Evening Star Newspaper, September 15, 1927, Page 55

WOMAN'S PAGE. Trend Is Against Imitations BY MARY Jean Patou, the famous dressmaker, was recently quoted as saying that he *could no more use those fancy furs of the rabbit and hare family.” He doesn’t like imitation furs any more G-15 BROWN BEAR FUR GIVES THE §DUCH N* NEWNESS TO Tk #POAT COAT OF HEAVY BROWN CLOTH. THE SKIRT IS_QF BROWN AND TAN WNOL_ MIX TURS, WITH A WOOL JERS SWEATER AND A BROWN AND TAN CHECKED SCARF. than he likes imitation jowelry, and he would like to think- that it is con- trary to the instincts of a trve French- ARSHALL. | woman ever to content herself with | second-rate furs or jewelry. There is, of course, much to be said on hoth sides of the question. If a fur is effective and looks all right, what difference does it make if it is rabbit plucked and shared and dyed to look like something else? Very few furs come to us in anything at 1 like their natural state. But, for my own part, since T can- { not afford Russian sable or many dia- monds, I would rather wear some good fur or jewelry that was as good as it could be had of its sort than rabbit dyed to look like sable or bril- liants made of paste. But that is merely a personal prejud 1 know plenty of very well dressed women— women of the hest possible taste— who can hardly understand such a prejudice. In fact, there are plenty of women who, while perfectly able to | afford sable and all sorts of diamonds, | wear the imitations just because they | | are cheap and may be easily replaced. The tendency right now really does | seem to be against the cheap imita Chains ‘of real aquamarines, or amethy are suggested | by Patou instead of those of imitation | pe; | high-priced furs as bear have been chosen by some of the coatmakers for | collars and other decorations. topazes There is a little neglige T feel sure you would like to copy, and you would | probably be able to cut it out and make it in one sitting. And if you don’t need one for vourself, it would make a charming Christmas present for the girl at school or college, the engaged girl, or the busy young housewife who still likes dainty neg- liges, even though she doesn’'t have much money to spend for them. An informal little evening wrap that You v ntike at home may be cut from the same pattern. (Copyright, 1927, —e Savory Stew. Cut in small pieces one pound of beef or mutton, either flank, neck, rump or brisket, brown in two table- spoonfuls of fat or with a small piece of fat pork. Add some parsley or soup herbs and a quart of water, or if the cereals are uncooked use one and one- half quarts of water and add the cere- a's. Add four medium-sized potatoes or thr - cupfuls of cooked or one cup- ful of uncooked barley. rice, hominy grits or macaroni. Simmer for one and one-half hours or use a fireless | cooker. If the potatoes are used, cut them up in small pieces and add them to the stew after it cooked one hour with two vegetables, choosing onion: green peas or beans, turnips, or cabbage. Allow an hour for the vegetables if the stew simmers, less time if it boils. Add a teaspoonful of salt and half a tea- spoonful of pepper. OUR CHILDREN By Angelo Patri Learn It Right. ‘When a child learns something he must learn it right. If he gets the ‘wrong idea the first time, it is likely 1z stay for a long time and give him = xreat deal of trouble. Get it right before it is accepted as complete. ‘That does not mean that he will get the thing right the very first time. If you are teaching him to say & bit of verse and he gets a word wrong, correct the word and let him say the line three or four times—no more—trying to get the word right. If on the fourth trial he still gets it| wrong, let it go, but say, “That isn't quite right. It's nearly right. To- morrow we will work at it again and | #ee if we can’t get it perfectly.” | If he is learning a table, as he will in the early grades, note the combina- tions he gets wrong and stay on them | W day after day until he has them accu- rately. A table half-learned is worse than a table unknown. He can learn a new table with one-tenth the diffi- culty, he finds in correcting a half- learned one. Ill-learned. half-mastered work takes all the joy out of school or shop. A curate work brings its own high moods. The feeling of power it brings adds more power and the little worker becomes the big skilled worker or the finished artist. There is no tonic like the feeling of fitness, and there is no way to capture that feeling save by the old way—the straight and narrow way of hard work. But be reasonable with the learning ehild. You are trying to give him the product of centuries of work all in a lesson period. -That cannot be done. He must find new nerye cells and muscles. e must orghnize powers that he has but this minute created. He must function knowledge that is mot yet ripe. What a pile of confu- mion waits upon such a task. slowly and speak gently. Give him a little today and a little more tomor- row, and by and by the task will be completed. “I don’t like my sister to teach me. She makes me swallow my breath. 