Evening Star Newspaper, December 7, 1928, Page 64

WOMA Coats for Use in BY MARY I know a successful woman novelist | who insists that she can never get her- | self into the mood for writing unless she | wears a colorful mandarin coat that she | has had so long it is becoming actually threadbare. That mandarin coat is her working regalia and it is as definitely @ssociated in her mind with her work #s the white uniform is associated in the N’S PAGE. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7. 1928. Working Hours MARSHALL. she wears trim, washable house frocks or overall aprons you may be sure that she ir interested in her job. A librarian I know who always looks exceptionally attractive during working hours has adopted a working uniform for herself that is especially attractive. It consists of a straight-line coat made of richly colored cretonne, which may be slipped on over her frock. She has a number of these coats—all made of chintz or ecretonne or printed linen ! with dark background and bright, | stitute a sort of uniform for all who | PRINTED CRETONNE ‘WITH | BLACK FOUNDATION AND BRIGHT | FLOWERS WAS USED FOR THIS | COAT WORN OVER FROCK DURING | ‘WORKING HOURS IN PLACE OF‘ THE USUAL SMOCK. | s mind with the tasks she has to | perform in the hespital. One reason why | smocks become so popular with office | ‘warkers was that they saved their street clothes—and another reason almost as | irgportant was that they provided them | with a working uniform. | If you want to tell whether a young married woman really takes an intelli- gent inferest in her work at home just potice how she dresses for her tasks. If ' orful designs—and now she tells me that several other young women in the li- | brars where she works have borrowed | her ‘thunder. They, too, are wearing | these trim cretonne coats for working | houts and before long they may con- work in that library. It is some time now since smocks | first came into fashion among office | workers and the fact that many girls | still wear them is proof that it was not | a mere passing fad. Recent changes in fashion have modified the cut of smocks, however, and the newest models are cut | withwith straighter sleeves and with less | general bagginess. A little bed jacket that you can make in an hour or so and that any girl of | your acquaintance would like for Christ- | ‘mas is shown in this week’s home dress- | making help. So plesse send me your stamped. sclf-addressed envelope if you | weuld like a copy of the help. The dia- | gram pattern shows precisely how to make it. | (Copyright, 1928.) DAILY DIET RECIPE SPONGE CAKE. Egg yolks, six. Granulated sugar. one cup. Boiling water, one-half cup. Flour, on2 and one-half cups. Salt, one-half teaspoon. Baking powder. two teaspoons. Lemon juice, one tablespoon. MAKES TWO LARGE LAYERS. Beat ogg yolks until light, thick and lemon colored. Add sugar and beat well. Add boiling water. Sift together flour, baking pow- der and salt. Add this to egg and water mixture, beating thor- oughly. Add lemen juice or lem- on extract. Pour batter into two layer cake tins and bake in a moderate. oven (375 degrees) 25 minutes. Put layers together with any desired filling or’ icing. DIET NOTE. Recipe furnishes some starch, fat and sugar. Very rich in iron and lime. Vitamins have been damaged by the action of the baking powder. Can be eaten in moderation by children over 10 and by adults of average or under weight. dertake. | beat until thoroughly THE DAILY HOROSCOPE Saturday, December 8. Good and evil aspects will | tomorrow, according to astrology. Mer- ‘cury slightly adverse to Venus, may' cause delays and mistakes. IN THE SWIM! conflict | l It is & most inauspicious day for| launching new enterprises, or even for | opening new offices or shops | There is a forbidding aspect for those | who seek positions of any sort, and pe sons who expect political rewards may eclally_subject to disappointment | while this rule prevails After 10 o'clock in the morning the planetary government is favorable for —By Jt;hn SOME PEOPLE FEEL THATYT THEY MUST BE shopping, for meetings at afternoon teas | and for attendance at matinees. Under this direction of the sta women may be less critical of one an configurations prevail Teachers an supposed to be fortunate under this rule, lectual effort. Engineers and builders rected and the day should them to supreme effort. stimulate United States the most marvelous buile foretold for America. The seers declare that old world res! dents will find in America marvels greater than any they have had to of- students will come to study our art and architecture in numbers