Evening Star Newspaper, February 18, 1925, Page 23

WOMAN'’S PAGE. Wall Hangings Favored by Fashion BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER, THESE THREE ORNAMENTAL USES FOR DIFFERENT KINDS OF HANGINGS OFFER SUGGESTIONS TO THE HOME DECORATOR. Fashion today favors wall hang- ings This is a return to the orig- dnal decorations for homes. The primitive folk used to fasten rugs on the sldes of their tents to take away the desolate bareness of the places. Some of these rugs are now treasured in museums and some have found their way into the homes of collectors of antique articles. When houses were made of adobe or of stones the Tugs made the gray walls brilllant with their many hues. Later on rare tapestries were fashioned from hand- woven fabrics and formed the arras wall decorations behind which we are wont to think of conspirators and sples hiding, when plots against kings were brewing. ~Certain it is that these tapestries, that never hung plumb against the walls, were per- fect places of concealment. Today our wall hangings have no such picturesque tradition, but they are delightfully ornamental. They may be choice old rugs and magnifi- ocent needlepoint, but they may also be simpler fabrics and less ocostly needlework. Interesting Hangings. There are so many suitable wall hangings that every home decorator Wwho $0 chooses may have at least one to grace the walls of her house. She may choose it from among the many picturesque Chinese or Japanese fab- rics, now so much In evidence, from needlework imported from Europe or other continents or it can be made by her own deft fingers. Strips of old Italian brocades may add their esthetic note tor decorations, or block printed linens and cretonnes may be used with pleasing effects. Hand-loom materials and quaint old appliqued covers and other flat pleces of this sort are used today to give atmosphere to roomm Lengths of wall paper may be #o marvelous in color harmonies or so fascinatingly pictorial that they find their way quite legltimately among the Inters esting wall decorations, not papering entire rooms, but used merely as hangings. Plain Backgrounds. When it comes to appropriate ways in which to use these various kinds of hangings, and how to make them show to best advantage or lend them selves most artistically to decorative schemes for rooms, we realize their many possibilitics. One essential is that they have suitable backgrounds. ‘These must be plain. This does mot mean that the walls must be painted or even papered in flat tones, but that the-effect of the paper or paint must be plain. There are many “plain” papers that have numerous colors in them, yet produce a single- toned effect. Favorite Positions. A favorite place for a wall hang- fng s above a mantel or table or sideboard, desk or davenport. The positions above the first two articles named were once accorded to mirrors. Now the balance of favor is toward hangings. If the hanging is of solid color it may ftself form the back- ground for a handsomely framed mirror, or a fine painting. This is & use often seen when Florentine brocades are hangings. It may well be copied when just the right note of color is expressed in the fabric, even though it may be of comparatively inexpensive goods. Brilliant Hangings. Hangings with gorgeous colors are delightful when used to brighten some rather dark wall spaces, either in rooms or in halls. Reproductions of tapestries, pleasingly woven in ex- cellent shades and in complete pi tures, may be had for such purposes. Strips of patterned goods may take their places.’ Do not overlook some ot the choice printed linens when considering these hangings. When the material is stitched together with the desizn perfectly matched a wide hanging may be had. The eize of the wall space decides the size of the hanging required. Fastening. Fabric or paper hangings may be thumb-tacked in position whén they are not heavy. When they are large or welghtv they may he suspended by pioture hooks from the moldings. If the nangings are choice or heavy sew a strip of tape along the top of the fabric at the back and run safety pins in to hold the picture wire. It is not necessary to fill an entire space with a hanging. The background of the wall may show on both wides. It may also be vistble in a margin above the hanging. Frequently the materfal falls back of a