Evening Star Newspaper, December 30, 1928, Page 40

10 THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON. D. C. DE(“F}MBI}R 30, 28— PART Steady Trend Toward Suppleness Is Dominant Note for 1929 MILLINERY CHANGES IN FIVE YEARS. THE BLACK SILK BERET BELOW AT THE RIGHT SHOWS STRIKING CONTRAST IN OUTLINE TO THE PRESENT-DAY BERET MADE OF DARK GRAY FABRIC THE DR FUR. BY MARY MARSHALL. ONSIDERING clothes that we now are wearing, and clothes that we have worn within the past few years—what can we say concerning the clothes that ‘we shall wear in the future? ‘Which way is the wind of fashion really blowing? Who can say which of the new fads and fashions are mere gusts and breezes and which are part of a steady wind blowing definitely to- ward a really new era in clothes? HAT FOR PALM BEACH, ABOVE, straightline frock for the uncertainties of a more elaborate silhouette. cautiously, trying to induce them to WAS CAL ACROSS THE EDGE AT THE FRONT five Winters ago, one cannot but be struek with the fact that dressmakers then were trying to do very much what they are trying to do at present—only they were trying 10 do it in a different way. There was then, as now, the same reticence on the -part of well dressed women to abandcn the easy-to-wear Dressmakers were persistently, but accept a more elaborate type of cos- D THE “PARASOL MADE OF BLACK MILAN STRAW WITH A LONG-TAILED BLACK BIRD ARRANGED FAR BEYOND THE BRIMMED HAT ABOVE THE NEW MODELS FOR SOUTHERN RESORT WEAR. OF THE HAT” AND WAS OF THE BRIM CROWN, SPREADING AT THE v RIGHT. THE LEFT. MADE OF SATIN, IS ONE OF was characteristic of the nineteenth century after the passing of the direc- toire and empire mode, that Treally characterizes the entire post-war period. In this matter at least fashion has gone sieadily forward, and has done little side-stepping. Women have learned the trick of wearing clothes that do not deform the natural contours of the body, and it is highly improbable that they will accept any sort of fashion for many years that will force them to throw this accomplishment into the junk heap. THE CAPE ENSEMBLE AT THE RIGHT, WHICH SEEMED VERY JAUNTY FIVE YEARS AGO WHEN IT WAS ED ON THIS PAGE, WAS OF NAVY BLUE TWEED WORN OVER SKIRT OF MATCH- ING TWEED AND OVERBLOUSE OF WHITE SATIN. THE FELT HAT WAS CONSIDERED THE LAST WORD IN SMART FRENCH AT THE MILLINERY. THE PRE! THE TWEED CAPE MBLE, WITH ATTACHED FUR STOLE OF BEIGE KIDSK THE CAPE IS BEIGE WITH NAVY LINING AND THE BEIGE FELT HAT IS BAND- ED IN NAVY BLUE. LEFT IS KLE LINE AS OUR AYS AGO. E THE SMART AND A FEW INGS, AND THE SKIRT FOR PAL COARSE WOOLEN MATERIAL IN SHOWN AT TOP WERE NSIDER- ED VERY SHORT--THOSE BELOW SEEM LONG . TO US NOW SINCE THEY COVER THE KNEES. THE CLOCK STOCKINGS AT THE LEFT ARE OF LIGHT-WEIGHT LISLE FOR PALM BEACH WEAR AND HOSE AT THE RIGHT ARE OF HEAVIER SPORTS-WEIGHT LISLE WITH CUFFED WOOLEN SOCKS WORN OVER THEM. ' PTIAN MOTI WORD FROM PARIS, WERE USED TO ORNAMENT THE SPORTS STOCK. ARTIST SAW IT FIVE YEARS AGO WHICH WERE THE LAST LM BEACH WEAR MADE ( EGYPTIAN DESIGN. THE SKIRTS Your Baby Looking forward is supposed to be only an ability of youth and looking backward the habit of old age. The | parent, fortunately, can do both and Ibe comforted that she is spared some of the mistakes of the past amd en- | couraged by the confidence that there will be even fewer in the future. To those of us whose children are near or in the twenties and who have been students of child care for these many years the progress is almost phe- BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED. and Mine nomenal. We remember 20 years ago, when our own “new” ideas were being timidly tried out, how freakish we were considered because our babies were fed on regular schedules, were never up after 6 o'clock at night, or shown to curious visitors, wore short dresses from birth and no pinning blankets. On cold days -when we paraded the streets wheeling a heavy buggy we were more than once stopped and asked if we didn't think we ought to have that baby. home, in a warm room. Well, we ing; he looks fat to me,” when a weekly weighing would have shown her that her eyes deceived her. He really hadn't gained an ounce. The baby is immunized against diphtheria and vaccinated against smallpox, ahd the mother accepts this protection against these dreadful dis- eases as if it had always been cus- tomary. She reads placidly of the remarkable | decrease in the infant death rate. It | does not occur to her that it is the campaign for better and cleaner milk, her own knowledge of how to take care of that milk, and how to sterilize bottles and nipples, and her understanding of formulas and her care to feed the baby what is good for him, and not smail amounts of adult food, which are re- sponsible for this reduction in infant tume and milliners then, as now, were working overtime to devise a sort of hat that would finally overthrow the regime of the simple little untrimmed hat of felt. And all the time there was the feeling on the part of many women that it was high