Evening Star Newspaper, October 15, 1923, Page 36

WOMAN’S PAGE. . Nobody loves a fat mam, they say, but there must be a very goodly army of dressmakers, designers, cor- set manufacturers, lingerie makers and those who purvey thelr wares who dearly love the fat woman; be- cause if the species were extinct their business would be ruined. So while they tell thé fat woman how to look slender, they would hardly want to show her how to be slender. From the merchant’s point of view, of course, they are not fat—they are stout. No one ever heard of “fat- wear,” but every one knows that stout wear means clothes of all sorts designed for the woman Who is about ten inches too expansive to be a perfect thirty-six. ~ Stout originally meant brave, and hence sturdy. It was a matter of polite- ness that it first came into use. The French woman of similar propor- tions is politely called ¥a little too strong”—"un peu trop forte.” “Corpulent, stout, fat, plump, squab, full, lusty, strapping, bounc- ing, portly, burly, well fed, ~well grown, fleshy, chubby, hulking," etc. These are some of the synomyms for the same idea; there is none that might be suggested as a possible tactful substitute for the over- worked “stout.” sell_“stylish plumps. Whether or not the present is favorable to women of this is a moot question. Some i the straightness of line and scant- ness help the fllusion of slender- ne Others _insist that too ample hips can be better hidden beneath the gathers of bouffant skirts. All seem the fat woman when the very short skirt went out. kirts are re- turning, but one may still wear long ones without appearing dowdy. This much is certain—that the fashionable ideal of the hour is slender, as bustless as it is hipless. The beltlessness that Is everywhere favored by women of real smartness calls for a line of body that was never more pencil-shaped. So when the fat woman essays to hide her extra pounds she sets as her ideal not the moderately thin woman but the woman who is actually skinny. She doesn't tone down her too ample curves—she must eliminate them. The long sleeve is unquestionably better for the stout woman than no sleeves—and a great deal better than the sleeve that seems to shorten the arm by cutting across midway between shoulder and el- bow. Black, of course, is the heavy woman's best tone—and this, com- bined with white, has come into enormous importance. Sketched is a gown of mode ecies that the sort BEDTIME STORIES The Wounded Young Bob White. ering s often wrought Just because of Iack of thought Z¥armer Brown's Boy. The hunter, who had wounded one of Bob White's children and d given all the family such a terrible fright, did not return to rmer Brown' land. Farmer Brown's bhoy was keep- ing too sharp a watch. You see that hunter knew that were he caught actually hunting on that land he would be arrested, for that land was protected by forbidding all hunting. So the hunter went elsewhere and gave no thought to the Bob Whites on Farmer Brown's land, save to re- gret that there was no chance to kill some of them. “I hit one of them, anyway,” said he to himself, as he and his dog hunted in other fields. And from the way {n which he said it you would have known that he was glad he had not missed alto- gether. He actually was glad that he had wounded one of those harm- . Yes, sir, he ‘was glad. ounds very deadful. In a way it is very dreadful. But that hunter, who was hardly more_than a boy, was not naturally cruel. You see it was all thoughtlessness. He loved the sport of hunting. He loved to make a good shot. It never entered his head to think of those he shot at as having feelings exactly like his own. He didn't think of that wounded Bob White as suffering pain and fright. Had he thought of it in this way he would have been greatly troubled because he had wounded one of_them. Meanwhile the poor little wounded Bob White was suffering. His back had been badly torn by the cruel shot. He was a very sick-feeling young bird. He felt too badly to even worry about him All he wanted was to Keep per quiet. He felt so0 badly that he didn't really care what did happen to him. But if he didn't worry about him- self his mother and father worried about him enough to make up for it. You see they understood that, though the danger from the hunter was over, other dangers were increased. The yong Bob White couldn’t fly. It The Diary of a Professional Movie Fan BY GLADYS HALL. I've Another Announcement to Make! It must be the autumn breezes that are g{ving me so much pep. full of announcements and ideas and things. Last week or so I told vou that 1 was going to be a little oracle, answering all the questions asked me within the scope of my probably humble powers, and now I just had an idea that you might like, with more or less regularity, for me to give you some little reviews of the plctures 1 have seen—first nights and that sort of thing. Of course, I've been doing this right HOLBROOK BLINN AS THE KING IN “ROSITA. JUST ASK ME WHAT I