Evening Star Newspaper, September 23, 1927, Page 40

" ~ > WOMAN'S 'PAGE. Touches That Lend Charm to Home BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER THE EVENING WHO REMEMBERS? BY DICK MANSFIELD, Pogistered. U. S. Patent Office STAR, WORD GOLF—Everybody’s Playing It BY JOHN KNOX. WASHINGTON, The woman who is fond of the nice. ties of life is the one who will make attractive decoratively, and it is she who will bring up a fam- 1ly: to appreciate the best things, to do and o recognize which of the things about the home mos the work in the daintiest of w THERE SEEMS TO BE AN AFFIN- ITY BETWEEN THE WOMAN ‘WHO DELIGHTS IN THE NICE- TIES OF LIFE AND FLOWERS WHICH SHE IS APT TO HAVE IN THE HOME. them are of value. It matters not whether the family is rich or lacks money, the cultural element will be evident both in the home atmosphere created by inanimate things and that of the human side of life. Each will reflect her attitude and her training. There are women_who have an in- stinct for these niceties. Have you never seen one child in an otherwise usual family who always gave to Copyright. 1927.) il S8 e ~ g7 JEE &5 . Features. . Collection of facts. . Dry. . Fragment. . Crash. . Withered. . Sticky substance. . Turn to the right. Each (ab.). Prefix: into. Period of time. . German city. L Try, . Gaze steadily. . Fowl, . Filament. . Toward. Impose upon. Nickname. . Act. Proposed international language. Mixed type. Conjunction. 5. Italian river. . Before, 7. Cushion. New England State Finished . Condition. s ta ooty 1 P Ed (ab.) Down. Huge. Within., Announces. Comfort. Amount of surface. Mud. Paradise. Letters Igitials of a President. ver to Yesterday's Puzzle. whatever she did a touch of fineness, of beauty, of ‘“nicety?” She seems like an exotic product in the midst of a kitchen garden. You may be sure when she has a house of her own that she will show her fondness for these niceties of life in every detail. Instinctively Felt. Tow will she show them and how will_she transmit her ideas to her are questions that I seem to ou asking. Some of the ways are difficult to describe, for they are subtle. There seems to be a sort of aura that illuminates whatever comes near and transmutes the mundane into_the beautiful. But in reality it consists in a definite sense of the ar- tistic plus a dainty method of doing work and of arranging the things at her command so that each shows off to best advantage. Arrangement. When its inanimate objects that are shown to advantage then the house will be appealing in its decorative | quality. Her rooms will make every | one who enters them have the desire to instill a like atmosphere into her house. Probably there will be actual items that will be mentally noticed that will be carried out in one's own home later on. In that case there will t- of course, the note of indi- viduality of the one transferring the idea, so that it will suit her own home. | | | Broad Influence. It is surprising how much is due to | such women, for their influence is un- consciously or consciously transferred | to other homes as described. Usually | these women, having a bent toward | the niceties of life. have made a study of deft and artistic ways and means | of making what they do dainty and | | their homes attractive. Reflected Beauty. When it comes to her family, she will be quick to teach the little ones the very nicest ways of doing things. She will see that table manners are good: that the courtesies of life are overlooked and that personal appear- ance receives due attention. They will learn from her what it means to bring out the best in people because the niceties of life require that every- thing should appear to best advan- tage. There will be nothing ulterior in this attitude. It will be firmly grounded in a high estimate of the value of life. Every one can become more appreciative of these values, and then each will come to see that poor work, bad manners, unattractive sur- roundings, etc.. can be raised to a finer level, or be improved, and that life itself runs on a higher plane. It can be relieved of tedium and of mo- notony by observing the niceties of lite. DAILY DIET RECIPE Pineapple Lemonade With Mint. Canned pineapple juice, Lemon juice, % ecup. Sugar 6 teaspoons. ‘Water, 3% cups. Ice, 6 tablespoons. Mint leaves, 12 or 18. Serves Six Glasses. Dissolve sugar in water, add pine- apple juice, lemon juice. If the mix- ture is allowed to chill it will be nicer. At time of serving add 6 tablespoons