Evening Star Newspaper, December 5, 1923, Page 38

WOMAN’S PAGE. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1923. FEATURE Straight Hanging Veils for Hats NNE RITTENHOUSE Within recent seasons women have had to unlearn all they ever knew about the gentle art of putting on & veil. They have had to acquire an | entirely different technique in the matter. Once American women had the reputation of knowing better than any other women in the world how to perform this difficult task Now that vells are pressing to the fore again some women a hoping that the old trick will be !'l'\‘l\'l‘ll‘ But theirs is a misguided hope. | Present hats no less than present headdresses cail for something quite | different in the way of veil treat-| ment. | Usuaily the vell is placed securely on the hat and then le hanging straight. Tt is never used on a large hat nowadays save as part of it« pre- concelved trimming. W no longer wear a vell—or at least_we shonld not—to keep the hair in order, b cause the fashionable 1 1 of halr has already been so subdued and well disciplined that nothing short of a Kansas cyclona would induce It to ot out of place. The straight. 100 hanging veil merely seems to ac- | centuate the severe sleck ¢ of the hair beneath. Vells are certainly a_ matter of necessi Hats never staved on and hair was never waywardness. Yet and are gelling in It is perhaps hecause they are merel an accessory of purely decor significance that women are so ¢ to buy them. Almogt any small may be given a new dition of a little chen choser mowad more secu less inelin are sma quantities. dotted vei Mother. man Triangle =% Doroth Y Dix I WITH CHENILLE TRIM A SMALL HAT DOTS TO Shows Work- ings of Mother-in- Law ind Mothers Cannot Be Reconciled to the Changed Order of Things Whe New Wife Treats F to Be Petted day an elderly attorney of the city her son was slowl the way she did woman which being starved And, with tears in THE other sh in DOROTHY DIN. ward her daughter-in-law A the armed neutrality when not engaged in mother would prefer to love her son another daughter, not only becaus: but because she knows that the only called at n Sons Marry — The [im as a Man, Not and Coddled. e lived and com ed to him death because his bride didn’t her eyes, she begged the prosecutor to take steps to save her son's 1i The prosecutor told the distress- ed woman that the young man would have to make his own complaint Whereupon the mother wept aloud “That is Jjust the trouble she :d, “The poor hoy seems to like his wife's cooking, but 1 know what good for him. e has a delicate stomach, and should have plain, nu- tritious dishes, instead of the flub- dubby food she gives him to eat.” This little story from real life humorous or pathetic as vou see and_you will lzugh o it or y “over it according to whether vou have married children or not. Rut in it you will find the very crux| of one of the greatest problems in the world. And that is why good, kind, motherly women o often look upon their daughters-In-law with suspicion and believe that the girls their sons married are deliberately trying fto ruin them instead of try- ing to he good wives to them. is I that a woman i two generally m open warfare. ar from it wife and have her becomas reall peace is more pleasant than strife, way that she can keep her son is with wife, sting | hat cook is it, not with intent and purpose very merel sooner ! fwat 1 me by maintaining a friendly rel It would m that moth acy to get along with he cause they can't. The stinct to protect its voung- primative lationship rs would resource of a exhaust every daughters-in-law. But they don" instine: of the mother—th rises up in them and overpowers the dipo- imply nimal sense Aftir suppir today pop =at down in his morriss chair and a cigar and litt it and started to smok: sattisfied ixpression and n forget, Willyum, Mr. and are coming tonite 1 the sooner th they'll go, t the Hewses sed, but Willyum, Mr. Hews Think sed, and took sed, Mrs a dont Hews W come the how 1 feel sed, and ma nking of ng cheerdll, ma xed. but Willyum, 1. You know he jest swore off smoking and i o sit heer sacrificing himself wile you sit there smoking an « gar 1 ould a ver you to do. she sed s, do I haif to stop wuse he =wore off? pop sed, »d, Well Willyum, a st and you'll haff to treet him . and besides, wen vou see easy it is to sit quictly a hols ning without smoking anl see Mr. Hews doing the same thinw, perhaps you'll sware off yourself, Wi knows? 