Evening Star Newspaper, March 24, 1926, Page 31

WOMAXN'S PAGE, Wide Latitude in Width of Skirts BY MARY What is the smart width around the hem for the new frocks? When s a dress just full enough to be up to @ate’ These are questions that wom en usk this Spring es persistently as they asked last seascn how long their (ts ought to be. 1t wouid be convelent to be able to put it down i bawk and white and to definitely thut skirts should Ut exa e as unl 1% THE VERY FULL SKIRT MAKES A GALLANT SHOWING IN THIS PICTURE FROCK OF RED TA)- FETA TRIMMED WITH BLACK LACE AND BLACK VELVET RIB- BON BOWS. IT IS WORN WITH RED SLIPPERS. 4nches—nothing more and nothing less. But there is really nothing at =il mettled about it. In fact, skirts are of all widths. In Paris Paquin made some rather long sheath skirts for Spring that were so#narrow that there \ras need of slit to make walking possible at all; and as an exponent of 1ke other extreme, Lanvin raade some MARSHALL. enormouely wide period frocks for Spring that, aside from being very fully gathered around the hips, were { inade still wider by means of bias wid- | ening at the hem. | Never before, probably, has there been so wide latitude in this matter of skirt fullness as there is at the jresent ttme. It is as If there were o distinct modes expressing them- the same time—the one | peives ut stralght and scant and the other curv- ing and full. T'or sperts wear the straight, mod- erately scant silhouette prevalls as | belng the most suitable and appro- { priate. The up-to-date woman could never bring herself to disport about the ficlds and woods in a robe de style—1lke the lovely seventeenth cen- tury ladles on a KFragonard canvas. She enamcts her sylvan scenes in & | strictly sports costume—not quite 30 beguiling, but considerably more con- venfent. Tailored suits, too, for the most part are straight and fairly scant of {llne. There was some thought, earlier | 1 the season, that the two-plece tail- { ored suft with short jacket and flar- ing skirt would appeal to well dressed women, but mnow the straight-line sult skirt seems to have proved its fitness by survival. For afternoon and evening wear | the full skirt is often seen. However, this is 2 fashion that middleaged women wisely leave to their debutante daughters. The sketch shows a thoroughly up-to-date period frock of red taffeta trimmed with black lace and black velvet ribbons. (Copyright, 1620.) My Neighbor Says: A emall bread board covered with oiled paper is convenient to use while frosting cake. TWhen ironing a garment that has a row of buttons, folda Turk- ish towel Into several thick- nesses, lay the garment, buttons down, on the towel and fron it on the wrong side. The buttons will sink into the towel and the garment will be smooth. Don't stir sugar candles while cooking and never flavor candy until you remove it from the When preparing mustard water for a foot bath always dissolve the mustard in cold water. Otherwise it adheres to the skin and blisters it. Dis- solve two tablespoons of mus- tard in a cup of cold water and add to the foot bath. An old piece of bath towel makes a fine cloth to ciean with —takes the dirt right off. Have a sofa plllow stuffed with cotton batting or rags cut up fine and put in some handy place. It will be found very use- ful when washing a floor or mending & piece of carpet or putting on varnish. It will pre- vent lame knees. Pockets in children’s sweaters are usually first to show wear. By putting lining of strong cloth in pockets when new they will never stretch out of shape nor show wear while the rest of the sweater is new. WHEN WE GO SHOPPING BY MRS. HARLAND H. ALLEN. Fitting Curtains. After all, & curtain must look beau- tiful on your window to be “‘worth the money.” Many curtains are made ©of beautiful laces, nets, silks, sateens, ete., but they wouldn't look attractive the only place that counts, your window. Of course it isn't just the swindow you must consider, though that's important, too, but the entire toom andits furnishings and color scheme. Plain curtains look best when your room is papered with a falirly notice- abdle pattern. They are restful. Many homes now have one-toned walls and gayly patterned curtains give life and warmth to their rooms. Large rooms with high cellings can stand bold patterns, but small, low-ceilinged rooms look better with smaller pat- terns. If you have used cretonne in curtains? Experiment with rour ! cheesecloth or .with the material be- fore it's cut. Jf you are looking for 4 general rule, bear in mind that cur- tains look better hanging straight, not looped back. If the light in a room Is poor be- cause of too few windows or northern exposure, buy light transparent