Evening Star Newspaper, April 17, 1925, Page 38

FEATURES. Hemming in Ways That Suit Fabrics BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. There are different stitches that may be used in hemming. If we weuld be neat and deft needlewomen we have to reallze this fact for one thing. We must adapt our style to the fabric on which the hemming is done. Then we must decide whether or not the hem to make a decorative blindly stitched as pe of sewing for one sort of hemming is entirely different from that required for anoth For example, blind sittching, overcastly, cat- many finish, or be as le. The style fe KIRT, IF DOWN NOT RIP. stitching. hemstitching and hemming may all be used for the one purpose of hemmi Nor are these all stitches used the turned-in fold of goods to securely and evenly hold measured On Jersey Cloth. Cat-stitching or mended for hem There is so mucl ing that the thread does not break even when the material is pulled to the straining point. 1 know of one athletic girl who had a beautiful fer- sey sport suit. She was annoyed con. tinually, however, by baving the hem come out. The stitches would break when she ran-to volley a ball on the tennis court and did not take the usual short steps. The same thing would happen on the golf course, when off for a tramp, etc. She was on the point of putting the suit one side, though it was a favorite, when she 'thought of trying this idea of catstitching the hem. The result has been perfect. Let me advise you to try it if you are bothered in the fagoting is recom- ing jersey skirts. to the stitch. Cat-Stitching. Sometimes the hems in stockings are so tight they bind the leg as well as being decidely uncomfortable. When the thread rips, as it most sure- ly will, use cat-stitching when you mend the rip and will have no further trouble. “ine cat-stitching can be u vantage on hems of fab es when they have ripped and must be mended. In every instance where cat-stitching is used it is important to have the thread cot- I BEAUTY Attractive Arms. be ir The arms only becau cause of be beautifully fi whiter than the chubby, and if not arms, at least It's e color. term we would not be must tractive not shape, but be- The skin must > and clear and fac the elbows an orname spleuous the arms a nice the descriptive clogged pores that ted on the face, can be cured by scrubbing the arms daily with hot wat using mild soap, such as casti nd by rinsing them with cold water to close the res. If the is in bad shape, leansing « lard or olive oil will be as useful here as on the face. The elbows will profit by the treat ments, but if they thin they v need quite a little rubbing with cold cream, preferably a flesh-making cream, and protection against knocks and scratches by the weuring of long sleeves. If the skin is dark, use oil or cleansing cream: if baggy. use an astringent after the arm treatment A very strong solution of tinc benzoin and water will do; the m should be quite milky in appearance. The shape of the arms can be made beautiful through exercise, and only through exercise, if they rally pretty. 1 am speaking of their shape now, not the fact that they may be 100 fat or thin, for that is corrected by diet. Often the forearm is too fat and the rest bony: often the upper arm is huge and d ndles off in a mean way toward the wrist when vou want to ex ise! Almost PEP gives you that joyous feeling of unlimited energy 1d be emphasized | fancy | Sometimes Irench knots are the | down | CHATS t to the | Il | ure of | ture { are not natu- | That's | the material. show. ton or silk match Otherwise stitches will Overcast Hems. | The overcast hem is just the thing |to use for napkins and all table |damask that does not have hem | stitched hems. Make as tiny a first turning as you possibly can and a second one i s this first one permits. Then crease back the nap kin from the edge of the hem and overcast the seam so made. Untll thim method of hemming napery —was out housewives dreaded the ow the work Is a stmple mat- rake shallow stitches, just deep to_hold the two pleces to. .. When the seam is finished flatten out the hem and the stitches will scarcely show Hemstitching. Napkins and tablecloths that are made of plain linen and not of| | damask, as many sets are now a days, are apt to have hemstitched hems. The hems may be turned as for the usual hemming, and basted down Then they may be sent to any shop where