Evening Star Newspaper, September 24, 1925, Page 42

WOMA N’'S PAGE. Providing Comfort for Bedroom BY Ing a wee pillow. called a head or slumber pillow. Guests find such a TS SHOULD ITH T} BE _LAID > HE DAY WHE GARMENTS O NIGHT COME it can be ¢ head illow a great comf ked under LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. A happy frame of mind and a com- fortably made bed are the best aids to sweet dreams. It is for the house- wife to supply the well made bed and for the one who occupies the bed to see to it that she lays aside dis- turbing thoughts when she lays aside her garments and dons her night robe. Since the making of the bed is the task of the housewife, it is important for her to know the best way to do so. Nicely aired sheets are the rightful luxuries of a chamber. I know of one lady who used to wish she were rich enough to have a pair of fresh sheets every night washed and hung out of doors to dry. There is a positive fragrance about such bed linen that is as decided as the fra- grance of new-mown hay. If you can- not have such aired sheets, but must content yourself with laundry that comes from a drying room, and not from the open air, the next best thing is to have a faint aroma of sweet lavender about ft. Thix lies in the power of every homemaker. Bedding. Provided with as sweet bed linen as possible, the next thing is to have covers that are light. Those that weigh on the slesper are rather en- ervating. The weight should be suf- ficlent to eling to the body in a cold night, but light enough to rest easily when not drawn down closely in less severe nights. Blankets that have a ood proportion of wool are light and warm. Cotton can now be so treated it has a decidedly fluffy charac ter. Down pus re not as much in evidence @ but they are the est of coverlids. Making the Bed. ‘The actual makin of the bed is a matter not to be lightly passed over. The sheets must he long and wide enough for the lower one to be tucked under the mattress. Uneasy sheets make uneasy rest—that is, if the sheets are not drawn smoothly and kept held so that they will get loose at top or bottom and wrinkle. The sheet should have under it a qullted mattress cover. An old heavy blanket or old quilt will do. The top sheet should be tucked in firmly at the foot. Corners should be folded back square- 1y in both. One particular housewife always hes a sheet over the blankets as well as under them. This prevents the blankets from coming in touch with the hodv. The texture of blankets is not pleasing to most persons. Also the sheet keeps the blankets from getting soiled. They require less laundering than when not so pro- tected. In any event, the top of the upper sheet should be turned well down over the blankets. Pillows. Pillows should have their corners pulled well into the corners of cases and should actually fit, and not be | covers merely. The size and shape | of pillows is a matter that is more or less regulated by custom, but there | is no one who will not appreciate hav- What Tomorrow Means to Youl BY MARY BLAKE. planetary aspects de- quite favorable for mercial or me- effor hey o counsel | speculative or hazardous en- terprises. Tt indicate that, problems, a1 or an 1y ne inventive natu solved. It is a good time execution of contracts or In the evening the conditions undergo a ver dden and atmosphere will with dire foret tion to be impat best stance: and f amu will much The ErOW ver evi- il e very not . not deep on young introspec its great gloor be jov thinke shoulders, for its o life, shov religion the right faith, will row-minds student of know recupera Its will too are Ve et re own in its nat » pill- terests ural sta makers 1 ing b Yo those who ki who enc stinate latable, » it a & w thei > rother easy to ha the MODE MINIATURE still to be \ trial has proven that ar is most flatter from time to tim creeps in—yet sim adhered to. An wimply s 1his 1y) ing. llowever, gubtle variation verthel feet od, for of footw #xponent of this tendency is exem- plified here in the new chic banded saddle pump. The original pairs w Grande Semaine in France. Amerl- ran versions closely approximate them. 1t will be found, however, that on count of th of line and conse- quent eff shortening, which the contrasting saddle trimming affords re worn at the these pumps are particularly becoming | the mixture. 10 the long slender foot. NARGET 00 | AUTUMN BY D. C. PEATTIE. During President Harding's admin- stration a White House messenger ppeared one afternoon, just at the Government office closing hours, at | the door of an expert on fungi, em- ployed by the Department of Agri- culture. He bore on his arm a bas- ket containing & mess of curious blue mushrooms which had sprung up on the White House lawn. Some one had seen.them and had suggested that they might be good for the presidential table, but the White House cook, ha g a high sense of his responsibilities, sent them over for identification by experts first. They proved to be quite poisonous and the messenger returned with a | warning by no means to serve them. might have cost the President's life, or that of some distinguished guest. The narrow escape makes one think of those jolly dinners of deadly Ama- nita which the Medicis and Borgias nd the ancient Caesars used to serve up to_ those whom they disliked. Their favorite weapon was one spe- | clal kind for which there was and still fs no antldote. Its poison enters the system and destroys the red cor- puscles in the blood. Beware then of toadstools. There d | are plenty of polsonous fungi around Washington, and you should not trust any children or gypsies who come to vour door selling mushrooms they .