of crushed ice and the mint leaves or even sprigs of mint which of course could be omitted. Use two pineapple slices to make pineapple isles. (See recipe under Desserts.) Diet Note. Recipe contains lime, iron and vita- mins A, B and C. Can be given to 1% cups. children over 8 and all aduits. The Daily Cross-Word Puzzle ‘When Eugene Crist and Phil Brown were champ cyclists of the old Colum- bia Athletic Club. And how it rained the day the first big athletic meet was held by the club on Analostan Island. Remember the old ferry, Cecille, which handled the island trafic? NANCY PAGE Hot Corn Muffins, Butter and Apple Butter. BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. On the morning that Nancy brought in the corn mufins she looked as sunny as the muffins. She had on a new print dress with a creamy ground and orange figures scattered over the surface, The cuffs and collar were of cream-colored linen. Peter almost forgot to praise the muffins he was so intent on the new frock. But Nancy was so pleased with the new hot bread she had learned to make that he praised it too, like a dutiful husband. She sifted one cup corn meal, one hll W I . Wandering. Bronze of ancient Rome, . Southern constellation. . Make a mistake. Mesh work. . Self. . Turf. Form, . Claw. . Helped. . Pen name of Louis de la Ramee. Pleasure. . Weird. Mineral rock. lor. . Goddess of plenty. . Stroke. Lessons in English BY W. L. GORDON. Words often misused: Do not say “shall we go some place?” Say “somewhere.” Often mispronounced: Gorge. Pro- nounce gorj, g as in “go,” o as in “Jord.” Often misspelled: Quadrennial; two n's. Synonyms: Little, small, minute, diminutive, microscopic, tiny, minia- ture. Word study: “Use a word three times and it it vours.” Let us in- bulary by mastering day. Today's word: to criticise unjustly; de- “He made a dis- Disparage; preciate; belittle. paraging remark about me.” Cabbage Salad Special. Whip one-half a pint of double cream, add four tablespoonfuls of {lemon juice, twelve drops of tabasco sauce, one and one-half teaspoonfuls each of salt and sugar, a little scraped onion, and three tablespoon- fuls of ground horseradish. Add three cupfuls of shredded green cabbage just before serving. If the cream is add- cup bread flour, four teaspoons bak- ing powder, one tablespoon sugar and one-half teaspoon salt. Then she broke an egg into a mix- ing bowl and added one cup milk. When these were mixed she com- bined her two mixtures, gave them a good beating and added two table- spoons melted butter. The muffin pans were greased and filled two-thirds full of the batter. The muffins baked for 30 minutes in a hot oven. They were served with butter and fresh apple butter. Were they good? Ask the Page family. (Copyright, 1927.) THE DAILY HOROSCOPE Saturday, September 24. Tomorrow should be a fairly for- tunate day, according to astrology, which finds the planetary govern- ment helpful to inventors and other constructive thinkers. The sway presages many remark- able new pieces of machinery which will revolutionize certain methods of manufacturing and will reduce the cost of certain much-used articles. ‘Women are especially lucky under this direction of the stars, which clarifies their views on public ques- tions and enables them to attain prominence, It is read as a fairly favorable wed- ding day, although it presages domi- nation on the part of the wife. There is a promising sign for actors and actresses, but they are to find many new conditions prevailing in the world of the theater after the next two years, astrologers foretell, It should be an auspicious date for the presentation of new plays, and it is prophesied that more than one will be of lasting charm. Thought is to be uplifted and spir- itualized in the next decade, the seers prophesy, for true art is to lead the people in certain American cities. Under this direction of the stars many sensational subjects will be pre. sented to the public and frankly dis- cussed, it is foretold. Children are to command much at- tention. and the Natfon will seek new methods of caring for the poor and conserving their interests. A London astrologer predicts for December the fall of the British cahi- net and attendant troubles for the government. While the stars are supposed to in- fluence great world events, they also are believed to affect insignificant matters, and it is predicted that women will turn to old-fashioned ideas in dress and coiffure, Dictators are to rise in forelgn countries where least expected, and American diplomacy will be put to severe tests next vear, it is foretold. Persons whose birth date it is will have a happy and prosperous year after some disappointmen Children horn on that day will be ambitious and successful. (Covyright. 