Evening Star Newspaper, March 26, 1924, Page 35

BY MARY Drossmakers and designers have tried long but finally fn vain to establish the Second Emnire silhou- #tte. Now they seem to be gambling on tho possible success of the silhou- ette of the First Empire. Really, you know, there were many fnfluential French dressmakers who would have been very glad to see . the bouffant skirt and close-fitting bodice of Empress Bugenie, wife of the second Napoleon, come Into fash- ion. But the women we; not like- minded. While these self-same dres makers sent out their most charm- «, PROCK LINE_OF BLACK SHOWING _ Dif 2 ENCE. THERE 1S A WHITE CHIF- FICHU AND WHITE ROS! 2 AT WAIST. WITH HIGH WAIST- CREPE SATL OIRE _ INFLU- ing mannequin bouffant the most smartly dressed wi rope wero keepi straight scant outlines. To put across the silhouetto of Josephine, first wife of the first Nz poleon, would not be =o difficult, Its traightness recom- 4 it is tic where | s most dly from the mode skirts, men in to their BEDTIME STORIES " More Trouble. It seems That trou law —Mrs. Quack. “Well, anyw Quack managed to live through that dread- ful winter down in the Sunny South, .and for a while vour troubles are over,” said Peter Rabbit sympatheti- cally. Mrs. Quack shook her head. “I wish I could feet so,” said she dolefully, “But you can sec for yourself how thin and poor we are. Our summer home in the Far North is a long, long, . long way from here, and Mr. Quack , you and M RE _YOUR OTHER TROUBLES? PETER ASKED, @nd T have very little strength. T do yot feel as if 1 could fly another mile. You see, our troubles did not end when we started North.” “You don’t mean to teil me #hat you more lakes and ponds and ained on your way up? tound Il the way. You see, all the Ducks logan moving North just as soon as they dared. And all the way up it has been a case of scrabble, scrabble, *scrabble to get enough to eat. Then there have been other troubles. Oh, . dear, it seems as if there is nothing but trouble these days!" Mrs. Quack sighed. “What were your other troubles?” Peter asked. “They are hard to explain because, ‘we really don't understagd them our- selves,” replied Mrs. Quack. “On our way up we were not always where the water was fresh and sweet. Liv- ing here on the Green Meadows you probably do not know that there is a place where all land ends and there is pothing but water. That water is salt. “Salt!™ exclaimed Peter, looking as d as he felt. replied Mrs. Quack. “There ‘ere many kinds of Ducks that like salt water best. They are the Ducks who live chiefly on fish. But all of us during the long journey from the Bunny South to the Far North and back again like to rest on salt water. But this year something had hap- pened to it. There were places where it was eovered with something we didn't notice at ‘first. It was oil. You know, we Ducks have oil for our feathers, but this was a different kind of oil. It didn't smell good. Still, we didn’t mind that at first. “But after a while we found that it £t into our feathers and matted them together. A lot of the Ducks who live en the salt water found that they couldn't fiy. That oil poisoned their food_and they died. Of course, when Nir. Quack and I discovered what was ening we Look care to keep away m places where that oil was." But where did that ofl coms from?" eter asked, looking very much puz- Eled, “I don’t know exactly,” replied Mrs, @uack. “But you may be sure that ]l)\asa two-legged creatures called men vere the cause of it. Yes, sir, they Were the cause of it It seems that it fsn’t enough for them to.shoot us and destroy our nesting places and f ‘“z they must also poison_ the or.” S Mrs. Quack was quite right in =y, MARSHALL. Obviously we cannot go on wearing our waists longer and longer. History of costuming ought to show us that women are never content for long t¢ go about without sign or symbol even of a waistline. Still no one knows, and apparently those best qualified to make predic- tions are most reticent to say whether or not they think that the Directoire and First Empire silhouette will bo established. Almost every French of distinction has dabbled in it this spring. Each one goes about it from a different angle. Poiret goes back to classic models for his short waist | and shows the simplest of frocks of | very finely pleated tissues, at a high waistline