Evening Star Newspaper, March 17, 1926, Page 38

WOMA N’'S PAGE Feminine Versions of the Tuxedo BY MARY Many women ask whether the new “dinner jacket” is really correct to wear to dinner. Is it really a feminine version of the masculine tuxcdo, or does it simply lock like it? For mv own part I am sure that many women ONE OF THE MUCH ABOUT DINNER JACK IS OF BLACK VELYV WITH BLACK SATIN COAT, A LACE JABOT AND A CHEVIOT SKIRT. would welcome with delight a real tuxedo suit—something that they might wear for various informal eve- ning affairs when low necked, rather unsubstantial evening gowns were not appropriate. What a boon it would be to innumerable older and professiona! women whe tend political meetings, board meetings and other evening Fauierings wuere chey hesitate (0 wear the conventionel ‘“low-neck” gown, yet like to r ter their sense of the fitness dr on such occa- slons! Younger women, too, would often lfke some sort of “evening suit” that they might wear when dining and dancing’out at some popular wayside inn or club where they find it incon- venient to wear real evening clothes. Lots of women do actually solve the problem by wearing a trim sport suit with attractive accessories. Often it is of one of the smart pas! For a time it seemed dinner coat might be going to offer another solution to this problem. But women are actually wearing it not for evening but for luncheon, shopping or for a walk about town. One type of the new sult that has achieved con- This rocky prospect might have daunted less steut hearts than the en- thusiastic young owners of the hilltop house; but not them! In thelr rock- bound front yard they beheld not a great mistake of Nature, to be stolid- 1y obliterated by much patient clear- ing. but a vivid opportunity! They first built a winding, leisurely stairwi of large, flat rocks leading to the Then they filled in be- tween their forbidding rocks with rich black earth, and planted rock plants about them. In three months’ time this barren slope was transformed into & riot of beautiful wild growth, which by the very nature of its origin did not require intensive cultivation, but almost took care of itself. Growing there now are ferns, Japanese spurge, dwarf conifers, laurel iris, blue ro- mondia pyrenacia, rose and white anemone, lamen, Italian bell flower and white Everywhere On Silver, Gold, Brass or Nickel. It's safe and quick, and the luster lasts longer. Buy & can today at your grocer, hardware, drug- gist or auto shop. MA 1y iy, MARSHALL. siderable popularity consists of a black velveteen dinner jacket with satin lapels, straight, scant skirt of trouser- worsted fabric pique vest and lace jabot. This yor may see depicted in the sketch. Numotimes the velveteen acket s worn with a short scant kird k and white plaid. s these new suits ure sim- know that the tuxedo or is thus known amongs men. 8o it is the conven- do that has inspired this W men- tioned this Spring whenever O'Ros- sen, the fomous French tailor, is talked about. One of O'R “smoking™ is of navy serge tri with braid and worn with a_white crepe de chine trilled blouse. The lnw walsteoat is also of blue serse. lossen, it wouid seem, designad ge and similar sults for day- time wear, formal black velveteen jucket with cloth skirt, and white silk ‘vest, he really intended for evening Sometimes for these evening suits the cloth skirt is of violet with the veivet jacket to match. LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. Sundey atternoon I was setting on Mary Watkinses frunt steps tawking | to her and lissening to her tawk to | me, and pri son after a wile i sed, | Well, how about thut wewk? | Wat wawk? ¢ Watkins sed, and 1 sed, Wy, G wizz, you know wat wawk. 1 do not know enything of the kind, wat wawk? she sed, and 1 sed, Jim- ¢ crickets, dident you tell me v uld take a wawk with afternoon? 0, my goudniss, yestidday and today are ? intirely diffrent days, Mary Wat. | kins sed. Wich they are, ony that dont prove enything, and I sed, Well, how about that wawk? Im jest making up my mind, she sed. Me not asking her agen on ac- count of belng too proud, and after a wile I sed, Well. T think I haff to go now, I gess. Thinking she mite say she was reddy to take that wawk, ony she dident, so I got up and went, and Mr. Parkins was setting in our house waiting for my sister Gladdis, rubbing his little mustash and saying, Well, Benny, how do you feel? Kind of bum, I sed. How do you? 1 sed. and he sed, I never felt worse, thank you. That sister of yours will slowly ‘but surely be the deth of me, he sed. Wy. wats