Evening Star Newspaper, August 19, 1925, Page 24

WOMAN’S PAGE. Numbering and BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKEK. e woman who offers to read you letters and then fumbles about among several to get just the ones she wishes to in the proper sequence is annoying. You may want re somewhat CONSECU: OR_BLOCK OMIT THEM ALOUD. news from the distant but it is disquieting it in proe for seem so elusive. You with “all the patience for the reading to start, letters be waitin, imaginable the | Filing of Letters but have a very short time in which to do many things besides this par-| ticular one and could have it in your |, wish you had made some ccuse until such time as the 1 the letters correctly sorted. { | e the one who is making the gracious offer to share the news or the amusing and interesting bits | from the letters you are scarcely any | better off. In the haste to get the m | sives straightened out you usually | overlook the particular’ letter you ‘“PFP most desirous of reading. If postmarks are the sole method of distinguishing dates and thereby knowing which comes first and which later, you certainly are at a disadvan | tage, for many times these distin- | guishing marks are very faint, if not indeed entirely obliterated | Usually, running comments are {made to try to hide the futile efforts | to bring order out of chaos. It is not possible, however, to keep up a really | interesting conversation under such adverse circumstances. The result is {apt to be passing comments ,that | amount to nothing and do not ven | hold the attention of the person wait {ing for thesletters to be read. Number Letters. Fortunately there is one real solu- tion to this annoying situation. It is | one that should be followed by every | person who has letters that are worth reading aloud to friends. Number the letters! | heart to kindly File in Sequence. There are two ways of doing this | One is to number the envelopes and keep the letters safely folded in them except when they perused. The | most_efficient method, however, is to | have looséleaf covers between which | the letters are kept unfolded as well |as numbered. This saves the paper from tearing in creases und folds and ry easy to read the pages. adhesive tape comes n be pasted down the edges pages where the writing is too e to them to be legible when in tenings of the covers. Circular rotectors to go about holes in the | sheets for the fasteners to go through | spare paper still further. Mark or Erase Portions. Parts of letters that are so personal that they are of little interest to any but the recipient should be put in parentheses, so that the reading may proceed consecutively and not with little gasps of “Oh, yes, um, um, um, nothing that would interest you, just | some personal matters”—which piques | the curiosity of any listener. If there is anything in the letter that should be seen by the person receiving it and no one else without betraying the | confififidence of the writer, the letter should be left out of the file, the part cut out or X-ed out, one or the other for there is always a possibility of lanother’s unintentionally seeing it. BEAUTY CHAT The Beautifying Egg. tire book might be written on eggs in good for shampoo ng dandruff, for ble for elimina Here are ally practical now that e Here white at up the t two table one drachm of three drachms of sp s should be rubbed well half an hour befor with soap and water. S almost identical to high prices in_the If the hair is not ¢ dirty v this could be used without ev eral this shops. or g any sc I think, however to use a raw beaten egg on the scalp about an hour before you intend to hampoo. You 1ple t up the nd white together, and rub > mixture over the nd over as 1 ations h of the hair I cover. Let it dry on. If possible, go out of doc it will dry more quickly, then shampoo as with liquid soap and water, usin; hap twice ins sing_ thorot Here's an e the white of one spoonfuls of pure they are thoroughly tablespoonfuls of ofl of over the face long as possible. Here's a formula found in all old books. It is for whitening red hands. Take the white of an egg, add one beat until Stiff but not. too st he old books say it is to be used last thing at night. Rubbed we the hands and allowed to stay on till the mornt I'd suggest cutting this down to one hour. T. B skir hly ach: Be: , add two table- honey and when mixed add thre Imonds. nd let it stay h on as The only thing to make the firm around your knees is to build up the tissues th flabby skin hanging around the knees meant that the muscles of your le ind thighs were also flabby; in fact, a general building up would be needed under such conditions. There should be nio suct fabby skin and s anywhere on the need of a the doctor you to take. Edna tonic, to suj it is best to as somethin; vou velope d to stamped ad- the mailing, I d the ormula The Well Groomed Woman. The other