Evening Star Newspaper, March 11, 1924, Page 26

WOMAN’S PAGE. Interesting Ways to Use Pleats BY MARY The fad of last season is pretty sure to be revived this season so long as some dressmaker or designer is clever enough to think of some new way of presenting it. Thus, so long as sweat- ers are capable of blossoming forth with something of novelty about them s RUST-COLORED _ SATIN _ALPACA FROCK TRIMMED WITH PLAITING. every season so long they remain in fashion. So long as something new can be done to the cloche it will re- main a favorite with women who like its smartness and compactness. So with pleating. 1t really seemed as if fashion had exhausted all the possibilities there were in pleating, but h we are with the emphatic n that pleating Pop was smoking to himself and ma was tmbroidering imbroidery and 1 was trying to see if I could make my old watch werk agen by taking some of the parts out, and ma sed to pop, Willyum, I bin thinking it over and I have a good mind to report that gerl. Wich gerl's that? pop sed. O, dident I tell you? ma sed. T was down town this aftirnoon doing some shopping in Hookbinders and 1 wunt- ed to ixchange that hat I bawt the other day because everybody says it makes me look old although other- wise its the most becoming hat I ever had on, and enyway 1 took it up to the ger] at the ixchange desk and she looked at it and sed, We dont ix- change hats, its a rule of the store. Well, wats so terrible about that? pop sed, and ma sed, Wait till I tell you. ItS a rule of the store, she sed, and I sed, Well, I sed, there are ix- ceptions t(hat prove every rule, and this is one. You have no rite to sell a customer a hat that makes her look 10 yeers older on than it does off, T sed, and moreover, 1 sed, I never had the hat on my hed ixcept to try it on, and thats the absilute truth, Will- yum, with the slite ixception that I ran erround to Mrs. Hews in it and wore it to one meeting of the Daw- ters of Cleopattera, but if I hadent how would I know everybody con- siders it makes me look older? But enyway, this snip of a gerl jest sat there handing me back the hat as if butter wouldent melt in her mouth, and I sed to her, Why this is redicu- liss, I sed, Ive bin deeling at this store yeer in and yeer out for yeers and I've never had eny trubble about ixchanging things, and if you know wats good for you you'll O. K. the ixchange this minnit, T sed. T dont know ware youve werked before, I sed, but you dont act as if youve had mutch_to do with educated peeple, I sed. Youre jest showing your own ignorants and you're ixceeding your authority and 1 dont know how you cver came to get this job, I sed to her. Well? pop_ sed, and ma sed, Well, would you bleeve it, Willyum, she jest sat there looking at me without 2 werd as if I wasent fit to tawk to, and Ive got a good mind to report her for impudents. Help, aid, pop sed. And he got be- hind the sporting page and ma told it to him all over agen, pop jest blowing smoke over the top of the sporting page. \ The Guide Post By Henry Van Dyke Hunger for Truth. Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free—John viiL32. There are questions arising in hu- man nature which demand an answer. If it is denied we cannot help being disappointed, restless and sad. This is the price we have to pay for being conscious, rational creatures. 1f we were mere plants or animals, we might go on living through our appointed years in complete indif- ference to the origin and meaning of our existence. But within us, as hu- man beings, there is something that cries out and rebels against such a blind life. Man is _born to ask what things mean. John Fiske brought out this fact very clearly in one of his books. He shows that “in the morning twi- light of existence the human soul vaguely reached forth toward some- tamng akin © ! or meeting phenomena, Eternal Presence beyond. but in lution, which always presupposes a raal relation between the jife and the environment to which it adjusts it- self, that this forth-reaching and un- folding of the soul impliss the ever- lasting reality of religion. The argument is gowd. But the point which concerns us now is simply this: The forth-reaching, questioning soul can never be satisfied If it touches only a dead wall in the dark- ness, if its seeking meets with the reply: “You do not know, and you never can know, and You must not try to hnow.” This i agnosticism. 