Evening Star Newspaper, November 3, 1925, Page 36

WOMAN*S PAGE. ] Invisible Darning of Some Fabrics BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. Darning may seem a very simple matter, but there is an art to it. Other- wise it would not require experts to mend holes invisibly in garments. It for it ts so beautiful. When you think that shirts in those days had stitches gauged by the weave you can easily underatand that sewing was an art in- deed. Directions for back stitching on shirts read “one thread back and two threads forward,” making a contin- uous line of handwork so straight that 2 machine could not he more accurate. Looking for Darn. I can well remember when I was & little tot seeing one dear old lady show a darn in a shawl to my mother. After looking over the shawl with care, my mother handed it back to the owner, saying she falled to see the place. Even the worker had to scan the shawl a bit before she found the onetime hole. It was then held up before a window to be duly admired, for it was only in the strongest sun- light that the exquisite stitches could be detected from the weave of the hand-loom material. Stitches Like Weave. It is this fitting the stitches to ac- cord with weaves that is the matter of first importance when darning. The lines of threads must be exactly the same as the warp and woof or filler threads of the fabric. The mending medium must be of the same kind as the cloth and identical in coloring. Be- cause of this, raveling are best to use. ‘There s no question whether they will match. They are the very thing itself. The stitches must be interwoven over and ler each evenly laid thread the warp. Strong, But Not Tight. The worker must be sure that the stitches start in the goods where it is strong enough to stand the strain and will not pull away. In woolen goods especially the work must not be too tight. It must allow for shrinkage. There is a real satisfaction in darning woolen fabric, however, for there is no material into which stitches seem more to melt and become invisible. Darns in wool on stockings, for ex- ample, need scarcely show at all, even when done by one who is more or less of an amateur, because of this fact. Darns in siik, cotton and linen, es- pecially when sheer, are far more diffi- cult to make Invisible. Use Short Threads. Warp threads are stronger than woof or filler threads and should be drawn when mending with raveling. Use short lengths or they will break. | This is espectaily true of woolen goods. | It will be seen that fine darning of | the invisible kind is far removed from | the darning of present-day embroid- ery, which accents stitches, not less- ens them. Of the two kinds, the in- | visible darning is more difficult and | also more of an acquirement. THE MAY BE HAT IT SHOWS, DAT ble mending’ o i experts in may well be clas do this * that well deserves great-grandmothes needlework, that ed with fancy work, BEDTIME STORIES Travelers Are Waylaid. May face e were BY THORNTON W. BURGE | shelter to another, and In each shelter | they stopped to look and listen for| danger. You see, it was a very dan ‘ = erous trip for two such little per Danny nnd Nanny Meadow Mouse | Sonc." They had been luck that so| iwere peeping out from under an old | far no one but Blacky the Crow had | the foot of a post at the lower | discovered them. Presently, of the Long Lane while they an from one little clump o Tuss to | 1alked with Peter Rabbit. They were |another, a great bluck creature sprang. | Peter that they were| Danny squeaked with fright. for two | Winter by traveling,|plack paws had all but landed on| M ving hard work to|him. In fact, they had landed on his | th his head. They | funny little short tail. Nanny Meadow tonsed him for a while and then they | Mouse had wanted to squeak, but she | #xplalned. “You see,” sald Danny,|wisely had kept her mouth shut. Just | in time she had seen Black Pussy the cat. So now, with her heart going | pitter-pat, pitter-pat, she crouched under the grass and, holding her | breath, watched to see if Black Pussy { would catch Danny. She expected | every second to see Black Pussy with Danny in her teeth. But Blask Pussy seemed to be having difficulty. She hadn't caught Danny. Nanny couldn't think how Danny could have escaped, but she was sure he had escaped. She could tell that he had by Black Pussy’s actions. “Don’t you let her get vou, Danny. Don't you let her get you,” | she kept saying over and over under her breath. You may be quite sure thet Danny had no intention of letting Black Pussy get him—not if he could help | himsels. iever know with dange: anuy Meadow Mouse. e (Copyright. 1826.) THEY RAN FROM ONE SHELTER| = - ANOTHER. Lessons in English “‘we had ter when BY W. L. GORDON. as_com- | 2 So 'w Words often misused: Don't say n's.” | “the army retreated back to the for- “Do | est.” Omit “back.” | Often mispronounced: Spasm. Don't pronounce spaz-um. Similar to “elm,’ not el.um. Often misspelled: Consomme. Synonyms: Locality, location, place, pot, situation. “Use a word three Let us in- by rmer Bro cried Peter. v that you ure going r Brown's to live?"” huckled that squeaky “We're going up " sald he. “It is a «t barn. You know | Position, site, ere one Winter,| Word study and we've never forgotten ft. It mltlrr:’::o-(n‘?r it 1s vours et us in i e is ple; o ent, ere | ¢ 2 0! vocabula has z TEmG e o Wi places T wouldn' | one Word each day. Today's word: care to st Summer, but | Haleyon, peaceful, happy, calm. “Well snderful. Nanny | 40 T remember