Evening Star Newspaper, May 3, 1926, Page 33

3 WOMAN PAGE Novelty Fittings for Work Basket RY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. Lo e~ A WORKBASKET IS A NECE ITY FOR EVERY WOMAN. seashells form covers for two sides of | little pincushions, and full sized scal lop shells. such s 4 on beaches, make the dec sides of larger pincu tings are especially happy for werk haskets at seashore places valuahie n. Sometimes with the fit- lined with A workbasket @aRsinn for eve 1= of tings of < expensive < a pos won worth the hasket ex and with eheap fittir choor poor and Emeries in Variety. the form the nwner i< 1 v or corap, the imper Emeries take of resy | ceptible to cheeked apples <o small that only at | A dell's table could dishes sufficiently tiny he found to hold them appropri ately. But an entire dish of miniature women have thread wound In fact jired with need A purposes for the doll’s house and each prove to he an emery. The reason for the miniature size is so that the nee- dles can be pushed back and forth thrangh the emery easilv to remnve rust. grit or oiliness. Oddity Songht, Same women delight in having nov elty fittings for their workhaskets. These are prized above the costly f1 nishings. It is possible for individu- ality to he shown in such details. as well as in the actual fyrnishings of a house. Let me suggest that a darn- eels. a wee pair ars are tucked they that into + wWherever re handy and 4 thimble + for the or the tip & is 1o protect Shields come in all sizes 10 cissors, even the ornamental stork scissors that ated with the sewing basket inge of p 1mes the the poin silks for this homely | accessories and work supplement rather than that the one basket hold all fittings and furnishings. kings is something rather f sometimes of nainted metal st differ ent from the us can he kept entireiy more convenient and fittings ave those for woirkhaske! Chic Fittings. manifest in There are little ships that wdinary wa is 4 wee meta pulled. reveals e ranenre | wITh A regueat of tay ire | lamped envelope direct to Lydia Lo Raran decks. Silver | Walker. cars of this paper rhe vazue of pewing haske! accessories for in the making fiet crochet In place of the ru readers who. piece, which that' a full lenzth hag been stawed hel ‘ DEAUTY ‘CHATS -sr sovoanvr vonses and outside, tpo. e a dentist if aver the zums inside Yon onld, however, there von have tronble of this sort a tonth pa hot necessarily mean pyorrhoea, thouzh T.am inclined 1o |\ npa af the symptame. a hrichter Tooth Powders. think herween der a powder gives polich 10 the teeth. If yon use a pow der. T would sugzest that vou pour liberal it on a toothhrush | that t too wet. €n that when vou | b vour teeth it iz with dry dry powder yme women much to An not is or hut N Daily Reader—It fs hardly possibla could overcome all odor from sage tea unless that was rong that it would he mare annoving than that from the e. There is nothing more punzent Oiva their teeth an extra polishing | I odor than herbs. but they are not R mee or twice a week by rubbing over | unpleasantly 0. The odor from alco Them or as many of them as they can | hol or bay rum mingled with that of reach. with diy tooth powder and the | the sage would not offend. so the sage binnt end of an arangewnod stick | tea with either of these add There 1= mothing better. and cer.|amount to a tonic, and ghe tainlt nothinz cheaper. than precipi of it_wonld not he so not tated chalk If von de not like its = tastelessness. pinse the mouth after ward with peppermint water or any of the pleasantly-flavored antiseptic mouth washes on the market. A &plendid mouth wash is made by add Ing half an ounce of potassium per manganate ta a quart of boiled water. This will cure bad hreath if it is due | to vour teeth Rut whether vou paste often vou nse it alven amount o Daintiness Under the most trying hygiemc handicap now assnred. NEW way offers true protection discards like tisewe. powder or a important how The teeth should he and morning in the | 1 think it is tonthbrish has a litte | hlah af extralonz bristles on the end. | for these vark themselyes more effoctively \ the recesses hetween | the food par | leet They can work tharenghls if there paste or powder on the the hrush is moved up | the teeth instead of voss them. e Jonse, nothing is | en them fhan tineture Which shauld he rubbed all nse not sn as wloaned 1 mest th hetter if the the teeth and zet ant theles that ¢ there. L o IGHT frocks, sheerest gowns . . . 