1 know, for one, pop sed. With jest then the doorbell rang and pon quick threw his cigar out of the Lack win- dow, saying, good b they call this a free country nny, go down to the door, Wich I did. and it was Mr. and Mr: Hows and they came up and sat down and started to tawk to ma and pop bout difffent subjecks sutch as Fu- rope heing in sutch a fearse condi- tion and lamb chops costing more insted of getting cheeper, and after a wile Mr. Hews took i vest pockit, saying, I ¢ eny longer, Im suffering And he litt 1t and pop took f pockit and litt it, of mutch thanks, they told me you had swe the dooce, Mr. Hews sed I was told tae same pop heers agonies. me out sayh, for n nd op sed thing about you Well, We'll show them, M: ilews sed. and pop sed, we'll show them all And they each smoked 3 clgars /\ || BEDTIME STORIES with ¢ dont | lospittible | smoking | guest | sweethart, and TREES OF WASHINGTON || BY R. A. This small t the planer-tree as it 18 sometimes called, is not an elm, though closely related, belonging to the sams in fact. The kinship is plainly for it s close resemblance small-leaved m, though it may be distinguished from the elms with certainty th Instead of being ds, they small nuts, which are covered with soft projec- tions. There are very few In Wash- ington, for we are considerably north of 1t natural range, and the tree is one Ifttle used for pictorial or shade planting. The tree illustrated is a very fair spectmen. It is in the ‘apitol grounds southeast of the tol and near B street. There is 1 small group of these trees in 1d Park, one of which la- family, apparen bears a to a it fruits winged sm; is found in water-loving tree and is swamps from North Caro- lina to Florida, west to Texas and southern Illinols, everywhera un- common, a small tree not over forty Gopher Is Proud of His Home Honest pride is g0od to see, Ax Bonest falk will all agi —01d Mother Nature. When Gopher the Tortoise told Dan- ny and Nanny Meadow Mouse that that hole they had looked at going way, way down into the ground was his home they were quite as much surprised as they had been when he EMMONS. | slender, | usually’ a more | round crown | The bark is very hrown. falling away he unsymmetrical and « ty inches ith toothed except at the bas | thick. dark green abo |beneath. The flowers are s inconspicuous. appraring in with the leaves. The nut-lke frufts | are curious structures, about a_quar- ter of an inch long and covered with soft horn-llke processes. The wood is soft and light hrown and the tree is of no economic valu thouih from the appearance of th fn Washington it would seem that there are certain confined situations where such a_small tree would fill a real need. Futhermore, this ra tree is the only species of its genus in the world tod though in pr historic times there wers other sp cles of planera floyrishing in Alaska, in the Rocky mountains and in Eu- I rope anches formin eux Eymmetri thin and gray in large scales leaves are small o and junt or spring By Thornton W. Burgess. | brought them down to the Sunny South “It is wonderful.” confessed Mocker. | | “How do vou like our beautiful Sun- | ny_South? | "“We don't know yet." replied Dan- | n¥. “You =ee, we haven't had a chance to get aucquainted with it. Mr. Go- here, is the only one we hav had told them that he was not a Tur- | tle. but a Tortoise. ‘It looks like a very fine home,” of the of expediency and all thought upon he For every mother looks angel, but also as a helpless infant who must be coddled. and and taken care of; and when she sees human woman who not only treats h demi-god, but who expects this august ereature to pr salf, why. it is just too much for moth She dons her war paint and rush consequences to herself. Not only this. but every mother has a carefully cherished legend about She endows this child ch of her children. spends hours cooking special dishes for it. and swathes it in flannels. She attri on eggs to keep from irritating it. and excuses all sorts of bad temper on cor account of its unfortunate neurotis O when these children get married derstudy her and go on tdlosynorasies, and when the wives men