table, desk, etc, and the bottom is not visible. “Temple Knot.” A notabld wall hanging is what is known as a “Temple Knot" and is the sort that is used in Japanese temples. The marvelous beauty of the knot tying is brought Into relief by the strip of Oriental fabric in the Spe- cial tone of red that is associated with Oriental colorings. The cord used in the knotting is white and the beads that punctuate the design are of jade. Such a wall hanging is unique. It is full of beauty and charm and gives decided atmosphere to a room. It would fit in a narrow space between doors or windows equally as well as it does the niche made by the chimney. Small Embroideries. Another way to use ® choice but small plece of handsome embroidery is for a hanging in the center of a mantel. When the mantel is white this colorful embroidery is just the thing to emphasize some chosen color or to strike an esthetic note of contrast in the decoration of the room. From the foregoing discussion It is easy to see how to use wall hang- ings, and that they come well within the reach of the average purse. As much discretion must be used In the selection of such wall decorations as would be taken in choosing choice pictures. They must be hung with equally artistio care also. MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN. Cutting Silhouettes. One Mother Says: My®children delight in cutting sil- houettes. Large sheets of paper are tacked up onto a door or wall, and the lamp is adjusted so that a good shadow of the little face may be cast onto it. The voungsters take turns being artist and posing, and some of the results are quite worth marking with the date, to be put away. (Cepyright, 1925.) Interesting Gloves. Some of the new kid gloves have cuffs made of three narrow gathered flounces of ribbon, matching the glove in color, but striped at the edge with red, green or vellow. F and black is a smart color com- bination of the moment, and black gloves have red trimming. Sometimes the trimming is in the form of band- ings on the cuffs, and sometimes there is cutwork in the black showing an under facing of the red. Scotch plaid linings are used on glove cuffs. The light shades so much used in stockings are also well liked in gloves—sand and onion skin, beige, tan, blond and the others. SR S Colombia’s new rallway will cost .Orange Pekoe Tea a beautiful caddy holding a pound of Tetley’s for the usual price of the tea alone. Ask for it. Makes good tea a certainty You can now get THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. Wake Up, Parents of Daughters! Opone Byes of Parents Blind to Modorn Life DorothyDi Don’t Deny Your' 16-¥ear-Old Girl Beaux or Refuse to Let Her Go to Dances—Open Your Home to the Young People. THERE lsn't & day in the week that I don't get a letter from some youn girl who writes: “I am 16 years old, but my parents will not let me have dates with boys, 8o when I go out with & boy I have to lle about it, and pretend that I was detained after.achool, or went somewhere with another glrl, or tell some fib like that. I hate to deceive my father and mother, but what else can I do? Or another girl writes: “I am 16 yesgs old. My parents will not let me recelve my boy friends in my home, o I'have to meet them at the corner drug store or on the street. Boys don't neapect a girl who does that, but what can I do?” Or a girl writes: “My parents will not Jet me go to dances or any places of amusement, so I slip off and go anyway, I know it isn't the right thing %o do, but what else can I do?" “ e e OW, the orthodox advice to give in wuch cases is to say: “Obey your parents, little girl. They have your welfare at heart and they know best. Don't 100k at a boy until they tell you to look at him. Sit at home evenings and suck your thumbs. Be good and you will be happy. All of which s counsel in which no female infant would take any stock. No normal girl pines after abstract virtue mt 16. She wants to have a good time. She wants to play and do what the otber girls are doing, and she isn't golng to take my advice, nor her parents’ advice, nor that of any other old wiseacre who tells her to sit quietly on t}e side liney and enjoy herself watching other people disporting themselves. So I address myself not to the girls who are doing a wrong and foolish tflng, but to their parents who, with the best Intentions in the world, are pushing