Evening Star Newspaper, August 25, 1928, Page 21

Value of Combination Furniture BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. NDING AM MODER! ECRETARY, G ture is reaching ection. This is partly because of restricted odern apartment life, and it : due to the natural delight ty which makes things seem uble, triple and even furniture harks back It not modern in n*adaptation. We have the fascinating poudre of French make, which, to all in- and purposes, were handsome the center top pancl was raised and the transformation revealed. Sometimes the two side-top portions d and could be pushed out, ing extra space for cosmetics and to beauty, especially the ch was so essential then, and which gave the stand its special es for s contrivances are | revised form to suit mod eds. ‘When I was a little girl I can remem- ber the thrill it gave me when what appeared to be a regulation writing desk was transformed by its owner into a small but perfect melodeon. This was accomplished by the mere raising of a secret panel. revealing the keyboard. while the lifting of some hinged, connected strips of fine wood supplied the music rack. This was a prized piece of furniture, brought by its owner from the “old country” many years previous. The lengths to which the old idea | s been carried out in the United States is amazing. Modern ingenuity is fertile, and combinations are devised to.fill an astonishing number of desir- N COMBINATION FURNITURE I8 WHICH FULFILLS NO LESS THAN FOUR ble requirements. No longer are we | content_with davenports that are also | | beds, with corner cupboards that prove to be breakfast tables'also, with tables that are sewing machines without giv- ing any hint of it at first, with hand- some cabinets that house radios or talking machines effectually disguised. More purposes must be served in the | one piece of furniture. | In no one article is this extra com- | bination value more cleverly or delight- | fully brought out than in the secretary that conceals or reveals four different uses, according to which of the several is in demand. At first glance it claims full attention as an old-style secretary, | with shelves for books, protected in cor- {rect form by glass doors. A hinged cover, up or down, hides or discloses the writing table section, fitted with | wee drawers, shelves and pigeonholes, { while at either side are ample drawers. |~ One has but to speak the magic words | “Presto. change,” however, and accom- pany the words with a slight manipula- | tion, and the comprehensive secretary | becomes a radio, tuning-in to speeches, to music for a dance, to some celebrated orchestra or singer, etc. Nor is this all, for if a plano is de- sired, the radio can be turned off and concealed, while the raising of a cover and the swinging back of some other hinged sections brings a keyboard music rack and pedals into proper positions. In this combination piece of furniture |a maximum of ingenuity fascinates, while the practical features have a strong appeal, whether the home deco- | rator ‘must conserve space or desires to i stress novelty in furnishings. (Copyright. 1928.) Straight Talks to Women About Money BY MARY ELIZABETH ALLEN. Long or Short Lease. If now is the time to sign your lease, gou may find the duration of the lease & question to answer. The long and ghort leases both present advantages and disadvantages. Up to a few years #go real estate booms generally made the long lease of material advantage. A change generally in realty values has altered that condition in some places. The long lease assures one of satis- factory living quarters for a fixed price over a rumber of years. This period may range from two to five years. Its disadvantages are that one may find it obligatory or compulsory to move, that one’s fixed rent may be above the average next year or the year following, end it also precludes one from moving to a more desirable or favorable loca- tion The short lease permits one greater freedom in living where one chooses as Jong as she chooses, it avails one yearly of any price reductions or concessions in leases, and it puts one always on a bargaining basis with the agent or land- | lord O fhe disadvantage of the short lease 45 that one is not assured of one’s home MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKPAST. Melons Oatmeal with Cream Baked Eggs. Bacon Curls Raisin Brown Bread. Coffee. DINNER. Pruit Cup. Roast Lamb, Brown Gravy. d Sandwiches Olives Salad Crackers, Cheese. Coffee EIN BROV nolasses BREAD one teaspoon , one and milk, one egg one-half cup sugar, iam flour. WO Cups nd two heaping ing powder. Mix r one cup raisins. Mix stand 20 minutes - moderate AVARIAN CREAM L hed one-half two cups boil- blegpoons lemon ipped cream with water 10 e in boling When it be- crushed peaches an of cold water and in whipped P been rmse if you ha crean and ear 4 with PLAIN FRUIT SALAD. it pulp, two cups pineappl wo cups ora tie Marasehin pulp, cher lemon well. 1t 1k will for more than & year at a time; in the event of a boom in realty values one's rent may ascend in price accordingly. and ordinarily a landlord will do les | repair work and renovating for a short. term tenant than for a long-term one, While the short lease is definite, a long