1 like only my grandmother to teach me. She lets me think it into my own head, and she never says ‘Hurry up; hurry up,’ ” said a 4-year-old who was taking her first easy steps to reading. Make the first lesson of any kind short and interesting. Leave off when the child has the point you wish to make and leave the way open for the next lesson. If the child cries over a task, you may be sure that there was something wrong about the lesson. Either you did not teach it the right Go | way, you taught it at the wrong time or in the wrong place, you taught it before the child’s mind was ready for it. Something was wrong. A child learns happily or he doesn’t really earn. One thing more is highly important. Make sure there is no one sitting by listening and criticizing and putting in his word while you teach a child. There must be n audience; just the child and the teacher. The best work is done when the child is learning un- consciously. Select the time and the place and the lesson, and be sure the point ie learned accurately before you allow the child to accept it as finished. (Copyright. 1927.) Mr. Patri will give personal attention to inquiries from parents or school teachers on e CA, Gnad development of children. of this paper. inclosing self-addressed. stamped envelope for repiy. — MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN. One mother says: Since 1 so often call in the chil- | dren’s father to uphold me in an ad- verse decision or to administer a | needed punishment, I reserve for him ! some of the happiest contacts with the children. He it is who gives out the candy or any other after-dinner - treat; he reads aloud from their favor- ite book, and WaIf the time it is he i who tucks the children into bed. (Conyright, 1927.) Straight from dewy fields they bring you this crispness NLY a few regions Lave soil and climate that produce the finest cucumbers. Here Libby has furnished growers with pedigreed seed and estab- lished scores of pickling stations. Fresh from the fields, the finest part of each crop goes into Libby’s Pickles. Always they bring you the rcfreshing crispness you like so well. Libby, M¢Neill & Libby And such really good but not | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER WHO REMEMBERS? BY DIC Registered. SFIELD. Patent Office When the Pennsylvania Horseless Carriage Co., located at 930 northwest, was the first dealer in automobiles city directory. NANCY PAGE Washington listed in the Fresh, Clean Powder Puffs. BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. The cosmetic shop which Nancy patronized was doing a most unhear of thing. It was announcing a series of lectures by an eminent skin spe- clalist. ness. He did not embarrass his listeners by asking them to show him their powder puffs. He said he knew what they looked like without seeing them. He had taken a powder puff used by a girl who was scrupulously clean, or > she considered herself. He found it contained 20,000 bacteria—some safe His first subject was cleanli- and some dangerous. The audience looked aghast. He advised a clean puff cvery day, Puffs can be washed in soapy wat rinsed well and dried over gentle heat. Modern ones are not expensive and are protected while in the shops by their glassine envelopes. He added that a whole year's supply can be purchased for a few dollars. Then he talked about face powders and creams. He advised their use. with discretion—discretion in pur- chasing, in selection and in applica- tion. To Brighten Cutlery. Almost every housewife has an odd assortment of cooking cutlery, with different colored handles. One house- wife painted every wooden handled plece in her kitchen a pretty shade of blue. For this she used lacquer which dries in a few minutes. On the top side of each piece she painted a small vellow flower with green leaves and stem, and over this she added a lin- oleum varnish’ which will resist hot water, strong soap, and 5o on, and will not wash or peel off. street | DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX Shall a Fine, Clean Boy-and-Girl Friendship Be -oken Up?