Evening Star Newspaper, November 7, 1923, Page 34

Present-Day Ra American women have a way of disregarding the element of ‘inclem- ent weather when planning their wardrobes. When storms and snows, rains and sleets do come we regard them as rather outside the general scheme of things. As much as poss! ble we try to proceed as If there were no such thing as bad weather. The old-fashioned woman carried an umbrelln and wore u raincoat when the sky was lowering a sort of talisman to keep oft bad weather. The girl of today acts very much as if she felt that to g0 prepared for rain were to precipitate the molsture into a real downpour. Not so the English girl. She, in fact, tries to have two raincoats— mackintoshes as she calls them—one for every day and one for best. The everyday one she speaks of as a ‘“practical mud-colored affair. The other is of waterproof silk crepe de chine with a cape at the back, made of some bright color, orange or lemon yellow, jade green or royal blue. WOMAN’S PAGE. . BY ANNE RITTENHOUSE. incoat Materials These gay raincoats do not ap- peal very strongly to American women. The £ colored oilskins that first attracted attention about | half a dozen years ago never made the strong ppeal that we seemed | For the present the smart cholce seems to be a ‘coat of some | sort of impermeable wool—a coat that is useful and appropriate for | any sort of wear when a sturdy wool | coat might be needed. to expec A favorite ncoat with French | women consists of & well cut but ! roomy coat of black satin with gire finish worn with a hat of the same waterproefed satin. Seeminmly there is no limit to the list of materials | which may be waterproofed or made impermeable. One little rainy-day | jacket and hat made in Paris is of Bray v ur—waterproofed of course —trimmed with red embroidery. and ther is at sll new in the rair e de chine of Hot Cabbage Slaw. Chop oue cabbage fne and cook 1t in ed water until it is tender and dry at together one cup of sour cream, one tablespoonful | of flour, lespoonful of sugar and one dessertspoonful of butter. Pour the mixture over the cabbage | and let the whole come to a boil. | Then remove it from the fire, add one-half cup of strong vinegar, stir | well and serve at once. T L/ RAINCOAT OF BLUE_ AND GRAY ATERPROOF WOOL. Our Birds in Verse By Henry Oldys WOOD T HRUSH. Oh. nightingale with varied voice. Sweet medley is the gift to thee. Our thrush hath made the better choice, In precious melody. Poets with praise have often glowed Before thy fountain’s bubbling gush, But few the looks or words bestowed By man upon the thrush. Yet when the wood thrush lifts his strain Of pure and rhythm As crest of Shasta o'e ic melody r the pla So tow'rs he over thee. Sweet in the calm of What liquid themes Let bulbul, blackbird, evening, hark the forest thrill robin, lark, And nightingale be still. The clear, melodious s ong has sped, Yet in the soul its accents linger. Avian musicians, bow the head— This is the mastersi L Of course you shouldn't fib. qually of course, you do, There never yet was | a human who didn't fib more or less, ! sooner or later, and generally most of | the time. | Yes, fibbing is a very understandable device and doubtless at times excus- able. (I'm very sure that my fibs are excusable. But maybe yours aren’t.) Be that as it may, the world loves a fibber, being one itself. But the chap who flbs to himself about himself is neither undersiandable nor excusable. He is 100 per cent dum- bell—the cheapest kind of a coward and crook. How_does one fib to_oneself? Mainly by making excuses, There are peopie who never speak to themselves without clamping a halo on their own brow and running down all the rest of the world. Has a mistake been made? It is not their fault—NEVER. Some one else is to blame—ALWAYS. Are they unpopular? The whole world has conspired against them. Are they out of a job? They are the victims of monstrous social injustice. Have they sinned? Thelr parents are responsible, or their neighbors, or so- clety at large. Such is the account which the self- deceiver renders unto himself concern- ing himself. Not for one instant does he face the truth and try to set himself free from his own weakness. His life | is one long tale of self-deception. He eds himself flattery and alibls and isten,World! By Clsie Robinson nger. e promises and explanations addict feeds him: And the result is quite as terrible, Gradually the man who lies to himself becomes an outcast from the ranks of as a arug DO YOU FIB TO YOUR SELF ABOUT YOURSEW? the regular fighting humans. He Is shunned and despised. Brave, frank people refuse to deal with him. Of all human desolations, the desolation which awaits the man or the woman who will not be true with self is the