Evening Star Newspaper, December 18, 1923, Page 39

WOMAN’S PAGE. —_— Abbreviated Skirt for Little Girl BY ANNE RITT] 1 NHOUS Coats for mirls—are little girls—very little smart, Lut frocks must be shorter, short enough so that not oven a line of tive frock extends b low the end of the coat. It is quite much a variation from good style 1 dressing the little girl to have | r frock show below her coat as to | 'ave her diminutive petticoat show | helow her frock. And all this mands painstaking = precision. An clement that alw s adds to the ditficulty is the fact that lttle girls Wil grow, and grow most unevenly and in most unexpected places. 0y mother will tell is no rhyme re way children grow. ¥ season | little Jane's feet have been hardly Srowing at all, and just when you | 1ave laid in a good supply of shoe only half a size too large for her feet—that med quite ade- lite Jane seemed to concen- trate all her energles to growing feet until “the whole set of shoes was Quite outgrown. Then Hrother Jim, had alway en mannuer, ing in the ribs,” getting fearfully just when vou had suits that now refuse| to come anywhere near diminutive breeches—or scems to be perfectly rmissible to call them nowadays. Fine tuck the say back into style as a m ming lingerie, By horizontal tucks in the little petticoats, so that it will not be ficult to jet them out or take up as occasion may require. By all means make wide hems in her frocks. And if you wish to have the ~oat do for two seasons, then by means have the length needed another year turned up and 1ed 1 a hem beneath the lning er than rob the oat of all smartness My having it too long this sen * it is distinctly smart for fro and coats to The ng skirt of to had no effee on little girls' shic they are amaz short longest part Iressed little girl in P the line between the top of ks and the hem of her coat The frock in the sketch is a smart it simple one for the six ar-old 1t is made of white crepe de chine, | ut on the simplest chemise-line pat- rn The band of embroldery is of French blue and pink, a the low- placed belt is of pink It would . an easy frock to copy and other | eolor schemes colild be followed. . that i the you ihe on or in an to expan precious long-waisted, bought new quite fla meeting hi nts, as it reglon o ans of means 1 girl's dif- them for Aren’s short seems ever ks hay f gly any sma seems te her WHITE CREPE DE CHINE FROCK FOR LITTLE L. THERE I8 BLUE AND PINK EMBROIDERY WITH A PINK BELT. THE EVENING )] Menu for a Day. BRIZAKFAST. Bananas Oatmeal with Cream Toast, Bacon and Eggs Coffee LUNCHEON. Stuffed Tomato Salad Rolls Taploca Cream Cookies. Tea DINNE rurnips t Apple Pi Coffe m Potatoes Cheese OAST, BAC Fry or IN AND EGGS. broil thin s of on and lay on toast on hot tter. In 4 shallow dish have bolling salted water, and into this carefully drop 1 exg for cach picce of toust. Lay eggs on toast on top of bacon serve hot. TAPIOCA CRI tablespoonfuls of in cold water night. In the morning add 1 quart of scalding milk cook untfl the tapioca is voll CRES up of minutes from fire, add a bit of salt and flavor to taste. Pour into a deep dish and cover.with mer- ingue made from whites of cggs and tablespoonfuls of sugar. Brown in a slow oven and serve cold ] yak tupica i CREAM Cut your coid boiled potatoes into small make a sauce of a g ) of rich milk, 1 tablespoonful of butter and ‘1 of flour, rubbed to cream anl stirred into the k; pour it into & double boiler, add potatoes, season to taste with salt_and pepper, then simmer for five minutes and serve hot A nice dish may be made by adding an equal quantity of peas 1o the potatoes and s ing together suuce. Your Home and You HY HELEN hi;\ll\bl. Clear Decks for Christmas. ivery homte-woman knows what an Dorothy Dix’s Letter Box Should a Wife Know the Amount of Her Hu>-: band’s Salary?