those halcyon days of r and decided Years gone by.” D there for this re on our w We're | vou know. use vonderful pl Nanny and T lived t 1 A German concern, with a capital hostile red men. Danny | ¢ of more than $1,000,000, will establish in Australia a factory for the manu-| facture of power fuel and chemical| produc i rticular burry about S0 far we've had a pleasant journey. Blacky the the f to make any v This old board came trouble in_very Peter right straight Joping over, h Te was going the barn. My, you D \d Nanny thetr little fright and | Farmer Brown's boy they didu’t hear him. | little scamps,” sald he. | living under there? T'm | vou such a fright.” Then | carefully to see if . Of course, there d then he concluded Wt they weren't living under that board at all, but were just hiding there. He went whistling up the ng Lane and on his shoulder he carried board As for Danny and Nanny Meadow Mouse, th o continued on up the Long Lane. But they went by a serles of little runs followed by stops. You see, there were no little paths tor them up there. They ran from one g b te ake it hack should have Meado heels! T Weightin Thin, can improve body poisons, and endurance Deteils blind me to my life I'm simply living in 2 maze — Im busied so with this and that 1 hardly see myself for days. R Cant until we yeast”—which Proj weight you are, “ironized ick you right up, and ad run-down weight men, women and children system with the vitami build up weight. For years yeast has been known as a rich vitamine food, perfected trated tablet form, was it to take yeast and iron in t THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1925. COLOR CUT-OUT MILES STANDISH. The Captain’s Friend. Miles Standish was no longer a young man. Still he was strong and athletic and brave and courageous in war. "Twas he who defended the Pil- grims from the attacks of the dreaded Indians. He was their hope and their refuge, for without him they would have perished by the arrows of the The captain strode back &nd forth across the room, deeply buried in thought, his hands clasped behind his back. At the table sat John Alden, his young friend and household com' panion. As the captain strode past, his armor and weapons clattered and clashed, but Alden did not appear to notice. He was deeply engrossed in his task of writing letters. Color Miles Standish's armor a sil- ver gray. His gloves, boots and belt are of black leather. (Copsright. 1825 ) LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. was looking erround the store this afternoon jest out of curios- and I found a old hat of pops look ing jest Iike his bran new ome ony it was all mussed up, and tonite pop was king and thinking in his morriss iir and 1 came and stood in the door holding his old hat in back of me, saving, Hello pop. How do you do, Im glad to heer from you, drop n and see me some time, pop sed. 111'drop in and see vou rite now and show you a trick with your new hat, | I sed. And 1 quick showed him his old hat and quick put it in back of me agen. Wats that, the dooce you will, put 1231 rite back ware you found it, pop sed. - Cant T even show you & lttle trick with it? I sed. Tf show you a little trick with my pper in a minnit, now you chase yn&xrself rite back to the hat rack, pop sed. Wich jest then I pertended to trip and 1 fell in the room on my stum- mick with pops old hat underneath of me, pop gaving, Yee gods be carefill, my new hat, do you wunt to break your silly neck, are vou hert, wares that hat Its underneath of 1. ». T sed still lay- ing there, and pop sed, Well get up off of it If you have eny sents left at all in vour ®o called branes. Wich I did, quick putting it in back of me agen saving, Do you wunt to see it. pop? Show me that hat and show it to me quickly, pop sed. G, T fell rite on it, I sed, and pop sed, I obzerved, are you going to hand it to me or must I use force a few seconds sooner than I intenden? Heer it is, pop, I sed. And I pulled it out from in back of me and pop sed, Yee gods, and he started to make a grab for me and I quick sed, It aint your new one, pop, its your old one from up in the store room, are you serprized, pop? This izzent a new slipper, either, sed. And he gava me 3 fearse s:;"?’.; with it, saying, Are you serprized? Wich I was, but not mutch. e Rice for Curries. To keep the rice to be served with curry a good color, and the grains separate, a little lemon juice or vine- gar should be added to the water in which the rice is boiled. When the rice 1s cooked it should be spread on & piece of white paper on a baking sheet and dried off in a cool oven. 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If they fail get your money back. fresh or cake yeast. concentrated food ele- Sold by druggists, at $1.00 for a large 60-tablet pach.z or sent direct from laboratory on receipt of price. Irgnized Yeast Co., Desk 201, Atlanta, Ga. e 3 DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX Why Do Men Pass Up Domestic Girl and Marry Giddy Flapper?