Evening Star Newspaper, February 15, 1927, Page 46

“@ssume the duties for or not? fioring is of a rather drab type, WOMAN Beauty to Be Found in Menial Tasks BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. hent into ity dane if Women who have s @nd are home makers their daily tasks an element of 1 or they find the work too to be anything but irksome they study to have each of beauty, then they -find In it. One example of this that mind pertains directly tasks. A daughter in a he dutles of cooking and s fall to her lot. She heart, though not by profession, and @ poetess in reality. To spend hours in the kitchen preparing food. and instil pleasure comes to household me 1 ing neals was an artist at | | | have ‘ fictitious character, but a very r | person [ had it not been for the artistic touches | HER DESSERTS WERE ELATION E | then to serve what she had made was | far from her chosen work. IHowever it was absolutely th; e at le: she st. | MILADY BEAUTIFUL BY LOIS Beauty in Detail. Dear Miss Leeds: 1 want to be as pretty as possible, but don’t know just ‘how. T am ars old, short and slim. T have medium brown hair, ‘medium skin and gray-green eyes, 1 ‘Baven't much color in my cheeks and ‘my husband objects to rouge. I have ¢ ‘high forehead and large eyes. My mouth is small and my teeth are “white and even. My nose is not per- fect, as it is inclined to look at little ‘dike a beak. I wear my hair bobbed. parted on the left and hrought low over my forehead. What colors may I avear? Should my hats have hrims BETTY MARI ‘Answer—You would be classed medium blond. Since your natural col- ou should be careful to avoid colors in clothes that are so brilliant as to make your skin and hair look faded. Avoid bright reds in favor of dull brick or rust; avoid brighf blue or green or yellow. Yellowish pinks like peach and flesh would be very becoming and may be worn as complete costumes or as trimming on dark blue and dark green. You may wear pale yellow, bronze, medium tan, cream, dark and medium blues and reseda. Touches of bright, crude colors of course, permissible in smocking and embroid. | ery. You will look pretty in a dull| pink and soft green combined or in | id the | | roses 'SYPAGE. And so she set ahout the job with the spirit of the artist. ¥ As the sum to be expended on the | table was limited, she could not exer- dishes vy in cul- ¥ matters. Therefore she had conceive of some other way of giving vent to her craving for the heautiful This she did so successfully that her s were a delight to the eve, and 1se this element of heauty was | added to a simple vet plain and whole: | some diet, she won a distinct name for setting a fine table. An Artistic Meal. She would serve so ordinary 2 meal as a codfish dinner so that it became no commonplace meal. Piled on the platter would be the lightly flaked and perfectly cooked codfish, dotted with delicately browned cubes of salt pork About the fish would be little potato interspersed with sprigs of parsley, while a sprig or two would be on top of the fish It is easy to see that this is an artistic dis Feasts for the |are wi ple t could be accomplished with sim salad greens, vegetables, fruits < the season suggested and the meal called for. Her desserts were feast to the eve as well as a de light to the palate Beautifying Worl. voung about been talking not a whom 1 merely The, woman is She told me one day that, she could give the home and the meals, she did not know how she could have stood the work. However, she made her mental tasks an avenue for the expression of beauty, and she had an actual pleasure in this. A Common Opportunity. Every housewife has this same op- portunity and privilege. None of the things mentioned come outside the scope of every homemaker and there many more avenues in a home for the application of beauty in little tasks and in large way: LEEDS. reseda trimmed with light tan. A touch of rouge would do you no harm, but it is & better plan to gain natural roses in the cheeks by taking plenty of outdoor exercise. Bring your weight up to nofmal for your age and height. Do not make the mistake of try to keep your weight down so that will look like a girl in her teens. If vou do not make an effort to build vour body up now, vou are pretty sure to develop into a scrawny, faded, prematurely wrinkled woman at 30. Your type of coiffure should be be: coming. Wear small hats, LOIS LEEDS. Moth Patches. Dear Miss Leeds: Is there any rem- edy for m-called moth patches or liver spots so @@mmonly seen on the hands and faces @f older persons? TALLIAN and BROWNY. Answer—I am sorr 