—The Fifty-Year-Old Wife Whose Husband Objects to Make-Up and Young-Girl Clothes—The Wife Who Hates Housework. EAR MISS DIX: Will you kindly answer these two questions Should a wife know how much salary her husband receives? The husband does mot think so. Should tine husband give the wife his pay envelope unopened, as she pays all the bills? T H. A Answer: Certainly the wife should know tI : of her husband's in- some, for only in that way can she know how 1o budget her expenditures. To rin a house intelligently & woman must knoi. liow much she has to go ipon. just as & man would have to know how much money he was getting n order to run a business properly & A\ mreat deal of the extravagance of women is due to thelr not know ng oW much money their husbands make, and So being ignorant of what they an and what they cannot afford. When a man refuses to tell his wife what he makes he leaves her guessing, and he can hardly blame her if she guesses the way she wants to and assumes that she can buy all that she craves. As for a woman expecting her husband to turn over his pay envelope to her without opening it, I think that is demanding more of him than any man of spirit will stand. It makes the man feel like a slave who is driven from one task to another. T am firmly of the opinion that any one who earns money has a right to handle it. Heaven knows, in these days, when it takes all that most of us can make to pay the living expenses, that is about all the fun we zet out of it. Of course, in exceptional cases, whers a man has, as the phrase goes. holes in his pocket, and when he recognizes himself that he is wasteful and extravagant and an easy mark for borrowers, it might be wise for him to turn over his whole p; envelope to his wife and let her give him back what #he thinks he needs for dally expenses. But it would take a very meek mnan and a very tactful woman to carry off this situation without friction. Every man should make his wife as liberal an i\llnwnnrr.;\s he can aftord, but she has no more right to expect all that he makes than I\("I\.’,\S to refuse her a fair share of it. DOROTHY DIX. I am fifty years old and have a nice big family and an But he thinks he has a right to dictate to me about the way I dress and comb my halr. He says that a woman of my age must not use powder or cosmetics of any kind, nor wave her hair, nor wear youngish clothes, or do anything to make herself look attractive. What do you think? . F. EAR MISS DIX: average husband. Answer: No man has a right to dictate to his wife about her dress unless he has qualified as a clothes expert. So, if your husband is not a man milliner or engaged in the ready-to-wear trade, tell him very gently and sweetly to keep off a subject concerning which he is not fitted to speak. Listen patiently to men when they discourse upon thelr favorite indoor topic, which is women’s clothes and women's folly In trying to make themselves beautiful though ugly, but never be silly enough to be influenced by their opinions, for men say one thing about women and do another. If you will believe men, the thing they admire most in woman is the natural state and remaining as homely as God made them. You would think | they doted on bald foreheads, and sallow cheeks, and shiny noses, and slinky hair, and the costume they admired most was made of some durable material That never wore out and whose style never changed from vear to year. But, hist, sister! Did you ever see a man out with a woman that looked like that? No. He would dle soomer than take her out to dinner. It is the painted. and the permanent-waved, and the chiffon-clad baby dolls that men run afier—and don't you believe them to the contrary. So stick to vour powder box, and your rouge pot, and your good clothes. And while your husband may grumble and knock them, he'll still be grumbling and knocking them long after you would have lost him if you had taken his advice. As for fifty being too old for a woman to make nerself attractive, why, that's nonsense. She is just beginning to. be Yyoung then. . . DOROTHY DIX. .THEAR MISS DIX: What would you do if you and were married to a man who never wi My husband is very good to me except fo: ke housework. 