Evening Star Newspaper, November 8, 1928, Page 39

WOMAN’S PAGE. Popular Sunburst Pleated Skirt BY MARY ‘The sunburst pleated skirt is one of the youthful - fashions that demand on the part of the wearer. ought, I think, to be marked with a red danger flag for the.woman more -Despite - its tremendous popularity THIS DANCE FROCK OF FLAMING RED_CHIFFON, WITH SIMPLE S BODICE: AND SUN- BURST: 'TED SKIRT, WOULD FIND FAVOR IN THE l(\;;s OF XYOUNGER DANOB(? SET. last' Summer, it seems to'be as much @ fayorite with the, younger set as ever. MARSHALL. tain disadvantages during the cooler months. It must be made of fairly light material, and it does not well withstand the effects of rainy, damp weather. As an adjunct to the slip-on or tuck-in -wgeur it is at this time of the year a rather poor choice. For the youthful dance frock it is charming, and if I were to choose a type of frock that would almost surely find favor with every young girl I know it would be a simple chiffon gown with a skirt of this description. The sketch shows precisely the sort of frock I mt The belt is above the hips, but still not too high. The bodice is ex- tremely simple, with a moderate decol- letage, and the only g about the frock is a large red velvet rose at the right side. The new flaming red is the color I would select, because this, like the sunburst pleated skirt, de- mands youthfulness. I overheard a woman say: “All my new dresses are made with much longer skirts. Short skirts, of course, are en- tirely out of fashion.” or four months ago this same young woman wore her own skirts above her knees and looked with contempt on women who wore them longer. It is with skirts as it has so often been with hair. The woman with a bob looked with a ies of pity on all her longer-haired friends—until the psy- cnflfiw moment arrived when she decided to let her own hair grow. And then she was ready to assert that short hair was entirely out of fashion. But there really has been nothing at all sudden in the return to favor of longer hair and longer skirts. Some women of fashion still wisely retain the bob, and there are some women who may wisely retain the fairly short skirt for sports and street wear, so long as they may do so without making them- selves conspicuous. And, after all, the really long skirt is worn only for eve- ning and formal afternocon occasions. Other skirts, in spite of their added inch or two, are still, relatively speak- ing, decidedly short. This week's help for the home dress- maker consists of a diagram pattern for the new shirred puff collar. It is very easy to make, and just the thing for a remodeled evening or afternoon wrap. So please send me your stamped, self-addressed envelope and I will send you the diagram with directions and a sketch of the collar. However, as & sports skirt it has cer- WORLD FAMOUS STORIES BLUEBEARD’S GHOST By William M. Thackeray ghost. John Thomas, the footman, hap] Seeing a portrait of Blue- beard, the footman swore it was a like- t Fatima, Bluebeard’s widow, had also heard a voice as though of her dead husband w#m’ wm:&m it happened again, e next ni ppened again, and Fatima saw Bluebeard himself standing in the door of the tomb, his great blue beard curling over his chest. Sistér Anne saw the vision as well as Fatima. But the footman could not sse it. What could the ghost want by ap- pearing in this way? Fatima consulted a wizard for advice. This necromancer agreed to ¢ 'l up the ghost so that Fatima could ask her hus- band’s shade what she should do about a second marriage; whom she should marry if she did. At midnight three figures were seen to issue from Widow Bluebeard's house and pass through the churchyard turn- stile and so away among the graves. ‘There was no moon; the night was pitch dark. “Here’s the gate. Kneel down,” said the wizard. The women knelt down. “Will you see your first husband or yotir second husband?” - “I will ses Bluebeard first,” said the widow. “I shall know whether this be (Copyright, 1928.) ward | pedroom like it, and you ma: d | have made enough notes so t| THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D SONNYSAYING! BY FANNY Y. CORY. Some days yer has lots ob excitement an’ some days yer dest gets a lickin’. (Copyright, 1928.) NANCY PAGE Molly Describes Bedroom to Dream In. BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. One of Nancy's girl friends was just returning to her home in Oregon. She had been visiting in the East, and was chattering at great length on ideas she had gained. When Lols was over for tea one afternoon Molly Withey told about a bedroom she had seen, which she described as gool-looking enough to eat. “Of course, it was extravagant. I can't hope to have it this year, but next year, if all goes well with John's in- vestments, we will be ready to fix a be sure I t I won't o were en- der! Mercy!” as loud as man could roar. 8ix other ghosts stood around the kneeling group. 