with gold. More picturesque, though less distinguished, is the frock shown in the sketch. It is of black crepe satin with chiffon fichu. Tho panei at the front is lined with white and there are white roses directly in the middle of the high waistline. (Oopyright, 1924.) WHAT TODAY MEANS TO YOU. BY MARY BLAKE. Aries. The early morning aspects are more {than ordinarily excellent and al- {though they decline somewhat, the lday continues very favorably on {through the evening. Avoid assuming responeibility and “taking a chance.” | A child born today will enjoy fair ihealth and have an amorous dispo- | sition. | 1f ‘today is your birthday vour {character is remarkably strong, but, it the same time, you are affection: and considerate. You weigh efully your words and actions, and once your imind is made up no one can turn you ifrom your purpose because vou know ivou are right—unless, in the pursuit »f your ends, you find that some hu- | an being is injured, when your kindly thought and consideration for i e others will stop you in_your cour: your life is brimful of s have a knack of creating an atmosphere of merriment wherever you may be; many, ignorant of the will power that you posse misjudge sider you an y mar] ever, have a rude awakening, |learn to render tribute to your firmness, tempered, as it always i, with kindli- ness, In vour affections you are sincere and constant; vou are faithful to one, to one alone, thereby give and ric great pleasure and happ s. No m |ter, though, how deeply vou love, |cannot be persuaded to deviate from {the path of right, and your strength of character will enable yvou to resist many temptations to which, if your fections were allied with weaknes: | would readily succumb. In business your associates respect you, as you are never guilty of | practice, “but “play on the level,” although not spectacularly successful, you have something greater than riche: —the confidence of others. nshine. You | thought are assets show a healthy bilities, Well that will always surplus over any lia- known persons born on date are: William T. Smediey, | George ¥. Loring, archite author; Joseph and pharmacist: Thomas, composer and singe man Haput, civil engineer, (Copyright, 1924.) this artist; ;. Bdward Remington, R BY THORNTON W. BURGESS ing she didn’t understand it. Farmer {Brown's Boy would have understood it if he could have heard her. The oil, that she complained of had come fr ships and factories along the c and the rivers. Oil, you know, mix with water, but floats on surface. And all along the sea coast and in some rivers this waste oil has killed many ducks and fish, and has spoiled the beaches where people like to go in summer. (Copyright, 1924, by T. W. Bargess.) The Guide Post By Henry Van Dyke will not Spreading the Light. Unto all the nations.—Luke 24:47. More light is what the world wants, And do you think that it will make less light to kindle a greater fire? Do you suppose that one more Christian in China will make one less Christian in America? Do you imagine that one less ef- fort to preach the gospel in Africa will mean one more effort to preach the gospel in America? Do you suppose that one dollar that is given for foreign missions will be taken from home missions? I tell you, no! It will be taken from self-indnl- gence, from avarice, from worldly luxury. Peter is not robbed when Paul is supported. Demas, the worldling; Simon Ma- ®us, the astrologer, and Demetrius, | { | | dressmaker, Your disposition is a happy one, and | and | you | In the balance sheet of life a strong | {character and unselfishness and kindly | Her- | st ! the ! Ma was putting her hat on to go.out and 1 sed, Hay ma, I jes thawt of & good way to serprize pop. Sippose I take some picktures of you with Ris camera and lets dont tell pop enything about it till they are all developed and serprize him, how about that, ma? 1 sed. T must ad: than most it its mutch more sensibl vour ideers, 1 must sa ma sed. Now let me see, Im in a hurry to go out because Im a Mittle late alreddy, but I gess 1 can spare a few minnits. Hurry and get the camera, theres a roll of films alreddy in it, she sed. And I quick got pops Germin camera and me and ma went out in the yard and I aimed at her with the camers, Are you reddy, ma? dont " be - all about it, member Im late as it is, ma sed. Yes mam, are 1 1 told you I