Evening Star Newspaper, January 2, 1929, Page 30

WOMAN’S PAGE. Upholstery-Colored Uniforms BY MARY ‘There was for a time something ither amusing and entertaining about idea of having one’s maids dressed hdunllm to match one's hnnflt;:(a gnd upholstery, Still it was rather spectacular, "The idea, T suppose, was that by hav- fng one's maids dressed, let us say, in plum color in a room with plum-colored NEW MAID'S UNIFORM G COL- ORED MADRAS WITH WHITE CAP AND APRON FOR MORNING AND OF BLACK MOIRE FOR EVENING. upholstery and plum-colored hangings the maids would be less obtrusive. They MARSHALL. uniforms actually produced just the op- posite effect. A few years ago most women seemed to feel that conventional uniforms were out of the question unless one kept at least two or three maids. The mald of all work certainly could not be ex- pected to wear any sort of uniform. If she was a slip-shod, indifferent sort | of girl, she couldn’t be persuaded to take the trouble, and if she was a thoroughly efficient helper, she might feel that a upflorm was a sign of menial occupa- tion. ‘Times have changed, however, and girls who have chosen domestic occupa- tion are usually quick to realize that uniforms are becoming and smart and add dignity to their profession. In the modern small house or apartment it is usually possible for the maid of all work to finish the drudgery in the morning and then play the role of trim parlor maid or waitress at tea time or dinner. The sketch shows the type of uniform that is considered correct at present for the “second girl” where two maids are kept, or the mald of all work who essays the double role of cook-waitress. Blue madras for mornings and usually for luncheon, and black moire or sateen for evening are a conventional and wise choice. The new collar with ends is just the thing to give a new aspect to an old blouse or frock. You may make it of ribbon, crepe de chine or some other thin silk. On a new blouse you are planning to make you may want to make the collar from the material of which the blouse is to be made. It may be made to fit any blouse with a V neckline. So just send me your stamped, self-addressed envelope, and I will send you directions and sketch at once. (Copyright, 1920.) My Neighbor Says: When molding gelatin fill the mold first with cold water, let it stand a few minutes, then pour the water out, shake the mold dry, pour in the gelatin and set away until firm. Never hold bread in the hand when cutting it. Lay it on a THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, YA OUCH! bread board or table. It can be cut thinner if done in this way. Add a plece of butter the size of an egg to orange marmalade a quarter of an hour before remov- ing it from the stove and it be clear as crystal. 1If you have a small quantity of would seem just a part of the back- d. But so accustomed have we me to seeing maids in the conven- tional black uniform for afternoon and evening, and in gray, blue or white for morning that these upholstery-colored MILADY B Exercises for Health. All exercises aim to promote health, buliom&mmflmmplg:eleufib— Ao £ ol i & i g f § 5 B g & k- 15 i i 8 ; this bar I have indicated, but'for our pur- height is not necessary. old arms out at shoulder level. Swing ple crust left over, roll it thin, cut into squares, sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon and bake until crisp. ‘These are very good served with sauce for dessert. EAUTIFUL splendid for overcoming stipation. Do it only a few minutes at a time. PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE BY WILLIAM BRADY, M. D. | Padding Up With Insulin. | gnsulin 1s the name of the hormone pr internal secretion productd by groups bt specialized cells (called the islands of Langerhans) in the pancreas or ab- gdominal “sweetbread.” The pancreas is & gland that secretes an im) it di- tive fluld which, delh to the in- stine a few inches beyond the lower fltewny of the stomach, along with the le from the liver, carries on the di- gestion of carbohydrate (all kinds of starch) and fat in the in- gestine. The insulin produced by the special- lzed cells in the pancreas is into the blood stream. Its function is to render the blood sugar combustible. All rbohydrate food is converted by di- gestion into a soluble form of ar, called glucose, dextrose, or in the liver the blood, the muscles and other tissues where the sugar is temporarily held or tored, glycogen. An older name for lycogen was “animal starch.” ‘The blood of & man in normal con- dition always contains a certain proror- tion of this sugar fuel in solution, from 0.1 to 0.2 per cent. I'm not so good at taki 