Evening Star Newspaper, September 13, 1928, Page 37

WOMAN'’S PAGE. . Artificial Flowers for Frocks BY MARY Wearing artificial flowers is to many French women like drinking wlne—re; I no one drank French wines, what would garded as a sort of patriotic_duty. A SIMPLE GOWN OF BLACK SATIN TAKES ON THE NEW FEMININE NOTE WHEN TRIMMED WITH WHITE GEORGETTE PLEATING AND ROSE-COLORED GARDENIAS ON THE SHOULDER. become of the thousands of folk in the provinces of France who get their liv- ing in the orchards or wine presfs? If no one wore artificial flowers, if French dressmakers did not keep the fashion very much alive, what would become of the thousands of women in Paris and other cities who earn a meager though generally adequate liv- ing making these posies of silk and velvet? It was perhaps from patriotic motives that Louiseboulanger of Paris displayed 80 many boutonnieres on frocks in the collection she recently exhibited for The Daily Cross Word Puzzle (Copyright, 1928.) Across. . Arrogance. . A truth. . Free from. . Front. . Perceive. . Self. . Finish. . High explosive. . Not dry. . Wager. India. . Poem. . Letter S. . Constellation. . Southern constellation. Reverential fear. ANSWER TO YESTERDAY'S PUZZLE S[E/PIATRIAITIE]S The Seductive Touch of the Orient —this alluring, fascinat- ing attractive beauty with its subtile, mystic appeal can be yours. Possess this bewitching appearance thru 34 Gouraun's ORIENTAL CREAM . Made in White - Flesh - Raohel Send 10c. for Trial Size Ford. T. Hopkins & Son. New York WHO REMEMBERS? BY DICK MANSFIELD. MARSHALL. Registered U. S. Patent Office. Autumn. Even the most influential of French milliners might find it difficult to induce women to wear flowers on their hats, especially at this time of the year; but nowadays the logical place to wear artificial flowers, anyway, is the frock, not the hat. With Louiseboulanger, I belleve, vio- lets anr pansies are the most favored of flowers, and some of these are made in a new way of crochetted silk, decid- edly realistic. ‘The sketch shows an arrangement of | artificial flowers on a frock adorned | | with a pleated neck frill. Once we might have regarded wearing flowers on frills rather fussy, overornate, but taste has changed much within the past six or eight months, and any embel- lishment that makes a frock seem more feminine is looked upon with approval. If perchance you have a last year's frock to wear this Autumn, why not bring it up to date by supplying it with a frill for the neck and then to the frill add a small bunch of flowers? Little posies made of pastel colored ribbon are used to ornament the new lingerie. They are not hard to make and most inexpensive, as they need so little ribbon. If you would like to make some for yourself or for gifts, please send me a stamped, self-addressed en- velope and I will send you directions | and sketch at once. (Copyright. When the old-style folding beds had a habit of folding at the wrong time, and you narrowly escaped destruction? NANCY PAGE Flashlight Shadows Amuse Sick Joan BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. 1928.) A Sermon for Today BY REV. JORN R. GUNN. Quit Planting Thorns. ‘Text—"Do men gather grapes of thorns?"—Matt., vii.16. No, men do not gather grapes of thorns. Then if you want grapes do not plant thorns. If you plant thorns, thorns will be what you shall reap. “He that plants thorns must not ex- pect to gather roses,” said the ancient | writer Pilpay. Plant thorns of hatred, | slander and unkindness, and you wili| gather a crop of thorny enemies. There will be no roses springing up along | your pathway. There will be no sweet | win]e of grapes to fill the cup of your | soul. | “So long as I have been in the White | House I have rever willingly planted a thorn in any man's bosom,” said Abra- ham Lincoln. What if every man in public life could say that? What if every man in business could say that? What if every member of every house- hold could say that? What if we all practiced it? How much bitterness would be spared. And how many heart- aches! Planting thorns is bad business. Not only are other hearts pierced by your thorns, but your own heart is pierced by them. For every thorn you plant in the bosom of another a similar thorny growth springs up in your own bosom. And why plant thorns, anyway, when you can just as well plant roses? That cross word you spoke today (was it to some one in the home: was it to some one in the shop or office?) might just as well have been a kind word. To say nothing of the bleeding wound spared that other heart, what a sweet fragrance your own heart would be breathing! If you want loving words, sow loving words. If you want kindness, sow kindness. If you want grapes, quit planting thorns. (Copyright. Aunt Nancy was worried. She blamed herself for the whole thing, though. She had let Joan go to the beach