was, for pity sakes, ma sed. and I sed, All rite, noy jest a minnit now, aré you reddy? My face is almost parrilyzed, thats how reddy I am, ma sed, and 1 quick snapped it sayving. There, thats one. Its a wonder you wouldent wait till I stopped tawking, ma sed, and I Well G, ma you sed you was redd Now Im going to take another éne, ma, lets make every one diffrent. Try to look serprized, 1 sed. 1l look serprized if Im not an hour late for my ingagement with all this munkey bizniss, take it if youre going to _take it, ma sed. Wich 1'did, saying, Now try to look sad, ma. Im no moving pickture actress, hurry up for goodniss sakes, ma sed. Wich 1 taking wm about minnits to 3 and then I d, O, G Wats matder sed, Aint you sipi thing on this ¢ pickture? Are ou standing there and telling me youve taken all those ixposures on | one film? ma sed, and 1 sed, No mnam, | Im jest asking you. | Well did you tern the thing? ma sed, |and I sed, No mam Wich 1 dident, and ma quick went out the back way with a mad ixpression on account of not wunting to be any later than wat she was alreddy. re- more, now? ma sed, an vsed to tern era between Menu for a Day. BREAKFAST. Prunes with Coddied E; Lemon. n Muftins, LUNCHEON. Cheeso Croquettes. French Roli Romaine Sulad. Nut Cookies. Tea. DI Broiled & Baked Potatoes. Olives. Frappe. ! ce of Ham Coffen BRAN MUFFINS. Two cups of bran, £ cups of ens teaspoons of g 3 von of & cup of molasses, 1 teaspoon of butter or lard. Use enouzh milk to mix 2SE CROQUETTES, L'Abl(;fpoonr of butter, CHE] Melt 3 teaspoo: cayenne and 13 teaspoon of mus- tard; then stir in siowly 1 cap of milk and cook until smooth. Add 1 cup of grated American cheese and the beaten yolks of 2 eggs, cook & minute longer, then pour the mixture on a buttered dish. Shape into cones when cold, dip in beaten egz, roll in crumbs and fry in deep hot fat. 1 COFFEE FRAPPE Boil 1 quart_of water with cup of sugar, add 4 ounces of ground coffee ‘and set at the side of the stove for 10 minutes Strain, and when cold add the ‘ white of an egg. Freeze and serve in individual glasses, topped with whipped cream. the idol-maker, are the only ones that suffer. Poter and Paul grow strong to- gether and the farther the one goes :l\1hrnad the better the other works at ome. In 1812 a man in the senate of Massachusetts objected to the incor- poration of the American Board of Foreign Missions on the ground that *the country had no religion to spare.” If that objection had prevailed I helieve by this time the country would have had no religion to keep. { World's Store House. Mexico is often referred to as the torehouse of the world” because of the great fertility of its soil and its almost inexhaustible natural re- Humbold!, the German nat- nearly a hundred years ago spoke of Mexico as the “treasure house of the world.” Although still undeveloped, Mexico is- one of the most richly mineralized regions of the earth. [ [THANKS, AwrLy! =D sources, uralist, 10} 1 NER i Spinaci. i We Write Our Own Price Tags ury Class |DorothyDix|=E5E The More a Woman Costs a Man, the More He Will Value Her—So Take This Tip, Wivesg and Don’t Mark Your Own Price Tag Too Low. A YOUNG woman wants to know why men prefer the girl who demands expensive entertainment to the one who would save their money, and be willing to be fireside companions to them. Heaven alone knows, daughter. Probably men prefer the gold diggers to the savers for the same reason that we all cravé the luxuries, rather than the necessities of life. There is no one who wouldn’t rather have an automobile than a wheelbarrow, and whose appetite does not call for cske rather than it does bread. _Anyway, whatever the reason, it is true that it is the bird of paradise, with gorgeous plumage, that ravishes a man's fancy, and not the quiet, domestic little hen who is busily scratching around in the barnyard. The more a woman costs & man, the more he.values her. Of course. men howl'with rage accuse girls of being grafters and hold-up artists, latent incarnation of Rohdn Hood wears abbreviated potticoats, and uses They wonder why a girl cannot eat enough before she leaves home to stay her until she gets back again, and fed, she invariably orders the highest priced sarcastic over the fact that the mald who thinks nothing of taking 2 ten-mtle hike has to be conveyed two blocks in a taxi, when there