never foratold by even the most optimistic. Now that the new era is well ad- venced. glimpses of its real meaning are given to the wise, astrologers declare. and they remind the public how m | the stars have foretold. | ions are forecast for ihe Novel rees Winter resorts, where extraordinary numbers of refugees from cold weather | will congregate. Persons who birth date it is have poriences. A disappointment or two may be followed by new opportunities and big experiences. Children born on that dav probab'y will suceeed in whatever they unde They mav be hastv in_tempo: s and highstrung, but abls to ac- Nut Cookies. Cream together two fablespoons of butter or shortening and three-fourths of a cup of sugar. Add one egg and blended. Then stic in_three tablespoons of milk and one-half teasooon of grated orange or lemon rind. Sift two cups of cake flonr with one-half teaspoon of bakinz pow- der and one-fourth teaspoon t Chop one cup of necans. walnuts or neanuts moderately fine and add to ! (Copyright. 1928.) | flour, then stir this into the liquid r ture. The batter should be very sti almost a soft dough. Drop small tea spoonfuls one inch apart on a greasd baking pan and bake in a hot oven—470 wonders in anything they un- | KEEPING MENTALLY FIT BY JOSEPH JASTROW, Trritations. the psychology of irritation rather than ‘The common term anger includes two orders of emotional excitement that are | closely related, yet distinct enough to gl:‘f a different part in our behavior. e anger is the one, irritability is the other. They are of near kin, broth- ers at the least, perhaps twins. Irrita- bility is the simpler and consequently the earlier emotion. Anger has been tarmed the fighting emotion, the emo- tion aroused under the fight situation. Irritation is the emotion aroused when | one is thwarted. Hold baby's arms and prevent move- ment, and you may call the cry and struggle irrilation or anger as you pre- fer. 1ick-tempered and hot-tempered people may be both easily irritated and | easily angered, but the irfitable man | may be fairly peaceful in ’tgg: 1s not aggressive, as is the 3 In the child the irritabifity. pattern leads; in the adult either may dominate. When we are hungry or tived we are irritable rather than angry: we are put out, surly, in bad mood, have a grouch; we find things or persons provoking be- cause we are easily provoked. When we are good and angry, especially at an imsult or injustice, we are bent upon | term. But mad as a synonym of ex- nishment and revenge; we want to | treme irritation or plain anger is char- urt somebody. | acteristic; when things, or rather per- The displeasure tone of irritation is | sons, are most irritating, they are mad- readily traced through a variety of sit- | dening and you lose your temper to thing that gets on your nerves. Whath- er it'’s a shade nearer to anger w it “gets your goat” is an open ques- tion. the persistent displeasures, thwartings, interruptions are the typical irritants. prevent you from going to sleep are the worst is because you are then tired, and fatigue makes us irritable, though anger wakes you up. a windstorm for man: of a clock for others, ing sleeper on the slaeping car for the terruptions. irritation close to anger, are irritating. They rub you the wrong way, set off your antagonistic, rebellious streak. with them; you quarrel; you increase each other’s irritation until you arouse gnger and hatred. You have a “mad” on, or a feud, if you prefer the of anger when you call irritating any- In this we vary immensely, but The reason why the frritations that tHere's no use in getting angry, for It's a rattling shutter and the general banging in it's the ticking nd it's a snor- whele carload. They are all persistent, and sounds are the most irritating in- It is true that we find the developed especially when it is not things but persons who You can’t get along uations. The sensory leads. Disgust affiliates with irritation. If you in- nsely distike parsnips or onions or} iver or marfow and unsuspectingly get | & mouthful of the offending stuff, you | can easily detect the flavor of irritation | in the experience. You ate thwarted; you expected an agreeable taste and you #ot & nasty one. At luncheon my neighbor . ordered apple pie. His reaction to the first| taste was even more violent than my | rendering of it: “Say, you, waiter, why didn't you tell me the darn thing had putmeg in it?” - You don't quite fight the cause of your Iirritation, though you may feel like throwing the stuff out of the window, but you can bawl out the waiter. Yet you don't really or fully get angry at the pie with nutmeg, though