Evening Star Newspaper, June 26, 1925, Page 34

FEATURES. Special Cleaning in Summer A S e e e | The Star’s Household Expert Gives Some Advice Regarding the Laun b — O wash a_white flannel skirt or other flannel garment, use the following method: In the first place, remember that strong soups should never be used in washing flannels or wools of any kind, and the soup should | never be applied directly to the gar- ment. The soap should be used in solution. A great deal of stress may be laid upon having the water used in washing flannels not much warm- er that lukewarm, for at this tem- perature soap and water have very little effect on the wool It is very importunt to have all the water used in the washing at the same temperature and to avoid | changes from hot to cold water, or | vice versa, as sudden changes in temperature cause shrinkage. Have| two receptacies ready for washing | the garment. Pour into the first of the water which is not too hot for| the hand to bear comfortably. Add| enough soap solution made from a | neutral or mild soap or a wool soap | 1o make good suds. If the water is hard, or the clothing is very much soiled, add a t iful of borax | or ammonia for each gallon of water | used. Shuke or brush the skirt or othel garment free from dust and put it into the water to soak for| about fifteen minutes. Before begin- | p 2 prepare a second tub having the same tempera- ture. Wash hy drawing through the hands and washing up and down in the water, but avoid rubbing if pos- sible. Pass the garment from first to sec- ond water, which should be a suds -also if the first suds has not re- moved all the soil. Rinse free of soap, using several waters, being sure to keep the temperature the same. Wring through a losely-set wringer. 1 wrong side out and hang in a warm place, but not near | a fire, as heat will cause shrinkage. When nearly dry turn right side out. Shape when drying by pulling and stretching. Allow to dry before pressing, then cover with a slightly dampened piece of cheesecloth an iron with a moderately hot iron. Th cheesecloth draws up the fibers of the flannel, giving it the fluffy ap- pearance of a new garment. It is possible to remove permanently the vellow color which often appears on worn woolen garments, and to re- store the garment to its original whiteness by immersing it for a few minutes in a solution prepared by mix- ing one part of a solution of peroxide of hydrogen with 15 parts of warm water and adding a few drops of am- monia. Afterward, the garment, which will not be at all injured, should be washed in warm water, then dried. The yellowness of wool usually indi- cates that in its manufacture it has been bleached by means of burning sulphur. If a white woolen garment is only slightly soiled, it can be easily dry- cleaned by using a mixture of equal parts of borax, white flour and salt. Spread this thickly on the skirt or other article to be cleaned, then wrap in a cloth doubled and allow to re- main for several hours. Then beat lightly before removing the cloth, and finally shake the garment thoroughly outdoors. To Clean Dark Serge. The liquid strained from ivy leaves which have been boiled is excellent for cleaning dark cloth or serge, which should first be thoroughly brushed. To prepare the liquid, first wash the leaves several times in warm water to which a little washing powder has been added to free them from dust, then rinse them well in cold water, cover them with clean cold water and bring to the boil and simmer until the leaves are quite soft. Strain and bot- tle the liquid. The work should not be done by those who have cuts or cratches on their hands, as the iquid will cause the flesh to smart. A good way to remove shininess from tweed garments is to add a table- spoonful of ammonia and half a tea- spoonful of saltpeter to one quart of hot water and_bottle the mixture un- til required. This should be rubbed into the material until the shininess has disappeared. when the material can be pressed on the wrong side with a warm iron. To Wash Corsets. Coutil corsets, especially if fitted with whalebones, wash well and are very little trouble. So many corsets are now made with rustless steel sup- ports that they may be successfully treated at home. The lace and ribbon trimmings, shoulder straps and cords should all be removed, but the bones need not necessarily be taken out. Following is u very simple process by which corsets may be successfully washed at home: Dissolve some flaky ap in boiling water and add suffi- cient cold water so that you can put your hands in with comfort. Then lay sets flat on a kitchen table, dip g. Sff nailbrush in the luther and scrub vigorously from top to bot- tom until they look clean. Some women who leave the bones in, roll the corsets around their arm and &crub them in that position in order o retain the shape, but they can be cleaned more thoroughly when laid lather and the scrub- if necessary, and then rinse in 1l clean waters, to the last of add a little bluing if the cor- ®ets are white. Dry in the air and put the trimming on again. Corsets treated efully will emerge from this ordeal almost as good us new. Kevel which Chintz and Cretonne. Chintz or cretonne may be made to look like new when cleaned in the fol- lowing way: Boil about one pound of rice in a gallon of water. If rain water can be obtained, so much the better. When the