Evening Star Newspaper, January 28, 1924, Page 22

WOMAN’S PAGE THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. DorothyDix’ {Widowed Mother Who Refuses to Remarry for Her Children’s Sake Doesn’t Bring Them Happiness—She Has No Outside In- terests and Becomes a Parasite. AR e e MONDAY, JANUARY COLOR CUT-OUT Here’s Mr. Somebody. FEATURES. hen We Go Shopping | B Widows With Uhdldren Should Remarry Shows New Remedy for Ol Mother-in Law Trouble Mixing the ‘Styles From China BY MARY MARSHALL. MRS. HARLAND M 1t is no doubt enough to make any Chinaman smile to sco the extremes to which we occldentals are carry- ing what choose to 11 the Chinese mode. Wo pick and choose from the details of Chinese | tumery without the slightest regard | for Chinese tradition. The hat of a| coolle is worn with the coat of an axalted mandarin, bits of masculine | attire are oddly mingled with details | of women's dress. Our blouses are | embroldered with Chinese characters | which might mean anything, for Xl wo know. ! So might an ¢ | A man's tuxedo apron and « cap, with bits of upholstery trimming for orna mentation The only diff nee is | that in spch a conglomeration of | such occldental attire the effect would be nothing bu ridiculous, ugly. Whe some conglomerations of Chinese r-Chinese aitire that have mbled for occidental wom the effect doul very amusing to the who knw\\s‘ China, but unmistakably attractive, u Chinese effort through” them pidly But v i at "this veriod i mis e e s ey Belp Your how th rieis | n ool ta ! Feal 'u‘AH. ¥ 4 1 Little Son's Clothes. “Boys will b e ing: but the tr that boys yearn boys.” is the old sa th of the matter is passionately to be articularly is this true in the mat- ter of eclothes. If your is little boy still, he'll probably to dress like a big hoy; and a really and truly big boy, he will be just as ambitious for the neck- tivs, St collars and long trousers | of @ grown-up man. In either c: he will, if indulged, look like caricature. Yot there is another more subtle danger for the shopper-after-s boys'-clothes to avoid. ers, knowing that to 100k grown-up do not realize that efforts to keep the ing him in too v positively pitiful. The wise mother will son's wishes, with disc may instance that hav “pants poc which small hoys have su liking. Her son will lik suits with the combinat shirt and dark trousers—such a su sonny — will think, looks Daddy's,” and yet it is boyish enough to satisfy motier's taste, too. Neck- ties, usually prized by small boys may cease 1o be of such great portance if little sport blouses bought for the boy, and pre with the reminder that when men” don sport shirts, they, too, om the tie. Or, middy blouses and sailor suits which have r may sted A substitute for a shirt eal ti Of course, you ability and’ économy son a lunteh I was jest| £ starting to go out and ma sed, Benny, | ' sippose you stay in the house a wile and draw a few quict breths, good- niss knows vou raced sund enuft this morning to sattisty enybody but a kangaroo or a wild Indian But G wizz, ma, gosh. the ind at the Little Grand was g give Cuzzin Artie 2 passes for this | aftirnoon and Artie was Koing to take | me, holey smokes, ma, I sed. Jim- | miny, ma, me and him's golng to the movies If he gets the pusses, 1 sed. If is a blg werd, ma sed. No it ain't. ma, that man allways | give him passes wen he says he will, | he's a good man, he's a frend of Arties, 1 sed. 1 Well g0 up and wash vour face ferst, youre a pritty looking objeck to be wawking into a movie, ma. sed. Yes mam, all rite, 11l jost run erround to Arties ferst and then 111 come back and wish it, 1 sed | Meening my face, and ma sed, Well | for pity sake wat an ideer. Wats a | use of waisting all that time going | | to Arties ferst and coming back heer | the | out of your w n you could o] | 8 rite to the Little Grand from Arties | ¢ house if you wash your face ferst,|ries she sed. Well G, ma, wat if 1 do that and then som unixpected happens like som i dent or something and sippose Artie | ant get the passes, I sed You go rite up and wash your face and scrub it wile youre washing it or you dont budge out of this house, passes or no passes. ma sed Wich I did, and Artie got the passe all rite, £o there w t eny waisted’ after all Sattiday after want fh ng him fest o A GREAT many women who are left widows whilo th i “Y pretty and attractive to men, and who have excellent opportunities of | making good matches, refrain from taking unto themselves second husbands | on account of their children | Personally, they would like very ' care and protection of a husband. Tl i the head of it is like a ship without | masculine companionship has lost its savor. Above all, they know that in | their full maturit capable of loving far more deeply and passion- ately and understandingly than they did in their callow and immature girl- | hood. But they stifie all these desires and impulses, and say " to the men | who want to marry them. for fear that they might give their chikiren & step- futher who would be unkind tc the preclous darlings. When a mother thus turns her back upon her owr