day 1 the I War nd forwa was talking to an e had served in d memories of wdies of that time and even be- » made the social life of New 1 Washington and the South. elderly men when they iscent, this one prefers the The average woman, much better look ears or more 2 ge by portraits and 1 illustrated maga- Some of it, T think, is because the average woman has more time to spend on herself, and some of it because beauty prepara- e so much better today t are remir moder he tol than she was If one photographs zines, that is t ma me, is 50 Flies % And Mosquitoes X Breathe Black Flag and Die—Not One Escapes Alive Frag is the surest killer of bugs ever discovered. Itkills every fly, mosquito and Yoach that gets into your home. Not one es- capes. For BLACK FLAG con- tains a secret vegetable in- gredient that pests breathe and die. But it is absolutely harmless to humans and animals. It is the deadliness of BrLACK ¥FraG that makes it different from ordinary insecticides which kill, at best, only 6 out ‘of every 10 bugs. The four which get away breed hun- dreds which return. But BLACK Frac kills them all—10 out of every 10 pests. Every kind of insect pest in the home is killed by BLACK Frag. It kills—besides flies, mosquitoes and roaches—ants, bedbugs, dog fleas, BLACK BrLACK The gre insect kill it it is simpler | Ip with the | d of three times and | Rub | 1 should think | may only be in | cream | every roach, tool S hey were even 10 yvears ago. The |modern woman aquite rightly puts time and money and thought into im- | proving herself. She is well groomed, her hair is soft | v and well arranged because she has everything in the way of| shampoo lotions, invisible hair nets, and the choice of a hundred styles of | hair dressing to help her achleve this | effect. Her skin is smooth because she knows something about proper dieting, does not over-eat, nor indulge in indigestible food a* tion ago. \fhlnp! about co: to do with coarse pore s skin, or superfiuous ha It she i | too pale she knows how to give he face the least touch of color. E | body does it nowadays, and the wom- | an who u: rouge is no longer an bandoned creature. |, She knows something about dress, too, this modern well groomed woman. | She has a freedom of choice that she never had before, not only as to detail of styles, but as to essentials. In ys of crinolines there was little variation. The art of becoming beau. tiful is becoming widespread. nearly always ad- growth on BY EDNA KENT FORBES. knows some- too, and what v, when the scalp is elimination. You ¥ not always realize this, but it is vorth your effort in making an ex- | periment, either by eating more fruit, |or by taking agar once a day | with a breakfast cereal or similar | food; and then watch the effect upon | your entire system, including that of vour scalp. After a week or more, your skin will improve, and you will feel better in every way. J. I. E—Any bleach is drying to the skin so you should not overdo it, and if you do use one, follow it with a cream or an oil massage. Even when you apply peroxide and ammonia to | superfluous hair to bleach it, you hould not do it at the expense of your in. String Beans Sauted. Wash, string and cut the beans in thin strips, put them in plenty of | boiling salted water and boil until ten- der, or about 40 minutes. Drain and dry in the oven. Stir up the beans to permit the escape of steam. As soon {as they are dry put them in a sauce- |pan with two heaping tablespoontuls f butter to a pound of beans, a little ely chopped parsley and pepper and t to taste. Toss them continually, so that all will be equally coated with butter. Squeeze in a littie lemon juice and serve very hot. |Removes Rust and Ink Spots Cleanly Use like a pen. Dip intd water and moist- en the spot. ERUSTICATOR turns rust into Soluble iron sothat it rinses out like magic, ag with pride to David " | tablespoonful of butter, a high season- separate treatment in handy pencil holder for ink and other stains: works as effec tively_as the rust remover. No 1njury to_fast color or o the “most delicate fabrics. Used by_up-to-date_cleaning shops. ~Sold by leading drug and department stores of Washington. Look for the | blue and gold box | Sterling Products Compan; Easto moths, plant lice and e o e lers. Kills THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO WEDNESDATY, c, AUGUST 19, 1925. COL6R CUT-OUT DAVID COPPERFIELD. Says a Diamond in the Rough is Worth More ‘When Polished The Impor- tance of Being Well Mannered DorothyDix It’s Too Bad There Are No Boys’ “Finishing” Schools, for Pleasing Habits and Good Man- ners Mean Additional Working Capital. VISIT in a home in which there are both small sons and daughters. When the girls come into the drawing room they make their little curtsies, greet me charmingly and wait deferentially for a pause in the conversation before they address their mother. The boys.come into the room