time for sométhing new— only when dressmakers essayed anything drastically different they showed con- servatism, stubbornness, or merely amusement, In an effort to end the era of the lengthened bodice, which had already outworn its welcome, dressmakers then tried many tricks as they are trying them today. There was an effort to didn't, and we were bolder about say- ing so then than we have ever been about anything since. We were abso- lutely sold on our methods of baby care, Now regularity of bathing, sleeping, feeding and airing is commonplace. Every mother knows it, and if she doesn’t it is because she deliberately closes her ears. The average mother makes a weekly or bi-weekly visit to her nearest clinic or takes her baby to the doctor, whether there is anything wrong with him or not. - She is guided through- each month of his life. She The more one studies the gigzag course of fashion since the war, the more difficult any sort of prophecy be- comes. Any of the predictions that one would be inclined to make have been made so often—and have usually been made in vain. In other eras fash- ion seems to steer a direct course, leading us from one extreme of fashion to another—from a slim silhouette to the extremes of bouffancy, from skin- tight sleeves to sleeves that look like inflated balloons. Then it seems as if .the destiny that shapes our ends also had something to do with the shaping mortality. Perhaps if we have even thé slightest quarrel with the universal knowledge of artificial feeding it is that it en- courages a mother to bottle-feed a baby too soon—sooner than she would if she were more afraid of artificial | feedings. We want to make it fash- | ionable again for mothers to nurse their babies instead of smarter to have bottle | babies. There is still work to be done in re-educating the mother to a reali- zation that with all the science at our command breast feeding is still more satisfactory to the normal development Period BY BETSY CALLISTER. F_we do play,” said Thackeray, “let us play with clean cards.” That quotation sticks in the memory, because clean cards are such an important part of any card game. ard Tables Are Popular € of our silhouettes and the measuring of -our skirts. But no such plan is at first apparent as one looks back over the record of fashions for the past 5 or 10 years. Fashion has zigzagged, she has side-stepped, she has cavorted, she has slid back, she has very nearly staggered, skidded and tacked—she has seemed to @o anything but steer a straight course. Skirts became short during the war era, then they were lengthened, then shortened and lengthened again—and now after a few years, when they have beaten all their own previous records for shortness, they have become long again. Who shall say whether this g:esent lengthening is just one more nd of the zigzag or a real curve in the chart of fashion? As skirt lengths have shifted, so have waistlines. The return of the normal belt line has been predicted so often that the present announcement that low waistlines are done for hardly seems convincing. It would be quite bewildering to try to count the number of times that word has gone round that short hair was introduce a revival of the above-normal directoire contour, with the idea that direct from one extreme to another-—but,| this directoire movement never amount- ed to anything more than a flash in the pan, and now, wisely one would think the French couturiers are trying more gradual methods. hesitate to speak with confidence of the fashions that may eventually be asso- seems much more likely that the waist- line will achieve a normal position than that skirts will become permanently long —even using the word “permanently” in the relative sense that one must always in speaking of fashions. still not so drastic as some women might hope for. witnessed very definite changes in mil- linery fashions, but the lavishly trimmed hat is no nearer now than it was one or two or five years ago. women might be more willing to go And so, as the old year wanes. we ciated with the year 1929. To us it Drastic changes there may be—and The past six months have One thing seems certain—and that is Nowadays, because cards are not-ex- pensive and because they are so very attractive, we usually do play with clean cards. So the pack of cards is usually the newest thing at any party. But the newest thing in the realm of cards is the period card table. Modernistic and Jacobean, Sheraton and Spanish, all the popular periods are represented. . Sometimes it is only the turn of the legs that gives the period sug- gestion, but in the case of the modern- istic tables the decoration of the top likewise dates them. We can't all of us have these new tables, but we can sometimes play on them at other people’s houses. And we can at least do much to impgove the looks of our old card tables. To begin with, a coat of lacquer or enamel paint is in order to cover up the mars and scratches on our old card tables. Then a new cover of some sort. * You can buy material