Evening Star Newspaper, June 25, 1925, Page 38

FEATURES. The Appeal of the Toque BY MARY MARSHALL. That brilliant artist who paints his fctures not in ofl pigments on canvas, ut in silks and felts, feathers, rib- bons, bits of leather, metal and glass, osed this way and that on women’s eads—this extraordinary artist is quoted as having said that nothing that any or all of the milliners can 4o will persuade women to give up TWO JART NAVY BLUE WITH RIBBO MADE BATIN TOQUES, ONE OF 'RAW TRIMMED MOTIF. AND ONE ENTIRELY BLACK RIBBON. the cloche. The cloche they adore and the cloche they will continue to wear 80 long as they wear straight Ifttle frocks made as simply as can be. You might further observe that these simple little frocks, varving but slightly from season to season. will continue, too, so long as conditions of lUving are what they are. So ap parently there is no use longing for the return of the ornate, much-trim med, picturesque hat of the past. To be sure, wide-brimmed h; have come hoped. But they are really nothing more than plain little cloches with wide brims attached. Two shapes are spoken of as suc- cessful rivals of the well established cloche. They are the toque and the beretta. One of the most liked hats of the season—not only of the cloche genre—is a togque made of narrow ribbon. Sometimes the ribbon is black, with edges of cire straw, also black, and sometimes it is made of several shades of colored ribbon, especlally attractive in shades of violet. - The sketch shows two toques of the moment, one of navy blue straw trimmed simply with a small ribbon motif, and the other, of severer shape, made entirely of narrow black satin ribbons. In their simplicity these little toques are like the cloche, and are at their best only when conforming to the simplest lines. But usually the toque is not so easy to wear as the cloche, owing to the absence of brim. Contrary to popular opinion, the toque ought really to be reserved for the younger women. My Neighbor Says: When jelly will not jell, place the glasses in a large dripping pan of cold water, not close enough to touch. Put the pan in a hot oven and allow them to bake until jellied. This us- ually takes about three quarters of an hour. To produce the bitter taste in orange marmalade, do not peel the orange, but slice thin and use the naval orange. If the bitter taste is objectionable, peel and remove all the white, then slice thin. The yolk of an egg may be used as coloring for butter in stead of the vegetable coloring. A kneeling board, made from a thick board with a plece of carpet tacked over it, {8 found to be very useful for the gar- dener to kneel on when weed- ing. To sweeten rancid butter, put it to soak for a coupe of hours in cold water, to which a good pinch of carbonate of soda has been added. Then take out and place in a mold. Whenever you water the gar- den, soak the ground at least an inch deep. as a little water into some importance for Midsummer, though not as much as milliners had is worse than none at all. PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE BY WILLIAM BRADY, M. D. Deceiving the Doctor. Once I had a patient—for a or so. Needless to say this has a sad ending. But for or so my patient and I got very well together. 1 was fai est with him—which I now was a mistake—and he w. dishonest, which is always a mistake My patient had been a heavy drinker and he came under my observation with his arteries, kidneys, liver and things pretty badly damazed. But I follled him along and appealed to his sense of duty toward his family and all that sort of thing. and after a time he quit drinking. < promised me, and so he cons reassured me whenever we met. Al the while he was drinking, but per- haps as a mere symptom of his alco. hollsm he felt bound to re me that he had no further craving for drink. His arteries, Kidneys, liver and things remained in status quo. But we felt we were lucky to remain allve. One day my patient developed pneumonia. He was desperately ill with it. It was in February and the air was fine, so we gave him the air, the open air treatment horror of the neighbors an_alcoholic patient puts up a Aght, usually a losinz fight, against pneumonia. ~But my patient was not entirely outa luck. He came through Not entirely through, but he coasted slong smilingly for several days past the more or less w. k. “crisis,” and f was on the point of “pronouncing” the patient out of danger when—- fust as all the nelghbors had pre dicted—he up and had a chill and went into a high fever and delirium and everything, and after a day or two we found that he had developed empyema—which is an accumulation #f pus in the pleural cavity Well, it looked bad for L My erazy open air treatment seemed des. tined to eternal damnation in that neighborhood. But I was young and with all the nonchalan sang frold of youth I to the assembled family, neighbors and sight- seers who were trving to persuade the distracted family to can me and call in some good doctor—-that we were gonna operate at once. Then I argued the pros and cons with the assemblage on the one hand, while with the other T dragged the patient off to the hospital, and