Evening Star Newspaper, September 20, 1927, Page 32

THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. €. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20. 192T. FEATURES. MILADY ' BEAUTIFUL BY LOIS LEEDS. WORD GOLF—Everybody’s Playing It BY JOHN KNOX. Go from HICK to CITY. This shouldn't be difficult. There are more | hicks in the cities than anywhere else. ¥ Did you ever have a PARTY turn to a FROST? It is a heart-breaking | experience. If you have a few of these books handy, you can always save | the evening. i Go from CALL to COME. Most women wish that husbands, children, | plumbers and dogs could he trained to do this. PRINT your “steps” here scalp need sun baths of about ten minutes’ duration. Long exposure to hot sunlight bleaches and dries the hair. Like many another heneficent agency, sunshine should be used with moderation. People who go without hats all Summer are likely to have streaked b e your hair its sun bath when you are drying it after a shampoo. Problems of Miss Fifteen. Pear Miss Leeds: (1) T am 15 years eld, 5 feet 3 inches tall and weigh #1 pounds. How much under weight am I? (2) T am only a girl and have no false ideas about being grown up, but I delight in the use of creams, etc., which I do not need. Will these harm my skin? (3) Please tell me Just how to manicure my nails. (4) Please give an inexpensive method ©of bleaching tanned skin. (5 What will take freckles off my nose? (f) The veins on my hands stand up terribly. Can this be cured? My hands are never white, even in Winter when the Summer tan is gone. What shall T do? () 1 have read that the hair needs sun baths and yet that the sunlight tends to bleach and r. Which is correct? ) DIMPLES. are about 14 poun under weight If you use a good | F brand of cream it will not hurt your skin if you are careful to wipe it off after it has accomplished its purpose The average facial cream is good for softening the skin and removing | LOIS LEEDS, Dry Hair and Complexion. | ] Do-Do—Please send a stamped, | 3 | self-addressed envelope for my leaf- lets on “Care of Dry Complexions” | nd “Care of the Hair” The latter| . describes the hot oil treatment that | vou should use, Buttermilk is a | {bleach and is good for the skin. | You should cleanse vour face with h I [cold cream in place of soap and water When writing again, ask also | for “Complexion Is” and autiful ures,” which give stions getting rid of blackheads und dark circles under the eves. LOIS LEEDS. kind of ingredients we use . . . the care we take with the mixing, raising and baking . .. the carefulness of our tests. .. Its rich, creamy flavor, its firm yet deli- cate texture, its nourishing wholesomeness give to Rice's just the qualities that Washington people demand in bread. Fresh—twice daily—at your own gro- cer's—each loaf with the seal and guarantee of the City Bak- ing Institute. Solutions on this page in today's Star (Copyright. 1027.) DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX l Mary L.—I shall be pleased to mail vou my leaflet, “Beauty I T which gives the exercises. re- quire. (2) Swimming, daneing and walking are splendid exercises for the limbs, AL C.—The ideal weight for a girl of your age and height is between 113 and 118 pounds. You are several | pounds underweight and cannot de- velop until vou gain as near normal weight as possible. In a quart of milk extra in your diet each day. I should like to send you my leaflet on “How to Gain Weight,” which gives some helpful suggestions | h regarding gaining weight. Ple: ’l‘ o/ Pouisn send self-addressed, stamped en- »-‘J\ THE NalL velope for it. M. B. C. dium high make your 5 You do not give me your grime, but it also tends to make the |paignt g0 I cannot judge whether pores relax unless an astringent 18|y, /e underweight or not. Special used afterward. I vou apply oily | jeveloping exercises will develop the substances to your skin when it al-|jower Jimbs. (3) Massage the scalp readyhas enough natural oil. the pores | ;1q brush the hair each day. are likely to become clogged and en- | {he shampoo, apply warm. Jarged. I suggest that you confine |14 Jeave it on ove: yourself to the use of a pure cleans- | Tyice a week mass: = ing cream, a skin lotion made of equal|\ith a good food c1 D food | parts of rose water and glvcerine With |and use a tonic three or four times | a dash of vour favorite perfume in it. |5 weck. Avoid curling the hair with and a weekly buttermiik-and-cornmeal | too hot irons. Brushing the hair will bleaching pack to lighten the tan and [ make it glossy. My leaflets, “Beauty | freckles. (3) Soak your finger tips|Exercises’ and “Care of the Hair, in warm, soapy gater for ten minutes | will help you immensely. Please send to soften the cuticle and the nails. | cell-addressed, stamped envelope for Gently push down the former with |them, the blunt end of an orangewood