Evening Star Newspaper, March 7, 1925, Page 9

FEATURES Styles of Halls for Homemakers BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. SHOULD BE INVITING EVEN THOUGH FORMAL. tw h with should b o distinct kinds of] this may umerous variations, | but it considered when one | out due s planning These are the|an agent may to the front door formal hall wit s opening off. | just as you are in the midst ¢ “nd the which is | taining guests for tea. or r . Certain types of | formal callers may be present hite call for one or the er|untimely and unwelcome c kind of hall, and in between not even be known to them, for the | here are many houses which may | walls of the room shield views and have either hall, to the|dull voices and there is no interrup- fancy of the ovccupy | tion the plac seem of small importance s not to be so reckoned with- consideration. For instance, come perhaps His may th according who seae e Halls Are Draughty. homemaker rather than but they are well worth ing over and deiinitely decid-| upon before the zrchitect draws 1t is easier to keep a in cold weather when the one of the rooms but hallway. Stairways house warm hall is not | tefinttely a draught | they THE EVENING My Neighbor Says: In washing new curtains, soak them overnight in water to which a handful of salt has been added. The salt draws out the lime in the curtains and makes the washing much ‘easier. When polishing the stove place paper bags on your hands to keep them from getting soiled. In mending china, use white paint, such as artists use ia oil paintings. Use as you would glue, and let stand for three or four days. Dishes thus mended may be washed in hot water with no danger of coming apart. Place your old scraps of soap in a mustard can, perforated at side and top. Allow the can to soak with the clothes for a few minutes, and you will have a thick, frothy lather. To starch stiff shirts, take half a teaspoonful of gum ara- bic dissolved in a cupful of hoillng water and add to starch. Roll the shirts up tight and leave for an hour before iron- ing To remove the top from a einger ale bottle, place the top under the metal handle on a pantry drawer, catch the top on the edge of the handle and press the bottle downward. The top will come off easily. Bistory of Dour Name BY PHILIP FRANCIS NOWLAN. FROBISHER. VARIATION—Forbisher, RACIAL ORIGIN—English. SOURCE—An occupation. With the “tip” that the family nam of Frobisher or Forbisher is based upon an occupation, can you guess its origin? Probably not. And the reason because the word is all but obsolete, nd the exact occupation is obsolete also, though there are a great many more or less akin to it jn the various industries of modern time. 1y, however, you will run urbish.” Probably of people cannot tell you it means, even though heard or more likely read s to polish. The “fu bisher” or “forbisher” of medieval England was a “polisher.” And, ain, you have to gconjure up & pic- ture of life in the Middle Ages to realize what kept him so bu: asion ss th a majority exactly W have it. It me us to give rise to a regular occipa- tion. Today he would probably yoiish automobiles or put the fine gloss on combs. In the Middle Ages he was kept busy polishing armor. He did for the Iron and steel clothing of the knight, squire the little tailor around the corner does for the worsted and serge cloth- ing of the sales manager, bookkeeper rk of today—for rust was just as active in the Middle Ages as dust is now (Copyright ) front doors let in gusts when they are opened. cold air seeps through the crevice about them somewhat even when they are closed. 1In bitter cold weather or when there is a high wind that is merely chilly these draughts can be kept out of rooms by shutting doors leading to the hall the plans. Or, if the house is to be cold air in built from plans already made, and which can be had f paper or book devoted to housebuilding, do not forgot to give the entrance hall or room its due shar: attention. of + Formal Halls. Each type tndividuality, disadvantages. mal hall large t it room tts distinct d its has its advant: Itah is ne and so attra. ewhat akin to The differeryce s the elements that ais: dis- ng features of what we are formal halls—that the hall s a glorified passageway from the front door to the rear of the house,| and from It ara doorways leading into