Evening Star Newspaper, August 17, 1927, Page 29

Short Skirts Still Debated BY MARY MARSHALL. Mrs. Vincent Astor is just one o large number of well d who seem to have grown u | tir of the very short skirt Funny thing—this question of si SR IR NS DOWDY PHIS FROCK | SATIN TRIM IN AND LONG Bl IS THE € OF BLACK MED WITH PINK . BEAD EMBROIDERY T BY NO ME. skirts. Just about the time that vour great-aunt Maria, who used to blush | at the sight of a skirt that s even 50 much as the ankle, has & enough courace to wear a reveals on cont her none t that a num able women have to P come back with that cidedly longer. And just as vour great-aunt Sarah has decided that it isn’t rveally soing | contrary to Scripture to cut off he hair, and is ready to admit that it a heap sight mora convenient to wear it short than 1 then vou will no- tice that the most charming debu tantes are letting their hair grow | ain. Tn words. hold, like fanita not the fir Nor vet the 1 Please exc the quotation, but those lines from Pope have been run- THE WOMAN AT BY CLYDE that urs of knee you find tashion aris and are de aceasions » shapel of the mo skirt as fashions, the same rule will are tried. | use Cleopatra was 28 when she married | Antony—for their union was regarded as a formal marriage by Cleopatia’s own people here seems to be no doubt that she was more fascinating | at this age than when, at nad won the love of the great Julius sar. Perhaps the fascination of this remarkable charmer of history was best ex ed by Shakespeare in his play, “Antony and Cleopatra These words are put into the mouth of a friend of Antony’s, who is fending the general for his long dal- liance with the Egyptian queen: “Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale, Her infinite cloy The appetite they feed: but she makes hungry Where most she satisfies.” Arthur Weigall, & historian, gives his descriptign of this 28-year-old Cleopatra when she sailed out from Alexandria to Tarsus to meet Anton “Around the helmsman a number beautiful slave women were grouped the guise of sea nymphs and and near them a company of | musicians played a melody u 1 their flutes, pipes and harps for which the | slow-moving rowers seemed to beat | the time. Cleopatra herself, bedecked | in the loose, shimmering robes of the | goddess Venus. lay un r awn -spangled with while boys dressed as cupids & d on el r side of her couch, fan her with col- | ored ostrich plun Catherine T of Russia age wh de- variety—other women of was of this he was the thonian irst met ho f her protector, Menschikoff. hands were m the hard work she had done or years of her had taken the Gen stil girl Buying Better Shirts. ter shirts does 1 KITTY McKAY BY NINA WILCOX PUTNAM . taken sir CALLL s secretly married to | said to be the * rtha | month of the year. at the! | ad- | the d al nking Unless you th are qu wdopted 18 yet. old-fashior it be not the th side fashion vers ha \ the directic forget it the pattern for the 1 have had mad Some of the smart showing light slippers yrations o simy paint, th L pair of w or convas shoes—that if the pattern. Just send a addressed envelope (Conyright LITTLE BENNY don't des And be you want that shor with nd heels design o1 1927 BY LEE PAPE. ) smoke with his Willyun of going to the Pop was star feet up, and ma wat do vou think of the i Tl whoss going with s P Wiilyum undue s 1 was to put rants, know nking of you, ma | pertend vou dont about back the dont p wen you me the plot of ow, pop sed how can sed, and pop sed about that, yeu for not wunting of a sound sleep | of Love In a he pickiure is, wen st well tomorrow reed the morn O thats all rite, worry me, if Im Now Willyum vating me me s woke up out n to the storr as mornir ) ing paper at th t How one 1 1 can he so ixasperat s heyond the relms of my comper- | .