most terrible. (Copyright, 1923.) BEDTIME STORIES By Thornton W. Burgess. Danny Is Caught in a Bad Fix The thing that eadlest is to do May be the thing ths ‘wrong for you. —Daony Meac ‘Mouse. The alrplane, which the little peo- ple of the Green Forest call a man- bird, remained on the Green Meadows near the home of Danny Meadow Mouse all night. Early the next morning Danny Meadow Mouse stole away when Nanny wasn't watching and hurried over to the man-bird. He licked his lips as he ran. He was thinking of the feast he had found in there the night before, He wasn't in the least afraid. When he reached the man-bird he wasted no time. He climbed up into it and at once hurried to the feast he had found there the night before. You| remember that he had found two| sandwiches there. At once, Danny began to stuft him- If. Yes, sir, he began to stuft him- . He was plggish about it. He really was. He w o _intent on stuffing himself that he paid no at- tention to anything else. So it was that he took no notice of approaching footsteps. Tt wasn't until the heard the voice of a man right beside that airplane that Danny wakened to the fact that he was in @ bad fix. At the sound of | that voice Danny’s heart secemed to jump right up in his mouth. He forgot the food. He had but one thought, and that was to hide. He must get out of sight. He didn't; dare climb out of that machine be- | cause that man was standing right thers. He must find a hiding place wait until thet man went away. Danny saw a little door open just is what a man who flies one of the machines is called, to keep things in. Danny darted in. My, how scared he was! “He'll go away soon, and then IIl get out and go home,” he kept say- ing over and over to himself to keep his courage up. \ But the man dldn’t go away. Danny could hear him doing things about that man-bird. By and by he got his courage up enough to peep out. The man was still there. He was work- ing around the airplane, but he was Me and my cuzzin Artle saw & swell movie erround at the Little Grand Sattiday aftirnoon, all about a grate detecktive arresting diffrent eple for dolng diffrent thing wen ®very- body elts thawt somebody elts did them, and Artle stayed at ourg house all nite and we was laying ¥n bed tawking and going to sleep at the same time, Artie sed, G, I wish there ‘were some berglers erround beer we oould catch. 1 wish a cupple would brake in tonite so one of us could lock them in a room wile n;l other one telefoned to the police stftion. Well G, I tell you wat lets gh down and open the front door and then maybe a cupple will come in, ; sed. ich we went down and did, both golng down together on accgunt of the house being so dark andfevery- thing, and then we quick snuck back to bed and the ferst thing we knew we both woke up on accouny of the door bell ringing, sounding Re if it was keeping on ringing insted of jest starting. Artie saying, G, berglers, wats they ringing the bell fog? And we herd pop Ko (Iuw! stalrs and we got up and leened cCver the bannisters to lssen, me wispering, G wizz, Its a pleecenmian, and ypp sed, Thats impossible, officer, 1 Ideked it myself not 3 hours ago. You must be thinking of last nite, the pleeceman sed. And he came in and started to look around tH house with pop, me and Artie quiclf sneek- ing back to bed agen, and afte- a wile we herd the plecceman go wnd pop came up and stuck his hed in !’u- door, saying, Benny? Me acting as if I thawtf I was asleep, and pop went back to-bed, me wispering to Artie, Gosh, 1 nope he dont remember to ask me ghout it tomorrow mornini 1 Ony he did remember, ng the irst thing he remembered, hging the Son 1 had to siay in the House ail unday [ day COLOR CUT-OUT One Egg Broke and Thgn There Were Four! ]fl ‘Now don’t ralse such a row Mrs. Grump,” chided Alice Cut-up, lifting the hen off the nest where it was keeping five eggs warm. ‘Hurry, Tom!" she ended, tying a cape and bonnet on the struggling Mrs. Grump. Tom Cut-up carefully lifted the nest of eggs into a basket and cov- ered them with & hot-water bottle. Alice carried Mrs. Grump to the show and Tom followed with the eggs. As he started gently to place the nest on the floor of the exhibition pen Mrs. Grump reached ower and gave him a sharp peck. Tom jumped with pain, and out of the nest crashed an egg. “What a tragedy.” cried Alice. Now Mrs. Grump has just four left The only worse thing that could hap- pen would be faf the turkey gobbler to lose weight!” Mrs. Grump is as proud of her blus fringe mapkin cape with its red bow on the bonnet a she is of hor bad dispositien, or her fine pedi- greo or her white eggs in their brown nest! (Copyright, 1923.) dSh'Oni orecast Y ADAREon Slenderizing Corset Cover. not in it. Danny tried to courage enough to