with their caps on their heads. They merely grunt in reply to my greeting. They ignore my presence as if I were a part of the furniture of the room and blurt out: “Say, mama, whatcher do with my ball?” The girls In this family are being brought up to be ladies. The boys are being permitted to grow up boors. And, as I look at them, I wonder why their mother makes this distinction between her children; why she is giving her daughters such an immeasurable advantage over her sons, and why she does not perceive that it is just as important for her boys to have good manners as it is for girls to have them. Indeed, as between the two, it s even more important for the boy to have drilled into him a working knowledge of the usages of good society than it is for the girl, because he is thrown into contact with more people than she is and his success depends more upon his address than hers does. Yet the country is overrun with finishing schools where girls have the last gloss of polish put upon their manners, but in all the length and breadth of the lund I know of but one institution of learning where they consider it as important to teach a boy how to hold his fork as they do how to work out a problem in trigonometry. Curious how we happen to have this idea that it doesn’t matter how crude and boorish a man is, when we all know how surely we react to suavity and elegance. Not without reason do novelists and dramatists endow their villains with polished manners and the outward appearance of gentlemen. That s the quickest way to our confidence, the most certain way to attract us. N 'WE do not ask for the credentials of the man who always knows just what of life. He looks good to us that we take him at his face value, for good manners are a letter of credit that is honored at sight the world over. Of course, we get taken in now and then, for the man who never makes a mistake about the right fork and spoon se at a dinner pa ymetimes carries them away in his pocket, and the carpet knight who always picks up a lady’s handkerchief frequently breaks her heart. But, all the same, we are never quite as hard in our judgments on the man who is an attractive scoundrel as we are on the one who is just a plain thug. Master of the House. They were welcomed to the ship house by the housekeeper and a beau- tiful, little girl who was just David's David found that her name was Em’ly. By and by when they had finished their supper of fresh fish and potatoes the door opened and a large, Jolly lookink man came in. This was Peggotty's brother and master of the ship house. Peggotty introduced him She thought him the most wonderful brother that ever was. On the other hand, the man who practices none of the amenities of life has to win us by proving his own worth and by good deeds. We come in time to respect the intelligence of a brainy man, even if his bad grammar makes us writhe. We can learn to love the man who sucks in his soup, and to realize the worth of a heart that is covered by the napkin he tucks in his collar. But why should any man handicap himself with these drawbacks? Why should he carry this excess baggage of bad manners that we have to free him from before we can get down to his good qualities? Of course, many men think that as long as they are good, and kind, and honest, and honorable, and have the ability to be go-getters, it doesn't matter what sort of manners they have. They consider that they have a perfect right to sit on the back of their necks if they find that position more com fortable, and to expectorate when and where they please, and to inhale their food if that is their habit. But in this they are vastly mistaken. lad to see you, sir,” said Mr. Peg- | gotty. “You'll find us rough, sir, but vou'll find us ready. David was not quite sure just what this meant, but it sounded very nice, any the way Mr. Peggotty said it. Color Mr. Peggotty’s suit blue with black buttons. His boots should also he black. (Copyright. 1925.) In these days a man’s manners are an integral part of his success or failure. Many a man of ability never gets the promotion he yearns for because he has some repulsive personal habit that would make it inadvisable for him to be brought into contact with cultured people. Place the yolk of an egg in a bowl e and add one tablespoonful of olive oil, one scant teaspoonful of salt, a few grains of cayenne, one teaspoonful of white sugar, one teaspoonful of dry saustard and one tablespoonful of vinegar. Mix the ingredients to a smooth paste. Add one-half a pound of cheddar cheese that has ben broken small by mashing with a fork. Mix well and serve in a clean crab shell, or in small white dishes, with crackers or bread and butter and a salad of lettuce. This dish is improved by the addition of a little finely minced cold poultry. An inexpensive and simple varjation of the above may be made by breaking one-half a pound of soft, strong cheese into small pleces by mashing it with a fork, then season ing with pepper and pouring a little vinegar over it. 