by the yard for covering card-table tops that can be neatly glued and tacked on to give ‘This ma- | perils her infant is spared because she expects him to get along on four meals & day from birth; she expects him to | sleep all night after the fourth month, and she talked glibly of formulas, both lactic acid’ and sweet milk; of sieved vegetables, orange juice, cod liver oil and vitamms. So do we advance. The mother of today- is the recipient of ‘so_much help. with her baby that she often isn’t even appreciative of it. She doesn't know how little general knowledge there was of baby care even 20 years ago. Nor does she realize the is able to keep in touch with the best modern methods of infant feeding and general care. She doesnt know what it means to walk the floor night after night for months with a baby who is being starved on breast milk because the mother has no idea how to improve m; own supply or what else to feed the Y. : She has a handy scale and uses it, and by so doing ends the guessing that said “I'm sure the baby is gain- of the baby than any bottle formula. Not only has science replaced guess- work in feeding methods but the rule of reason has been installed where the parental emotions once dominated the management of the child. Some un- derstanding of human nature makes the parents aware of what they may confi- dently expect from young son when they whack him with a stick, and it is their own fault if results are bad when they make use of disciplinary weapons that are as backwoodsy as feeding the infant mashed potatoes and gravy. All the every-day problems from being “sassy” to filching coins from dad’s trousers are viewed from both sides of the pic- ture and the blame put where it be- longs, not infrequently on a much sur- prised parent. It has been a great year, and there is no indication that interest in baby care, either feeding or discipline or management, has waned, or that there aren’t more surprises and benefits in store. A year to look forward to! a new surface to the top. terial is something like oilcloth. At least it can be washed off with a damp cloth. Many women always prefer to use & Teally going out of fashion, or the num- ber of times that dressmakers have tried to launch a revival of the more closely molded bodice. In looking at fashions as they were that whatever fashion developments may the ~essential slenderness of silhouctte will continue. It is this in- creasing suppleness, this breaking away from the stiff formalness of figure that Resolve to Get ‘‘Breaks” BY ALLENE SUMNER. she lived in such a lovely apartment, BY OLIVER ROBERTS BARTON. “Jimmy! Where on earth did you get that black handkerchief?" Jimmy stuffed it into his pocket and reached hastily for another plece of | bread. “Why—oh, mom, I don't know why my handkehchiefs get so dirty. I can't help it. They just do. “I know, mother,” piped up Janet. | “I saw him wiping Carlo’s foot when it got hurt.” “Jimmy! Go and get a clean hand- kerchief at once. Throw that dirty one in the hamper before it touches another thing.” “And wash your hands before you come back o the table, young man.” his father called after him. “They're filthy.” “Tattle tale!” Jimmy shouted back at his sister. “Tattle tale? You should talk,” it | was Tom's turn to mock. “Who told on me this morning when I borrowed one ©f Dad's ties?” “Thomas!” “Well, I don't care. Oh. look ¢ Janet wiping up her gravy with her bread Just like you told us not to. And I'll say | her hands aren't lilies, cither.” ; “'Oh, shut up. You make me sick.” €napped Janet. “I'll bet I'm cleaner than you. You've sneaked out of tak- | ing a bath every morning for two weeks, You eplash some water on the tub and then take a towel and ” “Children! Children! Janet! Thomas' Oh, where do you learn such language? ‘Why do you have such dreadful man- ners? .1 can't understand it. I've tried £0 hard to make you a little lady, Janet. And certainly with such a father, ‘Thomas, you and Jimmy should be gentlemen. You haven't any decent lastincts at all, any of you.” Something would have to be done, it was plain. The parents of Thomas, Janet and James were truly distressed and with reason. One might have suspected that | the three offsprings of the family had been reared in a camp of outlaw gypsies, instead of a modern cultured twentieth- | <entury home, where manners, baths and clean linen were part of everyday Uvirg. Indeed it was a well known fact that they had dessert only every other day so there might be fresh flowers for the dinner table. . Talking, it was evident, did no good For the present, at least, home influence seemed to be losing out against street Family Fight—In Two Acts quarreling! “You deserved all you got, [ talk that way before these children.” suming something not complimentary to his They crashed to their places at the table and settled themselves noisily. “Where's mom and dad? Dinner's ready! Come on!” Presently their parents came in— Emma,” their father was saying loudly. “If you said that to me I'd knock your block off.” He