1927.) — Though she is 80 years of age Mrs. W. C. Cornish, widow of the former vice president of the Unlon Pacific Railroad, is making an auto trip through Africa with only a woman companion. Solutions of Today’s Word Golf Problems. ed to the cabbage and allowed to stand, the juices will be drawn from the cabbage and the dressing will be- | come too thin, Serve the salad very | cold. This iff very attractive served in a hollowed-out head of red or curly green cabhage. GOOD, FOOD, FOOL, FOAL, FOIL, FAIL, FAIR—8ix steps. DOOR, DOUR, SQUR, SLUR, SLUM, SLAM—five steps. TEAR, BEAR, BEAD, MEAD, MEND-—four steps, Go from GOOD to FAIR. Kids' report cards start to slip this way in the Spring, along with Winter golf expectations and good resolutions. Go from DOOR to SLAM. Many people seem unable to shut a door any other way, so this problem should not be difficult for the door-bangers. Go from TEAR to MEND. Now here is something constructive. Even in our lighter moments we must consider the serious things of life—and I don't know of anything more serious than tears PRINT your “steps” here. Solutions on this page in today’s Star. (Copyright, 1827.) ‘DdrothyDix A CORRESPONDENT asks me what I think of the modern girl. Oh, T think she is cut off of the same bolt of cloth that nature has heen manufacturing ever since the first woman was created, and that she isn't nearly so different from her mother and her grandmother and her great- grandmother as she thinks she is, and as she gets the credit for being. Miss 1927 Is Same as Miss 1827. Thinks Todav’s Girl Is All Right. Mothers wore bustles, and grandmother wore hoopskirts, and great- grandmother wore corsets that were like a steel vise; and mother was frail and delicate, and grandmother swooned at the sight of a mouse, and great- grandmother affected semi-invalidism. And the flapper of today wears a few rags cuf ahove her knees and rolls her stockings and plays a stiff game of golf and is strong and husky. In the past the proper thing for a girl was to be soft and tender and a free weeper. Nowadays it's fashionable for her to be hard-boiled. And that's about all there is to it. And it’s all on the outside. Underneath the eternal feminine is the same, with the same emotions, desires, ambitions, hopes that women always have had. and probably always will have. “There are many histories,” says Talleyrand, “but only one human nature,” and feminine human nature hasn't changed a particle since Eve grabbed the only man in sight, and then dillvdallied with the serpent because she found domesticity dull with a husband who was so good she didn't even have to watch him. P ' COURSE, in mother's and grandmother’'s and great-grandmother’s time the main business of a woman was to catch a husband, because marriage was about the only respectable profession open to women. A husband, then, was a necessity because he was a combination meal ticket, invitation to society and passport to freedom, for the unmarried woman not only had no way of supporting herself, but she had to hang on to some matron wherever she went, and couldn’t move without a cl eron until after she was 90, Now a husband is a luxury that a woman can set up, or not, as she sees fit. She can make a good living for herself and doesn't need any one to support her. She can have her own home. She can go where she pleases and be as free as a bird. s anxious to get married her mother and her grandmother and her great ndmother were, and just as keen in pursuit of a husband. The main business in life with her is still getting married, and when it comes to a choice between a husband and a home and a career, the career goes into the discard. But for all that, she is just ‘The modern girl is far better educated than her mother and her grand- mother and her great-grandmother were, and heaven knows she has a million times better chance to know men. since she works side by side with them every day, and so she should make a wiser choice of a husband than her foremothers did. But she doesn’t. She still uses her heart and not her head when she makes the most important decision of her life and marries a man because he has a cute line, or a “way" with him, or she likes the slick way the hair grows on his