Evening Star Newspaper, August 27, 1925, Page 35

WOMA N'S. PAGE. THE EVENING Efficient BY LYDIA LE BAROM HERE are odds and 1 home that overs. Any always ends of sewing in are needlework lef thing that will help reduce them by muking the sewing and therefore more quickly boon. Cuttings can go intc thitt important receptacle room that holds more easier done is the rag-t of the HANDY ING OR LACE FOR NA FOR G TROCHF RROW NAP- dvanta let saving is ind snaps If one part insuring be at 1skew badly. evenness One when tached is to sew on on of Pin together the opening in the cloth close to where come. Dot each heavily white on goods Press e two par rmly and ex: e made of with aps ch: dark on the fabric t ctly. The wch e t il the impr where BEDTIME STORIES Peter Tells Jerry All About It. Wind Bohby Coon shuffled out of sight on his way back to the Green F i was feeling in high spir v Coon. His stomach was nice fresh ezgs, the eg “WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU, PETER RAB 2 Turtle Rabhit. Peter very far from happy matter wi Peter long who felt hind per the Snagping it peace with him at the edge had left Peter happy. He was “What is the Rabbit? Why I face?"’ demar happened to ¢ “'Oh, Jerry!" exc thing has happene it is all 1 awve vou such Jerry Muskr rong just the and—and ome — Pe er was about it feeling “Look at th house ,ver there in t he Smiling Pool,” s vou see that hole there Jerry looked. Then ‘Now, who t said he. “I'd digging a hole in “I can tell you “Who?"’ de “Bobby Coon Jerry puzzled. “Now, what under the sun was Bobby Coon digging & hole in the roof of my for? he cried. “Some one else of your hes on the edge ¢ Pete Do he knov said peter. replied Peter frownes been there he who's been house one there said Peter his little round he inquired Snapping dug first up ears. the Tur replied Jerry laug said he. “Of course, to lay h and of cou by Coon dug that hole to Oh she du, so s it it hole r eges in b " said Peter, miserab! saw Mrs. Snapper when that hole, but I didn't know dug it for. I asked Bobby Coon it, and he came straight over hel dug out and ate all those eggs. didn’t leave one.” he dug what she about > and In Qolazn sun and ram and haze Moves an endless single file Of lovely, many-colored MAK. | ewing Metl}Ods WALKER. i other half should be sewed on. If the opening is long make a cross-stitch over each dot so that it will not dis- | appear as you work | Vary the method and eyes are to be | of dotting the places with chalk, run |pins in the goods indicating where the center of each eye should come. Force the evelet ends of hooks apart a trifle before sewing them on and the hooks remain In position securely. Run a piece of whalebone under the hem on which either snaps or hooks and eyes are to be sewed before at taching them, and no stitches will be visible on the right side. The stitches will not catch in the whalebone which can be withdrawn easily. Have Work Handy. Keep a ball of crochet cotton and a hook in your handbag. When you are out and are kept waiting une: pectedly, or when you go on a train, even for a short distance, make a nar- row edging for table or bureau sets. As the lengths of I long for any. one piece, the work is never bulky. 1 know of one much traveled woman who always had tat- with her. It relieved the tedium waits in hotels, stations, etc. No needles, thimble nor scissors are re- quired with tatting, just the shuttle and the thread wound on it. Simplified French Seam: When making a French seam use the narrowest hemmer machine at- tachment, and it can be done quickly vlicket can be finished by sewing a uight piece of materlal around the entire opening. Fell it down on the right side. Fold in the strip on the | side that is to come on top and let the part of the strip on the other side re. | main out flat. This will prevent an thing heneath from showing should | the placket gap even a trifle. ightly if hooks ttache Instead My Neighbor Says: Remember that it vour workshop utensils are your tool workman is known by the neat- ness of his shop and the good condition of his tools. When making hot starch add a level teaspoonful of dry wash: ing powder to a quart and the irons will not stick Brooms a vour kitchen and your A good all sweeping brushes should be hung up when not in use. If left stand- ing on the les these become bent and will not do their work properly. lways after making a_batch of doughnuts, pour off the fat from the frying kettle into pail or jar. Throw out the settlings and wash and dry the kettle thoroughly. Never leave the fat in the kettle from one frying to another. To restore velvet, let one per- son hold the velvet tightly, while another passes a warm flatiron over the wrong side. Then brush. Also when any portion of a velvet gown Is crushed from pressure, hold the | part over a in of hot water, | | lining side next to the water. | | The pile will soon be restored. | One should keep kitchen sc sors for cutting raisins and figs, lettuce, parsley, etc. | BY THORNTON W. BURGESS +“Well, T wouldn't feel bad about it,” replied Jerry. “If people will leave their eggs around they