Evening Star Newspaper, December 17, 1924, Page 38

WOoM AN’S PAGE. Shoes Specially Selected for'Fro‘g:k BY MARY MARSHALL. Visitors just returned from France ssure us that the dominating note of French fashions at present is the en- wemble idea. By ensemble many Ameri- vans are inclined to think only of a rostume consisting of frock and coat ¢ Sacket to match. But to the French AT TOP, BLACK NOGRAM ON NEXT BY THE 5,000 - WITH SILVER STOCKIN 3 tOW MODEL COMES IN SPARROW BROWN > WITH GLACE CE LOW, TH BLACK KiD SIDED. THEN LLOW VELVE WORN WT TO MATCH. IT IS FIVE MP FOR EVE A YELLOW woman this is only a small part of an fdea that has taken possession of their tmaginations when thinking of clothes. “The constunt nt woman of the day,” savs a Freffch fasn- s to prod suffica h and_seductive, harmon »os ot t t is, T MWast Acce toilet are mButely chose the scarf matches the Lat, the gloves Matches that of the tallored r enamel harmonizes 1 frock de. t only 4 a dozen vears ago.” this writer continues, KID WITH | FLAP IN,GOLD OR | COLORED | s A BRIGHT | to| the tone of | choice of shoes was limited to black patent leather or black or tan kid. At the present time the taste for en- sembles makes {c necessary to have for each gown a suitable pair of shoes. One of the results of this new de- mand in shoes is that the shoemaker needs must become as much of an artist as the dressmaker or milliner. There are no hard and fast rules concerning the shoes we should wear at certain occaslons, since the frock chosen for the occasion seems to de- termine the style of the shoe, and there is no fabric or ornament that has apparently not been used by way of making new and interesting foot- wear. Needless to say, the taste for striking and original footwear has gone further in France than here, but the American woman of fashion is beginning to give a great deal of time to the consideration of her shoes Heels are {11 high In France, though many American women have definitely adopted the heel that is of only: medium height. A “comfort- able” - walking heel In fashionable France would be regarded as perll- ously high by many Americans. There is a mew hecl here which 13 high, but fairly stralght, with a very decided slant to the heel where it joins the body of the shoe. In France & heel of unusual height is made with five sides and s called Chinese. (Copyright, 1924.) Yestidday afternoon I was In the barber shop getting my hair cut on account of ma having sed if I went erround mutch longer with my hair needing a halrcut she wouldent give me enything for Crissmas except something usefill, and I was setting there wishing barbers would glve you ether wen they cut your hair ltke doctors do wen they cut your appen- dicitls, and all of a suddin & fire en- e went past a wizzing, me saylng, fire. Sit still, cant you? the barber sed. But thers a fire out there, I sed, and the barber sed, Well, theres none heer, is there? Wich jest then 2 more went past even wizzenger, me saying, Hay, lesve me out a minnit, will you, Ill be rite back. “ 0, all rite, theres no use me trying to cut your hair wen youre jumping erround like a flea with the 7 yeer {itch, enyways, the barber sed. And |he took the sheet off of me and I grabbed my cap and quick ran out and ran after the fire engine, and I ran about 10 blocks, ony by the time I got to the firc there wasent eny, and it was starting to get dark and I went home forgetting all about the barber, und I took my cap off and went up in the setting room and ma and pop and my sister Gladdis was up there waiting for the dinner bell to opir, pop saying, Yee gods \\4(~ blowing in. ‘Well for the land sakes O my good- niss, ma sed, and Gladdis sed, Well Ive scen sites before, but nuthing like that Wats a matter? I sed and pop sed, Thats wat the intire audients would to know, look in the mirror. vich I did, and heer half my halr was on and half was off, making me look lob sided and funuy as enything, me saying, G wizz, holey smokes, I forgot to go back to the barbers. And T had to eat my suppir out in the kitchen on account of nobody wunting to look at me like that while they was eating and wunting to feel serlous, and this morning I had to get up exter erly and go and have “that the | the rest cut oft before skool. THE EVENING Disousses the Many Little Reasons for The Tie That Binds DorothyDix| There Are Not Many Villains or Big Tragedies in Real Life—Most Divorces