Evening Star Newspaper, August 25, 1925, Page 23

WOMA ssentials of BY MARY The relative merits of hook €yes or snappers we hear very about nowadays, bec made with the minimu of any sort. Women impatient of such devic and little use clothe e 1 of fasteners of today are s, and though A RATH OF R R ELABORATE DISH BROWN GETTE WITH HEAVY WORK OF RED AND SLIPS ON OVER THE H SIMPLY AS POSSIBLE. FROCK they appear to be much trimmer and span—they neater—very spic and really do take less time to dress. This_fact, long as it applies, must have its influence on the de- velopment of fashion, for no can now come into favor that needs complicated adjustment. and bodices of today go on over the head and need no fasteners. Short hair—shingled or bobbed—favors this. With elaborately puffed and netted hair the slip-on frocks of today would have been regarded as more bother- some than the old-fashioned sort that hooked or snapped into position. But with permanently waved or severely straight short hair the slip-on frock does no damage that cannot be remedied with a toss of the head or a stroke of the pocket comb. Our Children—By Room for Children. There seems to be no room in the world for children—that people never provide any space for them. That is the stupidest thing we can do, ignoring that fact that the world is for the children, that we are allowed to live only for their sakes, that all we do and all we have is only for them. Take the case of two voung people building their hou Do they ever make provisions for the children who are coming? Rarely. In some hous vou will find plans for the nurser but in most they ‘ignore the poss bility of them. So they are born into & grown-up’s house. Everything in it is built on the adult scale, away out of proportion to his height and ‘nower and understanding. The first thing a baby needs to do is to clutch things. And the first thing he is told is that he is not to touch them. The two laws con- flict and the baby usuall the worst of it. Of course, he cannot be permitted to clutch everything in sight. But he ought to be in a place where he can touch almost everything in sight so that his days need not become a procession of donts. ‘When he gets old enough to start outdoor explorations there is again no place for him. He can’t dig the lawn, he can't mess up the back yard, he can't play on the nice porch mats. He can’t take to the streets because they are unsafe. Even the sidewalks are not safe for the children to walk upon. The older the chil ‘room there is for them. “Go out and play.” says their exasperated mother and there 4 no place to play. Nobody has kept a place for the chil- dren. You would think that they were an unexpected happening, just came along when nobody was looking or expecting ar £ of the kind Now this sort of thing cannot g0 on. It is time people room for children. It is time that the home life and the school life and the com- munity life were planned. with the view of making place for the chil- dren who were to occupy them. There is no sense in building a_house for a child and then shutting him out of it that a grown-up person may have more spa hat is what we MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN. is, en get the less Giving School Work a Place. One mother says: 1 have a small table in my room with a glass top. One day I hap- pened to put one of my little son's drawings under this glass to smooth it out, and he was so pleased that I have adopted the custom of putting one or two of the children's papers, themes or cut-outs under here to give them Fecognition. 1 leave them a week or ‘until they bring home from school something better than what is there The idea is a real treasure to me, mode | Most frocks | N’S PAGE; New Clothes MARSHALL. | Not only does the woman of toda. expect to have clothes that are eas: |to put on. She insists on having iclothes that are easy to keep in the | PInk of condition and clothes that are not difficult to pack. She has no pa- tience with snappers and hooks and eyes that need to be reinforced; she is not very eager about elaborate pleats unless she is assured that they are of the permanent sort. A very large number of women have rebelled against lingerie ribbons that have to be put in after every laundering. One thing that makes the costume slip such a popular sub- stitute for the petticoat is that it needs no buttons, strings or other fasteners. Even hairpins seem to be fading into oblivion—at least the number of wom- en who regularly visit the barber is still on the increase. Shoes, too, have felt the present-day demand for clothes that are easy to put on. The high shoe is, so far as fashion s con- cerned, quite a thing of the past. And even the oxford fafls to find many followers. We wear pumps and slip- pers that have at most only two but- tons or buckles to keep them in place. MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Grapes. Dry Cereal with Cream. Baked Eggs. Popover: Coffee. LUNCHEON. Shrimp Wiggle. Toasted Crackers Orange Laver Cake. Tea. DINNER. Boiled Corned