Evening Star Newspaper, June 16, 1925, Page 30

FE ATURES. _THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 1925. Adapted to Warmest Summer Days BY MARY MARSHALL. W&t for over a century have wom- en's tashions been so well suited to the warm days of at present. When meant the wearing of Stiff corsets, starched pet‘icoats, long, full skirts usually linec with silk; high collars and long har done a la pompadour, :mmer as they are to be in fashion TE _ JUMPER SAILOR COLLAR BROWN AND AND FROCK EDC BEIGE WITH A THE HAT IS MADE OF BROWN AND BEIGE RIBBON. WITH WITH RIBBON then it was small wonder that women sometimes used to give up the pursuit of the mode entirely on and retire to their darkened rooms, sans any of the equipment of fashion, to remain there invisible until the thermometer dropped. Now dressmakers make special al- lowance for very warm days in Sum- mer. Underthings are reduced to a minimum of weight and complexity Stockings are of the sheerest and shoes even in Winter are feather light. Skirts are short with fullness added only for the sake of giving greater freedom. To be sure, the tendency is in favor of long or longer BEDTIME STORIES Peter as Wise as Before. Watch out for those with movements quick, Lest they deceive you with a trick. —Old Mother Nature. Of course you have guessed that the five family cares of Mrs. Chipmunk were five babies. Peter Rabbit never had seen a baby Chipmunk. For that matter, very few people have. Peter had seen half-grown children of Striped Chipmunk, for then they were big enough to come out and follow their mother about. But the bables he never had seen, and so when Mrs. Chipmunk invited him to follow her to see them he was delighted. You know just how S. CHIPMUNK RAN ALONG ON TOP OF THE OLD STONE WALL. curious Peter is. So he prepared to follow Mrs. Chipmunk. Little Mrs. Chipmunk ran along on top of the old stone wall. Perhaps I should say she whisked along the top of the old stone wall. Peter hopped along just below, keeping his eves on little Mrs. Chipmunk. Suddenly she disappeared. She had gone down be- tween the stones in the old wall. Peter climbed up. He couldn’t get very much more than his nose between those stones. You should have seen the disappointed look on his face. He hadn't a doubt that this was the en- trance to the home of little Mrs. Chip. munk. “Hurry up, Peter: hurry up. T can't wait for you all day,” cried a sharp voice. There on top of a big stone further along the old stone wall sat Mrs. Chipmunk. ‘Excuse me,” cried Peter. “I took this for the entrance to your home, and T was wondering how I was going to get in.” He jumped down and raced after Mrs. Chipmunk. The way in which little Mrs. Chip- munk hopped in and out between the stones in that old wall was very per- Though kind and proper I appear It often gives me quite 2 jar To look beneath my entle acts And fathom what my motives sre! | H N S WORN | BROWN RIBBON TIE. | warm days | |sleeves, but fortunately we have { valiantly withstood the efforts of the |dressmakers to bring back high col- |lars for day wear. | "Some women never like to face really warm weather save in cotton |or linen. This is characteristic of | many American women. Georgette | has much to recommend it, however, and so has chiffon. It is thinner and lighter than most of the cotton and linen materials, and to the mind of the French woman, at least, gives one an air of being better dressed The sketch shows a_ thoroughly up- to-date frock well suited for one of our glorious American “hot spells.” | It is of beige georgette, consisting of | a jumper blouse and a short pleated skirt mounted on a thin underbodice. The sailor collar, cuffs and pockets are bound with brown ribbon, which also forms the tie. The beige hat is trimmed with the same brown ribbon. (Copyright, 1925.) SUMMERTIME BY D. C. Touch-Me-Not. In the low, rich woods along the Potomac, and the alluvial thickets of Analostan Island, dim now with| heavy foliage. but luminous with a gentle emerald t. look this week for the touchmenot or jewelweed, one of the stran little flowers that grows. You may find the com- mon sort, with orange petals thickly strewn with spots of reddish brown, or, if luckier, you will chance upon the rarer sort that has clear lemon | vellow flowers. Every vear the jewelweeds come up in a different place. for they are but annuals, never growing again in exactly the same spot. Up from the soft, mucky soil straight stems push, slender and watery almost to transparency, and at the summit nod the curious little spurred blossoms on threadform stalks, so slender that it seems as though even a June breeze would dis lodge them. Each flower is like a tiny trumpet, with flaring lips and narrow tube. Into these slender sal- vers the butterflies send cown long, curling tongues to sip the dewy nec- tar of the flower. But when the flowers have faded and the seeds are set we may dis- cover the origin of the curious name of touch-me-not, for at the least con- tact, the mere