Evening Star Newspaper, February 28, 1924, Page 36

WOMAN’S PAGE. Silk Shirting Popular for Frocks BY MARY MARSHALL. Possibly silk shirts have lost some- | ting extravagant, or had marrled a thing of thelr prestige among what it | rich wife, or knew some one in the was once the fashion to call the|silk shirt business who had “got ‘em erncr sex.” The war had some- | cheap.” thing to do with that, I am inclined| But with the enormous wages that were paid to many men during the war, silk shirts even at war pric were not impossible. The plumbers, carpenters und bricklayers adopted the silk shirt as a_badge of luxury. The struggling professional man did not. In fact, his wife patched the cotfon shirts that he had on hand and warned the washwoman—if she had one—not to use strong soap in the washing. As the situation eased up a bit after the war silk shirts seemed to loso @ bit of their prestige. To he sure, they are still sold in abundance, but & certuin “quality” seems to adhers now to the shirt made of one of the very good cotton fabrics. Meantime yards and yards aud still more yards of shirting silk are daily being used to make frocks for wonien, The frock of this material is one of the things that has distinctly out” at the southern winter resorts— 0 much so that it is with perfect as surance that you can predict that the silk shirting trock will be iz good fashion for women this spring and mmer. S its smartest this frock is mude I\\‘Ifll as much severity as the man's shirt which it has superscded. ~To trim It with lace or ribbon would be quite & miscegenation. (Copyright, 1821.) e My Neighbor Says: This.is an e ¢ to make frosting for cake. Purchase a quarter-pound of large chocolate creams at the confectioner’s, put them in a double botler, and as they melt, add hot milk, a tuble- spoon at a time, until the mix- ture {s of the right consistency to spread. To clean painted cellings use plenty of warm water, with a lit- tlo ummonia, soda or borax in it. A sponge is much better than a cloth for this purpo When pressing never put the tron on the right side of any goods, except cotton. Always lay a cloth between the iron and the goods. To make baked potatoes dry and mealy, when they are tender put a fork at least tw into each potato to let the steam es- cape. . In removing basting threads cut them every few inches, and do not pull a very long basting thread out at one ti you are very apt to leave in the goods. * When cleaning out a fireplace sprinkle tea leaves wmong the ashes. They will prevent the dust from fiying about. TS _FROCK OF LAVENDER AND WHITE _SHIRTING. THE TIE AND BELT ARE LAVENDER. 1> think. Before then silk shirts veally were a luxury that most men— plumbers, carpenters, college profes- €ors, Army officers, young lawyers and bricklayers—could not afford. If they did, you imagined that they were get- “Just Hats” By Vyvyan. ole Nut Sticks. Make a nut cake from the following | recipe: Take two cupfuls of granulated sugar and two-thirds of a cupful of butter. Beat together until cream then add two eggs beaten for five min- utes, one cupful of sweet milk, one and one-half teaspoonfuls of baking pow- der and three and one-half cupfuls of | Iflour sifted twice. Bake In a sheet. {Cover with chopped English walnuts | before putting in the oven. Let this i cake stand until the following day and lcut into strips about an inch wide, | Cover with a maple icing and sprinkle | chopped nuts over the top and sides. Belting on Smart Models. Menu for a Day. BREAKFAST. Flgs. Cornmeal Mush. French Toast. Coffe LUNCHEON. Cheese Ramekins. Parker House Rol Apple and Celery Salad. Cookles. Cocoa. DINNER. Fish in Potato Border, Stewed Tomatoes. Radishes. Gingerbread with Whipped In the tailormades of the coming Cream. Coffee. season bangkoks are among the emartest things shown, particularly the brown ones; and the plainer the emarter, although there was one model with an octagonal brim that delighted all who saw it. Here is the plainest interpreta- tlon—a sallor, with straight, medium brim and band of brown belting sbout the crown. Belting ribbon is the last word in chic in the millinery world. FRENCH TOAST. Beat 2 eggs and add 1 cup of milk, 1 tablespoon of melted butte saltspoon of salt and Y of orange rind; eut slices of stule bread into rounds with a biscuit cutter, dip them in the egg mixture and fry on both sides in butter. CHEESE RAMEKIN: Melt 2 level tablespoons of butter, blend in 1 rounding ta- blespoon of flour, add slowly iz cup of milk, scason with a few grains of cavenne and 1% tea- spoon of salt, stir and cook until smooth, add the beaten yolks of 3 egg8 and 1 cup of Erated cheese, remove from the fire, cool, fold in the stiffiy beaten whites, turn into but- tered ramekins and bake about 25 minutes. Serve at once. our Home and BY HEL Ante-Spring Preparations. 