Evening Star Newspaper, September 9, 1924, Page 21

WOMAN’S PAGE.” _ | Pajama BY MARY MARSHALL. 3 Will some psychologist please step forward and tell us why it is that 4 pretty woman never seems s0 un- utterably feminine as when she is wearing a pair, of really mannish pajamas? Little' feet in high-heeled “ mules slippers seem so helplessly small when they peep out from the «nd of straight, shapeless trouser legs. And hands take on proportions BLACK AND WHITE DOTTED SILK PAJAMAS BOUND IN RED 3 NED WITH LARGE PEARL to delizht the soul of a mid- show raight torian themselves masculine novelist when they iU the end of sajama sleeves is quit uish. When it is Iy a man's pajama the piquan S apt to turn to gro- tesqueric Shoulders sag, sleeves and trousers are too long and hips cant. rench fashion writer speaks of the feminine pajama as “an amusing antasy that, in the intimacy of the home, often takes the ce of the Suits in Place of Negligee AND | i | ‘robe d'interieur.’ The most re- nowned of French designers turn their attention to the designing of these trifling garments. Philippe et Gaston show one of white satin trousers worn with black satin jacket trimmed at neck and around the lower edge witk white fur. The sketch shows a pair of Ameri- can-designed pajamas of black and white dotted silk bound in red and fastened with large pearl buttons. They are worn with red mules or slippers. The woman who lives in apartment or hotel usually finds more use for the pajama suits as a substitute for the usual neglige frock than the woman who lives upstairs and down in a suburban or small town house. Pajamas are comfortable only when one enjoys a measure of security. You don’t even mind drinking after- noon tea in them so long as you are a safe distance from the strect door, and with friends who have ceased to think of pajamas as barely respect- able, or smacking too strongly of strong-mindedness. (Copyright, 1824.) Menu for a Day. BREAKFAST. Oranges. Oatmeal with Cream Scrambled Eggs. Toast. Doughnuts. Coffee. LUNCHEON. Salmon Puff. Canned Peas. Rolls. Orange Cream Pie. Tea. DINNER. Scotch Broth. Lamb Chops. Shell Beans. Grilled Sweet Potatoes. Tomato Salad. Peach Ple. Coffee. DOUGHNUTS. One cupful of sugar, one egg, one tablespoonful of melted lard, one cupful of sour milk, little nutmeg, pinch of salt and flour to roll. Fry in deep fat. ORANGE CREAM PI Three eggs, one cupful sugar, two and one-half level table- spoonfuls cornstarch, grated rind of two oranges, juice of one orange, one and three- fourths cupfuls milk. Separ- ate whites from yolks of eggs and beat yolks with half the sugar until light. Mix cornstarch smooth with one- fourth cup of the milk and scald remainder in double. boiler. When almost boiling stir in cornstarch and cook till thick. Add volks of eggs, sugar, orange rind and juice. Cool 'slightly and pour into previously baked crust. Beat Whites of eggs stiff, add re- mainder of sugar, and flavor, if liked, with a little orange juice or grated rind. Pile on top of pie, put in a moderate oven to set and brown slightly. Framiads SWEET POTATOES. Slice cold boiled sweet po- tatoes lengthwise, sprinkle with salt and sugar, put in a piece of butter on each slice, brown in a hot oven. PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE BY WILLIAM BRADY, M. D. Return of Suspenders. 13-vear-old Doy, writes a s on wearing a belt and lieve. although he not. Should he wear sus- Mrs. H. M, “Is it harmful for e1t2° writes a pe 4 man to wear a son of indeter: ate gender —using the committal form of signature chie affected by maids nowadavs. “Is it harmful v 4 man to wear the ordinary men's arters around the leg below the knee? Is the slight constriction suf- ficient to cause varicose veins™ Suspenders are coming back. I wish I could say the same of exten- sion ladders and a few other things the neighbors have borrowed. But e positively in evidence they sprang the new glish trousers on us. No can a man hang his nether garments on his hips as of yore. The ine of these new-fangled things close up under the arms, so a can’t rely implicitly on a belt »m up. He simply has to get rellow o hold tuipped with suspenders. And the vstevidence of the renaissance of walluzes is the calm and unruffied serenity of the clerk when you an- nounce that vou are in quest of a has ‘em in shades and styles to pl the most fastidious. Frankly. I am a prejudiced wit- ness, but it is my belief that belts have contributed considerably to the zrouchiness of posture, the slump, which affects the carriage and, sec- larily, the moral fiber of so many men. The belt encouraged and pre- disposed to the habit of slumping. A trusty pair of suspenders, with all buttons securely attached and func- tionin ces the burden where it should