Evening Star Newspaper, December 30, 1927, Page 30

FEATURES. 0, 1927, 30 WOMAN'S PAGE.' THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. TRIDAY, DECEMBER .23 IDorotkyDix) “There Cannot Be Any Real Companionship Jetween a Husband and Wife Who Do Not Think Alike,” She Declares. Traditional New Year’s Practice WHO REMEMBERS? BY DICK MANSFIELD. Rezistered U, . Patent Office, Protests That Congeniality Is the Password. The Secret of a Happy Marriage. Belts Become Decidedly Smart BY MARY MARSHALL. BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. | Interesting the way narrow beits have replaced sashes on almost all| ldaytime frocks, and to a great rxh‘nl} {on evening frocks as well. And now | that' we have these neat belts ahout our waista or hips we wonder how we ever could endured as long as we did the nuisance of those string belts at had to be tied and untied eve me we put on a frock or took it off. About all you ean say about belts is that they are decidedly smart. The | | #letch gives vou a good idea of some | f the most interesting examples, | A narrow belt composed of a row | small flat roses is sometimes used | th new net or chiffon evening | . Flowers are much in evidence | shoulder ornaments, but one fre- | 1 large Jeweled shoulder | d—or one of the new ther devices made of lomg ostrich Teees FPMoreN ONE L, WAY TO GET ] L PosiiciTy z = New Year day is gradually becom-)the affairs served to bring the fashion a Nation-wide holiday as it was in [to an end. It does seem a pity that ent times, when gifts were pre- |this custom, harking back to the year ited and calls made. Once the |46 B.C.. when Julius Caesar inaugu rated the Julian calendar regulating | the civil year by the sun, should have boen so overdone that it lost prestige | Rut even so, there still lingers o | ociable atmosphere to the day, when the thoughts of one’s friends are often uppermost, and when homemakers de. light in having guests “drop in." or in entertaming in formal or informal style. e custom of sending New Ye cards Is a relic of the ancient fashion | of presenting gifts on that day. It may be due to the fact that soverelgns expected gifts of a rather costly nature, or in some cases even went so far as to exact definite sums of gold from their subjects, that the flavor of | giving on New Year day was rather spoiled. However, in certain parts of the world the custom of gift making still continues, though it 1s divested of all suggestion of necessity, and he- {comes as happy & custom as the ex- | change of Christmas presents in other quarters of the globe. | “One form of New Year entertain- | ing that is in vogue today is the gi ing of dinner parties. In New Yor | ana thereabouts traces can be found of the Dutch New Year dinners | which were deservedly famous. So, it |2 dinner either formal or informal is planned. the serving of some Dutch {dish is delightfully _appropriate, and an entire dinner of Dutch disbes adds | distinction to the occasion. Women | who prefer to entertain at luncheons {can on New Year day have men |included in those sections where New | Year day is a holiday A Dutch ! luncheon could then lend atmosphere | to the midday meal are a favorite food with the a centerpiece of luscious, s with some yellow < of color would he green candles could slow to the highly fruit. Place cards could be form of apples. 1 an & WOMAN takes issue with me on the statement which I recently made in this column that the tie that binds in matrimony is congeniality. Sh says that, for her part, she doesn’t want to ma a man who is her doul and that she would he bored to death with the society of a hushand who thought just as she did, and had the same tastes in everything, from politics | | to ple. ‘What she is looking for is something different: some one who would have oL a mew point of view, and with whom she could carry on good, spirited | arguments, and have a real fight now and then. She doesn’t want her married life to he a tame pcace parley. What she craves is to have enough tough going in it to make it a real sporting proposition. To this T would reply that no woman need be afraid of not finding all the variety that she wishes in the temperament of the man she marries, and then som There are plenty of rifts in the harmony of every marrfage, no matter how well adapted the husband and wife are to each other. The mere incident | of sex provides that, for no man and woman have the same complexes, or think along the same lines, or reach the same