Evening Star Newspaper, February 25, 1926, Page 41

WOMAN’S PAGE. Deur Ann: The vest front frock for the tall woman should not have too long a line it her greatest length Is above her waist, for it will only call attention to a bad proportion. The vest should be fairly short, as illustrated by the drawing on the right Yours for vested interests - LETITIA. (Copyright, 1926.) DAUGHTERS OF TODAY By HA Martha Diennison at jI faces the fact that her hushand and children have drifted away from her. She meets Perry MacDonald and they become friendiv. CHAPTER 1V. The Next Morning. The next day Martha entered the dining room John was already seiated at the table, com- pletely hidden A His grapefiui ten, was before nim. and i speak or up for a full mim Then. as Hilda coffee. he put dowr across at Martha morning. Across her cup Martha stared out of the window apposite. It was raining hea the drops dashing against the with a hissing sound. Martha sighed This morning her life seemed as dreary as the day. as un- aventful as though could see her tombstone at long way She tried to shake nood. She told herself that at least she had plenty money. But it wasn't money that she wanted. She wanted n_anything else an intarest She wanted to be radfant, glowing. happy. She wanted to be loved s she thoughts hugband “John . He was sipping between darting glances i arke he frowned what is it” “Let’s go to the theater He shook his head “1 guess 1 forgol to tell you that I em going out to the club for golf this afterncon and will stay overnight with Tom Martin. The weather won't last much longer, night as well take wdvantage « You can't t may « B we'll start ot - “But the wet." He wis ame in with the and said d her her in at reached she looked this point across tonigh! golf in the rain.’ nd even if it dvesn’t Fly tomorrow.” conrse will Te frightfully did ed and not answer. His silence was like affront, and Martha reddened to the roots of her hair. While not being naturally cruel to her, he was carelessly indifferent He made her feel that she counted for nothing with him. It made him very unhappy She =at in silence until he glanced at his wate nd then rose hurriedly from the table T must he off. Well my bag. MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN. I'll be hack Don't bother “What Did You See?” One Mother Says: During an hour when my children were particularly restless and fretful I suggested a search about the house fer facts to surprise me. With great zest they reported every little while that there was a spider weaving a splendid web across the cellar window; that there were exactly two dozen spindles in the stair rail: that & pic- ture over the piano was about to fall, ete. Bince then we have repeated the scouting game many times with pleas ure and profit Beauty That Attracts —so enchanting and allur- ing it commands the admir- ‘ation of all. You can possess this soft, fascinating appearance instantly thru Gouraup's Bend 10o. for Trial Sise Ford. To Hopkine & Seardien:Vork urday, and as | look | 1 his paper, glanced | w, the other end of lifes | herself out of her | | distast DEYO BATCHELOR {about lunch. Tl | downtown." ome impulse made Martha rise to and go across the room to ! _ She caught the lapels of his | coat i1 both hands and lifted her face |Iu his. have something He laughed shortly. What's the matter with you to- he felt the tears hot against her evelids, and then. remembering that he hated a woman who cried, she newspaper. | forced herself to speak lightly. “It must be the weather, and then did hope 1 could see you tonight. We go out together so seldom He stooped and touched her lightly his [{ps. as though he felt it an effective way to get rid of her. Then without replving to her remark turned on his heel and left the Martin went ‘over to the win and looked down into the rain-swept reets. The apartment, a rather un- usual one of nine rooms and three baths, was on the fifth floor. Most of the Dennisons' friends had similar tpartments at high rentals. and Martha s ordinarily proud of her home. oday, however, it seemed like a | prison: she felt walled up in it, and she thought of the long hours, stretch ing ahead of her with a shudder of She felt restless, as though she m be doing something active, and vet there was nothing to do. There were women of her acquaintance who could spend days at a time following serial stories in magazines, or reading novel after novel, but Martha was not like that. She did a certain amount of reading, of course. but too much of it invariably bored her. “opyright. 1926.) (Continued in Tomorrow's Star.) Minute Pudding. Put one pint of milk in a double holler to scald. Mix together one rounding cupful of flour and one tea- spoonful of salt and gradually stir to & smooth paste with one cupful of cold milk, beating well, then add two well beaten eggs. To the scalded milk add one pint of boiling water, and with the water boiling hard in the under boiler, stir the flour mixture into the milk and water. Beat well %o that it will thicken smoothly, and stir for about five minutes. Serve with a molasses or vinegar sauce - . 