Evening Star Newspaper, May 15, 1925, Page 47

WOMAN'S PAGE. Art of Making Hole Look Like BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. 1t {8 sald that one employer always Yooked at the heels of any applicants for vacant positions, in order to see whether or not they were particular about the condition of their shoes. He 4 did not look at the toes, which were generally well polished, but at the less conspicuous and more betraying por- tionof the leather. Suppose he could ook through the shoes, as perhaps he would liked to have done, to ascertain the even less conspleuous and ever. 10re betraying condition of the sto I do not infer that he would be 'LECT A THREAD OF SLIGHTLY LIGHTER COLOR THAN THE TOCKING, AS IT WILL WORK IN HEAVIER IN DARNING AND LOOK DARKER. likely to find any holes not darned, hut that he might find some cause for atisfaction, if he were a stickler detail, in the color and,match of threads used in darning. The woman who is content with the most perfect darn in her sehold linens, who goes to great ins to see that any old lace has right sort of attention in mend- Who Said Eggs? % choose well each word, be overheard Mother West Wind. Peter Rabbit had made a discov jJust by chance. He had been over ihe Smiling Pool to listen to that joy cus concert. It was very early in the morning and he intended to stop for orly a few minutes and then hurry home to little Mrs. Peter in the dear 0ld Briar Patch. But there was $o much to listen to and so many to see that time slipped away, as time will do, and when at last Peter decided to rt for home he discovered that it was broad daylight and it woludn't be COMING?" PETER MILDLY. #afe to try to cross the open Green ME 1. “Humph!” exclaimed Peter. “T sup- Mrs. Peter will be worried to , but I can’t help it nov I'm v, T didn’t intend to worry her. ere’s nothing to do but spend the ' day in the Green Forest.” He tried to ynake himself believe that he felt bad 1y about it, but the effort wasn't much of a success. When at last he actually started for the Green Forest he didn't pa par- ticu attention to where he w 1 with the result that a most in diznant small person flew up in his very face and startled him so that he Juniped backward dignant sm ecter the you d look you 4 r Rabbit? & ep would b e bee “Why didn’t you shen vou saw me Yeter mildiy. Before M eeter could 1eply Peter’s eves very wide znd he stored at the ground just head of him. “Oh!” he cried. “Are tiose yours?” “Whose would they be if not mine?” pped 1 Mrs., Teeter, bobbing 4 up and down in that funny way of ‘I don't know,” confessed Peter. they are pretty eggs.” He d a step nearer for a closer look the four creamy, spotted eggs in the simplest of nests on the 3 Look out!” cried Mrs. Teeter, rush. Jowadays the =oud mi W onnless i e | | tried to | Brer Rabbit?” ing, will somehow find a way to make an art event out of so prosaic a thing as darning stockings. ““Mixture” Hose. Will it surprise you to know that one such person is not satisfied nor will attempt to make a darn in a “mixture” stocking without coming as near as possible to matching the threads of the darning cotton to the varied shades in the stocking? If one has a well stocked darning bag this is not difficult. Three or four spools are tried with the threads united in one strand and held to the stocking. With such care it becomes mose de- ceiving, where the stocking begins and the darn leaves off. ‘When Hole Threatens. It would be quite deplorable, and to be reckoned among the minor trage- dies of life, if one went forth confl- dently to an interview with the pecu- liar employer, thinking one’s heels well polished and one's stockings in excellent_condition, and then have a hole in the heel come after the stock- ing was put on and at just that no- ticeable spot above the shoe top. Embarrassment is often saved if one watches this vulnerable spot in a stocking heel when the bag is brought out for the contents to be mended. Any thinness there should be taken with as much seriousness, if not with | quite as much darning cotton, as a hole. “Footing™ to Mend. Another vulnerable spot in stockings of sllk is where the thin goods join the heavier toe section on the forward part of the foot. There seems to be a tendency for the more delicate threads to give way there. It has been found effective and easy to sew a small plece of footing (a most ap- propriate name) across the