5 B “Why do you call me from the tomb?" said the first. “Who dares disturb my grave?” said the second. him and away with him!” cried third. 3 e L. “Murder! Mercy!” still roared the ghost of Bluebeard as the white-robed spirits advanced and caught hold of him. “It’s only Tom Trippet,” sald a voice in Anne's ear. Now, Tom Sister Anne. about the ghost of ‘Trippet was the lover of Anne had told him all Bluebeard, which o] a greaf of He sald that if victimized in “And your humble servant,” said a voice well known to Mrs. Bluebeard. It sounded very much like that of Capt. Blackbe: ard. ‘They helped the ladies to rise while ed | the other ghosts selzed the ghost of Bluebeard. The necromancer took to Later he was Claptrap, the manager of the local theater. o . It was some time before the ghost of ing fit into which he had been plunged when seized by the opposition ts in white, While they were ducking him at the pump his blue beard came off and he was discovered to be—who do ¥ .u think? Why, Mr. Sly, to be sure. And it appears that John Thomas, the footman, had lent Sly the uniform, had clap) the doors, rung the bells and spoken down the chimney, and g:n:uo:lwr things connected with the unting. And, of course, the widow married Capt. Blackbeard. Dr. Sly married them, and has always declared that he knew nothing: of his nephew’s doings, and wondered that he has not tried to ccmltnh suicide since his disappoint- ment. You will say that the story is not Dreb:blt‘ Pshaw! Isn't it written in a o English business men are more and more following the example of Ameri- cans in recrulting employes from among those who have had a university education. ~ Rarely nowadays, says London Chronicle, do we hear from bj, a mockery or you have the power you pretend to.” At this the wizard uttered an incan- tation, so frightful and of such incom- prehensible words that it is impossible for mortal man to repeat them. At the end he called Blusbeard. There was no sound. ' He called again. The cock began to crow, a dog began to howl, an owl toowhooed, and there came from within the vault a dreadful voice: “Who wants me?” Kneeling in front of the tomb, the necromancer went on with his incanta- tions. As he spoke th® sounds were re- peated. As he continuéd a’'number of ghosts rose from:their grave and ad- vanced around’the kneeling figures in a circle. 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Bluebeard could recover from the faint- | hes forget a detail. trancing. “Georgette in green, chartreusse and yellow was used. The valance was made of three flounces. The top one was green, the next was chartreusse, and third was yellow. Each flounce was picoted in deep scallops. The hangings were so sheer that the light filtered ~through the thres thicknesses in delightful fashion. The bed'was a painted one with no foot board. The walls werz painted with funny .little four-pointed stars stenciled on at in- ter . ‘The stars were in a deeper shade than the body of the walls. The chandelier was made of long, slender crystal beads, hung so that they looked like a spiral of pearl transparency. And, lest I sound too extravagant,” she said, “I'll have to tell you that the salesperson_suggested celanese for the curtains. It is cheaper, fast in color and sheer.” (Copyright, 1928.) A room like this should be enjoyed by a ot " Rnd ‘sucsts paust be fod. Write o ancy Page, c is paper. asking for r flet on " “Inclose stamped, selt-addressed envelop Toasted Almond Marshmallows. These call for half a cupful or more of finely chopped blanched almonds, which have been toasted slightly in the oven before chopping. Also a heavy sirup made by boiling two cupfuls of sugar, one-fourth teaspoonful of cream of tartar and half a cupful of water to 230 degrees F. without stirring. Place the pan contaning the sirup over hot water while dipping. The marshmallows are made in the usual way or bought, cut, and allowed to stand for several hours to become 4] on the outside. Then dip them prepared sirup and roll in the w“"tdo ;J.mvndx and place on ry. s BLACK=s\WH ACK ITE Cream SOLO EVERVWHERE HIGHEST QUAUTY. » C.. THURSDAY, DOROTHY: DIX’S LEFTTER BOX Shall the