conclusions, or are swayed by the same impulses, or react in the same manner to the same stimulation. The STYLE POST is the marker AL A L e en there are ostrich bracelets made on narrow rihbon foundations that clasp with tiny metal fasteners | around the wrist. The ostrich flues | are attached like a graceful fringe at one side of the braeelet so that when | {it is worn the feathers hang grace- | fully over the back of the hand. One| When Tom Hunt floated down James | iS Worn on either hand, and together Creek Canal on a cake of fce and the | With & shoulder decoration of match. | " ing ostrich provides an unusval trim. crowds cheered him ming touch to an evening froc 1 | The diessmakers had no sort | | of success in getting smart women to | ladopt a_variety of colors for daytim 1e of them didn't even try. r street we time we: it is a pr pod het that | woman doesn’t wear bl gray she wears heige or bro some shade. Or she may wear bl nd gray, black and brown, or nd white or brown and beige, or sibly beige and gray. Almost nev anything bright es up for lost time in ¢ of colors in the evening. Yel- especially well liked, and th ire a good many lovely vellow eve-| little help consists of 3 ) ning wraps to be ht straw | diagram-pattern for a dainty | color is aid to be extremely smart in|1f vou are interested, please Apple green, salad green, ab- | stamped, self-zddressed enve nd chartr » the verdant ' I will send it at once. MILADY. BEAUTIFUL BY LOIS LEEDS. Beaded Pump. A new evening pump seems to re- flect the black Midwinter sk brilliant with stars. It is of black satin, embroidered with tiny steel beads in a scatter pattern. The pump is not alw however. Vivid colors in are frequently chosen of an accessory ensemble of colors | { for the white or black evening gown, | or shoulder flower match the Men and women can never be the echoes of each other, and even when | they agree in the main, there are still a million minor points of divergence between them, and unending subjects for debate. {LE_IN GIVES D K VEI GOLD SHAPE O CTION. 5T WITH black, Morcover, it is 1 with the we an alluring theory. ature, who is concern: The attraction of opposites i that is promoted by old Mother of the race and not with the happiness of the individual. That is wh makes brunettes prefer blonds and blonds have an especial allure for | brunettes, and why she makes big men fali for pocket-edition women and frail little women pick out husky giants for husbands, and why colle professors choose the beautiful but dumb for life companions, and Sunday school teachers and Epworth Leaguers espouse drunkards and roues. one re she HOUS ONE. OF BLACI RE AND THE PAILY HOROSCOPE NANCY PAGE Gorgeous Wraps Belong in Winter Sehson. ° Saturday, December 31. prlanetary influences day of the ve: Althov busine: And having done her deadly hest to precipitate trouble on all concerned 1 by bringing together those who have not an idea, or a thought, or an aim, or « desire, or an ideal, or a_principle in common, nature abandons them to their | fate and leaves them to fight it out together. And generally the childrer fine, normal, well balanced people. | . M ¥ correspondent thinks that she would be bored if she were married to a | ! man who always saw eye to eve with her. But what about tke boredom | ers should henefit of being married to a man who is totally blind, and who never sees anyvthing | which make at ail, or who always s the silver side of the shield, while you are beholding | mende expunsion of business the golden one? ppose. for insf new year., Al the | feel things intensely. & e Unite | view, a noble building, a | in a book. and evil Ja: od urh the 10 aspect a | shades most in favor. Chanel of P set the fashion for a light vivid red | evening wear. | This week . » w approp | ada {in BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. Spending Christmas checks is great {fun. One can buy things then that one never would dare buy ctherwise. Nancy her check from he- father and it going into a gorgeous evening Her lame one was two vea She had not dared to hope for v one, but here . appe to augur for ! States continued prospe Tected by political cam- international problem his is a most unfavorable direc- | tion of the stars for interviews or co ferences with men who wield comme Paris. nthe | Suppose vou | a marvelous » passagc ou are an enthusiastic ind iphose you are touched to t golden voice singing in the dusk, My Neighbor Says: To clean isinglass in an oil stove rub over with a