Evening Star Newspaper, April 21, 1925, Page 24

Etching Embroidery Is Popular BY LYDIA LE B MAARY THE VOGUE LACK AND WHITE TABLF y v PED 1 The vogue of black interior decor: an interest and white in | ations is responsible for | g development in applied | needlework ching embroidery is unique. The name is descriptive. The | finest embroidery cotton or silk is| employed to bring out the beauty of | fine lines, so delicate and exquisite | that th a ¥ to be etched| tn b of tablecloths, Rapkin . scarfs, center- pleces , ‘etc. Tt is chiefly In connection with table napery that this ectching embroidery seen, though the work can be employed for various other purposes, such, for | examp! broldering bureau, | dresser or vani ts, sofa o handkerchief Tt may even be employed to make quaint pictures to| trame for the walls of chambe: ! In etching embroidery the fabric is| white, the medium fine black thread. | especially felicitous in napery | cause it carries out the hitherto | developed fashion for black partially \d white in table accessories, n the black and crystal candle- s and console sets, the black and ¥rench china dinner sets, the black dessert plates, etc. The French ays introduce some note of blac cent their color scheme and in table decorations it gives striking effects, nging out the beauty of luscious fruits, gay flowers and tempting viands. But etching embroid is more than a foil. It has a charm of its own as well as setting off other things to advantage. It lends itself admirably to table damask as well as plain linen, bu fn true American fashion we adapt the isian idea to suit our own fancies—that is, if we wish to have a yellow luncheon set we may us. one of the exquisite yellow-tonea fadeless linens and put the etching stitches in black, carrying out the traceries of the desigg. Color Schemes. There must be but one color of em- broidery silk used in a design, how ever. No colors can be introduced except that of the fabric and the eone adé used in the embroidery Here again we may digress from the French conception of black and white and- use a dark brown similar 1o the brown Ink often used in genu- ine etchings. We are privileged to digress even further and use any one dark shade that fits in with our color scheme for a room, or for a preferred tone of fabric. For in- stance, we may wish a natural-toned linen runner and doilies for the din- ing table. While nothing could be more appropriate than black = em- broidery on this, the home-maker may prefer to have the scheme accent some tone in her luncheon set, such en or blue. Then the me- : be in the color desired, but it must be very dark. The whole Idea of the etching embroidery is ruined if the tone is not black, brown or some extremely deep tone. Outline Embroidery. It has been nearly half a century since the vogue of outline embrold- ery started. It must have lasted for vears e are few households Whe: women of the past gener- ation w foud of fancy work that do not hoast of one or two pieces. of this embroidery. The chosen color for the work apparently was red cot- ton. Stitches are fine in these pieces, but the medium not particularly so. The fabrics were v ble, some | coarse and poor, others excellent, sometimes even being of silk. A Later Development. While it is a far.cry from these red outline embroide articles of the past generation to the mar-! velously dainty traceries of stitches in the modern etching embroider: the identical stitch is employed. So | delicate is the latter work that it is scarcely possible to believe the lines are done with needle and thread. It is when you feel the fabric and the pattern that you are convinced stitches. They tell the tale, just of ving is distinguished from the “fegl.” Description of Stitch. The stitch is simple back-hand. The imperative thing to remember is that the thread must always be kept on the same side of the needle. It but one stitch varies from the regularity it will make a blemish in the embroide v stitch must be taken on the line from right to left or vice versa. The result will be a auccession of fine even stitches, all going the same way in unbroken sequence. Bring the needle up at the beginning of a line, take a short stitch, preferably from left to right, on the line, bringing the thread up nearly where the stitch began, and continue this throughout the pat- tern. Nothing could be simpler, and the effect is charming An original design is given today that ean be adapted in various way though 1t- has- been - designed- -with -~ ARON WALK | in WALKE =, CED IN SMART FRENCH > G EMBROIDERY. THE CHARMING IN THIS WORK. 1 special reference to table linens. The pattern is distinguishable on the table runner in the picture, and the ingert. It will be sent free to any reader who, with a request, sends a self-addressed and stamped envelope. Stamps alone will not in- sure getting the pattern. Directions for transferring the design, which is not a transfer pattern, w ent with the design, in size to us getber with advices about adapting it to different purpoes. Direct lotters to Lydia Le Baron Walker, care of this paper. . to- In its hole in the qround. Thirty-sécond Day. LA PAZ, Bolivia, February 26.