Evening Star Newspaper, March 10, 1928, Page 21

WOMAN'S PAGE. e———— THE EVENING STAR., WASHINGTON. . D. €. SATURDAY. MARCH 10, 19%8.° FEATURES.’ Good Taste in Interior Decoration BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. THE EYE AND IS ALWAYS IN GOOD TA: m decoration are e in line and graceful rm, so that even when the special d, the things re- iful never to be homemaker finds it guish between the ¥ e era main sufficien! discarded. necessary to dist two and to follow one or the ust now there are o ma @ecoration that it is necessa: one’s guard not to be influenced too much by them, unless one has a deep purse and can aford to redecorate when the “new” decoration becomes old It is often emazing what goes out in the name of “good” decoration. The question comes, “How does it rank as good decoration?” Once I heard an artist question if there was any real standard of taste in decoration. He INE AND APPROPRIATE Tb ITS purse is not deep. It is the kind lity of the wood lending added ture. sorfes of furnishing there > charm of color, beauty of . and a real purpose back of them s and futile articles should be | banished, unless they have such merit declared that what was considered good | in one period was taboo in another, with apparently no better reason than that it was out of style Granting that there is much to be said on this side. there does remain a background of fine taste against which poor decoration shows forth S true light. For instance, overornate furni- ture in which the work is machine done s poor. However, if the decoration is the work of an artist in wood carving artistic appeal that artistry alone is For example, there are orna- ments that have beauty as their sole reason for stence today. But if one studies the history of art, it will be found that once such articles were of service. Water jugs were the origin of many handsome vases. Bell pulls now used for wall decorations were once as necessary as are electric push buttons to summon servants, etc. The home decorator who wants to keep up with styles in decoration should remember that furniture in classic lines po! should be chosen for the quality of springs as well as for fine appearance. Accessories of needlecraft, flect the best of a prevailing style. instance, just now quilted cus the vogue, Assizi work is the mode: Russian embroidery is fashionable. All For TE IN DECO- | such as- | cushions, table scarfs, etc., should re- | DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX Why Motherhood Is Woman’s Greatest Career in Spite of “Artistic” Teachings—How Wise Mother Preveated Daughter’s Divorce. l)EAR MISS DIX: I am a young married woman and the mother of a dear little bab; 1 would be perfectly happy if it were not for the teachings of my mother that keep me mentally upset. My mother is an artist, and lives upon such a high spiritual plane that things that are not of an artistic type irritate and bore her. She is dreadfully disappointed and hurt because I choose to *jus get married” Ins of following some ambitious career. She has taught me that it is a erlme to bring a child into the world to suffer, and begs me not to be responsible for another life. But I cannot sce that it is'wrong to want to be a | mother when my aim is for the children’s welfare. My mother Is lovely and I want to respect and obey her, but as a woman I desire to think the right | thoughts and do the right deeds. Can you relieve me of any doubt on the ‘\subh‘\'( ? A MOTHER'S DAUGHTER. | Answer: Your mother Is entirely wrong in her point of view and you are right. ¥ the greatest carcer that any woman can follow, the one fn which she can most fully express herself and in which her achievements can be of most value I to the world is that of wife and mother. It is the career for which N: | intended her, and it is the one in which she is most successful and reaps the ‘m‘rulr.\l reward in happiness. Also it is the carcer that calls for more brains, more talent, more tact and | diplomacy, more courage and grit, a higher morale than any other. For the wife and mother must be a Pooh Bah who is master of all professions and arts jand crafts. She must be wyer and a doctor, a preacher and a disciplinarian, a cook and a teacher, a seamstr and a commissary general, and Heaven knows . what clse besides, in order to achieve an even average job of wife and mother, | | So when your mother voices her disappcintment in you because you did | | nothing but get married point her to your achievements. Ask her if any artist, | even Raphacl himself, ever painted a cherub as beautiful as your baby. Ask | whether it is better to write a jazz tune or make life a glad, sweet song for a | husband and children. Ask hgr whether a woman Is more successful as a lawyer jor the mother of a Lindbergh. Ask her whether it is better to be a film star with a dozen divorees or the