lease is not ngcesasrily binding because one may always sublet unless her lease forbids her from doing so. It is true that few properties decline in value, but old houses deteriorate and the long-term lease in an old building or dwelling should consider that. There is an added saving in a long-term liease in that it obviates the need of moving periodically. Each moving day is equal almost to a month's rent. Before signing any lease, make cer- tain that in it are incorporated all of the conditlons required by you as to repairing, renovating, concessions and even the smallest details. Promises to {“put that in" mean nothing, because {once your lease is signed, the other | party 'is not obliged to “put anvthing in." Only sign completely satisfactory form. { QY ROl IN CH 205 West Bradley lane B R RN R RN YR Y B S SN Y S Y, is a handsome colonial home n(efume the Chevy Chase Club grounds. The lower floor walls are paneled and decorations throughout are in ex- quisite taste. Abounding in ultra modern features that delight those of re- fined taste. Five bedrooms and three baths, one a shower. All finished in the fine umrkmanxh.(f of a high-class builder Two-car garage to match See it at once " 1417 K St the lease when it is in| Realtors EVENING Everyday Law Cases May National Banks Engage In Business Enterprises? The County National Bank had been | forced to obtain title to mining land | upon which it had granted a large loan. | ‘When the loan had been made to the | owners of the land there had been pros- pects that the property contained ore. No ore had been discovered, however, {and the former owners had abandoned | the undertaking. | The directors of the bank, after ac- | quiring the property. still had faith that there was ore on the premises. Ac- cordingly, they authorized further drill- ing operations, using the funds of the | bank for this purpose. In this manner the sum of $20,000 was expended, re- sulting in a loss. ‘The affairs of the bank itself were | also in bad shape, culminating finally in a receiver being appointed to take charge. The latter, learning that the directors had caused the bank to enter into the mining operations, sued them individualy to recover the losses sus- | tained in the enterprise. | The court held the directors person- | ally liable, stating: “National banks are forbidden to en- | | | | terprises. Hence, directors who author- | ize expenditures in such enterprises are personally liable therefor to the bank or its recetver.” Home in Good Taste RY SARA HII | in the living room. but one of the most | attractive is the “drum top” kind shown in the accompanying illustration and equipped with bronze feet and | handles, these tables offer many oppor- | tunities for the enhancement of a { room. | Their refinement of detail allows |them to be placed with furniture of the | Georgian period. In the grouping shown a handsome Georgian wing chair is | covered in an and figured tapestry. Any one having a corner in the living | room which has been a bit difficult to furnish will find that a table of thi kind will fit in beautifully where square or oblong one would be impos- sible. None of us cares to place furni. ture “cornerwise,” as would be neces- sary with an angular table, and the graceful curves of this onc enable it to furnish a corner in a most agreeable manner. These tables are usually about 30 inches across the top, thus providing sufficient space to accommodate a lamp, books and a vase or decorative box. The fact that this particular table has drawers makes it especially valuable for the purpose of keeping cards, tallles and other miscellaneous articles for im promptu entertaining. (Copyrizht. 1928 bt sl Creole Sauce. Add two tablespoonfuls of chopped onion to two tablespoonfuls of butter and cook it until it is tender and yellow Add two cupfuls of canned tomatoes, one chopped green pepper or canned pimento. half a cupful of chopped celery, two teaspoonfuls of minced pars- ley, one bay leaf, and salt and pepper to taste. Simmer for half an hour. Re- move the bay leaf. Blend the flour with a little melted butter and add to the sauce. Cook for about 10 minutes longer, add four tablespoonfuls of minced ham or bacon, and serve at once. Macaroni Croquettes. spoonfuls of butter, three tablespoonfuls of flour, half a teaspoonful of salt, one- fourth teaspoonful of paprika and one- fourth cupful of rich milk, and stir un til thick and smooth. Add half & cup- spoonfuls of grated cheese. Mix well and turn into a shallow dish to cool, then chill. Form into croquettes, dip first in beaten egg and then in bread !crumbs, and fry in deep hot fat Built by 4U INC. VY CHASI 6206 Maple Ave. Just around the corner from Bradley Lane house. Another beautiful home on corner lot, containing approzimately 9,000 89. ft. of ground. Detached Colontal Brick, four spactous bedrooms and two big baths, one a shower: oak floors thru- out; large attic, 1inclosed sleeping porch, fireplace in living room, flanked by book shelves, an tdeal kitchen, equipped with double porcelatn sink, two built-in cabinets, in- laid Unoleum and breakfast al- cove. Lavatory on first floor screened side porch. Slate 100f Two-car butlt-in garage. This {8 worth your inspection. The price 1s right U RURURURUEOR Open All Day Sunday Daily 4 Until 9 P.M, O becrrclP Main 9300 STAR, WASHINGTON TURDAY, A DIET AND HEALTH ULU HUNT PETERS, M. D. a few hours, with the first drink of | water or other liquids However, you will find with all these i compounds the “reducing” breads, instruetlons about your diet and exercise, no matter what they say | in their advertisements. Now if you fol- K. it s only to condemn them. You | low these mrfi:-ncdand exeér(;l‘.