15 pints of blood ult quota, and esti- wvidual approximates 4 per cent of the lentire weight of the liver, and by inten- sive resting (an art in which pr ous Americans excel) and grimly deter- mined eating (another thing we do bet- ter than they do abroad) one can run the glycogen content of one's liver up go 10 or 12 per cent of the weight of that wonderful gland. In other words pne has in the liver a reserve supply of AUNT HET BY ROBERT QUILLEN, anywhere from two to six ounces of glycogen. Then another reserve of the precious fuel is stored in the muscles, estimated as 0.8 per cent in resting muscle, down to virtually none in mus- cle exhausted by prolonged exertion. Finally, smaller caches of this vital energine are normally present in other tissues, particularly the glands, where it is used as energy. But, note well, it is doubtful whether any energy fuel is stored in or used by the nerve and brain tissues—another reason why we cannot take “nerve energy” or “nervous exhaustion” or “brain power” seriously. All in all, and still in round figures, one carries, say, & pound of sugar with him at all times, Right here I would make this ob- servation from the physiological facts cited: The excessive per capita con- sumption of sugar in this country may help some of us to achleve grossness, corpulence, even diabetes, but it prob- ably has a good deal to do with our leadership among the nations. A person with diabetes may have more sugar in his blood than a normal person, but his capacity to utilize the fuel is lowered, because his natural supply of insulin is deficient. An injec- tion of insulin enables him to oxidize or m:;uunn;xgre of the blood sugar, to luce or muscular strength T{i warmth. y i lere are plenty of folk who, while not diabetic, yet have low sugar toler- ance—they can't take as much as three ounces of glucose in water at one meal without losing part of it through the kidneys within the next three hours, ‘When such persons are under weight a few doses of insulin along with meals :':lilgh:ml;:e then}-n‘1 to put on needed When nothing else - plish the pleasing results. ke Grape Juice. Grape juice makes a good when chilled and taken at :r?:g:: time, and it possesses high nutritive qualities that make it valuable from a health standpoint as well. Its flavor and color add to its appetite appeal, and its mineral salts and acids, as wel} as the frult sugar it contains, give it food value. It also has some vitamin content and is mildly laxative. It may be thoroughly chilled and used either alone, or for variety, in combination with orange or pineapple juice, Banana Cake. Cream half a cupful of butter with one and one-half cupfuls of sugar. Add the slightly beaten yolks of three eggs and one cupful of banana pulp. Add one-fourth cupful of sour milk and half a cupful of walnut meats. Add two cupfuls of flour with nalf a tea- spoonful of salt and one teaspconful of baking powder sifted together. Lastly add the well beaten egg whites and cne teaspoonful of baking soda dissolved in one tablespoonful of boiling water, Pour into well greased and floured pans. Bake in a medium oven for twelve minutes, then incrcase the heat thirty mih utes longer. " to D. U; WEDNESDAY, —BY JOHN CASSEL YHNE MAN WITH A TOOTH-ACHE DECIDES TO CANCEL MIS APPOINTMENT WITH THE DENTIST, WORLD FAMOUS STORIES THE PLAGUE AT FLORENCE By BOCCACCIO (Glovanni Boccacclo, 1313-1375, was an Italian suthor, famous for his collection of Tealistic tales known as ‘“The Decameron.”) In the year of our Lord 1348 there happened at Florence, the finest city in Italy, & most terrible plague. To the cure of this malady neither medical knowledge nor the power of drugs was of any effect, whether because the dis- ease was in its own nature mortal, or that the physicians (the number cf whom, taking quacks and woman pre- tenders into the account, was very great), could form no just idea of the cause, nor consequently ground a true method of cure. ‘Whatever was the reason, few or none , but they generally died the third day from the first appearance of the symptoms, without & fever or other bad circumstance attending. And the disease, by being communicated from the sick to the well, seemed daily to get ahead and to rage the more, as fire do, by laying on fresh combustibles. Nor was the disease given by con- versing with only, or coming near the sick, but even by touching their clothes, or anything that they had before touéhed. It was wondrous strange—but such was the nature of the pestilential matter as to not only from man to man, but, what is more strange, and has n often known, that anything bel to the infested, if touched