‘ma sed. Do vou wunt to go | jes with me or dont you, n black and wite werds? she O, vou wunt me to go with vou, whx | cnt you say pop sed, and ma | 3, I did say so, but you havent told | vet, and Il delibrity throw some th at you i other minnit Why, we§ mu i do? pop sed, ma sed, € 'shut up, if you wun know something in werds of one Enyway, the main pickture is go- to be followed by one of those vulger Kut Up Kom- and you'd probably make me | and sit through it, so Im glad| r not going, she sed Who sed Im not going? pop s Hurry up, sometimes they put those comedies ferst insted of last, he sed. And they quick went out and I went to bed on account of having bin warned to, and about 2 hours later was woke up on ing loud downstairs on ac heing mad because there wasent eny Kut Up Komedy around there after all. TWENTY-EIGHT from his general and, havi legal wife Eudozia to inst her will, secretly married the ing Esthoniam when she 28. Later when she was recogniz as Empress of Russia she remembered | that she had had a brother—orphaned | in childhood like herself. He was| then working as a stable boy, while che wore the imperial crown—but she sent for him and had him made a t. His descendants were later into some of the noblest Russia Polish actress Modjesks of her marriage Although she cl married families of The great was 28 at the time to Charles Chlapowski. had been unhappily married before nd this second husband was a year | her junior, the marriage proved a long and very happy one. orge Sand was 28 when she pub- lished “Indiana,” the novel that first brought he Dorothy who has already known many years | of fame and fortune—in fact, her| stage career dates from the time she | was 4 years old. She is two years vounger than her celebrated sister Lillian. Mme, Le Brun, the famous portrait painter, was made a member of the French Academy when she was 28, Clara Morris, the _distinguished American actress, was 28 at the time | i | of her marriage to Frederick C. Her- iot in 1874, As M ecalled, Mr. Herriot propos day, gave opals which she wore the ceremony, m: s Morris later d on Fri- diamond ek for rried on a Monday- cond worst day of | n November, the worst | Going away their | “driver got himself all tangled up in | great funeral.” Yet the marriage proved a happy one and, commenting on it later, Clara Morris said, “not a| sign of a divorce was to be found in | the house.” the week” i | ire several essential collar_or | the v on kimpy | t an| . Better shirts | greatly In a | { example, | nd ! ' that have 11 tr dust or square shir been cut | any v ake to allow that Materials_such ftannel will shrink 1t fact must be om reputable | he same kind g 1" Hole. iped hole To Mend Ugly ough | cad of through tie | 100k crestfallen | weeks | of gr | Serve in the c T} full No to nied by lin teeth 1 ed out one vihly chance ind th he's ever re isn't comir c t about lightest Women U've hardly met » would come wat she k zan with her, and she’s hearti Mildred is no exception to the simply mystified at the depar ture of her Ronald Ronnie’s story is d she well knows why ifere are the « had bec wound t v good when Jane (Goss came to And what Jane did | to all the heaux of other girls f history > of thos rder than chased Jane back to her He wrote her rs every ind he spent all_the money ving to marry Mildred, just e a good time, When the smoke of bat wred away, it was discovered Jane had eloped with another imd Ronnie was a sad pi | Well, Mildred took him back. She | took him back in the face of every | one’a ineredulous amazement. She wept and forgave him publicly. Tvery | one thought it was beautiful of her So did Ronnie For a couple of months after th it reconciliation he was as humt ind grateful as any man could be. Then, naturally, he to ac normal fashion and hecame , carefree Ronnie agait the change and re He says left rent he up an Ronnie and Mi n bu sther fo two v town steady who fell most. H home o minute, | he was give | that guy L more the old teasit Mildred watched sented it She was stil in her own tho it was Ronnie to grow gay so suddenly “Well, really, Ronn noticing what a change he vou sinece you decided to drop and give me a little time again.” he would remind him in a dozen different ways of pectacle he had made of himself. She threw it up a hundred times a_day that if it hadn’t been for her noble nature, he would) never have been able to come bac to her All right. Tt used to sober him up | tirst e would stop dancing and if she mentioned Jane ut the effect wore t used to her re-| 5 n to scowl when got in her famous dirty dig hen he iznored them. And finally | he ignored her. He told me that he | couldn’t contemplate marriage with Mildred when he realized that every «in he committed would be held over | his head for the next hundred vears. | 1f vou make up your mind to | forgive a man, then you've got to| make up vour mind at the time to for- | got his crime—and never mention it | Again. ven if you don't forget ve the impression that the unfortu nate incident, whatever it may have been, has passed from your mind for eve Forgiveness without forgetfulness 