—The Wife of the Tightwad. Should Girls Go Riding With Strange Boys? | | | [DEAR MISS DIX: My daushter has a 10-vear-old son who s exceptionally | 1)™\\illtant. He has always been allowed to decide for himself and we have | never had cause to regret any of his decisions. He does not run around to | Wwild parties, nor does he drink or smoke. He has grown up with a little girl Who lives nearby. They are continually in each other’s company and are devoted friends, but because of his age my daughter severely objects to their fssociation, fearing an elopement. His association with this girl has never | harmed him in any way. In fact, he has benefited from it, because it has | taught him that women, also, think. Do you think more harm can come | from his association with one intelligent girl than with 50 flappers? A GRANDFATHER. Answer: I think that your daughter is entirely wrong in her position, and (hat she is taking the surest possible way to bring about the catastrophe she dr is a catastrophe for a boy of 19 to marry before he has come to knows what he wants in a wife and before he is financially able 1 don't wonder that your daughter wants to save her | himself ana | to support a family. son from such a fate. Left alone, such a level-headed hoy as your grandson is would never | think of such a thing as marrying while he is still a lad. Probably he would never have thought of being in love with the girl if his mother had not suggested it to him, but she has made him sex-conscious for the first time. She has put the girl before him in the light of a sweetheart, instead of just the pal that she has always been. to n that ung people to 1t is curious that parents never have enough sense | opposition is the greatest matchmaker in the world. Forbid | see each other and they will break their necks to hold secrct trysts, simply | hecause the adventure of the thing fires their imagination. Many a hoy and | irl sneak out of the house to hold stolen rendezvous when they would yawn | in each other's faces if they could meet wherever they chose in broad daylight. The efficacious way to break off a match is to give voung people an over- dose of each other’s society, not to forbid them to speak to each other. To oppose a match puts a hoy and girl on the defensive and makes them champions of those of whom their parents disapprove. Mary may secretly have her doubts about John heing a hustler and she may be suspicious that he is too fond of drink, but when, father calls him a lazy loafer and a drunkard she is bound to deny it flercely and to cloak all of his faults with so many virtues that she conjures up for him that she at last hides his weaknesses from herself. Tom may have inklings that Susie isn't an intellectual heavyweight and that there isn't much to her except her complexion and her shingle bob, but when mother calls her a silly little flapper he has to invent an alibi for her S0 strong that he comes to believe it himself after he has told it over often enough. | So vour daughter will be well advised if she withdraws her opposition | to her son's friendship with this girl. So far it is nothing but a clean boy-and- | girl friendship, without sentiment in it, and such a relationship will do much | to keep him safe through the perilous time of adolescence. There is no such | stimulating influence for a lad than such a friendship. rls are a part of | every hoy’s education, and lucky indeed is the one who begins the study of s found. | the feminine sex with such a mentor as your grandson h DOROTHY DIX. | l AR MISS DIX: Life is made unbearable to me by my husband’s attitude toward me about money. He doles out what little I get in one and two dollars at lengthy inter It is impossible to plan for any special occasion because T don’t know whether 1 will have enough money to do it or not. Whenever the word “‘allowance” is mentioned it is like the sound of the pr fight gong. Things are becoming very tense, and unless there is a chan | soon there will be another job for the divorce court. 8 ciE .o Answer: Any man who doesn’t give h's wife a regular allowance for the househo!d and for her personal needs is utterly lacking in generosity, in Jjustice and in good, hard common sense. He is lacking in generosity because no man of any liberality of spirit would be willing to humiliate his wife making her come to him like a beggar asking for alms. Every man knows that self-respect is based on financial independence and that it hurts a woman's pride just as much as it does a man's to have to ask some one to give her the food that she eats and the clothes on her back, to say nothing of a few cents for spending money. A man is unjust to his wife when he refuses to give her an allowance because he is withholding from her the money she earns by her own hard labor. Whether a woman does the washing and cooking and scrubbing to make a comfortable home for a man, or whether she makes his place in society for him and is the shop window in which he displ: his success