to act like men instead of pampe at that mother sheds bitter tears ove, els like murdering the women whom she regards in the light of arch- flends. At every wedding the bri Philistines to bhe fe. For what spent in amusing him over to the happiness, but his brief life has been a man? Mother has spent from tw. she knows just the things that his digestion, and o she shudders tender mercies of a bride and vitamines, and whos will feed him on fancy salads nty Tee bread may and Nor can the ordinary mother daughter-in-law every dollar she spen poor little boy, who has to work so And the worst of it all is that her son likes his wife's cooking and enjoys spending money on his wife. Talk about the human trian tragedy Is that which is made of in-law. (Coprright, The Diary o{a Professional Movie Fan BY You Really Can't Tmagine Such a| Thin Imagine & woman who would turn | from the cinema to cooking: who | would rather fry than film; who pre- fers the cookstove to—well, to Cecil Da Mille, et us say. TH admit it's a strain on one's credulity. When you think of the women all over the world who would turn from their kitchens to the kliegs without a quiver of an evelash, it makes what Svlvia Ashton, better known as “Mother” Ashton, has done all the more amazing. This Is a wotld of delightful unexpectedness any way you look at it. Sylvia Ashton played in stock com- panies for fifteen years prior to her screen career, which has included such pictures as New,” “Why Change “Is Matrimony a Faflure?’ slaughter,” and. most recentl. for Sale,” and - “Greed” FEric Stroheim's as yet unreleased production. ‘When, the other day, sitting with her in ‘the tearoom which she has recently opened, I asked her If she would ever go back to the screen, «he sald, “No,” with 8o much positive- ness and emphasis that I pressed the question no furthel ‘Not,” she said, “that I have any grudge Afllnst the screen or the people on it. Far from it!” And she thereupon regaled me with such glowing prafse of Rupert Hughes and ¥ric von Shroheim, the brothers De Aille and Gloria Swanson that I was again and again fully answered. AL just wasn’t in my right sphere, she sald, ‘that {s, not any longer. The old beauty is going, and the work is not what it once was. In ‘Souls for Sale,’ for instance, I work- ed for over three months, was frozen and roasted, fell off horses, was ex- hausted, and, when the picture was out and released, all that remained of my labors was one close-up. It Trasnt Mr. Ho fauit et all, lg.n it wi ngs g0 Deople do 4 of work. And so, L] new spoiling_them and don’t do it, and expect great big husky room's mother {8 always in tears, because she feels that she i< not only losing her son. but she is turning despoiled. does this fool as she thinks of his being left to the | who doesn’t know a thing ahout balanced rations | whipped-cream prevent mother and her son and her daughter- GLADYS HALL ffeed and mother people. safety. not_only ir own r son of arch- protected. perfectly ordinary instead of as a her above him- s a sort him marricd to im as a plain man hes to the rescue, regardless of the with a poor stomach and she She gives that one weak lungs | butes nerves to another and walks ndition mother expects their wives to un- cultivating their little red babies, it is not to be wondered r her poor persecuted darlings and This is She is risking not only his h young creature, whose herself, know about taking care of to thirty vears catering to him, and with him and the thingw that upset be heavy, and who. erts. likely as not herself from begrudging her ds. She j feels so sorry for her hard to ‘support a strange woman The one that incloses the greatest DOR q <, o OROTHY DIX. It | said Danny | | " replied Gopher. “Yes, suh, out of the business. You see, I have | little adopted daughter to care | for, and she meags' more than any- thing else in the world to me. “‘As soon as T had decided to leave the screen 1 packed my things and came east. I've never saved nnyl money. 