and stay in the water too long. She was so in- terested in her own son that she let her vigilant care of her little niece slip. It didn’t hapnen often, and Nancy was properly regretful. So here was Joan in bed with a cold and bad tonsils. Of course that meant a trip to the hospital soon to take out the offending tonsils. But_just now she was in the querulous, fretful mood which children—and 1928.) grownups as well—acqujre when they are sick enough to feel badly but not sick enough to require constant attend- " “'HE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON. D. C, THURSDAY, DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX Why Parents Should Allow Their Children to Choose Their Own Careers — Folly of Marrying an Invalid—When May and December Should Marry. JDEAR DOROTHY DIX: 1 am a girl of 18 and am choosing my life’s career. My father wishes me to be a nurse, but I do not like that kind of work. I am a very good seamstress and would like to take up something along that line for my lifework. Do you think that I should be forced to do what I do not want to do? MARY A. Answer. Your father is making a great mistake in attempting to compel you to follow a career that is uncongenial to you. No profession is nobler than that of the nurse, but the sacrifices it demands are great, and are only to be made by those who have a passion for helping suffering humanity. Parents commit a crime when they force their children to take up work for which they have no natural aptitude. The world is full of father-and-mother- made faflures who might have been successes if only they had been permitted to do the work which nature intended them to do. But because father had a grocery store he forced John behind the counter, though John never would know a can of beans from a tin of sardines, while he could spot a different make of automobile a mile off with the tail of his eye. Or mother made Thomas study for the ministry because her great-grand- father had been a bishop, when Thomas' brains were all in his fingers and he hated books and loved to do things. And Susan had to be a teacher, though she loathed children, because the family considered teaching a genteel occupa- tion. And Mary had to stay at home and do the cooking and help mother be- cause she was the youngest in the family, though Mary had wings to her feet and could have danced her way into fortune. There are thousands of starving lawyers who would have been prosperous bricklayers; thousands of jackleg mechanics who would have been crackerjack professional men; thousands of incompetent clerks who would have made fine farmers, and most of these square pegs who are vainly trying to fill round holes owe their predicament to their parents. So take my advice, Mary, and stick to your needle. Go to the very best school you can and take lessons in dressmaking, becamse whether you will have to sew cheaply or can name your own price depends altogether on your skill. S DOROTHY DIX. . EAR MISS DIX: Is it right for a man who is in bad health to marry, especially when he may become a liability? A. says that a girl should not consider this at all. B. maintains that a man has no right to take chance with another's happiness. Which do you think is right? DEBATER. Answer: T think it is a mistake for either a man or a woman who is in bad health to get married, and that when they do 50 they generally inflict a grave injury on those they marry. Of course, this seems hard, and the sentimentalist may say that those who are doomed to suffer and, perhaps, soon 1o die are entitled to whatever pleasure they can get out of having a beloved one near them. But it seems to me that it is a very selfish love that is willing to 'sncrlflce the well-being of another for its own pleasure. For sacrifice it is for a young and healthy man or woman to be chained to an invalid's bedside, and to have to endure all the vagaries and tempers and unreasons of the sick, for it is only in novels that invalids are patient and sweet Enddktmgl lsufle;'i;:n. In real life they are neurotic and cross and melancholy, and ard to live with. 1If a young man marries a sickly girl, he seriously handicaps himself, because an invalid wife is a more expensive luxury than a yacht. His whole earnings will be spent on doctors and nurses and sanitariums, and he will never have a chance to save up any money and get ahead. Moreover, it is a depressing thing for a man to come home of an evening to a darkened house, with a sick woman in it who has not been able to attend to her household duties. For a woman' to marry an invalid man is even worse, for few women are capable of making enough money to support a sick husband, or have the bodily strength to nurse him at night and do their work in the daytime. It is suicidal for a girl to marry a sick man unless he has enough money to live on. Of course, if