1t is only another way of spelling unhappiness. (Copyright, 1024.) | MARSHALL. ing to be good for the spring. Why? Because it 1s different. The pleated skirt assumes new and interesting lines when the ecdge is ironed out. Sometimes this spread- out edge Is stuffed to form a ridge around the hem of the pleated skirt. Sometimes the edge of a flounce or ruffle is similarly ironed out to give a flaring effect to the pleating. Another {nteresting way that pleaty ing is used is to make fan-shaped in- sets on the skirts of frocks, and Patou uses groups of small half-inch pleats on many of his new frocks. The large box pleat is likewise often seen on French frocks, and may meet with approval here. One of the designers places very wide box pleats on the front of straight-line frocks, per- fectly plain elsewhere. The pleats open to give necessary fullness in walking, and then fall back into place, maintaining a perfectly straight, flat line. ‘There is a tendency among some of the French designers to keep the line of the frock straight and scant to a point below the knee, and there to introduce some decided fullness. One frock of this description presented the usual tubular silhouette suddenly flar- ing with a row of three full five-inch plaited ruffles. The frock of rust color alpaca in the sketch shows fullness of pleating introduced at the left and a pleated bib at the front. (Copyright, 1924.) Menu for a Day. BREAKFAST. Oranges. Baked Sausage. Rice Cakes, Maple Sirup. Toast. Coffee. LUNCHEON. Vegetable Hash. Diced Beets. Hot Rolls. Honey. Orange Sauce. Cookies. Tea. DINNER. Baked Ham. Mashed Potatoes. String Beans. Hearts of Lettuce, Russian Dressing. | Cocoanut Custard Pie Coffee. BAKED SAUSAGE. Prick large country sausage well and arrange them in a baking pan. _Surround with thick slices of a pared apple that is cored. Drain off the fat before sarving. ORANGE SAUCE. Rub half a cupful of butter with one cupful of granulated sugar until very light and creamy, then add very slowly a cupful each of orange juice and boiling water. Serve at once. MASHED POTATOES. Pecl and cook potatoes until soft. Mash them well, then add seasoning to taste, a large plece of butter and some hot milk. Stir _with a spoon until a creamy mass is the result, ishion’) orecdst Y ANgREon The Beltless Dress. 2049 The smartest frock of the season is the beltless dress. Surely vou're not going to miss this opportunity to have one so easily and for the mere cost of material. The pattern for this design (2049) cuts in sizes sixteen years, 36, 28, 40 and 42 inches bust measure. In’ the medium size, 3% vards of 40-inch material with & yard 27-inch contrasting is required. Silk alpaca would be lovely made up in this style. Plain or printed crepe might be used, too, if prefera- ble. And for the street tailleur, serge, twill, plaid or striped rep cloth is suggested. Price of pattern, 15 cents, in postage stamps only. Orders should be ad- drexsed to The Washington Star pat- tern Bureau, 22 East 1Sth street, New York city. Please write name and ad- dress clearly. the He argues by the analogy of CVOT Your Home and You BY HELEN KENDALL Tassels, Decoratively speaking, this is the day of the tassel. Once laughed at as being about as extinct as the tidy, it now dangles its pretty pendants from our chandellers, our window shades, bell pulls, picture cords, table runne: and cushion corners. or so. 2 This is a revival, of course, of the o M quaint fashions of our grandmothers. Pictures hung by larze twisted cords, from which hung huge worsted tas- sels, flourished a half century or so ago’ and are again in vogue, along with hooked rugs, candlewick bed- spreads and woven bell puils. In some cases the tassel hangs from the gilt nail-head which holds the picture cord in an inverted V; in other cases the picture cords run straight to the molding from the upper corners of the picture, and the tassel hangs over the edfe of the frame at each corner. Tassels attached to the cham pulls for lighting electric lamps are equal- ly pretty for side sconces or celling electroliers. The colorful Japanese tassels are attractive in a room where the lamp shades, lacquered stands and Chinese basket chairs are used. Silk tassels to match hangings and cushions may be used for bridge lamps or to finish the twin ropes of colored cord which pull windo draperies together in the