cur- tains. If they are in bright colors they’ll add warmth as well as light to the room. In many windows shades alone will do, especially in win- dows divided into small panes, in windows over windows seats or on glass doors. Some women have found that very large and high windows are especially suitable for two sets of curtains. On the other band, small windows, or windows with very small panes, look better when the glass curfalns afe omitted. Small windows also look at- tractive with just sash curtains, and upholstery it may be used for cur. ains, too. If the windows are too high and NArrow you can make them seem Jower by hanging a valance or ruffle ©f heavier opaque materfal down over the glass. A window will look much wwider, too, if your side curtains and ~very narrow and hang over the wall rather than the glass. Let your cur- fains hang over the sides a few inches, ‘with the top of the valance above the window frame and not hanging at all over the glass, if you want to gain i:eight and lose width. How can you do this before you buy - “That was a whale of a good story!™ exclalmed a veteran reporter, to an ol-timer in the business. “It was sronderfully well written.” “That's strange,” replied the old- tizaer. *I wrote that story after wait- ing for five hours in the wind and slush for a certain train to come in. And I didn't wear goloshes, either. ‘What's more, I had been working at top speed all day and never got back o the office *till midnight to write ftI" That is good news, not the story it- #elf, but the fact that the man wrote 5t so well after 8o long a day and with so weary & body. It is good rews for the human race. It is good rews because it reminds us that “we o That reporter probabdly thought that he was about at the end of his tether «-all in from weariness and cold. But at the very end of his endurance he turned out a brilliant piece of work. Think it over, After we think we have reached the end, we all have a little more to give. No matter what the emergency, the answer is always, Half the time, when we fall, it is wnly because we have not learned that saswer. After you are all done, you wan still travel on. It just happens that I saw Lowe of the Oxford-Cambridge team appar- cntly lose the mile race against the Yale-Harvard team at the jolnt track yaeet of those Your universities last Summer. He was all in, done, through, the 3 t from the tape, something happened. The Englishman seemed suddenly to or up all the accumulated British rmination of the centurles, and some unexpeoted force took him over the line in time to tle the ecore for first place. Kvidently some inward spirit made him know that he had to do it, and he did. As a matter of fact, we are never really beaten. We may begin to think <we are, but when we have to, no mat- ter hew heavy the we can al. ways carry it one step farther. There ® 35 always something inside that says Swedish mothers place money in th= i e %gfl&m 10 guarantes the shade to cover the upper sash when it's necessary. You've noticed that plain curtains are usually suit- able for any windqw, and for that rea. son most windows look best with cur- tains of lace or net, or any other light. welght fabric. Befora you choose your curtains take a good look both at the window and the room. Even If you have de- cided what effect you wish to produce you may be golng about it wrongly. Make up your mind before you make up your curtains. It’s cheaper that way around. Parking With Peggy *“Treating & girl right’ nowada: implies an a la carte dinner and about $25 worth of extras." Pot Roast. Take a four-pound plece of beef, . with butter or pork. When *well browned, add one onion, one ‘carrot, one turnip cut in pleces, half cover with boiling water and let sim- mer tightly covered until tender. Re- move the fat, thicken with flour, strain the stock and rub the vege- tables through a sieve. Add water and a little cream until moderately V2 W flzmetmee cooks flg&mmd i THE EVENING FOOD AND HEALTH BY WINIFRED STUART GIBBS. “Of course 1 want to feed my chil- dren properly.” This {s the constant cry of the consclentious mother. Fre- | quently she then proceeds to qualify her statement by further remarking that if she considers their needs be- fore those of the grownups any num- !ber of guestions present themselves. | First, the mother is afrald of spoil- | ing the children. Second, she is fre- | quently so busy as to find it well nigh impossible to prepare epecial meals und so on. ‘We might say to this mother, “Don’t be afraid, dear lady, of spoll- ing the children. You can follow all the laws, however, formulated ty specialists as regards the nutrition of children; you may at the same time give your husband the consld- eration