Evening Star Newspaper, January 1, 1928, Page 56

THE SUNDAY STAR., WASHINGTON American School Boys Usually Set Their Own Fashion in Dress. THE LITTLE BOY OF NURSERY AGE LOOKS BEST IN WASH SUITS. THE ONE AT SHT, MAD! HITE LINEN, 1S TRIMMED WITH HAND.EMBROIDERED COL- BEI WOOL _JERSEY STRIPED WITH GREEN MAK , . SUIT SHOWN BELOW—WITH SOLID BEIGE JERSEY FOR JIGE WOOL JERSEY SUIT IN CENTER HAS SCALLOPED COLLAR AND CUFFS OF THE MATERIAL AND LARGE PEARL BUTTONS. WHEN YOU ARE VERY YOUNG YOU PROUDLY WEAR A TWEED COAT WITH FUR COLLAR AND A LITTLE ROUND TWEED HAT, AS SHOWN IN THE FORE! AT RIGHT. BUT WHE! A BIG BOY OF 9 OR 10 YOU MUCH PREFER A REALLY MA NISH COAT. SHAPED LIKE THE TAN WOOLEN 0O AND A VI SORED CAP OF THE SORT THAT THE PRINCE OF WALES MADE POPULAR. . FOR BOYS, BOTH BIG AND LIT. TLE, THE WINDBREAKER 1S THE FAVORITE COAT FOR PLAYTIME. THE MODEL SHOWN BELOW IS OF BROWN LEATHER LINED WITH PLAID WOOL. AGE LINES ARE DRAWN IN CHOOSING CLOTHES FOR BOYS. FOR THE VERY LITTLE BOY 0D FORM SANCTIONS THE BLACK VELVET TROUSERS AND WHITE SILK SHIRT SHOWN AT LEFT. THE NAVY BLUE SERGE SUIT WORN WITH TURN-OVER COLLAR IS “DE RIGEUR” FOR THE BROTHER OF 6 TO 12—BUT AFTER THAT AGE HE MAY APPEAR ON FORMAL OCCASIONS IN A LONG-TROUSERED ETON SUIT OF AL- MOST GROWN.UP ASPECT. BY MARY MARSHALL “What do you care ks his dot- LEASE, please, remember that |inS mother when the youngster begs | the voung schoolboy is a strict | to be allowed to wear a visored cap of CAREFULLY PARTY of anxiety at precent. Only the foolish mother would hold out against letting her son wear the sort of hat the other boys are wearing—but when Bob and Billy come home day after day im cold weather carrying their hats in their school bags or pocket. instead of on their heads and leave their hats at home, it possible, in the coldest weather, then maternal anxiety is naturally roused. conrse, from our grown-up looking at the matter, knickers are not correct for formal wear—but re- member that your boy has no stand- | ard of correctness beyond that set by | the other boys in his group. The knicker suit is practically the | universal schoel ensemble for Ameri- 8 !can hoys beyond the second or third grade. me of the better suits are i without the vest and most boys way | » | Ithis washing process vourself, for|breasted overcoat of manly build <lap-dash treatment in the laundry | the usual choice. ! will cause them to shrink. | For boys from 6 to 12, the conven- | s¢ conformist in matters of dress. He has no hankering to ex- press his personality in the sort of clothes he wears. Instead of Faining prestige by wearing this suit of smart London make or that cap from Paris. he know he would suffer nothing but embar- rassment threugh such from the beaten path. 1 More than one youns bov of my ! acquaintance has suffered ccal mental | torture through the stupid efforts of his fond mam.aa to make him wear| clothes which in her estimation were smarter and better than those of his In certain schools in cer-| tain cities the small, close-fitting black | beret of the French schoolboy may have become sufficiently standardized | to pass unnoticed. But one boy with # French beret in a school where such | foreign innovations are rare has been | branded as a sissy and a mamma's| darling by his unfeeling classmates. | wanderings | full well that|mother like that? | when he grows up and has a boy of the sort that the other boys wear. “Rerets are extremely smart, and the | boys who tease you just show their ignorance. Probably they are jeal- ous.” Well. what can a fellow do with a ? But he vows that his own he will buy him the kind of clothes that “the other ruys wear. That sums up every young boy's notion of proper fashions. | So for all practical purposes in choosing the schoolboy’s wardrobe you may blandly ignore the French | and English f: small voice within you that reminds | vou that the short, straight trousers worn by schoclboys