she bin doing? I sed, and he sed, O, she promised to marry me next June, and now she says she duz. zent beleeve in June marridges and she duzzent know wen it will be. G, wizz, their all alike, I sed. You sed, it, brother, Mr. Parkins sed. And he kepp on rubbing his mustash sad and I went up to my room and started to reed Through Thick and Thin or Shoulder to Shoul- der Agenst the Redskins. Chicken Gumbo. clean and cut up a chicken. with salt and pepper, dredge with flour and saute in pork fat. Fry one-half a finely chopped onion in fat remaining in the frying pan. Add pfuls of sliced okra, a sprig parsley and one-fourth red pepper finely chopped, and cook slowly for 15 minutes. Add to the chicken, with one and one-halt cupfuls of tomato, three cupfuls of bolling water, and one and onehalf teaspoonfuls of salt. Cook slowly until the chicken is tender, then add one cupful of boiled rice. Spinach and Potatoes. Chop one cupful of cooked spinach fine and mix with two cupfuls of mashed or riced potatoes. Season white sauce well, which i{s made wi'h one tablespoonful each of flour and butter and one-half a cupful of top milk. Stir into the potato and spinuch mixture. Form Into balls or cakes and dip in a beaten egg and bread of cracker crumbs and either fry in deep hot fat or bake in the oven until a delicate brown. This mixture may also be placed in a baking dish and baked for about 20 minutes. VWillie Willis BY ROBERT QUILLEN. “I with 1 was twins, so the part of me that's goud wouldn't get spanked when the other part is bad.” (Covyright. 1926.) What Tomorrow Means to You BY MARY BLAKE. Pisces. Tomorrow’s planetary aspects are variable. In the morning they are ad- verse, in the afternoon favorable and in the evening negative. Under these conditions, and ns the encouraging signs are of only brief duration, it would he better to defer until some more convenient season any task of impurtance and confine attention only to routine work. During the morning there Is liable to be xensed a "grouch’ feellng, and more than an ordinary dis- position to louk on the dark side of things. This will be replaced in the afternoon by a transitory atmosphere of exhflaration, which, if encouraged, may lead to as disastrous results as a “grouch.” In the evening there will be an entire absense of stimulating vi- brations, and restful relaxation is rec- ommended. Children born tomorrow will, accord- ing to the signs, enjoy normal health conditions during infancy, although much attention should be given to their regular nutrition. The critical time, from the physical viewpoint, in their young lives will develop fust prior to the attalnment of manhood or womanhood. Temperamentally, they will be reserved and introspective. They will not show signs of aggres- siveness, but will be philosophical and do a great deal of thinking. They will be acquisitive of information and much more devoted to gtudy than to play or recreation. They do not appear to have much material success in view for them, but, in their own self. sufficient way, they will get a great deal of happiness out of life. If tomorrow is your birthday you are very conservative in both thought and action, and are rather lacking in originality or {nitlative. It very often happens that while you, in your slow- coach way. are weighing the pros and cons of a proposition, some one, with more liberal views and quicker vision, snaps it up and carries it to success. If, however, you are slow, no one can deny that you are sure, and one and all can bank on your statements, You, of course, lack aggressiveness, although you are very persistent— once your mind is made up. It takes, however, an unusually long time for you to make up vour mind. In home life you do not expect too much and are easily satisfied. You do not care much for social diver- sions, and find your principal amuse- ment in reading. ‘Well known persons born on that date are: John C. Calhoun, state: man; Gerard Hallock, journalis Grover Cleveland. President of United States; Nathaniel G. Herre- shoff, boat designer, and Emma Carus, actress. —e Salad Sandwiches. Cut some bread into very thin slices spread with butter and place a crisp lettuce leaf on each slice. Mix some chopped nut meats with thick mayon- naise dressing and place a layer of this on the lettuce leaves, then form into sandwiches. Another good salad sandwich is made by blending with thick mayonnaise chopped celery and nut meats, and spreading this on thin slices of brown or white bread buttered. SDAY, Should a Woman Keep Her Job After Marriage? Discusses Vital