you say you hate nutmeg, when you mean you dislike it. You can hate g::r enemy; but the nutmeg flavor 't exactly your enemy, though it mo- mentarily disturbs your peace of mind. Quite the best illustration cf the thwartedness that is the typical irrita- tion situation is an interruption. There is nothing so irritating as an interrup- tion; you want to go on and you are stopped. Then when you try to resume you can't remember what you were go- ing to write next, and this increases your irritation. Waiting is similarly irritating, because you want to do some- thing else and can't. As you are wait- ing for a delayed car or train, your irri-, tation rises with each minute, and when | you reil against the company for ils | r service you are using your irrita- on to arouse your anger. Flies are tantalizing; they persistent- §y interrupt your attention, and you swat them with glee and with ex- pletives. An ordinary colloquial “damn” expresses irritation rather than anger, though there is a touch of condemna- tion in it which you reserve for your enemies. Still, you don't quite de-| nounce flies; you just swat and swear | st them. Once_more ou_follow the trail of Cuticura Shaving Stick ins the medicinal properties of Freely and sanative, o skin health and protects the rface from infections Iverywhere SAUCE Delicious for CHOP SUEY and general table use e, pure, wholes Som. Fry a bottle; You witl ke it. At your grocer’s Show-You Co. City, Ind. Book begin with, your head if you let the passion grow to the irresponsibility of a brainstorm. Just as the child's irri- tability sets the major problem for the first steps in self-control, so does the constant control of our irritabilities set the permanent problem for keeping the peace. s the little irritations of life that | count; thev make up in frequency degrees—for 10 minutes or until golden cookies. SIS 2 Concluding 42 years of service, during dins. 6,000 baptisms and 7.000 funer- als, William Owen has just *retired as rarish clerk ‘and verger at St. Thomas Church, Coventry, England. Finished Details. Do you get yourself up well? When you have finished dressing do you look as though your clothes had been care- fully thought out, the effects carefully planned? Do you have that well groomed, well polished look that is every woman's ideal?> The French have one word for it, “soignee,” but the English language ~has no one equivalent word. It is the.sort of appearance you expect of a rich'woman who can afford well tailored clothes and hours to fuss over herself. As a matter of fact, any girl who will choose her clothes carefully and learn to put them on can achieve the same effect. Never let your hair look shaggy or badly cut. If you haven't time or money to go to the hairdresser for a trim once a fortnight, you can buy a pair of clippers cheaply to keep the neck clean of hairs that grow out of line, and you can do an amazing lot to reduce un- tidiness with a pair of scissors and a looking glass between hair-trimming periods. There are enough patent soaps on the market and shampoo powders, so your hair need never look sticky and greasy Never let your complexion look care- less. Take a little pill or somg liver salts at once at the first sign of a skin brown. This makes from 30 ®o 36 small | carefully | the augury of a vear of wonderful ex- | other than they would be when other | newspaper workers are | Fhich makes for recognition of intel- | well di-| All the signs seem to promise to the | ings ever crected and a new fame is | fer, and it is prophesied that foreign | IN EVERY THING sel. The Sidewalks Those who have visited the cat show the beauty and breed of the species but also with the affection in which most animals are held. Until recently we have regarded the cat as an ani- mated mouse trap to turn loose in the cellar or something to sic the dog on. (However, have never seen a dog | 50 far capable of licking the ordinary Alley cats are not on exhi- | bition at the show Only the aristocracy may be seen—the Persian, the bob- talled Manx, the blue Carthusian, etc. A companion, more interested in the | habits of cats than in their social status, asked “What makes cats yowl all night on a back fence? Where do they get their nine lives and why? Why do they always land on their feet if tossed from a height?" | Perhaps cat lovers can answer his | questions. We do happen to know that | a cat, unlike the dog, will lie in wait | for its prey and spring upon its victim | depending largely upon its claws for the | purpose of disabling it. The dog. on the other hand, will trail its prey for miles if necessary. A cat is more detached and