Evening Star Newspaper, March 27, 1925, Page 43

WOMAN’S PAGE." Prolonged Adieus in Making Calls BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. There 1s as much art in leaving a ®Poom gracefully when making one's Meparturs after 3 call as there is in entering a room. Since last impyes- ®ions should be as felicitous as first ones, the woman who wishes to be considered ' polished should cultivate the habit of making graceful exits. One of the most common faults is prolonging adieus. The overhasty good-bye is seldom made, but it is embarrassing. There exists a happy nedium between these two extremes that is-the cerrect form. To rise while the hostess is talking and begin to edge toward the door is awk rd. To continue a long talk while the hostess R D stands makes matters worse. The habit of talking after starting to leave is easily formed. So many things may come to mind, and now that you ere with your friend, it seems too bad to deave without mentioning them. One subject leads to another, and before You are aware of it the time spent talking, while standing and pretend- ing to say farewell, equals that spent in sitting comfortably and conversing Jelsurely. So bewars of forming such = habit. Or if it is already formed begin immediately to break yourself of it. The caller who makes pro- tracted adleus is apt to be classed with bores. Better leave some things unsald than get such a reputation. Leave in Merry Mood. One soclety gentleman whose calls were eagerly looked forward to be- cause he was a wit and a remarkable raconteur made it a point always to leave when interest was at its height. The result was that he usually de- parted when his friends were in a nerry mood, and they did so wish he would stay longer. He made his exits not abruptly, but timely, and Bid not linger longer over them than was consistent with the good form ¢ bidding good-bye to the host and ostess and those present. He was an artisi. in leave-taking. Opening a Door. If 1t is necessary for a person to ppen a closed door when leaving a yoom in .which there are others, . Mwhether she Is calling or not, she Sattiday afternoon pop was smok- ng and reeding with his feet up, and sed, Hay pop. * 1 dont blesve 50, pop sed. Can I have a dime to go to the #movies, Puds Simkins and Leroy FPhooster are both going and their ‘mnxious for me to go with them, can J, pop? I sed. Im quite sure not, pop sed. Your Ahinking intirely too much of the smovies, the ferst thing you know Youwll be a movie acter and make £2000 a week and diskrace the hole ‘Family, he sed. Aw no I went, pop, can I, pop? I wed. % The incident 1s closed, pop sed. Meening no, and he kepp on reed- 4ng and smoking and I thawt a wile ®nd then I sed: Well. maybe 111 bring some of the fellows in and practice football signals, we wont make much No, you'll ony nock a few ceelings down, thats all, perish the thawt, pop eed Well then mavbe 11l make a book- ©ase, I got all the bords and nales and things and I can start it rite heer in the setting room ware theres plenty ©f space, I sed. Wait for some weekday to do that, T beseetch you, do you realize this is my afterncon home, for the love of Peet yee gods, pop sed. And he moved his eyebrows up and Yown and kepp on reeding and smok- ing and I sed, O well, then I gess 111 practice on my mouth organ, I havent practiced on it for a long wile. Are you fizzically incapable of think- ng of enything plezzant, heers a dime for the movies, hurry up and get out, pop sed. Wich I did should never turn her back on. the company. JInstead she should step backward easily and either so man- age it that she gets to one side of the door so that she can turn the knob while still facing the group or else sho must find the knob with her right hand while her back is to the ddor, open the door and back out. It is the essence of bad form when leaving to turn one's back on persons in & room. Leaving the Houwe. When she wishes to leave, a caller should be on the alert for a break in the conversation and rise then to bid the hostess good-bye, who will ring for the maid to open the front door for the departing guest if a butler is not in attendance. Where there la-no maid, as in most homes, the hostess should accompany the guest to the door. Tt is not considered good form for a caller to let herself out, any more than to let herself in the home. To continue to talk after the front door is open is a bad break in eti- quette. The day may be cold or stormy, and the hostess does not have on wraps, as does the caller, so may take cold, or a blast of cold or damp air enters the house. If the day Is balmy, this, of course, does’ not hap- pen, but, nevertheless, the hostess may be kept from the living room too long or be kept standing, which should not occur. Abruptness Disconcerting. An abrupt departure leaves the hostess wondering whether. anything has been sald that has annoyed or disturbed