be, on a man's shoulders, and this has tendency to make him BEAUTY .CHATS ) hold himself erect if he has a spark of vigor or ambition in him. What I am saving of suspenders may apply as well to women. The weight of a woman's skirt or skirts should be supported from her shoul- ders, not from her waist or hips. She should endeavor to hang her clothes upon a kind of skeleton waist, which is practically modified suspenders. The present fashion in women's clothing is in favor~of this kind of pport and tends to make the old t or hip support obsolete. Since we human being arose upon our hind feet the natural supports of our internal organs have been hard enough put to it to cope with the pull of gravity, without adding the burden of the weight, say, of one's liver in clothing. If we ambled about on all fours it wouldn't matter much whether we wore belts or suspenders. In the case of the boy, I don't think mother need to worry about how tight his belt is. But as soon | as Winter comes—with heavier cloth- ing—the boy had better hitch him- self up in suspenders again. The girls won't see 'em then. At 13 it is a matter of the gravest importance what the girls may think of what a boy is wearing. If garters are to be worn at all, they should be side elastics for girls or women, taking support from the skeleton suspender waist I have re- ferred to. For men such garters as my correspondent mentions, but never less than an inch wide, prefer- ably wider, so that they will function when quite loosely attached about the leg. Narrow or tight garters around the leg below or above the knee do constrict return veins and| tend to cause varicose enlargement. Young boys should wear socks or golf hose, which require no support. (Copyright, 1924.) BY EDNA KENT FOKRBES Hai: Dressing. We are having 'ne of our periodical reactions against bobbed hair. They come 3long two or ‘hree times & year, Lut it to me that shorn heads 1ppear quite as frejuently as ever. seem My Neighbor Says: Reading in bed or in a recifn- ing position is bad for the eye: It puts undue strain upon mu: cles already overtaxed. Don't forget that sometimes, as in the ase of Bright's disease, an im- nt of evesight may be t apparent symptom of Dimming eyesight may indicate the need of an cal examination, as often entire phy; well as the need of consulting a capable oculist and being fit- ted properly with glasses. If new enameled saucepans are placed in a pan of warm water and allowed to come to a boil they will last much longer, without cracking or burning, than if they are used immedi- ately, Grate bread crumbs into pan before putting jn batter and cake will never burn on the bottom. The ice box is a source of food contamination, And food contamination is the beginning of ill health. Typhoid fever has been traced to the use of improperly cared for food. It is a good plan to flush the ice box pipe once a week at least with hot soda water and to scrub it inside with soap and water, letting it dry in the sun, it possible, after being well scalded with boiling water. The ice box needs sunning and airing. And a clean ice box saves Ice. Hairdressers tell me that during such a period there is always a slight fall- ing off in the number of women who come to have thein hair cut, but it never lasts long. The bob is so con- venient and so good for the hair that it is likely to remain for some *ime. . The craze for shingled halr is dy- ing out. But severely shingled hair Was never pretty; it was like the craze for very mannish tallored suits that we had some years ago. We went about in square cut, straight tailormades, with starched collars and men's ties, or else high stocks, and wore waists that differed in no respect from a man's shirt. Most of us looked very ugly, for only the frilliest and most feminine sort of woman looks well in masculine dress. So with the shingle. It's too hard and masculine. Its good point is that it shows of the curve at the back of the head. A modified shingle Is tak- ing its place, the hair cut lopg enough over the top to. brush back becomingly, but long enough behind too, so that the back view is not all stubby ends. All the new hairdressing styles are also emphasizing this curve. The knot is placed high enough to show it, and not to break the graceful line of the shoulders and the back of the neck. Very simple styles are the rule for the coming winter. The hair is parted on one side and drawn back to a knot behind, or parted in the center and treated the same way. But there is more art in doing this properly than in pinning on the most elaborate set of curls and puffs. SEAAS P e 20 Bismarck Oysters. Place a layer of hot sauerkraut on a hot plate, several fried oysters next, and on top three slices of crisply-fried bacon. This is' a good