with both hands T operated on him. The opera- ton was a complete success, as such things go. The patient’s mind cleared up and he sailed along the unevent- | ful course of convalescence for just four day Then, quite suddenly, he fnformed the nurse he would have a drink. Certainly. She brought him A mug of Adam's ale. He sniffed at it and threw it on the floor. He | meant whisky. and be quick about | #t. Alas, the doctor had left no order for whisky and the nurse could not give him any. Maybe when the doc. tor came in the afternoon he would order some. But afternoon was long years away. The patient waxed wild again and tore the dressings off and dragged the | drainage tube out of his side and gen- erally made the welkin ring, and by | the time the doctor arrived the pa- | tient was raving in the conventional vear story vear along hon realize s fairly manner. picking at the bedclothes and deftlv dodging the lunges of three. headed cats and wicked assaults of cow-sized spiders and other creatures 100 gloomerous to mention. Of course this mania_exhausted what strength or vitality remained, and so the story endeth. Now I often think that maybe, if that patient had been honest with me, the sfory might have had a happy ending. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. Iodine in First Aid. I had a rash break out on my wrist and 1 painted the place with iodine and the doctor said I drove the poison in (it proved to be ivy poisoning), and now the calves of my legs and my feet are covered with it.—A. B. Answer. The iodine may not have been the best remedy, but you must have misunderstood what the doctor sald, for of course nothing of the sort could “drive poison in.” Ammonia water would have been a better first- aid application, had you suspected the nature of the trouble. A poison-ivy extract for hypodermic infection is now available to physicians, and one or two doses of such an extract—a homeopathic remedy — will bring prompt relief in many cases. Molas. s. Please let me know if a tablespoon- ful of molasses stirred into a glass of water and taken three times a day would benefit one’s health or harm it The brand of molasses I use contains sulphur dioxide. Is that a poison?— Mrs. J. E. Answer. Molasses is a good food, but of no particular medicinal value. In liberal quantities it is slightly laxa- tive. The amount of sulphur dioxide in molasses is probably harmless, but why not be a little crabid about and demand molasses without the sulphur dioxide? Old-fashioned molasses had that delectable flavor and contained no sulphur dioxide: the modern molasses contains a great deal of sulphur diox- ide, which is used in the sugar refin- ing to bleach the sugar. The Kind of molasses grandma used to give us for our bread tasted nothing at all like the sulphur and molasses concoc- tion that purports to be the real New Orleans product today. The old-fash- ioned kind was the product of the old-fashioned way of making sugar, by boiling the cane sirup in open ket- tles. Some molasses is still made in that way. The modern sulphur diox- | ide molasses is a by-product of the manufacture of sugar by the vacuum method, and in this process sulphur dioxide is generally used, for the badly educated public actually prefers a bleached white sugar to the natural brown article. The Groaners. So many people seem to have a touch of neuritis or rheumatism—is this caused by improper diet? Will ‘Turkish, vapor or sulphur fume baths help eliminate the poison?—J. C. J. Answer. Most of the people purport- ing to have such “touches” are just groaners. What poison do you refer to? I know of no poison which Turk- ish or vapor baths help eliminate, and sulphur fumes are used mainly to de- stroy vermin. remains white)—use Tintex in the Blue Box. For all mate- § in the Gray PARK & TILFORD, N.Y. “Dastnbutors TINTS AS YOU RINSE 15¢ at Drug and Dept. Stores Everywhere THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1925. —_—— Our Children—By Angelo Patri Color Cut-Out LITTLE BO-PEEP. Only a Dream. This is one day's chapter of the story of “Little Bo.Pesp.” Children who cut out the pictures every day will be able to act out the old nursery rhyme by the end of the week. * ok ok * Suddenly Bo-Peep was surrounded by sheep. Not only her own precious sheep were all there, but there were lots of strange ones that she had never seen before. “We have been to the Sheepyside, And each of us has got a bride,” sang all of her sheep. Then the strange sheep all sang: “Little Bo-Peep, We are now your sheep.” Little Bo-Peep was so happy she jumped up and clapped her hands Then she discovered the strangest thing. She was all alone! There wasn't a single sheep in sight! It had all been a dream. (Color Bo-Peep's dress vellow and her apron blue. Make her hat yellow also, with a blue bow. Do not color the lamb, but let it remain white.) (Copyright, 1825.) MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN. Snow on the Mountain. One Mother Says: A plain and wholesome dessert, but pretty enough to satisfy the children’s idea of a party or holiday dessert, is this cake meringue. Bake a plain sponge or spice cake in a shallow round pan. When cold place on top of it _a pretty colored gelatin mixture which has been molded in a dish or pan somewhat smaller than the cake Around the edge of the gelatin put a ring of sweetened whipped cream. (Copyright, 1925.) Parking With Peggy “The tales which children were once ‘too young to know’ now go the rounds in slang their parents are too old to understand.” 