'WO such cases have recently come under my personal knowledge. One was of a young man who lost an opportunity go abroad as a buyer for his firm because of his abrupt manner and his lack of courtesy. He knew all there was to know about silks, but there was nothing soft and silken in his approach. “He is a genius in his line,” said his employer, “but he will never get any higher than he is because he doesn't know how to meet people. And foreigners would simply refuse to do business with him. They would con sider that he insulted them at ever: The other case was told me by a banker. “We were golng to open a new branch,” he said, “and I had picked out a splendid young chap who had grown up in the bank for the manager. He is capable, industrious, honest better qualified than any other man we had to fill the position. I took him out to lunch to talk t matter over with him, but before I mentioned it he began eating with his knife, and that lost him the job. We couldn’'t hav sword-swallower representing us at banquets.” The truth of the matter is that pleasing habits and good manners are just so much more additional working capital in the hands of a man. They do not make him less efficient, but more so. The rough diamond is valuable, but it doesn't fetch the market price that it will when it is polished. Which is a fact that'I would like to impress upon the minds of the mothers who are letting their little boys grow up with the manners of hoodlums. DOROTHY DIX. Chinese Ragout. This is really a nice kind of stew After slicing off what is needed of the cold meat for luncheon, cut the remainder into half-inch pieces and ace in a saucepan. Add to it a head of lettuce torn into shreds, one; (Copyright. 1925.) &hd of Frozen Tomato Ice. cook slowly until three cups of the mixture remain. Strain and add the Canned tomatoes, four cups: lemon | oil and lemon jui Have ready the juice, two tablespoons; sait, two tea- | gelatin which has been dissolved in spoons; celery seed, one-half teasnoon; | cold water. Str this into the hot to- gelatin, one and one-half teaspoons’| mato mixture and chill. Let stand in onion ' juice, one tablespoon; bay|a freezer until of the consistency of of gravy or walter. Simmer gently |leaf, one; vinegar, one tablespoon;|sherbet. After taking out the dasher for an hour and serve on a platter | cloves, two: oil, two tablespoons. Mix |pack the mixture and let stand for at walled round by a border of freshly | the onion juice with the tomato and'least 30 minutes. Scoop out cubes and boiled rice. | seasonings. After adding the vinegar serye on bits of lettuce £né new bran _food with the bran’ new flavor ing of salt and pepper, one table. spoonful of chopped onions, half a can of peas and one and one-half cupfuls The springy step! The sparkling eye! Keen good health! And wondrous flavor! PEP—what a great food it is! What a great flavor! It's new. Its marvelously good. Ready-to-eat with milk or cream. Pep will capture your appetite the first time you taste it. . The more you eat, the healthier you grow. Pep Either form of BLACK Frac—powder or liquid —will kill these pests. Both are equally effec- tive, with just three excep- tions—alway4 use the powder to kill dog fleas and lice. Never use any liquid on furs; use the powder to make them moth- proof. Many people use both, preferring the liquid to kill flies, mosquitoes and moths—and the powder to kill ants, roaches, bedbugs, dog fleas and lice. Brack FLaG costs less. Powder, 15¢ up. Powder Gun, 10e. Liquid, 25¢ up. Sprayer, 45e. Introductory o package containing can of liquid and sprayer for only 65¢. At drug, ’ grocery, hardware and department stores. Buy BrocK Frac today. ! S FLAG | gives you energy—boundless energy. Pep puts vigor into your muscles. Pep makes you feel joyously alive. Pep is full, bang-up, with those wonderful health- giving elements that nature puts in foods. Pep is the peppy bran food! Pep is rich in bran. Therefore, it is mildly laxative. ‘Wonderful for children. And they’re wild about it. Buy a package today. Your grocer sells Pep. Try it. Give it to your whole family and watch them grow healthier. Eat Pep—it peps you up! 2 ' 9 The peppy bran food to do and how to do it, and who possesses all the little arts and graces | | FEATURES. HOME NOTES BY JENNY WREN. Isn't this a jolly, nautical looking bay window for a lakeside cottage? The fdea of building it like a ship’ ptlot house was conceived when the small boy of the family was presented with a “sure-enough” helm by an old sailor friend. | The wheel is used merely as local | color, but the built-in window seats are both useful and comfortable. The lids lift up and underneath are storage for fishing tackle, old sweaters, | s, and all the other delightful ates in a Summer rdow one has a splendid