Evening Star Newspaper, August 1, 1926, Page 85

Plans for the Late Summer Masquerade Now Are Und BY MARY MARSHALL. PARIS. HETHER vou travel by land sea, to spend your ¥s in the mountains, the ocean or in the country—don't forget to take the wherewithal for at least one anoy costume. More and more the costuma dance i8 coming to be a usual sort of late Summer diversion, wher- ever people are gathered to pass their holidays. The very fact that the cos- s worn at such garties are mor® or iess imprompi¥ arrangements makes them all the ore interesting. Still you cannot make bricks with- out straw and you cannot produce an effective fancy costume without some- thing out of the ordinary to start with. The fact that you are far away from shops where you can buy a ready- made costume all complete makes it necessary for you to use your wite— and it is the witty costume at these Summer masquerades that is always most admired. The fact that you do not dance does nbt mean tiat you will need no fancy costunie, for Sometimes these late Summer dibss-up parties take other forms than @ahces. At one Sum- mer resort there is to be a fancy dress golf tournament. Sometimes there is a mock tennis tournament at which all the contestants®and spectators wear original and outlandish costumes. We all want to be as young as pos. afble at holiday time and children all delight in dressing up. So be prepared for some such event. Take something that will help with your “disguise- ment”—but don't let it consist of a out-and-dried masquerade costume. At the Frencl: re fancy dress dances are much in vogue, and quite frequently now @ fancy dress party I8 arranged for the entertainment of the passengers on afs ocean liner. On the return trips from Iurope many amus- ing and surprising ensembles appear. Passengers dig down deep into thelr trunks and bring to light strange sou- venirs of their travels which will sefve to make fancy—or at least funny-— costumes. Sometimes eévery ohe is requested to represent, some character in history or public life. Rekently at an English country house & young man Who found himself ‘' Without any sort of readymade cdstume ap) at a fancy dress party wearing one riding boot and & tefnis shoe, & foot ball mask and a boting glove. He carried in the other hahd a tennis racket and from his shoulder hung a bag of golf clubs. The top of a bathing suit and a pair of four pluses completed his strange costuie. He hi coms to represent “the allround sportsman’'— en ideal which had been considerably talked about by those who attended the party. There is notfiing new about the idea of two friends or a brother and sister or husband and wife going to a fancy dress party dressed as each other. New or not, there is opportunity for much that is amusifig in such & costume. An excellent Bluebeard costutne can be made by wearing bright colored pa- jama trousers, with a too-short dres ing gown, and wrapping a colorful scarf around the waist and using an- other to make a turban. There should be a buhch of enormous keys at the belt to finish the effect and, if want to make the matter very obv ous, wear a beard consisting of a wisp of blue cotton pasted on the chin. Apache custumes are not difficult and, of course, aré much liked in Paris. To ket the best effect a girl should always go With an escort cos- tumed in the mascultne version of the same costume. A short, scant, blue serge skirt, bright striped or light stockings and tles, a short-sleeved tuck-in shirt walst and a shabby little plaid square to use as a diminutive shawl finish the girl's costume, Boft neglige shirt, checked trousers, knot- ted n chief and a very tough- looking vizor cap worh at a rakish angle complete the costume for the escort r the Impromptu costume one must often be guided more by what happens % be on hand than by what character one most wishes to enact. A Spanish shawl or a square of black lace with a high shell comb are all one needs for a Spanish costume, and many a fi Red Indian costume has Things been bulit aréund a pair of Indian Mmoccasins or some colored quills. The obviously comic costume is something that many, fany women do not like to adopt. This is too bad, for there are always too many of the pretty disguises — Columbines, Car- mens, gypsies, etc. An amusing and easy costume of a humorous sort may be that of the comedy bride. A strafkht, tight, short slip of white cotton makes the gown, an old lace curtain the veil. A pair of very cheap, very large, short white cotton gloves, pink stockings and.a targe pair of white tennis sneakers should be worn, and for a bouquet a bunch of turnips, carrots and an onion or two. With the comedy bride should go the com- edy bridegroom, dressed in an old evening coat or frock coat with large light-colored gloves, an enormous necktie, a watch chainh consisting of large brass links of the sort that are used to attach wash-tub ‘plugs. A false mustache, of course, adds to the outlandish effect of this costum The fact that no one is shocked