is a man to foot the bill a lip stick, and has bobBed hair. why, when she has to be dishes on the menu. “They gro: dollars. observed that she has men want he . e demand expensive entertainment. phonograph instead seats in a theater. hood movie. living rooms? pleasant, inexpensive e They are left solitary and alone, ant on a bargain table. orchids w. notices them. herseif too cheap. wives are seldom the best loved and by the devotion of their spouses. done attractively dressed. o due, who would be make the effort that achieves a limousines and pearls. Men tako women at thelr own | wife just exactly as she demands to be treated. cheapiy, and is willing to be a door mat. he walks over her. herself nothing but a slave, she will she takes the queew’s seat, worshiped like a queen. Letters written during the presidency of James Monroe by Representative Thomas Hill Hub- bard of New York These lettors, addressed to Mrs. Hubbard, pic- ture social and political life in the National Capital of a bundred years ago. Washington City, November 17, 1818. (Second Winter.) *The o!d establishment where I board- ed last winter is broken up, and I now reside in a different part of the city, about half-way between the Capitol and the President’s home. “Tallmadge and Storrs arrived safely several days ago, and took lodgings with ‘the same man with whom we boarded last year, but the house Queen now oc- cupies is in a_bleak situation, and all the rooms at his disposal have smoky chimneys and are poorly furnished. ““Our mess is now composed of the fol- 1owing gentlemen, Col. Hasbrouck, Gen. Wilkins, Mr. Patmer and myself of New | York; Col. Merrill of Vermont and Mr. Morton and Mr. Lincoin from Massachu- etts. In a few days we expect Judge Livermore from New Hampshire to join | us. Fight is all that we have, and six boarded together at Quee last ses- sion. They are all semsible, well in- formed men, uniting in the wish to pre- serve the abstemious habits of home. The house is brick, three stories high, | facing the south. My room is on the | third floor, front. The sun pours its i morning’s rays in at my window, and | the elevation is such that a greaf part of the city is spread beneath my eye. The view is picturesque and beautiful, commanding a view of twelve or four- teen miles of the river, directly down But she is not_entirely to blame. She has looked around a got to put herself Otherwise, they pass her sit at home with a man and pop corn, Phonograph of golng- to jazz palaces. They don't expect orchestra | They would be tickled to death to go to the neighbor- Sut are these girls sought after by men? Do men beseech them for dates, so that they can spend a vening in agreeable feminine society? with no more takers than a left-over On the contrary, the women who holl their husbands to the end, whose husbands are proud of them, and boass of them, are the women who, when there are any sacrifices to be made, and any heavy work to be let George do it, and who keep themselves young, and pretty, and expensive wife the handicap she might content with doing little things himself is spurred on big success because he had to get his wite | clothes, and will never have a penny of her own. talked to and abused like a dog, she will get a dog's treatment. high cost of loving. They Y onp hrtists. They decluro that the Furthermore, they assert that the reason they do not marry is because it costs so much to court a girl that it leaves nothing (o marry upon. All of which is true. Nobody will deny that the girl of today is a cheerful little worker, who Is an artist in scparating a man from his hard-earned bit and in the luxury rating to make by and leave her on the shelf . e R there are plenty of girls who are not in the de luxe class. They don’t They would be perfectly satisfied to or sing duets, or dance to the Do men crowd their little They do not. 