Evening Star Newspaper, July 31, 1925, Page 20

WOMAN'S PAGE Hot Weather Recre How to Make Most Effective Arrangements for o 2+ the Care-of Children During Vacation Time and When Trayeling. F* you do not see your way clear to give vour children a vacation away from home, you can at least arrange matters so that they will not be inclined to mope around in gloomy discontent. With very little effort on the part of parents, it is possible to provide the children with Happy outdoor v fons at home. The first thing necessary for a successful vacation at home would Be to provide a vacation atmosphere iR as many ways as possible. Let the children wear beach rompers so that they will feel free to do just as they please. Plan vacation meals and let the children eat them out doors, plenic fashion, and let them Delp in the preparation and clearing away. It the children are old enough, they will enjoy camp cooking in the open. Supply paper picnic plates, paper napkins, and enamel or paper cups. Even if your garden or lawn s very small, the children will love the novelty and informality of meals in the open. You could arrange, in addition, outdoor sleeping quarters on a porch or balcony, or even in a home-made tent in the garden, pro- viding, of course, protection from Fain or cold. Then there is the matter of making the garden or back vard attractive for play purposes. Some sand and a tub of water sunk in the ground will provide hours of contented occupation for vounger children. A swing and a trapeze, such as play- grounds are supplied with, could be made at home, if there is a con- venient tree from which to hang the swing. Most daddies could make an inex- pensive seesaw or a temporary vault- ing gate and hurdle jumps, which are not difficult to contrive. A length of stout rope, hung from a tree, jutting beam, or balcony will provide Healthy exerices and fun in climbing, stretching and swinging. A post driven in the ground, with & strong cord fixed at the top and terminating in a bag containing a ball, will suggest all kinds of games to the children's inventive minds. Long jumps could be marked out on the ground, showing the distances in feet. Targets for “throwing” games eould be painted on a wall or fence Trips to neighboring parks or woods could be arranged. Nature rambles will be popular if one of the adult ‘members of the party knows gomething about botany, insect life, Birds and kindred subjects. It would be a good plan to teach the children something more about their own eity or town during a home vacation. Walking or bicycle outings, taken With a definite alm in view, might also be possible. Tell your children about the beauties and wonders of Washington and surrounding places. Away from Home. Mothers who take their children away on a vacation do not always realize that the voungest member of the party will need the same care and attention during the vacation as was given at home. The natural tendency is to give up the child’s dally routine and allow him to spend the whole day on the beach, or to accompany the parents on tiresome expeditions or leasure trips. Meals are taken at all ours, strange food is eaten, bedtime is frequently very late, and the child lives in a constant state of rush and excitement. All this sort of thing is & great mental and physical strain on & young child, and keeps him from de- Tiving benefit from the vacation. The mother who is prepared to put her child’s health and wellbeing above Rer own personal comfort will main- tain the child’s home routine as far s possible throughout the vacation. The time for getting up and going to ted should remain unchanged, and, 4n addition, mother should see that the children have their usual nourishing midday meal and an hour's rest afterward, whatever may be the plans ©f the rest of the party. It can usually be arranged for mem. bers of a family or vacation party to take turns remaining with the chil- dren while the others are out on ex- peditions which would prove to be too tiring for very small children. A very small child’s comfort with regard to clothring also needs to be studied while at the beach. Many a child has caught a severe chill from damp clothing because he has been afraid to tell his mother of some va- cation accident with puddles or sea water. Weather changes, of course, are sure to be frequent, so that the children may need woolens in the early morning and straw hats and cot- ton dresses in the afternoon Very small children dislike change, and so will be much happier at the beach with familiar toys, familiar foods and the same simple beach games every day. Keep a watchful eye during the va- eation to see that your child’s head utrition Nuggets. Vegetable foods are practically un- touched by the gastric juice. There- fore, the only foods in this group that wre digested