1¢ you are as fond of the great outdoors as I am, and begrudge every moment spent in the house after the #pring burst¢ into color and fra- £paace, you will make your fingers GINGERBREAD WITH CREAM. Mix 1 cup of molasses, % cup of shortening and % cup of sugar: add 1 cup of bolling wi- ter, with 1,dessertepoon of soda in it. SICt 23 cups of flour, 1 teaspoon of ginger, 1 teaspoon of cinnamon, a pinch of salt. Add_this to the mixture. Add 1 cup of chopped nuts and 1 cup of ralsins, then 2 eggs well beaten. Bake in a shallow pan and serve hot with whipped cream. &nd your sewing machine fly during these chilly days when you must epend many hours within doors. Many women wait until the warm days are fairly here before they be- gin to get ready for them. When all the green and blue of trees and sky are calling to them to forget eyery- thing else, they are in thelr sewing rooms with their eyes bent upon new chintz hangings for the living room, or Alling their noses with the odor of paint as they give fresh coats to the “vicker chairs spread about the lawn. Let's save our eves and our-noses and our ears for the deliciousness thut spring is getting ready for u If you are deafened by the hum of a sowing machine, how ean you hear the note of the first bluebird or the prompt phoebe? Nature is busy now, deep within the earth, getting ready for her &pring opening; let's be -gat- ting ready to join her outdoors, with the feeiing that all is duae within the house. ’ Now is the time to make the mew punroom curtains, to re-cover the cushions for the' porch swing, to wnake pretty little porch frocks. Now s a good time to paint the summer furniture—surely there Is a spare worner In tho house where one piece et & time may be painted. Now is a good time to shop for spring—white goods, drapery fabrics and garden mcceseories are all on display. The long, dreary weeks of waiting, the chill, wet days of late February and March, will fly past If we devote them to preparations for the warm days. Let's fill the house with bright new colors and materials, look for- ward to the first Spring menus— strawberries, shad roc, fresh cress, carly rhubarb—and plan, the summe wardrobe. We are all 4pt to get @ fle down in the mouth in the late winter, I think. Snow and slush, muddy’ footprints, penetrating wind winter clothes that begin to look dis: couraged—warn, cold again, thaw, freeze, snow, meit—my goodness, will #pring never come? But we can beat the game if we il ANl the house with spring! ALL OF A SUDDEN Former cabinet ministers in Spain &are ited from holding positions =8 htlnbn or .:mmhori of adminlse smative E ~ councils of THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, Girl Whose Chum Has Deserted Her—Why Do Men Marry Widows?—Shall “Thirty-Nine” Marry a Man Fourteen Years Younger? DEAI: MISS DIX: For a long time I have been friends with a girl chum whom I love dearly and for whom I have done many things that were great favors to her. Now she has transferred her affections to another girl, and hardly has anything to do with me at all. All of our old intimacy is gone. We have had no guarrel and I have done nothing to offend her that T know of, but I am broken-hearted over it. What shall I do? SALLY. Answer: Go to the girl, Sally, and ask her if there is any reason for hier coldness to you. You owe that much to your old friendship. Don't let pride keep you from making an effort to regain your friend. Very often a Iittle oversensitiveness on our part, or some little act that was misinterpreted by another, an offenss taken at some careless word or deed, or a malicious told by a scandal monger has estranged two friends that a_few plain s of explanation would have kept together for all time. Friendship is too priceless a thing to lose if you can prevent it. But 1 Tai r little Sally, that vou are having your first expericnee Kleness aud are finding out that those we love do not always r us. There are fair-weather friends who only care for us as long as we can amuse and entertuin them, and add to their comfort and pleasure. »mebody elga comes along who {s newer and fresher thun we are, n xzive them more than we gave them, they are off with the old love and on with the new. As you go along the journ of life this will happen to you €0 often. Many people