adored wife of one husband. Ask her whether the woman achicves most who writes a novel about an imaginary home or the one who makes a real home that is a place of peace and rest and a benediction ‘o all who cross its threshold. Ask her what woman does as much for her countr: woman who rears a family of fine sons and daughters and who sends them | forth into the world to do its work worthily. Ask her what woman's influence is as great as that of thd mother who has imptessed her ideals upon her children s0 that they will transmit them to their children and send them down for unco; nerations. or for humanity as the | Nothing but a distorted mind could see wrong in a motherhood such as | vours is. And it is only a cowardly shrinking from life that makes your mother urge you not to have any more children pecavse they must meet the inevitable | sutferings that life brings. | Of course, every child that is born must suffer. It must know sickness and | struggie and hardships and disappointments, but it is wrong to think of these | as bringing us only misery. Out of them comes strength and the glory of | achievement and wisdom and real manhood and womanhood. Furthermore, | | there is the joy of the battle that outweighs ali the pleasures of peace. ‘ ] It is oniy the flabby-souled who would alw: | luxury and softness and ease So do not listen to your mother's teaclings. She looks on life wjth a | faundiced eve, but you are seeing it clearly. Rejoice in your husband and’ vour | home and your children and the knowledge that you bave chosen the better v]‘,m(. % DOROTHY DIX. | [EAR DOROTHY DIX: My daughter came home to me saying that she and | her husband could not get along together and had decided to separatc. | | T knew he was a good man, so I told her just for an experiment—and I believe | in experiments—to go back and try minding her husband for six weeks. I said: Do everything he asks you to do for a change, and if, at the end of six weeks, | you still find that you can't get along I will take you and the bables and provide for you.” 8he took my advice, and before the six weeks were out they were | perfectly happy and harmonious, and have been so ever since. 1 think if the | Wife changes her attitude the husband will also, if they love each other, and the | big majority of people marry for love. MRS A.B. | Answer: A Solomon In petticoats you are, Mrs. A. B.: a second Solomon | come to judgment! Would that there were more mothers like you, for if there were there would not be so many broken-up homes and fewer poor little haif~ | orphan children and far, far fewer young divcrcees who are not content to stay | married and who are still more miserable and discontented unmarried. o want to be wrapped in When their daughters come running home to them and tell them that they can't get along with their husbands, most mothers “poor dear” their Sadies and | their Mamies, and weep over them as if they were persecuted martyrs and blame | the whole trouble on the girls' husbands. But in reality when husbands and | wives disagree, the wives are generally just as much to blame as the husbands, sometimes more s0. | Anyway, it takes two to make a quarrel, and in the great majority of cases hions arg| the woman could have saved the situation if she had tried to. And nearly alwa mother, 1n her heart, knows what is the matter, and she could patch up the { breach between them If she wanted to. of these should be as fine in type as; e classic in origin. There is ing faddish about such decorative elements. They are fine. They may be choice. It is essential to know what {1s the vogue, to see if it can be used | This 15 true even when the man is at fault, because it is often so much | better for a woman to put up with injustice or to sacrifice the pleasure of doing | her own way or to overlook faults and shortcomings or to give the soft answer | | that turns away wrath or to jolly a man into dcing the things that he should do than it is 10 stand on her dignity and her rights and wreck her home over WHO REMEMBERS? The Sidewalks MANSFIELD, Registered U. S, Patent Offico. Within the past few weeks the Ameri- can stage has lost two of its most dis- tinguished representatives, one of whom | fell i his harness, the other passing away during a | period of _retire- | ment from the pro- ! fesston he honored |for many years. ch adorned his | particular sphere |of comedy—Eddie Foy, the clown, and | william H. Crane, {the “stratght” [Pl P ot No! ing admission tha one of the most lovable elans of humankind often suffers the slings of an out- rageous for tune, 50 5 WHeEN / Bany MeKee |~ o \fi%fln:fl !