The staircase decidedly decorative element. If this type of | all is in a small home, the charac- teristics are identical, though ,ropertions are not. Before second type of halls, let t are the desirabie and points about the formal hali The possibility of privacy in the home is increased when the house has formal hall. No one may enter into domain of the family ushered in. Perhaps, at first giance, BEDTIME STORIES didn’t know it, but he was ed to show Mrs. Plunger | splendid fisherman he was At last, just below the surface of the Big River, Plunger saw a fish that made his eyes gleam with eager- ness It was a big fish. Never had | he tried to catch a fish as big as this | one. For a moment he hesitated. { | hall Teception Halls. A reception hall, or one in which the front door opens directly into a living room, presents an inviting ap- pearance when one enters a home There is apt to be an open fireplace. Chairs are in cozy groups, and you have the immediate feeling that you are on the very threshold of home life. However, the advantages are quite on the side of the visitor rather than the homemaker. It the lat- ter person who has the inconveniences already intimated in the preceding hints on formal halls. There {s prac- tically no seclusion when sitting in a living room or a reception hall »me one, perhaps a stranger, may ng or be announced in person and there o possibility of disappearing without speaking a word at least though he or she may be cominig to see some one else in the family and not you at all 1se is Sp t may be s urnished t reception a that It h nguish terming rooms. is a is the to ng us jesir- uniess BY THORNTON W. BURGESS Ambitious Flunger. He want- what a foo much ambition may be bad With consequences thut are sad ZPlunger the Osprey fishermen ho live in Laughing g Pool rere several imong the litt he Green Fore Brook and arou Rattles the Rattles is satisfied to catch o ish. Longlegs the Heron is another. He is a patient fisherman. Billy Mink | AN dean v I ‘;"m‘ ool He waited a moment or two longer, for he saw that that big fish was| coming nearer to the surface. At| last he was very close to the surface. Plunger closed his great wings and shot down straight for that fish. His great claws were set to strike and grasp. He struck the water and dis- appeared. But he disappeared only for a moment. Then he came to the surface and began to beat with those great wings of his. Clutched in those great claws of his was that big fish. Plunger beat and beat and beat those zreat wings, but the best he could do was to get just above the water. He couldn’t lift that big fish wholly out of the water. He did his best, but that fish was too big and heav. Plunger screamed with disappoint- ment. He knew that he couldn't take that fish up into the air and | carry him home. He knew that he would have to let him go. With an- other scream of disappointment he tried to let go of that big fish. Im- agine how he felt when he discov- ered that he couldn’t let go! His claws had been driven so deeply into that fish that he couldn’t pull them zood people w wonder if I can carry him way the nest,” thought Plunger. is < H{sny CLUTCHED CLAWS IN THOSE GREAT WAS THAT BIG FISH. Is a third. And, of course, there is Little Joe Otter. A wonderful fisher- man is Little Joe Otter. The wisdom of this arrangement for the breakfast corner is at once mani- The low bench may be pushed under the table when not in use, and the table is accessible for the pe: formance of kitchen tasks, whereas the ordinary breakfast noock table | has only one end that can be used. In the kitchen where this sketch was made the walls and woodwork were enameled in buff, the floor had a black and white linoleum covering, the kitchen equipment was pure white, and the breakfast table, bench and seat were painted dull sage green with decorations of flower motifs in rose and blue. Curtains of fine, rose-colored cham- bray at the windows were banded ith dull green. an open mind Can understand the world’s mistahes And, understanding them, be kind. L b5 i out. He had been far, far too ambi- tious, had Plunger the Osprey. sright, 1925, by T. W. Burgess.) But even Little Joe Otter not more wonderful as a fisherman than | is Plunger the Osprey. It is.not for nothing that he is cailed a Fish | Hawk. He does not patiently wait | like Longlegs the Heron. He goes | looking for fish. If he does not find | them in one place he goes to another. | Sometimes he flies for miles in search | of good fishing. Now that he and Mrs. Plunger had | completed their new nest near the | edge of the Green Forest and not far | from Farmer Brown's, they went fish- | ing. “We should celebrate, my dear.” | said Plunger to Mrs. Plunger. “We | should celebrate. 