he should have; your own meals need not suffer.” Of course, this is not a new propo- sition. Dletitlans have for these many moons adjured the mothers of the Nation to put the children’s needs first. It must be admitted, however, that in order to accomplish this, the mothers sometimes need a little help. Suppose there is & 3-year-uld in the family? He is just at the age when indiscretions In diet, even though slight, may lead to conse- quences of the direst. Suppose that the man of the house is an upstanding indlvidual who clamors for snd requires man-sise portions of very nourishing food. Must he sacrifice his inclinations or his health to the wish shared with his wife that the yvoungster shall ba well fed? He must not! Inasmuch as the man’'s satisfaction is an all- important element, why not ehow him that the 3-year-old's diet may be made quite satisfactory for daddy himeelf? Dad is reasonable; that goes without saying, so go over this plan with him and see if it does not work out The 3-vear-vld then may have for his breakfast any one of these fruits: Prune pulp, scraped raw _apple, scraped and sifted pulp of ripe bunena, scraped, caned or fresh pear, baked apple pulp, and stralned or sifted applesauce. ‘What about dad? IHis fruit may be either a red apple, a sliced banana and sugar, a whole banana with lemon juice, puffy baked apple with equally puffy raisins on top, unstrained apple sauce and so on. Arrange a different form of frult for every day of the week. The only fussing {nvolved here for mdther is to see to 1t that in & separate dish baby's bit of fruit is set uside and that this same bit is whisked through a strainer. Three-Year-Old and Man of the House can easily come together ou the food question. The youngster's cereal may be any one of the numberless variety, pro- viding it is, like .the fruit, stralned. The diet df the man must be changed off from mormng to morning, one day taking appetizing oats, another en- joving wheat, and so on. Again ‘mother's only care will be to see that baby's portion is set astde, strained and carefully measured. When we reflect that baby's cercal carries milk, it may be a good time to ask about ordering a little extra. so that he may nave a glass instead of that second cup of coffee. So Three-YearOld and Man of the House come together on the qv 1 of cereal and the advantages u all on the youngster's side. We cheerfully admjt that the din- ner question is mdre complicated. Three-Year-Old has had fruit juice or tomato juice in the middie of the morning &nd is ready for his dinner at noon. when he should have fit. Father doesn’t come home until night. Planning Three-Year-Old's dinner Hrst, and then making the proper ad- ditions =0 as to make father both well 1ed and happy comes next. Baby's dinner begins with soup and this will be either vegetable broth or cream soup of strained \egetables and white sauce. Which- ever is chosen s a simple matter to set aside, . The main dish for baby’s dinner will be either an egg or a hot dish of cooked strained vegetables. Nat- urally, dad will wish vegetables for nis dinner so that all mother has to do is to carry out the same simple procedure and allow for both the big and little member of the family when she chooses and cocks the family vegetables. When dad comes home at night he will find his Three-Year-Old enjoying « simple supper of milk toast or bread and milk together with a few spoon- fuls of carefully strained Lot vege- tubles or cereals and a desert of mashed, ned fruit pulp. Ot course, dad wiil have his own dfnner, but again we point out that he will have generous man-size por- tions of the very vegetables being consumed in a more disintegrated form by baby. Dad's fruit will be more deliclous if the fruit which goes into the youngster's meal Is put into ple fAilling, pudding sauce with an ice oream accompaniment. i g Pistorp of Pour Name BY PHILIP FRANCIS NOWLAN. CURTIN VARIATIONS—Curtain, MacCur- tin, MacCurtain, Jordan, Jourdan, RACIAL ORIGIN—Irish. SOURCE—A given name. At the outset it should be explained that the forms Jordan and Jourdan, when they really are developments of the names in this group, represent merely arbitrary changes on the part of the bearers from an Irish name to an English name that happened to sound a bit llke -it. Such changes were frequently made as & result of English laws promulgated in Ireland at various times prohibiting the use of native nomenclature. There are two Gaelic spellings of the name from which this group of angli- cized forms has developed. They are “O’Cuarthain” and “O'Cruitin,” though the more ancient designation of the clan was “Clann Cruitin."” This clan name was derived from the given name of the chieftain who founded it, one “Cruitin File” or “Crul- | ago lunatice were flogged as posses. | tin the Poet.” As nearly as can be Judged from available records, which are certain as to genealogy, but a bit vague as to dates, this chieftain lived about 1100 or 1200 A. D. The clan he founded s an offshoot of the O'Conors of Corcomroe. (Covyrizht. 