Based on In- significant Differences of Temperament. (¢]PEOPLE are always talking abeut the prevalence of divores woman recently, “but the wonder Is not that so many marriages go on the rocks, but that every one doesn't. When you think of two young people who have not lived long enough to have been disciplined by life, or to have had life teach them philosophy or self-control; who have different blood, and have been taught different ideals, undertaking to live together in the close contact of & home, it is not surprising that they so often fight like cats and dogs. “The poetic theory that there is some magic in the marriage ceremony that turns a husband and wife into two souls with but a single thought is all buncombe. Every man Jack, and woman Jane, is a distinct Individuality before marriage and remalns that way after marrige. “It you liked steak smothered with onions before marriage and were & fresh-air fiend, you are still a fresh-air flend and like steak smothered with onions after marriage, and the clash comes in when you find that you are united, until death do us part, with one who cannot abide onlons, and who iikes to live in hermetically sealed rooms. “And, curiously e®ough, it is the onions and the fresh air, and our ability to assimilate them, or do without them, that make or mar a marriage. When all is said, there are not many villains, or big tragedies, or broken hearts in real life. There are not many philandering husbands or flirtatious wives. The married man who elopes with a chorus girl. and the married woman who goes off with her soulmate are rare enough to be news and get their names in the papers. « e o o ¢\JOST husbands and wives are pretty decent, and try to do their duty in that station in life to which they have called themselves, but they are what their families have made them. They are heredity, plus environ- ment, and it is when thelr ancestral tralts and tribal customs smash headlong into the ancestral traits and tribal customs of the individual to whom they are married that trouble begins. “Irvin Cobb says that the Civil War wasn't fought over slavery, that it was fought over hot bread versus cold bread, and I belleve it, for I have seen more than one home disrupted by the ple question. “I call to mind one marriage that secmned truly a match made in Heaven. Both bride and bridegroom were splendid, handsome, intelligent, young creatures, who appeared created for each other. But, alas, the girl belonged to an intellectual family who believed in the plain-living and high-thinking theory of existence, and the man came of a race of epicures who belleved that art found one of its highest modes of expression in the kitchen. “The wife considered it a waste of time and money to supply her table with anything but the bare necessities of existence, and she considered it her sacred duty to wean her husband away from the fleshpots. He simply couldn’t and wouldn't eat the food she set before him, and so after a few years of semi-starvation he drifted away from home and wife to places where there was pep In the dinner and the diners. “The thing that does more than anything else to make & home a place of torment instead of a paradise on earth 1s the never-ceasing nagging that goes on in 8o many households. And this nagging is just the result of a man or woman trying to make his wife or her husband conform to the habits he or she was brought up in. “A man who hus had & saving mother who wore plain, cheap clothes and never went out in socfety can never get over the jdea that his wife is ruining him because she doesn't pare the potatoes thin enough, and buys pretty clothes and goes tq parties. The woman who has been brought up narrow-minded and stingy believes her husband is going to perdition every time he tips a waliter. s e . 