of her chil noble example of mat nerifice. But, like sacrifices, it is i ke cases, und does 1 m thun good out of ten it would not | only be fur better for the woman her: but also better for the, children. | the number of cruel step-fathers is so small as to be ! are still young a S b ins ho: slighted, ed the ag - | boys rece much to marry again. They miss the o feel that a house without a man at ptain. They find that life without iental coat woman with wear % a girls - orter's acticable porter wn frantic v dres clotiies—are they a sfy her mination. te | i the suke happiness fo 4 selr- | 1 devotion | in the great majority of | it little light | Mock Cherry Pie Half EATMOR CRANBERRIES half raisins Most delicious 1 s charming ess 1 : S ! To begin wi almost negligible Unless @ man was fond of children and interested in then:, he v 1o pop the questionto a lady with & bunch of olive branche: tive she might be. A woman who loahes children often mur- r with & houseful of voungsters because she knows he is her ¢ dining car, hut & man has no such desperate need. He can | nd choose, and when he selecty & widow with offspring he is hing | almos to be kindly disposed toward the young ones. | axsi- | r'is a man brought into direct hourly contact with his step-children | as a_woman i Jught into daily and hourly contlict with hers. \ He is away at his business all day, and in the few hours that he is at home the youngsters do not such W chance to get on his nerves as they step-mother's. Hence the danger of the cruel step-fiuth i s than that of the cruel step-mother o s e e even a harsh step-father is often 1 omes a time in the life of every nan's authority over him, because at h_contempt on all women, even his mother + derelicts of the world are re would not | have oniy costumery differ vaguest notion ¢ We make between sections 1 and which section th most important in influs designers. different from the rest of China it really matter clothes are concerned The important Chi ote, strossed aga o er att s a widow | tast call to th smokes, | always pick no the of to costumes Ch gosh, holey is W look f seems in o us « doesn’t S0 far o You tkaters get behind in your lessons,” said Mr. Cut-out morning, “so your mother and T have decided we nust o home today.” Betty and Billy were very unhappy over lea ing Bear Lake. The innkeepe them in the sleigh to the train and i they wavedf good-bye to hin ¢ anyth “Don’t Ic glum, Bily," s Betty as they on the plush seat together. “I'm going to have a good ! ne anyway and get acquainted with { those dear little twins over ’ Betty from her seat proached children across aisle. "Wl your mname?’ know?" he siste cad to foot Tucker tw iff, “and our P: TORE n no father | ol it ] cially every 4 certain and rese uited from the ranks thing is tha t the been at called i in_clothes worn southern Tese which means that the great majority women who don’'t go south” but who wait to meet Spring in colder climes will see more of the coolic hat, m rin coat and the other dress devices that are said to be Chinese The sketeh shows a little costume of 1 white fannel in the Clever woman who has The tassel trimming ranged in an amusing to attract attentior (Copy of s widows' sons Also, childhood is short. There are sympathetic step-father could mar the happine be bridged « e school 1 1 why it is a good thir for her own ar dren’s sake, is b tsettles th in-law which causes more heart-burning and 1rts, so to speak Your Home and w vears in which an a child these un- ol A could ¢ a widow to marry terribl BY HELEN KENDA ry th Home Time Clock. sucrifice she her. Likew childrer impresses who gives up her happiness for the Juld be pes ¢ gratefui for the at pothing they can do is enough to r s 1o marry she concentrates herself upc h <t in life, her every thought, and she ¢ that she ot exist without them the chil marry th Is widowed ma HAT In a recent copy of a 1 known | WHITE AND | magazine. 1 was interested to see a TUME. | clock-like arrangement of the work- which the hours, half ter-hours were marked off {lotted to various houschold | Of course I studied this s we women ar lookout for new a managing our homn It was all very met! to 8, get the famil pare breakfast; § to hours e with wi . <he has n with tty over from We with richest man i tasks mus placed in a me 1 that of the Lushand or wife and wife husband. Theyv are wo whom they love, to both of wWhom the are unab, dec because there is mi rodical up and who t Thie littls boy who snubs Betty wear middy ith brown trimmizg, Hi S0 are his stockings (Copyright, 1924.) WHAT TODAY MEAN. TO YOU BY MARY BLAKE. the en whom ed to live with t ween their child e and happine ir had married aga 4 " e \ 3 reduced to this spiritual bank: v | s he schools? They would be husy with their own affairs. They would have their own | ha problems. They would have the to lonk 4 seney would ¥ t 1dle wit e no v r nptation to exercise schionl the and daughtersin Jeon- to grow up and go at purpos owed mother d we not be : DO r children, knowing that t nd their h the home, n ands ss of ecau mind The School Product. What do