Evening Star Newspaper, May 22, 1925, Page 37

WOMAN’S PAGE. Smart Dressing BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. Dressing for steamer travel isa prob- lem to many people who are contem- plating a sea voyage. To be appropri- ately costumed is a matter not merely of style, but also of comfort Wwho have not crossed before others whose crossing has not of recent date, there are some su S- tions which ‘can be made here and will prove helpful The personal wardrobe should be as- sembled with several things in mind It is gauged, in the first place, by the steamer on which one travels. If ft is & class boat, and you are traveling nd for SPORT CLOTHE TIAL FOR SHIPBOARD _AND SMALL HATS SHOULD ALWAYS BE WORN. first cabin, your wardrobe will need to be varied according to the ious hours and occasions which demand a | change of costume. Dressing for din- ner, whether or not it has been a habit t home, becomes one on shipboard, under these condition: Not the elab- omte evening gown, nor the “fixy” one is desirable, nor even in the best of taste. One? Several! There should not be less than three. There need not be more than five. The main thing is that they should not be of the sort that is most easily perishable. ateroom accommodations and travel make it hard to keep in good shape those gowns which demand constant pressing or cleaning. Let simplick of line and richness of color be your first aids to the dinner gown for ship- board A topcoat of tweed or homespun, a IN THE GARDEN As Reported by Elizabeth Urquha Back Yards Beautiful. “I begin to see possibilities in back vard gardening,” 1 conceded, what are vou going to do wi back-yard fence, Mr. Burbank the oughly enjoying the task of untan- gling difficulties, and he said at once “Where the back vard is inclosed by a brick or cement wall the matter is simple enough, but where it is of rough unpainted lumber, with Posts on the inside— “It is uncompromisingly ugl said. “It is not beautifui Burbank, “but it may be made so in more ways than one. First, the posts can be boxed in with eight-inch boards and with a 10-inch square board on top for a finish. “On this may be placed an orna- ment of some kind, or small box filled with potting soil and planted with trailing vines, such as nasturtium, ivy geranium, vinca major (myrtle), or even clematis paniculata, which re- joices in the name of Virgin's Bower, and whose delicate trailing branches may be trained along the fence or treilis, and whose clouds of white bloom in Spring are a joy." “How would a trellis look above this homel, fence—or a band of square lattice work?” “Very well,” agreed Mr. “Indeed. the portion « above the crosspieces m out in curves, or increased in height by a trellis or by narrow palings, or by an open, well spaced lattice. “Or, if the gardener must be his own carpenter, it might be simpler to extend the posts above the fence and stretch heavy wire or wire netting be- tween them, and on this vines or climbing roses may be trained. “I begin to reailze that it is a mat ter of a litde mechanical ingenuity and planning,” T said, “and I have a suggestion to add. Could not the en- 1 ' conceded Mr. Burbank. the fence y be sawed Thet we pursuve our solemn lives Upon 2. rolling, exrth thought to me I simply scream with helpless mirth. .sp'mmng Srisassssasassaniasesassacsee o those | | day from a few years ago. “but | By this time Mr. Burbank was thor- | the | for Ocean Trips good-looking wrap and a light and heavy sweater will be needed. The wrap might be part of a silk ensem- ble suit, or it may be a garment by tself. Its needs are not confined to | wear over an evening gown. Ships.are more or less drafty places. You | want something attractive in appear- ance an. not too heavy, which will be |just the thing when a little draft | threatens to make you shiver. A good- | 1ooking wrap is also needed when go- | ing from one part of a ship to another. | Sport Clothes Essential. People, Steamer travel, do it somewhat differently to- There was A time when ‘“old clothes for ship- rd” was the motto to some, and they were packed in a trunk and left ed at the dock until needed for ge. The thing has been 1e more natural now. In the main u dress for your nicer occasions as »u were at home or in the country. the ultra smart try to parade a costume every day, sport re the essentlals, in whatever or company you travel. A suit definite piace in the wardrobe. <ind of walsts you wear with it help transform according to your nee g, it it 15 not a one-plece frock |« ih coat. There should be several talored walsts and at least one of beaded georgette, crepe de chine or printed silk. Hats Must be Small. It you are inclined toward large hats, you had better curb this incli- | nation on shipboard. Close hats are | the vogue. A close felt or straw in a sport model will serve you most often |and with smartest effect. A scarf there should be, neither large nor long, but gaily patterned to make a note of color on the breeze when it threatens to snatch it from your neck. Footwear. Shoes are such a nuisance to carry around with you and so heavy that it is_ver nice to be able to get the effect of variety in the colorful stock- Ings one wears. With stockings well chosen and matched, one could almost get along with one pair of dressy, black shoes, one of semi-dress whits one gray pair and a pair of brown sport. But such moderation in foot- wear is only desirable when the trip is to be brief. If there is any likeli- | hood that your stay will outlast the | wearing capacity of your shoes, you | had better have some extra palrs to depend upon, as it is not so easy to buy satisfactory shoes abroad as it is in America. Dressing for Weather. in preparing for | On shipboard one dresses for the weather. You must be prepared, espe- | cially if your route is a Northern one, | to meet cold weather in brave attire of suit and topcoat, or, if Southern, be ready to greet the Summer suns | and soft breezes on short notice, as if | you'd been expecting them all along A little silk sweater and sport skirt | will give this impression. Without {any special cold or warm routes, this |1dea of dressing for the weather Is e: sential. There are likely to be da | that are cold as well as‘those that ma | be balmy if you are sailing in the Sum- mer. Your wardrobe on shipboard must be sufficlently adaptable for you to be correctly and comfortably cos- tumed at all times. WITH BURBANK rt and Edited by Luther Burbank. itire fence be covered with |after the posts are boxed i | . “That would look very well,” agreed { Mr. Burbank, “if the strips were 1 inch wide and the squares measured about 10 inches. Then the lattice and |the posts could be painted a dark | green or, a soft brown, which might | set off better the roses and vines.” ! "“We might even have a fruit tree {trained against the wall fence, as in | English gardens,” T said, with increas- ing_enthusiasm. | “Dwarf fruit trees could be planted |at each post, or berries, but always on the sunny side of the vard,” cau- | tioned Mr. Burbank. “And the lattice |should be 3 or 4 inches out from | the fence for ventilation and in the | case of grape vines it should be even | farther.” “What should go on side?” “English ivy, periwinkle or myrtle, and if not too shady, Virginia creeper or Boston fvy. And, as I said. the fence may be built up higher and pos- sible unsightly surroundings shut out. And on the other hand, if there be another garden or a clump of trees near by or a bit of view, this outside | beauty may very Well be included in your own garden by making vistas through the trees or vines.” (Copyright, 1 lattice the shady HOW IT STARTED BY JEAN NEWTON. The “Mackintosh.” The mackintosh has become so familiar an object in the household that we do not stop to think of its origin or how it came by its name. We are concerned, more often, in eluding a mother’s or a wife's zeal- ous care which would burden us on | a hot summer's day with the protect- | ing_mackintosh! The word designates not only a! waterproof coat but the material of | which it is made. The mackihtosh is a little over a hundred years old, the first one hav- ing been’ produced in 1823. It de- rives its nmame from the inventor, Charles Mackintosh of Manchester, and had its origin in his experiments with india rubber and cloth. Mackin- tosh material was produced by ap- plying to cloth a solution of india rubber in coaltar naphtha, which re- sulted in absolutely waterproofing the material. Charles Mackintosh lived from 1766 to 1843, long enough to see his inven- tion put to practical purposes and to reap the rewards thereof. His name down to posterity with the be- ndustr: ) WILKINS BREAKFAST COFFEE THE EVENING STAR, Ramble Around South America BY RIPLEY. Fifty-Ninth Day. RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, March 26.—Rio provides a great show for her visitors. Aside from her natural wonders, there are many picturesque types and sights along her highways and byway their wares and clap their hands they move along balancing huge bun- dles contalning various kinds of offer- ings, oxen (there are no horses in Rio) plod slowly along between palm lined avenues, and ‘Leaos da Ave rida” (lions of the avenue) saunter along the Praca Marechal Floriano looking for girls to look over. It is the palms—not the lions—that are most characteristic of Rio, but even the “feather dusters of the god” that wave in every part of the city are not native to Brazil. Dom Joao VI, Prince Regent of Portugal, fleelng from the wrath of Napoleon, brought the first palm from the An- tilles and planted it in the botanical garden of Rio over 100 years ago. The original palm still stands, tower- ing to a height of 112 feet, and is honored by the country. On the railing surrounding this historic tree is a plaque on which 1 read this in- Scription: “Oreodxa Oleracea, Planted by Dom Joao VI, 1808. THE PALM MOTHER. Those of her species are cultivated in the country.” the day, and millions of reis, riding about the many lovely palm-lined lanes. 