1 didn’t have any job In mind, [ didn't know what 1 would do when I reached New York, but I've never been beaten and I never will Le. When I reached New York, Gloria Swanson, bless her heart, asked me to visit her at Bayside, One night, when uests were ex- pected, her cook left, after the im- memorial fashion of cooks, and I volunteered to cook the dinner. When it was over, Gloria said to me, ‘I'd give anything to be able to gaf food like that, Mother, why don't you open a tearoom? ‘There are so many people in New York who love home cooking and have no place to g0 for it “That Was the germ of the idea, and just as Gloria gave me the ides, 50 she has helped me to develop it financlally, morally, every way. The result is my tearoom, which is not a tearoom strictly speaking, since I serve luncheons and dinners only. I have opened it because 1 love to It is for all those who appreciate good food and plenty of it. T am happy here.” Which last seems to me to be the best reason of all. Jasper: Yes, Jasper, Constance Tal- madge is going to do_¥more serious things.” She was in New York last week and is now back in sunny Cal’, preparing to make the picturization of “Mirage.” So you think she is our best light comedienne and should stick to it. Well, the “Mirage” will tell, even better than you or I Anzia: Betty Francisco recently played the role of the piquant blonde in “Poor Men's Wives" She is also playing a_somewhat similar role in “Maytime.” (AN rights reserved.) Some Speed. From the Nashville Tennesseean. *Sam, I'll give you a pint of Scotch 1f you'll hurry over to my house and Hurry, now! ¢ ® = mnfle'fi‘v. you :on. rgr' ‘Gened s st “I feel like a pathfinder,” exclaimed Joe, patting the sweater and hiking trousers he'd exchanged for his over coat and school suit. “There lsn't oven a trail where wa're going to look for the Christmas tree.’” “Suppose it would get dark gested Sam, his companion. 1 have a hlight.” 'What if we get lost “I have a comp: R The boys climbed the hill of the pine woods, Joe's dog, Sport, at thelr heels. At a little clearing in the densest part they opened their bas- ket of supper. While they munched sausages and bread and Sport chewed a bone, the sun went down. “Say, it's getting dark,” exclaimed Sam. “Let's hurry!” Khak! breeches, green sweater, green cap with red mittens and red on the cuffs of his stockings, brown rope_and hatchet make the coloring sug- | for Joe's outdoor togs (Copyright, 1023.) “Just Hats” By Vyvyan. A Roll of Ribbon. Brown ribbon is drawn bandanna- fashion over the top and back of & caramel felt cloche. At the back the ribbon is formed into a roll that fans out in picturesque fashion. S Hunting Nuts. Sift thoroughly two cupfuls of rye flour to remove the bran and mix the rye flour with two cupfuls of wheat flour, one cupful of molasses, one and one-third cupfuls of brown sugar, three-fourths \cupful .of butter and it te. Ah'm proud of that Ah've been proud of it ever sinc dug it.” ver Darny er since Ah dug it.” replied Go- pher. Danny looked at Ni Ah since what?’ squeaked s unbelief. that you expect us to believe that you dug that hole?" demanded Danny “Yes, suh, Ah certainly do, suh Ah'm not in the habit of telling things that are not so, suh.” It was clear that Gopher was somewhat offended “But Turtles don't dig holes way down in the ground like that,” pro- tested Danny. 'Ah tol’ you, suh, that Ah am not a Turtle, but a Tortolse, and that makes | all the difference in the world.,” re- plied Gopher with a great deal of dig- nity. “Ah dug that home mahself, h, and Ah'm proud of it.” is @ new voice this Mouse! looked up to find Mocker the Mockingbird looking down at them with such surprise in his eves that they just had to laugh. At the same time they were delighted. Mocker had spent several summers up in the Old Orchard and Danny and Nanny had become very well ac- quainted with him “It certainly is Danny and Nanny Meadow Mouse, yet it can't be,” said Mocker, talking to himself. Oh, ves, it can be.” squeaked Dan- ny, “and it is” Then he told Mocker ail about their wonderful adventures and how the great man-bird had The Jumpy Child. Is there a jumpy child in your class or in your family? He's a very trying youngster and you wish some- thing could be done to make him keep quiet a few minutes in every waking hour. You're willing to bar- galn for even a few minutes of re- pose for this child, who hops from | talking like a mill-wheel all the time, never pausing long enough to get the flavor of anything that comes his clattering way. The teacher struggles with him from day to day, but he cheerfully answers her appealing