by THE short skirts nowadays and that there is practically no prejudice now, as there once was, against girls appear- ing in trousered costumes widens the choice for feminine costumes. But whatever you choose, if the party i a dance, pleass remember to wear something that will be easy to wear when dancing. Some of the more elaborate historical costumes are il adapted to modern dancing. Enor- mously bouffant skirts or trailing skirts would prove vexatious at a dance, although most pleturesque for a costume parade. Almost always there is a parade or march even at the dance. Sometimes all the guests in costume form in line two by two and pass before the “judges’ stand” to settle the question of prizes. Sometimes, however, each guest is given two blank ballots on which to write the names of the man and woman-—one name on each ballot —who are wearing the cleverest or most original costumes. Sometimes there ballot for THE UMBRELLA AND THE POW- DER PUFF. AT. LEFT, THE POWDER PUFF FROCK IS MADE OF PALE PINK CHIF- FON WITH WHITE MARA- BOU FOR THE WIDE HEM AND FOR THE BRACELETS. A LARGE PINK TULLE BOW IS FASTENED WITH AN IVORY RING TO THE LITTLE SATIN CAP. AT RIGHT, UM- BRELLA FROCK OF SILK HELD AROUND THE FEET 'WITH AN ELASTIC BAND. ful costume as well as the most origl- nal. (Copvrieht. 1026.) sunburn during the Summer, SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. 0., AUGUST 1, 1826—PART 5. CLEOPATRA AND THE CHINESE PAGODA. THE FIG- URE AT THE RIGHT WEARS AN EGYPTIAN BLUE FRINGED CLEOPATRA FROCK, TRIMMED WITH PEARLS AND TURQUOISES. A JEWELED HEAD- DRESS AND JEWELED SANDALS COMPLETE THE COSTUME. AT LEFT, THE CHINESE PAGODA I8 MADE OF RED AND GOLD LAME, WITH GOLD LACE FLOUNCES. THERE ARE GOLD BEAD TAS- SELS ON THE FROCK, AND RED AND GOLD EAR- RINGS AND NECKLACE. BEAUTY CHATS A Cucumber Bleach. If you want a cooling, soothing cream which will bleach the skin and do wonders in keeping it free from make up this cucumber cream: Almond oil, 1 ounce; white wax, 1 ounce; cucum- ber juice, 2 ounces. 4 ounces; spermaceti, Take ripe cucumbers, chop the Ty e—;;g e BY EDNA KENT FORBES. fine, put them over slow heat so they soften and become watery, —then squeeze them through a musiin bag untll you have two ounces of juice. The white wax and spermaceti are melted in the almond ofl for olive ol if you wish to economize) until they are just blended, then the warm cucumber juice is added. A drop or tWo of violet extract may be added to perfume the .cream, or a few drops of perfumed oll could be used. By the way, néver add perfume to a cream until you have taken the in- gredients from the heat. These per- fumed olls are ethereal ofls and lose their virtue with heat. Here's another cuéumber lotion. Two ounces of cucumber juice, two ounces .of rosewater, two ounces of glycerine. This is a variation of the familiar glycerine and rosewater hand lotion, it is very bleaching and ecan be used as often as you like. I would recommend it particularly as a hand lotion to be used after exposure to the sun and left on as long as pos- sible, and to be used at bedtime and left on all night. The lotion is a little sticky, therefore inconvenient to use during the day. If you find it too sticky add an ounce of toilet water and shake thoroughly until it becomes part of the lotion. You can use cucumber juice by itself as a skin bleach if you want. Mrs. R. S.—After you are through with your work or before retiring give your hands special care to coun- teract the effects of the day's wear upon them. Massage any good ofl into the skin and especially around the nalls to get rid of the tendency to_hang-nails. Do nbdt allow the cuticle to grow over your nalls, and manicure them, for this care of will repay you in extra comfort even though you are doing work every day that is hard upon them. The more work you do the more need for the care; and in this respect, would it not be possible to slip canvas gloves on before handling potatoes or the other products that make the skin #0 grimy? 2 LADY LUCK BY FLORENCE DAVIES. Secretly we yearn for a tryst with Lady Luck. ‘We may say we don't belleve in her. But we think of it a little wistfully, this thing we call good luck, or smil- ing fortune. “Ah,” we say, “if luck would only come my way today, if a fair wind would blow our good ships into port, if good fortune would only smile” And 80 wé do half belleve in luck, though a good many of us would re- fuse to wear charms and luck tokens. What 18 this thing we call luck, I wonder? Are there fairies who send the breezes to bring our ships to port? Or is luck something that lles within ourselves? There is solemn young Dan Gore, the marble champion of Springfleld, Mass, who belleves in signs and omens. Gloom settled over Dan In the re- cént marble tournament when he found that his bag containing his precious lucky shooter, his lucky sweater and his lucky corduroy trous- ers was_gone. But Dan, who pins his faith to lucky omens, won without any of them. Yet that 1s not all of the story. Be- fors Dan played he learned that the precious treasures wers safe. That knowledge gave him the old self- confidencs. 