Evening Star Newspaper, November 17, 1928, Page 23

REAL ESTATE. One Phase of Decorative Values BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. GRACEFUL OLD FURNITURE MODERN PIECES, FOR NI INDICATED. Elimination is a word of comparative newness in the home maker's vocabu- lary, however old it may be etymologi- cally. It is within the last generation that it has assumed its prominence. Prior to that the home maker stowed things away in the old attic, and when that was full to overflowing the barn loft was requisitioned. From time to time 3 children grew up and married, or styles changed, and the once discard- ed articles again came in fashion or necessity demanded a renewed use of some of the things, they were looked over and taken out and put again inio service. But they were not actually eliminated in the modern sense of the term, for they were always within reach on demand. There is many a modern housewife who envies the old-time home maker who could resort to the attic when she was tired of some familiar piece of furniture or other furnishing, and slip the article into its kindly shelter. Or who could examine the articles under their cobwebby coverings and bring to light somei that would fill a need when an article in present use got broken beyond repair and money was too scarce to permit buying something new to take its place. The idea of getting rid of articles permanently did not enter into the old- time home maker’s scheme of house- keeping. Whatever was not in present use was “stowed away.” It was expected that it would appear again, mended, if broken, whenever the master of the ‘house had time to fix it, or in some new guise if its use was gone, perhaps in a new rug if the articles were clothing. These days with their wonderful houses, spacious and satisfying, have gone by, and modern times have assert- ed dominance, giving mechanical ease BEAUTY CHATS How to Make Up. An amateur theatrical performance the other night reminded me how hope- less most women are when it comes to any sort of artificial make-up, so here are a few hints in case you go in for amateur theatricals, and a few which you can apply for some everyday emer- gencies. The amateur’s idea of make-up is to turn the complexion into a pi and white doll-like mask. Grease it comes in long sticks in hundreds of shades, and the best make up is the one which combines whichever shade of cream or brown that most easily tches the skin, plus a shade of pink Any complexion va- ries so in color that no make-up that 1s all one color can ever look, well. The skin must be first cleansed with cream, which is wiped off so it still leaves a thin, oily film in the skin. The grease paint, which is perfectly harm- less, is rubbed in little streaks over the face, both the pink tone and the cream tone, and then worked in with the fin- | gers. It should form a very thin coat- ing over the face. Cream rouge is then used and worked over the curves of the cheeks, back to the ears if the face is narrow, slightly up toward the eyes if these look hollow or tired. A thick coating of deep, creamy flesh powder is dusted, not rubbed, on and left for a few minutes before it is rubbed over the skin lightly with another powder puff. Grease rouge or lipstick is used to shape and accentuate the lips. If | you use blue powder to make the eyes brighter this can be put on next, and should be rubbed very lightly over the eyelids, a little bit just under the eyes and then the whole thing blended and brought to a point beyond the eyes. When the eyelashes are beaded with black grease the make-up is complete. Here is a good dodge when you have eruptions on the skin and must cover them up immediately: Buy a stick of theatrical grease paint as near the ac- tual color of your skin as possible, rub cold cream over the spots, wipe off lightly, cover with grease paint and powder. H. B—You cannot change the shape of the bones in your ankles, but you WHO REMEMBERS? BY DICK MANSFIELD. Registered U. S. Patent Office. When “Gabby"” Street, catcher of the SHOULD [EITHER SUB RUSA Obey and Cherish. A woman is perfectly frank when she drops the word “obey” from the marriage ceremony. The man still promises to “cherish,” but he has his fingers crossed when he says it. But what difference does it make? The bride is so scared that she doesn’t know what she’s saying, and as for the bridegroom—well, he’s & man. The flapper is outside looking in on this mas game. When she listens in on the marital microphone, she gets one earful. “Obey!” Oh, boy! That was all right .when the man was the NOT BE PUT WITH THE ULTRA-| WILL LOOK WELL, AS IS HERE to home-making in place of roominess in dwellings. And with this change, elimination assumes giant proportions. There is no place for unwanted articles. Space is at a premium. Goods must be stored, which is expensive, or be dis- | posed of when their immediate use- | fulness is gone. Elimination is a pos-| itive necessity, for overcrowded rooms are too much labor to keep orderly and immaculate, to