their beloved daughters over the bmink of the precipice into the abyss that yawns for silly, reckless, unguided Qittle girls. Wake up, fathers and mothers, from the trance in which you have doped vourself {nto belleving that your daughter is different from all of the other gIrls of her generation, and that you can prevent her from doing all the things that the other girls do. Cast aside your cherished bellef that you can keep your girl-child in a hermetically semled jar, in which she will be untouched by all the wayes that sway the yauth about her until such time as you are ready to take her out of bondage and give her freedom. Forget that you ever imagined that you could enforee absolute obedlence on your dauglter, and that she would be but ut clay In wour hands. Realize that it is a the girl problem of today, by force. I am not discussing here whether 16 is ald enough to have dates or not, oF the ethics of dancing and motion pictures. Without doubt, it would be aweet if 16 were the artless child her parents think she is, and if she wanted to Play with dolls, and still believe in fairies, and read “Alice in Wonderl; nd."” But the point is that 16 now is often more sophisticated than 60; that ;:e::;dl le;xelhhaikd' instead of “Alice,” anad is boy crazy, as she will never n in e, and that no h\lmln ower can things that her girl chums are doing. » el lerh i da ngjtha %o v "T'HIS being the case—and I assure you it is the case—what are you going to do about it? Are you going to force your daughter to la ang de ceive you, or are you going to abate some of your prejudices, perhaps even lay aside some of your scruples, and let her be frank and honest with yeus And how ar o o dolng' you going to gulde and protect her if you do not know what cunsltlon “and not a theory that confronts you in that it has to be settled by subtlety and not You do not need to be told of the danger that a &Irl runs who Teet corners and who slips out of the house to keep dates. ThM."::enee“fl?l‘:: puts her out of the class of “nice girls” and makes boys treat her with a lack of respect that they would not show t, S e s e OW to the girl who has the backing of £ l; is l;ta;‘n;:iy, nd terribly, true that the ©_enjoy forbidden pleasures nearly always slips down into f make your daughter pay that frightful price for the plu:ureuhoet :‘:ulgo;::: which she is so h e UngTy, Just because you think she fsn't old enough to have &irl who slips away from home And how are you to know what sort of boys your daughter is assoctat- ing with If you do not let them come to the house to see her Remember ¢his parents: Your girls are going to have beaux, they are golng to have dates they are going to dance. They are goIng to places of amusement. You can' help that. They will g0 openly if they can; secretly if they sre forced to it. One way you can gulde them, protect them, keep them from excesses ang bad influences. The other way you leave them 'to stumble alone blindly dowe the dark path that leads to perdition. What are you going to do about it? DOROTHY DIX. . (Copyright.) noke him a shot in the eye, I would if he was my brother, I sed, and Sid sed, I will If he gets too fresh, now you go home, do you heer, you darn little mutt, I never saw sutch a dum ignorant little shrimp and if vou keep on_following us Il give you £ood stiff kick. Go ahed and try it, Bert sed. Wich Sid dident dast on account of know- ing wat would happen wen he got home. and all of & sudden he had another {deer, saying, O well, let him come, he's sutch a goody goody little boy we wont even know he's along, he's the best little boy I ever herd coasting, and we was wawking along | of, he awt to get a gold meddle for pulling the sled and all of a sudden being so good, he's a reguler little Sattiday afternoon me Hunt started to go out to the park with Sids new sled to get some good afd who was setting on it but S$1ds|mother like I kid brother Bert, SId saying, Hay,| I do so, yougoc::-;.n {'z:.:. 