4 wers gay and pleasure-loving anted to go anywhere? T this. T am young and I don't UNDECIDED WIFE. Answer: Wiy, 1 would try to get a little bette #s 2 whole than you have at present, Undeclded Wife. of 1t as a bargaln In which you have to give something end J'd try to make the best of it. eher,tBPOS Jou dnn(‘it \ike housework! eir occupations, and there's not one work: highest-priced grand opera sin, e milion-ae1 erspective on marriage | 1 would try to think for what you receive Mighty few are [Ghraptured with world—not even the : ger or a million- Zwho | doesnt get sick and tired of his or her Job at times. - The mats thing or 10 1o remember is that you have undertakén to make a man a comfortaple home as your part of the marri; you a £ood on it age contract, and you are in honor bound to make As for your husband not wanting not solve that problem intelligently by Surely there are enough hen luncheons, hows. and tea dances to furnish an Women make a great mistake to run around with you at*night, wh; taking your pleasure in the af ternoons ahd matinees, and movies, and ploture Woman with all the diversion she needs, when they try to dra io parties. No man Who fs out amusing himsel? until 5 oo ojeiands out morning can compete with the man who | early after 2 cuter E0es to bed e evening at home and brings res ves and a Syemne s &5 rested nerves and a clear mind to his business (Copyeight, 1022.) POROTHY DIX. The Diary of a Professional Movie Fan BY GLADYS HALL. jsprays of bittersweet i have inrush of extra things there is in the | house at Christmas time ts already as full as it we must n place for out incoming he bLoxes, {he 'y t xes, L Every an 1 r tinse o * bots the bowls of fru pretty parapt All these extra rest on the table tops of desks other surfaces ment, if not of the v of berrie boxes s , framed and other ornaments that stay the vear round. There isn't room for evervthing, and in the Christmas haste something Is sure to be [ushed aside and broken. The wise housewife, therefore, clears her decks a week or 50 before- hand. She carefully tucks away upon’ a closet shelf the breakable treasures of china, glass, pottery and laster. On the mantel she leaves some brass or silver candle and perhaps a_copper bowl ristmas greens, The tubles are cleared of all smail objects and hold only a few books (in wooden or metal book-ends), heavy reading lamps that cannot be tipped over, and some Christmas magazines, perhaps. Spaces on top of Look-shelves, or- dinarily occupled by swinging photo- graph frames, delicate blown glass figures and the like, are swept clean and filled with branches of pine, or clumps of crimson berries, with some holly added the day before Christmas. As holly dries out more quickly than evergreens, and the vellowed leaves drop within a few days. it is best not to bring the holly into the warm house any earlier than necessary. The dining room furnishings should bo given the same protectivE~treat- ment. Delicate tea-sets, the fraglle after-dinner coffee service, even breakable fruit bowls and the like, should be hidden away until after the exciting morning when gifts are opened at the breakfast table, per- haps, and the buffet, sideboard, serv- ing ‘table and mantel are hastily crowded with half-wrapped gifts. The house will look furnished enough. never fear;: and you will the comfortable feeling that none of your hreakable treasures are in danger. here My Neighbor Says: To make a bath tub that has been neglected look like new soak a flannel in kerosene and rub well over the bath. In a few minutes the crust of dirt that has been left on from time to time will disappear. This method is specially good where Great Lovers. It seems to me to stand to reason that the same type cannot mean the great lover to every one. We all have varying and personal preferences, I ! should think. I know that I have. Freud would probably say that it nll harks back to some fixation or meurosis or some such thing of our earliest youth. That is to say, if the first man upon who you had gazed with a subconscious interest chanced to be a Llonde youth with blue eves, the chances are that Conrad Nagel will be the one to appeal to you as 1he desirable quintessence of ro- mance. would turn to Thomas Melgh If we turn toward young love, moonlit nights, silver rivers gliding through rushes, soft whispers in a broken darkness, we would. thinit of Conrad Nagel or of Glenn Hunter. If we want romance without the heavy overtone of sex and despefa- tion, vet more nature than the love of whispers and soft nights, a glam- orous, tender, warmly idealistic sort of love, we would think of Barthel- mess. If we want the