1 cannot give a very satisfactory answer to vour question. These dArk patches usally do not respond to freckle reme- dies unless they are very light. In the latter case, peroxide will bleach them. There are stronger bleaches that beaut specialists use, but I would not wish to recommend them for home use. Another simple remedy for light moth patches ig to wash them in a strong solution of bicarbonate of soda, dry and massage with butter- milk or sour milk. Repeat treatment daily. LOIS LEEDS. Reducing Exercises. Dear Miss Leeds: Please thell me ol Her salads were a revelation of| THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. [ don't fink her should be 'lowed t' eat so many valentines; her's just as full oh hearts an’ darts an' cuklds as | her can be! (Cooyright DIARY OF A EW FATHER BY ROBERT F.-DICKRON. 1927 Monday Night. When I left for werk this morning I said to Joan: “Dan’; tell me you are thinking of buv'' : any more clothes when you £n Jowntown with Mrs. Stewart t° .. I have not paid for all yon ' ught less than two months Ago wlen 1 went down home.” And Joan said, “Oh, I am just going to help Mrs. Stewart look around,” and I said: “I love the direct way you answer questions. Are you going to buy any more clothes or are you not?"” and Joan saild: “No, I'm not, if it will hurt you so much. The shock of hav- ing something new would be too much for me, anyway."” s But women are smart, and when I came home tonight I knew something had happened hecause there was liver and bacon for dinner and today is not my birthday, and Joan will cook them only on my birthday or when she wants something, because she says they are plebeian and I am not sure what that means, but ¥ have a sus- picion it is a dirty crack. So T said, “Why this big concession on vour part? Are you going to run away with another man and trying to soften the blow?” and Joan said, “Did yvou have a hard day, dearest?" and when she calls me dearest I can always figure it is costing me several dollars a syllable, and 1 am glad she does not call me mamma's sweet little precious petticums. I said, “Well, dress yourself up in the bad news vou bought and let me see how much you were stung,” and she sald, “Oh, I got the darlingest little hat toda. It was such a bar- gain I simply could not resist it,” and how to exercise to reduce fat legs. I ave tried slapping them with a ruler, but do not think this is any good. My calves measure 133% inches and my ankles are 9 inches. How can I reduce my abdomen? I am 17 years old and 5 feet 2 inches tall. What should I weigh? A CONSTANT READER. Answer—Please send a stamped, self-addressed envelope for my leaf. lets on “Beauty Exercises” and “Care of the Legs.” Your calves are not unusually large but vour ankles are. You should weight between 114 and 118 pounde. Do high kicking and heel- raising exercises for 10 minutes both night and morning. Try deep massage for the ankles LOIS LEEDS. (Covyright. 1927.) I Pedro Elephant By SHIRLEY RODMAN WILLIAMS. - EVERY mother knows that no two children can be treated in exactly the same way. The method most successful with one may be a total failure with another. For instance in the case of children who aren't interested in eating or she brought it out and put it on, and I said, “Last week when I offered to buy you a new hat if you would let me give the boys at my poker party a little drink, you said you did not need a new hat” That was an error on my part. Joan said, “Speaking of that poker party reminds me. You lost $21.40, didn’t you?” and I said, “Well, yes," and she sald, “Then we certainly shall not argue over the way 1 squander your money,” and now she is sore at me because she had forgot- ten the $21.40, and she figures she just wasted giving me liver and bacon and calling me dearest when she had enough on me to make me buy her a new hat, and when I win in ‘a poker game she gets half of it and when I lose she spends as much as I lost to even things up, and it may be true that you cannot go broke taking a profit, but the hard part is keeping the profit after you take it, if ever. Clues to Character . DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX ‘ 1927. Willie Willis BY ROBERT QUILLEN. Scathing Comment on the Young Men of Today | Who'Pass Up the Nice Girls for Petters—\Why a Man Judges a Girl by Her Home. EAR DOROTHY DIX: We are five “nice” girls. We are good looking. intelligent and dress well. We know how to dance, to swim, to play all outdoor sports. Our parents are able and willing to entertain for us and give our friends a good time. But we have few heaux and few