Evening Star Newspaper, December 3, 1925, Page 54

WOMAN'S PAGE Velvet Weddings for Midwinter i BY MARY MARSHALL. The blushing voung girl protested | velvet wedding gown, or, al any rate to her ardent wooer. He begged her | velvet gowns for the bridesmaids. tn marry him at once and she pro.| AL one of the iast of the fash tested that she must tonable Rutumn weddings In Franc : e walt | —the daughter of a vicomte and th. |son of a count—the bridesmaids wor« trocks of cyclamen-colored velvet { with wide-brimmed hats of the same | hue. At a fashionable New York wed ding about the same timé the maic of honor and bridesmaids wore hurnt orange velvet gowns., with wide- | brimmed brown velvet hats. Wedding gowns ~of velvet quite _eclipsed for the nonce est in gold and silver brocade. The sketch shows a new wedding gown of white velvet with embroidered | girdle of rhinestones and pearls. | There 1s a tulle veil edged with lace that falls from a- tightfitting cap of lace studded with pearls. The long train s embroidered all over in rhinestones and pearls. This type of frock, plain, straight bodice with short, circular flaring skirt, and- un ndorned long sleeves, is the type chosen, by Molyneux for wedding gowns this season. Sometimes he accompanies short- skirted velvet frocks of this sort with a lace veil forming a cap over the head and hanging like a cape only a little below, the elbows. This new wedding veil 8 perforce have inter (Copsright. 1 MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKF Cereal with Fruit Codfish Cakes. Chili Graham Muffir LUNCHEON Creamed Shrimp with Peppers. Parker House Rolls. Creole Cake. DINNER. aked Stuffed Haddock Riced Potatoes. Shredded Cahbage with Dressing. Bavarian Cream. Black Coffee. GRAHAM MUFFI Mix and sift together four cups graham flour, one table- spoon brown sugar, four level teaspoons baking powder and one teaspoon salt. Beat one egg until light. add two cups sweet milk and stir gradually into drv mixture. Boat thoroughly, half Al buttered muffin tins and bake in hot oven about 20 min- utes. . SHRIMP WITH PEPPEF Remove seeds and partitions from two Sweet green peppers. cook five minutes in boiling wa- ter. then drain and cut into matchlike strips. Melt three tablespoons flour with butter, then add slowly one pint milk and stir until smooth and thick- & 2 2 | | ened. Season with one-haif tea- Such haste was unseem- | | Sioon salt, add one pint shrimps Iv. Besides, it was a tradition in her | | and prepared poppers and cook family 1o be married in the month of [ | until thoroughly BAVARIAN CREAM Soak one-guarter hox galatin in cold water till soft. Chill and whip one pint cream. Boil one cup milk with onethird cup sugar and when boHing add soaked gelatin. Strain into gran- ite pan. add flavoring—either vanilla or lamon—two table- spoons melted. chocolate or one and one-half cups strong coffee. Place mixture in pan of ice. water, and when it hegins to thicken add whipped . cream. Pour inte molds. | Sauce. Coffes. Green Y THIS GOWN BROTD! STON TULLI WHITE VELVET WEDDING IS WORN WITH AN EM- “RED GIRDLE OF RHINE- AND PEARLS, AND A VEIL EDGED WITH LACE WHICH FALLS FROM A TIGHT-FITTING CAP OF LACE STUDDED WITH PEARLS. THE TRAIN IS EMBROIDERED ALL RHINESTONES heated. Then the fervent voung man whn | 12d° wisely kept abreast of prevail- | ing fashions whispered to her the pos- | a velvet wedding. In June | Le married in & bower of | © <aid. but in January you can rried in velvet—with velvet | (s and velver pages and train t makes one more wedding | cd for the week after New Year! Perhaps you. too. are going to he in’ January—for apparently is married before Christmas. you may bhave planned a | BEDTIME STORIES I any more danger than when you are | cutting trees for food.” “There are times when we are cut- ;m’x trees whenhperhapu the danger o e vorep | IS JUst as great, but that is only when Paddy the Beaver had asked Peter | we are cutting a tree some distance Raibit if he. Peter. had seen Yowler |away from the water,” said Paddy. Capoh Cat the night before, inet| And In a great many instances wi e Nt (don't have to have those particular see Yowler. but I saw fresh footprints, | trees. We take that risk knowing ind that was enough for me. That i8 | just\ hat we are doing, with our eves wh T remained right here all the rest [ goen ™ e saving is. But when we 4f the night and how it happens T am |are bullding a dam, especially when D e Tl we are just starting it. we have to id Paddy, “but T knew he | qo6rk away from the Laughing Brook. | ] "_t':']“r“!