sqphisticated, - stantlal, ProsDemus@clever lgp:ugl American man, we would gravitate toward Holbrook Blinn. Strange chords in one's nature, un- known harmonies, vagaries apart from ~the average, general thing, ’\\'0|I|d turn us toward Joseph Schild- { kraut. ! And so it gaes. There is little use It probably comes down, in the end, 7 %o what each of us “ladies” really 4 fwants from life, from love, from ro- * man If what we want {s the un- « silluted essence of romance and ex- . gtnam. ‘we would naturally turn to b R What we waat ta the_ hom: . ;; substantiaslity, we in hotly contesting the fact that so- and-so_has sald the Barthelmess is the perfect, the great lover. Doubt- less he is for the person who so ac- claimed him. For someone else, Bill Hart, mayhap, or Conway Tearle. To every woman her own type, her own ideal, her own conception of ‘what the perfeet lover should be. $40 righia resurredd 4 the water is hard. If this is done each time after the bath has been used, it will always have a bright, new appearance, and the enamel or paint will not suffer. Do not clean lacquered orna- ments or fireirons with ordi- nary brass polish. Dust the article to be cleaned, take a plece of soft rag, dip into some sweet oil poured into a saucer, and rub the lacquered part ali over with the oil, then rub it off with a dry soft cloth, be- glrining at the place where the oil was first put on. Rub un- th the oil is quite dry. then polish well with a dry chamols leather. When making toast, it -fm- proves it both in taste’ and di- gestibility if the slices of bread are laid in the open oven for a little whilo before toasting them. They will toast better and more evenly for this ad- vance treatment. When making a plum pud- ding the cook should allow three hours for bolling it, and take great care that water in the pot mever once csases to STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, TREES OF WASHINGTON BY R. A. EMMONS. LVER-BELL TRI The silver-hell tree, or snowdrop, as it is also called, is one of the | vorite small the garden, and it is certainly of our most beautiful ornamentals. A native of mountainous regions of the it hardy north to Massa- ts and the great la its home becoming a t tree to ninety feet high, but when cultivated in the north no more than a stout, spreading shrub. The bells appear in May with a when “clusters of droopi cream-white bel}s transform the tre great white m which ch, from highest to lowest, son As Julla Rogers it: “If the snow- should sud- corner one is n i | i | 1 i | | | the | -5, & [into one s, of resses th garden their sunny woods and you we them, you would be sure climbed a tree and were lookl t von with that same meck though you never looked v Bistory of Pour Name. ‘ S NOWLAN. BY PHILIP P e WRIGHT. VARIATION—Arkwright RACIAL ORIGIN—EngIish. SOURCE—An occupation. re a at family rames which are compounded of the word ‘wright” with others, but as most of them are more easily group- ed embracing the other various its of the compounds, the present article will confined to an explanation of the name Wright, which is widespread, and the compound Arkwright, which is less often met with The “wright.” as denoting an occu- pation, has survived in our modern speech only as an element in com- pound words, probably the most common Instance of which is “play- right” A less common instance hipwright.” medieval England wis as common as the * occupat or rather oc like “smith” the word many occupations, were much the same, only he worked in soft terials, whe the “smith” in metals. Carpenters, for i were known as “wrights” in the p riod during which family names were being formed. Ho “arkwright” was a builder of w the more northern population of England called “arks,” and which were in fact receptacles of about the same shape as a toy Noah's Ark. There were two kinds of them. One was used as a bin or box for holding grain and meal. The other, more horate. and usu; opening by & -t spring, was used to hold lin- ens and houséhold valuables. In me 1 times there were “botwrights” twrights) as well as shipwrights wrights, and even “breadwrights, as bakers were-sometimes called. FRANC There re many with names elem be simple “wright" ith.” Iis upations, for embraced Getting