a man or woman gets sick after marriage, they should be | taken care of with tenderness and patience, but certainly any one is going out of the way to borrow trouble if he or she marries an invalid. Health is the greatest of all blessings and it is absolutely essential in both husbands and wives for happiness. g ke DOROTHY DIX. DEAR MISS DIX: Do you think it possible for a girl to fall truly in love with a man who is twice her age? The girl is quite settled in her ways and has never cared for young men. The man is a widower with grown children who love the girl very much, but they do not know the attentions their father has paid her. This man and girl have spent three years in happy companionship and are most congenial. What is your advice, to marry or not? TRUE BLUE. Answer: As a general thing it is a mistake for a girl to marry a man who is that much older than she is, because while he may seem in the prime of life when they marry, he is an old man by the time she reaches the prime of life. But you cannot always go by calendar age. It is just as much a matter of the spirit as of years. A quiet, settled, sedate girl is often middle-aged in mind in her 20s, and an older man is a more suitable mate for her than a boy of her own age would be. Therefore, in this particular case, I think the girl will be quite safe in marrying the man, and that they will be happy and congenial mates. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1928.) OUR CHILDREN By Angelo Pati SEPTEMBER 13, . Indian memorial. . Printer's measure. . Note of the scale. . I am. . Eleven (Roman). . Sylvan deity. . Old horse. . Sway. 1. A voitaic pole. Down. . Before. . Fitted. . Artificial language. . Adam’s wife. . Also. Maintainer of a doctrine. . Nymph of Mount Ida. Encountered. . South American mountains. Sorrow. . Water bird. . Trouncing. 9. Russian Empress. . The holm-oak. Act. Fondles. Exist . Hewing tool. . Wear out. Color. Human being. 3.1416. Proceed. OMEN have discovered that themost effective way of ridding the home of insect pests—is to use both liquid and powder insect-killers. To kill flies, mosquitoes, and other flying pests—Black Flag Liquid is most suitable. For these insects fly around where you can see them. They can be killed on the spot. When you spray Black Flag Liquid, the fine mist fills the room. In a few seconds it envelops every buzzing insect. Down they fall— all dead! But for the crawling insects, such as roaches, bed bugs, fleas, etc.—use Black Flag Powder, rather than Liquid. Crawling pests, are usually not in sight when you are in the room. They hide in cracks. And you can’t stand around 1l day waiting for them ta come ’ ance. As she lay in bed tossing and turning Joan kept calling Aunt Nancy to come and tell her a story. Aunt Nancy had an inspiration. She hunted up an old flashlight of fair size in which the bat- tery was good and strong. She gave this to Joan. who amused herself for hours by putting a hand in front of it and throwing shadowgraphs on the wall. She spotted out the dark corners of the room and made pools of flashing light where the light happebed to catch the mirror. Uncle Peter made a light-weight bed- stde tray for her by cutting a piece of beaver board. Aunt Nancy let Joan decorate this with crayons. The art was wonderful—quite modern, in fact. Child care is a matter which never ends. Write to Nancy Page, care of this paper. inclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, asking for her leaflet on “Child Care.” (Copyright. 1028.) AUTUMN BY D. C. PEATTIE. Every year I see the tansy grow a little more common with us in the District of Columbia. Except for cer- tain places, it is still what may be justly called a rare flower. Not rare in the sense of possessing any mystic charm or special value. But rare in the sense of being distinctly infrequent. But, if I mistake not, it 1s but a matter of years before the tansy will be as abun- dant a weed of roadsides and vacant lots as the thistle or the amaranth. And certainly, though a European immi- grant, we can assimilate it into Ameri- can citizepship far more easily than the ho»hli‘ and clannish thistle, and with more delight to the eyes and senses than the drab amaranth. For the tansy is like a chrysanthe- mum without its rays. In its lacy dis- sected foliage as well as in its golden button heads, it is a sort of rustic waif that can still claim kinship unto the great and haughty tribe of chrysan- themum. Strangest of all is the bitter odor of its leaves—closest perhaps to Loyalty to Children. Two mothers live side by side in a pleasant country town. Each has two children. They talk about the children to each other every time they meet. “Did you hear about Katy? No? Why I thought the whole town knew about it. She won the grand spelling match yesterday. That child is a world’s won- der.” “Oh, moth-er,” remonstrates