in the stomach are those that have considerable protein, as peas, beans and lentils. This applies only, of course, to the chemical part of the digestion. The stomach plays an important part in the mechanical part of the digestion of all foods as 1t is in this organ that the churning of the food mass is begun While correct cookery helps to pre- pare starchy food for more complete digestion, this fact is less apparent in the preparation of proteln or animal foods. In fact, it might almost be said that up to a certain extent the less animal foods are manipulated and combined in the process of cookery the better. The sense of physical comfort that follows the eating of a meal in which meat has been a part is explained by the fact that the body-building part of meat is easily and quickly acted upon by the stomach. The extractives which glve to meat its flavor may be added 10 cereal foods, but the same sense of imediate well being does pot fol- low. This is the reversal of the old- time theory that this sensation was to be traced to the stimulating effect of the extractives of the flavoring parts of meat. 1t is impossible to suggest a scheme for relative proportions of vegetable and animal foods that will be advis- able for every one. Certainly the roportion of animal food, as advised by our leading nutrition experts, is considerably smaller than in the old days. Per! aps A uu{esunrd is to Prickly heat, rashes, quickly relieved by and eyes are protected from the glar- ing sun, and that the tender skin is free from painful sunburn. Guard against over-exertion and too much excitement. See that the baby eats and sleeps well, and leads a regular life. His radiant health and spirits at the end of the vacation will repay you for your care. Vacation Packing. It is a good plan to make a complete list of the articles required before the packing for vacation begins. A few toys will have to be taken for rainy ays, and these should be the kind that keep the children amused for some time, such as paint boxes, card games, children's books and Kinder- garten pastimes. Let each child choose one special toy. Vacation medicines should not be forgotten. A simple laxative, a jar of vaseline, a tube or jar of good oint- ment, and a cooling lotion for sunburn should meet the children's needs, while two or three bandages, safety pins, a package of sterilized gauze and absorbent cotton and some boracic powder will take up very little space and will be very handy in case'of slight accident. Be sure to pack one complete set of warm clothing for each child, includ- ing, if possible, a warm outdoor set for cold, windy days, a mackintosh and a pair of strong shoes. ch child should also have a pair of beach shoes, some strong waterproof paddling knickers and a shady hat for wear on the beach, In addition to the or- dinary Summer clothing mother may wish to take. The art of successful packing is to put the heavy articles at the bottom, closely and neatly fitted in, and the crevices filled in with stockings or other articles. Bottles should be well corked, rolled in grease-proof paper and packed with plenty of soft paper, either in a tin box of their own in the middle of the trunk or else in the insides of shoes or rubbers. Fold light clothes as little as possible, al- lowing them the full length of the box and placing a roll of tissue paper un- der each fold, or pack perishable clothes in long boxes placed in the trunk. When packing hats, stuff the crowns firmly and place small arti cles, such as handkerchiefs, neckwear and other light articles, all around the brims to help keep the hats in posi tion and at the same time find a place for the small articles. Motoring With Children. Bables of all ages, from infants of a few weeks old to sturdy young chil- dren, are taken for rides in open auto- mobiles and sometimes in the side cars of motor cycles. Provided that proper attention is pald to a child’s comfort, safety and protection, these outings can be made very beneficial to a child’s health. On_ such trips it is important to shield a child’s head from the hot sun and keep his eves protected from glare, dust, insects and strong winds, and to see that the rush of air when going at a fair speed does not take his breath away or cause him distress of any kind. All these possible bad effects can generally be guarded against if a light rug or cover is held in position around the baby’s head. A good plan in this respect is to tuck one end of the rug between mother’s right shoulder and the back of the car seat, draw the rug snugly around mother’s right arm that is supporting baby, and hold the loose end in moth. er's free left hand. In this way the rug can be raised to act as a second- ary wind or sun screen when neces- sary, can be loosened to allow cool air to circulate around