by any other creature, would certainly in- fect and even kill that creature in & short space of time. One instance of this kind I took par- ticular notice of, namely, that the rags of a poor man just dead, being thrown into the street, and two hogs coming by at ths same time, amongst them and shaking in their mouths, in less than an hour turned round and died on the spot. These accidents, and others of the like sort, occasioned various fears and devices amongst those people that sur- vived, all tending to the same unchari- table and cruel end; which was to avold the sick, and everything that had been near them, expecting by that means to save themselves. And some, holding it best to live temperately and to avoid excesses of all kinds, made parties and shut themselves up from the rest of the world, e and drinking m 1y of the best, and diverting ves with music and such other entertain- ments as they might have within doors; never listening to anything from with- out which might make them uneasy. Others maintained free living to be a better preservative, drinking and rev- eling incessantly from tavern to tavern, or in private houses; which were fre- quently found deserted by the owners, and therefore common to every one, yet avoiding, with all this irregularity, to come near the infected. And such, at that time, was the pub- lic distress that the laws, human and divine, were no more regarded; for, the officers to put them in force being dead, sick or in want of persons to assist them, every one did just as he pleased. A third sort of people chose a method betwen the two just mentioned—not confining themselves to rules of diet like the former, and yet avoiding the intemperance of the latter, but eating and what their appetites re- quired, they walked everywhere with odors and nosegays to smell to; as %‘dtul:g it best to s‘!‘.,r:nz!:hlen 3!115 brain. r they supposed ‘whole atmosphere to be tainted with the stink of dead bodies, arising partly from the distem- r itself and partly from the ferment- g of the medicine within them. Others of a more cruel disposition, as ‘haps the most safe to themselves, dug::sd that the only remedy was to avold it; persuaded, therefore, of this, and taking care of themselves only, men and women in great num- bers left the city, their houses, rela- tions and effects, and fled into the God had been ly those within the walls of the city, or else concluding that none ought to stay in a place thus doomed to destruction. Divided as they were, neither did all die mor all escape; but falling sick in- differently, as well those of one as of another opinion, they who first set the example by forsaking others mnow languish themselves without mercy. I pass over the little regard that citizens and relations showed to each other, for their terror was such that a broth- er often fled from his brother, a wife from her husband, and, what is more u:uwnmon. a parent from its own child. On which account numbers that fell sick could have no help but that the charity of friends, who were very few, or the avarice of servants supplied. Even these were scarce, and at extrav- agant wages, and so little used to the business that they were fit only to reach what was called for, and ob- serve when they died, and this desire ?‘f getting money often cost them their ves. And many lost their lives who might have escaped had they been looked after at all. So that, between the scarcity of servants and the violence of the distemper, such numbers were continually dying as made it_terrible to hear as well as to behold. Whence, from mere necessity, many customs were introduced, different from what retinue of mourners, now any one to follow the last the dead to the ndecd, that & with sweetened vhivgd &% m w&‘ be shed; ceremony ceased to mark the last moments of the dying. Hence it plainly appeared that what the wisest in the ordinary course of things, and by a common train of calamities, could never be taught, namely, to bear them patiently—this, by the excess of those calamities, was now grown a familiar lesson to the most simple and unthinking. The conse. crated ground no longer containing the numbers which were continually brought thither, espegially as they were desirous of laying every one in the parts allotted to their families, they were forced. to dig trenches and to put. m in by hundreds, piling them up rows, as goods are stowed in a , and throwing in little earth till tf | they were filled to the top. Not to rake any further into the particulars of our misery, I shall ob- serve that it fared no better with the adjacent country. For, to omit the will | different castles about us, which