request for the product of seven times nine with an explosive “seventy-three,” just as on the first day when his cholce was forty-one. In despair the teacher sends home a deficlency blank, and in wrath or grief, acoording to his na- ture, the parent calls at the school. He exchanges lamentations with the teacher and the boy goes jumping on. If you have such & boy under your care, or such a girl, for that matter— one's as difficult as the other—some- thing should be done for him. Some- thing ought to be done besides talk- ing about the trouble he is and or- dering him to be qulet and scolding him for not being as other children re. *The jumpy child profits little by being in a crowded classroom for five hours a day. He needs little stim- ulus; he has plenty. His school pro- gram ought to be cut down to the Dare skeleton of academic work—a home. | job to job, from thought to thought, | | | | AH TOL' YOU, SUH, THAT AH AM NOT A TURTLE., BUT A TOR- TOISE. ing fun of us.”" Danny looked at G | pher and then at Gopher's home. | Mocker understood. His eves twin- | Kled. “Then you do | pher great swrong." - | wouldn't make fun of anybody. diz that home. He is a really did famous digger erhaps some day he he can dig.” will show vou how Danny turned to Gopher. “I beg your pardon for not believing you,” said he. “You have reason to be proud of that home. If i had dug it 1 should have been proud of it. I hope you will pardon us for doubting your word. You see, fo many Strange things have happencd to us that we really don’t know what to believe and what not to believe,” “It is quite all right. suh.” replied Gopher politely. *Ah can understand your feelin Ah hope vo' alls will be right neighborly.” (Copyright, 1023, by T. W. Burgess) , doing things, but the flow of ideas coming in from all sides keeps them constantly switching from one thing to another and wasting their energy |on nothing at all. The ideas sup- plied by an hour of contacts in school will keep him going for hours in his own workshop. He generally likes to make bosts. | Let him. Then let him sail them in the bath tub and in the pond. He likes to string wires and ring bells | on batteries. “He likes to build with smooth wooden blocks, good sized | ones. Occasionally he will stand be- ing read to for a few minutes at a time, and this should be done until he learns to sit still and listen. That's the place where vou begin to teach him to inhibit—that is, tol Menu for a Day. BREAKFAST. Oranges. Cereal with Cream. Broiled Bacon. Vegetable Hash. Popovers. Coftee. LUNCHEON. Baked Spaghettl with Cheese Toasted Bran Muffins. Spanish Cream. Cookies. Tea. DINNER. Ham. Bolled Potatoes. Buttered Cabbage Coffee. Baked Boiled Squash Ple. VEGETABLE HASH This hash is very cheap 1o make, but Is v delicious. Take four good-sized heets and carrots, one large turnip, five or six potatoes and a small onfon, peel them, then wash and slice them quite thin and place in a kettle with enough water so that there will be about two inches of water above .the vegetables. Add a plece of pork two inches mquare and a little cooking soda about as big as a pea Boll three hours, but not di- rectly over the fire. Put the kettle on the cover of the stove, for If It cooks too quick- 1y it ‘will burn on the hottom When nearly done add salt and pepper to taste. When done it will have a thick gravs SPANISH CREAM Take ona quart of milk and soak two-thirds hox of gelatin in it untll soft. Place it on the fire and stir often. Beat the yolks of three eggs very light with one cupful of sugar stir into the scalding milk and heat until It begins to thicken (it should not bofl or it wiil curdle). Remove the fire and strain through thin musiin and when nearly cold flave with vanilla or lemon: tb wet dish or mold in cold water and set aside to stiffen BOILED BUTTERED CABBAGE Cut a head of four parts. Soak one-half hour in a pan of co er to which has been added a tablespoonful of #alt; this i« to draw out ar sects that may be hidden leaves, Have a large ste n half full of hoiling water; in the cabbage, pushing it der the water with a spoon Ada one tablespoonful of salt and cook from twenty-five to forty-five minutes, depending upon the age of the cabbage. Turn into a colander and drain about two minutes. Season with butter, pepper and more