evening. Oval couch pillows or oblong bed- sido cushions are very attractive when finished with a tassel at each end. Some of these tassels are large | and heavy. The cushion in the sketch is a soft roll pillow of French biue | silk, with a band of brocaded satin around the center in lovely shades of green, lavender, silver and blue. and each end is finished with large sil- ver cabochon pf cord, holding a green silk tassel. The same colors are shown in the lamp shade, and a green tassei of commanding size is at- tached to the light pull. WHAT TODAY MEANS TO YOU. DY MAHY BLAKE. Pisces. Owing to the moon entering Uemmi.y !the influences are not favorable, al- though they improve somewhat in the afternoon and by evening are very pro- pitious. It is a splendid time to trans- act important business and conduct so- cial activities. . A child born today has great possi- bilities of achievefept and success, either as a statesman or a writer. If today is vour birthday you have a very complex character. Nearly every- body has something of the “Hyde and JekyIl” in his make-up. In your case | it _is, however, very marked. Your conscience—*“the still, small volee"—is very alert and is controlled by those precepts and conventionalities | with which you were saturated in your vouth. Never a day passes without & i constant _conflict being waged within you as between the dictates of vour conscience and your less conventional ! desires. ! A great peace settles upon you just as soon as vou have decided to allow ! your conscience to be your mentor. You cannot help wondering, though, of what great pleasure you have been deprived | by_suffo ating your desires. When u do not need the voice of conventional duty, and gratify your un- restrained wishes, a great deal of pleas- ure—more than is vouchsafed to the average man or woman—is realized by | vou, while the weak side of your char- actér predominates; this, however, is more than offset by the pangs of re- morse experienced as the aftermath. You love the country and its quiet and peace. You are naturally a hom lover, although the temptation is al- ways present to break away from home ties and seek adventure and experience in other directions. 1 You, as a man, are fairly successful | in business, as your very keen sense of the difference between rignt and | wrong has bulilt up for you a reputa- tion for integrity and straightforward- | ness. If you perpetrate an injustice on | jvyour competitor, or indulge in any practices *not according to Hoyle' and your duplex character renders this | | probable—you may reap a momentary { reward, but this will never compensate you for the mental worries that will | disturb your peace of mind. 1f, as a woman, vou vield to the im- pulse of vour desire, regardless of the storm signal of your comscience, you will secure momentary satisfaction, but remorse will make its influence’ felt forever afterward. Well known persons born on this date lare: James Speed, lawyer; Thomas Le | Clear, portrait painter: Henry J. Bige- low, surgeon and author; James H. Spotts, rear admiral; Thomas Hastings, architect. | Dorothy Dix’s Letter Box ||| BEDTIME STORIES How Can a Shopgirl Earn More Money?—The Daughter Who Objects to Her Sixty- Year-Old Father Remarrying. DEAR DOROTHY DIX: I am a girl nineteen years of age, and work in a store downtown. I am not making a very big salary, but I like the work and my boss is awful good to me. I would like to take a business course, but my people are very poor and have many children, so all T make has to go to the family. Can you suggest how I can earn more money? UNDECIDED. Answer: The one sure road to a fatter pay envelopé is greater efficiency. The better you do your work the more money you can command for it. You have only to deliver the goods. So, inasmuch as you are employed in a store, get busy and improve your salesmanship. Watch the people above you and study their technique. Find out all about the goods you handle, 5o that you can talk convincingly and Interestingly about their merits. 