'he men are all off chasing after the girls whose company is 80 |piano and another for second violin. expensive that it will send them to the cafeterias for a week. zolden girls are no whit more attractive than the homespun ones. Yet the We just naturally value things by what they cost us. We are mad over e pay $15 a spray for them. Where they grow wild nobody The peculiarity of men that makes them value a woman by what she costs them is of especial significance to marriéd women, and it suggests to the astute that the greatest mistake that a wife can make is to make It does not take a female Sherlock Holmes to discover that the best the best treated. It is not the wives who toil, and save, and skimp, and go shabby whose virtues are rewarded and LSO, it is the women who demand things who get them. The cheap A Voman who will put up with cheap things always has to do it; but the woman who will have nothing less than the best gets it as her just and her husband’s respect and admiration thrown Nor is ‘the Many.a man in. Lo supposed to be. valuation, and every man treats his If she holds herself If she considers work like a slave for her board and 1f she will stand being But if she demands fair treatment, if she demands to be treated with courtesy and consideration, if :.'l:‘ux:ivlrgmds admiration and appreciation, if [ful of parsley, a bit of bay leaf, four and holds it, she will be looked up to and ‘Women write their own price tags, and they make the crror of their lives when they-don't mark up the price as high as the traflic will stand. |the liquid below the boiling point. DOROTHY DL (Copyright, 1924.) Early Days and Ways in Washington. stream, exposing the city of Alexandria on the right and a handsome shore on the left. What I prize as a great com- fort is that we burn wood altogether, and there i3 not a coal fire in the house. The house is as neat as wax, and greatly preferable to what it was last About thres hundred dwelling houses, I am told, have been crocted since T was here last vear. The streets have been graveled and much improved and, notwithstanding for- mer predictions, I do not know but that this immense plan of a city will vet be complete and Washington be- come a great city. “Yesterday I went to the Capitol. The interior of the west wing is fin- ished, but all is in chaos within, and I_doubt whether the Representative Chamber will be fit for the reception of members these two vears. “The President gave Mr. Morton and myself the other day a laughabie de- scription of an_insurrection among the workmen, which we saw noted in the paper last summer, and which he says delayed all proceedings about a ‘month. The workmen employed by the government upon the public improve- ments amount to in all about eight thousand men. Those stationed at the Capitol conspired to demand higher wages. By a signal agreed upon they laid down their tools and presented their petition. The government com- plied and advanced thgir wages, but, not content, they met again and de- manded stili more. This was refused and they left their work. Not con- tented with this they formed an as- sociation, raised a fund and as fast as the government employed new hands the conspirators bought them off by offering them higher wages. This was deemed an unlawfu) combi- nation, and Mr. Monroe issued a war- rant and about twenty of the ring. leaders were conveyed to gaol. The rest of the workmen meditating a res- cue, the marines were ordered out from_ the barracks, Mr. Moproe says merely with a view of ing the gaol, but the conspirators, who were Irishmen principally, and supposing that the soldiery would be ordered to shoot them down, as was done often in_their own country, and seeing the soldiers advance with a quick step and to martial music, broke and dis- persed. They then appointed a com- mittes, offered to retrace their. steps and were again received. They are now quietly at work.” ———— A man without a single idea is less f a bore than a man with only one ea. COLOR CUT-OUT An Orchestra Uniform. 1 Mary brought two other girls (o play in the school orchestra, ome for the | | | Before many days more boys had been added until therc were a piccolo, a flute and two cornmets, in addition to the violins and a drum. The players all practiced hard; then it was decided they should play before the school. *““What'll we wear?” Mary asked the other girls, My best dress is green and Sue's blue,” answered Agnmes, the pianist “Won't we look funny with your lav- ende “The boys are all wearing blue suits, so 1 think it would be nicer if we all wore blue dresses. Let's have a uni- form!” was Mary's suggestion. The girls agreed, and here you sec the dress they selected. The dress the orchestra girls eh-u] for their umiform is blue with gold braid. All of them had dresses jus alike. gty 1924.) Pot Roast With