was perfectly serious. “You!"” came back his wife scornfully as she jerked her chair out and banged herself down at the table. “Humph! Don't you dare talk to me like that. I'm a lady. What's more, you can't She was perfectly serious, too, and re- her remarks she mentioned veracity or his honesty. The children sat petrified. The wrangle continued, to no par- sicular end. ‘It seemed to be a draw. By this time they had had time to perceive that their mother’s hair was frowsy and there was a smudge across her chin; she had on an old_spotted dress she had painted in last Summer. Dad's hair was standing up, his col- lar was very much soiled and his hands, when he unfolded his napkin, left large black marks. He took out a discourag- ing wad of handkerchief and blew his nose noisily. Mother took out a chunk of chewing gam in full sight of the thunder-struck audience and stuck it under her chair. Both mother and father scraped their plates between tirades and gulped their food noisily. Janet began to cry. Jimmy and Thomas looked red and very guilty. “Please, Janet. Her mother looked astonished. “Sorry?” “Yes. You're only doing it for us, 1 know!" “And you think we should stop be- cause you ask us? and on until you ask us every day for about five years and maybe after that, too. Talking won't do us any good. We like being dirty and rude and not hav- ing any manners. The more you speak about it the worse we're going to be, aren't we, Dad?” Tom jumped up, so did Jimmy. “We'rr awfully sorry. Honest! You—you look —oh, mom, you look just—horrible!” d—don't,” sobbed The little act was over. But its lesson remained. Occasfionally parents have to be a bit clever in handling children. If this parlance and the too-evident object les- sons of school democracy. After dinner their parents held a conference. The next evening at 6:30 when Sadie called them to dinner, Tommy slid the length of the hall. Jimmy shot down the bannister, and Janet banged in from tne kichen, lke threc lion traifjs. fl \ appears to be a rather dramatic gesture —well, I know one case where it actually ‘worked out. | dishes. No, we're going on | Suddenly the whole family laughed. | removable cover over the table top when they are playing cards, however, and thes2 can be made from many ma- terials. Black satin and sateen are still used, decorated sometimes with em- broidery or gold braid and tassels at the corners, weighted, to keep the cover smoothly in place. And there are silk-and-cotton ma- terials specially adapted to this sort of cover. They are smooth and allow the cards to slip about very satisfactorily. Plain unbleached muslin, too, makes a Opysters are one of our Winter bless- ings, so far as the table goes. They are always tempting, excepting to the com- paratively few who do not like them. And there are so many ways of oreoar- ing them that they need never seem mo- notonous. Here are a few recipes that have been tried and found especially de- licious: Oysters baked—Cut some very thin slices of fat pork into pieces about the size of your oysters; lay* them on the bottom of a sheet-iron dripping pan; on each piece of the pork lay an oyster, previously drained; dust with whit pepper, cover with a bit of the thin p and bake in a hot oven until the pork is crisp and of a light orown color; the oysters _will then be sufficiently well done. Remove to a hot dish and serve Pass sliced lemon with oysters cooked in this way. Bacon instead of pork may be used. Coddled oysters—Turn one quart of oysters into wire sieve and stand over saucepan to drain. Pour slowly over the oysters, if needed, about one eup of cold water. Clean oysters free from bits of shell. To the liquor in the saucepan, which should be about one pint, add one-half teaspoon salt, white pepper, or paprika to taste, two to three cloves, blade of mace, piece of bay leaf; cover tand let simmer a few minutes while pre- paring the toast. Toast six slices of bread to a delicate brown, Butter boih sides. Lay a slice on each of six small On each slice of toast lay six or ecight oysters. Strain the oyster liquid, add one tablespoon of butter and, when melted, put five or six tablespoons of liguor on each slice of toast. Put into hot over or under moderate flame of gas range and let bake five or six minute Serve at once. Deviled oysters—Drain the oysters, butter individual dishes, lay in each three or four oysters, dust with salt, | pepper and paprika, sprinkle with lemon | juice and dot with bits of butter. Bake |in hot, oven until the gills begin to rutfle. Fried oysters—One pint large oysters, thrce eggs well beaten, to which add salt and pepper to taste, about ohe-half pound crackers rolled very fine (about Ike sugar). Wash oysters and lay on a towel and pat out till moisture has disappeared, then dip in cracker crumbs, In the Arctic regions the atmosphere is so clear and so quiet, It is said, that often two persons can hold a conver- sation over 2 miles of country, then in_cgg, then in cracker crumbs again. If you have a wire basket place in a