Evening Star Newspaper, April 9, 1925, Page 43

FEATURES. Ways in Which Jabot May Be Used BY MARY MARSHAL Quits a number of the outstanding | were the smart thing only five or six pring are | yea features of the mode of the revivals of fashions that prevailad not ®0 many years ago. The lingerie rrock, consisting of voile or mull and embel- SLACK AND WHITE POL}“ OT JABOT TRIMS A FROCK SAME MATERIAL. POCKETS AND JABOT ARE BOUND WITH RED. lished with lace and hand embroidery, was a popular fashion 17 years or so 2go. The suspender frock was a la mode not so long ago as that. Polka dots are a revival, Very ehort skirts BEDTIME STORIE Another Wrong Guess. Whene'er you nd & person guessing, His igoorance he is confessing. —Old Mother Nature, To guess {s about as useless a thing as any one can do. Yet most folks do a great deal of guessing. If they do not know a thing they guess. Peter Rabbit had guessed that the log on which Thunderer the Grouse drummed was hollow. He had never taken the trouble to find out until Jumper the Hare had led him over there and told him to look. He had guessed that Thunderer always used a log for his drumming until now he had seen Thunderer drumming on a rock or on the ground. You see, it valways is easier to guess than to take the trouble to seek the facts, and Peter is such a happy-go-lucky SO PETER STOLE A BIT NEARER FO WHERE THUNDERER WAS DRUMMING AND WATCHED. little chap that he alwa or almost always, does the easiest thing. It was somewhat upsetting to find that he had been all wrong in his ideas about the drumming of Thun- derer the Grouse, and Peter's curi osity was aroused. You see, it doesn't take a great deal to arouse Peter's curlosity. If Thunderer didn't drum by pounding something with his wings, how did he do it? He certainly made all that noise with his wings So of course he must pound som thing with them, This is what Peter said to himself. “It is plain enough to me that it doesn’t matter where he is” thought Peter. “He can drum anywhere. Still, he must pound something with those wings of his in order to make that noise. I'll watch him a little more closely and seo what it i So Peter stole a bit nearer to where Thunderer was drumming and watch- ed. He saw Thunderer lift his wings above his head and bring them down. He lifted them hart-and he brought them down hard, and Peter heard the first boom of the long roll. It began slowly and then went faster and faster. By now those wings were moving so fast that all Peter could see of them was.a blur. Then they stopped, and of course the drumming stopped, too. But Peter was satisfied. He knew now how that drumming was done, He knew now what Thun- derer beat with his wings. At least he thought he knew. So he was sat- isfied. It didn’t océur to him to even 4y to make sure that he knew. He was guessing, and nothing more. “He beats his own sides with his wings, and that is the way he makes all that noise,” thought Peter. “His own sides are his drum. I wonder that I didn't think of that before. Ot course he doesn’t have to be on a hollow tree. Of course he can drum anywhere he happens to be. He has his drum with him all the time. Well, T'm glad T found out about it all by myself. T'll go hunt up Cousin Jumper and tell him that I know now how Thunderer the Grouse drums and what his drum really i So off started Peter to look for his cousin, Jumper t he Hare. And as he hopped along, lipperty-lipperty-lip through the Green Forest he heard behind him the drumming which sounded like distant thunder, and cguckled as he thought how smart hs had been to find out ail about it and how it was done. It didn’t once pop into his funny little head that Itfer Wil e, was still guessing and and the jabol, which is so rt of the present mode, the delight of the fashionable woman of two decades past However, we are much more darinz in_our present-day interpretation of the jabot than wo were then. In those days the jabot almost always appeared in the traditional position, under the chin a8 an appendage of the collar. In fact, the French word jabot was originally applied only to the crop of a bird. Now it appears anywhere, down the back, along the sides, on the skirt and more often thah not goes almost the entire length of the frock. Berthe of Paris has a charming frock of printed chiffon with two. wide pleated flounces on the skirt, and a deep flounce around the top by of a sort of bertha. Pleated chiffon of the same width forms jabots running down the back from the region of the ehoulder blades to the hem. A black coat frock from Philippe et Gaston of Paris has a jabot of black and white printed chiffon extending from the collar to the hem down the center closing. The jabot is a triflo wider at the top than at the hem. Some- times a jabot effect is gained by very large, long revers. On some of the new coats the jabot appears as an extension of the coat lining. Patou is given greatest credit in this cbuntry for the revival of the jabot, though, as a matter of fact, a great many of the French dressmakers have employed it. The Patou jabot extends from collar to hem—a straight length of the material