Evening Star Newspaper, May 23, 1926, Page 85

BY MARY MARSHALL. | ORCH dresses, many of which | will never he worn on 8| “porch™; garden frocks that will never go near a gurden. and artist smocks that would be regarded with mingled amusement and contempt by any art student are, for the sake of convenience, all grouped in one department by most of the de- partment stoves. Then there are “kitchenette dresses.” How much hetter that sounds to most feminine ears than “kitchen dresses’! There are all sorts of frocks in these departments in the stores, and if you have never visited them vou have no idea what a variety they contain. The only thing that they seem to have in common is that they are all fairly simple and washable. Vet you might find among them frocks suitable fc almost every occasion during the warm weeks of Spring and Summer. | There are frocks substantial and | well made enough to be worn shop. ping or to business: frocks that are | suitable for any sort of housework frocks that would do for tennis and other sports, and dainty little thin cotton frocks that would do for in- formal evening wear in Summer. Frocks of this sort many women’ like to make or have made at home. and many women wear such simple frocks of washabie linen or cotton fo all but the most formal occasions all | Summer long | Pastel shades in green. blue. pink and yellow are used for these frocks, | as well as a variety of plaids, stripes, simple devices. The neck is frequently finished with tie strings of the material. and the ve vived vogue for ornameital white col Iars and cuffs has extended with good effect to many these little wash frock Evervbody seems to he pl the new vogue for wen smocks in stores and offices except the art stu dents. Bui the smock means nothing to the would-be a now. She might as weli wear a gingham apron with a hib for all the distinction it gives her Aots and other (sed with If stenographers, hookkeepers, comp. | tometer operators, salesgirls, and even | teachers and poor, deluded lmuuP' . wives are gui to wear smocks, why the art student thinks she will give | [ them up. And so a_ good many of | / them’ have done, and some, at any { | rate have taken to wearing overalls . /i instead. |/ In some offices ali the girls in one | department are requested 1o wear smocks of one color. In other places Pq ) produced by here a blue one side ces linen ver effect of many colors there one of veliow, and ! of bright green. In some pl colored smock quesied much date. For some reason or other of the designers of these simple gar- | ments thought to make them more | interesting by making them of cre- | tonne and other figured materials. | The effect of these is not especialiy | over more e some is pleasi A group of a dozen office girla all wearing smocks of loudly h to | printed cretonnes would be enot want to wear | i smocks | ~ = S IF YOUR OBJECTION TO SMOCKS IS THAT THEY ARE HOT, TRY ONE OF FLOWERED VOILE, LIKE THIS. AND PINK GROUP OF ATTRACTIVE SUMMER HOUSE FROCKS PRINT ROMPERS. BOUND IN SOLID CQOLOR. AT RIGHT, BLUE GREEN AND WHITE AND WHITE CHEC! POLKA-DOTTED COTTON ED LINE! N WITH HAT TO MATCH. VOILE. WITH SCALLOP BOUND IN 'RIPED TUB' SILK. WITH SOLID WHITE VEST AND COLLAR, AND WHITE LEATHER BELT. NEXT, o SMALI GREEN, CHILD'S FLOWERED AND, AT LEFT, BLUE make anv employer | smoked glasses. AR worn @ few vears ago. the smock | came down over the skirt, but did not | - nearly cover it. Many of the smock | effect is really smarter than where | wearers now want their smocks o | there is a flounce of the frock showing | long that they will almost cover their [ helow the smock . ! rather their frocks o short | 1 inch or so of the frock | beneath the smock. This | frocks, or that only will show There is the great advantage t the smock protects the frock from wear and grime. One wonders how it will fare during warmer Summer days. Some observers think that it will wax ven ‘more important bhecause such light colors will be worn for Summer pale pinks, biues, greens and mauves —and the smock will be needed to keep f\hem fresh. On the other -hand, of | course. the smock gives added warmth |--a warmth that most young women will not find very agrceable in Mid- | summer. |7 The voile smock answers the ohjec: <. Voile ix about as ¢ool nhe. And a voile smock leeveless frock is a very tion of hot as a fabric ca over a thin. £ood Summer costume for any sort of { groups that they become too insist occupation. FFor wear at home the figured voile | made of unfigured fabri | | | vust-red and violet. blue and gray. Of is quite attractive. For figured [are quite charming. One voung smocks, one at a time. are perfectly | woman who looks after her three tiny | course, they will fade with repeated all rig It is when they appear in | children herself and finds a smock the | washings. ‘But the colors can he re. | best sort of cover-all costume has had | stored by ping. and. besides, faded But you can have your voile smoeks | half a dozen voile smocks made in | color is often quite i and these ! different colors—green and orange, (Copy Things With the Puzzle Editor. BY CECILLE LYON. 1 read Wise the of Witch? In visits a roar, For Did you ever Zauberlinda, the that adventure a little girl silversmith's—and. oh. what greets her ears as she ente it seems as though a thousand ham mers, directed by a thousand sturdy little ‘gnomes, are used in making the | delicate, exquisite jewelry that fash- | ions the castle. | Rut the noise on our visit today | will be much less bothersome, and | we will be able to view the intricate modeling_of the jewelry at close range. The first thing we are shown i= a case containing two ornaments. See if you can guess them. GUESS THESE *;I'\VO JEWELRY ORNAMENTS story | In this sentence is concealed a very | | pretty jewelry ornament: At the club | race let there be about four con testr® | - 3 Guess this word d built around a lovely head o T TIARA n A Behead and curtail a word mean- ing to shrink from and get an article of jewelry. Word-Squarettes. The four words revealed are roots of féur word squares extending on all sides. They are also parts of con- necting five-letter wo whose defi- | nitions, as well as those for the word squares, are given below. | the | commercial scale. Which Are of Interest to Younger Readers Picnic Luncheon Sets of Gay Crepe 5. Dirties, . Venomous serpent. . To possess. . Whirls. . Anger. 13 Directed. *4. Solidified water. 15. A trap. (3 Behead a bird and get a file: head indebted and zet to marry head a journey t to tear: be- | head a den and get atmosphere: be. | t 2 negative: hehead | t to let loose. The in the article head to tie and & an occasion beheaded ind Jetters. s, make rranged another Answers, 1. The pictured jewelry is a pendant and a Klace. Bracelet. The word diamond is: t, try. 4 . Kringe, it, tiara, The words in the word squar- ettes are: 1,,to ©1 3 (horizontal), bores; 3 (verti solls; 6, 13, led: o-wed: trip: lair; k-not; e-vent; locket. s o Man—'_s Faulty Veins. IDDEN away in the interfor of man’s veins are indications that his ancestors once walked in a stoop- ing position, according to Dr. C. W. Stiles of the Public Health Service. In the veins of human bheings, as well as of the lower animals, Dr. stiles stated, there are numerous lit- tle check-valves, that relieve the back- pressure of the blood and prevent it from flowing the wrong way. In all cases in animals these "valves are found in veins where the blood com- monly flows “uphill” toward the heart, as in the veins of the legs and arms. In animals the blood must flow “up- hill” also in the veins that lie b neath the ribs, since the animals cal trunk of the body horizontall and the ribs therefore hang vertically Rut in the veins that run horizontally notably the great trunk vein that run: aiong beneath the hackhone, no valves are needed to prevent back pressure, and none are found in this position. In man, however, the trunk is car- ried vertically, so that the relative POSITIONS OF tne veins are exactly op- posite to those In the animals, the rib veins being horizontal instead of ver- tical and the great vein of the back being vertical instead of horizontal. Yet the valves in. human veins follow the same pattern as do the valves in animal veins. They are found in the rib veins where they are not needed and are absent from the. great dorsal vein where they would be really use- ful. This is understandable on a theory of ancestral survivals in man, but is completely contrary to a special-creation theory which assumes that the body of man is perfectly adapted for his present mode of life and made without any useless parts or any mistakes. Artificial Diamonds. At the Roechling Steel Works, in Wetzlar, Germany, artificial diamonds are being made h some degree of economic success. The diamonds are Wwithin a fraction of the hardness of true diamonds, being 9.9, as compared with 10 for zenuine stones. The arti- ficial gems ara made of an alloy of wolframite and test out in work and luster favorablv with genuine dia monds. The cost of manufacturing | them is said to be reasonable on a | e A Good Place. ‘ 2. Belehging to us. Cavalry Recruiting Officer—“Where 3. (orisontal). Pierces. did vou learn to to ride a horse? ,. (vertical). Stripa, " Stupid Recrult—On the back, sir, Summer picnics in the woods will be joyful, but a dainty luncheon set which can be made from a small piece of Japanese crepe will make them even more cheerful and will add a touch of color when you set your sandwiches and salad out under thg trees. The, cloth and four napkins require 11 vards of Japanese crepe, 36 inches Seeviapnancongy wide. Any gay color will do. Figure 1 shows the piece of crepe in the proper size, with drawn threads mark- ing the 36-inch square for the picnic cloth and the four 9-inch squares for the napkins. Cut on the lines of the drawn threads, ~Figure 2 shows the 36-inch square with two threads drawn out, 2% inches from the edge on all four sides. Overcast in black embroidery floss all around the square in the drawn spaces, then ravel the threads away all around the square, leaving a 2%-inch border of fringe. Figure 3 shows the fringed edge on the Jarge square. Make the napkins (figure 4) by the same directions used for the picnic cloth, :Enkmg the fringe 1 inch in- stead 215 inches. Then decorate the corners of the cloth with three contrasting colors of any wash ma- terial by cutting one circle 2 inches in diameter, one 1 inch in diameter and one triangular piece. Arrange these shapes as in figure 5, basting them down and making blanket stitching around them in black. For the nap- kins, a 1-inch circle and a small tri- angle should be used. Moose Plugs Own Ears. In order the better to enjoy a break- fast of water lilies that happen to bé below the surface of