— Nuestra Senora de La Paz—now you have said it—lies at the bottom of a huge hole in the great tableland of Bo- ivia, 13,600 feet above the sea. The City of Peace’—sure enough; situ- ated up here above the clouds and away from stftic and cross-word puzzles and the rest of the wrangling world. Here a hundred thousand people take their time with life, for one neyer hurries at such an alti- tude. “Then, too, the population of Bolivia is nine-tenths Aymara In- dian—and he is about as active as his North American relative—the cigar-store Indian. Eventually I arrived,at the Hotel Paris—a hotel ‘that actually has an elevator, a self-starter and a grand heater “which belies its name ai- though I am charged 2 “bol” a day for it Across the Plaza Murrillo from the hotel is: the Palacio del Presi- dente, and the cathedral, which' has been building for over 100 years and. bids fair to cdntinue in the process for another hundred or so more. In the meantime part of it has been rented out as a clothing store and a huge dummy figure, Some 15 feet high, attired in what the young Frenchman will wear, stands in front. JUICE OF LEMON WHITENS SKIN The only harm- less way to bleach the skin white is to mix the juice of two Ilemons with three ounces of Orchard White, which any druggist will sup- /\\ ply - for a few § cents. Shake well in a bottle, and you have a whole xmrterpmt of the most wonderful Massage this sweetly fragrant lemon bleach into the y(m, neck, arms and hands. It can not irritate. Famous stage beauties use it to bring that clear, youthful skin and - white complexion; also as a :mu.fi, sunburn and tan bleach. You must mix this remarkable lotion yourself. It can not be bought ready to use because it acts best immediately after it -is prepared. R, S g e 1 be| What TomorrowMeans to You BY MARY BLAKE. Taurus. Tomorrow's planetary aspects are extremely favoring, and indicate suc- cess for any business or professional effort along constructive lines. They are exceptionally good for revl estute or for matters in which legal compli- cations have hitherto prevailed. There will be experienced a sense of deter- mination that will augur well for any plan that has received prior carefui deliberation and thought. Speculation and must, of course, be avoided. Vibrations in the cvening will prove to be quite stimulating, and will create a very favorable reaction in so far as | all social amenities are concerned. Any theatrical production that ‘is shown should prove successful, and any public meeting or gathering will enjoy a measure of equal success. Any child born tomorrow will enjoy normal infancy, and be subject to only those ordinary’ and transitory ail- ments which are to be expected at such a time. After the period of in- fancy, however, it will show some signs of weakness, which can easily be counteracted by the proper treatment Its character will be a little complex and it will be a rather difficult child to handle, unless strong measures are taken in the e days to impress upon its mind the correctness of doing that which is right and the harmful ef- fects of doing that which is wrong. It will be s g in fran ness and candor, and will not be much disposed to take consequences as it should be. It will be studicus and very amenable to affection. will possess many valuable traits of character, and these will not shine as they should until the defects al- ready mentioned are eradicated. It If tomorrow is your birthday you estrange many of your friends by your argumentative habits and by the extreme position which you take with regard to the opinion of others. Even when convinced of the inc: pediency of your own ideas, you never vield with good =ruce. Your convictions are not based on sound judgment, but rather on 1n what you are pleased to think is so. As a’ consequence, they are more often than not absolutely erroneous. This is all the more remarkable, a your degree of intelligence is ve high, and when you do stop to thin you show that you have naarly as good foresight as hind sight. 1f you could only get this positiveness moved from the attitude tow ers and affairs in general, gess would be much t is You are musically inclinkd should develop this particuinr In regard to your Tove affuirs sreat vou are very affectionate as well as dem- onstrative, but are very often disap- pointed when yvon are being taught by your mate that “it is more blessed to give than to receive.” Your feel- ings are quickly hurt and your sen- sibilities are very keen, with the re- It that you do not get that happi- dess and that placid contentment out of life which is enjoyed by others of a more stolid nature, Well-known persons born on this date are: Eleazer Weelock, patriot and educator; Lindle: gram- marian; Andrew G. Curtin, war go: ernor of Pennsylv Alexander MeD. McCook, s terling Morton, once secretar) agricul- ture; Ada Rehan, actress. in whitener, softener and beautifier. 4 (Copyright, 1925.) the Across hangs a2 wide banner announcing a cathedral entrance “Sensacional Match De Box” be- tween the “Campeon Boliviano” and the “Campeon Peruano.” On the other side of the Plaza stand those monuments to Thirst—the Pullman and La Perla bars. Drinking is easily done. The din- net hour in South America is al- ways late—near 9 o’'clock—and the business hours are short so there is plenty of time to combat the chilly Bolivian evenings. All drinking is done sitting down— there is no rail, although I never cease feeling around for one with my left foot—and everybody keeps on hat and overcoat. The La Perla shakes with the rattle of v s and the clatter of dice. It looks as though a revolution were brewing at 1 every table. four Boliviano: ften wonder n_find what 0_inters I DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX Can American Girl Be Happily Married to Foreigner?