—Young Husband Who Is Torn Between Jealousies of Wife and Mother. DEAR DOROTHY DIX: Why is it that men will always pass up the domestic girl, who is a good cook and houseleeper, and would know how to make a man a comfortable home, for the wild flapper who s jazz crazy? And the more quiet & man is, the harder he falls for the wild women. MARY. Answer: “A serpent on a rock. and the way of a man with a mald” are set down In holy writ as two inscrutable mysteries that no one can solve. All bets are off when you try to fathom the theory on which a man picks out a wife. Probably he hasn't any. He just takes something that looks good to him for the moment, and then spends the balance of his life wondering what made him do ft. Doubtless the reason why men pass over the quiet domestic girl, and marry the giddy and gaudy flapper, is for the same reason that we all prefer the luxuries to the necessities of life. It is what makes us order ple a la mode instead of a roast beef sandwich for lunch. It is what makes us buy patent leather shoes when we need brogans, and put our money in & car when we ought to be investing in a home. That is why you will find in every community that a lot of the women who are best fitted to be model wives are old maids, and that a lot of fine, splendid men are working themselves to death to support silly little parasites, who neglect their homes and thelr children and are a curse on the husbands who wished their bad luck on themselves. The way that men pick out wives is awfully unfair all the way round. It is unfalr to the worth-while woman because there fsn't much encourage- ment to a girl in improving her mind, and keeping herself sweet and womanly and fitting herself to be a real helpmeet to some man when she sees her type of woman being passed over for the little, foolish, half-picked goose Wwho hasn't two ideas to rub together in her head and who is as shy on morals as she is on clothes. And it isn't fuir to the little painted doll-baby vamps who get the men, because the minute the men are married to them they want them to do al lightning-change act, and become exuctly the opposite sort of women from | | the Kind of women they are. The men may have thought it great sport to | bave chased a wild woman down und captured her, but no man wants & | wild wite. Before marriage = man may have been intrigued by a girl's gorgeous | @ressing. He may have liked to trot around with her night after night tg restaurants. He may have laughed at her manla for jazzing, but when he is marrled he doesn't want a fashion plate, or a dancing partner. He wants a wife who can make over her old clothes 5o that her worst enemy won't know them; one who is willing to stay at home and make pies like mother used to make. And when he finds out that he hasn't got her, trouble ensues. If men ever get intellizence enough to marry the sort of woman they want for a wife, instead of picking out the kind they don't and imagining they can change her into their ideal, the domestic girl will get her innings. And I am afraid that day is a long time off. DOROTHY DIX. IDEAR MISS DIX: T am a young lawvyer, with a wife and three small | children whom I love dearly, as I do also my father and mother, who live in the same town that I do. My trouble is that my mother and my wife cannot get along together. Both are high-tempered and sensitive, especially toward each other. They are always getting their feelings hurt, and coming to me with their tales against each other, and wanting me to tuke sides. This makes me perfectly miserable. ~What shall Tdo? Shall 1 give up x::!fing ctic ave and g o some other town? Can you offer any su o practice I bave and go to o her B Answer: The strangest thing in the world is that the two women who love 4 man most in the world are willing to make every sacrifice on earth for him except to sacrifice their jealousy of ench other. When a man’s wife und his mother fight over him like dogs over a bone they never seem to realize that he is the sufferer, und that they are literally tearing him to pleces between them and devouring his happiness. There 1s no other such exhibition of feminine selfishness. Yet the very mother who is willing to wreck her son’s home, divorce him from his wife and tear his child out of his arms talks about her love for him. | and the wife who would separate him from the mother who bore him. prates of her devotion to him. Both of them know that when they go to him with | their tales und complaints and criticisms of each other, they drive him to desperation and make him utterly wretched, vet neither one is willing to forego the pleasure of indulging her own spleen to secure his peace and happiness. Self-centerd, hide-bound egotism can go no further. x ther-in-law and & daughter-inlaw who dislike each other are comp‘:l?:d“t: e in the same house it is understandable that they would get | Unendurably on each other's merves. But any town or city is big enough to hold even enemfes, and any two women, Do matter how discordant, should certainly be ladies enourh and have enough knowledge of the world to be able to preserve an outward appearance of harmony when they are occa- Sionally thrown together. Therefore, I should certainly advise you not to sacrifice your good practice by moving away from your home town. row with your mother and your wife 11 ea how miserable she is arately and lay down the law to each. ‘Tell each one pking vou, and that you ure not going to have your peace of mind shattered by their petty quarrels. And forbid either one to mention the other's name i "‘3\"1,5“3.';"“.