Evening Star Newspaper, March 4, 1926, Page 39

= WOMAN’S PAGE. Bringing the Wardrobe Up to Date BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. The early Spring is the time to g0 over one's wardrobe and see just what can be utilized for the coming season; what, for instance, can do as it is; ‘what needs making over: what must be discarded, and what re- WHAT STYLES IN THE FASHIONE8 SUIT YoOU "ORE DOING REMOD- ELING. placed. etc. Without taking such sinck of one's apparel and that of the different members of the family who rely upon one for proper wardrobes, BEAUTY CHATS ‘Where You Don't See. You cannot possibly keep the skin clear down your back and across your shoulders if you do not have a large hath brush of seme sort, preferably with a curved wooden handle. If you are double-jointed and can reach all parts of your back with your sponge or wash cloth, or if you take a daily very hot needle shower. and let the water pour against your back, perhaps you can keep the skin as fine and clear as jt should be. Rut not all of us have this particu- MOTHERS AND TREIR CHILDREN. Bupper Instead of Spankings. One mother sa Tt is not just pline with a child who iz very tired or hungry. I know how pesky 1 feel under those circumstances, so I nsually recogniz the symptoms i» my child and try to act as leniently as possible. The little child does not know why he balks or vells or slaps, but a sympathetic mother may understand it. I never let such actions go past unreproved. but If they occur near bedtime I try to he especially patient and tactful and tuck the little culprit into bed all the sooner. If it is near mealtime, # good slice of hread and butter will probably be just as effective a remedy spanking. Making the Mos to use severe disci- | | it is impossible to have satisfactor results at the minimum cost. last item is, or should be, portance. It does not necessarily mean curtailing, if one has amp'e means, but it does signify preventing extravagance and avoiding duplica- tion. The elimination of wearing api that has already done good dut: | which would seem to have more w | in it, is one of the difficulties. Re- | modeling good stuff is one thing while trving to zet more wear from |an article than it warrants is quite an- other. not sufficiently dist | these two things. | thought ana cut over old garments to bri to date and avoid all the worn thin parts of the material. Once thin places are included in the made- {over garments it lacks strength, it will not wear long, and the time put into the remodeling is like time wast- ed. No one can afford to waste | time. It is the stuff life is made of. Small Frocks From Big Ones. If there are children in the family, dresses of adults can be used to ad- vantuge often for the smaller frocks. But here again care must be exer- | cised, for the materia! for the older person may not be rizht for the vounger one. If unsuited for an en- tire dress, it may be well adapted, however, to trimming. Watching the Modes. Keep well informed about coming fashions, so that you can know what particular stvle suits you and whether they can be used hest in re- modeling or in the making up of fresh fabric. If you use paper pat- terns, the numbers are significant The higher the number the later the pattern. Favorite styles of the pre- vicus season will be included in late patterns, to bhe sure. but this does not alter the fact that the higher numbers give the advance styles About the Flare. In Paris there seems to be no lengthening of skirts, and in London | skirts are shorter than ever. Two factors are noticeable in skirts, and these are diametrically opposite. The flare is strong. but so also is the straight line. Some coutourieres are reverting to straight lines hecause of the very prevalence of the fuller skirt, asserting that there is distinction now to be had in the straight than the full lines. It is well to remember this when remodel- ing frocks, and suit the style to the necessary of the material. and the adaptability of the pattern to sort of dress being made over. For instance, a houffant style is admir- ably adapted to an afternoon or a party frock, while the straight line is well suited to heavier materials used for sport dresses and street costumes of vital im- uish It, takes Jong up BY EDNA KENT FORBES. . 1arly invigorating kind of shower bath, |and few of us can reach behind our | shoulders. And as long handled bath brushes cost only a dollar and often half a8 much in sales, they seem to be the answer. For if the skin back here is not scrubbed thoroughly every day |the pores are bound to be clogged. | just as the pores of the face would be {if it were not washed daily. And then you'll have an ugly skin full of blackheads to show when you wear low-cut light dresses. You must remember that though the lower part of the back is protected by light or white underclothing, the spe. cial part around the shoulder blades is not: frequently dark woolen cloth- ing rubs against it all day long, rub- bing in a certain amount of dye and dust. - If this is not properly washed out each day, blackheads are bound to result. The treatment is easy enough, if the skin is muddy or full of large pores back here. Lather with any good, mild soap and scrub and scrub. Rinse with hot water, and when you dry yourself, take the towel by each end, and pull it vigorously |back and forth over the shoulder | blades. This makes the skin glow and |it also stimulates the pores to throw off_any foreign matter in the pores. | "No matter how bad the skin | been, a few weeks of this treatment | will clear it. It will more than pay | you for the trouble. Debutante Sue.