—Can Woman Hold Job and Run Her Home Successfully? ]DEAR DOROTHY DIX: T ami in love with a young man who has asked me to marry him, but I have not yet given my answer, because he is a foreigner, and because while he has the most beautiful courtesy toward women, he thinks the American girl far too independent, and that my fads and fancies are ridiculous. He has a very strong will, and I realize he would be the ruler of our hiouse, and that 1 would have to give In to him on every point. Is it possible for a girl, used to the independent ways of the American woman, to be happy if she marries a foreigne ANXIOUS. Answer: It is possible, of course. There have been many successful marriages between American women and foreign men, when the couple have lived in this country and the husband has become more or less Americanized. But in cases where the man has taken the woman abroad to live in his own country the marriages have nearly all been failures, because American women find it very difficult to adjust themselves to the conditions of domestic life in other copntries. Undoubtedly, it is a very risky thing for an American girl to marry a foreigner, and she takes a long shot at happiness when she does, because foreign men have different traditions concerning domestic life, different- standards of conduct, different ideals of what a wife should be and what a husband should be, so that often when a foreign man thinks he is being a model husband, his wife thinks him a cruel tyrant, and when he considers that he is showing her all the attention that a wife has a right to expect, she cries out that he is breaking her heart with neglect. Foreigners say that American men spoil their women. Perhaps this is true, but when you have been pampered and indulged and petted and made much of, it does not make you happy to be disciplined and told home truths, and to be compelled to be the sacrifice instead of the god on the altar. Say what you will, it is a come-down to be fed on bread and water when you are accustomed to cakes and ale. Foreign men nearly always rule their wives with an iron hand, and carry the purse and dole out the money. They are generally jealous, and give their wives little liberty of thought or action. But, on the other hand, they are often good providers, and if they consider that they have a right to do a great deal of roaming, they are also wonderful lovers. And, of course, there are exceptions to all rules. known a few foreign husbands who were ideal mates, and who had all the good qualities of both the forelgn and American husband. In the end it comes down to the individual man, and every woman has to do her own picking and back her own judgment in huubm:d . DOROTHY DIX. i - I have personaily .. SAR DOROTHY DIX: Do you think it possible for a woman to hold a job and run her home successtully. MRS. A. M. Answer: If a woman is a good executive, she can easily run her house successfully and still hold her job. She can hire good servants to do the work, and she can plan the meals and lay out their duties for them before she goes to her office. But I do not believe that any woman can hold her job and do her own housework successfully. She is bound to break down under the double load she carries, and health is the first requisite to success, both in business and successful home-making. The woman who has to get up at the crack of dawn in the morning and cook breakfast and wash dishes and clean the house, goes to her work exhausted, with no energy or enthusiasm to give to her task. She starts her day beaten out, and is no competitor to the woman who has had her full allotment of sleep, and who comes fresh, rested and alert to her job. The woman who is trying to do two women'’s work gives only half of her mind to her job, because the other half is busy with details of her house- keeping. She is distraught and makes mistakes because she is wondering how the meat is coming on in the fireless cooker and trying to remember what she has to take home in the grocery line. And she is equally unsuccessful as a home maker, because she returns home worn out and nerve-frazzled, too tired to cook or eat, and snappy and cross, just because she is exhausted trying to do too much. No woman can possibly be a good mother and work outside of her own home, because children need the care of their mother every minute and hour of the day. Nurses and governesses do not take the place of a mother’s love and care, for the mother gives to her children something that money cannot buy, and that science cannot supply. Synthetic motherhood is not the real thing, and the children reared ‘on it have mighty little chance to grow up to be fine men and women. DOROTHY DIX. « s e DEAR DOROTHY DIX: For some time I have been corresponding with a man who is much older than I am. I have never seen this man, but 1 family. We have exchanged pictures, so we know