few at a time and down in hot lard. Or else fry the a heap- Oysters Add Variety to Diet good cover. An easy way to keep these covers in place is to fasten a short piece of elastic across the four corners of the cover so that it will slip snugly and tightly over the table top. Some women buy moderately inex- pensive card tables and then decorate them with a stenciled design in colors at the four corners, or transfer decal- comania designs to the corners. Either of these treatments gives a rather ornate but very attractive table at moderate expense. ing tablspoonful of butter and do not place oysters too close together. Steamed Oysters—Select large oysters, drain, place on a plate in a steamer, over a kettle of boiling water. About 20 minutes will be required to ook them. Season with pepper and salt. Serve hot, on soft buttered toast. Baked oysters — Choose large fresh oysters, just from the shell -if possible. Split, and toast Boston crackers, or pleces of stale bread cut round to fit the bottoms of rramekins. Put the liquor from the oysters in a stew pan on the stove, boil and skim, seaccn with pepper, salt and butter. Put the crackers or toasted bread into the ramekin, moisten with the hot liquor, fill the pans with the oysters, putting on each oyster as it is placed in the pan a bit of butter, a little salt and pepper and, if you choose, a drop of lemon juice. Bake 15 minutes in a very hot oven. Oysters for soup—Recipes for a good oyster stew are without number. The 1special point is a broth that is piping hot, filled with plenty of oysters. The oysters must be as hot as the broth, so that one will not feel a chill when they strike the teeth. They must not be cooked enough to be tougnened or shriveled. 'If thickened with eggs or flour the broth must be smooth and creamy, not a pasty, lumpy curdled fluid. ‘To avoid these failings of the ordi- nary soup, strain the liquid to free it from sand and shell, rub the butter and flour nsed for thickening together | until thoroughly kneaded and stir until | smooth and even. Care must be taken ! in measuring the flour for a cream | soup. One tablespoon to the same | quantity of butter, or one ounce of each | by weight will usually make a quart of cream soup of the right thickness. The exact thickness should be that of sweet cream. When taken on the sotip spoon it should cover, without concealing, the silvery color. When it is necessary for any such soup to stand befors serving put it in a double boiler. If a soup is thickened by the use of eggs set on a cool part of the stove while adding them and do not boil again, as that will curdle the eggs. Cranes in Europe recently flew- five miles above the earth, TWO CARD TABLE SETS THAT ARE NEW—THE LOW- ER ONE OF MODERNISTIC TREND. Your Mood and Perfume The old-time idea of pouring “per- fumery” out of a bottle on the clothes or kerchief is out of style, thank Heaven. Today Milady us just a delicate touch of one of the delightful light flower odors—if one's mood calls for the evanescent—or, if something more seductive is needed to complete the charm of gown and mood, there is an infinite variety of bouquet or blended fragrances that are guaranteed to sway the senses or steal them al- together. As though the insidious scents themselves were not enough to turn one's head, the perfumers have called to their service artists in design to make the container as fascinating as the fragrance itself and names lovely in English, but much more so in the soft cadences of the romance languages. Many women like the idea of using one distinctive perfume and making it a part of their individuality. Ths plan has merit, and soap, bath salts, body powder, sachet and cold cream of the same odor—used to the exclusion of all of becomes e associated with the user's personality. Other women, however, favor another plan. They prefer fragrances that serve to emphasize the mood of the moment, whatever ‘that may happen to be. Flower odors are for the afternoon. The lilacs, heliotrope and violet per- fumes are light and delicate. Select them if you wish to convey the thought of sweetness and loveliness,. or the stimulating carnation if you feel es- pecially energetic. These are good for parties, teas or club affairs where the guests are feminine. But for evening, when languor, or love, crave expression, the heavier and sense-enthralling perfumes so wonder- fully blended in France, Austria and the Orient are le dernier cri. A final word—the forceful, vivacious woman should never select one of the sweetly delicate perfumes. They do not go with her personality. Let her choose & vivid, stimulating odor which emphasizes her glowing type, and leave for her more dainty and clinging sis- ters the perfumes that belong to their less vivid personalities, I wonder if the resolutions which we moderns need are not those of com- mission rather than omission? I won- der if our preparation for the new year should not concern itself more with constructive programs rather than with worrying over the destructive things of