Evening Star Newspaper, July 29, 1926, Page 35

WOMAN'S PAGE. Fashions for Women Move Slowly BY MARY MARSHALL. PARIS. It is the fashion reporters in Paris, not the great dressmakers, who feel obliged to invent new fashions. TH]S WARM-WEATHER FROCK OF PALE *PINK EYELET EM- BROIDERY IS TRIMMED WITH NARROW VALENCIENNES LACE DYED TO MATCH. THERE IS A FEATHER FLOWER SHADING FROM PALE TO DEEP PINK, A RIBBON BELT AND PINK KID SANDALS. American readers are eager to hear of something very new, something surprising. They are ting for a thrill and they look to the fashion reporter in Paris to supply it. But when those same Americans go to France they are not in the least in- clined to take up with new and sur- prising modes. Every one is so well satisfled with things just as they are. Little changes here and there are snough. And so the dressmakers let Wwell enough alone. For truly a very strange thing has occurred. In the third decade of the twentieth century—in this age that we consider so ft and strenuous— Women's fashions are moving more slowly than has been the cases for over a century. Everything else is rushing along at a terrific rate—it's a breathless age. We like to think that no age has ever been so terribly swift My Neighbor Says: If paper is used on your pan- try shelves put on three thick- nesses at once. It is as ez cut three layers as one. can be removed then, one at : time, as they become soiled, a few dishes being removed and replaced as the paper is rolled away. Muslin dresses should not be allowed to soak before being washed, but should be rubbed quickly through a soap lather. Do not allow muslins to become thoroughly dry and then damp- en them as in the case of other and thicker materials. Roll them in a cloth until partly dry and then iron. Z Do not use darning stitches when the heels of your stock- ings become thin. Use a spool of silk and make parallel lines of chain stitches. This matches the mesh so well it can scarcely be_detected. To remove grass stains from canvas shoes add a few drops of ammonia to a teaspoonful of peroxide of hydrogen and rub the stains with the mixture. ‘Wash off with water. When washing blpuses, hand- kerchiefs, etc., put a small lump of orris root into the rinsing water, and it will give them o delightful perfume of violets. This is much more lasting than if a sachet is placed among the clothes. Avoid Poorly Balanced Breakfasts Start the day with Quaker Oats —food that “stands by” you. IF you feel tired, hungry, “fidgety,” hours before lunch, don't jump to the conclusion of poor health. Thousands have unenergetic morn- ings because they start the day with wrong breakfasts. To feel right, you must have a well-balanced, complete breakfast ration. At most other meals—Ilunch and dinner—you get it. But break- fast is a hurried meal, often badly chosen. Thus - Quaker Oats, containing 16% protein, food’s great tissue builder, 58% carbohydrate, its great energy element, p\v all-important vitamines and the “M('k” that makes laxatives seldom needed, is the die- tetic urge of the world today. Don't deny yourself the natural stimulation this rich food offers you. Get Quaker Oats today. Gracers have two kinds: Quick Quaker, which cooks in 3 to 5 minutes, and Quaker Oats. Quaker Oats as this—and yet fashions move along at a snail's pace. One fashion reparter confldes in an- other that she has nothing to report. “I go everywhere, see everything, break my neck to get invitations to parties where the smartest women «re to be seen—and still I see nothing new. Now Il have to invent some- thing. Even with fashtors moving as slowly as this, there are some im- portant tendencies. The straight line is giving place to the line that clings. Skirts ‘are as short as ever, and for the Summer sleeves are shorf—shorter in Paris apparently than in the United States. (Copyright. 1926.) P-4 LONELINESS BY FLORENCE DAVIES. People talk about the loneliness of the country. But these people have never tasted the actual loneliness of a big city. In the country the very quietness of the winding road and the peace of the hills are friendly. Besides, in the country, there is time to talk with one’s neighbors. But in the city, since we may not know all our neighbors, we do not know how to begin to know any, and so we find ourselves lonely. With what result? The result is that many of us become joiners. Men join business clubs, women join civic clubs and sewing societies and study clubs, in a mad search to build about themselves a big family of friends. i But the joining habit is not a sub- stitute for friends or a cure for lone- liness. 3 Many women join and join and go from one meeting to another, but al- ways a little on the cool and lonely outer edge of things. Inwardly they are lonely, while out- wardly they are busy running hither and yon and joining many groups in search for the one or two real friends who will stifie loneliness. But I wonder if there isn't a better way than an indiscriminate joining of countless organizations. One of the best cures for loneliness is a real interest in life, But we can't take an lnler@sl_ in a thing about which we know nothing. Some one has said that there is too much emphasis on doing, in this coun- try, and too little on knowing. 