THINK OF HIM. along. in a way, without asking the rest of you whether you liked it or not, but just taking that you have, I thought I'd mention it, and then, if there are not too many dissenting voices, I'd go ahead. For instance, there is the one I did on “Rosita,” Mary Pickford’s new ploture, a few days ago. And then, this week, I am writing what I thin] ‘of Lilllan Gish, in “The White Sister. When I ses “If Winter Comes” I'll Jot down my ideas on that, and then s (here’s where the fun comés in) 'you wan write me what you think of th Imagine trylng to! to agree that fashion favored | I'm just | it for granted | | { | { | i {one will be the better; prcbably de- | heaping tablespoonful of butter to- | two rounding tablespoonfuls of flour and THIS 1S _THE KIND OF FROCK THAT MAKES THE BEST OF THE TOO STOUT FIGURE. IT IS OF BLACK CLOTH TRIMMED WITH WHITE R B that takes from the new mode only what is best adapted to the woman who is fat—whether or not she is fair and forty besides. Black cloth and white fur—fastened at the side with @ curved white bone buckle— circular fullness at one side of the tunic—bodice crossing and fastening at the side—th are the elements of the mode which have been cleverly welded in E By Thornton W. Burgess. might be some time before he would be able to fly. Untu he could fly he would be in constant danger of being found by one of his enemies. Then he _would be helpless. “I shall a him said White in a low voic enemies than together, You will ch. If you see Reddy x or Old Granny Fox or Old Man Coyote or Jimmy Skunk or Redtail the Hawk you will ave to do your best to keep them away from here. Just as soon as we can we'll try to_get a safer place.” { Bob White nodded. “Get to_thaj dear Old Briar-patch if you can. That | will be the safe place I can think{ of,” said he. “Peter Rabbit is harm- less and no one else is likely to try SHALL HAVE TO STAY RIGHT WITH HIM,” SAID MRS. BOB WHITE IN A LOW VOICE. to crawl in among those brambles. I'll keep watch, my dear. Yes, indeed, I'il keep watch. Meanwhile, don't worry any more than vou have to.” Bob spoke to the rest of the flock and then led them over toward the Old Pasture. The wounded young Bob White felt so badly that he dldn’'t even notice the whirr of wings as his brothers and sisters followed their father. (Copyright, 1923, by T. W. Burgess.) pictures when you see them, and we'll see whether we agree or not. You can challenge my ideas with vour {deas and if you don't agree with me about performances or certain actors in certain parts, you can write and tell me 0, and you must also tell me why so. If your letters are sufficiently to the point, I'll print parts of them and they may bring other opinions from other sources. What do you think of the idea? Please let me know. Adele.—1 understand that Colleen Moore's real name, given her in bap- tism by her sponsors in the same, is Kathleen Morrison. At any rate, that is the name she used in the *I Do's"” of her recent marriage ceremony to Jotg Em{nl‘[{ McCormick. Zdna T. Michigan.—I would sa: that Carmel Myers is of the faith o’; synagogues; ves. I don't know about Norma Talmadge, So you have race prejudices. Oh, Edna, don’'t be nar- row minded. No, Florence X. Y. Z. (what orderly initials you have, my dear!), I don't believe that Mary Pickford's sita” and Pola Negri's “ Dancer” will be “exactly story but they are oth founded, as I have it, on the me play, on Cesar de Bazan.” I don’t know which pends somewhat on whether you in- cline Mary-wards or Pola-wards. (Al rights reserved.) A Prices realized on Swift & Com- peny sales of carcass beef in Washington, C., for week ending Saturday, October 13 1923, ‘on shipments sold out, ranged from 10.00 cents to 16.00 cents per pound and averaged 13.94 cents per pound.—Advertisement. Lemon Sponge Pie. Cream one cupful of sugar and one gether, add a small pinch of salt, the yolks of two eggs and the juice and Ffated Vellow rind of & lemon. S ja a large cupful of milk. Finall the well Whipped whites of thy fad eggs. Pour the mixture into a pastry- lined pan-and bake it until it is set and delicately browned on top. Cornmeal Griddle Cakes. Mix two cups of white cornmeal, one cup of flour, one teaspoonful of salt and two teaspoonfuls of baking An ear is a feeture as a part of the face And as a part of speetch its a noun, It helps you to look naturel And keeps your hat from sliding down. ‘The cleener you keep them the better they look And the better they proberly But it dont matter how goo! lissen ‘Wen 2 peeple tawk Chineese or Terk. 3 2 ears are enuff for enybody Without axuilly being too meny, O the elefunt has the biggest ears And the ant has ghe smallest, it eny. ‘ You can pick up a rabbit by the ears Without causing mutch serprize But if you did that to a baby Its hole‘{nmllly would brake out in cries. werk, you can 5 Never push pencils in peeples ears Or stick vour mouth into them and shout, O it we could ony choose our own ears They'd be less libel to stick out. Your