| have picked. Also, do not trust your friend's identification of some mushroom com- ing up in your vard, unless he is cnown to be an expert. If you want <ome wild mushrooms, find a patch and take them to an authority for identification. Do not eat any mush- { room that has been picked and allow- | ed to get old. On the other hand, it is unfair to look with suspicfon on mushrooms | that vour grocer sells, or the sort | that is grown by commercial mush- room raisers. These fungi are grown from pedigreed seed and the beds are kept free from any mushroom: cept the edible sort. Mushrooms in | the regular market are above sus- picion HOW IT STARTED BY JEAN NEWTON. “The Scarlet Letter.” It is probably through the medium | of Hawthorne’s famous novel of that name that the “scarlet letter” has be- come a symbol, in figurative speech, of a woman’s badge of shame, the tigma of lost chastity. For the char- r of Hester Prynne of the “Scar- Letter.” who was forced by the wness and the prduery of her Wi on her breast humiliating emblem, has become one of the immortals of literature, familiar jeven to those who have not ‘read the | book. | "For the origin of the scarlet letter, {however, we must go back beyond Iawthorne’s fiction to the source from which he derived his material for the book. For it had its beginning not in literature but in life. It was a real punishment inflicted by early New Ingland moralists upon flesh and blood Magdalenes. JFrom the colony records of “New Plymouth,” dated June, 1671, we find | the following preseribed for any fe. | male Pilgrim who might have dallled | from the path of virtue: “To wear two capital letters, A. D., cut in cloth and sewed on thelr upper- most_gugment on the arm and back: such a| THE EV NG My Neighbor Says: An excellent paste for clean- ing saucepans, boards, sinks, tiles, discolored china, stone, paint, etc., can be made as fol- lows: Take equal parts of whit- ing soft soap, white sand and soda. Place the Ingredients in a saucepan, adding enough water to form a smooth paste. Boil until dissolved and pour into jars for future use. Apply with'a clean flannel wrung out of hot water and afterward rinse with clear warm water. Cranberries can be made very palatable with the use of little sugar mixing them with about half their bulk of apples through a colander A good floor stain that =oes right into the wood and is very durable is made of linseed oll colored with ground burnt um- ber. Rub thoroughly into the boards with flannel pad and next day polish with beeswax and turpentine. Tron rust disappears if salt is put on the stain and lemon juice is then squeezed on the salt and the article Is left in the sun. It is a sure remedy but may have to be repeated. It is not necessary to grease a ple plate to prevent the ple from sticking. Dust the plate carefully with flour .and the ple will slide out easily. HOME NOTES BY JENNY WREN It is a very small dining room in a honeymoon size cottage, and it has to be furnished with the least possible outlay of money, but it utterly charming. The plaster board wainscoting is painted a dull olive green and the is lattice paper is patterned in mulberry over a pale gray ground. The walnut drop-leaf table, like the old_chest of drawers that scrves as a buffet, was picked up in a second- hand store and refinished at home. The Hitchcock chairs are modern and were purchased unpainted. They are of enameled blagk, with their rust seats stained buttercup vellow. Curtains of sheer vellow voil filter the sunlight and a flower print of vel- low marigolds has been hung over the old chest. (Copyright, 1925.) » MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDRFN. Pencil Captain. One mother say: My youngest boy feels very much left out when the older children go off to school, 5o T bought him a pencil sharpener and told him he could be Pencil Captain. The children and grown-ups save thelr pencils for him to sharpen, and he feels that he. too. has a stead tCopyright, 1 To Warm Cold Biscuits. 1f you have cold biscuits left and your family will not eat cold biscuits warmed over if they know it, just give them a surprise by warming them them from fresh biscuits. Over one teaspoonful of lard pour one cupful of boiling water, and into this dip each biscult. Then put them in a hot oven and let them remain for about 10 minutes, or until they become soft and brown. Do not take them up until the molsture from the gravy water leaves them, or they will bel soggy. If left in the oven just the right length of time they wiil be de- licious and cannot be told from fresh biscu MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Stewed Prunes with Lemon, Dry Cereal with Cream. Baked EggS. Potato Pancakes. Roll: CHEON. Diced Beets. Bread. Peach Tarts. Tea. Tomato Bisque. Droiled Halibut. Creamed Potatoes. String Beans. Tomato Salad. Date Pudding. Coffee. POTATO PANCAKES. Pour one cup milk over one cup mashed potatoes and beat