'ATURE put alot of vitamines and other good things in greens and lettuce leaves—but it's the flavor given by the dressing that makes the salad. in the dressing recipe gives conncisseurs, epicures, and good hostesses everywhere, Just that little irresistible touch of flavor they look for. 1t's worth while to specify French’s at your grocer’s. Made enly by The R. T. French Company Rochester, N. Y. l DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX The Girl of 18 Who Thinks Herself Independent of Boys—Should a Thrifty Family Support the Lazy Members?—The Sheik Whose Ardent Admirer Runs Him Ragged. EAR MISS DIX: I am a high school girl almost 18 years old. I know lots of boys, but they all seem fo take a delight in lying and deceiving the opposite sex, and I have seen so much of this that I have lost all faith in men. Girls don't know how to treat boys. If they try to be friendly, the boys become conceited and think they are heart-breakers and sheiks, and that we are just wild over them: while if we act otherwise, they call us stuck-up, dumb, etc., and will have nothing to do with us. To be frank with you, Miss Dix, I believe that the men of today want girls to run after them, pet them up and make much of them; but they are sadly mistaken, for we girls are just as independent as they are, and can get along as well without them as they can without us. Do you think that there are any truthful, sincere men in the world? DISGUSTED RUTH. Answer: I think vou are unduly pessimistic, Ruth, and that there are just as many sincers men in the world now as there ever have been. Human nature doesn't change, and the average of virtue is about the same in every age. “Men were deceivers ever,” says the old song: but, for that matter, so are women, when it comes to dealing with men. The love game is always a crooked game, played with loaded dice. It is never played fairly, and in courtship men and women never tell each other the truth Perhaps this is necessary. Perhaps there would be no more love-making and no more marriages if there were no lying and deceiving. Try to visualize honest courtship. The man and woman do not put their best foot foremost. On the contrary, they show themselves up in their worst light. The man does not go to see his lady love spick-and-span and redolent of the barber shop, but in mussy clothes and with a two-day stubble of beard on his face. The girl has not spent two hours before her mirroi marcelling her hair and touching up her complexion and putting on her most becoming frock, but she is as homely as nature made her and has on an old rag that calls attention to her worst points. The man does not tell the girl how pretty and wonderful and how different she is from all other girls, but he tells her that for some unknown reason he likes her, although he considers her homely and of only ordinary intelligence, and he is a little afraid of her temper. Nor does the girl burn incense before the man and make him believe that she considers him an oracle and the white hope. She informs him that he is about a million miles from her ideal, but that he looks like a fairly good meal ticket to her, and that as she wants to get married she has concluded that she had better take him. You can't imagine that kind of courtship ending in a wedding. It takes camouflage to hide the defects that hoth men and women perceive in each other. None of us are keen for the truth about ourselves, and we simply can't endure it when it is handed out to us by those nearest to us. As for the men wanting girls to run after them and pet them up, they always have done that. They always will want it. and women will always have to do it. Don't put your faith in the independent attitude of women All the old stories about women who flouted suitors and vet were pursued by other suitors are fairy tales. The Lady Disdain stuff doesn’t go. DOROTHY DIX. e e AR MISS DIX: I am married and have four children. My husband is a very good man. By dint of hard work and economizing, dressing plainly and doing without lots of little things we wanted we have bought a home and a little car, and have got a start in the world My mother-in-law makes us very unhappy by insisting upon our help another son of hers who s not willing to work nor to make the sacrifices that we have made. Neither he nor his wife will economize or try to accomplish anything, yet my mother-in-law thinks that we should divide our property with them. My husband and myself are struggling to be independent in our old age, and*I cannot_see why we should give to those who are just as able to work as we are. What is your opinion? UNHAPP Answer: 1 think you should have enough backbone to refuse to be made the family goat. Not only is there no reason why vou should divide what vou have with your able-bodied brother