Evening Star Newspaper, March 5, 1929, Page 40

WOMA N‘'S PAGE. THE EVEXING STAR. WASHINGTON. D. €. TUESDAY. MARCH 5. 1929. MILADY BEAUTIFUL BY LOI 0il for Dry Hair. Dear Miss Leeds: (1) My hair used to be blond and oily, but now it is darker and very dry. I have it mar- celled every three or four weeks; does this cause” the dryness? Are hot-oil treatments helpful, and what kind of oil should I use? (2) I am 17!, years old, 5 feet 2! inches tall and weigh 112 pounds. My measurements are: Bust, 32; waist, 22; hips, 3615: calf, 14350 ankle, 9. ' All' these' right? (3) T am having a lot of trouble with my fingernails lately. They keep splitting and do not grow well. (4) When you have cleansed your face with cream and have washed it at night, do you pat on an astringent? Is witch-hazel good? Is bleaching cream good for a skin that is a little {anned? A CURIOUS GIRL. Answer.—(1) It is natural for light hair to grow darker. You are not a pure blond, so that, if you wish to have golden hair again, you must re- sort to bleaching. The bleaching would make your hair even drier, however, so that it would be a better plan to let it remain its natural shade of ashen blond or light brown and take the warm-oil treatments. Before each shampoo saturate your- hair and scalp with the -oil, which may be & mixture of equal parts of olive oil and castor oil. Wring out a towel in hot water and wrap it tightly around your head to steam the oil in. Repeat the hot application six times; then shampoo S LEEDS. your hair with pure castile soap liquid. I do not think that having the hair | marcelled only once in three or four weeks would cause the dryness unless the operator uses a very hot iron. The cause of the dryness is probably some | internal condition. The fact that your | fingernails are also dry and brittle hair are similar in nature. You are a little underweight. you to have a thorough physical exam- is. or some medicine. (2) The average weight for your age and height is between 114 and 119 pounds.. Your waist is rather slender large. Your bust might be a little larger, | but the hip measure is good for your type. (3) For a local treatment for the brittle nails soak them in warm olive oil for 10 minutes a day. At bedtime squeeze a littie cold cream under the free ends of the nails and leave it there overnight. As I said before, this con- dition is due to internal causes, which must be located and treated by a doc- tor. (4) After the face has been cream- ed and washed, you may either use an astringent lotion to close the pores or very cold water or ice. a , mild astringent. Yes, bleach- ing cream is good for a tanned skin. LOIS LEEDS. Buttermilk for Reducing. Dear Miss Leeds: Is buttermilk fat- tening? I drink a pint daily, with graham crackers, for my lunch down at the office. I am 20 years old, 5 feet 315 inches tall and weight 125 pounds. How can I reduce? A READER. Answer.—Buttermilk is not fattening compared with whole milk. There are 80 calories in an average glass of but- termilk or skim milk, while there are 160 in the same amount of whole milk. A pint of milk should be included in one’s daily diet, either as a beverage or in cooked foods. You are only 2 or 3 pounds above the average weight for your age and height. Instead of cut- ting down on your diet, take more ex- ercise to trim down your figure. Take setting-up exercises for 10 minutes, night and morning. Walk 4 or 5 miles a day. Exercise outdoors during week ends and holidays. LOIS LEEDS. (Copyright, 1929.) OUR CHILDREN By Angelo Patri That Shocking Child. A 2-year-old child has no sense of the conventional. Nor should he. Con- ventions are purely adult affairs and some of them are nothing to make adults feel superior to children about, at that. Dickey, aged 2 years and 3 months, picked up a naughty phrase. He brought it to his mother with much the same joy that a puppy carries in a bit of delicate carrion to lay at his mistress’ feet. His mother turned a grave face toward him and suggested that'he take off his rubbers and put them in the closet and then hang up his hat and then get a drink of milk and a ‘cookie, it being time for afternoon refresh- ments. Dicky went off murmuring the new phrase, with chuckles in between. His duties attended to, the last crumb “Listen, -mother, what Pete sald,” and repeated phrase. “You like that story,” said his moth- “I'don’t care for it. Seems side. T'll tend to him. get if we do.” Nothing a_child does grown-up. How can it (Copyright o Dickey will for- fhuuld shock a Butterscotch Sponge Pie. Separate two eggs. Beat the yolks with one cupful of brown sugar and one tablespoonful of butter together as if for a e. Add one tablespoonful of flour and half a teaspoonful of salt and mix well. Then'edd one cupful of rich milk. Finally fold in the egg whites beaten stiff. Pour the mixture into one crust and bake in a moderate oven. There will be a nicely browned meringue over the pie when it is done. You can be sure of requests for a second cup when you serve Tose ot Helen. Really, he is a shockin, ather, Helen. s 8l g child. I don’t know when I've met a shockinger,” and the befuddled old lady found her way to the door. “Well, what of it?” asked father. “Dicky didn’t know. If a 2-year-old this delicious can shock a 60-year-old, somethin, wrong with 60. 