“ time elither one starts talebearing shut her up by pulling all the caveman stuff that you cx:n. DOROTHY DIX. Furthermore, have one grand DEAR MISS DIX: What advice would you give to absolutely no conversational ability? a young girl who has A READER. ask questions, and then listen to the answers. You e ue minutes without finding out what he or she is 42 vou will say, “Oh, please, Mr. Jones, tell me about your et o pout new car,” o “wbout your grocery store.” and if you | T Osssume an absorbed expression and reaily lend your ears while he dis- | e *his favorite topic, you will soon get the reputation of being a | o onversationalist. What the world pines for is somebody who will | listen. We are oversupplied with conversationalists urggi\iom i | Answer. Learn cannot be with any one five min (Copyright, 1025.) | Cheese Souffie. Silk Stockings. ! and| To prolong the life of silk stock- | Two tablespoons batier, On0 O [ings use warm bran water instead of a half tablespoons flour, soap and water for cleaning them milk, one cup grated cheese, three |gilk stockings will last much longer | ' half teaspoon salt, cayenne,|if they are washed this way before . e Dotter inte a sauce. |belng worn. A good pair of silk stock- ings is worth the trouble of washing pan and when hot, 8dd the flour and | per, gfter each time of wearing. To Str unttl smooth; add the milk @nd|do so is to lengthen their period of seasoning. Cook two minutes. Re-|service | move to the back of the stove and MAVIS add the milk cold, add the well beaten CHOCOLATE yolks and the cheese. Set away to cool. When cold, add the whites of the eggs beaten to a froth. Turn into a buttered dish and bake for twenty to twenty-five minutes. Serve the moment it comes from the oven. 2 Rice cooks @ EW modern women but Fen'lfly anewand different way in hygiene. A way that supplants the old-time “sani- tary pad” with true protection. Wear filmy frocks and light things . . . any time. Dance, motor for hours without doubt or fear. It is called “KOTEX". .. five times as absorbent as the ordinary cotton pad! Thoroughly deodorise: thus ending ALL fear fending. Discards as easily as a piece of tissue. No laundry. No embarrassment. You ask for it without hes tancy simply by saying “KO- TEX" at any drug or depart- ment store. Costs only a few cents. Proves risky old ways a folly. KOT€E X Ne leundry—discard like tisone | That'’s Solarine, the » quick {| and safe polish dnl-'m over the world have used for genera. tions. Buy acaa to- of of- FEATURES.™ Our Childl‘ell—By Angelo Patri Keeping In. I don’t belléve in keeping children in after hours. The school day is long enough for any child to accomplish his work, and if he has not done it, assign it for another time, have & period especially for the stragglers (the prompter workers may do some delightful thing because their work is done) and bring them up to time with- in echool hours. It 1s not good for a child to think he can do work after the scheduled time. I learned when I was teaching In the grades that the longer I stayed with the children the longer I might. 1 stayed until the Sanitor, poor, long- suffering creature, put me out. By and by I discovered that we could get exactly as much done, and more, by | sticking to schedule time. A ctifld needs to play an hour or between 3:30 and 5:30. His Jungs need Bweeping out, his blood needs to rush along a bit faster, his muscles, cramped by long sitting or long inac- tivity, need to be used freely. The open air is a necessity for the chil. dren's proper growth and if they are delayed day after day they are de- prived of this necessity and galn noth- ing In its stead. After a quarter- century in schools, I have come to be- lieve that a child gains nothing by staying in to make up work that he has neglected to do between 9 and 3. I _am speaking about elementary 8chool children who miss lessons and hdve to stay in. 1ligh school students are self-directing in the matter of study and, of course, are not kept in. Mothers are looking for children to | come home at & cortain time and they suffer great strain if the children are | @elaved. In case a teacher feels that she must delay a child after hours, it 16 her duty 1o let the mother know | that she has made this change in the | aay’s schedule. Mothers have plans | and schedules, too, and often detain- | ing & child after hours throws a whole family into confusion. Courtesy and co-operation enter here 1 1 discovered that keeping children | after hours did nothing but give me « | headache. I found that making it privilege to stay in the room affer hours had a peculiar charm. It was easler to make school and school work a privilege than it was to make it & hardship. After that, when I wished to give a child a special treat, I told him that one certain afternogn I would let him stay with me for half an hour after the others, if his méther would permit. I stored up a &ood story for him or a picture or just & confidential chat. Then we waiked down the big front steps together and felt fine and important, both of us. Of course, children have to go to school and some of them have to know that it must be in the business. But that sort arg few if the school work is _a privilege, truly a privilege. Whether or no that is so depends upon the attitude of the theacher. It he belfeves it is a_privilege to work with the children they will look upon their being with him as a high privi- lege, und, instead of being kept In they will beg to be allowed to stay in: which s a far different affair altc gether. (Copyright, 1925.) Mr. Patri will give personal attention inquiries from parents or school teache on the care and development of childrer Write him care of this paper, inclosing e addressed envelope for reply. Cranberry Pie. Short pastry, two cupe cranberries one_tablespoonful flour, ona and one half cups sugar, three tablespoonful water, two tablespoonfuls butter. 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