Children to Bed. Even the best of well-behaved chil- dren sometimes enumerate a list of reasons why they shouldn’'t have to go to bed at the hour bidden them. So little Bobby or Jane often falls oft to slumberland choking down a sob of self-pity and with mother’s patience sorely trled. Had you thought of appiying something sug- gestive of a bedtime story, or attrac- | hospital. | doll urd she was all dressed up for tive little animal motifs on their nightles? You will be surprised at the result, for while humoring and coaxing children into minding is not to he encouraged always, there are times when it can be relied upon to | work wonders, especially when they are overtired and fretful. The pat- terh for this little one-piece sleeping garment cuts in sizes 2, 4, 6, 8§, 10 and ,12 years, and for the S-year size 2% vards of 36-inch material is re- uired. Y The embroidery pattern, which in- cludes many other attractlve motifs besides those illustrated, costs 16 cents Price of pattern—15 ceats, in post- age stamps only. Orders should be addressed to The Washington Star Pattern Bureau, 22 Bast 18th street, New Vork eity. Please write mame: and address clearly, 13 Ly exe | you | fers Y ma pop row exel you m. the of the Wel {grh the S san) 1A CAROLINA. the o Its natural mountains of W northern to Arl range is from st Virginia south t Alabama and Florida, west nsas, reaching its best d mountains of North nnewnsee, eighty to | i with & trunk « feet red brown branchlets are slende to slx in hes wide, oval unded at the 1 I e litt a car. with broad ch long. two 1o six two inch by are ornamental ind remaln ging pen on sl four-winged stems about e followed seeds about long, which ut 15 on through- on on the pposite are several 5 COLOR CUT-OUT Little Doll From France. in “Oh, you look candy,” grinned Rosalie slid out had comes over like a piece of Billy Cut-out. as of her coat. She| practice for the “Toy Strop” play the children in the Cut-ou's’ school were going to give on Christmas for the children in the Rosalie was to be a French to i her part. Kosalle twieted her hands shyly. She didn’t know whether Billy was teasing her or not In rushed Betty “Oh,"” she waliled, hat she has the can't be Mrs. Santa Ten't that aw-ful now? “I think I can help,” smiled Ro- salie. “I just thought of something. Don't worry about it until tomorrow, Betty, please. I know somebody that can take the part.”. So they started practicing. Pink, blue and white are the colors for French' doll to wear—pink for the dress and Plumes, blue for the sash and the ribbon on the hat, and white for the top of the dainty bonnet, (Copyright, 1923.) Whole Jellied Apples. Pare six apples. Dissolve two cup- fuls of sugar in one cupful of water, and bring to the boiling point. Add | four cloves. Put the apples in sirup | and simmer them until tender. R move to a serving dish. Boil down the sirup until quite thick, then pouy it over the apples. Serve cold Billy's sister. “Nancy telephoned easles and she aus in the play. What'll we do i Half Raisins A delicious dessert Cranl i o g upon request. 90 West Broadway, New York DECEMBER LiftleBonny’s ['these My vim lose my o (Xt 18, {little book out of his pockit saying. Heer it is, The Lrly §. he wat? ma sed, | Erly 8, its a short sistem of Sweedish reises, or Ameri Sweedish descent, and it you jest do ises 8 times 8 get exer up every mi t thing, youre sipposed to feel perfect fizzical shape the rest of the day. oure sed. sipposed I dont know but Im going to try. sed. 1m morning golng v by 8 times ape £00dniss, Fe not going sed, and pop sed directions tell yo " spirrit " ¥ to do is up in our i ises to music. hats the perfectl W Willyum, how to awt | bers at that hour in the morning, and jhow about n 1 ) with the very ph in the beedroc phonograph in full biast you counting and same tm a s 11, all rite pa. I wish I could be n starting the and vigger, he ccing beleey pe 1 hopa 1 don good mor site, ma W it wa A shu k and 1 b r 20 minnits i them and then was late for the exercise runnin Full to, setting clock 20 minnits ahed and dolng these Willyum, take ideer o taking my E 1923, After suppir last nite pop took a|shivering for hours and hours and nd pop sed. The an exercises of apeece wen orning