Evening Star Newspaper, March 17, 1926, Page 39

WOMAN'’S PAGE. FLAGSTAFFS OF WASHINGTON BY JENNY GIRTON WALKER. The “Lion and the Sun” of Persia. This flax three horizontal etripes of ot t official ur i | i center concists of £mbo! Tion's £ Persian king- wivi reet, upon t Qays of the Persian yeur, is not of these faded tints. The upper stripe is a rich shade of green and the red fs the same color as the strives in pangled Banne of the lion and the an emblem of ny ce , and seems connected with astrol- wns iud @ saying when the sun the zodiacal e a kit royalty for m to have beel ogy, for whis were fam that he who had reached lon wou.d his emblem was used o1 f the early coins of the Per: pire d is defl- nitely connecte d with Sul- hyath Adin he thirteenth According to this stor honor his much loved their names to- ve. It had never cuitable that this par- s advised the fig- which This the queen gether o been consic @ woman s ticular honor that he sho ures of the related to both their horoscope: legend perhaps explains why BEAUTY CHATS Bleaches. It your hands look s b or your a them, one of an oatmeal paste. Buy powdered vou could make ning it meat gri but it Is not exnens powdered, ¢ Scrub t oatmeal. it vourself b in through ¢ the fine blade. to buy already it" rth it. W skin. but do) and a stiff and serub and the rinse in hot water. Dry and put on a paste made of powdered oatmea and hot water and rub this all ove the arms. Rub as much as you want keeping the ro wet, because the molsture will keep drying out of your paste. Leave the catmeal paste on. It will dry quickl d it you can leave 1 on an hour a Jot of goo makes the sk similar but e used for the wash with n water, and wrung out face for rinses and rub on the paste and give it half an hour, or 15 minutes at least, to dry on If your skin . that all the treatment \¢ it is dry, rub afterward with « little cold cream ane wipe off the cream wi t cloth before powde clears up all is different. s usual and dry oatmeal powder nds until the pow sing, i - skin is prob effect of vour Your Baby and Mine BY MYRTLE MEY Baby Is Just Overfed. Mrs, B My boy is 11 weeks il ur i pounds. He weighed ¢% pounds at birth. He vomiis after every feeding and I have been told it is due to spasms of the stor 1s this dangerous? Will he outgrow Will it grow worse? What caus the contractions of the muscles at the bottom of his stomach? Is he too young to sit in my lap? How can I tcll if my milk is good and if I have enough?” Answer. Any child who gains over 6 pounds in 11 weeks has no real trouble and the spasms of the stomach are a rather high-sounding name for some- thing which I doubt exis ‘The baby is just overfed. He more than his stomach will hold and he very sen- sibly spits it back. If he were not gaining and he had pasms f the stomach, coupled with constant vomit- ing, it might be because of a too small opening from the stomach into the duodenum (small intestine) or because his stomach had learned the trick of ejecting food. This is a muscular habit learned by the stomach. I think all you need to do is to lengthen the intervals between the child's nurs- ing periods, sav to 4 hours apart, and feed for only 10 or 15 minutes. This ought to stop the vomiting. I would not let him sit up, unless he does it of his own accord for very short periods, until he is at least 4 months old. Then do not prop him up, but let him sit alone on your lap, his back unsupported and this for only short periods. As long as the baby ns from 4 to 6 ounces weekly and satisfled and happy vou may be sure your milk Is all right. Mr. G. 4. J. writes: “My 5-months- old baby, ¥%0 has gained from 9 to 17 pounds since birth, still insists on a bottle at 9, 12 and 8 o'clock at night. T know he should sleep through the night, but he wakens regularly. I give him 5 ounces of milk, 2 of water and one tablespoon of malt sugar in each bottle.” Answer. Why not make the baby’s feeding period at 12 and refuse to give him a bottle at 9 and 3? He doesn’t need it as he has made a tremendous gain and this 1s purely habit. Give him water in his bottle at 9 and 3 and let him cry it out for a night or two. It is better than having his sleep dis- turbed by so many unnecessary feed- ing periods. 