the baby's head when the weather is warm, or wrap- ped closely around the little head if the weather becomes chilly. Insects will be entangled on the fluffy surface of the rug so that they cannot blow in baby's eyes, and the amount of air reaching baby’s head and face can be regulated so that its force is broken before it reaches the child. Sometimes mothers place a vell over baby's face, but this is un- healthy, as it imprisons the air and the surface of the veil, dampened by baby's breath, attracts dust and im- purities. A child's wraps in the car should be very light and warm. If a bag of warm material is made and the child is slipped into this he will be kept much cozier and be easier to handle than if two or three loose wraps are used. These latter tend to get out of position and the wind is apt to pene- trate underneath them It is very necessary also to see that a child's position is quite com- fortable and uncramped, and his head and back are properly supported. When a stop is made the child should be freed from his wraps and laid down to kick and stretch. If a child’s comfort i3 properly studied he will enjoy his outings, slee}, practically all the time, and be greatly benefited from the long hours spent in the open air. — limit the proportion of meat as fol- lows: Four ounces daily for each adult; two ounces daily for children of school age; children under school age should have meat only in the form of beef juice or scraped beef pulp. Of the juice not more than one or two tablespoonfuls should be taken, according to age of the child. Of the scraped beef there should not be more than one ounce, again accord- ing to age. In classifying vegetable foods one writer gives us the following: (1) Cereals, such as corn, oats and wheat. (2) The pulses, such as peas, beans and lentils. (3) Roots, such as carrots, turnips and beets. (4) Green vege- tables, of which cabbage is an out- standing example. (5) Fruits and nuts. (6) Fungi and alga such as mushrooms and Iceland moss. (Copyright, 1025.) Ice Cream With Sauce. Loganberries make a particular attractive and deliclous Summer des- | sert. The color of the berries as well as the flavor lends itself par- ticularly to any plan which calls for tempting hot-weath appetites. prepare the fruit sweeten to taste and use both berries and julce as sauce for individual servings of the ice cream or pour over the whole dessert, according to individual taste. ation \ | A “quick bite” for lunch | TRISCUIT The Shredded Wheat Cracker Crisp, flavory shreds of cooked whole wheat compressed into a wafer and baked in electric ovens. A delicious, nourishing snack for a hot day with butter, cheese or marmalades. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY, JULY 31, 1925 HOME NOTES BY JENNY WREN Interest in authentic furniture de- signs has grown more and more wide- spread in the last few years, and now we are beginning to look about us for authentic backgrounds against which to display our fine old pleces and almost equally fine reproductiont. ith this trend of popular interest, old wall paper designs are springing into the limelight and several modern manufacturers have set about the task of searching out and making careful coples of the wall papers found in_old New England houses. One of the romantic old wall paper designs procurable today s illus- trated. It is known as the “Paul Re- vere” and was copied from a pape- used in the John Alden house at Dux- bury, Mass. The background is cream and the birds and flowers stand forth in soft tones of blue, brown, green and rose-red MODE MINIATURES Gone are the days when swooning and looking wan were considered proper attributes of a lady. Rosy cheeks are now the rule at all times, and so you will be interested in waterproof rouge. They say one can get through a ‘whole strenuous Summer's day after a morning’s careful application of it. And particularly if you enjoy spend- ing hours in the surf vou will find this kind a saving grace. The color looks inviting—a small tube and it comes in a little rubber lined case that completely disgulses its purpose in your purse or bathing bag. MARGETTE. Parking With Peggy “When a girl has to decide wheth- er to let her hair grow or have it bobbed the main queston now is whether she is young enough to wear it long." My Neighbor Says: A most _effective way to clean linoleum is to wash it first with a little water and then polish by applying milk. To make jam or marmalade look clear without skimming it, add a piece of butter the size of an egg about a quarter of an hour before removing the fruit from the fire. The jam will look quite clear and will not stick to the jars when turned out for use. Place a slice of lemon with the rind cut off in the boiler along with the clothes next washday. It will not injure them in any way and