how each other looks. Now he writes that he wants to marry me, and will come for me, if I will marry him immediately and leave with him. My mother objects because I have never seen the man, but the idea of a new home and a new life intrigues me. Besld\e:ll;‘ llam !llrc‘led of “‘;or”klng and akes an escape. vhat would vou do? drudging, and marriage mi pe. PERPLEXED. know hi: Answer: Good heavens, girl, isn’t marriage risky enough without adding any more foolhardy chances to it by marrying a man whom you have never 7 5" You are crazy even to think about doing such a silly thing. Why, happiness in marriage depends on congeniality, and this is based on a thousand little personal peculiarities and habits and mannerisms that you can't possibly tell whether a man possesses until you know him well? A man might be a model of all the virtues, and yet be so dirty and slovenly about his person that you would shrink from him in disgust. He might be as sobér as the town pump, vet eat peas with his knife and inhale his soup. He might be moral and industrious, yet use a toothpick at the table. He might be the soul of honor, yet bore you to tears. You can't be happy with a man who has “ways” that get on your nerves, and so I entreat you not to marry any man whom you have not only not given the once over, but whom you haven't known long and well. Even then you will get plenty of surprises when you really get acquainted with him after you marry him. Don't be carried away by the romance of going away into a new place and & new life with a stranger. If you do, you will be the most homesick creature that ever was, for you will find the glamour fades, and that all life is the same everywhere, and it is only old associations and old friends that ke it pleasant. ; i Furly;wrmore. don’t get married under the impression that matrimony is a snap. You will have to work 10 times as hard after you are married as ey % e DOROTHY DIX. Joil Sy hare i (Copyright, 1925.) e e few more stony “calles” to the Chi- Jini. The Chijinl reminds me of the Barbary Coast in San Francisco, if ing to talk about. They gab and ges- ticulate and slap the table until the signs on the wall shiver. What signs! “Leche KEvaporada.” “Grace Line Vapores.” Nowhere does a glass of beer aver- age so many words to a gallon. They talk more and buy less than any other people. And they speak everything but English. Less Eng- lish is spoken in Cuzco and La Paz than any other place in the world 1 walked down the steep and nar- row street—they are all steep and narrow—to the Strangers’ Club, an English-American _organization where they make you feel anything but a stranger. Here is one spot on earth where the English and the Americans get on in perfect har- mony. They are all too far away from home to quarrel about any- thing. Anyway everything is fifty-fifty. There is a picture of the King on one wall, and Harding on the other; there is an English billlard table and an American one; the reading table is taken up with an assortment of magazines from both countries—and the members drink “half and ’arf.” " e The Easiest Way to Remove Freckles No. excuse now for unsij e ightly freckles! For a new discovery gently removes blemishes and freckles as if by magic. This aniaz- ing safe, sure treatment brings you a_smooth, white skin almost over- night. In_justice to yourself make this 3 Min- ute Test. Just before bedtime smooth e cool, fragrant creme on your skin, The very next morning notice how freckles sunburn_and tan have already o give way. Ask your druggist for a jar of Golden ~Peacock” Bleach - Creme (coneen. trated) . ~Remember—money refunded it not satistied. At all €00 stores, such as—at Jour neighbarhood drug’ sioréa”or Peopics rug Stores, 0'Donnell's Drug Stores, Gilman s Drug Store. Goldenbers's Dept. Siore. Paiais v . Store, King's Palace Dept. Store, Sigmund's Dept. Store. i Golden Peacock Bleach Creme you know what I mean. Classy like that. But- the girls and boys were certainly having a good time. The bartender in the biggest dance hall sought me out. He was very proud of the fact that he was once-a taxi- driver in New York. “Say, Mistaar,” he said, “when you git home look up Mike on One Hun- dred and Twenty-fifth street and hello! to him.” “Mike who?" I asked. “Why Mike—uh—Mike—uh—I for- get—Mike. But anyhow look him up and say Joe he say hello.” Then the music began, and what do you suppose they played? You are right. They played “Yes, We Have No Bananas.” Paris Says Pastel Tints All the newest underthings, neg- i , tea gowns, etc., are i dainy Paseel Tints—Paris has so decreed it. Here is just the need for Tintex. Forwhendelicatelycoloredfinery has lost its newness from laun- dering, Tintex will restore it to fresh ty and color. Today, seethe newestPastel Tints onthe Tintex Color Card—atdrugand (lace remains white) in the Blue Box - 15¢ Tints é~ Dyes YTHING THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 1925. IN THE GARDEN As Reported by Elizabeth Urquhart Making Tomatoes Rosy. Tomatoes being next on this list, al- ready cut down and revised, Mr. Bur- bank was asked again for cultural di- rections. “The same cars in the preparation of tht soll, the sowing of the seeds and the handling of the seedlings after- ward Is necessary as with other veg- etables, with