damp cloth on which baking soda been shaken. Pin a heavy turkish towel over the large end of your fron- ing board. It will be found useful when embroidered cloths or laces are to be ironed. A teacup of small pieces of white soap boiled down with one pint of boiling water, a teaspoon each of powdered ammonia, borax and sugar will make an excellent soap jelly. Patent leather shoes should be wiped first with a damp sponge to remove the dirt and then thoroughly dried and polished with a soft cloth. A very little oil may occasionally be used as a dressing. wi wrap. old. | Could anything on earth bore you like the companionship of a person who mever got what you got? \Who only saw a pile of earth and some and a litte dirty snow on Mount Rigi; whose only interest in | il oF politieal power. | stminster Abbey was its dimension and how much it cost: who considered, | It 18 M ity with Dr. Johnson, that music was probably the least unpleasant noise there | \.MCH e was, and who never read anything but the headlines and sports page and | 5OM O ¢ ket Gy [ the ‘comic strip in the papers? L s e e mkkggitoe | despondeney, it is well to seck amuse- ment and change of scene while this rule prevails. Wemen m | tive under this sw i K weight combined with the correct Exercise for Knees. choice of footyear that will protect blem that has come 10 |the leg muscles ‘rom undue strain ng the last few years.| The fat knee 1€iy be slenderized by v n growing suitable exercises. When the who= s have been growing short: [y 4o iy'10 stout. | swever, there = is concerned with the | Jlgo be a genersi reduct , these nce it is not 3 ancular in Part norm nes they cre 1 A bea the fore when skir There cannot be any real companionship hetween a hushand and wife who do not think alike, hecause we cannot take those into the inner shrine of our souls unless they belong to our lodge and can give us the high sign and the password. You cannot tell your secret thoushts to one who will not understand and sympathize. And that.is why so many hushands and wive are dumb in each other's presence and why home life is so dull. They are litera!ly afraid to talk for fear ot starting somcthing. g You can't imagine a husband talking over his plans and ambitions with a wife who is a conscientious objector and who feels it her sacred duty to oppose everything that he wants to do. and to wet-blanket his every aspiration, | ¢ and to remind him of how many of his hopes have been pipe dreams. and of | American how many of his projects have failed. Nor can you picture a wife telling | re itions, astrologers foretell. her husband what she really thinks and fecls about things if he meets her ons whose birth date it confidences by telling her not to be a fool, or it he pooh-pochs and ridicules | have added respons her every idea and suggestion. ing yedr, which b urn promises financial curity. n on that day will en- | oy a life of activity and happiness. 1 be nervous and sensi- q for th re of fam!i |er and shorter, e of the k nts are E CUSTOM OF R CARDS DING NEW RELIC OF CUSTOM _ OF | ON THAT DAY ons for all | 1 to call was carried parts of the | nd in New York espe- | very elaborateness of | BEAUTY CHATS Penciled Eyebrows. are, the larger the eyes seem, and ths R 4 | more piquant thelr expression. Taper Don't let your evebrows grow all| the brows off to a fine line at thy over your face, but don’t, for good-| outer edges, but give yourselt the ness sike, g0 to the other extreme,|benefit of all the length you can and have them almost entirely | manage. e e e oo itn | Pull out the haira that grow tou tick of grease paint! I'm not sure | 1oN8. No matter where they grow. e worst on a woman's face, | When you have finished, or grown which at least givebored with your task, wipe the cold h o her expression, | cream off most thoroughly and then ced 10 @ line too nar.