the very in but do you? 1o start tomor- the alarm cce, he sed 1 count out , Certenly to nto hope loud, 1 am, 80 you can it What 1 the phono- jom and do the The directions way, he sed about the nay- suldent get' eny a phono- mutch less a not to speek carrying on at ed, and pop sed, | o'll omit the phono- { that dreadful voice will stof ix 1« morning now | iy 8 and | days werk with but w sl jest the ke “up and 'p for eny t & on account of pop | 1 off the alarm k to bed to sleep insted of exer- slecping so long office, getting & for the trolle woman secre- me in his 1¥ Cromwell | of fruitiness and rich flavor California table-grapes and California sunshine o piel FEATURES. BEDTIME STORIES the wafety of that hole under the oid stump. Mr. Mocker's song stopped abrupt Iy, “Well, well, well,” oxclaimed Mr. | Mocker, I thought vou had gone back to ths great man-bird.” ‘I started to, but I got lost,” re plied Danny. “Oh, Mr. Mooker, yo don't know how good it Is to h your voice! I have been frightened almost to death.” too bad,” “ouldn’t you By Thornton W. Burgest. Blessed eadow Mouse. How long Danny Meadow Mouse had been shivering and shaking at the sound of the dreadful voice in the night he didn't know. It seemed to him as if he had besu shaking and replied Mr find a safe because he At last he saw the entrance to under the old hours. That wa was so frightened light peeping into his hiding pln".» stump. Danny sighed with relief. be daylight” thought he simply “I found 1 - ing place. It is right stump. but I dom't @~ it is” replied Danny. don’t feel safe any ccause you have not yet Acquainted “with the Sunny South replied Mr. Mocker. ¥There are just as many safe hiding placer here’ as up home where you came from In fiect, I gues thera are more B why aren’t you in that hole un der the stump? “What are you doing out here?” It w me out.” “It must ‘Perhaps 1 your voice replied Danny. most welcome sound I ever heard tut tell me. Mr. , what are you doing awake in the night? “Oh." replied Mr. Mocker, “T ofter sing in the moonlight. Tt seems to me that moonlight was made to sing in. I just caw't help singing on = night Jike this. I often wake up and sing awhile. There is nothing more lovely than moonlight in the Sunns | Soutn.” that brought “It was the 3 then r was shaken by rible voice that had wakened and, had so frightened him <hould have seen him scamper under that old stump. He crept 1< far back in the hole ax could. and ered and shook. even when he heard Mr. Mocker ra Dan 1ove . 1923, by T. W. Burgess story: “Danny Finds Terrible Voice.” “BUT TELL MOCKF WHAT ARE YOU DOING AWAKE IN THE NIGHT?" the daylight.” But it moonlight when he v It was wond strange wasn't daylight. it wa Danny discovered this ntured to peep outside rful moon It made oundir Imost And as Danny Coffee-Flavored Cakes the flavor of coffrr cream together onc of hutter and one wuj beat the volks of th the sugar and bu mixt until voice and iny's heart ki other voice, 1 He to it | knew of M. Dann must by old stump head vut again D in tha moonlight not to he t D top ¢ intil the mixtu spoonfula int sugar the Danny Then ventured o1 b Lem - Thursday-Raisin Toast In all those homes where Raisin Bread has become a custom for Wednesday’s dinner— Raisin Toast is served quite regularly for Thursday’s breakfast. Naturally! For it makes toast of rare and wonderful goodness, this rich, fruity loaf—each siice filled and flavored with plump and juicy Sun- Maid Raisins. And it’s as healthful as it is delicious. 1 bake it “special” tonight Tonight I prepare a special baking of these beautiful, golden loaves of finest Raisin Bread. Also rolls, cakes, coffee cakes, cookies, muffins, ‘““snails’’, my famous Sun-Maid Raisin Pie and many other tempting Sun- Maid Raisin Foods. By bakers everywhere The finest Sun-Maid Raisin Bread and other Raisin Foods are prepared ‘‘Special for Wednesday”’ by bakers every week— everywhere. You can get them, fresh and fragrant from the oven, at bakeries, grocery stores and delicatessens throughout the city. Serve them for tomorrow’s dinner, for your own and the children’s luncheon. And don’t forget Raigin Toast for Thursday’ breakfast! Endorsed by bakers everywhere, by American Bakers’ Association, and by