deserve to lose them Anyway, Mrs. Snapper will never know that those eggs were found. Now that she has laid the eggs, she'll never give them another thought. I will just swim over and fill that hole up, and that will be the 1 of the matter. I am glad Bobby »und those eggs. We don’'t want any ore Snapping Turtles in the Sm N ol and Laughing Brook. We have enough as it is. Mr. and Mrs. Snap- | per are awful eaters. It is just as | well that they shouldn’t have any | family here this vear. I shouldn't | feel bad about it, Peter, if I were | vou. Mrs. Snapper has lost her eggs, | but she’ll never know it. Probably | she'll forget that she ever laid any. { I'm going to swim over there right | fow and fill that hole in.” | Peter felt better. He watched Jerry | swim over, climb out on the roof of his house ‘and fill in the hole that Bobby Coon had made. When Jerry re rned Peter had a question for him. Weren't you surprised to learn that Mrs. Snapper had hidden her eggs in the roof of your hou “No,” said Jerry. before. It really makes | place for those egzgs. enough and it is warm enongh to | hatch those eggs, and Mrs. Snapper s smart enough to know it. Well, 1 't stay here gossiping all night I, for one, have too much to do. away swam Jerry, and Peter made his way back to the Green Fo feeling a lot better (Cobs7ight. 1925, by T. W. Burgess.) SUMMERTIME BY D. C. P I " he asked. a It is TTIE. Lobelia. the country road s ington these days, watch for the scarlet lobelia. in the | wayside ditches. A more gorgeou splotch of color does not exist outside | the tropics. We can hardly believe our eyes when we see this regal spike scattered with such prodigality beauty in the common waste grounds. Sometimes there grows with this flower, that has been called the car- | dinal flower, another lobelia with flow- ers of as vivid blue as the others are | red. glorious _compan; forming a parade of brilliance that not even the combined procession of asters and goldenrods can surpass. Watch, too, for a tiny lilac lobelia growing est dry sandy fields, times in the city lots. This is the “Indian tobacco™ that was, when red men sat in council on Capitol Hill, one of the many leaves from which the old men drew wisdom. Besides or- dinary tobacco, which was not wild | here, they smoked a variety of native | plants, and this tiny lobelia was one of them. It is hard to imagine how it could have tasted very pleasant, but | that there was a kick In it is in- | dubitable, for it contains a power- | ful alkalold not entirely unlike nico- | tine. And, further like nicotine, it is deadly poison if eaten directly and | swallowed. In fact many animals and sometimes even children are poisoned trom thoughtlessly eating the leaves | of this innocent-looking little plant. i tobacco, then, is hardly Motoring along es around Was little pale in the common. and even some- | Indian a | wild flower in need of protection, but | of the blue and scarlet lobelias the me is sadly not true. Some per- 1s who profess to love flowers no | sooner see these lovely dwellers of our | roadside ditches than they stop their cars and jump out while the whole family does its best to kill every plant in sight. Needless to say, these deli- cate wildlings never survive the home journey and are generally thrown out again on the roadside in a dying state. e The first time ice cream was served at a public function in the United States was at the second inauguration of Washington as President, », of | HOME NOTES BY JENNY WREN Did you know that you can now |buy oid-fashioned decalcomania de slgns and decorate your own furni- ture in the most entrancing ways with gayly colored fruit and flowers? When these designs are purchased they are fastened to strips of paper. To transfer the coloring to the furni ture they must be coated on the right side with thin white glue and applied | to the wood surface very smoothly | and firmly After the glue has a chance 1o dry, the paper is thoroughly but gently soaked with warm water and it will peel away, leaving the de- sign on the furniture. Then the ex cess glue can be removed with a damp cloth. Decalcomania. designs can be pur chased in most artists’ supply shops and cost only a few cents each COLOR CUT-OUT DAVID COPPERFIELD. | Everything Is Changed. Today you will read one chapter in the story of “David Copperfield.” Have you been following the story?! If you have you will soon have a| whole set of David Copperfield dolls. | | David’s mother jumped up, her| arms outstretched to welcome her | boy, but Mr. Murdstone held her back Now, Cla ontrol vourself,” he boomed 'in_his ugly voice. His mother seemed frightened and changed. Indeed, everything about Blunderstone Rookery was changed. David's room had been moved from | the one next to his mother’s to a 1 tle dark one in the back of the house. | Peggotty, instead of being one of the | family, as she had always been, was made to remain in the kitchen. But {worst of all, David's lessons—instead | of being happy games—became terri ble ordeals through which he blun- dered, with Mr. Murdstone sitting a stern ‘and horrible judge before him. (Here is David's stern, new father. uit brown, leaving his shirt shoes should be black.) opyTight. 