dates hecause we do not pet or neck or kiss every Tom. Dick and Harry. We see ourselves passed over for girls not as attractive as we are. but who do the things that we have been taught it is not nice for young girls to do. We are not willin to lower our standards of conduct for the sake of having attentions from mer So what's the answer? Spinsterhood? FIVE GIRLS. Answer: The situation you describe is unlversal. so far as this country | It is a bald, stark, terrible, indisputable fact that everywhere refined are passed over for their brazen is concerned. the girls who are modest and half-sisters. Of course there are some exceptions to the rule. There are still men left who prefer violets to sunflowers and who still admire the girl who refuses to let men paw her over and to make of her lips a free-lunch counter for | every rounder who comes along. But there are not enough of these men to go around. And so the nice girls are left heauless and dateless, while the shelks joyride off with the Shebas. It's folly to deny that this state of affairs exists, because on every side of us we see pretty, bright, vivacious girls, girls full of life and fun, and of a type that a few years ago would have been belles, who are wallflowers- and solely because they are not “fast.” a speedy companion. He will not take a girl out who will not drink and smoke and submit to his familiarities. Therefore, the nice girls stay at home or zo out together on Adamless parties or have an occasional dafe with the rara avis youth who has enough decency to appreciate decency in a girl, 1t is terribly hard on these girls, because they are voung and long for the pleasures of youth. They desire beaux and admiration. They love to dance. And it seems a bitter mockery to them that their virtu re their undoing and that the more they are what a maiden should the less desirable they are in men’s eves. be It's eold comfort to tell them that a girl buys the attention of men at too high a price. Nor will it console them to tell them that the boy is a cheap sport who must get his money's worth of kisses and caresses every time he takes a girl to a place of amusement. Nor will it reconcile them to never having a sweetheart to tell them that men seldom marry girls with whom they have caroused, or that when these petters do marry they do not often stay married. What these girls want is to have a good time now. They want innocent gayety and the attentions of men that will not cost their self-respect. And because they are nice, men pass them by And that is true, and it's a sad an men of today. scathing indictment of the voung DOROTHY DiX. .. . JDFAR MISS DIX. Does a Young man judge a girl by the appearance of her home? I mean, whether it is neat and clean or dirty and untidy? CORA. Answer: He certainly does, Cora: and if he has any intelligence whatever he doesn’t ask the girl to marry him when she lives in a slovenly home. For he naturally thinks that the girl who has been reared in a slovenly home will keep the sort of a house that her mother does. And he also thinks that if she wasn't hone lazy she would get a broom and a mop and clean it up herself. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1927.) The Daily Cross-Word Puzzle (Copyright, 1927.) AR ENE A W R SRl ] L AN AN T W oA dll o ol W Aol ol o SR il B AN AW I« MENE R AEREEENERN 19. 21. 23. 2. 25. 26. 27. 28. 30. 31 32. 33. 5. 36. 39. 40. 43. “. Across. 1. Tending backward. 11. Hebrew month. 12. Expenditure, 13. Indefinite articl 14. Domestic animal. 16. Cut slantingly. 17. Insect. 18. City in Oklahoma. 20. One of the Dakotas (abbr.). 21. Ceremony. 22. Units of force. Father. Commence. Highest . Deposited, . Note of Guido's scale. . Vow. Prussian watering place. . Mountain in Theesaly. . Turkey (abbr.). Concerning. ‘The sun god. Street (abbr). Per cent (abbr.). Repose. Less wild. Three-toed sloths. Road (abbr.), Proposed international language. Devour. Bitten. A number. One who utilizes, Russlan ruler. Openings. Man's name. Goddess of earth. Printer's measure, int. My Neighbor Says: An simply | And the average young man demands | “A lickin® don’t last long if you ery | lond enough so your y the neighbors will he (Copyricht HOME NOTES BY JENNY WREN. it 10 An Fastern decorator offers these | lnmps which are exact copies of lamps installed by Thomas Jefferson in his home at Monticello, black with gold trimming and the globes are white-frosted. Of course, these modern versions are wired for electricity. A pair of these lamps would be es- pecially well placed in the study, on desk or writing table. They would look well also on the mantel of the austere Colonial room. A man would like them for either side of his dress- ing mirror, hecause of the clear white light they shed, or they might b chosen to complete a stately grouping in a formal entrance hail (Covyright. 