stocking, just at this place of joining. The foot Eoes in the stocking, and the foot is invisible. Catching a “Run.” A crochet needle and a darning needle may seem to have very little in common, but it has been proven that where a darning needle may fail a crochet needle has proved succes: It was a very handsome pair of cos! silk stockings in which a run fn a prominent place had appeared that was the cause of the experiment. Painstakingly, with a tiny crochet hook, the thread that had slipped was caught and crocheted, loop by loop, into place along the length of the run. Only on a very flne stocking should this method be practiced, and then only when the run is aery ap parent, as it is a delicate job, which calls for keen evesight. But there are occasions when it pays. of which the above mentioned was one. Match your stockings to darning materials by the color it looks to be when one thickness of it is over your hand. Alw: select a thread slightly lighter, as the darn will be heavier in texture than the stocking, and 5o look darker | ed me to expe than the rest of the stocking unless this precaution is taken. BY THORNTON W. BURGESS ing to cover them with her body. “I'm not going to buri tuew,’ de clared Peter testily. I didn’t know you had a nest here, Mrs. Teeter, or I vould have taken care not to frighten . You are the first one to find if declared Mrs. Tett “Oh, Peter, 1 am glad it was you and not Jimmy Skunk or Une’ Billy Possum or Black the Crow or some other egg-eater. Please promise me, Peter, that you won't tell anybody about this nest and these eggs.” Of course Peter promised. e and the Teeters were old friends and not for the world wouid he knowingly have brought trouble or worry to them. So he promised faithfully and tken started off for the Green Forest, while Mrs. Teeter settled down on 3 eggs and looked so much like her sur. rcundings that had you come along I am sure you would not have seen her until she moved. Up along the Laughing so into the Green Forest went He was greatly pleased at ha covered Mrs. Teeter's home. He even make himself think that he had done it through his own smart- ness, when all the time it had been b; ident and he knew it My, those were pretty eggs,” said Peter, talking aloud to himself as he squatted under a tree to rest. “Who sald alggs?” demanded a sharp voice above Peter’s head. ‘“Did vo’ all mention aiggs, nice fresh algzs Brook and Peter. Peter hastily looked up. Peering down at him was the sharp, shrewd face of Unc’ Billy Possum. fello. Unc’ Billy!"” exclaimed Peter. are vou this morning?” ine, Brer Rabbit. But Ah would finer still if Ah could get some nice h aiggs,” replied Unc’ Billy “Whose alggs were yo' mentioning Brer Rabbit? P startling style feature light and flexible. this difficult pattern and Prom Maker to Wearer REGAL Regal Factories, Whitman, Mass. 915-917 Penna. Ave. (Men's Exclusively) Open Satarday Evenings Mail Order Dent., 125 Sum ing dls- | THE EVENING STAR, BY RIPLEY. S - she became involved Argentina, 2. s Supremo,” Fifty-Third Day. | oo e AT SI OFF PUNTA DEL Pan America Line, March 19. on the genuine—especially when deal- ed ing in bottles or cities. The imitation 1y a million and a half. Five-sixths is never as good as the original, naturally Pocito: Atlantic City of South Americ as good as ESTE, ished! houses, most of them on wheels, which [even greater than Iguassu. continuously for ages! and proy fety. | Add three-fourt he | teaspoonful of grated lemon rind 16 coyness as nobody would give second 1 | extre than I am somewhat disappoinied in th pful of sug South American beauties. The movies | one-fourth teaspoonful. each of and the musical revues up home had |1eg and cloves. Add the beat better things. I have tour eggs. one cupful been traveling down around this coun- | try for nearly two months now and 1| | haven't seen anything resembling the | vigusly stoned. Lastly, beat lightly beauteous dark-eved Spi 1 genorita | tne stiffly beaten whites of the ¢ with the classic shawl draped about |pour into a buttered mold, stand her stately hips, a comb in her halr, a sifted crumbs from toasted bread quart box of black cherries WASHINGTON, T R TR g AR | | SRR SR e | | sy ey ([ s Whole | | | Ramble Around South America ||| %% % Deptores HOW IT STARTED A Brazil and Uruguay and when these three nations nsist | finished with her only 280,000 people remajned out of a population of