\‘bkr‘e are | Even when we are working close 1o day Instead of working ast | it very often it isn't deep enough to | knew well enough that | gjve ys any real protection. That is | {why it is 2 worrisome time for all of | us until the dam is big enough to make deep water in the FLaughing | Brook Even then we must work 100 | far from the safety of the water to feel at all comfortable. “This is # long dam we have hegun | here. Peter Rahhit It is to be the longest dam T ever have worked on. | Do you know what we are building it “No d Peter | “We are building those voung poplar trees vou showed | | me the other day.” replied Paddy i “Really?” cried Peter delightediy Yes, really,” replied Paddy. | “But those trees are a long way | trom here.” cried Peter. “I know it,” said Paddy with a sigh. | (Copyright. 1825. no one It vou are, | BY THORNTON i W. BURGESS Stopping to Talk. m lose. but sometimes Eaii. | = troublé to explain. | —Paddy the Beaver R it | it as to eut | Hine ‘k«‘__‘_/ DON'T MOST YOI'R TER i G 1S THE | ME IN D PE- | EE WHY SROU PROTE T had discovered that we have 1 dam down here. and that he viler ried {of waxed fruit that proudly adorned { the sidehoard in the old days. | adds just THE EVENING SUB ROSA His Heart. “Oh, 1 am so unhappy!" wailed Cyn hia. “Here I've gone and got myself | ‘ngaged to old Jimmy Parsons—I | eally thought I loved him, but I've | ‘ound out T didn't at all. Oh, it's ter- ible to be 8o fickle! What shall I do?” “Break it off. of course, her older riend advised her calmly. “‘There is w use in your letting this mistake | 0 on. You'd ruin both your lives.” | ‘But [ can't bear to break his| heart,” the fickle maiden cried. “'He's loved me all his life, and he'd never zet over it. I should never forgive | mysel i “Well, if you marry him, you'll break \is heart just as much in the end.” | he was told crisply. “Your only ent course is to leave him flat. “I’s impossible,” Armly. re bought——- “Oh, well. if that is more important han vour life’s happiness—then stick | think me hard-hearted.” the vounger girl. “I'm mot T can't bear to see Jimmy go.| the very nicest boy I've ever known, and where shall T be with ont him—just an old maid on the shelf, timt's me “If you marry him, you will arrive | it a state of mind where the one thing | in the world vou'll be able to contem plate with any jov will_be Jimmy's Zolng for good.’ { ““Yes” admitted Cynthia dublously. “I suppose vou're right. But what will people say—and oh, it's too t rible when you think how nice his family have been to me—and of the way he's saved money to buy me a | home— “Youll soon get over worrying about the gossip caused by vour brok en engagement. Other people will for-| get it in no_time. His family won't | make any difference to vou five years | from now. And 1If you're simply mar- rying him for the home he’s going to give vou—vou'll soon get tired of that.” “Oh. but 1 simply dread the idea of Zoing back to the old way of living - alwavs having to keep up with the | crowd and be popular. I was looking | forward to settling down with a nice | boy. and now it's simply dreadful to think that I've been kidding myself all along about the real state of my feelings toward my fiance.” ‘nthia,” the old woman told her really worrying | | von're is your own don't give a darn whether Jimmy's heart or mot, but you hate to pass up a good chance. If you're really as unselfish and thoughtful as vou pretend 1o be. you won't waste | a minute, but will jet the poor boy know the truth as soon as possible. If | you marry him, you'll be storing up | misery for both of you.” 1 And the advice of Cynthia’s friend | will do for all you girls who have | found out that the million-dollar en-| gagement will bring a loveless mar riage. Don't blind your own eves with the statement, ' can’t bear to break his heart.” You're probably only concern- ed with the material advantages You Vourself will lose in parting with the | faithful suitor. | Tell yourself the honest truth—tha vou hate giving up a_chance of se curity and comfort—but that vou must give those things,up for his| sake as well as for your own | HOME NOTES erisply about little self. You you break | Dick a Chrissmas gift sure the woman whose for it molves the the buffet | The Juminor to be appreciated b, home is her hobby problem of decorating smartly and effectively. 