rice is soft, put it with the water into a tub and allow it to become almost cold ‘Then put | in the chintz and rub it with the rice | instead of using soup. Rinse in the | cold rice water and hang up to dry. It will he found that the colors have en restored. To Clean Upholstery. For cleaning all kinds of cloth up- holstery there is nothing as good as bran his should be well rubbed into the material with a dry flannel. Do not use any one lot of bran too long and as soon as it appears dirty throw it away and use some of the fresh. ent the cole will In one minute— just that quick—the pain I gone. No treatment 60 safe, sure, healing thoroughly antiseptic and scientific In ever: way as Dr. Scholl's Zino-pads. The result are a revelation. At your drugglst's or sho. dealer’s. Cost but a trifle. Three Siges —for corns. callouses, bunions DrScholl’s Zino-pads “Put one on—the pain is gons” A dry—Care Required for Preservation of Garments. be restored to a large extent unless they are actually faded. . Perspiration Stains. One of the quickest ways to remove perspiration stains from white 'fabrics is to use a solution prepared by add- ing one ezz cup of a solution of per- oxide of hydrogen to half a pint of water. The stain should be sponged with this solution until removed and the fabric, which is also thereby dis- infected, should then be lightly rinsed in cold water and dried. To Remove Creases. Clothes that have been packed in trunks often show a number of creases. When these are too promi- nent they may be quickly removed by holding the material In the steam coming from u boiling teakettle. The garment must not be placed so close to the spout that it will become wet. To Cream Laces. Here is an old-fashioned method of giving lace a soft, creamy tint: Wash the lace and rinse it, then break an egg and beat it to a froth. Add a quart or Dip the lace in the mixture several times and then squeeze gently. When the lace is half dry, put it between two cloths and, fron 1t. To Revive Straw Hat. You can successfully revive a straw hat that has become dusty-looking by brushing it over with a weak solution of gum arabic and water. Before do- ing this, of course, you must thor- oughly brush the hat in order to re- move as much dust as possible, and take care to prevent the shape from being spoiled. To Wash Chamois Skin. A chamois skin will last for quite a long time if it is never allowed to be- come very dirty Quite frequent washing If properly done really im- proves a chamols skin because it makes it soft. It is important, how- ever, that it should be washed in the ight way. With a good quality of oap make a lather in a bowl of warm water. Add a little borax, and then put in the chamois, rubbing it gently. Move it around in the water and when the dirt has disappeared rinse well in clean, cold water. If rain water can be obtained, so much the better. Squeeze so as to rid the skin of as much water as possible, and then spread it out on a flat surface, such as a kitchen table. As soon as the skin feels almost dry, pass it through the hands again, stretching it out flat, and then put it on the table. This operation may be re- peated several times, and at last the chamois will be very soft and dry. Care of Metallic Laces. Metal materials, which are very popular at present, are apt té become soiled If they are long exposed to air and light. Evening gowns and other garments trimmed with gold and sil- ver tissue or lace should be entirely covered up when not in use. A good protection is an old nightgown sewed up at the bottom, with the neck low- ered sufficiently to admit the gown on a coat hanger. A good way te reno- vate tarnished material and trim- mings is to ryb them gently with fine, dry bread erumbs and powdered blu- ing. Mix the crumbs and the bluing together and sift them over the mate- rial and rub them with a plece of new flannel. Shake off the mixture and polish with a piece of old light vel- veteen. To Clean White Silk. White silk may be washed in soap- suds the same as other delicate white fabrics, being careful mot to rub or squeeze the fabric so as to cause creases or wrinkles, or it may be washed in gasoline, or dry cleaned by rubbing or dusting it with magnesia and laying it away for two or three days in a paper bag, the silk being covered with magnesia, afterwards brushing it with a soft, heavy brush. Naphtha soap will remove most stains from white silk, including paint stains. MODE MINIATURES The ravages of Summer sun and warm winds are trying on beauty— particularly on that all important fea- ture of the face—the nose. But with stmple foresight women can fortify themselves against any discomforting effects as the result of clime or ex: posure. If compact powder is found to cake easily, a little booklet made up of what are termed “freshies” will be a comforting companton to all those who travel by train, ship or motor. It con sists of several dozen sheets, each coated with sufficient powder to com- pletely freshen one's appearance and eliminate any danger of that humiliat- ing feminine thing—a shiny nose. NARGET ,Guarancxeeo pure imported POMPEIAN OLIVE OIL KRold Everywhera WASH OFF YOUR FRECKLES! Pleasant Soap Guaranteed to Remove Them Within Week J. D. Stiefel's medicated soaps have been prescribed by _physicians since 1847. Now comes the famous STIEFEL’S FRECKLE SOAP an absolutely sate, guick and pleasant