Dumplings. Wipe threo pounds of beef rump, jdredge with flour and brown the en- tire surface in pork fat. Place on a rack in a kettle. Surround with one- fourth cupful each of carrots, turnips, celery and onions, and one tablespoon- (Copy cloves, salt and pepper and three cup- fuls of water. Cover closely and sim- mer slowly for four hours, keeping Remove tho meat and vegetables to a hot platter. Thicken the stock and serve with the vegetables as a sauce | around the meat. The sauce may be |strained if liked. The dumplings: Mix and sift to- gether two cupfuls of flour, four tea- spoonfuls of baking powder and half | a teaspoonful of salt. Work in two| teaspoonfuls of fat, add two-thirds | cupful of milk or more gradually, roll | out half an inch thick, and cut with| o biscuit cutter. Cook for about fif-| teen minutes. Do not lift the cover | while cooking. i ! Banana Finger Salad. | | _Remove the skins from thres bana- | nas and cut them in halves crosswise, | thensin four pieces lengthwise. Roll! each piece quickly in sugar, then in| chopped peanuts or other nuts. Cutl| one lemon in very thin slices. Dip | each slice quickly in pounded sugar and arrange on lettuce leaves, using | the lemon as a garnish. My Neighbor Says: To preserve the colors, wash an American flag in water to which alum bas been added. Hang it, while wet, upon the flagpole, as it will dry more quickly and keep its shape bet- ter. Teach children the proper care of their books by having low book-shelves around the walls and insisting upon their putting their books in place after the story hour. To keep the polish of the din- Ing room tablo perfect, rub every three davs with a mixture made of equal parts of olive oil and turpentine. Apply with a flannel cloth and polish with a clean flannel cloth. Dull spots on other furniture may be treated in the same way. After squeezing the juice from a lemon save the skin, and after Deeling vegetables rub it over your fingers. It will remove all discoloration. Do not use water or soap until after rubbing your hands with lemon, as it sets the stain. All fabries dry at least two shades lighter than they appear when wet after being dyed. It is therefore wise to dye a sain- ple first, dry it. and then make changes in the dve liquor if the color is not what you want. You may have to dilute the bath, or you may have to add more pow- der. If you aim for a very deep shado of color on light-colored material, you had better build up the color, getting all you can the first time, and then be- ginning over again with a fresh dye bath. Then the material will not crack. U you need know _is the name . Peel four tomatoes, cut them pleces, and cook with one finely |[Prown, then add the tomato mixture chopped onion and one greep pepper until the tomatoes are soft. Melt one |hot boiled rice. "SALAD has a pure, compare. Ask for a pacKage today. FEATURES. 35 tablespoonful of fat, add two table- 8)00nfuls of flour and half a, teaspoon- In|ful of salt, and allow the flour to Green Pepper Sauce. and stir it until it boils. Serve this sauce with vegetable croquettes or on resh flavor beyond LES POUDRES XL Y %VE you tried COTY’S newest shade of Face Powder’ —the luscious “Ocre-Rose?” Tt gives a glowing radiance to the golden colouring of true brunettes; and those who are devoted to out-doorlife will find that it blends in delight- ful effect with the tan of wind and sun. ADD STILL GREATER CHARM TO THE LOVELIEST FACES Why Pay the Penalty of Lying Awake? "ANY people spend hours at night, restlessly tossing from side to side, waiting for sleep. All because they drink coffee with their evening meal. If the caffeine in coffee irritates your nervous system and keeps you awake when you should be asleep, recuperating your ‘energies, why not stop coffee and drink Postum? Postum is a pure cereal beverage, absolutely free from caffeine or any- thing that can disturb health and com- fort. Many prefer Postum for its de- lightful aroma and flavor, If you want to know the. truth, change to Postum for a month or so, and see how much better you will sleep and feel. Postum for Health “There’s a Reason” Your grocer sells Postum in two forms: Insant Postum {in tins) prepared instantly in the cup by the addition of in packages] ose who the flavor brought out boiling fully 20 minutes. cost of either form is about one-half cent a cup.