Evening Star Newspaper, December 9, 1928, Page 72

THE . SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., DECEMBER 39, 1928—PART 3. From now until the Christmas rush dies of exhaustion the night before Christmas, the sensitive shopper is go- ing to be made miserable by the usual spectacle of a cross, tired mother, drag- ging a still more cross and tired child, or children, from counter to counter, while she checks off a slowly diminish- ing list. We feel sorry for mothers who choose deliberately the most difficult and un- satisfactory way of buying Uncle John a pair of socks and grandma a silk scarf, and we fairly ache for the babies. Stuffed as they are into hot, crowded elevators with every one else towering way above their heads: made to stand in front of counters over whose edges they cannot see; gripped firmly by a maternal hand which restricts any but the most limited movements, they are pulled this way and that, stepped on, pushed, deprived of their hours of rec- Teation and sleep and to top it all usu- ally bundled up with every garment suitable for an arctic Winter. Observe this small child shopper. He is usually being pacified with some- thing, from a rubber nipple to an all; day sucker, anything which will pre- vent his vocal utterance of his discom- fort and desire to go home. If he so much as lets a peep out of him he is subjected to a good slap or his arm is twisted painfully or mother whispers seductively, “Candy, candy, eandy!” as if it were a magic incanta- tion designs to lull him into uncon- sclousness. There ought to be some way of pro- Secting children from this annual sac- wmfice of their comfort and well-being. It shouldn't be impossible to find some neighbor who in exchange for a morn- ing free of her own brood would be willing to take charge of her neighbor's. Barring this there are always hours when the child, if he must be taken slong, would suffer the least, for the Your Baby and Mine BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED. likely be awake from 9 until 11 o'clock, and crowds are better natured and less suffocating early in the day. Not only are hours and regularity thrown into the discard, when babies and small children are taken from home, but good sense as well. Toy- land may be a veritable fairyland for the older child, but it becomes a future nightmare to the child under that age. The tumult, the presence of 5o many other children, the combination of color, constant motion and incessant racket are so many whips to the babies’ nerves and when they cry from sheer excitement they are slapped into be- wildered and frightened submission by some Irate adult. Parents may feel that it is their duty to face the mobs and treat the chil- dren to a preliminary taste of the Christmas frenzy. No idea could be more pernicious. Children do not need | added excitement in their lives, they | need to be protected from what there is. Adults become deadened to noise and their jaded sensations need to be stimulated. They enjoy Christmas even while they deplore it. Not so with children. They lose their appetites, they can't sleep nights, they. suffer from nightmares, all because their nervous systems are over stimulated by the thrills, the mysteries, the lights and noise and color that are inextricably bound up with this particular season. It would be splendid if we could in- ject into each mother a saving sense of guilt when she starts out on her Christmas shopping expedition with her children. - Instead of considering her- self a martyr for their sakes, she should realize that she is a disrupter of their regular schedules and an enemy of their placidity. Viewed from that angle, she would be less likely, two hours later, to be calling upon heaven to witness that there never was such a little demon as Johnny. . . and after child from the second year on will BY ALIDA VREELAND. To feast the eye as well as the body in the mission of the well set table today, the holiday hostess can per- form this double duty best by using some of the sparkling and beautiful col- ored crystal tableware so temptingly displayed in the shops. The lure of delicately tinted glass has won over so many of the most conservative hostesses from the tradi- tional all-white table that one rarely ever dines without color in glass being ;z:m]zduoed during some course of the eal. Naturally the well planned table will carry out one color scheme in glass. For it may be noted that the ensemble theme which dominates our wardrobes is just as rigorously observed on the festive board. If one has a glass center- piece the tumblers, goblets and other glassware used at the individual places must harmonize withvit. [ Perhaps the most difficult feature in the selection of a glass ensemble is the bewildering effect of these jewel-like creations when you are trying to con- centrate on one color. Amethyst, sap- phire, amber, dark green, smoky blue and ruby all seem to outdazzle one another to influence your choice. . A safe plan is to keep in mind the colors featured in your own interior, f‘;fi?