\‘! lnsénn‘;; ¢ i . ions, you will reduce; and if you don can't reduce by rubbing anvthing only oo Sonthing “of dietetics, you will | the skin, It is done by rubbing less on | give credit to the product you are us- | the skin lining your tummy-—you get|ing what T mean? ‘ Recently T sent for a reducing toast Two of these soaps, widely advertised, | which large, alluring advertisements in- | were analyzed in Government 1abor- | formed you would reduce you and at atories and found to be ordinary soaps ! the same time allow you to eat every-| with a minute amount of iodid of po- | thing you want. 1 know, of course, this tassium. Both products were declared | was untrue, but I wanted to find out| rauds and were debarred from the|what the instructions Inside of the| United States mails. Salts and ereams | package were, and the only way I could | and other preparations to be used ex-| find out was to send for some of the| ternally for reducing purposes comes in | toast. And T had to part with $3, for the same category as the soaps. the stuff was sold only in six-box lots, One on the “reducing” bath salts was | making it 50 cents a box. It was a good found to contain epsom salts. alum and | ordinary zwieback, no better, however. citric acid. The soda and citric acid | than the zwieback you can buy for 15 when dissolved produced an efferves- for 20 cents. cence which of course had a good men-| Not one word was mentioned in the tal effect, for something seemed to be | inside advice about eating all you want- doing. Still another reducing salt, de-| ed! Instead, there were instructions clared a fraud by the Government, was | to eat two slices of this toast—no other Reducing Fakes. “You mentioned reducing soaps in vour article some time ago. Please give me the name o Any time T mention “reducing soaps,” | UGUST 25 BEAUTY CHAT Some women think petroleum felly makes the lashes and eyebrows longer and thicker. This is an illusion, it does nothing of the. sort. A mineral oll. the skin takes nothing from it. It does make the lashes and the brows seem thicker and certainly much glossier, which is a good thing. and, generally speaking, any sort of pure oil is excellent because it keeps the skin from getting too dry. But if you want an ofl to make the hairs really grow, use castor oil. This, being a vegetable oil, will nourish, it will also darken the hair and it will make brows and lashes glossy, t00. Another illusion s that superfluous hair can be removed forever. It is true that the electric needle treatment will kill a large proportion of hairs that are not wanted, especially if a skilled work- er has the needle. But for all general purpos tle of will do. Not. under the arm, of course. Shave here with a safety razor and shave the legs too if the hairs grow thick and black and show through your stockings or with your bathing suit. Or, buy the soft wax that comes for this purpose esh strong peroxide of hydrogen Petroleum jelly Is | s. a pair of tweezers and a bot- | S in. Shaving merely cuts the hair's head | off at the surface of the skin. But a| new hair grows if another one is down ready under the skin it takes a little | time and then it appears. After awhile, ! | after several applications of wax or the | continued use of tweezers, some roots stop functioning, which Is desirable Meantime, especially for the eyebrows, bleach the skin with peroxide so thc new. hair is too pale to show much, and | bleach the down above the lip with | peroxide. | | BY EDNA KENT FORBES Polly Prim.— hands and neck over months would not detract any from | your appearance. For the larger freckles try baking soda dampened so | you can make it adhere to the skin for a half hour or more and rub a piece of cut cucumber over the rest of the places | that need bleaching. Miss L. 8.—Anything that stimulate. | the circulation will help you get rid of | | this condition on your arms called | “gooseflesh.” Extremes in temperature {in bathing will help do this, such as alternately using hot and then cold water over the arms and then friction | from a coarse bath towel when drying the skin. few freckles on your the Summer | gage in manufacturing or business en- | There are many types of tables which | may be chosen for the occasional table | Constructed of walnut or mahogany | Make*a cream sauce with two table- ' colored epsom salts, sold at a stiff price. of course. (Ordinary epsom salt is about 5 cents a pound.) Naturally the sweat- ing caused by the baths, with or with- out the soap or salts, will cause a temporary reduction in weight, | pending upon the amount of sweating induced. This, however, is regained in BY WILLIAM Is Dampness a Hazard? One of the hardiest traditions of hygiene is the notion that dampness is {injurious to health. 