Evening Star Newspaper, December 14, 1926, Page 47

WOMA Short Fur Coat BY MARY The revival of the short jacket ought to be good news to the woman who has a rather worn or out-of-date fur coat that she wants to turn to account, for she can have it made over short. Among the furs that lend themselves best to the new 1reatment are caracul, antelope, mar- mot, gazelle, imitation broadtail and various goat or sheep furs. The short fur coat is primarily a sports garment—using sports in its 1214 LAST YEAR'S SEALSKIN COAT MAY BE MADE OVER INTO THIS PERFE LY 'UP - TO DATE JACKET, WHICH MAY ALSO BE COPIED IN LEOPARD, NATURAL MUSKRAT OR ANY OF THE SERVICEABEE IRLY SHORT- AIRE < widest sense—so that the finer fur: such as ermine, mole and mink, which are used for more elaborate occa sions, hardly lend themselves to this mew treatment. If, however, these dressier furs are made over into short coats they ought to be used as part of an afternoon costume with a frock made especially for them, !trimmed perhaps with a little of the ur. The short coat does not provide sy much protection in really ecold weather as the longer coat, but then even long coats are not long enough 6 protect our ankles nowadays. For 150 YEARS AGO TODAY Story of the U. S. A. BY JONATHAN Congress Flees for Safety. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., December 15, 1776.—Critical as is the condition of the Army of the United States, be- cause of its recent losses and the dis- organized state in which it has arrived on the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware River, the condition of the central organization of America's patriots in hardly less critical. The Continental Congress and its commit- tees compose this organization. Fear- ing the capture of Philadelphia by the British army, which bas been advanc- ing steadily through the Jerseys in this direction, Congress two days ago adjourned to meet in Baltimore on ¢ the twentieth, after making hasty and incomplete plans for the continua- tion of its business in the meantime. By this move Congress has brought upon itself criticism by many who are saying that the removal to Baltimore is an admission of weakness which will give joy to the enemy and bring fear and doubt to the friends of America. As agalnst this argument, the one which has prevailed is that, ‘with the enemy perhaps only 20 miles away, Congress owes it to the people to insure its own safety, lest its members be captured, its committees scattered, and the Army left with no organization behind the lines to which | WHEN WE GO SHOPPIN BY MRS. HARLAND H. ALLEN. Woerking Women's Shopping. “Those of us who don't work never know what shopping problems beset those who do, a woman reader re- minds me. She is quite despairing, 100, about her Christmas shopping. As a matter of fact, office workers like herself are much better off than many others. She has many Saturday after- noons to utilize, and if she had done some of her shopping carly she would have few cares now. Women employed - stores and factorjes are perhaps at the greatest disadvantage. While some of them are given time .to shop by gen- srous employers, many are not, Those who work In stores may use hours off 10 shop within their own stores. They are enablad in t to take ad- vantage of the store’s employes’ dis- eount. Factory v kers must intrust their shopping to competent ones who have more time at U Window shopping to the harass woman. Often the very gifts that she are on display in shop window she will note the store nd article and take a few brief descriptive notes wshe can order it next day by phone. Window shopping may be done in most towns almost up to midnight. ) ver readers are rewarded by advertiscments that help them out of their predicament Many of the tinest as well as the most popular Rifts are advertised daily in the news- papers. Careful reading of the ads nay solve all of one’s shopping puz zles. Advertised goods may be or- dered by either phone or letter. In some towns there are independ ent shopping services that will do one’s shopping, usually charging noth- long_in ‘ N°’S ‘PAGE. Wins Popularit MARSHALL. | the woman who drives a car the sifort fur coat is, of course, far letter than the longer one, and many women pre- fer this type of coat for walking. If { it is worm with a fairly warm cloth skirt and wool stockings or the new | wool gaiters then there is warmth| enough. There is every reason to believe that these sh fur coats will be} smart next Winter, so that you can well afford to take your coat to a good place for the alterations. The lining should receive careful consid-| eration. Do not economize by by n;:' a light, cheap lining. It will wear out quickly and will not stand the rather | strenuous cleaning process to which your remodeled coat will probably be subjected at the end of the season. Even shorter than thesé new fur jackets are some of the mew fur boleros that have been seen in Parjs. They are made only of the very thin fine furs and are part and parcel of some interesting Winter costumes. If you have not enough old fur tc be used for a remodeled coat then you | should make use of it for collars, cuffs land other ornaments on some other| {garment this season, for never was {there a time when fur trimmings were 8o numerous or so varied. (Copyright. 