we exp i do for our children? What are ideals we to the blindly them are visloning for them the S do ot ¢ ter and get | n-1; exccutive schools Joud n the we not h w§ Te sent n-law for children t. The v e so that hol Aquarius. A tion of aspects operates and some, being of conflicting nature, cause activity and are inauspicious for Important matters. It ble to attend only to general routine duties. (¢ must be given to the diet in order to protect digestion. A child born today will be original | inventive and unusually sensi- tive to all psychic forces. H s | 1f today is your birthday vou have O i, to | natur good mind, but one that | bed up IO limust be continu Stimulated by jSoor of thel athetic apprectation, if not flat- L F g You have ater depth of ¢ 1 open a crack. Inside | than people would | t just as they had lef v credit i more stead- | m somethin, of fastness of you .\'(‘ur<‘ are awiure ead of ho-i ving in yourself, you are inclined | lto follow popular’ opinion. 1f once { op can overcome this defect there { = "particular no it to what you hieve. You are especially fitted reer in which you can use ural gift as a speaker and your rich sense of humor. { In some ways you are short-sighted, and in flna ters, for the sake of surety, you will often forego great profit. For the same reason, You re apt to spend an inordinate amount of your incoms in insurance. You should learn to take chances, and depend more on the capital of your own personality. It should yield you a good income. Y ve instant understanding of of life without necessarily in them. This appreciate person's point of view. ty will bring you suc- ipation in which you ¥ contact with a variety rent personalities, as in teach- hossing It does not take ir own a childr ling ithout « {apur ut the business 1 to realize that r upon her DIX i} THY npse (Copyright, 1924.) BEDTIME STORIES A Visit to the Man-Bi Good com Comparatively Surels not By Thornton W. Burgess. |Rat. He ing about all over | lit with the Danny and N cetting the princ tter job? & is so. confidence but the only or the Ve expe ave a las harncters Of through them fect that will s earnest about ust salving ritual of i b children w with oper \meri air jnde that honest a under discussion Is the school pi mindedness? O1 trustees render s to be though ¥ rd. wiil 8y, our fow we n a A b the ¢ a ng o ther Nat the zoud on e hat most for When the P had Nanny Meadow Mouse it as you know, on t} called he was g t man n with ird or Dann had landed edge of a garden settler, which man who had a home for hin eountry ss S x ss S a 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 age To avoid imitations, always look for the signature of M Proven directions on each package. Physicians everywhere recommend it, tisf a havin or we mever had left of a man {means t started in to {self in a part of the |few other men lived. So it wa S ;i ‘rhv aviator, who had been bgd Zchonl. stack diningoroom . pug; |Shaken up, but not really hurt, found to0 11:30, make beds. clean upstairs [that he was a long, long w | and_down, sh curtains; 11:30 11:45, rest, and wr a letter. The afternoon was scheduled much the same wav—prepare lunc lunch with children, wash dishes, | prepare vegetables for dinner: a half- | hour's mending or pressing; attend a| club meeting or make calls; a hal hour's play with the children: pre- pare dinner, eat dinner, wash dishes, and spend a pleasant evenin The housework was made easy auick by electric heaters and ers, toasters, dish washer, i lothes dryer, vacuum cleaner, mend- nd darning mach ., the latest kitchen equipment throughout, and an_automobi H W 1 re vou have u stay?” overheard a 1 come sald what Trader, who Nann id. i “I don't knew of a safer place for | folk like yvou, e continued, one can get you in here. Most of your enen s will be afraid to n near this thing I don't know of one that would dare climb up in it You've got a comfortable home } all built here, and it is a pity not to | use it. Were T in vour pl I cer- {tainly would live right here The more Danny and Nanny thought this over the mo: they liked the idea Now that that man-bird had 1 broken wing, it coiildn't Prob- | ably it would stay the was home. They there than anvwhere 3 advice seemed good "he more thought it over the better it see hall we do it? id Danny. Nanny hesitated, 1T would like to" she confessed at last ing. polities or journalism “Then that's settled.” declared Dan- | Although you are considered a cold In It is the most sensible thing we | proposition vou are really very warm can do. We can always leave here|hearted and affectionate. You will and go back to that old stump if we !