will make them beautifully white. The best kind of dishcloths are made of cheescloth. The material should be doubled, the raw edges turned in and stitched on the machine. This will wear and because it cleans so easily is most sanitary. Rinsing in soap and water will be all that is necessary for cleansing. Before washing your sweater sew the buttonholes shut. This will keep them from stretching. When cream is only very slightly sour it can be made quite ‘delicious to serve with puddings, etc., In the following way: Put it into a bowl with the juice of a lemon and a good tablespoonful of sugar and whip it until it is quite stiff. This increases the quantity and the sour flavor cannot be detected. What Price Are You Paying? Respect?>—Can You that we get our money’s worth. string of glass beads. dinner, tion. leggers sell. What a ND the girls. cheaply they sell themselves! day she lives for a single wild party. and their good names. The family quarrel. £oes wrong on some one else. daily orgy of nerves and temper. other. too politic to say to strangers. love. They slay each other's respect. a little self-control! e the society bug and who tries to keep by long years of bitter dependence. jewel boxes made for millionaires. or goes to clubs. the sake of making a witty ourselves in them! BY PHILIP FRANCIS NOWLAN. DRISCOLL VARIATION—O'Driscoll. RACIAL ORIGIN—Irish SOURCE—A given nam: You might not even recognize Dris- coll as an Irish family name, though if you run across it in the form of O'Driscoll the significance of that pre- fix is clear. Like virtually all Irish names, it is the Anglicized form of an ancient clan name, and this clan name was “O’h- Edersceoil,” which is something quite different in both spelling and pronun: clation from O'Driscoll, though your English pronunciation of the Gaelic spelling would probably be wrong, for that syllable “ceoil,” containing the three vowels, was pronounced simply “col.” The clan was founded by a chiet tain named ‘“Edersceal,” who was the great-grandson of ‘‘Lugaidh MacCon," the 113th monarch in that line of “high-kings”” whose reigns stretched through virtually 3,000 years. There are no records which show specifically the year in which the clan was founded, but history gives defl- nitely the reign of this great-grand- father of the founder, which was be- tween the years 185 and 225 A.D. MAGINNIS VARIATIONS—MacGuinne: gennis, Magenis, Macinn ness, Angus, Ennis, Innes. RACIAL ORIGIN—Irish. SOURCE—A given name. Here is a group of Irish family names which shows a strikingly wide variation of both spelling and pronun- clation, and vet they are all but Anglicized forms of the same clan name This clan name was “MacAonghuis.” You are allowed three guesses as to OBEY YOUR DOCTOR The ‘“nastiness” (taste odor, feel) is now gone forever from castor oil —just try Slastor ems Kiddies think them candy—so will you! And they ARE! Tasty chocolate- coated patties with creamy sweet center. Fully as effective yet absolutely asteless CANDIED CASTOR OIL ASK your druggist for them DorothyDix Does One Joyride Pay for. the Loss of Self- so dearly that it is never worth the cost. cross, and irritable, and disgruntled, there is a certain luxury in letting go all of one’s self-control, and turning one's temper loose, and stabbing right and left with cruel words that wound like dagger thrusts. Also it salves one's own conscience to lay the blame for everything that Therefore, many husbands and wives go on a They vent their spleen against life on each They say to each other all the mean and hateful things that they are other and to cherish secret grudges, born of insult and injustice. peace nor tenderness in their homes and their marriages either end in divorce or become merely an endurance contest. The man who belongs to lodges, when he can't pay the rent collector. man who buys an automobile and a radio on the installment plan. Asks Solemn Question of Spiritual Bpendthrifts Afford to Kill Love by Having Family Quarrels? DO you ever ask yourself it you are not paying too high a price for many of the things in which you indulge yourself? 