6N my own case it took me 30 years to find out that it was less work, and saved wear and tear on my temper and nerves, to pick up after my husband than it was to try to make him hang up his clothes, and put a book on the shelf after he had been done with it. We have fought over that & thousand times, and all because his mother was a slap-dashy housekeeper and my mother one of the women who believed that order is Heaven's first law, and that to gcatter & nmewspaper on the floor ought to be a hanging offense. “In my family much talking was discouraged. We kept our own counsel and never discussed our plans with any one. My husband’'s people are loquacious. They talk over everything they are going to do and think they are golng to do, and everybody knows every detall of everybody else's life. To me this still seems horrible. I feel it is as immodest to expose my soul as it would be to expose my body, and because I cannot tell others everything I think and feel, my in-laws regard me as aloof and secretive and have never really felt me one of the family. “And it {s & barrer between my husband and myself that I think he talks too much, and he thinks I am & clam. And there you are! “So I think that when you consider all of these temperamental differences between people who have been brought up with different ideals and habite it s wonderful that they adapt themselves to cach other as well wa they do." DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1924.) “What Shall I Give for Christmas?” BY MRS. HARLAND H. ALLEN Shopping for Children. Did you ever buy a present for a child and then have the disappoint- ment of his not caring for it at all? Perhaps you hadn’t taken any thought of the kind of things that in- want to make things happen, and so like toys that help them work out simple plots. A Noah's ark has been long-time favorite. The toy store £0od; also picture cut-outs, colored orayons, doll's furniture, trains, etc. Next comes an Interest in con- The Daily Cross-Word Puzzle (Copyright, 1924.) T l%fl.ll!/ flfllfi%fill/fllfl Across. To coms forth Subsequently to. . Bummits. Ehallow . Autmun. Turpentine product Veterans' organization . Point. 1lltrndu«‘u a maiden name. 8. A kind of dog (abbr.). Wards oft. . A spear. A sorceress. Married woman's title. Plaything. A famous boat. A number. vessel (abbr.). terest children of that particular age. Maybe your toy would have appealed very much to a child twice as old—or half as old! Perhaps the trouble was at you bought it, unwittingly, to eutertain yourself, and then had to learn that what amuses an adult von't necessarily please & child. Sclentists tell us that a growing child lives through the whole expe- rience of the human race. As a baby he Is a little savage, eats flles and bugs, and in many ways {s not very discriminating in his tastes. Gay colors and fluffy animal toys appeal to him most. Kindergartners call this the “observation age.” A little later, say from 2 to 4 vears, a child is pretty sure to like “manipulation” toys. A little red pail with a shovel, some square blocks or & highly colored picture book will make a hit at this age. From 4 to 6, with most childrem, comes the “dramatic” age They struotion, from 6 to 8 or 9 year: Perhaps the boys and girls at this time are going through the age of the pyramids or Greek architecture. At any rate, they like structural toys, modeling clay, paints, tool chests, and clothes to make for dolls. From this time on the children be- gin to “ape their modern ancestors.” They still want athbetic equipment, but also sclentiflo toys, electrical ap- paratus, amateur wireless outfits and chemical laboratories. At this age the newest thing in {ndustry and art appeals to the maturing child. Fads in toys follow the “crazes” of adult life. So the most popular play- thing for each age group varles somewhat with the times. Roose- velt's popularity made the Teddy bear a great toy for the babies; and small boys cast off their little wag- ons for motor cars when the auto- mobile took the fleld. . A dandy. Fathered . Collection book. Indefinito articie . Defensive armor. Electrical engineer 0. To withdraw, Aquatic Animal Bromine (chem. symbol). . Cne who has visions, . Part of “to be." A sortie. In & raw manner. . To set down. . BEncountered L A kind of pastry. . A barbed missile. A cereal. 50. Inclosure for pigs. Unit of area. . To mix thoroughly. . Grayish white. (abbr.). Dowa. . Posseszlve pronoun. . Thus. . A billet of wood. . We. . A building for amusements. . Provided that. Indian ruler. . One hundred fifty 10. A herned animal. 12. To fondle. 13. A pinch. 16. Prevalent. . Quickly, 19, A trap that captures insects. 260, Childish. 21. Part of a fish hook (plural). 22. To wait. v 5. To change. 