¢ marry and probably to have to.” {some one much older than yourself. Trader nodded his approval. as youth cannot appreciate your real is good common sense.” said he. {worth. So it was decided that Danny and| Well Nanny would once more live in the date “are: great man-bird. And when Trader |} Amos finally left them they were happier | William Thom than they had been since the great|Wa man-bird fell mintd : t make a L your na husband off extremely to 1 mat- carch es are for the not tru at w sh sing! confidince in shouldn't it be 502 toward PROTECT Your Doctor and Yourself open purpose Now ness of mankind. fed toward open- the board of isions as to what and therefore upon de Coprright, 1024.) all walks engaging “Just Hats” By Vyvyan. oy, 7 | My Neighbor Says: When making m ard d a tiny drop of salad oil to it while is mixed The flavor improved drippings or lard in cake, Juic £ diffe will be greatiy When using for shorte little lemon “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 read I gri ned. Where, in_this neat schedule, ! was there time for the hundred an one interruptions of a woman's day— | the fifteen-minute telephone pest, | the neighbor with a litt sick boy, {the extra cake for the church fair, the hurrv-up frock for Marjorie's first | big dance, the wrestie with the fur- nace fi which got too low 3 suddenly 'arrived relative, Johknny coming home from school with the nps, the discovery that the gre er's deliverv-boy had not come?| | Any one of these familiar happenings an throw the best-planned schedule washed, 1 the world from fifteen minutes to thrown o @& large Lkettle of | fan hour behind time, and no woman rapidly boiling water and | |on earth can catch up! boiled continuously for twenty Of course this Isn't to say minutes, then drained and dried | |schedule is not a good thing and that in the oven or over the fire, will the modern household devices do not be white, dry and mealy and | |make our burdens much lighter. We logk like a great plate of snow. | |all have to have system, and electric ever use soft butter or lard | | assistance helps us do more in less for pie crust. Butter should be | | time. But unless we stand ready to washed in cold water before have our schedule bumped and dent- using. ed and shoved and pushed back and whirled ar nd, and to face th changes With 'cheerful poise and quick readjustments, “doing _ the and as I you will as you wi Whip cr whips more open bowl spatter, Put a pinch of salt, not cuough to taste. in your fudge. The fudge will be very smooth wiien poured out and cooled. In cooking cranberries, a tiny pinek of soda added when they are first placed on the fire will saye sugar. Rice thorough not no the i otherwise. m in a pitcher. It quickly than in an and with less i 1 | “That 3 i known people born on this Barnes, pub- Densmore, inventor; son, surgeo n, astronome: INSIDE WA THEY S THEIR NEST JUST AS HAD LEFT IT. Lamb Steak With Apples. These afford (Copyright, 1921.) e Tunafish Dish. For a one-pound can of tuna cook together two tablespoonfuls each of butter and flour, and add two cupfuls of strained tomato juice and one onion chopped fine. Cook until smooth, then add the fish flaked in| apples and add one cupful of hot!large pieces, and simmer for ten water, one teaspoonful of catsup or minutes. Serve in a border of boiled kitchen bouquet, and a sliced onion. macaroni over which a little grated Bake and serve with peas. | cheese is sprinkled. any place where he could get help in repairing that airplane. There was nothing to do but leave it there until he could get help. So it happencd that it was many days that the broken man-bird remained where it had fallen before the aviator turned. Danny and Nanny Meadow {hadn't gone back to that great man bird once. They had been too busy with their new home and in learning how to take care of themselves in this new land to think of anything But a night or two after their visit a method of using a neck of lamb. Cug the steaks neatly | and flour each one well, then saute them in hot fat until nicely browned. | Place them in a covered baking dish or casserole, season well, and cover with sliced 'tart apples. Cover the | dish and bake slowly for an hour. If a braised dish is preferred, omit the that a| re- Mouse A pompon ace i guishing feature of this model. Lace & ove and then forms the pom at the si And at the side the brim narrows and is slit, flaring out from the of the distin- black satin the crown, Prices realized on Swift & Company o to | sules of carcass beef in Washington, D. C. n width of two and a half inches at its widest part—over the left brow and side. | for week ending Saturday, January 19, 1924, on shipments sold out, ranged from 11.00 cents to 17.50 cents per pound and averaged 14.15 cents per pound —Advertisement, next thing” as it comes up—well, we may be house managers but we shall not be home makers. The wife and mother cannot punch a time clock! EVERYBODY—The Punctual Sex! NOw, MY DEAR, TRAIN GOES 1N G5 MINUTES, HURRY uP AND DRESS JUST TignTEN THIS BUTTON. ITS LOOSE AND HELP ME FIND ME SOME COTTON-WOOL- BRNG A CLOTH: IVE UPSET ThE HAawr-on. ! to the home of Trader the Wood Rat | they decided to run over to see if that | great man-bird wus still there. { It was. So was Trader the Wood | —By Ridgewell | DROPPED ™Y y coLLAR STUD- Modern habits cause con- stipation. Branis the natural means of relief. PosT's BRAN FLAKES is a crisp, delicious bran food that is both laxative and nutritious. 9 ou Now Y and Some Toaster! 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