Beef. New Cabbage. Buttered Beets. Boiled Carrots and Parsnips. Tomato Salad. Cottage Pudding, Lemon Sauce. Coffee. BAKED EGGS Butter an enamelware pan well Break into this as ma fresh eggs as desired, being careful to retain their shape. Do not have the oven too hot. Sprinkle the eggs with salt and pepper, place a small plece of butter on each yolk and put into the oven. Bake a few minutes until the whites are firm, or longer if desired. These have a delicious flavor. .SHRIM WIGGLE Two tablespoons butter, 2 tablespoons flour, 1 pint milk, a dash of paprika, 2 cans shrimp, COTTAGE PUDDING. Two eggs, 1 cup sugar, % tablespoon butter, 3 cup sweet milk, 115 cups flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, i cup floured raisins. Put together in_the order given, and beat well. Bake 20 minutes and serve with lemon sauce Lemon Sauce.—Beat_together 1 egg, 1 tablespoon butter, 1 tablespoon cornstarch, % cup sugar. Add 1 pint boiling water. 'Cook in double boiler until thick, then add the julce and grated rind of 1 lemon. Or perhaps you will like this one better: One cup boiling water, 1 cup sugar, % a large lemon sliced. Boll a few minutes until | |t 1o lixe:sirup. Angelo Patri are coffstantly doing. ¥ve are forever trying to share the world with the children and keeping It all for our- selves with the benign thought of leaving it to them when we die— that is, when we can't help ourselves. Some day thera will be a building law that makes it impossible to have a block of residences without propor- tionate play space. Some day it will be impossible to build a town without | providing adequate place for children | to play and bathe and grow in. And it will be quite out of the question | s |to build a community without pro- | viding roomy school acres of ground for the children. buildings with The | children’s part of the scheme will be | laid out first and the grown-ups will have what Is left. I hope. But if you build a house make place for the children. And don't go to a community that has no playgrounds no schools that are not on part time, no home grounds where children can play. They are no good for your pur- | pose. HOW IT STARTED Parchment and Its Name. We are all familiar with parch- ment and its imitation parchment paper from their use in making lamp shades and for other decorative pur- poses. The original use of parchment, however, was strictly utilitarian, the genuine and original parchment being the skin of a sheep or goat, which men in an early period of our history prepared for material to write on. The invention of parchment is credited to Eumens 1T, King of Perga- mum, in_Asfa Minor, in the second century B.C., the circumstance being the prohibition by Ptolemy of Egypt lof the exportation of papyrus, the | cotemporary writing material. In other words. the invention of parch- ment was the outcome of the Egyp- | tlan conservation of home products! The manufacture of parchment rose to great importance in Rome and its use spread all over Europe and con- tinued until the invention of paper { made from rags. It'is from its birth- place, Pergamum, that the name “parchment” is derived, through the | Latin_“pergamina,” and subsequently | the Trench “parchemin.” ——— KILL all those pests with IMPROVED DETHOL. The wonderful new secret formula that never fails. No fly can dodge it. Roaches can’t hide from it. The deadly mist penetrates every crevice. Destroys every insect in range. Spray IMPROVED DETHOL today. Simple —Safe—Sure. spray Bt Dethol destroys INSECTS | THE EVENING Us fellows was setting on Sid Hunts frunt steps tawking about diffrent sub- jecks such as.wich we would rather be, a drummer in a band or the man that sets off the dynamite for blasting, and how to tell the diffrents between a Chinee and a Japanee, and after a wile Persey Weever came up eating a grate big pretzil, Skinny Martin say- ing, Look out you dont swallo it hole and get a cramp. Persey. Meening on account of the shape of it, and Sam Cross winked at the rest of us fellows, 1l tell you a good game, fellows, lets ntest to see who can take the out of Perseys pretzil, w Sure, lets, thats a swell ide all rite, us fellows sed. Like ‘fun, Ive got something to say about that, Persey sed Us fellows prefending him and starting to have a fearse ar- gument about wich one would take the ferst bite, Skinny Martin sayins, It was my ideer in the ferst place so I awt to go ferst, wats @ use of being a inventer if you dont get the ferst profits? No sir, me ferst, me ferst, lets toss up for it, sure, thats rite, lets toss up for fgrst, us fellows sed. 1 dident say eny of you could go ferst, whose pretzil is it for goodniss | sakes? Persey sed. Us fellows keeping rite on arguing louder and louder, and I sed, IIl tell you wat, let Persey decide which one is to have the ferst bite, he brawt the pretzil erround and its no more than| fair to leeve him be judge and every thing. Theres not going to be eny sutch of a game, I tell you, do you heer? Per yelled all ixcited, and he quick to beet the band holding his pretzil