1 ascended Corco- vado, “The Hunchback,” although to view this mountain from the city seemed impossible that a Tailroad could be built up to its needlelike summit. I rod ont by the oceanside along Avenida Atlantica, past Leblon Beach to the American Club—which was de- serted except for a yawning bartender who used to work in Jack's, in New York. I watched them tearing down Morro Castello—Castle Hill—formerly a landmark of the city proper. And I pushed my way along the Rua da Ouvidor, the most crowded street in South America, “Now we must go to the Palace Hotel. Everybody goes there at 6 o'clock, you know,” explained Dick Hyman. “You will meet every Amer: n and Englishman in town.” They were all there evidently. The spacious barroom was crowded and the familiar rattle of the English lan- guage prevailed. As usual, in came I spent The points of ‘Wiss Manicure Scissors are sharp as needles. \ Used by ‘Wiss Barber Shears are used inthe busiest shops day-after- day—because they cut so easily and stay sharp 30 long. Remember to Street venders sing | it | A PALM AVENIDA many women. Wherever Americans and Englishmen go in foreign lands it seems that they are pursued by a mob of gold-digging damsels who em- ploy every manner and means to fleece them out of the well nown dol- lan—a coin that is never so popular as with those very same forejgner: WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, MAY 99 22, 1925. FEATURES. BY WILLIAM Walk and Save Your Life. Really big business men and women take time to play, cost what it may. The little fellow can’t see it that way. The best doctors give a lot of time to study, being great readers of the current medical literature, tendants at medical society meeting ors in elinics and post-graduate insti tutions. The little fellow is too busy to squander any time on these thin: Now, then, how is your blood pr sure? ' Well, anyway, listen to striking observation made by Dr. Henry K. Mohler in a study of hyper tension and hyperglycem! : of 46 cases: “Forty-five of the 46 pa- tients, when they came under our ob- servation, ranged from 1 per cent to 60 per cent overweight.” The 46 patients had not only high blood pressure but also too much sugar in the blood. All had some sugar in the urine, but in only 16 was the con ditfon considered fully developed dia betes. Twelve had albumen and hy- aline casts In the urine, and four showed albumen with hyaline and granular casts. These c s pretty certainly indicate nephritis, Bright’ disease. The high blood pressure in these 46 patients was not due to too much sugar in the blood and is not a con stant finding in diabetes. Just what did it mean, then? Dr. Mohler doesn't speak with too much conviction about that, but he conveys a good hint when he says: “These patients were in formed by us of the dangers of obesity and overeating, with the attendant re- sults of hypertension and glycosuria and advised to consult their physi clans, that their diets might be re that take such great delight in call- ing us “mone. Later Helena, Hyman's dined with us on the verghda of the Gloria in the moonlight, with fairyland of Botofago's sparkling waters and bejeweled sho; out spread before us. Helena is beautiful, with black eyes and snowy teeth, and a true Braziliar isly tried to teach me the Brazilian salutation, ‘A sua saude,” which is harder to pronounce than it looks, and laughed at my linguistic efforts. | *“Luco! luco” she laughed and 1 didn’'t blame her much for thinking me crazy until I found out that “luco’ meant ““good” and not what I thought it did and visit- | | symptoms could not r this ) fiancee, | the | PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE BRADY, M. D. lated.” (Hypertension is another term for high blood pressure, and glycosuria means sugar—glucose—in the urine.) | Ten of the 46 bad risks had no symptoms. hey would count them- | selves well. at because folks | don’t know what health means, and 't see the wisdom of running to a | until they get so sick they run at all. Tll wager my job the 10 bad risks that had no na mile in any | time. A lot of people who are equally bad risks and have no pres toms ought to know that a healthy adult not over 50 years of age should be able to run a mile ad lib., but don't know whether they could do it, be cause it is such an undignified thing to try. Imagine a refined lady of | considerable or a high tension gent, running along the street to try | | this ‘out—why, the cop at the first | corner would probably arrest the nut | as