means of removing unsightly freckles and im- proving the skin. H No tircsome treatment. Simply wash your face with Stiefel's Freckies Soap, apply the fresh, creamy lather, and leave it on over night. With- in_one week even the dark- eat freckic will bave dlsap- red. our money back if it s Freckle Soap is now sold for 00c with th full gnarantes by such stores as Peoples Drug Stores more of cold water, accord- | ing to the unt required for the lace. | THE EVE} COLOR CUT-OUT LITTLE BO-PE.EP‘ ol Determines to Find Them. This is one day's chapter of the story of “Little Bo-Peep." Cut out the pictures every day and yau will be able to act out the nursery rhyme at the end of the week. “ * k% In spite of her disappointment, Bo- Peep felt much better after her nap. She jumped up and pocketed her handkerchief. For after all what good would cry- ing do?” she asked. “I shall keep my eves free from tears so I can see my , and by ears free from sobs so I sheep. And instead of making my head ache by crying I shall put it to work to think up the best way to find my lost sheep.” Then Little Bo-Peep thought the most_sensible thing to do would be to ask her father where he thought the sheep might be. (This _pretty cloak of Bo-Peep's should be of navy blue. Make her gloves and hat tan with the jaunty feather in her hat red.) What TomorrowMeans to You BY MARY BLAKE. Cancer. Tomorrow’s planetary aspects are very benign, and you will experiencea very different outlook on life from that which prevaiied today. You will view things with complacency, and teel buoyant and encouraged. The sense of self-satisfaction may, un- less common sense comes to the res- cue, be as productive of harm, as lack of self-confidence; you must not permit the optimistic ~attitude cre- ated by the day's influences to lead You to “bite off more than you can chew.” Every one has his or her lim- itations, and the one that fully realizes this generally achieves both success and happiness. The vibrations that prevail denote that marriages solem- nized tomorrow, while not necessarily made in Heaven, will create for the principal actors a Paradise of love and contentment. A child born tomorrow is destined to enjoy exceptional health and may, in all probability, attain a remarkable degree of physical prowess. This is not always an unmixed blessing, as its immunity from sickness may ren- der it so daring and so impervious to risk as to invite accident and danger. Temperamentally, this child will be bolsterous, and rather impatient ot the frailties and weaknesses of others It will fail to display that degree ot consideration and _sacrifice which renders so many children charming and attractive. No occupation in. volving work of a sedentary character should be chosen for this child. It will_shine either in an outdoor or a mechanical capacity. It _tomorrow is your birthday are fortunate in being blessed wi character that is stanch, and a na- ture that is at once tender and true. Your attributes are such, and your| attention to, and care of, those you love is 80 patient to one and all that your home life is justly considered both model and ideal. Your abllities are not so evident as your emotional characteristics, and your kindness of heart and considera- tion for others often prevents you achfeving the speclal object you may have in mind. You are not original nor do you possess either initiative or marked executive ability. Conse- quently, vou are more fitted to fill| some subordinate position than one of | command or leadership. In any post, ! however, you are loyal to the inter ests ©you represent and do every thing _intrusted to your care with conscientiousness and meticulous care. (Copyricht, 19:25.) OBEY YOUR DOCTOR. Cheerfully now you can comply with hisprescrip- tion forthatoldstandard remedy in its new form Candied Astor (Qn Delicious chocolate- coated cream mints, in which is so perfect- ly emulsified pure castor oil as to be tasteless absolutely! Kiddies take them with a grin'— so will you! G_STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, |D0rothyDix|] We Would Indeed Have Home, Sweet Home if We Could Eliminate the Family Questioner, the Nagger, the Suggester and the Plain, Frank Speaker From Our Midst. Buggests We Improve “Spirit” of Homes A New Kind of “Better Home Week” E\'ERY now and then we have a “Better Home week.” Its purpose is to call our attention in a really serious way to newfangled plumbing and sanitary garbage cans and automatic electrical devices that must be a wonderful convenience to a woman who has married a highly certified engineer who knows how to work 'em. But what we need is not so much to improve the houses we live in as the spirit within them, which makes them either homes or jails. There is not such a burning call to enlarge our rooms as there is to give the members of the family more personal liberty, nor is the ventilation so important as Is the domestic atmosphere. We all have our Individual ideas about how the home should be reformed 0 that it would be. in reality, the home of our dreams, the dearest spot on earth to us, instead of being the vicinity from which we are most anxious to get away; so that it would be the one place to which we could go, secure of rest for mind and body, instead of being sure of a fight. For when we roll our eyes heavenward and plously sing, “Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home,” most