the caller, and so any pleas- ure given by the call is marred. If the caller has had something come to mind that calls her away and the possibility of her being late makes her feel hurried, she should not per- mit such reflections to be disturbing to any one else, least of all the hostess. It is not considered in very good form to make such remarks as “I must be hurrying along,” “I'm afraid T have talked too much,” “I fear that I have bored you with these detalls,” ete. Go when you feel you should, be careful not to monopolize conversation, and avold giving minute accounts un- less to a very interested listener. All these things any person can pay heed to. At the close of a call be sure to make a graceful exit, and thus leave a pleasant fmpression. COLOR CUT-OUT MARY AND HER LAMB. Teacher Takes a Hand. “You can't let your lamb stay in school,” declared the teacher. “I'm sorry,” answered Mary, more bashful than ever. “He followed me."” “Well, he'll have to go home. He upsets things too much.” So the teacher put the little lamb out. The poor animal called “Baaa” to Mary, as_if asking her to come along. Mary had a terrible afternoon. She failed in all her lessons because she was so worried for fear her little lamb wouldn't get home safely. (Copyright, 1925.) WHEN WE GO SHOPPING BY MRS. HARLAND H. ALLE! Classy Cashmberes. Cashmere 1is unquestionably the dominating note in dress goods this season. It is so called because first manufactured in the valley of Cash- mere, in Northwest India, where it was originally made by hand from the soft inner hair of the Cashmere goat. Cashmere shawls are among the finest of hand-woven fabrics of all time, and were made and worn in Bible times, some authorities say as early as 4,000 years ago, but did not become fashionable in Furope until the end of the eighteenth century. The cashmere we see in the stores today is manufactured in both Europe and America, from soft native wools, the best grades, it is said, coming from France and Austria. It is a light-weight fabric, finely, twilled on one side and very soft and pliable, similar to the cloth known as hen- riegta, but not quite so closely wov- en and of a softer finish. Besides tho -woul casemere, there are mixtures if silk and wool and cotton and wool. The texture may vary from a twill nearly as coarse as that of serge to one so fine that it is almost indistinguishable, and while, generally speaking, the quality of the material can be judged by the fineness of the twill, this is not always the case, as a looser twill may be made of fine wool. Very little of the silk-and-wool mixture is manufactured nowadays; it can usually be had only in black and is used almost exclusively for dresses for elderly women. The all-wool and wool-and-cotton fabrics come in a variety of light shades, suitable for children’s dresses, babies’ coats and for negliges and house gowns. Good cashmere is par- ticularly desirable for young chil- dren’s and infants’ apparel, as it wears and washes well. The mixtures of wool and cotton are 8o cleverly made that it is almost impossible for any but the expert to tell them from the all wool. They are practical, too, but do not have the softness, nor hold their color, as do the all-wool materials. A simple test by which one can usually tell if there is any appre- clable amount of cotton in the ma- terial is to draw out several threads from both the warp and woof, and test them by pulling steadily till they break. The wool will give consid- erably and when it breaks will have frayed, woolly looking ends, while the cotton will snap off with clean ends. There may also be noticed, sometimes, In the cheaper grades of wool-and-cotton _mixtures, a very WILKINS BREAKFAST No Feast of Louis XIV Boasted a Coffee Equal to This For your Woodwork--- buy Farboil Enamel Paint. slight difference in shade in the wool and cotton threads by looking at the wrong side of the goods, the cotton threads being slightly duller than the wool threads. HOW IT STARTED BY JEAN NEWTON, The Dress Circle. In large auditoriums and opera houses the balcony immediately over the boxes is called the dress circle. And to the modern opera goers it may seem strange, with the boxes which quite obviously call for full evening dress, and the orchestra, in which this is usually worn, that a balcony secondary to both in price and the desirability of the seats should be called the “dress circle.” The fact is, however, that the term is a European one, coming to us di- rectly from England, where what we call the orchestra constituted, with the exception of the front rows or “stalls,” the cheaper part of the thea- ter. And it was before the introduc- tion of stalls that the dress circle was created to be set apart for the su- perior class of the audience. (Copyright, 1925.) —_— Englishwomen In politicse are spread- ing propaganda for family endowment legislation by means of