scramble out. But get up he couldn’t do it. Every time he al- most got courage enough the man would move in his direction and Danny would dart back out of sight. Then Danny discovered that Farmer Brown's boy was also there. How Danny did wish he had heeded Nanny Meadow Mouse and had kept away from that man-bird. But he was there and now there was no help for it. He was in a fix. He was in a dreadful fix. But It was noth- ing to the fix he discovered himself in a few minutes later. Suddenly there was a terrible roar. The man- bird began to shiver and shake. The noise frightened Danny so that he squeaked aloud. But no one heard him. That terrible noise quite drowned Danny’s pitiful iittle squeak. For a couple of minutes Danny was so frightened that he couldn’t have run_to save his life. Then he made up his mind that in spite of ever. thing he would get out of ther He started to run out of that tiny cupboard, but just then that mde climbed into the man-bird and this frightened Danny back. Danny feit that man-bird begin to move swiftly. What did it mean? What was going out a crack, It wae a door into a.tiny supbossrd made for the aviator, which »” to happen? . (Copyright, 1028, by T. W. Burgess.) This shapely. well fitting corset cover will appeal to the woman who {desires to appear slender. There Is a seam at each side of the front over the bust, and the back is also in sec- tions which taper toward the walst- line. The neckline I8 in square out- line and fits without being drawsn up with a ribbon. A fitted peplum | | serves to keep the corset cover well |down under the skirt. The pattern cuts in sizes 36, 35, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48 and 60 inches bust measure. The 36-inch size requires % yard of 36- inch material. Price of patiern, 15 centy—in poste age stamps only. Orders should be addressed to The Was Star Pattern Bureau, 22 East street, New York city. Please name and address clearly. C, WE | Dorothy Dix| If You Are Going to Bestow a Gift, - Lend a Hand, Forgive a Fault or Offer a Criticism, Do It Graciously And So Will You Be Beloved Disctoses the Power Behind This Bpirst of Courtesy Say and Do Things Graciously HEN you are going to do a thing, do it graciously. is the meringue on the lemon pie of life that glves it sweetness and blandness, It Is the blue ribbon tied about the nosegay of kindly deeds. It is the pink mosquito netting over the basket of knotty and worm-eaten, half-ripe peaches that makes them look like frult from the orchards of It is the little frill that paradise. 1 takes the sting out of “no” and makes “yes” a peal of joy bells. There is nothing that graclousness does not help; no situation it does not adorn. There is a time for everything, said the wise man, and there is also a way of doing everything, for it i8 not what people say to us that 8o much makes us fighting mad, it's the way they say it. It is not what they do to us that we resent so much as the way they do it. And the secret of this difference I8 graciousness. You know how it is. Haven't you been invited to places with such a of tact and graclousness that it ide the invitation an insult instead compliment? Haven't you had Wwomen say to you, “Won't you come to my bridge party Friday? I'm Just in debt to everybody and 1 am giving a big affair to pay them all off. fraven't you had a man Bay to you: “I told my wife we must have you out to our country place gome time, and T have been trying to get her to ask vyou for a week end 5 AN i havent you Telt like repiying, ~Keep your old In‘ll(ll:‘l‘umn"l"‘::::; no compulsion about asking me to your house. I've got plenty, Of Breve and butter of my own, and a long &ight better cook thaf ¥OR METE Foo you and your stupid wife bore me to death, anyway, with ¥ socfal technique.” ND haven't you depending on you to warmth of welcome engagement with the T ace a it? uch is the DOROTHY 1X. 1 other people couch their invitation in such a ad throw Into it such an intimation that they were be the life of the party, and infuse into it Such a ality that you would have broken an and the President's wife, to have power of graciousness. nd haven't you had ople give you things, val able things that you 4!vfl|2rl|‘ or help you whe |\I ou n ded help, in such a way that you felt 1 throwing th benefactions in thelr faces? Uonvl vou know people who never give anything without tying a string to it, or passing out a lecture wlong with it? Haven't you seen an old aunt glve a pretty young &irl a really substantial check, and say as she did so, "Now, my dear, don't Waste this money on foolishness. Don't throw it away on sllly chiffons that have got no wear to them. but buy some Eood, warm winter flannels and a dress that will last you for two year And don't you know