of us add a mental reservation of thanksgiving to God for all His mercles. Now, if 1 were putting forth the propaganda for a “Better Home week" I should begin by urging every family to put the ban on—the questionnaire. Why we all loathe and hate to answer questions I do not know. Probably because we recognize them as a deadly blow at our freedom. Possibly it is because we instinctively resent the stripping away of the reserve in which every decent soul clothes itself and the vulgar prying into our personal affairs. ANYWAY, anyhow, there is nothing that riles us so quickly or rasps our nerves so surely as being put through the third degree about everything that happens to us or doesn’t happen to us. Family curiosity is the bane of family life. Tt is the thing that estranges more husbands and wives and drives more children away from home than anything else on earth. “or in the average home no one can rise up, or sit down, or sleep, or eat, or get a letter, or go downtown without having to give a full and complete account of every action and furnish an alibi for every minute that he or she is gone. Where are you going? Why are you going? Whom do you expect to see? How long are you going to stay? When will you be back home? Why are vou going to stay that long? What are you going to say to him? What do you think he will say to you? Why do you think he will say that? “Where did you get your new hat? Why did you buy one? Why didn’t vyou use your old one?” Why didn’t you get a green orfe instead of a blue one? Why didn’t you o to a cheap place instead of an expensive one? Why didn’t you' get one trimmed with feathers instead of flowers So goes the grand inquisition day in and day out, year in and year out, until the poor, harried victims flee from home to some place where no one knows them well enough to ask them a single question. Next, I would suppress the suggester. There are few homes in the world in which any one can do anything he wants to do without having to have a family argument over it. 1f you want to go to the theater, mother thinks you shouldn’t go because it looks like it might possibly rain, and father thinks you shouldn’t go because you were out until 10 o'clock night before last. If you Start to buy a new toothbrush, Aunt Sallie thinks you should use a soft one, because she likes a soft one, while Aunt Maria suggests a hard one, because she likes the stiff ones. You may be middle-aged and successful, and have your opinion respected by the world, but that does not keep your own family from trying to pick out your clothes for you, from telling you what to eat, and whom to assoclate with, and trying to regulate every detail of your life. “ e e XT. I would cut out plain speaking in the family circle. No truths are So unpalatable as home truths. It is just because our families know our weaknesses so well that their criticisms hit the mark so surely and rankle so in our memories. We do not affront strangers by calling their attention to their foibles because we know if we did we would soon have no friends or acquaintances. But because we know that those of our own households cannot get away from us, and that they are compelled to put up with us, no matter how rude and disagreeable we are, we indulge ourselves in saying all the hateful and mean things to which we can put our tongues. At the table we do not hesitate to criticize the food that tired wife and mother has spent hours preparing. We tell Susan how fat she is getting, and how absurd she looks in a tight dress. We make a ‘joke of Bertha's age, and the fact that she is getting to be an old maid. We sneer at Tom's opinion, and call him an ass. We ridicule Mamie, and make a jest of her first love affair. We groan when John starts a story, and say that we have heard it a dozen times. These are only a few elementary suggestions about how we could improve our homes and home life. It wouldn't make much difference what sort of house we lived in if our families would refrain from nagging, and questioning us, and telling us of our faults. Any place where we had a little liberty of thought and action would be home, sweet home. 925 DORQTHY DIX. 5.0 Shows Some Wisdom. From the Paris La Rire (Copyright. found that my fiancee spent franes a month with her milliner! “So you didn't marry her?" “No._ I married her milliner! It's not the things I failed to dl:mg That mahke me wipe this eye— It's things I shovld und covld have dene And simply Failed Under Tight Corsets! ‘When corsets, brassieres or tight clothes chafe, dust on wonderful Kora Konia ... for Sore Skin POUDRE COMPACTE o e 7;{15 most subtle and intriguing . charm of beauty is individuality, and this distinction is emphasized in the shades of the COTY Poudre Compacteaswellasthe COTY Face Powder. The lovely perfume of the COTY odeurs completes the effect of personality‘ with exprese sive fragrance, . L'ORIGAN CHYPRE PARIS EMERAUDE JASMIN STYX ROSEJACQUEMINOT JUNE 26, " 1925. WOMAN’S PAGE. e e Our Children—By Angelo Patri HOME NOTES By JENNY WREN This dignified window draping owex much of its effectiveness to the use of the painted cornice hoard. The cretorme has a tan background and is patterned in shades of green, cop- pery reds and dull blues. The cornice board is painted blue, with a line of old gold. ‘The cornice board as a finish for He's Nervous. The first instinct of a mother