head. The modern girl poses as wise. She prides herself upon being sophisticated. She has heard all there is to tell, and she honestly believes that nobody can put anything over on her. But in reality she is just as credulous as any little mid-Victorian miss who had never stirred beyond the radius of mamma's skirts, She still believes that she can reform a drunkard by marrying him, and that she can infuse pep and hustle into a lazy loafer, and keep a philanderer nailed to his own fireside. COR o THE modern girl still plays life as her grandmother did, on a hunch, and sometimes she gets a good husband and sometimes a bad one, but what- ever the result, it is purely a matter of luck, not because she used any intelligence in the matter. There are thoke who tremble for the future of the race when they look at the little scantily clad, bobbed-haired Shebas, but I do not share in their fears. I know that in that little thin breast there beats the mother heart, and 1 have seen too many girls who before marriage spent every night dancing the Charleston, and who after marriage showed that they could do just as many laps in the nursery as they used to do in the ballroom. Maybe they did smoke cigarettes above their bahies’ cradles, but they saw to it that their youngsters were reared according to the latest scientific theories. Doubtless the modern girl won't make just the sort of a wife that her mother and her grandmother and her great-grandmother were. She wouldn't fit in if she did, because all of the conditions of life have changed. You can't keeplhoula in a kitchenette apartment the way you would in a 12-room mansion. The modern girl is not going to be a doormat wife. She is going to demand a fairer deal from her husband than her mother and her grandmother and her great-grandmother got, but, on the other hand, she is going to be a better sport than her mother and her grandmother and her great-grandmother were. She is going to laugh more and nag less, and put matrimony on a 50-50 basis, which is the only way it can be worked out successfully. No, I do not think the girl of today is in any way inferior to her mother. And in many ways—in her health and strength, in her independence, in her ability to support herself and stand alone on her sturdy little feet instead of being a helpless dependent—the modern girl is the greatest of modern improvements. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1927.) MORNING SIP Jhe Better COFFEE ‘True coffee quality, blended by experts and packed in tins that keep it fresh. LIEBMAN BROS. ‘Washington, D. C. Exclusive Distributors Keeping a Schoolgirl Complexion By VILMA BANKY ® 1937 Fanchon Beauty Features and palm oil D. C. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 1977, TELTURES. IT MAY BE COMEDY TO SOME, BUT IT’S TRAGEDY TO ME—By BRIGGS. p—— 1Lt Go Dawm To THE OFFICE AND SHOW The GANG MY SWOLLEN FACE KNOw THEY'LL FEEL FOR ME- | NEED SYMPATHY | CAN HARDLY See AND MY Nose FEELS AS BIG AS A GRAPE- FRUIT -~ IT'S VERY — JacK \VE BEEN ont MY VACATION AND | RAN - INTO A MESS oF POISON IVY - 1SN T It TeRmBLE 7 Look AT THAT €A i T T Some eas! A SiGH / : | r /17 raav BE N coreny For ) o s [0 Taagepy/ WA HAY I'VE WEARD THAT T 1S DANGEROUS AND SOMETIMES FATAL 9 /o oH- Bos! || come pere A MINUTE ! SOMETHNG FUNNY - SA SCREAM! HOME NOTES BY JENNY WREN, Here they are—two old friends who have spent many and many the long, lazy afternoon rocking and. gossiping together in neighborly fashion on some one's front porch. The Salem rocker (at the top) and the Boston rocker (at the bottom) are hoth old-time favorites and rare indeed was the farmhouse front porch of a century ago. where these two did not hold forth on warm Summer afternoons. The original chairs were nearly al- very elegantly embellished with paint- ed fruit and flower designs. Modern reproductions can be purchased un- painted and treated in the same man- ner. Decalcomania transfers will take the place of the painted decorations very satisfactorily, and are easily ap- plied. These transfers can he had in either naturalistic colors or in gold— and_either is suitable for the Boston or Salem rocker. - Mashed Carrots. Wash and scrape about 10 me- dium-sized carrots, cut them in small pieces, and cook in a small amount of boiling salted water. When the *arrots are tender, press them through a sleve or a potato ricer. Add enough cream or top milk to make a creamy consistency. Add three or four table- spoonfuls of butter, one-half a tea- spoonful