eople who never help anybody in trouble without ing over the whole litany of their failures, and mistakes, and short- Gomings? Perhaps the reason why there is so little gratitude is because erosity is o gru ngly bestowed. . don't” you know a few people who give themselves with their ho show such a pleasure in doing you a kindliness that they make 1 that you hestowing a favor upon them in permitting them to ou, that tl K ten-cent present of more value in your eyes limousi tiara would be from the ungracious? gratitude that you felt toward some jolly oid who would slip a few in your u were going to d ul folly? And when misfortune you ever forget those who helped you, not so much sympathy and understanding—who did not make you that you were . down-and-outer on whom they were bestowing alms, but as a brother iind sister who had stumbled on the hard road, and to whom they were just reaching out a sustaining hand? It you were you you what y¢ tive when hand without i word about ¥ your money And it is graclousness that takes the acld out of criticism. There are people who can say anything they please to us. Others whose slightest word of fault-finding we resent. It is all in the way they do it. There's a deal of difference in having a woman say to you: Sally, I am your best friend, and 1 am telling you this for your own good, but don't You know that people are laughing at you because you make yourself a figure of fun wearing flapper clothes that are too voung, for your grand- daughter? Why don’t you get you some decent middle-aged clothes?” 'And having another woman say: “My dear, of course, you have such personality you can carry off anything, but vou look so beautiful in dark blues, and browns, and blacks, and soft graye made with long lines that vou ought never to wear anything else. After all, age has more distinction than youth if it dresses properly.’ BUT, It la in the family circle that graclousness has its perfect work. 3 Every husband and wife are bound to clash sometimes in their opinions. One or the other has to give in, and the trouble is that the one who does glve in so seldom does it graciously. Haven't you seen men at parties to which their wives had dragged them against their wills, who gloomed through the whole evening? Haven't you known a husband whb never ceased twitting his wife with some mistake she had made, and which he had condoned? Haven't you known a wife who forgave her husband fof some wrong he had done, and then nagged himt about it the balance of thelr lives? Haven't you known wives who ruined thelr husband's business by refusing to adapt themselves to the place in which they lived, and who never got acquainted or made any friends in a town in which they lived for twenty vears? They 414 their duty, but they did not wreathe it about with gracious- ness, and so it was dust and ashes. For that is what life is without graciousness, A dead, flavorless thing—just dust and ashes in_our teeth. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1928.) TREES OF WASHINGTON BY R. A.EMMONS. ‘SHINGLE OAK—QUERCUS IMBRICARIA. The shingle oak is in a class with {oak, though this name is more prop- the willow oak in that its leaves are | ¢Tl¥ applied to another oak growing | fart] simooth margined instead of being |faIther to the south of us. These | leaves are three to six inches long, indented and shaped in various Ways,|one to two inches wide, thick, smooth, as are those of the other oaks.|Margins entire, lustraus dark green above, graylsh be Those unfamiliar with trees often |{loYe EPR¥ON D e T refuse to recognize this tree as an oak until they see the acorns on the branches or on the ground be- neath. It is a beautiful ornamental, and is hardy as far north as central New England, though the center of its range is about the junction of the Ohio and Mississippl rivers, from here ranging north to Michigan and Pennhylvania, south to Georgia and Alabama; rare in the east. In Wash- ington it is sparingly planted. There are some in Rock Creek Park. The tree illustrated Is several hundred yards south of the State, War and avy building, The usual helght of this oak is fifty to sixty feet, though specimens may be found in southern Illinois and Indiana reaching a helght of 100 feet, with a trunk dlameter of three feet; in' youth with broad, pyramidal head, in old age developing into al broad, open-topped tree. The bark is pale, dull brown and scaly, shallowly fissured into wide, flat rid The leaves bear a nrudnr resemblange to those of the mountain laurel and the tree is known to many as the laurel ‘The inconspicuous, greenish flow- ers appear in May with the young leaves. The male flowers are in slender, drooping catkins. They are very graceful and very attractive, as are also the tiny