Evening Star Newspaper, December 18, 1925, Page 54

WOMAN [l 1 Some Important After-Christmas Suggestions, in Addition to Those for Holiday Preparations, Are Offered for the Busy American Householder. The most m; Considered after the has been well braced will be no danger ¢ is to make it as firepr i€ it is to be 1 d electric globes that come bow of colors about the plums, ull ready to be the home where there is very attractive for can color your own bulbs, if you wish. To do this t a few ounces of white wood alcohol, using alcohol thar 1 1lcohol is used, e streaky. Add some d red shade to the and dip in thread wound & tion. Dip then cover the gliss less than hal ¥ the so that in a rain ze of small ected electri the tre lectri o she To make frost bulbs, dip befave To remove any time, i rub. If you u tree, great care m lace them securely « in posttions e the danger inflammable ornaments. Tm tation snow, made of cotton batt Prove ngerons will not_er S al r the Tree. ut_matter to be|for some one else fully as much as Christraas tree | they did being surprised themselves, there | anc | one will teach them the joy and of giving and will make the as spirit no longer an empty to them. Between Che mas and New Year is of the jolliest times in the whole in_ which to entertain one's ds, for the Christmas tree lends and also makes a suitable tion for any festivity, whether t be a luncheon, dinner, dance or an rmal afternoon or evening part the bride-to-be, a Christmas v is the very thing, for the tree i ideal place to hang the shower, hether it be handkerchiefs or tin- vear Dolls. There is a pretty legend to the of- Ct that dolls were first recognized \ the bran rees of the seem ¥s the they made quaint, s jointed dolls from ivory, pat- terns Which modern doll makers have ince copied. That the Roman. chil- n had their dolls, which they b to Venus when they grew vouched for on one occasion 1 Macaulay. There is ple evider the use of dolls n assistant to the operations of | the young mind dates from the most remote times, e tribes of Africa the custom of a married woman doll with her until she had Amons the nat COLOR CUT-OUT COSETTE’S CHRISTMAS. The Coin Disappears. For a little while poor Cosette was Discusses Housewife ~ Versus Soulmate Mary or Martha— Which? DorothyDix We Can’t Do Without Martha—Kind of Woman Who Keeps the World Fed, Mended, Clean—We Can’t Do Without Mary — To Sympathize. SX!OULD a woman be a Martha or a Mary? “I am one of the world's worst housekeepers. My house is disorder There is always dust on the ledges of the furniture. Always there ave dish, in the sink. Toys all over the place. Books everywhere. “But my children will leave the most entrancing game for my socict They have the quickest imagination and the largest vocabu of any chlldren of their age that 1 have ever known. They are fat and healthy and self-helpful and obedient and well mannered. “Also my husband, who {s the son of a famous housekeeper, tells me that he loves me more each day, although I was never pretty and am getting fat. “I have no turn for housework. I hate it. And were I to put my whole attention on producing a menage above reproach I would have no time to enjoy my bables or chum with my husband, and I would be tired and cross and Irritable. So I prefer concord and untidiness. “It pains me not at all to see cigarette stubs and burnt matches on the hearth or to find a small shoe on the living room table. I read while I am cooking dinner. T let the dishes go and lend @n ear to my lord's tale of how everything went wrong at the plant. 1 am never too busy to answer the call of ‘M--0-0-ther'! “Nowhere is there a happier home than ours, but once in a blue moon, when I observe the immaculate Early Grand Raplds homes on either side of me, I rouse myselt up from my dreadful contentment to wonder if I have ‘chosen the better part’ or if I would be doing my duty by my family better by spending my time and strength polishing up the handle of the big front door, So to speak.” The argument between Martha, “who was cumbered by © and who worked herself to a frazzle, and Mary, who ducked all responsibility and left somebody else to hold down the job, is only to be answered by saying that every won 's name should be Martha-Mary, and that she should be i happy combination of both ladies. )7or that is the trouble with being a woman. You can't be a specialist in any one line. You have to make good on half a dozen different counts and be a Jane of all trades and goud every Dlessed one of them. (CERTAINLY we cannot do without Martha. This world would be 4 messy, | pigsty, outat-the-elbows.downat-the-heels sort of a place if all ti women had gone up on the hills to see visions in the sunset instead of cookin: g::“nv’ and if there were 1o one to clean and scrub and darn and pateh and And we couldn’t possibly do witheut Mary, ever ready to 1 sympathize with us, to understand us, to laugh with us and cr One of the Marys say to s to| with us EATURES happy in talking to her new friend When they reached the inn the land- lady received him poorly, since he came on foot and was dressed o shabbil; For 3 francs the greedy woman would only glve him a place What good is a spot house if it is so orderly that we our ease in it? What pleasure in even a perfect dinner wern herselfl out cooking it that she is as irritable and cr as a she b And, alas! how little do we remember Mary's exquisite sensibilities fineness of soul when there is not a clean bath towel in the house morsel of food on the table tha the doll was disc v withdolk Iking dolls, rded us novelties, At a French ex 3 dolls which could take dare not and so 1 Martha ork. | zeneral Te At an nor Red hinat sold and silv o are the past : and lavender combina with garlar cranberries | lded, icicles of pap paper w red tarla . ornamented ®old paper bar red Christma old and red paper made candy, all be hun rd or re other color of popeorn are very dec be silvered stlver pape: nut in the shell ¢ cerized floss. ous Kind: ed mer ing wax wi cate-pointed icicles inch length of de, wound in bou the top with ra The cha irlands made strips of paper three-four inch wide and 7. 