Bachelor Who Knows Nothing About Women Risk Matrimony >—What a Girl May Expect of Her Fiance. DEAE MISS DIX: T am a man 52 years old. Have never had a sister and never really knew any women, except my mother, and she has been dead a long time. I live in a room end do my own.cooking. Have a good job and some money saved up. Lafely at a restaurant where I eat my Sunday dinner I have met,_an elderly spinster and she has never had a man'friend or a beau, so we havé been attracted to each other. I could support her comfortably, but why should I support her when I am very well the way I am? What is your advice? QUANDARY. Answer: I don't think you are good husband material, Mr. Quandary. I think you would be utterly miserable if you got married and that you would gltke y;n:r wife wretched, because you wouldn't have the faintest idea about how reat her. You see, women are queer animals, Mr. Quandary, with strange habits and peculiarities, and you really have to be brought up among them in order to understand and be able to handle them. Otherwise you will be too much afraid of them and they. will make a doormat of you. Or you won't be enough afrald of them.and theyll get you before you scent any danger in the alr. You won't know how to distinguish. nerves from temper, or why they cry for joy, or why you have to persuade them into doing the thing that they had made up their minds all along to do. NOVEMBER 8, I can’t think of any creature in the world so helpless as the man who doesn’t know anything about women trying to deal with-a wife, What he recalls of his mother won't help him, because mothers are in a class by themselves. No other woman is as humble and adoring and self-sacrificing, as forgiving and long-suffering toward a man as his mother. Besides, her interests don't clash with his as do a wife's, so miother doesn't prepare her son for matrimony. Perhaps that’s the reason heaven usually sends a boy sisters. They sort of break him in and teach him what to expect, so he isn't quite so shocked at finding out that his wife has to have clothes, and wants to go to places of amusement, that she has individual views and tastes, and gets out of bed some- times on the wrong foot and is grouchy and unreasonable, and acts like a regular human being instead of a story-book angel. Also, Mr. Quandary, women are a habit. If you have acquired it early in life, it's hard to break. That's why widowers almost invariably marry again, but if you put'it oft until after you are 52 I doubt if you will ever really develop a taste for them. If you are accustomed to a home in which women are always fussing around, where there are tidies on the chairs and grimeracks on the mantelpiece, and little feminine furbelows all about, cluttering up everything, and where friend wife is waiting with her little budget of gossip about everything that goes on in the neighborhood, why, out of that atmosphere you are lost. You get so you prefer home cooking to anything that the finest chef can prepare in a club or restaurant. . And you lose your taste for men's soclety. But it is far othérwise if you have spent 52 years in your own bachelor diggings with never a woman to move your brushes from one side of the chiffonier to the other, or use your razor blades to rip a seam with, or hang her clothes in your closet, or interfere with your comings or your goings. I think you have waited too long to marry and that you will be better off as you are. Especially as you are thinking about your pocketbook. Believe me, you would have to open that if you g«it nga:{led. DOROTHY DIX. DEAR DOROTHY DIX: Don't you think that if a man is in love with a girl whom he is not financially able to marry, but whom he really wants, he will make every effort to make enough money to marry her? Don’t you think that if & man loves a girl he will treat her with the utmost respect and guard against doing things of which she does not approve? Is it true that a girl always wants the impossible? V.E L. Answer: There is no better proof of 'love that' a man can give than his wllllngnoss to work for a girl. Many young men, as long as they have no one :’l‘m‘i‘n themselves to take care of, are inclined to loaf om: their jobs and take gs easy. But the minute a real, worthwhile man falls in love for keeps and begins to think of matrimony, he rolls up his sleeves and goes to work in earnest, because he realizes that every lick brings his wedding day nearer, and he wants to ’lve his wife all the comfort and luxury he can. That is why employers refer married