| 80 over the skin around the eve- delicacy at all. brows with a bit of cotton wrapped rouge or powder and |0n the end of an orangewood stick, and dipped into peroxide. This dis- n artificial effect without going he bounds courages a new growth and makes the bounds of good taste (you the skin antiseptic: nd you person of pink your ture never dreamed g them., and still look quite ! right. But you can't do away h nine and a half tenths of your evebrows and look anything but queer. You may. a8 much as you want, re- strain a bad growth of hair in the Smear them first with cold which makes the job easlier nless, then get a good pair of N A cos too bony duced speration. ‘The averaze fat knee wi to svstematic evercise. you below a few movemer NG GIFTS etfulness for fu nee is usually producing ona in 1928 by Tall vou nderweight for their s often have this sort of knee, and if | they wear hizh heels the trouble is | azeravated. The remedv in eases I this is a general gain in health ard factions, and win wide | she was with her mind all decided to purchase this wrap of black velvet made more luxurious by its lavish trimming of beige fox. The beige looked more dressy than the black fc although both of them were flattering because they were long-haired furs The fur outlined a cape effect as well as_forming a coll Nancy’s youn nges. in opinion and point of view between hushands and wives does not lead to Interesting and stimulating discussion, as my cor- respondent thinks it does. It leads to silence, and makes them yvawn in each other's faces, or else to perpetual y spats and wrangles, and even the most belligerent are not always pining for a fight. BY EDNA KENT FORBES 'HE differenc i o Today in ¥ sister was getting > # a silver lame made with a huge collar Washington History of the same materfal. A wrap of this > kind is always wise for evening wear. AUNT HET [3% There are times and seasons when they are tiréd and yearn for peace, and the ability to say something innocuous, without having to g mat over it. { Neither does it promote love between hpsband and wife for them to | represent different schools of thought. On the contrary. it makes them | eritical of each other and alienates them from each other. For n: our own ideals of conduct are the yardsticks by which we measure and this makes us often very unjust in our judgments. - BY DONALD A. CRANG. Precember 30, 1813—After _ cons his cabinet, President Monroe dscided upon plans for the Whi reception to be held on v, The memb of - corps will be received 11:30 o'clock In the morning. The reception for the general public will | | take place between noon and 3 o'clock in_the afternon. Up to this time. the members of the diplomatic corps have had no fixed place in the New Ypar reception. Only three vears ago’ Mrs. Seaton wife of the mayor, having made her entrance into the White House in {January, 1813 with great difficulty owing to the crowd. and having paid her respects to the President and Mr | Madiron, caten some ice cream and others This makes the woman who is narrow and puritanical n out of the man who is & the very lite v and pleasuredoving for doing things that are really no harm at all. It makes the spendthrift woman regird her hushand who is merely prudent and thrifty as contemptibly mean and stingy. . It makes the man who never wants to go anywhere mm!m- \v.’bgld.nbnul i she even wants to leave the house. And g0, because the attraction of oppos {2 but for a minute, while like unto like endures to the end, I say that Congeniality is the real secret of a happy marriage. DOROTHY DIX. | especially good for freeing this joint from excess fat. Any knee-bending and ki ng exercises will help bduild a shapely knee Exercise 1. 4 erect. hands on | hips. Take a lonz step forward on the right foot. Berd both knees so that ghe left (hindmost) kree touches {the @or. Rise quickly and step for- {ward on the left foor, flexing the {knees as before. This time the right knee touches the floor. Take 10 to 20 long steps with knee dendirgs. Exercise 2. Stand erect. arms at | sides. toes out. Slow V. M. F.—Anything. made._ 3 white flour is starchy,” #ad crackers would be of this mixture. Your friend Jost the 50 pounds because £he a uch less starch when she omitted potatoes and white bread, and substituted the soda crackers. You are following the best method when Yyou count your calories. L. S. T.—A red nose is the result of some sluggish condition in your (Copyrisht The Sidewalks off ‘—%;ghington 1027.) {One's evening clothes are usually . and pull out ail the hairs w outeide of the ideal arched | unless you trace it to the cause and | Vivid, pull them from be-| system, and you cannot get rid of it cure jt. Occasionally, pregsure from , for the higher they eyeglasses will cause a red nose. The Daily Cross-Word Puzzle (Copyright. 