino, the poesy of Barthclmess, or the young romancing of Navarro. Of course, all of this seems very one-gided to me, for the films I have seen In the course of my young life, which same cou has been rather full than otherwise, have had to do quite as much with poverty and suf- fering and deprivation.as with afflu- ence and ardors and romance. Many a Mary Pickford film has run its length in rags and sobs. Many a Bill Hart film of old has had to do with hardy hungers and down-to-the-bone deeds. 1 have seen Thomas Melghan and Leatrice Joy and Charlie Ray and Barthelmess shorn of loves and laces and luck, battling, suffering, and some- times not even conquering in the final fade-out. Thus and so it seems to me that the flims are pretty accurately life as it is apportioned to this race called uman. For there is an admixture— whether fair or the rev: 1 have not here time to discus {ll luck, of poverty and riches, loves lost and found, of romance and reality. e away from a Valentino o return the hard-bought our particular John Jones, g0 to the next run of films, behold either Earnest Torrence or Ben Tur- pin. and ask for vour ring back, upon | your bended knees. (All Rights Reserved.) Pop was shaving his face before brekfist this morning and 1 was wawking up and down the hall sing- ing, Yes we have no bannanaas, we have no bannannas today, and pop called out. Will you Kkindly quit that? I discharged an office boy yes- tidday because he wouldnt stop sing- ing that, and I don't intend to stand it erround the house, he sed. Wy dont you like that song? T sed I itke it S0 mutch Im crazy over it. pop sed. And he went in his room and kepp on getting dressed, saying to ma, How about a cleen coller, mother? Yes we have no cleen collers today, ma_sed. Yee gods, have you got it t00? pop sed, and ma sed,” Yes, that song is making everybo say everything backwerds, {zzent It rediculuss? 111 say It is, yee gods, pop sed. And he started to go down stairs to brekfist and my sister Gladdis was playing Yes we have no bannanaas today on the fonograff. pop sticking his hed in and saying, For Peets sak choke that off, its driving me nutty Wy, 1 think its reel cute, Gladdis sed.”'And we started to eat brekfist and our cook Nora brawt pops caw- fee In and pop sed, T bleeve 11l eat an egg_this morning, Nora. Have we eny? he sed Yes we have no cggs today, Nora sed. This is too mutch, 1l11 eat brekfist down town, pop sed. And he jumped up and got his hat and slammed the front door a fearse slam after him. | COLOR CUT-OUT King of the Dog Show. “Martha, you're out of luck because you don't know how to sew." teased Sandy as the Cut-outs and their th'ndsl were putting the clothes on the dogs at the dog show. “King hasn't a suit of clothes, but he's going to live up to his name when you see at I have made for him to surprise yol Martha replied. Then she opened a hat sack she had been carrying. She lifted out a glittering crown set with red and blue paper Jewels, “My dog is going to be the king of the dog show!" she exclaimed, putting the crown on her brown collie’s head. i all her needies. Now she does that | herself, and you cannot know how bad it ‘makes me feel. 1 hate to see | them grow up and be Independent of me! Don't you?” H ‘Oh, indeed 1 do,” sighed the other, There's Caroline, You know how much 1 have enjoved making her clothes. Ever since she was a baby 1 have made everything by hand, and her clothes, if 1 do say it, are the best any girl in her set has— £00d taste and eevrything. “Well, the other day she said, ‘Mother, I think I could buy my school dresses quite as well as hav- ing you sew them. I'd just as soon have them. Besfdes, T can make some of the simpler things myself.' “Right there I knew my baby was leaving me, but I held on as long as I could. I said that I thought I'd make them as usual, but I could see that she wasn't satisfied about it. She wanted to do her own shopping and planning and everything, and I would be left out of it. Isn't it too bad they grow up?’ The mothers haven't all the swad- dling clothes on their conscience, though. _ Fathers have their own share. Ben wants me to make him an allowance and let him buy his own clothes and pay his own expenses out of it; talks of getting a job for his spare time. Of course, I won't hear of it! A boy ought to feel dependent on his father. What's the family coming to it the children are to be independent? 1 put my foot right down and sald, ‘No, sir. When you want money you come to me for it and you'll get it. I can keep track of you that way.’ Every time that the teacher, parent or guardian does the thinking for the child, every time he does.the work for the child, every time he refuses to allow the youngster a chance to do for him= self in any way, he has tightened the wrappings about the mind of the child and hindered his growth just that much, Talking never taught a child any- thing. Nothing worth while has ever been learned through anotherls ex- perience. To be at all valuable the acquisition has to be made person- ally, whether by thought or action. Better snip off a little of the swad- dling as soon as you get the chance. You'd hate to have a thirty-year-old baby on_your hands _You've seen them? Their parents kept them in mental swaddling clothes in all like- In an ememgency it is a comfort to| 1ihood. know that my daughter understands the rudiments of home nursing. For instance, she has been taught to wring a cloth out of hot water. She takes a Pplece of woolen cloth and folds it into a long roll. She holds oné end of the roll fn each hand and dips the middle | ¢ya¢ well into the pail or bowl of hot water. Then she lifts it up, twisting the dry ends all the while, wraps it in a bath towel and takes it at once to the patien! Any child tan,be taught to’ do this 5 (Copyright, 10232 . _ . (Copyright, 1023.) Rivals. From the New Haven Regls First Child—My papa is a numisma- You should” see his collection of coins. g Second Child—That's nothing; my mamma is a kleptomaniac., She has such a beautiful collection that they wanted it at the police station, King shook it off into the dust, and the boys laughed. The guests were arrivirg, so Martha took a plece of elastic and fastened it on the crown and under King's chin. Then no matter how much King shook his head, he could not help being the king of the dog show. (Copyright, 1923.) “Just Hats” From Indigo to Violet Blue. A white felt sports hat with brim of lovely curves s trimmed in short pleated ruffles of various shades of blue, each two ruffles being a shade darker than the last. These ruffles surround the crown and start in a light violet blue and get deeper and deeper till at the end they are indigo. The end, by the way, is not in sight, for It nearly reaches the walstline! Prices realised on Swift & Compaay sales of carcass beef in Washington, D. C., for week ending Saturday, August 11, 1023, on shipments old out, ranged from 10.00 centd to 18,00 cents per pound and averaged 14.80 cents per pound,—Advertisement, Cantaloupe Surprise. Cut three small or medium-sized ice-cold cantaloupes in halves length- ‘wise, pick out the seeds and spongy part then scoop out the meat, cut it into very small pieces and place in a bow] with an ounce of sugar. Mix well, then replace in the six half- melon shells. Evenly divide one pint of vanilla lce cream over them. Smooth to domelike shapes, pour over a tablespoonful of raspberry sirup and sprinkle a little finely shredded cocoanut over each, and serve, g i “HOW COULD THAT FELLOW W. TREES BY R. A. SYCAMORE—PLATA Here nt tre Mississippi height of diameter of 1 spreading limbs formi times 100 fect rapld grower wood tree In North Americ part of its range it 1 height of 60 to S0 feet. it from Maine to Minnesota Florida and Texas The dull brown bark s off in large thin I 1l defined patches of buflish This is th aracteristic ture of the Anoth acteristic is the fru ripens in autu 1 to 1% In the tree one of its buttonwood. The anches through 4 tree and a mag : the banks of the hio rivers it reaches et, with a trunk sive is a unique Al ind ¢ 170 feet, nifi a a ith It st is hard- reach a is found south to the tree featu in e e winter. BEDTIME STORIES The Young Chuck’s First Lesson. BY THORNTON W. BURGES Little folks who are running : generally think of but one thing and that one thing is getting away. It was just that way with the dis- obedient young Chuck s ring up the Long ne tow Farmer Brown's. The only thi couid nk of was getting uld before his mother, hould A that way o @ nger a thou 1ade of his e he was going, anc he as far Poliy ( *h he 1 AY UP _THER IN THE BLUE, BLUE SKY HURT US?" back to see if his mother was coming after him. Had his father or mother been in his place they would have seen Red- tail the Hawk high up in the blue, blue sky. They would have seen him because they would have been watch- ing for him. But the young runaway didn’t once look up in the sky. It Is doubtful that had he seen Redtail he ! would have had sense enough to hide. More than once he had seen Redtail when his mother had sent him, to- gether with his brothers and sisters, down into their home to be safe. But always Redtail had been so high up in_the blue, blue sky that he had looked very small and nothing to be afraid of at all. The young Chucks had talked abou it more than once. “Mother is silly,’ this particular young Chuck had sald. “She is afraid of nothing. How could that fellow way up_there in the blue, blue sky hurt us? I don't believe in being afraid until I see something to be really afraid of Such a fraidy as mother is.”" His brothers