5 If you sell lace, make yourself an expert, so that you can tell real from imitation by a touch. Know so much about lace that women will depend on your judgment and wait to buy from you. If you sell kitchen things. study them also. Know what every pot and pan is for, so that you will be able to draw such an alluring picture of the convenience of a chopping bowl, and what can be cooked in a casserole, that any woman will feel that she is just bound to have them. Keep on your job. Don't stand with your back to the counter and tell another salesgirl what “he said” and “she said,” while a customer waits to be served. vy, ADd When a customer asks for a thing, don't fling over your shoulder, “We haven't got it,”” without even looking for it. Make a pretense of searching for the article, and nine times out of ten the customer will take substitute. Don't assume a high and mighty air every time a customer asks for a cheap article, and act a9 if you despised everybody who had to consider_economy. Be interested in trying to find customers what they want.. You have no idea how grateful they will be. Don't call a customer “dearie” or “honey.” or tell her that some rich woman has bought that kind of a hat or dress. It makes her fighting mad. Don't try to sell people more th; they can afford, or inappropriate things. You may land one or two sales that way, but they will be boomerangs. The customers will never come back. Remember, that a soft answer turns away wrath, and that you can change a grouchy customer into a pleasant one who will buy by saying something soothing and agreeable, Instead of scratching back at her. Also remember that appearances are deceitful, and that sometimes a shabby old black handbag has more gnoney, in it than a gold mesh one. Never forget that a smile' does it, and that everybody likes to deal with a friendly, bright, alert girl who is interested in her work, and interested in her customers, and who makes friends of all who come to buy of her. Put your head and your back in your work, and you can ask for a raise in salary on the strength of your sales slips, and get it. v DOROTHY DIX. Dm MISS DIX: My father is sixty years old, and he is going to marry a woman fifteen years younger than himself. She is a fine-looking woman, a widow with lots of admirers, and what she sees In father is more than I can tell. But he says he needs a wife, and that he will live longer and be happier while he is alive if he marries. There are six of us children, all married, and he could make his home with any of us. My father has money enough, and goes to business every day. I think it is disgraceful for him to marry at his age. What do you think? TROUBLED DAUGHTER. Answer: 1 think father is dead right, and that you are altogether wrong. A man in his sixties, in these days, is still in the prime of life, with many years of life before him, and he is quite right to marry and provide himself with a suitable companion, as your father seems to be doing. Consider the situation from his point of view. Ever since he was a young man he has been the head of a house. He has had a home of his own that was run according to his notions; a place where he was the supreme authority. How can you ask him to give this up and go and live around among his children, where he would have no status except that of a more or less welcome guest? He would have to adapt himself to his children’s and his grandchildren's ways, which are not his ways. And, however much his own children might like to have him" about, sons-in-law and daughters-in-law ¥ |are not always overjoved at having an old man about, with an old man's whims to which they have to cater. People need companionship in old age far more than they do in youth. When you are young vou can find diversion in theaters, parties and running around, but when you get to the sit-by-the-fire age You want a person of your own generation to bear you company and be interested in the things that you are interested in. And selfish are the children who would deprive their father of this consolation in the last lap of the journey. DOROTHY DIX. who has just come to the Dear Miss Dix—I am a girl of cighteen, city to work. I haven't any parents, and 1 don't know any one here, 8o it is very lonely. Under the circumstances, do vou think it would be wrong to go riding with fellows T haven't been introduced to? It seems the only way 1 have of getting acquainted FRIENDLESS. Answer: To go riding with the men you pick up on the street, my gf¥l, is to take a joy ride that ends in destruction. A girl who meets men that way is any man's prey. because decent girls don't do it. 1In a city a girl who is alone has to watch her step every minute of the time. She has to learn to be suspicious of friendly strangers, and to remem- ber that for every proffered courtesy she has to pay. And sometimes she has to pay for an evening's amusement with her soul. It is hard to be young and lonely, but it is better to be lonely than to make dangerous acquaintances. Soon you will get acquainted and the loneliness will be gone, but one mistake may wreck vour life forever. DOROTHY DIX. a (Copyright. PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE BY WILLIAM BRADY, M. D., Noted Physician and Author. 