Evening Star Newspaper, February 7, 1927, Page 29

WOMAN'’S Long Skirts in Children’s Styles. BY MARY MARSHALL. Long skirts and long hair are almost as quaint and amusingly old- fashioned in the eyes of the little folks of today as hoop skirts and busiles seemed to us when we were +Jittle. They can hardly understand the embarrassment that overcame the old woman of the nursery rhyme who, after having gone to the market to sell her eggs, sat a-napping on her way bome, only to wake up and find that THIS LONG-SKIRTED INT 1T FROCK OF DESIGN WAS WORN BY TRAI EARER AT A R DDI IT IS ¢ WHITE WITH WHITE PEARL EMBROIDERY AND THE LITTLE CAP IS OF STRANDS OF PEARLS her skirts had been all round about “What difference did that make?” asks_the precocious 4-year-old, who is as familiar with the sight of his mother’s knees as with the tips of her toes. Even Stevenson's verses must Le explained to the child of today. *You read “The Wind” and the 4yearold listens understandingly enough at first. “I saw you toss the kites on high And blow the birds about the sky, And all round I hear you pass, Like ladies’ skirts across grass— There you have to pause and ex- plain. If is quite inconceivable that ladies' skirts should make any sort of sound across the grass. Short skirts are no longer the ex- clusive property of youth—in fact, from the experience of the very young- est generation, long skirts may be more closely associated with childhood cut the OF | PAGE. than with adult years. Occasionally one sees a bride and her grown-up bridesmaids dressed in long skirts, but much more often the very little flower girl or train bearer has skirts that might even be heard across the grass. These long-skirted frocks are truly period frocks and inspiration for many. of them has been taken from old paintings of a perfod when little girls were dressed like counterparts of their | mothers and the only difference be- ! tween juvenile clothes and those for At a fash _adults was in thelr size the | ionable wedding ntly | lower girl apricot-colored frock with a very long, full skirt of chiffon with a closely | molded velvet bodice to match. The bride’s frock was just a shade more than knee length (Covyright. 1827.) MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Farina_With Raisins Corned Beef Hash Toast Marmalade Coffee LUNCHEON Mock_Chicken Salad Hot Rolls Banana Whip Lemon Snaps DI Cream of Tomato Soup Broiled Lamb Chops Mashed Potatoes Carrots and Peas Tomato Jelly Salad Orange Pudding Coffee MARMALADE Four oranges, two lemons, sliced thin. Soak over night in enough water to cover. In morning boil until very soft. Add equal amount granulated | | sugar and cook a little longer. | | Boil in water they are soaked “ in over night. MOCK CHICKEN SALAD Steam small piece veal until tender; chop with equal quan- tity celery and dress with French dressing first. Then, Just before serving, pour rich Salad dressing over it and put on lettuce leaves. { CREAM OF TOMATO SOUP One pint or one can tomatoes, two tablespoons butter, one tablespoon flour, one teaspoon sugar, one teaspoon salt, one quart milk, sprig parsley, one- half teaspoon white pepper,one- half teaspoon soda. Cook toma- toes slowly with flavorings about ten minutes and rub through strainer. - Scald milk, thicken with flour and butter rubbed to paste, reheat tomatoes and add soda; combine with milk and serve at once. MILADY BEAUTIFUL BY LOIS LEEDS Weight and Beauty. | Among the beauty questions I am answering this week in another issue are some from a ung girl who is very much underweight, and from an overweight woman. Both want me to disclose to them some easy external treatment which willdimmediately give them beautiful figures and lovely com- plexions. Over and over again in my correspondence 1 find the same desire expressed, which seems to prove that | many of my readers do not realize that personal beauty is a by-product of physical fitness-and is not some- thing that can be grafted on from without. A well proportioned body and a clear kin are the outward signs of the normal, harmonious functioning of the internal economy. Of course, re are cases, especially among bercular patients, in which a fresh, v skin is not a true indication of health, but in general the degree of beauty in form and coloring is in di- rect proportion to one’s health. Contrary to the hopes of some of my lean friends, skinny limbs or necks cannot be filled out by applications of creams or oils. The tissues must be built up from within by nourishing food. Nor can excess fat be miracti- lously laved away in a reducing bath. In order to reduce healthfully it is necessary to break down myriads of fat cells by nature’s method, that is, by refusing them sustenance and by converting them into energy through exercise. ‘When it comes to complexion and scalp troubles one’s general health is a big factor in any successful treat- ment. The anemic, underweight girl must improve her physical condition before her hair will stop coming out in handfuls and -before her skin will become clear and fine. Both under- weight and excessive overweight are as much handicaps to personal beauty as