1026.) TYREE TMOLOY O=—TMU=-2> Ui STAR, W The Daily Cross-Word Puzzle Copyright, 1926.) §. Form of defense. 9. Southern_constellatl Tribe of Israel. . An object in miniature Eccleslastical counci! 5. Unit of germplasm ; two. . Equality of value . Heud covering Suffering. . Look at. . Ladr. Negative. . 1100 (Roman). . Dense. . Residence. . One of a pair of dice ot in. . Play. . Smooth, grassy spot Down. The act of sending payrae . Run about. t 1l large body 2. Hypothetical force. . River in Stberia. 7. Pastry. . Explate. [ 150 YEARS AGO The Origin o, BY JONATHAN New York Hastens Defense. NEW YORK, March 24, 1776.—A re- port of batteries now under construc- tion in and near New York by the Continental Army was submitted t day_to Gen. Thompson by Capt. Badlam. Nine batterfes are mentioned as already under construction in New York besides Stirling’'s Battery on Long Isiand nearly opposite the Fiy market at Maiden lane and Pearl street. 'The batteries are located as follows: Greuadlier’s Battery.—Near the Alr- Furnace on the North River. Jersey’'s Hattery.—A northward of Grenadier's Battery. McDougall's Battery.—To the west- ward of Trinity Church und very near it Broadway Barrler—Very near the Bowling Green or the King's Statue. Coentle's Battery.—On Ten Lyck's | Wharf. Waterbury's Battery.—At the ship- yarda. Badlam's Battery.—On Rutger's First Hill, just above Waterbury's Battery. Thompson's Battery.—At Horne's Hook. Independent Battery.—On Buyard's Mount. Beslles the foregoing there are breastworks or barriers at TPeck’s, Beekman's, Burling's und Fly Slips, | as also at the coffee house (Wall and | BEAU [ CHATS BY EDNA KENT FORBES. Beauty and Cheerfulness. Not long ago I read several columns in varfous papers about the installa- tion of beauty parlors in different in- sane asylums. How many of the de- talls of treatments were real, and how many were invented, I do net knovw, tor each article became rather vague toward the end. According to the storfes, the insane woman patients were given such routine beauty treat- ments as facial and scalp treatments, shampooing, hair waving, or bobbing if the patient seemed to prefer short halr, treatments for acne, double chin, removing blemishes and superfluous hair and menicuring. One story even said that chiropodists were in attendance on various days, and that good dressmakers were called in to make becoming dresses. All this seems to me 5o sound psychologically | that I wonder it hasn't been thought of before. Every woman knows that she feels much better end more cheer- ful mentally when she has found something that improves her physical- 1y, whether it s a new hat or a new facial massage. This is something even deeper In human naturs than vanity. 1 don’t think that turning asylum patients into good-looking, emartly dressed women will cure even the mildly insane. But I do think it wil be a wonderful help. A hundred years sing evil spirits. Today we are just beginning to make asylums cheerful homes, to glve thelr inmates dances and entertainments; why not beauty little to the | HINGTON. D. €. WEDNESDAY, MARCH | | . Conjunction Manuscript (@bbr . Confusion. tle of respect . Large piz. . Belonging to us . Western Indian. Answer to Yesterday's Puzz le. f the U. S. A. A. RAWSON, JE. ter streets), Old Slip. Coentie's | Market and the Exchange, and one ! lalout midway of Broad strect, and | others in several streets leading from | thhe North River to the Broadway. There is also & line of circumval ! Iation to be drawn from river to river, taking in_the Independent Battery, {on Bayard's Mount, or Jones’, where | {there 1s also a fortification’ to be | erected, called Washington, to which | ray be added a redoubt round the | hospital, &s also a work to ba erected { on the common, near the Liberty Pole. | ‘The nine batteries named above will | ount a total of 73 guns and be rved by 342 men, including officers. | It may be several weeks befora these batterles will be in fit cond for action. Two weeks ago Capt. {lam reporfed a long Mst of lackin items, Including gun carrlages, han | spikes, drag ropes, flannel and p: cartridges, ladles, worms, priming frons, aprons of lead, portfire sticks and tompkins. the artille Wi ser | not only to complete | the wo 50 to ussemble these | supplies. ©OF 22 guns available for {the defenses, it was found that only 89 were fit for immedlate serviee. { More