well. Sift together one-half cup flour, one-half teaspoon salt, one teaspoon baking powder and one teaspoon sugar. Combine the two mixtures, andone tablespoon melted butter and one beaten egg, and beat until very light. and if any time they should be found without the letters so worn while in this Government, they shall be for- with taken and publickly whipt.” Although there is here no reference to its color, this is the “scarlet letter” that has survived in modern speech. (Copyright, 1925.) g Good Mixed Pickles. In the fall, just before frost, take left-oyer cabbages, green tomatoes, cucurhbers and green peppers, and chop them fine. ~After mixing them well, place in a large pan or cooker on the ‘stove. Take good vinegar two parts, water one part, enough to cover Let just come to a boll. Pack in glass jars and seal just as you would fruit, Bake on a griddle and serve STAR, WASHINGTON, D. 1 i in such a way that they cannot tell| with sirup. PEACH TARTS. Line patty pans with puff paste and bake. For filing use half of a preserved peach and sweetened cream for each tart. DATE PUDDING. Mix together one cup ground dates, one-half cup walnut meats finely broken, one-half cup sugar, three eggs lightly beaten and one heaping tablespoon flour mixed and sifted with one tea- spoon baking powder. Put in buttered pudding dish, bake in moderate oven thirty minutes C., DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX Must a Man Tell His Wife About His Business? The Problem of \the Boy Who Won’t Study. What Is “Personality”? EAR MISS DIX: T am a young marrled woman, love my husband very much, and would do anything in the world for him, but he never tells me anything about his business, or about his social life. In fact, when I inquire he tells me it is none of my business. Yet he wants to know everything that 1 do, and I must be willing to do just what he says at a minute’s notice. He does not try to make a home. Is that fair? AN INTERESTED READER. Answer: It isn’'t fair. It is just as much a man’s place to help make a happy home as it !s a woman’s. It is just as much the duty of a man to wear the smile that won't come off as it is the wife's. It is just as much up to & man to handle his wife with tact and diplomacy and sidestep the topics that rile her and get on her nerves. as it is a wife's place to rub her husband’s fur the right way. There is no more reason why a woman should read up on polit base ball in order to enable her to hand out a nifty line of conversation husband than it is why her husband should not peruse the fashion journals and be able to talk intelligently to her about ensemble suits and the new neckline. and v lady, matrimony is one of the institutions that &n: © of justice. It isn’t run that w It is a thing of & and husbands never play fair with their wiv n is due them. Mostly they give less, use they are entltled to it. Rut, my de: fingers In the f privileges and concesslon Sometimes they give them a lot more th but wives never get anything just b Ko you will have to accept the inevitable, which is that if there is any adjusting done in your family, you will be the one who will have to do it. You will have to adapt yourself to your husband. He will never fall in with your ways. It you are to have a happy home, you will have to make it. And considering that a man contributes the money to support the home, perhaps it is not so unfair, after all, for the woman to throw in the good will. Anyway, whether you think you are doing more than your share or not, it will pay you to do it. In making a happy home, as well as in everything else, those who achieve success are the ones who are willing to work overtime, and do more than they were paid for. As for your husband not telling you about ever: resenting your curfosity about him, that is a human weakness that man is have, both male and female. We hate to be asked questions. We hate to fill in a questionnaire and be forced to give an account of what we have done every minute of the V. So I would earnestly advise you to cut out putting him through the third degree every time he comes home. Bite your tongue off rather than ask him a single question, and the chances are that he will tell you himself far more than you can ever find out when you try to pump him. Whether a man should tell his wife all about his business or not depends upon how he feels about it. There are men who ltke to talk shop. There are other men who like to put their business out of their minds when they close thelr office doors behind them, and who find that only by forgetting their work for a few hours are they able to bring & clear mind to the solving of their problems. DOROTHY DIX. EAR MISS DIX: his time in school. untruths about his school work. although he is as bright as a doll his studfes. I spend hours e o« o s s I have a son, an only child, who plays and idles away He will not_put his mind on his studles, and tells me e has failed twice In his examinations, and is on the alert about everything but trying to help him with his lessons, but can do nothing with him. whipped him about it without avail, and because he deceives us about his work. He is perfectly healthy und normal In every way. Can you help? A DESPERATE MOTHL You can lead a boy to the Pierfan Spring, but you can't make him drink unless