4 wear them now any day, amv | time. anvwhere, without a moment’s donbt or fear! . The uncertainty and insecurity of the old-time “sanitary pad” has been ended. Most women now nse “KOTEX" a new and remariable way. Five times as absorbent as ordi- nary cotton pads. Deodorizes, thus ending ALL dan- ger of offending. Discards as easily as a piece of tissue. No laundry. No embar- rassment. Obtainable at all drug and depart- ment_ store simply by saying “KOTEX." You ask for it without hesitancy. Costs only a few cents. Proves old wave a needless risk. 12 in a pack- age. In fairness to vourself, try it. KOTEX No laundry —discard like tissue February and March Are harsh words, out of tune, But lilting like a and June. ing bag with pockets well fitted with | workbasket. | Darning | o 1t does | you added a scent | fruits conld be supplied for decorative | | i A vyoung man of imposing physique, THE ] Your Baby‘and Mine | | MEYER ELDRED. Scarlet Fever. writes: "My two hoys are Just_recovering from scarlet fever. 1, would like to know if there are any after effects and if so what, and what should be done to prevent them? Does | one attack make them immune, or are | they liable to get it again? Could | ake it soon if exposed? There still A number of cases in _the | neighborhood and 1 am almost afraid | 1o let them out. What do you sug- to build them up again. The Is loking fine but the vounger weil, though the doctor says ve deing all right. Answer—Of one thing you need not . the children will not be sus. | arlet fever again. | have never known a person to have a sec ond case, as one attack usnally gives immunity for life. So the bovs may zo quite freely on the streets, though for the protection of other children who have not had the disease they uld be kept away from their mates. The end of the s not mean that the child fect other persons, as the germs may stay for a lonz time in the secretions of the nose, throat, ears, kidneys and | rhe usual aftermath of fever is inflammation of the kidne Children often have ferocious appe- tites when they are up and around and overindulgence in meat may re sult in you discovering some morning that their round, healthy-looking f: are really the result of a bloated dition due to’ albumin in the urine. One should bhe exceedingly careful of their diet, which should he ordered by A doctor. ‘and for a time it would be | wefl to have periodic examinations so as 1o check any trouble the instant it starts. These conditions are hest handled through the diet Another after effect is ear trouble. Scarlet fever is a not infrequent case of deafness. The only thing that a mother can do is 1o be careful of the child's diet | and stress all the nsual methods for building up his health: judicious exer cise in the open air: naps, and good plain food. Cod liver oil would bhe helpful. and with fresh vegetables coming on the market in the la cities, and warmer weather making exercise outdoors a pieasure rather than a duty. one has nature’s hest weapons for nphuilding i | | i in- searlet “Puzzlicks” Puzzle-Limericks. There was a great swell of Whose name on a Tuesday It lasted through - 3 “Til midnight of —4 And sounded like stones in a 1. The Island Empire of the East. 2. Commenced 3. One of the days of the week. 4 . The day following --3 . Round metal receptacle (NOTE.—If. after working out this “Puzzlick” by placing the words in dicated by the numbers in their proper positions, you think it is an exagzera tion, just iry some of the names com mon t 1 The answer and an other “Puzzlick” will appear tomor row.) Saturday's lick: Taok a bath every dav in a creek. “Til one day it ran dry sigh: \When he satd with L the " ng must have sprung a beal: . You get full measure— pressed down—in the Easy Washer. There is nothing skimped or stinted about it. First, there’s the big solid copper tub—that washes ten single sheets—ten pounds of clothes. That means a short, quick washing. Then there are the roomy Vacuum Cups—that move up and down, flushing air, soap and water through the clothes —removing all the dirt—yet handling every- thing more gently than hu. man hands. In fact the Easy gives you everything that anyone can ask in a washer at the price you would gladly pay for much less in the way of re- sults. Let us demonstrate free on your next washing. Or See This Machine in Onr Sales Department FREE A Year's Supply of AGON $OAP CHIPS 50 Packages FRE Fass Washer Pureh Washington Gas Light Company 419 10th St. N.W. Phone Main 8280 GEORGETOWN BRANCH Wisconsin and Dumbarton Aves. With Every This Month EVENING | ot yet been successfully th sa a in ca an; | be unwelcome news for folk who like o | of cold br | for the pe etained waste matter or poison heing | ‘thrown out™ report the matter in order to remind | | many | skin rash s after i | feature of the disease neithe i there s or is not !"rhe rash has nothing whatever to do [ with the ecommunicability of the dis | ease | though no rash | of the illness .