in frunt of him Proving he dident know we jest kidding, proberly being a thing for him he dident on us not being absilutely sure selfs. not to heer was good ount of ot it our- SUB ROSA BY MIML Beware of the Male Cat. “All women are cats,” the men tell | us complacently, and some of us are foolish enough to let this remark go unchallenged and undisputed. members of our sex whose claws are kept busy from morning to night and they're, very definitely, people to | be_avoided. But don’t ever get the cattiness is a trait peculariar women alone. Don't let any one make you believe that all men are big-hearted, frank, trustworthy souls to whom you can confide the innermost secrets of your heart. So often girls have told me of their great fear of being betrayed by their girl friends. “We can't trust our girl chums,” my readers tell me. “But it's ever so easy to belleve in our boy friends. They seem so much more stralghtforward and honest in their dealings.” In a recent that boys are rather | stick to their word than many of {the modern girls—but I certainly | didn’t mean to convey the idea that | You could expect to find them all | models of virtue and honesty. | There’s nothing more dangerous in {the world than the man who is a | cat. He listens to your frank criticisms of Doris Anthony and then rushes | off to gige her an earful of news about your conversation. He comes to your house, makes himself as charming as possible to your family, and then entertains his fraternity brothers with a recital of the amusing time he had kidding | those funny old fossils—vour people. | . If you tell him that you're particu | larly” keen about some friend of his and ask him for some advice on the subject, he's apt to be very sympa thetic and helpful about it all Then later when he meets the ob- ject of your affections he's more than likely to say: “Oh, Ted, An gela’s got a frightful smash on you. The poor kid told me all about it last night. tunny little thing —not very attractive—but she gives me a lot of laughs.” He can't bear to have any piece of information go unpublished. He lives in a constant atmosphere of intrigue. You will recognize the male cat immediately—the instant a boy begins “catting” another girl to you you may be sure that none of vour se- crets are safe with him. No decent boy ever discusses a girl disagreeably with another girl. Once a boy sets out to be a cat he's a lot more efficient than his feminine cotemporary. He will make things frightfully un- pleasant for you, if vou take him into your confidence. He can cause you more embarrassment and annoy. ance than almost any other kind of pest. And you may think all the time that he’s one of your very best friends. Watch carefully and at the first sign of gossip on the part of one of your men friends heware of confiding in him. The male of the species deadly than the female. idea that to article I pointed out more apt to is more After-Dinner Mints. Put two cupfuls of sugar and two- | thirds cupful of water together into 4 heavy saucepan and stir until the sugar dissolves, then cooky without stirring until a soft ball forms when a litile i dropped in cold water. Cool slightly, add six drops of ofl of mint, then beat until creamy and | drop from the top -of a spoon onto waxed paper or onto a board cov- reed with table oilcloth. Allow to set. 1t not satisfied with Improved Dethl, favor us by asking for . Half- Combin: sprayer, $1.00, Dethol Manufacturing C ints, 50c; Pints, 75 on package contain ne. 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[STa]x] Rl [E[x[cT) 7] R IN[EIE AR LA[SIS IRIAIDL1 1] Chase &. Sanborn's | Seal Brand Tea is of | the same high quality I ——YT il | youll like } Ancient. . Human beings. . Chart . Island in the Pacific; disputed by United States and Japan. . Turkish commander. _ Club-shaped staff of office. . Trading place. 61. Tnland sea of As ersia. . Unit of force. . anish definite article. _ Myselt. Reading With Interest. One mother say My little girl asked me why I didn’t read as if I like to, and then I realized what I had been doing. M thoughts were either on other matters I would be in a half do: I went through the simple bedside stories. My droning monotone must have helped to put them to sleep, at least. But I made up my put some expression into the nightly after. (Copyright, 1925.) or els Gentle, yielding support is given by the 676 small, sensitive coils. 2 Decp, soft Layers of new [elted cotton form cushion tep and botsom, 3 Eight ventilators inside walls keep isterior fresh and sweet and clean. mind to| 05 UGUST 25. 