hemstitching is done and for a few cents u yard the hems will be machine hemstitched. Or threads may | be drawn and the napery hemstitch-| |ing by hand, either single hemstitch-| ing or double. | Blindstitched Hems. | Tiems on dainty frocks are often blind-stitched, so that they are al- most Invisible. The needle catches a thread of the under weave of the skirt just under the line where the hem i8] turned. Then the needle is brought | |up and through the first turning of | the neatly basted hem. And so the| work proceeds with long stitches be- tween the places where the goods are caught. If the stitch in the skirt is not carefully taken it will show on the right side. It is wise to take first | the stitch in the skirt itself and then| in the fold of the hem, but not both| at one time. A felled hem is done in| much the same way. only the thread generally shows on the wrong side of the goods. In blindstitching the| thread should be invisible. | French Knots. If a hem is turned over on the| right side and caught down with French knots a decorative finish is| given. This is particularly interest-| ing when both sides of a fabric are different in tone or finish. Many fabrics now are so woven that it is difficult to decide which is the more attractive. A hem turned back on the right side is charming when this is the case. MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN. a Toy Cleaning Day. One mother say; A cleaning day with the toys should ! be a frequent occasion in every fam- ily. So often children are kept im- m te, but are allowed to play with toys that are positively grimy. Every- thing washable should be washed reg- ularly and sunned and dried. Things not washable should be brushed and aired in the open sunlight. Children love to help with this cleaning, and they learn a valuable lesson in sanita- tion by doing so. (Copyright, 1925.) Scones. Make ordinary baking butter biscuit dough with a little extra shortening. Fit Into & round ple tin and divide in quarters. Brush over with yolk of an egg and sugar. This is not the orthodox Scotch rule, but for an American household this makes very good substitute scones. BY EDNA KENT FORBES. ¥ arm work, from swinging a tennis racket to making beds and handling a broom, will do. Fafling such pleasant or useful ways of acquiring pretty arme, take dally exercise by tensing the muecles of the arms and shoulders by working hard at an imaginary oar or pulling a heavy, imaginary welght. When I say tense the muscles, T mean to make fists of hands and to makeo ever le hard and taut u are exercising " N THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, COLOR CUT-OUT OLD MOTHER GOOSE. Then Jack went a-courting A lady so gay, As fair as the llly, And sweet as the May The rogue and the squire Came behind his back, And began to belabor The sides of poor Jack The pretty young lady has golden hair and pink cheeks. Her dress should be a light green, with hose to match. (Copyright, 1923.) What TomorrowMeans to You BY MARY BLAKE Aries. The aspects of tomorrow are, until the early afternoon, quite favorable, and if you have any new plan or fresh enterprise this perfod would be a very propitious one for putting it into execution, avolding, however, all risky or speculative deals. Later on the signs become a little more com- | plicated and denote a period of com- | municative and lethargic condition which s not conducive to work. Only attention to those things which can not be escaped should be attempted. as there is neither the eccasion nor the opportunity to scek fresh fields or pastures new. A child born tomorrow will in fts| early days be inclined to be sickly and weak and will cause a great deal of anguish and worry. These fears, how- ever, will prove to be groundless, and this child will possess recuperative powers in & very marked degree and will récover from any temporary ill-| ness quickly. Its disposition will be sympathetic and emotional. Its char- acter will be more weak than strong, | to | making she wanted before marriage. owing to its overpresent desire please others even at the expense of its own future and well being. Con- sistent and constant efforts must be made to restrain this child’s moods, so that its heart may not always run away with its head:; and, although it should be encouraged to be as consid- erate as possible of others’ wishes and desires, it should be restrained from doing