the past year? Let me tell you what Edith Mason, a single woman with a fine position, has been doing, to try to prove my point. It rather surprised me to be called by | Edith the other day and invited to din- ner. I couldn't remember that Edith had ever given a dinner before, though I had often wondered why she didn't, THE DAILY HOROSCOPE Benefic aspects will rule tomorrow, according to astrology, which reads in the closing of 1928 many fair promises | for 1929. ‘The planetary government is fortu- | nate for all persons in authority and | seems to presage increase of efficiency on the part of governors, mayors, heads | of big business, bankers and educators. | ‘Under this rule of the stars it is lucky to bestow gifts or favors. Promotions and rewards bless givers as well as beneficiaries. ‘Women tomorrow should benefit es- pecially, for the sway is believed to en- dow them with foresight, prudence and wisdom. This is read as an_extraordinarily | lucky wedding day, making for a long life tnlnner!hlp and steady advance- ment. 1t is a lucky day to deal with pub- ‘benefit as they begin the new year. i . Surgeons and physicians come under 4 direction making for access of knowl edge and increase of ability to cure hu- man ills. Young folks are especially well guid- ed by the stars. It is foretold that they will demonstrate their advantage over those who have criticized them in the past, for they are to reveal many talents and to do credit to modern education. Advertising ghould be fortunate while this configuration prevails, and it is probable that publicity will benefit | much in the new year. It is read as an especially ausplclous day for entertaining, since it encour- ages new friendships and cements old ones. Astrologers foretell for 1929 startling events that will add to the fame of the United States as a world power and test the wisdom of our diplomats. While wars will break out in certain ‘sll‘t! of the globe, the American Nation 1o be protected from dire conflicts. Persons whose birth date it is have the nugury of & year of prosperity. Children born on that day have the made from what was once the spacious third-floor ballroom of one of the city's most beautiful old mansions. The rest of the guests confided their wonder, too. But this wonder did not mar the delight of any of us in Edith's dinner. The big walnut-paneled room glowed with the warmth and light from the fireplace. Black bowls filled with yellow flowers were mirrored in the polished surface of the refectory table laid with Venetian lace. The food was perfect, and Edith the hostess exquisite. We marveled the more because she made no attempt to conceal the fact that she had done everything quite without help. I made some comment about the din- ner and my wonder at Edith suddenly starting to work for the social life to a mutual friend not long after. “It's all part of Edith’s suddenly ac- quired philosophy that you have to go out in life for what you want out of it,” the friend explained. “Edith told me not so long ago that most of her mature life she had been hungry for what she called ‘the sort of life that other people have.’ “She related how she'd always stayed in her corner waiting for life to offer her on a silver platter the things she wanted. Now she's realizing that even though it’s hard work and sometimes per se seems to offer nothing, it's up to her to go out and sue life for things she wants.” Well, I happen to know that work or no work, the energetic joy-seeking Edith of today is an infinitely more radiant person than the take-it-easy- and-weep Edith of a few months ago. More constructive hard work pro- grams for things we wanf or think we want are the New Year resolutions that could mean much to most of us who *{ lishers or editors, so authors should ; wait for life to offer “the breaks” in- stead of marking a few of our own. There Is Code of Motoring Manners The place of honor when motoring is the seat next the driver—that is, of course, unless a chauffeur is driving. If Mr. and Mrs. Brown ask Mr. and Mrs. Jones to go motoring with them the complimentary thing to do is to_ask Mrs. Jones to sit beside Mr. Brown—while Mrs. Brown and Mr. Jones sit in the back seat. How- ever, it may be perfectly apparent that a better time “will be had by all” if the two women can sit ang talk togetRer with the two supposecs less talkative members of the party in front. It would not, however, be at all considerate for Mr. and Mrs. Brown to sit together in the front—save in the course of a very long trip, merely for the sake of variety. When there is an older woman in the party it is always courteous to possibility of supreme success in life. ‘These subjects of Capricorn usually have brilliant minds and great energy. 'l;lll:{ combine love of intellectual, spir- i and material things and an art of living. ‘ ) e TR offer her the place beside the driver, because this seat is often more com- fortable. If a chauffeur is driving a guest should not be asked to take this un!." save possibly & younger man gues'