Katy, blushing all over and smiling like a Spring morning. “Ah, why shouldn't I say it? Isn't it the truth. It isn't every girl that wins a medal for spelling. You must be tak- ing after your great-grandmother. She was a very clever woman.” “Perhaps I take after my own moth- er,” says Katy, giving her a bear’s hug and flying away to hide her shamefaced joy. “Indeed, Mrs. Fay, I'm thankful for my good children. They do so well in school and they try so hard at home to please father and me. You'd be aston- ished to see the way the boy takes hold the minute he comes home from school. Can I do this for you, mother, or ‘Can I help you, dad? It's heart-warming to hear him. Yes, and to see him. They're good looking children. Don't you think so, Mrs. Fay?” “Yes, indeed. I was only saying to my boy last evening that if he didn't do bet- ter in school, he'd be the laughing stock of this town. He's that lazy and bad tempered, you wouldn't believe. I'm sure I don’t know who he takes after. “Now yesterday I sent him to the store for a few groceries. He cut up something terrible. Said he had no time and he'd be late for school. I made him go for I needed the things and he came home with only half of them and the eggs broken and when I upbraided him he said I ought to have ordered things in the morning when the man called. Me so busy. Such impudence. Oh, it's hard to be the mother of ungrateful children.” Ah, now, remember they're only children. There's more good than bad in the odor of marigolds, though similar | the most of them. Speak a good word certainly to that of the yarrow and |for them whenever you can and you'll daisy and chamomile, A bitter oil pe; m vades the plant and it is this that dis- | lieviny it's true. tills upon the quiet dusty air of Au-| How would you, a dignified parent. | tumn the fragrance that is at once | rather pleased with yourself, like to | strong and sad. To me that smell will| hear that your child had told the find them taking notice of it and be- | always mean the outskirts of Boston and | neighbors Cambridge, the stone walls of New Eng- land, the avenues of ancient elms and maples, the tang of foot ball weather and the end of Summer. Women Discover Best Methods to Kill Insect Pests out. But Black Flag Powder will wait. Blow it with a gun into cracks. It stays where you blow it. And when the pests do crawl out —they breathe in the powder. Black Flag’s secret ingredient gets into their pores. They die—and they die quickly! Powder also kills fleas on dogs. Black Flag—both Liquid and Powder—is the deadliest insect- killer made. (Money back if it doesn't prove so.) Black FlagLiquid costs just half as much as other liquids. Black Fiag, only 25 cents a half-pint. Others cost 50 cents. Liquid and powder are equally deadly to all household pests. 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Your insulted pride and your wounded vanity would ache in company with the bitter pain in the thought of the child's disloyalty. You can be sure that the child feels just that way. Be loyal to your children. Keep their faults to yourself. When you speak of them speak well; praise their good points; cheer for their success. Give a child a reputation for goodness, for high accomplishment, and you boost him up the hill of difficulty. Bemoan his failings and you shove him down toward the valley of humiliation. Be loyal to the children. Mr. Patri will give personal attention to inquiries from parents and school teachers on the care and development of children. Write him in care of this paper inclosing stamped, addressed envelope. for reply. (Copyright, 1928.) R Curry and Pork Rice. For this about one cupful of diced pork left over from the roast of the day before should be added to two cup- fuls of cooked rice. Some of the rich drippings from the .roast should be thoroughly mixed with the rice and curry powder tb taste. Cook in a cas- serole in the oven. When served piping hot, this dish is at its best. A combi- nation salad and small baking powder bi uld be served with COMMON SENSE KEEPS PIPES IN HOUSEHOLD OPEN Two Minutes’ Care a Week Can Save Costly Plumbers’ Bills and Torn-up Floors Slow-running drain pipes are the most aggravating of nui- sances—except a torn-up floor and plumber bills. Both are unnecessary. Both can be avoided—thanks to Red Seal Lye. Two _minutes does it, once a week. Just shake a small quan- tity into hot water and flush out with more hot water. That is all that is necessary if you use Red Seal Lye. For Red Seal Lye is 97% pure lye. The quickest, surest, most economi- cal made. It dissolves vegetable matter, matted hair and grease as fast as water does salt. It leaves drain pipes clean, sani- tary, free-flowing. Keep one of the handy Red Seal cans in the kitchen. This saves useless steps. And now (while you are thinking about it) put down “a can of Red Seal Lye” on your grocery list. Then make it a habit (like winding the kitchen clock) to follow this simple rule of “2 minutes a week.” Never again will you have a slow-running, annoying drain pipe—or a plumber ripping up your floors to take a gipe apart. One 15¢ can of Red Seal Lye is a small insurance premium against such unnecessary nui- sances. 