is to defend her children. If a child makes a mistake) or if he is not holding his own against the field, his mother is quick to put him in the bhest possible light and make all excuse possible for him Which is right and quite as it should be. But I do wish she wouldn't say, “He's %o nervous As soon as a school man or woman hears that he says, “Another spoiled child. What he needs most is discip line.” And he will be right. By dis cipline he means training, not punis ment, an entirely different matter A great many times the child’s is due to his parents’ inability to dis- cipline themselves. It hurts them to see their child grieving, and rather than suffer the hurt which they mis- take for love of their baby, they re move the cause of the baby's grief. In plain English, to make themselves comfortable, they give the baby his way and beam to see him smile again Then one day it is not possible to give him what he wants. He reaches out for the moon and finds that it is just out of reach. He demands of his unhappy parents that they hand it down to him. When they fail to de liver it on schedule time he bursts ence with him. do all right. | but just give idual instruction is not possible. and by | ar |15 il and be | of this paper, inclosing stamped add I'm his mother I have to have patience. Just h a little patience with him and he will He is a very bright child, little nervous The teacher has about 45 childr lesson to in 40 minutes. I and to v his <elf 1s child is not doing anything hir aking the teacher’s tim not letting any one else learr what he needs is training. W\ golng to train him? The overwo teacher? And the well trained V pay for it Spoiled children ought to be pl in a room and trained before bein wed to enter the graded room. Nervous is not the t them. Just spoiled. A nervo s the sign upon him. But the so-called hervous child? Ol no. He needs discipline. (Mr. Patri will give personal atten tion to inquiries from parents and school teachers on the care and de- velopment of children. Write him, care clf- sed envelope for reply.) (Copyright. 1825.) Eye Soother. After a day in the open air eyes often feel and look tired the The say power as his ipdignation grows into a wail of distress that grows in | u | dull )pearance may be removed by | four inches in its uprights. “Just us I was about to marry I| the top of the window trim has sev- eral virtues: It does away with the valance board and the val that is so difficult for the amateur drap- ery maker to cut and fit satisfactorily It can be decorated to accord with drapes of rich brocade or gayest chintz. And, _finally, it can be changed or renewed at any time by the simple expedient of applying a coat or two of paint or enamel MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN. Handy Drying Frame. One Mother says No other furnishing is more valued in my house than my dr During the Winter it may be over a furnace reg er, and on rain: mer days it is placed in the kitch. en, where it takes up little room. Con structed of light wood and built the same shape as a window frame, but larger size, it has & row of small hooks at two-inch intervals in its lower cross piece and screw eyes at intervals of Through these and back and forth across the frame is strung picture wire. The whole is hung from the picture railing (just as a picture is hung) over a fur- nace register. Two spools fastened to the back keep it from touching the wall. No matter how stormy the weather the baby's Jaundry is quickly dried on this contrivance. Posen Cereal s ek e e w8 S ez e L e Vo by belsg 2 las sty ERS Lnsast Postum Rea Gl o it e Vo man'y Sec by Beaition u see,"" one of the other of them anxioysly. “he’s such a nervous child”* The polite onlooker nods and goes away from there The youngster begins to sense that his behavior is excused by that m ical word. By and by he arrives in school, led by his anxious-eyed mother, who says to the clerk in confidential tones e him He's such a nervous child, I had a lot of trouble with him. does the teacher. In school it is neces sary for the child to take personally directions that are given impersonally. This sort of child does nothing of the kind. He follows no direction at all and when the teacher gets after him he sets up his defensive wail. The teacher insists that he do his work and he insists upon dodging it and whining about it. When his mother comes she takes an attitude not a pat ronizing one. “But 1 told you he was a nervous child. You spould have a little pati- hav to a good teacher. | | | | | | the bathing them with milk, which be perfectly fresh and just chill. If time permits, it better still to soak a piece of n in milk and when lying down to | this across the closed eves, keef quite still, if possible, for 10 1 and finishing by bathing the eye n Jure water. Beforeon it CIL See Announeement Tuesday’s and Saturday’s Star sh off would be e Seal Brand Tea is of the same high quality The Children prefer Post Toasties. Make the Milk or Cream Test for corn flakes flavor and crispness. Send for free Test package. A Double Value in CORN FLAKES A double value in flavor and crispness makes Post Toasties (Double-Thick Corn Flakes) the best you ever tasted. When you open the red and: yellow, wax- around the breakfast table. Post Toasties never become mushy or soggy in the milk or cream. 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