say nothing of their poor decorative value. Therefore both from the viewpoint of work and beauty elimination is now a power in the home. It has to be exercised. Since this is the case, careful and discriminating buying of furniture is especially important. If the home maker is so fortunate as to possess some choice antiques, the articles bought should go well with them. The pieces need not be antiques if these are too costly, but they should accord well with the quaint pieces. If no beautiful, old g‘leces are owned it is wise to buy only e articles with lasting decorative value, whatever the style may happen to be at the time. These can be added to as needed without having to be elim- inated if unwisely selected when novelty ceases to be a virtue in them. If a home maker has articles of furniture about which she is uncertain decoratively beware of disposing of them until their incorrectness is assured. Many a choice piece of furni- ture has been sold or given away that the home maker lives to regret. wisdom in elimination, for today elim- ination means actually disposing of the articles, not merely putting them out of sight for the time being. The virtue of elimination is lost when discretion is not used. By all means eliminate; it must be done, but for this very reason it is essential to know what is poor from what is good. BY EDNA KENT FORBES can make them less noticeable by wear- ing the right sort of shoes. You should avoid any cut of shoe that throws your ankle forward, such as those with high heels that slope back under the foot. D. E. L—Massage the upper parts of your arms every day until you bring them down to normal. Babette—Miss A. R—G. M—A¢t 17 years of age, height 5 feet 415 inches, your normal weight is about 120 pounds. tful—It will take several ‘mont for the natural shade of your hair to make much showing. Its re- covery will hasten if you have your hair cut very short and keep clipping the bleached part until you get rid of | with the other girl scouts—no, sir; no | obey in that. Use | boj head cf the works, but when he’s a bank- clerk, counter-jumper, or coconut salesman, and you crawl out of bed at 7 am., just to choke off the alarm | clock, and wrap yourself around a cup of coffee and an egg, and hike along ‘The average bride gets so much obey- stuff at the office from the boss that she doesn't want any in the home from the hubby. With the old-style mar- riage, which went out with the bicycle, bride and bridegroom swapped vows at the altar. She was perfectly willing to obey because he was just as ready to cherish. But when the man began to ease up on the cherishing business, the = bride put the soft needle on the obey record. To _cherish a woman means to sup- port her in the style to which she has accustomed herself, and then some. This may not be easy for a man unless he goes to Florida, but then he must not expect his bride to take any dicta- tion from him. My idea of marriage is that we girls enter the league with reservations. Then we’ll say to our men, “If you'll cherish me with a good line of feed and silk underwear, I'll obey you to the end of the chapter.” 1 But the men want us to keep our word while they are dropping theirs. It isn't fair. They've got to brace up and do some cherishing. I'd like to find a first-class cherisher so that I could throw up this little old job. But then I'd have to speak my | pilece with “obey” in it, and I'm not quite ready for that. Mimi will be glad to answer any inquiries | directed to this paper provided a st 3 addressed envelope 1s Inciosed. . A B Sohcxting Trade ‘ —& i < I've had a line from Jones & Jinks, who say they'd like to have my trade; they deal in glue and purple inks, in canned sardines and marmalades. They have, they say, a splendid stock, em- bracing everything I need; they’ll fur- nish me an eight-day clock, a ripsaw or a coral bead. They guarantee the | things they sell, they’ll give good value | for my wad, and they'll supply me with a well, a cistern or a lightning rod. Yet the impression I receive on reading | what these people say, would doubtless make said people grieve, and mourn for postage thrown away. The letterhead is poor and cheap, and marked by fin- gers far from clean; the type would make good printers weep, the ink’s a | faded, rusty green. The first typewriter | ever made was used, methinks, to write the screed; such documents don't make the grade, they jar the reader's eyes, indeed. If I were selling birds’ nest soup, as standard brands of axle | grease, no Ictter e'er would leave my coop that wasn't quite a masterpiece. The paper would be superfine, the printing not run down at heel, the rib- n fresh, so every line would look as though engraved on steel. The people would observe. my style and feel that I was up to date, and come to see me with a smile, and buy my codfish by the crate. But if I sent them shabby notes that Spoke of cheapness, up and down, '-hey‘d say, “He will not get our grmu—"wen buy our soup of Brisk & Brown.” I do not understand the wight