1925.) She has done it | first-class | damp | i | I was taking a wawk with Mary Watkins not going enywares speshil, | and we started to go pass a yard with | little iron fents erround it, and| ry Watkins sed, O look in there at {the row of beautifill red apples rite | jout on the window sill, I wonder if | they put them out there for peeple to | take one? G whizz, certeny not, they'd of put | them out on the frunt steps if they'd of had eny sutch of an ideer as that, I sed. Thinking, Gosh, I aint going to clime over there and take one for {her, wats she think I am? | Proving Im a good mind reeder, and she sed, well maybe they thawt {1t would make it too easy if they put them out on the frunt steps, maybe they jest meen for peeple to take them if they have the ambition to lime over this fents, proberly. And she stood there looking at them anxious, me saying, Aw, their private apples, nobody aint sipposed to take | them. Then proberly they put them there {for the berds to take, Mary Watkins | sed. Aw G whizz, berds dont eat apples, I sed, and she sed, Yes they do, too, and do you meen to say Im not as good as a berd, Benny Potts? Certeny you are, did I say you wasent, your better, theres no com- parison, I sed, and she sed, Well I dont care, you must think Im not as good as a berd if you wont clime over that little fents and get me an apple, if Pud Simkins was heer he'd get one for me all rite. Aw G. 1ll get you one, I sed. And I climbed over and wawked up to the widow sill and was just reetch- ing up for a apple wen some lady poked her face out of the window saying, Wat do you wunt, wat are you doing in heer, anser me? Wich jest then I herd somebody running, sounding like Mary Watkins, being jest who it was, and T sed, Does Mrs. Skitzer live theer? Being somebody I never even herd of, and she sed, No she dont and neither do you, and you get rite out or Ill throw water on you. Wich I quick did, and Mary Wat- kins wasent enywares in site. Prov- ing the peeple that get you in trub- ble dont allways stay there with you. —_— Denmark is preparing for record vields of farm produce. | STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, | auarreling. | about that nice little Ma DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX The Woman Who Magnifies Her Husband’s Tiny Flaws—Where Can a Young Bachelor Find an “Old-fashioned” Girl to Marry?—The Boast- ful Woman Who Overadvertises Herself. EAR DOROTHY DIX: I have been married for two vears and have a lovely baby girl. My husband is very kind and affectionate and 1 love him dearly, but he is awfully carcless and does such things as omitting to telephone me when he is not coming home on time, forgetting to shut the back door, leaving the furnace door open, ete. I feel that I cannot let such things pass, as they make me perfectly miserable. I do not want trouble, and my desire is for a home in which love and happiness reign and for my baby to grow up in a peaceful atmosphers ‘What shall I do? A \\'ll"Lr Answer: Your fate is in your own hands, dear lady. You can have the kind of home you desire or you gan wreck it by your folly, as you seem in a fair way of doing. Can’t you see yourself that the undue importance you place on trifles and your nagging about little things are just so much dynamite that you are storing away under your hearthstone, and that sooner or later it is bound to explode and blow everything to smithereens? If a woman is married to a drunkard, or a cold, hard, grouchy, disagree able man, it is mighty hard for her to make a happy home single-handed. But when a woman has a good, kind, temperate, loving husband, it is her own fault if she does not keep the atmosphere of her home serene and peaceful Suppose your husband is careless about telephoning. Suppose he does forget to latch the kitchen door and he I Suppose he does drop cigar ashes on the floor and s Suppose he neve the bathreom. bout. ack in itter newspapers can be taught to hang his own towels on his own ritating faults in a man that grate upon nd particular woman. But haven’t you ‘enough intelligence to re 1 defects they are in a fine character? Haven't enough vision to see how foolish it is to let such trifles kill your love break up vour home and wreck vour happiness? Isn't it absurd to think of letting a kitchen door alienate you from your husband? Think of the furnace figuring as the co.respondent in a_divorce Tmagine having to tell your child that the reason she has no father is because he didn’t have the telephone habit! Don’t you see how absurd yc are? Haven't you enough sense of humor to laugh purself and just behind your husband and lockethe doors that he forgets to lock and be happy with him? ; I grant you that these are all an overl E re right in thinking that happy home. That should is too great for a mother »u_owe it to your child to rear her in a be every child’s birthright, and to make to secure it for her children. You peaceful, sacrifice The juvenile courts report that by far the largest percentage