a suspicious character. Dignity is a deadly evil which tends to grow on one, once you give it a start High blood pressure « sion is often but not always feature of cardiovascular degeneration | (hardening of th rieries, chronic | nephritis, slow failure of the heart, ipoplexy). Let that sing in, fat folk nd then listen to another of Dr. Mohler's observations: “Obesity fre quently favors the development of tic (that means degenerative) changes in the body, which are ca pable of producing an increase in the | blood pressure and a diminished abil- | ity of the body cells to utilize car- bohydrate. Degenerative changes that take place in the body, when affecting the structures involved in drate metabol (that me | utilization of starches and su, necessity must Impair ind result in hyperglyce: sugar in the blood) | slucose in the urine). t don't be downhearted, fat folks. |T've got a nice spring tonic for you one which will purify your blood and | everything | If you're a big one, this tonic will | do vou a lot of good. If you're a little | fellow, you can't afford it. | The'remedy is oxygen F e dose is 2 miles. | 4 he hoo. | For S three times | day. | can’t | that hyperten an early ans the ars), of heir efficiency | ria (too much | nd glycosuria | a | | | | turned police head- | Double~ Thick Post |on the wing to have | with any bird smaller t bohy- | | Discussion in 0ld Orchard. Youll find it true almost alway, The bravest have the least to LD ‘MOTH There was a warm discussion early one morning in the Old O d over Scrapper the Kingbird. It didn't take place when rapper was about, but when he was busy getting his break- fast. Jenny Wren started it. Flirting her taH in that saucy way she has, she said: “Tut, tut, tut, tut, tut! T don't see vhat ‘there is about Scrapper the Kingbird to make such a fu about. What if he did drive off Blacky the Crow yesterday? Blacky is too slow chance NATURE. t a an he who I always have has more of a rves.” declared Dear is related to you know. “It Cousin Scrapper is quick on the wing. thought that Scrapper reputation than he des It is no such thin, Me the Phoebe, who Scrapper, as, of course is no such thing! Hisor NY; YOU MEAN OT A BILL “EXCUSE ME, A VOIC the bravest bird in the Old Orchard, and you know it, Jenny Wren! like to know who it was if not you who called for him to drive Black Pussy out of the Old Orchard yester- day. And he did it, didn't he?” Jenny Wren tossed her head. “Tut. tut, tut, tut, tu said she. “I wouldn't go so far as to say that he did it. It struck me that nearly every one in the Old Orchard had a bill that affair. “Excuse me, Jenny, you mean a voice, not a biil,” interrupted Welcome Rot “Perhaps you were not near n BEDTIME STORIES Td | BY THORNTON W. BURGESS enough to see well, but it was Scrap- per who was the leader and who was | the boldest and bravest. Scrapper is smaller than I, but I for one am not | ashamed to admit that he is braver than I. Iam always glad when Scrap | per arrives in the Old Orchard, for 1 know that then there will be some one on guard whom we can trust.” “Pooh!" retorted Jenny Wren. “He sits up there watching for flies and ou foolish birds think he is on guard. “Didn't he discover Redtail the Hawk headed this way yesterday and £0 out and meet him and drive him away?” demanded modest little Dear Me the Phoebe. Jenny Wren was forced to admit that this was true, but she pretended to think it cpin't amount to much, and the way she used that sharp tongue of hers soon had all her neighbors disputing. This was all she was after, and chuckling to herself she withdrew The fact is she had quite as high an opinion of Scrapper the Kingbird as did any of his neighbors. She liked t« start a_discussion just for mischief and to hear the other feathered folk and see how excited some of them got. So all unknown to himself Scrapper the Kingbird and his boldness and bravery were much discussed, and some there were who were inclined to speak lightly of Scrapper and say that 50 far as they were concerned they didn’t believe half the things that were told of his fear! “I don't believe Scrapper from King Eagle himself, Pewee, his small cousin But th! was too much for even Scrapper”: stoutest champions, and they all laughed. *“I don't care if you | do laugh; I believe just what I said,” | persisted little Pewee stoutly. “I wish King Eagle would come this way and {then you would see whether or not Cousin Scrapper is afraid.” “What is all this talk about?” de manded Peter Rabbit, poking his head {out of the old stone wall. All talking at once they tried to tell Peter Rabbit what it was all about, |and while they were talking who should appear high up in the blue, blue sky but King Eagle himself, and it was Scrapper who first saw him and gave warning. 19! boasted by T. W. 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