stick. | T, Trim the nails with manicure scissor then file them smooth with an emor board, using first the coarse sanded ‘surface and then the finer, reverse | mide. Clean under the free ends of the nails with the sharp end of the orangewood stick and then' file off any rough edges that remain with a fine steel nail file. Polish the nails next, then rinse them off, dry and Dolish again with the buffer. = It is| 2 good plan to rub a little cold cream ,into the finger tips at bedtime to keep the skin from becoming horny around the corners. (4) and (5 Use the| 3 u buttermilk-and-cornmeal pack. There | beauty problems in detail if you will are bleaching recipes in my leaflet on | Write again and inclose a self-ad- n -“Complexion 1lls,* which I shall be |dressed, stamped envelope. until she was, married and started with her husband to the fine position he glad to send vou on receipt of a| Betty—I shall be ple: had been given with a rubber firm in Ceylon, She said that she had never stamped, self-addressed envelope. (6)|you my leaflet on “Car decided a_thing for herself or bought a rment or even gone downtown The veins are prominent because your | Hair,” which gives the treatment | alone. Always mother had lived her life for her, dominated her, possessed hands are too thin. When your |and tonic, in detail, for falling hair.| her, and when she was thrown out on her own she was frightened, be- ‘weight is brought up to about 105|(2) General health plays a very big | wildered, helpless, filled with despair, pounds your hands will look better. |part in the condition of the hair. Massage a little food_cream into the | Build up your health in general to Is There Danger in Too Much “Protection” For a| Girl>—The That ' Scrubbing Brush—The In-Law Question Family Worships the EAR MISS DIX—T have been what is called a “‘sheltered” girl all my life. Never allowed to go anywhere without one of family with me, never permitted to visit my girl friends or to go to places with them. Now our | family is going to separate, and I am full of fear as to what the future will | hold and don't know how to take care of myself. Don't you think t | mothers make a mistake in babying their children too much? Wil Answer—It is a distorted parental Jove and a colossal egotism that makes parvents keep their children tied to their apron strings. It flatters | their vanity to have their children dependent upon them for everything and come to them for advice and counsel and look up to them as the source of | all supply. Also they feel that they can keep their children longer with them it they never let them make any outside ties or have any outside interests, Created expressly for Washington . . . exactly to suit the Washington taste . . . Rice’s is the bread that Washington people know. The big, clean bakery where Rice's is made is a familiar landmark in the city . .. has been as long as most Washington people can remember. We've had the pleasure of welcom- ing here hundreds of Washington housewives. They've seen with their own eyes the | may wear a me- | heel and short vamp to | feet appear shorter. (2) | You | And in excuse for the parents one must remember that® they are s Before | ed by their love for their children that they do not realize how selfish olive oil are nor how surely they are jeopardizing a child’s future. For the time must come when every boy or girl must stand alone, when all must de- pend on their own judgment, when they must live alone, and they are bound to stumble and fall if they've always held on to father's hand and been | guided by his advice, and had mother to comfort them. Even the birds have intellizence enough to thrust their young out of the | nest when the time comes and make fiedglings try their own wings. Cer- | tainly human beings should be as wise and prepare their young for life by | teaching them to depend upon themselves and make their own way in the world. . | M. K—The ideal weight for a of your age and height is he- tween 114 and 118 pounds. You ar several pounds underweight and | should try to gain as near your nor- mal weight as possible. My leatlets, “How to Gain Weight” and “Care of the Legs,” will help vou with your problems. Please send self- addressed, stamped envelope for these leaflets. ria S.