in England and France really do look a lot smarter than baggy knickers, and that “braces™ or pull-on sweater really do the trick a whole lot better than the belts that our boys insist on wearing instead. ions, and stifle the ence when we m: turesquely and a Dplease. wash suits These may be made with little trousers | waist. and a trim little slip-on jersey that button on the underwaist, with worn under the school jacket {a smock or coatee that goes ove have reached the period where con- vs before they to the herd is a ruling influ- distinctively these earlier usually During are preferable. | the t the trousers may button on the shirt|ones, {or blouse. llatter sort rests The disadvantage of the|li’ with the dress them as pic- | as they rouse pulled on over. or | sey suits, be sure to get rather good for t buttons. | factorily. Your Baby and Mine BY MYRTLE MEYVER ELDRED. A Happier New Year. HE new year is ahead of us If we made mistakes in the past we can try to forget | them. If you belong to the “whipping" school of parents Any punishment to be effective must ®0 rare as to make a distinct im pression, and the mother who spanks | for everything and anything certainly bas to be more and more brutal in | order to make the same impression |eat it three times a day whether we happened each time. Hitting is the easiest NTELLIGENT people no longer be- Food Selections to Quicken Wits BY BETSY CALLISTER. lieve that there is anv one food or sort of food which actually feeds the brain. If there was such a food we should all be willing to to like the taste or not. v of com- ing off or breaking in the wash, Wool jersey suits for little boys are | becoming more and more popular here, | Experts on the care of children put in have for some time been|a word about leather caps. however. as we abroad. These are made with trousers They are likely to overheat the head ays | coming o in blouse or with to the under. If you choose the jer- I he cheaper ones are ] )Iv to go through the wash sat And if possible attend to i Of course, short socks all the year | round are smart. Whether or not vour boy is robust enough to go bare- legged in severe Winter climate is a auestion that it might be wise to have your doctor decide for you. If you do choose short socks, then the outside ensemble should include leggings for | snowy and severe weather. For every day play wear nothing is more satis | factory than the leather windbreak and close-fitting wool cap to ma {even in very cold weather. Warm | woolen caps are really better: | The reversible leather and woolen windbreak is the every-day coat that is “de rigeur” for older bovs, too They are as content to wear it as you | should be to have them. For “dri jup” wear a rough woolen double- lined with wool, with leather leggings | h.| For slightly tional dress suit, appropriate for dancing class and parties and other tess ceremonious gccasions, col of a navy blue serge suit with short, straight trousers. worn with hroad collar. navy bluefour-in hand t short soc] black patent | leather ties or pumps. Many of these dress suits are made with collarless | irckets—and, of cou there is no waistcoat. older hoys there are red Eton suits that may be boys as young as % or o or not your own hd will ear one or the other of sse suits for formal wear will de- pend, of course. on what the other hoyx he knows wear on similar occa sions. Personally, 1 think the best way to solve the problem of dancing class wear ix to see what the other Jads in the class are wearing. Of more or long-tro worn b, Whether consent to an be snaded to dispense with it anyway. For ' cooler weath light-weight siipon sweater may be worn over the wash shirt—with or without a tie—and in some schools these nest slipon sweaters sans Jacket ure usually worn in classrooin. Shirts with collars of the sports zenre certainly look better from the aduit_point of view than the collars that