Home and You BY HELEN K Window Screen Comfort. *“This is an odd time to begin writ- ing about screens for the windows,” I think I hear a reader exclaim. “Why, we took ours down and put them in the cellar two or three weeks ago.” Yes, but you see if you had been using the new kind of screens I am going to tell you about, you wouldn't have had to take them down at all And because I may forget in_the spring to remind you of them, I am going to tell you now, and you may clip this out of the paper and keep it until another season. I wonder if you have heard about them! They are the last—and by far the best—word in screening. Why didn't anybody think of this before! They roll up like a window-shade, dear women, instead of being rigid, unwieldy affairs of a size and stiff- The: are flexible, pliable ured in a groove at either window casing, and they wind up into a snug roll at the.top tly like a shade. When you want to water the flower boxes or shake a rug out of the window, you do not have to shove up a framed screen or push it out from the bottom (in the case of a casement window). You merely roll up your screen as far as you want it to go, shake or water or call to a neighbor, and then roll down your screen again. But the best part of these new screens is that they never have to be taken down in the fall and put up again in the spring. They are rustless, the makers declare, and they g0 up to stay up—tucked out of sight during the winter behind the valance and hidden by the casing. To be sure, they are not found in depart- ment store basements and they are expensive because they must be made to fit into the casings of your win- dows—made to order—but I ask you if they do not bring a glitter of cov- etousness to your eyes? The manufacturers also make flat porch awnings that roll up like a shade—no pulleys or ropes, no hooks at the side—oh, they know how to make us comfortable, do these modern manufacturers! MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN In Foreign Lands. One Mother Says: My little girls love to sew for dolls and have lately taken an interest in making costumes fashioned after the customs of different nations. I help them by getting prints showing the different costumes, providing them with the necessary material, and ge! ting them stories about the particular nation they are interested in at the time. Through this doll dressmak- ing they have acquired personal touch in their study of geography. (Copyright, 1923.) Yorkshire Muffins. Stir into two cupfuls of sifted flour a pinch of salt, three well beaten eggs and two scant cupfuls of milk, beating with an egg beater until the powder. Add two eggs, well beaten togther, and mix with one pint of milk. Beat the batter vigorously and add two tablespoonfuls of melted lard and another pint of milk. The batter will be.thin. The cakes must be cooked on a hot, well greased griddle, and must be turned carefully, batter is full of bubbles. Half an hour before the roast beef is to be Served, pour a little of the dripping from the meat into a hot shailow Sorkanire batter. Berpe when nicely browned as & border to the toast, dmisn ’ QOur Birds in Verse By Henry Oldys THE RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD. See where tall sedges stand knee-deep i’ the pool, And numerous clumps form tiny verdant isles, And here and there a willow, ever cool y And wet of foot, in thick green mantle smiles; Where button-bushes flaunt a thousand blooms, And hosts of cat-tails rise in serried ranks, And other swarms, with tassels, fronds and Surmount the water or lumes, ervade the mfis. *Tis here the red-winged blackbird brings his mate, For love and home and stanch fidelity, And gives a merry color to their fate, By a quaint sputtering, gurgling melody. A jovial bird, of free and ready trust, Content in social company to dwell, Regardful of the cares upon him thrust, But never letting care good humor quell. Have you received an invitation to the Color Cut-out Halloween party? Well, here is one. Betty and Billy Cut-out are busy as beavers making scarecrows, gob- lins, ghosts, witches and jack-o'- lanterns. You should see the clever costumes that they will wear. Betty is going to help Natalle make a beautiful orange black gobolink dress. Alice Cut-out and Tom Cut-out and all the rest of the children will be there in masquerade. Think what fun it will be next week when they put up -the party decoration| Imagine how many pumpkins and red apples they wiil have to get! And all the doughnuts, | cider, popcorn balls, ginger cookie and iollypops they will have. If you will look for the color cut- outs every day, you will find complete instructions on how to plan a Hallow- een party of your own. There will be directions for making all the beautiful costumes, favors and deco- rations. Cut out and color the cut- outs every day and learn how you can arrange a complete doll Halloween party in a hat box. A Party Invitation. Somebody slipped up beside Betty Cut-out on the playground at school one morning and whispering. “Don’t tell!” dropped an envelope into Betty's pocket. It was Natalle Clipper, who Betty Cut-out thought was the pret- tiest little girl in her room. “Oh, thank you,” cried Betty, draw- ing out the stiff white square. There was a Halloween sticker on the flap, which made her shriek with joy. In- side was a picture of a ghost and a verse that asked Betty to a party on Halloween night. 