will be your intini te friends for a few weeks or months or years and then forsake you;gnany people will prof to love you, because you can open doors them through which they wish to pass, or you can boost them up the ladder, or because they want to ride in your automobile, or because you give good dinners, or because of a thousand other selfish reasons. And they will forsuke you for somebody with more position, more money and bigger cars. And you will get used to it, and just shrug your shoulders over it, but you will become very chary of giving your real friendship. Eut when you are young and find that a friend is faithless, it Is a stab from the hand ou trusted, 1d the wound leaves a scar that is never ubliterated. Something lovely and bLeautiful has gone out of life that you will never have again, for our first friendship is eurrounded by a cloud of glory that no other friendship ever has. Would that we could always keep it! But alas! there v few first fyiendships thut survive the changes and vicissitudes of existence. . DOROTHY DIX. EAR MISS DIX: T wish to ask your kindness in settling a dispute on the| following question: Why do men seldom marry a widow or divorcee, but always look for a woman who has never been married, while girls marry widowers and often divorced men? MARGARET. Answer: It's news to me, M grass or sod. My observation unmarried woman of her own a single woman cards and spades Why, widows are such exper fatal fascination for men and the that every father repeats Weller's famous advice, . Samiv Conelder this, Margaret—a Woman, sa; She is considered ll:’wglbld. and the chances she will never marry But a widow of fo is called & young widow. Everybody considers her! highly eligible and prophecics that she will soon marry. And she generally | ocs. ret, thut men object to widows, whether; t a widow can marry all around an| ks and financlal class, and give the| at the marrving game and have such are universally hield to be so dangerous starts forth in the world. Mr. | my son, bevare of vidders. is called an old maid. 1 a won -—has a better arried, for men 3 follow’ their 1 e with men to know that n who has been married—excepting, of | chance to marry than the woman who | re like sheep so far as women are| and it sort of gives u woman a' other man admired her enough to cour There are many other reasons anywhere under sixty she can For one thin h 1 who getting a good housekeeper and @ lenlent eve at many of his litt her wisdom teeth on one hush give-and-take propositic little tin god of a husband. that she most often has a ni Men marry widows r for the sam wson that when they see it. DEAR MISS DIX: with young m leaving 1 small_for Do ¥OX think tie differene has a_lure for men, and | In, it she desires, - pritty sure that he is who will look on with foibles. Ifor she b cut | rned that marriage is a: dise presided over by a m the widow's charms - money. ver DOROTHY little wad of ther than women marrfed | 3 d thing DIX. am a woman of thirt b in love ars ago, e wants. and I can give this be { in our ages should keep u marrying H RAY HATR. i 1 certainly think that any woman who marries a man fourteen | s younger than sh kes o foolhardy risk on her happiness. Perhaps while you are thirty-nin well p ved and think of voursell as still being girlish the diffe s not secin so prohibitive, but how about it when he is forty and vou are fifty-four? Then he will still e a boy, wanting pleasure, romance, and you will be a faded woman who looks like his mother. But one thing is sure, Gray Mair, before you marry him get soms zood lawyer to tic that fortune up for you tight and faxt. Then if voul sose your boy husband you will still” have a comfortable living to console you. HY DIX. Answer: | | | i Iu order that there sarning, there must be between teacher and obstruct and there is Yet many nd many ves at school with his nind | “inst the teacher, 1 v, I've told him that crvthing the teach course he wants to 1 True. He want can’'t. Al those f at home with his fi nd most pow- | erful teacher he was unconsclously | lcarning that grown folks have littlo use for little folks; that many times they don't carc much for some grown folks, and on the whole it Is best. tc look ‘out for people, Doubt s in his mind and protest. He does not know it, but it §s there, because careless Dpéople planted it there. “Ho sits there the wholo da: through, but he makes very littles progress.” says the teacher. “I don't| know why. He seems to be intelll- £ent. but nothing seems to reach him. little, but not at ull what t