who sends out notes inviting trade, on paper that's a lasting fright, with rusty ink that looks decayed. WALT MASON. (Copyright, 1928.) —— Pumpkin Chiffon Pie, Scald one pint of milk. Mix the yolks of three eggs with half a cupful of sugar and combine with the hot milk. Cook until smooth, stirring con- stantly. Add one and one-half cupfuls of pumpkin. Add one teaspoonful of salt, one tablespoonful of molasses or honey, one teaspoontul *each of ginger and cinnamon and one-fourth teaspoon- ful of cloves. Bcat. Make a meringue of the stiffly beaten egg whites and one-fourth cupful of sugar. Fold this into the pumpkin mixture, Pour into a baked ple shell and slip into the oven to bake until set. Serve with or with- Il of it. ALL BRICK C CENTER HALL BEAUTIFULLY 1418 Eve St. N.W. Drive Out Wis. Ave.,, Opposite Washington base ball club, caught a * ball tossed from the top of the Wash- ington Monument?. TILE ROOF — 55 - FT. GROUNDS—BUILTIN GARAGE $14,250 A NEW HOME IN CEEVY N L Sansbury Main 5004 Exclusive Agents See Sign on Left at Hunt Ave. out a spreading of whipped cream. ONSTRUCTION —TWO BATHS FRONTAGE LANDSCAPED CHASE GARDENS Chevy Chase Club Golf Course. | l One Child’s “Meat.” Mrs. Goode is a careful buyer. She buys all the clothes for her four chil- dren without reference to their tastes, preferences, or even needs. “What do children kupow about clothes? I can buy far better than they could ever do. I know a bargain when I see it. t me.” She may know bargains. I'm no judge of that. But she doesn't know children. And I'm sure of that. This Fall when it was time for the purchase of Winter coats and hats Mrs. Goode bought a dozen coats and hats, all of a kind, and all of a size. | “Well, I can turn up the hems a| little, and set back the buttons. I got those coats for the price of two in the ordinary store. They are a bit out of style, and of course they are a little heavy for this climate, but they will| do_very well. And such a bargain.” | ‘The poor children. One shivered with the cold and one perspired with heat, in the same kind of coat. One looked | swallowed up and the other looked | chopped off at both ends. And those coats would last for years—there were a dozen of them, eight laid by for fu- | ture service. The grandchildren would be lucky to escape them. Another parent does the same thing with music lessons. “You are all going to take music. As long as Miss Claire | has to come to the house you may as well each take lessons.” | “But ma, I want to learn violin.” | “Never mind. Why buy a violin and get another teacher when you have a piano right here in the house and the teacher coming anyhow?” Still another family works it out an- other way. “Clara, you'll have to hurry up a little, Mabel is going to graduate next year and if you can graduate with her it will be very convenient for the family. You can both go to high school at the same time. The same expense takes both of you.” “But mother, I'll have to double a whole year's work. Take four terms in two. And I don't want to go to general high. I want to go to vocational.” “Now, be a good-girl. Just tell teacher I want you to double up. You | have to go to high school with your | sister.” | So it goes. The child who wants to stay in the corner of an evening read- ing a book is scolded for sticking his nose in a book forever. Why doesn't he go out and play, more, like his brother or his cousin? The girl wlelg wants to drum on the piano is ordere to “go away from there and help wash the dishes.” A boy studying to be a surgeon-dentist does not chop wood and a fussy relative wants to know if he thinks it beneath him to chop a little wood for his mother. A surgeon’s hands, a musician's hands, a scientist's hands are to be cared for as one cares for precious, fragile art. Their value to humanity lies in their sensitiveness. They are never to chop wood, carry stones, dig in the garden and the like. Think a little when you interfere with children’s tastes. It may be that they know what they need far better than you do. Give them a chance to show you, anyway. Mr. Patri will give personal attention to inquiries from parents and schoolteachers on the care and development of children. Write him care of this paper, inclosing stamped, addressed envelope for reply. JABBY “I can't help thinkin’ Mother must have made a mistake when she said it was always best to let ladies pass in front of me. In NortH Cle?eland Park An Exclusive Neighborhood Between Two Main Thoroughfares Wisconsin Ave. and Conn. Ave. 36th and Veazey St. N.