8o far as material things go, most of us are keen enough about seeing ‘We do not pay a thousand dollars for a We do not buy a battered flivver at fancy figures, nor will we stand being charged banquet prices for a corned beef and cabbage When it comes to spiritual values, however, we lose all sense of propor- We become spendthrifts, who throw our priceless treasures away, and we literally sell our birthrights for a mess of pottage. One thinks of this particularly, just now, when one watches so many Young persons making such bad and losing bargains with fate. There are the boys scarcely out of their teens, who think it is such a sporting thing, so dashing, and that it shows that they are such men of the world to carry flasks on their hips and drink the vile poison that boot- For the sake of the kick they get out of this and for a few minutes’ exhilaration, they are risking not only death itself, but what is far, far worse, blindness and imbecllity and every sort of nervous ailment. Look at the pasty-faced, blear-eyed vouths with shaking hands that you see all about you, their minds dulled, their energies paralyzed, their ambitions killed by drink; who are done with life before they have ever begun to live. price they have paid for booze! Can any boy look at a drunken sot, dirty, poor, despised, and think that the pleasure that he has got out of drink has paid for what it cost him? The girls who are mad for gayety, crazy for the admiration of men; the girls who go on drinking parties, who indulge in petting parties, who joyride until all hours of the night, who let men kiss and fondla them because that is the price that men demand for taking them out. How Many a girl pays with shame and disgrace that follow her to the longest They buy their fun high, these girls who exchange for it their self-respect, their modesty, their maidenly innocence That is a domestic luxury for which we have to pay Undoubtedly, when one is feeling But the price they pay! It bankrupts them. For they kill each other's They inevitably come to hate each There i8 no What a price to pay for the lack of .. XTRAVAGANCE. The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things that you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age. The woman who cannot resist pretty clothes. The woman who is bitten by up with people better off than she is. The They will pay, as sure as fate, for gratitying the desire of the moment Twenty or thirty years from now they will be down and out, and they will either be in almshouses or the hangers-on of relatives, who resent having to take care of Poor Uncle John or Cousin Susan. Or they will be burdens on their children, who are having all they can do to take care of their own families. The highest priced cars in the world are not the gold-plated, satin-lined They are the cheap little cars bought by the people who cannot afford them and who have to go into debt for them. And there is the price the lazy pay for shiftlessness. And the price the mother pays who lets her children roam the streets while she plays bridge And the price the sarcastic pay who alienate a friend for speech. gratifications of a mood or inclination, the desire of a moment, that we pay for with tears, with loneliness, with failure, with our very heart’s blood What a pity we don't count the cost of things before we indulge There are a thousand other little DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright. 1925.) | how this s/ pronounced in the Gaelto |Bistory of Bour Name | onsue Wrong, all three times! It is pronounced as though it were spelled ‘“MacOneesh,” with the accent on _the “On.” Still, despite the difference between this and the way we pronounce the modern developments of the name, it isn’t hard to see how the original clan name gradually developed under the influence of English speech, free spell- ing and in some cases the dropping of the prefix “mac” into the present widely varying forms. “Aongus” was the given name of the chieftain who founded this clan This given name has a meaning of cellent strength.” As nearly as comparative historical dates will give it to us, this clan came into being about the year 1000 A.D., and it occupled the terfitory around Iveagh. in County Down. (Copyri ht. 1925.) Pl Vegetable Pie. Cook until nearly done in one cup- ful of water. one cupful of pegs, one chopped onion, one sliced carrot, one sliced turnip, one stick of celery, two tablespoonfuis of butter, one tea spoonful of flour, two tablespoonfuls of sago, and pepper and salt to taste Put into a pudding dish, cover with pastry, and bake In a moderate oven until_done. Seal Brand Tea is of _ the same high quality COLOR CUT-OUT THE WATER-SPRITE. Impossible Tasks. The watersprite led the little brother and sister out to the kitchen of the castle. There she gave the little girl a bucket which had no bot- tom. “Go,” she sald, “and fetch me some water to boll the dumplings for supper.” To the little boy she gave an ax which had no edge. It was as dull as a hammer. “And you must go,’ she said, ‘‘and cut me some wood with which to build a fire.” Remembering that they were to ask no questions the children took the bucket and ax and went out to do as they were bidden. Make this gown of the water- sprite green, shading it from a very dark green around the neck to a very light green at the hem. Both the ax and bucket should be tan. (Covyright. 