brushing of a passing animal or a man, the titillation of the | finger, the seed pods burst open from the force of tiny coiled springs re- leased, throwing the seeds far out into the air The sensitive plant is centainly sensitive, but the touch-me-not is the touchiest plant in the vegetable king- dom. Unlike very touchy people, however, it has some method in its , for it is hard to surpass er method of dispersing the seeds of a plant which have no down to aid them, as have the milkweed and the thistle PEATTIE. the Strawberry Tapioca. | Cook four level tablespoonfuls of | minute tapioca in two cupfuls of boil- | |ing water for 15 minutes. Add two | cupfuls of ripe strawberries with one |cupful of sugar and cook until the | strawberries are tender. Cool a little, add cne tablespoonful of strawberry lextract_and pour into a deep glas | dish. Beat up two cupfuls of cream |and add two tablespoonfuls of sugar |and half a teaspoonful of vanilla ex- tract. When the tapioca is cold, deco- Irate the top with the whipped cream and ripe strawberries. BY THORNTON W. BURGESS plexing. Could you have watched her rou would have thought that she was aying a game of “Now you see me |and now vou don' Peter began to suspect that. “Why don't you keep out in sight where a fellow can watch you?" he complained. “Are yuo having me?" asked little | eyes twinkling. m_sorry. _ You | shouldn’t be so slow, Peter. Never | nfind: we are most there.” | Once more she disappeared between the stones of the old wall. It was down |in the corner nearest the Green For- |est. Peter found that this time he could get in between the stones. In fact, he had hidden in there many times. It was a place quite familiar to him. “This is funny,” thought Peter. “I've been here times without number and never have seen anything that looked like the entrance to anybody’s home.” He looked about carefully, but saw nothing that looked like the home of any one, nor did he see Mrs. Chip- munk. “Where are you?" cried Peter; “where are you, Mrs. Chipmunk?” “Right on my doorstep, waiting for you. Do hurry, Peter,” replied the voica of little Mrs. Chipmunk. But for the life of him Peter couldn’t tell where it came from. “Which Mrs. Chipmunk? Which way lled Peter. “This way,” replied Mrs. Chipmunk. “This way. Hurry up, because I have got to see that those babies are all right.” Now this way didn't mean anything at all to Peter. You see, he was un- able to tell from just what direction that voice came. it was very provok- ing. Peter began to be a little bit cross. “Why don't you show yourself where a fellow can see you?" he cried. “Why don’t you move quick enough to keep up?” retorted little Mrs. Chip- munk, and still Peter couldn't tell from just what direction that voice came. He knew that it was from some- where under the stones of that stone wall. He popped his head out from between the stones f8r another look around. He was just in time to see the funny tail of Mrs. Chipmunk whisk out of sight farther along the old stone wall. Then Peter realized that little Mrs. Chipmunk was simply playing tricks on him. She could dodge in and out of such small places that it was perfectly useless for him to even think of trying to follow her, as he should have known in the first place. (Copvright_1925. by T Y. Burcess)) trouble following Chipmunk, her TRY LEMON JUICE TO WHITEN SKIN The only harm- less way to bleach the skin white is to mix the juice of two lemons with three ounces of Or- chard White, which any druggist will 5 supply for a few- cents. Shake well | in a bottle, and you have a whole quarter-pint of the most wonderful skin whitener, soft- ener and beautifier. Massage this sweetly fragrant lemon bleach into the face, neck, arms and hands. It can not icritate. Famous stage beauties use it to bring that clear, youthful skin and rosy- white complexion; also as a freckle, sunburn and tan bleach. You must mix this remarkable lotion yourself. It can mot be hought ready to use because 1t acts best immadistaly after it is prepared. - | arrangement of furniture. HOME NOTES BY JENNY WREN. The style tendency away from floor lamps has brought about a demand for small stands to_hold table lamps. The floor lamp has taught us the fmportance of a good reading light beside each easy chair and encouraged a more dignified and well-distributed It probably will still be used and liked in many households, but if you are planning to buy a new lamp it would be wiser to_choose a table lamp. Very popular among the newly popular small tables to hold table lamps is the snake foot light stand. This type of stand was widely used during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and is suitably associated with furniture of the same periods. (Copyright. 