1927.) r. Chaldenn city, Within Buftix denoting name King of Bawi Prefix; 1 Greek et Bomething pungent Athletic club (ab.), 50, Bhovel, . Vrugment of rock, of country Down Bliden. Note of the scele, . Conjunction, Blippery. Entrances, . Ermine Confined, Metrie unit, Hun god . The cream Monetary unit Manuscript (ah), Loxclamation Firoked Whirlwind kngineering degree (), ) Internntional Janguage Llntn Avoide Threwsold Finnusles Gulf New England State Wife of Geraint Jsurd Yor example wh), Towsrd the top, Houthern Btate (ah ), . Anternationsl langua - dndetinite witicle, Gl vivid in coloring. If the wrap is| t the chances are that it | clashes with ail the dresses but one. So both Nancy and her sister, who were clothes wise, chose wrap black or white or silver. They mac effective folls for any evening gown To look an slender as Naney her in of this e melf-nddressed ¢ ieafiet on reducing (Copyright, 1927.) LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPI Me and pop was riding home in the | trolley car, being 80 crowded we had to both sit In the same seet by me sit- ting on pops kneez, and pop sed, Well, | this may be a free country, but if 1 dont give one of thess ladien our seet 111 feel more and more like a slave Meening 3 ladies standing in frunt of us looking at pop as if they thawt they awt 0 be witting down and he awt to be standing up, pop saying, The question is, wich one needs it the | mont, a8 a matter of principal 1 dont | wunt to glve up my seet to enybody | that dont need it as mutch as 1 do. Why dont you give it to the thin | I one with the red nose and the glasses” | I wed, and pop sed, No, she looks too | fNighty. s the old Sweedish proverh | ays, Who glasses and o red nose has lives only for movies, cards and Jazz Well then how about the fat one { thats breething so hard with her hat | on one side? 1 wed, and pop sed, hardly think so, the Mexicans have a aying, Wen a woman is fat with her at on rong, she y be fat but she ol darn wirong. Well holey smokes pop, then youll haff to give It to the lttle short lady with the cross eyes, 1 wed, and pop wed, There seems o be no other ch and yet, to quote the old Spuni houschold rime, A lady thats shor with her eyes heer and there, could wtand for without terning n hair. Ah, the question ix settled, hoers o Jady who axually needs a seet, he wed, Meening wom Indy Jest pushing In with big blus eves and dimples wen whe wmiled, being all the tme, ol pop guick got up and showed her hin meet and she quick took it with the bigiest wmile yet, and I hung on to pop wile he hung on to a strap and the other & ladies kepp on looking t him even fearser thun they had did wile he was sitting down Villie Willis BY HOBERT QUILLEN, “Thut bump on my head fs Wi 1 showed Bkinny 1 wasn't weaied to vide down the chirch steps on any bicysles” Wouriiabis, l'lflvl. | oMcials BY THORNTON FISHER. According to the Washington traffic ur motorists are becoming v in the matter of license | < in thelr preference clothing that will express indi viduality. Therc is a decided tendency to personally we: lect numbers and letters significant of something r lated to their own lives. One applicant re- quests bear- ing his street num- ber, Another wants one stenciled with the year of his birth. One asked for a tag bearing the numerals A friend of correspondent sought a tag with U on it. Ex- plaining his desire for wanting this unusual combination, he said: “In the event that somebody bumps into me 2 | or T into liim and he starts to call me names, all T will have to do is point at my tag, ‘U—2.'" * kv o In a little Itallan shoemaker | northwest section who pegs whoes from dawn until nearly mid night. Most of his patrons belleve | that he is honrding his money and will wome day take a boat back to sunny Apparently the only other - of his family Is & gray-haired, weary-faced wife, whose once lustrov black eyes still retain a certain qual ity that snared for her a man. “We never go back to It snld the little shoemaker. mon’ for what T make 1 geeve t Tony and leetle John and ‘my givls. Tony, hees a nica beeg hoy, e noon be o trough de sehool for do tor, John, heess a nicea boy joontn like hiw mood John be da enineer wome of thin days, Tw girls will soon achool tench wve ceeva all to them, T Jve home with me. 1 heen du can elt’ for what you say Ulity vear. | George dn Wash', Colombo, Lindbeg, | grentest men in oW il Nure, 1) fy in da ale but nobody ever way Wony, 1 geeve you grand ride in du There in the aly “Once 1 go see wWhere da weethout heew mame s bury. 1 evy for heem, *Maybe,” 1 say to da mood ‘maybe he be.dtalian hoy like John or Tony. John and Tony never have hand lka deesa ones. They get their bratne dirty instead t'n & gooda wan, huh, 1 go for school two year in Naplen tha's all, Don't learn for vend and write much, John and Marla