the exception perhaps that the tomato being a very tender plant, the seeds must be sown in a hot-bed or in a greenhouse, or in flats in the house and planted in the open when all danger of frost is over. “The young plants are set out in rows about 4 feet apart each way, unless supported by racks or trellises, whe nthey may be grown 3 feet apart. Tomatoes thrive best without staking or pruning unless space is too valuable, when they may be trained to a fence.” “Are there blights and bugs and other discouragements for the garden- er?” was the next question. “Yes, but some varieties fortunately are almost or quite blight resistant, and as for bugs, they seldom trouble tomato plants. As the first days of frost approach, the green tomatoes may be gathered and ripened on racks in a sunny location or in a cellar. This is never necessary in warm cli mates.” As the amateur had heard of the practice of digging up the entire plant in the Autumn and after wrapping the roots in hurlap hanging it up in a warm, sunny place, for future ripen- ing, this bit of information was added to that already gained. The “Burbank’ tomato has the great merit of being remarkably early and ripens in most climates all its fruit before Fall frosts. Another quality which endears it to the housewife is that the skin peels freely from the rich sweet pulp. Mr. Burkank here has a word of cautign: “Phe Burbank tomatoes bloom and form fruits when the plant is quite small, and the first cluster of blooms should be picked, giving the plants a better start. All tomatoes should be planted deep in the ground for a heavy, continuous crop.” Growers in Canada, Alaska, New England, as well as Australia, Africa, Hawali and even Porto Rico, all unite in extolling the good qualities of the Burbank tomato. Like many another wiser man the amateur gardener here asked how the small “Burbank preserving” tomato came into existence. “It came from a combination of the common tree tomato and the currant tomato, being a selection from this cross. The result, as in so many other experiments, was something of a surprise.” “Is the currént tomato like the other tomatoes, except in size?” “No; plant has long, slender, trail- ing vines and small leaves with clusters of fruit growing much like currants. The crossing of this type with the tree tomato produced a great variety of plants, and after selecting the best, the new type was finally fixed. This new tomato grows about inches high with a spread of about 15 inches, with small, round, scarlet tomatoes about three-quariers of an inch in diameter, borne in clusters. Mr. Burbank said, in this connection: “All experiments with tomatoes are of special interest and most sat- isfactory as results are obtained so quickly, the plants growing and ma- turing in a single season. My own experiments were begun before I left my home in the East at the time of the production of the Burbank po- tato, and were continued in Cali- fornia. An interesting development in regard to the vitality of seeds might be given. “I had brought with me from Massachusetts seed of several va- rieties of plants as well as some of the hybrids which had been produc- ed. Among these were some toma- to seeds which had been dried in the usual manner and laid aw; Nineteen years afterwards some of this seed was planted and producea strong, healthy plants which bore fruit abundantly. On the next, or twentieth, year only a few plants re WOMAN'’S PAGE. WITH BURBANK and Edited by Luther Burbank. sulted and all of them lacked the central bud necessary for further de- V' pment. From the first sowing of these seeds, however, plants were produced as fine as if they had been planted 19 years before. It may be added that the foll year the remainder of the 19-y old seeds were lanted, but as the limit of their vitality had probably been reached not one had the power of development into @ normal plant.” (Copyright, 1925.) Beets, Italian Style. Scrub the beets without breaking the skin. Do not trim the roots or the juices will run out. Cook in boil ing “water until tender, drain, cover with cold water and push off the skin with the hands. Cut each beet into quarters, lengthwise, and dispose on a serving dish. Meanwhile melt two tablespoonfuls of butter. In it cook two tablespoonfuls of flour and one fourth teaspoonful each of salt and pepper, pour on half a cupful of cold | water, mix, pour on half a cupful of | boiling water and stir until smooth | and boiling. Add a tablespoonful of | lemon juice and beat in two table- spoonfuls of butter, pour over the beets and serve at once. Get rid of BED DETHOL, made by a wonder- mist gets surest insecticide cleanser ever made. —Safe—Sure. tions on can. spray can and sprayer. I go to heavy concerts And study heavy books But not so much for pleasure As Just for how - 1t looks. F e Cucumber Salad. Pare some ripe cucumbers, cut them in halves, discard the seeds and grate the pulp. Drain off the liquid and to each pint of solid pulp add half a pint of strong cold cider vine one fourth teaspoonful of cayenne or a generous half teaspoonful of paprika, one teaspoonful of salt and two level tablespoonfuls of grated horseradish Seal tight, either in fruit jars or bottles. BUGS -quick ! QUICK and sure. 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