1925.) What TomorrowMeans to You BY MARY BLAKE. Gemini. The planetary aspects indicate that you will experience tomorrow a sense | of restlessness, doubt and dissatls- faction. Under such conditions, noth- ing that calls for any important de- cision should be attempted. If, owing to circumstances bevond your con- trol, matters cannot be deferred, you would do well to seek advice and counsel from others. As far as pos sible only customary and routine duties should receive attention, and, even in the discharge of these, yvou will find it essential to exercise a good deal of self-control in order to be able to concentrate your thoughts on the task, apparently unimportant though it may be. In the evening a betterment of influences will be noted, and this should spell contentment and tranquillity in the home or social circle. Much trouble and according to the signs the child born tomorr It will suf- fer from frequent flinesses, and at such times will require the best of care and the most vigilant attention, if it is to develop, later on in life, along normal physical lines. Its dis: position promises to be more wav ward than obedient, and when its will is crossed serious ebullitions of temper may be anticipated. This ten- dency can be overcome by firmness and an absolute refusal to budge from that which is right and proper. This child will be ambitious, but, at no time, will it display those qualities of veness” which are so necessary to insure success. It will be bright and keenwitted, but more ef- fervescent than solid. If tomorrow is your birthday, you are quite idealistic, and live very much in Utopia created by your own | vivid imagination. You are by mnolf means practical, and are_more of a dreamer than a -doer. Your tastes are artistic, and do not harmonize with the ideas of the “work-a-day" world. If you find yourself in a humdrum, uncongenial occupation, you are a square peg in a round hole, and should seek some other and more suitable outlet for your activities. Your nature is both sympathetic and loving, and, in your way, you are very demonstrative, if not gush- ing. The cares and responsibilities of home life annoy you. Its pleas ures and comforts, however, make a strong appeal to you. So long as harmony and freedom from cares prevail you are at once happy and contented. Any trouble or deviation from the paths of peace and accord renders you irritable and ill-tempered. Well known persons born on this date are: Joshua Humphrey, ship builder; Samuel Wlilliston, philan- thropist: David Ames Welis, econo- mist; George H. Babcock, engineer and inventor; Charles Frohman, theatrical manager, and Edward J. Berwind, financier. (Copyright, 1925.) unquietude is, in store for Fudge Squares. Melt two squares of chocolate over hot water, add one-half a cupful of butter, stir until the butter melts, then set aside. Beat three eggs and add one cupful of sugar gradually. Sift together three-fourths cupful of flour, one-half a teaspoonful of bak- ing powder and one-half a teaspoonful of salt. Add to the eggs one cupful of chopped walnuts and one teaspoon- ful of vanilla, then add the chocolate mixture. Spread in a shallow greased pan measuring 10 by 15 inches, and bake for about 20 minutes in a moder- ate oven and cut in two-inch squares while warm. For the unusual in real Silk Dyeing try ‘THE NON-BOILING SUX DYE - Only Glorient will give you erfect Glorient results. ed- silks not only be- come new in exquisite color, but in remarkable lustre and firm texture. DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX Advice on Naming a Baby—Does a Man Have to Stand a Wife Who Does Not Attempt to Make a Happy Home? DEAR DOROTHY DIX: We have a baby 3 days old, and both my husband and myself want to name her Elenora. But its grandmothers on both sides insist upon the baby being named after them. Must we name the baby Elenora or after her grandmothers? MOTHER AND FATHER. Answer: Please yourself in the matter. I think the name Elenora is beautiful, stately and dignified. Any baby should be proud to wear it. It seems to me that any woman who goes through the agony of bearing a child has the right to select its name, so long as she keeps within the bounds of 800d taste and does not give the youngster a name that will mortify it.. As for naming the baby after its grandmothers, the wisdom of that depends entirely on what sort of name the grandmothers have. Family names should not be perpetuated if they are hideous and unmelodious. That some ancestor groaned under the name of Hezekiah, or Obediah, or Jeremiah is no excuse for wishing such a curse on a poor, little, defenseless infant Stop the family name right there. Mr. Shakespeare asks, “What's in a name?” and opined that what we call a rose would smell as sweet by any other name. That is where he was Wrong. A name makes a lot of difference, especially to a woman who has to be called Mary, or Gladys, or Hannah Jane by her family as long as she lives. So you owe it to a girl baby to give her a moniker to which she will enjoy answering. In naming a girl baby, bear in mind that she will grow up and grow middle-aged and fat or scrawny, and so give her a name that will stand the wear and tear of life without becoming a joke. It is all very well to name an