pre- sented the same view in miniature with the city, you might see the poor dis- tressed - laborers, with their families, without either the plague of physicians or help of servants, languishing on the highways, in the fields and in their own homes and dying rather like cat- tle than human creatures, and growing dissolute in their manners like the citi- zen, and careless of everything, as sup- g every day to be their last, their thoughts were not so much employed how to Improve as how to make use of their substance for their present it t can I say more, if I return to the city? Unless such was the cruelty of heaven, and perhaps of men, that between March and July follow- ing, it is supposed, and made pretty certain, that upward of 100,000 souls perished in the city only, whereas, be- fore that .calamity, it was not sup- g:udmm have contained so many in- ‘Everyday Law Cases When Is Car Rental Company Liable for Patron’s Accident? BY THE COUNSELLOR. While driving a car he had rented from a company, Thomas Hart ran into & pedestrian. ‘‘Hart explained that he was going at a moderate rate of speed and approached the intersection slow- ly. He saw Mrs. Harris in time to stop the car, but when he applied the they refused to hold and the accident resulted, On these facts Mrs. Harris sued the company on the ground that it had been negligent, in t it had permitted & car with defective brakes to be driven on b'l.l.: streets, thereby endangering the public, ‘The company contended that it was not liable for the carelessness of its patrons. ‘The court, allowing Mrs. Harris to recover a judgment against the com- pany,. stated: “In view. of the fact that the car was rented to be driven on the streets of the city, and that a car with de- fective brakes is a menace to the pub- lic, one who rents to another a ma- chine for such purpose is under duty to inspect the machine. ' If the jury finds that care was not exercised to ) Kol Cone = replaces the natural oils which havebeen takenfromtheskineither byageorexposure.Linesand wrine Kles vanish when the Marjorie Rambeau Method is employed. §2.00 a jar. And for_every skin MeR4Basic Treatment.Booklet free. Marjorie Rembeau Products Parin. _NEW YORK Piadaiphie OBTAINABLE AT g zrl[ Stores, Inc. ascertain the condition of the machine, the plaintiff should be permitted to re- cover a judgment.” TJANUARY %, 1929.% MOVIES AND MOVIE PEOPLE BY MOLLIE MERRICK. HOLLYWOOD, Calif., January 2.— The Emil Jannings rumor doesn't die. Flouted at first as one of the extrava- gancles of the early days of the talkie scare, it seems now to be accepted that Germany’s greatest pantomimist return to his own country. Two more pictures to make—they will have to be silent. Sound effects can be interpolated, but Jannings is under contract to “a lot” which is com- mitted to 100 per cent talkies. And that program will not be changed, par- ticularly in face of the fact that Jan- nings! last made picture, artistic tri- umph though it was, did not make money in this country. Movies' are being made for money, not with any altruistic artistic ideals in mind. This is a business, not an insti- tution or a profession. And the men at the helm of it have been collecting golden eggs from the movie goose for more than a decade. Now comes a new goose and a new crop of golden eggs. And those who cannot move with the change are out of luck. Jannings, who has been getting more than $5,000 a week in America, faces a unique situation. No German company can afford to pay him anything like that. Pictures are 1aade on a far dif- ferent budget scale abroad. It would be_death to an American actor. But the very thing which makes such artists as Emil Jannings sustains them when that artistry is threatened. Jan- nings in his own country will be king of the situation, as he has been in Hollywood during the days of silent plctures. Stories were brought to him for his approval. He was surrounded by a ring of advisers. He had to fight a double battle—maintenance of his artis- tic ideals and the struggle to keep from repeating his triumphs by becoming a slave to the Hollywood formula idea. Conrad Veldt, cotemporary of Jan- nings, is perhaps in the same boat. Veidt, after much discouragement, sud- denly found himself in the front rank when his ability got a unique oppor- tunity in the role of Gwynplaine, hero of Hugo's masterpiece. Veidt built himself a magnificent home. The Hollywood goddess smiled on him, and one enviable role after an- other came his way. But what now? Little is known. Production on his lot is virtually halted while executives rush to confer in New York on their coming If they follow