near- so | the entire number of inhabitants per- But Paraguay is better known in the where rain! are drawn out into the water with| Here is the land of perpet There are thousunds upon thousands of women in the world who salt life horses, thus permitting the modest | “Believe Tt or Not,” in a forest be-| down with their tears, when they might just as well laugh senoritas to take their dips in privacy |side La Guayra rain has been falling; drew just the ordinary lot. which is a slice of lean and a slice of one | ;vm-‘l spend their evenings telling th several thicknesses of paper in a p: FRIDAY., MAY 15 , 1926. Feminine Weakness of Self-pity Drunk on Your Own Tears? |DorothyDix Some Women Get Greater Pleasure By Going On i a Debauch of Self-Pity Than They Do Out of Any Normal Form of Amusement. WOMEN'S greatest vice {s self-pity. It ruins more homes than the demon rum ever did. It makes more nervous wrecks of women than dope does, and the greatest blessing <hat could befall the feminine sex would be | to get some sort of Volstead act passed that prohibited it from getting drunk on its own tears. That would deprive a great many women of their chief indoor sport. which s bemoaning the hard lot they have in the world, for it is literally true that there are thousands of women who are never %o happy as when they are miserable, and who find their keenest pleasure in telling their secret griefs to all who will listen. Their idea of a perfect picnic is to rake up| every unpleasant thing that has happened to them in their lives and shed | barrels of tears over dead and buried troubles, Why women make & cult of melancholy nobody knows. They simply do. They reverence a woman who is a champion long-distance mourner and who can keep a wound open and bleeding for 40 vears. They speak of her with respect, as one who has “never got over” a grief, and feel that somehow it | reflects credit upon her. On the other hand. they look askance at a jolly | woman who laughs easily, and rate h frivolous and light-minded. | Women llke novels that are sad and depressing, and in which the | heroine, after enduring all the 57 varietles of misfortune. dies of a painful | and lingering malady, and they stmply cat up plays in which they can sit | and sniffle through five acts of unadulterated woe. The reason some husbands 80 seldom take their wives out in the evening is because the wnen want to go | and see something funny and full of pep, while the women yearn for (he“ drama that leaves a dark-brown, pessimistic taste in the mot ¢ | OMEHOW women feel that it fs wrong to be happy and to enjoy them- selves, and so they always keep the skeleton at their feast. where they can rattle its bones. If they have plenty to eat today, they take away their | appetite by thinking how terrible it would be if they should starve 10 years | hence. If their children are strong aund husky, they lle awake at night thinking how awful it would be if they should be run over by a flying machine. And when they can find nothing else to worry over, the; \'erl in| the danger of losing their husbands’ love, and about men who s as the house cat falling vict!ims to vamps in beads and long Now, when you tell women that t from coddling their troubles, real and of | them, they deny the allegation with v Nevertheless, it is true. They martyrdom or else they would refuse t The real explanation of why the dr habits and takes in boarders to worry a_queer, morbid pleasure | nd making the most of remence som secret . thrill ¢ yr ard’s wife endures his disgusting for d why the wife 1 it of | | him Jers yrand. But ve ood, | United States as the place support 20 vears :.‘l?eriirmi e 2 guassu falls, Iguassu is the greatest | of the brute who beats her up sweurs to her neighly she got her | There are splendid hotels waterfall in the world. It it far greater | bruises by falling against the door is be ands furnish | parks and gardens, and a lovely in every way than Niagara—twice as| them a real, first-class. ) tor beir e and for self-pity plande skirts the shore for se wide and 50 feet higher. That makes up to them for all they Lave to nd probably in the miles to Trouville, another tashionable | There is another waterfall that we | secret souls they are sorry for the poor. unfortuna smen who are marrie beach. The “playa,” or seashore, is|never hear of, called La Guayro, hid-| to good. kind men, who pamper and spoil them