‘fi“fls or harmonizing your glass wi 3 For example, a dining room with dark blue and gold or beige predominating in its color scheme would have its effect further enchanced in the ap- pearance of amber or aquamarine glass on the table. The deep blue or rose- tinted glasses are lovely with warm grays and the dull glow of pewter. Austria, Czechoslovakia, Sweden, Venice and England are among the chief sources of handmade glass to- day. A glass from England is famous for its wonderful texture, its durability ‘l‘nd its Justrous and its resonant quali- es. Made from the same formula as old ‘Waterford glass, the earliest crystal glass made in Ireland, its original de- signs as well as its copies of famous old pieces give it unqualified claim to distinction. D One of the newest patterns of this glass to arrive in America is the quaint old Thistle design made in Scotland. The entire set was in amber. Fashioned on generous proportions it breathed an air of substantiality as well as of old world beauty. From round, short- stemmed bases, they swelled into grooved bowl shapes and then tapered outward in smooth, clear surfaces, giv- 1{21 grace as well as girth to their sides. A finger bowl followed a modified version of the same design. This, of course, was accompanied by a service plate quite suitable for use as a.salad plate. For variety, white glass was combined with the amber in simple solid-looking candlesticks. Ivory or pale Jjade in candles was suggested as the Pproper color. Pepper and salt so often indistin- guishable on the table when they wear similar exteriors are highly individual- ized according to the best traditions of England, for no one could ever mistake the bulbous single-eyed pepper shaker for the squat round salt cellar. A mustard pot, without which no British table is complete, had the same shape as the salt cellar adding a cover. These accessories were executed in the Thistle pattern as well as in many other colors and styles. White crystal with a moired effect of old blue coloring waving through it or with fine raised lines swirling around were other forms of color decoration in which matching sets could be found. Crystals for Christmas she'd taken all the trouble to bring him down town to see Santa Claus, too! One style known as the Vatican twist, after it had been selected by the Vati- can for its crystal service, was of white crystal with a finely grooved swirl cov- ering the entire surface of every piece. Another object of art in this same ware was a fruit bowl of moonstone glass. The lower part of the bowl showed a crackled surface effect and had its bluish tone accentuated by a blue border around the edge of its base. ‘Water might take on a piquant flavor were it sipped from one of the flower- like goblets of Bohemian glass. Possess- ing all the delicacy of calla lilies, their amber bowls seemed to grow out of calyx-like stems of dark amber or dark gnen glass with swirling grooved sur- aces. From Sweden comes a varied collec- tion of pure white crystal following many classic old Swedish types. One of the favorites from -this country is the diamond pattern used in whole sets of stemware. A large boat-shaped flower bowl made a particularly stunning impression in this pattern, sparkling with almost the brilliancy of cut glass. A fascinating thought about the mod- ern craze for colored tableware is that a woman may enjoy the variety of many different colors at different times on her own table. An informal luncheon party may be decked out with colored cloth and colored glasses to go with it. Bridge parties may be treated to another color while still others may appear at dinner. . Important accessories in glass which thoughtful modern hostesses do not omit these days are cigarette holders and dainty individual ash trays. The holders come in various flat and round forms while the trays. no bigger than the old-fashioned butter plate, have scalloped and plain edges. In addition to the convenience they provide each member of a dinner party, they bring just a bit more color and life to the holiday table. Ideal Italian Beauty Of 500 Years Ago Here are the qualifications of the ideal type of feminine beauty as it existed in Italy 500 years ago: “A slender, flexible neck, black eyes and golden hair, as wavy as possible; a small, straight nose, a throat white, round without a blemish, arms round and full, shoulders sloping and a fore- head very high.” ‘The Botticelll type of feminine beauty which has been admired by poets and painters for all the five centuries since Botticelll made it famous in his paint- ings is described thus: “The face has long, limpid eyes, delicate, quivering nostrils, a slender, nervous neck, a slightly accentuated oval face, a sensuous, sweetly mocking mouth, the voluptuous curvings of which are to be found centuries later in the” pensive faces of the sensitive beauties of Rosetti and Burne Jones.” Fondant. Mix half a cupful of evaporated milk with half a cupful of water and three cupfuls of sugar. Boil to soft-ball stage, cool and beat until creamy. Pack in a bowl with a damp cloth over the top until ready to use. Shape into bonbons or around stuffed dates, or place the bowl in warm water, stirring as the fondant melts, then use it for cover- ing cakes. This is really a white fudge, creamier than fondant made with water, and is very delicious. FIOWIERS ?