1926.) i Oilcloth should be washed with warm water to which a little starch (made with boiling | water) has heen added. Soap | | should on no account he used. 1 Scorched fabric can be r | | stored if the threads are not in- ‘! Jjured. Wet the spots 1 'N se the material to th | i i { | 1 My Neighbor Says: | until the spots appear. When frying onions always put a saucepan lid over the top of the frying pan to keep in the This also cook more flavor. onions steam and makes the | | auickly. | When making an apple pie, simmer the peelings and the | | cores together until they are 1 soft, then strain the juice into ! the pie plate, making the pie in | | the usual w This greatly | | { | improves the flavor. When cutting figured material | | for curtains, make certain to have the pattern in each ecur- tain come ctly at the same i place. Remember that machine- | stitching will pucker the cur- | | tains and that the best drap- eries are made by hand. One should keep kitchen scis- sors for cutting raisins and figs, lettuce, parsley, etc. Iron pillow slips lengthwise in- stead of crosswise if you wish to iron the wrinkles out instead of in. . RAWSON, JR. it can look for the men, money and munitions which Congress alone can secure for it from the States and their people. ‘Whatever the merits of these argu- ments, the step has been taken. Until otherwise ordered. Gen. Washing- ton will have full power to order and direct the operations of the war. The Continental apothecary will pack up the Continental medicines and remove them to a place of security. 'The American ships off the Capes of Dela- ware will be warned of the enemy’s approach, that they may proceed to safe ports. Gen. Putnam will be ready to set fire to any Continental vessels which are in danger of capture. If Capt. Biddle can prevent the frigate Randolph from falling into the enemy’s hands, Congress will reward him and his people with a present of $10,000. The Continental general com- manding in Philadelphia will defend the city to the utmost extremity against the attempts of the enemy to get possession of it. The Army stores will be handed over to Gen. Putnam, who will employ all privatgsarmed vessels in the harbor for the defense of the city. Congress will take with it to Baltimore all its records and documents, including the Declaration of Independence. (Copyright. 1926.) ing at all for the ser nominal fee. Where there are such se s many women will learn by inquiry that the stores themselves employ shoppers whose duty it is to do the shopping that their customers haven’t the time to do. it certificates may also he used. In that way the recipient of one's gift may do her own shopping. Often she can please herself more satsfac torily than one’s own most conscien- tious shopping-could. So much the better. Women who are handy with the needle or other domestic utensil can buy the raw materials and make their own gifts, thus obviating all | Christmas distress. ¢ A few of the shops stay open later during the Christmas shopping period. Some remain open until 9 or- 10 o'clock and thus accord one the oppor- | tunity to do her own shopping in the | normal way. It is worth one’s while | to look about one's neighborhood for | the shops that remain open. Shops in town that remain open in the ev ning usually advertise that fact. The | woman worker can do her Christmar | shopping very satisfactorily if she will only plan and reason. Butter Cakes. Mix together one quart of white | flour, one teaspoonful of salt and two | teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Rub | in three tablespoonfuls of butter. Mix | to a soft dough with milk, roll out threefourths of an inch thick, then | cut in round cakes. Lay on a mod- ! erately hot greased griddld, and when a pale brown turn and brown on the other side, Tear open, butter liberally and send to the table. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY. e S 1S OLD SANDA coming’ To YOUR HOUSE CLAUS MELVIN ¢ THE DAILY HOROSCOPE Wednesday, December 15. Jupiter and the sun are in benefic aspect tomorrow, according to astrol- ogy, “which finds conditions fairly fa- vorable to most activities on the earth. They who . delay not in ail portant matters will benefit greatly, if they make the most of the day. Promoters and salesmen should profit by this s which encour- ages confidence in ull who are ap- proached. Under this planetary rule it is held lucky to seek employment or to ask for promotion. Congress. men and others in public life should benefit under this planctary govern- ment. Bankers now come under tion of the stars which is most favor- able to ambitious enterprises. ‘Women a8 well as men are to profit greatly from financial projects of gl- gantic scope, it is prophesied. One of the seers prophesies that wealth is to be found in waste every- where in America, and predicts that some one will discover this fact. All the signs appear to presage a violent reaction in fashions and customs from the reign of extreme freedom that has prevailed since the war. Religion will receive greater at- tention than at any time since 1917, and while there is to be a return to the churches, there will also be con- flict among the various sects, it is prophesied. This is a lucky day for the bestowal of presents, and it may be wise to anticipate Christmas in special cases, where unusual joy is desired for the donor. There appears to be a fairly good aspect for the holidays, but many storms may be expected in January. Persons, whose birth date it is have the augury of a year in which it .is well to protect. health and finances. Children born on that day proba- bly will have extraordinary talents and will be destined for unusual life experiences. HOME NOTES BY JENNY WREN. Desks have become such popular ar- ticles of furniture in the last decade that desk fittings are pretty sure to be welcome Christmas gifts. Shown in the lower se jnkstand, pen, paper knife and blot- |er holder finished in delicate French | enamel. Obviously these pieces are intended for the dainty bedroom desk of a girl. A quill or plume pen is another dec- orative touch for the desk, and as the color variety is large they can be se- lected to harmonize perfectly with the room they are to grace. A pretty box for stamps, paper clips and other trinkets that accumulate on a desk is another suggestion. The one shown s covered with glazed tan leather and has a petite pointc medal- lion set in the cover. Vegetable Plum Pudding. Take one cupful each of grated carrots, raw potatoes and apples, one cupful of chopped suet, one cupful of raisins, one cupful of Sugar, two cup- fuls of flour, a pinch of salt, onc tea- spoonful of woda and cinnamon and cloves to tast Sift the flour, soda and salt together, add the raisins, mix the suet and add to the flour and spices. Steam for three hours or longer. ' THE DUMBUNNIES—Dora Dumbunny’s Dead Secret! HAVE You DECIPED SANDY I'™M GONNA MAIL CLAWS DoRA IT ToDAY You \WANT FOR CHRISTMAS 9 im- | direc- A\ HAW HAW { \ | Do You STIL - R H ik BELIEVE IN MILADY BEAUTIFUL BY LOIS LEEDS | How to Gain a Few Pounds. ! feet 2 | inches . 3 gh |only 95 pounds. T want elop | my le and bust espec My ankle ! measures 9 {nches and my calf only 2. Do you thmk that and down stairs a lot und doing the Charleston would develop or my leg. ‘Why doesn’'t my b de- velop MAUDIE T Answer—You need to gain 25 pounds to bring your weight up to normal | Violent exerctse will tend to keep | your weight down rather than de velop your figure. What you need is |plenty of simple. nourishing food. {plenty of sleep and relaxation. Did | vou know that there were such things as relaxation ses? This is the type of exercise hould Give 19 minu and_morning to exercises ik the following: (1) Lie flat on your back om the bed. Stretch your right arms above your head and stretch your left leg down as far as possible. Relax completely. Repeat stretching and relaxing with left arm and right leg. (2) Stand with ono foot in advance of the other. Relax from your waist up, letting trunk and arms swing limply down: ward. Swing gently from side to side, being careful to keep the muscles re- laxed. (3) It is very important to learn to relax vour neck. Most un- derwelght, nervous {ypes waste a great deal of energy In keeping their Our Children Wholesale Punishment. Peggy came with plodding feet, up the walk, into the house, up the stairs, with never a word, never a | hint_of the laughter that came so veadily when her heart was light. | She was elow about coming down to | the dining room for her afternoon | bite and at last mother called. “Peggy, what's the matter? Are you | feeling bad? Why don't you come I'm all right.. Tl be right down.” But when she took the proffered jelly sandwich there was no joy in the action and the munching, usually punctuated by “O mother, today in school—"" went on in dull silence. By and by mother couldn’t stand it any longer and said, ggy, what's the matter? I know something went wrong. What is it? “ don't like Miss Marie. She’s not fair.” “Why, Peggy. And you alwa said you liked her. What happened’ “1°did like her, but now 1 don’t. Yon can’t keep on liking