and who are reduced to the | spotted with colorful little bathing |den up in the jungles. It is said to be [ pitiful expedience of having to invent their uwn troubles They have neither poverty nor riches nejther They The shy exclusiveness of the fair| It is caused by the mists arising| paupers. They have comfortable homes bathers is almost amusing. I think |irom the falls. BN, S chiliren s TR N Ee 5 Lo the [the girls are flattering themselves a S— . ige All would be well if these women would bu e bit. Unle: my eyes deceive i ife as they find it, 1 would do their work ¢ | know that if thev were on Black Cherry Pudding. \:as 1o more than their part, and woman v onr beaches at home they could af-| Dissolve in two cupfuls of rich!home for her man and brinzs up family of chile ford to dispense with some of their|..eam one-half a cupful Lutter. | £reat and glorious career; and if they w make the most of t | virtues und minimize their shox com!ng UT these lachrymose ladies spend tl They pity themselves beca ot dof something exciting, thiemselves because they have to stay of going to cabarets. pity themse husbands do not w beautiful they are, and what lovely it with beefsteaks instead of violets instead They pity nstead « queen movie yme at night with the baby eyes they have, and because as € on Probably these women zet m ) | elf-pity than they would out of oing 1 of <e debauches of but it \s rose in her teeth, and red heels on|gjled with hot water to reach hal rd on their families, and it para heir faculties and kills all ene and her shoes. Neither have I caught sight |yay up the pudding mold, and bake tiative just as much as dope w | ot the lovelorn Romico with a red sash | yntil the pudding is firm. Serve witl | Wherefore 1 wish that some law could be passed prohibi men about his waist, banging a guitar be- |, hard sauce flavored with grate | rom Indulging in more than 2.45 per cent of near woe and thus cure th jneath the latticed window that juts|jemon rind | 't the self-pity habit. DOROTHY DI out on the vellow wall with roses nda, ete. | Maybe they do | hips as they ! but T insist ceping up the ve Now, I ay be wrorn bang guitars and drape do on the s at ho | that they are mighty usive about it. I have ceased altogether to belleve the shawl draping. When T sailed | South America all of my girl shouted in unison: “Oh sweet boy, bring me back a nice pretty Span ish shawl—won't you?" It begins to look like I won't. The boys and girls down here are, too busy trying to ape French fash-| fons to bother about draping Spanish | shawls or tickling helpless guitars. The‘t other reason may be because it ob- | viously requires more than one shawl hips in to drape most of the stately South America. am back on boar a souther! nd Punta del 1 is 1bout as far south of the equator as | Kansas City is north From that point on I will be homeward bound The c ed of Monte video has faded from ~the little | mountain whence the name | “Montevideo.” Tt is the only hill love 1 miles up the Parana | la F In fact the rest bump on the landscape is a all sized mountain near the city suncion, the capital of Paraguay I would have enjoved golr guay, isolated in the center of South erica, is a countr with a most ordinary history: and As- uncion. although 800 miles from the {sea. was founded in 1336—over 7 { vears prior to the establishinent | the it Eng colc in North | America. About 60 vears ago this lit | tie country underwent one of the mos | disastrous wars on When- un- der the rule of . “ELj It prevents from costly Ruasia ‘White Calt | the next poet laureate is chose: | combination m FEATURES. BY JEAN NEWTON. “Poet Laureate.” From our school days most of us have sensed romance in the title of “poet laureate,” which is conferred upon only one poet in England, to be held by him until his death. The term “laureate “laurel,” and the refere frem ce is to the old custom at the KEnglish universi- ties of presenting those recelving de- comes rees in poetry and rhetoric with a wreath of laurel. This was an an- cient custom, the Greeks heing known to have so crowned their popular poets. The title was first 1670. The early poet laureate was an officer in the greatly beloved king's household, whose business it was to compose an ode for the king's birth- day and other important occaslons. The modern title, however, 1s purely honorary. 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