and sister-inilaw, but there is every reason why you should not do so To give to people who are able to work is merely to pauperize them make them parasites and destroy their self-respect. To the old. wh working days are over, to the little children who are 100 young to work and to the sick who have not the strength to work we owe a duty They deserve our support, but it is a crime to feed and clothe strong, husky young men and women. In nearly every family there is some lazy loafer who has to be supported by the balance of the family. There is John, who is so temperamental that he can never find a job that just exactly suits him and who is constantly out of work. There is Mamile, who is so delicate that she cannot go out into the cruel world and earn her living, although her mysterious ailment does not prevent her from eating three square meals a day and playing golf all afternoon and dancing all night And. strangely enough, mother always sides with John and Mamie against her thrifty, industrious children, and she feels that it is their duty to support these idlers. My earnest advice to you, Unhappy, is to refuse to be held up by your grafting relativ Keep your money for yourself, and let them work and sacrifice as you have done. They wiil respect you more in the long run. for we all have a contempt for the weaklings we can impose upon. DOROTHY DIX EAR MISS DIX: A girl is in love with me and L can't get rid of her T have broken dates. snubbed her. refused to go out with her, but still she calls me up and writes me letters. No clinging vine I have ever r about is as clinging as this one, What'll I do? How can 1 get rid of this she-pursuer? A CONCEITED SHEIK. Answer: 1 should think that your only safety lay In flight. Take to the tall timber. Hide yourself. Otherwise she will get you. But when a woman is that determined to have a man. only a mir can really save him. DOROTHY DIX acle (Copsright the modern form of the small oval portrait, still on cardboard or vellum or chicken skin, came into popularity With the introduction, in the seven teenth century, of ivory for this pur- pose, which with its possibilities for more delicate coloring adapted the art especially to the portraval of flesh tints, it became quite fashionable for ladies have their miniatures painted. Then came the HOW IT STARTED BY JEAN NEWTON. Miniature Painting. Judging by the greater commonness of miniature paintings in Europe, the | visitor abroad might ume that the art is more highly appreciated there than in our own country. The differ- ence, however, lies simply in the great- er intimacy of the common people in Europe with all forms of art. While there are several important collections of miniatures in this coun- try and the American Society of Minia- ture Painters since 1899 holds anual exhibitions in New York, while people of wealth and culture buy them or have miniature portraits painted, in Europe even the modest household boasts a few examples of this fine art. There almost any middle-class family has one of the little portraits, painted usually in water color on ivory, the brush strokes so fine that sometimes they cannot be distinguished without a microscope, while the ensemble is a true likeness, minute in detail. Minfatures had their origin in the late thirteenth century, when they ap. peared in devotional manscripts which were usually illuminated with the head of the Virgin or saints. With the in. troduction of printing, miniatures ceased to illustrate manuscripts and work on enamel and the French custom of presenting snuff boxes, powder jars and other favors bearing one’s ‘miniature por trait. During the eighteenth century came the demand for the tiniest minia- tures for use in lockets. and every country of artistic significance in Eu rope, as well as the United States, boasted one or more famous minia- ture painters. Today 2 very speci: gift, particularly on returning from a trip abroad, is a_miniature painting. whether it be of oneself or one of those portraits of Napoleon that many people buy in France! Delicious pie crust this quick, easy way Mrs. WATsoN's wonderful homemade pie crust dough is ready-mixed for you in her own model kitchens. You just add water and roll it out. Makes pie crust that is rich, tender, and crisp every time! Mrs.WATSON’SPieCrust| Betfer than Now there is an amazing new kind of face powder which is marvelousl hesive—it clings despite wind and per- :fi:don, yet it is not absorbed by the (Blackheads are often caused the skin absorbing inferior powders.] 