a person who doesn’t know you are trying to please her. Gives you a bad mark because the worst boy in the whole school makes a noise in class. Some idea, that is. You sit up straight and pay attention, and sing, an’ every- Vs just because ‘Wooly' is such a fool ihat he can’t behave himself for a single minute, she says, ‘Class take failure “Can you imagine such u thing? ‘Class take a failure!” And us all try- ing like anything to get an ‘A’ on our report cards for Christmas. All our fathers and mothers'll think we don’t try. Just on account of ‘Wooly'— Ylass take a faflure.” That’s the sec- ond time this month. Can you imag- ine what mark we'll get? Well, just to get even we're all_going to be as bad as we can be. Bet she'll know what it means when a class earns a failure. The very idea! And us try- | ing hard for Christmas Maybe she_won't count it?” “Huh. She%s got to count it. She to the office and the principal will see it and how can she rub it out?” YES !-BUT 1'™M NoT [ GONNA TELL A SouL —- NOT EVEN SANDY CLAWS going up | reduce reduce | bave. | thing as good as you can and then | necks stiff. in a chair. Throw | your head ba and relax the neck | muscles. ¢ roll your head from side to side and around to the front. Please send for my leaflet on “How to in Weight” that gives diet sug- gestions for vour type. LOIS LEEDS. What to Do for Bowlegs. | Dear Miss Leeds—I am a constant reader of your beauty column, but { have not yet seen any advice in it on how to prevent legs from becom- ing bowed. I am 5 feet 6 inche: pounds_in weight and am years old. My right leg is becoming quite bowed, but the left is not bad. | SDNA. 11 of us start ke as bies, but if our mothers resh air and lo not allow Answer- bowlegged b | give us the right food, | sunshine, and if the us to urally straighten out. Bowlegs may be corrected by diet and massage up to the sixth year. At your age the leg hone should be hardened suf- ficiently to support your weight with- out bending. If your bones really are becoming bent, as you think, it is a pathological condition that needs a doctor’s care. If you wear high heels it may be that vour leg looks bent because you have allowed®the heel to be runover. A well groomed woman always keeps her heels | straight. There is no way of | straightening your leg now except o surgical operation. Wear comfor | ble, low-heeled shoes with footwear | of inconspicuous design and color, so | that the shape of your legs will not be noticed. LOIS LEEDS. Colors for Ashen Blond. Doreen R.—A girl whose hafr is between a_golden blond and a light | brown, with gray-green eyes and me- dium fair skin with some color comes within the rather broad classification of ashen blonds, She may wear creamy-flesh, yellowish-pinks, bur- gundy, soft, pinkish lavender, dull brick, rust, dark green, reseda,.dark and meditim - blues, palest yellow, bronze, medium tan, cream and black i relieved with color. Your weight is correct. (Covyright. 1926.) By Angelo Patri “But I can’t see yet why the class got a failure if it was only ‘Wooly.' Why did the teacher give all a fall- ure?” t's this way. She says that you have to have class spirit and ciass pride and if one child does wrong he spolls the,whole class. She says we have to stick together. Why should we stick to the worst boy in the whole school? 1 don’t see. He's as bad as he can be and his mother had to come {to school. But all of us ot the fail- “But you children won't get the same conduct mark that he will? Ho, can you? It couldn’t be.” “Well, if the teacher take a failure,’ you got to take the lure and it counts on your report. If you got a failure you haven't got a good mark; you've got the worst mark. What's the good? Tomorrow we're all going to be as bad as we can be. She’ll see something. She ought to take a fallure herself. See how she likes it.” ‘When father heard the story t night he said, “Hm. 1 suppose if a sentry went to sleep she'd shoot the whole army? Simple but expensive.” (Copyright. 1926.) Mr. Patri will give personal attention to inquiries from parents or s.hool teachers on the care and development of children, Write him in care of this paper, inclosing self- addressed, stamped envelope ' for reply. Baked Apple Dumplings. says, ‘Class cupfuls of flour and one scant cupful of lard and a little salt. Cut the lard into the flour with a knife. Add enough cold water to make a soft dough, or about one cupful. Usg a knife to mix. Roll out medium tifick and cut in squares. Peel, quarter and core the apples. Put four quarters to- gether and fill with sugar and a little cinnamon. Wet the edges of the crust and fold over. Set in tin to bake. Do not let them touch. Serve with a sauce. { Straying into a railway tunnel near Cowden, England, a young bull de raw potatoes, apples and | wrote it in the report book and it goes | layed all traffic for nearly two hours | until two plate-avers drove it out and let the trains proceed. BY DECEMBER 14 walk too soon, our légs nat- | ‘Make a ple crust of two heaping | ANT_IT A PERFECT VRPRISE ! 