‘g———_————_’ b 1;r 1407 H SIREEY QMain 3707 l \ n § E ‘B I I""H“ ik E I Y!il 1 i ! i il it 1l | | THIS LOUNGE Dining Room Loses Imp e | | : = ol onng ey i oo e o " l | | | [l T i | ‘ i | iy | | (I | Il 1 } Mflh |‘.i [ [iflF! ! | yumrlq | }l} il IS NOT TOO INFORMAL LOOKING FOR THE DINING ROOM, YET IT CAN BE UTILIEZD AS AN EMERGENCY BED. , ! ek (o1l e AR o Uyl £ | || 1 ‘,l i | T T [l : i :hl"”‘l)) Il j ) N \ \' i s (it ikt L )Il’ltil}m |. | ]‘ ortance T i i BY BETSY CALLISTER. HE place cf the dining room in the small suburban house or city apartment has been chal- lenged and the time may come when for the average middle- class family living in small quarters dining rooms will be as rare as they were a century ago when it was only the fairly well-to-do who bothered with them at all. Several things have happened to bring about this situation. The scarcity and high price of maids has led many women to do their own housework who would never have thought of doing so under pre-war conditions. And when the housewife does the cooking and ‘the serving the advantage of eating meals near the kitchen becomes apparent. Building prices have soared and the importance of any rcom that is not es- sential to household efficiency and fam- ily comfort is naturally questioned. With improved cooking equipment many of the disadvantages of eating in the kitchen or in a nook opening directly on the kitchen have become less apparent. With the scarcity of maids and the increase of automobiles the habit of taking an occasional meal away from home has increased. And s0o women have begun to wonder whether after all a dining room is really necessary. In small apartments the old-time dining room is rapidly disappearing. Sometimes the kitchen is large enough for the informal meals that one takes at home, or there ‘is a very small dinette or eating nook attached to a small kitchen, or else there is a kitch- en, with a living room at one end of which arrangement for meals may be made. With these three possibilities to choose from, the dining room no longer seems necessary in the small apartment. Some of the new suburban houses are made without a dining room—the space that would have been used for this room being thrown into the living room, where the more leisurely meals may be taken. Breakfasts and hasty luncheons may be served in the little breakfast nook connected with the kitch- en. Many studio houses are of this sort and appeal to those who feel that the conventional dining room with its conventional furnishings has little place among persons whose habits of life must be informal. The majority of new houses still have dining rooms, and, of course, the older houses which most of us live in have a room of this sort.. There are ad- vantages in the conventional, formal sort of dining room, and, even if you do have to prepare the meals for the family and serve them without a maid, you may find the inconvenience of the dining room 'service offset by the ad- vantages of having a room where meals may be taken comfortably and without confusion. If you have a taste for tra- ditions you probably do want to keep your dining room for the purpcse for which it was originally intended and you like to feel that it is not used for a sitting room or a sewing room or a play room, but simply and formally as a room where meals are to be served. 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Furniture should match in wood and “period” or should at_least be harmonious. Well kept, polished wood floors require no cover- ing, though in order to make for per- fect quiet some dining rooms are cov- ered entirely with carpet. There are linoleum type floor cover- ings which may be used effectively and tastefully in the less pretentious sort of dining room. China cabinets, save the built-in sort that are a continuation of the woodwork, are rather out of favor. Aside from table and chairs one usu- ally finds a buffet and a serving table in the formally furnished dining room. It is no longer considered good form— if indeed it ever was—to load the buffet down with silver, glassware, etc. The serving table, which should stand near the pantry or kitchen door, is _perferably left quite bare. When_the dining room must do double duty, serving as a dining room at meal time and a sitting room or writing room at other times, still an effort should be made to keep the room free from needless and distracting orna- ment. Even if you do choose the din- ing room as a place for writing letters, sewing, playing games, etc., there is no necessity for keeping writing materials on the buffet and your sewing basket on the serving table. An excellent plan is to have a corner cupboard with incon- spicuous curtains at the glass doors to use as a place for keeping games, writ- ing materials, sewing things, etc., which might otherwise ruin the appearance of the room. There are times when it is highly desirable to have a lounge in the dining room. When a large family has to find shelter in a very small house or apart- ment it is even conceivable that the dining room must serve as an occa- sional sleeping place, and rather than have no way of offering shelter to an overnight guest a lounge in the dining room may be used. So if the dining room lounge is de- sirable, do what you can to make i es much in keeping with the rather formal spirit of the dining room as pos- sible. The broad, low divan may be used in such a way that it takes on the aspect of a comfortable window ‘seat. If covered with a monotone cover of velour or rep with cushions covered with harmonizing unfigured silk or rep, it may actually add to the attractive- ness of the room. (Copyright, 1928.) PSSt et it e AR The gypsy moth was brought into this country from France in 1869 by one Prof. Tronvelot, who planned to cross the alien insect with silk worms, but the plan failed, for the moth started at once on its depredation. Fox Scarfs A very smart fur piece. 