1924.) et asthma influenced by th i Naval Operations in Asthma. |2sthma influ v the operation A few years ago it was the fashion | As Dr. Kahn concludes, the nose to ascribe true spasmodic asthma to|and throat should be left alone sur- reflex irritation and a good many suf- | Sically in asthma unless the nose or throat condition in itself demands ferers were subjected to various op- | surgical relief without reference to erations for the obliteration or re- [ the asthma, moval of the supposititious sources of | NoSe and throat operations for irritation from the nasal cavities. Do | fpasmedic or bronchiaj asthma there- fore belong in the category with “re- | not, 1 pray you, scoffers, confuse this with the modern fashion of attribut- ing everything to focal infection and operating to remove the focus. This modern fashion we are still wearing and when we get ready to lay it aside and don a new one I'll announce the event in fitting language. Under the quaint old fashion which prevailed away back in 1300-1910, when an asthmatic sufferer bobbed up with a tonsil or a turbinate the tonsil or turbinate was as good a& doomed if_the doctor had any aspirations to- ward heing a nose and throat special- ist. One good effect of the obsolete fashion was the removal of a lot of nasal polyps which would otherwise have been neglected until they really did work some harm to the patient. I _remember how disappointed I felt the first few cases of nasal polyp I had, that the patients would not ac- knowledge even a touch of asthma so I could cure the asthma by snaring out the polyp. Doctors far away were reporting miraculous cures of asthma from just snicking out a bit of a polyp and 1 was eager to add another case to the record. Dr. Morris Kahn has reported some’| thirty-three cases from a series of ninety-four cases of asthma in which some kind of nasal operation has been done. Polypi. hypertropic (enlarged or thickened) turbinate bodies. septal spurs, deviations of the septum and hyperthropic or infected tonsils were the conditions operated on. In fifteen cases the patients obtained relief from the nasal obstruction. In two of these atrophic rhinitis developed some time after the nasal operations. In the other cases the operation gave no benefit. One patient who had polypi removed now attributes his asthma to the operation! In no case was the EVERYBODY—The Reasonable Sex_ ~NOW, GEORGE , YOURE. TRYING OELIBERATELY 1O LET ME win) 17, mot in the realm | TS NO USE MY PLAYING IF YOURE GowG 7o po PLay AT, ITS MERELY suLy! flex" disturbances; they're simply not done any more. | job making carbon copy reports with a hard pencil, I have developed writ- er's cramp. I have a good grip with my hand and it does not bother me only when I try to write. What is the cause of this? How is the best way to cure it?—D. JI. k. Answer.—Abuse of the writing function. Probably used finger motion instead of the muscle movement, and added to the strain by bearing down with pencil. Use typewriter. Should have used typewriter all along. Pro- longed rest—six months—of hand from writing necessary. Go to work on a farm for a while. Sometimes best treatment is plaster cast or other im- mobilization for arm. Practice left- hand writing, muscle movement only. - (Copyright.) e Rice Scallop With Cheese. Boil one cupful of rice in salted boiling water for half an hour. While it cooks do not stir, but shake the pan occasionally. At the end of the thirty minutes drain the rice through a fine sieve and arrange a layer of it in a deep baking dish. Over that layer place a layer of grated American cheese and alternate rice and cheese until you have used all the rice. For the last layer use rice. Dot the top with bits of butter and- pour over all a cupful of sweet milk. Bake in quick oven for half an hour and serve from the baking dish. If the cheese is very fresh, add a little salt to each Iayer. —BY RIDGEWELL 1D MuCH RATHER ~OT- AT ALl | DONT (MIND YOU KNOW VERY WELL. 2 | CANT TAKE A BaLL S ke Tuar After working for seven years at a 4 At Last. Joy's fullsess is for hi 'I.'