1926. What Do You Know About It? Daily Science Six. 1. Where did a destructive tor- nado recently oceur? 2. In what direction is the “tor- nado belt” said to be spread- ing? 3. From what direction do the reguiar meteorological disturb. ances of the northern part of our country come 4. Why does the east wind gen- erally precede a storm? What sort of weather is gen- erally brought by the west wind? 6. Do the prevailing meteoro- logical cisturbances of Europe move {n the same direction as those on this side of the world? Answers to these questions in Tomorrow's Star. More Than Camel's Back. The stories they tell about the freaks of tornadoes are hard to be- lieve, but they are apparently well au- | thenticated. ~House with one wall | plucked off and all the bed clothes | whisked off heds, but nothing else | touched, are on record, not to mention people tossed three miles with small injury, and whole tlocks from a poul- try farm blowing, squawking, through | the streets of towns. A professor of meteorology in one of our biggest col- leges has a _photograph which he him- | self took of straws driven like rivets v a tornado into the steel framework of a bridge ucross the Mississippi. Now what do you know about that? Answers to Yesterday's Questions. 1. Tn 1888 Charleston was shaken by | arthquake of exceptional inten-| U The most recent earthquake | shock (at the present writing) occurred | on November 28 in Idaho. 3. Earthquake waves travel both through and around the earth. 4. The last serious earthquake on| the other side of the Atlantic occurred | {in_November in Armeni: An earthquake wave is really a ripple in the earth’s crust. In quakes of exceptional intensity actual waves | may be seen advancing. | . Tidal waves are set up by earth- | quakes by the rippling of the ocean |bed beneath them, and by the fact [ that an earth tremor on the coast | often throws the water seaward vio- { lently at first, so that it rushes back us o great wave. RED STUART GIBBS. Food Spee The business girl had returned from la trip very much cast down. Kindly hoepitality had been too much for her slightly tired digestion. “There 18 not a place to eat in New she #aid. As this statement ather sweeping, it seemed wise to qualify.it, although one did know | | what thé B. G. meant. -One who is torced to depend exclust: rant food does get v and when there has been any digestive | upheaval, many of us have seen days when we would have been willing to agree with the business girl in saying that “there is no place to eat.” There is more than appetite in- | volved in such a situatlon. The busi- ness girl had not only been tired by her trip, but she had suffered a. vio- lent attack of food poisoning. After |acute symptoms had subsided, there {was that sensatlon of don't-care-a- | tive-ness whenever she thought about food. Because there are other business girls and business women who have analyze the problem a bit. to eat” it means that it be- hooves us to look about carefully for a certain type of eating place. Not necessarlly where the food is elabo- rate, but a place where certain essen- tials can be coured upon. This place must be first of all relatively quiet. It must be possible to relax restfully when one enters the dining room. There must be space to move between the tables so that while eat- ing the tired nerves are not rasped by people crowding too close. Coming to the foud, certain demands must e made and met. The food must, first of all, be more than fresh when purchased. One says more than fresh advisedly. Certain foods labeled resh,” as meaning of fairly good quality, will not do for one who is recovering from such an attack. There is an indescribable flavor, or rather lack of flavor, in food of this grade place’ shmilar experiences, one is minded to | | When we decide that “there is no that may play havoe, not only with the appetite, but with the actual di-| gestion, when one is tired. The healthy | body can probably take care of it and | thrive; not so the one depleted by | illness. | hese directions for finding a. place | 0 ‘eat may seem vague. Actually, they are not. One need only to train one’s discriminating faculty so that he is able to recognize these essentials for a restoring diet. It is all very well not to let one’s self become fussy or ‘“pernickety.” There is such a thing, however, as letting this philo- sophical attitude get the better of one's health. " KITTY McKAY BY NINA WILCOX PUTNAM. The onion may build up physically, but it certainly tears you down so- cially. (Copyright. 1926.) 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