19 LITTLE BENNY BY L Va. They are PAPE. Us fellows was sitting on Puds Kinses frunt steps and we started to have a debate on wich is the most dan- gerous, being up in a aireoplane or down in a submereen, Shorty Judge saving, A aireoplane is the most dan- gerous, eny dum fool knows that, sip- pose you was in a aireoplane about 100 miles strate up and vou humped into a big berd and he got all mixed up In your propeller, you never seen a submareen bumping into a berd. No, but they bump into fishes, dont they? I sed. If you was ever down in a submereen with nuthin around you but about a million bushels of | water and you bumped into sordfishes | sord, T bet you'd wish you was up in a aireoplane all rite. 1 sed. Sure, at leest you got plenty of air in a aireoplane, Puds Simkins sed. Yeh, air, thats all you do get in case |of a axsident, till you land on top of vour hed, and*then vou get plenty of mud and see plenty of stars, Glasses | Magee sed. Well wat do you get down in a sub- mereen in case of axsident? Skini Martin sed. Water, thats all, and by that time your down so deep your drowned by the time you come up for the ferst time, so wat must you be | the time you come for the 3rd time? he sed. | Never mind about water, you'd be glad to have even a glass of it if you | was fiying around about 500 miles up |in the air and your aireoplane forgot | how to come down, holey smokes, vou'd starve to deth of therst before you knew wat happened to you, no- body cant tell me a aireoplane aint | the most dangerous, Shorty Judge sed. | Wich jest then we herd fire engines and ran to beet the band without wait- ing to finish the debate. KITTY McKAY BY NINA WILCOX PUTNAM. scared | "| France continues under a planetary FEATURES. BEDTIME STORIES doorway and looked quite as if he were ac into houses for his food, he walked in and straight over to the | plata. There he picked out the own’'s Boy was | chojcest hit. politely d across the id of Jimmy Skunk. He | i to the door of the shed d heen the hestof friends | hacked out through the shed to the time. In fact, Farmer|outeide door, and there turned and wis on the hest of 1erm& ) went out on the doorstep to eat in his nmy's family He under- | yeual way. In a few minutes he was vYou know understand- | hack again and then went through is of true friendship perform It ® can be no real friendship with inder: Farmer Brown also was on 1« with Jimmy and his fam ! Farmer Brown knew just how much help those little fellows in blackand-w fur coats re to him on the farm. He knew t they h keep down the | grasshoppers. that they dug | up hundreds which destroyed new that they many other insects and tha ca ch are BY THORNTON . (in bout 1stomed the Then |to & Jimmy Is Invited In. Jou'll find that most folk_are polite If You take pains to k treat_them right Mother Brown. Of course Farmer not at all and Jimmy h for a long Brown's Boy with all of ) stood then ing the' basi ance Wy wa v back, back ng pains to fa When Jimms had He kne w ASS roots, ate h it mice t it long time to fe hat these Skunks s they appeared to be. However, after they hegan dining nightly at the | doorstep. and a little later coming into | the shed at the hack of the house | to get thelr food, her friendiness to iward them grew rapidly “What do you suppose Jimmy would do if T should invite him the house?” said Mother Brown. “I think he would accept the tation,”” replied Farmer Brown's Boy “But [ don't believe you dare do it Mother."” | Mother Brown's eyves twinkled, but | she didn't say anything, and the sub- ject was dropped. The following after- | noon Farmer Brown and his hoy drove | to the village. They would not et ack until late. When it got time for Jimy Skunk and his family to come for their supper Mother Brown sta- tioned herself at the window to watch. By and by she saw Jimmy ambling | ac the dooryard. He was alone For some reason or other the rest of the family were late. Mother Brown smiled. This just suited her. When | wished she Jimmy entered the open shed door he | kitchen in the found the door to the kitchen open and | stoad perfe Mother Brown standing in the door- | .fterward way. Jimy merely looked up. Then |do he picked up a hit of meat, hacked | pe to the open door, where he turned and | was took the meat out on the doorstep to eat. Mother Brown stepped out into | the shed. picked