dignified than a dog. They are even haughty and austere. Kittens brought to life in a country barn and unused to the sight of anything savé the mother will scamper off for safety at the approach of a human. Puppies at the same age will sit tight, if not actually willing to meet the stranger half-way. Probably we are telling the | something he already knows, comparison is_interesting. A properly trained dog will defend its master or mistress, but we have never seen a cat spring at an attacker In this we are not As a matter of fact, we once heard of an old lady who died, leaving her estate to a nephew, a lawyer. She happened to have a favorite cat which never left her side. After the will was road in an adjoining room, we alley cat.) reader but the which he attended more than 3.000 wed- | BEAUTY CHATS | tion to remoqve stains as soon as they eruption; then, to cover the mark upon what they lack in importance. iConyright. 1 rub again The new-fime drink PARKLING DE LICIOUS DIFFERENT 3330 M St. N.W: Chummy! . . There’s a warmth, a spirit, a feeling about Pale Moon that is fascinating. This sparkling new drink is not a ginger ale. It has a deli- cgte elusive tang that is quite unlike anything you ever tasted, but is dis- tinctly delicious, Pale Moon Company of America, Inc., 824 So. 2nd Street, Philadelphia, Pa, ¥ J. E. DYER & CO. Wholesale Distributors Washingten, D. C. the face, rub it with vanishing cream, |8's inches vith vanishing cream { 118 pound: “I though* Mrs. Brown was goin’ to | buy one of my magazines, but she just looked through it an' copied a recipe an’ said she didn't care for it." *(Copyright, 1928.) | BY EDNA KENT FORBES and powder until yow've made the mark | so faint it scarcely shows. | Don't let your skin look shiny. Carry | powder with you—rouge also if you use it—and a tiny comb, so that no matter where you are your face and | hair can be tidy. Rub your nails with lemon juice or some patent prepara- appear. Rub them with cream often enough so the cuticle stays smooth and soft. Keep them well polished. | Put your clothes on carefully, keep | them well brushed and pressed, and choose your color combination so they are harmonious. R. J. D.—A cream is better as a pow- | der base han ptlain oil, as the cream has a wax in it. Miss L. C. B—Any oll on the’ lashes and brows gives the effect of a darker shade, and castor oil is somewhat of a tonic also for the hair. Patience, Helene M., Beatrice K., J. A. P, Bertle H, Bess H, Mary S, C.. S. D. W., Mrs. A. 8.—I shall be glad to forward the formulas and information if a self-addressed, stamped envelope issent for mailing. Blue Eyes—The tiny lines on your throat and at the corners of your mouth come from being so much below normal weight. They ‘will bé gone as soon as you build ur again. At 19 years, 5 feet n height, you should weigh ota ginger ale Telephone West 268 | of DIET AND HEALTH BY LULU HUNT PETERS, M. D. Answers to Mothers. tion. recent article gn ‘No Truth in the | until Bugaboo of Marking the Unborn. Wil | entirely. you please discuss the effects on the n unborn child of the mother's thoughts ld | anesthesia. and disposition during pregnancy? “MRS. B.” | the cause of your The only effects on the unborn babe | Wheezy the mother’s thoughts and dis- | position, as well as of scares and frights, will be their effect on th mother’s health and thus the babe" stamina. If the woman tries to b: even-tempered, to improve her mind and disposition, and will continue thos: Certain every six months need surgical atten- 2 There is an infection in th>/ “I was very much interested in your | cysts which will always trouble vou the cyst membrane is removed | The operation is not a diffi- | cult one, and can be done under local That infection is “Will you please tell us why some | growing children get wheezy after a | wild picnic feast of hot dogs, ice cream, sweets and drinws? 7 children and adults are| sensitive to certain foods foods will give different manifestation. when the door was opened the cat sprang a* the law- yer, seized him by the throat and was with difficulty prevented from strangling him. Several years later | the man died and confessed on his deathbed that he had murdered his aunt to cbtain her money. The homing in- s\ stinct of the cat is common knowl- edge. The other day we were told of robably other troubles. Children. None of the family had the heart to kill it and the buck was passed to a servant to dispose of the animal. She tied its feet together, and placing it in a bag which was securely tied, tossed MRS. J. and these this week are impressed not only with | Whittier. libeling the cat clan. | an aged cat, afflicted with blindness. | FEATURES. of Washington BY THORNTON FISHER. of which was printed the name John G. 