—You can keep the skin over your elbows from getting hard and dark if you rub plenty of oil |into them every day to soften the skin. keep soil from collecting in the pores. | Elbows are so easily neglected that it is no wonder we get shocked occasion- ally at their appearance: but there is nothing to do about it other than to keep the skin soft and clean. Stenographer.—T) hot and cold compresses for your eves when they |tire after hours of work. Peanut Brittle. Put two cupfuls of granulated sugar |in a porcelain saucepan and cook until the sugar dissolves, being careful to | keep it from burning. Take from the fire when a few drops in cold water | become brittle. Place one and one- half cupfuls of shelled, roasted and skinned peanuts on a buttered platter and pour the cooked sugar over. When cool. cut into small squares half through the mixture with a but- | tered knife. = . Mrs. Lee J. Rountree has been elected president of the Bryan (Tex.) Chamber of Commerce. t of Your Looks BY DOROTHY STOTE. , Eg Dear Ann: It is not quite enough %o’ sdy that the tall woman's frock minimize her height. For the greatest good, she should see to it that her belt 1s Bf a color that contrasts with her frock. Thus the division of the figure will be fully marked. Yours for simple division. LETITIA. (Copyright, 1926.) This | more | the | the bath bfush | has | Serub them daily with a flesh brush to | i i | sany home dressmakers do | between | areful manipulation to | ng them | | | . w home t Emmie comes.” | (Copyright. 1926.) A4 Skinny afternoon. heciuse ve hugs me when had went Aunt she What Tomorrow Means to You BY MARY BLAKE. Pisces. Tomorrow’s planetary aspects are of a negative character and difficult to di- agnose. They indicate atmospheric un- {certainty, although there is no evident sign_that justifies the prognostication of either their adverse or their favor- able continuance. Under such circum- stances routine duties only should oc | eup: ur attention, and as the influ- ences will affect more the temperament than things material it would be ad- visable to keep yourself well in check. to control your temper and school your thoughts. ~ Under all and any cireum- stances your thoughts should he slothed in careful language. It is a most unpropitions occasion for any- Ithing that savors of speculation, but | there is nothing to denote untoward re- |sults from tra In the evening the | conditions somewhat there will he s {a stimulating nature which will always {'make for cheerfulness and optimism. | " Children horn on that day will enjoy 1 fairly healthy infancy, but are |threatened with one or more serious ailments before they attain their ma- {jority. The signs denote, however, that these weaknesses will be success. fully overcome and that normal condi- tions will finally prevail. In tempera- ment the hoy will be frank, whereas the zirl will be rather evasive; the hoy promises to be studious. whereas the girl will be indifferent to learning and indisposed to work. The hoy will be |serious and thoughtful, whereas the | girl will be frivolous and thoughtless. Most of the characteristics of the girl can be successfully overcome hy good parental influence and healthy environ- ment {__If tomorrow is vour birthday vou are {exceedingly generous. smoothgoing and affectionate. As a matter of fact your heart predominates and generally in- fluences your head. This has some- times brought to vou results the re- verse of favorable. but on the whole vour philosophy has heen that it is bet- ter to grant benefits to a few un- worthy ones than not to grant any {benefits.at all. You are an omnivorous reader and prefer high-cls that which can be char: ‘eurrent.” You a tionalist and have music, although tempted to become will power is not as be. and this is responsible very largely for the lack of tenacity of purpose {which is typical of you and your ef- for You embark on some proposi- tion with keen enthusiasm, but your interest soon flags and then you turn to some other project. Your home life 1s' happy. and those near and dear to vou appreciate very much the good qualities which distinguish you, while they are blind, or appear to be so, to vour failing: Well kno: {date are {man and author: 1 lexplorer: Hans F musician; Maynard. artist; Howard nd author: Arthur Foote Richard K. Munkittrick, au- great passion for have never at- performer. Your trong as it should n persons born on W, artist composer hor. (Conyright 1926.) Clues to Character RY 4. 