1 invited you early,” Natalle con- fided, “because I thought maybe you would like to help me plan my special dress-up costumes.” Here is Natalls, her mind just full of ideas for the funnisst, spookiest Hallowsen you ever saw. Golor her, hair brown and her | face and hands pink. The sohool dress is . green and white and she wears green half hose with brown slippers. Out her out and m 'h:r on t-weight oardboard. You'll (Copyright, 1923.) PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE BY WILLIAM BRADY, M. D., Noted Physician and Author. Imaginary Neuralgia. Some morbid folk who only oc- casionally take a glance at this dis- appointing column persist in think- ing that I persist in thinking that ¥rheumatism” is all imagination. I've never thought so. I have merely serted that there is no such disease as “rheumatism.” consequently, there | can be no remedy or method which will cure “rhuematism. 1 have tried to communicate to the reader's mind the idea that the term “rheumatism” | doesn’t mean anything and covers a | formidable list of disease conditlons. | When anybody contents himself with | the notion that he has a case of | “rheumatism” he is simply throwing up his hands and refusing to help himself. When anybody purports to have a remedy or treatment that is good for rheumatism he is trying to delude his clients or himaelf. By “imaginary neuralgia” I mean aches or pains which are mistakingly called neuralgia. For example, in dis: tricts where the Anopheles breed of mosquito prevails and malarla is con- veyed by the mosquito bite, a pain in the brow called *brow ache” is often mistaken for neuralgia whereas it is malarla. Again, in many cases of syphilis the victim suffers from a kind of forehead pain which occurs usually at night and is often mis- taken for neuralgia. Still a third con- dition likely to be mistaken for neuralgia is the headache or pain in the head which persons with chronic lead poisoning often have. The pro- longed or recurrent character of the head pain In all three of these dis- eases favors the common mistake in diagnosis or rather self-diagnos Occasionally a neuralgia sufferer retains such a vivid memory of the pain that a painful impression per- sists long after the actual neuralgia has ceased, a reminiscent sensation which is about as good as the neu- ralgia itself. This is truly imaginary neuralgla—the pain is real but there is no neuralgia there, if you under- stand me clearly. A nerve can lle. When a nerve gets the habit of lying one of the best ways to reform it is to inject into the nerve either a dose of pure alcohol or a local anesthetic—some- thing like “truth serum.” This meth- od of treatment is now frequently employed by physiclans with excel lent results in very obstinate facial neuralgia. The relief of pain obtained by a skilifully injected dose of abso- lute alcohol in faclal neuralgid en- dures for months or years, sometimes two or three years. SAY “BAYER” when you buy. | dividual case. Boracle Acid Myth. I have cataracts. I have been to specialists, without encouragement. I have bathed them with boraclc acid and hot applications. I am hoping and anxious.—Mrs. S. B. Answer.—Operation is the only remedy I can suggest for cataract. |In certain cases hot applications may be advisable, but that is a problem for the oculist to consider in the in- Boracic (now called boric) acid solution is a mild, non- irritating antiseptic solution com- monly used when an antiseptic is needed for the eyes. It has no other purpose and can have no effect on the strength of the eyes or eyesight. The Battle With Tuberculosts. You mentioned several times a book “How I Cured Myself of Tuber- culosis.” Never dreaming I had the disease I did not keep the address nor the price of the book. Wilt you please give me the information?— G L M Answer—It is a suggestive fact that I did mention perhaps a dozen times a pamphlet which is a reprint of an article by J. E. Stocker in Journal of the Outdoor Life for June, 1921. “How I Won the Battle With Tuberculosis in My Own Home,” and that scores and scores of readers now fighting that battle insisted on giving the thing some such title as you do. Mr. Stocker won the battle because he followed his doctor's advice. He didn’t “cure himself.” The reprint may be obtained by sending 5 cents to the Tuberculosis Soclety of Detroit and Wayne County, 316 Jefferson street east, Detroit,” Mich. Residents of Wayne county may obtain the reprint free. (Copyright,.1923.) Coffee Square: Cream half a cupful of sugar with the same quantity of butter, adding one