shallow lakes the moose has learned the trick of “‘plug- ging” his ears—which are immersed for half a minute or more at a time. Having muth greater use of the muscles in this respect than the hu- man, the moose simply folds back the outer integument so that it acts as & stopper over the sensitive Innes.ear.. Listening by Touch. COK'LD you tell what somebddy at the other end of the telephone was saying by simply holding vour fingers against the disk in the earpiece and getting the different vibrations by touch? The question seems!abeurd, but this in effect is what students at Gallaudet College for the Deaf are do- jm the direction ot Dr. Gault, proféssor of psychology at North- western University. It is a great aid to them in understanding words such as “aim” and “ape,” which look ex- actly alike to the lip. readers, but which cause entirely different kinds of vibrations through the air. It also gives those who have been deaf from birth a familiarity with the swing and movement of speech that they can t no other way. n:rn apparatus consists of a trans- mitter which magnifies the human voice 175 times—enough to deafen a normal person. ~ These immensely amplified vibrations are carried to a device something like a radio ear- | phone, which may be located in an other part of the building. The deaf listenér presses one finger against the disk to get the vibrations. Some of the deaf subjects who have spent no more than 120 hours in the laboratory have learned to recognize séveral hundred wosds with thelr Sagers. Roys and gisls who have heen send- ling riddles to the Riddle Editor cer- {tainly have been using their “think- ers” recently, for the editor had to use Why is the —Boyd Harmon 232. Why is a ret the whale "that David Jones, Hary ure 9 like a pea- Lehi, Ut ed milk allowed cock Jonah ?— burg, Pa. | ean vou alv Fola < find sympat ‘acoma, Wash. h v is the letter “K" like a pig’s tail >—Gertrude Bartelt, Milwau- | kee, Wis. | 5. What is the difference between water in a fountain and the Prince of Wales?—Louise Batrous, New Orleans, La. all his in order to figure some of them {out. Now cames your cha maybe | you will be luckier than the editor. 233. 1t you' raise wheat in dry | weather, what do. vou raise in rainy weather>—Mary dorado, 111 234. Tf ve trouble, where | “Teasers” for Each Fan. Why are hirds sad in the morning?—Marie Yancey, Murray, Utah. 3. What is the keynote to good ners*—Mildred Shipley, Warren, What plant stands for No. 47— Joann Mason 240. Why do pianos have the noblest musical in- | strumed n, Webster | Grove Answers. 231 e without tail it is nothi Because he took the | profit (p ) out of the water. 2 An umbrella. 234, In the dictionary. 23 1se it comes at the end of n 36. One is thrown to the heir to the throne. 237, little bills are all over dew (overd 238%. B natural. 239 IV (Ivy). 2 Because they are grand, upright and square. | |air. the other | Becanse thei Pets and Their The Red Grange of Dogland. quarterback to tackle. Babe is a good defensive player, too. His method of tackling Is to grab the boy with the ball by the sleeve and hoid on with ail his might. When the boys choose up sides to play foot ball, every one of them wants to have Babe on his team. Unique Traits. Bob and Biddy, Playmates. Lots of dogs play with a ball, but Bob, a roc and Biddy, a hen. are Charles Murphy, jr., of Nashville,|the pets of Elmer Savior of Sloux Tenn.. has one that i a star foot | GG, (0 el i { vall player. His name is Babe and|come and perch on his lap or | he a bull dog just a’vear old. Babe | shoulder. Naturally Elmer ¥hink.- {is & cherished member of the neighbor- | thal. his are just the hest chickens | hood foot ball team. If one of the|™ ¢ | boys Kicks the ball to him, he grabs Enter, Mr. Collie. it by the lacings and “runs through.”| The collie dog of John Smith. nciety of Smart Dogs —if there is such a society. When this dog wishes to get in the house, he stands on his hind feet and rings the Toor bell. And he certanily ought to get in, if he does that. John describes his { collie as having a white nose and a | white ring around his neck. admitted to the What's the Matter? Do not put your hands on the windows. Glass retains such marks -—and windows are hard enough to keep clean. Fiowers. 1 have often wondered at the cus- tom of sending flowers when some- body has died. Tt is a beautiful cus- tom, of course, and the blossoms help to relieve the sadness of the occasion, but it seems to me that similar acts of kindness during the dead person's life would have been even more help- ful. | Every day you have an opportunity !to be kind and helpful to somebod) ‘We all have these opportunities. And if we take advantage of th and | help people while they are ive we will have less cause f¢ regret when it is time for them to die. “They can't make a bricklayer out of me,” sald the hen, as she kicked the dummy eggs out Of the nest. TOWARES 1y | | oweres wve v [ | oue ereecace fy () COVERN LINED W\TH & WITH. SPADES TOEY Ol €OR RUBES Soap Drill. rten teacher asked ons of her young pupils what the eyes were for, and was promptly answered. “To see with.” Another was asked what the node was for, and the anawer {was correc | the' little i given. Then she asked - of Mr. and Mrs. e your ears for keep clean. rul Watts, The child She got Budding Poet—Did you read my poem in today’s paper? “Yes, and it alone was worth the 3 nia”