24 Disordered. . Preposition. Each (abbr.). . Like. Note of scale. Answer to Yeslerdays Puzzle. [SIWE |A] Emm /o [R|S|EEROIRIDIE IR OIRPAYO[D]LERRICT: |CIE] N [N[8]D] [Plo]T] Marshmallow Banana Sundae. Take one cupful of sugar and one- half a cupful of water, place in a pan and boil to a fine thread. Take about 25 marshmallows, melt them in a double boller, and sdd the sirup. Remove thé peeling from two large ripe bananas and split them length- wise. Lay them on plates with the flat sides up. Con:h'lm chopped nut meats and pour the dressing over them. Top off with maraschino cher- ‘The Union Pacific is Americy’s first transcontinental railroad, and stands first in the choice of travelers to the Pacific coast. It operates fast,conven- UNION RACIFIC SYSTEM " fornia is all-inclusive and provides everyone with just the seryice de- sired. The Union Pacific’s standard bearer is the all-Pullman Sah Francisco | Overland Limited Squire Marsh Swallow has qmt tastin’ evidence an’ is usin’ a guinea pig. Of all th’ visitors that come t’ this country from abroad we be- lieve we like th’ vaudeville acro- bats th’ best. What’s become o’ th’ that used t’ pull out enough| money t’ buy a farm ever’ time | he bought a nickel cigar? | Where do honest people git! th’ idea that ever’buddy else is honest ? (Oopyright, Joha F. Dille Co.) feller STAR WKS’HINGTON D. T, WED ESDAY DECEMBER 17, 1922.° BEAUTY CHATS Nature’s Cosmetios. Many people think that beauty columus deal only with cold creams and such alds; sometimes our old friends, Average Hushand and Pater Familias, write in and rebuke mo for putting notions into the hemds of their “women folk.” They remind me of the scene when the old Vicar of Wakefield tipped the pot of cos- metics over into the fire and con- soled his weeping family with a homily on the virtues of cold water and Winter alr, or something else equally chilly. They're quite right, of courss: so was the vicar. Yet I wonder wickedly whether they're not a little bald on top (when they needn't be) and whether they don't now and then submit to hot towels and ointments recommended by the barber. For as long as cold creams are put up in such fascinating pots, and toilet waters in such ravishing bottles, so that the toilet goods department is the most alluring part of any store, I don't see what any of us are going to do about it. Particularly as the women who use expensive cosmetics » | are usually better looking than those | who go about with wispy bair and | shiny noses. It's true we overdo cosmetics. We rely on creams and astringents to make our complexions smooth when we ought to ecat simply, exercise sufficlently and breathe enough good air to give us the rosy and fine com- plexions of the fiotlon heroines. We forget that hot and cold water has a tonic value not to be surpassed by the cleverest combination of lotions. A daily hot bath, a real scrubbing all over the body, a cold shower to follow, exercise indoors and exercise out of doors, plain food and cight hours sleep with a thin pillow and the windows wide, is the best beauty treatment any one of normal health 1 FEATURE BY EDNA KENT FORBES. could have. But it's not always pos- sible with dirt rising from the street and descending from the clouds, and with gosoline exhaust mingling with ths already stale air of the citles. Bistory of Pour Name. BY PHILIP FRANCIS NOWLAN. GLADSTONE VARIATION—Gledhlil., RACIAL ORIGIN—English. SOURCE—A locality. The “glad” and the “gled” in these names of Gladstone and Gledhill have nothing to do with our word “glad,” which means “joyful” or “happy.” Of the two, Gledhill is a form of the name closer to its original than Glad- tone. The change has not been from “glad” to “gled,” but the reverse. Both names may be traced back to a period immediately following that in which they may reasonably be sup- posed to have originated in the form of surnames descriptive of the places from which their bearers had come or in which they lived. In the Coldin; ham Priory Records of the year 1 there Is mentioned one “Willlam de Gledstanys.” And Gledstanys was the name of a place. The “stan” (“stanys" being the plural form of the period) is simply our modern word “stone,” though it was used to indicate a crag or a rock. And the “glede,” or, as it was sometimes spelled, lide,” was simply the bird which is today known as the kite. These old place names, therefore, were of pretty much the same nature as our modern place names. “Eagle Rock” and “Eagle HIlL" though you might not think it to look at the name Gladstone. (Copyright.) Get Bim a Box Xnter woven Goe and Herel Socks . Original Cold and Grip Tablet ‘ A Safe and Proven Remedy The box bears this signature G. 7 yove Price 30c.