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There is a sign indicating a tendency toward romance and lovemaking, but it is well to be cautious in choosing a life partner under this rule of the stars. ‘Weddings should be fairly fortunate on that day, which seems to promise happiness to those who use logic as well as love in making life plans. It should be a favorable date for openings of new plays and should bene- fit all who are connected with them. ‘Many new business projects of inter- national scope again are foretold for the coming year. One of these will be attended with grave difficulties involv- ing the United States, it is predicted. Sensations in military circles abroad are prognosticated. The stars presage for department stores and other places dealing in wom- en's attire a season of much profit, for changes in modes will benefit them. Boston may suffer from a severe storm that_causes great property damage, but 40 years in the same loca- tion means reliability and good merchandise. own Prices on atches Diamonds Jewelry Clocks Silver Toilet Ware TERMS PLITT Jeweler and Optometrist 1330 7th St. N.W. 1972 502 100 the city is to profit greatly in commer- cial activities. Persans whose birth date it'is have the augury of a happy year. Romance and lovemaking will be a part of the experiences of the young-and even of those past middle life. Children born on that Cay probably will have a strong bent toward religious BY ALLENE SUMNER. Just about the time we are all very sure that all this to-do about whether woman shall have a home OR a career is as dead as cotton stockings and pom- lours and that all more or less thinking people accept the fact that, it she wants to have it so, it may be Home AND Career, one bumps into such an experience as this: BRetty Lou had been the campus beauty. Betty Lou had married Tom Greer, who won the “Most Popular Man” contests as easily as Betty Lou won the beauty ones. Every one thought it was one of those made-in-heaven matches. ‘The various alumni papers during the next few years had items from time to time that made us all even more sure that it was a Paradise-created match. Tom was more than “doing well.” There was a beautiful home out on the boule- vard and the society section made fre- quent reference to Betty's social tri- umphs here and yon. I hadn’t seen Betty since we walked in the daisy chain procession together till the other day at the bridge party. Betty wasn't the beauty she once was. The serenity and poise and assurance that had characterized her school-day self seemed gone. This was a discon- tented, restless, seeking Betty. I won- dered why. Before the party broke up we had a little chat together. Betty cornered me with the demand that I tell her all about “your perfectly fascinating job; how did you get started; can any one get in; how I wish I had something to do like that.” “But your own days must be pretty full and interesting,” I reminded Betty, indicating some knowledge of her social whirl, the demands of her home, etc. “But_what does it all amount to?” asked Betty. “What have I done and what am I doing with my life? You remember that I had a few talents back in school. I could have written or designed or painted or done one of several things. But for 10 years I've been just ‘one of our leading young matrons.”” It seemed futile to remind Betty that, so far as I could see, there seemed to be no earthly reason why matrimony, especially such matrimony as she had achieved, should keep her from any of these “careery” pursuits. But drab little Louise Munn had edged into our corner and sat Herself down to listen and contribute. Louise was principal of a kindergarten. “And, Lord, how I hate it!” she ex- claimed. “And what is there ahead? Your life is the only life for a woman, Betty, and you haven't brains enough to know it. I had my chance at gar- den variety marriage 10 years ago, but I was too snooty for it. I thought 1 was meant for ‘something better.” What have I got—$200 a month till I'm 60, then a pension, and nobody to care whether I live or die.” ther nullifies the value of free- will choice to be sure that whatever you choose you will ponder upon what might have been. But such incidents repeated on every side make you rather 50 believe. Also, they would tend to prove that the happiest women are those much- maligned modern ones who do manage to have their cake and eat it, too. Many of them are demonstrating that it can be done. Jellied Tomato Salad. Cook together for 20 minutes three cups of canned tomatoes, one sliced onion, one-fourth cup of celery, one small bayleaf, one teaspoon each of salt and sugar and two whole cloves. Soak two tablespoons of unflavored gelatine in one-third cup of cold water for 10 minutes. Stir into the hot tomato mix- ture and then rub through a fine strainer. Cool the mixture until it begins to thicken. If you are in a hurry, this may be accomplished quickly by stand- ing the bowl in a pan of cracked ice or ice water, or by placing it in cold air. When the gelatin mixture begins to thicken stir in one cup of finely cut celery, one small green pepper shredded, one-half cup finely diced apple and one-third cup of chopped pecans, pea- nuts or walnuts. Pour into small, wet molds and set aside to chill and harden. Turn out, garnish with lettuce and serve with mayonnaise or cooked salad dressing. 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