a crooked nose or harelip would be, the difference being that in the latter cases a surgical operation is needed, while in the former simple hy- gienic measures are all that is re- quired for a cure, ‘There are several ways in which one can tell when one's health is below par, but the easiest and handiest is consulting a weighing machine. It is a simple matter to step onto the scales, insert a coin, read the resuit and com- pare it with the average figure for one's age and height. If the scales register 5 or 10 pounds underweight, buy more milk and nourising food in- stead of investing in a new hair tonic or facial cream. If a large degree of overweight is indicated, put the money you intended to spend’ on cosmetics into a gymnasium course and watch your diet. A word of warning about too implicit belief in height-weight tables is need- ed. They are, of course, obtained by striking an average among a large number of cases. There will always be individuals who are exceptions to the general rule. It is natural that girls who have inherited a large bony structure and big muscles should weigh more than the average. And, too, those with exceptionally small bones naturally weigh_less. In grow- ing girls some degree of overweight is preferable to any underweight, while with mature women the opposite is the cashe. P R P Stewed Canned Peu;izu Put on to boil the liquor from one |fuls of sugar, half a teaspoonful of almond extract, a few drops of lemon extract, one tablespoonful of chopped | candied citron peel and two dozen seedless raisins. Let all boil until it has boiled to a sirup, lay in the | peaches, cover with a cover for a few minutes until the sirup begins to boil again, remove the top and let the peaches cook for eight minutes longer, pour into a glass dish, and |serve cold with whipped and sweet- ened cream. Perfect baking results every time! If you use |GOLDMEDAL -tested’ For every kind of baking: pies, pastries, cakes, little was dressed im a lovely {can of peaches, add two tablespoon. | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, | THERE’S AT LEAST ONE IN EVERY OFFICE. ReEMeMBER ¢ You KEEP SMLING You'LL FIND IT 3O MUCH EASIER To OVERCOME LUTTLE TROVEBLES o THINGS CAN'T ALWAYS GO WRONG - REMEMBER GooD LUCK MAY BE JUST AROUND THE CORNER DIARY OF A NEW FATHER BY R. E. DICKSON. Sunday Afternoon. The baby took a nap after his 10 o'clock feeding this morning, and Joan tuned in some church servicés on the radio and we were sitting here listen- | ing, and I said, “You know, I think | we ought to have some of the boys | up for a poker game pretty soon.” Joan sald, “I would like some psy- choanalyst to tell me what goes on in your head when you think,” and I said, “Did I do something?” and Joan said, “As soon as I get a church on the radio you think of making a heaven for gamblers out of our apart- ment.” 1 said, “Gamblers?” and Joan said, “Yes, gamblers.” I said, “Just be- cause a few friends get together for a little penny-ante game is no reason they are gamblers,” and she said, ““What is poker if it is not gambling?” I said, “It is just an innocent, friendly pastime, and not a money-making scheme,” and Joan said, “Then why don’t you play for mat-hes or some- thing like that?” It takes a woman to think up ideas like that, and if she is a married woman she thinks them up oftener. I said, “If T went out to a game and won a bunch of matches and gzave you half of them when. I got home, wouldn't you be pleased?” and Joan did not say anything, which was a sure sign there wasn't anything to be said, and I said, “You play for prizes at bridge games, don’t you?” and Joan sald, “That is different.” ‘When women say that is different, it is an argument. 1 said, “Well, I am going to ask the boys over for Thursday night,” and Joan said, “I suppose I will have to feed the brutes,” and I said, “Oh, nothing much. Just a few kinds of sandwiches and some salad and coffee and cake, and maybe some ice cream,” and she said, “Oh, and perhaps a roast of beef and some chicken and chow mein and a leg of lamb.” 1 said, “Why. should you kick? You will get half of what 1 win, if I don't lose,” and she said, “I ought to gets a bigger percentage than that for serving the free lunch.” I said, “And that reminds me. We will need a little something to drink,” and Joan said, “You will have coffee,” and I said, “I mean——"" and Joan said, “I know what yon mean, and you aren’t going to have any,” and that is what I get for marrying a Methodist minister’s cousin, and what I am going to do I don’t know, be- cause the boys will murder me if T don’t ‘and Joan will murder me 1f 1 do, and the boys from the office really enjoy a poker game only after they begin thinking the chips are for tiddledywinks, and you can’t have h‘le';l like that on coffee, even Russian coffee. A Hindu baby is named when it is 12 days old, usually by the mother. Sometimes the father wishes for an- other name than that selected by the mother. In that case two lamps are o —By BRIGGS. EVERY CLOUD HAS A SILVER LINING - JUST wWaeP SMILING REMEMBE R ALWAYS - DARK JusT BeFoRe IT s THINGS WERE NEVER S0 BAD THAT THEY COULDN'T BE