1 When we can't think of anything else to do, we start a club. “Let’s do something,” we say. But how about trying to know something first? “To learn gives the liveliest pleas- ure,” said Aristotle, and I imagine that the old Greek would have found much more enjoyment as well as ya much better cure for loneliness in knowing than in doing. An interest in life which prompts one to explore the realm of knowl- edge in a given fleld has its sure re- wards, It doesn’t wmatter much whether that field is piano playing or rose gardening, it will hold a sure cure for loneliness if we know enough abont it, This sort of an interest cannot be forced. If it is forced it soon ceases to be a true interest It will only prove to be a false| alarm if we cultivate it because we | think it will bring us praise or fame or recognition. But if that interest i the expression of something we really love, it is bgund to be a cure for country as well as city lone- liness. | Superior Muffins. Cream together one-eighth cupful each of sugar and butter. Add one half cupful of sweet milk and ong an egg and one cupful of flour which has been stirred two teaspoons: | ful of baking powder. B in well | greased pans for 20 minutes. Although | these amounts sound very small, the | result is eight del us little muffins. | which | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, JULY PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE MOTHERS BEDTI]_\{E STORIES # aornon HOME NOTES Tea-room operators are always seek- ing new and interesting decorative ef- fects, and often they hit upon some unique idea that makes the profes- sional interior decorator blush witR envy. In one tea room recently visited the windows had been screened for the Summer by bits of llving chintz. The sketch does not do it justice, for these. are actual flower pots filled with grow- ing geranium plants. Each flower pot is firmly wired to the simple white wooden lattice which covers the window. Other flower pots, filled with trailing ivy vines, are set upon small wooden brackets at intervals about the tea- room walls. This device could be employed effec- in the sun room or porch of a private home as well as in a tea room. N Spiced Onion Pickles. Peel two gallons of small white onions and place them in cold water. Place one-half gallon of good vinegar in a granite utensil with a teaspoonful of salt and one tablespoonful each of cloves, allspice, cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger. Boll together until zll are blended and give off a rich, spicy aroma. Fill bottles or small jars with onlons, cover with the spiced vinegar boiling hot, and seal. N DL Cabbage Salad. Cut fine the center of a cabbage which has been removed to leave a thin shell. Chill and serve from the shell when mixed with the following cold dressing: Cook the yolks of six eggs, one teaspoonful of mixed mus- tard, one-half teaspoonful of salt and a dash of pepper in two-thirds of a cupful of vinegal and one-half cupful of butter. Let cool before using. Roaches easily and quickly exterminated. Quick action guaranteed. CHRISTIANI DRUG CO. 9th St. and Pa. Ave. N. W, No. 7 Dupont Cirele N. W, Union Terminal Station L. H. FORSTER, Drug't 1133-11th St. N. W. the pzzckage A RrEAL salt in 2 new sealed -tight package. Al- ways pure and clean. Al- ways free-running. Costs no more than the ordinary kind. Made by the largest salt manufacturer in the United States. BY WILLIAM ‘Why the Rub Down? Boxing is a fine game which every boy should be required to play. Box- ing should be taught. in all high schools, and proficiency in the game encouraged by the school physical di- rectors. This game, properly con- trolled, might well take the piace of foot ball in high school athletics. Professional boxing is a very differ- ent matter. ,From all I have seen of it, prize fighting is rather a gambler's delight. The sport is conducted under anything but wholesome conditions. ‘There appears to be about as much science in a prize fight as there is in a game of poker. Often the winner of the brawl is the one who can stand the greater amount of punishment, and that is by no means the better man. A mentally defective poker player, with a countenance incapable of expression, very likely takes the pot. ~ As the commercial possibilfties of the prize fighting business have in- creased the interest and enthusiasm of lovers of the boxing game have dwindled. The mercenary spirit spoils the fun. £ Between the rounds of a prize fight it is quite the ring custom to fan the boxer with a towel, give him cool water to moisten his mouth, and make a pretense of administering massage. The massage hokum is probably a pretty good thing for the brulser who This growing old has bro‘?gh‘t ntqo me A sense of quilt that always lingers — I feel my wasted days in crowds Il point at me aceusing P ers. k. ‘ administers it, as he generally appears to need some exercise. It must be an- noying to the poor brute who is do- ing the fighting. He generally appears to need some rest. Real massage might be worth while for a boxer. The effect of massage is well known to physjologists. Five minutes of real 'nassage will enable the massaged muscles to do nearly twice as much work for a few minutes afterward. This might be utilized tc a boxer's advantage in the one-minute interval between rounds, or the inter- val might be lengthened. The post- ponement of fatigue produced by five minutes of scientific massage cannot be extended by more prolonged mas- sage; prolonging the period of mas- sage does not increase the capacity of the muscles for work. Five minutes of it is plenty. Kneading, not rubbing, gives the greatest increase in the working ca- pacity of the muscles. The kneading process is called petrissage. Rubbing is mainly hokum. done _for scenic effect. Massage following a race or contest is of some value in preventing sore- ness or stiffness. The usual rub down is quite worthless for this purpose. The application of various liniments or other medicaments is purely psy- chological. It smells as though the trainer knows something. He doesn't really know much if he uses such junk. But perhaps he wants to seem to earn his feed. If real massage has a little value for the prevention of muscle soreness after a race or con- test, moderate exercise has a great deal more value for the same purpose. The athlete should get his rest when the contest is finished and when he has rested an hour or two he should get up and take some mild exercise if he wants to avoid getting sore. The rub down is conspicuous in pro- fessional athletics. It really belongs with the quaint old practice of train- ing athletes with beef as the chief item of the diet. (Copyright. 