things for the sake of pleasing others when wrong and {nexpedient. Is April 18 your birthday? If so, you are filled with one great desire and ambition to accomplish something more than the ordinary. You are not satisfied to leave your work in a rut, but want to create a role all your own {n which you and you alone will star. You have a great deal of per- severance, and, although vour {deas and ambition appear to be pretentious, vou never allow the magnitude of an; undertaking to divert you from an ef- fort. You have a very good opinion of yourself and of your abilities, and this has engendered a degree of self- confidence which is not justified by the facts and conditions which sur- round you. Intellectually you are capable and physically you are endowed with exs ceptional strength. Your disposition is a happy one and attracts to you a legion of friends and admirers.” You are not very patient, but are moder- ately so, and in your home life you are most affectionate as well as dem-~ onstrative. ‘Well known persons born on this date are Richard Harding Davis, au- thor; John Henry Dolph, artist; San ford E. Church, jurist and politiclan, and Henry P. Tappan, educator. (Copyright, 1025.) S The United States Navy maintains an enginesring experiment station at «The High-Priced Chocolates in the Low-Priced Box > JOWNEY'S GOLD STRIPE CHOCOLATES put it on yourself, easily and quickly For your woodwork--buy Farboil Enamel Paint As good paint dealers | country maiden who had never been to a restaurant or seen anything more | 1 would select @ girl who had danced the slippers | Bhows Why Butterflies Become Grubs After Marriage £% | DorothyDiad Wives If You Want a Real Helpmeet, Marry the Girl Who Has Had Plenty of Beaux and Clothes and Jazz Before Marriage. { A YOUNG man said to me the other dayt “No girl with a rich father for me. 1 am poor and ambitious and have my own way to make in the world, and T want a wife who will be a real helpmeet to me, 8o when I marry T am golng to pick out a girl who has always had to count her pemnies and who knows how to work.” : “Perhaps you will get her, and perhaps you won't,” I replied. are kittle cattle, and you never can tell from. past performances what one is going to do in the future. L have seen so many butterflies turn into grubs after marriage, so many pacemakers settle down into stay-at-homes and so many demure little wrens turn into fly chickens that I have quit prophesying about what sort of a wife any girl will make. “Paking it by and large, though, I think that the rich girl is more likely to make an economical, industrious wife than the poor girl, for the simple reason that she has had her flll of the frothy pleasures of life and been satiated with them, while to the poor girl Who has never had any play time they are full of irresistible allure. “You know, it is the things that we Maven't had that we craye most It is the forbidden fruft that we are willing ta risk our necks to get. No eyves are so covetous as those of the window shopger. No soul so eaten up with the desire for pleasure as that condemned to-a drab existence. “The girl who has always been able to buy pretty clothes is never as clothes mad as the one who has had to pinch and serimp to get every bit of finery. “The most extravagant women are not rich women women, who suddenly come into money, and who throw sheer joy of spemding. ‘All of their lives they have wanted imported frocks, and hats, and jewels, and furs, that they have never been able to have, and so, when they find that they can mdulge their desires, they load themselves down with diamonds and pearls and become mere animated clothes racks L They are it about for poor the | 6T is the same way about society. If I were a man who wanted a wife | who would be a fireside companion 1 wouldn't pick out a simple little than a movie fn her life. off her feet at a hundred balls; who was sick and weary of cabarets and restaurants; who had grown critical of the theater, and who was fed up on | receptions, and teas. and luncheons. I would know that she was dog tired | of it all, that the gilt had worn off the gingerbread of pleasure and that she was ready to settle down and go about the business of life. “That kind of girl makes the sort of a wife who finds her happiness in her home. She gets more thrills out of her babies than she does out of jazz, and her idea of a pleasant evening is a