WORSE. TROUBLES SE6rm MuCH SMALLER IF You ONLY KeeP A SMILING FACE- TRY 1T SOME TIME Fourteen Command- ments for Wives Gives First Three in Important List 'DorothyDixn “Keep Your Hook Baited, Serve Generous Quan- tities of Home-brewed Flattery and Pin a Few Medals on Your Hero Husband.” MOST women think after they have captured a man and led him to the altar that they can sit pretty and take things easily for the remainder of their lives. This is a mistake. Any flapper can capture a husband, but it tekes a wise dame to keep one eating out of her hand. Therefore, after marriage continue to practice assiduously the arts and wiles with which you baited your hook when you landed your poor fish. Keep yourself dolled up as much as possible. Many a man ceases to look at his wife because she has let herself become hard on the eyes. Be pleasant and amiable. Don’t argue. No man would marry a woman it he knew beforehand that she was going to be his storm and strife. Keep the little petty worries and cares of your day to yourself. Your husband has plenty of his own, and for a tired man to be met at the door when he returns home of an evening with a detailed account of how naughty the children have been and how high butchers’ meat is and that the faucet in the bathroom is leaking again is adding the straw that breaks the camel's back. Before you married you led your husband to believe that he was the handsomest, the wisest and the wittiest man in the world and the one you admired most. When he spoke you listened to him as if he were an oracle. You laughed at his jokes and begged him to repeat his good stories. Keep on giving him the glad hand. Out in the world your husband gets so many bumps that his vanity is kept, sore and bruised and aching all the time. It is your cue to pour over it the healing ointment of your admiration and make him feel that you are the one person in all the universe who really appreciates him at his true worth. Let him see that in your eyes he is better looking than any movie star, and a fascinator and a spellbinder to boot. Homebrewed flattery is peculiarly intoxicating. * s e IT'S pretty discouraging to a man to spend his life toiling to support his family and have them take it just as a matter of course and no more than they had a right to expect, and never mention anything he does except to knock him for not making meore money. So don’t wait until husband is dead to tell the world what a wonderful man he was. Pin a few medals on him he goes along. Tell him over and over again that you think no hero ever does a braver thing than the man who offers himself up every day of his life as a living sacrifice to his wife and children; who tolls in a hot office in the Summer that they may go to cool places in the country; who goes shabby that his daughters may have finery, and denies himself the little Juxuries he craves to give his sons the education he never had. Shower on him your appreciation and gratitude for all that he does for you and it will make matrimony worth while for him and keep him from belng one of those husbands who spend all of their spare time wondering what made them do it, anyway. If you don’t like him as he stands, with all his faults thick upon him, don’t take him. Leave him alome. If you don’t like a man who drinks or smokes or plays the races or who has low-browed musical comedy tastes, let him be. If you don’t like the way a man has his hair cut or the sort of collars he wears or the way he eats or the church he goes to or the friends he has, let him go his way in peace. = v e ON'T marry a poor trusting, unsuspecting man and then set yourself to change all his habits and alter his viewpoint of life. By the time a man has reached a marriageable age and is capable of supporting a wife he has| worked out the manner of living that gives him the most individual pleasure and comfort, and you interfere with this at your peril. The man who can't do as he pleases in his own house, who can’t smoke in the parlor or eat a dinner without being told how bad everything he likes is for his stomach, soon hunts up a place where he has more liberty. So if you want to keep your husband don't feel that it is your sacred | duty to correct his grammar or his pronunciation or his table etiquette and generally to cut him over according to your own little perforated pattern of a husband. - Men get married to get a claque, not to acquire a permanent critic on the hearth or a schoolmistress. DOROTHY DIX. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1927. Your Baby and Mine BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED. The worrles of each prospective mother are practically the same. She, | poor dear, is always a prey to the superstitions of the ages. She gives little thought to these matters until she finds herself about to become a mother and then she immediately brings to the forefront of her mind all the musty fears and superstitions which have worried her mother and her mother before her. At this time, when it is natural for all normal things to assume gigantic proportions, these small fears fill her with real terror and apprehension. Her great- est fear, to her credit be it said, is not for herself but for her baby. What can she do to make it health- ful? What can she do to prevent her fears “marking” her child? These are the heaviest burdens of her worry. It is useless sometimes to tell & person not to worry. But there is ordinarily nothing to worry about. The mother should fix in her mind that she cannot change or alter her child no matter what she does or thinks. All the mother can do is to keep herself at the topnotch of physical condition. The mother who studles music so that her child may be a musician is employing her time to good advantage, but giving no such talent to the child. If her baby is a musician, it is be- cause It has a preponderance of artis- tic instincts from her ancestors, and not because its mother’s thoughts have been directed that way for nine months. It i8 much easier to make a musi- clan out of the baby after its birth by keeping it surrounded by music-lov- ing people and giving it the advan- tages of a musical education. In the same manner it {8 equally im- possible for a mother to harm her child by her thoughts. There could be nothing more absurd than to be- lieve that the accidental sight of a hu- man monster or an accidental happen- ing would have the power to so upset the mother that,she would incidentally mark her child’s body. How terrible and cruel this would be for any one to feel that his body had been so easily marred by what his mother could in no way help. Science has proved it untrue, and it only remains for a person to grip one's common sense tightly in hand and be- lieve it, because it is sane and whole- some as well as scientific. A child is the product of its ances- tors. If in the manifold duplication of the single cell from which it springs something goes wrong and the child’ body carries a mark because of it, | this mark is no more to be blamed upon its mother’s thoughts than if a | FEATURES. Are You Good-Hearted ? Kindly tell me how to take care of pering is not only physically harmful but morally harmful-as well, for it is E all too common to see the child so a weak heart.—(Miss V. 1) | pampered seize upon the idea and Is there any cure for leakage of the | More :_\;‘ll!;;slr;‘kll{lfu}}&'hmlmlc :hhfl‘:ymb Sm | toms e foolis en ou haa;:‘?—fldr& W. W) 5 gested as likely -to oocur from. ~weak y nothing about. the prevention | FCTR, &8 THelY 1o ocour, bl or cause of heart fallure? It would o giincuitien which should be faced scem from the daily papers that more| o 1Tl which should be faced people, especially men, die of heart | o1 t Gisense or heart failure than from |D°art disease, this popular fancy of flower were to spring from the parent | stem with a crooked leaf or a stunted | petal. { It is always hard for persons to tear down superstition, because com-, mon sense is so much less exciting, | and there are always so many ns to say, “Remember little Johnny | Jones? ' The mark on his face was' caused when their barn took fire.and | his mother touched her face.” »And the incomprehensible part of it is that | rflhmny persons can believe such | sh. Mrs. M. D. H. writes: “I could not | nurse my baby for very long, and she ‘was put upon a canned food. Now I would like to change her to cow milk. | Could you give me a formula suitable | for her age and weight? She weighs 14 pounds and 6 ounces today, weigh- | !.r:s 7% pov;nds at birth. She 1§ very rong and gets a sunbath, every bright day and sleeps in the open as | much as possible. I always read your advice and get so much help from it.” Answer—General formulas are con- tained in the leaflet on weaning and feeding, which I am sure would be of help to you now. In .order not to make you walt for that, you can start with 15 ounces of milk, 15 of boiled | water and three tablespoonfuls of sugar.- Put this into five bottles. You can increase as fast as the baby's di gestion permits up to 21 ounces of milk, proportionately less water and the same amount of sugar. Willie Willis BY ROBERT QUILLEN. | | “I don’t see how it's goin' to hurt you to get your feet wet a-playin’ if it don't hurt you to get-wet all over takin’ a bath.” (Copyright. 1927.) Jellied Fruit Pudding. | Put one package of orange and | raspberry prepared gelatin in a bowl | and add two cupfuls of bofling water. | Stir until dissolved. Add one cupful | of cold water and cool in a pan of | ice water until beginning to stiffen. | Add one cupful of cutup candled | fruit and pour into a mold. Chill and | placed over the two names, and the name over which the lamp burns the brightest is the one gtven to the child. —Guaranteed Your own dealer gives you guar- antee in writing. Costs nothing if it fails. ‘This method is guaranteed in writ- ing to do it. It is guaranteed, too, to stop falling hair completely. If it fails, it costs you nothing. So it is folly not to try it. Get it at any drug store. It is called Van Ess Liquid Scalp Massage. It does what no other method does or has ever dome: Acts to revive dormant hair roots by massaging 'wzrfgl Toot-rejuvenating and germ- Sombatiog agents- direcly inte [ l WOMEN!