—You are 16 pounds un- cight. The ideal weight for your age and height is betwcen 124 and 127 pounds. I shall be pleased to mail you my leaflets to cover your 1 believe that ir very inf hildern should be taught to do | things for themselves, on themselves and to decide minor matters for | themselves. They will make blunders, but they will learn from them and it will fit them for a life in which the race goes to the swift and the battle to the strong. Too much home life is not good for children. They become too much obsessed with the family point of view, too self-centered, and they need the contact with the outside world, the broadening influence of strangers with dif- ferent points of view. And the mother-love that absorbs gfhe child often makes the enforced separation that must come in a normal life a tragedy, I often think of a bride 1 met once-in a hotel on the other side of the w ho was enduring | an agony of homesickness that was almost wrecking her reason and her | young husband’'s happiness, This young woman told me that she worshiped her mother and that in all of her life she had never spent a single day or night away from her mother This young woman had made a splendid marriage in every sense of skin every might. (7)) The hair and BEDTIME STORIES Cubby Refuses. Wise is he. thor others scoff. ‘Who ki hi 1 1] 3 nows and keeps himeell well ot You will remember that Farmer Brown had called upstairs to ask if that Bear had been found yet, and Farmer Brown's Boy had replied, “Yes and no.” That was such a queer an- ewer that Farmer Brown demanded an explanation. “Well, you see,” replied Farmer Brown’s Boy, “I found him in the | night and lost him this morning.” “Good land™ exclaimed Mother Brown. “What do you mean by say- tng you found him in the night? If —a THE ROOF OF THE HOUSE. you found him, what did you do with him? Where did you find him? Where is he now? Why didn’t you hold onto him?” “Wait a minute—wait a minute!” cried Farmer Brown's Boy. *‘How do yon expect me to answer all those questions at once? I found him up in the bed springs in the middle of the night. 1 didn’t want to waken you folks, =0 1 left him there because I | knew that he couldn’t get out of my room with the door shut and the win- ‘dow screen in.” ““Well, if he couldn't get out, where @ he now?"” demanded Farmer Brown, Farmer Brown's Boy smiled some- what ruefully. “I knew he couldn’t get out,” said he, ““but he did ju same; he climbed up the chimne: 0od exclaimed Mother Brown again. “Do you suppose he's up the chimney now?” “That’s what I'm going outdoors to ®ce,” replied Farmer Brown's Boy, and out he went. Cubby was on the roof of the house. He was walking back and forth along the ridgepole, seemingly very well sat- tsfled. Farmer Brown's Boy began to call him. Cubby looked down at him, start with, BY THORNTON W. BURGESS In the first place there really was no way for him to come down. This sud- denly occurred to Farmer Brown's Boy, and he ran to get a ladder. With the ladder placed against the edge of the roof he once more began calling Rut Cubby still had a guilty He had no intention of com- ing down while Farmer Brown’s Boy was waiting for him. Farmer Brown's Boy went into the house and brought out some cookies. He knew there was nothing that would tempt Cubby more than some of Mother Brown's cookies. He held them up so that Cubby could see them. Cubby started down toward the ladder. Then he changed his mind and went back. Back and forth, back and forth, along the ridzepole he walked. looking down at those cookies longingly. Two or three times he moved to- ward the ladder, only to turn and go back. Freedom was better than cookies. He wouldn't sell his freedom for all the cookies in the world. Finally Farmer Brown's Boy went | away, leaving the plate of cookies a little way from the foot of the ladder, but where Cubby could see them. But Farmer Brown’s Boy didn't go far. | He didn't propose to have Cubby come | down and get those cookies and then | get back up on the house again. But even then Cubby refused to come down. The fact is, he wasn't so very hungry. He had had so much that was sweet the day before that his ap- petite was not vet very keen. He pre- ferred to stay up on the house. Per- haps he suspected that Farmer Brown’'s Boy was hiding nearby. (Copsright. 19 Kidney-Bean Stew. Wash one pound of kidney beans, put them in a covered kettle and soak | over night in eight cupfuls of cold| water. Cook the beans slowly in the water in which they were soaked. When the beans have heated through add one-fourth pound of sAlt pork or | dried beef cut in cubes and more hot water to keep the beans covered. Cook until the beans are nearly ten- der, usually about two hours. Wash three-fourths cupful of rice, cut up one onion and add three cupfuls of canned tomatoes to the beans. Cook until the rice is tender, or about 30 | minutes. Mix fhree tablespoonfuls of | flour with a little cold water and stir | in carefully to thicken. Solutions of Today’s Word Golf Problems. MICE, ix steps. PORT TROTS, FROSH, MITE, CIT! PARTY, 7 POOTS, TOOTS, TROTH, FROTH, FROST-—nine steps. , PALL, PALE, POLE, COMI—five steps. ‘but he made no move to come down. Its soeasy t dresses, hose or lingerie lovely new FAST DYES o give your colors with the word, but she was ruining it because her mother had made her too dependent upon her. And I thought that the cruelest mother alive could have done her daughter no greater injury. DOROTHY