infant in the cradle Lily, or Violet, or Birdle, but is she going to look the part of Lily, or Violet, or Birdie when she is 507 And the same objection applies to naming a girl after some high-faluting and romantic heroine in a novel or play. Are you sure enough that she has the earmarks of a vamp and a charmer about her to make her seem as if the name belonged to her instead of being a ludicrous misfit? We have all seen %0 nany Dominis, and Gwendolyns, and Olgas who were just plain Sally nns. And, for pity's sake, don’t name a boy after some famous man. It is a handicap that he never gets over. He never lives up to his namesake. Think of the George Washingtons you have known who were phenomenal tliars, of the thin little anemic Grover Clevelands, of the meek and deprecating Theodore Roosevelts, who had no initiative and were afraid of their own shadows! Give the baby a short name and one that comes trippingly to the tongue, and may she live to wear it long. DOROTHY DIX. o e e . EAR DOROTHY DIX: I am_a man who faces hell in daily living, and working, and in my home life. What can I do with & woman who is a living talking machine, whose mouth is so wide that she puts her foot in it every time she opens it, but who never speaks a kind word to me: who has no use for me except on pay day? I am a good worker, but my wife keeps me in debt by her extravagance. My salary is mortgaged for half the year to pay her Christmas bills. Does a man have to stand a wife who does not even try to make him a happy home? A DOWNCAST HUSBAND. Answer: I do not think that any one is called upon to bear martyrdom and if you cannot induce your wife to treat you decently it seems to me that you are justified in leaving her. Perhaps if you were to go away, even for a short time, and let her find out what it is to wrestle with the_bills herself and make her own living she would be more appreciative of By you do for her and would realize how much she really cares for you. Many women only need a good jolt to wake them up and make them see how blessed they are in having good husbands. You say that vour working life is a hell, and your domestic life is a hell. Are you not unduly pessimistic? Are you not one of those who brood over little worries until they let them poison the whole life? We take out of things only what we put into them. you know. All work is hard. All labor by which we earn our dally bread gets to be monotonous. Every job becomes the grind in which we do the same things over and over again, and it depends on our own viewpoint whether this gets on our nerves or whether we find in it a perpetual interest. We can do our task without hope, without interest or ambition, and be bored to death with it. Or we can get a daily thrill out of it by putting our hearts as well as our backs into our work, always trying to do it better. And we can feel in it the pride of craftsmanship, which is one of the most soul-satisfying pleasures on earth. If we work in hell, it is a hell of our own making. And perhaps some of the hell of your domestic life is also of your making. It certainly is if you are always grumbling, and grouchy, and take nothing home with you but gloom. Consider these things and see if you cannot work out of your torment one way or the other. DOROTHY DIX. e e EAR DOROTHY DI} with a lady of difference in love? a fool? I am a young man of 17 and very much in love . Does 10 years' difference in age make any real The lady is rich compared to me. Am I a wise man or L. H. Answer: You are neither. You arc just a boy, and you don’t know what love means. However, you will be wise if yvou will regard this affair as a kindergarten course in sentiment and let it go at that. Nearly every boy falls in love with a woman much older than himself, and if she is the right sort of a woman this is a liberal education for him. It saves him from making a fool match with some silly little girl of his own age, because no womaan of 27 seriously considers a boy of 17, unless he is a millionaire baby and she is a eradle snatcher. Generally, the older woman just lets the boy hold her hand, and by the time he 18 tired of doing that she has formed his taste to a large extent, and taught him a lot about the ways of women, and wisely guided his footsteps through the mazes of a mere flirtation. And years afterward the boy meets her, and they have a good laugh together over his early infatuation. Chief among the women to whom men are grateful are the ladies who didn't marry {them in their salad days. s Ten years is far too much difference in age between a man and woman when it is on the woman's side. A woman is in reality always 10 years older than a man at the same age, and when you add another decade to it it makes her old enough to be his mother. Also, women age much more rapidly than men, and for this and various other reasons the man should always be the older. As for the woman having more money than you, that is immaterial. But don't worry over that or any other matrimonial