1am going to catch | the biggest fish I can find.” | So flying high above the Big River Plunger kept those wonderful eyes of bis fixed on the water below. From | Wat height he could look down right mto the water and see for some dis- | tonce below the surface. No fish | @ imming near the surface could es- | pe those wonderful eyes. He flew ar, far down the Big River. Several times he checked himself in his flight | and hesitated as if about to plunge downward. Each time he saw a fish. | Bach time he decided that the fish was t00 far below the surface or was not big enough for a proper celebra- | tion. He wanted the biggest fish he could catch. You see, he was am- bitious. Now ambition is a splendid thing. | ‘Without it no one would get very far in the Great World. But there is such a thing as being too ambitious. Plunger was {9 ambitious now. He UEEN ANNES WAR LA HIGH LIGHTS OF HISTORY STED FOR TWELVE YEARS IN EUROPE ANDAMERICA AND AT THE END OF THAT TIME ENGLANDAND FRANCE WERE ONLY TOO GLAD 1O MAKE PEACE .~ THE TREATY OF UTRECHT WAS SIGNED IN ITI3 BY WHICH THE FRENCH LOST MUCH TERRITORY IN AMERICA ALTHOLGH THEY ISTILL HELD NEW FRANCE AND LOUISIANA « COPYRIGHT. i 915, BY THE MCCLURE NEWSPATER SYNDIKATE - is | what | it was that needed so much polishing and man-at-arms what | | 1IN 1670, GROSEILLIER AND RADISSON,WITH THE AID OF SOME ENGLISH NOBLES,HAD FORMED THE HUDSON BAY COMPANY, AND THESE FUR TRADERS [EXPLORED MUCH OF NORTHERN CANADA . | be drawn into keeping company !is only the poorest sort of STAR, WASHINGTON, DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX How to Cure a Lazy Brother of Sponging on Sis- ters—Can There Be Friendship and Nothing More Between Man and Girl? CAR MISS DIX: I am a young married woman and have @ brother 21. He is big, and healthy, and handsome, and husky, but he will pot do a lick of work. He has been married and divorced, and 1y sister and I had to take care of both him and his wife when they were living together. My mother is & widow, and she lives with me part of the time and the balance of the time with my sister, and wherever mother goes brother has to g0, too. She takes every bit of the monecy that we give her and buys him fine clothes with i Do you think- it is right for us to have to take care of such a boy If not, what would you advise? We have told our brother what we think of his conduct and have forbidden him to come to our houses, but he comes gight along. JUST A GIRL. Answer: 1 think you are very foolish to let your lazy, loafing brother sponge on you, and that you are putting a grave imposition on your husbands by forcing them to support him. Also you are doing your brother a wrong by encouraging him in being a parasite, and the sooner he is thrown out and forced either to work or starve the better chance there is of making a man of him. Depend upon it, he won't starve. 1ie may make a bid for your sympathy by coming around looking seedy and shabby, and telling you that he is hungry, and has no place to sleep of a cold night. It will take courage to refuse him; but if you have the nerve to do it, it will be the turning point in his career. He will sec that he really has to earn his living, instead of grafting it, and he will go to work. In a great many families there are the: feed upon the others. They have no shame, and they will take the lasi dollar of & poor old mother or let a frail girl work to support them. Thel only possible salvation is being kicked out of the door and having it barred against them, and the pity of it is that so few persons have the hardihood to apply this drastic remcd black sheep, who perpetually In your particular case you will probably have to summon the police to put out your brother, as he seems willing to swallow any insult in order to get a free dinner. But you will never have to do this but once, and to be rid of him is worth what it will cost. If your mother gives him all the money vou give her, refrain from