't pay any attel tion to Dicky, but give Pete a broa ounces full-size biscuits Witch hazel is | u | formal parties for him and each week bears out this opinion, since nails and | I would advise ination by a doctor and find out what | the underlying cause of your trouble You may need a change in diet | and your calves and ankles are a bit | MOTHERS AND THEIR CRILDREN. Bashfulness. One Mother Says: When my little boy was in the first grade at school he was very bashful and did not make friends easily. The other children had all been to kinder- garten together, but we had lived in & different city, so consequently he was “left out.” T decided to give little in- had him invite different children from his room to come home with him for an hour or two to play. Of course I al- ways served some little refreshment and the children soon found that Johnny was a likable little fellow and in a few weeks he was one of the “gang.” (Copyright, 1929.) A Sermon for Today BY REV. JOHN R. GUNN. Forming Ideals. Text: “As he thinketh in his heart, s0 is he."—Prov., Xxiil.7. As a man thinks, so will he be, ‘Through his thinking he creates certain ideals, and those ideals in turn create his character. They also determine his course and destiny in life. It is commonplace, I know, to talk about ideals. But how vital they are to all great I\fe and great achievements. Great lives ate never lived, great things are never done, except by reason of ideals. Therefore, as commonplace as it may be to talk about them, it seems to me we had better keep talking about them. What are ideals? They are our thoughts crystallized into aims, purposes, and prospects we hope to realize. Ideal vary. Samson saw his ideal in the tainment of physical strength and prowess. Napoleon saw his ideal in mil- itary exploits and conquest. Caesar saw his ideals in the acquisition of imperial power and dominion. Croesus saw his ideal in accumulated wealth. Paul saw his ideal in the attainment of likeness of Christ. Of course, we may have ideals in different directions. But we usually have some ideal that stands out paramount to all others. And this paramount ideal becomes the dominant force in our lives, to the attainment of which we subordinate everything else. Many worthy and desirable things we may strive after, but we bend our ener- gies chiefly toward the thing we con- sider the most worthy and desirable, Seal Brand Tea is of the same bigh quality, Protects because it is healthful Fortifies with carbohydrates, vitamins With hot or cold milk. and bran, CHILDREN WHO CAN PAINT WILL WANT TO SAVE THE « PAPER INSERTS IN SHR.EDDED WHEAT PACKAGES - P BY CENSOR BY DEWITT MACKENZIE. | ! For Honor of Emperor. | This is the story of a great devotion | to the code of honor of old Japan, the sort of devotion which in days gone {by has led countless sturdy hearted ! dons and daughters of Nippon volun- tarily to join their Emperor in death. I should state at the outset tha: I cannot vouch for the authenticity of this tale. It was related quietly in ! well informed circles abroad during the | war. I made no effort to verify the | statements, because the censor would | not have allowed me to publish’' them iin_any event. I did not doubt the story at the time, and I do not doubt it now. But were I to ask for official confirmation at this late date I am certain that I should be met by a polite shrugging of | shoulders, which might mean little or m\;ch. So I present the story at face i value. The submarine warfare was at its height. No one who was not actually on the spot can realize the awful anguish of those times at sea. Com- manders of ships turned gray from frightful strain. Day and night the air was filled with pitiful wireless ap- peals, which were in fact the death cries of brave ships. It was during these troubled times that there plowed into the Mediterran- ean from the East a convoy of ships filled with Australasian soldiers and womannurses who were being taken to the western battle front. The boats were convoyed by Japanese destroyers, under Lieut. Comdr. Satsuma, on the Haly: ma. I use the designations “Satsum the real names. For many thousands of miles the warships had led their helpless charges through the Eastern seas. Now for the first time they were in the real danger zone. The Japanese officers paced their bridges ceaselessly, binoculars te their eyes, watching for the signs of peril lurking beneath the blue waves. Upon the square shoulders of the gray-haired Satsuma rested the weight of the safety of the convoy. Quite apart from his personal desire to see his little fleet safely through, he carried in his hand the honor of his Emperor, -That had been the Japanese code of the sea from time immemorial. Suddenly and without warning there was a detonation off there by one of the troop ships, and the vessel leaped up- ward, like a fish trying to escape an enemy of the deep. Satsuma’s shoul- ders stiffened and his teeth clicked to- gether like two pleces of steel, but his NOT PASSED and “Haiyama” becsuse they are not |® face was inscrutably masked with Oriental calm as he turned and rapped out his crisp orders. The troop ship was listing badly and settling rapidly. “Save the soldiers first, and then the w..nen,” snapped the commander to his lieutenant. The subordinate’s eyes shot a