luncheon dish. . i Ban to choke like enything, and she THE _EVENING AUNT HET BY ROBERT QUILLEN. Sharing Pleasure. “The middle class, I reckon, is them that can’t afford toy dogs and wouldn't have common dogs After suppir pop was smoking with | a injoyable ixpression and ma was reeding the paper, saying, Willyum,! did you see about this old man that | Jest passed his 105th berthday and says his long life is due intirely to the fack that he has never touched tobacco in eny form? Think of it Willyum, 105 yeers, ma sed. | It must have seemed more Iikv; 205 without a smoke all that time. | pop sed, and ma sed, Now Willyum, if you-cant lern from the ixamples of others Ive decided Im jest going to give you a little ixample myself. In wat way, sutch as how? pop sed, and ma sed, Sutch as by smoking a cigarett rite in frunt of you so you can see the smoke poring out of my mouth like an enraged volcano the way Im forced to see it constantly POFing out of yours. Some of the ladies that belong to the Dawters of | Cleopattera smoke during the meet- ings, and I borrowed a cigarett from | one of them this afternoon, and heer it is, give me a match, Willyum, she sed. Yee gods, do you wunt yourself sick? pop sed Wy should I get sick eny more than | you, wy should there be any dubble | standard of getting sick, wares the | match? | Heer it is, yvee gods, pop sed. And ma litt the cigarett and started to blow out big puffs, pop saying, Hay, take it easy, for the love of Peet. Wy should I, if a things werth doing its werth doing well, wat do you do wen little peeces of tobacco get into your mouth? ma sed, and pop sed, You call up the fire depart- ment. Now jest for that Im going to blow smoke out through my nose, ma sed Wich she started to do and then b to make and ma sed, quick put the cigarett down saying, Willyum open the windows | They are open, I told you you'd get sick, pop sed, and ma sed, I'm not sick enything of the kind, I may be a trifle dizzy but Ive bin a trifie dizzy all day. And she wawked over to the window holding on to ferni- ture on the way, saying, For good- niss sakes, 1 don't know wich is| going erround the fastest, me or the | room. O well, if thats the sort of | thing you get out of smol ing jest| g0 rite on being mizzerable if it gives you eny plezzure, but enyway | you should of warned me, she sed. Ha ha, ixcuse my unfeeling mirth, pardon me if 1 laff, pop sed. Wich he did. What TodayMeans to You BY MARY BLAKE. Virgo. Toda planetary aspects reveal vibrations of & stimulating nature | which incline to activity and re t- | lessness. but also tend to misjudg- ment. Al risks and any changes of a radical nature should be carefully | avoided and speculation should be | eschewed. It is advisable today to attend only to duties of a routine and an obligatory character, and any quick decision or snap judgment must not be acted upon, if good results are either desired or anticipated. A child born today will experience considerable sickness in early in- fancy, but with methodical nutrition and plenty of outdoor air, will suc- cessfully overcome all its ailments and develop along vigorous and healthy lines. Jts character will be more stubborn than pliant: its dis- position more aggressive than ben its mentality very marked. This child must not be indulged, but, by useful lessons and careful discipline, must be taught the advantage of unselfishness. If today is vour birthday, vour whole life is embittered by general suspicion of others, words and ac- tions. What we know about.our- selves we look for in others. It is more usual for you to look for the evil than the good. If you find your friend all goodness, you rest content, but if a little bad is present, you look further and probe, by a process pe- culiarly human, to unearth more of the bad. If you do not find it, you experience a sense of regret, rather than one of satisfaction. The law of self-protection gave rise to suspicion in the human heart. To know the designs of your fellow beings is to be protected from many harms. As a fountain, however, can rise no higher than its head, so most suspicion of wrong in others is gen- erally prompted by the possession. of faults. Honest people take but little for granted if they are good readers of human nature, but they never sus- pect without cause or evidence. There is far more honesty in the world than a pessimist is willing to admit. A suspicious nature is small and mean, narrow and unfruittul, al- ways on the defense, rather than among mankind doing good. It is better to trust a friend and lose, than never to trust at all. Well known persons born on this date are: Rickard Riker, lawyer and politiclan; Eleazes Lord, financier and author; Joseph Leidy, paleontologist; Willam Cranch Bond, astronomer; Elliott