and prosperity, she works for and earns her share of the family income. She is a partner. She is entitled to her part of the profits of the domestic concern, and when her husband refuses to give her her share he is giving her just as dishonest a deal as he would give his business partner if he managed somehow to grab off everything that was made. A man lacks intelligence if he does not give his wife an allowance, hecause she cannot manage her household economically if she does not know what her resources are, nor how much income she can depend upon. And, furthermore man shows lack of sense in not giving his wife an allowance because that way he would conserve his domestic peace and save himself from the annoyance of being continually nagged for money. Also, he would keep his wife from continually planning to leave him, as every wife of a tightwad secretly does. DOROTHY D! D R MISS DIX: 1. Is it right for girls to go to ride with strange boys who have introduced themselves? Do boys respect the girl who does this? Is it right for a girl to write to her beau first if he asks her to? Should a girl give a boy another date after he breaks one without a reason? JOAN AND JEAN. Answer: 1. No girl can do a more dangerous thing than to go to ride with hoys that she does not know. Decent girls do not do such a thing. 2. It your beau wanted to hear from you, he would write first. | 3. A girl is silly who makes dates with a hoy who breaks them without | good reasop. She invites only a repetition of the offense and lowers herself | in the boy's eyes by being so anxious for attention she is willing to be flouted. DOROTHY DIX. Stuffed Celery Sahd. Wash the celery and cut it into con- venient pieces for handling. Fill the hollow part of the stalk with a mix- ture of cream cheese, chopped olives, nuts, a very small bit of red pepper and salt to taste. Sprinkle lightly with paprika. If desired, use Ameri- | can snappy cheese or pimento cheese instead of the cream eheese. Serve the stuffed celery stalks on lettuce A slice of fresh tomato adds a | color to the salad | Five-Minute Cabbage. Shred the cabbage up fine. Cook it just about two minutes in hot milk, half as much milk as you have cab- bage. Then for each quart of cab- bage add a cupful of cream or rich milk, with two tablespoonfuls of but- ter blended with two tablespoonfuls of flour. Season with salt and pepper, \N.\.m' and boil for three or four min- utes, he result will be a crisp vege- 1ible, delicate and delicious, 15, 1927. SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. Jest a minute, Miss Bibbs, an’ T'll| be ready to play bein’ the dear ‘ittle muvver bird. I dropped what I bringed to feed .y baby bird wif. (Copyright. 1927.) THE DAILY HOROSCOPE Friday, September 16. Good and evil planetary influences | contend tomorrow, according to as- trology. There is a fairly promising sign for merchants and manufacturers, who should be wise in making decisions under this sway. Business should be encouraging and profit is foretold from exact organiza- tion. ‘While there is a sign read as pre- saging bitter commercial competition from foreign nations, the TUnited States will develop new trade, espe- cially in South America. Education continues under the most stimulating and expansive influences. | Through its enterprise the nations of | the world are to be brought closer together. ‘This is not an auspicious rule for lahor, and especially for that which i connected with mines. Difficulties | may be expected. ngineers, contractors and all who are interested in building of any sor will benefit at this time. | Advertising is still subject to the! most favorable sway,-which promises great gains and corresponding profit. Owin, to the baleful effect of the total eclipse of the sun last June, Paris, Rome, Belgrade and Warsaw are to be scenes of varied troubles, it is prophesied. For the Winter, after the partial eclipse of December 24, loss of life by war or by some great convulsion of nature is foretold for Europe. The seers again prohpesy warlike preparations abroad that will be of special interest to the United States. Persons whose birth date it is may have a few unusual anxieties, but otherwise the year will be satisfac- tory. Children born on that day probably will be exceedingly determined and able to cope with all sorts of diffi-| culties, (Copyrizht. 1927.) Hard to Understand. From the New York Herald-Tribune. Funny that while Mussolini is tidy- ing up everything in Italy he hasn't ear, Mrs. G. made from diluted white of eg thought of straightening the leaning | It's fine other to start the em; it tors talk to the se can take 1 think solve one spoonfuls down. 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