'R It is sometimes difficult to place the blame for a kid's Lack of parental discipline may be responsible for it or it may be the fault of the child. Yesterda mother took young son to department the [ wanted mas | “What?" | boy | “I said what do | you want me to bring vou for said the Christ a he old fel the mother Santa Claus A letter: “Dear Sir—Several day ago you mentioned those whom fate h: cast for different rc Mine is a min: one. For 30 y have struggled to raise a family, for my home and | perpetuate my i rance. I have sent two boys through college and am edu- cating a daughter. Some of us, it is true, are not cast for the part of an | adventurer. but there has been no little | drama in the life of one who has trisd | to live decently and give to his far Do you not believe it?—R. P. G.” The writ of the above is more cou- rageous than the highly touted adven- turer, in our opinion Oriental Sweet. This is easily made and has the ad- vantage of kecping a long time. Th~ ingredients called for are a pound each of dates. figs and walnut meats and some confectioner’s sugar. The fruit should be cleaned and the dates stoned. Then the dates, figs and nuts are put through a food chopper. Work with th- { hands on a board well dredged with confectioner'’s sugar. Roll out, using | confectioner’s sugar on the board and rolling pin to one-fourth inch in thick- ness. Cut in small shapes, roll in pow- dered sugar and pack away in tin with waxed paper. Keeping the same pro- | porticns, raisins, prunes, pecans, haz! nuts and almonds may be used in thi recipe in place of the first-mention=c fruit and nut combination. AT THE BIG habits, in this way she helps to mould the character of her baby. Mrs. W—Yes, you should begin fo wean your baby about the ninth month Omit one breast feeding a week until she is totally off the breast. If, at the third or fourth month, you have begun to give her one arti- ficial feeding of cow’s milk, water and sugar—a good plan—by this time you have worked up to nearly whole milk, and you can give the baby at this feeding the same strength that you have been giving her in the one bot. tle, this one artificial have to begin with a formula By the ninth month could stand about one-half milk an: one-half water, without any sugar. Each day you can use a tablespoon more of milk and one less of the water until she is getting whole milk. When the y gets whole milk there is no need of sweetening it. She should be having. also, by this time, cereals and pureed vegetables and fruits. If you can possibly do so, take her to a children’s specialist or a clinic and get specific directions as to her diet. feeding, you will ‘W.—The abscesses u have If you haven't been giving her | little' weaker | she | among them the hives, eczema, asthm. The average child can have little sprees of overeating, apparently without much ill effect, but these sensitized ones will Iways ,Suffer. Lessons in English BY W. L. GORDON. | Words often misused—Do not say e have proof of this being correct.” ay, “that this is correct.” Often ‘mispronounced—Impetu: n ‘*him,” as in “me,” u as in “us, | cent after the m. Often misspelled—Annihilate; the double n and the h. Synonyms—Dedicate; consecrate, de- vote. ‘Word stu “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each |day. Today's word: Scrupulous, care- ful, cautious, punctilious. “It was ar- rayed with serupulous neatne: ias ac- note the animal into an empty coal car. Ten days later “the cat came back” sans bag and rope. How far it had traveled no one knew. Only instinct could have guided this feeble, blind cat back to its | old home. * x k k¥ A Washingtonian who has just re- turned from a small town says that he | met a man there who owned a small one-lunged, Wwheezy automobile. The machine had the habit of going a few blocks and for some reason stopping. The owner's business required that he travel through the countryside near the town and the condition of the car in- terfered with his activities. The car was not worth the expense of repairing it, so the owner advertised in the local paper: “Auto for sale for no other rea- son than that the owner wishes to go out of town.” * Kk *x A man who has been purchasing Christmas_cards says that he had al- ways wondered who the unknown poets are who write the beautiful sentiments found on greeting cards. It seemed a pity, according to him, that such genius should not réceive the approbation and ublicity it merits. 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