to do. He isn't with me, It is time be the first five years in a child's life are the most important. Too many people believe that all that is nece: sary is to fecd and clothe the child and protect him from danger until| he reaches the school age, when he will be sent to school to be cducated The best part of his education has been given him. His character Is already founded. The experiences of growing up in the home surrounded by grown-ups have made their las impressions upon him. He doesn't wait until the teacher opens the books for his education. He begins with his first cry. That is the time for his mother to begin. Mothers are the real teachers The School teacher but supplements her. If the mother has marred the job, the teacher can do very little to make it good. The first five Ars have done thelr work. Little children running about the house take on an attitude toward life from the atmosphere of the home. If that is unpleasant, If the grown-ups are dominating und loud and bad mannered, the resulting tone sinks into his mind, and he, too, is un- pleasant. Worse than that, he sumes that zll people are like that, and reacts to them accordingly. Now, the teacher cannot do any- thing 'with the mind that s set we pen road child. Any no learning. Lie must m, but ha he stayed he . _And in school if you the teacher you might Letter be somewhere else. ‘Those first five vears are with you, pulling hard on_your unconscious mind. It is tima we thought more about this. Mothers will have to romember that they arc the real teachers and that the term is a lifelong ona be- ginning with the first five years. EVERYBODY—He Even Gets Scared Himself. MY HAIR ROSE! | HEARD A HOLLOW {all there COLOR CUT-OUT Counting the Donations. “I must count up end see Where we stand,” thought Florence, sitting down at her desk, before going to bed. She drew her qullted bathrobe tightly around her while she ran her pencil down the list of donations. “Two dresser scarfs, twelve lunch- eon napkins, sixty-two handkerchiefs, thirty pounds of candy—oh, my!" she ended. “We're going to make a whole mint of money if we can sell every- thing.” “If 1 were you,” sald her mother, coming in, “I would write a letter to the newspaper telling about your ba- zaar, o lots of people will come.” “I'll do ft:” worded her letter very carefully, telling how the money was going to he spent to buy woolén hose and heavy shoes for the howelees orphans. The very next morning the letter was printed In the paper. Girls with vred hair can wear such pretty colors, if choose _them _carefully. Floretice’s rob acock blue, with slipper to'match. Muke the candle fame yellow: (Copyright, 1 Health Hints By Bernarr Macfadden. v No intelligent person can question the wonderful influence the mind has over the body In the cause of disease. Many people are perpetually sick be- cause they perpetually worry. Violent frights caused convulsions, ty s is often said to cause in predisposed individuals. E ially upon the voung would 1 impress the importance of preserv- ing the right mental influences. Fear is a constant predisposer to disease. There §s an epidemic—yellow fever, smallpox, cholera, ete. nd in soma subtle w not vet cxplained perfectly heglthy people, vielding to feur, become sub- Ject to’ the disease. Parents and physiclans too often have taught children fear—fear of this, fear of that, and of the other. We are afraid of wet feet, of draughts, of taking cold, of germs, of night air, of running upstairs, of childbirth and of u thousand and one things that there ought to be no fear of what- ever. There is but one thing we should fear and that s fear that we may be wrong. and even that a really healthy mind will never contemplate { —for Do healthy person ever wishes to do wrong. Fear is a despot as cruel as it i3 cowardly, as mean as it is powerful. It takes cvery mean advantage and strikes one unawares and in the back. Quit Lelng afaird. monster fear. Become men women. fearless and unafraid. Face is, bravely, knowing that a foe well faced is half conquered. God and nature mean well by you in every way. Trust that baslc fact. Rely upon that. Strength- en your heart and courage with that, and then as you walk through the 'vears of life you will come to realize that difficulties and dangers disappear before the brave heart Anger is a cause of disease. Anger poisons the eecretions. Who has not felt the mouth become dry, and then bitter, under the effect of anger? Nursing mothers have killed thelr babes under its influence, their milk becoming charged with anger-gen- erated poisons. Long-continued an- ger produces a breaking down of musculc and nervous systems, often causes acute and finally chronic dyspepsia, insanity and death. Tomato Butter. Make a thick slrup with two cup- fuls of sugar and one cupful of water. Add one pint of red tomatoes peeled and chopped and one sliced lemon. Cook the mixture until it is thick, then pour it into jelly glasses. and —BY RIDGEWELL and even death.