‘i)a)‘; { ISE £ “RTHE WHITE 22 “HoUsE, (< though il were well o B | never achieving om, | known in_their d It will require considerable Tansacking of the memory to recall even a fev of them, unless, of course, one has been a student of ge history. Not many weeks ago a former fa- mous leading woman, no longer a crea- ture of flowering youth, play [role In a production in Washington. |he was probably not recognized by 1y save the older generation of the- o ~ . | atergoers. The other night this writer Home in Good T | was ‘astonished to sec an old acquaint- {ance plaging one of a mob in a motion | picture. ~ This fine player w /ith the Edison Company. wate 10 obiain employment as = e L When the statue of Thomas Jeffer- son, holding the Declaration of Ind: pendence, had a place in_the en grounds of the White House? once a BY SARA HILAND., The living room in the small home is made more delightful when atten- tion is paid to the furnishing of cor- ners in a _charmine m Note in the fllustration how very le, yet distinctive the small group- ppears. The chair. which reminds us of the French peasant style, is of William Crane was a man of means, and Eddie Foy was never without an important and profitable engagement when he sought it, but so many of those who have entertained the public In the heyday of their careers are now happy tc mosphere”! o was when it was difficult to in- duce a legitimate actor to play in the movies. Sometimes an idle player, whose need for three square meals was greater than his pride, would succumb |fo the advances of a pioncer movie er, with the understanding that me would not appear in the cast a motion-picture star whose ed a trivial | Now he | carry spears or furnish “at- | of Washington BY THORNTON FISHER. elder Sothern, creator of the famous Lord Dundreary, was extraordinarily sensitive to interruptions during his performance. One night he happened to see a man leaving & box during the delivery of one of the actor's best speeches. Stopping in the midst of a line, Mr. Sothern shouted, “Say, you | sir, do you know there is another act ‘The offending gentleman immediately faced about and answered cheerfully, “I know it. That's why I'm going.” o officers of the 316th Infantry another | Lincoln story s told. President Lin- | coln, 5o the” varn goes, was handed a | dispatch informing him that the Con- | federates had captured @ brigadier | general and 200 mules. “Hm.” mu mured the war President, “this is a rious matter. Mules cost $200 Sl W hington chap nearly got a raise in salary a few days ago save for the fact that a colored janitor “u and told on him.” The youth is em- ployed in a small business office, and one day the boss arrived at 6 o'clock {in the morning, | for no particular reason, to find his clerk apparently at work. He was astonished to find him there at that time in the day and complimented him on his atten- tion to business. Any young fellow who threw himself into his job in such fashion de- rved encourage- ment. and his chief considered the matter of increasing his g He was about to reward him for his faithfulness, when ths janitor 1 cently asked the boss if he would fi nish the young man with a key that he would not have to be bothered admitting the clerk to the office at 3/ He said of it or 4 am. several times a week. he was becoming a little t In the annual bulletin of the veteran | THE DAILY HOROSCOPE Sunday, March 11. Benefic aspects dominate tomorrow. | according to astrologzy, which reads ir ltha stars kindly influences. | Women are subject to a sway that | 1s beneficlal to them, making for buoy- | ancy and optimism. The rule is stimulating to hope and | 15 supposed to quicken the finer emo= | . encouraging high ambitions. » well directed, the pl: helpful to nding | Love | being esp | and ux wed i | fick rches, v prosoer in the coming 3 Broader are foretold | There a sig | promise for those of frie commonly propitious rule for Persons who hold political offic those who seck them are st be most fortunate under | the stars, It should be a favor: men and women, esg who adhere to old con ditions Reactionary tendenc at this time, sorts are presaged. Persons whose birth date it is should vold changes in the coming vear, ot be lucky for extensive 5 well to stick to the old for older T thos and tra- 5 may be strong nges of many i 'n born on that day probably will be successful all through life. They will like form and enjoy ising au- thority. Lessons in English BY W. L. GORDON. sused: Do not say, “I T than he.” Say “than The employe was called in and inter- | rogated, and confessed that when h» remained out lat was handier ¢ him to sleep in the office than to name does not lead all the rest indulges | himself in temperamental acrobatics, It docs seem s if those who wagered with their prestige in the early days of the films should play something more than one of a mob. * % The champion timid soul fs a com- panion who attended a theater w the correspondent and refused to le | until a singer had concluded her act | Let us make it clearer. a motion picture house which also pro- vides skits between the pictures. timid soul arrived just as the lady singer was finishing “her performance. Then the feature film was shown, after which the comedians, dancers and vocallsts “did their stuff.” Having heard the last part of the lady singer's program. our companion was not interested in g through twice. Besides, many were stand vho were entitled to the se. who had al dy wit sed “I haven't the nerve, t have her see me get up and go out. Let’s wait until she is through.” And 5o somebody had to stand five minutes longe! 