1 or sewed to fori hs ar £, pasted whet etrunz to The cornucopia is made frem an Sinch square of zold paper and & 7-inch square of red tarlatan. Perfo- rate the paper and the tarlatan square where they o Yace them colored Tor tarlatan thicknesses. Overcast Doth thickn foot, and thro time at the tc To make ornament cut a piece of paper 7 by 4. Fold it lengthwise through the center. With the scissors slash from the cen ter fold to within one-half an inch of the edges. Open the fold and paste the short edges together. Paste strip half an inch wide by 5 inches long at opposite sides for a handle. After-Christmas Ideas. After Christmas, when all the gifts ©iave been taken from the tree, many famllies leave the tree standing, deco- vyated with all of its gay ornaments of tinsel and color, for a week, then on New Year day strip off the or s, em away carefully for nd then thi tree. ¢ the s fortunute than to Ihand toy active or ribbon will cheer 1eeds them, 1 prettily decorate hildren wil sor esent tree tre fixing up the | formed the bottom '_ wuld be one t bition held in 1 “pupa and mamma” were exhibit- iirco years later dolis which I were shown in the shops. t the same time that dol! ieir many accomplishmen to open and close their lded to \king for her little | lite-dike black cat an old black sitk what can_be terials. She | the stockini while the leg ing the narrow | ncad of the cat, 1 hollowed out & ce, leaving two \rp points for the ears. She sewed and then stuffed it with which cot- ton. A very stiff piece of cardboard the stocking be- | drawn smoothly over it and se- it the back. A hollowed- two inches in diameter, . was then slipped in ind the long end of d 1o it in folds with rvest of the stock ply and sewed while the hem was would have a bright red two small on with were use . the and whiskers were embroidered with white mercerized darning cotton, and the mouth with red er is m snderfully of the leg of ocking, which shows Bedroom Sandals. and useful sandals for ear can easily be made by how to do plain terials needed are 3 mercerized cro- of satinlined d of num Attrac om ne who know heti The n bl number pair of a four br i one amber fiet hook number 1 trochet cotton and the soles can obtained in any color. The soles two sizes larger than usually worn. With the cot- ton make a chain of seven stitches First row: Draw the thread through the first stitch from the hook, chain , and leave the loop on t hool tepeat this in each stitch of the chain, which will make seven loops on the hoe Second row: Work back to the be- ginning by drawing the thread through two loops at a time. Repeat these two rows until the about 8 inches long. The ex- zth depends upon the size of Sew one end of the strip to| de of the sole where it begins | out for the heel, and the! 1d to the opposite side of the | ole mear the toe. Sew the second strip on the sole exactly opposite the first one, o that they will cross over the top of the foot. Cover two rings with single crochet of the mercerized cotton and join them together so that they will tie evenly. Draw an end of the ribbon through one ring and over the point where the iwo rings join, and down through the other ring, to form a buckle and a kmot of ribbon. To keep the fastening in place, sew it to the sandal where the strips cress. AVSS . one er 16 sa bbor ss rings, | REC-US PAT-OFP ENCH - FORMULA (HOCOLATS Sold, bg the (}sjunfiuding' DELICIOUS and wholesome dessert, and made no complaint. noticed the loaf. girl? her wits, and to s manded the woman. her pock A1 g approved by three gen- erations of discrimi- nating users. Contains plump raisins, Grecian currants,. spices .from. the Orient, .and numerous other choice food elements. oA Christmas Requirement ESTABLISHED 1855 in the stable, but he accepted this Then she that Cosette had forsotten “Where the loaf, careless she cried. Poor Cosette was frightened out of ve herself she told is you closed.” she is the Cos money was gone! hen whe, The (Copyright. 