8o it wasn't thé omens themselves that helped Dan to win, but the gelf-assurance which they gave him. ©Oh, but you say, the boy who lost could have used the lucky shooter and his score would still have lagged behind. Very true. BSo it looks as if there wers two magie Ingredients to this thing we eall luck. What are they? About 90 per cent of it is evidently fust plain sekill. If Dan won it vas, first, because he knows how to shoot marbles. You can't get around that, All the horses’ shoes and fourdeaf clovers and lucky charms in the world couldn't have made Dan Gore wlkfll.!h“ contest if he hadn't had plain 8l On top of that, the lucky charm gave him polse. Just knowing that the lucky omens were in existence steadied his mind. So there you have the two ingredi- ents of this thing that people call good luck. It's made up of knowing how and of believing in yourself. 1n the long run the people who are lucky at cards are the ones who are the good players. You can't get around that. On top of that, if they have self- confidence and can look their oppo- nents in the eye and outbid them they are pretty sure to win. Lady Luck is a winsome personage to flirt with. But she isn't really so whimsical as she seems. You have to woo her with sound, hard work, and then she may smile at you con- descendingly if you wear a lucky charm. But she knows that the charm only adds a little serenity of mind to a foundation of skill which is 90 per cent of her secret. i —— Strange “Raincoats.” 'ELT reincoats are now the latest thing in fashion. The peculiar thing about them, however, is that no human being has ever used them, and no one ever will. They are being made, not for humans, but for bulld- ings. Skyscrapers have always been trou- bled more or less by rainwater soak ing in through the thin line of brick- work that runs around each story where the vertical intersects with the horizontal. But a new invention now being used on some of New York's biggest buildings eliminates this. Two ply waterproof felt is used at each story to guide the rainwater, after it has soaked through the bricks, out to the side of the building, where it runs harmlessly instead of seeping in through the plaste: Which Are of Interest to Younger Readers Puzzlers Build a Clubhouse. Tim's dad has a shack in his yard that he's given us feliows to use as a clubhouse, and we're busy decorating it with banners and fixing it up to be the greatest clubhouse in our neigh- borhood. Jack and Hal have already begun to make furniture and things. b 5 Thick as Wood. 2. Guess this seven-word diamond, built around our clubhouse decora- tions: 3. F1ll the blanks in this sentence with two words, of like pronunciation, but different spellings and meanings: “He was a ——, dignified gentle- man and —— at the museum for several hours.” 4. ; This Is Number Nineteen Horizontal. DEFINITIONS. Horizontal. . To please. . King of beasts. . To lease. . Advertisement. Instrument of opening. . Organ of hearing. Exists. Animal. . Boy’'s nickname. . Animal. . To telegraph. Food. By. . Not molst. Organ of vision. . Article. . To knock. . To bow. . Money-coining factories. . To leave. . A depression. Vertical. . Killed. . Helps. . Toward. . Writing fluld. .« To cook. . You. . Immaculate. Hangings. . A color. . To strike. Exist. Exist. . In regard to. . Motloning. . Talented for. st it . Also. Boy’s nickname. A metal. . Insect. 35. I . 2p Guess this word square. The sec- ond is a head covering, and the last is impertinent. The rest, figure out for yourself! BTOPS T o P 8 ANSWERS TO PUZZLES. 1. The pictured furniture is :Chalr, cabinet, rocker, 2. Word diamond is: p, get, Genoa, pennant, toast, ant, t. 8. Staid, stayed. 4. The words in the cross word puz- zle are: Horizontal—1, satisfy; 7, lion; 8, rent; 11, ad; 12, key; 18, ear; 15, is; 18, ape; 17, Ted; 19, bear; 22, wire; 28, neat; 25, at; 26, dry; 28, eye; 29, item; 82, tap; 84, nod; 35, mints; 36, go; 37, dent. Vertical—1, slain; 2, aids; 3, to; try; 14, red; 18, hit; 19, be; 20, am; 21, ing; 27, yet; 30, ant; 35, me. 5. The word square is: Stops, tiara, oasis, pries, sassy. . —_— The Idea! i~ anmn SAILED ON FAMOUS VOYAGE Jfiua. 10,1519 —— CLERMONT UDSON RIVER THE Sleepy Hollow, Hotel Guest — Has Mike Howe| Sleepy Hollow, about which you no registared hore? Clerk—What do you think ths is,|ton Trving a stable? story, A Sleepy Hollow,” is the name given fhe PmsT'mP 0': uG. 11, 1807 i MA valley of the Pocantico Creek. It is about half a mile north of Tarrytown, in Westchester County, N. There is an old Dutch church, is also still standing. b 25 bullt 4 _of | in 1699, and the old mill in the story Vs wrote. knoll "StoURBRIDGE Lion" firgT TR ‘Washington Irving is buried in the - tion of the . ol 1 on 779, but Above the which. a fort hur&hnnrd ‘which he a which was never attacked. MOTWVE_IN U, D IN PA. Auc.8, 18 The Lady Lottie plowed .along peacefully through the water, across which the setting sun sent its last rays. Old Man Oleson strode down the deck. ‘“Where's Gustaf?” he de- manded of the first mate. “Last I saw of him he was with the cook,” replied the mate. ‘'With the cook!" stormed the cap- tain. “I'm going to get rid of that sneaking fellow first time we land. Every time I get the boy set down to .