| nosis of scarlet fever is now pos irr or ha | let tina are three diffe f: tor af Tbe EASYWASHER may be made without the appearance for manner STAR. WASHI PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE BY WILLIAM BRADY, M. D. ried in milk, the milk heing contam inated by a milker or other handler who happens to be coming down with scarlet fever or convalescing The germ which causes scarlet fever is a streptococcus. This germ has a bad reputation—some of the most dangerous diseases are cansed by one or another type or strain | of streptococcus. notably erysipelas, | septicemia (acute hlood poisoning), | septic sore throat Epidemies of septic have been traced many streptococeus pollution of milk. In | such epidpmics the source of the germs ix often an inflammation of the ndder of one of the s supplying the milk. This septic sore. throat and the germ which causes it bear such a | striking resemblance 1o ordinary secar. {let fever and its germ that we may rea sonably suspect that some such strep. tococcal disease in the cow is the source | of the infection in some scarlet fever | epidemics. Be that as ft may ut here that p ns heating the es 1. holdir perature "0 minutes, then conling again) will destroy any such strep. | tococei which may gzet into the milk ® |and this is one of the reasons why | pasteurization is a necessary precau- | | tion to take with all market milk. Dr. Franklin A, Stevens and Al phonse R. Dochez, distinguished for | their contribution to immunization, ntly confirmed the suspicion t scarlet fever may occur without | a rash. They found such an infection in many individuals who were nega tive to the Dick test and vh»;hlv-rr“ presumahly immune to ordinary’ sear Tet fover | (Coperight. 10261 Scarlet Fever Without a Rash. Hamlet with the prince left out has played, but ey're gettlng away with Hamlet ne the funny clothes nowadays. We are now in a position to make positive diagnosis of scarlet fever certain cases without a rash I make this announcement. not b use 1 believe it ix going to anno yhody—although 1 suppose it will | e h carlet fever is just a kind times to a akin d h 1y that searlet fever ix simply imagine s gl through the skin. | people ) insiznific The fliness s dangerous il nounced rash, well meaning less a pro more nor A zood phys make a | gnosis of s ns he notes in 1 that tem espective of the presence of other s of the disease. just as a ctevio 1l diagnosis of diphtheria ot popular notion that scar “sear! h'* and sc nt diseases these ave merely differ the same diseas: infections fever t when called sea rlet fever 2 a respira | infection. spr in the same as dipntheria. But the germs scarlet fever are sometimes car . Horses in Fngland are decreasing | in number at a rate of nearly 70,000 | A year. | | top. Here is a perfect reproduction of an old Connecticut tulip chest hy a mod ern maker, The Connecticut chest is one of the hest known of the early colonial chests. It was made in the Connecti cut Vallev from 1675 to 1700. The back and bottoms the rest oak It gets its name of “tulip chest from the tulip design rarved on the two outer panels. The center panel displays 2 full-blown sunfiower ‘Turn drop ornaments appear on the stiles and odd Jittle egg-shaped pieces are used on the drawer front Such u chest wonld make a splen aid gift for the engaged girl. It wonld be a truly romantic hope chest and could he used later in the new are pine, home as the hasis for an interesting wall group as shown here., (Copyright. 1076 1 FEATURES. EAT AND BE HEALTHY Dinah Day's Daily Talks on hirl The Right Food Is the Best Medicine anner. White flour, hu ana am are all fattening. Served on a nice innocent green vegetable they are still fat formers. She has broken the diet rule: No white flour, no cream In combining these ingredients she has offended twice at the same meal For breaking the rule she will hring down her own punishment: A pound of fat. Mrs, W, children Penalty for Rule Breaking. | The day's mail vields two letters, | one from a woman who 1s very much | pleased over the number of pounds | she is losing. | The other letter wails: “1 am follow- | ing the reducing diet. but it does not | seem to have any effect I have ecut t potatoes entirely. 1 like cabbage wliflower, anions and carrots eream | ed. 1s this all right? 