well beaten egg, half a cupful of stralned black coffee, a pinch of salt, half a cupful of milk and two teaspoonfuls of baking powder sifted with two cupfuls of flour. Beat thor- oughly and then stir in half a cupful of floured currants. Pour into a well- buttered square pan and after sprin- kling with cinnamon and powdered sugar, bake in a moderate oven for three-fourths of an hour. Cut when cold into small squares. Insist! . Proved safe by millions and prescribed by physicians fog Colds Pain, Accept Handy Headache {Toothache trade 3 i Neuritis Neuralgia only “‘Bayer”” package which contains proper directions, “Bayer” bozes of 12 0 Lumbago Rheumatism ! '- S “Just Hats” By Vyvyan. Lots of Loops. This is a felt hat-with the fashion- able small rolled brim and several broad flat loops of taffeta tucked in at the right side. The hat is a rust color and the loops are a rich taupe. The Guide Post By Henry van Dyke Music as a Defense. Thou wilt compass me about with songs of deltverance.—Ps. 32.7. The counterpart to this psalm of repentance and joy is the gospel story of the prodigal son. And in both there is “music d dancing.” This se carries with it a picture and an id It suggests a company of friends Jointng hands and singing around the son that was lost and Is found. Their songs are his guard; they surround him like a wall. Pure music is a protection to the soul. If any one is merry, let him sing: and the little devils who are always waiting to 8poll every pleasure by perverting it to evil, will iy away like bats from a cavern where a torch is kindled. Good music is a defense against bad thoughts. But the time for joyful music is not when the prodigal is in the far country, wasting his substance in riotous living or feeding on husks among the swine, but when he comes to_himself and goes home. Yet in some churches the doleful music is enough to discourage any returning wanderer. I have never sung, and will never a hymn about hell. 1f you believe in it, nothing to sing about. (Copyright.) siny surely it's An Attractive Blouse. The vogue for the jaunty little tie- blouse still continues to prevail, and s expected to last throughout the winter season. The smart one pic- tured will appeal to the home sewer, for it is very easily fashioned and can be made very quickly. The pat- tern comes in sizes sixteen years, 36, {38, 40, 42, 44 and 46 inches bust meas- ture. 'Size 36 requires 2% yards of 40-inch material with 13 yards of 5%-inch ribbon for the bow. Price of pattern 15 cents, in post- age stamps only. Orders should be addressed to The Washington Star Pattern Bureau, 22 East 15th street, i New York city. Please write name and address clearly. Quick Warmth on Chilly i | FEATU RES. isten, World] WRITTEN AN, 1LLUSTRATED By Elsre Tolunsan This one is going to be short and pithy. It is in the nature of a per- sonal confession and, being human, I like to step on the gas when passing my own lesser achievements. We have talked about answers to prayers and getting the things we want. Ruth {e very bitter because her prayers never seem to be answered. I agreed that I was bitter, too. And then—suddenly I stopped to think— My prayers have been answered. I have gotten what I wanted. Quite often. And here's the humillating truth— most of my worst troubles have come from getting what I wanted! For I'm always wanting something that will land me In the deuce of a mess if I get it. And being quite a nagger at fate, I'm all too apt to get it. Right there the fun begins! It's well to consider that. We're 50 apt to think we can plot out our own lives perfectly. And perhaps we can. But here’s the point—we can't plot out all the other lives on earth. The thing that might work out quite nicely if we were alone on a desert isle raises Cain when we try to put it over in a crowded world. Some- body always gets in the way—or you | get in somebody else’s way. So I've grown rather shy about mak- ing specific demands on fate. I'm still standing in the bread line, but I no longer demand that my bread be fruit cake. Fate's altogether too apt to take me literally—and hand me the makings of a first-class tummy- ache. Copyright, 1023, Aviators say that every city and town, when seen from the air, has a | atstinctive color. When Buying Tea be sure to asK for "SALADA" ORANGE PEHOE BLEND It combines to perfection Purity, Flavor and Economy. Delicious New England Fish Cakes in five OW would you like a breakfast of real fish cakes—but with none of the fuss and bother of soaking, picking, boiling, paring, mixing, etc.? Take home one of these blue- and-yellow cans of Gorton’s—the original ready-to-fry fish cakes—made from famous Gorton’s Cod Fish—No Bones. MOTHER :- Fletcher’s Castoria is a pleasant, harmless ‘Substitute for { Castor Oil, Paregoric, Teeth- ing Drops and Soothing Syrups, prepared for Infants and Children all ages. o avoid imitations, always look for the signature of W Proven directions on each package. 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