Evening Star Newspaper, December 16, 1928, Page 72

14 A TWO-TONED BELT OF L SUEDE WITH RHINESTO! O WITH ATTRACTIVE HANDLES IN ( LEATHER AND ONE OF BLACK RNAMENTS. NEW UMBRELLAS CARVED WOOD, REPTILE SKIN AND STONE. BY MARY MARSHALL. fsh:dcs of soft hiluc (:’13! are cons:idered g . | very smart for lingerie at present. HERE'S Molly Ann Who says.| fnough of ome of the new figured “Don’t on any account give me | something to wear for Christ- mas. Don't give me stockings or handkerchiefs or silk undies or even an ermine coat. I'll have to buy clothes anyway. So give me some- thing that I wouldn't have otherwise— books or flowers or candy, or a saddle horse, if you feel unusually liberal. ‘Things like that are so much more Christmas-y.” Mary Jane is different. “There is nothing I'd like better than things to ‘wear—stockings and dainty handker- chiefs, pretty silk underthings, a collar and cuff set or a new scarf,” she says. “Things like that are really useful and every time you wear them you have a sort of merry Christmas thrill that makes you think nige thoughts about the ones who have given them to you.” My own impression is that the Mary Janes far outnumber the Molly Anns. Most women like wearable Christmas presents and the crowds one sees in the stocking shops and departments and ’round the handkerchief counters bear proof to the fact that these acces- sories are still the favorite gifts of many women. There is a renewed interest this Winter on the part of fashion in acces- sories. And any of these little fashion accessories make good Christmas gifts. | A trip to any of the stores, big or little, ought to help you choose something acceptable both to your purse and the taste of the person you are gifting. A few yards of attractive material is a gift that is sure to please the woman who sews. A yard and a half of yard-wide crepe de chine is enough for a step-in combination. Two and a half yards is right for a nightgown or pajama set. Flesh color or white is always a good choice, but for the girl who likes less usual tints there are BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON. After Marion ~had -regained her breath, lost when Santa Claus gravely shook hands with her and asked her name and address and what she want- ed, she eeded to ieth tn out again in little squeals of delight. nlt. was a distracting Flm to be in, the toy department of a big store. The magic of Christmas made your blvod tingle. ‘There 5ere sounds, too, squeaks, and moo's and baa’s; toots and squeals and rat-a-tat’s; tinkle and tunes and the phmt:}: cr'ym of b;by-;iolls that made u 1 ver for joy. nOVer lf showcase leered a six-foot g:lfl’e. Near him a camel higher than rion’s head munched and munched and mun:cr:ld. lu:: black Fel‘l;, sta) ly real, danc beringly “Tea for “Two,” played perfectly by a diminutive layer piano. v'l!herepm the “House That Jack Built” taking up quite a section of the floor. Jack was some ocarpenter, it was evident, as well as electrician, plumber and painter. From the twin beds in the bedrooms to the labor-saving equipment in the kitchen, it was absolutely complete that playhouse. Marion was particularly fascinated by a certain doll that could almost have worn her own clothei. “May 1 have that dolly, Mother?” e asked. Her mother tried to gue.. che price. She knew Marion could never have it or anything like it. But she said, “We'll see, dear. Perhaps. We'll ask Santa Claus as we go out.” There was promise in her eyes and voice. Candy Makes Good Card Party Prize Try candy as a prize at your next card party. A e You can make it yourself. Or you ean buy it. Whether it is homemade or bought, remember that good candy in smaller amount is a better prize than poor candy in larger amount. A pound of fine bonbons makes an attractive prize, whereas three pounds of sloppily made fudge would be quite out of the question. Fudge, however, when well made is always acceptable as a prize. Be sure it is sufficiently firm, yet not dry. Pack it neatly in a box lined with waxed paper. Creamed walnuts are another good home-made candy for prizes. Make small balls of fondant and place two walnut halves, one on each side of the fondant ball, pressing them in slight'y. Studded dates are also a good choice. Remove the date pits and fill the cavities with nut meats, candied ginger, figs or prunes. e oo Couldn’t Be Helped. Jim—No getting around it—there's Avoid Spoiling Christmas. silks to make a blouse or a frock— | light-weight woolen material for a pleated skirt—a few yards of trans- parent velvet to be used with chiffon | or silk crepe for a frock—lengths of some of the attractive new cotton ma- terials, such as printed dimity-striped flannel for a bathrobe. A trip to the dress goods department of any well supplied store will give you many suggestions for a present of this sort and the advantage of this sort of gift is that there is far less likely to be | & crowd in the dress goods departments [than in the departments where the | more usual sort of gifts are sold. . Don't forget the possibilities of gloves. Even if you do not know the glove taste of the one to whom they are to be given, you cannot go wrong in