comfortable chair and a good book, with her husband contentedly smoking on the other side of the drop | light, instead of chasmg around to all-night clubs. “But it is perfectlr natural that the country girl who has never seen the bright lights should go crazy over them, and not be able to get enough of | them. Theaters, cabarets, restaurants are all new and alluring to her. She is intoxicated with the glamour, and glitter, and excitement of the things she has wanted and never had, and she drags her poor, protesting husband around | with her in an endless round of amusements. “If 1 wanted a wife who would be a good cook and housekeeper I would | just as soon take my chance on a girl who didn’'t know a gas range from a | radio as I would on ome who was a blue-ribbon cake-maker. Generally, the girl who has had to do the family cooking is so tired of it all that she is off | of the pots and pans for Bfe as soon as she is married. The wedding march is a signal for her to come out of the kitchen, and the man who marries thinking he s getting a good cook, finds that he has to hire some other | woman to do the cooking for her. e ¢RUT to the woman who has never had a home. home-making is the enthralling of all occupations. There is poetry and romance for her every table. chalr and dish. Cooking is an art and a science that she studies | with enthusiasm, and she glows with pride over every triumphant achievement. “Thag ts why some of the most wonderful housekeepers vou find any where are professional and business women. They come to their task with all the zest and vim that we bring to a new undertaking “The girl who has had plenty of money is almost sure to make a more | thrifty wife than the girl who has had nothing. ervthing goes by comparison, and her husband’s moderate income seems so little to the girl accustomed to her father’s big income that she feels that she must save every cent. Whereas, to the gifl accustomed to her father’s scant pay envelope, 1 husband's larger earnings seem inexhaustible riches. Three thousand 2 vear is chicken feed, or money to throw at the birds, according to the way you look at it “Furthermore, if 1 wanted a wife I wouldn't have to watch and be jealous of T would pick out a girl who had had lots of beaux and all the love It is the women who have never had enough romance who get flirtatious and man-crazy when they are 10 “There is nothing like having had a thing, son,” I said, “to rub the | bloom off it. And he is a wise man who chooses a wife who has cut her wisdom teeth on life before he gets her.” DOROTHY DIX. (Copyrigh .1925.) Ow THOUSANDS OF % FRIDAY, APRIL {and laway 17, 1925, Last nite T was late for suppir agen, and I was hurrying up wawking home thinking about wat ma would say after wat she sed the last 2 nites, and I thawt, G, 1 know wat, Il tie my handkerchiff erround my band and wen ma thinks I hert my hand she will forget all about me being late and wen she finds out I dident reely hert it she will be so releeved she will forget all about it enyways. And T rapped my handkerchiff erround one hand and jest then I passed a red fron gate with a sine on it gaying Wet Paint, giving me a good ideer, and I rubbed the hand kerchiff on the gate and some of the red paint came off on it, looking like natural blud, and ma was stand. ing on our frunt steps looking up and down, proberly for me, saying, Well for mersey sakes did you make up your royal mind to come home, wats 1 matter with your hand, wat did you do to yourself, tell me this minnit : O, it aint mutch, it'll soon go away, sed Not wunting to tell a axual story ma_sed, IUIl soon go away if | you get blud poisoning, and you'll go with it, take that bandidge off and let me see it immeeditly. w G, ma, don't worry I aint worrying, I sed. You wouldest haff sents enuff to worry if you had both your legs am uptated, ma sed. 1 never saw sutch a_friteful looking thing in my life. and you havent even told me how it ha-nened yet, she sed. Ive fooled you, ma, its ony im: ion T sed. And I quick pulled off the handkerchiff saying, Aint you glad, about it nd heers something for you| to be glad about, ma sed. a fearse siap in the doorway and she gave me 2 more in the hail and one in the dining room, without axuall saying anything about me being late. Not being as mutch of a consolation as wat I thawt it would. My Neighbor Says: Alabaster ornaments can be beautifully cieaned