0. ABERNETHY. Spiritual Nature, It you feel guilty |attend religions services: elf 7 urges you when you fail to if that “in- to the house of <hip when vou hear the church bells ring. then you have the facul- ties of reverence and hope well de- veloped. A normal development of this com- hination of faculties produces a nat- urally sincere character, inclined to with strong convictions of ht or wrong and an abid- g faith in the just dispensation of a Divine Providence Those in whom these signs are large usually are active in the various re- ligious organizations and reform move. ments conducted by the churches. They are earnest advocates of eccle- siastical matters and preferences Those in whom these faculties are weak evince little interest in estab- lished religion or its authorities and are rebellious against all established customs which do not appeal directly to their tastes and desires. It there is a fullness on each side of the forehead, heginning at the hair line and extending bhackward about three-fourths of the distance to the crown of the head. the spiritual na- ture is well developed silver,gold and nickel shine like new, with a lasting luster. Buyacan today at your grocer,hardware, Preses ot that { Wife Whose Only Rival Is Husband’s Bus ness. Bachelor Looking for a Beautiful, Intellectual, Studious, Frivolous Girl. AR MISS DIX: My husband is a very prosperous business man, makes much money and gives me all I want. But he seems to live only for his business. He is away from home more than half the time on busines: never seems to care for my pleasure. Even when he is at home, he busy or too tired to go out in the evenings, though I like to go. T do wish he would be different. He could if he only would. What shall 1 do? GRACE: Answer: Well, if I had an ambitious and successful hushand, Grace. I should be so proud of him, and so interested in hiy career, that it would fill every moment of my time. and I shouldn’t worry over whether he took me 1o the movies, or the Jones' card party or not. For everything you et in life you haye to pay the price. my dear, and this is true in marriage as in everything else. The women who are married {0 men who do big things have to pay for their husbands’ achievements with a lot of loneliness, and with doing without many of the little attentions that the wives of ordinary men get. The man who works for a salary, and whose day’s labor is ovér when the clock strikes 5; the man in a small business in a small town who locks up his store and goes home at night, can devote his evenings to entertaining and amusing his wife, and yisiting around with her at the neighbors. Perhaps the woman who is married to this kind of a man reilly has the happiest lot in life. At any rate, she has his companionship and his interest in all her small affairs, but she pays for it with lack of money, and with always being in an obscuxe position in life. The woman who is married to a big man, a man who is full'of plang, a man whose brains and interests must be centered on the thing that he is doing, or else he cannot do it, cannot possibly monopolize him as a woman in an humbler sphere of life monopolizes her husband. The successful politicians. the famous actors or writers, the big financiers, belong more to the public than they do fo their wives. “They must necessarfly be much away from home. and en they are at home they are too worn and weary to do anything but slum ) And for the prestige that their wives have, for the jewels.and limousines, for the money and luxuries they have, they must pay the price of their home lives. k¢ to be hig enough to do this. Don't balk your hushand's ambitions by vour selfish desire to be amused. Don't nag him about your foolish little parties, but interest vourself so much in his career that yvou will not regard it as a rival any longer. Ax for myself, | always think that a woman goes a long way to hunt for trouble when she complains of her hushand's interest in hig business or profession. As long as the only rl)‘al ¥You have is your husband’s career, you have nothing to worry over. DOROTHY DIX. EAR DOROTHY DIX: | have the hest hushand in the world, and 1 am devoted to him and he to me. But we have a daughter of 17 whom we do not seem to be able to' manage at all. Until a year ago she was as nice a Rirl as you could wish to see, but suddenly she has hecome unmanageable, impertinent and unreasonable. It worries her father almost to death. What can we do with her? PERPLEXED MOTHER. Answer: The trouble with her probably is only that she is 17, which, however, Is about the most dangerous thing that can afffict a girl, for it is then that she oftenest does the things that prove fatal to her. At 17 a girl is in the transition stage in which she is neither child nor Toman, but both, and where she, is tortured -hy the impulses and desires | of both, She has the lack of reason. the lack of self-control, the greedy desire for pleasure of a child, and vet she wants to he thought a woman, and to have the freedom of a woman. She wants—ashe doesn’'t know what. She is full of vague desires and silly imaginings, and she is furious with any one who stands in the way of her| sratifying any of her impulses. She is selfish, irritable, utterly lacking in | consideration for any one else, and she rgsents any interference from her parents, whom she regards as tyrants and'old fogies. It is a trying