1026.) Veal Cutlets. Take five or six good cutlets, roll some crackers fine and beat an egg. First dip the cutlets in the egg, then in the cmuckers. Repeat and season | with salt and pepper. Put into a hot | frying pan with butter and cook, not too fast, as it takes longer for meat to become tender and wall done when coated in this w: It is Gy those a’aZzlz’ng complexions 7 with a matchless toilet soap Castile! Nothing else! The aristoc- racy of Spain—the beauties of Castilla and Aragon; of Valencia and Madrid —famous for the dazzling beauty of their firm, fine skins—have used this matchless jabir duro now for six hundred years. And of course the virtue of Castile is no news to the fastidious women of America.Theyhavealways knownthat there has never been anything to com- pare with this pure soap. OQur news is this: we have made an 29, 1926. AND THEIR CHILDREN. For the Picnic Table, One mother says: Nell's arrangement of our picnic table gave it a gala appearance. She drew a saucy face in the bowl of each pasteboard spoon. Then it was dressed up in a paper napkin, and this was held upright over the paper cup of lemonade, so placed as to prevent blowigg away. Each diner was greeted with a smiling face atop a fancy dress which resolved itself into spoon, nap- kin and lemonade cup. | “Puzzlicks” usale-Limeric] A pretty young girl of —1— Was cursed with a complex —2—; No matter how —3— Or stylish she —4—, She always thought others —5—. 1 The republic of which Monrovia is the capita 2. Tew than, Eashionabls thin, 'as_conscious of. 5 Abvove. Note.—Here's a real “Puzzlick,” for the definitions make it distinctly diffi- cult. But don't lose heart if you can't fill out all the vacant spaces, for the answer and another “Puzzlick” will appear tomorrow. Yesterday's “Puzzlick.” A youth once imbibed some cham- pagne, Which soon found its way to his brain; And he murmured, “Oh, pshaw, Everything goes see-saw— I'll never drink liquor again!" FEATURES. Jimmy Gets Free. ow, what am I going to do?” said Jimmy Skunk to himself as he glared down at the clam which was holding him fast by one of his toes. “What- ever am I going to do? If I were caught in a trap, I could pull and pull until I pulled my toe off. I wouldn't want to do that, but I could do it. But T can’t pull away from this thing, be- caugse when I pull it.comes along with me. Perhaps if I keep quiet a little while it will open and let me go.” Now, if Jimmy had thought to put the clam back in the water and sit there beside the little pool quietly with that one paw in the water, the clam might have opened. But he didn't think to do that. Fortunately for Jimmy, it wasn't a very big clam. It was at is known as a Little-neck Clam. That is the kind of clam that is served on the half-shell in hotels and restaurants. Had it been a little bigger, it would ha been called a Cherry-stone Clam. And had it been fully grown, it wouldn't have been called a clam at all, but a Quahaug. It was well for Jimmy that it wasn't fully grown. Somehow, Jimmy had lost his appe- tite. He no longer felt hungry. The only feeling he had was a desire to get rid of that clam on his toe. He started to hobble away toward the bathhouse under which he lived. Somehow, he couldn’t stay out there in the moon- light. Mr. Fox had scen him already and had laughed at him, and Jimmy was ashameq to have any one else see him caught by a clam. But half w: to the bathhouse Jimmy remembered something. He remembered that more than once he had seen Greywing the Herring Gull eating clams. He had seen Greywing carry those clams up in the air and drop them on rocks, so as to break the shell. “I wish I had wings,” said Jimmy. “If T had wings I'd iy up and drop it.” Then Jimmy Skunk began to laugh at himself. He suddenly remem- bered that he couldn’t drop the clam. He was just as well off without wings as he would have been with wings. But this had put a new idea into Jimmy's head. Perhaps he could break that shell on a rock. Anyway, per- haps by pounding it on a rock he could make the clam let go. He would try it. Jimmy looked around. There were no rocks handy. He would have to go a long way to get any rocks. | But there w thing else he could exquisite Castile, 2 Castile charming as well as virtuous, a joy to use, the finest toilet soap in the world. Molded daintily for a2 woman’s hand; * —so that you can use it freely. 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It was a long way back to the bathhouse and it didn't seem to him that he could ever, ever }\'alk that far with that clam on his oot. Now, there were little pools of water in among those rocks, and finally Jimmy put that aching foot with the clam on it in the water. He thought it might take some of the ache out. He held it there for a few minutes. Then he decided that he would have to try to get back to his home. He lifted his foot from the water and hen he nearly tumbled over in surprise. The clam was no longer on that toe. He looked down in the water. There it lay. You see, his toe had been so pinched that it was numb and he hadn’t known when the clam let go. These clams, by the way, are not com- {monly found above the low water- | mark. Probably some man who had | been getting clams dropped this one where Jimmy found it. But to this day Jimmy Skunk has the greatest | respect for clams.