presenting her with cash that she can turn over to him. Buf her whatever she needs herself. Why the prodigal son should always be mother's favorite, and why should be willing to sacrifice her good children to him, nobody know it is invariably the case DOROTHY DIX sh but AR MISS DIX: I went with a girl for about seven months. I cared for her very much and told her but also told her that 1 could not consider anything serious at this time, as I am the head of a family, support- ing my mother and sisters. and that my mother comes before any girl with me. The girl admitted that she liked me very much, but we somehow seem to have drifted apart and I seldom see her, although I would like to be friends with her, even if we cannot be anything more. What do you think of the situation? PUZZLED. Answer: I should think that the girl realized that she was falling very much in love with you and felt that, under the circumstances, it was best for you both to nip the romance in the bud dn this she was wise, as there is nothing which is so wearing on both a4 man and 4« woman as a long-drawn-out engagement It is an unnatural situation that gets upon the nerves of both. They are neither bond nor free. They have neither the rights and privileges of husgand and w nor et the liberty of the single man and woman. It is fillqd\with suspicions, and jealousies, and anxieties. ame the wedding day should adopt the shingtonian maxim in his dealings with women: “Friendship and good times with all, entangling alliances with none.” And the girl who refuses to with man who has his own family on his shoulders is wiser still, for & girl's time for making a good marriage is while her youth and beauty shine. That period is short and she takes a terrible risk if she spends it on a man who very likely will have grown tired of her before he ever gets ready Lo marry So any young man who cannot Of course, the idea of a platonic friendship between vou and the girl is intriguing, but you are too young to indulge in that pastime. A platonic friendship between a man and woman is only possible when they are hovering around the frosty sixties. When they are as young as you are, it amouflage for love. And evidently the girl is clever enough to realize this. It is only men, anyway, who believe in the possibility of a platonic friendship. No woman is credulous enough to put her faith in it DOROTHY DIX. AR MISS DIX D most Lonorable intentions in the world can become acquainted with a nice girl without u formal introduction? I know of a girl whom I am very anxious to meet, but I do not know any one who knows her. For this reason we may never meet, and what might be a beautiful friendship will never exist. What can I do? JOB. Isn't there any way in which a decent man with the Answer: Well, Job, if I knew that sort of a girl and had tried every other resource in vain, I shouid sit down and write her a frank little note and put the situation fairly before her. And I would give persona references to let her know who I was that would assure her that I was no masher bent on flirtation 1f the girl had a grain of sense and a particle of understanding she would see the situation in its true light and waive the customary intervention of 2 third party as an introducer. Furthermore, if she has any romance in her composition, it would make a tremendous appeal to her, for it would certainly tickle any girl's vanity to know that she had inspired such admiration at sight. Cross-Word Fun for Children OW! Keep your teeth clean so you car U WILLIE, IT'S AFTE FOUR = WHY DONT YOU GO AW, | PONT WANTA ! — POP'S GOT THE TOOTACHE AN' HE'LL BLAME ME FOR IT, —HE BLAMES ME FOR EveryTring | > = HORIZONTAL | “A PENTAL SURGEON. 6-TO EXIST. 7 -AVVERB Telling Hows 8 -JUICE °F A TREE. VERTICAL 1 - NUMBERS ON CALENPAR. 2 -UNIT °F MEASURE (from Type) S -EXCRETIONS from the EYE 4 -SUNDAY SCHOOL. (AB) IPTT TL[GIR]I [M| 5 -.5[}1’%" %ONE( i )nnc. NAW. g . |8-STREET. (AB: 10-GOING 1N, 9 -MALE PARENT il -TO PEPART. 11-TO SET OUT. [13-BOSTON UNNERSITY (#8))1z - USEP WITH EITHEK. 153-INSTRUMENT FOR [13-TO EXIST. [__PULLING TEETH. 14 -OVERHEAD. 