he thirsts for tne waters of knowledge. It is tragic that so many boys who vearn for an education are not able to get one, while whose parents are trying to thrust an education on them refuse to take Answer s Of course, the question with your boy is to get him interested. Perhaps if instead of his going to school you had a tutor for him, he might be able to make your son see that history is more thrilling than any romance, and eography is as interesting as a movie. But your tutor would have to be a high-grade man, with a special insight into boy p#vchology, and a of imagination himseif, o that he could t lamour around subjects that vour son thinks are dry as dust. Perhaps your hoy has some special talent. Perhaps is mech 1. In that case you might wake him up by sending him to one of the excellent schools where they put into practice one day the thing they have learned the day before. But it is a hard job to make a child who doesn’t like to go to s realize that studying is anvthing but useless drudgery to which he is con signed by misguided parents. z DOROTHY DIX. EAR DOROTHY DIX: Will you please tell me what is personality? one develop personality, or s it something one is born with? I WANTA KNOW. Can Answer: No one can define personality in any set terms. It is something intangible, the little something that differentiates one person from another. Speaking by and large, when we say that « man and woman have personality we mean that they have some little trick of manner or speech that sets them apart from others, but in what this consists we often cannot tell. fooling that is uproariousiy humorous and makes us scream with laughter, but when another man copy’ cats him and does exact! the same thing he seemn idiotic and bores us to tears. We all have friends who can s to us that we take without offense, but which would make us furiou: it another friend said them to us. That's personality. For instance, one man can do a bit of angry We meet people to whom e are irresistibly attracted at first sight. We meet other people who repulse us. Not one of us but who has some scamp | we love, and whose shortcomings we overlook because he has a winning way with him, while there are better people, more worthy of our affection and | our help for whom we do nothing. just because they have no grace nor charm of manner. good fairy bestows ure falled to endow one with Of course, one can acquire a | so that one does not look Personality is ft of the gods, 3 upon the fortunate in the cradle. And if n it, it is very difficult to supply the deficlency sort of synthetic personality by originality in dres: " like every other man and woman in the crowd b specializing in some one | rticular study or fad, and by cultivating an agreeable manner, but, after The genulne blown-in-the-glass personality is 't the real thing. all, it isn't the real 3 DOROTHY DIX. born in you. S (Copyrigh Rid Yourself of Them NOW | Now is the time to get rid of freckles. Othine double strength is the treatment with which to do it | Neglected, they will be with you all_Winter. Don't waste time experimenting | with lemon juice or cucumbers apply Othine double strength night and morning and within a short time your freckles should be gone. If not, every cent you patd will by refunded. Ask for one ounce of double | strensth Othine at any drug or partment store and save You | from Advertise ment. “Puzzlicks” Puzzle-Limericks e “Will you dream of me, dear one?”’ asked — A | She answered — he heard with a | “You know I've a ——3—— Of eating —4—— It's as likely as not that I . Man’s nickname. Tremor of emotion. 3. Acquired tendency repetition of an act. 4. Popular supper dish (two words). ||| 5. Often misused for “shall.” (Note: The young lady’s reply was : hardly complimentary, but It was clever. The limerick can be completed | Ly placing the right words, Indicated | by the numbers, in the corresponding epaces. The answer and another “Puzz- lick” will appear tomorrow.) Yesterday's “Puzzlick.” There was a young man from the city Who saw what he thought was a kitty. To make sure of that He gave it a pat. They buried his clothes. What a pity! {Copyright, 1925.) o toward the disappointment. In the men's clothing and textile trades women number on an average of abouh_half. Clean them with Energine *Goodness,but gloves doget soiled quickly!” “They certainly do, my dear, but do you know that Energine makes them clean again innotime? About two good rubs and mygloves are -Rotlen every time I put themon...” Energine comes in handy ca: Leaves no odor. 35c at the drug, department or shoe store. And Clean Scalp Cuticura Soap and Qintment ,,_..'yo:k Wonders BEAUTIFY IT WITH “DIAMOND DYES” Just Dip to Tint or Boil “TME PERFECT DY CLIANIR® Each 15-cent pack- age contains directions so simple any woman can tint soft, delicate ghades or dye rich, permanent colors in ean be relzved. Don't suffer any longer. Get a bottle of Eade’s Pills at your druggists. They bring lingerie, silks, ribbons, prompt relief — equally “skirts, waists, dresses, | 7 effective for neuralgia, coats, stockings, l lumbago and gout. In use sweaters, _draperies, O¥EE 50 years. i All Dnggists coverings, hangings— everything! ‘E- FOUGERA & CO., Inc., Importers THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 19 COLOR CUT-OUT