| “which our scientists have | D. 0, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1924 BEDTIME STORIES * Peter Takes a Chance. The bigher things be'll ne'er attaln ‘Who fears to take a for —Peter Rabbit, Poter Rabbit, having whipped Rob- ber the Rat and driven him squealing with fear and pain from the stall wherein he, Petor, was a prisoner, suddenly felt very bold. As a matter of fact, he was full of pride. It is 50 seldom that Peter cver fights that most people think he can’t fight. Peter knew that Robber the Rat would never come back there again while he was there. He knew that Robber was & coward, for Robber hadn’t even tried to fight. ‘It wasn't any great thing to whip a coward. Still, Peter felt quite set up over it. It made him feel as if he would dare do almost anything. Probably this is why he did the thing he did do that very next morn- ing. Farmer Brown's Boy had brought him an unusually good breakfust. ile had come inside the stall and he had left the wire gate open just a crack. Just outside sat Bowser tho Hound. Peter wasn't afrald of Parmer Brown's Boy, but he was afrafd of Bowser the Hound. s had been afraid of Bowser the Hound. But Peter was fecling so et up over his defeat of Robber the Rat the night beforo that ho was bolder than usual. That gate was open a crack. It was a chance to met Peter hesitated just a minut looked at Bowser the Hound. busy scratching an ear. “N & chance, never get znything, Peter to’ himself, and, darting tween Farmer Lrown's Boy's pushed the gate opcn, almost humped into Bowser the Hound, and away he went, lipperty-lipperty-lip, straignt for tho door opening into the burnyard, which had also been left open a crack. By the time Farmer Brown's Boy rccovered from his surprise and Bow- er the Hound had realized what that gray streak that had passed him was Peter was outside. He dodged around a stack of stru Y THORNTON W. BURGESS and then you should have seen him go. He headed right straight for t Old Briar Patch. He was tuking chance. He knew it. Tt was broad ¢ light and he would be in plain sight every foot of the way. But it was the oniy safe place he knew wi snow on the ground. It w and ho knew i Bake it BESTwith ‘DAVIS BAKING POWDER most to the dear Old Briar T w5 quite out of b . He { slowly now. He was no longer | t was my chance, and T took 1t he cried, gleefully. And just then he | | HE _DODGED. or AW "AND THI SHOULD HAVE SEEN HII AROUND | Peter did run! He watched behind as | well as in front of him. He saw no ene- | ies. B the Hound follow | ik grabbed hold of him and held hin, looked up and saw Reddy Fox coming around the end Jf the dear Old Eriar 1024, by T. W, Burgess.) If Headachy, Bilious, Sick Constipated Me and pep was taking a wawk b fore suppir, and a of Lo scouts went past loc theirselfs and 1 sed, Hay pop, T bleeve | 1d like to be a boy scout, I bleeve, Well, it mite not be x bad ideer at | that, pop sed. You better start rite in and practice it b a good decd every Yes sir, Iv doin, » wed arted zllreddy. T did 2 good deed yestidday and I went an did_another one today, I sed. Well well, you hetter tell me th detalls before T start pinning meddl, on_you, pop sed. Meening wat was t and 1 sed, Well, 111 tel vestiddy fe v all meens 1 Hogical ordc sed, Ser? and hc liesening, and I vestidday I wae fighting with fellow and all of a suddin 1 realized it was bad to fite so [ stopped and | wouldent start agen. You c: home with if I remember corre and I sed, Well, it v but its bin bluddier sce, well, I should sav it was a pru- | } dent action rather than a pood one {to etop fighting under those condi- | tions. Well 111 tel! you about decd 1 did today, T sed. I w {Ing along and 1 a {on some tront steps all by itself look- | ing as If nobody dident belong to it. | lana T quick picked it up and jest | then some kid camo running out of | the house saving It was his apple, s0 I gave him the benefit ot the doibts and divided it equal with him. That | was a good deed, wasent it? 1 sed. At leest it was a good ideer, pop sed. You better keep on practicing, | however. he sed. 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