7. ////////////////' % 1////,%,//@ T\ C., SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1925 What Tomorrow Means to You BY MARY BLAKE. Pisces. Tomorrow's planetary aspects, al- though slightly adverse in the early morning, are quite benign during the rest of the day. They do not, ap- parentl favor any line of endeavor involving great activity, but they do | portend a general atmosphere of restfulness and contentment of mind. These are all favorable factors on the Sabbath and presage good results for all religious observances and recre- ational pastimes. The vibrations, a though not stimulative, are steady, and clearly indicate a state of mind provocative of pleasure and satisfa tion, They denote a tendency to har- mony and co-operation in the family | | | and in the home. A child born tomorrow will, un- fortunately, experience a great deal of sickness during the infantile years. It will require, above all things, very careful nutrition and wholesome en- vironment. Once this early stage is successfully passed, there will be nothing to arrest its orderly physical development. Its disposition will be very bright and sunny, and, as it grows older, it will hav. very | large lettering on the outside charming and attractive personality. Its character will be unselfish and it will be generous to a fault. An in- elligent cffort must be made in its | youth to inculcate in its mind the +)enefit of thrift, without teaching it to become excessively frugal. It will be quite devoted to all the members of its family, and loyal to those of Its friends who are worthy and worth- while, If tomorrow is your birthday, you possess remarkable powers of intui- tion, and your judgment is very rarely in error. You are very cau- tious and conservative, but are more influenced in your actions by your keen intuitive perception than by or- dinary mental processes. You show your likes and dislikes very plainly and, although no one can accuse you of either rudeness or dlscourtesy, | your inclinations are made palpably evident. You are very loyal, not only to your friends, but to your ideals and will never sacrifice a conviction for the sake of either convenience or advantage. You are at your best in your home nd are not only ideally contented yourself, but make all those around you happy, although vou have | strong bellefs, you are never bigoted | or dogmatic, and allow to others the | same freedom of belief that you claim | for yourself. Well known persons born on this date are Oliver Wendell Holmes. United States Supreme Court; Warren Upham, geologist; Albert E. Sterner, artist; Homer C. Davenport, cartoon- ist, and W. Bramwell Booth, tion Army general. (Copyright, 1925.) MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDRE Borrowed Books. | One mother says: As soon as my children bring home a book borrowed from some chum, I put a clean paper cover on it, mark- ing the owner’s name and the date in (Copyright, 1925.) HOW IT STARTED BY JEAN NEWTON. “Sinister.” Our understanding of the word “sinister” s something wrong, dis- honest, corrupt, something in which lurks harm or evil, as a sinister omen or a sinister face. The literal meaning of the word, however, is simply “left,” its originai significance merely something that appeared or was done on the left We have it from the Latin “siniste which is the opposite to “dexter” or “right.” And just as the word dexter- ous, meaning skillful, was originaily applied simply to something done with the right hand, so “sinister” de- rives its unpleasant significance from the circumstance that from ancient times the left side has been regarded as unlucky So in modern words we constantly find concealed ancient beliefs and su- perstitions and bits of history—e folded in a syllable or a name (Copyright, 1925.) Decorative Spectacles. Spectacle cases have been turned into decorative accessories by some of the clever dressmakers. One de- signed has given us a frock trimmed only with leather pockets and a matching leather spectacle case on a silken cord worn over one shoulder, the case hanging below the other arm. And here we have a clever Parislan milliner whos is making hats espe- clally to suit the woman who wears glasses. Since hats have fitted so closely over the brow there has really not been room enough for the rime of the enormous tortoise shell rimmed glasses that many up-to-date women choose. This miller makes hats with brims flaring a little to make room for these rims. By means of a little ostrich or other trimming, the hard contour so apt to result from the wearing of glasses is much relieved. Another trick for the woman who wears glasses is the fad for wearing rims to your glasses to match your SHow TERRITORY CEPED TO ENGLAND BY TTHE TREATY OF UTRECHT ~ 1713, ENGLAND ALSO GAINED NEWFOUNDLAKD AND ACADIA .