by immers. ing them in milk of lime for me time, washing them in clean water and dusting them when they are dry with a little French chalk. The milk of lime is made by mixing enough slak- ed lime in water to give the wa- ter a milky appearanc ond and very simple way is to use soap and water with a lit- tle washing soda or ammonia, rinsing them thoroughly after- ward When cooking new potatoes kins, put them’ r with a littl tende drain in a pyramid ur over them some butter and sprinkle with chopped parsley add a sprig of : new potatoes are b best way to clean a white them. Arr: on a dish, a Meening j18 mel bath is to put a tine in a sau and rub th tu well with soap and warm wa ter. No matter how dirty tl bath is, the dirt will disappe: like mag In order himneys to from em into cold wa come to a boil. Before taking chimneys out the water d be allowed to get cold. PAIRS a Full Fashioned Thread Silk HOSIERY, $1.50 and up *Slipper-Heel A slenderizing note in knitting that adds ace and beauty to ankle line.” It is to be ‘ound in many Kayser modcls from $1.50 up. It prevents “‘runs!” An ex- clusive feature. circlet at the knec protects the sheer With colorings so important, and many tints $0 common—you will find Kayser color originations de- uality is t| lighefully desirable. Seefectt preference. %y«d% Wear They wear and wear and wearl Onl silk and pure dyes arc user. g‘f‘:weighting to givea falsc impression. Each pair 1s kaitted 0 exact size. More and more women arc saying: “‘Iwant Kayser hosicry.”* Superior K: chicf reason for this *Marvel-Stripe A patented hosicry from costly Quality CHIFFON WEIGHTS + LIGHT WEIGHTS » MEDIUM WEIGHTS » HEAVY WEIGHTS At all Leading Stores WOMAN’S PAGE. The Daily Cross-Word Puzzle (Copyright, 1925.) Impudent tra Grand encampment (abbr.) Golf term Prefix Period of time (abbr.) Deceive. Bradypus tridaetylis. Prin A State (abbr.) Heavy sticks or clubs A weight of Eastern Asia (plur A governmerit in Poland An easy j A weight (abbr.). Male web-footed bird Post-graduate (abbr.) Anthropoid ape. Spanish title of courtes, A Roman clan. Initials of a popular game Moon goddess. Man’s Name (Scotch) Girl's name Touch lightly. Thoroughtare (abbr.) A marsh Interrogative ejaculation State of complete execution Down. Expert in a certain kind of an- 1 nor fast. A time of day i One of the Muses ate recording apparatus in professional men (abbr.) ts inzo a straight row. mearting a drink branch of an antler. Repents of. Prefix, in Cadmium (chemical symbol). Respite. Small horses. Girl's name. A dry fruit Name of an Irish king. Talk boastf Talk loving! Kind of tree Title of courtesy (abbr.) Stannum (tin) (abbr.). Rhubarb Parf: I;t. Put over the fire in a double boile to cook one cupful of sweet milk and the beaten whites of two eggs. Wher it is scalded, add two cupfuls of rich strained pink rhubarb juice and = pinch of salt with enough sugar to suit the taste. Thicken the mixture adding three tablespoonfuls of cornsta mixed to a paste with a little cold water. Cook untfl thick and smoc Pour the mixture into & mold and chill. Serve on plates, plac ling a tablespoonful of preserved strawberries or rhubarb jelly on top of each serving. Add a Mttle rich sweet cream. | by Smothered Potatoes. | Two cups cold boiled potate cube | one ounce margarine or other coo | ing fat, one-half cup meat stock, one | quarter cup chopped celery. Brow: | the potatoes in the melted fat Add | salt and pepper and stock. Place in | covered dish and let cook until we! heated. Remove the cover f a few 1omer and serve very hot. ourtesy, and how the thoughtful presses it hostess ex~ ,GBY a menu befitting the occasion, of coursc, but also by attent which contribute greatl luncheon. ion to the myriad details y to the success of the How embarrassing it must be to the hostess if the butter she serves is not quite so fine, fresh and delicately flavored as that to which her guests are accustomed! Mecadow Gold Butter the hostess that the but surpassed in any home from pure cream especial and richness; so finc th is in itself assurance to ter she serves cannot be . Churned fresh daily ly selected for its flavor at its quality merits 2 higher price than you will have to pay. Ask your grocer or m Gold Butter. ” arket man for Mcadow Beatrice CrREAMERY Company, World's Largest Churners and Distributors of Quality Butter. 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