precedent and de- year. . | cide t ogo 100 per cent talkie, Veidt will find his triumph a Cinderella dream. ‘The beautiful Maria Corda is an- ‘will | other foreign star who recently returned to the Hollywood iolk to make a pic- ture. This may be her last in the world’s center of moviemaking. Her husband, Alexander Korda, the Hun- garian director, is in better luck; that is, if he has studied the technique of the new methods. Paul Lukas, the Hungarian actor, may join the ranks of the outgoing legion in the next few months. There will be no more gay suppers and blinis and vodka, no more of the babel which marked the social gatherings of Holly- wood's foreign stars. Led by Pola Negri, they once ruled the few square miles of California where motion pictures are made for the world. The passing of Pola would seem to have been their death sentence. They can reign in their wn lands, mak- ing “talkies in their own way at the sort of salaries which their countries pay. But the new medium robs Hollywood of its extravagant, colorful, bizarre col- ony—its foreign legion of the films. (Copyright, 1929, by North Ameri ‘Newspaver Alliance.) Mocl: éream. Bring to a scald in a double boiler a cupful of milk. Beat the whites of two eggs with a tablespoonful of pow- dered sugar and a scant teaspoonful of butter creamed until soft enough to beat. Mix a teaspoonful of cornstarch with half a cupful of cold milk, add to the egg whites and stir all with the hot milk. Cook until the mixture thickens, strain and cool. It should be of the thickness of real cream. If too thick, thin with a little real cream or milk. This can be used plain or can be flavored and is very useful when real cream is not at hand or has per- haps soured. Frankfurters and Noodles. Boil one cupful of noodles until ten- der, drain, then add to one can of to- mato soup. Skin five or six frankfurters and steam them until done, or for about 20 minutes. Add to the noodles and tomato soup and heat for about five | minutes. al“P:g‘ts new air gun ain’t no good. He imed to shoot a apple off of head an’ it hit me on the ear.” o (Copyright, 1929.) Figs With Nut Meats. Soak a pound of dried figs overnight. Next day cook them slowly until tender in water to cover, allowing for their swelling, and add a cupful of granu- lated sugar and a tablespoonful of lemon juice. Cook until the liquid is a thick sirup and the figs look trans- parent. Add one cupful of broken nut meats, either hickory, walnut or pecans. Serve very cold with whipped cream. A cupful of cream will make ample whip for six persons. DAILY DIET RECIPE CABBAGE CASSEROLE. Shredded cabbage, 2 cupfuls; milk, 1 cupful; butter, 1 table- spoonful; flour, 1 tablespoonful; salt, 1, teaspoonful. SERVES 4 PORTIONS. Make a sauce by duall; blending the milk into $he. flour and salt. When smooth add but- ter and cook until thickened. Mix this with the cabbage and put in a greased baking dish and bake in moderate oven about 35 min- utes. DIET NOTE. Recipe furnishes fiber, protein. Can be given to children over 8. Can be eaten by normal adults of average or under weight. VAPEX . .. the modern way to fight a COLD No dosing, no appliances, no bother—just breathe the pleasing vapor A DROP of Vapex on your folded hand- kerchief—breathe the vapor deeply—your cold is relieved instantly. Inhale it fre- quently, at any time, no matter what you are doing. The odor is pleasant and in- vigorating. Congestion is broken up. A drop of Vapex gives off its healing vapor for an entire'day, even. noticeably increases in strength for several hours. One or two drops on the edge of your pillow at night will fight the cold as you sleep. This is the modern way to stop a cold! Vapex kills cold germs—this astounding discovery was made in England during the war. With all around them suffering from colds and influenza, a few workers in a gov- ernment laboratory remained in perfect health. What was the explanation? Tests, supervised by physicians and government officials, proved beyond a doubt that these workers were rendered immune by a vapor given off by the ma- terials with which they were working. The discovery was an important one. A new product— Vapex—was immediately wel- comed throughout England, where its use for colds and similar ailments has become general and widespread. Druggists in America now have Vapex —in the little dollar bottle containing 50 treatments, and the package with the greem triangle. Vapex is dis- tributed by E. Fougera & Co., Inc., New York City. A drop on'your handkerchief VAPEX Breathe your cold away One or two drops of Vapex on the edge of your pillow at night will fight your cold as you sleep.