1t is the newest version of the howl | The basket or bowl of the luminor is usu- | ally of pottery and the fruit or flow- | ers and leaves of clear colored giass. An electric hulb concealed within the | dish canses the fruit or flowers to glow | with many-colored beauty when lighted. | When candles are used on the din- | ner table the luminor on the buffet | the rich touch of lustrous | heauty to the room and gives a light | | sufficient for serving. Baking Powder Biscuits. When making baking powder bia- cuits roll the domgh thinner than usual and use two cuts for one bis: cuit, laying one on top of the other Made in this wayv the biscuits will break ‘open evenly and readily and they are much daintier. Set them on top of the stove at the back a few | minutes before putting them In the oven and they will rise even if the oven is a little slow. { v Id think it a splendid chance to get one of us. I saw his footprints ind that is why we chose to rest in- stead of working last night. [ knew | that he would ha round all night expecting us to appear. Being up all night. he probably is sleeping this morning So here wé are at work.” You were saying.” sald Peter, “that n see just as well in daylight ve at night. and that most folk seem to make the mistake of thinking that vou cannot 1 True er. very true.” replied | Paddy A< a matter of fact, there | \re times when we would rather., much | vather. work hy d We are I likelv in danger then from any | 1t those two-legzed creatures called teavers have heen hunted so hy them and have been trapped much that rather than be seen by to he men lon STAR | was too sure. viewpoint wa sat there on the veranda, and most | |of an show him how little jt meant to her | | Whether ol that had made it possible for she had in mind when her plans to come to Shadow | dances are promlised.” WASHINGTON, D HURSDAY © MeClare Newspaper Syndicate “What's Up With Him?"” “Some Fresh Aleck Told Him Only Janes Are Angels!” THE WIDOW’S MIGHT BY HAZEL DEYO BATCHELOR Fay Carson is nol aitraciive o men She reads n hook eriolling the ‘charms of a young -ridovw and decides to masoue rade ox owe during her With o ner rwardrobe and 1 <10 fasei nating iricks she s quite poprlar girl at’ the Poppy I Fannot seem fo moke any i Dean Hampion.” Then " co when he sarves her life ‘and ax she lies aronseions. in A8 nria. ke yieids 1o The tempiation (o Kiss Ker. That night W 3 0 the publishing firin with rhich i commerred secx and recog Wizen hev. Atier @ wioment ov firo ot conrersation Fay s ahle 1o ‘make her racone o Wi hdr ane” s terrified | That ke ril wake her idemtity Kmown Tpulsively she @ccepts an imritation 16 00 driving with George Waldion. o man | he intended to do he <udd ind stopped. A later | produced a flask ons recess of the car the top. which was large enough serve as a cup. he tendered it to I “I'm mort of a life don’t vou think so” | a grin. “TN het moment er. he asked von haven't old city.” As a matter nf™wel, cackiaile heen served at Dean's dinner | also white wine - i hol had heen limited. Of eourse. HAPTER XL. had read in novels about More Experience. iook drinks from men's flasks somehow, although it had been As they drove away from the hotel | jecire 10 £ acphbsticated Fay had a moment of 2 There was something about George | take for granted the fact that Waldron that she intuitively dis- | wag accustomed to taking liqua trusted. He was t0o sleek. his smile | Nevertheless. she could not He lacked Jack's sin- | George Waldron think her a prig ty and Dick Preston’s vouthful| foreing She felt somehow that he | “Whar is it 7" darkly experienced and she| He raised his evebrows wondered at herself for accepting his | “Can yeu ask? Why, invitation. of conrse, and the real stuff. Then she remembered had | Fay wanted to shock them all as they| “Don’t stoutly. ‘O, come, After all, it Tust toss off my word Tor it. vou won't be sorr (Copyright. 