DIX. “ e DEAR MISS DIX—T am a young married woman of the middle class and try to be a good housekeeper, but my in-laws are always criticizing me because 1 will not get down on my knees to scrub a floor, and they don’t approve a mop. I like cleanliness, but I do not believe in making it a fetich. Don’t you think that when people make a religion out of a routine job, it is because they have nothing better to occupy their minds? If I did things the way they expect me to do, I would never have time to read even the newspapers. What do you think? MRS. J. K. T. . _Answer—T think vou are right and that about the worst sort of idolatry is worship of the scrubbing brush. Cleanliness is next to godliness, but it's not above it. I have been'in homes that were so neat and orderly that they were more uncomfortable than a pigsty would have been. My hostess looked at m feet to see if I had tracked in any dust, instead of my face to see if I glad to be with her. Every time you moved a chair you were made to feel that you had committed a sacrilege. It would have demanded superhuman courage tq, take a book down from a shelf, and to have made a spot on the tablecloth would have been regarded as a crime on a par with murder. Such a house is not a home. It is a prison. forward to coming home to it at night. No child ever stays in it a moment longer than necessary. Everybody flees from it to some other house where things are only moderately clean and never orderly and where people can relax and enjoy themselves. No man ever looked So you are exactly right not to sacrifice yourself to your house. When it comes to a choice between scrubbing the wall behind the kitchen stove and reading a good book, read the book. Your husband won't know whether there is a pinch of dust under the icebox, but he will know whether you | are an interesting companion or have nothing to talk about except how hard you have worked all day. And don’t make the mistake that many a good housekeeper does of scrubbing and cleaning so much that she keeps herself so nervous and irri- table that she isn't safe to speak to. There isn't a man living who wouldn't rather have a wife who was slack in her housekeeping and amiable than one who was a blue-ribban housekeeper with a temper that was hung on a hair trigger. SNy DOROTHY DIX. AR MISS DIX—In many cases the wife resents the idea that a husband loves his sister; in fact, seems to have an antagonistic attitude generally toward “his people.” Certainly a wife should be mistress of her own home and should not be interfered with by any one, but it does seem to me that a man’s relatives should be as welcome in his home as his wife's are and that a man’s children should know his sisters as well as hers. The saying that chil dren are nearer to the mother’s people than to the iather's should not be true, I know many cases where, in a financlal and social way, it would have been much better for the children if their mothers had not separated them from | their father's sisters, A SISTER. f Answer—The whole in-law problem is senseless and cruel, and works so | many wrongs to so many people. Nowhere else in the world would a little common sense, a feeling, a little generosity and justice go so far. For all that is needed is for the man’s family to keep hands off of the new home and for the bride to realize that when a man has married her it doesn't mean that he has ceased to love his own family any more than she has ceased to love hers, and that h}l: h;n just as much right to invite people into the house that he supports as she has. little good | 1 And if people would only realize what pleasure they can get out of their in-laws, what true and steadfast friends they can be, surely they would culti- vate love instead of hate toward each other! DOROTHY DIX. Copyright, 1927, To prevent tampering with locks, a brass unit, recently devised, slips into the keyhole, and blocks insertion of Mrs. Safford says: “Try Gorfon's Ready to Fry Cod Fish Cakes this new way” 1 can Gorton’s Ready-to-Fry Codfish Cakes 1% cpe milk " 1 tablespoon butter salt and Ppepper to,taste Mix together well, adding eggs last, place in a buttered casserole and bake in moderate oven. (Graham gems or 'HIS recipe, originated by Mrs. Frank Safford of Keene, N. H., suggests just ‘one of many, many dishes you can make using Gorton's Ready-to-Fry Cod Fish Cakes as a basis. Perhaps you have found some new ways to vary the serving of this popular dish—if 80, we would be slad to hear from you. Gorton-Pew Fisheries Co., Ltd. Gloucester, Mass. OR TINTS *“Gortom's Deep Sea Recipes.” The flavor that the critical Washington palate demands — rich with fresh, creamy milk from local dairies The wholesome- nessthat caused care- JulWashington mothers ro rank it in the same class with their own home- made RICE’S BREAD Copyright, 1927, by The City Baking Company