—New Hair ? Where Now Falling Ends the thinness bobbing invites by directly rejuvenating dormant hair roots turn out onto a large plate. Fill the | center with whipped cream slightly sweetened and tinted a pale green. stant it attacks you—and ment continuous. { roets {Im hair. Tt is protected Formamint checks sore of ‘Why, then, go on fooling yourself with old-time tonica? This method proves the hair roots people used to Belleve were beyond recall are revivabls Go to any drug store. Get the Van Ens Liquid Scalp Massage. Written guarantes to grow new hair in 90 days, to stop falling hair completely, supplied by the dealer with full treat- ment. Costs same as VAN ESS AR e Start NOW to fight sore throat Don’t rely on a mere gargle, night and morning ONSULT a physician and he will say: Inter- mittent gargling is not enough. Sore throat demands antiseptic treatment 'that is sustained. ‘Today you can start to fight sore throat the in- you can make your treat- throat germs by keeping - the throat bathed, continuously, in an antiseptic proved germicidal power. Yet Formamint can- not harm the delicate throat tissues. ‘Take these pleasant-tasting tablets every hour or 80 to freat sore throat; every 2 or 3 hours to pre- ventit. Alldruggists. Bauer Chemical Co.,N.Y.C. ormamint THE GERM-KILLING THROAT TABLET. any other disease.—(G. L. H.) These three queries, chosen at ran dom from hundreds about heart dis ease, indicate at least the general in terest in the subject, if not the wide prevalence of heart disease. To me they indicate much more than that, for each query quoted suggests to me that the writer’s condition, whether it be real heart disease or just a fancy | of a morbid mind, is complicated with Billings’ complaint. Billings’ com- plaint is a chronic, insidious, progres- sive but not incurable malady, which takes its name from the great philos- opher who first recognized it and be: described it. ‘The trouble with a. lot of plain people,” diagnosed Josh Bill ings, “is they know so many things which ain’t so.” Right here may I not suggest that turther perusal of this article or others about the heart which will fol- low is not likely to prove worth while for the reader who thinks what I have just said is sarcastic, facetious or un- dignified. If T had all day to express the idea which is contained in the phrase “Billings’ complaint” and the whole page of this paper to spread it on, I might make just as much head- way with people who could have the patience to bear with me so long. But whether I could teach anything in that way or not, I dare say I would not seem so sarcastic, facetious, unsym- pathetic and {llnatured as plodding readers find me. Miss V. 1. asks about “weak heart.” That is a meaningless though very popular phrase. In most instances the notion that the heart is weak is without foundation in fact. excuse of “weak heart” is used, con sciously and unconsciously, as a. ready funkhole for hiding in when some | task, duty or unpleasant encounter is to be dodged. “Weak heart” is a favorite invention of the badly edu- cated parent who pampers and cod- dles a growing daughter. Such pam Often the | | muscular weakness or functional in | sufficiency of the heart is a morbid imagination. If the child has any kind of heart disease, the question of physical actlvity is strictly & medical one, and no one except the child's |own physician is competent to judge | Whether rest or exercise is’better for |the child at the immediate stage of | disease, or if exercise, what kind and | how much the child should have. Nothing can be more injurious to a child's welfare than pampering and coddling by a misguided parent who | just assumes the child's heart is weak Mrs. W. W. seeks a “cure” for leak | age of the heart. We purpose to dis | cuss leakage of the heart here pres- | ently, but before we go into that let me say that I don’t know a cure for anything under the sun except taxes and in that case the remedy is much worse than the disease. G. H. L. takes the dally papers too serfously if he belleves the stories about heart fallure. Watch for the heart-to-heart talks which will appear here from time to time. (Copyright. 192 Chocolate Rice. Soak onehalf a cupful of weil washed rice in hot water for ten min | utes, drain, add three cuptuls of milk |and one teaspoonful of salt, and cook |in a double boiler until soft, or about forty-five minutes. Stir in three table- spoonfuls of cocoa, about two-thirds cupful of powdered sugar and one. fourth teaspoonful of cinnamon mixed | together and cook five minutes longer Remove from the fire, cool, fold n one cupful of cream whipped stiff and pile in sherbet cups. Garnish with a mara- schino cherry or a spoonful of marsh mallow whip sprinkled with chopped nut Pears dont grow in a pan —but who’d try/ want a “pantry pear tree” anyway—when it’s so easy to get wn under the finest pears this well known label? Just be sure you say DELMONTE CHARLES DICKENS WAS BORN THIS DAY 1812 EN before the birth of this great novelist, ?'x‘w the same mill which All grinds the whole wheat for this #4 wonderful flour was grinding from whole grain in 1807. 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