of the boy and girls who come before them are the children of divorced parents or children who come from homes in which there is constant bickering and Don’t wish this curse upon your innocent baby. EAR MISS DIX: T am a man 23 years old, on the lookout for a suitable wife. The modern, cigarette-smoking, drinking, high-heeled, artificial, dissipated, jazz-crazy girls do not appeul to me even as playmates; not at all as wives. I am strong for that girl who is more and more referred to 5 “‘old-fashioned,” but it has not been my good fortune to meet a suitable mat Where can I find her? A. B. ( Answer: Oh, on any block, in any street, in any city in the country Ask your mother for her address and she will be able to give it to you. Probably your mother has been throwing out sly hints for the last year ¢ Brown, who is o good to her mother, and is so thrifty and practical, and such a good cook and housekeeper. Or maybe she has invited quiet, demure, little Susan Jones, who is so sensible and well educated, in for supper some Sunday night when you were at home. But you never noticed them more than you noticed the subdued little bunch or violets on the table. You see, in this day. when the prevailing type of girl shrieks at vou like a saxophone, you don't hear the gentle murmur of the domestic @irl, who doesn't know how to advertise herself, or call attention to her gdod qualities or show you what a d ble wite she would make. The trouble with men who complain that they can’t find any sweet, modest girl who doesn't kiss every Tom, Dick and Harry, and indulge in mugging parties, and wear poster clothes is because they don't look for them at the right place. When you go on wild parties you must expect to find wild girls. When you want a jazzy girl you will find her at the cabarets. But the old-fashioned girl must be sought in her own habitat, which is the home, The old-fashioned girls don’t go out very much because most men prefer as playmates the girls with whom they do not have to watch their step. Then, when these very men, who have put a premium upon fastness in girls, want to marry they want the innocent, unkissed girl for a wife, and they don’t know where to find her. Which is unjust beth to the v girl and the old-fashioned girl IDEAR DOROTHY DIX: What is your opinion of the bragging woman? The woman who never talks about anything except what she has and what she does, and who tells you about how much her husband loves her and the pet names he calls her, and how many times a day he writes to her and telegraphs her when he is away from home, and that she never wears any thing but imported gowns and georgette nighties, and that she has so man diamonds thax it is really foolish for her to buy any more. and that her string of pearls Is so valuable th; keeps it in the safety deposit vault. And that she has the most wonderful children in the world, and $#®%x sure her oldes marvelous beaut. that every man she meets is just erazy to marry her, and that her younge: child, aged 6, is just a musical prodigy. Don’t you think that the bragging woman is mighty hard for the people who come in contact with her to endure? S.F. L t son is going to be a great writer, and her daughter is a + Answer: 1 certainly do. only human being in the world she takes in with her boasting is herself “Good wine needs no bush,” says the old proverb, and merit requires no | is %0 stupid that we cannot form a pretty accurate | ivertising. None of u: idea of just how important other people are, and when they fancy figure on themselves we discount our rating. DO (Copyright, 1925.) The Daily Cross-Word Puzzle (Copyright. 1925.} begin to set a i e Finishes. Youth. Black substance. A gratuity. Preposition. Delicate. Thus, Tiny. Lick up. Vision. French city. : Down. More crippled. Manuscript (abbr.). Prohibit. Come to a standstill. ‘Wise man. Belonging to him. Upon. Emporium. Malt liquor. Couch. . American general. Opening. Went out swiftly. Father or mother. Tumult. Become weary. Myself. A continent (abbr.). Suave. Devour. Put_on. Staff. Pluto. Stains. Appear. Relate. Light afternoon meal. Shaft of light. Ourselves. Branch of a tree (plural). Foot coverings. Rested. . German numbes. Mother. Lords. Proceed. Old times. Gaze into. Equality of value. Raise up. Concering; of. Ribbon. Edge. Form of address. Tip of the foot. Exist. Vegetable. Physician’s title. 16. 1% 19. 20. 21. 23. 24, 25. 27. 28. 29, 30. 32, Answer to Yesterday’s Puzzle. THURSDAY, AUGUST aves the draft open in the furnace.| %o | no who looks just like Lillian Russell did when she was 16, and | t 1 also think that she is a great fool, because the | 9 FEATURES. ashion of QSou arnptor: UCCESSES Cpm.tnmim‘ Ly auitalble ot ek et gl hat | both o “Puzzlicks” —_Puzzle-Limericks, There once was a finlcky—1— Who vowed she detested the —2 So chicken and ——3 She ate all —4—, And said 'twas decorous 5 3 1. One who makes an affected show of modesty . Unclothed. An appendage growing from the skin of a bird . Simultaneously. 