salt if it requires it. Allow a tablespoonful of fat to a gener- ous pint of the cooked vege- Arnabel Worthington o For a Little Miss. 1928 Cmb 650 This simple little style, which Is especially attractive because of its extreme simplicity, would be cute on tots of 2, 4, 6 and § years of age. The sleeves and the walst are in one, with the closing at the center back Batiste or silk is suggested for a best frock, and of ginghum or chambray it would mal dandy play dress. For the 4-year size, dress and hloomers require 2% yards 36-inch material, with yards of ribbon for sash ends. The dainty butterfly spray whic adorns the front is one of the man designs included in_embroidery pat- tern No. 630, which costs 15 cents extra. a’s 2% of pattern .for dress—if in postage atamps only. O honld be naddresved to The > New York city. t 1Sth street. and address Please write name clearly. ——— Apple Doughnuts. Para and core six cooking apples and slica them into even rounds. Beat the whites of three large eggs together, sweeten with sugar and add a pinch of salt, a little flour and enough water to bring the mixture to the consistency of thiok cream Dip the slices of apple into it and fry them in boiling fat until they are orisp, pufty and brown. Then drain them on paper and roll them in powdered sugar. Serve hot. —eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee check himself from dolng what is unnecessary to the job in hand. That's the weak spot In his structure, and you patiently work at bridging it over until he needs no more help. It's a difficult, delicate job, not at all like raising a plump kitfen who slumbers long in a padded basket. It's.a jump job and must be done in the smoothest, most deliberate fash- fon imaginable. But it will pay. It will pay even for the expense it puts you to in fitting the room and buy- ing the smooth, soothing toys and pnsung the expert teacher to gulde him through. (Copyright, 1028.) “The Cup That Cheers” deliciocus “SALADA" one teaspoonful of ginger. Melt the | bit of reading, spelling, numbers and ‘butter and the brown sugar and mix all the ingredients thoroughly. Form the dough into small nuts and bake them in a slow oven for half an hour. Do _not place the nuts too to. s they eptasd & then home. At home he should have a quiet room. quigt as to decoration. quiet to the hbsence of fuss and noise. e 'where > X A refreshes, stimulates and invigorates. Ask your grocer for it today. H42. this | Our Birds in Verse By Henry Oldys. i BLUE-GRAY KNATCATCHER. Packet edifion of that larger type That in more intimate presence tunes his pipe In voice and garh (though somewhat mor d k mure ) Another catbird thou ir miniature Yet once—long, long ago—I heard from thee \ lisping strain of rhythmic \ damty bit of m in the i hat brought to 1 charming interk And wand vagrant as the Until it lost ng the trec red b: Dear bird, when mem'ry Although thy usual mediey That which pervades and make Is that swi dy of lor I to mir I hear thine brings t may ima What’s the - Verdict? HE test of a mealtime drink is not alone how it tastes, but also what it does. Many a coffee-user finds wakeful- ness and restlessness after drinking coffee with the evening meal—and other health- disturbances follow on. There’s double pleasure and benefit in Pos_tum; delightful taste, complete satis- faction, and agreeable friendship with nerves and health. There's charm without harm in Postum. Let a ten-days’ trial of Postum instead of coffee show you the marked improve- ment in health and comfort which so many others have found. Sold by grocers everywhere! Postum for Health “There’s a Reason” Your grocer sells Postum in two forme: Instant Postur in tins) prepared inetantly 1n the cup by the additio of beiling ware Postum Cereal (in packages) for those who prefer the flavor brought out by boiling !u“y 20 minutes. The cost of either form is about one-half cent a cup. A0 b ey gy Made by Postum Cereal Co., Inc., Batde Creek, Mich. PROTECT Your Doctor and Yourself “PHILLIPS " MILK OF MAGNESIA SAY “PHILLIPS" to your druggist, or you may not get the original Milk of Magnesia prescribed by physicians for 50 years. Refuse imitations of genuine “Phillips” 25-cent bottles, also larger size. contain directions and uses. 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