1925. My Neighbor Say Have a brush especially for scrubbing both pastry boards and tables. Wash and wipe dry, and be careful not to allow dough to accumulate in the cracks. Do you ever, in making sugar cookies, take the rolled-out dough, spread one-half with pea- nut butter or Jelly, then turn the other half over and shage it nicely, then bake as usual, and when it is done cut it In squares? Try it. The best ones I have made resulted when I thought T had nothing for filling, and I had to plan. I mixed two table- spoons of cocoa, one of butter and two of sugar. They were fine. After cooking cabbage or any vegetables that have a disagree- able odor, sprinkle a little ground cinnamon on the top of the stove and all odors will disap- pear. A mode of ascertaining the freshness of eggs Is to hold them to the light. If an egg looks clear, it is good; if thick, it Js stale. If there is a black spot attached to the shell it is worth- less. For dusting furniture, par- ticularly if it is at all elaborate in design, there is nothing bet- ter than an ordinary paint brush. The bristles cannot scratch the surface, and they remove the dust from the cran- nies and corners better than a dust cloth can possibly do. Oatmeal Biscuits. Mix two cupfuls of rolled oats ground fine in a mill, with one tea- spoonful of salt and four teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Then work in to tablespoonfuls of butter or lard, and add enough sweet milk and water in equal parts to make a very soft mix. | ture. Turn it onto a floured board and without kneading it, pat the dough into thickness of half a inch. Cut it with small biscuit cutter and bakeitina quick oven. The addition of curran or seedless raisins makes these bis. cuits excellent for afternoon teas. | | | | Clocks and Watches. keep the works of a watch clean, and to insure that it will run smoothly, cut a piece of white paper the size of the cover, and after soak- ing the paper in petrol, place it in the | inner case of the watch. The paper should be periodically removed and a fresh piece, also soaked in petrol, sub- stituted. The same plan may be adopted for small and medium-sized clocks. FEATURES. ‘Warmth in Blankets. ‘We now know that the warmth in a blanket doesn’t come so much from the kind of fiber used in it as the w the material is treated. It is the spaces on the surface of the blanket, the “fuzziness,” in other words, as well as the closeness of the weave un derneath, which makes a blan warm and comfortable. ‘Do you remember that bitter cold morning last Winter when you got up to close the window and as the icy blast of air rushed in you spled just outside on the bleak, snow-Incrusted branches a fluffy little chickade: chirping bravely to the whole shiver ing world? And as vou crept back into the snug folds of your blankets 1o wait for the frozen furnace to come to life, your heart swelled with pity for your little feathered friend just ojt- side the glass. Y =0 cold. — than you think. Don’t you recall huw he sat huddling himself into a verita ble downy ball of feathers wasn't the feathers th much which kept him warm hundreds of air spaces between the feathers which shut the cold out and held the heat of his little heart within This is Nature's great heat-con ing secret by which she protec outdoor family against frigi It is not alone the f abroad in the empty, snow-buried woods that benefit by this arrange ment; but all the fur-bearing animals have a “buffer” against the cold in the form of soft inner fur under the sh gy outer coat, which is litera ed with millions of tiny air cel It is not surprising that blanket manufacturers have developed machin |ery to treat fabrics in such a way as | to simulate Nature's construction |+ The same principle holds in blan- |kets. We strive to get as deey “lofty” a nap as possible, or tangled mesh creates millions of lit tle “pockets” of air which kee cold out and the warmth withi |br flatten this nap reduces its air con |tent, and therefore its warmth. !is why blanket manufact hat more blankes ruined by ing than are ever worn out in The damage may not be e the color and pattern may not * or fade, but if the nap has been flat- tened much of the usefulness gf v blanket has been lost. A few laundr try to correct this by using a cur: comb on the blanket after washing. but this s not to be recommended, be cause it is bound to comb out u 1 deal of the fiber A8 & matter of fact, he was warmer athered songsters | 1d this nap | the | Anything which tends to fat down | N WE GO SHOPPI BY MRS. HARLAND H. AL It is much better if | women follow the washing instruc tions which come with the blanket, and keep the nap in good condition from must be sent out ure to choose a re, and to inclose a “These blankets must be | washed without rubbing. Do not iron | with flatwork.” g IR | Fight Despondency. | Despondency is | pital as the use of the thetic. A cheerful p ways insisted, is | plains the member th ways up to its neck in 11 contin as fatal in a hos Wrong anas. fent, 1t is a half cured. This e notice in one hospital: “Re kettl It is al 't water e steam es to s u thought he was | Oily Skin | Banished Instantly An oily, shiny skin is now unnecessary. For now a new and harmless treatment banishes large, course pores and shiny, oily noses. Thisamazing new discovery is safe, sure, and absolutely harmless. ‘Wrinkles, blackh sagging facial muscles vanish as if by magic. Thecharacterofthe skin is s disapp ent now—today. 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