spenk meex talks for different countiy. Da policaman, he come i and say Hey, Tony, you beeka bum, why vou no tike all your money and qiiect® | ey, ‘My ohildven get educarh for the biain, Bome day Tony he be for| Aoetor an Wansh'' Have becgia house in Chevy Chase “Maybe then T queet and wark for Mayho live in fine house with Mayhy he take W8 monder ' o Back to da ol country for see ve his pupa and mooder live, Den we coe back and mayhe die here, | Tha's why & wirk all day, Without duoash 1 work Hike poor man. Witha | sh they wurk with da hond, | Ggodghys, 1 hava da shoes ready to morrow, Goodhye, mister," LR “Halurday night will be the biggest soldler Tohn, hi [ wi ibout the tabl ht when the All this t PRIng evil is the bunk W waiter doesn't earn everything takes i on New Year ove, I'll low that tablecloth. When any sperds $10 for a dinner he wants sery- fce und not ‘perhaps.’ eithe “Another thing, we don change anybody, no matter how arious the party may be. When 1 was a young fellow 1 used to wali in some of the worst joints in York. Would you believe it, most of the walters paid for th holding the job. It wasn't the tips they were after. In those beer joints u guy would have starved on his hand. outs. No, they wanted the short change privileges. It was easy to slip a customer his the headwaiter a ment. “That's the n. public shoots the works. c 1 ke 1l shor change or as much of it as the con. | sclence of the waiter would permit Why, some of those sharks would count the money right into the h of the customer and then ta away from him as slick as a Ho, ™ how the waiters made money, for they didn’t even re wages. “Me? No, sir I never took a ¢ thefr ve TN tell vou the truth voked cent from any hody and that's why | LI Every dollar the walters pick Saturday night will have been hongstly earned Ry the wuy, how about & nice table right on the edge of the dance floor? LR We are a sentime people. The oth an elderly cou ple of perhaps ra ambled slowly into celebrated old hotel on the Ave nue und asked for a certain Fortunately, it happened to he and they ‘were accommodated bellhop led the way, carrying two antt auated vallses What greater thiill for this otd, stillindove couple than 0 oecupy the same room tn the same hotel in- which they had spent thely honeymoon, Just 40 years ago. ital Nation of Vi o ow e Wo have Just met a Santa who ia looking for anothor ju brief, unenduring glory we povfoctly good, experienced Cluus with no profossion to practice until next year In the Bummer (his man ts employed at gardening. Whiclh reminds us of a lored min wWho worked as n conl diy During the Summer months he was a professtonal wild man at o pleasure venort consiated of beln, Claus What his privileges o | MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN man | hi | ew | One Moth Durh the ¢h n snowy season of some of the many things that enn be done with snow ev they have rolled up a big ball of snow a throne may be made from it | by scooping out a seat and shaping | the arms and back a little: or a tun nel may be made through the hall i LU % an extra lage one. two children N tekether, one on each side the snow evey yard or along the road may be tiven ing Plastering bits OF MROW onto #x trunk to make eves, n and mouth with upturned cor remind waor | vour . \ {ner o Santa | His -lun--xj chatned in a steaw | littered Browling Customers w g paid 10 cents X look Oceantonally i “heoper’ waonld oW raw heot at Wi, which the Pt and at WA man siatched | and went throukh | the motigns ot suming. Whon vrowd had poracd for the day e eolired man would dun his wtreet clothes, pocket his day's wages and g0 home to the wite and kiddies. At the fest sign of Fall frost he would yesune his laboy on the conl truek, i e THE WiLD MAN {drunk a glass of Madeira. was leaving the rooms @ happenad to look lout of the wi he raising arms out in fro the body and raising Deels of the foor. Hold count one, two. rise and return & to 10 Lie bor o on A bed. on cach the position wh three slow to sarting pe savs she saw W rolling balt Mrs. Seato thought “to shed gold rough the a our tety s your dack on tithit actus and from ol weighted minister M | Serurier i <0 pe | ceived that what ought we: | wings were nothing more than gorg us footmen with chapeaux, & A sKicte ane splendid swonds g eve: was w tan so br And yet b recepti mats at that tin French re the hted, French - ward. Now bend t thraud- | bring the right foot a oth- front. 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