and sisters had been inclined to agree with him. They listened to all that their mother told them about the dangers of the Great And when the Picnic Basket is Opened a head some- | al In this| as he OF WASHINGTON EMMONS, NUS OCCIDENTALIS, tecth. above and the red with a cot- along the yand a few very They are lighter below under surface tony espe larier It is | woud is vei an excellent hard and T furni of ho and butche ropean spe tree. The strong and and the inside for tobacco s biocks. the oriental us orientalis, s d extensively in this pelier than ies, & Penn- 1o 1ith streets. be found ut the finest along the d Rock in the groun out 200 cast of the lower pond By Thorntou 'W. Burgess. World, but inside they laughed at | ner. You see they had been too safe It would have be good thing to | have haa me rcal dangers to frighten them while their mother, | Polly Chuck, was about to show them what In thi ; they would ! really have learned So as the runaway Chuck scam- pered up the Lonz Lane no thought | of danger entered his head. He | getting tired. You know he was only uf-grown, and he had run so fast and so far that he was grow He decided to turn into the on one 4 find a place to hide thing for that ted to do he waited this _story rough the stiff the Hawk not to | he had high up in the late huck caught s terrible hooked bill, and gre as he ran under a thick bush He hadn’t dreamed that there could be such a terrible sight. He dropped down flat right where he was, and { it was a lucky thing for him that he nder a thick bush. There was scream_ of anger and disappoint- ment, and this added to_his fright, if that were possible. He had re- | celved his first great lesson—the les- son of fear. (Copyright, awful just 1923, by T. W. Burgess) PARIS, July 30.—Dear Ursula: This distinctly original coat comes from my pet shop. It is both graceful and | musing. Made of black velvet, the |coat has white water lilles applique, | { while the lining has trees and moun- tains like a modern landscape, appliqued in colored silks. PAMELA. ) also (Coprright, 19: My Neighbor Says: Should the knob come off the 11d of a pan or kett'e, a screw should be slipped through the hole with the head to the inside of the lid, and a cork screwed on the protruding end. This will make a knob that will not get hot and that can be re- moved when it becomes solled. If a lamp wick is too wide for the burner draw a few threads out of of the wick. Do. not trim the sldes and cause it to ravel ‘When bread is stale it should be dampened all over with milk, put Into a hot oyen ‘for about 20 minutes and you will have a nice new loaf. It is better done the day before it |is needed. 4 The unpleasant” smell which arises from the bolling of cab- bages may be entirely prevent- ed by placing a slice of bread over them while cooking. the middle A9eaREkton Cool and Becoming Frock. When occasion demands something dressy, and youth demands something equally cool and comfortable, this lit- tle, easlly made frock is suggested to the mother who is on the lookout for a pretty frock.for little daughter that she can make in an hour or so. If you should doubt its extremely| simple construction, a glance at the | diagram will conyince you that the| task of making 8 extremely simp The pattern, ‘No. 1814, cuts in sizes | eight, ten, twelve and fourteen yea The elght-year size requires 17 vards of 36-inch material, of lace edging and 18 yards of lace insertion for the skirt Price of pattern 13 cents, in post- nge stamps only. Orders should he addresxed The Washington Star Pattern Rureau, Enst 15th street, New York city. Please write name and address clearly. Omelet With Shrimps. Caretully crack elght fresh eggs in a bowl, add half a gill of cream, half a teaspoonful of salt and three salt- spoonuls of pepper. Beat for two minutes. Cut twelve cooked shrimps into quarter-inch pleces, place in a frying pan with one tablespoonful of melted butter, and fry for three min- utes. Drop in the egi mix with a fork for two minutes, let rest for half a minute. fold up in omelet shape, let rest for a minute, then tu onto a hot dish, pour a cre; sa around - EIIIIIIIII|I||IIllIIIIIIIIII"HIIII""I L1 Good News | you #eer 1 FEATURES isten,World ! By E/sie Tohuinson Rosalind’s going to be a writer. Her mother has been telling me about it. “Why, ever since she was we've known she wasn't like girls,” rhapsodizes mamma. “How, different?” queries I unfeel- ingly. “Oh, moods, you know sighs, just as if she w of somé sort of divine me; born other mamma > speaking es. - She's " This 15 NOT the way real geruus gperofes. = a creature of moods. Alway Way up some days, way others. When the inspira- | zes her writes the most | ful things And other days| an't think of a word. 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