5 sun is depicted with the face of a woman, eminent Persian, writing in ays that the ilon and the sun for the official v Fath Aly Schah, 1797 to 1835, This order of the " after the model . When the me well known, the em- carried on the flags of the om, It is said that, at first, lion was represented as ‘“cou- chant” ar in repose, and the Min- ister from England at Teheran is credited with having suggested the change of attitude to that of ‘“on guard,” with sword held aloft. The “grand standard” was white with a border of green, while the army flag was bordered with red. Later the two borders were com- bined on one flag, and still later, after the abdication of Shah Moham- med All in 1909, the three horizontal stripes were adopted, still preserv- ing the three colors. Green and white are the colors of Islam, and green has always been considered as pertaining to the family of Moham- med. Red was the Arab symbol of religious duties, and is also Inherit- from theé Ottoman rulers of By- zantium An_interesting representation of the official “Lion and the Sun” may be seen over the entrance to, the ¥ fan legation. The flag was dis- played this month on March 15, the birthday of the present Shah, and will be seen also on March 21, the Persi New Year and a special the (Copyright, 1928.) BY '[EDNA KENT FORBES. overheated house. Massage it with a good cream or almond oil ever) night and_sieep with the windows opened as far as you can. Whenever possible fill your room with fresh alr if_you are doing any kind of work in which you are exercising. After the Spring days come and you get out doors again your skin will lose its parched look. Mrs. Fannle G.—Extremely high re not good for the feet bu as they are the accepted thing for evening wear we must bear with them on such occasions or have specially made slippers. You should not wear such high heels, though. at any other time. Wear a moderately high heel if you hdve 2 high arch, and this will kel be a Cuban heel; if your arch is low you will be fitted best if you take a low heel for general wear. e Bran Bread. Mix one-half a cupful of sugar, one tablespoontul of butter, one cupful of flour, two cupfuls of bran, one-half a cupful of raisins, one cupful of sweet milk, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, one egg, and one-half a_tea- spoonful of salt. Bake about three- < | quarters of an hour, depending upon the temperature of the oven. Instead of sweet milk, sour milk or butter- milk may be used If one-half of the baking powder is omitted and one teaspoonful -of baking soda Is substi- tuted. Sour cream may be used if the butter is omitted. e i S—— Stewed Okra. Wash well and put the whole pods into a stewpan in salted cold water. Bring to a boil and cook until tender, letting the water boll away if possi- ble without scorching. Have ready a platter of nicely browned and but- tered toast. Cover with the okra, pepper well and ser THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO WHEN WE GO SHOPPING BY MRS. HARLAND H. ALLEN. Cost of Little Things, It is an fashioned method ot preaching economy to say, “Watch out for the little things and the big ones will take care of themselves,” or “SBave the pennies and you'll have dollars to spend. As a _matter of fact, most people don’t place much credence in that sort of talk nowadays. “It is ridicu- lous, for instance, to talk about sav- ing matches In order to have money to buy a mantel clock, a fountain pen or perhaps a violin, These things cost real money, while you can get all the matches you want for a cent! Any way, why take the joy out of life by pinching on matches and little things like that.” Such is the attitude of the average modern spender, and housewives who go shopping are no exception. Perhaps that is all just as it should be. Certainly many of the little inex- pensive things give us more satisfac- tion for the money than many big things. That's one of the explanations of the great success of 10-cent stores. Still, it's equally true that we're fooled a lot of times as to how much we do spend for the little things as compared to the big things. Speaking of matches, how many people, do you think, realize that the average Ameri- can spends more of his income for matches than he does for (ountain pens? Much more than he does for usical instruments, except plunos? And that almost the same amount of money In this country goes for matches as for clocks pve it we have Depurtment of Commerce figures for 1919, which show that the people spend 19 million dollars each for clocks and matches, 15 million for fountain pens and only 13 million for musical instru- ments. Perhaps it is even more surprising that almost exactly the same amount of money is spent for lead pencils as or mirrors. We think of mirrors as her expensive things, and, indeed, some of the very large ones do run into sums of money that would buy literally tons of matches. 