LITTLE TWO EYES. The Tree of Silver. Next morning when the sisters awoke there stood before the house the most wonderful tree with leaves and branches all of silver and fruit of gold. Nothing more beautiful and charming could be found in the whole wide world. No one but Little Two Sves knew whence the tree had come. She noticed that it grew right out of the spot where she had planted the heart of the goat according to the in- structions of the wise old woman. The mother raid to Little One Eye, “Climb up, child, and gather us some fruit.”” But every time Little One Sye tried to seize a golden apple the branch sprang out of her hand and, try as hard as she would, she could not pick a single apple. This fs the queer little, old woman who has a 1 Two Eyes. ke : ay. Her Prize Sandwiches. one cupful @ cupful of 1pful of choy cupful of pineapple. for 5 minutes. Remove from the fire and add a teaspoonful of lemon ice. Cut some ‘bread in long, 5 Spread with this mixture wrapping them in oiled paper. Let 1d a few hours. Remove the paper and the sandwiches will be found to keep their shape. This filling is also fine for white cakes. of chopped Tmo maple sirup, dates, half ds and half 1l together white and falg/ © s samca & the Spots out | of Rain Drops Here's the polish that removes rain- s 1n a jiffy and shines nickel and brass trimmings like new again. Buy a can at your grocers, hardware, druggist or auto shop. are relieved of a great hygienic handicap in this way HERE is now a new way in A woman’s hygiene. A way scien- tific and exquisite that ends the un- certainty of old-time “sanitary pads.” You wear sheer frocks and gowns without a second thought, any time, anywhere. You meet every day, every business or social demand un- handicapped. It is called “KOTEX.” Eight in every 10 better-class women have adopted it. Five times as absorbent as ordi- nary cotton pads, it banishes danger of mishaps. Deodorizes, too. And thus ends ALL fear of offending. _ Discards as easily as a piece of tissue. No laundry. No embarrass- ment. You obtain it simply by saying “KOTEX.” Women thusylsk for it withut hesitancy. Costs only a few cents at drug or department stores. Proves old ways a folly. Buy Diamond Dyes New York. N. Y. —no other kind—and tell your druggist and serve with whipped and sweetened cream. whether the material you wish to colo: is wool or silk, or whether it is linen, cotton or mixed goods. KOT€E€ X No laundry—discard like tissue { | | FEATURES. BEAUTY CHATS sy eova kent Forees! Oatmeal Bags. ery one seems to be making oat- meal bags, iIf T can judge by my letters of the last two weeks. One woman wrote that she had started a quite nice : 10 little business selling them for cents a box of 10, with a clear profit of 3 cents a box, and another woman has been selling bath-size bags at the rate of 3 for 5 cents. A large manu- facturing concern wrote recently that it was putting out oatmeal bags as part of a new “line.” 1 make up bags this way. I buy cheap, coarse oatmeal by the pound, run {t through a meat grinder, and to each pound, mix a handful of soda— bicarbonate of soda, also bought in large packages at the grocers. Now and then 1 add a handful of shaved or powdered soap, or pure soap flakes. In that case, 1 make larger bags and use them instead of washcloths. But ordinarily, 4 small bag of oatmeal with soda in, thrown into the bath or hand hasin and squeezed in the hot water, will make the water deliciously soft and more than ordinarily cleansing. Oatmeal softens and refines the skin, bleaches and give to one’s whole hod I make the bags of coarse cheese cloth, torn or cut into squares: I pile a little of the oatmeal mixture in the center, catch the four corners together and tle around a bit of bright ribbon. Sometimes I twist together an upper and lower corner into the beginning of a knot, and twist the other two cor- ners into the rest of the knot, Japanese fashion. This holds the loose ends to gether and holds in the oatme out making an ugly looking bag These are cheap enough to use and throw away. Sixteen: You are very much over welght at 134 pounds at 16 years of age, but you are in the growing age and with a_hefght of 5 feet 4 inches already, I should think you were going to be a large woman. There i3 no use trying to_reduce your hips or your ankles. Forget all about your weigh and size for a long time to come; in a few years you will be in proportion, and your ankles and hips will not bLe he rest of gour bodg awful blunder Dont bewnil your brainless wct — Think of 2ll your past Shsu:ceues.lf ow rself a little Y:::L DWINELL-WRIGHT COMPANY Boston - Chicago .- Portsmouth, Va. Protect the Pleats with a HICKORY APRON See the special Hickory Products displays at dry goods stores now. This is Hickory Month! Keep that first smooth freshness in your pretty dresses! A Hickory Sanitary Apron protects them from deep creases and mussing. The rubber portion in the apron prevents body warmth and per- spiration from reaching the fabric. Even pleated skirts and linen dresses can be worn longer without pressing. With deep mesh top and soft, con- forming, featherweight rubber, the Hickory Apron is cool and comfortable to wear at all times. Cut generously wide and shaped to stay in place. 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