1 This wonderful new face powder is oF catin imponed Ingeediens which port: ients whi ing enlarged = m“l!;lbnl = he roughness, mflmfi It ?:‘r:uu: soft, cushion over the skin, allows the complexion to grow young again shielded from its three de- wvastating enemi laring sun, harsh and :fi:‘fm Get a 75c box of Golden Peacock Tonic Face Powder fromanydrugordepartmentstoretoday. your meighborhood drug stores, or es 18 Drug s °"°’é‘.',‘ii{.;£:‘,". yal * Dept. Stor Store and Sigmunc Store, HOME NOTES BY JENNY WREN. This dressing table was contrived for a cottage bedroom at very small expense. The walnut mirror frame once held a bewhiskered family photo- graph, but now it has been painted an entrancing turquoise blue, and the mirror is a nice clear new one. The table is a little pine affair—a fact coyly concealed by its voluminous skirts. These skirts, like the window drapes, are of rose-grounded cretonne patterned with black lattice lines and turquoise blue medallions The other furniture in the room- an old spool bed, a chest of drawers and a lazy little rocking chair—are also painted blue and decorated with pink button roses and black strip ings. The floor is painted black and spat tered in white after the Cape Cod manner. SUMMERTIME BY D. C. PEATTIE. Yucca. Under the bright midday sun of a june day the vucca, now in bioom around the District of Columbia, with its spikes of splendid flowers and its noble sword-shaped leaves, resplendent that it is hard to imagine that it could be any more o than it is And vet in the day time we do not begin to guess its beauties. For all through the bright da. droop, half-closed, odorie ish But watch the yucca on a sta night, or better, in the moonlig And you may see the flowers expand, turn white as marble beneath the moon and swell, their honey-sweet odor given off to lure the moth There is a single group of lovely, pale night moths which fertilize the yucca flower. Guided by some ir stinct wiser than themselves, the fe- male moth, who comes to lay her eggs in the ovary of the flower, performs the act of fertilization for the yucca From the golden caskets of the flow ers’ anthers she takes load of pollen and crams it on the stigma of the flower, an act without which almost incapable of fertilization Next through the wall of the ovary she punctures little openings and in it lays her eggs, patting them down with more polien. When the ovules ripen and the larvae hatch the litt animals find in the half-formed seed the very food they need. At length they bore their way out and generally reach adult life just as the next sea son’s flowers burst into bloom. 1 female moth never fi 11 the ova cells with eggs. and luckily for concerned, for if she did the plant could set no seed. It is a fair vision of labor and profit between t plant and the moth When next you look at a yt not forget to beware its terrible tipped leaf, which is. literally plant’s one “drawback.” seems so s and green a do pine. the A bridegroom aged an 80-year-old bride 1t His first wife died only before his second marria WHAT YOUR MIRROR WILL SHOW R soft skin, of velvety texture, free from blemishes-a beauty unsurpassed. ‘White, flesh, rachel. Send 10c. for Trial Size F.T. Hopkins & S, Nl s " Gouraup's ORIENTAL CREAM the flowers | WOMAN’S The Cat. The house pets helong to the chil dren, and of course the children are responsible for what happens to them | during the Summer. when the family | goes away from home. No selfrve- | specting child would leave his cat | homeless even for a few duys. ‘ If the family is going away from home, the cat has to be provided for, too. Tt {s unthinkable to let a cat who has been a member of the famil petted and cared for until she e> that care and cannot understa lack of it, become a st leys, hunted and abused and starved and ‘stoned to death | The dog is usually taken along. Of | course he is more e wdjusted to | the new surroundings, and people | will welcome a dog wher at would | be out of the question. But that does | not relieve the owner of poor the responsibility for her care Sometimes a neighboring child v undertake the care of the cat that cage the situation is met he fully. But suppose there is no boring, friendly child? visiting charwoman stableman, ga lation boardi If the worst c i the home They will b puss of mes to worst, there for friendless anim: ard a cat or find a home for it or pu a painless end. Ans thing is better than leaving the cat on the street to wonder what b ne of her friends and to sit pat hours stari a bla Isn't there I love a day all green and grey And musical with showers — Along the grovnd there sweeps the sound OFf softhy laughi flowers. | pinch the ends well together and pi | spoon PAGE. ts and the Boy Scouts? A b - a girl might open a hoarding house for vacation pets. The city boys and girls, 0 would have to let the: B »f letting the animal s about the homeless the town and village b 4 & earn their dai bered The them in this m of stray cais birds h 10 be protected from We need all the birds we have more, tc Our trees will ba 1 up by insect pests if we allow birds to be eaten by hungry ani- In saving the starving cats You are saving the birds, who are not only beat aseful, but neces. sary if have parks and gardens So for two very good reasons the children of the country must see to It is cruel and heartless to become vagrant a good for the soul of cruel or to see cruelty making an effort to correct is the first thing to tter our need birds. Hungry cats eat nd we must be careful to sea that there are no hungry cats about And if there should be such cats as upon eat birds, complain of ers, and if that cat birds, hold a trial him and let justice be the helpless bird no homeless vaca- tinues 1o eat cat and nber, 1925.) 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