problems for the next seven or eight years. DOROTHY DIX. (Copsright, 1925.) BEAUTY CHATS Teeth. BY EDNA KENT FORBES. £ood. from both the health and the beauty point of view. To be good Pop came home agen this afternoon without a new straw hat, ma saying. Now Willyum this is all I can bare and more than I can stand. You come rite up to the avenue with me this minnit and get a hat, theres a store up there with some perfeckly lovely looking hats in the window, she sed They allways look perfeckly lovely tn the window, but as soon as they get on my hed its a diffrent story, pop sed. Maybe if 1 stayed there in the window with them it would be all rite, he sed. And enyway it duzzent look manly for a man to Arag his wife along wen he goes to get a hat, he sed Dont worry, Im the one thats doing the dragging, lets get started, ma sed Wich they did, me going with them to see wat happened, and the hat store was full of men trying on straw hats and taking them off and trying on other ones and looking in the looking glass with a ixpression as r“ they dident know wat to think. Pop saying, Yee gods, Im the ony man heer thats got his wife with him, lets come back wen its not so crowded. I never herd enything so silly in my life, try this one on, ma sed. And she took one off of a shelf and handed it to pop and he put it on in frunt of a looking gla dooce, look me, they think I havent got sents enuff to choose a hat for myself. Well then they think rite, and be sides, nobody is looking at you, try this one on, ma sed Wich pop did, saying, Its werse if possible, wares a salesman? Wat is this, a hat store without salesmen, I must be a pritty looking site standing heer having my wife hand me hats. O hush up and try this one on, ma sed, wich pop did, saying, It mite be all ‘rite i it was enyware neer my size, it looks like a misplaced peenut, vee gods I cant stand this Theres one over there that a man jest_put down, it looks perfeckly won- derfill, Il go over and get it, ma sed Wich ‘she did, ony wen she got back pop wasent there on account of hav- of the store. RENCH'S Cream Salad Mustard is to individual dishes what sparkling con- wversation is to a meal—it en- livens with distinction. In the sauce,in the salad dress- ing,inthe soup,in thecooked dishes, French’s banishes the commonplace and mag- nifies flavor in a way abso- lutelyirresistible tothetaste. ....Don't order just “mus- tard” —specify French’s Cream Salad Mustard. Made only by The R. T. French Company CREAM SALAQ Mus saying, It looks like the | all those men looking at | ing put on his own hat and snuck out You an d d on this —it's teed. No boil- ing, No muss. 18 colors, fadeless-to-light. So many troubles have been traced to the teeth lately that most good doc- tors are sending their patients for thorough dental examinations when- ever they suspect any sort of septic center in the system. A tooth with a dead nerve, or a crown tooth, can be the cause of such apparently unre- lated troubles as boils or anemia, or even worse ailments, and of any num- ber of minor complaints. Even the best dentist cannot trace these septic foci, as the doctors call them, without the aid of the X-ray. So, if you have some stubborn phys- ical trouble, and yet apparently the healthiest teeth, ask your physician or your dentist whether an X-ray would not be advisable. For your comfort, in case you have never had it done, the taking of X-ray plctures is neither terrifying nor painful. You bite on a wedge of wood holding a tiny film, and the picture is taken without your knowing it at all or feel- ing anything. Such a thorough examination of the teeth as only the X-ray can give is As often as he wants it . « . and Perfect every time your husband’s Favorite Dessert! IT'S so quick and easy to make delicious pies with Mrs. Watson’s wonderful home- made Pie Crust dough. Mrs. Watson does all the troublesome looking your mouth must have strong, clean, even teeth. With the X-ray's ald, your dentist can prevent troubles that might lead to false teeth and the resultant ugly sunken mouth. So, if possible, have this done, it is more than worth the expense. To keep your teeth in good condi- tion, learn to like coarse foods that clean the teeth in Nature's way— whole wheat bread, raw fruit, cereals, toast, salads and such things. Clean the teeth after breakfast and before bed, with a stiff brush having a blob on the end, so it will reach all the spaces between the teeth. Use an an. tiseptic gargle nightly. R. O. N.—It is possible that your pimples reinfect the skin so that they continue to break out even though your system has been cleared of the trouble that caused them at first. Try an olntment in which there is some sulphur, or just dust some flour of sulphur on them once a day when vou can keep them covered with it for an hour or two. WOMAN'S PAGE. For health and strength eat SHREDDED§ WHEAT Most food_for least money : Triscuit . The Shredded Wheat Cracker is in Town! 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