1 cannot eat “the grapefruit without plenty of sugar | Since it 1s on the list of fruits T can | have. T thought a little extra su wouldn't hurt.” i Now this good lady is “inching” as imn hoys say about a marble shooter A. £ Which is hettar for unpolished or polished rice Answer —Unpolished ri by all means. J. AR, Can 1 drink water with m meals while 1 am on a reducing dfet Answer—No water with meals Al vou wish between meals. If vou are troubled by thirst at meals, eat fruits and vegetables fypely Miss M. Your dlet as given me who infringes, or edges aver. or “inches” just a little hevond the line from which he should =hoot seems gaad if the foads are properi: | At the moest she is allowed three | prepared, except for nne thing. Yeu teaspoans of sugar a day. None at {should not use meat and milk at the all if she can possibh learn to drink | same meal. RBoth are acid forming and tea without it. A little land hence von may thus get ap oven the whole grain cereal will | supply of acid Readers desirinz perennal answers to the nd walf add imah Dar auestions stamued en The Star <honie or hreakfast If the grapefrnit and take an | with & baked apple. lia ton tart withont sugar. either take |the coffee with no sugar and nse a | | =poontul the grapefruit, or away with grapefruit for hreakfa |and use the sections in salad for | [Tuneh. and use orange, strawherries, or pineapple for breakfast fri Ordinary white granuiated s L1006 per cent earhohydate— i And since carbohvdrates are i« easy o see why o thin mu Cucumber-Asparagus Salad. on Pare and diea two medium sized | eucumbers and place in ire water seasoned with a small pinch of salt When ready tn use. drain the cucumbers. Drain and 1 pieces cold conked fresh asparagis can of asparagns Half an hour hefore serving mix hoth vegetables lightly together ng as you de sn one teaspoon anion juice and ane tablespoon minced and French dressinz o mofsten well <hape on heart wi thhard-hoiled allves gar is t noth ing else or a the fat makers it the ane whe wants remain away from s 1 add o of the nse = when one cress | And as for cream sauce’ The gond Iady is undoing all the gand of her vegetahles hy dressing them up in that Your heaviest things washed clean .. your finest pieces washed Read how science has improved upon a time-honored washing principle T hardly sounds possible— that any could take all the dirt out of a grimy pair of overalls, yet wash a fine, dainty undergarment more gently than Yet that is exactly what the Easy Washer will do. The Easy's famous Vacuum Cup Principle is what accom- You know how a teacup pushed doren into waer forees air into that water. Raise the eup, and the suction canuses both air and water to follow. The same principle is uard in the Easy Washer. Like human hands the vaeuum cups press down, flushing air, s20ap and water through the clothes and back again. Thishappenasizty times a minute— without srear on the clothes, but ererlastingly taking the dirt ot of them. The Vacuum Cup Principle plishes the magic. of the same idea sists of flushing air, soap and water back and forth through the fabric by means of air pressure and suction. Though the Easy's Vacuum Cup method of washing is the only method that will get the clothes clean and do it so gently, the principle behind i not new. Your grandmother made use washing machine human hands. This principle con- is when she sashed clothes with a funnel-on-a-stick. Years ago the first Fasy Washer adopted this idea, which is used today in a highly perfected form. * safely [ Cups that work like human hands Inside the solid copper tub of the Easy Tha Easy's Vaouum Cups raised above the water and filled with air. are three roomy Vacuum Cups that move up and down sixty times a minute. The work they do is similar to what happens when you dip a silk vest up and down in a bowl of suds. Only, you would need several pairs of hands and hours of time to do what the Easy does Tha thees eups flushing air, sonp and water through the fabric by presvure. quickly and efficiently. Made like a fine car Every detail of the Easy is mechanically correct. Every part is made with the same care and precision as the parts of the finest automobile. Hence an Easy lasts for years. 1t’s so handsome it looks well in any kitchen or basement laundry. It's so quiet and smooth-running it never annoys the fussiest downstairs neighbor. Tha enps drawing air, s0ap and water back through the fabric by suction. Tha Fasy's Varusum Cup Principle of washing ia the only swashing method that will get all the clothes clean yet wash fine, dainky pisces more gently than human hand'. Simple to operate The Easy is as simple to use as a vacuum cleaner. You press a button to start the washer. You move a lever to work the wringer. The Easy does the rest, and in no time at all your line is full of snowy white clothes. The Easy's tub holds ten single sheets. A special feature of this tub is the gas heater underneath that keeps yourwater at an even temperature all through the washing. Free demonstration You can try out this wonderful servant in vour own home with no cost or obligation. On your regular washday we will have the Easy and a demonstrator at your house and do a week’s washing free. If you wish to keep the machine you can leave a small de- posit and pay the balance as you use the machine, in monthly amounts that you scarcely feel. Drop us a card or phone any Easy dealer for a free demonstration. SYRACUSE WASHING MACHINE CORPORATION Byracuse, N. Y. EASY wasHER