'lod. and wats a matter with you, get the|Sid sed, Dont you bleeve him, thats heck off of thers you darn kid, you | jest his modesty, he allways gets up got to stay home. in the morning the very second he's Like fun I do, Im going with you, | called insted of being bad and stay- ware you golng? Bert sed. ing in bed like me, and he's never None of your darn bizniss you | bin late onoce for kindergarden and he funny looking sap, havent you got|washes his own neck without even sents enuff to know wen your not|bsing told, wunted? Sid sed. he s 0, Bert sed. Wich he hasent, and Sid sed, Then hgyw do you like that, you darn kid? d he gave the rope a fearse jerk and nocked Bert off of the gled in a setting position with a ferase bump, and he got up and started to wawk in back of us, say- its wonderfill how good I am not, T do not, your a darn big story teller and now you can jest go by yourself, Bert- wawked back mad. Proving kindness is often the best way. sed. And he ing, Wat do I care, I can wawk as far as you can. Prague and Rome have just been Darn the darn kid, Why dont you it got heavier and we looked erround | angel, he never tawks back to his ]connoclel by throu(h trains. CREAMY To ALL its other virtues as 2 cooking fat, Snow- drift adds another virtue—convenience. It is always creamy. Snowdrift never gets too hard or too soft, no matter'what the weather. It is always just the tight creamy consistency that you find quickest and easiest to use. : You may have tried shortening that got hard as 2 candle in cold weather or in the ice-box, and then much too soft in warm weather. Snowdrift stays stiff enough in warm tem- perature and soft enough in cold, so that it is always convenient to use. Snowdrift FOR MAKING CAKE, BISCUIT AND PASTRY AND FOR FRYING C, WEDNESDAY, HAVE YOU HAD THE BABY'S PICTURE HORIZON TAI. ) -PEOPLE WHO WANPER ™ TRIBES. 6- AN AUTOMOBILE. 7-TO TELL WHAT YOU KNOW IN COURT. BEAUTY CHATS Your Fingernails. If you keep your finger nails young and pretty it will make your hands look young, and that wil add gr 1y to the effect of youth, which, even more than beauty, {s every woman's ambition. There is nothing more curlous these days of intensive fashion and beauty culture, than to walk behind some elim straightlined figure with the present *“lead pencil” silhouette, with snugly fitting little hat, and then to catch up and see the hands of a middle-aged woman attached to wha. might be a year-old girl. To keep the nails young, you should rub them with cold cream every night at bedtime. Of course, 1 know there are nights when you'lt be too tired to do anything but crawl into bed and sleep; but if you estab- lish the habit occasional exceptions won't matter. Nails respond wonder- fully to what I'd call kind treatment. Every night the hands should be washed with warm water and soap, quite warm water. Then, assuming that any other beauty treatments such as rubbing the scalp with hair WELL, THE PHOTQGRAPHER VERT[CAL 1 - BRAVE AND GAY Z- A TAVERMN 4-A RULE TO GOVERN US. | 3- SOLEMMNLY - A PONKEY. FEBRUARY 18, 1925. TRIEP AN HOUR , AND SENT US TO A MOVING - PICTURE £ STUPIO ! BY EDNA KENT FORBES. tonic, or massaging the face are already over, the nails should be treated. The treatment s the sim- plest and the quickest thing imagin- able; you simply spread a little cream over the nails, run an orangewood stick around the edges to rub in the cream and to push back the cuticle, wipe off what's left of the cream, and that's all. It takes possibly an en- tire minute. It is the difference between finger nails over which the skin keeps growing, with sets of hangnails in all corners, and smoothly edged nails; between rough, badly shaped nails, and slim ones with a clean line where the nails set into the flesh. In a few years it is the dif- ference between young looking nails and old. Tomato Jelly Salad. 1 Prepare a Jjelly o any standard | gelatin and instead of flavoring| with frult juices substitute tomato| juice well seasoned. After the jelly| is hardened it may be cut in cubes and arranged on bits of lettuce with dabs of mayonnaise. |‘I AL LIN LNW RN RAW RAE AN A FEATURES. C. G Sloan & Co., Inc. Auctioneers 715 13th Street Extraordinary Sale of a Wonderful Collection of Persian and Chinese Rugs in all sizes and weaves (including several extra large AT PUBLIC AUCTION pieces) * Within Our Galleries 715 13th Street Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday February 17th, 18th and 19th, 1925 At 2 P. M. Each Day By order of a prominent importer, who desires to liqui- date part of his stock. Now on View Note—The above collection includes some of the highest grade Chinese rugs and also some extra large sizes not to be found im the regular course of trade. . Terms—Cash. C. G. SLOAN & CO., INC., Aucts.