than one-half of ali had been | spiked up but were otherwise good. it s recommended that small shot ahout vate property, shall sed for public defense. | (Couyright, 1820.) an collectes | treatments as well? If it n women more cheerful mentally, bound to, it will certainly heip up & morbid mental condition All this proves one thing: Beauty culture i{s no longer being jeered at as & feminine weakness. Iliven physi- clane—who are the ones most apt to smile at the virtues of cold creams and such things—are beginning to that there 18 somethinge more tb vanity in the theory. Mrs. L. L. G—After the childr are fully built up, the color will likel return to thelr hair in a natural way. I would have their heads cropped short, just as boys have theirs done, =0 there will be no extra drain upon their strength. Give them plenty of fresh air and a wholesome dlet, and they will make up whatever has been lost from their systems that is causing this los: color. They should have plent milk, whole wheat bread instead of that made from white flour; and the green vegetables should include spin- | zxavh’. as there is a great deal of iron | n_it. Massage their scalps every day to | improve the circulation, as this will help to bring in new hair, and also increase the vitality of the present growth. The gray hairs will drop out as they are really dead. .-~ n y { __On April 2 a dinner will be given in | New York in honor of Prof. A. Graves to commemorate his 52 yvears of serv- ice nt the University of Virginia and at_Washington and Lee University PUTNAM weed loiten do to indu | uud enj ! rezarded 24, 1926, What Do You Know About It? BY JESNY GIRTON WALKEK. Daily Science Six . Do ferns have secds? . Are orchids parasites” . Do onks have flowers? . Is the tomato a fruit? . Do potatoes set seed? . Can plants grow in the dark? (Answers to these questions in tomorrow’s Star.) Jimson Weed. ommon raga rard which ix not named named Jimson, but gets its a corruption of this flower appeared in t) 3 inia colony of Jumestown soon after tement there. It 1y Jught accidentaily by siips from the ples. The s ot Jimson vieed, nonium, 1 - , affecting tie brain. Thus a com- pany of Eritish soldiers in Indla was induced to smoke the seeds, as Hindus + religlous trances. | us notions, however, 1 ot an idea that th 11 climbed trees u threw coconuts vour Jimson some one ad of rel: the solc of u Dr Answers to Yesterday’s Questions. “siar 1. The Aurora Borealis iz belicved to | used by the re sition of and negative el riefty In the and lower atmosphere Leen electric: flag i unu decoration on each side ople's | 1) ihe lute tndependenced ,, over t I f the t Ron e slde, Is the seal } atmosphere s cold | S se the bei b niuch he: shield econtalning the King « from Hght bi resent design, ninket” of carbon di and carbon dioxide of sunset are caused by the refraction of lght from the dust and moisture of the lower atmos. phere. A rainbow is caused by the pris. matic refraction of sunlight on rain- drops. lived for the most part peacefuliy t progressively, from J8§18 to 184 ne French visitors during the mid- of this period have descrilicd the uniform of the native tre waisteoats. T « and blue was dlsplay s and drums. t Is sald that Dr. or (Copsright, 1026, i ed on stane { joyment of our girden plots we m! ve bhir nd to have birds we must offer e inducement to mauke the homes with us. Bird houses lure wren, the bluebird and the mart A bi fountain set amony flowers summons the roht the wary blackbird to our tiu The Secret Wish. is know: ad-sh what ended his as @ bish- | us easy to teuch Granddaddy The flowers themselves attract ing Mrd, and food draws . etone ma ther, sto v framed in The present dut ik gine what iered friends w building i3 in progress and when come forth for their lous gar vould not stop his | enough to i “Puzzlicks” Puzzle-Limericks. A teacher in far —1— Got into a terrible —2 He lant —3— To his fuvorite —é—, Then furgot the student'’s — . A seaport of Scotland . Predicament. . Fifty cents. 1 Pupll. Place of abode. | (Note—"No collection f jokes these | days is complete uniess it contains one about a Scotchman,” says J. E. H. “The Daily Desire” “s hoth timely and cleve i Can you figure it out? The answer and another “Puzzlick” will appesr to- | niorrow.) i Yesterday’s “Puzzlick | There once was the head of a cult ' Refreshing and Satisfying 2 Who achieved an amazing result oe By giving advice | At a terrible price | To those who asked questions occ\llt.l (Conyright. 1826.) Next Baking Day Use Rumford and see for yourself how perfect your baking will be—no worry—no disappointments—no failures—but “per- fect” cakes, biscuits, crullers— when made with RUMFORD The Wholesome BAKING POWDER