5. Nourishment. (Note—She never wore a one-piece bathing suit, did the young lady in question—but a complete limerick telling of her strange habit may be formed by placing the proper words, | indicated by the numbers, in the cor- responding spaces. The answer and another “Puzzlick” will appear to. | morrow.) Yesterday's “Puzzlick.” There was a voung maid of Manila, Whose favorite cream was vanilla. But, sad to relate, Though you piled up her plate, *Twas impossible ever to fill her. 3 = What Tomorrow Means to You BY MARY BLAKE. Virgo. Tomorrow’s planetary aspects are very complex, and while not favorable, neither are they entirey adverse. The | worst period of the day is between noon and sundown. During this short period there is an indication that every influence will be at work to cause quarrclsomeness, disputes and general discontent. “To be forewarned is to be forearmed” and, with a resolu- tlon not to be affected by these un- toward conditions this transitory stage can be successfully passed. During the remainder of the day ft would be wise not to attempt any | task out of the ordinary, and to be satisfled with conditions as they are, without endeavoring to change or alter them. A child born tomorrow will, during The Gay Prints and Plaids BY MARY MARSHALI The annual Grand Prix ball in Paris | of the sort tF does not a strong in 1s it did so influence it consideration pparently have such | onists a hun uence on French fashions years ago. But encugh ill has to make worth of the one who would | quite onis and are no! : women var in th French ing s West 1 a wom st talked at s a form tury f made with wi auve silk, edge n streamer being fast t. The bodice k and on the s with a 1 the green They newest influe printe of the sh d cot could not aff are still produced by for the ies in Afri It would be ball that was t evening for v should initiate REQ US. @ emr.orr THE NON-BOILING SILK DYE its early years, develop exceptional physical strength. During later vears, f it will show a tendency to grow up| too quickly, and care must be taken to | regulate its exercises, and to see that | it secures the nourishment most ap- | propriate for one in its developing | condition. In character and disposi tion, it will be tractable, amenable | to good influences and rebellious | against everything that is disloyal and unfair. Its mind promises to be very | sensitive, and its sensibilities must | not be blunted by measures of repres: | ion and acts of coercion. It may not chieve any great wordly success, blll} its character will always serve as a| beacon light to those of its assoclates | who are weak and ineffective If tomorrow is your birthday you are very methodical, and have mo | room in vour life for untidiness of action or slipshodism of thought. You | resent impulse, never speakingz with-| out careful thought, never attempting | to do anything without much delibera- | tion. You are slow, but very sure, never satisfied with superficial reasons that would convince others, but only act after having delved deeply, and weighed all the “pros and cons.” You may not achieve those dizzy heights attained by others, but, in any case, the position to which you may climb will be built on a sure and safe foundation. (Copyright, 1925.) MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN. Rolled Sox. One mother says: In the Summer the children lose | their garters and I find it quite a task to keep a supply in readiness. From an innmer tube (small size) I cut a very narrow cross-section, which serves the purpose very well. This does not bind the flesh and is hidden from view by the rolled or folded stocking top. I prefer them to those made of elastic. I IR AR A fund of $10,000,000 will be needed for Great Brifain's national -opers house in London. It’s Guaranteed You can_depend on ev- ery oneof the 18 Glorient colors, whether used in their full shade strength or pastels, to leave any cotton and linen lace spotlessly white.You take no chances with Glorient —it colors only the silk. 1f you have tried other dyesandfailedtore-beau- tify yoursilk garments, try Glorient. Just one trial will convince you. No boiling. No muss. THE PLAID OF THIS LITTLE SILK FROCK IS AS GAY AS ANY EVER WORN BY ANY CREOLE. THE JABOT 1S OF RED CHIFFON AND THE TYING OF THE PLAID RIBBON ON THE FELT HAT SUGGESTS THE OLD CREOLE STYLE. look into the future of fashions. For this mask ball, held every Sum mer at the Paris opera, after the Grand Prix race, some special subject i§ decided upon in advance. This vear | the subject was French West Indian colonies in the eighteenth century. Anything that might be regarded as even remotely “Creole” was considered quite appropridte. Many of the wom en wore muslin and lace frocks of the sort worn in French tropical islands. There were also elaborate court frock of the eighteenth century, such as French colonists might have taken to their tropical homes with them, and there were the cotton plaids and print The largest sale intheworld~ —because Sir Thomas J. Lipton ws, picks, sorts, grades, and El:.’ndsonhisownunminCey- Ion thefinestteaknown tonature and man and packs it for you in moisture-proof tins with all its originalfragranceandfreshness! At Drug and Department Stores