1925.) “When a girl marries the man with the most money, it's entirely because of the principal.” | embroidering doities wouldn't endanger the digestion of an r we have in the mood properly ostrich! So there we are, and it is literally true that it is only been fed and comforted by Martha thit we are really to uppreciate Mary. # Of course, if a woman has not a dual personality, and if for temper. amental or other reasons she cannot fill both roles, it is better for her to 'y than Martha, because, after all, it is more important that the soul | should be ministered to than the body, and it is better for the guare 1gel of her b hold than it is for her vacuum cleaner dishwa it a womin to be to be-a 2 and order nd even good cooking, have thei but they ire not the whole thing. Indeed, the st as ol break a home as make it, for there are plenty of women who become such vietims « the scrubbin Lrush and develop such a place-for-everyvthing and-evervthin in-its lex that they make their houses plices of torment from which thelr husbands and children flee all know model housekeepers whose familics the front door for fear they will track the immaculate floor, where the print of a footstep is a crime, where nobody would have the hardihood to 1 down on a couch or muss a sofa pillow and where it would call for 1 reproof if one hed all of the 10 commandments to smithereens than to smoke in the parlor And we all know women who wear themselves to skin and bo sweeping and dusting, and whose families ceas s complaints and whines over how h: things that nobody wants them to do. We know mothers who send their children to play on from upsettiy their houses We kn mothers ’ nd making potato reses and beet &t to listen to a childish confidence or pet a baby. We kr Lusy and teo tired to dress up for their husbands or an evening or to read anything but the cookbook, and who Leing nothing but a household convenience. And we know other women whose houses always look as if & domestic cvclone had just passed over them, who arc poor cooks and bud managers but where a happy-go-lucky woman chums with her children and pals with her husband, where the mental atmosphere {s stimulating, even it the cofiee is weak, and where the soul is fed on angel's food, even if the bread is heavy. After all, however, there is a happler medium in housewifery, as in evervthing else, and the wise woman permits herself to become neither a drudge nor an idler. She budgets her strength and her inteliigence as she does her money. She does not work so hard at household tasks thut she has | ¢ nothing but frazzled nerves and temper to give her family. An e uses at least hulf of the brains God gave her when he made her an intellizent human being in running her house efficiently. Really, it takes Martha-Mary to mother. part in home allowed to enter leaning and to ir the streets to kagp busy dishes them a 0 » garnisl en wh 1 them of | oy turn out a good job as DOROTHY wife DIX . Earliest Photograph. The first photographic portrait taken from life was produced by Prof. Draper at the Unlversity of New York in 183 ketchup. Costs money to use real granulated sugar and to obtain the very finest of spices. But it costs you less to buy that kind of ketchup—Heinz —which is thick with boiled-down, gcfiuine tomato éuality. For ut- most value, therefore, buy for HEINZ TOMATO KETCHUP Thick with boiled-doruwn goodness WHEN IN PITTSBURGH VISIT THE HEINZ KITCHENS Cream of Tomato! Heat the contents of can of Campbell’s Tomato Soup to the boiling point in a saucepan after adding a pinch of baking soda. Then heat SEPARATELY an equal quantity of milk or crean. Stir the hot soup INTO the hot milk or cream but do not boil. Serve immediately. equivalent_amount in other beans, perhaps, busin make i who ask and | on the verge of being too yours is sometinmes over- cod liver ofl. 1. —A red nose is often 1 igestive disturbaneces, or it ay come from skin troubles, or just ring tight clothes that inter- th the cir | aition such - | Ly taki come = BY EDNA KENT FORBES. their youthful | movements 1 whose little bit lines, Browing a Weight. ntend to reduce fere v Losing Scalloped Onions. Joil the cnions in salted water for nutes. Drain and pour over cold Bring to a boil and cook until tender. Have ready a buttered baking dish lined with bread crumbs. Moisten the crumbs with a little of the onion water. Add the onions, then another er of crumbs and brown in the make a mental wreh and fat rich | needn’t avoid them e the n | ‘ They 1 [ Grely, for deny . the two best | fo e | | onths you will d to isr watch the amount foods they liy lessen the amount by And a fattening and then of faithrull And th pointment disap- s make i figures will up water bu 1 much weigh s e i cken rafsing is being recom | mended as a career for young women in France. Teannet evelashe, hair on your head. You shot ing the hair all the time re is no real loss at all. hes until they will have to ome kind, suc that will stir on in the eyelid: o lips i come from anemia, and should be cor- rected by buildinz up the health, and not by extern cations. A« bread not the way to reduce. fat woman must m reduction, just as she ness of her housework or k or whatever else she is in- Later we can go into her. But most women about reducing are just tout, wom Einni or No, th The really f 1Stap envying puwnir e Studebaker Power-Durabiling.Fi- i A them treat tonic late the lubwe terest n metheds fc me n whose fizures are t Isn’t your appetite “all set” the soup that tastes so good The sun Tipens the tomatoes, right on the vines, to the full glory of their perfection. We pluck them just when tliey taste the best. We strain the rich, tonic juices and luscious “meat” to a smooth, delicious puree. Golden butter fresh from the country is blended in by our famous French chefs and the seasoning adds to the delightful flavor! ) Here’s a challenge and a temptation that no appetite could resist! Enjoy Campbell’s Tomato Soup today! 12 cents a can GamblaZ., SouPs LCOK FOR THE RED-AND-WHITE LABEL