2 Artists billed on _continuous grams are accustomed to this. regarded as a part of tr actor res | maple, and the covering i3 a colorful flowered chintz. The table, which 1s a tip-toe type, but used most of the time with its top in horizont. is one of our American picces, and ¢ its simplicity of detai monious with the chas The lamp, a potte entional de: in bright colors, is cquipped with a shade of chintz to match that used on the chair. The woodwork in this room the walls finished in pale gree the ground of the chintz is roffee pattern in 50 in maple, by renders it har- base in con- pro- Hwever. 10D, ‘The | was sufficient to dis tusion he had created in his bos and instead of receivin | was instructed to go home to sleep. It is said that the elder Armour, of meat_packing note, had a similar ‘ex- the evident industry of impressed b unhappy _be- disposition.” the young person that he gave him | $1,000 bonus and sent him to Europe. T! story has never been verified. The place was | DAILY DIET RECIPE Porterhouse. Porterhouse steak, 2 pounds. Anchovies, 3. Stuffed olives, 3. SERVES THREE PERSONS. Delmonico steak could be used instead of porterhouse. Have brofler oven hot Broil steak. Immediately on remov: steak from oven, fasten together first an anchovy and then an olive with a toothpick. Place the three garnish- ments on the brofled steak where the three portions would be cut for serving. A ring of anchovy paste around each olive can be substituted for the who THE CHEERFUL CHERUB My days are Full of lunders — Oh, how Ive 2lways yearned To live one life for practise, Ancther when Ive learned! |in the home and to select from the ' her head. | things those that will reflect good taste | as well as indicate a knowledge of cur- | rent fashions. who used the furniture to express gen- . there may be a wealth of lack of worth. The ;. the former cheap. Articles that cost little may have fine | characteristics in their grace of line and form entirely free from any other | the proposed modern motor highway | ornamentation. This is the sort of | from Germany to Italy, and may join furniture that it is wise to select if |in constructing the “autostrad.” The Daily Cross-Word Puzzle 1 And that is what makes it such a pity that mothers are not all as as you are, Mrs. A. B, for no better way of salvaging a matrimonial bark that i3 about to go on the rocks was ever given than that which you gave to your | daughter. No man could stay peeved with a wife who was breaking her neck to try to please him. No man could possibly quarrel with a wife who fell in with 'his humor at every turn. No man can argue with a wife who obeys him and does everything he says. —e Switzerland is showing an interest in Also your advice touches a weak spot in the masculine armor, for really | | all that men want thelr wives to do is to make the gesture of obedience. They want their wives to ask thefr permission to do things, and if the wives will do | this the men will never notice whether they really take their advice or not. EAR MISS DIX-—I have a brother who cannot get along with his wife She has a terrible temper and throws knives and frying pans at him When I ask him why he doesn’t leave her his excuse is that he hates to leave the baby or the neighbors will side with her. What s your upg‘l"}"l’)oLS (Copyrisht Answer—Oh, I think that just as there are women who fall for cavemen, there are men who like cavewoman stuff. Your brother must really enjoy living with a woman that he is afraid of. It gives zest to life to be al dodging | cooking utensils and looking for a crack over the head. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyricht, 192K.) PRESIDENTS QUESTION GAME 8. What was Andrew Johnson's early political faith? 9. Where is Lincoln burled? | 10. What was the Gadsden Purchase? | Answers to the questions will be | | found on this page. | These and hundreds of other ques- | tions about our Presidents are answered | | In & 40-page booklet, “Presidents of the | United States,” which the Amerlcan { Legion has arranged to have delivered | to any reader for 6 cents to cover | postage and handling cost. It contains the offictal portrait of every Prestdent with history of hix life, election and public services, Address the Haskin In- formation Bureau, Washington, D. 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