1925.) (Continued She oo, like it." she she had wanted to he shock | She had wan to now. Dean Hampton. not of he disapproved her As she sat there heside Georze Waldron Fayv considered the impulse her to George Crumb Griddle Cakes. Take of thick he here. She did wnot like Waldron. hut then she did not like Preston particularly. Jack Norrie, and veat sh® had deliberately encouraged them. Wa this what he had laid Valtey as a widow? Was it only attention that she had craved and nothing more? Of course, she had wanted to be popular. but she hadn’'t wanted to make an enemy of every girl in the hotel, which was just what had happened. George Waldron's smoath broke in on her thoughts “Pretty slow here In Shadow Val- ley, isn't 1t? Rather a conservative crowd. I should think qou'd like something a bit livelier.” | “I came here for a rest,” turned, quickly. He turned to look at her. “Well, T suppose it's all right for | that. T eame up for a day of golf. The links nearer the city are always crowded. Usually T am hored to death on Saturday night. but this time T was in luck. Fay smiled. “That's very nice of you. but I'm afrald we'll have to be turning haec'k in a few moments. Most of my a pint sour ful of baking soda. one egg. cupful of hread crumbs. Beat and cook on a hot griddle. voice Fay re- | “You don't mean io say that vou actually enjoy that crowd? Take that snob Dean Hampton. for instance. T've been coming here a couple of seasons and he always a as if he'd never seen me before. 1 forgot. though, he saved vour life. didn’t he. and 1 suppese vou look upon him | as_a hero?” Waldron had heen driving slowly. and_almost hefore Fay knew what /4 cooks and flalg7 | our ve Ay turned | the car Inte a little grove of irees from some myste and unserewir myself with had thing 1o drink =ince yon left the 2ay Thad re. s, but aside from that evening, Fav's experience with alcn- =he cirls who but her : | she MIERIVINR. | hated the idea that any man would she and zay laugh. she =aid lizhtly it's Scoteh made a delightful little move. | proteste nrotested. | the effect that counts few swallows and 1ake | in Tomorrow's Star.) milk half a teaspoonful of alt, a teaspoon. | one cup- | tul of whole wheat flour. and enough whit= flour to make a batter with one | fled to France until the restora well latest equipped with Oven Heat Control. “The Modern Housewife’s Third Hand"’—saving DECEMBER 1925. ~ WINTER Bittersweet. Over the thickets, now, where the prickly catbriers sprayl and, pluck- | ing you hy the coat, command vou [ to wait a moment. twines the most graceful of vines, the bittersweet. Or it may trace the intricacies of old masonry on colonial houses, or toss a careless spray of beauty over the ugliest of fences, or the crazlest of ! snake-rall boundary lines. All Sum mer long its derk leaves, folded along the keel, have glittered: flowers have bloomed and faded unnoticed. Now fn the first days its fruits come to rejoice us The glory of bittersweet fs its ber ries, from which the outer coat away, curling elegantly backward and baring the brilliant scarlet arll in which lle buried all the seeds. I‘or this alone the bittersweet could claim all | No Winter spray so beautiful can grace vour fireplace or the lintel of vour door. The cheer of Christmas laughs from every gleaming berry. Rut bittersweet needs vour protec tion from the vandals who tear down 3o ruthlessly from the forest walls. A little picking will not harm | it much, if that be done with a knife and a clean cut, wel] out toward the tip. be made. But there is no reason to carry away a great_quantity of the lovely vine. We need to learn from who know how far better looks a sin zle spray of flowers or fruits against a wall than a jumbled quantity. | Whence came the name of bitter | aweet? It seems uncertain, but per | haps it is derived from the taste of the leaves, at first sweetish, then dis zreeable, and, it is said, very poi sonous. Bistory