fasten high at the neck. Most boys are willing enough to wear them Your son of hish school or colleze may have adopted the unaccount- e fashion for wearing a shirt with unstanding collar left unfastened— sans tie, of course. Your remon. strances will probably be in vain Iet's hope that your vounger boy mav still he willing to be persuaded that a neatly tied necktie rdds to the manliness of his appearance. The hat question is one that causes mothers of schoolboys no end of Amonz thousands and thousands of American schoolbovs hats simply are out of favor save for dressed-up occa- sions. And the anxious mother. look- inz on, has premonitions of sinus at- tacks. pneumonia, grip and mas- toiditis. She feels that it is her duty insist on having Bob and Billy wear their hat Now let me quote from an au- thor’ty, Dr. Oscar L. Levin in his new book “called “Your Hair and Your Health ™ ‘Going without hats is not harmful. as is sometimes thought.” he savs “The boys of the famous Blue Coat School in London, according to an W. must never wear head- zear. ter and Summer thev go tareheaded. Yet ther are said 1o have excellent hair. as a rule, scldom contract cold o perhaps thers »rry about after all Covrriehe. 19273 n't so much- to disagree with your child, but it may leave him in a rather dopy condition until midmorning. The heaviest meal in the middle of the day is usually considersd best for voung children, but for the school boy {or girl who must attend afternoon ses. | sion there is little to be said in favor Incidental Tables Give Last Word In Finish to the Up-to-Date Room of a reallv hearty midday meal | Mental application tends to draw the blood away from the stomach where nothing would be finer than to get a | mew outlook an the subject of dis- cipline. 3 The Bible savs #poil the chi 2 many parenis The Bible things which we interpret The rod then may mean but not an actual rod punish sociable Jane far n And we would feed it to our children as religiously us we now feed them I¥hould shame the thinking parent. |spinach. But thaugh there is no sort i ehn: GO diges: "3, Our own program of constructive | of food which when eaten is myste s "',","?,‘:z’,':“‘.!’,f :;f,‘.',‘.m.: ',‘,,:',',";\ | training toward obedicnce combined | riouxly converted into gray matter or | i spite: ot sendien the'chances are that ity | with much openly expressed affection | mental energy, still the dict has a | IO aertal SRETtIDNs: wane Deomiph® tu| hishmens |and reazonableness has worked per- | great deal to do with intellectual activ- fhealt Aui the ohjection to! dfaner ot | fectly overea peried of 20 years. itles—and every mother can come a | sy 2o . and we mav | j e - | night anyway may be reasonably ore hitterly | Children need to know the right [ Kreat deal nearer to providing her | Faised anly whan the' meal i3 too by meparating her from the children | things te do; they need to feel always | children with “brain food” than most | RERity oF Ta taken within: o stioct: thwe with whom she eannot at the moment | the loving understanding of the | of them realize. of retiring. If dinner is finished an ¥ amiablv than we ecan by giving parents in their accomplishment The old idea was that fish was a | | hour before hedtime no objection r 2 zpanking. i Spanking teaches them only that the | brain 1....¢|,l l'»lm_\"w .