8till the fact remains that you and I, if we are average people, spend as much for matches as for mirrors. The total for |each in the whole country is 20 mil- lion dollars. Some readers may be particularly interested to know that in 1919 people spent just a little more for phono- graphs than for stoves; that carpets and rugs for the whole country cost Just about the same as its linseed ofl! Most of us think that tinware is a relatively small item in the budget, yet there {s as much spent for tinware every year as for glass, not even in- cluding the cost of mirrors. Still a bit more surprising may be the fact that the nverage American spends more for little bars of soap than for glass or tinware, and twice as much as goes for hardware or for rugs and carpets in the country. In spite of the fact that we think plumbing supplies are expensive, just plain soap costs the same amount of money—300 million dollars a year. Another ftem which ought to sur. prise many shoppers who have been investing in furniture lately is that on the whole, the familles of the cou ry spend just as much for cottonsee as they do for all of their furniture. The Daily Cross-Word Puzzle (Copyright, 1926.) . Place where something is put. . Speechmaker. . Negative. . Not odd. 3. Symbol for silver. . Frozen water. 5. Printer's measure. 7. Confusion. . Blocks of metal. God of love. Shine. 2. Nobleman. . Hastened. . Manuscript (abbr.). . A constellation. Conjunction. Father. . 505 (Roman). . Front of a building. Protectorate in French West Af- ric [CIOIN[ST.TS] o] [HIA] Fry in Snowdrift Place where dinner is served. Italian river. Swedish coin. . Rescue. . News paragraph. 6. Heavy weight. Conjunction. . Country in Europe. . Pertaining to the eye. . Worshiped. . English school. . Asiatic Sea. Point of the compass. Engineering degree (abbr.). . Club-shaped staff. . Quarrel, . Equality of value. Girl's name, Chinese prefecture. Prefix; into. ercaratstars e Sy Orange Minute Pudding. To two beaten eggs add two cup- fuls of flour and milk enough to make a smooth mixture. In a saucepan which has been buttered bring the re- mainder of a quart of milk and a large plece of orange peel to the boll- ing point and stir constantly. Add a pinch of salt. Then add the first mix- ture. Do not allow it to lump. Cook slowly for about 5 minutes coverd. Do not stir it. When finished it should be very soft and almost mushy. Serve with hot milk which has been sweetened and seasoned with nutmeg. s Housemalds of Poland recelve only about $10 a month, making labor so cheap that it does not pay to install ‘household labor-saving devices. and see how delicious and wholesome fried food can be. A crispy brown crust forms so quickly that the food does not absorb too much fat, but inside this thin crust it cooks to a tempt- ing lightness and daintiness. WEDNESDAY, WINTER BY D. 0. PRATTIE. Spiders. The first spell of mild weather, last week, brought out a number of spiders in the woods and meadows, and I was genuinely glad to see them, for not only did they beat the first robin and the first alder on the race for Spring, but it means that they will be .u. .g their ropes for the housefly, which 8o far has not made his appesarance. The spider is misunderstood and maligned, and, though you may laugh, I am going to hold a brief for the tribe of the arachnids. Not that all spiders are harmless; there are ene or two poisonous specles in this cli- mate and many in the tropics. But the spider s not a “bug”—that 1s, not an ingect, though, of course, distantiy related, itke scorplons and centipdes, to the great insect familles. But he has none o1 the thieving and Buc.eainy ways of the housefly, and he does not spread disease like the mosquitoes and flies. Nor does he bite under ordinary circumstances. Most bites that people get they call spider bites, but they could not prove them,that and gener- 7z Comet Rice COOksS MARCH 17, 1926. ally some bad insect has caused the bite. The little common gray spiders one sees in the house never bite unless molested or cornered, and then not FEATURES. files if you give them a chance. Some people have & horror of splders, but it Is largely artificial and affected. Children betray no natural spiders, except perhaps the large gold and black ones, need be feared. Nor are they so repulsive to look at if you once disabuse yourself of a prejudiced gerfously And thev rid vour house of ' fear of spiders, and hereabouts few ' view. 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