rather than a pleated frill. (Copyright, 19: SPRINGTIME BY D. C. PEATTIE. Box. Tn Jackeon Square and around the White House the historic box bushes, among which so many great and stately men and women have walked, have burst into flower. One does not o narily think of box as a flowering shrub, because its chief beauty lies in its dark, glossy, aromatic foliage, but it does have flowers, and very charming ones, too, though small. Among the flittering leaves, these warm Spring day the | clusters of the blossoms peep out. Bend down and smell them and you will catch a honey-like fragranc Box always scems peculiarly a Wash- ington ehrub, although, its native home is in the Old World. It loves the climate of our city, and its shape, which s at once formal and gracious, bespeaks the fragrant yesterdays of the Capital’s his- tory and of colonial times, when English ladles coming to America brought with them box to plant and make the New World seem less strange. Sometimes a single box bush marks the only remnant of a once romance- fraught Georgetown garden. Sometimes a hedge of box around a farmste the outskirts of the District a mutely of an age-long past. Above all, the sharp, spicy pungence of the leav when crushed,” recalls, as only odor can, the spirit of those days at once 80 etirring and so gentle, when the great and gracious held court in the box mazes of Mount Vernon. BY THORNTON W. BURGESS that he might be mistaken. As a matter of fact he was. He was quite as mistaken as when he had been 80 sure that Thunderer made all that noise by beating a hollow log Wwith his stout wings. But Peter was sure—oh, absoiutely sure—that this time he was right, and he hurried, for he was most anx- lous to find his cousin, Jumper the Hare, and tell him how much he knew. You see, Peter, like many THE EV VING STAR, WASHINGTON, I The 'Dail‘y Cross-Word Puzzle (Copyright, 1925.) . One deeply attached. 11 bodies of water. t of “tg be.” . To question. . Thus . Mental standards . Indefinite article. ten with needle and thread. . Greek god of war. . Possessive pronoun. . Cover. The young of swine. Hoosier State (abbr.) . Tree. Dance step. . Resting place. peror of Rome In 69 A. D. ingland State (abbr.). gyptian deit . Prefix meaning again A corrector of the press . Parent. . Pale. Obtained. To chide sharply. . Fabulous goblin living in the earth. Down. . Mislays. stern State (abbr.). oddess of discord. Color. Companion Ply All right (abbr.). acts of sand. Native meta an for hearing rmented drink other people, couldn’t be comfortable until he had told what he knew. . Small island. . Owl-like. . Recovers the vertical position. . Sums, Petty quarrel. Preposion. Part of “to be.” Small opening in skin. . Consumed. Epoch. Help. To tear. Belgian violinist. . Verbal. 3. Metal. Finish. To spur on. Misfortune. . Preposition. MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN. Potato Rosettes. One Mother says: Here's a dish that's a great favorite with the youngsters at our house. From cold mashed potatoes mold with the fingers small patty shells. Mince enough ham or other meat to fill a cup: boil one egg hard and chop fine. Make a cream sauce of one-half cup milk and one tablespoon flour, add the ham and egg, and when thick fill the patty shells and set in the oven until brown. (Coprright, 1925.) Di&inguished travelers spread the fame of this hotel years ago F the food served too much cannot be said. Who- cver stops at the Maxwell House will be sure to go thereagain.”” These are the words of one notable guest, printed in thesouthern newspaper yearsago. Throughout the old South, the Maxwell House was famous for its delicious food—and especially for its coffee. So rich-bodied, yet so mellow was this special blend of fine coffees that the most critical families in ci ty, after city have secured it for their own tables. Today this same wonderful blend, prepared and roasted in just the same way, is on sale in scaled tins at all better grocery stores. The rare flavor and aroma that delighted the old South is now offered to you. Ask your grocer today for onc of the bluc tins of Maxwell House Coffee., - MaxwerL House Coreze | *Goodto Ton! AY=Americas laygest selling, e . _m 0., THURSDAY, IN THE GARDEN XPRIL 9, 192 WITH BURBANK (eported by Elizabeth Urquhart and edited by Luther Burbank. ‘Laying the Foundations. The average amateur makes a gar- den where and when he can, and is so full of the vision of future blossoms that the preliminary steps are often overlooked or ignored. And yet the same person would not bulld a house without carefully select- ing the site, calculating the sun ex- posure and studying the grade and general aspects of the land So In choosing a location for a gar- den one must have an eye to the soll, character of the ground whether level or sloping and predominance of sun and shade. ¥or on this ground is to be bullt a garden—a living, growing house it- self, filled with little llves which de- mand care and food and sunshine, and whose needs may not be neglected any more than those of the growing chlld. Among the preliminary steps, Mr. Burbank lays great stress on drain- age. He says: “It {s best not to depend too much on natural dralnage for your lawns and gardens, as in case of low-lying soils, the value of gardens and fields as well, would be greatly increased if a good system of drainage were in- stalled, or even If ditches were dug to carry off the surplus water. “Too much water in the roil pre- vents the air from getting to the roots of the plants and, moreover, in- terferes with cultivation, so that it 1s as necessary to lessen the amount of water underground as to put it above ground.’ The system of dralnage in Mr. Bur- bank’'s first garden consisted of com- mon drain-tile pipes, the main line being of four-inch tile and the lateral pipes of two-inch tile. These are connected with the main line and are placed forty feet apart and gather all the surplus water which finally pours into a near-by creek. In preparing the soil for a garden it 18 well to follow the general rules of treating a clay soil with sand and rich loam, and a sandy soll with clayey loam and fertilizers, such as barnyard manure, commercial fertl- lizers and leaf mold. This last is such an unexcelled breakfast food for young plants that it behooves every gardener to keep a supply on hand. If not easily obtained from the woods where nature herself makes fit, it may be manufactured on one's own premises by carefully saving all the dead,leaves, grass clippings, etc., putting them in a heap or in a shal- low trench or pit, keeping them motst until rotted, then screening the heap and mixing it with loam for beds, for potting and seed boxes. Mr. Burbank says, in speaking of orchards and fields as well as gardens: “Fertilization may often be replaced by cultivation, drainage and irriga- tion as well as by rotation of crops. In the domain of agriculture grain flelds require more fertilization than orchards, as fruits being composed 8o largely of water do not exhaust the soil 5o fast.” The need for cultivation in keeping the garden soil loose and soft, in pre- venling too rapid evaporation of molsture and in allowing air to reach the roots, being almost an axiom, the theory of rotation of crops applied to gardens was more of a new idea. r. Burbank explained: rtain bulbs such as lilles, gladi- and like flowers are susceptible the attacks of underground in- sects which gather about the base of the bulb and If undisturbed finally destroy it. The remedy in this case is change of location and rotation of crops which s often as necessary as In the grain fields.” “This must be the reason why the lilium auratum so often fails to re- appear after a year or two? Mr. Burbank answered: “That and other lilles are often lost from this cause, and could be saved by digging them up and replanting in another lo- cation. “The new bed should be sterilized, if small, by baking, but if too large, germicides’ should be used and of these a liquid preparation called tuo- lene has been eflicacious in my garden. “Plants are also attacked by bac- terial and fungus diseascs, the latter belng particularly destructive in po- tato fields, and the fact that growing plants llke animals give off waste matter which s poisonous to them- selves and to thelr near relation’s is another reason for removing them to new ground. “Theso poisonous substances, how- ever, aro sometimes not harmful to other specles of plants, but are in some cases beneficial, so that the practice of rotation of crops works out to good advantage. “Certain plants arc known to be re- sistant to these diseases, and when known and cultivated, it becomes pos- sible to produce good crops in ficlds and gardens on otherwise worthless land.” - (Copyright, 1925.) Bigtory of Vour Name BY PHILIP FRANCIS NOWLAN, PERCY VARIATIONS—Pearse, Pierce, Peirce, earce. RACIAL ORIGIN—Norman French, SOURCE—A locality. Perhaps vou think that as a family name Percy comes from the given name. That 18 because in the United States it is more often met with as a given name than a family name. But the reverse is true. name comes from the family Nowhere in ancient history Calehdar of the Saints will you find the .glven name of Percy. In the Middle Ages you find it as a surname, and only in modern times do you meet with it as a given name. It is a family name prominent in Northumberland, England, and it is traceable genealogically without a break back to the Norman form of “de Percy” (“of Pe ), and the Normans who bore it, and who came into Eng- land _with Wil the Conqueror, were from a place called Percy, which name. or the The given Whether this place name was de- rived from the stony nature of the s0il (which seems most likely) c from the given name of Pierre, or from the Teutonic word-root whicih has given “pirsen”™ (“to hunt”) or the French word-root that has given percer” (“to pierce”) is not abso- lutely certain The fami.y names of Pearse, Pearce, Pierce and Peirce are sometimes var- fons of Percy, though perhaps in majority of cases they are directly de- rived from the given name of Peter in some of its forms, of which | Plerre and another Pier or Piers (Copyright, 1925.) Shati i L Baked Vermicelli. 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