« ACADIA WAS MADE A ROYAL PROVINCE | [ooans "WOMAN’S PAGE, Hat Needed to Go With Each Frock BY MARY MARSHALL. Redfern, like many other French dressmakers this season, makes quite a showing of hats, each one made to match a certain frock. For instance, at Redfern's there is a black satin frock with lace-trimmed organdie collar and cuffs, and with this frock there is a bl w hat lined with frills of lac It seems especially important in the eves of the well dressed American HMERE SPORT FROCK, WITH HAT IN MATCHING BLUE STRAW, TRIMMED WITH APPLIQUES OF THE SHMERE AND WHITE PEARL BUTTONS, LIKE THE FROCK. woman to have the sport with it a hat to match. You may still wear any hat with your after- noon frock, so long as it harmonizes and looks right, but the little sport frock that you use for actual sport wear, the country club luncheon, even informal afternoon gatherings, really must be worn with a hat made or chosen specially for that frock and none other. With the green frock—and pea- green is considered smart for sport wear—you may wear a perfectly matched pea-green felt hat, or you frock carry | sweater, | it may wear a straw hat of the exact shade of the sport frock—a pastel blue straw to go with pastel blue ashmere sport frock. The frock may s trimmed with white pearl buttons in which case tre hat should have tabs of the cashmere, each one « which should be decorated with white button. Thus the ha frock are perfectly wedded, anc always appear in each other's pany Chanel, Molyneux, Patou and L: vin are mentioned among the makers who are making with their frocks, and the among them Agnes, are returning compliment by showing frocks to go with their hats. & me i little coat match the hat is considered red hats this Spring that give a bright touch here and there to smart gather- ings. But the red hat is not worn with a red frock. On the contrar the ensemble effect is achieved in the case of %o vivid a hue by a touch of red in the belt, handbag or a bit trimming on the fro. At all event the day seems to past when the well dressed woman could go throug an entire season with two or three om (Copyright.) Glasses Magee sits le from me in skool rite across tie making it sasy to wisper to each other without get ting cawt, ony 1 get cawt more than he does on account of him being a lower wisperer, and vestidday after noon I took a sourball out of my pockit and started to show it to him to make his mouth water from jel lissy, and he wispered, 1 dare you to roll it up the ile Wich I pertended to do without axually leeving go of it on account of it being a good sourball for one rea son and on account of mot wunting to be kepp after skool for anothe reason, and Glasses Magee wispered I dubble dare you Silents, Miss Kitty sed Meening stop that wisper down there, and I started to pertend to rol the sourball agen and I left go of i by axsident and it rolled rite up and bumped agenst Miss Kittys desk wit a little bump, Miss Kitty saying, Who rolled that sourball up the ile Nobody saying enything, espeshilly and Miss Kitty sed, Benny Potts seemed to come from your genrel direction, do you know who rolled it Mam? Yes mam, I sed. Who? Miss Kitty sed. 1 dont wunt to say, I dont wunt get the fellow in trubble, I sed. Well now thats very commendable and I wunt to tell the class that sentiment like that de praisewerthy caracter, but still at the same time justtice must come before everything elts and I insist on know ing who the Woy is that you dont wunt to get into trubble, Miss Kitt sed Me, T sed. You wi notes a very stay a half an hour afte skool for rolling the sourball and another half an hour for being redick uliss, Miss Kitty s Wich I did Use of a.new hydroelectrio plan expected to savé Vienna 70,000 ton coal each year. The Daily Cross-Word Puzzle (Copyright.) 1. Move rhythmically. 5. Liquors made from grapes. 9. Armed conflict. 10. Unclose (poetic). 12. A notable period 13. Grow old. 14, Evil, 15. Wiggly fish. 16. French coin. 19. Beseech. 21. Confuslon. 23. The solar disc. 24. Unoccupled. 25. Exist. 26. Poisonous snak 28. Allow, 30. Youth. 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