1928. . The STYLE POST is the marker on the road to being smart. New Tiers. There have been tiers on boleros, skirts, sleeves, coats, bags, but here is| a new detail of a detail—tiers on a| girdle. | The hug-the-hip-line is observed al- | most_universally from sports fashions | to formal evening, whether with af drapery of the skirt or a girdle. The| triple-tiered girdle on the frock above | feminizes its geometric lines with a soft | fabric bow in front. A scarf line float- | ing from the neck in back gives an effect of balance. (Copyright, 1928.) e The Bottom Not in Sight. The iron ore fields of Sweden have been worked since the thirteenth cen- tury and it is estimated that they still contain 275,500,000 tons of high-grade ore. My Neighbor Says. Always serve soups steaming hot. This is best accomplished by serving a cup instead of a wide soup plate. The secret of preparing cereal foods is long, slow cooking to ren- der the cellulose content more digestible. Cereal jellies are just strained gruel, served cold with cream. If eggs are cooked too long they are hard to digest. In soft cooked eggs the albumin jellies are most easily digested. To preserve Autumn leaves, purchase a little powdered rosin at the drug store, heat an fron to a moderate temperature, sprin- kle rosin over the leaves and stems and press with the iron. ‘The result will be a lively, glossy | leaf with all the brilliant color- | ings preserved. | . » § A .\\\ FEATURES. MILADY BEAUTIFUL BY LOIS LEEDS. Reducing the Upper Arms. Dear Miss Leeds: (1) Please tell me how to reduce the arms between the shoulders and elbows.” I am thin other- wise. (2) T am a golden blonde with medium , blue eyes and cream-colored skin. What colors are becoming? BABY. Answer—(1) Perhaps your upper arms look large because the rest of your body is too small. If such is the case, I do not think you can reduce them by ex- ercise. If, however, the arms are merely fat and flabby, they may be reduced. Stretch both arms up above your head and then bend the elbows close to your head and reach down your back as far as you can with your fingers. You will feel the pull on the muscles on the upper arms. Reach up again and re- peat the exercise 10 times. Punching- bag exercise is also good for making the arms firmer. You do not need a real bag, but just punch the air vigorously. (2) Your best colors are golden yellow, medium blues, peach. black, blue-green You may also wear ge, dark blue, gray and LOIS LEEDS. Spreading Hips. Dear Miss Leeds: I am 19 years old 5 feet 3!, inches tall and weigh 135 pounds. I would like to reduce hips and bust. Isit all day. Does this make the hips spread? Burgundy. Is imming always REACH DOWN good as a reducing exercise? I swim quite a lot, but never lose weight. BILLY. Answer—The average weight for your age and height is between 120 and 123 pounds. You are quite right in think- ing that a sedentary occupation tends to make the hips large. To counteract this tendency you should do a lot of walking outdoors and also do special hip-reducing exerci: such as leg rais= ing sideways and high kicking. Prob- ably the reason why the swimming does not make you thinner is because it gives you such.a good appetite that you eat too heartily for a person who wants to reduce. Excess weight will not come off and stay off unless you refrain from overeating. If you swim three times a week and guard against cating more than your ordinary diet, I think you will become thinner through the hips. LOIS LEEDS. Care of the Skin. Dear Miss Leeds: Am 1 caring for my skin properly? Every night after | cleansing my face with cold cream I Wash it with warm water and soap. | rinsing carefully the last time in coid | water. Then I apply a lotion consist- ng of equal parts of glycerin and rose- | water. During the day I use the cream for cleansing. finishing with an appli- | cation of witch hazel. I use no other | foundation for make-up. MARGARET. Answer—Yes, I think you are taking good care of your skin. After rinsing off the soap with clean warm water bathe your face for several minutes in the cold water. Just rinsing it once in cold water is not enough. LOIS LEEDS. Reducing the Abdomen. Dear Miss Leeds: I am not fat, but have a large abdomen. How can I re- duce it? S. L. Answer—Correct posture is the best cure in your case. Cultivate the habit of holding the abdominal muscles con- | tracted and flat. This will be an effort at first. Hold yourself as tall as you can. 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