'This notion came {down to us from our benighted fore- fathers who observed that malaria pre- {vailed in swampy regions and wrongly deduced from that fact the conclusion | that malaria depended on some miasm, |efMuvium or other vague influence that |rose from the damp ground. To this | day plenty of laymen harbor precisely | such a delusion, and health or sanita authorities encounter considerable trou- ble in carrying out real preventive measures against | real preventive measures do not impress the untutored layman as being ade- | quate. | Anybody with a fair intelligence in | regard to hygiene and sanitation knows | that malaria is caused only by the bite {of a certain breed of mosquito, called | Anopheles, never by the bite of the | common mosquito, Culex. that prevails {in all parts of the country. Unless one is bitten by the female of Anopheles (the males do not mite man) it is im- possible to contract malaria, no matter how swampy or damp the soil or the climate. | Unfortundtely there are other vague | traditions associated with the question of dampness of soil, air, clothing, | buildings, basements, cellars, workrooms ‘b('droerns. living rooms, that cannot be so readily dismissed. Still more un- | fortunately, a lot of our medical and | sanitary authorities or officers are old imers,” beyond the physiological | when it is possible to change the mind, |once a theory, fancy or conviction has {been formed. and these old timers are | | fond of making just such observations | as our benighted ‘ancestors made in re- | gard to malaria, and drawing just such {erratic conclusions from their observa- | tians, particularly in respect to diseases we do not understand much better than {our forefathers | Thus “rheumatism”—whatever the old | timers may mean by the | “colds,” whatever anybody they may be—are still vigorously ascribed to dampness by the old timers, | ‘The Federal health authorities, for | example, have listed the occupation of | Federal ‘meat_inspection as “hazard- ous” one, by reason of the exposure to | wet, dampness and cold the inspectors |must encounter in their work. Prob- |ably the Federal health authorities RAIN OR ‘ All the PERSONAL HEALTH malaria because the | age | understood malaria. | term—and | imagines | bread— before each meal. Then came a ries of menus which you were expect- ed to follow. Including the reducing toast, these menus averaged about 800 alories, You know that the average person can reduce on | day, so you can_easi | fake concern got its results ERVICE BRADY, M. D. made what they call a “surv a tabulation of the illnesses among meat inspectors over a period of months, and then calmly drew their conclusion’ that | | the work is “hazardous” and likely to | cause “rheumatism” and “colds.” | Now here is what one Federal meat | inspector thinks about it—obviously he |isn't sceking a pension from the Gov- | {ernment or_ anything like that | “Dear Dr. Brad: ‘T have worked in the packing houses | for the last 25 years, often in cold, damp | cellars with a temperature of 34 to 38 | degrees, going from the cold out into | the heat and from the heat back into | the cold. My belief is that men en- gaged in this work have no more ‘colds’ than other working people. Sometimes we must stand most of the day in water 2 or 3 inches deep. If our shoes leak at | all we cut a hole in them so that the | water will run out. From my experience and observation I am thoroughly con- | vinced that dampness or cold does not give a person any disease or injure his health, even If it is pretty uncomfort- able at times. S . J. M (Copyright. 1928 Angel Food Cake. Beat the whites of six eggs until| frothy, then add one-fourth teaspoon- | ful of cream of tartar and toast until Stiff but not dry. Measure three-fourths | tupful of sugar and fold in_slowly, | beating after each addition. Mix one- fourth teaspoonful of salt with thrre- fourths cupful of flour, and sift four | times, then fold it gently into the | whites of the eggs. Do not beat or stir. | Add half a teaspoonful of vanilla. | Pour into ungreased. one-pound coffee | cans. This will fill about two cans. Bake in a slow oven, covering the cake with a buttered paper, if necessary, to prevent browning too deeply. To serve cut in rounds and cover with mashed and sweetened fruit or jam. Stuffed Calf's Heart. Wash a calf's heart thoroughly and remove the veins, arteries and clotted | blood. Season well and fill with stuffing. | Place in a baking dish. Cover, nddi | boiling water and bake slowly until tender, or for about two hours. Re- move the heart to the platter. Use | ! the liquid in the pan to make a brown ';(lrnvy. Pour around the heart, Serve | ot | SHINE It’s Same to ‘ Dupont’s Tontine Window Shades Factory ful of cooked macaroni and three table- ' | Main 3324-3326 I Guaranteed fadeless and washable 830 13th St. N,w] W. STOKES SAMMONS, Pron. ated In munity closed br ful bedrooms; hardwood Axtures, hot-water landscaped lot a cholee Large living 18th St Healtors. 1621 K St. N.W, 4213 18th St. N.W. $18, This fully-detached home is charmingly situ section kfast room, four spacious and cheer heat, OPEN ALL DAY SUNDAY Drive west on Varnum St. from Sixteenth St then turn left to home J. €. 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