ques- ticn at his chief. The commander | uu{ht the glance. “It is hard, but it is war,” he said. “The allles need troops. There are plenty of women left.” But they saved them all, both men and women, and took their flotilla to port. The Haiyama and her sister ships were steaming out to sea again, home- ward bound. The commander and the leutenant were on the bridge, looking in silence toward the receding land. But they watched with unseeing eyes, for each was busy with the same thought. They had brought their human cargo through all right—but a ship has been lost. Satsuma, the trusted, had lost a ship. His code said that this was dis- honor. Only one thing could wipe out the stain. ‘The lieutenant had not noticed that the commander had drawn away across the bridge. The sharp report of a pistol woke the subordinate from his reverie. He spun on his heel. For a long mo- ment he gazed down on the still form before him, and then his hand came to salute. There was pride in his eyes, and his lips moved with words which had no sound: “For the honor of the Emperor and the fleet.” (Copyright, 1929, Associated Press.) With Cottage Cheese. Cottage cheese balls: These will serve as & garnish for salad for the cold meat platter. The cottage cheese, moistened with salad dressing, is simply made into small balls and rolled in chopped nut meats until thoroughly coated. Stuffed in celery: Fill the inside of large cleaned celery stalks with a very creamy cottage cheese moistened with salad dressing and a little finely chop- ped pimento. For a sandwich filling: To one cupful of prepared cottage cheese add two| tablespoonfuls of finely cut chives. Cottage cheese sherbet: Using any lemon sherbet recipe, add one cup- ful of creamy cottage cheese to each | named, so you have the opportunity | [now of leaving me with the last named quart of liquid and freeze as usual. CLARA BOW, Para- mount’s popular -star, in the bathroom which isone of the most luxurious built in Hollywood. beautifully smooth skin means even more to a star than to other women. Keeping one’s skin flawless for the all-seeing eye of the cam- era means constant care. Lux Toilet Soap is a great help in keeping the skin in perfect condition.” Clare Bou— ‘The next time you see MERNA KENNEDY, sparkling little star with Universal, notice smooth how Lux Toilet Soap ketps her skin. “A star must guard with so much cére the perfection of her okin! Lux Toilet- Soap keeps my skin 60 smooth,” she says. FEATURES. BRIDGE TALKS BY MRS. JOIN MUNCE, JR. 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In_ doing this you say to your partner, “I have four cards in the major suit which I bid first and five cards in the last suit bid, raising my original bid, or of bid- ding a no trump, provided the suits named by me are the ones needed by you for a no trump bid.” /| Always bid a four-card major in | preference to a five-card minor suit. | The reason for this is that it is much easier to go game in a mdjor suit than in_a minor suit. { With a strong semi-two-suiter, in which -the five-card suit is longer, | Home in Good Taste l : I How we homemakers do love to have little tables which we can scatter about the house to make it more charming, convenient and thoroughly inviting! The table in the accompanying illus- tration is difficult to resist, for it is beautifully designed and very remi- niscent of the days when the fireplace furnished the only warmth to the heme. In front of it sat the dearest iadies, sewing, knitting, quilting or doing any | BY SARA HILAND. of those homely tasks which amounted to an art in those days. | This table is one which would be especially appropriate for use with a | wing chair covered in chiniz and fin- | ished with a ruffie around the bottom. | On top of the table a lamp with a| pewter or glass base, equipped with a glass shade, might be plaeed, and be- neath, in the basket-like shelf, all col- ors of wool (in balls) could be kept— for, you know, the last word now is a| crocheted afghan, just like the old| one of little colored squares. With this | table so near at hand with supplies, | the task is sure to become llscinntmg.\ (Copyright, 1929.) stronger and lower valued, bid it first only if it be a heart. For example, holding: Spades—Ace, king, seven spot. Hearts—Ace, king, queen, eight spot and six spot. You will see by looking at these cards that while the heart in this ::sse nine spot and longer and therefore stronger, also realize that it takes just spade tricks to make game as it does heart tricks. In a case like this, al- ways bid the hearts first. ‘When holding a four-card major and | |a five-card minor, it is preferable to bid the four-card major, and if partner does not respond to the major, sure and bid the minor, if there has been an intervening bid, so that your partner may choose the suit he can best sup- port. To {llustrate, dealer holds: Spades—Ace, king, nine spot and seven spot. Hearts—Eight spot and five spot. Dizmonds—Seven spot and four spot. Clubs—Ace, king, queen, six spot and two spot. You would bid on this hand one ade initial nd if there is an intes ———— vening bid, and your partner does not support your spades, bid your clubs, thereby showing him the two suits, so that he may have the choice. 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