selecting slip-on gloves in good qual- ity suede kid in one of the usual light tints. Fancy cuffed gloves should be chosen only when you are sure that the woman you are giving them to likes them. Many women, you know, do not. Black gloves have been worn considerably by well dressed women in France and to some extent in this country. So, for the girl who likes to be in the vanguard of fashion, a pair or two of good black gloves will prob- ably be acceptable. If you are giving stockings for Christ- mas, my advice is to get one very good pair of stockings rather than two of the less expensive sort. For the younger woman who likes to keep abreast of the mode, choose light flesh tones for evening stockings, sheer gun metal for daytime stockings that are to be worn with black or dark blue shoes. Sun- burn tones are still important and will, I am sure, be favored for both day and evening wear with the coming of Spring. (Copyright, 1928.) Other things were equally fascinat- "'fi to the excited little girl. She fell in love with a tiny motor-driven clothes mangle, between whose rolls a doll was passing a towel to be ironed. “Mother, that little mangle is exactly like your big one. Please mayn't I have it? Please!” All these things her mother knew to be very expensive. She knew, too, that they were there chiefly to amuse the children who came to call. Yet she only answered vaguely, “Why, yes, perhaps, dear! We'll see. We'll speak to Santa as we out.” And Marion went to sleep that night confident that Santa Claus, who had listened so carefully and mnodded and sald, “Very well,” would leave all the things she wanted under her Christ- mas tree. Her mother said to her father, “I took Marion downtown today and she erything lace. She'll forget about them, though. gut I let her think she might have them. It doesn't hurt anything to think, does it?” But Marion won't forget, and will she be disappointed on Christmas morning? I am afraid so. It hardly seems fair to allow children to expect things they cannot have. But I know many mothers who do it. Why not let half the Christmas joy come from planning to make a little Christmas happiness for some poor child who won't get any toys at all? It is amazing how much pleasure chil- dren get from planning another child’s Christmas. Decorations. A successful young hostess of my ac- quaintance says she always sits down to arrange her dinner table decorations. | Not that she is lazy—quite the other | way. She just wants to get the effect as it will be when dinner is in progress. If she is having an important guest, she takes particular pains to get the effect of the decorations from the place of the guest of honor. This is a really sensible way to go about decorating the table. You could hardly imagine the de- signer of stage scenery who would not consider the effect of the scenery when viewed from the body of the house, rather than from the stage. And that is just what the woman who Sits down to arrange the dinner table dec- orations is doing. She is getting the point of view of the people who matter. So next time you are giving special attention to the table decorations sit down to it. The placing of the can- dles, the spacing of silver and glass, the postion of the bowl or vases of flowers— all these thlnis ought to be influenced by the view the seated diners will get of them, rather than the view one gets .| wheel. THE SUNDAY ' STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, DECEMBER 16, 1928—PART 3. AND WHITE GEORGETTE. AT THE LEFT, TOP, IS A NEW SASH MADE OF BROAD MOIRE RIBBON IN TWO TONES AND BELOW THAT ARE SOME OF THE NEW RIBBON BELTS THAT WOULD MAKE ATTRACTIVE GIFTS. NEXT T HE SASH, A LAPIS LAZULI NECKLACE, AND IN THE CIRCLE EAR- RINGS OF SILVER AND A TURQUOISE PAGODA PIN. THE LACE BERTHA IN THE CIRCLE WOULD ALSO MAKE AN EXCEEDING- LY ATTRACTIVE GIFT. THERE ARE TWO OTHER LACE COLLARS OF UNUSUAL SORT, A GOLD CLOTH FAN, A VELVET PURSE EMBROIDERED WITH GOLD THREAD AND COLORED STONES, T ULLE FLOWERS AND A BIG EVENING HANDKERCHIEF IN BLACK BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON. “Bob, come out here and pick this bicycle up off the wet grass.” Bob's mother appeared in the door- way. “I told him he could leave it there, Jim. He came home all tired out and it’s such a job getting it up these steps, I thought you would do it.” “Yes, I'll do it,” he grumbled. “I only do it about four days out of five.” After supper Bob's father discovered he was out of cigarettes. “Here's a quar- ter, Bob, go down to the drug store and get me a pack,” he said. “Gee, Dad, I gotta study!” said that young gentleman promptly. “Why didn’t you get them on your way home? I should think you'd know when you were out of smokes!” said his wife. “Well, I didn’t, as it happens. It won't take him five minutes on his Go on, son!” “I knew if I'd bring that bicycle in I'd need it again,” declared Bob. “You get terribly weak sometimes, it seems to me,” was his father's com- ment on this. “You can kick a foot ball to kingdom come and let a ton of boys pile on top of you every five min- utes for two hours and never bat an eye.” Bob didn’t reply except to say crossly, “Pll walk. Gimme the