up the plate of food, {took it back into the kitchen, where she spread a newspaper and set the plate on this. Then she waited. Pres ently she heard Jimmy shuffing around in the shed. He was looking for that plate of food. In a moment his black head appeared in the door way “Come in, Jimmy,” said Mother Brown. “Come in. Your supper is waiting for you here.” Jimmy stood YOI SUPPOSE O TE T O THE BROWN JIMMY 5 HOU INVITE H HOU SATD M( 1IN HER {oned more appear in the kiteher Mrs. Brown supposed that he was Ihack fo more food mit he wasn't | Jimmy had decided that that kitche as an interesting plac to know more and he walked Motk Erown prise. and for rig He 1 minute t invited h still Jimmy £ to make su £ ndly she was. Then he n inspection of the kit ected everything. R Mot own realized was d a friend the htest fear. She chu do hope the folks wil g fore Jimmy leaves,” sald sh (Cony 1 hads n into the sh ! sniffed sort that time Jimmy adn't er inde THE DAILY HOROSCOPE Wednesday, February 16. Astrologers read tomorrow an evil day in which it is wise to let the usual | order of things proceed without at- | | tempting any sort of changes. | It is a day most threatening to per- sons who exercise governmental pow- ers, for their hest intentions are likely to he misrepresented Under this direction of the Europe will meet problems threaten to overthrow thrones, seers prophesy. Mars is in an aspect exceedingly menacing tomorrow and sensational nature from pears to be indicated. ‘ Jealousy and envy are supposad to be unusually prevalent under this | sway. It is well to cast out all sus- picions, if one would make the best of the day. The seers point out that under this direction of the stars leaders of men will pass away or will be deposed. Great storms are again indicated, | and they will be especially destruc tive on certain parts of the Atlantic Coast, it is foretold. | NoNeed for Dark Skin Now vou can have the charm of a f alcrystal clear skin—soft, velvety and aP- | milk white! For a new safe treat- | ment has been diseover which clears and whitens your skin. Almost overnight you can free your skin of froc pimples. red fessToughness or any hiemich. HRight be- Tors' bedtime - smooth_this cool. creme 'bn vour skin. The next | how blemishes have already gun to dis- appea; Tnisss 1t positively clears and Miiens sour skin in five daye your mones he ‘re 1 At all good drug_and o as Peoples Drug . own': O Donnell's ores” Gilman'= Drug Store. Christiana Goldent = Dept. S . Palais Kann S “0. Dept. Dept. St “that | the | | | news of a abroad fragrant rning see | government menacing clally, Ancient factories are to cloge in Eu- rope, if the stars are rightly read, and | ngw industries will arise in the United Sfates, which is to make great prog- ress in artistic products. In England the Labor party is to gain great power and to enjoy new benefits, it is prognosticated. This is not an auspicious rule for | quick-tempered persons, whether they {live in Europe or America. Divorces may be easily caused at this time. Persons whose birthdate it is may have a year in which they are assail- ed by conflicting interests, Children born on that day probably will be forceful and determined. These subjects of Aquarius usually have interesting careers. (Covprright. 19: ich financially is exceedingly and commer- | ¢Bleach Creme nly One Dye tints like This! ‘bave aversions to food. One can be starved into eating; one can be successfully dgnored till he eats; one can be won by good example; while another can be made. to eat by drawing his attention from the food to something more interesting as in the case of Ann who had a pet toy clephant which professed great interest in the bottoms of empty bowls and cups. It would wait patiently on the floor near her high chair till her food was gone and then come scampering joyfully to view the empty dishes. How Jane did eat to plegse that elephant! iron sink won't rust if wiped dry once a day, no mat- ter if water i{s poured in it the next minute. White enameled ware which has become stained. may be easily cleaned by rubbing it with a wet cloth generously dip- ped in baking soda. To use bread flour when pastry flour is called for in a cake recipe, use two tablespoon- fuls less of bread flour per cup. Meat, to be used in making soup, should be placed in cold water and gradually brought to a boil. A white wash basin, with warm soapy water and accom- panied with a small hand towel, placed near the work table, will be found to save many steps to Engineering degree (abbr.). . Fatty substance. . Point of compass. . Adjust beforehand. Down. BY