| studying navigation he slips off to that cook and his fiddle.” - The first mate felt rather sorry for the blustering captain, whose great grief was that none of his three sons cared for the sea. Two older boys had run off and taken joba ashore. While the captain stamped along the deck, down below Gustaf was playing the cook’s violin. “You play better'n I do already,” declared the cook. “Your old man oughta let you take lessons.” “Just as well say he might get me a silk hat,” laughed Gustaf. 8o in- terested was he in the music that he failed to notice how the ship was be- ginning to toss. “Wouldn't think a storm could come up 8o quick,” sald the cook, “Listen to her blow!" Gustaf put down the violin, got his oflskins, and went on deck. He liked storms. He clung close to the cabin, his eyes shining, watching the streak: of. lightning, the swirli: the heaving water, and t! churning foam. His father, busily shouting ' |orders, glanced at his son approvingly. The storm finally wore itself out. ‘When the freighter docked next morn. ing all was calm again. was getting ready to go ashore. T cook was combing his hair before a broken plece of mirror In his kitchen. Gustat wandered in wistfully. He picked up the violin. “Listen,” he cried, “I'm playing the storm like it was last night.” 6 swept the bow -u\:- the strings, all his heart in the musie. Suddenly he looked up and saw his father lngl.d w’l'.ll one of the owners. Gustat droj the bow bty pped the and “You've got to let me take that boy, Oleson, and see that he gets the right sort of training,” cried the man en- thusiastically. ‘“He's great. “Father! Let me go!" cried Gustaf. His father’s head dropped. Then he ———— The Awful Truth. You look fed up, old man. Yes, I've had a tiring day. That lttle beast of an office boy of mine came to me with the old gag about tting off for his gran neral, so just to teach him a lesson said I would accompany him. Ah, not so bad; was it a good game? No, it was his grandmother's .| funeral. Spiritualist? Lollie—I thought Caesar was dead. Audrey—He is, isn't he? teaches Bim' Jack-—My, Butler sald she | tuition tell Forui‘h(. Bill-My tadder knew a month be- fore he died he would die. him? Bill—No, the judge. dmother’s | brow Old Man Oleson Was Satisfied. ralsed’ it suddenly, “All right,” he sald. “You can go. Itisn't as though the sea was losing you, like the other boys. If you can play the storm, like to landsmen, I'll not stand in your way." So Old Man Oleson says he didn“ lose his boy, after all. The Young God. (Continued from Sixth Page.) him. But he went on. Then Douglas heard he was playing tricks with a big race. They met down there in the park. It was he struck Douglas first, Mr. Fortune. I saw him. I was out there with my darling Joyce. Charles Stanton was coming to say good-by to her before he went away, and Rodney had forbidden- her to have him in the house—oh, that was like Rodney—and while they talked beyond the garden I ‘watched in case Rodney should come. Douglas and Rodney fought, and Douglas knucoge% him down and left bim. And Rodnly came on swearing and found me. I am lame, you know. I don't move very quickly. He said I had brought Douglas to beat him and he struck at me. I lifted my stick to keep him off—my ivory stick—and he broke it. I hit him in the face. I think it went into his That—" “That was what I found. I see now. That didn’t kill him, Miss Trale.” 0. But he fell into the lake. And I threw the stick into the water and went away, and he was drowned. And I found Joyce and brought her back to the house. I did not tell her then. I left him. I did it. It was no one but me, Mr. Fortune. Do you und stand? Dou you believe me?" “I believe you, Miss Trale” said Reggle Fortune. “T understand ever There will be no more trou- “Neither for you nor any one else. It is finished.” . “I—I had to do it,” she eald feebly. 2 Fortu: He—~ ne. as] She looked at Reggle Fortune; she took up the ebony stick by the bedside and tapped and the nurse came. “You will have no more Miss Trale,” Reggle said. rest mow, only rest. G bowed over her hand and turned to meet at the door Joyce Charlbury. She drew him out. . Is that true—what you sald?” she whispered eagerly. . Reggle looked down into her dark; eyes. “Yes. No more trouble. No more fear. It is finished.” “Ah!” She put her hand to her and trembled. “Yes, you knew all the while, s been hardest for you.' “Oh, Douglas “Me?” she laughed. had worse.’ “He played the game,” went down to the hall, where the old doctor was waliting for him under those family portraits of large, arro- | gant men and frail women. ‘“Yes, a “. family, doctor,” said Mr. ~