Coues, scientist; Maurice Thompson, author. Ham Cream Toast. Melt five tablespoonfuls of butter, add four tablespoonfuls of flour, and stir until well blended. Add this to two cupfuls of scalding milk in a double boiler. Cook until the mix- ture thickens and season with pepper. Dip slices of toast in hot sauce and arrange the slices on a platter. To the remainder of the sauce add one- half a cupful of chopped boiled ham and pour over the toast. This is a delicious breakfast dish. SESNR N Breakfast Pie. Cover the bottom of a well greased baking dish with hot mashed po- STAR, WASHINGTON, 13 tatoes. Add a layer of any kind of cold, cooked meat well seasoned, next a thin layer of mashed potato. Pour over all a little gravy or half a cup- ful of water in which a tablespoon- ful of butter has been melted. Bake in oven long enough to brown. s D. C. TUESDA DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX Is She Justified in Taking Another Man’s Love When Husband Has Grown Cold?>—The Man Whose Wife Objects to Smoking. AR MISS DIX: Four years ago, when I married my husband, I loved him better than any. one on earth, but now he has grown cold toward me. He never speaks a single word of appreciation and affection to me, and finds fault with everything I do or say. He never takes me anywhere, but he has his diversions with his men friends in the way of athietic sports. 1 have been true to him and have tried every way to hold him, but in vain, for he is the kind of man who takes his wife for granted and thinks that she is a fixed picce of machinery in the home to grind all day long. The result is that I have ceased to love him. Now I love another, and my heart is being eaten out with longing for a little devotion, I cannot live without love, but I cannot leave my husband, elther, for we have a baby to rear. What shall T do about the man I love and who loves me? ACHING HEART. Answer: Your case is another example of the truth that so many men are too bLlind to see that when a man ceases to make love to his wife some other man generally begins. d There would be mighty few cases of alicnation of the affections if it were not for the contributory negligence of the husband or wife who was too lazy, or too careless, to keep the love that had been intrusted to his or her care. The trouble with a lot of husbands that they think If a woman has once lo: loving them to the end. ; is that they are so self-conceited d them she is just bound to go on Suweh a man never realizes that the flame of & woman’s love burns out if you don’t keep putting fresh fuel on the fire. Nor does it cross his mind that ; there is very little that will keep a woman interested and enthusiastic about a man who never notices how she looks ar what she does, and who doesn’t care enough for her to try to bring all the happiness and pleasure he can into her lify Still less do such men realize that when their wives cease to love them | they are very apt to fall in love with some other man, and that the other man is generally waiting around the corner for the indifferent husband to leave the door unlatched for him to walk in. Moreover, under such | circumstances even the best of women will take love unlawfully if they cannot get it honestly, as a starving man will steal a loaf for which he hungers. Without doubt, your husband is this type of man. Probably he loves v@u as much as ever, but having got you he does not feel called upon to make any exertion to keep you, so he has grown outwardly indifferent. Your best plan is to wake him up by letting him know that he is in danger of losing you. So far as the other man is concerned. put him out of your life at once. Two wrongs never made a right. A married woman who listens to the love-making .of another man dishonors herself and is pretty sure to bring disgrace upon all connected with her. Forbidden fruit is always tempting, but it turns to dust and ashes on our lips. Go straightsfor your own sake and that of your child. Your first duty is to it. And it is not true that you| nnot live without love. There are lots of interesting things in the world besides sentimental love. DOROTHY DIX. e e o o [DEAR MISS DIX: Tam a second wife. My hysband's first wife has been dead five vears; but he continually visits her relatives alone, never taking me with him. My predecessor was a blonde, very pretty and dainty, and dressed well, so my husband says. She also took life easily, went about a lot and left husband to get his own meals and often hers. But he was generous to her, and seems to have been proud of her. 1 am a brunette. not pretty, but a hard worker and a good cook. and always have good meals prepared for my husband. But he is very stingy with me and gives me virtually nothing for closhes or to spend on myself. How am I ever zoing to get my hushand to think as much of me as he did of his first wife and to zet him to live in the present with me instead of the past witk her? ;Why. he even calls me by her name! And how can I make him realize t at I am a better wife than AN . 