1925.) Vegetable Cutlets. Delicious vegetable cutlets are made as follows: Mash six large hot boiled potatoes, adding butter. seasoning and enough hot milk to slightly moisten Chop fine one onion and fry a golden brown in a tablespoonful of butter Boil and chop fine new carrots and white turnips to make one heaping cupful of each, add these and the onion tb the potato, season very highly with salt and pepper, add a tablespoon- ful of chopped parsley and mold into small cutlets. Dip each in slightly beaten egg, roll in fine bread crumbs and fry a golden brown in deep, smok- ing-hot fat. Wonderful Values! Suede One Strap, Flapper Heel—Novelty Ornamentations and a Big Value. Suitable for Fall and Win- ter wear, and Wonderful Vd\u.. 913 Pa. Ave. N.W. FEATURES, - IN THE GARDEN WITH BURBANK As Reported by Elizabeth Urquhart and Edited by Luthur Burbank. Affinities and Antagonisms. “Is nature still crossing plants and producing new forms, just as you are doing, Mr. Burbank?" I asked. “I am doing only,” he replied, “what nature has been doing for ages, ever since plant life began. She has been combining wild species of plants, and producing varieties to be tested and tried out, to perish or survive as they show adaptation to their surround- ings. “If the new variety is better suited than its parents to the surroundings, it is very likely to take their places, while the parent forms die out sooner or later. But if it be less well adapted than its parents for the battle of life, it does not survive in the struggle for existence and is -weeded out by the law of natural selection.” “‘A survival of the fittest! ed I exclaim- “Yes, and the underlying principle of the improvement of species—in short, evolution!" “What plants are known to be most often crossed in this way?’ I asked. “The different species of the Rubus family, to which blackberries and raspberries belong; wild roses, crab- apples, willows, hawthorne, straw- berries, huckleberries and a number of others.” “But why has not this almost uni- versal crossing of species brought on confusion and a mixture of forms?" I inquired. “One reason is that these hybrid forms which are produced by the the crossing of species disappear be- cause they are not an improvement on the parent forms and are not any better adapted to their environment; also, for another and very interesting reason, because of the law of affinity in the plant world. “Nature has placed a partial limi- tation on the production of new specles by natural selection and by making it difficult for species to be crossed that are too much unlike.” “This is what you sometimes call the limits of affinity, is it not?” I asked. “Yes, it generally is only possible to cross-fertilize species that are some- what closely related, broadly speak- ing. %%1t is the seme as in human gens alogies: Families that have branched off from the common ancestor at different times and formed widely different types have developed as plants have, and specles that have branched off at a remote period are so unlike, through constant evolution, those that have done so recently that it is very difficult to combine them, and in some cases impossible to make a combination. “Sometimes there is a positive an- tagonism between plants so that the juices of one are actually poisonous to another, and in these cases even where fertilization is effected the hybrids are either unthrifty or sterile, therefore no new race is established. “‘Usually, also, specles that cannet be cross-fertilized cannot be cross. grafted. The surfaces will not unite or if they do the graft does not grow or thrive. “So nature seems to have taken thought for the best and highest de- velopment in plants.” (Copyright. 1926.) Bronze instruments were used by man long before he realized they wers alloys. The Romans were the first to prepare cast iron. Im na\.rly \lw\w calm and mild. ICED TEA when pure, delicious is used, is a satisfying and refreshing summer-beverage. _for WOMEN Begins Saturday Morning 8 A. M. In this and hundreds of other cities all over the United States Newark Shoe Stores will Saturday morning with a Sensational Season End Clearance Sale of Shoes for Women. In this sale will be found shoes for -actically every occasion— B'uifabl- Styles—Exclusive Models and Wonderful V; ues—all priced at sweeping reductions from our regular rices for this BIG ANNUAL gALE. Here's your chance to buy Famous Newark Shoes at savings. Re- member Newark Shoes at their regular price of $3.50 are America’s Greatest Shoe Values, so Come Early—See The Shoes—Note The Prices then you'll know why thous- ands and thousands of women wait for this Big Annual Event and buy a year’s supply during this Two Stores During this Big Asnual Sale Desirable Styles in Women'’s “White Kid and Canvas Foot. wegr will be sold at Big Reductions. NOW is the time for “ WHITES.” $1.45, $1.95 ANl Newark Stores Open Saturday Evenings to Accommiodate Customers