!-r and l:onobfle ln-u.l::: known. —Old Mother Nature. All day the great man-bird, carry- ing Danny and Nanny Meadow Mouse and their family, had been in the air. Strangely excited were Danny and Nanny. They couldn’t have told you why, but they were possessed of a “OH, Al TRUE.” feeling that something was going to happen. What it was they didn't know, but they were sure that some- thing was going to happen. And something did. It was one of the greatest happenings in their lives. Late in the afternoon the great man-bird began to go down. At length the noise of the engine stopped. Down, down, down the great man-bird glided, and presently it came to rest gently. There was a shout from the outside. It made the beart of Danny Meadow Mouse leap. It was strangely familiar, was that voice. There was an answering shout from the aviator, and then the latter hastily climbed out of the aeroplane. Danny could wait no longer. He scrambled oyt and up where he could see. Farmer Brown's boy and the aviator were shaking hands! They were back on the Green Meadows where they had started from! Danny took one good long look, then he scurried back to the little cupboard, which bad so long been NNY! IT'S TRUE, IT'S FEATURES. BY THORNTON W. BURGESS their home. squeaked. true!” “What is true?’ squeaked Nanny rather sharply. “For goodness' sake, Danny Meadow Mouse, what is the matter with you? Are you crazy?’ Danny certainly was acting as if he were crazy. He was whirling around and around as if trying to cateh that funny stub of a tail of his. “No, I'm not crazy!” he squeaked. “I'm not crazy! It's true! Oh, Nanny, were you ever so glad in all your life?” Nanny Meadow Mouse was losing patience. She grlbhed hold of Danny roughly and shook him. “Now teil me what all this nonsense is about,” she demanded. = “Why, we're home!" squeaked Danny. ‘“We're back on the Green Meadows right at the edge of Farmer Brown’s cornfield. We are—" But Nanny didn't wait to hear any- thing more. She darted out of that little cupboard and scrambled up where she could see for herself. It ‘was true, There was the familiar old cornfleld on one side and the beauti- ful Green Meadows on the other side. The latter had been brown when she saw them last, but now they were already green. The old scarecrow in the cornfield was no longer there and the ground had been plowed. But she knew it was the same field. Farmer Brown's boy and the avia- tor, who was his cousin, as you may remember, were so busy talking that “Nanny! “Oh, Nanny! Nanny™ he It's true, it's Aunt Het ,‘ “There’s one good thing about &b widower with six children. When he goes to see a girl, she knows he ain'g trifiin’ with her affections.” (Copyright, 1924.) —_— they paid no attention to the ameres plane. So they didn't see seven litths gray forms climb up and out on farther side of the great man-bird, They were Danny and Nanny Mouse and their five nearly grown children, who had been born in the great man-bird way down in the Sunny South. (Copyright, 1924, by T. W. Burgess.) uality Above All ‘This has been our policy with "SALADA" T XA H400 Millions will now use no other blend. The quality never varies. — Try it today. Raisin Bread on Wednesday It has become a custom everywhere— and so I bake it special for this day. Fresh from ovens you can get it to- morrow—golden, fine-flavored lo:_av'es, generously filled with plump and juicy Finds of n- Rolls 3 ":’fi-u and tempring ! ‘ Sun-Maid Raisins. It’s deliciously rich and fruity—and it’s healthful! Other Wednesday treats For you, I also bake specially tonight many other tempting Sun-Maid Raisin Foods. There will be rolls and cookies, cakes and coffee cakes, muffins, “snails” and my famous Sun-Maid Raisin Pie. You will find them delicious for Wed- nesday afternoon luncheon affairs. 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 tomorrow at bak- eries, grocery stores and delicatessens throughout the city. Serve them tomorrow for dinner, for the children’s and your own luncheon. And—try Raisin Toast for Thursday’s breakfast! W‘( 3 dorsed by bakers everywhere, by g:uriun Bakers’ Associstion, -n,flhy Retail Bakers’ Associstion of America sin bread Special onWednesdays