<' ;:mnl( for the | <hould be raised. nerves” and was. therefore, often rec. | a squently give directio e sl R AT TR |t el (908 b Reutas seuskars :;:_'-hrk:;nn. hm’ll'x"m\:dlxx;t;“fi::‘lu'v: -h?;‘" | 0 called. But thouxh children’s SIATOSRARE ot u sttt minds are employed they combine ot on ot o P L much bodily activity along with their ihinking Switbout iphoephibeous, : isaio mental exertion. During any period he, and that started it, Fish presum- of sustained mental exertion it is bet ably had more phosphorus than other Yer' (6L G, TRIETY,) HRNC e whs olies foods—hence fish would feed the brain. intervals—but when periods of study I Kven granting that phosphorus is are followed by periods of physical | abundantly present in the brain—so is exercise a more substantial diet may Jvuter and uo in fat, and yet no one be adopted. | % ever suggested butter as a mental g <t Here are some rules to follow in | stimulant. - When nflrl:ll'nc,":‘l(!;‘v:d.ug: choosing food and planning meals fa Sclantistiwinta: . ' | BRORPR LSy Ate vorable to the mental aleitness of your | indeed wanted, but wanted by pinches, | Sttsteshe whereas water is requi by pallful 1. No tea or coffee under the age of A few days without water or a fe: 2 and then only occasionally and minutes without oxygen will termin; weuk. the train of consciousness,” 2. Betwean & pint to a quart of milk And now we know that the food re. | per day to be drunk by each child | auirements of the brain ure similar to Plenty of water, expecially a gliss on | those of any other part of the body. | vising in the morning. A diet that will supply the tissues of | Some substantial w | the heart and lungs with the nourish- | 3 | breakfast every morning. { ment they need will naturally supply | 4. Raw fruit or vegetable once a | the brain with what It needs, | | o Aay 1t possible, form of punishment—easiest on the parent. It is an anger response which “Spare the rod and 13 he breakfast is to he recommended with | enough time allowed to eat it with a fulr amount of leisure. The child who | Malnutrition fx a a NRht breakfast begins to ness—and malnutrition cases are not | feel hungry before lunch time and the | all 1o be found among the poc | hungry child cannot concentrate. But Not only shonld school child sreakfast should never be hea adequate food, but they should haveit| Some foods that are apparently di ut the vight time, It their minds are gestible enough tax the digestive or. to be In good working order during | gans to the lmit. A breakfast of | %chool hours, The rather substantial | many pancakes and sausages may not 1 | School teachers have found out that % | the diet of school children has a good | deal 1o do with their mental ulertness A rm dish for Stage Clothes Gzining Influence of the| that % provide in- | wome We must ¥tsrt our training with the . Mis may Jead r and per 1o the chinid Areas punished for parent [an mever had u spanking one such | experience might be helpful, punishment dealt out indiscriminately | hiag the same effect storm which » ethod of xirs up all the Fearrang protected | them for the moment and leaves them 1 Just ax ready to blow the next tim Keep the baby in A play pen whe you can't watch him every minute aned don’t give him an opportunity 1o w0 that there are few, il e naughty any, occusions for punishment Curiosity 1o himself he not be is b wt mode pain ton for othex Regny, “And thongh these are | who Is known ta have provided Mie AL designed on - the | Renourdt's wardrobe —for pajamas ex lothes, factly like it. Or the chavming Mile rk o prominent soclally ax the wately and | Comtesse do la Rochetoucauld, appears ures. Je %) bis curiosity appeals to many well drewsed Worth la Lin the denny, who started life as o sedate | siralght French ‘school ma'am and then be- | the materlals ave vicher came w dressmaker with a following of various Kinds s more ela & v, oh - n catinot (i thing must not let y 844 in order 10 1e »o s fatal: neit B 1o burn hits ehimb out of order 1o wi 1 proge e yenponsibiin takrn mir e for farhion corvesp i Parim extr Iy diserviminating | skilltully used and the effect as o fin w steiking geeen blue panne velvet Yane Regny han been much talked fen, tn doing an much ax she can 1o whols ix one of greater refinement and | svening frock trimmed with sitver lace | K K pout of Jate and s, ax you probubly | bring buck the defined widstline. V| gentility | and” Caliot s beset frocks of the v, one of the younker dromsinakers | the Juckets of her