time for the girl, and a season of martyrdom for those who have to live with her, and if it is possible, Miss Sevcntéen should always be sent away from home to a good strict school, where she will be forced to control herself, and be decent and polite to those about her. I[ she must stay at home, try to he gu(lln( with her, and realize that she will outgrow her faults in'a couple ofyears. and begin to appreciate a | good home. " Don’t scold her. Laugh at her. Kid her along, as the slang | phrase goes, for if you attempt to be too strict with her, the chances are | she will marry just to prove that she is Erown up, and won't be hossed by her parents. And that will ruin her life and yours, DOROTHY DIX. AR DOROTHY DIX I am a man just past 30. Single. Possess the ability to get my share of the world’s spoils, financially and otherwise, However, T find it difficult to adapt myself to the feminine tribe, their wa conduct, etc. Especlally am I depressed with the line of chatter usually put out by the average girl. It seems that the more attractive they are physically the less are they endowed intellectually. What I mean is that they seem to be only interested in the commonplaces. such as movies, jazz bands, cheap vaudeville, and so forth, and care nothing for the worthwhile things of life. T like to have a good time, but T think there is a time for everything. and the serious sile of things is also a part of my life. Am I right or wrongs What's the answer? NONPLUS. Answer: The answer, Mr. Man, is that vou are askifiz (60 much of mere woman—or mere girlhood. You are’ seeking something that is almost as rare as a white blackbird, and that is the woman who is beautiful and. beilliet who is profound and frivolous, who can do the Charleston - and. dieees philosophy with equal skill ; And “there ain’t no such uncommon as a sheik who is a thoroughly domesticated husband. animal.” Or, at any rate, she is st as -getter business man, a student and a You must realize, my friend, her credit for being, and that w portion of good looks she general beautiful are generally dumb. needs to get by is her face, she generally doesn’t bother to improve whatever mind she has. So she reads only the six hest sellers, gets her education at the movies spends more time developing her heels than she does her head and chatter: to other intellectual lightweights ahout the only things of real importance in their little world. Mother Nature is fairer than we give en she hands out to a girl an extra-size imps on her brains. In a word, the to a man such as you are. .'But there are thousands of women who have; educated girls. who read and. think, and who are interested in the great problems of life. But generally these girls would take no prize in a beauty show. Their loveliness is of the soul. Their charms are of the mind. S0 T am afraid vou will have to take your choice between the two and decide between a peaches-and-cream complexion, with the latest thing in bobbed hair, and a head that is upholstered better within than without. DOROTHY DIX. She has nothing to sa Verona." sald: "As a nose on a man's face, or a weather cock on a steeple.” Also, when a girl-child finds out that all she| HOW. IT STARTED BY JEAN NEWTON. L Plain as Nose on Your Face. “It's as plain as the nose on your fa when we want to say so plain you can't miss it” about something that we regard as obvious or unquestionable. The phrase is an old one, being traced back as far as the sixteenth century, and its common use in mod- ern speech boasts a literary ancestry. We find it in the fourth chapter of hook three of that Spanish classic, “Don Quixote,” by Cervantes, as fol- lows: “‘Plain as the nose on a man's face.” And Shakespeare, in act two, scene one ,of “The Two Gentlemen of we say Another auspicious use of the ex- pression is found in “the “Anatomy of Melancholy.” by Robert Bur- ton, whoo was born in 1576, 12 vears after Shakespeare and 29 years after the author of “Don Quixote.” “The Anatomy of Melangholy” fs Iit- | erature with a capital “L.” being the | work of which the great Dr. Johnson said that it was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise. And Byron sald: “If the reader has pa- tince to go through his (Burton’s) vol- umes. he will.be more improved for literary conversation than by the pe- rusal of any 20 other works with which I am agquainted.” The form in whi¢h “our. familiar phrase was used by Burton is found in the “Anatomy of Melancholy,” part three, section | three, as follows: “As clear and as manifest as the nose on a man's face. FEATURES. ‘BY LEE PAPE. In a Hurry..: Pop was smoking to himself and I sed, Hey pop. .Im prepared, pop sed. 1 wish I could play the drum and keep time on it and everything - jest like a regular drummer, will you buy me a drum so I can practice, pop, will you, pop? I sed. A'drum ye gods and little thunder storms, pop sed, and I sed, But G wizz, pop, Leroy. Shooster has a drum and Sam Cross has a drum and even Per- sey Weever has one, and their all practicing to. be drummers, jimminy crickits, pop, and heer 1 havent got one /s & * Do you mean to say each one of those boys you mentioned owns a drum? pop sed. - Yes