2 Much of the ordinary labor em- ploved In construetfon work in Ru- mania_is done by women. e o COLOR IT NEW WITH “DIAMOND DYES” Just Dip to Tint or Boil Each 15-cent pack- age contains direc- tions so simple any woman can _ tint oft, delicate shades or dve rich, per- manent colors in lingerie, silks, rib- bons, skirts, walsts, dresses, coats, stock- ings, sweaters,drap- eries, coverings, hangings — every- thing! Buy Diamond Dyes—no other kind—and tell your druggist whether the material “you wish to color is wool or silk, er whether it is linen, cotton or mixed Roods. for the most precious gold There’s no ammonia nor acid in Solarine to roughen the most delicate handsnor harm the most precious gold or silver. It is the one safe metal polish that you can use. Buy s wan swoday at your grocer, hardware, deug- gist or auto shop. —————— THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. (., TTHURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1926. FEATURES. WINTER BY D. C. PEATTIE. February Thaw. There comes a tinie of yeur which the Italians call “talse Spring.” lnto that deceptive and delightful season, for which there in no zodiacal sign. Wi seem to huve passed now. The brooks and run-offs are racing pway. laden to the hank-brims with the tawny torrent of tha melted snow. The ground. long frozen hard, is sud denly soft and mushy and make one’s going into the country lanes a trial. "People #6 out in their gardens and scratch under the leaves. in the hope that they will sée just one little erocus tip. But they are disappointed. If you will tune ‘your ears of an early hour in the morning you may v | which marks hear mome of the chorusing of the returning birds. A few of the most venturous have already started North. avolding the rush of the March and | April traffic. Buds on mapl and | lilacs are just perceptibly larger and | brighter, and the big alder buds along the wireums really do hold out definite hopes of Spring. Winter hus been u Lud one for our wise, long-runge weather prophets. Both {n Europe and America there ure men, most of them umateur meteor: ologlsts, who clalm to be uble to tell you three and four months in sdvance What the weather will be like. Ac- cording to them, this wus going to be a terrific Winter, ke the famous year when a fuot of snow fell in Jackson- ville, Fla. As a matter of fuct, it has | been an absolutely normal Winter severe, of course, in the Far North, an mild In latitudes like that of Wash- ington. These same wise men pre- dicted that 1926 would be a Summe: lexs vear, with killing frosts in every month. It remains for them to prove their case. | MODE MINIATURES Consider the day when the costume of the heur Included petticoats which stuck out and unrelenting stays which | forced the figure into the astonishing | shape of the hour-glass. Consider now the slender smartness ODD FACTS ABOUT YOURSELF BY YALE S. NATHANSON, B. Sc., M. A, Departement of Prychology. University of Pennsylvawia. & Ruled by Glands. Are vou too fat? Are too thin? The b ded lady, the boy and the midget ¢ disease. origin and stupid ones are glands. The fact of the matier is. vou are ruled by vour glands! Recently much attention was paid the transplant ing of glands to give persons back th coveted vouth There is much fiction in all the accounts which have been made public, but there is much of 1 scfentific truth The sreatest ill which has against the transplanting of glands| that it is too much like putting a brand new, high powered motor into an old car where the whee are woh bly and ready to fall off The glands of the body were not| alwavs Known It is only w hin the last few vears that something w learned about them. There differ- ent kinds of glands. Those which seem responsible for size and peculiar be- havior are the “ductless glands,” which do not seem to have any outlet for the fluids which they contain. “How do the flulds escape, then vou ask. They pe into the sys 1,.,,, by sonking igh the walls of the glands If theve ix an undersupply of the material, thing happens; and if uses of erime, | there is too much of the materlal, it ”w“‘.lx noticeable by other characteristics. on | The gland whbich controls vour size "lies at the base of the skull. It is only the size of a hazel nut and weighs less than one-sixtesnth of an aunce In the neck is a gland which weighs between one and two ounces. When it is enlarged it is easily noticeable. There is a swelling in the neck. the IS0 | cyes seem to stand out. the person is easily excitable, nervous, impulsive, irritable. A peculi gland of the body is the thymus. It is also in the neck, but the strange part about it is that it rows smaller as the child grows older and soon disappears entirely. It 8 to do with the growth of the bones of the body, and if it does not properly diminish in size the bones are deform. ed_or soft. More and modre every day we are beginning to understand the impor- tance of these little-known glands and realize how much they have to do in ruling us. vou siant. the fat | one the fashionable silhou ette. Nothing more than is absolutely necessary is the theme of modern modes. And so the frilled and obvi ous petticoat has heen supplanted by an abbreviated glove silk ensemble with an extra short vest and & pair of tle-on panties fitted to a yoke and fin sihed with an abundance of lace. MARGETTE. clever hlamed or races Scalloped Mushrooms. Onehalf pound fresh or canned mushrooms, one cup white sauce, one- half cup buttered toust crumbs, one teaspoon onfon juice. one-half cup cream. Saute the mushrooms in a little butter. Have ready the combined white sauce and onfon juice. Prepare a buttered pudding dish and place in this a layer of mushrooms. Then the crumbs and sauce. Pour the cream over this mixture and sprinkle with another layer of crumbs. Cook until crumbs are brown. Reggars recently arrested in Mel- bourne were found to be landlords. ruled (Copyright. 