Modern Prodlem from AU Angles DorothyDix Most Women Who Prefer to Combine Marriage and a Career Have a Special Talent—Others Are Forced to Keep Their Jobs. SHOULD a woman work outside of her home after she gets married? I get hundrrds of letters from young business women who are thinking of getting married, asking this question, and hundreds of other letters from single women denouncing the girls who have grabbcd a husband with one hand and held on their jobs with the other; and also from women who have combined wifehood and a career. So far as I can see, following a galnful oc- cupation and matrimony at one and the same time seems to be one of the things that you will regret if you do, and regret if you don’t. Obviously there is no blanket solution for this problem. Ivery case must be settied on its own merits and in accordance with the circumstances, temperament und talents of the two persons most concerned. urd to say that no woman should continue in business atter marriage, because many marrled women have far more need to earn money than any narried woman has. Many a woman supports an invailid hus- band and a. houseful of children, who but for her would become public charges. It is ¢ So many women make the bread, as well as bake it, on which their families are fed that we should have to enlarge our orphan as s and build extensions 1o our Homes for the Incurables and Old Peoples’ Homes it we put « rigid tuboo on married women working outside of their homes. 1t is equally ridiculous to say that no woman who has a husband able to support her should keep on with her job after marriage. As a matter of fact, the women who do so are so few as to be negligible. A very small per- centage of girls are so enamored of pounding a typewriter, of standing be- hind u counter, that they are not wililng to give up for a life in which they :xiu ot have to punch the time clock of a morning or worry about their hoard bill. . When 1 woman is so enthralled by her work that she insists on continu- ing on with it after marriage, it is because she has some expecial gift for it Her tulents are commercial rather than domestic, and her husband s wise it he lets her follow her bent and hires somebody else to do his cooking o o 0 o ND, an why should a woman ba forced to give up her occupatio just because she is assured ot enough to eat and clothes to her back! Nobedy would dream of even suggestmg that it was & man's duty to quit business and give some other man a chance just because he has made enough to insure him & modest income the remainder of his life. That is one side of the question. Another slde is that housekeeping Is a profession in itself that requires all the strength and lntelligence that any woman has, #nd the result is that the woman who tries to be both a house- wife and a business woman generally falls at both jobs. {0 woman can make a comfortable home who is away from it all day, who rushes from her desk at night to the delicatessen store, where she as- sembles the materfals for a scrappy dinner. No man's dream of married bliss consists in coming home at night to a wife whose nerves have been so fraz. zlcd out by dealing with a crotchety boss and unreasonable customers that she is us cross as two sticks and too tired to go anywhere or to be enter- taining and amusing. Nor does any woman get anywhere in business who is giving one lobe of her brains to her job and the remainder of it to wondering how the things are coming on in the fireless cooker at home and if the grocer will send the things she has ordered at 5:30. ‘The woman who works outside of her own home cannot possibly be as ef- ficient a homemaker as the one who gives all her time and attention to it. In addition, she runs the risk of pauperizing her husband, so to. speak. If Sallie can support herself, many a husband will not only let her do it, but will graft his own living off her also. Undoubtedly many of these men would have worked if they had had to work to keep themselves and their families from starving. But, on the other hand, by continuing with her job many & woman helps a good husband get a start in life and a home. * s s 0 OF COURSE, when there are children it is a tragedy for a woman not to be able to be with them all the time, because it is in infancy and early :hl]l:huod that characters are formed, and this should not be left to hired ands. No one can do for little children what their mother can do for them. No one can give them the love and tenderness that she does nor have the patience with them that she has. And for them to know only & mother who comes home at night, as father does, too tired and occupied with busin problems to give them more than a perfunctory kiss and send them off bed Is for them to sustain an irreparable loss. But there is still another phase of the subject, and that {s the impossi- bility of many young persons getting married unless the wife continues on with her job. Under present economic conditions, it is not possible for a poor man, alone and unaided, to make enough money to support a wife comfortably while he is young. He must wait to marry, and the girl he loves must wait for him until they have grown dull and tired, or else she must help him earn their right to marry while they are still young and ardent. Also, there are many men who are everything that is lovable and fine, | but who have not the gift of money-making. They work, but they do not know how to turn it to profit, and the women who love them and who would be perfectly happy married to them must either forego marriage entirely or half starve, or else continue on in business, Surely In these cases a half loaf i{s better than no bread. And a woman is happier working after marriage than she would be not to marry at all. There are even instances in which a mother can do more for her outside of her home lh&n‘uhe can do In it, as when the money lhl'encr:x;dz:fi put them in a better environment, give them an education and that they could not otherwise have i So the problem of whether a woman should work outside after she is married is an individual one that each woman rnuoult 2:‘;1120;2: herself. 9 (Copymght. 1026.) DOROTHY DIX. Browned Potatoes. tender, but still in shape, and lay : them w o Pare them thinly and cook until ten- |3 minutes, or until they are a delicate der in salted water. Remove when [golden grown. 100 Years of Service ACK of every piece of Heywood-Wakefield Reed and Fibre Furniture is the manufacturing pride of an organization that has catered to the wants of home-makers for 100 years. This pride is your guarantee in selecting Heywood-Wakefield Furniture for every room in your home. 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The good old Irish spud was really not_Irish at all, but came from the Andes of South America, where In- dians cultivated it firs Nobody knows who introduced the potato Into the Emerald Isle. All we know i thut It was not, as some people clalmed, brought over by Sir Walter Raleigh from Virginia to Ireland, be- cause it didn't grow in Virginia, and Raleigh was never there In his life, anyway. But whoever did bring the, potato to Ireland did a lot of good and a lot of harm at the same time. The Irish peasant. kept down by starvation, found in the potato & new and cheap food, so much so that in 60 years, from 1785 1843, the popu lation of Ireland Increased from 2,000,- 000 to 8,000,000 souls; marriages were generally mad® by people in their teens and every family had large numbers of children. But when the potato disease hit Ireland In 1845 th: population bubble of Ireland burst, and hundreds of thousands. ulreads living on the cheapest of foods, had nothing to fall back on and starved to death. The immigration to America was 80 heavy that an anti-immigra- tion secret society was formed calle: the Know Nothing party, that actu- ally ran @ candidate for President. And all on account of the humble potato. Now, what do you know about that? Answers to Yesterday's Questions. FEATURES DAUGHTERS OF TODAY BY HAZEL DEYO BATCHELOR Martha Dennison at 41 faces the fact that her husband has drifted away from her, as well as her two children, Arthur and Natalie. Bhe meets an attractive dachelor, Perry MacDonald, end accepts his attentions without re- alizing the danger {n such an at- tachment. In the meantime Arthur is imfatuated with Mimi, a dencer, and Natalle half in love with Lucien Bartlett, a married man. CHAPTER XXI. Natalic Again. The second time that Perry saw Natalle and Luclen Bartlett together he was with Martha at the theater. Natalle and Lucien sat two rows ahead of them, but, although Perry recognized Natalle instantly, Martha did not see her. Perry found himself answering Martha {n monosyllables, while he watched Natalie. She and Lucien talked very seriously between the acts, their heads close together. Once Natalie turned her head in a startled fashion to look into Lucien's eyes, and Perry was startled at the strained expression on her young face. In some unaccountable fashion he found himself furious with Lucien. What was he saying to the child to make her look that way? Obviously he was arguing with her, trying to muke her see something frora his standpoint. Up to this mor talle was appamently only b vinced, but there the fact that she was attracted to- ward Lucien und Perry found himself more concerned than he should have been. Something urged him to interfere in thegmatter, and yet how was he to do%such a thing? He might say Parking With Peggy 1. The microscope was invented in anclent times; the modern compound microscope was invented by the Dutch blologist Lowenhoek. 