1 was? ADMIRER. Answer: You know the old ng about * ings brighten as they fade.” Evidently your husband's case is an illustration of this. Now that his first wife is gone he idealizes her and attributes to her eharms and vir- tues which she never possessed. It is often said that the only perfect wives and hu nds are the dead ones. 1t I were you I should say to my husband that inasmuch as lamented wife was evidentiy exactly the sort of a wife that he wanted, 1/ had determined to imitate her in every w 1 would go and get myself a Tot of pretty clothes so that | also could be dainty, and I would lie in bed and let him get his own breakfast as she did, and I would not come home of | an evening as she did. And when he got back from work he would find no | savory dinner waiting for him, but a cold gas range, just as he used to| find in the dear days when No. 1 was alive. dear, Try this for a little while, and I think you will give him a joit that will make him realize that he has been mooning over a silly dream instead of appreciating a good flesh-and-blood wife. On your part, be hig enough not to resent his visiting his wife's rel- s. They were his good friends in the past, and because he has married again is no reason for his breaking off with people who have heen kind to him and for whom he has affection DOROTHY DIX. What is your opinion of a woman who objects to a man’s smoking around the house? Do vou think there is any harm in smoking? It is the only habit that I have, but my wife is continually grum- bling at me about it. I can’t see any harm in smoking and I don’t want to give it up. oM AR DOROTHY DIX Answer: Righto, C. M., and don’t you let your wife browbeat you into | doing it. Surely the man who pays the freight has a few rights in the home that his work supports. A woman who has a husband whose only bad habit is smoking — if smoking is a bad habit—ought to be patting herself on the back for her luck and be: & him to smoke wherever he pleases. It is women who nag | their husbands about cverything they do at home who drive them to elubs | and saloons and corner groceries, where they can have a little personal liberty. ! If worhen only knew it, tobacco is first aid to domestic peace and happi- . and forturate is the Wife whose husband, after dinner, settles down | h his pipe or cigar where she can keep an eve on him. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1924.) BEDTIME STORIES Great Blue Heron standing at the edge of the water and gazing down into the Smiling Pool with a look of I ter Rapnit, | disappointment. He had stolen up Peter Rabbit and Grandfather Frog | 4long the edge of the Smiling Pool | sat on the bank of the Smiling n,nu;'i’m‘l::l‘llfi' that Peter hadn’t noticed all. BY THORNTON W. BURGESS His Funny Question. Say what yon will, to me “tis plain That every one is sometimes vain. alking. Grandfather Frog was at : Peter had been too inter- I e of the awater, while Peter |ested in Grandfather Frog to notice was higher up on the bank. Peter (anything else. But = Grandfather had fiattered Grandfather Frog by |FTOE had used his big, goggly eyes him that he was the biggest|as well as his tongue, and he had | telling and handsomest Frog in all the Great | seen Longlegs in time. | World. Grandfather Frog knew that| longlegs knew better than to he was being flattered. but despite | waste time waiting in the hope that this his vanity was ticled. He felt [Grandfather Frog would return. He very friendly toward Peter. kept on along the shore of the | As they talked Grandfather Frog|Smiling Fool and finally disappeared kept swallowing. Peter could see his throat move every time he swallowed It was as it he had not vet finished his breakfast and was swallowing food he had had in his mouth. But Grandfather Frog didn't talk as if he had his mouth full of food. After he had swallowed times enough to have disposed of several mouthfuls. Peter began to get puzzled. He was wondering if it would be impolite to ack Grandfather Frog what he was swallowing when there came a sud- den interruption. It was a very sudden interruption. Grandfather Frog had fust started to say something when without any warning at all he made a beautiful long, clean dive into the Smiling Pool, and Peter caught just a glimpse of him disappearing in the mud at the bottom. “Well, T never!" exclaimed Peter, staring after Grandfather Frog with such a funny look of puzzled sur- price on his face. i “Some day I'll get him,” said a voice in a tone of disappointment. “Some day I'll get that fellow.” Peter turned to see Longlegs the HE_ MADE A BEAUTIFUL LONG, CLEAN DIVE INTO THE SMILING POOL. among the rushes at the upper end. Peter remained sitting on the bank. | After what seemed to him a long time he saw just the two big &og8IY eves of Grandfather Frog appear above the surface of the water. Peter was sure they winked at him. Sure that Longlegs was no longer “JUST HATS” BY VYVYANT there, Grandfather Frog, swam % ashore. “Where did he go, Peter?’ Down in Front. said he. Peter told him. “Then I'm safe,” declared Grandfather Frog. “What are you staring so hard at*me for, Peter?” Peter hesitated. “I—I have been wondering what you are swallowing,” he confessed. “Are you still swallow- ing your breakfast, Grandfather | Frog?” (Copyright, 1924, by T. W. Burgess.) Hats either turn up at the side, if they are chic, or both down in the front and up at the back, as does the model here pictured. Very often, hats like this are slit at each side, to facilitate the turning of the brim, and very often the brim is far wider at the back than it is in the front. Gouraud's Oriental Cream SEPTEMBER .9, 1924 COLOR CUT-OUT Off to School. Billy Cut-out put on his tan jacket | and orange skull cap, such as all the other boys in his grade were wear- ing, and strapped up his books. Then away he swung down the street. He caught up with his friend Roger in the next block and they trotted on to school together, getting there just before the first bell rang, so they were in plenty of time after all. | “See me after school, Billy,” called | Roger as they went to their seats. | “We've got to get our old foot bali| team together right away, and I want to talk to you about it.” Color Billy's jacket and hat the way they're told about in the story. Now you have Billy all ready for a| day at school. MOTHERS || AND THEIR CHILDREN. | Sharing Pleasure. One Mother say One day I realized that T was doing | 0o much for my children—two piano | lessons a week, dancing class, con- | certs and reading to them every | night. This was good for them, but | they took it all for granted, grum- bling if one of these Dleasures was not | forthcoming. So 1 stopped it for a | while and let the children read to me, invite me for walk: study the con- | cert program before they go and tell | me all about a play they have scen. | For every pleasure they enjoy they give back so thing. old warning to those who steady and that “The rolling stone gathers no moss!” words in this sense well FEATURES. ol Hundred Foints of Good Husbandre= as follows - HOW IT STARTED BY JEAN NEWTON. that no moxse Who often removeth is sure of losse L1920y (Copsrig “The Rolling Stone.” | ¥ew of us are unfamiliar with the | are roving disposition | Turkish Soup. i Cook one-fourth cupful of rice ig) five cupfuls of soup stock. Prepacs in a separate saucepan one and one half cupfuls of tor Add h 2 thick of onion of of a The question may be said to be con- troversial. For in opposition to the sppercorns, ene-fourth teas example of the stone that gathers no |spoonful of celery salt, and cogl moss may be namec the ond that be- |<lowly for one-half hour. (ombin comes so firmly imbedded in a rut|the two mixtures, rub through a u that it is at least equally hopeless [dium fine strainer, and bind with ope of salvation! and one-half teaspoonfuls of floj The earlicst recorded use of the [blended with two tablespoonfuls of is found tome called in the “Fiv nelted butter alt and pepper. Season to witis, known old Every Pound "SALADA" -T H A H428 maKes 300 delicious cups — Try it. BLEND of INDIA, CEYLON and JAVA TEAS Here’s a better way to wash baby clothes FAB, the soap flakes made with cocoanut oil,gives rich, gentle suds quickly. These suds flow freely back and forth through the little clothes washing them thor- oughly. Your baby’s things will be sweet and clean, soft and comfortable. Why not start now to enjoy the advantages of rap? It is so safe and easy to use for your washing. Ask for it today at your grocer’s. “FAB is wonderful!” COLGATE'S As gentle on your hands as the finest of Colgate’s Toilet Soaps 7 is Raisin Bread Day ot ’4,'[" 'V“rmuv, 7, it e byl U ¥ i with the Jruitiness am.iflavor of Sun-Maid Raisins Afinerraisinbread—richwith thedelicateflavorof plumpandjuicy Sun-Maid Raisins. Yetinexpensive. Ibakeit “Special forWednesday.” You can get itfreshand grocery store or delicatessen in the city. Make ita ref)ular custom in your home=—every ‘Wednesday. N baker or grocer. Phone him now. fragrant from my ovens atany bakery, lace a standing order with your Endorsed by bakers everywhere, including the American Bakers’ Association and the Retail Bakers’ Association of America Place a standing Wednesday order with your Baker or Grocer