1926.) Here at breakfast the South did honor to its guests—a: cne old Maxwell House in Nashville years ago. First Mrs. McKinley, wife of our martyred President,thenMrs. hero of our war with and entertained over cups coffee. It was for this special blend of coffees, wonderfully rich and mel- low that the Maxwell House was celebrated throughout old Dixie. Today this same blend, with its full fiavor and rare fragrance, is known and used in all parts of the United States. It has pgsed more people than any other coffee ever offered for sale. Your grocer has Maxwell House Coffee in sealed blue tins, MaxweLL House CoFrreg Tons—~Amenai ol i grce o | they run neck and neck. WHEN BY MR WE GO SHOPPING HARLAND H. ALLEN. A Good Fit in Shoes. “Hive vou a good fit?” | shoe salesman, not a doctor with a | He was looking anxiously at a wom- | t < an who had chesen a shoe which he [ foor will hoped &he would realize was ton | walks small. Would you ever he in such a | shoe fo position? There's no reason why veu | foot, ) ghould. hecause there are perfectly | common-sense riles to be followed about getting a fit If vou're buying shoe for ‘the first (ime, hav measured. You may wear in one last. and a larger Lt foot inereasing walk @ | snug, while on !¢, and to swell with woman was i talking dise ny fo e her <he wi length. trv it on vour right ause it is usually the longer. If your great toe joint bulges badly vou may he hest off if vou select a “combination” last. This is a shoe in a store|that allows more width in the ball, vour feet|hut has u narrower heal Anv last one size | af shoe should At the heel snugly. ®ize in|The hetter grade of shoes will At another. The same gzoes for widihs. | vour heel with glavelike snugness. Young women often demand the|If the heel doesn't At right youe siame size ag they had hefore. They hosiery hill will suffer even if the that thelr feet may have do not that lasts may have changed.| You miay and that their present xhoes may feel correctior all right simply because thev are morve than Wear the kind of stockings to you step on Ung which you expect 1o ux wenkened the new shoex. Often Winte ed sl Will be wider than Summer ~upport because of the rovi iee Corrective hose. There are all Lypes of feet. und each type is fitted Lext in w certadn last. For example, a foot with short, square or rounding toes is comfortable In a short-vamp while a tapering fo 4 more pointed va last fits you best, Often a store will cater o the lurge. slender foot, if Does one-half 1f foot o1 it that needs longate inch when does, it's in ondition. You probablv which will give extra vh of sur foot Wy save you tor's bill in the future, ulso a Kreut desl of pain, und it may afford com- fort which yo kuown be= | fore. more | In the shoes vou finally select your shoe, | feet should 1 v. Your feels better in | shonld spread when you Find which | walk shon bend easily to ft¢|and both the shunk and heel of the shoe shonld fit snugly that your foot won't slip.. IUs worth one's small. round foot while 1o tuke precaution in_getting 1t vour foot is soft and deshy. vou | a good “fit,” because we all spend miy he tempted to buy u shoe th « consideruble share of « ime 100 narrow. In the store vou feel. and poor-fitting shoes cer- get the shoe on, and only tainly life miserable fit- wi <hoex | shoex Wwool ur toes be able to or Our national flower is not ofick decided: goldenrad is proposed rose and night- Jwers th Daily Science Six. 1. How can tell when a seed 1< dead? 2. How many dandelion? 3. Wil seeds 4. What were the first seeds planted by man? This {s made with one cupful each Jhat lu needed to make | fof rye meal and white flour, two cup- 6. What plants never have v{m k_"r o sl e ”’m”;‘,’::,n';( any seeds one scant nful of salt, and (Answers in three teaspoo s of baking powder, | Steam tn a mold for four hours, It s good eith vou seeds has a 19268, boiling water kill Boston Brown Bread. K tomorrow's Star.) Long-Lived Seeds. Seeds range in vitality from some | that can live only a few davs o | others that retain thelr power of | growth for centurfes. Many seeds | live easily 15 vears, while the sacred lotux of the Orfent is definitely known | to he capable of sprouting 130 vears after the seed is formed. Recently | S e e int we | Chapped Hand —Instant Relief! of years ago were grown and sprouted But there is no truth in the wild tales of Mummy wheat that spring up eve time somehody pries upon a new roval | Smarting goes instantly: sti cemetery In Egypt. Yet recently | once; redsess, roughness, maing stoeat appear with amazing rapidity: hands quickl; become velvety, soft and pearly white wtl | this wonderful new kind of greaselons, medr: somebody has heen selling Mummy wheat in this country for enormons cated cream. Perfected onl prices. and intelligent people were Maryland Boare rs last year alone. Thousands pral found who would buy these seeds. Now what do vou know about that? et iy 5 | enthusiastically. Soothesand heals ik Deliciously cool and vefruhmmcle.n,‘ mn:\'v; white and absolutely greaseles: recently by Sec: i S Answers to Yesterday's questions: it 1. The smallest flower in the world f#the common pond duckweed { 2. The largest flower in the world is the parasitic Raffessta of Malaya that smells of rotting flesh and has a flour 3 feet across and weighs 15| pounds. 3. The chrysanthemum is the most variable flower in the world 4. Cloves, caulifiower and artichokes are flowers commonly eaten. icky, anishing. 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