view out across the waters of the lake, and with the sound of- the wawes washing up against the shore and the fresh lake breezes sailing through, a v satisfying illusion of being on a real ship is created. And when the small boy is helm you can imagine what storms and high seas the good ship weathers under her small captain’s dauntless command! the Peach Cheese Salad. Take one can of real small ones. If large ones are used, serve half for each person large peaches or Place some lettuce leaves on a plate, | then half a peach, sprinkled over with | a little cinnamon, with chopped | nut meat d cover with onnaise | Run the cheese through a| pastry tube over the d. The che: e | may be colored desired color, | using wet vegetable coloring being especially good if pink ed for table decorations plain bread and butter One can of peaches Six persons. erve a. will wiche: serve Th;a New Gloves. ightly ne f sho: flar- with cock phes er is es of suede ffs faced times sometimes rendered ng. ther gloves, for street or | sports wear, t re made with a nar- ow cuff that fast buckle—gilt on L is There are W. & J. SLOANE 1508 H STREET WASHINGTON, D. C. THE IMPORTANT SUMMER SALE Home Furnishings continues with We continue to offer at prices most moderate for | one-piece My Neighbor Says: After using kerosene oil to clean the enamel bathtub or woodworlk, ruh with a clean flan- nel wrung out in hot water. ase your jelly mold with butter befo putting jelly in it. When ready to take out, plunge the mold into hot water and re- move at once. Jelly treated in this way will turn out without any trouble. It is not generally known that a slice of lemon put into the boiler when boiling clothes will make them beautifully white and take all the stains out of pocket handkerchiefs and children aprons and dresses. Cut the lemon with the rind into slic and let it remain in the boile till the clothes are ready to come out. To keep white silk stockings, blouses, etc., from turning ye low in laundering, use a little alcohol in the rinse water. Lemon juice applied to brown or tan shoes will remove stains. Rub it well into the leather, then apply brown polish, and all stains quickly disappear. Tumblers that have contained milk should be rinsed in cold water before being washed in warm. Putting the milky glas into hot water will have the e fect of clouding it permanently Parking With Peggy < TSNS nothing a is quarelling about a it Mix each of ground allspice, 1 of mace, one black pepper and two ul salt. Into the under ut end of the hot the me: pint of bo; seared the water; h a tablespoonfu the meat with this add ore water to the pan if needed, pour ¥ Opposite The Shoreham of HIGH CLASS unabated interest. merchandise of such worth— Furniture for the Living Room—the Library—the Dining Room—the Bed Room—in fact for every purpose requiring good furniture. Oriental Rugs in superb effects from India, China, Persia and Turkey, reliable in quality and practi- cally unlimited in the range of size. Domestic Rugs and Carpetings in great variety of sizes and effects—a stock which can only be found in a great specialty house of this kind. (Consider and Compare the “Prices Arm Chairs (upholstered) Easy Chairs Wing Chairs Sofas Dining Room Suites(10 pieces) from Bed Room Suites (8 pieces) Lamps and Shades (complete) Fine Worsted Wiltons ‘Wool Wilton Seamless Axminsters Seamless Wilton Velvet. A full range of other styles at FURNITURE from from from from . . . . from . Bhy e e . o . . Sy of fighting over practically teaspoonful Baste | fr(;m f&lOO DOMESTIC RUGS (9 x 12 size quoted) Our cook Nora thawt she felt sick today so she went to bed and ma got dinnir reddy, being ham and eggs to make it easier, and after dinnir she sed, Now I haff to clear away and do | the dishes, thats the werst part of it, I |allways say I dont mind the cooking 50 mutch as the cleering up. Benny and I will carry the things out for you, wat could be fairer than that? pop sed Well for goodniss sakes be carefill because Im using the good china to- nite, ma sed. Nuthings too good for this familly, thats my motto, pop sed, and ma sed No, but its too good to drop and brake rite and left, for land sakes. We havent dropped eny vet, pop sed. You havent carried eny yet, ma sed, and pop sed, In spite of your un werthy sispicions and inhospitible at titude we insist on helping you, dont we Benn Yes sir, I sed. T wont let eny drop. | Jest leeve them try, TIl show them, I sed. | And we started to carry the dishes out to the kitchin exter carefill, and the ferst thing I knew I dropped a cup, ma saying, Wat was that? Ony a cup, it dident even brake, T sed. Well for mersey sakes wy cant you be carefill? ma. sed, and I sed, I car I think t the trubble, I th maybe I was too _carefill Wich jest then pop dropped a plate, ma saying, Good heavens wat that? Jest a plate, T bleeve, pop sed. 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