pink and silver leaflets. The acorns mature the sec- ond year. They are nearly globular and are set In shallow, saucer- shaped cups. The wood is pals brown, heavy, hard and coarse-grained. It is used for clapboards and shingles and it also makes an excellent fuel. Beef and Sweet Potatoes. Slice a laver of cold cooked sweet potatoes into a greased baking dish, add salt and-pepper and over that place a layer of cold sliced roast beef. Bulld alternate’ layers of potatoes with seasoning and beef until the dish is almost filled, then cover the top with buttered bread crumbs and pour over the whole one cupful or more of gravy left from the roast. Tover the dish and bake until brown, White potatoes can be used instead ot sweet ones if liked. For graciousness ] Your Home and ] You The Newer Muffin Stands. Now that the autumn days are closing us in, and we seek the open fireside instead of the open veranda at the tea hour, the mind of woman turns instinctively to the newer and more attractive ways of serving afternoon sandwiches, cakes and cin- namon foast. The one-time perma- nent “tea table,” which stood gath- ering dust and over-familiarity dur- ing the twenty-three hours a day when It was not in use, has given ~wagon, way now to the noiseless te which comes trunding in only when needed, laden with a shining tea service and spotless silver. The handy little mufiin stand of a year or two back, with its three tlers of plate shelves—one shelf to a tier— has been developed by the thoughtful manufacturers into a newer form, in which three plate holders, all on the same level, are presented to the guest, It used to be somewhat embarrassing to give the top shelf the once over, tentatively at the if to see whether some more delectable dainty might not he found there. The circumspect guest was apt to help herself to the top plate onl thereby missing some goody that w idd modestly on 4 lower floor. The three-sided muff r—som it ~by-side to hold one one plate of deli 1d one of Juscious ¢ though this is varied by such tea ompaniments, as F <h muffins, otch scone! nnamon nutmeg vory round whole wh bread spread with anchovy or caviar, thin bread d butter rolls or sweets in the form of t MACATO0 brownies, or s fled kind of cookie. Moist cak; oozing fillings should never be served at the tea hour, as they make the fingers sticky, even if they actually drip upon the gown. Sometimes one of the trio of plates contains bonbe or salted nuts: sometimes the sugar, lemon, cream, and a glass of mint sprigs occup: one of the spa and the stand ma) be placed In the center of a group and left there. The lower shelf is( either filled with a bowl of fruit or| left vacant, so that empty cups may | be set upon it. thus avoiding a trip fo the tea table in case no servant is present. and then glanc lower plates, as Pl MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN “My Dolly Walks.” year-old to play about the house. It is the sort of rhythm game she will dearly love to use in working off energy on her lively days. She starts out by saying ““This is the way my dolly walks.” Then she walks about the room stilly, “And this is the way she This is followed by ing and skipping. Last of all she says: “This is the way my dolly talks.” using a high, squeaky voice. My little girl gets a great deal of fun out of playing this. Sometimes I play the piano for her and she does it to music. repeating: walks, you see.'’ hopping, ju (Copyright, 1623.) Not in Seeing Distance. One Mother Says: Here is a _game for the four or five- From Life. Optimus — That was evil company you were In the other night. never to see you with that sort here- after. You won't Cynlcus—Don't worry! —in_the hereafter! MOVING, PACKING & STORAGE. I hope T METROPOLITAN WAREHOURE GO, STORAGE, PACKI: Phone Potomac 08: 3 AND SHIPPING. 50 Florida Ave. N.E. 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Physi¢lans are directing their at- tention to photography as o means of early disease: graphs of children have shown the mtomatic me: under the skin days before It was visible to the eye. “I have been able to tell in advance "SALADA" For After School Hunger Wagners MOTHER :~ Fletcher’s Castoria is a pleasant, harmless Substi- tute for Castor Oil, Paregoric, Teething Drops and Soothing Syrups, prepared for Infants in arms and Children all ages. To avoid imitations, always look for the signature of W Proven directions on each package. Physicians everywhere recommend it FEATURES by means of photography that dren were sickening for ~measles says a London pratiitioner. “Thix method should be valuable in smal 0x cases. People In contact wit), nown cases could he photographe. before any rash develops on the oute skin. 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