of Pour Name BY PHILIP FRANCIS NOWLAN. DRUMMOND. RACIAL ORIGIN—Scottish. SOURCE—A locality. Ask the average person fthe nation lality of the family name of Drum mond. and he is likely to opine that it is English be of the principal Highland clans. if want to be particular trace when and to ite real origin. it was first find that it is neither English nor Seoitish, hut Hungarian. Dryman' was the form in which it was brought into England from Hun. ry prior to the advent of the Nor mans to that island. Do vou wonder were doipg in et what connection between the two countries. The mother of Edgar Atheling, the fu. | English crown at the time of the Nor man invasion. was Agatha. dau of the King of Hungary. With E: in his flight to Scotland and the c of King Malcolm T11 (Maleolm Ceanu Mor) went one “Maurice de Dryman + Hungarian nobleman won favor with the Scottish monar From his first fol formed the name of a place in the Highlands lowers there was which bears the Hungary »f Drummond. { prominent part nockburn wnder Robert the Bruce in the rebellions of ' and 15 ing their lands and their chie This clan plaved n the battle of Ban los the rights of the Scottish nobles. (Cosricht. 19251 ctal Christimas Offer Your Choice of 'This 42-Piece Dinner Set! 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Yet the child seemingly | does not hear. | But all the while he is listeninz |and he hears. e listens to the soul lof yvon and. what he hears from that, he heeds. That speaks with the still | small voice of truth and the message | | penetrates to the innermost ear. | You ean shout aloud until breath | fails vou, telling the child that zentle Most Winter | manners and gentle tones are best, | face of the visitor, but if. in vour inmost soul, you are | shouting aloud in an effort to overtop | your neighbor and drown out his plea | for a place in the light he will never heed your admonttion. He will fol. | low copy and shout. He heard the | | undertones. If while you caution your son | against selfishness your secret self is whispering . hope that he won't | carry that selfishness too far. but maintaining enough of his right to it | those master decorators, the Japanese, | transgression They now exll repression-| And so I must try to be wild! R Camm | made her eontribution come out well nn what vou kept in the undertone. We from children Mrs, Flyaway plain o mother he will and no hear follow top. ecret knep Aropped tn o« vhy she had net to the chil dren’s nursery. “I'm starting for the South, you know, and what with all the confusion and the hurry and the packing T really en't had a chance to attend to it. So sorry Four-year-old Dorothy stopped play for an instant and, lnoking v solemn and serene hlue eyes int lemanded ed up had her the in her all your money pac Katherine's mothe getting things from gardens. It saved bill—and why not? One afternoor she said casually. “Katherine, might take hack that hook T had from Mre. Lily. | was coming by there day and 1 saw h lovely tomatoe Rows of them alo the fence. Bea: tiful color. By the way, vou micht carry the book hack in the hask way to carry it, you zee. ‘es, hut 1 don't think it wen do a bit of gnod. mother. Helen fal me that her mother was going t make them all intn ketchup and green nnes she had left were 4 10 be siored for Winter “Why the idea. Katherine! mid 1 wanted anv? G along and earry the hasket as | But Katherine hid the ha he first hospitahle | and said never a word abeut it dren educated in undertones and w of ¥ mak nei ket undes <he met ch culvert ice 1 notes use though The overtone They carry farther and | And they stir less sediment ‘su\fl\ they reach Speak right « | the faith that is in vou and the tone | of the family will he the purer for to in ed are ¥ | Con | Mr Patri inquiries from the oa Write 1 welf-addr il attantion Child’s Laxative W DR. W. B. CALDWELL AT THE AGE OF 83 that Regulates - for Weeks Does the laxative you now give vour baby or child promete regularity for | weeks and often for months—or must yon “purge” and “physic” the lirtle one every little while to keep the system clean. fresh and sweet? 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