sir and so has Puds Simkins and 1 dident even mention him. I sed. Well then you can go erround to their houses and practice on their drums, pop sed. Their parents must either he used to it or elts in a state of total collapse by this time, he sed. And H® keep on smoking with a sat- isfled gixpression and after a wile- T seq, Well then pop show about a-bew- gle like the bewglers blow in the army, will you buy me one of those, pop? A bewgle? A life size bewgle? pop sed, and I sed, Yes sir, none of the fellows have a bewgle so I cant go er- round and practice on theirs because for that reason. Your sure not a single boy of vour acquaintance has a bewgle? pop sed. and I sed, Yes sir, Im as positive as possible, and pop sed, Well then they'd all come erround heer and practice on vours and inside of 10 days the rest of my bair would tern as wite as snow and fall out and 1d be a_ nerviss reck unable to go down to the office and make money and Id haff to pawn vour bewgle after all to get a few cents td keep hody and sole togather. When vou are frightened, run away And live to run some other day. Old Dobbin, Farmer Brown's Boy was up bright and early the morning, after his fright in the sugar camp. He was up just as soon as it was light emough to see. He went out back of the eamp to look for tracks, and he found them, just where he had expected to find them. They were just like the foot- prints he had discovered the day he- fore, .and he knew for certain now the previous evening was the one who ‘*WHOA !’ BROWN'S BOY, HOLDI ON THE REINS. Beyond a was in the | had made those footprints doubt, Puma the Panther Green Forest. Of course, 'Farmer Brown's | was greatly excited. e could think | of nothing else. All the time he was | preparing breakfast, frying the bhacon And he keep on smoking with a even | and eggs brought to camp the ni more sattisfied ixpression and I went | hefore. he was thinking about out to see if eny of the fellows was |hiz cat. Just ahout the time b out, which-about 6 was liRet veas réni) Enrmion: B = arrived. He had dome his morr ’v-hnrn- by lantern light, and with Old i i Dobbin hitched to the sled, had driven Lessons in English DHEREnlSRRRLO the L Dot de e \ house. Of course, Farmer Brown's | Boy told him all ahout the screaming | he had heard the night before and the | finding of those tracks. Don't say| ‘It is a panther, sure eno “the sewerage drifted away.’ Say|said Farmer Brown. “It cannot he “sewage.” ‘“Sewerage’ s a system |anything else, though where it of sewers for'draining the sewage.|from is more than I can understand Often -mispronounced: Har: 1 didn’t suppose there was one Pronounce both a's as in “at,” and |200 or 300 miles of here.” accent the r. That was a busw day for [ Often misspelled: Opponent. Brown and Farmer Brown's Be Synonyms: Calm, placid. quiet, | Was warm and the sap was rur serene, tranquil. peaceful. smooth,;free. They were kept busy colle mild. still. undisturbed. +'tthe sap.~ #/A hogshead wae. on Word study: Use a word three |sled and Old Dobbin dragged thi times and it is yours'* Let us in- |Farmer Brown's Boy and Farm crease ‘our vocahulary by mastering | Brown collected the sap. The pails one word each day. ‘Today's word: | were emptied into the h Austere; seévere; . grave: . stern.|then.rehung. It was a busy day “Then, austerely, the “judge entered |sir: it was a busy day. for there were the room.“ 4 4 | many, many trees to vieit eak s had BY W. L. GORDON. , Words often misused: son,” rmer T ing ‘the BEDTIME STORIES that the one who had screamed early | came | within | -BY. THORNTON W. BURGESS The black yhddows. had begun to creep ‘through the Green Forest as | Farmer Brown's Boy headed Old Dob- bin toward the sugar house with the last of the sap. - Now, Old Dobbin was old. but suddenly he began to prance |and shy as if he.were a_two-year-old. | "Whoa" cried Farmer Brown's Boy, | holding hard, on the reins. But old Dobbin" reared : and pranced, and | Farmer Brown's Boy could see that |Pe was trembling. Suddenly that same dreadful seream that Karmer | Brown's Boy had heard in the night | raing out, “OId \Dobbin phanged for- ward. Farmer Brown's Boy lost the reins and was thrown head first into the snow. Away went Old Dohbin | with the sled. "It hit a stump. = Over went the barrel of sap. Old Dobbin‘s traces broke and he was free. Off Re | went, faster then he had run in yea He didn’t stop when he reached the v house. Farmer Brown hasd d the crash and rushed out from the sugar house, where he was boiling p. Old Dobbin shot past him, headed straight for home. He wasn't to he stopped by anybody, or for anything. He wanted to get home: and he wanted to et there right away, and he meant to. i Farmer Brown looked down among | the trees. He saw the upset barrel heside the upset sled. Farmer Brown's { Boy was just getting up out of the snow. Such a foolish look as there s on his face! And with it thece | was a look of dismay. All that good sup had been wasted. ‘It was that panther,” said Farmer | Brown’s Boy when he reached the sugar house. If you don't helieve | there is a_panther here ask Old Dob- bin. 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