money. Can I keep the change?” “No. It will buy me a street car ticket.” “Jim, why are you so impatient and short with Bob?” asked his wife when the boy had gone. “Why couldn’t you have given him that little bit of change? ‘And why are you always nag- ging at him about little things like bringing in his bicycle?” “It's just a matter of opinion, Mary, whether I'm nagging at him or whether I'm just trying to stir him into some semblance of obedience. I'm beginning to feel like Simon Legree, though, with you always taking his part and jump- ing on me the way you do. “The worst of it is that Bob's getting to think I am, too. You take excep- tion to any disciplining I try to do, right in front of the boy. And he seems to have gotten the idea into his head that I'm a dud as a father.” “But that bicycle! Why can't he leave it outside?” “Because it will be either ruined or stolen. His tricyele was stolen; so was his wagon. But the thing is, when I bought it for him -he promised to take care of it. It cost me fifty dollars and ASSORTED TEA SANDWICHES 45¢ per dozen; $3.25 per hundred Alse Sandwiches for all ocea: THE PASTRY SHO! Met. 6939 1616 H St. N.W. standing beside the table. Boy’s Duty to Parents 1 did without a new suit last Spring to buy it. As for the change from ths cigarettes, that’s a matter of principle, too. I'd like him to get into the habit of doing a favor for me once in a while without being paid.” Suddenly his wife broke out with, “Jim, why didn’t you ever talk this way to me before? I'd have helped you. I've been very silly.” “All I want is a little moral support. I never talked this way before because —well, I suppose I never really analyzed it myself. But the boy does need a little stiffening up. He'll never have & sense of obligation to other people if he loses his idea of duty to us.” “Well, believe me, he won't be losing it any more as far as I'm concerned,” sald Mary. “We'll vote together after tl':)!.:klnd I guess we own the controlling stock.” Colors of F ashion Have Pretty Names The new colors of fashion are attrac- tively named. Just to read the names, in fact, brings a rich and colorful pic- ture before the eyes. Here are some of them: Honey brown. Antique brown. Plum blossom shades. Petunia. Independence blue, marionette blue, g-vy Jones blue, bonny blue, chevron* lue. Sealing wax red, flame color, Bur- gundy and, newer still, sherry. Signal red. Acajou—which is mahogany. Rust and terra cotta. Egg shell and a variety of other off- white tones. N Fern green, hunter’s green, almond green. Mustard yellow. Nasturtium. Gray-beige. Where Real Is Possible Making Sheep Of Your Children. BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON. “I think I'll write a letter to Uncle Hubert,” said 12-year-old Paul. His mother laughed. “Well, if you do, sonny, you'd better print it. Your wr'l:.lng would take him a year to figure out.” “What do you want to write to Uncle Hubert for?” asked his father. “Just because he's an aviator now and wears a uniform, eh? I don’t suppose he has much time to read letters from boys.” An hour later his father looked up from his paper. “Thought you were go- ing to write to Uncle Hubert. What's wrong?” “Oh I changed my mind,” said Paul. “Anyway I thought you were right about saying he wouldn't bother about me. And I can't write so very well, either. I guess I'll wait.” One day he came home and an- nounced that Mr. Dunfield had said he could usher in his movie theater 40 tion merchandise. Uptown Prices on Watches Diamonds Jewelry Clocks Silver Toilet Ware TERMS PLITT Jeweler and Optometrist 1330 7th St. N.W. the same loca- ility and good ars Hospitality the first tinle any of the regular ushers were off sick. “You!” smiled the mother. “Do you think you could keep your face clean long enough? Those ushers in the Park Theater look as though they lived in band boxes. Besides, they're a lot older than you, Paul. You'd better be thinking | then—will about helm to put in old Mrs. O'Brien’s , like you did last yea That’s more in your line.” Such belittling of the healthy and am- bitious desires of enthusiastic youngsters is all wrong. Encouragement, not ridi- cule, 1s what they need. If parents have a feeling of futility Ve S > - S ), — ISR ES: s HAND-KNIT SWEATER IN MODERNISTIC DESIGN AND SEVERAL © __OF THE NEWEST SCARFS. themselves, or an inferiority complex born in childhood by their misguided +| elders, -there is no reason why they should discourage “their own _children and nip in the bud every effort that shows originality or initiative. If Paul turns out to be a humdrum plodder, afraid to follow up every new impulse that presents itself to his eager young. mind. whose fault will it be? The letter and the matter of the theater were only incidents, but they were typical cross sections of the boy's life. Later on_ per] his mother and father won’t laugh at his but there be any ideas to laugh at? Paul will very likely wait for other people to suggest and he will follow. Another sheep added to the list. . John (to drug store clerk)—I want a mnr:g for a stout man with rubber teeth. Wall Colors and Light. 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