which wages of workers, both men and women, will be determined partly by the number of those dependent upon them. Sags Too Much Mother Is Worse Than None The Danger of Qver- Mothering HDorOthyDix Don’t Overdo the Mother Business—Parent’s Duty to Prepare Children for Battle of Life, Not to Stifle Initiative. MONG my friends is a Woman who has “given her life to her children,” as she phrases it. There {s nothing the matter with the children, who are a fine, sturdy, husky lot, that calls for any particular sacrifice, but the mother has considered it her duty to be a special providence to them and watch over and direct their every movement. And that takes time, and work, and WOrry. From the time they were born mother has breathed, and eaten, and slept, and played for these youngsters, as far as it was possible for one human being to substitute for another. She has never let them do one ghing of their own volition, or exercise a particle of individual Initiative, or judgment, or taste. She has picked out their friends for them, their schools, their amusements and thelr beaux. She has decided on their careers and whom they should marry, and she looks with pride upon the sutomatons she has produced, who cannot move unless mother pulls the strings. Now, this woman conslders herself a wonderful mother, and it would shock her to death if she could be made to see that children can be over- mothered, and that it is worse for them to have too much mother than not to have any mother at all. For mother cannot always keep her brood under her wing. Pretty soon life forces them out on their own, where they must use their own brains and fight their own battles, and how can they do this if mother has always done thelr thinking for.them and stood between them and all danger? . .« e ‘OU cannot teach a child to walk unless you let it stand on its own feet. You cannot teach it to be free.and independent if you always lead it around by the hand. You cannot develop muscle in it by keeping it sitting on a silk cushion. You cannot give it courage and endurance if you keep it from ever getting any bumps. The successful men and women are not those who have been molly- coddled through their infancy and youth by over-tender, over-anxious mothers, who kept them tied to their apron strings and forced a sort of perpetual babyhood upon them. It is a significant fact that more foundlings than mother's pets are sitting in the high places in the world. Of course, the mother’s plea. I8 that they want to protect their children from hardships as long as they can and save them from making mistakes. But they fall to realize that the time is bound to come when mothers can no longer be a bumper between their precious darlings and fate, and then if their children have not learned how to protect themselves, they are bound to be beaten by life. You can atrophy a child’s brain by not letting it think for itself just as you could the muscles of its arms if you never permitted It to use them. And you can develop self-reliance and quickness of perception by throwing the child on its own resources. You can see a vivid illustration of this in the difference there is between the nimble-witted little newsboys, who dodge safely in and out between the traffic of the street ard the panic-stricken little rich boys who cling frantically to their parents’ hands. s e JT !s the dauty of parents to prepare their children for life, not to try to protect them from life, and this can only be done by teaching them to stand on their own feet. They must learn to depend on themselves alone. They must be taught to strike out and do things on their own. They must learn how to make decislons and to trust their own judgment. Why, half the fallures in the world are the result of cowardice in men and women, who are afraid to tackle a big job or use the talent God has glven them. And most of these wero made that way by parents who killed all their initiative when they were children by never letting them exercise any individual freedom of thought or action. Mother and father were so afraid that their young ones would get hurt, or that they would waste money, or that they would make mistakes, that they kept them from doing anything at all, except what they were told to do by some one older and wiser than themselves, so they learned to distrust their own judgment, and when the time came when they had to depend on themselves they leaned upon a broken reed. Far, far better for them if they had made a thousand mistakes and learned from them, than to have been kept in cotton wool and never to have done or learned anything at all! It is a great thing to be a good mother, but don't overdo the mother business. Have at least as much intelligence as a sparrow that pushes her young out of the nest and forces them to use their own wings. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1925.) Bistory of Pour Name. BY PHILIP FRANCIS NOWLAN. MacVEY. VARIATIONS—MacVeagh, MacBeath, MacBeth, Beath, Beaton, Beton, Be- thune, MacBain. RACIAL ORIGIN—Scottish, SOURCE—A given name, You might not imagine that the family name is “MacBheath, when you remember that often the Gaello “b” has the sound of owing to the peculiar Inflectien of consonants by vowels in the speech of both of Ireland and the Highlands, and that a “th” c; be just as silent n Gaelic as a “gh” can in English, it is easy to see how MacVey becomes a logical and natural Anglicized form of the name. But often, in the trans- lation of a name from ons language to another, the attempt is made to render the spelling more accurate than the pronunciation, which ac- MacBeth made famous by Mr. Shake- speare had the same name as the more frequent and modern one of Mac- Vey. If the gentleman about whom the play was written were alive to- day he'd probably be known as Mr. MacVey, or simply McVey, for with or without the these “Mac” names are the same. Nelther does the form Beaton look much like MacVey and still less Bethune. All of them are met with, however, as variations of the Highland Scottish sept name of MacVey. The more usual Gaelio form of this counts for the other variations listed. The MacVeys wers a Sept of the MacDonald clan, and the tradition is that they derive their name from an Irish chieftain named *“Beath, crossed over to Scotl of the bride of ome “Angus Og, friend of King Robert Bruce, (Copyright, 1925.) — Miss Ellen Wilkinson, one of the four woman members of the British Parliament, s what is known as an official trade union candidate, her election expenses being paid out of trade union funds. biscuit or pic crust or for frying. Make your cake with Snowdrift—grease the pans with Snowdrift—and make the icing with Snowdrift. 3 Snowdrift is made by the Wesson Oil people out of oil as good as finc salad oil—hardened and whipped into a creamy white fat—and packed in an airtight can to keep it as sweet and fresh as the day it was made. There couldn’t be anything nicer or more wholesome for making cake, SPRINGTIME BY D. C. PEATTIE. Spice Bush and Sassafras. There are two aromatic which ramblers through the thickets of the District or the Maryland and Virginia hills and lowlands will re- Jolce to seé in bloom this month. Their flowers are by no means showy; sassafras has small and unpretentious greenish-yellow blossoms'and those of spice bush are soft golden yellow, closely seated on the twigs, and of a modest charm. Both of these shrubs flower before the leaves appear, and in the naked thickets of early Spring their delicate beauty gives delight. But it is their odors that at all times give the most pleasure and surest means of identification, though especially in Spring. Spice bush smells of anise and cloves, and sassa- fras—who shall find a description for that most elusive of all sensa- tions, an odor? Yet one may venture that sassafras smells like oranges and mucilage. The aroma dwells not 80 much in the flowers as in the in- ner bark; peeled twigs of sassafras | or spice bush are deliciously fragrant, and for making a sweet-smelling campfire they are delightful. Children love spice bush and sas- safras, and coming through the woods on their way home from school will break off a sassafras twig to nibble. And to old people these plants are redolent of memories of sassafras gathered, as now, to make a cup of savory rosy-colored tea In Springs long gone by. Nutritious Nuggets. During illness when the patient is confined to bed the body uses up about the same amount of energy as during sleep. In other words, the expenditure of bodily energy is usu- ally the same during fllness as for corresponding conditions of muscu- lar activity when the person is In normal health. Our grandmothers builded better than they knew when they depended on cereal gruels for fllness. These are useful when digestion is poor; when food Is needed that can be very easily assimilated. The general rule for gruel is one ounce for the cereal flour to a quart of milk or water. Bananas should not be served raw unless they are very ripe. This means that the skins must be quite dark, but not black. Unripe bananas may be served baked. To cook bananas in the skin bake them quickly until the juice begins to run.. This is a sign that the cook- Ing is finished, since if all the julce is allowed to come out the fruit should be tough and flavorle Instead of talking about “Ameri- can cookery” to our mewly arriving citizens, let us make up our minds to learn the good dishes from h country. If we picture ourselves as living ‘in Italy or Hungary or some other foreign country and being asked to eat food quite dffferent from that to which we are accustomed at home, we would know what it is to put ourselves in the places of our forelgn cousins when they come to America. 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