-W. A location where future values are assured. Adjacent to Bureau of Standards and the Thome Estate. Real Values English Cottage Type Home—eight rooms, bath with shower-and extra lavatory, semi-detached brick, rior construction. Sample artistically built. Homes of supe- House 3614 Veazey St. Ofen and Lighted 'ti1 9 P.M. Daily and Sunday You will marvel at the features To Inspect—Drive out Conn. Ave. to Bureau of Standards, West 2 Blocks on Pierce Mill Road CHAS. D Builder Main 36 Realtor . SAGER Ouwner 924 14th St. N.W. 1616 TAYLOR Just Off 16th St. Imposing Colonial Brick Distinctive Environment A NEW allbrick residence, in the most exclusive section of North- west Washington, in perfect harmony with its distinctive environ- ment. Large, full-width covered veranda off of spacious living room, inviting reception hall, large dining room and sun parlor. Kitchen equipped with latest fixtures and built-in fixtures including electrical refrigeration. Four ample bedrooms, two full tiled baths, floored attic; detached two-car garage—all charmingly situated on a large, expertly landscaped site. OPEN ALL DAY SUNDAY Turn Left on Taylor St. from 16th St. to Home I 3. €. Bouglass Co. Exclucive Agents 1 1621 K St. N.W. 3 Ernnk. 5678 The STYLE POST is the marker on the road to being smart. Pin Hobbies. ‘The whimsical hobby of “rushing” a particular pin has been adopted by smart women who pay as much atten- tion to their accessories as to the major portions of their wardrobes. The crystal circle tipped with ar- rowheads of rhinestones has been a favorite one lately—seen at the races and at fashionable luncheon and tea places. It is worn either on the shoul- der of a frock, at the neckline, or on a felt hat, (Copyright, 1928.) Putting ‘“Pep” in Sales For Sale 1900-1920 M St. N.E. , No printed word can express even in a meager way the home we offer for $7,950. Complete with concrete streets and alleys, as well as Kelvinator electric re- frigeration, they represent the utmost in moderate priced hom See them now—only a fe Open daily and Sunday unf A Sermon for Today BY REV. JOHN R. GUNN. Wisdom’s Sermon. Text: “So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding.”—Prov. 2:2. The sermon to which I refer is found in the first chapter of Proverbs, from verse 21 to the end of the chap- ter. In this passage wisdom sonified and represented as preac] T o A p of concourse, in city she uttereth of the gates: in the her words, saying: “How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners de- light in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? Turn you at My reproof: Behold, I will pour out My spirit unto you, I will make known My words unto you. “Because I have called and ye re- CHEVY re | SPI 1 have stretched out my hand | and no man regarded, but ye have et al mu,ht all my counsel, and would none of my reproof. I also will Jaugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; when your fear cometh as desolation and your destruc- tion cometh as a whirlwind; when dis- tress and anguish cometh upon you. “Then shall they call I.lm me, I will not answer; they seek early, but they shall not find me; that they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the Lord, they would none of my counsel; they de- ised all my reproof. “Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall de~ stroy them. “But whoso hearkeneth unto me shail dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.” A very practical sermon is this, to which every one should give earnest but (Copyright, 1928.) CHASE Just West of Chevy Chase Circle 5624 Western Avenue THIS residence, of original design, is one of the most perfect planned new homes in Chevy Chase. Nothing that makes for comfort or convenience has been omitted. Nine rooms and three baths, including a finished maid’s room and tile bath on top floor. Other features include the large copper -screened side living porch, big sleeping porch and two-car built-in garage. .Offered at a figure that commends yeur immediate consideration. Open Sunday All Day Hedges@ Middleton ine. 1412 Eye St. Realtors Franklin 9503 sell me. On a knoll facing the U. S. Naval Observatory I'm built. In a lot 85x150 feet, surrounded by shrub- bery, rosebushes and handsome clinging vines. have eight large, sunny rooms and a big attic where children may romp and run and play Pirates and Indians and Cowboys to their hearts’ content. Ihave What a Home for #29,500! Right Off Massachusetts Ave. N.W. Three Years We've Been Together and Now They’re Going to Sell Me The smaller boy was two when they bought me. He’s five now. My, but the years fly. And now that my owner has a more pretentious home he wants to I three convenient baths, too. Just recently my owner redecorated me . . . you really can’t tell me from new. Down in the basement are the servant’s quar- ters and a new Silent Automatic Heater that keeps me cozy and warm when cold winds blow. weather-stripped, awninged and screened. I'm In the back yard there’s a- garage and it holds two large cars. A wide alley is in the rear of the garage, so there won't be any trouble at all getting your car in or out. 1f you want to buy me I advise you to get away. in touch with my owner right And if you buy me, for goodness sake, take as good care of me as he has. You'll Find My Owner, C. B. DULCAN, Gen'l. Mdse. Mgr., at THE HECHT CO.—F St. at 7th Phone, Main 5100 You Can Inspect Me All Day Sunday At 3501 Davis St., N.W.—Via Massachusetts Ave. and Observatory Circle—Phone Cleveland 4380