men. It puts pep and energy and determination into a man to ve a woman to work for. "’ You may be very sure of this: The man whom love does not speed up isn't really in love, or else he Is so l!zy and sclfish that he isn't worth having. Of course, the man who is in love with a girl will treat her with respect, and he will to do the things of which she-approves, but, on the other hand, I don't th a girl has any right to interfere with the personal habits of a man unless they are viclous. Either take him as he is or let him alone. Don't try to keep a man from smoking, or playing golf, or wearing a red necktie, or indulging in any other little innocent diversion to which he may be given. Whether a girl expects the impossible or not depends upon how much common sense she has. Only a silly idiot expects to marry a man who is a romantic hero or an impeccable n_lnt; DOROTHY DIX. . DIAR DOROTHY DIX: What would you think of a woman who advertised in the paper for a husband? I am 36, alone. Have let my chances for marrying fo by, waiting for I don’t know what—a Lineoln or a Ford, I guess. Now I am onely and I would like to marry a widower and be a mother to his chu;re‘l;. as I love children. ), Answer: 1 am strong for adverfising, but not for matrimonial ki I don't think the kind of man who would’ answer ‘your “husband-wanted” advertisement would be the type of mari who would make you happy. I don't think he would have very much respect for you, eithér, or value you very highly. He w,:\lld always feel that you were something he had found on the bargain counter, But your position emphasizes the point I have so often made, that if convention only permitted women to seek their mates it would solve many matrimonial tangles. Here are you, a lonely woman, yearning to give children a mother’s love and tenderness and care. - Probably you yourself know half a dozen widowers with households of little ¢hildren who are crying for just what you can give them, but you can't to any one of them and say that you would like to marry him and set his fll-run house in order and wash and mend his neglected little children and teach them good morals and manners and bring them up properly. The widower would probably jump at the chance of marrying you and settling his domestic problems so satisfactorily. Only a silly convention stands in the way of this comfortable solution of the whole matter! But as we all tremble before Mrs. Grundy and dare not flout her, vhy not adopt a child and set up your c'wén hciou:ehnnl;i? . THY DIX. opyright, 1 Cooking Discoveries. Dredging sliced bacon lightly with k Tomato Pea Soup. Soak ' orié eupful of split peas over flour before frying or broiling imparts a deliclous flavor not attained in any other way and prevents a greasy ap- pearance. Keeping a cloth moistened with vine- gar around cheese will keep the cheese moist for days. Putting a tablespoonful of vinegar in the water in which eggs are poached will make them firm and keep them from spreading. —_— ‘Dixie Fried Apples. Quarter, core and slice into a dish of cold water one tart apple for each per- son to. be served, drain lightly and brown in hot bacon or ham fau.} Unless very juicy, add a few spoonfuls of water while cooking. The apples’ should ba covered to keep in the steam,’ but lifted occasionally with a spatula; as they brown. Sweeten to taste just before. taking them up and serve hot and juicy with ge or bacol INTERNATIONAL SAL THOUSANDS of years ago salt was almost as scarce and as precious as gold. But science steadily reduced its price. And now science gives us still another improvement. A salt that will never cake. International Salt! Guar- anteed never to harden or become lumpy. Clean, pure and free-running. In large cartons. For five cents. At your grocer’s. I Lye.” night in water to cover. -In the morning drail, ‘cover ‘with one quart of fresh water and.cook for two hours, adding more water if necessary. Add half an onion sliced, three outside pleces of cel- ery cut fine, and one 'flulrt of sliced to- matoes, and boil, for half an hour longer. Put all through a puree 'sieve and add a pint of stock, two tablespoonfuls of sugar, one teaspoonful of salt and a 1928. AUNT HET BY ROBERT QUILLEN. “My boy, John, has a little limp, an’ sometimes I think it's because he al- ways got spanked on the right side.” (Copyright, 1928.) Home in Good Taste BY SARA HILAND. The home furnisher who seriously considers each detail in ereating a room is sure to be successful with her entire house, for this shows a con- sistency which always makes for an ideal effect. One mav have n home with all the modern conveniences, but a great deal of attention should be paid to selecting the elegtrical fixtures. Whether the house is Italian, Span- ish, English or early American must be taken into consideration, for the wrong type of electrical fixtures marks the house s being in bed taste. In the illustration is a lamp which would be appropriate for an early < "(Ilm’('.