talloved wuits nve | Ord ne’s clothes (rom a theater [same sort.” - " st reputation with ked by o decided Incurve at the | weat ather making plans for later In this country stage clothes are Our specinl lenflet Tor togay i “How | A for Uws golf Hinks, sea- | waitline, rdern —in becoming the favorite way [having an everincreasing influence on | 10 Make n Viay Pen.” Fend a stamped | g, renort promenades, Zigzay | Neavly sl the dress [ of yeplenishing the wardrobe among | &eneral fashions. The thne ix past | | [ & ® v cnelope, addressed Wit yoUr AN | fines and angular combinations of | makeos continue to f # ov lewn women liers and abroad who can | when acteesses of the first claxs ap nd full address, 10 the “Your Buaby | L 0 il ik gray and siiver | severely npon the for sports | affs [ pear In clothes that are stagey and Mine department of this news | L 700 S0 aVience with her, De. th Not wports hew worn as ¢ Pavin corvespondent: “Mile, | theatrical, Consequently even the best | puper and for it slgnw suggesting the old notion of | #0Ch, bt sports clothes worn in town At appears in one of the scenes | dressed women off the stage look to ! Hghtening streanks in the sky before |81 day long until it is time (o dress new play in Paris in a charme | them for aceasd suggestions and {modern photography made 1t clege | 10 dinner, And to a certain extent | ing house pajama of black panne vel- | INspirations in matters of dress. Some. Lihat lightening didn't come down jn | eV have succeeded [yt trimined with feille of voss ninen | Hmes repraductions of the frocks woen an eye 1o | "Women are dem ele-lat thront and wrixta and strafghtway by & favorite axn ave o be had in ¢ SEp—— . aguin Nines ot at) Rhtwa Aetrenn are . arpvemaing (M8 LR Sl then for 1 Jean Lhalt n - doren women g0 to Lanvin - | ienllv inexpensive ready made tocks | DY THE SKETCREAROVE bedupreads from | “1tch materia uslly - - - e | the ddresn goods i ) ARF Jonely 10 the b : T WIthin & fow weeks of the time that | GROUPED “SEVERAL USERUL " | Waffle Making With China Scts ¥ (e ariinaia, st apperr on o stase. | TARLES OF THE “INCIDENTAL® 1‘1;'“:‘:“”"“ "‘L‘;u:mlln‘.'n:-:l | OTYPE ALL ADAPTED TO MY Becomes u Picturesque Delight | ity wallles dn this conn AN ateaetive, sasily wmade and vas L opge 2 daring wnd ainative of wil ¥ FING INTO ALMOST ANY LN dren I Ly hins geown, and grown and g [up Witw of dvipped hatte WO Work apron s the garment : akers haw wdwiy s doted on cribod wnd - dlngvammed o iy NG ROOM, CABG have you heard ones o wipe | N K home dressmaker's help And £ M. Poiret's recent thunider Ana then | T RIE B SR AR done. e woman Women are bocoming oo inde | Many w charming teavomm b bailt | A At who b atan domesic can ven welt peadent in matiers of dross (o suit g s reputation by secving gond wafs | 1000 510 10as0n WIY You can’t do | set alonk withaut an apan or twe Pt Thede dndependence is, he siys, | fes and coffee—crisp, melting waes, | the Joh neatly. Cooking at table, when | The one explained tn the bt Sien, vuining the UEIM sy leren i §otear, hot, fagrane coffes. AId IENY |10 §s sloppy, 15 alwiys quite unatt A AV b Wl atcracieely from un businews Mow can a crcator vently | hostens hus ndded It her v |1ive, Tt when it i dene dettiet it | hleached muslin wnd any figuved cot coeate for women who, once they bave | ttion e a good hostess by KervIng | fibicive 1o appetite ton material for friwming o aa LR aal 10 wear ssthing e | PELTeOtly 1A Wi Vo oy have sour own ot [ 0 send ot sl ad | nn "atter how beanteatze he Increaned vogue for wale haw | wattle recipe, and If vou have, atick o |y Ping SGRGTERE O &SI RRES SR dih brown | 4 ught ahout the making by the (1t Here s one, however, It you ave | Yi TRE (G g b tve wpread | Suzanne Talbot!, who won her vepn | ching manufaotarers of wallo sets - | looking for o for making e and pillow [ non aw a niiliner before she (uned | ugig of olina consisting of o