J. 0. ABERNETHY. | "How IT STARTED BY JEAN NEWTON. To give your dalnty underwear and stockings friee tints, you must u dve. For the gorgeous tinting like ye in things when they are new, use riginal ond dyes. Don't stop with tinting, though! It's just easy to Diamond dye alm anything you wear—or the hangings the home—a brand-new color over the old. Home dyeing is lots of fun—and think of what it saves! FREE novw, for the asking! Your druggist will vou the Diamond Dye Cyclopedia_telling dozens of dye Hands for the Sword. There is a close relation between the mind and the_hands. The hand is the chief of staff to the brain. The brain commandsand the hands execute. Thus the hands are organs of expres- sion. The hands are the mind's most useful and honored, servants. They guide the pen, the tool of the me- chanic and the implement of the farmer. They feed, clothe and adorn us. Man is distinguished from the ani- mals chiefly by his hands—especially the thumb. Only men and monkey: have thumbs. Monkeys, apes, gorillas are in a class by themselves, for they have four thumbs while man has only two. Although the hand is not a com- plete requisite for reading character, it has its value. We do not think, reason or invent because we have hands; but rather because we do think reason and invent we have hands. Long hands indicate power. If they give you the grasp of friendship or love, you may depend upen them to the limit. The long hand is adapted for hard work and is distinguished for strength; it strikes hard blows, isn't afraid of getting hurt and s not squeamish about hurting others. Tt fa true in its affections and terrible in enmity. The long hand is better fitted to wield the sword than the pen. . Hurried. . A black wood. . Toward, . Massage. . American patriot and orator. . Happy. . A short-napped fabric. . Affirmative. . Itallan poet, . Go in. 15. Gain. 17. Small island. “Pulling Chestnuts Out of Fire.” To get somebody to pull your chest- nuts out of the fire is to use him to do something which ordinarily is ex- tremely risky, which is attended with great danger, or something which you | are unable, disinclined or afraid to do | for vourself. The reference is to the old fable of the monkey and the chestnuts. According to Aesop, the monkey o i ection having roasted some chestnuts, dis.|SCCI'S: contaming simple direction covered that they were 8o hot they |and will show you actual piece-gon could not be touched. | samples of colors. Or write for big So the monkey caught a cat and ! illustrated book Color Craft, free, from the sink while one is cooking. compelled the cat to pull the chestnuts | DIAMOND DYE, Dept. N4, Burl To mend agateware, take a out of the red-hot coals. ton, Vermont. piece of putty and mix with as (Copyright. 1927.) i much salt as possible. Place the N T NEW for 15 cta! AT dinner my elephant, My nice Pedro Elephant, Sits waiting around on the floor by my feet. He snorts, “Hurry up there, Ann. So when I climb up I can See all of your dishes cleaned up nice and neat.’ So all of my spinach nice, My bright yellow carrot dice, 1 pile on my fork, and I gobble them up. I eat all the crumbs up clean, My cookie and pink ice cream, And I drink :very drop of the milk in my cup. mixture over the hole, then put water into the kettle and set it on back of the stove until the putty is hardened. Cutting down the number of varie- ties of articles manufactured and standardizing production saves this country over 30 billion dollars a year. The average married woman has more trials than the average circuit judge! And then when my elephant, My nice Pedro Elephant, ~\ Comes scrambling along up the leg of my chair, He dances with all his might And squeals out his great delight (Copyrignt, 1997 (Covvright. 1927.) Sure Way to Get Rid of Girls—if you want plenty of thick, beautiful, glossy, silky hair, do b; all means get rid of dandruff, for it will starve your hair and ruin it if you don't. 1t doesn’t do much good to try to comb or wash it out. The only sure way to get rid of dandruff is to dissolve it; then you destroy it en- tirely. To do this, get about four ounces of ordinary liquid arvon; apply it at night when reti enough to moisten the scalp and rub it in gently with the finger tips. By morning, most, if not all, of your dandruff will be gone, and two or three more applications will com- pletely dissolve and entirely destroy every single sign and trace of it. You will find, too, that all itching “For the good old fashioned kind~Golden Brown A rare India blend VISITORS! 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