\\{) (\ '/ s D American home, and whether used singly or in pairs it will always impart the charm of old-time homes. A single one on a “lift-top” table in a hall or a pair for the top of a buffet or service table in a dining room would be delightful, and so carefully is the wiring done that this lamp still has the appearance of the old oil ones. o Latticed Beets. In a saucepan place two tablespoon- fuls of butter, one tablespoonful each of sugar and lemon juice, half a teaspoon- ful of salt, and a shake or two of pepper. Let boil up and pour over a pint of tiny canned beets or larger ones -latticed, which have been heated in some of the liquid from the can and drained. FEATURES. MILADY BEAUTIFUL BY LOIS LEEDS. Reducing the Hips. Dear Miss Leeds: I am 17 years old, 641, inches tall and weigh 117 pounds. My hips are 39 inches. How can I re- duce my hips? ARYLLIS. Answer—Since you are several pounds below the average weight for your age and height, I judge that the wideness of your hfps is largely due to their boney structure, which, of course, can- not be changed. Your bust measure is very small, and this makes your hips seem larger than they are. You may do special exercises for reducing the ex- cess fat on your hips. Stand about 18 inches away from a table with the right side of your body toward it. Bend your right knee and raise your leg sidewise until your knee rests on the table. Return to starting position and regeut 10 times slowly with each leg. This is a variation of the leg-raising sidewise exercise, which may also be done with the leg straight either in an erect posi- tion or lying on one’s back on the floor. In the latter form of the exercise’the legs are raised together in a vertical position and then are flung apart in a wide V shape. If your daily work in- volves much standing on your feet, you will very likely prefer to do exer- cises while lying on your back. These involve leg raising and swinging the legs from side to side. LOIS LEEDS. Knotty Calf Muscles. Dear Miss Leeds: I am 17 years old, 5 feet 1 inch tall and weigh 103 pounds. Am I underweight? How can I smooth out prominent calf muscles? MOLLIE. Answer—Habitual wearing of high heels has a tendency to make the calves of the l»gs lumpy and the tendon at the back of the ankle short. Wear low heels and do exercises for stretch- ing this important tendon and the mus- cles. You may do the exercises on your bed before getting up in the morning. Stretch your legs, but instead of point- ing your toe, stretch your heel down. Let your toes point up toward your shin.” Now raise your legs to a vertical position and stretch the heels upward again. If 108 pounds is your weight without your clothes it is correct, but it it includes your ¢lothes you are a little underweight. LOIS LEEDS. Use of Astringents. Dear Miss Leeds: How often should an astringent lotion be applied te the face? Should it be put on before go- ing to bed and left on uvemlg}ht? HELEN. Answer—The answer to your question depends on what type of skin you have. A coarse, olly skin may need astringent applications several times a day before make-up is put on .or renewed. The only time to apply an astringent is after the skin has been thoroughly cleansed. This is usually at bedtime. The astringent lotion is patted on and allowed to dry. It is left on overnight. If the skin is oily it may be washed with cold water in the morning, dried and an astringent applied before the powder base and powder. If the pow- der needs to be renewed during the day, rub in some cold cream and then wipe off the cream and powder with a clean piece of absorbent cotton moistened in the astringent before putting on new make-up. LOIS LEEDS. (Copyright, 1928.) My Neighbor Says: ‘When using sour milk in cake 2dd one-third teaspoon of soda to each cup of sour milk, Then add the other ingredients as you would if sweet milk were used. Bread a day old makes better toast tham fresh bread. To clean ivory rub the stained parts with lemon juice, then with whiting made’ into a paste with a little ‘lemon juice. 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