piteh Mix and sift for the halte wewving the | floue, four ey icern for the [ powder, & tublespaon of sugar and a ompiilment of eoffoe | teaspoon of salt. Al level measuve very hur | her o attention o dressmaking, has Piaten muny suggestions from ersia [ his meiaso 5 this Persion in it b venpumnsiblo il o walles and tea? ments Then add & oup and 4 quarter ovar comhinution of o Juk for mivup, ot milk with the well ton yolks ot 2 oumed when the wil (wo ekgs and mix tharoughly, Th tho table with wn okl i e w(ify beaten whites ol And Uit seems o W e Al L tahlesponns ot b Uhe euntent nmd st satisfacton el Wath sides ol (ha tvan winy of making hem Yo need o b shonld be koot and bot hefore piiiing under the waffle fron and batior in the batter, and "Q should be well Unique Bedspreads. Many b ith moder aoridents 5o Ehrink wuken bin Aing 1 wnlid My o sewives o the neat materiinl boug Oue of e wagp L U e chie ) bt il aunfast e e prticularty st for childron's bods, mmore exprciilly sierinl spotted daintily with rose Luds or o by fower dgn Pereates an wmall geometylen vernecither old fashioned or modern Bppre | istie und cambiics in deligh and orful Chedioomy” e ve | st popubar fabiles for | Tl s pinghinm o plaid dewigr The bile or i Nede plle of pagp T can almest be said nowadavs that the well (urnished ar mare secalled incikental tatdes So Kreal has (he vogie become fur these smalier stands that & really pertect TR I Bave same of them They are not a new thing, by any means. The candle talle of our ances TOEN 30 Vers dge Withesses that faet For vears. (o conturies. we have ANOWR The conventence and beanty af (e amall stamd o table adapied for AHE SO G apwcial sy ive NOROW We have hook stands and (UR} Yo Wwnan wha s fursishing | ALY RIVeS sane of her Bust fention t0 thesw inckbntal s A e adle behiind the davenpat, with A BUp A cach end, on & ST perhaps A latian damask. gives duewity (o the Ng reem. A I HE tadie, enamedsd o, and spread With yellew Wakes & UNINg team tahe hat Is charming for the veung bride WHO must evanumise S0 Aou e iU B the cost of the o (hat matteis Iy the appa. Winieness. (he fiingnoss, (hat teaity Ll ing?” » o prints WAL COREA RS Ol s s i v when ) e clotion open e 1our of Bold Ahise oby B sirongl 19 atied fron " Biis own toye, | wew you Mirting wit st pr e o the Blove's hotn e apple g wateen we ¥ . runners window & menace [ as in organdie 1y et appeaned Take i hnd Bnd lead bim on e BleRe C1epe tones 1k i avir Jand | for a thieequartier tokether (wo oups of There are times when the apron i wanpooia of bakin more canvenlent than o smock. and | WOIEN WHO ke & hand i Ehell owi | IaEaEine stands. smoking stands and NouseWork Ave Incloding @ number of | SeW s tables cand tabies and e | counis. The cheap | wigainted tabie, ThERe WS EUE Aee s ion T et Wt | EARES —amd many mare Rnds Them | properly Bed ihe s Surtoundings. D WO Tiie et ke s A W Gabka (o aler BIer cofae |1 ust as ofective as the Sxpensine AR 0 e A e | beire (e e, the Bests of tables 10/ ol ok 1ofeciory tatie. cany to make as u‘u.. PRACEA GUE oF the Wy againsg the Wkt ke 1 sond f Wil ar sibead about the e, Gy ki " x,...r'm,umum Lallo 1o be tueked Inte the and 1w W oW of the Wbt apion and Wiections | (T th foarner af the small voom o making. o slips of scarlet satleen are I 0 e thir o, Lt un n s thiern Pt b pently "opive Vi 1 keep it ax long 0ld Kansas Settlement . inevitahle at ' Wha ever Bound e Molvnenx wha oy oficer before ho § | [ET i venen, wl the Best " Meanthme gl wn et Avessminho owing rebant proninent in tong ines it o " ol Massachuse e Kanigrant servative, NHut o # gfpmeryatiom - rap UGS 111 T muflwav fen e ectrle wallle by an “ine i . ov. Nathaniel Thomas, an Bwgish gy man PN RS, Bas st publisbed his fist wovel at e [N B i on e of th g Boseie the W \ G propeity ae ju ¥ VY kil AN shapad and all sises they come. 10 BUIL ARY yw, BRY tequiteinents, Ok GouIee, A0 4l RAls DARELD. | - .