of salt and one-fourth tea- spoonful of sugar if desired. Re- heat and serve hot and woman out.” Nearly everyone eing Never touch any but true complexion soap to your face lather into the skin. Rinse with warm water; then with cold. That is all—it's nature’s rule for keeping that schoolgirl complexion. EUNDER, wash, cleanse with any 0ap you wish. But when beauty ake—take care. Modern beauty culture calls for soap and water. But that means a TRUE COMPLEXION SOAP. Soaps good for other purposes are often too harsh for the skin. Thus, largely on expert advice, millions use Palmolive Soap; touch their faces with no other. It is made of cosmetic oils. It is made for one purpose only —to protect and beautify the skin. Wash the face gently with Palmolive. Massage its balmy clive Do that regularly, and particu- larly before bed. Never let powder, rouge or make-up remain on your skin over night. Note how much better your skin is in even one week. GET REAL PALMOLIVE Get Palmolive today. Costs but 10c a cake. Use no other on your face. But be sure you get GEN- UINE Palmolive. Crude imitations, represented to be of olive and palm oils, are not the same as Palmolive. Remember that and TAKE CARE. The Palmolive-Peet Co, Chicago, U. S A A i ways painted black or dark red, and | breath) is responsible for many a good man halitoxic at one time or another and since you, yourself, cannot tell when you have it—and friends won’t tell—the safe thing to do is MILADY BEAUTIFUL BY LOIS LEEDS. Jthing else that puts a strain on one's temper. | _Besides correcting as far as po the cause of the nervou is heipful to take relaxati every d Lie down on your hack Stretch 3 rms above vour head and strefch vour toes down as far at you can. Now relax every muscle and Advice for Underweights. Two letters that I have answered in the column are from readers who One is a zirl the other a woman of Ie condition, if n exercises | want to gain weight. in her teens, |38. As I did not have to print as full a reply to those ques- | tions as I should have liked to do, and as T know there are many others interested in the same problem, I shail the space PLENTY OF GREENS give some suggestions for under- weights today. 19§ Of course. it is harder for a ma- s been s for a ture woman who has alwa thin to gain weight than it young girl, because the former” habits are more firmly fixed. It i usually well established habits of nerv- | | ousness and digestive troubles that | keep a person skinny in spite of nour- ishing diet, and these difficulties can- | not be avercome in a day. ¥ Chronic constipation is a fruitfu | source of heauty problems, and it is| often at the root of poor physical con dition. Millions of dollars’ laxatives are sold and doubtless w . continte to he sold until people under- | TSt for 2 moment. Stretch again any stand the cause of the habit and learn | TelaX. Raise one arm up, relax tht how to remove it. A diet that is de-| Muscles of the hand completely an ficient in cellulose—that is, the fibrous | Shake it gently, letting it flap abou part of vegetables and fruits and | "}:"r'l.\‘}‘r{ the wrist until you see thal whole-grain cerea | cause consti- | the rel ‘]';\"”f'" in that member is pez | pation.” The remedy is simply eating | fct. fepeat with the ::h::vr:“rgg | sufficient _quantities of greens, fruit | Shake the tense worth o | and whole-grain cereals. In sf | cases one may take a laxative, | mineral oi or agar-agar, which | is mechanical in its action. ~Habit- | forming cathartics should be avoided Abdominal massage and leg-raising | exercises are helpful in overcoming constipation. It is usually the person who leads a sedentary life that needs | |a remedy. | Few persons realize that habitual | tenseness of the nerves interferes with | the normal functioning of the diges- | tive and eliminating organs. The rest- | less, fidgety individual is almost inev- |itably a sufferer from stomach trouble, pation and underweight. In | such cases regulation of the diet can not effect a cure unless it is supple- | | mented by better mental control. | An a is of the situation will usually disclose a part of the cause of | nervousness. This may be too little sleep, too many social engagements, overwork, lack of fresh air, tight shoes, eyestrain, lack of recreation, | uncongenial associates, the inferiority <. financial worries and any- The human race is one big family. : At times I think of this and really love it. 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