1s no forgiveness at all itk G Everyday Law Cases Are, you very rtles: and happy again Joan of T can't hely < come over Jane at | you must | Will Owner's Failure to Keep Car Locked Nullify | Theft Policy? BY THE COUNSELOR. The theft insurance policy which covered Dr. Bell's automobils provided | that “in con eration.of a reduced premium, the insured will not ar unattended without locking the | device attached to the gear | Dr. Bell took particular care to| comply with this clause the first few fter he purchased the car. But | he became more careléss as time wens | on, often leaving it unattended with- | out locking the device. One evenir after receiving a call from a patient Dr. Bell hurried to his car, but found that it was gone. He notified the insurance company and filed his claim. The insurance company. learning of Dr. Bell's habit ual carclessness and that at the tir of the theft the device was not locked, | refused to pay the claims, as they considered the breach sufficient té nul lify the insurance. Dr. Bell contended, however, that the breach did not nullify the policy, but merely made him liable for the in- | creased premium charged in policies | not_containing the special stipulation The court decided the of the insurance company, saying: | “When theft policy upon an| rtomobile provides that in consider- | ition of the contract the insured shall | keep a certain device locked when the | car is left alone such policies may be forfeited by the insurance company | if the condition subsequently is mnot | complied with.” | se in favor | Meat-Macaroni Hash. in and put it into a but sor adding a little clarif sausage fat. Push the macaroni to the sides of the dish and add a sprinkling ted cheese. Fill the center with chopped cooked m iny kind, with which a little en mixed. Moisten with meat stock 3 in the oven until hot throughout. | ole. | | = S | Coconut Cake Pudding. | Scald one cupful of milk. Reat into | » cupful of - sponge cake f i1 of coconut | 1 Beat in a 1 the beaten | slks of two eggs, then fold in the s beaten d Tur dish and bake | for about 40 with cream rains of salt tes of two ¢ » a buttered baking a pan of hot water €. Serve at once hipped or plain in | of black | side arapery were WINDTESDAY, Across. Chivalrous qualities, Legal delay. That is (abbr.), . Fragments, Bries 15. Continent (abbr.), . Usad to e Province (ahbr.) . Religious denominati Musical instruments, 7. Gr letter, . Mother. Excluding all others . Ireland. . You and T. Ancient city. . Fasten dingly. Down. ¢ of (plural unit distance Jlie official ‘ Masculine name, . Elated, Made of flimsy Smallest. At present., Before, Continuous supply. . Compass poin . Feather, Suflix of agency. Compass point Collegiate degree. Tor example (abbr.). Sun god. = m. minine nickname. . Part of a barn. . A drink, NANCY PA metal SE Dresses Are Two-faced and Sometimes Three Tiered BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. It seemed to Nancy that Autumn frocks were better looking than any | she had scen for son They | were simple in so far trimming went, but because of that simplicity. reliable pattern, a dress form certain amount of needle skill > and was sure she could duplicate one or | the dresses she admired. One in particular was rose re crepe-backed satin. T two sides of the material were u 1 The silk was so woven that the was utilized also. two of tin side was turned out for | of upper the frock. The flounce or the cuffs main and part the of the skirt were of the with selvage edge. The bow with dull side out but showing glints of the shiny side was attached to the frock with a crystal pin. erystal buckle held the belt in pl ey discove that the smart- frocks used a erystal pin some- where. Another dress she liked crepe-backed satin. Th as made f othe satin side, d at the neck and the two ves with a flowing all of the satin trij The n min flat ba pplique (Covy Alligators can hiss, roar somewhat like lion: Now—Quick Oats, with Famous “Quaker Flavor” ICK UAKER OATS Quicker than toast! Quicker than coffee! Ready in 2% to 5 minutes! The original and Genuine. ~ A‘ made of | tier dull-finished | . Conjunction. ranation of radium, ard. v (abbr.). 