2. “Flying machines” of a theoreti- cal sort were planned by many in- ventors of history, among them Leo- nardo da Vinci, but who invented the first practical airplane {s disputed. Clement Ader in 1891, in France, and Langley in 1896 are claimed by some¢ to have made practical fiylng ma- chines before the Wright brothers in 1908, 3. Gunpowder was invented by the Chinese und independently reinvented by the German Schwarts in 1320. A previous invention by Roger Bacon is clatmed but cannot be proved. 4. The first invention of the tele- scope may have been made by Roge- Bacon, but the first practical tele- scope was made by Lippershey in Holland in 1609. 5. The steam engine was invented by Watt in England in 1765. 8. Electrical telegraph was invegted by Morse in America in 1835. (Copyright. 1626.) «“ . ” puzzhc’zs 'uzsle-Limericks The sultan got sore at his —1— And invented a scheme for to —! He caught a big —3— ‘Which he loosed in the —4— The confusion was called “—5—." 1. Collection of wives. 2. Frighten; plural pronoun, objec- tive (two_words). 3. Small roden Dwelling place. 5. Without balance (colloguial). (Note—Should any one chance to ask you the origin of the term —§— you might quote this limerick. But first, of course, you will have to com- plete it bv placing the right words, indicated by the numbers, in the cor- responding spaces. The answer and another “Puzzlick” will appear tomor- row.) : Yesterday’s “Puzzlick.” A cheery old fellow of Wales Who made his main diet of snails, When asked by a friend: “Do you eat to the end?" He replied: “Only down to their tails.” (Copyright, 1926.) “Isn't it terrible to think that thousands are starving in America today—and the rest haven't the nerve to diet." something to Martha, drop & warning word In her ears, and yet how mani- festly absurd it would be to do that? After ail, it was none of his affair, and Martha might hesitate to censure in her daughter a proceeding which she evidently felt was all right for herself. For the first time Perry began to take account of his fricndship for Martha. Of late there had beerr something In her manner toward him that made him feel that she was taking their friendship oo seriously. His conscience smote h'm a little, and yet, after all, what had there been between them? Nothing of any con sequence. When he had drifted Into this thing it had been with no serious intention, and he had helieved, of course, that Martha had felt the same way about it. wut suppose he had been mistaken, suppose some serious complication developed from what he had suppused an innocent enough flirtation’ The thought was not pleasant. made Perry vaguely uncomiortable. He wished now that he had never yicided to the temptation of seeing Martha, and quie on impuise he turned toward her and said even! “Isn't that your daughter just ahead It rted and learad forware she said, a little breath- Natalle. " “She seems in Perry said, after med of herself evening was 1 What had been be- fore a delightful adventure, an eve- ning alone with Perry, was now something entireiy different. Nata lie's presence had broken the epell had turned her from en attractive and muchadmired woman into a mother. She found herself wonder i Nats companion was. obviousiy absorbed When the curtain went up on the second act they did not turn immediately toward the stage. but went on talking, their heads close together. Was Natalie really inter ested in this man? And if so, who was he? Martha wondered if by chance Perry knew him. She decided to ask him just as soon as the cur. tain went down, and Perry was not exactly surprised when at the end of the act she put the question to him. “You don't happen talle’s friend, do vou?" Perry tried to seem casual “I know him slightly. 1lis name i< Bartlett, Luclen Bartlett. He's quite ell known broker Vhat else do you for feeling somehow to know Na know about “I don't exactly know how to an swer that question,” Perry returned. “You see, I don't know him very well. By that I mean I have never met his wife.” (Copyright. 1926.) 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