3 sh' city. 36. Maid loved 10. Prefix of € 1 waiian bi 4 Zeus, s names, te of the sc i rive o the (abbr Z[mw|em]p|z[zIm(T AUGUST 177 19273 Your Baby and Mine i BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED. First and foremost of the reasons | why a baby should have a daily bath | > the skin exercise the prima by | how | therefor | him daily. | This mother baby's skin mot v small baby can ge no reason should {1 n n, through which s | from the body are pourir Though we t the s from the lungs and skin, they exist, | nevertheless, and th ) help the body to get rid of its poisons, Infants lie swathed in woolens most of the day (during the Winter montk and so their skins do not the benefits on least they shonld be reli clothes, the skin massaged with hands | and towels and exercised by the stimu- | lation of hot water and the cooler air. Thus only ean the skin be kept clean | | and active in i ty as an organ of climination. | During the Summer months the skin | is active, but in this sea e | an adjunct in keeping the baby cool. | Several sponge baths a day will not | hurt the older child, and the baby | should have at the very lea morning warm bath and sponge at bedtime. No matt restless and hot, this swift, cool sponge will bring down his body tem- perature and put him in a fit mood to | go to sleep restfully and quictly. The temperature for the small|l haby's bath should be about 98 or 99 | | degrees by bath thermometer. It is) organs of n how | customed to cooler water by lett run over him just before he is take tub.” This does not mean | s fey water over him and shock e poor baby, hut to u - water and_gradu tom n to a more decided chan temperature, If the ba warm and j ! lively this, one will ¢ that has been invigorating, | but if he is pale and cold he has not | I reacted properly and the cold wa 11d not be used. from t ing £ Iy co the cool water Green Pea Omelet. |c Hav of two quarts greer nd cooked, or can | ! son. Break four q | into a and beat lightly with a |7 fork, ugh to mix the whites | ind I t one tablespoonful of | butter in a pan. When melted, but | not brown, turn in the Cook | arefully over a hot fire, shaking the | pan, so that the omelet will not burn, and’ with a thin-bladed knife lift the allowing the uncooked por to run underncath. When the ¢ is firm, but not overcooked, | with salt and pepper, add some of the 1s, fold, and turn onto a hot platter rnish_with the remainder of the as and parsley, and serve at once, on less dandruff, and it is out s vellowish cru however, through MILADY BEAUTIFUL BY LOIS LEEDS. Controlling Dandruff. 1y '7‘005 may be used on alternate weel |if the hair is oily; they do not in- crease dandruff, but they must be brushed out very thoroughly. When the dandruff is fine and dry in oily ointment is often helpful. The be rubbed into th One and one-half sulphur, two e, ten graing 1ce olive oll, one Practic ever as more or 1ly natural TH our t this should be so. shedding 1 ff on stantly in which come wr and In our baths withor ttention. The partic n that appear on t prevented by th 1\ falling off at once n the sc ine, one wurse -haze ed. Whe \heth M.—Your questlo Please send a stamp- \ddressed envelope for my 1 “Care of the Hal The you mention is O, K. for ampoo (Covyright. 1927.) are Lessons in English BY W. L. GORDO} often m of to express e extrem con- ‘1‘,\ ' Oftin ure), pronour gan), pronour Often mis Synony failure, Word study—“TUs 1 or misprof i (meas day or the hair b hed o flakes of dandruff in extreme cases form ts on the head by mix- with the secretions of the ofl 4 eat Large amounts of firids: SOl (t is ad skin keep the air from the | crease our vocabu alp and invite infection. Lone word each Usually people neglect this scalp | hereditary; der ndition until the ruff colleets in | “He overcame 1 wch quantities that it bec ViEr Aratta e of embarrass i as other beauty f prevention is wor One should mak the and hair re they show any oroughly umulate and el prevent st the oder be' Cenn i ?f ‘ with Junce )t cure. sealp the an be given. Th nirbr nent that 1d have yne should be sura to | the hair. Of c horough method of bru nuss one's marcel wave, but the 10 equally effect] to 1 v cure dandruff | Brushing and asional use of fine comb will keep dandruff in weck in most cases. In addition, reg- | slar shampoos are required. The soap | 1 should be in a liquid form. Tinc- | green soap makes a particu- | 1 shampoo for scalps t essive dandruff. A stror i solution or other antiseptic 1sh is also excellent to combat the sdged among the flakes of dead . Twice a month is usuually often ugh to wash the hair. Dry sham- | [ 9 n at all drug and 25c& 50c¢ depanmentgswm MUM MFG. 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